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

Weather Tonight and Wednesday, generally fair; moderate easterly winds. Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 55. Minimum, 41. Today noon, 49. HAGEN TELLS STAR OF BOOZE BY RALPH J. BENJAMIN y, pe gall TIME I think about it I Every time I pick up a newspaper | and see the same old bunk, I get a temperature. Every time I hear some fat, pom- ous bondholder, rent colector or @ealer in pork chops, tell the old story, I heat up. It makes me mad, I tell you, not Just peeved. I refer to the great American alibi —the so-called reduction in the cost of living. First of all, the cost of living hawm't poll tax has been added to the pile, haven't cut thelr GO DOWN the rents go down, the street drop prices, the trust lops a from the bill, the taxes the butcher doesn’t try to his rent off of each hunk of he selle—then I'll quit this bunk talk ‘t tell me Letive too high. I don’t. And it makes me mad when, you talk that way. ‘The other day I wanted a few sticks of lumber. I found that the price drop had been lost somewhere between the sawmill and me—if there ever was a price cut. I'm getting suspicious of all who sell. If a salesman whines about the drop in prices, right away I get mad all over again. 1 wanted to buy & rug to replace the thing that the neighbors have} kicked to pleces coming in to use the) phone—and I found that the kind of a@ rug I wanted has gone up in the last few weeks. Say, Mr. Editor, why don't you do something about it? Why do you) continue to elucidate bunkum about big cuts in the cost of living? Quit it. You make me mad. rH au \President Calls On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Entered as Second Clase Matter May 3, 18! -. BOOZE WAR Reinforcements Gathered for Second Descent on a Texas Ranch EL PASO, Texas, Mareh 23.—8. EB. Beckett and Arch Wood, pro hibition officers, were slain while searching for @ suspected consign- ment of whisky at the Shearman ranch, near here, early today. The two officers were members of a party of federal agents who went to the ranch to intercept the | alleged delivery of 23 cases of whisky. Asx they approached the ranch house they were called on to halt. As they advanced, the of: fleers were fired on from the house, Beckett and Wood both, being killed. The volley broke up the attack and a call was sent to El Paso for reinforcements. Twenty officers re sponded and a search was begun for Cc. P. Shearman and bis son, Neil, | owners of the ranch. Stillman Tenders His Resignation)" NEW YORK, March 22.—James A. Stillman today tendered his resig nation as president of the National ‘ity bank. However, the board of directors unanimously refused to ac- cept the resignation. ee Talk Settlement in Stillman Case NEW YORK, March 23.—On the eve of the first open court hearing in the Stillman divorce scandal, re ports of a private settlement were re vived today. Emphasis was placed in certain quarters on the fact that an appli- cant for a divorce must come into court “with clean hands” and that charges regarding the alleged rela tions of James A. Stillman, multi millionaire banker, with “Mra. Flor ence H. Leeds” had made it diffi cult for him to obtain a decree in this state. Congress Meeting! WASHINGTON, March 22. ~The | formal call for the extraordinary ses sion of congress to meet at noon | April 11, was issued by President | Harding today. He Came to ‘to the Aid of the Party; Bing! Now ts the time for ali good men to come to the aid of the | party. Steve Brushkik came to the aid of the party—with four quarts bam pinched him for bootlegging Stifey Spring fever. Oxtor of green onions, Open season for posts. Outaide of Centra: bullding needs |= bath. Course in beginning Chinese to be given at U. Victims of Sunday night bus truck smash gt Tukwila improve. Te has Peeping Tom. Peeks in J. BE Harvett's home there Kiddies’ Easter parade. Bon Marche baby shop; 3 pf m. Tuesday. Good Friday concert. Friday § p. m. Plymouth Congregational church. jerher, 1116 Spring B. degree at Har- Pierce county dogs finest, says that county's treasurer, How ‘bout it, dogs? Herbert A. Owen, mayor's