The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 2, 1922, Page 1

her. ‘es “enpect for the dead. “ee erate to fresh Temperature Maximam, 42 Tonight and Sunday, rain; mod Today noon, 39, ther Last 4 Hours Minimum, 39. wind ond Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash, under the Aci of Congress March 3 NO. 241, logd and the one in front representing t i 4 a i j Walter Camp wil! soon make his) AlkAmerican selections, but little | interest is aroused, as only Yale players are cligible : Why doesn’t some sports writer | pick an All-American water carrier? | ee PASS THE BROWN DERBY * It is only a matter of a few days when some sports writer will choose the cleverest play of the season. We cast our vote in favor of Washington's forward pass when she had the ball on Ore gon’s Tyard line with four downs to make the goal. eee The Christmas number of the! Batevepost is on the stands Next | week wili be the Fourth of July num-| ose ‘A salesman can demonstrate with _ Se SEATTLE ord, or 64 cubic feet, this “legal” load measured only 42. AUTO DEATHS |One Dealer Sells 42 Cubic Feet, Other 72,of Wood f or Same Price ON INCREASE 13,000 Are Killed in Year by Speed Fiends of U.S. | This, in th Sb oe CE IN DEATH TRIAL ———————— EEE The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor The Seattle Star 1679, Per Year, by Mall, $6 to 99 , WASH., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1 > aa And the Irony of the Situation Is That, Under Present City Ordinance, the Generous-Sized Load Is Illegal, While the Small One Is Quite Within the Law BY.ROBERT BASTIEN BERMANN Pay your money and take your choice! Forty-two cubic feet of wood from a company that obeys the law—or 72 2-9 cubic feet) at the Providence hospital to be from a company that flagrantly violates it. Which do you want? Reve mee The Star, s up the whole controve ‘for months () no ihed end Injured’ in aure. eXact Shape and capacity of wagons in which wood is delivered to i z ? third of these will be children, | 15 years old. Nine-tenths | In Figures compiled for The Star by | N. B. A. Service in a nation-wide survey, show that in 1921, lives of| 11,024 persons were snuffed out by jautomobiles, and approximstely 35.-| |000 were injured. ‘These figures. compiled from vital statistics rec: ords of each state, represent the the American juggernaut’s fearful/ harvest. Motor fatalities will kill more peo ple thig year than typhoid, malaria and smallpox combined. ‘They will exceed the deaths from appendicitin and equal diphtheria fatalities—and in most cases, they could have been | remaining stationary, the per- centage of automobile fatalities is steadily increasing, despite all efforts to regulate traffic. Increase in automobile traffic and corresponding increase in the per- centage of automobile fatalities per 100,000 population is shown in fig- ures for cities and counties where accurate death statistics are kept. * for these localities show In 1917, with 4,983,340 automo. biles licensed, there were 6,724 deaths in auto accidents, or a death rate from thin cause of 9.0 per 100,000 population With 6,146,617 automobiles in 1918, there were 7,525 fatalities, or 9.3 it for three months and it's still a| per 100,000, new car, but three hours after you | it’s a “used car.” buy it i used ca Charlie Chaplin is engaged to Pola | Negri until his press agent starts | next week's series of engagements. . . SPORT NOTE This is the lame duck season. “State horticulturist says bugs cost King county $1,000,000 a year. Yea, but think of what the nuts) owt ual | fetioeen the dawn and the daytignt,| When all is still out our way, } Some milkman yells at his horses— | "And thus we start a bum day ove | <g When we are in the elevator at/ city hall we always remove our at. We believe in showing proper Walter Metzenbaum is at work on @ phonograph that will not work | after 11 p.m. see vil 1 like Is Lena Lotion whe tan't scarce With her devotioy eee Department stores must have been | in existence in biblical days, for did not Job my: “All the days of my appointed life will I wait, till my) change come.” | owe Well, folks, gotta yo out and teat ry wine and gosh how “ ames ae 4 Autos numbered 7,588,848 in 1919. There were 7,968 persons killed, or 9.4 per 100,000, In 1920, with 9,211,296 automobiles licensed, there were 9,103 fatalities, or 10.4 per 100,000 population. There were 10,448,262 licensed automobiles operating in the United States in 1921. In the U. 8. census bureau's registration area, which contains 82 per cent of the nation’s population, there were 10,168), deaths, or 11.5 per 100,000 popula tion. Between 1917 and 1921, therefore, the death rate per 100,000 popula tion from motor vehicle accidents increased about 28 per cent This year, there are nearly 11, 900,000 motor vehicles running in the streets and roads of the United (Turn to Page 12, Column 1) « / LAMES SWEEP LUMBER TOWN NEWBERN, N. C., Dec, 2.