The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 25, 1921, Page 1

- of The Star goes into 11,727 more homes every day than any other Seattle other Seattle newspaper (these figures taken from Octok (these figures taken from October 1, 1921, sworn postal statements) AAYOR VETOES WITT SALARY! On the Issue of Anvericanism There Can Be No Compromise WEATHER Tonight and Wednesday, rain strong southerly gate. ‘Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 54. Minimum, 47. Today noon, 51. The Seattle Star Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattic, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 4, 1879. Per Year, by Mail, $5 to $v SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1921. Want Mamma,” Says Mrs. Johnson’s Child Hunters Clean Big Bottom Country of Deer RAND Oct. , Wash, Last year 100|serving traveling galesmen and other way- hunters killed 600 deer in the Big Bottom, |farers lavishly with venison drained by the Cowlitz and Cispus rivers. People who live in the Big Bottom, for the Today, with nix days left to shoot, Yakima | Most part, are not shooting, except thone act Indiang report 600 hunters banging away on|ing as guides and packers. Mostly they pre the Cispus, |fer to remain at home, safely out of range of Hundreds of deer have been taken out of | hunters’ guns. the Big Bottom already thix fall. Indian! ‘They predict squaws, Cooks at the McKay hotel here, are|this will see the ‘The letter follows: | the children teased me all the time and made “Kam only a little girl 12 years old. About|me ery, and I got sick and mamma got sick two weeks ago some big policemen came vad bey Bhe told me not to ery and took me out our house and took mother away and now|of school, Now I'm going to a private school. forgery charge, accused om we her broth jshe is in jail and tm all alone with grandma) “I wish you would take mother out of Jail ee Mahoney, in gaining control of the! (airs. Nora Mahoney) 1 wish you would/and let her come home, Oh, please, Attorney Mra. Kate Mahoney, the murdered | make them leave mamma come home. Cirand-|Casey, please do. We are so lonesome with Rae a letter to her mother’s attorney, Thomasg ma sald you would help her, jout her.” Margaret asks him to “please make “I was going té the public schoo! while| Mrs. Johnson was to be arraigned today be Politics, Bribery LUQUOR IS Are Blamed for | PLENTIFUL Bootleg Booze Pours Into) Whet_amwants to a greet ssiieas! shewdews on the beer quevtion wes | Washington, D. C., in enncenced exchesively in test Mar, Rervetary of the Treasury . Melion signed regulations approving ale of beer threcut the naticn fer Never-Ending Stream ner ane Tose, BY CARL D, GROAT were er oe ee theme “Satuat the Mallon D. Ciq ie reperted deteged with liquer. Charges of bribery “| want my mamma,” says- 12-year-old} mamma come back to me.” mret Johnson, daughter of Mra, Dolores Johnson, who is held in county jail onwa gest game ranges in the Northwest, cleaned of deer. It is estimated that 1,000 deer will be killed the Big Bottom before the season, Many women have bands into the forest resses. Several are the Umit in the close of accompanied their hus- Some are good hunt. that another such season as reported to have bagged Gig Bottom, one of the big Millions, Movies, Divorce! * * & * * & + & DENIES a Hubby Can’t Forgive Her' “Greetings! Don't you find that ‘on the heavies ts a tick- busincan? toddle, camel walk and allied have been banned at the Walla high school. Shaking ‘ oe e Chicago policeman caught at rolling in wealth. MONEY Caldwell Refuses to O. K. $1.000 a | | Week Pay for Str Oliver Lodge says he has re- 4 messages from hell. 1. parte Following announcement by Secre- } tary of the Treasury Mellon that the) Why does area tion fail to prohibit? Why has prohibition enforcement broken down? Who is responsible? What should be done about it? Politics is the one big single reason for the Rum Deluge. iB Bribery and ng et fay ee igen a on Se forbiadi: "|But political influence, mostly having nothing to do Fcieaing beer Mote ae leah graft, is the thing that has made enforcement a na- Here is the answer of Senator T.! tional joke. pel weap of