The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 22, 1924, Page 1

aoa i it i} 00 * moderate Rain Maximum, 45. Today noon, ae pty, folks! Wish spring come so we could move ‘out of the bath tub, eee of chronic shiftlessness, end-the gears of our au Councilman Oliver T. has done something that ast ‘bis critics—he has quit. Ede under th seed to Rear about drinks on the house” the drinks @ house! . mt the best things raised on « children. YE DIARY (January 21) and to the office, where a fellow did almost talk me S Weather-corered set of ‘Arthur stenographer sho recently | ew shorthand record of 324 ptminute ought to be almost Bough to report the conversa- Jadies at a matinee. eee — ~ * Hon will be held here ‘evening to honor the fy of Robert Burns. Well, | If He made a darn good ® 20 degrees below zero in /yesterday,"’ says The Star, ttle went in shirtsleeves.’ fevere cases of heat \Were reported here. hee © be the popular color this te ® fashion note. /Gramp, the sage of Pump- , BS his nose will be DIDATE FOR THE SON IVY CLUB an who tells you just her husband tikes it, talking about car to IG “Wot a clutch!” from cab: “Mind your own ene IB says she knows a in this land, | Fis girl by the door at ly. shakes her by the —Apple Sauce, eee W Fall, who gave away is dodging the U, 8. by sending word MO joke ahout it—he's Buffering from an in-|¢lther in affirmance or denial, it is) EeY swelling of the feet, due , tothe cold. are goinc to stop dancing in cabarets, Would also stop Sunday | fa apartment tee SIS NO JOKE our new automobile ed Wagon. Its cov. morigages, tof internal reve. Ds ati income tax "8 8 good joke Wen't any income! ee for & police ren meme book he can Gazette, oan 5 On, famous va Tast night, / jis is itr Would be more ditri more tt ctereney should be more ad fae Ze | there ore on tne A. 4, 8. lidg al WEA Temperatures Last 4 Hours | | | | \ | | | | | | | Clastic, but 1 | | rumored consolidation of the Dexter RII SIR RRNA! nesday TH Minimum, 40, 45. —EE ) > | LENIN IS DEAD “British Labor Is in What Will You Dol for Us, Mr. Mellon?) Andrew W., Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, D. C. Dear Mr. Mellon: The house ways and means committee is going to take up again, in a day or two, your plan for the reduction of income taxes. Before the third of a million folks in Seattle-and the million and a half people who live in the state of Wash- ington decide on how they want to instruct their spokes- men in congress to act on your plan, there are one or two things, Mr. Mellon, they want to ask you direct. Your plan, as now outlined, makes no provision for taking into consideration the community property law ef- fective in this state. This law makes a wife half owner in all property ac- cumulated by a couple during the time of their marriage. Under your plan, the husband would be taxed for the full amount of the estate. So that the husband actually would be paying taxes on the property of another. Due to the fact that your plan provides for a rate of tax that increases according to the size of the estate, it is plain that when a man pays the tax on the entire es- tate, it would throw this estate into one of the higher taxing brackets than if the estate were split between the man and wife for taxing mutpales, according to the Wash- ington state law. Experts here have figured, Mr. Mellon, your plan tlius j would take $1,800,000 more in income tax out of this state annually, and that Seattle would pay $450,000 of it. Such a plan, contrary to state law, must be altered. Is it agreeable to you, Mr. Mellon, to give the taxpayers this right that the state law grants them? And if so, what |) change in your plan can you and will you suggest? | The folks out here want to know. | They would like to know promptly. Because they are | vitally interested in these tax reduction bills now before congress. And they want to be sure of their ground be- i fore they go ahead. THE SEATTLE STAR, |! | i | | | Statement Is Expected | on Bank Merger Plan Officials of Union National and Dexter Horton Institutions Silent and strongest commercial bank in| the Northwest, with a capital and surplus of over $3,000,000, and total . the | resources of more than $36,000,000, Union National. ra A sapected | The two Institutions number among late this afternoon, following separ-|their directors many of Seattle’ ate meetings of the boards of di-| leading business .nen. Jos. oR ai rectors of the two banks, which, it} well is president of the Union is understood, are to be held begin-| National and W. H, Mi clgeerd is ning at 3:30. |president of the Dexter Horton While officials of both banks haye | bank. | persistently refused to be quoted) $2,000 HAUL IS MADE BY THIEF Breaks Window in Down- town Jewelry Store After smashing a plate ginss | window in the Richardson jew. | clry store, 1510 Second ave. at 1 | o'clock Tuesday morning, a dar- Ing thief scooped up a pile of gems estimated to be valued at $2,000 and fled before ary wit- ness arrived on