The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 26, 1919, Page 11

TAR—TUESDAY, AUGUS AOBERS BEGIN COFFEE FIGHT (Elks toHorn Into Liberty Wednesday OPEN HEARINGS 1S UP TO STATE! Night to See Brother Charlie in Movie r Investigation Gets| Evidence of Profiteering Is ‘ 1 1 1 — " Down to Business Given Prosecutor | - ~ a congress! committee | The government fight against high | . g ™ investigating the m hearings at room coffee prices in Seattle continued un abated Tuesday “While T am as yet uncertain secur tiding, eatly Tues | Whether restaurant men charging 10 | ius TEeperiant develop. | Cents per cup of coffee can be prose ‘on the securing of fu-| cuted under federal laws, 1 know t contracts for Seat-| they have violated the state law by are 6 es re expected to be | Sisning the agreement to raise prices at ned hearing and I have turned over all my find Myre committee was DUSy Monday, | ings to Prosecuting Attorney Pred the books of the Skin. |C. Brown,” declared United States pra eon and the rec: | District Attorney Saunders. bed 0 cenereency fleet corpora.| “Investigators of the department gut Oreatigation Into the in.| Of justice are looking Into the cost eee of the Skinner & Hddy | Price of the individual cup of cof: iad fraught with great impor: fee. If dealers ure found to be er future of the shipbuild | making excessive profits they will be wae we here | prosecuted under the undue profits Mi lmpers of the committee want it| Section of the food control bill, un wederstood that the investigation is| less it can be shown that coffee is " dividual d, | Rot classed as a food Ld Be onwide rs pnb. “I think it an outrage to charge cetity cheer up some doubtful | 10 cents per cup for coffee to restau t have been advanced re-| rant patrons. I don’t care what they theme! char} m 0 but ft's ods used in the dif-| charge in high-priced hotels, _ | the ordinary man and the satlor —————— | that’s coming to visit us that I'm eg at Holdt's—aptown, | looking out for,” i Goretewn, | os sa Av .| The retail trade bureau of the Chamber of Commerce and Commer cial Club has joined in the fight against high prices. A survey of re tail trade conditions In this city will | | be presented tea Prosecutor Saunders jon which he may base his future findings Button Mad Knife mies Made |Bottles fies Empty Plaiting When Raiders Come ‘ 2 ‘ . GA BAUER & CO. foie oon Whe “te ht AY | has obtained exclusive Horse | |tavern in Snohomish county, two| Bi ad Dressmakers” Supplies |i snr of King pune, son ; em NG publication rights for Seattle jday night, arrested | Foarth Ave. Seattle | owner of the roadhouse, and seised| e e e e e | 4,000 empty bottles in the pantry + [Sessee,coy chet ot Bs; and vicinity, to publish serially contained whisky at one time \ Farley is in the city jail await ling a hearing before United States Commit: McClelland on boot legging SAN FRANCISCO, Aug ie uttorer should | High officials in the district council P orke reased Betas atuddorn trouble: Picaty sedtiaence™ wuhy “thet the Did these men get you ~in-Seattle motion pictur Romance of Seat- ee, Ta SSnfacke | 15,000 telephone operators on the| tle’? The man at the right is Beverly B. Dobbs, who put in 10 years of his life making eae Ceee ara nee, tne voted: to pars “The Top O’ the World,” that wonderful photographic history of the Arctic. The sylph- « FS Aina influ: |Sesent conatwide stflice like figure at the left is Walter Steiner, director of the home-grown film, which is nou 7 The vote is only partially counted.|@ppearing at the Liberty. ener +, If the vote is against the com BY J. FE. BOYDEN pi | Bett promise effected by the operators’| py actual count, 22,000 men, Steiner, the obese director, who wan even as Doug Fairbanks. But why or free sampic | international officers negotiations). “ wae ad ¢ |temponsible for “A Romance of Se- | comp: the twain? Comparisons Laboratories, 243 | will be reopened with the telephone he nm and tyre a filed rite we pre ae ? 