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me, THURSDAY, APRIL THOUSANDS OF | WW: STRIKE 26, 1 H.W, W, in West ailed Wednesday The Ington, whic fn an effort to all political prison in federal penitenti rapidly ding chalks, and wilt inc and sympathizers May 1 The strike was bh was « ow being held 5, is growing to I. W. W, offi ude every I. W. W in the by called to secure rat ar nerely to secure th Between said to be nounce release of the 6,000 and 10,0 on strike The walk tle shipping to to waterfront the Marine Tran Workers, & branch of the I. W. W., ‘refused to give out any information concerning the waterfront situation. All members of the organization « the wharves and docks are walking out, The men will remain out for 10 days and after that time has elapsed they will return to work. If the prisoners will then are another 10-day strike and will continue until their demands are granted, according the secretary of the Seattle local. prtsone 0 men are affecting § any extent rding Officials of at is mi reports Members of the order are arriv ing in Seattle by the ing to police reports, The men have working steadily for many weeks in the lumber camps and mills and the strike is taken in the spirit of a holiday. No trou: bie is expected by the police. Sawmill men and loggers declare | that the strike will have Sporadic and scattered effect the lumber industry of the state, which Is now in the height of a boom. Very few Seattle longshore- men are members of the Marine ‘Transport Workers and it not score, upon beileved the strike of this branch ef thy I. ping here. W. W. will hamper ship- accord: | only a| 923, HERE’S MORE TELEPHONE STARTS ABOUT RATE STORY ON PAGE 1 in the federal court to have telephone a hearing. ent rates been allowed to stand pending the hearing by judges, instead of asking for the increased rates to be mediately effective. This whole thing is a back-door © instituted without any notice either to the Spokane or Seattle.” im pr city SPOKANE, April 26,—Senator-elect C Dill Judge Cushman’s telephone action one more strong argument} for the plan he had already announced of amending the U, § sees constitution to provide for the election of federal district and | circuit judges. “T cannot see ground in Judge Cushman’s ruling,” said Mr, Dill today to a representative of The Star, “for impeachment, | but I certainly condemn unsparingly his use of the injunction | in this c “His action is one more striking illustratign of the need for making these federal judges responsible to the people. Judge Cushman, and others in his position, had to face the electors periodically they would not be so free with these in-| junctions. . “The judges have been going a long ‘ay and going ve rapidly of late in their usurpation of* legislative authority The child labor, the minimum wage and other decisions were long steps along that line. |have no interstate significance, It is bad public policy, and| 23 jit must be halted. f PROHI AGENTS | ‘ARE ACCUSE | Home Brew (Starts on Page 1) he cried, ‘Treasury day CANDIDATE FOR THE IVY CLUB After-dinner speaker who uses | the terms, “In the last analysis” and “Consensus of opinion, green ordered a sweeping investiga’ afting and hibition POLSON | alleged ruption among reement evidence has Mellon and he > Internal Revenue r, with orders te | agents, |iaid before |turned it over Commissioner E act promptly, Alleged ter in New York, ton will be When we die we may not have Imuch to bequeath to Little Homer Brew, Jr, but, by heck, we're go: }ing leave him some wonderful ectpes! ritles Jelphia and Bos jon Indicated, see la A writer ought to work for pos. Nerity, but then posterity is such /agents have been pocketing taxes col- rates increased without How much better would it have been had the pres- the in TE | suspe Now we have a federal judge) Clara Phiniy » not released they | Stepping in to upset purely local questions which admittedly | mer murderens ~ | (Dispatches been | would talk to ne has agenta|and Salvador after her escape from) cluded charges that some prohibition | ers arrive from the United States THE SEATT ‘WOMAN SUSPECT RAGES IN CELL Alleged Hammer Murderess | Rages at “injustice” WASHINGTON 6.