The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 25, 1922, Page 7

en ESDAY, JANUARY DISABLED VETS OPEN NEW FIGHT Thousands of Men and) Families Suffering From %y Official Neglect ‘ a Sal BY HARRY HUNT {2 WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.— America’s disabied war vet erans are getting back into " the trenches to fight for fair, ») Square treatment by the gov eae Ornment. me " That to date these men have m received only hitor-miss justice gh MO one who has studied cases om Under the veterans’ bureau will im deny, nit Whether responsibility lee with gathe system qr with the men tn pitCharge of the system, or with fail wettre by congress to Iny down a for¥erkable program and provide the wameans to carry it out, the fact re nemains clear that thousands of men eoind \their families are suffering BRING STARTED This applies administering “ghospitalization,’ rehabilitation train 10 25, 1922. Playsi in and disability compensation. i tice was precipitated by: «) ONE, to provide vocational training for most rehabilitation cases at govern nt schools to be developed in| @andoned army camps. i TWO, The farming out of tn reasing numbers of veterans suffer. | ag from mental disorders to state or | ‘ing the criminal and pauper insane, , where they are detained but receiv 2 remedial treatment. Dernment facilities to provide proper | The veterans’ new drive for a | The decision of the bureau | Ellen Mahar. * Gives Pleasing Performance She plays the role of Diana, the university | dese demands bere wrivate ¢hylums or sanitariums hous-| graduate, who attempts to bring the beachcomber back to|the Shantung question probably will | himself in “The Bird of Paradise,” thé Tully drama, which | fotow |1s the attraction at the Metropolitan this week, Her char- THREE. The inadequacy of gov- | acterization is sympathe tie and appealing. scensee.« WATERHOUSE CO<AMBUSH VICTIM. Phanging men's ratings as to degree of disabliity and amountef disability | sompensation without physical re-ea amination of the men themselves, 'DGE MARX TO iD ATTACK The attack of the veterans will be firected by Robert S. Marx, judge 3¢ the superior court of Cincinnati, national commander of the Dis bled American Veterans of the World War. | Waterhouse & Co F The firstline defense of the gov: j_rnment’s forces will be under or-| «rowing out of the pure ers of Colonel Charles R. Forbes, | Yulenn Manufac Pyirector ureau. The first casualty of the conflict | 4 Major Arthur Dean, assistant di-| tor of the bureau, who lined up the disabled veterans’ ranks in ‘opposing the organization of re habilitation schools at old army camps, like the one now under way at Camp Sherman, 0. Altho the bureau announced Dean bad resigned, his friends openly said he had been dismissed because of his “refusal to subscribe to the @cheme of vocational rehabilitation | Which Director Forbes had inaug- urated at Camp Sheman.” Dea.s's place in the bureau or- ganization was immediately filled with Colonel Robert I. Rees, who was detailed to the service from the war department. Rees was on Pershing’s staff overseas. Immediately after Dean quit the bureau, the disabled veterans scored by obtaining a report from the ap Propriations committee of the house Q@gainst providing money for schools @f the Camp Sherman type. ‘The bureau, however, with ad Ministration backing, is expected to Qttempt io defeat the committee Feport on the floor of the house. “ The immediate result of this situ ation will be to throw open in con ress the whole question of federal 4 to soldiers of the late war, par- vularty the disabled veterans. prepare for interesting devel pments during the next few months in respect to: ONE—The Camp Sherman expert- ment in vocational training. TWO—The government's care of “mental case among ita veterans. THREE—The whole status of vet eran “rehabilitation” work. Total gravitational pull of the sun on the earth would break a steel rod 2,000 miles in diameter. $126 EXTRA EGG PROFIT A MONTH Mrs. Ropp Qete 114 & Eggs a Day In| stead of 25. Figure It Up. of the U. S. Veterans’ Thea eting 4. | is increase ot 7 gosen a Gay in the dagls of winter, at G0c s denen, makes 96 extra Income per month, Dom bum for ber 200 hena es it $2. It ‘paid | to 7; h | mal It is guer- | a BO matter how or w Don Sung ean be obtained promptly m your druggist or poultry raertt | ‘0e for a packs, Burrell- sc bsegs: Co. pairs volia, ‘Ind, Bldg, indiana) METROPOLITAN Tuesday Evening, Jan, 31 Katharin, Aay Adin Rice Presents Ee FIRST TRANSCONTINENTAL of the “Griffes Group” CONCERT with EDNA THOMAS Menzo-Contraito | TOUR | | OLGA STEER Plano SASHA JACOBINOVE Violin SEAT SALE FRIDAY Prices: $1.00 $1.50 $2.00 50 jeration in le |unit in favor of the farm bloc, l ers. | the lynched negro | Lee |Hlmer Yearta, AND BANK FIGHT Legal Battle to Reach Cli-, max in Few Weeks | between Frank and the Seattle National bank for $500,000 damages hase of the uring Co., fm 1918, by the Waterhouse company, in ex pected to begin in earnest in supe flor court some time during the next few weeks. As @ crosssuit, the Seattle National bank has filed an action against the Waterhouse com for alleged fajlure to pay «| iasory note for $79,000 | ‘The legal battle his company bought the Vul can Manufacturing Co. from the So-! attle National bank and the Canadian Bank of Commerce, The company) agreed to pay $575,000, of which $225,008 was paid in cash and two omissory notes for $175,000 each were given to the danke, In the complaint Waterhouse charges the banks with making fraudulent state. ments, exagkerating the profits ot/ the company, and saying nothing of | the outstanding fabilities Waterhouse also charges that the banks paid KR, J. Church $25,000! to falsify reports, records and in-| @ in order to e Water: | . who alleges the whole plaat was only worth about $200,000. | Waterhouse asks damages and $500,009 | In their answers the Seattle Na- tional bank and the Canadian Bank | of Commerce deny Waterboune’s allegations, saying that Waterhouse had been speculating heavily at! that time in war materials and that | they made no misrepresentation of | the property Waterhouse ts enid to have made $2,000,000 in war profits, and it is alleged he had become thoroly familiar with the Vulean Manufacturing Co. before he bought it. MUSCLE SHOALS. BEING FOUGHT WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. — Power-/ ful forces were at work today to pre- vent ‘the agricultural conference? from going on record in favor of Henry Ford's Muscle Shoals offer, the St. Lawrence river canalization | project and the farm bloc. Fertilizer and other big Interests © opposing Ford; New York, New ngland and other Atlantic coast states are fighting the St, Lawren project and administration forces are laboring against the farm bio Leaders in the conference are con fident of incorporating indorsement of these three issues in the program for agricultural relief. The American Farm Bureau fed ding the fight in favor of the Muscle Shoals and St. Law rence projects, and in this it has the support of a majority of the farmer interests at the conference, ‘The| farmer representatives stand as LIFE SENTENCE) OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan Three whites and two negroes, self confessed members of a party that |lynched Jack Brooks, negro packir |house worker, last week, pleaded | | guilty before Federal Judge James I Phelps ysterday and were sentencea 25 !to life imprisonment | ‘The men were all strike sympathis- | One of the men was a cousin of ‘Three more are under arrest | ‘The men sentenced yesterday aré Whitley, 29; Charlies Polk, 18% 19, all whites, and Robert Allen, 27, and Nathan Butler, | 40, negroes, Release Husband in Poison Case PARIS, Jan, 2) Thomas RKyan,| who wag held in connection with the} |deatn of his wife, who took poison | |here, has been released provisionally, |Spencer, M? G it became known today. It is ‘eon. | sidered unlikely that the former newspaper man will ever be tried, | IS STILL ALIVE Start Probe of Mysterious! Shooting LOS ANGE stained shirt handkerchief and two the first three links m the evidence whigh police are endeavor ing to draw around Mra, Mattie Han bon, mother-in-law of Pau! Kramer ~—A blood blood stained . Jan, 25. wait, a chain of movie director, who was mysterious ly shot from ambush In Hollywood y night. Mrs, Hannon was held by the po lice today with an entry itying ahe ig held on suspicion of assault | with a deadly weapon opposite her hame on the jail register Winifred Kramer, pretty 20-year old wife of the wounded man, ha. been questioned by the police. She declares ahe knows who abot her hus band, but cannot prove it. Kramer hovers near death at the county hos pital, with four bullet wounds in his head and another in his hand. At the hoapital, while hit wounds were ‘being dressed, he accused his