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QUITTING AMERICA : Leaving Much Faster Than) They Enter; Eventually All Will Go, Experts Say SAN FRANC 1800. Sept. 1 Chineseless America—almost as un Believable as a revoltiess Mexico. But it’s coming, and coming rap Idly, according to census figures, im migration authorities and leading ‘Chinese here. The Chinese exclusion act Most a thing of the past o its practical application ts concer is Ra ter the United States, coolle smug sling is nearty extinct, and citizens of the Asiatic republic are leaving this country more rapidly than they entered. WAGES INCREASE IN THE ORIENT Not now do American wages tempt forts involved in evading the immt gration authorities, Wages in the Orient have also increased; to the extent that they have in this country, but at the same time the 208 of living has not reached Amer- fean standards, and the coolle who formerly saved for years to pay his| expenses to the United Stages now _ fives comfortably at home. Labor unions being formed in China are partly responsible. But the world food shortage is held as the chief reason for the abatemen of Chinese smuggling to this continent. It is estimated that 500,000 Chi fese go into Manchuria and Mon- _ Folia each year now to tend the | @hormous wheat and grain crops grown there, Annam, under) protectorate, is also attract tng large numbers to the rice field: Thousands of formerly uncul Figures show that the Japanese gov: ernment last year imported rice from China to feed its own population at @ loss of $15,000,000. Similar food ing the development of the Orient. THOUSANDS MIGRATING ‘TO EUROPE Chinese by the thousand are tm “migrating to Europe to relieve the La shortage resulting from the rhe only Chinese now coming jpto the United States, it is reported@by immigration authorities, are wealth: Merchants who return after a by Stay and the wives of Chinese al- (Ready settled here, Where it was estimated that formerly thousands Were smuggled across the Mexican and thru Pacific ports yearly, Row reported that this immigra- is so small as to be negiigibie. San Francisco alone, 20 years it was estimated that there were Chinese. Today there are leas 15,000. The Chinese population ef California is now 33,900 as op- (Moved to 37,000 ten years ago. A who entered the United States before the rigid enforcement ©f the exclusion act are now either @ead or leaving the country to die in their native land. Others who have Ret found the wealth for which they ame are returning to China to ob- tain the high wages now being paid. Mot remain more than 25,000 Chinese Bumber will rapidly die out until a Be as rare on the streets of Ameri-| tenn cities as is now an American | ‘Indian. COLVER AGAINST PACKERS’ PLAN ‘Disapproves Scheme to Sell Yards to Holding Company WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.—The pre Posal of big meat packers to xe!! their control in principal stockyards to a $30,000,000 holding company met | with disapproval by Federal Commissioner Colver and the League of Women Voters today, The department of justice indi ated the plan will not be accepted, altho final decision will be up to| Attorney General Palmer. The pack ers agreed with Palmer to divest themselves of stockyarda, ealled unrelated side tine Proposal filed in court is part of the carrying out of that agreement Under the proposal packer holdings fn 15 yards and terminal railroads | organized by F. H. Prince & Co., of Boston, the packers to have some est in the company