The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 17, 1919, Page 1

0 <2 i An American Paper That Fights for Americanism The Seattle Star Entered as Bocond Clase Matter May #, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash Tides in THURSDAY ! aren | Ist Low Tide ob tt Seattle FRIDAY is FINAL EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Per Your, by Mail, $5.00 to $9.00 under thes Act of Congress March #, 187% VOLUME 22. NO. 49. EATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1919 and Vriday, ralms eimai inne encig a ome ve atherly ‘windm 9 OFFICIALS SWAMPED | Y WHISKEY GANGS y FIVE BIG RINGS Yankees Die In Wreck: 18 Sailors Lost On Tug OPERATING HERE, BREST, April 17.—(United Press.) NEW YORK, April 17.—(United| -Twelve American and eight French Press.) —The naval tug Freehold was soldiers were killed and 56 injured in sor ar docking of the igor Scones re el ee sa es P in the ing of the liner oniakhis afternoon when Currie’s airpl : a a rear-end collision of troop trains and 1 8o0f her crew were reported as miss- Digite: trotile’ arid ‘phingad teeta) sititede of ° Five bi; 0) dicates are operating in Seattle. bound from this city today. The colli- ing and probably lost, according to semi- eather Lape Vanlon Avice’ Gamer bag One alvomint of whisky, valued at” $37,500, was 8ion occurred three miles west of Con- official reports at naval headquarters latejoiic veverhorer, Venice's aerial policeman. | Carme smuggled into town Sunday morning. Each booze ring is operating independently, and is equipped with a fleet of motor cars to make deliveries. | }*WO KILLED (N AIRPLANE CRASH SAN FRANCISCO, April 17-—James Duncan, jof the Seattle Labor council, and Will Irwin, war co : * this a oon. assenger had ascended a short time before th lie. The troop train had stopped when fternoon ussenger had ascended a sho efore the Police and sheriff's deputies are unable to cope with | The report received at naval headquarters was that} . CW EI va la special from Sille-Guillaume crashed |": tug was assisting the Saxonia into her dock and wash" NCAN WILL ANSWER HANSON the situation. Only a highly organized staff of federal | agents can block the continual influx of contraband liquor. | struck by the propeller blade of the liner and went down These revelations were made by Sheriff John Stringer quickly. Thursday. “Unless additional help is provided by the government! to stop illegal carload shipments into this territory, the! operations will continue,” Stringer declared. ‘Most of the stock is coming int “Many of the cars are. spotted ) concealed shipments, according tolacross the lake or in Snohomish Stringer, and is even arriving from | county,” Stringer said. China and Japan. | ‘The police dry squad ‘and the “We have learned that one car-' sheriff's men are only xetting “a load of whisky arrived last Sunday | drop in the bucket™ thru seizure and Stringer | arrests, Stringer says. said. “Twenty-five gallon kegs of| Need U. & Help liquor were placed in S6-gallon bar-} we can't catch every car that rels. Tar was placed on the BOttOM. | arriveg, or every boat that comes ‘The whisky keg was packed in sand) into port,” Stringer maid. “Neither and tar again poured on the tp. | can the government, unless a large There was 25 such barrels. This! number of men are detailed to this means 2,500 quarts. worth from $15) work Altho it ix our duty to stop to $18 a quart. The syndicate will) nycit trade in liquor, it i also the get at least $27,000 for the lt” =| eovernment’s duty to stop the inter- Awaited Car | state shipments, which are in viola- ‘The car was consigned to the| tion of federal law.” “anderson Pitch company," and) By checking up on bootlesging spotted, during the night, on tracks | sales and their bases of supply, | across Lake Washington. Auto| Stringer has concluded that at least | trucks were awaiting the shipment, | five syndicates are operating inde: and the whisky kegs were removed | pendently. They deliver whisky in on the spot. The big barrels bys if Swe lots," which are really 12 left behind. bottles