mother in-law of the shooting, police said. On the night of the shooting, per: sons in the neighborhood of 1660 fichel Torena ave., heard five shote. aring to investigate immediately. it wag some time before Kramer was found in a pool of blood on the drive way of hia home, His truck stood | near, covered yrered. with blood THIEF ESCAPES PISTOL VOLLEY Excaping from a watchman who fired several shots at him as he fled from the Jackson St. market early Wednesday, a tall, slim burglar was pursued for several blocks by a pa troiman from whom he succeeded tn | soeneene Armed with a knife, the bandit frp a hole in a canvas door large enough to admit his body, when M Dillings, the watchman, heard him and opened fire. The man dropped | his knife and fed the beat saw the burglar fies and fave chase, but could not overtaky him, TROLLEY SUIT UP TO JUDGE Judge J. T. Ronald was closeted, Wednesday, in hig chambers, consid. ering the mass of evidence presented to him in the case of the “14 taxpay. era” vs. the city of Seattle. He will | weigh the evidence in the case for the remainder of making a decision. In thetr elosing arguments, torneys for the Not to tle the hands of the city in the operation of the street car system The point at insue ts the granting of an injunction preventing the city from using any general fund moneys for the support of the railway, the week before the at ‘ | Applauds Action LYNCHERS GET | i Against Poll Tax YAKIMA, Jan Luee, action of the state asseasors' conven tion, which he was unable to attend in going on record against the poll tax Yakiina county's experience, na Luce, showed that “the citizens listed on the general tax rolls had no way of dodging the poll tax, while many floaters, at whom it waa oatens aimed, got away without paying." Lincoln 1D. Benefit Concert to Be Given for Needy A concert given for the benefit of the Millionair club, Seattlo's ganization for the unemployed, be held Friday at & p. m. in Press Club Auditorium. the program are Mrx West, Louis Brentweet. Denee Snowden, Jlizabeth bery, Neva May Lathan, orchestra, Emerald trio, Lloyd Johanson, BE. Tee and the Seattle Mandolin club, the direction of John Nicho or will the Those on George f Dorothy Brande Braymer dale, under las. bullets form | A patrolman on | city asked the court | county assessor, applauds the| THE SEA “Bird of Paradise” SHANTUNG NEAR THOMAS KEEPS | _ TO SETTLEMENT Arms Parley Is Approach- ing End of Work BY A. L. BRADFORD | WASHINGTON, Jan, 26 question iw on the wan The Shantung Jot nettloment, tt thoritatively today | Assurances that thie vital problem will wettied soon have ceived in the most authoritative |Ameriean quarters. A settioment of Shantung, for yeara one of the most serious ques tions of the Far it, Is considered of vast importance to the Washing ton conference. It was this question which largely contributed to the de feat of the Versailles treaty in the American senate and many have be |Meved that the senate would not ac cept the treatica growing out of the present conference if Bhantung is not settled in Washington now Shantung is today the sole un. solved major problem of the confer ence and the end of the conference for the first time is definitely in sight. The best guese now ls latter part of next woek ‘The four-power treaty's scope will be defined by an exchange of notes as already stated, #0 that ita opera tion will exclude the mainland of Japan. Drafting of the nine-power treaty on China is expected to re quire a short time, as this work will mainly be to insert the texts*of the Root and other resolutions, already definitely approved. ‘The Far Eastern conference today reached the bottom of Ite agenda wireless communications in Chine though ft planned to revert back to lthe subject of 21 demands | Shantung ie wettied The Japanese conference validity of} t of verne learned aw | still aay they will tell the it cannot decide on the Settleme the Hughes Talfour com proposal on the Shantung the main stumbling block The cardinal points of this pro pora), as learned today by the United Presa, are 1. That China te allowed to pur chase the railway tn payments cov ering 12 years, with the option of full payment in three years. 