The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 22, 1919, Page 11

7 U.S. BACKS Stand at Paris Is Approved by Senatorial Leaders BY ROBERT J. BENDER United Press Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 25.— Support by former Pres. Taft and senatorial leaders of Prest dent Wilson's dramatic stand against territorial annexations by Italy, convinced officials here today that America Is behind the : president in his fight at Paris. : His Fiume statement and official announcement here lag night of his ) “positive and unqualified denial” of ; | reports of a secret defensive alliance were pointed to by officials as indi-| cations that the president's stand on secret treaties will persist to the end. Relief that Italy and Japan may join forces in the conference, in view of the similarity of their Interests— both based on secret engagements entered into during the war--was strong here today Same for Japan Officials are certain, however, that the president will assume the same _ conference, according to diplomats here. Both have counted strongly on support of Great Britain particu Marly. The grievances of both now they felt they were discriminated against. It was declared today that Ttaly has always felt that her colon. Progress in Africa has been lim by other powers. Her spokes. here pointed to Italy's failure in to obtain territorial concessions China, tho similar demands were Germany, Great Britain, and Russia. pan and Italy were both losers ‘fm China in the ‘90s, Japan being eompelied by the powers to withdraw from the Liao Tung peninsula after her victorious war with China. result of pique of both today, LSON CALLS FOR SHOWDOWN Will Sign No Peace in Con- flict With “14 Points” BY CARL D. D. GROAT (United Press Staff Correspondent) PARIS, April 25. — America will sign no peace that conflicts with the “14 points.” This deo laration is repeated on the high- , Wilson is relying on the people P of the world to support him in his stand that only such a peace can endure. The president's statement regard. | ing Fiume is now interpreted as galling for a general “showdown.” | Its scope was far broader than the Italian situation. It includes Japan's claims to the Shantung peninsula. In fact, it covers any remaining ideas allied statesmen may enter: F tain, going beyond the articles sub- seribed to in the armistice, And, further, German delegates’ arrival, it is clear indication that the presiden interpretation of the “14 ‘pointa”— | fet the Germans'-—will prevail in | the final peace settlement. e Wednesday's mandate, according | to those close to the president, what he had determined on from } (Start of the negotiations, but which | ; ‘ allied statesmen found it 4 difficult to realize he actually in- tended to demand—a just peace. From now on, it is declared, President is counting on public opinion to force complete adherence fo the principles enunciated by America The common people of| the world are parties in the peace| tonference. Their will, he believes, Will decide the tesue BELIEVE ITALY WILL GIVE IN British Think Withdrawal Is Not Permanent LL, MELLETT (United Press Staff Correspondent) PARIS, April 25.—British peace delegates today refused to regard the Italians’ withdrawal from the peace conference as permanent. They declared that, aside from all Other consideration, Italy's economic and financial position would not per- mit such a step, The British posi- tion, as previously stated, is that the pact of London will stand, if Italy Insists, but that the treaty does not give Fiume to italy, @ate back to other occasions when | coming on the eve of the} was| the | the) | MEXICO ORDERS STOP TO FOREIGN “ CARRANZA SAYS REBELS RECEIVE OUTSIDE AID. SE ett Raiitalnieehe aananael The Seattle Sta SATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, APRIL ee 25, 1919. Section Two GRAB” SCHEMES Carranza and Com pany—Mexico’s Official Family | attitude toward the Japanese claims | in China as he has toward the Adri atic objectives of Italy, if it comes to a showdown. Both Italy and Japan feel that they have been ignored in the peace tor Rouaix; Gen. Juan Jose Rios, President Venustiano Carranza, presiding over official family in national palace. Manuel Aguirre Berlanga, secretary of gobernacion and chief of cabinet; at Carranza’s left Candido Aguilar, secrgtai Manuel G, Guiterrez, sub-secretary of communications; Gen. Amando Aguirre, official major of secretary of fomento, Pas- sub-secretary of war; Gerzian Ugarte, former private secretary to the president; secretary of commerce and industry. the table, left to right: hacienda; Alberto J. Pani, Grants Interview to Star Reporter ca | } exr2z"-armza