The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 19, 1921, Page 1

‘ iN ‘First in News—First i in Circulation (by 11,727 copies a day)—Call Main 0600 to Order The Star at Your Home-—sU Cents a Month—Why Pay More? ne WEATHER Tonight and Tuesda snow; fresh ee vovnd s Temperature Last M4 Hours Maximum, 30, Minimum, 22. Today noon, 26. ARRAN PALL LLL ALPE On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Entered as Second Clase Matter May 8, = at the Postoffice at Seattia, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 4, 1879, Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 = _ s E ATTLE, WASH., | HAYS MAY RESIGN MURDER © Save ‘Dull’ Kiddies |Home Brew Greetings, folks! What are you going to give your mother. inlaw for Christmas? SCIENTISTS RKING ON “Now that Germany has cornered | the potash market of the world,” MAGI 3 says M. Al . “I suppose she will want us to ‘Say Mt With Fertiliser.’ ” Trying to Turn Backward and Subnormal Children “Councilman C. B. Fitsgeral@ ts/ Into Geniuses BY ROY GIBBONS trying to ride into the mayor's office | on a nickel carfare.” A nickel won't carry you that far, Fitz, Better/ transfer. CHICAGO, Dee. 19 Setentista | here are dabbling in a form of magic | that would put medieval alchemists to shame. | They're trying to turn beckward Reurasthenic, subnormal — even idiotio—chfldren into geniuses! Every day a long line of children ‘There was an old man Who lived in a cave Where it was so dark That he never did shave. 7 The man who gits on a woodpile to! tel! a funny story, expecting the Wood to split, usually strikes aa un- responsive cord. Peter Witt has made exit with our extra dough for telling us # lot stuff he ‘epased we didn't know. We ‘ail admit it does take wit to make most things complete, but we never thought ‘twas so dearly bought till we paid * Grice for Pete—Theima Rodertson. eee ‘Tha at Seattle ragpicker who made his living gathering up old newspapers Toft a fortune. Thgre’s money in the ewspaper game. . A subseriber writes, “ without a eat?” This bird must be married. “ee The ‘Beggne’s Opera, which comes here Christmas week, was first pro ged in 1728, This is almost as long fun as “Way Down East.” eee Dr. Eugene Lyman Fisk says that} Dr, Frank G. Bruner, who's) trying to make idiotic chil-| every person should be overhauled dren of Chicago into geniuses.| Poll yearly just as much as an auto, shuffles {ra to the board Well, most of us are pretty well | of educatio arch laboratory ¢leaned every Christmas. | Many a | in appearance, many | “ef deformed, most o them iil-clad, all} lof them mentally defect A white-coated physician & preparation made o’ |glands. Then they shuffle |the classroom y | The eyes of Many @ Seattle man who used to) ee ee ths - ene nis bore to Mand eut For its originators say it will teach cold is now careful to cover the radi- Pigetcat } medicine how apne of ble. our | To 1 health to the} ek subn Tox the | machine my! And e the] “We're just my|the jimitieas field. says Dr board of education What ia a mer idual? I bel me pitched so high ‘that the st In Germany the goose-step has made way for the side-step. . restore rmal menta imism ought to mental | heard The prize tor gO to the ex-soldic other day. “The Germans got leg, a slacker got my girl but man doesn’t who can get goat,” he said. ese WHAT EVERY WIFE KNOWS Where to tonight? “The Grand Lodgs of Buzz confers | ™ on me the degrees of Big Yap and | be Hi Jinkg. I'll come home rf h honors.” I know you'll be @ every one & per in Seattle, we anity! in the first stage: bilities of Bru physician subnorma) in on to cure 4 he’s only a neu. nervous syste during © I in Seatt ontrol iuses are neurasthen- | line between the in Vague. boundary cenius and lunatic BURIED GENIUS MAY ASSERT SELF “If by gland treatment—in down the and the that the rise to their | ert itwelf?" | every mental an oversupply glands of the “ume We hope that ae resum ‘Tom Watson m to slap somebody's great deal but if he wishes to ~ us ner i will slap Je which pay faith—we can ¢ city tch of the care @ al be ps insane by a year. mind who ean say enius that gave es will not # believes: from the The feeb! versity nomint, ar citizens of this sta dollars. Well, we Why kiek? rived by costing t ions elected them. under neck and | to reste soning power, he's | » pituitary glands |ce ing children t nt carta And to“bure slugsish ROPES | 4 a At of a|the 1 extra 4d to rfed mentali te growth pineal tablets, jvote on then tract, deriv revenue from car fares. There was one month, when we had 5-cent fare, that the cars car ried 9,465,748 riders. the greatest number ever carried ERODE qenerumn rary Let the People Decide The Scent Counciiman Fitzgerald was based on the theory that more people would ride fare was lowered. Mere