The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 28, 1921, Page 1

“them has stood the test. S. ‘tinued to yawp and yell, and good citizens have > looked on in amazement. more reasonable than Weather Tonighiand . seday, cloudy or foggy; moderate south- westerly wind, Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, Minimum, 43, Today noon, 44, Mystery of Car Attacks Explained. Millions for Gamblers in City Bonds. But RUIN for Seattle’s Credit. : A Fine Scheme if It Had Worked. : For WEEKS THE STAR has been trying to get at the mystery of the constant and unprovoked attacks being made on the municipal street car sys- Many theories have been advanced, but none of The wreckers have con- Today a new theory was advanced—one that seems On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Ratered a Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattio, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. SEATTLE, WASH., MOND. ENGINEER BLAMED IN Can’t Invade} Private Homes} | |] WASHINGTON, Kpb. 28.—Rev enue agents must have search warrants to “invade private homes in hunting for liquor,” the some previous ones. Here it is: . #7 & EF ded ii ; i a X i j : | ; f if at af hi fy ; | i i f i tf i ; j i ; o ; f : HIS FINE merely the effect of mulcting the present holders of the rail- way bonds, The Star w ’t worry much about the matter. That sort of thing is done regularly in financial circles. It’s the bondholders’ own lookout, put one other effect the scheme was sure to have. And the mers didn’t consider this, or, consider- ing it, they did not care. it would DESTROY SEATTLE’S CREDIT. Just as the city is recovering in the national esti- mation from the effects of the “general strike,’ Se- g attle would be labeled again as a-hotbed of bolshe- | vism, as a city which repudiates its honest debts, as aj pocins place of anarchy in high places as well as In the name of Seattle— WE PROTEST! This city is NOT bolshevik. This city will NOT repudiate. And the perpetrators of this wild outcry know that, and knew it all the time. . ORRY, GENTLEMEN, to spoil your little scheme, to disturb your little dream; but you simply can’t get away with that sort of thing. Better admit you’re licked, and let up yawping, and try a more honest way of making those millions. On the grave of your dead desires permit us to lay one floral wreath. We'll make it fonget-me-nots. Inscription: “Rest in peace.” SMASH WINDOW, |FARM LOAN ACT STEAL JEWELS CONSTITUTIONAL Driving up to the La Fayette Jew. WASHINGTON, Feb. 28—Thp etry Co. store, 1536 Second ave., at 5|farm joan act is constitutional, the & m. Monday, two bandits jumped |supreme court declared. Bt, buried a rock wrapped in a] ‘The decision came in a suit which handkerchief thru the window, grab-|has halted the busihess of the farm bed 4 tray of diamonds and several |loan system for several months, Watches and escaped in their auto. . Aa! Aantie S$. N. Feldman, proprictor, after a|Jutice Ray read the decision estimated his lose at $1,000. The decision is expectet to ald ing burglary was seen by | greatly in relieving the financial dis 4 street car man and reported to the |tress now confronting argricaitural Police, They were unable to trace | interests, as it will now be posstble the bandits’ car to extend more loans to the farmers A year ago Feldman and his girl] The vote of the court on the clerk were bound and robbed of|question was six to two. Justices $15,000 in jewels by robbers. Several | Holmes and McReynolds dissented on Months ago burglars tried to enter|the ground that the court had no the shop, but drilled a hole in-the | jurisdiction. Justice Brandeis did wrong not #it in the case. | aelve Euchre City Dads Out of Authority Authority to regulate the speed of Sentence on T. B. Victim Postponed Because he wax shown to be af-|motor vehicles at points where per flicted with tuberculosis, sentence on |manent or temporary conditions re- Nick Pappas, who pleaded guilty to |quire variance from the #tate law, is booze charges im federal court Mon-|given to the county commissioners day, a, 19 « postponed until November |and seemingly taken from the city counell, in a bill pending in the leg islature, Corporation Counsel Waiter Hot Ashes Cause ¥. Meir informed the council! Mon , $300 Damage Fire “Beat It!”” He Tells Yire and smoke caused by hot anhes thr n i a wooden garbage a tan did 4100 damage ten teens) Robber; Robber Does frame buliding at 1111 Bighth at -; t wt’ 1 H. Hamilton, grocer, ll «4. @ Monday, West & Wheeler | of 15 Seventh ave. told «a handit ore the agen, Saturday night. The robber beat, TRAGEDY New York and Michigan Central Trains Piled Up | in Disastrious Crash | BY CARL VICTOR LITTLE | PORTER, Ind, Feb. 24.