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The Seattle Star ~~] hw Bas ____ ae SEATTLE, WASH,, TU DAY, DE ( EMBE R 9, 1919. Weather Forecast: Tontams “hotter a visas a Sei "SG, HAGEN GETS (United Press start Correspondent) | PARIS, Dec, 9—The allies toe | MAY GO UP TO : $1 A POUND day presented a united froht to Ed Hagen, leader of the boore serve in the federal penitentiary. ae ; : Germany in their demand thyt | ring, and five members of the || Carey, who, after making @ writes” he Can We Do Without Coffee? she accept the protocol to the gang who were recently convict | Confession of guilt, pleaded not guilty: .F Z peace treaty, ed of the robbery of the govern- | UPON trial, and — a the Stop drinking coffee for sixty days Both British and Malian dete- ment warehouse, were sentenced | #tand no that he would 1 Sorend One of the | dtee dealern of this city says that « beyeott ts gates received notifleations from | t prison terms, varying from | {2,.°*"\' mini tt i the only certain rem of American consumers st the carefully thelr governments that they hay Gin 40 te Sea ors, Wik ntences : Planned coup by food gamblers backed b fan government stand ready to carry out the pre bd ‘ imprisonment. Fy Coffe at one dollar a pou he nies the appetite for scribed penalties should the Teu Judge Jeremiah Neterer in the J. W. Lochnane, the Sitney driver ‘ America’s favorite beverage can t 1 for two months tons refuse to sign U. 8. district court Monday after. | who turned state's evidence, waa. noon tenced to four months in the Hagen, « former police patrolman, | county jail. It was prineipally hs I The ¢ w verely acored by Judge Net-| L0chnane’s testimony that the jermany will sign. The Ger-| was ne’ ¥ Koo y Judge Net-| eners of the gang Wail na, it was believed, ha 14° erer, who declared that he was the, \forrison and Lochnane will ed the failure of the United Btates | directing genius of the gang that/ their terms immediately. AR to ratify the treaty has not put the 8. eireuit court of The 390,000,000 States departmen . An embargo on mportation would be the one other drastic measure possible ail are out of reach of the United ©, there wan @ feeling of in both Paris and Londor But a master r he household purse is being prepared robbed the government storehouse of to the U allies in a position where they are 4 - 717 was filed by counsel for the F forced to back down upon their orig-| 1,717 bottles of liquor last March “YER ETileD Ion paninn tp four defendants, who were see wna FREDERICK M. KERBY na} demands He wan sentenced to serve two Years! isaed on bail pending a decision 4 NEW YORK, Dec. 9.—The Brazilian government is hold- A dintinet softening In the German at MeNells island and to pay a fine| motion for a new trial was denied me ing back 390,000,000 pounds of coffee for higher prices im the titude was apparent of $1,000 Judge Neterer. } United States. “We have no false hopes over the! wo years each at MeNefls island,| 1% S4dressing the court peter ; Certain 1ation in Washington. © mem pronouncement of sentence, merican coffee men are aiding the holdup @ Coffee at a dollar a pound is a probable result. A ‘fund of $1,000,000 has been turned over by Brazilian coffee growers to the joint coffee trade committee for propa ganda. The plan is to send coffee prices "way up, and to make the people of this country “like it” Here are the facts, as I gather them in the “coffee district” of Wall and Front sts., from men who know the coffee situa- tion thoroly. . of the German peace delegation, but without the fine, were imposed! an+ pistriet Attorney Bem Ia sdmitted He insisted Germany's on Walter F. Patton, the patrolman| branded the four defendants 1 the protocol never| upon whose beat the robbery oc-| took the stand in their own based upon a hope that curred, and upon Dick Russell. Jim as perjurers, and declared ed States would come into Morrison, on his own request, was| friends had been induced to he breach in behalf of the German! allowed credit by Judge Neterer for perjury to shield them. Judge epublic | the time he has been in the county erer severely arraigned the jail, which leaves him 22 months to/ ants on the same count, We know thi friend of G Jelegate admitted. ee ae Se sl Veteran Is Acquitted t Senator Lodge is rmany.” the peace The National Coffee Shae ie association, of which Mr.| head of the German 4 chon Cari Brand, of Cleveland is president, is doing nothing perro peck oy ame te b J R bb Tri 4 to stop the holdup. The abe coffee men are doing nothing. at once ® partial meeting of Germar 'y ury in Ce) er y ’ And members of both branches of the trade—green and objections and as voicing complete F. E. Schultz, 2%, wounded | rifled the cash register, stepped out a roasted coffee men—have joined in what is known as the etermination of the allies to sind) Canadian veteran, was acquitted | side and took off his mask. Hels ; joint coffee trade committee, whose chairman is Mr. Ross ee he the Geemens.