The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 4, 1919, Page 13

Pages 13 to 24 Section Two The Seattle Star 1 SUNDAY IS LIBERTY DAY @@ | On coma 191], thr Uniled Slalte Crger ib fight for HurmanwtZ> i STILL BURNING Serbians Are Dying by | Hundreds on Roadsides; | KILLS WIFEAND British Workers Oppose ‘DIVORCELAWYER © Bolshevism; They Want i BY HERBERT COR BELGRADE, Maret <Munger is k a B Middie Serbia and N ie: _ doia. “People are there of said a Red Cross com hort who had s weeks in ‘qgaecrossing, afoot or donkey back thru the country y an Ameri gan would have tried it. His job jas to complete a food survey for the Red Cross, and he did his job He found that 24,000 tons of food will be needed to carry a popula i" tion of approximatety 2.000.000 peo 15 harvest. Re duced to a per ermonth baste S hat is not an alarming showing | But if the people a get the food they wil! die y they Dave been dying alc roads They die in the rest houses. Major ‘s former typhus P pear Mitrovitza wus one day with men and women who Derawied in there and died "bape they are there yet. No knows. Food Plentiful in Belgrade One hundred miles north in the centering about lgrade be plenty of food In the there. which ie con Merce!.” ax he wus he managed Terrace Garden in New York, one buys an @ormous plateful « well cooked ment for the equivalent of 50 cents American. Just across the Danube. fm that most fertile agricultural ountry known to greedy European Statesmen as the Fanat, the peas ante beve for sdle everything deck a table. Bat in the belt there is almost no filled ad er one thousand people are on “-d verse of starvation In the tatrict: thowand people are stary. Ochrida; thousand must be fed at Oaly Three Routes Open _That is the way the reports run. Mearwhile there age but three ways Which food cam be got to these One is by way of Salonika Jong sea voyage, but open to Mitrovitza. food can be dix to the starving villages by if the Red Cross can find and carts, The Bulgarians ‘Most oxen and most carts with that remain had the hills. is by ‘railroad ¢, on the Adri is open, but is in Possible condition. Every! of a full com- wheels. The rail and clatter. Nine pas of ten lack glass and uphoistery on Me sats. Pailing good steam coal, t shift with the try. This means! u Children Running Naked | ing else.” peed and a shortage of pull It i» further charged that the Italians interfere with the shipment of supplies to the Jugo Slave. of friction between the It and the Jugo Slave I shal more to say later. As to this ¢ I can only say that both British and Americans who have been in touch with the food problem complain of 2 lack of cooperation on the part of the Italians which amounts to| obstruction The third way is to secure what} foodstuffs there are now undistrib- uted in the Banat and Croatia and northern Serbia and ship them hey are most ny A com mission of United Stat ers of t offi at work of the food re-| Hoover mission ts now a making « survey serve and the transportation sit | tion, Those with whom I have talked belleve there ts enough food | to save the starving people, but they do not know as yet how it is to be distributed. There are few automo biles here and little gasoline, It will be weeks before the roads will be passable for camions. Camions Stuck in Mod ‘There are lteraily scores of Eng *h camtons stuck in the mud in entral Serbia, I was told “They have given up the effort to move m Before navigation on the roads came to an end—I use the word “navigation” advisedly-—-Major C. R. Dennison of Boston and the Red Crows covered a part of this terrt tory by car. I never maw much actual naked ness in my life,” said he. “Crossing the Kosnovo Plain the children, at tracted by the unusual noise of a car, Tan to the roadside by hundreds | to watch me pass. Literally hun-/ dreds of them were practicality naked. They ran out wrapped in patchy blankets. Two boys stood in the snow at one place, watching me. Each wore a patched vest, and noth Food Hidden by Peasants Much of the difficulty in ancer- taining the food needs of the coun try arises from the fact that the peasants have only