The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 3, 1923, Page 1

OLE LARSON MUST GO TO PRIS The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor Batered ae Beoond Clase Matter May 3, 1809, at the Postoffice at Seattle aan. under the krone March 4, 187), Per Your, by Mall, #6 to 98 "SEATTI 5, WASH., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1923. Beck tt ‘TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE, “VOLUME 24. NO. 268. Be LIVES OF SEATTLE CITIZENS IN DAILY DANGER BANKER LOSE | 3 am LAST CHANCE FOR FREEDOM Supreme Court | Upholds Decision | / in Tacoma Bank ede, vetest Saks your bent President Case ' _— ae ms TACOMA, Jan. 3—Ole Larson, New Year's parties were like the | 2 former president of the, defanet Argonne. You never knew when your | Scandinavian-American bank, mitt Hite ‘might be snuffed out by @ little | “ 7 : 0 to state's prison, His conviction on. St ; i in the superior court here om @ | All the folks that were so afraid h we : charge of larceny was upheld by that Seattle micht become a Sunday : - Ye 4 | supreme court at Olympia today, ae peneet can now rest easy. ; |cording to advices received by Prose cee " 3 + cuting Attorney Selden’s NO CAUSE FOR ALARM 2 : office. < {A note written in the appointment | ; | larson was sentenced to serve q Tegister of a Beattie department - aaah we * : three to five years at Walla Walla” store.) e nt edit: i \ , : penite ry by Superior Judge Cha Dear Mother: Have gone to big sheprowidiaihingnc: < b Frisco with Ted. Don't worry, < man, following his conviction we aren't married—Helen ‘ | ago s Some men are of such little conse- arn 2 quence that they are not even asked | 4 f to sign petitions. | | fan 77..* & & ee * * * & ae, wa | Flimsy Bridge Railings and Insufficient or Shower for | IN SAND $ NE ie seschps siaine tanque ' | Completely Lacking Bulkheads Make City D ff? :B b , iiucess » ' ; Bridges and Viaducts Death Traps u § baoy Hts in well with the news ‘ : a § , ‘ — Sil Sass Weilare i going 1 New BY BOB BERMANN Send in Clothes for) 3fi Mor Vase ae $23 ai | Needy Children trapped shortly after neon THE FAT MAN'S COUE , : Lives of hundreds of Seattle motorists are being nesday in s sand bunker Every day, in every way, the menaced every day because of the unsafe condition Of | mis ts the picture of one worried] Fourth ave. W. and We ee ee oe none one eee REE bridges and viaducts in and around the city. hosband. He is Tom Duff, Knew Tom? Bure you do. See him every Sot AD ee gee & : This is the conclusion reached as the result of a sur- |aay with nie tam- That carries you off. ; f pd it vey conducted by The Star, in the course of which |!!7_'" | Auman's s é a ‘ . comic atrt; fap macy grog am itn, OE: ; ost of the worst danger spots in town were in-|the stars comic eee ! spected. page. — ge s . good fellow, iar, & bechater, carrying one mats es. 3s , Saturday night’s fatal accident on the W. Wheeler st.'he, worried. Be has reat fn nought the doggone | rt . = bridge was the direct result of the city’s failure to provide cause he has just thing squawked “mamma!” i & ‘ « 4 adequate safeguards against just such disasters, and the} bunt aan giro ‘ane Pye iy oe | ’ 4 ine je Ou tons of sand. Vat , ‘ same comment can be made on practically every other bridge a. Cua peep orsay top ete icted wet weather | oo eras he prota pest wea i 3 4 accident that has taken a death toll in the last year or tW0.! resent and his , |er and attempted to shovel oer eS : t Sea: iy in Had there been a suitable bulkhead on the W. Wheeler bank account is | Away, but it fell back as PROHIBITION j 2 7 se or ; about gone. That! i | could remove #, and In the old days nobody ever 7 » : ae ge, between the roadway and the sidewalk, or had isn't all. The stork ts coming to til A. Sandell, 1214 E. Shand af 6 sabesubacper grits Fe ‘ , x Nat <i 2 the railing been sufficiently strong, the municipal bus would) 7)... house. Who wouldn't. be| er sand truck driver, came breke; now you never hear of an | not have crashed thru—and the lives of three persons would) worriea, en? {cue that they were able to undertaker going bankrupt. } 4 , 7 “ not have been sacrificed. | Remember the big Duff mystery? | out. oe i —The Fuhrman ave. viaduct is probably the most dangerous roadway in Seattle. ite ld Be |stow ‘Tom acted so strangely. until! A