The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 11, 1921, Page 7

7UST 11, 1921. A NEW WATERPROOF TOP FOR $1-55 Just paint it on RUB-R-TITE GUM SUR- FACING dries very quickly Freezing, sun-bak- ing or soaking will not affect its elas- ticity or fin- RUB-R-TITE GUM SURFACING will make practical- ly a new top out of any old one by GUM SURFACING it with an ELASTIC coating that makes the old top re- semble a new, expensive leather one. It is more ELAS- TIC than leather, and FREEZING, SUN-BAK ING or SOAKING will not affect its elasticity or finish. It will save you the price of a new top, and the old one GUM- SURFACED will be as serviceable, and often be mistaken for a new leather one. A type also made for mohair or cloth tops that in addi- tion to imparting a fine black finish, thoroughly water- proofs same. A 1.-pint can is enough to put one coat on a touring car top, giving it a good dressing and a new appearance, but to gum-surface the top (requiring two coats) you must have a quart can. The pint can will gum-surface a run- about. ‘ Pantasote Mohair 1-pint can ... ....85¢ 1-pint can .......'75¢ l1-quart can ...$1.36 = 1-quart can ...$1.50 (THREE sTORES 1% SEATTLE) Western Auto Supply Company te BRANCH STORE - AUTOPARTS SUPPLY Co. 1110-12 East Pike 812-18 East Pike DOWNTOWN STORE 2041-45 Westlake New Special Prices For This Week-End Beginning Friday morning we will sell all White Reignskin Oxfords at $4.85—and all Sport Shoes in black and white, and brown and white, 4 Wonderful values in Strap Pumps and Oxfords. All high i ‘ grades. $8.85 Broken line in high-grade Pumps, both Louis heels and Baby Louis heels—ON THE RACK at $3.85. SPECIALS FOR THE MEN Just a short time left for you to supply yourself with high-grade Shoes at $5.85 and $6.85. BAXTER & BAXTER 1326 Second Ave. THE SEATTLE HERE’S MORE NATION STARTS ON PAGE ONE again. Some factories are increas. ing their forces even now," W. L. Ware, trade commissioner, » Association of Commerce mental business changes in rtloally all lines. Recovery bie in drygoods, millinery, and men’s colthing, shoes and building materials. The feet hing strength each day ave reached the bottom period of depression and may now reasonably expect buat neas to be very much better tn women’ }the fall.” K. G. Quamm, president of the St, Paul federal reserve bank onerally speaking, we have a fair crop in the Northwest which, if sold at once will make conditions | better.” Portland, Ore, Chamber of Com merce—Merchants are stocking their shelves for a good winter in the belief that the heavy crops will result in plenty of money. The future outlook is bright.” eee Seattle and State Climb in'3 Months Government reports bear out state- ments of commercial concerns that business is better. Business in Seat tle and the state of Washington has shown a decided improvement in the last three months, sald Robert 8, Royns, president of the Seattle Cham. ber of Commerce and Commercial Club. The bounteous crops of Washing: ton farmers, whore trade figures large in reckoning city business, in- dicate continued betterment of con- dtiona, Latest reports on retafl sales in} Seattle show the public ts buying | more, Seattle's retail sales in June were 6 per cent greater than in May Government reports show a de crease in unemployment in the Pu- | get sound country, due to calls for | labor in the agricultural sections and | to improvement of conditions gener ally. More men are at work in Washington today than at any time since the country fell into a depres. | sion. Still more significant than statisti al reports is the public morale. Peo | ple are beginning to think in terma of more buxiness and better businenm, In short, people are feeling better about the immediate future, and con- fidence i» the handmaid of better | business, SAY AMERICANS STILL ARE HELD RIGA, Aug. 11.—All Americans in Russia now practically are prison. ers, Charles I. Crane, former Amer ican minister to China, declared here today. States should obtain assurances that all Americans will be permitted to leave the soviet republic. eee WASHINGTON, Avg. 11.—A bill appropriating $5,000,000 to be used by the president tn extending relief to famine-stricken Russians, was in- troduced in the senate today by Sen- ator King of Utah. They'll Fight It Out With Oratory Nathan Eckstein and Worran Wil son are scheduled to ammail each oth. er with firebrands of oratory Friday noon, feature of the program of the mem- bers ‘council of the Chamber of Com. merce, at the Masonic club, Arcade building. Eckstein will take the part of Op- timiam, and will attempt to annihi- late his opponent by a barrage of prosperity proofs. Worrall Wilson, drafted to take the part of Pessimism, promines to put up a lively burlesque for his op ponent to overcome. There will be musical numbers also. PAINTS Now is the time to paint your house and buy your Paint on our cash and carry plan. You save one-third. $3.50 gal Premo $2.69 $3.00 gal. Diablo Paint, our price. $1.10 qt. Floor Paint, pian 89c jasse, eta aeiae 31, BR $1.50 Paint Brush, $ bir patos 1.00 $2.50 gallon Coach Varnish, price #: All our Papers are put on screens, showing how You save one-third to one-half on our cash and carry plan. 20c to 35c Kitchen Paper 20¢ to 45¢ Bedroom Paper, our price ....10¢ to 26¢ © to 60c Parlor Paper, our price .....12¢ to B8¢ Price .seseees 11¢ to 22¢ Dry Paste, Ib. largest Wall Paper Stere in Seattle. 