The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 5, 1919, Page 1

i 4 COUNCILMEN ELECTED ¥ g An American Paper That Fights for Americanism On the issue of 2 Americanism S there can be no compromise REATE. THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST Batered’ as Becond Clase Matter May #, 1899, at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash. ander the Act of Congress March 8, 1878, e Seattle Star |ATTY. GEN. W. V. TANNER BY LARGE MAJORITIES RESIGNS OLYMPIA POST PRR PPR PR PRP PRR NIGHT Per Year, TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE by Mail, EDITION $6.00 to $9.00 SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1919. Weather Forecast: siidstate southwestnrly Wham PHELD KEEP MEN HAPPY, FITZGERALD g PERSHING ORDERS TOPS Us 91ST COMMANDER ' Vote BY JOHN F. RYAN Moore and Thomson Follow, (Staff Reporter for The Star.) L 0 ts M LA FERTE BERNARD, France, March “Keep| -&aving Opponents Many Thousands Behind them healthy, above all. And keep them amused and happy —and just busy enough so they won't be homesick.” r Those are the instructions General Pershing gave Maj. “@ Gen. Johnston, of the 91st division. % That’s what is being done for the fighting men of th« Wild West while they wait in this embarkation area for ~ the ships that will take them home. La Ferte Bernard? THE BURNING Q Sage Ee re ane 5 BOND MEASURES FAIL THE VOTE KECINCTS € YLETE Get a map of! cision ¢ £ © France and draw a line directly) was O'Br anos CITY COUNCIL southwest from Paris to Nan the boxir - | as the crow flies. La Ferte Ber Bi. Fitageraid hard is a bit less than half way.| outpointed Jean Hale, 83rd, while wo _Moore By ‘railroad it is 170 kitometrs (106 | Leo Cross, 316th sanitary train, we h. H. Thomson Miles) southwest of Paris and about ision over Robert Martin, the R. L, Proctor 40 kilometers northeast of LeMans. | $3rd’s heavyweight apite. of the| 24 T vi The Wild West division occupies | fact th Martin outweighed him by| ‘ je Gallant an area 20 miles long and 15 mil nda : 2 | wide, including parts of the depa Thomas Wood at CORPORATION COUNSEL ments of Sarthe, Eureet-Loir and heneda draw wit Walter F. Meter Orne. La Ferte Bernard, division t. atria san|. Prederick Sakp headquarters, {s In the southern end company p> of the area. ‘Ches” Semey, 2460h. inact Amendment No. 1 (inereasing coun ; Every Soldier Under Roof any, fought a draw wit eens eerie For, 6,230; against There are no tents or barracks ov. son a I sehen f s rd eA AN a rs ; Every single soldier, officer and en-| | a t eae ee Rees : t » listed man is billeted in a house or at A Miler iB 5 Riva 4 EME TOD 8 : f , Ny | Permanent butiding of some kind 78% a a Amendment No. 3—For, 21,474) ‘ i “The boys have done their share be a Pewee jagainet, 14,889 ° ot fighting.” Gen. Johnston sal st Amendment No. 4-—For, 20,8595) “gnd now that they're resting 1 will Ganiaet re cold or hardship or sleeping in tents.” ‘ it While here the men are getting é new outfits of clothing. They are IN PORTLAN having drills of various kinds and » F 1 target practice—not as much as| PORTLAND, © March 6 when the war was on, but enough) Four offic and 472 men of the (Amendments 2 to 7 clusive, | so they won't get stale. Maik: nataaed ameiede Se sie tated t hnical changes ir Men Are Made Fit 7 charte ‘ * ‘ on a special train at & cn a ease a . siRNA. a LI ; Samad Lae Glorialeaah wt are All the soldiers, who recently ar-|F 14,8 | | putting their teeth in order. F from the s of Oregon an¢ pos rip hp cgepmmaes For, 13,568 ele on 0 ee , uus thing is being done in a medical Washing nians origt-| “proposition A (N. D. T. franchise) manitary way so that when the d| A.) pelonged to the Oregon cope aaa: his over ear—Fre ‘oa t ae oh regim Proposition B ($900,000 bond iasue Nazaire it can go directly on a « ie tage Ab a R Il Ch dh d S F without having to pass enc The artillerymen greeted the thou. | at. bridge)—Fo | SEE ae aot’ oe emibarka:| sands at the Union station with: | 2228 a0 ecalls ildhoo ong LAMPING BILL a bigeye Mise at al a sak seed ry igs eo boy litor'n Note—Readers of The | broods | reer Penents Mares tes | rise cote ue react on 11418; apatoat Pies aad Star weil remember Fred Boalt, for-| The world needa ships to carry| OLYMPIA, March §.—All oppor and so is the morale, offic | This mixture of French and Ex "5 cuahion D ts 50.000 bond jaaye Mery of The Star. His stories re-| food to hungry male: Mvit'y dny | Ganliy tor © rectusdderation “a: the me. This is due to athletics _—— Mat means t Yanks are t imed eredt)< malbatoingd- boop wi aine during hia years lost carries with it I do not kKnOW | Lamping bill has passed. A modi ee a ete | ew Che 47 in 5 He is in the city for a|what dire and far-reaching conse : | cmugen of Major Manley F- overjoyed emotions ese palletes brief vin A troll thru the {dle | quences. fied soldiers’ relief bill, however, pat aery. ted Marion, of Seattle, is v ki shipyards inspired the following Syd terned on the Lamping bill, but pro: | Impromptu vaudeville shows are tri command of returning led Counc re = A little while ago streams of work: | viding a poll tax feature, is being , On aedeeggregtigrony el agony eticers are Capt zt . ere flowed down the stairways from | 4.4 1 Di theatrical troupe, too. It includes R. 3 surgeon: Sei “ clive major | ‘BY, FRED ‘L..BOALT | srsitiwed Gown (pe eine trawn | |p) Professionals and headliners of the ond rson, Everett; | ites. a er their of Once I wna crossing the Great) |thru the ¢ ‘of the yards Friends of the Lamping bill waited © days of peace. cond Lieut. L. BR. Woods, Cor. | ponents Ed Leviand) American Desert, and I came | broad v front thorpfare all day Tuesday to see if Senator Athletics Are Promoted | Vallis, ern t upon the skeleton of a horse, the | daily choked with the automobiles of | xtagnas Thomle, of Everett, would ee eects Mane BG OT ee ine thot the see the 472), Only @ few hundred votes separ) white riba uppoimted. On the |the ship owners, and of the sIP-|moye to reconsider, and thus open | the 26ist regiment, the first battal-|Men are from the state of Wash. Stnd he ites winners. A. gap of tip of one of the riba a fat crow | putiders, too Wie sad soe-palette' ef iis’ Bil." al fon won with 24 points. The second ington. The others are Oregonians. |) yetor, th mat All day long the air was fille y | lion got 22 points. Company ¥| Fireboats sounded their sirens| WEN man of the losing trio, from There was no flesh left on the | with the noises of industry, the Fat-| made no such “nove, and cannot now, ion the fieotwar. Other events|When the train approached the|ThOm#on, the low man among the| bones, and the crow was surfelt- | tie of rivet guns, the clanging Of under senate rules, make the neces-| included the 100-yard dash, 220-yard | Union station. It was the signal for ‘DE Winters with much ing wee the |isteet plates, the ‘creaking of steel | sary motion. | Gosh, sack race, 10-yard relay, 67-|€very nolve-making device in the OT toa, Gots terrain ta| eve en alee te tha taka Ha’. | een er airD: ne Se | + pee. oxbameed: Bis’ tetinte’ tor yard dash for officers and broad and city of Portland to urned loone, | cat ou seat oricleigradead Bit ohP ep aren io oor rt ey oda fat Eg tsar hols pony pepe tubl SicataddarGtinn® a” the’ ered high jumps. Peet fet oyecthensts of the) ne ate oters al pe a ea, and .then re LS gol Mails: gabe “Ted that the new poll tax soldier relief Basketball games are played on a artilierymen were allowed an hour || 7" Rel Ky sins hens defeated all an to i biniy og cs peo |of a morning, five’ weeks Thirte | Dill would be ready for the senate | nT hasnek Tht Sth mae |i WHEN 26 vieit with the boys at| ‘ore Dene Propesiingy retuaes te) eet feounded tn, i remember, . | rrell on ne ee front. Thirty | Wednesday. He said that he had| ine gun company défeated the | the station, after which the Yanks | St™#nt ® charter to the National Dis gore eis ingens an Bc cesy onsen ia eh Bob ny and only contemplated reconsideration in | $isth field signal battalion, while the | formed for a parade, A big “ehow” ‘ict Te h Co., confirmed Cor a See ue » «I marched away. Ten thousand sep the ‘poll tax bill was fot pro $i6th M. P. won from the 316th| Was provided at Auditorium, |Poration Counsel Walter F. Meter in ng as children arate tasks were left unfinished | ay Mititary train by a score of 23 to 2,| The 69th Portland at 2) offic ined to limit the powers| “They sat upon the bare back- | when the hands of the clock pointed|""Greanisation leaders “got busy lena recent doubleheader a. m. Thursday morning for Seattle, | °F the commisisoner of health, refus b |to 10, some just started, som: Tuesday and had the measure whip: La Ferte Bernard was the acene of whe another monster celebration |°! *%9¢tlon to a plan for pensions And picked the eyes out, one by nost completed. | ped’ tito shes ® boxing carnival t ht follow. | awaits the boys. for municipal employes, and remov one; It was dramatic, It was spectac Teel levy. 88 poll-tax-an.a ig the divieional r ve oa \ mans of dead wood from th sity | Then they all flapped their | ular But oh, the pity and the| oy Sorson between the ages of 21 . The 91st celebrated by tak- varter by giving the okeh to wix we and erie | ante Of is iat rigdas cage Soe eigen tae aise the boxers of the 83rd Artillery Troops amendments removing provision Caw! Caw! Caw! Some day, perhaps, when men dis-| thi fund the $600,000 ‘appropriated Ghioraivnon, Te win wert box| of 69th Are Due "5. 12.02, oN [acre they’ wt belts het ter. |-0" Ae agt wet Poreaion ag gaealcln tae tad ‘ ¢ "Elshagh ing oo dys pagar ep wa berri va day I saw another skeleton, but ps sanely, W pa . be be a glad | Would be turned back to the general draws. A crowd of 2,000 soldiers | in City Thursday |°°"",'° cetest, Proposed the eree-| tot of a t It might have been | der_one table. That will he a ms |fund, and the surplus given to the| saw the bouts. A telegram received Tuesday night | 10" Ot bridges at West Spokane st-| | mammoth creature, such. as lived | 4Y for us, but & Al ONS TOF Crow! commission for disbursement. | Knockout, Second Round from Camp » contained the in-| of $900,000 and "$760,000, respective. | COM 8K for whose fossil bones we “We plan to empower this. com. Knockout honors went to Tom | formation that 1,000 men of the ly, and the eréction of a city how.| OW “is, and, if we find them, place| |mission to give $40 to every soldier Peterson, 381st infantry. He put out | "esiment will leave for the pital at a cost of $500,000, This tat-|!™." ums ‘CHA on presentation of mrs re elpt for bey Eddie Maul of the 83rd in the we ne time the last part of this v ter proposal received a majority But | knew that this was no mam | compensation from the government,” | 4 e eighed in at} All plans for the entertainment te Of but fail moth's skeleton, for all it was sev |Chairman Joe Smith, of the appro: | eens The man weighed in at! ine 470 men of the 69th coast ar 7 it failed to carry, M4) oral hundred feet long and its up |priations committee, said today. | 165 pounds. iteee, S80:68 whown nee t Waah, | 2, nree fifths majority ts required | rointed ribs measured full 60 fect | “This means that every man would Danny O'Brien, 9st, ncorea a de-|tillery, 108 of whom are from Wash- |by the city charter on bond issues. |”Ity iby were of atecl, not bone. | | eventually $100 cash, It also| = Thur morning at 10 o'clock, are | wor the tema atte inten wection| It was the skeleton of @ ship! =| Charged with beating. little nine-|eltninates the feature of ‘applying i wer sehen . im renioving ‘Otontetad: Ane oo STUN Oye oro? year-old Benton Maynard with a rub-| for assis as each man will be The largest audience Te’ the train arrives on time, the he, amendments removing obsolete! jy 'ig a mere detail’ that the bird |her sole for 16 minutes one day last entitled to get his $40 by presenting ’ : i cada ari” Sean “weomptter: & rovisions from the city charter ax not a crow, but a gull. 1 re-|\cex. Miss C. J. Judd, teacher, and| his credentials,” in the Northwest is Parade will begin promptly at 12)" Aitho Seattle hax no saloons, and| fuse to hamper my theme with tri-|Waltam A, Bu tre, principal, of the ee angiig-— Seer ake ae eet ae id laws regulating the number of| flea, My parable In still In working |Mtinor public achool, are charged Mayors’ Meeting t to the Masonic temple, where &/to each bl oe Obplate, TLIC ee ike with asauit in’ complaint filed in] "sp a OO tur erve } the boys b: eattle voters went on record as fa I eaw, 1 say, skeleton, of steel [Justiow of the: Peace cae Brinker's In ju ae ver he cue ‘or omen's fais N Ns court ednesday morning What Have er will be ed in| gat . : on pete out-of: | rusty and dripping in a downpour |” ine marks of the alleged beating | Rolph’ 's Demand the same p ut 6 p.m eon re i ity Mtatute| Of fain. of wkeletons, And i |Spowed-fer tive Gays atterwards and) .; WABHINGTON,: March: 6.—A. ree ? Councilman C. B, Fitsgerald, whol sh) ced eaw with the physical eye |e lttle fellow suffered hemorrhages | qlution demanding that the president ou to ay ° headed the potle invthe ity council |e cen elie th ode nt the mina pnd COME eenraely walks Rasordins, th CA eegenrar Sinetene CORETaeR t ace, Ienued the TOIOW ina cebtonent eeee eee en ee ae aan |e: a 8. MMe, we SRmRIOOE, the mem (on te eee 7 ere San, Some Weligidas ‘atubiden:s mont | I.saw hovering over the silent-soat: |. neater try Is facing a serious reconstruc A STAR Want Ad ihe workiig ten. endl wonienvol ene Ua tr don't like his impudence,” Mtiss| tion period” was introduced today in i Tae Taam tanene pete sdb ecbg i i: hae: tole ar{the conference of governors anc will get your mes- uttle were not fooled by ‘the false| Perhaps it is because T am of fru-| Judd Is sald vba his.mother| a vors ‘by Mayor James Foliar issues raised in the campaign, The| gal mind, but the waste of. time, |*fter the alleged whipping. of San Francisco. sage over. oters knew that I was not a tool| materials and opportunity hurt Tay The resolution was referred to a The 634 Coast artillery will pass |of the Chamber of Commerce, as plate dangles from a cable,| LOS ANGELES, March 5.—Pedro| committee and action wil! be taken Transient char rates are thru Seattle, en rot for Camp Lew. | represented by my snents, Credit | waiting lo be swung into place, An rtines, 9, and Jose cael T bon 11% cents per | i sbout March 12, according to|is to be given the laboring men for| other plate hangs by @ single rivet arcia, aged 5, were found today) Rolph's demand has developed a inks ete, 0% conde per line word received by Frank Gates, chair-| the manner In which they kept their| Many tools le where they were] murdered In a bullding in the heart| partisan fight, democratic mayors Lower rates on contract. man of th idiers’ and sailors’ wel-| heads and refused to be influenced| dropped, rusting. he unfinished |of the business district, and governors claiming he had no come committee. The men leave | by issues intended to deceive | ships rest on their ways Uke corpses| Tenacio Oronco was arrested by| right to raise the resolution until it And over all bad been acted on by a committee. ¥ | Camp Mills, N. Y., March 7, | them, r in coffins. CONFIDENT OF mee WILSON IS DECI NAY ON VOYAGE REACHED BY 710 i Transport George Washing- Transaction Involves Pay= TO EUROPE ton Now on Second Trip to Peace Meet | SALUTE FIRED BY FORTS, ireh NEW YORK, 5. President Wilson ied = for France this morning his see- trip to the peace conference. transport George Washin transport € Ww passed Sandy headed into the open it 9:55 @ m. today. She was escorted by a Warship and five destroyers, There was a light mist, but hardly | any wind, and the water was smooth for the start of the president's sec ond voyage to the peace conference. | Altho the progress of the trans-| port from her wharf in Hoboken to | the Narrows was quiet and unat tended by any demonstration, there was a rousing send-off as the trans- port passed the harbor forts and the war vessels anchored under thelr | guns. | Forts cut loose with a salute. The war vessels also fired 21 guns, sea The The ington . h Hook and Bea, | men of the ships in the lower bay | swarmed into the rigging, cheering, | and spectators on the shores waved and shouted farewells across the | water | The president breakfasted early, | and was on deck when the transport went down the bay. His ensign flew | from the masthead | New York seemed to be still asleep | as the George Washington passed thru the harbor, but as the shores of Staten Island and the @&arrows were approached, the cheering and whistle tooting commenced ‘The wild demonstration that at for Europe was lacking this time. T0 RECONSIDER | tended the pfesident’s first departure | constitution.” | ct hour o 1 ‘ o re |The exact hour of sailing was not ‘The dissenting... opinion generally known and there were no great crowds massed along the water | front. The river and the bay were| almost bare of shipping, due to the| harbor strike Several members of the presidents party appeared on the bridge and| waved to the crowd of officials who | saw them off. | As the liner proceeded down the| river there was an almost unbroken | silence, with only an occasional siz nal toot of the whistle of a tug. The few people who noticed the steamer at that stage of its progress evident- ly did not recognize it as the famous | transport George Washington with | the president aboard At about 8:55 the George Washing: ton steamed past the Statue of Lib-| erty, making about 10 knots, Her| only escort at this point were two} tugs which fussed along, one on each side of her. Opposite the statue she passed two steamers coming up the bay. The vessels exchanged the regulation whistle signals, | At the Narrows, where the steamer entered the lower bay, she was met by four destroyers. Two took up} positions ahead of her and one on each side. | | | LEAGUE PLAN BY ROBERT J. BENDER (United Press Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK, March 5.