The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 16, 1921, Page 12

COSTS NOT TO GO T0 "14 LEVEL = Living Prices, However, Continue to Coast | Downward | BY ALBERT APPLE Cost of living may drop to only @ fourth higher than 1914, but it will not go lower This is the opinion of John 8&8. Drum, president of the American Banke: association, after analys ing questionnaires filled in by the} 3 Association's members all over the ma country. “The minority opinion was that) within two or three years prices | will fall at least to 1914 levels.” SHOE TRADE IS NEARER NORMAL | Teather and shoe trades are re} turning to normal, says Herbert T.) Drake, president of the New Eng and Shoe & Leather association. | He adds: “Consumers of shoes wil!| be disappointed when they realise) that 10, 15 or even 20 pér cent re! duction in the shoe workers’ wages Means 10 to 20 cents per pair in the shoes he buys.” Automobile production now aver Qges about three-fifths of capacity Improving daily. Cheap tires are! Feturning, one company's prices | Averaging below prices of August, | ws. were larger than the same week in 2919. Same is true of total tings since first of the year, com pared with 1919, despite lower Prices. The largest guins are on the Pacific coast. BUILDING OPERATIONS BEST SINCE 1920 Building operations tn April were the best.of any month since June, 3920. Contracts awanied in 25 Mortheastern states totaled $220, 836,000, the largest of any April in Ristory except last year. Railroad traffic in the West shows Steady increase of business volume. In April, 28 industrial centers east of the Mississippi had decreases in Humber employed, and 25 centers showed improvement. Unemploy Ment, the country over, increased @ half of 1 per cent in April. In activity in lumbering and shipbuild- ing made the Pacific coast lose ground. TEXTILES, GROCERS AND BUTCHERS FAIL Halt of the 1,487 business fatiures im April were in the textile trades. Grocers and butchers came second Total liabilities were at the rate of about $500,000,000 a year. Failures first week in May, 212, Fifty leading stocks rose an aver- age of two points last week. Gasoline in 30 leading cities now ‘averages 23 cents a gallon, against 1 cents on January 1, 1915. Here's the total capitalization of new enterprises with authorized capital of $100,000 or more for first four months of the year: wer: + & .93,840,450,900 i970. 169,381,000 A mis. «+ 1,702,257,000 4 Authorized ca: of new ol} en- — in April totaled $227,470,- OS OE ae tent capacity; production is about a third less than the 1912-1913 rate. Sold to the Eagles Dreamland rink, Seventh ave. and Union st., has been sold to the Fra- ternal Order of Eagies, Aerie No. 1, Henry Broderick, Inc, announced Monday. The Farrar Investment Co. ‘were former owners. The purchase Price is understood to be $75,000. The hall will be known as Eagle Audi- torinm. Broderick also announees that the United Cigar Stores Co. of America ‘will occupy part of the building on the northeast corner of Second ave and Union st., now occupied by Bar- tell Drug Co. The rest of the pres ent drug store will be taken over by the Woodlawn Flower Shop. Bar. tell’s will move to the southeast cor- ner of Second ave. and Union st. The lease taken on the northeast corner by the Mower shop and the cigar store is understood to be $200,000 for ten years. For a fellow who ts almost, but Mot quite, over the verge of baldness a well-selected hair net will probably ferve better than a toque.—Kansas City Star. | Public Markets ‘Stal! 60, see cheese 23 Ib.; small white beans 25; cots, 290. ES Stell 102, nut margarine 250 1p. | fresh ranted ottes Bie 1 5 cons’ Got a operative milk 1 \derio 4 sole B5c Ib.; ling opraartias SANITARY Stall 109, best American Tha. S26. fancy Rainier Best flour . 9 Ib. wack corn meal is tomatoes 250. Stall 1 substitute, 2 SOUTH END Stall 49, butter, 250 Tb.: cream cheene, 5 m the doz, Stall 56, alll pickles, Abe 2 for 10c; sauerkraut, 1B¢ pickles, 26¢ pt. Stall 46, cueumd each; best tomatoes, 20¢ tb.; new pota- foes, 3 Ths. 26e, Stall 42, bacon, 260 T.; lard, 18¢ th.; salt pork, 20c t™. ‘Stall #4, roast jam! 1 lard, 160 Tb.; bolting beef, fc Th. Stall 26, new pons, ™ new potatoes, 3 Tha. 25c; green onions, bunches 10: ine So 1.; Mrs, Porter's peanut butt 8. 2e; home made orm she, ibe Th, Bail 130 Th; 46 Kockeye salmon, i 45@ Libby's corn beet, 260 Sugar 1, 49-™, sack Borthern Light flour, $2 ‘Ship News| Tides in Seattle MONDAY MAY 1¢ B+ Nigh Tite am, 1.8 tt | 12 54 a om, TURSDAY MAY 17 net Nigh Tide ian PORT TO GET. | BACK FERRIES : Losing $400,000 a Year, i! Report; Taxes? Blooey! ] The county is going to return the ferries to the port That was dec dd upon Monday by the commissioners, The ferries are losing $400,000 a baker, it in reported, year, By turning the ferries back port, the county taxes will Ay fice ered to that extent. But what will happen to the pert! taxes? Ab! hue. That's an equine of another WISDOM IL IN SOUTH SEAS The Seattle yacht Wisdom IL, for merty the Anemone, which left port last fall for world, has arrived safely South Sea islands, article which number of the cruise around the in according to an pears in the May © Motorbout. SEEK STOLEN BOAT Harbor patrol beats were search- en by wards, jing Monday for Nation's bank clearings last week | launch Helena, reported stolen from Tacoma Friday night clear | dispatch said the vease! had been tak her former owner, the A wirelens Oarl Ed NOTED AUTHOR TO CRUISE From Seattle to Alaska by motor boat along the inside pammge, Stew art White, author, will cruise this summer With a party of friends. He and his wife were to arrive in Seattle Monday or Tuesday and make their home on the yacht Lake Union. Dawn, noW on SEATTLE SHIP IN DISTRESS Fears for the safety of the motor seNooner W. F. Burrows, on her way to Alaska from Seattle, were eased | Oste— Monday when no further dis : treme calls were received from her. Satur. day the Burrows wirelemed an 805, then two hours later said that she was still afloat and not in danger. The U. 8. coast guard cutter Unalga/ May... was dispatched from St. Paul island |7%%. to the Burroww’ assistance. PLAN GREAT PORT CONFERENCE Plans for what is declared will be international business meeting ever heli in the Pacific Northwest were well under way Mon- day, according to Frank Waterhouse, the greatest chairman of the executive committee beg in charge of arrangements for the annual convention of the American Association of Port Authorities. The | corse convention, Which ts to be held in Seattle, Oct. 11 to 14, will bring over 1,000 port officers from all parts of ‘the world. ‘The schooner Levi W. Ostrander, owned by H. F. Ostrander of Seattle, | nee, $6@7: bate was being overhauled at the Todd jand cutters, dry docks Monday, preparatory to a/feders. trip to the Hawaiian islands with a cargo of lumber. ted up in Take Unton. RESCUED FROM POWER BOAT Two men were rescned from al- Most certain death May 2 when the | cetpts, » & N. supply ship Saturn too! them off the sinking power schooner | canners, Mamie, near Soapstone point, Alaska. | catves, $2010 U. The ship has been They are H. J. Maycock and his as sistant. The Saturn loading for her next trip North. is at Pier to the CRUISE ON EAGLE BOAT On board the U. submarine chaser, 8. 