The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 5, 1923, Page 20

{ FACE PROBLEMS Many Legislators to Con- sider Varied Programs NEW YorRK Jan, 5—Prohibition, | meant ecc y, movie censor. | ood roads and steritization of | : @re among the chief prob to be considered by legislatures “Th Rearly two score states this month, to information gathered by | United Press today Boonomy, pledxed by nearly all I candidates in recent elec fs the chief taxue before nearly of the 40 lec’ tures In session or to meet before June. Next to this lowering of expenses. Toads will get the most atten In Western states, while movie thip and prohibition fights will iS staged in several Eastern and rn states. S New York, backed by the plans ot} ¥ elected Now Jersey officals. to} a “dry” re! Gongress to modify the pro- Taw to permit light wines Deer. Bome Odio legislators are fostering | BM to provide fine and Jail sen for the man who asks for or @ drink. Gov. Neff, of Tex- m When the legislature meets Jan. earrying Mquor on the tion of morons as a soctal Qiso ts being urged before Ohio boty, now tn seasion wivanta, Kansas, Callfornia Nebraska wil! lead the fiscal re wave with most drastic plans to | every departmental “to the bons.” a Davis, new governor of 4, Considers the need for lower expenses and taxes so acute) Ro salute wil! be tnctuded tn his fural. To save the cost of pow ‘and expense of bringing field} een to Topeka, a similar number of | from rat! shop whistles wit! tituted. Kansas may also con: | Modification or repeal of the} court law. also may consider motif Or repeal of the !ndustrial | Pennsylvania and Ne} Also will consider economte | God & special session called | 28 will consider a bond | Be of $12,000,000 for good roads. its legislature now in sea- & will attempt a $100,000,000 ap- c for the same purposes. lawmakers, just convened, | tax gasoline, creat a $100 soldier bonus, and consider Legion bill to abolish ets on Memorial day, The latter the 500-mile Indianap- ) Faces from being held on ¢ ote Proposes to change capt from hanging to elec by Gov. Nestos to restore is to bank etocks and make an to advertise the posal. [Lilian Knox |awful crime and I will prove tt, THE SEATTLE STAR DAD, MA, KIDS IN SCHOOL TOGETHER Mr. and Mrs. referendum, may mem-| University of Oklahoma in the class of degrees. In the picture, left t Mrs, Bray, and Otho, 18. o right: 16; ‘ernice, Slayer Sus pect Charges Malicious Pro: pyrtght, 192%, by United Press) HEMPHIL Mrs. held tr on the charge of murdering her million aire husband, Hiram Knox, today gave out her version of the case for the United Press. Malice and envy are behind this prosecution. I am fnnocent of this the charged. “There attractive widow are just @ few persons in this timber | “ who have tried to break added, “They failed tn now they have charged me But I have me | that with an awful murder no fears. I wil! prove my inn “Why, I could make many times that bond.” She was referring to the $25,000 bond set by W. H. Pratt, at the ciose of the trial yesterday unreasonable an@ I won't dc is some of those whom I have be |friended most who are now in this black conspiracy against me. Isn't it strange how they fawn at your feet and accept all you have to give when the sun ts shining, but when dark clouds come over your life how many of those fair weather friends flee and some of them, like wolves, are ready to devour your’ Mrs. Knox spoke of her life in the Uttie town of Hemphill. “They have spoken of my extrava- she said. “Yes, I wa , but most of my waa spent trying to do something for | the poor people of this country.” She referred to how she had spent} thousands of dollars to create playground for the children of the hill country; how she had bought birds of paradise and built a deer park for the people of the little town. “Yes, I coukin't be happy without sharing the things I had with those about me.” she added. Hiram and I built mode! homes for try ecution her, “Oh, I have no fears, ° that all mm my is what sustains me now these shadows nave settled * she-added. appropria- ithe first time, in an interview with Is 105 Views Old but Still Smokes PASADENA, Cal, Jan Ames, Altadena, « su ty tx 105 years old today claiming he t# the oldest white man in the state, “Uncle Charlie” was