The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 22, 1921, Page 1

" APPED PHONE BARES SEATTLE RUM RING rain; souther , x § {ij Weather Tonight and increasing Forecast Wednesday, ly winds, On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Entered as Second Class Matter May 8, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 Bivane Hil ITION Ait ~ VOLUME 23 Something Is Wrong! What? Management! Receipts Are Good. Lines Should Profit. THIS TIME it is plain that, In the absence of any fraud es, the purchase contract with the Puget Sound Traction Co. is go | to be upheld by the courts! ‘The question is not whether we are | to keep the lines or return) them. | The question is the management of | the railway, ‘The present management will not Go, because it is not capable and be it ig not effictent. In their sworn statements to the| Pederal court, the Puget Sound Trac- | Pion, Licht & Power Co. allege that! municipal railway’s receipts ARE DFFICIENT to pay all legitimate rating expenses and leave a sur us to pay off the bonds and inter ‘eat when due. Why doesn’t the railway show the it that it should? In 1919, according to the official ; figures, there were more car miles @perated, and the fares were only 4 ckel, yet a better showing was | that year than in 1920, during Caldwell's administration. | What ts the explanation for that? ‘The depreciation charges necessar- are the same for both years. Omit ing, then, the depreciation, or book charges, we find that in 1919 municipal railway made a slight it on that part of the system h the city acquired from the Pu- Sound Traction Co., but in 1920 ts a decided loss. In 1919 the city officials did NOT is a, te the general fund to pay any) Eailway expenses on the system tht from the Puget Sound Trac- Co. In 1920 it was Mayor Caldwell who d the council to dip into the general fund to the tune of 000. Ta 1919 the city administration did OT urge the car burden fastened on taxpayers at any stage of the And in 1920 {t was Mayor Caldwell Oliver T. Erickson who first sug- ed the taxing method. The city | y waa getting along al! right / fh 1919; it wag being sent toward the Focks in 1920. In 1920 the railway took in more | Money. The fares were raised. Few-| _ @t car miles were operated. But the operating costs appear Darger than in 1919, nevertheless, and the net result is that in 1920 there ts a deficit, excluding the de- Preciation chfrges, while in there was No deficit, excluding depre- _diation. Something is radically wrong in od Management of the street rail- $3,000 ROBBERY ON RAINIER ROAD uto Party of Three Is Held Up TACOMA, Feb. 22.-—Nearty $3,000 > im diamonds and money was obtained Dy @ lone highwayman, who held up and robbed an automobile party of! “two men and one woman on the Mt. Rainier highway early today. The Wictims were E. C. Beagle, J. F. Righter and Mrs, Marie Rogers. Righter had stopped to examine this lights. Another car came up from the rear and stopped. A masked Man approached, ordered Righ to his car and then procee Elieve the three occupants of th ‘valuables. The diamonds were taken from Mrs, Rogers, while Righter was + forced to give up $350 in money, ‘ HiCaruso Continues His Improvement! NEW YORK, Feb Fuso continues to improve in a satis tory manner, according to Physicians today. Accordi (statement issued by offic Metropolitan Opera Co., once Caruso recovers, “he will sing better _ ever.” Will Tell How to Save in Use of Gas in the ha Util nan “Efficiency and Economy Manufacture, Distribution zation of Illuminating G the subject of an address by George E. Whitwell of the department of chemistry, University of Washington, before the Puget Sound Section of the American Chemical society in Bagiey hall, University of Washing. ton, at 8 p.m. Wednesday. The pub- lic is invited SUES HIS FORMER WIFE TO COLLECT ALIMONY DUE HIM William Wedgwood tnatituted mit in superior court Monday for back alimony alleged to be duc from hia former wife, Mary Jane Wedgwood. Wedgwood cites the divorce decree, signed February 26, 1916, by former Superior Judge Kenneth Macintosh, granting him $25 a month, He claims no part of the alimony has been paid. 1919} -| if Prof. 22.