Colver, who headed the federal trade investigation of the packers, and recommended regulatory legisla tion, said of the proporal “The most interesting part of this Proposed adjustment to me is th Feappearance of Frederick H. Prince Upon the stage. It was Prince who with Armour, succeeded in absolute ly concealing the ownership of the Chicago stockyards, so that ndbody on earth has been able to know who the owners were or are. This was accomplished by the use of bearer Warrants, a thing which can defeat all income tax laws, anti-trust laws and any court decree.” Miss Jensie Haver, legislative agent of the League of Women Voters, Which has 2,000,000 members, con @emned the whole method of proceed. ing against the packers in the courts. Foreign Exchange NEW ans Sept. Demand sterling ‘was $7. unchanged, the et in exchat Franca were up 1 cent off 2 centimes 1 centime; Can: , 89.150. The market was firm right up to the Close of quotations. was quoted francs 6.99¢, cables Bt $3.57%. up t%e; cy , eables 4.680; marks 2.030, nadian dollars, Denver Market Status DENVER, Rept. 1.--Cattle ere and feeders, $6.25 Hoge—Reocipts Top, Chinese are no longer fighting to en: | the Mongolians to risk the discom: | true, not} shortage all over the world is fore: | Within another 20 years there will | im the United States, it is estimated | by some authorities bere, and that | citizen of the flowery republic will | Trade | Will be sold to a holding company | thing less than a 50 per cent inter. | Tides in — i. WEDNESDAY SEPT, Pies 10s pom, 26 ft Second High Tide ' pom, Ihe ft |Engines Disabled, Tanker Towed In With her engines ai Peart j Met one of the newest types of steel oil tankers in the service of the Shell Jou ¢ Yompany, Was towed to port here from Richmond Beach oll station yesterday afternoon, She carried ol to the Columbia river and Puget sound this trip, and after repatr | will proceed South to fill her tanks again. . \s| Trying to Save Cargo on Arakan FRANCISCO, Sept. 1 further delay might loss of th Dutgh ashore Point Reyes, San Francisco, stevedores ere sent to the scene during the | night to jettison a part, at least, of the million dollar cargo of rubber, sugar and oriental goods which the vessel carried. It was decited to sacrifice the cargo ina final effort to lighten the ship sufficiently to save her. cee SAN Fearing in the Arakan, jnorth of From Weather Bureau AM ISLAND, Sept. 1.—2 A. M or, clear; wind’ © 20 tn Passed in: A ly the Porn | Behiey —Clear: wind northeast, an hour, 245 P.M Passed in Abner Coburn in tow of Holye! 12:30 p. mo 6 P. thy M. 4 Arrivals and Dapistares | Arrived |. September 1-—dtr Admiral Rodman | from Southeastern Alaska at 4:20 4. m. str Ban Juan from Cape tow of tug Tyee with machinery trouble at 4 p.m September 1 Sound ports at #:10 a m Str Admiral Sehley for fan Diego via Han Francisco at noon; atr Ad miral Dewey for Tacoma at 8:10 p.m str Nee for Bverett at 8 pm: motor oma at 2:30 p.m for sea station at Vessels in n Other Ports Manila—-Arrived August 26. Str Delight from Seattle via ports Bhanghab—Arrived August 27: Str Pe | ahimt %y from Seattle via ports fan Francisco—Aailed August 31 President for Seattle via Victoria. I Arrived September ! mr ter from Seattle and Bagle Harbor | Astoria—Halled Heptember 1. Her West ward Ho for Beattie at # a. m. Victoria. P Sailed Auguet 21: Str Bastern Vietor tor Seattle at #15 $m Heptember 1: str Yosemite for Beattie at #:15 «. m. Port Townsend—Passed in September i: Str Hidridge for Beattie at 9 a m. Everett—Arrived