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F sin | yor Says He'll Shoo ‘Em Out of ¥fice, Beginning mmediately Brown's long-deferred war “political incurables” has be- oe ©. A. Piper, superintendent will be dismissed Tues Mayor announced, Piper's was requested over @ need exclusively in The weeks ago, Carl Gase- ‘one of Brown's campaign man. “will be appointed to succeed ‘of the head engineers in the wih also be dismissed, stated of Bert A. Northrop, commissioner, was alao by the mayor, who indi. he was going to make changes im the administra personnel of the office. two of the commission: ge, it was stated, J. ¥. C. Dead being slated for the Dlock. that the city ts wasting renting office quarters, id he proposes to house all city departments in the ty building. totaling $269,000 a year will in the engineering, street, weights and measures, pur and civil service depart. ‘the mayor said. it of @ central repair also contemplated by together with a etricter tally owned automobiles, Lord Northeliffe Desert Walkout Is Called Conspiracy BY CHARLES R. LYNCH CHICAGO, Aug. 14.—Walkout Joliet & at a standstill, Joliet, Tl, on the E Eastern. Traffic w MEN FIRED ON MAY STRIKE CINCINNATI, Aug. 14.—-Loule ff WOMEN ARE Sau aetes a aie me vilie & Nashville railroad offictale eet aed penediats odin eo of an alleged order for firemen on the ork un- mn were vision of the road to quit Wells stated that the scores of |) te guards on the divi men, women and children marooned | (veda ote, = the desert Givision ‘polut were! ‘Trouble, ie said to havd arisen started toward Los Angoles yester-!wnen a guard fired on an engine bathe train manned by rattroad ‘crew at Latonia last week remen are to meet at Louisville “Prem . Giyptebey tefay deciared reousay As. gemeiibe intheanend: ot that Attorney General Daugherty disputes, dispatches say. 3% ee re a og to deter. ° m! if the action of the trainmen 100 SHAKEN UP IN RAIL WRECK "VICTIMS Was @ conspiracy. I desire the public to know it was nothing else,” Wells Geclared In a statament. hundred passengers were shaken up and many alightly injured shortly | bound New York Central passenger ‘Trains were still held up today at Seligman, Ash Fork and Wiliams, . (Ariz, and Albuquerque, N. MM Bix Four members were still out at baggage coach plunged down a 30 foot bmiankment and was de mottshed IF.M. GOODWIN IS REV, BAUER | DUE HERE TODAY STARTS ON PAGE ONE far better men than when they en-| tered. “One of the best things for a pris-| loner i« to keep him busy at some sort} F. M. Goodwin, assistant secretary of work, and that ix where our own | of the Interior, scheduled to arrive tn Prison at Walla Walla and the fed-| geattie Monday, will confer with f Miller, 1632 35th ave. had Ps @ street car near her Monday when a» bandit her from the shadows, bran- & nickel-plated pistol. He) she screamed. Police [to locate the man after a HERE’S MORE ABOUT MATE SUGGESTION . ‘ht (to man she has Ped with and floored)—Oh, you don't know what to call you. ifully}—Call me an am- Transcript. Alaska Basin Project fail diemally.” One of the great primal sources o' crime, the Rev. Baver maintains, tv 4 the inherent desire of mankind to get |SP° 0» reel something for nothing. i oP ceed “The way to cure the petty check | ber members in artist,” he said, “is to stop with a Tentative plans call for a confer. ae Ag sponsored gg tae 20, ence with the board of trustees of the funda not belonging to them, it ia{columbia Basin Irrigation league eo iit while here “You have heard the trite say. |departments of the chamber will en Sng, ‘seal © hates aad you oo 7, |tertain Goodwin and make plans for the pen; steal « railroad and go [re to the legisiature.’ This has the | | | ot Alaska and Rainier National park, reclamato matters. Friday k before the cham the Masonic club Free From 9 to 11 > a” ‘ WG Aaname “tan” $5.00 earmarks of » joke, but don't try to push it too far around our state prisons. Meal specialist in charge of our “To cure more than one-half of Department. the present-day crime, society must preach and practice no gambling, no more high finance, no more getting something for nothing.” Lack of respect for the law is held by Rev. Bauer as another weakness of society that makes for crime. “We glibly say, ‘Law is supreme, he said, “and then we wink the other eye. Game laws, traffic laws, sanitary laws, red light laws, booze laws—all are infringed, cracked, broken, mutilated, evaded, sidestep ped, stretched and mocked with curse If law in our democracy ts king, then there are too many bol. sheviki in their respect for his royal Radiographs — the only reliable Of knowing the exact condi- M @ your teeth. One X-ray free. Our treatment of pyorrhea is con- the best; $2 per tooth. In One Location for 21 Years STON DENTAL CLINIC 142014 Second Avenue (ON RIOT MURDER No Verdict in | Trades Death Case CHICAGO, Aug. 14.—After more than 80 hours’ deliberation, the jury fin the building trades myrder trial |was discharged today without reach ling an agreement No indication of* how the jury stood was given to the court. Fred Mader, Dan J, McCarthy and John Miller, the three defendants, | will probably be tried again this fall. COMIC OPERA FESTIVAL : M ETROPOLITA HERE’S MORE ABOUT STRIKES STARTS ON PAGE ONE 16 raliroad unions and the ad- ministration of the Intest Hard Ing peace propos Meantime rep road labor are pt case of the striking shopmen before congress. Warren 8, Stone, “Dig Four" brotherhoods, the strikers have entrusted atrike, anid today that the rail labor leaders might take this actio tomorrow, when the house recon venes after a month's recess dust what will be asked of con- Kress was not revealed, but it is belleved the brotherhoods will place Information before con gressional committees tending to show that motive power bs de- terlorating to a dangerous condi tion and demand the strict en. forcement of safety laws. The brotherhoods also probably will use this means of placing before the country the views of railway labor and thus seek public sup- port, The railway leaders went into con- ference again today, From this conference may rewult @ deci s to whether all ratiroad labor shall take up the apparent chal. lenge of the railroad executives for & fight to the finish or continue con- leader of the to wham their ad BUFFALO, N. ¥., Aug. 14.—-One/ after noon today when a Lockport | train was derailed at Tonawanda. A | Will Discuss Development of | eral penitentiary at MeNeil isla0d | Crember of Commerce officials this | | Week on plans for the development | JURY DISAGREES: Building | THEATER highness. ‘The canes against “Big Tim" Mur eee ae eet crunch | Dhy and “Con” Shea, prominent Chi Sun., Aug. 20 |/creen Lake Congregational church | -ago labor leaders, were previously | Branden Brothe and ia president of the Washington | ainmissed, Reynolds Otter i THE AMERICAN “Hi «LIGHT OPERA 4 COMPANY FIFTY SINGING VOICES AUGMENTED ORCHESTRA | GILBERT AND SULLIVAN'S j waa | in of the World's Most Popular Comic Operas “Robin Hood” AEX We Howard society, formerly the Pris oners’ Ald society. Anthracite Meeting Planned Wednesday CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 14—~ Anthracite coal operators and repre. | laentatives of the United Mine Work-| drive you to tea and make you such lers will meet in Philadelphia Wed-|tea-siaves as the Australians are. nesday in an effort to end the mine strike in the anthracite fields. John L. Lewis, miner chief, today accepted an invitation from 8. D. Warriner, chairman of the policies committes of the anthracite operat ors, to attend the conference. Bandits Throw Out Bait for Motorists VANCOUVER, Wash. Aug. 14.— A new scheme for holding up mo- torista ts believed to have been de tected here Monday. Mrs. ¥, 8. Mo Alpine, riding with her husband, was attracted by a wrapped auto tire lying in the road. She left the car 10 approach the tire, where- upon it was drawn to the roadside by « wire and two men buret from the bushes near by. When «he woreamed and her husband dashed from the car the men escaped. Tho trial grew out of the slaying of two policemen during the Building trades’ “reign of terror” here. HOME BREW | Lord Lea of Fareham said ata |New York reception: “Let us hope that prohibition won't | “The last time I was in Australia T | stopped at a cabin and an old woman “ me a cup of tea as black as ink | “*How long,’ I asked, ‘have you jhad that pot of tea on the fire, ma’am? "How long have I had it on the fire?’ chuckled the old woman, ‘Why, bleas your soul, I don’t never take it off the fire. I put ina handful of tea and then, when it gets weak, I put in janother handful, and when the pot | gets full of leaves I take a double | handful of leaves out for my old man to smoke,’ '—Los Angeles Times. Havoc Wrought by * Denver Windstorm DENVER, Aug. 14.