The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 6, 1923, Page 14

THE SEATTLE STAR TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1928 NO een ELECTIONS ON 4 AND EVA : BY CAP HIGGINS IN 13 STATES aE gs Sy iolans ato ae 01 . ti tts 9 —_—— . : ® ° ——EE Politicians Watch Indica ican Telephone Co. to poy i 8 iB Pav couiv! ire Concnetn Dean | HEY THeRe. ! Do You AND WHATS MORE. fT tions of National Trend ‘he American ‘Telephone t BANO SHES GOT THE"! DOL 4 i ee , NO REAL LADY 1 Co. earned over 11 per cent, B@M REALLY NOT DRESSer “ i iS : | WOULD BE & (BY UNITED PRESS) | which was greater than the av- BURGLAR ! “Oft year" electio 18 states! erage earnings for ten years. ee > ¢ in progress t 2 “for ten years it has earned | | 4 } t B as r ‘ of! {ts interest charges more than HERE’S MORE ABOUT PHONES STARTS ON PAGE 1 four and one-half times, and this year is earning more than that “It has an unbroken diviaend record for 44 years. It has never passed » dividend, it has never reduced « dividend.” Maryland—A quarter of Balti- » candidate because! Phone Representative Says in Cook} itho the Acavicas ‘Telephone Cra) eer more's total was cast in the first <jux Klan supported the Telegraph Co. may be making 9 per gubern i ered three hours of voting for governor ’ Loss Will Be Shown on its capital stock, the art IS MADE HERE THINK TS 4 or Virginia's AN OLD $ 1 issue! Pac’ was forecast farmers fre BOSS, 01S MULE DOAN NEVAH GIT or Ea EA cr G s tld ME WHA ISE GOIN!) Than uke.) (ROsnbS AR HAS CT’ Grr HER Way 1. SAY LUCKILY \ | EVEN woul IVE GOTA SAY WHAT TREY WILL.BUT “THAT OLD MULE IS FAR MORE RELIABLE “THAN EVEN THE MOST EXPENSNE CAR, Mio \LHELL ALWAYS, GET NOU - f " ~ - >| gle local exchange in the SW. WHERE YOURE GOING, : BE BANNED?) | TOBACCO : voto cast for legislative ‘ ao not know that the te rain nge is the costly losing yp said, “The local ex- ¥ 4% per cent of its congressional seat ¢ thin. | Ther comment on American or g that {t was a GUM WoULD SUPPLY OF, 7e 7 4 tide: post: 4 n Co, does not oper- Democr ¢ to be cho other states were of} hington during the past th | nas been 2.5 per cent on the fn Png | 4 1.86 per cent on a fair value SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 6.—San| of the plant.” Francisco voters cast thelr ballots) Corporation Counsel T. J. L. Ken- today In the most spirited election | nedy Tuesday declared that the huge of more than a decade. learnings of the American Telephone A new mayor, b of super-|& Telegraph Co. are made possible visors, district attorney, two police| by nd systematic milking of numerous less | the y companges, woek athe " i. M Kennedy declares pe atari “the annual rental charged for , receiver and cof] in WU x = ps8 t-| | 4a upon the i} ax) measure presented legislature by the senate com t on taxation and assessment at the session early last spring. he bill aims at more equable distribution | of taxation. the ordinary home phone is double what it would cost to go out on the open market and purchase a better @| telephone. “The American company has dou- earnings since 1912,” Ken- “Then it earned $32,000,- In 1922 it earned $66,000- : ling deben- ture bonds on a basis that {ts earn- ings for 1923 wil! be $85,000,000." Kennedy declared that by conceal- ing the earnings of the local con- C ISSUE cerns, the Pacific company presents ! the appearance of a ragged and | 1 starving child while its corpulent parent, the American Telephone com- pany, sits behind the scenes, rolling in miKions, and filches the pennies More Cops to Guard Dan- | tease ty « sympathetic public to the 5 ate urchin. gerous Street Corners «Sie dectarea that ‘the expendi. — tures of the Pacific company in Se- With a force of 10 motoreycle attle have been huge, and while patrolmen constantly on duty jearnings have increased, the profits from 6 a. m. to 1 a. m. patrol of the plant have dwindled steadily ling the main downtown traffic | from 2:66 per cent in 1919 to .15 of arteries, Chief of Police W. B. 1 per cent In 1922, and that this year Severyns was planning Tuesday |the company will sustain a loss. to augment this number with ————— | DIDN'T SAY additional traffic officers, owing to the increasing dangers of |Goes to Sleep on ANY THING- HE'S traffic in the fog and wet Train; Falls Oft 2 [ , IF WASH FUNK DIDNT HAVE ALOT OF PULL HED NEVER GET ANYWHERE. TRwilliais, SUPPRESSION OF PIPE SMOKING, VISITED OTTOS SMOKE SHOP EARLY ‘To DAY -— DOINGS OF THE DUFFS > SONNE TOM, WILL You Go OUT AND CALL DANNY ? DINNER 1S ALMOST READY - HE’LL HAVE TO GET CLEANED UP - Playing Safe WHAT WERE You AND THAT BOY QUARRELING ABOUT? “He DID? WELL, WHAT PID You SAY BACK To HIM? HEY, DANNY WHAT. THE MATTER THERE? COME ON HOME IT'S DINNER TIME- HURRY uP! HE SAID | LOOKED BIGGER THAN | pti “Dense fogs, such as Seattle had LIKE MY FATHER AND THEN HE LAUGHED~ em | Monday night, are common at this |time of year,” sald Severyns, “and | they constitute a great menace to |auto and street car traffic, es- | pecially when the streets are so wet jand slippery, “More patrolmen must be placed jon the Fonds to enforce slow and j careful driving in fogs. Auto drivers must burn their headlights when the fogs are thick—and burn two | headlights, at that.” A special warning was also issued by Severyns to drivers who park thelr cars along much-traveled streets. During foggy nights and mornings, many accidents have been caused by autos parked at the curb without lights, Unable to see such cars, drivers blinded by fog have crashed into them, wrecking both machines in a score of cases re- cently. TACOMA, Nov. 6-—Badly bruised when he fell from an O-.W R, & N. freight train on which he was steal- Ing a ride near Nisqually late last night, Joseph B. Burns, 28, of Ever~ ett, was brought to the county hos- pital here this morning. Railroad officials betieve that the man had gone to sleep on a car and rolled off while the train was round ing a curve, the streets in motorcycles have made over 50 arrests in the past week for fast driving in fogs, burn- ing" no head or tall lights and similar offenses. Two of the or- iginal 12 officers are in hospitals suffering from injuries recelved in accidents. The five police sub-stations have their own forces of traffic officers which patrol the highways in their The 10 traffic officers who patrol | own suburban districts. EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO SvEReitT, t CAMG OVER To See ie Tt COULD BORROW ONS OF YOUR Books. YOUR TEACHER WRITES ME, @ILUE, TAAT YOURE FOND OF_PLAYING TRICKS) DAYS 1S MISCHIEVOUS — YOURE GONE FOREVER ! 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