The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 6, 1922, Page 1

AR itinerant ites poll tax should ro. It will go, The Star » &S Soon as the people have a chance to sign re petitions to that end and to vote on the meas- xt fall. feels eae iD Tonight and Saturday, unsettled torather, probably rain: mod- erate winds, mostly westerly Temperature Last 4 Hours Maximum, 43. Minimum, 37. Today noon, 39. og mr on catego olish the Poll Tax! The law never should have been The perience of other states had proved it to be a futile and unjust method. These facts would have been plain to an intelligent governor and legislature. Now Washington's passed, ex ugk at 3 own experiment with the poll tax has shown it to be high- ly expensive to collect; grossly unfair in that it ignores the principle of ability to pay, making the same levy upon crippled widow and multi-millionaire; and difficult to en- force generally. (1 neue SANDS in this state this last year have openly and successfully refused to pay. Other thousands have been overlooked. Still other thousands have skillfully side-stepped the sheriff. Gov. Hart’s argument that this tax was to reach the alien and the transient worker who net AND FIANCEE VANISH! illionaire and Girl Disappear on Their Wedding Day! The Star 'Goes Into 11,727 More Homes Every Day Than Any Other Seattle Newspaper Ratered as Rrcond Clase Matter May 8, PREDICTS DEATH OF ssor Frank Hull | Confident: Mean- Pr vhile Foes of Measure Plan Organization Here Jt the poll tax will be repealed at th Sessi ? ate legislature, te > ane wy ag ‘rank W. Hull. Jvery county assessor in the state,” said Hull, ey st the tax. At the annual convention of idbeunare: 6 iz + made public.” }) Fome Brew! fowdy, Folks! Are you unm thering the of ink splashee to gn the repeal ef the poll tax? eee eee A meeting will be called here next } week by Joseph R 11th ave. | the purpose of entinting Seattre citi | zens for the statewide fight to repeal | the poll tax and “to present « ane front against the arm: are. of apecip! corrupt interests | Ping sald he penny ' | pict A# noon as he ehgaged a suit 7 the way, what has become of | able hall somewhere downtown. | the $5 bills we paid to Gov. Hart| It Will be the purpose of the meet spring? ing, he said, to Jom hands with Spo. kane officials and citixens who yes }terday launched the anti pou ce | campaign in that city The Spokane plan is to place on| “ou may break, you may shatter The tar if you will ) POLL TAX was predicted today by County Asses-| jjion to the poll tax will be consolidated and the reall Manning. 1624} he announced today, for | 1899, at the Postoffice aj Seattin Wash, under the The Seattle Sta ot of Congress March 3, 1879, Per Year, by Mall, $6 to $9 SRATTLE, WAS WASH., FRIDAY, JANU ARY & 19%. eee PLL AAPL ALLA eee otherwise would escape taxation has been ludicrously disproved, NITIATIVE petitions are being prepared at the Spo- kane city hall. A Seattle organization is forming to circulate them here in a month or so, Be ready to sign them; that means REGISTER! Unle your name is on the pool books you are barred from signing. Go to the city-county building and enlist today in the cause of good citizenship for 1922. “TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE _ Pretty Seattle Girl Forgives ‘Drops $250, 000 Suit, Is Rumor gh nat paced Helene Jesmer CRASH OF ~ROMANCE — IS BARED IScetety Is Abuzz With News That Man’ and Girl Are Missing on Day Set | for Their Wedding LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 6.—Society was abuzz today with news of the disappearance of John P. Cudahy, son of the millionaire Chicago meat packer, and Miss Louise Chenier Franc’ is, of St. Louis, on what-was to have been their wed- ding day. | The engagement was announced by Mrs. Arthur Garesch! Francis, mother of the bride, at the Hotel Miramar, Monica, last month. Nuptials were to have taken place late in December. At that time, however, a postponement “for a tew days” was announced, | In the course of the ta young Cudahy left bis apartment at |the fashionable Ambassador hotel | He gave no forwarding address, hotel | attaches maid. It was rumored that —F was at the home ‘VALERA RESIGNS, _, THEN-GOES BACK “lHe Reconsiders Resignation on Promise of Vote BY CHARLES M. MeCANN Pad ' reUrement™ who are concealing his sithabeas While the search for young Cudahy was going on in seeret, Miss Francis and hee mother also | | disappeared. | tut the “fiver” you paid NEW YORK. Jan. 6-—Lovelywere current that the youns couple SIN, " . a the ballot. at ° . . 