The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 31, 1921, Page 1

Weather and probably showers; mod- erate S. W, winds, Temperature Last 24 Hours Tonight Maximum, 7 Today noon, 60. Didja notice that blll and the cabaret come up together in councl? ee that Sir Thomas Lipton Beattle to witness “The As further proof of the 0f the editor of Home before any other editor this here colyumn here invites Sir Tommy We hope six mayors governors join in even if he decides he | this year, It doesn’t cost | Beh for one letter or one telogram. the cars, but she washes eta. | _ OUR HALL oF FAME ‘@ day in June, the port asked, what is rarer? of Chief Elk Hoffman, “The Way- Mrs. O. D. Gray, of} Cal., who has brought ‘against her husband. “e L ‘weer: e4—Gir stripper. Arnold's N. Broadway.—Peru, light his pipe with his | see a pretty str! and think about his er- his brain, all at one and claims to have discov- st blondes lack the mental ac- pueneg Possessed by brunets. which we gather that said) has a blonde stenographer brunet wite—a wife—and the wife has og the fact. keane to sigh for her, ther he would die for her, a big mistake; a wife to him, she's tied for life to him, not eat her cake. ese PROGRESS 1910 are you going, my pretty a6 going a-milking, sir,” she said. I go with you, my pretty JUNE can save a hand- sum of money if will make up your to do your buying the ads in The up your mind now to try it out. be astonished at best offerings of best stores ap- ear regularly in The Wednesday, ‘5, Minimum, 51. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879, Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1921. BOY, 11, PLACED ON FAST MAIL ‘WINS RACE WITH DEATH | Crack N. P. Train Halted to, Save Life of Seattle Doctor’s Son ‘The crack Northern Pacffic fast mail train won a race with death carly Tuesday when it brought $| lyearold Howard Snively to Seattle) in time for modern hospital facili- | [ties to save his life. | Howard, who ts tne eon of Dr. HL. | J. Sntvely, 1120 ist ave. N, was! dangerously injured Monday after. | when riding horseback at| no way of giving him even a slim fighting chance for life at Prouser. Medical skill was Salked by lack of the necessary hospital equipment. Dr. Snively determined that his son must be brought to Seattle. The next question was how to bring about in the shortest possible which ordinarity carries no passengers, was the firet jtrain thru. Arrangements were made to have it stop and take fath er _and son aboard. The train arrived in Seattle at 8 }% m., Tuesday. An ambulance was waiting. It rushed the boy to Columbus sanitarium. There an X-ray examination was | taken. Later tn the day Dr, Snively told The Star he thought his boy would pull thru. “He has a fracture of the eighth vertebra,” he said, “but he is rest- ing easily, and I think he will come | out all right.” Wreck May Claim a Second Victim P. TR. Heard, 6647 424 ave. 8. W. manager of the Waverly Oil com. pany, injured in the auto accident | Sunday which cost Miss Blanche | Gordon her life, was believed to be |dying Tuesday. The auto hit a tele. Phone pole at 104th st. and Green- wood ave, and overturned. Otto Lang, of the Joseph Mayer Jewelry Co. and H. E. Miles, 1306 Marion st. NYBODY SEEN A NICE RED AUTO? A small auto belonging to the fire department was stolen Monday night while standing in front of the residence of EF. B. Haight, 4727 20th lave. N. W. Haight is a department |mechanic. He had the car in front jot his home so as to answer emer- gency calls. The car was painted | bright red with gold lettering on the sides, |Wife in Murder Trial Collapses | BRIDGEPORT, Conn, May 21—~- | urt was forced to recess today be use of the collapse of Mrs. George 1 Nott, on trial for complicity in the imurder of her hushand. | Mrs, Nott fainted while Daniel 0. |¥erguson, a friend of her gambler |husband, was describing the condi tion of the latter's body as it lay In la morgue after it was recovered from a swamp where it had been \gunk In a trunk. Policeman Captures | 4 Safe Blowers | CHICAGO, May 21—Police Sergt. | John Ryun early today captured four jarined aute blowers lone-handed. ‘The four were engaged in cracking the safe of the Chicago Typographt- ‘eal them, uniog whem Kyaa surprised day. All in the Same Boat Every Town in State of Washing- ton Taxed Twice Too High TAX RATE 59.30 AND. HAMLETS in the state of Wash, igher taxes than the great