The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 22, 1922, Page 1

PROSPERITY WAVE HITS SEATTLE! PPP AAR AA ALAA ALLL HOME Til TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. (Flashes| LIVES IN LONG FALL PORTLAND, -T. G, Cob. —eewn enn eee The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor The Seattle Star WEATHER Tonight and Saturday, rain fresh southerly gale Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 52. Minimum, 42 Today noon, 48 ane dl Entered as Second Clase Matter May 1899, at the Postoffice o seattip, Wash, ur nerens March 3, 1879, Per Year, by Mall, $6 to Carer ow Ble YEAR IS VOLUME 24. NO. 258. 99 SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, DECEMBER BOY FATALLY “INOURED BY There IS a Santa! Homer Gets Proof HOME BREW! | Howdy, folks! "Tix the night before the night before the night before € . Dear Homer: I have just bought! some mistictoe. To what account | shall I credit it in my budget ?—Hisie, | Dear Elsie: Overhead expense.— | Homer. ) see | In the language of the flowers, mistletoe means “Kisamequick!”" ee Around Christmas time, the female of the species ix more careless with the kale. 1 eee “And if you're | not good and Don't chiidren. disappoint your parents ‘Tell ‘em you believe in) This is the seaéSn of “peace o: earth and good will to men. good will includes credit at the Brown to send the Rev. Chauncey | Hawkins a Christmas present, but | call a bartender “Eddie.’ It was @ rare student that ead °; containing four small) desk yesterday will) Office he will learn some- | thing to his Gisadvantage.—Advt. vee What would YOU do if 36 little lives were suddenly entrusted to your care? . We can’t bear to drown the little We think we'll give ‘em a moonshine and put ‘em out) misery. COMMENT Doe Brown announces that he will be a candidate for mayor at the next election. Oh, we could just sit down and ory, we're so happy! ee “The sweet voice of music will clean up our city jail,” says Count George Hay du Barry. Whereupon he swings into the Anvil! chorus. ee Of course, you hate the thought of strife, You never scold or bicker; But if you find your little wife Has took to drinkin—lik-ker! eee | | | Portland boxer fights under the name of Broken Blossom. Some day he may have a nose resembling @ “rushed rose. a0. / CANDIDATE FOR THE j POISON IVY CLUB | Gink whose Christmas present | to his Sweetie is a vanity box | without a mirror. | eee | Why doesn’t somebody nominate) Santa Clatus to be All-American full-| back? | cee Doe Brown, it would seem, ia al- ways ready for either a fight or a frolic, and he’s not s0 darn insistent | on the frolic.—Soreenland. | eee Luther Burbank declares honesty | pays. That's funny. He made his} reputation grafting. 2. Lieut. C. G. Carr proposes that the braing of automobile speeders be ex. amined by specialiata. Hat Ha! That would be @ good joke on the special fete. Automobile speeders haven't got any brains! The height of cruelty is telling your little boy that be will get his tonsils | pulled out for 4 | MR. HOMER BREW? The STAR, i t MERRY XMAS.- 4 1 § Seattle, Fash. ; i |Lad AUTO STAGE! Crushed by Bus on Roadway; Driver Speed On and Escapes doe Romano, 14, died Friday morning in Providence hospital from internal Injuries received 4 Here are the kittens that somebody sent to Homer Brew for a Christmas present. They've nearly turned The Star office upside down and milk is so high Homer ts about to put them on a home brew diet. Photo Idea Helpful for City and Country Folks (EDITORIAL) Good Wenatchee apples at $1 a box. That is the bargain which employes of the Black Manufacturing Co. are enjoying. The firm makes a practice, for the benefit of its workers, of keeping on hand at this season a stock of good apples for sale at cost. These are shipped here in 100-box lots in a “combination” car that Bogus Stock the company thus Agents Are Out for Giant Swindle Victory Bond and Savings Stamps Payment Gives Crooks Chance BY ROBERT TALLEY WASHINGTON, Dec, 22, —- Thou sands of bogus stock companies are flooding the rialls with “come-on let- ters,” preparing for a clean-up on suckers this and next month when the treasury redeems Victory bonds and 1918 war savings stamps, the/| latter totaling $645,000,000. At the same time, treasury offi | clals are warning those who invested | their small earnings with the govern- ment during the war to beware the lake stock promoter now. To head off wild-catters’ raids on small savings congress is being urged by Representative Edward Denison, of Illinois, to rush into law a “blue sky” bill which has already passed the house and which is now delayed in the senate. Denison’s bill would prevent pro-| moters from selling their stocks by mail in states which have not ap- proved their schemes, At present, Denison says, most fake stocks are sold outside the states in which the