The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 24, 1920, Page 1

TO ME A " SLEETH strian? m the Oks of the mail around « offi apa hardly I have watche Ment of the streets wads ‘ ghwaya f a dk “ now, and hay Water AS we he trend of leg elation amd th casualty ate Rd I have never been able to set ie in my own mind what system WH handle this dilemma ubt if an ever in traft movin & pace, on stree for slow mov team traffi Will ever be safe, no matter Whether y the autoist, Merely t half a i ot Just ever Of the st and « with ¢ shoulders Nor do 1 ex Ways to miss the Who suddenly Across the str ¥ have Nor <« I anticipate Rumber of ambulance Meighborhood wil! « Mren to look where tog. or ladies w b f@ continue in- the for twenty buggies down and wear out a set of ings every sixty days. by: but some day some of these suicidal pedestrians will Outguess me, no matter how,go¢ & misser I may be. eee PE POWEVER, I notice this— 1H ry night when [ start home, I, going at twenty miles an hour, é. never pase anything but P @ fiveton truck; but everybody | headed in my direction passes me all right. And knowing that 18 to 20 miles fan hour is the top speed that will Hat the driver stop this side of trouble in heavy traffic, I am in ¢lined to the opinion that quite a number of autoists in this man'« town are taking quite a lot more e@hances than they should, or than | the law permits It looks about fifty-fifty to me. a I ate a lot of bright young speed = maniacs, and nervous, hesitating, S evercautious drivers; one is as i bad as the other in a time of Grisis; and I see a lot of pedex fians who never look ad; a her of children who think it ‘@mart to make @ last minute dash Wh front of an auto; a lot of With coaster wagons on the wrong Wide of the street. in the fog; numerous absent minded gentlemen and ladies who think aj) the traf fic in town will stop to let them fay-waik and zig-zag from one side fo the other on Second av Pifty fifty t while a careless walker can’t put much of a t into na fi r, by a head-on COllixion an autome« m@ very sad wrec by nudging him tn t hort HAT do ut it M awn? "i I tk #e M we have so many laws now that we fall to enforce the few that might be of some service We have, in a few years, left the ox team era and entered or the 30-mile-an-hour epoch we key up « up our tbought p nize that it i* su stead of at mare that € ing out the’ few feet from Our dreamy noses, more or le of Us will get museed up about every = often And yet I doubt if right toda and injured rtion to more people are k by autos, In pr number of autos and the traff congestion, than there were in the old days; we remember about the ru for mile, I ex is safer thar the two bronc but we are traveling @ lot more miles OH, BOYS! Here’s Extra Money for You » we? Mile e buckboard with hich you have lots. of good oved in .them that mother doesn't want, but keeps an They Are Worth Dollars Have mother let you turn them into cash. The you a nice little in count which if pro taken cure of, will help you take that college course or tart you into business a | tle later on Make a list of these Sterns e them in the and Aver Yor Sale columns of The Star, Phone M 600. On the Issue of Americani. The Seattle Star SEATTLE, The Star’s Phon MAIN 600 Get the Habit! ATURDAY, JANUARY THREE W OWEN And Two Men Caught As JEWEL THIEVES (Pictures on Page 11) Sheriff John Stringer’s deputies today solved the mystery of the Kyer diamond rob- . recovered more than $6,000 worth of gems and other about an alleged gang of despe score of burglaries committed here and in Spokane, robberies in this city Five alleged members of . believed to have been the leader, is now in the peniten a long term of imprisonment ahead of him. A chance remark dropped by the gang’s woman two weeks ago was overheard AS IT SEEMS "Flaming Heart Cools $1,700 on “Honeymoon” w Jail Dampens Love jewelry said to have confe: including the notorious e criminals in al fovaitikator for the she arrest and the! and led to her undoing of the othe Scott overhear a gaged in conve man, Scott had no doubt, re- to “the” gems “taken? |from the home of Henry A.