The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 2, 1919, Page 1

lat Mtgh 4 6:03 am It Low 4am fed High 24 pm, VOLUME 22. N. 36 REDS’ ASK ALLIES FOR WAR'S END Document Signed by Lenine| Now Being Considered by the Peace Conference NEW ISSUES COMING UP authoritative tn Karl Kautsky, Ger man radical, is now in Moscow, try to arrange « formal alliance be i rrr ‘TF gone. —K” BEGINS FPRIDAY— GENERAL STRIKE Many Killed in Riots; Rhine- land in State of Siege BY FRANK J. TAYLOR indications are growing that the uprisings are inspired by the who are believed to be e Mploying these disturbances to Weaken the government, preparatory | W@ declaring a third revolution. . ‘The government has proclaimed a i Mate of siege in the whole Rhine land, defying the 50,000 miners on Mrike there. The situation in ‘that Tesion endangers food shipments and BIG WELCOM Tides WEDNESDAY Jenin ee se eae ee GIRL TAKES POISON! in Seattle THURSDAY Tite waa tt Tite Lat ‘Tite ina ft S40 aan, Ine et tnd Low Tide 1pm LT ee fed High Tide 120 pm 11 tt. EIS P LANNED FOR THE 91 An American Paper That Fights for Americanism e Seattle Sta THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST SEATTL. Per Year, by Mall, $6.0 Motered as Becond Clase Matter May 2 1899, at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash, under the Act of Congrena’ March & 1879, LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN E 0 to $9.00 SEATTLE, WASH “Rearing of Children Is Woman’s Real Career,” Says Mary Roberts i —“All Else Is Side Issue” Mary Roberts Rinchart Above all, Mary Roberts Rinehart is @ mother. Author, playwright, war correspondent, naturalist—all RE TE eS SRN 8 shat api, @ few minutes, tn “To rear children,” and to “main: | 04 york. She had come over with tain & home—" that iw 4 woman's/ Ker boy-—and she had to leave the real career. So she has declared. | ame afternoon “Everything else is a side iesue,”| And so it was for years Always ig the way she put it. busy—with her home. in the mean Neither fame, adventure, welfare work, nor polities has ever side- | cane,” tracked her from her “home.” She| ‘Tish. "King . ar, Queens and lives near Pittsburg, Pa.. in 4 state Pawns, “Amazing Adventures of where women are not enfranchised | Letitia Carberry.” and other novels. Mrs. Rinehart is a member of the, Then came “K.” one of her best Equal Franchise Federation. Do not | novels. Mra, Rinehart had been a think she does not believe In worn-| nurse as a girl. She married Dr. @n's rights. She does. Bat’ first came her family. In fact, her family was the only con-| sideration. If she could spare time from her family to write a short Bob Davis, who relates . not now,” was the anewer. “The Man ip tewer Ten,” cessful practitioner in Pittsbure. The field of medicine and surgery was familiar to her. And in “K," she relates the story of hospital “Now we'll bave that talk.” maid) the ex time, she wrote “The Circular Stair. | Stanley Marshall Rinehart, a suc-| _ ONIN GERMANY =: it) | with her. She story—or a novel—or 1 play—or to write up political conventions for Rewrpaper xyndicates—or to attend suffrage meetings, why, well and Otherwise, publishers as well as women’s votes would have to wait. Mary Roberts Einchart, today America’s most fatmous woman nov- elist, started out writing short sto ries, They were soon in demand Her publishers in New York wanted to see her—to talk matters over couldn't spare the time, she wrote them. One of her boys was just getting ready to en- life, the fomance of Sidticy Pager, nuree, and “K." This is the serial | novel which begins in The Star Fri day After “K" came her trip to Bu rope to see at first hand the war's work. Jed it. And she told it. | A lovergot the great outdoors, she | made a trip in the West a year or |s0 ago, climbed mountains, waded creeks, swam, hunted. Her fame bad | preceded her even to the Indian ree | ervations, and she was made a mem ber of the Blackfoot tribe in Mon She sought the truth. She learn. | ter college, or maybe one of them tana. was just about to come home. One| A great novelist day she appeared in the office of | wonderful moth: the publishers. lerta Hinehart Yank Guest in Home of German Soldier He Slew a fine women, a that’s Mary hob the coal supply, and may even affect Payments to the allies for mainte: | Rance of the armies of