The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 27, 1920, Page 2

F | —no C. 0. D. or phone orders ;,one to a purchaser-—these specials will not be deliv- ered; can be easily taken 8-slece Old English graniteware cooker: special Friday- —S-piece cooker — pan; 19% sauce Pp i ~— —onty one to a customer; delivery; regular price Tbe; Saturday, Je. th! Hoe! jo is suitable for children aS years 3 ticinch. fremt has ch rear wheels, atect ised or lowered; 5} $3.95. MEZZANINE FLOOR 3 te & years of age and 10-inc can be Friday-Saturday a great reduction on this double hot plate Friday - Saturday — jen only 1 eo we advis: chase quickly; regular price by purchaser, another: just one great value after Friday- Saturday we sell this vase for 29c¢ regular price Ste —cut glass flower vase 7 inches bigh; crystal glass; by hand; thr select from; 600; epectal Saturday 29, THIRD of genuine Old ph. ‘apecial THIRD FLOOR beautiful clear each vase cut eo patterns to regular price for Friday— FLOOR the new MESCO suction carpet sweeper on sale: special Friday-Saturday — $2.95 rims; seat pecial for tht new Meeco or does away eld style brush; it with revolving rub regular price 94.50 euction with the te fitted ber su)- tion flaps that pick up grit and dirt eweeper. —reguiar price $4.5 ke a day, 6295 1 of thence, r $2.18; spe cial for Friday-Saturday, $1.83. the same time we plac ea our ¢ burner: —the above picture «! vacuum epectal Price for Friday and Satur- —rug department. eerond floor hows hew the revolving rubber suetion brush {# constructed; easy to keep clean; othe as- strings and lint from the floor will not become tangled im this style brush. SECOND FLOOR TACOMA L. SCHOENFELD & SONS 101-11 South 11th St TROOPS PATROL VIRGINIA CITY “Washington Fears Recur- rence of Race War WASHINGTON, May 37.—Police ‘Pere today were on the alert for ’ ‘ef an outbreak of race rict- ing such as caused bloodshed in the ‘@treets of Washington last summer. _ Alexandria, Va. near here, was ed by the troops during the for fear of fighting between and negroes. | The rumor appeared to have orig in information recetved by ‘Washington police, that negroes revenge for the attempts bs lynch Wm. H. Turner, negro, murdered Thomas M. Moore, the highway between Washing. tom and Alexandria, early last Sun- Gay. ‘ Plainer Models os Parisian Idea PARIS, May 2:.—Several of the Weeding costumers have decided to employ middieaged models of plain ce, The showing of hats and gowns by picked beauties is be Heved to prejudice a large class of Duyers, who fear that designs would Mot be effective unless worn by girls @f exceptional attractivencas. OnPREUM emcorr MATINEK SATURDAY SONORA ITALIAN GHARD rR A enn ° William C. Redfield Arrives in Seattle Wiliam C. Redfield, formerty of commerce, arrived in Seattle this morning and went im mediately to Tacoma, where be had arranged for a conference. He will return this afternoon and will be the guest of prominent Se attle men including representatives | from the Chamber of Commeree, | Tomorrow he will be taken on an inspection tour of the docks, and Friday noon will be the chief | speaker of the members’ counci! |luncheon at the Masonic club | rooran. e Mr, Redfield ia now president of } the Russian-American Chamber of |Commeree. Paul Whitham, trade commissioner for the department of commerce, wil! also be president. EXICAN, COP, CLUB, CURTAIN SPOKANE, May 37.—“Why, that was just wan leetie pieeshair. We often do that way in Mexico,” grinned RC. Coronada, Villista. when he was booked at the station | for running amuck in the downtown | district, accompanied by an open pocket knife. Coronada first threatened a lady barber in her lair, and then, emerging to the street, offered to |take on all and sundry at eatch | weights. A cop tapped him on the |head with a club, and the war was | over, |Sawed and Sang, Then Flew Away | TULSA, Okla, May 21—Voices of |nine male prisoners, in clore bar |mony, soothed the desk sergeant into a benevolent mood. “Tis spring,” he sighed, ae RAPS PRIMARY Approves League of Nations; Against Nonpartisans Former Prentésat Witiam Howard Taft put ina busy day in Seattle Wednesday. He arrived In the after | noon, took a walk around town, dined| 5 at the Rainier club as the guest of Judge and Mra. Richard A. Ballinger, | addressed an audience at the First Methodist Episcopal church on the | League of Nations, and addressed a few remarks against the primary sy |tem and nonpartisanship at