The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 6, 1919, Page 16

BRITISH STRIKE. ‘COMES TOCLOSE Workers and Government Reach Agreement TONDON, Oct. 6.—Rritish railway Workers wero returning to their Posts today after both the strikers ~ &h@ the government had made con | Geasions yesterday which ended this Country's greatest lador walkout On many of the raitway lines Rains were in operation early to @ay. In some quarters fear was ex ‘Presred that agitators might cause trouble, but there was no @vidence of it, where the night Shifts generally reported for work Mast night. With both shes claim “ing Victory, the average Rriton was Goncerned chiefly with the simple Mact that a settlemont had deen Feached. Regardless of the partisan @f victory, the Briton rec t both sides con id granted some Both retained enoug " their faces” and both were ¥ conscious of the terrible pos involved in a failure to the issue. Settlement Terms | Under the terms of the settlement, will remain at their Present | Mntil September 30, 1920, when | Will be reviewed in the light of circumstances, The govern- Will pay the arrears in wages were withheld, owing to the| breach of contract. The | nt also made the conceasion ‘ing. negotiations with the after the premier had re- to engage in further discusston the men returned to work. The conceded the readjustment of press was markedly concilia- » only the Daily Telegraph ing Post emphasizing were practically iden- those rejacted before the These papers point out that! 1@ addition of an extra six months | wages are reviewed was a “saver of face,” since It is most that the cost of living fall below the 110 per cent| —the railwaymen’s mini- lum wage is to cortinue while the of living ts 110 per cent above level. Papers are almost unanimous ing that the rallwaymen's Sa the futility of a gen- has been ordered, the Unit- shipping board announced gailings were ordered halted al days ago, because of the Eng. strike. board orders emphasized bookings are not yet to cent of the watch crys are produced in England cent in Japan. ® 5 ) \ ® On Loox, PoP 1 FOUND MY FOOT BALL VP mt “THE ATTIC ~Home AFTER A WARD THE SEATTLE STAR Heuo BOB. kiss DADDN- ! . DAN AT THE OFFICE = BARON KONDO DUE HERE TODAY Committee to Greet Japan- ese Shipping Man Four former presidents of the Monday night to welcome Baron Rempet Kondo, president of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, when he ar- arrives here overland from the East. Following the reception Baron Kondo will go to the home of Samuel Hill, where he will stay until he leaves for Japan October 13. Baron Kondo has just returned from Europe, where he was chief shipping adviser to the Japanese peace delegation. The reception com- ~|mittee named by President R. H. Parsons, of the Chamber of Com- merce, consists of J. D. Lowman, Judge Thomas Burke, A. J. Rhodes, J. E. Chilbers and J. W. Spangier. ‘The baron was met at Spokane by S. Nakase, sub-manager of the local office of the N. Y. K. After an in- vestigation of the port, Baron Kondo will leave for home on the Kashima Maru October 12. SPOKANE, Oct. 6.--George W. Whitty, 18, was killed, and Harold G. Dwyer, 19, seriously injured, when an automobile they were joy-riding in turned turtle on a road near the elty, The machine was stolen. |Gen. Wood Blames | I. W. W. in Omaha CHICAGO, Oct. 6.—Responsibitity jfor the recent Omaha riots rests upon “the I W. W,, its red flag and | the soviet organization of this coun j try ” Maj. Ge Leonard Wood de clared in an addreas before the Chi- |eago Sunday Evening club. Gen, Wood branded the I. W. W ‘and kindred bodies as the “enemies of the American home,” and urged {Chamber of Commerce will turn out| Americana to take an interest in lo cal affairs and elect decent men to | political effice. America must rely on the former |noldiers as “the nation’s strongest | force for peace and good order,” Gen. | Wood declared. \Three “Friends” Get | Away With $300 Fred Baker, second steward of the steamship Admiral Dewey, ts carrying a sore head and an empty pocketbook