8 Eagle 57, 80 erstwhile naval men of the reserve corps, now citi- zens, took Sunday the first of a ries of cruises in Puget sound wa ters, reserve force. Intended to develop new naval The eagie boat sailed from the Bell street dock to Hood canal and returned. oe SAILS INTO HARBOR Coming all the way from Auck- land without assistance, the sailing achooner Edward R. West glided into Seattle This feat along vessels years, harbor under a full is considered a remarkable the has been accomplishea by but few|™ during last several! spread Sunday afternoon of canvas. water front, and the The Edward R. West is a four master. overhauled before taking on She will be drydocked and) lum ber for her return trip. MAY SALVAGE GOVERNOR Arthur Loeb, arrived her@to discuss with Admiral line officials the possibility of mivag. ing the steamship Governor, rammed and sunk by freighter West Hartland, off Point Wilson, April 1, tions for his rescue work when the steamship Eastland turned turtle in! “diving king,” the has United States Loeb won decora Chicago harbor a few years ago. eee GAS LAUNCH ORDERED SOLD The gas launch Sappho, seized for transportation of booze, was ordered , Hell Street Terminal—U 8 RC Bear r, yellow at sold by Federal Judge BH. £. Cush- | % , Monday. P . light fog with rain; ur, Passed out, Arrivals and Departures May 16 ports, 10 © m.; Houthwestern ™. Went, from Ca rine D. from 4 Dp. TH. ince Tupert, from Honolulu, laskan ports atr Tyndareus from Vancouver, cutter Bear, from Motorahip Apex, from Alaskan wtr Admiral Watson, from via Houtheastern Alaska, 16—Hehr dws wer 30 mw m.; 4:30 p n Fran- atr we, from 4:15 p.m A 'T Dix, 3:15 p. May 14—Atr Arabia Maru, from Hongkong, 11:15 p. m. Belied tation Puget Bo May 15 Rupert, 11 Alaskan ports, 80 for str Catherine D. for Vessels in Other Ports New York May 1b—Halled, str Steel gas halibut | ck, black | NEW YORK, May 16 change today the final partition of t settled for some time, One stock advancing in #pite can Sumatra, which was pounded down last week | diseases in Florida and as has been feared. Mot {x forelen e the Kilesian United 8! hae ¥ Vierce- Arrow 2%. off & 59%, Up &) Paldwin, 8% 79%. up 1M; Internation Texas and Pacific, 27%. , t yee leading. De: GRAIN MARKET and closed up te unchanged at $1.15% and the same figure May corn opened up We at €0\e/; and closed off Se. July corn opened || unchanged at 62'yc and closed off te Reptember corn opened up 65% and cle Mo lower hold oN United States Roalty Europe News Lowers New York Stock List London and Paria ruled the New York Stock Mx- ‘The controversy between France and Great britain over! pper Silesia and the prospect that it will not be perated to lower most of the Hat Steel wan off ax a result of the situation, opening at 82 Th ny that the plantatic ¢ attack renewed al ms were noft with Studebaker off old down to within i of the years : oh ‘ennny? A "P up 1%; Texa | 3 8 IRREGULAR the | at lay oats opened ‘ec lower at 3TWe and closed off ye July oats ened unchanged at 2946 and c! off Se closed down Se. . Cash Wheat CHICAGO, May 14—Cash wheat red, $1L.54%, > HY hard. a a : icdgo Board of Trade|! Kepunite Gt (yecteltome) ees ~ 24 a nee ate ye ae tien ghee Liem 115M July ay er em as | | May. ay July Beopt Pork— May. July. Lara— Wheat, 16 cars; corn, eee nu chicage Live Stock ttle—Receipts, 11.006. stock, $6 15G8%%, cows, 84.250 magher 5 a . Portland Market Status May = 14-—-Cattle- et steady. $8.60@ 8.78: commen to fair steore TIE, choles cows and heifers, $4.50 $204.50; dull, S2508 Market at heavien, PORTLAND, Mark Hoge--Recetpts 1. Prime mixed, $9.25@9 pigs, 68.800 9.75 Bheep— Fees! 2 Prime lamba, #.40@ eariings, $4.00@6, wethers, Septomber oats was Righer at the opening of (0Ke and | Mert netrsic win sa'ee. SMart Wgite tower wae ot No. 3) 105 cars; oat, 46) pith ‘Reest pte, he Hest steers, e 6.60; jeaay ne i be AWARD ROAD CONTRACTS Contracts to pave the Hunt's P ed by the county commissioners day to N. B. Nelson and B. G. er and were low bidders in each The Hunt's Point road will cost 239.29 and the Francis Boddy $8,458.20. Inventor for Seattia. Philadelphia —May Arrived, Brosh from Seatt w Orleans—May 15—Galled, st rado for Seattle. Sian Diego ett from Seattle 14 dent for Seattle fan Henry #. Grove from Seattle, § a. m. | 15—Htr Fred Baxter from Seattle § str Bleel Voyamer for Seattle, 4 p. &. Naval Commentcations sound for San Francisco, 20 mile: | Cape Fiattery, # p. m.; river lightship, & p.m. ft Francisco, 480 miles from m May 14—tr € Beattie, 947 tr Weet C 499 miles from Seattle, & p. m. Honolulu for Tacoma, Vessels in Port at Sea and Trunk Pacific Terminal—str of Beattie. Str Tyndareun, U 8 & Eagle Boat No. 67. Motorahip t Jappa. dex, atr Jefferson, str eatern. Rodmi hy Admiral mira! Goodrich. Pier P—Str Admiral Dewey, ate Ad echley, str Spokane. Pier D--Str Admiral Watson. Pacific Coast Coal Bunkers Swifteure United States Shipping Board Moors Bir Westward Ho, str Kastern Glen or -L Canon tr Santa Ana 8 T Dix ¥ Dock & Warehouse vies str West Hartland, Ww, & Dredging Amen Yard —Str Roosevelt, Heffernan Dock—Str Ketchikan, ste dova. Nettleton Mill Montana, achr Kdward Rt Winslow Marine Railway motor#hip Santa Flavia, bktn Comyn, barge Henry Villard, Griftson, barge Coquitiam City, Dock—Str When Woat Mtr Vrancisoo—May 16—Arrtved, Ieontum, r Yoremite, ate T |eacy. Strest’ Terminal-U 8 8 Burnald: U Point and Francis Boddy roads were award. Mon Nord strom. The tWo men operate togeth cane. $22, road enn atr ir Al May 1¢—Arrived, str Ever fan Pedro-—May 16-—falled, tr Preat otr May alec, m. motor Onmo for Alaskan ports via Se Reported by Wireless May Visnatr Sulla Lackesbect. Puget east of atr Texan, Taco ma for Portland, 20 miles from Columbia atr Queen, Seattle Ba from ttle City by, motorship Anvil. Ala- aa. mired HOB nee atr ippe- Str Victoria, Spokane Atreet Terminal—Motorahip Lib- Co.—~ ke—Str Forest King, atr H. Co— Cor- Aland ulton, Anne barge Croeible, 79, 0 off ™ THE SEATTLE STAR United Slates Fruit and Truck © about mteady Sinolatr Oil, 26, off Wi Asphalt, age of any stock Mexican te s were quoted at ly affected bY) $3.25 a lug Monday, which in 26 cents the general|under Saturday's California | ft The | tomatoes were nelling at $2 for @ |four- basket crate. feature of| The t 16 |beans at 18 conte a f und. changes Mexican Petroleum,| There were no on States Rubber, 73%, up dairy market 06%, off %: Republic VEGHTABLES 1, 68%. up We: Stude Prices Paid Wholteate Dealers Retall Stores, 69%, 394, off 8 ° Artichohes dM: Unit Pan-Amort i 1%, up 5% Cognpany N. Y. Stock Exchange (Saterday Quotations) Furnished by &. I. Manning & Co. Butler Motel Mullding |Past eee | Carrots Lowal, Winningest per sack hothor Block — High Low Clowe Gartle—Per t Atohison 1% 81M Amer Heat Sugar 2 18% TER Morserndich— Per Bo... Car & Woy. 1tT 1th oe 0% International mate. Local, white, ton foal, dow bunches, « Arkansas, per hamper ... Tomatore— Mexienn lum Cal (basket orate ruUITS Missourt Pacific New Haven Northern Pacific Reck Tmpertat valley» Binclaie ont Hawey Comb, par erath® | nour Vacitie Cal strained, per Houthern Railway per erate Tangeriace Per bos b NUTS Prices Paid Whetenale Dealers | Atmeado ter | Brecth Per United Biates tee! | Chestnate-—Cal nah Copper Yanadivi mee Wabash | Weatinghouse , Willye-Overiand...