saved thelr food supplies from the Austrians by hid ing them. They buried little dabs of | wheat here and vegetables there. never too much in any one place. A casual survey reveals no food what- ever. The peasants are suspicious after almost seven years of war, for the two Balkan wars must be taken into account. They will never state the total food reserve they have on hand, but only dig up and sell a lit- tle at a time when the constantly mounting price appeals to their cov etousness. There are 100,000 war orphans and 148,000 people who have been com-| SAN FRANCISCO, April 4—A\ pletely stripped by the war, in south-| strike of ten weeks’ duration ended ern Serbia alone. ‘They must be fed togay when machinists and boiler by some organized agency or they| ners returned to work in bay Machinists and Boilermak- ers Return to Work shipyards. ‘SEATTLE YANK HURT IN WRECK d Fraser Loses Legs in bo Smash in France p Word was received here Tuesday " Savenay, France, that Sergt Fraser, son of Alex G. M » Of the Myaser-Paterson Co Met with a serious accident ut Mille, France. The cable # that he had been run over by tad a and both his legs had been M@putated. His father believes the Was on his way to or from Ver. Sng {0 see his brother, Lieut. Gar Matt Fraser, who is stationed there we the 628th engineers, and the Meldent occurred last Saturday. gl Priest has been notified, thru association, sag immediately ¢ te young soldier. bi ohoal who is | the war, to go up to 0 look after 22 years of age, en arny the fist week of While @ sophomore at the i parentty of Washington. He ar | 4 France in September, 1918 Fi fetes of the 209th engineers ® Braduate of Broadway high | | | SCANDINAVIANS JOIN TO GET FooD STUFFS by N.E. A. to 1 COPENHAGEN, April 5—sorway “ €nd Denmark are working s Co-operative confer erence to Rood and sound food for the | Phe Star) 2 t of the Seerens ce inevian countries, t of the conference will Wmimitan approval to the gov- We Of the three nations, Trade I, Is Resumed | mith Enemy, Report Hy resumed, a 3 Teeeived 1; Weal repres beara, the 44-hour week and will be grant ed bonuses In lieu of retroactive pay. San Francisco and Oakland ma chinista accepted the terms of thi = They won their fight for employera late yenter Last DRIVER IS HELD San Francisco | voted to take the same action. | ‘The 44-hour week will become ef. Two Run Down and Badly ti ne tin a Hurt by Automobile leas each Saturday here one hour f er until the half holiday is ef. agentes ive. The bonus settled upon is Struck by an automobile as the; top tainidlehe © ter uathee were about to board a street car at | nakers and $17.50 for spectaliats and Poren ave. and Pike st. at 9 o'clock | hetr There is to be no discrim George Stevens, 33,| ination against strikers, providing of the Regina ho-| they return to work within a reason S., and Mary|able length of time. Warren, bookkeeper, 1015 Union st.,| The settlement affects 6,000 men are at the city hospital. Stevens suf-| who were refused their old positions | fered a skull fracture, and Miss War | after they arbitrarily took Saturday | ren is believed internally injured. | half-holidays. Indirectly, the ssc According to J. L. , an auto | affeets fully 10,000 workers. mobile mechanic, 1613 Grand ave ee who drove the machine, Stevens and Miss Warren rushed in front of his | machine in an attempt to catch the street car. He was traveling at a he estimates to be between 20 miles an hour, and was | before running the} ‘Thursday night shipyard worker, tel, 202 Second ave. 3 Sailors Die in | NEW YORK, April 4—With three of her crew missing, the transport Scranton wag towed into port Thurs. |day, following rudder trouble 900 miles ast of Sandy Hook, March 27. The three men lost their lives trying to carry a line in a small | boat to the transport IA Sol, apeed 15 and unable to stop down. “was released on $300 bail He is charged with Violating the city | ordinance fixing the speed limit, while crossing street intersections, at 12 miles an hour. couple Bray Chrome, N. J.; William Sorenson, % | Berwin, 8. D., and Clarence Pickner, | L.W.W. Men Can’t (i iiitrose, 