The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 23, 1920, Page 14

PAGE 14 Ship News Tides in Seattle PRIDAY SAN DIEGO LEADS IN | BUILDING - Los Angeles Only Other City Showing an Increase; Re- cession in Seattle THURSDAY RO, 2 at m Oregon and A wevere of Sitka, ordered displayed Thursday, at Washington stat orm is central on weat A survey of construction in a Abaaka. thoviesesutieusl 3k wah parts of the country, based on the a nereasing southeast winds, permits issued during the month of coming strong gales November in building. In November, tal of 28,343 building Valuation placed shows 4 general rocess! 203 cities show a t permits, ‘The at $74,098.50, Gas Boat Is Sold at Auction for $5,150) Which is more than $20,000 lees than The gus boat Traartoos brought the figures for October. It ix a 50 per! g5i50 at auction by the U, 8. mar Gent reduction from November, 1919. snus office Wednesday, She was un. Beattle’s loss for"November, 1920, ger tihel in the federal court by the Over the previous November ts 66 per Norby «Supply company for $2,300 Gent. San Diego leads the cities of ed due on fittings. W. BE. Theo- the United States in building activi chief deputy U. 8. marshal, act- ties, according to present figures. | 4 ay auctione e Angeles is the only other city NENT MARKET | NEWS FOR STAR :’ oinmhant u Sturdy Little Ship kes a Rock steamship Dord Dora Stri News that the | knowsi as the “Bulldog of the F is wtranded on tho east shore of Vancouver island after having struck a rock, was brought to Seat Wednesday by Capt. Andrew An-| Beem Cover Commercial Con- irre ie wrench ih is mem ditions in Far East ‘Stocks Show Gains tog | | During Afternoon on New York se sy THE SEATTLE STAR Grocers Stock Up Rush AL TRADE IS LIVELIER! for Friday! NEW YORK, Deo 23.—The New ¥ market opened stronger] Trade along the tern ave today, Opening ¥ included: United Staten Stee 4. UP produ 1 more life ine 77%, up 1; American Wooten Mexican Petroleum Thurnda the day before, Gro up Ki Texas Company 41, off 4%; Union Pac 119%, off inolair 20%. | ¢ tocking up for Friday's up &) Pan-American Petrol 1, up %; Bethlehem “T up % trade, v in their laxt day for bu v stocks registered good gains during forenoon trading ineas this week. 3 irant and ho rtooks n the upturn, with big blocks of United tat is tel men, too, were buying somewhat TS, up nearly 2 points from the week's low, Crudtble went to 50, @ recovery| more liberally and Friday they will ef about & pointa, lay in their Dig Christmas and weet Announcement of the parsing of dividgnds by Inspiration ard Greene- | end fen Cananea had little effect on the general list. Inspiration lost about 1/ The id market Is somewhat eas point and the other \. ‘The new $25 par common ate f the Standard | jer in tone. Yakima Gems are selling Oil company of New Jersey was traded in for the first time today at 144/ from $37 to $42, with at any to M4 higher figure the exception, taking The market closed bigher. the street as a whole Closing prices Included: United States Steel 79%, up 2%; Crnelt rices In fruits and vegetables wer 2%, up 4; Rethiehem “H" 64% 4%; Baldwin 84%, up 3% “ nd no changes were Petroleum 161, up %} Pan-American up 4%; 1 4 Staton Kubber| tered in either butter or eggs. 68%. up 2%; Studebaker 41%, up 24) General Motor p* ath Local Markets nh Pacific up 1%; American W i Prices Paid Wholesale Dealers for 115, up 3; Stores 60\, up 3%; Goodrich » up Oi; Toxa Vegetables and Fruit pany 43% " Artichakes .18@ GRAIN PRICES MAKE ADVANGE: Increases Shown in Chica- go — CHICA” advar hoard of Trade t j}by the h. Nrusee Cabbage | Carrots Cauliflower bers of Dora's crew and U. 8. | emergency t C8 ES | spinmet Marshal Paul Buckley of Dutch Har) ¢u!tural products . iy |e “a Seattle is vitally interested in | dor, a passenger ny [IE MAFKet with very : % | sweet Per th ‘ The probably will reach | 1 . " Oriental trade and commercial | _ SNe magia | et ee ‘ conditions. The Star has an op- . 