The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 21, 1919, Page 1

oer y Tite Seattle TURSDAY APRIL t in tnd Low Tide Pop Lit tnd High Tide LOL pm, 107 te ft VOLUME 22. NO. 82. OCIFEROUS, vehement ‘and voluminous vivas poked a hole im the climate at Third a nd Blanchard st afternoon, Miss Mary Loulse Dreher. when little daughter of Mr. and Mrs, John How ard Dreher, of 1620 Second ave. W climbed Into the whippet tank which 5 whippet around Seattle as a y and remained thy “ but jolted passen ger for half hou while Prt Roy A. Harrison, chauffeur, and Sergt. Hilar tuneh, gunner, made the aforesaid whippet lie down, roll over and jumg the hoop. By so performing, Mary Louise caused vast envy to surge in the bosoms of a con siderable congregation, every’ mem her of which yearned, desired and begeed for 4 chance at the chance of Mary Loutse NCIDENT Louise's t manners perfect, according to When Chauffeur Harrison aimed the whip pet at a frowning hillside, and the trio of passengers began to churn. Mary Louise, who boasts of six proud | years In the world, took a firm grip | en the Bunch starboard shank and | clung thereto with that tenacity | which inevitably must suggest a bull. | dog and a bone. Sometimes Mary Louise's tiny feet left the floor of the whippet, but her baby grip on the | Bunch knee never wavered. Even |} when the tank looped the loop and | went into a tail spin, Mary Louise never faltered, She just clung and coord, and begged for more. Harri son put the tank thru every trick in| its repertoire—and Mary Louise yell-| ed for more! LLY, Mary ONTENT at length with a jolting sufficient to jar a jettwiliard, Mary Loulse called it a day and emerg: | ed from the tank, a trifle| miseast, but utterly undaunted. It was then that Mary Louise—and only | six summers old, mind you—gave ev! dence of the unquenchable faith even « ebild has in the effi of the American fighting man. As she step pet to terra firma from the whippet sothebody asked Mary Louise if she had been frightened while tiding in/ aN TS ANB AES : MUST SERVE An American Paper That Fights for Americanism Seattle Sta ee Becond Class Matter May %, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, ander the Act of Congress March 6, ee ccmaiaienemmnemanatiiahenieananmanandimamantataiaemdeadamaeandthdenatneeianenamtiatieenaiann ainmatieeememmmmaiaaiaeaee SEATTLE Per Your, by Mail, 1978. NIGHT EDITION TWO CENTS IN 45.00 to $9.00 SEATTLE, WASH,, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1919. Weather Forecast: ‘Tonight and showers: gentle sou Tuend: JAPAN IMPRISO MISSIONARY SIX MONTHS | State Department Is Notified of Action of Japanese Authorities \FIX KOREAN PENALTIES Fi i j . ij if 5 | ! S i t & ; | NS i One Year Ago | Today (April 21, 1918) ; Germany prepares to } third spring drive againnt allies, —{ Hurricane of fire pounds allied { line from Lawsigny to the Scarpe t launch | river Americans counter attack against first large German thrust at our lines. | Righth German war loan float. }! ed for $3,000,000,000 | Germany gloats over the vic: / tories won in the first month of her apring drive. | SUBSCRIBE NOW TO THE || VICTORY LIBERTY LOAN }! WHAT YOU WOULD HAVE }| PAID FOR VICTORY THEN. 361ST MEN NOW SPEEDING WEST Wild West Infantrymen Due in Chicago Today OF -ITALIAN (United Press WILSON OUT CONFEREN Withdraws From “Big Four” Discussion of Territorial Claims IS THREATENING, ~_DEFY ITALY BY FRED 5. FERGUSON Staff Correspondent) PARIS, April 21—The “big four” met teday to thresh out retaliate. withdrawal | plebiscite. ag ¥ ; Meet the other members big four” at the conclusion of their morn: ing meeting. Settiement of the Italian claims, which tas occupied the attention of the “Big Four” since Thursday, the radicals. ‘The delegation is expected to leave the tank. Mary Louise drew herself | up proud us a queen left in the Old World. und exclaimed, in perfectly good Ehglish: Frightened? Why I be frightened? Wasn't there faith, as the aviators would say. RUST « soidier 6 hop to the Victory Lean. When the doors of Liberty Loan headquirters opened for traffic Monday morning, a keen-eyed young fellow was right be- hind the opener He was Robert Whyte. who did all he could to put the rollers under the Hun as 4 cor. poral in the U. S. army. Now he'a| a cog in George W. Allen's firm in the Alaska building. “I'm here to} buy the first bond,” quoth Robert! in tones that sounded very much | like business. “Do I get it?” queried | Robert in addition. “You do,” re sponded Mareney, the bond sales-| man. “Very well, then,” pursued) Robert; “give me $500 worth of the best bond in the shop. gor it And Robert} H, MY. but the British wom- an was ail peeved up! She went downtown this morn ing and found what she thought were a lot of French tricolors streaming in the streets as a part of the Victory Loan decorations. She thought it a dread. ful slight that there were no British banners afloat as how Tom mies now in Seattle would be in line in the big parade. The British wom an was so vexed that she spread the unhappy tidings among her British soldier friends. The Tommies sent word to Pliny Allen, publicity man ager of the Victory Loan campaign. | Pliny smoothed matters by explain ing to the hectic telephonists that the alleged tricolor