The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 1, 1923, Page 1

FORECAST “WEATHER longer Snake. 8 because rly all of re not in national the city: sco, and the Die the says aint “President emergence bracing ness of S the expected morning paper. CANDIDATE place is quitoes.” sal overpowering heat encountered in Se attle and Southern his inte cook » Francisco, result SUGGESTED CIGARET SLOGAN FOR SHEIKS served with toothpicks. had brought —Dispateh in Up toNavy toEx A A [Home | Brew President’s Alaska 1 Trip Bungled; Responsibility Should Be Ascertained should be turned to handled his Alaska triy tertainment, ment and people. with Many . th Patered as Se . 4 Clase Matt May 2, SE plain, affair in no creditable light. bungling of the expedition ought to be ascer he accompar convenienc civilians (EDITORIAL) Now that President Harding is on the mend, attention the manner in which the na The navy has come out of t The responsibility for ned a fi r made public, She a on In the first place there was the collision be- F 1 oft tween the transport on which the president was riding and a degtroyer, surely an unnec- ang essary accident. Also, it now develops, the same boa : He nderson is the “gray mystery ship,” which, on x Saturday, bumped into a merchant barkentine in ty will be the straits, severely damaged the vessel, then «» steamed on without offering aid a Gee There was the feeding of spoiled food to the " se President and his party, ‘which directly & brought on Mr. Harding’s illness Harding awoke “dia There was the failure to bring the president ipcolag reive sei and strengthened. to Seattle on time and the consequent: dis- Jointing of a great city’s elaborate program of en- ing disappoint- thousands of understand why, z of tens of cannot even after the collision had occurred, the president scheduled program. Blaine Says Cuts Must Be Made Everywhere “I'd walk a mile for a Violet Milo as be 7 ene oe payable July Of this amour r yable in ETIQUET NOTE Raspberries should always be could not have been hurried on to this city aboard nother speedy destroyer in plenty of time for the It is up to the navy to explain. > WARNS AGAINST! DAMAGED SHIP. ~ HIGHER BUDGET . re me HARDING FOR Rammed Barkentine vy he its nd m: hu it wa 1. Th Th - 1 cent h n ent ed Bert 1 be} H member of At the Postoffiog at Seattle, Wash ATT , WASH, Pre | Gen, ident Harding as his illness. Note the lines in WEDN BDAY, under the Act of © the president's where the president is confined. HARDING RECOVERING! !; CONSERVATION Officials Marvel at His New Alaskan Attitude BY FRANK J. TAYLOR i » of off A ort ke of in Wha ppened pr sim cant e nh brupt 1 to wanted to G w 4 The a tak as CALLS FOR See TRE es SENT OUT aes t i Ho ca! for elp it ie L s : beats by the Haney and tu ‘ Ter a ° ngne of coun land and Aato mi 1 ore 1 ae at ee erday we are| tim ind S¢ n Iture Wa t faced ta 1 I hope q t hampion. Wallace op. the cc « i me f these ‘! 1 Alaska r rir » the| of regulatior . ti r den led to take a 6 af hh c a to Alaska APE 1 an of $100,000 In| marir h He en h “i-that he +079 he street departmer vould settle the Al 4 question for FOR THE POISON udget over cut $124, c I is last pul utterance IVY CLUB ) from the figu ted t (turn to Page 9, Column 1) Summer resort proprietor who D. Barkhuff, supe t 1 A 7 “One nice thing about this tre nd sewe oes we never have auty mos Missing Producer Say T mone Officers aiter rips Wi TOY toss ae eabou of He pitty prom n f ne inent theatrical producer, who ys eat od production here, "baffled police Firat mrs toda. Duffy rmerly was engaged say im- Watchers Laugh “and Inspect the V iands— in the; thea teal? business: in EatB, ria Soe Bell Boys Have 54 Buttons jurg and other Bastern cities ee 1 a Ay hundreds of ts to “Dust of| bu > RANCISCO, Aug, 1--The {matter how faint, as to the con-| Brin,” Duffy's latest show, which) o bs , of a walter falling with a ition oe. presibent Hardin ay to have opened last night, wie pied ray of food designed for a prest A waiter could pil 19 | belr Veaprihadt nay Tina b le; intere : i . ecret | dozer dinner nd hardly drawn a bn a fon y a nahodaly Powe : m r » lit more than a cor ut now all i, anged. There i trip to ly Hil if ; k th floor of the |t ume interest in the prog id fe it t buttons on alt yresident is making in his f tt od out A event coms ove rn iy I 1 1 at h in the re his 1 Ww fell and seat OBS TELLER here T dent Harding | tered silverwar tal clear gla BALTIMORE, Md, Aug. L—Theee ape t lacked dignity, -F the marble in the corridor, those who | toler of the state branch of the Bal-} pified ¢ changed utmot iw him were deeply amused. ltimore Trust company, in the heart i from 2% hours before There wax much speculation as to] of the ¢ busiest center today of i) day sonve 60 people~news: | whether the séeret service man sta | $19,000, Ww than 40 minutes before od tat Hy thruout the night, in- | stories above the street in fhe cool | the bh andity wero ft nod away mn ALS, §, |! terested only in any whisper, no! {furn to Page 9, Column 1) | loaving more than $50, 000 behinds pgress March 4, 1 face. At lower left is Victor Reter, ass SUGAR LORDS ON THE RUN; SLASH PRICES WHEN DEMAND STOPS 8 oni I gene SAN WRARCIEGO 1 Sugar pric droppe la The California « Hawalian and we tern refineries, F Pt See OFFER PLAN TON Harding warfts to fly d bedsith ready t from Offic had only als her to express t ould 1 plane and pilot ¥ iis disposal MARION be Ohio, Aug getting believe 1! eoms t ale now; I This the t. Harding, f \forn 1 “I'm afr |hard trip for a man o! Jnoti¢e those trar Kelly Mack y when they they could stand mor ies president's father idy made FRANCISCO, N President Harding ts being fed the softest soft botled ¢ \ possible to turn out, according to |] Ruth Powderly, his nurse Miss |] Powderly said she merely dro 1 the into the water lon enough t it through, but |] not long enough to get hot and con gulate | More years of than 250 peo! still ‘Hertfordshire, bi Bue iW) iene Oni ilot at an instant fathe Di to San Fr my 1 i ment the Vv m tha A\ ple at to be machin notice Hard FOR HARDING Aug ne nd 1 prett an SOFTEST BOILED EGG || POSSIBLE TURNED OUT FOR HARDING’S MEALS wR. 1 over work continental. flyers didn't feel very trip ¢ nl, nil id in The seattle Star “GAS” DOWN 2 CENTS! THE PRESIDENT AFTER ILLNESS HAD CLAIMED HIM he appeared upon arriving in San Francisco and just before being ordered to bed by Bri Sawyer (upper left) who has charge of the president's corps | I Per Year, by Mall, 32.50 TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE SEATTLE. _ )DROP CAUSED BY INCREASE | {PRODUCTION | Retail Price -Here i Is 19CentsaGal- 7% lon; Further Cut Expected A slash of two cents a gallon in the price of gasoline became effective in Seattle Wednesday morning, lowing receipt of telegrams from the main offices of the four big oil companies do- ing business here, bringing the retail price down to 19 cents a gallon. The cut Js attributed to the heavy over production of the last month and posible that the price of gaso- line p still further despite |the suspension of production in the |mid continent oil fields of Kansas and Oklahoma, according to officials of the Union Oil Co. There is at present a surplus of 30,060 gallons of gasoline which has |been accumulating at the rate of L= 060,000 gallons daily for the lass his is due to the increased in the Los Angeles field, € the output of de of! is 860,< An elemnt of uncertainty as to fue nvolved in. t spen= one month, be- mid continent bout half that Los Angeles field The refusal of the Los An ucers to close down as prices for some time a | turning out half the oil produce this country. With the enormous’ surplus, the consumer may be con lent of continued low or lower prices |for some time, officials say. Production in the Texas fields haw been limited by the closing down of ome wells, but there is still @ sub- field, which produces of the . of physicians and specialists attending him during stant manager at the Palace hotel, ass’ ntial output Crude oil has not dropped in price but the big off companies have gue |the retail price of gasoline in antici- pation of a drop in the raw product, © officials of the compans andard, 1 NEW RATE AIDS. BUT GAINS ARE APPLE GROWER MADE SLOWLY! Predict Big Increase in He Cannot Be Moved for at |™ Vinegar Production Least Ten Days . Private Action to Check Oil Output nion, Shell and As= n have all an- onding decrease im sida 00’ WiaWabton “apple tee BY L. ¢. MARTIN | fight PALACE HOTEL, San Fran Fees a a pt glee i a Qe » Slow progress was | niacontinent ficld will take “ine . report esident Harding's | dividual action” to curtail produc. physicians in their official bul on, according to an understanding 4 nerm lay. The bulletin, timed jreached at a conference here of r 4 e ‘ z officials of leading companies, 4 Welter east ; Tee ves hadngn ed to warning by federal offic bagi lapels a, m., follows: cials that prosecution under the bh Ewin be tained president is fa comfort-|restraint of trade laws might fole to. the year, it is esti: | s morning after a few hours |low any concerted move to. close Pe His breathing is I down, no formal action was taken | ah eh pevinent cot Mie rpauc and there is but Lttle ¢ toward holding down the productions tion from $1 to 75 cents on vinegar ion J about the same Ae freight” rat® was received. by the ventureay acts willl shack Bx : . ° Mamufacturora’ dtsociati6a: of this (oe ne ee ateine he nara | Gasoline: Prices am tate. ‘The association hax been aid: | huoyancy o al amoynts| Portland Are Down | path aiean Era nea cap elt NY eatiefuetore | PORTLAND, Ore. Aug, 1—Gue Pr tion of vinegar had pructi-| elimination temperature.is 99.4|0f 2 cents per gallon in’ gasoline uily ceased in, the state under the | decrees: pulse, 14: respiration, 90.