The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 29, 1921, Page 14

DRIVE THUG FROM ROOM as She Lies in Her Bed While Miss Mabel Hillier was | asleep in her room at the Clark hotel, 1014 Minor ave, carly ‘Thursday, » burglar crawled into was left by the thug. | Miss Hillier is not seriously hart. Big Army-Navy Slash, Is Plan BY LAURENCE M. BENEDICT WASHINGTON, Dec, 294A huge Slash in army and navy appropria tions for the next fiscal year—poasi- | Bly $300,000,000—would be made by congress under plans framed by fome of the most influential repubd-| leans in the house, it was learned today. Such a cut would mean a saving of $3 in federal taxes to every man. } Woman and child in the United} family. | It would be a reduction of more than one-third in the amount asked for next year in the budget. Under this plan the estimates for war pre Paredness would be cut from a total of approximately $800,000,000 to} Republican leaders baqking the Plan take the attitude that a big re-| duction in army and navy expenses Must be made for the relief of tax payers, recardless of the lack of com Plete agreement on armament imdb tation by the arms conference. Repre. sentative Madden, chairman of the house appropriations committee, i Feliably reported to share that view. It was jearned today that the de ferred army appropriation bill which the house held up because of the Conference will be taken up in secret session by the house appropriations Gommittee on January 19. By that! time house leaders have been inform. @4 the American delegates “believe | such consideration will not interfere ‘with the arms conference. Officers Elected by Tacoma Ad Club! . TACOMA, Dec. 29.—Paul T. Shaw, | President of the Shaw Supply Co, will head the Tacoma Advertising, club as a result of the club election Wednesday. Other officers elected are: C. EB. Curran and J. 8. Kemp. | vice presidents; Kenneth W. Hood, | secretary-treastrer, and A. H. Bas | sett, Leonard J. Brown, E. T. Ander. son, 8. 8. Anderson, E. P. Kohl, John | Biauw and Mrs. E. M. McRae, direc. tors, WAR TAX on parcel post master | Will be discontinued after De wi 31. } | This tingling, rifie story of wilds starts in The Star Next Tuesday thrilling, ter the Canadian You will be entt y ever ot th " grippir prion of a triangl t wbound men and a girl, ¢ ‘This augurates The Star’s Great 1922 Fiction Program jon anything bw cordial terme, the bedroom window and struck [yiust not overlook the teaching ot} her with a blackjack. history » the almost incon: | The blow failed to stun the oe! A clowe ullles de> | iid Aied the abt sineseey me enemies, it ix perfectly clear| that in that case no British superior | ing. ity of capital ships would imperil the | The bandit jumped thru the lire for an hour. To be fair, I must widow and ran down the alley, [admit that it might concetvably police arrived. limpert! some remote inland belong: | mount of jewelry Jing to France, but France, with her (FRANCE WILL | States, or $12 to $15 for the average! ton, naval committee, declared. “France has stepped into Germany's government || HERE'S MORE ABOUT ARMS PARLEY | STARTS ON PAGE ONE | Monday with the stronger likelihood | i of Monday | treaty bodying this arrangements and alr The s interested tn | agree ever mux itiarte will ROOM be ma vern for con ver arriera, It t no limit will be don such carriers, tho the ference intends to define such plow |teration for capital ship purmoses | told the conference sub While it t almost un bie that the respective coun and France) could be one! | jtries (Britain }land armament would remain « I" the face of wu: REMAIN FIRM; BY WEBB MILLER | PARIS, Dew, 29.—France ig des | termined to stand by her subma | ring demands, denpite the eriti. | cism that has been heaped upon | her, it was stainy semi-officiaily here today. The government does nei be lieve it possible to reach any agreement at Washington on this issue or the aircraft ques- Visitors to Washington may see Mrs. Theodore Roose- velt almost any fair morning cantering along bridle paths on her white mount, The wife of the assistant secretary of the navy still uses the side saddle. Naval officers here expressed sur prise and were grieved at the state ment of Arthur Balfour, leader of the British arms conference delewanon, regarding the menace of French sub marines. France does not intend to use these under» boats and light naval craft offensively, it was stated. ‘The present state of friendly ret tions between France and England shouk! convince the Hritich people that France js not aggressive and “ common sense view of the aituati should be taken, the same pources said ‘These naval