2 yt oe Po Pigg abpsepenre Nee Or CNY. cearer,|companies for a higher wage/Liberty theatre last Saturday and)’ “aroused by reports that Charles | was wont to chirp the daily use of Poslam | scale. Sunday to see the home-grown film.) Davis, grand exalted ruler of the| Tiere may be those who put “A with Posiam. “A Romance of Seattle.” Of course, | Eiks, is a foug ply inlaid pippin as a |Romance of Seattle’ under too Charies Ray, the regular profes |screen star, & herd of his antiered | powerful a microscope, but they are In leeland peg orcad a sional screen demon, waa on the |fellows will horn into the Liberty |few and far between. You never jas a breach of divine same bill, but you never can con-|theatre Wednesday night to see for|can convince the actor folk that vince any member of the cast of the | themaelves, In other words, it will |they haven't Mary Young and Clara | ed Till domestic film that Charles drew |be “Elkn’ Night” Of | course | Kimball Pickford looking lide « lot such crowds. | Charley's technique may not rise tolof hol pollol. The madein Seattle — a Neither Charley Chaplin nor Mary | the height of Bill Hart's, but I am |film will run right along with | ~—on the German side of the war—a close-up, Almost Crazy Pickford attracted #0 many coupon | constrained to remark that Charley's Charles Ray all week, in spite of | pn of a cM Mad ea a authentic personal account of the Hun effort renee as ve (COUNGIL ASKED ‘American Legion Wil | ae oa medicine and got no relief. ow, and will atwage prais D. D. D.—ROBERT Kk. HOLMES, Manakin, Va. Union Agent Demands to| Himer J. Noble Post No. 1, Ameri: | post will forward Caaciaeen’ q GENERAL LUDENDORFF will receive $500,000 - | . Anyone suffering from skin trou- ; can Legion, appointed a committee |to the national headquarters from Lord Northcliffe and the McClure News Rests of sev K Sk. it PI le at once the merits of D. DD. now agi ans Monday night to investigate Jap| HH. S. Read, of the Aberdeen Post | ‘1 f bli ivil . Fry" it toaay >. Kunranten the first nene control of industry in Seattle |No, 6, American Lagion. spoke 08 | Syndicate for newspaper publication privileges in bottle. 38c, ae Dectaring that the proposed Skagit/®"d its relation to the problem of |the work of the Gray's Harbor men | ray * ing power plant, was the Dost timpert|teturning ex-service men to thelr lin combatting the I. W. W.s in Great Britain and the United States. This expense Ant Inaue before organized labor, ¥.|Drowar status Southwestern Washington. Out of will be shared by the leading newspapers of the Eng- Cufford, business agent for the| Thomas Swale was appointed |® possible membership of 716, Aber- | lubidand. “Lavareeh, :mepere and| chairman. Other members are E. [deen has a post of 603 members, he | lish speaking world in order that their readers may [roceny union, ad@reased a letter| Heg. physician; Carl EB. Croson, law: | mic | Sa |Ttny to the city council demand-| yer, Ben Ohnick, attorney, and Capt.| To meet with other American have the most momentous newspaper feature that has ing full explanation of th@” status|E. 8. Gill, commission man. | Legion committees from other posts developed out of the world war. of construction plans. Swale wae also named chairman |in the city, a conference committee | “We want to know just what has|of the Elmer J. Nobie Post No. 1's | of Harold L. Nuzum and FE. C. Scott been done,” the letter says. “We! intelligence committee to combat I. | Was named to act with Post Adju | believe a roadway ix necessary for! W. W.ism and to back up the Amert ftant H. C. Cutler. | i Among the American newspapers that will publish carrying on construction can Legion's stand for 10 per cent eameennreeneenamen the Ludendorff story are: The New York World, Chi- ‘You are probably ware that the| Americanism. Stone & Webster interests had a| Four additional members to act at OA cago Daily News, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Los Angeles permit covering an eight-year per jon the committee will be selected . Phil d 1 hi P bli L : a Gea: hak theen sitovente. apent| later. > Examiner, Philadelphia Public Ledger, San Francisco 250,04 nary evelop- - ys “agi Vt . ss * * a art.s00. in pestiminary. “dev wo Croson Makes Talk 2 i Examiner, Boston Post, Cincinnati Enquirer, Louisville Carl E. Crosson gave @ rousing . " the right to continue developments.| talk on the “Back to School" move- | Courier-Journal, Atlanta Georgian, and the Pittsburg How much has the city spent?) ment, urging the veterans to com 4 What has the money been spent for! piete their education, that they may | Gazette-Times. and when does the permit expire?| tip themaciven as | win the next If the Chamber of Commerce advice,| generation. He also touched on the | that’s really what we offer you in University which I joxygn gre A for Le city | problem of putting the returned ser: | m \ ‘. to go slow, is followed, it will suit) vice men back intd industrial life “4 ° 4 2. . ey, ase st th ave. N. Bend B. Oth the" purpenen of the. hydroslectri| emphasising the fact thatthe youne’| Do Not Miss This tory-M. Document st. Large tracts, abounding in rich soil and trust. Haste is necessary in the|er men should complete their school. ° * supplied with city water—that’s the opportunity making of preliminary constructions|ing and make way for the service Written Entirely by Ludendorff We present for you to get away from the rent so that the city may obtain a per-|men in their old pi ral The part that the American City counciimen declare the city Legion will play in the entertain has never been granted a permit} ment of Lieut. Col. Theodore Roose Cash. $10 Monthly and that the borings at the pro-) velit, jr. on his visit to Seattle, Sep e e e ) posed site were started simply with| tember 18, was also announced, Col e first insta. ment with a total cost of $349 to $599 will buy one of ‘rieaabeproeaics sara | Roosevelt will speak at a mass meet ] these city farms, with title guaranteed. rege ing at the Arena in the evening end of Roosevelt (Ravenna) Park car line and at whieh year ey Commerce and the A c ego De our salesmen on the ground will show you the : joint hosts, The state committee of Property. |the American Legion will give a @ ‘ * |dinner in his honor and take him on PHONE KENWOOD 3619 a tour of the city Col. Roosevelt i one of the formers of the A C lextra Session Is Called, to! ay phe) having sued the one. | Make Up for Delay iin ‘'maxinem, four, weeks” tour | lof the state in the interest of the | Owing to the extremely large) organization. After his Seattle visit amount of business shelved by the| he leaves for Spokane 4 jcity council owing to the failure of| : Debate Next Week : IN.Pres. VICTOR J. GREEN Ses ee loeehas dane | twe i aia pPeatirvc’ Capt. J. R. Dean will lead the ai Bren da clp sally snge ainst the reservations to Sit LERRY BLDG. —_ 4357 Hoa 4 rece Senne, Wat bs tne tones of nations and Lieut “one Ray pac frermoon when 8D) Charles H. Paul will lead the oppo- peal ow @ rg 0 cag lor the appre | sition next week. The two men were priation of money from the publie) named to head the rival debaters market fund to the zone financial| aticer of the United srates army) %0 Sure of the elmer 3. Noble y Write or Phone Main 600 for Subscription to pay for foodstuffs will be passed.| pout No. 2 in two weeks. yi 4 A number of other emergency |teader will name two other speaker ordinances, requiring seven votes! rojllowing the discussion, the local ————————————————————_ ’ M VAUDE cE | Mattress 2190; 3 7 9 [i for passage, will also be voted upon fs sa Daily, dine be aa penen EM LIN Ar moscow Corporation Counsel Walter F.| ! ! i} BESSIE CLAYTON Singers, Dancers Meier transmitted to the council] THE CANSINOS Y Tuesday a new description of the Needless to Say urs CLEMONS Bure proposed fire site in the Denny re Check Was Bogus Wilbert Duncan OB hy . grade district The old ordinance}! | St Other Acts > porviding for the purchase of the| A. H. Cratte, grocer at 1923 meet t site was killed because of a faulty|ave, in a rare peeve reported to “ ] Geacription of the property lpelioe Sueefay that an. unknown ‘The Unnecessary fALACE HIP Meter has been asked by eased in a blue serge suit Husband” | council to furnish the city with au-|and about 26 years old, purchased Daily, 1 to 11 thority to proceed with construction,|a $26 order of groceries from him With This Week--Until Bat. The Port of Seattle has granted|Monday, making yayment with a “The Innocent College Girt” the elty privilege and the Northern|$50 check which he cashed. | . e Nights (Sunday), 5c; Mat®, | pacific railroad and Albers «.| Cratte declares the man sald he Bessie Barris ale {fxcert Mondayn}, So, | Ladies Milling Co. have walved all claims|would return for the groceries but to the site busn't returned yet.