The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 4, 1919, Page 1

k Ist High Tide 6:20 am ted High Tide St pm, 18 tt Tides in FRIDAY Ist Low Tide 2:01 ay Seattle 9:26 pom. 11.4 tt, THE GRE Mntered as Second Clade Matter May 3, VOLUME 22. NO. 38 ens March #, 18 SAILOR HELD FOR WiUhi i EDITION An American Paper That Fights for Americanism = The Seattle Star TEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash, under the Act of © SATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, APRIL 4 ; 1919. We athe r 5 recast: TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE |, $5.00 to $9.00 night 1d Saturday, probably shows vderate w nds, _mostly sc ao putheriy | T0 FREE PHILIPPINES, SAYS BAKER ] information Baward R. West left Vancouver, Bo ja; > the two were about to exchange _ first mate, jumped » eae ? Pree “as AME MATE IN STRANGE CRIME CASE Editor's Note—This is the first installment of “K,” by) « Mary Roberts Rinehart, one of her greatest productions, Giant Seaman Is Charged The Star will print an installment every day for the next | With Hurling Comrade Into Ocean few weeks. Begin now —and you won't regret it later. eR I land the boy dropped at her feet. CHAPT The Street stretched away north I thought of going to prayer and south in two lines of ancient meeting, but mother w tired. Was “NOT GUILTY,” HE SAYS, houses that scemed to meet in the Christine there? dis finitely inyiting, It hi worn but ming there to live pleased him. | his elbows, osten: During « wild storm at sea, as the schooner Frederick R. West pounded the Horn, in » torrent of rain, sailors heard the scream of a man at grips with death on Surely here would be pe evenings in which to read, quiet | rested on the face of the girl abpve ce. The man found it in “Yes; Palmer Howe took her 1 the well home. t, shabby He was at bin ease now. He had look of an old ce comfortable, The thought of discarded his hat, and lay back on y to look at the in brown eyes o—long moon, Actually the night of May 31, 1918. nights in which to sleep and forget. him, He was very happy be It was an impression of home, re- He's crazy about Chris. She's noon Frederick Hansen, 42, ally, that it gave. The man did | good-looking. but she's not my sort.” ant first mate of the schooner, ot now that, or care particularly Pray, what is your sort?” was arrested by Deputy U.S. ii, had been wandering about a “You.” Marshal Edwin BR. Tobey. Fed ine time—not in years, for he was| She laughed softly. “You're a eval officials say that members 1.4 than thirty. But it seemed a! goose, Joe!” ‘of his crew have charged that he threw his second mate, Charles Hannen, overboard during the very At the little house no one had ably on the doorstep and drew a long seemed to think about references. breath. a He could have given one or two, of “How tired I am! Oh—I haven't Charges of murder are being Pre), sort He had gone to considerable told you. We've taken a roomer!’ Pared in San Francisco, according | troypie to get them; and now, not to) “A what? S. District Attorney Robert! nave them asked for— “A roomer.” She was half apolo long time. She settled herself more comfort Tobey made the arrest on & COM jiitie way down the Street, with a roomers. “It will help with the rent te that the schooner €, in February, Mate overboard about 4 a. m. when Crew Terrorized ‘Yea and refused to return while @f the second mata Denies Charge “I was not near Hannen when he Went overboard.” Hansen declared. “The first I knew about it was ‘the watch yelled to me that it was the second mate, I lowered a boat 4nd with two men tried to save him, but it was impossibie.” it he had had any friction about ten days before that He was no sailor, and didn't hig duties. So I calied him.” Hansen admitted cheerfully that Pas crew had refused to come back ' the ship after their arrival at Africa. So he was paid off the master and shipped for Pan. He also admitte 1 that he b “to work on the crew.” Hansen was convicted of man- ¢ laughter, according to San Fran O07 K Hall, after the death of one of €rew. ‘The captain and Hansen GP Were tried. The master was acquit | Were ted, by lansen served time «doormat so accurately placed, no |?! A aggpe vee Sen or ae rd" in the city #0 tidy with morn- E