The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 13, 1922, Page 1

Maximum, 31 “VOLUME 24. NO. 260. This morning the water pipes in our house burst; the basement is flooded; the furnace refuses to work; ecko at oe Se he ek Having achieved the great- 2 evan Bhar Hollywood est “pipanal of esteem” of np oncked any foreign visitor to the Howdy, folks! Hurrah! The next installment of < 4 —Investigation of the baffling the income tax tx due In only two} Witty 2 more days! Jeamond | Mayor Brown says there is no open How about the gambling in Seattle oye at the Summit school? They} Wig. tae tn tee worn tk dabuectched What he lay marties for “heepe.” yemetiny, sathetiion weld to. [ont 4 eee ow leame to do. WARNING | Aa one of the world's “grand old We don't Intend to do our | ,.piriciais still attempting to | men”; as a figure destined to loom Christmas shopping carty this in their belief that large in history; as « personage year as we understand that the “early bird gets the worm—and we wouldn't give a worm to anybody for peppermint candy costing 1,500,000, 000 roubles for Christmas. THE WURST Thursday moderate Temperature Last M4 Hours Today noon, St ome! NATONYDE Minimum, 24 Bntered as Beoond Class Matier DOPE TRUS The paper with a 15,06 The Seattle Sta May 3 1808, SEATTLE, WASH., WEDN Tour Fails, PASTORS 10 'Clemenceau’s | Says American Observer ‘Famous French Statesman Starts Home 1 the Postoftice at Beattie, Ww under the Act of Yongrese March 3, >STREET CARS FRIGID HENDERSON “ALIBIS” 7 *, Ber Year, by Mall, 66 to 9° ADD ADA Eg {fh HOM EDITION | Without Accomplishing His Purpose NK EXPOSED =. William Philip Simms < | WASHINGTON, Dee, 18.— . 6 Gauged by his own standards, | New York Arrests the American tour of | j May Solve Death | Georges Clemenceau, former | 7 + |premfer of France, which of Wm. Taylor IN \ended today, is a failure. Latins: abe Dee iS |United States since Lafayette —with the possible exception of Marshal Foch—the dis- \tinguished Frenchman has returned home without hav- der case may be reopened a» the result of disclosures in connec | thon with a $50,000 raid of head- | quarters of an alleged nation Taylor, Prominent motion pleture diree tor, was slain by agents of « drug ring because he sought to stop them from selling narcotics greatly eateomed of Americans; an @ fighter and a hero of the war; as personifying a race for which folks in this country have always had @ Ae, weakness, Clemwnceau was every: to prominent film stars _ It must be great to be a little! the New York raid disclosed t | where greeted by admiring multi Russian child and get a stick Of] the “ring” had ramifications in| ‘de Hollywood, according to reports But his coming has not changed from New York police and federal | America’s attitude towards France Officials here, who sald they con. | ome lot. firmed t report, claim they Clemenceau bad three principal ~¥ ne have! spjects in mind when he set out for gawa, John Doe Kurabara, Cari dohan Engstrom and the Capitol Savings and Loan association. Your Want Ad_ || —He hoped to prove to Amert- cans that France is not mill tartstic, but, deserted by her allies, ts merely acting in self- defense. wished to inform Amert cane that Europe is on the brink of another war, more terri ble than the leat. Americans that they Judge Griffiths advocates two/ tion with associates that Taylor war a ing ate er gg months’ vacations for judges. trying to cure of the narcotic habit. phy onan rh yey 4 They ought to get it. Why, they said they had not learned os * nb nag bye fy have to get to work at 10 o'clock inthe identity of any Hollywood | peg Mago pg “2 the morning and sometimes they agents. Names and letters of one! rolls gg A work as late as 4 o'clock in the after-|‘Rowsand or more alleged narcotic etherw' civilisation noon. usere and agents thruout the coun- r4 | were aa ‘aaynts thro New York A dispassionate checking up on re oss id indicate: raid, according to advices here from |*ults wou! FAMOUS FIRMS First, thone who took the postion | Eastern police. Those names were rth ere Ham and Eggs. | sald to include many theatrical peo- that France hes tecome suitit “4 Light Wine and Beer. ple in Hollywood, New York, At-|insist it wae Clemenceau who mai Brown and Hawkins, Inc. lantic City and other cities. her so. So his arguments failed ut Pa Full details of the information | terty to convince these, As for thom council make (Turn who hold that France ts merely an entre charge for (ranstere whan | fo Pane kc Gene © [ene eat dotence, thay ahd net weed passes Scent carfare ord!