The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 1, 1921, Page 1

APAN PERIL UP TO SENATE! On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromis | The Seattle Star Entered as Second Clase Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattie, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 SEATTLE 2, WASH., THURSDAY, DEC EMBER 1, 921 "Res 1 |Tonsils Out! | idents Fleeing With Belongings! egies Use KENT IS FLOODED! 4 Green and Black Rivers Are. Rising! SIX DEAD IN WRECK! 4, Coaches _ and Engines Demolished! ‘TRAINS ON WEATHER Tonight and Friday, rain; moder- ate to fresh estate weinds, Tempera‘ure Last 24 Heurs Maximum, 33. Minimum, 46. Today noon, 47. TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE = CeeSAYS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS AIDING NIPPON Miller Freeman Makes Sensational - Charges in Letter Calling Attention to Dope That the federal government is a party, “either directly or by acquiescence,” to Japanese aggressions which “con- stitute a formidable assault on our people and on our coun- itry,” is the charge made by Commander Miller Freeman in a letter he dispatched today to Senator Miles Poindexter. | _ The letter was written to call attention to ' the charges made at the recent dope con- ference by Canon W. H. Bliss that Japan is | deliberately promoting the narcotic traffic in this country in an effort to make America’s young men unfit for military | service. | Commander Freeman takes advantage of | the opportunity to specify other objection- | able activities of the Japanese on the west coast, either tolerated or actually assisted by the federal government. “Unless this issue is met with courage immediately and definitely settled,” the let- ter concludes, “it will certainly bring;.on, «. swith Japan.” e letter follows: "IT beg to submit attached «tate- j ment “of Canon W. -H. Bliss, made at the ‘anti- ’ meeting called by the governor “and held in Seattie Novefnber 2 in which he charged that the Japanese are flooding this country with narcotics in the same | tanner and for the same sinister Holding a little instrument, not} purposes as they are conducting unlike «# fountain pen, im your) this traffic in China. mouth, you sit for 20 minutes. Then: | "There, that's all now!” And out you go—Mmaybe you haven't even taken your hat off— minus your tonstis! RADIUM DOES IT WITHOUT PAIN Radium which you held in the in. struments in your mouth melted the tonsils away. No blood, no knives, no pain, doly 20 minutes of your time gone and you can con- tinue your working and playing and eating as if you'd never had a tonsil! Dr. A. Graham Biddle, New York | apecialist, is perfecting the radium | treatment for tonsils, He has been | working nine years to eliminate the danger, blood and pain of tonsil re- moval, METHOD SIMPLE DOCTOR DECLARES “The method,” says Dr. Biddle, “is exceedingly simple.. The patient} needs no previous treatment or prep- for only four minutes ity. No wonder they Wanderer Case Rivaled * & & } | PORTLAND Strange Chicago "Crime Dr. A: Grtham Biddie BY RUTH ABELING NEW. YORK, Dec, 1.—"Yem ma! dam?” “Ah—and won't you be seated?” You sit down, “Open your ‘mouth Just 20 minutes, plea. i i 3 here now— | iH exe grave chaiehen made by the head’ of the White Cross so- ciety, are worthy of your most ser- fous —_ considera- thon as U. 8, sen- ator from this state, “The federal admin ietration repeatedly the of the Coast that they, or the states, should not attempt to deal with the various phases of, the} Japanese —prob- lem, but leave their solution to | the federal government. epigs dat Won't Yield on Warship Re- viF i i art 5 Farmers in the Green River val- ley are reported driving stock and ing their families to the bigh land, All yoads leading from Seattle \nouthward to Tacoma are reported impassable, with the single excep: tion of the high line across the hills to Des Moines, The thermometer registered 67 at Lester this morning. A brisk Chi- nook wind was rapidly melting the snow which lies from four to eight feet deep above Lester to the sum- |mit of the Cascades, | AF 5 3? 7 Paul, Ore. "Walling, Amity, Ore. . H. McBride, McMinnville, Ore, Jack Cole, 5, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Cole, McMinnville, Ore. C. J. Yarbrough, negro porter, train started ite great |No. 12. bring —famous Adj Fatally injured: ‘of nomi | Mrs. age Cole, McMinnville, Ore. ; eed > eal gets his signale yells “7 come 11,” God Roy, Hoddes, 14, Stanfield, Ore. Ttain No. 17 was westbound and wants wears—the “Kabo” live |No. 12 war eastbound on the North Bank line near Celilo, Wash. During the present tieup in the Columbia gorge, with their tracks on the south side of the river damaged by the recent storm, the Oregon-Washing- | ton company has been routing its trains over the tracks of the Spo- kane, Portland & Seattle lines from Fali Bridge to Portland via Vancou- ver, Wash. No. 12 had just crossed the Colum- bia river at