6. Battle With Sea ; FRISCO STRIKE HUN DELEGATES VALERA SAYS — IS CALLED OFF GET NEW ORDER IRISH ENSLAVED Marshal Foch Explains Rul- Emerald Isle Never Recog- | ings to Erzberger SPA, April 4 ce commission sension of the all The German armis today wan les’ in pos ecision regard. ing the Danzig controversy and in structions concerning observance of cently given the United Press, today the armistice These nicated to the army in two conferences yesterday Marshal Poeh were commu- Mathias Erzberger, former chairman | former's special train for 40 minutes, 4 beginning at 9:30 Eraberger held a second conference later in which nized Britain,.He Says LONDON, April 4—Prof. Edward De Valera, Sinn Fein leader and head of the first pu Irish republic,” in the statement since that re made the following declaration in a representatives signed article in the Daily Herald, a new London labor paper conversed with) “fngiand took Ireland by force and so maintained it. Ireland has of the armistice commission, on the| never accepted the theory that its oaition ix parallel to that of the a m. Foch and) American southern states. We have " o never recognized England. Gen. Weygand, the) “trishmen know that justice ts on in, Nudant, French marshal's aide; representative on the commission, and Gen. ed armistice von Hammer stein, present chairman of the Ger man commission, participated meeting was held in Neubois villa,| wy not claim that the m. and continuing | America be revoked? starting at 11 a This for an pour and a half, The comminsion gave of Foch. American members of the a dinner in honor He Fools Japanese; | “Booze” Wa: Water! (Special to The Star by N. B. A.) PORTLAND, Dosht has been eek. The scene of the swindle was emetery. The Greek ¢ first-class gallon A committee of club members| stand: |accompanied the Greek to a ceme Ore, club, composed “aypea” |ing by awaiting the arrival of tugs. tery, where he dug up a keg. |The dead are John Clement Jones, |siphon was inserted, the committee |iiament was expected today to ened April 4—The of Japanene, by a called at the club and informed the steward booze for sale at $30 he had some Al |tasted high-grade goods, and parted with $200. Returning to the club, the Jap . ail | - anese drew out about a quart of Raise Their Bail Yanks arack Bad whisky, ‘Then the supply failed. CHICAGO, April 4—None al ani The remainder of space inside the a7 I. W. W. leaders serving terme in Girls’ Rebellion’ keg haa been filled with water. the federal penitentiary, and who} were ordered admitted to bail by the (Special to The Star by N. E. A) | United States élreult court of ap-| PARIS, April 4.—Yanks proved s0| peais Wednesday, had been able to| prompt and efficient in putting out obtain bail satisfactory to the gov-|fire in France that they were called | when girls in a house of correction ernment today. vd revolted and rushed from the build It was learned that bail in one lease had been offered, but rejected.|ing. The soldiers brought hose into It was sald to have been the $15,000) play again, drenched the girls and put an end to the revolt. \Revolt Breaks Out demanded for release of “Tile Bill” Haywood, tormer secretary of the or- ganization. in Essen District, 8 ZURICH, April 4 A revolution Commercial club were dihas broken out in the Essen dis Thursday night a theatre party | trict, according to advices received | at the Rex thi », where the club|here today. Further disorders | women were shown working in their | reported at Harm ‘tome war garden. Dortmund and Dusseldorf, tines Pasthak Stamp Proposed! A (Special to The Star by N. PARIS, April 4, of nations postage stamp. co delegates, and it has | licked four o! fore the Enter, the league | been rece pived with great friendliness, tho the prospect is that it will be left to the league itself for decision, The | idea is to have all stamps, or, at least, ail used in international mail a n that would re mind everybody constantly of th spirit of the league of nations, Lit tions, are ferent markings would be (Westphalia)! for the stamps of the different na- necessary clever) their side. They know that justice will triumph in the end “To say that England's security | demands the slavery of Ireland ins falee. If security constitutes right freedom of America ta a far more dangerous rival than Ire land.” SMALLEST REPUBLIC CANNOT PAY DEBTS) ROME, April 4.