The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 8, 1916, Page 1

THIS IS REYNOLDS, THE | VOLUME 19 Accepts Germany President Makes Reply Today to Kaiser’s Submarine Note 1) wf i} § WASHINGTON, May 8&— (Bulletin.)\—A brief reply to the German submarine answer has been forwarded to Berlin, Secretary Lansing announced this afternoon. WASHINGTON, May 8— President Wilson will an- ounce acceptance of the Ger- the American It is understood dent's position will be outlined In a brief note to Germany and that Secretary Lansing will make it public. ‘This reply may Berlin even now President Wilson and be en route to Lansing {ts contents. The fact that it will not be made Public until this afternoon was be Meved due to a desire to allow the Bote time to reach Germany. The communication will be a for- Mal acknowledgment of the re- eeipt of the German reply, and it Will indicate, it is declared, that this ®evernment, accepting the new » considers itself in no way to the conditions of the an The president {s known to take the position that the United fe dealing with Germany apart SS egotiat! ions with Great Brits @nd that it wil! continue to deal Great Britain without ref fle negotiations with Germa Ht can be stated on the highest States with to nee Sethority that the American mes S880 may be summed up briefly as SMptance of that part of the Ger Man reply which covers orders to Submarine cc anders and rejec tion of everything else ie answer will eliminate the Doaaibility of a b on any epi Which has happened in the Dest. Future friendly 8 German adherence Orders issued to Manders HOUSE TURNS DOWN relations 4 WASHINGTON, May 8.—By & vote of 221 to 142, the house today refused to concur in the Senate amendment to the army Bill, providin iding a regular army f 250,000 men RAIN HALTS GAMES Today's scheduled baseball fame between Seattle and Ta Soma was postponed ac @unt of wet grounds. on * 10 TAKE HIS PLEDGE| conferred last night with regard to| SENATE’S BIG ARMY, THE MAN WHO DARED™ SEATTLE, Divers _Trail.-to-Start. of Liner Submarines Believed ! Looking for Big | Cunarder SIGHTED ON ATLANTIC to Be, NEW YORK, May 8.—Two German submarines, accompa- nied by a commerce raider, are believed to have escaped from Klel and are reported at large in the Atlantic toda ] The report circulated said orders had been issued for the | submarine to torpedo the Cu nard liner Orduna, carrying a | tremendous cargo of war mu- | nitions and 300 passengers. Tt is rumored Germany would |seek to prove by this act that sub marining could be carried on legit- limately, the plan being to unload the pamengers and crew before jsinking the steamer. There have been no | messages from the vessel | nail ed, Ma | The story that the submarines jwere sighted and the belief that they were headed for America was based on an account of a midocean attempt of two apparent raiders to capture the French liner Venezia, 100 miles from Bordeaux, en route to the United States The pursuing boats steamed wireless since It to ward one another, meeting far astern of the Venezia, and convers ed for a few moments. Two pale streamers of smoke were seen rising from the side of the second pursuer This was believed to be from submarines. Boys Have Big Time at The Star’s Party To say that Seattle young sters took advantage of The | Star's “Boy day” at the base ball park Saturday would be putting it mildly indeed. | More than a thousand young. sters crowded the left field bleachers, overflowed into the right field bleachers, and elud- ing the vigilance of the ticket- takers at the grandstand en- trance, some managed to hold forth in grandstand seats un. molested It a gala da for the young. wer tr for the fans that rabid lass ” d g players of ven the the foot brar heard a ott ma most the would bug POWDERED KNEES IN GIRLS’ PARADE LOS ANGELES, May 8— “Low neck" socks, with pow dered knees, and silk knit bath ing suits are the 1916 summer fashion for Southern California This was established at the parade of bathing suit girls at Venice yesterday. Fifty thousand persons were \ attracted by the parade. °e WASH., % | VHIS particular spot in The Star we fre [N quently tackle, when the spirit moves us, some important topic that we want to talk about Here we thresh things out in a simple, plain, direct manner. The editor of The Star has a job that eeps him too busy to drool pseudo philosophy for the elation of parlor maids and actorines Life is real and life is earnest in this of fice, and when we get an editorial out of our system and onto this page, it is one that we had to write, because if didn’t, it would turn in and play hob with our disposition And, far as we can scan the there is no topic fit for, or worth, that we are afraid to consider Which brings us to what y we so horizon, discussion e started out to re ar resentative of the interstate commerce ee ym will be bere from Washington, D. ( take tes timony in the fight of the combined cities and co relal ganizations of the Northwest, backing the Washington etate public service commissioners, against the Southern Pacific and allied lines for the abolishing of a rate differential which I» keeping tourtsts away from this corner of the nation. If the Interstate commerce commission decides this ca in favor of the plaintiff weet it Is going to mean a lot to the North It is going to mean that several thousand Easterners who visit the Coast annually without seeing the Northwest, because to do so would cost them more money, are going to drop in on us during the summers to come It is going to mean that a lot of money that now Is get ting away from us—hundreds of thousands of dollars yearly— is going to be spent in Seattle And why? The Seattle Star ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE “THAT DAF DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS : | E NEWS : } ‘» ONE CENT ON TAINS AND SRWS RTANTS, MONDAY, MAY 8, 1916. BECAUSE THE STAR TOOK UP THE FIGHT AT THE REQUEST OF CHAIRMAN REYNOLDS, OF THE STATE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION, WHEN ROTH OTHER SE ATTLE PAPERS WERE ADMITTEDLY AFRAID TO WHED AT LEAST ONE LOCAL COMMERCIAL ORGANIZATION HAD PERMITTED THE MATTER TO BE SHELVED—WHE IT SEEMED THAT EVERY ONE STOOD IN SUCH WHOL SOME FEAR OF THE RAILROADS, AND THEIR: MONEY AND THEIR INFLUENCE, THAT SEATTLE WAS GOING rO GO RIGHT ON TAKING THE LITTLE END OF THE TOURIST BUSINESS WITHOUT EVE A PEEP OF PRO TEST The Star put a shoulder to the wheel Reynolds, encoura went to work Others quick ame sted. Mass meetings were held Publ tinient Was crystallized The com bodies were brought Into line. And then, more reluctantly, the two Seattle newspapers which had turned Reyr In an incredibly short tin eo of the west were in the fight, shoulder to shoulder Now that the first skirmish has be ought, The Star wants to tell its appreciation of the willir with which the workers took hold when this newspape he K ery And it Is important, we belleve, that the public be again reminded that it was The Star that came to the front in this issue for the common good, and that The Star did it when the other Seattle newspapers were AFRAID to do it Maybe this sounds like we're tooting our own horn with considerable vigor, but dé gone it, it seems to us we're entitled to, pecially so if the railroads are bested in fight. We believe that in time the American peo- ple will realize that an editor who doesn’t dare expose conditions like this at home, an editor who refuses to tell his readers the local vital truths, an editor who is under the thumb of his advertisers, or his lodge brethren, or his business relations, or his political backers, is an enemy of every honest man in town. e this LAST EDITION When's the official time for the straw 1 or June “Tonight hat season? Docs it begin May 1? Forecaster Salisbury says: and Tuesday occasional rain.” Hearing | Tuesday Examiner Here From W: ington to Take R. R. Rate Testimony | SESSIONS ARE PUBLIC | Wilbur La Roe, jr. | interstate commerce commis- | slon arrived here Monday from Washington, D. C., to preside at the hearing of the arbitrary passenger rate ca: brought | 1 of the | | by the people of Seattle and te Nortwest against the Southern Pacific and allied railway tin The hearing will United States district court room No, 2, in the federal building, at 10 a. m. Tuesday, and will be open to the public “The Northwest {a in compett tion with the rest of the world for tourists,” sald Chairman Charles A. Reynolds, of the Washington public service commission, Mon day, “That is to be the basis upon | begin In | | which will demand elimination of the 50 difference that exists in round-trip fares from Chicago to San Francisco, which the traveler must pay if e wants to come a shorter distance via the North west rather than a longer distance by way of New Orleans and El Paso. | Graham Is Firet Witness B. O. Graham, attorney for the public service commission, will be| the first witness called | He will testify that ft is the duty of the commission to bring sults such as the present case This point has been challenged by the Southern Pacific O. O. Calderhead, tariff expert nd T. H, Phipps, th commis sion’s chief engineer, will follow Graham to testify as to the differ ent round-trip charges and to the physical condition of the different roads will Carl F. itect * * Tell of Scenery Gould an artist who has traveled will compare the # and the en arct world over ery of the Northwest with that of other parts of the world, to estab BY SAMUEL GOMPERS the right of this locality to com-| President of American Federation |pete with other localities as a va of Labor jeation spot The present situation In the | “We will show,” said Chairman! tapor world—the demands by Reynolds, “that travelers prefer! jaege numbers of workers for the northern route to the south-| better wage and living condi ern in the summer because it is! tions and shorter hours of la the cool way to the Coast, and) bor, resulting, where such de that the Northwest would get ap- mands have been refused by proximately 80 per cent of tha! employers, in strik is sim summer tourists with the railway! ply the result of the deter rates equa mination by the workers to be Elimination of th $ 0 dif larger sharers in the increased ferential, | am confident, would) profits employers are receiv pring $200,000 cash to Seattle) ing in this time of unexampled alone every ea that hotels prosperity! restaurants and summer resorts The fact of the mattér is don't get now. This does not ins} ¢hat for many years when in clude the money that would event-| qugtrial prosperity came upon ually be spent in homes and fac-| Gur people, employers, large tories by .sisitors and small, as a rule, deemed Among the prominent witnesses! that time ae their harvest, and for the railroads Is K. 1, Beving very grudgingly, if at all, gave fot: ‘presidente’ of the | tranacont anything as a reward to the nental passeng octation, of | vere, cht who ed here Monda On other hand, whenever there was an ort of depression tT © | amployers, as a rule, shifted it onto m., 10.6 ft 821. | the shoulders of the workers sa.8 fh m., 20 ft It was ovly during the last de i seein ———4|pression—that of 1907—that the “Divvy ta fos, TEREIE /, ” 7 + * GOMPERS TELLS MEANING OF STRIKES ship off Labor, opposi hands of employers and of so ciety upon the grounds of sym pathy for them. The claim is as a matter of right, and that idea has taken | firm hold of the masses of the tworkers, under the leader [the American Federation of jdeclared their determined Itlon to any reduction of wages ag a way out of that condition for the jemployer. | The workers assumed the | workers of the country. | | position that they were not We have conducted a campaign going to submit to reduction |0f organization for years among the In wages, realizing that such a inskilled as well as the jed solution of industrial depression among men in the einplo a was no solution at all orporations, as well as employes In the depression caused in the |‘ pont an ss ya oe first few months of the Buro-|,. | ‘es pean war, thru disarrangement re nS OF Workers. to. secure was made by employers to reduce| 8nd fo pir ore Mh he ‘ncreased wages, in spite of the considerable = tae He! at in ka reyed numberof workers ‘Unsinniiyee trade union movement as repre After the readjustment and re-\ sented by the American Federation arrangement in industry, workers |o¢ Labor became more generally employed THE MEANING OF THE employers were in receipt of large| PRESENT CONDITIONS IN profits, and the working people| THE LABOR WORLD 1S have become more thoroly organ THAT THE WORKERS ARE ized, and are determined that the DEMANDING THEIR RIGHT hall be larger sharers of their) FUL SHARE IN THE. IN product CREASED PRODUCTIVITY OF The labor movement of today INDUSTRY AND THE PROS no longer bases its claim for a PERITY OF THE NATION better consideration at the | SAM GOMPERS, LONDON, ey 8 ~ (Bulletin). The White Star liner Cymbric is reported sink- ing at sea, according to a message received by Lloyds this afternoon. The nature of the accident was not learned. The Cymbric sailed from New York for Liverpool April 29. It had a gen- eral cargo and no passengers. The White Star liner Cymbric was one of the company's older vem and since the war has been carrying freight between New York She is listed at 13,960 tons, was 600 feet long and had sels and Liverpool, 64foot beam SOLDIERS DIE 2 AMERICAN ARRIED OF By Carl D. Groat United F =e Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 8 —Representations regarding the Mexican raid into the Big Bend country of Texas were made to Provisional President Carranza today by the United States The te department's message suggested that he exert utmost power to prevent a recurrence of such an outrage. was further suggested that a readjustment of the Carran- ta forces would be advisable that scattered bands of uld not again the border. eretary of War Baker received from Gen. Funston a |report of a plan to round up the raiders, together with rec- ns for further action lined to make public the details. Funston has n absolute power to deal with the situation insofar as the disposition of troops is concerned. Story of Nine Soldiers’ Hopeless Fight to Defend toun Against Overwhelming Force $ ce cross Tex., Ma American troops are rushing ru the | ar solate Big Bend country in pur- the Mexicans who raided towns in that territory last night, killing three United States soldiers and a boy, jand kidnaping two American citizens. | The raiders crossed the Brewster county line and invaded the town of Glynn Springs, 15 miles from the border. | The dead troopers are William ~ Cohen, New York; Stephen J. Co- loe, New York, and Hudson Rog-} |who was killed is the son of F. Compton. He was deaf and dumb,! and it {s belleved the enraged Mex {cans killed him when they thought} settlement G. 0. “é EEL They avoided the American bor. der patrol by making a wide detour, ; BY ABE HURWITZ forded rivers and crossed the in A charming young woman ap- Other men in the village were C D. Wood, W. A. El J. A. Deemer; He told her he was in Yakima and F. Compton, Deemer's clerk. te Ue Soeetel: Retreat to Adobe Hut 4 3 he refused to answer their ques tions. | | Only Nine Soldiers | | A force estimated at between 150 and 300 Mexicans crept up on the/ tervening stretch of territory in the| proached Mayor Gill in the lobby night a Jot the Commercial hotel Friday Nine men of the Fourteenth regi |at North Yakima, and started talk- ment were in Glenn Springs to pro- t iti tect the settlement BE politic The mayor was frank. | “only He pointedly remarked that 2 facto' o y <A wee Bey bc Thee ag Be there had been some tall steam- eye RE esd ale lig “|roller work done in King county ng post for many miles and that the delegates have been A few Mexican familles made up| whipped into line. mainder of the population. | And whom do yon favor for n the attack began the Amer-| governor?” the lady asked ieans retr d to an adobe hut, bar-| I'm for McBride, said Gill. ricaded its doors and windows and/|~This fellow, George Lee, is a began a desperate fight against) morning glory, a dandy _ starter, overwhelming odds. jbut gets lost in the shuffle.” | They were routed when the Mex icans, despairing of approaching the they! There was more along the same line. | beleatuered Americans while The next afternoon the Yakima had any nh left, hurled| Republic came out with the full in- fire balls ur thatched roof. | terview Three Men Killed The mayor said he didn't know Three men fell as the little de-|he was being interviewed. He |tachment fled from the blaze, One| thought she was a delegate or was riddled with 10 bullets, The | something. other were struck many times. But that’s all right,” said the | Those who survived reached the! mayor, “I'll stand by what I said.” shelter of a rocky field and contin. 5h ein ued their battle until daylight, when} The Gill interview caused a fu- jthe Mexicans, with triumphant|rore among the delegates. rode away, carrying as cap-| There had been rumblings of un- 1, A. Deemer and F. Compton |derhanded tactics. Some of the and leading pack horses loaded with | delegates openly resented the way loot |the Sc C. Bone pri No hope !s felt here for Deemer | carr thru }and Compton charged Bone's business | It is rumored the Villistas cut Alonzo lor, had |their throat city and county officials to office and threatened them | Store Is Ransacked | The Mexican attack was (Continued o1 on page 5) = | | eit at | ed against the American soli } Wh surviving troopers, most y wounded, es. AFTER INCOME TAX caped to the hills in the rear of} the town, the raiders turned the attention to the village store it SAN FRANC 1sco, O, May 8.—Citi- looted it ens who hand in statements show- Officials at Juarez saw the hand | ing a decrease in income during the of European intervention seekers | past three years will have to sup- behind the new raid plement with itemized explana- The Glenn Springs fight was not |tions, according to J. J. Scott, U. S | Jentirely unexpected |collector of internal revenue here, Faint rumors that the settle |today. Al found guilty of having ment might be attacked had been | mis epresented their incomes will circulated for several days be prosecuted, he said. | YOU SHOULD KNOW DOCTOR DOLLAR all thi chap has a new theory on he is the central figure in “The Crime Doctor,” the new novel-a-week in The Star, 1 nning today, W does a fellow turn criminal Doc Dollar says it’s | because he ick, and so he hospital to cure ‘em \ be mighty intere eeing how he brings to he light y many dark in some high offices and r milie I. W. Hornun rot Che Crime Doctor’—and that’s 1 gua tee that you'll enjoy it thoroly First installment on page + today