Fall Bridge and had re- Gee told this one to ws in Don't fet it go any further.) “A lotta guys would like old days you could ‘re males and words are 8 un old proverb. But men always have their pad {ite wiven’ names. . Francisco mint ia coining At the rate of $680,000 it The city council can than that. eee “ Of the Orpheum says all the performers “artists” be “fog Graw. He doesn't say Re cals ‘om when they don't Ha hand it to Will Rogers, ct Se the movies with the ited with.” Most of ‘ese wives with the same Marted in. op a coutes ls good tor WNerved Safed the Sage. lented the Fool. “And §0ed for from 10 to 20 * penitentiary,” Made up that nage.” pegs, | honest 1 didn’t | gained ite own tracks on the south bank when the accident occurred. Due to confusion in dispatchers’ orders, both trains were on the left- hand track The) engines were smashed into each other from force of the impact jand four coaches, two on each train, demolished. The body of George Bristow, fire- man on No. 17, had not been recov- ered at 8 o'clock this morning. Res. cue workers were using acetylene torches to cut their way thru the wreckage of the engine to reach his remains. Relief workers, with 20 nurses and four doctors from The Dalles, re turned here with the dead and in- jured at 5:25 this morning. The in-| Jured were rushed to Portland, Thirteenth Victim of Disaster Dead RED BLUFFS, Cal, Dee, 1.—The Het of victims of the auto bus-train wreck here yesterday was swelled to 13 with the death today of Charles Bosworth, a student and driver of the high school bus, and Marian Day. Investigation of the tragedy waa under way here today. struck the bus during a fog, Assault on Customs Officer Is Avenged For assaulting a customs officer at Blaine, Alexander Fair was) sentenced to a year in the county jail by Federal Judge Jeremiah Neterer Wednesday, | The train | Mrs, Beatrice Sharples and !Thomas F. Catherwood, her. brother-in-law, who is accused of having slain her. CHICAGO, Dec, 1- Catherwood will be plac INere, charged’ with having ¢om mitted the most brutal and most needless slaying since the Wanderer murder. Assistant State's Attorney Harry 'B. Miller says Catherwood con- fessed to him that he killed his wie ter-in-law, Mrs. Beatrice Jand her unborn child by choking her with a heavy rope. Then Catherwood, says the alleged | confession, made away with $66 Mrs. | Sharples had been saving for Christ mas expense. Alienists are studying these queer angles of the case: Cathérwood’s only motive in the |alleged crime was robbery-—yet he| was not in pressing need of money, Theré was no enmity between Catherwood and his sistér-in-law— she gave him food a few minutes be- fore he is said to haye slain her. ‘Alienists way Catherwood's sane. | And he's intelligent, 00d looking and has a moderate education | Wanderer recently was executed | for killing his wife, who was about to bear a baby, and the ragged stranger whom he hired to stage a fake holdup. Vessel in Distress Calling for a Tow: | ‘The steamer Simon Tolimie, carry) jing lumber from Vancouver to Kobo, lig calling for a tow three miles east lof Neah bay, according to w message Sharples, | U. 8. DESTROYER | elsco, reaching the Merchants’ Exchange | here #t noon Thursday. The vessel's steering gear is broken, the message | said, | Fr The Tacoma-Seattio interurban was still able to run trains, The interurban company was preparing this morning to shoot a log jam, piled up against the Duwamish river bridge, south of the city From the mouth of Soos creek, eastward for \several miles, the entire valley of the Green river looded with rising water. The road between Tolt and Sno- qualmie is impassable for two miles, At Rutherford’s ranch, between Tolt and Fall City, the road is reported washed entirely out Four feet of water lies across the valley road to Tacoma for two miles, between Thomas and Kent People living on the west side of Kent are reported to be using rafts and rowboats in moving their house: hold goods, Ina few hours, if the | practically isolated, cut off by the flood. if not entirely GOES ASHORE SAYS CITY LOST SAN FRANCISCO, Dee, 1,-—~ The United States destroyer De’ Long is {ashore 10 miles youth of San Fran decording t6 a wireless re ceived today by the marine depart ment of the chamber of commerce. The crew is reported safe, The De Long went ashore on the rocky coast during the heavy fog of Jast night, ‘The tug Mearlesy and coast guard cutters from the Golden Gate and Fort Point stat ne to the destroyer's asnint weather si continues very thick, with @ heavy swell. The De Long is not se riously damaged, according to the { wireldss, The De lang was en route from San Diego to San Francisco, ‘There about 199 men and officers laboard the vessel Lieut, Com charge of the royer. Word of the wreck also was re. celved by the United states destroyer lerick, which has gone to the rescue L. Johnson is in ‘That contractors “and ers’ who obtained $2,205,000 worth of munieipal