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

PREDICT WORLD RECORD WHEAT CROP. An American Paper That Fights for Americanisn. \) Tides in Seale, LATE EDITION | @ > TheSeattle Star ==" see anata heneP oh THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST Tides in Seattle ae Becond Class Matter Mey 4, 1899, at the Postoffics at Heat wa under the Act of Congress March § VOLUME 22. NO, 41. aka z ob MW SE SATII WASH, TU ESDAY, A AP RIL 8, 1919. 4 ges ah eet Weather Forecast: ronight fate; liane fronts Wednesday increasing: @iaaig * * + ©» & *® * * *©* &* * & ss ££ hh RH FH Ss * * CITY RENEWS FIGHT AGAINST PHONE RATES A Mistake, Mr. Erickson! Countering the ‘repeal of Superintendent Mur- phine to provide extra room for his enlarged depart- ment by removing the park board and civil service offices from the county-city building to other build- ings, Councilman Erickson declared himself in favor of moving the city utilities department instead. This is unworthy of Mr. Erickson. It has neither logic behind it nor can it possibly serve to make the trials of the city in the conduct of its traction system any lighter. The business of the city utilities department re- quires it to be in touch constantly with the offices OOK IS (CONTEST IS JAZANESE ant wiite mid dena ARE READY SOVIET MAY | FOR CARRIED UP sissies "=" FOR FLIGHT “pet HUGE CROPS 0 COURTS me | CROSS SEA WIN POY Government Estimates 1919 Frenchman od Englishman Wheat Yield at 837,000,- All Set for Initial Leg of 000 Bushels Pioneer Atlantic Trip Vera May Nelson, City Attorney Kennedy and | ¥he *tyled herselt Assistant Go to Olympia |} *orhle Mesoda's for Hearing ape (lis Future of Country Hi Success of Radical gress in Session To da 7 Dreams.” " | of the corporation counsel, the mayor, the street CONDITIONS ARE Good APPEAL FROM FINDINGS}) isin ale | ONE GOES 1 TO BRAZIL CONCESSIONS | ARE - superintendent, and the city engineer. The. head of ’ i pinay the utilities department is a member of the board of Pg ona ¥. coven Seattie’s fight ageinst the in. |\ “eae Goeld not Koporea My cio tetag ae BY ED L. KEEN United Press Correspondent 5 Tee eon tan, French aviator, started at n ouek an public works, and should be present at all meetings. Poh oop ote! yol e Hage giovanni Foe Bhat tok | 6 a. m. today for Villa Coublay Ante Apt # hte iy He must also be in touch ‘with the utilities committee fare pe Fgh hry winter mission in Januagy” WH start || ended thelr lives. to start the first leg of a trans- tag” on which ithe fetes of the city council. wheat crop in the history of the Wednesday in Oigimpia. City At- atlantic flight to Brazil. He will | Germany muy be decided, y 3 | nation. forney Tom Kennedy, and ¢ euihe the trek veg a ‘Camm Advices from German and All these other offices are in the county-city Responding to 4 call from nations Meagher, assistant building. To remove the city utilities department devastated by prolonged. war, the ite to the « from the county-city building would be a gross error. pong gh aedoriidek eal baal It would hamper—at times, seriously—the work of [J according to agricuiture department the department and would only make more difficult ff] “nis ts an increase of 218.5, the success of the traction system. bushels over the estimated 19) ness with any other department at the county-city J! bushel it will yield the fot | ; ~ building. It is its own agency. It is self-governing. Saiyan pott| The cases of the two cition will be . ; | Once a year, the city council provides for a park ff the crop now. thé department stated “73 city In attacking the rate In-| board levy. That done, the park board does all its livin cotatse orgs 8 yg crease, charging it i# unfair and un “own financing, and is not required to account to any ff/recort.” st thls time by planting Pera tment to make Up e ci service de} ment has chiefly to do ‘Thin yield was indicated by the with men who work outside the county-city, building. neutral sources indicate the blanca, | Question of whether Germany is) Fontan's flight would be in five! to continue ite present ferm ce | legs, totalling 4,500 miles as follows: overnment or embrace | Villa Coublay to Casablanca (Dar-| jam hinges largely om the * | el-Beda), 1,200 miles; Casablanca t© tien of the soviet ' | Dakar, 1,400 miles; Dakar to St.) which in Berll " Paul rocks, 1,100 miles; St. Paul) phe Gotunenaae soney: rocks to Pernambuco, 750 miles: Per: | granteg further. | nambuco to Rio Janiero, 1,160 