The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 9, 1919, Page 1

i ai aaa anes . prcmees a alata a ty i Ss ee MARINE STRIKERS ISOLATE NEW YORK coom| Lheseattle Star “e.cc THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST sad cas » rs - en "wr . + 7 ? TT? r “— " . VOLUME 21, NO. 268 | SATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1919. Weather Forecast alonight rain and warmest Fae “REDS” GRIPPING GERMANY ORDER DEATH OF EBERT AND SCHEIDEMANN j +58, 000 MEN PI Ch k P RESIDENT is Letter From a Yank in | BO 08 hon Rosh or censpoun (Pena REPORT NINE COTES Hence this letter to your publ cation. It in not necessar Congress May Hurry Thru sp ogg de Strike of 16,000 Boat Work- Legislation Against Rolls Up His Sleeves and ] y's; we have time to » ers Throws 42,000 Steve- Undesirables Plunges Into Preliminaries dores Off Schedule of Peace Program to conditions following The Spartacan revolution is spreading to all parts of Ge sv American war and from | dispatches indicated today. Twenty persons are reported to have | tinue hone tie taauen | been killed in the American embassy in Berlin and Chancellor {be diteereny aus ume rer 1 Ebert and Philip Scheidemann are said to have been marked for rt death by the radicals. n reported in Dusseldorff, Muelheim, Schwerin, Obe ankfort, Wittenberg and Munich. Fighting was conti WASHINGTON, Jan fort to tighten immi, FUEL AND FOOD ARE SHY ‘"*,."""." congre An -ef n restric Doubt thought of a¢ : man ree that ¢ re t Uprisings have be ce then ent Mannheim, Brunswick, F “lhe ahortnes, CONSULTS = DIPLOMATS despite the shortness NEW YORK, Jan. 9—Pifty will bait a rush to American shores gay of time before final adjournm ome-coming > Mi a ‘ Chairman Burnett, of th RY ROBERT J. BE oe tan ol py ones 1 ae in Serlin last night. Several hundred have been killed and hundrey more wounded. By Untred Press Leased Wire immigration commit called bis (United Press " 2 ‘vali ® err Pot eed The Ebert-Scheidemann government was _ reported!— Direct to The Star committee togeth ytry to get an PAR i pendtie: Soame At apthies overthrown. Karl Liebknecht and George Ledebour, leaders — _ . some measures that Tat v f ; a agreem: me measu figurati sherpa © the federal viee would respectively of the Spartacans and independent socialist: ea r aber of us n ge a bal i j average of ‘protably are said to have set up a new government in the Berlin we are ane cight thousand beatmen and expected as soon as there is ship work of “ . 1p Second ave es teh P waterfront laborers were idle ping space. TP two measures Hie conferred wit ‘ , a OVOP. Siete etiahte ‘has to purahems 4) Pouee station. gether ree ee ae a gg Repeygs: vena d FY bar wang Din gon aap’ . begun to thi such civilian clothing and other neces Contradictory reports said that the Ebert-Scheidemann The strike of 16,000 tugboat halt immigration for four years pen gonna 5 preparation kak teas heat ciaeet co, ae until he in once government is st!! safely in control and is gradually sub- m ass employes and ferry hands threw | The other. by I Lufkin, would! o6¢ memoranda which he will 1 proc by ine Gy ta fet ve reg tes pte pha pa duing the revolt. 2, aneres ' et could be definitely ex Pe eee coe roe, | Hp tmemteration for two years @ first joint conference of of the kitchen. We are glad Rumors are afloat in Beftiy. that entente troops, at seg Re og Ra eed a pee emer meee i the twe | Frend atian and = American that we had the opportunity of have finished this bus the request of Chancellor Ebert, wili weupy the city on beth sides of Manhattan Is bills are government officials, sk stateamen, scheduled for today coming to France to get first nd f - een : winters bayer gil ee land were empty save for police taborers, .refugees from religious Swamped With Mail hand knowledge of how thin af tk ph ger waning Other rumors were circulated that a. American force a launches on guard duty persecution and returning soldi a AP fair was being carried on and 1 eae lla ely bs 9 AP amare would assume control in Berlin to quell possiv!