2. That China appoint a traffic manager ond that there be a Japan |ese and Chinese accountant | - promise rallway HERE’S MORE ABOUT | _ THE POPE || STARTS ON PAGE ONE | tcular interest because the same jpaper had Previously denied all re Jother than an Italian for the Vatican were being made Cardinal Merry Del Val, papel secretary of state under Pope Pius X, is directing the campaign to break the tradition of choosing an Italian. Merry Det Val, aniard, is one of the candidates for the papacy The cardinal iw being ansisted, the paper states, by the Jesuit order. which kept in the tackground during Benedict's pontificate, because of the jlatter’s conciliatory policy, The |Jesult general, Liochowaky, it is stated, in canvassing all cardinals as |they arrive in Rome for the la pope's funeral and later for t meeting of the sacred college to select a new pope. This has been et for February Other Italian papers also show the most intense interest in Bene dict’s nuccessor and the that the cardinals outside Italy are likely to play in making the choice Many papers, however, discount the belief that a German Is likely to be chowen by expressing fear that |the conclave of cardinals will de. velop an allied pro-German align ment in which the national interests lof the rmer belligerent nations | will play « prominent part ‘This would delay action by the conclave and hold up the selection of a new pope While thé dincussion of Renedict's successor went on, undiminished | multitudes today continued to pay |their homage to the’ pope, At 9 o'clock today a@ large crowd as | rermtie 1 outside St. Peter's, awalting ing of the doors. The body will on view until 2:30 p, m, today, Tomorrow the actual interment will take place, according to definite de. cision reached yesterday. The second day of the funeral wervice was rated with iecreas. ing solernnity. The sacred college fixed the time for the pope's funeral tomorrow at ic 3:20 p. m, it was officially an nounced. | The prem is carrying on & warm | de to whether Cardinal Gas parri, papal secretary of state, com municated news of the pope's death to the Italian government Tht Jincusion proceeds along with that of whether the new pope shall be from the group that favors with the government conservative who favor oral power closer | relations or from the a restoration of the tem of the papacy Notifications of the Italian gov ernment by the Vatican that the 6 had died would amount to official relations, it was argued The Giornale Italia insists that the government's order closing schoc and theatres and ordering flaga at half mast followed a communication fro the Vatican, Other papers are’ divided on the subject. Flu Cases i in U. S. Are on Increase WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. A large number of influenza cases in various parts of the United States was re ported by the public health bureau here today, Meager and incomplete reports from 15 states showed 274 new cases had been discovered during the last seven days. ‘The total showed 682 cases this week, compared with 508 last week, ee Disease Epidemic in New York Grows NEW YORK, Jan. 26.—There have been 61 des from pneumonia, «ht from acute nchitie and one from influenza in Greater New York during the last 24 hours, the depart ment of health announced today There were 402 casen of pneumonia and influenza reported to the health department within the same period, after | TTL STAR CHAMBER JOB bi Elected Executive Secre- tary by New Trustees | Christy Thomas, executive secre tary of the Chamber of Commerce wince last May, has been lected to that position by the new trusters, | who took charge of the organization | Tuesday \ | Hereafter the general board of trustees will be _relleved of much work by an executive committee of |10 from ita membership, which will ee twice weekly. Col, Howard A, Hanson, J, D. Low, |man, Nathan Eckatein, C. 8. Willy | |W. ©. Dawson, C. B, Blethen and E. | |. Hateh will serve on the commit | |e with Frank Waterhouse, prem |dent, and Ralph &, Stacy and Alfred H. Lamdin, viee presidenta, George Donworth, Jonlah Colina, Senator | |Samuel H. Piles, Capt. J. 8. Gibson, | Clark P. Bimett, B. H. Hatch, Leon: | ard Bushnell, Daniel ‘'Trefethen jand A. J. Fisken were named to the| {entertainment and reception commit: | |tee, headed by Nathan Kekatein. President Waterhouse commented on the Northwest products cam: |paign in a speech at the installation loxercines. | “I think the greatest and most constructive work of the chamber to day in that being done and in con | temp the Pacific Northweet | Prod t seems | }to me we should make it our primary | | business to do all in