The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 18, 1922, Page 1

>} wester Maximum, 53. Today WEATHER Tonight and Sunday, fair; light ly winds. ‘Temperature Last 34 Hours Minimum, 39. noon, 44, Se VOLUME 24. NO. 229. Sana The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor The Seattle Star Metered a2 Second Class Matter May 8, 1899, at the Postoffion at Beattie, Wash. under the Act ef Congress March 8, 1810, Per Year, by Mali, 6 te 0 PLAN 4-CENT FARE! ax § HOME) il SEATTLE, WASH. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1922.. TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE TARR E City of ewe BER EGS 8. Lioyd George can comfort himself with the reflection that August Toellner was also defeated. eee This colyum's little bull was miss- ing this morning. He must have been overworked at the Dill banquet. - car. A ee? A weekly street car pass for a dol- Jer ts fore ae Counci Makina a Bad Muddle Worse aah hee eaiahiblaedl ‘EDITORIAL.) HE city council should watch its T step, or else it worse. vidually approved weekly pass plan. | Should Beware is going to make a bad street car situation very much Mayor Brown’s administration def- initely promised the people of Seattle a five-cent fare, and the councilmen indi- the pledge. Then delay succeeded delay; the three-for-a- quarter tokens stayed with us. In the meantime, other cities have demonstrated the great success of the In Tacoma passes sold at $1 each have resulted in a 55 per cent increase in number of passengers carried, at no increased cost for unlimit- ed riding to either patrons or company. In Youngstown, O., a $1.25 pass resulted in nearly as great an increase in num- ber of passengers, and in a 31 per cent increase in the company’s revenue. Se- attle officials ignored these experiments. Now it is apparent that SOMETHING MUST BE DONE. The Star believes the pass plan should be tried. It has suc- ceeded elsewhere; it ought to help solve our problem. At any rate no harm can come from experimenting with it; the city has everything to gain and nothing y orem aeons ee CUT BY FEB. 1 5-Cent Cash or 25 Tokens for $1 Is Proposal Four-cent carfare will be in- sugurated on the = manicipal railway February 1, 1973, if « plan proposed by Mayer Brown and agreed upon by city officials in conference, Saturday, is ap- proved by the elty council, Indl- cations at the city hall were that the plan will meet with approval. The token system will be con tinued, the dises selling at 25 for 1. For passengers who do not buy tokens, the cash fare will be 5 cents. | Under the proposed system, no transfers will be allowed. “Altho the changes will not be in force untit February,” the mayor sald, “it will be presented to the council as soon as a bill can be prepared, in order . the publicity can acquaint people with the details of the project.” The question of making up the Ponsibie joss thru taxation will be re- ferred to the voters of Seattle, ac cording to the mayor's pian. Mayor Brown exptemes the betief that substitution of one-man cars for fm Clemenceau made the follow- ‘Clemenceau Arrives to | | Give M. essage to America Famous Frenchman Welcomed by U. S&S. Officials in New York Ceremony NEW YORK, Nov. 18.—In fighting trim, eager for his campaign in this country, Georges Clemenceau, the “Tiger” jof France, landed on American soil today, with high honors |} accorded him on every side. Taken off the liner Paris early this morning on the mayor's Georges Clemenceau, war premier a grand old man of France, who landed at New York Saturday te express hia views to Americans regard- ing conditions in Burope. yacht Macom, Clemenceau stepped on shore about 10 o’clock and was welcomed to New York city at the city hall. Mie first declaration in the United) the “Tiger” with the joking remark States on the subjects nearest .tis| that the statue might have been a Uttle blurred by prohfiltion. ing statement at the ceremonis in| Clemenceau got up out of his the present heavier vehicles would the city hall today; welcoming him aid the car aystem in handling the to the elty: increased traffic that will result) “In my Ife I have seen France | from lower fares. twice invaded by the Germany, and “Two plans look feasible to | 1 do not wish to see it again. There- me.” Brown said. “First, » & | fore, we must have lasting guaren- cent carfare, with the privilege [tees before we disarm. When we chair