* riots dur- oa who are aliens. All these would be} On account of the werk, ce the; it the Cogenle of 1 CORINE WIR Be og +e oven ini Che Slectiong: Skouary. 10; NEW YORK. Jan he port of! atiowed admiasion Presitent has cance! prepa + ag ll ’ 0 fev ks © will : ROHS; SORUALY Prete mak , New York was tied up today when There is a demand for some check | tions for further trips. It is know a shay m serious matters to at All*work was reported to have ceased thruout \ > Press Leased Wire | 15,000 members of the marine work-|on immigration, and it ix coming bh hopes to visit Brussels as soon as red to. fact That pi a eeaae ond ya i many as a result of the revolution. Direct to The Star ers’ affiliation struck at 6 a. m from quarters which have favor Conatiiens pareatt the war in over and we are going . re in Seattle and cou Troops from garrisons thruout the country were re-|% ‘There were no ferries running to th, ry ht restrictions, Burn He has been swamped with mail h I on ‘ KOIDE attend to this personally it might j ye hi Berl bil to 3 'ONDON, Jan. 9—Entente ic oe ve es etlo: bul homme n othe ords e are 1 e ri ‘4 a P ack ‘ New Jersey or Staten Island. Per- said today from all parts of Europe. Hundreds cults eatiefied with our jot ang Dave More weight. All that can ported to be rushing into Berlin in automobiles to back UP troops, at the request of Chan- | wons living at the latter place were . of letters daily contain suggestions “ “ ef alg be done from this distance ix the Chancellor Ebert. cellor Ebert, will occupy Berlin, . Want No Dregs ». te. often nol mplaining in the least bringing of the proposition to the a) } to rumors current { isolated: regarding the best wa) ffect : . Tubes carried all Jersey residents ‘One thing is sure, we cannot al peace, form the league of nations,| apes the a Bay 4 be, attention of our friends back t | that haying business in New York. The! low an influx of a million untrained and prevent future wate and many the sind baste Sawa hagas and Jeaving 3 0 them S le of Teutons | trains were taxed to capacity. | workers a year @uring our readjust Only the most interesting onea are) hey of ve aan econ pene p for action, ) «In view of the fact that the ‘The strike also cut off the rail. alle) ment period. We should aiiow the| shown him. y a t invt waste a minute or two in trying Seattle Star hax in times past ‘way terminals on the Jersey people we have now to get settled » The president is being invited “a a. cae one ae ee nae i eee ene once ne” amt vine td||e,fieure out Jur whe Mon eur gained our M@miration by itt i rows Hourly in Violence Tapidly to other marine workers. ‘The shortness of manpower President Wilson would visit hin ps , mait the above SL ; eee ee Se rae 7 ae Tolttastonni Longshoremen’s|abroad may affect the situation country and join him in playing sang boy - “ sites ee consideration and a dred persons were ki nd severa’ = a me mathe ve been proclaim bed ee association met early today to take/ some, but not greatly, Foreign gov | with the toy soldiers he received for ee meget Mn gern oh be» ae if you deem it to be a hundred wounded in Berlin stre Fa Aver Saag a Philp: Scho! st — bassy ep ay ery at-| Cl . ven $10 a month to each of her worthy cause. ; opel a nancello Schel-| which was Steps in sympathy with the marine | ernments may make things very at- Christma pin iy tua oR pier ts “ee panting frou’ maulnies is wee — paaricboygteess yr 04 y é 4 ” Workers. It was estimated that un- (tractive for the people they want to| The president replied that rioters. Giecusdion has afisen in er G ‘0. F Tr nesday, according to @ ches re-| sentenced to h by Zolshe: less some measure wag taken with-| keep, and let us have the dregs. If| wished he could make the visit an = eh a mn ath och eeu ae * 5 pnw ’ iy é ea here ake eu : Vethe bat eee ‘te seine i rm There is nothing in the cable in a short time, about 60,000 men congress will recognize the true sit-| play soldier with the boy, but th ‘ pers A _ Poa i hia br The struggies between Sr hey will be able to carry out | indicate that the victims were ? Might be idl uation, a bill can be passed before! he feared he was too busy. Mra cans and government en were sentences icans. The emt located in ti : A serious fuel and food famine| the end of this session. Wilson answers many of the letters - ~ ~~ wa _-~ - wald to be terrific, great numbers of Some government troops are said | heart of the city, on™ square ned. Burnett also pointed out that im Carload of Gifts a» + ———e ae nachine guns being used to have gone over to the insurgents. | Considerable fighting took place, Supplies from the Interior of the| migration laws passed now would) Roth of them have received more " A mob, seeing an American movie it is believed the building may. 5 United States for export and from/ not interfere with any provision® | than a carload of gifts, ranging from Experts Disagree on Mental operator on the roof of the Ho This is the first dispatch mention: | been struck by shots going wild.) 7 : abroad, were expected to be held up.| that might be made in the peace | furniture and statuary to rare paint © ‘@|\ing fighting in Berlin on Saturday.| Military Gov. Noske, who hag » full power to suppress can revolt, has gone to Ji All other reports agree the riots be-| Si¥ an Monday. Other dispatches also | Spar d th the treaty would t © «6 lon on Tuesday, mistook th Returning soldiers also faced the| treaty, because the treaty would) ings and jewelry } S f “Wif tare renchine baal ni atie Prospect of being unable to land| over-ride previous legistation The atus o' Kaimi, ‘e-Eater” th president now walks to the storm the building, in which inter from ships. The only boats exempt-| Two powerful forces are working | American offices in the Hotel Cril-, ~~~ ——~—&% | allied military offictals and Russians | state that the incident at the Hotel | box. miles south of Potsdam, ed from the strike order were those | for immigration legislation. , lon every day AN FRANCISCO, Jan. 9—With| “He did revert to the aboriginal,”| ad sought saf; Adion resulted from the raising of bring back reliable govern operated by the federal government por wants it to safeguard) p16 has little time for other exer on Kaiml, the uth Sea can) geoiar c * . . A revolution committee of govern- the American flag by Gen. Harries. troops. carrying wounded, and sick soldiers wages. cise. When he appears on the! nibal who started to eat hin wife,| eared Dr. Otto Freyermuth, psy —- Would Welcome Yanks Between hospitals and the port of The second is one that wants to! streets he is generally unrecognized held for observation, anthropologinta | Chologist pard on eversil ‘ Rumors were he debarkation, at Hoboken take preventive steps against @ny | except by children, who seem always) and phychologists got busy today in Kaimi reverted to his original L bkn ht and L d b uU: today that American troops would The Fort Lee ferries, used by re chance of a spread of Bolshe-| apie to identify him. Most of the|an attempt to classify his mind and “ el ec e e Le) r jcupy the city to quell any rioting mode of existence,” said Dr, Freyer thousands of soldiers traveling be-| vism here. time he wears a soft felt hat. When| account for his appetit muth, “Ka ee ee J vant en | ac i appetite imi ix used to warm “ ” | ” sates i tween Camp Merritt and Manhat-| The immigration bureau hav al-| riding he wears a cap. He finds re-| But they could not agree. They | weath Dor I h R Government ex: abit ie - nds ney could not a ; er wubtless the cold spell aunc. e Yan island, s down 6 a. m.