The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 30, 1921, Page 7

FRIDAY, DEC by Officers * “genaational charges. of the country all parts " the men be summoned. NBGROES HANGED AFTER THE WAR in the navy, at San Diego, Cal, Bazoocbes, France. @ 1919 and asked & chance “to fhe guilty ones to justice,” th the uniform the next morning. I talked to them I re not guilty.” the exact date of the but gave the elle of Montana an PIE ACCUSED IN MORE MESSAGES former private in company I, the truth.” at with petition to say anything. weuld have gotten the same he Gd,” said Bell. hanged in camp at France, without py trial at all.” diers were hanged, Watson sa very long. is bound to be upward, get busy. GUARANTEE 30x3 8.25 90x34 8.00 32x33 11.00 31x4 11.50 2x4 15.25 33x4 15.40 4x4 15.75 32x44 14.50 33x43. 15.00 35x44 17.00 36x44, 17.50 Cord Tires Marked Down Accordingly No war tax. orders. reliable house. Fatablished Seven Years TIRE SHOP W. 0. Standring, Prop. 1026 PIKE ST. Corner Boren Elliott 0446 int Nazaire is not one of the Places at which the war department Tecords show that any of the 11 gol legally executed dur pe ELLINGHAM.-—Playing wi T= caps, Delbert Z And selling below factory cost and cannot remain at these prices The next move in tire prices FABRIC NON-SKID UNLIMITED MILEAGE Casing Tube 1.35 1.40 1.50 2.25 2.50 2.60 2.75 3.00 3.05 3.20 3.25 Mounting free: No deposit required om mail Buy your tires from an old PIKE STREET DENCE OF ban i Senator Watson Is Deluged With Stories of Murders BY FRASER EDWARDS WASHINGTON, Deo. 30.—Charges that soldiers were illegally banged, | by officers and brutally treated the war continued to pile up} before the senate committee | westigating Senator Tom Watson's Hvery mail brings Watson letters ‘and telegrams from war veterans in who declare they have evidence to prove his charges, He is turning them over | the committee and asking that George D. Glazebrook, an enlisted board the U a8 wrote ratgon today that he witnessed the hanging of two negro soldiers in the spring bring | can say with a true heart and| nee that these two ne. | were hanged without trial and of the United army on,” said Glazebrook. “I to both of them and they told | that they were going to be Up to knew said he could not re hang jon of “Lieut. Dr, Perkins, captain in the medical corps,” as two officers who were present. ‘Charges against Ma} H. L. Opie @f Staunton, Va. who has been ac Ievi P. Bell of Purcellville, Va. a 166th Iafantry, wrote that Henry L. Scott, Akron, Ohio. who made the original dharges against Opie, “absolutely told . several others saw the same thing he did but were not in for we thing LC. Mason of Davenport, Towa, wired that he saw two negro soldiers Saint Nasaire, ‘a fair trial, if they ts y- 7% R30, 1921, THE {Teas RL: MAKE FF-MUCH EASIER.) HERE’S MORE ABOUT ARMS PARLEY STARTS ON PAGE ONE that France, Italy and Japan would fall in tine, tho previously an Amert-| can delegate had been pessimistic. The fivepower delegates, however, are now on record ag reaffirming an- cient rules of warfare, which require: 1. Merchantmen must be ordered to stop for visit and search before Any Sinking can be attempted. 2. A merchaaiman must not be at- tacked unless she refuses to stop aft or warning. 3. Proviaion must be made for crew and passengers of a torpedoed ship. Meanwhile, the French have ob jected to restrictions on ordinary air- craft and the conference has decided Rot to premw the topic. eee JAPAN HOME LAND BARRED BY A. L. BRADFORD WASHINGTON, Dec. 1¢-—~The homeland of Japan will be excluded from the application of the four-pow- er Pacific treaty, according to an au- thoritative statement here today. Already Secretary of State Hughes and Baron Shidehara, the Japanese ambassador, are said to have reached an informal understanding that the islands constituting Japan proper be not included within the terms of the Pacific pact The interpretation of the negotia tors of the treaty that it included the homeland of Japan haa threatenéd to be an objection to the pact that might cause its defeat. The effort to secure a reinterpre tation of the treaty to exclude the homeland of Japan was started by the Japanese delegates here, acting on instructions from the Tokyo gow ernment, eee PARIS, Dec. 20.