The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 9, 1919, Page 1

LONDON, July 9.—According to the Paris correspondent of the Morning Post, authoritative information has reached Paris that the United States. contemplates military, financial and economic assistance to the Russian government of Admiral Kolchak. The aid is planned on a large scale, it stated. The correspondent adds that application will be made to congress to obtain the necessary powers. WEDNESDAY JULY 9 First High Tide 22 oes ee NOU. NO. 115. ‘Stop, , listen and Nota Bene!! wot be there or th “there or b to the tune of oneiticket to the Mother Rythe benefit All’s Ready for - Big Star Smoker Boxers, dancers, singers, jazz-bands and all—they’re | and a-rarin’ to go Friday night at The Star's big! mmnkier to furnish the new Mother Ryther home. A bevy of peppery young ladies from the famous Chin Chin chorus is in town, resting for,a week and waiting ‘ until the show opens at the Met next Sunday. to BE at the smoker Friday night and that isn’t! all. They'll dance and sing a few of those dances and songs that put a syfcopated wriggle } ag fe ready shoulders. Phar er Bryant, who brought the Chin Chin musical | comed; aol ise Seattle, promised The Star Wednesday | he'll land the big clown band, too. This band claims it invented jazz music. Anxious to Help “Tickled to death to have a chance to help the good cause along,” says Manager Bryant. “We'll have the whole company there to entertain the boxing fans, if necessary. “If singing will help fill up Mother Pyther’s new home, out on Stone ‘way, with furniture, the girls will sing all night.” declares the ‘Chin in leader. sary that’s not all. The Ames shipyard quartet, now appearing at Levy's Orpheum, will rush up after . | the last show to sing a couple of songs. Chief Vere will ~ the on Moor catemetiion to be awarded to boosters of the Mother Ryther home fund, Everybody who helped the Ryther drive along is interested in seeing who gets the i automobiles. Those who attend the smoker will be eye-witnesses to this big event. ‘There will be a parade thru the @owntown streets Friday. Mother Ryther and her kiddies will be in the : procession, which will get under way | £ " a: 1 p. m. and make a tour of the business district. The Policemen’s band may be on the job Friday night. Lieut. Carr, leader of the musical cops, is getting his bunch together, Chief Warren and Mayor Hanson | will be ‘among the notables at the advertising purposes will go forth by the Cory Printing company: Fine Smoker Card Lonnie Austin, Dan Salt and Clay Hite are lining up the smoker card possible. ger will ‘tickets at the office, Joe Willock will take q the avg. Oe with his staff of aistany M ; eom! Has donated the py E of Un r and as Arena joker. a high With lots of music class boxing bill, It’s going to be a great night. | ringside. ‘The City of Seattle will show its kpeed Wednesday, when a car for thru the business district, adorned with signs, he signs are donated best Austin & Salt are donating the gymnasium for the | training of the boxers and Hite is nating the gloves and other ring necessities. Eddie Burns and Hddie box care of etropolitan Bullding W's getting into the swing it's going to be a big night for Mother! 5:00.96; Tides in Seattle Second High Tide 4:59 p.m, 10 | ‘second om ‘Tide Py pom, 76 ft | , |Occidental THURSDAY JULY 10 | | lest High Tide 1am, 10.1 ft First Lew Tide 10:03 am D4 tt Second High Tide S41 p.m, 10.7 ft Second Low Tide 10:37 p.m, 7.5 ft Ee SEATTLE, WASH., WE. DNE SDAY, JULY 9 ts at phage Haig y Says British Empire Won World War Against Huns LONDON, July %—United Press.)—"‘Don't forget it was the British empire that won this war!" Field Marshal Haig de clared yesterday in a speech at Newcastle “We talk They're in New York's a great deal about our allies," Haid said. “It was necessary and right that we should do so to buck them up all we could while the fighting was going on, but don't forget it was the Fritish empire that won this war! “I don't wish to particularizé, but you know our Russian Ryther, her kiddies and boxing a | Friday night. Boxers Will Fight Will the boxers fight Friday friends threw us down and the night? You bet they will! Italians did not do a great deal The best boxers in this section|| Our French friends made the have donated their services for|| best of it, but then they really Mother Ryther and they will fight.