The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 30, 1921, Page 1

ALL SENTENCED, BU ‘NO PLACE TO GO! } WOMEN BARRED FROM SANITARIUM THRONG DOUGLAS’ OFFIC Weather and Thursday, fair; frost in morning; northeasterly winds, ‘Temperature Last 24 Hours Tonight Maximum, 51. Today noon, 51. er Call. ar Inspection. lard Cement. to the fearteenth of a series of tn which members of The lar otaff tell what displeases them ‘end why. BY RALPH CUNNINGHAM BEGIN WITH I want to say ‘that I have no regular, steady it is, I have no pet peeve I pack around like a phoney . My peeves come by jerks in bunches, so, when Mr. Ellis me the other day for my pet for his column—which, by the he considers somewhat of a tonic im purifying a fellow's ed Minimum 38, 25 GIRLS BUFFETED | BY CLIN CLOSING! Conducted From Court to| Court, They Clutter Up Prosecutor’s Office Dumped out of the Woman's In-| dustrial Home & Clinic at Medical | Lake because the institution i being forced to close as a remuit of Governor Hart's veto of ite ap Propriation, 25 girls were conducted Wednesday morning by the matron ‘And her assistants to various King) county courts in a futile effort to determine where to go. Between trips they cluttered the channels of traffic in the prose- cutor’s office while authorities | She Pities But Girl Juror Likes Work i oe the * ISOM WHITE DEBON ON WAY TO DEATH 4 TALKS TO STAR REPORTER ON WAY TO.STATE PE On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 80, 1921. Poor Judges ) RIGHT TORESIST BOOZE SEARCH! JUDGE 0.K’S BEATING OF DRY AGENT Rules Officers Without War- rants Assail Bootleggers at Own Peril Uniews armed with a search war- rant, federal prohibition agents have [] The Seattle Star Hontered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Portoffice at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Por Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 TH Brand of Cigaret Isom White. left Seattle morning for Walla Walla to | When the train pulled out of the Union station at 920 he was om ing «@ cigaret. His last words were: “T care—much.” ‘Traveling. guards from the jn legal right to search for Mlicit | boone or to selae it, and citizens thus | approached without proper author! I | about the basement is harder rock, and it’s only three/ since they poured it in with And the floor, too,” he con pounding it with ap axe, “see hard it is!” ly he got down to the inter part of the basement. #014 fellow,” he confided, “I have} one bottle of Sunnybrook left— the last of the Mohicans, I've saving it for three years, and I think of no better time to open than now.” LCOVERED BOTTLE opinions being in perfect con- cordance, Bill proceeded to move ight or nine trunks, an old gas stove, several boxes and a pile ot} fumber, and produced his treasure. ft was ancient and honestly genu fne, the bottle being covered with dust and spattered with cement. I watched with bated breath and terrific thirst while Bill fished out » knife which comprised a corkscrew weveral blades and a complete set of Ritehen utensils. He held the bottle between his kenees, gouged the corkscrew into the | cork, fumbled and—horrors! The bottle fell to the floor and smashed to smithereens! Henry Clay, you know not disappointment! | When we departed—which was very shortly after—milady said: “The Joneses have a beautiful home.” ¥en,” 1 observed, the phantom of that thirst again assailing me. “And some basement, and some swell hard floor in itr” New Record Hung Up by City Car System! Topnotch records for cash reve- aues taken in were hung up by the muny raliway last week-end, accord mn@ to firures in the city treasure! otfice Wednesday. nt During Saturday and Sunday the greet cars garnered over $36,000, | which ts $1,900 more than had been twken in on previous week-ends, | Baster crowds, of course, are ac- countable for a part of the Increane. | Revenues are mounting fast, offi aaa cay, ( | about to ten on her. Other girls King county superior with the feeling ‘8 people are burdened o | woman in the world should jump at the chance to do jury duty. ‘The thing i# an education. 1} ty may forcibly resist the officers without offending the law, according to & decizion handed down Wednes Gay by Federal Judge Jeremiah Ne terer. Herbert Hallowell, proprictor of the New Oocidental hotel, 2224 Firat ave, Hallowell two. “The charge in each count ts bar- ren of authority under which search and atigure were made,” the decision trouble than she ever have sat in criminal and civil cases | tates. The court oes on to say existed. ." she mid, “one after » biting and warring at and all of them believe I pity the poor jand I can't bexin to calculate how | much I have learned. She denied the prevalent notion that women jurors are inclined to be severe with women liti¢antn. “AL| isinally and had them com. | judges who sit and listen to it the ways,” she sald,“ try to be fair.” | Clearly the governor ig re- One of the girls in the party waa @ ward of the juvenile court, and an- other was committed by the police court, They were to be taken, make rulings similar to Justice Dal- ton‘s, One of the women Is about ‘to be- come a mother. The strain of too much travel, the matron said, was were still under the. necessity for | treatment, and all spoke highly of the Institution which Gov. Hart's veto closes. “You should have seen me five months ago,” said one young wom- an. “Look at me now. All the girls have benefited quite as much ag I.” There was unanimous approval of her statement. The girls were brought to King county Wednesday morning by Mrs. Jay W. Fancy, matron, who issued | written orders returning them to the ; courts that had cormmitted’them, fol- lowing the action of the board of con- trol of the instifution, ordering it closed April 1, Mrs. Fancy’s orders stated merely that “the lack of an appropriation made the closing necessary.” WERE 89 GIRLS IN THE INSTITUTION In the institution were some 89 girls. Tacoma’s quota was taken to that city and the courts there are said to have taken the same attitude as taken here. About 12 of the inmates wdére com. mitted for felonies, and thene, it is| the state penitentiary at Walla Walla, What to do with the others Is far from ‘olution, altho the prevailing | opinion is that-they will be released | because of the lack of power of any- body to hold them SPRINGTIME 1S}\' “THROW AWAY” || TIME When springtime comes the thoughts of the housekeeper turn to “clean up.” “paint up” and all that sort of thing. And once you start at that Cleaning proposition you find a number of things you feel like throwing away. But the wise housewife knows that most of these discarded articles are valuable to some one else. Junk is useful material in the wrong place. Sell the things you no longer need thru a “For Sale—-Miscel- laneous” ad in The Star. You can telephone the ad and make the sale without a mite of trouble. Main 600. year round, hoping to be fair to everybody. 1 have watched Judge Dykeman listen to squabble after } She has become popular thruout | the courthoupe because of her wit tetema. She lives at 613 Galer st. Page One, Column 3. Bright. And fair, Gardenspading time, Straw hat season coming. Seatticites shed their overcoats. Postoffice’ still needs pens that Won't seratch. Peto Chorak, 26, Cumbertand, in county jail on saxauit charge. Trustees, Chamber Commerce, in dorne Seattle Rose society Inquest 9 a. m. Thursday; death Theo. Eckhart, hit by auto. Portland electrical exposition, 1 indorsed by Chamber of Com merce, Inquest 9 a. m. Thursday into} death of Theo Eckart, killed Monday | by auto, Fate of Harry Belt, alleged white Maver, in hands of federal jury ‘Thursday. Sprihg in Bellingham, Federal Judge Neterer\fo open April court term Friday. Baron Tanetro Megata, member house of peer, Japan, invited to visit Seattle. Spiritualist Workers union; 73rd anniversary doin’s; Thursday, Ar cade bulldi; Albert , mullty on booze charges, f i court. Transporta tion of liquor? Plans for safety week, April 4-0, in | understood, are to be transferred to| Trattic Lieut. C. G, Carr's office Thursday noon. Beer, whisky and wine seized. Mastin Neilson arrested at 522 N 46th at. by dry squad. Olga Olsen, widow of Albert at work on steamer, Iron Works for $20,000. Thursday noon, Wolf's cafeteria, Young Men's Republican club. County Commmstoner Ramsay to speak. Port of Seattle must give $1,000 bond while appealing Judge Ron. ald’s decision that it must operate | ferries. Deputy sheriffs capture E. Prairie, who escaped from county farm Monday. Still looking for Howard Shrope. Ewing D. Colvin, chairman Amert ecanization committee, Rainier-Noble post, talks on “Americanization” at Engineers’ club luncheon Thursday noon, Arctic club building. Jim Kelly took a flying start for the city limits at the req | Police Judge J. B. Gordon We day. Kelly was accused of ping a Chinaman and asking him for “nome white.” J. Murray turned back the unl- verne to before the days when Vobk y & household phrase and 4 rdingly, Judge Gor. don warned bim against the evils of intemperance Wednesday, * ~» SCHMITT HANGS FRIDAY MORNING Just at sunrise Friday morning, John Schmitt, mayer of three Se Jattle policemen, will be taken from | the death cell into the prison yard at Walla Walla and hanged, W. G. Potts, newly appointed | warden, will leave Seattle tonight jfor the prison*to make final ar. rangements for the execution, Who will actually spring the trap, sending Schmitt into eternity, the warden declined to ray The only man who will witness jthe hanging, excepting the neces. sary prison officials, is a physician, jyet to be named. This physician will accompany | Prison Doctor J. W. Ingram under | neath the scaffold and the two will say when Schmitt in dead, Schmitt's remarkable nerve has not yet broken, according to prison | jofficials. His ready smile has not | deserted him. His guards predict he will go to his death without a | tremor, Sehmitt says hie mother Is dend, and that the Seattle woman who | believes she is his mother ts mis | aken when she identifies his photo- lgraph as that of her runaway son. At all events she is said to have decided finally not to go to the prison to see put to death the boy she thinks is hers, BY AILKEN CLAIRE ILLIAM D, FREEMAN is olty purchasi nt, He ts the largest sho ttle. He buys more y than the ave age housewife « in a year, He buys everything from lingerie to lnwn mowers, from pickles to plow: nares. ‘Tuesday morning when Freeman letf home on Renton hilt he was in | bigh spirita, He had breakfasted on shirred eggs, crisply buttered toast and savory coffee. Me remembered aaved the city $1,478.23} how he the day before in a lorge purchase of extra hard toothpicks. “Today,” he announced to his wito, “1 huve a plan whereby all ma- | braska.” that citizens are protected from un- reasonable search and seizure by th® conatitution, “Before search and seizure 0 be made,” it continues, “the law requires an adjudication of the right to search and seize, and until this right is adjudicated, and war- Fant inqued, no right is vested in} officers, and search and setzure }} without such warrant is unlawful and may be resisted without of- i fending the law. * * © | “The authority of the officer not being set out In the indictment, it in faulty, and the demurrer must be sustained.” | “While I have not read the de- cision,” District Attorney Saunders | said Wednesday, “I am under the} impression that no attempt will be made to reindkct Hallowell. 1 have long held that federal prohibl- tion agents must act under author. ity of a writ or they act at their own peril Star Helps Mother Find Her Lost Boy After seeing the picture of “How. ard,” the lost boy, in The Star Tuesday, his mother hastened to polfloe station and got his reloase. Bo excited was she that she rushed off without telling the jailer or cops what the boy's full name is. Courts Congested? Co } Well, Fishin’s Good The Seattle Bar association ts in- vestigating the causes of the con- gestion In the superior court calen dar. Three judges went fishing Tues- day afternoon. WASHINGTON.—-New rule allows one man to take out five prospec- tors’ permits. terial for the various city depart: ments will be purchased in bulk. This will permit us to demand a larger discount, and will result in a great saving in the thousands of es T have to buy yearly.” That's fine, William,” his wife re. plied, with just the right amount of enthusiasm, “and, William, don't forget to buy me that spool of biue thread today.” Freeman jumped aboard a Mad- ison cable car, trundied over the brink of the hill to Fourth ave., and stepped briskly down to his offices ia the county-clty building. “Has that salesman for the paper towels been in yet?" he asked of his chie clerk, as he toased his hat on the desk. “And by the way, what has become of that shipment of Ford cars for the police department? It seems to be stuck somewhere in Ne- he city purchasing agent plunged into the mountainous mass of work on his desk. He interviewed sa men. He called up wholesalers, He inspected goods in storage Two Oregon Men Drop From Sight THE DALLES, Ore, March 30. Martin Hansen, foreman of a large ranch south of The Dalles, was. re- ported mysteriously missing from this district today, Energetic search is still being pushed for W, J, One, prominent business man who recent: ly dropped from sight, Hansen is known to have had a large amount of money on his per- son at the time he disappeared, And If That Isn’t Just Like a Man! It was the voice of his “Did you get that spool of During the day Freeman contract- ed for pencils, typewriters, carbon paper, water sprinklers, a fire en- fine, eye shades, seven fountain pens, park benches, a can of green paint, 157 shovels and a gross of pen wipers, At 5 o'clock he called it a day Lighting a cigaret, he dropped into the office of Councilman Robert B. Hesketh. “By George, Bob,” he exclaimed, “I've certainly had a trying» day. | I’ve had to attend to a thousand de- tails. I've, bought exactly 103 differ. ent articles, and I've spent something like $2,398 of the @ity’s money, A man to hold down the job of city purchasing agent has to have the memory of a chess champion and the accuracy of an adding machine. 1 pride myself on never forgetting a detail in the purchase of goods.” Freeman reached home sharp at 6, The pleasing aroma of steak and onions came from the kitchenette, He rubbed his hands in satisfaction. "¢ was the end of a perfect day, Mexican trade and undercutting of | signers he had got. 1 American prices’ Was reported to/0f thousand, maybe,” commerce department today. Seatie German exporters are selling hard- ware and other products “at lower prices than» American houses can |£00t-bye and giving longer credits, Freeman smiled broadly. “My dear,” he began, “you know I never forget things like that. It's I buy more stuff every id F i i sb yligatt I didn't ask him.then the White’ mofher visited the jail In Everett. not care Schmitt will be the first to go te the gallows under the state's 5 White will be White, unless reprieved, will on May 20 for his part in the ing of Lee Linton, an Everett, driver, He will not be permitted, is said, to see his accomplice, a be named Morton, who is serving a day than a woman buys In 20 years.” This with pardonable exaggeration. His wife entered the room. He handed her the spool, She glanced! THE DALLES, Ore., March 30,— at it carelessly, then her face took on|'The Farmers’ Co-operative grain’ that look known to every husband, “Well, of all things! term. _ Since the murder White has pasin ed his 20th birthday. ’ 25,000 Bushels of Wheat Are elevator at Miklao, Sherman — If that isn’t} county, 's in ruins today just like a man!” she exclaimed, in-|ing a spectacular night fire which “I ask you to buy me Spool--just one little spool of BLUE] 25,090 bushels of wheat which were thread—and here you bring home a| stored in it, spool of RED thread" destroyed the big structure and Loss is estimated at $50,00@