born in Massachusetts tn 1818. He came here frora Mississippi 20 years pss hangt “Unless and wh ky, late Charles no what'y the secret of this he said thie morning it be that I've used tobacc sky ail my lite ¥: but when I could got Starwich Called Before Grand Jury Investigation of the case of WI! Mam Peterson, whose liquor-laden au. tomobile was captured by federal prohibition agents near Mount Ver . in December, 1921, waa believed be the reason for the appearance of Mate Starwich and Under Sheriff Archie Hutchison before the grand Jury Thursday afternoon. At that time yon declared his car had been stolen, but he was ar- rested and released on 000 cash |bond. Later # “paper bond” was sub- oirees on,” no, not whi» To Enter Winter Blooms in Show Anyone having winter flowers tn bloom is invited to enter them in the winter flower show to be held Fob | “You know |ruary 1 and % tn the Chamber of | noon, tourist bureau, Aretic| «iris, who were immediately turned | #4. | Commerce Alpheus Bray and their three children will be graduated together from the Then the family will possess 14 diplomas and! Beatrice, 16 (twins); Alpheus Bray; | ~ |WOMAN IS HELD, LIQUOR SEIZED Milton Apartments in Prohi- bition Raid allas Nellie wher of the Milton apartments, 1421 Seventh ave, was arrested Thursday alght, when a reid was made on the Milton and romething tke 200 liquor was seized. tred and eighty quarts of beer were found in the attic, four quarts of whisky fn @ trunk in the dasement, and eight quarts of bond. Mario Dalton, Brownlow, ed Mquor in a cache in the wall of Mrs. Mra. Dalton» private apartment Daiton was first arr urrested in in July, 1920, abe three n federal « ‘early in the year, one with the emug «ling of liquor acrom the Canadian | border, in September, and the one re }multing from last night's raid According to Roy C. Lyi, prohft tion director, her arrest this ime re ulted from reports that several peo- ple had been sold poisoned liquor tn the vietnity of the Milton, He de clares that trmediate examination of the selaed liquor will be made. Hold | Men Friends | of Missing Girls ‘Two United States navy men, John HM. Summers and Robert B. Clarke, | were held Friday by the police in jconnection with the disappearance, | | New Year's eve, of two Seattle school jetrin, Summers and Clarke were ar rested by Policewoman J.B. Briggs and Patrolman J. B. Clark, at Third | ave. and Union et. Thursday after in the company of the two all our employes. We gave thet | pullding, by the Seattle Dahila soci-| over to the juvenile detention home. | better than the necessities of life, something to make life sweet and worth while.” ‘The ordeal thru which Mra. Knox is passing seems to bear lightly on ety. Pians for the show were Inid Thursday night, when {t was decid. ed that all flower-growing Seattieite | Would be In jetpat | The two girls, en aged £6 and 15, | had been staying at a downtown ho- el wince they left thelr home, police declared, and had seen with the two salons. Since I announced that I was going to move I had many inquiries Hience, good friends. In as to when and where. a few days now I expect announce my new location, BUT IN THE it is more than necessary that my big stock be p me out by ordering money, ed of. Creditors demand cash before I move. now, when you can save SUITS O’COATS *25 MADE TO ORDER MADE TO WEAR In order to get a large number of orders, some SHOES! SHOES! ) been frequently | ! 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DERR | MARION, IIL, Jan. 6-—John Cramp. ton, union miner, testifying in the Herrin massacre murder trial, de clared two citizens were on their way to make peaceab negotiations with | Officials of the Lester mine, June | day before the riots, when rds turned them back with |a@ volley of shot. | “These two men were unarmed,” | Crampton eald. | Crampton, on crossexamination, said hundreds of men, many carry: jing guns, were coneregating tm the vicinity of the Lester mine on the afternoon of June 21. ‘This mob, swarming tn the nelgh- boring fields, fired into the mine thruout the afternoon, the witness | SEPARATE COMPLAINTS chare- ing Jas. Morton ands. L. Lamb with manufacturing moonshine lMquor Were filed in the prosecuting ator in SHOES! 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