| in two hours by @ Jury Monday | 7° the street and twice waa W. Weir, and have acéepted the sum of $1,000,000 from the The Se w pote, which of being the masked man who hee od pre Me goo: pe Brazilian coffee planters to use in adve ertising coffee in the agreed to submit this matter to the! held up the Golden Rule meat | 0-7, sien shock. He wall United States at the present high price reparations committee a spirit) market, Piineny ave. ane Sots | in the second battle of the Somme, f equity,” was regarded as a par st, October 15, obtained $49.50, tla! concession to Germany and escaped after engaging in 5 Ghastines bo atx sieecs me JESSE JAMES’ HO! The American and Brazilian speculators together have yy forced up the price of coffee to levels unreached since 1871. 2 Lip During the past r the wholesale price of coffee has been fw however, was den = advanced about 170 per cent, rising from 1114 cents on June Ree — Tl t # 30, 1918, to 8014 cents on June 30. ber. When these witnesses were) DETROIT, Dec. 9.—Su1 SOE hoe elias an much. oe called to the stand by the state Mon-/by weeds and underbrush, © ; ink Samana. LIEUT. CARR TO EXPLAIN _|Scntve' sc ourrenser of tersnnns|calod ty the sense by rah 6 oa tee cose, Le TRAFFIC REGULATIONS (rir wnrtare also is renewed | "resembled" Schulte. "One maid. he| rooms wtands almost. fongettan. And in spite of the fact that since July 30 of this year, the} With a view towards enlightening, ane supreme council yesterday re.| Wore a black coat, another maid it|the heart of St. Joseph, Mo, wholesale price has fallen off between 5 and 6 cents, there! automobile drivers with sorne of the considered the petitions of Firaxi!/ was a brown coat, a third insisted! within two blocks of two ey has been no lowering in price to the consumer. Lifficulties met by police traffic o ) Uruguay that they be allowed he wore @ green cont and a fourth/ lines. The house was once TALK OF COFFEE AT ONE DOLL AR A POUND HAS! cers, Lt. Clarence G. Carr oj (0 | nterned German ships whic concluded it was @ checked coat pied by Jesse James, the fame » thelr hands du The day following the robbery,|Missonri bandit. BEEN FREELY INDULGED IN BY CERTAIN COFFEE Four hundred and sixty |about the efty Gattis Gvision, w Cue American Schultz appeared at the market and) A score or more years ago a vis SPECULATORS. pounds of I. W. W. literature ing hall Tuesday night at § o'clock was un ‘ood, # asked the proprietor, O. W. Hafer,/to St. Joseph was not We are the largest consumers of coffee in the world:| was confiscated by Sergt. P. F. under t mat on of the Automo- | Americ contentions, which are) who started the rumor that he had pay Be se a aunt - . f * owl | the bile Club of Woeter Wa ington maned ely om the fact that ne obbes eo i ef Be! 4 hon ° e: james. 3razil is the largest producer; 85 per cent of the Brazil out-| Keefe’s antired squad in a raid had later dinap Two other speakers are inc ded on| Ur new States alan tia cer he rotated te fain pit was bevened. ar nsoatha’ sey one pace put comes to the United States, and 75 per cent of all the| late Monday afternoon on the | peared ret. Keefe e the program. Al! motorist interned ships which had | ‘The masked robber held up Hafer | to see the house where Jesse coffee consumed in the United States is Brazilian. We drink| residence of Mrs. Emma A. Haus. local members of the W. W. oF | come er porsensior at the point of a gun, searched him, lived and died. over ONE BILLION POUNDS of coffee a year. man, mother-in-law of George | *80zation are in cémmunication — on Mae SEE vs ewbtaiwten 7 nderveer and know when a The purchase and and storage by the Brazilian government! Vanderveer, national attorney @ ‘and that they of 3,000,000 bags of coffee follows the lines of the world for the 1. W. W 0 to the house and help themselves hold-up known as the “Valorization” scheme, started in 1908. ee Some See eee oF Herman Sielcken, a German coffee speculator, was the orig- # all contained copies inator of this plan, by which, in collusion with the Brazilian gine, prints t 1 W. W. head government, enormous quantities of » were stored at quarters in Chicago, A number of edifferent centers, including New York, Havre, the articles mentioned the Centralia Hamburg. etc., financed by bankers in New York, Gerr yim what the pack ye 1 3 came pata ae. Belgium and England. The National City Bank of New : ee aha Prey yew organiza } York backed the scheme here. Under the plan, the price of burst into tears| tion who are in jail coffee was doubled in two years, notwithstanding that the a her what the average production was fully maintained Senator George W- Norris, of bra forced a gavernment investi N;| W. W. and had nc oe Gu wandasvuaiin s department of justice proceeded against the distribution of the propaganda| known to the police the pre eers—the stored cof f fee WAS SE ized and sold, and a feder: al law passed ma alorization” impossible so fa | See ee ee NEWBERRY TRIAL “SKY PILOT” IS 7 S IMPOSS aie TO REACH THE BRAZIL VE EN’ CH IS WORKING THE HOI f AS IMPOS A frc st occurred in the spring of 1918 in Brazil, and wher ‘ / prices rose to unheard of heights in the United § = lated efforts wer ade by certain coffee men to ergt. Keefe is inclined to believe e 4 he | M Vanderveer blameless for the not arrented sts are un was not sympathy with the I.