—Hundreds of trees were damaged, several emall outbuildings were demolished and one woman was slightly injured in a severe windstorm yesterday. ciliatory movements. The brotherhoods may suggest that congress create an impartial tribunal to settle the seniority question and other matters in- volved in the strike, because of their feeling that the railroad labor board, by a decision short- ly after the strike began in which it virtually outlawed the strikers, showed prejudice on the seniority problem. *- STRIKE. WORSE IN CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 14— California's isolation as a fe sult of the sirtke of railway employes was a step nearer to being complete today. Developments of the last 12 hours inciuded renewed bomb explosions on railroad property; the renewal of the embargo of the Southern here said today they knew nothing | nine on perishable freight ship- ments to the East, and increased Louisville, Cincinnat! & Lexington | yay to mail and passenger traina. Five bombs were reported to have been thrown over the stockade surrounding the Rose ville shops of the Southern Pa- cific shortly after midnight. No one was burt and practically Two suspecta were placed under arrest. Renewal of the Southern Pa cifle embargo, probably the most serious development of the day, to move trains there during the night. The embargo applies to all ship. | ments for points north of Rose [ville or designed to pass thru Ox |den, Utah. Thie meant. complete jmeverance of freight service be. ltween points in California |potnts in Oregon, Washington and the Pacific Northwest One route trains, it being the route running thro Davia, Cal, It also shut off the main artery eastward thru Ogden for a vast Proportion of Caltfernia’s freight and passenger traffic. from Southern Cali- fornia showed little change in the situation there today. One Santa Fe train, carrying 125 passengers who have been stranded ed at Needles, on the desert, j for three days, arrived during j the early morning, manned by an emergency crew and fairly bristling with armed guards. The trip had been uneventful The Western Pacific announced } this morning that ite line wan oper ating from Salt Lake City, Utah, Gerlach, Nev., Gerlach to San Francineco. A conference of company repre sentatives and employes was to open j at Stockton, Cal, at 10:30 a, m. and j there were indications that a confer. Jence might be held&in Oakland, Cal., during the day, in efforts to nettle the difficulties The Union Pacific claimed to be running trains as usual over part of its lines, altho ite Salt Lake route, terminating at Lon Angeles, wan re ported cut by the strike at Las Vegas, Nev Mail continued only to trickle in from Eastern points. Train No. 9, on the Southern Pacific, which carries the bulk of Cali fornia mall from the E: not run for three days shipments were similarly layed. The situation faced by frult growers was easily the most serious in their history. Pack- | Ing houses in added numbers re fused to accept fruit. Apple growers of Northern California felt the pinch this morning when it was announced fancy apples, which depend for profits on reaching the Eastern markets early in the season, would have to go in ‘old storage. The strike at Roseville, Cal., tied up shipments from the main North ern California plant of the Pacific Fruit Express. Cars en route East are iced at Roseville PORTLAND HIT BY EMBARGO PORTLAND, Aug. 14—The first pinch of the strike of trainmen on four transcontinental ratiroads in California was felt here today when the Southern Pacific declared an em. lbargo on live stock and perishable freight shipments southbound MR. MELLON WAS FLUSTERED We have in office now one of the great business men of the country. Mr. Andrew W. Melion, secretary of the treasury, who in posed somewhat uneasily upon what in, many say, the highest pile of wealth anyone has ever heaped up, except Mr. John D. feller, I say “somewhat un y" because IT have in mind Mr. Melion emerging from a congres sional hearing at the capitol, flue tered and uncomfortable, turning to a subordinate and asking anxiously, “Well, did T make a good impres sion?” What could a subordinate re ply except, “Yes, Mr. Mellon, you id very well?''-—"Behind the Mir rors.” : 0 and, North remained open for passenger | and was closed from | THE SEATTLE STAR STRIKE VICTIMS | | LEAVE DESERT Taken to Los Angeles After Being Marooned 3 Days LOS ANGELES, Aug, 14— Fog hid the sun and a cool breeze fanned Los Angeles to day as the out of pity for the 125 passengers of Santa Fe train No, 1, who were brought out of the scorching desert after being stalled for three days and | nights at Needles by the strike of brotherhood men, Several were near prostration, and all told of the heat, which hung clone to 120 degrees, At times they raid it reached 190. 