The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 20, 1921, Page 1

DAILY ELECTED SE/ SEATTLE’S FAVORITE PAPER | ARREST ALJEGED BOMB GANG! wn the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise |BY TEN THOUSAND PLU erally Tonight anc fair northeasterjo-s4 Hours os, Minimum, 49. ‘oday noon, 48. i d pong gen- moder-* Entered as Second Class Matter May 2, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, theSeattle Star “VOLUME 2 Wash., under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. + Your, by Mail, $5 to $9 LATE EDITION SE ATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1921. good purpose Decoration day, Help provide every civil war veteran with an auto for the big parade, Get in touch with the Elis’ lodge, if you want to help, rer “Democrats to Hear Erickson,” 3 headline. Then there must be @ than one left ! Sherif? Starwich sneezed In an Au burn stage and a tire blew out. | anything will happen in a jitney Former Prosecuting Attorney Mur phy had his eye on a seat the other day, and a woman sat on it. | ri ere “The Star hits the bull's eye,” says [4 State Representative Meacham. And, being qully as modest as our contem. jes, we add: “And that's no bulk - . ‘A WORD FROM JOSH W Also wise men rush in now an’ then where fools ts afraid lion democrats took stock in it a few months ago. eee A Cincinnati landlord, while sick ima hospital, announced a reduction Of $25 a month in the rent of the flats in his apartment house. Re member about that old fellow who when sick a saint would be? eee A scientist mys he bas found a race of people In Sumatra who never Ue nor steal. They are unciy- ized. eee ‘There were two questions asked by answer: ‘What musical instruments do you Play? What newspapers and maguzines p you read? Two men we questioned fell down on the first, one saying he played the saxophone and the other saying he played the xylophone. . . THIS IS OUR IDEA OF A LIGHT LUNCHEON A lamp with Canton base and a Chinese shade of colors to tone in With poached eggs over the top makes a savory luncheon dish.—Es. canaba (Mich. Mirror. eee Mercury's failure to move in a fixed eclipse is proof of his theory, gays Einstein. Doggone it, why @idn’t he say that in the first place! eee A actentist reports that there were once elephants in Texas. But not 0 many since prohibition flew that “This morning a stingbug right into my mouth, What is a sign of?” mouth shut.” M00! A fairly good singer wan Ella, Her voice, sympathetic and melia; Her voice simply rang When some songs she sang, , f] But on others ‘twas only a bella ' Your Saturday ; Shopping ; | List L Make it up from the ads in today’s Star. Whatever ‘ you want to buy you will 7 find advertised toa t prices t which mean substantial sav ings to you. Shoes, clothing, e ve ables, dry goods, notions, or in fact anything you'll be J buying Saturday will be found i in the ads today. Look them | The beet offerings of Se 5 ularly in The Star. 4 by Pa Most |S Edison that nearly everybody could | two Now his theory is as clear as day. | WIVES REI EL “Ballard” to Become “Sun- | set” and “Queen Anne” Will Be “Garfield” Three important changes have made tn the Seattle telephone ice and will go into effect imme according to an ounce t made Friday by C. 0. ager of the local Pacific te and Telegraph company of Two exchanges have had their na: changed. The name of the Bea d exchange has been changed jto Sunset and the Queen Anne ex bange will hereafter be known as | Garfield, All telephone numbers which were formerly below 1000 have been hanged so they will have four digits by preceding the former number w zeros. If your telephone number was “Queen Anne $18," it would now be ‘Garfield 0814," pronouncing the zero as “Oh.” In the new tasues of the telephone books that will be distributed begin- ning Monday, the first two letters im the names of the exchanges will be capitalized in heavy type. A’ These changes are made to prepare the public for the new automatic telephones, the first of which will be put in use next @inter. The auto- matics will be used first in the Rat nier, West and North exchanges, “These changes have been made to meet the requirement of the initial instalation of the automatic tele phone system in Seattle, probably some time next winter, in the areas served from our North, West and Rainier central offices,” Myers said Friday. “Subscribers in these ex instruments equipped with dials