The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 9, 1921, Page 7

i WEDNESDAY. FEBR UARY 9, 1 OP TURNER TAX (sue Pouce ner awn) “BILL MEETS OPPOSITION Big Lobby of f Business Men) at Olympia to Fight Pro- posed Gross Sales Tax OLYMPIA, Feb. 9--One of the Largest lobbies of business men that | “Das gathered in the state capital S this week to fight former U. ‘Benator Turner's proposed aries “@ales tax bill. ‘The bill is dectared to be the most and important change ever ipted to be made in the state ‘The ultimate consumer, however, ‘Would not be affected by the change, Bs tax experts declare that he pays @very tax anyhow. Senator Turner's proposed bill ‘Would levy a one per cent tax on all retail sales made in the state. Measure was redrafted Jast ureday night to make its pro- Apply only to “retail” mer its, to obviate the possibility of tax being “pyramided” against _ the consumer. ‘The bill has not been introduced | @8 yet, and the storm of opposition 4 srown So great among business s that it is ‘pot at all certain the measure will appear before senate. | _ The amount of revenue that would Taised by the snles tax is esti be by Senator Turner at $15,000,- This be lifted from the shoulders OF the owners of rea! estate, who are being taxed almost to the point . € confiscation. ‘This would place the average tax Approximately $18 a year per per. Turner declared that his retail et Dill and the income tax law pro- by Senator Rockwell would the tax levy of the state to be down one-third this year. Opposition to the tax law is based two grounds, It is said to be too a change to be taken without and careful study by the legis-| and is declared to be a menace | the business prosperity of the a Fisher, president of the Pacoma Chamber of Commetee, as- t the Turner measure will i of the mail order houses out amount, he declared, | | smashed a taxi window and screamed for help. Two de-| ‘HARDING STAYS STRIKE RIGHT the estate. He dectared that one fl order house in Seattle which 4 yearly Business of $26,000,000) Saban to Oregon to escape the | 000 tax that would be levied un- the retail sales law. * 1 Representatives of border counties against the bill because they hold it will drive business over into tates who do not levy a sal os charged that the business! of the larger cities were) izing” away his bill. He maid the merchants had been pam enough,‘ and that the | ehtertaining presidentelecta, object ‘owners, nor does it apply to ne- securities. Sales of prop made by a person for his\ own nt are also exempted. | DIAMOND DYES ments or Draperies Never Streak, Fade, or have a “Dyed-Look” | Each package of “Diamond Dyes” tains directions so simple that it fun for any woman to diamonddye) faded, shabby skirts, waists, dresses, | @0ate, stockings, sweaters, draperies, ‘Goverings, everything. Buy “Diamond Dyes”—no other then perfect results are guar- Teli druggist whether your! 1 1s wool or silk, or if it is| linen or a mixture. 16 rich FOUR DAYS, COM. SUNDAY MATINEE WED. SEATS NOW _ SELLING colorful man- tation of rigiot Green. wich Village Thea- tre Company Pro- duetion—with James Watts, Ted Le: ing”) Al Herman, Sy! ani Nerme Gorden, Mickey Urothers ani 20 FAMOUS ARTISTS’ MODELS Nights, $1.00 to $3.00, Wed. Mat., |time he sawed the bars of one of | picked the lock of his cell door with | | Frank Forsythe, Mrs. Frank H. Talbot of New York hopped into a taxi at Broadway and 48th st. The driver started the car. Two of his foal popes | jumped in with Mrs. Talbot. “Take off your coat!” they ordered. It was a $4,000 sable. “I'll do nothing of the kind!” she replied. As the taxi whirled along in the heart of New York, she fought the bandits, but they finally! tore off the coat and leaped out. The driver threw the car into breakneck speed 30 she couldn't pursue them. Then she | tectives rescued her and nabbed the driver. ON HOUSEBOAT The Victoria Is Pulled Off! Mud Bank NEW SMYRNA, Fila. Feb. 9.