9 “The: © gone to - DUBLIN, Jan. 6-—Bamonn De Is the Gowernor’s still election tn paves ange ope Keneral/iteiene Jeamer, the former adored) were engaged to be married. Miss They have gone touring,” was the Boon tai nioéceaMin ice ceiheeats phate pealing the poll tax’ law that way |Md0! Of pleasuresecking New York.|Jeamer denied this and young Piant announcement at tne Miramar hotel. | Valera, after pi 9a ing a a goa 1 . “* at was |), on hi hood ot | was ried Burope « he The hosteiry dectined to furnish their tion as president of the Iridh repub. A Jen. Goethals asks $25,000 to make | passed by the lat legislature and |fence Tniin Me Panes vo yer ed | Thetlant eek oe ha ther’ ithe |imerary oF present address. ugg star’ otha ‘4 survey of the Columbla Basin’ signed, in spite of overwhelming pub.(Peatt Philip M. Plant? 19-year-old vigilant care of his mother. The | itinerary o lie to the dail today, withdrew it Se Aven dese te think be ie opanton sgaiane'e tar t ; hetr t6 transportation millions, and! young actreas retuned to her girl-| Gerald Cudahy, his brother, mem: | ion tne condition that a vote be Ojec 3 aed . > shat By Gov. Louls twit drop her $250,000 damage sdit| hood home in Seattle, where she |bers of the Swift family, millionaire * ' ete Witt? F. Har ad ke 1 numerous other ken on the peace treaty with Eng: H dedi wi er measures tnctuéed in the! t him, according to mutual «pent the «pring and summer meat packers, and num D ‘ ‘ . i 7 Spokane program, which Manning | ‘fiends here today valoncing at the home of her father, |wealthy Chicagoans who came here |land tomorrow You BET IT DOES! : hopes will he enaécund Bp eon WE} Minn Jeamer was driving with |M. H, Jesmer to attend the wedding, are taking! In his speech of resignation, which Mrs. Elizabeth Condon, 79, Se | OO liad to make the state nunie| Young. Plant from New Maven to| Last week came the news fhat/Part in the search for the alleged | carried with it the dissolution of his attle woman, smokes = corncob commission “ New York on the night of November! Miss Jeamer had entered suit for|baiking bridegroom to be 7 oe a A yy SE | . tee fappers jon @ non-partisan 3 ete a pee: oe et ‘ a decla at hi pipe. Cigaret-smok: elective body and to give cities par 1920, when their car suddenly} $260,000 damages against Philir | would only remain at the head of Sinn | would follow her example, 6 | tial home rule powers. jhurtied from the track and crashed |Piant. Evidence that the young mit |Fein affairs ax a “republican.” Later | takes a shewoman to smoke a Manning said he would propose at|!nto a tree on the Pelham Hay park-|ionaire had proposed marriage to |he agreed to remain as president if a} ) ae. ks next week's meeting the organization | ¥*Y the girl before she was disfigured in | vote tarane Gahan Cameron | a 3 " ais of a state anti pol tax league. The star of the Greenwich Village|the automobile smashup was be-/| Kartier in the day the dail had/ corge Webber « he has Jos Follies was horribly injured. For} lieved to be one of the mainstays of rejected De Valera’s alternative pro- | 30 goidfi in Lake Union. Let u days she was not expected to live. | the plantiffs case. . ecg which he sutanitted to take | hope they thrive and maltioly. ‘Then | WONT REPAY Wirtg ie wan'eortai thatthe roung| Stew corks "ths :stdee thas tive] ie salar at the tteet meaea etl | Seattle will never be without canned actresn would survive her terrible ex. | youthful dancer has effected a re lowntee atreet | | POLL TAXES perience, it became known that she conciliation with her boyhood lover. | Driver Escapes in Hail of] “1 wit never be « Britisn subject.”| ' would never regain ¢ piquant! that a new romance has sprung up |De Valera exclaimed, indicating his | SPOKANE, Jan. 6.