-| ito he converted. faten and 0 lot of people wil cat | Hecond, it neems already an ac out those sightseeing trips to the | | fact in this country, among | tide- flats. | Wilsonites and Lodgeites, democrats ef ago jand republicans, pre-teaguers and & With Mayor Brown in office, | reconciiables alike-—that Europe Ananiag club is iamied for heger CHARGED AGAIN =: the verge of another disaster. | quarters, }Bo Clemenceau could only confirm eee thin general belief. | Doe te anxious for the pubitc to|Real Estate Firm in New prune | wetter Amarin | forget comtrov rope too . Somat pone jury Sepeatgnen Jap Land Case enough; whether America abouts Another case of alleged viola- stand by Europe now or o) pas tion of the antialien law was | herself at once and forever against | Glve & thought to the super instituted ae ~onieg by Mat |cooperntion with any foreign| colm Doug ) Pesecu attor- annuated fire horse hearing the | ey, against A. V. Williams & (Turn to Page 8, Column 3) sound of the fire siren. Then | Co,” Included with the Williams | | ive a thought to Doe Matthews | company as defendants in the | Feading about s fight over vice | sult are M. Miyagawa; his wife, | and met being im ft! Mitsue Miyagawa; Toki Miya | ' | | | Gill embroglio, we can’t work up & over the Hawkins-Brown| ‘he state alleges that A. V. Wil Hams & Co. secured a deed for 70 acres on Vashon island, which they | jheia In trust for the Miyagawa fam. lily and John Doe Kurabara, Japa-| | nese, not naturalized. Later, accord ing to the complaint, A. V. Willlama| 7 & Co. leaned the land to Engstrom, | The bravest judge on the King| whom the state claims is a citizen| county bench is the one who tried | of Sweden. to instruct the lady jurors not to! The Capitol Savings and Loan com. talk. | pany claim right, title and interest | in the disputed property, which title, me — 8 if any, is inferior and subsequent to GEE E, TH’ OFFICE | | that of the state, the complaint al ur VAMP, SEZ |leges. The state claims all right in Isn't it wonderful the property, all rights having es. | these girls keep their faces ex- | | cheated to the state thru the alleged = ‘way down to the wok sweat melee. see Who will head a movement to pro- vide hats for the statues of John McGraw, Chief Seattle and George Washington. eee the way violation of the antialien law. bone these cold we? Distance lends enchantment to the debt eee A mmail town is one where a man's proudest accomplishment 6 beating his business rival to the postotfice every morning. eee Male Customer—Have “Hot Lips?” Girl Clerk—How dare you inmult me? TO STAY HOME THIS EVENING AND PLAY WITH YOuU- WON'T “THAT BE Fine! vou got 9. Yeu rome 2 DADDY eee THE CHALLENGE I'm « married man, I am. 1 was’ married in the old days when wom- on wore dresses that were fastened by snaps and hookeneyes, Boy, I broke into this husband busniess when you had to be = quick change artint's assistant to hold » marriage Heense T've hooked an evening dress for my wife when it had 58 anap ftaaten- ore and 14 hookeneyes on it und 1 did it while the clock was striking #. Therefore 1 claim the champion- ship dress-tantening title for hus- bands, all wi ‘te, and I'm willing fo inke on any other husband in Se~ atthe, Bring your own wife and Gree if wm aeceyi the challenge. MENBY PECK. WELL DADDY 18 GOING \/ motnER 1S GONG UP STAIRS 17 war Stem Fumwy FO nave RETURNS will please you if you place them in THE STAR'S “GREATER WANT AD COLUMNS” 1 m| DOINGS OF THE DUFFS DANNY - i) 33 8) I Ns | | [ GOING HOME | Georges Clemenceau, fa- mous statesman of France,| who sailed for the homeland! Wednesday, after completing a tour of Eastern American cities to lay the cause of France before the nation. It is believed } tinguished visitor's tour was a