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hee aadt Daa i, Uaalaadtia a De at LOCKED IN HER ROOM On the verge of starvation, Mra. | Biteabeth Winthro!, 31, who was) Fescued from her room in the Cas @ada hotel, 619 Howell st, by the Police Tuesday, is said to be suffer. dng in the emergency hospital Wed Readay from the severe mental strain Of her self-enforced captivity B. Matsura, proprietor of the Cas @ stared the woman had lived dh the hotel for 14 months, and that she was a mystery to himself and the Bwests during all these months. She avoided all other guests, was Mever seen with any one and ate ‘Very little, When she «id eat it was $.F.DOCKMEN FILE ULTIMATUM Won't Handle Arms Sent by! Allies to Siberia BAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 5 Prese.)—Union stevedores of Francisco will not handle sup: | arms and munitions shipments | d to the allies in Siberia for | Overthrow of the soviet govern: it was announced today. | & resolution passed by the nd Stevedores’ union, the | nen pledge themselves not | $0 assist in any way in the blockade | the allies have thrown about Bolsheviki. } | action is taken on the grounds | gathered outside the plere of the In. | laces twice about his shoe tops before he always late at night. She would sup | out of her room and disappear into the night. Returning a few minutes later, it ts said she would go direct to her room, bolting the door, She always attended to her own | room and no one was permitted tn. | side, About two weeks ago, accord: | Ing to Matsura, the woman discon. | Unued her trips Consequently the police were not fied yeaterday and Motorcycle Of ficer G. J. Fuller was called. He at tempted to get the girl to open the door, but she refused. Fuller broke down the door and removed the «irl to the city hospital, where it was found she was slowly starving to death Nothing ts known of the woman's lite. LONGSHOREMEN STILL STRIKING N. Y. Men Refuse to Go Back to Their Jobs NEW YORK, Oct. 22, — Altho called off twice by officials of the uniona, the strike of longshoremen which haa tled up the port of New York for nearly three weeks was stil) | In progress today, Altho one faction of 1,000 strikers yeaterday voted to return this morn- today, Several hundred men were Industrial conference recesses bring together important figures in 16 photographer anapped Frank Morrison, secre federation of Labor (left) in earnest conversation | ing, not a man resumed work early | With John D, Rockefeller, Jr, on the steps of the Pan-American build both capital and labor. tary of the American ing. The photographer discovered the United States has failed to) ternational Mercantile Marine, but /a# a bit unconventional, at least, for war on Russia, and that if ‘Allied powers now seeking the of soviet Russia are suc HW they will “wipe out for the cing classes of all countries the and economic conquests al- ly undertaken or obtained.” ir thousand riggers and steve comprising the union, are by the resolution. About one of the longshoremen here are ‘on strike. The remainder have to work under agreements companies. no attempt had been made to enter. | | ROME IS SHAKEN BY EARTHQUAKE ROME, Oct. 22.—(United Preas)—| A strong earthquake, lasting five seconds, occurred in this vicinity at 7 o'clock this morning. Ephesia Fanni to Go on Trial Today TACOMA, Oct. 22.—By the United Press.)-—-Ephesia Fanni is scheduled to go to trial here today on the charge of having stabbed Mike Reagan seven times during an alter. cation on the night of August 16. The jury which first heard the Fanni case, September 15, disagr There’s Always a Crowd in The Bargain Basement The success of the Bargain Basement proves that folks are glad to forego the luxuries of Free Deliveries, Charge Accounts and Free Alterations to Garments if they themselves get the benefit in the shape of lower prices. Get the Bargain Basement habit! A Once-a- Year Opportunity Tailored Dresses Sample From an Exclusive Manufacturer Every Fall this manufacturer of high-grade garments for women sells the Bargain Basement his entire sample line. Only the very smartest and most exclusive shops handle his gar- ments, so this is a style opportunity as well as a chance to save a lot of money. There is one style in wool jersey dresses of exceptional quality, in sand, navy and black, and five styles in high-grade wool serges, in some of which taffeta or messaline is effectively combined with the serge. Note the careful tailoring. $29.50 Sizes from 18 to 44. Smart-looking Dress Skirts of navy Panama and black or navy serge are offered at this very reasonable price. Both serges and Panamas come with box- pleated panel front and back, while the serges are shown also in a full-pleated style. In sizes 26 to 30 waist. THE BON MARC REPORT REDS IN RUSSIA HOLDING Hard Fight Is Being Waged Before Petrograd LONDON, “Oot. 22. United received here today regarding progress of the antiBolshevik Preas.)—Conflicting reports were | rad. ted the Rus attack against Pe * fighting was & outsidirts, | Other dispatches, however, report “led the Bolahevikt not only success | ties, it was maid both fully resisting the attack on Petro- grad, but winning victories on other f While the red armies were keeping the anti Tolshevik forces from the city gates by frequent nor Deniken and | Kolehak recetved setbacks that John D., Jr, wrapa hin shoe * them, which struck him & millionaire. |Oakland Police | Chief Acquitted OAKLAND, Cal, Oct. 22.—J Nenry Nedderman, former chief of police, was acquitted by a jury here yesterday, following his second trial on a charge of accepting bribe money from Chinese lottery men. The jury was out 15 hours. EIGHT ARE SHOT IN OHIO CLASH Negro Strikebreakers and Pickets Fight | AE | YOUNGSTOWN, .0. Oct. 22.— Bight persons were shot and stabbed |here early today In a clash between jalleged negro strikebreakers and union pickets. Your of them were armed with revolvers, police said. The fifth negro was sald to have con- | fessed to stabbing Andy Humanio, a |picket. The vietim may die, FIRE ABOARD TUG Fire, breaking out near the stack, destroyed the bridge and a consider. | Jable part of the after deck of the) ltug Buckeye, owned by the Ander- json Towing Co., early Wednesday |morning, at Eighth ave. 8. and Riverside drive, where the vensel was tied up. The fire was discovered at 5:20) |®. m. by members of the crew. The| | wood surrounding the stack had become ignited and spread before the | blaze was discovered. The vessel | Seeregates 60 tons, | Members of the Seattle fire depart: | |ment were unablo to estimate the | cost of the damage. |Parliament Opens | in London Today} LONDON, Oct. 22-—(By United | Press.)