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

AYOR’S Weather Tonight and Wednesday, probably rain; moderate southwesterly winds, Temperature Last t1 Hours Maximum, 46, Minimum, 42 Today noon, 46, il On the Issue of Americanism There C ond Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Portoffics at Seattlo, Wash. under the SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, 1921 aie ism Reviewed. Bre body Hopeful. ear Ahead. Concluded. month now The Star has tern. Deeries of inter terday. T wea syn that we i trad Eitihe ‘month—a sort of « Photograph of the drist they betieve ix in store) tf all of her people work | IDES: “I expect to do a} : io the your Je || Waives Ail Argument; “I! Do eee oe Teens “S| Not Want Any New Trial,” He Tells Judge then 1 BAndie to se With the smile on year ju ay trend but o suggestion of a his face, John Schmitt, murderer of three must have Seattle policemen, received ts Pacific }Pis sentence from the lips of «the Ort! Judge A. W. Frater this onal prosperity. { S. BOYNS: “1 think | Morning, to be hanged by the be one of the best years Se neck until dead on April 1, ever had, ‘This tx not) my personal view. 1 have 1921, this from bankers and busi. Sehmitt, thru ‘They are all optimistic.” | siivain, waived all argument on & IN F. BACKUS: “The en motion for t of judemeht, and also of a motion for a new trial. ix in exceptionally good ‘The situation calle for “THATS THE IDEA,” management, but [ look for SAYS SQUMITT developments, becaure| th answer to the to whether he un element was, and is, pre- ing of this waiv the i must have ‘they tart buy Thur Seattle territory will his attorney, Louis court's query as complete Northwestern business er are sure to enjoy a period prity.” SLDS: “If people become gore ag we will find I things to work amt} He ad&|shaven and court witheut & x siwer tered She “Seattle hax [iff Starwiel to deliver the prisoner te keep her busy the state penitentiary at Walla than she had in i912 , and even in 1917. And then.” W. LEONARD: to fear if everybody wiil : feet on fhe ground and) FEW SPRCTATORS; ALA her for the beat elty in the OVER IN FIVE MINUTES tthe.” In the courtroom when Schmit MATTHEWS: “Weare * sentenced were few spec of this yeer, 1921, suc for the principal act bet it will be « yeor of case, Prosecutor and it will need sanity.) . Deputy Pr Starwich handcaffed himerit to the boy and ieft the courtroom it “Seattle | face was wreathed in smiles as he de GILMAN: “Improvement, | Loule 5! 1921, will never be anyt! he Fe gradual, But it* will con- to grow. There will be no i" nm. | DATE FOR HANGING hares BOY NOT SET LD WW. PARSONS: “It pulltogether 1h ve every reason ‘feel that Seattle at th F 1921 will tind herse heing along the lin Pe vircoms: “t can seo RELIEF FUNDS ae gloomy about In 4 NOW BEYOND $20,000 MARK W. BRINKER: the end of the year will by Wit relief funds for the fam than it is now.” D EK Be to.@ normal doi business conditions a ©, HW. BLACK SRK: “You can't ste Mme too optimnisticall to Be in 1921." | ROY ©. SOUTHWORTH: “seattle Belp but succeed. Her nat-| advantages are too great; her| satay fight bet Hoeitian ix too strategic for her to fit will be a dance at Bagles’ hall vr by the Laundry and Dy CHARLES W.OLALLY: "The tu ks Drivers’ union, local 566 tare tooks bright to me, and the storte at fp. m, and o road some clear and straight.” \ be 55 cents, | Wi Will Call te for March 4}, uae wi. YTON, Feb. 1.--Presiaer < tren 4. to confirm ecabi-! Remystions it was asnouncedl ROMN, ithe White House today. The sos) mu negtin soldiern were gion % a meann oF fal the | w nharp fighting a executive start of the new adiniuin- | 1 ding to the Measagero's correnpr t there, io t charge during the Admission will Evergreen Idge, No, 2 went Tuesday a $10 check to.The Star, to apply to the relief funds 300 Soldiers Are %— Three hundred MURDERER clean TEUTONS WATCH NEW OUTBURST BERGDOLL CASE Explanation of Entry Into Exact Penalty for Slaying | BERLIN into Ge pellation prepared by member It) pec a with fursher It was reported here Wounded in Mutiny’ need betord Alle General All 4 i r The nied responsibility for the 4 Jan Be No Compromise TheSeattle Sta Batered aa See Act of Congr Per Your, by Mall, $5 to $9 FEBRUAR Y | ‘TIVE CAR LINES BACK? PLP eee VATE fil ee Two CENTS iN SEAT @ Te grand jury rec&fnmeénds an action by the city in a court of equity for relief from a “bad bargain.” All right, Mr. Mayor, why not start that action at once? The recommendation comes with no surprise to you. It is, speaking plainly and bluntly, your own recommendation. The grand jury report is your report. The deputy prosecutor who handled