The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 20, 1920, Page 15

R SHOWS D MOVEMENT | Quotations Are Hold- ‘Wg Steady at $180-190 Monday's lower prices in Weal creamery men reported movements in butter anc marketa, Butter is now whole @& 59 and 6@ centa per pound eity creamery cubes and bricks. cents a dosen with) Very scarce at 38 cents. market ig dull with de Mgnt and supply of new ehert. Poeultr} dealers an. an increased firme all the line in poultry offerings, Pricen remain steady with Quotations at $190 for Yakima Supplies from British Co are aiding in keeping prices advancing, say the dealers, Mt ts comoeted by a number that quotations will not @ny more this season supply on the local market dling, say the dealers, owing uity in getting supplies a strike began. Grange prices, remaim steady. t LT) 1% x e| Mt eH 2Oan fornia since the switch. | ed aieaiaT Staehichthediadae 2 candlineaiamentiaemen St tee ’ THE SEATTLE Wheat Shortage Seems (PRODUCERS T0 BY BASIL M. MA) WASHINGTON, April | Prices will be even higher next year unless immediate sUmulation is wiven to the planting of «pring wheat, or unless there in a miraou: lousty good yiekl from the @ecreased ‘acreage already planted, The winter wheat erepe ef the world will be at beast 200,000,000 | dushels short ef the inadequate crops of last year, accarding te acre “go statinticn tasued by the Interna wees Institute of Agricultare at ome. The leading when coen tries this winter planted enly 112, on the Up | 000,000 acren In wheat, as compared with 126,000,000 im 1919, ‘The largest decrease tn acreage oo curred in the United States, and the euly increase af any apnesquence waa in British India U. 8, WILL HAVE NO WINTER WHEAT TO KXronT ‘This means that the United States will have no winter wheat for ex port, while the growing Asiatic de mand for wheat four will absorb all of the Indian increase and leave none for Burepe Last year Australia and New Zea- land had large surptus stocks of wheet, accumulated during the per fod when there were no ships avai): able to carry it to Burepe. Now these surplus stocks are depleted and he Australians have decreased their wheat area by the equivalent of 12,. $00,000 bashela The plain fact ts that the werd ia facing a shortage of its principal food supply even more menacing { Seattle Arvivala and | Departures s——_—_—__________4 retved Gtantey trem Tecome ot paraiso vis porte at 2.30 p. m.. str Bast. ora Victor for New York via Tecoma at ~m F' Vessels in Other Porta! BAN FRARCIBCO.Arrived April 34: ag Fg. | Sebree from Ocean Falls, LC. a \ ©; str Mestern CTORLA. B. C.—Paaent out Str Waltemats tor Sydsey, N. BW. worl! 18--Gty Admirel Wateen. Miles soute of Ketchihan, eouthbeena. at 11:38 p.m; str ruiral vane, 3) Dela Betis, merthdound. at 6 iD, Mo, April 20-—All of Criafield at special eerv- pragea for the deliverance of from inereased taxes caught his hand in a rollet Seattle Mill Co.'s plant, and x Admiral Goodrich, Imminent; Flour Prices | ORGANIZE BANK Robert Bridges Heads Cen-| ward Grade Wheat Acreage tral Committee ton have opened a 30 day drive for funds with which to establish a Pro- |ducers’ National bank, to be affiliat-| |ed with the Federal Reserve bank A central committes to coordinate | the efforts of various elements inter: | lented in the project In headed by Rob-| ort Mridgea, father of the port co mission ef Seattle, With him ar sociated J. M. Finley, advertising ©: pert, and J, J. Conway, sales mana: STAR—TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1920, Producers of the state of Washing: | senethp tomsetieoeptenirsener HERE IS NEXT PRESIDENT than that whieh existed when Her. ert Hoover was made food admin ietrator of the United States. The situation then was relieved by ® campaign of fapd conservation and orop stimulation. NOTHING DONE To STIMULATE CROPS | ‘Teday nothing is being done by | the government with regard efther te conservation or to incransed spring planting. At the eame time the rapid rise of Interest rates and the absorption of credita for speculative purpones is preventing American farmers from planting anything like a normal Re ove: Coming on top of aa unprecedent- ort ed shortage of farm labor, the diffi culties of the farmers in securing | loana at rensonable rates of interest, of even upon any terms, threatens lainaster to the entire world. SAYS BONUS TO |=: RAISE. PRICES: Congress Declares it Will|" Rouse People’s Wrath BY HERBERT W. WALKER ‘WASHINGTON, April 20.