The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 24, 1921, Page 1

On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise @eather Tonight and Friday, rain; strong south wind, shifting to southwest gale. ‘Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 62, Minimum, 40. ‘Today noon, 55, Entered as Second Class Matter May 8, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 18: | SEATTLE, WASH. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1921. VOLUME 23 <> @ LATE EDITION The Seattle Star . Per Yoar, by Mail, $5 to $9 BOY RESCUES SIX FROM FIRE! 7 fi TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE 4 yers: {A Few Facts. | |About Railway Funds. {And Your Toves. HIS IS FOR TAXPAY-| ERS! | aa | ffessneeninsnnsiheinsiitnenuseionsbimetsinns “Much has been said about | them and at them! 4 | All right, taxpayers, let’s ke, ae of Seattle! Get ec sentetiine| COMING UP Your ‘Elefunt’ ‘be paid out of the general| } Fe, 24. SAN FRANCISCO, fund, the tax ? Ritter warfare over the location 7 z shemmaid | of the future home of “Pauline j melt was NOT Mayor C. B.| Frederick,” prominent elephant, Fitzgerald. | was threatening today AS Mayor ugh It all started when Seattle sent ae hf H C. a frantic wire wanting to know | what had become of Pauline. That Fitageraid bas from the start main. | Anti-Alien ‘Legislation IS || was the first San Francisco knew Tragedy Is Complete When Re rmeet for cxrect railway purposea| Held Over Until Friday || elephant | Workers Are Locked in Ana he never touched that fund for} by House Vote It seems that Seattle children Burning Illinois Shaft iy part of the Puget Sound Traction had contributed their dimes to system, Mayor Caldwell sae buy a baby elephant and then DOWELL, Ill, Feb. 24—The last For Editoriat Comment, couldn't ‘find the elephant. De- |! nope for the lives of the seven men TOOK TAXES See Page Two tectives started on the trail and | who were trapped in the Kathleen 4 3 “iit found Pauline happily chewing ® || mine by fire late yesterday, waa It ongatyg ain Caldwell’s term, OLYMPIA, Feb. 24-—On motion of |} ionypop in a Market st. pet store abandoned early today, and the mine was ‘ try |Representati@ Mark Reed, proJap- || coaitie was notified Gos pak aes eee } ies refligg ig ala van |anese, the house this morning post- But someone else got a bunch. | tnculsn the flamen dibs hex And Sealy anor times the | EUnet consideration of the antialies || ang today San Francisco school ||" ‘The flames were still raging when And the only other land law bill till tomorrow at 11] cnidren were getting ready to bid | 4, = a fund was attacked for rall- | ociock. Reed pledged that he would pom ca Nat he work of sealing the mine was purposes was for Division A and offer no opposition to the measure Sens to the highest tid. ||mished. The mine will be left | Lake Burien lines, the Cotterill be | coming to a final vote Friday Pe ath cee mi athe ter about 20 days ps to the city! | The postponement was sought to fo it’s Seattle and Gen Fras *s an “tee be we is the puseonty ee car poate he: 0 city, eae ae eee ne ta ce aha | | what it’s worth to have “Pauline yesterday, 2,000 feet from the main 4 ihe house in committee of the | | rrederick” in their midst. cnt : the city is not going to give it whole in favor of the Japanese, is un- mtry, near the 200-foot level It is tk to any one for a song. It is &/ able to be present here today on ac-| believed to have been caused by s| tal cinch that there is no legal | count of the funeral of A. J. Rhodes, | 6 5 [short ciroult on a hightension wire ind by which the purchase con-|former president of the Seattle | | 4 | Officials declared that litte gas was! st can be annulled. By looking Chamber of Commerce. j {gerne a ss til pee tie ] Sfforts to reach s-| the truth in the face, we must 809 | OppONENTS | PF that the only real issue in the street pon yo tlle an gy | END BILL!" proved futile. |) Tallway matter is proper MANS) Alarthews, former Secretary of the | | | meant of it! Intertor Ballinger and Reginald Par- i i ama. Done ‘The street milway is NOT setting | sons were to appear for the Japanese | Big D hg Just How Is Not Decided,| in R. R. Shop Blaze Proper management now. It i# being) wide this morning, the antialien land | to build prestize for} yi) having been made a i 5 P } wilt busines for lock | —SayS Judge Chadwick Pit Ey 975,000 any- e wem remen - | ‘ ‘This accounts for the “com BE sige antiga to Present O@t-) orneys for the 14 “taxpayers,” |t2 & half million dollars .was done | * talk and the “impossible con-|""sie ig with profound regret that [| Whos sult to force the city to carly today by fire at the shope of} fract™ talk, and « lot of other things | support Mr. Fed's motion,” aaid | fault March 1 00 its interest payment |e Northwestern Pacific railroad that have never yet reached to first) pepresentative Houser of Renton, to Stone & Webster on the street | bere. Ps Base as far as actual proof is COD-|ieading the antiJapanese fight, who |Tailways was found by Judme Ronald | The = started = ween er : cerned. had charged yesterday that the invi.