The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 3, 1920, Page 4

3 Hleed Advice of Government and Wheat (Crop Falls Rather Low | ‘BY BASTL M. MANLY WASIINGTON, Jan. 3%. — If Tnatead of in winter department one better sowing 42,000,000 acres wheat they have |xown only 3 \ Thin in a reduc per cent below the acreage sown in 1918 The situation is made more dis quieting by the report of the depart ment of agriculture that the | ton of wheat on th!s decreased acre September 20, 1919, the United! age on December 1 was only $5.2 per department of agriculture im | cent, against 98.5 on December 1, a statement advising that | 1918, and §9.5 for the average of the n farmers plant this fall | past 10 years, On the basis of this ‘acres less wheat than im report of acreage and condition, * Phis 8,000,000 acres of wheat | statisticians estimate the next win- which the department recom: | ter wheat yield of the United States be not sown this fll repre- | at 634,000,000 bushels, compared with about 15 per cent of the total } 731,836,000 busheds harvested in 1919 fm 1918, and 558,449,000 bushels in 1918. If current report by the depart:|.for any reason the yield per acre ‘of agriculture shows farmers | qhould fall as low as it did in 1916, ayenot only taken the advice to tle next winter wheat crop will Smcreage, but have gone the |asnount to only 475,000,000 bushels —————wwwee| Kunctly the xame thing has hap pevied in the case of rye. On Sep Y SHIES CLAIM lteniber 20 the department of agri jeullure advised the acreage of rye j shold be cut to 6,000,000 acres asa maximum, and 6,500,000 as a mini mum This would represent a re: |duction of from $00,000 to 1,300,000 acres + 19s. inue Advance Against} ‘The farmers also oa thle canine . let the department of agriculture Red Russian Forces | The report just hued by the depart BY ED L. KEEN Press Staff Correspondent.) 3.—Admiral below the acreage planted in farmers planted, this fall, 6,630,000 Jacres in ryo—aimost exactly the jacreage which the department ad \ vised. On December 1 the condition of rye was 89.8 per cent, as com- pared with the 10-year average of 91.6 per cent. On the baais of this record, statisticians estimate the next yield of rye at £2,000.000 bush lels, ae compared with $4,562,000 In 1919 and 90,183,000 in 1918. |e. M. LONG FOUND DEAD son in Siberia were . 4 forces murther confit, | Natural causes were believed Bat to preven! Thad express.|urday to Rave caused gala ot ant,ond ba ~ | M. Long, 50, whose body was ination not to allow the foun’ in the Vulcan hotel, 619% to cross the anaes Sixth ave, Friday, by the Jap pro- r taking the stand ¢ @P% | orietor, K. Shimota Long had been B sphere of influence would be) icager at the hotel for nine days. Rend by further ret advances. veh seat wireless dispatehes from oma |}To HOLD FUNERAL SUNDAY indicated the soviet ky.) Funeral services for Minnie i 4 , i ce was continuing Hs Peace | vocria, 59, who died at her home, as S19 Kilbourne st.. New Year's day Wireless to Italy will be held at the Rafferty under PWehitcherin, the soviet foreign | taking establishment Sunday after: » Sent a wireless message) noon at 3 o'clock. Cremation will Seialoia, Italian foreign | follow. Mra, Morris is survived by » Predicting an immediate | daughter, Miss Mary Morris, and tion oof relations between five sons, Benjamin Morris, @ mem- ‘and the Soviet government, | ber of the police department; Lester dispatch said. P., Lawton F., Merritt M,. and Leon. Bolahevik official, according | ard Morris. cd Moscow dispatch, pointed _ feapture of the entire Black| SILCOX TO SPEAK AT “v" ‘The speaker at the Y. M. C. A. Goast by red armies is immi- ‘and pacification of this terri-|mass meeting Sunday afternoon Bolsheviki will open a sea| will be Dr. J. B. Sileox, who will @ to Italy. give the New Year's message to the men. There will be a mixpd quartet as the special musical fea- ture at this meeting. At 2:16 there will be a social mixer in the lobby. Arn. 8. Allen, general sec- retary of the ¥. M. C. A. will be [the speaker at the friendship sup- per and the fireside hour will be in » [charge of O, L. Jacobi, ° Says the librarian of “We meet people every day who cannot look up words in the diction ary because they have not learned their A B C alphabetical order.” forces of the all-Russian according ons captured 141 guns and other booty, the dispatch mid, that many prisoners were B. including the entire