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THE SEATTLE STAR STAR. ZIEGFELD SALESGIRLS’ BEAUTY CONTEST If you are a salesgirl in a Seattle store and wish to compete for the her of representing Seatt lecide the win: ner of the $100a-week position in Z) Mayflower photoplay starring Miria: CAKE THIS COUPON to the Bushnell stadie in the Arcade building or the James & Merri. el buildi where your pieture will be taken coupon fitted out for ontry thea The Star, Announcing: THE FREDERICK & NELSON ELECTRICAL SHOW Of Approved Household Appliances Week of June 14-19, Ten to Five, Daily S FALL SOON, nee || § BELT ‘ wa Washington Opinion Appears. to Confirm Duckworth’s Cables to The Star BY HARRY B. HUNT . . WASHINGTON, J 12 “The with sandwiches at Russian Soviet government ts about the “United” store {| to fall. Ite collapse will come, tn nearest you. }|all probability, within the next 30/7 yy United daysin the latter part of June or (ty jearly July oo Tea & Coffee Store “It will come in the form of « ty Market 119 Yesler Way peasant uprising, probably accort South End Market ‘| panied by a bloody por but otherwise with a minimum of blood shed. The probability seeme (Print mame weeify w oo eat try a cup of Eo Mian” or “Meng (Street and ber, Clty and te) (Metweem 17 a Employed as a salesgirl by .............00.. (Name of f goods, w Date ......+. 1920. (Signed)..... EPRESENTATIVE sources of tested Electric Appliances are oa with this Store in staging the Electrical Show, which will open in our The Magic of a Button j ' Four Suicides on tinctivel plutionas oh ote: Transport Reported |pryony inst noone knows WASHINGTON, June 12-—Wire| ‘The above is the statement of an Jess communication recelved here re | official of the government perha: the suicide of four persons! more fully Informed than anyone | " @beard the army transport wrne | cus in this country as to the situ Vernon off the Virginia coast. The/ation tn Russia and the pull of in Vessel has aboard a number of Ger tiuences and interests in that coun Man war prisoners and some Cxecho | Slovak troops, Details of the suicides Were lacking. PAID ADVERTISEMENT) "LIVE QUESTIONS BY EDWIN J. BROWN = T cannot refrain from giving my tmpressions of the Republican Con | Vention at Chicago. You know I have many Republican friends, and I must tell what those Republican | politicians at Chicago remind me of, as T want my Republican friends to Understand what I think of their politicians. ‘This Convention reminds me of an *euction sale in g paven shop, where Yunredeemed googs are being auctioned | Off to the highest bidder. AUCTIONEER--"Now, Ladies and +Gentlemen. we offer here for sale to all highest Didder, a magic wand that gives a quitclaim title to the | “Presidency of the United States, and | Yemember, there is but one on the pa@helf, and farther, renember tit the of the Nation are in a sem! x jous state, unaware of what we ‘ere putting over, so what do I hear ‘Bow? Sid lively! Give me an offer | om this grand opportunity to become -Fieh, famous or notorious, as you like. | How much do I hear?” FIRST BIDDER—"I bid $70,000.00 for Hoover.” AUCTIONEER—"$70,000.00 I am Bid; the five do I hear.” SECOND BIDDER — $75,000.00 for Poindexter.” AUCTIONEER—“Say, do you guys try CONFIRMS DUCKWORTH'S CABLES TO THE STAR | It bears out in all essentials the | conclusions reached by Correspond. | ent J. Herbert Duckwortht of the Newspaper Knterprise association, whe recently reached Esthonia after weeks in the land of the Soviets and whos vivid cable dispatches on con ditions in Russia today are appear ing in The Seattle Str. Privately, U. S. government offi clals and intelligence officers agree that the breakdown of the Lenin- Trotsky government is a matter of weeks and days, not of months or years, Among the forces tending to break the Lenin-Trotaky rule which will | intersect late in June and which are expected to make the collapse of the Soviets certain are: FIRST: The condition of starva- tion in the cities, SECOND: The hostility of the old co-operatives, thru which the popw: lations of the