The Tacoma Daily Ledger from Tacoma, Washington • 2

JI THE TACOMA DAILY LEDGER THURSDAY AUGUST 9 1923 DEATH PUZZLES LADDIE BOY BUT HE CARRIES ON bob Raynor Jr expect to leave In the near future for India to do mlaslonary work was held in tho parlors of the First Methodist Episcopal church here Tuesday night Mr and Mrs 8mlth were presented with a purse of 8130 the rift of the teachers of the county Mrs Smith being the retiring county superintendent of schools Marriage licenses have been issued by the county auditor here to the following couples: John Glasgo and Julia JSiniavich Aberdeen: Ray Van-nier and Irene Brooks Aberdeen: Herbert XL Driscoll and Ella I Bund Aberdeen Steve Vlatkavich and Louise llerml Aberdeen of dealers that 26 cents a gal fa fair price The governor's action is against the Standard Oil Company Tv! company he said Is responsible retail prices which the governor con tends amounts to "highway robber I Independent dealers sell at prieea die I tated by the dominant company ha7Tv eerted Governor McMaster hopes be dared that the protest will go I and it was Indicated early today then! will be response to his suggestion that citixens buy gasoline In wholesale lu to carry on the price war The Executive Mansion Photographed at Night UNTIL after tho last rites for President Harding are over tho White House the home for more thin two years of the late President and his wife will remain untenanted except for the household attaches President and Mrs Coolidgo are making their home in the suite at the New Willard Hotel where they have maintained their residence ever since Mr Gqolidge went to Washington br vice president In tho meantime alterations are going forward at tho White House and preparations aro being made to ship the furnishings and effects of the Hardings to their old home town Marion where tho widow will live PRINCE OF DAHOMEY INSULTED BY FRENCH PARIS' Aug Prince Hajo Lo lou Houenou nephew of King Behans! of Dahomey has filed a charge of as sault and battery against the mans ger of a Montmartre night cabaret a login that he and a negro friend wen expelled from the establishment he cause some of the customers objected to tho presence of negroes The prince who Is a member of the appeal court bar contended that gs spite his protest he and his friejg were thrown into the street when the police took them into custody LONDON Aug Russia has dally notified Great Britain that pointment of Christian Rakovaky head of the Russian delegation In Loe don will be cancelled in deference ta Great Britain's objections accordinr the Daily Express GOOD CIGARETTES SKNUINf TJULf DURHAM TOBACCO Obregon's Aide Laborites Choice For Presidency (By Associated Press I WASHINGTON Aug 8 Laddie Boy said his last goodby to his master In the East room of the White House this morning and there may be some hard hearts who will say that a dog coudln't know but it seemed to those about him as ir he did Mrs Harding who loves Laddie Boy no less than her husband did told the attendant whose special charge the dog has been to take him in the East room for a moment because he seemed to want to go Alertly he sniffed the heavy air freighted with the fragrance of the funeral blooms walked solemnly around tho bier lying under the great rrystal chandelier and poked his nose in the flowers if looking for the master he knew was there but see and then turned brown eyes on the White House attaches with an inquiring look which was too much for them to endure without tbeir own eyes turning misty Laddie Boy knew his master was back in the house but he seemed to sense that for some reason be couldn't find him and like a good dog he concluded there was nothing to do but go back to his favorite spot and wait faithful to the end STATE CONDUCTS GASOLINE SALES South Dakota Governor Sets Price at 16 Cents a Gallon PIERRE Aug 8 Gasoline may be purchased for 16 cents a gallon at the state supply depot at Mitchell today The sharp cut in price a reduction of 10 cents a gallon from gas station prices prevailing throughout South Dakota is Governor II McMaster's answer to the contention The by that dubs tains CLOSE FRIDAY Mayor Bush Issues Proclamation and Memorial Services Are Planned MONTESANO Auer 8 (Special) Mayor II Bush ha issued a proc- 8i tarnation calling upon the business lu'Uws to close Friday at noon and to i i main closed during tho balance or tin: day out of reepect to the memory tho kite President Harding A few of the stores will bo closed during the ni ire day A memorial service has been planned by I he churches It will be participated in by the Protestant denominations and will be held at I o'clock in i he First Methodist Episcopal church Itev I Baldwin pastor of th church will preside and there will be short addresses by Itev Sharp pastor of the First Presbyterian and Kcv Hutton pastor of the pls-ciples churches Prayer will be given by Rev Loucks of the irst Christian church Music will be furnished by tho combined choirs of the churches To Coasldar Boad Talnas County Aaseasor Calder announced Tuesday that he is mailing