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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-01-31
Man, so, and Girl,
Is, Are Divorced

SPOKANE. Jan. all. r. Ocon-
nor. 60. and Mrs. o'Connor. 10. APP
pearcd In superior court here. Zach
demanded divorce.
oConnor charged his giri wife with
neglect of the children.
Mrs. O'connor came back with
charges 81 failure 90 support
The lady won the decree
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-01-31
Guarding Against
New Shipping Trust

WASHINGTON. Jan. 3t.--Precau-
tons have been taken by the ship.
ping board TO prevent establishment
of n shipping trust. Chairman Payne,
of the board. announced today.
AZ the same time Payne declared
that the board would not accept the
offer of the International Mercantile
marine TO buy the 30 ex-German pas.
sengcr ships which are offered for
sale
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-01-31
Battleships Fire
at Target Rang

LOS ANGELES. Cal. jan "a
The battieships Mississipp' ..rrs.
Texas today went onto ne = ,srn
range off san Pedro for NV ..-slsr
In the spring target prao'Ns ~ H.
day. firing SO rounds from ~.
inch guns. Officers OF 'ne ..slis
while not able TO give ou'
seemed highly satisfied
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-01-31
Audience Enjoys
Symphony Concert

Aarcella Craft. soiolst at the
seventh symphony orchestra concert.
was accorded an ovation. and the
superb program offered by Con.
duc,or John SparFur's band ~ must
clans was heartily srplhudrd BY a
large audience OF music lovers who
crowded Meany hail 90 r uacity Fri.
dag night
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-01-31
Prefers Death to
Cancer Operation

CHICAGO. Jan. ai.--Mrs. Mar.
garet Kempf committed suicide 20
avoid death by cancer. or an opera
ton. her husband said today.
The husband. surgeon. Faid an
operation would have saved the
woman's life. She preferred death
to an operation. SHE told him.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-01-31

MONTESANO, Wash, Jan. 3i.---
Omitted Press) Arguments of de.
murrer introduced by Attorney
Ralph S. Pierce. representing 10 al.
legged syndicalists on trial here. de.
layed proceedings before Superior
Judge Ben Shocks today.
1t was indicated actual hearing Of
the Gaze would be postponed until
Monday.
Special Prosecutor ]. Sullivan is
conducting the case owing TO the
illness OF Prosecutor j. II. Stewart,
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-01-31
5000, 900 Fire Loss
Hits Oklahoma CITY

OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla. Jan.
3i.-Fire which swept thru the base
ment and lower floors OF the Gus
Paul building on First ST., early this
morning. caused an estimated loss
of 5000, 900.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-01-31
Rail Officials on
Inspection lou

Anticipating the early re'um ,,n
the railroads 20 private owne s,s,ap
President c. II. Gray, OF inc n
Pacific system. and party s y, AM
Seattle on a ''get acauain'os ,ocsl
saturday. They inspected .. S
properties and held CONFESS s,sn,
with local officials. No futu's
were announced.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-01-31
Sees Masked Men
Report to Cops

a. Sonnet, bO0l 37th ave. S. w,
saw three masked men leave the
Kilbourn &C Clark electric plant at
whatcom ave. and Spokane ST.. late
Friday night. The police investigat
cd and found nothing had been
stolen.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-01-31

OLD INFaNrRyME> OF tho Firs,
who fought the battle
nr santa Ana. win celebrate the sist
anniversary with a banquet at the
Hotel Washington. Nehruary Z.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-01-31
ALLEGED B0LsuEyIKI. Va

Shpario and Mike Nestervitch were
lodged In the immigration detention
station Saturday. pending investiga.
ton.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-01-31

the women of England must remain
unmarried because OF the tremendous
loss Of young men thru war and In.
fluenza,
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-01-31

ing with the aid OF electric lights
lowered into the sea have been fall.
ures. the illumination apparently
frightening the fish away.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-01-31
City TEST ENGINEER WIN 1

CIty TEST ENUINFEE VIM 7.
Iioff~dltz and Mrs. liildrcd prokor
were to wed saturday night. at the
W. l.. Hunter home. $500 First ave,
n ".
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-01-31