—| Again changing his plana, President lect Harding continued northward today aboard the houseboat Victoria instead of by land as he had intend ed, The Victoria was pulled off the mud bank where she had been stuck athee Sunday, |tween District President Alexander Whether Harding wil go thra to/ towat and other officials of the St. Augustine on the Victoria was! United Mine Workers of America uncertain. jand the state, represented by the Starting ashore for help without | Kansas industrial court and the di» | an ounce of baggage, Harding, Sena. | trict court. tor Edge and Former Ambassador! Granted a week's continuance of | Wietcher found themselves unable to! the hearing on the charge against Bet back to the Victoria before dark | Howat and his associates for con 80 they bouyn’ tooth brushes and pajamas in Daytona and stayed over. night there, {thelr legal forces for an attack on After breakfast the next morning |the Kansas ind@tstrial court law, half a dozen winter visitors, headed | which Howat has always fefused to| by Mortimer RB. Fuller, salt king Of | recognize and has forbidden union Scranton, Pa., and their wives, cap-| members to recognize. tured the Harding party aml after) The state is ready to go ahead on got and luncheon took them down | three chargeg Sen against Howat Howat the shore 509 miles to a deserted point where the Victoria was stuck. “TI } You!” Says Prosecutor Douglas Fuller, apparently accustomed to In a letter received Tuesday by the board of trustees of the Chamber of | Commerce, Maj. Malcolm Dougiaa,| | prosecuting attorney, acknowledges his gratification on receipt of the res- olution adopted by the chamber, com: | mending his action to bring to IS DEFENDED, Labor Opposes! State Decree PITTSBURG, Kan, Feb. 9. Kansas “Labor | ‘The state of Kansas is determined to J eliminate the strike ax a tselens eco | nomic waste and substitute indus | trial justice, That epitomines the fight here be tempt of court in calling a strike, Ia ber forces today were marshaling *@ to the secret service men stand. ing near hie car. An officer ex Puained it waa necessary for him to be there. “Well, you don’t need to look at me that way; I'm not a bolshevik,” Fuller said, speedy trial the outlaws apprehended Bob Dalton Says in thia community, He writes that | Harding Fine Man | ¢*tective enforcement of the law de- | DAYTONA, Fin, Feb. §—"Hara. | P*4* upon the support of public sen ing is a good every day sort of| smenere | ’uman being,” Bob Dalton, survivor | of the famous Dalton gang, said | yesterday, desortbing the president- elect, after a meeting between them | here. “You can tell by looking et him that he Is a real lovable man,” Dal-| ton said. The exoutlaw, a nephew of the famous Younger brothers, lives two blocks from Mrs. A. H. Kling, Mrs. Harding's stepmother. Altho far in the fifties, he appears but little more than 35 and his ruddy, unlined face shown no trace of the stirring episodes he has gone thru, including being on trial for life 13 times and Higkwar Association M. J. Carrigan will represent the | Chamber of Commerce as a member of the board of directors of the Ever. green National Highway association, | [having been appointed to succeed | A. J. Rhodes, who has represented has been unable to accept reappoint- ment. Carrigan is chairman of the good roads and tourist committee in the State Development Bureau of the Cttamber. Seattle for the past two years but! J, THE SEATTLE STAR FLOG CONVICTS Love of Fine INTO MADNESS) Clothes Was Senator Inquiry ‘Michigan JACKSON wtary Mich,, #1 9.-—-Men and flogged de fter day and later sent to an asylum— Men caged for many days in steel cylinders so narrow that the prison ore must stand upright Men attempting suicide to escape the horrors of hunger, torture cells Legislative orw flogging and investigation of these Jos and conditions in the Mich igan state penitentiary here pr a completo reorganization t penal ryftem Senator John W, Smith, chairman of the prison committee of t senate, has made a personal ing at the prison, As a result he an nounces corrective bills will be intro duced before the legislature "The first,” “will make it & crime for a privon official to ir flict torture.” Smith's investigation revealed the names of two prisoners from state asylum for the criminal insane who were fl und KOON wl the asylum hopeless ma: This in how the flogging is done The prisoner in «tripped; man hand and foot; laid head down , a barrel. A wet sheet in stretched acrons his back. ‘The prison Moxger nines a heavy paddie of leather. The paddie ts perforated with small holes It in steamed until pliable. The holes suck the flesh torturousty after each blow. adds to its painful ating Dhynician stands by to give the signal when to stop. When? When the pulse shows the flogging has gone the length of human endurance. Convicts told Senator Smith that he says, | the physician doesn’t give the signal til the’ prisoner haa lost conscious nema. Warten Harry Hurlburt and Dr Robert McGregor, the prison phy nician, both told Senator Smith the flogging was necessary to maintain Prison discipline, They maid they took every precaution against per [manent physical injury. At Smith's request Dr. McGregor | Mixed Into ‘Family Quarrel; |intends to fight for the right to! |produced records of the prisoners! strike when and where it pleases. |who were sent to the Insane asylum | after being forged. Starts) | ‘The steaming of the paddle | The prison |. | months | | | Thomas Schulta an habitual erim- inal at 21, was returned from the in. fane asylym to the penitentiary a» cured. He anmulted a prison fore map. Over a period of 10 days he wan xtven 181 lashes, 40 being given the Inst day, Two weeks later he was sent back to the inmane axylum. Frank Lee, a prisoner pre. viously had been in the asylum, at tacked & guard. He wns given 25 lashes, put in solitary confinement, and then sent back to the arylum Harry Curry, implicated with Lee in the mame attack, was given five lashes, placed in solitary confine. ment, and sent to the asylum. “I have gone to my quarters and wept after a flogging.” the gee told the senator, “but It is the o: way to protect the lives of my a» sistant# and guards, In 30 months | 1 have flogred only seven prisoners.” who Klamath Victims Are Now in Frisco B/N FRANCISCO, Feb. §.—The 19 | passengers from the wrecked steamer Klamath were safe in San Francia® today, They arrived by train last | night from Fort Bragg, apparently | little the worne for their experiences, Capt. Jamieson and all but seven WOUNDED MAN Her Undoing Mrs. Marie Beggs It was for love of fine clothes that Marte Bere, alias Alice Riley, looted three houses Detectives Don M. | Blaine and John Majewski said to- | day Nhe was arrested Monday night by Detectives Blaing and Majewski, ac cused of selling a plano from the houne of Hen Tipp, Jeweler, where he was employed as a ma Mra. Tipp to houne by a false note. Bhe in also alleged to have sold the plumbing out of another house whieh she did not own and to have sold the furniture out of a furnished house inhe had rented A grand larceny charge has been Innued against her, She is the mother of two boys, 9 years and 18 She was living with her veigting husband WILL RECOVER Got Dum-Dum Bullet Shot then the left hip Monday night when he interfered in a family quarrel at the Meadowbrook Farm. Albert Johnson probably will survive, according to physicians at the North | Rend hospital. [tempt a |aatlant until help arrived. The wound, according to deputy sheriffs, was made by a dumdum bullet. It waa fired by Charies Drake from a rifle which Drake had brought it in alleged, concealed in his trou. sere when he went to the farm to at reconciliation with his former wife, a cook git the place, Johnson, wounded, fought his as In the scuffle A. J. Moffatt, superintendent of the farm, had his little finger fearly bitten off by Drake, it is said = SIX MEN HELD; SHOPLIFTING? Siz men mid to be tmplicated tn | the alleged shoplifting ring In con | members of the crew are «till at the! seene of the wreck, at Delmar, Men-/ docino county salvage the stip Secessionists in South Africa Lose CAPE TOWN, Feb, 9.—Seceanion. tnta made little headway in the par. Mamentary elections yesterday, elect |ing but «ix candidates in the Cape were incom. | ‘Town region. Returns plete, but those available indicated the unionists, headed by Phemier Jorities. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla —Alex- ander Thompson, 66, director of Great Northern railroad, dead. serving 18 years in prison. He was pardoned by Roosevelt in 1907. MAN SOUGHT FOR MURDER CAUGHT After having escaped from New Westminster prison to find two men whor he says can establish his inno cence of the murder of a Jap for which he was sentenced to life im- prisonment, George Van Horst, alias 38, was arrested Tuesday night by Sergt. J. L. Zim |merman and Patrolmen A. Johnson, W. L. Carey and H. Aastund. Van Horst was held in the city Jail Wednesday, and will be returned | to the British Columbia prison. |Jap on a boat eight years ago. His ntence was commuted from death | imprisonment, | ¢ in the prison hospital for a |the hospital windows. Later he a fork and escaped thru the hospital window at midnight, just after a guard had passed by below. Next morning he was across the line, and has been on this side since. He has been running a grocery | store at 4003 Kighth ave. 8, where! he was arrested Tuesday. When brought to the station, Van Horst met Capt. J. T. Mason, who im- mediately recognized him, In 1903 Van Horst, who was sought at that! time for numerous robberies here, was caught by Capt. Mason after a| foot race. He was accused of as saulting Thornas 8. Lippy, former port commissioner, was sentenced to nerve 20 years in prison, but was re- | leaned after serving nine yearn, making and fin Sizes 15 to 20. Restrict Navy Bill Before Jepan Diet) TOKYO, Feb, 9—A resolution pro- viding that Japan agree to restrict naval armaments in agreement with England and the United States, was introduced in diet yesterday by insurgents of the opposition party ‘The resolution also provides for the reduction of the anese army in FIFTH ‘Aaa 10 per Cont tor’ War ‘Tax | socordance with the league of na: | tions provisions. 1.8 ish. AISLE. FREDERICK & NELSON | AVENUE AND PINE ot or >| directing efforts to] ot is, Smutz had triumphed by big ma | 1,200 Men’s Outing Flannel Night Shirts Offered at an Extraordinarily Low/Price Re outing flannel is of an extra-heavy quality called “Teazledown,” and the Night Shirts are superior in Made to Frederick & Nelson’s Specifications —measuring 56 inches long, and generously propor- tioned throughout, with V-neck or military collar. Splendidly tailored, with flat seams, good pearl buttons and well-worked button-holes. Featured, Thursday, at this very low price—$1.85. nection with which five women were arrested last week were taken {nto custody Monday by police, The men are said to have acted as salesmen for the stolen wares. They are: Mic Kelly, 34; I. M. Baum, % W. G, Wisdom Walter Cralle, 27, and Charles Trip Fix D position | of Guard Troops National Guard officers will meet fn the adjutant general's office in the armory at 9 a m. Thursday to dis cura the disposition and allocation of troops in Washington, Officers in attendance will be Brig. Gen. Mau rice Thompson, Col. Robt. H. Noble Maj. Willis C. Bickford and Maj. Mal colm Douglas, SALT LAKE CITY.—Bil specify ing death sentence for murderers Passes house of state legislature FIRST FLOOR TABLES, STREET if i FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET DOCMSTA IRS § STORE Hat combining black barnyard straw and borse- hair Matron’s Hat in four - cornered b crepe wi style, of glonsy straw, with black straw, ture of fruit and amartened with flowers pr ed ostrich ornaments ayainst thecrowa, and black ribbon, 57.00, 7.00, Bem\-poke effect 7 Ing Wrench brim comin with flues cerined ostrich, Biack Mat of Linere highly glazed Turban almost ob- barnyard straw with brim of soured by « Turk horsehair braid | tan fe Sora an rooping - ‘rence! ue peed Retires of New Hats at $7.50 oetrion, 87.58, ornament, Making Artful Use of New Colorings and Trimmings A2L00M with the bright shadings of Spring, contrasting soft silks with glistening straws, and drooping or closely-fastening their trimmings, every one of the new Hats is a gay messenger of the new — season. Cherry, Tangerine, French-Blue, Gray and Pheasant glow beside sober Black, Navy and Brown. Five of the new Hats are sketched, suggesting the versatility of this display, and the values to be had at $7.50. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE New Top Coats at $25.00 Offer Materials and Linings Unusually Good for This Price HE soft Marvella Cloth, woolly Polo Cloth and Velour are tailored into these new-season Coats with very smart effect. Some are in wrap style, gracefully draped, others are in regulation coat mod- els, with cape-like fullness in back. All are full-lined with printed or plain silk. Tan, Brown, Blue and Rose shades are featured, in sizes for women and misses. The Coat sketched, of light-tan Velour with self-color silk lin- ing, pictures the at- tractiveness of the values at $25.00. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE Coverall Aprons at $1.50 count among their most attract- ive styles the one pictured, in bolero effect, of white ground percale polka-dotted with pink, green or lavender and trimmed with rick-rack braid. ‘ Outing Flannel — Sleeping Garments For Little Tots 75c N THE style pictured, Outing Flannel SI Garments for little folks | from 2 to 6 years of age |) —blue or pink and white striped patterns, buttoning in back. Just 125 of these gar- ments to sell at this low © price—75¢. ; CHILDREN’S BLOOMERS of firm black sa with band top and el tic ag gee | at knee; sizes 2 to 6 years; 35¢. BLOOMERS of sturdy black cotton serge, with band top and elastic shir- — ring at knee; sizes 2 to 12 years; 50¢. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE | In plaid gingham, of me- dium-dark colorings, an- other style with side-front fastening, patch pockets and trimming of plain-color pipings. Unusual value at $1.50. Aprons at $1.95 offer eleven attractive styles for choice, in percale and ging- ham of light and medium color- ings, also indigo-blue. All irf coverall styles. of ample full- ness.. Unusually good values at $1.95. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE Boys’ Outing Flannel Night Shirts, 85c | A 'T THIS very*low price 1,440 Cakes of Toilet Soap the bey wallateoned aa To Sell at 5c Cake Night Shirts. They are walleneas from good qual- CENTED with violet, rose and lilac, these ay cating See ae good Soaps in an assortment of over 1,000 of pink or nee — to 12 years. Ow-prit at cakes, to sell Thursday at a very low price—S¢ ‘a ” cake. —THR DOWNSTAIRS STORE Men’s Ties, 50c Each Boys’ Shirts, $1.25 Attached-collar Shirts in good madras and percales, OOD-LENGTH Ties of silk Foulard in blue, with small, medium or large polka-dots. Made with satin neckband, and button-hole stitching at end of in sizes 1214 to 14, $1.25. —THE DOW NSTAIRS STORE lining... Exceptional value at 50¢ each. Men’s “Three Season” Union Suits, $1.85 Medium - weight, two - thread, cotton-ribbed Union Suits with elastic wrist and ankle; long sleeves and ankle lefigth; $1.85. -—THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE Women’s Union Suits, $1.15 SDIUM-WEIGHT and slightly fleece-lined, these Cotton Union Suits are excellent for present wear. In ankle length style, with Dutch neck and elbow sleeves, finished at neck with bead- ing and shell trimming. Sizes 86 to 42. Priced at $1.15. ~—THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE \ Good Values in. Table Glassware 1B sketch shows a few of the particularly good values in Glassware to be had in the Downstairs Store, f Lemon Reamem, 10¢ each, OU and Vinegar Cruets, 25¢ each, Glass Bowls in Colonial design, 25¢ each. Sugars and Creamers, prettily cut in the design pictured, 5O¢ pair. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORB