The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 13, 1922, Page 7

FRIDAY, REMAN IS :) INURED IN + ROOF FALL! Blinded by ‘Smoke in Early Morning Fire, He Plunges Thru Skylight Fighting an carly morning Blaze on the second Moor of the jal Importing Co. at Western ave. and Spring st. Ovcar C. Starrett, 46, S642 Reach drive, acity firewan attachéd to, Hose Company No, 5, was badly injured Fraay, He was blinded by the dense JANUARY 13, URE, he fell by broken was taken to Provt- tling the flames for Uremen the blaze, whieh mainly to clothes ers belonging to employes, P fire started at 6:20 a. m. The origin of the fire is un- Rowe. } President to Open WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Presi dent Hardirlg will open the national mn ‘agricultural conference here with an address om problems confronting the farmers, Secretary of Agriculture - ‘Wallace announced today, HOME OF THE BEST $2.50 GLASSES ON EARTH lene grinding plant—the Torie and Kryptok IN- BIFOCAL LENSER Always Retladle Marcum: Optical joee new Pilate. which “le ie the strongest plate known, | ihe root of the ite corm of: S gwarantecd 15 yeara nea -. “ “ aranteed for 15 years. lave impression, taken in the morn eth same da: xam- nation and advice free. Call and See Sempiecs of Our Piste and Bridge Werk. We Stand the Test of Time Moét of our present patronage te recommended by our early custom- one work is still givin satisfaction. Ask our’ cust coming to our office, be sure are in the right place. Bring he a with you. Cut-Rate OHIO Dentists | 907 UNIVERSITY sr. 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Dec, 25.4(Delayed)—This is the country of “frozen death.” } Death in the snow on the long roads that lead, not to food, but ob livion, death along, and far from | loved ones, of with loved ones wateh ling them tn dirty, foul smelling huta, where the last piece of furniture has been sold for “bread,” death on rail roada, in dirty box curs on the way to Siberia—such in the death that is comirig daily, hourly, to those who are left in this tiny republic, near the head waters of the Volma. Village after village in this region) has already lost two-thirds, some times three-fourths. its population, according to the UWf¥arying accounts Jof scores of refugees with whom I talked today ‘The last of this year’s meager har veat has now been consumed, and no food’ is being shipped into this dis Farming Conference! trict. As yet there are no kitchens, even for the ehildren, altho this re lef has been promised by the cov. ernment. There are rumors that the A. R. A. will come soon, with Amer. lean food for the children, however. re ready to die,” one refugee they will only save the Meanwhile the Might, or the at |} tempted Might, of the peasants con | tinues, HAYS TO QUIT ON MARCH 4? WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—-Post- General Hays “very prob will resign on March 4, from President Harding's cabinet and be come fegal adviser to the motion ;picture industry in the United | States, It was learned here today on the Highest authority. Official announcement of Hays’ step is expected within the next few days. Hays has told close friends he very probably” will take the new office. The offer, which war made by the National Association of the Motion Picture Industry, provides for an an- nual net salary of $100,b00. From sources close to the White Hopse it was learned that Walter & Dickey, of Kansas City, given mont serious consideration for the appointment to the post. publican national committer, Senato® New, Indiana; Charles G. Dawer, di reetor of the budget, and Albert | Lasker, chairman of the shipping OVER SLAYER) An armed guard was placed, Fri dag, in the city to frustrate | jany attempt which might be made | toward escape by Henry R. Foster, | who, after killing bis mother-in-law, | Mrs. Mary Bushnell, turned his weapon upon himself, New Year's jeve. Foster also shot. Robert Walk er. a vistior at the Bushnell home, 1109 Elm pl, wounding him in the |“Fs police said. hospital Foster will tage murder chargen aa soon as he is physically able to be taken into court, according to the authorities, SALE OF PAPER | IS CONFIRMED | NEW YORK, Jan. 13.—Sale of the! New York Evening Post by Thomas W. Lamont to a syndicate was an nounced today There will no change in management or policy um der the new ownership ‘Slain Man Is Found in Fired Haystack | PORTAGE, Wis., Jan. 13.