The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 9, 1919, Page 1

t WORLD Tides in Seattle WHRPN A Ist High ; Ist Low Tide i $f oart i ENVOYS SAY AGREEMENT MUST COME ‘OR WRECK WILL RESULT An American Paper That Fights for Americanism. Kntered a Second Class NO, 42. VOLUME 22. SEATTL B, W ASH., Ww EDNESDAY, Matter May 2, 199 At the Postoffice at The Seattle Star THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC Act of Con. NORTH W. Beattie, Wash, under the = March 8, RRA nn nnnnnnnnencacunmmattls WAVERING NIGHT EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE 191 APRIL 9, nd Thursday, 9 Cfoutherly eine STATE HIGH PHONE ORGANIZER RATE "IN SEATTLE Tariffs Made Permanent by Court . rant for Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Official Here CHICAGO, April 9.—The state of Miinois won a victory over the federal government here to- day, when Superior Judge Foeil made permanent an injunction granted last February, restrain. ing the American Telephone & TACOMA, April 9.—Officers are today seeking Steve Burke, Tacoma secretary-treasurer of the Sokliers’ and Sailors’ council, | and J. Johns, of Seattle, state organizer, on warrants issued | late yesterday by W. D. Askren, Sa angle cong, Sag aiebeeg Pierce county prosecutor, | ing telephone rates in the state. The men are charged with | hears criminal conspiracy to sell tags OLYMPIA, April 9. rate increases, re asking the city council, chief of police and Po- lee Captain Falconer e Burke « ¢ the superior new phone rates. id Johns are supposed to | be in § © The information filed against the | nine men yesterday was worded as follows. “Did unlawfully and felo- niously conspire together to accom Plish an unlawful| purpose, to wit To publicly sell tags upon the public gireets of Tacoma, a city of the first Gags, on Saturday, April 9, 1914, in vic etion of « city ordinance and in efidince of the city authorities, after | having been refused permission to do #0 by the’ commissioner of public} safety, F. H. Pettit, whose eee Seek Witnew in B00 VETERANS represent the postmaster general. in the courts firmed The temporary eral effect all over the country. Seek Witness in rmy Murder Case! FRANCISCO, April 9.—With | iminary héaring of Dr. Ephri-| am Northcott on a charze of causing | the death of Inez Reed, army nurse, | set for 10 o'clock this mofning in | San Mateo, police are making | search, of all parts of Central Califor: | nia for Mrs. Frances Cronin, a vital | witness. Mrs. Cronin, who ie the nurse at! , Dr. Northovtt’s office, was not found * when sought by subpoena servers to- day, A score of other San Fran¢iaco “witnesses and scores of police detec- tives, friends of the principals in the case, and eurious persons Jeft for Ban Mateo early today, to attend the bearing. _She Wants Court to Review Order Paul Early Wednesday . attle. proprietor iwe frame rooming houses at ease onmdasefoctsanrorerd when they reagh here Mriday,”’ condemned by J. A. Johnsen, city! Chairman Gates. “I , building for a-writ of review. She licly welcome them home.” | Argonne herees reach here, You'd Gladly Pay “Big Money” to Know What Property to Buy for an erners. |Pioneer Woman Is If you could know what par ticular properties would dow ble in value in a year— wouldn't it be o simple matter to get rich? Well, some of the properties advertised to dey will double in value In _ that time—inevitably! Why not try your ability to pick them out? Read the classified ady. Mra 5919 Duwamish ave after a lingering iliness. from St. Louis, Mo., 30 years ago {munity from that time | berad among ber | pioneers, | She is survived by Henry, the city Of Beattie, IN UNOS %fficers Hold Tacoma War-' Injunction Against Burleson * CONSPIRACY IS CHARGED|SEATTLE FIGHT STARTS) | The fight on unlawfully last Saturday the hag se prs rate beams ag for Se . attle, which were ordered by Post s er members of the Soldiers @Pudty) Morris, labor leader, were | °% “Ne telephone companies, and ap te 4 gps : sgt pro by the public service com har) dl jon filed } fonda afternoon by Prosecutor As |™ission. opened here today, ‘when | 4 . the hew a : . kren, with criminal conspiracy. The ine hearing in ‘the review pro Gaaame. Gn cbavicdion, qnrrién with i(|{n@? started before Superior Judge . . John M. Wilson | o year f wv i ke other mon famied in their | em aC germination counsel, repre ettawdn are Herman Otich, Walter |[00tins #Ettle, and U. BE. Marmon. | Sak 3.99. Jetieeon, W. Ree, J.|TseOms corperation counsel. joined Brigzaolavi and Victor Vernon the cases started by the two cities ‘The w csiahdion named in the in to tewt Burleson’s power and the | Germation are the members of the| Commission's right to impose the Seattle and Tacoma | court to set | ; Telephone company attorneys will ‘The decision is the first given in a number of suits in various states, wherein increased rates were tested In making the in junction permanent, Judge Foell af. the exclusive right of the staté in regulating telephone rates. injunction was granted on request of Attormey Gen- Brandage, of Ilinols, the day before the new rates were to go into COMING FRIDAY Northwesterners Left St. noat part casuals of Washington. Oregon and other Northwest organiastions other than the 9ixt division, arrived in St. Paul at 6 o'clock Wednesday morn- yas are me was = ge ing. ‘They left that eity a short time ir warning: nm later, continu: ir ciate har cue : jing their journey to Se- “The city will weleome these men said cannot say , March 11. filed an | whether we will be able to have them in the supe | parade or not, but there will at least be a demonstration ht the station when they pull in, and possibly we can more fittingly show our apprecia "| tion of their part in the great war by having them march tru the down town sections and turn out to pub- He also waid that if the men are {stil at Camp Lewis when the 1st they will be included in the monster cele bration in honor of the Wild West- | In the contingent now on its way { Investment. Wouldn't || the Pacific coast are 298 casuals You? t | (CONT'D ON PAGE TWO) Dead in Seattle Augusta Moasbach Brandon, died April 8, Mrs. Brandon came to Georgetown and resided continuously in this eom- She num. friends many old | | | | “Peace—Prosperity !” The pessimist who can't see it coming is the one who's out of step; not the optimist who realizes that a . period of great prosperity is as certain to come as the kaiser is certain to spend eternity in hell. The economists have it all figured out, and they can show you by tiresome facts and figures just why the good times that will follow the signing of the peace treaty will be the best this country has ever known. But you don’t have to be an economist to know it. All you have to do is to look, first, at history, and find that every great war ever fought was followed first by a period of readjustment and reconstruction, and then by an era of great prosperity. Then come down to the present and look at Europe, and the contrast it presents to this country. Seven millions killed and fifteen million wounded! England staggering under a war debt of forty-two bil- PLAN TOHOLD (Oh, Dear Me! Little Car Mirrors | CALIFORNIA'S FORMER KAISER Capital Punishment Is Not Favored, However PARIS, April 9 The “big four,” it was learned this afternoon, has decided to eliminate the idea of capital punishment for the former kaiser, but will provide some means for bringing him under allied con- trol. A decision also bas been reached to draw up 4 strong indictment pointing out the moral responsibil ity of Wilhelm and other German leaders, for the war. PARIS, April %—The “big four” have virtually reached an agreement on the question of responsibility for the war, it was semiofficially an nounced today. LONDON, April %—The advance Mary jand August Mosbach, all residing in guard of the North Russian relict expedition emborked today. It will gail tomorrow LOS ANGELES, Cal, April has been declared against the little side mirror street car motormen use to see what's doing on the rear steps. Mins Cecille Stone is going to circulate a petition to have the horrid bits of glass removed. “in these days of tight skirts they are just @ continuous mu- sical comedy performance—-ni- nus the music—for the motor. she says. ery time we board a street car we are embarrassed,” de- clared another antimirror ery wader. “1 don't see—altho per- haps the motorman can—what divine right a motorman has to demand we should