The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 9, 1922, Page 1

MANY MISSING IN ASTORIA FIRE? APPA LLL LAPP LPP LPP The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor The Seattle Star 1879. Per Year, by Mall, $6 to $9 Eg | Ik Sron. TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Batered as Second Class Matter May 4, 1899, at the toffice at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 4, ~ SEATTLE, WASH,, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1922. HOME OF GROUP VOLUME SEN, JONES TO. 24. NO, 247 RELIEF CHARLEY’S ROMANCE SEEMS OUT OF JOINT PUSHDIVORCE |: =| GONG.ONIN= = AMENDMENT ! Mayor Says ‘Proposed Addition Folks Make to Constitution Police Bad Is Fathered by oned that a stove t, and started the man ha which had be Weeps While «= Household Head)” Slowly Becomes Governor Upheld | o Nervous Wreck yf ag sor. Astoria Officials Probe Incendiary a ome red b the fire o he Editor's Note: Marte Kier sh} nan, Lyeareld girl reporter, FORD, Mt Dec. 9 | Washington Man)( mm Bart taser OXFORD, | Miss | Brow urday morning. She feo Sie ia . # EE wornnraced to ives (| iva i ihre the eaerated gt une Report; 2,000 Homeless Following ‘abnaaeancon: wants ne sae mayor an opportunity >| Antigoniah “haunted house” mystery.|numed in a $1 te : one : y CNN. OT divorce taws| ) Breas himself on what be ( lene atranke happenings in the home ot Mise Frances Birkhead, his for $12,000,000 Loss in Disaster ae ates” . bn thinks nt to be de | ~ gr pe Bogen Foe a embodied in a 20th tutional [make Seattle a cleaner city of Thomas J. Dutt,| me nek SRN OE — : amendment—will be sought tira! | The following le Marie's story ag Mol ete tae bar ‘Gene Ja oa ASTORIA, Ore., Dec. 9.—Unconfirmed reports were im the new congress. bid fair to| Birkhead into he me in a . ’ 5 W Miniatertal ee oe ae ‘@ ——ttAw the attention fort to help her “lead a straight | circulation here today that several persons are missing fol- reform organiza BY MARIE F, KIERNAN } f the entire ncien-/ life.” She mahepagy ard other parts | lowing the disastrous fire of yesterday, which swept the bus- ae cavenaie "te Whet is the sitter with that vas \y rh cal Bs! a Ras rces onara iness section ty deccoction. | Goverel, —- Ric ¢ the ioe Gepartment of ours? pve ‘ The neighbor e rooming houses 0: s »ported 0; ‘ Luin ke..<he not worthy of anything, We want ood tn wpen Pay of Rail Men as the fire broke out, and it is fearéd that many of the ng | arehiv f th ‘ | senate judiciary department of men, not of babies | Thomas Duff re- Slashed by Board ticipants were unable to escape. ihe ee eee eg that can be bribed with a penny eet an somes Si ‘ | Millions of dollars worth of cash, jewelry and oth inl tution buried a high pitch of ex-| CHICAGO, Dec. 9—Pay of 11,000} I i F ree Transfers there. 4) seantion _ oe ee gg age, citement and «| railroad telegraphers on 11 somes] vention, Cying & the a and debris here, were ut | an eed 00 Soyer news Cay ener cay to movement has| railroads was cut $1,600,000 a year by ester st night an lay. N } ably athe oipgymm. some of the best families, financial been put on foot |® deciston handed down by the Unit- mostated. IAB} sn N 1 Guards: d . a Not Tactical, |» senator wee iy, in the city. I went to eee the been Dt on toot ei eetan pattront lator hoard today.