undoubtedly would. not enough more, because aren't that many street car riders FIVE-CENT FARE BILL WILL LOSE of Council Sure Defeat Today for Fitzgerald Measure Indicates By Hal Armstrong fare ordinance of e street cars if the But there In order to meet expenses the city MUST, because bound by con- a certain amount of That was month by street cars tinue to ride, only a would fall short of d enough revenue to meet ¢ 120 a month, or $32 some the same Councilman n is The city’s population creas@d since then to some extent, but if as great a number were to riding tod: and has de cor day in and day 's poll of the city time proposal to shelve a — }until the people have a chance to| junction Scent fa This sum would have t other which Councilman Fitzgerald for got to provide in his ordinance. —$—$—$—$—— —————————— | Councliman C. B. Pitegeratd's five | Another Blow Dealt » ordinarive be de. thod, council Bes it is Indicated! preme yhn 12, Carroll carfare carried. | gThe council was es a committee of the whole ‘ald « the at Fitager p. ™. Did He Take Vengeance? | “When I am grown,” little Bill would whisper to his mother, as she knelt erying at his feet, “I will go out ayd find my papa’s mine. Also I wT thase down Rutherford, and track him all over the world until { find him, and make him suffer for all he has done Did the child fulfill his vow when he grew to man- hood? tead “The Snowshoe Trail,” which is soon to be |) published serially in The Star, and find out, Councilme \keth, Carre jagainst the the city. could not be n atl bill Id bill proposing the fective March 1 Moere and Councilman Drake Councilman Thomson ported on his way to the city hail, | matter 1 together as , \the meeting, asking each |present how he stood on the Fitager: to consider nd Carroll asures Star polled the council be tore fivecent fare Tindan Erickson is abse in time who w were nt from re for the (Lurp to Page 12, Column 3) IS OFFERED Postmaster General Expect-| ed to Quit Cabinet to Take | Over $100,000 Year Job WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—Pdst master Genera! Will Hays bas de cided to accept the offer to become virtual head of the motion pleture industry in the United States, cording to a prominent republican politician here today He stated that Hays had agreed to | accept the leadership of the reorgan-| ted Association of the Motion Pic- |ture Industry at $100,000 a year for two and a half years. Statements that Hays had aceopt: led were partly confirmed In motion | picture circles here, but Hays’ office Maintained a strict nilence femtrding them. Hays i now said'to be “rest ing up" at some health resort, WOMAN GUILTY | BABY’S DEATH! — leic's Mother Convicted of Manslaughter ADRIAN, Mich, Dee. 19 atts: Mattie Kirby was found gu | manslaughter by a jury here fom on charges of caused the death of her born MMlogiti mate baby. havin. aughter’s new The maximum ‘The case was giv A verdict r returned) oC f.4 was alleged baby to die pen. | years. jury Friday night Suturday was sealed and in court today l, _Mrs. Kirby, ]U. and reform t¢ Ito have allowed | from neglect imrm following | its birth, in ord word of @ prominent W. r, the diat | It waa brought out the trial} that the baby which died the second child born out of wedlock to the daughter, the first having bee born in Chicago, where it is bein cared for. MACHINE GUNS FOR AES PITTSBURG, Kan., Dec National Guard mac ie rushed to Cherokee today was aquad of gunners we south of here, earl when mili tary and civil authorities received re ports that the Amazon army” about to renew activities and several mines raid 1 Killed, 3 Hurt by | Storm in Buffalo BUFFALO, N. ¥. Dec. 19. was killed, thr were injured property damage estimated the result terrific swept the city -yeuter One m and 0,000, 1 of a storm which city ‘orty homes were destroyed along | jthe river front. ‘The guard | rescued ten families. number troyed or coast A houseboats also were des ot | at Union Picketing| | WASHINGTON, Dec, 19.—The tod: dealt another labor su court picketing by: strike It restraining and cook union ir of ut | the |blow at during waiters’ Bisbee, Arix, from | restaurant of William Truax } In its decision the court held in 1464 of the Arizona ‘overing injunetions « the union picketing valld paragraph state statutes in labor disputes Mary Garden Is Ill at Home in Chicago CHICAGO, Dee, 19 Mar 1 of the Chicago Grand Opera) was confined to her he y with an attack of bronchits Garden, | on baths are almost dally lux in the West Indies, MONDAY, 1 DECEM BER 18, | WORK IN STATE | of the state | FLOODS PROVIDE |Jons TO MANY ‘ AUTOBANDITS | HOLD UP STORE. 1921. LOLLIPOP LAI Two Cc E ‘TS IN SEATTLE INQUIRY NETS 101 Others Expected to Be Arrested Dur- ing Probe of Ok- lahoma Killings ARDMORE, Okta., Dee. 19.