The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 5, 1921, Page 7

CONFERENCE BROKEN OFF Negotiations Wrecked, Lloyd George Hurries to the | King for Aid DUBLIN, Dec. 5. — Peace negotiations between the British government and Sinn | Fein have been broken off, | it was learned authoritatively | here today. BY ED L. LONDON, Dec carried the Irish today The premier and King conferred for more than an hour on the situation brought about by the Sinn Fein rejection of the peace offer KEEN Lioyd George crisis to the king George The cabinet committee of Ireland went into conference here thin morning and it was announced a ful! cabinet meeting will be held at noon. The crisis was forced by Sinn Fein when it rejected the latest pro. posals of Lioyd George, It was ap parent they were unwilling to ac cept any sort of allegiance to the king, on which the British govern ment insisted. Lioyd George probably will find it impossible to go while the fragile truce is so serious to ly_menaced, it was said. | The Sinn Fein leaders in London believe, however, the Sinn answer provides ample basis further negotiations. ‘There seemed confidence amonr both factions that hostilities wil! not be resumed even in event of a for } peril y [she had received fruits sent her by | ‘The Irish delegates met the British representatives in what was believed to be “a final showd wn.” Sinn Fein was represented at the conference, which was held in Down. ing st. by Arthur Griffiths, Michael | Collins, George Duffy and Childers. | would be Jmpossible touget word to| ere today for the second time for | yieia up ‘The English representatives were | his wife in the locked jury room, Lieyd George, Austen Chamberlain, | Lord Dirkenfead and Winston! Churchill. eee * Harding Won't See . . Irish Delegations WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.-—Prest dent Harding will refuse to receive delegations urging recognition of Ire- land at this time, he made clear in a letter to Senator Pomerene, Ohio. | Upon receipt of a telegram from) John J. Dwyer, of Toledo, asking the president be requested to grant, an audience to 60 citizens of OhlO/ 18 facts recited by Mra Hubbard. | ‘who are working for the Irish cause. | Senator Pomerene forwarded the re-| quest to the White House, asking that the Interview be arranged. | The following reply was received | by Pomerene from Secretary Chris | tian today: { “The president has seen your note _ and desires me to make reply and say | that. while he is desirous of always making himself available to any dele. | gation of American citizens desiring | to present a petition, he does not think the present circumstances op. | tioned. |tive weapons organized labor has, portune for his reception of the dele: | gation which is proposed. Ata later and more becoming time, he will be at his ranch near Calistoga very glad to receive any delegation | from Ohio.” SEARCH ASHES POR MORE DEAD At Least One Killed by Fatal’ Arizona Fire YUMA, Ariz, Dec. 5,—Soidiers from Fort Yoma were today search: | ing the ruins of a fire which cost at| ence.” Jeast one life and did damag®@ of ap- proximately $1,000,000. Tt is thought possible that bodies | of other victims may be found in the wreckage. j Twenty-five buildings were de stroyed in the fire, which started yes- terday morning, at the plant of the Yuma Wholesale Meat Co. Fanned by a 25-mile wind, a wave | of flames cut a wide path thru the business district. The fire was soon MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1921. lateat Washington | Fein | | IRISH PEACE (70 vistr troctopyres _} { | | Lady Dorothy Mills, daughter of the Earl of Oxford, will| soon be entertained by the Troglodytes. No, the Troglodytes are not members of a fashionable London set. In fact, little jis known about them. They are a tribe inhabiting the Sahara desert. TACOMA WOMAN HERE’S MORE ABOUT ARBUCKLE || STARTS ON PAGE ONE Mrs. W. H. Stubbs Faces! Murder Charge Again | }one of the men mentioned in her | Committees i THE SEATTLE STAR CONGRESS GETS ‘STRIKE IS ON IN BOYS’ MISSILES | BACK IN SWING PACKING PLANTS HURT 3 PERSONS Selected Notify President | lowa Workers ‘BY FRASER EDWA OUX CITY, Ia Police WASHINGTON r Congress n duty on all « « leading to th Kh Opened 1th regular BeRKION Pro Oy ee nee tohing at noon