—-Economic e¢x- perts of Britain and France met here today to break ground in the finah- cial rebuilding of Purope, Sir Lamar Worthington Byans headed the #ritivh delegation which conferred with the French under M. |Luis Locheur, minister of the Uber. ated regions. A plenary seesion of British, French, Belgian and Italian repre sentatives will be held in the famous clock room at the forelgn office this afternoon to draw wp formal plans which will be submitted to the meet- ing of the allied supreme council at Cannes: | The plan for a pan-European eco | nomic conference to which Germany land Russia are to be invited has not jyet been completed, Briand informed the senate, GERMANS SEE STRIKE PERIL BERLIN, Dee. 30.-—-A general lutrike loomed here today as the al lies in France began negotiations for the economic rehabilitation of Ger. many | ‘The railway union began a walkout | which will tie up the entire Rhenish district and sympathy walkouts are | expec The crisin developed when the Ger. man cabinet rejected demands of workers, |10,000 Ton Limit to Cruisers Okeh WASHINGTON, Dec, 30: thousand tons as the limit for cruis ers was agreed upon by the naval disarmament committee today. ‘This decision, amounting to elim of competition in cruiser con- , is subject only to approval from Paris—an approval which is 6x pected shortly The session was concerned mainly with discussions of the proposal to make filegat any use of submarines against merchantmen. The British amendment making the new rule ap. plicable immediately to the five wreat powers, was debated extensive ly, with the rewult that France, Italy and Japan asked their governments for instructions No werious objection to the pro- posal wan rained by the conferees and an American delegate predicted the home governments will adhere to the proposal Ten| Fors | Tau. Him THAT MINE IS Gorn LOWER FEDERAL | TAXES IN 1922 | -— | |/Everybody Starts Off With Saving of $7 | | BY JAMES T. KOLBERT WASHINGTON, Dec, 30.—-EV°ry/ aericuitural conference to help that! man, woman and ehild in the United! States will start off the New Year| with a direct saving of §7 in fed-| eral taxes which during the year will expand to four times that eum. Under the new revenue act which! | becomes effective January 1, $700,-| | 000,000 in taxes lopped from the budget. But experts of the trear |ury department today stated that | four times that figure will acorue to the. taxpayers, due to "he pe culilar operation of the economic aw. Many of the changes In the rev enue act will mot benefit certain clases of taxpayers until 1922, But the average wage earner will effect) jan immediate saving tn his income| an well as tm Other taxes Under! the new act the head of a family| is exempt up to $2,500 instead of $2,000, and $400 for every dependent [instead of $200. This reduction i | Petrometive to incomes @urtne thiv year, Other changes effective January are: Repeal of the § per cent govern [ment tax on passenger and Pullman | fares, and 3 per cent on freight) | rates, express and parcel post taxes. | Elimination of the “nulmnce”| taxes, such as the pennies paid at! soda fountains, or coameticn and) Uke taxon, Repeal of the Ineurance taxes, Retuttion of taxes on candy, cereal beverages and works of art Changes in luxury taxes bene ficial to the consumer. ‘The repeal of the exces profits! taxea, reduction in the surtax rates ang the reduced corporation income tax, made effective January 1, 1922, will not benefit this clang of) taxpayers until 1923, ‘Treasury officials estimated fed era) collections for the fineal year} of 1922 (up to June 30, 1922), would) total $3,214,009,000; for the fincal year of 1928, $2,411,000,000, and calendar year of 1923, $2.560,000,000 Little Mary’s Sister to Wed, Studio Rumor LOS ANGELES, Dee. 30.