be exposed to hie gaze,” she continued. ‘The street car company doesn't agree, Neither does the bunch of males that make it their bux iness to stand on the front end of the car and aid the motorman in the conduct of safety. ‘The cur company says, “Why not do away with the tight and Tight Skirts Start Trouble I. O. U. 60 per cent of her formerly estimated wealth, and Germany over 40 per cent. And all of them look- ing to America for bread to eat, clothes to wear, drugs to cure their sick, and machinery to refurnish their factories with! Then come home and look at our own, country; just now passing thru the uncertain period of readjust- ment, but before long to find itself back to normal, with the wheels of industry grinding more rapidly than ever. Wages vastly higher; everybody, despite the high cost of living, enjoying more comforts than ever, and cutting coupons off Liberty bonds to pay their income taxes with! The richest country on earth, with every other large nation in our debt and paying us big interest. When any one tells you that prices are going still higher and wages are coming down, that the talk of “Peace—Prosperity” is only bunk, tell him these things | —and ask him where he gets that stuff! | lions; France, twenty-five billions; Austria with an | skirts? The mirrors are going to stay Mt. Lassen Begins Its 169th | ‘The motormen, it is under | stood, want the mirrors enlarged, | Eruption vn cg Clean Flier | REDDING, Cal, Aprit 9— Mount Lassen, the only active Is Forced to Land) volcano in the United States, be. PARIS, April 9—Lieut, Fontan,) #0 an eruption this morning at jthe French aviator, who star 6 o'clock. The eruption had not yesterdiy on the first leg of a| #bated at 8 o'clock. trans-Atlantic flight to Bragi! by| White sulphurous smoke is pour way of Africa, was forced to land|!"% from the northern part of the 112 miles south of Paris, it was|CT#ler and drifting southward, but a obunaeh Same }not ascending high. | | ‘The spectacte is striking, but does PARIS, April %—Thru the inter cession of Premier Clemenceau, the | death sentence of mile Cottin, the | | young anarchist who shot the pre- ¥ |not approach the grandeur of the Cottin Escapes | eruptions yearn ai. | ‘The volean dd into inactivity | Death Sentence |i, 315 "rnin is its 109th eruption. (1K ALLEGED DEFRAL pee Giving the name of R. P. |son and saying he represented the |mier. has been ‘commuted to ten| United Motors Co., 4 man obtajned years’ imprisonment at hard labor, |% Supply of automobile accessories -_— from Chanslor and Lyons, 1913 15, | LISBON, April %—Thirty United! Pike st, late Tuesday, The United | States submarine chasers left this} Motors Co, does not know the man, port today for Gibraluw "but the police arc looking for him, PEAK EXPLODES. AT HAND IN SWEPT B PARIS MEET BIG ST Everybody showlle Effects = Injured; Vast Pro of Long Strain; Tension | Loss Is Incurred in Dis- Noticeable in Air | trict of Four Counties |CENSORS ARE AT WORK OKLAHOMA ALSO i BY FRED s. FERGH SON (United Press Staff Correspondent.) PARIS, April 9—The peace conference, it DALLAS, Tex., April ty-three persons are Phin dead and many injured, and” | thousands of dollars property” | damage is the toll of | that swept four North Texi counties and one Oklahome: ty, last night. The killed and jured reports follow: Mineola, Tex.—5 killed, 20 injum was declared in has reached 4 | are just two alternatives—eariy agreement or a wreck. The period in which continued protracted discussions ix possible has | passed, according to authoritative in- formation. Everyone is showing the|, C4Dton, Tex.—6 killed several effect of the strain. “There is a/JUret | nervous tension in the air. | Eetor, Tex—3 killed, many | delegate carries an implied “uit. | ured | matum” on his lips. It ix becoming}, C424", Tex killed, otra not only a matter of political and |JUred. | diplomatic effort reaching the end| Mulberry, Tex.—7. killed. [of the string, but, as it is human} Durant, Okla.