In a gunny sack. * * } TEN MEN NOW HELD IN FEDERAL PROBE OF $25,000 BOOZE THEFT ExPolleeman Ed Hagen was | Immediately aster his arrest by rearrested by federal officials | de | taken to the office of U. 8. Dis) Thursday , am second. |trict Attorney Robert C. Saunders | out of the $25,- dl growing charges . jand closely interrogated. He made) 000 whisky steal from the United | a viatement, it Is alleged, substantt- | States customs appraiser's ware: | ating the two other alleged confes-| house, March 30. Hagen had | sions. Officials stated Wednesday | heen released on $5,000 bond |arternoon that while Mangini was | Wednesday afternoon, following teing questioned, his wife called his arrest Tuesday, when he was | him on the telephone and urged) charged with “reseuing govern | iim to tell everything he knew in| ment property”—meaning whit | connection with the steal | keg—trom the customs house. Part of the stolen liquor was He now faces grand larceny toung at the home of Mangini by | charges as well. Hagen was taken) genyty marshals, who likewise un-| into custody when he appeared at | covered two barrels of the red wine! United States Commissioner Bow-| commonly known ax “dago red.”| man’s office, to learn the date of bis|/1, aaaition to this 10 sacks of} preliminary hearing. |Iiquor were dug up from the back Joe Mangini, who was arrested yard of the home of Fred Smart, Wednesday afternoon, was released former police sergeant, who was ar- on $1,000 bail set by Comminsioner | rested Tuesday night Bowman Thursday morning. He Another bit of evidence which has was the tenth man arrested in the been uncovered by the federal au-| booze steal probe. thorities is that Patrolman W. F.| ‘The date for the preliminary hear-| Patton, who was arrested early | ing of all those arrested was set for) Tuesday morning, was on the beat) 10 dm. Tuesday, April 29, by Com-| which includes the appraisers’ store: | mise. per Bowman, Thursday morn-| room in its territory, for only two| ing. |nights, and on these nights the With the arrest of Mangini, federal! place was robbed. Patton's regular officials announced they have obtain-| peat ix also in Sergeant Gus Has: ed the complete account of the al-| sejpiad’s district and he was placed leged conspiracy that resulted in the | on the other when Patrolman I. W.| whisky theft.. Mangini lives at 703! arnold was excused from working J. W. Locknane and Dick Russell Hurley Announces Sale of|bery for a few moments and at 1 men met: Patrolman Patton on) disposing of its war-time fleet of | the Was $650,000 for each an open the skylights, fastened a rope Sixth ave. N. | those nights at his own request met at 12:30 4. m. Sunday, March | jo'clock met Sergeant Hasselblad, 15 Vessels beat, whither they had gone in wooden ships. Chairman Hurley | the average of $148 per ton. (CONT'D ON PAGE TWO) | ams | After the two days of the robbery | | Patton went back to his regular | t 8 | According te the aiieged confes: | | |30. in Locknane's garage on Jackson st. The four men debated the rob- where the matter of “protection” | Was dincunned | WASHINGTON, — April (United Press,)—The United | the two automobiles, and Patton and | four went to the storehouse at announced the sdle of 15 wooden| Western ave. and Lenora st. ships to the Naciriene Steamship| then went to the roof of, the store WOODEN SHIPS :.* Ed Hagen, Jimmy Morrison, At 2 o'clock. the confession says, States «hipping board today began pr Patton company, of New York. price house, according to officials, pried veune into it, telescoping the rear coaches. The dead and injured were taken to The report said that only five of the twenty-three men jon board the Freehold were known to have been saved and it was believed that the remainder had been drawn under jent and former member of the United States bureaw jlic information, will answer Mayor Ole Hanson’ jaddress. They will speak at a mass meeting April the auspices of the International Workers’ Defen }posed by the advisory committes puty U. 8. marshals, Mangini was| ;, | Japanese military operations, issued | Munich w and drowned. Le Mans. é Their subject will be “Americanism versus Bols! $5 EACHMONTH (MAYOR RETURNS ASK WILSON TO. WILL BUY BOND Major Seagrave’s Commit- tee Makes New Plan Every worker in Seattle who can set aside $5 a month for nine months may contribute to Uncle Sam's last government loan, ac cording to the latest plans of the toan committee. | This payment plan, which was de,| vised exclusively for the small sal aried investor of Seattle, was pro | Ole Hanson Leaves Soon on Democratic Leaders Assert Loan Tour | He’s Wrecking Party Mayor Ole Hanson will return | Boston, April 17--Prominent dem- to Seattle Saturtay afternoon at | ceratic leaders of Mansachuretis to 4:30, according to a telegram ro = day cabled President Wilson, calling ceived Thursday by Grover (upon him to “remove Burleson” and Conklin, the mayor's secretary. thereby settle the telephone strike. ‘The message stated Mayor Han (The cable followr son left San Francisco Wednes- “Burleson wrecking party. day evening and expected to be | move him and settle strike.” in Portland Friday. | The appeal was signed by Francis On his arrival here Mayor Hangon | Finneran, president of the Masse will go at once to his offices in the | ttory Kearney, Cronin, Callahan, city-county building to jook ever the |Counihan; Representatives Mitchell, work the office has handled while he | Green, Donovan, McKenny, Reardon haw been in Calffornia resting up. | and Malone. Acting Mayor W. D. Lane will re-| Between 18,000 and 20,000 oper: tire, but only for a few 4: for ‘ators and other telephone employes | Mayor Hanson will start his ocean-| were on strike in New England to toocean speaking tour for the Vic: | day tory loan Sunday. At the request of | It was openly predicted in many Secretary of the Treasury Glass, the | quarters that if a settlement is not salaried individual to buy a bond |Council has granted Mayor Hanson |reached within a short time a gen: without imposing a burden on hin|® leave of absence for the Victory |era! strike of all labor in New Eng: Income by large irregular payments, |/0an tour and the mayor will be gone land may be put into effe “The great trouble with previous | Unt! after May 10th / loans was that in order to make way for the succeeding loan, the govern ment was obligated to impowe large payments over short periods of time,” stated Major Louis Seagrave, | executive secretary of the advisory committee. | | peels | | The Victory bond clubs, the! REFUSE T0 JOIN agency thru which the employes of | Se cat be eataleldy: ao uae, vine | Won't Send Delegate to Vic- tory Loan Committee organized by Major Seagrave and his staff. Henry Kyer of Augustine ayer io Saleen | ‘TACOMA, Aprit 17,-Stilt bitter P avery commerc ing organigation °f over the arrest of members of the | prospect of an immediate settlement ve or more empldyes constitutes 5 x ? eee a cluhy Soecial honor |Soldiers’ and Sailors’ eouncit for)and other unions of the telephone placards have been prepared for/ attempting to stage @ benefit tay | Sern eens th Sipe: ra, the sit plants which attain their quota in| day here Aprit in violation ot | Porth aparostnmatety 10,000 operat. the drive and awards of flags and) police orders, the Tacoma Central) ors, cable splicers and inside workers cups will be offered by the state com-|Lanor council Inst night declined | already on strike, the forces out were mittee of the Victory loan in addi|ty send union representatives to| expected to reach a total of 20,000 to- tion. |the Tacoma Victory Loan commit-|day as a result of an ultimatum serv | tee. led on General Manager Driver that | It also refused to have the unions | men in other departments of the com | represented on the soldiors and sail: | jors’ placement committee, pany would walk out this morning. ‘The council further tabled indet l|initely a request for REACH KOREA | of the Northwest I Re in charge of the local Vietory bond | clubs and was indorsed by the Seat: | tle Clearing House association at its recent "neeting. As Plan 3 it has taken its place on the subscription cards and is limited to subscribers of from $5 to $500. It entails a payment of 10 per cent upon subscription and an equal amount will be due at stated inter- vals for nine months. “This system, which is purely lo- cal, will enable almost every small PHONE WALKOUT __ ISINCREASING Expect Total of 20,000 Out in the East ROSTON, April 17.