secre: tary, announces his middie name, It fred, ie A “Thou shalt not kill” to be em repent. on pew tmffic pamphiet Mines ah shut down to boost B. C. coal, eds J. C. Reynolds, an oper ator of B. C. Two Tacoma maids by swimming celebrate tn Tacoma city council indorses Spo- kane council's attack on certificate of necensity bill. Tacoma Scandinavian . American bahk depositors urged to file claims before Saturday Waits five years for chance to file on of] claim. Alexander Enos. Leaves for Alaska today High freight rates may force shutdown of St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co.'s plant. Maj. Carl H. Reeves celebrates happy springtime wit! a new batik (hand-painted) necktie. City counci! and board of public works plan day's trip to Cedar Falls power plant Wednesday Found—One fishing pole, one can of worms. Ballard car. Now at lost bureau of muny railway Good news for bird dogn State game farm passes out China pheas ant ¢ggs for propagation Lineman steps on her foot |Telephone & Telegraph Co. | Hope C. Benton, 11, $125 Dances. Kilts, Bagpipes. Mutual Business Men's Scotch ‘entertainment Didn't intend to v had booze. Otto Hugo and Ben Williford charged in federal court. Seattle residents prepare to com mute. Practice running for boats, Jugsling huge parcels of groceries. Edward §. Franklin, industrial In surance shark, arrives from Victoria with three pairs of Scotch plaid - Locks Pacific pays Brogue. |The Pacific | Bonita, en route from Baltimore association | at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. und the Act of Congress March SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1921. Wants to Sell Self to Pay for Operation for Mother , TRENTON, N. J, March ~A léyearold girl's offer to sell herself into marriage for $1,000, was taken seriously by at least & score of men today That numbers of letters had been reeelved by Dorothy Miller, who ap pealed for the money to pay for an operation ner mother must un ory dergo Sunday, with marriage when! she reached the age of 18, as a re ward Pacific “Mail Ship Point Bonita Abhore SAN FRANCISCO, March 22. Mall steamer Point to San Francisco, is aground at Carto Island, off the const of Costa Tuca, according to advices re cetved here today. by orm og pianast ‘olorado Launched CAMDEN, N. J. March 22.- Christened with a flask of carbo nated water from Colorado Springs, the superdreadnought Colorado was launched at the yards of the New York Shipbutiding company today, while 20,000 persons cheered. Syracuse Student Drowned in Canal SYRACUSE, N. Y. March 22. The freshman banquet at Syracuse university today became a memmortal service for James A. Gafney in stead of the usual exuberant jolli- fication. Gafney, aged 20, Hudgon, N.Y. was drowned in the canal at On wero, N. Y., lant night while trying to capture three sophomore offi cers who were to be taken to the yearling banquet as hostages, The canal was drained today to recover the body. Woman Pa “a $6 Receipt as Check With a county clerk's receipt for $6, paid for filing a divorce suit, a woman obtained $6 worth of gro ceries by indorsing her name on the back, according to a report of W. A Swanson, of the Northern Grocery Co., 4619 Phinney ave. to the county clerk Tuesday, Swanson, who gave the woman's name, «aid he present ed the paper to a bank for cashing and discovered for the first time it represented money paid out instead of to be paid in, A BACHELOR HUSBAND Copyright, 1921, by W. J. Watt & Co. BY RUBY M.AYRES BEGIN MERE TODAY Mi her father's wealth. She and & seaside hotel on thelr h There Marie overhears her husband's chum, “Feathers” Dakers, remark that Chris married her for her money NOW GO ON WITH STORY (Continued From Our Last Issue) A bachelor husband! It seemed so) completely to sum np the situation, and before Marie's eyes rose a dread ful picture of the future in which Chris would be nothing more to her ‘than he had been during the past five years. “What about that game of bil Yards?” the voice asked with a yawn, and there was a movement on | the other side of the bank of ferns which hid the speaker from Marie. She could not #ee him as he moved away, and she sat on, numbed and cold, until presently Chris came look ing for her and found her out. He slipped a careless hand thru her arm and led her acroms the lounge to where a group of men stood chatting and laughing gether. He touched one of them on the 1 want to introduce you Marie gave him her hand. Was this the man who had brought her castle tumbling down? she wondered, and her brown eyes were full of un- conscious pathos as she raiwed them to his face. to- | | | jof the man who, with And then he spoke, and she recog nized his voice instantly as the voice careless in- difference, had blasted her happl ness. “Delighted to meet you,” he said. “{ know your old rascal of a hu hand well, Mra. Lawless. Many @ good time we've had together in the| past.” “And shall have in the future,” Chris struck in casually. “Don't put [it so definitely in the past.” He turned to 4 boyish-looking| youth who had been standing looking on rather sheepishly. “Marie, this is Atkins.” “Awfully pleased to meet you,” he said, “Shall we go and look on? Chris and Feathers are going to play pills.” Marie rained dazed eyes to him. “I'm Feathers,” Dakers explained casually. “So-called on account of my hair—which invariably stands up on end. You may have noticed.” “Anyway, I don't know what the game of pills in,” she said. ‘The boy Atkins began to explain. “It's billiards, They're rotten play- ers, both of them, and we shall get some fun out of watching them, I'll! find you @ good seat.” Chris looked at his wife dubiously. “It you're tired—if you'd rather I didn’t play,” he began diffidently, but the girl shook her head. Chris had taken off his coat to be more free to play, and he looked a fine figure of a man in his shirt sleeves, the thought, as he stood chalking his cue and laughing with Feathers | }to He never once glanced at his wife. She supposed he thought that she was quite happy and entertained by young Atkins Only once her. “Would you lke some coffee? Chris came across to he | asked “No, thank you.” Chris wag winning, young Atkins whispered to her. “Have you he asked. "Gad! { As good as any ‘pro’! I'll bet my boots say, what's the matter? Chris!” He Galled sharply across the room Chris, but it was too late, for Marie had slipped fainting from the high leather couch Chris play ten He can Wimbledon eee gy Here, seen CHAPTER IL The game stopped abruptly between them Chris and Feathers carried Marie from the goom. Feathers, who was bending her, moved away, and Chris forward, “Better?” he asked. “It hot room; I'll take you upstairs. all right, you only fainted.” A bachelor husband. How in finitely funny it was! She looked -at over ne was the It's Chris as he walked with her to the| stairs “I'll fetch one of the maids to look after you,” he mid as they reached her room. He turned away, but she called him back. “Chris, | want to speak to you." “What do you want to say to me?” and} he asked. “Won't It do presently?” She shook her head. “Chris—I want to tell you all about our wedding!” “All about our wedding?” he asked wonderingly. I know “IT mean—I know why you mar. ried me,” ahe said “Why?” Thé hot blood rushed to his face. “Who told you?" he asked sharply “Does that matter? I out. And II wanted to say ¢ ¢ * it doesn't matter. think it was quite right of you.” He walked up to her, and laid his hands on her shoulders. “Well—well * * ¢ Can't we go on * * * just being good friends? just only being good friends?—just only being good friends, I mean,” "Very well—it shall be winh—of course!” She got up early, long before the other people in the hotel were astir, and went, out and down to the sands, ‘Good morning, Mrs. She started, flushing her eyes met the kindly e of “Featherns’ ood morning,” said Marie. thought I was the first one up,” added resentfully He laughed carelessly “LT knew you didn't like m said in friendly fashion, “I could read it in your eyes last night.” There was & little silence, ve you got any brothers?” (Turn to Page 9, Column 2) just found that 1-1 as you Lawless.” nfully quizzical as “y she he LIQUOR, HE SAYS, DRUG ON MARKET Sound Country H Honeycomb- ed With Caches; “I’m Thru,” Says