The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 1, 1921, Page 9

THE SPATTLE STAR Battleship Far From | Obsolete, Says Naval Expert of Uncle Sam BY 1. B HUNT “The answer to the heavy, com WASHINGTON, March L—Amer-| paratively slow-flying bombing plane fea's foremost authority on battle |r torpedo plans, is a squadron of ship construction, Rear Admiral | Ni, fast, fighting planes, carried David W. Taylor, takes tmue with| on airplane carriers as @ #upple Sir Perey’ Scott, Engti#h naval av | Mental part of the fighting feet. thority, who contends airplanes and “These fast fighting planes could submarines have made battleships | Put down any bombing or torpedo | plane long before it was able to PAINLESS! 1) MAY LIVE Ruling May biock Ex- | ecution; Star Man Sees Schmitt in Pen J BY RALPH J. BENJAMIN ALLA WALLA, March 1— state of Washington is buying rope. thg first day of April a , cord knot will be tied in end of the rope. April 1 the loose end of the 5 will be fastened securely to e Bop of a gallows. & ‘ obsolet ‘ ~ shoul be of tnterest that Sir|!#unch a torpedo within striking |range of the capital ships of the * Perey Scott, now the chief advocate | « in Bngiand of scrapping eaptial|fitet, or before it cold reach a atisfy hungry a position from which to loose a bomb, ships because of their suppowed | Tn we) vulmerability to atreraft attack,” |_ “They would at the same time serve |saye"treyin, sis ene same: man wha| Sf se0ute for the feet.” with food that means at | granting the big-eun ahtp dectared, following the invention of] 4. 4 nackbone of the fleet, hasn't |the selfpropelting torpedo, that the| the fast battle cruiser, carrying the |big-wun ship had been made Ob80-| same size guns but having @ much ea t an ap, ness |ete,” | higher peed, proven wuperior to the “Tan? tt true, however, that he or | gowermoving, beavity armored |someone has convinced Enatieh | dreadnought? |naval authorities that the day Of) snot at all,” ‘Taytor reptied. “Tt the big Sighting abip is past?” TY | hattie cruiser tx auxiliary to the bat lower end of the rope will ed about the neck of John lor was asked Ueehip just as te the leht cruiser, so that the knot fits firm - os LJ he . ‘Against the base of his skull. | “Not at all," came the quick, @©| the destroyer and the submarina cided answer. “The battle orwiver’s speed gives ft IN SCHMITT WILL DOME A DETERRENT i the trap door wif be gland now leads tn capital two advantages: Firat, ft is better ships. She will not lead, however, | qualified to run away, Second, it is in 1924, tf the United States carrie®| able to catch the other fellow when thro her present building program. | he ix running away. “If by appearing to discard the! “The battle cruiser can hetp romnd capital ship she can fnfluence this!up the enemy and force him to| country to quit work on the pro | fight. But tts superior peed is oft \eram now under way, ehe will stil!| set by {ts lghter armament. The |be tn the lead tn 1924 and indefinite | ngiiah lost three of mine battle ly thereafter, | cruisers engaged tn the battle of Jut “She would thus be able te hold | land. They didn’t lose a single heaw her capital ship supremacy without | {ly ormored capita) ahip.” the expenditure of another dollar. —— eg a Ae Strom srerdering. “If we continue the program at | Farmer Hit by Auto nove from which Jehn |ready laid out and approved, how : emenitt will be suxpended by the! J¢ doesn’t hurt Dobbin over, England must spend addition Is Fatally Injured <Until he is dead is an oM| much to have his teeth pulled, large sms or surrender her lead-| Running acroan the hichway be When the state of Wash-| . 7 4 3 Dr. A.A. Feist, St. Paul|erhip in capttat ships, She doean’t/tween Happy Valley and Medmond abolished hanging, & was | Says Dr, A. A. Fe ed phe want to do either on the eat aide of Lake Washing Sway. Now it is to be set/ veterinarian. Hor “If she can assist tn aidetracking |ton, to accept an invitation to ride again, probably on the ast day/are not very sensitive @nd|our program, keeps her big bat-|tn a track, n Olson, farmer, was he with skill the operation is|teship supremacy and saves her | fatally injured at 6:30 Monday after NEI NOT PERMITTED inless. money, It's really @ very clever|noon by gnother automobile which 2 EXECUTIONS es move, but one which this country [attempted to pam Louls Sands, John Schmitt wi be a it. deterrent is something that ts / to have a deterring ef-| John Schmitt ts a murderer. state