The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 13, 1917, Page 1

wa 3 PULL LEASED WIRE SERVIC VOLUME 19 Nitich pitiees ASSOCTATIO THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF The Seattle Star ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST TITLE, WASH., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1917. NIGHT EDITION WEATHER VORHCAST night fair Wednestay wh jeattl PRICE ONE CENT fy*9 CHIEF BECKINGHAM ARRESTED i: fi DeLiberty ee * * THE HUMAN FACTOR Pacific Telephone Co. has gone to lengths to Perfect equipment and machinery to modern standards, but they make the mistake of failing to view the human factor from a 1917 stand- point. The least the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. can do, if it wants to be con- fered truly American in these fateful ays, is to treat with the girl operators as a union, recognize their organization, meet them, talk matters over, and reach some agreement. Collier's, a week or two ago, pointed a moral with the story of a young sprinter who had a “great idea.” He told it to the trainer of the coll track team. “IT can run yards now at top speed,” he said. “And the greatest distance a man can run at top speed is about 400 yards. Well, suppose 1 run 50 yards today at top speed, and tomorrow 51 yards, and if | increase it each day a yard, why can't | get it to the point where | can run a mile at top speed?” “No reason at all,” the trainer replied. nm at all, except that you're human.” » The telephone company, too, is forgetting the lan element. Its instruments are the best in world. It has perfected an intricately wonder- ful switchboard. Its accounting system is modern, up-to-the-minute. Its transcontinental service is the marvel of the world. But the one thing that cannot be cold- bloodedly card indexed is the human element. The company officials are laboring under the idea that it can be done. That was the sprinter’s mistake, too. In 1910, the company might have been able to maintain that idea. The sprinter was not taxing the human element with a 50-yard run at top speed. In 1912, and im 1914, and in 1916 even, the com- pany might have regarded itself as of different clay. But in this, the year 1917, the Pacific Tele- phone and Telegraph Co., and other corporations, are a collection of human beings. And their opera- tors and electrical workers are human beings. They've got to meet on an equal plane. ey cannot do so except thru collective argaining. The recognition of the girl operators’ union is a human factor that in this year of 1917 cannot be ignored. ege 100 “No " PEOPLE RUSH TO BUY $25,950. WORTH OF CITY GAR LINE BONDS WAY TO SEATTLE @ty bond buyers, anxious to hel extend the municipal car ti into Ballard, had absorbed s 0 of the $40,000 issue at Tuesday. hey continued to stand in line waiting for a chance to in vest in the 6 per cent bonds, and turn their money over to the new r line fund. Approxim rd of the 67 uyers T turned in » for the mo 1 exch e bonda ‘ash, for Liberty Bonds have been made ith a local bank to convert all Lib- @ty Bonds into cash ‘Th of bonds direct to the eyes of Mayor to see me MOTHER AND SON le will open up the Jot of our financial advisers Gill aid. “They don’t like the people step in and finance these projects y put up the same kind of against our light inal water system, ted out that banker rs ago refused to buy bonds ur ‘ould cent interest for their | oney. The had no diffic p selling the bonds in New York for 4 per cent interest To Get Court Order $40,000 bond a By United Press Leased Wire PARSONS, Kan., 14 Wicks, 36, were shot and killed at the today by oO and her ne here man. wer » city ously city ulty Anti-Hor ociation ure being here from Kansas City, track as son as the Pres fasue is sold, the cit Superior Judge He necessary showing salable, Now submeript Just the murderer neon BLOT TO BLOW UP one, made since Monday sed Wire [But nited Press Lea 4 IN BUI DETROIT, Nov. 13—Plans to dynamite the docks of the De troit & Cleveland Navigation Co. were revealed today during the progress of police trials before Commissioner Housen The docks were to have been blown up on the night of November 2 la Cain Counaunan, $10 Anderson, $100, ‘ KILLED; GIRLS SHOT : Mr: won Har ir an unidentified Two daughters were shot, one An armed posse of members of the brought DOCKS IS REVEALED © Trotsky Wires | Newsof Victory by the Radicals Fighting in Petrograd Goes | Against Korniloff When. Army Rallies to the Aid of the Bolsheviki. BY ED L. KEEN United P eapondent The Bolsheviki claim a full vic- LONDON, Nov. 13 tory at Petrograd, according to advices received from the Russian