He } BY LEE SULLIVAN | “Booze was never so plentiful here as it ix now, Millions of dol |lare’ worth was brought in last year “One bootlegger brolght tn 600) cases in one week recently, and is \ettl! going strong “Boone bere te a drug qo market, so much is brought th. bard to sell it for $90 « case, where & year ago $160 could be easily ten “The whisky i# brought in in boats from Canada and switched) |into auto trains, cached in the woods and delivered in «mall lots |The woods near the Sound are hon |eyoombed with caches, “One hundred and fifty cases of whisky have been taken from me in ‘knockevers’ since January 1 Policemen made the steala in some canes, Their names will never pase my fips, I'm et & mitch. “I owned half interest in two beats making a trip a week from Vancouver loaded with booze. They'll never find the boats now “Scores of good bootleggers are | brazenly operating.” Ed Hagen, slumped down in a chair in the Jailer's office in city jet, a cigar stub jammed in hie mouth, made the above statemen' in an exclusive interview with The Star before leaving for MeNeil and Tuesday to serve a two-year |term for stealing 1,890 bottles of booms from a government warehouse Hagen sighed, and continued “And I'm thru. When I get out they'll never catch me with another bottle of booze. The wife, the two kids and myself will beat it awny from thin town—TI've been here too | long, 32 yeary—and I'll go straight.” NOT THE HAGEN OF OLD DAYS Hagen, huge and heavy, ts not the same Ed Hagen whowe police record scintillated with spectacular, amazing arrests, Hagen, the con- vict-to-be, the convicted bootlerger, i not quite the same Ed Hagen who fought Battling Levinaky for a right to a chance at the world’s |henvy title in New York some years back The powerful frame of the ex | copper, boxer and baker is padded with pound upon pound of surplus flesh. “Fat,” Ed calle tt The good right hand that etirred |the birdies and stars in many a |boxer’s toppiece, is not what it jused to be. The finger that pulled the trigger of the gun that killed @ negro gunman in the South End in the wild days, is useless, A few months ago that finger and the one next to it were sliced off at the second knuckle in an acch dent But the fierce fearlessness has always characterized Ed Ha gen still hangs about him. The firm jaw and boldness still remain And perhaps always will “But I'm not squealing,” suddenly after a silence. “I'm going over to MeNell Island and I'm going to be a good dog. There's no use getting tough in a prison. (Turn to Last Page, Column 2) that he said ' Humor in High Places; BY HAL ARMSTRONG “O", RED," said the city editor. ‘Go get a funny story.” He's what they call a born optim jet, the city editor, He thinks fun ny stories pop out of the earth like toadstools or angleworms, I's} | before the calamity ‘ 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mall, 65 to $9 READY TO (0 AHEAD ON RECALL Manning Perfects Plans for Campaign to Oust Gov. Hart Actual work of circulating peti-| tions asking for the recall of Gov-| ernor Hart because he refused to veto the poll tax will be begun! within a few days, Joseph R. Man- ning, Seattle undertaker, announced | | Tuesday Manning mid he was getting nie | organization perfected and expect-! ed to get down to business within | the week Manning has Abandonea his origi | nal plan of carrying the poll bond | fight to the state supreme tfor a rut on the penne clause, which makes it tmponsible to circulate @ referendum petition against the measure, Ways and means of collecting the poll tax and pat eg — there- | for are to be discummed at a meeting | being arranged between the county axseunor, county comm: county treasurer and the sheriff. Gov, Harts signature to the lw Monday morning made every man and woman between 21 and 50 years old debtor to the state in the eum of $5. The tax in payable after May 1 and delinquent after June 30, after ich date the sheriff may seize) hata, shoes, clothing or other mee al property for payment, Bill Hart Denies Engagement Report LOS ANGELES, Cal, March 22— On the eve of bis retirement from the movies, William 8, (Bill) Hart today reiterated a denial of. pub- lished reporta that he and Jane Novak, leading woman in many of his productions, are to be married Clad as Woman, He Loots Car Berths? Dressed in woman's apparel, S./ F. Keifer, 26, was arrested on a Northern Pacific train out of Yakt ma to Seattle early Tuesday morn- | ing by a special agent of the rail road who claimed tempting to rifle Pdllman berths Keffer is in the county jail on an open charge. Packer Employes May Not Strike WASHINGTON, March 22.