The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 17, 1922, Page 1

a OO | Why Lizzie Is Kept in Stall (EDITORIAL) NLESS the enthusiasm of the taxeaters is dimin U ished speedily (and when did a taxeater ever lose his appetite for cash) there will be fewer automobiles each year in daily use by the average American citizen A few years ago the average state license for the average car was around $10. Today the average license is twice that and in many states the license, gasoline and property taxes amount each year to at least a tenth of the value of the car, In Washington the trend upward has been extreme. This country still clings to the delusion that the automobile is a luyury, and it insists in considering the auto ownér a plutocrat. HERE is no discernible reason why the owner of T a $600 flivver should pay a dozen times the tax the owner of a $600 piano pays. The automobile has done more to develop this country, and to broaden the lives of its people, these last 10 yeafs than the locomotive did in two generations. But it is rapidly coming to the point where the average worker’s family cannot maintain even the cheapest car, and the second- hand auto marts are jammed. It is the little fellow, the average family, that makes or breaks our great industries. There are only a few hundred eight and twelve-cylinder cars sold in Seattle in a year. There are many thousand four-cylinder cars sold. HE auto manufacturers, the tire manufacturers, the ateessory makers have lowered prices and im- proved their product until the average family could manage to run the average small car and still keep a bank balance; but along come the taxeaters and loot the family treasure chest, and poor Lizzy stands in her stall for three months until dad gets over the license shock. ‘OFFICERS HELD (Hone Br] FOR EXTORTION : Greetings, folks! Isn't the city | council generous with the peo | ple’s money? Ireland is now the Irish Free State} Unable to Identify Them Just like Boster see | Habeas corpus proceedings Congress, says Senator McCormick. were to be heard before Judge has done well. Yes—done us ali well! Everett Smith Tuesday in the oe SD ‘a case of Fred Kate. Kato alleges OT he has been unlawfully held in ¥ PITIFUL CREATURES jail after posting $2,500 bail. | _ The peer nut who brings home According to Sheriff Matt Star | a pint of ice cream when sent wich, Kato ls beld on three dif to the drug store by his wife for ferent charges, and will be beld | cold ercam. * | for investigation by immigration ic We racemes ————%) officials, eee ! e% Mervaré caches have ordered Despite the fact that even crew candidates to-study boat build! geie secaser has been unable te ing. That's what @ lot of ball pleyers| identify them, two members of and prizefighters studied in Seattle; the police dry squad and a fed. during the war. | eral prohibition agent were still bab Pe | under arrest Tuesday, charged Visitor says Seattle girls may have| with exterting $250 from Torso @impies on ‘em, but nevertheioss| Tanaks, dapanese spor ing they have knock knees. Let the| goods merchants, at 206 James girls knock ‘em if they wish. We] st won't. M. J. Stetaon. 28, federal prohibi DURN IF WE KNOW rea KR. B 34, of the polic bail apiece. ‘The W. C. T. U. ts launching a campaign to put a gold star flag in the window of every home where no | Uquor i consumed. "Tis a good idea. It will save time tor the bimbo in search of a drink. Also in he tween He broke the bowling record, Put | dence asainst the They called his high mark dead. | ia4 heen made public, excep He cot it when he slipped and fell| tine. wore in the . And struck out with his head, of the alleged extortion see | The arrests were made at the tn- WHICH Door? stance of Sheriff Matt Starwich, } A of rotted fertMiser,) who took up the matter when he ered at your decor. was told that one of the men had Phone Red Advertisement in Ever tt Daily He impersonated a deputy sheriff. aie | According to Tenaka, he was re to turning from a duck-bunting tri untiérey last | Saturday, when At that, there is considerable strength to the advertiser's offer. nis «utomobil Don't try to raise a whale in shal ped anata tas low water. Pi a m While try ing to dig it out, a car containing three men drove Speakin’ of live corpses, how | | up. The latter about John Barleycorn? pulled Tanaka's * - asi gpachine . ieeee one and then started , to search ff teaders of Cynthia Grey's column Read ¢ r 1 wie the sae on™ or. ussion COM) on. protested, Ralph E : pom each displayed a badge—or i the judge. ohir Tr. N.T At Youngstown, Tanaka said, asked he couldn't fix” gs and was assured that he uld—by paying $300. He ex irecctations.” plained that the banks were eee closed but that he could raise the money by night, whereupon, he alleges, they promised to send Kato for it Just aboot new mont of ‘em Home-» whisky sure t paper og atuffa H Rick to pop and saspariller. the case and, up y Eg of the Jap- The £0 nd sent Deputy Sher sees 8 v $ ° iffe Beebe and A jerson to bh office. 