today strike order and remain at work to Both branch selected committees do ne, About 1,000 strikers are re to notify President Harding that they | berted grouped around the Cudahy and Armour plants, but so far no 1, prepared for his rec trouble Ix reported, aside from hoots land some threats at those going to The senate then notified the house | work in seasion and house in | o- that it was | tion on Seattle Plants Not eeenment's bils| Affected by Strike wet out! Seattio in not affected by the pack turn aent a similar noti! They main job billions to pay t for the next th GOES ON TRIAL in the president ing strike. which was read in both hou: Lock! plants are working with full Revision of the tariff was started | crew { no complaints have been at once by the senate. This will fol: made by the employes low th 4 suggested by Harding ret dhs in hin measage to be delivered in per] SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minn., Dee. 5 son tomorrow at a joint seesion ating packing th enployen An innovation will mark the re uttacked a trainioad of strikebreak tion of the executiy ers here at 10 @ m., broke windows in’ the Hotes. | Undies in the train and prevented packing Of Majority 14 ~ » T® | plant officials from unloading the mainder of the day will be given strikebreakers. over to general debate on the mes- | epee | e, which deals with @ multitude! Cia,ce pee, $.—Thousands of of subjects. Operating under the new budget system the house will immediately start to work on the great mopey supply bills. Hearings on the treasury depart ment bill, the first of 11 separate measures for vided for under the budget will started tomorrow by the en larged appropriations committee. ‘The army and navy appropriation bill will be held awaiting the results of the aa limitation conference. syrtem HERE’S MORE ABOUT JAPAN VICTORY STARTS ON PAGE ONE $$$ jintimidation charge, while she was | | supposed to be locked up at the Hotet| KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Dec. & Manx. This was confirmed by Bajl.| Mrs, W. H. Stubbs, of Tacoma, | lift MeGovern, | Wash. formerty Miew Maude | Hubbard said he fold Oliva that it | Moore. of Krioxville, goes on trial | the murder of Leroy D. Harth, De-| trott automobile man, September §, | 1919. | Mrs. Stubbs was found guilty of murder in the first degree at h | first trial in December, 1919, a |mentenced to 21 years in the state penitentiary. She was granted new trial, but jumped her $10,000 {bond and was finally discovered in Tacoma. Her husband, jis in Tacoma. even if he wanted to. “Til attend to that," he said Oliva replied. “We can send it thru the sheriff's office. They are guard ing the jury room door.” Hubbard also said that Irwin told him that if he did not send word to his wife, Oliva would ruin him “These charges are just an at tempt to backfire,” declared Milton | Cohen, Arbuekle’s attorney and per. sonal friend. when informed of Mrs. Hubbard's statements “Nobody connected with the de- fense is in any way connected with | these charges. I know nothing of! Witiam H. Stubbs. . * . Strike Injunctions | Upheld by Tribunal WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—Anti It merely looks like another attempt | picketing injunctions against labor of Brady to throw up @ smoke /unions are valld if they restrain acts soreen.”* lef force and intimidation, the su McNAB SAYS HE [preme court held today. KNOWS NOTHING Upholding the American Steel in McNab, when informed of | Foundry Co. in its suit against the Mrs. Hubbard’s charges, said: Tri-City Central Trades council, the “L have nothing whatsoever to|COUrt delivered a sweeping opinion | say regarding the charges. They |" picketing by labor unions. | have nothing to do with the con-| The decision was one of the most duct of the defense. I know noth-|!™portant in years, from the stand. | gint of labor, dealing, as it does, a ing of any of the persons men-|P* * wt Yaad severe blow to one of the most effec Oliva was reported te be out of| His friends said that he Wa) noe believe a word of It She contra dicted herself too many times about jhaving seen Miss Rappe at a health | resort town. The Arbuckle trial ended with Gieagreement and discharge of the jury @uncny. 