| S0ldiers, sailors, National Guardsmen and special police At Wi PD sy mayor tt ning. Mayor Brown Alston Filvrook,| The dectston was made at the re-|m™men, all under orders to “shoot to kill” any looters, h baal, Brown Assert Some reasons pperne thet the complaint doce pes paychology _pro- | auest of the railroads to correct exist-| not reported a single case of attempted theft. folks! The has advanced are come from Cw nee n cape fensor at the lni-| ng inequalities In the pay of station] One man, with an automatic pistol in hand, has st Lis G banat! Sa Well, anyhow, he does not biame nity of Wash-|and telegraph employes. = : set aa Condemning the fivecent car jg (ye, eS the policemen. He says that they fet to’ pearl oval guard over a million dollars + 98 eee | fare with free transfers as “ut- (more divorces should be put out of temptation the phenomena. | in gold and greenbacks ever/ BUSINESS MEN Dr. Henry Suesatie’s pay has| terty impracticable,” Mayor | than all other na- | with higher salaries to support Vietr | In the mean S H I P SUBSIDY since the heat abated suffi- H OSE} : ; ©. But tiona combined. families and their name should not} time, Tom Duff, as ‘ allow him to a ] Laggan Fa Te dak oes haem eye: aempmnees Sutarday Diveress ta lhe policemen but peace officers. | se bs Soon REPORT PASSED ciently to P- EAVY ; | After careful observation Mayor | £ hundreds of bus! proach his vault in the smoul-} ,erorta, re. Dec. , v | America increased j y. NGTON, Dec. 9.— - seteiucae sees eranl city council by letter at the Mon 140 per cent in 20 | frown and W, B. Severyna, the ene mE Of ee migatiy revised ‘es, | dering. basement. by merchants were espectally ae } day session to reconsider the ears while chief of police, have decided {8 city te fast chan: from a bealthy, | 4 Citizens, as they view the [owing to the fact thet Ci 4 7 popu | city 6 pared the house—was orfered favor. Why fay “Dr. Sumalio $14,000" 6 lation 0d ls not the common man that violates i doors man to a ner- blackened oblong space that was | rtocks were practically intact. docan't| °Ctainal plan of the Fitegerald ineres Fuddy-faced out ably reported to the senate by the year? A good football coach er@iannee fer & fiveces far 40 per cent. Senator Jones | the law ae much a thé man of the | yous, debilitated wreck. die Gisses Sedum their home, are today coming | following were some of the heavi Pe get that much! - " | Forty en richer clase--and that It ts the Ia His wife, Helen Duff, a comely ~ aie can begin consideration | % the realization of their losses, | losses, about 70 per cent of eee whh 6%-cont transfer tokens. sates have 47 different divorce! ter who bribes the officers and then! woman still it the early thirties, tx! | Zhe menele Wil Demis caused by the fire which yes- | are covered by insurance: THEATER NOTE ‘TRE ‘cornell, In a joint seasion codes and congress enacts another| Complains to the offic | distrait ‘The committee voted 11 to 6 fore! ‘etday destroyed 94 Blocks of | Bee Hive department stare “Now and Then,” the Kolb and of the utilities and finance com- | for the District of Columbia and ter-| Now. Mayor Brown says that If ‘Their young son, Danny, the tnno-1 tie comllltiue ull Nt OM © OO Ry the elty. Two thousand people, | 000. Di offering at the Met, ix said mitiees, Friday afternoon de | ritories the police department i bad. it cent victim of fantastjo Fate, mopes retinol eared ET of ‘the downtown tee Sxalteruds store $125,008. s = } because the people make It ao. *\ around the house and refuses to be t 4 sont tion, are less, but none is . C. Penny & 000, 4 to be propaganda for light wines clared in favor of the nickel fare ge Carolina alone dors not 8h! 1) eoing to try with might and main|cheered up even et ee democrat, OPPO) Lotfering. Every undamaged Owl Drug Co., $50,000. j and beer, ' with free transfers, and amended |W “ivoree for any cause. . |to make Seattle worthy of the|by the thought of ent of the measure, Sake We eium 60 Mea, ee Antonie: Sasneane Would you call it tank drama’ the Pitageeld' t@itenee to that New York and the District of Co! pame approaching Yule- were provided for all last night, Fisher Bros. Co., o*e lumbia grant divorce for one cause| rea a 8 Re ae 4 tide Raise Greek Loan ab 6h seed alee ms I ask you,” said Clemenceau to| “1's not winh 6 be viewed only—infidelity—while reasons for | The mystery of wietis ate beleg served, one of his Chicago audiences, “what | sonacont to on low earfate an We can Giveree eleewhere run ax high-ae 14| y he i, the Duff house for War ‘Refugees)| Reiict tins been arriving hourly | Ne pan ire. 1 i es P i | éid you fight for” y|tafely have. I am firmly convinced | "0" ones ss fete CLAIMS RIVAI oe ee | ATHENS, Dec. 9.