men point out it would be impossible for France te submarines offensively withe ing her harbors open to the attack of the enemy's capital sbipa. An of. fensive warfare with these sea weapons would thus prove disas | scot: thie aabe and necessary Clerks, will inquire Into “It de not againet peace that we | the validity of the claims of the dig defend our rights to sumbarines—it|Sbied man, and recommend the against servitude.” Senator | mount of compensation. The bureau Kerguesec, member of the sepate|opes to clean up all claims of men now confined to hoapitals Dr. Laubeuf, member of the acad-| The American Legion. contendin daa of columens anide | the re ry of many veterans in the “If we renounced construction ef |bospitals wan being retarded by submarines we wotld be completely | 2ancial worries due to disarmed at sea, owing to the present! Compensation claimp, requested that eas of eat Director Forbes order these howpital compenaation beard The order practically enda the five |@ay conference of field men of the veterans’ bureau from Washington Oregon and Id sion in this city | Gaed in the personne! of the jtion boards, accor@ing to I. seph, manager of the local bureau. |Man Who Slew His TO SETTLE ILL VETS’ CLAIM Acting on telegraphic from Director Charlies Kh. Forbes, na tional head of the veteranw traveling adjudicat be sent out fmmedi fi Joon. veterans’ bureau to in more than 100 former servic 24 hospitals In the Northweat These be composed of a phynt clan competent to pass on claima, instruction bureau, rview “™ nin rds oe BRITISH PRESS | PANS FRANCE, >, who were in sem BY WILLIAM SWEETS i judicn. LONDON, Dee. 29—With similes that linked the name of France with Prussian militar ism, the newspapers here today bitterty denounced the French refusal at Washington to limit submarines and hinted at frave conseqnences. ‘The Chronicle led the attack. MecMINNVILLE, Ore, Dee. 29 Robert A. Hickson, suffering from a bullet wound in his head, self in Micted after he had shot his wife, J Effie M. Hickson, to death here Sat That France is playing the same) uissy, will live, according Dr part at Washington ax Germany| ir Ww. ‘Lott, attending physician played at The Hague conference “ia! oN 1 o figure of speech” Wt. stated. | Sveriff Frank 1. Ferguson hus ap pointed a special deputy, to guard recaaie to shoes.” ‘The newspaper, a recognized Lioyd | " eorgian organ, usually expressing| OLYMPIA. ~~ After three days’ opinion, declares it in| trailing with dogs, Joe Senif, federal impossible for Britain to aasist| Predatory game hunter, kills female France in her attempts to rine out |COugar on Waddie creek of the financial quagmire if she in- | Sass sists on spending everything for submarines. “This isn’t the bargaining point, | but the acid test,” the Chronicte says. The Times declares the French at titnde will have “an unfortunate ef fect on American sympathy toward France.” It states that the world must await another conference for a settlement of the entire question. The Pall Mall Gazette denounced France, expressing disappointment 0 A at the French intention to utilize “money she owen Britain to build submarines against Britain.” 85 Street “When we see that France in de liberately . brandishing a weapon which is only used aggipesstvely,” it stated, “it a faree to pre tend that the entente has any virtue left.” The Gazette urges that the entente either be “mended or ended imme diately.” he Evening Star cHArged that ance's submarines are belng built se against Britain.” eee Wants Conference | | New Silk | Dresses becomes of All Natiens and WASHINGTON, Dee, 29. A con. brow ference of all nationa on limiting submarine activities sho@d the F resolution to that effect be by the arms conference, ts d ot | ry Hughes and President riety of trimming, including at the earliest possible » tae * ah it w a aaae nora: tole braiding, ribbons, embroidery, Bi believe that if the five big contrasting stitching and powers to restrict submarine ther nations given yrtunity to male simi lar pledg | Keystone State to Dock Here Tonight the last lap of her #econd round 6 that the an opr activitie hould be 1,500 '|MILL-ENDS 0 On Thursday peed of 425 Keystone the ipwe peed er Wenatcher un Orien 1 $1,000,000 con SPOKANE, Sherlock with death of Mrs. Mary Carr, killed Jury free in connection from blame in auto » cident last October, unadjusted | These men will be} Wife to Recover THE BON MARCHE -—q RGAIN BASEMEN Economize—Shop where you get the most for Your Dollar—and you will Buy in the Bargain Basement. Well - made, Dresses of Satin, Poiret Twill in both the straight line and belted mode French knots and dainty Geor- gette vests. 