big, ich city of San Fran cisco. The above figures, with the exception of San Francisco, are taken from the back of King county tax statements for this year. Every er re- ceived one of these statements, notifying him of the amount due from him. Every taxpayer can see the figures for himself. They are official. What do these figures signify? Simply this: The tax disease is not It affects every town and liar to Seattle alone. amilet of this state. Not only do the large cities like Seattle, Spokane and Tacoma pay more than twice the property tax of San Francisco, but small Bothel, Issaquah, Tukwila, Enumclaw, communities, like Kent, Tolt, Auburn, and all the rest of them, ALSO pay twice the rate. Clearly, it means that there is something radi: wrong in this state, affecting every community in STATE way, and not merely local And there IS something radically wrong. The present system allows one our tax SYSTEM. billion dollars of wealth to escape untaxed. ly. It is In Cali- fornia, and in most other states, all classes of wealth are taxed. Keep this in mind, Mr. Taxpayer and Mr. Home- owner, whether you live in Seattle or in Skykomish, in Auburn or in Kirkland. Make your local officials cut out every ex- travagance. Make them strip expenditures to the bone. But don’t think your job ends there. It can’t end until YOU R STATE gives you a square deal—gives you an equal footing with home- owners in San Francisco, HUGE MOB CLAMORS TO PAY POLL TAX IN CLOSING HOURS Walling babies in the crowding, pushing, distraught moth: ers featured the last day for volun- tary payment of the poll tax in County Treasurer William A, Gaines’ office Tuesday. Like a mob that had no leader, throngs of men and women clamored for place in the masa of humanity | and tried all too fruitlessly to main tain unbroken lines to the windows where the $6 license fee to live was being accepted. TREA’ & APPOINTS SELF DOORKEEPER . Early in the forenoon County Treasurer Gaines appointed himself doorkeeper and perspired in a labor- ious effort to separate poll tax pay- ers at the door from persons bent on other business. The line at the door to which poll tax payers had been assigned reach. ed far out of the County-City build ing into the street. Its ranks had been swelled before the regular open ing time for the office, and altho the cashiers at the windows worked madly, no relief was realized during the forenoon. Retween 9 a. m. and 1! a m. more than 1,000 persons had paid, bringing the total to 9%060 and convincing the cashiers that the 100,000 mark would be reached by the end of the fo be approached for payment by arms of agents of the sheriff, who ts ‘This will leave 49,000 persons | June 15. em- powered to seize any personal prop- erty sufficient to cover the $5 fee. | HE CAN'T COLLECT ‘EM ALL TOMORROW In spite of the fact that the law requires the sheriff to begin en. foreing payment June 1, no official presumed Tuesday that the list of persons whose taxes are unpaid would be ready to be turned over to | Sheriff Starwich for some time to come. While neither Starwich nor County Treasurer Gaines would comment, it was generally understood that the sheriff could not possibly be supplied with the data on which to begin col lections for at least two weeks, The unsettled condition of the books, the last mad rush on the last day were given as reasons for this opinion. “I will do my duty under the law,” said Starwich, “More than that I cannot say, When the proper in- formation is furnished me my agents will begin work,” ° Income Tax Payment Due Before June 15 Did you take advantage of the four-payment plan in paying your income tax for 1920? Second in- staliment will be delinquent after Already checks are begin. ning to flood the income tax office, TRIAL AS MURDERER HELD FOR SHOOTING Townsmen Come to His Defense KNOX, Ind, May 21-—-Tho state today demanded the life.of an 11 | year-old boy, The trial of Ceefl Burkett, charged with the murder of Benny Slavin, bis | year-old playmate, started. | It is expected that a jury will not 'Cecil Burkett Goes on Trial;| | be selected for several days. Prosecutor James A. Dilts charges the crime was committed tn cold blood and will demand the death pen- | ine wae the result of a quarrel. Ceet! anid it was accidental. Citizens of Ora, where the shooting occurred, have rallied to Cecil's de |fense. They raised $10,000 bail, on | which he was released, He haa been attending school since his playmate | was shot. School children and parents will be called as witnesses, |Court Guarded as Crime Trial Starts DEDHAM, Maas, May 31.