Sealskin Is naturally OF n light
drab color. but It Is dyed for the
market
The Washington times., 1920-11-03

Carbolic Acid, pure,
pint 30c
Dobell's Solution, pit. Use
Liquid Soda Mint, pit. .15c
Fluid Extract Cascara,
Aromatic, 3-oz. .25c
Fluid Extract Cascara,
Bitter, 3-oz. use
Lions CASTLE Soap, l.
Id. Coz. bar. -. .20c
Liquid Sodium Phos-
phate, pit .65c
o-oz. .35c
Liquid Glass, quart. .35c
Peroxide of Hydrogen,
pint lSc
Phosphate of Soda. Ice
The Washington times., 1920-11-03
Peoples Prices on
Pure Drugs

P. & w. Bicarbonate
of Soda, Id. pkg. lie.
Alum, powdered, ID. .l5c
BoIic Acid, powdered,
10. .ZSc
BoIax, 2o-Mule-Team,
10. .l5c
Alcohol, medicated. for
bathing, pit. .$1.00
Castor Oil, pint. =. .45c
Glycerine, pint. -. $50
Compound Licorice
Powder, Id. .65c
Cream Tartar, Id. .79c
Camphorated Oil, 2
w. .Zoc
Brown Mixture, 3-oz. .23c
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-27
7=777 777-7-777--. - LUKE M'LUkE SAYS

When you are calling on a girl. it doesn't take you long to get proof that she can't sing. She'll go ahead and demonstrate the fact.
 The world is growing better. It has been long time since we saw an able-bodied man carrying cane. Even with prohibition in effect a
 man can't have a good time unless he spends lot of money. But it is diff ferent with woman.
 After a man has been engaged to a girl for four or five years he Is as hem pecked as if he was married. It would help some if men were as liberal about other things as they are about giving the devil his due. The fact that it .doesn't make her look any younger doesn't keep a sixty year-old woman from wearing hal designed for sixteen-year-old girl. Give woman $50 and she'll invest 1 it in a beaded bag and go home broke and happy.
 David was right when he announced i that all men are liars. Every time a 75-to-1 shot goes over at a race track every man you meet tells you that he
 came to the track to play it. but got l touted off
 Before a woman sits for the artist
 who is going to paint Nher portrait N takes her almost as long to paint her l'face as it does the artist. A lot of women worry more over th4 fear of getting fat than they do over
 the fear of the next world. 1 The man who smokes stogies doesnl save much money. It takes about ;
 cents worth of matches to keep ont
 stogy going.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-27
A TALE OF TWO CITIES

each other as they are in smaller cities. They live in different parts of the town from the places where these crimes are committed; they are home loving, thrift people who keep alive the institutions of Birmingham and who never know of the activities of the violent element of their population until they read or them in the newspapers.
 But what the Montgomery man finds to interest him in this situation in Bir- mingham is the disposition of certain propagandists and agitators to slander the city of Montgomery from the lofty heights of Birmingham morality. Now, the average Birmingham man does not do this; the Birmingham newspapers do not do it. But for the past fifteen years, whenever some political agitator starts out from Birmingham to arouse Montgomery, primarily because he knows Montgomery is lost to him. He knows that we have a sane and healthy public sentiment in Montgomery which cannot be overturned by selfish propa- gandists.
 If the candidate or the political man ager realizes that Montgomery and its immediate section is going against him, he, proceeds to talk of Montgomery as city backward both morally and po- litically. They dare to say this Vf a city which is one of the most orderly in the country, city in which there are but few crimes of violence, city in which life, and property are absolutely safe city of established social com ditions and of high order of intelli- gence in it's citizenship.
 The Montgomery man occasionally finds himself astonished to learn that false and vicious charges against the good name of Montgomery are taken seriously in some country districts. where the agitator has been at work. unscrupulous politician talks about Mont omery again, that his hearers will compare the stable, safe and or ganized moral conditions in Montgom- cry with those of Birmingham. por- trayed in the reports of officers of the law We are moved to allude to the public statements of the Birmingham law officers. not with any purpose of light criticism or to complicate Bir- mingham's own efforts to remedy con- ditions, but to suggest that the next time mingham politicians say that moral conditions in Montgomery are bad, that they be asked to be specific and that they. express an opinion on conditions in Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-27
< * * Time to Tell Truth About the South

