The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 8, 1920, Page 7

Statement of Loans and Discounts ....-+-++++- Real Estate Owned. . Stocks and Securities . Customers’ Liability under Acceptances U. 8. Treasury Certificates... Liberty Bonds .. U.S. and other high-¢rade Bonds. War Savings Stamps Warrants .. seeee Cash on hand and due from Fede Bank and other Banks.....--- Surplus and undivided profits. Bille payable .... Dividends unpaid Letters of Credit. Acceptances . Deposits .... E. L, GRONDAHL, President, L. H. BRUN " D. i i , HOGI . Cash The State Bank of Seattle Seattle, Washington. MAY 4, 1920 RESOURCES Banking House Furniture and Fixtures LIABILITIES We Invite Your Account OFFICERS A. H. SOELBERG, Vice President. EDGAR AMES, Vice President. HUGO CARLSON, Vice President, LUTZ, Assistant Cashier. RONDAHL, Assistant Cashier. | Condition of 1,909,909.09 23,000.00 89 10,996.15 117,194.80 ral Reserve woscececees 833, arm, 3,959,321.23 200,000.00 45,490.01 100,000.00 280.00 $3,969,321.23 rier: 150 Witnesses in Car Theft Case More than 150 witnesses from all Over the United States will be on hand to testify when the trial of the 37 members of the alleged boxcar looters now under grand jury indict. | Ment begins, on May 25, according to District Attorney Saunders, | iter if « With acumen and skill President Woodrow Wilson sumrhoned the na- tion’s material resources and man- Power to meet world emergencies. ‘The achievements which followed are ‘without parallel in human history. Under the guidance and direction ef our president international com- have been overcome in such a manner as to elicit the won Ger, admiration and approbation of ‘the people of the entire civilized ‘world. 80 complete and overwhelming was the president's triumph that all opposition was silenced until after the signing of the armistice, when reaction was unchained, and the re- politicians proceeded with insidious and slanderous methods in their attempt to discredit and de stroy the results of America’s #u- efforts and sacrifice in order | that politicians could be substituted for statesmen in public office. DEMOCRATS IN DIRECT ACTION It ts refreshing to have the demo- erats awaken, I tell you ft looks good. Four years ago this fall when Charles D. Fullen, Robert Bridges, Hugo Kelly, George Ryan, Mr. Davis and a lot of us ordinary dem- | crats were working like beavers to| this state for Woodrow Wilson | ind elect that matchless governor, Ernest Lister, we were never given the pleasure of meeting, in our field | of labor, the gentlemen who tried to grab the democrat convention last Saturday by direct-action methods. ‘Their activities lead one to believe that they fear the party ts in danger of being stolen by the common peo It reminded me somewhat of the old-time conventions back in Missourt, but we Missourl dernocrats never allowed republicans (P.-I. der- e@xrats) to act as delegates in our convention. I saw some with that Brand on them in the “rump” con- . vention that our federal office hold- ers staged last Saturday. It seems to see them stirred from sloth, just the same. THE P.1. COLD STORAGE. PLANT IS AGAIN IN EVIDENCE It is evident from what we see in} $t that plutocracy has its subsidized press well organized. For Instance | one day we will note that a cold stor- article from Washington, D. C. ry in all plutocratic publication: to the effect that the “democrats are | fighting peace.” Next from cold) storage the information will appear that the greatest and wisest newspa- | per doctor on earth, or off the earth, | lili tell all that happened that should | not have happened, and all that| tipuld have happened, that never i happen, when the nations were | ing to conclude a peace, When | read this last word from cold e on the peace conference we Jeft to wonder how it happened the nations of the earth did not ly: “Look here, Doctor Carbolic F. Dillon, you set to work and ten the world ont, and bring ‘We will pay you one dol- per hour for your time. This iy more than you ever administering quinine and ives before you became a doctor, amputating the ‘from half-told truths.” HAT 18 WRONG? The only ong with th ot Na- iT wo Eastern Cities | were offered to the city under Hi Gain by Census WASHINGTON, May §.—The cen- sus bureau today announced the fol lowing 1920 population figures: Newark, N. J., 415,609; increase since 1910, 68,140 or 19°86 pa cent. Lynn, Mass., 99,148; increase, 9,812 or 11 per cent. @AID ADVERTISEMENT) Ke ———-_—. fe that a democratic president would compel a republican con gress to admit that our president is one of the greatest Americana, This admission by the republican pol- iticlans would endanger their claim to a monopoly on wisdom. it the League of Nations, the Covenant and Peace had anly been concluded by @ republican, it would outshine | saturday, aald ahe believed her hus the Ten Commandments from the! nang had taken considerable money | standpoint of our republiean friends. | with him, which he intended as The Treaty is all right; it's the dem-| first payment on the farm if he de ccratic president that is wrong in| ‘iana to buy, ‘The first payment Was setting _in the way ef republican / 1 be $2,000, she said he told her, SENATOR KNOX has opened a fight In the senate for peace, by|now suspects he has met with foul charging that President Wilson has | play. Megally prolonged the war. Knax, like the other senatorial autocrat, would have the people think that our democratic, president should bean er rand-boy for autocratic senators. Why do not the autocratic senators agree on such reservations ax a majority of the senate will ratify and place them before the president? The fact is they are pasting the buck and do not dare fo act’ Knox smys con gress has the power. Well, for the love of Mike, Knox, exercise the power and quit knocking of we will ark you to paint out just one act of yours that has been aimed toward the uplift of mankind during your jong career in public office, Mr. Knox. . REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS must take a deep interest and shed copious tears for the success of dem. ocrats when they are willing to act an delegates to the King County Democratic convention. They &l- ways were generous (with them. selves). No doubt they are actuated by the same brand of patriotinm used by a Michigan U, 8. senator who drew two years in the peniten- tary. THE GASOLINE HOG ‘s an ani. mal developed since the automo. bile came into existence. Know ing parking space to be limited, he takes twice as much space as needed; he cuts corners, forcen his way past standing street cars with out stopping, disregards the rights of others; usually assumes complete ownership of the public highway. I heard one of these hogs say, “I al ways expect everybody to get out of my way,” and that was the time I wanted to be @ policeman or a truck-driver. OUR STREET CAR GRAFT 1s gradually being made khown to! the public, just as pointed out} when this bunco was put over) that Seattle would lose ten million on the burglary. The deal was ne gotiated by R. H. Thomson, Tom Murphine and Ole Hanson as a war necessity to help the nation build ships, but the actual purchase took place after the war was over. The entire transaction was a burglary ac- compilshed by fraud and deceit. The best way to make our street car system pay is to charge off ten million dollars to extra patriotic service for Ole Hanson, R. H. Thom- son and Stone-Webster. These lines I's administration for six million and Hi thought they were only worth five. This in the amount on which the roads can be made to pay and that is their honest value. We} aré in trouble in raising the ten mil- lion that was given to Stone-Web- ster, who are alleged to awn lecture circuits as well as city councils in| various parts of the country. ANY AMERICAN who would de prive @ person charged with an of- fense from having a fair and impar- tial trial would have a hard time proving his claim to Americanism in the light of both our history and| our law. ANY LAWYER who would refuse to defend a person because of his po THE SEATTL He’s Human Ouija Board Train Caller Has a Busy Time Every Day They Ask Him Anything! Julius Stolt Ever notice the chapwwho cals the trains down at the King et. station? He's a big man, with a big voice and an even bigger amile that just naturally won't come off—quite His name ts Julius Stolt, and he has been rolling the euphontous |names of our Western towns off his! tongue and helping guide the des | Untos of the traveling public In Seat —_—-—-- Ue for more than two years without! | missing a day. , | And then he didn’t know how many | |namen he called! | FEARS HUSBAND “Let's see.” he eal, after a little) jfauring, “there are 416 stops on my'| |routes—I guess I must call an av-| erage of 850 stations during the! eight-hour shift." And he looked/| |wurprised himself. He had never fig. ured it up before. HAS TO ANSWER ANY QUESTION Seattle and Tacoma police were en-| Julius has @ partner named Hor | gaged Saturday in search for Altert|man—Herman J. Dueball. He in the! Matson, 40, of 362 Lewis #t., this city, | official “Information,” tho it'n 60-60 who disappeared last Sunday in com-|between bim and Julius in that re pany with a party of real estate men, | spect. Herman mays he is not only who, he told bis wife, were to show |required te know offfand all train him a farm near Tacoma which he | schedules and connections, but is ex: could purchase at @ bargain. pected to be something of a mind Mrs. Matson, reporting the matter | reader an well. Sort of a human outja | board—anything you want to know, | ank it “A man came tn one Gny,” he mys, “and wanted to know what time his| brother, who had left Sweden stx| weeks before, would arrive in Seattle Another chap asked if I had seen a ‘géod looking lady, about 2% years old” take a train, “My wife left with another man,’ he explained.” CHINAMAN ASKS FOR 1. W. W. STATION Herman still chuckles over the Cht | naman who dnquired for the “I. W. W." station when he wanted the O-W. RK. & N, and Julius dectares | that every #0 often some one wants a stage to Bremerton or a boat to Spo-| kane. “I answered the phone one day,” mays Herman, “and this is what I heard: ‘Information, can you tell me the name of the engineer that left tials to grant a reduced round trip| St Paul December 29 at §:20 a. m.? rate for the national encampment |! 8 & letter from my cousin, and of the G. A. R. to be held in Atian. |h* save that feller run over his good | tie City next September. peste Favorable action in expected short.| And then there was the Indy who, | ty #0 that many California veterans | 2fter ascertaining that her train laft will be enabled to visit the encamp-|'" five minutes asked, “Have I a Disappears With Money on Realty Deal He was to have returned home the | following day, Mra. Matson sald. She | The real entate firm with which he was negotiating, according to his! wife, is somewhere on First ave, and it wae thru their advertixement that} he learned of the firm. Urges Reduced Rate to G. A. R. Meeting SAN FRANCISCO, May &.—Sena- tor Phelan of California, according to a statement from his office here today, is urging the interstate com erce commission and railroad off! ment. to eat lunch?” Cost of Dying Is piled Herman, “but T don't know how ‘High in Spokane fast you ean eat!" SPOKANE, May 8.—The ultimate consumer alway» gets it in the neck The cont of dying has been sharply advanced by Spokane undertakers. Graves have been boosted $7 per to the “middleman,” that ia, the un-| dertakers and the latter will soak the “consumer.” A strike of grave diggers ts as- signed as the reason for the increase. Thus the common people of Spokane are once again ground between the upper and nether millstones. Tt) costa too much to live and too much to din, " Is Stabbed by Man He Hits With Auto SAN FRANCISCO, May 8.—-Pietro Manert, 74, and Valentine Cooney oceupy cots close to one another in the central emergency hospital to- day, each seriously hurt. Cooney’s automobile ran down Maneri last night. While he was hurrying his aged victim to a hos- pital the latter stabbed Cooney sev. eral times. Cooney faces a charge of 4riving while intoxicated and Maneri one of assault to commit murder. Babcock to Run for State Treasurer Cufford L. Babcock, of Port An-| geles, Clailam county, Washington, announced his candidacy for state treasurer Saturday. Mr. Babcock was elected county treasurer of Clallam county in 1911, and re-elected in 1913, having served two full terms; in 1915 he waa elect- e4 to represent his county in the state legiwlature, and reelected in 1918, and is at present a member rep- resenting his district. SEE Wobblies Lose in Demurrer Request Judge Mitchell Gilliam overruled demurrers entered by Alicia Rosen- baum, W. BK. Spear and Ed Burns, charged with criminal syndicalism, Friday, They were arrested in EF STAR—SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1920 Under This Sign We Shall Succeed The Car With 500 Less Parts ToTeM AT 1015 FIRST. AVENUE litical, religious, social or economic raid on alleged Northwestern I. W. beliefs has constituted himself judge, )\W. headquarters in the Globe bulld- Jury and executioner, a being all suf- ing April 22. Request for a bill of ficient unto himself, who thanks God particulars was also refused, that he is as no other man. SOME LAWYERS contend that} ELSIE MILLS, indicted under the necessity knows no law. We submit — prohibition law, was found that there are those who have been ity by a jury in the United States vaccinated for lawyers whose name} district court Friday morning. sen- ‘should be “necessity.” _ nce will be pronounced later, VISIT THE 7784 14th Avenue South Schooner Was His Home, So Jury Is Considerate If you live in a floating house and have @ quart of whisky in it, ean you be charged with illegal transporta ion of liquor? Frank Hatt claimed that his gan schooner Kva was pfactically bin home, and that he had inadvertently drifted over the Canadian line into United States waters when picked up by one of the loca! patrol boats for running at night without Mehta. A quart of booze was found under hin bunk, and federal prohibition of. ficers charged him with illegal trans portation of ft. Hatt was acquitted by @ jury in the United States district court, eee Jury Unable to Agree on U. S$. Booze Charge In the case of L. A. Dusterhoft, un der indictment for alleged violation | of the national prohibition act, the jury reported that agreement was imposatble, Federal Judge Edward KF, Cushman discharged the jury and net the ease over for the November term of court. Uncle Sam Takes in $1,600 in Cider Fines Uncle Sam made $1,600 in about 10 minutes when seven Japs and one white man pleaded guilty to selling cider that exereded the limit set for aleoholle content of soft drinks and were fined $200 each in the United States district court Friday after pooh | Fail to Convict on Smuggler Confession Dr. Ashton Graham and Arthur Anderson were found not guilty by a jury in the United States district court Friday afternoon, after Gordon Graham had pleaded guilty to being ing ten cases of Canadian whisky actons the line in the launch June 500-G, lant month. Gordon was fined $500 by Federal Judge Neter Anderson and Dr. Ashton Graham were arrested upon the strength of a confernion alleged to have been made by Gordon Graham at the Ume of the capture, implicating them. In Canada, Ontario leads all prov Inces with @ total of 151,754 automo. 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