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ANS “Opportunity to New Markets and Declared Open BY HERBERT COREY iW YORK, Juiy 31.-—"The com: ef Burepean financiers who Visited the United States omey bulls on America to the Ja the statement of Colvin B. @f Washington, chief of the service bureau of the of Commerce of the U, 5. @ccompanied them on their ee . wit elite to your grand. Sreater heritage than your \t we left to their chil. fas the statement of one or of the Le gage in which Jonge Impression at the eroesh bankers, it opportunity to gain and make friends is ‘United States. You have ‘Upen a great game. Your mB de upon the xkill with play your hand.” international situation Fe ene of the European jeg te ‘coming back.’ We are that We have every raw materials, of our trades, a great our people too second that & further loan the United States, Not one seemed ef such & thing. They |4# time goes on, since Germany ts| {0S that whatever | ligated to supply large quantities reports and heavy Tilinnes may ve aires oy, ore by the United Jut thru loarts offered |RUmber of ways have been utilized | the of bankers with the ‘American investing pub {And the nation is awake to the! {{ t they may secure th n and machinery the qvantries need. = They ! the American abt} § after having teen Ameri. at work. perhaps doubted comprehension of the _| Ship News Tides in Seattle SUNDAY, avaust 4 Lew Tite 116 a m, Oo ft High Tide 27 pom, ALT ft VICKSBURG TO STAY AT ISLAND Give Repair Needs as Cause for Order The necessity of making extensive engine repairs on the school ship Vicksburg, which Is now at Hono lulu awaiting instructions, hay caus ed the Washington state nautical schoo! directors to eliminate the call seheduled at Alaska ports by that ship. The ship has made about half the original first cruise scheduled for the cadets, but the scarcity of repair sta tons in Alaskan waters makes the ‘ . nouncements made yesterday. The Vicksburg may sail directly to Seattle or complete the Columbia river call scheduled before return- ing. Several days are still remain- ing of her stay in the tslands, GERMANY BUILDS CONCRETE SHIPS Lack of Steel Causes New Construction BERLIN, July 2 @y >—Ger- man ingenuity, fostered by compel ships and freight cars. Development along these lines Promises to be enormous. , Experi ments and actual construction al ready undertaken Indicate that the nation will be successful in this modern style of construction which shortage is destined to be greater for France's reconstruction. Recently a constantly increasing for ferroconecrete ship construction need for even further efforts this line, since its freight bills minus a merchant marine—are star leering, as for example its grain transyprt bill of 1,638,000,000 marks in_elght months, ‘The experts declare that It te a fairly si matter to obtain auf. decision advisable, accorting to an-| THE SEATTLE BT AR Activity in Rails Develops in Early New York Trading NEW YORK, July 3 Prices were irregular at the opening of the New York stock exthange today, Activity developed in the railroad Hat during the firat hour, Leaders Were St. Louis Southwestern common, which made a new high for the year at 21; Minneapolie & St Louis, which touched 14%, up %, and Reading, 89%, waa up 1%. Industrials were at @ standetill in early trad- Ing. The activity in railroads was believed due to the fortheoming rate deciston which traders ‘The market The market continued to be @ thin proposition on elther buying or selling side of industrials right up to the close The rally tn demand sterling had little effect on the at market, Ralls retained practically jall of their gains of the first hour United Btates Steel, 8, off %; Crucible, 147, off 1% 110%, unchanged; M Petroleum, 180, off %; Studebaker 4. unchanged; United Stat M. UP MK: Corn Products, 90, unchanged: American Woolen, ; Reading, 89%, up %: Central Leather, 63%, off . ee NEW YORK, July 31—The Evening Sun financial review this after noon sald “Confuston of sentiment and highly varted expression of opinion in weekly reviews of the securities market position and the genera! out- look tended further to lessen public interest in stock prices In today’s short season. ‘The tone was one of underlying strength, neither pressure nor buying initiative being in evidence to turn the sluggish tide. “The outstanding feature today was the absence of all but the most perfanctory concern in the trading . “There was quiet strength in the railroad Mat, gains in seyeral casos being Rub 50%, off 1% pint or more The ond hour saw some ytelding tn industrial values, while the raf ls rather more than held thelr own, In neither Met, however, wa |there the slightest indication of Initiate in any direction, As far as} lany significance in the trading in the half session went, the market mala | a well have cloned yesterday for the week. WHEAT PLUNGES TO LOWER MARK Other Grains Drop Sharply in Chicago Pit CHICAGO, July 91. Wheat futures continued their sengational down- ward course today on the Chicago board of trade. 1 eee New York Coffee and Sugar Quotations NEW YORK, July 21.—-Coffestfe. 7 Rio, 10% @ile per ip; No. 4 Santos, 174 G14 6 per ih Raw, 16.290 per Ib; erenulated, nite per ie Foreign : Exchange HRW TORK, July | 01---Foret change ou he opening Sectetions: “Gartes. Geman’ france, demand 7.630; lire, a Canadian dollars, demand changed. Demand stertt te net; marks. “== URGE COUNCIL TO ECONOMIZE while | Chamber ‘Wants ° Held Down Indorsing the report of the taxa on bureau of the Chamber of Com- merce, the members’ gouncil of the lehamber urged the cit¥ council Fri day to keep the 1921 budget within | the figutes of the 1920 budget Speakers C. 8 Miler, Worrall Wil son, Charles F. Cline and Grosvenor Folsom united in condemning the present municipal, governments as extravagant, They 's¥u. closed ited down | urged retrenchment in all fields of July oats opened 1¢ down | administration. e Other futures, tn Fal is provisions, were lower, also. | Heavy wheat recetpte a cash market were in evid in the wheat pit there was the same reluctance to buy noted at the jeumption of trading The trade looked upon th in the read: market by » absence of t rt with the receipts bearieh fay etive, due to among the important tors. fajons we De down t% opening at $2 ae, ite before the close July corn was 2%e off at the opening, $1.37, and lost ¢c in later trading September orn 1%, she iter” re re a Clowed «@ Budget | Sherrie MARKET ROW IS. {(-ve BRISK SATURDAY Cantaloupes Al Arrive From + Toppenish AD unusually brisk morning ses sion, even for the week-end, was re ported in the produce market atong Western ave, Saturday, The only novelty along the row was a couple of cases of cantaloupes from Top penish, the first of the season. They brought $6 @ crate, Watermelons are scarce, and were soon cleaned up at 3 to 3% cents a pound, Sweet corn tn down a little, aelting for $3 to $3.50 for a mack or erate of seven and elght dozen ¢ars, Pota- toes record no change, Outdoor cu cumbers from Yakima are begin ning to cut in on the local hothouse varietion at 76 cents « dozen. Local Markets Prices astern Weshtngton Green, per half-box Gravensteina, Cal, per sere an county and state | HERE’S MORE ABOUT BRIDEGROOM STARTS ON PAGE ONE him on stationery of the Mitchell hotel, Everett. “Dear Seah, I came here, trunks and everything, in ® car from Monroe, I am waiting here for the bank to open, and then the race to Hell ls on. “My mind is 0, K. and my morals are fairly good, “Porhaps you will learn betore the end of your life that you have made a mistake “1 would like to stop Iti to see you before 1 go, But what's the use? “Yours lovingty. ” ‘The