—Laettie | Pickford, /sister of “Little Mary,” and herself a\former motion picture favorite, in to marry Allen Forest, actor, on January 7, according to a rumor current in Hollywood Forest would not deny the report. Mise Pickford, however, expressed surprise that “uch an odd rumor” was in circulation. Lottie Pickford wan divorced a year ago from Albert G. Rupp, New York broker, whom she mar ried in 1912. She charged Rupp with desertion. ‘The screen colony was congratu lating two more newlyweds here to} day following the marriage of Jack | Mulhal) and Evelyn X. Winans, farmed San Francisco beauty. Mul ‘a former wife, who wns Miss Laura Bunton before her mar riage, committed suicide here a few for months ago. His first wife, merly Miss Bertha Vuillot, beauti ful Paristenne, said to have been the original Gibson girl, also died Salmon Trade Shows) Signs of a Revival Heavy orders for canned salmon of | the pink variety presage a revival of fish trade, The J. P Heveritt Co. shipped an or. cases Thureday, the largest sent from Seattle in several weeks, Stocks of canned fish in the East are believed depleted. Sam Hill Sails for East to See Joffre Samuel Hill sailed Friday on the Fushima Maru for Yokohama, to meet Marshal Joseph Joffre, former | of the French | the canned Todd-C. M der of 10,000 commander-in-chief armies “Papa” Joffre, as he is affection ately known, is now in Hingapore, He is expected to reach Seattle early in March. CONFERENCE ON FARMS PLANNE Cabinet Considers Steps to Save Industry Dee. WASHINGTON, 36.—Ad industry out of Its financial slump, is under consideration, it was learned today, The tentative plan calla for @ conference of representa tives of farmers, railroads, financial [institutions and agricultural imple ment makers. ‘The subject was Gincuwed at to day's seawion of President Harding and his cabinet, tt was undentood. feeretary of Agriculture Wallace is whipping the plana Into shape. Irapetus to consideration of the com ference was given by the publica tion of crop report values by the department of agriculture showing that the value of thi year's crops had dropped nearly 50 per cent from last year, Kepresentatives of farm errant wmtions contend that the agricul tural industry cannot survive unies action ts taken to bring the cost of production in line with prices re celved by the farmer. HERE’S MORE ABOUT POINDEXTER STARTS ON PAGE ONE inclined to be very Hberal towards Alaska. The thing we must avoid in the pomubility of giving Alaska over to the rule of any one man, utocracy “Of courne, the work?’s a ia not exactly centered on the Sand Point aviation field project. The Chamber of Commerce is now asking congress to consider other fields at Bremerton and Camp Lewis. This ia rather confusing. Pervonally, I prefer the Sand Point site.” Whisky Death Toll Takes Nine in East NEW YORK, Dec. %0.—New York's polson whisky death toll reached nine today. Seven more persons were suf: fering from drinking wood alcohol. Detectives were searching for the criminals who fooded the market with polson bootleg whisky, in bot- ties with counterfeit labels and rev- enue stamps. Tacoma Veterans Want Lower Fare OLYMPIA, Dec. 30-—An appeal for the reduction of street railway fares for disabled war veterans from § to § cents was presented Thursday by O. M. Thomas, representing the veterans, to F. R. Spinning, of the de partment of public works, It was pointed out by Thomas that Seattle permits disabled veterans to ride on the municipal railway for 3 cents Officials of the Tacoma Railway & Power Co. are said to have little ob: fection to the proposed change. Franklin County Loses N. P. Suit OLYMPIA, Dec. 20.