failure. that the dia- COLD WAVES BEATEN BACK Weather Bureau Predicts Temperature Raise All the biting Invective hurled at the unfortunate head of the weather man during the 12 months of the year was retracted by the shivering citizens of Seattle Wednesday, when the weather prophet emerged from hin igaico and announced that the thermometer in steadily rising. Moderate easterly winds with a probable temperature of 27 degrees above by Thursday morning was the prediction made shortly before noon Wednesday when the mercury had risen to 24 degrees and was stil) going upward. Tuesday was the coldest day in 1922 here, the thermometer regis tering but 19 degrees above zero. Seattle was fortunate in compart son with sister cities, ax Bellingham reported but 8 degrees above, Altho plumbers were kept busily engaged Tuenday repairing bursted water pipes, the total number report ed to the water department was much «mailer than- expected. Pipes ‘Dr. Hawkins and| jthe ¥. MC. A., was summoned t | appear before the grand jury at 9 reported frozen were generally near (Turn to Page 8, Column 7) ! kins laid specific charges, made nev. eral arrests before the letter by Rev. MBER 18, 1922. TWO CENTS IN SEA’ . GO BEFORE JURY TODAY Rev. Chatterton) Anxious to Be| Heard, They Say} | Summoned to appear before | the county grand jury at 3 | oclock Wednesday afternoon an | witnesses in an Investigation growing out of thelr charges that the mayor and police of Se attle are allowing the city te be come open to vies, Rev. Chann- ery J. Hawkins and Rev. H. 1. Chatterton expressed themselves a “delighted with the opportu: nity” Wednesday morning. “I welcome the opportunity to lay bare the facts we have In our possession relating to vice conditions in Seattle,” Dr, Haw. kins told The Star after reading the mons. He intimated also that he had evidence that had net been made public. Arnold Alien, general secretary of reorived, Mayor “That narcotics and whisky are| (Turn to Page 8, Column 7) ‘ “To Kara Melville's Murder- ers.” That's the way the note was addressed, “When you get this,” it ran, “Beatrice will be on her way || to Back There—either there or on her way to hell. Esra Meiville was my pard. A let ter leaving his claim to me bs in my pocket, and I alone know where Hiram's will Is, leaving it to Ezra, Your title will never stand as long as those papers aren't de- stroyed, If you don’t care enough about saving your daughter from me, at least want those letters. Tl be the defi? and = get And how did Beatrice you'll Come and get them. waiting for you.” What came of Did they “come them”? fare? All these questions are answered in “THE SKY LINE OF SPRUCE” Edison Marshall's absorbing || new novel, which in to be published in The Star In ser. ial form beginning tomorrow. (A better story, even, than “The Snowshoe Trail,” the last Edison Marshall novel published in The Star.) The Tables Are Turned NO MORE. I’M GOING UP STAIRS AND SEE WHAT MOTHER 19 eS OW, HELEN WHAT ARE You DOING ? OPEN THE DOOR.- You HAVE \T LOCKED: I Know 11S LOcK EO- You cawT COME Mayor to Testify in Dope Case Nellie Hartford, investi- gator for Mayor Brown, who was to be tried Wednesday on a narcotic charge. —Phote by Price & Carter, Star Staff Photographers Nellie Hartford, whose invest! gations for Mayor BE, J. Brown in the Legate murder case re- against her since June 18 of this year. Mrs. Hartford, whose aliases, ao- |cording to the district attorney's office, have been Baker, Gillis, and Coffee, in alleged to have been) | detected at Monroe, Wash., June 18, carrying narcotics, She is said to have had five tablets of morphine on her person while en route in! Mayor EB. J. Brown's automobile to |the Monroe reformatory, where she Planned to visit her brother in de- tention there. Mayor Brown, who served as the young woman's attorney early tn the case, has now turned that office over to Attorney John Dore, The mayor declares he will appear as a witness for Mra. Hartford, who, he says, was working for him at the time the arrest was made. Dean C. W. Johnson, head of the pharmacy department of the Univer- sity of Washington, who was appoint- ed Monday by Judge Neterer, follow- ing Dore's motion for the naming of 4 pharmacist to examine the tablets taken from Mrs. Hartford at the time of the arrest, is said to have now completed the examination and is ready to testify. HALF MILLION LOST IN FIRE BUFFAIA, N. Y¥., Deo, 18.