The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 16, 1921, Page 1

Ube Ls mn mand D. Vines pm the ndreds ay. The Star’s } | Snowshoe Trail,” allows § north of Seattle. Temperat Maximum, 42. PYOLUMES3.. 23 Home th Howdy, folks! tieed the flappers’ pest eee County commiséioners say salaries @f county employes will be; lowered after the first of the year. Do they mean on April I? " oe Sun Dodger, University of Washington humorous maguszine, Duriesques the Literary Digest this | month. The best burlesque of the Literary Digest is the Literary Di Ear! Grey, so the cables say, re- ned his®xight thru love. And so n it takes marriage to enable a tan to see. eee ‘Wives of Kansas miners may they ‘will mareh on the state militia with butcher knives. We suggest that the militia let bce Pier aaa of mice, Here lies what's left Of William Teil; He told his wife Te ge to h——~ “The Skagit river has fallen six feet.” Here's hoping it didn’t aa | ita bed. Better girls are what we need, says Gene Stratton-Porter, authoress. What we want is pretty girls, and we want ‘em bad! A cat, Hortense, is a savage any mal. It licks itself every time it cata. cee CANNOT BE TOO EXPLICIT Bachelor wil! share apartment; steam heat, electric lights, men only. 5548 - Kavectionnest im the New York 3 eee A Portland girt of 1% s suing for divorce. Says she married at 13 to . went to a lot of trouble. E eee Re Now is the season for picking All- American teams, Many a Seattle for her second team. see He was laying on the cobbles, A brick had put him there; A copper aaked for his address, And gota sony mare. Why will a sport ‘lee pick an All Western football team and then go ahead and explain it? | ee Mayor Caldwell has been elected iustrious potentate of Nile temple but the city council will say that he is not the illustrious potentate of the | ty government. . . + — GREAT MYSTERIES OF | SEATTLE « Did, or did not, Peter Witt say that the municipal railway could be operated on a five-cent fare? eee There used to be a Rolls-Royce in Seattle but so many Fords showed it the dust that its owner got disgusted @nd sold it. oe 1GCS—Bilison has a very wide ac- quaintance z* —Yeu, 1 know. 1 down the street with v him walk the other Low Angeles police have been for. Didden to appear in moving pictures. There are some things that even @ op can't do. . . Gen, Fries says gas will pre- vent future wars. It doesn’t seem to stop any of the battles in the city council. Liquor COMES HIGH TO HIM Frank Monahan paid $62.50 a Quart for liquor Friday, Justice of the Peace C. C. Dalton fined him $260 for keeping four quarts of it with intent to sell. MARSHAL FOCH GIVES city HIS PORTRAIT Yrom y of Seattle ne signed le handgome engra the famous Vrene ed here Friday by May- li from the French em- basey at Washington, avoid going to school. She certainly | girl has already ehowen the fallback | Girl Seeking ) by .Edison Marshall. You are going to like it. Tonight and Saturday. fair and continued cold; costerly wind ure Last 24 Hours Today noon, 37, ! ] | | dl which closed the structure to traffic. % break up a log jam that bh Its scenes are moderate Minimum, 30, ‘France May Block Naval Cut! ‘She Shoots Like a Veteran! ary The laid in the forest wilds of the country lying Bill Bronson, guide, trapper, woodsman, is its hero. To this region comes, of course, a girl irginia Tremont, in search of her missing fiance, Harold Lounst party. love interest. | Watch for it! jury. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise SEATTLE, Wé WASH,, 1 Death of Congressman go With Mystery| WOMAN 1 DEBRIS a ee |sude Victim Carried 200] Feet by Avalanche of Mud With the high water gradyally re ceding, new evidence of damage to Property in the flooded areas are! being revealed, and County Engineer ‘Thomas R. Beeman estimated Friday that the total damage in King coun- ty may reach the value of $400,000, This Beeman apportioned as fol lows: Damage to county roads and bridges, $100,000; to railroad prop-| erty, $100,000; to private property, $200,000. This estimate may be fur | ther revised, Beeman stated, upon additional reports from hi« field men. In addition to numerous small Washouts and slides, it is found as the water lowers that the majority of drainage ditches in the inundated | regions have been filled with silt The expense of opening these will be considerable. Among the latest havoc reported ig the washing out of two temporary piers under the Black River bridge. | Logs piling up caused the piers to go. Steps were being taken Friday jcumulated against the