—San Marino, the | | world's smallest republic, is bank rupt. Not only is San Marino bank- |rupt, but the country is an embéy zier, The government instituted a lottery to oup the national fi nances, and it is unable to pay the prizes in the lottery | Will Ask Release of Sinn Feiners | | DUBLIN, April 4—The Irish Lcd [debate on measures to obtain the |release of Sinn Feiners who ey ‘still held in English prisons, Con \siderable interest is shown in the! body at the efforts of Irish-Amer- leans to present Ireland's case to the peace conference. OUGHT TO GET A JOB DETROIT, April 4 | Police arrest led Fred Adams, professional crip- ple. One leg was useless. One arm twisted. Thus handicapped he |He may be the force, offered a job on SYDNEY, N. 8. W. tor over four ye among the Papau cannibals, Capt. Konrad Hetz , German en »r officer, surren dered to the Australian troops on hearing of the armistice. He hid his uniform on taking to the bush, but recovered it before surrendering. After living fficers and ran a mile.| Sick Man Commits Suicide After Murders * HOQUIAM, April 4—Faii to persuade his wife and her at torney to drop divorce proceed ings started because he was an incurable tuberculosis patient, Alvin A. Sedgewick, 28, fatally wounded her late Thursday, turned the pistol on Sidney M. jeath, 60, the lawyer, and then killed himself, Industrial Citizenship BY HAROLD E. BECHTOL (European Manager of N. E. LONDON, April 4.—Dig into the widespranl unrest and strikes in Britain and you get down to this The British workers demand industrial “citiz They were promised a “new deal” after the war. is the “new deal” they want. ; ee They are thru with the despotism of capital, grinding or benevolent. They demand a status in industrial life comparable to ” enship! That Mra. Sedgewick lived only a tew' their status in political life—a full share in the policies, minutes after she was taken to the management and responsibilities the police and discovered the bodies, The Sedgewicks are survived by two small children. Heath was one of the best known attorneys in Southwest Washington “PARSON” AGAIN FACES CHARGES Fourth Marriage of Darnell Is Alleged I. Rev. ROCKFORD, April 4 urth marriage of Rev. J, Morrison | years ago were the backbone of Darnell, convigted white saver. was | Working. class” conservatiam-men| ENdeavor Next Thursday uncovered here today with his ¢ who have done well in their trades —_—_— a Uon by Rockford officials. Darnell, i have the respect of their fellow ST. JOHNS, N. F., April 4— Piet who recently completed a term at | workmen, Harry Hawker will make his ate Leavenworth prison, was found What these men complain of is tempt to fly across the Atlantie have married Miss Mildred Wood, not so much that the conditions of next Thursday at the latest, ag gin, HL OT it was alleged, used | their work are bed as that they cording to present indication, the name ¢ Merle St. Clair’ for| have no say in what those condi-| Work of setting up the Sopwitiy this ceremony Uons should be. * |airplane in which Hawker and his The “marrying parson” is wa anted | n where, as is very often the | navigator, Mackenzie Grieve, will in Owatona, Minn., where he was in-| case, the employers are excellent, make the fight, started today a§ dicted on charges of child desertion.