The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 23, 1918, Page 1

ra a wie bes ULL Leased Wire of the United F Press Association. Agony hs Service of the News- paper Enterprise Association. THE ST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ¢ Entered as Mecond Clase Matter May 2, ANY PA At the Postoffice at Seattle 1899, Wash, under the NORTHWEST NIGHT ee RI VOLUME m ROLL CALL se "SEATTLE E 1918. WASH. ? MONDAY, DECEMBER 2! @ ROLL CALL @& United Press Staff Men Who Will Write “He ,. Paris Peace Conference /o- This News Story ote Spaper Uncertain Power House Valve Breaks; Supt. Ross Rushes to | Cedar Falls J.D. city lighting Cedar Falls Monday directing the efforts of a corps of elec: Rosa, superintendent of the department, is perts working feverishly to save |Seattle from darkness Monday night. After the peak load pressure of Bunday night had passed, a power house valve broke and flooded two generators Ross and experts from his depart | ment were rushed to . power house and after working thruout the night reported Monday morning that the reserve steam plant had been gotten in sbape and would | probably be operating before Seattlc | turned her lights on Monday eve | ear } wit = wld Wh ae sprig. make @ trip Pa yy |The Cedar dam tn reported to! be Again leeking seriously, altho re porta 4 week ago showed it to be | practically sealed. j | — ROLL CALL — KAROLYI SAYS HE WILL QUIT ZURICH, Deo, 23.--Count Karolyi, addressing the Hungarian cabinet Saturday, announced his intention to |resign as premier, a Budapest div patch received today declared Previous dispatches have quoted VANDERVEER'S TALK STOPPED When the peace conference begins, Star readers may be} been asaigned by the Newspaper Enterprise association to} _ ‘Mire they will get complete and speedy news service. cover the big conference for special stories. They are| who scored a Harold Bechtol, scoop recently with the} q Above are the 10 men assigned to this task by the fipct pictures of the surrender of the German fleet, and} pi a a oe United Press. A direct United Press leased wire runs to Edward M. Thierry, who was the first American COF-| wyer, had com HamMaRi cs “asérenn The Star office TO WELCOME $00 SOLDIERS HERE TONIGHT Red Cross officials and executive In addition to this service, two men have) respondent to enter German territory since the armistice. to & meeting of socialists here Sun Whoopee! Restaurant _ONLYSEVENFLU === Wa Restrictions Off! DEATHS OCCUR ml OVER SUNDAY | tme Jagger move on 18 spokesman The id has been swept right off the restaurant restrictions and regu Influenza took a pronounced de-| in Seattle Monday, when but! the was for soldiers band y Bolshevism here, re Sunday meetings The was his not jand that no m | would be allowed, disorder. ae action of the men in uniform rought about by two of their nines who had visited the hall in George Ford, chairman of the state =e restaurant cocnmittee, and J. C. Mar maduke, chairman of the state hotel committe | While it is urged that no food be il that lations. | ing to tolerate No more small rations of sugar, or cline Members of the soldiers and sailors’| | No Bera 4, Ber cha’ the tnod: baamiatniae civilian clothes and had objected to enti either, or, aa ise, | wasted ne food administration! 4. % i D. Wcadeen 5 Welcome' committee,» Frank Gates, | read. or Muter OC eee ratte lear that former redue.| 24 new cases and seven deaths were ttteraneee ay Vanderve r We rd ‘on acco’ pi jo we pang : - epor by noo or aay sent out quickly developed the so! @hairman, are bu) with prepara For the word has thus gone forth! tions of portions, which © been eae os. es f . rp aoe an ki i y i 8 a on¢ not c ated repo: band tons for a big reception and wel-| from the state food administration to | cut to the bone in many Intsances,| HOE UN te + meaty HOLL CALL — Some to two troop trains of 900 ar- | all public eating places ee ee ee but still it in estimated. that they 4 ‘ y| “Effective today, all rules, rest ; Ce Millerymen of the 27th coast artillery | eter itty nl crctotore giv.| WASHINGTON, Dec, 22.—Wheat.