5 ‘ ® |gerniee at bee be portunity to supply, éxclusively, | Pairs If not struck by a se up ts 4 Was 10e & weekly resume of business con storm. oe n ¢ ; 8 | Teun - ’ : ditions in the Orient, exchange | pening, $1.66, but later dr as FRUITS Fates and a general statement of |Reduce Rates to May wheat opened up 3\4 te pple — ics i ial activities to the date * | a, and remained at the ae S. African Ports 7805 (89.8%), pene ; einen : er ® eet none of this data Reduction of thé rates from Pu-! Tio, and later +4 eee eendan “ : thru &? Psources. It is com- | gor Sound and the Columbia river to S0Q" Was UP. an Cranberries Local, box ‘ ee nl reports from big | Cape Town and other South African pened up : “per ‘ . wfensers in the Orient | ports has been announced by the a pase I and the Reo ppines, The first | snipowners’ Amiociation of the Pa-| v1 Dried, black & Teport folloon: cific Coast. A schedule of $45 to! oats » : rae te 4 -“r supercedes the rate of $47.50) & Fatned 58 ae apre- ou BY COLEMAN CABLE SERVICE | {to ¢: ret S x . ‘This week's outstanding feature in ee | 4 : Oriental markets is the apparent! * +“ per cane. 650@ Drace in Shanghai exchange, which Rus: Specie "Traffic n cago Board of Trade |: am warmers sa (Thareday’ rt - . (tie plaice |Sold for Lake Traffic beat en trained. per 13. and remained stationary on ara trtea yp oh 7 Huck leterrten tm se os 15. On January 20 of this) MILWAUKEE, is Lemone—Per bow... oo4 ear exchange in Shanghai reached | The Russian mer Rogday, cause Hh Oranges Ver cane -- e the high water mark of $1.60, but | of dissension among Russian factions 7 ~ . eens ‘has been steadily dropping since. bed San Francisco, has been purchased “ Versimmens—i'tr bow ee China wood oi) at 10%o, and cot-|>¥ the Pere Marquette line for use Ad i Fincappice | Per orate i “s o kno . S| Pomegramat bow ” E Sonseed ol! at 6%c show the demoral |0n Lake Michigan, it became known “ * | Prunes Dried. per T D) Gaation“of the exchange situation, | D*re today. The steamer has been | ior ine, 1498.000 Wipe Otives—ter tue ae From Manila comes word that|!2 San Francisco bay since last | 5) LIBERTY BONDS NUTS January, when she came to port for} High. law Clowe Petees Pend 6 Wilebenste trading is practically at a wtandettl | olmwa| bottom having dropped out of | TePaire flying the flag of the Russian )4*?. + O90 . +e 3 lunteer fleet. 12.97 onse 2 wo gTeat staples, cocoanut oil | ° } Fe | ay 18s rer) ; hemp. Copra fell to 4 7-10¢ we + ooee a eee the week, which indicates} Port O. K? s U. S. Peco 1.97 - a “e ‘that speculators will step In and buy B China May. 15.68. “ a 3 “Yo hold for future profita. usiness in ina 33.09 fe | Soerabaya indicates an upset com} ‘The port commisizon Wednesday Chicago Live Stock ser - Blesn Peeane . : a6 with no indication of market & resolution indorsing the bill} CIICAGO, Dee. on DAIRY PRODUCTS . to Bhi reached bot! A slight re-| now before congress, which author. - eee need: mas 2 - ee ane Prices Paid shippers @overy In kapok jee are the! izes the incorporation of American |} 1.°°"ct . m ines. ieee cs few ‘@nly hopeful signs of possible _ firms in China, It is bellewed that | © 18: pias, 8 oho, rosin tes 7" GE LI | Rubber continues on its) such a measure would greatly benefit tt eRe om, . a io MARRIA' oe Soo higher, Reet, §4@14.50; butcher CENSES | r slide La gp aggre Seattle and the Pacific Northwest, A | Mesue and Recenen Age. | “pAIny ‘PRODU crs 18-20 per iaurh « b. Soerabaya. © | ane Charles Portiand ome 13 Local creamery, cubes. se Suge janiela, Lena, Seattle .-<00-0 r ORIENTAL MARKET QUOTATIONS 30. | incisthestipin, \G000. tends seaiees On, Seattle Lewal ‘ raining; wind east, | Lamba, jen TS, owen, $1.50, Mar Seatth Lew rf Owens, Howard, Seattle ......Legal or December 11 A u—Crety:| j suite, Margaret M. Port Law- 7 | wind southeast, 1@ mile hour. Passe: ton. «+ Lewal | ° 1:30 P. M—Paseed in: Str West Ison at | kmeyer, Elizabeth M., Seattio. .21 rr 125 pom. § P. M—Misty; wind eouth- | ° “~ | . ant, 14 mil hour t |Gatn, Francis A, Seattle PORT ANGE Dee. 23-8 A. | Hadley Edith M. Beatth Arrived: Str Pre ia during the ev a . Ch tes q Foy ning 68% Badie 1, Sea December 22—11:20 A. M.-—Passed tm: | blew 1.420, | Dean, William M, Seattle . __ 2 tlopere Str Hollywood at 1 4'4e. Danian Kronen 15.3 | Roberts, Vera M., Seattle CLALLAM BAY, 11:30 A.M {tw naira rt yy vere * . a onermn rd fe. ee ae ekg Jase = Mantra st) San Francisco Produce |}! sine inira x, Seat’: ee BAN FRANCIBCO, Dec 22.—Dutter—/| Pieasanta, James, Tacoma Extras, 5140 per T.: prime frsta, 49%e| Mohr, Katherine J.. Tacom Arrivals and Departures)»: ')) "ris. 4740 per Thiel, Robert P, Bellingham. Lowa} Arrived foe mrtg al can og Bg | Anlauf, Julie Ho Kent Legal | December 23—Htr Hise! Voyager from | 71 \° ber dos: extra, pullets, Ste Der 4%; | Muelier, Theodore, North Bond ...21 New York via Balboa, Han Pedro, san | “"2ornined agin Davis, Kiva, Tolt 19 Francisco and Portia Decomber 12~-8tr # jotwiu at & City of Beattie! }from South eat lp mil [str Adm m Ocean Falls, | B.C, at i pm Saliea which i ex-warehouse! December 23—Hir Admiral Rodman for | Occean Falla, B. ©, vin Point Wells at ; ete Hollywood for Tacoma} December 32—@te Amur for Ladyemnith, BO. at soon von irr . ihe 38 Alaskan Vessels Ketehitkan-—fialled December #3: st Stalls 110-111, Yakima ap-| yerferson, oorthbound, at 6 p.m. Ar whole | rived December ase at 8 p.m. t:| Vessels in Other Ports Arrived December 22; ate from Heattle via Everett, and Balboa December 18 Str Atias from Snow Str Steal taco 2 Sunklet pumpkin, 10¢ fi mincemeat ro-—-Arrived December 22: str cr 2 pkes. (5c; new corn Fikhorn from Seattle; str President from le %. Stall 36, smeite, attle via San Franciece. Skinned soles, 2 Tos 2c; fresh hering, | Man Franciaco--Balled December 22: str tbe; catfish Ei QUEEN crry hard mixed <« chocolate drox F b Johan Paulsen for Beattie at 7 a. m. |Mary Luckenbach for Seattle at 5 p. andy, 21¢ %.,| Tacoma-—Arrived ember 23 3| Hollywood from Honolulu via Beattle at str She; Bastern hams, 3. ™ | a ye > Eastern ne, 32%e Th, CORNER as, ase Sect sue © Reported by Wireless famb, 12i4¢ ™. Stall 12 j Ibe; sour ch chow Decem her fresh ground suet, te 1 sausage, | Lazo, south! Bhe . Stall 2, 4 Ton. fi ane sugar, Bbc; beet fresh churned b r be > Stall 16, full cream ¢ 5 Pike st, boiling beef, dressed = chickens, 0° skinned? soles, 2 the. 2 Ms. tic Stalia 1% 120-™. Karo syrup. te ECONOMY h of Cape fresh | for Seattle, Stalls | 8 p. rm. 28 Kehutut 1,654 miles from Seattle at Cheone—-Pancy. 230 per th; fiesta 27¢ | per Ib. | Portland Market Status PORTLAND, Dec. 23.