The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 21, 1921, Page 1

Weather Tonight and Saturday, rain; moderate southerly winds. st 1 Hours Minimum, 35, a9. Tempera Maximum, 40 Today noon, FOLUME On the Is eSeattle Stal Entered cond ¢ ase Matter May 3, 1899, at the ffl ee at Seattle, WASH, FRIDAY, JANUARY Wash 1921. “Basier Money. Prices to Be Normal. Public Must Buy. | » NEW YORK, Jan, 21.--James lexander, president of the National ik of Commerce, dec § “Business men are just Gonfideht that the m don in the Unt ates in 1921 Bill be a very different matter from it has been during 1920. Certain specific factors are Feog muble as the chief adv | fecting bank credit during | r year, and there is every for believing they will not be powerfully operative in the year come. ED IMPROVEMENT QUALITY OF CREDIT While there has been marked con- pn in the non-tiquid a Seattle’s Mark Up Five Mil-| lion Dollars in the Past Two Years | elements of bank cre re | nued expa in ts | oe Seattle savings deposits have In- Was not operative in the ¢ Just past | of credit, better cond atements iseued today by the} in sight in the banking federal reserve bank showed that. Bie teaches, teprovenses The figures juality of credit. December, 1918 +++ $64,000,000 | December, 1920 $69,000,000 “We may also hope that we shall fm 1921 see a national transpor breakdown which added a portion to the impairment of And this despite the fact that dur shipyards closed experienced the ition ing this period the down and the city od reaction that followed the “Again we may expect that there ‘will not be the same violent changes | and that, therefore, commercial cred [4 will not be employed for purposes ‘ef commodity speculation to the same extent. NORMAL DEMANDS ‘TO RULE PRICES “Finally, we may expect that prices ‘and the production of goods will be Goordinated more closely to normal " fio demands, and the emergency’ not arise to carry such large, liquidated stocks over a period of tion. = “With these factors absent or re duced in degree, it should be pomrl-/ Bie for business men to find ample Means for financing their operations to make their calculations with @efinite assurance that th cost Of credit will not be prohibitive, while the supply may be relied upon to Meet all legitimate demands. “The situation ts yet far from nor Mal. The continued lack of public aying has made it impossible for imany commodities and for many of merchandise to become rea- biy Naquidated, and the process mot be completed until buying More becomes active and pro- duction ts again deman ded.” economic While no figures later than ped cember were available at the Seattle! branch of the Federal Reserve bank today, it was declared that— | “A slight upward tendency In sav- ings depo |;Woman Asks $35, 000) Breach of Promise! John RB. Kaiffen, who accoré- | jing to Mrs. Anna B. Johnaon, “~ man of fine and attractive appear. ance and stature,” is being sued by Mrs. Johnson for $25,000, due, she ways, because he falled to keep an alleged promise to marry her. Mra. Jobnson, a widow with two minor idren, claims she met Kolffen in May, 1918, and that one year later he promised to marry her in Sep tember, 1919. its continues. Chehalis Citizens Accuse Gov. Hart OLYMPIA, Jan or Lo 21—That G is Hart has dismissed Th Horn, superintendent of the 's school, unjustly and again the bes rests of the institution Chehalis citizens who arrived here today to fight Hart's action. | Horn's resignation was requested the governor Wednesday. The delegation demand a’ hearing for Saturday. They allege that the todial school under Horn‘s admin istration has shown excellent prog UP IN BROERY oprietor Is Robbed, but : which c 4 him on ress and that the majority of the © palgn trips Marry M. aug. Others Not Searched — [ene of Chehalis want. bim ‘re /campaign tripe. Marry M, Dau tained, | ven in the seclusion of his pri Eight persons m a grocery store at | oe a ar, Harding is unable to drop 9800 Interlaken ave. were held up by |Congressman Eooher the problems cor ed with gg Masked bandit at 5:45 p.m. Thurs | 1 the toy Dies in Savannah ’ ‘ the ZL. A. Thom, proprietor, was robbed] SAVANNAH, Ga., Jan, 21.