| Wednesday to have failed to state a/® ™. and was not control watt about 7 o'clock, The machine shop, BUT CALDWELL tation to ontside speakers wag| cas, will amend their bill of com vn h ‘ut shop, black REVERSES HIMSELF Prompted by the desire of the pro-|plaint, they announced Thursday. — | P® a ts hop, = beer anal in ) It accounts for the fact that tho} Japs to delay the bill so that it might; Just bow the complaint will hed peer a egg r ‘ rd Y WCaldwell has been the only mayor to|be killed in the last rush of things, }amended in the effort to make out «| Cither entirely oad weyes oF eo x [| suggest taxation for the payment of |“But under the circumstances there | case had not been decided, Judge | ong dtcorting te repeete after J the railway, and bas been the only|is nothing else to do,” he added. “1 | Stephen J. Chadwick, chief counsel | ‘De first survey of the situation. . mayor to actually dip into the tax/am giad to hear Mr. Reed pledge |for the 14 “taxpayers,” stated. | gy fund for the ptesent system, he is himself aguinst further delays.” |, “We will try,” be mid, “to prevent Business Block Is | now in the forefront in the shout! ‘The house, thereupon, by a vive |the street railway matter so that the| ' against taking tax money yoos vote, unanimously voted for the Court will be forced to pass on the Swept by Flames Certainly. The general fund should | postponement. jquestion as to whether or not in RANGER. Toran eO 9~A f 208 be taken. | ‘The addresses of outsiders wan |debtednem for operatigg and main: | "} The railway should pay for Itself—|«prung as a surprise yesterday upon |taining the street railways can ever : it CAN pay for itself. But not/the antiJap forces. Matthews, |copstitute a lien against the city.” #0 easily when enemies of the rail-| Ballinger and Parsons were here| Beyond that statement Judge are at the helm. Despite them. early, evidently having been notified | Chadwick said he could not go until bad is going to be on a cash basis by fot the move. When, therefore, it 2 | was proposed that the house resolve |had had an opportunity to consult ‘The city needs level-headed men, | itself into committes of the whole | With Wilmon Tucker, ansoctate coun: Wot loud-mouthed politicians, in the|to hear them, Houser and Represent. |#¢! in the case, who has been busy in Paes ) ity council and in the mayor's chair. ative Beeler, one of the authors of | court Wednesday and Thursday with ‘The taxpayers need Fitzgerald, who |the bill, strenuously objected another case. Asks $25,000 for thas actually protected them, and not; On roll call 53 voted against * ’ Tmere demagogs who my anything|to extend the invitation. The SENTENCED TO LIFE Switchman’s Death that seems popular for the moment. | Japanese forces. however, obtal a Fitzgerald hasn't soaked the tax-| continuance of the hearing until thi block of business buildings In the heart of Breckenridge, an oil town, was destroyed by fire today with/ tion and was stopped by firemen, | made over him. |who dynamited bulidings in its path n payers, or talked of doing so. |morning, so as to bring their out Mayor Caldwell both talked of it—|side speakers here also. BEING A DRUNKARD at Interbay June 23, 1920, filed nuit and DID it. | ANTLJAP LEADE Sentence of life imprisonment || Wednesday aga f-breed Indian, after he was 4 I he debate, Houser declared he h “ 3 Asks Divorce lead ait what 10: “heat nybody who || convicted in Judge Boyd J. Tall He Believed That ‘6 was paid with Jap money.” man’s court of being an habitual Ps ng Pays Reed. “Or Judge Ballinger? 