—The } death list in the Michigun Central New York Central wreck here reached 40 today, (ith the recovery | of four additional bedies from the!) wreckage and reports of death of two | injured at Michigan City, Ind. ‘Thirty-«ix of the mangled and mu tilated bodies were laid out in the Chesterton undertaking room, « mile and « halt from Porter About one-half of the bodies had béen identified: Heckuse of the man gied condition of many of the bodies, Coroner W. 0. Selpel was doubtful if many more could be identified i : ; SEVERAL PERSONS REPORTED MISSING supreme court helt today, The || decision, it x believed, will pre vent widespread prohibition raids unless the federal government has information sufficient to ob tain @ warrant The court set aside the convic tion of Lawrence Amos, of South Carolina, for having “moonshine” whixky in his possession, Amon’ appeal was based on the cl that the liqdor was taken from hie home without a warrant of earch and seizure, The court or dered the liquor returned to him. HARDING BUSY WITH SPEECH ils Finishing His Inaugural Address EN ROUTE WITH PRESIDENT. ELECT HARDING, ATLANTA. GA, Many. Neled armas and lees have been f in the ghiatly monument {26% 28—Presidentelect Harding piled up When the Interstate Express |was bucy in his, pritate ear today, struck the “Canadian” at n “di! tinishing his iniughraleddress. He | mond” crowing, at 6 p. MH. Suny. | ervectad to complete It before reach= This led to reports that many addi tonal bediew had been faund, but «|! Marion early tomorrow, The | complete checking up at the morgues |addreas will be short, and will dix jand undertaking eetablishments tn{cuss onty general policies, it is un- | neat By towns fafled to disclowe any tral: som. additional dedies. Several pegeona| “TNO! Hie special train. were «till reported miming. prising four cars, is due at Cincin | Responsibility for the wreck waa|nati late tonight. today placed on the shoulders of W.| Harding returns from his Florida F. Long, engineer of the “Canadian.” | vacation in excellent health and by Joseph Cook, operator of the wig} i) fies | nal tower at Diamond crossing, An |JVial spirits. | examination of the biock signal sys Mrs. Harding, who waa much fa | tem showed that the two blocks were |titued when she left Marion six leet against the Michigan Central on |¥eeks ago, is fully rested. \gineer. His fireman said that he| Arrangements for a celebration at [maw the signals wet, but that Long |Marion exceeding those staged on failed to slow down. the night Harding was nominated The fact that the derall was eet|and on election night, have been and the train slid from the rails as | completed, according to word reach?) | it shot acromy the intersncting New jing here. His neighbors will present York Central tracks proved to the | him with a silver tablet. satisfaction of mont investigators | . bees aceteee pew eeeeeg Oe haar 4 ont ~ ee [train a clear track and signaled the | NORTHAMPTON, Maan, Feb, 28 Michigan Central to stop. ACCUSED ENGINEER Vice President-elect Calvin Cool 18 IN HIDING idge left here today for Washingt6n, Pailroad officials «mugsied Long |Sccompanied by Mra, Coolidge. The from the vicinity of Porter soon aft-|entite city turned out to give the er the crash in order to protect him | Coolidges a hearty send-off, despite from any demonstration by relatives (the fact that a heavy rain was fall and friends of those in the wreck. He | ing. lwas mid to be hiding in Michigan | Mare? er Tumulty Admitted | _ to Supreme Cou Cook says he always set the sig nals 80 ag to allow the train which hit the “buaser” first to have a clear ; ee track. His records showed, accord- Piha srap cage ico hs ll Be ore Ing to railroad officials, that the “In-|{O8ePh he 0, Aeneas -Aierey terstate” sounded the “buzzer” be. | W&* admitted to practice before the fore the “Canadian” gave warning of | UMited States supreme court today ia eiipaelaia Attorney Generul A. Mitehell Two officials of the Indiana public| P#imer presented him to the court service commission were en route to Tumulty, who will retire from | the scene of the wreck to conduct an|M!* Position as secretary to Pres linvestigation. No probe has teen | ‘nt Wilson Friday, has opened started by local authorities ax yet, | '@¥ offices in the Southern build. The fact that Coroner W. 0. Seipel, | here. pee of Porter county, did not cali for an! , na Immediate probe of the disaster by «| Big Silver Vase Jury has incensed Porter citizens. | Selpel said the Investigation could | not be held because he was too buxy gathering the bodies of the victimes and preparing them for burial, Is Given Marshall WASHINGTON, Feb! 28.—The senate today bade Vice President Marshall farewell and Godspeed. (PASSENGERS TELL } Senator® gave him a big silver OF EXPERIENCE [cup or va three feet high, suit- Passengers aboard the Interstate| ably engraved [Express described their senmtions| “Out in Indiana,” sid Marshall, will think it 18th amend in accepting it, “they in & memorial of the ment.” |as their train plowed thru the ‘wreck. lage | (Turn to Last Page, Column 3) | BY E. P. CHALCRAFT sapling. And, anyhow, I'd rathe T first, I laid it to spring fever,|eat than ache. But I'll have to this dissatisfaction with the in-| admit that my lawyer friend set me thinking for once | dividual jot and circumstance in| to | | tite: Young man,” he said, as he But I'm not so sure about that gathered up his golf clubs and east how. Maybe something far mote|4 weather eye out of the window, ah—iniaid and fundamental, as|“whateyer you, do, don't become a |the doc says when he goes over| lawyer. iT e's nothing in it your chest with his dictagraph| “All the romance is in business,” and gets the lowdown on the con-|he continued, “and I'm going to versation ‘of Mr, and Mra, Pneu-|clear out as soon as T can and go! mococeus as they discuss plans for|to South America ‘That's where further invasion of your pleural | the rtunity liew. Get in at the cavity start and grow up with the coun But be that as it may, I believe |try--that's my idea,” everybody ought to be happy nd| Well, can you imagine that? Here |content, uniess he a garbage|he is, a young man with a good |man or a millional and I'd al | Profession and all the future rosy | most except the former. |before him-—and yet he ian’t satis | 7 ae |fied. But that’s just tke the young | Not being any Walt Whitman/chaps of this day and age, restless myself, Ud pever spent many noon)and ready for actic hours rubbing the philosopher's | ° . stone or wrestiing with a young When | called on my medichl 40 VICTIMS IN RECK FOUND Booze Raiders HART CODE ‘Close Vote of 5 to 4 on Ad- ¥ -|American Mandate Spring Fever; or, Are You Contented? The Seattle Star Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 Tt Em LATE EDITION AY, FEBRUARY 28, 1921. Wi UPHELD BY HIGH COURT ministrative Plan Cast by Supreme Court OLYMPIA, Feb, 18.—By a vote of 5 to 4, Gey, Hart's civil administra- tive code was upheld by the supreme | court this morning. Constitutionality of the emergency | clause was attacked by labor inter. | esta, who threatened a referendum |vote if the clause was declared i ese Judges who voted in favor of the constitutionality the code were Fullerton, Mackintosh, Bridges, Par ker and Mount, The dissenting jus | ces were Main, Holcomb, Mitchell | and Tolman, of |Congress Now on the Home Stretch WASHINGTON, Feb, 2%)--Con- crem turned inte (he Rome -gtretch et ¥ hile the hotise tackled confer- ence reports on several measures, the senate faced the danger of 6 controversy which may seriounly de- lay final action on the navy bill, the emergency tariff and other Measures. Senator Borah was to move to take up the house resotution re- Pealing war laws, Democrats may Oppose him, Henator Penrose wanted action on the Fordpey emergency tariff bill | Democrats wa@ to talk about it, tho they promined to delay the vote beyond this afternoon. Germany Is Called to Hear Sentence LONDON, Feb. 28.—Germany was | called before the allied bench today to reesive sentence for damage in- Dicted by ber in the great war. Indications were that the allied representatives, hidcked by their mili. tary chiefs, were to impose the de mands decided upon at the Paris con Hference last month. A commission of experts may be formed to see that |the penalties are enforced. ‘The military chiefy have presented plans for carrying out the decision They call for a@vances by Belgian and French troops into German ter- ritery and the blockading of German ports, Mrs. dren's bureau of the U. Max West, late of the chil 8. depart. be the special adviser to readers of The Seattle ‘Star on child problems. More; than}two and a Walt million American mothers have come te Mrs. | West, thru the medium of the chil | dren's bureau; and obtained