—Enrico Ca-| will be} ~SEATTL E, WASH., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1921. SUICIDE SENDS BACK MESSAGE? KILLS SELF In] Memory of George Washington: AS TEST OF SPIRIT Woman to Whom Professor Confided His Intention Claims Message DETROIT, Mich., Feb. lworld today awaits expectantly sci jentific investigation of the startling adventure in sptritiem of . Prof, }Thomas Lynn Bradford and Mrs, |Ruth Starkweather Doran. Prof. Bradford killed himself at 9 jo’clock on the night of February 6 to lmake “the great adventure.” [hoped to solve for all time the age lold problem of life after death by }trying to communicate from beyond » grave with Mrs. Doran. Now she says that she has received a message from him, | FORMERLY ATHLETE AND ACTOR | Pref. Bradford, one-time athlete }and actor, turned in his later life jto studying and writing on the oo jcult. Finally he published a curious advertisement for “someone inter. ested in spiritualistic science.” This advertisement was answered by Mra Doran, member of one of turer and member of the Protestant Episcopal church. The professor and Mrs. Doran held several conferences at her home Shortly afterward Prof. Bradford's gasfilled room. The unfinished |manuseript of a book on which he! had been working lay beside his typewriter. HALF-WRITTEN PAGE TELLS HIS PURPOSE One half-written page was sti In {the machine, It read: “— and it is thre scientific tects that Mrs. Doran, speaking of her final conference with the professor, says: “His last words to me, a few |hours before his death, were that [he would prove to mej in @ very |simpla, manner, that the dead can communicate with the living. “I answered his advertisement | |thru « simple desire to know more| jabout a thing in which I was little versed., I am not a Spiritualist, nor a bellever in the psychic.” PREFERS TO REPORT “TO WOMAN” Prof, Bradford, after making all} preparations for reporting his ex- periences in “the unknown” to Mrs. Doran, opened the gas jet and start ed on his great adventure. Mrs. Doran recently announced she had a vague presentiment that she would hear from the professor soon. agreed to concentrate at 9 o'clock that evening on the profesor, to “a celerate the return of his Leading spiritualistic pastors urged their congregations to join in the “concentrated party.” Mrs. Doran, with a few friends gathered in her home, said: “I am not engaging in this adventure as Spiritualist. I feel it my duty Na do so as a human being. Certainly Bradford does communicate to the world thru me, 4 great step toward convincing mankind that the dead can talk will be taken. I have | never heard spirits talk, but I realize that does not mean they cannot com municate. I am engaging in this with an open mind.” THREE WITNESSES— | NONE “BELIEVES” At the appointed hour, Saturday tight, Mrs. Doran was standing in her parlor. Three witnesses, none of | them believers in spiritism, were Curtains were drawn. One lamp lighted the room dimly. | For several moments Mrs. Doran stood allent, staring at a dark cor- ner, Then she said “{ feel a strange presence. I be-| lieve it to be the spirit of the pro: fessor, A week ago I scoffed at such ja thing. I wonder if there are many leoncentrating their thoughts on this now? I wonder—* She placed her hands on her tem and directed, “Turn out the light.” This was done. A moment's |silence. Then: “I hear his volce. [it grows more distinct. | fessor, | “Write thist* |MESSAGE COMES IN | SHORT SENTENCES | ples It is faint, but en, in short staccato sentences, | in a low voice, ¥he dictated the mes- sage. as whe spoke. Half an hour later she mid grows weaker.” The clock struck were turned on. Mrs. Doran ap. peared flushefl. She read the notes whe had dictated and placed her sig under them as# @ testimonial This is the mes- ‘The 10 nature of their accuracy wage “I am the professor who speaks to you from the Beyond. 1 have broken thru the veil. The help of the living (Turn tw Page 5, Column 2) has 22.—The| Me) Detroit's oldest families, writer, lec: | bedy was found, fullydreened, in his/ Psychic students thruout the city! spirit.” | It is the pro- | One of the witnesses wrote | The lights) Let Truth Prevail! City Owes It to Fitzgerald Family | } “Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Fitzgerald and Their Siz Children ODAY WE CELEBRATE in honor of George Washington, the great American to whom Honesty was holy and Truth enshrined! It is fitting that on this day we of Seattle dedicate ourselves to Truth, and one year ago, almost to the day, on the altar of political untruth, demagogic |chicanery and unscrupulous ambition. That man is C. B. Fitzgerald, a good |husband and a good father to those six lovely children you see in the above pic- iture. | . NE YEAR AGO (let us talk very | plainly), C. B. Fitzgerald, mayor of Seattle, was accused thru the insinuations and cowardly innuendo of | political shysters, of having shared in |a corruption fund of half a million or a | |million dollars, or so, forthe purchase of the street car system from thé Puget Sound Traction Co. F Today we know — all of us know — that it was a base untruth, spread by | political vultures during a conscience- less