the 34th district, Se-/ You can buy booze anywhere in topo ocuged bir gp good D * |liquor and bad liquor, bottled-in-bond liquor out of govern- lecaliie Tovt pacts wo tutes ment bonded warehouses, and the deadly. product facetious] November I will be willing to we duct a bill in the legislature to amend | known in Washington prohibition headquarters as “bottl and to refute stories that Wash- ‘sale of beer on doctors’ prescriptions, ington is one of America’s wet- the question naturally arose today: QUESTION NATURALLY AROSE IN THIS STATE ‘What about the state of Washing- ton, which has its own prohibition | of $8,400 to pay Witt for eight me work investigating the street car problem here. “I wish to record my disapproval of the ordinance,” Caldwell suid, “‘be- cause I am not satisfied that the city will recelve any more proportion- ately for the $8,400 than it did for the $15,000,000 which it agreed to pay for the purchase of the: street car lines.” Caldwell said that he was under no obligation to sign the ordinance, as ates, ex-aviators, negroes, whites and forcigners, is pursuing a sy»- tematic sale and distribution of liquer. Tt can be obtathed ut from $8 to 20 & quart on an hour's notice. WOMEN CLEVER BOOTLEGGERS the state prohibition law so that beer May be sold—seay one case every two weeks by doctors’ prescription. “Everybody knows how I stand on such matters, I im oposed to saloons, But people, particularly heetic, working men, who want it should; be able to have beer delivered at | their residences, IN TWO WEEKS WOULD END BOOTLEGGING “In two weeks this would do away | di with bootlegging, entirely wipe it out. j All people want is a little beer, If) they had that they wouldn't want) bootiegging and wouldn't patronize the bootleggers. The bootiegger would pass out. | nen “If reelected, I would not only in- | sate hao toga D psig Funny is in t of an apartment we les the body of Bill MeP to drive and kias his sweetie, Utility News. Jones died Eastern morn, rove he cor while full of corn. —Dallas Lions Club. Hes a man who worked and drove to town and came back ‘dotted. Bootlegger.”"—Star headline. be an ee jwork hard for its passage.” | It so happens that none of Kin, ue | county’s senators is a holdover. |former member of the senate from | |this county can return to the legis: | neighborhood,” lature without the people's vote | Rockwell said he believed beer ‘oysters for 20 seasona in hope | might be the big issue in the coming finding a pearl. Monday night, |€lection campaign. first time in his life, he ordered | OTHERS ARE oysters in a restaurant, doing | NON-COMMITTAL escape the gibes of a party ot} Other former senators who may be | Eating his second oyster his | gandidates in the next election were struck something hard. No, it|non-committal today on the beer | @ pearl: It was a piece of| question. None cared to hazard an) ‘yd opinion. . | R, Helster Guile, state representa. | | _Keep on ‘hiphen ‘teat the 20th | tive from the 37th district, a house | gives us something | leader, said emphatically he was op of taking it away, says | posed to the amendment of the state | prohibition law by the legislature. “The people made the law them | selves," he said. “If the people want | it amended, let them amend it. I be. lieve the state is overwhelmingly | prohibition, particularly the eastern | part. The legislature should not take | the responsibility of tampering with may be the more probability |the prohibition law that the people | is of it melting away? | themselves enacted.” “ee | SH aaa b | | Sewiciserc MILLION STOLEN OFF MAIL TRUCK making conversation. NEW YORK, Oct. A as Gackt bt the fam f, except father, of course, is so stu- ly négiected asx the family | “man in our MR. M, “has been eating| eee s History Teacher—What the im act? ght Pupil—Marching thru Geor- was “+ Why is it that the colder the au- suppose you've been in the y #0 long you're accustomed ly to sealegs?” she sug- wasn't looking at ‘em at he blurted, blushing. |men who held up a mail truck and | secured loot, the value of which may | be $1,000,000. The robbery took place on lower Broadway last night, the . bandits holding up the truck