| Where they take great trouble to|the aviation field near here. The child is the son of Ruth Soper, | meet the wants desires of their) The mechanics, who ha bees one of the parson'’s former “wives.” employes, where they pay good/delayed by ice floes which hel@ who was prominent in Darnell'’s| Wages for moderate hours and pro-|up their steamer, arrived last night. white slavery trial, in Milwaukee, vide them with various amenities 4s| Aviator Morgan, with his Martine The “parson” said settlement of Well, all this is done for the men as|side machine, in which he will alse his parents’ estate left him $60,000,|4 Voluntary act of, benevolent des- attempt to fly across the Atlantic, He blamed this new affluence for his present difficulties. FIVE KILLED IN TRAIN SMASHUP Two Seattle Men Die Wreck Near Melbourne April HOQUIAM, 4A |train ran away jravine near Melbourne, Wash., terday afternoon, killing five. | The dead are: George Clemmons, superintendent of the Clemmons Logging company; logging yes The | world consists of men in| | | | and plunged into a of business, just as they ;hospital, and Heath died an hours hi ir > of citizenship, in running the s|later, Sedgewick’s death was in-| ave & full share, by right of citizen tp s ntantaneous country politically. ° ‘The shooting took place in Heath If the workers of ( 3 — office, whe the Bed icks had don't get what they wa dah ie-diaeliins ihe diverse fede te saat eeeacs ‘Dut it 1o0kd | Viewpoint of ‘the Sedgewick had just returned from they are going to get it British Workers an Everett sanitarium where he I say it looks that wa because . * BY ROBERT SMILLIE waa unde treatment for tuberculo- | th ve nen orkers, he 4 under ment for tuberculo-|the government, t workers, the | 5 ¢ ef the British Miners Wit wie, capitalist, the majority of industry ss tion by = Council Sedgewick Planned Deed in the new house of commons and 2 ‘ee Caplial po A note addreased to his brother, | Gntached leaders of public thought. | Government George W. Sedgewick, Everett, | 116 thing is eeper this time—than| "The mine owners say: ‘We in- showed he planned the killing: t rae vested our money in these mines ; questions of wages and working con 1 have tried to persuade Loutse | ditions, merely ax such. and they are ours; you are merely to abandon her application for di: “aye British workers don't want |Our hands.’ verve, she refuses to do #0. 80 Bolshevism. They won't have It. Now I say we invest our lives In I have decided to settle it by taking Industrial citizenship” jen't Bol these mines, which is of greater im- her slong wit attains. ‘tan. ani agi. POrtance than the capital of the eme Sed 9 morose bY tators have been trying their darned.| Plover and to that extent have @ brooding over what termed his! ost to twist inte Trotaky form. right to say as to what the condi wife's injustice toward him in seek- aided and abetted by short-sighted, ons shall be, not merely the work- ing a divorce after he had given UP frightened, capitalist interests who |!98 conditions, but we are entitled hope of recovering his health have been howlng about “anarehy”| to have some information on the Son Finds Bodies and the “red terror” in a futile at. | commercial side of the thing also.” ‘There were no witnesses, altho a tempt to rouse public opinion ” ees bookkeeper on the floor above heard ##4inst the workers, | BY LORD ROBERT ‘ » » + h tes ’ Chief of Supreme Economic Council. the pistol and called the potice. No Dictatorship 7 tists Heath's son called at hie father’s) Cupital wants a dictatorship of} vont Lean Miy an ebm tcc ad office shortly before the arrival of money. Bolshevike want a “dicta-| ore, Complain of is not so saue that the conditions of their work are bad as that they have no say im torship of the proletariat.” The British workers want NO h be. DICTATORSHIP—but an era of co-| “nat tone. nies Ean him operation. ‘They want an industrial | sf and not @ mere commodity te democracy in which they shall mare be, bought and. eold inthe. market. full rights of citizenship Wh Britain regards ag one ot} He, the most important documents 1” | other y British industrial history, appeared without his appvect READY TO TRY OCEAN FLIGHT) Pilot Hawker Plans to Starf the other day in the columns of the London Ti 4n unsolicited letter | from Lord Robert Cecil. On a trip back to London mare a “breathing spell” at the peace cot ference recently he wrote the letter to the Times, from which these ex-| cerpts are taken “1 believe that more extreme section of a large part of the) the labor who a few to St. Johns on the Morgan plans te potism, or law of supp as the cohsequence of the and demand is enroute steamer Sachem. A man’s labor is a parLof him- make his