guy we like ts Henry Powers, | : nf ‘ ; i bile) Lo Remedy Conditions Would |Christmas time and then showed Whose garage is next door to ours; here is no railing of any kind and the slightest skid would send an automobi . : Peres ~ gy leg Se 5 mg Altho his mind ts quite 2 tlank— down a 20-foot embankment into deep water. This picture was taken in the 2800 block, Both Simple and Inexpensive Toast kus thea titm aend Gee ernow thet guy cae sein acrank! near the Libby, McNeil & Libby plant. The most amazing feature of the situation is the fact/the key to the room which she had Uncle Sam has collected the $15,000 | 2 —On the Laurelthurst viaduct, where there has been at least one fatal accident in the| that it would be both simple and inexpensive to make every | rom Pin eed inal ys pare forfeited by Bill Marweot rahord laat few months. The railing is entirely too thin to hold back an automobile, and the bridge and viaduct in town reasonably safe. Jof tiny, fluffy, pink and blue and ST tae shiney vo masala, | pavin, bein asphalt, ‘is extremel slippery in wet weather. According to engineers, a heavy timber or a concrete) white clothes ali spread out for him| BERNHARDT STRO Sy age fi lana el» ataearad sd ‘ ‘ _ _ |bulkhead, high enough to engage the hub of any automobile |to #aze upon Ait, Sons4-dneals Walter Camp ts slipping. The 11 3 —At 48th ave. N. E. and Excelsior pl., on the crown of Laurelhurst hill. The flimsy that runs into it, is enough to make it virtually impossible] Gorm’ Fathers know what we) 20 sonewhat stronger today. dl. J og aiapaebamae -— fence shown in the picture is all that stands between the motorist and a 200-foot drop|for a car to go thru—yet this.simple precaution has been| Now, then, here's another secret. eee - eee \to what would be certain death. The cave-in shown in this picture took place more than taken in only a handful of cases. ,|A lot of Tom's friends think tt PRESERVE FLAGSHIP SPICY THO UNSOPHISTICATED © |three years ago, but is still unrepaired. | It is no exaggeration to say that a majority of Seattle’s| would be a fine idea to hold an WASHINGTON, Jan. $- oF Shield higheet ; | brid: d viaduct: absolutely unsafe in their present fashioned shower for him. ‘The need modern provess, entirely whnent (4) a7" point on the W. Wheeler st. bridge, where three persons died Saturday. Had priee cemsyad ould Ligh 1 to vn traffic until Fst ‘are| StF has laid the proposal before | Ine that the old cruiser Olympia Buried alive le her som looked on, powerless to ig jon." —Label on = Schwe- se ~ |Tom and he likes it, but suggests|t De put out of commission in @ hacher Hiroe. can of aavory. the bulkhead, shown in the picture, extended all the way across, the automobile could | taken to improve matters. Gene’ all the atte that polly fevror near future, Congressman Pe ess Mig ioe icine dinap.|N0t have gone thru. The danger of this bridge is increased by the fact that five inches of | One of the worst spots in the city is on Fuhrman ave.,| © new Duff baby shall be turned | Johnson nate Seed cation t pointed when she first learned that | Water lay on it during rainy weather. Pe De id aiis ‘mide tiacaed| ORE the Libby, McNeill & Libby packing plant. Here is or pega agen oe that need! cf assigned to the # ere " ee ne on eee one ea long viaduct that is so narrow that automobiles, in pass- : |ington as a war relic. The Of not it. i . ns y | Admiral Dewey’ at e jing other cars and garbage wagons, are constantly forced Tom itves in a strip and the new| Admit the ol cee oes lee * ° 99 ° : d fait Heaven help the dwetiers im apart.| © © [Uh arriage Is Failure! Says Li ndsey |to crowd dangerously close to the edge. Surely such a con-| wtf, taby, wil. tut aad hi] "atm af money for mal itor didn’t | " . ment houses where the janitor didn’t | jdition calls for a stout railing, strong snes sheet pid al). sorts ek Gang. toot] ae have to be voted by apeenaacae 'Noted Juvenile Judge Says All Society Is Changing's heavy truck in case of accident. Yet absolutely no railing | ‘ertiar ‘kids need. Cynthia, Grey| °*sature ADDLED AXIoms has been provided. ’ | will gee to it the garments go} . EDITOR's NOTE Judae Ben B. . here they y “dl Men whh only one ‘eye | , EDITOR'S xOTm: Abyss Leading to Lake Waters Neve aia” a a _HONOR . m, Lee shouldn't eat grapefruit. vor feveatlo