The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 28, 1919, Page 1

VAST MERCHANT FLEET RAR AAA AAR AAA AAAAAAAM ULL Leased Wire of the United Press Association. OMPLETE Service of the News- paper Enterprise Association. C THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCU: Entered as Becond Close Matter May 3, 1 SE ATTLE, WASH., TU PACIFIC ISLANDS BY FRED FERGUSON PARIS, Jan. 28.—German colonies again formed the principal subject of discussion when the peace “bureau” met today. Saban’ claims to the Marshall Group of Pacific islands were understood to have received special! attention. a It was reported Great Britain favored Japanese reten- tion of these islands, which were seized from Germany. In return for this support, it was believed that Japan might back up the claims of Australia, New Zealand and South Africa to to German col colonies now held by them. ————-} All the delegates apparently were agreed that the colonies cannot re vert to Germany on an ante-bellum status, but the majority appeared to favor thelr administration by. the | league of nations, under a trustee NEW YORK, Jan. 28.—Licut. M. Meyer of the 364th artillery, oe Francisco, who arrived on the trans ship of the nations moat directly in terested. The American plan had not been | disclosed, but it was believed it ous coincide with the league of J nations idea of ultimate self-deter mination. Some delegates hold the opinion { | that Preaident Wilsom would wait i Port see wae ian vompaead ot | UBt all the other representatives had presented their schemes—as he did in the case of the league of na- tions and the Russian situation and then come forward with a pro-| gram which “would “receive Instant | approval. The “Bureau,” aa the council ts | now officially designated, is under stood to feel that early decision on territorial questions is necessary for drawing up the preliminary peace treaty, which will permit demobiliza- | tion. | Certain delegates are known to fa- vor immediate settlement of several | of the more pressing territorial prob- | lems instead of waiting for these matters to be handled by the league of nations. | Speed Is Necessary In addition to the effect on de- | mobilization, the delegates are influ. | enced in this view by the fact that! certain industries await territorial | adjustments and that the situation | AMERICAN SHOT | or, will conform with the broad prin- | BERLIN, Jan. 26.—(Delayed.)—| cipiew of the league of nations, in-| Lowell Thomas. formerly professor | ciuding selfdetermination, In case | at Princeton, was shot below the/any of the contemplated and irri heart and dangerously wounded at! ments leave controversies and trri-| Bremen last Sunday, it was learned tations, they will be subject to re today He was saved from the} consideration by the league. wrath of a Spartacan mob, which| ‘erritorial questions, which may had attacked him, by Webb Waldon, | receive early consideration, include of Collier's Weekly. Both had been | adjustment of the boundaries of accused of attempting to Poland and the Czecho-Slovak repub- | split in the Spartacan organization. | tic and disposition of the German The trouble, during which Thomas | colonies, both in Africa and the Pa was shot, occurred during th na- | cific. ) thonal elections, and developed into) peniais by F ff «om battle. ficlals ri Webb Waldon is an editorial writer for Collier's, bee? that been presented. Th BOCHE ‘REDS! official enlightenm it will be presented to the peace de egates, will provide for control of France's position in the | 2s the Saar valley during the period th COPENHAGEN, Jan. 28—Sparta-| tong coal district remains useless cand, Be > gation coup d'etat, have use of German vandaliam occupied public buildings and banks troops from California, Washington, | Montana and Oregon, penetrated the | German lineg.in the Argonne to the 2 during the American 7 bomb exploded at his feet. “The Sist division had never been | und@ fire before they entered the ; . Argonne battle, and the way they went to it was crtainly wonderful,” said Mefer. “They simply couldn't be stopped. ‘The Pacific coast and Northwest have much to be proud of in the boys they sent over. They are on their way to a port of embarkation fn France now and should be back in the United States In a month or cause neh government of: ed claim to the the form of claims ha no on but it Was asserted in some quarters to matter. day that the French proposition, reat industrial district in in Wilhelmshaven, according to re-) which Lille is the center, is depend | ports received here today. All rail-| ont upon the Lens coal fields, and = way traffic to and from that city has | {+ witl be impossible to resume work Gov. Allen Will Probe Henry J Allen announced today he would ap. pear before a congressional commit tee shortly to reiterate his charges ale until the mines pe This, several years hen The French, ccording to experts, may be it is understood, also (Continued on Page 12) Horse-Racing to of unduly heavy losses in the 35th i division. Allen had charged also) Come Back? Grass | . that the division, largely Missouri Teal and Kansas troops, had not had Introduces Bill proper aerial and artillery support OLYMPIA, Jan. 28 A race track ? 