of Washington ts going | 3] him so that others will | Ow that death is the punishment} ® taking life, so that others will 1911, say the authorities. | court on rehearing. Joseph Smith,| “The British found that for each| > times from Frnest Bormmn murderer faced his death as| court has not decided and may not|*oh 1,000 planes, tn addition to pi | FtOP And has a brother in the unt down, but not many. Usually SAVE DOOMED MAN designed provides accommedations hie ‘asia, he Gne'e. : —————- dorsement than a boy’s grin of satisfaction, HEINZ ‘ Schmitt will not be hanged—uniem |/2 complete airplane carriers would Sourdoughs Enjoy thought probable if the fal de latrplane enthusiasts claim is thus|ot Pioneora, is expecting a record at value, ready to serve instantly, and make a deli - I talked with @ lad who t# serv-|aniy a year at most. Their life is|sonic temple Tuesday night squirmed on the sod - bel schmitt,” he suid. “The rest of| first tina ANOTHER HANGING | death cof. But most of them have | before. Put unless or w Yt been decided where the] intettigence that not even brick {Should fully understand driver of the truck, and R. ‘Terple. ge will stand. In former days) wars or steel bars can take away “Let's just analyze the enggestion | driver of the automobile, sald Olon erected just before hangings | “phere's a real reason for believ.|that an immense fleet of airplanes, | failed to look backward as he cross fimba the giant brick smokestack |ing as do most of the prisoners, |°®Fried on mother ships, be substt | ed the road : : the prison walls. The pris|that John Schmitt will not be| tuted for first line battleships -_— 4 WFs could not see it, nor were) hanged on April 1. “One thousand planes, Brig. Gen. |Changes Back to : : Permitted to witness the tak-| ‘The appeal of Isom White, .the| Mitchell says, can be built for the ry ff of the condemned man. Everett boy sentenced to hang for|cost of one superdreadnought. All His German Name 4 Phe gallows was last erected some] miurder, in still in the supreme | ight diee ennlind Ye: mye Sine Mts Mast execution ft witnessed/_ member of the state legislature | plane maintained for land fighting, |p 4 “a @f the most ghastly sights|that restored hanging as a pun-|48 men were noeded to keep it ready | mm cr vee cent eis cake ‘ beheld within prison walls./isnment for murder, is Isom|and tn shape for service. But let's) ) mrke agate Monday on hi @eterrent was a big man. His | white’s attorney. Attorney Smith| be conservative and cut the Pritigh petition to peste. oa foevrory gies : was weak and the rope was/is attacking the constitutionality of | gure in two—eay, 24 men for each | gle at tne Untverntty of Wash 5 : : the hanging law. The supreme|plane. That means 24,000 men for : conf —_ s |vornity who has never changed his . as his breakfast, Nearty all! decito until after, April 1 lots, | : Bi . - name. He also feels now that he| Wg better 24 ee, aie ian. goed ree coe Are “The Mapret airplane carrier yot|DAme, He lao feels now that he] Everybedy iikes them, But there's no F Cie go to death in a sort of If th re - for 80 planeca. To accommodate 1,000 7 supreme court holds the tls pear ct Tt was that way with this! oncing law unconstitutional, John planes would requtre 12 carriers, and r ae oe ee a cannes | Seat aa much a ight biggun Dawe |" Fo NE Sy PO ohe Oven Baked Beans are who foll af food court makes its decision. It in| *"/P* onig’ . “All the alleged saving that the! Seattle Lodge No. 2 Yukon Order r re seen to be quickly wiped out. tendance of “sourdoughs” and their =, veyed ee be] “The planes’ would be serviceable |friends at the annual reunion and eaanomical y" y grove . and modern for «ix months or prot | pall of the organization at the Ma appe ing a lite term for murder. cats deme Site oe & Sabian, dees | mask @ tuk s! life of a battleshtp, how. Perccreteinenninapeiinuasionscy “I don't believe they will banr| ever, is from 10 to 15 yours in the In ased Rates i tnister wooden struc / tne men think {4 same way. Lots| rn, win m 4 . * airplane undouttemy wm s»! on Gas Are Upheld of men have been sentenced to|wume a place of much greater im n 8 e Uphe Bi. STORED AWAY hang and have been kept tn the| portance in maval affairs than ever, Increasm gas rates for Seattle, . ft reaches which went trte effect April 1, 1920. HEINZ pis ms Gey cut the rope and| been tet off by the governor at\|e development far beyond ito pree|were upheld by the wate sopreme Some