ing-glory Vines over the whitewashed y Pitentiary, officials say. Hansen is held in the county jail BY federai authorities, pending re Geipt of information from San Fran- 1918, bound for | 4). ; . roaty barytone was singing: | Derten, Natal. South Africa. It i itome ia the hunter, home from the!a@ little white ° - alleged that following several bitter Marre nae seco! And the sallor, home from sen ‘ ts sary gan nd} Acrosa the street, the man smiled He's a grimiy. Home! For perhaps an hour Joe Drum- mond had been wandering up and , ‘The crew, terrorized by the buck© gown the Street. His straw hat was | day* ip in South Af-| set on the back of his head, for the ever “ his slender | Hansen was, aboard. nan was ks cused aus Hesolute 41 | You can be certain of that, He te therefore pal off, ship on e eganese Tamba Maru for Yoko pone droop. Under a street | Quite guay over his ears Rama. and arrived in Seattle on thei. he consulted his watch, but, Joe cheered Be — Maru in February of this avon without that he knew what the) “What's his name ‘4 hour was. Prayer meeting at the pg Baneen was taken to the office of comer church was over; boys of his! (K.! acre ely own Test and questioned closely as to . on Interest in the roomer died away the details of the trip and the death | “ine the curb, waiting for the. fit! |The boy fell into the ecstacy of con- a youth would appear miraculously beside her, and the world-old pairing off would have taken place. The Street «nptied. The boy wiped | he did the warm band of his hat and keeping him hanging about, and then coming out, perfectly tain that he would #till be waiting. By George, he'd fool her, for once pe he'd go away, man, Hansen replied: | would worry. She hated to hurt | Ws outraged. any one. Ah! Across the Street, under an old aillanthus tree, was the house he watched, a small brick, with shallow wooden steps and—curious architec- ture wooden cellar door b In some curious w an air of distinction among its more pretentious neighbors, much as a Say He Has Record | very lend either side aco officials, some time ago while | houses had an a Die was mate of the schooner Henry | tection rather than of patronage It was a matter of self-respect, per- ‘The June moon had risen, sending cinco, broken shafts of white light through by Saunders, cod jn the window that sald: “Meals, | It's my doing, really. Mother ts cents." Evidently the scandalized.” | | ‘There was a house across and « getic. The Street did not approve <| midday meal was over; men who) “A woman? ~ looked Mke clerks and «mall shop-| “A man.” ‘The specifications wet forth in the jeoners were hurrying away, The! “What sort of man? Nottingham curtains were pinned “How do I know? He ts coming | and just inside the window a tonight. I'll tell you in a week.” Joe was sitting bolt upright now, hint “Ie he young?” good bit older than you, but that's not saying he's old.” eee Joe was twenty-one, and sensitive | of his youth She broke into delighted laughter, “lt not fall in love with him—| tall and very solemn. His hair ts by nine had taken on a dis “K. Le Moyne.” ‘age were ranging themselves| ‘That's what he said.” tent that always came with Sidney's presence, His inarticulate young as swelling with thoughts that | pot know how to put into) words, It was easy enough to plan conversations with Sidney when he soul feet, with her soft skirts touching him as she moved, her eager face turned to him, he was miserably apeechiens Unexpectedly, Sidney yawned. He im and cer and let her worry “It you're sleepy—" “Don't be silly. I love having you. I sat up late last night, read-| ing. I wonder what you think of this: One of the characters in the bodk I was reading says that every man who-who cares for a woman leaves hia mark on her! I suppose uhe tries to’ become what he thinks she is, for the time anyhow, and is never just her old self again said “cares for” instead of It is one of the traditions of the Middle West 60's—a Je the stepa y it preserved old lady may now and then tone to a emart gathering. of it, the taller ppearance of pro- “love” is left to the fervent vocabu- No windows on the street 90 spotiessly curtained, no| treading on dangerous ground, S1d- ney died it supposed to care for a woman, any- how?” “Well, there’s the boy who—likes her when they’e both young.” A bit of innocent mischief this, but its thik with Seunds the ailanthus to the house door.| _ A Dit at ll Me iinsen 205d bh cate pelt hate When the girl came at last, she |J0¢ straightened Sse, ol toteny orca laeed BT o a world of soft i » & Ban Francisco court than Setae. Pegs verte verdowe, fra, foolishness, After that there are usu- sate unteered to go to the! cant with tree blossome not yet| lly two rivals Gate city and surren Welt without guard Hansen in six feet three Inches tall ler him- and £04 weighs 240 pounds me Rinehart greatest American in writer. The novel begins ¥ in The Star—on thin on this page This i» the newest feature 4 Star—a high-class serial. “K" Wil run every day for the next PPE character ee today—and read it every overpowering, hushed of its daylight | sounds of playing children and mov. humble eyes. All his courage for those hours when he was not with her. ; “Hello, Joe.” “Hello, Sidney.” He crossed over, emerging out of shadows into her enveloping radi “['m late. I was taking out be ings for mother.” “Ob, Sidney sat down on the doorstep, D ON PAGH SIXTH ( ) brown hair A GIRL WITH head, her thin white dreas was tu turned in at the throat. She stood | PERSONALITY on the ateps, the door closed behind of his machine her, and threw out her arms in a | That's Sidney Page. she’ swift gesture to the cool air, The| OTTAWA, Ont. April 4.—An ine| co-star, as ‘age. She's the || contight clothed her as with a gar-| vestigating committee will make a Fr, a6 they say on the stage report May 17, on the feasibility of | and was slightly With K. Le Moyne, in “ the | ment. From across the street the y d in Fah phn ; y - ne 0! or aie sring, joint capital-labor control and oper- i novel by Mary Roberts |) POY hed her with adoring eS tion of certain Ci ian industries, if the plan advocated by Gideon Robertson, minister of labor, is car- Joint control will come eventually, | Robertson predicted. the DEFT er Et psa story today. You wil | ance. His ardent young eyes wor IPFITTER 18 INJURED SBioy it. It ix bound to interest || #hiped her as he stood on the pave| 8. J. Leonard, 62, shipfitter, fell YOU—for Mrx. Rinehart deals with |, ment downy'the hatchway of the ship on| t-| whieh he was we eroon and was taken to the city. hos that’s all right.” "She Is the Most Medaled Woma the Stet a “fought. Uke hell Kathleen Burke was the only wom. permitted to lines in action first woman to enter Verdun during At Ypres and Vimy Ridge the British She was the And she raised more than $4,000. r works of mercy during the of the 138th field} That's why all the medals, grantea |‘? the F by allied powers. TWO POLICEMEN _ HURT IN SMASH © Thursday night, Patrolman D. M. Baer’s automobile’s stecring gear crzmped and the machine hurtled over the curb at Fifth ave. and Denny wa} erners bh boys beep og that force and redu a heap of wreckage. ing the auto to eriously injui of youth to avoid the direct issue! were rushed to. the in life's greatest game. Perhaps! where Patrolman ¢ eriously hurt, lary of the lover, Certainly, am if] Friday unconscious when picked up. ly smashed, ery man! How many men are trom and serate hes, HEPeF ing | as train; 117th field si M7th train bh ‘Then they both outgrow that) the driver got too anxious or tried | know what/ nd she marries one | happened after we hit the BOI. | eaenabinn boapltnt Baer Explains Smash Police Warren driving slo his steering » lost control d taken a couple of drinks The early morning report t machine was struck by a polic ried out | was denied Men Appeared machine dart curb into the phone ip the men money for the Belgian babi 0 at the Shoestore, king Thursday aft-| the robbed of $2 | pital. His right wrist is broken and| man’s helmet. ‘The men appeared to he is suffering from back injuries, be badly burt.” | Rainbow Division Assigned to Early Convoy, War Department Announces |BIG PROGRAM TUESDAY Bayonets gleaming and steel helmets crowning a whole divi sion of heroes— Wearing just the equipment carried when they dealt the blow that crushed the Han in the Ar. gonnoe forest, the boys of the Wild West division will parade the sireets of New York City next Tuesday, that the Fast may pay tribute to their Western cousins Club Plans Affair Plans for citizen will join following the parade, ttirn, this will be followed by a card) of star boxing bouts that are being Jarranged especially for the Western jers by Tex Kickard. | fighters as well a» profersional box jers will appear Mayor James Rolph. jr, of San Francisco, and hix wife ore taking 4 . KATHLEEN BURKE | prominent part in the arrangements COL. Rolph came here to welcome the was wounded at Verdun, | 363rd Infantry and other California | Sanned at Valenciennes and 16 times | units In the returning division, “He'll be crazy about you in two faced sinking by submarines to crons | | to America and raise funds for how | Keep Up Efforts Despite word from Adjt. ( ubling their efforts, In his letter, the adjutant general there would be 5,000} for 6,000 men discharged from Camp) Lewis, The remainder, under the war department plans, will go to| mps nearer their homes in Califor. | d the Southwest WASHINGTON, April 4.—The fol lowing organizations of the bow" division, « from many states, hav signed to early convoy *\department announced today Headquarters and headquarters troops, 149th, 150th and 16tst m ‘lchine gun battalion: brigade headquarters; 165th and {166th infantry; 84th infantry bri gade headquarters; 128th and 168th infantry; 67th field artillery b » Grobe ix suffering headquarters; 149th, 160th and 11st field artillery; 117th engineers and casual company 4. With the exception of the ambu- lance and hospital outfits, the en tire Rainbow division is included ly convoy the units cited for |CHARGE JUNIOR TOOK SKIPPER’S SPYGLASS Harry B. Olmstead, acting junior officer of the steamer Troquois, was |brought to Seattle Iri¢ {coma to answer to a charge of steal ing binoculars valued at |Capt. Tory Hedmark, commander of | the vessel, He is ¢ ing the binoculars from Capt Hed mark's steamer chest March ‘| pawning them in Tacoma, ‘ged with s A milk bottle used for w 1317 Fourth ave. Thursday night. The thieves also robbed the cash Fegister of $1, t braUion to honor vision are being made in Gotham by the Rocky Mountain club-—tho ev the welcome there to the men who and won glory in the greatest battle of the last period jot the war A big banquet will be tendered the | Army and navy n. P.C. | Harris that only men whose homes are in the vicinity of Camp Lewis will be deme@bilized at that point Frank Gates, chairman of the sol diers welcome committe ere Interested in bringing thy the Piet to He nd oth men of ttle before their dis leharge are today ceasing none of | their efforts, Telegrams have been flying from Seattle to Washington for several | days, and those in charge of arrange | ments for welcoming the boys back ific coast are still hopeful of having enough of the Wild West to stage a real celebra tion anent their return ‘The letter from Adjt. Gen, Harris, they point out, was written before the let had landed. Now that the © in the homeland, they are Rain troops war tons, owned 83rd infantry ade Capt nal battalion dquarters and mili Beat was driving tary police; 117th supply train; 117th sanitary train and 1 munition train, The war department also an nounced early convoy assignments bakery companies 388 and 398; 18, and air serv h am. WIND is responsible fe fore finding out that § expensive filt the big problem now to be settled by civic authorities when the water sady to be turned into the service pipes Cyclops ism ‘nam wiggle from Ta $100 from | 15 and ving lake analysis before the scheme was overlooked the cy- »ps, and now It may be months | before the water is used | adopted, but. the Somewhere in Seattle a Man Is Contemplating Suicide—Out of Work, He Despairs of Helping Family BY HELEN SPAULDING The mail brought this letter to The Star “Dear Sir; This is my last hope in my last hours, I am up against it, and can do nothing for my family. The only way is to get off of this earth, and forget my trow bles. I have been in this city for the past eight years, and i has been against me. 1 ask you as a friend not to overlook this matter, for it is a matter of life and death, Please put a few lines in The Star and help my wife and two children to get a little start. [I hope that God Al mighty will forgive me, for 1 can't stand it any longer. I'm leaving my address, but for God's sake, do not pu lish it in the paper, for it may cause more trouble for the mother and children left alone in the world.” 