occupation Release of Herr Daumig, radical | Water, charged with inciting the! : uprising in January, has é ty allayed the general | Strike in Berlin. The metal workers here, however, threaten to walk out | %f their own initiative. | al During riots in Frankfort, mobs © Mormed several food shops. Three Persons were killed and many in dared by rifle and machine gun fire. Mobs then attacked the police and a number of hotelg. A Sailor was dragged from the station and tynched. His body was thrown Into the river. Government troops Row control the city 5 Many persons were killed and, g Wounded in fighting with soldiers at | Castrop, near Bochum (26 miles| Portheart of Dusseldorf). | Wurtemburg has joined the gen- Wal strike. At Stuttgart, the bour. eisie have started a counter Mirike, complete! poralyzing the My's industries A counter strike by the more con-| Mrvative elernent has also been bea | in the Ruhr district, where 4 refsing strenuous Measures to control the workers. A — of Spartacans bh been iled Or wounded, and others have Arrests” Letter Reveals Strange Experience Dear Father: Here is the irony of fate in reality. This is the home of the German postmaster in Treves. They had a son, a boche, first-class sergeant of -artillery. This sergeant killed my best friend and I killed him and kept his name tag for a trophy, Today Madam cleaned my clothes and found the name tag in my pocket. She asked me about it and I answered, “Yes, he was a young boche whom I killed.” She answered, “He was my s " Father, I certainly was embarras (Signed) Captain Joseph Sullivan, Field Artillery. April 2. my son,” said the SAN FRANCISCO Joseph P. Sullivan, German gunnery serge killed his best friend, Not long afterward he w It was war,” sald the mother of the gunnery sergeant, putting an im 1 complexion. on the cireum And then, arranging the ta who had billeted pay Se we onde ble, and placing her ausigned guest with the father and mother of hi “You may sit here—it was HIS dead enemy, holding the Uttle sister! ehalr.” on his knee. It was at the battle of St. Mihiel, ‘The German mother, mourning | where Capt. Sullivan lost many of her first born, had found a nametag the men in bis company, that he in her guest's coat porket. pieked off the German artillery ver “4 souvenir,” explained the | geant who had killed tis best friend Yank officer, “I took it off the He was himwelf wounded in that soldier who killed my engagement MORE WILD WEST MEN REACH 1S. | Troopships Bearing 20,000 | | Yanks Arriving Today at New York Port '91ST TROOPS FIRST IN Grand Welcome Is Planned for 91st A grand parade, bands playing, thru streets lined with 15,000 Seattie school children, decorat ing with flower wreaths the bayo nets that won the Argonne—a monster celebration, eclipsing anything Seattle ever staged—is being prepared to welcome home the boys of the Sst division. Frank Gates, chairman of the welcoming committee, has enlixt- ed Senator Poindexter in an ef. fort to get war department sane tion for routing the division thru Seattle to Camp Lewis, and tt is expected the request will be Branted Flowers will carpet the strecte for the heroes of the Pist, and ev- ery bit of bunting. ead Mage.will be flung to the winds, Seattic’s going to be dreaned up for the af far The committee also plans a grand ball in honor of the com manding general and his staff and plenty of entertainment for the enlisted men. Every lodge, club and other or ganization will take part. The date has not been set Six units of the 91st have land ed in New York, and the Wash ington boyn are expected there ‘Thurmlay. | NEW YORK, April 2.—Herald- ing the arrival of nearly 20,000 z Liberator, with 1,259 men of the 363d infantry, also of the 9ist. The organizations on board the Orizaba were the 361st infantry, resi-| mental headquarters, headquarters |and supply company, and the 348th machine gun battalion headquarters, medical and ordnance detachments, }and Companies A to D, inchuxive. ‘These troops are 91st division units | | In addition, the Ortzaba. carried: | ‘The 181st infantry brigade headquar lters, with Brig. Gen. John B. Me | Donald In command; 94th base hospi tal, 617th and 6234 xpecial casual companies, 19th and 21st ordnance convoy detachments, 364th infantry headquarters, First and Second bat talions and Companies C to H, inclu