—The 4 extradi jtion ¢ , " o ¢ « ‘ M. Young, | but Mrs. fie When irae and to son | was supposed be Call ips, alleged fornia off th hammer slayer, department Mr ted of thelr information ww Young wa Mrs. the Phillip: being oprright op | _TEG UCIGAL Hondur Pacing her cell tn a fury Americ justice, was arrested the Lon Angeles was interviewed in the elty jail today for the firat time. ‘Tho woman told the correspondent her ni was Mra. Je from Honduras | hitherto referred to the prisoner as | Mra KR. M. Young.) REPORTERS ROUSE | WOMAN'S ANGER | Bitter againgt just | was the encaped thin caged | Woman threw up her hands in aver oxpondent n| entered her cell by permission of the, city authorities, After the interview she said a nore Newspapern It wan explained to her that the press of America was waiting for the4'* o| story of her wanderings thru | United States, Mexica,’ Guatemala rant ing against an |woman who ham 0 Carson. have reporters, ax “tigrens, 1 dingust an the « the prison in Los Angeles. "J should ngt say a word; I should |keep my mouth shut until the offt-| to take me back there,” she cried {tite Apri | ® |that the LE STAR j HERE'S MORE ABOUT GIRL SUIT STARTS ON PAGE 1 HERE'S MOR BOUT WATERHOUSE STARTS ON PAGE 1 rove ‘i lens ‘ ook & chill an r poured halt in a glas of home br ied her to drink it r, at the Hibler home aulted her, she wedding t for July pre the mother re turned and she left the Hibler home On the day of the wedding Hibler failed to put in his appes told her to “jump ttf the | off.” | Dur AL spoke didn't tend thing material Hart then préduced the letter, purporting to have itten by Watorhouse and to the t already in nc which the copy ¢ b date that claimed. ‘The ‘Ten ¢ 6 prier was bond 7 a executed, in 1 to Waterhouse with Albert Kelly Waterh: identify the copy “1 never naw "he testific it to me Injection the the case produced a tion, as Waterh has always ¢ tended that the first bond w signed by Frank Waterhouse & ( and that he became a pi demnitor only after the been refused other hand, signed the the evi wa wrtler an “cowurety however, declined to ing the trial ned an in low, the reading of the ve morning her face wreathed I'm the happlest girl in Miss comps Meredith ur that 4 letter in anded pasmionale foe of new. b decided nd senna into Hibler is | dollars, young Hibler t# declared to bd penniless and dependent upon his |father for support, The judgment holds that! wii) stand until paid or unless re bond as &] pealed tn su as an ap | peal will probably be taken Hibler is pre Hibler & Co., #u and wholesale merchants, He ts re puted to hi lo many thousands | is on this basis | of dollars during the war-time sui weeking recover | deal and 4» probably Seattle's hea lost. by. the esa ler in the product vit: rere « ssine | CANADA PLUGS rien, Jude, a 'sher hearee'®| TTOQUOR LEAKS fused to submit in evidence a doc-| yioroRIA, B. C, April 26—~The ument purpoting to be perpong ie 5 n dominion government te > have caused to g the leakage of the government United States | from Ottawa, has a » further clearanc will be issued to ves erlor court $5,000 to be paid per and that he shifted | 10 his company only} had resulted in a substan ait dent of sonally to him, r dealers the account after it i loxs—< that Lau! the $188,000 jin the trans ve to terhouse scored tory during the rning when Judge Hall, after hearing telling m a copy of alg, house ts alleged be fi endeavoring on his personal be. quor intovthe tion with the El na Hehe Judge Hall ruled}... paper was inadmissible be. | ‘Os had not been certified by radgvs Lee the war Cepartment, | ot, Carryis need that he weuld admit es ed f | All vessels hereafter leaving Ca the | aa e thot such a|PAdian ports with liquor shipments claim was filed by Wate nt conn . arriving ause it purpose show house's at.|0% thelr cargo manifests will be re-| quired to name a definite port | destination in their clearances, which | will make it very difficult, i¢ not im. | possible, to operate the small vessels, | Which have been sailing with liquor | rgoes with “deep nea” clearances. | uments on this point, jury excluded from the courtroom, wumed the first hour of the morning and then the eress-examin. |‘ ation of Waterhouse, which began | ° with the | tied PAGE 9 iTWO INJURED LIN ACCIDENTS ured in auto sccidents e taken to the city tre Wednesday — | HER MORE ABOUT WOMAN DIES STARTS ON PAGE 1 atment in bed, It a terrible appear I ried up was ® I did not that to my dren. #0 straightened myself, settled flat on my back and folded my pre pared for the end. were searching Thurse » truck driver whe, FE. M. Smith, 64 in an alley wey on between Sixth and Seve was declared to have ed on his way, leaving the in= jured woman lying on the sidewalle stunned by the blow. She received injuries to the head, both arms, an@ sides. | nes Hayden, 4209 Palatine ave, was released on $50 bail after he had been charked with reckless driving im | connection with the accident in whieh Mra, Latisa Van Mahaun, 50, of Intere bay, an Arablan woman, was knocked down by Hayden's truck at First and Pike st. Mra, Van Mahaun stepped from a street car into the | street, when Hayden's truck collided | with. her, throwing her several feet” wa hands, of 614 Union at Union at. wemed tolenth aves, But their 1 far a ple 4 grew more distant th wemed to ¢ me the comforting words I know I wanted It was the last