—Con eo mess of $90. His wife 4 six customers | gressman Charles F. Booher, demo-| to of eouare Were kept covered by the robber but| crat, F< h district, died at his | whic and these a were not searched. | home today, after an extended | jmp. will involve Thom believes the highwayman to | jiiness tactic which are just | be the same as the one that robbed lass which are mak- him of $72 November 26 ling 4 satistact ihe robbing of two men e’re Par rtly . recited tm Marta and a holdup of a pe an Per Seiten Oa few hours Thursda ‘| et, ry ie rented to a nequal Because O. W me | Tor " oeag oe | of U.S. Admits 989° Of hoidups and | “ 0 oW. MIS Kee, ington honk ei Thursday night WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—One and w ‘ Y got only $10 there Thu s | ‘ t probat r Diatereon says he sa $70. The | one-half per cent wet—that’s how rshadpyins 4 Pobbery occurred at 6:20 jdry John F. Kramer, prohibition Pre t St. Augu: er i pair of unmasked ba sioner, wants the United 7 | .G. Wikon, proprietor « .. Proposed Gun Law Is mercial ¢ z ft av hd tery st., of $25 at 10:30 oe Defended by ‘Searing’: , Dine tse garage ¢ Everything has been written and fended th ation law ig ed vgs ed a man driving hig auto out of |#poken to discount prohibition, but it |» t ‘ ure, saying that its y & rage and forced him to hand| has come to«tay. I believe that even opponents did not ur tand it ‘over $50 on was wu to no- ht wines and beers will not be le. | properly. tify police until several r fter | galized. : : 2 The law will simply make a regu the robb« ers had However, it’s likely that the coun - fon is e-wide now tw in ef-| Walter M 108 way, 3 as the bol “mn : was robbed of $14 by two s prohi New Yo vn aN aoe between E. 624 Jere do now en. it w siued at $200, a revolver.| Renew Acquaintance Mitte the hou cw i9| With Famous Brews Drops Dead While “ Mth ave. N Dry squadders got acquainted wit? i J. H. Her t ‘Old Crow” and “Canadian Club" for | on Way to Dance | «* contributed th I the first tim in many moons Whil th i . op a Relief Fund early Frida Thursday night. Dave Veins, Wie as eeda atk ood Coen Dry-throate te Seventh ave., were the losers |) oie ta of 4021 Ay revenge wher uae of the first and two). 2 Faulecn, 06, of 4038 Wighth ave as dry as themselves, Tt € re their way upstairs and took | Gea jewelry worth $100 Into th " Sleep Is Disturbed (PRESIDENT OBREGON Sanseasion. The mustached oe. wa on 3 Locomotives | ORDERS DRINKS FOR sought by police Frid e ran Cha 17, negro, didn’t Bees the home of Waterman, |tey to take hid bed with bic’ wher NEWSPAPER WRITERS 9242 44th a Thur but | he ¥ ted in the P. round MEXICO CITY, Jan, 21 i stole nothing. He ween a repent day nieht % atrolman || dent Obregon of Mexico an od neighbor. Pp. Pr McKinle was everal hundred fe-naver 109 | chased out three locomotive boxes of gum 1 a of tarts | where he was sleeping and was ar i were stolen from the Parixian Choc-| rested when he refused to be aroused olate Co., 14th 1 hing: lfrom the fourth ton #t., Thursday hight | eee . hives looted the cash drawer of| BODY OF ALLEN SHATTUCK, the Nordby Supply Co,, 100 tern | JK. 17, who died Swedish hospi ave, and withdrew after capturing |tal Wednesday, will be hipped to $40. They left the drawer in the|Juneau for burial. Shattuck’s fath er is mayor of Juneau, midsie of the wirect. HARDING MAY COME TO COAST He's’ Off Now for Florida Vacation BY RAYMOND CLAPPER WITH PRESIDENT - 2CcT HARDING EN ROUTE TQ 8T. AUGUSTINE, Pla, Jan, 21--A trip Some men's faces aren’t as | wide on other. If one yon side as on don't believe the that, here's Malcolm Douglas, neu county prosecutor, toith | _ add in his physiognomy.| r try this out > Gureeli? It’s if you have phot leractly front-view, li. | Price & Carter ar |this series, Try self and on your f low is the oxigin on pictures inte resting| ‘os that are e those e taking for it on your- riends,. Be- al photo of to the Pacific coast probably witt be|Douglaa, from which the dou- made by President-elect Harding dur-| hle-sided pictures were made. tug his administration, it was learned today. © time of this trtp is en- tirely uncertain but it i* expected to take place when official dyties make feasible for him te eo Washing ton for a short time Harding was speeding across Ken tucky and Tennessee today on h way to St. Augustine, Fla, where he rest tomogrow. ns a six weekw To SPEND TWO WEEKS ON HOUSEBOAT Two weeks will be spent on Sena tor Frelinghuysen's houseb< will stop at St. Augustine mo the time thereafter. Harding Marion shortly after mid 4 thru Cincinnati ¢ traveling in the pri news day to may ed a inquiries ye Me xico dry, by calling oe what When Ot the gentlemen. will on remarked he only that of exce: the yn served, vice I recognize in Initiation Strenuous;Gets | WASHINGTON Jan, 21 Henry ve TKESCCA word nav a net gain of 1.948 vote 47,000-1-2-8-4 69:10. Phew!) senator recount tod here must be about slx millions of, This co 1,362 precincts out of them. They‘ll never know the differ-| the n the state, Carl Jacobsen, University student,| Commission Form hied back to his fraterr Thursda : ack 10 Bis teaternity Thur for Counties Is Plan n charge of Carl's initiation that OLYMPIA, Jan Whether or * | there were 6,001,429 thes in the street| not counties shall permitted to car track running thru Woodland | che a commission form of govern: | | park ment will be placed before the people The chief mogul rolled hin eyes| at the next general election in No- | wixely and gvithered Carl with a look,| Yember, if a bill introduced today by ow t ¢ Senator ©, T. Cornwell, of Adama, is ed by the legislatur © haa counted the t and a t lew ture, 001.4: e the Fe bill wou require n amend . spree (ag ment to the constitution, It would uch duplicity you shall walk to Yak-|™ ‘ ima and back, and then you may) joners, who would have full power oe ited,” sald ‘the big crief to appoint eir own official The | Half hour later a man excitedly! commissioners would be placed 4 nformed police that there was 4 fyi authority over all county govern prowler near his home Detective ment. motor nen and prowler auto: rere. diapetahed Fee ee eee ore and cart Jacov. | How Often Do You laen, captured prowle ‘as eit rn .. s. jen, captured prowier, was aiune i’ | Think of Selling 1 Peiona icod ‘ansious suard over||’ (Gla Household T ARREST j Goods wor 6 GOOD ALIBI |] It is a common habit of most Powter ng walk to Yakima, Cap.|) people to push aside articles of und I had to figure some way to ge fusniture eto., winch tinve? be rested that would be a good alibi. Bo ttic or woodshed to lie there I phoned in about the prowler then waited until the Teo copa came und caught me, Not bad, eb me a note now saying I’ve been ar rested for prowling and Ul be thru my initiation in fine style.” The captain signed the note and Carl walked out of central station in fine sha Rut Friday the Big Mogul’ discov ered how Carl had cheated him and, {was planning a terrible revenge. He decree that Carl shall hang by his fingernadls to the tower! Smith building! GIRL KIELED BY MOONSHINERS 'Gives Her Life to Protect ‘ Two Other Women LEXINGTON, Ky. Jan. 21—Res | sie Allen, @ 17-yearold orphan of} the mountains of Owsley county, gave her life to protect women. And now one man js sentenced to) life in prison for murdering her, four others face trial and another has disappeared The men went to the mountain ived with cabin where E two other women. ‘They accused her of giving infor matign concefhing moons to revenue officers and commanded her to leave the cabin with them. When she refused they said that they would kill all