— Sixteen men had been arrested, and several more were expected to be taken Into custody as the result of the triple killing at Wilson, Okla., Thursday night. Authorities clamped the lic ereey down tight on the investign tien, and refused to give out any- | thing until the t od members of a attacked the} ‘The men are alte masked band which tome of Joe Carroll, alleged boot-| legxer, precipitating @ battle in} which Carroll and two members of ‘the attacking party were killed. ‘Ten of the men under arrest are: Leon Julius, Baptist minister of Healdion. John Smith, butcher of Heald- ton, deny Smith and Curley Smith, T. Hilton, retired ranch Ardmore, dohn Murray and Bill Ratliff, oil field workers, Wilson. JOB MEETING IS IN SESSION Federal Governt to Relieve Situation Urging that. the | federal govern ment begin immediate develop- ment of all pending reclamation Projects, and that county and city officials push all publie con- cessions as rapidly as possible, representatives of the govern- ment, the state and civie and welfare organizations met Mon. day to discuss measures for the relief of Washington's unem- ployed. Originally planned as a meeting of the mayors of the state, the confer. ence has aimmered down to an ex ommittee meeting, with 30 persons p t when the conference ope ecutive ned. 09 OUT OF In the state of Washington there are 25,000 men out of work, accord ing to W. C. Carpen | repre sentative of the di general of | United States employment serv This he Be 10,000, r, spec divided as follows Tacoma é epokiae | Bellingham 1 al and Yakima 1,000 e unemployed oh, | Carpenter esti thruout the rest Sverett, he said, the men, mated, are s¢ In mployment is neglig his latter fact was Mayor W. H. Clay, of “There is no acute un situation In Everett nov quite different mills were shut down, Now open and running, is true of the mills ur attested by was the clos and | Rail camps the same are road activity is a little better than a|* year ago. nee the recent floods, nken dikes and bridg al number of | (Turn to Page 12, Column 4) “Just now, there are bi |to be tored, re 6 LOS ANGELES, heavily armed and held up A, Wright, branch grocery store own Sam Seell® Co, and $1,000 in cash here today Two carloads of detectives armed | Loff shotguns were rushed to the While they were in igating at the , the bandits | rturned and wrecked the machine in which they were fleeing, some distance from the scene of the rob. bery | Hy the time the detectives arrived | it the of the wreck, the rob- | bers bad stolen another machine and continued thelr fight, Dec. 19 masked bandits md or of 1 by the with Five a escaped with saw scene ato scene 4, ren mone Afi is ment Urged * |minimum temperature for thfs local. | government She’s a Mayor at 23 Dr. Amy Kankonen, 2 port, O. leggers. country have Alaska Weather Due in Seattle Tonight! Skatin’. Slidin’. Sleighin’. These three pastimes, dear tay all hearts in the Kingdom of Kid, were in vogue here today for the first time this winter 8 ‘on fresh water ponds left fier fesen} Ps slidin’ on every hill side; sleighin’ wherever there was a gh. 23, was recently elected mayor of Fair- In her platform she pledged to rid the town of boot- ae Harding and other ‘leading women of the wired their congratulations upon her election. day it was 22 below, The barometer registered as high as J observed it in the Tanana valley, Alaska, It read S118 inches, very nigh. “At Edmonton, Alberta, 30 below at Kamloops, Prince Albert, jat Swift Current, Southern Saskateh. jewan, 22 below; at Spokane, 6 above, jand at Yakima, 12 above, | COLD AR Red roses bloomed on cheek and M nose. Tocs tingled. Water pipes | ©) _“o ee popped. Mercury fell, this morn t Calgary, 26 . 4 below; ns below, “This cold area is moving south- AL €-0. mu: Geerge 1, Battbary, |wned and JEMAGR enough. > Sapir weather merchant, announced that | Wésbington, Idaho and Montana. his thermometer on top of the Hore | “So, you see, Seattle is going building registered degrees| to get some real Alaska weather, above sero. | People who haven't already “This ie as cold as it usually gete| wrapped their water pipes should Seattle during the winter," he! do so at once, It will be bel “It doesn’t break any records| 20 degrees above here tonight. but it's the average, People who had ridden downtown on open street this | made loud complaint “Conditions indicate it will be | The cold snap rode in the wake of colder tonighg and tomorrow. a snowstorm that came about as great area of extreme cold is r being a blizzard as anything ving dowh from Alaska across | Seattle ever gets in that line, Two | Canadian provinces. inches of snow fell downtown Satur- In the interior of Alaska yester. evening and Sunday, wood MEN LOSE ‘ANTI-TRUST SUIT Activities Held ‘in Violation} of Sherman Law in wai. by any means, cars ity. : SAFECRACKERS GET $500 LOOT, pert Cracksmen Working in decided for the | Street, expert ‘antitrust suit/Monday broke the combination off 1 individuals that |the safe of the Seattle Music House, 1216 Third ave., looted it of $500 i |cash, foreed their way into the vault and rifled it of papers, amd es caped. The robbery was discovered by Thorlikson, an employe, who found hop in confusion. y Detective Lee Gordon and T . Benjamin declared the job to be the work of expert cracksmen, The vault had evidently been opened first |by drilling a hole thru the door ana jsnapping the leve Nothing was found but papers. burglars the attacked the safe, ming it t knocking off the comb tion and manipulating the tumblers, 'U. S. at Peace With All World at Last WASHINGTON, Dec, 19, — The United States is now at with all the world, ‘The third and last peace treaty was concluded today be- tween the United States and Hun gary, according to word from Hugh Grant Smith, American charge at Budapest. Ratifications have been exchanged, he cabled. plain view the safecrackers WASHINGTON, Dee, 19.—Thoe su of preme court today in against $29 firms anc members of the At rs’ AAs its can Hard: lation. are wood Manufactu' “The open competition pian” prac ticed by t ssociation V * the} Sherman the supreme court ld. The primary purpose of the plan,”|¢ th ourt held, was to restrict lu production. ‘The decision up {sud nt of lower courts in ‘Tennes see. 8. law, Th Change Peak to “Tacoma” Says Pigott TACOMA, Dec, 19.—"I hope to see the day when that moun- in out there will come into its rightful name, Tacoma, I believe it will be a commereial asset to the Pacific coast to make an official change of the name of that mountain,” These were the words of Will iam Pigott, Seattle financier und mant his e Similar treaties hi tion as pr Foreign | {made with Germany i Pigott is | | © flready been and Austria, NEW YORK.—Capitol theatre |robbea of $10,000 by three bandits FRANCE AGREES | LONDON, Dee. has accepted the naval ratio pro- vided by Secretary Hughes, Pre mier ice ey Ambassador George Harv it was off announced today. se - WASHI Dec. 19, — agreementh as been reached by tl fi | powers of the world limit thei? battleship armament. Premier Briand has sent orders the h delegation at the conference to back down from demand for a navy greater Japa’ and to accept the of the other powers, that the ratio in the 6.63 plan be approx mately 1.75, it was learned . from a high American authority. Secretaty ~Hugtes, ja ice caled,.smay make an later today. ‘The only obstacte 1 the path of final and complete agreement on features of the limitation” a now is believed to be the of submarines. Briand, in his reply to Hughes, is understood to have {that France reserved the right consider later what her st have ever | morning | Music Store Robbed by Ex-| earty | tonnage should be, . JAPS PROTEST | AGAINST PA | Extremists ‘Advocate Rec of Delegates BY CLARENCE DUBOSE TOKYO, Dec. wave of cisions of the Washington confer ence on limitation of armaments, which government leaders in as part of a domestic political tle with little possible effect on tm — international affairs, is Japan A mass meeting has been in Tokyo to protest against confer: nee decisions. Some | extremists jare advocating a demonstration on the return of the Japanese delega- tion from Washington. i |. The press seemed more dissatisfied |than ever, now that its demands for |saving the dreadnaught Mutsu had | been granted, despite the first fayor able reaction, Yellow newspapers increased their jeries that Japan is being humi jated by dictation from the United States and England. Conservatives declared that the saving of the Mutsu was an empty victory because these sources claim jit has violated the principle of a naval holiday, fostered distrust and (Turn to Page 12, Column 1) Final Verdict Dus on Muscle Shoals | WASHINGTON, Dec. 19e—A final | decision on the offer of Henry Ford 7 | for the government nitrate and pow+ er plant at Muscle Shoals, Ala, will be made shortly, it was indleat — ed today at the war department, —— Shortly after noon today, Seeres ” tary of War Weeks went inte cone | ference with W. B. Mayo and J, W. Worthington, Ford engineers; ~ Secretary of Commerce Hoover, Mie jor Gov, Langivg Beach, chief of ‘army engineers, and Brig. Gen, Tay+ ssistant chief of army engh lor, nee’ FRISCO GANGSTERS’ APPEAL IS DENIED; Rad SERVE 50 YEARS Murphy Edward (K. 0.") “Kruvosky by the state board of prison directors: at its session beginning Saturday, sording to an announcement to- shorter terms for the two men convicted In the San sco “Howard st, gang” jp prosecutions of @ year ago ‘ denied. Requests fo |] Fran |