Mark- of Denikin troope. CLARA KIMBALL | YOUNG In a Thrilling Story ondi: | }ment of agriculture shows that the) TO INVESTIGATE WOODCOCK JURY Mrs. Woodcock to Go on! Trial Next Week SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 9 —Cap: | Its © great thing for your virtw | For the sin of overeating Is no more, jtaln of Detectives Duncan Matheson W & | of Recent | {Verses 4” DAVID GOROOV Pictures bY F WPRARKS hogar’ chert and aah jor y for you be }haw announced the first witness to grand Jury Mon on with that} noquittal of jbo called before tt }dauy night, im conr body's trquiry im Edgn Weodeock, will be Prank H Kilduff, foreman of jury that freed Woodeook, Kilduff will be asked to explain why the vevtiet was re turned, Thomas J, McGinnis and Baward R, May, other members of the trial jury, also have been subpoenaed. In addition, lawyers on both sides of tray; the case are to be summoned, Mathe: | They are loading son anid. bes Woodcock killed Edward Kelly. The trial of Mra Altice Woeodeoue scheduled to begin next week the Now vie favere in ets | And the darkened heres groomin Yor summer's THINK MURDERED 'MAN WAS CROOK OMAHA, Neb, Jan, 3.—Omaha po Hee beliewe that rank Sherwood, | | alias Thomas Leighton, allan Albert Norwood, murdered by gangsters re cently In Los Angeles, was Frank Shercliffe, a notorious Middle West ern criminal Police may these aliases, | Shereliffe Geured in the Pollock | @iamond robhery and train holdup | in Town in 1906, In 1910 he was sen tenced for the murder of John | Walsh Leastville, Colo, saloon keeper, He later erckped, was re | captured and paroled by the Colorado authoritios. Au 8 mre jerky with Tarkey, Turks’ dominions Abyerynians, * Daren! Shereliffe often used Announcing he had reformed, he | peshion, ter miledy's testsies | returned to Dew Moines, entered buni-| Mas designed the cutest besteles, | ness and married a prominent Des weer, moines ets the girts, when they feel Jealous, hick ws fickle fellas Dr. Sienallo. Seve He’ll Remain Here The report that Dr. Henry Surza! lo, presidend of the University of Washington, was under considera | Gon as successor to Dr, M. L. Hurton, | prenident of the University of Min | nesota, in newg to the Washington prexy | “I have no iden of leaving Seattle [At present.” Dr. Sursatlo said j jlike Seattle, and T expect to remain | here indefinitely.” na New the fate! All the Iwading baseball New are casting out their di ies, i | With the hepe of getting he weone a gh ieeernd for date, NEXT | | METROPOLITAN : Sperting ecribes are fall of lerterce Ana ares: CAROLINA Hang Is Hanging the Hang Domicile Nels Hang, who used to live with his wife, Rt at 1009 Yesler way, is being sought Saturday by the | poltes | Nels left home about two months ‘ago, according to Mrs. Hang, when she refused to drive her daughter jfrom home so that Hang wouldn't jhave to support her Hang, according to the ta the police by the disgr 1 % has been in the habit of loitering about the Hang home at nights, | Mra Hang ured = she was downtown Friday night and upon returning ho: about 11:20 she }found a window broken and saw her husband standing in a shadow |outeide, Nothing hac n taken from the house, she said, but the Incident made her extremely | ous. She told the police her husband 1 In Concert | First Time Here Hear one of the world’s greatest con- traltos while her voice is at its glorious best. Hear her just before she makes her debut as prima donna contralto of the most notable musical organization in America —the New York Metro- | politan opera company. borhood. v |Leaky Gas Causes Death of Two Men SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 3--A leaky gas tube caused the two men found in thelr roorr today in the | The two men Lazzari’s golden voice \@ is making history. Her \ Monday evening concert will be epoch-making in death o' here | Mechanics hotel. | Axel Limberg an xander McDonald, were found to have been asphyxiated f excaping from a tube in the adjoining their bedro 1 ear tale was ving with Japs in the néigh-| | | Eye END Strand Orchestra under S. K. Wineland, playing, “Light Caval- ry” and, “I Hear You Calling Me.” Until Sunday Night Only RICHARD HARDING DAVIS’ Eloquent, thrilling, massively-produced Central American love romance—with hun- dreds in the cast— for the grudges his country gets the Sal. | Made of leather, like Napuleun weed to | ' he port says, “The brave deserve | rom jorts MONDAY | Lee aed Walter Johneone in the | __ FORTUNE” * Come and see what the hero engineer does! | | AFTERNOONS Lower Floor . : Baleony ... Children Loge Seats Sle 220 10e 460 | THE Lower Floor and Lower Balcony. Upper Balcony Children Loge Seats ... All Pric MARVELS— of “shooting” his line true to the mark — the destruction of mountains, the bridging of torrents, the boring of the breast of mother earth—all accomplished in jig time by the daring engineer, Clay, in this spectacular production. NIGHTS, AFTER 6 450 on Plus Tax Rescues, raid, fights and action galore. | sz D. W. Griffith's “Scarlet Days” A Love Tale of the Olden West. nerv- | T No Easy Task, Says Poet| The first poet to recite his own » for the phonograph ts Ed- nd Va Cooke, who writes ms for The Star and has given lings from his own books before Vy audiences. One of Cooke's best known child poems is “Moo, Cow, Moo.” A alking to Phonograph Wilson & Co Chicago packers, are now charged wit! hoarding beef in Milwaukee. Of course, Milwaukee ha now got to have something different to make her famo Rival republicans are rather superstitious, opportunity they knock on Wood. At eve ARE YOU IN DEBT? wR Arrest Ticket Scalpers j BAN FRANCISCO, the Instance of the grand jury lice here last evening arrested} three theatre ticket scalper for failure to pay the required muniet tained by th for ar t | phonograph company made a rec- at|ord of his verre as recited by a | professional, but when he heard tt, | | Cooke. hardly recognized his own Seattle musical-annals, | Jan “The Road | | Through SEATS NOW SELLING product, He wrote to the phono- | Don’t Worry—There’s a Way Out ar anh company, mildly protesting 4 We say to you—pay your debts—pay them Hh agpir dba See? Lnenta (ie all at one time. We'll assist you—that's ’ our business. was the company’s response. Several records are now adver- If you have a number of small debts you | owe to several different firms—you are as tax of at all these prices— $2, $1.50, $1, 75¢, 50c ceanengue tised giving original Cooke poems jing the round-up of more than 4,500 The Dark” A Story of the Early Stages of the World War om 'Train Coaches Are Hurled Into Ditch) ST, JOSEPH, Mo., Jan. 9.—several passengers were injured early today, | when a Chicago-Great train was wrecked nes Mo., 16 miles north of here | coaches were thrown into one was killed. he brought here What the West is say- ing of this great; artis thwestern Savannah, Vive a diteh. The injured wit “A voice of truly mar- velous beauty and pow- | er.”—Salt Lake Tribune, Dec. 30. JAPAN RATIFICATION | WASHINGTON, Jan, 3.— Japan's! | ratification of the pence t y has | been sent to the peace conference at Paris, the tate department an nounced today “The large audience was thrilled. She won all by her superb voice.”— Salt Lake Herald, Dec. 30. k Surrey, England, agricultural ex-| Jecutive has vacancies for 29 rat| catchers at $15 a week, with reas oniable “traveling and out-of-pocket | penees, for wholo-time service. # t Pi be in the original Cooke voice. “1 came nearer to having stage- fright when I faced the fateful horn of the record-making ma- chine,” sald Cooke, “than ever be- fore in a long career of public GOSPEL AUDITORIUM Seventh Near Pike Interdenominational—Free to All Sunday School and Bible Class, 9:45 A, M. 8. Flacks, of the Institute, will dis cuss “Israel, the Living Witness to the & natural” Subject for 8 P. M—"A Mes age From Hell, by a Heavenly Messenger.” Do Not Fail to Hear This “Come Thou With Us, and We Will Do Thee Good' a P.M. Moody Bible | speaking. The phonograph is merci- | less. It reproduces every small de- fect of the human voice. It was} only after many trials that I dis- covered just how to deliver one of my poems.” Bee EEN | ROSS IMPROVEMENT | | CLUB MEETS MONDAY} Tho Ross Improvement club, Nick: | erson st. district, will meet Monday, at 7:45 p.m, in the car barn at! | Third ave. and Nickerson st., for the | purpore of reorganizing and getting ja lineup on needed street improve- mente, All persons interested are requested to be pregent, FIRE DOES §160 DAMAGE Fire, caused by an overheated! stove, did $160 damage to a tenthouse | owned by 8. M. Osb , 1827 Ward st., Friday afternoon bound to worry. You can’t help it. You feel you will never get caught up again. Interest 8% Per Year Payments Monthly or Weekly INDUSTRIAL LOA & INVESTMENT CO. “We loan on Character and Earning Capacity” 421 Union St. Phone Main 4210