—Suit of Franklin county to compel the Northern Pacific railroad to pay the 1917 road tax levied against the com pany by the county, failed yesterday, when the supreme court upheld the railroad company and ordered the su perior court to overrule a demurrer to the rallroad’s suit to compel de livery of @ tax receipt, Dr. Cassels Given Vets’ Bureau Job Appointment of Dr. W, G. Cassels, of this city, to head the tuberculos: section of the medical department of the Pacific Northwest district of the United States veterans’ bureau was announced at the district office, tn the Arcade building, Mriday. He will begin his new duties January 1. ABERDEEN, — Mra. Ida Greer, widow of Patrolman John Greer, ap: [pointed police matron, SEATTL STAR TROLLEY BANDIT §.. & Broadway street car eon ctor, of his token and coin holder, and $22.80 in cash, Mal) told the police he was going turned east on Fir et, where Hail lost sight of him after a chase Five hours earlier the same ban at stopped J. T. Chapman, 1650 North et. at Woodlawn ave. and North 37th at, as ¢ wae returning home and bim of $12 | 8 er UL ASTIN! | ST. PAUL KILLS NEW CHARTER ST. PAUL, Dee. 30.~—8t. Paul turned down a chance to return to the aldermante form of government at @ epecial election yesterday. Only two wards gave the proposed new city charter majorities, ‘The vote was 21.549 against the new char. ter and 16,123 for it, To pass, the proposition needed 60 per cent of the votes cant. The fight for and against devel oped a spectacular newspaper war Opponents of the new charter prom ised to submit a city manager plan of government in 1922 to supplement the present commission form. Seys Canton Has Business Chances! Pnjoying a stable government and jabwolute security of life and property within the elty, Canton, China, offers exceptional returns to American cap- ital, ‘This is the word from Macy M Skinner, former professor of bust nees administration at the University of Washington, and now an instruc tor in economics at the Canton Chria | tian college, at Canton, China The letter has just been received by R. W. Green, vice president of the King County State bank BURGLAR PROVES TO BE A TURKEY TACOMA, Dee, 26.—City dedectives answered Mrn M. C. Taylor's frantic | |appeal Inst night when she phoned | that « burglar was attempting to en ter her home. | They found Mre Taylor pacing ths | floor with @ revolver in her hand, | land @ pet turkey outside brushing [tte tall feathe: apuinst the door, Méeker Celebrates His 91st Birthday Mixty members of tho Borrowed | Time club and thetr friends gathered at Moves’ cafeteria Thursday, in hon. or of Dara Meeker, ploneer tratl bias | er of the Northwest, who celebrated | hin Sint birthday, Meeker waa borp | in Odio, In 1830, and in 1852 came to} Puget sound by ox team. Meeker do. | jolared he expected to meet his! | friends again om his 100th birthday. | TACOMA. — Investigation of | jcharges that Police Chief Harry M. | Smith used hie influence in protect ing relatives arrested for drunkeness, are halted by Public Safety Commie. sioner Fred Shoemaker, Gtarts on Page One) la welcome to use all the balr pins ig the house to fix the car, ee “Does it matter? . ee Some men of 60 feel Ifke 30, but more of them feel like 30 cents ee About the only thing @ fellow can | think of in a room in @ mail town! hotel {s how long that carpet bas been on the floor, | eee Personally we may be passe, but all the same the old-fashioned school girls who wore their hair pig-talled grew up and got married without doing the courting. 7. WILL SOME GIRL VOLUNTEER? WANTED — Experienced helpers on kisses, Apply to National Candy Co., Mt. Clemens, Mich—Ad in De troit Free Press. | cee BUTCH WALPOLE'S CALFSKIN, = | (Aikeston, Me, Standard) | “wa must treat our new cook with respect. She belongs to the Revolu- tionary Dames where she came, from.” “Where'd she come from?” | “Mexico | | DIVINITY STUDENT - SUED FOR BREACH OF LOVE PROMISE DES MOINES, Ia, Dec. 20 ‘Thomas Hanson, a student at Dew Moines university Bible college, has been sued for $5,000 heart balm by Miss Agnes M. Rosen- kelde, student at Northwestern Biblé college, Minneapolis, in dis- trict court here. Miss Rosenkelde lived i Coun- ‘cil