{%as announced here today, by allay It’ made the price too} While progre Frade, every |the big oil companies. q progr : ; o compete With artifleial prod: | care Snehey wureitresdon he cut affected the entire Gre nad only Joeal sales were fed | rom further complications {gon territory, it was said. The te 9 ’ Ax a result igned) duction makes the local price 21 | sine ¢: cull’ and :wiod cio ees ah Oe 2 cents, including the 3-cent state tax. fall applies from the farm had no RAY LYMAN WILBUR, MND. | nits market C. M. COOPER, M. D | arate of t ith a Ee WILSON WIRES mit a sale of the profit yD Eetn | ably, it ts ¢ The freight 5 : ; DOCTORS WATCH FOR PRES HARDING Contrceatel tata aeaes {228-) COMPLICATIONS | ° slactape tthe Feel Zee : r the unofficial statements | President Woodrow ~ Wilson today! held. up the reduction,’ but the fight Parttcwlar ihe unofficial statements | TAGE Ooty President Hardibg was taken up again and finally won. jo the P s doctor D incisco, sympathizing with ©. C. Soots, secretary of the Yakiy{ night and early this morning, to the | th. executive in hi : ma Chamber of Commerce, in a wire |effect that progress from now on| \tr, Wilson expre the Hee to Seattle, sid that the production {would probably be very slow, but|that the president speedily will te of cider vinegar will Immediately | i eady, and that the main task of |cover. The ex-president himself was Jump to 4,000,000 gallons in the Yaki | he doctors would be to prevent | stricken ill, while on a speaking tour} pecially dor jany complications arising of the country in behalf of the league ¢ official announcement showed | of nations, and has not recovered. vachpecatle ss practical normal,| ‘The message from Mr. Wilson 1s 9 MORE CHARGES fiir tir” accetcratea, but “gridu: | understood to have been sent dleasad iy getting back towards normal |by telegraph to President Handing/™ AGAINST G OOK) and considerable improvement in| at the Palace hotel at San 1 ranclagy 4 LOS ANGELES, Aug. 1.—Dr at ee bs mfr ee, sos te | The ae tnd tut hes | Standard. Oil Gives coverer the North po nd al. ss “ aa . seee i Slofemiane. ine taderal ot fst and) displayed a fairly | ° Start in Price Cut 7 fraud suit in Texas, also faced fed-| 8000 appetite. The morning SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1.—Gas+ tral. prosecution here. today, foftow:| Newspapers Were rend! to Tim | (1106 was reduced two: cents ania ing a federal grand jury indict. ‘Ar. ations were, the doc. [100 by the Standard: Oil compe ment charging him and 30 other de tors”, ekiaa ot nealler ath lof California tod fender {uf using the mails Ina! hec10 tae fontes <ielii The cut is effective in all terry |scheme to detvaud. ben the president can be {tory served by. the company, 4 Officials of the Revere Ol Co. ieee | The new price in San Franelseo — moved with. safety i , With which Cook was prominently Gattis |is 17 cents. ie assdclated, account for 28 of the 31 | Other companies, it was believed, 7 named in the indictments, The oth will follow with similar reductions 7 ogni folanaetg ie 8 Ras NOW Two Children Suffer | PALACE Ho" FRAN: | Injuries in Falls © cisco, A ) and rest are} A baby and a boy, were seriously | Ball Players Will Pray for President, MEMPHIS, Aug, 1--By r falls, Tuesday after= 7 18-months oll tele, 1121 Grand slowly but steadily restoring Presi- | injured in mn dent Harding. At an carly hour this | ne Harold Friele, morning, the word whispered | HB. I of Mrs from a cone! was ‘om his sick foom that he had slept | ave. ote Dulkhead: ordar or Ft John D. Martin | suietiy, breathing more easily than |at his home receiving head injuries of the: Southern lew se at any time since his condition be | Ho was taken to the dish NM games in the league will be stopped | camo rerious and that from all indi- | pital - for: five minutes at the end of the | cations he was continuing to build | ank Pisoni, Weller st third inning today for silent prayvr | up, by means of his enforced rest, the |fro ma fruit tree and was internal for the recovery of President Hard: ' vital force needed to counteract and jly hurt. He was taken to the eity ing (Turn to Page 9 Column 2 hospital