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ect ad- » of or eS S. it ; “] Tonight and Tempera ‘are Maximum, 50, Today WEATHER fresh easterly winds, ec os it 40300- ware homes oo dau, ton any thor Sele Hosp OIL SPRING ¥ THAT GAVE SPOKANE A THRILL NOW On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Wednesday, fair; Last M4 Hours Minimum, 46, noon, 50. Entered as See Clase Matter May 3, 1) Postoffice at Seattia, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Press-was reliably * OLULU, Dec. 6.—The to a dispate! according a prominent Japanese language newspaper. Howdy, Folks! Didya ever the wrong tube and start to your teeth with the shav- ese Seattle city council. sorts H. | /. would take at least two months | what percentage of our bimbos who are getting their trees now believe in hace ha a love for her ia gone, } He gave her a carciess up and. down— | Whe had galoshes on. | é eee | ‘Great Britain has signed the Irish te. Now where's the catch in| “Whiting Watians, Star writer, the masses are thinking in th ne Sure, they're thinking in fhe New World, too, but while they're thinking, money is talking Give a thought to the moth situa- tion in Seattle. Think of the thou sagt who have starved to death try- to get a meal off women's elothes. | | | | | eee ExKalser Withelm to marry axuin,| _, *478 4 Rewnpaper report. Didn't he enough of war? s see Harding wants $800,000,-| for the army and navy. He talks ® councilman. eee K. M. Landis has fined Babe bis world series money for par in postseries exhibition | Wonder if the Bambino will him for a home run? . Acti Their souls meet Aet tv Their attorneys meet. (Curtain.) | o 2. | "The Passion Flower” is the name the play at the Metropolitan this only passion flower that We can think of is the onion reoncmmne tees 4 | eal Raval ratio would be 0.0.0. | sg by te opinions of the jury, yan must ha laughed Yoiiva bas e i 000,000 for Zion I 10 years, nays our alert con | | The Star, One of Feforms must be ni § contribution pistes, Bax, his | ESE CREE TO NAVY CU Advisory Council Has Ap- 5-5-3 Plan; Program Will Be Okeh By Clarence Dubose . OKYO, Dec. 6.—The Japanese diplomatic advis-| has approved the 5-5-3 naval-ratio, the} * is expected immediately to instruct the Japanese delegation to conclude the “four-power under- “with the United States, | cording | Tokyo Nicht |the arms session virtually suspended | believe Japan will | substitution ‘Railroading China |to-minimize Pacific o buttons | lenged their presence here as China's Going Up! Lumber Is Leading. Blazing Trade Trail. Mills at Full Blast. Northwest to Prosper. Lamber, the basic industry of the Northwest, is heralding pro» perity. : As an indicator of busines conditions in general, it is point ing to a happy revival of trade activity. This is the meaning of the re marks made by Joseph A. Swalwell president of the Union National bank of Seattle, and chairman of the rthwest Products committee of the Chamber of Commerce, who, among other things, knows all about lum ber. Swalwell said “In the first place, take the price of logs. In 1914 the figures were $6, $9 and $12 a thouxand feet for the three grades: Today they are $10, $15 and $20. That shows that we are not giving our lumber—-our greatest natural resource—away, And that is & good thing, for when thie supply is gone we cannot replace it. {sa ILLS RUNNING FULL BLAST “The mills of Washington are fumning full blast, 1 mean by that at normal full capacity That, in turn, means much more than it does in the Eastern mills, which call cight hours a day and are operating only six months of the year, Here, we run 24 hours a day more often than not, and operatic 12 months a year. committee has already been| “If business men would give the novela the dopatch aad, o| rvvant tution more careful aay | rom the discharge’ of sailora in cane) tusinens is here than in other parta |of naval reduetion. ‘ ag Plage ype An unbiased investigation of anti-!Po verging More vanuiy. ons we Mf Japanese activities in California is| ud penn is no reason for demanded of the conference, ac-| tS: dae toon: thing but optimism for the lum- Nichi Stmbun, an in| and for business in ether lines, fluential net get JAPAN TRICKERY \eriend of mine, who ts putting 12, 000,000 feet of logs in the pond for Far East Parley in “Deli- rooms use. This represents an in- vestment of nearly $200,000. Do you 7 cate Stage BY CARL D. GROAT think he would tie up all that money WASHINGTON, Dee. 6-—With Believe 4-Power