— The cliarred body of an unidentified man, with a bullet wound over the right |; eye, was discovered today in a burn ing haystack in a lonely marsh three miles south of here. The body was wrapped in a gunny | sack and a sheepskin coat. The man [a teen dead only a few hours The Girls’ and ” Shoe Specials for Saturday 73, THE POLLYANNA—Two-strap Pump in patent and dull calfskin $4.95 Goodyear welted $5.45 n Filbert Brown, wee 2% to 4, lish last, . $4.95 her style, year welt izen 10 to Girls’ & Boys’ Shoe Store 312 Pike Street ie being) | Others prominently mentioned are! John T. Adama, chairman of the re-| THE STRANGE DEATH (MORATORIUM HERE'S PROBED = FOR GERMANY’ Berlin to Devise New Plan| Post Mortem on Aged Man for Paying Debt Held by Coroner ny WEEE MILLER A poet mortem investigation of o of Charles 8. Swarts CANNES, Jan, 18-A_ provisional in the Blaine hotel, 3825 lowa ave..| moratorium for Germany was decid was bel made Frida by Coroner | ed » by the r rations commit H. Cor tee of the supre council before Rigody fingerprints fqund on the | its adjournment, it wae announced ol table cover, and on furniture |todhy about the room were being ked Germany will not have to pay the Friday by Detective John Flint of |640,000,000 to 700,000,000 gold marks the identification bureau to see inally nanded on January whether or not they were made by |but must present a new plan for Swerts or an unknown assailant payment ‘The body! was found covered with| Guarantees of financial reform! must aleo be given by the Germans. While the provimonal moratorium jis in effect, pending a new arrange ment for payments, the Germans munt pay 91,000,000 gold marks each held |\0 days, This te designed to speed i the Germans in arriving at a new plan for payments. Lioyd George today telegraphed to Millerand at Paris asking if the French president and Raymond Poin. care would meet him in Paris tomor row to confer on the proposed Anglo neh fennsive alliance questions of mutual interest. He will leave for the French capital to-| night. Meanwhile the supreme council which adjourned yesterday sine dis was breaking up. The French dele gation left early today, The Ger mans were to go this afternoon and the Itallans tonight The British delegation mud stains and wounds, The room itwelf also showed splatters of blood, and the furnishings were jin wild |confusion, ax tho a desperate strug gle had taken place A blood-stained ax in being by the coroner as a clue, Several wounds on the aged man’s body [were undoubtedly made with the weapon, police say. There is a possibility that Swartz have become mentally de ranged, but according to police, this is extremely unlikely, as there were bruises all ever the old man's body. Swarts’s stepson, Jack Wesley, a saw filer, is employed by the Sultan Rallway Timber company ut Ono, Wash. Hoe ts also said to have | relatives in Artington, The body is jhetd at the morgue. TRADE ABROAD . WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.— The|e*e of Uaprovoked German aggres foreign trade of the United Staten |.” extending over « period of fell off approximately 60 per cent|Yot". The pact tx renewable during 1921 compared with previous | British dominions are not obligated year, the department of comme ree |*° sign unless wand noprere. Jannounced today aC The total for 19%1 was about $7.- 000,000,000 compared with $13.5 {000,000 for 1920. Imports totalled $2,508%.500,000 com- jpared with $6,.278,500,000 for 1920. [Exports totalled $4,484,766,000, com- pared with $8,224.000,000 for 1920. Exports for December, 192 wore) lens than 84 per cent of December, 1920. Imports showed a small de- cline, SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12.—With the jury box temporarily filled but peremptory challenges etill in order. attorneys in the Roncoe (Fatty) Ar buckle trial for the alleged taking of the life of Virginia Rappe, had hopes of getting down to testimony late Saturday Altho Fatty has ciatnied he ts not superstitions, neither #ide wanted to start evidence on Friday, the 13th. Altho It would seem that every Jone in the world must know some| Jus | thing of Fatty and hie troubles, twolcame to Seattle, It was then that talenmen have sworn they had read|she opened her door to the first may today ts HERE’S MORE ABOUT RYTHER STARTS. ON PAGE ONE my own. I want to be in charge of them as 1 always have. “And what is more,” she mays, her brown eyes and hee wrinkled face so sad and still so eager, “I've always given the work in this home to the mothers of my hired ‘regulars’ an they're going te do now. Ob, | want to care for the home myself—and my children.” Yet the board of directors and the board of health saw fit to alter the management of the house, and to |place @ superintendent over the holdings which to Mother Rytper mean life and love. CAMP HERE 41 YEARS AGO 2 ARE HELD © IN ROBBERY Mike Dukiteh, 44, and his wife, Mary, 43, were being held by the