campaign! Think what that lie (why mince | words?) meant to the Fitzger: ald fam- ily, living almost at the edge of Ballard, in one of the humblest sections of the city —a family of growing daughters and ambitious young boys’ Think what that lie must have meant to Mrs. iF itzgerald! Think what it must have |meant to F itzgerald, a square-shooting young American of that sturdy type of citizen who marries young and raises a healthy family, moving out almost to | the edge of the woods to make both ends | meet—the type of young American who runs a Ford and tries to have a good time doing it! * * «© AYOR CALDWELL ALWAYS KNEW that C. B. Fitzgerald was no crook or grafter. They were thrown together time and time again in many gether across the continent on public business; they conferred together on | the street car situation; Caldwell knew ithat Fitzgerald never got a nickel out | lof thé transaction. And now the whole city knows it. do justice to a man who was sacrificed | then | | Same. | of sense and decency, would have known important matters; they traveled to- | A YEAR ago vilification triumphed. We have a new mayor at the city hall now, a mayor with a ready tongue, a mayor who helped buy the car line, it is true, but who neverthe- less was able to make people believe that he would prove corruption in the deal. That mayor has had his opportunity. He Burns detectives. He hired a lawyer. He hired an engineer. He has $2,000 left of | the probe fund. He had inquisitorial powers thru the grand jury. And the grand jury reported that there was no corruption. . o HE HUMAN BLOODHOUNDS whom Caldwell brought to the city found the Every honest man, with any grain that there was no corruption in that deal unless Caldwell himself was a party to the corruption, so closely was he identified with the transaction. And so, today, on the anniversary of the birthday of that great American idealized Truth, it is highly proper that the city set itself right. C. B. Fitzgerald and his family are entitled to public repara- tion for the injury unjustly done them a year ago. They are entitled to public vindication. And so, two weeks from today, Seattle should go to the polls and help elect C. B. Fitzgerald to the council. Seattle needs his type in the council—a level-headed, clean-cut business man. _ It has had enough. of spouters and buncombe peddlers. * ITZGERALD is no trimmer, no wishy- washy citizen. He is no demagog, no fire-eater. But when he was mayor, the fares were a nickel on the street railway, and the car system did NOT go to the general fund. It did NOT lose money, depreciation charges omitted. Under Mayor Caldwell, the fares are higher, the railway HAS gone to the gen- eral fund; it HAS lost money, depreciation or no depreciation. We need men like Fitzgerald in the coun- cil to make the mayor behave, to keep the mayor’s hands out of the railway and to play square with the management of the railway system. The street cars are taking in enough fares to pay all ex- penses and all obligations. The city does not want the system to go back to Stone & Webster at their own terms! The city needs Fitzgerald in the council! * * who} funds | SIX PICKED Two Present and Two Former Mayors to Run in Finals Two former mayors of Seattle George F. Cotterill and C. B. Fitzger: | ald—were among the six candidater | nominated for city council at the pri mary election Monday John KE. Carroll and T, H. Bolton were nominated to succeed them | selves. | ‘The result of the election follows: John E. Carroll, 13,024; A. Lou |Cohen, 9,964; T. H. Bolton, 9,001; | George Ff. Cotterill, 8,963; C. | Doyle, 8,086, and C. B. Fitzgerald, | 7,962, | From thene etx three are to be | chosen as members of the council at | the city election March 8. One other councilman now holding | office, A. F. Haas, who was in the |race, was defeated. His vote was | Others who ran were: William P. | Totten, 5,345; John Bushell, 4,780; Robert E. Dwyer, 4,073; James A. Johnson, 2,628; E. W. Meise, 1,286; le. 8. Slaughter, €96, and C. A. La Grave, 640. Only during the closing hours, from & to § p, m., when the workers | began to cast their ballots, was there jany sign of real interest in the elec- tion. The total vote for the day was 7,081. eee PROPOSED BOND BILL RAPPED BY COUNCIL Seattle's city council is unanimous. ly opponed to the bill, pending in the legimlature, which provides that sub- sequent court decisions shall not im pair the validity of bonds that have once been upheld by the supreme court. A vote taken in committees of the whole Monday resulted in instruc tions to the council's legistative com. j mittee to work against the measure Landis Makes First Baseball Decision CHICAGO, sion