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i ERE NFA ARNI Tenight and rain; fresh Maximum, 46. —_— | mea 24. NO. 6. i Howdy, folks! Don't forget to geo beth tenet. A bandit robbed a “peattle earage faan of $50 yesterday, All those in favor of buying a croix de guerre for Pandit take one step to the front} fp only hat! o. Another pay star has married a man, I guess it is just our share! e- wat 1H WELL-DRESSED MAN WILL WEAR Style Show opens at the Washington Monday. Tom Page's black exyegtass rib- Richard = Mansfield = White's _ Sketch Holines bunting cap. eee tna soeelal dooth will be shown that have been thrown wy the sing mos “How to Get ‘way is to get all Nt up and the bass to go to blazes. oe. —————* POEMS OF PASSION Buy a nightie, Aphrodite. ‘SA play called “The Bat” fhe Metropolitan next week Bet, however, written by Babe Ruth. see comes to After ot getting inte on one them P. a thet star - 4 war Pte i There should be no difficulty in ing of those idie ships in Lake when one considers the crying for larger vessels in the Van controvere fence lin od th — night trade sania W. 0. L. Soldier and| ee ANCIENT HISTORY are said to be only 28,- ‘ od gallons of hard likker left the U. 8, which would just es supply the boys at Billy 's one night in the old days, see Oo, let me sing of gentle Spring, 1 The birds, the buds, the grass; OF thubard, onions, peas and beans And emailer bills for gas. see The week of March 12 will be Wine week"—in Paris, friends, in Paris, France, Europe, TAREE CHEE, RS FOR CONGRESS! Aren't you glad the poor little shi Pp ATO to get a $30,000,000 subsidy ¥en tho the gras soldiers don't Feeeive 4 bonus? We notice by tt pers that Bu Bem Fish and ar ave Been married in Seattle con Watulate the bridegroom. A little always improves a fist “ee Mary bodght a little lamb And laid it in the larder Her poodle pup got at the lamb, And made the winter harder Roozalem ed CONTEST 18 NOW CLOSED: 1 wee “so we printed the fol "MP, Kathryn ot for the a he council, If & randidate is, it will he An we offered » 25 wise to the per Ber who sent in the coe y orrect ending to ao %, 105 ane . rived, ali of them ne that an ro iracte. aoe ‘The correct ending ix | er the 9 anee, 8 Mf anybody sani" > priae, ¢ ing an attack of “fly.” heart act action: is usually low followi Comel WEATHER westerly winds. Temperature Last 24 Hours the candidates for It was} The moral is plain. If you have had an attack, e Sum occasional fo strong south- Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 2, 1875. Per Year, by Mail, ven if it was light, be cautious. The Star Goes Into 11,727 More Homes Every Day Than Any Other Seattle Newspaper. The Seattle Star $5 to 89 SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1922. NG! At least two Seattleites have dropped dead in the last day or so from a preventable cause. They returned to work too soon after suffer- Get back into the harness gradually. The ing influenza (about 60 or 62) and the temperature may be as low.as 96. The combination is dangerous. Use care! |MAN SHOT; COMPANIONS HELD y Girls Deny Story of Bandit Attack xWOi CENTS IN SEATTLE } ) : | TRAPPED BY THUG Heaths zal by Posse After’ She Is Robbed. = RAILWAY GREED IS MENACE! | THEY CAME, SAW AND CAME, SAW AND DID MUCH SHOUTING A BIT BEFOREHAND! Second and Third aves, heard it coming and thought it was a riot. But it wakn't It carried ite banners explaining ftxelf, and the populace learned that the or wanization of Star carriers was out en @ party, ‘Three hundred newsboys as wembied before the Star office Maturday at 945 a. m, jostled themselves into parade forma and tion, two abreant. and began the grend down Union to i Third, TACOMA, -~-Qeamht «|| agua Yeeigr ta Boosna une’ ted and beung with rope and wire, hysterical bat alive nd ther unharmed, Mim Fide Sours yeeraid ten ch Arbitrary | Action fi ef 1 i f Local Trade to, e2e5, hint Some time ago the roads boosted mice to Wolapa | It was a real boost, too. | On some commodities it was more than 100 per cent. | The! railroads contended that the | old rate had been made low be | ‘cause of water competition, but that | now there isn’t any such animal os | Both Looted | steambout competition. ‘The board Two sales wore cracked in the | of public works denied the boost and heart of the downtown | the railroads hopped into court on tia aie | Ne such thing as water com- yeggmen. B: 1 timbt |the ground, and beside them her |qisry tntes 15 fect above the alle jlunch Basket and amall eatchel, | walk. one of the mfe-crackers opened At daybreak Blackslee picked UP !q transom in the Spring cigar store. | . the girl's trail leading towards the |g: 919 second ave. and admitted his | boat schedule is to be put on be- | | Spring Cigar