The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 8, 1920, Page 9

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|Congress Dubious Over Railway Loan) WASHINGTON, May There is small likelihood that peta will authorite @ treasury loan of $500, 000,000 to the railroads to buy equipment, Senator Cummins, char man ¢ interstate commerce committee, indicated today to Revive Soldier Bonus Bill| WASHINGTON, May §.—Bfforts | fe revive the soldier bonus hill were Woade today with the return of Rep. Fesentative Fordney, Michigan, | @hairman of the house ways and Means committes. Soltier bonus advocates tentative | rouse tat t,o Overseas Veteran Is Program must be reduced to $1,000 ‘| Held for Probe ee ee. ot $1,900,000,000 98) gaLT LAKE CITY, May §.--Snid YP }to bave planned suicide by driving over brink @f Grard Can: Roy HYDER, Alaska. Coast guard | Waxbom, 21, former overs via utter Algonquin finds no “Red” | tor, arrested here in auto alleged tc trouble here, She will proceed to/have been stolen at Co#mopolin Bering se ON SEATTLE WATERFRONT JOBS FOR ALL COMPETENT MEN Longshoremen $ .90 hour ; $7.20 eight-hour day $1.35 per hour overtime Truckers $ .80 per hour 3640 - eight-hour day $1.20 per hour overtime Report of the Condition of Th NATIONAL BANK OF GOMMERCE ‘or SEATTIZ Second Avenue at Madison At the Close of Business May 4, 1920 RESOURCES. Leans and Discounts . $12,661, 566.16 Overdrafts . 16,256.90 Customers’ Liability to Bank for its Acceptances... 1,270,264.15 United States Bonds and Certificates of Indebtedness 2,106.265.43 Other Bonds and Securities . 1,431,798.70 State, County and City Warrants 94,658.58 Stock tn Federal Reserve Bank 45,000.00 Banking House, Furnitare and Fi Interest Earned but not Goliected. Cash— After Eight Hours and for All Time on Sundays and Holidays We Pay Overtime Rate Apply at BARGE FOOT OF MADISON ST. or at 94 Spring St. In Vault ........ In Banks and with v $1.404.478.28" ~ 6.591,820.89 6.926,309.13 LIABILITIES. Capital ......-..++-.. Surplus and Profita ... Reserved for Taxes and Interest. Cireulation «..6..ssecerereeess Acceptances Under Letters ‘ot “Creait se Bonds and U. 8S. Certificates of Indebtedness Bor- rowed Due Federal Reserve ee a RN 1,000,000.00 794,776.03 191,952.28 235,000.00 1,945,024.74 410,000 00 1,390,000.00 aterfrontEmployers EAST 8T. Lou 18, DL, May &- A woman and nine men were held by | the police today in connection with | the attempted holdup of the Drover |National bank here yesterday, in| which one bandit was killed and two| |belleved wounded. Robbers aban 42,926.79 3.642.430 466 40,388.33 19,645,745.77 $25,012,498.82 18 Defendants Fail to Put! SAN FRANC! 1800, May #—Ar/ Hall and Eddie ‘Shay charged with! day, but a question yet to be de was raided April iad upon Mayor} Biller, who fought overnean, was GAMBLING CASE He Is Trying HOLD WOMAN N ‘OPENS IN COURT to Solve Twin | RAID ON BANK Bride Puzzle |Nine Men Under Arrest Fol. in an Appearance | lowing Attempted Robbery | Sourdoug clubs 431 Olive ets which | oted whether the aie ued eases On the strength of this statement the National Hank of Com merce of Seattle solicits your banking business OFFICERS, MANSON F. BACKUS, President ENE BR Assistant Cashier LAFAYETTE FRANK F Loce Vice President LOUIS H. MOORE, Viee President RICHARD P. CALLAHAN, Assistant Cashier ELLOGG, Assistant Cashier a mt Cashier Assistant Cashier FRED a. TRA W_ PEDDLE Assistant Cashier LOUNGE, Manager Foreign Department DIRECTO! INES H. ANDERSON, mt, Anderson Esta’ iN F. BACKUS, jent. Director, Seattie Branch Federal Reserve Bank. ROY M. BACKUS, ee Nazerer, Northwestern Se- curity Co. WILLIAM CA! RT, Pressey an Juan sou a caMpneti. President. Snohomish Loe- vce President, Campbell Lumber Co. WALLACE 6. COLLINS, President. Pacific Fir Ca THOMAS A) DAVIES, President. Ais age & Commer EDW President, Fisheries, 0 w GROR ON WwW! Donworth, Yous £3 e thiewins, Attorneys. TONAS HL FOX mmercial Boiler Works. 17) ae [gene nr Statement of THE SEATTLE NATIONAL BANK May 4, RESOURCES rye Account of Ac- mera’ Liabilities Under iattera’o of Credit ash and in Banks. LIABIL ITIES | and Undivided Profits: .! fon yable to Wederal ¥ with Fede Acceptances Letters of Credit. ds Borrowed OFFICERS Daniel Kelleher, Chairman 41._W. Spangler, President © President renident President Vice President ik “Jenkinan Mar J. HM MeClure, Auditor RAS Vice President EVAN vt MeCORD, Kerr & MeCord, Attorneys, cH che BS 8. JOLLER, mt eORTRANDER, FE HOMAEN, jent, Centennial . Denny-Renton Mill ie Condition of 1920. <$15,092,442.35 Bank OTT 101.75 990,000.00 19,048.04 900,000.00 Reserve Hank 1,130,000.00 ral Ite: Bideee 965,000.00 246,015.5 ‘“r Woreien Dept Credit Dept. The Seattle National Bank Second Avenue at Columbia the place, was started in police court | tnited States on a troop ship. The /J0ned more than $18,000 in their Saturday. Eighteen of the defendants fafled to appear and City Attorney Georre | A. Meagher moved that bail in each | instance be forfeited. Attorney Jack Sullivan, representing the defend ants, arrued against this and the court took the motion under advise | | ment. Patroiman C. W. Black tentified he lost $50 in a game of stud poker He ‘teutified that the hous took a qit of 35 cents after each hand. Capt. W, H. Searing testified con cerning the raid and the discovery ef poker chips In the piace \Germans Want to | Postpone Meeting PARIS, May %.—Germany would litke to postporie the Spa economfe loonterence until after the reichstag Jelections, June 6, it was learned to jday. Dr. Withelm von Mayer, the | German charge d'affaires, made thin leuggestion to Premier Millerand. saying the conference might be “more profitabie” if !t was ‘held after the election in Germany next month had been completed. Men Teachers Ask | for Longer Hours Married men, who teach for a liv want a chance to work ik hours in order to increase their The High School Men T Jers’ club han asked the board to ar. jrunge so they can teach six periods @ day instead of the customary five The system will not cost the public any more money, but would utilize present teachers instead of necessl \tating an inorease in the teaching | forces: Operator Loses " p | $160 in Savings | Wireless Operator H. W. Wiming ton, of the 8. 8S. Went Jester, told police Friday afternoon that an un known thief took $160 savings which had been hidden in his bunk mat treme woman he contends’ is his bride ar [rived here in September and lived with his parents, | While he lay to = borpftal, suffer ing from injuries incurred In an ac- cident, Killer was told by the woman he believed to be his spouse that her |twin sister was really his bride and |that sho shad died. As proof she produced a photograph of the twins and defied him to point out the one he bad married. Eller, neverthelons, maintains this woman is his wife and that she be cq@me infatuated with his friend. Charlies Guacasco, with who whe & Yiving in New ©) band declares. now ‘Woman Earns Seven Millions in One Year NEW YORK, May 7.—That a New York woman last year made a profit of $7,000,000 is shown by a report of the tax bureau at Albany All that te k he paid state income own of her Is that me tax on $7,000,000 during 1919 That and the peared in the realm of finance to any more than an ¢ Hetty Gr Rreatest success 000,000 profit In preclable extent has created y mystery in the period of he realized $7. a single year. een, Sentenced to Spend Hour With Marshal John L. Bray, accused of altering | war savingy stamp certificates, with | drew previous plea of not guilty | and entered one of guilty in the Unit ed States district court. Federal Judge Cushman sentenced him to pay a fine of $50 and spend one hour in the custody of the United Sta | marshal SUPPLE™ TARY VENIRE 40 men and women will in superior court Monday, The r May venire was exhausted by number of jury cases. ‘The first test of the carriage was made in Kokon Jon July 4, 1894, by Ei wood Haynes. Vet Oi 0 & re “iN “I Will Not Live in Debt Another Day!” You needn't. A loan with us will pay your debts, free you from worry, and make you a better workman. Weekly or monthly payments arranged. A loan of $100.00 costs you $8.00 interest, Our Requirements: If you are regularly employed, If you are honest, We will lend you. You do. not need to own property. No assignment of wages, no mortgage of property required. Loans Based on Character and Earning Power INDUSTRIAL LOAN & INVESTMENT Co. S jeans, the hus! Might The woman was sald to be the wife of a notorious bandit now serv |ing time in the penitentiary, arrest followed information received | by the police that she knew the iden. uty of. the bank robbers and their hiding place. 52 More Sinn Fein | Prisoners Are Out LONDON, May §.—Irish agitators here today continued their campaign to obtain release of all Sinn Fein prisoners Pitty two of the hunger etriking r ners were released when ex bh ed from their self-enforced fast, Irish leaders said, while 127 still were in the prison in @ serious con dition. ! ts Must Have Den Rough Day Above MISSOULA, May 7.-—"The Lawd to me to do it,” explained Tom Ragliss, negro, who beat G. R. Dean with a poker. The sheriff, a heathen sort of @ person, refused to admit the explanation and Tom's in the jock up. PROBABLY WON'T BOW TO “HOCH!” IN NEXT REVOLT BERL He was a Pru: culate in his br m and col ored « reipal dif. ficulty didn't under stand that the crowd at Pots damer Platz was crying at him during the Kapp coup. So, blindly, he bowed, smiled saluted It appears, however, that some workmen were “hoching” the world revolution and not applaud ing Kim. And, when the mob noticed the readiness with which he took honors unto himself, they started @ riot seene that ended ) the Prussian officer's man handling—and the ruination of his wonderful gray uniform. Wilson Not Active in Turkish Treaty WASHINGTON, May §& dent Wilson has dec! aloof from the allied settlement with Turkey, according to informa tion obtained from sources usually well informed. ‘This, it was intimated, ts in line with Wilson's determination to re: Presl frain from further participation in | international polities until the Ver sailles. treaty has finajly been dis posed of. Overalls Stock to Be in Army Stores WASHINGTON, May 8—-The war department has agreed to declare a surplus of 2,000,000 pairs of overalls, which will be sold at army retail stores to assist overall clubs thru out the country in reducing the cost of clothing, Representative Upshaw (Ge aneie) said today. 40 Dead Soldiers Found in Cellar BRUSSELS, May 8-~The bodies of 40 soldiers have been found in the collar of a ruins at Ypres, It was believed they were gassed during the fierce fighting In this district in 1915, The men probably were over- come while asleep, it was indicated, Bed bodies were well shad and . Her} to stand} [iF i Fe i held in Wormwood Serubbs| EMMA SIGHS FOR) ————- DEAR OLD U.S. A. | Goldman Says “Russia Not What She Expected CHICAGO, May §.—The “dear old U. 8. A." js much to be preferred to free Russia,” according to Emma | Goldman, deported anarchist | A better to Ben L. Reitman, ex anarchist, fram Miss Goldman, says i found Kumsia different from swhat she has expected “1 mies America,” she wrote, “It is.very difficult to acclimatize one's self in a new country and Russia lace where one may hope to not a take root easily Miss Goldman was deported on the Soviet “ark” Buford last year, Moved 20 Times __| to Outwit Hubby Charges that his wife was consid ering proposals from two sweet hearts were made by S, T. Manard in asking divorce from Clara K Manard Friday, They have been | separated but never divarced. She | was given custody of their boy the maintenance order, and since that time has moved 20 times in an effort to keep him from seeing the | child, he charged | oe rae | Baby Falls Into. Kraut Jar, Drowns| P ELI, May %.—Little Victor Aust, 1% years old, was playing in| the back yard when he saw his chub: | by face reflected in an old kraut jar, | half filled with water, He teaned over to get @ closer view. A short while later hie parents | found him, face submerged, drowned, | | | Dogs Like Houston’s! |Brand of Chloroform HOUSTON, May 1,—~ They are shooting dogs here now. They tried ngled chloroform box to exe: | urs found by the pound man, Twenty dogs slept peacefully in the box the first night and in the morning howled for food. So—they're iaing ‘em again. Hydrogen Fuel for Autos, Is Claimed: ROME, May 8A new and cheap method of producing Hquid hydrogen has been discovered by Dr. Pasticcl, | noted chemist, ts is announced, | It can be used ag fuel for gas en- gines and in railway locomotives and for ocean steamers, he says, and de. | clares that one gallon of it will be sufficient to drive an automobile 260 | miles, Honestly, don't you betieve that all people who do not agree 0 you Shak Halder $ ~ SCENIC HOME SITES Tracts in this addition are all on open streets and alleys; water piped to every tract; on car line and boule- vard; good neighbors. A fast-grow- ing district. Take Lake Burien car, get off at Salmon Creek Station, or drive out the Des Moines road, .turn at Three Tree Point road west to Burien City, then north to large sign on boulevard. Salesmen on ground all day Sunday. Prices from $150 to $400 per tract—10 per cent cash, bal- ance easy. HENRY C. EWING COMPANY 200 Alaska Bldg. Main 7134 ‘4 “Seattle’s F

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