and gazed fixedly at the statue. He seemed to be deeply impressed at |his first sight of France's gift to America, and declared it to be very | imposing. ‘The distinguished members of the welcome committes, many of them Two Vessels Are Riddled With Bullets in 6 Arrests and Seizure of 32 Cases of Liquor A midnight chase after a rum-running motor boat was | crowned with partial success early Saturday when a cordon of police captured half of the smugglers’ cargo and rounded up two men and four women after the bootleggers had eluded their pursuers and landed their whisky in apparent safety. The chase was one of the most dramatic brushes that has been staged between rum-runners and the federal authorities since the prohibition amendment went into effect. It lasted from early afternoon until late at night, the two boats ecov- eving a total distance of more than 100 miles each. Dozens. of shots were exchanged betweer the two craft, but the smugglers were finally able to outdistance the sub- marine chaser and landed their cargo of 75 cases of Scotch iwhisky just south of the Bell St. dock, almost within the | glare of the lights from the Fruit Exposition, before the | Slower boat could come alongside. shore and a searching party was immediately sent out under HUGE SAVING IN the equad and, taking personal com- mand, traced part of the contra band liquor to a rooming house at 2200% First ave, where 32 cases of whisky were seized and the follow- ing persons arrested: H. B, Hallow- ll, 30; George M. Verge, 20; Mrs. H. B. Hallowell, +27; Mra. @. M. Verge, 27; Mabel Dullard, 24, and Mrs. Joe Czerny, 27. The six post- ed $700 bail, which, according to Chief Severyns, was agreed upon as | forfelture to escape trial. The trail of the liquor was first ; Picked up by @ submarine chaser, Chief W. B. Severyns later —— | | _ The police were notified as soon as the federal men reached — Before the swimmers met, But dove into the tank and found They had not filled it yet. eee Washington women in politics ‘were more voting than voted for. to lose. The nickel fare, of course, is alluring. We all would prefer that. But there is no more reason why a nickel fare will pay now than why it would pay six months ago. , Perhaps it ought to be tried. Perhaps the people would approve meeting a def- icit thus created out of the general fund. However, before creating such a deficit the people ought to be consulted in the =pathcge SUGGESTION The reigning ruler of the Pa cific Northwest fon is called Queen pot eall the court fool Wine Sap? matter. % ey he If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, think how Seattle physicians must shun the Bell st. terminal! eee The Los Angeles murder case of fers a solemn warning against let- ting your wife learn how to use @ hammer. eee A girl we like Ia Badie Green, She parks a bottle In her limousine. oe Since Mrs. Homer Brew began using mud complexion baths, she hasn't had the heart to reprimand little Homer for getting his face dirty. see ANOTHER SUGGESTION May we not suggest that the manufacturers of these various complexion compounds adopt as thelr slogan, “Say It With Mud”? see Li'l Gee Gee, th’ office vamp, de- fines the chaperon as a press censor. eee Posy, our pet goat, almost swal- lowed J. D. M.'s offering which said that It was about time that ex-Kaiser Wilhelm got married and settled down. oe Of all the words tongue or pen saddest to Dill are “1 knew you when—" eee TODAY'S HAPPY THOUGHT Cheer up. The oldfashioned beer was only about one and « hall per cent beer—the rest was foam. . ‘The best judge of mushrooms lives over at Poulsbo, says a news dis- patch. The poorest judge of them @fed some years ago. cee One way to lone your reputation for veracity is to go on a fishing trip. ee Seattle truck driver (to man erank- ing flivver)—Atta boy! Way I got my start” ee j BUSINESS 18 BETTER 4 After being closed for three . years, the Dover, N. HL, jail has A. 16 prisoners —News dispatch. . eee Farewell—Aloha—Vale—Long zoor! That's the ° Won iano, * a2 7 But surely the pass plan and the nickel fare ought not to be adopted to gether, as various officials are propos- ing. The council should decide which idea it wishes to experiment with first, and then go ahead in a clear-cut manner to try it out. Because the pass plan has a record of success elsewhere and because it | could be tried and abandoned, if neces- sary, with less serious consequences than could a five-cent fare, The Star believes it should be given preference. But let’s not convert a muddle into a mess by making the experiment | so complicated that ‘nobody can | analyze the results. ARMOUR PLANT|FIND 2 MORE LOST IN FIRE) POISON CASES CHICAGO, Nov. 18.