The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 15, 1924, Page 7

rienaibae ae as &> jerest: or's af: cs LABOR NEARS GREAT CHANCE King George 0 Opens Session of Parliament BY LLOYD ALLEN (United Preas State Correspondent) LONDON, Jan. 15.—The fateful bession of parliament, which may fee accession to power within a) Week of Great Britain's first labur | government, was opened in atte today by King George, who detiv- ered a speech from the throns at noon, As bis majesty’s address was read to the assembled house there were crowded at the bar of the house of lords, whither the commoners are summoned for such occasions, nearly two hundred labor M. Px’, who ex- pect this time next week to be oc: cupying front benches with Ramsay MacDonald as prime minister, Fibow to elbow with them were the more famillar figures of pariia. ment, former Prime Ministers Lloyd George and H. H. Asquith, leaders of the Uberal party and thelr fol: lowers, and Stanley Baldwin and Robert Horne and the conservatives Whose day in power has just about run, There was a tendency to listen attentively to the king's words; it is on approval of the speech that the vote of confidence In Baldwin's gov- ernment will be taken. Among other foreign affairs touched upon in the speech, from the throne, King George declared: “My ministers, together with the dominion representatives, have been enxious to remove the difficulty re- garding illicit tmportation of liquor into the United States and have made proposals for an agreement Which is on the eve of conclusion, This should further strengthen the happy relations prevailing between the two countries and peoples.” taking advantage of the fact Washington, most of them still believe that “ ow ume , MEET “TUESDAY. NOON MEANY HALL Altho a career in the arts and sciences looms for many a co-ed at the University of woman's place ia in the home,” and so they're 38 Loie Howard, of the journalism class, is calling attention to a self-explanatory notice affixed to the bulletin board outside Denny Hall that it's leap year to point the moral. Pretty M Star Btate Photos oto by Price & Carter, ECUADOR REBS —;ccams ccecraic ATTACK TOWN oe SHOCK NOT FATAL NA, Jan. 15.—Prof. Lelt Ink, ector of the Electro- pathlo Inatitute, eclared today he has definitely established that 5,000 Indians Assassinate | }| electrocution does not produce Liberal Leader || death, but merely a cataleptic || state from which the victim will GUYAQUIL, Ecuador, Jan, 15.—|] awaken. A fierce battle between political fac-|] The professor states he has re tions has just taken j at Gan || vived many persons w Ave Felipe Pujili, according to mes-|| deen accidentally electroc tages reaching here today. declared dead by phyalci Five thousand Indians, under Iead- | ship of the Clef Fraile Granja, | attacked the town and assassinated | the liberal leader, Luis Rivadenetra; | terrorizing the population. Federal troops were called and finally drove the Indians into the jountaing after killing 11 of them. r were actually insisting that ould be buri |. to preve awakening in the grave. FRENCH TAXES JUMP A FIFTH Severest Economy Ordered for Whole Nation R any such me HERE'S MORE ABOUT TRAFFIC STARTS ON PAGE 1 ently, was considered to have !mper- Sled anyone. The nearest anyone came to going | So jail was when Judge Gordon} ‘Threatened young Fred Field, gro-| cery delivery boy, that he'd get a month if he ever got in for speed-| BY WE! “BB MILL @nited Press 'f Correspondent) ing again. Field made 26 past a| PARIS, Jan. All taxes in school house. | France are to be raised 20 per cent The boy's father Interceded for|and the severest measures of econ- kim, but it was brought that | omy in public services put Into ef- Field had ignored several orders to|fect, as part of the cabinet’s pro- report. He was fined $15. gram of adjustment to But, b’gosh! some of the speeders | t nd lightless-car owners got a durn| also inctides good talking to, by cracky! adjour projects as Dr. J. W. Wilkins, who was mak-| pensions a 9 intro. miles an hour when Officer | duced in ¢ deputies stead caught Kim, said he was| Thursday. making an emergency call to 8! Luke's hospital. Twenty 3HTS, $10; LIGHT, $3 R. Winship came up to Broad- and Pine with no lights and a rebuked heavily. Ten dollars. ernment decided to demand A. Speidel ambled along with |an immed te of confidenc o the dollar ahi red with Ita close te v one light. Three dollars. B. L.