the jury was of your selection. Your engineer made the valuation on the traction system, and tho he finds the physical value at $7,843,000, his final judgment is that it was worth only $5,000,000. You have had clear sailing, Mr. Mayor. There hasn’t been a suggestion that was denied you. You wanted to probe the car deal. You were voted the money to do it with. You employed an attorney and an engineer and detectives, and you gave your report thru the grand jury first. You make the specific recommendation that a suit’ be started. Very well, START IT. You could have started it a year ago. You have no more information today than you had then; no more information now than you had when you were running for mayor. START IT—and have it over with. Let’s not spend all our time merely talking about it. * * * A‘ for The Star, it is more interested in present management of the rai!way than in its ancient history. The Star refuses to emulate the crowd of hypocrites, journalistic and otherwise, who were as guilty as anyone in concluding the ‘bad bargain” for the purchase of the carline. The Star charges that Mayor Hugh M. Caldwell was as much to blame as former Mayor Hanson and the city council. The Star charges that Hugh M. Caldwell, then corporation counsel, was present at conferences and at lunches at which the $15,000,000 proposi- tion was outlined. <The Star was as much in- fluenced by Hugh M. Caldwell’s note of optimism concerning the deal as it was by the opin- ions of any other official. Caldwell did not pro- test against the deal. e did not complain. He spoke, rather, in a chee ml vein. The Star supported the deal. If there is any blame for the deal, The Star is not going to be so craven and cowardly as to attempt to throw it all on unyone’s else shoulders. If blame must be at- tached to anyone, the blame is not alone upon the former mayor and city council, but also upon the present mayor, and upon The Star, and upon the the Union Record, upon Beb Bridges and upon D. E. Skinner alike. IN IRISH TOWN BEND, Adcock, of Woman Feb, L-—#inn Fetners killed t night when she waited Country Demanded Feb, 1.—An explanation jand Bergde hia © er Cleve xas on the Mallow rmany and platform of the station at|| py will be demanded in an with her husband, Inspector King, King was seriously wounded, be introduced | ble we |] the traing v « party of the party « ttempt CORK, Feb. i.-Quick reprinal him man, | | thir King, at Mal-| at kidns g Hergdoll| re it the po of still | uiting mm the eatin of one owed the m of Mr alienating county inspector low, early today. | Police rushed to thi \ hooting was reper then ordere¢ thetr lives. anothe eight clambered into a throttle was open and the engine that Colonel Mallow, ot the American army to} prisals to man | eral ex The| wife were | when they Sinn Feiners wour » wide instantly, pO 92.8 A || BOY OF SIX YEARS IS SENT BY EXPRESS TO || ADDRESS IN OREGON « Feb. 1.—Le | aged 6, arrived here to. | from Ranger, | he he lad was pla “car at Destination, i Bend, Qre dent, notify Morna Adcock, Leonard reported pas sited him frequently during stops at xtations, ke supplied | plunged out Into the waiting were The King wounded, the. Texas “Leonard Adcock, Rang In case 6 ies mistake, if we must call it that, belongs to the past, however. Maybe the courts will grant the city relief. More likely they ‘will noi. The city bought the property with open eyes. There was no deception in the transaction—and The Star refuses to play the part of a bawl-baby about it. Everybody knew that the Traction company was earning less than 2 per cent on a valuation of $15,- 000,000 at the time the deal was made. The city was well informed on the subject. But the city wanted the system nevertheless, wanted it in order to protect its shipyard industries, and perhaps more particularly because the people were tired of the continued strife and wrangling with the company. The people wanted to buy the system, and they voted for it, four to one, because they knew the service was getting worse and worse, and that for 10 years prior to that there had been no extensicns or improvements. The people knew, or rather, a large number of them felt, that the city was pay- ing a large price—bvt were quite willing to pay it. The people, and the city, did not want to give the company the right to raise fares. They hoped the city could run the system at a nickel fare. The city did run it on a nickel basis the first year. And it ran the system on a paying basis the first year, omitting depreciation charges. * + * spaced HAS OCCURRED during the second year that makes the street car situation so much more terrible? Has the management suffered? The Star repeats that the past history of the car line is of smaller moment than present man- agement of it. The mayor has thrown out enough insinuations and innuendos. He has had his probe. He has had his grand jury. Now we must get down to brass tacks. If a suit is to be started, let’s start it at once—today—or Monday at the latest, when the city council meets. Let the suit go on—but in the meantime, the more important and more practical work is to give the management of the city railway system the great- est efficiency possible. The Star cannot believe that it is getting that if things are worse this year than they were last year. Mayor Caldwell has promised, in his campaign for mayor, full publicity in relation to the street car system. Very well. How much money did we lose last month? How much during the year of 1920? How do the figures compare with 1919? Are they better or worse—and why? In other words: What now, Mr. Mayor? FOUR DEAD IN BANK ROBBED; TRAIN WRECK) 9 PENNED Freights Crash Near New- ea 000 Is “Taken »by ark, Ohio | Chicago Bandits NEWARK, ©., Feb, 1 CHICAGO, Feb, 1—Six men, were burned to herding nard Tex., by ex din the ex Four men death and three oth. ix men and thre Bdwin of acl jously injured when a fre mployes of the Kenwood 1 sylyania + ad | Savings bank ht standing | y $ {train on the Pent engera on another fre ear here t 0 here today with gooe Th 4 injured were mem-| ‘Th bers of the tratn-orew | Columbus, The ure of the All were from | ployes were removing, the | country, | two trains were | »pen : m, Oil’ from pattered over the | Monday Rainiest further was a gen King and .. Rest . . $ lcorded during the fired w , i r }5 a.m wife was killed and 5 p.m. Monday, John Zimmer, Tho injured probably will#recover. ' Seattle, a South Side institu: | requests tion, into a reas room, escaped with holaup was stagéd while em maney |from vicults after the bank opened, | Tt Day of the Winter} Record rain for this winter wa 12 hours betwe is two-thirds of an inch of water fell ia ‘SCHMITT HANGS APRIL 1 | WHAT NO’ | Suggests Employment Wilmon Tucker as City Attorney in Litigation In his report on his investiga: tion of the street railway : submitted io the city council morning, Mayor Caldwell that the city make an effort return the lines to Stone & Web sper. He suggested as an al in case this Kind/of action cam not be consummated, that taxpayers Instirate legal ings to retieve them from wi he termed “an unjust burden, | ‘The mayor advines that At | Wilmon Tucker, who has cond his entire investigation, be empla by the aswist the corporation counsel litigation which ts inevitable” | REPORT SUBST! NTIALLY | follows the pte Une of [and draws the same’ [mitted tp the gyand jury's fi | Thursday. The grand jury incorporated by the mayor in) | pore The mayor states’ bia hat the company * constructive, if nm - referenge ' te perty, by which the ‘sible of perfopmance acoordinig jits terms, and the obligation ty” enha: the bonds by fu: (funds or securify in an ende he carry oup,the contract, Re ead of Twitchell val city is not determinative of lcity’s right, as the way is left © |to show in @ proper proceeding factual proof that the contract jnet be carried out by the city ‘the plan adopted without im of tax funds. advise that the city, make to rescind, and tehder he property and ask for # | off jal > this and takes @ it ts satisted w ! appabentay 1e report Is signed er and, according te! was prepared’ al ively” er. The mayor nditure of the $19; ted to him by the city cor v jexactly as stated by the grand jury” | . ee 'PETITIONS ‘OUT FOR 3-CENT FARE | Believing that the non jowners of Seattle property are | “bearing their just share of ot burdens,” the Public Or is circulating a petition cil im which they ad! ree-cent street car fare, and maintainance of to be paid by = to this plan, ank petitions are on tap at onomy Market building, a southwest corner of First a4 and Pike st. between 2 and 6 p,m, UP COUNCIL VOTES s $10,000 RELIEF The city counell this morning after |Pecommended the preparation of amy Jordinance to expend $10,000 for nen’ reltef of the city’s needy, The andition came as the result of ury for help by a delegation junemployed citizens, who said thy were sent by a recent mass “ane K | ‘The unemployed will meet daily '10 a, m., in room & Labor teny | until further notice, Iwas announe a mmittee, headed by W. R. Ale nan, and W. W. Witewate . Tuesday issued the , women and ebildreh of Seatth » hungry. You a {fed Bure Can you help your | right now, today? | Come / 7% ns Ie when | neighbe 5 in and tell us what you can do to” hgly--today, not next week.”