|| had a very hard job at the be Travie Davis, of Fverett, Matty|| ginning. For the last two years Matthews, of Los Angeles; “Bat England bore the brunt of the tling” Purdy, of Cleveland, and Bud-|| struggle!” dy Ridley, of Bremerton, are outof-| town boys who are on the bill Billy Wright, local boxer, witt| meet Lloyd Madden, another local boy, in one of the main events. Bud Ridley will tackle Frankie Mur phy, and Jimmy Storey will box Travie Davis in the other big bouts on the bill. Street ticket sales event are prohibited by city law so the pasteboards have been put on| sale at Brown & Hulen's, Baillargeon building; Joe Dizard’s cigar stand, ave. and Yesler way;| Green's Cigar Store, 406 Third ave and Battersby & Smith's, 706 Third Motorcycle Policeman 8. E, Jen nings and a squad of four other policemen will guard the Arena Fri- | YANKEE ARMY COMING HOME for the bie | Report Five Divisions Leave Line on the Rhine 9—The comprising the is home WASHINGTON, July army of occupation, | first five regular divisions, ward bound, according to unoffical reports in Washington, vag stated the Divisi day. The bluecoats are donating| It was stated the Fifth Division their services, too. was embarking at Brest, that the ‘ourth was en route to Brest and i that both will sail by July 15 |Soviets Hold Italy t both o4s The Second, composed of two regi Cities, Is Report) ents of dousnbovs and two of ima PARIS, July 9—(United Press.)—|rines, will also sail this month, it Reports received here from Italy to- | The Second suffered day indicated a number of the Ital- | ™°T® than any division in |} the American army—more than its fan cities were virtually in the hands | gicjsional strength of soviets, composed of radicals in| The First division—first to arrive some cases and conservatives in oth-|in Fram and the first in action ers. land th hird, which stopped the last It was stated that Genoa was un-| German drive at the river Marne on der the control of a soviet composed | July 15-18 of last year, have been re. of workmen and demobilized sol-| leased for return, the diers, who had ordered a 50 per cent | reduction in the prices of all foods and had seized shops which did not comply, A committee of five ‘atives, it was stated, controls Florence under similar conditions. report stat Lots of Sunshine Seattle’s Portion will our sured a mornin ‘There of ‘gentle n accord weatherw but sun- and i it carload lots he Thursday smith a inshine attle al portion of LIBERTY BON NEW YC Ju Liberty quotations 34's, $99.56; first 4's, $44.30; second 4's, $93.60; first 4% $95.20: second 414’, $04.12) third 414° $95.04. fourth 444 \*, $94.22; Victory 3% Victory 4%'s, $99.96 ' fhe rious will QUOTED patron he wind y bond not those terly to the ght in hine These Re trom th Pippine ol aie in the compas, ret bells Editor's foodstuff: ance. the war whol |modest margin of profit. raiment and the like—were plentiful. exceeded demand not infrequentls The war threw the whole trade Values declined rapidly at firs 8, Note—Richard Spillane was, until ‘recently, editor of Finance and Commerce in New York. experts on economics and business. His article is extremely interesting because he knows business from the inside. BY RICHARD SPILLANE Noted Economist and Business The largest single item in the high cost of living to- lday is greed. This fact must be recognized if any intelligent effort | is to be made toward correction. The whole status of business has changed. lers, middlemen and retailers Most articles of human need—| rlcinine Seaite sm yah i woes Pet thay . Ergo, unbuckl WHAT MAKES cosT OF LIVING SO HIGH? “GREED” ANSWERS RICHARD SPILLANE Economist Demands Probe Into Profits er F riday eit, for the benefit. of Mother Ryther. An American Paper That Fights for Americanism eSeattle Star Mntered ae Becond Clase Matter May 8, 1699, at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wasn., ander the Act of Congress Maren 8, 1878. Per Year, LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE by Mall $5.00 to $9.00 il , 1919. Weather Forecast: 77rifhtoné, Thursday, taae Tonight and Thursday, fadr; Their to le to assert that these lovely a ede oR pel one. way to find out and that is Here’s Pa, Ready|' to Be Introduced! Pa has arrived in Seattle, and he's all ready to be introduced to Star readers. Ma expects to cut dis tinctive capers so: cially But Pa isn't very strong for the big league dinner affairs. le is one of the recognized He would rather browse around with the men and absorb the fumes of a good La Ropa cigar. ‘The whole family will appear daily in The Star, under the title “Keeping Up With the Joneses” one of the best comic strips America uxpert of Before in worked on a Supply Lansing to Sail Competition was keen. structure out of bal- Then, suddenly, WASHINGTON, July they began to rise and kept going till they reached heights | Press)—Secretary of State Lansing never attained before. They are there now. The tremendous drafts Etrope made upon America for foodstuffs, clothing, raw and finished material of every {kind created a shortage which changed the status of mer- will sail from Brest for the United | States Friday, Under Secretary announced today No successor to Lansing on American peace delegation