The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 26, 1922, Page 7

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26 ASTORIA SENDS DEATH CLAIMS [ NO ARGUMENT FOR HER | HER GRATITUDE FORMER EDITOR Citizens Thank Chamber for Promised Aid Erastus Brainerd Dies on Christmas Day The gratitude of Astoria Erastus Rrainerd ald promised by the Seattle ¢ editor and prom ber recens «iN hw f “ The message, wh wan sent t 4 for some ye Hra " W. 8. Gilbert man f the re wo daughte M R Wa Your er raging wire of Decem. | Miss Elizabet tf New stricken Astoria, Whate Mr. Brainerd was a graduate of PRS ARE ek RES ig. | Harvard and served after graduation In behalf of the er I wish (ton Museum of Fine Arts. He later thus better ritical situa. | *taffs of the New York Times and tion World, the Philadelphia I and A substantial number of checks | AUAnta Const mm, He was other And money were received Tuesday by | \: y= all ee Philadelphia tle chamber here. T on ews, Seattle PreneTimes, and be toria have been asked a Senator John L. Wilson ‘ € . e ' ord was offered the gover checks payable to the Cham ¢ Idaho by Fi ane ber of Commerce Astoria Relief wes " “ Fund ned He was a Wae 1 comm! ner from 189 a _ He was a moembe f the : nier, Aretio, University and ¢ Grain Exports chiles neh. .e ee adnn. te wuthor of a number of biographical sketches and works on Are Increased WASHINGTON, of agricultural! xIivets com climb during th month of ber, the department of commerce re ported here Exports of ¥ art Dec. 26.—Exports inued t Novem An Introduction to a November totaled $35.27 281 com t ivi pared with $81,686,722 last Novem health eee Oey her. For iL months the value was saving Habit. placed at $468,411,630, compared with $728,441,388 for the corresponding period Inst year. The Perfect Spread for Bread Once you try it, } always buy it. HUART’ Winding Up the Year With a REAL CLEARANCE HIS week will bring to a close one of the most successful years in the history of this store. We are trying to make this the big- gest selling week we to ever had. In order to accomplish this we have gone the limit in cutting prices for our SEMI-ANNUAL CLEAR- ANCE SALE. Every pair of shoes, high and low, in Shuart’s entire stock, except Cousins’ Modease, is offered in this sale. There is no style that you may want that will not be shown here. High heels, low heels, tongue and strap effects and street Oxfords. Every material in demand this season can be found in the various patterns. Brown, black, gray and otter suede; black and brown satin, plain and brocade ; pat- ent, black kid and brown kid leathers and a variety of combinations. One will find at Shuart’s dress slippers for every occasion—cross straps in silver, gold and colored brocade. You will find plenty of good styles priced at $985, $105, Etc. Use Your Charge Accounts and Buy Your Needs Dur- Sale. ing This Clearance Don’t Overlook Our Hosiery Department The patterns, materials and prices will interest you. Any- thing you buy will be right if it comes from Shuart’s. The Shop Ahead Second Avenue — THE | Petite Galy Dudulskoff would like to dancer. wants her to be a doctor. Se Francisco, to begin a medical ¢ | | classic become a But her father, noted physician of Chita, Siberia, » here she is arriving at San | | ourse. GERMANY IN 1923 Says Germany’s Prosperity Is Imitation || Small Business Man Vexed by Problems u'll] Claim Nation Getting Deeper in Debt Must Sell More Abroad Than She Buys BY MILTON BRONNER BERLIN, Dec. 26.—"Germany's | so-called prosperity ts no more real than « brick painted with gold is a genul fold ingot. It ls appearance without substance.” | The man who said this to me was| |no German politician, talking about | | reparations, but Herr Fetix Deutach, | jactive head of the greatest single! | business concern in Germany—the | |famous Allgemeine Klektrische Ges- |elischaft-—hugest electrical trust in |the world—and president of one of Germany's biggest banka ; “To tlustrate,” continued Herr! Deutech, “how present prices and conditions affect people } “Take a business man with small | capital who formerly bougpt a ma-| chine for his factory for 10,000) marks, He put aside a yearly amortization fund, when the machine wore out he had! enough to buy a new one. If the! xame machine costs him today 400,- 000 marks, even ff he can pay the! purchase price, he cannot put aside the amortization fund. When the machine ts worn out, he ts thru. “Or may a man has 1,400,000 gold| marks capital in his business, Ap- parently he is doing splendidly, earn- ing 100 per cent on his capital, but with the fall in the mark's value his present capital and earnings together are worth only 400,000 gold marks and really he ts 1,000,000 gold marks lower. “People say the great industrial) concerns have money abroad. This} has been greatly exaggerated. i “True, big undertakings have to} have dollar credits. Sinee the Ver- sailies treaty, with its amputation of territory from us, Germany does not produce much raw materials Bhe} thas to buy not onty copper, lead.