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

| | ¥ bx ¢ Weather Tonight and Tuesday: fair; moderate westerly winds, Temperature Maximum, 45. Today WL VOLUME 23 Lines Badly Managed. Costs Creep Up. Real Loss Appears. Why? WHY? WHY? THERE has been fraud or cor- ruption, the city is entitled to re Tief from the Stone- Webster contract No one questions that, and no one fan question that, Has there been fraud? There is only one way to find that sOut—namely, by a suit directed GAINST THE TRACTION COM NY. No such sult has been filed, tho the or has talked about it for more} | than a year. _ In the absence of such a suit, we} ‘must assume that the street cars will jeontinue to belong to the city. S». And so our important business ts| 7 to see that the street car system is managed efficiently. WERE ENTITLED TO BETTER MANAGEMENT The city tw entitled to better man- Agement than it has had during the year. The city is entitled to something else than mere polit- eal cperation of its street car sys- tem. A lttle over a year ago, Mayor Caldwell began this political attack Upon the street railway. He began first with attacking the manage- noon, 45, Ment. He claimed that the manage. ment was attempting to show a prof. iton the system, but that no depreci. ation was being charged. | If depreciation were charged, the | Jom would be $600,900, he claimed. | You remember those figures, do you | ‘? none had existed Caldwell, an ad-| vance In car fares, too, where before Ms time we continued on a Tt Ddasis. We bave, under Caldwell, an {nroad ato the general fund for some $83,- / @4, the first time the railway dipped “into the general fund. We have, under Caldwell, the ctr-| eumstance of drawing upon interest Money that had been laid aside to meet obligations as they fell due. | Nothing like that had been done un- Ger the previous administration. So, Under Caldwell’s one year in @ifice, this has happened: 1. Fares twiee, 2. A real loss, as well as the loss thru depreciation charges. 3. The first inroad into the | general fund. 4. The first inroad into the in- terest {am4. These are indisputable facts. There other circumstances, too, Tt is cinirma that the street rail-| yy Way department's expense has been V4 enormously high, that the cost of maintenance and operation has been extraordinarily big. | CALDWELL MANAGEMENT A DEAD FAILURE There ty but one conclusion—| namely, that the Caldwell manage ment has been a dead failure in the past year, You will remember that, tho Cal4 well first started his campaign with an attack on the MANAGEMENT under the previous administration, tits was soon forgotten (perhaps for the reasons above enumerated) and the air was filled with charges of cor ruption, He wanted to probe the deal, tho he himself sat In the con- ferences that led to the $15,000,000 ofter. The council yoted him $10,000 for the rove. He spent $5,000 or| More to get the opinion of an engt-| neer by the name of Whipple on the | value of the system. That same opin. fon could have been gotten for $250. A dozen: more opinions could have| been gotten at the same rate from| experts of equal “prominence.” The result was that the mayor's probe arthed nothing that had| hot teen printed in the newspapers publ at the time the deal was put thra The mayor knows it. But} demagozs must have their fling. And | eet car aystern ia the foot-| The Stone-Webster deal acked, but no sult is brought, yet all the while the one REAL issue is the management and operation of the railway. That's one issue Mayor Caldwell ts skillfully dodging. Caruso Is Now on ~~ Way to Recovery YOR Feb. 21 Enrioo | steadily improving, Dr.| Francis J. Murray said today. Ca-| ruso_ had a very good night and aw@® today much refreshed. | SEATTLE LANDLORD GETS HIS SEASONS MIXED, SAYS TENANT landlord says he cuts his rents in winter al valoes therm in summer,’ orge Blake told The Star Mon Blake has been notified that beginning March 19 he will have $37.50 a month, instead of 40 he ix now charged for his cottage Last 24 Hours Minimum, 37. Enter: as Second Clase Matter May 8, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash., under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Matl, $5 to $9 SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 19: SEATTLE DEMANDS MORE SHIPS! BLAINE IS NOW BEFORE U. 5. BOARD Says Northwest Must Go} Canada and