The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 28, 1921, Page 4

Star’s “Weekly Review of Nationwide Business Conditions BY ALBERT APPLE Bteady improvement ts now under y in six basic industries—textiles, . rubber, automobiles, railroad ht and the building trades, / Pextilo industry, which was first prices, apparently will be first Feturn to normal, because it f music and deflated fast The cag mills during the past week the most sweeping reductions cotton trade has ever known. prices are now two-thirds lower than a year ago. | MARCH SHIPMENTS — CENT NORMAL 5 says his March shipments of ene will be 90 per cent normal. | TP Money value of new building prof since February 2 has averaged fifth less than a year ago, says reet's. But this means, prob- More building going on than fn 1920, for prices are lower. number of new buikting per- in February was a fifth more February, 1920, says American for. Raliroads loaded 112,822 cars of In week ended March 5, the figures available, This was less than the same week Dut 37,000 more than 1919 and 28,000 less than the same week Number of idle cars March § 421,748—about 1,000 leas than Week before. ment is decreasing in le, textile and leather Indus- " During February, says the “@epartment of inbor, the number om in automobile factories in- 9 per cent. Increase was 9 cent. in textiles and 8 per cent leather industry. NESS DEPRESSION GO NO LOWER ‘The department of labor canvassed companies that had 6.958 their payrolls February 1. Of only 16,295 lost their jobs up March 1. Indicates that business probably is at bottom, to no lower. ‘The steel i: ity averages more Fianna 60 per cent closed down. Even “U. 8. Steel corporation's mills are Operating only 45 per cent capacity, "Business failures last week, 277. was over twice as many as week 1920, but It was fourth itive week of improvernent compares brightly with the) record of 514 failures in week ef January 13. _ Prices continue falling. Of 327 leading commodities | about 40 per cent lower than a ago. Coffee market has broken Jowest prices since 1908 . Btocks and bonds sold on New exchange so far this year al- e®actly same as in 1919 American wheat underselling all world market. Money in circulation averages 73 per capita, or 65 cents more average last year. ! ' r At @ reorganization convention of Plumbers’ Northwest axsociation the association ,adopted the ‘Rew name of the Washington State - Ampociation of the United Amocia- _ ten Yon of Plumbers, Stem and Gas Fitters. OPPOSE LOWER RATES Alex Tinling, of Seattle, general ‘freight agent of the Northern Pa- _ @ific railway, told the public service © commission Saturday that he was forced to oppose, at this time, any Beneral revision downward of trans gontinental freieht rates, WILL STABILIZE MARKET Organization in the Northwest of a reat corporation for the co-opera- canning and preserving of fruits, such as have been oranjzed “by California packers, will minimize danger Peg of overproduction and in-| “erease ghe market for fruits and ber-| Pies, according to the prominent Se-| @ttle men Behind the movement. Lisbon Journalists Strike for High Pay ‘LISBON, March 23.—Journalists have gone on strike here for more Wages. The newspaper owners atate that the cost of paper, ink and raw Material makes it impossible to raise salaries. PROSECUTOR Mise Rose Rothenberg, as-| sistant the first woman in the state of New York to prosecute cases before a jury. ca carry the cargo. } . Tides in Seattle ¥ Lew Tide fee p 10.0 ft ne 1014 BR my .. WENATCHEE HERE MONDAY Having passed thru the Panama 1 last week, the big steamship Wenatehee, built for the U. 8, ship. ping board, will arrive at the port commission's new Pler B terminal at Smith cove next Monday to become the first liner flying the American fag out of Seattle on transpacific passenger service. | An elaborate reception in being planned for the huge vessel by the Chamber of Commerce, eee WATERWAYS DEVELOP COMMERCE Construction of the Bast, Weet and Duwamish waterways, at @ cost to local property owners of $6,000. 000, has resulted in the development here of national commerce, ac cording to the brief prepared by B, L. Lambuth, industrial locator for the Chamber of Gommerce. which will be filed with the board of engineers for rivers and rhore at a hearing Tuesday in Washing ton, D.C, to determine what recom: | mendation the board will make to congress on the est for an ap propriation for a survey of the Du- wamish waterway ve . DREADNOUGHTS IN RACE Monday the $30,000,000 super dreadnoughts Idaho and Miastestppt were scheduled to begin the greatest racing classic ever staged on the high seas, For 24 hours the Moating fortresses will race southward in their annual full power and endur- ance testa, Offictalty it is not a con test, but the crews of both super shipe have bet everything from the goat mascots to the furl on their patits’ legs on the outcome. eee TO COMMAND GOVERNOR Capt. E. P. Bartlett sailed Satur day on the steamer President for San Francisco, where he will as sume command of the company’s Uner the Governor, eee TAKE HU MBER CARGO Motorship Kennecott will leave Puget Sound for San Pedro next week with 3,500,000 feet of lumber, believed to be the largest lumber cargo ever shipped to @ coastwise point. eee SHIP YAKIMA APPLES A big shipment of Yakima apples will be In the cargo of the Holland American liner Moerdyk, due here April 15, when the sstls back for the land of windmills and dykes. eee MAYNARD GRIFFITH PROMOTED Maynard Griffith, second officer of the steamahip President, of the Pa- cifié Steamship Co, has been made second officer of the new passenger | Uner Keystone State, of the shipping board, which will follow the Wenat ‘chee from the East coast here. see LUMBER CARGO FOR NEW YORK HOQUIAM, March 28.—Shipment Of 1,000,000 feet of lumber to New York by the National Lumber and Manufacturing Co, is scheduled for| April 15, according to announce-| ment The steamer Livingston will) LOCAL MAN ON LOST SHIP Capt. A. Olson, master of the miss ing four-masted schooner Harvester, now 1g days out from Vavau, Tonga | islands, in the South seas, was for- | merly master of the schooner Taurus and is well known on the Seattle wa terfront. eee SIX WEEKS TO MEXICO N.Y. Exchange Firm | During Early Trade NEW YORK, March 28. re opening of the New York Stock The weneral tone was firn in early trabin, stocks.” Tire and ' w omade ily around 35. ng auotations United States Steel, United Kubt t att! eo TiN Telephone, ck, 6614, off PRICES VARIED IN GRAIN ile CHICAGO, March 28 —Prices were Irregular on the Chi ; today, due pening unchanged od Keo in later trad- at toh wh at $1.52%. edy Ing. May wheat onehed up IMs unchanged at figure in ened at © later, |Chicago Board of Trade |" Lhd. at 48) we wat 168 198T 11.38 wheat— 2 hard, CHICAGO, March t.— Tred, $1.52@ 1.004; Ne Hisisey. " Chicago Live Stock ere V4 1009) cow Soo we iw monday. N. ¥.C Coffee end Sugar NEW YORK, Maren Foreign Exchange NEW YORK, March 0 —Prreten om change opened steady today. Sterling ae ot $5 FIM: frames, feel ire, . ke, 80.1574 Canadian del hreneca, we rres pense oranda nem, 89.091 = dollars Public N Market | "SANITARY Mtalt 199, pure American cane emenr. 4 The S70, § The The, Carsation milk. 1¢ ee ean, Borden's milk, Geod Luck margart Dest butter, te Mb. marmalade, ide; Rows ite | 2 Ma larg: Royal Wh oT was mar! — prunem, a00; 8 bare butter, Me, 3 Toa Flake White, S6e; corn faker 3 pka the; 3 cans salmon, Tbe; 2 bottles assorted extracts, mb roast, tte roast, 17% * BtaNs 192-163, freah ranch segs, te dor: full Monday morning weariness wes markin, pork | In evidence at Mnuetiee of the ne, focting at the off the bear ed an “impor ant part in motor and wool ear at 75, up kf 5 i for the year, Kel ‘enneylvenia wae ia if] witty lower. im. 48, uneh ned: 1m high for, ine a eo 60 ent Roteoien handle bari a acne iM: Gener Pact Francisco Status BAN FRANCIRCO, March 24.--Poultry —<Drotlers, 9@6s0 ib: large hens, 266 th ae fed steera, No. quality, $77 Lignt ‘ Yourtings, $909.00 Wethers, 1607: ewes, §2.20@ -Hard grain fod, weighing 150 pounds, 11140; over 200 pounds, $19 \ sacadh he Leaps Four Stories From Hotel Frightened by the cry “Police” when someone knocked on the door lef a room in the Republican hotel, Seventh ave. and King st, Sunday night, Koo Low Tee, a young Chi nese, leaped thru an open fourth story window. He is in the efty hos pital, where it’ ls feared he may die He wan saved fr when he lt on soft ground, four stories: below. Police believe him to have been under the influence of dope. | weight, 88.0009.00, | Bheep- Hearing Today on King county commissioners Mon- day morning invited members of the Chamber of Commerce and the pul» at te generally ta confer with them at 1:30 p. m. Monday, on the question Of donating the Willows, the county farm near Lake Sammamish, to the federal government as & Alte for a base hospital to cost between $2,000. | 000 and $3.000.000. The commission. ors stated they were open-minded on the matter and that they need the uivice of all persons who may assist | them, Feet Cisne Records Earthquake Shock CHICAGO, March 28-—A_ severe earthquake shock about 1,261 miles from Chicago, In the southweetern ealarmpograph at the University of Chicago today. ‘The tremor began at 2:55 a m. and lasted until 615 a. m eee SANTA CLARA Cal, March 2.-—The 275.8 miles weet from here, Father Rickard, charge of earthquake oteerva- tions, announced. The temblor last od 19 minutes, m instant death | Site for Hospital |‘ 1 od+ Bta corded o 1 niteds Btates, was recorded on thal give, UNTVERSITY, | nelamograph | at Banta Clara university today re! .jcorded an earthquake 2 in| THE SEATTLE STAR BUTTER TAKES (GIRL KIDNAPING | 2-CENT DROP) CASE DISMISSED California “Supply ad Mother Signs Release of Down Prices Here A heavy supply of California but- ter on the local market forced prices nunemaker to give up her Iyear down 2 cents Monday. ‘The quot vig gaughter, Kugenia, whom she tions were 43 cents on the brick and 42 cents & pound on the cubes. | wae accused of kidnaping from Clin With new grass sprouting In the ton county, Indiana, ended suddenly fields, and warmer weather at hand, Monday morning, when attorneys looal milk production is beginning 1 ror Nathaniel Nunemaker, grandta- show an increase. ther of the girl, filed In court a re MONDAY, MARCH PRast-Purerson Co | SEQOND AVENUE AND UNIVERSITY STREET There is a heavy supply Of OBR | joane of the child, signed rn. with prices steady, ramen ier! SF soca Bier fan Diego celery was searce Mon) ime cane wan then dropped, day, with only storage stock on male.| According to the complaint tn Only & small amount of fresh stock tng case, the child was taken from remains in the fields. Jobbers re. detention home of the juvenile port the price on Ban Diego celery court saturday afternoon, after she probably will go aa high as $88 crate pag peen placed there by deputy on {he final shipment, \aheriffs Saturday, to await & hearing Northern Callfornia colery was sells on habeas corpus proceedings, ing at $5 a crate, brought by her grandfather and by Imperial Vatley lettuce wan wtiffer jor father, Purl. They claimed that Monday at $4.50 to $5, This high oustody of the child had been award- price has caused a brink demand for eq to the grandfather by an Indiana loon! hothouse stock at $1 to $1.25 & court, following a showing on the erate, | part of the father that the mother Fancy asparague was selling lower jaa begun living with M. V. Morford at 26 cents a pound. after che had obtained a divorce VEGETABLES from Nunemaker. Marion Edwards, attorney for the Arttoheheen—< Sala complainante, anid Monday that Mre. Nunemaker intimated, upon signing the release, that rhe would make a fight for the ehild in Indiana courte, He believed that the grandfather and the father had left with the girl for Todiana, They Had Daylight Saving Back in 1843 HARTFORD, Conn, March 28.— coe Daylight saving ten't as new aa might be thourht, They have un- er eee Imperial Va Looal hap howes, per erate Onin » Loral, erean, don bunches. ‘Walla Walls, green. da buch. lon Sete-Or., per . 071%@ 8 Peretey Cal. per Ges, banches ” Pert. . October 24, 1643, which orders ringers to start work one hour fore daybreak, and that “there shall ibe In every house one up and some lights.” Stayabeds paid 1 shilling 6 pence for the privilege. Mg" Ragiches Out Rhatarh—tors!, outside. 5... Cal. outside, per bex .. Ratabages-—Per sack |. Local, per bow ‘Walia Walla, per box the Yellow Peril BRISBANE, Queensland, Austra | woomatonms= Menten Tog sis7S-cRTESESS onan ete Theateee Gonlared that “7 i ns oii, mier KE. G. Theodore dectared that Pe aan an OOF onee one Monee Any one who doubted that Australi jana would noon be called upon to de- |fend their homes against Asiatic in ' vasion wae living in a fool's paradine. ys Asiatic ideals and aspirations, {8% added, were @ menace to the ideals of the Australian labor party. Rolled... ate — Kolled ‘Whole. Cora — Whol Crecked veod Chick Mach Ohlek iy i DAIRY PRODUCTS Prices Daid to Shippers Tratterfat ° Vexe Potlets Hy ay ranch by toral dnirien. .-° aims Fwoue ™ Waeleeale Prices eid Denkers Patter Loca) creamery earthed a town record here dated | i A Sample Lot of 47 Jersey Suits Striking Savings at This Exceptional Price $15.00 Smart sports models of plain and heather | Jersey in four different styles. Finished with? tailored collars and revers. Navy, brown, morocco, Copenhagen and. | heather mixtures for spring. BIG BANKER TO SPEAK Stewart D, Beckley, cashier of the City National Bank of Dallas, Tex, and president of the American Insti tute of Banking, will be principal speaker at a banquet of the Seattle chapter of the institute at Blanc’s cafe Tuceday evening. PLAN FARMERS MARKET A Farmers’ Market bullding ts to epg Eiger ray and Virginia & cost of $150,000, David Me- president of the Westlake Adoption of a six weeks’ salling| Ms. Pe: schedule for the steamship Walling: | Sire Ste’ara tec pt. stail t. fe? ford between Puget sound and ports |} he ne Se» of the west coast of Mexico and} for Central America is announced by |S. ripe | Arrivals and Departures district attorney, is\* the General Steamship corperation. | eee TO LOAD BOX SHOOKS After discharging at Pler §, motorship Mazatlan, which arrived here Sunday night from San Fran- ciseo, will go to Anacortes to load box shooks for New Mexico, eee Weather Bureau Report TATOOSH ISLAND, March 2¢.—* A. M. —Paiting baron it; ob yy wind we weet. ton miles an hour.” Pansed ia. steamer, 6 & Passed out, @ steamer, 5 & m.; str Admiral Goodrich, 2:20 « m. March 23—Gtr 'Sartetrissies from Ta- Admiral Rode 05 & m “Iauiaui 20 p.m Rupert via ports, ¢ Railed SB & Mississippi for fan U # # Idaho for Han March 27—8tr Pris pert vie ports, at] p.m. © tor dro and Cristobal torship Magatian for Ma ste Admiral Goodrich for Anchar- nd Port Graham, 12:10 p. m. eee Alaskan Vessels fleward—Mar. Mailed, str Admiral le m. oo 3%—falled, atr Afri- h 36—Arived, | Pedro—March 27~-Arrivea, str Governor from Seattle vin Ban Francisco. March 26-—Sailed, atr Windber for Bel Magham via Beattie and Tacoma. fan Pedr New Yo Balled, ate Ohio- an for Senttle vin Bexton, Cristobal, & Pedro and Ban Francisco. Ban Franeisco—March 28—Arrived, #tr me City from Seattle via Port An- str Kinderdijk from Geattle via Tac Astoria and Portland. March 27—Arrived, atr Rainier from Seattle, & a. m.; atr Queen from Reattle, # Balled, str Yosemite for Beattie, 11 Went Camak for Beattle via Eureka and Portiand, 11 a. m for Beattie, 5 p. m. ° Vessels in Port at Seattle Groat Northern “Terminal—str Suwa Mart Bell Street Kameonatk Pier 14—8tr Wakena. Str Wilmington. Atr Zender Brom. tr Orani tr June Mtr Spe tr Ad: str Mandasan Maru ‘Terminal—#te Jeptha, str a. ate Northwestern. ane. irai Rodman. tr Bi ping Bonrd Yards—Btr ward Mo, #tr West Himrod, ate Toont- um, str Yo 8. Shipping Hoard Yard atr Skagway, str Bante Ana. Btacy Street Teiminal—U 8 © # Harnsiae, odd Dry Docke—Bir Forest King, US G v, “iste Went-| th- | peo al? in haddia ‘ONOMY 1-f-8, 12 e %. bolting heet, 160 ize M, Stalls T-F-9 ma corn meal, 20; (se rned beet, ie cans sugar peas, 100: 300 cans sugar earn, 160 is bec can Royal baking T. Bue Ribbon tes, coupe, 180 can; § tha mall rik r Sage od pure tard, Stale i Carapbel! wheat flaked wheat, 2 The. 25¢; Case's Je cling peaches, No 2% cane te Gers Not margarine M.; 5 $1.09. x tollet paper, se ne hot saves, 250 t flour, $2.15 sack ote fe a0 Ktall 104, Poppy Jara, 2h¢ Tb. Stall ed anchovies, 0 can; Gote bors sausage, Soe T. Stall 192, 2 tha nee, ihe; pineapple, 26¢ can Atal) #1, can Cottolens, $1.39; Carnation 1eige can Mais 36, Webd's Best Ever co 20¢ & lan atal! Guatemala boney bacon, Asks His Execution Be Public Spectacle CHICAGO, March = 28,—EAward Brislane, who recently was hanged in Chicago for the murder of a pic ture theatre proprietor in a holdup, insisted that his execution be made a public spectacle in Grant park, the city’s “front yard” on the lake front. | Bank Bandits Use Flashlight on Guns Paris, March 28.—Revoiverns with electric flash lamps attached to the barrels, so that the glare blinded the victims and paralyzed movements, were the weapons used by three bandits, bank cashier and | $2 000. escaped with France Producing Ford-Like Flivver| PARIS, March 28.—France in| making a bid to enter the world’s cheap motor ¢ar market with a new model known as the Francom, which will sell at about $800, It hag a three. neated torpedo body with a two-cyl- inder engine, & 0 8 Burve sont Maid yr und ‘Bridge @ Dredging Co— terson. d—Htr Roonevelt. Dock—-#tr Ketohikan, U ® © auin, Fillott Bay Yard—Hobr Fanny Dutard, Lake Union—Hulls Abilia, Abnoba, Aby- dos, Addison, Ailenhuret, Amik, An« Bertrand, | Bingamon, aford, Cal: Puyaiiup, a. ny Clone, Eicon, Ricctra, Endymion, Fort stan: wix, Fort Harrison, Woit Jackson, their | They held up al jenchr Admiral Mayo, “Judge” Inck Lynch, laborer, steps on the third rail in police court, | gets shock when Judge Gordon thrilla | Yermers—Live him with $10 fine for consorting with grape, Belgian Mareo—Live Private Sale Daily All Week Decks Drereed ... NEW YORK.—Cat leaps into open | Hens piano on ship. Jangle of glass. Pro. hibition agent finds instrument filled with bottled booze. BANK CLEARINGS Seatile BAY roy Lng a 759,547.00 Prime lambe . Yenrlings Wethers . 646,676.00 162,243.00 | | : 6,177,406.00 | | GRAIN AND FEED 52.00 | | Whoteesio Price Per Me ERE ‘Tea, City Prive To Shoppers THE BEST MERCHANTS ADVERTISE WELL | Read their ads in both Seattle and Tacoma | newspapers carefally—then buy judiciously. If you decide to make your purchases in Tacoma— TAKE THE NEW, CRACK, NONSTOP SHOPPERS’ SPECIAL TRAIN — THE — INTERURBAN | _ FLIER BEGINNING MONDAY, MARCH 21 No Stops Between Seattle and Tacoma Leanes Seattle at 9:30 A. M. Leaves Tacoma at 4 P. M. DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY ROUND TRIP $1.00 PUGET SOUND ELECTRIC RAILWAY ‘ 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. TERMS TRADES The Entire Stock of New and Used Cars Owned by Frank | Waterhouse & Co. Is Offered This Week. OPEN TONIGHT. OPEN 9 A. M. to 9 P. M. YOU MAKE THE PRICES AT. AUCTION We will hereafter devote our big Pine street building to the exclusive sale of VULCAN “SEATTLE-BUILT” TRUCKS AUTOMOBILE DEPARTMENT Pine at Bellevue FRANK WATERHOUSE & CO