the foundation for the great hearted, wonderful Institution that crew from her kindness. Mother Ryther lived then on 19th ave. and Yesler way, from where police Friday on suspicion of “fram-|%%* ™moved a few years later to ing” the robbery of Ely Brkich, 32,| Seventh ave. and Yeoler an Alaskan miner, of $1.000 cash at|5¢f family of mothers and young: 10th ave, & and Holgate st. carly |*t¢T beran noticeably to expand. Thureday. = 7 Today she ts Mother Ryther of the } Mra. Dukiteh Is accused of taking |&Teat bome for 90 children and \izkich to a dark spot, where he wan | their working mothers at the Stone leet upon and beateh by thugs, Dur| way Ryther home ing the robbery Bxkich says the| She if 13 ygare old, and “prest| \woman refused to aid him or to call | dent.” help. She is an Inmate of her own In. The woman whom Pxkich wan to/ stitution, she my» have married is not implicated in She is “mother” of the Ky- the robbery police said Friday, ther home, regardiess—honored | ——— and loved by all whe know Alleged Forger Is an ee Brought to Seattle Charges of forgery in the first de-| gree were filed superior court | Friday against William T. Harvey, 50, Harvey was arersted at Markin, | in Kittitas county, and was brought |to Seattle Thursday night by a dep. | juty sheriff, He is alleged to have paserd $500 to $600 worth of bad) checks In Oregon and Washington. | Wealthiest Woman in World Is Sued Yone Suzuki, said to be the wealth fest woman In the world, is a party in a wuit now being tried in the fed. eral court. W. A. Ward & Co, Van- couver, B. C,, in suing Suzuki & Co. Japanese firm, for $4,839.80 dam ces, covering 50 tons of Java su 1920, Yone Comment on THE OLD HOME TOWN Work of reconstructing the bridge over the Dungeness river has been state highway department. eee ‘The opened this week. Cleary Timber Co. office. eee Employes of retail fuel dealers and lumber yards have been placed in the extra-havardous occupation class, in conformity with the terms of the in- dustrial insurance act, Price of Fords to ices | The Port Angeles Commercial Club Be Reduced Again! ts otering prizes to pupils of the | WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. - The; | Roosevelt high school for essays on price of alt Ford cars will be reduced, “Thrift.” effective January 15, Henry Ford. today for a conference} The efty council tn Olympta Is with Secretary of War Weeks on the | planning work for 1 to eont $300,- Muacle nitrate project, an-|000, Five districts will be improved, nounced. ™ cle te The reduetion will be a smali’one,| ‘The Christmas seal sale in Walla he said. Walla netted the Anti-Tuberculosis aoa of league $1,457, according to figures PASSPORTS ma be Insued rd aa . x to Hungary as well as Germany and | eee Austria, a¢vording to Advices from the state department received Friday by EK 6 C, Rowley, passport agent In the federal building. purchased November 20, wzuki, ¥ tau Yonagida and awokich! Kaneko, all wealthy Jap are named in the suit as do jn business as Suzuki & Co. who ig, here now The Walla Walla eity commission has decided that the law regarding minors attending public Jances must be strictly enforced hereafter, |Railroad Is Victor B®?s3.n ; in Big Damage Suit! verdict rendering the rage ted Pacific rallroad not liable in the suit 63 years ago for $20,700 de e4 brought against {v by Elmer’ Carlson for personal in Gail Borden juries was returned in federal court Carlson, an em: Mayer, a logging Wriday morning. ploye of George P. pode | a food camp operator near Cumberland, ae babies. Past. the injured wise a NOAIEEH Pacific freight train struck the truck Whee Rend Sg any. rete let ln ee he workmen, were riding to work Aug , ust 11, 1920, Jap Taian Killed by Tacoma Train Kijo Ayakawa, Japanese farmer, Bordent EAGLE BRAND Condensed Milk SEATTLE and other | 4 copies of a draft of the pro | pnp as minister of pensions. children who needed it and not | 41 years ago Mother Ryther| nothing of the case and five now|Mother Ryther family—fqur chil-| sitting as temporary jufora, never|dren and a mother who was ill. saw Fatty in the fim into ber home be eR RY. cause of her love for children, rhe had no idem then of laying may, where) and t# crushed. |» ordered started immediately by the| McCleary — postoffics was} It is in the Mo-| STAR POINCARE WILL Former President Takes Briand Post Pan Jan, 13.