5 bill, creating state horse racing ij commission, bobbed up in the house today. It was introduced by Grass of races for “purses, prizes, premiums or stakes.” Under this bill, the govern ) or would name a committee of three q that would rule meetings between April and November 1 Local horse ADS FREE racing for stakes was knocked out in | of a league of nations, the state de 1909, when Ole Hanson, of Seattle, Ea-war service men are put thru his anti-horse-racing bill invited to. use the situation ontee columns of The Argentina Will Btar Support League! Copy may be left at The WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—Argen Star office, 7th and tina is ready to jot ni ague of nn tie Union or the downtown Je irr ia ‘to this end the Arwentine | branch, located at Bar- J) minister to France has been in tell’s Store, 610 Second J) structed to support Wilson's project Ave. 4, ¥ Montes. woman who gained her release from the corpus proceedings Commerce is fight every ery month of war service. bill carried partment was officially informed to-| borrowed $6 down,” he told the court. VATION OF at the Postoffice at Beattie, Waa h., I AAA AAA AAS e Seattle Star THE PACIFIC Act of Congress March §, ANY PAPER IN under 28, ESDAY, JANU AR Y 1919. PROGRAM OF STRIKE NOT BOLSHEVIKI SLAY NORTHWEST 1078 HALLIES GIVE UP RUSS Li # NIP PON WANTS TO Leads of Nations RETAIN HOLD QN | Now an Actual Fact, SHIP BOARD TO BEGIN: Says Noted Editor||§ REVISED SATURDAY EDITOR'S NOTE—The following dispatch sets forth clearly the Views of a recognized authority on international affairs concerning the functions and objects of the league of nations, The writer is editor of the Independent, and is a member of the American society of International law, the Ame nh association for labor legislation and kindred organizations. one of the founders of the League to Enforce Peace. BY HAMILTON HOLT (Written for the United Press) (Copyright, 1919, by the United Preas) PARIS, Jan. 28.—The league of nations is now a fact. We who have been working consistently to bring such a body into being, feel it is a hundred per cent fur- ther advanced than we dared to hope possible siz months ago. The meeting of the general peace congress Saturday was, in my opinion, the greatest political event since the birth of the United States of Nations. There were two outstanding things: First, the reso- lution setting forth the purposes of the league, made clear that its initial purpose was the promotion of inter- national co-operation. That is the vital spirit in which the league should be conceived. Evidence Shows Result of League Will Be Sure and Far-Reaching Second, there was evidence senervohers we investi- geted—and we have been privileged to talk with the men whom the burden of this peace settlement is actu- ly resting, the men doing the work—thtt formation of the league will be quickly accomplished, and that its re- sults will be sure and far-reaching. Just one point of danger presents itself. That is the possibility of the ae of nations being made a league of governments, rat than a league of peoples. In order to assure the latter, an organization must be de- vised that will truly and continuously be representative of the peoples of the various countries. It is not a new thing for diplomats to reach decisions by conference or telegraph. What is wanted is an or- ganization by which the direct representativ e8 of the peo- ples will meet in parliamentary sessions. This must be achieved on the legislative side of the league. For the executive side, prime ministers or sim- ilar officials are competent to function satisfactorily. CHARGE STEILACOOM INSANE MISTREATED CAPITOL BUILDING, Olym. | pia, Jan, 28, — Sane men and women are being railroaded into state hospitals for the insane. There are only three physicians I have dedicated my life,” she told the committ to help the unfortun: ate irisane, unable to help themselves und abandoned by the indifferent public.” and one superintendent to give A young, well-tatiored w an, she expert attention to 1,378 patients | made a visible impression on the at Steilacoom. The state needs a committee of politicians, who at first the hearing 1 them to in The mem experiences was plainly lunacy commission, or psycho- ¢ impatient to have pathic detention station, to treat over. Her story mov doubtful cases. T whole sy* dignation and symp: tem of commitment must be re ory of her ny arranged. horrifying to her. These charges and appeals were I was sick," she kaid, “and in de made before the house legislative | lirium, after terrible suffering, start committee on hospitals for the in-|ed out from my home for help. 1 ane, Representative Claude A.