Japan One | Better in Ocean Vessels WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—E. F. Blaine, vice president of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, opened that city’s fight today before the United States shipping board for ite just share of ship allocation and trade routes under revisions of the Pacific service contemplated by the board. Blaine described the Pacific situa tion in termsof a big poker game, in which he said the United States can. not “get anywhere” by merely “call- ing” Japan and Canada, MUST HAVE MORE SHIPS, HE DECLARES “We must raise them,” Blaine tn-/ Job’s to Outguess Fashion PLANTER OF ABERDEEN’S BOMB HERE? | Suspect in Jail Tallies With! Man Who Left Explosive Under Legion Home Forecasts Style for Movies Jean Everetta, 21, arrested Satur hold-up, was said by Sergeant P. | Keefe and Patrolman KE. EB. Darnel | Monday afternoon, to exactly answer | the description of the man who plant led 26 sticks of dynamite under the |American Legion hall at Aberdeen jthe night of Feb, 2. ESCAPED FROM MEMBER OF LEGION The dynamiter leaped into the arma of a legionnaire after setting off the fuse, but made his ecscape while the éx-eervice man was stamp ing out the sputtering fuse day night on suspicion of being a| | ake “We must have more ships! [at Seattle to match the Japanese jana Canadian service from the North- | west, If we win in the fight for Pa- | ctfie commerce, we must meet the person tf |Cops Camp ‘on Trail ‘Masked Bandits Rob and E. | foreign conrpetition at our port.” t Blaine presented arguments aa to| Seattle’s commercial and port impor. | tance, claiming it is the most impor: | tant port of the Northwest, / Portland, San Franciseo and Los/| | Angeles were all represented at the j conference with claims for liners of | the 535-foot type. | The conference was announced, without previous warning to Seattie | several weeks ago, and Seattle immoe- | diately saw in it a plot on the part of Portland and the California cities | to get some of the ships which had| already been tentatively allocated to Seattle, COMPETITORS BUILD FASTER VESSELS Blaine, in testifying before the) shipping board today, sald that 90| per cent of the passenger travel on Japanese and Canadian jiners origin- ated tn the United States, and “by)| [rights should go thru Seattle on | American ships.” He added that both Japanese and Canadian lines are preparing to put new ships in the Pacific service, which will be faster and finer than any American ships, He described the much keener competition to American freight and passenger ves sels in the Pacific which this new service will give, Blaine dealt another wallop at pro hibition as a destroyer of American | Passenger ship “business.” “Passengers will not travel on ships which ¢ soft drinks (prayer books and hymnals in the saloons, he said “Lam nota drinking man,” he add ed, “but I would not undertake a long voyage on the high seas on @ dry ship.” nine shuddered, Secretary Payne, former taidlomaa | of the shipping board, also advocates sale of liquor on American vessels at | sea. . . \Hoquiam, Pt. Angeles |Indorse W.Humphrey The commercial clubs of Hoquiam Jand Port Angeles have indorsed the candidacy of Will E. Humphrey for appointment to the shipping board. | Patrol Wagon Is Now “Rarin’ to Go” The police patrol wagon was rin’ to go" Monday. Mae Rob. erts spilled two bottles of morphine in it, while on her way to jail Sun- day night. She Is 24. Sergeant ohn Donlan arrested her in the and Central hotel. Disorderly | is the charge. | of Mysterious Pops Cops hopped rapidly on the trail of mysterious pops Sunday night and | landed in jail John Finney, 4, of} 1101 Ninth ave. 8. Several bottles of miagotten pop were seized Man of $2.75 Sunday) Masked with handkerchiefs, two | dite robbed W. H. Carrier, of 160 | nh ave. N., of $2.75 at 34th ave. | Cherry st. early Sunday. | Theatrical Producer Here; Will Take Rest On his way to his boyhood home n Iinois for a William A Brady, famous theatrical producer, passed thru Seattle Saturday night. Mile, Marcelle De Saint-Martin LONDON, Feb. 21.