4, M. Morris, 57, who had left here in Hl health, was taken from the train on a stretcher, Mrs. Malissa Wooden, 95, was removed from the station In « wheel chair. Several mothers on the train related pathetic stories of being unable to get milk for their ba- from the heat, at Imponsible to sl maid one passenger |"The sun beating on them turned them Into regular bake ovens, and | most of the passengers removed | their bedding and t in the open }—in the park or wherever they could find places. “The railroad company id ev- erything posible for us, and final ly got us out, for which we are grateful Bome of the strikers, tho deat to our entreaties to move the trains, offered to care for us in their homes.” The train was manned by J. A Pullar, mastersmechanto, and Georgs Anderson, ratiway foreman at San Bernardino, as engineers. Tt was reported that trains No. 9 and 3 woulé also be moved from the desert today Ralph R. Knapp Seeking Berth in Legislature Will Stand on Record of Past Years in. That Body Standing upon hin past record, Ralph R. Knapp, former state repre- sentative from the 43d district, began & campaign Monday for the republic. an nomination fo the office Knapp, who served two terms, in 1916 and 1920, ha» been a resident of the 434 district for 32 years, He ts & graduate of the Coliege of Liberal Arts, a well-known attorney and war veteran, While in the state tegisiature, Knapp was one of the fow who voted Against the poll tax, was active in fa- Yor of the anti-alien land bill, voted againet tuition fees for university students, and was the only member of the house from King county to vote agninat the certificate of neces- sity, now a referendum measure He favors stringent narcotica laws. [Proper treatment for addicts and penitentiary sentences for dope trat tickers. He promizes clean, con- structive legislation Knapp ts married and has one son. IRISH REBELS. RENEW BATTLE Take Advantage of Death of Griffith DUBLIN, Aug. 14.—Irish In surgents, taking advantage of conditions caused by the death of Arthar Griffith, Free State lead- er, renewed their warfare against the government today. In ® surprise coup the rebels recaptured Dundalk, in county Louth, nerth of Dublin. Free State troops were reported fo have put up a stubborn resist. State troops drove the rebels from Fermoy, in county | Cork. The body of Griffith, greatest of |Irinh statesmen, lay in state in the lity hall here today | ‘Thousands filed past the bler of |the founder of the Sinn Fein party land the genius who directed the re |cent warfare on Great Britain which resulted tn the establishment of the Irish Frea State Michael Collins, provisional head of the Free State government, left his troops in the field to take over the duties of Griffith Griffith, who died Saturday of a heart attack, will be buried Wednes- day, Mensagen of sympathy have been received by Free State leaders from all over the world He called himself Prince Louis Henri de Chaterour de Bussigny de Bourbon when New York cops ar- rested him on a minor complaint, He threatened to sue them for $100,000 for false arrest, Now he's missing and folks at New Britain, Conn., are laughing at the city cops. They sav he'a Harold Schwarm, £1, @ former Jactory hand, a a aE HERE’S MORE ABOUT NORTHCLIFFE STARTS ON PAGE ONE ried to Switzerland, where he hoped His condition grew to recuperate worse and he was hastily brought to London. He was immediately confined to hin home and it was announced that he was suffering from a complication of dimanses brought on by poisoning, He was forced to give up active control of his great publishing toxic busines: Physicians and attendants during the last few weeks have had a diffi. cult time to keep the publisher in bed. Time and again he insisted that he be allowed to get up and go to Fleet st, to direct his publications, At times he was delirious. Lord Northeliffe will be given a public fyneral Thursday noon with services at Westminster Abbey. The famed publicist will be buried at Saint Marylebone cemetery, fol jlowing the service Westminster. \ . . Alfred Charles Harmaworth, later Lord Northeliffe, was born at Cha- Pelizod, Dublin county, Ireland, July 16, 1 His ther, a barrister, wanted the future publisher to follow that profession also, but Harmeworth early showed a decided tendency to- ward journaliam, and entered the writing profession in London when | Harmsworth founded "on the theory that a pa- per cheaply produced could be made within financial reach of the manses, As this was « depatture from estab- Mehed journalinm, fatlure was em- phatically predicted for the young publisher. But a few years later, he sold Answers for $6,000,000. he bought the London Daily ured into the then untried field of “tabloid journal: | iam,” the telling of news briefly and! concisely. In three years the Daily Mail attained the largest circulation