—Pros- pecta of averting the threatened packers’ strike were considered bet- ter today. “The outlook is very encouragin said R. 8. Brennan, attorney for the employes. I believe we may reac ha | settlement today or tonig | Corporal Slays Wife; Ends Life ROCKFORD, Ii}. (March 22.—The | “Madelon” of the Great Lakes train ing station lay murdered here today. Mrs. Beulah Upton Howard, who, like the girl in the popular French | war kept up the morale of student sailors at Great Lakes by) singing during the war, was shot in a hotel here last night by Corporal Charles Howard, Camp Grant, her husband, who then committed sui Eras Keifer was at) | the county | harvest cide. bartender down at the Hotel Butler, owas there. He had on a blue uniform with brass buttons. “Hullo! said I, “What's the fun-| niest thing yon ever heard tell of | | “Wher he “Got 1 parried “As far as you like, in his usual definite, I went to the the 42story L. © than which there is no farther. Dan Preston, who used-to be head swered. way I went 424 story of Smith building, “I dunno,” said Dan, “How come you up here? T ain't got a dro “Whadda you do up he asked. “Well,” he enlightened, “fdon't do | very well, I wear this uniform, so | the sightseers that come up here can | distinguish me from the other birds and ask ame foolish questions, Oth: | er day a woman came up and asked mé to read the Chinese writing| carved on the wall hee, | “Course I know the translation. | It's a description of Washington) state. You know how the Chines are sir alphabet ain't“like ours. K y tharacfer means a whole lot wn at the Butler w had a Chi nese bar boy. Poor old Roy Wit-| Hams came in one day, He'd been sick, looked like a skeleton, I said,| OHIO MURDER TRAIN ON WAY EAST WITH PRISONER QUARTET 108 ANGELES, March 22 Heavily guarded and carrying three men and a woman charged with three murders in Cleveland and Akron, @ special car, dubbed by detectives as “The Buckeye Murder Special,” left here today to return the prisoners to Obio for trial, Prisoners aboard, in charge of Cleveland and Akron detectiven, were: Samuel Purpera, 17-year old gunman and gangster, who has signed 4 confession that he was one of the highwaymen who shot and killed W. W, M#ly and George Kfanner in a $4,200 pay- roll robbery in Cleveland tat De- cember. Charles W. Smith, 22, his father, C. P. Smith, 43, and the latter's 19-year-old bride, Olive. The Smiths are wanted by the Akron authorities in cofnection with the murder of Peter Schure, wealthy recluse, who was beaten and strangled to death‘on Octe $ in an Akron rooming hor Hin mutilated body was buried after the crime. Mrs. Smith a year-old baby. , MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE -FILED Formal charges of manslaughter were being prepared in Tacoma Roland R. Porthier, ‘Maj. Alexander P. ‘who waa shot and killed at by District Attorney Robert C. Saun ders, upon telegraphic request from Peter C. Cannon, United States at torney at Providence, R. 1, where Porthier is now held by the depart- ment of justion ‘The warrant was being attested to by Ansistant District Attorney Boyle, in Tacoma, The warrant will be forwarded to Providence, where a court order for Porthier’s removal will be secured In the normal course of events, Sanders stated, it will be about 30 days before Porthier arrives in Ta coma. Further testimony. will then be taken and the trial arranged, unless the defendant pleads guilty to the charges, Porthier was at the time of the fata] shooting a sergeant bugler at Camp Lewis, He was one of the three witnesses of the affair, and is said to have admitted that he shot the major, but that it was uninten tional. New Arrest in Probe of Bank at Tacoma TACOMA, March 22.