ITALIANS SHOUT AGAINST WILSON Cheer America, nounce President BY CAMILLO CIANFARRA (United Press Staff Correspondent) ROME, April 26 day in wild anti-Wilson demonstra tions thruout Italy. A strange division of sentiment at tended most of the demonstrations, the crowds cheering America but de |nouncing her president. The people | were particularly demonstrative in Turin, Gena, Bologna and Milan, |where crowds marched thru the | streets, shouting “Hurrah for Amer- lica! Down with Wilso | Political speakerg harangued the throngs, demanding that the govern- ment refuse to recede from its stand | for annefation of Fiume and Dalma- tia, The speeches were constantly interrupted by storms of approving | shouts and cheers. | A great reception fs planned for Premier Orlando, news of whose de- | parture from Paris was recelved here | late last night Tumulty Invites ae War Investigation PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 25.—- (United Press.)—Presidential Secre- tary Tumulty has invited a republi- can investigation of the conduct of | the war. Speaking at the banquet of the Jef. | ferson club here last night, Tumulty characterized the republican party ag having an appetite, but without principle. “T my to all republicans.” Tu- multy said, “start your investiga- tions. You will not find dishonesty. You will not find graft. You may find some waste, but you will not find the terrible things that prosti- uted wars in the past.” Don't get the idea that distance lends enchantment to man's view of pay day. thousands of persons participated to- | jean position, that America | ten times as much captured tonnage as Great Britain, if each nation kept [its own seizures. Vance but De-| Baruch. «! Representa Carter, |tory bonds, | ready money. fied New mont, $3,385,000; and Massachusetts, $40,116,000, Ukrainian He is seated ME aa in center at left of table. At his right Rafael Nieto, PRESIDENT CARRANZA’S OFFICIAL RECORD What He Faced: Industrial and political chaos, National debt piling up, with accrued interest unpaid and threat- ening to compound. Over 560,000,000 pesos in Carranzista paper money to be reck- ened with, Mexico practically bankrupt, not producing, most of the big indus. tries in the hands of foreigners, national credit gone, civil administra- tion disrupted, and no metallic coin in circulation. Schools gone to ruin; land in the hands of a comparative few; nearly everybody dodging taxes, and land taxes, which should have been the biggest item of national income, not paying more than 3 per cent of the total revenue. Foreign opposition to his administration; depredations of rebel and outlaw bands; the expense of maintaining » huge army and bitter rivalry between some of his most powerful leaders. What He’s Done: Reclaimed for the people land grants totaling 37,500,000 acres, to ~ be divided into small farms and sold a¢ small cost, on long-term pay- ments. Entirely restored to civil administration 21 of the 28 Mexican states and converted the army from conscripts to well paid volunteers. Eneouraged organization of workmen, increased wages, shortened hours, regulated strikes, promoted sanitary conditions, bettered living conditions, introduced scientific agriculture. Appointed a commission to settle foreign and domestic revolution- ary damage claims, extended the telegraph, restored railway and ex- prees service, and Introduced employes’ accident insurance. Has made education compulsory and guaranteed freedom of specch and press. Planned several gigaittic agrarian, irrigation and railway projects; invited investment of foreign capital; eliminated some of the worst grafters from his own government and army; increased the national income to 150,000,000 pesos, and announced preparation to begin pay- ing defaulted interest on the national debt, U.S, MAY LOSE SEIZED SHIPS Full Value of Hun Vessels | PARIS, April 26. merchant ships she seized, if the ma- jority report. of the reparations com mittee three.” is confirmed by report, and A minority MeCormick In protesting against the would receive Girl Sells Ring to Buy “V Bonds” -Misa Daisy at the local tele- phone exchange, wanted to buy Vic but did not have the| BEND, Or., operator April 25. Her desire to help the sparkler, reall off BOSTON, April 26,—(United |—New England has subscribed ap: | proximately $61,075,000, or about one- sixth of her quota, Loan, | public yesterday. | that Maine had subscribed $1,810,000; $1,700,000; according to figures Hampshire, $2,196,000; Connecticut, Rhode UKRAINE REBEL ARMY CAPTURED KIEV COPENHAGEN, April insurgents have Mention of the capture was made taxes applicable to the incames of| Lucas of the Hotel New Richmond presided, by the Ukrainian press bureau. . 9h iaehbit America will not recelve the full value of German | the nigned Bernard |a few guests, who were in the lobby America all the ships. to the upper floors of the hotel tives of the other associ téllowea them upstairs, lated powers recommend placing all| Miss Wilson, who rooms there, but|or I'll shoot you with mine.” | the ships in a big pool for distribu: | tion among the allies, the British point out her govern: |ment was greater than her wish to| retain her diamond ring, go she raf- | pd $200 i thereby, and invested the amount in bonds to help pay the cost of beating | |the Huns. |New England Sixth ‘Up on Loan Quota in the Victory Figures showed $11,869,000, 26,—The | PORTLAND, ‘Shoots Rival; Disarms Officer; Kills Himself HIT PROFITEERS : Ore, April After shooting and killing John L Committee Decides Against) Goddell, his rival for the love of Miss |being compelled to hold up his | Bessie Wilson, A. B. Foster disarm: €d a policeman, threatened to shoot |a stranger on the street becaune the | dying. }at the “big | confron' | this, morning. by | volver, in keeping | elsewhere last night with the policy of giving France and | probably accounts for the fact she | volver and shot himself once. Belgium the first call on indemni 26.—Hundreda of | ties Amert nightly about | Returni | Victory Pre! **) | snterent made | scribers | interest Ver. | buyers Island, 3% per man's” CITY recap: than WASHINGTON, ed Press.)—Eighty per cent of the| the treasury department today notes with an interest rate of 3%) per cent are finding few. purchasers, Subscribers for notes of the lower | Sismone Franklin, organization. less a buyer of government securt- | ties could afford to absorb the low tured Kieff from the Bolsheviks, ac: | interest notes in quantities upward cording to a dispatch from Stanis- laus to Berlin, received today, of $500,000, sufficient stranger wouldn't murder him, and then finally shot himself. He is now |. 19, who was night clerk Angela hotel, was suddenty ted by Foster, 35, at 3 o'clock Brandishing his re- Foster drove the clerk and | He looking for ho haf stayed with a girl friend | That she did jis alive today Officer George Rainey, making his | rounds, entered the hotel and found no one in the lobby or office ing from upstairs, Foster un | expectedly confronted the policeman HIGH INTEREST. ASIATICS WILL BONDS SELLING FIGHT BOLSHES |4 3-4 Per Cent Rate Proves| Student Association Has Its. Attractive April 25.—(Unit loan buyers are taking | | notes bearing 4% per cent interest, tnewly formed Asiatic Students’ asso- |according to unofficial estimates at leaition will be a force against the The rate, however, are buying | large quantities, the figures show. The war loan officials pointed out |that the tremendous number of sub- for notes of the higher rate, as compared with of 3% per cent notes, gave |watisfactory evidence of a wide dis |tribution and that @ stable market price for the notes appears likely, The lower interest rate mak the cent notes distinetly a “rich bond, according to Louis B. directtor of the war loan He declared that un- the difference is more to offset federal |most holders of the notew Bd tah ion st dit of foreign relations. Across secretary of ~ OIL INTERESTS 10 LOSE Bs MONOPOLY HE DECLARES | “While I Am Here I Will Fight forMexie | co,” Says “Grand Old Man” Mexico and Who Has Just Spent | for The Star.) (Copyright, | spite fences. vasion; against oil controversy hurdle it to With that constantly in mind, have spent four months beyond the | border to write for The Star the un. biased and uncensored truth about | | mysterious Mexico today. I have talked with Carranza and his cabinet. With peon and don. With governors, generals, oil oper- jators and skulking rebels; ranchers business men and gathering facts, impressions and con. is looked during the war, and now of «greater importance than ever before to every American First of all: Venustiano Car- ranza, the president. THE REAL CARRANZA To understand what Mexico is doing and is likely to do, it is necessary to know “the Old Man,” active head of Carranza and company, representing some 16,000,000 people who are our oldest tho most aloof neighbors. Three times I have seen and talk- ed with him. First as a soldier during the Ma- |dero revolution, walking aimost un- noticed about a camp—a tall, erect, | quiet man, Again in the “Desert of Lions,” heavily guarded, at a pri- vate picnic, to which I accompanied | his official party. The third time, a |few days ago, in the presidential | chamber where he talked to me free- ly and frankly about Mexico's recon- struction, acute questions affecting] -;with a revolver and the later was caught without a chance to draw, Farmers Urge. Congress DEMAND LAW TO | his country and ours, of disquieting internal affairs. In the ante-room oil kings, gov- ernors, generals and workingmen, all waiting for a word with Carranza, were endeavoring to be ‘‘simpatico” a term gompounding politeness and good-fellowship that speaks vol- | umes in an understanding of Mexico. to }JAZZING UP MEXICO | hands. | Night Clerk Goddell returned to! Smash Rent Hogs From the courtyard rose the the lobby, thinking Foster had dis strains of a Yankee jazz-step. It appeared, He was compelled to dis NEW YORK, April 25.