are, today. Asicenatic advisory board at Britain and h received here today by the Great if the prospects were not mighty good for the er" SAY MAIL CLERK waiting on Japan's reply to the quadruple agreement and naval ratio proposals, the Far Eastern conference today had reached a “delicate stage. There appeared every reason accept the involving scrapping Anglo Japanese alliance of a agreement; signing the naval and acquiescence in America’s Pa cifie non-fortification offers. The Tokyo answer, however, may be de- layed several days, the Japanese in dicated. Meanwhile, the Far Eastern par. Federal Grand Jury Alleged to have confessed to a $400 shortage in his aceounts, Theodore Wood, 23, clerk in the West Seattle postoffice, to bir ot and four cornered | ratio | December 12, by United States Com missioner R. W. McClelland Tuesday. Postoffice inspectors said Wood | had admitted his guilt, had blamed gambling debts for his trouble. The shortage wag discovered Mon three plan the ley was in an argumentative and|@4y as 4 result of the inspection controversial position. The Chinese | Which is being made in all postal, of- dissatisfaction with “acceptance in| fices in Seattle principle” and delays in action on| According to postoffice inspectors, concrete proposals had flared out in|t is evidence indicating that, in the resignation of the secretary-| addition to the shortage, Wood has general, Dr. Tyau, also minister to| tampered with the registered mall Cuba. Wood, who has been in the postal Following the example service for four years, has been gen. Secretary-General Tyau, eral clerk in West Seattle since 1919 [Chinese delegates’ chief advisérs,| He is unmarried and lives with his! General Huang Fu, Admiral Tsai | parents at Three-Tree point. Ting Kan and Chow Tsi Thi, resign- cou ~ i 7 Al —— net | by three of the ed their places today. The Chinese held the Japanese were unmasked as playing a dilatory game and as wanting rich booty in the Far East to which neither right nor law gave them title. Meantime, the Japanese had come out frankly not alone for a stretch |of the railroad in Shantung but for mine concessions there, Containing substantial of the present building ordinance which real estate men say will mean a revival of building in Seattle was referred to the corpora tion counsel's office Tuesday for an opinion as to its legality Consuls to Talk at revisions Out of Conference? BY WM. PHILIP SIMMS WASHIN iTON, Dee. —The con- ference on Far Eastern affairs has taken a grave turn. The indications clearly point to an attempt to “rail- ro China out of the parleys. Powerful influences are at work problems, even a American delegation | being in some doubt as to just how All Latin-American consuls in Se attle will participate in a discussion on how trade between their coun- |tries and the Northwest may be ex | panded as a feature of the Pacific | Northwest Foreign Trade conference {to be held at Tacoma Thursday and section of the | Superior Judge A 8 o| . eo prol far to go. Ana result China i» not/Friday, next week. re iat bugis “slonce while Prose.{8ecording to the prosecution, were | Charen + ee brie ge 4 only in imminent danger of being| The discussion will be led by 1. J.| room listene "| paid the county by the,United States | tion law, pending in the ; \told off.” by the Pacific powers, but |Bartell, export manager, Continental | cuting Attorney Malcolm Douglas.| government for keeping federal pris-| States commissioner's court, have Pipe company, Seattle Our ‘Ole Turning of once more being browbeaten into sullen submission. France has even questioned the Chinese delegation’s right to speak for China, while the British have announced virtually as a thing ac- Ole Hanson is still knocking Seat- complished a program which China| tje’s municipally-owned utilities. A has not accepted and will not accept|recent issue of the Los Angeles save under duress |Times reports a speech of Ole in Members of the Chinese delegation | which he declares that the street | deeply resent the action of thelrajiway and French and British delegates—espe- | total failures, cially the French—who openly chal- light departments are Japanese jen lo one of the caslest lan, guages to pronounce, (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) HAS CONFESSED Youth Is Bound Over for was bound over under | $1,000 bail for the federal grand jury | We will help the rest of the work and that he} BUILDING GAIN code, an | Trade Conference His Back on Us) The seattle Star