900. Governor Hart once made the When Kato arrived, Tanak very same remark alleges, he complained because #0 there was only $250, saying he Admiral Kato, of Japan, who was would be accu of stealing $50, attending the conf e at h| so Tanaka gave him a note, say ure sh gave Mr. F. Kato $250 in Some should tell the that he went to this discu. not legs. A San Francisco swimming mpion is taking up fencing, te in the papers. Probably erself for an encoun- ter with a swordfish Census says half the women marry before reach but it is be non the force since cause it takes them so long to|1 first Neutenant reach 2 the war. Bol Boys are building miniature | Stetson has been yachts at the Seattle Yacht club. If the navies are scrapped, what wa a perfectly dandy employment | n of former ¥ this will give to all our brainy | I twon. Kato ha cusignal aoun, | ton agent, and Ralph Bowen. 41, and /ney Tom mn, ary squad, are the accused men. They are at lib erty under $1.500 Frank Mato, 49, Japanese po! States Comminsioner ROW. McC jee interpreter. 4 barged with" he 4ng the “gobe Ora BR. Bolton Me direst. ovt cuned officers that vicinity of the scene found a half-pint bettie, leas was arrested | 4 full of whisky, and mr arrested Tanaka, whom a friend hadithey put into their own car while tea one of them drove the merchant yt to town Tanaka told net in 1913, but was dis- “On ‘the 1 ssue of Americanism There C ‘an Be No Compromise | “VOLUME 23. Entered as Recond Class Matter May 8, 189%, at © ASSESSORS OF STAT DENOUNCE POLL TAX First in News—First in Circulation (by 11,727 copies a a day)—Call Main 0600 to Order The Star at Your Home—50 Cents a Month—Why Pay More? een DOPE "RING Needs of Modern Woman J NITED I} Says Work One of Them “PRAMED” ‘ON HAMER? ‘Wash., under the Act of Congress March 8, 1879 he Seattle Star AM | Postoffion at Beattie, Pe Year, wma He HOME EDITION DAY, JANUAR ‘Attor ney for Arrested Sleuth Asserts. Hamer, federal narcotic a be by Adam Beeler, attorney for | “The dope ring was out to get Hamer,” Beeler said. “They| | ‘ah ‘But Even Their Accuser Is' framed up this scheme whereby the girl was to be caught | Girl Was Used to Trap Official Charges that the “dope ring” B agent, b entangling him with autiful 18-year-old girl addict, was made this afternoon the accused customs officer. coming out of his office with morphine on her person. In tact she had the morphine before she went to Hamer’s office. | “Hamer has been in the U. 8. service for 17 years. The gang wanted revenge. But before we get thru with the case, | we'll split the narcotic gangsters into piec ns qttorney’s . © of Mar tehart, beautiful year-old dope addict, whose testimony arrest of A. B. Mame and senam mined latest underworld ecanda Hamer was arrested late Monday afternoon by department of jus agents on charges of havin me © Butch art rt tn exchange for her favors. | Hamer, who i out on $1,600 ball, ywas at his office as usual Tuesday. |1le refused to comment on hig cam. | Mins Butchart was brought to the (district attorney's office and grilied for nearly an hour by District Attor tevelle, She is detained by the government a# a material wit ness I am not taking any chances on the girl being spirited away,” Revelle explained. Hamer, who has been custome agent for 17 years, will have hie pre iminary heartng before t « given hine and yen shee to t i land Saturday morning he information filed by District Attorney Reve Hamer is charged with giving dope to Mae Butehart who waa “trying to get off the stuff.” ared that the federal agent gave her the narcotics in ex change for her company WORKING ON DEAL | SEVERAL WEEKS Federal operatives have teen work The girl Ing on the case for several weeks, and when t learned that the girl had an appointment with Hamer Fri day evening in his office, they sur rounded th arrested t Taken to th postoffice building and me out riment of justice offices, the gi oke down, made a full statement implicating Ham and gave up aix cubes of mo and an ounce bindle of which were hidden in her « According to the girl's » had first beard of Hamer thru I notorious Chinese dope ped Hamer called her up sever: she said, and finally m pointment with her at his office in the federal buliding He wanted to know if Tw uff,” the girl said, 1 sald ye but that I w ted ah away from it Hamer told nr he would heip me in return for m The two of them, the federal offi then went street and ured. Upon ur subsequent 1 the same room, the customs ag with morphine and n ahee, acoording to Mis# Butchart E. Armstrong. pecial agent of the treasury department, and |Hainer’s superior officer, character ized the charges against the agent as “ridiculous and absurd.” The information filed against Hamer was signed by Canon W. 1 2 the White Croas society, and was | based on the*affidavit of the girl. Profiteers Fought by Municipal Store TIFFIN, ©. Jan. 17. Municipal t « will smash profiteers and slash 1 prices, according to Adolph er, mayor of Tiffin, who has e» shed what is believed to be the ret municipally owned general store » United State to 60 per cent u municipal store here, in the fire jon. The firemen did the “clerk | according to Unger » Spurned, He Shoots Girl, Then Himself BERLIN, Wis., Jan Deapon nt because | ections for the he loved ¢ spurned, Leo Vick shot Emma Baker, 22, here, and Buca coded biy own life of Trinity Parish chureh, head | und bread were reduced from the opening of Bread was sold for 6 cents and the store made a profit of 20 per cent, : WANDA DECIDES. <= IS ACOLD DAY ’ | Weather Man May Say What | He Pleases--She Knows | BY WANDA VON KETTLER | Winter again The spew is two and a half inches deep. The northwest wind, bidwing at off housetops upon the innocen much bundled individuals in Ub street beneath The ladies, who fear lest they be behind the times, have removed their donned again the wi Ue weather man. night's and Tuesday's snowfal ht the snow falls measurement for Ue winter up to 12 inches “And says Salisbury, “don't be lieve that’s going to be all I be eve itt! snow « little bit more to night, and stay on the ground «a couple of days Chances are, after that he says, “it'll rain, dear up and then we'll have some MORE It seemed to ts at €:15 thie morn. ing that the thermometer ought to register at least 18 degrees below | “But,” says Salisbury, “we're still TS above! And it tan't as cold am it i even in December, when we sank on one frigid day ‘Jo 19 de-|} grees.” We were just shout certain any way that this wag the coldest winter that we'd ever felt in Beattie "says Mr. Salisbury, “it isn't that it's Just an average You're comparing it with st year, and of course last year was milder than wu So we aren't going to argue any more It's a cold day we know that And, besides, we're buey. The runner on our came joose a couple of weeks ago and we needs must fix it | Auto Accidents in Snow Are Numerous Dozens of accidents were reported as the result of Monday night's snowstorm. in which automobiles skidded into phone poles and Je. walks. Damage done to property, isd reported to the police Tuesday, | tot ed several hundred doll ught in the Murry of snow chilled by the bitter cold, 42 onl came to the police station and were given shelter for the night Tues | day morning each man was given a cup of steaming coffee and a haif | ™***t>s a battle with four bandits, who es- > iy ARR jeaped with a sp 004 payroll for the | The messengers from the Citizens’ and Savings Bank, Side institution, were en route to the | by in an automobile when | Canon was sighted. car Paprgs up alongsid: loaf of bread. JURY NAMED SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 17.—Eyvi-| Ward plant dence in Roscoe le's manslaughter tri the d gin this afternoon. A jury composed of 11 men and one woman, with one woman and one man as alternate jurors, was completed late yester- day Today the jury was allowed the | morning hours to settle personal af- fairs, preparatory to being locked up | during the taking of testimony | Quarters have been secured in al hotel to house the jury and a staff | of bailiffs and one matron assigned | to guard and care for it. ] | diamonds today |Messenger Beaten, [robbery of Al Robbed of $4,000; ST. LOUIS, Jan, 17.