The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 8, 1917, Page 1

wa” CANADA AFTER THREE YEARS OF WAR! A STAR MAN SEES SOME THINGS IN VANCOUVER! READ HIS FIRST ARTICLE TOMORROW Going Up! The Stare dally clroulation te now the biggest of any newspaper In the Northwest, And every day It grows @ little bigger. meneame ry em HABE Th S ttl sta | ao driver is on strike. Planted your j PPL PPL PADD PAA ARAL eee “ garden THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS VOLUME 19 SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1917. ONE CENT SK BILLION FOR NEW SHIPS: MILK STRIKE HITS SEATTLE fast t Is Baby ae a Dot 000 HOMES 10 VESSELS P m WASHINGTON, May 8. tration will ask congress for a billion dollar) appropriation to build steel and wooden mer- ; chant ships, it was learned today. The en- ; tire power of the government and the re- ' sources of the nation are to be concentrated i in a, gigantic building program to thwart the kaiser’s U-boats. Every item of the shipping board and the ‘Seattle homes were forced to go without — milk or to suffer the inconvenience of layed deliveries Tuesday morning as the re= sult of an unexpected strike called by 200 © milk wagon drivers and dairy workers. Z | No hope for a settlement Tuesday expressed by the union officials and dealers early in the afternoon. Both sides administration will be pushed to the limit. It talked war. a is hoped the appropriation will be given No disorder due to the strike had been © . within a week. reported to the police. > Product of all steel. coal an@ “paged | iron companies of the country in- sofar as they are necessary, will be siven over by the government to speed thé great building program : : The dealers’ association has enlisted aid of the Washington Industrial a ied a in fighting the strike and plans were laid at ‘ Above—Secretary C. B, Ruffcorn, ; _ WEN FOR ARMY | aco private contracts will " rae. ‘ of the Milk Drivers’ union, repre-| @ meeting Tuesday morning in the entral « ¢ ’ 2% m senting the early-rising deliver: : Those holding contracts for pet “— f |men out on atrike for more pay.” | building to put strikebreakers to work Wi 4 1 supply will be recompensed, roy OFFICER. SHIP genised to pay a tait amount ot % ah. : Abaya ET a sectnt Blof nesday morning. genized to pay a fair amount of 4 f - ey . . The Brookiyn dairy ; het Jak. ie 10 direet the diplomatic} WN Robb, secretary of the yn : \damages: to “fodttviduale and Fe" 9 rad maneuvers with the strikers. ilk Dealers’ association; A. ¥ had announced an inet ms } On the scales—Young Lewis! Bird, manager of the Pure ‘tik | wager to employes May 1, at Eiken Smith, infant son of Mr. and| Dairy, and 8, Stray, manager of} time they instituted a 20 per e Mrs. W. Merrill Smith, 3207 33rd/the Seattle dairy, were appointed |increase in prices. Relations jave. &., representing the Royal So-| by the dealers to conduct the fight|@rivers were apparently | ciety for the Consumption of Lac-|against the union j8nd no trouble was expected. a | 4 | teal Beverages, whose several thou-/ When dairies ennounced an in-| “We are ready to go to work Om } {sand mem are kicking vigor-|crease of 20 per cent in the aot five minutes’ notice when f » Jously against any unnecessary de-jof milk, to become effective May | Wage 1s granted,” said Ruffeorn, | ieee in settlement. 1, the drivers’ union demanded aj} “We are making plans to standard wage of $110 a month for | the demands to the last ditch. drivers and $90 a month for inside OVertures have been made to porations where private work { a4 — $—The Sopped and the product of plants | eee og Ae army taken over. All of the steel plants | | eee seine veleased the tollow- of the country will be speeded up| Ing partial list of men who have °" the government work been selected for enrollment tn the Work for Government officers’ reserve training camp, to Supplies for bridge building begin at. the Presidio May 15 A. Steel skyscrapers and in the ma emall supplementary Mat. will be/!® of small steel articles will t Roce ahem Mar 11 halted and all of the plants turned | Tt included the following Seattle |‘ 8ip work. The council of na | 3 tional lense has an inventory of * &% + ££ & & en r The dairymen called men: all of the-stee!, coal, fron and coke t] ere cise tae aitrare 108 ak | moeting: Sie none cae i Donald Abel, Clemant Akerman, uite: dete eaaniry ind. of. tie agreed to give the drivers $105 and a U. 8. Attorney Clay Allen, Frank 2 F Ghia SE Recut fa pre have not discussed the schetiuie| #ble that full plans for figi s E. Allen, Otto D. Anderson, P. Cas | | “ a the strike will be formulated am for the other workers. At present | re sius Beszley, Cherrill R. Betterton, | vase lh lg ] ee JAPAN BLAST :: drivers have a minimum of|that time. ; k. Bi Ab FH | $90, a hrag { about $100, | ‘ Leo 8. Black, Roger M. Bon | Tt Star and the public are not great- \$ ), an average wage of about $ | Secretary C. Rutfcorn, ¢ ‘ ies Weavendor, Bales Brindley erie aa eeebensiited thet toast * . | |while the inside men get $60 a) the Milk Drivers’ union, i nme ge toe ¢ oe industries will be taken over or op | ly concern over the points in con- SAN FRANCISCO, May §—Fity | eter : al batik nae ee Soler: ey . OE eager el iyg? pgp rs peag ted cascineh tor the overs AS ITS LOBBYIST troversy tween the milk dealers and rsons were killed and many in-|ing es usual, Tuesday morning, the; dairies were making deli oe fF. Butler, Clarence H. Carlander, be 3 . “Le: . jured, 4,000 residences were de-| Brooklyn and the Northwestern) with union drivers, to / ardner W. Carr, Camillus Chris-| ent, and all damages pald to otn the striking wagon drivers. heving granted the increase de-| they were paying thd. ‘an, ric W. Clark, Donald H ark, Lioyd T. bran, James a oar ee ae ee TACOMA, Wash., May 8. The Sta: { th bli: ARE | stroyed and over 30 factories, ware- | nded. Robb, secretary of the Con vi Tully es an D, 9 4 tinued on 1 ‘ coats ee i cca * Ghat y ie public con- |houses and public buildings demol- eel denna ide, ena thar ( page 10) * Colvin, Horace 1. Cook, Tully KR. : | Discovery of a acheme to hire > agit 30 Salt Ht te-the uty_snd ne} Diererery, otf eoneme we hire cerned, however, about. the possible shea as « reauit of a powder ex-| the scale would be reducai DY these Cornick, William J. Coyle and Ed DP p plosion at Osaka, Japan, on Sun-|concerns by Wednesday morning, con.| @ressman, as a lobbyist for the | . * 5 ; erate, Wile nee taal ea ae eee | Terman is Sar pen nes || PRRRe EN the situation to the health of Jans, according to a. private cable |8R¢ if this is done thelr employes his is as far as the Tist went) is said, interfere with the navai| caused such # stir in this city Seattle babies. |today to tho Japanese-American | torn secretary of the uni WHEN SHI t press time. program that other graft charges have ° ° * | us corn, secretary of the union. d Private shipbaiidiag cdatrects| alee. come. to the eurfose, | Babies need fresh milk. If the fail- |News ot Sin Francisco Manager Livingston of the North-| om : } |and all other considerations are to| Humphrey was to be paid $500 ure of the employers and emplo es to | western dairy, however, said the an| NE . Ma The Gree NEWS FROM THE FRONT | be pushed aside to meet the grear-|% month out of public funds. It is ploy u ‘ ploy rangement of his concern with | steamship Parthenon has been sume” / es est war urgency of the hour.” The |Uaderstood that Humphrey Is now) agree upon wage terms is going to break |BANKER COLLIER [arsed he Rowe ret kee) cen, [07 * submarine, ecoonding Siam ie eS : : oi sbbying at the national capita r Pee ea? | tle , today b; Seen” sox Sanding | |\crery national rere caches [fora Beattle ship concern down the milk-distributing system so UP BEFORE JUDGE. :'::': 22°" 28%¢, Tuesday. wnetner Neen pages a bed ova H ¢ ‘ : : * fon men would continue working | ban : | out on food economy, “To do | | men and materials—to the building Expose Graft s un h “ jf without catsup, chili sauce and || program. Workers for steel as| The Tacoma Times exposed the that these babies will suffer, then it be —— for him at the new scale. |uea at $4,000, a 1k spuds when we can.” And who | | well as for wooden ship construc | plan Following upon the Hum comes a duty which these men owe to i. W. 1. Goliter, former preeident of] : 4 j benefit? tion are being recruited all over|phrey matter, it was also shown : * he defunc orthern ank an ee i ss © the country. ty the U.S. employ. (that Clinton W. Howard, who was| Aumanity to get together, and adjust | ‘trust Co. contesned emberzier of L ae | Something like having the | | ment service of the department of | appointed federal judge by Preni M My $32,000 of the bank's funds, was ‘ | grocers and butchers knock a | | labor. dent Taft, but was not confirmed, 2° Se alae AND TO DO IT scheduled to be arraigned petore ff their weights. } _ Attorney DB. C. McCord of Seattle, > Judge Everett Smith ‘uesday, to| 2 2. <4 ee oes jwho figured prominently tn the Q r e plead to a charge that his steallngn (Strike Delays Delivery to City Pupils | Der kaiser’s idea of a victory | | |DAYLIGHT SAVING | Judge Hanford impeachment pro | ‘ The public doesn’t care how. The jamounted to a total of ero Several. tyubierate’= 0b the "EAGAN cto ecltherace's 1 a | strikeout a | |ceedings in Seattle, and P. C. Sul . ’ . . stead of between $30,000 and $32,| § 3 : vee | is like labeling a it eatian Pincers ciskt ublic doesn’t care which side makes fins he told the court last month. public school youngsters came|the milk. Stewart went. | home run. jlivan, a i-known Pp . ‘ge —— ad clan, received $15,000 for legal| the necessary concessions. The public Collier pl 1 guilty to the for-| close to eating their peanut but- hens nechoel hocdccartenn ae j . rvices, altho the county already mer charge of grand larceny and bit | 1 said } The Consumers’ League of Wash- A VOTE OF 7 T0 2 had a special attorney has enough to worry about these days was sentenced by Juisge Smith to (F sandwiches without Weir cus he had no milk. ‘There wasn’t any “| } ington will open the community len vi Further revelations brought out io hi serve from one to 10 years in the tomary pint bottles of milk today|one there to load it for him, he — . tival at § o'clock Tuesday evening | Council has indefinitely postpon-| the fact that a gigantic scheme had without this added burden. state penitentiary for his crime on account of the milk strike. But |said, and he didn't want to do it at the Fred Marino building, 5811/44 consideration of Councilman been launched by which the pur. A d * th ti M H ss it was not altogether because of |himself.; When questioned further Duwamish ave. Hanna's daylight savihg ordinance. | chase of the necessary tract was to nd in the meantime, rs. rouse: the general strike of milk-drivers |it came lout that there were some : = Aire meting. Hanna and be made outrigh'. rather than b»| wife, if your milk is not delivered, get | THIEVES TAKE TUB iri... cor acount has tee te tele eee : uae pea Fitzgerald were the only friends of condemnation, a plan which would . +H | Pacey tay ver | Sec: y } ADVERTISING MANAGER'S |the measure, and the motion to|cost the county thousands of dol-| it at the corner grocery. The milk deal- — very day the “dairies deliver | Secretary MecAdam, of the: eeliall J 7 DAILY TALK postpone consideration was car | jars extra. H] 3 Kitchen faucets, a bath tub,’ hundreds of pint bottles of milk to| board, told him he was taking om J ried, 7 to 2. The people of Pierce county vot ers are going to make a supreme effort, wash basin, sink, lead pipe, chan-|the schools for the use of children | ders from the school board and Rod . * | 2, O pet. + i i |deliers and incandescent globes|who bring their lunches. Today,|from the dairy workers. . . inteapebiins theatre que sent pg (timate | they say, to give the retail dealer in your wero stripped from houses for rent| when the dairy wagons did not| When last seen, Stewart ha@ A Big Opportunity ing belief that {f Seattle time was |¢—— «| neighborhood a sufficient supply to meet Jat 4117 ami 4123 KE. dist st. by come, the school board ordered Ar-| transformed his truck into ® milks * advanced, confusion would result READ. STAR WANT ADS” @ | thieves, accoriing to reports made | thur Stewart, who drives a supply | wagon, and was going about his for you may be in the} yas the basis of mort opposition. I the demand. __ to the police Tuerday. ___Itruck to the school building to go|new route. ads any day—today, in si a fact. The advertising| 4 columns are the great é + means of communication | between people. 7 Today— BY MILTON BRONNER O'Connor joined the Firat Life Dead “In one house we saw two Ger-|time, Probably an hour elapsed] rous acts of our German enemy. 1] dead enough. At any rate, ene Mehaees Deeutens © NEW YORK, May 8—“When |Guards of the Household ei eniry | Naked Women, ieee ransacking the drawers of a] between the ending of the artillery | was put out of business by bayonet] of the Germans clubbed’ me Keech: er f ey 4 ting the [and saw service in Belgium and Proved Atrocities | bureau. On the floor were the|fire and our going over, as we say,| wounds thru my left arm and side} across the jaw with hie rifie i, inh in. 2| | hear Americans doubting the | trance, taking part in the defense| “My regiment was-helping in the|dead bodies of two naked girls,/and taking tho place. Tt was in a field over which the| butt, p Htanson & Son ..---Page 2) truth of the stories of German | to Calais, the battle reat fight to keep the Germans horribly mutilated and cut open “In that hour we Life Guards. | rival forces fought back and forth.| “When I woke up ten weeks later Grote-Rankin Co. Page 3 | of the road to Calais, attles at | great fig Pp ns | WoodhouseGrunbaum Co. “| atrocities in Belgium and | Ypres, Neuve Chapelle, Loos, Hill| from going Calais-ward It was| “No Germans got out of that! men could hear a constant | Was Clubbed Tho T was in a war hospital in 2 Se aeiemece Pa 5| France, | don’t know whether | 60, Hohenzollern redoubt, Armen-| during the battle of Ypres. We | house alive! screaming In the redoubt. It He W: Ww ded | belng nursed by ex-Queen Amelia a arate aaee ; tleres, Arras and the great Somme |took a little Belgian village from| ‘The next time 1 myself saw| was the terrible, anguished le Was Woun of Portugal. The war office reds % pees D0.» meee 5] to teugh or ammer, As one of | tensive the Germans. German atrocities was later in the| crying of many women. In the During one of those scrimmages, | ords show I and others had been i Chicago Miatit Parlors ..Page 6) the firet hundred thousand Eng- “As, with my comrades, } |campaign, when we fnally took| sector of the redoubt which our |a German came along and, secing | buried partly by debris thrown by * MECormack Brow. -cPaBe Stand sent to battle, | not only In the latter he was permanently charged thru the streets, | ‘amous Hohenzollern redoubt.| regiment captured, | saw the me lving there helpless, hacked a huge German shell. They found i io naps 2| saw atrocities committed by 4 ‘sabled, and ret red from service. | tne nates bodies of women, we were wonderfully | bodies of at least 80 women, | thru my boot, cutting off three of life in me, but it took all those 4 i aogeaa He was decorated by the king for! Ging and babies. They were |strong. The Germans had dug| many of them. stark naked. |my toes. By wll power alone I weeks to bring me around, “Amd are 9° ses? 7) . German sulajere, put am mysely | bravaty terribly disfigured by bayonet | down 50 feet below the surface and| The savages, who had taken | remained conscious even then I could not. talk arche P p 10 ” \ Q , Seton & Shed ‘Paw 19| 2 Vietim of thom. Over in Brooklyn,” sald he, “I ba, even those of helpless had comforts down there approxi: these women away from their “When | saw the Germans The tap that German soldier ai ~ ‘Aterllebcntad cad 80 said A. H, O'Connor, a Brook- | had many German acquaintances| bable | mating those of a hotel—real rooma| French villages, and held them | retreating, | closed my eyes | xave a wounded and prostrate foe , \iyn boy, who, with his father and | and when I read of German atroct You know, in those village|with beds, carpets on the floor,| captives here, had committed and. played dead, knowing the | kept me dumb for six months, HE FASTEST GROWING PAPER y : y e I could not believe | fi we had to chase the Ger-| mirrors on the wall, lights, ete. awful crimes. Huns have a habit of clubbing ven now amy sudden nervous T five other members of his family, | ties in Belgium hte, IN THE NORTHWEST rakes me shudder | at one house to an-| “We subjected this redoubt to a] “In the first Somme offenetve 1| wounded men to death as they | shock keeps my vocal cords pare crossed the Atlantic and joined the|them. Now it makes me shudder| mans oyt from on ,] 4) when I think of what I have seen, other, like terriers after rats, terrible artillery fire for a long| personally experienced the chival- retire. Perhaps | did not look alyzed for from five to six hours."{ eee | ar,