The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 8, 1921, Page 1

b * f Weather Tonight and Saturday, fair; light to heavy frost, Temperature Last 24 Maximum, 60. Minimum, 36, Teday noon, 56, Little, But— But— Oh, My! That's Just It. Funny? Not at All. French Heels Help. ‘This te the twenty-second of 2 se- shee of articles in which members of » ad what dispieascs them most, ead why. BY DAISY HENRY IRD AND LAST CALL your pet peeve, Miss Henr This to me from the managing a Mor. 1 had already been Informed by | the “peeviah” city editor that I was on the peevers’ list, so It's quite evt-| P dent he reported to the m. ¢. the| lackadaisical manner in which I re ceived his tip. Therefore, very po} 6 ed 'Star Survey Shows Nation- wide Disregard of the Prohibition Laws Bootlesging has become the na- ous pteves, | immense scale all over the country. ut—this was easier said than! Thousands of revenue agents con: T eat 20 minutes or so at MY /stantly unearth new headquarters iter, gazing into vacant space, of these bootleggers. They rout them trying to think just which one of out of mountain fastnemses. They ly peeves would best get by that/ uncover stills concealed in exclusive “peevish” city editor—end then uP }apartments in the large cities. Says Henry to me: “What, seems to be on your mind— get a headache?” * Says I to Henry: “Oh, no! The m. ¢, just put tn the last call for my pet peeve—and ['m concentrating.” To which Henry replied: “Peeve? Why, surely, a LITTLE " girl ike you couldn't find anything be peevish about LITTLE! Me! And right then I lected that I did possess a “pet” and the price has been cut in half. As fast as fovernment agenta |learn the secret methods of trans | porting liquor the bootieggers invent new onem The enormity of the bootlegging business and the extent to which jbootleggers go to evade the law ts | made by The Star. DETROIT DETROIT, April 3.—Bootlergers | “peeve is aimed at Mother Na-|use airplanes to land Canadian Here am I, a hard-working liquor on the Michigan peninsula, a woman of—well, it wouldn't | fleet of eight or 10 operating nightly ra and winters—any way, I've | Places, guided by searchlights. Boats at several elections. I've |smugele liquor across the river tn. in this.office for five years, in all that time I have been arrive ‘The supply is plentiful at $9.50 0 quart. MEMPHIS, Tenn April = 8.— Headquarters are here for Southern bootieggers. They operate in fast autos, not hesitating to run over of- ficials who try to stop them. reas “ lost, Dring lMquor from Caruthersville; Bese cing Siseceen gen ove. an been catered. atrnd| Fees but when I try ta reister a| tink cars have been féund with sec- “ree ™my movie cotton, do you \ sons of the tanks filled with liquor. I get results? I should say | Booze is smuggied in false trunk) ‘They seem to think I'm trying | bottoms, in barrels of sauerkraut, | %© be funny—and it's all because | Vinegar and molasses. Autos bring Mother Nature destined me to re-|in Cuban liquor from Florida. Bond. Main—to be perfectly outspoken and | ¢d whisky sells at $25 a quart, corn @ bit siangy—A SHRIMP. whisky at $3 a half pint. Officials I tell you it gets my goat. say 6,000 quarts weekly are smug. ore I got a peeve? I'll say I aoe in. Fifty bootleggers arrested 2 TRUCKMEN EEE: bonded whisky $25. Airplane is used to cross border. Prospectors and jsheep herders use pack animals to “Search was being made by sheriff's drink parlor revealed squirt guns deputies today for five thugs who) with two-drink capacity. ‘ast night attacked W. J. Clark and} NEW YORK transport it in mountains. A decoy | auto loaded with colored water re- cently was sent ahead to be stopped by officials, leaving the road. open A. Stutz, non-union truckmen for the | Barton Packing company, dealing |easy to get in any quantity. them a terrible beating with a/sold openly with Ittle attempt at HELENA, Mont. April §—The Nquor traffic is big and gtowing Brutally Beaten by 5 Thugs; to a caravan of booze cars. Itine- rant tin