-- 8% 8G International Nickel. 16" 15% Drook. Rapid Tranait 3 es Libesty Bonds Fernished if : * ot | Detiey Mond Manning & Ca Mitk—-Cwt., £0. b, Beattie supply 2 Rertes Migh Low Close DAIRY PRODUCTS First 340 eer) Whetcsale Deniers Fourth Ke ” ag tesesesee Fitth 2%e. Wisconsin enter ‘brick Tieek Swiss Wash. triplets . Heme Dreseed Live, 4 Tha Nelgium Restor be Keigtum Premiom German W. 1 Kerlin 4s Hambure 4 Mambore ¢4e Ielpaia 40 Leipete be Munien Montch 6 ° Franfort és... Heavy «++ ae Prime lambe oe FLOUR i Pat. 44's city delivery. foreign Exchange HAY, “GRAIN AND FEED EW YORK, May 16 Dema eter. City Wholesale Prices, Per Ten opened at H4. op % Whole yellow, ™ sacks 46 Cneracusd, 166 3 Voed Meal, 106-™ cS - Vital Statistics BIRTHS Judge, J. 8, £341 14th N, J! 6231 20th N. 3251 Walnut ave. 100 ‘Chick Mash Growing mash, 100-™. ska, ne BM . Wheat-Mixed feed, T., Enumclaw, boy. Oeconmnt tent .... Takencht, K, 1836 12th ave. S, girl Cottonseed Meal Dunham, C, HL, 4810 12th 8. W. Linseed O11 Meal 3716 Angelin: Ww, Seye Bean Alfalfe Meal . Beet Pulp . Rabich, John. 1068 Kennett at King, Napoleon, 4123 26th & W. man, Te ©. 2901 Ferdinand, girl ackwell, George, 605 23rd’ ave. Northeutt, DR, $07 23rd N.. boy Le e 411 Terrace at. boy Hrown Fe i: 1016 Sixth ave. Ne «irl S Decker, M_ F,, 106 Stewart at. girl. H- Eastern oyster... Malgren, G, M., 1610 Belmont ave.,| Western oyster Girts, Joseph, 1525 17th 8, girl MARRIAGE LICENSES Name and Residence. Age. Hoover, Baltie, Rolling Ra mu NK PLAN INVALID Aabling, William N,, Seattle ‘orbes, Phillip ©. urmi, athe Stanton, J. HL Wood, Hazel tf, Beatles. Clearings one $1,954,000.73 DEATHS Balances ..... 1,688, 088.81 Curran, George, 44, 0, K. notel Portland Newman, Charles, 45, 916% Howell! | Clearings ... + 5,167,038.00 at Balances .. + 1,80; 70.00 Childs, Richard, 6, 3219 Franklin av. | Womach, James 8, 71, 9807 Renton wey dinutt, Frederick, 85, 921 Thom- || oy Clearings Balances . 606,214.00 102,157.00 he general bearish feeling was Amert ee h reports of Nevenee o A steamer will laawe Seattle Tuee-| { stock was up 3 at 61 on @ statement cm . " tober Bi hot suffer so mach JAY Morning for Alaska with a heavy ly, however consignment of butter, eggs, fruit pandier quick!l¥/and green stuff. his shipment of commodities will not cause a short: | first straight carload of Cull advance, |fornia Wax and green beans wan dis ; A ane cling of the | tributed among the Beatle dealers Pe diane are to be cxe-{Monday, The wax beans were selling nts a pound and the green the 333 an oo rT) Nilsen, Lana Jane ¥ a} Blakeley » 1INGTON, May 16.—The su- poe Ri ern Maré," Van’ "2? |preme court today placed the stamp couver, B.C. ... ."* 99-40f invalidity upon the practice of the Ki, Seattle 40 |federal reserve banks in compelling Centralia +:30 state banks and other non-members y. », Yakima . 20 of the federal reserve system to pay Tassel, Havel Van, Yakima . 26/ checks without deduction for ex Copestick, Her change. Aries, orinne C., Seattle ..... Peters, Edna J., Portland . 21| San Francisco Produce Faulkner, John W., Tacoma ,.Legal BAN FRANCIS May 16.-—-Butter-. Faulkner, Georgia, Tacoma Legal Batra 32h%e Ib; k, Thomas J., Poulsbo Legal hompson, Hdith A., Poulsbo. Lagu Lindmon, John, Port Orchard 65 2le doa; under- Christensen, Arabella, Fall Clty, 65 Tunaig, Fimilo, Seattle : +30) ma Se Mazzarolo, Angelina, Seattle’. . Graham, Clarence E., Seattle ves N. Y. Coffee and come Sidebotham, Lena A., Seattle,.Legal| NEW YORK, May Watt, Lionel V., Bremerton . Pr $4.99@6.03; Williams, Alice A., Bremerton. Legal tee—-No. Rio, Harrison, C. B., Bremerton Gentes, 1% OPK e 18 Rackstrom, He . Tacoma . i PRODUCE TO BE Queen of Campus Queens TAKEN NORTH! * Alaska to Get Butter, Eggs, \Co- ed Given High Honor . : Miss Lurline Brown, chosen by the junior class of the uni- | versity to reign for a day, next Saturday, annual Junior day. —Photo by Grady. AN hall the queent We mean the junior queen at the sports on Lake Washington canal. But the big stunt that comes in University of Washington. And) the course of the young lady's ven- she’s some queen, too, | ture into royalty is the lighted canoe She's Mixs Lurline Brown, daugh-| parade, which takes place in the ter of Mr. and Mra, Abner Brown, of | evening, Here the queen is shown the St. Paul apartments, 1302 Seneca | off at her best. With a bevy of beau- *t Mr. Brown is treasurer of John | tiful maidens as her escort, she Davia & Co. | rides in the leading boat, manned by Each year the junior class at the a couple of sturdy collegiana, U crowns queen that cord who has! A dance in the campus armory at | performed the most distinguished night for the entire student body service for her class. tops off the ceressonies for the day. | The honor is a great one, for on Mins Brown has been prominent in Junior day, which occurs next Satur-| campus activities ever since she en day, the lucky girl is reigning mon-| tered ag a freshman. In her first arch for a day | year she was secretary of her class. Tho festivities of the day com-| She is at present secretary of the menee at 11 in Commona, At this} Associated Players, the university function only members of the junior! dramatic organization. She also clans are allowed. holds membership in Red Domino, At 120 the entire student body) honorary dramatic sorority. joing in the program, The remain- She belongs to Gamma Phi Beta der of the day is spent in water! sorvrity, Foreign Competition Worries U.S. Biddies BY HAROLD D. JACOBS “Farmers’ associations, chambers NEW YORK, May 16.—The Amer] of commerce and similar organiza- on trie Bes or oll oapanag from for} ons thruout the country, under According to H. W. Kerrigan, Call-| leadership of the American Poultry fornia chicken farmer, the poultry | association, will ask congress wheal industry In this country, which does | hearings are opened on the per- an annual business of $1,250,000,000,/ manent tariff bill to place a high faces complete demoralization thru | enough duty on foreign eggs to give this invasion. American farmers an even break.” Kerrigan, who is secretary of the “There were 2,000,000,000 eggs pro- Chamber of Commerce of Petaluma, | duced in the United States in 1920, Cal, the chicken center of the United |at an average price to the farmer States, is touring the country in an | of 49% cents a dozen,” Kerrigan said. effort to crystallize sentiment for a| “The normal differential between the protective tariff on egex. He said | producer and consumer is 8 cents a that hundreds of poultry men have | dozen. already been forced out of business.| “The present average cost to the “That the hen is the real American | farmer of producing a dozen of eggs bird is evident from the fact that|--tncluding feed, labor, ete.—is 25 poultry is raised on §7 per cent of|cents. He is now receiving only our farms and that 3,000,000 persons | 23% cents, a loss of a cent and a are directly dependent on the indus-|balf on each dozen. In China, our he said in an interview to-|chief competitor, eggs are purchased |from owners of inferior hens for “Importation of cheap foreign from 3 to 6 cents a dozen and are oxen, expecially from China, Aus- | brought into this country at an av- tralia and Argentina, has reached the | jerage cost of only 15 centa This stage, however, where American | gives the importers an advantaxe of poultry raisers will be completely |10 cents a dozen over American put out of business within twe years, | farmers. We are asking that this unlexs remedial action 1s taken. i difference be made up by a tariff.” cA Held for Driving SEATTLE WINS; When Intoxicated OFFICE STAYS ‘curr |G. R. Richards, 27, of 1324 First ave., was held in city jail Monda: Seattle has won its fight to retain | the war risk insurance office, j Minnie L. White, 8525 19th ave. N. The Chamber of «Commerce an. W., received a cut on the head when Richards’ auto struck the nounced Monday that it had recetved Suto In which she was riding, at unofficial assurance of this fact. Fifth ave. 8. and Dearborn st., Sun- Director R. C. Forbes, of the bu- | 4Y night. reau of War risk insurance, was scheduled to meet at 2 p.m, Monday Richards is alleged not to have stopped after hitting the auto. A with Arthur R. Priest, representing the Seattle chamber, few minutes later his auto collided with a James st. cable car at Fourth ave. The cable car was At that time, it was promised. he would give Priest a definite answer |KDocked off the track and service as to whether the office is to stay here, on the line stopped for half an hour. Richards was arrested by Priest went East a week ago with & number of offers for low rent from | Police Sergeant H. L. Unland, Seattle real estate men and building qeners, $1,600 Damage in 2 Decision to keep the office here Early Mort Mm g Fires will mean that the office will be moved from its present quarters in| Sixteen hundred dollars damage the Arcade building to cheaper quar-| Was done by two fires early Mon- day. ters. Appointment of L. C. Jesseph of A one-story bungalow being built for H, N. Herrinbeene, at 9087 Sev. Spokane as a regional director for the 13th district, comprising Wash.|enth ave. N. W., was destroyed by |ington, Idaho and Oregon, will have | fire of unknown origin at a no effect on Forbes’ decision to keep|m. The tool shed being used by the the office here, it was said Monday. | contractor was also destroyed. The a fire was outside the city limits, but Fire Chief George Mantor detailed Snoqualmie Youths Battalion Chief P, B, Tyler with a Sniffing Morphine? |*a24 wagon to fight tne biaze. The loss will total $1,550, Aroused by complaints from resi- . dents of Snoqualmie that boys of the| 4 house at 4549 14th ave. N. E., [neighborhood were learning to snitt|CCcuPied by D. Moyer, was dam. |morphine, and that mapy larcenies |2#°4 to the extent of $60 at 6:4 such as are committed by users of | m. by @ fire spreading from an narcotics, were being reported, Dep eased sreee uty Sheriffs N. Loveall and Stuart Campbell visited the town Saturday try,” | Denver Live Stock Market spring lambs, $109 11.50, night and arreste |. DENVER, May 16.-—Cattle—Receipts, In Harlow’s house » | 3,300. Market 150 higher. Steers, $798; hed ¢ a owe and heifer stockers and they found four packages of mor | Perio, tats calvon biotite phine and many needles, ‘They say | “Hogs Receipts, 1,600. Market 160 low- the man threw other needles away |eF, Top, $8.60; bulk, $7.60 08 Ah at neap Receipts, 400. Market stron when i. hen they accosted him on the Lambe, 81080011 owes, gegece street, MONDAY, MAY 16, 1921, TAX SUIT WON: BY GOVERNMEN) Many Millions Will Remaj in Treasury WASHINGTON, May 164—~ federal government, by a decisiom of the supreme court today, won Jone of the mont important tax @ults in recent years when the court held lthat the increased value of natural | resources held by @ corporation [profit and therefore is taxable (amy income | Justice Potney read the de of the court. The