—Mlle. Marcelle; De Saint-Martin has just been en gaged by & company of British pro- |ducera to take up the cudgel against one of the biggest bugaboos of the movies—Dame Fashion. Owing to the long periods that fre quently elapse between the taking and the release of a film, It is a diffi It matter, in these days of sudden whims, to keep pace with the vasa ries of style, The value of many pic tures haw been greatly reduced by overnight changes in the fashion of | gowns before the films were made | public YOU CAN VOTE 'SEEK TO ABATE TILL 8 TONIGHT) THE BLACK CAT *: Six to Be “ Nominated for | People Arrested in Road Council Today house Are Out on Bail Here are some pertinent facts in| Dave N, Schoonover, ex-policeman, connection with the primary election |and Aaron McSparen, alleged to be of candidates for city council, which | joint proprietor with ia being held today the notorious Black Cat Polling nce opened at 8 a mM. | were out today on $1,000 ball and will close at 8 p. m. | Locknane, Voting machines have been in-/the property; his wife, and Marie stailed in all precincts. Allen, arrested with the, other two Total registration of voters is 120,-|in a raid by Sheriff Starwich Friday Mile, Saint-Martin, a young Part- sian artist, who for some time has been ageociated with one of the large Bond st. firms, wit pit’ her know! edge of coming Parisian fashions and her general acquaintanceship with style against the whims of society and the Inspiration of Parisian dress. makers, in the hope that,*by out guessing them, ahe will make more timely, And go more valual the films of her employers. She has designed many costumes for recent theatrical attractions and has made a serious study of art and Lits history, roadhouse, James against were uu by Yen Yam were dence. February Hotel An James in su posses When released on by order was arrested Washington same time as liq wa Fernandez dmityed the city he pr and nal wa! eh 068, but only 50 to 60 per cent of night, are likewise out on bail will be chosen: be charged Monday as jointists, ‘as Cotterill, Charles W. Doyle, Robert |as well as McSparen, is inter Edward W. Melae, 8 | amainst the property, |highway. Accusations that it has a Naughty Country |hanas of county authorities new cabaret. Freed of Charges dropped Chief W Searing Shee, Wo Jim and Woon| repped " 18 in the perior court avith Bla 60, longshore-| hin per recognizance to night when two hypo | PORTLAND, Ore.—-The Dalles and this number is expected to turn out. |in their cases Bix the following candidates| Schoonover and McSparen were to ‘T. H. Bolton, John Bushell, John | soon ax Prosecuting Attorney Doug FE. Carroll, A. Lou Cohen, fe F.\las receives proof that Schoonover, KE. Dwyer, C. B. Fitzgerald, A. F.|the place Haas, J. A. Johnson, C. A. LaGrave,| An abatement proceeding Is to be 3, Slaughter | commenced and William Phelps Totten. | which is north of the city on Bothell | Alaska May Become | been used not only blind pig but Jas a house of assignation are in the Alaska is about to become a wild | and wicked country! Cordova a * ‘ and wicked country! yrdova has Daniel Sullivan Is First Is Evidences | au: potice enare Daniet Last Two in Jail |sunivan, 35, engineer ordered . f , | Monday wore together, ‘The Inst two) Metis jailed, ‘The first is the evi die nex, at the A : Michener, who is Admitted to Jail, * sion of intoxicating No Questions Asked |"°" 0 one" man. without que | of the tioning jail Sunday’ | scod dermic needles a package of! food River, Ore, in throes of heavy dope, snow. storm choonover of | aid to be the owner of} $500 | Other men saw him carrying the dynamite, which waa stolen from Montesano. All these men will ar- rive here tomorrow to attempt identification of Everetts, Rewards totaling $5,600 have been offered for the capture of the dyna miter. He wns 25 or 26 years old, weighed 140 to 150 pounds, was five fect six inches tall, smooth shaven. full, red face, high, prominent cheek bones, and spoke with a distinct ac cent. He wore leather leggins, brown army shoes, a hat and blu trousers. Everetts answers this description. except for the trousers, He was wearing army breeches when ar reated. SAYS EVERETTS ADMITS HE WAS IN MONTESANO Sergeant Keefe ways he getting the breeches in a trade re- cently. He also admits being Montesano, according to Sergeant Keefe, Everette has not yet been grilled regarding the dynamiting. | He was arrested in the Panama hotel, 605% Main at, in company with G Roberts, 21, Saturday night. are accused of holding up an at 11th ave. and EB. Ter race st, early in the evening Department of