00 1215 D. m.' ‘Thel' oneny ot the jurors jn the jurr| rumors started when the Daititts | room cald® they didn't. like pte bd adopted the practice of changing ltrict attorney's conduct of the case. | rooms for the jury. After Saturday jexpecially the conduct of his depu noon’ no two sessions were held In |tien and would vote to free Arbuckle the same room. jon that account | | When the jury reported to the) “when 1 Meld out alone for con-! court the foreman said the count) viction so many hours they all was 10 to 2 fom acquittal ‘third-degreed’ me. But it did no) District Attorney Matthew Brady was plainly pleased at the talipre | of Arbducklé’s “mMion dollar de tense,” to obtain an acquittal. He issued @ formal statement declaring hq had done his duty “altho op-| Arbuckle to be gulity, but felt they by wealth, power and intlu-}must give him the benefit of the| . jdoubt because the state had not He said he was ready to proceed | proved its case absolutely.” with a second trial January 9, the| = he he date set by the court. | Brady denied that thousands of | dottars had been spent by the state, | | “E betieve $2,500 will cover our ex: | | penses,”* he told the United Press, It was rumored that the defense |had cost a half-million dollars, | j good. Altho Foreman Fritz did not try to une third-degree methods on | elvility. | “1 DID MY DUTY |AS 1 SAW IT” beyond control of the Yuma fire de- partment. Aid was called from Som- erton, Gadsden, San Lula and other towns. The entire male population of the Yuma valley answered the call for volunteers. J. P. Ward, a barber, was killed when a gasoline storage tank explod- ed. He had been married but a week. Six others, including E. F. San guinetti, millionaire merchant and cotton grower, are in the hospital as & result of the explosion. Burning brands from the big fire Were carried a distance of four miles by the high wind, COURT REPORTER TAKES HIS LIFE LE. Garver Uses Poison to End Money Troubles Worrying over financial difficul- ties, J. E. Garver, 40, well kn’ 4% @ court reporter, committed cide by swallowing poison at & a Monday at his home, 2083 10th ave. N., according to Dr. J. A. Ghent When Garver'’s wife and child no- ticed he was unconscious they sum- moned Dr. Ghent, who found Gar ver dead when he answered th Call. Several poison tablets wer ©n the floor together with a note written by Garver to his wife and ehild explaining that money trow bles had caused his act Coroner W, H. Corson was at Once notified. Victory Bonds Go to Two Above Par NEW YORK, Dec, 6—Viciory 4% Teached 2 cents above per on the New York market today. Victory 3% were quoted at par. “They are saying terrible things | about me,” said @ra. Helen Hubbard, | clusions: | policy in the Far Bast, it begins to look ag if the conference would help her earry it out Shantung. Japan will willingly She has long realized she would bave to do this, for public opinion 1s against her, she han been seeking a way out for months, The conference offers it to her, Japan will make other “concen sions for the mike of peace,” but her militarieta will be tempted as they have never been tempted before, thanks to the scrapping of forces which otherwise might have held them somewhat in cheek WOULD STRENGTHEN | | | | graceful JAPAN MILITARISTS Japan today is on the verge of a great diplomatic victory which willl immeasurably @trengthen the hands | of hee military party The victory will seat the Japan ene general staff in the saddle more firmly th Only the future can dh © the use they make of/ the situation. ach department pro: | for work at the employes report Chicago packing’ plants today, d spite the strike called for 6 a.m. A amall group of union men, estimated at not more than 1,000, gathered around the gates and refused to go to work, eee SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minn., Dee, 5.) Few f the South St Paul packing plants arrived at an early hour today, F kets on duty at the Swift and Armour plants said the strike wan fully effecti About 3,700 workers called out on strike here, employes were eee KANSAS CITY, Kan., Dec. 5.