decixion meg that many millions of doliars be kept in the treasury, accord) to government entimates, The suit was brought by the belle Iron Works, a We corporation, when the ec of internal revenue imposed a on it of more than $1,000,000 the increased value of ore lands |Mesubi range. This was done o the ground that the value of land which originally cost $190,000 increased to $10,105,400. The creased value was represented by ntock Aividend issued by the com- pany increasing its capitalization by $9,915,400 1 The inerease, the company com tended, was not a profit, but am im crease In invested capital Charles E. Hughes, now secre of state, argued the case for company 3 ARRESTED IN ANTI-DOPE WAR ¥, M. Parrish, 37, was in city jail Monday charged by White Crom agents and the police dope squad with being the directing head of @ ring of dope agents in Seattle. He operated from a room in the National hotel, it was said. Lawrence Camp, 21, and Mike Dor cas, 20, are held as his agente. They were arrested Sunday at First ave. and Cherry st. Dorcas, it is charged, sold 25 p ages of morphine to a White agent Saturday and 25 packages 8 day. Parrish was taken, It is alleged, when in the act of selling 49 pack-— ages to a White Cross agent. Parrish, it is sajd, never uses dope. Marked money given in exchange for the dope was recovered Sunday night from the trio. Arrests have now been made by N. P. Anderson and R. F. Baerman of the dope squad, and White Cross men, of dope peddlers of several dif- ferent nationalities. A White Cross man told The Star Monday that the dope-selling “trade was being made hazardous here and that consequently the price is being boosted. | Saunders Talks to United State District snterenodt | Robert C. Saunders was in o Monday with R. M. Sernmes, director of the caning tae board. the subject of the conterunawina announced, it was believed to be tive to possible government actiom*:, connection with the ship strike. Saun- ders is scheduled to leave for Wash» ington city this week. Manned by @ complete non-union crew, the steamship Queen, oper- ated by the Pacific Steamship Co, oat left a week ago Saturday. ‘The Alaska Steamship Co. plans to send the steamer North to the North Tuesday, while the Pacific Steamship company nounces that it will sail a ship (| Alaska on Winey: Car Hits Auto; 4 ersons Inju Four rsons were ° from injuries Monday received their auto was struck by a car at Third ave. and Wall Sunday night. The injured are: Mrs. H. L. Wilson, 25 W. st, right arm fractured. H Meridian line. Motorman H. second and Conductor 0. C. were in charge. The . auto struck squarely by the street and was carried nearly threeq ters of a block. Dr. Hoopman the street car was traveling miles an hour. The injured attended at city hospital. Mad Teamster With Knife Holds Crowds Brandishing a knife and di: ing the doorkeepers at a dance at Lake Burien Improvement club, which he had been refused admis sion early Sunday morning, Carlton, 46, teamster, held the dam cers captive within and new arrivs without for more than an hour. tators said the man was crazed liquor, Deputy Sheriffs. Herbert’ be and Frank Anderson, notii two men who dropped thru a win from the hall 13 feet to the arrested the man ont placed him the county jail, Drug Store Looted; | $20 Is Taken Aw: Twenty dollars and a nickel | postal cash was included in the of thieves who ransacked the ren drug store at 1127 Howell Sunday night, Postoffice substatl No. 22 is located in the store, Including exami wiper, to t this. ad. ae Wh Ee. LENEns on KR OOK: and Chromatic wide angle lense® DR. MATTHEWS’ 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE