The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 20, 1923, Page 16

MAYOR TO REPLY (Gives GLADLY) TO ALL CRITICS And, if Our Printers Hold! Out, We'll Print It turned Mayor Brown has serial writer, We were going to say short story, but when wo heard Doc thru, | We decided that serial was the bet-| ter word, For the mayor sa he's going to answer ALL the criticisms that have been mado of his administra tion, And he asked us if we would | print it, “We'll do our best, Doo, as long} As the printers are able to hold out,” | We told him, This is the first of the mayor's letters. He says he probably can) fell his story in three or four To the Editor of The Seattle Star: On October 22nd you asked the people to write letters to The Star on the question. “Has Dr, Brown made good as mayor? Should he be Fe-elected? What are your Ideas on the city hall situation?” And you invited the people to express | themselves fully on all sides of those | timely questions, You said you were Boing to print some of the answers, Tindorsed your plan, because it is educational. Education, organtza- | tion, co-ordination and co-operation | fre the principles that must be| ted by 0 city our city is go- rs 2 ire sage he i mats is 8! she can for the relief of Ge WILL REVIEW LETTERS man children—with a reason. FOLKS STARVE! Mrs. Martha Hieb, 7728 Rainier ave., who is doing all | lice brought forth his enterprise, &nd, of course, it would not require | & long stretch of the imagination to convince one that either one of these enterprises was put forward in my Dehalt. However, The Star must} &@nswer to your invitation, Mr. Jus- | Parents in Germany Die for be given credit for publishing the letters, which I shall review in a| later article. I did think it was| Want of Food rather strange that Mr. Justice was not able to find anyone in town Who indorsed my administration and who was in favor of my running for office again, as some of the gentle- men he interviewed to induce them to become candidates for mayor |t have been outspoken in behalf of my re-election. As regards Mr. E Upon the administratl course, Is purely from the point of selfishn I shall answer | him in one of my articles and deal with his criticism; the taking over of he power stations, the condition that exists at Cedar riv If ath you vould be terribly st the] condition that made such a tragedy | possible. The parents of John Hie, Seattle} usiniss man, did starve to death.| In Germa: parents starv es without say nd his wife nily both | ountry and in every effort are within th power ke fa Mrs. asst: pointment of the st ot ing children of G water departme these | ing marshaled, three questions wi ick. | In every way te & success She told hov son rather fully RECORDS OF MAYORS IN CITY'S HISTORY ¥ appear mayor. | to me concernin habitants THE SEATTLE STAR STATE PROBES CANNERY FOOD Labor Supervisor Confirms Charges in Star Confirming charges recently pub in The Star that white men / Id cocaine by Orlental salmon ry sub-contractors, and that the quality of food furnished them was unfit, H. P. Everst, of Seattle, mu porvisor of state Industrial relations, | submitted a special report on the Alaska cannery conditions ‘Tuesday to his chief, Edward Clifford, ntate | director of the department of labor | and industries, who is in the city | from Olympia, Clifford announced his Intention to go before the next session of the Washington legislature to aeok relief from the present system under which white men are employed here to work in the Alaska salmon canneries. Sal-| mon packers here are reported to have denied that labor contractors sold dope. EQverent's report revealed that two young men, recently employed in| An Alaska cannery, accompanied | by two witnesses, told him they | had spent most of thelr wages of $170, for cocaine furnished by a Chinese labor contractor The supervisor adds that he ac companied them to the Chinese con: tractor and compelled him to remit | $70 to each of the two. The con tractor, he aald, admitted selling the narcotics, and the has been laid before the federal authorities. | That food, which under the con tract, is to be furnished freo to the usually is “such food as the} Chinese usually eat." | He reports In part “Outstanding complaints this year have been poor food and tho sale of dope to workers, Men have. come to thix office whose entire summer case jeurnings have "been spent for dope. No money {s actually spent, but purchase is charged to their Accounts in the shape of cash en-| tries," Veteran Rail Man Is Buried Monday | Funeral services for W. H lock were held Monday at the Bu worth Mortuary in railroad work and many old tim tended the Gar jarlock was active ore for 40 years railroad men at sh and H. tive engl