Store and Su- perior Laundry Are weattered over deserted hotise, vacated two 4a¥* | companions. The man left his foot- ago by a Japanese named When released from her honds the | girl fainted. She was taken physician | Miss Sparre’s parents, Mr Mrs. Louis Sparre, live here. prints in the dust on the ledge. | ‘The safe was rolied into the barber) t0 4 shop, where it was dynamited, after | | the combination had been knocked | and lott, The explosion wrecked the deor She lof the safe. The safecrackers took to deliver a ton of, San cisco groceries on the Raym dock than the railroads want @ graduate of Lincoln high shool/apout $1,200 in cash, but became! for taking that same ton from jené Washington State coltege, |frightened and left four money-bage,| Tacoma or Seattle to Raymond. anon containing $201.84, lying in plain) No boat competition? | sight in the vault. The cash register contained $15, but wag not disturbed. Frank Scholtz, a clerk, discovered the robbery at 630 a. m. Detectives found fingerprints on the safe, and ; | muffle the sound. Re At 7a. m. an employe of the Su-| Cs M. & ST \perior Laundry company, 2219 Ninth| ‘This same public works depart safe wrecked | ment officer also telle this one. ! And the Northwest cities that sel) in Willapa Harbor are just naturally out of luck unleas the state court decides that there is such an elernent as steamboat competition. HOW PROGRESSIVE ave., discovered the | Friend Are Held Jand the building badly damaged by| Cedar Falls, southeast of Seattle, } PORTLAND, Maret. 4, -- Lather ja terrific explosion. The safe had|suddenly started to grow. The been moved from the front end of | growth was first Indicated by the L| escaagge Be op aprerellsAe Bed the building to the rear, where it war |shipment of some carloads of stuff eee a Mterun. 21. were arrested [drilled and dynamited. ‘The safe was |to that town. In thees carloads wax same bag ods rere ah the completely wrecked, and the interior a lot of big, heavy freight. When | Lomi lof the laundry badly damaged by fly. | the firat carload got to Cedar Falls. f Misx Willamene Fuller, shooting Jing glass from the plate glass parti-'the owner of the freight learned lehot ri, in 8 Stephe: Dt the | choir girl, in St Stephen's proeaihe’|tions, which were shattered by the) there im’t any loading und unload }dral Thursday nigh | : ' ‘ lexploxton ing platform there olice would no lge details | 6 Bree degre Hh re divulge detach | Only $26 rewarded the efforts of) ‘The Milwaukee road hadn't} eee te stated at head.|the crackxmen, It ix believed that! thought it necessary to nail a few he crime was sta |the safecrackers entered by @ rear! planks together and make a plat |quarters, however, that the two men [knew Elmer Weatherford, arrested | yesterday, and had associated with | him, an intimation that detectives! uspect one of the men of being the | form, (Turn to Page 1, So the agent at Cedar Falls Column 5) | window In the Spring cigar store rob- cat was driven in- explosion, according to Patrolmen Robert Bridges and Says Russia Ready mysterious “buddy” for whom Weath- | sive ertord eal be bought. a moraing| ® Mouton, who, Invests: to Pay Up All Debts per ; WASHINGTON, March 4 Russ. pap tussia ° - k | Slayer of Husband iniready to pay all the debts she j owes the outside world, but with off Bad Weather Makes | Sent to Oregon Pen (01° tov inmane “wrelone te ent Registration Light | PORTLAND, March 4.-~Alma|ken, Kolchak and other generals Adverse weather conditions are; Louise Wurtzbarger, who was sen supported by the Allies, according to winarerse weatificiale tor the light|tenced to serve 10 years in any|a statement of Foreign Minister veaistration Friday, when the en | place that the attorney general|Tchitcherin, reported to the senate n e the pre-| might designate, for killing her hus-;agriculture committee today by El Ltoohetier cpacc cio th |bert A. Johnson, chairman of the combined | band cn the Chemawa Indian reser with an apparent apathy on the part|vation as he lay sleeping, will oerve } Asean commigsion on Near East voters, kept the number of reag | her sentence in the Oregon peni- | relie strants down to &000, ‘The books|tentiary, according to word recetved | will remain inethe various home pre-|here late Iriday by Lester Hum-} §. attorney, from Attor- cinet voting places, Rain. ot the RRC Nae VETERANS TO MEET | hours came an \the minimum wage. ICASE IS SET FOR | NEXT MONDAY Great Legal Battle Is to Open With 500 Witnesses and Squads of Attorneys; Cost $500,000 ACCUSED OF STEALING $2,000,000 BY ROY GIBBONS WAU KEGAN, IL, March 4.