—(United Press.) With the New England telephone trike in ite third day, without any | Local telephone operators are pre- hor support | pared to strike at any moment and jubilee cele-|are only awaiting instructions from | bration in Tacoma Jun to July 6, | international officers at Boston, ac- When representatives of the peace |cording to announcement =m: jubilee were given thé floor to ex-|Thursday by Miss May Duffy, busi | plain {te purpose, that of erecting a| ness agerit of the local telephone op- | memorial to soldiers and satlors, a | erators’ union. | volley of questions was fired at them | ~ aes | by union delegates | SEOUL, Korea, April 14.—(De layed.)-More than 1,600 Japanese troops and a few hundred gendarmes | arrived at Fusan this morning from | Tokio for guard duty in connection | with the Korean uprisings. In add’) perNni tion to these forces, two complete | press.) divisions are en route here from | gent to Japan. | were repo! Lieut. Gen, Asekawa, in charge of | 27,000 men Warn Citizens to Refrain From Meetings What Are You Seeking? Maybe there's a message in the want columns for you to day that is just as vital as though it were addressed to you individually and marked “Personal and Important.” , Sent to Munich April 17.-(By United “tore order in Munich, ed today to number red guards in tal 10,000, a notification to Koreans that the dispatch of troops from Japan is nec: essary 48 a result of. the growing ¥io- \Italians Killed H lence and extent of the rioting by ma- | . . tionallats, He called upon thé bust: | in Demonstration ROME, April 15 (Delayed) ness interests to resume thelr busi: | ness without fear (United Press)—Five persons were Koreans are warned to refrain | killed and several wounded during a from meeting in masa numbers, “lest [socialist demonstration today, ‘Twen the Japanese authorities. be oblige! }ty. etrikes have been declared in| 16 resort to decisive action.” apifien. Bologna, Turin and Gehea, | Like aw not, the very oppor tunity that you seek most in buying, selling, renting, ex changing, securing of employ. || ment or hiring workers is within your easy grasp. | Read the want columns, | HERE SATURDAY: - FIRE: BURLESON:~ DATE OF PEACE: chusette Democratic club; State Sen-| Jessential for resumption gf coal min.| today st jthe Mooney Case” H a MAY 15 MAY BE TACOMA TAG SELLERS ARRAIGNED TACOMA, April 17. Seven of the charged with criminal conspiracy for rye | tay sale on the streets forthe benefit of Soldis Sailors’ council, pleaded not guilty today. before | Chapman, of the superior court. Two of the John L. Johns and Steve P. Burke, have not been and another defendant was not notified to appears: German Delegates Expected to Affix Signatures Soon BY CARL D. GROAT United Pross Correspondent PARIS, April 17—The Ger- mans may be required to sign | PLAN TO SET MOONEY FRE CHICAGO, April 17. Delegates representing nundred thousand workers of Chicago will meet Sat the peace treaty by May 15th, ie |! lar for the carrying out of the program agi % wan: Somiod ta Geel: welberty, 2" the national Mooney labor congress held her today. |January to obtain freedom for Thomas J. Mooney, There was stil! nome difference of |* California prison ‘ opinion among the telegates regurd- rt . _ geese yee ing the advisability of setting a time | DISORDERS. CONTINUE IN INDIA limit. But the majority appeared to | LONDON, Apri! 17.