1” cording to word received here. |/Orville Brennan told the divorce |¥elled.” | went on r, but his Keich has a long record of con court her busband’ wasn't satiefied| Kennon Owen, 13-year-old news | ““\five children from their burning rtising after she married him. She/home early ‘Thursday, stopped to Altho F. J. MeGraw has dropped | leaders in the antiJap fight are sat his divorce complaint pte fs Virginia E. McGraw, on the ground | ‘ty for their measure. } Py Pg | 5 the e thal he was hever married to her — | and Soviets Unite|/Caruso Will Sail “Mother Mrs. McGraw is Thursday urging | Word-Hurlers to | HELSINGFORS, Feb. : tered, and bh AJudge Otis W. Brinker to grant her | Hold Meet Frid Japanese mission at F for Italy in March | «ic. ‘un ting decree on her cross-complaint | ‘oO ee riday yesterd it had received word that! NEW YORK, Feb. 24.—Enrico| “Go ahead, Kenny, tell them about y Knees of his underwear, as stually hung his head | house thought was the relationship of man|furious words at a forensic contest | by the noviets and Gen. Ljo, Chinese | his physicians announced today | qradet neue dete S cables a and wife in Vicksburg, Miss, Sep-|to be held between Washington and | representative at Moscow. The con- — been scared if I'd a bean enough tember 4; 1901, McGraw sued for di-| Whitman at Meany hall Friday | vention was + anthro Peet rend gerd pe Be Prohibited.” <a | fea, Chinese "oka Utes name fix I wag in twice before my-/and a half about it. Shucks—well, z fl “ms | rete = proyine nat | self.” ya seo it was like this: Pee ee eee eerie | Famous Naturalist [130 does not represent the Peking "in these words Paul Kgmont, con-|” “t woke up and smoke was every: 4 *: ‘6 in . gover 1 . black smoke, too. . | victed counterfelter, aswumed all re-| where, dirty, Curt decige to her $10,000 worth of Is Now Recovering | bsponsibility for the actions of Henry |thought I must be dreamin’. Then propérty she said she had aequired.| pasanENA, Cal. Feb. 24 | Approve Funds for [Neison, 20, his alleged accomplice, |it started catching me in the throat She claimed a document, elther| sonn Burroughs, no ' forged or fraudulently obtained, had| ang author, who underwent an op been filed with the King county re-| eration for an abscess on his chest,| WASHIN corder for deeds, purporting to trans fer the property from her to Mary | ‘ON, Feb. 24.The | afternoon. mer wife, from whom he thought he Was divorced, wag still living in Ne York, and his attorneys had decely 4 “eto | shed a Tear for Poor John; or, Wanted:$10 divorce, but, by special pleadings, q Mrs, McGraw 1s still trying out the westion of her marriage and her! TOoHN LEBENDE SKI lined up;mody explained the ease more fully) prisoner over to Sheriff Matt Star-;the offense of which the prisoner|time of day?’ it to divorce, and also the ques |e) before Judge Everett Smith this|to the court. wich. had pleaded gultty, is “not more! “Oh, just looking around.” tion of the property. |morning, eyed hia honor thru a pair| Lebendenski had been arrested at| In Lebendenski's pockets were|than $1,000, or both,” ae) ae. ee jo thick lena spectacles, paled and|3 o'clock on the morning of January |found two fused fitted with dyna-|the pleasure of the judge. “No.” Prussian Cabinet | pleaded , lurking in an alley in the rear | mite added. “Have you anything further to] 1 * : “Guilty” yf & mercantile store in Auburn,| “He told said Starwich, asked the court, addressing | perple Decides to Resign John is a Russian. His photo-|Carmody said. He had his hand|“when I asked him what he was do pendensk! | Wright, defense BERLIN, Feb. 24-—Following the | graph and finger prints record adorn |in his pocket clutching a fully-loaded |ing behind the store at that hour,| “I was going to blast stumps,” the| “Mr. Wright, elections showing gain for the ex-|the “family album” in the sheriff's|automatic with the safety catch off|that he was looking around to make | prisoner announced. | “You take this man out and see if treme right and left, the Prussian|office. The charge way carrying|and the gun ready for action la little easy money; maybe blow a| “At that hour in the morning?” | you can pa Has decided to resign, it was |concealed weapons The arrest wan made by Marshall | mute.” | “No.” todas Depuly Proweutor John D, Can-|¥red McCumber, who turned the| Thm penalty provided by law for] “What were you doing up at that/jof town,” . SAVES MOTHER AND FAMILY OF 5 FROM FLAME Leads Frightened Children Thru the © Window of Home Which Is fe Totally Destroyed LOT FRIDAY === boy, saved his mother, two brothers | Thursday when fire swept their lt home at 2836 jhouse was |higher and there wasn’t room for the Owen fam: | me to get out. fly saved six night gowns and an in } not a thing more, They were being sheltered in the matron’s quarters of surance policy Mra, Owen is the prospective moth- er of @ seventh