Monday. Baker became friendly with three men he met Saturday night The next thing he remembered was the peculiar twittering of the birds jand the numerous stars in the « | Motorcycle Officer N, P. And: discovered him lying tn a vy: lot at 25th ave. and Jackson early Sunday morning. Baker found that $300 had been taken from hia pocketbook. In Mexico ts a plant which should be the national flower of the United States. It is white in the morning, Ted at noon and blue in the evening The White Elephant Is Here And Brings With Him Remarkable Shoe Savings in tne Bargain Basement Self Service Shoe Section there is a constant accumulation of broken sizes in smart shoes for growing girls and women. A White Elephant Table has been set aside and on it will be placed all broken assortments Marked at much less than regular prices. Early shoppers tomorrow will find on the White Elephant Table 400 Pairs at $2.00 All good, smart shoes, in various sizes, leathers and colors, and for- merly marked at prices up to—well, just you come and see. Next time youre in the Bargain Basement look for the White Ele- phant—he'll guide you to surprising shoe savings. Ba THE BON MARCHE ‘ RGAIN BASEMENT .|Ment of the interior .{Park, Montana, has been in opera-|ed to in an effort to reach an agree The Great American Home | | TROOPS CRUSH | GARY RIOTING | Will Declare Martial Law if 1 Trouble Is Renewed GARY, Ind., Oct, 6.—State troops early today succeeded in suppressing race and strike riots which broke out at intervals during the las ours. Four inna militia ading to the Adjutant command, that he had y of War rmy troops guard tn uate. One | ular ar Fourth division are in reserve at Fort Sheridan for strike duty The first troops arrived in Gary | shortly before midnight They were went on request of Mayor Hodges The mayor announced that local authorities could no longer control Great crowds of strike | ‘ed before Sheet and! the situation hizers had gath * of the An kept mobs from storm: | en until troops arrived. | | Shortly after the troops arrived the crowds dispersed | ‘The troops, led by Major Lauden | Harriman, pastor of the Second Presbyterian church of Indianapolis, | | marched to the police station, where | Major Harriman reported to Chief | | Forbes | The soldiers were distributed to strategic points to guard against re ported plots to storm the steel plants and drag out strikebreakers at work | within Eleven arrests were made during the night, following outbreaks in four sections of the elty. One man was probably fatally shot, Several others were injured. Automobiles carrying citizen police were fired at from the sidewalkn Adjutant General Smith stated | today that if there are any further AUTO CIRCUIT OF | | He anid he had « proclamation signed | by Governor Goodrich and the secre. | ta of state proclaiming martial Seattle lew and that he could make it ef denies fective at any time he thought Automobile tours of the circuit of | necommary national parks may be t next year, according to H, W. Child. president of the Yellowstone Park Hotel and Transportation company who arrived here Sunday Child, with Thomas A. Marlow President of the National Bank of Helena, and © Miller, mining man of Montana, and Mazx| si Goodeill, manager of the Yellow-| Terminal Company Ready stone park hotels, are on a path finding tour of the national parke| to Grant 8-Hour Day under the auspices of the National [Park Cirewit. Data on the tour will} OAKLAND, Cal, Oct. 6.- wh! |be submitted to Franklin K. Lane,|the San Francisco Oakland Termia! |mecretary of the interior, and it is|railway reported as ready to con jexpected to extablieh stages connect-|cede the Shour day, the strike of! jing the various national parks, un-|its employes seemed today to be |der the supervision of the depart-|approaching an end. The men have declared A stage line connecting the Yel-| would not arbitrate that point lowstone with Giacer ‘Pathfinder Car Is Now in established | OAKLAND STRIKE 1S NEARING END retired | they Ar-| National |bitration, however, would be resort tion for the past year. It is plan |ment on wage matters ned to extend this line to Seattle | | The company ran more cars to and Rainier National park, connect | day Some disorder marked the jing the mountain preserve with the | running of cara by strikebreakers other great parks of the Weat and | yesterday, but Saturday's rioting thus secure thousands of tourtets | waa not approached | for the trip thru the seenic wonders} No attempt As of our great national playgrounds|run cars at night who would otherwise go to Europe.| — es P G. | Uninvited Guest | a | eee “7 / “i $650| Robs Cafe; Flees sid ” ime a With $250 Loot b 0 0 Police are searching Monday for Six diners lost their appetites early the ungrateful pedestrian who ; . rs Sunday morning when a lone bandit, bed ¢ . 2001 14th pi yy apr 1 14th | with a soft, black hat pulled down ave. 8.. of $460 on the Beacon Hill! Toe 1 Molt Mvalked invo the Main bridge early Sunday morning Ng tood h Cummings, who is president of the | bran licg hi goopsuel "o opal tal | Cumuniogs Gas ®. Fower ©, Was! Qos register and hand over $900. | Boing home in his automobile, He | “gh resister and hand over $250. |Dicked up the lonely individual at) eee ne ene eet at Athen 12th ave. and Jackson st. When | ‘he bandit fired a sho wg they reached the bridge, the man|Grigos, the waiter, as that gentle pulled a gun and relieved Cummings |™4", Not knowing the presence of of hin wallet. the uninvited guest, stuck his head) Motorcycle officers began a search, |‘ the door, salt tas go crossing Bon Marche park at Fourth ave, and Pine st., headed towards the main part of the city. He wore a long black overcoat. 360,000 Pounds of Sugar Reaches City | being made to James W. Gerard Buys Residence | NEW YORK, Oct. 6.—James W. | Gerard, former ambassador to Ger. | jmany, has paid $250,000 for the) six-story house at 1015 Fitth ave. | George J. Gould is the seller. The! A shipment of 360,000 pounds of | house has not been occupied for! | sugar, arrived in Seattle from San| two years. Gould bought it nine! Francisco Monday morning. Distri jyears ago for one of his daughters. | hution of the shipment in Seattle will More than $500,000 has been spent | mean less than a pound for on the house by Gould, it is said. | habitant, but is expected to ; age which exists. The 5 Find Girl Dead in valnesent left. them on| Apartment Bath 23, but was held up) Miss Elizabeth Engstrom, by a landslide in Northern California, | 19, 5 : . wax found dead in a bath room in Labor Discussion |the New Richelieu apartments, 733 ¢ Is Open to Public Belmont ave. N., where she lived, | at 1 o'clock Sunday morning. Miss| PhMip J. Reilly, président of the Engstrom shared an apartment! National Association of Employ- with a sister, Miss A. Engstrom | ment Mar ®, will discuss indus- and Mise 1D. Miller, Death is be- trial relations between labor and jeved to have been due to heart j employers at the Chamber of Com- |merce Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 “vt Ok _ jo’clock,. The public is invited sca tid war gain, yi Station Man iGas Ons oe eee) Rolihest ey Ronditl ers in the Methow-Okanogan rec “Hand over the money in the titl.”| This was the command txsued by | an unidentified bandit who poked a| ition of levy-| revolver against the ribs of I. Cow-| ing an assesem n the district | drey gas station st pe oman at for preliminary ex ion work, car-| Brooklyn a and Ravenna bivd.| | ried by @ vote of 471 to 6. | Saturday The bandit got $45) and disap Charles A @ taxi driver, was killed in War profiteering has brought a re. | ly when his machine turned over| sumption of the practice of buying | \h sunday. He was crushed. Two|women in India, and fancy prices | women passengers escaped without! are paid by the new rich for good- | injury looking girls, TACOMA, Oct. 6 Brow tI | American Baby Pulls Mustache of King Albert and Is Kissed || ~~ paonaeh a. Wa ba NIAGARA FALLS, N, Y., Oct. 6,|Albert kissed his first Amer ~(United An airplane|baby. It was H. A, Stone, J flight over Buffalo by King Aibert |Week-old son of a New York Cen- | and Queen Elizabeth of Belgium tulle: the ea Py mead ei be of| | The party Is scheduled to leave | Buffalo at $:30 tonight | Press.) was abandoned today rainy ler. Th yal visitors arrived he At the luncheon in Boston yes- at 9:30 a, m, from Boston | terday the queen and Prince hours will be spent in sightseeing.