1 went to the address he gave an his residence. It proved to be a small home in the north end of the city, where an unsuspecting wife waited, while her husband went on his daily pilgrimage to the city to seek work. The furniture Was In various stages of pac ing. for the landiord, who liv in the vicinity, had threatened ejection if the two back rent paymests were not paid immedi- ately. Unable to Find Work Tears coursed down the cheeks of the wife as she told of the hard times the family had expe rienced in the last few months. “My husband has been out of work since the strike. He is a tailor, He had just worked two * a helper in the ship- yards, taking the work because weeks he could find nothing in tailor shops. We have not able to make any payments on our furniture since November, nd there is $400 due now. We owe the landlord $30 now, and he told my husband this morning that he was going to put us out We ha mani to keep the children in school, but if my hus nd doesn't get work soon, I don't know what we will do.’ Th home is neat and well kept, and shows the mark of bet ter times when t father worked regularly as a tailor, in which trade he had many years’ experience, His special work is busheling or mak alterations of garments. In the last few months he has been able to se cure only part time work in the tallor shor The dyeworks and presseries have off d no solution to his problem, for on account of the low scale of wages women are generally preferred. When interviewed Friday morning, the wife knew nothing of her husband's whereabouts, other than “he had gone to find work and might not return until late. eee Somewhere in Seattle this man i« wandering about Maybe he is hunting for a Job, Perhaps he is brooding and thinking of “the end. The Star hopes he will not act rashly Th ar fe somewhere ther job for him in Seattle. it feels that there are enough generous people in this city to save this man’s life—and to save the agony which his family faces. Those who wish to offer assis- re asked to call The Star Main 600 t offic when this president as wi them personally their we are p FIGHT FIRE ON CANNERY SHIP Snoqualmie Goes to Blake- Unable to ‘Attend Meeting | ley to Battle Blaze * Fire broke out Frid ing aboard the schooner St, Paul, tied up at the Port Blake- ley Mill company's docks loading piling for Alaska. After a vain effort to control the blaze, a call for help was telephoned to the Seattle fire department and the fast fire boat dispatched across the sound to Blakeley, The St. I full-rigged sailing ves The schooner is commanded L. Lorentzen he Seattle fire department receiv. | ed word at 1 p,m. that the fireboat almie had the fire well un control, and there is hope of saving ship. Merry Wiggletails | Wiggle-Wiggle in Winnipeg’ 8 Water | Man, VIP ‘a $14,000,000 w hoal of the supply, is inhs untold millions of cyclops that make water undrinkable without ring plant? That the ii, but Winnipeg people don't relish the idea of consumi little fish after paying out much money » water Shoal was subject of careful |sence from all conferen: announced, however, that prompt tr ated to effect his auikk recove The “big four’? met in the “White House,” Col, House representing the ium, h Wil Snoqualmie 1 is a three-masted rl, of 1,800 the Booth Fisheries company, of Seattle. The ship had been laid up all winter |being loaded with piling for pairs on Alaskan canneries before taking on machinery and proyisions Kenai for the fishing season. dent Poinca’ meeting nd was | add April 4.—Who ompleting Winni scheme be- a scientific ee PRESIDENT IS ILL IN PARIS With Colleagues BY CARL D. GROAT (United Press Staff Correspondent) PARIS, April 4.—President Wilson ‘was suffering from a severe cold to day, necessitating his temporary ment is exp y. president, King Albert of I who conferred yesterday wi son, Premier Clemenceau and Presi was invited to It was expec we today, Admiral ( The Downtown Clas- sified branch of The Star is located in Bar- tell’s Drug Store, 610 Second ave. Copy left there up to 10:45 a. m. will insure insertion in the regular afternoon and following morning editions. If you desire to phone your copy, call MAIN 600. Assistance will be given in the prepar- ation of your ad if you desire. es, It was and liberties of small nations,” zon that granting of independence to his country will prove to the world that 1 is a “liberating rather than & conquering nation.” The mission came to Secretary Baker's offi they were Ch MeInty Am that Belgium's claims to priority in the matte reparation would be given conside tion, and that Belgian territorial questions would be considered, simu taneously with the problem of Ger. many’s western and eastern bound. aries, the their jing that period, dependence. SHINGTON, April 4.—Presi- dent Wilson, suddenly taken ill with @ severe cold last night, is confined to his bei his private physician, cabled White House this morning, Grayson 4 that there was no need for |worry at present yson, the prin ernment which the Filipino people have achieved under American su- | pervision. of the United States would be even prouder of the Philippines when | they ence entire Bulgars Attempt | spond that extrem | media | who declared martial law. | port on the I ATHE The Tu terior has anrounced that a total GET WISH, SAYS BAKER Day Is Close at Hand for In- dependence, Secretary Tells Commission WILSON LETTER IS READ WASHINGTON, April 4.—The time for Philippine independence has substantially come, Seere- tary of War Baker today told the Filipino mission here, seeking self-government, The day is very close at hand President's Letter “Will you please express to the ‘gentlemen of the commission repre- senting the Filipino legislature my regret that I shall be unable to see. on thelr arrival in Washington, as well as my hove that mission will be a scarce of gratification to them, and that it will result in bringing about the desirable end set forth in the joint resolution the legislature, approving the sending of the commission to the United States? ,“L have been deeply gratified with the constant support and encourage- ment received from the Filipino peo- ple and from the Philippine legisla ture in the trying period thru whieh ssing. The people of the United States have, with reason, tak- en the deepest pride in the loyalty and support of the Filipino people. Tho unable to meet the commis- | sion, the Filipino people shall not be — absent from my thoughts. Not the least important labor of the confer- ence which now requires my atten- |tion is that of making the pathway of the weaker people of the world | less perilous—a labor which should be, and doubtless is, of deep and j abiding interest in the Filipino peo- | ple.” Present Appeal A mission consisting of 40 promi- nent natives of the islands, headed Manuel L. Quezon, president of the Filipino senate, presented the ap- peal €or indep Balter, ndence to Secretary at the war department. Declaring that “the islands stood you” in the fight for the “rights Que- speaking for the mission, said this morning, where ived by the secretary, fo fStaff March, Gen. Frank My Bak rp restraint in abandoning, dur+ He dv t upon the development of iples of liberty and self-gov- He said that the people had achieved their independ- Bolshevik Revolt April 4.—The Sofia corre the Matin wires today PARI he town, he said, was ime upied by British troops Varna is an importa Bulgarian tly east of Turks Massacred 800,000 Armenians April 3—(Delayed)— kish minister of the ine 800,000 Armenians bave been |massucred, it was reported in @ dispatch from Constantinople today, can be formally accom- plished, Baker told the mission, de- scribing existing relations as being merely “formal ties This, he added, is the view of the ll. He read a letter from the president to the mission, which expressed pride in the support the Filipino people have given the | United States during the war. The president's letter, in part, ad- dressed to Secretary Baker, and rea@ | by him to the mission, said: . who has been in charge of | the insular bureau, and other distin. |Suished army officers, whose past |service has brought them in touch | with the Filipino people. sed the co-operation of ilipinos during the war and all agitation for in- socialists in Varna at- | tempted a Bolshevik movement yes