| ready appealed to congress we mor laxation in reading and working. split on the question: Did Kaimi caused the breakdown.” : | would welsores. thou a The Central of New Jersey and| funds for the coming year, declar frente svert to aboriginal instincts or is| “Keimi - would welcome them, Governi re » aborigina or is must be insane,” said or #EN, J 9— H i commen’ er downtown ferries suspended | h thousands of prepaid initial ‘ COPE AGE dan, = %. undreds of persons were killed in | oepicis eye Other downtown ferrt spendediing ¢ nou: Bok pais France. Announces he insane Kroeber. “People don't revert pie rph gel a : in Liebknecht, Ledebour and three days’ fighting at Dusseldorf, mt 6 a posted | tickets have been purch: He didn't revert," declared Prof.| nibaliam is not an inatinct. It is ts garding the rumors, The fighting warning commuter es | country for relatives in Europe Peace Delegation A. L. Kroeber, anthropologist, and| merely a bad habit. Besides, canni peemcecrihag hg haw pete he bar os gr ig Veal gps ago Sand Nee gers in the Wilhemepiaaaam ; i an line = or ay - As PARIS, Jan, 9.—Premier Clemen- | member of the faculty of the Univer-| bals cook their food, and Mra. Kaimi| headquarters in the cent po- are unemployed, there was a demon gp rtles) Teopold's patace nan Divan on ccdiecs og thet |ceau Foreign Minister Pichon, Fi aity of California ; __| was not cooked.” lice station, Berlin dispatches re- stration, two persons being killed in| taple machine gun forteess, A hun union were to give a tow prepay ang anon per rd ei A ENG ; | ported today. a machine gun battle dred government soldiers, wi 7 The str ig t h Eicanah Aisseates to thea be the | The Spartacan revolution has| Bolsheviki, led by sailors, seized|trench helmets and, armed wil nets ned are ‘ Mpa hon sey | | spread thruout Germany, accord the barracks and public buildings at| grenades, are camped in the i ference, it was officially announc various sources today Schwerin, but were driven out, room tr today, Marshal Foch will partici and increas the me ss ae Nien on the , Bolshevist uprisings were reported All shops in Frankfort have been! ‘The reichskangeler is guarded by PARIS, Jan. 9.—The program for | armies fa ' in Dusseldorf, Munich, Frankfort | closed, and business was reporte artillery. A pitched battle is expesil the formal conferences of the associ oe and Schwerin a standstill there, ed hourly ated powers is changing almost hoor: Ttaly Delegates The bourse has been closed by t ennounce t an agreeme nerican flag nd shields form) Corporation Counsel Walter F government officials who ese "4 Official announcement was issued Arrive in Paris * triotie background for returned | Meier filed bis answer Thursday tal 1919 an 1920 asses with the key to the vault when Spat oday, explaining that the meeting| |, “ ‘diert and sailor at the United | the restraining suit brought by F. A tacans surrounded the treasury yes] tod: p PARIS, Jan, 9—Premier Orlando terday would be postponed until Premier) | 4°) 1M st ice 110, Twichell, taxpayer, a. t the com ercay. Fight Each Other # # Sunda gs “p a a zt ‘ > : i purchases the traction system for oin a asian OOTRCES While the original German revo- q Thus the program has reverted to preseason seth inccsd ag be vara 5. ers" | $15,000,000 in ut rt LONDON, Jan aftay) ‘dn Aimerican aerieral lution united the socialists of the: ayed until Saturday, « count ¢ f ; - Jeaving their ey re od \the original plan predepeaes dineciad wit te deg nd rma and place In a voluminous defense prepared 1919 and 1920 have 1 | the disy consented to raise the | Old regime, the socialists are now Reem tying t and benking — — sane aim me sesopalibatt t* au w formal by Meier and his assistants, the city ¥ 3 ‘ American flag over the hotel, as 5 fighting each other. The independ+ ® r b mobilizatior fut Twichell h h he | the Spartacans, according to a Ber-| | f A fi Conti 1 I 14) serygi i une ad refutes hell's charge that the ection for all American refugees (Continued on Page He tires sia there was no