The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 7, 1924, Page 14

POWER MEASURE MEET CALLED Non-Partisan Conference for Bone Bill Friday B. Seb an, May Brown, 2 Hugh T ers will represent the and President William M Labo: vie, € keth and measure Erickson printed in on the doo Bone head mphiet form teps of voters. quarters Wedne yb sued an appeal for more volunteer Workers and for additional funds J. D, Rosas, in charge of the cam paign to obtain signatures in Seat Ye, said that over-confidence is biggest foe of tho initiative. A port on all petitions will be c on May 30 CLOSE RAINIER PARK ROADS Two Routes Tied Up by| Washouts, Official Says Roads Inside Rainier National connecting with the new Carbon river efitrance and the Naches entrance on White river are clo: to traffic, temporarily, Washouts have made the routes impassable Superintendent ©. A. Tomlinson an-| nounced Wednesday that he hoped| fo have the roads open again by/ June 15. This does not mean that the Car. ben river road, outside the park, wil!/ be graded. This road is being kept| in impassable shape by Pierce coun ty. It affords a Seattle gateway fato the park, cutting 75 miles from the present route, yin Tacoma. Last Sanday a’ doten cars got ‘thru on this road, but the going is hard for about a mile. Tomlinson said that ft {x possible the Paradise road from Longmire! ‘Will be opened about June 15 or 20, Aah oe STRIKE SERIOUS Rhineland Miners Hold Out in Working Hour War BERLIN, May 7.—A critical situa. tion exists thruout the Ruhr and Rhineland valley, where 400,000 mi- yers are locked out as a result of a dispute over working hours. Communist miners called a general Strike for this forenoon, while the more conservative ‘‘old miners’ Jeaguc’’ voted against accepting re. cent arbitration awards, Separatists are taking advantage Of the situation and agitating thru- Out the Rhineland. Their leader, Dr. Matthes, is reported active. _ The Ruhr miners refused to recog: nize the award of arbitrators which | justified an increase in working hours. The owners announced that only miners agreeing to work eight hours underground would be ac- cepted. Declaration of a lockout followed, Vancouver Federal Official Is Dead TACOMA, May 7.—Qvercome by a fainting spell at the annual banquet and dance of the United States jn. ternal revenue department employes at the Ingleside Gardens, Tuesd: vening, Gilman C. Mudgett, deputy collector of customs at couver, Wash., died of heart disease! while being brought to St. Joseph's| hospital at 11:45 p. m. Surviving the deceased are his widow and two dz aughters. Mudgett had been deputy collector since June 28, 1920, and had charge of a zono| that Included seven southwestern Held for Passing Worthless Checks W. H. Fredman, alleged to have passed bad checks on 15 different Seattle merchants, was arrested Inte Wednesday morning at. First ave, and Seneca st. by Detectives H. M. Barton and C. L. Toms. He was being held pending further investiga- tion, According to the detectives, Fred. man victimized soft drink places, so that it caught he could claim he had bought liquor there. Detectives also say that Fredman was once returned from Chicago to Seattle for iasuing bad checks. g——___________________» | WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE ATER will be shut off on lth ave. N,, from E. Mer- cer st, to E. Prospect, and on B. Roy st., from Malden ave. to Mth ave. N,, Thursday, from 8 a, m. to 5 p, m, Water also will be shut on 2ist ave, 8, W. Cloverdale st. to W. Barton st., an on Trenton st., from 2tst 8. W. to 2th ave, 8. W., and on W. Henderson st., from | aint ave. 8. W. to 24th ave, 8. Ww. Thursday, from 8 a. m, to Sp. m. oft from W. Plans! Plans! We have the largest assortment of Plans in the city. We draw Plans to order for $10.00 per room. Over 500 of our homes in Seattle speak for themselves. 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A Very Attractive Home Interesting effects in lat ticed trellises and dainty pergola flank the attractive entrance, providing support for climbi The exterior wall is covered siding, which with the trin Screened lattice in the tips the attic space and keep summe The plan is goo does for a central hall into in the house opens, on the furnishings of one re regular traffic over one spo well laid out and very neat, stairway opens on a grade closet space is provided for ng vines and roses. with four-inch lap- 1 is painted white. of gables ventilate the house cool in d, providing as it which every room thus saving wear and tear om, caused by the ot. The kitchen is and the basement entrance. Ample each bedroom, and numerous windows gtve plenty of light and air to all the sleeping rooms. living room is a delightful | brick and white woodwork. panel molds complete the fi dining rooms. The mantel in the vit of design in red Ceiling cove and inish’ of living and This plan was submitted by Edward L. Merritt, 660 Empire Bldg., Seattle, FEAR BUILDING BERLIN WORKERS | WILL CEASE Slow-Up Tendencies Fore- seen by National Survey A slowing up of building activities) thruout the nation 1s likely, accord- investigations now being! $. W. Straus, president] & Co., and made pub- Even such a slow- ing to uction not necessarily lower building the n- ing up in’ co however, would mean { ently costs ‘and cheaper cler declared. “The shortage which has existed in housing conditions for the last five years in being made up in many towns and cities,” Straus de-| clared, “In these places it 1s to be expected that from now on building operations will continue along nor-| mal lines. In somo cities, the short- age in certain types of construction| has been overcome, and building activities. thus will now be directed) from these types to the ones in} which deficits still remain, “Thruout the nation as a large shortages still remain, good judgment is exercised and a note of proper conservatism is al-| lowed to prevail, building activities! will still continue in large volume} rents, whole, and if as a sustaining element to the gen-|* a Kaye tt wore Pp eral prosperity of the country. “Thus it will be ween that build. | ing operations have been proceeding on a basis considerably above nor- mal requirements, due to a great extent to the shortage created dur- ing the war. Other factors have, of course, had their effects on these relative comparisons, such as popu- lation migrations, and economy of. space Jn the planning of bullding “In view of all these facts it the part of good business judgment} to analyze most carefully each fu-! ture building project, “In my opinion the substantial in-| torests of the Industry will realize the wisdom of this viewpoint and will take such steps as shall con- serve our building necessities and keep the industry progressing along | normal and sound lines, | “With regard to building costs,| there will always be fluctuations, due to temporary or local condi- tions, and price levels may sag to some extent, But it must be re- membered that these costs are vitally. affected by labor, transporta-| tion, taxation and various other} economle factora In which tmme-| diate marked reductions are improb-| able. advancing standards of} living by the American people also| exerts a powerful tendency toward| higher costs, a condition which will] not change because {t is a funda.| mental of tuman nature,” | The collection in the Mbrary of Congress is the largest in the western hemisphere and third in the world, i operations, ORGANIZED | New Body Will Oppose Fa- cism and Monarchism BE pecially and Fs clo 8, seeing m m sweeping onv ening to destroy the in fant German republic, a movement to cot he Hitler. new organization bears the *“Reichshanner Gold” (republi ban: its flag against the Cross, Swastika Cross, Death's Head} and other emblems of Hitler's and Geisler's anti-Semites, antt-republl-| cans and anti-almost-everything mon archiam and militarism ‘The Reichsbanner organization had | its first appearance in Berlin on the ay that tho Hitler-Geisler Facistl |turned the funeral of Willy Dreyer, Ruhr saboteur, into a nationalistic | demonstration Tho republican ministers pated in this marched reverently with bared heads before the flags of the ultra-reaction arles, the republican black-red-gold had no place in the partici celebrati | ceremony. The Reischbanner organization} sought to give it place in the proces on, after the Facisti, breaking their ir banners unfurled in the public streets. The appearnace of the little group {of Reischbanner men, with the re- publican colors, was the signal for an outburst of fury on the part of terlandish’’ ¢ anizations, |the upshot of which was the tearing of one republican banner The socialist organ, ‘‘Vorwaerts,” discussing the new organization The appearance of the banner Schwarz Rot-Gold beginning of a counter action which, in the future will try to kill the works of the so-called ‘vaterlandist’ Reichs- was the have founded! flag of the} “If the Ri ruled the half-m: jand Jarres, furls tho national colors, then the republicans will undertake to unfurl them. “With the assistance of the social democratic working classes they will it that the planned, but un essful, Hitler march against n will not be carried out within the borders of the metropolis itself by the Swastika Cross leagues.” CLEVEDAND, Ohlo, May 7.— ‘What man loves to snuggle up to z stly neck of ze shingle-halred girl?"'is Mile, Jeanne d’ Armande’s reason for maintaining that a girl snips away half her charm when sho {bobs her ha | Mlle. d* Armande, a ‘‘petite’* Paris- }ian, of world’’, dem- is Parisian chic and nment, is on a tour jons trating wha jhow to attain it, | She believes American | have no individuality In dress. look nice, but zay all look ze Boyish suits! 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