thing I remem April 13, 2 seml-conscious mumbled uniptel times and cf coma 1 Merc condition ligible lapsed into a urlo ate often ch consclousness was restored Mercurio at 4 o'clock Tues mofning, April 24. i ne forget that hour,” jeclared with a happy shrug of hou It was the first time I had no. the clock. It struck four Until then I had forgotten ubout tin But somehow that clock je me lize that 1 a@ real human being in a very real world. “It was almost a shock and a very delightful one.” Mrs. Mercurio glanced affection. tely at her frolicking great-grand- childr ‘en on the floor. “It is so good to be alive,” guiness ponitentedly, “During that time felt like «| She was badly shaken up and injured plained today ‘My son, who nursed | 7, me at night, accidentally burned my i\NEW STAR IS Once he placed an iron at my feet.| He did not realize it was too hot | | WASHINGTON, April 26—=- a deeply burned outline. Again al giant star, Antares, has hot water bottle was placed on my | rgren |largest known luminary of the at I waa like a chunk of wood and| a ‘aiameter of 420,000,000 oe nothing has been assigned it by Mount to Mra. |displacing Betelgeuse, with its dle ai ameter of 200,000,000 miles, hitherte 1 she | Disclosure of measurement of An- rs |tares at Mount Wilson was measurer of Betelgeuse, in an |dress before the Carnegie ft chunk of wood," the patient ex-| about the body. body twice, yet I felt no pain i ING OF SKY until, upon removing it, he found K N B - and ncorehed thy teat, | Betelgeuse from its position Full | son. Cal, observatory astronomers, ie the largest known star. the |by Professor Charles B. Michelson, |ot Washington here Inst night, times, all old m re to me, IHIGAGO, April 26—Tho dian whose profile adorn one side of the buffalo nickel h become a Christian. Dr. E. E. Higley, who today from Browning, she Perry W. Weidner of Los Angeles, Five ships were reported tled up| at Everett and at Raymond. At Willapa harbor one vessel was un: able to sail, due to the strike. The strike seeks to effect the re- Tease of political prisoners convicted @uring. war time and the seven con- victed in the Centralia Armistice day ting, t Grays Harbor the I. W. W. say 27 camps are closed down. All pool and soft drink parlors have been ‘closed by order of the city officials ‘AS a precautionary measure. Port Angeles reports an exodus of | strikers toward Seattle to participate in a May Day celebration. Half of the 1,109 woodsmen of Clallam coun: ty are reported to have quit work. Tuesday, was resunred “Yesterday,” Hart started, called to your attention certain a Inspector Busby further declares | secretary of the Scottish Rite | that moro stringent regulations Will! Masons, was entertained at the soon become effective in regard to] Arctic club Wednesday Doon by the counts in which it was shown that | Certified officers, The government Seattle Masons. $60,000 of the El Aquarie Jos had| Will require that all small boats be| — been aswumed by you personally, In | Commanded by masters with proper lyour income tax statement for the | certificates. year 1920 did you make a claim for | |LATH COMPANY COMING HERE) Lath manufacturing headquarters | of the Stanley I’, Barker Lumber in F Arava {| terests will be established in Seat: | he had brought into court coples of| ug within a short time on property| Jude W the time when | ROW owned by the port commission | at the Salmon Bay terminal, it was the latter was in Washington in con nection with El Aquario claims—a announced py . commissioners, Wed | rotten pay. lected from owners of liquor in ware-| She spoke with anger of the Amer- houses, The agents would tell liquor | an minister in Tegucigalpa, who re- owners that on payment of the taxes| Ported her presence to the Washing- the liquor would be freed. Several/ton rtate department and thus who haye been swindled in that way | brought about her arrest have complained, "He has not treated my sister and| No loss to thé> government has| Myself as women should be treated,” been disclosed, Mellon indicated. sho declared. In connection with the viait to New| The woman referred to ax her sis-|this $60,000 as a 1009." York yesterday of treasury agents to| ter is in the same prison with her,| Waterhouse declared em look over the rum fleet, Mellon said, | While J. C. Carson, the man arrested | “I did not.” he did not send them and indicated| With them, is held at the national} you make the trip was probably a private jun- | Penitentiary. ket. | Prossed for details of her wander- lings thru Mexico, Guatemala and| Salvador, which she traversed before | reaching here, the woman spoke) 000 | hishly of them and thelr govern. | Losses $132, | menta ATLANTA, Ga, April ‘The woman corresponds exactly to a Blackfoot, who posed for profile, has renounced . If the Japanese seize Hawall, we ought to compel them to listen to all of the’ Honolulu records, eee Cake-eater:; Is Gladys in? Big Brother: You can't see her. She's upstairs with peritonitis. Cakeeater: What! Is that here gain? FREDERICK & NELSON suy i phatica “Did elaim?” "No, sir, Hart then asked Waterhouse if| ever uch a Oregon Postmaster Pleads Not Guilty PORTLAND, Ore., April 26.—F. W McLeran, former postmaster at Wil {hott Springs, pleaded not guilty in federal court here late Wednesday to Charges Gambling 40? — 40? See MONDAY’S STAR “1g / W820 University Way God. MAL 2218 Jackson St. charges of withholding mall for spite. Residents of the district served by the Wilholt Springs postoffice charged that their mail was held up under McLeran's administration of the office. The trial date will be fixed Charges that her husband, Hampton | «he descriptions of Clara Phillipa fur Singletary, of Kansas City, gambled | nished by the United States authori- away a fortune of $132,000 were | ties, She arrived here on April 14, made in tition for divorce filed | accompanied by the man and woman. by Mra, Mayme C, Singletary here|-They remained in Tegucigalpa a today, Singletary, she declares, lost| week, ignorant of the fact that the $100,000 he inherited and $32,000/ American consul had reported them subpoena for which was served upon the witness the day before. Clarence L. 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CARSON SAYS ALL INNOCENT In hin cell at the national peniten- Uary, Carson in an interview offered proof & the innocence of himself, his wife and the Mra. R. MM. Young who are being held for United Staten authorities, “L know nothing of Clara Phillips cxeept thru the newspapers,” he said earnestly. “It is ridiculous to think my wife the murderes Carson admitted that he knew lt- te of his wife's sister, Mra, Young, except that she lived in Poughkeep- sie, N.Y. (Previous dispatches ind. | cated Mra. Young-niso was suspected of being Clara Phillips) He said he had comple in his trunk to prove ti ail of them. | son said that he is the repre: | sentative of American capitalists who | are seeking investments in Central) American enterprises. He _hiniveif | had $20,000 invested in bonds of t Edison company, He is a native =| Virginia. “We left New Orleans for Mexico in January of this year, traveling | leisurely until we camo here and} were selzed,” he sald. “If I could] but obtain the documents in my) trunks, I could prove all this to you. But they have been sealed by the! authorities. Pressed for details concerning the | full identity of his wife's sister, Caraon said he did not know her} very well—-he did not even kn “whether or not she is married All he knew was that’she “lived in| Poughkeepsie.”” | The jail conditions are very bad, Carson said, He complained he ia| forced to spend most of the night | on hig feet or sitting up. He fer r his health and has requested the | services of a physician, Ho has n under treatment for the last four years for cardiacal troubl His face wax somewhat pale and lines of worry were drawn under his | eyes. mt like a dog; sald. WHIP VICTIM COPFIN FOUND, TALLAHASSE, Fla, April 26, cypress box, found buried in the mp land near Clara, was believed | to contain a dead boy's tale of brutalities Inja Florida convict camp. he box—unopened on protest of aittorneys—is believed to be the cas- ket of Martin Tabert, North Dakot youth, who died following an alleged fogging in the prison camp of the Putnam Lumber Co. ‘The legislators called on the dead yesterday after Arthur Johnsoq a former negro cony testified helped bury Taber's Lody in a water-souked grave in a palmetto clearing noar Clara, ‘The cypress box of mystery was ,found after Johnson, terrified hy jarmed men, had prowled the vicin- ity for an hour, he hand of men gieeted the party at Salem and followed the leg islators und thelr gulée in the search for the grave. Pistols were prominently displayed and Johnaon openly! expressed his fear of vio: lene Representative Kennerty on his return her declared that the armed men had attempted intimtdation to provent exhumation of Tubert's body. documents | identity of this way, | deserve it,” he don't want to die I dont’ “We demand at this time,” he +l the commissioners. founced, “that this telegram be-in- | ‘cone miner and was con- troduced In the evidence. They can't * segregate the evidence this way and |*ummated Wednesday when the com, introduce just what they want and mission passed 6: yee Sot tie Shae the company and becomes ettective Judge Hall ruled that he had no} mediately, authority for such a procedure, but} The lath mill will be of modern Reames renewed his request as each construction and will use the latest telegram was Droduced.. 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