—A cor- don of police guarded the Dedham district court when Nicola Nacco and Bartholomew Vanzet! were put on trial for their lives here today. Judge Webster Thayer presided at | the trial of the men, who are charged | with the murder of Frederick A. Par- menter, paymaster for the Slater & | Morrill Shoe Co, and Spectal Police. |man Alexander Beradelli, at South | Braintree, in April, 1920, when the latter were shot to death and a par | cel containing $18,000 stolen. \Railway Employes Waiting Wage Cut CHICAGO, May 31.—Two million rail employes were waiting today for the decision of the United States rail- road labor board, which in expected to take about $400,000,000 a year from thelr pay envelopes. The board announced today that its decision would be made public to- morrow. Altho the cut applits to just com- mon labor, it is expected decreases will be made in the pay of skilled em- ployes soon. Be PILGRIMAGE TO THE OASIS! Holiday traffic from Seattle to Vancouver broke all records, some 4,000 American automobiles passing thru Blaine Sunday and Monday. Two Caught Toting Moonshine; Arrested John Smith was arrested Monday at Graham st. and Beacon ave. by Patrolman C. L. Bryant and 49 gal- lons of moonshine was seized. wed Wall, 3817 24th ave. 8. W., ‘was arrested at the Spokane st. dock. Wail, it is charged, was carrying two grips containing 10 quarts of home brew. AYBE HE HAD SAMPLED SOME A bottle of Wine of Pepsin, alleged cure for Volsteaditis, was turned in- to the lost and found department of the muny rallway Tuesday, TAX MEETING TO BE HELD AT K. P. HALL FRIDAY EVENING A second meeting of representa- tives of various civic and frater- nal orgnnizations will be held on the tax question Friday evening. The meeting, called by the Knights of Pythias, will be held in the K, P. lodge room, Third ave. and Virginia st. About 40 organizations are ex- pected tO wend representatives, PRB. The Seattle Star TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE BOY ON TRIAL FOR HIS LIFE JOKE OVER Cecil Burkett, 11, of Ora, Ind., who is on trial at Knoz, Ind., on a charge of first degree murder. He denies that he fired the shot which killed Benny Slavin, 7, his playmate. His fate will be fn the hands of adult jurors, but all of the im- portant witnesses in the case are children of tender years. NEW OFFER FOR HOTEL IS MADE Company Agrees to Turn Back Proposed Site The Metropolitan Building Co. Tuckday offered to turn over to the |} board of regents of the University of Washington the site of the pro- posed $3,200,000 hotel, The offer was made that the re- genta might sublet the property or back the construction of a hotel themselves. C. D. Stimson, speaking for the Metropolitan Interests, also declared that the company would agree to re place all temporary structures now on the university tract with perma- nent buildings before 1935, The Chamber of Commerce special hotel committee was expected to ask the Chamber's trustees this afternoon to adopt a motion ask- ing the regents to reconsider their action in rejecting the Metropolitan Building company's proposal to erect a great hotel on the university's downtown tract. They will ask that the Metropoli- tan company be given an opportunity to explain the monetary advantages which it is claimed would accrue to the university from the hot hotel. Pinned Between Two Autos, Leg Is Broken Carl Falk sustained a broken leg Monday when a machine driven by R. W. Story, Aristo hotel, crashed into the side of his auto, which was standing at the curb at 12th ave, and Pike st. Falk was just leaving the car, which is owned by Fred Austin, of the Austin-Mosely Co., when the car driven by Story and owned by L. Barbee, 1105 Boylston ave., pin- ned him against the side of the ma- chine. DPN T FORGET BABY, ANYWAY Spring is here!’ (Yet) A brand new baby carriage was found on a Ballard car Tuesda: Sues for $1, 030 for Loss of Coat For a fur coat that was lost Lillian Swinburne is suing Carl R. Lofstol, claiming $1,030 damages in Judge Daniel H. Carey's court. She says she left the garment in 4, FAMILIES FLEE RUSH OF FLOOD Millions’ Worth of Property Threatened KALAMA, May 31.