The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 27, 1919, Page 1

Serinwenes NEW UPRISINGS IN EUROPE ARE FEA ~_ee eee Seattle FRIDAY Ist High Water Tides in THURSDAY ich Water p. 10.6 ft Ist Low Water Ist I 8 am ft Migh Water VOLUME 2 AnA merican -aper That Fights for Americanism. e Seattle sla THE GREATEST tered as Becond Cla SEATTLE, WASH., DAILY CIRCULATION OF Matter May 3, THURSDAY, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act MARCH 27, 1919, of Congress Mareb §, ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST 1979. TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Per Year, by Mall, > Tonight and Friday, We athe rain; light easterly BUTTERWORTH CASE TO JUR * * 8 8 8 * * * © Hh HS & * 4% % * % ® & OBS CITY READY TO TAKE OVER CAR LIN | OUTBREAKS IN WIDE DISTRICT ARE IMMINENT BY RUDOLPH KOMMER United Press Staff Correspondent BERNE, March 27.—Bolshevist uprisings in Aus-} tria and Czecho-Slovakia are imminent, according to} advices received here today. Any move in those two countries against the Hungarian soviet government is) expected to precipitate the trouble. - The British military mission in Vienna, it was re- ported, has notified the government the allies are ready to increase Austria's food supply if order is maintained. The Austrian population is greatly excited over events) in Hungary, especially in view of their own economic situ- ation. All restaurants in Vienna are closed, there is no or coal, and the meat ration has been reduced to an infinitely small quantity. | | Bolshevism, apparently, is proving | HUNGARY SOVIET Sees HAS A FIRM GRIP Adler, according to reliable informa: | tion, is preparing to lead a Bolshe Says Allied Representatives Are Not Molested vist uprising against the present BY EDWARD BING Austrian government. (United Presse Correspondent) advices RUMANIANS ARE. FACING ATTACK |\Bessarabians Start Soviet and Begin Offensive new Bessa-| \Bolsheviki Forced to Defend Ground} LONDON, March Anti-Bol- | sheviki forces have begun a strong offensive in the Dvinsk region, a cording to a wireless dispatch r ed from Mosco¥ today. The com- | munique sald the Bolsheviki are de- | In Prague radical socialists are de alization. The entire socialist party is thy tening a & ral strike if an effort is made to mobilize against Hungary {Unconfirmed reports have been | received that a formidable Czech | Slovak army already has begun inva-| (Copyright, 1919, by United Press) | sion of Hungary, occupying the tm portant city of Raab, about midway P. M)—The Hungarion soviet | Detween Vienna and Budapest) | republic was firmly established indicate Hungarian communism is | today, without disorder or blood- | making the Russian soviet republic shed and with amicable relations | ¢ppear almost oer enc peers { i ith allied thing is being nationalized and the ing jprecemt- | most severe penalties are provided atives. All aliens and allied sol {for any form of resistance. diers are at complete liberty. The | Beia Kun, the new foreign minis popularity of British and Ameri- ter, is said to have been in prison ~ > eg | hag | the government over to Everything in the country pas reas oe former Emperor Karl baths. Thsi reofganization has been | ognize the national assembly and le accomplished with apparent ap | Slization of his dethronement, with proval of the wealthy and aristocrat-|out hope that the Austrian people fe as well as the poor and humble. vm e watually teagan youl Soldiers V: n the meantime, he will settle a down to a secluded life at Parma cas A “Red” army is being organized ti. on a purely volunteer basis, con-| fis brother, Archduke Max, in re-| scription being abolished ax 800n 48) maining jn Vienna, but is prepare the communist government took of: | +, Fenounce all claims to the thron ‘They are clothed, fed and equipped | without charge, and in addition they receive extra pay for support of their families. Army commanders are named by the commissary of war, all ranks be Ing eligible. Officers are picked purely on their merits after a care ful examination of their record. In dications point to formstion of the | history of the country. } Law courts have been abolished sill and supplanted by revolutionary WARSAW, March 25.—(Delay- tribunals composed of a chairman) 4)" siaite: Kan pieeabae’ and two members. They are virtu-| jt. j arenchy athe biatined a ally in continuous session, and jue) Ost republic and begun an of wey juntice than 'mere law. Punish | S*mY of aecupation, a dispatch rom Chotin announced today. ment is carried out immediately aft-| (revsarabia iu a former province ‘The death penalty can be pro-| ag . ” % a | ‘The Bessarabia army has captured Order Work Continued | the important town oe eis and All industries have been ordered to} is pushing the Rumanians across the continue at work. Special commit-| pruth river toward Largu. tees are being formed to insure fair} ‘The bellef was expressed here that distribution of the scanty supplies of | the Russian Bolaheviki are engineer-| raw materials. ing the Bessarabian campaign for! Requisitions from private families|the purpose of establishing direct | news is severely punished. All titles | Budapest. and ranks are abolished. | M. Liskim heads the Shop keepers have been ordered to | rablan government. prepare a list of their stocks and| bank unts, This is merely for| Chotin is in Bessarabia, 175 miles| the information of the government,| east of Lemberg. Largu is in Ru-| anid no attempt will be made to seize| mania, 100 miles southwest of either. Steps have been taken to | Chotin substitute cash for checks whenever | possible. dered to cease operations. Public baths must be open to the labor class and school children, and no charge will be made to then, All private bath rooms likewise are at their disposal on Saturdays, Hungarian workmen, meeting in various parts of the country, have|fending their positions near Miowa declared their unanimous approval | river. Heavy fighting was reporte of the reforms instituted by the com-|in Livonia and along the Turkul manding immediate general nation- BUDAPEST, March 25. 10 The latest received here | been socialized, from the army to in Switzerland, declare he will rec fice. Soldiers are paid $90 a month largest. most contented army in the | er sentence is pronounced jof Russia, bordering Rumania on are forbidden. Spreading of false | communication between Moscow and The stock exchange has been or- munist zovernment. 'Mitau railway, | after, when Count Karolyi mand to turn 4 wage en | phers | transportation in the | Sta |May 24, 19 |on Division A, which extended from SPECIAL MEETING IS HELD Councilmen in Session This Afternoon May Cut | Legal Red Tape MURPHINE PICKS FORCE Seattle's municipal govern. ment was all ready Thursday to assume operation of the Stone- Webster street car system as a Public-owned utility. A special meeting of the city council is in progress to pave the way for actual taking over of the property during the next few days. Only legal red tape stands in the way. Corporation Counsel Meier must be authorts- ed to sign a stipulation with the traction company, the supreme court's decision le gallzing the transaction. Other. wise there would be a delay of 30 days to await return of the “remittitur” to the lower courts. Superintendent of Utilities Mur- phine has decided on his operating | organization, planned a new wage seale for employes, and decided on needed improvements to service. Murphine went before the meeting | of the council and public utilities | committee Thursday morning to ask |an emergency appropriation of $300, | | 000 for the month of April, for oper: | ating expenses. In the budget, Mur. phine proposes a scale of wages that | calls for over $200,000 monthly; He $7,000 more than the traction com pany is paying at the present time. Pay Higher Rates According to the proposed ant the pay of car operators will be ca) Pr day for the first six months, 50 per day for the next} six months and $4.75 per day there making a higher average of | wages than is now paid to their op erators by the traction company Je also applies to track nh men. increase in | | | and bi This the payrol! will be counter-balanced, according to} Murphine, by the eliminati minor officials, and by reduct the salaries of other officials « employes. Clerks and stenogra will receive the rate of pay laid down by the elvil service com mission. a@ list system In his plans, Murphine has af changes in the present which will facilitate the handling of | business dis rict and will improve the service in the outlying districts, The new organization is down on paper, and Murphine will be able take over the management of the lines on April 1 if the committee ap- | proves } Acting Mayor Lane was busy all | ‘Thursday sig the $15,000,000 in municipal bonds, which will be turn i over to the traction company in ment for their line When the city of Seattle takes! over the traction company system, it will be the largest operator of muni ipal street sin the United ption of Cle land, 1 will involve the transfer of $15,000,000 in bonds. municipal railway proposition | was first brought to light in March, 1911, when th ‘ yote, authorized the $400,000 in bonds for the purchase of the Rainier valley lines and tension of these lines to Ball proposed purchase was the founda. tion of the present purch: Tt extension to Ballard was ¢ , the Rainier valley lines Divi But because of a disagree n the elty council a) the representatives of the Rainte valley company over the purchase price, the deal fell thru In July, 1912, work was started on! Division A. In February, 1913, the owners of the Lake Buren car lines donated thelr system to the city. On operations w begun issuance sion sion B. ment betwee Third and Stewart to 15th ave. N. W. and Nickerson, On May 31 opera tions began on Division C, the old Le Burien line. Plan for Elevated 1917, work was begun on) ‘d extension of Division A. Js, in 1917, the people au thorized the transfer of $300,000 of | the $800,000 bond issue for the pure powe of constructing the present ele vat railway juary, 1918, saw the purecha (CONT'D ON PAGE TWO) | chargin Send Us Our Boys Home ET that be the demaad of the American natio Not a single Yank ought to be made to work on the roads of France’ or any other foreign country. Nor should he be made to work anywhere in the United States in purely commercial em- ployment. If the military duties of these men are over be-they home. a year later. turned NOW. and they seem to sh ould Not three years hence, or two years from now, They should be re- be returned or even Write to your congressman. Write to Secretary Baker. Write to President Wilson. ‘Roosevelt Jr. Replies to Seattle’s War Parents Theodore Roosevelt, jr, who asked yesterday by Seattle porto of soldiers and sailors to become a ate for vice. president of the| be the r States, today sent the follow cram to William Bickel, vice ent of the War Parents’ assock ing t presi ation “Am deeply appreciative of honor you do me. You can rest assured that it will be my en- deavor to live up to the high standard set by my father in public service, and to justify your opinions of me. I request, however, tha¢ no organization be formed advocating my candidacy for vice president.” Bickel said that the SHIP BUILDERS AND MEN MEET Hope to Settle Difference in Amicable Session March 27.—-A n assigned to Oak gram is WASHINGTON conciliator has land, Cal., discriminations in the ship: where union labor is yards there. WASHINGTON, resentatives ‘of the the Pacific coast and their employes began a “family ntrovers | | Mareh , 27.—Rep- | shipbuilders on | today discussion” of their wage « or Piez of the poration was not present At his office it was stated the builders and laborers would at tempt to reach an settle ment of the controversy Direct emergency fleet cor: that amicable “between themselves.” | None of the men attending the} session would discuss what was go-| locked doors, It} that there | the case ing on behind the , however, statement o between now and turday Officials here explained fleet corporation was only indirectly interested in the differences existing stween the West ¢ Plex announced recently th March | a1 the Macy wage adjustment board, which has handled all labor demands | for the fleet corporation, will go out) of existen The shipbuilders at that time will have to meet the| labor leaders and work out their} own solution, he said. | was intim would be that the] t regarded as @ declination” the bart of Roosevelt, jr. president,” it ie 4 poxttive that no organization be “In my mind, publican candids said Bic « t time wration. His his behalf at thix time was expe by reason of the desire to I e a of | ferea their live I pi | who fought, their fact that he await crystalization entiment.” prevelt jr urged nd follow his father’s footsteps ‘The very fact,” says Bickel. Roonevelt jr. serving 1 colonel, shed his blood hows the kind of stuff he is r f. He is the type of men who for their le is old enough, lace tn national affairs. viewpoint represented in tional life. formed on Tam certain he will © for vice cours for him to make request will of t to offer! himself for national political serv that sa lieutenant of yuntry 1 deserves a The m and their parents, wa n ant na PETE and ANNIE cavort on the comic page with Mr. and Mrs. Tom Duff, Everett True and Balmy Benny. ** * ENJOY A LAUGH. The Star aims to entertain’ you as well as to give you the up-to-the-minute news. Have the boy de- liver it to your home daily. It’s 12 cents a week in the city, 50 cents a month by carrier in the coun- try. By mail, it’s $1.50 for three months, $2.75 for six months, and $5.00 a year. YOUTHFUL ATHLETES UNDERTAKER 4 mutiny KNOW HIS F Refuse to Submit “Throwing Arms” to Vaccination Needle MAY BE QUARANTINED A wave of rebellion, which started among the baseball men at Ballard high school Wednes. day noon, bids fair t. cause the school and health board authori- ties a little perturbation before | the Jot fraud all the students of the city sub- mit to the recent smallpox vae- cination edict. When the ment vaceination n at the North End/ high Wednesday 90 athletes immediately “struck declaring that they could not be inconvenienced by @ ban | daged arm during the vital diamond Many other “free arm" ad. fident anno! was made district schoo! embryo season, vocates followed suit with con dixdain of threatened penalties on | They can't hold back our credits, if we are not vaccinated,” declared jone high school athlete in heated accents, “We can take it to the! | courts, if they do.” Wednesday morning at Broadway | high school a similar scene was en- jacted, when slips were presented to| ch student to sign up for vaccina | tion, if they had not been tnoculat at during the past two years, ‘Threaten Mutiny wants to be vaccinated at Broadway,” exclaimed a round: eyed freshman from the big grey] stone institution, “Why, all. but two kids walked out of my class| this morning, ¢ n the girls | A mutiny is smoldering at Lin-| coin hi it is rumored, but so far all 18 quiet at Queen Anne. Frank-| lin high is blissfully immune from| | Bolshevik influence, since no cases) of smallpox have been reported in that district, precluding the neces sity for such a ruling May Be Quarantined Meanwhile the. adamant pbody school authorities for the battle they theirs, but the health Suspension from subsequent “quarantine | implicating their if the of. remal know is not department's school, with in their homes. families, is th fenders still resist Undisturved by this juvenile. re- school physicians and the family doctors are industriously wielding the hypodermic, Wednes day 300 Ballard Mgh school students vaccinated, and fully one. quarter of Broadway's cliente jat home with bandaged arm: ficial leave. Queen Anne high: will be invaded by the medical squad Friday. The work is personally su-| pervised by Dr. Ira C. Brown, |medical supervisor of the city| schools PAINE DENIES _SEDITION TALK h2 rty ed by Col 8. Wood, Portland attorney and writer, and Lieut. J.T, MeMit Uv. & , Robert Paine, noted cuiptor, today repeated his denial of | making seditious remarks | | Paine, who created the “Victory” | monument being ted here in hon. or of California’s soldiers and sailors, was arrested yesterday by fed agents es of making tious remarks and using profane lan st the government sing a that every American or allied r entering Russia be killed or captured. 'No Confirmation | of Report on Green Assistant U, 8. Attorney General | Reames said Thursday that he had no information to confirm a tele |phone report that Leon Green, |leged fugitive criminal |was in hiding near point, Someone called police head quarters to ask confirmation of such ‘ report. Green disappeared during the general strike. sentence, sentment, the | were on chi | Wilmen jcording to | later the driver heard a shot. At 1:30 p. m. Thursday the federal jury’ iliberating ¢ the fate of Bert Butterworth, Sez |taker charged by the government with profi arents of dead soldiers and sailors for fune The technical charge is fraudulent use of the jcase went to the jury at 10:05 a. m. Judge Neterer, in his address to;terer stated that the jury, resolved the accumulation | only one instance gent charges against Butter- | the mails in p to one specific