under the glare 6f an are light. . n iivented the phonograph by And it should be a lesson to be more careful in the o- ‘King Cotton and Old King Cole Hing the high places. ee downtown drug store displays «+ | WASHINGTON, Oct. 2%,—Post-| master General Hays today offered a reward of $5,000 to any person who \brings in, dead or alive, any one of the mail robbers who wag implicatedy in the New York city mail holdup. | 4 | Reports to the department, as far’ @ standing armies may soon take jas is known, Indicate that the loss of money will not exceed $50,000. a0 4 United Stetes Postage Sampo for Sale Here. a BEF in-barn” liquor. These are the five kinds of liquor available: SMUGGLED LIQUOR —from Bahama islands, Canada, Mexico and Cuba. IMPORTED LIQUOR Great Britain. —legally imported, mostly from ae a LIQUOR — held in warehouses for use as edicine. MOONSHINE LIQUOR— illicitly distilled, mostly in rural districts. “DOCTORED” LIQUOR — made by “cellar chemists.” alcohol and coloring matter, igre oy enforcement last year cost the federal govern- 095. it $6,250, ending June 30, 1922 |troduce such @ beer bill, but would | cities have spent immense sums in | the law. The appropriation for the present year, , is $7,400,000. States, counties and addition trying to enforce Yet, in spite of this tremendous cost, it is the lack of money—lack of a sufficient, efficient enforcement organiza- tion—that is to prohibition. HOW PROHIBITION 1S DEFEATED How much was smuggled in last year nobody knows—but It is esti- mated at many milljons of gallons: ‘The permit system ix the key to the floodgates thru which pour im- ported Hquor, the domestic vrands | made for medicinal purposes, and the hootch doctored from alcohol. Permits are being forged, faked, stolen, counterfeited and issued thr | political influence. Imports totaling 2,026,375 gallons of spirituous liquors and wines camo in last year—20 times as much as in the year ending June 90, 1920, land nearly twice as much as in 1919, before we had prohibition. ‘The value of liquor imported last year was $5,059,669. At bootleg prices it cost consumers at least | $100,000,000—leaving $95,000,000 prof. it for the dealers, Distilleries authorized to make ti- quor for medicinal purposes number only two in the entire country. In 5 years they made 750,000 gal- two Jone. Yet whisky mits both good the year's withdrawals of from warehouses—on per- and bogus—totaled 8,717,307 gallons! Except for the small quantity that actually was used for medicinal purposes and sold at fair prices, this whisky was sold at bootleg prices and cost con- sumers about $10,000,000, ‘These are low cost estimates, fig ured at $5 a quart. Bootleg liquor —good and bad—-actually costs from $5 to $20 a quart Nobody knows how much doctored liquor has been sold. Figure it out yourself——26,034,640 gallons of alco- hol were withdrawn from ware houses on permits last year, Per- mite were iesued for its use for jegal manufacturing purposes, but much of it was made into bootleg whisky.” blame for failure to prevent violations of | quantities of Hquor were stolen from warehouses. Govern- ment reports list. 4,501.176 gallons “lost on account of leakage, evapu- ration and casualty” in warehouses jin a single year Watchmen at liquor warehouses lare government employes. They are paid only $1,200 a year for guarding millions of dollars worth of liquor. Enforcement agents’ percent pay is $2,040 a year, |" Bribes running into millions mise! |been offered them. Some have tak- len graft. Only a few have been | prosecuted. Scores have been dis- leharged, some because lunder suspicion, many for reasons, But many have stood in-| corruptible. A bootlegger who made, a written confession says he has made 000 profits jn 13 months. He says he paid $5 ‘to $10 boodle to fixers for every case of liquor he sold Booze boodle is paid largely political fixers, not to agents. 