The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 1, 1916, Page 1

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Weather fore- cast today: Unsettled tonight and Friday; occasionally threatening AND be ONE J T Pacific Coast Has Greatest Strike in History; 10,000 Longshoremen Out; Shipping Is Paralyzed GS LIKE ROOSEVELT TOON AT CHICAGO By Perry Arnold HICAGO, June 1- The cam- Fe paign of nd 1 Frank eo, Hitc heock aa) for Justice Hughes ap- peared today to have unit- ed the anti-Hughes ele- ments in the stand-pat re- publican ranks with the Roosevelt republicans in a concerted attack on Hughes, with a possible agreement on Roosevelt in the offing. Around Candidates’ Row at the hotels today there was every ind!- cation that a combine against) Hughes is under way. The situation, however, was) muddled a bit by the arrival of| William Barnes, jr, of New York.) foe of the colonel. Barnes, it Is) said, may hold the key to the sit- uation. TR Why Not Hike? Wa. He was making plans for the preparedness parade. He said he and a lot more of his doctor pals were going to drive their automobiles in the parade. It was fine to see his enthusiasm. But— Why ride in an automobile? Why not walk? Automobiles will be all right in the pre- paredness parade, it seems to us, for G. A. R. veterans, and ladies, and such folk, but there’s no reason under the sun that we can see why any able-bodied man should want to ride? It isn’t much of a sacrifice to get out and drive your machine down Second ave But when you hoof it, you will really feel, you know, as tho you're doing something. Try it, Doc. Get out and swing your legs to the tune of a good marching air, behind a ! talking to a doctor friend Thomas A. Edison did it in New York. Mayor Gill, and Judge Burke, and Banker Hoge, and a lot of those sort of men are going to do it in Seattle. The editor of The Star is going to walk, just the same as The Star's office boy. LET'S MAKE IT A REAL PARADE! Fate Up to Penrose? The arrival here of Senator Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania was anxiously awaited There was an undercurrent of feeling that Penrose, even more than Barnes, holds the situation in is hands. If he jumps to Roose- Felt, as it has been rumored he will, the battle {s over, politicians : if he fights against the folonel, then it is a free-for-all Sixty German-Americans met | s, val, was plan in Turner hall Wednesday Pca Te ne a thick of the night and decided to peatet fee fray today, announcing that he] preparedness, rg PAIS sm was going to the committee meet- were members o e ih ing at the Coliseum. —— McGrath on the Job “| won't say anything now.” he R snapped. “Maybe I'll talk later Roosevelt, himself, is ready tc cooperate with any one who is for him. This was emphasized today | by John McGrath, the colonel’s | private sec retary, who reached hypheni#m thruout the cour “We must show Seattle that we would serve the United = GOODS TODAY States even against Germany with all persons of whatever party if the worst should come,” he said Says T. R. Misunderstands supporting Roosevelt,” McGrath) gam Stamm, of Stamm Bros. haberdashers, Wednesday after. GERMAN- AMERICANS TO MARCH IN PARADE American Republican club, but they decided to go outside the bounds of their organization and try to enlist a regiment of sons and daughters of the Fa- | therland. The spirit of the meeting reflect ed patriotism for the United States Attorney Edwin H. Flick of the parade as an op refute sentiment again ts Roosevelt a candidate?” Me Grath was asked “Most assuredly plied he 1s,” he re he| of candy at ; women ations represent ernity, Ladle Co. animal trainer, Red Cross dog. for first ald vart manager of the A quarter of a million dollars and being asked Mary Seung, Chinese was on his wa along canneryman, » for en yolical for the Dol last uct of cruelty, Mra, Be was an ipt to have Insane and deported to |misunderstood the strong charac broken his old and beloved briar. jed that he had traits of a good citi May Heal the Breach arrived at Sam's place. |said, do not ympathize blindly breach between Rooseve and the |bought a four-bit pipe from Louie Arrangements were made at pa ‘Tae formet postmaster general |pought a dollar box the day of the parade, Dr. G, Sher catalogue.” a pair of auto goggles at the Ever-|the lines and summon ald if any gates, !t was stated bought a souvenir spoon at the Dia volunteered to march with withdraw from the race in favors: got the Busy Dollar from Mr.| Other new dele column Mr. Daile of the Dollar Shirt|Coast Steamship the Lotus, 311 Pike will which he has trained {tern in the art de ent of Fred convention special, which left art de-| cific route, carried both repub- him arid epent 40¢ at the New York|of a wealthy At Pasco, a mixed delegation D it tem of persecution” The Montana republican dele far this dollar will go. ung alle en Roosevelt in 1912, will take the|the phone Ise where you spent it! Seung He said he believed ter of the German-American, whose noon was peeved because he had|very love for the Fatherland show But the sun began to shine once | zen more when The Star's Busy Dollar| Strong German-Americans, he There was a pronounced feeling} Stamm took it next door, to Ir-/and have never approved the sink today that nothing would heal the Green’s cigar emporium, and|ing of the Lusitania. o/4 guard more quickly than Hitch: | Hammerslough. headquarters Thursday for cock’s efforts for Hughes. It being Loute’s calling night, smergency ambulance service on was accused by republicans today | wirth's |man Peterkin will be in charge. of “trying to capitalize his card Mrs. Wirth spent the dollar for| Motorcycle couriers will patrol Hitchcock has a complete card |eoje Optical Co., 5 Madison st one is overcome from marching. index of Southern voters and dele-| Mr, Sexton, of the Eversole Co,| A delegation of Afro-American It was rumored today that Cole-| mond Palace, 1404 Third ave, members of John R. nner camp, man DuPont of Delaware would) The Dollar Shirt Shop, 323 o|T Ww. V, of Justice Hughes, swinging 1X | ncokleberg, of the Diamond Pal-|Delta Tau Delta fr Delaware delegates to the Hughes | ace, in exchange for a pair of sox./of the G. A. R., | * op bought a box of candy from} Arthur Lorainne DELEGATES FROM, a march with a Miss Harriet White, of the Lotus Jeg N. W. LEAVE went to the Bon Marche and spent|field service Miss Jeanne Bolesta of the Bon| ' |narcne bougst « fancy arens ose} GUES RIGH CHINESE Emblematic ofthe hoped-for amalgamation at Chicago, the |erick & Nelson Mr. Jones Beattie at 8 o'clock Thursday | partment y to lunch, morning over the Northern Pa- |ao hie took the dollar with | Thursday lican and progressive delegates Lunch, 706 Second ave John Seung, a from this state. et The Star's Bus: during an of republicans and progressives ep it in elreulation years, from Oregon will get aboard. Watch The Star and find out how] His last gates, headed by Dixon, who As soon as you part with it, call| her dec led the preconvention fight for | main 9400, » Star office, and tell | China ed (Continued on page 7) and who got it from you, $500,000, is said to have ama for| wife | ays | odore Roosevelt | and the Pacific | anc BOY STRAN( 3 ADDS CRIME HOUSE TIES OTRING TO NAVY YARD FUNDS WASHINGTON, The house today adopted an amendment to the naval bill, appropriating $6,000,000 to equip the Puget Sound, Phila delphia, Norfolk, Charleston, Boston and Portsmouth navy yards to “build such ships as may be assigned to them, in case Secretary Daniels cannot get fast work in private yards at fair prices.” The house also adopted Padgott's amendment, providing that the Pu get Soond,~ Philadelphia, Norfolk! and Portsmouth yards be equipped! for constructing big ships Padgett’s amendment was\ drawn to obtain, in th use, action #imi ar to that of the senate in passing Senator Poindexter's $2,600,000 ap-| propriation bill to equip the Brem erton yard for battleship construc-| ton. However, with the private own-/ ership string attached by the house, | there ts no telling how soon these additional funds will be made aval! able. T. R. WON'T BE THERE PITTSBURG, Pa., June 1.—The Roosevelt today reiterated that he would not go to Chicago. Alexander P. Moore, a «mall crowd and the Friars club met the colonel when he stop for a few! minutes en route to New York — IN APARTMENT emen are tryin & Thursday to |, a the source of that did damage estimated 2,000 in an} ) house at midnight WILL CLOSE EARLY all farmers’ stalls public market at 9 p. m. on Satur. ording to a bill passed by | br neil and signed by the mayor cial meeting Wednesday June 1 AURORA, Ii, June 1.—The The gigantic murder wave sweeping the country, with the Waite and Orpet es form- ing its crest, has swept thru this city and engulfed a boy and girl! To the already startling list of brutal killings must now be added the strangling of 15-year. old Gwendolyn Holden, whom her 19-year-old lover, Paul Ver holye, has confessed he throt- tled in a fit of jealous fury after boarding house Mrs. Anna Col ording to po It was in the kept by mother, lings, May that, acc lice ges, she eath beneath \the rs of Verholye The youth who has confessed to oa slaying seems bewildered by !the suddenness with which his Water will be shut off in all of) rage swept him over the brink of he city mains in Georgetown | murder outh of Nebraska st. and west of "She Duwamish ave, Friday from 9 a.| over a m. to 6 p. m, Water also will be} —— shut off on Yesler way, between Ninth and 13th aves., during the same hours at . ace anust be closed day, ac the ca ata WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE at me,” again laughed he repeats 1 over WASHINGTON, June 1 firmed as justice of the the Wind,” black, him, a star of not a blemish “Son The vote was 47 on supreme :S 15-YE AR-OLD GIRL; O NATION'S MURDE R “She was in the kitchen he ts said confessed. “She promised to meet Saturday 1p 1 bawled her out I a h iid not “When she kept on threw her down on the ing | floor. “1 put my hands around her } throat, them there about five minutes.” Accord then went ents They t them They ha as below itles claim another of his vs A few picked hir BOSTON ATTORNEY WILL GO ON BENCH ::: +-Louis I court the g¢ eR WAVE J DOUBLE GUARDS — ON WATERFRONT; FEAR VIOLENCE ‘ skilled workmen. Striki sgptty’ | After the Water Front Employ- today tied up the longshoremen 200 vessels ers’ «inion had appealed to the de partment of labor, at Washington, D. C., requesting steps toward me |diation, Immigration Commissioner |Henry M. White was instructed to offer the government offices, This was done late Wednesday, Call Vancouver Men Out? “The only result so far,” Secretary Madsen, “is that the union men and the employera um derstand that we White is willing |to act whene r either Party. | something to présefit. “He has jall any man could do in his Dost. | tion.” The strikers declare they will |check the move to concentrate |shipping in Vancouver, B. C, by |calling the strike there when the proper time come: Sign Up Strikebreakere Agents for the Water Front Bm ployers’ union are signing up strike- breakers, it was announced Thurs and expected to have men at work before the end of the day. They expect to house and feed the strikebreakers along the water \front, and protect them from the pickets, according to W. C. Dawson, secretary of the employers’ union. No Waterhouse, Harrison line or Blue Funnel steamers were in Se jattle when the strike was declared, Representatives of these com panies said their ships would all Sige aa? operations to Vancouver, B. & Port Properties Picketed Because the steamship companies along Pacific coast and precipitated one of the most serious labor sit- uations in Western America Nearly 10,000 longshore- men walked out at 6 a. m., their demands for increased wages having been refused. Marine engineers along the coast may the strike cided to ask a 10 per cent recent years in all join They have de- raise in pay. It was stated positively by local members of the Marine Engineers union that they will go on strike] next week. The anticipate no| trouble, it {is said, and expect their demands will be granted at once. Shipping was completely tied up Thursday and special details of| police patrolled the water front to prevent violence. | Temporary coast headquarters |for the strikers were established in the Arcade building. Divert Ships to Vancouver | Coast Secretary J. A. Madsen announced, “They are all out on |the American side from Belling-|deal with the longshoremen direct, }ham to San Diego,” the port commission {s not directly She laughed The strike has not yet gone into/involved with the oe was /effect in Vancouver, B. C. About] strikers. half the vessels unloading in Seat-| But the po: the port, to avoid trou-|United Dock Workers, who are ble Iso on strike. | Sh We are being treated by the uni dock workers as tho we were a profit-seeking institution,” said Traffic Manager Higday Thursd: No effort has been | made io consider our case sep arately ‘ alone, 1 by the police to have me last night, but never showed asked het why s out e. ad another break for me were Dominion date she ge | jared the stri | would Seattle thousands of |dollars daily, and tie up the great volume of fo’ bound commerce swelled because of the pping men d and | guess | held abnormally war 13 Vessels Tied Up Here Thirteen vessels in port here| are tied up because of the strike ata |S AO George ithor- | snidzuoka Maru Just Santa Anna. Princess Ena, police | Umatilla, and The Adn lday, will five others due Fr |Admiral Dewey Raviall and Kuifuka Maru | | a letter to Mayor Gill from] Employers’ union, in which the was asked to act as a medi Secretary Dawson stated | that 10 per cent inc » in |wages would be paid to the strik Jers if they would go back to work con-| The government representa ltives of the labor department are |going ahead tn an effort to settle \things,” the mayor Thursday, | |"so 1 won't interfere. | The department of justice may] g to his story, Verhotye | home and told his pat irl was dead hought he was will Hire Some Men “Now tha shipping is paraly: we don't need many truck pe, but we have to have some to work in the warehouses “I have been authorized to hire men and put them on the monthly payroll They will only handle stuff im the warehouses which was stored jthere, and not received from ships, or meant to be loaded on ships. Tries to Explain We also feel that we will have to hire men to help the ranchers from the islands who come im launches for supplies, Many of them are small gros jeery store owners who do their own shipping. “We are willing to pay whatever scale of wages ts current, The dock workers are appar ently opposed to our action, but we believe they do not understand |the situation.” Say Agreement Is Violated fooling | ad always regarded par mentally, n, and thought aries. hours later n Up, Fenwick, Fresno. Alki, Nome ¢ Dolphin, Redondo, Cordova, Victoria, | City of Seattle ‘on, due Thurs: affected, as will iday—the Q Mexico this the ), Brandeis was this afternoon on his forehead, a white fleck (hi breast, left foot mane like a flag “He is the greatest, fastest, | and loneliest thing on earth,” | Carron described him—and| Carron knew, for he ecsional breaker of horses. | Arthur Son of the Wind,” stallion] at the’ First Presbyterian sroud, never carried weight on| church, and considered one of i . ( nted| the foremost choir directors on his back—and Carton wa the Pacific coast, will not ap him pear next Sunday. Six or eight members of the choir also will not appear. A split in the ranks of the song ters has followed the action of |the church music committee, h Jinformed Organist Bewell, a week in|ago, that he would not be needed longer Members of the od the action, and wrote Jeach of the 30 church elders, was a H. Bewell, organist had affair Rader that to do of Carron EVery But what with the love and Blanche nt thing hi Son of the Wind,” tar next week, begin Monday, ending Satur : Read The ning day, ‘, choir disapprov letters to ““ FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHOIR IS SPLIT UP | Now the The mu r hearin had his e ATTEMPT ON TEDDY FAKED, SAY POLICE KANSAS City police of Roosev ion prain ists, care | vance, |send an arbitrator here to attempt of the strike, it was re |ported along the water front today from every port on the coast of United States from Alaska that the jong-threatened strike is in full KS t | blas The employers are basing their ustification to bi the strike on failure of the union longshoremen p an alleged agreement, hich, they say, was signed last | September stipulated that a 60-day notice ven by the longshoremen never they intended to change ir contract Strikers place a truction on this The central labor council voted Wednesday night to give the strike |right here in Seattl said Coast] ing longshoremen their moral sup |Secretary J. A, Madsen. “If the! port employers grant our demands here,| ‘The ex they will be granted all along the! tral | tion asking a gradu-| ag os, and as high| handling mediation show Says Seattle Is Key Pickets were thrown out along the water front by the striker Thursday, but no violence had been| |reported by the police up to 9 a. m.| “The key to the situation lies} are taking sides. | aft Bewell Job » elders sic committee acted g that Organist © out for another different cons agreement. tive board of the cen+ said the strikers’ ag conflict with their but justified indors round that the strike local, but involved coun) was eement ment on the eX-/ was not mer the whole Coast e chennai ADDITIONAL STRIKE NEWS ON PAGE SEVEN { PRIMERS, Hib... bt S$ CITY, June 1.—Kansas today ridiculed the story elt's attempt x the prepared recently, bran child of ye fully rehearsed The strikers are a Jated increase in wag 1s $1.50 an hour for plosives. About 150 cargo checkers walked | journal-}out Thu in a sympath in ad [strike They have been receiving varied wag and are classed as ow j