—The ratsing of |*nes last night by train and auto- os There ought to be some kind 07 | that Couneitman Erickson'’s plan for ifferent cod make scene peop AkA AVEn 4) M D a large loan backed by guarantees of | ™Obile from Portland and other sur- on. enawer to that, but hanged if | 4 threecent fare will some day come | Kamints and their chiktren illegiti Fein” gals ee found Mra Duff the agus of natione to ald Greex| rounding communities |ably covered by 40 per cent Py know what i tn —but when it does we must be in a| ate in one state and legally mar] SAN FRA oat sien bteeg mm Sage Lareny [refugees impoverished by the Turk-|, A detachment of coast artillery |ance, are: * “*-. fon to abolish transfers,” the| Ted and with legitimate offspring | name of Lettie Fraties of Carmel) he dinner dishea “ el from Fort Stevens was on duty last Astoria National bank, ‘ Wie th neta maaan weklenee ie te tm another by the fed, was formally brought | after her wusband bad left abruptly /!sh war, has Week propos at Mua (fight and remained until relieved| Astoria Savings bank, $15,000 o the Ma t Matzenauer- fter din: ithout fixing the fur-|sanne by ( ansen, the famous nt ~~ ve y vide a Fund of Christmas Cheer for} “Just now, the municipal railway} vege ad vt be bey rneary to con a a chil aye i, — rs sina inner w a! aploeletiwho talenmeahh’ to tee tad by the 162nd infantry National sake Loeee. 00 Dest: Bootleggers” fare| «reen show divorces today are in ex sid Ho lo sf Gib relied he uard. " be er ee | Cha the Somat tite Sin craharee sees of one to every nine marriages, | Mme. Matzenayer’s answer to her) “Every night he leaves mo, erage sowed n. ie ‘This morning the situation was as} Andrew Young, $50,000. 4 of 1% cents a transfer, which Coun-| The rate in growing. Low Angeles| husband's complaint, on file bere /jonaly woman sobbed. “As the follows: Weinhard Yotel, $90,000. SOCIETY ITEM Tice wiecenase abd scveke ax. |i0 Oh tip ‘peed; x pears ago the|' strikes T he rises from the supper| Crew Saved After An tcl pincipitan: ‘wae bead uae ° Petting parties bave been defi | idea upon.” divorob rate there was one to every » opera singer charged in the|table, seizes his hat without ‘ . centrated at a central distributing | Portland Se ding nitely transferred from the fliv- The mayor nccused councilmen | five marriages, now five to 11 answer that it was Mrs. Fraties oo bec ssn put on ~aed Fr Fight With Waves station, where they are distributed or and nm 2 dl wn weno have fought for the Scent fare| Women obtain seven of every 10| ho was the cause of ‘ll her do-|shoen, inves his Uttie family. Why?| 7 EA it oo os gaya under the direction or committee} Relief to Aste F with free transfers of “playing pol-| divorces. = gg pt a ony Gee the crew of the fishing schooner | 60 business men. PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 9- e Lai Gin Gong, the Chinese Bur-| it n9 ‘The movement for a 20th amend. tint: tae Seiiindas uh ffox ene Washington, of Seattle, which was The city is without any banking George L. Baker, fn a pi % bank, hee invented = grapefruit that} “It te high time that the control! ment aims toward. national stand.|\h8\ her Bandsome, et nia | | wrecked in Yakutaka Bay, Alaska, | facilities, hotels or large stores. citizens today calls attention to tis ee sives off a perfume. But ts that a] of the municipal lines be placed ard below which no state may go,|hand act ae her “personal matd, while attempting to seek shelter from| Two thousand people are home-|simediate need of all kinds of m ‘ new idea? How about garlic? j Where it will not be subject to th®/dithough any state may enforce| Mutton her shoes rare her| the violent storms, on the night of | !¢8. " . plies in Astoria and urges mant “le 8 whims of nine individual councth| more rigid standarda gowns or do any of the other! November 11, was reported safe, at days’ rations for 2,500 are re-| turers, wholesalers and all Mayor Brown is still looking for| men,” he said It has been suggested New York's| 2m" Giotzhach alleged had been Seward, Alaska. quired, and relief supplies which | contribute, so that the flow of those 5,000 volunteer policemen. As a substitute for the bingo jaw~-permifting Givorce for infidel required of him Capt. Oswald Pisen, master of the} #re arriving are expected to cover] syppiies, started yesterday, may. Considering the popular {dea of the! carfare reduction plans now in |) ein ee ee the. national e ns | wrecked veupel, stated in his cable| the need maintained as lone ea Naseem big money made by cops, it seems as| the field, Brown suggested that (14. s | that the aneh © completely ex-| Today's estimate of the lose | 8 tho one shouldn't have much trouble| the charter be amended to put pede ASSO GD Deep Snow Stops | haunted places it at $12,000,000, securing recruits. the municipal railway control in Clall M H | A Rae Bae Chief of Police Carlson be- 9 ue the hands of the beard of public | allam Man riunt | lieves the fire was the work of ; REO ALARY AE | ES PORT A} 18, Dec, 9.— The firebugs, and is investigating oe } i Talk About Music “In that case, a sliding scale of |hunt for Charlee Butt, convicted! || SEATTLE PLAYERS TO | the activities of a group of rad- 66 t ] wow fare could be worked out and put murderer, under life sentence, who GIVE BENEFIT FOR | ieals who are under suspicion, is | Come and Hear Doe Brown into operation by the board,” Brown |sawed his way out of the ‘ounty | | A dozen citizens have come for. } y His Mammoth ec gp lly ar go ly cig abo jail here last Monday, has practically ASTORIA SUFFERERS! }| wara, who were in the vicinity of Be Mouth Organ modities rise ap fall with business been abandoned. The snow ts > » . Sei the Bee Hive department store at The Players’ club, of Seattle, h v | aT my © | conditions, why not that ee heavy in this region that the man likely will, be oa ‘ot the yee: | the time the fire broke out, who ae. | Development Associat ° leat rides? When revenue falls off, i hunters are unable to get out eving dina beng al ’ ° co! Grewn his criticism of the dance | period, then lowered whenever reve Buildings Wrecked ulars, the sheriffs office has been ids "abAe’ nolan sy by the "a \of the department store, which was dresses worn by the university girls.|nues Warranted. mable to continue the hunt. It ts toria fire Membere of the or la large, wood frame building, were Charges that the Horse Why argue about trifles™ says| > . am : } the general belief now that Butt has| Mrs, Duff denied that her hus-|] ginization, which ix made up of || burning fiercely, while no fire was | tigation project—the largest privass \ Doe | <WSOME PITTSTON, Pa. Dec. %—ANn ¢X:| escaped into Canada band was a drinking man, but ad- || Go) Harmer eng set || to be seen in the store building. | !rrigation project ever attempteds et | REWSOME plosion at the Black Diamond Pow mitted of ' et dbees’ Seattle theatrica) folks, will meet iis necator ea teats alee = a being blocked. beoume:.