The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 18, 1923, Page 3

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1928, JAPAN NEARS STATE CRISIS Politicians in ‘in Battle Over Quake Restoration BY CLARENCE DUBOSE (United Press Statt Correspondent) TOKYO, Deo. 18.—A_ political crisis ie Japan seemed to te developing {eday from a controversy in the diet | Dyer restoration of the. earthquake Stricken areas, The majority party unanimously resolved to abolish the Tokyo reator: ation boant ani reduce the restora: | Uon budget 20 por cent, ‘The cabinet, opposing such a move, May elther dissolve the house or re: Sign. Its course had not yet been Aetermined today. A conference of the majority and Second parties was held today at which a proposal for the government to loan those who lost property in the earthquake 10 per cent of the Amount of thelr Insurance was con: sidered, Alaskan Acquitted of Murder Charge} JUNEAU, Alaska, Deo. 18.—At the conclusion of a trial lasting a week, | William Lott, bathhouse and barber shop proprietor, was acquitted on a first degree murder charge here late Yesterday, The case was tried in fed: | Swindle Victim, Man Ends Life! UTTE, Mont, Deo, 18.—Left Penniless hy fake stock pro | took more than |] $2,000 of his savings in Seattle |} last week and then vanished, J | K, Kaya, age 93, of MoMinnville, |] Or, took strychnine and chloro: form in a hotel here last night to end his lite, |] Ho had waited here for three |] days for a supposed conference with one of the swindlera, A ram: Diing letter to bis glster, Mra. W. |] X. Webb, of MeMinnville, told the |] story. Is roquest for a pauper burlal || it his sthter could not afford the expense of taking his remains to Oregon Is the bavkt of ‘the belief of police that the promoters took virtually everything he had. moters, who Beauty Wins Suit to Annul Marriage NEW YORK, Dec, 18. Mra, Ele. nore Harris, famous Southern beau. ty, yesterday won by default hé hus. band's sult to annul their marriage, | The sult, which was brought by | Beverly D, Harris, 1ormer vice presi, dent of the National City bank, was |based upon charges that she had been an inmate Of a disorderly house before Harris met her, Harris failed to appear in supreme court today and Justice Tierney instructed the jury to bring in a verdict for the de- fendant, BOOK ROUSES IRE OF CITY Declaring hia belief that tt in| “unfavorable punlicity that enemios | | of municipal ownership are giving City Councilman 2B, LI | now tn New York elty, has} sent a pamphlet distributed by the | |New York Central Railway Co, to| Councilman Oliver T, Erickson, It! in arousing Kreat-ire among eity of: | ficlala. thru its alleged “Hbel of} Seattlo'a publlo debt, taxation rate | and the munioipal street ratlway, | Th opy received her ways to part; "Seattle has had expe | tho operation of street Tho municipality Nas paid $1,700,000 on the purchaso price of the lines, under a Gcont fare, ‘The elty, how: ever, is ‘indebted to the extent of $10,000,000, and the muntolpal rail ways have been piling up a deficlt of about $1,000,000 annually, “Originally,” It continues, “the fare in Seattle was 10 cents, then it} was reduced to 8% cents and later} to 6 cents, Now an increase in| fare i» contemplated. Since the} street car lines wore purchased by | the elty in 1919 tho tax rate has been increasing and today it is among tho highest In the country.” Accompanying the pamphlet, Blaine wrote, “If I can find time I am going to see the publishers of the libel and ask them to give os wide publicity to a true statement as to this malicious ‘articl Jour elty Maine, Quicker and better resulta have made people advertise in Star Want Ads first, Phone MA in-0600. THE, BON MARCHE Bone Bill Is Indorsed; Condemn Reed Measure Power Conclave Closes Session Opposed to Bill Passed by Legislature 2. super-power measure, power bill, which wil! be submitted to | handling the Police Booking Office Has Bright, New Light FNUNSDAY morning the once dimlylighted booking room of the Seattle police station Was as bright as a summer day Tho dingy walls had been painted white and in the cen ter of the room, right over the mpot where the pris atand when they are being searched, was 4 bright now olectric Nght, Chief of Police, Severyns