The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 20, 1922, Page 7

I - nd ate a. CAR DEFICIT TO BE PAID WITH TAXES Federal Judge § so Rules; but City Will Appeal From Decision | ‘That the city will appeal from Federal Judge KE. Cashman's decision holding that the city | must pay any deficit that arises | from its failure to live up to the street car cantract was indicated Friday by Walter F. Meier, cor poration counsel. JUDGE CUSHMAN’ { DECISION HELD | ‘That the $15,000,000 bong issue te! lepal in every way, including the pre | vision for making payment of princt. | Pal and Interest a lien on the gross earnings prior to ali other claims, including maintenance. | ‘The case was tried before Judge! Cushman November 21 At that time the case was taken under ad visement, | The suit is one of the two a tions filed in federal court by the! Puget Sound Light & Power com: | pany immediately following the fil-) state court in February ‘The other action, an appeal for an injunction te step the ere’ sult in the estate courts was FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1922. Mrs. Montgomery Here standing at Me bell which will bel” ing of the 14 taxpayers’ suit in the | Sounded to mark the opening January 16 of the campaig’ Woodrow Wilson Foundation Mrs. Hare is chairman of the York eetranoliten district. The campaign will be con- denied by Judge Jeremiah Neterer | (ducted thruout the nation. funds to endow | meritorious taxpay. | New the public service. DRIVE oe last spring, and this denial revent- ly upheld by the San Francisco cir cult court ef appeals. The taxpay- ers’ guit is free to proceed in the} wate courta according to this de- i You Money In This Great Sale Made to Measure big! Suit or Sold this season $55.00 to $85.00 —now $34 Ask to see our day- ‘light workshop Muck & Co. “Tailors to Men Who Know” 819 Second Ave. Mi educated {1892, jmunclo at Madrid, a post I greatest importance at |The young priest won the affection lof Rampotia, who gave bim « train. | jing in diplomacy such could have teen jother living man. lreturmed to Rome as secretary of state to Leo XIII he took Mor Della Chiesa with him and made him | undersecretary. Following the death was a pit Confusing, some favoring of Leo XTIT, Cardinal Merry Del Val the detense took the piace of Rampolla as eecre-lour the points favorable to Arbuckle tary of state. Monsignor Deila|tnat the defense fought spiritedly to |Chiess remained, however, at post. He was made cardinal May 25, ji9t4. ‘When Cardinal Della Chiem went |into the conclave after the death of |/ pe read. | Pope Pius X there were few who be lieved that his election waa & post ineys argued this request. bility. Hut he was elected. Washington Is Not | HERE’S MORE ABOUT POPE STARTS ON PAGE ONE be would live many hours. Capranika [Rome and four years later he was! lordained & priest. | LEARNED DIPLOMACY |FROM RAMPOLL | He at once entered the Academy for Noble Ecclestastics from which {the then Monsignor Rampolia took | ‘him to be his private secretary was made papal the Rampolla Forgetting Heroes Proof that Washington has not ae |gotten its heroes who died in the |world war is found in the [ow of reservations for Am jetm trees along the Seattle-Tacoma hline road. college in or that time. rained ignor It iw the plan that trees will be planted on both rides of this highway at intervals of 30 feet, between thir city and Tacoma, each tree desig nated in honor of a soldier or sailor |tarreaching proposals are inch who laid down his life for his coun: | in jaded Persons wishing to denignate trees gent H péing, 4 wee laneued totey: jmay call Miss Ada Hanford, 1593 10th | lave. N.. Capitol 2789. Carroll [represents the Seattle Garden clud/ opoty in the movement. Admiral Line Gets New Freighter ‘The big liner Weat Ivan was trans | 2 ferred from the management of the | tional Frank Waterhouse Co. to the Admi- it was announced by | War and keep constant check on po-| headquarters | tential war resources of the nation Here's the year’s best cat-— “Silver Echo,” highest honors at the annual United Show “Silver Echo” 38 Point, Me., who's holding it. winner of the in New is owned by Macy, of Ash He was * probably from no When Rampolla bis steady riean Miss Hanford | York.