|the chamber on its new financial DeLapp dodged thru a downtown 5 repress fiscal fr amusement.” com. mented the judge. y three.” G. W. Gwinn said he was mak! So did Mrs, Gwinn. Motorco; stead allowed, howe that it} ‘was 30, There was only one light burning on the Gwinn car at the Says Students Are time. And beside that, inn fall- Ignoring Dry Law WASHINGTON Jan. 38.—Dr ed to report on schedule | “Hum, worth about $2 said the ‘GEROUS” 18 33 y dangerous,” said t it was a perfect myst got up to 31 m a of | Child Specialist think e case war ‘est, Con Fieiad tes got awit in China Passes SCORES FORFE BONDS TO COURT ed at t p Long lists of mote s forfeited | tal € este a 4 s bonds on v oft Ld v court opened 13 6 we es at 7 for tgial. This number included| Dr, Holt was one of t 2 33 1 without light and s of driv thrie, ac-| in connect eal Eight Are Killed 2 un Cal in Oil Explosion | PORT ARTHUF Tex th an SEEK WOMAN; HER | re HUSBAND IS DEAD ARCTIC AIR CRASH ‘Crash of French Franc Alarming to Poincare Writer Says Money Panic in Paris ™ Heralds Collapse of the Ministry BY J. W. T. MASON | (Written for the United Press) [ of tho, frane speculators, as Germany did; th rried meetings of financ mier Poin ate an rs are © the franc down. & matter of fact, depreciate power In Paris ts] at any than ts being taken in. fon clr mad scramble to | expenses. lor has had an artificial in depreciating the france ‘Tho defi ated a\ in th for the c 009 france: faco of t ¢ its time. Premier Poincare | poverty-stricken sign, France has honed to stave off the debacle until | just loaned 00,000,000 franca to after the French elections, next|Crecho-Slovakia and 400,000,000 {spring, to safeguard his pol u- | franca to Poland, to bind those coun. ture. fen to her am military allies. ‘This | The panic now under way, how-|is the Poincare policy of matching | ever, May get entirely out of hand |empty coffers with preparations for and compel a ministerial change al-|another war | most ight | Collapse thas been tnevitable from | in Paris are the same were in Berlin, at the begin of the collapse of the mark ¢ has begun to arrent foreign BONUS TAXATION CITIES HONG = PLAN ADVANCED the for Premier Poin o's merchant who has sade first, an they nip ‘year's | Fire Department May Abandon Substations ONSTANTLY increasing efficiency of the fire de- partment, complete motorization of all units, and further education of the public in eliminating fire haz- ards may in the next few years see the abandonment of many sub-fire stations and a reductioon in the personnel, according to Fire Marshal Robert L. Laing, Figures released Tuesday by Laing show that while Seattle is increasing with leaps and bounds in population and building, fire losses are constantly plunging down- ward, year by year. In 1928, the per capita loss by fire was $1.50. For 1922, 1921, 1920 and 1919, the loss was $1.55, $2.39, $2.84 and $2.01. Fire losses for 1928, 1922, 1921, 1920 and 1919, respec- tively, were $514,531.94, $515,168.29, $757,873.88, $1,397,- 858.50 and $762,757.63, The value of buildings involved a fires has been reduced from the high mark of $24,- 54,289.97, in 1921, to $19,921,828.34 in 1923. hicke the past year, there were 481 fires where loss was sustained, For the other four years there were STARTS DRIVE (TRAIN SERVICE IS DISRUPTED | ON GAMBLING Severe