3lc and 35c In lengths from 3 to 10 yards, in nany tik || | patterns, and in both light and dark colors; 35- and 36-inch widths. (Mrs. Roosevelt } 110 LIVES LOST _ INBELFAST WAR Casually Toll for the Year Is Listed THE SEATTLE STAR CLARA SKARIN STARTS ON PAGE ONE the time of his death about $1,000 onlirenemem mare erntnennenemnmnamentiestip HERE'S more asouT | Skarin Girl’s te Aree ova carer Sengnetenecennmennanr-~-rteagdonean 4,O00GALLONS DIVORCE ASKE OF RUM SEIZED BY MRS, STUBB., “Wettest County in West” Is Dry Today Poems of Love AreUnearthed Restrains Husband Fron Using Community Property Capt, Tennant says he wetieves (“Mystery Woman” Loved RULFAST, Dec, 29.—The year ¢ the box contained well over The Old Maid,” Her ROCK BPRINC I 29 De Charging that! Nia warfare in Belfast han) $1,000, and probably all of the old Effects Show cotwater county, W the her husband, William H. Stubbs, had . tout of 110 lives, Kg a man's gold savings 4 e Spot tn te we gsamgiga of her to endure a life of shame were police, Five bundred and forty! notning ¢ = td ae Cinta, Mines anand ers swept down on to enear * D selty, | were wounded On, Se Pe . S Sinai ae tha Mike’ wnabe the oa arrested | Maude Moore Stubbs filed a sult for @ § | o- California cities on the trail of Clara| Blewe and § Poe © ncluding wome ree in the superior court here | BY ED b. KIEN }t0 indicate that they are any nearer | 2M" AM we ated more () yente and obtained a temporary | LONDON, Dee, 29.-—A comproming | their quarry than they were several babi nehine, Beores of WHISKY | order trom Judge Clifford restraining between the De Valera and Griffith ° oning of their com. days ago nen i earned that | favorite, “T a,” written t of Rock Springw’ 30 a factions impends in Dublin, follow. |““%* 8% when it wan I ; | George Bar and from molesting the statements of Premier Lioyd | *he had left Portland for Santa Bar Altho Clara herself was married 4 af “—~ n i five t ree, it was learned authoritative | bara. | sine fhe neal eotthous @ husband eine a Poy’ ry o borer he bs order is drawn againstsef ly doday | “Clara's sweetheart,” @ young man ther wedding day, She married It on 1 bank of oma to a A recognized mpokenman in Irish she was seen frequently to meet in| ert Winborn on hin death bed in Kala Phe ubbs mfety deposit box Wi affaires an agreement would | Wrifth ¢ from the | y M t i by Stubbs and éguinst 4 nasoo, Mich, “The Old Maid” fol-| federal court 16 at Chey mys : i ber Nh would aan ratl. | Hochbrunn inn @ Mmy® | lowe panel J. Hackett to prevent St ) the Angtelrieh treaty tery in the « : being refunded to fim, Hl reconvenen Janu tantiated the general ing public mentiment in be half of the treaty haw defeated Famonn De Valera in his fight against the pact Premier Lioyd-George authorteed | the Immuance of @ statement that no revinion, however slight, would be tol erated In the treaty, and that if the present treaty did not prove good enough there w be po other. SMALL TO GO ON. TRIAL ON JAN. 9 Illinois Governor Loses After Long Fight | 29. “GAN, UL, Dee ev must stand trial embelement of acy on January §. Redwards, WAUK Len Small harger funds and co Judge Claire ¢ on cireult court Judge, ruled today ‘The court's decision, in which seme founte in the indigtments against Smalt and Verne Curtis, Grant Park banker, and codefenda [thrown out of court, followed weeks of arguments by Small's attorneys asking that all indictments be quashed. | ix alleged that Small, while ing treasurer of Illinois, em led Interest om state funds that been turned into the It ery b should have tate treasury ‘TRIO ABDUCTS | | AUTO DRIVER TACOMA, Deo. 29.—Milftary aw thorities and deputy sheriffs con tinued their search today for the three men believed to bave been sol | diers, who abducted W. B. Townsend. an automobile mechanic, last night and at the point of a revolver, forced him to drive them to @ lonely «pot in the woods near Lakeview, where they robbed him and then fled in his ma. \ chine. The mechanic walked to South Ta- | com: ere he notified the military authorities, Motorcycle police from) Camp Lewis were dispatched to! search for the car and robbers, Severe California Storm Does Damage BAN DIEGO, Cal, Dec. 29—Re | ports of a severe storm on the Lower California coast have been brought to capt. Charles Martinson of the U. 8. const guard cutter Tin. gard. According to Martinson, the Mexican fishing schooner, the Olga ore near Sussum Point, and |the City of Ensenada was hard hit [by the storm. The Olga is the bout |that seized the American trawler Mabel recently, and figured in diplo- matic exchanges between Washing. jton, D. C., and