Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 2

MONDAY EVENING JULY mt. NJl OFFICER llffl Bureau Returns Scrur Answer, Teakettle Problem Is Solved 3632 'Blind Pigs' Known to Police in New Yotk City ijiuinis lost in PHlFIRES; OAKLAND SUFFERS 52,000,000.000 IS TRIMMED FROM NATIONAL DEBT ianj Oil BUI i IG Vinegar will remove the lime. Al-low it to remain in the teakettle 20 minutes. Shake It around frequently and it will remove- the lime, deposit. The TRIBUNE'S Information Bureau will answer all questions ot a general nature etcept school or legal debates, trade and firm names and queries as to the time of Housewives are not the Only persons interested In teakettles.

For Instance, there was the scientifically Inclined Individual who notloed that it-'you plugged the spout of a teakettle the lid would blow off or the kettle would burst. With the teakettle as his Inspiration he Invented the steam engine. And now comes a teakettle query to the Information in our TVEW YORK, July ally wilh the parade of the wet parsdei-s, today police gave out figure (hewing there are 3632 placet in New York which authorities "ru tprrx" are being used for the Vale of liquor. almost dail Oakland People. Have Narrow Escape When Pleasure Launch Takes Fire.

I Bureau of The TRIBUNE, the an aay. Total Reduction in Past Two Yeari Has Averaged 8 Per Cent. Bm'-oiif swer to. which establishes the fact) The Bureau Is open every day ex that university professors are in-) cept Sunday from 8 a. m.

to m. terested In teakettles, too. Here' If answers -are-desired by mail, the question: stamps inqst be enclosed. Quickest wnai win remove nme irom me results can be obtained by teleohon- Easthay Section Hit Hard by Flames; Homes and Grain Burn; S. F.

Alarms. (Continued from- Page The damage to both houses was jmtl-mated at about .12500. MARTSVILLE. July 8. With a large section of a mass ef blackened and smouldering ruins.

insldc of teakettloM" of grain. It was placed under con-, trol when it reached' PutUh Creek. Another south went of the town destroyed about 100 acres of era In on the Henry 1 Hansen ranch. Ten homes, scores of ranch buildings, four hundred sheep and approximately twenty thousand acres of (train were destroyed in a disastrous fire which started four miles north of.Elmlra and swept for. a rng to the Bureau.

If you have any By RALPH C. COUCH United Prtfw Staff Corrrwpoiulnt July than 12,000,000,000 has been slashed According to the professor of oh em is try in the University of Cali problems of a general nature to solve Ask The -TRIBUNE Information ureau, Iakes1 de 0000 fornia, the answecla jus from the total of the gross nation aLL BOOTLEGGERS IN Tulsa Astir As New Polic length of twelve miles southward (Continued from Page 1) eral of the women passengers faint ed, whHr-othefs, attempting to" jump' from the craft were caught by sailors and kept fh places'; of safety along the bow of the boat. The fire was witnessed tron-drcdBttwsctrrtof along the docks Just soufh of the Ferry building, who shouted encouragement to the women aboard the flaming launch. The conflagration was caused by a backfire of the motor. Several residents of Oakland and other cities of the Eastbay vicinity were on the launch.

Among those residents of Marvsvllle today were; today hcn finally put "under con devoting their energies to caring for. rot the flame area a CHICAGO IGNORE FtkEWORKS BAN the four hundred or more PernonapSa444Noccurute estimate can be is olwqys ilillmJl rmaerea fcaturuay a made of the loss at this time, but It conflagration. is believed It will run close to one Race War Threatens BT TSTERHATfOIflt jrtWfl BtJCf -UABEO WIRE SO IBJBUWE. July 4L Tulsa was again- in a state of unrest -today, Ru- mors began. to circulate early today colored men frOm Muskogee and surrounding towns were to" celebrate July Jiy Invading Tulsa and start- Those who could not be eared for In.

private homes were sheltered in the' four city schoolhouHoa which had hurriedly been equipped with eota and other furnishings, by the Red American Legion and million dollars. Nearly twenty-five acres of barley was burned at Knightsen yesterday afternoon, owned by P. J. Moody. The fire was started from the Santa Fe right of way, presumably caused CHICAOO, July 4.

(By United Press.) Fireworks, declared contraband by Chicago's municipal laws, were "bootlegged" In all parts of, the City today. The.Jaw forhids the sale of fire- 1 1.1 V. 1 eby a freight which had Just passed. bootlegger, who. 364 days in the year another reign of terrof.