Shocks Disturb Par: | Starwich Arrests Ten Mon- day on Charge tial Ruins of Nippon Capital BY MOTO TAKATA BY JACK NELSON (United Press Statt Correspondent) ,A cleanup of gambling and gam bitng devices in the small towns of OSAKA, Japan, Jan, 15—The King county was opened Monday] city of Tokyo, still lying in par- night when Sheriff Matt Starwich| (isi ruins from the devastation |aent two crews of deputies to make eh bas ae Ge raids, resulting In the arrests of 10] Wrought by quakes of Septem- ber, 1923, was severely shaken early today by shocks of an person® All 10 were charged with having equally severe grade, which lasted 12 minutes. gambling devices In thelr possession and nearly @ score of punch boards Communications and Osaka wei with several hundred dollars’ worth of merchandise was neized by the deputies. At North Bend Deputies Tom Mor. gan and Frank Anderson arrested | Shady Beaman, pool room proprietor between Tokyo |terror of the great earthquake re ere ngen is threat ons are begin. to ists of paying out more money | ‘The French rnment ts not paying its way ts not sufficient to meet ‘om. 12,000,000¢ care in| 4a} FOR DEMOCRATS * | Would Increase Assessment |New York Increases Offer | on Amusements i in Nation for Convention WASHINGTON, Jan. 15—A pro-| WASHIN Jan. 15 posal to reano amusement taxes|York today Increased {ts offer 00,000 & soldier|the democratic national con made t Senator] An offer of $150,000 and free of a convention hall, together with |, | amer to thelthe radio broadcasting conc n would and all other concession the tax on adm nat 1 cents, t a G-cent tax on admission’ filed by Lou! taxed 2 Louls offered r than nd nin places othe office WOULD RECAL Ls GUARD TROOPS « MARI eriff to “U” STUDENT: F ‘ETE 4 Rot W day In nual one. fternoon Phi cht mma Start Campaign to Cut rg Rates ASHI Civic Music Club to TON Carol Robinson, American 5 New f use and ap San use | ACTR ESS studen the Give Three Programs C. W. Robinson, cigar store man, M.| turned. When the naval wireless re G. Méeske and J. D, MeGtath for] having punch boards. At Falls City | nowever, it |they arrested W. R. Job and 8:|haq suffered McGee At Snoqualmie Falls] | feared. arrested Jeff Jones, pool hail] ™ tor, on the same charge. Bail| N° fires are reported and it ts l wa és $50 tn each: inatanes | understood the capital's water pipes, |" Deputy Joo Harrihan arrested 3. | Which have been restored since the | Leper ard D, Dee Mole tember quake, were not broken. an \ Richm have not been com " timated, but were slight. be ation with Osaka was ewed at noon and train ported on conditions in the capital was found that Tokyo less than was at first | prop plete Ce nm: rtlally service between the two citles was jboard merchandise expected by night | has been in similar new shock zone is at Tanzawa mbling by punch boards must | mountain, in the Kanagawa prefect the sheriff sald. ‘I expect|ure, six kilometers southwest |to visit every town In King cou | Tokyo. land will arrest every man vio! The impertal family is safe tie tae? | A report by telephone from the| } Compla’ against men were| home office at Tokyo tonight said fi tice C. C. Dalton'’s court The damage in Tuesday's earth. ko was very slight. None dead |here; three or four were killed Yokohama. Neighboring prefectures report slight damage. “All the diplomatic safe, There were no jamong foreigners.” The seismograph at Tokyo unt- versity showed the duration and Reconstruction Is Halted by amplitude of the shocks to be about | rd as severe as the Septem-| NEW JAPANESE HOUSES RAZED corps casualties The new ¢ in the am- ne Japanese the HERE’S MORE ABOUT QUAKES ARTS ON PAGE 1 had been eau, which had arranged ard and report fires in| lots in the event of an| today were pene ts farther aw: ¥®.) trom Tok n 8 have already | The power station at Kawa- opened wp chain stores and are| aki was demolished. {doing a rushing business. | The Tokaido railway sppar- | “But. in Yokahama {t 1s impos ently suffered heavily. Several sitfe to ibe the scene, The! trains were derailed. ply wiped off the earth| Heavy damage to the raflroad in in left but tho Chigasakt and Hirazuk | tempt to rebulld there | was reported. has been with temporary| Prot. Tats akamura, noted | Jent of seismic activity and rec ¢ was in J as one of the world’s lead earthquake experts, anio activ at Mount in the province of Sagaml {ef that prob- damage had been Odawara, the He expressed the bi ably enormous HE JUST TOOK whlch, foc when McCabe enda James London Registers ; Japanese Temblor} i LONDON, Jan. 16 rthqua ft Tues records which dey ohama with were 14 tin U. W. Seismograph Shows New Record |» 1 of the appalling reported Japan- obtained n_ seismo. Rev. N. D. Hillis Is Much ere te W YORK, Jan of Rey. Dr or of th according to a lepartment of ‘ Wed 2 Weeks, Man Electricity Victim BELLINGHAM, Jan. 15.—Married in Oklah two weeks ago, ¥ etriclan for ompany, wa Maple Falls jon wi ngled camp ele Croan, ‘Tacoma lectroc Lumber uted at Fitzgerald Will Be al _Mayor for 10 ang ith a phone act | Hold Funeral for Everett Timberman |, EVERETT, Jan. 1 0 t of tt What’s in the Air un TUESDAY, JANUARY 15 me hh KPI 4 to 4:20 jamin Frank KFHR—4 » 5:90 p. m.; 6:30 Cisrupted, train | service was halted and some of the| It in believed the center of the) of expressed | ho belief that the shake originated | | RECORD BACK * tie ascem to Tok it had | st., FREDERICK & HS DOMSTARS STORE f | _ Printed Crepes In a Silk-and-Wool Weave Low-priced at $1 95 the Yard HERE are seventeen (17) attractive styles in this new shipment of Printed Crepes. 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STAIRS STORE | |\Not Guilty, Pl q WOMAN CHECK “of Baseball Man YORK, Jan. 15.—Charles Ay ue Bt Tona | Phipps, alias | Stoneham, principal owner of the Phipps, | New York Giants’ b active woman ascball team, yess = st en » and is|terday pleaded not guilty of using x ae rae trail of |the United States mails in an allegeq * thiess bar m Buffalo, |schems to defraud, Y., to was being} Federal Judge Learned Hand, be. held in the 8 jan Tore whom the plea was entered, fol- |day pending decision of 11 S lowing his indictment, with seven and business hou others, fixed Stoneham’s ball at citizens $5,000 pending trial, | ‘The {ndictments grew out of tho |failure of the brokerage firm of Ed will pro: they ; apprehended in whether ‘The woman was Dyer & Co. Louls January 10 by operatives or the. Burne Detective. 2 working on information from Seat-| "Traction Co. Will tle and Chicago. Desire for a “good thr ana] _ Improvements © |travel led Mrs. Phipps to wri ve a INGHAM, Wash., Jan, 15— checks, she is alleged to have ad: ianeevernnl and extensions total mitted to Burns operatives ing $4 will be mado Loui She said the ch by the orthwest Traction written on her hust oh aécount |Crmpany in Skagit and Whitt at Central City, Ky. Ath ak Hee this year, it was announeed is ready to return to him and h by ser H. B, Sewell. | wo children now ‘The biggest outlay will be for re ae filling and rebuilding the Clayton Bay section of the waterfront tres tle, where it passes over the Great «| Dying Bandit Is 4 Nort n tra This is calculated | Found in Vehicle to cost approximately $160,000, CHICAGO, Jan, 15.—With a mor. tally’ wounded auto bandit at the 1, & stolen taxicab erashed into Former Seattle house e last night ; 3 tiny 4 set the Man Dies in East Th died later News of the death of Edward Lytle at his home in Omaha, Neby 1 Seattle Monday night has been a stock broker at aska city since 1917. Priot WATER SHUT-OFF Water will be shut off on 28th ave.|to that 9 was engaged In the N. W. from W, 70th st. to W. 75th | creamery business in/Seattle for 2% on Wednesday, from 8 a, m. to | years. He is survived by his wife bp. m land one daughter.