sive; St Nazaire convalescent de tachments Nos. 35 to 86, inclusive On the Liberator was the remain der of the 3634 infantry, the advance |uard of which arrived yesterday, composed of men from Pacific coast |states, They were headquarters ‘Third battalion and Companies EB, D, lk, Land M. Also on board were {Casual Company 608, Georgia, and | Casual Ordnance Detachment 20 | The transport Leviathan, bearing | |m large portion of the 85th division | (Michigan and Wisconsin national army), arrived here soon after the | first two ships Other ships arriving up "DON PAGH THIRTE K” BEGINS FRIDAY— } to 140 AY, APRIL 2, 1919. WATCHING YOU * He’s watching you—the Yank who is still giving and sacrificing. * Over there—in France, in Belgium, in |he is giving precious time, strength, youth, in order that Uncle Sam may be served. uy G } ! f e] f oth) * * 8 "* s+ 8 y, in Russia— Are you doing your share? The Yanks are watching YOU. loan a success? The Yanks want to be home as much as you do. They, too, want) to be in “God’s country,” as they call the U. S., to pursue their) |What are YOU going to do, for instance, . to’ make the Victory civilian careers. The Victory loan will help to bring them home. Let not a few dollars stand in the way. RAIDERS SEIZE DOPE IN HOTEL for Investigation A suitease of cocaine with scales for measuring the dope, wrapping papers, hypodermic needles and syringe, was seized by the dry squad Tuesday after- noon in a raid on a room in the apartments, Waldort William ral police station on an open charge, 66 “I Didn’t Want to Be Like “I was alone in a strange town— © companions—ne fun, My sister Three Men and Woman Held opieas all my letters and sometimes I never got them at all. So I just got blue and took the poison.” Ruth Morgan, a blue-eyed, red cheeked young girl, thus explained at the elty hospital Wednesday why she had attempted to end her life | by eating poisoned candy, The case aroused sudden interest because it followed the strange and startling Ruth Garrison case. Police jare interested in the psychology of |the problem What caused this young girl, who should be. happy to attempt such an impulsive course? Was she urged on by the | thoughts of the Garrison case? “I didn’t take the poison because COTTIN TO AP L The atrest was yy gp Oftiver |T wanted to be lke Ruth Garrison,” PARIS, April 2.-Emit Cottin, as. |? he Loe ped after he had permit: ! says the Morgan girl today, “I was sailant of Premier Clemenceau, who | '* an nga abe peo oi at the | plue, and discouraged—that’s all.” is under sentence of death, has been | Pont of a Kun " * ane) h . wee pp Refore tiking t poison, Ruth denied a special court-martial to re - to renkge mrt oi package Morgan says she walked over the view his case. His appeal ix now ex-| fr Porte tne ate with. need | bridge at the foot of Pike st. to the pected to be carried to a higher | ee i cuad Officers J PO | waterfront, looking at the ships, and court Te eae HL. Braiilara, | nally found herself in Chinatown s een Me Johnsen, helped Streeter) At % Chinese drugstore she tried to Meee tne four to the police mtation | Durchase some strychnine; there was Business concerns are Ina seared, of the room, the suit. | 20%°:18.-6 Say ee ae ; Found, con talatine four | te Yesler Way drug store, at Broad now making money—con- wa bottles of covaine, an envelops| Wy) and Yesler, apd) inquired for ditions are right. This ap-] of the dope, 24 «mail packages, spe- | | 2 gee to kill rats, for my, sis " ela “appl on for cocair . plies to small as well as tous indy boty Pee wmail box of |, The clerk in the pharmacy found large business institutions, | Yen Shee, a box of hypodermi sien ih only | SpOrS Taney A poll druggist’s scales, a hypo} Werth of the poison h ene If you want to engage sin | eee ice box and dice, | S¥sKested “Sure Kill” rat and roach igo oe sere wy K” BEGINS FRIDAY "T ieee want! ecaetowny wae is the opportune time. A iketineie aie sa out buying anything,” said Ruth, Slat of desirable” thveat: FOKKERS IN THE SOUTH mo dad. tie, Hatelsas ‘are ee ” SAN DIEGO, April 2.