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Tontoht end Saturday, snow or rain; not s0 cold; moderate P southeasterly winds Temperature Last 24 Hours Maxtmum, 33. Minimam, 31. Today noon, 33. On: the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise tr a re eras See © OR |e ONE NE anes enceennne Lee ser ce Cotes Minis “Nl Papen POPE IS DYING 00 CHURCH BELLS TOLL SOLEMN MESSAGE TO THE WORLD ———— — — — Ee e Seattle Star [au Butered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1 “VOLU ME 23 FEVER SEIZES RULER Illness Officially rae Announced In Kearse | Stockholm ide! |_ STOCKHOLM, Jan. 20—| | King Gustav of Sweden is il!) They don't need cold storage plants | with influenza, it was of-| Joended the throne December $, 19 The city council Ie going to | in 181 he married Victoria, daugh- | _ levestigate the Skagit bond sale. (ter of Friedrich Wilhelm. grand duke! New who will investigate the /of paden, and Princess Louise of Prussia, | ‘They have four sons, The eldest | Gustav Adolph, beir to the throne, married to Princess Margaret Vic | tora. stot sow tsvser gn sme \SEORET PACTS Playing politics? Why, Judge, how beould they my 98 94 about your 8&0 em =) ‘pre GER GEE, THY OFFICE | | Abrogate Sinister Work 4 pouty could pin th’ rash. 2g H | WASHING STON, Jan 20.— The a ——gg | skeletons of the For Kastern dipio- ze. j Matic chest—secret agreements and New York newepapers are trying | others better known affecting C| to find out what is the windiest xpot |—will be dragged to light by a res in the city. Haven't they got a| Olution which the Far Eastern com <ouncil chamber in that town? | mittee expected to adopt late today eee Only such agreements and treat The witness, Lemuel C. Mmith. deciarea | les as the powers care to lat now that while in & dugout with three com-| will be regarded as authentic. If rades and four German prisoners. Major! within a certain period these agree entered, shot and killed @ soldier, DS Oeie soieres iin hady removed: without |Ments—some of them sinister, the @oce utlering w word.—New York Trib-| Chinese feel—are barred, the nation 28 a Possessing them will have no right) ‘Our guess is that the major used] 1, rely on them later as valid the sign language. Whether this baring of secret di-| 8.2m plomacy will really alter the situa Henry Ford has offered to buy | tion as it affects China is question the French navy. Good work, Hen!}able. No machinery has so far And after a tew weeks of deep cogi-| been provided which would surely tation we have decided to advance | abrogate these documents in case the cause of peace by making an|they are unfair. But the mere | cing Gustav /Reapportionment Measure Is constitutional Injunction for equita [die reapportionment of the state's representation, but it also is advocat- was born November 11, 1882, and is| 4 by its backers ay an important tax | reduction medsure. bers and a lower house of 63, » total eut of 55 members, or 40 per cent. Tt im argued that there will be a saving in members’ salaries, in clerks } aries, @ great reduction in the “pork wn al er ce ag < vaes | barrel,” where the real wantefulm ; wet the city utilities meeting. | Of the legislative system centers, and m |& Reneral speeding up of legisiative| | work, if the bill carrtes representatives districts repres and in another district a like dele} gation represents only 11,635. | loth and to base at the Postutth >, WASH., FRIDAY, at Beattia, SEATTLE, | Wash, under the Act of Con Por Tear, by Mail, $9 to JANUARY | 20, 1922. Legislature | toMinimum Being Drafted; Will Also Reduce Taxes | mure designed to) An initiative m for exes these da Th put ‘om in the strect cars. | ficially announced today. The reduce the membership of the state eee | king had a slight fever and tegistature to a total of 84, the mini Railway Chief Henderson says 200 | Was being administered to by | mum number allowed by the rtate ‘or heaters are on the way. ved | royal physicians. | constitution, was nearing completion Suess poe gs they will reach Seattle | * | here today and will be filed at Olym ee Gustavas Vi was bern Dottming. | pia #0 by Senator EB. 1. Palmer, of JUST A SUGGESTION thotm, Sweden, June 16, 18 He as-| the 37th district d A. B. Fuller, | house member from the 4lst district in the 15th legislature, ‘The bill not only carries out tne] It provides for a senate of 21 mem. ‘The apportionment under which! 