miles. radicals, but is. termined to resist with all LONDON, April 8—The war a: ig disposal any wre ministry announced today that ojcroachment on its powerg! | Pilot Harry Hawker probably While announcing formal | will leave Newfoundland at 2 ance of the plan for eats a. m. April 15, In an attempt (of @ national soviet #5 the thied | | to fly across the Atlantic ocean. — pranch of the legislative nent, “Within the next few days, per the government was completin haps in a few hours, a trans-Atlan- preparation under War tle Might will be attempted,” said Noske for meeting force with, the statement. Every military precaution, “We have placed the resources of to the latest dispatches, has game, imho also is fight the | H service corporation under the con javerage condition of winter wheat \, trol of the department on Aprihl, which was 99.8 per cent 7 : 4,000 Pay Increase | (PRP RPE the air ministry at the disposal of taken, both in Berlin and lepartment, {mormal, agninst 74.6 a year ano, enn SEC AAIT UTD The employes of the street d ent, the carmen, @4lk (wo years ago. and $23 the av.| The city also alleges that the pub- |) + pear Magny ag A gs yg | Plas’ ‘vind: Aaa and others, come under this classification. Its work @rage for the past ten years. |e service law of Washington wax |} Her Confession of Love decided to make the attempt from) the spartacans, while is of such a nature that whether it is located in the [J/ The production forecast Ix an in-|not complied with when Postmaster |) the American side. It is probable M plans early last month for @ ‘crense over the estimated production | General Burleson, represented by!) (in Letter From Vera May Nelson to Yoshio Hosoda) that Hawker will make the first at ld: Fy rf volut. te. county-city building or elsewhere, it can function f! Sf tact year of 275,551,000 bushels. | the phone corporations and their at:|) Beloved: 1 just phoned you, but my mad love for you ts not satis {/tempt from Newfoundland at 2 a.m, Seales ie Wireilagee equally well |" rhe crop two years ago was 412,-| torneys, put over the new rates { fied. I want your thousand kisses on my lips, my eyes, my hair April. 15. stened the Piet wane i omar y t . i | 901.000 bushels, | Under the new rates which went } I can hardly live from day to day without those kisses. So I have “The admiralty has instructed all) Snouid be deferred until ae Surely the city council will not, at the very out- Winter wheat showed an increase | {nto effect with the public service || got to write you before I sleep. {'mariners who sight aircraft in the | oviee congress, when it ae rt , H in condition from December 1, 1918. commission's approval February 1, 1 must use my brain and figure out a way which will bring us North Atlantic to signal immediate. set of the city’s management of the street ¢ar lines, of 12 per cent, as compared with an | the 64,000 telephones in Seattle are ) happiness, My only happpiness is when held close in your arms. 1 {iy the position by. wireless, con-[Decte? the less extreme . { blunder so inexcusably in a matter so obvious. The ou. among the workers would. I would give my life for your kisses: } consilatg the signal four times, At average decline in the past ten years Paying an average of 45 cents each |) scold I brought City utilities department should remain in the county- 2.69 per ent of an increase, amounting to $48,000 } mort "Ah never Weave you, for you are the blood of my heart. You are {/night riariners nearing: atreratt poner me ae ee oe 5 spas, ‘ A - os |} The average condition of rye April & i a nf e 5 must ey eee jay juminated signals. re yr city building—and it should be given sufficient 1 was 908 per cent of normal, Meier Flays Action ; In thoes. okt Gays"at Camp Lewis you were onty a dream, sweet ince that time certain against $5.8 a year ago, 86 per cent; “Under the resolution of congress, | heart, but now you are real and you are the very heart and soul and life [ments have had their ini two years ago and 88.6 the past ten | which authorized the taking over of ) of me. | youre’. average [the telephones, the government 1 am sorry | waked you from your bed tonight, but I was worried "The rye crop forecast was 101,|cuarantees to pay whatever damag?