today as comminsioner of base | Dall when he awarded title to Phil Todt, a player, to the St, Louis Amer. jeans, The St. Louis Nationals had claimed right to Todt, Dry Agents to iitees Eye on Cops Tonight Practically the entire force of federal prohibition agenta, headed by Director McDonald, will attend the policemen’s ball tonight. “Our presence is not to be con strued as in the line of duty,” Mo-| Donald said, Seen Anything of This 8-Inch Dog? A fluffytailed Chinese dog, eight inches high, which vanished from th hom of Lawrence Dressel, 604 W McGraw «t., Monday night, evade dpolicemen Tuesday. Extra! All About the Big Massacre ‘The massacre of his shrubbery was reported to police Tuesday by A. J Warren, 1953 26th ave. N. A varie- gated laure] had its head completely lopped off and a rhododendron was knifed Tramps Use School for Hotel de Gink Tramps are using the Dunlap | school for a Hotel de Gink, the jani- tress reported to y Allies Frown on Claims of Greece LONDON, Feb, 22.—The allied su preme council practically onsider: ed former rulings today when it was understood it had decided not to sup port the claims of Greece to the former Turkish province: The Greek claims were submitted yesterday, ‘Tomorrow the Turks will be permitted to state their demands for restoration of some of the Greece under the {s poh in thin: Le an BOOTBLACKS PUT IN THEIR WORST DAY-- || COPS SHINE ’EM UP Bootblacks put in the hardest day in their, history Tuesday. F son, every copper in town got a shine For tonight, at Masonic temple, the police will forget the cares of crook-chasing and do nothing else according to the pro- than dance, gram Every one is invited. | | ‘ ASCOUNCIL DATES Councilmen Feb. 22.—Judge K. M./ | Landis handed down his first deci-| was voted $10,000 to make a probe. He hired | had terri. | TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Popular Music Will Undergo Fumigation NEW YORK, Feb. music has been ord to render it free from all tiveness.” The cleansing process ts being directed by the Music Publishers’ Protective association, Th rd of governors of that organiza . at a conference here, news of which came to light today, decid- ed to urge every publisher of mod ern songs in the country to turn turn down any lyric that could not be rated chemically pure. “Aside from the fact that pub- lahers do not wish to be sponsors for songs capable of indecent struction,” said E. C, Mill, execu- tive secretary, the purely com: mercial aspect of the situation is that from now on such songs are to be barred from the better vaudeville theatres, and publish- ers who back them may find pro- fessional support withdrawn 22.-Popular ed fumigated “sugges w.) VICTORY FOR |. SEATTLE SEEN Progress Made | in Fight for| Ships, Says Wire | the hearing before the United States | shipping board, in Washington, D. C., on the allocation of ships engaged in | oceanic commerce, were telegraphed \ruesday by this city’s representa- Uves in Washington. ‘The message stated that Admiral W. 8 BLACK CAT " WIRE USED 10 OBTA Federal | ed ' to the Seattle Chamber of Commerce |a private detective agéncy and | “leaking” to persons under Agents , f of Tipping Off Activi to Persons Implicated — By means of a tapped wire leading into Black Cat the notorious resort on the road near Lake Forest park, was raided last Fri iff Matt Starwich picked deputies, every telephone yersation carried on by persons in tavern for the past several week Bi been recorded. Night and day a federal ment operative sat at a table k nearly a mile distant fro roadhouse and, with a t r strapped to his ear, reee y conversation verbatim, 7 record reads like a dime novel. SHERIFF AND PROSECUTOR — AVE THE IDENCE With the record in hand, the iff and Prosecutor Malcolm D areenabled to lay grave chit gainst the alleged proprit i Policeman D. N. Schoon and Aaron MeSparen, as well | bring proceedings against the property owners, Mr. and Mrs, | Lochnane, to close the place | Indications of victory for Seattle in| lock and key. ‘Two agents of the federal ment are under surveillance, ing the discovery that the wire evidence was being tipped offte | Dicion. The evidence shows that the Benson, chairman of the board,'ern was being used as a dive of showed clearly by the line of ques-| worst character, frequented by toning that he followed that he fa- sons notorious in the underworld, a vored concentration of ships in ports that, on one cocasion, the where competition exists Tt is pointed out that Seattle faces | competition of British and Japanese | | shipping, whereas Portland ig reliev- | jed of this | Under the creumstances, the ex- pectation ig that Seattle will retain the five 535-foot liners