—K messenger | for the Bank of Mar a suburb, | 8 |was #luge | robbed of $4,000 by it andits to rowers . in Seattle has “framed” on} mites an hour, whirls the snow | Mrs. Lydig Hoyt BY ALICE ROHE {shoulders still Seven | activities has time for other | cardinal thoughts @ modern woman by refus- | ing to recognize them is doing more to break down artificial social bar talked.of woman in New York today, | riers than any other force today | “You hear a lot about ‘the snot now known to the the. | bishnexs of the ‘socially elect’ toward the working clasees—let mre tell you superlative |—the snobbery of the working class tally elect’ is just as 1 anked Mra. Lod atre world as Julia Hoyt She bas everything to make of her | strong. social parasite | social) handicap a woman any her dressing | wealth should. room at the Astor theatre, where she | both ways, searing with Wm a self indulgent, more than But the law works the poor and the rich Faversham | suffer equally in being restricted in talked | self-expression.” yt, whose beauty over the footlights ix not even so dazzling as at close range. Position, wealth And she gave me the seven cardi- young woman s, clad in a silver crys tal cown of her own design. “When I was 16,” she said, ran studying for the stage. parents disapproved. amateur acting always. know recently tut the legitimate drama is my chosen field ‘The modern woman mus and a big interest of her own, a of her social position. have @one Then you the » realization of 1 | realize maternity duty to her marriag: self. fulfiliment but lost them both. “A mother who brings up a big uly of fine children in a personal the greatest woman who has tres lifted from her BANDITS WOUND (9 RESCUED ON — TWO BANK MEN | They Escape With $12,000! Seattle Skipper in Heroic Wet ae ee ner made by Secretary of Labor Davis, | had two chil worked hard equal suffrage. speaking frequently for 1 am for everything helps women toward construc. | self-expression one of our greatest mediums of con. structiveness.” is the material SINKING SHIP, were wounded today pping board st w est Canon, was received here Tues- y by his friends lashed to the deck of a 250 miles out New York, were being blown to sea raging gale, when the West With their last xed sailors lighted « pan of g | nd by the glare Capt. Mills saw them and lowered bor rescued with of| and forced ath of Virginia Rappe, will be-| curb and stop As the bank car stopped four for cigners jumped from the started firing without warning The men bandit car | were of|was hit by pacte’ weft Seattle in charge of the West trip | oo Suez| DENVER.—Victor Johnson, found will several times and orftic ally wounded, Joseph) months ag Ross was hit in the face by one bul- not seriously Two Bandits Steal $60,000 in Diamonds) From New York Seolaas Condemns Newberry Verdict WASHINGTON, a daring daylight red Bourgeois’ jewelry | Senator —_ SED AS DO » raids | Congressman Fiteger to! night and held in | deliver Dayton ob January 22, The robbers es-|by police Mon¢ city jail Tucsday, ATTACK OD HEAD LE ‘Organization of Officials, Headed Frank W. Hull, Ready to Aid in Repeal | OLYMPIA, Jan. 17.—With the entire memb |standing as a unit against the poll tax, the State tion of Assessors was: expected today to go on roan \inanding the repeal of the measure. | This was the outstanding feature of the 24th NTS IN SEA’ |convention of the association, which opened here yest | and which is expected to continue in session thru | Thirty-eight of the 39 county assessors in the stat lattending the reeting, and every one of them deno IMPEACH MA SAYS THO Urges Recall { for © | the poll tax in warm terms. ‘The spirit was so unanimous, | im fact, that it was at first deemed unnecessary to take a record vote on the matter, but afterward it was decided that, in view of the effect that such ac- tion might have on the present statewide movement to repeal the law, it might be wise to adopt a resolution indorsing the campaign. Should such a resolution be intro duced, it is a foregone conciusion that it will be adopted, as not a sin- gle advocate of the poll tax in to be found in the entire association. FRANK HULL LEADS FIGHT Led by Assessor Frank W. Hull, of Seattle, president of the associa- the