|{ and 1 could not sleep without knowing you are weil quarters. tb 1 |the Spartacans’ schemes. The jeral strike now spreading to parts of the country was = ie ° |000,000 bushels, compared with 89, | the companies may suffer, cor} The vies consul of ( ) whispered in my ear tonight, “You Upon as the means for des : "ig }108,000 last year, and the av rare | poration Counsel Meier } are the most beautiful woman T ever saw in the world,” but I do not \ sentient Uk eae a pea oO es, [o} or ay crop for five years of 44 “The amount ix to be fixed by the|S care. All I want {x you forever as long as I live. VERA i jean pi ‘iy alt pager ne, bushels. | president, and if the companies are } Good-night, my beloved. Your picture is in my pillow { revolt, instead of breaking) [not satiefied, th may, after 00 | nnnnnnnnnnannnannnnnnnnnnnnanannnmnannnnne! | simultaneously thruout Gern the Disgruntle Policemen Ontiial Statemont sek Sovak, Chay | ma, sae se = |developed slowly in scattered An official statement by the crop! sue for the balance, The govern: | peel casi vss apheermae —- Meet ani F : ings in widely scattered co “No free rides, no work.” “Murphine says all police officers | reporting board follows: | ment plainly intended to make up| leagues This Afternoon ite ‘This is what some of Seattle's | will have to pay fare,” the message! “The condition of winter wheat In| whatever deficit might occur. | stay Nelson and Yoshio Hoseda| can read and cook well, and even if es ee said. “You remember you told meto|the United States, April 1, fs the) “The rate increase is clearly @0| knew that the patriarchs were | I couldn't work, with her pce hy yt BY C ARL EB /D. ‘GROAT |the best available information, tel at i gfteny ey pur (CONT'D ON PAGE THREE) } attempt to saddle the n the | wrong—the prophets, white and| could support me and can assist in |(United Press Staff Correspondent) thru the influence of their agents chased the car lines they would con — SAN FRANCISCO, April 8.—Vera, uid have enjoyable home life, She phone users and make them Pay the brown, who have proclaimed woe | my success | PARIS, April 8—President Wilson |O08."S meeting. to inflame Unue to ride free. | Bumper Wheat Crop eve Cratomdrs eee anita pd against the love that strives to leap| “Los Angeles seems a good place | will participate in the “big four” be ian Suoek oe co announce i |the ra , cman to wun | fOr ant Tihne Won't Lower Bread|""" the nment pay it.” iss cag ler ap | tower woman to support her bus-| meeting this afternoon, when the/throw of President Ebert and Cl i here io os hig lla 1 0, 8 | ese gp | Vera May was an American The two began to dream of Japan| @uestion of responsibility for the cellor Scheidemann, 12 o'clock Tuesday | Ployes will not have to carry vouch) CHICAGO, April &——The govern. 1 seating ae ‘ 4 their future home. |war is considered, | ‘The government apparently : firemen must pay |**™ 10 be signed by the street car |ment's estimate of & bumper, whee! ee ie eed cl ade Yoshio would work in the Jap-|. The Morning session was devoted |assumed an attitude of “hands cash to ride the street cars. conductor every time they pay a|¢rop fe will have no immedi They laughed and loved and ¢ anose navy or aviation, or possibly |to discussion of procedure designed toward the soviet congress, > Commutation tickets issued by the |Carfare. Thomas Murphine, super. late effect in the price of bread, ac ithe implaca ‘p Pract lintendent of public utilities, declared |cording to grain experts here to building a bridge . Power Co. monn Ee be Deace won nd | Tuerday. Murphine gaged cn alday. The price of wheat, they ON WAY SOON poetry out across the chasm that that hour. | written opinion fron Frank L. Mit-|Pointed out, has been set for a year |ture has laid between folk of differ | And only municipal railway em-| ten. examiner for the state bureau |@head and the food apentniatrarion | ‘ ~ t bloods. | at_evening in a garden of purple iris. | with Mrs. Wilson. | The situation in Bavaria is © ployes in the pefformance of their |f inspection, ruling that for expen: | grain corporation can alone regulate Committee Waits Word to), she was a stenc When Yoshio told her this to com.