promoters are operating. For example, most fake Texas oll stocks are sold outside Texas. Deni son's bill would give power to neigh boring states with their own “blue | sky laws” to forbid Texas concerns use of the mails to reach investors in those states, “The treaeury department esti-| mates that every year the American | public is robbed of $500,000,000 by! means of worthless securities,” Rep- resentative Denison said. “It t# the intention of my bil! to put these quacks out of business, but not to burden any legitimate enterprise.” see U. S. Urges You to Exchange Securities BY LEW W! LACE, JK. Chief, Savings Division, United States Treasury Altho the great war ended four ars ago, war financing will con tinue for many years It has multiplied many times the investors in the country and, to a large extent, built up a thrift spirit thruout the nation. i On January 1, war savings certifi cates to the amount of $625,000,000 fall due, For the most part the war savings stamps are in the hands of people } | / iwho never before were investors in securities, They were induced to buy by appeals on behalf of the govern ment for money to carry on the) war. | ‘The war savings stamps were sold on a discount basis, the investor to to Work New Game receive interest when the certificates matured. Provision was made for redemption previous to the maturity date, as many people hesitated to tie up their small savings for a definite! But of the billion and a halt| time. dollars which were invested In the war savings securities, $625,000,000) have been retained by the investors, waiting for the full amount of inter eat which the maturtty redemption promised. ‘The treasury department ts anx fous to have the people who have} been retained their investments in war savings securities continue to save and reinvest thelr money in an even better security, the new treas ury savings certificates It has been shown that unscrupu lous stock vendors and others who handle schemes for getting rich quickly are making every possible effort to get the cash which the gov ernment will pay for war savings #e curtties The new treasury savings certifi cates are issued in denominations of | $25, $100 and $1,000, maturity value, and sold at $20.60, $82 and $820, king the interest yield 4 per cent pounded semi-annually, They are exempt from state and local taxn- tion (except estate and inheritance taxer) and the normal federal income tax JERSEY CITY, Dec. 22—John Sheffmyer, policeman, took the wit- ness stand in court here and gave tes- timony that resulted in conviction of his son, David, on a charge of #tenl- ing automobile tires, Your WANT ADS will bring an active re- sponse of you place them in The Star's “GREATER WANT A COLUMNS” by Price & Carter H. Brew Is Given Box of Mystery By Wanda von Kettler HE plot has thickened. Our office has become «a pussy cat playfield—or, shall we say, a feline nursery? It bs all due to two things: The yuletide spirit of giving and the popularity of one Homer G. Brew. Homer sat at his typewriter this morning pounding out the usual line int dignified comment on recent hap- Penings. Likewise others struggled \to appear necessary. Up ithe stairs jnmnins stumbled. It was Paddy, the office boy-withh treckien,-deliver- j!ne four froliesome kittens Inclosed | in @ good-sized box bearing the label, |“Merry Christmas to Homer G. | Brew, Beattie Star, compliments of | Mayor Brown.” | Now Homer G. Brew has reason, he declares, to believe that Mayor | Brown did not send the kittens, “As much ag I have said in re Thursday afternoon, when he was run down by an Alderwood Manor-Seattle auto stage as he alighted from the Manor school | bas. The boy, partially sup porting himself by selling The Star returning who was in Alderwood Manor, was | from schoo! with 69 other pupils. he stepped from the school bus the As | huge stage ran him down and left him tying unconscious in the road, while it continued on its way to Se attie, according to witnesses, ‘A brother of the dying boy ran after the stage and shrieked to the driver to stop and pick up Komano, The driver, however, increased the speed of the stage and disappeared, Romano was rushed to Providence hospital, where it was found he had been injured internally, as well as frightfully crushed and bruised. The stage driver has not yet been Japprehended, but deputies of two ume counties expect his arrest some | Friday. TEN HELD AS BANDIT GA | Big Roundup of Suspects Is Made at Chicago CHICAGO, Dec, 22.