The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 21, 1918, Page 1

i naw | | as _ Bame the peace delegates. ~ the council of six believes America CO ULL Leased Wire of the United Press Association. F p ONL ETE Service of the News- paper Enterprise Association. NO, 252 oS aaa VOLUME 21. WILL WE SIX RULE Sen. Lodge IN GERMANY Would Hem AT PRESENT’ Germans In Republican Doesn't Think Wilson’s Peace Plans Are Practicable So Declares Philip Scheide- mann in Interview With Star Reporter SOLDIERS NOT IN POWER BY EDWARD M. THIERRY N. BE. A. Staff Correspondent BERLIN, Dee. 21.—Philip Scheidemann, holder of the purse strings of the social democratic WASHINGTON, Dee. 21 Calling President Wilson's league of nations idea “captivating and attractive,” Senator Lodge, re- publican floor leader, today seri- ously questioned its practicabil- ity as @ working plan to keep the peace of the world. coalition government, tells me in An attempt to form an effective an Interview that he and Ebert jeague now, Lodge said, ean only and their four associates in the tend to “embarrass the peace that cabinet are supreme in Germany. “We are not under orders of the Soldiers’ and Workmen's Council,” he asserted. “The Soldiers’ and Workmen's Council is but a temporary body pending the gathering of the national as- sembly. Only the Liebknecht group desires that it be made we ought to make many “Intelligent with Ger. discu | difficult when the ieague of nations drape themselves in trailing clouds of glory and omit to tel! us cond tions to which they propose to bind the nations. Lodge added. Would Postpone Talk Te followed with a series of ques tiens a to who would be members of the league, whether Germany is to be included and whether «mall ations are to have a vote equal to the large ones Lodge urged postponement of dix cussion of these five of the pres! dent's 14 terms until a satisfactory and binding peace treaty has been jon becomes permanent. “The majority of the returning @idiers support the present govern ment.” ‘There are three majority soctalints | and three independent socialists in} the cabinet of six, and they are unit @@ among themselves, Scheidemann | declares. This body, he asserts, will | The per-| fennel of the commission fs yet un-| League of nations; freedom of the i gee retained as foreign sec-| S88: secret diplomacy; economic qeary to the time of his resigna.|Dafriers and reduction of arma- ” ony ments. ee Senne said, “POSIT Declaring that “Germany did pot change its nature over night when | the kaiser ran away to Holland,’ Lodge demanded a peace treaty backed by physical guarantees that would make it impossible for Ger many to “break out again upon the (Continued on Page Four) confidence in Bernstortf. Scheidemann declares, is Diamed for a lot of things for which he was not responsible. Scheidemann modestly refrains from speculation as to who will be first president of the German re-| public. } His statements raise a question = TRY 0 § fo the sincerity of the earlier state ] FT ] | E ‘Mente that the recent arrest of the | sgumsnsens'sins'sSes's | TACOMA STRIKE and Workmen's council was a mis take. By chance I was in the midst of) the events of this lively evening in| TACOMA, Dec. 21,-—Representa Berlin, tives of shipyards, industrial con ten | cerns “ind business houses were ex- THIERRY WITNESSES pected to ment_with the city commis ARREST OF COMMITTEE | sioners today, to urge that some sort I had the thrilling experience of | of agree-nent be reached 10 prevent a being dashed thru the streets of Ber-| general paralysis of industry and Kin in a taxi with an armed soldier transportation by reason of the on the mudguard, shouting to his | strike of city electricians here. @omrades in the streets, “Don't Possibility of government interven moot” tion and the coming here of Imm! T had reecived a call at my hotel gration Commissioner Henry M from Hans Paasche, son of the erst-| White, of Seattle, to assist in concili While vice president of the reich | siion, gave hope of an early settle tag, and nephew of Harden. Paasche | ent’ had been entrusted with the task of| 1 “aaaition, the joint executive compiling secret documents placing | cnmittees of the two local electrical the war blame. workers’ unions issued a statement, Tearing a leaf from his notebook, | | ressing willingness to cneet with Paasche wrote me a pass to admit) 11) -ity commissioners to discuss dif me to & meeting of the committee in |) OY ON anctaring that #0. far - teggead in the Prussian diet/ 1. commissioners have not submit Tedieapasies by Harry Greenwett | td to the unions a scale of wages callie, Pose 3 ” complete schedule cov ° a went to| containing a com grungy ion aim aia ering their members at 6 0% An immense crowd of armed sol Walsh Defends Socialist Organ CHICAGO, De —~The “Ameri lean Socialist,” official organ of the socialist party, should not have been Gers had gathered in front of th building and we were swept within fn time to see the hasty exit of member» executive committee Of the soldiers’ counc Meeting no resistanc the soldiers ch gllhediesed are - sre ane ta. | barred from the mails, according to iy hall and forced it, and there de-| mony p Walsh, chairman of the tained the entire council, including | ¥a5 iabor board, who testified for Paasche é > he defense here toda trial Greenwell and myself were not at ee eee eee cha p= lowed to leave until we tipped two | Or tive scien Pldiers 20 marks—$2.50—when wi me socialist. pams - Were take or thru a side door and Placed in an automobile, Doral as chauffeur We urged haste, because Sppointment with Ebert at One soldier crouched on he said, should have be 1 & cor I had an 7 o'clock. the run Movement Begun for Labor Party Ring board, another lay over the} New YORK, Dec, 21.—A move aide of the mudguard with @ rifle) ment has been launched here to form Projecting over the headlight a political labor party thruout the We er down the Wilhelm-| country. The movement started | Straase pr on the mud-| response to a ness aésil guard ye warning, “Don't |o¢ the working people of New Yor shoot T ran the gauntlet | city Thomas J. Curtis of th @ the hu nidiers patrolling | tra Fed ed Union declared in a the cle statement the chancellory we (Continued on Page Four) Daniel President’s Ship Webster Coming With Yanks in aiteied mn sh never sent a telegram. , r te he : ye Christma The world has progress day, it w ported at the embarka- ed since the great ora- pn head ae tor’s voice became silent. hog Sag Classified advertise- cers and ments are modern company of the t magic. They point the te mtteries A. F and 5, consist 20th Century path to “a 4 eee ee cee wee ii profit. They bring buyer and seller together. 2,042 YANKEES RETURN : ee NEW YORK, Dec The White Phone ik fo Blar liner Baltic arrived in port to the classifi a 1" €4 men, eSeattlesS THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULA OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST Fntered as Becond ¢ U UNT BERNSTORFF INTERVIEWED IN TION ane Matter May 1899, at the Postoftice Noattle, Wash, under the Act of SATTLE, WASH,, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1918. NIGHT Mareh 1879. Weather Forec IZ PRESIDENT JUST PEACE IS HOPE OF PRESIDENT Must Pool Everything We've Got, Wilson Tells His Interviewer CONFIDENT OF JUSTICE | PARIS, Dee. 21.—President Wilson, in an interview with the Paris correspondent of the Lon- don Times, declared it is neces- sary that the delegates get to- gether and pool everything they have got “for the benefit of the ideals which are common to all.” He expressed confidence that the peace confe “will to reach a just and reasonable lution of the problems and earn the grati tude of the world for the most crit jeal and necessary service which has be able nce ever been rendered Replying to a question as to what is the great purpose and goal of the the maid nh man on the street can asl. The plain people of all nations are now looking with anxious speculation toward Ver, *. and | am sure t are ing thia question “*Will there be found enough wis |dom of purpose among the states: men assembled there to create a safeguard against future wars?” Share as Comrades | “The difficulties and reeponaibili ; Ues—some of them very urgent and | Pressing-—which bave been presented by successful termination of the war | must be shared By the great nations Ax comrades of the leas powerful aa tions.” The president was asked why he preside we came to Europe To me the answer seems ob vious," he replied. “The issues which must be determined at the forthcoming conference are of such overwhelming importance that the Don’t Forget Firlands Ww‘ weren't going to ask Star readers to dig down for a Christmas fund this year. The Red Cross is handling the Christmas party for service kiddies so well, and the Post-Intelligencer is doing such fine work with baskéts for the poor, that we concluded we