| ‘STATE SCORES _ | AGAINST FATTY, ' Wins Temporary Point Thru Exclusion of Testimony SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 20 ~The ‘state today won its first temporary lvictory in the trial of Rostoe Ar buckle, charged with taking the Ife of Virginia Rappe. Superior Judge Harold Louderback opened court with a ruling denying the defense plea that the entire tee timony of Josephine Keaa, given at Arbuckle'« Cirst trial record. Josephine Kera is a chambermaid from the St. Francis hotel who testi fled she littened at keyholes and in the hallways outaide of Arbuckle’s apertment while his famous Labor day party was in progress At the first trial her testimony It was in order to bring |have the evidence read ‘The state's victory wan only tem- porary as the defense then demanded specific paragraphs of the testimony ‘The jury wae excused while attor HARDING PLANS RUM MONOPOLY Wants Government to Sell Medicinal Liquor BY RAYMOND CLAPPER | WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—Two the reorganization plan being | drafted under the direction of Presi. ‘They are 1. Creation of a government mon: in the sale of liquor for | medicinal purposes thru the public jhealth service, taking vate hands and placing it exclusively in charge of federal officials, resources to mobilize all munitions and supplies in event of creating a government developed out of President Harding's feeling that en forcement of the prohibition law is | Plane for |liquor monopoly |ral line Friday, ‘the shipping beard here, The new vessel gives the Pa- jim peace times. cific Steamship Co. 10 transpacific vercoat |" oo [not effective enough. Fake phy. jniclans are iseuing hundreds of eacriptions for liquor every day. Under the proposed plan the gov. ‘ernment would buy all stocks of | Hquor and wines in the United States and prohibit any traffic in the liquor Kencas City Mayor Drops Dead at Desk KANSAS CITY, Mo, Jan. 20— Mayor James Cowgill, 73, of Kansas | City, dropped dead from heart failure during a conference with heads of the police department at his office tw | day, Cowgill, former state treasurer | and a power in state democratic poll- ties, was known thruout the West as lan owner of extensive ranches and cattle lands, The mayor's death came during a [heated argument with Matt Foster, | police commissioner, over the police |administration here, according to re | ports from the office. Foster was declared to have accused the may or’s office of not co-operating with | police. commissioners in suppressing | crime. Cowgill started to reply but death cut hig words abort River Searched for $400,000 Mail Loot, ELKHART, Ind, Jan 20,— Depths of the St. Joseph river were plumbed today in an effort to re | cover $400,000 mail loot Dan Ingram, negro porter, and | George EB. Scruggs, ex-convict, con feared to robbing a mail truc K here [two days ago of two regiatered mail | pouches containing $500,000 in secur: ities. Of this sum $100,000 non. negotiable paper was returned to the | Pontoffice } “Cleaning Out the Courthouse” wag the subject of ‘an address by | Mande Sweetman before the Wom- lan's ©: Improvement club, Thome as et, and Harvard av Weursday afternoas ‘ be read inte the) Organization of a burean of na-/| THE SEAT GO HOME, CARL, | COURT ADVISES “Never,” Says | Maj. Reeves When Divorce Is Denied Maj. Carl Hi. Reeves, superin- tendent of public utilities, whe W. Frater’s voree from Clara Reeves on the grounds of crucity, was denied The decision of the fudge immedi. ately followed the teatimony of the witneanes and the rebuttal of Mr. ana! Mra, Reeves, No final plea on the part of the attorneys was requested. | JUDGE , MIs ADV Helieving that the Reeves domentic ‘troubles had rewulted from a physical strain contracted by Maj, Reeves an & rexult of strenuous army service, the judge advined: | Think it over, Cart. Get a nerve specialist, not a diverce, Go off and take # rest.” Maj, Reeves allowed hig head to | rest on hie arm and hit brow wrin- kied diapprovingty, | Kogurding the alleged crusities and the eriticigmn, the Judge sald: “Should| Portiand—Food, 13.1: clothing, 05.9 there return to the home, let housing, 43,3; fuel and light, 694; there be no talk about the past, And furniture and furnishings, 221.5; mis |® let there be no criticiums at all, The |cellaneor Average, 54.3 Hringing Up Father’ proposition, or| Seattle—Food, 90.5; clothing, # the ‘Bringing Up Mother’ proposition housing, 69.2; fuel and light, 69; an never ed and it never will,” /mishin ind furniture, 149.9; mince! Bui Maj. Rooves stated after the decision there would be no “going