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

U.S. BOARD CHARGES «x Weather tonight; moderate south- westerly winds. Temperatare Last ° Maximum, 66. Today noon, 63. Show fair; {ili Greetings: Here's something to worry about! If the new hotel DOES go up, what shall its name be? a ee Cheer up! There's plenty of time to gloom next week, When second income tax installment comes due. q eee ” J. W. Sayre’s maga- zine published for the Jensen & Von Herberg theatres, joins “Home Brew” the invitation to Sir Thomas Lip- to visit here. All we need now insure his coming is an invitation | by the president of Tukwila’s city council—and Sir Tommy's consent. eee PROBABLY “Bonus Speeded Up for Dying Veteran."—News headline. Dying of old age? “Screenland, | . We see where the public library has classified as a war book Ex- Secretary Lansing’s volume on the peace conference. eee FASHION NOTE ‘White flannel trousers are due to make their appearance on Seattle ‘streets shortly. Also sport shirts. eee Easterner: Wherp do you live? Westerner: Walla Walla, Wash. Easterner: Speak ee ee UR GUESS IS THAT IT IS A MALE Mrs. Spencer Briggs are “wr. and c the congratulations of has started to take a She'll show a big SOUNDS LIKE A BARGAIN sale—auto, new, $4,300, Our complete, with $500,000 worth thrown in, $2,750. This & bona fide bargain and should seen immediately.—Advertise- t in a morning newspaper. eee NOT A FAIR TEST In days of old When knights were bold, Men had a lot of gallant ways; ‘Twas soft, egad, Because they had No jitneys in those good old days. . WHY NOT BE ACCOMPLISHED? (A@ in Chicago Tribune) Gentlemen, Boys, Gitris, ; warbling, chirps, finger, teeth, flute whistle imitating forest of birds. Open daily, 9-9:30. funday, 105. L. G. Groff. Chi- ago Musical Seminary, 2828 Madi- ocr st. eee Funny, isn’t it, how many fishing Worms you find spading the garden | anc how few when digging for bait? wee BACK TO EARTH ‘When war waged its wide desola tion He pulled down his Fifteen per day. Row it fills him with deep con- 3 sternation * To think how he tossed it away. eee ‘Woman's intuition may be all that it pretends to be, but we'd back the chances of a well-dressed villain eny time against those of a trampy looking gentleman. F -—-Price and Carter Photo-Silhouette. All Abo-a-a-r-d! Can you guess the silhouette of the canny Scot pictured above? He is the head of a great civic ex- periment; his henchmen levy tribute ‘on every person in Seattle daily; he 45 mired up in one of the city's pet controversies. Watch for his name tomorrow. Yesterday's silhouette waa that of ae Landon, lawyer and state scna- . liated to me as: 1 Friday Mini $50,000 HEA | ACTION STARTS HERE PROSECUTOR | JAP TRICKS Douglas to Start Court Ac-| tion Against White Hold- ing Companies Prosecuting Attorney Malcolm | Douglas has declared war on holding companies organized by white men to protect Japanese in the ownership | of lands and leases, which is forbid. | den by a new state law which goes | into effect June 10. | “This office will give such compa nies a run for their lives,” Douglas said, Wednesday afternoon. “We will question the legality of thdir busi-| ness at every turn, WILL FIGHT EVERY MOVE IN COURTS “Probably by injunction proceed- ings, we will bring the whole matter | before the courts. It ts certain that by some form of action we will test every move that is to be made or has been made to subvert the law.” Douglas referred to the wholesale transfer of property by Japanese during the jast 10 days to the Enter- Investment Co., the Campus, Co., of which W. A. and KE. H. Keene are the conspicuous ‘The object of the first-famed com- Pany, as stated in its articles of In- corporation, is to buy and hold prop- erty “owned by aliens contrary to the alien land law recently passed by the Iegislature of the state of Washington,” and to hold Jand con- tracts and other property “lawfully held and owned, but as to the right of ownership of which there might be a.question raised because of anti- alien! ggntiment, prejudice and agita- tion.” WHITE GUARDIANSHIPS FOR JAPS ALLOWED In, the superior court Wednesday, scores of guardianships assumed by white persons for Japanese children were allowed. This action is one of the steps tn the process by which Japanese land and lease owners are getting under cover. Proporty owned by Japanese is be- ing transferred to their minor chit dren, #ho are American children be cause born in this country, and for these children white persons are be- coming guardians, ° Japanese Prince Hopes to See U. S. BY WILFRED FLEISCHER Copyrighted, 1921, by the United Press PARIS, June 9.