The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 18, 1919, Page 9

i a GAMBLERS CORNERING se After Looting was Cash Register tearth time within ® Pandits cocaped ly robbing a Fre AMERICA'S SWEET TOOTH Since last year, statistics have @ all wrong 1 eA Sugar consumption. Sa i at's why the housewife is unable to put up her That's why the warn- =e pe A yo fruit. hg is out to pee ahr’ the ft ot next gad cent increase in ‘we pounds more than ‘Na 4 ee 900,000,000 Some develo; tite for sweets in place of ‘icanele hed pal — brewing may have something to do with it. is ly a factor. it regulation is relaxing and ly getting their hands on They hope to dig deep into family i . alite if his store One of andere ue the ste tek on the! by 4) 900 and 600,000 tons per month Beet sugar supplies from Utah Gnd other Western states should be gin to come on the market -witht the next month, relieving the situa: tion in the Went and Middle West. source will supply about 125, 000 tons per month. ‘The Louisiana crop wil! not start tM after Chrisimas, This winter's supplies ftom Hawaii and the Phil ippines will be practieally negligible. The prospect of losing Philippine fugar altogether in the future is & factor that should be viewed with .|/ concern by congress, in the opinion of Josiah Bernhardt, of the sugar equalization beard. Japan has been busy buying sugar “prospects” in Philippines covering the 1920 1921 crops, and has contracted pay as high as 10 and 11 conte pound at the mills as compared & price of 5.8% which covered the whole of Cuba's contract with this country Mast year. There is consid- i # bite H ,| Wholesale warehouses, Restaurant men reported that Wholesalers re- fused to make Geltveries on orders hil 3 & Ey ? : Le Hi 2 iH i aah? fy : Sa = zs | E My i i t i I | He iii ic Ei i : i al it if iy i i I : i fi : : i apt Li bl a Hy : Fy 3 fe i } i Hi | 3 i if afl ge l THER PUT BOY ON STARVATION DIET LONDON, Oct. 18.—Charged with his son, aged 13, Wil I: if i gil ii} ] : ig if . FH a elit i + Hi iT rl 2k af ar : ge oy Hh Hi i < = = i a : ei; B7E 5 meantime between a i } i 5 ; H Be? Ris iislee? ty F Rs Hy ay FROM SICK BED, U. S. SUGAR SUPPLY] SOMPERS TALKS Makes Impassioned Speech Defending Labor’s Rights WASHINGTON, Oct, 1.—Just loadern, high offi make morte money in other work. “It comes with bad grace from the omployers’ group,” shouted Gompers, “for them to insinuate at thin time, directly or indirectly, that organized labor is or has been disloyal.” Gways on Feet As he apoke, he swayed on his feet and had to clutch the edge of the table. His voice was hoaree, at times weak, at others rising almost to a yell. Gompera paused, Then he began on 4 new line. “T am often challenged by the ques tion, ‘Mr. Gompers, do you claim to represent all Amertean workers? 1 anawer ‘Yea,’ emphatically. “The American Federation of La bor cannot better the position of or- ganised workers without gaining the same benefit for the unorganised workers, I therefore speak for labor, organised and unorganized. “Mr. Loree raised the question,that labor should be organtacd, be held re- sponsible for ite acts, have its books audited and its whole affairs thrown open to the public. trying to wrest Russia from the Bolsheviki, and General Bogesievaky at the right, ‘What Ip Capital? “The inference is tHat labor and the child—human beings. Whenever the question arises, which is of the i i I ay i hi | i i i i | : | i ; cA 4 : i \ F i i i i g z 4 i i t sat sg 2 | | i i ii eer i Peay : i HOLD FUNERAL MOND, Last rites for Mra. Agnes vin, 5%, who died Friday Harvard ave. N., will be hel o'clock Monday trom Bonney. son's. Her husband, Rev. Mat H. Marvin, has two Methodist churches in the state named after ¢ THE SEATTLE STAR—SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1919. ‘SECOND AVENUE AND UNIVERSITY STREET — ANNOUNCING Our 7th Amanversary Salle “The Greatest Selling Event of the Year’ Monday and Tuesday Oct. 20th and Zist For Complete