ether process might : Bakeg Beams with Pack i |) @Brried the deterrent away. The|the lact minute. Itt! be that way|ent ntilit cannot take the place|court Monday, according to word re d and ‘Fomato Seuce ig 1 was unbolted, taken down,| with Schmitt. They won't hang|og the cafiltal ship. Seetved in this efty cheaper—but ovea baking ee ctored away. They thoushe 1¢| him” Dial craic el i be t HEINZ Baked Pork anf Bess gome day save money for The guarts insist that John Do You Know a Baby Sick With Constipation Tell the mother to give half « teaspocn- ful of Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsia. O thoughtful mother with children in the house will risk being without & good, reliable laxati It will save many a serious illness, many a doctor’s visit. When the baby cries and is fretful, when the nay age oe and won't lay, when the girl is listless and fever- ish, when there are complaints of headaches; and colds, the mother can suspect constipation. Give Dr. Cald- well's Syrup Pepsin in the small dose rescribed on the bottle, when you put he child to bed, and with morning the ailment will have disappeared, Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin is a | popular compound of Egyptian Senna and other simple laxative herbs with fo a wale gtd 7 ty lad pec It rT ently and mildly, and children take ft without ablestion. A sixty-cent TRY IT FREE bottle is ——* last an average fam- Send me your name and ad- ily many months. The ingredients are dress and | will send youa free endorsed in the U. S. Pharmacopoeia, ¢rial bottle of my Syrup Pepsin. | and-'ast year American mothers bought Address me Dr. W. B, Cald- | over ig it million bottles of Dr. Cald- well, 513 Washington Street, | well’s Syrup Pepsin from druggists. It Monticello, Illinois. Every- | is the largest selling liquid laxative in body now and then needs a | the world, and few cautious families are laxative, and it is well to know ever without it. the best. Write me today. state, and it has. Schmitt isn't “hard-bofled.” @aw John Schmitt. I didn’t “He ts a German boy who hasn't to him, for the law does not/ had any friends or family that it But Warden Drumm | amounted to much,” said one guard the guards who have been with| “He has had a tough time of it tt told me about him. The/in this country. He isn’t weaken Jaw permits men condemned|ing, and he won't weaken, for @eath to see only the warden|he ixn’t that type. He hasn't guards, a spiritual adviser,| sald anything about death, but he of his immediate family,| has it all figured out and he ien’t| This attorney. Schmitt has no| afraid.” Mey, no friends, no pals, ne| I sw Schmitt walking up and and docan't wang to see|down the fnner court, taking his priests or pastors. afternoon exerciwe. He always Jobe Schmitt was a plain high-| walks two hours a day. There > He robbed for a lving.| seems to be nothing unusual about Otympia he held up a store.| him. He «miles readily. Ho ents Man chased him, firtng a pistol.| well and sleeps well. He doesn’t) itt, according to the story he| write any letters. He doesn't read arden Drumm, fired at the/ any letters. ntending to “wing” him. But| PIES AND PASTRY - hot killed the man. Schmitt) HIS ONLY REQUEST » 7 @eaped to a vacant house, where| some time ago Warden Drumm © {he had hidden his cap and rain-|toid Schmitt he could have any ‘These he donned and returned / thing within reason. Schmitt asked his room. permission to buy pies and other He packed up his effects, burned| paftry from a Walla Walla store, checks he had stolen, counted|as other prisoners do, and the stolen cash, and calmly boarded | permission was granted. He hasn't auto staze. asked anything else. CHIEF WARN The warden offered him a bunch ER AGAINST MURDERER | of religious tracts, but Schmitt smiled © Before the stage started, the| and turned them down. Diympia chief of police opened the| Schmitt patronizes the prison and cautioned the driver to/|Ifbrary liberally He reads Jack for the murderer. And the| London's books chiefly. He has \ escaped. Had the potice| never called for a Bible, or a ht a clerk from the robbed! minister. [Bore to the bus station, Schmitt| It is not my purpose to create Daoubtedly would have been identi.| sympathy for John Schmitt. I ged and arrested. am myself in doubt about him. I } Schmitt robbed gas stations In| intend to tell just the facts, to give ttle. In his death cell at the|the viewpoint of some of the pri state prison he often boasts that|oners on hanging. I talked with he “collected from Rockefeller.” | one prisoner who spends most of One evening he met two police-| his time studying social problems, ) men on the street. They ordered|and he explained the prison view | him to halt. He killed them both. | point. Later the same night he met two! Moore officers. He killed one, but “A talk with a prisoner on capital her whot him and captured| punishment in an early issué) | retains the natural nutriment : HEINZ Baked Beans in Tomato 3 One of the Varieties ED |, Great Britain plans» gigantic! SAN FRANCISCO—Congressional| Women of Shanghal ere prohibited l hydro-electric plant in the Severn | medal of honor awarded Capt Nelson lriver to utilize the power of the|M. Holderman, U. 8. A., formerly | ‘f° Weartng short ekirts and dis | tides, member of famous “lost battalion.” | playing their arms. \|GIRL ENDS | TROUBLES “It was Just the thing for the week end trip. One «mall suit case and an Jassortment of dainty blouses and a | sport skirt and, of courwe, I couldn't | | resiat the temptation to start out In “Hastily I accepted the invitation, | then sat down and wondered where on earth the clothes were coming from, when in marched Jack, and I | told him my troubles. | “Brighten up,’ he «aid; ‘go to} | Cherry's a4 I did and buy on credit. | 1 dignified credit,- too, That's| ere and how I get all my clothes.’ | I'm certainly learning where and |how to buy clothes so as to be well| | dressed all the time and not be broke. | neir store is on Second ave. be- | tween Madisow and Spring, 207 Ri-| alto Bldgover the Pig’n Whistle.”— | dvertisement | ‘Acid Stomach | FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM 4a Schmitt told his guard at Wala ’ “Walla: “I shot beeause I didn’t want to ¢ hanged for the Olympia affair I was afraid I would be identified figured if I killed the cops and S got away, I was away, and if they All money deposited in this bank is guaranteed by the Washington Bank Depositors’ Guaranty Fund of the State of Washington. arrested.” a Another prisoner, a man serving | », wen pone emi pains go shooting a long term, put ft this way: igh your head, when your skull , Alasks Butte. bome of hes MA seems as if it would split, just rub alittle Established Thirty-One Years | ‘The Seundinevine” SHOT FIRST Musterole on your temples and neck. | or ears Anatom, HOPING TO ESCA It draws out the inflammation, soothes 7, ” 919 tl | Banh / “schmitt shot his first man be- | awaythepain,usuallygivingquick relict. Resources, Last Call, $23,477,962.12 *, | cause he wanted to escape, and lusterole is a clean, white ointment, Row a Different Woman P a raets samet, et TT tata goede: vn of pes po Better than Orrico _ “ ing |@ mu! plaster and does not blister. ’ lew im thie stata, Schmitt wouldn't] Many doctors and nurses frankly Daniel Kellcher, Chairman _EarnestlyPralsesEatonic Our Only Branch Is at Ballard ve jer © policemen in |recomm: ‘usterole for sore throat, J. W. Spangler, President a Grave, Asst. Cashier lo enffarer from Beattie, The capital punishment |bronchiti®-.croup, stiff neck, asthma, V. Ankeny, ¥ elley, A vanhler esti emeant hoe ) years,'’ writes v3 2 law is directly responsible for the neuralgia, congestion, pleurisy,rheuma- B. Tronx, Viee- _M Anant. Cashi H, D, Orippen, ‘but ie a diffe: murder of those officers. Capital tism, lumbago, pains and aches of the 3. H. Newherser, V , Wm. Kahike, Asst. Cashier woman since taking Batanio.” punishment makes the dangerous back or joints, sprains, sore muscles, e e FB. G. Amen, Vice- J. W. Miner, Aant. Cashier a ach'--let desperate—a menace not only bruises, chilblaina, frosted feet—co| | Bufferers from acl { a aasety but to himeai” ap of the chest (it often ete soa Eatonic help you also, It quickly e can Mmavian Iwas sent to Walla Walla by |monia). It is always dependable. Have you exchanged your Liberty Bonds of the takes up and Carries out the " . 9 . nat acidity and gases and makes the ; ee oe east Goc jars; hospital size $3.00 ||’ Fourth Issue? It will be to your advantage to |}/ S07 Ant gmwe oie ible. You e secure permanent bonds before April 15. digest so foal ell and stp American Bank free from bloating, belching, { lumbia repeating, etc. Big box costa only a) Second Avenue at Colu | Eeeint ste, areas ae \ Advertisement. 1 found this: The prisoners do not believe tn penging murderers That ien't fonny. It isn't a joke. These men feason. They have intellect, and SEATTLE, WASHINGTON