--Four hundred families were homeless here today as authorities started an investigation of the fire which yes terday caused damage estimated at more than a million dollars. The fire started in the lumber jmill of the John L. Roper Lhmber company and spread rapidly, fanned by high winds. Practically the en- tire negro section of the city was wiped out and more than a hundred white families were also made homeless by the conflagration A dozen or more persons have been treated for painful burns but hospital authorities say nope bes prove fatal, Seattle householders. When The Star recently attacked this ordinance—on the ground that it wasn’t right to arrest a fuel dealer for giving his custom-) ers TOO MUCH for their money—all sorts of abuse was heaped pedestrians, run down by/Qn The Star’s head. CONGRESS TO HONOR MANN WASHINGTON, 7 of representatives The body of the placed on a catafalaue in front of the cation and @ short funeral sermon pastor of the friends of Mann probably will make Elks’ Temple in Oregon City Fired OREGON CITY with a $30,000 low tally covered by insurance Upon investigation today and club officials abandoned the ear lef that the fire, unwittingly set b ‘ing bill, are considering abandoning | The Seattle Civic Symphony orchestra will give its first concert of the season at 2:30 tomorrow afternoon at the Metropolitan theater. You don’t want to miss it. Seidel, is a international prominence. orchestra—comprising 110 pieces this year—is bigger and |} iq gpite of that, many wealthy men And the program, headed by fhe |) succeed in evading the law Tschaikowsky Concerto, is a rare musical treat. it’s your duty to go—a double duty. place, you owe it to yourself to hear as much good music as possible—and better music has never |) yougron, ‘Texas, Dec. 2-—Km been offered Seattle than in tomorrow's program. In the second place, you owe it to the musicians to |{an official of the Ku Klux Klan Remember, the members of the orchestra |/st New Orleans, and a woman said support them. donate their time and their artistry without charge to this enterprise—all for your bene people of the community ean do in return is to go and Chesser, a newspaperman, has hear them play. J some time, officials here said, . The Star didn’t know what it was talking about. The Star was trying to protect the big mills. The Star was pitting its opinion against the beliefs of university | savants: And alot more. That’s what some of the; Mishet) fuel dealers said. | So The Star decided on a little experiment. It asked the! |moat complete check ever made Of| memory of the late Kepresentative) Gioia) Welfare league for the names of two needy families | "that could use a load of wood apiece. When these names} funeral services at 2» m. tod8¥) had been supplied, The Star called up two dealers—one who| |is known to comply with the law and who, by the way, was President Harding probably will largely instrumental in having the present ordinance passed, and one who is known to be “violating” the law—and ordered The services will be the first of! a load of wood from each. jthe Kind at the capitol. since the| Then The Star’s staff photographer was sent to each house death of former Speaker Champ) and the city department of weights and measures was asked two years ®€° to send a representative, too. veteran leginia- When the wood arrived at each house it was photographed, both before and after being unloaded, and then it was of- ficially measured by a weights and measures inspector. Here's the result; The “legal” load, ordered from Bayles Brothers, measured exactly 42 cubic feet. The “illegal” load, ordered from the Pacific Coast Fuel & Ice Co., measured 72 2-9 cubic feet. Care was taken in each instance to order the same kind of wood—dry planer ends—so there can be no protest of unfairness on this score. The. price was a little different—$6.75 was paid for the larger, “illegal” load, while the “legal” load brought only $6—but- this can be accounted for by the fact that the larger load was delivered to a home a good deal farther away from the yard than the destination of the smaller one. And there you are. Forty-two cubic feet of wood from a company that obeys |the law—or 72 2-9 from a company that violates it? Pay pur money and take your choice! os, Oe. 2—Adnine AX DODGERS | UNDER FIRE ¥, Dec, 2.