cities have very largely been fed for the past three years. Until three months ago these co. operatives were used by the Soviets on the basis of a friendly alliance. | Then the co-operatives were ordered turned over to the Soviets. Since that time they have filed to funo tion in providing food and the re. sult is that the last two months has terribly aggravated the condi tion of chronic starvation In Russian cities and hostility has developed steadily in the old co-operatives. THIRD: The Russian peasant never has been Bolahevist. He never has been Communist, Instead, he has been socialist, He was ready to take over the lands of the titled rich for bis own use, but he wns not and t not ready to say that land #0 taken over is common property. TROTZKY'S POWER LARGELY GONE ‘Trotrky’s power, -f t dectared here, is largely gone. Of the Lenin- Trotsky combination, Trotaky has - WIFE'S REVENGE }Husband Held Out $20 Each Month, Says Counsel “Bishop for years was being paid |$70 a month. He held out $20] monthly from his wife and told her | he only received $50. Recently she found this out, It made her angry. | Evidently inspired by the story of Bluebeard, she contrived to hang such a label on him. So Mrs. Bishop | accused him of putting arvenic in| her mush.” | ‘This was the statement Saturday Jof Attorney Thomas Demosthenes | Page, counsel for Danie! Bishop, 61, | accused of attempting first degree murder on hia wife,: Prosecutor Fred C. Rrown charged Bishop after hearing Mrs. Bintiop’s story. Bishop was examined by Dr. D, A. Nicholson, alienist, Friday, | and declared sane. He is held in the county jail, Bishop was a teamster in the city light department. JAMES STOIKA has $200 worth more respect for the prohibition law since he had « talk with Judge Net- erer in the federal court Friday. | unwilling to compromise with expe diency. Lentn, however, is declared |ready to permit communiam to run | into socialism. As viewed by officials here who have watched the whole course of only a means to an end which has now served its purpose, and is to be thrown overboard to make way for a less radical, democratic form of government. “From Bolsheviem, Russia will progress thru anarchy and commun: ism to socialism,” one man put it “After that—no one knows. “One thing, however, is certain. |The old royalists will never come back to power In Russia. The peas ants will quickty squelch any mon archist reaction.” A man’s idee of an evil comment cation is a written statement from his wife’ Aan Ree | | been the visionary, the enthusiast, | Russia's struggle, Bolsheviam was | {fen'insnte "nt sc" POISON CHARGE? /SEATTLE PLANS | FOR A SUBWAY Engineering Department In Seattle noon to have a subway?| Constru of two subways in the downtown district will be recom. mended to Mayor Caldwell and the city council shortly by the city en gineoring department, i was learned Saturday. | The full text of the recommenda tion has not yet been made public, | }but it is known that the proposed | subway are only part of an exhaus. Uve plan to improve street car serv. | ice and reduce congestion in the dow n business dixtrict. | Construction of an elevated trestle jin the congested section in also un-| | der consideration by the engineering | | department. | WOULD OPERATE EXPRESS TRAINS Operation of express trains from outlying pointa to the business dis | trict In proposed in the general plan | how being outlined by City Engineer | A. H. Dimock. Depots would be ex | tablished in the Univerwity, Ballard, Fauntleroy and other sections of city At these stations exp trains would be assembled, made up| of cars converging at the station These express cars would travel to afd from the city over special road. beds, on the most direct routes to| town. | @n entering the outskirts of the | business district, the trains would dive underground inte subwayn COST WOULD EASILY BE TAKEN CARE OF “The chief advantages of this plan are the faster service to and from the downtown district and the elizmt- | nation of surface cars on the crowd. | ed avenues of the business section | of the city,” Dimock declared, ‘The cout of financing the construc tion work would be off-set by the re- | duction in operating expenses, ac- cording to the city engineer. Detailed plans of the p im. provements fm the city ve tem will be submitted by Dumock to Maj Gen. FL Reeves, superintendent | of public utilities, and D. W, Hen. derson, general superintendent of railways, within the next few days FOREIGN TRADE Recommends It to Mayor | STARTS Auditorium at 10 o’clock Monday morning. The exhibits will include a wide range of Elec- trical Aids to Housekeeping that have proved oe tical in actual service, and each article will be demonstrated during the Show by competent spe- cialists. Among the Appliances so to be exhibited are ELECTRIC RANGES ELECTRIC CLOTHES WASHERS ELECTRIC AIR HEATERS ELECTRIC HAIR DRYERS ELECTRIC SHOE DRYERS ELECTRIC VIBRATORS ELECTRIC GRILLS ELECTRIC TABLE APPLIANCES ELECTRIC WARMING PADS ELECTRIC SEWING MACHINES ELECTRIC MOTORS FOR HOUSEHOLD USES LECTRIC DISH WASHERS ELECTRIC IRONS ELECTRIC VACUUM CLEANERS ELECTRIC HOT PLATES ELECTRIC TOASTERS ELECTRIC RADIATORS ELECTRIC FANS ELECTRIC WATER _ HEATERS — is almost unbelievable to the woman who has clung for long years to ld-fashioned “corn methods of housekeeping — excellent in their way, of course, but too costly in the light of present-day opinion, because of the drain they make upon the health and precious. hours. ; Electricity is the in- visible servant of the progressive housekeeper —securely harnessed, safe and efficient, at her beck and call at an instant’s notice to per- form the tasks of the hour. It is this “Magic of a Button” which the Elec- trical Show will exem- plify in helpful, inspir- ing fas — point the way to “more cient, more enjoyable} - and more economical housekeeping. “Housekeeping Electrically” TODAY think this is a cheap one-horse show?! Come on, boys, this article I am of | Fre Math Dairy fering is worth millions Ever Monopoly in this Nation will p: | Your price, plus, for the use of tt Presidency for a few minutes ea @ay. Whatdo I hear now? Bid Lively” THIRD BIDDER—"$250,000.00 for Hiram Johnson.” Poindexter turns blue, Hoover turns white and Johnson turns red, all patriotic—Red, White and Blue— And they see Stars and Stripes when ' Lowden bids $409,000.00. TOM LAWSON ses frenzied ft Mance awaken after twenty years’ @leep in the bed formerly occupied ‘by Rip Van Winkle, and be comes § thru ciean shaven ang protests | against any rough stuff on Hiram. FIFTH BIDDER—“I bid $1,590, 000.00 for Wood,” while, at the same Iron and Mr. Steal from ‘ania put in sealed bids for | OBettor Babies “Clubs | Her & whole grip- ful of health and good pature in the person of Donald Newton Jackson, who has used Pure Milk Dairy milk since he was 3 months old. Knox and Sproul, which Borah pro-| tests until Elihu Rott's peace dove! Mies in at the window to hang the 23 sign on the Democratic Peace: AND they clowed the sale for the day Promising to open shop early in the Morning th receive higher bids, an the Auctioneer went home smiling the prospect of such a glorious per. | centage on his 4 business JOEL,WARREN FOR SHER This sounds like a nightmar ail men, save one, who have ® Public office in this city, Joel Warren shown the greatest disregard for enforcement and fundatmental rights. Never has our police de partment been so demoralized afid so lawless since the days of the wide. open town, when the police depart ment were ii cahoots with crime; never been #0 much thuggery. “Open gambling protected.” “Burglars pro: tected.” “White slavery protected.” And this was not protection for revenue only, but 4 high protective tariff has been the rule in Seattle under Warren, 1 do not say that Warren has been dishonest, parson ally, but I do say that the constant Police scandals of bribery, thievery, whisky and gambling proves Warren utterly incompetent. I caught him giving away whisky by the whole | wale. I have proved that the health and police departments were engaged in using the quarantine for black- There was, a little whitecap affair at Nore, Alaska, about 1901 or 1902, in which enterprise the Warrens are said to have been interested. 1 want to know the facts about Joel Warren and I want to know who he is, be cause, while he is a perfectly good story ‘eller, I object to having an alleged gun-tpan, an alleged white capper, for sheriff of King county, if I,can prevent it. I would like for| some one from Nome, Alaska, who! knows about the story of the white cap, who were in the employ of Big Business, to come in and tell me out Joe Warren's political record Alaska, 1 know what it has been fn Beattie. | Next week, I will conduct another auction sale at Chicago, and later, I will have one at San Francisco, if| |, 2 am allowed to, iB This picture shows Donald at the age 22 months, an p and coming” youngster His re Mr. and Mra. 0. W. Jackson, of 4018 mother father “and Donald is ome of thourands of & ators who thrive and grow fat « Milk from Pure Milk Dairy home. Phone f& ttle young- Maplewood Une it in your delivery MAIN 2545 OR MAIN 4510 @. TaketheBoat! bs +4 ett Tacoma! THE BEST ANO CHEAPEST WAY _ TO GO GO It’s Easy to Rhyme, But a Good Limerick Wins Two Round-Trip Tickets to Tacoma To excapa a few hours of strife, Get together the kiddies and wife Take a thirty-mile trip mail. | On a “pleasure steamship” Of the Puget Sound Line—that’s the life! A. O. WELSH, 306% Minor Ave. N. Address yours to Limerick Editor, Seattle-Tacoma Boats, Colman Dock ROUND TRIP FARE $1.00 SINGLE FARE 60c ‘Tacoma Boats Leave Colman Dock | |@OO0 AM. 00600: P M_EVERY DAY BANKERS’ TOPIC’ State Convention Here Ends Saturday Night Emphastzing the urgent need of | greater effort towards bullding up international commerce, John Claus en, vice-president of the Union Na- tional bank, addressed the Washing ton Bankers’ dation convention here today on “Our Opportunities in Foreign Trade,” ‘The convention closes tonight, con cluding a twoday seasion here, at tended by visiting bankers from many other states, Deportation of profiteers as well | as dangerous radicals was urged by former Mayor W. J. Hindley, of Spokane, in an address yesterday O. L. Waller, of the First National bank of Pullman, predicted that «a gigantic project to irngate 1,600,000 acres of land in the Columbia river basin would some day be launched. Max M. Houser of Portland pointed out the necessity of more cars to move the Northwest grain crop. Included in today’s program were reports of committees and a round table discussion of various banking |problems. R. A. Welch, of Belling: | ham, was to discuss the fishing in dustry; H. G, Stubbs, of the Carna. tion Milk Products company, of Se. attle, was to speak on dairying; Frank Carpenter, of Cle Elum, on! conditions in coal fields, and W. F.| | Gwin, of Seattle, on the fruit indus | try. SCHOOL LEVY TO BE URGED. For the purpose of explaining | the need of the 6% mill special| school tax levy to be voted on by the people at an election next Tuesday, @ mass meeting will be hela Monday at 8 p. m. in Broad- way high school, C. C. Bras, cha man of the publicity committee the Know Your Schools club, an- nounced Saturday. “There is great confusion of ide concerning the proposed * levy, jsaid Chairman Bras, ‘The public does not seem to know that unless | the levy passes at the coming elec |tlon 250 school teachers ‘will be automatically cut off the payroli| |and 10,000 pupils thrown upon re- maining teachers because of lack of school funds.” Among those who are scheduled! |to addreas the mass meeting are | Dr. Mark A. Matthews, School} | Superintendent Frank A. Mayor Caldwell, Fred Frank Cotterill and a representa tive of the Parent-Teacher asso- clation. | WHO WAS THE WOMAN IN ROOM (3? The husband thought HE knew and had taken his revenge. The former husband thought HE knew— and uttered his suspicion. BOTH WERE WRONG!! CAN YOU GUESS? | “THE WOMAN IN ROOM 3” A baffling, gripping drama from the * stage play by Max Marcin and Samuel Shipman . ? —winh et PAULINE FREDERICK ROBERT McKIM MARGUERITE SNOW TO PLAY HOT CLEMMER music— Liborius Hauptman, Director “Cavalleria Rusticana” B, ALL WEEK | CLEMMER A RR STENT