—(United was suggestive of what Mexico's arm the officer. Foster then sud- Press.)-—-Prompt passage of legisia-| president is doing for his nation |denly fired on Goddell without any tion by congress at the coming ses-| —jagzzing the country from sloth warning, killing him instantly. He sion to combat rent profiteering was| to energy; converting peons into marched Policernan Rainey outside |demanded today by the Farmers’ Na-| scientific farmers and skilled and for a block along the street un- | tional Single Tax league, in an open| workmen; making merchants, til they met a stranger, Edward Ger. letter to both ¢ manufacturers and professional | wie. Cummings, of men of the sons of the idle rich. Foster turned over the policeman’s | democratic committees, He talked to me about oil, Mexi- gun to Gerwig and said The league declared that the prev-| co's point of sharpest conflict with | “You shoot me with this cop's gunjalence of rent profiteering has so | the powers, of education, economics, outraged the people in large cities jrevolution and politics, Gerwig remonstrated and Foster | that they are demanding relief, and | “Next year,” he said, “is my | tinanly grabbed back the officer's re- | that if this relief is not forthcoming | last in the presidential chair,” ‘The | they will make it an issue at the| explaining that he would not | bullet did not mortally wound him.|coming election, Support of the| splinter the first plank in his | “Say, officer, you've got a bum | leading farm organizations of the} revolutionary platform by ac- gun,” sald Foster. “I'll try mine.” | country js assured to any political! cepting an extension of tenure. Two shots from his own revolver step taken in this campaign, the let-| “While I am here, I will fight caused Foster to tumble onto the | ter states for Mexico. wan | pa ement, fatally wounded, oe as “We only want what is right- —|y, P. M H fully ours,” he said, referrifig to | organ riouse the oil controversy og here 4 round the world. “The | Keeper Buys Hotel longs to Mexico. Every foreign | NEW YORK, April 25.—Mme. Car-| oil interest in the country has Members in Three Lands estate for the property. Mme. oline Genet has bought the Clarendon, Genet was born in Switzer- already taken out of the ground more money than it has ex- a 10-story apartment hotel on tie pended. northwest corner of Park ave, and “We must and intend to break 58th st., of which she has been the] oil monopoly in Mexico. lessee for the last eight years. She “If congress amends or | paid $400,000 to the David H. King| changes the proposed oil law, I will not object as long as it is constitutional and does not con- , (Special to The Star by N, Er A.) |land in 1866, In 1880 she was ma Nict with the best interests of all TOKIO, April 25,—Tbo declaring |Tied to’ Paul Genet. After his death| the people.” the | "he was housekeeper for the family | FOREIGNERS SCRAMBLE EGGS its organization is not politi 8 organization is not political, of the late J. F. started the boarding house in 28rd Eggs $1.50 a Dozen spread of Bolshevism. | At the organization meeting in this city, 1,600 Japanese, Chinese and were present, Count Okuma and presidents and professors from various colleges and universities were | there to give the association their | approval. Plans are being made to extend the Anchorage, virtually all sugar in | stores has been sold out, and Ii | butter remains, due to a tie-up of | government railroad and the nec siply the cultivation of closer union tween Asiatics,” but the character | |of its membership makes it a force |to be used against extreme radicalism, Atlantic F light ST. JOHNS, N. F, GREETERS PICK DELEGATES | woather conditions were conside Delegates to represent the Seattle | too uncertain for the start of Greeters at a national convention of | transatlantic flight. hotel clerks in Portland, June 24 to 27 inclusive, were elected last] 59 ee a night at the Hotel Savoy, Louis ink of The Star. Morgan, and liter if There Are Any CORDOVA, Alaska, April 26.