The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 12, 1922, Page 1

Is Your Street Car Well Heated? | Are onal street cars on your line well heated? The Star. A year ago there was bitter complaint from patrons about icy cars. Please write or telephone an answer to The management admitted that on some lines the cars were unheated and laid the blame on tardy delivery of heaters, WEA “VOLUME THER Ww eaday FORECAST Bntered as Beoond Class Matier May 4, petottion at Meuttie TUES W ASL, ‘The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its he Seattle Star SDAY, eS a now every car ought to be comfortably warm. gers being frozen as they come to work and return to their homes. bonita Maal There is no excuse for passen- Is YOUR car warm? The Star will appreciate receiving a report from citizens on | every car r line. under the Act 6 March 8, Please write yes or no. earest competitor 1679, Per Year, by Mall, $6 to 1 L922, “DECEMBER 12 _Two CENTS IN SEATTLE ENOUNC Howdy, folks! Breeerr! Is teow ty? eee It's an M freeze that does no plumber good. eee The Wets have another grievance. their pipes were filled with alco hol they woukin’t burst. eee Now comes the season when your neighbor returns the lawn mower and borrows the monkey-wrench. eee COMING! COMING! A few more anys of this cold Wrong; it hasn't @ thing to do with oS Shop yester searching for some Red to stick om their Christ ren. ee | Rev. Chauncey J. Hawkins says of Mayor Brown: “He lieth to the city.” Personally, while we beileve that Doe might possibly te, we think it highly improbable that Heth. eee At that, it is certain that the mayor | ia frequently guilty of bulleth see With all the ministers attacking him, it must be hard for Old Laugh ing Gas to find a church to attend these Sundays, e+e TRIBUTE You've got to hand it to Doe. His enemies may yell “Liar?” but he yells it first. eee Every morning Mayor Brown comes down to breakfast, drinks his coffee, eats his roils and then com piles a list of the folks he will fight with on that day ee Brown got into five controversies last week. They'll never, be able to say of him that he was “too proud to fight.” 2. acrimonious ——______ | PAGE DR. COUE “OV Doe Brown, day by day, in | every way, he gets crazier and -—-— * “rer It must be disconcerting to be a department store Santa Claus and have some little kiddie look at your png white whiskers and yell Beaver!” one Li'l Gee Gee says that many @ father buys toys for his boy, but ex pects to have a lot of fun ‘eimeelt. with them 80 ARE WE I'm tired of eating And drinking and sleep, Of crowds one is meeting, Of dates one I'm tired of poet Ry, poverty, peif And, if you muat know tt, I'm tired of myself. must keep. B. B. eee “Brick” Stilwell writes in to say! that ilfe tw getting to be just one @arn ofl station after another Another of our secret ports that ex repeating the fc in every and nearer to th agents re men are ne Day by day ¢ are getting nearer bonus.” rmula way, “ee Remark by Mre, Brew “You may be a good poker player, but I notice I always have to fix the furnace FAMOUS SAYINGS “Yes, J put on a coi elfuls in the morning and a eou Dle more at night, and the house TOO warm,” ple show "=| WANAMAKER IS he would) SHIP ASHORE ON FISH RO British — Freighter Orteric Wrecked; | Will Save Men SAN FRANC Isc 0, Dee, 12 The British freighter Orteric, Capt. Harper, was being pound | ed to pieces in the graveyard of the Pacific today, after crashing | eon Fish Rock, about 75 miles north of San Francisco, at 10 o'clock last night, according to radiograms picked up here by the Radio Corporation of America, Rea of the of approxt mately 25 was begun this morning when the steamer Cotton Plant came upon the scene of the wreck. Radiograma at 9:20 a. m. reported }that the native crew, composed of Asiatics, including East Indiana, had been transferred, but that the white jerew was still aboard. | The Cotton Plant plies in the coast- ue crew Investigation at daylight, radio J reports stated, showed the condition jot the Orteric as hopeless. She was |then lying broadside on the beach, apparently full of water, and recety- ing a violent battering from the combers breaking high over her. | The work of transferring the crew j wae sertounty hampered by heavy sean, which made it difficult to launch small boats. “DEAD AT 84 YRS, | Famous Merchant Passes Away at Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, Dee. John Wanamaker died here to- day. He was 84 years old. | Wanamaker, founder of the stores bearing his name in New York and Philadelphia. and for- mer postmaster