The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 15, 1919, Page 1

nnn nnnnnnnne On the issue of © Americanism there can be no compromise VOLUME 21. NO. 300 PSURNETT ADMITS KILLING HIS FAMILY APPIPL LLL LLL ELLE OOOO An American Paper That Fights for Americanism e Seattle Star voor ) GREATEST TO ARREST ALLL.W. as Hecond Clase Matt DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST ee ee eee May 3, 1 At the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congrees March §, SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, FEBRU ARY 15, 1919. Weather Forecast: t ar tay, rain; mode h erly winds Confesses Wilson on ‘Shot Wife Way to the andBabes U.S. Today eee te, Feb. 16——| See re dmission that Norman States aboard the liner George . Burnett killed his wife, Washington at 11:16 today. and two little boys with a ny FRED s. FERGUSON otgun during a moment United Press Correspondent f rave. while picnicking PARIS, Feb. 15.—With the ‘of rage, while picnic ne league of nations temporarily dis rks -raieie as' of, the peace delegates to- 7 Haw ks : — vai : st ey penne Sinavinn to. ay, was made by the de- effecting a definite preliminary 2 mney. ore FF peace with Germany, which fense attorney, George F.) peace. - sien we anti morning. resumption of normal industry “Mrs. husband | and commerce thruout the wortd. hand ov his pay check,” Yantis| Practically all the conferees have red. He refused, She sald./agreed that this is the most vital 6 gotten along without you be-| problem now before them. and [I can get along without) The world is now in a state of again.” She spoke of his ac-|stagnation. Industries everywhere that h child |are awaiting the actual signing of his, and said, ‘We! it is | peace and the growing unrest and 0 uncertainty In many countries can, Yantis sald Burnett seized his | be traced directly to economic condi- otgun. The mother, in terror, ran | tions. to her childr fhe husband fired | ~ omen died group. 1 : Re ne Reet er eae.) French Received } halt buried ¢ ; i : phat brie ce ee yurnett wert) Him as a Friend, \ jurors, too, broke |{ Says President | ; ; young bitterly. Wom b down and sobbed The prosecuting attorney, in his BREST, Feb. 15.—Prenident || S opening statement to the jury, had|)} Wilson gave out the following ( Claimed that they were killed by a) statement today just before em- | blunt instrument, their heads hav- |) barking for the United States: § wre been ereatied. “I cannot leave France without |) expressing my profound gratifien- } ) ) }) ton over the hospitality of the ( French people and the French } ( government. They have received and treated me as I most desired “I am happy to think that I am COPENHAGEN, Feb. 1 to return to assist with all my pyernment troops have vadnagies | heart in completing the just set art a disarmed the Spartacans ) tierents which the conference is re, according to advices here to-|) seeking, and I shall carry with ( A } me during my absence very hap- | Spartacans are reported to have|! py memories of the two months } jptured the prison in Wesel | I have spent here. ’ Rave liberated the inmates. “I have been privileged to see { q - near at hand what my sympathy Erfurt, situated west of Wetmar,|) had already conceived of the suf. wd by the soldiers’) ferings and problems of France, ting with the Spar ( and every day has deepened my / Dtacans, as one of the first steps inan |) interest in the solution of the { lattempt to ove the national } grave question upon whose prop- assembly and government at Wel-|) er solution the future prosperity { mar ) of France and of her associates | 4 of the world depends H fay I not leave my warm and ' } affectionate farewell greetings?” f EEE PO RA, Semiofficial reports from Ger many indicate that country has enough food to last until March w crops will not be available be COPENHAGEN, Feb. 15.