Announcements of the Extraordinary Valmes Offered See The Sunday Papers and the ADMITS SPRUCE CAMP FAILURE No Production From Ex- penditure of $8,321,000 WASHINOTON, Oct. 18—Admis- sion that the government received no spruce for airplanes after expending $8,821,000 with one company was made by William F. Carey, Stam- ford, Conn., before the house war de- partment investigation committee yesterday. Carey, whe ts a member of the company referred to, the Gelme- Carey-Kerbaugh corporation, which ha@ a contract for $60,000,000 fect of spruce, denied that any exorbitant profit was made. He said that the money paid the company represented a profit of $84. 000, and that the balance was for ex- pefses incurred. Had the war con- tinued a few months, he claimed that hie company could have supplied the government with a large production of spruce. PROFITEERS TO PRISON LONDON, Oct. 18—-Bands of working-class women paraded New- wo More Days to Pay Salvation Army Debt ili it i rf iy ur TTT tt ; 2 if ! feeln that Seattle does not want a hotel where the downandouter of ton Heath, Collyhurst, Groton, Open- ||’ shaw and Miles Platting districts of Manchester recently, shouting: “Give us open air markets and cheaper food, and send all profiteers to ” For the most tions were of a nature. the demonstra- tempered nature. Moreccans spend their evenings on their housetops. FIGHTING TROOPS * The newspaper printed an article | ‘battle at the end of the first round. DEPORT SEVEN No commander in the war has had a more varibia campaign than that of Admiral Kolchak, who is Here he ls reviewing his troops with General Gaide at the left Enclosed find $............ .., my contribution to the Salvation Army for the building in Seattle of a working girl’s home and working man’s hotel and headquarters building. % a ——eiesnrennnhnaereinenennmnrinieeceniifeniiitissiill Declines to Close Lackawanna ‘Bars’ | x ASSAILANT OF EDITOR HELD MARSHFIELD, Ore, Oot. 18.— John Bateman, owner of a local gar- age, is facing trial on a charge of as-| naulting Dan Maloney, city editor of | the Coon Bay Times, saying Bateman had been reprimand- ed by the city council for permitting gambling in his establishment. Ob- jecting to the publication, Bateman is aHeged to have attacked Maloney. Constable Goodman stopped the Maloney, who weighs only 140 pounds, was beaten in the fight by his larger opponent, aA ‘Toanany LACKAWANNA, N. Y.—Mayor John T. Toomey can’t just see where the operation of saloons such as exist in the dry United States will -poneryit oy 2 ae lead to steel strike riots. He has leged by army officers and immigra- tion temgestoe to have been unde- Pret eon bend Drala sirable allens, their undesirability be he closed during the strike. ing uncovered during the steel strike. The formal charge against the men was “conspiracy to overthréw the government.” GARY ALIENS CHICAGO, Oct. 18.--Seven resi- dents of Gary, Ind., were to be start- ed for Europe today, conducted by immigration oMcials. They were al- Natives of believe in Sham- anism, a form of sorcery, PRINTERS WO AFTER STRIKE ere Mrs. Alice P. Carr, of Seat- ROBBERS’ LOOT Is WORTH VAST SUM Highwaymen and bank robbers have turned their attention from the paltry 60-cent dollar to some- thing of value, A truck belonging to the T. B, Klock Co., commission merchants, was standing at First ave. and Pike st. The driver was absent making @ delivery. Bandits sneak- ed up and made off with a whole “sys case of exes. ee : Police were trying vainly tboms pute the loss Saturday. pi aa GET IN ON THIS OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 18.—You'll have to hurry if you want in on the ground floor, Mrs. George Johngon told the police she had bought $500 worth of stock in the league of na- tions*from two enterprising strang- a pope's dally average of let- ters is 22,000, and these are dealt with by 38 pecretartes, ‘Tie American hemlock trep is 6x- tensively planted in Burope for erma- mental purposes,