| in ‘ ‘ At this season of the year the housewife is busy with her prepa- xplain it Long Legal Fight Expected Quoted as Saying Many Fly- r Be 28 det the “frost.” Se as Ss in: Michigan Sensation ers Fail From Drink rations for the holiday cakes and a. " , 1e large: offee dealers in New i @ York, has suggested a way to bring down the price and bring| GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Dec. 9 NEW Y¢( Yer Lieut. BR. W. astries J ¢ by BE the Brazilian government to terms. ‘Te aL beget nd Pape 3 heels Ps MES tgien Shaper Shey pastries. If you would have per boycott by American coffee drinkers. ; he history of Michigan is expect-|Ioted In a statement Issued by the ae -(s i j | __ Representative Igoe, of Missouri, has introduced a resolu- aie pawn January 27, tee curity Govern Ge eet fect bake day satisfaction use tion in the house directing the fede rade commi ra inquire into the high cost of coffee The resolution sleeps 134 other: f ih the committee on interstate and foreign commerce. si on to| Senator Truman H. Newberry and jing, “The secret of the failure of associated with him in the|some of the pilots in the recent cal carmpaigna will face a| transcontinental race can be attrib: | States district court | uted to too much booze.” on @ charge of conspiracy to corrupt} Maynard, who is now in Savannah, the electorate of the state. Ga, in credited with making the Society Woman Is Charged ‘The date of the trial was fixed by |ataterment, just before he left for that | Judge Clarence W. Sesstona tate yea- | piace | ie score of his pol putenants. Maynard waa alleged to have said BAN BRANCISC the he Significance was attached to the|"I have seen some who always took Violette Potte Sensis: make “scout ss t in min {Statement of Judge Sessions that a|& drink before flying. I have see atent our Woman, whose aboc a adden} alley, a sullding, 4 Warning would be sent all prospec-|Others who flew with a hango transferred early tod from the | according te on ‘ er 4 jurymen that they must-not dis |from the night before, and I have Palace hotel to the cit on, still|a. m. on October 20. Mra ierute,|cuss the Newberry case with anyone, |seen still others fly who never Was at the prisor ill be warned to report |touched a drop, Many of our fatal| been unable to pr mes|fecldents have occurred in connec-| This is a flour of wonderful flavor, milled from the heart of Washing- ral authorities the i Felease on bond was expected soor Be ons who Wo. tion with the three classes I have " : " yore ‘ite vot ‘yeodore “3 crntgr Newberry ahd othere | Heferrng to the recent cranecoun ton Bluestem wheat. It is made by experts right here in Seattle and reece, Wan tockes, up at i130] to the supreme court of the United [Concluding = particular housewives have found it the ideal flour for all their bak- MUE ce that® ts the fire’ that'ce OO tee eee wane Ce ing needs. wtroyed her Mill valley hor Octo irs Kerutieobnitt ave her age ae YAapanese to Hang —_| BALLARD STUDENT fs ; ; eae i Shan se regia at toe ja.) for Slaying Girl| WILL GIVE hus You can rest assured that your bread will be white, light and whole- Drom ofthe raliroan orvorat om, Aris, in April, 191 Japarene, hus bee cond, te larangiag ¢ esse tur emeeie some—your cakes, cookies and pastries deliciously good if Patent ee, « Set oe Berger's Masovity «| Siar Mine avast « rouse it the senoat autioriam” stare'siaer| XX CKLLENT is your choice. ‘ t 1 society, and Pearl eeeernty 08) where 6 MILWAUKEE Wis, Dec. 9 eres | _ |ttaa Prom antitirserten tn! TOT DIES OF BURNS; | nurtninment. Proceeds” wit go. 1 Your grocer can supply you and he will sell it with a guarantee of the Fifth Winsconsin district today | Sees “Ordi, the school stage fund | . . poole nd on Maio sion ide the claimed the unseated sociaist con-| — “PLAYED WITH MATCH| ae | satisfaction or money-back, = 4 others charged with thiev-| yesterday was meaningless, Victor| Funeral services for little four| DISCUSS RAILWAY BILL, 4 with “dope” offenses. Mr r polled 14,004 votes to Henry |and-a-half-year-old Erna Herger,| WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—The sen: | Kruttschnitt drew her furs closer 9,282 | daughter of n and Mrs. Herger,|ate today resumed debate on the rail- me The warrant for Mrs. Krutt-|was about 40 per cent of that cast at{® month ago while playing with} | gchnitt’s arrest was obtained by I. | the last congressional ¢ fon. The| matches, will be held Thursday from | Honesty among Icelanders is Lad C, Bergen, investigator of the fire | primary was a mere form there|the Georgetown undertaking chapel.| severe a faith that thefts are un- | prevention bureau of the Pacific. He |being only one candidate on each of | Interment will take place in Mount’ known, tho locks, bolts and bars are| upon immediate service, de-'the two Uckew Pleasant cemetery never used ¥