allegation of | for burial expenses, according to the evid | apparently covered a Originally there were the indictment. The rt but two counts. : Charges of failure | government | worth During Attorney Tucker and George W. Gregory, for the defense, were smil-| ing and confident Prosecutor Ben L. Moore, who launched a powerful attack on Butterworth when the lat- ter was on the stand Wednesday, lis-| were dropped V tened with expressionless face, and | government vias | replied that he had nothing more to/for failure to | Press wherr questioned by the judge. | out by the Butt _1n Instructing the jury, Judge Ne-! der contract. STORRS CI Bie TRIP TO WOODS; Chauffeur Takes Stand in|So Says Smith, Wi Gottstein Trial in Seattle” Ph geiraned Good, chauffeur, was Ruth Garrison will the principal witness Thursday in the second trial of William |C™*'° of “murdering” Gottstein, previously conveited {Storrs before Superior 4 in Superior Judge A. W. Frater’s |™an at 1:30 p, m. Set ot tee eee te The trial will be called | Murray, baggage checker, in the woods near Des Moines, on Oc. |™tely three weeks. tober 4. Good testified Thursday According to Sheritt morning that he motored Gott- | girl accused of placing stein out on the Des Moines (the fruit cocktail tl rival in love hag i highway on the morning previ- ous to the murder, Good said Gottstein ordered him | *ince she was removed to stop at the edge of the wood. ile detention home, at 200° Gottstein went into the woods, ac} «she js eating lar! Good's testimony, and). Stringer. More letters for the received by Sheriff day. One was filled out | tations, No one is p the girl, Stringer repeated declaration that he wo the Garrison girl to be Okanogan as a witness Storrs, who faces ‘k and said he a squirrel,” said Jottstein came was just shooting Good The next day they went with Murray in the car to the scene of murder. “Gottstein told me that the party going out was a peculiar fellow, and that he did not want to introduce me to him said Good. “Gottstein got Murray to go into! there, the woods with him and told me| Only her attorneys h to go on to Des Moines. lto see Ruth at the det “When I came back, Gottstein told | 200 Broadway, and her me to say that we had been to Ren-| stil unknown to the r ton, and that we had gotten back in} p. p, smith, attorney ‘tor | town at 10 o'clock, when we actually! yf Storrs, arrived Wed got back at 1.” |from Okanogan, accom he next morning he came down | ecutor W. C. Gresham, to my garage and told me to say/ty, smith said that the Ste that T had not seen him at all," de-| probably would “fimle out" clared Good, | Storrs might never come to Good testified that on one of the) Roth attorneys declare trips with ttstein, the real estate| are not in Seattle on the man asked him what was the most /yt are working on. ott | vital part of the body that will take them to @ Good said he replied that the lower back part of the head was the = PLANNING TR OF LUDEND! ' vital spot, but that Gottstein. said he thought “a little farther up” was 1 more fatal spot. The state has still five more wit nesses to call, All have testified pre. viously in the present trial, however, and will only be recalled for betel RERLIN, March bagging 20 |The national assembly Abe Greenbaum, the pawnbroker |i." a" special court to try da who declares he sold a revolver to [DED aPerie, eo celle nttstein, was the first witness | prought to the stand Thursday eee fan ager Pesar Greenbaum runs a pawnshop at| M&O? 2° Oy = s 719 Third ave. He testified that on|® Gipate mn We the &rd or 4th of October, 1918, Gott- stein had purchased a 88-caliber |“gun" from him with shells to fit Attorney Carrol Graves for the de- | fendant began to examine the wit nes at this point. u know it was a 38°" Rain Is Due Aff Eight Sunny: After eight days of and summer weather, § | for a bit of rain—prob Friday. The United man is authority for The “Ho, hum! country” weather of the lag was just a streak of good. this is the banding him you swear raves asked NEW YORK, March 27.—In an ef fort to save her two small brothers, who were trapped in their home by |fire, Mrs. Louise Mercier gave her life in vain. ‘The father and one oth: | says. er small daughter, badly burned,| There was an ab Jumped to the ground from a second: ! nasty weather in Jan) story window i é 0%,