child. | MOTHER WAKENS |CHOKING WITH SMOKE awoke choking early the bed beside her, gasped another |mouthful of the stifling smoke and crying and coughing.. How she % there is more than I know. He F | were threatened by fire. - ried her thru the window. id Mrs. Owen. Fire also unable to determine the Thursday. the nightgowned family in the tron’s quarters under charge. |“Mother” Mary Kelly includes nice, 6; Navano, 9; Robert, 7; No man, 3, and Baby Marion, a year a half old. ¢ soot as a result of their hb experience when they reached dail. $2,100, Owen, the father, is in Port-" land looking for work. His address. there is unknown. good health, for a long time suf- fered with rheumatism, his mother told The Star today. ; RESCUED FAMILY [IS DESTITUTE | Kennon Owen, 18, newsboy (above), son of a Spanish war veteran, showed that the blue loss of $500,000 |runs true, when he rescued his mother, two brothers and three sisters from their smoke- |he and Attorney O. B. Thorgrimson| The fire started in a filling sta-| filled burning house early Thursday. Modest Kennon thought a terrible fuss was being cent of money or prospect of a reof to shelter them, the Owen family were taken in charge Thursday by Spanish War Veterans, Fortson- Thygeson Camp No. 2. Owen is @ member of this organization, In the family group (below), taken in the police gallery after the rescue, is shown, from left to right: Mrs. Esther Owen, holding Marion, 18 months, on her lap; Kennon, Navano, Bernice, Norman in front of Bernice, and Robert. * * * * * * * * H. K. Clark, administrator of the) @ jl? 8. Infantry, during the Spanish IMPRISONMENT FOR | estan or Runt Cary, ewitchman uCKS, Ma Lone MMOSst O war killed in a collision of freight cars 9 bd i and chairman of the veterans’ relief committee, said that Owen had re jcently quit a job where he was get- jung $35 a month and board and |gone to Portland with the hopes of wets her to, and—well, that’s about|being able to make more money, A year ago one of the Owen's chil dren died, Miller said: One thousand dollars insurance | order of Photographer Levi Bradley | was carried on the furniture, Miller ‘look as he darned pleased,” and | said, but he added that he under stood that the furniture itself had not been completely paid for. Mra Owen told him that she was buying on time. SHUCKS!—It was ma ny? That's what we want to know,” that done the most of it—gee;she asked him. : “Does anyone think Dr. Matthews || drunkard, waa confirmed by the Adverti: a © From an ot is paid to come here?” ch. st supreme court Wednesday, ac || SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 24—Mra.|——l didn’t do muca at all—just! Fire-hero Kennon didn’t topple over in a faint. So I Is there anything else ya wanta shoulders rather impatiently, With that Kennon grinned at the Imit he will take a retain Her Husband opinions are not bought. vietion for forgery, burglary, va- || with winning her thru a matrmonial| boy, who rescued his mother and| “Gee, there wasn't a thing to it,| © | Despite the vote taken yeaterday,|| erancy and grand larceny advertisement, but kept right on ad j that [ean see, I pushed up the win-| had his picture taken in the room | where murderers, dynamiters and all kind of crooks get “mugged.” Only Kennon’s “mug” will not be ; placed in the rogues’ gallery. It will | GREATEST IMMEDIATE = | take its place in the gallery of those a | heroes who gave, and were willing to | sive, all that others might live, | | | dow and jumped, isfied they have a comfortable major. H | was given a divorce atin over in 1 er | awake, and she yelled, and I yelled, inet Mrs |Report China General| oa oe posvaprloona tiny weyoyn by Pos toamtbagngn, (2 Pp iy we Ames argc me A get out ‘Mary Kelty, thatron, en.| the window; so I goes back in the and gets the kids up, gets a- Me a blush on hin face, | Bold of a hair brush and hammers on the board on the side of the window The MoGraws assumed what they| College debaters will fling some|a defensive alliance had been signed | Caruso will sail for Italy in March, |it," Mother Kelly encouraged. Ind dh beng? a Rds rath window and shoves it uy | kids out and was about to shove ma ato wreha da pene 3a? j out when she screamed and said that said to provide tor mu-| Pleads for “Kid” Pal |awako to reatize—tun—but 1 was] Marlon was not nocounted for mother was NEED IS CLOTHES camp, and Mrs, J. G. Forbes, : dent of the auxiliary, were trying | © Thursday to extricate Mrs. Owen from her present unfortunate posi tion. ; SELLS