—-Market steady and unchanged | Hoge--Market steady and unchanged. Sheep—Market steady. Prime lamba, lue 0: yearlings, | $5 Hee Hutter Rei 86 P4630 per dow se—240 per Ib. | Hene—26e per Ih oer ees Puget Sound Prid; & Dredging works— r Patterson, hull Rambow Lake Union—Mulle Abilia, Abnoba,’ Aby- dos, Addison, Allenhurst, Ahmik, An. Hayden, Mertr ya, Black Wolf, Tioughton, an, Caprarta, Charus, Chesterfield Cinyras, Corus, Cox Klises, Klectra, Endymion, Fort #tan- wix, Fort Harrison, Vort Jackson, | Fort Union, Imufka, Leoti, Kitan, str | Oregon Ames yarda—Str Roosevelt | Heffernan drydock— Str Cordewa, ole Cresoting worke—str Horace X. Paxter Stream—-U 8 CS Rontorer. Marine Iron worke—fchr Okhotsk Maru. $0-41, walnuts, 2 toa. 26c; mixed ute, | December 20—Str Honttlo for 20¢ tb. Stall 40, the coffer, 2 Tha. $1.60,| Kobe, 1 miles from Seattle at * p. m. cottes, 414 tbe. $1.00, | str Victoria, Beattie ordove, 65 miles Stall Si, fresh milk, 100 qt; Maid at of Cape Bt. Elian at 8 p.m Glover utter, Ste” Stall 22, lutetiak, 0 8 Ihe th.; boneleas emelts, ot. Stall 25, New Zealand butter D.; large | wreeseta'é in Port at Seattle Standard eges, 600 doz. Smith Cove terminal —#tr Fast lead GANITARY er, str Weatward Ho. . otr Stall 109, best American cane suger, oe West Martian etr Osaqun %,; tall ‘can Carnation milk, 11%. | Gent Northern terminal Str Howe, M Htatis 21-23, tutefisk, 12 .; fresh! mith Cove anchorage—Str Mand. pherring, 4 Ton. 26c. Stalls 90-82-36, | Maru Bwedish potato. sausage, pork | py Str West Ivan Foast, te TH. Stall 46, Biue Ribbon tea. | Pier 2—Htr Banta Ana, str Alameda, atr Shei ike phe Rice's mincemeat, 166. Latouhe. Btalia 24-26, No. 10 pal) Cottolene, $1.60; | Hell wt. terminal—U & ® Surveyor, U ® Maron ‘ot, Ste, | Bae, G9e, $1.16, 92,158. 1 OG Algonquin. —_———-- — Pier D—Mtr Admiral Dewey, tr Admiral Rodman, str Governor Pacific Coast coal bunkers—T 8 NT 8 Falls 15 Feet; Two nr y Alaska Steamship moorings—Str Akag- Ribs Are Broken **::; 7 |pacitic Conat ¥ orks Carl Swenson, laborer, was in| Pacitic | Const Weel Norronus: Seattle General hospital Thursday, | connecticut wt Bir Ate! Vor two ribs broken and his skull pos A wibly fractured, as the result of a | \/0" of acai I54foot fall from beam at the port | puthie commission Pier B, under construc-| Bast waterway terminal—atr West Him- tion at Smith cove, Wednesday after-| god aryaocks Boou. 1 Behr Columbia, ste Mid: ridge, aur Wheatland Mom, President-Elect Harding and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge are shaking hands on the Capitol steps at Washing- ton. nator A, B. Fall, of |New Mexico, is shown in the background. Lodge thought | Harding looked exosedingly| well after his Southern vaca- tion, “You're looking fine!” | Lemke, Purukews, Soichi, Winslow . Koura, Tomiko, Winslow ...-....20 | Mayer, mil, Seattle Leeal |Staadecker, Gertrude, Beattie. Legal Murphy, William. Somat) 8 Margaret, § BIRTHS R. H.. 1427 Third W. boy. onald, W. J, 1302 Yesler wry, Henaltabe, Isaac, 1205 FH. Alder, boy Randish, Matthew, 6042 Fifth ave | mark ave, girl Joaselyn, T. W. 621 _W. Galer, boy i912 26th ave. boy. °| %, 210 25th N. girl 1614 VSth ave. N. Bradford, R. W, 2908 15th &, girl. | Columbo, Andem, 1615 25th ave., girl | Soderstrom, N. G., Redmond, boy. rege DEATHS HAY, GRAIN AN . Wholesale Price Per 1 Fleder, Louine, 74, county home. Harford, Elyte county home Pers nee eaereonve McNaughton, Isaac, 60, Smith cove. | . Steinman, Adolph J. 62, 14th and 1, |O*ts Union r Follett, Charles 8. 67, 6925 a2nd | Corn Whole hop A sround Rone | Cocoannt Meat Cotton Seed Meal craps | Molasses Dairy Feed | Shell Meal —Cal Soya Bean Meal Flow Ver pb! NEW YORK, Dec per 1b; granulated Rio, 6% Santon No. 4, 9% @ 100 per At | United States, lery course. 