previously al- lotted here. Whatever decision may be made, however, is expected to operate mere- }ly as a precedent, as the present jehipping board is expected to retire from office about March 4, School Kids Raise $1 “Lunchless Day” | The Star today received $1 from Miss Minerva Meyer, teacher at the Interlake echool. “It's for the fund for Seattle hungry people,” she ex- | plained. “It was given by room 20, Interlake school, on ‘Lunchless} day.” Impolite Burglar Steals Clothing Impolitely entering thru a rear window, a thief stole several score de ’ worth of clothing from J. &. Redford, 418 23rd ave. 8, Mon- day night. Okehs ‘Belgium 8 Bond Payment Plan WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—Presi- dent Wilson sent to congress today a jmessage recommending that the 1 States accept an issue of Ger- bonds for payment of debts con. ucted by Belgium with this coun- y prior to the armistice. The an- houncement was made at the White House, leanahavation Bill Is Accepted by House | WASHINGTON, Feb. ~The | |senate’s emergency immigration bill, limiting immigration for 15 months after 1 to three per cent of the na tionals of any country now resident in the United States, was accepted today py house conferees as a sub- | stitufé for the Johnson bill prohibit- ing all immigration for a year. Gasoline War Is Pleasing Motorists DENVER, Feb, 22.—Denver motor: ists were jubilant today over the pects of further hostilities in the 1 price war here. Gasoline was selling for 20.7 cents a gallon today, ‘This price was fixed by the O'Malley-Kelly Oil Co, The | Apex company announced it would }heet_the reduction, “Purple Stocking Gang”’ Is Arrested? | “The Purple Stocking in jail Tuesday alleged to have rifled telephone pay secreted the loot in a The men under arrest are Walter H. May 83, | chauffeur Thod, sailo c. Ridd , and P. Lynch, 80, sailor, Detectives Montgomety, Peyser and Phillips make — the charg | we boxes and purple stocking. SOKANE.—-Gooas part of taken State Senator Guy ered by police, delleved from home of B, Groff recov to loot { | | 1 | | | | | | self, be} ter a life of shame. | GIRL IS RESCUED | BY HER FATHER Every effort was made to the relatives of the girl in tin save her, but they could not found. Later she is understo have been rescued by her father, was conducting a private search where at the time she was in thi Black Cat. i Against D. N. Schoonover, mer policeman, and Aaron Sparen, arrested when Sheriff Starwich raided the Black “| roadhouse, Saturday night, | charge of being “jointists” was Monday by Prosecuting Atton Malcolm Douglas. The charge is a felony jthe law. Each of the men | nished $1,000 bail. eee DRY AGENT BEATEN IN HOTEL RAID As a result of a hand-to-hand oe io | tle that occurred during a liquor at the New Occidental hotel, First ave, Monday night, HL Hallowell, proprietor of the place, and N. H. Nickelson, a patron, are ] ing Washington's birthday in city jail, while Leonard Regan, eral prohibition agent, nui bruised nose, a black eye and other marks of conflict. clared that he will prefer ch of assault and resisting a federal ficer against Hallowell, who was he ‘Tuesday without bail. Nickelson, is said, probably will face ey mae ask liquor charges, as he took no part im — the fight. TAXI STOPS IN FRONT OF HOTEL; BOOZE FOUND Agent Regan and another federal officer approached the New Oech | dental hotel at 8 p. m., upon informa. |tion that a delivery of two cases of [booze was to be made at that hour, |As the pair drew near, a taxicab stopped in front of the hotel and the occupants entered the place, When they came out two quarts of whisky were foun’ on Nickelson, Who said he had purchased them from the clerk. While his companion watched the — taxicab and its occupants, Agent) Regan ascended the stairs to inter: rogate the clerk, The two quarts of — whisky taken from Njckelson, were. in his pocket. In the midst of the conversation, Hallowell came in and {demanded to know what was going jon, according to Regan. “ym proprietor of this place and what goes on is my business!" | Hallowell és reported to have said. | SMASH. BOTTLE, STRIKES AGENT With that, it is alleged, Hallowell spied the liquor in Regan's pocket, snached one of the bottles and” smashed it against the newel post He then struck the agent and at tempted to get hold of the otheggbot. tle, according to Regan. Agent Regan is a small man, but began to battle with his big opponent, He had no chanee to draw his gun, but used his hand: cuffs as a blackjack to defend him- For several minutes the two men struggled on the floor, Then the other agent, hearing the racket, ran up the stairs to Regan’s ald. It (Turn to Page 5, Column §