--Ten members of an alfeged gang of bandits who! FRAP Ie Here is Robert Allen Swaney, who was held as a SURED, SAY ALL LEADERS Revival of Lum- ber Industry Is Big Factor; All| Lines Prosper By Bob Bermann Seattle is on the eve of one of the greatest eras of prosperity that It has ever experienced, 1923 will certainty be the best business year that the city has had since the reconstruction period began. This is the unantmous opinion of representative manufacturers and | wholesale and retail merchants who | were questioned by The Star Friday. Every one of them expressed the | utmost satisfaction with the business lof the year that ts drawing to a close | nd declared that the new year was jalmost sure to be even better. Most of them ascribed the tm- proved conditions of 1922 and the lrosy prospects for 1923 to the re lins, a window washer, fell trom they third story of the Railway Exchange) building today as he was ‘washing @ wir the Aetna Fire Insure) company’s office. He landed nd no bones were broke | en. He was consaous when assist 7) ance reached him, but suffered @ ai | vere shock and was sent to the , | Samaritan hospital. DRINKS COST $262.39 | “Merry Christmas,” smiled @ | dressed young fellow Thursday following his greeting to Peter of the Panama hotel, with, “have” | @rtnk with me to celebrate.” é Tofan readily agreed, he told. | Friday, and after a few hot al tonsil tickler, he missed § J |which had been stolen from iil |pocket. The stranger had a | peared. oe | ~ TRAIN WORKER KI BATAVIA, Ohio, Dec. 22—1 | Kelly, brakeman, was killed and. man Casey Wood's leg was b when a doubleheader freight was derailed six miles east of Bi | today. 4 ws of on his feet APPROPRIATIONS UP WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—The |nual interior department r | tion bill was reported to the bandit suspect by the police|vivai of the \umber business, which, | today by the appropriations ¢ until noon of the day he was \to be married, Then the police they asserted, more than offset the | difficulties encountered because of lear shortage on the railroads and ai jtee. The measure carries 300, of which 4,858,460 ie nded for the United States [found he wasn’t a bandit at} unsatistactory situation in the farm | Office. Of the latter sum, $1 ‘all. Swaney went home and completed preparations for his wedding. He was married |that night j honeymoon now. | eee “BANDIT” NOW | IS BRIDEGROOM Man Held by Police on His Wedding Day On Wednesday, Robert Allen Bwancy, 328 W. 49th st, was an eager lover, hurrying to claim his | bride. On Thursday, he was q suspected |gard to the mayor and his Scent, terrorized the Middie West in a series | bandit, behind the Bars, cartare,” yelps Homer dramatically; “I know him not to bear malice suf- j ficient to cause such a deed as this.” Homer's cats are beautiful. Three are yellow; one is black. Homer calls them his blondes and one bru- * (Turn to Page 9, Column 1) BANK CLERKS |Financial Institutions Play Santa Claus Who said pity the poor bank clerk? You may not envy Job, but-— Of all of Seattle's workers, those who are employed in the banks are being treated more by their employers this than any other gen- him his Practically every banking institu- | thon in the city is making—or already | has made Christmas present, in the form of a |cash bonus, in addition to giving |apectal parties for them. | Bome of the banks did not care to |make’ the amount of their bonuses public, but virtually every one of them announced that the directors | had taken some steps toward making jit a really merry Christmas for thetr employes. The Bank of California, the First National bank and the Union National bank gave their employes half a month's salary as a Christmas present, while the National Bank of Commerce is giving its employes a fall month's salary, payable the first of the year, as a sort of combina- | tion New Year's and Christmas gift. The Marine National | employes a third of a month's salary, The Metropolitan National and the Seattle National gave their workers a month's salary if they had been mployed five years or more, half a | month’s salary if they had been em- ployed for a lesser period and smaller \amounts in the cases of comparative. lly recent comers, | The American Savings \Trust Co. also rememb ployes in a substantial wi ficials of the institution declined to reveal the exact amount of the gifts. | Other business houses are giving their employes Christmas presents, |but none of them, as a class, have | been as generous as the banks. However, the banks report that there 1s a decided searelty of gold coin as a result of the demands made on them by depositors who |wish to give Christmas bonuses to their workers | Department stores and other large employers declined to announce the \vane of their gifts, on the ground that they never make publlc thelr finan- clal dealings with. the workers, Bank & GET BONUSES its employes a substantial | bank gave | lof bank robberies and holdups which netted them more than $500,000, | were rounded up in a raid by police here today. More than $70,000 in Mberty bonds and other securities were recovered, A quantity of nitroglycerine, fuses and revolvers were also taken from the saloon in which