letter was signed G. W. Howe. Op June 22, about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Miss Fleishman ‘Howe phoned her that he contem- plated a trip to Australia, and was fleaving the city at 11 p. m. “I told him to come and see me,” she said, “because I wanted to talk with him, but he didn’t come. Two days later the card came from Port land, addressed in his handwriting. There was no message on it; only a pleture of the Union depot at Port land.” Howe Was well known among un- dertakers here, having been inti mately acquainted with C. C. Em mons, of the Bonney- Watson Co,, for 16 years, He formerly was employed by that company, At the time of hin dinappearance he was having an aw tomobile t formed into & hearse. MOORE NAMED BY RETAILERS Morgan Selected as State Trustee Harold N. Moore is county secre. tary of the King county unit of the Washington Btate Ketaflers’ associa- on, chosen at a meeting at the Chamber of Commerce last night. Fred R. Morgan, of Frederick & Nel- 90n's, was nominated for state trus- tee, the election to take place in Spokane August 5. A county execu- Uve committee was named as fol Mr. Roas of Renton, J. W. Cava- ae >| nau ot Auburn, G. Ericksen of Bothell, A. N. Berlin of Kent, C. G. Morse of the Fraser-Paterson com- pany, F. A. Ernst of Ernst Hard- ware company, EB. B. Kinne of Unik versity Pharmacies, G. H. Storrs of Octonek Knitting company and Frank J, Vietor, Two Dentists Are Declared Guilty. BOISE, Idaho, Jyly 31.—Dr. V. A Pitageraid Dr. . A. Myers were found guilty in district court late Friday night of conspiracy to de. fraud in Myers’ case for receiving Write Letters by Dozens on Howling Dogs C. M. Scott, ansiatant city clerk, will have to construct additional filing canes if the letters praising and denouncing the “bowling dog ordinan continue to pour into his office, The latest communication on the wubject declared that men and wom. en should be considered before dogs. "1 do not dislike dogs,” says V, 1, Combe, 433 20th ave. 8, the writer, “but day after day, unfit for my work, becaune of barking, yelping dog, keeping me awake at night.” "Ks J, Bo” 1S GLUE LEFT BY CROOK Drops Handkerchief "While Prowling Here “K. J. B,” the initials written in black ink on @ blue-and-white polka dot handkerehief, left behind by @ burglar who attempted to open the safe of Renton Hill Fuel Co, 1322 B. Union st. was the only clue police hed Raturday to his identity. After gaining entrance to the of. flee by boring a hole in the back door and gurning the lock, the thief attempted to knock open the safe by hammering on the lock, He evi dently placed the handkerchief over the lock to deaden the ring of the blows. Motoreyele Officer A. J, Hill found the handkerchief when he investi gated the burglary. Hill says the thief was probably a boy, as the hole in the door thru) which he reached his hand to turn the lock, was @ very small one, The would-be eafecracker was frightened away, police belie ¢, a8 he took nothing, Boy Choir Stopped Reassurances that the members of the Whitney Boy Choir are well cared for and having an enjoyable experience were wired by W. F. Too. mey, mayor of Fresno, Cal., Satur- day. The telegram, addressed to Mayor Caldwell, was in reply to a re- quest of the Rev, U. G. Murphy, | prominent sympathizer, that th California suthorities detain the boys, on the ground that their par ente were deceived when the young choristers were taken on their tour | of the Bouth, A man may be s hopelens idiot, but no waman will admit it after) he has proposed to her. WE BUY [STEAL SUITS TO 1 am! OBTAIN “DOPE” 50 Outfits Disappear Each Month Driven desperate by thelr eraving for dope, hopheads are turning te sult stealing as the easiest method of getting money to buy narcotics, according to Lieut. J, C., Wickman, | head of the police pawn shop detail, More than 50 sults a month are stolen in Seattle, mostly from roome in downtown hotela, Lecause of high prices, bargain seekers don't wtop to ask questions when they are offered a suit cheap, and so hopheads find them easy te nell, Lieut. Wickman says, Most of the stolen suits eventually find thelr way to South End pawn shops, and the majority of them are recovered when police have @ report of the theft, Lieut. Wickman claims, . L. Brennan, Ewing hotel, was the only man to be victimized by ‘sult thieves Friday night. His suit was blue, with a light green stripe, ang was of English cut. Drop Phonograph When Cops Appear Surprised in an alley ag they were carting away in a wheélbarrow 4 View trola stolen from the home of 8. Q, Sunde, 1509 Tenth ave. W., @ man and woman dropped their loot and fled Friday night. R. H. 1614 11th ave, W, was driving hig auto out of the alley when he met the pair, The Victrola was returned, to the Sunde home, Sunde, who is | affiliated with Bunde & D'Evers, ship chandlers, is on a trip to Norway. Find Stolen Car A in Fresno, Cal. A man giving the name of P. G Tice has been arrested in California, in possession of @ car stolen from J, N. Eggt, R D. No. 1, Olympia, gg word received by J. chief of the bureau of in Seattle. re to Charactertses every transaction. comers are cs we consistent with sound nese judgment . te: 490; September oats. | % eat the opening, 68%¢, later | December oate opened 46 subwequently lye- britee while a member of the state board of dental examiners. : Pedestrians * Hit by Autos *, This Year Pfifering ice from the rear of ice wagons is becoming danger ous pastime for boys. Bon. E. Johnson, of Tamhill station, re- ported to police Saturday that he had knocked down a boy who was running away from an ice wagon driver at 14th ave. and E. Spruce st. Friday afternoon, The boy gave his last name as Davis, Two weeks ago a boy was killed when struck by an auto as he jumped off the rear of an ice wagon. LIBERTY AND VICTORY BONDS vances die and Vise ‘Ganeminations asd ORE-MALS OF aeneeneiens and ONE-HALF OF ECT SELLING VALUE of your bonds & and adding the interest, ficient cement, gravel, sand and) joy. fron bare for ship building, but fy < thee have heen unable thus fag to! 6° Rs. own develop to thelr satisfaction con- eee struction of vessels of more than thrée to five thousand tons, There}, Chicago Live Stock are ways along the Rhine and on{ eprcaco, July _St.—-Moge-— Rosette, the Haltic for such ship construc-| 4,809 head; ma: that the world situa. BANK CLEARINGS ——— % Co My n $5,572,204.20 x oy ‘hen ‘CORRE 1,882,761.09 624,489.00 60,272.00 | a #0 | Welnete— Manchurian Peanste—Virginia K 91.45 $56.01 $86.90 $56.26 MORRIS BROT HERS se CENTRAL BULLDING (GROUND (cblshed Over a tuarier Contery _Telegheness Going East? Travel through the wonderful CANADIAN PACIFIC ROCKIES — To All Middle West and Eastern Destinations in CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES ~Girietly fresh . Per owt DAIRY PRODUCTS Whoelreale Sailing Date to France A eae Production of the Aa comply with the request of| lower. Lambe, ‘was almost start! Foch, the Knights et co rire srr a fast tae"! PER CENT IS rc: GOAL MINE RAISE fayette to France, have ad their sailing date from At Day Laborers to Get $1 Increase to August 5, it was an yesterday, The supreme A wage scale for coal miners that allows an increase of approximately 20 per cent for contract laborers and $1 a day for day laborers over the | gered to the government when its scale of October, 1919, was recom:| owners were arrested for smugeling —— FF earners | ey from Canada, brought $116 slot a reting representa: | st a customs sale Friday. tives of the mer and the coal op-|” Phe iaunch was somewhat damaged — ye ers beac their oraft and at The committee on arrangements! gust 1. The operators’ committee In| tl by a const piston cutter, sev. Mining country, said:|includes: Joseph Mehan, purchas|apparently ready to accept the rec |e oolla kak . per miner per day in|ing agent; Perry Ottenson, port) ommendations, and if the miners’ a is three times the | steward; Robert Heich, dock agent;| convention, which meets in the La- "Pp. bli Mi kets Pr Rupp Chosen yen Head of Bar Association ERDEEN, July %1-—Otto B. nap was elected by acclamation to |" the presidency of the Washington State Bar association, at the final) sennion of the legal society yesterday Rupp i« a Seattle lawyer, a member of the firm of Chadwick, MoMicken, Ramsay & Rupp, Delegates named to attend the American Bar associa | tion convention, in St. Louis, next month, were Clark P. Bissett, of the | University of Washington law school; B. ©. Grosscup and C. 8. Shepard, 2,009 head: market te! BOG 1440; ewes, t2.250 | r or Youre Amert Biock Bwies Wamp. triplets DAILY DAYLIGHT =XCURSIONS TO ISAN JUAN wi ISLANOS tai advanced date was necessary because of the situation in Poland, which is so serious that Marshal Foch must leave for there at an early date. Steamship Staff et-Fogether Sell Booze Boat for $116 at Auction The gasoline launch 242L, for Plans Staff officers and attaches of the Pacific Steamship company will hold their annual get-together in the near future—probably on Au- gust 15. Canadian Pacific Ry. SCENERY! SPEED! ‘SERVICE! a B. F. L. STURDEE,, General Agent, Passenger Dept. PUGET SOUNO NAVIGAT! 608" Second Avenue, Seattle Phone Main 5588 ONC ‘was the statement of one _ watching operations Veal--Pancy « Medium . per man-day in Engiand./A. J. Mickley, assistant general|bor temple Tuesday, receives them your men are better/freight agent; L. C. Joslyn, chief| favorably, it is considered practical ‘Decause they use ma-|clerk to Capt. A. J. Storrs, super-|ly certain that the new scale will be Im Great Britain we stick to|intendent of the eompany, and John | opted. shovel, We have not|Carmode, chief clerk to A. F.} About §,000 men in Washington | Bd to nubstitute mechanical pow-| Haines, vice president and genera)| Will be affected by the increase. Be human muscle.” manager of the company. cause of the numerous classifica. CTRIC-ENGINES ions, the full schedule of wag: Seattle ‘Arrivals and Bogar Mtal. A flour, # ait 147, Se. Stall 108. Soe; three three package two cans eateup, 15e, Mal colate, #1¢; 1 Ib evaporated peaches, thres cans Van Camp's pork and jomie or tbe. boxes Search’ 16-17 tb. ground MILWAUKEE'S ably will not be worked out Stevens of London ts the|’ Monday, Atal 17, pure American cane engar, 2 SCHOOL BOARD Arayll from San Pedro at fresh milk, quart, 126, Stall 1625, Finke | Cracked 19 B m.s it Jessup from Kobe White. Ib, 260; two packages Post | Chop va at 3:16 p.m; str Toastion, Hc; shredded cocoanut, Ib. ah such engines at Pitts-| 57 bregma who represented Italy | cisco at 6:30 p. m. Building 2% Rogers baking pow tine gommission, spoke of these en- Connection with the water) a ‘enacted by the recent con-| 5, Preparations for the floating of a $1,000,000 bond tnsue for building ™ purposes are being made by the Se jattle school board. Whe finance streams. July 20—-ftr Rosalie’ Mahony fom fan committee of the board was directed ‘ancisco at 4:16 p. m.; ate Alask® for to arrange for the advertising of not’ produce a pound of ° Italy.” said he. “American yoogme c's p {niehts acme Aaullo fF such an insue at the meeting Friday Union bricklayers thru their sec i ald down in Italy costs us $70) the retary, F. H. Pike, protested against at prevailing rate of ex- ange. We the enforcement of the five and one 'e can not compete at that. t if we can buy American. Seattle Today half day working week for their | dor, package. jtrade on construction work. ‘The | ib. 6-1b, eal machinery we have! 3 vt water power in the Apen-|O™ihg oW* Mrminsi—Bee Henry We) ion pricklayers could not conform | 1a FIn™ 8 don. ihc: to enable us to rebuild our- Union |to the provision, Pike declared, be: | s1-i3, red silver ‘nationally. We can buy and #mitn cause such a week is not in keeping | 14 you wil only give us time.” | pier 14 . |with the rules of the international spoke of the vast aregs of Bel at terminal — Mtr Admire} Watson, The bricklayers’ ogg aig poring, “od | Pacific Const bunkers, 8, 1. H. j Rreen 2 Ibe, 160; eweet corn, Leaves Colman Dock, 9 A, M. ss weabae besitos Fe gy 10:30 P.M Round trip tare, ea to 12, & f Jess music will be ienueed air the wi way Ry hoonee wi s Whangdcodte ‘Entertainers DANCING AN ALI-DAY TRIP FILLED WITH BEAUTY Get your tickets early Staterooms on 8 8. Whatcom only ne ove * PIKE PLACK c Chi t jong trains over thes; a m.; motor schr Wakena from Brit Onte ‘on the Chicago, Milwau-| ign Gotumbia porte at 4 a. m. ‘Paul Being convinced, he| | July ¥ PICNIC AT KINGSTON BEACH SUNDAY S. 8S, Puget for Kinggton and Port Ludlo' Grounds and good picnic beach, fine for private and “lub pienica Dancing pavilion for use of ‘ties July 31-0 3 art! BCONOMY | 2 Ibe, 460, 4 The, 900 , Lipton's yellow ‘label thrée cans Old Duteh Cle Mills red can coffer, G0; 46e cans ‘350 bottle mayonnaise, prunes, ah; 400 pure chocolate or ehcoa fe can Inatant m, 880; four bars Royal White soap, 260; b-1b, can M. J. B, coftes, 46c, SANITARY M Maxoln oll, 920, 60e, $1.15, ‘Went into manufactur. | by utilizing the power of | byalin tor Port Mlakely at 6:16 ae & v & 8 Sioux leaves Cotman’ Doe “A back PR, HOUND Tur Fane, INCLUDING Wal Tak, ry * GET YOUR TICKETS EARLY Vessels in Port at ee Atalla 24-36, $2.20; 2% I |a tbe, MJ Citrus pow: Flake White, $1.95; heavy fig bare, 18¢ Ib, 206, Bt It sometimes happens’ that a faw student gives up the law business to engage in the son-in-law business Str Areytl, Str Milkesan Maru, Stall 102, fresh union calls | co-operative milk, TAKE THE BOAT TO iITACOMA BOATS LEAVE COLMAN DOCK 7, O AL A.M Ay By By 7, OP. M, kivinanty“pair.” Tae Seo and 12° FRReOO" eream brick cheene, White, Ib, 26e; bu | aac, # Ibe, 6c, Stalls 04-96 Pike ‘at, shoulder of mutton, 1b, 9; mutton chops, Ib, 18e; Ings of mutton, Ib, 180; bacon, Jb, 200; hamburger, lb, 100; boiling beef, 1b, To. J. A Russell, recently convicted tn the federal court of attempting to bribe a government officer, has tiled a bill denying testimony against him in the United States district court, Russell is at present serving ‘a three months term in the county jail, having been sentenced July 7 by byederaa Judge E. L, Cushman, v. |" Heather and the swamps and the Pier D--Str President, motor echr Wa- ; t ken Jana which only orale dor} Wont Heattle elevator—Str Oth as national assets that guioner @ Eddy yards—S&r Robin Good: hardly seem to realize. but | How. it was thepnational enerey Han ford st, terminal—Gte Eastern Tera | fn using machines that) pute yarqe—str Westboro. them. Kant Waterway torminal—str West Nim. 4 the Uinited States had but one's A Reterign, ad raood {ee 4 | ry doe! r ano, str - of more than 1.000 tons jn een eet astern ‘asthe stay trade,” raid M. De la Touche | rde—str Roosevelt, Frarice. “The necessity arom H ie Broxton, Leota, Endy- Moday you are carrying 24.8 per| inion Fort Jackson, Addison, Hough. ¥f the world’s trade in your bot- caffe, special, Tf a man ts smert he can always | jeatch on, and if he ts wise he will always know when to let go. . Cozian, ‘© Henry motor schr Ktion, Lootl, Dione, C Cineyras, Cardia, Eliana, ac ‘Wilson, Balvator, Allo Oregon. Puget Bound Bridge & Di 8. Patterson, an drydoeks otr Skagway. Blasting, SINGLE FARE sing works ton, Howesmont, Bournevit hurst, Abitia, Adria, Capri tra, Osiwin, Abydos, Ascadeualty Aae- Motor achr Coolcha,

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