bridge across | the White river at Buckley DISMASTED SHIP IS SAVED AT SEA’;;... Barkentine Hesperian Being Towed Into Port Dismasted and helpless, the barken: tine Hesperian is being towed tote} port by the tug Tyee, which picked! her up 25 miles off Cape Fiattery| early Friday. She was brought thru the capes at 4:15 a, m., according| to advices received by the mer-| chants’ exchange. The Hesperian’s plight was dis covered Thursday by the Standard Of tanker Charley Watson, which} stood by and wirelessed for as tat | ance. The coast guard cutter Sno- homish and the Tyee both respond. ed to the call. but the bathentines Sno refused assistance from the homish. The Hesperian, owned by Hind, Rows & Co. left Ban Vrancisco, De cember for Tacoma, where she was to load lumber and then pro ceed to Portland. She was caught lin the heavy gales which have been | |whipping the coast for weeks and narrowly escaped sinking | British Pyeronvess han ‘paid out! more than $500,000,000 for unem ployment relief since the armistice, Let People Say as to Five-Cent Fares The city council should not be stampeded into a hurried adoption of a 5-cent are. There is a lot of thoughtless yelling for a return to the nickel basis. It isa popular cry. We'd all like to see the old fare back, of course. Also, we'd like to see the old tax levies back. And the old 5-cent shoe shine. And the old 10-cent movies. along with fis tnevitable comequencee.. ‘The. first com con . ——_ that we'd have aro: the-oteand atrest railway. in a few months (the warrants hawked R tewn Uolow gar) and tie gunaral rand paying the deficit, a heavy deficit. In other words, we'd just be blundering into a worse financial quag- mire than we now are in. Frankly, if the 5-cent fare is a wise step, then the 3-cent fare is a wiser step. If we are going to decide that it is sensible business to load some of the cost of the railway system off onto the non- car-riding Faery owners, resident and non-res- ident—an maybe it is—then Councilman Erick- son’s plan for a 3-cent fare is the right method of doing it. For Councilman Erickson has mapped out a consistent program, which calls both for re- building and paying for the system. This 5-cent ordinance is merely a political the 5 hastily drawn and designed to bemuddle the 3-cent issue, on which the people are going to vote in the spring, and also to advance the inter- ests of certain politicians who are planning to run for office. The Star has not yet convinced itself that the 3-cent measure is for the best interests of all Seattle; that is a question which must be met after the first of the year. However, it is clear that it would be more sensible than to rush thoughtlessly into a half-way situation now. Furthermore, the nickel fare plan entails such a rev olutionary change in publie policy that cer- tainly the city ‘council has no license to pass’on it in any off- hand manner. It is a question second in importance only to the purchase of the car system itself—and the me ought to pass on the question at the polls. he 3-cent-initiative is already certain to be on the spring ballot. _ If anyt ing. at all is to be done along the 5-cent idea, it should be to submit it also to popular ref- _erendum. LET THE PEOPLE D CIDE. HOPLIFTERS DO SHOPPING EARLY PORTLAND, Ore, Dec. 16.—"Do your Christmas shopping early” ts the slogun echoed by Portiand's light fingered population. Such a wave of shoplifting as is surging thru Jitneys Routed i in Michigan Election BATTLE CREEK, Mich., Dec. 16 —Fesidents of Battle Creek voted 8 to 1 in favor of street cars at a special election here, Jitneys will be eliminated on all streets with car downtown department stores has lines. The election was financed by never been experienced before in the the street, car company, which history of the city, detectives de clare, Scores of arrests have been made, Maybe He Hit What He Was Looking At\ Enter the cross-eyed bludgeon bandit. At 10 o’clock Thursday night he stepped into the Cowen Park drug store, Ravenna blvd. and Brook- lyn ave., and asked Frank W. Bosworth, proprietor, for cigarets. Bosworth turned his back. The er raised his bludgeon, took deliberate of Bosworth’s head and missed. Bosworth ran for his gun. The bandit ran for the front doors, both of them, and disappeared. planned to stop operation if voters favored jitneys. syed bandit aim at the back ETECTIVES NVESTIGATE] é@ OLON'S END | Suicide Note Is Is Subject to Two Different Inter- pretations WASHINGTON, Dec. 16,—-Deep és Aste Elston, California, to end his life here last night by leaping