the men were captured, Police declared the ring leaders of the band were Thomas Holden, John Barry and Harold Young. They were ing. ’ From one of the prisoners police removed $55,000 in stocks, bonds and whisky warehouse receipts. A com- plete diagram of Joliet penitentiary was found on another Barry and Holden have frequently been arrested but never convicted. The alleged gang leaders were seized in a raid on a South Side saloon. Six thousand dollars’ worth of lib- erty bonds were taken from the saloon safe by police. Authorities today made a thoro search for other loot believed to have been hidden The gang ia believed by officers |to have directed robberies of banks, |stores, office safes and distilleries. JURY PROBES — PRITEFIGHTS Boxing Commission Mem- bers Quizzed Friday Charles P, Morarity, member of the Seattle Boxing commission, paced | the corridors of the county-clty build- ing Friday morning while waiting to be called before the grand jury, whone probe into local vice conditions has been under way since December }12. It is understood around the court- house that Elmo Jones, chairman of | the boxing commission, and Dr. B. T. | Hanley, the third member of that | body, would be galled before the in- estigators Friday afternoon. Because there ts a state law against boxing in Washington the boxing commission has no legal standing, it is said, but they were appointed to supervise bouts of four and six rounds which, regardless of the ac- tual law on this subject, have been j approved by most of the cities In the | state. These bouts have been stopped in Seattle, and at present this city is |the only one of its size In Washing- ton that 1s without boxing entertain- | ment. Mrs. Alice &. Preston, 1818 18th jave, was an unwilling witness before the grand jury Friday morning. “T would not be here.” sald Mrs. Pres- ton, “but when they told me to re- port they said if T failed to do so, that 1 would be sent to jail.” Mrs. Preston has been called to throw nome Nght on statements she ja sald to have made regarding vice condi- tions in Seattle, it 1s said, rushed to headquarters for question-: And on Friday, his freedom re- stored, and absolved of all suspicion, he was a happy bridegroom on his honeymoon. Swaney, with his brother George and A. W. Schroeder, had just taken leave of his prospective bride, Mixs Blanche Metzler, 18th ave. and E. Pine st., Wednesday night, when a Police prowler car gathered them in as suspicious characters, A revolver —which he carried as a safeguard against bandite—was found in the near-bridegroom’s pocket, and the three were held in the city jail all night, On Thursday, however, they were able to establish their Innocence, and the wedding took place in the even- ing, at the scheduled hour. ‘TRY TO BLOCK | LAFE HAMILTON Women Bombard Board in Opposing Appointment Fearing that Lafe Hamilton, former King county boss, is plotting to regain his lost po- litical power and build up an organization that would rival his machine of a decade ago, hundreds of Seattle women aré writing to the members of the new board of county commis- sioners, protesting against his proposed appointment as super- visor of roads for the South dis- trict, According to a welldefined rumor, Hamilton hopes to use the road |job for the purpose of welding to- jgether support enough to put him |into office as a port commissioner Jat the next election. | ‘The position of road supervisor, the women who are protesting point out, is not so important in itself— |but it controls such a vast amount jof patronage that, if put in the jhands of a wily politician, * would mean tremendous potential power Altho the appointment in the Jhands of Frank H. Paul, commis. sioner-elect from the South district, the women are writing to the other commissioners as well, urging them 'to use their influence to prevent the j action. | It is estimated that at leas 200 letters have been recetved by tho three members of the board—Paul, William A. Gaines, commissioner- elect from the city district, and Tom Dobson, holdover commissioner from the North district is PENDS LONELY NIGHT IN CELL NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—Terrence Murphy, hearing his friend, John McCann, had been jailed, pestered the judge and got arrested so he could spend the night with John. He found MoCann had been discharged, and is on his| jand frutt fields. | ‘The fact that building permite ts- |wued during 1922 bid fair to surpass jin volume the record of any previous year—$20,000,000—being the estimate —was pointed to as an indication of the general prosperity which Seattle is now feeling. Here are the opinions of some of Seattle's leading business men: | RK ©. BON |\MARCHE: “Business during 1932 jhas been very good—far better than last year, And the prospect is that 1923 will bring at least equally satis- factory results, The