~ REPRESENTATIVE WILLIAM c JM WRIGHT of Georgia on his re. turn to the nations capital vigorously denied the imputation that the south was suffering economically.
 "The south has produced one of the largest food crops in it's history, , he said. Banking deposits are as great as before the break of the cot ton market. There is a spirit of CO., operation among our farmers and merchants and we will find way out of the present difficulty"
 That is the message to carry to the rest of the country. It is the right one, because it is true. The south is not dependent upon cotton and not all of that has been sacrificed. Ginning reports up to October IS
 
 show that Alabama, for instance, has ginned 281,000 bales of crop of 74O,OOO. Not all of this has been placed on the market. The scheme of cooperation has taken hold and has already borne fruit in creating more optimistic feeling.
 The south made no more complaint about cotton than the west has about wheat, which has not suffered as much in comparison in the price decline movement. It has rallied with as- tonishing rapidity, considering the se- verity of the blow at it's greatest farm asset.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-27

M7 Ew YORK. October 26.-(speclal'
 NWl When Francis A. Rugs but iateiy q NJ sY'' worker in France for two iont, years. allowed himself an interval of wandering in the French and Spanisn Basque countries on his release ne iouno that they were more closely related 10 his homeland than he knew.
 ..Cne day." he relates in picturesque article in the November Century Masa- zine. s.I spoke to young man or tni's' whose dress proclaimed that ne canie from the Outside world. In response 10 comment of mine in French. ne ahs"e'e' in English Ten years or more ago ne ,aft homa for our western states to act . $. shenherd. Finaily he succeeded Tn ac- outring flock of his own. ana now "ier his sav,ngs of 5o,oco francs had returned to the land of his youth
 .In his own neighborhood nearly every ha,a had a representative in California
 It seems that there is what almost amounts to regular system. The writer savs he found that: "The young men go away at the age of seventeen, and re- turp some dozen years or so later with a ro.n fortable little fortune acquired in sbee D raising. Whenever one returns, an ,ther leaves for America in. his place. The nouveau riche pays off the family debts and sets up a well-furnished home of his own, with many of the comforts of modem times.
 Montana knows the skillful basque shepherd, as we'll as California. and so do Wyoming. New Mexico. Oregon and Utah. Doubtless the shepherding systsm of the ample western country is very strange at first to these sons of a~tiny. mountainous land. but. says the writer: ..The Basque immigrant drifts naturally into the sheep industry of our western ranges, for the mountainous district of his own country is truly land of green pastures The sheep are driven to the hills in March to remain until October, Twice during the season they are brought back for the shearing. Some owners have as many as 1000 head. Young cattle are also taken to the sumrser feeding grounds. the surplus stock being sold in the autumn. because of the shortage
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-27
From the Montgomery Advertiser.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 NUDGE H. B. ABERNETHY, of a Birmingham criminal court said Saturday in a statement pulp lished in The Age-Herald that there was more crims today in Birmingham than at any time since he has lived in that city. He made public figures re- lating to the work of his court to es- tablish the truth of this statement and to arouse people and officers of the law to the necessity of suppressing crimes of violence.
 On Sunday morning the Birmingham papers recorded the twenty second highway robbery committed in or around Birmingham in the month of October The highwaymen in Jefferson county maintained consistent record of committing successfully one highway robbery every day during October. The coroner of Jefferson county dur ing last August announced that the murder record for Jefferson county for July and June had been the highest ever made he was alarmed to note a
 
 steady increase in manslaughter cases.
 Now. to take these statements. flatly made and without wider consideration of surrounding facts, it, might be thought that Birmingham which has had in the past too many crimes of vio- lence was an unsafe place to live in, and that it lived under the constant menace of carnival of crime. Such a hasty deduction from incomplete evil dence would be false. There is no need to palliate the record, it is bad enough, but it is worse on the surface than-i t it has approximately 100000 people. It
 is an industrial city and rapidly growing city. It is inevitable that a city of such growth and with shift ing population, in the main irresponsi- ble, would make bad showing in it's criminal record. Chicago, Of all the large cities in America. is the worst in the matter of crimes of violence. Chi cago, like Birmingham. has always grown rapidly, and it has, too. attracted elements. Ol lTIcSpOuSiule anu CNCH criminal population.
 As an offset to the some what start- ling crime record of Birmingham by its violent element it is only just to set the fact that it has a much larger class of population made up of excellent home loving and church going people. There are as many good people in pro- portion to the poulation in Birmingham as there are in other cities. But they have not yet been isolated and are not in constant touch and contact with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-27
Underwood Replies
 to Senator Harding

,H07 HEN it comes to hitting the wv nail on the head no one sur. passes Senator Underwood. Mir. Harding undertook to criticise the democratic administration for unpre- paredness. Senator Underwood in his Knoxville speech pointed out that the republicans in fifty years had done nothing to create fleet and that i'm mediately after the Civil war they re- duced the army to a pitiful remainder of 25,OOO men.
 Senator Harding probably thought he had coined telling expression of contempt when he referred to the "grotesque inefficiency" of the demo- cratic administration. To this Sena- tor Underwood replied by pointing out the three great panics that occurred under the republican national bank act and the attempt of the republicans to pass the Aldrich reserve act, which would have placed power over the finances of the country in a privately owned central bank in New York City.
 If peace and reconstruction were not provided for, that was the fault of the republicans, who have had the control of both houses of Congress since 1918.
 lThe record of the democratic ad- ministration in creating an army and navy of invincible strength has no parallel in history. The federal re- serve act steadied this country in war and has done so since. There has been no panic and there is no sign of one.
 Senator Underwood might have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-27
E E E Lansing Writes History of Peace Conference

|RIENDS of Robert Lansing, for U mer Secretary of State, an- nounce that he will publish a book which will tell the inside history of the peace conference.
 In order that his motives may not be questioned, MT. Lansing will not publish his book until after the pres idential election. He does not wish to place himself in the attitude of showing vindictiveness toward Pres- ident Wilson at this time.
 When it is considered that MT. Lansing was elected from the presi- dential cabinet with speed and cer- tainty that left nothing to be de- sired, his moderation does him credit. That his book will create the sensa- tion predicted is doubtful, but it will be read with intense interest. Mir. Lansing's name was signed to the peace treaty. With the exception of the President himself and Colonel House he probably knows more about what took place during those mo- mentous days in Paris than anyone else in America. He kept diary and will be able to give detailed account of every phase of the conference that came under his observance.
 MT. Lansing is in a position to .hrow light on a great many events
 f which the world knows nothing. He can perform great public serv- ice by doing so. Although he cannot have any friendly feeling toward MT. Wilson, he is not the type of man to let anger blind his judgment and he will tell the truth as he saw it. In fact, it may be proved by the testi- mony of an observer whose veracity cannot be questioned that President Wilson was not duped by Europe's crafty diplomats and that many of the charges made against him by his political enemies are false.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-27
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
same Old New York

Visiting New York at any season is
 always pleasant but especially so at this time of the year." said Harry Halt. acre, manager of the Tutwiler hotel, who returned Monday from a week s visit to the metropolis. Although my trip was very hurried, having gone to New York for a conference with tho heads of the United Hotel Companies, I found New York nothing like aa crowded as it used to be; in fact you can get reservations at any of the ho- tells without previous arrangements,
 the first time that such a condition has obtained since the armistice. The t.ea-
 tres are all in full blast and the str 9ets look very gay and prosperous and alto
 gether New York is the same old New
 York. While l was there. l ordered some very attractive souvenirs for the New Years celebration, which we will make the biggest ana best that tEe Tutwiler has ever had. Many of the novelties are in Japanese work, which are difficult to get-most of them being on the way over to America now from Japan-and they are, of course, very attractive and unique. Travel is quite heavy between here and New York. and everybody seems to be prosperous and happy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-27
Selling Cattle

"A friend of mine who is interested in cattle in accounting for the way it is being dumped on the market in Ala : bama when the price is so low said Powell Proctor, sets it down to sev- eral causes. First and foremost the pastures have given out and feed be- ing high they do not care to take q chance on holding them through the winter months; some have gotten dis ccuraged and are quitting the game, a great many farmers in need of ready money prefer to sacrifice their cattle and hold on to their cotton. I am sorry that anything has come to un- settle the cattle market as this state was just beginning to be known as one of the best places in the country for the cattle industry."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-27
Wants More

T went out to hear John Cowper Powys lecture at Temple EmanuE1 Monday night said H. G. Seibels, ''and 1t recalled to mind the great lectures l used to hear when at college. l had gotten out of the habit, but if the others to come in the course provided by the Birmingham Lyceum Associati ion are as attractive as was the address on the Psychology of the English People, expect to hear them all. I was glad to see such a representative audience Nout on the opening night for it evil denced the fact that there are in< Bir- mingham quite a few who are inter- ested in cultural matters, and are will ing to take time to hear discourses on serious topics.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-27
WHY THEY DO TT

From the Argonaut
 A salesman was showing an elderlS lady the virtues of the car he sells He made number of turns and at ths proper times extended his arm as a turning signal. The old lady watched the proceedings for some time. Then she craned her neck and looked at the sky.
 Mister" she said sternly. tapping him on the shoulder, you just tend to your driving. It don't look like rain, but if it should I'll let. you know"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-27

added that the democratic party is also one of cohesion and of definite aims and pledges, while the republican party has at least three varieties of leaders representing as many diver gent views.
 Harding is easily handled by a man like Underwood.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-27
HARDY PHILADELPHIA

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 If New York dramatic critic is cor rect when he says the best thing in
 'Hitchy Roo 1920'' is Raymond Hitch cocks announcement that .Philadel- phia has raised its quota for the Third Liberty Loan" we can see where the piece will have to be made all over be- fore it is shown here
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-27
In Name Only

There may be an anti-tpping law in Georgia, but you had better not try to put it into effect, in Atlanta anyway" says J. c. Harper, travelling salesman, who has just reached Birmingham you will find yourself served with any thing from hard-luck to rough on- rats >-that is. if you are served at all. Further steps will surely have to be taken if the law is to serve as a pro- lection. for it certainly falls far short of that now"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-27

"Yes your honor" said the world war veteran.
 Yet you wear the croix de guerre.'
 Your honor. the French general who pinned that cross on me had never seen my wife"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-27
Future of Greek Kingdom
 Depends on a Pension

7F the throne of Greece, made va- ll cant by the death of King Alex ander, is offered to Prince Paul, third son of former King Constantine, it is understood that Constantine must for mally abdicate and the older brother of Paul, Prince George, must renounce his rights.
 If Constantine objects to this proce- dure at first, as he is expected to do, Venizelos, the strong man" of Greece, will produce arguments of some im- portance." In other words, the Greek statesman, who does not believe Greece is yet ready for a republic, will offer financial relief. Constan- tine, now an exile in Switzerland, shares in the poverty which afflicts many other members of European royalty. It is said Venizelos will agree to restore the ex- Kings pension if his terms are accepted.
 Nothing could show more clearly the parlous plight into which some of the worlds crowned heads have fallen. The royal house of Greece is dominated by Venizelos. Constan- 1 tine, for all his pretensions and his
 kinship with the Hohenzollerns, is in need of money and will probably be compelled to. yield. Yet he can
 not but view the situation in Greece
 with painful emotions, realizing with all the bitterness of a fallen monarch l that he is powerless to interfere.
 Should he remain obdurate the final
 blow would probably be dealt to his
 family pride by the establishment of
 republic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-27
-----7------------ - C t---------- EI.IHU UNDERSTANDS

From the-Louisville CourSer Journal.
 Secretary Colby charges Elihu Root with "a complete inversion of the truth" MT. Colby is nothing if not parliamentary, yet he makes himself as we'll understood as if he had used the shorter Rough Riders word