—-Eggs: five been selling for $1,50 a dozen in | o' organization among professional and/ sity of transporting supplies from student classes thruout the Asiatic| seward partly by train and partly world, Its aims, it is asserted, are | dog teams. Same Old Story April 25.—~ | When “ think of advertising, | Foreign interests, he told me, had said and done things which might lead to serious consequences, “But,” he continued, “we trust the sound judgment of the American people.” He declared rebels were today re- ceiving aid from foreign sources, aid without which scattering revolt would immediately collapse, and which was one big obstacle toward better foreign relations. SPEAKING OF A_ SUCCESSOR, CARRANZA ASSURED ME THAT HE WOULD THROW HIS MORAL SUPPORT TO NO ONE .CANDI- DATE AGAINST ANY OTHER IN NEXT YEAR'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, “You have studied us,” he said as I was leaving. “You know some- thing about . u IT hope you will write the tréth—for truth only is a firm basis for international under- standing and amity." Carranza is today the real pilot of Mexico—let no one mistake that. And his “Company,” the people of 21 of the 28 states now under civil government, as well as most of st. the ttle the ce8- by red the BY JACK NEVILLE (American Newspaperman and Investigator Who Has Lived for Yi 1919, Newspaper Enterprise Assn.) | MEXICO CITY, April 25.—Along the Rio Grande exe | {tends one of the world’s oldest, ugliest and most i : Across it the United States and Mexico look askance; thru it Villa éame raging; be- yond it Pershing took the trail of retribu- tion; over it Zimmerman tried to launch in- it revolutions have come crashing, while today rumors of Japanese land grants and echoes of the international ington and the peace conferees. | | | Mutual understanding only can level this barrier of misunderstanding—and America | has no bigger immediate foreign problem. [Weve ii | I|{ those in the other states, are | telling it corroborated my fidences suppressed, colored or over-) ‘AERO SQUADR OT fo Four Months There on Special Detail — if disquiet Wash- ing and following his 4 | leadewahip 1 came to interview him only af months of sizing him up by ministrative acts, thru i gathered from heart to hide of M feo, from friend and enemy; what he told me and his impressions of him. Every one concedes his esty. Under his regime, Mextee 8 taken the up-grade, and tions are rapidly that Any pro-Germanism hare exited oe And without any doubt, borer unchecked foreign ex] Mexicans and their sources is definitely p suredly as far as Carranza and ¢ pany are concerned. MEN SAIL SO War Department Annound Transport Schedules WASHINGTON, April ed Press.)—Transport sailings announéed today by the war ¢ partment as follows: Battleship Vermont, Brest Newport News due May 4 53rd pioneer infantry, field staff headquarters company, cal detachment, companies Ay and C; casual company 827, seal tered; company F and det of company E, 114th engineers Battleship New Hampshire, to Newport News, no date with’ 53rd pioneer infantry, company medical detachment, ond battalion headquarters, panies D, E, F and G; hospital No. 14, Aerial Men Returning Transport Caserta, Marseilles New York, due May 3 with company, transportation ¢ 658th aero squadron; casual panies Nos, 3901, colored, scat! $920, signal corps; 394 tillery; 3948, Colorado; 3951, : tered colored; special casual come). panies Nos, 3955, discharges; 39661 furloughs; 3958, discharges; discharges; 3960, furloughs; colored, dischar; St. Nazaire to gh ‘s. Transport Maul, New York, due May 3 with head= quarters 55th infantry brigade; 109th infantry; regimental 2 quarters, headquarters first b jon, sanitary detachment first talion, headqkarters and detachments; machine gun panies A, B_ C, D, EB, F, G, By and L, detachment 110th infants ‘Transport Sewall Point, Paull to Newport News), no date, ‘. with casual detachment of ten mem, Sail From Bordeaux ie Transport Sewall Point (Pauill deaux to New York, due Ap with 82nd division detachment headquarters and headq troops, detachment 307th veterinary section; 307th train h quarters, headquarters detach 335th battalion, tank corps plete; 336th. battalion, tank complete; 379th, 380th and training and replacement panies tank corps; ev: hospital No, 33; cement mill coms panies Nos. 2 and 6; ordnance cas= ual company No, 14; casual pany A, tank corps; casual pany 528, Cruiser Frederick, Brest to York, due May 4 with 119th artillery complete; — panies Nos. 3848) Mentucky; Missouri; 3980, Montana; Michigal 2422, Ohio; casual company 877, 464th aero squadron, When a man is up and much depends on what or whom is doing.