| knew no one in the vicinity. Igno Young, chairman, by a delegation of | rant people saw me, called the sher men and women Monday afternoon, | iff, and I was hurried to jail, and be Myrtle De a young fore I knew it found myself in the Western hospital for the ins was not taken before a judy me in and out of the jail matron (Continued on Page 12) » delegation was ‘of Vashon island, In t by Steilacoom hospital habeas | ONE CHAMBER BUREAU GIVES ITS APPROVAL TO LAMPING BILL Chairman A. F. Haines is going to take the proposition to the board of trustees While many ve been willing One bureau of the Chamber of courageous enough to for the bill Washington soldier $10 for ev-| py, Lamping to give » business men to support the appro. ef, they proposition to have priate money for #« have not been so enthusiastic about the Lamping bill, at Olympia, which would mearr @ atate appropriation, ttle bureau, A y by Daniel B. ap » the Lamping unanimously, and te It is the Greater erd otion made fet | out the He’s 65, But Has Young Ideas; | Sues for Breach of Promise A. Hunskor is 65 years old. But—ja husband in Alaska all of the He has young ideas—he is suing | time.” for breach of promise Hunskor said that they were to LAlliam M. Gilbert de Lion is nam- have been married in Los Angeles ed as the woman who broke his last May, and that the defendant had heart trial is on in Judge told him she had property worth Mitchell Gilliam's court Tuesday $10,000. Hunsker wants his $528 “She proposed marriage to me,| back and a $325 note which he says 8, and then threw me he gave her, cancelled. | “She had| The defendant is 60 years old, y Work on 34 Steel Hulls Is Seattle Metal Trades fale Ordered Suspended in California Yards SOUND MEN ARE BLAMED TACOMANS MAY MEDIATE ican evacuation of Shenkursk on the * United Press Leased Wire Direct to The &tar - » WASHINGTON, Jan, 28—Re- vision of the entire shipbuilding program has been decided upon | by the shipping board and emergency fleet corporation, it was learned officially late today. As a consequence of the new | plan, work has been | stopped on scores of ship ways, | | where the construction is not too | | far advanced. Work on vessels more than half completed will | be continued. { SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 24.— ork on 34. steel hulls in the Califéeniag district was ordered suspended, & telegram re cot Capt Pillsbury, labor difficulties, | ices cope tweet, ration, from Chartes Piex, gen- | eral manager of the corporation. | The plants affected are: ” By * General Shipyard Walk- out Thruout the U. S. “United Press Leased Direct to The Star Wire * TACOMA, dan. 28.—A definite Proposal for settlement of the shipyard strike was up to the strike committee today and was being considered at a meet- ing this afternoon in the office of the mayor of the city, participat- ed in by four local business men, four representatives of the strik ers and Mayor Riddell. Some action by the strike com- mittee was expected before night. The proposal for mediation was submitted to the strike committee by ra) 8. Larson, representative of the war labor board. If it ts accepted by the strikers, it will mean that Tacoma wil! go about | the ‘settlement of its own shipyard’ the Shenkursk front, where a small force of independently ef) British and Russians is fighting superior numbers of Larson's proposition calls for the appointment of a committes of six, including three representatives for have the Long Beach Shipbuilding Co., #tx| the strikers and three Tacoma bust- hulls; Western Pipe & Steel Co./neas men, to go to Washington to (South San Francisco), four hulld;/jay the case before the labor board Southwestern Shipbuilding Co. (Bast San Pedro), eight hulls; Los Angeles | Shipbuilding & Dry Deck Co. ten | |hulls; Hanlon Dry Dock & Ship-| | buflding Co, (Oakland), six hulls. | |. The telegram gave no reason for | he action |_ Tt was emphasized in Captain | | pitispury' ‘* office that the word “sus. | | pend” not “cancel” waa used The telegram disclosed that Pies, | on January 26, wired the builders concerned, ordering them to suspend work on these hulls. The local of-| flees of the corporation were not then notified | RN. Brotherton, representing the | | Macy award committee in Southern | | Oregon and California, told the Unit | ed Press today the shipbuilding situ: | | ation on the coast j# most serious He blamed the shipworkers in the | Puget Sound region for precipitating & situation that may cause loss to) the Pacifié Coast of contracts worth many millions of dollars and that may bring 4 crisis in unemployment “The strikers in Washington are not justified in their demands,” said Brotherton, “The Macy award gave them a 10 per cent increase over the previous Macy award, It gave them 80 cents an hour, They now demand $1. The emergency in shipbuilding fe past. It is to the best Interests of men to continue at work, and not Jeopardize the industry which is ly. « them." 1 200,000 STRIKE THRU ENGLAND LONDON, Jan, 28—The industrial war which has broken out in Great Britain and Ireland is the beginning of a fight in the Interests of demobil ized soldiers, labor officials declared | Trades: |no replies from th jout the to make demands for higher wages and strike if these }ea er, | nation would take that of the ized The union is being run off on adding ma chines as it is received from the se retary of the emergency fleet corporation. if a general strike taken place in Seattle, it will not com- mence Saturday. This was ap- parent Tuesday when James Duncan, secretary of the Central Labor council, declared that the votes of all union workers in the city could not be recorded by the end of the week. ‘@his is not a strike engincer- ed by ‘labor leaders’, as a few seem to believe,” Duncan as- serted, “If the union workers of Seattle walk out in sympathy with the shipyard’ workers it will only be by the overwhelm. ing vote of the workers them- selves. One union alone has so far gone on record against the walkout. This is the Fire Fight- ers’ union, and they went on the assumption that they would be instructed in any event to not quit their posts.” Machinery for tabulating the votes workers is now being organ in Labor temple headquarters. ‘yes and “no” vote of each When all union returns meeting of the uneil before a Ned, Rert Swain, coun special strike 1, said ave yet Metal Tr: country, T uenday. been des councils thru which were asked that were not obtain Officials were confident, howev- that the shipyard workers of the action similar to adopted here, Delegates back from the labor 4 at Chicago report that la gates from thruout th oun: | today hey denied that the strikes are watching Seattle for their are in any way connected with Bol as to what procedure to adopt! sheviam. in the transition peried from war to The strike situation which resulted | P&* in paralyzation of shipbuilding ana| Unions which have okehed the seriously affected other industries, |Sttike by Saturday night will each wis unchanged today, tho It was be. #24 three delegates to a special lieved the trouble would be extended | Strike conference starting at § a, m thru sympathetic walkouta, |S¥nday in the Labor temp! arly '200,000 men were on strike in|. 2: ©. Skinner, president, and Dave various parts of the country * | Rodge Skinner & I general of the orpor manager dy Shipbuilding . tion, have. gone to Los Angele for Nation’s Workers a two-weeks holiday in company ith a party of shop foremen and Pledge Sympathy, superintendents of the plant. Say Strike Men Praseditnanttcnitna who ark cons ‘Telegrams of sympathy from thru country commenced to pour headquarters of the Metal ne{l Tuesday afternoon, ding to strike officials. From stern and Western centers alike | expressions of sympathy with the aims of Seattle shipyard. workers | into rades their walkout were received. The messages came from metal trades councils which were telegraphed by | the local ofganization Tuesday morn: | before on behalf of the each organtaation to Appeal neral walkout are (Continued on Page Twelve’ IMMIGRATION BILL NOW UP ing in an effort to secure nation-wide | WA TON, Jan re upport | hous nition committee late Metal trades officials late Tuesday | today voted to report the bill shut dent a story current in neoma | tin off immigration for four years that officers of the Scandinavian: | 1e four-year period was decide American bank there had entered the | upon aft a long fight in the shipyard controversy in an attempt | mittee to bring about mediation, Several members were are | the results will go before a spe. | Central Labor | is | seeretary of the Metal | ‘om: | cipline. for | three ytars and others tavored twa. [posea, in some instances, of men not S. PLAN FINAL EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Per Year, by Mati, $5.00 to $9.00 eather F orecast: INHABITANTS 0 CAPTURED a United Press Leased Wire, Direct to The Star) | WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—Allied front in North Russia was successfully pleted with rescue of supplies and 500 ian refugees, Consul Poole, at Arch cabled the state department teday. He. sent an unconfirmed report that the Bo vik revolutionaries had destroyed part o town and murdered many of the inhabi Capture of Kovno and Libau, a Baltic iby the Bolsheviki was reported from Lit! nian sources. BY CARL D. GROAT United Press Staff Correspondent. GTON, Jan. 28.—Further official WASH sheviki, were expected by officials here today. The troops on the Shenkursk front, south of situation well in hand, according to the latest ¥ ports received by Chief of Staff March, ft An retirement toward orderly Archangel is apparently under way. | Official dispatches from London re-| would do well to withdraw that the allies and the United | ported that the American and allied | soldiers were driven out of the town [of Shenkursk. However, they ap- pear able to hold off the Bolshevik ‘assaults while slowly failing back. | The weather is very cold. Officers here are becoming more | and more convinced of the futility of |maintaining the Archangel expedi- they intend real intervention, The terrain over which the cans and allies ar. operating ts. favorable. A single line of m runs south from Archangel. The district is of pine pa marshes. In winter these n are frozen and can be t But, in general, ‘forces must | tion, ee rail line, and no big ex} | Hearking to the opinion of the|couk be maintained in that people, particularly -the working| under such conditions, military class, they are beginning to believe | perts believe. Hurley to Retum With ~ Report on Ship Prog PARIS, Jan, 28.—Edward Hur- {| Now that the war pressure | ley, chairman of the U, 8. ship- | been relieved, he said, Americ | ping board, will return to the }are anxious for definite ky United States to © up the |concerning future plans so as tol question of establishing a great American merchant marine, it was officially announced today, Hurley said he felt sure the Amer- |fean people had determined to main- tain a merc | settle these questions: What is the character and of the government construction pro» gram? What is the plan for continuing ant marine sufficient in| government operation? sure they would not be| If operation is to be continued, of ndent on the shipping of other! what basis will the ships be private: | nations for their foreign trade and| ly operated and to what ee that the demand for such a shipping | government control be maint No definite action on the various As soon as the armistice was sign-| problems will be taken until the re _ Hurley said, he recownized that | sult of his investigation can be pre at many questions would arise |sénted to the shipping board, the: connection with the American | senate commerce committee and the | shipping program that would re-| committee on merchant marine, The — | quire first-hand knowledge of what| shipping board will then be in @ pO sition to make recommendations to nt Wilson for a general MAY ASK U. S. MEN IN PRISON BE FREED BY L. C. MARTIN (United Press: Correspondent) program is unanimous. | was being planned by other nations. He came to Europe to obtain this in formation, | qualified either by training or tem | pérament to sit as judges, WASHINGTON, | J Get Many Complaints i amnesty for all mer Senators have been told that the convicted in the war by ntences during the war ran martial is to be dent Wilson by Senator Boi This is the second step in gressive senators’ campaign the United States Borah will co-oy Chamber ove mber 10,000, Neither Borah nor vouched for these fig- ures, nor for the truth of the charges, Borah said today “So many complaints have been laid before me that I have asked that {the war department furnish the sen= Ate complete data on all courtsemar+ pro rid to of all traces of war rate with Senator s to show the ne facts wi ntences met out tom e draft army. Alle-/ tia) cases. After this has been Obs gations laid before F h, Chamber tained, hearings may be necessary to lain, and other senators, are to the | pring out additional facts, effect . That a startling » severity of sentences ferent men for) the inequality existed! yHTANAPOLIS, will Jan. —Alr- in a wolt "The avi- with the imp same at panes participate hunt near heré tomorrow, That undue ity was exercised for minor infractions of military dis: ators will keep in hunters on the ground, directing |movement of the forces, Several | |s olves have been observed in the Vie — touch ‘That courts-martial have been com cinity recently,