poll tax from all its numerous Spokane, vice-president, and H. C. among the speakers The session was opened by Gov- | the 50 per cent law. [school taxes. jtain classes of appraisal. jpear before the association to take | corporations. | Sensational charges were expected |to feature the session, MAN, 60, HIT BY | * Knocked down by a moving van t Third ave, and Seneca st. as he as on his way to Seamen’s Union 28th ave. S., received a possible skull fracture, internal injuries and a |fracture of the left hip Tuesday Yorke is in the city hospital. His condition is critical. Attempts to Stop Eviction of Miners WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.-A move to stay eviction of miners in the \it was announced here today. | Davis wired Governor Morgan of West Virginia and pleaded that the Word of a heroic rescue at Sea bY @/ evictions of the miners from their homes scheduled for tomorrow be amer | Postponed. Druggist Blamed | for Auto Tragedy) 2410 OY | meats selection of Representative —j Peter Johnson, age 11, st. came to his. death thru. the careless driving of Nick Paoleila, druggist, 3601 E. Terrace st. ac vleording to a verdict returned by a coroner’s jury Tuesday. The boy jon Jackson st, Sunday. ‘The drug gist was arrested but later released on his own recognizance. living in a cave here and “bathless” for the last nine months, was sen tenced to 30 days in jail, so he could | bathe and “get on his feet.” WEATHER Tonight and Wednesday. fair colder tonight; moderate easterly winds. ‘Temperature Last 2 Maximum, 39, Mini Today noon, 29. | Hours mu 7. tien, a number of heated speeches were made on the subject, attacking langles, yesterday. The other officers | of the association, Elmer Bartlett, of | |Austin, of Pierce county, were also |action of the council in revit \probe the mayor's charges that, leity had been beaten out of ernor Hart, who said he was trying by Seattle's inner bond ring. to reduce taxes. State Tax Commis | WOULD DO JOB sioner John M. Thatcher discussed FOR LESS Edward W. Hesse, member of | The association went on record firm of D. D. De Luca & Co., of against the 30-10 law, increasing| Francisco, declared that his | [would construct the Gorge creek This morning’s session was devoted |nel for $1,650,000 or $553,000 | |to discussion of articles in the assess: |than the price at which the © ment of automobile law and to the | was let to Storrie & Co, jemployment of expert help in cer-| AUTO; MAY DIE hall, John Yorke, 60, a seaman, 4119 | buck” ties in forcing the Skagit deal to consummation. | URGES PROBE BE MADE ‘ “If we have been jobbed, 1 want to know it,” Councilman Cohen said) “I want to see this investigation im) no matter who it hits." Cohen and Erickson were the only — | two councilmen to vote against | bond deal when it was passed | months ago. “Not one, but many contractors. have told me the tunnel could be (Turn to Last Page. Cotamn 1) 'HOUGHTONIS ae Houghton, of New York, as al bassador to Berlin. * ‘i "s automobile; Councilman Lou Cohen }that the bonds had been given to This afternoon the mayor and city |contractors at 80 per cent of jcouncil of Everett were dae to ap | par, value. He declared that © H knew this and afterwards up the assessment of public service | the bond dealers take $1,000,000 lof Skagit bonds at par. Councilman W. H. Moore |the fight to have a sweeping fi |gation of the bond deal. His | fatied for want of a second. “I want a chance for be heard,” he said. “I want to [tem the mayor and this man Caldwell has tried to pass the to the council, and suggests that council pass it on to the corp counsel.” Caldwell was denounced by © for attempting and for his “ of the American goverm eee The appoinument of Congressman — Houghton as first ambassador to Germany since the war was forecast at Washington some time ago. The |German government's agreement was, requested and the above Berlin die patch probably means that the ap oapesycts will be announced 4 short et + Expel La Follette From Party, Play WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—E: sion of Senator Robert M. La Fok Jette, Wisconsin, from the republ y, is being sought by his polit: jand personal enemies. ey want the “stormy petrel” senate officially thrown out ©. P. majority, and figura: . if not literally, set out in the: middie of the senate aisle as @ “mag without # party,”