50,000 WOMEN IN RUM TRADE Women are in the bootlegging and rum-running business. Out of every 100 liquor cases 25 involve women. In one year 50,000 women were in volved, More smuggled liquor comes from Bahama islands than anywhere else. Miami and Savannah are ‘chief hootch ports. Other coast cities get it, too, unloaded from big ships and small boats at s An investigator at Miami found hundreds of craft openly engaged in rumrunning from the Britishowned island 45 miles away Enforcement agents, internal reve- nue agents and customs men are helpless. The government has only two revenue cutters in these waters One at Miami is a leaky tub that makes six knots an hour, The other, (Turn to Page 7, Column 5) Huge to Women are among the cleverest of the bootleggers’ aids. They have entree in select apartment houses, distributing their illegal wares from them, become even “wetter,” agents believe they are gradually be- ginning to check bootleg consump: |diverce and alienation suits. tion, their admissions, plus, independ. ent inquiry, shows: 1—There is plenty of hicks the legalization of medicinal | eyes watched her when, on the silver | beer officials believe the capital will| screen, she played a role opposite |up to the Altho dry | Caruso, Frances Stuart Murphy BOSTON, Oct. 35,—-Thousunds of ; affections. The wife is quoted as saying, even time of the present pro- ceedings: “I love Joe; there is no Today slie is the central figure in}other man I care for as 1 do my | husband.” ‘The husband is quoted as saying who as that he still thinks very much of his She is Frances Stuart Murphy, | {model and screen star, Mquor in | Frances Stuart was chosen by Car. | wife. but that he cannot bring him- Washington and it can be bad even | uso for a role in’ his screen produc: | self to the point of forgiveness. & quart: bution. 3—The courts, according to District Prohibition Commissioner Stephen son, due to. laxtty or overcrowded dockets, are hampering enforcement. \Over 7,000 bootleg arrests have been made in the fiscal year, 1921, ending in July, Since then there “pending” cases—in 25) cases tines have been {mposed, 200 forfeit ures of collateral have been made, 80 booze autos have been seized but {none permanently confiseated FIND BOOZE IN |CONGRESS OFFICES 4—Booze can be found in the con- grexsional office building, The sen- (Turn to Page i, Column 6) STRINGER TO BE IN COURT TODAY Dolores Johnson Also to Be Arraigned John Stringer, former sheriff of King county, will be arraigned Tues- day afternoon in the superior court are already 500 ceny in connection with alleged mis: appropriation of $5,962.84 funds. At the same time Mrs, Dolores Johnson will enter a plea to a charge of forgery. She is accused of forg- ing the signature of Mrs. Kate Ma- honey, murdered bride, to a power of attorney giving her brother, James FE. Mahoney, control of his wife's ex tate, Both Stringer and Mrs. John- son were scheduled to appear last Friday, but gained delays, Lee Johnston, attorney, will | nish him with a copy of entire court proceedings during Mahoney's mur- der trial, Mahoney, who was recent ly sentenced to hang January 6, has gained a delay, it was announce His appea! to the state supreme court will not be heard until Feb. ruary. to plead to a charge of grand lar. | county | sent a motion to have the state fur-| in hotels, The bell boys charge $20 | tions, 1 2-—Routes like milk men or baker-|names ax co-respondent, ies are established to facilitate distri- | millionaire, whom he sues for $100,- pre: | Mf | Murphy’s counsel has introduced Her husband, Joseph A. Murphy, |letters which, he says, were com- & Boston | promising. Meanwhile the co-respondent de- aad for p-allaged: eeantion of his witt's nies hal the charges of the husband. WAYFARER IS SOLD SECRETLY, IS CLAIM “All rehearsals of The Way- “Why? Just because farer chorus have been discon: decided to,” tinued until after the holidays. “And who are the ‘we,’” asks By order of ¢ the opposition, “‘We' are “MONTGOMERY minority.” | wt ee hed According to Lynch, no appeal will be granted those members who were suspended from the club for refusing | Wed | to sign the by-laws which the latter upheaval in the ranks of The Way: farer society. Announcements to bowel Deh ROTOR OPE erepentenity the this effect were received by members | °™ of the organization Monday, who had |“ 4 meeting of the “Wayfarer” cast anticipated a rehearsal of the chorus |#"4 chorus has been called by