1921 Second Avenue ‘The Hotel Washington is Paint, our price . $2.48 75e 5-Ib. pkg. Kalso our they hang on your wall. our price D¢ to 20¢ 20¢ to 35c Hall Paper, our co,” . across from us. j the j hundred million billion dollars and The event will be the central | 2 ers, whose work STAR _ BOYS WANT. TRUNK CASE | Youthful Claimants Say They Were ‘Robbed’ of | $2,000 by Tug Crew Herewith are sayings from fa mous finders: L There gom our $2,000—1 —Willard Sperry. “It's the bunk—they copped the trunk from off'n our hands.” —Rex Gardner “I should be considered.” —David Khind. “I'm tho bird who found the trunk—ne foolin’.” —icorge Richards. . And there you have four clatmants for the Mahoney trunk reward—in a/ nutshell, so to speak. They claim they saw the “$2,000 floating around in Lake Union in the shape of a trunk,” and are entitled to the proper reward Mr, Willard Sperry, a resident of footstool for more than eight} lucky years, wishes to be quoted| thusly: were building a raft. We needed driftwood and while looking for some | saw this trunk out In the lake, Se. curing some driftwood as a support (it’s a good idea for a long swim) we paddied out to the trunk and tied a red handkerchief to it. Then we swath back to shore to get a row boat } and had got back just when the tug Audrey hove into sight and copped the trunk from us.” “What Willard sald—ts the dope. Honest! declares Willard's side kick, Rex. “I have nothing more to add.” Come now two small gents of an even 14 years who were basking on the sands of Lake Union build- ing alrcasties and thinking of a are willing to “betcha” thing. “Gosh?” exploded George Rich. ards, one of the dreamers, “you should see me and Dave Rhind, who was there with me, make a bee line for the trunk. The only trou ble is that we couldn't get a boat | fast enough and those guys in the tugboat beat us to It That's the advantage of owning a tug- boat ‘stead of a raft.” Dave lives at 3122 Fuhrman ave. and his buddy, George Richards, eats home with the folks at 3129 Fairview ave. It i» fitting to’ mention that sev- emi other people have placed a claim on the reward: Mrs. J. E. en any Crane asserted the United | Barnett, 3218 Fuhrman ave, and Martin Cammon, engineer of the tug Audrey; H. J. Bell, police diver. BANK EMPLOYE HERE ACCUSED In their alleged confession, Seattle bank robbers being held by the Kan- mas City police are said to have de- clared employes of a Seattle bank were implicated in the $25,000 bank messenger holdup here, July 14, ac- | cording to advices received by Seat | tle police from Kansas City, Thurs- y. | The Kansas City police are holding two men, Edward Patton and Louis Gordn, and three women. Gordon is | alleged to be leader of the gang. Gordon and Patton claim, it is anid, that they met two other men in Se- attle, one of whom said he was a new bank clerk. The bank clerk, accord- | ing to the bandits, sald that he could “frame it” with the bank messengers not to resist when they were held up. The Kansas City police did not reveal the names of the accused bank employes. Seattle police have wired Charles Edwards, chief of police at Kansas | City, to hold all but Myrtle Moore, a telephone operator. eee KANSAS CITY, Mo. Aug. 11.— Habeas corpus action to secure re- lease of two men and the three wom en arrested here with Louis Gordon and Edward Patton, who are alleged to have confessed participation in a Seattle $25,000 bank messenger hold. up, was to be heard in circuit today. Police announced that release of all these five exeept one woman, whose home is here, will be contest- ed. Felony warrants for John J. Murphy, San Francisco, John J. Fox, San Diego, Mrs, Eva Ducker, San Francisco, and another woman have been issued at Seattle, according to a telegram Chief of Police Edwards said he received from there. Patton and Gordon, in a statement to police, are declared to have altered their original story by declaring that Real Painless In order to introduce our new (whalebone) plate, which is the est and strongest plate known, the roof of the th: yor bite corn off the cob; guaranteed 15 year: All work guaranteed for 15 years. Have impressions taken in the morn- Ing and get teeth same day. Exami- pn and advice free. Most of our present patronage is recommended by our early custom- good satisfaction re, you are in the right place. this ad with you, Cut-Rate OHIO Dentists | 207 UNIVERSITY ST. Opposite Vraser-latersou Co, Bring REWARD IN| “Rex Gardner, my buddy, and 1/}) FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET Broken Lines of Women’s Neckwear Reduced Reduced to 50c —Organdie Guimpe Vestees with plait- ed shawl collars of printed Organdie, stitched in black. —Tailored Vests of white attached collars, trimmed with col- ored linen. —Collar and Cuff Sets of Organdie with shell trimming. —Organdie and Net Collar: lace-trimmed styles. —Embroidered Organdie Vestee Sets. In the Downstairs Store A New Shipment of Extra-size Jersey-silk Petticoats$4.95 ENEROUSLY _ pro- portioned to fit the full figure are these new Petticoats in the service- able jersey silk, with plaited flounces and trimming of colored stitching and bands of ribbon. In combinations of Brown, Rust or Pur- ple and Navy; Gray and Blue; Copen- hagen and Gray; Black and Rust. Lengths 34, 36 and 38 inches. Priced low at $4.95. “THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE ISH REPLY TO PEACE PLAN LONDON, Aug. 11--Eamonn De Valera’s reply to the propoml of the | fritish government for restoration ||) of peace in Ireland was handed to | Austen Chamberlain, chancellor of the exchequer, at Downing st. early today by Messrs, O'Brien and Bar ton, representing the Sinn Fein. — | Chamberlain announced receipt of | the reply to commons today. The| letter has been forwarded to Premier Lioyd George in Paris, he said, and the latter probably will make aj) formal statement befere the house |]! early next week. OVER WOMAN Drawing a long knife during an argument over a woman, a negro known as “Steve” attacked and slashed Temple Robinson, negro sail- or, of 827 23rd ave. S., Wednesday | night at Sixth ave. and King st. | “Steve” then ran and escaped be | fore police arrived. Robinson was | taken to the city hospital with a bad. | ly gashed arm. He told Capt Hedges that “Steve” had been too) friendly with his wife. They were| standing there arguing, he said,/ when "Steve" his knife. | Theatre Prices to NEW YORK, Aug. 11.—Several| New York theatre managers have decided to reduce the regular admis. | sion price 20 per cent, and by Christmas practically all will have followed suit. | | wali | | MAN STABBED | Reduced to $1.00 —White Pique Vests with “Bramley” collars. —White Pique Vests with “Bramley” Collar and Cuffs trimmed with col- ored linen. —Colored Organdie Vests or Collar and Cuff Sets with white frills ‘stitched in black. —Ecru Lace Collar and Cuff Sets with satin bindings. —Collars of Net, Lace and Organdie. ~-Aisle Table, First Floor Pique, with Royal blue 8, plain and Jimmie’s Jumpers Play Suits 75c RACTI CAL pla garments fo girls and boys— in sizes 1 to 8 years. Strongly made of blue denim with red trim- mings, double knees and firm stitching. —Downstairs Store —Second Floor —Third Floor FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET 800 Imported Willow Clothes Baskets At Extraordinarily Low Prices Spe Baskets (imported direct by FREDERICK & NELSON) are of extra-fine willow, reinforced at edges and bottom—staunch and sturdy. + i | Be Cut in Gotham||| they had held up the wrong bank |}) “framed” to or! messengers, and had hold up two carrying $75,000, | $50,000 more than they obtained. The | larger haul was missed because of | deiay experienced in trying to steal | a car, they asserted. “By the time we found a car and| reached the bank, the two messen. gers whom we planned to hold wu had left, but we tried our 1uck any y,"" they declared in the latest statement. “I made my mistake when—well, she’s upstairs in the women's ward now,” Patton said. One of the women arrested was known as his wife. Patton is alleged to have admitted he had “served time” for a holdup in Minneapolis, and is wanted in San Francisco for highway robbery. © AMUSEMENTS LOEW’S PALACE HIP VAVERS Fitth and Pine Killete 2525 Thin Week-—Matinee Saturday “MY LADY FRIENDS” An Accumulation of Laughter Keven: 25¢ to ee Plus “PANTAGES | Matinees 2:20 N AERC) Admission: Matinces 25¢; Nights 400 Size No. 1, 25 inches long, special 65¢. Size No. 2, 27 inches long, special 85¢. Size No, 3, 29 inches long, special $1.15. Size No, 4, 31 inches long, special $1.35. Size No. 5, 33 inches long, special $1.45. On Sale Friday Morning, in the Downstairs Store “Try It Out Yourse says the Good Judge And you will find how much more satisfaction a little of this Real Tobacco’ gives you than you ever got from a big chew of the’ ordinary kind, The good, rich, real to-, bacco taste lasts so long you don’t need a fresh chew nearly as often. So it costs you less, Any man who uses the Real Tobacco Chew will tell you that. 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