the scene. ‘The crash of the glass attracted the attention of Patrolman 1D. J, Me. Clurg. who was a short distance away. McClure ran to the spot| | from where the noise came, but when | lite nereved he found no trace of the| | robber. The proprietor, H. M. Richardson, | | was immediately notified and he} lcame down to remove from the win. \dow the jewelry which | overlooked. | A hevay stone was used by the thief to break bis way into the show | window, the police declare. A largo! |hole was broken in the glass and| | most all of the articles of vatue were! taken. | | Store employes had no chance to) make an accurate check of the lonses, lbut Richardson declared that it) would run more than $2,000, | Many pieces of more valuable jew. clry and several diamonds wore re moved from the display and placed BY W. B. FRANCE Confirmation or denial of the generally conceded that the merger has been discussed informally, and that both boards will discuss the proposition ‘at their meetings to- day. it the merger is effected, the combination would make the largest pansies se! nmr AE MECHANIC MISSING | Police were seeking George Hoste- land, 19, Tuesday, who disappeared Saturday from the home of A. W. Sprague, 112 Bowdoin place, with nom he had made his home. He employed as a mechanic at the Kenworth Motor Co. A UNIVERSITY HOME OFFER Here is a home that ts being | offered for sale in tonight's Want Ads: UNIVERSI -ROO! TY DISTRICT * 5 Not ne but Just Hi bullt home; neat |) and asa pin. A home | that anyone should be proud to own, Just been newly papered and painted, and is in pink of condition; only half block from car line, andclose to grade and high we also university. If are tired of paying rent, | carly it will last ail for ou ff you phone, | nelier’s ad- || Want find the turning to the You will dresy by tense it was sald. [should be observed as an official jfaneral aspect, biack bunting drap- at the Postoffice at SEATTLE, WASH., TUESE RUSS LEADER | PASSES ANAY Announces Death) BY JOHN GRAUDENS (Upited Preae Staff Correspondent) MOSCOW, Jan, 22,—Lenin is dead, The man who led the Russian revolution overthrew the of the czars passed away ct a moment when his party is beginning to reap the fruits of his labors. Ill for many months, the bol- shevik leader died while others carried on the soviet government he founded. His death took place at a little | | | Jong esta! Moscow, * The funeral wit be held on Sat- will be interred {m the Kremlin hall, | beside that of Svertloff, one of his fellow leaders in the great upheaval! of Russia, ‘The ull-Russlan congress way ad-| vised of Lenin's death by Kalinin, Who read an offidial bulletin and} Proposed that hereafter January 21 day of mourning. MOSCOW HOUSES DRAPED IN BLACK The congress stood silent for seyv- eral minutes out of respect to their dead leader, men and women weep: ing without restraint Moscow already had taken on a| ing the houses thruout the city, This had been put up to com memorate the 1905 Petrograd mas- sacres. The official bulletin tssued by the physicians said; lcolat Lenin's condition took an unexpected turn for the worse on January 21. By 5:40 p. m. he was breathing with great difficulty. He became unconscious and his respira- ton was accompanied by convulsive movements of the body. “At 630 p. m. Lenin died of par alytic symptoms of the respiratory organs.” Tho official announcement said; “There was not the slightest sign (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) Dawes Planning for a New “Gold Bank” PARIS, Jan. ‘The committee of experts, headed by General Charles G. Dawes, after questioning Herr Schacht, director of the reichs- bank, today, regarding Germany's finances, decided the financial re. habilitation of Germany necessitates creation of an independent gold bank. This they proposed to establish partly with foreign capital and partly with a free gold reserve and foreign currency. Thin bank Is to be one of the first steps in the committee's efforts to stabilize Germany's currency. Power e Acts in Fall Nav The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington JAY, JANUARY 22, 1924 ' BALDWIN OUT: NACDONALD IN Official Bulletin Conservatives Are, Quaking in Fear of Red Chieftain of “Red” Regime} BY ED L. KEEN (General Buropean Manager Great Britain, greatest of the few remaining mon. jew, placed ita affairs of state and today in the hands of a gov built of its laboring clans. Baldwin, leadev of the con servative party, representing the old of things in England, tendered his reatgna id thone of hin min: | inters, to hin sovereign at noon. | A few moments later King George| called upon Ramsay MacDonald to| form the first labor government fn} the history of Britain—the first of its! kind In the world, | order |town called Gorky, not far from|MAY BE LAST OF } THE OLD ORDER j Without a shot haying been fired) or a blow st the power and DARN fron. isters guiding the destiny of a na tion to the most advanced that have , been called to the helm of a gov ernment