a recep tion in the Washington hall tendered | by the Young Men's Republican club. Taft declared Article 10 in the league treaty not as dangerous as some people supposed, “It does not encourage war, but ts & threat to predatory nations.” He declared the time has come for |the United States “to join in world affairs if we are to have our share of world business.” At the republican reception, Taf declared the direct primaries are “lodded dice”; that it permits those who are not party members to ex |prens their votes on party affairs; | that the elimination of partimanship |in political affairs is “an irridescent | dream.” The former president ts today in Portiand. ORR eee “Memphis Bound” and “The Trav elin’ Blues” reached his ear. Nineteen cell bars had been filed, under cover of the singing, it was later discovered,;and the nine had passed out into the spring night. METROPOLITAN— poroxe wrx SUNDAY A National Necessity TCHCOC IN HIS LATEST, LOVELIEST AND LIVELAKST MUSICAL REVUE Preniage—$1.09 Motians Soturdny-tes to sho RAYMOND K TCHY K00 1919” 100 Entertainers Chorus ef Forty Under 20 SEATS NOW ON SALE Pi Wer ‘Tax THE SEATT HERE’S MORE ABOUT GAR SALE STARTS ON PAGE ONE was not #0 openly and palpably false that its untruth would be apparent to an ordinarily prudent person, In thin connection the courts will not assume that city officials ponseas the expert business capacity, skill and | experience in respect to the aale of the property of a private corporation as that possesned by the agents of the corporation Itself, If the city paid a price greatly tn excens of the real value of the street | railway property acquired, and it] you have or can obtain evidence bringing the contract of sale within the rule of law above stated, then, in that event the city ean, in my opin fon, maintain an action based upon fraud, either for rescision of the con. tract or to recover the damages sus fhined, The above is the general | rule in fraud actions) and damages | Were recovered in the Tacoma case, referred to by you, on the theory that fraud and deceit had been prac. tieed upon the city, Rencision of the | contract would only be ponsible where the ptrtien can be placed tn stata quo. If the parties cannot be | placed in statu quo, the elty would . be limited to an ac. | tion for damages only, MEIER PH NECESSAR “in reply to your suggestion that| T may bave an acquaintance with the| details of the tranmetion not pos | eased by you because I, as corpora. tion counsel, prepared the necessary | papers by direction of the city coun: cil or mayor for the consummation of this purchase, you will recall that the offer of the city to pay $15,000,. 000 for this street railway system was made and accepted before I suc ceeded you as corporation counsel I attended no conference held be tween city officials and representa tives of the company at which the purchase of this property was dis cusved, nor did | prepare any papers relating thereto, until after the city had offered to pay $15,000,000, and the company had announced that it | would accept the same, Thereafter I drew euch documenta in the premises as were requested by the mayor and city council, Consequently, I have no knowledge concerning the state ments of representations that were made by the company, or its officials, as inducement to this purchase. | As an aid, however, in determining the probability of the succem of a suit based upon the theory of fraud And deceit, I suggest that you obtain the statements of the then mayor and members of the city counct! who were present during the negotiations | leading up to the offer of $15,000,000 to the company, to ascertain whether | any of them were minled in the prom | sea by any representations made by | the company. “If you have tn your poxsraston, or are able to discover, facta shewing that deceit and fraud were practiced upon the city in the respects above mentioned, I shall be glad to institute an ap- propriate action in the premises, upon bring authorized 20 to do. the making of @ contract for the ac quisition by the qty of the street railway system, property and equip ment referred to in ordinance No 39026, ‘which naid street railway yn tem, property and equipment are more fully enumerated and described in that certain inventory filed in the office of the city comptrotier on the 20th day of December, 1918, and bear ing comptrolier’s file No, 72055." Said ordinance No. 39069 contains a re cital that the city counci! examined said inventory and found that the mame contained ‘a true, correct and complete lint and description of the Property to be purchased, pursuant to this ordinance’ HT ACT TO AIN POSSESSION “If the company has falled to de liver to the city any of the street railway system, property and equip ment purchased, I am of the opinion that an action may be maintained against such vendor to recover pos seanton of such property, or the rea sonable value thereof. I have here tofore suggested to the city council the propriety of making a complete check of the property described in the Inventory, to determine whether the mame had been delivered to the city, and I an advined that the perintendent of public utilities was requested to make such check. If such check has not yet been made, in my opinion, there should be no further delay in the making thereof, and if the company has not complied with its contract, I shall be glad to | _— @n action on account there o “In concluding your request, you ask whether, in my opinion, there in any other courne than that suggest ed by the Tacoma case now open to the city of Seattle in seeking relief from the purchase of these lines, The two proceedings hereinabove referred to, viz., an action for damages for failure to deliver all of the property which the city was supposed to get, and one based on fraud and, de are the only proceedings that are sugested by the a«tatements con- tained in your request, and there are no facts within my knowledge which j would give rise to any other form of Proceeding. If, thru the use of any | of the several means which are open | § to you in making an investigation of the tranhaction referred to, you are able to ascertain any facts re- lating to the matter, I shall be glad, upon the submirsion of such facts, to advise you what additional pro- ceedings, if any, can be taken in re- lation thereto.” LABOR FAVORS VOTE ON FARES ‘The Central Labor Counefl was on record Thursday in favor of the referendum on a street car fare raise, | ae suggested by The Star, | Rushing thru legislation by virtue of an alleged emergency was scored in resolutions passed by the council last night. The “emergency” deciar- ed by city officials simply eludes the referendum, the resolutions aaid. Loss in municipal car operation should be met by taxation and not by @ fare increase to 6 or 7 cents, the council voted. Frank Cotter! and Anna Louise Strong were elected delegates to the Ordinance No. 39069 authorized |. LE STAR U. S. SOLDIERS LIVING LIKE SCRUBS IN CHINA Prices High, Dollar’s Value Low, and) Our Prestige Suffers BY JACK MASON TIENTSIN, China, May 27-——Ont here in China, supporting the dignity of America and protecting the lives of Americans, is the Fifteenth In fantry, United States army, It’s bad enough to be 10,000 ratte | away from home, but how would you like to be here in China living like serubsa of the universe, living in penury and even want? That is the situation of the officers and men of the Fifteenth, ON DOUBLE DUTY AND HALF PAY The fact is, the Fifteenth is o double duty and on half pay up to the people of the United States to see to it that these men the houses occupied by American of. | | floere have been condemned as ram | shackle or insanitary EVERYBODY THERE 18 | PITYING AMERICANS! The result is that the United | Staton itself haa lost prestige in this | part of China The soldier represent: | atives of the other nations have a | much better standing than ours and |McAdoo Campaign |{t in impounible to estimate the effect of this phase of the situation. Every: | body ts pitying our men. Think of that; pitying Americans! Of course, there in an easy way the trouble to get busy. For the U.! | 8. diplomatic and commercial service, Is Now Launched ‘WASHINGTON, May 27-—A pres idential campaign for Wm. G. Mo | Adoo was formally launched at a} n | out if anybody in the United States| Meeting of MeAdoo's friends here It i 4nd particularly congress will take | last night, Rev, Dr. Burris Jenkins, | Kansas City, Mo, told the senate campaign expenditures investigat- whone duty has thrown them to the ®9d for the marine corps serving | ing committee today. other side of the world are given the full pay of a soldier of the nation. No increased pay; simply full pay. ‘The Fifteenth Infantry ts stadoned at the port of Tientin as part of an international guard to keep the road open between the capital, Pekin, and the nea, Thin guard is a result of the Boxer outbreak In 1900 when the ministers of the nations were be nieged for weeks in Pekin. Chinese money ts on a silver Yards | tria before the war, but now several | Vander! of valuation, Hefore the war, ‘an American dollar was worth $2 in the money of China because silver was worth 60 cents an ounce or lem. Now silver Muctuates around $1.25 per ounce and is In great demand in the Far East. Result: an American dol jar is today worth only 61 cents in Chinese money—39 cents off on every dollar. PUT ON A “FRONT OB YOU'RE “NO GOOD? It you are « foreigner tm China you must put up a “front” or you and what you stand for ere com sidered “no good.” Every day the United States te losing influence with the natives be cause our soldiers cannot afford to live respectably. Rent is high io Tientsin, Colonel Morrow, the com- mandimy officer, ts obliged to rent a small, inconspicuous house because his salary will not permit him to rent better. Foreigners of any standing at aD live in the foreign settiements, where there ‘ts police protection. Practio- ally all the officers of the Fifteenth Infantry live outside the eettiements and are therefore considered “low down” by the natives, As many as right unmarried officers are living in one house of five rooms, Most of TONIGHT Loomevelt hall, 1616% Third Annual roll ea! f war veterans, subduers hilippine insurrection and queilers of Boxer revolt, w auspices of Portson-Th camp No. 2 United Span Veterans club rooms, Arcade U Paul BR. Whitman, for- mer federal trade commissioner gives iflustrated China club, foreign of Chamber of ninerce end port comminsion- FRIDAY Neon—-Masonie club. ing-—-Former 8 m Arcade bultd- retary of Com- William — Redfield members’ council of ber of Commerce on trade ons with Ruse tral school auditorium ting exercises for 200 Fraduates of citizens’ class, fol- lowed by a “sing” of nations, under au of Beattle Feder ation of ptie Rocintin 4100 Dougla 1, 10th and Pine— “Tom Moor Day” program, sunder auspices American Com- Irish Independ iret Methodist church—Whit- ney boys’ chorus concert, with jal features. hail, 1616% Third J. Gen. George A. Bar- nett, commander of U. & Ma- rinea, addresses meeting for all American Legion men. $100 Chai ef Comm “Animal be subject brecht's lecture, of Mountaineers. BIRTHS Lesher, RB. 1824 Ashworth ave, eirk Smell, B, etty hospital, girt Davey, Cy Firlan orium, boy. boy ‘tin & W. girl Stroud, B L., Seattle, boy. KR. Providence hospital 7. ina Is, 318 Dexter ave, Tesamer, G. J. 634 74th W, girl Connick, CT. 2347 Federal ave. «ir Franconier, F., 5229 16th &, boy, . ML 5 ve, boy. Auners, CH, . boy. Barrett, P. E, 3808 astern ave, Winger, RM. 4526 Firat N. Mh, girt Neilson, N., 2008 Fifth W, boy. Ring, J. L, 1815 Forrest st, girk Tanaka, S, 722 Charles atl girl MARRIAGE LICENSES Age ‘el, George N.. Bellingham.Legal Laurenda, Bellingham .. Tibbetts, Irving, Issaquah .... Gibbons, Winifred, Seattle . Hieb, John, Seattle ... ey Pagel, Martha Helen, Beattie. - Oliver, Chester J. Colfax Henry, Clarice B. Seattle Ephlin, Frank, Seattle . Kelly, Anna, Seattle Mitchell, Roy M., Seattle . Dunn, Helen E., Seattle . elt - of Prof. . Ale under auspices Palmer, Gertrude, Spokane , Knottle, Sam, Seattle Arvon, Zine, Seattle Andersan, Leslie A. Pearman, Ruby ©., 8 Thiel, Anton, Spana Boettner, Lena, Grab Hart, Herbert, Volon, Irma, Seatti Ford, Har +22 Lee, Beat dureka, Mont... .20 DIVORCES GRANTED Keck, Gladys I. from J. Db, DEATHS Walsh, Mary, 74, 615 18th & Busich, Ada, 4, 1319 Lucile at. Johanna, 76, 120 28th ave » 61, 6932 Third 8, 2912 wel nut ave hotel. ong, John E78, King county Takasug!, Tamaso, 26 at ra Lindberg, Cla 4208 state labor convention in Spokane, June Aa ‘ = Pia, Medori, » months, $17 Firtn @. pied Norrington, William Lemom 6% 944 Me bodily i | ashore the law provides that our rep- renentatives shall receive $2.12 of eee PASADENA, Cal, May 27-—When ESCAPED ALIEN CAUGHT, ALMOST; One of Four Fugitives Seen, Then Vanishes Calmly applying at a @ employment agency within a few hours after bis escape with three others from the immigration deten tion station Tuesday night, John Boiko, member of the Unipn of Ros rian Workers who had been held for | deportation, again disappeared, I wan reported Thursday. Immigration officials mid they re orived a phone cal! from the police Wednesday evening saying Botke |had been sent to Bremerton by @ \iocal employment agency only to find another man had the job ahead of him, and that he was coming |back to Beattie on the eteamer Kem nedy. The police anid they had no one available to send after him. Imm’ gration authorities rushed men te the dock, but the boat had already come in and the fugitive would rot be found. . . Dewey Sharp, a county stockade prisoner, who injected gasoline inte his leg to make himoelf sick and was removed to the county hospital, from which he made his escape yesterday, the local currency where they are | shown dinpatches from Washington |». walking out when nobody was | stationed to $1 of their American | that friends had formally launched & | jooxing, waa still at large today, pay. This would give an enlisted | man of the Fifteenth Infantry $63.60 |G. McAdoo, who is spending a vaca-| | per month in Chinese currency. But | he could only buy $30 a month worth | of goods reckoned in American | money. Motor plows were not made in Acs: firms have begun to manufacture thet. presidential campaign for him, Wm. tion here, emiled hnd said: "1 know nothing of this cam- paign.” SAMUEL HILL, Seattle capitalist, who went to the Orient with Frank p's party, is returning here on the steamship Suwa Maru, due May 31. | So was Matthew Riley, who vam ished from the rear seat of an mobile while under the escort of twe | deputy sheriffs, somewhere between the courthouse and the county jai | CINCINNATL — Maj. W. BR | Schroeder, aviator, plans flight acrons continent in one day, aided by winds at high altitude HAVE YOU ANY ABSCESSED TEETH? Read that question again, please, and give it serious thought. If you have abscessed teeth it is entirely possible that they are slowly but surely un- dermining your health. _ This is not an idle statement but one which is backed up by. the best medical opinion of the day. An abscessed tooth, tiny pus sacs around sacs are continually ome are transmitted into the bl - understand, has its roots. These pus poisons which stream. This means, of course, that they are transmitted to all parts of the body. till they find a particularly vulnerable There they congregate—and wherever ey travel along these deadly poisons congregate there is sure to be trouble. are likely to develop. Inflammation, pain and swelling The poisons may attack the stomach. In that case you may have a case of chronic stomach trouble and which will positively treatment the way you think it Or théy may attack the throat, or the spine. impaired digestion, refuse to yield to any ould. . the eye, or the ear, or Or, again, the joints or muscles may be the point of attack. In this case your trouble would very likely be diagnosed as “rheumatism.” = DR. L. R. CLARK It is no exaggeration to say that thousands of so-called cases of “rheu- matism” have had their origin in the pus sacs at the roots of infected teeth Needless to say, ordinary treatments cannot possibly effect a permanent cure when this is the case. And for years and years the medical profes- sion was in the dark as to the rea] cause of the trouble in such cases as this, The Marvelous X-Ray Locates the Trouble What a boon to humanity is the wonderfil X-Ray! With its marvelous shadow pictures the interior of the human body has become almost an open book to e trained eye of the medical observer. If there is a tooth in which the nerve has been killed, or for other reason there is reason to sus- pect it, the X-Ray will quickly show whether or not the tissue around the roots is sound or not. Having located the real true source of the trouble the hardest the physician or dentist is solved. The X-Ray Is at Your Service FREE at These Offices We.have a brand new up-to-date complete X-Ray machine. We are de termined to do all in our power to see that the people of Seattle and the gu rreu cases, the best possible health. — So we are placing this machine at your service without charge. Each morning, between the hours of 9 and 10:30 we will X-Ray your teeth absolutely without cost or obligation to you. If you have teeth of which you are the least bit suspicious, or- if have any impairment of your health which has not seemed to respon problem af nding territory have the best possible teeth, which means, in many ato ordinary treatment the way it should, delay no longer. Have your teeth X-Rayed. do with your trouble. But come as early in the morning as possible, please. Know for certain whether or not your teeth have anything to Regal Dental Offices DR. L. R. CLARK, Manager i ; N. W. 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