—There will beauty that had made her, a 19-year. | from the ashes of the wrecked auto | Bullets belief the treaty was about to be| | no “refund” provision im the state old girl, one of the great favorites offon the Pelham Bay parkway and] ratified. j initiative measure repealing the poll| the New York stage. that the $250,000 suit will be dropped!) penuties under Sheriff Matt Star A stormy seesion of the dail fol tax, it was announced at city hall| It was at thia time that rumors! forever wich were on the hunt Friday after: ;lowed the withdrawal of De Valera’s | today. It had been planned, at one a nab Ki HWE SS inoon for a bandit who fired on Ed |resignation after it had been tendered time, to include a nection providing a, driver of a Union Oi! company |so dramatically am ted in Seattye [227 MDAYMent to citizens of their $5] ltruck, in an attempted hold-up near| Arthur Griffith charged that De} It has often been ne 1 wee ax, on the theory that the tax was |Sunnydale shortly before noon. |Valera was seeking an unfair vote that there are fewer drunks since nconstitutional. The ax, however, 4 Ellis reported that when he was/on his own personality i prohibition, but they are drunker. has been heid to be legal |within half a mile of the Sunny¢ “I'm sick of this wrangling,” re ps Bh a City hall, which is leading the at-| grocery store on his way toward|plied De Valera, “Whatever hap-| CONFESSION tack on the poll tax and the former town the bandit stepped out of the|pens, I'll go back to private life.” | I Milled a human res “A rd ‘om rey oe asion, frankly | od brueh, leveling his gun, Instead of ee a admitted today that {t expected ; page Hine isyuised as a2 man halting, Ellis stepped on the gas. . Disowions a0 © San tough opposition from interested | St. Louis Bank Is Heavy| Suicide Attempt in Jail Cell halting. mits steppes on the ee Troops Fire Into sources and put ervice corpora “1 he bullet Thru the revolving door tione. It was pointed out that Loser; Doors Closed Is Thwarted |the bandit, the latter fired, the bulle | At the federal building, ' I pointed out tha n breaking the windshield j Crowds at Belfast; And hurt a child, 4 return to normal times the poll tax, | BELFAST, Jan. 6.Shooting and dnd hurt 0 ow ca adopted a# an emergency measure to| ST, LOUIS, Jan. 6—Arthur O.| L0$ ANGELES, Jan, 6.—Ar- | sinttha ensteipadhs takt ‘alas. Sadsies When I pave myseif up to meet a threatened deficit, would Pro | yfeininger, cashier, and $260,000 of| (hur Burch en) to commite su |CITY TO GIVE Inereawed military and potlee patrols. The cop on the corner, montly be working people, and thon | the funds of the Night and Day bank| ¢ide at noon yesterday, according TO 2, 000 ‘Troops were tore ed to fire upon | The efiicer eta relieve big corporations of a large’ were missing today to carefully suppressed news JOBS wan were seriou wounds and g Fs wise ag cg ners es slice of taxation ‘The bank was closed as examiners) which leaked oat of the sheriff's Approximately 2,000 men il be |" anta buy you a ¢ i > wanta buy y Mir, Anon. |,,THe corporations, too, are or cae | won ves the books | office today. given employment for a short period | ra. * : pio n at m = h barr wn| ‘Phe shortage in funds and the ab| Burch, who is on trial for alleged poems se bet porlve eee a | Sproul Decides Not 4 : yon that come dies clearing suburban streets an: | Sign on Automobile row retain their present hold on cities | sence of the cashier were announced | complicity in the murder of John) 1 ON UN Fo a GO A piper,| to Don Vacant Toga “Ford, bargain, won't last long.” thru the service body, now merged |in a statement issued by H. W, Ma-| Reiton Kennedy, tried to kill himself superintendent of streets and sewers. | aa pat cee with the public works department, | jor, member of the board of directors. | by diving head-first over a raili Pes wack sal Basteae Mabon ihe ITTSBURG, den. ¢—Barring an And here is the advertisement we | The initiative proposes to make this J. G, Hughes, Missourt coymis-| the jail to the concrete pave terms of an ordinance recently! enth-hour ¢ eng jov. Sproul | spotted in the “persor column of|a non-partisan elective body, giving | sioner of finance, said “an extensive feet below, according to rep passed by the council, which appro: will appo! ei Kawin 8, Sturt a newspaper—"Horace, do not come voters