| Will fall short of the average daily 91st Division Is ide, expected at the King st. sta d i hs: “ y. with other | tulls maintained last week Ms : len you are hereby revoked and re-| less and meatless days, with T h 1 130 © " till in gium tion Mi : i “ atitelcie Dinben Ween panel en ¢ sand 130 cases were re londay evening. scinded. food restrictions ‘pl ere: Mase ported for Saturday The %ist—"Wild West"—divisior One of the traina was scheduled| The notice is signed by Charles eating places by the administration | ROLL GALL ~ ot ciated themstha, Waelsand ma ‘ e foor strator;! were declared off today. | 4 : Se arrive at 9 a. m. Monday, but wax |Hebberd, state food administrator; | were declared off 4 | ka, im stationed at Denterghem, Hel aceording the war department toda to an announce @layed. This allowed the commit COUNCIL TAKES 10,000,000 Pounds of Food Are fe sufficient time to formulate a , : pis e More complete program than would Se Ss ed Fi Ge Aid iving locations of American units be * Maj. Gen. M. H. Johnson is in fee, hot rolls. tobacco and refresh WASHINGTON, Dec 23.—More| This tion was taken on recom- which went thru so of the bit Ments of every nature, are being 00,000 pounds of foodstuffs,|mendation by® cable from Herbert) ‘ rest fightin the war, aiding in a than 10,000,000 pound Hoover. This food will be the first The city council was again slated forcing the collapse of the Ger Brepared for the men. to neet the acute shortage in the + to Stalknd for civilian’ vetiel to go into debate over the traction | many. sent to Finland for civilian relief ‘a ‘ Four hundred and thirty-two #0l-| geandinavian countries, are now on ROLL CALL ya ea stqaaed hove racing ROLL CALL | Gers of the Coast artillery will! the way from the United States, the PRADA — Pe : = whine ie a be | nounced ‘ond 0 ne ha ne 4 9 the Great Northern depot at! war tr, board announced today. It |) WOODROW SURE IS } four ordinance Ing the pur Wilson at Work ang in said t » foods will reach Sweden |/ ) chase of the car ee for $15,000,000 At 520 a contingent of 416 mem- in time for Chrintmas ON TRAIL OF ONE | sere ompctea. ater "one wees) ,, 0 New Speeches Bers of the 27th » rrive at e This shipn t is not the result of 2! work rc dec reniden { Bes of the 27th will arrive at the| This ahipment i orrauppiien, the | WM. HOHENZOLLERN {tire ot tnese ordinances were| #0N was hard ut work today upon the > oa Northern depot from Camp| yo) trade board stated, “On the con-|) LONDON, Dec President §/ schedule for introduction Monday | *? hes will deliver in London Phe ide tr it represents a sharing with |} Wilwon surely is on the trail of $|afternoon—purchase ordi and Manchester and to the American he soldiers will be in ¢ fT | Le Swedish peopl commodities of |) the kaiser )| tract ordinance and interur! soldiers Christmas . omg a half-hour, when they will én) oy .0n this nation could use all it!) ‘The president is reported to )| ments | Ho inte raed this work with @ ona for Camp Lew here they | jo4 It shows the marked friendship |) have occupied the suite on the {| The fourth, or bond ordinance, | COMference with Col. House td demobilized existing between America and Swe-|) George Washington that the { which has been delaying the ROLL CALL Red Cr ted is aa” ) kaiser did several years ago, and }|thru its phraseology concerning the : es tnd can ilo to have been served by one of $/ payment of bond interest, was tore.| Walter Hines Page, WASHINGTON De 1.—The |} the kaiser’s f d| ca pecia ussion in coun “ge aa the shipment to Finland for civilian |) dent is expected to be given the {| Final passdge of the bond ordi-| | PINEHURST, N.C. Dec. 28 ; ROL relief of 10,000 tons of cereals, 2,000 |) suite Buckingham Palace in {) nance awaits sanction of the three) Walter Hines Page, recently U. § nage 0 aiser stayed durin other bills, which must go into com-| ambassador to Great Britain, 1s deac | + The “Black Death,” which ravaged tons of pork products, 1,000 tons ot |S which t kab ats 1 during ) other bills, which must go into com: ba vt. eo hath Hee mg ae sae: in 154 dustrial fats and 1,000 tons of’) his visit here in 1911, mittee after formal presentation to) here, a s unera, E In 1546, is waid to be breaking industria 5 1 services will be held ‘Tucsda, | OWE again in Asia, | sugar. | the council, it " Ye | Tonight Mysterious Shooting May Have Been Caused by Quarrel Over Woman THE ASSAILANT ESCAPES Jealousy over a woman in Yak ima may have prompted the mur der of D. A. Collins, 45, sales man, in the Hotel Diller Sunday morning. This was a clue upon which the police in Seattle are working. Collins was brutally beaten with the butt of a revolver, then shot. Blood was smeared on his pillew, indicating that he had been struck while asleep, this be- ing corroborated by a deep gash over his left eye and another on . hia cheek, Farnituro. was over- turned in what was evidently a dazed for life on the part of Colts, body was lying to the left of the door, onthe floor, when the police discovered