—Gov. Len Small of Illinois will face a jury in criminal court here Monday to answer bar 4 is the first governor in any state to stand trial by civil court during tenure of office. He’s likewise one of | res few officials elected to high place to seek acquittal for! | apes sees se banat people over whom he rules. trial promises to be one of the biggest legal battles that be! American court. Gov. Fred Bb. Sterling and Curtis. Sterling has elected to be tried at Springfield. ‘The state will seek to prove that) | Small, ag state treasurer, and Ster-| Hing, whe suecerded him, with the| aid of the lute Waward C. Curtis and his brother, Vernon #. Curtix, both bankers, appropriated vaat sums of slate funds. The bill of particulars charges: ty i THAT the defendants faiscly 4 \ « } pretended te the state that the place ef deposit for state funds . : — bank, when it was not a THAT certificates of deposit is- receive about 2 per cent for the use of the state funds, whereas the interesS actually paid them ranged from 5 per cent to 8% per cent. THAT Small and Sterling maintained two sets of books, one of a “vault fund” deposited in bona fide banks, and the other of a “safe fund” deposited in the Gran’ Park bank, an institution which had ceased to exist. THAT the funds loaned to the Grant Park bank were in turn loaned to Chicago packing houses, and that inerest and profits from such loans over 2 per cent paid to the state were __kevt by the defendants. 12-Hour Day at $15 | | Gov. Len Smali Small is at liberty under $150,000 bonds He and his co-defendants stoutly | maintain their Innocence, and declare |that powerful political influences framed the charges against them. a Week Aid to Golf, Says Kind Employer SAN FRANCISCO, March 4 week—to work but four days a “There is no labor trouble at our |week, The first thing that we Port Angeles camp. thought of was dur employes, “We are working the men 12) | “We had been nimning in three hou because we want to) shifts of eight hours each. give them a living wage. pot wltelier§ “The 12-hour day will probably his four days a week at not be in effect very: long. At |: $8 a day, this would mean that Sash. ee: Bape th WE eek nes. | Sree SPSS eee reoeeve more than » few weeks but $12 a week, That is not @ liv “When the present depression = ‘"* W"* lifts we shall resume work on “However, our manager talked to} the three-shift plan with no jthe men, He duction from the old wage sea! would not rather work 12 hours a This is the “answer” given re | day today vy D. H. Patterson, general $15 a week “With manager of the board milly depart one exception the men ment, to charges that the Paraffine agreed to this plan Companies, Inc., of San Francisco,| .“It was necessafy, of course, to was working men 12 hours a day in| lay off a few me T believe it was its Crescent boxboard plant at Port these few men who raised the objec: Angeles, Wash tion. However, we lald ow saly | The men were recently put to /about eight or 10 work on 12-hour shifts; previously| ‘We only started the twoshift ‘hey had worked in eight-hour plan because we wanted our men to | “towers, get $16 a week Instead of $12. We With the increase in working | thought it would be better for 80] increase of 75c in| per cent to get a living wage than | for 100 per cent to get less than a ares of having conspired to defraud this state of $2,- | asked Sheen if iy | Report Sands Held 5}. ‘This would give them | “GIRL ISS ISSPECTACULAR TRIAL Illinois. “Governor tc to Face Jury on n Felony Charge! VICTIM CHARGE PHONE Refund of $18 for| Shaan Each Subscriber) 243° . Demanded by DYING! Art Models Taken to Scene of At- _ tack by Deputy. Sheriffs bene stories, however, pudiated by two sisters, Hazel Beatrice Innts; 18 and a with tee. party at the eer Hint $ f ? ibs department of public works by! fittle shack in the woods,” she |Thomas J. 1. Kennedy, first assist-| ¢gig Police and deputies, “and ant corporation counsel, accuses the} were just about to enter when a telephone company of levyins| shot rang out and Cy fell, groan- charges for the two years under a/ tariff that never existed, | “I sereamed and Erickson and RAISE 1S { Hartland came running te me |HELD ILLEGAL from the automobile, where we During the war, when the tele- [phone company was under federal | “They examined Cy's wound, j control, the rates were raised ap-) proximately 75 cents a month. An| order permitting this raise was ts-| ried him back to the leued by the then public service com-| drove him to the hospital. mission, but this was declared ille “I was so upset that I didn't gal by the supreme court. It is under this order that the tele- |phone company has been charging) “It yas all se sudden. {ts alleged exorbitant rates for the! “Qne minute we were laughing |past two years. The government re-| and ‘ |linquished control of the telephone; “Then a shot— |company in August, 1919. “And Cy was lying on the The city charges that the rates for; ground—he looked like he was jtelephone service here have been ex | dead.” jorbitant and illegal. The original story told the police was that the party was driving thru the woods when a masked highway- |man stepped ipto the road with thes command to “stick ‘em up.” Instead of obeying. the story ran, Wright ‘stepped pn her” and was shot by the bandit as the machine speeded down the road. ‘The bullet penetrated Wright's Johest near the heart. 