a measure of control over it. | shortage exists, altho I dg not know | circulation at the courtroom priated $10,000 for the improvement | ®* United States ; i} around again. Father is cleaning his| It im declared here to be an open | the full amount.” Chief Deputy Sheriff Al Manning | work the late Boies Penrose, it was learned gun.” secret that its personnel ia pifked in Hughes said he talked to Meining| and Deputy Patton selzed him just as! gimilar work Inst year gave em: | oP reliable authority here toda a Se the offices of public service corpora-|er on the telephone yesterday, and| he was clearing the guard rail, it was! ployment to more than 1,900 men| ~ ‘ ~~ CHANGE YOUR AD DRESS tions which {t is supposed to “regu-| requested him to call at the bank,| «ig |for ix days each, Piper said | ¥ f late.” but he failed to ehe and has not If you want to get away from the } 1d Patton were lendi ete a te eet ate Gutelitte | Registration for the purpose of | been seen since pa. of Ge fanning and Fasten var dena! Some People Have sige the 5 | stimu of the petition DRUM CRUSHES MAN TO DEATH, A. D. Wilkinson, 28, laborer em yed by the Northwestern Steel & initiative petitions was ated today thru announcement * start yesterday ee ‘The age of reason is coming, sa professor, But by the # Gov, Hart will be out . Seattle police officers say that number of the murders city in 1921 were due to | bad whisky. What other kind of pl whisky is there? Metal Co., 1560 First ave. S., was oe = j instantly killed Friday when a huge THE AUDIENCE WILL STAND | metal drum filled with serap tron | 29 | Burch back to his cell — oy De ped a charge | JudRe ve had adjourned court at 68 Meininger on a charge Don 6 trio had just crossed the | jof grand larceny was ordered by noor he trio had ju r it “Bridge of Sighs,” from the court house to the county Jail, when Burch purposely stumbled nd fell behind, according to the report in circulation today. Prosecutor Howard Sidene Capital of the bank was $150,000 and surplus $110,000, MAN DROWNS IN NEAH BAY The body of © of 84 Marion Manning and Patton are said have whirled and seized him just as he was sliding over th down Foxterwold,| Purch's attorneys nallor |that he ig insane. havo per aboard \the U. 8. lighthouse tender I was brought t ttle Briday charged, according to Capt. A terwold drowned Thursday afternoon |Hammerstrom, The little vessel wa h, say, can you sing from the|fell on him in the Argo junk yard. start to the end, Wilkinson was loading the drums BERR iat 10 proudly you stand for|on a” platform in the company of sev aohen vehesire plays tt eral fellow workmen, As he stooped, When the whole yreyation, in| % nearby drum fell over him, erush voices that blen ing him beneath it | Strikes up the grand tune and then| The body was taken to the morgue dpitures dad slays tt! An attempt is being made to locate era his relatives And a Seattle minister says that five dances of jazz have the same effect as five drinks of whi And | (Tarn to Page 7, Column 2) when a small boat capsized in Neah | swamped by a hugé breaker Bay Oblin was immediately reseued, but He and a man named Oblin had Fosterwald was caught in some been left to guard the small boat |ropes and died soon after being ex while the lighthouse was being re. tricated READ “THE SNOWSHOE TRAIL” °. °°. * | seriously to! railing, he a claimed | iBOY VICTIM OF SHOOTING Gerald Lindsay, 18, was shot and wounded early Fridity morning while visiting at the home lof a friend, Harold Orth, 4749 Sev enth ave, N The body was taken to the Seatt! ral hospital, Po An Odd Habit of Savings Things They still havea lot of pictures, but no place to hang them They have a piano, but no one to play it They have a lawn mower, but no lawn to mow lea are makin investigation. They have a shotgun, but do |] not go hunting . || ‘They have a bassinet, but the Mahoney Hanging || auiiird'ure grown ur, Date Passes By! And so it goes—sarret and cel |} Jar are full of things which are | James honey, eonvieted wife! | no long ected, ially sentenced to be quietly reading in murderer = |hanged today the county Jail. |layed pending completion of hig ap Ipeal to the court enya It Is on Page Six of | The Star Today iT; carded