The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 29, 1922, Page 7

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1922. ~ 5 DIE; 5SHIPS = |Large Employment Gains LUMBER CUTIS | Reported in Many States ARE IN PERIL din Man _SELOW NORMAL! FREDERICK & NELSON Atlantic Storm Batters Many | pres eg m- ren qgen has wens Posing ~~ on a see Sales and S Vessels ee Mere tie ce FIFTH AVENUE — PINE STREET — SIXTH AVENUE | Unemployment has ceased to exist in a number of states, and the total Re a py een Ra diy ne Oe THE SEATTLE STAR hipments for the | | Week Exceed Production | NEW YORK, Dec. 29,—Five ships are in distress on the At- lantic coast, many others are overdue, scores are held in port ble te venture out, seaboard sheathed in ice are known of gales last clearing subsiding. mer Maizie Peabody with four men was believed to down 50 miles off Point An 8. 0. 8. was received steamer Munmotora, with | 34 men, Norfolk to Bos was partly waterlogged Charleston, & C. eamer Courtoise, somewhere #84087} fat ij til g° 3 i _ Many liners were reported behind schedule, including the Cunarder which ts bringing Am- home from Lon Scores of vessels remained behind Delaware breakwater while the gale Whipped up mountainous waves “outside” and the air was thick with | gleet and snow, ‘Three persons were killed In New England, where the gale reached & velocity of 70 miles an hour, Two were killed tn New York | + Thruout New York NEW YORK, Dec. 29.—New coal reserve dwindied to a) jening demand in chemical industry. Dec. 29.—A being or- efforts | ment rate. Food, hardware, furn! M. McKoin, for- .|curtails flour milling, but packing | after-the-war stump of 1921. workers out of jobs. Humber of jodlexe tn the country ts the smaliest at any time since the In August of that year there were 6,736,000 With transportation handicaps removed, credit difficulties smoothed and Public confidence restored, it is predicted that 1929 will enjoy a wave of Reneral prosperity Such ts the verdict of Francis I. Jones, chief of the unemployment sec tion of the United States department of labor, following his December) survey of employment conditions. “Expansion of employment during ¢ for any period this year,” says Jones. only by inadequate rail transportation in Washington and Oregon, and mining in many states he last month has been the greatest “Purther nsion waa prevented Car shortage hampered lumbering Increased produc tion is mirrored in the iron and steel industry, textiles, automobiles, mining, ell, ete,” ALABAMA — Increase In employ ment, iron and steel industries lead ing. Highway constriction absorb ing all surplus common labor. ARIZONA—Only unemployed are those voluntarily idle. Large demand for farm and highway labor and miners. ARKANSAS —- Coal mining brisk: common labor in fair demand, supply adequate. CALIFORNIA — Surplus of un- skilled laborers, Shortage in lumber activities, Strong demand for build. ing tradesmen tn larger cities. COLORADO—Nearty al) industries operating to full capacity with In creased forces, Shortage of miners and building craftsmen CONNECTICUT — All industries running full time or overtime. Short age of female factory workers and skilled metal tradesmen. Slight scar. city of common labor, DELAWARE — Increased employ. | ment tn various industries, but slack: | FLORIDA — Transients causing surplus of common labor. Lumber mille working full time. Fruit har vest and road building absorbing un skilled labor, GEORGIA — Cotton and tamber | mills largely increase employment Shortage in building trades. IDAHO — Employment in eastern sections, quiet in west. Lumber, | metal mining active. Highway con struction continues thru winter, ILLINOIS -— Employment best tn two years. Car shops and glans, furniture, mtsteal instrument fac tories increase work. Construction booming. Coal mining 50 per cent normal; steel mills increasing to 80/ per cent of capacity. Farm, common labor scarce. INDIANA—Industries busy, bulld- ing active, common labor needed, aw tomotive industry at high level of employment. Farm hands scarce. IOWA— Inadequate transportation | plants, railroad shops, tron and stee! circles increase employment. Build ing active In cities KANSAS—Farm help needed. pub- Ne work employing much cdmmon jaber, but railway shops, tire fae tortes on part time. KENTUCKY — Employment tn creased tn tobacco, leather, lumber, paper, chemical, textile and building roads employing more men. High way construction and building trades IANA — Lumbering. ship- Yards, off fleldey building trades. MAINE—Practically all industries running full time. Shortage of work- ers In textile and building trades. MARYLAND — Small employment gains by food and textile plants off get by decreased chemical and agri furniture, cordage plants running to | capacity. Building trades need men. MICHIGAN—Automotive Industry mafntaining unusually high employ. ture plants increasing operations Serious labor shortage in lumber woods and in unskilled work In cities. Transportation difficulties biggest | men In demand | SOUTH CAROLINA — Fertilizer, cotton, lumber pl increase eny ployment. Farm p in demand. SOUTH DAKOTA — Surplus in skilled and common labor. Many workers migrating to northern lum ber camps. TEXAS-—Oll, food, metal, bullding and textile industries show moderate increase of workers, Other line show decline. Common labor supply ample TENNESSE FE — Lumber, coal. leather, chemical, tobacco show good employment outlook, Car shortage hampers coal and lumber, while tron, steel and clay production declines. Highway building employs several thousand men. | UTAH —Smelters tncreasing forces, 1,000 copper miners needed, building and industries increasing in cities. VERMONT--Granite plants on part time basis, Lumber milis active and woodworkers scarce. VIRGINIA—Textile, metals, tobac- | }eo, food and leather plants show yy, gains. Coal mining shows steady | gain. | WASHINGTON -- Car shortage cripples fruit. industry and lumber. | ing, increasing unemployment of un skilled labor. Steel mills busy, build ing active. WEST VIRGINIA—Coal, tro: steel, textile plants show increases, despite cer shortage. Labor trouble reduces stone, clay and glass produc. tien. WISCONSIN — Hardwood: leather, | foundry and toolmaking plants all show increased employment. Auto mobile and truck employ t drops. Building active thru winte WYOMING—Big Teapot of} field) construction, continues, employing many in construction of oll tanks, pipe lines, refineries, ete. Coal mi operating to transportation capacity, Highway work active. FORCER DUPED SEATTLE GIRL Masqueraded as Professor to Fiancee Hew Kari Larkin, dapper ex: convict, wanted here on the charge of forging thousands of dollars’ worth of checks, posed as 8 college professer and duped her daughter into a betrothal was told Friday by Mrs, Ora Tilley, according te press dixpatches from Sacramento, Mre. Tilley’s daughter, Miss Ada -| Tilley, @ teacher tn the music de- partment at the University of Wash- ington, is now en her way back to Seattle, after a holiday visit to her mother. Miss Tilley knew nothing of her fiance's true character until she read of his disappearance In the hewspapers. According to Mra. Tilley, Larkin Jeonnection with the “higher ups* tn |i) si lon Angeles TACOMA, Dec, 29.—-According to! a report issued today mills re porting to the West Coast Lumber men's agsociation for the week end ina December 23 manufactured 69, 481,961 feet of lumber, sold 732, 614 fect, and shipped 78,010,647 feet Production for reporting mills was 19 per cent below normal Thirty-five per cent of all new |) business taken during the week was J) for future water delivery Thirty-five per cent of the week's lumber shipments moved by water. | Unfilled domestic cargo ders to. tal 130,685,6 feet Unfilled export orders, 60,916,547 feet Unfilled rail trade orders, 8,451 care. 1 In 61 weeks production has been 4.455. 650 feet; new business, 4,122, 903 feet; shipments, 4,022. 018,914 feet, | Grays Harber Chines} Back at Work Again || HOQUIAM, Dec. 29.—Practically all of the logging camps in this country are open again with the starting Thursday of the 12 of the Polson Logging Co. The National Lumber & Manufacturing Co.'s camps resumed work Wednesday and the mill will reopen the first of the week Shortage of logs and the demand for lumber have bined to give a shorter vacation year than for many years at Christ mas time. The Grays Harbor Lum: | ber mill resumed work Tuesday and others will begin cutting as soon ax logs arrive where they are without them at present, excepting the lorthwestern Lumber company which {i undergoing repairs which are expected to keep the mill down until the second week in January. SEEK LEADERS | OF DOPE RING | Prominent Hollywood Men ||) Are on List | | Los ANGELES, Cal. Dee. 29.— Evidence of a concrete nature in the narcotic rings of Hollywood and is in the hands of United States District Attorney Joe ||) Burke, it was learned today. i Burke admitted that he ts care | fully preparing cases against “the 7) men we reafly want,” and believed that he will noon have enough evi: | dence to place under arrest certain men in Hollywood and Los An-\f) geles, whose prominence. will startle the country, | Burke hae been fn conference with Ed Roberts, author of “The| Sins of Hollywood,” a volume of J) spicy stories of the movie colony, who Is under indictment for alleged misuse of the mails in distributing the book, It in understood that Roberts, for- | opossum, mole, nutri wear. of heavy crepe weav: | fabrics and linings, merly @ confidential agent for the! big movie producers, has placed be- | fore Burke many “Inside tips” con- | cerning the manner In which “dope” fa alleged to be purveyed in the film | colony, and has given names in con- | nection with his information. 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Lumber camps i | ii 388 HERE’S MORE ABOUT JOHNSON STARTS ON PAGE ONE that the economle problems of | the world are inextricably comingied today with its political problems,” @aid Johnson. “It is an utter and absolute impossibility to arrive at a | definite solution of the economic 7 of the world without solv. ie at the same time some of its po- litical ills, Let us make no mistake, therefore, about what it means, ac- to ita terms. It means that that Europe now is suffer- every problem there exist- dismal situation, every in the movement, what- tind, to rewrite Europe's if HT of the amend. not mean exactly this mean nothing at all, I ld F i af i : | tory and mifl workers. #2 not read its newspaper Bs = heard its advocates here, ova! MISSISSIPPI—Lumbering increas: ing payrolls despite car shortage. ‘Textile, fron and steel, chemical, | food and allied industries show gains. MISSOURI—Railroads, mines, met al industries, shoe factories, meat packing show increased employment. Good demand for farm help. MONTANA — Increased employ.) ment In larger mining camps with | agricultural help dergand declines with winter. Meat packing, building work good. NEVADA—Mining, lumbering In- creasing forces, Bullding, highways, railroad construction augment crews. | NEW HAMPSHIRE — Quarries adding employes but «till below nor- mal payrolls, Textile work slack ow- ing to labor trouble. Machinery tn- dustry shows improvement. Build- ing active. NEW JERSEY—Shortage of build ing mechanics, common labor, fac Iron, steel machinery, textile, leather and linoie- um plants ali on upgrade. NEW YORK — Employment tn many plants largest in two years, unemployment practically ending. Metal, textile, hosiery, clothing, chemical, rubber, paper, electrical, auto accessory industries all report increases. Labor shortages in many lines. Building continues on large Je. NORTH CAROLINA—Cotton, lum. ber mills increase forces as agricul- | ture releases workers. of nations, with procedure, with the by some preliminary nt, to this general omnibus endeavor, which has neither limita- tions nor specifications.” Whatcom Dairymen Produce $1,500,000 BELLINGHAM, Dec. 29--That the sales of the Whatcom County Dairy- men’s association for 1922 will reach over a million and @ half dollars, is estimate made for the members Manager C. C. Davis. total of 2,900,000 pounds of but- ufactured, and 1,890,000 pounds of powdered Ik. 10% months F that the NORTH DAKOTA — Surplus of skilled Inbor, female office help. OHIO—Unemployment rapidly dis. appearing. Rubber, metal, brick, farm implement plants booming. cities report labor shortage, both skilled and unskilled. Small surplus of clerical help. OKLAHOMA — Metal, off, lumber and railroad operations improved. Abundant supply of unskilled labor, with limited demand. OREGON — Lumbering normal, building, highway work slackening. Unemployment beginning to be noted in larger cente: PENNSYLVANIA — Industrial ex pansion is general rule. Steel indus. try 80 per cent of capacity. Coal, automotive, railway equipment show gains. Labor and car shortage; slow production in western part. RHODE ISLAND —— Textile near normal, Jewelry, silverware plants capacity, Metal industries 75 full per cent normal, Building crafts . | mitted.” to Seattle. yarns written with immoral intent. brought together on a steamship trip| exaggerated, and were not fiction | “Larkin said he was a Johns Hop kins graduate and posed as a college professor,” Mra. Tilley said. “ was sufficiently polished to play the role without creating suspicion. “They became engaged soon after they met, and Larkin telegraphed that he would spend Christmas with us in Sacramento—but he never ap peared. We were still wondering why he hadn't appeared when we read news accounts of the forgeries he is charged with having com- Larkin may have actually planned to go to Sacramento, as he had promised, but the trip was made im. possible when police got on hia trail on December 23. He evidently learn ed of the expose, because he left) that same day for Oakland, Ci His baggage in now being held in that city, but he has not shown up to claim it, and it is believed that he) left the train at some way point. INQUEST FOR SLAIN YOUTH Pistol Found Clutched in Dead Boy’s Hand PORTLAND, Dec. 29.—An inquest will be held today or Saturday in an effort to clear up the mysterious! death late yesterday of Chauncey! Morris, 18, of Kiamath Falls, whone | body with @ bullet wound in the right temple was found in an abandoned cabin mear the Canyon road late Thursday evening. Officers who investigated the trag- edy believed the lad had committed suicide. ) The body was found by John Klus- er, at whose home near the cabin Morris had been staying. | Kluser found the body In a sitting posture on an old couch, The back was braced against the side of the cabin and a chair placed before the couch supported the feet. A .32 cali- ber revolver was clutched in his right hand. The wound in the tem-/ ple was black with burned powder, H-— KALAMA.One mililon shingles loaded on board steamer Frank D.| Stout, to be shipped to California! points, ' It wae reported today bat Burke, |]) In his investigation, has elscovered that a namber of mansions in the wealthy districts of Lon Angeles and |) Hollywood where “retired business |f) men” were supposed to live and en- tertain many friends, are in reality the headquarters of dope peddlers, and that the many limousines and | fine cars that rolled up for short | visits each day contained unfortun- | ate victims of “dope.” | “We hope to land at least « half | dozen heads of these rings in jail in| the next few weeks,” Burke declared today. “It takes time and positive evidence to get the men we really | want, and be sure of sending them to the federal penitentiary, where they belong. But we expect to have! all the evidence we want before long.” {I} France Has Way to Get U. S. Sanction | PARIS, Dec. 29.—France today, thru semi-official channela, advanced & suggestion whereby the proposal that President Harding call a world economic conference can be given ef- fect without the American president taking any further initiative, It way pointed out that the plan of ||| Senator Borah apparently is identical || with the allies’ plan for a financial conference at Brussels next month, to which the United States has been invited. The Brussels conference, the! French say, presents an unparalleled opportunity for the United States to, make its voice heard in a world eco- nomic gathering, Nelson's carefully Grand Rapids’ leading Best brass hardware. | IN SOLID MAHOGA | $22.50 HIS very useful Table is built to Frederick & drawn specifications by table manufacturer, A Table for the hostess—beautifully finished—ma- hogany throughout, except for the felt inset in top. 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EB, Coontz Post, Vet- erans of Foreign Wars, for the com. ing year. Other o rs selected were: Peter Barth, inior vice. commander; Corp. George Mitchell, junior vice-commander; J. A. Hen dricks, quartermaster; Otto Heyder, chaplain; H. W, Schwartz, officer of the day, and L. J. Wiley, trustee. Hikers Start on A : Paradise Climb Warmly clad and equipped with snowshoes and ski pol 160 mem- bers of the Mountaineers’ club left Longmire's Inn Friday for Paradise Inn, where they will remain for four days of winter sports. ew Year's Eve the party will gather under the snow-crowned roof of the inn and watch for the signal flares which will be set off if Hans and Heine Furher, Swiss guides, 1o~ cessfully reach the summit of Mount ye LAR NERO SR climb is made the WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE | | news will be flashed to Seattle by Water will be shut off on 15th | | telephone. ave. N., betwegn John at. and | | Harrison » “4 | ber 30, from » GREEN BAY, Wis.—Odile Gilson burns to death on day she was to become bride of Frank Caesar here. Auto Accidents Less This Year There have been fewer automobile accidents this year than last, but the number of traffic fatalities has increased 60 per cent. This paradox. joal situation f# brought out in a re ‘port prepared by Lieut. C. G. Carr, [head of the police traffic division, | Fifty-two persons were killed in | yoa2 accidents, as against 85 in 1921, but the number of accidents was cut ; from 8,913 to 8,823, | CHICAGO.—B. B. Reith, 82, dies ‘here at weight of 265 pounds, When j258 pounds, Reith was president of ‘Chicago Fat Men's club. Revelle Denies Jury Tampering U. S. District Attorney T. P. Re- velle says he has counter affidavits from members of the Jury that re- cently tried Nellie Hartfew@ denying the charges made by John FF, Dore, counsel for Mrs, Hartford, that Bail- iff Ben Williams tampere@ wath the jury. Dore filed affidavits (ram two of the jurors, who asserted thet Wil- Nams had swung the jury from an 11 to 1 division in favor of acquittal to a conviction by telling one of them that Mrs. Hartford's attorneys, Dore and Mayor E. J, Brown, were mem- bers of the Knights of Columbus. Williams denies the charge, * . Prisoner Fires Padding of BELLINGHAM, Dec charge of first degree probably be filed today — Stanley “Pike” Wort! : addict and peddler of finement in a padded nothing to Worthington, alleged, set fire to the jing to the excitement to | escape, The ‘ire imperited the Ii dozen prisoners and court house building, vestigation will be made action ts taker ai