| iKyer, of the of Augustine was burglarized on the night Would Even Contain ‘Movie’ Hall for Tenants; Each Would Be Part Owner to have a cooper ive apartment heuse contain diamond-studded followed her and watched engaging hérlin con. | 39,000, if plans laid about the Kyer robbery © other alleged prin: | and disclosed et been chosen, 1K POSES AS WIFE OF GANG'S LEADER leader of their # said to have made a admitting that « to Walla Walla Cornell and the eloped with him, Vae Lee, 28, loved Warrant Bo's'n R. gold crossed-anchors ALL TO HAVE EQUAL had spent $1,700 on what she calls her lary in that cit FINDS ONE YOUTH IN SPOKANE JAIL Walla Walla to Spokane in search of Ha * written on both studded watch, ag well as val und fabries taken in oth f could never windows will be : found Dahl in the held as a suspect Reche is said to have broken the pri and six others committed | EVEN PLANS TO | BUT MARRIAGE T STOOD IN THE WAY whieh he returned to , Manard says rtificial refriger nerators te be con will be equip; crossed-anchors Registration Ends at 9P. M. Tuesday and general municipal elec sir driers for the benefit of wamen who wash their own hatr, » said to have accor matket for the robberies com: than a month ago. | mitted here mo nearby for the exclusive use ‘STO JEWELERS HERE » Beebe was roundin: ry east of the Ca rtt and Deputy ell continued working on thi ¢ the conduct of the pro } apartment house, Manard says | With only three wistration totaled 88,070 when the und to adjust all eoeags uinte tion books will until 9 o'clock y learned that she diamonds from ring and sold the artély to a jeweler near Trimmed His Hair and Pocket Also| w iwon avers, Spokane to Retry | Alleged I. W. W.’s| Preparations i SPENT $1,700 “HONEYMOON” » recovered from | ceteapmtie nis ha alr, od his complaint he extracted a of ers trimmed him when » bee bill from his pocket, ‘(run to Page 2 2, Column 6) were soon in the Los Angeles Jal. gy ndiculivn n There Can Be No Compromise 7 step-ladder” Three of them are women. ary at Walla Walla with a Second ave, restaurant riff's 8 s offic “OUGHT TO. tion with al HLL YOUr” HE SHOUTS --When Auto Hits Him as He Alights From Car on Fremont Bridge “1 ought to kill you!" shouted an irate pedestrian 7 o'clock Saturday morning after aif auto. mobile, driven by John Tor@ick, foreman at the Rainier ship- yards, struck him as he alighted from a street car on Fremont bridge. That's all right," Torwick re. turned, “but what I want to know is whether you are burt The man disappeared, accarding to} report made by Torwiek to the red bridge when be t alight from the street car n | Torwick reported. see Joseph Grant, jr. 12, 2236 Hunter bivd,, sustained a fractured wrist and minor body bruises when knocked down by an driven by W. Sundstrom, penter living at 2640 46th ave. 8. W., he w fternoon ad was taken to his home, and Sundstrom reported to the police. He was arrested and lat- ased on hig personal recogni: | mance. Sundstrom e@aid thesboy attempted to cross the street in front of his au-|importance only to the detective tomobile, and that time to stop his machine did not have eee The accident reported latter in the |@hbove bring this year’s “killed jand injured” total in Seat-| | tle to 112 No wonder, then, that peo- ple in all sections of the city are asking: When Will Our Streets Be Safe? Husband of Woman Killed by Auto Is Hit by Street Car orge Johnson, building con tractor, living at 818 Allen pl, whose wife was killed by an auto early this week, was crossing Fourth ave. and Westlake from his office in the Seaboard build ing, about 9:30 a, m, Saturday, when a st car struck him, The f hit his leg and his hat was knocked off, but he was not seriously injured. “It was my fault,” he suid, “I was in a sort of daze, thinking about my wif and didn’t see the ear turning the corner,” and closed the net} sed half a! rwick’s machine skidded | npted to stop so that passengers | CENTS Late Edition Ver Year, by Mall $5.00 to $9.00 w or rain rly winds LIEUT. CARR | |SEATTLE EXPERT TRAFFIC OFFICER SAYS: “Shere is a o way to make the streets of Seattle safe!” .. Ae, en abs 2 Peon AS —6 Weather Fore Lieut. C. G. Carr Seattle must create a modern traffic division in her po department and adopt approved methods to cope vi | stanth ly increasing street hazards. | One responsible head must be given unhampered ai jand ample facilities to apply proven remedies—rem | that have been adopted in practically every city of n than 400,000. population in America. A spirit of understanding! ‘between auto drivers, police} and the general public must | be fostered to attain co-oper- ation. There must be oy appear on page 4 of today’s wide education and under-|] Kiurtreds of other