—Pres- ident Wilson is going to a finish fight with the senate republicans on his league of nations cove- nant, In his final appeal to the peo- ple of the country, here, last night, he declared “an over- whelming majority of the Amer- ican people” favored it, “No party has a right to appropri- | ate the league issue, And no party will, in the long run, oppose it.” This is the conviction he carried back to France with him today | Nothing in his speech indicated | the president proposed to amend the | covenant or separate it fromm the} main treaty with Germany, as de: | manded by the senate republicans. On the contrary, he declared that in the | avalanche of criticism launched against the covenant in the senate, there has been “no constructive sug: gestion” and “no counsel of gener-} osity.” | Hence, he starts b to France | today with no congressional amend: | ment to the covenant in hand, and no coneise idea of what the senate republicans want, There have been scores of questions asked him by his (CONT'D ON PAGE BIGHT) Kk |enues of the utility is no creation of jer by ‘THOMPSON IS SION IS 2 VOTE ment of $15,000,000 for Traction System CITY TO PAY BY BONDS ? YMPIA, March 5.—The state supreme court today upheld the pure — chase of the Stone-Webster traction — system by the city of Seattle for — $15,000,000, Friendly suit had been brought by taxpayers against the traction come pany and the city to determise legality of the purchase bond? as a first lien on the revenue of the cam lines . ii. Consummation of the purchase de pended on the decision. T attorneys held back ratification the purchase plan on the that they wanted the stamp of proval from the supreme court to the plan Bonds First Claim Under this decision the bonded debtedness will be paid out of revenues prior to any other > ineluding labor. The decision was writte: Mitchell and concurred comb, Main, Fullerton, Parker and Mount. Judges Chadwick and Mackintosis dissented The opinion declares: “We ae satisfied the proposed plan and bonds will not create an indebt- edness against the city and that — the city council has authority te It also says: public uti! payable from the revs _ a debt within the meaning of the Dissenting Opinion series of purchase ordinances “but _ clumsily conceal the reserved - pose of the council to ‘maintain operate’ the street car system at the expense of the general fund, elt= 4 system of loans from the general fund or levying a direct tax — for that purpose.” a NAMED AS NEW ATTY, GENERAL OLYMPIA, March 5.—W. Vaughn — Tanner resigned as attorney general of Washington today. He will go to Washington, D. ©. to represent Washington, Idaho and Oregon in the case of the three states against the railroad administration to con- test the federal right to regulate cer- ain rates, heretofore under jurisdiee tion of state public service commis- sions. Assistant Attorney General Thompson, of Yakima, was appoint ed the new attorney general by Act ing Gov. Hart. This arrangement permits Tanner to accept fees from pach of the three states. Wilson Says He’s Well Pleased With General Situation NEW YORK, March 5,—President: Wilson is well pleased with the situas tion in the United States and abroad, he told newspaper men on board the George Washington, just before leave ing: avery ch statement I made in my last night, and every utters 1 have made since my return to the United States will be undere stood by the people at large, if not by certain politicians,” he said. responsibility for the blocking’ of certain much needed legislation in Washington is perfectly well known to the public, and the responsibility does not need to be shared.” Irish Queitien Is Domestic One, Is * * View of President NEW YORK, March §.—The Irish question at the present time is a domestic issue of the United Kings dom, and until the problem lof self+ determination for I ie brought before the peace Bids oe bs he can+ |” not commit himself in any why, | President Wilson told the Irish Yass committee which was received: by” him after the Metropolitan Opera | house speech last night. : be