—“I hope America and Japan may always be found working hand in hand, not only for our mutual benefit, but to ensure lasting peace \thruout the world,” Crown Prince Hirohito, of Japan, declared today @ an interview with the United Press. The prince upset all tradition when he personally réceived the cor- respondent at his temporary rest dence here. BEING INTERVIEWED IS NEW EXPERIENCE “L have long cherished wisit the United States,” said. “I hope it will be ferred pleasure.” Being interviewed was decidedly a new experience for the carefully guarded descendant of the world’s oldest dynasty. He was somewhat restrained at first, but lost the stiffness after the first question and smiled as he de- livered his answers thru an jnter- preter, He appeared to be enjoying the meeting, and the correspondent enjoyed questioning him. A uniformed member of the prince's suite accompanied me into the presence of the prince. Another attendant stood beside the prince in the big reception room where the interview was held. As we approached the prince, rig- idly erect, his heels together and his hands tight against his trouser seams, hig face was impassive and the dark eyes behind large spec. tacles gave no hint as to what he thought of the impending question. ing. SHAKES HANDS; SMILES BROADLY Prince Hirohito lost his restraint when the introduction was complete. He shook hands warmly and smiled broadly, turning to the interpreter | with @ remark which was trana- a desire to the prince only a de- “His highness is greatly pleased to see you.” “IT thank his highness,” I “oual in French, “Does his highness enjoy travel- (Turn to Page 2, Column 2) On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise ~The SeattleStar Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash., under the Act of Congress March 8, 1879. Per Year, by Mail, $5 to $9 SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1921, Members of the Park Board: ATTACKING] DON’T SIGN IT! HE PARK BOARD will be committing a serious mistake from several standpoints, if tomorrow it should sign the 10-year contract, giving the Lewis-Lester company all the Woodland park con- cessions, including refreshments, tobaccos, boating, etc. This city has been given an opportunity, provi- dentially, to see these truly are. concessionaires as they When they believed themselves secure, they profiteered—PROFITEERED ON KIDDIES AS ON GROWNUPS. The park board may THINK it can stop profiteer- ing by a clause written into the contract. But it , won't be so easy later to cancel the contract, no matter how extortionate the prices may be. yers have been known to Law- find loopholes! The time to protect the public is NOW. Never mind that sop—that doubtful sop in the form: of a $10,000 building in which to sell re- freshments. In the first place, the concesgionaires are going to get the benefit of the building them- selves, and in the second place there won't be much left for the park board to own after the 10 years have expired. It isn’t safe to trust a 10-year concession to a company that has, in the initial test, failed to show a proper regard for the public. The Lewis-Lester co! wpe would be particularly so. The Star is confi moreover, that a better contract can be obtained by throwing the proposition wide open to ALL bidders. Your duty, members of the park board, is to the parks’ patrons, and to the public, first, last, and all the time. The Lewis-Lester Co. ought to be but an incident to you. You need have no hesi- tation in calling your tentative deal off. YOU OWE A GOOD DEAL TO THE PUBLIC— NOTHING AT ALL TO CESSIONAIRES, THE WOULD-BE CON- Girl White Cross Agent on Heels of . ‘The Big Chinaman’ (Ritth narrative of her series of ad- ventures in rounding up the the Seattle narcotic traffic, a= clasively fer The Star, by the girl secret agent of the White Cress.) BY CLAIRE DULAC It if a mystery who furnishes all| the millions of dollars necessary to swihg the immense deals in dope by which this continent ts supplied with the shipload after shipload of the soul-killing stuff. The quivering, cowering addict says it's the Chinamen, and the Chi- namen say it's the Japanese. I've even heard them assert the Japanese government is secretly behind a movement to render America’s young men unfit for military service by flooding the nation with aff sorts of dope. HOW SHE CAME CLOSE TO THE “BIG CHINAMAN” Be that as it may, I do not pretend to know. But once, just once, while I was working for the White Cross under cover in Seattle, I hacked elose to the toes of “the big Chinaman” of the drug traffic of the Northwest, whoever he is, It came about this way: Eddie Hugh is an American-born Ghinaman, who married a beautiful young- white. girl He was formerly secretary of the Morton Chemical Co, This company was refused a permit to operate after a period because of the numerous times it was “robbed” of large quan- tities of alcohol and dope. Hu Is said to have admitted that the “robberies" were not robberies at all, but were schemes of the com pany to obtain unlimited supplies of alcohol and narcotics for their out- side peddlers. Hu lived in the Milwaukee hotel, room 203, with his white girl-wife. It was pretty generally understood about Chinatown that he could sup- ply unlimited quantities of morphine and cocaine, BATTLE OF WITS AGAINST CUNNING One of the federals went to the Okaru restaurant and phoned the Milwaukee, He asked for Eddie, Ed- die agreed to come and see him in his room. He tame—and then began a battle, of American wits versus Chinese cunning. The federal hadn't expected Héadie to agree to a meeting first off the way he did, and #0 was taken off his guard for the moment, 0 to speak. He had “framed no plant” for Hu. But a trained federal thinks fast. RT BALM * HER IS DE Files $3,000 Counter Sult; Says He Sought Only “Fireside Love” The love which failed when 8. | Knutson, wealthy Lewiston, Idaho, rancher, quit his courtship of viva- |clous Mrs, Myrtle Schott is worth [Just $50,000, the charming seam- |stress of 38 summers, who looks 31, was hoping to convince a jury im superior court Thursday, Knutson, with the lines of 60 win- ters on his face, is countering with | the charge that the courtship has been worth $3,000 already to the fair | plaintiff and on a claim that she never had any interest in him except | to pull the strings of his pocketbook he is pleading for his money back. SAYS IT’S BEYOND HIS COMPREHENSION “The $50,000 that the lady wants ig beyond my comprehension,” Knut- son said just before the case was assigned to @ court for trial. “Oa the other hand, I can show that I bought her a $675 fur coat, four Mrs. Schott brought her suit three months ago, just after, according to Knutson, a quarrel had broken up jtheir friendship because he refused ito buy his bride-to-be a hotel in shige city. “Buy it for me,” Knutson says she said, “or give me $7,000, Else I will sue you.” Knutson did not buy. Mrs. Schott, who lives at the Charleston hotel, Bighth and Pike, claims the agreement to marry was made December 1, 1920, and that it | was broken in February. Humilia- tion, she avers, is worth ths $50,000 balm, HE WANTED LOVE, HE SAYS Knutson claims his quest was for fireside love. “I met Mrs, Schott,” he explains, “when I wanted a wife to share the quiet joys of my ranch in Lewiston. She attracted me. I told her of my needs and we became engaged in May, 1920. The marriage was to be in Jane “Then I financed her divorce suit and paid her a weekly allowance, clothing her in the meantime, “Shq promised to be true when T In hia ‘pockets he had some letters|/was called away on a business trip, and telegrams taken from a prisonér/ byt when I came back I heard she picked up a few hours before, Be- fore Hu reached the room the federal Was ready. One of the letters, on inspection turned out to be credentials saying the bearer was @ dope peddier from the East. The signature was that of a well-known dealer in St. Louis. Hu read the letter carefully and nod- ded approval. “I came out here,” said the federal, “to buy $100,000 worth of M and C. How much can you let me have?” “All you like,” quickly. AGAIN KNOCKED OFF HIS FEET Again the federal was nonptussed. He'd been told Hu was close to “one of the aces” of the narcotic business, but he had no idea any one China man could supply, off-hand, $100,000 worth of drugs. “How long will it take you b eet the stuff?" he asked. “Right away,” said Hu. Dumbfounded, spar for time, He had neither money to go thru with the deal nor had made the necessary arrangements for springing the trap when Hu made the delivery. I've never seen a federal so com- pletely at a loss. The government furnishes no money for handling big’ deals like that-——no money at all, in fact, except for