¢Hai i doh Bie 7 pasten at fhe Hees Lm ed that he was not above @/1 sunday evening at the Northold n prte' we ‘ | TODAY'S HAPPY Hove ur | PROVES. COSTLY | aor company’s mills at Suscon cost labia aia Pctns Ott af bebe teuwr'en cocamon’'ate|| SUnany evening at the Northotd || The seeprtster of Uae stare. Gia treo the ie nef to . “bri ‘: | NE YORK—Mrs. Emma Levi scouts the idea of “another” wom 1 7 {that there were no fires on his | ®"ything except their perso ~ up Christmas spirit wh NEW xix liven today, according to infor will be completed for a benefit || " de ii letter which “ of lied “Police” when six under a * an nerformance here fo 1° Asto’ property, altho both restaurants | Sts. Are made in a letter pe Bee dee cia ine MOOMOs | ickors galled and ald they had|mation reaching here, ‘Twenty Land Occupation |""hom pute aamitter nis wite's a eT nee erate tears Pardons: tl | sent out Saturday to all land o} eo eee [been hired to embalm her. Mra.|three persons were injured. Four] WERLAN, Doo 9.—Volcing unani.|Cusations but refused to oxpiain hin! | cing te the monthly gather am certain that the fires were |!m the district by Charles B. After reading the papers about the| Henrietta Tarlow, accused of set-|bulldings were destroyed mous protest against French oceu- | conduct i ape: 1|| Ing of the club and {t will be || incendiary,” sald Mayor Bremmer, ron cay te Horne various Christmas funds for the|ting the funeral directors on her| The cause of the explosion is un-| pation of the Ruhr valley, all classes| “I am @ gentleman,” he said. doubly important because of the ‘and there will be a thoro tnvestt | Sar anten iiiten: al needy, Little Homer Brew, Jr. says| neighbor as a joke, had to furnish | known All wire communication |in Germany were represented at alcannot divulge anything. Some cay|| sunjeos under consideration gation, and when it ts over I am he letter was written, he wishes he was an orphan. a bond to keep the ce with Suscon has been ae 4 monster mass meeting here today. (Turn to Page 12, Column 5) (Turn to Page 12, Column 3) plained, in an effort to defeat the ae ae aa | rectors, who come up for reelectl “The Lord must love the poor—he next Tuesday, Hall's principal charges are: 1. That in spite of the fact | DOINGS OF THE DUFFS Tom Makes a Get-Away —BY ALLMAN made s0 many of them,” said LAncotn a yt on fe Son sees, Santy € lous | 7 that responsible bond houses eee | SAY, HELEN, I'M GOING BUT, TOM WaAIT- NO,''VE GOT To a ay ny, WHAT Oo You SUPPOSE ¥ ‘ bi have expressed their willingness a At that, we'd hate to be down and| | OUT FOR A LITTLE YOU DIDN'T GO RIGHT Now ~ “a Tom, po You He's Gone! | GOT INTO HIM TONIGHT! Prsccte sto lee) Mg ed ae bond vine bene Pa Ma is a and) | WHILE , BUT ILL BE HAVE Your. 1 WON'T BE GONE WANT ME "To NEVER EVEN wens! U NEVES READ ins aia A the directors refuse to consider ioe © 0mm OF Sean ne HOME EARLY! WO games. DESERT! J VERY LONG - GO WITH You? KISSED ME pet tcbin Fas Rrhvnchate a Kes “a Itho Howard 8. BOUNCING BABIES Prey is 3 ye! " iy aioli ane The 150 wives of the stranded on, DADDY V7 Sf itt = Aectii TONIGHT! for chang eae a the aie gultan have been offered Jobs by OH mMERE \TAKE ME. A HOH: cult Yue NaveR ect to en. the aketie the g » Follies. t y : v4 ¥ . a paid a the month or by the Nelms ExcLusive! TAKES Me! refused to furnish specifienliaay ® pound? t would * “* be able to do the work, . t “Varsity Students Sta ‘ “ w 8. That the directors have per rina Alagoa ie f mitted thelr personal affairs to Moonshine? influence them in conducting eee the business of the distrlet; that Mra, Clara Phillips in said to be in A. ©, Amon, brother of Howard Mexico. Down there her hammer S. Amon, who holds the contract, : will be of little use please send her a has a mortgage on the home of + _ Claude Young, one of the direo ~ tors, and that George N. Hughes, who has an option on the $32,000,000 bond issu Won't someone pile driver? . We don’t know anything about this heathized ice cream, but when we were small there was nothing could touch @ dish of snow, flavored with Veullla,