from her |help on their particular problems of |child care and welfare. © She hina. been the Protest Is Upheld PARIS, Feb, 28—The right of the United States to a voice in fixing mandate returns, ts recognized by preter between the scientific | the league of nations council in ® land the mother in the home. note lald before the council today by | “since ‘the. organization of the A. J.' Balfour, British qelegate. bureau in 1912, Mra, West's job has The note was drafted.in answer to | heen to tell other mothers and pros- Hecretary of Btate Colby's protest 07 | pective mothers, her own experience, {he Mesopotamian and Yap man-|and out of her special training and Gates, awarded Great Britain and investigation, how best to meet the Japan, It was understood to be Of! propiems of motherhoot and child & most friendly Character, | hood. r | MOTHER AND FATHER Cotterill, Okehs |T0 HER FIVE CHILDREN Doyle f Cc 1) Mi West ls no theorist ‘on chit. yie For COUNCH jgren. Five babies of her own she George F. Cotterill, candidate for has nursed and tended, and brought the city council, in a speech before up, and seen the older ones thru the Beacen Hill Improvement club, | school and college. And, since her dis bureau's inter: ma Friday night indorsed C. W. Doyle,| tinguished husband died suddenly radical labor leader He urged! when her fifth baby was nine months Doyle's election, along with bis own. old, she has supparted her family friend 1 thought I'd find one man,)T am content at legst, who was at peace with the|have relieved a multitude of suffer. | world and all that is in it. He is alings—have suved many lives. But lbenign old gentleman with graying | here am I, growing old and approach ‘These hands of mine jhain ob keen gaze and a steady |ing the end of my usefulness, and yet haa. r 40 years he has been|I'm as much in bondage as any |dealing with people and healing |slave, Sometimes I long to break jthem. He knows men—he knows |away and clear out and just play jlife. His face would be an artist's }and rest. But T can't, I'm just a |insptration for a visualization of | slave.’ | dence and contentment, o Fee “Tell me," said 1, “what you| So that’s the way it is. Hverybody would do if you had life to start}seems to be dissatisfied with his Jall over again. What profession, |place in life, whereas I believe we |what trade, what occupation would |all, as I said before, should be con |you pursue?’ ‘tent and happy and make the most of | “Let's put it the dther way,” he! what we @ 1 know replied. “First of all 1 would NOT | happy if 1 w a successful attor take up medicine.” |ney, and a doctor, to my mind, is one | 1 guess I showed my astonishment, jof the world's noblest for he hastened to add, “that is, if ates I wanted to be perfectly free and) But there's just one tip I'd pass | happy.” x. If you t to be prosperous “1 have had a busy, useful life, 1 content, DOD ‘T be a newspaper joe went on, “but 1 cannot truly say |reportec, BABY: Famous Expert Employed by The Star. Mrs. Max West to Guide Mothers. ll Answer Readers’ Questions. Physicians Use Her Work as Textbook. 1 should be | f | OF DRUGS, IS STORY {Purser Arrested Had $65,- 000 in American Money | at Vancouver ‘That charges more serious than |the attempted corruption of deputy sheriffs may be lodged against Mo toreycle Policeman Holschumaker | was indicated today by Matt Star- | wich. | The sheriff said he had reported |to Police Chief Searing that Hob schumaker, on the night of Febru- lary 8, had held up a bootlegger |known as Jerry, on Beacon Hill, jand relieved him of $400, The money was taken, f was said, as recompense for letting the bootiegger go with four cases of whieky. POLICEMEN CONTINUE UNDER SUSPENSION Holschumaker and Motorcycle Policeman C. V. Harvey continued under suspension from duty today by order of Chief Searing, following the exposure by the sheriff of an alleged plot, in which they figured, to “knock over” a party of whisky smugglers at Lakota Beach last Fri- day and steal 100 cases of liquor. Exposure of the two motorcycle men, it was learned, was meant not 0 much 4s an atlack,on the men irtlividullly as it was for the purpose of breaking up * ring of policemen, sajd to be engaged in the practier of “knockovers” on a wholesale basis, he custom of this ring, it is said, is to misrepresent themselves to be deputy sheriffa, thus casting upon sheriff's’ office the stigma of their ‘‘Holsehumaker and Harvey are said to have told Chief Searing that they “| were invited by deputy sheriffs