capital today. Two proclamations, pridefully pointing to entire defeat of “Korniloff’s and Kerensky’s troops,” were received here, one signed by a colonel not identified and a second by Leon Trotsky, moving spirit of the Bolsheviki. These victory claims came on the heels of the cables via Stockholm, indicating exactly opposite developments. The Stockholm advices said Kere' nsky" s forces had become} “masters of a portion of the city.” The Bolsheviki, according to this version, were retiring | to the headquarters in the Smolny institute. } 'KERENSKY IS RETREATING,’ SAYS ‘LEON TROTZKY, BOSHEVIKI LEADER | proclamation said “The opposition of Kerensky, of the Bourgeots, and rds has been unavailing = United Press Leased Wire PETROGRAD, Nov, 12 layed.) —"Kerensky and we are on the offen: the note of vietory sounded proclamation Issued today Leon Trotaky, Bolsheviki lant b revolution of ants “Revolutionary Russia and the The bourgeois endeavored to sep-| soviet have a right to be proud of arate the army from the revolution,” | the Polkoff detachment, commanded by Col. Walden. | “Long live revolutionary. cratic, socialist Russia’ (Signed) TROTZKY ‘In the name of the people of the commiasaries.”” workmen and 5 attempted to break it demo. The effort tailed soviet’s au « phase, but ‘Trotaky’s country sees t y in not an unchangeable 1,500 KILLED IN PETROGRAD AND MOSCOW FIGHTING TO DATE about to occur. So far reports to tay indicated beth sides drawn up for an engagement at the capital, but with neither ready to strike tn/ force reported. | Anarchy Grows delay United Press Correspondent LONDON, Now 13.—Bight hundred killed and wounded at Petrograd, and 700 at Moscow, is what the Be wiki expert ment in government has so far cost Kussia, according to reli able reports reaching here today in going These 1,500 casualties will be In (Continued on page 5) | creased in the fighting which is now | in progress around Petrograd. or "| STOCKHOLM HEARS ‘SEC, WILSON QN | RERENSKY FORCES | By United Press Leased Wire STOCKHOLM, Nov. 13.—Pre- mier Kerensky’s troops have en tered Petrograd and are “mas. ters of a portion of the city,” ac cording to s Telegraph Agency dispatch received here today This ts the first word indicat ing that the fighting known to have been in progress for the past 48 hours around the capital has actually reached the city it ‘The against the | | _ SAY UNION MEN Secretary of Labor W. B. Wilson attle the latter part ictals of the atrik 1 electri in expected in yeratorn cians for the purpose of an attempt at mediation Word to this effect thru the offi that they had re-| Portland operators. Seat » dispatch aswerted that the ntrolled the cials said Tuesday offi Wilpon’s prope pect him here Arrangement ed today by meet a of 200 1 strikers who will arrive in this eity Wednesday, A permit for nsky forces now Nevsky giv was sanguinar | The Bolshe ceived no ial word concerning Prospekt but from private reports it ved fighting had been ned arrival, but ex No details were being local strikera to ure complet Acoma vik were reported by | the Telegraph Agency to be flee- 4 parade | ing to the SmoMy institute, their Scattering engagements were | FA FRIEND IN NEED AND IN DEED’ x Louis F. Swift, the Chicago packer, at right, is sustaining his son- intaw, Count James Minotto, who is under fire beforé federal authori ties in Chicago, The government questions the patrioticm of Count Minotto, an Halian, and Swift is leaving no stone unturned to prove eons innocence. 2 Shot in Gun Duel in Street shingle ked them to show their regis fon cards, uff. a bullet wound in | This demand was answered by a shoulder, as the resul |shot from one of the men. Abrams street gun duel with Deputy then began shooting yn start Sheriff Kric Abrams, who re ed to while Dawson made no ceived a flesh wound during the | effort to escape encounter, which took place late Two officers heard the shots and Monday night. | caught Gwinn James Dawson, who was with | city in being held in the county|taken to the | Gwinn expla Tues-| jail that they x Dear ighw men walk| was born in I and also turn| wife, from wh Gwinn, a is in the y run 29 hospital, while the other was ounty Jail ned at the believed Abram Gwinn explained he kley, and that his m he has separated. Jand two children, are living Hoquiam. He said he had worked recently in a mill at Aberdeen iwinn, jail nty Deputy Abrams day he was walkin born at, wh south along Sixth east. They stopped in a shadow Abrams said he approached the |men, thinking them to be holdups PHONE DECISION |ITALIANS CHECK TO RECOGNIZE UNION RIGHTS By United Preas Leased Wire SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. redint Secretary a, will announce its decis 1 the telephone strike situa tion this afternoon, it was an nounced at noon. While no statement was made by | any memt | ported the ¢ the Telephone Or commissioners will mend that the operators have a right under the constitution to form such The company will be order against explained wt a a ar 1 he saw at COUNTER BLOW WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.