court, dest ‘ Pigs ge oa | 1922 ts 1,542, as compared with creased O18 | * Tout / i Bis cies tis | 1,497 in 1021. ‘The total of mar “in Chicago last year, as re |Guarded Only by Few Sticks |to be a isl or a boy. You'll alll xetten, chiet of staff of the ‘Thin We're sorry the go) | riage Hoenses of 1922 in 1,008, ax ports show me. there were 39,000 | ‘ uff kid when it @r| vision, at Camp Lewis, was deo | | Sounds good, doesn't t? You see, | dealing solely with divorce sults the case of the divorces filed, the | filed, the number for Denver for increase js 45 and marriages de. tng to be reduced March 1. We now| couparel wien $408 40 1051. tn rian 90 Pade: Oceane A similar condition obtains on the Montlake viaduct—jrives, and the kids in Seattle that] Wien the distinguished service wave 8% cents nnllpan oy Sig Pry wt to i ows —_—|more commonly known as the Laurelhurst viaduct—where, |"eed the things you'll send in for! at an assembly of staff officers | Pre sean We only be atte to) sees ie Oe aed Years of #m lin addition to the narrow roadway, there are several highly | ‘Mt Duff shower will coo you @) the camp. y ander mve & nickel. < : P eet | : one | Seriemee Randling the snaee ¥f 080: | dangerous curves. There is.a railing, but it is so flimsy | m_comimand of the: aeen ae | thank-you or two. Gren who are forced into court. be- e ‘ : |. Here goes: We're going to have a! tortous serves ai pete ie considerable room. f0r| ssuse ot their that if struck, it would crumble like matchwood. big shower for that new Duff taty.|tek ne bg: argument whether the gink who says It was on this bridge that Yaye Kubota, a Japanese child,) We'!! tell you more about it to- ” bett vieo in ® “J ° i 5 | Way ; festsurant than the one who merely | Cuts Bridge, Does Own was suffocated to death in June, 1921, when the automo-| morrow, folks. Watch for the latest) WORKS WAY TO TOP announcements. maye “girlie” = . ~ Sp Rgs ne he was am pemceae cares thru the railing. CHICAGO, Jan. 3.—A self LICK ROHE | a , it fc ierem arte ass | coments ee Work, Sells Big Story | ire nero’ berg cite fetes at te gare °° ‘| BABY SCALDED | ft rusts somes c - NEW YORK, Jan, §—Mar fl t B. Godel Sone" ime and in using corkecrew 1-| 90s tm a failure. As social in- cog gro fe hype rig ne Fegpigttrgca Dyy Nage | After crossing this viaduct into Laurelhurst, one finds) TN WATER TUB) mouse, tn Pesci, i. ba ig omar stitution It haa failed miserably.” |B OTe at ave. W.. lias found time to write and suocenstully another terrible example of just what a road shouldn’t be.| pening into'n tub of bolting water, |th® president of Armour & Coy, 6H x — Judge Bon Pp. Lintesy, Tee market @ novel acceptable to the Saturday Evening Post. This is on the crown of the Laurelhurst hill, at 48th ave.| aby Mickey Lydon, 19 months old. | °f, @¢ biggest packing concerns = ane Gaba | ver’ oO rt jur- p 4 i N | . ~ aed “oa omyg no f ee iat, ction See at annie \# ag seh gly = era nara rely yar gale yoy a gry N. E. and Excelsior place. The street caved in at this point/sen of Mr. and Mrs. A. Lydon, 100] anieuk ae virmour el | It tm seldom that you run || Which had just reached him as | boo’ tri Pasgheos7 Foal eae blhgene gs rare Bean By three years ago or more, leaving a yawning abyss that fone gab: esyenar ah orn’ {ce lis the new president's name, J. G | seross @ man #0 absent-minded | | hé made this startling je yp ‘© background a yachting party bound from San Francisoo to drops almost sheer into Lake Washington, far below. NO| was taken to the Providence hospt | 20m Armour, who hes) Siesta | | that he forgets to laugh at his || ‘day in an exclusive postin | Puget Sound. attempt has been made to repair this cavein, and the only|tal. His condition ts feared to be Sentinies, of the business singe own jokes. | We have got to face the issue, “This in the first book I have ever written,” maid Mra, Wilt precaution that has been taken consists of a few sticks that] serious. In 1941, beonmes chalneaiti Se ———____________4| ana now many people are really ! afi ange: Ba 4 den | thinking and talking about thia i tiny were rnd Sg get gi age have been piled up over the hole—just where they would] acon acer tne tue and whan ot the | poard. “1 ye 0 success, I got my Je p from é ; I ; Sometimes we wish motorcycle} social problem?” he said. rng Scahdlee haa ¥ bean de pind faa When wont oniead be knocked down by the first automobile that happened} into tt, nis screams aroused his | eee telephone Judge Lindsey, who is in New Winds’ to the Post I was asked to make a few slight changes, to skid into them. parents. ROBBERS STEAL $14,000 York on a lecture tour, had just which I did. It was then accepted.” oe CHICAGO, Jan. 8.