--The Indian office, announe believe the period between April that disorders continue in India. “Armtisar and 26th, when the treaty will be submit-|4"C quiet,” the statement said. “Between. the plas it open rebellion exists. The: military is ted to the German delegates, ana|Seported th ~she- 4) 49 | Myy 15th, would be suMctent for the | 20C® in Calcutta, on April 12, troops | 1 wounding 12 German government to debate all the |" ‘ | ge tease bee a Oa en | MEX IC AN FEDERALS KILL RLANQUET . y co qT’ ' aed p ee limit contended the allies possibly | EXI cITy April 17—-Gen. Aure might not be ready to receive the! | Germans even by April 25th, where- |” lupon the enemy would seek to en | |large any difference in viewpoint still , | existing among the allies and which |‘ LU be y vi Th cu » Germans’ stay in Ver- . ine E ; | CHICAGO, April 17 Three automobile’ bandits 3d With a time limit fixed, the j Duggan, 18, messenger: for the Halst jown James then ry day, and escaped with cash. liberty be required to hurry their work, resulting in some * ‘ estimated to be worth $39,000. dissa Usfac ary steps sters, killir ix Mexico, afternoon, according to disps Jent Carranza has wired\h General . Guadalupe yelock yesterday ed here toda Pres congratulations tc e part) sailles, | allies would ank, here t confusion oe | tien. Delegutes favoring May 15th as the time for acceptance of the treaty | by the enemy pointed out, however, ‘that unless some curb was estab: and possible RALD BIG WHISKY STILL : SPOKANE, April 17.--“Revenoors,” in the shaper sheriff and two deputy assistants, uncovered a mi shed on the Germans consideration | P/aut yesterday Russell creek, east of Wallies of the treaty would be drawn out in: | A. Lennon, late of Kentucky, was. arrested on a @& | definitely, a contingency that would) having liquor in his possession work infinite harm. The invitation to the Germans ap T parently was dispatched before an| ANTS { the belligerents had an opportunity! — TITT to sign it, It is believed to have! in the been taken by courier to’ Spa on | many Tuesday, at which time only the five} cu great powers had signed the text. | received here today Food for Russia - ‘The agreement to supply Russia | with food under supervision of a neu | | tral commission, reached by the allies | yesterday, was expected to go for ward at once, despite objection of the jantl-Bolshevik representatives in Paris, who contend it amounts to j Practical recognition of the soviet! |goverhment. According to unoffictal linformation, the agreement stipu- | lates the Bolsheviki must cease hos tilities on all fronts, President Wilson is reported to be again pressing for lifting of the eco: nomic blockade of Germany. The blockade has been gradually raised against Holland and other neutrals | near Germany, but provision against | TRANSPORT IN WITH 2 ort to the latter country con. | April 17 Wilson is said to take the | : > position that the whole of Hurope with 2,811 should be permitted to return. to} transport work at once, thereby stabilizing economic and social conditions. Allied officials handling the block: | ade have received from Germany a! list of articles which she claims are or . &.. GERMANY, RUSSIA ALLIED HAGUE, April 17.--Count Zu Reventlow, Berlin Tages Zeitung, advocates an alliances and the United States, according He was quoted as saying the countries demand such a step Russia nterests |BOLSHEVIKI ATTACK AT ARCHANGEL LONDON, April 17..-The Bolsheviki have beg smal! attacks on the Archangel front, which are to be preliminary to an offensive, the war office ami | today LOS ANGELES MAYOR ON TRIAL LOS ANGELES, April 17.—A tense court room! first two hours in the trial of Mayor Fred indicted for alleged bribery, today, with by anything nearing the bitter clashes was expected to produce from its outset, 7 the Woodman disturbed the trial 1t MEN The steamship Patricia officers and men of the Winifreidian, with members § uvive tomorrow i here today division ' iS INDEFINITE (7. Cables to the White president's return to the WILSON’ KETURN WASHINGTON, April that the ndefinite by the Echo de Paris that President ¥ leave France April 27 or 23 ited ing and certain other industries, Pro. vision has been made to sell her some surplus supplies of raw materials, | but this list is short Sts report prir was planning was killed by Mexican federal troops near Verte who surprised and killed Blanquet. : Official denial was made of |