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

— i H APPY NEW VE ARI THIS IS BOTH A WISH On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromi lll The Seattle Star mI Weather Tonight and Sunday, rain, moderate southerly gale Forecast VENING ITION to at the Postoffice at Beattio, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mall, $5 Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 18 TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE PERJURY! BIG CROWD BLIND WAR FALSE AGE SEES GAME VETS FIND OF COUPLE ATEVERETT GOOD WIVES SWORN TO, ‘Battle for National High/Barracks of the “Blinks” School Championship Turned Into a Family | Under Way Honeymoon Flat Helped Children to M Says Father of Gir EVERETT, Jan. 1.—The greatest BY 70% BECKLEY Wants Annulment crowd in Everett's football history| EVERGREEN, Baltimore, M4— Accused of giving false testimony — Harding Sees Prosperity in U.S. in 1921 MARION, Ohio, Jan. 1—Presi- dentelect Harding faced the opening off the New Year today ponfident that his administration would bring back the normal prosperity of the country, reduce taxes and establish « sound bust news foundation, Economic questions were upper- most in his mind today, and he is looking as much toward restoring a sound economic condition as to the involved international tangle which confronts him, It was to obtain light on the situation and the prospects of re- Nef that Harding has called nu- merous congressional leaders and Jot peastmintic feeling will work « rapid change for the better, The istle with opportunities for enterprise, altho it is true that the | rewards are still subject to heavy taxation. “Bullding has been restricted, com Merce throttied, upbuilding of the railroads and the development of} mines and other natural resources | held back. We have a vast oppor tunity in making up for the work Fon Brera nat nett root |B Mail)—Why ts @ blind husband | that has been jong left undone, as|teun and the Cleveland, ©, Fast | the best husband? well as in the performance of the) Tech high school team trotted nto The question quite logically was profitable current tasks that @wait| the gridiron to battle for the high | Pfompted by the positive declaration us school championship of the United | 0 the brides blinks” at the Red | “These tremendous works will re | Staten, “roms institute for the blind that | cake Daeeaande ware the best Mob Information obtained from them hag led the president-elect to be- lieve that under his administra. | | tion the heavy burden of wartime SR Interview With Bernard M. Baruch. Politics, Old and New VERY DAMP 4 Mr. Sheehan Wins Tax Systems Must Be Revised. Ty Nae Nay elo tned gs Neel TR Barleycorn Ins Inspires Some | nara year unead," of black pante re eect shake: SS daw ot out the United States, ls mainly de! cen bale mangle de No more mat-taced, melancholy lot! tmct. For all the attending facts eee ©. Reows.. 3s ane t wete | aagiers that aimbled out inte Geo-| sent to every redblecded, hopeful from Batavia. ~ year measage of financial prophecy for SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1921. | A Good Year; Old Days at Albany Many Things That World Must Do. BY HAL ARMSTRONG GREETING ‘evar Whniceicine Eetve on its hip.” lamented ing of Seattle’s New Year’s clouds scuttling over us, and of long Mice in the Arcade building. “Who | volved upon that primal instinct of pene om Wve ee. of mourners ever marched behind a! point precisely the other way ee, memnere.caen pork Se ond ave, in the rain at 7 o'clock last) American this New Year day by the But af $ o'clock the thin line had | :921, Story 92 Banish Fear! Gas Pipe Strategy Brighter Future Before Us. Eee menannate jy ohevt te one NEW YORK, Jan. L—Talk of “a ‘Thomas Byron MacMahon, tilting continued business depression thru- Wants to de a legislator these days | Hilarity | man-—fear, and it is not founded on “That.” said he, “is a picture of) hearse than the thin line of downcast| ‘That is the message that glows, York state. We were the delegutes night to bid adieu to the passing man most fitted to frame a worthy Decome a stream. At $:30 it wan a! He is Bernard M. Paruch, that un-| POLITICS A MATTER OF