—Demand of the “secrecy clause” of al income tax law, Gov. sure, it was learned today John J Blaine, ¢ Wh speech to the progressive conference here today, asserted that publicity of tax returns would drive rich tax WASHI tration I against the filit er that democrats nd insurgent republicans are carry ing on against the Dver unti-lyneh. | the dodgers into the open. cretary of the ‘Treasury Mellon on the ground that he ia not as diligent in pursuing mil tax dodgers as smaller of: fenders, He asserted that the gov- The visiting artist, Toscha ]| ernment now maintains @ veritable The || espionage system on taxpayers, to see that they do not cheat, but that, ‘Klan Official’s | Wife and Man Held |mett Chesser, former assistant for |to be the wife of the official, were 4 held here today for investigation fit. The least that the }|py federal authorities, teen missing from New Orleans the law spécifying the onsin, in a} =F ; PS wos <j Above are shown, in graphic form, the results of an investigation made by The Star into the workings of the ewisting ordinance under which fuel dealers are being arrested for selling TOO MUCH wood ti their customers. The two pictures at the left show a “legal” load of wood, bought from Bayles Brothers, who were largely instrumental in passing the present law. Altho a load of wood is supposed to be hal The two pictures at the right show an “illegal” load of wood, bought from the Pacific Coast Fuel & Ice Co., which has fought the present law start and which still refuses to obey it—on the ground that it would be fallacious to go to a lot of expense and change its wagons so that it could give its customers short measure. The “illegal”. load mea 2-9 cubic feet, or more than 30 cubic feet more than the “legal” load. In order to make the difference more plain, the “illegal” load was piled in two piles—the rear pile being exactly the size of the “ difference.—Photos by Price & Carter, Star Staff Photographers. Er WRACIFIC COA jokePaid! O116 \STEVENS NOW NEAR DEATH Wounded _ Police- man Is Reported to Be Dying After suffering a relapse early Saturday morning, Patrolman John F. Stevens was reported in a critical condition. motor bandits at 17th ave. and E. Joving care of hin wife, a nurse at shortly after midnight. Physicians described his condition as» very grave. At the same time, Richard Holbrook, sophomore at the Uni- versity of Washington, who was accidentally shot early Tuesday by Patrolman J. H. Karlberg, was said to be barely holding his own in the Seattle General hospital. ‘The bullet pierced Holbrook's left kept as quiet as possible, owing to the danger of hemorrhages. There fy also danger of infection setting jin, as the bullet has not been re moved. Holbrook is in no condition to be operated on. Palmer said. i | TIGER’S LIFE I$ THREATENED Soldiers and Police Guard Him in St. Louis BY FRANK GETTY ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec, 2.— Elaborate precautions to protect former Premier Georges Clem- enceau of France were taken thruout St. Louis today as the ctiy hailed the Tiger. More than a thousand police and troops patrolled streets along the route of the parade which escorted the French states- man from the Pulitzer home at Clayton to the odeon, where he delivered his fourth formal Ameri- can address. Uproarous welcome, restraneld ceau's visit because he requested a jday off, was turned loose with all er. More threatening letters, one giving the impression it came | from an organization responsible for an attack on the late Theo- dore Roosevelt, persuaded the committee of welcome to take most drastic steps of precautoin, All night long patrols of po- | lice, armed with sawed-off shot- guns, paced the lawn beneath the Tiger's window. Barly today, as preparations for the parade got under way, everyone who approached the Pulitzer resi- dence was closely questioned, An es- | cort of mounted police arrived before ‘dawn. | All this made little difference to | the Tiger, Having postponed prep- arations of what he feels may prove his most important American ad- | dress until the last moment, he wrote | his notes and planned the last speech | for world peace and France he will make this week, Chief of Police Martin O’Brien, in personal charge of the guard thrown about Clemenceau, found | more immediate need for his | services, however, while on his | way to the Pulitzer home to es- | cort the premier on his parade } about town, Seeing a negro in the act of holding up a saloon, O'Brien stepped in and shot the negro, Killing him almost instantly Stevens, who wa» shot by two