8,000 enlisted men in t moted. | Beatle Clearings Balances Spokune | Clearings Balances .. Clearings Balances .. Portland schools and colleges more than 6,000 stu [dents are taking agregulation arti) States regular army have b “BANK CLEARINGS | D FE city 00 00 N. Y. Coffee and Sugar Bugar—Raw 90G se per Ib @6%e per Ib 1b, in the | Nearly every officer and more than 1 United en pro he « $5,261,703.56 1,319,489.89 | 1,864,225.00 | 664,926.00 | 674,066.00 44,156.00 | 4782,406.00 | 00 | “grandma” stories, plays politics, does “grandma” is it? (COOLIES FACE PANIC IN CUBA Flee From Chinese Famine | but Have No Jobs j WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—~To flee} from famine in China, only to find in the throes of a panic in Cuba,| has been the plight of thousands ot| coolies the last few weeks. The Chinese famine, bad crop and foods, threatens to wipe out 30,000,000 souls in Chihti, Honan and Shantung provinces. So the coolies were glad to mail for Cuba to work in the cane fields. The misfortune that overtook the feeime coolies was caused by the drop in sugar pricea, | The rice of sugar f. 0. b. New York has gone as low as 5% cents & pound. It reached its maxtmam price in May, 23% cents a pound. Cubans made millions out of sugar while prices were high, but spent it for luxuries and enlarging; thelr sugar plantations. They ex- pected prices to atay up. The Banco Internacional at Hav- ana, and some 70 of itd branch banks, loaned heavily on sugar stocks. Plantation owners expected to finance their crop on borrowed money. Two months ago a check for $1,000,000 was presented at the Rance Internacional and it couldn't pay tt. caused a run on the bank, and ident Menocal declared a mora- torium until December 1, making it| #0 depositors could draw but 10 per cent of thelr deposits Meantime the Cuban government | |tried to make a Joan from American | bankers, but failed, and the mora- }torium had to be extended to Janu- ary 1. As @ result plantation own- who had contracts with the no money to pay them. A RESIDENT OF VASHON coolies have ISLAND FOR 80 YEARS, Mrs. Irena |A. Ward died Wednesday night at the Seattle General hospital. She is jsurvived by her husband and five | none, Boat Schedules] manD = SAVE mMonEY= TACOM a SAFTY -.SPEED- con gh = .. VICTORIA ry (Si PORT ANGELES - STRAIT POINTS DAILY AT MIDSIGHT SAN JUAN ISLAND POINTS 12:00 Midnight, Sundey, Thursday. BELLINGHAM- ANACORTES ff PORT TOWNSEND RAIL CONNECTION HOOD CANAL POINTS PUGET SOUND NAVIGATION C OLMAN D ON ST DOES GRANDMA KNIT? NIT! aaiiiimmanadieiiemeiidan:| BOOLLL themselves jobless a few weeks later | caused ty | THY What does the word “grandma” convey to you? Probably |@ nice gray-haired old lady with spectacles pushed up on her | forehead, knitting in a comfortable rocker by the fireplace| and taking things easy in her declining year. *\ here's a Yes? welfare work, Not bad for Swedish Wives Must Help Sw to aap a support the family. Baby Bonds FOR THE INVESTOR WITH $100 OR MORE Swift & Co. 7% Notes Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. 7% Debentures Standard Oil Company of New York 7% Bonds Yielding 7% to 8% Ideal for Christmas Giving Ask for Details 116 Cherry St.