The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 1, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER Falr and continued cold tonight; lowest temperature 20 degrees: moderate winds, mostly casterty. Entered as Becond Class Matier The Only One That Ever Sticks: Swearing Off Swearing Off! NI OE ee AANA VRS SPAIN Q HELD FOR AUTO SMASH The Newspaper W. With the Biggest Circulation in Washington | The SeattleStar | May 3, _NO. 264, VOL. 2 APANESE in Seattle are increasing five times as fast as the whites, is the alarming informa- tion contained in the birth-rate figures just given “ by the city health office for the year 1923. In other words, when the Japanese population in Seattle has reached that point where it is one- fifth the white population, the number of Japa- nese babies born in one year will be equal to the number of white babies born in a year. Seattle at present has an estimated Jap pop tion of 9,125, taking the census ration of a 2.5 Broken your | tions yet? | New Year's ps0 oe Wo wish evephody a happy New} Year, even thagink who put poison in our rene I last night, or ula- 5 per January 1 good resolutt make them ¢ day people make | t ought to | There goes a fost unhappy man—! Witiam Alogo Henry Tort; Swore off driming New Year's, | Then a frie§ geve him a quart} you still dating | , bea te re 4 ' ; By the ways! , your letters “# ‘ THINGS wi SWORE OFF 0) VOR ee cantwear that necktle fe bg you for Christmas, trola and play jazz up a Chicago frreler last week. The | jeweler has om sympathy. A man dressed ag Sadia Claus held us up, too. aee Isn't it quéer that when mint« ters of the gospel get a disp ever doctrinal matters, they fight with a bitterness and an earnestness quite foreign to. mere .nrizefighters | who get paid real mohey for bat-| tling? | “Scientists Can Now Magnify the Human Voice 12,000 Times."—Head- line. Gosh..we hope Doc Brown doesn’t | hear of this? “Now that,I've « says Lil Gee Gee, “ By savag. fae One of the, wird Every rose has its thorn—eveén the New Year rose. And ¥l here ig Ernest Baunsyard, who runs a service station at "1619 University st., deftly switching the 16-cent gasoline lof speaking, Seattle motorists today. “A neu tate ta price of gasoline “Hardly a car owner. kicked on the in- crease, when he found out vas to go to pay for more Bauns gard repor good roads, “TEN KILLED IN JOYFUL CITY “1924 TRAGEDIES GREETS YEAR During | Din of Welcome Sounds as IL Ger overt Orvice || Casualties Occur VAMP\gE } ‘i Every pmvall ofits B genius New Year Celebrations Miss 1924 Arrives 1 yet he wm repair his tame vy wit & pocket A heavy toll of hive was ex a—"_ scted by the New Year, many c %) nesting violent deaths in acci, ye dents and otherwise over the for t . country phe L Ten deaths were reported in ed early dispatehes ne . Three were killed and five in ! ‘4 ad jured in an auto accident at “ 1 4a Zanesville pote : buh Two were injured in a re be . volver battle in a roadhouse near ‘ Sie ¢ Two were killed and five in dav @ - 45 bi ec of, Jured in auto accidents in St ; | h * 4 were injured in Chicago a} ; ; W TY Vik, struck by stray bullets t r tr e a auto dé offers | by New Year reveler apunteian oft ‘ 4 ef 2 with 10 was killed in Kansas City By in Port Arthur, Tex battles fansas City by negra AID CELA BEKATION a ( Wiiisne hi ; ve Dad ior (Turn to Page 10, Column 9) (furn to Page 9, Column 2) 3S Jap Births to 1 White Here Fae le ap | “ONE CENT MORE, PLEASE!” } ‘SEATTLE WASH, | TUESDAY JANUARY 1, 1924. 1599, ut tho Postoffice mt Beattie, Wash., under the Act of Congress March 3, 1579, PLLA PPPOE Ver Year, by Muti, $2.50 Two CENTS IN: SEATTLE. cent Jap a t) 1923. The white aepion, deducting the Japs from the estimate 365, 000 poppulation Seattle now has, would be 855, 875. For this number of whites there were 4,699 births, Compared in another way, the Japanese popu- lation, which is but 2.5 per cent of the city’s popu- lation, produced approximately 12 per cent of the birth during the year. p eaietanes at the last census. For this apanese there were 606 births during Where We Stand If This Be Politics, Make the Most of It C. TAYLOR of the police traffic bureau wrote us an open letter ve @ implied that The Star's campaign to cut down ua gh nnd its editorial “Blood of a Girl,” is ot ties” —that itis only,” He ‘Tieen the traffic division and Sergeant Fuqua, its head. Taylor asked us to print his letter on the first page. We would, willingly, were it not so long. In- stead we print it today on page 4 and recommend that you read it. The Star