for use in making local telephone calla. When these automatic central offices are placed in service, the subscribers |served from them will dial the first letters of the central c named and a.number with four a merala. It is for the benefit of the subscribers who will use the ti matic equipment that the style of printing the listing in the directory has been made. DIAL LETTERS MADE TO STAND OUT CLEARLY ‘The two letters which must be Majed are made to stand out from the rest of the central name so that it will be easy for sub scribers using to tell at a glance just what letters jto dial. In calling a number with the Jautomatic apparatus, the subscriber | will dial the first two letters of the |central office name and the number, which must cor of four n That is why which were compose 1000 had to be built up t by prefixing one or more automatic telephones digits | changes have before the automat ne equip is put in service in & ad The reason for the change of the names of the Queen Anne and Fal lard exchanges as explained by My is that “it is a very & tom the p to them ment “it's a sign you'd better keep your | quirement with the use of automatic | that the first two letters | is let with the first two other central office which may Hed by subscribers Each letter is associated with a num ber and the automatic apparatus Jcannot be made to respond properly unless this plan is followed. This required the changing of Ballard to Sunset and Queen Anne to Gar. field.” Each subscriber affected by any of these changes will receivé a letter Subscribers are asked to read care fully the direction on the general in formation pages of the new tory. DPNT WATER VOLSTEAD NELL Recause Bert Pepper, 24, an em ploye of the Al. G. Barnes circus, would not give Volstead Nell, a camel, a drink Thursday night, he is now in the city hospital with a chewed leg. Urges Correction of Slacker List WASHINGTON, May 20.—A bill ordering the war department to sus pend further: publication of so-called slacker lixts without complete infor mation as to their correctness was in nced today by Senator Stanley Kentucky, a democrat ALDER.—Martin Hotis, 65, blows off head with dynamite, IRelatie ives”? Myers, change areas will be provided with | ne numbers | of less than} nm made AGAINST BEARIN HUSBANDS’ NAME " cof fT x ‘WOMEN Alb MOVEME " Fiat to Ce uly your attention! to the importance and interest of this! work, we are running on Page One the) | Margaret ‘Wilson, Zona! | Gale, Fannie Hurst Among | New Idea’s Backers | letters that the bureau conductor'| f ownd on his desk this morning: ey ef ff BY MARIAN HALE | NEW YORK, May 20.—"A rose ts] sweet only when It is called a rose.” | So says Ruth Hale, president of | the new Lucy Stone league, wht | has been organized to assure to The Star invites te readers te wae im finding miss-' married women the legal right to ing refatives of friends These whese & ited te repert 2), | the disapprarance directly to The Star, Readers whe may kw he whereatwuts |Tetain their maiden names. She com-) of persans mentioned tn this columm as missing are requested Alen to report te | {inten |The Star. Other newsimpers are welcome to reprodure such items as will inter) “Lucy Stone in 1856 maid: ‘My | their commaniiies. name is the symbol of my identity, | |“. HE SEEKER OF LOST KINFOLK sighed as he looked *24, must not be lost: there is. po tification for the custom that de) at the neat pile of letters stacked beside his typewriter. He looked bored. Now for another day,” he remarked to the world at large. | s a pretty humdrum affair, what?” ebgepet C ) atte ch, *c personality Yeah, pretty tame,” the police reporter said, with his |‘, ‘rs"mevuanty tinked up with one’s | usual grist of crime to chronicle. linner consciousness to permit of eee much a fusion. The Missing Ralatives Faitor open: touch with his son to mettle an ex |, Women in the past have been se im, that giving ed the top letter of the pile. It was{tate. The letter te written by | “beck to men’s wil from the Western Union Telegraph | niece, Edith Berryhill Neale, 1695 [28 rt their eet yee aan oe more cal < nda th ge her iden- tity with her hasbar | “Indeed,” argues Hale (other wine Mrs, Heywood Broun, wife of ta woman n company. and said: Mountain st, their. had come “we HAVE ~ beste seein ap iy ao ot ath names to dag TO R M MACDONA! nity. Any woman with spirit should BOX 9%: WHICH WE ane A DELIVER AN PARTY