Pike st. Thursday morning, had! been stenilily improving under the! the Providence hospital, until he wuddenly took a turn for the nt lung in four places, according to Princess Alice, wife of Dr. Don Paimer. Holbrook is being} {sat by the side of the prisoner. |thruout the first day of Clemen-/ of the city’s traditional enthusiasm | _ |behind It. despite threats against the! v {PRE RCG Hh 5S NRE || SCORNFUL GIRL AIDS BANDIT; IS ANGERED BY LOOT OF 19 CTS. Alighting from a street car near 2408 N. 42nd st., late Friday night, F. O. Meeker of Port Townsend was astonished to be- hold a young woman, attired in corduroy breeches and dark shirt, together with a male companion, pull automatic pistols from their pockets and command, “Hands up” Meeker stood quietly with his arms uplifted while the male bandit “covered” him with a pis- tol and the girl proceeded to search him. Both bandits wore black maske, When the girl failed to find more than 19 cents and Meeker’s watch, she scorn- fully thrust them back into his pocket. Becoming nervous dur- ing the search, the girl over. looked: «diamond ring in Meek. or's vest pocket, valued at $950. ‘The girl then urged her com- panion to “beat it" and the pair, after warning Meeker to make no noise, ran down the street. |” The police believe the girl to be the same who, with a man, re- cently slugged and robbed a pedestrian on a downtown street corner. SOLD GLANDS: Greeks Starting Counter Revo } | i |. The room was crowded with \lutionaries and sympathizers: mer King Constantine as the Great crowds, excited by the: and executions, milled outside, — | lSays Seattle Shipbuilder Bought His Strength | SAN FRANCISOO, Dec. 2.—George | Zogaize, 23, told a remarkable story | of having sold life-giving glands from his body to a wealthy Seattle ship- jbuilder for $5,000 when he was brought before the police court to- day on a charge of vagrancy. Goat glands were substituted for | those taken from him and he added that they had not proved a success. Zoglaize said he met the Seattle man in Phoenix, Ariz. last spring and there arranged for the transfer of vital organs, He said he then went to Del Mar, Cal., where he said a Dr. J. L. Cousineau performed the operation at an exclusive hotel. He was then given $5. a hin transportation to Australia ward for his sacrifice, he said PARIS, Deo. 3.—Fifty sieespeenenctertoaps have been killed in ti Smyrna, following cpull | Greeks, the newspaper Int declared today. NELLIE'S LIFE j:ssexcze"-t GIVEN IN VAIN siis-nseteesosen strations in favor of return Nellie Salisbury gave her life in]Greek exiles. Civilians clashed with: vain, Kemalist troops resulting in 30 ‘On July 18 the woman swallowed | casualties, the Athens @ huge quantity of narcotics in an! said, Jeffort to frustrate federal officers} ‘Turks and Gree rotesting 1 aided her home at 2106/pulsion of the sy claim tl where her husband and|the policy is wiping out the son were dispensing “dope.” Even/and economic life of the elty | while she was protesting to the raid- | territory, oi Jers that “There's no dope here,” she cee fell dead at their feet, But her herote ruse was of no! V[ AY TRADE avail. Her husband, J. W. Salisbury, | was found guilty of the possession of POPUI A TIO. narcotics in Judge Jeremtah Neter- ler's federal court Friday and sen-} LAUSANNE, Dec. 2.—The jtenced to 15 months on McNeil Isl: | sanne conference, deadlocked on ti and, Arthur Swanson, the son, was| question of the straits, the Mo found gullty of the same charge and | concessions and European n | given a year and a day. considered a six weeks’ | beginning December 15. 5 YOU CAN KEEP The adjournment would permit met Pasha, Turkish leader, to IN TOUCH [sult with the Angora government | those controversies and other di with the prices and progress of || @d points. Real Estate by watching the || The conference, under the would be resumed at the close of t meeting, ? . ETE the Russian IRRIGATRD LAND | minister, arrived here late last , rom Prosser; b= companied by Delegate Med | houwe: | barn, ebicken || He outshone even Mussolini in Mg aye EP gen | elegance of his attire, : Neither members of the press: ee farm implements; deep, well; 4 acres alfalfa; 100 fruit trees, 10 |/the public were allowed to Levitate: letter ts rapes. | the two Russians, who were 0 djately rushed to the Hotel Savoy, Join Rakowski and Vorowski, pene age-old Gordian. knot : : . the Greco-Turkish conflicts in The classified columns will tell Asia Minor was cut when you the address of the party || conference decided upon showing this property. scheme of wholesale ¢: (Turn to Page 12, Column