—A state fore June. In the interim, condi ie *siege has been proclaim tions of actual starvation may pre- Eepenarest, where Rumanian am | vail and bring about serious disturb- Btiznonarchical revolution is center-| ces unless steps to meet this situ @, according to dispatches received | ation are taken speedily e today . i Ans A new plot against King Ferdi Bmand an Crown Prince Carol is said Mo have been discovered. The royal family is re ported to have fled. recen| founcil, iminary peace would correct these conditions and would be com paratively simple in accomplishment The all could agree what Ger many should in the way of in demnity and how she should pay it the king wa nded when and this could be apportioned among ithe royal palace was bombarded, and | the interested nations Eithat the roy was prevented at some such program will be evolutionists from leaving the|Partially arranged under the new “hy pratution let provisions for extension of the ar Fi ne mistice is hinted at in certain offi ¥ cial quarters. These provisions will ing Girl Is At tom ch tere wena Found Saturday “¢» "additional Considerable additional work must Elsie Killman, 14, auchool|be done to perfect the plan, how igirl, who was searched for by the Fb Previous dispatches reported that ear ever, and toward thie end the or | ne created — suprem ‘onomic ‘i ice for six days, follo her | new +e ~ esters us disappearance between | council will co-oper closely with ¥ the supreme war council, and it is her father’s and married sis [= homes, last Sunday afternoon, has Been located Saturda B A story with a expected that further requirements from Germany will develop as the armistice is renewed from time to ure of the $ ‘ time published in Friday's Star, a ; ri “i ged er The principal opposition to les resulted in her ry ng the economic pressure againat her absence Details regard withneid by th nily until the father and 4 ve conferred with Mrs. Blanche Mason, head of comes from the French the ac ges Germany » permitted to plenty of raw materials Killmar Do You ant a o., Feb. 15.—There’s Suburban Home? ||» !0'%,21 75014 write 2 Dew Look usder Acreage heading, | South Dakota, and a sudden descent from th ciory of a war hero to the prison bars of a murderer's cell ull wrapped up in doings of one Do You Want a Walter Rifenberg, aged 29 Rifenberg broke out of prison City Home? joined the dian army, married on classified page “igamously ume to Denver with Look under For Sale Real Es || his bride and posed as a returned fate heading, on the classified || hero of the trenches. ange His day of glory came to a climax when newspaper accounts of hin PD You Want lurid deeds against the Boches were published, bearing. his photograph 2 ; ‘The police recognized the picture an Automobile? | 27 2! sii2?e"bnutes ook:‘tnher i Auto “L don't believe it—I can't nkee FOr ae csauiried || befleva ity” his Witte beide re nae peatedly protested, When she | learned that Rifenberg must go to be treated—-as a friend; a friend alike in spirit and in purpose. {} | | | Roth was a happy man as ne limped} toward his old home. His face was pale and his steps uncertain, but he smiled. He was glad to get back. He thought of his wife, and didn’t stop to kreet old friends, And then he met his brother My 1, Miles: ain't you dead? Not #0 you could notice it,” Miles answeyed cheerily. “The Huns came hear getting me, but not quite. Ree you later; got to run in and see the wife, you know.” | “What! Haven't you heard!” Harry Roth exclaimed, and sorrow | again Mooded his eyes, “Why, Miles, old man, we all heard you were killed im France, and Caroline mar- ried again.” “Married? My wife married? Miles Roth couldn't at first compre- hend. “Who did she marry? “Hi Smith,” Harry replied. “Now don't take it so hard, but you sec, we j heard you had been killed by a shell | explosion, and there wasn't any of us who thought we'd see you again.” | The smile had faded from Miles Roth's features, He turned toward the depot, limping more slowly than | before. | “E gues I'l go back,” he sald. }| “onty got a furlough from hospttal in New York. Don't know what to do.) Maybe I'll come back. Caroline was! & good wife. I loved her. I love her Just as much now, Good-bye, Harry.” | | And the Reading train carried «| disappointed soldier bey back to the Per Wile Westh eee the at bees ican in this war to live the tragedy | Titnoch Arden Ten yearn ago Miles Roth wooed | and won Caroline Weinstein, Willfam Smith had liked Caroline, but she gave her hand and heart to Milea Smith remained In Fullerton, an tron- worker, unmarried. Roth brought his wife to Allentown and became the | — Miles was a National Guardeman, | and when war came to the United States, he responded bravely and promptly. Mra. Roth and the children kissed him good-bye “The last record we played on our phonograph,” Milex said, “was "When You Come Back On July 28 the 108th Machine Gun| Ported here today. The Portuguese gion Battalion was close up to the fighting | republican flag has been raised 4 strike ballot in Seattle and othe: (Continued on Page Eight) again in Valencia Pacific = Pa ters of the Portdguese revolt . a sont wee. Hci 'L. C. Grammer, Pacific coast head of TROOPS OCCUPY LISBON, Feb. 14 Delayed = Th the telephone unions. The instruc. 1. nan bee ree is being spent. The Incidental work included the | remarks. provoked immediate ee eee eonauitn. tions ask that members of the unions » kept in such a manner| Seizing of radical propaganda at |-nent ern Portugal, and Playa Concelro.| record thelr opinions regarding a ef cult to secure any| the home of F. J. Cassidy, 5229 _ Lamping Controls Self arrested, it was officially annouriced |#trike unless a higher e scale ix definite informatior arrar st., and the release of a Senator Lon Johnson, young today granted w for tele Roberteon claims to be in posses:| mumber of the 33 men arrested tor from Colville, jumped up BELFAST, Feb. 15. “ occu s pee D3 e « range from $11 té (Continued on Page Eight) Thursday. flayed Groff. pied the electric power ation and ‘ week A minimum of) $12 ess Operatives expect to arrest Bram- “If this senator ever attempts to gas works early today. The lord Three Airplanes weekly i# asked, with’ increases up let Saturday. Fislerman, Dougherty |™ake such remarks again, I will ne mayor lasued a proclamation declar ing that, military support now as have fled from Oporto and are try- | 4) ing to croma into Spain, it was re- gy "ar i i "rhe RGANIZATION IS ace, a wet isomer AW, ASSEREEE With the split in the shipyard strike ranks rapidly widening Saturday, as hundreds of work ers affixed their names to the pe- Gen calting fer the formation The Industrial V Workérs of the Wo of a new boilermakers’ union, opinion was general that an end to the walkout of 30,000 shipyard must cease as an organization in men may come at any time county. It must close its halls and of we ee iernoe sees organization” and disband its membership. It is outla’ With Gieruption, charges and These are the declarations of Prosecut- countercharges being made by present officials and those who ing Attorney Fred C. Brown Saturday. would establish a new regime, As the boilermakers’ union is | Brown says he will prosecute every membk WOUNDED a : “ INDATILE | yard airike, disintegration of te | Who adheres to the organization, on a fe ranks would sweep the plans of imi the strike leaders inte chaos, 11 |O* criminal anarchy charge. is averred. “To be an I. W. W. is to be, knowi Members of the Metal Trades council steike conference commute OF unknowingly, an enemy of the go peng hy radeon Bs peer /ment and law and order,” Brown stated. — building Saturday | morning, at which the latest de “Ww » prosecute the members| place was raised for propagands velopments in the atrike situation |of the organiza e! were thoroly threshed out. Altho/by virtue of Jeffe Bramlet tried to start a Wttle plainly worried by the threatened | avowed intentions, enemies of the revolution at Enumclaw, the agg break in the lines of their suppo United States. ities state. the leaders did not give out any| “, decision of the courts statement or admit that all was not cific county, January § Seebaitasees well with the strike prospects presage" Mle yard SENATOR GROFF Owners Are Mum convicted on an anarchy charge, Shipyard owners continued silent | despite appeal Saturday, following their ultimatum | “Characteristic I. W. W. propa: IS R BUKEaS ‘eral days ago, in which they | ganda and literature were introduced Hhat they would. refuse to |at the trial, and held by. Uke court to al with the presengleaders of the constitute indirect action against the| Metal counell in any effort | government.” ant toward @ Jement. | ‘ Brown says he will allow members| Both PD. EB. Ski president of >| 2 | ne tierce’ Sate serporetiee asa Ot the 1. W. W. an interval qp.ty-| OLYMPIA. Fob 15 Si BROTHER Tres one of the spokesmen for the As- | 20Uzce membership, following which | sidetrack the Lamping OF WIFE'S mame ation uf Northwest hipbutlders, | e¥ Will be punished to the full ex-|ward bill by sending it to the Roth, American soldier, wounded almost to death, in last July’s|and Bert Swain, secretary of the ‘nt of the law when arrested jization - controlled app the Marne, who returned to find his wife the wife of another, Metal Trades council, were retigent| From this date, Brown says, to be committee for reconsideration, — — when interviewed Saturday, and re |an 1. W. W. renders a man subject fused to comment on the situation |to arrest, imprisonment, trial and beyond saying that there were no|conviction on a felony of aharchy | Vote of 19 to 16, day new developments. charge i ‘The #host disgusting apie of th F. A. Robertson, local lawyer, as Soveb Stil! Miss! contest was an attempt by sociated with Att reves Ay! . ms Sey. deg Spokane, to With We Warrants standing, as Lamp more in the campaign to overthrow the heads of the Bi ve tate, | ane iit radicals are still be-| phe ee Opposition this bal shipyard ing so Beattie ‘and vicinity AS is the rotten personality of the Giiiks. widened the Wreath if the criminal @harchists, Saturday. Seven man of the military com ike ranks Saturd: by 3 are held fw the city and county jails. (meaning Lamping), Groff datas’ ten” thee Arrest of Tl I. W. W. and the | “I don’t believe be ever had any of the finances of the, filing of criminal anarchy com- 1 courage. His soldiering rmakers’ union. plaints against Aaron Fister. | sisted in sitting under the tween $400,000 and $600,000 has| man, T. F, G. Dougherty, J. A. | tion wagons.” in paid into, the treasufy in dues ‘elly and Jeffe Bramlet, of Because Lamping'’s disti nd telephone elec-| and initiations since October, 1917 Enumclaw, constituted the main service record as an officer in th been ordered by obertson said. The men them features of operations against Spanish-American war was ho way of knowing how| alleged revolutionists Friday. known by other senators, VIGO, Feb. 15,—Royaliat Jer and put an end ders Seattle's telephone system atened with a tie-up as the latest clopment in the local labor situa. miamanageme const cities, among the tele ore Oporto and Valencia were the cen. phone o trical workers h to about $25 Boilermakers in and Kelly are in custody,. Walker |Sent it with force at the cost of Flight Local officers of the “he r y ochayedl to Start * girls’ C, Smith, radical publisher; John J, |™oval from the senate,” he d n declare that they are waiting Oakland to Vote Axtell and William Moran, I. W, W. | “I, for one, will not tolerate this sort) sured, volunteers will be used to) venice. Cal, Feb. 1$—Threo| uni on municipal service. Bust) i) 7 further instruct o 7 r W. executives, are held der $5,000 Of thing, And/I want“to say — military airplanes, bound for Wash ‘urth: ti ru 4 from their inter x ath 5 r n under # been practically at a stand:| jigton, D. C., on a path-finding trip, national bef nowhelne the form on Starting ork bond each, on criminal anarchy | here that the Lamping bill is the general ntrike in #ym- | wii ieave Venice today unless the of the balloting | SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 15.—The| charges. Leon 4 Butoul- | itorious measure. It should be po pathy with the striking shipyard weather becomes unfavorat JOakland Botlermakers’ union will | sky; Harvey O'Conner, J. J. Calla. /¢@. I deeply resent this attempt Cs workers, vote in secret bi mberlain, Morris | postpone action. ey Ebert Announces — Peace Delegates ::. BUDAPEST, Feb. 13.—(Delayed.) field t tomorrowon @/han, E. I sition to return te The machines are from E 1, and arrived svat ri Air Tank Blowup a J. McGuire, rer Py . McGuire i d 0, Monday Wrecks Building tyejiernaccrs International... made Lieut. R. O. Searle is flight com 4: wig . ‘ ander SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 15.—Ex- this ann@uncement today, and pre Kingman, Ariz. la acheduled plosion of an air tank today partial-| dicted that 90 per cent of the Oak: | their hall on the alley, betw ked the Saracco Welding Co. land organization men will vote to/ and yon Larson and A. W. Rock arged with criminal anarchy, | in check » far evaded capture. The I.| matter of in Friday's raid on | frankly told the s My record as a soldier and serv= ice papers are on file at Washington, © an Die tallroad aves, and Was President Whert in en ioterview with | the fut 99 te bd aNd pias plant persons were painfully end the strike and will go to work | and Main sts. are but my record as a soldier is not um aoa prs higher rd ot tha eh a . a es Hee hurt Monday Tony os, 18, . Portuguese der discussion. rie prieypi i caroae ps aoe = : Spartacans Rob The lid of a recently welded acyte McGuire said, however, that it| Lind, 47, Swede; Joseph For “I have never deemed it necessary Di Oe ee ’ pee’ Muelhei Bank lene tank was blown thru the build-|may be necessary to start another | Finn; Harry Hagson, 27, Dane to insult a senator on the floor tel co oe ue im ing. It hit a telegraph pole, knock-| jocal organization in Oakland Mam Klein, 36, * Hungarian support or defeat a bill. I am perm si (oon sets SRLIN, Feb. 14.—(Dela the pole over, Street car service was _ _ Whiteside Max Bacharach sonally able to take” care of myself,” - gaelic 4 Fr Bus 6; Otto Brinner, and any senator who insults me On 97 ENGLAND DEPORTING INDON, Feb, 15.—England ts | m ALIEN UNDESIRABLES naid to ae eon robbed of 5,000 NOMINATE OFFICERS «2% urtherpararan dinrders andy temporary halted TACOMA METAL TRADES ging Were reported today in Ham "Minx BUILDING TRADES TO | SEND WIRE TO WILSON e la city th imp al bank ia Re, atter city the impert " TACOMA, Feb, 15.—The Tacoma May Deport 'Em 5 Samuels, 38; H. Wilson, this floor will have to answer out- harles Dormer, 53 side ure, Duisberg and Mu Groff Apologizes tors in quick succession took or to pay tribute to Lamping’s ent a tele-| phe four foreigners may be de-| the deporting alien undesirables, princi.| workmen's and soldiers’ council The Building Trades council win gram to President Wilson, to be de-) ported. ‘The American I, W. W. will | record and deplore Groff's conduse at pally enemy subjects, as rapidly as| The Bavarian government was un-| nominate officers for the new r|livered upon his arrival, stating that! he investigated, and adjudged) Others tried to pour oil on sthe: shippin conditions permit, according | officially reported to have issued aj at their meeting next Friday, The the shipyard worke here are patri-} blameless of revolutionary activi | troubled waters, urging that the Semeol rmit, according | call for all able-bodied men to form | election, which wax postponed two otic and that the lowest paid work: tex during the nt strike, will be shipping conditions y mona yesterday, by ward Scott, | 4 |home secretary, the to Lincoln, Nebraska, to. ca or plete a 25-year sentence, she de ie clared | go to Lincoln to be near him. He needs me now.” Friends have sought to dissuade | re her. But the only argument that th shakes her resolution and her love for her hero is the staternent of the | te police, that somewhere in South | w Dakota is another wife, and a little | at son, whom Rifenberg deserted be: | fe fore he committed the crime that sent him to prison. “I've had y says Rifenberg. been for an American flag, « pe rope like the figure 8, and my | «i initials, tattooed on the back of le | my left wrist, they wouldn't | tc have got me yet.” | The police have been piecing to-| i gether Kifenberg’s remarkable rec- le! day, anyhow,” | ar it hadn't near Winniper itors forget the incident. ‘i fonse guard “to combat! weeks on account of the strike, will | ¢ released Groff later apologized, February 28 wage One of the men arrested Thurs As soon as the senate adjourned, day, Fred Arndt, is alleged to have! 4 group of peacemakers surrounded said he would rather live under the| Lamping. Adjt. Gen. Harvey Mom home are getting an inadequate living Bolsheviks,” take 1 German flag under present condl-| went over, and, addressing ther tions, than the American fl 1 More than 300 copies of the 1 Groff's remarks were contempth erator, ar public , of ar njustifie I served with 1. After abandoning his wife and later he returned wearing | serious and I was soon in the thick | which Max F who is to } ( mping in the Philippines, He is the Wy. he drifted to Ains-|three gold stripes on his sleeve—the | of the fight again ture at the I temple Sunday, is) was a man of supreme courage? eve . ign that he had been wounded three Twe ta 1 gt the Tacoma in ir vr. He has a record orth, Nebraska, where he Was 8} times in France. He wax discharged | splinter tr ey were addre of—and I resent this,” ted on a charge of killir pool: | from the army, and came to Denver /tg a base i was convicted re The Lamping bill now goes to gems yom proprietor after learning that/on a triumphal procession with his |iwo week roulatiy ti r probably will be report- ie man had $190. bride ‘ tinieT dan eekt te. tho | San Raw © under a m for action next week, The He was tried, convicted and sen Poses 4 jee and atthe tatte.ot Ac in the circuit court of appeals, beir was so amended as to give sols need to 26 years, He behaved The police he made and} i nt down for ird tine, while |CUe of bail meanwh dier lump sum, instead of a small ell in prison, and became a trusty | sewed on the stripes himself. Siaditelk datgnheneay cok saan ie J. A, Kelly alleged to have been | mor payment the Girls’ Industrial Home at Mil-| But here is Rifenberg's story Cie Gas ater Wie Gar bon leader the band of I. W. W Groff looked up Lamping Satur: ord. He escaped January 21, 1 sailed from Halifax and after | oon sow All of the party we Read that clashed with the police in Ey-|day morning an¢ rologized. 1 was lost three weeks training at Seaford, | he. Kiied or wounded. T went to rete November 1916, t tried | He said he did not realize what he Then he enlisted in the Canadian | England, was went to the battle)" aiewcont hoapital in Breland, {mt acauitted on a charge mur-| Was saying when he indulged in my, and was stationed in a camp|front. On March 3, T was stationed : . der, when an officer was killed personalities on the floor, directed: where I remained until I came back gherty is said to be at Lamping I was a fool and now I realize” It was in Winnl-|at Beauznuts, in the vicinity of | 108 Do g that he t and married the| Arras, and my work in the famous |", cient I. W. W. organizer rl who now is faithful to him. He|spring drive won the title of ser ‘We were so happy after our ~iman is the alleged circulation it,” he told newspaper men. “Lampe ft her, saying he was to be sent| geant riage until he had to go to Fran ager of the International We F./ing has & fine record as a soldier France ‘While doing picket duty in ad. | sighed the your J. Cassidy, socialist candidate for the |T didn't know what I was saying.® She still belfeves he went to| vance of a detachment of Canadian is just the finest man. Why city council, had 25 bo s of self. Lamping was chief of volunteer rance. ‘The police say he never| troops, I was wounded by a machine | should I be punished by ing hini | distilled wine in his ‘home, say the | scouts for Gen. Lawton in the Philipe {t the Winnipeg camp, gun in the left leg. This was not’ taken away from me? |police, This was seized when the pines,