August 21: ltr Dee from San Franciece via Tacoma and #e- attie Tacoma—Arrtred A August 81 miral Dewey fro: Str ad Reported by Wireless Canadian Government August 21-—Motor sehr Apex tn Mill dank Sound, northbound, at 10a m. U. S. Navel g mmnntentions fs miko tows Heattle tol Hai oint Crescent . Tacoma for Ma at fp m.: str Quabbin, Ban attle, 215 miles from feattie str Yosemite, five mile pm; ate © Francisco, 25 miles north of Columbia River at #8 p. m.: atr Edmore, Kobe te 9 jalles from Seattle at are for te. mm, Ban Francisco for Seatt! south of Destruction Isiand } } Vessels in Port at Seattle Smith Cove terminal Redondo, atr ern orn Engineering works—#tr Str Hoboken. Bkinner & Eddy yarde—Str Burydamas, chr Allee Cooke. Hanford st. terminal ard Str Mens. F Pack Duthie yarde—Sr Maquan, | Mast Waterway ¢ Ne a | Tedd drydocks Thomeon Pacific Const Bridge & Dredging works Patterson tr Roonevelt. drydocks—Sehr thern yards | Am in He Commodore, | Grand Trunk dock Hpokane st. terminal Libby, MeNeil & Libby son, bi Oriental, Str Admiral Rodman. Btr Han J Behr Henry Wit hr Expansion, ¥ set eiiiecie BANK CLEARING | Seattle Clearings .. « $6,141,226,82 | Balances . 961,429.84 | Tacoma Clearings | Balances . Clearings . LP lances « 1,076,186.51 | od AGED LABORER ENDS HIS LIFE After tamping thi his door, A. Noonan, 60, a laborer, turned on the jets beneath two gas plates early Wednesday morning and stretched himself across his bed to die in his room in a Jap hotel at $07) Eighth ave. 8. ne body was discovered by Pa» trolman EB at, who called by the hotel proprietor when’ he smelled gas. Nolan registered at the hotel] ten days ago and had been suffering from ill-health, according to roomers who knew him during his brief stay at the hotel. There were no cards or marks of identification which would give the police any indication as to the man's home or address of relatives. The body was removed morgue, Melon Thieves Too Fast for Policeman Patrolman Edgar Barr failed to catch five men he surprised steal- to the result | steamer | ted Str Cordova for Kotzebue | | Btr Horace X. Bax- | ) 158 miles north of Ban Francisco tio, Puget Sound for San str Santa Ana | Stream—Str Mar, str Zopora. | Oregon, bas al, Washtuena | U. & & Princeton, tugs Wanderer, | Wallowa, str Coman: x | € cracks beneath Ship News *?PLES ABT SLOW AS YET Elberta Peaches Are Coming More Plentifully Elberta peaches from east of the | | mountains are arriving more plent! fully as the season opens up, but fe » fruits in general, and apples in| | partic ular, are not coming in as they should, according to Western ave fruit brokers, The reason for this they say, is that @ larger proportion of the crop than usual is being dt verted to the East by the fancy prices offered there for western fruits, and the yield in many vart eties is below normal this season, in addition | Prices were steady on the whole | Werdnenday. bertas dropped 26 cents to t level, Canta, due to a temporary w increase in freuen. ea little easter Ranch eggs Jumped to 62 cents a dozen, a rise of 2 cents, while ons | intrenched centa Hutter stood pat. themselves firmly at 50 Local Markets Potatoce—Per m — Fastern Washington | Appte— Rastern Washington Apricots Per lug . Bananas Per Blackberries Mer crate Crabapple | ai Comb, per Newey dew leo Cranm Melons. omens Per bor ver ane Oranges — per Peaches Peanate—Virginia Keystone, ®. Japanese, per ‘ e ‘ DAIRY PRODUCTS Prices Paid te Shippers Nattertat Kage Freeh ranch | Milk—Per ert | DAIRY PRODU cts Prices Paid Wheleenie Dealers Vecane creamery, cubes « “a ranch « | om Or triplets ULTRY Prices Paid by Wholesale Dealers to Shi ippers Docks 26@ .