The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 11, 1921, Page 1

JWORLD GETS HARDING DISARMAMENT PLAN | On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Tell your sweltering friends in the Bast that Seattle's highest temperature yesterday was 74. 1 Lowes) was 50, At noon today it was 57. Tonight and Tuesday, fair; ¥ warmer Tuesday; mod- erate S. W. winds VOLUME 23 |. It ts said that only one in eyery | {Rundred men is physically perfect, | “Vand most men are sorry for the ther 99, ARIA Sheriff Matt Starwich starts out today to collect family heirlooms of poll tax delin Quents. Everything but mus- tacks cups will be seized. | “He was a man of many parts,” Was tho startling statement of the had been killed in a dynamite osion. eee Lunch Hound: “Well, old wherry, howsa boy? I just had/| ® plate of oxtail soup and I feel) bully. Second Counter Fiend: “Nothing | to it, old watermelon. I just had a} Plate of hash and I fee! like every- thing. NERVE .. ‘We are getting now to the t 5 we can ask the price of a before we ask the clerk to many a man hard times. ee ‘They've decided down at Washing. not to print the names of ofiteers. Good. Paper's too scarce. eee reports a.cat that fives on bark. It is no unusaat thing, says Hank Klay, to feed > THE GOOD OLD DAYS Bugsy rides, booze, S-cent cigars, real blondes, 10-cent bustles, tintypes, corsets, n portraits, side saddles, nickel rides, free lunches, foot dancing | With a mass of midnight hair, ith wicked drooping eyelids ‘And a blase, worldly air; oh, I cross my fingers " And I breathe a little prayer [ When I meet a blonde-haired cutie With a blueeyed baby stare! ee Jimmie—Mummy, it says in this 1 that a baby fed on elephant's gained 20 pounds in one day. Mother—Nonsense, Jimmie! Does say whose baby it was? - Jimmie—The elephant’s. eee INDEPENDENT Rebetilous Salesman—I'll have you understand I take orders from no one. _ Manager—Quite correct; your daily reports show it. i eee Many a man hates to shoot craps, then one can't get naturals all - } eee ' HE DOESN'T LIKE OUR TASTE s IN LIQUOR | éitor of Home Brew: feading your stuff for quite awhile and rather like it—with one excep- . It seems to smack more of L pro-German beer and pro-Irish whis- ky than of home brew, Yours, ’ OLYMPIA, I've been one POME stress Mary, quite contrary, low does your kitchen go? "Lectrié roaster, "lectric toaster, Enemies of jazz music say there is syn in syncopation, “* 5 I yourself. : Insane Patient at Hospital Hangs Self George Nehring, 27, insane patient © in the county hospital, hung himself H late Monday morning, tying his sheet Sto a window grating and around his ‘neck and leaping off his bed. ‘The body was found by Miss P. L. Hayes, a nurse, who cut him down. Nehring was taken to the hospital ) violently insane last Saturday night “from Duwamish valley. He was ring from dementia praecox. said that he was @ deserter the Canadian army at Fort George, B. C,, and his home was in }, Minneapolis. i Entered as Second Class Matter May 8, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 8, 1878. Per Year, by Mail, §> to $9 (Editorial) T is high time, Chief Sear- ing, that you be- gan to DO SOME THING to eliminate brutality and fil- thy conditions from the city Last Friday The Star printed the detailed, cir- cumstantial ac- count of a repu- table business man who spent the night of July “4th there. He told of helpless men being beat- en with black- jacks into insen- sibility by the jailers, of the in- sanitary scene when a tank was jammed with prisoners, of the harsh, unfeeling conduct that marked all of the guards’ deal- ings with the men under their charge and a general disre- gard for the hu- man feelings of the arrested. The Star sent you, in advance of publi- cation, Chief Searing, a copy of this news story. We wanted to give you every oppor- tunity to get a run- ning start on remedy- ing the trouble. Your first act was, not an attempt to sift the charges, but an effort to have the news story sup- pressed. On Saturday you gave out a statement saying that the accu- sations were “abso- lutely false in almost every particular.” At the same time anoth- er prisoner who had been in the jail on the night of the Fourth came forward with virtually a complete verification of the first man’s story. He said he did not see blackjacks used, but he did see prisoners severely mauled by officers’ fists. In fact, that he himself was knocked against a wall and severely bruised. The filth, he declar- ed, was horrible. And HE ADDED THE FURTHER CHARGE THAT MONEY WAS STOLEN BY JAIL- ERS FROM PRIS- ONERS. Today, while you are sitting back, Chief, apparently considering your ad- ministration nicely self-whitewashed, an- other of your July Fourth prisoners pre- sents himself as a wit- ness. Look at the picture of this man’s mouth, Chief Searing. He was struck, he testi- fies under oath, by an officer in the patrol serie and ae lip two knocked loose. A week afterward he bears the ugly wound. This man declares the former accounts of the July Fourth hor- ror were, in the main, correct and unexag- gerated. Since Friday The Star has been the re- — of dozens of telephone and _per- sonal calls, and not a few letters from still other eitizens who have observed vari- ous acts of brutality at the hands of Seat- tle police officers. Where there is so much smoke, Chief, there ae mi is a smoldering fire. . You ought to be in- telligent enough to know that the people of Seattle are not go- ing to tolerate such conditions, once they have the truth about them. You clean up that jail! Dis- charge the guil- ty jailers! This is the 20th centu- ry, and human beings must be treated as hu- man whether they are under arrest or at large. Seattle will not stand for 14th century, stupid _ barbari- ties on the part of its employes. Discover the brutes on the payroll, Chief Searing, and boot them out. Don’t wait for outsiders to shoulder your duty for you. And do it NOW! SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, JULY 11, 1921. ere’s Your Evidence, | sie; Now Get Busy! Cop’s Fist Did This! Odin A. Varang, a victim of police brutality on the night of July 4th. A policeman hit him on the head and then in the mouth, gashing his lip wide open and loosen- ing two of his teeth. Puls wecure was taken a week CHIEF PASSES BUCK TO GUARDS’ VICTIMS There is-nothing more he and Chief Searing can do by way of investigating what happened in the city jail on the alleged “horror night” of July 4th, Hans Damm, inspector of police, informed The Star today, until complaining prisoners of that night go to police headquarters and explain their side of the case. “Newspaper reports have been greatly exaggerated,” said Inspector Damm. “But if the prisoners who were in jail that night and who are complaining of brutality and filthy conditions will come forward and tell us their stories, instead of running to the newspapers with them, it will give us a chance to vindicate ourselves, “They owe it to the city and to us, in the spirit of fair play, to do this, If they will come down here, everything can be cleared up. They have nothing to tear from us if they are on the square, “We have fired over 20 men from the police department for brutality and other such causes, and, if these juilers are guilty, they'll get theirs, too, “We believe they are innocent, but we never stand for bruitality and never will” ii How About It, Fellers? Chief Searing says his jail house isn't ever dirty, and that his Jailers are gentle, refined and not given to cracking prisoners with billy-clubs or fists, But if the chief ts wrong, he says, he's willing to be convinced —if complainants will come to his office and tell him about it. All right, gentlemen-—all you who happened to attend the Fourth Get in your applications early to The Star. evidence of the duct of Chief on the night of the Fourth of July. _ out Inn, « roadhouse on the Pacific highway near Auburn, shortly before midnight Saturday night, sheriff's deputies rescued a 14- year-old girl who had been held there virtually a prisoner for three weeks, it is suid, and com- pelled to entertain men, As the deputies entered they say they found the child in the arms of ‘& man whose name she did not know, seated in a chair near the piano, LIQUOR SEIZED; THREE ARRESTED Four whisky glasses, a pint of moonshine and about two-thirds of @ quart of whisky were selzed and three persons arrested. The girl is held in the Broadway, as a dependent. of July night wolree In Searing’s nice, clean, tidy little Jail and ueked Un REAM Nee Gilet, gentle, retiring: Jéfler>—oomie on up Louise Freeman, 84, sald to be) burst in the doors they say there “C, Jones” ig willing to head a delegation to call on the chief, the girl's mother, and V. H. East,| were about a dozen visitors in the| or the mayor, privately, and explain just how nice and clean and 20, “soft” drink concessionaire, are} roadhouse and evidence that drinks | refined and gentle they found things that eventful night. accused of contributing to the/had just been served. The visitors, child's Rucker, 25, the girl's colored maid, is held as a witness, TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE TH EW 1 ill ‘Land and Naval The Star today presents concrete grossly brutal con- ing’s policemen Searing on Saturday declared that “C, Jones” had “grossly exaggerated” his charges as to what happened in the crowded city jail tank on that night. All right, Chief! Here’s your answer. “C. Jones” DID NOT EXAGGERATE! And here’s your proof. If you want more proof The Star has it, in the form of affidavits from men who were your prisoners on that night. * 8 & * * & * 8 *& “C. Jones,” in his story printed in Friday’s Star, told of seeing one prisoner whose lip was split open, During the night the lip became infected, and when he requested medical attention it was curtly refused. ‘ You chose to ignore that, Chief Searing! Your acl told you that story was all a lie. n’t be- eve your Pg too implicitly hereafter. Find ite es 8 * The man whose lip was cut open BY THE FIST OF ONE OF YOUR COPS is Odin A. Varang, 911 Terrace st., a mechanic and a law-abiding cit- izen. Varang was walking peaceably along First ave., near University st., about 1 a. m. July 5. A policeman came up behind him and felt his hip for booze. “Come with me,” the cop ordered — eurtly. And, snapping a handcuff on one arm, he walked him across the street to a call box. A few minute later the patrol arrived and Var- ang was thrown into it. O SOONER WAS HE IN THAN THE WAGON OFFICER STRUCK HIM OVER THE HEAD, NEARLY KNOCKING HIM OUT.’ HE FOLLOWED THIS WITH A BLOW ON THE MOUTH. You see the result, Chief Searing. This picture was taken a week after the blow was struck. See the ugly gash in his lip! It will be weeks before it disappears. In all probability there will be a scar there the rest of his life! IN ADDITION, TWO TEETH WERE KNOCKED LOOSE. And you say your cops are not brutal! * _* * @ Varang was booked on a charge of being drunk and disorderly. He was thrown into the same crowded og tank that “C. Jones” occupied. To practically every charge of brutality and filth brought by “C. Jones,” Varang agrees. He charges, as did “C. Jones,” that during the night his lip became infected. When he asked for medical attention, he was told, he says, to “shut * up. "Late in the afternoon of July 5 Varang was taken into police court and fined $10 and costs and released. Varang has sworn to an affidavit to the above. 14-YEAR-OLD GIRL IS RESCUED BY DEPUTIES FROM ROADHOUSE! Raiding the Pleasant Hour Mrs. Freeman is said to have told Deputies Frank Brewer, Charles Kearney, Stewart Campbell and Frank Anderson, that she had no other place to keep her daughter, Mrs. Freeman took over the man- agement of the roadhouse about | three weeks ago, acconling to the deputies. AUBURN RESIDENTS MAKE COMPLAINT Residents of Auburn, observing notified Sheriff Matt Starwich that there “seemed to be something wrong at the inn,” and an investi- gation followed, resulting in Sat- urday night's raid, When the deputies arrived Juvenile home, 300 and dependency, and Lena}ineluding the man who had the {world’s armies and navies and what was going on in the place,| |} with a ha'penny—the size of a little girl on his lap, were re- leased, | EXPECT POWERS TO JOIN Disarmament Suggested for World Meeting BY A. L. BRADFORD WASHINGTON, July 11.—This government expects a favorable re sponse from all five nations which received tentative Invitations to @ ly authoritative quarter today all \the powers invited will send res¢ntatives to discuss a cut im # settle questions bearing on the cific and Far Eastern problema, “A disarmament conference bound to come,” said Secretary War Weeks today, “It has my proval.” SECURE PEACE OF THE WORLD That such an international nthe ing will “secure the peace of world” wag the statement of an ficial in emphasizing the impo of the step the administration taken. It was also explained why Proposal was broadened to land as well as naval arm why countries other than the Un States, Great Britain and Japan, t Principal naval powers, were inc ed, and it was intimated that of the obstacles heretofore in way of disarmament may be out before tbe conference ti meets, Officials also said they are clear as to just how soon ference can be put under way | how it will be organized. aye AND NAVAL ISARMAMENT It was pointed,out that the tion of naval and land man could not well be separated; that the principal naval powers were get together the question of Ia armaments would almost come up and then the confer might have to be broadened after was under way. The decision that land nam be discussed necessitated the in tions to France and Italy, both which maintain large armies, The Anglo-Japanese treaty, bothersome to disarmament Taft Takes Oath as Chief Justi WASHINGTON, July 11.— jam Howard Taft today took oath as chief justice of the Uni States supreme court, achieving, he said, the ambition of his life Members of Taft's family, ree atives and nearly 200 friends crowded into the office of Attorney” General Daugherty to witness the ceremony. Taft, with his right hand raised and his left hand placed upon an open Bible, repeated, phrase by phrase, the oath of of§ce of nearly 200 words. Daugherty, who was the first to congratulate the new chief jus tice, preserved as a souvenir the pen with which Taft subscribed to the oath, Mexican Secertary Is Killed by Taxi CALEXICO, Cal. July 11.—Fran- cisco Terrezas, secretary of state of Lower California, was killed here yesterday by a taxicab driven by Clyde Underwood, aged 20, Z Augustino Ybarra, a cousin of Governor Ybarra, of Baja, California, was also seriously injured in the crash, Underwood is ingjail at En Centro, charged with manSlaughter, ENGLISH WOMEN NOW HAVE A NEW WAY TO KEEP ’EM IN PLACE LONDON, July 11, — English women are holding ‘em up now- adays with horseshoes, tennis rac- quets and even dogs and birds, It began when Mile. Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis champion, was troubled during a game by persistent refusal of her stock- ings t@ stay up, She invented a garter. Rolling her stockings down to the knees quarter dollar—in the roll, she twisted the ha’penny about a few times and tucked it in over the roll, next to the knee cap. The smart shops were quick to seize on the idea and now women are duplicating the ha'penny idea with tiny horseshoes, racquets and ; other charms, !n vartous precious a metals and embellished with jew- es els.