—Partiament reassembled to day after a two months’ vacation, jand the opposing parties lined up |for a strenuous fall season, Ques toners were busy early and the oo leupants of the government “front| jbench” had a lively time at the! hands of members who were chiefly! |interested in the result of the gov-| jernment’s “economy campaign,” the |North Russia war and Premier |Lioyd George's Irish trade and |labor polictes. \Plan Funeral for | Former Japan Chief | TOKYO, Oct, 22.—Preparations are | under way for the funeral of Field | arshal Count Seiki Teruachi, for- | mer premier of Japan, who died Mon- |day, | Count Terauch! was minister from | October, 1916, until September, 1918 | An attack on the foreign policy and | the rice riots of 1918 were responal- ble for the change of cabinets which |brought about Terauchi’s resigna } tion, Forestry Men Are in Session Today INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 22.—(United Presa.)—National igterests were rep- resented at the sessions of the ‘Tri- State Forestry conference, which opened here today for two days. Discussion of the news-print situ tion and the shortage of timber, an- nounced as the themes, brought dele- gates from all parts of the country. |Governors Lowder of Minols, Good- |rich of Indiana, and Cox of Ohio yesterday assured President Charles L. Pack that their states will be well represented. Richard Lieber, director of the do- partment of conservation of Indiana, will be in general charge of the con- ference, MISSIONARY SESSION TO BEGIN THURSDAY The 26th annual convention of the Woman's Foreign Missionary society of the Seattle district will meet in the Haven Methodist Episcopal church, corner of B, Lynn and 10th ave, N., Thursday and Friday, Octo- ber 23 and 24, A program has been arranged to begin each day at‘10 a.m, The spectal feature for the | Friday evening meeting will be a young people's rally, The first auto mail service in the ~ | captured in K In the south the Bolshevik! were reported to have recaptured Orel and driven Deniken to the outskirts of Kieff, On Kolchak's front the Bol whevikt were said to have advanced 14 miles in the Kurgan region, tak ners and to have won other on in the Tobolsk Trottsk and Kutanisk sectors, The Polish effort has let down. owing to lack of munitions, causing the supreme council to decide on handing over large quantities of French supplies to the Poles | Near Luga, about 60 miles south of Petrograd, indecisive fighting wan reported. Near Pakoff, 100 miles further south, the Esthonians were #aid to be advancing. | The Bolsheviki, according to re Hable estimates, are in no present danger of munitions shortage be caune of the quantities they hak's recent retreat They are sald to have five armies opposing Kolehak, six opposing Den ekin and three on the western front, & total of 720,000 men. FEARS CALAMITY IN COAL STRIKE Disastrous Times Coming, Says Sen. Frelinghuysen WASHINGTON, Oct. 22—An in-| dustrial calamity ts imminent, Sena! tor Frelinghuysen, New Jersey, de-| clared in a speech yesterday on the! effect of the threatened coal miners’ strike set for November 1 “The stage haa been deliberately | net for thin disastrous event by 400,-/ 000 men, over one-third of whom are | foreign bern, who cannot speak the English language and who have no acquaintance or sympathy with our institutions,” he said. The senator mentioned two of the miners’ thirteen demands as includ ing @ sixty per cent increase in wages, a six-hour day and a fiveday week. There is not a trace of collective bargalning in the demands, Feling- huysen declared “The miners have come and have laid down their demands — their rigid, hard and fast demands—and have said: ‘Here is what we de- mand; take It or leave it,'" he con- tinued. “Pay us a billion dollars a year more, trust to our ability to produce in a thirty-hour week enough coal to keep your industries going and you from freezing, or we will close up the nation as tight as a drum November 1.” “Is that collective barge‘ning? To my mind the operators were right in refusing to grant these inordinate demands, What right have the coal producers of the country to saddie every man, woman and child in the United States with « staggering tribute tax?” SAY PRICE OF COAL BOOSTED Miners Declare Consumer “Stung” Before Strike CHICAGO, Oc Press.)—Coal cons ing now for a strike which they haven't begun to “enjoy” as yet, ac- cording to leaders among the coal miners, Investigation In central states— the soft 1 states—showed prices have advanced in some citips since the mirfers’ strike call was issued. In others there had been no change. | A statement by United Mine Workers in Indianapolis sald the consumer is forced in some cases to pay $1 more per ton now than a week ago, and that the advance is without justification, Miners, themselves, were hit by the ad- vance, officials of the union said, FIVE NATIONS IN CONFERENCE /Business Men Assemble in Atlantic City Today ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Oct. 22.— (United Preas.)—Busineas men of five nations met het today, bringing to- gether in an international conference representatives of the governments and industries under auspices of the United States chamber of commerce. Delegates from France, Belgium, England and Italy comprised the for- eign guests. Working out plans for effective financing of Buropean countries for development of trade relations be- tween the hemispheres are the prt mary reasons for the meeting, ac cording to David A, Skinner, assis. tant secretary of the chamber, 40 Miners Killed in Cornwall Shaft PENZANCE, England, Or. ~-#22— Forty miners were killed and many others seriously injured Tuesday when a winding engine broke while 150 men were being lowered into the Levant mine near here, It is said this is the greatest dis Orlent has been introduced in Mad. ras, India, aster in the history of Cornwall min- ing. 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