was only broad stripes of Red, White and Blue. No other banners floating in this man’s campaign, Pliny will tell the universe. seein are one off the hickory, the Chauncey Wright Restau rants Co. brought a large ray of sunshine into Vic tory Léan headquarters this morning by purchasing some. 1GHT thing like 300 bonds. The 300 rep- resents every, employe of the com pany, from the hash composer to the man who signs the checks. A representative of the company breezed into headquarters bright and early this morning and announced with the wellknown pardonable pride that their subscription list was batting One Thousand in the Pa trlotic League. Here's a grand young opportunity for 4 smart sales- man to do some more gold mining. OUTHFUL J. Quintus Clem- mer remarked yesterday that he would buy ye humble scribe » bond good for fifty fish, if ye humble | scribe could find anyth the mat ter with his picture Wives of | Men.” J. Quintus loses, By way of} proof. Y. H. &. directs the attention of J. Quintus to his electric sign. One side of it reads, “Wives of Men,” | ‘That is the north side | ga it should of the sign. But the south side? Ah, me That goes to the “eslling” of || ‘Seattle ean. © Any Seattle Bank May 10, Seattle must subscribe $19, erty Loan, Quota for the state is $44,364,2 per cent interest, is tax exempt all other sources, * * Digg You Victory Loan Between § o'clock Monday morning and 5 o'clock in the afternoon, The nation’s quota is $4,500,000,000 The new bonds are four-year notes of two sorts, One, bearing 3% ‘The other bears 4% per cent, exempt from state and local taxes, except estate and inheritanct—tazable from Victory, Loan Bond clubs are being formed in 1,800 Seattle eatab- Mshments by their workers, Each of the clubs, according to the num ber of employes of the organization, will be given a quota. Membership of clubs will number 90,000, it im said. Others can subscribe at any bank or at Victory Loan headquarters. Sell War Bonds Will 000,000 to the Fifth—Victory—Lib- 75. ing Deep * * to Buy Victory Bonds Seattle opened up her pocket- book and began digging down for Uncle Sam's Victory Lean Monday, when the campaign to raise $19,000,000 here to pay war bills started at 8 a. m. to the ac- companiment of screaming ale rens and bursting bombs. The big feature of the opening day in Seattle was the Victory pa rade scheduled to start at First ave. and Lenora st. at 2 p. m ‘Twelve hundred canvassers, armed with subscription lists and assigned to their various districts in the city, headed from Victory Loan head quarters before the echoes of the bombardment subsided. It is ex pected that Seattle will zo over its $19,000,000 quota long before May 10, the closing day for the campaign. | Whistles Wide Open | On the tick of 8% o'clock, every! whistle in the city was yanked open | and with one mighty blast an nounced the hour for the start of Seattle's drive. “At the same time, a barrage of bombs was laid down on surrounding hillsides, and over the city others burst. ‘The first official announcement to be made following the opening of the drive was that 13 Vietory bond clubs have already exceeded their quotas and filed their returns. Maj. that is different—much. The south side of the sign reads as follows, | to wit, viz: “Wives of MAN.” Yel humble scribe suggests that, J, Quin | tus donate the fifty-tish bond to the nearest doughboy bearing a wound chevron urday. ( ‘To aid in the loan campaign here, 000-ton liners for the American run. by the transportation bureau of Louls H, Seagrave, executive sec retary of the committee in charge of the clubs had secured their al- jotted subscriptions Friday and Sat- the battleship Oregon steamed into port shortly after 10 o'clock Mon- day morning, and a battalion of marines was sent ashore. The his- toric old fighting ship will be open to visitors Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning and afternoon. Perhaps the biggest event of the day will be the loan parade this afternoon, when it 10,000 soldiers, sailors and marines will fall into march behind the bat- tlencarred little whippet tank. School children, city organizations and loan officials and workers also will form a part of the big proces sion. Line of Parade ‘ Assembly for the. parade will be gin at 1:40 p. m. and shortly after 2 o'clock the marchers will start from First ave. and Lenora st. The line of march will be down First ave. to James st., up James to Sec- ond ave. and out Second ave. to Lenora st.,, where the parade will disband The Victory Loan clubs will have (CONT'D ON’ PAGE FOURTREN) Oriental Ship Line a to Spend Millions TOKIO, April 18,—(Delayed.)~+~By United Press.)—Nippon Yusen Kaisha Wapan Mail, Steamship company), proposes, it was learned today, to spend 190,000,000 yen ($95,000,000) during the next three years in an ‘The program will include three 20, is expected | Hi ; ith Hs Be yen : i | ii f U 3 i GE LEVELS TO STAY HIGH Declares. Director Gen- eral of Rails Hines |So ‘This was the message brought to ttle Monday by Walker, D. Hines | Uncle Sam's chief railroad boss, who spent a busy day here, confer- jring with union rail | road officials, and finally speaking at @ luncheon noon, at the Rai- nier club. He also talked to the Chamber of Commerce transporta- {don bureau. “If there is « tendency to assume that all the pigh costs of the ruail- roads are due to government con- trol, the public is deceiving itself in the most unfortunate way about the problem that confronts it,” he said, at the Rainier clug. “Federal cot trol of railroads is a fact. The high costs of railroad operation are facts. If the public led into confusion on this point, it is going to provide a scheme of regulation which will fall far short.” “It is of highest importance to this country for all time, to adopt some | plan ‘of permanent solution which will preserve the initiative of private railroad management. A plan of complete government control as a Permanent thing is not a plan that will meet the expectations and needs of the country Director Hines asserted new cap ital must be brought into railroad enterprises, and favored a system placing governmént rate officials on the directing boards of the roads, with a guaranteed return on the in- He declared it is impos- ing back the low pre-war costs, as “the war has made ‘changes in railroad regulation that will last beyond our lives.” He opposed the old interstate com- merce comminsion plan of rate reg- ulation, and #ald a few big railroad systems, prosperous enough to bring in new capital and development, would be better than many small roads, some of which are “ ” Director Hines consulted with a which threatens to tie up the waterfront. He then called Mayor Hanson at the mayor's and, ot 1280 delivered an a luncheon given in the uit ity! i aH ‘| UST Ml ; = of the Bremerton navy yard, and his staff. aly Parliament ROME, April 20.—(Delayed.}—(By United Press,)—Opening of the Ital- jan parliament has been postponed to May 6, it was announced today. “The Italian parliament was orig- inally scheduled to meet tomorrow, at*which’ timé Premier Orlando was to report on progress of peace ne- gotiations. Chamber of Commerce and Commer. cial Club. After arriving here Sunday, Hines addressed a meeting of railroad em- ployes at the Masonic club rooms, in the Arcade building, and was then accompanied on a tour of local term- inals by L. C. Gilman, district direc- tor. He intends to leave for Tacoma ‘TO IMPROVE ON i ‘|at Brest, ready for « quick trip, if Necessary. *| great numbers of soldiers anxious to "| to keep the big | mass meeting today. to their ‘Ther “eeparate” pence. destinies Rave been met counter threat |Who bave to exert economic pressure on Italy |from those by cutting off her credits, food and} Policy wo coal. t Wi Yesterday's session brought the conferees no nearer to a settlement, both aides etaunchly maintaining their previous position —- Wilson i ii i li | | : ; i i i [ i fF i i ; The liner, it was said, will be sent | TF. home loaded with troops. Her escort, m the dreadnought Arizona, will remain | “## reported to have been in. control of the soldiers: and workmen's coun- |, which ‘refused to recognize el- ther the socialistic government or the Bolshevistic faction. 3 Mayor Woodman | : ‘en Trial in South ANGELES, Cal, April 21.—- The president, impressed by the get home, determined it was best not hip idle Eastern Tel Strike Press.)}—-The strike hyn vt telephone operators ended today, @bllowing rati-| pe told ‘in Su} fieation of a plan of settlement | court foday. wre reached in a conference last night of The reading of union leaders, government and tele-| 4 statement of phone companies’ officials. trict attorney were The wage increases granted the | ings, employes will be made known at a TS . A Nippon to Build 21 ‘The agreement is to restore to the employes the right of collective bargaining. Teary Weather Due With Gentle Winds ships, two battle cruisers, two cruls- Victory Loan weather will resem.| ers, eight destroyers and seven sub- ble the stuff which babbles under | marines. Orticial Prognosiicator. “That “is |IN, Y. Marine Men Are Back at Work opines the O. 0. P., it very prob. ably will be “fair tonight and Tues. jowery upholater:| NEW YORK, April 21.—Striking ing. Those ‘gentle = southerly | harbor workers returned to their winds” most’ likely will spill the! jobs today, following a compromise shad roe for Seattle's/ agreement reached between unio The breezone which is| officials and the employers. A com: about to arrive from the South is promise prpvides.a tem-hour day and ‘bound to bring plain, ordinary rain. arbitration on the wage question. HUN CABINET - REPORTED 10 BY FRANK J. TAYLOR ; (United Press Staff Correspondent) BERLIN, April 21.—The German gov |was reported today to have decided not to accept & | peace treaty—without waiting to learn the term Both the cabinet and the foreign office are opem defiant, figuring the allies are not in a position 1 The radicals are demanding acceptance of any submitted by the allies, but the cabinet now declares decision rests with the national assembly and not The general opinion prevails today that the gover has deliberately misrepresented the allied invitation'to ‘>| sailles, hoping to provoke a crisis that will enable the ; ernment to blame the allies if the cabinet is overtl i i AH i é z TERI ij 4] department is located in BARTELL’S STORE, 610 Second avenue. Com left here up to 10:46 7 a. m. will insure insem — tion in regular afternoon and following morning edition. ;