n-|EFickson Tells West Virginia I Mi sdabigeet ort e SE hee Clty {a otemgltiting mil llegar ace. | Uist dlapatc eebal ved hy’ the MABNOM Ihe ace cued Goi nection eon Es ieetion t be an Why He Blocked es irginia is : pats The answer denies that the city | today. The revolution is spreading |a mob threatened to storm the build ee : for Prohibition r un Will be creating an indebtedness in thruout Germany ing. |Spartacans Break hat aa ice merc Commercial 1b, | violation of constitutional provisions,| Fighting was said to have taken| (The American officer was Gen rage salsa Mei CHARLESTON, W. Va, Jun. 9 : Word After T: a re lar pn of the city would be| p eat A eat des Cnights of Columbus, King County | #04 also denies that Twichell's prop » in Leipzig and Wittenburg. An | Harrie ud of the American mis or er lruce a } 6 4 rh yt {Bgl By tne rear eyes ot 18 to 8, fa , nl A siastes b Aay “nN erty wi 1 be taxed to help maintain | unnamed American nesrepsipes corre: | sion t w learned thru * United Has Been S: igned i y the street car system apondent was wounded by a grenade | Press dispatch yesterday, which de } - quent of the chief of police for 36 addi-| day, the West Virginia. he Laman Ot Withen'ane | ¢ i : LOMBGE Ska. | se * ” olmen and three Heuten: | og % aed ‘ yhasis is laid on the city's as-| during the street fighting in Berlin. | scribed this incident in detail) xe), N, Jan. 9 PAPtACa ly } War to Knife, t patretmen and. thr ten |egates today ratified the 1 trlotic Service, were there to grest|sertion that.strest car farea will be after accepting a tru¢e with the gow ante were granted, said Councilman | prohibition amendment the fighting men In dition, | maintained at such a level that the ernment, yesterday resumed their Ber hancellor | ing. in detenting is © Molle | focee a deg enimere An The! ment director and other employ- | ficient to pay bonds, interest, opera wireless dispatch from the German PBhert ixsued the following manifesto | measure for an in ReGeeeh aay Sain ent. Want EOtere | cae atta were there to push| tion and maintenance charges with capital reported today i sive a8 Uae ha tan tow nlany "Se ans samae te te’ met of finding jobs for|out resort. to borrowing from the “At a meeting with the state chan: he, Coomred Bee eaat daaebaaer. without | in sabe, 38 ae uniform city’s general fund. cellory of the government at 3:0 | \ ne bigger police Post a a ie coe knee peers me ¢ © upon the recep-| In announcing complet of the this (Wednesday) morning, the Spar We t exitate stopping to conside a oe ‘ c to T A 3 GTO GENEVA, Jan. 9.—All work has! tacans received a truce aft both ave h " poy ea dean ee were: W. C, Weir, | city's answer Twichel pplice WASHINGTON Jan a rk has/tacans r y » truce after - lc Hickson. “I did not _v ‘Tipkey Ovrderad to: Soh, committee cweres W- Cstier ay doe a ranteeinie, antler fatsiocdcnkh vibe tor the Invenio been stopped thruout Germany as a! sides had declared that they would Volunte A the: proposal at the meeting td | sald nin country wh | result of the spreading of the revo xt use force excep’ it th Stba Guinn Can ntsitt Harold | sal ida by nen in this countr , not use force except in defense,” the sasne"steay comes vex | Surrender Troops mr omits service” sari saa,” © TTT O°" MNT hy ne cl cour wh ht] rna of he mean othe reve ht oe foe os rar ee terday aftert x Sea tk first giving! LONDON, Jan. 9.—Great Britain Council of Defense; F.{against the city and the traction| were told today to the senate com: | sources reported today How the armistice was adhered to the matter considera ep srtment of it Wax learned today, has informed | (14, Bein hdapapenteriee (3 mmpany to restrain the purchase of | mittee probing German propaganda A Bolshevik government is said hown by the fact that at 5:10 the Now in Leipzig Fr Saba daha Hho dg aby Turkey that the Dardanelles forts! 6 council; @ lamith, Se-|the car line was brought on behalf | by A, Bruce Bielaski, head of the bu-|to have been proclaimed in Mann-|Spartacans stormed into Unter dem / Loni jen. Luden-|? a Pgh wer ‘ will be destroyed unless the Turks in| ti. Chamber of Commerce. and|of all taxpayers who desire to be|reau of investigation of the depart-| heim and Oberhausen Linden with circulars, declaring, the Gort! wa aise n Berlin dis. |this'ts enough for a Medina surrender immediate Commercial cHibe Caan o heard, either as parties to the suit or| ment of justice A revolt has occurred in Nurem-| negotiations would be reopened, At et tle.” lends of cou AM st 10 the men Germany depended upon | berg, wh Zolwheviks have seized/11 o'clock esh demons’ \ ey e arrived in Lelpas. | stavor Hanson pleaded with Erick Medina hn Arabia, 250 miles| Knights of Columbus; I friends of th rt’ Tam sure th nile ros Garman y Cansn Oks Ubon | See yrs 2 | or _ fresh demonstrations Aa of ‘ rted te dad apcesatict Ai rorya bisin is in a nile | ingen, Seattle Red Cross, and | court will be glad to hear any argu-|to invade Canada before we enteres n J 1 against the government were begun, ha massed t Berlin, | 909 Wednesday sine llos-torce (or weet Of Mecca K. 8. Baxter, ¥. M. CG. A nents advanced on the construction | the war belonged to the ‘Krie In Brunswick a general strike has s ti rb : on against the greater-police-force saa cigs : " h \ h 1,'"" said Bielask been — proclaimed. n thousand Sia (haccbdeat.ot.geotnetitia the ih ‘ * to be given the law under which the | bun uid Bielaski ! tio m ge cue : ives aeke “ants Thief Solves the Beilin tosBe § proceedings to purchase were taken Men who had seen militar rv-| Persons aded the streets, pillax-, Teutons Ready to rickson charges tha i? 257 erlin to Be in The suit will be heard in depart-|ice in Germany were eligible ing shops and occupying newspaper : A reason for an increase in patrolmen Hous ing Problem | . ment No. 1, of the superior ocurt, |membership, -Gomne of the organiza. | (fces Strike at Posen lel Sailors to lesire on the part of Stat f S Se ps ia “ae genere) oF tables derob Determined ecure himself tate o LE QE Monday morning at 9:30 tions were actually drilling and were | |) 8g LONDON, Jan, 9.—The Germans Aid Ebert’ 's Rule | 02, chiet of police for a are oorlae-|aalnat the higt t of home COPENHAGEN, Jan. 9.—The gov supplied with rifles, Nothing of a SPARTACANS HOLD GERMAN have recaptured a number of towns ‘ # The matter will be cae the city | ™, burglar picked up a tent In front] ernment will declare a state of siege LDON 10 RECOVER serious character ever developed, al RAILWAYS in I Prussia from the Poles and te y . Sallors from ed at Monda meeting of the city) 1, Felltz Tent and Awning|in Berlin, it wa reported in dis se . tho they w harmful in their influ AMSTERDAM, Jan, 9.—AN Ger.| are preparing to attack Posen, thé ‘" @ rushing to Bertin digo he | cour pany, 94 W. Y way, and| patches from there last night CARBONDALE, IIL, Jan. 9.-~Geo, | ence man railways were reported to be| Evening News di ed today. i iy ale sally Netter glass melting pots can be| walked off with it Thursday morn vernment troops, the dispatches|H. Sheldon, of New York, former| Bielaski said the arny was well or-|under the control of the Spartacans| Considerable disorder i= repantall 4 1 yr ut. | made of clays found in the United|ing. When the tent compan uid, have been ordered from many | treasurer of the republican national| ganized and had a number of|as a result of the surrender of the|in Warsaw. ‘The newspaper. sald st pepe | ee “fo sorted from |ficia tirred from their amaze-| garrisons to rush to Berlin in auto-' committee, will rec from the ac-| branches scattered thruout the coun-| central offices in Berlin by the gov-| the situation t Prussia ts , re-| States than of clays imported from | Evert. | German ment, they telephoned the police. mobiles, cident in a mine here yesterday. try. ernment. “mo: prioUse’ ‘