into the. Potomas river, Detectives today a@- mitted they were baffled at the cir lcumstances surrounding the tragedy. | AY complete investigation made by |the police haa convineed them thaty [Piston was not the victim of foul/ | play and it i# probable that a verdict of suicide will pe imued this after- noon. Friends of Elston were divided as to th ause of his act. Some believe he was temporarily unbalanced, due to @ general nervous condition and overwork. Others thought that the suleide was due to a brooding over the failure of congress to authorize the great Alameda naval project, for which he had fought. All hin friends prpfemed to know nothing in bis past which would lead him to self-destruction. Representative Barbour, of Califor. nia, closé friend of Elston, who be Neves worry over his failure to put over the Alameda project caused the suicide, said today that the farewell note found in the congressman's over: coat pocket was badly scrawled and susceptible of two readings. He said the) words first thought] to be “offense innocently made” might be “offer unconditionally | made” and the concluding five words | be “worthy project, clean and gen- erous” so that it beings sam “Tam in a chain of cfPcumstances that spell ruin, altho my offer was unconditionally made in the begin- ning. I hope all the facts will come out My staying means embarrasw ment to my district and to a worthy project, clean and generous, ‘The house adjourned shortly after | it met today out Of respect to} Elston'’s memory As the chaplain referred to the congressman's death several of his) associates broke into tears. Con-} | greseman Julius Kahn, California, cried openly the house to set @ day for memorial exercines. A committee of 18 will be appointed to attend the funeral services Elston’s body will California for burial. | rangements have not pleted Miss Helen Eliwod, secretary to |the congressman, said he com- | plained of weariness Monday night.| Bilston called his physician Tues day and his case was diagnosed as ” ight nervousness |. Elston was 48 years old, a lawyer by profession and was serving his fourth term in congress. He leaves a widow and three children. 8 was found in the Potomac river here last night after the discovery of nis overcoat and hat on the bank. In the coat was a note stating that hf was “in a chain of circumstances that spelt ruin.” Elston had led a strenuous but vain fight in the house for the Ala |meda base. He deemed the project |of paramount importance to his dis toda) be, reese: be taken to Funeral ar- been com: trict. The note found in his overcoat fol. lows | “I am ina chain of cireumsta that spel) ruin, Altho «my was innocently made ning, I} W the out. “My ment to my people, ¢ nse 1 to a worthy and generous.” k last seen alive at 5:30 p. m. Tuesday.” His wrist watch was stopped at 6:01 and police believe he Jeaped into the river a few moments before that ing The Seattle Star Entered as Second Class Matter May 8, 1899, at the Postoffice at Scattia, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 18 ASHL., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 195 DECEMBER 16, 1921. Por Tear, by Mail, $5 to $9 % _ | First in News—First in Circulation (by 11,727 copies a day)—Call Main 0600 to Order The Star at Your Home--50 Cents a Month—Why Pay More? _ Her Fiance Lost in British Columbia Woods a brand-new story of British Columbia— His uncle accompanies her, and Bill is hired as their guide. Winter comes on prematurely and the search turns into a fight for the lives of the It is a story with strong situations, pulse-quickening adventures, It works out into a plot you will never forget. HOME! ail an appealing TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Also, She’ sa Hesechecper Mrs. C. E. Douglas, one of Seattle's best sportswomen, Rhoto by Price & Carter, Star staff photographers. By Wanda von Kettler What about a little lady who is recognized as both an excel- lent sportswoman and an excel- lent housekeeper? Mra. C. BE. and Woodland Park ave, nized ag such. She's an expert shot— A successful fisherman— A fancier of prize-winning doge— And the housekeeper of a spick| and span house GOT 30 DUCKS IN THREE DAYS Kleven yearn ago Mrs. was taught by her husband, a mem-| trophies, | shows to the “best pointer owned by Since.that|a lady.” He waid he would ask! time, garbed in hunter's jacket and| Regarding other activities of Mrs * she has visit-| Douglas: each season, bringing | charge of the baseball section of the ber of the Seattle Sportemen's asso: ciation, to use a shotgun. hat