recognized hy King George, figurehead of what} may well be the last of the old} order, summoned to office a man} in Ramsay MacDonald who has stood frankly and openly for a levy upon the nation’s capital and put-/ ting an end to the system that has/ maintained the monarchy where it] is today. | To many In Britain watching the rapidly changing panorama as it was played out, act by act, in| Whitehall and Buckingham palace, | the invitation to the leader of the| i | all powers. labor party to form a government and take the helm, marked the} taking of a step which this coun-| try never can retrace, The passing of the Baldwin gov-| ernment was accomplished without | undue excitement, shortly before mid. night In the house of commons Mon- day, The vote of the house was antl climax to what had gone before, | When the members arose for the division, the result was a foregone conclusion, It was taken on a labor motion to the effect that Baldwin ond his ministers had not the confi. | dence of the public CONSERVATIVES ARE SWEPT FROM POWER H By 4 majority of 72 votes the mo- | | tion carried and the conservative government was swept from power, | ‘This mbrning the formalities that ac: | company a change of government in} Great Britain were gone thru. Stan i ley Baldwin and his cabinet consult-} ed briefly at No. 10 Downing st,} Then the prime minister drove to the; palace and placed his resignation in the hands of King George A short time after, Rameay Mac Donald, accompanied by J. H Thomas and J. R. Clynes, two of those who will stand beside him when he attempts the great experi ment of government by labor, drove to Buckingham pala The great moment for British Ja: bor had arrived, The man the la-| (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) | of Basing Navy Department Mooring Mast Seattle will jose the honor of ‘becoming the point of departure for |their efforts at |the huge naval dirigible, Shensn-|to Seattle and Sand Point for the h the ‘thief hod | coats, in tty tranapolar. flight tile |hop-otf, summer, ewes indicated in a wire to the Seatfik’ Chamber of Com. merce Tuesday noon. The telegram, from J. J. Under: t chamber's Washington, jeadquarters, stated that Ad: Hoogenwerff, commanding officer at the Bremerton navy yard, been ordered construct a mammorh mooring mast at Camp Lewis in preparation for the Shen and wood, D. ¢ mira} of Commerce officials information and were in the dark Seattle to Lose Honor | Shenandoah Orders Erection of at Camp Lewis as to further developments here in bringing the ship It was felt, however, that action by the navy department followed inaction of local authorities in| clearing the landing ficiz at Sand} |Point. County commissioners. two weeks ago told the Chamber of} lCoramerce military affairs commit-| to that there no fund for cloaring the brush and trees to ac. mmodite the dirigible and that} jt y did kot believe that prison} |labor could used on the job. Jince then there has been no inti prief wire Tuesday, | velt hotel when United States Depu-| TW y Oil Probe O CENTS IN SEATTLE. STATE Just see what has come out of hiding. Nothing else but | women's ears. For years it has been merely a matter of speculation as to whether the fair sex really possessed ears, but now comes the latest style of hairdress which proves the} fact. Miss Juanita Reynolds, 4287 Rainier ave,, is shown here with the “Garconne Bob,” the ultra-fashionable femin- ine haircut which has caused quite a bit of comment during the last few days. “It feels great,” says Juanita, “but girls, be sure you have the right kind of a profile before ui | try it.” Photo by Priew & Carter, Star Staff Photographers Fall Ordered to Show Before Senate Inquiry President Demands Official Agent in Attendance at Oil Lease Probe ASHINGTON, Jan. Albert B. . former secretary of the in- terlor, was today subpoenaed to ap-| pear before the senate committee | investigating Teapot Dome. | eee | ORLEANS, Jan, 22—Sub-| poena for Albert B. Fall to appear | before the senate committee investi-| gating the leasing of the Teapot s Dome naval oil reserve to Sinclair} 0 Mr. Coolidge's behalf. interests was fied on the former; If irregularities are disclosed at secretary here today. | the Investigation, the department of Fall was in the tobby of the Roose. | Justice will take whatever action is ‘i % ny. | necessary to bring to justice any in dividuals fond guilty of breaking WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. — President Coolidge hus ordered Attorney General Daugherty to Send a department of justice agent to the senate committee's investigation of Teapot Dome to listen to disclosures regarding the leasing of the naval oil re- Serve to Sinclair interests, it was stated at the White House today ty Marshal H. C. Moseley read him i |permits the CLAIMS. UPHELD (‘Douglas Is Elated | Over Decision; Says Men Will Go to Prison By Jack Nelson In a sweeping decision that carefully reviewed numerous court decisions handed down dur- ing the past three