start not later thag and not mere commodity to April 15. be bought and sold in the market - He has a right to be consulted as to its disposal and cannot give to an- other uncont power over it without injury to his self-respect. ri will no doubt be said that the employes are to have a sare in the managemept of in- dustry it will mean a loss in ef- ficiency, and since the real cure for industrial difficulties is in- crease of output, such a change would be a retrograde measure, “The same argument has often been applied the political world, indeed it is the mainstay of the defense of kaiserism. “The world has decided against autocracy and for good reasons. BRITISH ACTORS TALK OF STRIKE Theatrical Employes Threat= | en to Close Theatres LONDON, April 4.—An actors strike is threatened in the United | Kingdom, The executive committes of the Actors’ association, with | which teh theatrical employes, musi+ Walter Hawes, Aberdeen, Wash; @.| “In the first place, history shows | cians and vaudeville performers are A. Selby, Seattle; F. J. Yennie, ‘Ta-| that really good despots are rare,| co-operating, has decided to recom coms m Clift, Seattfe and I suspect that same is equally | ment to a general meeting that no Fireman W. H. Jones, Montesano,| {ue of captains of industry; and in| member of the association appear im and John Bodinger, eng Mon.|the second place. the argument a cast not entirely composed of mem- texano, and Brakeman John Kin-| aves out of sight the passion of of the association, ‘This action near, were injured, perhdps fataily,|™4nkind for liberty taken after the announcement | “Over and ove again we have B. Cochran, a leading London seen men prefer a bad government r, that he is determined to AU, S, AIRMEN KILLED ABROAD ‘or which they are responsible, and in which they have a share, to a good government imposed upon them from above. “To my mind it is unreasonable | to ask the workingman to accept his |employer's view as to what is a fair Jemploy in his company in the future no actor who is a member of the as- |sociation, ‘The ors’ association |has been agitating for better condie tions and has demanded especially, | that salaries be paid during rehear+ sals, TREVES, April 3.—(Delayed.)—| wage and what are fair conditions secs B.. American aviators were killed | of labor unless he is given, not only airplanes collided near Wittlich, fall-| self of all the relevant facts in the SEEMS so LONESOME ing in fragments and bringing down | case, but also some share in the to The Bia two others out of control. One of | management of these matters which | oe the machines fell in the Moselle|are of even greater importance to Ph ae AGO, acy en Bees |Fiver, the others landing in a field.| labor than to capital.” | stockmen came to see Ogden Armou | Nichols, of Worcester, Mass.; Lieut. {1,000-aore Armour 58 Roderick D. Coe, of 'N ae Tiegh | BROKERS OBJECT T0 jeer it a ‘hey ahoaes eee a | ‘| a BW P bes jals to the guards at the gate, am Serta Soke 3. tiketio ck TAX ON SALMON PACK) [going up to the house they found New York City. County Assessor ‘Frank W, Hull,|Armour on the big front porch—all |The injured are: Tiout, W. ©,| Treasurer William A. Gaines and alone—and with a face registering | Morris, of Concord, Mass., and Sergt.| Sheriff John Stringer were named | deep melancholy, W. P. Carson, of Burton, W. Va, | defendants in a suit filed Thursday} They finished their business and fhe y * — |by the F.C. Barnes company, sal-|rode away, ‘They motored a mile in Wittlich ig a small German town|mon brokers, with headquarters in) silence, Then one of the Westert 20 miles northeast of 'Treve; Portland, asking the court to enjoin | stockmen, in a slow Montana drawl ~ them from. levying and collecting | said LILI MRANCE—The first fa taxes on 2,246 cases of salmon, “I don't s'p Og Armour ever had tory to be reconstructed in the Lille | which, the plaintiffs hold, belong to | a real pal in his life. Everybody that region is the Lille Cotton works,| the government, and are not tax-|ever came around him wanted te which has Just started businesshere. | abla, [brush something off him.” iy