The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 12, 1921, Page 1

F: First in City Circulation, First in Home Circulation, First in Total Circulation—First by Ten Thousand 5 HUSBANDS DIE: ARREST WIFE: On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Eat Weather Tm EW Tonight and Friday, fair; |! wil Today moderate winds, mostly easterly. ‘Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 59, Minimum, 43. moon, 59. <= 730 BREAK N: WARDENS waBensational Escape Staged * ‘at Huntsville, Tex., Prison After Battle | } | HOUSTON, Texas, May 12. | mutiny in the state peni-| ~ ten! tat Huntsville, in| which 25'to 30 white convicts escaped after shooting several | earch TA Binford as sembled dep ties to go to Huntsville. Many of the con- O HEAVENLY HARMONY TODAY Heavenly harmony and joyful jase @id not float over the housetops in the vicinity of 3726 BE. Madison st. might in the lost and found depart- ment of the muny railway. Chicago Politician Dies of Gun Wounds CHICAGO, May 12.—Tony D’An- Grea, political chieftain in the “Bloody Nineteenth” war, died hero today as | pumped into body gunmen in ambush. D’Andrea’s Geath was the result of @ political feud that has taken a toll of eight lives in the past three months. ADY LEAVES ’EM ON CAR Oh, horrors! Horrors! A husky, hard-boiled conductor of Lake Burien car walked into the tt amd found department of the @iuny raliway Thursday. “Here,” he said, his face suffused with mafdenly blushes, “here’s some thing 1 found on my car yesterday. I guess gome lady lost 'em.” And he tendered a pair of pink KILL JAILED AS FEMININE BLUEBEARD Held in Honolulu on Request of Officers in Idaho, Wy- oming and Missouri WOMEN AGAIN CHOSEN TO MANAGE AFFAIRS IN J*°KSON, WYOMING JACKSON, Wyo, May 12.—No mere. man will have a voice in the affairs of municipal government in Jackson, according to returns today from yesterday's election. All the women officials were re- elected for another year with plenty of votes to spare. Miss Peart Williams, 23, and pretty, will wear the city mar shal's star again. Mra Grace G. Miller continues as mayoress, and Mrs. Genevieve Van Vieck and Mrs. Faustina Haight as council- women. The male citizens admit the ‘murder charge. This inquiry will take two or three days. NEW YORK. May 12—The United States faces a tidal wave of Euro peans, secking to enter this country before the new restrictive immigra ton laws become effective, Commissioner Frederick A. Wallis, who made this statement in an Inter- LOS ANGELES, Cal, May 12—)/ Accused of killing five husbands by poisoning them with arsenic, Mre. Lydia Southard, 28, formerty a wait- reay In a Loa Angeles cafeteria, was arrested in Honolulu today, accord ing to @ cablegram from the chief of | Police there to local officers, | Her arrest came at the end of a long and tangled trail which led [from her home In Lebanon, Mo., to the Hawagian islands. ARSENIC POISON IS DISCOVERED | Mrs. Southard is accused of killing | two husbands in Mimourl, one tn | Butte, Mamt, and two in Twin Falls, Idaho. She is sid to have collected | | about $10,000 insurance. | | Mrs. Southard's arrest wa the Te {ult of an investigation conducted by | Deputy Sheriffs J. B. Fox and J. F. parwued until her husband happened to be, OL Then, her accusers declare, she jan, finding the husband dead, would naturally think his death was the result of his ill ‘ness and make out the death certifi- cate accordingly. Officers declare that during her stay in Los Angeles, Mrs. Southard, or Lydia Trneblood, ag she is known The Seattle Star Entered as Second Clase Matter May 8, 1899, at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 8, 1879. Per Year, by Mail, $5 to 69 SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1921. WOMAN IS The Kiss That Went a-Be Would You Have Run -— the juror who 1 kissed. — (Price ,& Carter photo.) Story of the verdict is view with the United Preas today, |t0 the authorities, was the cause of a|°" Page seven. added that “it probably will be, in effect; a race between congress and the immigrants.” Lyman Roscow, Your Little Girl Is Dead This is to notify Lyman J, Ros cow that his little girl is dead in Butte. She died Wednesday. Roscow is believed to be In fe. attle, but all attempts to find him have proved futile. He is supposed to be staying with friends at Ronald station, but their names are not known to inquirers. ‘The Seattle hotel is conducting the search. Anyone knowing where Ros- cow is, is asked to communicate with the hotel. Report U. S. Ships Are Selling Booze WASHINGTON, May 12.—Federal Prohibition Commissioner John F. Kramer said today he is investigat- ing reports that many big American- owned passenger ships have been operating bars outside the three-mile innit, Emergency Tariff . Is in Conference WASHINGTON, May 12.—The em ergency tariff bill wae in the hands of house and senate conferees today. It passed the senate late yesterday without amendment except those made by the senate finance com- mittee, ° The vote was 68 to 23. Confessions of. a H usband ? Sure! They’re on Page Nine! quarrel between two prominent a tomebile dealers which almost re. sulted in their dinsolving partner. | ship. Both men are said to have been in love with her. It is also declared that she had been accused of stealing a diamond ring while working as a waitress in ® local cafeteria. eee : ¢ Aged Jurist Dies; Two Women Hel TULSA, Okla, May 12—Judge John Devereaux, 60, former member of the state supreme court, died here last night under mysterious circum- stances, He waa found unconscious in a local hotel Monday night, appar- ently under the influence of drugs. A deep gash was over his right eye. Friends ordered his removal to a hospital. Efforts of physicians to revive him were unsuccessful and the jurist su cumbed last night, without regaining consciousness, Mra, Jeane James and Miss Goldie Gordon, who, police said, occupied the judge's apartment here for a month, are held, Mra, James claimed she had been employed as the judge's nurse. eee Quarrel Over Meal; Bride Kills Husband WOODLAND, Cal, May 12.—In a quarrel over what they should have for their evening meal, Edna Green- house, 19-year-old girl bride of John Greenhouse, 25, lant night accident ally shot and killed her husband in thelr Uttle home in Broderick, just {acroas the river from Sacramento. | Up to an early hour this morning | | the bride did not know that her hus. | band had died of the wound she had| |inflicted, She is being held in the | Yolo county jail here, pending in- vestigat) VANDALS WRECK $8,000 WINTON Police detectives, deputy sheriffs and auto Insurance men were search- ing Thursaay for the vandals who stolo the $8,000 Winton sedan of O. H. Fundt, $13 N, 47th st., local con- tractor, drove it over a bluff near the Bighlands and eet fire to it, The car in a total wreck. The wanton destruction of the val- uable machine is the second case of its kind here within a week, Last week a big auto belonging to the Blue Taxi Co, was stolen ang driven over @ high bank at Magnolia bluff, No reason for the wrecking of Fundt's car is known to police, they auto was stolen from Third ave, and Marion st, Tuesday after: noon, Oklahoma Marshal Is Killed by Bandits PAWHUSKA, Okla, May 12.— Samuel Shelley, deputy sheriff of Osage county and city marshal of Pershing, Okla. was shot and in- stantly killed today by two bandits whom he attempted to arrest. BRIDE SINGS, “LORD, | AM NOT WORTHY”-- IF PAPER I$ RIGHT MAYFIELD, Ky. May 12.— local paper bad this account of a wedding: “The groom wore con- ventional clothes of dark blue The organist 1 red Mend sohn's march very beautifully, the bride and groom entered the church, She sang ‘O Lord, I Am Not Worthy’ with much feeling.” * 8 & Awa HAT ALL THE WORLD may judge, ad today The That went a-begging. We print also The picture Of the handsome man Who left it begging. EAUTIFUL MADGE ANNA SAWYER, Twenty-two years old, Proffered it generously To show her appreciation Of freedom Which Henry R. Hansen, ; Twenty-seven years old and attractive, Had helped her win By his vote on the jury That erased from the record The hideous charge of murder She had been compelled to face. se ND HENRY'’S EXCUSE is: “I slipped thru the crowd “Because there was ‘a crowd; “And, besides— “Temptation, as powerful as that, “Must never be faced squarely “By a young married man.” se 8 gging y? E PRINT THE KISS; We print the man’s picture. We offer no moralizing, Because, Down in the bottom of his heart, Henry says he knows he was right. But— To the world We offer the kiss That Madge offered to him And we wonder How many of you Would do the same thing That Henry did! Scores Homeless ° in $1,500,000 Fire YOUNGSTOWN, ©., May 13.— Fire early today caused $1,500,000 damage, tied up railroad and trac tion roads for more than five hours and made scores homeless. The fire started in the Parish Brothers’ Jumper yards, destroyed that eompany's plant, the Mahoning Valley power house, 10 houses, a gurage and damaged the Smith | Brewing company's plant across the street. Firemen say oll or gasoline had been poured over lumber in the Par ish company yards, NTER NOW THE PEANUT THIEF Huzzah! Enter the peanut thief. He quickly dodged from the scene after tuking 25 pounds of the shelled delicacy from Mrs. M. Collins’ auto in front of her home at 1217 Bighth ave. W. Wednesday night. Arrested on Charge of Prowling Hotels Alleged to have been prowling ho |tels near Third ave, and Unton st., |trying doors of the rooms and peek. ing over transoms, Jack Morrill, 17, was held in city jail Thursday, He was arrested by Patrolman R.. Mar. shal after several complaints © had been made to police, y % LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE MILLIONS ESCAPING TAXATION) Great Wealth in Washington Is Never Levied Against; No Wonder Our Tax Rate Is High! A billion dollars of Millions upon ieee a of taxation in Seattle. -| ‘These are the outstanding facts brou: of tax-levying officials here Wednesday. County Assessor Frank Hull, who exposed this i |situation, today amplified his The Star. Stocks, bonds, —_ taxation in the state of Instances are reported of men who derive incomes ranging from $10,000 up who do not pay any taxes for the upkeep of city, county, state, port or school government— except a $5 poll tax this year. In one case, a rich bachelor lives at a local hotel. He owns no real estate in this state and he owns no personal property, except his clothes. He has a@ lot of money invested in securities and some money in mortgage loans. He also has some ready cash in the banks. None of this wealth is subject to city or state or any kind of tax, He escapes with the poll tax and the federal income tux. In California his wealth would be levied upon. And it would be levied on in Oregon, and in New York, and most everywhere else. In Washington the tax levy is im- posed upon real estate and personal property only. THAT'S WHAT MAKES TAX LEVY HIGHER HERE This, it is pointed out, makes the tax levy higher here than it would be if the same tex principles were applied in Washington as in the other coast states. Efforts to remedy this situation, however, have uni- formly been defeated by the legisla: ture, “Our tax laws,” says Assessor Hull, “are discriminatory, unfair and out of date. We are hedged about by constitutional provisions that would shame an uncivilfted country. Yet our legislators turn a deaf ear to any suggestion for tax reforms. Powerful interests are al- ways on hand exerting their influ- ence to keep up our barbaric tax system.” If ‘one hundred employes were dropped from the public payrolls to- day, the difference in the tax levy would be hardly noticeable, it was pointed out. If 300 were dropped in King county the saving would amount to approximately $250,000, or just 1 mill. With 300 less employes in King county than there are today, the tax levy would be reduced from 71 mills to 70 milis—that’s all. “It is apparent, then,” asserts Hull, “that while every supernumer- ary should be dropped from the pub- Me payroll, it is not in that direction whence our real relief must come.” RAILROADS DON'T PAY ENUDUGH TAXES HERE Hull points out a further inequal- ity in railroad taxes. The city of Portland gets more taxes from the railways than Seattle, and in San Francisco and Los Angeles, where only two transcontinental systems enter, the tax receipts from railways are several times bigger than in Se- attle, This is due to the fact that in Washington the taxes collected from the railways are divided among the counties accordimg to the mileage. This despite the fact that the big railway terminals are located in Se attle, Thus some counties in the state get more of the railway taxes than King county’ gets, altho the railway property here is valued at a far bigger sum. Railway property on the waterfront in Sei no more taxes, so far jcounty treasury is concerned, than in escapes taxation in this state, _ of property pay not a single penny ight out at a meeting — charges in. an interview ; her “intangibles” are ‘oreo & ashington, in California and tm rg would ay ‘the share of taxes, as they do in tl other Coast states, population, where there is no imposed upon the community in| way of maintaining fire, police other protection. In other words, Seattle is made the goat on tax distribution, *. The state law rather than the rai _ ways are to blame for this. 2 Hull points out several other im equalities, “Undoubtedly, there are extrava- gances here in public offices some duplication,” he declares. “f am not going to deny this. But § say that in this respect neither Ore gon nor California is better off. They are better off, however, in their methods of distributing the taxes — over a greater amount of assessable property. They are better off be cause they tax intangibles. They are better off because in California also collect a business tax on top & property tax. And to the extem= that this business tax yields a rev nue, the tax levy is proportionally — reduced. The business man pays both taxes, but to the world only the pi y tax levy ts advertised.” “In it is the legislature which is stifling us and handicap ping us by refusing to give sane tam ation laws lke they have in other states,” The conference Wednesday af journed after passing a resolution calling for @ survey of the bt expenses of city, county, school port district governments, The plan of the survey, it was decided, should. be determined by @ committee, com aisting of two members from the council, one member each from school, port and county governments, The committee was Ordered to report within two weeks, $7,000 Stolen From Cop and Messenger > CHICAGO, May 12.—Five bandita held up Cart Lauer, State Com mercial and Savings bank messep — ger,, and William Lusk,’ a pelle parts of the state where there is poman, today and secured §7,000,