suggestions & standing toward a definite|] the Auto Accident Editor. end—and then there must be rigid enforcement of the traf. fie code. This the opinion of Police Lieut. ©. G. Carr, in charge of Se- attle’s 0 corner men and 12 | Mounted e. Carr knows that traffic condi- tions in Seattle are not being han- died efficiently, He spent last summer touring the big cities the mabsect foe ee ae & time learning just how the spe-|taken here thon ail rede ; clalists have worked out traffic! Nes to tne mame oe a | Every first rate city, he exp nen I try to explain what's | first creates a traffic division suRht te doe" aye Lene care |e responsible head. ‘This head I'm apt to be told that this ts not| Mone _Fesponsible for con . S Dot First, every traffic man under New York, or Detroit, or Cleve- a land, But this is Seattle, a fast poll gehen fl yp bey growing city, | and” no. Idnger-®@/808 the gemeralmublie — small town, We've got to straight | hac ag hase nee Fe en out the situation and cope with | munity understand jet the problem right. Every growing |i done to povvey Pelny: city, sooner or later, has to go thru | oiminate con, were ra ae ja year or two of suffering, ‘Then |" A’ yecord te kent of someone wakes th pend the a eae ieateces pee | proper remedies ar tite teen ee ee Carr says that in every city of|‘Tafflc head, who talks per | Carr say i | o are | 400,000 or more in Ameri {rth them. -Btrest offiosces sake a the traffic division is rated second in {12 Pont out just what conditions city is striving to create. to approved methods, “The public, of cour: know just what's the matter. | departracnt MUST FOSTER SPIRIT BETTER TO SAVE OF UNDERSTANDING HUMAN LIVES Every offender is given the “And in New York they rate traf-|of a doubt, and is, the first fic first,” he says, “on the theory | siven every consideration. Nothii |that it is even more important to|left undone that might help ff ent waste of human life than it} the spirit of co-operation. Abso is to go after somebody who has al-|l¥ no favoritism is shown, Vio | ready killed a human being.” big or little, all receive the fhe largest cities have traffic divi- | courteous treatment. sions that are up to snuff, where bes. 5 —after the period of ed solving of traffic problems has be-|—comes the announcement that |come a science, and where a remedy | certain date the traffic code: |has been found for every traffic ail-| be enforced in {ts entirety. Off ment. are instructed to testify right to “And they have all concluded, in| point, and stick strictly to the Eastern cities, that the only way to|leaving no loopholes for o' handle traffic is thru a traffic divi-| wriggle out of in court. F sion,” he says. operation from the police judge | “Traffic experts tell me it is ridic- | expected. en ulous to think we can do anything ‘They have even gone so far | under our present system,” ome cities,” says Carr, “as to b Carr declares: an outsider, who has no acq Forty per cent of the traffic [ances or influential friends, and law offenders never even appear = | him in as traffic judge.” at police headquarters under Carr admits that creation of ats Seattle's present system, and no | fic division to enforce traffic effort is made to bring them in | meets strong opppsition from for minor violations after we've |who don't understand the pro or from business interests who thii of drivers, and [they will be affected financially. the keeping of 9 record of each “We would want everybody to. driver, has been abandoned in {that there was a good reason | Sentth every regulation,” says Carr, There are a dozen different | after a thoro trial, we would be | ways of wiggling out of paying [eager than anyone else to revoke the penalty by an offender after | unsatisfactory regulation, Only he has been tagged for violation | edies that have proven worth while | of the traffie code. would be maintained. Seattle There is no one authorized | has a traffic code considered one | head, or any definite program, |the best in the country, It is ng | for developing the proper spirit {being enforced. The duty of | among motor vehicle drivers, is to enforce, and not to inte | Pivided authority and lack of |the law. Let us apply our co-ordination make — improv: code, If it is found faulty ments in the local situation al we will be the first to most hopeless. change—that’s the spirit “We've got to come sooner or later| be applied in Seattle” », i