%0 Hens Under ¢ Me » | 4 fe and up 2 Brotlers All welebts r Rooaters ‘ | Geeae—t : | Belgian Maree—Live, per tb. is POULTRY Prices Paid Wholesalers Docks Dreamed ‘ “ou m4 ‘ s@ bs 28 ue tions at Stockyards 17.09@17 50 to choles 18.00 @ 17.06 | Rowgh heavy 140015 00 | Pigs 12.00@14 Catto core os 09@ 10.50 to choles t we and he! fore... 7.00@ 15.00 Prime spring lambe......- Yoarlingn « Wethers Ewes HAY, GRAIN AND FEED Wholesale Price Per Ton, © Barley —Whole Rolled Citpped Oats—-Rolied Whole 4 |Corm—Whole . Cracked Chop Ground Bone’. | Mill Rum .. | Alfalfa Alfalfa Meal Seraten Food - 10. 25@10.78 0@ #00 | Shell Meal—Cat Oynter Soya Bean Meal |Engineer of Note Accepts City Job A. P. Davis, director of the U. 8. reclaination service, will act as ad- visory and consulting engineer in the Skagit river power project. Announcement that Davis’ services had been secured for Seattle's big de. velopment scheme was received Wednesday by Mayor Hugh M. Cald- well Davis is one of the best known reclamation engineers in the country Railroad ave. Tuesday nig! “I gave thdm an awful chase,” he and University st, ing watermelons out of @ boxcar at ' explained at headquarters, THE SEA TTLE STAR WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1929. ° | Trad Irregular FENDER CO.TO | .":*: Cefice aad ewer Nua Tastee KEW YORK, sept. 1—Cottew—No. 7 ing eg | nie Tore pir it's 4 uehton, e@| With Many Victims’ ie per Ti ° iver Haw, 11632040 per tb; granu-| Sneak thieves nipped | from the | Mra, Otto Olson, 1410 Sixth ave, e ° ; 4 | Portland aaron Report jowelry_and $4 ‘in currency; Mig PORTLAND, Hept, 1.—Butter—64e per! Sahel Daud, 6040 19th ave, fur List Gets Support" ° jimi 00 ey ee ns ye ait, Maton © per don "$88, toc clothing; Mra. 1 ig ibe per ihe brotiers, 27@%20| ave., $88, tools and clothing; Industry |, : 1 Motiers #86 Cjdman, 1802 13th ave, $09 worth NEW YORK, Sept. 1.—Prices were gonerally up at the atock} per Jb of laundry; Mrs, Etta Richardson, market opening today. The National Automatic ’ mt Rte | 1408 Hi, 42nd wt. $11; Carl Fou, New United States Steel was up % at 88%) Studebaker 61, up General company proposes to establish a fac Lu y is sales manager for| Cecil hotel, his shoes, and Sidney Motors 20%, off 4; Sinclair 29, up %; Reading 93%, up %; Baldwin 196%, /tory in Seattle to manufacture|the n r ‘onn, 200 16th ave., unchanged; Crucible 118%, up M; Republic Steet %i Baltimore! street car fenders, according to an cease — | & Ohio 42%, up KW; Tobacco Products 65%, up tk; New York Central 74%.|nouncement made today by ln H wn ner nnn out ff hieb unchanged; Texas Company 47%, up % |Gray, its president } » There was fairly heavy selling in the industrial list, following an-| Heveral fendern of the type to be LIBERTY AND VICTORY BONDS | nouncement that a receivership had been asked for the Owen Magnetic! made by this company are in use on w York market price and interest, deducting for brokerage | Car Corporation, Traders were bearish on all motor concerns |the Seattle municipal railway. a8 $60 4100 denominations 464 ONK-HALY OF ONE The entire railroad lst behaved well right up to the close. In olle Bin-|supt, D. W. Henderuon has reported 7 on larger Geneminetions. va VALOW of your beaké by Sedect | clair led at 29%, an overnight gain of nearly # point. After a brief rally|they give sutiafaction ne the brokerage from the market price and adding the interest, Bee today's | motors suffered another sinking spell, which shortly before the close car nders also have been used on |p ieotstions below re Prag ii ried Pieree-Arrow down to a new low level for the year at “ nier Valley cars, where they have | ‘The market closed irregular ted several fatal accidents by | Market i of king up pedestrians and carrying | 9! Officers of the National Automatic lvedder Oo. aret Le SC Olay, tepa "MORRIS BROTHERS, Inc. dents 4. Ui: Patheravecviakaaeiaias 8 CENTRAL BUILDING (GHOUND FIOOR), SRATTE ‘ * 2 The Premier Municipal Bond House Capital, One Million Dollars d general manager: Rt. F. Guerits Tatabluhed Over a Quarter Certury. Telephones; Killott 2840» Main 7227. retary All these officers Gains and Later Drops Fea-| Says Broderick Ad Slams| ture Chicago Trade Sept. 1 the Ch ains © on day r at rhet le buying by shipping | ater bck bn lard nd scattered sellin thruout the corn eariah infiiie mber wheat ¢ 4 1% toned | al nter Goge wan | greath own 4. | ap, P pened down Sel at $1.40 Ime lower at $1.98 %; rn opened down we, at the opening of 41.18% and | pany cloned at $1.17 loa of Ye September opened at 65 down \e, and ’ we: December down 146 and ¢ cf evisions cloned irregular . ah wh CHICAGO, Sept J 1 red, $2,525 Siu @iss; Chicago Live Stock (GmICAgo. it. Lontitow 1 rhket steady butehers, 514 ~ Medel pte bee lower _ BIRTHS ard, Providence hos nd, C.F, Seattle General hoe tal, gir irey, Manford, 104 Fairview ave boy foren, Robert Le, 908 Hiawatha pl. ' Joneph M., 2818 Dist ave, bey.| Reisnell, Chester, 3827 2ist w David, 604 B Denny way, boy an, Jonoph, $01 Sint ave. boy Lamen, St Luke's hos- J, Route §, Seattle, 112 15th in. Joneph Irving t yreno J., 2017 10th © Cheater, 4620 48rd 6. b John, Seattle General Duwamish V: wink , 3617 W. Charle 8554 16th N. R w. oth. bh. € 409 Drive. | Vital Statistics) | clared Scoring Henry Broderick an advertisement declaring that the tax rate In i} Lom Angeles and San Francisco, and exceeds that Mayor Hugh M, Caldwell Wednesday declared that y the unjust and inaceurate, reciated by rival cities.” | ertisement Wags malied to Mayor Caldwell by the realty com: | the City entate firm of for publishing real Ine Beattle ix twice that of of Portland. the comparinc and ¥ of the above-named cities, according to the reports of the various asses: | eat red tee 3 b jar of alley ston, girl «irl ri nile Sus Bho a tall 46 reONOMY . It-on ean Moyal baking pow chet onte, honey MARRIAGE LICENSES |. vais Name and Residence Rrown, Ernest Roberta, Lillian, Se Bixler, Perry Jay, © Traver, Boretta, Caahs linen, Chauncey Jar woh. Marie, Aurora, OF Townsend, Claude R, Augusta, Mont Zimmer, Bessie, Auguata, Mont Marshall, James P., Seattle Ewing. Imogene, Seattle Staple, Andrew, Shelton Hangen, Guro, Seattle Anderson, Chester Le Grand, § verdale Berg, Alice Catherine, Silverdale Young, Ben M., Seattle ountield, Mayo, Kirkland Earl, Seattle Grace Is, Santa See. brow rea 408; peanut William Allen, Test Beer Legal | 2 ties Kenealy, Mary Elen, Seattle... Legal | Kip Henry, San Francisco i n, Elisapet, Seattle . Hayes, J. E. Tacoma one tford, Lueil . Tacoma 2 urphy, Thomas Francis, Mon. tesano + Lewe K n, Katherine Lega euch Harry, Seattle ISLANDS Dayton, Frank A., Beattle Logal Livermore, Mildred, Vancouver, Waat Legal Horsman, Harry ©, Leaven : Legal avenworth. Legal H., Wallace, i tees. Legal Fona, Seattle. 1... Legal Barter, Miriam from Robert W Steinauer, William A. from Law Cleaveland, Louise from Guy. DEATHS ng, Louis, 62, King county hos pital. | Skibick!, Bmetia, 68, 112 W. &nd st Rootvik, Anne, 80, 6518 10th N. W Burnett, Ben M. 63, 1111 Boylston ave. Dougias, James Aaron, 72, 1808 eral ave. Hurna, James M, 26, Providence pital Status of Frisco Mark HAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1.—Rut per Ib; prime firsts, 66 Kene—Extras, 6740 per dos firsts, 6he per dox; firsts, per per doz, dirties No. 1, per don; extra pullets, 60'\4¢ per dos; dernized pullete, 6646 per dos. Travel To All SCENERY! 608 Second Avenue, Seattio DIVORCES GRANTED Going East? through the wonderful CANADIAN PACIFIC ROCKIES Middie West and Eastern Destinations in CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES Age ra. Fed- hos- et ter 6 per extra doz; | FOU DAILY SPEED! Anacortes Pp 2 phen i SAN JUA TAKE THE BOAT TO iTACOMA BOATS LEAVE COLMAN DOCK 7, ®, 11 A. M., BVERY DAY. cheapest way te ge TRIP’ QO SINGLE TRANS-CONTINENTAL TRAINS Canadian Pacific Ry. EB, F. L, STURDEER, General Agent, Passenger Dept. ™ treet don x Tedded comoanst, de oe Th. Malt 2 M.. 3 Te tse; 2 rs ta ‘n po Post . é8e * 78, 92.60 tomatoes striet butter ine nN = ‘ails at Richardson, Friday Mar- each day, Weet 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 P.M The best dad £60° 1D NAVIGATION iC —FAR SERVICE! Phone Main 6988 1 “greatly | Caldwell, in his reply, quoted Coun bs |ty Assessor Frank W. Hull, who de | “A wtudy of the assensed valuations | ore, will prove that the advertisement lis not m fair and just one.” Caldwell pointed out that the cities | Mentioned do not have the same ba-| nin of ansensment as Seattle. " Public Markets | Special undoubtedly meet yi Ss 151 Steamer Sound, Steamer WHATCC CHES SE Brooke's LU Steamer SIOUX 1 STORE UNUSUAL SPECIALS! Continue Beinainder of Week! Slightly Used Heaters These heaters are in excellent con- dition—removed from homes install- ing BUCK’S PIPELESS FURNACE. $78 Brass Bed, Spring and Mattress pecial $63.75 These specials are among the best we have offered this season. M.A.GOTTSTEIN FURNITURE CO. HE excursions scheduled below are the last. which will take place this year. fers a fine opportunity to enjoy these trips you have probably been intending to take all summer. SAN JUAN ISLANDS SIOUX leaves Colman dock § a. m., calling at Richardson, Friday Harbor, East Olga, CHILDREN 5 TO 12 YEARS HALF FARE, CHILDRE? SAN JUAN ISLANDS East Sound, OPEN 9 TO 6 EVERY DAY ~TO- 4-Piece Bedroom Outfit Special $79.50 As advertised Sunday, this excep- tional $100 bedroom outfit for $79.50 ($10 down—$1.50 weekly). Prices $5.00 DOWN—$1.25 WEEKLY They will our approval. Make your selection early. URNISHERS EATTLE’S POPULAR HOME F 4-1520 Second, Between Pike and Pine A two days’ vacation over Labor day of- SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER Sth Bellingham and Anacortes—arriving in Seattle 11 p. m, ROUND TRIP—$2.50 UNCHES SERVED. HOOD CANAL SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5th YM leaves Colman dock 9 a m, Arrives Union City 2:30 p.m. Leaves Union City 5 p.m. Arrives Seattle 10:30 p. m. ROUND TRIP—$2.00 5 TO 12 YEARS HALF FARE, RVED. STATEROOMS. Whangdoodle Entertainers will furnish music for DANCING LABOR DAY—SEPTEMBER 6th eaves Colman dock 8 a. m,, calling at Richardson, Friday Harbor, Olga, Bellingham and Anacortes ° arriving in Seattle 11 p.m! ROUND TRIP—$2.50 CHILDREN 5 TO 12 HALF FARE. LUNCHES SERVED GET YOUR TICKETS EARLY Puget Sound Navigation Company Main 3993 Colman Dock

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