has been {chant and customer. Before the war the merchant, big) named. It is expected, however, that and little, had to court the public, With the changes) Polk will take his place. lincident to the war the public has been subject to the), Announcement to this effect may In |Jobbers, Commission men and retail: | American ers. They ly. sense the manufacturers, last dictates of the producer, the middleman and the merchant. a broad —— years have been the golden era of | some one else, few farmers, have prospered amazing has turned And their prosperity the heads of many of them, What formerly was considered a fair, if not a satisfactory, profit, no longer is adequate, Prices are established not so much on legitimate value as on what th e public Retail prices articles have ru are demanded now can pay Pri n 1,000 or more riot. which a few years ago would make you gasp. tion the quality of goods is decidedly be- low the old grade, and as 4 gen eral prop ‘The sum and substance of the whole matter is that every one is exacting more of profit or tribute than is fair, It begins with the farmer, or fisherman, or fruit grow er, or manufacturer, He has had to wages to his help, and prices for materials. He has put these into the reckoning when it came to selling his product, and he has added something for good measure and to sweeten his disposi tion, or to soothe his feelings when he pays his swollen profits tax Too Much G The has gasped next price, but when he bh handle perha in turn sold to the m8 be made following a conference be tween the president and Polk today * or tomorrow. The announcement will come from the White House, it was learned. he added enough to) himself in every respect So it has gone all along the line To add to the trouble, there has been Inuch speculation which has kept textiles and foodstuffs | off the market, The gambling | | satisty Johnson Bitterly Flays the League! r WILSON TO REVIEW PACIFIC FLEE | LOGAN BILLINGSLEY ESCAPES PURSUER: SPREAD NET BUT FAIL T0 LOCATE HIM | Ex-Bootlegger King Flees From Stockade at Night in Automobile TRACE HIS MOTOR CAR After searching all night and half the day Wednesday, deputy sheriffs trudged back to the county-city building this after- noon to report that they had failed to capture Logan Billings- ley, ex-king of bootleggers in these parts, who escaped from the county stockade at the Wil- lows, on the east shore of Lake Washington, at 7p. m. T: Billingsley wae senvingia, sentence for violating liquor laws here in 1916. He had been nabbed by Sheriff Stringer June 4, a few hours after his release from MeNeil's Island federal prison, where he served 13 months for violating fed- }eral liquor shipping laws. Tuesday, Billingsley applied to Gov. Hart for a pardon, which was | refused. Then word came to Seattle that a deputy sheriff was on the way to Seattle from Oklahoma to take Billingsley back there to serve a sentence imposed several years ago. County officers believe Billingsley | decided to escape when he learned that jails were still yawning for him. | Billingsley is believed to have joined his brother, The latter was a visitor at the coun- ty stockade Tuesday afternoon. At the time of his brother's visit, Logan was working in the blacksmith shop. Fred spoke to him for some time there, A few moments afterward a team of horses, frightened at some thing, dashed away. According to the report, every one gave chase to (CONT'D ON PAGE FOUR) GIRL SLAYER IS for U. S. Friday| 9.— (United Polk the | | right in textiles became so violent in BOSTON, July 9—Senator Hiram New York as to be scandalous, | Johnson, California, speakin large quantities of cotton 4 last night, bitterly attacke woolen goods passing from hand | league of nation “basest thing | to hand for months at increas: | which anyone ever attempted. to} ing prices, and never getting to | foist upon the American people.” the public until a figure was | The speaker also attacked Presi- | reached beyond which specula- |dent Wilson's administration, John- | of his sedan. tion did not seem able to carry | son declared the league is an “in- | them, |strument which throws the fortunes | Just as textiles have been “held in|of America to the rest of the world | suspense,” so various foodstuffs are |for the rest of the world to do with | reported to have been held from the | as it sees fit.” market “9 arr England Same Way | periled. The parliamentary in- This exploitation of the consumer! quiry has aroused the people so is not peculiar to Ami at this) profoundly that it is proposed to time, England has*a like condi-| nationalize the coal mines. tion, There has been a parliament-| That is what greed has done in ary inquir that has revealed Britain graye situation in relation to Here there is no such state of af. or every advance in wage and fairs in our coal fields, and is not cost of material, and for every addi-/ likely to be, but in general business | tional tax imposed, the mine oper. a profit that practically amounts to ators have adde ad onal sums to!an ove harge has become a trade fatten their own purs custom, It probably will not be This vicious system has driven | checked until some intelligent sys the p of coal to such a height tem of informing the public as to England that the industrial | legitimate retail prices of the princi prosperity of Great Britain is im- pal commodities is inaugurated, _ PLANNING FIGHT ~ Battle Is On to Save ' New From Gallows LOS AN — United . Cal, July 9. ress.)—The fight to save Harry S, New, who claims his father is United States Sen- ator Harry S. New, of Indiana, from the gallows, has begun. ‘Today New sat in a cell at the county jail, where he was taken yes terday, after being formally charged with first degree murder, awaiting his preliminary examination, set for Monday Mrs expe time Lulu Burger. i to reach today and New's mother, is Los Angeles son the defense will Richardson, clared. begin, representing Attorney John New, de Doctor's Opinion Already Dr. E. 0. made a mental examination of New and declared he be New not know the real difference between and wrong at all times—that he fs not a sane man. Sawyer has ve: does There are rumors that New's de. |fense has been financed from a| | source which will not come to light NeW admits that yesterday was his hardest day thus far, the inquest, recoiling as if from a! blow, when detectives calmly pre: sented in evidence the gun which New gave to them during the cold dawn of Saturday, when he drove to the police station with the body of Freida Lesser in the back seat Again he recoiled when Dr. A. Wagner, county autopsy surgeon, testified the fatal shot probably was fired from a distance of not more than six inches, Following the inquest, who repr mother at the autopsy, de. | had been revealed that of Miss Lesser’s condi. and that the girl Dr. Louise nted Miss | clared it New's story tion was correct, had been an expectant mother, Fred Billingsley. | immediately | work of formulating a definite | He sat during | | | TO INSPE ARMADA COAST T |Great Political St Start Tomorrow dress Before IMPORTANT IS ISSU WASHINGTON, July 9 3 United Press.)—President. | will start his tour of States, campaigning league of nations, in weeks, it was announce White House today. The | Include a visit to | coast, where he expects | the newly-formed Pad be present pla continually and readily any senate committees wish to confer with him, ready at all times to |4ny information they may r lwas learned, (Qpponents: |league of nationg have hint might ask the president to before the foreign relations ¢o tee to explain the peace be questioned.) a |_ President Wilson expected fer with several senators tod | regard to the treaty and the It was learned that he keep in close touch with the [relations committee during | sion of the treaty, which will |ably commence soon after fh sents the document to the sei ratification tomorrow at 1215 |The document goes to the | first. « He 3 Mexican Situation The Mexican ‘situation, it is lieved, will be one of the first lems to be called to Wilson's. tion. A report may be made by the department on recent events In ico and on the status of legisla \in that country affecting cone of American oil and other inte The two weeks before st nation-wide tour will be very for the president, it was indicated, @ mass of domestic work is a n 8 attention. This fortnight will also give h |chance to see what direction the | |sault of the league of nations | ponents in the senate will take, |give him opportunity to co | speeches to offset their efforts. | ‘The itinerary is now being pared and will be made public in few days. The address to the senate is fi ished, but the president will probal give it a last review before he deliv= ers it. With the senate taking a one day recess so us to keep the way clear for Wilson's address tomor- — row noon, the stage was set | what is expected to become greatest political struggle in 5 years, | ‘Today there was a period of waite | ing, of calm before the storm, as the (CONT'D ON PAGE FOUR) “What D’ye Mean, ¥ Lost Your Dog” That litle “purp” always was a friendly chap, wasn’t he? He followed passil stranger—not but to well, And where's dog tonight? Don't worry. Ten to one somebody has taken him in and cared for him, And they're read. ing the Lost and Found col of The Star to find your adver tisement, so they can learn your | name and return the little dog you. So telephone The Star: today, Main 600. Give a description of your pet, and have an ad inse! in the Lost and Found colum It will not be long before: , hear that familiar bark the peripatetic pup step, wagging his tall oft, a ky some wisely, that wandering