The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 29, 1923, Page 14

“BRING SUIT FOR THIRTY MILLION ‘Start Action on War Claim _ for Coal Requisitioned PHILADELPHIA, Noy, 29,-—-Ap “proximately $30,000,000 is at stake in “& Suit against tho government which | began in the United States district hero yesterday, plaintiff in the suit ts Archi: “bald MoNeil & Sons Co, New Yor! nous coal operators. grows out of the requisitioning ‘the government of practically the “entire avilable supply of bituminous “coal during the strike of 1919.20, F The question upon which the con- Aingent lability of the government Hinges is whether the coal was re ied by President Wilson for “the common defense,” directed by the di.) “reetor general of the railroads fron the control of the operators purely | for railroad purpose: MeNeil & Sons Co. | $248,307, contending the government! ‘should pay the price its foreten cus-| tomers would have paid for the coal. ‘Attorneys for the government said that the caso would undoubtedly co the United States supreme court and that if the final decision was “Sgainst the government it would be bliged to pay bituminous coal opera- fOrs approximateiy $30,003,000. PLAN TACOMA INSTALLATION Gyro Club to Get Official Start in Sister City - The weekly meeting of the Seattle Gyro club will be held on Friday, November 20, instead of Thursday, “at the L. C. Smith Building res Final arrangements will be) : for the big Tacoma tfnstalla- “tion, the new Tacoma ¢ having completed ‘and the charter having been granted by the international assoc ‘The formal installation of the new ‘lub, which will take place at Taco- Ma on Saturday evening, will be un- “Wer the auspices of the Seattle chap- fer. The installation will ducted by G. Rowe Holland, interna: e president, of Vancouve B. C, and Jesse M. Warren, gover: Ror of the Pacific and president of the Seattle ‘club, ‘who will head the Seattle delegation, cherries, st berries in glass fo goods were all from a New York State cannery T went in and asked this Seattle grocer, in tho name of the great Maltese cat and hor seven sacred little kit tena, “Why—why—why, do you buy and feature Eastern canned fruit when all around you js a better product produced right at home?" back up the home article ant! fall for the Northwest product, business, but a good thing for the railroads and steamship tines hauling things back and forth just to tickle people's whims!” ruit”, cent; giving a ve organization for the 10 mont with the 10 in entire yea |the 10 months of t | 89 jand $1,81 forthwest district | or 19: HERE’S HOW WE ADD TO THE “HIGH” IN THE HIGH COST OF LIVING Tn a grocer’é window the other day I saw a wonderful display of wherries and rasp rs, Bute-the “Folks are ast I suppose th Aditorial in “Western F: BUILDING HAS 00D RECORD Nation’s Permits Nearly Twe Billion in Ten Months The yolume of building permits issued In the United States for the first 10 months of 1923 not only ex- ceed the first 10 months of 1922 by 28 per cent, but surpass the entire by about 5 per months of 19: otivitien. bu direct from ng the largest volume of p of 19) 391,912, 10 n AD CLUB HOLDS | OPEN MEETING Discuss Pacific Coast Ad- vertising Problems New York Stock Ma GRAIN PRICES SUFFER SLUMP evening Up pro EXPO OPEN ON THANKSGIVING |Modern Homes Show Pro- vides Special Program New York Stock Market Seattle Advertising club will give the first of a series of public figs on questions of advertising night, when the subjec Organized Advertising has done for the Py entertainment Allie Chalmers {and evening at the Mod | Exposition, which will b jusual hours from 1 to 11 p, m,, fa large attendance ts expected, as the | | exposition offers an appropriate place jto visit on Thanksgiving day, celebrated Wed largest attendance has been registe Denials of ri was worked fr and advicen fre m here for Denmark the seaboard that the forclan buyers are considerably out of line caused heavy Hauidation Tho meetings are being initiated at | uest of Don Franclaco of Lon | | peoullar,” said be, “Some of ‘ent seem to think th: goods from a distance are bett than nearby stuff. In order sult everybody T have to carry both kinds, This Now York brand isn't any better, of cou they fan for it here, and Coast Advertising Clubs’ association, The Friday meeting will commence with a dinner in the Masonte club rooms in the Arcade building at 6:15 Amide Jo wi ard of Trade Wednesday's Quotations . i Chicago Bo on “General € in the afternoon and J 1.02% $1.08 1 J, Ierard will give a talk on t Advertising Has Done for | acific Conant"; C. C, Rosewater ecture program ‘Thursday Na) o'clock and one Fixtures and It's fool Aner, Hmelters com, Appliances" Merchant”; Daniel B, Tree! from ; fethen, chairman of the tourist com-} ladded by withdrawal from of the Chamber of Commerce, | | Four cargo v npeak on “What Advertiaing | from the Europe Has Dono for the orthweat | | the East co and Chester Roberts, presi: | |from the dent of the Imperial Candy Co., will} | npeak on “Advertising Problems ot | Friday will be West Seattle Day, ; ‘ial invitation to all rest | Ar Liverpool Wednesday's Quotations SEATTLE MARKETS VEGETABLES ld Wholesale Dealers the Manufacturer.” 'Commission Knocks “Mills” |= n<t decrea A $1 charge will be made for the} Gan (oan tacbonede td dinner, and the general public ts tn-| Out of “Hosiery Mills” iret ae 9 to attend, ag the diac ‘unsions | aro planned to be of benefit to the} general business man as well as to the advertising specialist. made public the fact that complaints Chicago Car Lots to producers | B. nal exceptions, PUBLISH Heechnut pke Cash Wheat Brussels Sprout» University Gives Results Of | 1ecea San Francisco Produce Wednesday's Quetations Butte Cop. & zine ¥ concrete example | Cay of the enormous momentum which | Cueum! has been attained in the nation’s present building ‘These interesting figu nounced yestergay by 8, W. Straus & Co, based on reports mado m partments thruout the country. A selected list of the Recent Research [snr oY “The Chemical Utilization Washington” fs th latest bulletin of the enginee were AN | Onlons—Ca\ Portland Produce Wednesday's Quotations of Washington. Ita authors are Dr, | kin Benson, professo 6 (h@Se dor; 5 cities show engineering; Dr. T. G rmits compare and the show a total for year of $1 compared with $1,488 nths of 1922 Foreign Exchange Sweet Potatoes: Benson aa early Prices Paid Wholesale Deal 2 eelen consisting of Harold L. Cunliffe, vice | president; H. F. Weeks, district sec- retary; Ozro F. @nd 90 members from tho local chap- Canadian visitors will Include Fred} . H. Sovereign, Brown and Rev. president and vice president respec. || ‘tively, of the Vancouver Gyro club; ) Clarence Lougheed, president, Cal-| gary, and 75 Gyros from Edmonton, || Second Low Tide © Calgary, New Westminster, Victoria || and Vancouver. | The Tacoma officials who will pre-| |) Bide over the destinies of the new} ) club are Carl Stewart Davis, vice president, and J./ HZ. Stevens, secretary. tion will follow a dinner at the Tw ‘coma hetel at which the visitors will Phe guests of the Tacoma club. © Maxwell Mo : President Resigns | WEW YORK, Nov. 29.—At a meet- dng of the directors of the Maxwell | * Motor Car company yesterday the| Tesignation of W. dent was accepted, accor Feports in Wall Street. First Low Tide 9:30 a. Weather Bureau TATOOSH 1 The tnstalla- Arrivals and Arrived—Nov. 29—Str Lewis tor Co. Bering ‘rancisco, at 1 | Shanghal via Vance | Dorothy Luckenbach Francisco, Los Ange! Financial Flashes From James Macfarlane & 811 Second Ave. vin pets, at 4:15 p,m; Forty leading bonds changed; 20 industrial stocks aver-| | BBe 92.61, a decrease of .27 Stocks average $1.43, a decrease of | @ Adami: jell Btreet Terminal—t American bu; Jand is s0 acti has advanced to record prices, Forward sales of 1,500 tons are reported and America is still buy- President of Endicott Johnson said ail company's factories and tanneries | @re running full time with exceptions, and about 80 per cent. Great Northern October operat- ing income $5,294,338, p2,721,327 in 192: Surplus freight cars in good repair of tin in Eng- that the metal Alexander. Union Pacific Pacific Coast Coal Bunkers Shipping Board Moorings—Str Anna cific Coast Engineering Works . Unalga. Connecticut Street Terminal—v. 8. 8. | Discoverer, str Pioneer, str Yoneyama “39,164 over November 7 age 3,901, a decrease of 2,198 for the Hog receipts at Chicago in the last two days set a new rec Average prices $ within 5 cents of recent low and practically lowest operating income $15,513,954 in 19: Copper metal sentiment dis- ir Ouotations range from 13% to 1 vidend on comme output in Mexico dur- ing October Stromberg in nine mor to $10.80 per sh of acceptance corporat Pan-American pletion and federal taxes, hares common re if TRADE TERMS SUBSIDIARY € another comy Ship News Tides in Seattle THURSDAY FRIDAY NOV. 29 SOY, 20 2.9 ft. | 10:18 a. AND, meter fi’ two mi aie Le rts, 8 n Everett Phyllis fr at 6 a. rm. iat for V oma, at 6 a Vessels in P t Northern Terminal——str To 11B—Str Owego, 7—U, & 8. Boxer. 8, #. Ds Morse, str West Himrod. inal—Atr Ostet. Dry Docks—Power schr Moonie, mmond Lighterage Co—BSchr ar Want Acs centin ause they bring RESULA CouLp You DUPLICATE iT IF Lost g That valuable document that means so much to you will be as safe human agency can make it in our Modern Electric Safe De- posit Department. Inexpen- sive. Efficient. Inquire today. on the 2 F searruk Gat -- ° BANK -SECOND AT COLUMBIA: N. Y. Sugar and Coffee exter factory duete || Grape Prait First Low Tide am, 08 4 a. m, 1.3 ft Tide | First High Tide co-operation w Kecond Low Tide || Huckleberries to the extract! Liberty Bonds Furnished by Loran & IM 810 Becond Ave, Report Prices Paid Wholesale Dealers Departures of We ices to Keatll Dealers fessor Wilson’ ofessor Wilwon' # the value of hogged f used for the product! neary PRODUCTS to Keatil Dealers Predicts Record Record breaking tourist traffic to Pacific Northwest was given reason for the visit to Se-/ attle of W. G. Brown, Foreign Securities Wednesday's Quotations Furnished by Logan & Bryan B10 Second Ave, ort at Seattle Smith Core Terminal—Pier 41 on, str Hokkal Maru, Brown said yeste Unalen. Prices Pald Shippers ndo, Alameda. Seattle staff. chison Sy 83 in 1 RY AND MEATS id Wholesale Dealers U. &. 8. Burveye BANK CLEARINGS Ruby, motorship k & Warehouse Co. Sound Bridge & Dredging Co.— Btr Patterson, Belgian Hares ime Maru. Hides an "0. 1. Seattle green or salted ording to. size All-Grain Chop bem IONAL UNITED STATES HAS GAIN OF A BILLION DOLLARS IN SAVINGS NEW YORK, Nov, 29—More tha uw billion dollars were added by Americans to their total sav- ings in banking institutions of all kinds during the year ending June 40, 1923, the annual report of the Savings Bank Division, American Bankers’ ansoctation, shows, “Savings deposita in sayings banks, state banks, national banks and trust companies on June 30, 1923, are officially re- ported to the extent of $18,873,- 100," says the division's re- yort made publle here toda The increase during the year was $1,041,683,000 or 6 per cent of the total on June 40, 1922 This huge total of savings de- posts amounts to 52 per cent of all bank deposits {n the United States ax compared with 47 per cent In 1922. | in Foreign Trade The sury | |the Amertean cific Coast’ will be July 1, 1922, president of the Pacific neln In the overseas fo} jand a per cent | fleet shows while } Dealing first with the ‘he Problem of the| on passenger vessels v erneas wery Pacific r¥ and one to the Orient se of three 00 gross ton: | Tanker services. shc in the serv five vessels of | withdra’ directed to the federal trade commis-| roy | crea The retail trade bureau yesterday “asad in services and ty ing and conducting Jocal houne-to-| FORLEGN SERVICES wing bustness, These HOW GAINS the p | Thi representing (women’s silk stockings | nn shione us being as a matter of ure of the cheap et, the stock ing In commenting on this action, it | vessel withdrawn, of the | diction of the federal trade commis-| changes f ing ex-| sion has been definitely established |ber of ve mined over concerns of this | present}, A recent decision wa: employed. en) ded | consists of five passenger { chemical | down by the fed commis. | 26,980 g Thompson | ion which eclted one of these com-| of Jocal business in thi yn of federal statute xtation of the University | and panies, doir for 9 grom 1s and 1,6 Wilse tons, mistry and mechanical en. © profers. respectively 4 company whose name included} ‘The total privately-owned publication is a resume of the | the word “Mills” was prohibited from | shows a increase, ove work done at the univer. | Using the term “mills. fber and tonnage so owned at Jul wood products, The commissio 1 that Jof 25 vessels, due principally of which w company had not “owned or transfer from government to priv ated any factory or mills steps were taken to | hoslery was manufactured tis. | the hoslery sold by th rship, Duri firs pur. ific mtudy of wood dis a means to reduce the} Chased in wholesale quantities from|todian to private operation, land clearing, Since that | ‘he manufactur and that th sels were sold by the shipping board, Investigation has turned | of the word “mil as calc | new construction added four, and six othe bed Or “chikcical mislead and di the pur were added thru change of registry. ic by inducing numerous per- | 1 upon the | vesse espondents | scrapping and sal ery and) Pwo FAMOUS at prices | VESSELS SCRAPPED at which and quality Nef that ‘acturers of h were selling their produc substantially hosiery of like &: would s in th usual course of below those gencler, f tannin | dertaken by | "4 company was ntinue this type of | The federal tr ates that vic ver unde the Philadelph ship of our p: Amer commission this order without compliance with its terms would be vi dealt nurvey of 1 finished. est prom. but other in-| with pulp and . nawdust explo ash fh the complaints being forwarded for the protection of local purchas pared with July 1. Twen been mad riod, but the 2 ors and agents, t as to the effective enforcement of this order at this distance from Washington will be openc entire question om weed 1 the for poul © included. Wa: they bri: Ads continue to g: RESULTS Of t tribution to fe ith sOV deals with y 5 railre tober to 1,8¢ te 5 ships of 2 the gas en ne pastal trades and 11 arby foreign trades. Tourist Traffic trade routes. AND HEAVY 0) His wife had a cold, 1 pass- nt at Chicago of the Bal- Ameri Safe Deposit Boxes For Rent $3.00 Per Year Ww.D. Perkins &Co. 211 Cherry St. {fic broke all re a still greate next seas f she inqu! esx of the B, & O. in ho stated, las | dditions to tho com- sermon’ He sa “AN of it don Express. m October net oper me $5, Peopl The Star KNOW re nits The Builders of Industry Now Offer limited shares in nder the Durant Plan Incorporated Under the Laws of the State of Michigan Motor Company Over 350,000 partners under The Durant Plan own and operate successfully the Durant Motors, Inc., the Star Motors, Inc., the Hayes-Hunt Corporation, the Liberty National Bank in New York. Now we offer the Flint Motor Company of Flint, Michigan, already producing hundreds of six-cylinder cars from their brand new factory completed in August. Under The Durant Plan you share, terms $2.00 per share can purchase no less than 5 nor initial payment and $2.00 per more than 50 shares at $15 per share per month. For all informa The Durant Corporation, The Durant tion about the Flint Gentlemen: Please supply me, M Corporation without any obligation, all details on the Flint Motor Company. (r1 Motor Company — ‘ Name ' Clip and Mail This Coupon ttle, Wash. Portland Offte Northwen Rida. WA tn ‘SHIPPING BOARD "REPORTS GAINS |Fewer Private Vessels Are y of the employment of merchant marine for |the quarter ending October 1, 1923, by the buerau of research of the t nited States shipping board shows, in comparison with the conditions at a slight reduction |number of the privately-owned vem. | reane in the | number of privately-owned vessels in lay-up. The active shipping board 1 Increase of four ven. he laid-up tonnage is re- Iduced nix steamers by nutes, jowned fleet, it is found that five and one was is were withdraw: in services, one from of South America, one , two were added |to the West coast of South America ved a net de- grons tons, five i occurring from the Bu- | sion had been forwarded against con-| Far Kast, while two tankers were cerns carrying on national adyertis-|adde? to the Orient service, house can t D USES complaints were directed foreign services (West tice of some of these companies in| Indies, Caribbean and Canada) show t increase of eight vessels and when it is al-}60,861 gross tons, the incre | chiefly due to tankers in the Mexican nd ordinary | oi] trade. One passenger vessel was |added to this service and o: Wooa | Was sald this morning that the juris-| In the intercostal trade no actual © occurred in the aged in this ‘omy tons; 145 cargo vessels 094 gross tons, and 100 tank. 3 gross tons. this period nin 0 vessels were transferred from rol of the alien pro ions have been made of elght abandonment, to foreign flag. | Included in the vessels deleted |from the documented list and so! m Western woods. The first ex-| a for scrapping are two jand erstwhile famous carrie | Minnesota, the largest cargo vessel the American flag, and time er fleet, and an e auxiliary in both the Spanish can and world wars. The inactive private shipping ag- gross four additions have to lay-up during the pe- dditions to the fle offset this and retain practically thi same number of vessels in service as for the previous quarter. nent fleet, { both shipping board and the Pana A vessels, there were, s in operation out of a total of vessels aggregating 6,465,351 ns. Six vessels were in the inter- were in the The remain- der of the active ships were engaged in maintaining our overseas foreign s, TOO! and could no’ go to church, But she insisted that he should go in her place. ed on his return, what was the burden of the vi down with a weary my dear,” he s who advertise Want Ads in 2008 L. C. Smith EL iot-4565