— The entire Italian battle front stiffened its defense against the invading Germans and carried out a number of brillant co ter attacks that indicate the gen- eral retreat is about to stop, of ficial Rome cables today stated. Veteran Italian infantry brigades reconquered positions around Gailio, in sanguinary hand to-hand conflict. ‘The town was ¢ ured well heights of com Alpiano del Settoe and enemy positions which menace the Italian flanks Ital jan brigades took it in the face o! German however, recom a union ed not to discriminate member of the union city and has been granted by the the trans-sound strikers will be corted to the Labor Temple, The joint mass meeting will be held loval F, L, McNally, superintendent of| pistorie Nevaky Prospekt the telephone company, swept thru other streets ing to unofficial Ing governmental headquarters, for refuge. where a provisional forces deployed government's the and Accord the fight- | to barri- but making resistance lo troop ther down uNnnounced conditions were being union statements that new operators 4 daily and that th Worth efficient witch boards. Bills to Be Reduced t telephone bills to, themselves, sheviki fainter the apparent to Inatitute with fainter and the strength of was made The ported hav fens a wloge The Bolsheviki numbered satiors from the garrison in| their and were fairly well armed with both rifles. and ma-| chine gur | Apparently fighting the Prospe alre Nn repeatedly with the bl of various | tionists, more put tute of de-| re- | vious d be reduced, ow been ina the to since for ruld nvenience put been atrike Both company ing the of the the Ir the officials of the tel Kronstadt and the strikers unnouncement of a decision committee, which completed estigation of the strike situa tion in Sag Francisec Local officials say the will have no direct bearing on strike, lephone wr the centered atrike de-| has cision vod revolu ithe Seattle dyed; a | gover tremendous German artillery fire Losses were heavy on both sides Between the T and Lornzago lines & large detachment of Italian troops broke thru s body of Gemans by A substantial w increase for s of the Electrical Work jon will be provided, it is amento derstood. President I, J. Bubert, of the land local of the Electrical Wor union insisted today that the west strikers desired a separate de cision He a rtland and othe an encir a furious r Berenini left for Paris, to sent the Italian government at the inter-allled war conference. to order te rns MESS OLIVERAUX ssvie «nr TQ HAVE NO LAWYER Louise Oliveraux the federal ¢ preparat announced that union men in r Northwest citte preparin lepr out of thelr As many families as pe ue the same course homes, irrested under plonage act for ntidraft By Unite | Presr Leased Wire Heged SAN FRANCISCO, third officer the department ed at Camp Loews tite idic cers here for the literature training pre ma cami n trial ne De ed to offi me ational the lo be mo wcoording t Most of the third camp will be men, and for that reason in Lit to their training in the ea Johr reuilty be for being a 1 half h over to the United St ment m ter var ve Was turned ntonments. tex marshal He was taken to the | GERMANS; DRIVE NSKY’S DEFEAT REPORTED BY BOLSHEVIKI ! Court Contempt — Charge Due to General Mixup Chief Appears in Bewildered State to Receive Apology From Judge Mackintosh in Vice Case. Chief of Police Beckingham was arrested Tuesday |morning for contempt of court thru a mistake in connet= {tion with the vice crusade and appeared before Presiding Judge Mackintosh in superior court shortly before noon im a bewildered state of mind. | The court made it clear to the chief a mistake had been {made in the issuance of the warrant and that a general mix-up had occurred in its issuance. The case on which Beckingham had been cited for con- tempt, it was explained, had been settled previously in @ | justice court, tho Judge Mackintosh didn’t know it. The warrant demanding the chief’s appearance in the © superior court called on him to explain why he had not pro= | |duced two prisoners in court Monday in answer to a habeas corpus writ. 3 “IT'S ONLY DROP IN THE BUCKET,” SAYS GREENE OF VICE CLEANUP any intimation of the