—6 killed, beings doing the work, the limit of | uted Pe physical endurance is beginning to miantfeat itself, * | SHERMAN, Texas, April people reported killed” score injared in a severe which approached cyclonic Uons at Trenton, Texas, early Reports received in Sherman z of Denison said a train of 30. as blown from the M. K. jlway tracks, near Whi | Wires were down and conmi tions with the stricken area ith the stricken area eut'@ HEAR PROTESTS are As has been stated for three weeks past. the hour for definite decisions has brought a halt in the work of | the conference, For days there has been quibbling over details. One | person in authority declured today it would not be wrong to say technic ally that the conferees are agreed on the principles of the main issues, but that the constant dragging in of de tails has caused p endless going | over of every sub | Scramble I, Result “It in a case of trying to do things lin the usual way at an unusual | time.” he said. “The result ts, the} ‘conference has degenerated into a ON ' | {scramble for individual desires. ‘The | ' Italians are nursing their withdraw, while the subject is qu ly coming from FP [unless they are gi | will take it by for and British are still struggling with | reparation details, while numerous other questions furnish a constant | ground for argume threat to «|Commission to. Investig Rainier Valley Tariff Protests against the car fare proposed by the § | and Rainier Valley The “The suggestion for r | company will be heard by ing the provisions of the 14 p state public service apparently was designed to bring) in the Chamber of © about a steadier basis for working | Tooms April 23. A public hen. lout a settlement of some of these| ing will be held. 4 Altho Walter F. tion counsel, Meicr, corp bas informed the council of the fare increase campany is asking the co to approve, he has not been i ed to take any action in behalf the city in opposing the fare b Under the proposed fare ines |the company will collect harge 3 cents for school | jets, 1 cent for transfers issued 4 | oe lines and 2 cents for train accepted from the city cars: PEACE IS NEAR new rates Were filed with the mission March 18 to become ive Abe FE 23 ‘Conference Work Is Nearly Done, Officials Say MOTHER HURT wasert..| SAVING CHI | questions.” A portion of the press apparently jis preparing the psponst: | pity for delay upon President Wil son, following the lead suggested in | British and French interviews, stat- jing that an will be (CONT'D € to place BY LOWE | United Press Staff Correspondent) PARIS, April 9.—The British con ats | usces today to insist that the peace | ¢ |work practically is concluded An | SECS Auto Coming, Takes official in close touch with the “big | four” told the United Press that agreement has been reached on all Boy in Her Arms | the knotty questions, with the excep-| _T0 save her baby boy's life tion of a few details, He reiteratea| When caught in a crash between — lthe differences, so far as principles} * Gatewood fitney bus and a mo ed, a thing of | on the highway near are concer are now | the past the Skinner & Eddy shipyard It will be a peace which the| Wednesd morning, Mrs, H. world’s common sense will app Ww. 1 44th ave. S. We even if it disappoints the reaction.| Seized the child in her arms bore the brunt of the im- self, suffering a badly | aries on one hand and the extremists lon the other.” he said. Bo | “The official intimated the peace ched knee and treaty will leave a great deal for the} Drulses. The child was unin. | league of nations to do, saying it will| Jured. Snot be a rigid affair, like most trea-| 1" her report to the police, M | ties, but will be more like the Amer. | Olsen blamed the driver of the truce} ican constitution, subject to change, |" the accident. She said the jit | providing two-thirds of the signato Sear be | es arte aye Ere be cut in and was atruck toed: raergg bccbr ating Sa . if he | ane saw the crash wa ates wen enunciated, he replied, "Yes." [Ting an ner lap, would he Chros af | thru the windshield, she gathered Bavarian Soviet Breaks With Ebert him in ber arms and braced herself for the blow Believimg the woman seriously inw ~COPENHAGEN, April 9.—The Ba: | Jured, an ambulance was called and varian soviet republic broken | she was taken to the city hospital. relations with the German govern-}No other passengers on the Jitney Jment at Rerlin, a Munich dispateh | bus were injured, and the reported today lwas not badly damaged