| Leopold had their first taste of At the Niagara Falls station King | Boston baked beans, CTOBER homefurnishing time— the time when we want to brighten up our homes for the long indoor months ahead. A new rug or two, perhaps, some curtains, new linoleum for the kitchen floor. Maybe we have to move into a new home, and are facing the problem of furnishing from cellar to garret. October Homefurnishing Days at the Bon Marche are held to help us —To help us to get new things for the home at prices we can pay—by showing us big assortments of the patterns and colors we like, and salespeople who can be of real assistance in the solving of homefurnishing problems. a Spring and a Mattress All for $22.95 THIS IS ONE OF THE GOOD THINGS WE OFFER YOU DURING HOMEFURNISHING DAYS Think of it—a bed set complete for $22.95. Included are bedstead, springs and mattress. The bed is full size, white or Vernis Martin finish, Simmons’ all- steel construction. A good combination mattress with roll edge and Dia- mond support springs—pretty good, don’t you think? Seamless Axminster Rugs, Good Value $37.50 Good looking floor coverings at reas- onable prices for Homefurnishing Days. Chinese designs in rose or blue, also small conventional patterns in tan, blue or gray. Size 7-6x9-6 at $37.50. Neat Marquisette Curtains $4.00 a Pair October Homefurnishing Days will help you to brighten up your at less. White Marquisette, with insertion and lace edge in Filet pattern—$4.00 a pair. : 8-3x10-6 AXMINSTERS $47.50 MARQUISETTE CURTAINS $2.50 9x12 AXMINSTER RUGS $50.00 MARQUISETTE CURTAINS $4.50 If You Are Making Your Own Curtains and Draperies Consult This List Marquisette for Curtaining Marquisettes are especially adaptable for win- dows directly on the street or commanded by the windows of neighbors. ~ Of close weave, they secure more privacy without excluding too much light. Marquisettes, plain or in cream, white or ecru, 35¢ yard. Marquisettes with drawn-work borders in cream, white or ecru, 40¢ and 45¢ yard. Madras Drapery Fabrics Delicate and refined in design and beautiful in colorings, these drapery fabrics are shown in rose, blue, green and brown. Flower designs, birds, stripes are shown as well as the plain colors. 86-inch Madras—$1.35 a yard. 50-inch Madras—$2.25 a yard. FOURTH FLOOR—THE BON MARCHE Table Linens for Bride or Housewife TEMPTINGLY PRICED FOR HOMEFURNISHING DAYS Whether pure linen or mercerized Damask, you will find prices so reas- onable you'll want to buy now for pres- ent and future. MERCERIZED NAPKINS $1.50 Neat floral patterns IMPORTED DAMASK $1.75 Scotch Cotton Damask—?70-inch LINEN DAMASK $2.25 YARD Satin finish—70 inches wide LINEN CLOTHS $6.75 EACH Pure Linen Damask—70x70 inches FABRIC FLOOR (THIRD) Buy Blankets With Your Fingers as Well as Your Eyes | DURING OCTOBER HOMEFURNISHING DAYS Come to the Bon Marche this week for Blankets—come and feel of them and look at them—feel how nice and soft they are—softest denoting wool. PLAID BLANKETS $5.25 PAIR Size 66x80 inches SOFT PLAID BLANKETS $6.95 Size 72x80 inches TAN OR PLAID BLANKETS $7.95 PAIR Size 66x80 and 72x84 inches WOOL PLAID BLANKETS $10 Size 66x80 inches FABRIC FLOOR (THIRD) SPECIALS IN HOME WARES FOR THE OCTOBER HOMEFURNISHING DAYS Wash Boilers $1.95 Each Model Wash Boilers—large, No. 8 size, with durable metallic bottom, station- ary wood grip handles and heavy tin cover—an essential wash day need at considerably less. Slop Jars, Special $1.65 White Glazed Stone Chamber Pails or Slop Jars—complete with cover and wire bail. No phone orders taken, The Perfection Heater, Special $6.50 “Standard Oil Company’s” Perfection Heaters—large » size—odorless, smoke- less. Will heat good size rooms. FOURTH FLOOR—THE BON MARCHE BonMarché_ 4