— Fire today) CHICAGO, Nov. 18 Arsenic pol caused a lone of $250,000 In the hog|*oning was found in the bodies of two other former husbands of Mri rmou Co., pack i) re plant of A iF & | Tillie Klimek, alleged blubeardist, Coroner Peter Hoffman ‘The blaze, after burning furiously | roqay, apnomnant for five hours, was brought under | control with the south end of the | was found in the bodies of Joseph eles Rushowski, second husband, who ructure saved. ied in 1914, and Jesse Mitalewits, Practically the entire Chicago fire tirst husband, who died In 1912. | department was called out to fight| Poison had previously been discov- the fire. Hundreds of streams of |¢red in the body of her third hus. r t water were played on the flames, band and her fourth is seriously iit which shot high into the air when from arsenic. Upon the announcement of the fed by the combustible fat of 2,000 dressed hogs. finding of poison in the bodier of two husbands, orders were issued for examination of bodies of five *hil- dren who died mysteriously in the family of Mra. Klimek Nov. 18—fixty of the 120 hogs belonging to 8. Schmidt were burned to dath late last night, when fire leveled the ranch pens | — | STRUCK BY a falling timber at | the Nettleton milla Friday afternoon, near the St. Johns waterfront. |". Reberant, 61, of 369 Alki ave., was ‘The tons in live stock and property | removed to the Seattle General hos- will reach $2,000, Schmidt estimated. pital, His left leg was fractured. Suffictent potson to kill both men | of buying six tokens for 25 cents, without transfers of passes, Second, a straight fare but with weekly passes, “In cage the pass system should be adopted, the passes should sell at considerably lean than $1 each, be- caune on this basis no little could be saved thru purchase of a pass that they would be ignored by the public and would benefit no one.” Ruperintendest Henderson opposed the pass idea. “If the railway deficit can made up thru drawing on the gen eral fund, I have no objection to a lower carfare; but the pass system would result in an Increase of traf ric out of proportion to the benefit the people would receive,” he said. Other city officials, with the ex [ception of Councilman Phillip Tin- |dall, favor some system of fare re {duction with the pass system. | “Just at present, IT am sure | that the fare now in force, com bined with a weekly pass of $1, is the better plan,” Tindall ex plained. “It will create more revenue than a fivecent fare with the pass combination, and those persons whose present carfare expense totals more than $1 a week, will reap the benefit, If the people vote to make up the deficit thru tax- ation, the problem takes on a different angle; but as the facts are now, the only immediate re lief lies in & pass supplement fo the present rate.” Councilwoman Mrs, Henry Landes, who spent several days this week etu ng the pass system ax operated jin Tacoma, was Impressed with the |conventence of the pass system, but leonvinced that it would put the loperating expenses of the Seattle lines far above revenues, “If the people authortze the railway to draw from the general fund, the five-cent fare with the pass is a fine lidea,” she said; “but at present a lehange is out of the question. I |nave always been interested in the pass theory, and I believe it will eventually be used here and that it | will succeed.” MISSIONARY | WASHINOTON, Nov. 18.--Offictal ladvices of the kidnaping of George |Olaf Holm, Lutheran missionary in China, by Chinese bandits, were re- | ceived by the state department today. The department has instructed | American Minister to China Jacob |Gould Schurman to co-operate with the diplomatic representatives of France, England, Italy and Sweden in another strong protest to the Chi- nese foreign office. Wells ‘Defeated te | Majority of 2,400 LONDON, Nov. 18.