peddlers’ stocks are found wrench and hammer. | concealment. Rye and bourbon One of Stutz’ eyes was gouged out | costs $7 to $9 a quart. Scotch and bigger. Moonshine is $15 « quart, One Loses Eye filled with liquor. A raid on @ soft and an arm and several of his ribs | brandy is $9 to $12. Drinks over bar occurred. The five men fied in an/order to police to automobile. Jagents; also to the » te enforcement Clark, the driver, and Stutz, his|act placing respo lity on local of. jutomobiie drew up beside the truck | bring whisky and gin. Moonshine the five men sprang out. They is $8 a quart, bonded goods $20 to ferambled aboard the truck and|$25, Wine is sold freely, one variety | Sprang at the two men in the seat. | containing 25 per cent alcohol being drug | en as Muttering a curse one of the five|diaplayed in groceries and men swung at Clark’s head with a|stores and sold over bars Another dealt Stutz a blow with @ hammer with such force that he ment greatly ha pay a fee of from $5 to $100 (Turn to Page 5, Column 3) to be very polite | tional crime! | told him I would sit! Tilicit manufacture and sale of Jot off one of my/ whisky are being conducted on an to my desk wafted an inspiration—| But despite this governmental ) in the person of one Henry Clay. activity bootlegging increas So He's the fellow who got all “ty keen has the whisky-running compe. | im this column over the jaywalkers. | tition become in recent months that jin many cities the market is glutted shown in this survey of the situation | |thruout the country which has been | “lady-like” to tell how many | Rear the Soo. They land at different | NEW YORK, April 8—iquor ta} It ia) broken. Clark was knocked uncon-| go at 50 to 60 ce or in fancy tea scious. Both were left for dead) pots at restaurants from 75 cents to | alongnide the Tacoma highway near $1. The quality is getting poorer Renton Junction, where the attack owing to Commissioner Enright's ald prohibition | helper, were returning to Seattle | ficials who in the past have passed | after their daily meat delivery in|the buck to government agents: Tacoma. It was about 10 o'clock | SAN FRANCISCO Nearing Renton Junction they} SAN FRANCISCO, April 8.— noticed they were being followed. | Trucks bring wine here from the At a lonely point in the road the | wine districts. Australian steamers heavy wrench. His hold on the/ cocktails, Real beer is served with | steering wheel relaxed and he|meals in some restaurants. Three slumped down in the seat uncon-| thousand prohibition cases in court scious one federal judge; dry law enforce. was toppled out into the roadway.| INDIANAPOLIS, April 8.—It tn The three others jumped on him |estimated 1,000 quarts of liquor are and kicked and beat him until hé|made here monthly. Bonded goods | was apparently lif LI jar $16 to $18 a quart; “mule” $15 a Some time later when Clark re| gallon. Much colored moonshine, ts covered his senses the men and|gold as bonded goods. Latest tricks their car had disappeared, He|of bootleggers: hollow canes holding placed his unconscious assistant in| three or four drinks, woman's skirt the truck and drove on into the | with “halt-pint pockets,” liquor con. city. Stutz was taken to the county |cealed in loaves of bread, hauling | hospital in another Barton company | booze in hearse machine | ATLANTA Deputy sheriffs reported that| ATLANTA, April &.—Rootleggers union truck drivers are on strike |aré operating on a big scale. Corn at the Barton plant against a 15|lMauor, conveyed in cans and hot per cent wage cut water bottles, sells for $10 a gallon eles wholesale; brandy $12 a quart and| feotch $15. Bonded goods are «mug U opedic Points gied in from Naswau and Bimini to ‘orgia and Florida const. 