general, had been ill for several weeks Within the last few days, however, he took a turn for the better and the end came suddenly after a re- lapse A bulletin ta at Wanamaker's residence shortly after 8 o'clock read: | “Mr. Wanamaker died peacefully at 8a, m.” | ONE OF PIONEER U. 8. MERCHANTS Wanamaker wag taken 111 about two weeks ago, while staying at his summer home, near Jenkintown, He was brought to his home in Philadel- ph as to be nearer medical at- a 0 jon, Tho his maindy was diagnosed as a “severe ¢ ” hie advanced age and its long duration made it sert- oun. Wanamaker, one of the merchant princes of America, was born July 11, 1838, in the county of Philadel phia, a little more than 17 years be- fore its consolidation into the city His father, John Wanamaker, was a bricklayer, and his grandfather was a farmer. Their ancestors came to time of the landing His mother was whowe an of ra at the liam Penn Koehersporger, were the Huguenots Amer or W Elizabeth coator France Wanamaker until he and then obtained erm Philadelphia book store as an errand boy, at $1.26 a week. Some time lat er his family moved to Indiana, but (Turn to Page 10, Column 2) attended the pubite 14 years old, yment in a achoola was | DOINGS OF THE DUFFS IF DADDY SAYS HES GOING OUT SOME PLACE AFTER DINNER THIS EVENING | WAN'T YOU TO GO WITH HIM~ LL PUT YOUR HAT AND COAT RIGHT HERE ON THE STAIRS AND You PUT THEM ON AND MAKE HIM TAKE oe od Him TAKE NOW DANNY, | You WITH HIM = DO You | UNDERSTAND P nas ||“ ww? | | AYOR! DAUGHERTY PROBE STARTING WASHINGTON ceedings started today before the for Attorney General Daugherty demaging the identity of the persons “behind the thing.” Dee. 12 “What we want to know at the start,” declared former Congresaman| ang J, J, Donovan of Cleveland, representing Daugherty, “is who ts behind! Representative Keller in this imp it resolution, He says in the record that he was aided in the preparation of his charges by certain other persons, Now, we want to hear who these persons are.” Paul Howland, PREDICT DEATH OF SUBSIDY), = WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 senate in favor of farm relief legislation within a week, democratic leader and republican insurgents claimed today, A poll of the upper house con Insurgents shows that 50 votes favoring displ legislation, cing of the it was maintained ducted by the shipping measure with farm credit REPORT MORE BURGLARIES With a slight inerease in burglaries reported to the Tuesday, detectives were redoubling their efforts to wus 4 criminals. Seven men were jailed during the night and held on open charges for Inves- pe locs tigation, The tence of a band of expert safe-crackers in Seattle is not denied by Chi of Police W. B. Severyna. Many known criminals with prison records—experts at safe blowing—have been arrested in the roundup of suspects and will be questioned Tuesday HELEN, OW, HELEN! I'M GOING OUT FOR ALITTLE WHE! BACK LATER! April 25, | Hearings in the Daugherty impeachment pro-| Prominent house judiciary committee with counsel) of the © | The «hip subsidy bill will be dropped by the| and four-for California are provided | | in congress, | unable to Trade Boom Looms Here, SaysEx pert O. K. Davis, secretary of the National Foreign Trade council, is in Seattle to gain| additional members for the! fostering of foreign trade ex- pansion, |. He will speak to Seattle bodies on trade prospects be- fore going to Tacoma, where he will address the Northwest Foreign Trade council Thurs- day and Friday. Photo by Price & Carter Star Stall Photographers “Beattie hag every opportunity for Increased expansion of her foreign/ trade if manufacturers and bual- ness men in general can be awak- ened to its possibilities.” Such is the message brought here by ©. K. Davis, secretary of the National Foreign Trade council of New York, who arrived late Mon- day. “Our people are all too often in. clined to disregard the importance of foreign trade, “Davin said. “They think it is unimportant, as it forme) but 10 per cent of our total trade. | But it ta a paying 10 per cent. If, every Industry in this country could | earn a regular dividend comparable in percentage to that produced by | foreign trade, America would be- come more prosperous than all the nations combined.” The 10th annual conference of the| body will be held in New Orleans 26 and 27, Davis said Pacific coast members uncil are: President H. F.' Alexander of the Admiral line; Capt. Robert Dollar, president of the Dol- lar line; William Pigott, Fred Coster ‘PROVIDES NEW CONGRESSMAN TON, Dec. 12—-One ex- n for