Mexico City. | S$. STEPHEN CORRICK, who! killed Mi ay" evening near Wardner, Idaho, when a sled upon which she wan coasting struck nutomobile Grace 1. | wan an Mre prewent wae a Cottrell, who is a in Seattie. Models in and Wool $10.00 well - fashioned Serge, in navy blue and n. There are many styles and a wide va- Siz *s 14 to 40. Yards F CRETONNE te Chedotal and Mrs dawin 1 today the peculiarity of hia They remembered sesing hun and Clura meet three times. YOUNG MAN FOLLOWED HER On each much ooeasion, Clara was seen to leave the hy with & market basket on her arm and to walk down PIfth ave, towards town, The young man, ¢ the opposite direction ning from would swine in clone behind her and follow her ' of them conversing, until they ut of view “The girl didn’t have any money of her own.” suid Mrs. Chedotal, speaking of the gold Clara ia maid to have had er the murder and hefore she disappeared “After she came here from the Mast lant July, Hochtfunn told me he had sent her $50 and a Ucket from Chte to Seattle.” Prosecutor Douglas 1 turned over to handwriting experts, 1. chief of the Neve Reeret Bervice, May ¢ Interna tional o1 Miller, all the alleged forgeries in the and case for them to determine powitive | y whether they were done by Clara or someone ele The situation it Now stands wae summed up b Capt. Tennant “When we h up with the case in complete.” Be gave her iife to they anid room in the Hochbrann Fifth ave body ered after bis Clara led out of worth reading Mrs, Stubbs claime her bushandiiag! her women give their all to DECRIES WAR property. One-balf igige gals * her share Others were fickia fhe was passing WITH JAPAN D who assisted Stubiilie +, and falth without alleged mistreatment of Mi Possibliity of war between Japan| Moore Stubbs on December 24, od, Gutters © and the United States was decried by|named in the complaint as p a banquet given for | Stolph. This - ti nd his party | was found in Btubb *e consulate Wedneb | returned from Knoxvil nary nt ed! |the close of her sensational trial w and educator tn fthurder. Tt te alleged in the mult th Viscount Shibusawa, the “erarid| Stubbs held his wife and Miss Stel at her fusal to retur eterized Re | k and be ike a tiger with | Stub» gle” He predietea! nd trade progrens her growing emanded of her sation will be filed ag until the white slavery 4 pnt t him last Mon joned by the vestigated, acc ument provided | the prosecutor's office, for them. visitors lett | aaa a Zengotey, Merniee Soe Pa See wea Drepeatl ; rom Loca + him wow her halr is growing } For conduct unbecoming af Ezra Meeker to ret ent. wabocnmning Celebrate Today. wis sisminsea trom the police 4 Visra Meeker, 91-year-old pioneer of ment Wednesday by Chief of Washington, wa celebrate William Fi, Searing. Nortion in wreat for § times and seasons found her etill again placed his w foll of eweetnems till the of enterta’ abe never took the Japanese ed one The found in Clara's houne, 2620 where ber grand-uncle's for two months un wder. ‘The finder is poem was his bh Harem vclal Investigator | birthday anniversary twice at Meves to have been intoxicated while gap 1€ Prosecutor Ma in Douglas, cafeteria Thursday At 2 p. m. he | duty last Monday. co Douglas is oping it and seme was to be hor nd rs ee ci Aher pooma Clara had clipped from | Borrowed ‘Tim REV, W. H. BLISS was to a I to newspapers, These, he maya, he pick-|inneheon, At 6 p. m. the Young Men's Republican club gal her collection as being} union will be held in hi narcotic evil Thursday in Wi fu followed at 720 b oferta. TheBon Marché |; STORE HOURS--9 A. M. TO 5:30 P. M. i } ‘ Silk The by Goth _ “Yel Brings Reductions of | 20 to 50 Per Cent Women’s Coats and Dresses Reduced | to $23.75, $33.75, $43.75 and $53.75 Dress Goods and Coating Remnants Half Price Cot Ginghams, Percales, Challies, Galateas, Cretonnes—lengths from 2 tc 5 yards. and Velvet Remnants |} at Half Price < FABRIC FLOOR—THIRD ton Goods Remnants One-Fourth Less ! THIRD FLOOR—THE BON MARCHE a a Zi Women’s Suits 20 to 50 _. Women’s Silk and Wool jj =. Per Cent Less—Now Dresses Half Price § 7} ™ $23.75—$33.75—$73.75 Now $7.50 to | $37.50 Women’s Prunella Skirts Women’s Blouses at 4 One-Third and One-Half Less Half Price—Now Marked you _ Now $3.46 to $16.66 "at $2.88 to $6.25 4 A Big Clearance of Stamped Goods The lot includes most desirable pieces that will be fine to make up during the dull days. Stamped, lace-trimmed Doilies and Scarfs. -Stamped Rose misses’ sizes only. | at 69c} a T to r -Children’s Stamped Linene Dresses,)) 2 to 4 years—tan, blue and rose. , Turkish Towels and miscellaneous| article. THIRD FLOOR e) ‘Crepe Smocks, ART SHOP.