The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 18, 1921, Page 9

votes. | tivity by qity executives and em } ment for political purposes, be can Mamendment providing for a Pager after 1924, and for FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, GETS CITY MANAGER — Eyes of Nation on Experi- ment by Metropolis in Ohio | BY PROF, A. R. HATTON } Expert in Civic Government | CLEVELAND, Nov. 18.-Kyes of| experts in city govertiment thruout the nation today are fixed on Cleve-| jand, the largest city which thus far bas ousted the old type of municipal government and adopted the new gity manager plan Cleveland is the nation’s fifth ctty Tt bad a population of 1,000,000. In} Tecent city election a charter/ man ortion: ate representation, won by | Under the new plan the city’s chief executive will be picked by the city gouncil, and not elected by vote, The council may give the job to a man in any part of the country. And tt may pay him a salary equal to his ability, | The city manager will hold office | until he dies, resigns or ls removed by the couneil. Cleveland's new charter amend: ments stringently forbid political ac- ployes. They cannot pay An assess: didates for an elective office, hold office in @ political organization or take part in a political campaign. ‘Adherents of the manager plan be- Heve it will bring these advantages to Cleveland ONE-Politics in the executive side | of city government will end, since) }t | buckle, Sr, | Porter and delivered meat ues. | CLEVELAND |PRINCIPALS Life Histories of Arbuckl Fatty Started Life as But Virginia Rappe’s Career SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. Bern in Smith Center, 1887 Barly in his life his parents moved to Santa Ana, Cal, where © got his only education—sev eral years in the public schools, Moving later to Santa Clara, Ar opened a hotel and| buteher shop and “Fatty,” as he) even then was known, acted as When he was 12 his mother died and following his father's remar| riage, Patty left home. In San Jose he “went on the stage,” singing ilustrated songs and doing a clown, act in a nickelodeon, Soon he was playing high grade vaudeville at Long Beach. On the/ same bill Minta Durfee was appear ing in the chorus. After a three-| week whirlwind courtship, the two were married on the stage in 1907.) A year later they wére in stock in| Los Angelos, Roscoe as leading man} and director at $40 a week and Minta as “a dainty soubrette” at $25. They returned from a successful tour of the Orient in 1913, but Fat-| ty, having contracted a cold in the/ Philippines that affected his singing} voloe, turned to the movies for al livelihood,” making bis first appear. ance as an extra with the Keystone company at $3 a day His Motion Picture Income $1,000,000. | says Virginia first appeared in Low 0 ren le Case Figures. cher’s Porter. Was Twisted. 18.—Here are the high spots in With water, the lives of Roscoe (“Fatty”) Arbuckle, screen comedian, |*oked with clubs by two strikers and Miss Virginia Rappe, the film actress, for whose death ——— eetenonten as a result of a hotel booze party here Labor day Arbuckle is now on trial in San Francisco on a manslaughter charge. ee ee ee IL Fatty Arbuckle » I Virginia Rappe 1 he career of this “child of fate” is a mazo of twisted and tangled skeing that have continued to en velop her all thru life. Former Chicago friends of Vit finia Rappe, who claim to have known her for years, aay that she is the daughter of Mabel Rappe, one time Chicago beauty who broke her engagement to the scion of «| prominent Chicago family to run] away with @ British nobleman. Tiring of her soon, the nobleman went his way, A prospective mother, cast off by family and shunned by friends, Mabel Rappe, so the story goes, went to New York. There, about 29 years ago, Virginia was orn. Thirtee! | died. For a year Virginia lived with & grandmother, and after her death went to live with Mra, Kate Harde- beck, an adopted “aunt.” Elmer N. (Daddy) Workman, vet-| ¢ran Los Angeles theatrical man, Angeles in 1910 with a show com pany, traveling under the name of Zola Rappe. Mra, Hardebeck denies that Virginia and Zola were the same person, ' Zola got & place tn the chorus With Roseoe Arbuckle’s musica! comedy company, but soon was dis Years ago Mabel Rappe| E "Accuses Strikers of Assaulting Him 1, H. Cook, manager of the Pa cific Coal Co, hotel at Mack Dia mond, waa in Providence hospital Friday suffering from severe bruines which, he alleges; were inflicted by | striking miners, While motoring to Seattia, Cook says, he stopped to fill his radiator He alleges he was at Music for Thanksgiving Music for Christmas All the Records All the Time Seattle's Musical sienemapbeailenanatiammenmnenties THE BRATILE “| Austral a Ends B Ban on Northwest Fruit Northwest apples may be shipped into Australia without special per- | mit, and will not be excluded un | lens they fail to pass the inspection | for disease This in the eubstance of word! received by the Chamber of Com meree thru its foreign trade bureau the Austratian trade commis r Part time night school attendance of all working children between 14 and 17 tn compulwory in \ Wisconsin, HOME OF THE BEST $2.50 GLASSES ON EARTH Examinations Free Our experience tn vision testing enables us to correct your eyes |] with ecientifie accuracy, We epectalize in the most modern forma of spectacies and eye giasees, Grinding in our own modern lens grinding aerre gp Fisibe BIFOCAL Lekuam, 917 FIRST AVENUB Madisen Mot. 1906 -— BOUGHT— AT OUR PRICE.—AT Flavor is to coffee what happiness is to life. «The more happiness the better life, the more flavor the better:coffee When You Think of Advertising Think of The A MERE FRACTION OF ITS VALUE— The Entire Stock of the Old Established Shoe Sto PAC KAR 917 First Avent Every Pair in This Store Has Been Removed to Main Red Front Store Few, if any, shoes in the entire world are better Always on the lookout for bargains for our customers, known than the Famous Packard brand — few retail we were glad, indeed, to get this splendid assemblage per gab we 1 Ec pe Reams tounge rg — the J of nationally known shoes at a cost price so low that we Shoe store a irst venue. < Hf can now offer shoes of the very highest quality far and But Mr. Jergens, the well known proprietor, had to sell away below prices that dealers who buy in the regular out and leave for California, and we secured every pair of shoes ia this big stock at virtually our own way can hope to quote. It’s your chance to stock up at a big saving in money. price. Packard Shoes at Half Price and Less Buy For All the Family —For Present Use —For Future Wear — Save— Save Packard Shoes, broken lines, values to | Men's Fine Dress Shoes; values to $6.00, | Packard Shoes, extra quality; yalues to ae $3.85 mee $2.95 | 2° sewn se $5.65 a Cie Dipipenes to $12, now on sale at.... ae ood stock to select from, cut to......5......202ccecees 9248 Great Stock Is Sacrificed | MEN’S SUITS OVERCOATS The merger of the entire PACKARD stock with our own big line of fine mer- chandise at the main store of the Red Front Clothing Co. makes a sale unprece- dented for value-giving—for downright slashing of prices on dependable goods. Come Saturday and find out why so many thousands of families always get Monster purchase makes it possible to offer highest quality of Men’s Clothing in big variety of styles and patterns at smashing reductions. Read every item: | | terest as an experiment toward find-| $1,000,000 yearly He lives in @/ there was a martiage—they say are ) tng a cure for sick municipal govern: | $100,000 home and drives « custom-/| }unknown to them. The child is built car that cost $26,000. | with foster parents in Chicago, and For five years he and his wife) the friends are seeking Virginia's have lived apart, she staying in| small estate for it i Bargain iin Days Are [the East and living on the $500 a| In 1916 Virginia returned to Los BY Becoming Obsolete week Arbuckle is said to have paid| Angeles, where she met Henty Lehr. her, Following his arrest, his wife| man, producer. NEW YORK, Nov. 18.-—-In many | rushed West and has been with him| in ment. Later she appeared a ; Lehrman comedies, Then of the department stores “bargain | at thelr Los Angeles home since. | joined the Century company, mornings” have displaced “bargain | days.” This plan was adopted to ‘stimulate business in those hours) English channel, more than 5.0001 when it is hardest to attract shop-| miles of nets are set nightly. | pers. | More and Better Wine Than Before PARIS, Nov. 1%.—Contrary to ex- tions, the production of wine in )) France this year will be larger and | 4 finer than ever before. The grape “erop was superior to those of pre _. lous years. concern she was with at the time During the herring season in the! of her death. ye thanager will have little tempta-| Soon he was playing regular! charged, and soon disappeared. tion to play politics. parts, For three years he took lead-| Along about 1911 or 1912, Virginia TWO-—The political boss will nO/ing roles and directed, then organ-| Rappe, commercial model, began to > Yonger hold power, since candidates | ized a company of his own and for| make a name for herself in Chicago Hy to the city council will have to be/ several years produced his own)appare! shops, and later all thru Seo on real issues, rather than / pictures, the West, where she toured as a Ddecause of membership in a certain In 1918 he moved to the Lasky) demonstrator, | sparty. fot in Hollywood and has been there} Just prior to that time, Chicago S) ” Outside of Cleveland the operation | over since, with a contract to pro-| friends aay, @ daughter was born to of the plan will be watched with in-/ duce pictures that nets him nearly| her. Details of the marriage—if Virginia often was referred to as “the best drones | girl in Holtywood.” Many Deaths Result a of German Riots BERLIN, Nov. 18.