Bluffs, la; where Hanson went to conduct Bible classes, He met and wooed the girl there, then persuaded her to come to Des Moines and work, where she could be near him, she alleges, Then, she states, he persuaded her to go to Minneapolis, to Bible school, to better fit herself to becogie his wife, While she was studying in Min neapolis, she charges, he fell in love with another girl and now re nigs on his promise to marry her. '7 BUILDINGS death in an a a black sult, stopped him with an automatic plxtol at 14th ave. and f)™ Yeuler way, After the robbery, the bandit ran north on 14th ave. and | | } | iat). uliieiatiiied LOST IN FIRE TACOMA.Word received of the ‘d of his he t. noble w dent at|¥ Benning, Ga, of Mra, Katherine | * loott, wife of Col, Francia C. teott, formerly with M1nt division | PORTLAND, Ore —T. Oda to work when the bandit, wearing In France, Col. Wndicott was injured |enced to 13 months in McNeil island | stolen, including a famous play, Tt ilor’s pea coat, a dark hat, and in the crash | who wan shot and killed in the front Mustang jas ftentiary on narcotic charges, POSSE ON HUNT (OBTAIN CLUES AT WORK AGAIN QUINCY, Mans, Dec, 30.—Four) IN DEATH CASE An international gang of film persons were reported injured and | thieves is held responsible for the | ia |neven buildings were destroyed or theft of films valued at approx’ Holds Up One Man Within partiany damage in a fire in| Bank President Slain in Yard | mately $100,000 from the vault of the 10 Blocks of Station | the heart of the business district here of Home Metro Pictures Corporation, 2009 today, Third ave, Wednesday night. City | Working th remarkable Firemen were greatly hampered by| OKILAIIOMA CITY, Okla., Dec, 20, | detectives and representatives of # daring, a believed by po [the severe cold. Help was, cailed|—A sheriff's wee today hunted | national detective agency were work: | lee to be the street car bandit, | from Boston and other nearby towns, |Oklaboma county In search of Sehell ing on the case Friday, and are re | who held up and robbed two Karly estimates placed the damage | ctor, an Oklahoma City Insurance| ported to be in possession of valuable street cars Wednesday night, | agent, who is wanted in connection se came within 10 blocks of the po. | $300,000 jwith the death of E. W. Brindley The robbery was discovered by A. lice station early Wriday and | - > president of the Mustang Btate bank. | pioom, who found the glass in the robbed A, W. Hall, 606 2ist ave. | \t door smashed and the door un ocked by turning the key from the | inside. ‘The combination of the vault had been worked by an expert safe and 11,000 feet of film tr cracker, Four Horsemen of Apolalypea” FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET Especially Interesting Among Clearance Groups Are the Coats Reduced to $53.75 FUR-COLLARED for the most part, and in the lovely soft woolens that reign this season, the handsome appearance of these Coats would ordinarily indicate a much higher price than $53.75. Choice of Navy, Brown and Black, with collars of wolf, mole, slynx, nutria, beaver and Australian opossum—sharply re- duced in price—$53.75. 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CLEARANCE assort- ment of Odd Lots of Table Cloths, Remnants of Table Damask, Napkins in half-dozen lots, Remnants of Linens and Towelings, broken lines of Towels—greatly un- derpriced for disposal. —First Floor 2,000 Yards of Wash Cottons Reduced to 25c Yard BROKEN assortments of standard cotton materials — including 30- inch fancy striped Zephyr Ginghams and Madras Shirtings, in attractive patterns; also 36- and 40-inch Printed and Cotton Voiles, reduced to 25¢ yard. —First Floor Downstairs Store Broken Lines Boys’ Suits and Coats brown, gray and tan mixtures, re duced to $3.35. 30 BOYS’ BLUE SERGE SUITS, sizes 13 to 18, reduced to $4.95. 69 BOYS’ SUITS in green, tan, brown and gray mixtures, sizes 10 to 18, reduced to $5.45. 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