Is responsible for both of the shanges “Tho place was too ‘poorly lghted before,” the chief ex Plained, ‘In the past the light was so dim and the walla auch a dirty, brown that it was sometimes hard to search prin. BY SEABURN BROV An impassioned appeal by Homer | Bone for support of the Erickson and his own} jo at the next election thru eral court, RGAIN BASEMENT |e FELT SLIPPERS 900 Pairs Just Arrived for Christmas ~-: $ After a hard day’s work, what is more delightful than getting home—and then those wonderful slippers, which you get in the Bon Marche Bar- gain Basement for Christmas —ease and freedom for tired feet; warmth and comfort on nippy mornings and chilly ithe agencies’ of tho Washington | Super-Power league and supporting organizations, featured the closin sexsion of & masx meeting at which | delegates gathered from all parts of ithe state at American Legion head Hi quarters, New Arctic hotel, Monday |afternoon, | Bone bitterly scored what he term led as “the special interests and their Ihenchmen among tho: state logislat |ors,"* and urged his hearers to do ev jerything within thelr power to pre. |¥ent “prive ate power interests and lother monopolista from taking from | ithe people the heritage nature has/ jaiven them.” | “We can do nothing thru the legis lature. We must appeal to tho peo. ple direct to save this last great natural r © left us. Our forests re going, the vast tracts of land that allp. our with ts potential power ed value of bi if we awak Id gain ¢ ions of lara, time. The men who w rol of this tremen all moral right the property of the peo. nights! Moccasin Style, Elk Soles With Ribbon Trim and Pompons Old rose, sand, coral, baby’ blue, brown, purple, plum, / Bargains, Every One! MEN'S GIFT NECKWEAR Colors and patterns to please Attractiy 79 CHRISTMAS ‘BARGAINS! WOOL DRESSES }: every man’s taste! Four-tn-Hand Silk and Wool Ties in striped and figured effects. . FOR WOMEN——— Silk Stockings Black and Cordovan “EVER: | WEAR” brand Silk Stock as ings are gifts that will please. They have seamless i O8c. feet and cidiegiae backs . 89 If we could tell you here how good these Wool Dresses are at this astonishingly low price there wouldn’t be enough to go ’round! Mostly Navy Blue, But a Few Blacks and Browns Many in Poiret Twill coat styles; side ties; drapes and tiers; “short and three- quart: er sleeves; many bell style sleeves. BOYS’ WOOL SWEATERS one of these shaker knit Sweaters this Christmas. Big, warm fel lows in ruffneck, slip-on style! They come in combinations of black and orange and brown and buff Sizes 28 to 36 Give him $3.25] ——<———_——_ ENVELOPE CHEMISES Ideal Crepe de Chine and Radium Silk Gifts Dainty garments, trimmed with real filet Ince. We made and fully cut in length and width. In flesh, orehid $2 95 and honeydew Sizes 38 to 44 i} a eee JERSEY SILK Pettibockers Give her one for Christmas and have your thoughtful ness applauded! Double elas tic knee, accordion scalloped ruffles in many dark, attrac tive sl Regular sizes Extra sizes $3. WOMEN’S Gift Silk Umbrellas gifts that appreciated will Made quality silk and in all the pop -" $5.00 Practical always be with a fine satin borders, ular colors very latest novelty handle wine, pl helio, henna and green. know they ar have vision t merely yp are rolling dice hey ng for for an ie an a whole, | DECLARES BILLS 'DO NOT CLASH th Wash Satin Camisoles 98c | Ribbon straps with Jace trimmings. Sizes 38 to 44. She was but 7 -—FOR MEN o: Bath Robes $3.35 The Bath Robe is man's friend on nippy mornings, and has a thousand and one uses besides. The warmth and comfort he will derive your gift robo will your thought je of good qual cloth in neat patterns. Fully cnt “De Luxe” Broadcloth Shirts Men appr shirt, fo mands esteem finely tatlored in iped effects with Fren $2.45 a CHRISTM/ BLANKETS Six 14 to 17 Cot : in bright a | « 66x80, 72x84. Double, wool-finish Blankets colored plaids, ton veral styles in uffles! Picot Ruff ruff Radium and § Christmas FOR CHRISTMAS — 93 Broadcloth pethits les with narrow lace! row tol make clear Erickson fi Hino wine antagonistic. "M |give municipalities the right to sell! week befor dr Rone's heated statements andy, cheered by his audien 4 his hearers that he wished to the point that his bill