wouldn't confuse the situation. But there’s one thing we've just got to remind Se- attle about. Out at Firlands tuberculosis sanatorium 25 youngsters and 1 and lonesome. ‘They can't have their friends come out, as in former years, because of the influenza, Christmas always means so much to the tired-out Firlands family. Two years ago, and last year, they had a splendid big party. Star readers gave them a movie machine two years ago, and the film people, and the musicians, and a lot of other good souls saw to it that Firlands had a real Christmas. Now this year we can't have a party. The influenza risk is too great. But the Anti-Tuberculosis league will send out a package to every patient, and a warm sweater and warm stockings to every child, if the rest of us will just chip in. We thought if we told you about it your conscience will get busy. Then you can run up to room 348 Henry building and hand over some money. Or you can mail it to the league at the above address. You'll have to hurry. The time is short, and it’s quite a job to get things together. We're leaving it to you. And you've never failed. are grown-ups who are sick, Jealous; He Shoots at Boarder, but— , Ye Gods and Little Fishes! Bullet Bounces Off His Victim | Willis Moore, 55 years oki, and us| to his upstairs room to “slick up” be ing crutches, shot at Gus KE. Pear-|fore going downtown. Downstairs non, 29-year-old boarder, this morn. | *usPicious, sat Moore ing, becaune, it ie alleged, Moore| PFesently, according to police alle : z ations, he arose in greeneyed an suspected Pearson of supplanting him in his wife's affections tor guish of soul, and secured the re | Volver that must have seen service in prehistoric wara. He fiercely, the summoned both Mrs Unfortunately the success of United States refuse to sbare | his enterprise, Moore used a revoly-| police may, with the a great responsibil | er labeled by the police aa No. 1 of Moore and Pearson down to the ity toward civilization, And it is} the first revolver ora, The cartridge | kitchen, only by the frankest personal coun- was old and the powder damp. And, police allegation runs, when sel with the allied statesmen that I| After striking Pearson squarely | be got Pearson into the kitchen, he n, in some measure, assist in the | between the shoulders, the bullet | raised the revolver with firm resolve solution of these probleme. I hope it will be my privilege in the near future to confer with the allied statesmen in France, also to visit the allied countries and learn by personal contact as much as I (Continued on Page Four) Mayor ‘Learns He Can’t Tie a Knot Mayor Hanson cannot perform marriages. This was discovered by the mayor Saturday morning, when he looked up the law on the sub ject. Lieut. F. D. Gore, former anaistant engineer of Kitsap county, just back from over rk out license to tarry Mias Drake, this city Mayor as called in as a witn uggestion was made, “You marry us, Mr. Mayor A hurried scurrying among law books by the m retary re. sulted in the cance ion of this plan The y left to make Murphine and Case Are Reappointed Reappointment of Thomas Mur phine as superintendent of public utilities, and Charles H. Case ax su perintendent of streets, was sched sled to be made by Mayor Hanson aturday reappointment of officials is for a these thr two ar city period S. F. Labor Won’t Send Delegate to Mooney Aid Mee AN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21.—La bor here will not be represented the big Mooney protest labor ing, in Chicago, Janu 14, The bor council last night voted, 82 not to send a delegat The action was over the plea of Mother” Jones that the council take ynanimous action to send but not or our t he said BOMB CHARGES AGAINST ED NOLAN DISMISSED SAN FRANCIS Dec 1 Charges inst Ed Notar the five preparedness parade case defendant dropped toda trict office be di of bomb one were Moone and re her defendar month th fuse that there It had been charged the home, ion was made ugainst him. bomb wa 1 bail, altho adm no ca made at Nolan stop unable to proce Pearson | and shot Pearson—in the back naid it felt as tho 4 mosquito stung! The bullet hit Pearson in the back him and bounced off. It cooled on the Then the pair were hauled down | floor. Moore was too dispirited to to se headquarters sh again, and then some one eyes and blond ded with the years rvon has blue and has by Moores for two Matters reached a 513 1 y morning at 8 thought of the happy expedient of sending for the police. Roth Moore and Pearson are held at the city jail the temporarily. Roth expect to be re Tr leased shortly, Pearson will board d gone \elsewhere hereafter, he declares climax at boarding house 8 Pearson ave. ‘You've Guessed It! Saturday ls the Shortest Day of the Year! ® Saturday, Old Sol raised himaelf|the elusiveness of life, to force vis feebly over the horizon at the ex-| ualizations of time hot-footing it in }treme southeast of the city, took one disgu look at the Smith general direction of eternity building, and, with a groan, started Ra Mmping in the general direction of ally, the night, symbotic the We tide-flats of space and darknes 1 snores Old Sol was very low down and | will be the longest in the year, th feeling miserable, I seemed affirm, to | have the flu or somethin He inday, the ladies and Reginnlr ered toward the southwest, intent | old men can sit around the fireplace m but one thing. ing. and chat on how the days are “draw entie reader, Saturday ins out the sun ent day in the ‘ear At wi recov from hi sick least, so say the calendar sharps. ness, the days grow longer, and the It's a day to make man feel hin| night close-wrapped in sable mort to arouse conceptions of | shroud,” grow shorter SHIP WORKERS WANT HOLIDAY PORTLAND. ROLL CALLTO — GO OVER A DAY Solicitors for the Red Cross Christ Dec, 21.—Interesting mas roll call will continue thru Mon-| developments are expected today as lay, and posstbl day, it was an-/a result of the determination of the nounced from headquarters Saturday | wooden shipyards here to continu noor ratic thruout Saturday, not «nizing the action of the union in favor of a half-holiday Twenty-one of the 22 unions form vt according to drive leaders, 4 because there must be no doubt but that full quota is subscribed, and ing the Metal Tr council of th this matter, with incomplete returns, | Columbia river district, representir would be in doubt were the drive to! 39.000 workers, announced end Saturday night, as wag sched.|¢@¥ they would cease labor at noon : | today and ¢ Saturday hereafter, ule | the object be to provide work for It is estimated that at t one-| more men and preclude i” un halt of the $200,000 quota has been | employment during the reconstruc ubscribed, possibl high as $150.-] tion 4 d 000. Scattered returns from the resi-| ‘The employers announced today dence districts are holding up the{that their whistles will blow at the general count, and prevent a fair usual time today, and that work will proceed with as many employes as are on the job, predicting that there | will be plenty on hand estimate | Booze Plans Foiled by Officious Police Lloyd George Paper With the idea of selling Hquor at $10 a quart, Mrs: Marie‘ Bawyer for League Plan Great Falls, Mont ‘ording to fed-|icle, Premier Lloyd George's person eral authorities who have arrested! al organ, prominently displays a spe her cial dispatch from Geneva, urging Liquor is alleged to have been] that need of the league of nations is found in her sult case upon her ar-| evidenced by the situation In Galicia | rival, Her bail has been set at $1,000, |and the Ukraine, FORMER FOE Enemy Ship Problem Is MINISTER IS Problen FOR LEAGUE Not Decided : Says U. S. Delegates Did) Not Agree to Any Talk of Sinking Hun Fleet Tells United Press Man He Was Not Hatcher of Conspiracies — HEADS FOREIGN WORK PARIS, Dee, 21.—-The report that | the American commissioners had de | BY FRANK J. TAYLOR | cided to advocate sinking of the sur- | Copyright, 1918, by the United Press| rendered German fleet is “pure! BERLIN, Dec, 20—(1145 a | hunk,” a high authority informed m)—The German people feel that their political salvation is |e United Press today contingent upon the successful Submitting suggestions regarding Inauguration of @ league of na- | the German fleet or guessing how it tions, according to the opinion of | wii) be disposed of ure among the Count Johnann Von Bernstorff, — gavorite pastimes here at present former German ambassador to | pne game applies to disposition of the U. 8. | the former kaiser. | Bernstorff, who knows the | As a matter of fact, nothing in re-| American president personally gard to either has been decided | better than any other German in upon, A great number of proposals public life, is optimistic over the | have been received, but they have outlook for a peace settlement — not yet been discussed | along the lines advocated by The American commissioners cer Wason tainly have arrived at no decision His First Interview i regarding the general shipping sit | Rernstorff, who, since his recall, ton from Turkey, has been acting tech- Several angles were expected to be nically as foreign secretary under | taken up today, however, when Ed win Hurley m representativ the social government, gave ‘the Great Britain, France and Italy. United Press today the first public utterinces which he has directed at | America since our declaration of war against Germany. | “The people of Germany are over-| whelmingly aware that their salvar | ten, a» well as the salvation of the! lentire world lies in a strong league! ‘of nations founded on a peace of jus-| | Uce and right.” he declared. LIBERAL FREED ° Cth ae San bo iP ES 2 FC inage charges tpdiaet WW ie Bouck, of Bow, Wash., former organ- iver for the Farmers’ Nonpartisan league, were dimnissed by United States Distri-t Judge J. Neterer Sat |urday, on the motion of Clarence L. Reames, special assistant to the | United States attorney, for lack of evidence. The charges were made in were involved in plots against the | 4" indictment returned by the fed- Waited. States era] grand jury. His trial was to . | have taken place in January, 1919. | Denies Comnpinnciee - Bouck was charged with uttering He did, however, emphatically | seditious speeches before a public deny that he was in any way impll-| gathering at Bow during the war. He cated in any such conspiracies. With-| way alleged to have said that the war | Jout consenting to be quoted on this was a rich cnan’s war; that it would point, Hernstorff reiterated his state- | the coming peace conferences, bless: | ing the entire war-weary world.” An attempt at this point to draw the ex-ambasaador out on other lines failed. He refused absolutely to dis- cuss at thix time the charges made in the U. S. that Capt. Boy-Ed and Capt. Von Papen, former attaches of the kaiser's gmbassy in Washington, : : i jeontinue until the profiteers made ment, made on leaving the &., in} millions of dollars. 1917, namely, that he had done ev Atuetey fecmne, cepaalanl alk erything in his power to prevent a break with the U. 8. He asserted that he had never for a moment doubted the gravity of this error on the part of the Germans Returning to the subject of the league of nations, which, with the (Continued on Page Four) after a thoro investigation, he found 26 witnesses who mac himself der clared he was a supporter of the war and Liberty bonds | WARNS BRITAIN OF At my | i os | To Organize U.S. | pxnon Sena mene Army on New Lines | newspaper National warns the Brit WASHINGTON, Dec. 21—Organt-|18h people that it would be suicidal | zation of the United States army on to enter a naval building competition Thee baa been uiaeene with the United States, declaring if Charles T. Menoher, for there is to be any naval supremacy commander of the Rainbow di e the utterances charged. Bouck the charge and de at it will be American, not Brit ish. vision, and later leader of the Sixth is corps, has been named by Chief of Staff March as director of the air| CHICAGO AND NEW YORK service AIR MAIL IS SUSPENDED WASHINGTON, Dec, 21.—Aerial mail service between New York and Chicago was ordered halted by Post- Menoher is on his way home, but | pending his arrival, Col, J. A. Morris | will be acting director of the service. As General F ntil Jan Sentence Doctor atine, Saher pati to Reformatory The suspension is due to the con dition of the motors, 90 per cent of Dr. 1. N. Donaldson, found guilty on the charge of robbing influenza vic- | Which overheat tims at the King county emergency hospital, was sentenced to serve) WILSON TO LAND AT DOVER | from one to 15 years at the Monroe | LONI“ Dec, 21 When Presi lretormatory by Superior Judge |}dent Wilson comes to England, he | Mitchell Gilliam Saturday will land at Dover, the Evening Louis Kimmell, convicted on the| News stated today charge of robbing E. Rice on on Ee vember 4, was sentenced to serve | (~~~ from five to ten years at the a a ee" To Try Flight | Across Ocean | BY DON CHAMBERLAIN Sorbonne to Give President Degree ; PARIS, Dec. 21.—President Wilson |} (United Press Correspondent) will receive the first of |} LONDON, Dec, 21,—Katherine } Honoris Causa ever conferred by the ' Stinson, American atrix, an- { famous Sorbonne university j nounced today that she will at- { } tempt to fly from Europe to { rh rbonne is an institute for) America { the study of theolog wlenc nd!) — she expressed confidence in her } literature, founded by Richa ™ ! ability to do what no mere man bonne in 1255 ppg egy a { Miss Stinson ts the first pilot of } ALLEGED INTERSTATE ) ner sex to fly over London, She | } accomplished the feat yesterday { BOOZE PLAN SMASHED } in a tiandiey-rase machine \ | Nathan Lewis, logger charged |) Tr American girl was schedul. } | with bootlegging, was bound over to|) ed to fly to Paris today, where she } lthe federal grand jury Saturday, at |) will enter the employ of the Red } |his hearing before United States |, Cros According to local offi Commissioner R. W. MeClelland, He |\ cials of the Red Cross, she will be ig charged with transporting liquor |) sent on a flight into Germany to | from Minnesota in suit case search out unreported ) Vernee Puro, salesman, arrested |) camps, where, it is about the same time, has been com there are many missing American mitted to jail on the same charges |! soldiers ‘for failure to deposit bond with the!, She may be accompanied by | commissione Puro came from Al i. nore 0. LKR AA RAR AA RAAAIEE idaho, BY GOVERNMENT the leadership of President Wilson, nied Bouck had | BERLIN EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Per Tear, by Mail, $6.00 to $9.08 BRITISH TO ASK AIMS IN RUSSIA Question Gains Utmost Im- portance in Discussions Thruout Entire Empire AGAINST NEW INVASION BY LOWELL MELLETT (United Press Correspondent) LONDON, Dec, 21—President Wilson, arriving here after Christmas, will be urged by lib- eral leaders to define his attitude toward Russia, Many officials regard the Ras- sian situation as one of the most important problems confronting the world. The belief is express- ed that, inasmuch as Wilson probably will publicly discuss freedom of the seas and the league of nations, he should also explicitly define another of his 11 principles, self-determination, and its application to Russia. Such action on his part, it is be- s Of | lieved, certainly will clarify the situ- ation. The controversy regarding the continued presence of allied forces in Russia is involving every one in the empire with any pretense of political opinion. It must be given fresh impetus by rumors that the British government plans to send a great expedition to occupy Petro- Grad, Moscow and other centers this winter, Even the liberal newspapers, in- cluding Lloyd George's personal or- gan, the Chronicte, “they will | bitterly oppose any plan contemplat- ing further military action against Russia, | Opinion is divided here as to the |thoroness of Lord Milner’s explana- ton of the government's attitude to- ward Russia—that the allied armies must remain to prevent the spread lof “barbarism” thruout the country, and to protect the “najority of the people from the Bolshevikt. In some quarters the secretary's statement is accepted without re- serve, but a number of papers and civilian groups maintain the govern- ment should clearly define its plan of campaign in Russia, and make it | evident that we are not pursuing il- [legitimate ends. BROCHDORFF IS HUN MINISTER COPENHAGEN, Dec. 21.—Count Brochdorff, of Rantzau, minister to Denmark, has been appointed Ger- man foreign minister, a Berlin dis- patch announced today. STOCKHOLM, Dec. 21.—The con- ference which will elect a president of the German republic will assem. ble December 29, a Berlin dispatch | stated today SWEDISH FLEET OFF ESTHONIA COPENHAGEN, Dec. 21.—The Swedish fleet has appeared off the Esthonian coast, according to a diss patch from Konigsburg today. Bok shevik forces eported to be re- turning from the Wesenberg front. Wesenberg is 60 miles southeast of Reve are British Order Foe Councils to Quit Their Activities AMSTERDAM, Dec, 21.—The Brit- ish governor of Cologne has ordered the workm to discont n’s and soldiers’ councils tue their activities at once on both banks of the Rhine and te evacuate all public building I. W. Ww. Cases Are Delay y Order AME 21.—Trial of LW charged with to oppose the draft, was late until De conspiring adjourned cember GOVERNMENT TO OWN MINES IN GERMANY yesterday BY FRANK J. TAYLOR (United Press Correspondent) BERLIN, Dec (Night)—The arbeiter soldatenr t its al ses- sion, adopted a measure providing for government ownership of mines 1 all essential idustric Tt also istructed the people's council to te WOLGAST IS COMPETENT LOS ANGELES, Dee, 21.—Ad Wok competent to handle his $90. , the court ruled, ast is 000 esta i t