home.” “No,” he sald; *1 wil NEVER Be back.” Among witnemses to be ented | Thursday afternoon for the defend. | ant were neighbors of both Mr. and! ; Mra. Reeves and Mra. Hankins, An employe of the public utilities de | Partment, whore name bas been cou pled continually during the proceed ings with that of Major Reeves. Among the neighbors was Helen | ma, Poterson, 12 years old, who, drensed in @ bright red middy and white | plalted skirt with a green bow perch. | ed on the top of her bionde bobbed |dalr, climbed to the and told the court about the Hankins. |GIRL, 12, TELAS WHAT SHE SAW “I was over at Mrs. Hankins’ house ome day.” she explained, “and Mr. Reeves was there. Mrs. Hankins was sitting on his inp and they were cating ice cream, And he told her to sersich his A wecond witness who seemingly knew much about the state of af faire Was Mra. George W. Hartong witness stand | even affair end had him enter, and that later whe had ween Reeves driving| with Mrs. Hankins in his car seen Charios Reeves, Jr, the li-yearold son of Mr. and Mra. Peeves, was called to tentify late in the afternoon rene bis ¢ ® you want your father to come teen?” the boy wag asked. “Certainly we do,” the boy replied. | ger Le toon Tn ee stand » second (ime, denied all charges against him. Nervousty fingering the yellow note pad he had taken to the stand with him, he diverted his statement te the mob in the court room: “1 have lived in Seattle 30 years, and I defy anyene to point the finger of scorn at me. | Laneo: | Montoir hat she knew] p04 nd lett the stand in tears after 10! minutes of heavy crons-examining re- | ner, TL H.C. L STILL 70 PCT, ABOVE 1914 17 Per Cent Reduction Made in Last 18 Months WASITINOTON, Jan, 20.—The cont ‘of living ts atill approximately per cent higher than tn 1914, despite & drop of about 17 per cent during the last 18 montha, representative cities made publie to- day by the labor department re vealed. Furniture and housefurnishings are showing the greatest resistance to depreasion, the increane over 1914 still being from 109 to 149.9 per cont Housing, clothing, fuel and light are dropping very slowly. Decreases trom June 36, December $1, 1921, lowing: Denver, 17.2; Portiand Yranciseo and Oakland, 18.5, A table showing the increase in ithe cost of prineipal items from 1914 to December #1, 1921, in 111 cities includes: include the ‘toi 21; Ban 16.5; Seattle, | 1026, Average, 11.5, INEW CHARGES | AGAINST ARMY WABHINGTON, Jan charges of iliews! hangings in the figures for 21) PROSPERITY TO COME SLOWLY A. L. Mills Sees Danger in Extravagant Optimism Deerying dangerous optimists, A. | 1, Mille, president of the First! National bank of Portland, address. led the Seattle Underwriter associa tion and Seattle bankers, who were | |muests of the association at thetr| |monthly banquet Thureday evening at the Washington Hotel Annex. Milla declared that business pros pects for 1922 were going to be bet: | for than in 1921, but that it was a/ |\dangeroun policy to advocate the complete return of good times within |& year, when conditions did not war- | rant it, Thone advooating a big bust ees improvement by fall were | ° | branded a» dangerous optimints, | “Dusiness moves in cyctes,” he sald, “The first cycle ia wi ally Jed by fren credits, reckless | | mortgaging and teasening of econ: | omy and thrift, ‘The second cycle in one of strikes, high prices, general inefficiency and waste, the third one lof pessimiam, bankruptcy and suf. |fering by many, and the fourth one of the return of efficiency, eounomy oun thrift. “We are tm the owe Until the disarmament senhitenna! is followed by an economic confer: | ence compelling Kurope to live with- \in ber earning capacity, we can have {no great prosperity | Outside of the $11,4..0,000,000 owed | the United States by Enropean tions, he declared that nearly $4,000, 10000,000 in frozen securities, repre. jeenting merchant paper, was held 20—~—New largely by the banks in the United | the latter date. Shortly thereafter he, States. This frozen capital in many were made before the anes prevented extending capital and motion picture industry of the coun- rn We senate investigating body tay. A leredit {6 farmers, manufacturers, story of two negro sold being distributors and others until Europe | banged without a fair trial on the|!* able to clear these obligations, he /mitt#eman from Colorado and has a W. Miller, alien property cus word of an “outcast French wo! was told by IC. Mason of; Devbhoert lowa, y The hangings, curred In the American camp at near St. Nazaire, France ‘The witness said that the woman complained to American offi- cern that the United States soldiers bad attacked her and she was tak en to the camp to pick oot the men. “She went to the white camp first. picked no one out, and then te the negro camp. where = aby quickly pointed out two me: son said. were hanged by negroes. thra the whi o “In a few days the mon If she was attacked why @id she firet go camp.” aisteriniaw of Mra, Reeves, Me. LOUIS, — Former Governor NMyrtung testified that she and Mr« Major and Jw William » 1A of the St. Lau o Reeves had at one time followed auis court of |Major Reeves to the Hankins heme *6Pe4ls are among seven directors in- jdicted on the closing of the Nigbt jana Day’ bank ° Crack Milwaukee aid. | Milla, besides being president of the First National bank of Portland. is president of the Oregon Life In. murance Co, and is head of a large tuberculosia sanitarium in that city, founded principally by his effort. He wea formerly one of the governors of | Harvard university, and a member of | advisory council of the United! States. Hix presence has been re-! @ueated at the World Congress of Ft, nance to be roars next yeer in Rome Flyer Is Wrecked PEAWUKER, Win., Jan. 20.--The) Columbian ace, crack train of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, waa derailed st Lakesideseariy today. | Seven coaches of the train left thi track No one was injured, altho severu! were badly shaken up. / Tt was reported that a broken rai} ‘caused the mishap. i | Alleged Bandit Found Hid-| nesday night. 2044 N. 78th st, Colman bese Motorcycle Patrotmen George ¥.| 8020 Wallingford av Reynolds and Walter H. Dench nl Hilding Anderson, 8215 Sieridiom h ave. to the heme of the girl, Miss Violet! 1 iriug was skating on the very |Dean, and asked her if whe waslinin ice near the north end of the would send jconvention probably will ARREST SUITOR |THREE LADS IN ATGIRL'S HOME HEROIC RESCUE Save Companion From Water in Green Lake Loftus Atkin, 16, 8040 Walling- — ford ave., was recovering from shock and exposure Fe ceived Thursday afternoon whem he crashed thru the lee on Green lake, and was rescued from im- pending death in the icy waters by the heroic efforts of three small boys, Lawrence Gustafson, ing in Closet Captured in the home of his sweetheart at 424 ave. N., early Friday, J. R. Wilkinson, 34, & mechanic, was held in the city jail Friday, accused of rab- bing Ki. M. Stacks of the Pioneer garage, 314 FE. Olive st, Wednes- alone, to which she replied “No.” | take during the afternoon, and whem Wilkinson was found in a closet|he ventured out too far, the ee sude hiding with a revolver in his hand, | 4¢n'y racket ont ee poe Nefore opening the door, the police) nis pinaymates started to ald him, Aw called to Witkinson, asking him to | they were very light, they were able nurrender, which he finally did. | to eraw! upon their stomachs to the q handouffing him to an automobile. | coat, aud attempted to pull him owt DR. WORK WILL ‘The three boys showed no fear, am@ |then pushed a sled to Loftus, and — Hubert Work, Colorado, now first ri |rushed to the house, where he Mamie reneral, it was Warned today from @/igeee crowd, Several people first time definitely announced he) wetetat area will take up hia duties as head of the WASHINGTON, Jan, 20-—-The@ Wilkinson is alleged to have con- hole in the ice, where Loftus wae feaned roWbing Stacks of $11 and! struggling. They seized him by the He is held on an open charge. As he crawied upon the ice, it sud — ae dently pave way again. were not, discouraged when a second SUGCEED HAYS attempt also failed. One of the boyn ! oe jthrew him a rope, The boy wam WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. then dragged from the water and sixtant postmaster general, will suc: | oi ven attention. 4 ceed Will H. Hays as postmaster! ie rescue wan witnessed by a who high administestion epur |tried to aid the boys had narrow! em At the same time, Hays for the ‘capes on breaking thru the je in his resignation be tween now and Murch 4, effective on | | Cadman Embassy’s Home Is Return try, man government was restored t ‘Work was formerly national com-|old home here yesterday, He has turned over the German emb been personally handling the appoint- Kari Lang, German charge ment of postmasters for Hays. Sen- faires, restoring to the German tment in congress is strong for his | public the deed to the property. nope | The land on whieh the present @ | bassy stands was bought by the man government before the Hard Coal Miners | Pane ger, erecting. = pie Considér Demands |**° *29"*4 by 14 war. pane ORIN, Te. 2a, Nae stieh School Ramen 1,500 Pupils $ miners will make upon operators | when their present contract expires FRANCISCO,’ Jan, 20. teen hundred night school April 1 were to go before the miners’ convention here today Adoption of the demands by the marched from the Mission Mean a/ school last night to safety, wil strike in the anthracite fields, since|the injury of anyone, when fire operytors already have indicated stroyed the school, with they would refuse the miners’ re. | $450,000 to the buildingygnd wide political acquaintance. BA quests. to equipment. ‘The demands of the miners in- —— elode More people live in the state A 15 to 20 per cent wage Increase. | New York than in all that part of An ¢ight hour day for all classes | United States which lies west of © of workers, tral Nebraska. Those who had testified against jue Thursday afternoon were Mrs. the entire | Frances R. Montgomery, Mrs. Robert | trade in whisky and wines out of pri. |S. Hesketh, wite of acting Mayor | Hesketh; Mr Mrs. Signa P ter, Helen; Mra. Mra. Minnie L. Reed, inghouse. George W jer of Mrs Agnes F. Stewart, Sherman Liv Hartung, broth. Reeves; Mra. Winifred, jJunkins, and Mrs, Minerva Bell Mra. Mackey, the mother of Mrs. Hankins, was called in rebuttal for the plaintite, Canton College | Head in Seattle | Dr. Charles K. Edmunds, president of Canton Christian college, Canton, China, arrived In Seattle early this morning trom Idaho, Dr. Wamunds is in the United States for the purpose of enlisting the co-operation of American univer. alties with his own institution. Members of the executive commit: tee of the Chamber of Comerce for eign trade bureau will entertain him at luncheon at the Butler Saturday noon California’s s Cold Wave Nearing End | SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 20.—-Whie it still was cold enough, the backbone of the cold wave in Central Califor. nia seemed to be broken today, The thermometer was ranging around 38 at daylight Yeuterday was the coldest day in San Francisco sinee 1888, the weather burean records st official temper American Legion in Labor Love Feast | INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 20.—Union labor and the American Legion love | tes aeted here today \ At ihvitation of Hanford MacNider, Legion commander, Samuel Gompers, pregident of the American Federation of Labor, appointed a personal repre- gentative to meet Legion representa |tives for the purpose of bringing la bor and the Legion closer together Farm Products and Metals Are Lowest WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.--Only form preducts and metals have ap proached pre-war price levels, the de partment of labor reported yesterday. Wholesale prices of all other eam. modities still range from 39 to 103 per cemt above the 1913 level. The figures clearly show the prices of farm products have dropped in great. er proportion than other articles. 85¢ pair. AN special 65¢ yard. She, Sei ‘ FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET, 420 Little Boys’ Tub Suits . To Sell at an Unusually Low Price YALE out of all proportion to this price are presented fe this Saturday offering. As suggested in the sketches, these Suits are in blouse of Gingham, Jent qualities of Men’s Imported Wool Sox With Mending Yarn to Match 85c Pair | HOICE of gray, brown and heather mixtures in | these good Wool Sox from England—each pair | with yarn for darning—sizes 10 to 11144. } Priced at —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE Children’s Stockings 25c Pair {DIUM-WEIGHT Black Ribbed Cotton Stockings, with heel and toe reinforced for greater wear— sizes 6 to 814, the pair, 25¢.—rux pownsrains stoRE 500 Yards of Chinese Pongee, Special 65c Yard excellent quality of the washable, serviceable Pongee, in natural color, well-adapted to ‘hildren’s frocks and rompers, women’s undergarments and drapery uses—82 inches wide; SILK REMNANTS AT REDUCED PRICES A disposal of short lengths in Silks offers Plain and Novelty Weaves and light and dark colorings in wide variety—at reduced prices. 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