| The action of the president in or-|garded as having no little inf duties will be carried free on street | ditures lens than 60 cents aigned ex- jor effect any change in prices aan Gh ady of Dreams, valled her: | fort her, her eyes sparkled. She |dering the steamer George Washing-|on developments in other parts cars in the city after the “zero hour” |Pense accounts are sufficent and| “The estimate of 837,000,000 bush Go” With Plans | self; young, fair, romantic, laughter-| made a pretty verse akout te ton to Brest has caused widespread |Germany. Apparently much 604i vouchers are unnecessary. jels is slightly less than traders ex | loving, | There would be « pool with gold. | speculation. At first it was believed new soviet revolution in Mee Order Superintendent Murphine an-| pected,” sald EB. M. Snow, of Bart-| become a writer on a Nipponese his colleagues that he was thru political incendiarism actually daily. He pictured Vera May in| The president has practically re-|velops—if it does develop—and @ silken kimonos, with cherry blos.| covered from his serious cold, He | Noske will strike quickly and soms in her arms, waiting for him | sat up yesterday evening and dined y foree at his command. Yoshio's | “We ex ny minute | He was young also, bronzed, Ori-| fish, she wrote. The pomegranate | he intended the order as notification |expected to hearten the 8 ‘the provisions of Gen- nounced he is planning to abolish the |lett Frazier company. i wae es poor y= ree is |entally reticent—an aviation student | blossoms would be red as her lips,|to his colleagues taht he was thru} No confirmation has been ‘No. 2, issued shortly be | Cardboard schgol ticket and substi- | entraining for the West.” | who had gone to Camp Lewis in &| Eee re would be silks, and sunshine | with needless delays jof rumors of a. counter revoluti Tuesday trom the office |tute ® metal ticket that will mas Four “Men. Killed | Chairman Frank Gates of the sol: | draft contingent and laughter. Thrushes would sing.| It was suggested in some quarters |in Hungary and dispatches from F. Murphine, superin.| ‘ru the fare box and register. He | Nitro BI |diers’ and sailors’ welcome commit:| ‘Their exotic romance had begun| ANd beside Vera Alay as she waited | today, however, that the president | Budapest, filed yesterday, mentie ‘of the municipal railways. |%#¥8 the coat of making the metal | in Nitro OWUP |... thus expectantly awaits the| near that military eamp soi Fa o in the garden, there | really: ts confident the Anglo-French | no unusual _developments, badges on the breasts of tickets is 21-2 cents, and this will} TORRENT, Ky. April &—Four)wora which will enable him to set} In ruary Yoshio was discharg bi Ki be a ups. p diles the black | prediction of an “Easter peace’ wilt} — 1y employes and pass cards is | Clqnoureme counterfeiting. |men were killed instantly in @ nitro-) nig forces at work on final arrange: | ed from the army, The two came to | shio and her own| come true, and that he is only pre to student conductors and|,, Warning that the peculiar odor |glycerine explosion at the plant of nite and pink 'Spartacans Clash < that patrons of the street cars will|the Home Torpedo company here 5 scided to rent a house where sickness thwarted the dream. | United States in case the treaty ts | . will be the only excuse ave honor of the returned heroes of the | girl decided to r rt | W: tor ioe, The weighty notice Wednesday morning is noth-\early today, ‘Their bodies were| Argonne Forest--members of the fa-| they might take refuge from the os:| Nursing Yoshio thru the influenaa, | signed within the hext two weeks ith Hun Soldiers #leaming star, which for so long has |!7# but disinfectant with which the |huried 200 yards, Inoue Siet division, | tracism which already had begun to/She herself was stricken ‘with it | oo LONDON, April 8.—Government brought standing room on front or | *lty’s cars will be cleansed regu |v the 361nt landed in New York last | shadow the happiness they pursued, | There was pain and weariness and | a ———— jlack of None, to ‘wing, e| rear platform to the bluecoats of the | 4rly. was isnued. The cara will all! Six Robbers Get Thursday. ‘The regiment was given| She continued work as typist, He) fit Oe mens tee nursing. | The troops and Spartacans clashed im : Berlin yesterday, the Amsterdam | be disinfected from time to time. job as man of all work ed appiness, correspondent of the Post reported, city fire departments, is be di 4 ° a rousing reception there with other | got a 5 .. | elusive, seemed far away i o 7 at and $11,700 in Bonds |‘, poesia acy Aiter working hours they oc elusive, seemed far away today. Two workmen and two sol ly, | Yoshio made a new plan, silently | } INE. ry: wl Nas 1 ‘ me “4 ljonally walked out together, | ntly diers were said to have been killed, Tickets iNo Case Against MINNEAPOLIS, April 8.—Six day-| “Just wait till they get here, tho, seth Wille’ ahd He would save his golden | - — Redeom always been aired “princess,” as he called her 0 | Ment robbers, all armed, and one | the Seattle committ membe Coommutation tickets issued by! Kane: Ig Released | carrying m sult case, today held up| “New York's show will look tame,| Saf Pag iy dt methine ua COUN ton |Ex-Crown Prince the traction company and those 1s 5 the Peoples’ State bank at Seven|compared with the event we are} *@ Meith deft t love, § ei stl Erna ee alk | u mued by the city will be redeemed | When Ray Nyren, 2315 N. 69th #t.,|Corners, Mlnn., locked. the cashier, | planning.”” | ¢lsco liked neither the poetry | ides od be ara Hi h British | Breaks His Hand at the offices of the traction com-| failed to appear at the trial of Leo|Saber Kalwtad, in hix cage, and es i oa | they wrote nor lived. would go|_. The police, finding the bodies of | 0 Vecial ig) AMSTERDAM, April 8—The fos bey Neckties action’ 417, cownts-city pane: te patie court’ Moniay, ang hae”, sinh Reds Ng tai ote Lewis Veterans | rn California. beach | Ver May and Yoshio Howoda in a Official iner German’ crown prince, while building, respectively. as none of the goods which Nyren|#?4 °°” Me cael R U. S.| land play—somewhere far from pr: fan Francisco apartment, with bul {atae ing, struck i frnoe and sus Police Chief Joe Warren said to-| claimed picked from his pocket were] Segdden Ell d eturn to U. So) ten and critical tongues. "so | let holes in thelr heads, euld Youbio's| papas, April §—Peace making ts] tied & broken hand and welt iq day that the police department will found in the latter's possession, ti en lecte <EWPORT NEWS, Va. April 8.| they planned, the white girl and the] P get reap .S ad Be e practically completed, a high British re take no action in the matter until | Kane was released by Judge Gordon. Mayor of Butte!<7% Battienips Virginia and) prown man leaide “Ppincosy Vera, will die tat| official told the United Press today. Ip, bi word has been received from Mayor}! Kane ix a foreman at the J. F.| purpTE, Mont, A Rhode Island today docked, bring:| Yoshio, bemused. with his love Silt "Palncoss | vers will dle to.) “uit wil be a peace which both the rohil ition Wins Ole Hahson. Duthie shipyard. A large nutnber of | “ Be ole Pril B—W. Tiling 2,000 men from Brest The Jand plans, was pus Jed | oil areal’ don: hee tec a Rolsheviki and the reactionaries | Mi hi Vv Immediately after the padlioation Ghtnvaed. sttlalilia’ tebe On, Hane 20 Cent an poate defeated Capt.jtroops are mainly fro mthe 83rd | ranciseo," he said in a fet-| Kil myself for ly probably will regard as acceptable.” in ichigan ote of Superintendent Murphine , | character witnesses for Kane, Hee ee ie enoetat, for mayor givision with! the ssoth 1 a a sanity in the. ata ‘The official added that complete| DETROIT, Mich April 8.--Prohk Police Chief Joe Warren piri Terese 1% Loe coe reer) machine gun battalions and a casual] good city to live in, Ame oan >| f 4 4 dereement practically has been Kew" was umtained in Michigan, it gran le Hanson in Si AME : plete rns company of Idahoans e against us when we walk out] He achieved in the matter of repara-|was Indicated today. b; © shmatate | WAS UNLUCKY MOVE today. ‘The vote was 6,012 to 2,696.)" ‘The machine gun battallon per| together, and Vera feels very badiy.| BELLINGHAM, April §.— Lake | tions, the Rhine territory and perma- election returns, epreueaue er Chiet Warren in seeking an execu- Ne ae rs April - mons |e nel will be sent to various oar »#| She has a beautiful complexion, and|Whatcom’s picturesque club house,| nent disposition of Danzig, | the entire state. tive Order, setting aside the fare years ago Austria-Hungary formatiy nelyco the | White ad pink skin. ments for the big celebration in| California, In San I | paring for a quick return to the/ she does We will “san and 928th | ter revedling his rom: wo. you think of advertising, | {for demobilization, some fr the streets turns round |the pride of the Bellingham Motor] premier Lloyd George, who was to| Republi it waa also indicatea, ‘as applied to the police| severed diplomatic relations with the | think of The Star. unit belng scheduled for j aeblbaere to look at her when we are together, |club, was totally destroyed by fire] make a statement to the correspond: | were given a uniformly heavy ma United States, eg’ lesen ee at Camp Lewls, ‘in Los Angeles, sho thinks she/last night. The loss is $8,000, ents late yesterday, was confined to! jority, ) "] er v