justice officials and |Sergeant J. J. Zimmerman, of the police department, who have been | working on the dynarmiting case, de clare that they are almost certain that Everetts is the dynamiter, orgs They Japanese Retain Hold on Siberia! TOKYO, Feb. 20 (Delayed) | Japan has no intention of meeting | American requests that she evacu Vv 7 nat vostok, according to Minister Uchida the budget = the house of peers, the | forelen minister declared it was | necessary to maintain an army in| Siberia because of disturbed condi- tions in Korea. His Ambitions Are | _ Nipped a-Budding) | Roy Larson's desire to be a poli ticlan was nipped in the budding when coppers nabbed him soon after he had taken a box of cigars in the South End. He is 11. Juvenile offi cers are in charge of him. commit: Foreign as \Husband Made Her Climb in Window Louls Meneike locked the doors of his house and made his wife climb lin the windows or seek shelter with according to Mes. the neighbors, filed Monday Chicken Broth Is in Strange Company R. F. Vanberg, 27, mechanic, and Cleo Brown, had it in company with a galion of wine at 501 29th jave. $. Sunday night when coppers | paid a call | |Ryther Home Must Pay Taxes for 191 The ave without 1919 taxes against the the home havin an of emption claim, ion by Prosecutor | Monc county commissioners power to eancel Ryther Child h ie, neglected to file according Malcolm to an opin Dougla 1575 Northlake fears that the thief who borrowed his rowboat has scuttled it cannot be found, L. L. MAY, the same admits | in| |Johanna Meneike’s suit for divorce, | All Visitors Are Denied to Debs in Cell WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—D. &. Dickerson, superintendent of fed. eral prisons, today said the privi- lege of seeing visitors had been withdrawn from Eugene V. Debs, socialist leader, confined in Atlan ta penitentiary, This step was the result of a statement Debs issued, attacking President Wilson at the time the President turned down a recom mendation for Debs’ pardon, Dick- erson maid “Debs will be denied all visitors for wuch time ag the department of justice seen fit," sald Dicker- fon, “The prisoner will not be al lowed to reinstate himself by making an apology. No such pro- vision is included in the order sent to the Atlanta peniten’ Dickerson today was pre & complete public statem ting forth circumstances of the incident Shortly after the refusal of the pardon, Debs issued a statement to the effect that it was President |] Wilson who should be a candidate for pardon, and not L Dick erson let it be Known today that he regarded It as overstepping the bounds of propriety for a federal prisoner to attack the president of the United States Dickerson also made plain that Debs would not be allowed to leave the prison to make speeches or see attorneys or friends. WINS TEN-YEAR | DIVORCE FIGHT | Struggle Took This Woman | Twice Around World ‘Ten years of effort for divorce, In- | volving a couple of trips around the world, ended in success Monday for iMrs. Antoinette M. Polakoy when bonds of matrimony permanently be tween herself and Walter N, Pola kov, engineer of international repu tation, with officers In New York city. Polakoy, the divorced husband, is a Russian by birth He and Mrs. Polakoy were married at Tula, near Moscow, Oct. 22, 1904, They adopted a daughter, who fs now 20 years old and came In 1906 to New York in | which city Mrs. Polakoy claims her husband abandoned her in 1910. In that year he left to attend an exposition at Antwerp, Belgium, con: |ducted by his brother ays he took all the community funds and | declared he would not come back | In company with William A. Rus 1, who waa sent by Secretary Red field to represent the United States fon trade relationships with Russia Mrs. Polakov went to Russia and in | stituted an action for divorce under the Kerensky regime, On the col lapse of the latter government she tri the bolshevik order of things, complications developed which spelled failure. Russell preceded her to this coun try and on her arrival in New York Jeity ulone she was detained nun |desirable immi ant Finally she was owed to enter for the purpose of establishing a residence and ob taining her divorce. She will marry statutory limit e Attorney R. H | sel, Russell when the apes. Wilson ts her coun. Flying Cowboy tc to Do More Thrillers Ivan DeVilliers, the “flying| cowboy who thrilled thousands in Seattle last Tuesday with his para chute jump over the city, {sn't thru with aerial thrills here, he | told Statr, In about two month: wh the weather is urmer, he plans to do some dare airplane stunts, leaping from ne to in midair, etc nother one p rothe | p |Prominent Mason Is Dead in Denver! Col, Feb, 21,—Charles H. Jacobson, thirty-third degree Ma son, and one of the foremost Ma |sonic scholars in the United States, was dead at his home today He succumbed. to an attack of heart | disease afternoon, Ju |son was of New York i ene |Britain Will Send Troops to Silesia LONDON, Feb, 21.