Washington tra congress for in a bill coming before congress after the Christmas holidays, Ma jority Leader Mondell today told the | house census committee that he had decided to order the apportionment bill out immediately after congress reconvenes The ig based on 480 members| an Increase of 25 over | the present number, It has been pending ever since the 1920 census | fixures became known, but has been t out of committee Mondell's action practically assures passage of the bill. ‘ Helen’s Plan Fizzles NOW LISTEN, DANNY - You CAN'T GO WITH DADDY THIS TIME - You Go BACK IN THE HOUSE LIKE A GooD LITTLE BOY AND DADDY WILL DO SOMETHING | nese, have been soliciting the Jap iby the eminsaries. | can be obtained from Blair, it is gen- | |the promised cold wave came at 8 JAPS SOUGHT FOR MONTANA fay Make Sheep- herders Out of Nipponese WAPATO, Dec, 12.—Montana wants Yakima reservation Jap- anese as sheep herders. The Yakima Indian Commer. cial club wants the Japs to stay | on the reservation, to prevent | dropping of rentals on Indian | | | | } lands leased by Nipponese. White men in the Yakima valley, as always, want the Japs kicked out, so reservation rentals wili drop, and afford white settlers an opportunity to make living. The facts are outstanding in the developments of the last 24 hours, in the Jap situation here. | R. 1. Bair, a wool grower of Bil-| lings, Mont. his attorney, C. M} Davies, and N. Makino, a Japa lands move : will be) renters of Indian reservation here to pull up stakes and to Montana, where they welcomed ‘The recent order of Secretary of the Intertor A. B. Fall, that Japs |would no longer be permitted to lease Indian lands, is leverage used Indian land owners féar that if the Japa go the rental of their lands will drop to a figure that will be no long- or profitable. Japs are making their usual offers of attractive propost- tions, which the Indians do not wish to refuse. White men, on the other hand, welcome Fall's order, as they see in it the ultimate eviction of all Japanese, with a subsequent de crease in reservation rentals, | which will mean that white set- tlers may go on the lands with » fair chanee to make a substan- tial living, The Japs are indebted to local and | Yakima merchants to the extent of | $250,000, Steps will be taken to col- lect this sum before the expected exodus, While no exact statements | erally understood that all Japs he| takes to his Montana lands will be | siven employment caring for his wool producers, A meeting on December 14 will | decide the questions involved. NORTHWEST IN GRIP OF COLD Cars Delayed by Freezing Pipes; Danger Seen Street cars delayed by frozen condensor pipes, lakes rapidly freezing to the proper thickness for skating, fuel sales increased | from 50 to 200 per cent; these | were the salient results Mon- | day, the coldest day of this | winter. | The whole Northwest was shiver- ing Tuesday morning. In Spokane | a. ™. A weather station there gave the official temperature as 15 de-| grees below zero, but a fire station two miles from the weather bureau, reported 24 degrees below. | Children are warned of the dan- gers of coasting on tce-coated streets by Superintendent George Russell, of the public utilities. The} death of Raymond F. ‘Townsley, 11, | under the wheels of a car | street Monday night was cited by Russell. (Turn to Page 10, Column 5) TAKE ME! WELL. COME DARUNG | | AW HE WouoNT MOTHER With TAKE Dr. B. J. Gilshannon and Dr. W. B. . o | Mitchell, both of Sumner, treated |°h@"ses,” said Chatterton, Cayzo for fracture of the neck baling \Fugitive Is Nabbed | by Woman (CALLED | SECOND TIME Rev. Chatterton in Hot Reply to the Executive For the second time in less than three days, Mayor E. J. Brown has been branded as @ liar by a Seattle clergyman. The first attack came Sunday night, when Rev. Uhauncey J. Pama Mivineaalohemowcs HERE’S TODAY’S ss MAYORALTY SCORE Here's Mayor Brown's box score for the week. Watch ‘er grow: 3 (1) Denounced by University of Washington Daily for attack coeds’ costumes at varsity Called a Mar by Rev, Hawkins from pul- q @ Chauncey J pit of Plymouth Congregational chureh and comes back by inti: mating that Hawkins ts bribed. (3) Charges corruption tm fed eral prohibition driector’s office | and bars federal prisoners from i . city jail, while William Whitney, Mrs. W. W. Hamilton | prohibition official, suggests that} 0 by Price & Carter, | Brown lg in league with bootleg: ; Btate Photographers | org, 4 A fivemonths search for || (4) Struggles with recalcitrant} John Berkebile, alias Jim Jones, || city council in a