to and been both father and mother to her youngsters, Now—from the ment of labér, has been engaged to|oidest daughter, Dorothy, 24, to-the4 “baby” daughter, Frances, 12, ‘with Edward, Marjorie and Philip in ‘be- Htween, she has gathered her /boys and girls under one roof again (at. Berkeley, Cal, where Grandma Mills, Mrs. West's 90-year-old, hale” aid hearty mother. is a member of the amily, Mrs. West is the unusual combina- jon of mother, college woman and literary woman. & was one of the \few available women in the United States with the experience, training and practical ability to undertake the job which the children’s bureau had jto do—treaching mothers with real, |xound, practical, everyday common- |sense advice on child welfare -prob- } lems. ’ | MANY PHYSICIANS USE HER IN Many pbs jans make it a part jof their pratice to hand her bulletin on “Pre-natal Care” to every pros- pective mother patient. They follow it with the other bulletins after baby is born A numby of nursing as- jations prescribe an examination, based on her pamphiets, as a part of mother a copy of her pamphlets as soon as a birth is recorded This is the good friend who will undertake to answer thru the col umns of The Star the questions of Yorthwestern mothers She will also answer directly, per- lly, by mail, any reasonable question that may be asked: by the readers of The Star, if the question is mailed to her, with a stamped self-addressed envelope inclosed for She will not attempt to give med- children in difficult cases, or make any attempt to deal with the’ ab- normal child. | She will answer any question on |the home care of normal, healthy Jchildren, and the relationship of j mother to ehild, ) ———-----—-— Address Your Questions To: | wattle Star, | | Seattle, Wash, - yer tt requirements for student) nurses. In many cities the city health department mails to every jeal advice, or advice on feeding of | assist inf the raid of the smuggling party at Lakota beach and were merely carrying out the program ar- ranged by the deputies when Sheriff Starwich arrived on the scene early Friday morning. * Starwich admitted the policemen’s assertion that they carried special dgputy sheriff's commission, but said the commissions were given them, as many others are given out, to permit the bearer to carry guns outside the city limits. «Whether any charges will be ladged against the motorcycle men is nroblematical, according to Deputy Prosecutor John D. Carmody. “We will wait until the chief concludes his investigation of the accusation that Harvey and Holschumaker tried to get the two deputy sheriffs to knock over the smuggling party, take 100 of whisky and split 50-50," Can said. SEATTLE WOMAN IS SAID TO BE \DOPE RUNNER When the $90amonth purser of an Oriental liner was observed in Vaneduver, B. C., recently wearing a $1,000 diamond in his necktie and A rock of similar magnitude on his left hand, a member of the police dope squad “put a tail on him,” {with the result, it became known |today, that an international smug- gling plot inveiving a Seattle wo man, was brought to light. ‘The “tail” followed the purser to a tailor shop, where the purser was measured and his order taken for Several suits of clothes. He was jater taken into custody and his ‘effects “shaken down.” SOLD $65,000 WORTH OF NARCOTICS P Tt was found that he had just sold to the Seattle woman $18,000 worth of narcotics and had disposed of enough more elsewhere to net him $65,000, The money, in Amer- jean currency, was found in his pockets. The envelopes “dope.” Chinaman purser had used the ship's in which to carry the Off the same boat a took $50,000 worth of narcotics, and there was consider- able left aboard. ‘This was trans: ferred the next day to a Mexican vessel which appeared in the har bor and taken south by smugglers who are said tween Mexico and Texas, The story of the smuggling purser is part of the data collected by the committee of Seattle citizens who banded together two months ago for the purpose of probing. vice and crime and the duplicity of pub- lic officials, FORT TO TRAP |THE SEATTLE WOMAN The probe having ceen cut short by U. 8. federal agents who “tipped” what was be done to persons un der suspicion, the committee re | ports: “An made Canadian effort was to have been to trap the Seattle woman, authorities learned that the woman makes trips to Vancou w to meet every Oriental vessel, drives her owh high-powered an stops the Vancouver (Turn to Last Page, Column @ to be operating bes, a