—Great Britain | is sending four battalions of troo} upervise the Upper | plebiscite, it was announced today | the close of the preliminary se vilied supreme couneil, Other had agreed previously to send the disputed | | DENVER here yesterday a nath n at help s the | nation | detachn | province nts into |From Dreamland to Jail, Free of Charge) T. Holland. with a umland 4 0 pint at wa flash venth jail | Dreamland | grap Dre Jave, and Union st. The city is at Fourth ave, and Yesler Leo had a id-block ride for nothing. 4 to have her case heard under | but | to} sion of | LATE §, COURT STOPS CAR SUIT! On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star TH’ TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE 2 COMP LAINTS ARE FILED HERE BY TRACTION CO. [Specific Performance of Pa Contract Is Asked; “Taxpayers” Are Restrained A restraining order which temporarily quashes the ef- jforts of 14 taxpayers thru litigation in superior court to force the city of Seattle to| default in interest payment jto Stone & Webster on the municipal railway bonds, was jgranted in the federal court | Monday morning by District | Judges Jeremiah Neterer and {Edward E, Cushman. Hearing on the motion for | temporary restraining order | is set for 2 p. m. February 28: | Sur ALSO FILED AGAINST CITY ‘The restraining order against the action of the 14 taxpayers is based upon a complaint in equity filed in federal court Monday by the Puget Sound Power & Light Co. At the same time a complaint was | outed by the traction company against the city of Seattle, Harry W. Carroll, elty comptroller and ex of: | ficlo city clerk of the city of Seattle, and Edward L. Terry, as city treas- | urer, in which it is sought to compel | the city to provide for interest pay- bad «| Judge Otis W. Brinker dissolved the | ments on the street car purchase by | wetting aside moneys out of the gross | revenues of the system, | President A. W. Leonard Monday liswued the following written state- |ment | “The company, in suit No. 235, in |the federal court, which was filed this morning, seeks to obtain specific performance ‘of the contract con- tained in the bonds, which the city | delivered to the company at the time |the city purchased the street railway |Property from the company. In |such suit it asks that the city treas- urer pay into the special fund out of the gross revenues of the street rail | way system the amount which Ordi |namce No, 39025 pledged to the spe. cial fund, in accordance with the de- cision of the supreme court of the state of Washington in the case of Twitchell and Horton, intervener, vs. | the City of Seattle and the Company. SUIT TO RESTRAIN INTERFERING WITH RIGHTS “The company also filed in the federal court suit No, 236, to enjoin S. B. Asia and others from taking any steps against the company, or to interfere with the company’s rights under the bonds and from do ing anything whatsoever to interfere with the jurisliction of the federal court to grant to the company the jrelief which the company prays for case No. 235, or to bring about a breach of the contract ¢ the bonds Interest payment of $375,000 on | the car line purchase is due Stone | Webster March 1, according ,to | the terms of the contract. Two | weeks ago 14 taxpayers brought |suit in superior court to enjoin the city of Seattle from going thru | with an arrangement made with Jlocal banks to labor and eur. jrent expense by warrants, so that revenue from fares might be em ployed to pay the interest when | due. Taxpayers Jan attack ntained in claimed they meant on the general fund, Jaltho all city officials with the ex ception of the mayor claimed it was only a temporary loan. The Puget Sound Power & Light Co. in its complaint in federal court alleged that if the interest payable | March 1 is defaulted, it will suffer injury to the extent of many mil lions of doll on the bonds that it has now deposited with its try |tees as collateral security, me claim is made in the sec ond complaint, that against the city of Seattle and its comptroller and treasure | After leadin street the compl lines | basis | “The municipal street railway sys jtem can be and is being operated s to produce sufficient revenue all charges and obli superior to the $ and the interest and prin $15,000,000 issue and the maintaining and operating it ig declared, It ts pecified that since March when the city took over peration of the street cars, the daily revenue has been $18,000 mporery in a resume of the conditions up to the purchase of the railway system by the city nt denies flatly that the sing operated on a losing | whieh bond issue cipal of the co t of the proy further th lero it therefore asks a junction “restraining the defi from using any portion of the revenue of the municipal street mi way system for payment of m jpance or operation of such 83 until the amount pledged by eity to the ‘lal fund to payment of the principal and terest of the $15,000,000 issue bonds be paid into suth fund interest be paid to March 1, 19%, RECITE HISTORY OF PURCHASE On Sept. 16, 1918, the against the city states, Stone Webster owned in Seattle 202 of track, and a full supply of stock and other equipment c development and expansion of shipyard industry a critical sits in transportation.was developed. T! city and representatives of the eral government pressed the t tion company to extend and its service to the shipyards, it 4 stated, and yet, it ts claimed, the city retuned to allow a fare of seers city” fered to purchase the car lines $15,000,000, payable in utility bonds. And Stone & W accepted the offer. eee TAXPAYER SUIT; TO BE DECIDED ON WEDNESDAY: Judge J. T. Ronald Monday fied attorneys connected with suit in superior court of 14 taxp to force the city to default on its terest payments to Stone & Web March 1, that he would not 4 any of the motions involved in the case before Wednesday morning. : “I must have more time to satisfy myself that the conclusions I am reaching are absolutely correct,” said. “Furthermore, I will write opinion so that there will be no op portunity for anybody to misinters pret it, TWO MOTIONS AND DEMURRER BEFORE HIM “I dislike,” he added, “to try a which has already been tried in newspapers.” Before Judge Ronald are two mo- ‘ | tions and a demurrer, filed by Cor” | poration Counsel Walter F. Meier, ~ One of the motions is to require j the plaintiffs to number and state |separately their several alleged jeauses of action. These alleged | causes of action include a request for ia mandatory injunction to make the — |elty pay back to the general fund” | whatever has been taken out im sup-|_ | port of the railways, and two prohi- | |}tory injunctions, one to stop any ] | further inroads on the general fund | |* nd the other td stop the piling up of the gross revenue of the system to. meet the interest payment while op- erating expenses are being met from. other sources, WOULD BRING IN S..W. AS DEFENDANTS ‘The other motion is to compel fi 14 taxpayers to bring in Stone & Webster as defendants in the suit im) lorder to have a final adjudication of? the merits of the matter, The demurrer challenges the juris. diction of the court on the that all interested parties have not been connected with the conti and also alleges there are not utes jelent facts stated in the bill of com- |plaint to constitute a cause of action,” | On the question as to whether the city could take money from the g@m-\ eral fund to operate the railways and |) keep the revenues of the system ts pay Stone & Webster, Judge Ron stated Monday he believed an inju |tion would certainly lie, He Stayed Put and Now He’s $60 O “Don't turn around,” a said, as he stuck a gun 90 di |south on C. Weberg’s anatomy f | Fourth ave: N. FE. and BE, 45th st, ‘early Sunday, Weberg, who lives 4518 Fourth ave. N. BE, didn't, c lwas $60 “in the red a" Monday. , Crooks Expected to Quit Tuesday Night) Police will have their fini | crossed Tuesday night. At Masonia |temple the annual police Dall willy” be held. Crooks are expected ta lay off also, The dancing Geer being reinforced,