and khaki “ ed the ‘flata” “trou,” down as many a8 $0 ducks in three} Y, W. C. days, “This season,” says Mrs. Doug- Jas, speaking of the present time, “is bad for duck hunting, I et bagged more than # doz- Douglas of 105th st. is recog: en at a time, But I have acquired ONE thing very worth while. It's a@ pet mallard duck, Winged it up on the Stanwood flats about a month ago, It was only slightly injured, so I brought it home, doctored the wing, and now it’s got a mud puddic all its own out im the yard.” Out in that yard are other things to be cared for, beside the pet mal- lard duck. Behind the seven-room house, which, Mrs. Dougiag says, she “loves to take care of" herself. is a |tenced-off section for 70 chickens and the kennels for the thorobred pointers, Judgeman and King. Judge- Douglas} man is the winner of several silver presented in Seattle dog Just at present she ix in A. athletic club, And about that fishing—well, one day last sum- mer, at Lake Cushman, acquain- tances of Mrs, Douglas sa ried away a string of 60 8 —and she caught them all herself. $149,384 CITY’S GIFT TO JAPS By Hal Armstrong A few months ago Seattle people raised a cry against being taxed to pay for the free schooling here of Japs. They had learned two things: (1) That their pockets were being drained to edu- cate the children of resident Japs who pay no taxes. (2) That a continually increasing number of stu- at our expense. ces dents was. being sent here from Japan to be educated Taxpayers are now about to witness an impressive ispectacle. Shortly after Christmas they will see the Bailey Gatzert school, the city’s newest, most modern and uptodate building, auspici- ously dedicated to the Japanese, Not entirely to Japs, but vir- ’ 4 tually so. A few Chinese attend, but the Japs greatly exceed them. No white children may go there. The school is already occupied and (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) -|its approval of the treaty by over DELA PARLEY Demand for Na‘ Rating Great Than Japanese BY A. L. BRADFORD WASHINGTON, Dec, 16.—F has definitely placed before the subcommittee of 15 her demand the right to 350,000 tons of” ships, making her the third power. This would give her a ti nage of 35,000 more than Japan agreed to accept. ption o ration for France and Italy, tary of State Hughes has made in announcing the United Great Britain and Japan are to their respective reductions. ITALY OPPOSES « FRENCH PLAN Italy has countered with a states ment opposing this idea, sugge slashing instead of naval a toe and indicating her readiness t cept any reasonable figure her, equal to that of France, is quite content to take a figure 1.7 or thereabouts in the 5-5-3 for America, Great Britain Japan, This became known positi today, along with the fact that ish experts are tentatively py the figure two or slightly w the ratio to be given France Italy, The American delegation favors signing France about the figure in the general naval ratio. would leave her navy practically its present -state,. but with the of replacing ships when they bec Obsolete after the holiday. The United States, Great and Japan, Secretary of Hughes, officially announced night, have reached complete } Ment on limitation of capital which, however, is dependent on agreement with France and Italy PEACE TREA Irish Parliament Expected to Approve Tomorrow BY ED L. KEEN LONDON, Dec. 16,—The Britisht parliament today approved the peac® treaty with Ireland. Both the house. lof lords and the house of commons, {adopted addresses to King specifically promising to ratify The commons, however, rexisteredl Irish settlement. whelmingly defeating the die hard# amendment to the address re; that there ha@ been a settlement, The vote on this adverse amends — ment, which was introduced -by Coly Gretton was 401 to 58, eee BY CHARLES McCANN * DUBLIN, Dec. -16..— The daif eireann today concluded the secret | debate on the Anglo-Irish theaty and Probably will meet tomorrow to take final action on the pact. The secret discussions were brought to a close at 2:30 p. m. after nearly two days’ debate. This was an indication that the major fight between Michael Collins, Arthur Griffith and Eamon De Vale era had been terminated. Followers of Collins and Griffith enthusiastically predicted an victory when the pact is brought up for a final vote, One Slain, § Hurt in Belf. ast Rioti >» Vile Sout ST, Dee, 16, iscussed ne Rate: Seu treaty, disorders in Ulster ime 4 : man was killed and five wounded in bombings and shootings lin various quarters of the city opens night. One