thingy, you haye a lot of such dis why not sell them thru a Want Ad in The Star? All sorts of things change hands every day thru Star Want Ads Your telephone is a Star Want Ad receiving station, war The exeoution is de state suprem | 1 State Should Make Good Its Guarantee Is Morally Obligated and Also Has Strong Practical Reason for Repaying Bank Losers (EDITORIAL) The Star believes the state of Washington ought to repay the depositors of the Scandinavian American bank in full for their losses by direct appropriation from the general fund. And tiat the next legislature, if it studies the question, WILL TAKE THIS STEP. There are two good reasons: 1. The state of Washington is morally obligated. The state created the guaranty fund and permitted the 100-odd member banks to display on their windows and on their printed matter the “guaranteed” emblem, with Photograph of the front window of the Scandinavian American bank of Seattle as it was for many months prior to its closing. Note the “Deposits Guaranjeed” sign and the reproduction of the state seal. its reproduction of George Washingtén’s picture in the great seal, which stamped those banks in the minds of the citizens with the indorsement and the unqualified backing of the state of Washington. This fact in itself is sufficient reason why the state should now make good, 100 cents on the dollar, the claims of every de- positor. 2. Public expediency. The whole state faces a dis- turbing situation. The guaranty fund contains slightly more than a half million. Th> bank’s losses may run several times that amount. The exact liability of the 100-odd state banks has never been legally determined, If the courts rule that they are liable for the entire © loss, responsible, informed bankers assure The Star, there are several banks in various parts of the state which will almost certainly go down. When they fail there is the legal possibility that the remaining banks would then be liable for THEIR losses in addition to the Scaridinavian American less, That added load would drag others down, until the whole system would be a wreck. It is to forestall any such calamitous out- come that the legislature should step into the breach. The Star does not wish to be unduly alarmist on this subject. The facts we have set forth were not devised in the fertile imagination of some uninformed or in- terested person, but were furnished by conservative- minded bankers who have studied the situation. In presenting the subject The Star understands that the idea at this time of appropriating the million or two million dollars for reimbursing these depositors, mainly residents of King‘county, will not arouse en- thusiasm in other parts of the state. We are con- vinced, however, that an unprejudiced study of the facts will convince any citizen that the whole state does share both in the moral obligation and in the common menace, The one way to have given the depositors a maxi- mum of justice without resorting to a state appropria- tion and to have saved the situation for the other banks has already failed. That was by a reorganization such as the proposed Bank of Washington intended. The Star indorsed that idea heartily because it felt it to be in the public interest. The plan was. withdrawn because a minority of the depositors objected. Now there remains, as we see it, but the one safe way out. What do you people of the state think of the GISTER EARLY, . idea? APAN, CHINA E J » CHINA IR OFFICIALS URGE Do your registration early! NEAR BREAK( WASHINGTON, Jan, 6, — The}, This Is the advice of Chiet Regis ae Tle tration Clerk E. R. Coffin, who hopes. virtual Chinese matum that) + reduce the 1ith-hour rusty that im Japan, by not later than this after: | yariably occ books are before the otion, + vious registration periods, voters vare flocking to th closed for | Unlike pi Seattle noon, agree to China's terms for the purchase of the Kiao Chow railway in Shantung was rejected by the Jap: | books early this year. More thas anese today 525 ; : ‘ ’ 525 voters were enrolled Thurs Only mediation by Secretary of . ms 2 State Hughes and Albert J. Balfour tling tne Shantung problem | hinges can prevent @ break, Hope of sct- sth on the railway question,