| no ; War, but fron, zine x, ax before the coal and « great deal more of her food. wool, cotton “This excess of imports over ex-/ ports doesn't betoken prosperity. A/ nation, ike an individual, whieh! buys more than it sells, is getting deeper into debt consuming tts capital. Much industry you se in Ger many ts supplying ds ‘They are paid for in paper marke, but the raw material ix bought foreign currencies “Between Berlin and Viadivostok are 200 milion human beings whe need our manufactured goods, but can't pay for them. There are lands which can pay but have put up a wall against ue—high tariffs or anti dumping laws, Io mean England. or German 00 marks | France, the United States, Czecho.| manded that Slovakia. We still have a market | ill her and all the rest of you.” in South America and to some ex, tent In Asia. “We haven't the gold to pay the! allies and we can't pay in goods—| they lock as out “References are made to the lack of unemployment tn ermany. “Employment t+ valuable to a country only when adding to its wealth. HKemember the coal and oth- ler materials we bave to supply to the allies, So far as Germany ts con- cerned the men so employed might as well be foblenn. “Neither the German government nor business men want to depreciate the mark. If Germany sold more abroad than she buys abroad, there might be something in the claim but with imports exceeding exports, the cheaper the mark the worse for un” | TOMORROW: Threat of German) civil war. | BY ©. C. LYON WASHINGTON, Dec. 26. — The! wettest political leader in the land has not taken « drink of alcoholic liquor for 20 years. He in Senator elect Edward 1. Edwards, of New Jersey, elected on a wet platform The “dry” lobbyists in Washington are all set for Edwards when he ar rives here. They are prepared to “ruin” Edwards with his own crowd, | the wets, by showing him up as a dry |in practice making political eapital out of wet principles | This fight to “ruin” Edwards is all |apropos of Edwards’ announcement [that the first thing he intends to do lafter being «worn in as senator next March will be to “show up” such mbers of congress as are “politi Ny dry but personally wet.” This has roused Wayne B. Wheel guiding genius of the American er. Anti-Saloon league, to a white heat | “1 repeat what I said in all my |epeeches against Edwards in New | BY JAMES T. KOLBERT WASHINGTON, Deo, 26.—Conser- vationists of the “Rooseveltian days,” | under the leadership of Governor: | eisct Pinchot of Pennsylvania, rate won an important victory in their fight to conserve the forests of the | country, it was learned here today. | | An the result of recent conferences hwre, a pledge has been obtained from President Harding that in the gov-| ornmental reorganization plan now | under consideration the executive | will not approve of the transfer of the forestry bureau from Secretary | Wallace's department of agriculture | to Secretary Fall's department of the interior Conservationists have strongly posed this transfer on the grounds that under Secrmary Feli's policies regarding public lands, too much of | op lcountry would be opened up for cut ting by private interests. Timber jand in the country is pow being cut |four times as fast as it in being re |forested, the conservationists claim. ' “The president's decision not subject his reorganisation plan to the Takes Alcoholic Drink Harding Pledges Forest Conservation the diminishing timber reserve of the | the Moore to| Bdward Miller, Jack Hanley, Jersey,” sald Wheeler, “and that is} I'd rather see a member of congress | who will vote dry, even tho he is personally wet, than one ike Ed wards, who votes wet when he is personally dry “Bdwards, having abstained from liquor for many years, knows from | personal experience the blessings and the value of sobriety, yet he tries to! foint the liquor traffic on millions of other people who may not have his! power of resisting ite evil Influences, | “We're all primed for Edwards We're just waiting for him to start! his attacks on the personally wet but politically dry congressmen.” Says Edwards: “I bave the ut most contempt for the political dry | and the personally wet. I've seen judges taking a drink under the cov-| er or ginger ale, and then sitting in judgment the next morning on some, poor devil who went out for a drink. | They're golng to hear from me in| Washington on this.” Aid to determined opponition of the conser: | vationists by providing for the} transfer of the forestry bureau to the | interior department involved a ques tion that has threatened to mar the| peace of his cabinet for a year, Bec: | retary Wallace, backed by both the conservationists and leading mem. | bers of the farm bloc in congress, | was absolutely opposed to the trans: | fer Fall strongly favored it and re. ports have been current here that the interior secretary might resign as the result of the president's action Party for Actors on Moore Stage Carl Reiter, manager of the Moore theater, was hort to his actors, em ployes and their families at a ban quet and dance held on the stage of theater Monday night numbers and also enjoyed. Impromptu burlesque impersonations were Among those present were Roscoe Alls, comedian, and his jazz band; Wilfred Clark and Grace on, ) Bert Fitzgibbon and the Ei Ray sisters, SEATTLE tn . | ehot STAR POISON BOOZE FATAL TO SIX Wild Parties in Homes Cause Revelers’ Deaths * wore reported in several Instances of participants bev img drank bad liquor NEW YORK, Dee, 26.—Six persons are dead and 12 ae n to be in hospitals suffer trom “poi hooch,” fot lowing New York's “driest” Christmas One of the dead is a woman. She police tement, declaring bright light district was a » Christmas night, not a ntoxicated person being to the West Side police Most of the drinking that formerly formed a part of the revelry in cafes and cabarets was done in homes. All the dead and fll persons were found by pedestrians, police or friends in alleys, ets oF apart ment wild” parties in the latter being blamed for the toi Bootleggers Weep at Sight of Victim SHELBY Obie. Twe bootleggers sobbed as they viewed the ¢ Iph Longley, “pe or victim, at the morgue Deo. 26 rpse of I here today They confessed to making relling the moonshine whisky wh brought a to a tragic climax, least two others and Christmas killing temporarily but declared the of the murder charge been placed against them The bootlesgers are Phillip Wey ganott and Lester Biston eve revelry Longie and at bitin ding inne cence that bi HERE’S MORE ABOUT MURDER STARTS ON PAGE ONE family had arisen and gathered about their Christmas tree. The elder Engel was confronted by Neurlter as be stepped from his doorway into the back yard. “Get back into the house!” Neuriter com “Get Helen; I'm going to Engel retreated into the kitchen, where bis 17-year-old daughter, An na, sought to #tay the madman, Neu- riter shot her down without a word. A bullet entered her heart as she raised her arm to grapple with him. ‘The father and mother, two broth ore and ® sister fled from the house after they witnessed the wanton mur der Baby Lilly, 3, was shot down as she played with « new doll near the Chrostmas tree, Hans Engel, 14, had sought safety under his bed, but he was found and slain by Neuriter, who then continued his murderous bunt. Failing to find more victima, Neuriter returned to the bedroom where the boy's body lay and there and killed himself, Three re voivers and a pocket full of ammuni tion were later found on the body | Fourteen bullet holes were found in| the floor, wails and ceiling of the home. REDS PLAN A SOVIET HERE NEW YORK, Dec. 26.—Hstabtish ment of government here similar to that of Soviet Russia will be the principal plank in the program of the workers’ party, it was announced to day, following the annual conven tion. In laying out its program for 1923, the party declared its chief imme. diate task was “to inspire in the labor unions a revolutionary purpose and to unite them in a mass move ment of uncompromising struggle aguinst capitaliem.” The assemblage, which packed the hall of the Labor temple, was re peatediy told by the spea that the key to success is establishing a red labor internationale within the unions, but It would be folly to at tempt building the party itself within the unions, The party could not ex ist, however, without the support of farmers and farm labor, according to C, EB. Ruthenberg, party secretary FIFTH AVENL fo FREDERICK & NELSON Substantial Opportunities ARE PRESENTED BY The Annual Clearance of WINTER GARMENTS Involving Many Desirable Items in WOMEN’S AND MISSES’ SUITS AND COATS WOMEN’S AND MISSES’ DRESSES BROKEN LINES OF SKIRTS AND BLOUSES MILLINERY FOR STREET AND DRESS WEAR BROKEN LINES OF CHILDREN’S WEAR BROKEN LINES OF WOMEN’S FINE FOOTWEAR BROKEN LINES, BOYS’ AND YOUTHS’ CLOTHING —interesting opportunities in clearance offer- ings of Dress Goods, Cottons and Drapery Fab- rics in Remnant Lengths; Short Lengths and | Surplus Lots of Laces and Trimmings. Broken Lines of Bedding, including Bed- spreads, Comforters, Sheets and Pillow Cases (some soiled from display); Odd Items in Household Linens, including Lace-edged Deco- | rative Linens, odd Table Cloths, Napkins in half-dozen lots; Odd Towels and Short Lengths of Towelings, Table Linens and Art and Em- | broidery Linens. | PAGE 7 JE—PINE STREET—SIXTH AVENUE r Money-Saving Also: Company By A. J. Shannon << “ he eternally interesting : Miss Lulu Bett,” the first play| "Pon t the he presented by the Comnopel|teme of Cinderella, it ts sure to| Lausanne Conference |tan Players, Seattle's new = stock|>feve popular with Senttle at Work | audiences. |company, was accorded an ovation | The cast of the Cosmopolitan oe Christmas night by a distinguished jaudience that filled the Orpheum theater, ‘Third ave, and Madison jat., to overflowing. Mayor Brown made an introduc |tory speech in which he outlined the purposes of the new organtza tion, The company, he deciared, | was organized for purposes of civic betterment and not for personal aggrandizement, and he paid a | glowing tribute to the unselfish efforts of Miss Justina W: to leive Seattle a community theater of its own Miss Wayne pinyed the title role in "Miss Lulu Bett’ and her able characterization of the pathetic spinster family drudge augured well for the success of the new enterprise. The play is a comeay of village life, rich im all the elements of human interest. It wag one of the outstanding successes of recent the Fuel Distributor to Leave Office WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—With all danger of a serious fuel shortage averted, Federal Fuel Distributor Spens today announced that he would relinquish his office Friday Spens will be succeeded by F. R Wadleigh, his assistant. FETE DAY OF MIDINETTES On the feast day of St. Catherine, the girls of Paris who are 25 and unmarried are en saint. In fancy dress, the mi celebrating on the boulevards. ‘ gtealing a kiss from one of the maids,» titled to the patronage of the dinettes enter spinsterhood by . Here is a young admirer Seattle’s New Stock TURKISH PE! Gets Ovation MORE UNCER atrical history in New York. Based fe a is uniformly good. It os | LAUSANNE, Dec. cludes Raymond Northeutt, Beatrice) Lausanne conference Victor, Haidee Brassiet, Peggy Dill, | Henry A. Rosendale, Danny Wal |e er Oe eee lace, Blanche Douglas and Arthur | ™*t Pasha sent to . Allard. | date, declaring unless he ts # | “Miss Duta Bett™ wit run for| from obligations not to |the remainder of the week. on disputed points peace CLARA SKARIN :=2=% TRIAL JAN, 8 day and others will details of the peace May Call Lover to Testify Against Girl ee row, with hopes of ment before the new year, little prospect of ; n signed before mid-Jan The allies nope to clear two minor points and sign Thursday so that the no longer have excuse for at Lausanne. Agreement regarding the regions, which the British © attach to Irek and : no nearer. , Capitulation appears the serous subject, and it point that Ismet Pasha ity of the Angora cede a Httle Highly sensational testimony will back Clara Skarin, confessed mur- | deress, when she goes on trial Mon- day, charged with the murder of Fer- @inand Hochbrunn, her wealthy Ger- man patron, on October 13, according to her attorney, John F. Dore. Instructions were issued Monday | by Prosecutor Malcolm Douglas to| | Deputies T. H. Patterson and John | D. Carmody to call 50 witnesses for | |the state to show that Miss Skarin did not shoot Hochbrunn in self-de-| SAN FRANCISCO, Deo. fense. | driver blinded by glaring Raymond FE. Herron, the man for |an auto plunged off the G whom Clara Skarin shot the wealthy | way near Sloat bivd. last German, according to the tate, will turned over three times, be called to testify against the girl | ly injured its eight oo | if he can be brought here from Kala-| A. R. McDonald and Camili mazoo, Mich., it is said, may die from their injuries. CONGRESS; HOW IT OPERA Boys and Girls of Seattle: How much do you know congress? Do you know how, many members of congress are from this state; how much salary they get; how the of the house is chosen; how nominations for congress are how congressmen are elected; what congress can and © tA how often congress meets; how special sessions are called; the number of congressmen is fixed? ‘ If you want to know about these things; if you need your civics course in school on congress, The Star's Wi Bureau is prepared to help you. It has just prepared a telling al! about congress and congresamen and their duties, @ The bulletin ts free to any reader of The Star, Fill out coupon below and mail as directed Washington Bureau, Seattle Star, 1322 N. ¥. Ave., Washington, D, C. I want a copy of the bulletin CONGRESS, and aerewith two cents in stamps for postage. STREET AND NO,....cccccceeeeneneeencteeseereee | crTy | ABB. concer essecceese