2? 2 oe Hopes Publicity Will} «se state Ja now, working wae | adopted by the legislature in 1901 jit did not closely follow the const tational requirement for basing the} districts on population and mince | then the discrepancies have widened | grotesquely as various parts of the state have grown et unequal rates. For inst cr, a menator and twol of these ola} persons | ‘Three senators represent 21.850 | more people than do 14 other sena tors, and six representatives repre 9,792 more people than d Fr representatives: A person's vote in Yakima county ia worth leas than one-tenth of an- Jother person who happens to live in Jefferson county. A Skamania voter wields times the power of a citl ren in the Seattle district. where the state university is located | It is to correct these inequalities © representation on of Sweden Stricken! R EGENT ) REIGNS IN © VATICAN! - Cardinal Merry Del Val Moves In as | Last Rites Are Administered, to Expiring Pontiff. ROME, Jan. 20.—The ‘iaths of Pope Benedict XV is ex- pected before morning. His holiness was being kept alive late today by constant use of oxygen. The pope was breath- ing with the greatest difficulty. Cardinal Merry Del Val, who will assume papal authority ~ | the vatican tobe ready for the end. | Hope for the recov jhas mot been abandoned, the Vatican} f the 400 churches of Rome. Al: Vio chidadl): ein’ alebaiaon 2:30 , Most simultaneously the bellg of aif | Gectared 7 ine "| these edifices began tollmg to sum o'clock. ‘The announcement, how-/mon the people for the purpose of | jever, declared that the pope's condi-| offering up prayer for the pope. At the same moment when the % | ton was extremely grave. ‘altho Pope Henedict suffered difti-| final sacraments were administered, culty with respiration this afternoon | thousands of people were pe their |iand oxygen had to be administered, | Knees, either in one of the churuies the papal entourage took faint hope | bres oo from the Vatican's message ‘The ceremony itself was simpiel Harlier in the day the Italian gov-{%5d affecting. As soon as hei! — |ernment had been officially informed | Private Searhaerpibereatigpe sr |taat the pope's condition was “hope- room were thrown open and. the oe ig ‘haat agg ek ee “ | prelates and relatives assembled 1 bo, apa as anger Taare ‘ gyol last sacromest was admin- the antechamber entéfed ~ = Offer for the Swiss navy. | revelation of them, it is held, will . > see he benbiielal. population figures that the new bill RIGHT EARFUL | If the Chinese have their way, agen They tool their racquets and the net| some further steps toward examina At tennis to cavort, | tion of their validity will be taken But strange enough the game was! With disposal of this phase of “love” |the conference, the Far Eastern | Upon that tennia court. | committee will be well on the way | i ore \to conclusion of its labors on China Today ts “Own Your Own Home'—with Siberia the next topic i Day." When you own your own! the program. | home you frequently pity your land- Shnatung still remains a perplex-| lord, but you seldom fight with | jty Se Man ‘Says We Are! with him. Meanwhile the five-power disarm. | j i eo 6 Jament treaty is regarded aa being | Fluctuating “Gen. Pershing to fire 2,000 off as good a# finished. , cors.”——Newspaper. Hope they're 4ll| gome delegation quarters thought| “We're fluctuating!” second lieutenants. today if all things continued run-| The weather man said so. "a yd " | ed is 32 degrees. ego} ning amoothly the conference would} Our medium 2 deg RULES FOR SEATTLE be over the end of the month. ja little above and a little below. The! 1. Pedestrians crossing streets a i. |«now on our roofs melty and then it} at night shall carry a white light * seat | freezes. This evening it will rain a/ in front and a red light in the | Northwest’s Frigid little and snow a litt | t rear. B k "We ha jumped since yester- % In dodging automobites, | Wave Seems Broken | asy."°eays tho “trom | Ingigts He Is Innocent Up “a! re pedestrians tre aie more | PORTLAND, Jan. 20.—The North degrees to 22 | not Ko Bo Last M t } ice than seven miles an hour. lwest's cold wave had gone A. W. O,|!ow again, at least for several days. ast Momen \f 3. Pedestrians shall not carey | et ec vtherly winds, with just | If the meantime, the youngsters | } in their pockets any sharp ie fC hint of an to come, had kickea | Continue to tum the thru the ME PRY GL RUT “ia struments which may cut auto [fn ry up several notches and| Slush and rejoice in the “snowfall,"| SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Jan, 20, 1g, | mobiles tires. lioosened overcoats everywhere, | while grown-ups pile on the coals ana). Steven Mastich, convicted with " 4. Pedestrians will be held [o yicing the night the temperature |stieve about “this awful winter! xie% Oplizato of the murder of strictly responsible for all dam | ing at 28 with little variance down. | Weather.” at 3, 1919, age done to automobiles oF thei ee a ine ee revinad. upwas Marco Lausa on August 3, , oli bgt WH ato deal. = 9 01 squad at da ) occupants by collision, Jat noon. Eastern Oregon and Wash- \COLD MENACES as shot by & pal ied am an 01 ,Oints reported elle | break today at Utah state peniten- Now that they have no-decision de. |!nKton Points reported Pelle tiary. Three minutes after the shots th bates at the University of Washing: | | CITRUS CROPS: we fired tor pronounced the on nt not be a bad idea t | a ‘ ns tgp oe ama he a LOS ANGELES, Jan, 20,—Serious}man dead \ “eee i damage to citrus crops was belleved| Mastich aske@ that he be not " A few days ago we asked, “What | Own Your Home unavoldable today, as reports of rec-| blindfolded when he Was strapped ) I tae eee ee waiter who usa} ——Start to Own It |\ora tow temperatures poured into|inte the chair, but his request was 4 . 6 ” Los Angeles from towns in the or-|not complied with, When he was th to accept bcent tip | Today _ nbbgiaornurtiigcn A pry: vd . on ib gives answe The waiter ange belt lasked w ne wished to na peto. 6 Contrib gs! a maa . The city itself is in the grip of the | death, he mto was is «tilt here but the 25-cent tip is} one.” / N° man knows the thrill of || coldest weather in recent years.|the guilty man and that he was in * see } proud posseasion until h Freezing temperature prevailed last nocent, He asserted that he was WE CAN'T PICTURE IT! |] acquires his own house night. Ice was glittering everywhere | the victim of a frame-up instigated | Give yourself the “own in the morning sunlight by Oblizato and bis attorn: your home” spur to ambition The lowest temperature offictally Give your ts the joy, |}reported to the weather bureau ¥ the ‘happiness, the respecta.. ||from Redland re the mereury | Mirs.Dodge Has Gems| hat goes with liyi food at 18 degrees above zero at 1:30) | atotneh thas th | Empress Once Wore! | su have a little money It was 33 degrees above zero at | DETROIT, Jan, 20.--Mre. Horace Dodge, widow of the automobile aved up, get in touch a.m: Oi - . — sass 1 For the first time in 40 years, anow manufacturer, is the possessor of the | t stow Lours, T= some of the reliable real cata 1: i Red ‘ 1 KA which once belonged | o fF ° ra der Teeica | lietad wae tstienetfie’ fell yesterday at Redlands, Santa! pear! necklace which o pelong , Ana, Grange, Fullerton and Ana-|to Catherine IT, of Russia, it was ign in the window of a Madison|} Page today heim, Long B he also othe. i [definitely éstablished here today ig tir ened senaycatnga ) | miniature suowstornt, | Howard Bloomer, exccutor of the "Cleaning, Dyimg and Altorcations.” istered at his holiness’ own request) At the same time word was early today, | to St. Peter's, where all of the ¢ At 16:30 this morning Grand/nals and prelates strong enough a Plenipotentiary Cardinal Giorgi be-| sustain the ordeal had in the mean gan recital of the prayers for the! time assembled i dying. | From St. Peter's sacristy where The Vatican notified the Ttallan| it had been organized, the procession government that the pope's condi-| “lowly wound its way up thru the tion was hopeless. At 11 o'clock! *istine chapel chanting all the way this morning, when notice was sent | Prescribed prayers and psalms. to the government that Pope Bene-| Ffom the court where the proces: @ict’s condition must be considered | 80M paused for a moment to sitgw hopeless, hls physicians announced |th? more aged priests to catch Haag that seriéus weakness of the heart| With the head of the column, theg had. aot in. | procession resumed its march up to | ‘As soon as thé. pope's entourage | “8? Danal apartments, |had ascertained that “his condition | ONLY FEW | was critical, Cardinal Gasparn was | ENTER ROOM | notified. The cardinal hurried tear-| On the threshold ot the latter it fully to the pope's bedside. | was met by the reage=- hs ceremonies, — SECRETARY | together with the assistant masters Neue Von weve . jot coreriontes. Only 9 few cardinals entered the sick room. e remain- Pope Benedict was resting tran-| der of the procession continued to the! quilly when the papal secretary of | Corridor, repeating and chanting the state arrived and immediately re-| prayers of the dying. quested that the last sacrament be| prayers for the dying. | Monsignor Sampint, the vatican| Owing to his weakened condition, |sacristan, administered the sacra-|only a small particle of the holy — | ment | wafer was placed on his tongue. calm thruout the ceremony. low er, the grand plenipotentiary of the Pope Benedict's temperature at) sacred college approached the bed, 8:20 today was announced as 38/ surrounded by his assistants, and | Shortly before noon the vatican| faith prescribed, as formulated by ‘annout.ced that the pope himself | the Vatican and the Trent councils, had requested the last sacrament,| After reading the profession realizing that he was dying. |faith, Cardinal Giorgi gave to the The administering of the last me-| pontiff the absolution in articule rament was then authorized by/|mortis. The words of the formula | Doctors Bignami, Marchiafava and! were pronounced slowly, as tho ty Battistipi, who found his -holiness | impress on everyone within hearing PAPER had taen a sudden turn for the| the solemnity of the occasion, ENTERPRISE worse at 4 o'clock this morning. INDULGENCIES ASS The pope was breathing with great, BESTOWED diffiewtty. Then all of the heada of the vart- : The bronchial inflammation with! ous religious orders stationed at Pope Benedict which Pope Benedict suffered yes: | Rome entered the sick chamber, One jterday extended to his lungs and| py one they bestowed on the pope the |heart Early today his holiness | varioug indulgencies which each haw |weakened after his condition had the special privilege to confer, |(TaumBNaTL HISTORY |Sepained stationary tiroout the |! aneriigtiering oe een am OF POPE BENEDICT | night slowly returned to St. Peter's CAUGHT CHT Around the bed of the pontiff there Born at Pegli in the diocese of OVER AUTHORITY ss AT MASS | remained only the domestic prelates, The iliness of Pope Benedict was | Whose duty it is to assist the pope Genoa, Italy, November 21, 1854, the result of a chill which his boti-; ¥Ptil the end comes, and the cubicw- Ordained to priesthood in Homeland in 1878, . + lars of personal valets, ‘ Vv ness caught last Sunday when he , : | the Vatican | ( " lin the papal apartments, a \" “Thruout the week Pope Benedict, ap Sroupe: Rampoila when “6 a “ jaltho suffering from what was de-| UNS and monks belonging to nearly ag pasta at abies da es ROME, Jan. “4:50 p. m—Car.|#eribed by physicians as “bronchial all ‘8 the pe? orders having con+ . f aa ee jeatarrh,” remained cheerful, Yester-| Vents and monasteries at Rome ne ubabet to pyle the jdinal Me Del Val, who, aa cardinal gay he asked to be allowed to answer | Prayed, nal Rampolla and enter cameriengo, becomes temporary cus-| some correspondence but the request | eae | P | WASHINGTON, 2 jtodian of the papal authorly in pone ba refused by his doctot | ASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—The retaryship of state, one of the “minutani’’ in 1887. Appointed substitute of the jof the ¢ ‘The turn for the worse came in the | Papal delegation here today received hours this morning. Pope|® cable from the Vatican, stating th of the pope, took up per- retartats and nec eoety ath | (manent residence in the Vatican this ict sank rapidly. | that Pope Benedict XV, was “gravely 7 per an met under Cardinal |! ernoon pe Benedict, who was conscious | i." Merry Del Va | and tranquil during the early morn. ‘The sudden and serioug turn in the . og || The cardinal camertengo will as: a page ry gig swe at [I ingr, requested that thé final sacra: | Pope's condition brought expressions na December 16, 1907, by Pope | ment be rr stered in the pres. Of deep regret from the legation and Pius X and on December 25, 1907, | election of a new pope. |ence of the entire papal family and | other Catholic dignitaries consecrated in the Sistine chapel e joours. | Pope Renedict XV was born i by the pontiff. | a a . i Accortfing to vatican ceremonial | Pegli, in the diocese of Genoa, 1 Created a cardinal by Pope Pius \New York to Hold |the last sacrament is to be admin-| November 21, 1854, ~ X at last consistory of pontift's || Ss. for P jistered only when the supreme pon-| Giacomo Della Chiesa, as Pot life, Ma 1914 | ervices or rope! ; . 1 M Lan f ‘the Tomo tiff is on the verge of losing con-| Benedict XV was christened, spent _ lected pope of "the Roman |} n, 20,—Archbishop | sciousness, but in practice this rule|an his boyhood in the little Ttalian Catholic church September 2, of New York, directed that/ has often been changed, as nearly|/town, He was born an aristocrat, 1914 s be held in all Catholic| every pope has expressed the wish | scion of a democratic 1 authority pending the| sume pay bs 7ope Ret c i aristocracy, the Took name of Pope Henedict |) Hurches thruout the city at 3 o'clock colve the holy wafer when fully |aneient Ligurian nobillte. monbe V and gave his first apostolic > 3 of the solemnity and sane: | é¢ aguria y, m Ts ak aewtaniber 4, 1034 | this afternoon, to pray for Pope Ben- | conscious of the sol and #ane-|o¢ which are prominent in the leatmy is Ber id edict, The rosary was to be recited. | tity of the act. Pope Benedict es-| oq professions in Italy { Coe 6 pecially has ‘often. told his relatives | qiis tueher was the Ma eae a Hs . and private chaplains that he pre: | ¢ 4 ‘ Marenges itain Pr f | ferred to receive the ast communion |TusePpe Della. .Chicsa ami’ aie Dodge estate, insued o statement Britain rays for lowhite Sil strong onoush conscious {other the Marchesa Giovanna Migs still stro’ gh conscio which cleared up the mystery of the eas hianbe te tae |liorati, Both are dead, whereabouts of the Jewels | Recovery of Pope| ig Be Bnece Ne Sav Seen His elder brother, the admiral, in meth | LONDON, Jan, 20.-Throngs gath | BE Ss TOLL IN herited the title, The pope was a Bloomer stated Dodge paid $525,000 | greg at Westminster cathedral and |400 CHURCHES | puny, delicate baby and grave doubt for the string instead of $1,500,000 as | diocesan churches here today praying| As soon as the decision had been | was exnvopieas when he was born that reported, ltor the recovery of Pope Benedict. reached to administer the last sac (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) until a new pope is elected, took up permanent residence at a y of the pope; rament, an order was issued to all > € administered, The pope then was fully conscious, Re | is holiness was conscious and! ‘The administration of the wafer | centigrade, pulse 102, respiration 58.| read to the pontiff the profession of > 5