tardy attempt : fugitive from justice, came to an to make good tn His promise at} end Monday night when Mrs. a G-cent car fare. 3 W. W. Hamilton, state represent- |] (5) Demands grand jury e ative for Phillips county, Mon- tigation of preachers’ of; tana, armed with a warrant and charges and summons 8 wit { assisted by Deputy Sheriff Tom nesses to appear. om et Morgan, arrested him in Bothell. (6) Called a liar by Rev. Ep | Berkebile was convicted of || Chatterton, executive seer a hae arson in Dodson, Montana, last duly and was given a sentence of from three to seven y' j He was released on a bond $5,000, put up by Mrs. Hamil- of the Federation of Churches. Hawkins appiied the epithe: to the mayor from the pulplt of the Plymouth Congregational church, ton. Om duly 4 he disappeared, | The second was launched b y. |. I, Chatterton, Since then Mra, Hamilton has | 0% Revo ont teratlon trailed Berkebile from city to city, and from state to state. “I am relieved to learn that the sheriff will send a man with me to take Berkebile back,” said Mrs. Ham- fiton. “Of course I'd take him my- self if necessary, but something might happen and I'd have to shoot -and if I did I'd shoot to kill.” Mrs. Hamilton was elected to the legislature on a democratic ticket on November 7 in a county that was two-thirds republican. Mra. Wood. row Wilson congratulated her on her victory, saying: “It is the greatest victory ever won by a woman poll- tictan,” BROKEN NECK WORN IN CAST) cuting attorney's office.” Ray Cayze, 1942 First ave. 8./ In regard to the mayor's charge broke his neck three months ago.|tnat a certain preacher had bees | Today, by wearing « specially fitted | paid $1,000 by a chain of cigar plaster cast, he ts able to carry on| stores to start a crusade against as a perfectly well man. iceshaking, Chatterton said he While driving @ truck near Sum-|je4 been unable to find any clergy ner, on August 22, Cayze plunged 4 from a bridge, landing in a river! an who knew anything ef slag | transaction. bed. He was found pinned beneath | Tire hor would have hie the truck, which had turned com Slakety Dvti ia The Sail . hands full if he'd stick to the facts . - without making all these wild | Churches, who announced, “I kd the mayor lied—without excuse or extenuation,” im reference to Brown's” charge that Chatterton had launched |his crusade against the dance halls” | of the city because the Federation of Churches was on the rocks financial: — ly, and he had thought it might get back on its feet if it got enough publicity. 4 “Mayor Brown's statement fe ® fabrication out of the whole cloth,” — |Chatterton said. “I have only had |two conversations with him in my | life—once when I called on him as a member of a committee of 7 five, to see what he was going te — |do about the dance hall evil, and |again, yesterday, when I asked him \if he had turned the police depart. ment's duties over to the prose Cayze says he owes his life to them. Cayze hopes to substitute a leather | collar for the plaster cast in a short | time, Mahoney Buried at Walla Walla WALLA WALLA, Deo. 12.—Jamon | FE. Mahoney, executed for the mur. | r of his wife at Seattle, was buried here today in the Catholic cemetery. The Rev. Father Stephen Buckley officiated. —BY ALLMAN BUYS FREEDOM, ~ CLAIMS MAYOR ~ That a federal prohibition agent's prisoner, held incom- municado at the city jail, had been able to buy his way to freedom, without trial, by paying $300 te Bert Northrop, law partner of William Whitney, assistant pro hibition director, was the specifie charge made Tuesday by Mayor E, J. Brown. Dr. Brown sald that he was prepared to substantiate charge with witnesses, and would take these witnesses be fore the grand Jury. “This particular man,” Dr, Brown said, “had friends in jail, therefore able to reach hii despite the fact that he was held in- communicado. When his lawyer called, however, he told him he would have to discharge him i¢ he wanted to get out, Immediately aft. erward, he retained Bert Northrop, paid him $300 or $400, and was re leased—without any charge being filed against him, without hearing and without trial “That is one of the reasons why authorized Chief of Police W. B, Sev+ |eryns to refuse to accept prisoners | who have been arrested by the fed ‘eral authorities without proper war | fant—2'm not going to have the clth | Zens of Seattle held up in this out- rageous F. A. Hazeltine, atvisional prohibk — tion director, had been quoted as say ing that he would call on Dr. Brown ‘Tuesday and demand’an explanation, (Turn to Page 10, Column a) You out!