notices to all mills and logging companies which operate logging railways in Grays Harbor county to advise them that thcro will be a hearing reparding valuations of such roads before the county board of equalization Thursday morning August 8 at 9 o'clock The commltteo appointed by the Aber- ell deen city council to sit with the commissioners to form the board to equa-riza taxes on Aberdeen city property will sit Saturday morning at 9 o'clock That appointed by the Hoqulain commission will sit at Saturday to equalise taxes on property lying in Iloquiam Funeral for Boy Victim Funeral services for James Albert Smith 12-year-old son of Mr and Mrs Fred Smith of Westport were held from the Methodist' church lie re this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock Rev Baldwin officiating Burial followed in Wynooche cemetery The boy was killed when a blank cartridge with which he and his twin brother exploded The boy was the grandson or two Monteaano pioneers James A Arland and Andrew Smith Besides his parents and twin brother the boy is survived by two brothers and two sisters Tarswell tear MCtsslonary A farewell reception for Rev and Mrs Raynor Smith who with their Buy Your NOW Bert slab and mill bloak ereod peolal prieea la quantity lots Bay la your winter supply bow Also Bogged Fuel and Sawdust the moat moat economical steam fuel Delivery Co any part of GRIFFIN TRANSFER CO X930 Commeroa Mala S8 Your car will hold the road if equipped with West Coast Springs West Coast Steel Co 21st and Pacific Are Dr Burns DrBB Robinson DENTISTS We offer the heat den-tlatry In Tacoma for tho money We do tho work ourselves and GUARANTEE IT 10 YEARS No charge for EXAMINATIONS Bold Crowns 1540 Porcelain Crowns 1540 Brldgework $500 Tooth Extracted $100 rainless) XBay per tooth fUM PtUiags $100 Plates that fit $1000 937 Broadway Aeroas From Bhodas Bros rr a i I Famous transcontinental train of the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and by that token one of the finest trains in all the is "The Olympian traveler aboard itis surrounded' the comforts and conveniences jf obtain in the finest homes and and on palatial liners Observation -club car through dining car service standard and tourist sleeping cars coaches Open -sir observation cars through the moun AT FRANC'S FALL French Banking Circles See Signs of at Hand PARIS Aug 8 The continued drop trade balances it was said at the of tho franc in London and New York is attributed in French banking circles to "a political in London France does not need either dollars or pounds sterling as tourists are bringing in quite enough to cover Bank of France today There is no big treasury operation or banking move in progress that would Influence the exchange and it was pointed out that the statement of thp Bank of France shows the situation to he quite as favorable as It was a month ago Financial circles are consequently looking for an explanation in London where considerable quantities of francs are still held They contend that even In London the movement cannot be purely speculative as sometimes has been the case because the man who sells francs at 80 to the pound sterling will In the light of past experience make money only for those to whom he sells The conclusion of the financiers who are endeavoring to follow the movement is that the attack on the franc in London is inspired by political considerations "We canot prevent people who own francs from selling said a prominent banker "We can do regarding our exchange what our premier is doing with regard to Germany that is to continue the even tenor of our way French finance has weathered other storms and is not frightened by this one" PARIS Aug 8 The frame fell to the lowest point it lias yet known today when quotations on the Paris bourse were 1752 to the dollar TACOMANS CLIMB TO ICY CREST OF MOUNT GARIBALDI VANCOUVER All 8 The first party from the United States io climb Mount Garibaldi in Garibaldi National Park was composed of 13 members of the Mountaineers Western Washington Club who mado the ascent on August 1 The party was led by Joseph Hazard of Seattle on a (lay that provided an excellent opportunity for viewing the vast glacier-covered area surrounding the park Fine weather lias prevailed for the visit of the mountaineers who report they are enjoying themselves thoroughly In the party that climbed Mount Garibaldi wero Mr Hazard Prof Edmond Mcany Fred Fenton Ben Mooers Lars Lovesclh George Hlse of Seattle A Denman Amos Hand A Garner of Tacoma: Paul Gooding A Fisher and Hugdahl Bellingham and Norman Huber St Paul Minn STEIN METZ FAVORS FORD FOR PRESIDENT WELLESLEY HILLS Mass Aug A recommendation that the country try Henry Ford as president "as an experiment" was made today by Charles Sleinmetz chief consulting engineer of the General Electric Company in answering questions put to him at the Babson business conference here United States badly needs a business man for president" said the electrical wizard "and the most successful man In the world today is Henry FRENCH TO CLOSE GERMAN FRONTIER (Dr AMoeiated Pre) DUESSKLDORF Aug 8 As a result of various disturbances in this area during the week-end the eastern frontier between occupied and unoc cupied Germany will be closed to ordl nary travelers for one week beginning at midnight tonight The special red permits Isued mt the time or previous closures will still be valid but travelers without special and urgent business will be stopped The French announced that the necessary measures would be taken to as sure normal transportation of food All work absolutely Guar Square Sal SYMANFJEWELRYiCS IIJ21BR0ADWAYW I NSEATTLE TOLD Affidavit Alleges Price-Fixing Was Carried on by the Association SEATTLE Aug 8 showing the reasons for the high cost of plumbing in the Puget Sound country and by what severe if not Illegal devices it has been maintained will become of public record when the law firm of Bausman Oldham Bullitt A Eggerman puts on file In the superior court here 11 sensational affidavits Six weeks ago the plumbing firms of Courtney A Robertson Inc and the University Plumbing A Heating Company entered the superior court charging a conspiracy on the part of the Seattle Master Plumbers A Heating Association to raise plumbing prieea They secured a temporary restraining order preventing the association from expelling them requiring tho association to abandon its alleged price fixing program and ordering the association to cease alleged attempts to interfere with employees of the complainants Barts Allogod Control In the afldavits Conrad Barker one of the members of the advisory committee hares what Ms declared to be tho inner story of the price fixing methods Barker says that the committee of which he was A member made these requirements: "All bidders must submit their preliminary figures to the committee "One bidder would be selected to receive the contract His preliminary figure would be Increased by adding an arbitrary percentage on the basis of what the traffic would bear "Lower bidders would be required to add to their figures sufficient to bring them above the bidder selected "Plumbers who refused to agree to this system were to be suppressed by having their union workmen ordered off the Job by union business agents" Wanted to Vs Unions affidavit sets forth ho is a stockholder in the plumbing firm of Courtney A Robertson Inc which firm is a member of the association and that In April he was elected a member of the advisory board composed of himself Ashwell president and 7 HellenthaL Barker "The advisory committee was given full power to act and in April Messrs Ashwell and Hellenthal put in force at a conference at which affiant was not present a system regulating the prices at which plumbing and heating jobs in the city of Seattle were to be taken "They expected that at first the association members would lose con-tracts in favor of smaller outfits not members of the association but when the association fully developed its strength it would then be in a position to suppress competition through the unions by asserting so strong an Influence over union men and their business representatives that the men employed by non-members would be pulled from the Fixed by Association Tho "system" adopted by Ashwell and Hellenthal by which supposedly competitive bids of member firms of the association were robbed of their competitiveness and fixed by the association to suit Itself according to Barker's affidavit was: "First tho committee required everyone bidding on a job Jo submit a preliminary figure based on a fixed book price This book price was not the actual cost buj the standard price established by the trade and might be and usually was in excess of the actual cost "This cost figure was to be in the hands of the committee the day before the bids were to be received and the committee would then eliminate such cost bids as were more than 6 per cent out of line either way and take the remaining bunched bids and Mason J) if i IMG IMFO NATBB Printing Stationary Engraving Office Furniture 13th and A Main 416 Wheelock Electric Company Magneto Motor Generate aad levator Work a Specialty 111 Faclfie Avenue 9DI AMONDS totchesjC jeweLRY in summer The Scenic ElectricWaj strike an average cost price as a basis To Xllmlnats Bids "The contractor member of the association whose cost figures foil immediately below this average would be the men designated by the association to secure the contract and all lower bids would be eliminated by making such bids higher "Thin would be accomplished by fixing a percentage to be aded to such bids Then the committee arbitrarily placed a certain percentage on top of the book cost which percentage was to be as high as the conditions pro-vailing at the time would permit but not so high as to arouse suspicion on the part of the owners or architects' Bays Men Were CaUed Off A Schacfei member of the association prior to March 1918 says in his statement that he had a conversa tlon with L'den contractor who was building the Castle Apartments 2133 2d avenue in March 1918 and that Uden affiant that all plumbing and heating