is glad to have this opportunity of telling Mr. Taylor and every other person in Seattle just ve it stands in regard to traffic accidents, the traffic division, and Mr. Fuqua. The Star doesn’t care who heads the traffic bureau! It doesn’t concern itself with inside politics in the police department. It has no favorites—in the police department, or elsewhere. What The Star wants are RESULTS! Fifty persons lost their lives last year in Seattle traffic mishaps. Hundreds of machines were wrecked and, hundreds of other lives were imperiled. Speeding, drunken and reckless driver: e increas- ing, because of the laxness of Seattle police in en- forcing the laws: ‘This year there will be far more than 50 viétifis unless enforcement is vigorously tightened. That's what The Star is fighting for: an end to lawlessness. If police make auto drivers live up to the letter of the law during the hours the traffic squad is on duty, the drivers themselves, thru habit, would not let down during the rest of the day. If nabbing wanton motorist killers means different working shifts for the traffic squad, The Star is for that. If real traffic regulation means that one—or many —incompetent men in the traffic division must lose out, The Siar wants to see them go. What The Star wants is RESULT: Seattle’s traffic killings must end! Its wild driver's mast be curbed! Its traffic laws must be enforced! For the sake of every man, Woman and child who uses Seattle's streets. And for the sake of the 50 men and women who died in 1923, victims of Seattle’s carelessness. ok ka ae ‘ 013458 = TAKEN Woman Held by Vancouver Police After Wreck With two victims of a mad jauto exploit in a Vancouver hospital with only slight chances of recovery and a third seriously injured, two Seattle people are being held by the Vancouver police to face possible charges of man *|slaughter. “The two gave the names of Mrs. eatl Danton, 80, 618 N.. lst st. and William “F, Hallam, who is” sald tobe an operator for the Postal Telegraph and Cable Co., both of Seattle. The woman said? she lg the wife of Robert C. Danton, manager of the’ Modern Auto & | Tractor schools of Seattle. They jare being held on an open charge. j The two motored to Vancouver early Monday to spend New Year's leve there, they told the Vancouver | police. About 8:15 they were driv- i Abbott st, at the corner of . Hallam, at the wheel, machine and ran it over the curb and onto the side- While everybody felt the tingle of anticipation for the} | THRE celebration yesterday afternoon these men, watehfully wait- | GE. HURT IN » MIX-UP ing outside the city-federal employment office on Third roel, pairs ey Rico ‘a a ploy t . &. ave., loo) d rather hopelessly into the future. Today the|xrxura ‘ot he Coadaioe Ayr office is closed and they must wait until Wednesday for'iine. He sustained severe lacerae the chance at the elusive of the jobless for a chance to work, job. Insert: Peter Sechoff, one typical of the muscular men who are w ainind YOUTH BREAKS | TURNED DOWN LEG COASTIN | Bobsled Swerves Into nicl : Injuring Rider | (Turn to Son 9%, Colgan Bt) Dreary Prospects for Jobless as Year Opens |Company Loses Decision in Important Court Efforts of the Pacific Tele- yhone & Telegraph Co. to force an enormously increased toll gecon the winter's} from its subscribers in defiance i oe ; of the ruling of the state de- De : partment of public works, re- te celved the severest _ set-back he als y since the controversy started, . from tured I jay. In a sweeping decision 1 t 1 ach } Mi, and Federal Judge EB. E, Cushman, ! k es at Tacoma, threw the suit de r v i manding phone toll increases ~ ¢ Mc é ; ; ‘ was ! k as been courts upon the dis- 1 Washing ndefinitely € i ah « hed into | and pho! le as well |\No Aged Sextons Toll He Hoge cigrr e ate thou , é Prov suit was so he r the Bells, for There |; . hn the Pinel ee ae eas I i He h " decision that only a complete , 1 xk reversal by the Ss. supreme Are No Bells to Toll). ee | A Series tee \ t 1 e 2 hat imm any promise and it is e - 7 that it will take fully a year to BY JIM MARSHALL i pico t complete an appeal to the high: WES dhe Tike i thig wher tron i a ; }| er tribunal and obtain a ruling aay lK ur } > @ BY 0 Cor J. L. Ken- q O bell end the me of the Raye te Be \ langing out across the scores ¢ »( cit the fepor'ter vould take Fred fort Z At Soh ¢ roe Kenn | Carter, Star cameraman, out to get | A $1,000 Present—and Just} .. picture for his paper. He and 4 : : a \ At ot ae eee Or. 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