it, several hours later. A mysterious hotel guest, who ap-| peared in the office between 3 and 4, the hour of the shooting, asking to check out, is being sought as a logic al suspect. He had scrawled his | name on the register in such a man ner that It could not be deciphered Investigation disclosed that he had been a guent at the hotel on two pre vious occasions. Seattle detectives went to Yakima Monday to investigate correspond ence between Colling and Mixs Ruby Waldy, of 211 N. Ninth st., of that city, A letter addressed to her was found in Collins’ room Karolyi as declaring that the lack of According to this correspondenc cohesion of various political factions, | the police claim, it has d »ped | together with the food and economic that more than a year ago, in Yaki situation, eventually would compe! ™&. & man appeared at the police |him to abandon control of the gov-| Station there, and asked that the | ernment. | police interfere to prevent Collins | —ROLL CALL — |paying attention to the young woman. The Seattle police department be lieve the police of Yakima knows thix man, and may be able to locate him. operatives from Captain of Tennant’s department carefully went over the ground for additional clues at the scene of the murder in Collins’ room at the Diller late Monday morning. Altho the hotel was filled at the time, only one man heard the shot and a portion of the struggle. This was Jack mond, of Fairbanks, Alaska, in a room diagonally Desmond was awakened by d sounds of a scu be nformed the and 4a. m., bh police, Desmond, however, remain ed in his room until 7 a. m., at which time he arose, dressed and told the hotel clerk Both re covered urned to the room and dis pilings @ead, According to his statements, Desmond said he heard Collins’ door open after the shot, and a sound as tho some one were ejecting a shell from a revolver ared He'd Be Shot Que ed as to why he did not investigate at the time, Desmond is said to have stated that he feared the man might take a shot at him also, that he was not certain that a crime had been committed. People seping in rooms on either of Collins’ declare they heard n fg In res! to the mo ec tives M. R. Ballard and G don, assigned to the ca primarily that the murder was un premeditated, altho this major theory may at any moment be sup: planted by another, that of rever The detectives think the assailant was a robber, who, discovered by Col lings, endeavored to silence his vic tim by a blow on the head, the affair resolving into a life and death strug gle. Collins’ valuables were un turbed Collins is survived by a brother Fr lins, and mother, both living nt 47th ave W. and Massachusetts st. Fred Collins i# an employe of the Waddy corporation. ROLL CALL Carl R. Gray May Get McAdoo Place Skinner & WASHINGTON, — Dec President Carl R. Gray, of the West ern Maryland railroad, was reported today to be slated for the place of railroad administrator, to succeed Wm. G. McAdoo, Weather Forecas @ ROLL CALL Spartacusites and Council Troops Fall in Bitter Fighting ieeintciislinateiiines 2 By United Press Leased Wire Direct to The Ster | af ZURICH, Dee ~Bloody street fighting at Easen between of the ell the forces workmen's and soldiers’ coun nd Spartacides was reported in many appar 4 dispatch There were casualties » Spartacides 4 when leaders of a torr mine were ar- | rested by agents of the workme and soldiers’ council. The Spartacides obtained rein foreements, attacked the prison, re leased their comrades and imprison- ed the soviet representatives: Shortly after, an armed mob/| }marched upon the Moiller mine and| pattempted to destroy the. plant Workmen's and soldiers’ ‘forces | planting machine guns at strategic points, met the rioters with a dead ly fire and dispersed them. Many fell, ROLL CALL EAST PRUSSIAN | CITIES SEIZED WASHINGTON, Dec. 2%.—Tilsit, | mel, Insterburg and other cities in cast Prussia have been seized by Prussian Lithuanians, who revolted from German suzerainty, according to-ndvices reaching here today. The German press, admitting this situation, views gravely the affairs of East Prussia from the German standpoint ROLL CALL — Constitution for Germany Similar to United States |": BERLIN, Dec. 21.—(Delayed.)