mourners Har, invested for 100 years At 3-per cent it would earn | supreme age. | cent, compounded, will carn | J pr ’ JAP FARMERS LOSE LEASES Supreme Court Knocks Out Crop Contract System More sweeping than Sts recent de cision upholding state laws prohibit: | Ing allons from owning land was a] ruling Monday by the United States | court declaring Japanese | cropping contracts tHlegal | Aw a result of thin decision, Dep: | uty Prosecutor . D, Colvin declared ho would immediately begin a vigor ous prosecution of illegal land hold ing when he is freed from duty be for the present grand jury. Thousands of eviction suite will be filed In the state, and there ts no de- fonse now, he declared. Probably 1,000 lease holders reside in King county, Colvin sald, The the White river valley and the Sam- valley to the north own| leases, Colvin has the names of all of these leane holders, and sults on a wholesale scale to evict them will be atarted. The leane clause has been tho last loophole for the Japanese law viola tors, Colvin said. Now it is plugmwed, | The deciaton was mado in a casé) brought by the district attorney o! Santa Clara county, Californ against J. J, O'Brien and J. Inouye Inouye had an agreement to cultivat O'Brien's land on a share basis Juntice Butler in hin decision ruled | the cropping contracts give the tn eligible lien the use, control and| product of the land as effectively as | & lease or title, The state had the power to deny such contracts, Butler mamish said he would recover, disconnected. said. ‘The treaty with Japan could not be interpreted as containing any limita | tions to the restrictions which states | might upon ownership impose or} control of land by ineligible aliens, | the decision stated. Jailed 22 Minutes After Theft Fails Sam PORTLAND, N. committed a robb | ternoon and 22 minuten later entered the city jail tence for the off At 2:10 p. tered a Japanese rooming house to investigate foux robbery and found Clar with two J begin serving sen-| m. two detectives en-| pre ht | had and € waa in a cell in the city inon When removed to the hospital by tho police Hertick told the officers that he had been in Seattle Monday | majority of the Japanese on farms In| night, where he had been drinking, and that while under the Influence of Mquor he wan robbed of $400 Police are investigating hin story, . because of his condition, Train No. 1217, $9.00 | bearded man also struck him on the head with a revolver, When MeCoovey recovered con sclousneas his watch, $20 and provis- fons were gone. Sheriff Breen, who |maid the description of McCoovey'’s assailants agreed with that of one of |the robbers of the Southern Pacific traffic and ran over Ringdahl, police allege, tent employment holding a pistol and nding him to “stick ‘em up." Groceryman Foils store Youthful Robbers |” W. Wilson, owner of the Cc, is posse for the vicinity of Blue creek limpressed Monday night when two! and fled. Chook-a-Choo—Chook-a-Choo—Santa Claus brought plenty of Trains to the Christmas Tree Store. Of course you want Santa to bring you a Choo-Choo train. Shop and see them—and see Santa and tell him all about it. “American Flyer” Electric Trains proprietors of the rooming} whe ‘© endeavor to p ° his escape with clothing atolen| Train No. 1101, $5.00 from & roo! the houne Electric type locomotive, two | By 246 p. the detectives led passenger conches with eight Bsr jeppeate BWAT, and “at pleces of track and wire connec- r hear tlc Train No. Come to the Christmas Toy * Lone Bandit Gets TRAIN BANDIT |Boy Charges Father |DO YOU WANT $5,000 From Bank TRAIL FOUND? With Defrauding Him | A GOOD JOB? DAYTON, 0,, Nov. 20—An armed | *| Charging his father had defrauded 3 man walked into the east end| GRANTS PASS, Ore., Noy, 20.—| him of half: of the $12,000 estate of : obs Leiner pr ie ne elle wklyo: ain robbers | his mother, Clarence Gillen, Jr,, 24, | 24 ae. aig! g jbranch of the Dayton Savings rh PRG HR yes legal Foodie mult in poe court Mon.|the next examinations of the ny |'Trust Co, here toc forced Charles | Fe sll In th: Syamegat Brey | aay th uab. whine’ a quit claim deea|#ervice commission in the count McMullen, cashier, to scoop $5,000 | Wan revived today by a story told by |).6 executed at the request of Clar-|city building. Notices have been or more in currency into a: dag, | William MoCoovey, Se nr eevent CILY. | onco Gillen of Riverton, hin father.|sent out and applicants must sub walked out with the loot and din. | Aecording to reports trom Crescent |‘rhe property was left him by his|mit thelr names to the commission |City, MeCoovey, who has Just return-| mother, who died in February, 1922, |hefore November 20. mopeared od there after a trip into the moun | the youth charges. The youth charges| There are four vacancies on the The robbery occurred at a busy |tainy, reports that on Friday last, | his father told him his signature on | cl tenographer list, all male, at corner, where scores of people were| while he waa proparing his lunch|the papers was necessary to obtain!$130 a month. No vacancies for passing. |near the mouth of Blue creek, a| mortgage loan on several of the|women are Hated. There is a va- heavily bearded man approached and | lots, caney for a lcense inspector at § anked for information about the sur - ——— $145; three vacancies for an elec Drinks Bad Booze rounding country, Char e Renton Man trical meterman at $150 a month, H + In H ital | 7°, sranser, after Inquiring the & |two vacancies for car cleaners at ere;.in Hospital | pais of the iarser river, and whether as Reckless Driver | $4.60 per day, eight for inside con- TACOMA, Nov, 20,— Found vio there wan much travel along tt, step Charged with reckless driving, |®tTuctors at $8 per day and six lently sick, apparently from the ef-| ped back and coughed. Immediately Savaty Pestoff, 5813 Renton ave, |Vacancles for laundry women at fects of drinking polsonous liquor,| a shot was fired from the mountain | posted $100 bail after his car had | Finlands sanitarium at $65 a month Henry Hertick was taken from the|alde, the bullet passing thru Me-| Fin down Pred Fungdahl of Vashon |and board, Palace hotel to the nty howpital) Coovey’s hat, grazed his scalp and) istand at Fourth ave. and Pine st In addition, there are vacancies early this morning, whero it was| stunned him. McCoovey believes the | yy." Pestote waa tryiig to pass for Junior dratiemen’ and’ registra: tion clerks, both to provide intermit youthful “bandits walked into the com- Wilson ordered the two to “beat it” or he would call the cops. The express, Immediately started with a| Burien City grocery, failed to be| embryo highwaymen took the advice In 24 years two m been elected as mayor for the second t 3 Humes and the |: have | is city , both of whom ied penniless, and for a long time prior to thelr passing away they were broken fn spirit and | thelr health gone. Prior to that| time, two men of the type that Mr. | Tustice 1s looking for had been elect- | ed, one, Mr. Frank Black, of the} Seattle Hardware Co. the other, Mr. W. B. Woods. Mr. Black remained | in office about two weeks and walked out, refusing to serve. W. October ack of fc of alm ons in the Ruhr r neh, who are occup because of relativ enormous buying po’ of. their money, are able to live well, but the German workmen, paid In worthless marks, are going hungry. Children | go to school without breakfast, and ilness Is be xz almost pit Mrs. Hieb’s ers tell her. Ba THE BON MARCHE 1 RGAIN BASEMENT Earn without saving and you have a rifle with- out a bullet. Every time you buy in the Bargain Basement you hit the Bull's-ey’ of Economy. SOFT FINISH POLAIRE dlight and patented auto- 8. mail car, one Pullman, 8 ces of straight track, inal and rheostat. Presned atec! ngine, baggage car, 2 eostat with wir Engine with headlight, one baggage car r uck cars, and 12 sect 1 one 5 eenger Complete with ns, ns of track rheo terminal connections. 5 1219, $11.50 | | { , / SEES AIEEE SE DEL BRS DEST Passenger and Freight Stations 50c¢ to $5.50 Water Tanks, $1.00 Danger Signals, 25c Tunnels, $1.00 Semaphores with lights, $2.00 “American Flyer” Mechanical Trains The Hummer, 95c ) Train No. 2, $2.50 Steel engine. Iron en tender, baggage car, one pas- of curved senger car and 10 pleces of track. Train No. 3, $3.00 Tron engine, tender, baggage car and two passenger coaches, with 12 pieces of track. Fourth Floor—The Bon Marche tender, one car, four pleces track, Train No. 0, $1.50 | Iron engine, tender, one passenger coach | and eight pleces of tra B. Woods went to Alaska to forget | this, as “the end always justifies the ital. Mr. George F. Cotterill served, | means.” | but refused to run again. George} I here is a for belleve remedy Diliing, Congressman John F. Miller | this » must be found and Hugh M. Caldwell, al high-type | in ma In the city char citizens, refused to run again. suggest in a later It seems ag tho as soo fs elected mayor of the tle, some means must be found to discredit him, even tho slander of the city be resorted I will anawer next some of fea who wrote letters to The n administr ns that melt in your mouth Use the easy l, recipeontheback = “lé in town, ofeach packageof = “one!” AUNT JEMIMA PANCAKE FLouR YOUR GUEST DESERVES YOUR BEST- GROUND CHOCOLATE Sizes to 42 These styles are decidedly smart and will instantly ap: peal to thrifty women. Plaid backs, mostly in grays and browns. Side-tle, button and beltaround styles. 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