light bonds made a profit of more than $500,000 on the | deal the statement Thursday of Councilman Lou Cohen. Storrie & Co, contractors of San Francisco, were awarded the con- tract for the construction of the Gorge creek tunnel on the Skagit, agreeing to take $2,205, bonds in payment for their work “The contractors figured — the bond deal was put in their bid for the work,” Cohen said. “Phe same bond issue, held by R. M, Grant & Co., bond dealers for the contractors, now oversubseribed $8,000,000 when offered at par on the open mar- ket.” The’ city will tose $500,000 by the deal,” Cohen added, when they WITH 3 KINDS water continues to rise, Kent will be | HALF A MILLION, bonds at a discount of 84 per cent) is | aration, The attending physician | would assist perhaps in adjusting the radium pencil so that it would strike the tonsil—after that the patient tholds it there until the fibre | is melted away. called the crypt—a little ridge about as thick as this.” Biddle was holding up a piece of tissue paper folded | titree times. jlowed to remain. MAKES EXPERIMENTS “Radium has interested me in- tensely, I watched its effect on can cers and it occurred to me that ton- silk might be removed that way. “So, experimenting with removed tonsils, I found that Gamma radium i(there are three classes of radium, Alpha, Beta and Gamma, all of which have a different action) would dissolve the fibrous tissue of the tonsil.” The treatment, Biddle says, never requires more than 20 minutes. “And that’s all there is to.jt,” Bid die, a rather genial, heavy voiced man, snapped his thumb and third finger, “no blood and no ‘tonsils ly- ing around on the table!” Six, Bandits Steal 400 Pounds of Gold SACRAMENTO, Cal,, Dee, 1,—Six masked men are reported to have held up and robbed early this morn ing the office of the Argonaut Min ing Co., Jackson, Amador county. They secured 400 pounds of gold bul- |lion and ed in an automobile. STORM WARNING A southwest storm) warning was ordered displayed at 10 a, m. Thursday at all Washington and Oregon seaport stations. Storm central off Vancouver island, moving rapidly southeastward. Will cause fresh to strong south shifting to southwest gales, north of Cape Blanco today and tonight. “The radium melts back to what is | “That little ridge is al- | } “Yet not only has the federal gov-| }ernment taken no action of decisive character, but it is actually a party, | leither directly or by acquiescence, to! | Japanese aggressions which consti- tute a formidable assault on our peo | ple and on our country. “Specific instances are: “ Leasing of lands on the Yaki- ma Indian Reserva fon by fed- eral agents to Japanese, “2 Monopoly of to operate out of our ports in yio- lation of the fed- eral coustwise navigation bews, Q | Wholesale B | trafficking in opiates by the | dapanese. “4 Attempted corruption and intimidation, thru powertul — finan- cial interests, commercial and religious organi- zations, of mem- bers of the legig- lature of the State of Washing- ton by dapanese, in attempt to prevent passage of land bill which applied to all aliens. “5 Operation of Japanese propa- ganda, bureau under the direction of K. K. Kawakami, San Fran- cisco, “6 Operation of Japanese propa. ganda journals and subsidizing of American publications by Japa- nese interests. “7 Operation of Japanese lan- guage schools, Allowing Japanese to oper- ate producing and marketing combinations, with power to die- tate prices to bp paid white pro- ducers, and s to be paid by (Turn to Page 9, Column 4) This, however, is probably the ex- [treme official view, The press con- tinues to reflect a strong popular desire for a compromise, despite the standpatters’ propaganda campaign for the 70 per cent ratio for Japan, and other indications among the peo- ple continue to point in the same direction. The navy department has assigned the new dreadnaught Mutsu, which Secretary Hughes’ program called for scrapping, to active fleet o immediately, The Mutsu, Japan's newest. addi. tion to the navy, -was under construction when".the conference opened, but was practically com- | pleted. ‘The navy's “8-8” constructions are continuing as usual, it not being pos- sible to stop work except by agree. ment with the shipyard owrers where the construction is going for ward, CHINA DEMANDS FREE SHANTUNG Wants It Back “Without Condition” BY CARL D, GR@AT WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—The Ch nese delegation is demanding Sham tung back “without condition.” This stand was made known by competent authority connected with the delggation today prior to the afternoon session, in which Secre- tary of State Hughes and Arthur J. Balfour, using their “good offices,” expected to arrive at conclusions with the Chinese and Japanese delo- gations “outside of court,” regaraing the thorny Shantung problem, In making this unconditional de mand, China offers to promise Japan that she will not cede the former (Tura to Page 9, Column 2)