—H. G, Wells, | British novelist, who ran for parila: ment as a candidate of the labor par- lty, was defeated by Sir Sidney Rus- jee Wells, conservative, by @ major. ity of 2,40° be 1 | IS KIDNAPED. I believe | old friends of the Frenchman, stood |the Americana, too, are thinking, | about him on the upper deck of the | ‘We must defend ourselves.” Macom while Clemenceau carried on | When the “Tiger” was met, down | an interesting conversation with all jthe bay. this morning, Robert W. | present. | Blinn, third assistant secretary of| | Ambassador Jusserand re | state, greeted the old statesman in| marked that he had visited the the name of President Harding, and| league of nations last summer. declared that the president would be| “Is It catching?" queried the glad to welcome him in Washing-| “Tiger,” as everyone broke into | ton. laughter. “Thank you,” said Clemenceau,| Clemenceau was met on board the “for the honor of the president's | Paris by Frank M. Polk, former un- welcome and kind invitation, I amjder secretary of state under Presi- glad to be in America again. I hope | to see President Harding in Wash-/ ington and look forward to the ‘Visit with great delight.” | | Before dawn the giant Iner Parts |was anchored off quarantine and |soon after the Si-yearold war pre- mier of France was on deck to catch the first glimpse of America |that he has had for more than half @® century Vessels sirened their Crushed under the wheels of salutes and the mayor's yacht Ma } an auto on Fourth ave. 8, com, with a welcomin; committes born ahead, eeninss oct being “Le| between Jackson a8 Dear Tigre” to the city. X,, 0. Zechaleam, #1, Replying to a welcome from | 15 N. 30th st. was probably the American Legion, extended | tally injured early Saturday. on the Paris, Clemenceau said ee SS, Se ares that the thoughts of the men Setertay morsing walle ths pe- | represented by the American Hee were scareliing the diy Ser Taek ae as that | the driver of the car, who failed poy to stop after striking the aged | Bantering with newspaper men| ™" jand parrying their questions ut|_ ™ ¢ “4 “ t., told the every turn the “Tiger,” bundl pind in pyr overcoat pt ES peng pot ioe mobile be sansinnl, She: aA. Wee Janything further as to the purposes (GOWN. unavoidably, @hd that as jof his mission to America. Torkeleon lay in the street a small “T have a mission.” he said an ho [er Suto, driving at a fast clip, rat on the deck of the Macom com. |*truck him and crushed him under ing up the bay to New York. But, | wheels. in reply to questions as. to just|, Retermund was unable to get the what his mission, is, he deciarea:|Hoense number of the other car. “I will tell you all privately Tues. | Torkeison was picked up, uncon- day night at the Metropolitan opera | %!0Us, and was rushed to the hos- |house. (This will be Clemenceau's |Pital by Rotermund. He was there | first speech here.) identified from papers in his purse. “I cannot feel better,” sald the| Torkelson’s left leg was broken jold man, chuckling, when he was|®nd his head was severely cut and asked ff his ocean trip had done| bruised. He ts suffering from shock him good. “I always fee] better.” |4nd it 1s feared that he has con- As the Macom neared the statue} cussion of the brain, which may of Liberty, Jules Jusserand, French | Prove fatal. ambassador at Washington, who ac- — companied the welcoming committee today, pointed out the structure to [get them, we will disarm. | dent Wilson, Ambassador Jusserand, (Turn to Pag? 4, Column 4) AGED MAN, HIT BY AUTOS, DYING Rotermund, 3724 Angeline police that his auto- | U.S. CITIZENS | Fifty-eight .persons were granted STAR WANT ADS | “Sell” |Judge Jeremiah Ni jy rer’s court Sat COLUMNS, Lunch will be provided and all mem- bers and their friends are invited to attend and sew for the home. ifinal citizenship papers in Federal! jay morning, when the first clti- | zenship assembly of the past six | weeks was held. } Usually hearings are held every ‘two weeks. Due to the ruling that YOU CAN QUICKLY || citizenship papers are not granted # 7 fe within the 30 days prior to election, FIND ACTIVE BUYERS] (0 hearing was postponed and the BY PLACING YOUR | ‘number of candidates consequently . was exceptionally large. A similar WANT ADS IN THE]) himber, due to the postponement, || STAR'S \is expected for Saturday, Decem- lber 2 | sistant ET iREATE. GRE R THE RAVENNA W. ©. T. U. CLASSIFIED meets at the Children’s home at 10 a. m, Wednesday, November 22. and this gave the smugglers’ « fly- ing start. Both craft were held up, however, by the heavy fog which enveloped the Sound, and for hours they were separated by less than a mile Whisky