—Charies Drury, Tacoma capitalist and for. mer director of the defunct Seandi- navian American bank, of Tacoma, Was arrested late Monday on five warrants issued under authority of five secret indictments returned by grand jury, He was re leased on $35,000 bail, put up by a number of Tacoma business | men, Sign o’ ’ Spri ng! Bock Beer Harvest Near Home brewers are preparing to the annual crop of bock beer x The thick dark beverage is made from the residue of prior brewings. | Otho Presented ‘With Nice Cigar by A. Lou Otho Lénroot Shrader, statistical sleuth of city \counell, gets cigar from Lou Cohen, new city dad and cigar magnate. Smoke up, Otho! trying to cheer him up, ‘Roy, they ain't been doing right by you. Looks like @ little home cooking would do He kinda laughed; made | Then the Chinaboy like that, you good.’ him feel good comes in and looks at Roy, up and down, and says ‘Poor Loy; | pletty soon two dollah, flowers.’ And | in two weeks Roy was dead, That's a Chinaman, He little, and means a whole lot, “Come out on show you the scenery. quite a ways, When you can sce. says the roof and I'll You can see! NTS IN SEATTLE SECOND E ‘ATTEMPT. TO DIE SUCCESS Former Motorman Maki | Human Target of Hi : ‘Tried Gas Monday ~ pie | “Now I guess enn VU piled one on myself,” sald G. W. ca worth of shots in a gallery at 1208 First ave, noon Tuesday. Then he the gun on himself and dead a few minutes later. — Noting Rasmussen’ as he uttered his gruesome a girl in charge of the screamed and fied while the | calmly ended his life. | The body was taken at once | the county morgue, where W. H. Corson pronounced due to a bullet wound in the side, Rasmussen lived at Sixth ave. An attempt made by to commit suicide by the gas in the O-W. hotel, at m. Monday was thwarted by FP trolman 8. Ey who » fas and broke into thé t time to send the + the to the ‘city hospital, where he waa resuncitated: * | D dred statesmen, journalists business men meeting here announced the organization be International Peace formed for the purpose of 4 Prejudice against Japan and” ticularly to promote friendship China and the United States. King George IV. in Police Court King George IV was tried in Uece court Tuesday, accused of drunk—on grapo, After the and his wife had pleaded for jency, on the grounds of innocence, Judge John B. |suspended sentence and |them to return to Monohan, King George slaves in a mill, IGeorge IV is an Indian. Booze Customers Come at Bad Tin While deputy sherifts searched the house at 1015% Pike st. moons night, customers came, according to jtheir report Tuesday on the of Mrs. Fay Huston and Mabel R ertson, colored occupants of place. They seized six quarts liquor found under a trap door, = wid we They Watched Too Well for Nicholas Nick Bellu, who asked Prohibition agents to watch ee “soft” drink establishment for boot leggers and was caught at she game himself, was fined a total of $450 in federal court Tuesday when he pleaded guilty to booze charges, — 35 Quarts of Beer . Cost This Pair $300 Thirty-five quarts of beer in the Yellowstone hotel, 1212\% First ave, cost Seth King and Edith Hamer $300 in federal court Tuesday. G ih | That's where Mount Rainier would | be on a'clear day, off to the legt” | there, Those are the Olympic mowm 7 | tains across the bay, behind | clona bank. You can't see ‘em this | morning, but I'm telling you, Up }that way is Vancouver—splendid town. And down this* other way, the other side of Portland, is Mt. St Helens. Can't quite see it, er the Himalayas today, Too hazy.” “What do“you have this ironwork railing around here for?” I inters rupted, “To keep giddy women | from falling off?” “No,” said Dan, “That's to keep | the married men from jumping. T | gotta go now, Here comes a sight: ~ | seer with a couple of ladies, That's | his new auto, way down there in the street, Looks like a flyspeck, but it's one of them big Chandlers, . He's a millionaire'’s son.” The millionaire's son approached. Vmorning,” greeted Dan, “What beat’s your father on now?" P. “The city editor growled, sourly, “Funny—like @ crutch,”