decades, Judge 3. T. Rouald Tuesday upheld the legality of the grand jury Indictments and disinissed the motion to quash filed by Attorneys W. A. Gilmore and George Olson. The decision of Judge. Ronald clears up the Iogality of all work performed by the jury to date and mguisitors: to. return pending indictments without fear that their legality will be disputed. Attorney Malcolm “It means that we are going to send some of these fellows to prison,” Douglas said. “The evi- dence against them is cumulative over a long period of time. | ‘The result of Judge Ronald's de jclsion has greatly alded the cam- paign to compel obedience to the law in Seattle and I expeiit to go after other law violators just as hard as we have hit gambling. “The task of cleaning up Seattle cannot be accomplished in a few months, but eventually I hope to uncover the graft ring that is: ex- | torting money from our citizens and | Protecting lawlessness.” That the report of the grand jury, | revealing the results of the weeks of | investigation performed by that body, | will substantiate in the aggregate the charges of vice and lawlessness is believed certain, Douglas says. | The jury resumed questioning of witnesses Monday. “Casey” Jones, | former entertainer at The Grove, was called before the jurors, and a man who gave his name as J. Smith and | his occupation as a laborer, also was |questionéd. Several other men, be- j Heved to be loggers or laborers, alse went before the jurors. BOND LEGALITY FIGHT SETTLED New York Expert and Ken- nedy Get Together Tangled affairs in which various bond issues of the city have found themselves recently were simplified Monday at a conference between Corporation Counsel T. J. L. Ken: nedy and C. B, Masslich, the city’ bond expert, who was in. Seattle from New York. Deputy Corpora. tion Counsel Ed Ewing also attend: ed the conference. ; Au of the trouble between the jeorporation counsel's office ant } i the summons Fall said he would accept the sub poena and go to Washington as soon as possible. Hoe said, however, he would request the committe for per- mission to take his wife, who js ill, to Bl Paso, Texas, bofore answering the summons, “The action was unnecessa Fail sald, “I had told members of the committee I would be willing to testify.” Fall said he Washington until official notification mons. Col. J. H. Zeverly, attorney for H. F. Sinclair, who has also been subpoenaed, was in conference with the former secretary this morning. When asked if they had discussed the Teapot Dome lease, Fall de- clined to comment, but referred the interviewer to Col. Zeverly, Fall will be asked would not he had of the ro sum: to ex plain where he got $100.00 to buy a | Mexico ranch, Hix story and Ff. B. MeLean, Washington New that publis borrowed the money, conflicted, Zevely Will be asked to explain lin the safe at closing time Monday, | here could make no remarks on the|mation of future action until the|What he dia with $20,000 ‘Sinclair | ture rose to 86 degrees this morn- (Turn to Page 7, Column 1) to received | © , from whom Wall suid he | the law, it was said on behalf of the | Masslich’ over the legality of bond president issues was: based on the ambiguous Mr. Coolidge took this action, the | language in a section of the charter White House. spokesman. said, be-/Foverning maturity. of bonds, Ken. jeause of certain rumors heard by|Nedy said. Masslich recommended a |by him, jcharter amendment to clarify. this The department of justice was pepe a ays ee represented at the hearing yesterda: “ at President Coolldge’s express direc:|, 4% @ result) of the conference |tion, it was said,” It was Indicated |" city council will be asked to at the White House further investi. | “mend the charter provision under being made but could | “The Montlake-Stadium and iscussed at the momont be.| West Spokane street bridge bonds |cause they might dry up somrees of AS Well as the proposed anditorium pereatt st [bond issue will be legalized hy the action. | (The ‘spokesman for the’ president | hnsized that th ia} A> controversy between the emphasized {hat the government did | council and Masslich over the prv- |not wish to cast suspicion on any | Posed $1,500,000 city light extension ineivsioal. fund bond issue, which has raged Rumors that have reached the |tor two years, was amicably settled (Turn te Page 7, Column 1) at the conference. The council, act- gS {ing on Kennedy's opinions, tas held | j | . that the bonds should call for « Mid-West Warmer; hump sum eccpanditeires while Mass. | Freezeup Cracks Neh has refused to approve the bonds unless the ordinance stipu | KANSAS CITY, Jan. lated individual items of expendi. 1 atures continued to glimd in| tures contemplated. Musslich finally amsus City and the jagreed to the lump sum provistoa day as the first br nationwide cold wa Southwest. te-| *#k came in thejat the conference, Kennedy said, The tempera-|und the bands, once sold to Seattlo syndicate, will now find a jing. ready market. it is predicted,