"Colored other relief societies. Although no lives were lost; and only a few minor injuries were sustained by firemen and volunteer fire ire' in the dumping grounds near here spread to the trees along fares forth with his suitcase wdmeft-began to leave the city Jn numbers and not a single Tulsa hotel aebt in two 31, llr an official statement of the Treasury Department showed today. The gross lebt reached its; hightest peak in 119, a year following the armistice. The total reduction in the debt for thV periof has been eight per cent, showing that despite pessimistic talk of government extravagance and Inefficiency the debt Is being eaten away at the rate contemplated wheii It was acquired. The gross national debt on June JO, the last-day of the government's fiscal year, stood at $23,427,772,447.

according to a treasury statement now available. Tww years ago nt the peak the nation owed a total of $26,478,692,113. Reduction shown by these figures la $2,050.869, R66. At a reduction of 8 per cent! each two years the entire debt should be wiped put in 2 years, the period entlrement' contemplated under the Sinking fund arrangements. Quick reduction of the debt tends towards lower annual oharges for the government and for the citizen, lower taxes.

The government now is paying Interest on the debt at a rate of more Marsh Creek. Owing to the high with liquor, today carried cannonJ lighters, the property It is es-lwind it wna.hard to fight ftnft tonight had services of negro maids and only! tlrr.ated today, will mount trp to ap the men are stllj fighting the flames. a lew colored, porters were working. Extra police patrolled -the colored section; alert to suppress first signs of disorder. Mrs.

Karen Marie Cjrrlstertsen, was burned to Hfmth yesterday morning in a ntvr which destroyed the home of hfrr -granddaughter, Mrs. Henry Carlson, at near Mrs. Qarlse-n received burns in her head, arms arid body while proximately 1700. TRUSTOR TRAINS RE-ROUTED. Owing to the destruction of the Southern Pacific company's trestle, Just south ot the city limit through trains from the tfbrth are beinif Operated nvpr th Wut Hi A a tin.

nrA crackers and roman candles. Despite precautions of police, fire-works 1 were bootlegged in various sections of the city, and noisy demonstrations resulted. The Fourth, it is reported, was celebrated both With fireworks and firewater. 1 CKI-KBRANT JAILED NEW TORK, July 4. Miss Ethel Miller, dressed as a cowgirl, with two sailors as escorts, started out to celebrate the Fourth on Broadway early today.

She celebrated all the way to fhe police station. vainly attempting to save her grand- PIN WORTH $878 STOLF.X. SAN FRANCISCO, 'July 4. Pickpockets Operating -in the crowd at one of. the beach cafes last night Btpla a platinum pin Bet with seventeen diamonds, and valued at $876, from Mrs.

Louis L. Levy of 150 Palm avenue, wife of a local Davis, and Btub trains are Dan Sulllyan also operated from Sa'qramento toGerberJ waa brned.on the arms and rescued were Miss Margaret Will-lams, daughter of Dpuiy Morgan A. Williams of Alameda county, and Miss Ann' both of 2842 Seminary avenue, Oakland. The young women declared that prompt action on the part, of the naval crew prevented a serious panic. Miss Who was one of the first to be rescued from the launch, said: i women fainted and several started to leap overboard as the fumes-burst out from' around the motor of the launch.

We all feared an explosion of the gasoline tanks and there would have. 'been a panic except for the cool behavior of the crew. "The officer In charge told us to take our places In the bow of the boeit and ordered us. not Jump, Almost nl the game time he was sending his little crew to quiet the crdwd and to fight this flames. "As we turned back toward the shore we met a government boat almost at the and were taken from the launch without accident.

"All of the crew stayed with the launch until' they could not run it any "more and were ordered to leave bv some officer who came from one Of the "ships." -c Miss Otte "We had Just left the dock and WILT flr I mvi kn rhla anrt vl' The Are. which was discovered by and Marvsvllle. Stub trains are also beJng operated to intermediate points between Sacramento and Marysville where service haV bean Interrupted. The company expects to resume regular service through Maryaville by Wednesday. A grain fire.

believed to have Mrs. Carlsen on the' screen porch adjoining the room oocupled by Mrs. Chrlstensen, destroyed the wardrobes of all the house occupants. The origin is unknown. Adjacent were temporarily endangered by.

the flames. started from a locomotive, two miles ixkaVt loss Dru to east of Da via. swept a path over CO I NTY FIRE, mile wide and six miles in length SANTA noSA, July 4. A serious here this afternoon ana was still un- grass fire was reported burning to-controlled at 7 o'clock. The fire day in Knight's valley, Sonoma started In a train fieM holnniin in I county.

Fire-fighters were being Frank CWrrler, and fanned by a stiff wind, swept across the country, de hurriedly guthmud, The lives of several thousand head Sports Skirts fibouf i Wool Plaidi, Stripes and Checks Novelty Fabrics for Regular values to 1 2.50 10 For Regular vaJu to $19.50 15 Regular values to $29.50 Sports Suits in Sale Tweed and $1 .00 Jersey Suits Lu (Values lo $35) Novelty Sports Suits $17.95 Broadcloth 1 a 1 in do combinations of Black and Red and White, Kelly and White. stroying hundreds of acres of wheat of sheep were saved late yesterday and scores of sacks Of grain In the when ranchers succeeded In driving nejds. About 700 men are fighting I them ahead of flames which, start the flames. were auout one-tnird or the wuy out to the. Mississippi," I think, when suddenly there was a fire all around the engine of our launch.

RICH AND LEE-A-VEB 1212 Wasnington Street OAKLAND ing on the O'Brien ranch, burned over an anesnjwo or three miles In One ranch house and several (larns were burned. A Iflre burned over a considerable IIOMK AXD 800 ACRES Ol GRAIN DESTROYED. An earlier fire today near Plains "It was so sudden that nobody. field destroyed the home of Herman Knew exactly wnai nan nappenea, but the flames swept al about the back part of the boat." section of the Kearney and Sonoma itoth and burned about 800 acres Vista valleys yesterday. This sale grVes you the opportunity) to choose from thousands of Americas finest tailored suits at about half! dear's -Greatest Selling Event FAJMt' GUKTIIGSXfi Our entire slock of high-grade apparel included in thittremendous outpouring of values' for immediate clearance to make, way for the coming Fall merchandise! You never saw greater opportunities for securing fine quality attire at a fraction of its Worth tharhare here presented! Enumerated are only a few of the remarkable offeringsF EXTRA SPECIAL 185 Dresses DRESSES at Drastic Reductions SOO For Values $00 For Values LO $49.50 OO to $59.50 SUIT Prices Cut 12 and More for Clearance Tricotine Suits, in plain tailored, box, and novelty styles All the season's most fashionable trimming ideas are embraced, in the assortment! None held in reserve! You are sure of finding the suit vou want at' one of these four prices: YOU CANNOT FIND CLOTHES LIKE THESE AT OUR SALE PRICES ANYWHERE ELSE ON EARTH! or Values $AO For Values tfO to $75.00 $99.50 Tricotine and Silks Included in this unusual offering EXTRA SPECIAL Jersey Sport Dresses $21 values to $45.00 STEIN-BLOCH and FASHION PARK Dresses for Every Occasion Included No matter what kind of a dress you seek and no -matter how difficult you are Jo we are confident our immense selection contains just the model for you! Here are the season's choicest-styles awaiting your choosing at a fraction of their true value! Canton Crepes Georgettes Taffetas Crepe dc Chines Satins Tricotines Poirel Twills Laces Combinations' Fringed, Beaded, Embroidered; Lace and Ribbon Trimmed for values to $55.00 for values to $65,00 values to $75.00 SUITS Tricolette Silk Dresses KS0 The $50 kinds The $60 kinds Semi-Annual Clearance of Silk Underwear Pongee Waists Reduced to High and low necks, Peter Pan and Bramlejr collars, others with uxedo collars edged with tiny pleating, cuffs to match! Also tailored models with one large button! The $90 kinds 4 .85 Sports Jackets Sharply Reduced Jersey Jackets in two groups for clearance $4.85 and $7.95 Novelty Sports '7 95 Jackets ordy J.

i BroadclotK'and flannel, with fancy stitching and button Jtrimtning! Colors are: Gold, Beige, Copen, Brown. Creed, Black and Red Black Satin Coats $19.00 JJeg.J$45J)0: values) Hand-Made Waists ALL STYLES, FABRICS AND SIZES AND PLENTY OF $.85 Regular $535 Reduced to Camisoles Satin and Crepe de Chine; lace or ribbon trimming. Satin, lace trimming and tailored, with hemstitched finish Crepe do Chine and Satin, bodice or fitted tops. 'Combinations Crepe Chine, lace, and 2-toned ribbon trimmed, bodice and fitted tops Satin and Crepe de Chine, lace trimmed or tailored $5.85 'Gowns Crepe de Chine, embroidered or" lace trimmed. Crepe de Chine and Georgette, lace, and ribbon trimmed Vests Glove Silk, regulation or bodice tops Glove Silk, embroidered, regulation or bodice tops.

Extra heavy Glove Silk Bloomers ciove sTCaTrrrHTrrr Extra heavy Glove SUk. $4.95 in. Glove Silk at. $5.95 Pongee, with hemstitched ruffle finish. Satinette, with double efast finish 1 .95 Every stitchmade by hand! Tuxedo collars and cuffs with hand-drawn designsJ Petticoats Now $2.69 end $3 5 'rr- Tweeds and Mixtures -'Short.

and Long Coats $13 and $19 cordeon pleating in -contras'S" -colors! Roce. Po- Taupe, and.