--A fleet of | Banks’ and my address as ‘1118 East \} ments will be found on the | captured German Fokker planes has Pike st” . arrived at, North Island, and will be |..." went to a movie theatre after Classified page. See classi- | ' fication heading of Busi- used in the Victory loan drive this} that, month, The army flying school now and when the show was let out I bought some chocolate creams iti bousts Pench, German, inglish and | and some cinnamon rolls. | ness Opportunities. American planed of practically every! “I went home and went to my type room, 1 heard sister calling the Ruth Garrison,” She Says number of the police station. has scared me horribly before by doing this, but I thought she had her hand on the hook then. “So I got seared and smeared some of the paste on two of the cinnamon rolls und ate them, then I put it on another but just ate it with the frosting. Afterward I put some in three of the chocolates and ate them. I wanted it to work before I went to the police station.” “K” BEGINS FRIDAY— POPE PROTESTS “RED” MURDERS \ | ROME, April 2.—The Osservatore Romano today published an inter. change of correspondence between Pope Benedict and the Boisheviki re karding alleged persecution of the Catholic. clergy. in. Russia. Archbishop Silvestre, of Omsk, ap-| pealed to the pope to issue an of- ficial protest, stating that 20 bishops and hundreds of priests had been murdered and mutilated and a num- ber of churches destroyed. The pope sent a wireless to Pre- mier Lenine imploring him in the name of humanity to stop these ex- cesses. Foreign Minister Tchite cherin replied that all Russians are equal and accused the priests of hoarding food —K" BEGINS FRIDAY— |Charged With Plot g | Against Government PITTSBURG, April 2—-Charged with havi plotted to seize United States go nment property and overthrow the government, William Wyciss, 38, is being held here today by agents of the department of jus tice, | and Thursday, fair; gentle easterly wim Eads tht rerattnn es re PHYSICIANS. ‘EXPECT HER | TORECOVER 'She Mixed “Roach Paste” in Chocolate Candy After Reprimand by Sister |WROTE FOR STRYCHMIBE Ruth Morgan, pretty 164 year-old school girl, lies on la cot in the city hospital |Wednesday, where physik leians are striving to save her life, following an ate |tenrpt made Tuesday ni lin commit suicide by "| | : { ing candy mixed with son “roach” paste. i tors believe, altho she i# very weak. ‘ She ate the poisoned at the home of her sister, Mabel Lee, 1118 Pike st, ST strychnine? |me and my husband?” she asked | girk “No; I want it for myself,” the girl. “I'm tired of being held home and not allowed to 0 where at nights. I'm going to myself with the strychnine.” 4 Then she said: “Let me see the etter: Did Ivan send me the nine? For if he did, I want Then the girl left the |house and did not return until aft \9 p. m,, during which time she |chased the “Sure Kill Roach der.” j | Planning to scare the girl, her sis ter took her to the police station, © but before putting on her coat amd hat the girl went to the kitchen, where she ate the poisoned candy. | After teiling ‘her story to Police Captain E. L. Hedges, at the station,\ the girl fell in convlu: but quick work at the city hospi saved her life and she will recover, | After investigating the M girl's story, the police confirmed thé fact that she had written to her sweetheart, Ivan B. Symonds, @ Yakima school boy, asking him to send her strychnine. According to Mrs, Mabel Lee, sis- ter of the girl, the girl's father is dead, and the mother, remarried, lives at Wapato. Trouble between Ruth and her mother had caused the girl to live away from home, and she has lived in Yakima for almost three years. Two months ago Mra, Lee brought her young sister to Se | attle, | Bought Powder | According to her statement, they sirl purchased the powder at | Yesler Pharmacy, Broadway yesler, under the name of “I Banks.” This was later verified by’ | the police. £ | ‘The girl said she had put some off it in a chocolate cream while ati }home and swallowed it, throwing? ‘the remainder out of the window. ‘The empty bottle was recovered by!” | the police. | According to the » police, Ruth wrote her boy friend at Yakima, says ing that she was “unhappy because! |‘sis’ keeps me from having a good) time” by keeping her in the house jat night, and asking him to send her |some strychnine, | In reply, according to the poll |Symonds wrote the following “140 P.M. | “Yakima, March 31, 1919. | “Dear Friend Boots: I suppose jare getting very Impatient.about (CONT'D ON PAGR THIRTEEN) —"K”" BEGINS FRIDAY 4: