The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 29, 1919, Page 1

FOOD SPECULATORS NEAR PANIC ULL Leased Wire of the United Press Association. OMPLETE Service of the News- paper Enterprise Association. _ STORES FOUND fay o United Press Leased Wire 1 i Direct to The Star } - a WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—A | resolution directing the depart ment of agriculture to inform the senate whether there are large surplus supplies of food- stuffs in warehouses, is to be ied by Senator Kenyon. Kenyon announced today he will ask this information to get the real facts. Packers’ representatives ©) Ing before congress: have declared there SF plus of pork. They of large over stocks | other foods, Kenyon wants to know where the surpluses are, if they exist, and by whom they are held. he will try to find out, he said to- ' day, whether they are being held in an effort to keep up the present tf. high prices of food ] Housewives Warned i Meanwhile, sgudents of the food problem here warned housewives to ia see that their retailers brought | prices down to meet drops in the wholesale market—already reported by the bureau of markets “Retail prices are the hardest things in the world to force down once they get up.” Walter L. Fisher. former secretary of the interior, and testify onal com#mittees is rge sur have hinted ot grains and } active in the probe against the pack | ers, declared today. “A drop of 10 fl cents in the wholesale price of meat ” for instance, might not be refiected in retail prices for a month.” ALBANY, N. ¥., Jan. six public warehouses in state are overflowing with accum ulated foodstuffs today, while retail food prices cling generally to war time levels. If those stored supplies were placed on the market the cost of living would toboggan Housewives Urge National Boycott NEW YORK, Jan. 29.—A national hoycott of all food dealers not reduc ing retail prices immediately to co form to wholesale prices was called for today by the National House wives’ league. 4 Mrs. Julian Heath, president of the t * league. dispatched a telegram to all , Fi state and city headquarters, urging f 4 them stant action to force down j food p Senator Quizzes Swift on Prices WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Citing figures showing a ge surplus of foodstuffs, Senator Norris today de. manded of Louis F. Swift. packer moNATIONAL PROHIBITION eraee MEATION SIGNED : SHINGTOD Jan 29,—-Sur arises by @ group of leading white ribboners, Acting Secretary of State Polk today signed the proclamation that the national prohibition amend | ment had been ratified. | U. S. SELLS CHILE 80 PER CENT OF SHOES port records show that trade w the United States is growing stead ly. Before the war, the States provid ed 20 per cent of the shoes worr Chile. She now is supplying 80 per cent SITUATION WANTED ADS FREE Ez-war service men are use the situation of The invited to wanted columns Btar. Copy may be left at The Star office, 7th and Union or the downtown branch, located at Bar- tell’s Store, 610 Second Ave. If they do exist | "Press Leased Wire to The Star «x United Direct Pa * * NEW YORK, Jan, 2%9.—Food speculators in the United States hold the greatest stock of edibles wer gathered together in ce warehouses of this country. Prices are higher than ever in the histery of America. Prices cannot maintain the high level at which they are now placed. Production of meats is cheaper and as a consequence the gorérnment’s price of $17.58 for hogs is bound to come down. A market panic of importance is impending. These are statements made today by P. Q Foy, market expert, to the United Presa. The prices mentioned by Foy are whoteralc Foy im editor of the Market Re port, and reputed to be one of the best informed men in the country on market conditions. Shipping Food In Seuth American, New Zealand, Australian and Siberian goods are beginning to appear on the market, Foy also said, and the effect ia being felt. Prices must fall more than they “have recently, and speculators stand to lose millions in the tumbie. Already, Foy said, speculators in New York have felt a million slip out of their pockets thru the impor- tation and sale of 500,000,000 pounds of Siberian butter. As much more, he said, will be thrown on the mar. ket. Australian and New Zealand dairy products, he declared, are on | their way to this country to help in | toward, e Seattle Sta THE GR Bate: U.S.POLICY MENACE TO FRANK P. WALSH FOR IS WHACKED PEACE NOW ATTORNEY GENERAL BY JOHNSON WIPED OUT Declares Ideals of Democ- racy Are Being Lost Sight of by Officials OUTLINES HIS PROGRAM BY L. ©. MARTIN r Prens Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—In a speech in which he split definite ly with leaders of his own party in the senate, Senator Hiram Johnsen, California, today set forth the poltey which senate Progrensives will demand the government pursue. Johnson thus set Bring bh Amer th hin policy can noldiern wn democracy ee ext an business into its life. social and oun again Johnaon summed this all up with the words It is time for an ley He took inmue with Senater Ledre, republican jeader Jobnson quoted Lodge's statement that the United States must do ite share Im occupation of German ter ritory and in helping to stabiline the new nations of Murope ‘There is but one conclusion from language used.” he said, “and that is, after the creation of the new nations, the duties devolve upon the Unt Sta in part at least, to maintain these nations, with Ameri can soldiers. I will not subscribe to this doctrine, I will not for one in stant concede that it ie the duty of this republic to maintain order in Jugo-SBlay, Czecho-Slovak, or any oth American pet International Law Experts Declare Armistice Ends “Silent” Agreements SETTLES CONTROVERSY |” BY FRED S&S FERGUSON Copyright by the United Prem: PARIS, Jan. secret treatin effected by the allies be. fore America entered the war, whieh are generally accepted as constituting the mast serious menace to a democratic peace, are invalid ‘They were ewept aw accept ance of the armintice nclud ng President Wilson's I tx, speech of January §, and subsequent apeeches. They were doub fed when the allies agreed to the pr plen of the league ef nations The United Preaw is able to state this today on the authority of the highest international law experts now in Paris According te these men, the terme of the armistice are binding and su. persede every previous agreement |The armistice, therefore, ix the onty ‘iveaty Chat ean property be cOneid ered in the peace conferences. Formation of the league of nattons will further make certain that al! old understandings” will be canceled ‘The American people need entertain = ‘ out fakes place, under the direction | pointment of a committee of busi- ad am tha iat ape jaim of the government. of Metal Trades officers. (ness men and strikers to lay the interfere with the ideas of proper There never was a time when it was more important A special committee of the coun-| case before government peace settiement Ambitions Dented This authoritative opinion is sig nificant, In view of the present dis cussion of territorial claims. It prob ably explains the confidence in tain quarters that the impertalistic ambitions of some of the associated powers will not be realized oer ADP PLL LPL LL PPL LP PPP PPP PDP P PPP PP PPP PPP PP PPP PPP PPP FINAL EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE ATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST oe Set Sr OR Te SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1919 Weather Forecast: Tonieht and Thursday, talgs MAY CLOSE FRISCO YARDS iP PRICE TUMBLE IS DUE HUGE Wilson on this side of the water President has no more immediate future, important job in the at. leant Neha GENERAL TIEUP the appointment of a successor to Attorney General Gregory. cons ring ray st of all Europe and the danger of it spreading everywhere else, it is important that Considering the grave unr the next attorney general of. the United States be more Setting of the date for the pro- than a good lawyer. He should be, also, a man of broad) Posed walkout of all union men Pgs 4 : in Seattle, in sympathy with the \vision, of unquestioned integrity and of more than ordinary sail elites, to on ri ourage, be made when the Central La- If, in addition bor council meets in the Labor the respect and confidence of the workers of this country, Psy United Presa “Leased Wire Direct to ~~ Star ” SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 28.— Unless the Maritime Bay district council is persuaded to call off the strike of 2,500 woodworkers Saturday, shipyards in the bay to these qualifications, he commands temple Uhis evening then we will have in that important office a man who can) Oifciais of the different unions’ district will be closed down, #abd s s icted Wednesday morn that RR. N. Brotherton today. |be of great assistance in helping the ship of state thru ally the entire meeting would! frotherton, who represents tiie | thrown open to a general discus builds jtroubled waters. Cts Geeks Some ae hipbuilding labor adjustment bose . % ; sion of the plans to be adopted In declared this strike would throw the Fortunately there is a man who has these qualifiea-| carrying out the strike ner trades out of employment 7 * , Thirt unions have plied a h tions, and who is well known to the people. We refer to| "rer hanot on the walkout and Witnin two. or three days st the 4 Frank P. Walsh, who first demonstrated his vision and| wilt furnish their returns to the The situation has net bright a . a sbetal commis nell when it * tonight he said his courage as the head of the industrial commission, and ic" dollewion yan, which met ““Ptans of the Machinists’ and\E later as joint chairman of the war labor board with Hon.) Tuesday, voted to strike: Hotel | ermakers’ unions to halt strike . bag Maids, Leather Workers, Jewelry | tion in their work will not Wm. H. Taft Workers, Milkmen, Electrical Work- | the walkout of the Mr. Walsh, by his vision, his integrity, his courage | ers No. 77, Painters Local No. 300.| wooden ship industry @ his higt ss of tuatl ha a thas “t and | C2%k* Carpent sige jand his high sense of justice, has earned the respect an The Metal Trades council has resolution declaring th its members will not return to work in the shipyards until the sympa thetic strikers are back at work un der, atleast, their former..comdi tions. Maritime Men Ask to Join employing to suppl |confidence of the workers of this country. Those very | passed a qualities should convince all employers who want to be fair jand just that they, too, can trust him. / We believe he can be trusted, and that with Frank P.| ‘Walsh as attorney general of the United States there would tbe general public confidence in the determination of the ad-| ,, S°**rs! "rete ministration to see that fair and impartial justice was the strikers with food — = co [—] = = —- 3 (—) (i— 2 REFUSES TR TACOMA, Jan. 29.—The proposal of O. S, Larson, of the War Labor board, for a possible settlement of the local shipyard strike by the ap — restaurants offer f the masse walk A authorities. cll is considering the request of the | at Washington, D. C., will not Be to inspire all classes with confidence in the government. | Puget Sound Maritime Council of | considered by the meta! trades hers, The people know Frank Walsh can't be bought, browbeaten | Carpenters, that they be allowed to =~ strike committee announesd to — affiliate with the council This | iy or bulldozed, and that he isn’t } afraid to fight for justice. (would increase the metal trades’ membership by 5,000 localty. The council has passed a resolu tion which subjects any striker fine of $25, SAYS BIG SKAGIT 1h senile a er new state. 1 am opposed to Amer found intoxiested to a noerseanr woh ceadegte soonest, ean boys policing and quelling riots Reporte have been published of a An appeal to returning soldiers to | T0 TAKE production has reached ita higheat |!" ¢v@ry new nation’s back yard. secret treaty between Great Britain join the battle for “industrial democ- point. iaeGeblared & lise oltmbed 3 America wants peace. Let ux 40d Japan, in 1916, giving Japan the racy” has been placed on record by t s 0 : Rib BREMERTOD such a figure that glutting of the ave peace and get out of Europe fight to retain the Caroline and Mar the council 1. Sa 4 fare that He asaatied the method of handing |*hall inland groups The removal of Charles Piez, i-|0f the Metal ‘Trades coon a am ew ‘ out “Homeopathic doses of peace con.| The “pact of London” also makes) seinione © easily aquandered| Thirty million dollars Is the esti.|rector general of the emergency | D0URCed today that a meeting Vast Storage Figures ferences to the American people, and C@ftain concessions to Italy, especial wean Gi lal a abe nsgor eae | feet corporation, and the disband-|"nion representatives will be People, he pointed out, have been charged that, in spite of assurances |!¥ rewarding Dalmatio. Italy already |" the river power | project | mated cost of completing this munic- | 1 0'of the fleet corporation, are reso. | here early in February to debate living on reduced rations, while the to the contrary. the news from Paris |! UrMlerstood to have agreed to ad. | UNlean proceeds with eau: |; power system, says Dimock. | iytion subjects being considered by | Westion of a walkout of all uniom) government has urged greater pro- is being censored justment of ber frontiers on lines of | Hon. > a warning issued) who urges the , coun to spend | the strike conference committee | workers in Bremerton. This action duction. The result hi been a Taking up the Russian situation, | nationality, thus practically repudi-| to the city council by City Engineer! noney iiberaily on preliminary sur One big union in all industries is | /% Proposed in sympathy with the! staggering accumulation of food Johnson demanded immediate return | ating her contribution to the secret) HH. Dimock vey rather th 8 in later, | the future of organized labor, ac-/ *riking shipyard workers in) Beate stuffs in warehouses: nt gov-|of American soldiers. He declared | (reatien Si ennaby Banding sons tater | cording to the prediction made by | Ut follows telegrams from the: ernment reports, he said, show there | this government's poltey of “crim-| Japan was still Making a fight f Money already epent on prelim-/ 4 Miller, chairman of the Metal | Seattle Metal Trades council, asking: are 900,000,000 pounds of frozen pork inal intervention has lengthened the the realization of her colonial claims nary survey t Is $80,000 and ke nee committee, f0F COoperation from the shipyard — in warehouses, 350,000,000 pounds of life of the Rolsheviki and resulted in| but it is believed her ambitions woul 000 will be quired for this before M Trades council | Workers of the country ; frozen beef and 106,000,000 pounds of starving, not the Rolsheviki leaders, | be overwhelmed by the virtu pose monthly during the year Tuesday evening ae frozen poultry held in the hope that! but the women and children of Rus. | unanimous determination tom | Numerous difficulties are facing| Large different parts of pricea will go higher. sia, for whom th and the allied | the league of nations the repos | the engineers, Dimock asserts. T via alta? used to feed the Holdings of mutton and lamb are governments profess love of ail terirtorial disputes principal one of these ie the finding | strikers t of a general 85 per cent greater than in 1914 insia’s treatment by the United All other matters involved in t of a base for the proposed dam at| watkout, Miller declared | the year the war started. Pork hold-| States and the allies shown that secret treaties. aside from territoria Gorge creek James Duncan, secretary of ‘the ings have increased 65 per cent in| “our idealists ements on the! matters, are equal! va The na Studies are now being made by council, “4 that period, salt pork 41 per cent and ts determination have | tions participating in t © set * the engineer artment to det report t pickled pork 12 per cent gone } im with the rest, he exe foreign . charges | mine the re of a wa Chic e Central t LONDON, Jen. 3) — Se ae Today, Foy said, there O84. said hana ha gainst her slldyd Lawranee 1 railroad into the district. | Counell gp ee Horne, minister of labor, today ape +41 ot fe beef {n storage, Johnson then put into the record a with ar 7 agreed scion line survey has’ strike talk will occupy the great-| Pedled to the shipyard employes tm whereas a year ago there were 234. document hitherto unpublished in ie unced him as completed, the power house | a part the meeting, according to Clyde district to return to works 065,592 pounds the United States, which was sent to : ab fc A failure site has been surveyed and topo-|ynean and other union officials mine snpeal ae a the allies by the soviet gove: ent ) the draft of June,| graphical surveys of a five-mile surprise, as he was underst to Monster Beef Increase ren ity printers pte e stretch of the river are finished have intimated earlier in the day Beet produced in 1918, his figures anid Johnaon, would have pre Mrs arach fo 40 re 014, Bhe that he would refuse to take any age in 1914, an increase of 2,420,000,000 Russia in line with the al od ‘atenies e ey conference of workers and employ- pound In this document the soviet gov She was at first d by a = Pork product ¢ showed, reac nment asked what the ilies, par BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS € at he thousand more joined Sig ed 8,769,000,0 ands in 1914 and ticular the United States, would ress Correspondent) lasgow district, Raha 10,500,000,000 pou in 1918 ive in the struggle against Ger Jan, 29. — President It appears tha ther and sor PORTLAND, Jan, —29.--"Henry 0,06 Business Mutton and lamb production in- many if the Br Rétovale. trenty wae Wilson was expected (o insist to- ad pre a er prop ‘pty Albers is a most unfortunate man remained at a standstiiL (Special to The Star by N ° } creased from 495,000,000 pounds in| denounced his communication day that disposition of the Ger | erty rights : . that he occasionally drinks. TI \ quarter of a million laborers 1914 to 739,000,000 in 1918 was received, apparently, with in well as all ter. Willard I talke the LONDON, Jan, 28.--One hundred 4 man transformed from Dr.|/had walked out in various parts of Five years ago he said it required | dignant and contemptuous silence he settled | war right af tarted said, | British non-commiasioned officers in Jekyll into Mr, Hy¢ Not that|the country, completely tying Up a week for a farmer, with two hired said Johnson sirietly according to the princi. | night he carne he and threw a prison camp in Germany learned | drunkenne excuses a crime, but/shipbuilding, and — crippling coal men, to prepare 50 acres of land for This may have been proper he ples of the league of nations wn $50, in t t wasn't) of the armistice and decided to go| Where intent essential to consti: | mining and allied industrie food production. Today, he id, said, but pointed out that the United This would entail administ anyt he e war tute a crime, the jury will take into - epnge eer machinery had: m t possible for statew had begged New York social of the conquered colonies b Walt at. war, and that hom account that the one charged with REVOLT BREAKS that land to be put in shape for pro- 1 unarchiats to cable Lenine gue, possibly under trust would soon be flying a new rT left mp and r hed /erime has the right termin ction within a da to refure the Brest itions most dire nid, ‘Let Willard, | across country for days without ir n whether or not nt was r nee, he said, will make Lito treaty and continue the war That Australia and) Jag lid a And he until they came to a f | has dec “ is cus in ast | the anarchists of New York to com. | territorie Pe be ge Aan et ‘ pineal Bearven ¢ err ' , ‘ ane hante of} VIENNA, Jan. 28,—(Delayed.)—A sever 4 a remult importa-| municate with the anarchists of Pe. When the peace bureau re its) plaint w e esulting ull-| for the open sea » the hands o! : “ fans: GBRDUIAOEN Re bald haval canal, Fg hy nave anripi oe m today was regarded as prac-| man's arrest many months Then they learned they were in the |OVernment men, who undertook to | Pevelutton ors Pike Ras Wisconsin cheese, Foy said, drop-| munication of the soviet govern have the backing of| that he was born in 1887, as sworn | ~ state of iptoxicatiar right cand i which has alre the German flee Ur } ing aturday ped 9 cents yesterda with an im-| ment, without recognition of gov pritain Iready | to the mother i wage mmenoed on mir mediate effect here. Milk products, ernment at and in encouraging | virtually accepted Dhar Rita 3 is BR gid sinedearap gellar srnsy were, Soke AP. oye Garman | intradaction of pegtmony sagay in|. oe th army stationed ith Mump ‘at Ghee everywhere, iual it evita adewers to. re the war| Plan for Germ Aj ried. ‘Tallman ts a son of her first| submarine after they Bch d open! the trial of Albers on charges of aa isons. - Blosaeane prea with Germany,” said Johnson (Continued on Page 12) marriage water and br it to England litious utterances . severai ee WARARARALRA AR AAAI ee RF BR SE a ae oe Pe IS SAS uir Bucharest thruout ‘Is Friend Hub Getting Ready to Let Wifie Bring Home the Bacon---While He Rests? CYNTHIA GREY w BY Here's onto the 1 brand new angle to tack discussion of married wom ing. It contained in a ed this morning, It 1 by a man and he #a the effect that he doesn't care if all the women in the world married, single, or indifferent wor His argument is that if the women work the men won't have to. Prior to this, the sentiment in let ters on this discussion tends mortly the point that the woman who works when she has a husband or other means of support robs the returned er and the industrial man of a livelihood I this letter r Miss Grey fuse to give up their jobs to 1 am certainly glad of that, ab the I'm a man Women say they like men's work, So, why not let them do it and lot them have lots of it, I don't object, now the war is ever, to hamipg am cney theme, | will oun mn nes re going that the oA “wor will come wot a th that there enough werk for nd women in peace It looks as if thin to be roay for the men; old primitive method en doing all the work” It's be back Into foree again, Of course some men will not agree with ne on this point, but they men who are easily swayed by the lure of women, I believe the primitive working wife was loved much more by the hus- band them is the cago today. FRENCH EMBARGO ON IMPORTS LIGHTENED Don't you think so, Cynthia? | women to hold men’s jobs a chance | lently, while wifie hened | Star by N, EB, A) READER to “get from under” t ad with | much battling with © eleme 8.—France is giving Now what do you thi about | which Providence blessed him, i, e.,| goes out into the storm and brir " und that, folk care of wife and family home the ions ortatiGn Here's Friend Man on the job| Seriously speaking, there is a) Or there of edb 1 cumini gain with his quick-thinking brain, | word of warning in this bit of sar We w omen have a new |¢ Ke tools and elec working overtime fer his own slow: | casm, which Reader passes | question to } they are go-|¢t moving feet ong over the Cynthia Grey desk | ing to fill! men goin i He think eos & chance, in| today to make men | vic A. F.C. dan, 29—-Metab the new turn of affairs, to go bach There S dar that men will Is it them le n. | tra " here have refused to to the primitive, says he, and do the | subside int te of even greater ested t r in shouldering | perform repairs on the steamer Ad: hunting, while eager wife “carries | coma than they enjoy now, with re-| the husband and father’s responsi al Watson, which was sent from the hod” literally as well as figura d to hard work bility? Seattle. The action of the local une tively There 18 a chance that they will) Is it going to put the cart before|ion men is said to be in sympat die Uinks be seas ia the revest to type and sit by, noncha-{ the horse, as it were? with the oupy. oe b " gaan apmomamtes ats