—Hoge Building Elliott 6072 Well, | who leads about as strenuous a life as| | is led in thig country—Mrs. Mary Robert Rinehart. holding on her lap her granddaughter, | She writes a best-seller a year, turns out many magazine ; writes three' JAPS GIVEN movie scenarios a season, supervises their production and in collaboration with Avery Hopwood now has three plays running on Broadway and two more in the making. She also finds lots of time for her home life. She is “Bab” Rineheart. pport Family STOCKHOLM, Dec. 22,—Under the Fh awe of the new Swedish we law, the wife is compelled | YAY, DEAS PER 22, 1920, ‘SIX SHIPS OF 4 But Cops Neglect to Take } Any Action Five boat loads of whisky for the) Christmas tz ure known to have) been full landed here thi week without molestation by the 4 ant night the dry sau home of a Mra. Snith ave. W., and arrested bi for possessing home brew. ‘The equ ater visited 126 Second ave. N. ani rested F lL. Crane for having, attles of home product beer. oO of the five boat load whisk reliably reported to been stolen by a policeman, afl lknown former saloon man fl dive owner had agreed to purch COP OUT-BIDS ORIGINAL PURCHASER OF 8007 policeman appeared on the & before the cargo was taken off el. Approaching the captain, orted to have asked: How much for the booze?” re plied the captain, #014.” The “Can't well it It read The captain named the purchager, nd the pol man asked how touch § he captain Was £ for it. Sixty-five a case,” was too reply, “rll give you $76 a case,” the po eman insisted. captain protested that his first purchaser would be angry he sold to anyone ele, but fin after 1m persuasion, agreed to sell to the cop The. liquor was taken from the exwel and loaded onto @ truck. Ag the truck drove up the street, the policeman turned to the captain standing besldd bim in an expectané attitude, and asked “What you waiting for “My me | What money?” “Why, the money you owe me fa |the whisky ‘What whisky? What do mean, whisky? You're crazy, tall ing to me about whisky.” LEAVES @APTAIN TO |MOURN HIS LOSS ALONE | And with that the policeman walle ed away, leaving the astounded skip» per to mourn over his loss alone, In the home of Mrs. Smith, the squad is said to have found 75 qu of brew intended, according to |Smith, for @ Christmas party. beer in the process of brewing found in both places raided night, according to the police, cee BOOZE-BOAT a Thru the offices of an interpreter the three Japs held in connection with the booze boat picked up jaay by the Coast guard cutter pleaded guilty and were fined each by Judge Neterer in f court Thursday. “The idea of bringing in I this fashion is outrageous” Ji Neterer declared, and assessed heaviest fine yet imposed here single case for violation of the stead act, in addition to forfeit their 50-foot gas boat . While the stories of the three | vary in details, they agree that | cases of liquor was successfully ta | ed in Seattle. | Mystery still surrounds the tity of the missing white “Jack,” and the alleged fake cers” who are said to have I tribute in cash and whisky from crew. The boat, the Canada-H, auctioned by the U. 8. marshal ¥ final settlement of claims against has been made. 4) |\2-YEAR SENTEN' ° |IS. IMPOSED IN |S. F. BOOZE CASE SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 23.—1 \ry Brolaski, so-called master min the San Francisco booze rin his co-defendant, Dougias Ni owner of a local taxicab con | today faced two years in M |island pfison, following senteno Federal Judge M. T. Dooling |terday for conspiring to violate Volstead act. | Brolaski's sentence of two and an additional fine of $10,000 4 | the maximum given for vio! | the prohibition law. Newton | fined $5,000. Pending appeal bail Jincreased by Judge Dooling | $10,000 to $15,000. | TO CARE FOR TWO PA’ IN 1921, a check for $500 was Wednesday by the University Washington fraternities to the thopedic hospital for—, Made for Make sure of quality and flavor by asking Butter-Nut, HOLSUM orQUEENANN The Better Breads Seattle Baking Co. SS —————— rr Christmas Dinner Will Be Complete If You Have— You by the 7