STILL TO BUY SHOES some shoes they could go to school.” Thus John East, who had just pleaded guilty ‘see, Baby Marion is only a year 's pretty much So I crawled back inside and ma and I stumbled around in the dirty, dark smoke, that's get- tin’ thicker all the time, and.ma, she finds Baby under her bed, coughin’ a | little, but not very much éxeited. is clothes and lots of them,” yer | said. “Thousands of families here > have old clothes they no longer — wear which would be a godsend te the Owens’.” vorce here 4 year ago, charging |night. The subject of the discourse |tual defense against external} ina sauna jeepy. Just got to bed a few min- abandonment. is: “Resolved, That Immigration | enemies | and Gets Long Term |“ before,’ y'aee Mrs. McGraw answered that she|From Southeastern Europe Should! Coincidentally it was reported that| «phe kid isn't to bl che'sinthe| “Gee—you're eure malang « fuse | *0 a half old, and.sb of a pet with ma ave. N. W. His telephone ni reached thru police court, Main 6000, or at his home, 5218 Trinity place. Mrs, Forbes lives at 4310 ‘Thackeray place. Her call number is North 2230, He Sneezed Out Gas; explained his ed naturalist ° . whe alled before Federal Judge |like castor oil, and | knew the house “So T jumps out the window again \N. Y.-S. F. Air Service| (:?"" . | to a Jap for |Cushman for sentence Wednesday | was afire. and ma throws Baby out to me, and | “So I jumps in and gets all the|I catches her just like a football and was reported to be on the road| house today approved the postoffice| Ixgmont was sentenced to five|folks out, that’s alc there was to it.”| Pulls ma thru the window. The remark aroused the of Judge Neterer, with Mrs. East and her four small corroborating it His two boys, | running to the house one day re- cently and told of a copper kettle had found in the m Sad to recovery today and is expected|department's appropriation of $1,-| years in McNeil island penitentiary,|. But “Mother” Kelly didn’t let Ken-| “When ma strikes the open air, she Mc yo sala sister of her “gem to be able to Ie the hospital! 500,000 for the New York rlson to five months in the county |non off so easily. takes a look around at McGraw then answered that a for-|in a few days. He is 84 Francisco airplane mail service. jail “How did you get them out, Ken-! kinda counts, and then darned if she of Mr, and Mrs. Thomas D. Hyatt jin Jamaica is now lighted with elec till, which he e » house, tricity. Hyatt recently sneezed and st which he carried to the house. lout went the gas. “Safety first” says the couple. Chilly Apartments |\Good for ‘Cold Cash’ eee scording to} “Do you belong to the union?” the children and food for » Judge considered the matter, ed, Then he addressed L. D.| loading the apparatus on the’ Jap’s have decided that a tenant is en. titled to damages if a landlord does” not provide sufficient heat. They jawarded Mrs, Anna Coniwisher, @ tenant, $80.85 in a suit against landlord, was released on et him a loan of $10. him the money and let him get out In the meantime a chance to work and got on his don't know now how he did it,” she sald in the matron’s “Kennon rescued them all. ne Ol the window sopen several inches — just enough to get the children out but the window wouldn't go any “He yelled for neighbors. AN the while I was penned in and choking i every minute. ‘ “He worked desperately at the wink 4 |dow but could not move it. Then he | discovered that Baby Marion had 4 been taken out. s, BABY FOUND CHOKING = UNDER THE BED a8 “He crawled in thru the 3 |again and we searched the room Ca gether in the choking smoke. “Kennon found her under my “Bmoke was seeping in thra cracks around the door, Escape t) way was impossible, “When I was nearly frantic La most ready to throw myself thru) glass of the window, Kennon gots brush and hammered on the j the window was jarred loose. Tl he opened it and I crawled out. “If Kennon had been away night as he is on Saturday nl nt, when he sells papers, I think we ail 9 might have been burned.” Hi ORIGIN OF FIRE iW < 1s UNKNOWN 3 How the fire started is unki Easides Mrs. Owen and, Kennon, All were smudged with smoke and House and contents were valued at The newsboy hero, tho now in — ‘ Without a stitch of clothing, @ Owen served in Company B, 234 John Miller, police court bailiff f H. A. Bremer, commander <i ‘ “What the family needs most se Bremer’s home is at 5818 Seventh Ballard 370. Miller can oe Use Electricity Now BROOKLYN, Feb, 24.—The home CHICAGO, Feb, 24,—The courts