twkyow THERE ore MESKAGE REFERS TO|Charley Castle's father is dead His} “But” 1 @ “what about RA RELATIVE. WILL, YOU e cs peeationed, PLEAME. ASMIBT UB IN LOCATING | poo gn: nog sa. Be >. lives At lthe law? What about wills and PARTY?" hae ~ a ra. ae deeds and passeporte? You yourself, | ase help me find my boy,” sh? | wien trying to go to Europe on your | writes, “I am an old woman, Tll¢wn name, rather than your hue Is there any deeper tragedy in Ute rent to keep the name she was born than growing olf—and all alone? | ity, eee ‘With the second let, which we signed by §. T. Cliftom, DelHinghs *20eT* Old. and not able to work. \nand’s, found it utterly imposible.” » Wash. time was folled tack | "I! him so he cam help me. He) sqeenctiy! That's why we have or decade gor by the nickname ” |munized—beeause these things are Its appeal was Brief and to the > ae |done. But they are in no way legal. | George Crandall, 1%, “Jumped ship There is absolutely no law which }about a month ago from the U. 8. 8. gives the government the right to Texas,” according to a letter from keep a woman in thia country un- point i anpeare age, his father, I. W. Crandall, box 792. |ieag he uses her husband's name. That's a long while back, but| Jamestown, N, D. He was last heard | rhere is no law that takes property someone may see it who knows from in San Pedro, Cal. Your mother |away from a woman who has shares | where Mra. Brundage ts. is sick, George, and dad says Justin i with her husband, even if her | ss ¢ wire if you are In need | maiden name, and nothing but her! | iad s maiden signed to the ‘The Inet letter in the ple hore a0 | papers.” look that was explained $8 Brisbane name, ts Up across the Canadian Tine tn Winnipeg, “ wutaetiar “Are there so very many women | who wish to keep their own names, St. Kirkdale, Liverpool, England.” lino married, that such a club as It was written by Mra. KE. Campbell, | ours is warranted?" and told the old, old story of a sailor)” ruth Hale nodded, husband who seemed to have for | women.” gotten wife and home when he got) Among the women on the execu- to sailing the seas, Colin Stuart | tive s this hushand’s name. | y _ 7 ading within left home A @ to take a job as bookkeeper for a Moose Jaw firm “L have not heard from him since jand am very anxious, as he was to | he got settled, and the best of terma” her hust er hus! “Many, many | write as soon |we parted Mrs. F husband, F wing to blett writes of Moose Mrs ays she hans fe her Liverpool in September, | wife writes, “and Jaw nd Neblett bo and she think come on to Neblett January any support w heard of he w mate on the U. & man, Mary Shaw,| e (Mra, John Barry * Oakley and Margaret | When last & as second a ticket to Spokane he may ha , gee more), Grace ( barkentine Con: | witson. eae in she querer. J 1 be very glad if| Acting as vice president alah any information you may have could! jyingstone, and Jane ( be forwarded on to me, as without | treasurer ang secretary. ry.|support, I am unable to carry on lon, ¢ Next came a bil, aid to live but not listed in Berryhill’s father wants to get in jany “* 1 for George Berry ainier valle the 4 recte Railroads Delay Reducing Rates| WASHINGTON, May 20. orating expenses must be | The police reporter had gone by the time the last le' otter was perused. The rest of the sta uff was busy. | The Missing Relatives Editor turned in his copy and arose | o from his desk. | nearly $90,000,000 a year before the | “Seems to me there was something,” he murmured. |"0.4 managers « ee | “What have I forgotten now | Suddenly his brow cleared. | | “By gracious,” he said, “I haven't written home myself | here. E ; : ne Probably no general rate reduc for six weeks! ll be applied for until late Jor Porm or, perhaps fall, said Direct | mmission for freight according to officis ons. tion w INET REVENUE FOR CARS UP WHITE'S BODY FOUND AFLOAT or Parmelee of the bureau of railway | |economics here, tod: — | Harding to Receive |Madame Marie Curie) The body of Will Hl. White, attor-| Seattle's street car system showed! WASHINGTON, May 20.