our power to] safeguard and promote the industries Reattle already ponnesses. J. A. Swatwell, the chairman, has a finan clol plan on foot which will greatly jaid in the accomplishment of such | a purpose, My idea ix that if we! | will place the industries we now have | in proaperous condition there will be! no necessity for spending large sums |of money annually in advertising the | |induatrial advantages of Seattle, The | | Chamber of Commerce should to the jutmost practical extent be the cuar dian of the industries of this city.” ons | CITY OFFICIALS PROMISE WORK Join Acting Mayor Hesketh in Unemployment Fight ation by bureau,” ‘That city officials are endeavoring to co-operate with Acting Mayor He» |keth in providing work for the un Jemployed was indicated Wednesday by reports from various depart mental beads, summarizing muni |cipal projects planhed for the next |few monthe At the same time Mayor Caldwell's Junemployment commiasion decided to ask the Red Cross to use part of itm $100,000 emergency fund to fur nish employment for women who are badly in need of work. Frank EB. Kanfatr, seeretary of the commiasion, declared that over 800 women are reporting daily in futile search of employment. City Engineer A. H. Dimock de. clared that city improvements that | will be commenced as soon as the weather permits will employ over 500 men, ©. A. Piper, superintend ent of streets, reported that enough work has been outlined in his depart ment to employ continually between ‘80 and 90 men Jamon FE. Blackwell of the build ine department declared that he had |in prospect about $85,000 worth of construction work, while D, W Henderson, railway head, said that the only new work on the street car jlines would be the reconstruction of Pine st. to Atlantic st. and | First ave possibly the laying of tracks on El Mott ave, when that street is re graded. MUNY RAILWAY HITS NEW MARK * Seattle street car system made $32,366 last month above all ¢x- penses. This is the best month that the municipal railway hag expri- enced. Sufficient funds have already been net aside in the city treasury to pay the first tnstaliment of principal and jinterest due on the $15,000,000 pur chase price, Tho city will pay the bondh of the street car system $1,240, March 31. The treasury now holds more than $4,000 over this sum. Total revenues for December amounted to $560,075, according to the monthly report of D. W. Hender superintendent of transporta just given out for publication, e total expenses, includin, the | month's apportionment of the annual | bond payment and a $20,000 deprecta- tion charge, were $527,709. December's total gain was over $10,000 more than was made during the preceding month. JURY INSPECTS OLD WASHOUT Federal Judge ©, BE, Cushman and 412 jurors are inspecting the site of @ washout which occurred December |23, 1918, near Edgewick, on the Chi- cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul branch line to Everett Walter D, Hines, former director ‘al of railroads during the war, the elty of Seattle in the won, tion, \federal courts for $99,30 for loss alleged to have been caused by seep: faze previous to the washout and by the washout. Trains had to be 're- routed from December 23, 1918, to January 4, 1919, over the Northern Pacific, it !# alleged in the com. plaint, which say# the Qelay and heavy expense were caused by the |failure of the efty to impound the waters of the Cedar lake reservoir properly. Women Hear Talk on Wilson Foundation Miss Edna Crangle addressed a meeting of the Business and Pro- fessional Women's club at the Fine Arts hall Tuesday night on “The Woodrow Wilson Foundation.” She emphasized the fact that subseribers should make their checks payable to the foundation itself and send them either to foundation headquarters, 501 Seaboard building, or to Daniel Kelleher at the Seatte National PAGE 7 FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET 216 Pairs of Women’s Dress Pumps $3.95 MART combinations of leathers—graceful lasts—an occasion for make ing an attractive saving on Dress Pumps: Three Styles as Pictured: Tongue Pump with black Tongue Pump in gray kid vamp and gray suede with gray kid ede quarter; baby f , ; Toes Aer) covered “sf self-color suede trim- trimming and baby Louis heel. gray suede. ming and Louis heel. Sizes 21, to 7, and widths AA to D in the offering, but not in every style. 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