-Mem bers of congress who are advocating | @ soldier bonus to “obtain favor with | the eerviee men,” will find that In is Representative (Good, eer. | “The money deposited tn banks by the whose interests are against thi ever has in his power the ability to |wrant or refuse credit. “The coming of thin new bank, to| be owned by the producers, means | the beginning of the end of the bank: | ing methods my which producers! give into the hands of their oppon: ents the power which ts used against | them. A bank owned by producers | will not ase ite power against pro-| ducers.” | ] Status of the New York] || Stock Exchange || NRW YORK, Apr 20~-Prices were | ty lower at the weck market ‘Anaconda opened off wi-| This ia the next president. “4. oft i * Mi | Ameriegn Buger ot 186, | at 1360, eff 1. | of United States and 193%. off te % New lowe fer the present ment were meade thrueut the oo, &) Beliwen Taree thousand sh. oak Were veld at 103 ART IS SEIZED r|Fruits of Life Work Is Held by Deputy ‘The fruits of a man's life work— the result of 27 years of unceasing effort of Edward ©, Curtis, camera artiat and portrayer of Indian life— were sotaed by deputy United Statos marshals Monday afterncon and —4g | transferred from the Curtis studie, at . | Fourth and University, to the base |ment of the Cobb bullding, where they are held in federal custody. jeet ween m. Morket became dull carly tn the atternon treding snd trading wee slight py ‘There wae fur- te @rprese prices, but they jenerally successful Of replevin Against the goods by the North American Indien, Inc, a New +{ York corporation, The complainants base thelr claim to the preperty pos the fact that J. Pierpont Morgan, thru this corpora- tlon, of which he is sald to have been @ controlling member, advanced Cur tie $100,000 to enable him to carry on his work on a series of elaborate i velumes of Indian photegraphe. Morgan te said to have offered to finance the proposition to the extent | of $500,000, Tho the North American Indian latety. Call him any name you like. |He ia @ composite (and the camera never lies) of Herbert |Hoover, Hiram Johnson, McAdoo, Wood, Cor, Lowden, is: | Bryan, Poindexter, Palmer and all the other candidates. CURTIS INDIAN |SENATE PASSES NEW ARMY BILL Voluntary Training Provid- ed; 280,000 Peace Time WASHINGTON, April 20.—The @enate today passed the army reor- @anization bill. The bill as passed provides fer a Permanent peade time army of 280, 009 men, 17,043 officers and @ aye tem of voluntary taining. It oon tinues indefinitely the rank of full general recently conferred on Gen- eral Pershing, A: complete revision ineluded. ‘Thin action followed the filing in| of the court martial code is the district court, Monday, of @ writ) When Senator Wadsworth intra duced the bill it carried a compul- @ory universal training feature, but this was stricken out The senate reduced the sumber of officers, NO appropriation is car ried in this bill The measure has been under con- Gideration in the senate since April 3. It now goes to the house The vote was 46 to 10, Chinese Whisky Is Disastrous to Pat Bince he wag last caught tn the WILSON HOLDS ‘TACOMA GETS CABINET MEET Officials Think Rail Tie-Up Crisis Is Over WASHINGTON, April 20.—Prest | dent Wilson and his cabinet today | discunwed the railroad wtrike and re viewed measures taken to halt it during the past week, Vollowing cabinet members ex- mn with the govern ment's courre 4 indicated they be Meved the danger of a reJiroad tieap is aver, - All members of the ebinet exeept Secretary of Commerce Alexander, who ls in 6t, Louis, were present. ‘The president presided at the meet ing which was held in his study and lasted an hour and « quarter, |Wenatchee Gas Ie | One Dollar Higher | WENATCHEE, Wash., April 94.- The BIG BIKE RACE 200-Mile National Event ts! Scheduled TACOMA, April 20-—The 200mfle national championship, biggest mo- toreycle racing event of the year, will be held at the Tapornagepaedway, probably May 21, it wag dontunced here today Approval of the evene for Tacoma eived Monday by Reg b. Day, A motoreycie afd birycle deaml- , from W. M. Parsons, of Prove dence, K. I., chairman of the comrmit- tee of the Motorcycle and Allied Traden association. It came an the remuit ofthe cam- bined efforts of Tacoma, Seattle and Portland motorcycle men. Complete teams of the Indian, Hare ley-Davideon and Kacelsior cycle fae tories will compete, it ia reported, Among the crack riders who prob- ably will take part are “Shrimp” Burns, Otte Walker, “Red” Park> hurst, Geno Walker, Joe Walters, uthooand, from Cape Petery *t/ gays fF MAKES THE lgecousiy tbe Reports of financial depreapivn in Japan were ceiseg upva a0 a bearteh fi Provisions fell with the graina May corn opened Ke down at $1.71, but strengthened during the forencon sod advanced \e; July corn, up We 60 epen- Ing, at 91.6616, lost that freetion later: eptember corn opened at 91.61%, down places & value of $19,000 on the prop jact. Pat McNight admitted to Fed- erty, and dake in addition $6,000 dam |erai Judge Neterer, Tuesday morn ges and costs, the collection ie real ling, that he brought 11 quarts of ly almost priceless, In it are includ-| Chinese whisky and three quarts of od negatives, baskets, pottery, bian-jother intoxicants over from Canada, kets, contumes and many other Ib | when he landed at Richmond Beach | dian relice that cannot be replaced. | from a big ofl tanker, last Friday. Bédward C. Curtis and Clare J. Cur |The confession cost Pat $200, and he tin, his divorced wife, are named in publie service — cotmminsion, | Ralph Hepburn and Karl Arnstreng. wafting asde @ franchiae, has al-| The latter was the winner of the 368- lowed the Central Washington Gas mile race on the Tacoma speedway company t@ false its rate from $2 in 1915. Otte Walker also appeared to $3 a thousand fest, ' e Fine Profits in British Bonds The World’s Premier Security, the British Consol, can nex te t — American Dollars for org e par value—$205 instead o: $487 per Hundred-Poand Bond. Herr always iteelf. In 1864, when civil war raged in America, Puropean speculators “took a chance” on U..S. Government bea | which sold abroad at about forty cents on the dollar—an with huge profits. But now, to use a homely expression, “the shoe is on the other foot.” ; The Dollar has at last become the “Almighty Dollar” in fact as well as in name. i In Europe it buys twice, and in some cases, five times © as much as any other form of money. And American investors have not been slow to avail themselves of the ht lions of Amerian De are now invested in the Bonds countries, y And extraordi ‘its will be made, when normal conditions, and n Commerce, are resumed, enabled HROUGH our connections in London we are to offer the famous British Consol at $205 per £100. This security is backed by the entire resources of the; British Empire, and is, in the opinion of the foremost Financiers, the “Premier Government the i } | at above par (£102 to £114). : many believe that they will recover their old-time prestige within a comparatively short space of time. pad baer bmgpho acm — “tngingee seeelt with peat ey combine ju! of princi bilities for Extraordinary Profits, Security in the world. Vessels in Port at Seattle Today Smith Cove termimal—str Tcontum. “Str Kaohiat Pier 11-—-Moter echr Kirketing, ote Panay Dotard, sche Azaice, Boll A termine) —str Ces. B. Moody, str Ben). ¥. Packard, gas beat Kam- a e Pler }—atr Manley Pier 2—Atr Kente Ane, ety Redondo. Pacific Coast Dunkers-0. &@ L. & Swiftt- oure, U BL. ‘T._ Heather. Mandard Of dock—v. B CG Beo- hom Pier D—-Mitr Admiral Parragat. esa ‘ke—@ir Riihu Themepa, otr ‘. yo 16. Peeuts, Hines Woif, ine, Mianfora, Agton, ‘thea, Fort Harriada, Vert Bisawis, Tostne, Kites, Lost. Deed. Cateacee, Menty Sirens "watvoter, Alles, bees Corus, Freene, “hailing etre Kodiak. Hanford st. terminal—#tr Detweed, Byokane *. terminal—Motor echr W. F. Ames yards Str Roosevelt. Puget Senna Bridge ané Dreége yeré— Btr Patterson. 31-44, red snapper, ibe Ta 24¢; salmon trout, isc | 8446 per Ib. re frean Wah 79, pu milk, 106 1663, white beans, § Me 290; pork and beans ta tomat on Palm qt Man to Providence hospital, where it | co ympie pancake the; Citrus washing powder, 276 phe Hill’ red cam coffee, bse Stall 192, 6 lost Go a neibe x ik tae a OE | Status of Frisco Market | adsense —— BAN PRAXCTIBOO, April 2¢—-Butier— —s 800 per in ee 430 per Ges; fireta, t0¢ per dos: extra pulleta, 38¢ per Ges; wa- dersixed puilete, ite per dos. Oneowe —Califernia fete, famey, Bie per 16 | 1B; firete, 24 lee per 1b men who profiterred out of the war,’ he said. “I believe it is an injustice to them to do #0, “I would @y to the service men ‘As you saved the Union before, you Must now aaniat your government in several | American Legion post commanders in lewa opposing the bonus and pointed out that appropriations for the wannded service men this year total $263,000,000. Estimates for | * next year call for $458,000,000, he wald. ted local extras, 879400 per . Hens t6e 1: broflers, 400 per Ib Cheese—Tripieta, 16@ 310 per Ib Republican house leaders tofay called a party caucus for Thureday | night to consider the seldier aid leg. islation. Mfforts will be made, it was decided at a meeting of the steering committees, te fix the amount of the additianal compensa. tion and to agree whether the neo | Casary revenue will be raised by a mien tax or a levy on war profita, A @oldier ald program giving the service mem the @ption of a cash bonus, credit toward purchase of a farm or a home, vocational training of paid up government if surance, Is being formulated by the house ways and means committee, | Chairman Fordney said today. It" Money en Cail BY 66sn ! . V'KNOW —— THERS'S SOME THING FUNNY ABOUT “THIS AM NEW YORK, Aprfi 20 § per cent; six months, f\5 per cent; mercantile paper, 7 per cent War stiver—London, 68 %¢; New York, Money on eall, NEW YORK, April 20-foffes—We, 7 Rio, 15%e per Ib; No. @ Bantes, Mo Sugar—Kaw, 19.59@900 per &: evee- wad eseiteperin Foreign Exchange s—_—_—_—_—_—_— ———4 NEW YORK, Aprt ce opened steady t De off ‘wc at 63.94%; In the afternoon demand he to $3.04%. Lar during the war for the production ef ploric acid, to a group of Little Reck business men, for $770,000. he. Mexican deine, 809; 3 Te Bayon beane, 250; 3 fos, white bevy baana ite nee, 9 pgs. 150; 6 rolls wax Amme, 12¢ can. stalls 16. bulk chocolate, 3%¢ T.; 5 cans milk, 6c; 5 bars Lenox soap, Sbe the writ as defendants. 38 Youngsters on Tour of City Hall Thirty-eight awed youngsters paid their reapects to Mayor Caldwell Tuesday morming. The children, pupils of the Lowel school, were on a tour of Inspection of the city departments. 4. W, REDDON, Seattle attorney, wan appointed by Mayer Caldwell to | preside over the municipal court dur. ing the absence of Judge John PR. Gordon, who left on @ short vacation Tuesday morning. tt'S TOO Quiet TO loses the whisky besides, Thieves Get $30 From Nut House Thieves broke two windews tn the Nut House last night, entered, and departed with $80 cash. “It's the nuts,” eald the Nut, reporting to the police. A young couple whe are expect- ing the arrival of the stork about May 10, apd who eay they are financially unable to furnish a child with proper care and upbringing, wish to make arrangements for the baby’s adoption in @ good home. Address communications to The Baby Editor, in care of The Star. Chlet The Boys in the Next Car | TLL 3ST Ber TM GETTIN TH’ OL! RAZZ BERRY — BUSINESS Line ASouT A NICKEL W tee delivery at the U.S. ds per £1 C Nomienl raise ae Funds per £100 Consol. 5 uding anese, Chinese and Argentine, now eslling ct from 15% to 80% less then Por value. References—Any Bank or Bustacsp Bouse tn Seattle or Tacoma, (Prigse subjest te change.) INTERNATIONAL (Buccessers to George F. G. Fisher @00-432 Burke Men! Match your dollars with these values-— Your dollar will again look as healthy as it did back in 1914 Walking Oxford, of Bind: end Tan Calf, Welted Gem, Af Sises and Widths Per pair. een Walking Shee of Black Cal, Welted Sol, AR Gime and wr rer. 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