year of 1921 change came in April of this year, and since then business conditions with us have been steadily on the mend.” GERALD P. FRINK, WASHING- TON IRON WORKS: “The fact that we are building a new plant in Seattle—a plapt that will cost about half a million dollars and cover 10 acres of ground—is a fair indication of the progress that we are making. Business has been very good this year—by far the best since the re- construction period began—and we look for next year to be even bet- ter.” CHARLES H. FRYE & CO.: “The last year has been decidedly better than either 1921 or 1920—and the business outlook for 1923 is much brighter than It was last New Year's. There are certain adjustments still to be made—the labor situation, for instance, and the car shortage. But when these are straigntened out there'll be nothing to stop us and we'll go right ahead. The last year (Turn to Page 9, Column 3) 3 INJURED BY SHELL BURST MARTINEZ, Cal., Dec. 23.-—Three civilian employes at Benicia military arsenal were critically injured this morning when a shrapnel shell, which the men were moving, explod- ed, hurling the death pellets in all directions. Clarence Thomas, one of the tn- jured workmen, is. not expected to live. William Fox, foreman, suffered a eut in the abdomen and other injur tes, which may also prove fatal, He was rushed to the Letterman Gen- eral hospital in San Francisco. Arthur Harris suffered a broken right leg and pieces of shrapnel pierced his body in several places. Military authorities at the arsenal refused to give out any statement concerning the accident, pending a meeting of the board of inquiry, which will be held this afternoon, Street Car Hits Moonshine Auto After driving an automobile loaded with moonshine into a street car at Second ave, and Lenora st. shortly before noon Friday, two men, be- jMeved to be Mquor runners, escaped |from the police, The auto was par- |tlally wrecked and a broken jug of moonshine, contained In a suitcase, was selzed by the police, The two men who had charge of the auto stopped long enough to tell they were not hurt and then ran from the scene, The license of the car was issued to T. J, Dowling, of Woodinville, Wash, Six Bandits Get Christmas Money 8T. LOUIS, Dee, 22.—Six men, armed with riot guns, surrounded and help up a guarded truck of the Stix, Barber & Fuller Drygoods company today and escaped with $5,000 in cash collected on Christ. mas C, O, D, Policeman James Han, son, guard on the truck, was dis- armed by the bandits, the conductor of the street car that) 000 is for the payment of navy pensions. Ee eee % ss GIRL’S HOSE STOLEN” Police were searching : say Lothario, a taxi driver penchant for collecting silk ings. The taxi driver, after raine Parker and Helen the Hotel Butler, to a Neither the driver nor the been located Friday. MAY FREE PRISO WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. ‘ ™mas appeal for release of prisoners was made today by of the joirit amnesty com e, were posted at the ent: White House with banners | President Harding to “make of speech your Christmas gift nation.” Release of at least 28 prisoners convicted in the I. trials at Chicago in 1919 may nounced before Christmas. eee FIND TWO SLAIN MER ROUGE, La, Dee. | Bodies of Watt Daniels and Richards, believed murdered riders, were found in Lake near here today. Pieces of wir tached to the feet indicated had been weighted down to the: tom of the lake for several eee SHOWS. POSTAL D CHICAGO, Dec. 22.—An suppressed balance sheet United States postoffice dey showing a deficit of $16,1! the first quarter of 1922 was @ public here today by Gen, C Dawes. Dawes intimated that causes” should be the emp ject when the government a deficit to “fire,” burglary and| | causes.” a bigk fs BABY IS SUFFOCA Warmly tucked in his tru Thursday night, by the loving of his mother, three-month. Wood, son of Mr. and Mra, Wood, of Auburn, slept and di of milk bottles and fat, stuffed cats and Christmas trees. Friday morning, Mrs. Wood to the bed and lifted her son. Rex had died during the night suffocation, due to too heavy ings, The death was reported oner W. H. Corson an hour eee MAJESTIC RAMS V SOUTHAMPTON, Eng., Deo, The White Star liner Majestic, ing in a terrific gale today, with the Cunard liner Be The Cunarder’s taff rail was § tered in the collision, The dragged her anchor. JAPS HELPED BY MINIS Seattle ministers have come aid of the Japs! Thursday night the Seattle of churches sent a telegram to E. Fall, secretary of the tf urging the secretary to exe leniency Possible” in enforcing cent ruling that orders the leave the Yakima Indian The telegram was signed by F. Thrapp, president of the cow and Herbert I, Chatterton, 8 Bitter protest against the the ministers has been members of the American. ion by farmers, not only of the Yal valley but elsewhere as well 5 Bet ee me