—Madam | . s 166.27 Marie 8. Curie, famous French chem. ney, who waa drowned two weeks|4Nn excess of $166,371 In operating | Marie &. Uris, (Atione on was ago, was recovered in Lake Wash. | reve ¢ operating expenses |i ere today to recelve from President | |ington at 7:30 e. m. Friday by the| for the m of April, acec ewe Harding in person a gram of radium lto the report filed by Railway Chie 00,000. | crew of the Launch Aerial, operating | ' port flied by Rallway valued at $100.0 | D. W. Henderson | Madam Curie was accompanied 7 between Madison park and Hunts The treet car fu showed alner two daughters. point. jeash balance of $98,014 at the end] ‘The presentation is to be made in | | ‘The body was found clone to the|of the month |the White House at 4 o'clock this| |spot where White's canoe is believed Be aey nad y avi soe edie af pains a agg ee, eo plated he wan {amounted to $629,10 nile oper-|tinguished gathering of federal o |to nave Upped over while he wa "lating expenses were $ 39 Ificjals and scientists. The radium ts | dumping rubbish. Deputy coroners} Jn addition to the current oper-|the gift of the women of the United | were called by the launch crew and| ating expenses, the report includes | States, E. B. Erwin, brother-in-law of Mra |{nterest on general bonds, deprecia-) roraceheet sod 4 p sage on charze and miscellaneous in: | White. The body was removed to iret charges. It dia not inude, | Princess’ Marriage Be ey- Watson mortuary, pending eueve ‘a t apportion } | White's canoe was recovered #e¥| in. to $70,2 ‘ GF N BAY, Wis., May 20.—An-| eral hours after he was missed ‘ ‘ nulment of the marriage of Princess This makes a gain of revenues ‘oroner W. H. Corson said he be| or an ve Cay and charges |Nadeja Troubetzkey, known during Neveh. Cal White: ‘sad ‘drowned | sceokecieeias "ty Oot ast Fel the world war as “the most beautt: | There was some que rat the tim . . | ful Red Cross nurse in Europe,” and | of the accident as to whether }Capt. Wallace 8 Milwaukee | had drowned or been stricken with To “His Excelléiicy, land Green Bay engineer and club heart fa 99| man, was ordered today by Circuit White was a pioneer attorney here. | Honorable Caldwell” | jie. Gra His office in the I. C. Smith! Addresned to “His Excellency, Hon-| ‘The princ war found to have building. He about 62 years /orable Mr, Caldwell,” a collection of; had another ‘husband, Capt. Victor | ’ He had moved to his summer | children's prints arrived from Yoko-| Turin, of the French army, living in| hon at Hunts point only a few | sama Friday. They were turned over | Boston at the time of her ered | before he was drowned, to the school board. to Schutz in Washington, D. C. day b _well that EVER ‘Two CENTS IN SEATTLE (Mr. Home Owner) ARE THE TAX GOAT! ME: Big sy Pi a You are the goat in And you will continue to be the goat even if the operating expenses of city, state, county, school and port government are reduced to the minimum. Not for one moment must there be any let-up in the campaign to cut expenses. We want them slashed, and we want them slashed to the bone! But we do not intend to stop there! Remember this, Mr. Taxpayer, and The Star gives it to you straight: It is a physical impossibility to reduce the op- erating expenses to such an extent that YOU, Mr. Home Owner, will be substantially relieved from your present onerous tax burden. Keep in mind the fact that if every county em- ploye, elected and appointed, worked for noth- ing, the tax levy could be reduced only 4 mills. This is $2 a thousand, Oe ee aid ay Sg ee ype hamper get own a hep sseeae pr aikemtihe ehige Ee wie Toereseaat and YOU KNO ah oB Yet that would save get $150,000 a year, or less than 1/2 mill in the city of Seattle, less than 25 cents a thousand, less than $1.25 to the $5,000 home, less than 65 cents to the $2,500 home. Plainly, Mr. Home Owner, you must insist on more than mere slashing of expenses. You've got to howl for these economies with all your might, but that’s only the BEGINNING of your tax solution. You've got to howl much louder, and far lusti- er, to divide this cost of government, no matter what the amount may be, more fairly than it now is divided. That’s your REAL problem, Mr. Home Owner, and don’t forget it. Don’t let any one put upa smoke-screen to steer you away from this main course. YOU, Mr. Home Owner, are paying taxes that many of our bankers and brokers should pay. YOU, Mr. Home Owner, can’t dodge your real estate tax, while, on the other hand, a man may own $100,000 in bank securities and de- posits—in stockgiind bonds and mortgages and similar investme™ts—and not pay a red cent in state, county, cif@ school or port taxes. Are you the goat, Mr. Home Owner, or are you not? Cut the cost of government by all means. Prune, trim, slice, slash everywhere, and yet you will remain the goat unless the tax burden is more equitably distributed. Get this, Mr. Home Owner, and Mr. Property Owner: You are paying a 71-mill tax on a 50 per cent valuation, or a 3514-mill tax on full valuation. In San Francisco, they are paying a 151 mill tax, less than one-half our rate. Is it because S than Seattle? Don't be foolish. They have extravagant officials there as well as here, and they also have tax- payers’ leagues there protesting and kicking about waste and extravagance. But their tax rate nevertheless less than one-half of ours, because their taxes are borne by ALL classes, and not on real estate and prop- erty alone. The “Orefon Voter” of April 23, 1921, makes this very plain. It quotes the latest available official tax figures. They are the 1919 figures. In 1919, the operating expenses in San Francisco for all governmental purposes totalled $12,126,813, or $24.30 per person. In Seattle, thé same year, it was $8,028,334, or $26.44 per person, The actual operating expenses were slightly more than $2 per person more in Seattle, or about 8 per cent more. But the tax rate was more than 100 per cent above San Francisco's, it being 26.47 mills here, and only 12.05 in San Francisco. Why should the tax rate be 100 per cent higher, while the operating expenses are only 8 per cent larger? Here is the answer: They spread their taxes in San Francisco on a larger amount of wealth. The assessed valuation of San Francisco, for 1919, was $562,278,707, or $1,126.85 per person. In Seattle it was $227,825,- 732, or only $750.21 per person. When there is more wealth to tax, the tax rate is (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) \ , cant he oped” an Francisco is run more economically, SIX MEN HELD IN CAGO EXPOSE One Man Confesses That Bomb Crew Is Responsi- ble for Reign of Terror” CHICAGO, May | 20.— Six a. named as members of a labor union | bombing ring in a “confession” one of their gang were arrested today. The alleged confession | arrests clear up mysterious bomb plosions which have marked cago’s labor troubles for many Chief of Police Charles Fit | believed. CONFESSION BARES NAMES OF MEN The bombing gang also was blasts in which he played an part. The amount of detail he furnished convinced thor he was telling the truth, Besides Sweeney and Kerr, already arrested are: Albert Peterson, business for the Engineers’ union, all instigator of the bombing and ging expeditions, according to Harry Bartlett, known to the derworld as “Soup,” safe o parlance for nitro-glycerine, @ bo er. Thomas J. Corcoran, an ness agent for the En; named by Kerr as an in violence. ce C. H. Gibson, known to police dangerous anarchist; participant bombings and sluggings, BOMB IS PLANTED WEDNESDAY NIGHT Cornelius O'Shea, notorious leader, who is alleged to have Ber Sweeney plant a bomb as late ba Wednesday night. Kerr described sluggings alleged to have been committed by the during the laundry strike of November. He referred to scores of scenes where non-union’ engineers working in laundries were slugged. - RIP EPIDEMIC SWEEPS SEATTLE An epidemic of grips is sweeping over the lost and found department of the muny railway. The valises are impartial upon which car line they are lost. TAX QUESTIONS TO BE TAKEN UP Under the auspices of the Voter? Information league, a meeting will be held Friday night at the old Ballard city hall to disucss taxation, The meeting will begin at 8 o'clock. Questions from the floor will be am swered on all taxation matters, it is announced Similar meetings also will be held @m@t Denny school and John Hay school, Wednesday night 100 representa. tives of the various civic and fraters nal organizations of the city will meet at the Knights of Pythias hall, to tackle the tax problem. Seattle lodge, No. 10, Knights of Pythias, ie sued a circular letter a few weeks ago, calling attention to the need of tax reductions, and the Wednesday meeting ts the result. A meeting of county officials was held Friday morning, at the call of Assessor Hull, All executives were present except the county commissioners. They were urged to submit their estimates for the coming year at once, In order to enable the tax-cutting committee to work on definite items, - TAX MEETINGS Tonight: At the old city hall in Ballard, at the Denny school and at the John Hay school. Wednesday night: At the K. P, hall, 1829 Third ave.