within the cabin and burn it “Ll not let you kill the girl declared. Grover Grabbard, who was pen: tenced for life, promised to protect the girl ax she went with the sextet A few hours later the men carried th Tl go,” m. the girl back to the cabin. She was! riddled with bullets and dying. “Why did they kill me?" she moaned over and over before she died. “I have never harmed any one The men arrested with Grover Grabbard were Charles Grabbard, his brother Harlan, Leonard Baker and Hobart Clark They were hurried from Boone ville in Owsley county to the Perry | county jail when threats of a lynch ing were made Robert Sandlin disappeared, The! other five accuse him of the murder. |Ford Makes Gain in Senatorial Recount} nd fall There i make jomebody the ve asic alway somebody these pay who thing to get use of who will ry things And thi than likely watehing Want Ads right omethiag you could with Phone Your Ads to Main 600 can omebody The for him Star now upply under the Act of Congress March 3 two ower | 1879 Per Year, by Mail, $5 to ue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise FGRAND JURY TAKES UP BOOZE TH EW f/ ATE EDITION TWO ¢ CENTS IN SE CATTLE _ DISCON Ten Killed and 50 Injured When “Red Guards” At- | tack Italian Crowd NAPLES, againnt Rev ik membe: Jar bolshe allow the city administ n of ¢ mare di Stabila, a mob precip riot In which 10 persons we a injured, according to reports here to “Red” guards we 4 to have fired on the crowd wh gathered at a railway station when several bolah cillors arrive VIENNA, Jan, 21.—Mobs, such as formed during the revolution in t streets of Paris, gathered here toda sending hundreds of frightened p {teers to the country Shouting threats, singing martial aire and rumt menacingly, the mobs followed ns on which had been erected replicas of gal lows TEMPER OF CROWDS rons ASTS VIOLENCE ice augmented by re from the former Austrian made no attempt to inter- with the marchers, The lat attempted no violence “Meanwhile, labor organizations ultimatum on the it three days the price of have pvernment, in which to neceanition. From the | which marébed seryed an giving reduce temper of the crowds thru ‘the famous ue Giapidated streets today, the Mabor threat may be followed by action. It was believed further as- sauits would be made on stores and provision houses where goods would be confiscated he flight of profiteers left many clone Windows and door lending a still fur- to what for merly of the gayest cities in the world Authorities bel) they would be able press outbreak, the — police DANGER SI | ARE INCR' ato were barricad: ther air olation was one eved to sup any remaining iNS SING strike of government broken last week, er danger signs to 4 one employes was there were furt ay and the government reiterated its statements that lack of help from the entente must result in a collapse of the government. CROSSED-WIRE PHONE SUMMONS REPORTERS TO AID BEATEN WOMAN 21 kane When re Press, conne« elephone woman's ‘Thursday a ‘racer 4 the sum “ ns the rushed ntral and | help the mons Te fina tb the ot hotel and ¢ later police, noti newspaper, burst in room in the Star xcovered Mrs. Lucy Meade, landl brutally beaten, ng half gagged on the bed. h aten up by two and robbed of several dia- She monds SEATTLE MAN SLAYS NURSE : Then Kills Self in Minneso- | ta Hospital After an exchange of corréspond. Friday established who killed a nurse Minn., suicide, ou Sorlin, now th lin local poll at Nick Sorlin, a Roches then hosp’ and Saturday, A 1919 at comm lived here in Columbia His et t 1110 Virgin in is a machinist. He injured s foot In the Kaiser Lumber com Winter, Wis, was at Park Falls, ansferred tc in Roches- sister told Detectives C. 1 . Barton, Detail killing are not known | lives r pany hospital Viater tra |ter, the L. Toms a of the doub: | to local police, WOMAN BADLY HURT BY AUTO George Stein, 18, whose auto seri- ously injured Miss Ruth M. Patton, 28, at Fourth ave. and Marion st, Thursday, was at liberty on $100 bail | Friday, while Miss Pitton was recov- jering in city hospital She received possible internal in. juries and severe bruises. |" Stein said he struck Miss Patton in avoiding an » which turned ut signalin Miss Patton is cashier of the Puget Sound Electric Co. and lives at 800 Seventh ave. Stein lives at 2123 Washington st. WAR HERO IS UNDER ARREST Minn., and one Vienna became mpre than ever a city of contrasts, While thousands of ‘starving persons paraded the | MARTINEZ, Jan. 21.