Chas. Monday night in preparation for! L- Root, a member of the chorus, for evttie'e Stas “tanks Friday at We m., in the Masonite ro ; club rooms for the purpose of dis: Sra yes To cussing future activities of the “Way: see farer.” Every citizen interested in just one week previous Montxom-|keening the pageant in Seattle has ery Lynch had refused to call a bUSI-! heen invited to attend ness meeting when .a group of mem: | bers demanded a discussion regard-| The opposing group in the so- clety have reasoi hey stat believe that the “Wayfarer” be- longings are packed and ready for shipment at the Bell st. dock. ing to commercialize The W: According to answer received is said to have sprung up among) Phone at The Star office Tu numerous members of the organiza. | those in charge at the "We tion, ton’t “know ‘wh A California town, it is said, has offered a large sum ef money for the right to “The Wayfarer,” while East- ern cities are reported to have ex- pressed their desire for the pageant, Those ‘opposing the executive body charge that Montgomery Lynch 4s giving consideration to the proposals of other cities. BERS CANNOT DERSTAND ACTION And now mex the discontinuance | of rehearsals, which the members cannot understand, after the study for music week, When questioned regarding the move, Montgomery Lyn replied: es; we've discontin- ued rehearsals, we've LYNCH, “President. DICKISON, “Secreta ‘This is the latest to cause added | “CAPT. C. N. bers of the cust and chorus. ing that Lynch and other of the executive body are ¢ | headquarters belongings are Seneler: Indicted on Perjury Charge PHOENIX, Ariz,, Oct, 25.—An ine dictment against United States Sena- tor R. H. Cameron, of Arizona, charging perjury, was on record in u qt by the federal grand jury No details of the case. have been | made public. Cameron's friends declare it jmerely part of a political against the.senator, who has the center of a considerable battle, } | | H was) fight y | ington’ | the minutes of the federal court hore. | wag returned several weeks ago | he had never agreed to the employ- ment of Witt. “As soon as I heard of the council's action in engaging Witt, I notified him that I had not approved of the action and warhed him against com- ing to Seattle,” the mayor declared. That 30 days would be plenty,of time for an investigation ‘was stated by Mayor Caldwell. “It seems fo me that anyone fa- jmiliar with the street car business jcould make a diagnosis of our prob- jlems and report within a 30-day period,” he said. | “Apparently at least three mem- bers of the council are of the same opinion,” he added. “Three of them recommended Monday that the amount be cut to $4,200, but feo drew their reco being convinced that they were ‘ool. gated by the previous action of the council members.” Caldwell ridiculed Witt's theory of | (ton 0 re |Harding May Visit in His Cell ABOARE” PRESIDENT HARD- ING'S 7XAIN, Charlottesville, Va, Oct, 255-President and Mrs. Hi: may visit Eugene V. Debs in the fed- leral penitentiary at Atlanta during |the visit in that city Thursday. The jpresident is soon to pass on the \question of pardoning or granting lexecutive clemency to the veteran socialist leader. Both he and Mrs. Harding are known to have a strong desire to | Visit the prisoner for a personal talk with Debs and to see under what conditions he is living, because of his frail health. . Mrs. Harding Starts Real Society War WASHINGTON, Oct, 25.—A social jrow, with widespread political possi- | bilities, is now being waged in Wash- | most exclusive official set. The cause of the row is a “social order” issued by Mrs, Harding ismashing the historic custom which igave the ladies of the cabinet the preferred places in the social line at official receptions. Now, Mrs, Harding, whose words are law in Washington, has given the top rung of the social ladder to the ladies of the senate. ‘Same Old Income Tax Will Stick WASHINGTON, Oct, .-- Without {a record vote, the senate adopted the normal income tax section of the | pending compromise tax bill. The present rate of 4 per cent on {incomes of $4,000 and 8 per cent on incomes over $4,000, will be comtim ued under the section,