bids were too high and unless he could secure a general reduction of S15000 on all bids he would neft build" Sschaefer goes on to say: "I agreed to cut my bid 60 per cent and began work on a contract for $17000 for plumbing I was expelled from tho association the men were called off the Job and the contract given up My sureties completed the work and obtained a judgment against Rolling iMIls However Retain 10-Hour Shift at Unchanged Pay NEW YORK Aug The 12-hour day in the plants of the Carnegie Steel Company the largest subsidiary of the United State Steel Corporation will be eliminated on August 16 Elbert II Gary chairman of the latter's board of directors said last night The workers shifted from a 12-hour to an 8-hour day will receive a flat increase of 25 per cent in their hourly pay it was said at the local offices of the steel corporation This means that their hourly pay will be changed from 40 to 50 cents and their daily pay from 8480 to 84 Laboring men in the rolling departments will work on 10-hour shifts Instead of the present 12-hour basis and will receive no change in their present 40 cents an hour rate Arouse the Conscience of the World Against War Says Senator BOISE Ida Aug 8 Senator William Borah in statement today pointed out that it is at least as reasonable for the human race to enagge now in a search for a plan leading toward world peace the object aimed at in the American peace award created by Edward Bok as it has been to seek new and more effective methods of warfare see great good to come from the American Peace Award" said Senator Borah "We can hardly hope to find a permanent basis for world peace except through the most thorough consideration of the subject from every angle and viewpoint Interest should be aroued in every proper way The ingenuity of the human brain has been taxed for 3000 years to aim the best means and methods for carrying on war Now let us arouse the conscience and harness the genius of the human family in an effort to find a plan for permanent peace It is a splendid tiling" ACQUITTED OF BXUBDXB CHABOE SIOUX FALLS Aug After deliberating fifteen minutes and khlg'two biil jury in the trial of Charles Ferguson in circuit court late last night returned a verdict of "not guilty" to the states charge of murder of Eugene Griffin who was shot and killed in Ferguson's yard 20 days ago Through the Caicade range and across tbs Continental Divide drawn swiftly smoothly imokdcnly by electric power TWO HOURS QUICKER to Chicago $8600 Contractors Ask More Than Estimates and Board Delays Awards 10 Days MOUNT VERNON Aug (Spe cial) All bids for the construction of the new courthouse at Mount Vernon were considerably in excess of the amount specified for the new building when opened by the Skagit board of commissioners at their meeting yesterday Owing to this fact the commissioners did not award the contract and alter a discussion which lasted to midnight they decided to take the mat ter under advisement for another ten days It was intimated that the specifications will have to be trimmed down in order to get tho building cost with in the limit of money appropriated for the purpose The bidders on the main structure and their bids as presented were: Alexander A MacXeil Mount Vernon 82422U0 Everett Bldg Co Everett 8244000 Wilder Scdru-Woollcy 8283000 Western Coast Co Seattle 8249900 John Arrington Seattle $289267 Scliercr Carlson Seattle 8239500 Martin $279013 A1 loway George Seattle $259615 Standard Const Co Seattle $229872 Wm Wills Seattle $284616 George IT Moon Bellingham $232700 War-rafck Coast Co Seattle $239700 Arthur Blythe Bellingham was low man on the heating contract with a bid of $11880 and on tho plumbing with $11673 Low bidder on the electrical contract was II $5641 The low jail bidder was the l'uuly Jail Company with $21850 Bandits Recruited Into Army Are Sentenced for Mutiny PEKIN Aug 8 Four hundred additional recruits the Chang Tso Lin army formerly bandits such as those who wrecked and robbed tho Bhang-hai-Pckin express and kidnaped its passengers have been sentenced to death on a charge of desertion Hevcn hundred and fifty wero killed after a mild insurrection yesterday The governor of Ilei Lung Kiang made an official report on tho deaths The cx-bandlt recruits wero accused of assaulting their officers while drilling They were reprimanded hut their conduct became worse the governor reported Fifty were stood up and shot and the rest sent to their barracks Later when the governor visited them in their quarters and requested that thy be orderly they fired on his party ho stated Whereupon regular artillery was turned on tho barracks all the buildings were leveled and thcro were no survivors Now 400 clhdrs have been sentenced to be shot Those recruits are understood to be bandits who surrendered to the military authorities on condition that they be permitted to join tho army jbls BM I' AUhi pondents for El Paso newspapers telegraphed today the news of a fight at Torron Coahulla Mexico In' which two ranchmen Natlvad Amador and Bias Fernandez an an alleged