WELL-OILED MACHINERY “Politics, those days, was a matter Of well-oiled, high-geared machinery. ‘There were two machines, They ‘were of about equal strength, and their success or failure in matters of Iegisiation depended largely upon artifice. “The machine of which Dr. Brown and I were non-speaking, non-think ing, do-as-you'retold cogs, went to Albany that year with «a carefully- — plan of action to elect a man Sheehan speaker of the } seg gliquor flowed freely, tho you n't have to drink to be a legislator. Some of the boys thought enough of | ‘heir lives to tote a weapon, But the | coup by which Sheehan was con pene the gas fixtures. Several joints of pipe were replaced with new pipe. “Most of the opening day of the session was spent getting acquainted with the city. Delegates, some of _ them sober, remained away from the | house until nearty supper time, But \ Jat before dusk a messenger quietly Informed Dr. Brown and me, who were looking over the museum of; fine arts, that our presence wae re- quired forthwith in the assembly hall. “We hurried. In the street were le, other hastily summoned delegates € ‘ 5 faction was in the hall first, by sev- eral seconds, and {t was Sheehan himself who called the meeting to or- | der. RT “While the house was filling with antis, a member of our machine rose and presented a resolution. Without reading it, he pansed it up to Sheehan, who unfolded the document | and procedied to read—that is to say, pv he spoke it off by heart. “As he concluded, It became notice. able that our faction was in the minority, if all the gentlemen who crowded in thru the doors at the last moment were included in the Tival line-up. «Dr. Brown and I noted this with some alarm, but not #0 our candidate for speaker. “The resolution was, of course, the Nomination of Mr. Sheehan for the speakership. It had become so dark in the hall by the time he finished reading that he called to the ger- ms to light she gaw. ¥ MADE ON GAS PIPES gray-haired man came forward with step-ladder and iubitties, vet his ladder Under the great chandelier in the center of the hall, and mounted it. He turned on the jet. struck a match and applied t, but th gax. The repair men had stuffed the new pipes with water-soaked blot ting paper the day before L announced, ‘in spite o enience. You have heard gentlemen—what is the incon the resolution, your wish? “Someone shouted ‘Question.’ “The speaker-to-be was hardly dis- cernible in the gathering darkness. He fished a match out of his pocket and scratched it on his trousers, “All those in favor of the resolu tion,’ he announced in even tones, ‘will so manifest by raising thet right hends.’ “The right hands of the Sheehan faction, standing in the foreground, went up. MATCH GOES OUT; . CARRIES 2 opposed to the resolutiony’ Sheehan went slowly, ‘will so manifest by raising their right hands.’ “At the final word hich had burnt to hi puttered and wi op as again in darkness #°No objection being made gerved,, Sheehan quietly re “the motion is carried.’ “That's the way we did it in the old days,” Judge MacMahon “More open and aboveboard than a the things that happen £ on the match finger ttps, out. The house ‘ob. jarked, sald e put over, wage non-violent de- ig bound in the same direction. Qur/| gas didn't light. There was | river, ing torrent of pentup humanity, | looking for something to do, and)| eager to do it, BLOWS HORN IN EAR OF ELDERLY WOMAN At about this hour an elderly wom. | an, halt and bent, stopped @ fraction tween Union and University ate A youth, breaking the silence blatantly, put a red-whiteand dive trumpet close to her ear and blew a sudden Durst of discordant squawka, An other youth approached her other | side and whifled in her other ear one |of those rackety-rackety-rackety- lorack things of deviltry that sell for the old year had dropped dead of heart failure and the new year had fled out of earshot. The old lady amiled, She said she had Itved to see nearly 70 just such nights, and hoped to tive to see 70! more. At 920 a few from the edges of the throng eddied into basement cab- | arets, where they were taxed $1 at the gate for admission, and into the | upstairs dancing pariors, aes WITH MYSTERIOUS ‘DLES ARE SKEN "aoe with mysterious bundles dart- ed here and there. Auti rade, co down the avenue and tin cang trailing along behind, Eyes grew brighter, gianees more street and laughed and jostled. Down in Chinatown, where they are beginning to observe the Ameri can New Year, all was as quiet as Chinaman on the street. night cferk «id they had kept it open for two or three,years on New | | Year's eve, but had found it a losing | proposition, so the custom was aban. doned. But by 16 o'clock other grill rooms, leabarets, cafes and dance halls were [packed with merrymakers. | HUNDREDS ARE TURNED | AWAY AT BUTLER | At the Hotel Butler cafe, hundreds lapplied for admission but were turned away becaume there was no room. Tables had been reserved for parties, and the late arrivals trekked off to midnight matinees and other | entertainment elsewhere. and danced, heard entertainers sing, and heard Marie Savage sing her 20 own compositions, The belle of the idance was Mrs. Jeanette Bekmann, |the beautiful sister of Mrs. Jack Spreckels, Jr., of Ban Francisco. Babel broke loose on the streets at midnight. Babel and something else. Police Chief Searing’s order lconcerning intoxicating liquor was lost in that sareeching, clattering, crashing storm of hilarity. CHECK FOR $(40 {TS SATISFACTORY RESULTS Down in one of the more uncon ventional cabarets, a group of revel [lera, aif a dozen men and os many | women, were gathered about a huge |table. A check $140 was written a Inessenger sen! lor and given the check. black bottle was borne secretively in asses were filled with clinking ice, ginger ale. whatever that is, had been consumed by the gent an who wrote the check, those about his table and others who recognized him as an old acquaéntance. And at 4 o'clock a poem was writ |ten to the most beautiful of the women, “a haughty girl with teeth like pearl and alabaster arms ad jother charms poem was to mush po-called, and sung. Fess t 4:30 they named her the Princess de Bing-Bing de Hang-Bang de Bob \bio, at the suggestion of a handsome | young attorney. |JOHN BARLEYCORN—OR | His GHOST—IS EVERYWHERE | Nor was that all. For in street, and alley, and restaurant, (Turn to Page 5, Column 5) White, ry and At it was an eddying, ewirh | of a minute before a doorway be! ile parties, In grand pa back again, with strings of crashing | daring, Groups formed freely in the | the grave. There was scarcely a) ‘The Savoy grill was closed. The} ‘Those who had reservations dined | ‘Twenty minutes elapsed. A large, | pmething from the bottle and some | At 4 o'clock a ease of Black and | obtrusive, silverhaired financier, who yet wielied from behind the scenes in Washington more sheer | power than any dozen other civilians | during the great war. | THERE 1S PLENTY OF WORK UNDONE “How can there be any long period of depressio 4 unentployment in our country?” asked Baruch, smiling his famous smile from across the top of the enormous mahogany denk cov- ered with financial reports from levery corner of the globe. | “There are too many things tn the | World left undone or still to be done | for this to occur—uniens, of course, one expects our standards in living | are going to reeede and the world in general is going te undertake some new form of government and living. “I do not credit that the latter ta to eventuate, for mankind's latest at- tempt at formulating a fresh system | of production and distribution as ex- prenesd in the soviet government not mean anything else than the killing of personal initiative and | consequent lowering of the stand- | ards of living. “With this out of the way, then, and with us convinced of the fact | that our present economic system is | at leant a start in the right direction, | I fail to see anything but a brighter | future for us, once our taxation prob-| Jem is adjusted BE HUMMING “Wealth, which we need, is made} jonty from the creation of things, and | the only way to create things i# for) people to work. Why, jf America had gone into the treaty a year ago, in all probgbility the entire world would be hurnming with industry to-| day instead of being @ world in| which mankind is marking time. I oelieve the procrastination of 1920 has caused mankind to sustain bi} lions of dollarx’ worth of uncalled.| for loses, worse still, untold human misery. “Things are bad, but not ro bad as our fears are prone to paint them | We are adjusting ourselves to re | stricted world markets and domestic price alterations, Losses and shrink ages have to some extent been dis counted or neutralized already, There may be some more failures and fur ther readjustments, but I see that profound curative, though at times convulaive processes, are setting in It will not be a quick cure, but it will be sure. “All of us can accelerate the cura-| tive movement by practicing and preaching the doctrine of work and saving, by revising our burdensome and paralyzing wartime taxation which i« no longer necessary—by contenting ourselves with returns more nearly commensurate than re cently with the #ervice performed and that applies equally to capital and labor. We must look for profits from big production, not from limita- tion of production. We must see to it that the present mass readjust ments of prices are carried thru to the ultimate consumer BUSINESS UNDERTAKEN | NOW ON SOUND BASIS “Business undertaken now is on a sound deflated instead of on an un. sound inflated basis, Merely the re- turn to real values from those born 1921 of a good month of quire labor, capital, brains and ma- Promptly at noon the game started. terials in ever increasing volume, We| Football fans from all over the have scarcely scratched the re-| Northwest, together with a generous sources of our own country as yet.|crowd of rootere from Cleveland, and there are limitless fields in for-| were,on the side lines, wave of depression. olgn lands for our enterprise and our} capital The world is ours in a wealth making sense.” GOVERNMENT |EXPERTS SEE |GOOD FUTURE BY RALPH F. COUCH. WASHINGTON, Jan. ity, Uke the flowers of the song, will bloom again this spring. The bual- | Dene depression ie already beginning | & great change for the belie 2 to ‘to government of: ficiala in the treasury, re jand Inbor departments, is the fore | for alarm. cast for 1921. If true, the forecast means an end | of unemployment, stabilizing prices, and lower ones for the consumer. Ethelbert Stewart, government price expert, believes 1921 prices will | be lower than those obtaining at prosent. NEW FACTORS GIVE ‘S OF PROSPERITY Optimistic predictions of govern ment officials and business men for prosperity in the spring are based on factors now developing. these: Government receipts from huxury taxes hae fallen far below the fi ures of @ year ago, indicating the publie has ended extravagant buy- ing. Instead of luxuries the public now in buying stocks and bonds; the re-| port of one big steel concern shows an inerease of five thousand in the number of owners of common stock Liberty bond transactions have been increasing for several months, bank- jors reporting to the government that they cannot get enough of the lower | denominations to satinfy the demand. | with etuff that'am Food prices will lower prices in the first few months as the result of the bumper crops harvested in practically all sections of the country. Retail prices steady but sure decline, according to reports from 55 cities, collected monthly by the labor department. GOVERNMENT LISTS UNFAVORABLE FACTORS There were nearly 9,000 business faflures in 1920 as» compared with 6400 the year before. This, com | bined with closing of scores of fac tories in the textile, shoe manufac turing and autofnobilemaking cen. ters and part-time operation of prac tically all others; falling prices for raw cotton, general reductions in prices of all farm products and un- employment are listed by the govern- ment as unfavorable factors, Officials of the American Federa- tion of Labor estimate that unem- ployment now involves at least one} million workers, “Unemployment 1s pretty general in New England in the textile and shoe industries,” said Frank Mor- | rison, secretary of the American Fed-| fon of Labor. ‘There is also some unemployment among the miners and in the factor- fea in the Central West.” er: Seattle business leaders see evidences year in 1921 and deplore the Daily, during the January, The Seattle Star will carry articles and interviews in which prominent Se-' attleites point out why it is foolish to look at the coming year thru blue specs. Watch THIEVES FIND BARREL BANK Thieves found « barrel in which Yokoyama, proprietor of @ res taurant at 119 Washington at., hid his money, and relieved it Friday | night of $130, They also took $31 from the cash register, he reported | to police, OE ATH CLAIMS Edgar Ray Butterworth, pioneer Seattle undertaker, died at 11:20 a m, today at hig home, 521 Olympie pl. He had been il] three years and had suffered three paralytic strokes, He wan 7, 1.—Prosper. | Some are! Gencend to yet! are undergoing a! BUTTERWORTH (NOTE—The Star's final edition today will carry a detailed story of |the game at Everett, The ed will be held for the final score) Much Better Today, BALTIMORE, Md, Jan, Cardinal Gibbons was reported con | Felapae of Thursday. Mass was nab jin his room this morning, indicating zee twat the home of Shaver at Colon ailin Ma There Te ‘was said there by no Immediate cause His Diness was reported |due to nervous weekness of heart, brought on by overexertion. His main ls clear and Vigorens, City Attorneys of Ways and means of improving the market for local improvement bonds thru Jeginiation will be considered at & mpecial meeting of all city attor neys in the state in the offles o | Corporation Counsel Walter R. Meier January 7. The meeting is calied at |the request of J. D. attorney for BeliIngham, Moonshine Found in Rainier Valley Moonshine whisky, found Frida afternoon at 9900 Rainier ave. Deputy Sheriffs Matt Starwich Julius Von Gertse and C. H. Kear | ney, led to the arrest of Joe Smith |who in in the county jail charged with having liquor unlawfully in his possession PRESIDENTS DAY IS SIMPLE} WASHINGTON, Jan, 1.—A New Year dinner, attended by Mr, and Mrs, Francis B. Sayre and Miss garet Wilson, was the only form of celebration planned at the White House today, Thief Nips Quart of Herein lies G. W. Wilson's New | Year's disappointment. One quart of bonded whisky, be-| }sides two dress shirts, four collars and a tie pin, were stolen from his apartment, 1615 Eighth ave. Friday evening, according to his report to the police, Man Dead in Tent; Had Tuberculos s The body of a man found tent house at 24th ave, 8. and Spo- kane st., by D. Smith, of 2204 Hinds at., yesterday, was identified as that of William McEwan, 41, a .tuber- culosis victim, The coroner is at tempting to find relatives. \U. S. Officials Get Man Held for Dope Mike Casey, arrested by police Jon dope charges, has been turned over to federal authorities for prox ecutions He was given a prelimi |nary hearing Friday before U. 8 {Commissioner McClelland. — Fin |hearing is set for Monday |Caruso’s Throat Is | Doing Very Nicely NEW YORK, Jan, 1.—-Another con Jwultation of Enrico Caruso's phy sicians as called today After this mnference an official bulletin on the onor’s condition will be iss Caruso is “doing very nicely Horowitz, his personal physician, 9 @. * Dr.| aid at m. |Cleveland Jobless 1 ployed shown here Cleve num Jan une wa LAND, army of 108,817, it cI land's bers today, siderably improved today after his| the | State to Meet Here lL. Healy, city} by! New Year Happiness: in a| 1 | knitted cap a More Than 100,000 | bands in the world.” “Blinks,” you must know, name these blinded world war have given themselves; exemplifies the surpassing with which they bear their affliction REASONS WHY BLIND HUSBAND 18 PREFERRED A blind husband fs the best hus | band, chorused the brides— “Recaune he bolongs #0 COM. PLETELY to the gir he marries.” “Because it is such a wonderfal |reason {pr lasting love and sympa thy *“Pecaure he ie not critical, but ap preciative is the heroes of the it cheer fire Peosenge strong and fingly tem { TRecause a) DinGadeWldlor, Sith his work and hig government pen. | sion, is financially safe.” “Recause every girl is at heart a | mother; she can take care of him the more; he needs her.” CUPID FINDS BRIDES | FOR 30 STUDENTS The blind men at Evergreen grad uate into matrim: almost as fast as they do from their classes in mer chandising, vulcanizing, poultry rais ing, clgarmaking and the rest of it Between 30 and 40 weddings have been celebrated «ince the school opened, two and a half years ago. Direteor Charles F, F. Campbell calls the place “The Match ory.” He has set axide as a sort of family flats one of the army barracks. there being not only the “blinks” and brides to provide for, but eventually | little dumpling babies. There are the McGuires, for tn tance, Jim McGuire was a regular of Company C, 40th infantry. When Jim started for France, there was a girl “behind him” in Minnesota, who cried a little, but amiled bravely thru her tears when he kissed her good | bye. SHE MARRIED JI™, | BLACK GOGGLES AND ALL That was the last time Jim ever saw her, But she was as truebdlue and married her laddie Aas soon as he came back—black gog gles and “I love you al} the better, Jim | mie,” she said ‘ow we'll work to | gether to make the home.” Today there are two wee daugh * whom Dad can never seo, opt with fingertips and lips. Marion Dolores is 2, Helen Katherine going on 9 montha, as her eyes, t | Helen te absorbed in her milk bot: | tle. But Marion's great interest is “showing father” the pictures in her bunny book. This she does by press: ing his finger over them, bidding him ‘feel the colors.” | Daddy Jim, under Evergreen tu- ition, has become an expert cigar maker Soon the family will leave the barracks to make their home| | near Minneapolis, where MoGuire| will start a small business: RA WILL BE A POULTRY FARMER Almost next door to the McGuires jare the Rapps. To John Rapp galivanting | about the poultry runs with @ pail in either hand, head high and lips a-whistle, you'd never dream he was |blind. He went overseas from Pennsylvania with the 316th Ma {chine Gun division and—well, duty |took him close to the scorching face | of war and now he walks in shadow | “But what is affliction,” says | pretty Mrs, Rapp as briskly | fat baby daughter into d rompers, “so long as | you still have love and work? “We've got our poultry | plexes out and we'll be on it next summer. It is ideal work for the sightless man, I was brought up in Philadelphia. But I the coun try and always wanted to raise chickens, It is work a woman can help in, And we're all going to be | happy.” | A bit further along the hallway iive the Harrel: Everything about their |quarters shows delicacy and refine |ment. ‘They They come f the prettiest town ever sh I found th Keo she tuffs her love Hl Aioiaal ivhas wedding their hom romantic tears over n sitting In a dark alist. having just oper. ated upon John Harrel's eyes in the (Turn to Page 5, Column room, a spec in regard to the ages of Edwin Keb © sey and Viola Beli Toler, who said they wére 21 and 18 years old, re spectively, when they obtained a marriage license on Thursday, Mra taxation can be diminished and that business conditions can be improved by sound administration and legislative measures. “Becaune & man who has been thru | ex-| 3 farm all} ned | WIFETAKES = POISON; DIES} Girl Kills Self on New Year’s Eve Clifford Nelson had the body of his young and pretty wife, Laura, to the Home Undertaking company. Mra. Nelson drank poison alone in |their apartment in the Lorena, 1511 | Boylston ave., last evening while her |hushand and his mother were absent during New Year's eve festivities | downtown, elson is an employe of the tele- phone company. He usually reached home after his day’s work about 6 o'clock. At 8:45 o'clock last evening Mrs. Nelson drained a bottle of car- bolic acid. Summoned to the apartment, city jhospital attendants reached Mra. Nelson too late to save her. She} died in the ambulance en route to the | hospital. Nelson fs sald to have returned home at 10 o'clock, only to Jearn the news of his wife's tragic end. eighbors questioned by deputy | consi are staid to have told of bearing a quarrel in the Nelson apartment two or three weeks ago, | since which Mrs, Nelson had seemed despondent, She was 26 yedrs old. FATHER KILLS |DAUGHTER, THEN KILLS HIMSELF Side by side in the morgue toda lay the bodies of Fred R. Nevins and | his 9yearold daughter Dorothy, | whom Nevins slew with an axe and| @ razor nding his own life | by slashing his throat, ‘The double tragedy occurred some time Friday in the basement of the Yevins home at 106 Fairview! Mrs. Nevins, employed down-| was away at the time. Nevins is believed to have been mentally unbalanced. He had been out of work for some time and was | despondent, his widow said. ALASKA STORM HEADING SOUTH | PORTLAND, Jan, 1.—With a | storm sti centering off the Alas-| }kan coast, the weather bureau con | tinued storm warnings for the Ore- | gon and Washington coasts today | Southerly gales are anticipated as a| result of the storm, Reports were | lacking from North head this morn- ing, because of wires being in trow ble: also, it was impossible to learn | whether the storm had broken yet. COUNTESS HELD | D’ANNUNZIO SPY ave. town, ROME, Jan, 1,—D'Annunzio’s de feated legionnaires will march out of Fiume, the y held for more than a year nuary 6 and 7, according to rep eived here to- | day. Countess ¢ rande, wife of jan aviator, hag been arrested on a leharge of communicating to d@’An | nunzio news of the movements of the |regular troops in thelr attack on Fiume, town the during J rts re Chinese Arrested on Opium Charge Wong, 29, Chinese, was ar,) rested at the Mount Fuji hotel, 115% Yesler way, Friday night by police, | who claim to have found 40 small of opium tied around his ‘cans Waist taker! ftom the cowty morgane teday | )):4, | charges Lottie Milroy, faces perjury charges Saturday. She was arrested Friday night by Deputy Sheriffs Herbert Beebe and — N. L. Lovall, and laer was released — on $250 bonds. Complaint against Mrs. Milroy, who 715 Blanchard ft, — is said to bean aunt of the gir was brought by the boy's father, Kelsey, 337 N. 72nd st. Hed before Justice of the Peace Brinker — that his son is 17 and that the et represented her age to him as 16, Mrs. Milroy, after her arrest, said to te Toaintained that V it sty she took # Kelsey's word for his own age. ar The young couple were married Friday and are on their honey today. ‘The elder Kelsey declares he wn have the marriage annulled. Director of Federal — Mines Bureau Quits ss g ° WASHINGTON, Jan, 1.—Dr. F, G@. - Cottrell resigned today director of the bureau of mines, to become chair” q | man of the division of chemistry the national research council. Cote — trell recommended as his successor H. Foster Bain, of California, TOVE HIS SEAT; THEN THE DONJON SCRANTON, Pa, Jan. 1—G Kulitz, weight 300, out for a hot time today, sat on a cook stove for sale and smashed it The judge, after” roasting him, sent him to the cooler _ to sit on @ cot for the rest of the day. 3 Jury Disagrees in Judge Murder Case CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 1—The- jury in the case of William R. Mo Gannon, chief justice of the munich pal court, on trial for second degrees murder of Harold C. Kagy on 8, was unable to agree New ¥i leve and was discharged. The =a had been deadlocked since Wednes — day evening. EDDING LICEN; “MARKED DO DES MOIN Towa, Jan, 1—In an effort to clean up the group of Leap Year brides, the local marriage license bureau offered regular $1 licenses for 89 cents. Libel Suit Against. Joe Smith Dropped Upon motion of Chester A. Bateh- elor, deputy prosecuting attorney, of criminal libel Smith, newspaper man and pol iticlan, were dismissed by Judge A. W. Frater in superior court Friday, Smith was alleged to have cireu- lated posters libeling the character B. Pitegerald during the lat-~ ter’s campaign for the office of mayor, ET SHE DIDN’T Joe YELL FOR HELP ~ DENVER, Jan. druggist, and the police when he saw the body of a woman in the Platte river, After two police sergeants swam the fey _ | current, the body turned out to be @ tailor's dummy, 1.—Fred Amick, Major General Faces 10-Day Term in Jail” WASHINGTON, Jan, L=-Maj. Gen. Peter C. Harris, adjutant gen. eral of the army, is under sentence” of ten days in jai) for contempt of court, because he refused to produce certain records having to,do with the draft, gt the order of Justice Sid- dons, of the distriet supreme court, — Appeal has been taken, while the question of whether draft records may be made public is being thresh- ed out, Sentence is suspended in sna / i‘ dmeanume, called two fire companies. | hi We