and ed measure of Oliver T. ed together and wers in y bIN would were He 6 pre onera no a8 to got natlafactory unting: of property, With the new Nght, each prisoner ean se exactly what in taken from his pockets and the officers who do the search: inge will be able to seo exactly what amount,of money each man hag, There can be no ex- cuse for mislaying any cash or belongings and there will bo enough light to seo that all things are put away properly,” Later In the day the chief made a tour of the new book. Ing office and asked the offt- cers how they Mked the tm. provements. Wo don’t like it," they watd, “The bright Nght hurts our eyes,” 4 surplus power outalde of thelr limits, Tho Erickson measure would allow districts, rural and otherwise, to form | power districts for the purpose of and distributing power, either purchased from elty plants or manufactured by themacives, ‘Tho bills supplement each other and both | should be supported," he sald, Following Bone's address the 70 delegates passed resolutions scon-| demning the Reed power bill and tn. dorsing the Bono bill and went “on | record as favoring the principle that | the water power resources of thin state bo developed by public-owned bodies” and urged “unity of action |between all organizations believing }in this principle to accomplish this result.” COMMITTEE OF 25 | WERE APPOINTED |. A committees of 25 was chosen from the delegates by Charman | Cross to meet with representatives | of the Super-Power league for the| purpose of considering further legis. | lation that might ald in attaining | the objectives of the super-power| theory advocates. ;These follow: J.| D, Ross, Seattle, chairman; T. J. L. os A. Halght, Hock Castner, Geraghty; Spo. Long, Cashmere; C. H.| . Ellensburg; A. Emer-| Aberdeen; Senator Ralph ‘ichols, Seattle; Prof. Henry Landes, Seattie; Ollver T. Erickson, | Seattle; Miss Lucy Case, Seattle;| Mrs, Helen M. Stevens, Seattle; Mrs, | 3 . Axtell, Bellingham; Bruce | ttle; Govnor Teata, Ta-| coma; Liewellyn Evins, Tacoma; J. | W. Bryan, Bellingham; George 1.| Seattle; Fred C. Chamber. | uyallup; Homer 'T, Bone, Ta-| A; &. 8. Gon, Seattle; R. J. Faus-| sett, Everett, and J. N. Belanger. Another meeting will be held on/ Wednesday afternoon at 1 o'clock. Crons, HERE’S MORE ABOUT TWO DEAD STARTS ON PAGE 1 0 Childe, Peering in the the body of Miss of the bathroom. od indow, hd mm en on the fi ly dre MeRae broke in and burr the bo: t bedroom. ntclothes. On a near nd discove bed in a A. Childe four empty bottle tined 1 Eugene quor, it authe np k she forgot to Hgnt the burners 1 the owing to an intox! ‘The hot water tank when the bodies mday. An open faucet provented an ex gas range ndition the dead Te, is in I t there Childe had been sendin $300 a month for ex 1 by his friends ith grief mstance th of her husband Dante nttorne «An to regain her Workman Is Killed by Bellingham Car BELLIN AM 18 if « ‘ed to (es an { authorities i 1119-21-23 FIRST GRECIAN KING REPORTED GONE | Republic May B Be Organized | by Army and Navy Dec, 18.—An Athens dis patch to the Fournter agency today said that King George of Greece had rted, which was taken to mean nat he had started on his journey of the cou Belts ATHENS, Deo, 18.- ome a republ has bee Greece may this week. King asked to leave the ¥ by a committee representing army and navy. George | the | m the summer 20 miles away, | ted’ them. I won't leave,” he sald. “Who ever dares, let him come here and try to remove me.” But later {t was learned that Colonel Plastiras, virtual head of the | military government, had accepted an ¢ t whereby George inesday at the latest and tanza aboard the yacht palace at Ta the king do. Former Pre been sent for Danglics able nler Venizelos yas his supporters. telegraphed the vener- statesman who recently was from Greece to “return © the situntion. s scored heavily in the 1 elections this week banished d heavy seats and as A ovement to create a re 1 abdication of to a head, ral months each witnessed demonstrations ublic. Sunday be. gathered in tho und shouted h the king!’ fe crisis waa rendered nd precipitated by sweep defent of royalists at the polls The army and the navy came out trongly for m republic and told Col. 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