—One | persons burned to death here today in fires which drove many victims into the bitter cold and caused $500,- 000 property damage. James McQutively 55, perished j when the Cold Springs car barn of the Intérnational Railway company burned. CAR HEATERS RE KEPT IN- STORE ROOMS Passengers May Get Relief in Month; Henderson Again Claims “More on Way”; Riders Freeze (EDITORIAL) Hundreds of telephone calls and letters have come fi citizens to The Star in the last 24 hours com ; frigid conditions on the municipal street cars. These | ports, together with investigations made by members The Star staff, indicate that a very small proportion | the cars are heated. Be This is in face of the fact that city officials last solemnly assured the public that heating equipment en route from the East to equip all cars. Apparently somebody lied. F Now Superintendent Henderson comes forth with story that heaters are at this time “on the way” equipping more cars. If this statement is true, why are the heaters “on € way”? Why weren’t they here two months ago and place where they will be doing some good? z “There are also 144 heaters in the this morning. This will give us enough t take care of 34 cars, as it takes 10 heaters to the car “As fast as we remodel the cars in use, we : stall the heaters.” 3 | Henderson expected this rellef) od in the complaints rec | within a month, he said. This will) Phinney open cars come in | still leave more than 100 cars with-| indignation. “It's idiotic,” out heat, according to Henderson’s|one outrazed citizen, whe |own estimate. trust the telephone, but called The superintendent denied that | Star office in person. he alibied with the “delayed ship-} Street cars are cold, but pe | ment” statement last year. “If the! of the city lines are sufficient! statement was made, I know noth jing about it,” he sald, “Of the 400 cars on the 29 pod lines, only 260 are heated,” ow admitted. “The cost heaters is about per car.” an average of $325 for 140 cara this cost would be $45,500. -“The expense of heating cars must naturally come from the reve nue of the system,” declared the superintendent, “and with the intro- duction of 5.cent fares, this means greater delay in warming the cars.”! In self-defense, Henderson stated that only 50 cars were heated when/ the clty bought the lines, claiming | an Increase of 210 since the city as- sumed control. | “Part of the cars on each line are heated, and part are not,” Hender- son explained further. “For = in- | stance, on the Green Lake line five \or six cars are heated and the rest are not. We try to mix them up jand put part of the heated cars on each run," Seattle street cars and Green- land's icy mounts are brothers under their shivering skins, if | while riding on a bobsled The Star is to believe the hun- | eral companions late Tuesday dreds of people who answered - the inquiry made Tuesday. s ~ “lelcles hang from the bell cords,” said one man of the West Queen Anne cars, “During the recent big storm, Green Lake cars had pools of water standing on the seats,” reports another, Every line in the city ts represent- —BY ALLMAN DEATH CLAIMS ing accident in two days, B. Dolby, 18, 134 29th ave. dead Wednesday. Young a These two lads met death coasting on Seattle hills. Left és B. Dolby, 18, who died early nesday morning following an dent Tuesday night, Right is R mond F. Townsley, 11, who killed almost instantly Monday was injured when the sled crashed: into a telephone pole at the corner 17th ave. and Spring st, ty Picked up unconscious, Dolby rushed to the Providence ho where he was found to have tained concussion of the brain, died at 6:15 a, m, Wednesday out having regained consciousness He was the son of Mr. and MPR Ben B. Dolby, and was employed a local store as a clerk, oi The first victim, Raymond ley, 11, of 214 Broad almost instantly killed late ight, when he rolled from his at Harrison | st, wo *