—Be-| tween 70 and 80 per cent of the em: of Kanms City packing sen Were at work thiy morning espite the atrike called for 6 a. m. plant Officials deciared. Union officials and strikers who n order of the Kansas indus trial court not to strike, clamed a larker percentage effective for the) walkout. cee | Dee, 5 ployes he PORTLAND, Portland ts | not affected by the strike of pack. | ing house employes called for today, packing company and labor union of. | ls announced ‘0 orders have been received af. fecting the local situation, Business is going forward as usual TONIGHT'S TIME. FOR BIG DOINGS - | Northwest Product Body’s Program Deep Secret | Tonight and wholesalers are going to get a| manufacturers, eee ve yo" he t the Conference Awaits | Norinwent Protucts dinner" under | | O DI . be of Answer From Tokyo) (0,.0ues" of the Chamber © BY A. L. BRADFORD WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—The Japa- nese government thin week will « cept the plan worked out by the “big three”—-Hughes, Balfour and Kato for solving major conference ques tions, it was confidently believed here today. The cabled answer from Tokyo ts expected within a few days, Provid. ed it 19 an acceptance, as anticipated it will put the conference definitely on the road to speedy, successful con All eyes are now turned toward Tokyo Parley May Settle Coast Jap Problem) TOKYO, Dec. 6.—That the Califor: | me, he at no time treated me with | tla Japanese land question be taken | editor Railway up and settled by the arma confer. | “Several of the jurors enid they felt | ence in its attempt to remove all pow. | panded,” is the motto of the dinner sible causes of war in the Pacific, wag the proposition put forth today by the Nichi ¥Nichi, @ prominent newspaper here. |the member of the Arbuckle jury | |whose stubborn refusal from first! |ballot to last to listen to any argu | |ments for the comedian’s acquittal lied to @ disagreement and the neces [sity for a retrial, “but before God, I) |did my duty as I sow it.” ! Seated by her own fireside after 16) days in captivity as a juror in a case involving testimony which in former | |times it would have been considered improper for a woman to hear under any circumstances, Mrs. Hubbard to- [day told her reasons for voting to lsend the comedian to the jute mills of San Quentin penitentiary for from , one to 10 years. (n° ia believed Arbuckle to be | guilty. I believed that the major portion of the testimony proved it, Therefore I voted for convic- | tion and no power in heaven or earth could change my fixed opinion,” Mrs. Hubbard, with a flare of indignation, Mrs. Hubbard i« a large woman about 40 years of age and emphatic in her statements. | “Lam a housewife,” Mrs Hubbard | Jeontinued, “and 1 didn’t believe that S testimony of Kate Brannan’s, the chambermaid, about her having wielded a duster and cloth in the room which would have eliminated yard. the finger prints of Arbuckle and | Misa Rappe on the door. “For that’s what decided me—I be jeve those finger prints are those of Arbuckle and Miss Rappe. And I be: jHeve that she was injured when she tried to get out of his room and he! shoved her against the door, | “Kate Brannan waid she was only | in that evite of rooms a half hour. | As a housewife I know that she! couldn't possibly have done the amount of work she said she did in an hour an a half—that was iny opinion as @ juror. | DIDN'T BELIEVE | WOMAN'S STORY | “The story of Mra. Minnie Neigh: | bors, the Los Angeles policeman’s wife, soundéd ‘doped’ to me, 1 did special $1.65 yard. wide; $1.35 yard. used. PLAIN AND CHANGEABLE TAFFETAS, special $1.65 ALL-SILK CREPE DE CHINE in a profusion of colors, 40 inches wide, special $1.65 yard. BLACK SATIN, 35 inches wide, special ($1.35 yard. MESSALINE in 35-inch width, special $1.35 yard. PLAIN AND CHANGEABLE SATIN, 36 inches wide, WASH SATIN, in Flesh-color, Ivory and Pink; 35 inches an inclined roof. The dinner will begin at 6 o'clock at the New Washington, and reser vations for it, at $1.60, may be made at the chamber by any executive of a manufacturing, wholesaling or banking firm of the city. Most of the program is @ pro-| found secret ‘The bureau promirer, however, that genuine progress will| be made toward increasing Seattle's | trade area and furthering the cor-/ diality between this city and out) lying communities, | Joseph A. Swalwell, the chamber's Northwest bureau, will preside. eres are President Henry Suzzallo, | University of Washington; Nathan Eckstein, president Schwabacher | Bros, & Co, and Kenneth C. Kerr, | nd Marine News. area must be ex chairman of Products | “Seattle's tra | | } | Spiked shoe frames have been in| vented to enable a person to walk on/ H AVENUE AND PINE STREET FREDERICK & NELSON © Special $1.35, ‘$1.65 The Yard UCH very low prices on New Silks would make a note- worthy occasion at any time of the year—just now they are doubly welcome on acc6unt of Christmas plans | for making Gift Lingerie, Negligees, Cushions, Hy Curtains, Lamp Shades, and ' other articles for which fine $ scores of ilks are —Virst Moor to Police Called Out to Protect Man May Lose Eye; Wife and Daughter Are Cut bankers |I| | Among speak: |f} | | @ rocks thrown by a gang © j C. McAllister, 909 W, 46th tal and probably will lone one ¢ Mrs. McAllister and her 1d daughter also were badly cut by fy ing glass from the windshield, Po lice tried in vain to locate the boys who stoned the automobile | KAST BT. LOUIS, IL, Dec Retween 2,000 and 2,300 packer em ployes went on strike here today jlecture at the Crystal Pool Monday |arrived ¢ at & p.m. The subject will be “Tox The family was given refoge by omia, the Cause of All Dineases.” rbors. The damage to the boat PAGE T_. Apariment House rument House FAMILY FLEES. "sc: HOUSEBOAT FIRE. Under tse 5 an Bparuen eniiowd C.J of tie Paicout two unm $0 iu cast and $10 chock sacar, Victims Run From Flames in - ay night he bandits ed alter i sing, thei YinUm with. stripe. ot Nightclothes witht Gua Fo agg cut Lie DONS) he family of B. Kincaid, same Fairview ave. fled to the street im their night clothes when fire of Um | known origin destroyed their hese boat early Monday. : Firemen from the University @i — trict were called, but the housebom = almost a total loss when they” Dr. T. J. Tilden to Lecture Tonight Dr. J. HM, Tilden, dietitian of Denver philosopher and will give a free contents is estimated at Hasheesh is made of Indian hemp. FREDERICK & NELSON “FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET DOWISTARS STORE Decorative Candlesticks 65c HAPPY gift idea is represented by this Mahogany-finish Candle- stick, with its colored candle and hand-deco- rated shade. Price, com- plete, 65¢. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE Women’s Kid Gloves $1.75 WO-CLASP Kid Gloves with self or white stitchings on back and overlap seams, in Brown, Gray, Green, Navy, Red, Purple, Black and White. Sizes 514 to 714, at $1.75. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE Boys’ Heavy-ribbed Hose 50c and 65c RIPLE knee, heavy weave Ribbed Hose for boys, with well rein- forced heel, sole and toe. Sizes 7 to 914, 50¢; sizes 10 to 11, 65¢ pair. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE New Cloth Frocks Introduce Smart Trim- ming Effects $9.85 TOUCH of | bright scarlet at neck and sleeves, glistening cire braid, beads and fringes give these new Frocks quite a “different” air, and they give prominence to the new wide _ sleeves and boat necklines. Principally navy and brown, and in sizes 16 to 44. 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Steamers whose propellors churn the water at Pe great rate—priced from $1.25 for a small one $10.00 for a man-o’-war, AND WHILE YOU ARE IN TOYTOWN BE SURE TO CALL ON SANTA Tell him What You Want and Ask him for your Letter —TOYTOWN, THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE These Smart Patent Leather 3-Strap Pumps SPECIAL $3.45 PAIR RECENT style-origination, is this buckle-fas- | tening*Strap Pump—in patent leather, with medium toe and military heel. Available in the following sizes and widths: : | 8 [BA] 4 lata) 6 SAT i ‘bl 6 [6tAl 7 74 8 8 (10/11/12 ;i2;7 [7/1 /s 6 | 8/11/12] 9 | 11 ;2;2 | 2] 8 | 8 |10)11)12) 8) 7} 3 {4/8 /10/ 8 /10/is; 5,5; | Special, Tuesday, $3.45 pair. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE 2 _|2 {2 4 The Downstairs Store Features Women’s Winter Coats at $22.50 that are making an especial appeal on account of thar advance style. In this group are blouse-back, belted and half-belted styles, often with wide sleeves—taste- ful hand-embroidery or beaverette collars. Brown, Navy, Tan and Black to choose from, and sizes 16 to 54. Particularly good values at $22.50. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE The Dancing Bear is 60¢; the Hen is 50¢; and the Ban- ¥ 7 to