salaries and travel. ing expenses, and little enough of that. “Let's go eat.” he said, rising and glancing, at his watch. Hu was watching him closely, The three of us went to a restau. rant. The federal ordered supper and saki, Hu's tongue became loosened and he talked volubly. The federal said be would like to get a couple of samples of Hu's dope, and the Chinaman agreed to get an ounce of cocaine and an ounce of morphine for $64. CHINESE PEDDLER TRAILS HIM FROM HOTEL Supper over, the federal told Hu, “You get the samples and I'll come for them tonight,” At 2 o'clock in the morning as the federal was leaving the Milwaukee with Hu’s samples, I saw @ Chinese (Turn to Page 2, Column 6) Hu_ responded the federal had to had stilled her loneliness by frequent companionship with other men, “I charged her with the thing and she did not deny it. Instead, she told me to buy a hotel.” In behalf of his interests Wiliam A. Gilmore and George Olson are appearing in court. Butler, Silvain & Tennant are arrayed around the counsel table to press the woman's claim, see Chinese Girl, 17__. Sues Sweetheart Alice Chin, 17, who claims that her engagement to Hong G. Dew has been announced thruout China- town but never consummated, brought suit against Dew for $10,000 in superior court Wednesday. Miss Chin says she has been shamed and humiliated by Dew’s failure to keep hig alleged promise. Dew, she says, has interests in the Sim Waw company, 220 Washington st., and in the Quong Wing company, 212 Washington st. She has at- tached his account at the Dexter Horton National bank, Prohibition Chief Il With Diphtheria Donald McDonald, state prohi bition director, is confined’ to hia home Thursday with diphtheria, The prohibition office is in charge of In- spector Sylvester A. Moore, JUDGE HELPS HER MAKE A DATE WITH ANOTHER’S HUBBY In open court Thursday morn- ing, Judge C. C, Dalton laid a date for Mrs, Marion McDonnell with, another woman's husband. The man in the case was W, T. He had been charged abandonment and nonsup- port, He said he would pay $60 for the comfort of his family, but would not allow his wife to spend it, Judge Dalton then made an ‘appointment for Mrs. McDonnell, of the department of public wel. fare, to go shopping with him. Moore. with WEE POT Dede Tae N. W. LUMBER PRICE PLOT TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE SHE SUES FOR $50,000 WESTE TIMBER aw tg, “ed in Report WASHINGTON, June 9,—Chargew — of price ¢ollusion and restriction of Production to maintain prices were made against the West Coast Lam bermen’s association by the fede era) trade commission in a report to congress today. Canadian luthbermen were t e into the fold in 1919, when * threatenéd proposed price ine! 4 in this eguntry by planning to ship” Canadian logs, .the report and it further charged that py today are at high levels, The report asserts that the asso clation is made up of lumbern and loggers in what is known the Douglas fir region in the cific Northwest. The commission said that be 1915 and 1920 wholesale quotati on fir lumber increased 300 to per cent, and that despite rec reductions some prices still are the level of May and June, 11 and others are at the level -t were in the spring of 1917, Not Practical Men, Mrs. Myrtle Schott, plaintiff in $50,000 breach of promise suit on trial here today. SETTLE PARK ISSUE FRIDAY With complaints continuing to pour in of profiteering by conces- !slonaires at Woodland park, the Se- attle park commissioners are sched- uled to take final action Friday morning on a proposal to grant the Lewis-Lester company @ 10-year contract for the concession, Corporation Counsel Walter F. Meier is preparing a lease for the concession, which has already been formally awarded by the park board. The contract has not yet been signed, however, R. J. fisher,. president. of. the. board, declared Thursday that the contract will atinulate that prices charged in the park, do not exceed those prevajling elsewhere. The session of the park board which will consider the Woodland | park charges will be held in the board's office in the Haller Build- ing, according to park officials. The meeting will en at 9:30, TOW ADMIRAL EVANS TO BAY SAN FRANGISCO, .Ga},. June 9. —The Admiral line steamer Admiral Evans, which left San Francisco June 7 for Portland, was towed inte Humboldt Bay, 300 miles north of here, today. The stefmer had, engine trouble while off the ‘porthern Culifornia coast, and was forced tp call a tug and put in for repairs, according to meager @etails received here. Ole Larson to Be Sentenced Monday TACOMA, June 9.—Ole Larson, president of the defunct Scandina- vian-American bank, who has been denied a new trial by Judge Askren, on a charge of borrowing money 1} legally from the bank, for which he was convicted recently, will be sen- tenced "Monday, it was announced $ FIGHTS POSSE, MAN IS SLAIN TOLEDO, ©. June 9.—Machine guns, rifles, pistols and sulphur can- dies were used by the police here to- day in getting James E. Kelly, a waiter, who’ had killed Patrolmen Harry Dowell and Harold Mossberg: er, and who, barricaded in the attic of the house in which he lived, held off almost the entire police depart- ment for hours, After the machine guns had been brought into play, the house at 611 Walnut st, near the business dis- trict, was rushed, and Kelly, with both his guns loaded, was found ly- Ing across a cot, dead. He had been hit twice, Kelly flourtshed a revolver and ‘an: nounced that no policeman would take him alive when Mrs. Nellie Key tried to collect §75 which the man owed her for room rent. Gompers Urges Fight on “Open Shop” DENVER, June 9.—The “open shop” movement in the United States can be definitely defeated by union men thru refusal to buy:“open shop" products, Samuel GQmpers, president of the American ‘Pedera- tion of Lubor, declared here last night, Tho forthcoming annual conven- tion of the federation, which, will open next Monday, will do much to break up the “open shop” movement, he said. John L, Lewis, of Indianapolis, 1s ‘en route to Denver in an automobile, Lewis is being touted by some union leaders ag the favorite against Gom: pers in the election of officers at the coming convention, Textile Workers’ President Dead NEW YORK, July 9.—John Gol: den, international president of the United Textile Workers of America, died at his home tn Brooklyn today. GET CARELESS WITH TEETH Somehody's dental favade is repos- ing in the Lost and Found depart- ment of the muny railway. Seattle citizens, say street car officials, are growing more and more careless with their teeth, prealdent"6f.the West Coast men’s association, was locate telephone at the offices of the erhauser Lumber company in ett at noon Thursday. “Not having read the charges of the federal trade commission,” he said, “I do not feel capable at this time of making a reply. I 7 ead the accusations first. INVESTIGATION BEGUN 18 MONTHS AGO “This is a matter of great tance to the lumber industry of th nation. The trade 1 vestigations of the industry some 18 months ago. They great deal of time in the § pine region. They were here last year, ' “They were not practical men 3 have drawn their conclusions what they found on our books, They inspected the-reeords of our. a tions and.went “9 ‘over the books went away “It: is very unfortunate that commission chose to give out tl charges to the preas of the cou without giving the industry a ¢ to explain our side.of the case, shall have an answer later, ag as we knew what we are doing. OUGHT TO KNow WHAT CHARGE IS “It isc for the erh to be informed just what he is cheraed with, is tt not?” t was learned at the offices of association, jn the Henry buildin here, that R. B. Allen, secretary general manager, is in the East. assistant, Ralph D. Brown, could be reached this morning, FILION MURDER ~ GASE TO JURY TACOMA, June 9.—The jury | expected today to get the case : Edward M, Filion, Camp Lewis sok dier, one of four charged with first degree murder for the killing of Timbs, Tacoma taxicab driver. Testimony was concluded late terday without Filion’s having, t en the stand. “Final arguments made before court adjourned A night, and the forenoon today was consumed with attorneys and j conferring over instructions, eS The jury has only three alterna: [tives In @ verdict, life imprisonment death or acquittal. The feature of the trial was testimony of Timbs’ widow, the fi day of the trial, The trial of George W. Sharp, ans. other of the accused four, will begin at once. Trials of James Sparks and Carl A. Perrin will fallow in ord FINDS TINY BABY . | ON HIS DOORSTEP A tiny baby was left on the doorstep ‘of John Berger, 221; 17th ave. §., early Thursd : morning, Berger does not want} to keep the child, as he has a fam- f ily of his own, He reported the | arrival to the ‘police Thursday, stating he would keep the child until a home was found for it, No trace of the mother hag b found. . 5 ‘