cove, the potnt at which the chase began, is said to be one of the chief distributing centers for the rum-running gentry. Sixty-five thou sand cases of whisky recently w loaded from a British steamer at Victoria are said to have fouhd their way to Whisky cove, where they | being transferred to a veritable ar- mada of smal! and fleet motorboats. KILLS BROTHER ACCIDENTALLY The unloaded gun claimed an- other victim Friday night, when Walter Nelson, 14, died tn the Renton hospital from an acciden- tal gunshot wound inflicted by his brother, Theodore Nelson, 16. The shooting occurred at 10 a. m, R With Jack: Watson, 16, the two brothers were preparing to go on a hunting trip to Aberdeen. Watson | had a .32-caliber revolver which he | handed to Theodore for inspection, not knowing the weapon was loaded. Theodore pulled the trigger, sending @ bullet thru his brother's ab- domen. The lad was rushed to the hospital, where the bullet was removed. He died eight hours later, The two boys are the sons of Mr. and Mrs, Jasper Nelson, Itving at Buffalo station, a few miles from Renton, The affair was investigated by Dr. Adolph Bronson, deputy coro- jae at Renton. MAJOR’S GALLANTRY WINS OVER POLITICS SAN FRANCISCO, Noy. 18.— When the army transport Cam- |] bria docked here, Major Louis C. Wiison, cousin of Woodrow Wil son, came gallantly down the ‘] gangplank carrying the luggage |} of Miss Elizabeth Harding, army nurse and cousin of President Harding. “You bet we are good friends,” said Major Wilson, |] “Major Wilson certainly is a |] nice man," commented Miss Harding. | We succeeded in cutting this appro- j©R prohibition enforcement duty aty taxpayers would be saved $926, Whisky cove, Protection sland.) 999 » year in wel sth yroll alone jwhich is just inside the Canadian pier vole according to a statement made Unable to atop the vessel tn Brit-| Saturday by Grosvenor Folsom, ish avaters, the chaser was forced to| district manager of the Puget stand by until she crossed the line, Mill company, and one of the — in on the county budget Folsom said, “and I know where the money that the taxpayers produce is spent. ‘ “Few people realize that under our present system Seattle pays 84 cents out of every dollar of county taxes, This is an unfair burden, and such a consolidation as I want to see would relieve city taxpayer? of much of it. “As an example of how money is spent; take the 1923 budget. An ftem of $1,100,000 for new roada was listed, tn spite of the fact that | all the important arterial highways in | the county have already been built, priation in half—to $550,000. Of this amount, only one road, on 65th ave. N., was for a paved highway. All the rest were little connecting roads,” The payroll saving of $920,000 was worked out by Folsom and Harry Singleton, of the Charles E. Horton jcorapany, from the figures contained jim the county and city budgets, It | does not include many other emailer |economies that in the aggregate | would result in substantial saving to the public purse, Under the plan outlined by Folsom, there would be created a unit of government, or a new county, comprising the present city mits of Seattle. In other words, the city of Seattle would secede from the rest of King county, | Within the new county, large fe | ductions in the force and cost of the | sheriff's office would be made, |. The county engineer's office would be abolished, as would the offices of the county school right-of-way agent, county commis- |Sloners, county health officer coun. ty property and purchas! vent and county agricultural agent. Many other offices would. be cut down, with a resultant cut in the ex penses of each, so far as Seattle tax- payers are concerned, “When we realize that taxpayers of Seattle paid over $72,000 for a oe ment road running half the length of Vashon island,” Folsom said, “E think they will agree that the bur den ts too one-sided.” The country districts outside of the proposed new city-county would | have to assume the responsfbility and | expense of the various offices which would be eliminated or consolidated with the city offices, |Aged Map Fights Duel With Knife | 1, Lynch, 69, engaged in a knife | duel with a man living at 3618 Holly | st, according to his story, told in explaining several knife wounds found on his face and body when he was arrested at Sixth ave. and King st. Friday night. He was treated at the city hospital