40 BROKERAGE | HOUSES CRASH NEW YORK, March 4.—Forty brokerage houses have crashed since Janudry 1 in the greatest panic of ed kind in history Further collapses are expected to-| day. H The New York stock exchange| showed a steady advance in stock! quotations, which contributes to the 1 of @ “pucketshops,” Six houseg'closed their doors yes: | |terday, Frenzied customers are be-} lsieging other houses whose financial | downt FIGHTING DOPE | PORTLAND, Ore, March 4.—The stability is questioned, District Av . . |torney Joab Banton ix continuing his {28 er to epclety ot the tnerenainie probe, and the state legislature at Al. | US? of narcotic drugs, ae) |means for meeting and checking the | bany is laying plans for an investig a. Sa dit tho ehieas attentien. | widespread traffic in narcotics, wer’ | topics here today of a six-state com ference called by Goy. Olcott of Ore+ gon. | Representatives of the state of Cale Under Death Doom | ternis, Washington, Montana, Wy: LOS ANGELES, March 4,—a-|oming and Idaho were present when ward F. Sands is in jail at Toronto| Gov, Oleott called the meeting to ors waiting hanging, according to a re-|der at 10 o'clock port received by the police here from}. Leading physicians and narcotic A, BE. Swank, of Canton, Ohio, who| agents in federal and state employ is said to know Sands. ‘also were on hand to swell thé con- Officials did not place much cre-| ference attendance, laence in the story. | One of the main problems delegates Sands, wanted here in connection | to the conference intend to work out William D, Taylor murder, |48 securing the aid of the medical jis to hang in Toronto under the | Profession to stop the use of opiuns Iname of David Harri, according to| derivatives to relieve pain. the report In view of otber recently discoy- - Jered medicinal substances which have | {with the [cinete sateeeey see wil be Mae [hey Ge ae Vr hert | | Thus labor who had received $3) livi | mtil 9:80 p Thig will be the Jast/ ney: General’ Daugherty, nus laborers ¢ ed $3 living wage." the same physiological effect as opportunity, to. register near om || FOR BONUS PARADE | « tny"ror'wominy sont hours were the Snatge moare that each man|Miissionary Slain {iM mtctne eetce waets ie the booka will then be returned to} ORKERS ‘SPEND Members of Toosevelt Post No. || Sven $3.76 a day for working 12.| would work 16 hours’ more each} by China. Bandits |‘! substitution of these would aid the county-city. building ; | MOST AT THE U 24,, Veterans of Woreign Wars, || That means the employes increased | week—and would receive $8 for do y ‘ 1 jin curbing the spread of the drug, de- AN will meet at Veterans’ hall, 1616% || their working hours by one-half, but) ing it | ST, LOUIS, March 4.—Dr. A. L.|gire and eliminate one source of the UTH LAW QUITS Helf.supporting students in the) | Third ave., at 1 p. m. Sunday, to || their wages were increased by but “While we are unreservedly | Shelton Louis missionary of the | narcotic habit ‘ te . .|university, both men and women, |} tke part in the bonus parade one-fourth. | opposed to a 12-hour for six | Disciples of Christ church, was at! qt iy also proposed that congress AIR FOR CRADLE | spena mote for clothes than finan-|| Members of the Unemployed “Business was poor,” said Patter-| days a week we can not see inapie d killed by robbers near Ik-| shall be petitioned to take over and CHICAGO, March 4.--Ruth baw, |cially independent students. ‘This |} Veterans club and other unem: ||#0n today. “We were operating at| that 12 hours a day for but |iang, in West China, February 17 jput under government controll: al! laviatrix, has quit flying to lead the|fact was determined by a recent in ployed veterans are to meet at || lore | four days a week is particulary lcording to a cablegram received here! narcotic manufacture, and) to pro imple life, “to have a home, a hus| vestigation by the University Dally|) 1909 Iifth ave, at 2 p. m “We decided it was necessary to| un-American — or particolarty today by the United Christian Mis-] hibit the importation and promiscu: band and babies.” business office, close down the mills three days a (Turn to Page U1, Column 2) sionary society. ous sale of drugs.

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