length of | Ume he would allow the city to rid itself of war department quarantine. “I have written the president of the Rotary club of Seattle, telling: him that we will be lenient in the matter of time, but I want and results must follow, or the quarantine will.” When newspaper men tried to et the general to comment on the Seattle council's solution, calling on him to turn over to it evidence to back up his charge that a vice syndicate was operating under pro tection of officials high in authority, he refused to see them. Officials of the military police refused yesterday to talk of the progress made in thelr efforts to connect German money and Seattle | vice, but there seems little doubt but what they have successfully traced the relation of German Gen. Greene expressed great | money and Seattle's underworld, and faith and confidence in the co-oper-| that before long arrests will be made ation of the vast majority of Seattle | which will lay bare a concerted plot citizens in his efforts to compel the | to debauch the soldiers of the nation- al army who visit the city and ruim them morally and physically, Meanwhile, every power in the hands of the military police, the se © cret serv and the department of Justice is being turned to keep the camp and its environs clean, and al- most daily undesirables are warned the men in uniform, it will clean | to leave, and others who have flock for thelr rons and daughters.” ed here like birds of prey are am The general again refused to give | rested COUNCIL CALLS ON GEN, GREENE TO PRODUCE HIS VICE EVIDENCE were on Staff Correspondent CAMP LEWIS, Tacoma, Nov. 13.—"It is only a drop in the bucket!” This is the comment of Maj. Gen. Henry A. Greene, com- manding ( Lewis, on the ef- | forts of Se officials to clean | up the city and avoid a quaran tine which would prevent Camp Lewis soldiers from visiting it. I cannot speak with much authority,” said Gen. Greene to- day In an exclusive interview | with the staff correspondent of | The Star, “because I have only the press reports to go on, but if only 40 women out of several thousand have been arrested and if women of the underworld | | ve been driven from down | town dance halls into uptown ho- tels and lodging houses, then I say it is only a drop im the bucket,” to clean house From scores of letters I have re| wived from individuals gan: | | izations in ttle, I am convinced that the ‘worth while of the city are with us in our fight to clean the town for my soldiers They know that if it is clean for city and Council resolutions their way to Maj. Gen. H. A. Greene, commander of Camp Lewis, Tuesday, asking him to produce the proof back of his charges that 2,300 immoral women, bootleggers and gam are involved with “high in a vice syndi than a week a said he wouldn't _turn his evidence over to city ‘ed, the general's evidence will be used as the basis of an im | Wentigntion, and if Mayor Gill ts ins | cluded in the char; impeachment | proceedings will follow. Tl rouncil is also pledged by the resolutions, introduced by Council |man Thomson, to demand that Chief | Beckingham be fired if he is ins | cluded in the general's charges. Gill Favored Resolution Mayor Gill bas gone on record im |favor of passage of the resolution, | Councilmen Thomson, Moore, Fitz | gerald Haas and Hesketh voted for he measure, Lane, Erickson, Bok os nd Hanna opposed it, “Gen. Greene's notoriously pubs lished statement has charged the municipality with gross negligence,”* said Thomson, supporting his reso lution, “Our city is under fire, and (Continued on page 5) NEW ORLEANS VICE DISTRICT CLOSED By United Press Leased Wire STORYVILLE, New Orleans, Now, ..—"Storyville,” so named because shed by an ordinance named passed out at midnight last night resorts and. hotels alike the stroke of 12, at the request of the navy department, More than a third of the famous die t 000 women are estimated tox ady to have left the city, mir association has it will undertake to care of the women until ) obtain employment. "ARMOUR URGES 50-CENT PRICE FOR SPUDS NOW Nov today de the reduction of potatoes to cents a bushel will prevent fully 100,000,000 bushels of the from re fed to 13.—The Armour | lared that only 50 CHICAGO Grain Co new crop ytting or being could buy nearly would be ¢ which the mizing,” dec them all consumes neumers immense crop other foods, around $1.40 a bushel 1 that, ada:| A annou for | trey |by a may Story of existence Luxuriou on by the Armour concern were closed at paying t nd are, there m very al crop on f than last ters’ the big 8 supply. more year, a war ed urge amount ever lust vice before requesting @ — er