—Riots between | communist and royalist factions! thruout Germany dfiring the last | two months have resulted in the kill. | ing of 67 men and women. More |]! than 300 have been injured. SES FaG SSE ae UP, | COME TO FOURTH AND PINE FOR YOUR BREAKFAST Four Reasons Why MEVES LUNCH AND DINNER | | Famous Explorer Slips and Perishes ZURICH, Nov. 18.—Seeking a pas- | Bage between the two grand Jumeli Peaks in the Alps, Sydney Hillmar Well known as an explorer, fell ‘Het & precipice and perished. "Fun course dinner, The, at Boldt's. Berved & to § p. m.—Advertisemen! You will ent Im the brightest, cleanest and most beautiful t' best veatilat Diniag Heom in the United You and well re waited on by courteous, well treated | Culinary union officers tell their friends we are unfair. They its source with Meves, a year before the know that the present trouble did not fi Mr. Hingely knows we paid our cooks § neale was $18 a work that no © pulled th uit. Moat of tham are back now, and all are getting | $16 to $19 a week. We will take them all back as vacancies occur. # we paid our girls rom $16 to $18, and | ed by ‘ained from $5 to $6. wages was ever cons et she RHEUMATISM Those who The cooks Mr. Hingsly ealled out were a fine lot of capable suffer the men. We pleaded with al! of them to stay and had they done so | sil would be getting the union scale and better today. Thin ix the first time in my 16 years of restaurant business | that have had any trouble with the Culinary Union. | F after my house tn Portland was unionized and up to the sold out my Portland pla our relations have always been agreeable. What happened there after I sold out, surely 1 am not responsible for this. 8S years their supplies here—you can save here as well as they do. Remember, you can’t go wrong when you buy such known dependable merchandise as PACKARDS. ALL SUIT CASES AND BAGS ONE-HALF PRICE Men’s Slickers, Towers’ Fish Brand, Men’s Heavy Ribbed Underwear, big cut just........ONE-HALF PRICE DUP ME we ics ac cediceetansses ee Men’s heavy nel Shirts, former Men’s Cooper’s Wool Worsted Union values to $200, cut to......$1.69 Suits; former values to $6.00, cut Men’s Sweaters, former values to tO ceccvevcccvseseesscsces \ $3.50, cut to ....e.seeeees. S1.23 Men’s Outing Flannel Night Gowns, Men’s Wool Army Shirts, cut to $2.95 formerly ‘peieed at '$3.00)49 Ber urday at wecccceceeeceee ee BLOBS Men’s Chambray Work Shirts, for- , mer values to, $1.50, cut to....65¢ Men's 150 Canvas Gloves, cut to Men’s Dress Shirts, former values to -ataad hte lel sau edon $2.50, cut to .....ceceeess +. DOG 300 pairs of Men’s Cotton re Men’s Union-made Overalls, formerly CU TO ceeenserseneeenens priced at $1.75, cut to ........95¢ Men's Heavy Wool Union Suits, cut AB sss Gecokediaenss coach’ sain ARROW COLLARS; all — SALE STARTS SATURDAY AT 9 A.M. — Come Early — Don’t Miss This Great Sale er: RED FRONT CLOTHING CO. tt ‘ulling out the help at Chauncey Wright's Restaurant | started the open shop declaration which we and 16 other & tile Caterers signed and on their word of honor agreed to stand by. We are not going to scab on this and will continue on the open | shop pian with no discrimination against any person because of his or her union or non-union affiliation. We harbor no ill feelings against anybody. and Mr. Hingely received our promise last week that we would reinstate our old cooks soon as vacancies occur. pra 200 — on De formerly Wr eee eee Hart Schaffner Qgmveng Overcoats, for- coete thers, OL LOO Men’s High Grade Suits, formerly priced metre $14.85 BOYS’ CLOTHES Me Uh he coe $3.4 45 Boys’ Heavy Nernah id Pants; $500, cit Wee OL ‘45 Mener Values to $10, cat to D480 ¢ pretty good sports, too; we hi money and have i Only recently we spent nea: rsi00, 000 building our was done by union labor, H.R. ts now building a new hom Sth and Spring—all of thin is done by union labor, So you we are not so bad even if we are op- erating on the open shop plan. ings and evenings. All of thi Yours truly A. J. MEVES. P. &—Don't forget our Sunday Chicken Dinner, MEVES CAFETERIA FOURTH btu PINE _ 254 at The FEA STUFFED BY CATARRH? USE A TEALING CREAM ae hy LENS If your nostrils are clogged, your| throat distressed, or your head is| stuffed by nasty catarrh or @ cold, apply a little pure, antiseptic, germ | destroying cream into your nostrils. It penetrates through every air pas- wage, soothing inflamed, swollen anembranes and you get instant re Nef. ONE STORE ONLY HUTESON OPTICALE. OCULISTS THIS IS Men’s Hats in newest styles; former values to $5.00; colors black, brown and green, cut to ..........$1.95 PRESIDENT SUSPENDERS FOF sevccesccrececreevens 29c GET A PAIR OF THE LATEST Fine Dress Wool Pants Mackinaws’ 1320 2nd. AVE. How good it fests. Your nostriis H Corner ALL COLORS, she gat sve tne I MAIN STORE 1601-08 First Ave a more hawking, wn —values to $6.00 a Pine St. Formerly $12.50 aire tae ae’ roma Me dg ee oF OPPOSITE now on . now on- sale i SELLING OUT THE ENTIRE STOCK OF THE PACKARD SHOE STORE of Ely’s Cream Balm trom any druggist. Colds and catarrh Yield like magic. Don't stay stuffed “Dy. Relief is sure, $2. 95 $5.85