1. J to Human Results (i000 "u's. proninttion supervincr Children, once afflicted with vicious gays much bunea booze, containing | ailments, who are daily ing the pepper sauce and colored water, is Children’s Orthopedic hospital cured, | gold under fake revenue stamps. constitute the chief argument of the JACKSONVIL institution's officery for public sup-| JACKSONVILLE, Fla., April 8 port. They want 5,000 members to|Quart bottler, made, in the exagt Red Cross to extend nursing ser vice | Ninety-three atu@es fall to make riffle at U. Dropped. Back to Nippon. Two Japa, ex convicts, @rdered deported Seats still selling for Alda concert at U next Monday evening. | Mourners, pioneers, gather at Bow }ton block, razed landmark, today | Community service to feature dra- [ma for three weeks, beginning April | 18 | Crystal Pool, but not Alki Potnt | Q@rrr!) opens for swimming Satur | day. Student engineers at U donate $25 to help clean up campus on Campus! day. Charles Lund, 60, watchman, dead, | natural causes, in home at 1910 Pair mount at | “Robbed Hair” number Sun Dode er, college comic monthly, appears on campus. John Roach, 65, discharged from state asylum for insane in 1927, asks to be sent back. One Hundred Per Centers from Se attle to visit new Tacoma 100 Per [Cent club tonight Metropolitan butldings emerge from war clouds. Getting faces washed, Others need it. Rudolph Limaik of Snoqualmie a weaned $100 and costs for having Mquor in his possession. Eddie Hubbard, air mafiman, buxzes wicked propeller today to meet Fushima Maru at Victoria, Ida Peterson, Tacoma, starts third faction for divorce against hubby Other Umes he promised to be good. | Lester Armistead has a bad tem per. His wife, Myrtie, anys so. She wants to get unbitehed in Tacoma, Fay Houston, serving 20 day fall on federal charge, fined $100 and costs on state liquor charge Thurs day. members of Vi Fine faculty attend ‘ashington State Music Teachers’ onference at Ellenabutg. Federal liquor chargea filed againat Anton J. Koria and A. Maccich. Ha- bens corpus proceedings court @isminsed. Ordinance providing for cluster) Nights on University way from 40th |at. to 47th ant. to be inteoduced, in \cotne!! Monday. Nominated tor office In Daughters | ELWELL DOORS |of American Revolution; Mrs. Wm. | Sherman Walker and M |B. Seeley, Beattie. } Esther S@anson, widow of Ludvig Swanson, killed by Tacoma interur ban train Jan, 14, 1921 Mra. Jenni¢ Weinstone, Tacoma, ‘wagged a wicked tongue and now | her lesser if wants to get out of) | earshot. Aska for divorce. Two overalled bandits rob Charles J. Mullin, 1623 Bellevue ave, of $22) jand his watch on Main st., between Second and Occidental aver. | Patrolman George EB. Buchanan | made sergeant of police by Chief | Searing, filling vacancy created by resignation of Sergt, F. Carter. Convicted of tampering with me ters on steam maina of the P. 8. P. & |L. Co., three Japa were fined $25 by | Police Judge J. B. Gordon Thursday afternoon Alymer Young, on witnesn stand, eaid he wan soldier in France. Tried) in Tacoma for perjury. Prosecutor says he was in California peniten- tlary during war. Captured looting cash register in North Pole bar, Maynard ave. and Dearborn st., Alex Karnsoff, 16, was turned over to juvenile authorities: He stole 16 pennies, a punch and five dle, Counsel for Sergt. Charles M. Hamlin, Camp Lewis, appointed by Judge W. D. Askren Friday, Ham- lin accused of murder of C. W. Rar- |don. railway conductor, during hold: up in Tacoma, | William W, Bristol built him a wooden box house on Clyde Bristol's | land, at 2406 Northlake ave. and! | now Clyde is claiming it, according | to William, who asked the superior court Friday to award him his house | or $250 from Clyde of the to figure in the divorce suit of James | A. Stillman. wpiracy. ‘The firet Inkling of yo Ber agree tn- ‘tention came fm | créss examination Sy Ey a Rian |g Jury awards $12,000 damages to\know that Jentser (the f partment of justice operat maid he fitted the key to Wal apartment while employed by ps evade took the keys to the apartment of |Josoph B. Elwell and tried to: fit them to the door there?” murder on Mra. Stokes—whieh, wi OTHER UNPRINTABLE LOT TO POISON RAIL CHIEF ! On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Entered an Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879, Per Year, by Mai), $5 to $9 SEATTLE, WASH, CONSPIRACY CHARGED BY Entry Is Picked for First Test Film MRS. STOKES Attorney Declares Frameup Attempted to Connect Her With Elwell Murder BY HAROLD D. JACOBS NEW YORK, April §—Detalle of the alleged “gigantic conspiracy” which W. EB. D. Stokes ts said to have directed against Mra! Stokes in his divorce sult were révealed ex clusively to the United Press, today Martin W. Littleton, counsel for Mra, Stokes, said he would introduce evidence in an effort to prove the following: That Stoke's agents sought to ob- tain. evidence showing Mrs. Stoker killed Joseph B. Elwell, the turfman, who was murdered here last June, STILL.MAN CASE 18 MENTIONED That they also sought to obtain | identification of Mra Stokes as one “red-haired” women reported These purported charges were never followed up by Stokes’ repre:| sentatives—-eo far as any evidence | Introduced in the divorce trial is con- corned. Littieton emphasized “the utter ridiculousness” of the alleged “con: front door of the New York apart:| ment of Edgar T. Wallace, San igre mining promoter. The witness was custodian of the Harriet keys after their discovery. Littleton asked him: “Don't you de yho “No,” Petrie replied. Littleton quickly awung to another line of questioning and those who caught the query regarding Elwell | |believed the attorney merely intend- jed to show ridiculousness ner’ In Jent- detective methods, ‘What did you have in mind when you, npoke of Elwell—to show the! improbabitity of the plaintiff’ side?” Littleton was asked by the United positively not,” he replied. “We hope to introduce evidence to | |show that an attempt wan made by |@nce, W. Cameron Forbes, former the other side to hang the Biwell urally, fell down. THINGS “We also will try to show that an leffort was made to identify Mrs.) Stokes as one of the Yedhaired’ women In the Atiliman case. “There are other things we will seek to show in this apartment con-| of staff for Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, spiracy—most of them unprintable.” Petrie, who was the first witness! ing with his former army compan. called today wan followed by Martha} jon J. w. Dutton. clerk to the coun- Jones, Under cross examination she| ty commiasioners. gave turther testimony of alleged ef-| gon and Dutton were both first Heu- representatives t0/ tenants in the Philippines, im the 434 her into testifying against tnited States volunteer infantry, in forts of Stokes’ “corrupt” Mrs, Stokes, Speaking to newspaper men re-| daring. garding Littleton’s statement, after] reid at a meeting of the United (Turn to Page 21, Column 2) i FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1921. | } | puff and a marshmallow nut sun-|loved of flappers and advertisement| the “pretty.” The sleek feel of silk! ja. m. Saturday, ay originally eched- Seattle Girl "Looks Like a Movie Star * & Judge Robert S. Lovett Un- : der Guard in Omaha; Probe Murder Attempt OMAHA, Neb., April -8.—An joomot to poison Judge Robert Lovett, chairman of the board of rectors of the Union Pacific t |was revealed here today when |maid employed at the nt hotel told Captain of Detectives {Dusen that she had been |$500 by a foreigner to slip |into a glass of water and serve # to Lovett, | From the description given by |maid, police believe the man ig | Italian. Police refused to give the name ¢ the maid or discuss the case ful [than to say that. police will Lovett closely during the ret \of his stay here. Detectives tag and Danbaum, of the local | stood guard in his room last Judge Lovett completed an tion of the Union Pacific ‘Tuesday and has been here that time. He expects to leat |New York tonight, Chief | Agent Gale and seven Union |detectives will reyreg = when it leaves for the Right, Mise Te there a resemblance? Left, Miss Carmel. Myers, Universal 1 film star, Honor Marie Bailey, of pein 90 4 coupon. on page 8. See a Serene ee compan: Mine Bailey is employed in the and a retum | beauty parlors of @ department bon She will Whille Mine Batley may “ook ike"! Gi WOOD MEETING DELAY: |WAITERLEAPS CHANGED AGAIN] OF on OUT OF WINDOW Major-General te to Speak at Washington ety pPesteene Phone. Thief Suspect -Fails Pier,.10 A. M. , to Dodge Police cscmanlilee April $.— The ‘steamship Wenatchee will Captured twice, once after he had leave \Beattle for the Orient at 11! at the request of the state of| leaped headfirst thru a closed win- | Wastiington,. the extradition hear-| dow, Clift.Cook,31, waiter, was held ing of Jafet Lindeberg, director of|in city jail Friday on an open the defunct, Scandina¥jan-American | charge, believed to be the payphone |" bank of Tacoma, has been extended | box” thief who has. nightly raided from April 11 ‘to April 18, . Linde-| dosens of -pay phones: thfwout the: berg will be redndictéd, according city. When searched at central sta to Henry: Frasier, executive secre: | tion, $11.25 "in .nickéls wa taken tary to Governor Stéphens. trom hia pockets. This is the° second “time a con-| | H. D. Van Raton, night aclerk of |e tinuance has been granted at the the Otis,hotel, 004. ee ‘ave, was. tespinsible for the capture Under convoy of a destroyer, the Williams ‘Willhilo is'en route up coast to San Pedro/ today, © crew mutinous, according to a radio meésage aled,: officinia announced Thursday night. Maj. Gen. Wood, for whom the verse! was to be delayed until S°p. m., will be able to reach the city from San Francisco at 6:25 a. m. Me will speak from the dock, Wier B, Smith cove, at 10 a m., according to latest plans. “ En route to the Phillppines with Gen! Wood, to pass judgment on the Oitnens of the natives for independ: wovernor general of the islands, ar-| request of Washington state au- Cook. rived In Seattle Thursday night. thorities, The first. continuance |When Van Eaton. opened the office, ‘The type of ship of which the We- Down aa nee wha granted when the Washington extradition! officer refused to place the case before California courts because of a, fault in the extradition papers, Lindeberg is charged on one count with embes#ling $39,000 from the Tacoma batik; Ask More Fi unds to Aid the Unemployed | For the purpose of giving work to | unemployed family heads, the board of park commissioners has petitioned the city council for an additional ap-| propriation of $5,000. The money about 6:34. im, he noticed someone skulking about the halls, He caught Cook unaware with a pices Of tapes. try in his hand, Cook submitted, and Van Baton detained him in the office under guard of a man, while he called po- ce, While the clerk was telephon- ing, Cook leaped head-first thru a window, landed on the graag ten feet | below and started to run, He was overtaken and brought back by the engineer of the hotel, according to Wagonman E. H. Davey, who brought Cook to central station. The tapestry and, the. 425. nickels * CENTRALIA, April 8.—Ry by a street car, Bern year-old daughter of Mr. Omar Kato of this city, ing today from ies. Her skull, jaw and one:hip broken and oné arm severed elbow. 2 Masked Bandits Hold. Up Pool. ‘CENTRALIA, April their victims up against the wall the point of pistols, two ane oat natchee in a model assures the future Of Seattle's trade with the Orient, in the opinion of H. Fowler, New York’ shipping man, who ts one of the men who came to Seattle on the Wenatchee’s maiden coast-to-coast voyage. Lieut. Col. Gordon Johnson, chief swapped hero yarns Thursday even- Lieut, Col, Johnm rabbed the Dootson pool 1906, and each:made a regord for| would be expended for improving |are held as evidence against Cook.|Bucoda and sever@l occupants last Thursday's love feast was|tourist camps, parks and play-|He was unable to explain where he|night, escaping with $184.1 grounds, according to the commis-| got ai] the nickels or the piece of Spanish War Veterans, sioners. tapestry. Tacoma Girl, Injucell - in House Colla; TACOMA, April'8.—Suffering ful injuries, a servant. girl. in, the: family of Walter L, MacQuarrie recovering today, while Mrs. Mae BY. AILEEN CLAIRE dao, At night she wept over the) writers, sent a thrill down her back as her) “You shoplifters ‘think’ you can get Quarrie and five children are, HIS is the story 6f Little Gee-| Woes of Anita Stewart @pd Pauline} In short, GeeGee, the prairie| fingers closed around the garment. | away with murder?” * | °° harmed, following the IT ‘ Tag h |Fredericks, She witnessed vamp, was “shimmy” mad. With a single deft movement she} spy, " ___ {thelr beach home at Dash fee, the Prairie Vamp, how #h®) town Kat” and twice took @ car! jor a month she was content to|4ragged the gauzy chemise from the ones’, mister, I afin't’ mbar ‘to | terday. traveled to the Big City in search of | ride to. Alki Point |awindow shop" along Sécond ave. counter. Another twist and she had |take It," she: gasped. “It was’ just | ‘The house had been rafsed on jacks) | @ Kick, how she obtained the same,| But even this did not satisfy her.| gazing at the pink and white con.| hidden it m the encompassing folds| lyin’ there and it looked. so- pretty |0¥ Workmen who greys ove | land ‘the reasons for her pilgrimage | fections with longing eyes. Her sal- and—and—and—" bed ret Prescot peas the |back to the trans-Cascade Sticks. lary was not sufficient to permit any | He held out his hand. poe yl, sare fe The tale in vouched for by the |daring expenditures for garments of "Give me that thing,” he ordered | ena ean inet gentlemanly floorwalker of the big |doubtful utilitarian value. harshly. “Fish it over! | |, WER vee Giagaoerie bane eal tc Second ave. department store whe | ‘Then came the day when she stood | Slowly the ‘hand | that’ held ‘thd ih .. iene ita snethnne eGee met her Waterloo. before It! precious garment came out from be-| 1" tees of online et Little GeeGee came off an apple It was the duckiest thing! Pink neath the coat. She was afraid to|nnaren miraculously escaped | anes in Eastern Washington and frothy, it lay on the pod go to jail, but she was almost as|” Seventeen years of washing dishes ‘counter, almost lost in a welter oi terrified at the thought of losing the and serubbing floors for an unap miscellaneous goods, Little blue voluptuous plece of pink silk. x3 Fire Losses Here preciative family drove her to Chief | rosetten blossomed out on the gar- ‘As the stolen property was finally | Seattle's old camping ground, where ment like gay spring buds held out before the floorwaiker, he Far Below Ni even working girls wear silk stock For three’ minutes, struck dumb | gasped and looked at it in astonish.| Fire losses for were ings and go to movies every night.'Her soul was an aching void. Like|by the excruciating beauty, she | of her imitation fur coat. ment. GeeGee's eyes followed his, | $18,000, Chief George M. anntor ae Her first move was to obtain a Job ‘Napoleon or Madame Dalagry, she gased i ithien, she anced about the ‘The soft lisp of rubber-soled shoes | coming to rest on the thing ahe held nounced Friday. ‘This is far below in a laundry. It paid her aU from an unfu ed am-|store furtively. mly a shop girl » + in her hand. r a moment it hek lenough to keep her alive. It wa bition. |wns tn evidence, and she was far|*tartled her. She whirled about, her! 10. aneimound:. Then she huried It exactly the kind of luxury of which Kever wines the day she had first down the aisle, heart thumping fearfully, The floor. | madly to the floor and stalked toward whe had dreamed, but it was prefer: | glanced into a fashion magazine, her| Stealthily GeeGee backed against| walker, who had crept up from a| the door, -|able to cooking for ranch hands heart had panted for one of the pink,|the counter, Without looking | side aisle, stared at her out of hard,| “My mistake,” she exclaimed | year. Every day she lunched on a cream | frilly, lacy, intimate garments be: | around, b ht hand crept toward | fishy eyes. haughtily. “I don't want any B. V.' greatly in subduing “Caught in the act,” he growled. & ¥ D.'s today, thank youl" tions, Chief Mantor