— The constitution for the German re. public, drawn up by a committee headed by Hugo Von Prass, secre tary of the interior, follows closely eneral plan of the American ion, it was announced to- central and state governments will bear the same relationship to each other as obtains in the United The president's powers will be mewhat more restricted than those of the Acnerican executive, executive body will be compos e an equal number of re ita tives from all the proposed 14 sta Union of German-Austria with Ba varia is planned on the outline of the plementary program 1 by Herr Von Batock, —ROLL CALL South Americans Want Hun Fleet WASHINGTON America would like sll of the surrendered German fleet according to reports here today Sor unxious to th pd inter with u » of the countries are their naval stren in the increase have a share national fleet, present power. ROLL prop than eir CALI Lansing Denies Sink- “Fleet Yarn PARIS, Dec Secretary Lar sing today officially denied that the peace delegation had decid | America Jed to advocate sinking of t dered German warships discussed e surren the prop: even been osition has not ROLL CALI Turkey to Declare Herself Bankrupt || BERLIN, Dec (Delayed. Turkey will declare itself nationally bankrupt, according to a report to- day ROLL C GERMAN BOURGEOISIE TO MEET IN JANUARY ZURICH, De ALL The bour geo! council has called a congress of bourgeoisie from all parts of many for January 5, according to a (dispatch received today trom Berlin. JEALOUSY MAY BE CLUE TO MURDER The Seattle Star PER IN THE PACIFIC Act of Co EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Por Year, by Mail, FEAR WILSON BLOODY BATTLE FOUGHT IN ESSEN | City Light SALESMAN Many I Die in SHOCKED BY IS SLAIN IN Hot Combat TALK ABOUT © HOTEL HERE °” Streets PUNISHMENT | “Good Germans” Are Afraid They'll Get Mixed Up With Guilty Ones SCARED OF THE ALLIES BY FRANK TAYLOR United Press Correspondent BERLIN, Dec. 21.—(Delayed.) —Germany received a rude shock when it heard of President Wil- ome speech in Paris favoring shment for war makers. The fact was made clear today that “good Germans” fear peace con- ferences will confound them with the guilty. The Germans have been getting ready to have their delegates at the |peace conference receive Wilson's terms with enthusiasm, believing him the only man capable of saving the world rom future wars. | Henee the jar-when he mentions=— punishment. Wilson's attitude was the biggest topic in Berlin today. Germany peace delegates, it appears, will ob- ject to any penalty for the kaiser which would make him a national jhero. They don’t want a “return from Elba.” Hate Ludendorff All the war makers are now un- popular in Germany, with the, excep- tion of Field Marshal Von Hinden- | burg. Gen. Ludendorff is the worst hated. The militarists are blamed for the present situation, but the general feeling bygones be Sentiment the kaiser stitutions, appears to be, by gon is very bitter toward and crown prince as in- but there is little person- al feeling against them. Many peo- ple to feel that the loss of their thrones was sufficient punish- ment “Let seem Representative Germans express a willingness to pay a nominal indem: | nity, but, realizing their total defeat, pa ae allies will dismember the The “Bolsheviki are another bug- aboo. It is becoming more appar- ent, however, that the Spartacides and other extreme radicals are mere trouble makers and that many of their demonstrations are only bluffs. The country appears to be getting behind the rt-Haase government and the disorders are expected to de- crease as the food situation im- proves. ROLL CALL — WILSON DEALS WITH PEOPLES OF ALL EUROPE J. BENDER ress Correspondent Dec 23.—-President his policy ion of peace tly with the wi of the covenants, people of th 1 countr hus will millions rticipate in preliminary conf and make ir influence felt a con: reach this vast audience president will make public speeches in und Italy, it became known ing thr He will p conferring wi That Presi getting the ¢ is indicated & has , In addition to speak- » medium of the press, ue this course while the a nt Wils of the a hunar a from expressing sympathy wit und promising him » situation of the small nations is deeply perplexing. jed statesmen, already is led peoples let- classes, poli- ters he rec » his ole support Many factions are seeking the pi believing he can best r particular interests. The presider will adhere to the principle of self-determir point- ing out that these factions should togethe « mine their Teles Aims |_ ‘The confi yetween the aims of | Italians and Jugo-Slavs and the | Poles and Lith 1 out as perhaps the 1 condi- tions in Europe ROLL CALL JAPAN SENDS NO TROOPS TOKYO, De (Delayed) —The report of the pateh of imperial troops to the Urals was denied here tonight, It is declared that no more troops will be sent into Siberia, : ——--