—More than 000 acres of farm land, valued 500,000, and a diking system esti- mated at $1,000,000 to build are in danger as a result of the Columbia river dike in district No. 5, near here, going out late last night, Gangs of men, forming emergency jcrews, are at work protecting dikes still standing and attempting to stem the flow of water into district No, 11, which is being seriously threatened. The dike which gave way before the weight of the swollen Columbia last night cost $350,000 to construct. The pumping station in district No. 5 isa complete loss. O, C. Han- son, in charge of the station, fled be. fore the water in a rowboat and helped spread the alarm late in the night which caused ranchers to de- sert their homes and flee in automo- biles to higher ground. ‘The damage already done to crops is estimated at $100,000, with nearly 7,000 acres under water, Little stock has been lost, most of the animals having sought knolls when the wa- ter began to rise. These are being transferred to safe pastures as rapid- ly as possible, Several hundred men are working on the dikes and are en- gaged in transferring isolated fami- lies, live stock and household goods to safe distances, An emergency crew is at work pro- tecting the Northern Pacific main line tracks between Kalama and Woodland from flood damage, If the water continues to rise, the road bed in this section will be seriously threatened. : . Gives $3 to Aid Jobless Veteran Cc. C. Center, overseas veteran, will be able now to buy another sup- ply of milk for his baby. Barney B. Lustig of the Northwestern Drug company, has sent The Star a check for $3 to be delivered to Center. Lustig’s generosity is the result of his reading The Star's story of how Center, unemployed and out of funds, had been charged with petit larceny for forging a $3 check to obtain food for his starving child, The charge was dismissed by Justice of the Peace C, C, Dalton when Deputy Sheriff Wiliam Downey, Attorney Atwood A. Kirby and Attorney J. J. Sullivan contributed §1 each to make the check good. EXPECTED FATE TOLD TO POLICE Police Claim to Know Aged Bride Didn't Leave on Train Mahoney Says “The olf woman thinks this i going to be her wedding trip. Sal Ha! It's guing to be ber funeral was to have left Seattle Aprit on her supposed honeymoon te St, Paul, has been retated to the polleg it was learned today, by a persom who claims to have overheard it,» JEST SPOKEN IN MRS. MAHONEY’S HOTEL The jest is said least not for a time,” said cutor Malcolm Douglas, of the fact that Mahoney's has turned up in the they are as yet undivorced.” The mother and sister of refused to answer any again Tuesday, the mother the newspapers had lied so about her that she was not talk until she was before a ji DIDN'T LEAVE HERE ON GREAT NORTHERN The police claim definitely established Mr. and Mrs. Mahoney di Mahoney declares, lea a Great Northern train on April 18, Careful road records, inne is AT fis offer of Tennant to } a him if he will, as he says he can, produce the mystery trunk and prove Mray Mahoney is still alive. Feelers. Sent on Plan WASHINGTON, May 31.—Infore mal feelers looking toward the dis cussion of disarmament between the world powers have been put out at the instance of President Harding, it was learned today. This action, it is understood, was taken before the senate passed the Borah resolution calling for a dis+ armament conference. Altho details of the plan have not been divulged, it was'said that Harding has sugy gested informally to the great powers that the question be considered by the supreme Council. He believes this method more satisfactory than an attempt to settle the question at a special disarmament conference, Queen Anne Car Off Track; 3 Shaken ‘When Fast Queen Anne car Na 617 jumped the track at First ave, N. B. and Bavine st, at 6:0 p. m, Monday, three passengers were badly shaken up. The car was rounding a curve near the end of the line when the accident occurred, due, tt ta thought, to a broken Mange on front wheel, The car was in charge of Frank R. Weik, 210 Taylor ave, motorman, and C, W. Jackson, con+ ductor, Says Car Cut Toes; Demands $25,500 Claiming that while his foot was caught in a frog a Green Lake car came along and cut off one of his little toes and portions of three other toes, Spencer R. Myers is suing the city for $25,500 in Judge Otis W. Brinker's court. Because the boy is in his minority his father, C, D, My- ers, is acting as guardian for the pum poses of the suit, i