of any newspaper in the English] language. Harmeworth rapidly obtained con- trol of other newspapers and mage zines (including the London Times) until he became the largest newspa- per and magezine owner in the world and one of the richest and most po erful men in the British empire. He wan created baronet tn 1904 and raised to the Baron Northeliffe in 1905, made viscount in 1917, Northcliffe headed the British war mission to the United States in 1917 and was director of propaganda in enemy countries in 1918. It is generally conceded that North- eliffe's attack on the conduct of the war was responsible for those changes which resulted in the eleva tion of Lioyd George to the premier. ship. Later, however, Northcliffe and Lioyd George became embroiled lin a violent disagreement. Lord Northcliffe married Mary Elizabeth Milner in 1688. as He was FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET Hear Mrs. Blackburn, Tuesday HE second free lecture, introductory to the Four Weeks’ Course in Dressmak- ing and Tailoring, will be given by Mrs. Juditha Blackburn Tomorrow at 2:45 P. M. Auditorium, 5th Floor HE Blackburn Course in Dressmaking and Tailor- ing includes the practical study and work of garment- making from the first simple stitch to the final trimming. VEN if you have never made a garment before, you may, during this course, begin and finish—a party gown, a street dress, a tail- August ored suit, a sports coat or a skirt or blouse. 16th Enroll At the Pattern Section, Now First Floor. Complete $3.00 The Course Begins Wednesday FREDERICK & NELSON ’ YIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET Women’s Black Kid House Slippers ‘ To Sell Tuesday OaG. $1.45 = UST 180 pairs of these Black Kid House Slippers, in the style pictured, low-heel, round-toe and one- strap effect. Sizes 3 to 8, priced at $1.45 pair. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE Picked Up in the Crowd at Vets’ Session One of the strongest candi- dates for commanderin-chie! of the Veterans of Foreign Wars is 4. F. Kiernan, of New York, state commander, whose friends are boosting him for the top hon- ors. Already the veterans are framing thelr resolutions for national legisia- tion on the subjects of bonus and other questions, This is considered one of the most important features of the convention. eee With the Illinois delegation ts Max Drosdowitz, past national chief musician, who served in the navy during the Spanish-Ameri- can festivity, and was bugler on the U. 8. 8. Oregon after her fa mous trip around the world. Scores of beautiful floats are being prepared for the big parade Satur day. . Among the several vets who walked to Seattle to attend the con-| vention is Joseph Berg, who hiked from San Francisco. o- Headquarters for United Spanish War Veterans bas been opened on the fifth floor of the Seward hotel, .. Ninety-eight wounded veterans of the world war who have been tak- ing vocational training in Seattle, will be graduated from the wate making, engraving and jeweiry manufacturing class this fall. Many of the veterans whose wounds unfit them for any other work are making good in these unusual) lnes of endeavor, . . A lot of fun ts promised by members of the “Military Order of the Cootie,” the side order of the Foreign Vets, “A cootle is closer than a brother and busier than a bee” is the slogan of this organiza- tion. eee Hotelkeepers announce that their rates will not be boosted during the time the veterans are in town. Which helps considerably to the men who have traveled across the continent to wet here. eee Among the distinguished dele- gates to the convention is Col, Carlos A, Pennington, formerly of Seattle, now ‘as t direct. or of the United States veterans’ b in charge of war risk insurance, Appreciation of Senttle's efforts to welcome the vets is expressed by Ralph Horr, member of the encamp: | ment committee. Candidates Invited | to Address Meeting FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET ~ How Are You Going to Make the New Frock? GEPTEMBER Delineator will help you to decide! And Butterick Needle-Art will suggest trimming designs that can be, made to express your preference in color-combina- tions. Whether it is to be a Dress for Sister, ~ Rompers for tle Baby, Lingerie for the young Miss who is going away to school, j or something for Mother or Dad—helpful / ideas will be found in Butterick Autumn Quarterly. 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Fourth Floor “INDICATIVE “{ think my husband would have ‘Mine lies convincingly, too.” APROPOS Governor of State—How dare you speak to me? Convict—I beg your pardon, yay