Per Yoar, by Mail, $5 to $9 Waaspapor. DRY! | Serres SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6,1 TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE _ a HARDING BOOSTING | gram for Speedy Return to Nor- mal American Conditions The cutstanding pointe of Frenident Narding’s prosperity memage Disalfaction With retent tar bill le eapreased, aad Intention ef submitting future recommendations for further tax revision auneanced. Denunciation of commercial trenties ordered under the Jones shipping ect would bring chaos in trade relationships malntention of sanding detailed message ca shipping legislation shortly on Barty somatetion of tarttt bill urged. Presidential authority for fixing variable tariff duties, with asistance of United States tartif commission, requested. Krempt passage ef foreign debt refunding bilt_erged. Appropriation necessary to supply the American retief administration (im Russia) with 10,000,000 bushels of corm and 1,000,000 bushels of seed grain, Recommended congress consider amending constitution te prevent further lemew of poo-tasable securities “The right of leber te organize te Jost oo fendamental and necmssary a0 the right of capital to orgenis Ubged establishment of an indust between vapital ree det on cut-over lands in West and South, te provide more homes and to aid men, : “Pivery proper encouragement should be given to the co-operative marketing pregmam I retations court, to protect the public Inber, sn BY RAYMOND CLAPPER Prompt enactment of the perme. WASHINGTON, Dec. 6—Presi}nent tariff bill, with adoption of, the American valuation plan and & provision for fixing dent Harding today propase! to con grease a definite and comprehensive Speeding up of reclamation legis Harding served notice the United) ition to ald ex-soldierx and to pro ‘The president was believed to be | CANNOT ALONE CURE jtaking @ direct siap at the severai ILLS OF THE WORLD “blocs” such as the agriculture America will help unselfishly | croup, recently formed in congress, when they “turn to the heroic! when early in his message he dix- | remedies for the menacing condl-| cummed our system of government. tions under which they are strug) Realizing that some of his pro- |gling.”” No American policy ain! posais called for extension of ex | will cure the world’s ills, Harding ecutive power, President Harding | said. emphasized that he had no thought By saving ourselves, of encroaching on congress. Asking for enactment of the al lied debt refunding bill, Presiden: he declared, 1 |to save iteelf. The president's pol-| licy wax clearly outlined in dis cussing the need for a high tariff. | Harding promised that if the re! “Sensible of every obligation of| quested authority ta ae tet Ihumanity, commerce and finance.| would follow no Be egy ‘conflict linked as they are in the present} with the purpose con nal im! world condition, it is not Be bl eranting the loans. ed to dentroy pat ag ok ‘pra ts others,” | URGES PROMPT. j eurssives to be help \TARIFE PASSAGE the said Enactment promptly bill “is needed to stabilize our indus try at home; it is essential to make our definite trade relations abroad,” ‘he said. “More, it is vital to the pres. ervation of many of our own indus |tries, which contribute «o notabl t were better to remain on firnt strive for ample employ high standards of wage) and point the way to bal- rigid economies and as the rem: ground, ment and at home anced budgets, | resolute, efficient work, > edies to cure hearin ea reterrei | ‘He very life blood of the nations ts cane brlety. Uy the. president. _ Baeeutive power to order taritt| vit a easy to believe a world | oommes parding anid, "to. meet | hope is centered in the capital) | onieme incident to unfair practices city,” he said, “A most gratifying} 20 4'to change which madness in | world accompfihment is not IM! noney have made almost unsolv- } ponsible."” | able.” Outstanding in the president’s| riers are reassuring signs of A recommendation for bringing thin! s vine«s revival, Harding continued. country back to normal conditions| “so unemployment, which gave are us deep concern only a few weeks | INDUSTRIAL COURT ago, has grown encouragingly less, IS ONE SUfGESTION he said ation of a virtual industrial] Relief for the farmer is essential, to have judicial or quast-| Harding said judiclal power to deal with labor} “In the main, the remedy lies in| disputes affecting public interests. !distributing and marketin Ready for Testimony at Stringer’s Trial | A crowd that jammed the doors of own use $1,141.38 in county funds, ) Prater's court-| Comprising part .of moneys which, Attorney A. J.|onerg in the Tee defendant,| Falkner 4 |for this amount, county jail and stockade. Falkner, counsel for the jared that the check jude their opening statements Tues. which is the basis Tay morning to the jury in whose |of the state's action, was paid String- havae teats the fate of John Stringer, |? Personally by the government |former King county sheriff, charged Was entitied to this mon with grand larceny ording to Falkner, by author: The 12 jurors and | ity # contract which the then | wonted at 11:20. jeheriff had entered into with the I am going to put our cards on|government early in 1919, which al table, face up. Falkner declared, lowed the county 60 cents a day for land followed with an outline of the |fe prisoners kept, and allowed defense that he intends to establish r personally 26 cents Former Sheriff Stringer is accused | ae for each person in the county by the state of appropriating to his jail and 16 cents a duy for those in for the state, and of were sworn th ~ BUSINESS 'In Message to ‘Congress Outlines Pro-| of variable | | program for restoring the United) duties by présidential order, 1 | States to normalcy Revision of the shipping act to}! 5 Hpeeding up of plans to put/be based on recommendations | Mrs. Freda Hansen America again on a ‘sound, norma:|shortiy to be made in a special | BY MILTON BRONNER basis is America’s best contribution | message. | LONDO: Dec. 6.—A girl bride} ‘to @ world-wide restoration, the] 4 constitutional amendment to pro |™4y bring an entirely new deal in| president mid, with representatives |yibit the issuance of nontaxable se-| te ecclesiastical case which has of all the world powem here for | curitios. {caused Archdeacon John Wakefort | Ithe arms conference in the galleries! yo ctment of the allied debt fund-|Of Lncoln cathedral to loge his} of the house, ing bill | place. The president started speaking at! Encouragement of co-operative! The archdeacon went to Peterbor- 12.20, after receiving a tremendous! 4 ixet programs to ald farmers, {UKM twice on business. It was ovation. | charged he registered at a hotel with States has no intention of i eek uate beaies: | aiebe revision |, Wakeford aaa : har charges. to. “save” other nations. V1 ot the tax til) recently passed, © maintained that the only woman must save themselves, he said. [that he talked to in Peterborough ;)on the domain of of the tariff} Girl Saves Churchman | From Shame } Appears at Last Moment | to Refute Charges of Misconduct a woman other than his wife was & young one whom he saw only two oceasions when he was in [Peterborough cathedral. He ex | plained some of the paintings and jarchitecture to her as they walked jabout the church | ‘AWho was the young woman?” asked the Church of England eccle- siastical court, which tried the charges. Dr. Wakeford responded he did not know; he had talked to her just as one would to any stranger inter | ested in a splendid piece of church architecture, He had never seen her janes. | So the case boiled down to a test | of his ability to produce the young woman. He failed. The decifon went against him and higher courts jsustained the verdict Now Mrs, Freda Hansen, 19, has forward as “the girl in the She said she did not ap. | come church.” pear sooner, because her husband land herself felt sure the serious) charges against the archdeacon would fall to the ground and they did not want to become involved in jthe case ANOTHER TRIAL FOR ARBUCKLE Both Prosecution and De- fense Prepare BY M. D. TRACY FRANCISCO, Dec, 6.—“We Jare getting ready now for the sec ond trial of Roscoe Arbuckle,” Dis- triet Attorney Matthew Brady said today “We certainly expect to go to trial again,” declared Gavin McNab, chief defense counsel. “The next trial will be shorter.” Tentative date for the new hear. ing is January Arbuckle, mean |while, has 6 to Los Angeles SAN been postponed until after the man slaughter case is sintamen: the stockade: In his opening statement, Prose cuting Attorney Douglas declared that the state would prove that) [Stringer deposited the check in ques: for $1,141.88, to personal Seattle National bank, | ing statements were con cluded just before the noon recess, and Judge Wrater announced that the first witness would be called on the stand at 1:30, fwell-todo WELL OF “WEALTH” — IN DOUBT © ‘Many Diggers Abandon Efforts to Fird Riches; Charges of “Fake” Are Widely Mac Made By Hal Armst Armstrong SPOKANE, Dec. 6.—Spokane’s oil boom has i parently turned out to be another “Tenino”. {boom that blew up with a bang. The “marvelous oil spring, in the cellar of a house in the Rockwood district, has mysteriously gone dry. Drillers of two wells claim, — |however, that traces of oil are being found in the borings. have ceased operations. Js apparently over. Three of Four Prisoners Alleged to Have Signed Confessions; Dozen Cars Recovered < The most daring band of auto thieves and liquor runners in the en tire Northwest was believed broken up Tuesday, with four alleged mem- bers of the gang held in city jail, and nearly a dozen stolen automo- biles recovered, Three of the men held are said to! have signed written confessions of their operations. Those under arrest ar C. E. Joselyn, 33, who former. ly operuted a garage at 413 Sev- enth ave. S.. ‘ . Dotson, 28, a Seattle ga- Henry Smith, 25, a miner and mechanic. C. Kline, Tacoma second- hand auto dealer, Kline, according to Lieutenant of), onorphigs Bhs Ftd ye oon Facet | auto thieves and booze runners, later > ope turning t the three men, and will not adeatt - ig over the stolen cars to Kling) any connection with the case. Detectives W. FE. Worsham and J. P. Smith, who made the arrests and practically uncovered the ring, have kept the arrests secret until the evi- dence was fully secured. The first three men were arrested last week, and held in fail while Worsham and Smith investigated their alleged con- fessions. Evidence involving approx- MOTHER OF 2 KILLS HERSELF Wife of Medina Rancher Ends Own Life Relieved to have been despondent over il! health, Mrs, Martha Schoe- ‘ber, aged 40, mother of two sons, shot and killed herself at her home near Medina Monday night, according to information received by the coroner | Tuesday. Mrs, Schoeber was the wife of a rancher, According to neighbors she had been suffering from a nervous breakdown, Coroner William H, Corson has gone to Medina to investigate, | Analyses of the oil by reputable chemists, including two analyses by the United States bureau of mines, in the product of the spring to be an unnatural mixture of kerosene and some vegetable or animal oi—nothing here- 4ofore known to be made by Mother Nature. Several of the 14 oil stock companies’ that’ were organized ‘after the spring was discovered were reported today to Several geologists have gone so far as to assert that the {geological formation underlying Spokane and vicinity pre- cludes any possibility of natural oil being found here. One chemist has offered to reproduce the product of the spring in his laboratory by mixing kerosene and @ “— certain well known brand of salad oil in about equal parts, The usual number of suckers have paid the usual price for the usual gold-sealed stock certificates and the boon iDry Squad Spilled Sap 4 discovered recently is imately 200 autos, which were to have been turned over to Kline Tacoma for sale, has been found, Wickman said. One of the cars, a Chandler, stolen from E. P. McGrath, 713% Pike st. was used as a liquor runner, accord: ing to the confessions, and was kept in a garage on Capitol hill for use in transporting booze smuggled in by Kline aboard his two fast launches. Another car, a speedily racer owned by Dr. G. Alakawa, 604% Sixth ave. S., was found by police under a barn floor, covered with hay, near Mon roe, where Dotson is said to have confessed he took it, intending t@ transfer the engine to one of the booze launches. The three members of the gang, ccording to Wickman, operated as who operated a used car market im Tacoma. After Futile Raid Trouble comes in bunches for th police dry squad. Several membe! were recuperating Tuesday from th effects of an overdose of hard lu Monday. The policemen had made a raid o a house in South Seattle, wh after a diligent search, they failed’ to find anything remotely resembling the stuff Omar Khayath raved about. Returning, their automobile cols lided at Rainier aye. afid Atlantio st. with a big army bus and they were spilled all over the pavement The army bus added insult to injury by refusing to notice the accident, and rolled Sorgeels away. Logger Dies Fiaie i Injuries in Wreck ‘Thrown from a runaway logging train near Pysht, Wash., last Friday, Harold Dayton, 27, boomtender, died Tuesday in Providence hospital. Dayton's widow lives in Pysht, where he was employed by the Mer rill-Ring Lumber Co,

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