bandit whose namo was not determined were slain Saturday El PASq Tex Aug 7 Correa- Gland Treatment Broker just ns young as I used to be and it all due to gland pills Here I am 12 and I feel just as spry and full of vim and pep as if I were only 30 or This testimony to the virtne of gland treatment was voiced recently by Robert George Laws a retired London stock broker during short visit to this country was in the Kingston hospital in London when I first tried the said Mr Laws I had taken the fifteenth tablet I left the hospital and haven 't been back since I still take a tablet now and then and I think they are the real fountain of Such a treatment is now obtainable in the form of Glandogen a highly concentrated glandular tonic in 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'S'1 i 1 I i 'i- i I S' i rr 1 1 i Reflections on Rent By Walt Railway PUGETTjSOUND-electrified According to reports emanating from Mexico Gen riutarco Elias Calles secretary of the interior and prime minister in the Obrcgou government seems to be the popular rhoice of the Labor party In Mexico for the presidency Calles now is in San Francisco undergoing medical treatment RACE STARTER IS HIDED BY FRIENDS Lowry Has They Say in uBrg-iary Case LOS ANGELES Aug Frank Lowry automobile race starter held in the criminal ward of the general hospital on suspicion of burglary has undergone a surgical operation in the hope that it will enable his broken leg to mend properly Lowry injured was found on the pavement about three weeks ago and arrested when Georgo Griffith Identified him as the man who had jumped from the window of his second-story office 1 a few minutes beforo when caught kneeling beforo a safe The race starter who is known in sporting circles throughout the coun try is said by the police to be or have been involved in criminal charges in Seattle Wash Minneapolis Minn and New York His friends in racing circles are interesting themselves in his behalf Some declare they believe he has a "dual personality" Cliff Durant automobile manufacturer and sportsman is said to have offered 1 5000 or any necessary sum to defray the expenses of a study Of Lowry's case by scientists accord ing to tho Los Angeles Examiner Durant arrived yesterday from San Francisco BRITISH HALT YANKEE SEARCH OF GRAVEYARD (By Annotated Trow) LONDON Aug 8 Tho University of Georgia has been refused permission to search for the Ins of its founder Gen James Oglethorpe at Cran-hem Essex where ho was probably burled and where there is a monument in a church commemorating him says tho Dally Mall "The university's desire to hanre the remains and enshrine them in Georgia is appreciated" says the Mail mindful doubtless of tho indignation caused by' the circumstances of the search for the remains of Pocahontas the chancellor of tho dioceso of Chelmsford in which Granhaxn is embraced has refused thus far to grant the faculty permission for a search" The Mail in an editorial remarks that "the public here will learn of the refusal with great satisfaction" PROW OF ANCIENT STONE BOAT FOUND SANTA BARBARA Cal Aug 8 Investigators of the Smithsonian Institution of Washington have unearthed in an ancient grave on Burton's Mound in this city the prow of what was once a soapstone canoe The find is said to be unique in the ih tory of American archaeological research and indicates in the opinion of the scientists that stone boats were used by the ancient aboriginals of this district DEALER IS ROBBED OF FINE DIAMONDS CHICAGO Aug 8 Robert Young president of the Chicago Diamond Exchange was robbed of 875001) worth of diamonds by pickpockets in the loop today according to his report to the police Young was carrying the gems in his pocket after taking -them from the vault of Masonic Templa- the My landlord owns a row of shacks and every month he walked abroad loft desolation in his tracks and touched each tenant for his wad I muttered as I dug tho dimes coughed up the sweat-stained hard-earned seeds: bought this coop a dozen times and yet the landlord has the SAVE IN THIS BIO STBONO ASSOCIATION FOR YOUR H0BD5 HOUND TRIP A 7 A AXXZTTZarB 3 tv Pass Agent City 7ss Aftal 110 South Teatb Street Phone Mala 8100 No membership fee no fines no red tape All your money back with all it earns ME MORI AM ASSETS OVER THE PACIFIC SAVINGS LOAN ASSOCIATION A Mutual Savings Society In honor to the memory of our beloved President Warren Harding who will be laid in his final resting place at Marion Ohio on Friday August 10 and in accordance with tha proclamation of the governor of our state this company will stop all of its Interarban and City cars for a full fine-minute period from 1 to 1 :05 on that day The offices of these companies will be closed the entire day QUALITY Onr atock is made up almoat tlrely eC the beat brands obtainable anywhere Martin Co (template Office Outfitters IU Paelfla Ate For Tour Camping SOSM CPSCXAX OB ZUBCX 41x48 llxfl KipUoif doii s35s sad Summer SC TV RUYA CO 15th ud Broodviy TACOMA RAILWAY POWER CO PUGET SOUND ELECTRIC CO PUGET SOUND POWER LIGHT CO MARK.