—Lester J. streets with their gruesome talisman, | Bradshaw, war hero, lion of society, hundreds were winin nd dining in| and until rec ly trusted clerk in the old splendor spent it reck a we f thy andsor something like Those with mon leasly and smart dining place filled with men careles kronen, accompanied by re and Jowsied wor Waiting s Death, Old Man Gives to Ryther Home elson, Villard hotel, Taco- ar the end of life's journey somewhere in the nineti has but a few y bent Nels ma, is He and he knows he more to live at th He has a litt supply his wants lot in a cemetery for Nels has carefully computed bable amount that will be tired to fill his simple needs until he und has added enough for n ATs > sum stored away to He even has his and paid | i: | bought pr re dies, burial exp | He finds that after making these deductions he has money left Nels believes in doing good while you have LF tering Childre a chance while Nels was “pot- around” at the Des Moines home, he frequently and talked with BE. A. C stereotyping depart summer arr, The ment Carr told him all Ryther home, and ther's heroic fight The old man w ested And Star’ about the Mother of Mother Ry- for the children s intensely inter check him home elved a from a directing to turn it ov Ryther us Nels Nelson’s contribution “And that isn't all,” Nela also donated to the relief fund. toe Carr rec Tacoma bank to the said. uropean n Urges Carfare Cut the | Richmond bank | Sydney, Austral |tion to the Unitec counts of alleged forg a cablegram re chief of police of Sheriff Veale of county radshaw was Tuesday, charged is under arre: pending extr States on five] ry, according eived from the dney by Contra Costa to Indicted here last with absconding CAN CO. MAY STAY IN CITY The American “Can Co. 4 million-dollar plant here decided several weeks the plant to Portland, announced to- day that the order has been revoked, y mean, . Which has and which tempo: Thi chance The it sive 4 INCOME TAX BLANKS READY that to keep. the move was Seattle has plant here. to Portland was propos: because of the ex taxes heres a ed owing income tax blanks were Sole ivailable to the public Friday, it is announced by William ternal revenue eks, chief deputy collector of in Number 1040, incomes over to 2 1-2 or 3 Cents) 5.000; 1120, for corporation | for partnerships and personal servi Public Ownership league, Organ-| corrorations; 1096. and 1099, for re ized Thursday night @t a meeting In turn of information as to amounts Good Kats cafeteria, advocates cut-| Wig employe and 1040-F, farm in: ting ca fares to 2% or cents and ventory meeting the deficit by @ general levy} persons who were on the | 1919 against city property incoge tax list will receive their | perpen) copi of these blanks by mail | THE DANIEL BAGLEY SCHOOL | Oiners will need to call at the in has appealed to the school board for}ternal revenue office, 226 federal Ja manual taining course building, for them, en to al 2|OF FISH with a total of $10,000 in funds from Ja Riehthond Bank, by means of the alleged forgery of the name of An- drew Nelson, banker cablegram today said Brad. rived in Sydney, Australia. from San Francisco, accompanied by his wife, who was merly Mrs. |Leon Anderson, of Walla Walla,| | Wash and by his mother. xtradition proceedings will be ted today ago to move! ‘|Hold Two Suspects DOUGLAS’ INQUIRER IS FIRST WITNESS |Investigating Body Turns Its Attention From Street Car Purchase King county's grand jury swerved from its investigation of Yhe street deal Friday morning, tem- porarily to probe matters which ap- parently concerned liquor. T. A investigator of the liquor traffic under Prosecuting At torney Malcolm Douglas, was the | first witness of the morning. He | was with the jury approximately an hour. He was followed by Eugene A. Meacham, divorce proctor under Prosecutor Douglas, formerly clerk of former Superior Judge Clay Al Jen's court. DEPUTY SHERIFF SEARS IS CALLED William H. Sears, a deputy sheriff, was then called. He was questioned about five minutes. During the morning seseion, Fi. 1. Jones, chief deputy under Prosecutor Douglas, went into the jury room frequently to assist Douglas and Deputy Prosecutor T. H. Patterson, who were already closeted with the | investigators, | After these witnesses had been ex- |amined, the probe of the street rail- ways seemed ready to be resumed. Wilmon Tucker, attorney, said to be the mayor's “mystery man” di- recting the exenditure of the $10,000 fund voted the mayor by the city gouncil for a private investigation of the street railway deal, conferred at length with Deputy Prosecutor Pat- terson in the corridor outside the jury room during the morning. A. W. LEONARD WAITING TO TESTIFY A. W. Leonard, president of the Puget Sound Light & Power Co, basin meanwhile, waiting to testify. Adjournment was taken shortly * after 11 a m. until 1:30 p.m. Thursday afternoon the witnesses were: George Donworth, counsel for Charles E. Horton, who intervened in F. A. Twitchell’s suit to test the | Validity of the city’s bond issue to pay for the railways; Carl H. Reeves, superintendent of the city utilities de partment; W. C. Thomas of the utili- ties department, and W. T. Batch. ler, electrical and mechanical en- gineer in the city lighting depart. ment. FIND LIQUOR IN BARREL railway Morrow, Peer Customs investigations into booze |shipments to Seattle from British Columbia culminated Friday in the filing of information in federal court here against W. E. Taylor, represen- | tative in Seattle of the West Coast Brokerage Co., with offices in the Railway Exchange building. Taylor is charged with making @ jfalse and fraudulent affidavit, by means of which two barrels, invoiced salt herring, but containing 30 quarts of whisky each, were intro- duced into the commerce of the Unit- ed ates. ording to the statement of F. Loftus, customs inspector, the t Coast Brokerage Co. has Im-+ ported eight shipments supposed to be salt salmon and herring since Oc- tober 29, 1920. On January 13 two barrels were found to contain fish, as labeled, ac cording to Inspector Loftus’ states ment, On January 19, however, two barrels invoiced as salt herring were opened at the plant of a local storage. concern, in the presence of Taylor, and were found to contain 30 quarts of whisky each Several i Ac ers of herring were packed at the top and bottom of the barrel, it is said, Taylor is said to have denied any knowl and exhibited surprise at its presence in the barrel of fish, Two Grandmothers Abandon Air Flight DES MOIS Jan, 21.—Mra, H. H. Wheeler and Mrs. Draper Smith, flying to Washington with Nebraska's electoral vote, this after- noon gave up hope of making the trip by air in time to deliver the vote before January 24, the last day elec toral votes can be delivered, and de- cided ta leave Des Moines by train at 10 o'clock tonight for Chicago. Pilots Holeomb and Bullock wil leave here as soon as weather condis tions permit and pick the women up when they overtake their train and carry them to the pital, for Mail Robbery CHICAGO, Jan, 21.—Posta) authors ities believed they had the Union sta+ tion mail robbery here cleared up to= day with the arrest of William Gon- roy and John McFadden, Both, b harged in warrants issued. by, ed States Commisisoner Maso participation in the holdup j