—Robbers they would be sure to get the wrong| received. data concerning an in ‘The artistic side of her work ts the appealing thing in |, There are dozens of other spots that are far from safe— HOLD $25 CLERK blew the safe in the real estate off number. hi vestigation he is making. Mra, Wilt's life and she refised Wednesday to discuss the but these are the worst. Immediate steps should be taken FOR BI of George Harding, city compti am “In the year ending December commercial aspect of her recent endeavor, which is reported to remedy conditions—or more fatal accidents are almost 0. G THEFTS and escaped with $14,000, @ stinglest gink in the aeighbor-| 15 there were $,000 mariage Ii to have netted her a sum in four figurs | certain to result. NEW YORK.—Halting a luxurious hood te the fella who always holds cenges granted in Denver and Mrs. Wilt wrote “Head Winds’ under the name of A. M | sedan, police removed therefrom a sinnten when he! 1,500 divorce multe filed. How Kinclair Wilt. George Horace Lorimer, editor the Saturday | ON om nai Ba Stewart Sommers, 1%yenr-old’ $26-a- ie eavbody the. time. many separations are never Evening Post, believed until recently that she was @ man, week bank clerk, whore bejeweled c «| filed? I'd say as many aw Mrs. Wilt has done some play writing and some of her r fingers they charged with lifting IE, Wik Plants ter bee ene | Tee productions have been presented in Seattle, She has found | ury rooes ata PASM | #:6.00°. 45, charged hae nd edges “In fact, from my investiga little market for plays, however. ‘ ham aan possession of intoxicating Iq CALL A pocron: | tions, I learn that nonsupport | ‘Ot course I have to give up social life to a large extent,” | A coroner's jury, supervi ¥ ) ately to the scene of the crash, where/ tne inquest with his attorrey, @, §,| Was given @ preliminary hearing . | and separation cases ad4 another uhe said Wednesday. “I write steadily from the time the chil Coroner W. H. Corson, Chief Deputy they viewed the wreckage of the MU! Corkery. Albrecht claims that the| United States Commisisoner R. Wy or school in the morning until 6 o'clock In the T. Frank Koepfil and Deputy Prose-|nicipal bus, in which Floyd Perry, | stage was traveling at an excessive| McClelland’s court Wednesday, and 1,500 to the 1922 record. You can dren leave i Ww hr et fig bt ie Bol ie cuting Attorney Ralph Hammer, be:| driver, and Mr. and Mrs, Harrie Har-| rete of speed. frome an cishe | was bound. over to federal suane aan Cop ants Bottle nee that means one separation afternoon ae ee: eee “4 gan at 10 a. m. Wednesday -| vey were killed when the stage col wont. ond Wien fe Oe? cial ta a shee eed for every marriage. Actually you know. I get dinner and after dinner we all do the dishes ; y kille th '|Inch square girder on the bridge road. Opener Returned | [firewire fo more aiveree mH pane 3 haustive probe of the fatal er ded there with a car driven byl hea before it crashed thru the rail pias coesanall Anyone find a slightly worn beer| plied for in 1922 than in 1921, | # Mrs, Wilts has two or three other beoks in course of the W. Wheeler st. bridge ¢ Henry Albrecht, who hax since been | and dropped 60 fect CHIN TUCK, charged with the iittis Opener. a police whistle and | and 600 fewer marriages solemn preparation curred | Saturday night, clatming| held in the city Jail for action by) On the other hand, Albrecht is ac-|sale of narcotics, pleaded guilty in get Of wkeleton keys? Patrolman ¥.| ised. S| three, victima, the coroner. cused of driving on the wrong side of | Federal Judge B, 6. Cushman'’s A. Pierce, at centrat headquarters, “Eliminating there latest tig: | Members of the jury, following the} Albrecht wan released from the! the road and at a speed exceeding the! court Tuesday, He will be sentenced — Jost bis, 004 wants ‘em back. ures concerning separation and . stati | prelimiary formalities, went immedi-| jail Wednesday morning te attend city ordinance, "January 9. . r 9 4