—Reymend Poin care, former president of France, to day formally accepted President Mil Me d's invitation to form a new! to succeed that of Aristide | Briand, 3 | Poincare’ formal neceptance ta | jtaken ax an indication he has been | seastul in hia efforts to complete ja ministry | Briand and hie cabinet resigned | yesterday when the premier’s poll-| in the newsion of the supreme | nell at Cannes were subjected to! eritiotam: | Official announcement |Poincare’s aceeptance wi political circles today of) taken in to mean he would undoubtedly head the next French rovernment It took him jess than 24 hours of private inquiry among potential ministers to secure the necessary members of a cabinet! which be will head as premier and |probably as minister of foreign af | fale. The political correspondent of the! | Agence Radio predicted today that the following ministers of the! Briand cabinet would retain their portfotion | Barraut, colonies; Loucheur, dev astated regions; Letrocquer, public works; Vincent, labor. | Andre Maginot, previousty min ister of pensions, will take the war! post, he mid, and the newcomers | are Ukely to be ExPremier Pou-| morgue, Justice nator | Albert, — publ instruction i Premier Leygues, navy ra, finance ture; kx De La Stey-| Jean Durand, agricul} Manouri, interior; pasaibly | MAKING NAVAL "PACT FLAWLESS Powers Hope to Have It! Attack-Proof BY CARL D. GROAT WASHINGTON, Jan, 14.—The biz | five began today-its task of making |the naval disarmament treaty flaw | teow. Knowing that this vital docu | ment will undergo the keer scrutiny | lof legintators before its ratification | jand the sharp interpretation of! naval men of five nations later, | the big five wanted its verbiage clear and unequivocal The pretiminary combing wns complete. What the big five wa attempting today was fo piece to gether in « harmonious whole, the! results of the past fow days’ in tensive stu ‘The final draft was being made |" #0 that It could soon go to the full dirarmament committee and later to @ plenary peasion, where it would be adopted+e big marker on the peace pathway. Resignation of Vremier Briand | stil) formed a topic of compelling interest in conference quarters. As-| furances of M. Marraut, French! Geiegation chief, and others, that the conference could not vitiate | France's undertakings in the con \ference, was acoepted everywhere | as conclusive ‘The militariste of France ap- parently are in the saddle, Such & situation must naturally detract from the desired accomplishment of world peaceat which this can ference aimed, according to the view of able observers, While the big five counseled to pether the Chinese and Japanese Shantung negotiators were enguged A discussing the opening of the ‘Tsingtao port to foreign nations The Japanese indicated their, agro ment to having a “self open” port —-that is, a port which the Chinese themselves keep open and contro. | But, the Japanese wanted more details ax to control methods before | indicating their final acceptance. NO YIELDING | ON SHANTUNG TOKYO, Jan. 13.—Japan has not yielded in any way nor has it made | any concessions on the Shantung |negotiations, according to an officlai| atement issued today by the for. eign office. | The statement declared that Jap. an's previous position remains un changed. Surprised, Burglar Attacks Man, Flees! | Walking down a dark hallway in the Munroe apartments, 609 Yeslerd way, early Friday, Alan Munroe, owner and manager, came face to face with a burglar w ing a white) handkerchief over his face. The bur- | glar assaulted Munroe, knocking him down with a blow to the jaw, The intruder then fied, It was later found that he had en- tered a room occupied by Anton Bide, and had stolen $60 and a gold watch chain, as Eide was sleeping, | What Seattle needs, among other |things, is a $60,000,000 bank that will foster manufacturing industries, Dr. M. A. Matthews, pastor of the First Presbyterian chureh, told the Rotary club at its meeting Thursday. YOU GOTTA WATCH YOUR STEP, FOLKS; SH! FRIDAY, 13TH! Hang onto that rabbit's foot, folks! Today is Friday, the 13th! Brreereerer rent! Cross-eyed traffic cops will blow the wrong whistle and then baw! you out for jamming the \stream of flivvers. Rootleggers with dark, glossy mustachios and gleaming white teeth will smile sardonically and sell you wood alcohol. ‘The train that you thought half a mile away will meet you at the crossing Your wife will suddenty recall that New Year's party when you didn't get home until 2 a, m, Bill collectors will start crowd ing you to pay your Christmas bills, So, watch your step, people, was kilied Thursday when a Tecoma interurban train struck bis vegetable wagon at Meredith, and put your faith in the hind log of @ rabbit, Berrerrrerererrtt Cy Daa iia, Ne aN Witz New “Kilties” For Girls Special $4.95 DDING to the smartness of their plaited ‘fullness, these Skirts are topped by suspenders of self materials. 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