The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 23, 1919, Page 1

HIN going to pay. Seattle THURSDAY APRIL 84 Ist Low Tide 18am tft igh ‘Tide m #2 tt Tides in wr DAY APRIL , Ist Low Tide Slam. aoe } h Tide Sada, art) Bet 10:58 Uwe Tite a cathe Lt ted High tee Wy pm wea tt | tnd Low Tide 6:89 pm, 22 ft per cent per month for Victory Bonds. — of the years these boys of ours who have come back blind, armless, or legless, are Then think of the little YOU are asked to pay, ten per cent down and ten YOU pay only ten months. An American Paper That Fights for Americanism Kintered as Second Ol ws Matter May & 1899, wt the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash, under the Act of Congress March # The Seattle Star |’ 1879. They pay a lifetime. LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE ear, by Ma VOLU ME F AMOUS FLYING CIRCU S ARRIVES TO GIVE VICTORY LOAN THRILLS | )ITALY TURNED DOWN FLAT} ; N WALKED a son of Scan-| dia, He carried hands like | j hams, his neckband was considerably larger than his hatband, but his heart was In the right place. Still the son of Scandia was in the wrong place F As he lumbered into Victory Loan | ‘ 4 headquarters after lamping the sign | outside, the won of Scandia approach ed Mrs. Bertha Collier, the informa- tion clerk, and, in husky tones, yelled askingly: DW ay skole ask, ay wane} money for may diamonds Mrs. Collier gulped prettily and as diplomatically she could engineer {t, ex-| plained to the son of Scandia that the Victory Loan office was not a| j pawn shop. The son of Scandia Up for Action | Dlushed a brick red, backed up like & seven-ton truck, stepped on a few! 11 BIG MACHINES HERE toes, bounced off a couple of majors, | one lieutenant and two sergeants, | a pus \Trees Are Removed From Course; Machines Tuned Eleven plancs—motors _pur- ring and their pilots rigged to | me | tate the sir—stand ts tine on | , Jefferson park golf course, LY, th | ILY, the tribe of Allen ts fy to cone. shove the city ricocheting into Second ave., aled man strong in this Victory Loan fracasing for the when the final signal ts given | elusive dollars, First,| *Y Maj. Cart Spats. ‘This afternoon Seattle will witness the greatest demonstration of Amer- fca’s prowess in the air, when the| Victory Loan Alr Circus puts on its there is George W. Allen, state campaign manager. He's the same Allen who put the jazz in our ea ear dies vcniaeey ice: | DE show under the blue tent of the tor for Seattle. Then there is Piiny’s | ““Y brother George. It gets a stranger all dizzied up keeping track of the different Aliens. All of them are hit- ting the ball all the time. Carry No Passengers Because of the size of the field and surrounding trees, no passengers will be carried: by the Yankee aces and other flyers on any of their as- VERY time John Henry Ly- » Ons, proprietor of stentor- citizens, who had their hearts set on & rife above the city, will be disap pointed. The planes will go over the city at an altitude of from 3,000 to 5,000 feet, and they can be witnessed from almost any point in the downtown district. naire, walks Into Victory ‘Lean headquarters, the bulding shiv- ers and sags. John Henry weighs ‘elose to an eighth of a ton, and every | ounce spells enthusiasm. John | Henry's main object in life from this day and date until May 10 i# to per: suade reluctant currency clinchers to place their John Henrys on the dotted line, thank you. To Stage Battle Following a formation flight of all planes, a reproduction of an air bat. tle over the lines In France will be | staged, and the closing number will |be stunt formation, in which four ships will fly in formation and do the same stunts simultaneously. a ae ee ot ed | Everything was in readiness at Spatz’s flying circus acrobats. ut! Jefferson Park golf links for the : a sudden Sieees which ngewe hged (rn “hop off” before the whistles 4 | mother recently cause | | give up his anticipated cloud cruise ay copssma cha ecanaee On ai 7 m9 os Pagel og Saag toned (Om ave. in line for the start of the » os taplinome roridee in sight to buy an| Victory Loan alr circus at 1:30 ¥ lo’elock, stood the Curtiss, Spad and ‘ALWELL, JOSEPH A../ was a sad man today. As/ state chairman of the Vie tory Lean drive, Joseph had his heart set on cleav extra bond. | Fokker planes, wings spread and motors tuned LP your bonnet to Bili Ladd. | yom the circus special in the chairman of the industrial | division ‘of the Victory | Loan committee for King county. Bill modestly ad mits that his division raised 5,000,000 cartwheels during the Fourth Lib- erty Loan drive. He insists that the boys who toil will make that figure shiver if a lot of cooks do not horn in and tell him exactly how the broth should be brewed. Enough has been ejaculated. | ——$<$—<<—<_— | HUNGARY FEARS MONTENEGRINS, RUMANIA ENTRY, SERBS UNITE LONDON, April — wnitea!Report Kingdom of Monte- Press.)}—Confligting reports contin negro Ceases to Exist ued to be received today regarding | LONDON, April 23, — (United the situation in Hungary. A diw patch from Berlin said that informa-| progs.}—A dispatch from News from tion brought from Vienna by alr-| podgoritza (38 miles north of Scu- plane showed the soviet government| tart), reported that the kingdom of had been overthrown and that the | Montenegro ceased to exist Sunday, Rumanians had een advancing on| When the national assembly trans- ferred power to the Serbian gov- the whole front. The latest news di-| rect from Budapest dated Monday |etnor, completing the union of Mon- tenegro and Serbia. said there were no disorders, but Reports concerning the union of Montenegro and Serbia, as part of the new Jugo-Slav empire, have shown a wide variance, The Serbs \claim the majority of the Montene- | grins favor the union. Montenegrin | representatives, however, contend ltheir national assembly has been packed with proSerbians and that Northern Pacific yards on King st., the fuselages of the ships were towed behind big motor trucks to) the golf course. Wing sections and flippers, “sticks” — tha aviation parlance for propellere—and spare parts were hauled to the field in lother trucks and the corps of more than 60 mechanics and riggers be (CONT'D ON PAGE TWO) | 23, , thatthe situation was alarming and @ collapse imminent Ask Veterans to March for 91st Ninety-firet division men in Se. attle who € “dl wounded or casuals, are canted ty || t0®, Montenesrin people wish to con als, are ci 0 take part tn the parade next sat. J| "Ue thelr kingdom as urday morning when Seattle will || welcome returned Wild Western: 1/Communists Attempt ers, is call was issued || Wednesday morning. |Control of Bremen The veterans will report to | AMSTERDAM, April 23.—(United Lieut. C. H. Paul, former 91st || press.-——Communists have establish- P ed martial law in Bremen, according to dispatches from that city today. officer, at 915 Hoge building, in charge of casuais; or American Legion of Liberty, All shops, restaurants, theatres Lieut. Norman Coles, Soldiers || and churches are closed and street and Sailors’ ,club, cars are stopped between 6 p.m, and American® Veterans of Great ||¢ 4, m., during which perfod the pub- War, G. EB. Krise, 1616% 24 ave. || lic is, not allowed on the streets, Pri Veterans of Foreign Wars, || vate use of telephones and tele : John Resch, 1616% 34 ave, graphs is forbidden. Only one mail Details of where casuals will || is allowed daily and this Ix censored form will be furnished. ‘The middle classes are striking in protest. _ Se SEATTL E, WASH., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2 , 1919. Thursday cecasion southeasterly wind Tonight rain rain; m Yank Air Pilots All Ready to Thrill Seattle With “Circus” Stunts Upper photo: Unloading a “Jennie 4”—Curtiss INA ‘training type plane: engineer officer with the “Flying Circus” and the officer who lated” ul when his propeller flew to pieces. Lower righ‘ Bulldog tails are his luck sign. DIVER TO SEEK Seattle Has $17,000,000 BODY OF GIRL Sheriff Will Send Man to Lake Bottom A diver will go down into Lake Washington to look for the body of Eva Apple, the 24- year-old Spokane girl who dis appeared from the home of Mrs. S. D. Clausen at 2 a, m. Tuesday, Sheriff Stringer, when the deputies dragging the lake failed to find the body of the girl, announced Wednesday he would have a diver continue the search. Sheriff Stringer said it might be possible to have the diver descend before night Miss Apple, who came over from Spokane Sunday, is a sister of Ruth Apple, nurse in the Swedish hos pital. She had been fll for some time and was near @ nervous break- down at the time of her disap pearance. Bloodhounds from the sheriff's office traced her steps to the edge of the lake. Efforts to re cover the body by dragging the lake Tuesday were fruitless. Word was received from Spokane that the Apple girl had been mise- | ¢, ing from her home there for sev. eral days, Gus Apple, the girl's brother, said she left Spokane last Saturday. He ie on his way to help in the search for the body. Business of World Is Being Resumed |; PARIS, April 23—(By United Preas.)—Invitation to the Germans a bi © counties, industrial Skinner & Eddy Corporation is mak- ing @ noise like a large producer. figures are at hand, but reports indt- Lieut. Everett L. Wolfe, ide Yet to Go in Loan Drive Seattle was speeding toward the $2,000,000 mark Wednesday in ‘subscriptions fer her $19,000, 000 Victory Loan quota, while scores of “treat ‘em rough” s0- licitors smilingly buttonholed scores of people thruout the business and reaidence districts. In real coin a total of $1,663,200 comprises the official returns for Se- ttle and King county for the first two days of the Victory loan drive. This sum represents the actual cash turned into headquarters, according | to R. H. MacMichael, man, but does not represent that actual sales thruout city and county. county chair- Spurred on by returns from other bond salesmen in Seattle nd King county are getting down to ard work, and before the week tn nded they fully expect to put Seattle in the fore In bond buying. Returns from the state at large are meager, but Southwest Washington reports a sale of $691,760; Walla reports $107,000, and Spokane Walla 138,650. Despite pessimistic predictions, the division report that. the No ate that the shipyard workers will Fast Pace Is Set in Victory Loan WASHINGTON, April 23.—(By Inited Press.)—Treasury officials to- day estimated that the sale of Vic: | ‘ory notes for the first two days of he campaign totalled $660,000,000, Incomplete reports recelved up to noon told of high totals being rolled to send a commission of food, ship-| up in every federal reserve district. finance and trade experts to] 1 with allied representatives | | ping, confer f the pace set for the first two days 4 maintained, officials said, was regarded today as the most im-| minimum of $4,500,000,000 would. be portant step yet taken toward re sumption of the world’s normal bust- ne The meeting will be held in Versailles or Compiegne. obtained without difficulty, An average of $250,000,000 daily must be kept up, however, to “finish the job” on tim gen AONE ities iain the | fill their quota before next Saturday. Heut. Col, William Thaw and Maj, Carl Spatz, renowned avijators, wilt the Wednesday night Other features will be the appear. |ance of Mme. Dora de Philippe, of the Chicago Grand Opera company, and a patriotic sketch, “The Ameri- can Girl,” with Miss. Lalitte “Ward Davis, in the leading role. be the principal speakers at Victory sing at’ the Arena at 8:16 ) o'clodk. of the Palace Hip circuit, ‘The Victory sing will be led by John Henry Lyons, former song leader scriptions to the Vietory Loan will be solicited at the sing as the song leader expects the subscriptions to come naturally without .any urg- ing on his part. free to those who care to attend. Come Thru at Camp Lewis., No sub The sing will be The Seattle division of the United (CONT'D ON PAGE TWO) One Year Ago Today Germans cin 640,600 more’ soldiers on the west front than the combined forces of all the al- Mes, Hungarian troops mass in Belgium to fight with Germans. British and naval squadrons raid Zeebrugge and Ontend, block- ing U-boat channel with two ships loaded “with cement; destr blow lock gates, This was one of the most daring water attacks upon the enemy during the war. Attempts of the allies to re- gain ground at Aveluy Wood and to recapture the railway north of Afras wero repulsed by the en- emy with heavy lo: to both sides, Winning the victory was costly. Here’s Chance to Win an Air Flight WABHINGTON, April 23.—(By (United Press.)—Here's a chance for a ride in an airplane. The treasury department has instruct ¢d local loan committees to grant a flight dally to the loan worker welling the largest amount of bonds in that community that day. Also the purchaser of the largest amount of bonds will be given a “lift” in one of the ma chines. 27 they MGS ern aR _| left: Capt. Lowell H. Smith, in Portland several ttle flyer with the Victory Loan airmen. days ago ITALIANS MAY BREAK ENTENTE Report Delegates Won't. At- tend Versailles Meeting RO} April 22.—(Delayed.)— (United Brose) —The Parts corre spondent of the Tribuna report- ed today that the Italian dele- gates will not attend the meet- dng with the German peace dele- gates at Versailles. The correspondent confirmed the failure of yesterday's (Monday's) “conversation and characterized the situation as “grav The Corriere d'Italia's representa- tive in Paris said that while reports of Italy's withdrawal from the peace conference are authoritatively de- nied, a “rupture is probable, in the wense that Italy’ is no longer in agreement with the other allies.” “The Adriatic is far from being ‘Italian,’” said the Epoca corre- spondent. “The resistance against Italian claims grows. The struggle daily becomese more bitter. The Giornale 4’Italia correspond- ent wired: “The allies erred in be- Neving they could amputate Italy's program to a minimum of our na- Honal aspirations. We do not know whether this error can be corrected, but Whatever happens Italy's victory will not be crippled. The territories conquered by our armies will re- main Italian whether an agreement is reached with our allies dr not.” 5 MYSTERIOUS FIRES THREATEN HILLYARD SPOKANE, April 23.—Five mys terlous fires, breaking out almost simultaneously, threatened the town of Hillyard, north of this city, Jast night. The estimated damage will exceed $10,000. For three hours every available man from the Great Northern’ railway and Spokane fire department fought the fires, One fireman was injured by a falling cornice, WILSON BREAKS ‘SAYS DELEGAT BY CARL D. GROAT United Press Correspondent PARIS, April 23.—“President Wilson’s st |ment has broken up the peace conference,” a met ber of the Italian delegation declared this noon. The delegate said that Premier Orlando leave for Rome tonight or tomorrow and that @ remainder of the delegation will go as quickly a possible thereafter. . Orlando declined to comment on the p dent’s statement beyond intimating that Italy's sponse might take the form of “some defini tion.” This was inigrpeetes as meaning po withdrawal. is _—/ = = i= BY FRED S. FERGUSON United Press Staff Correspondent ‘PARIS, April 23.—President Wilson declared this afternoon that Italy cannot have Fiume. Possession of this seaport is the bone of ¢ which has resulted in the Italians threatening to from the peace conference. Nothing now remains for Italians to do but put their threat into executi back down completely. The Italian delegates also failed to attend the noon session of the “big four.” ine, Eraiene eid nt rome CZECHS START 45-MiLE be made available as a seaport for the small nations behind it. Extensive March Begun’ | Vienna Region - have been altered by the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian empire and the establishment of new Balkatf states. He insisted the peace con- ference must apply. the principles established in the armistice and the “14 points.” “If those principles are to be ad- hered to, Fiume must serve as an outlet for the commerce, not of Italy, but of the lands to the northeast- ward—Hungary, Bohemia (Czecho- Slovakia), Rumania and the states of the new Jugo-Slav group. “To assign Fiume to Italy would be to create a feeling that we had deliberately put the port upon which those countries chiefly depend’ for access to the Mediterranean, in the hands of a power of which these nations did not form an integral part, and whose sovereignty, if set there, must inevitably seem foreign, not dofnestic.” ‘The president concluded by point: ing out that the fear of aggression, existing at the time of the pact of London, is not longer valid. The deadlock in the Italian situa- tion was declared by some delegates today to be worse than ever, since the conference between Premier Lioyd George and Premier Orlando last night. The Italians are now intimating they will begin conver sations with the Germans looking toward a separate peace. They in- dicated they expect to obtain coal from Germany and food from the {CONT'D ON PAGE TWO) President Wilson pointed out that conditions existing at the time the pact of London was signed (1915), COPENHAGEN, (United Preas.)—A VIENNA, April 23.—(Unit —Czecho-Slovak troops were ed today to have begun adi along a 45-mile front between’ nau and Marchegg. Serbian forces are moving ward between the Tisza and the D ube. Rumanian troops are ing the Danube. Marchegg is only 25 miles Vienna. Tyrnau is 27 miles east of Pressburg. The Tissa allels the Danube about 50 miles” the eastward from Budapest the Hungarian border. Total Casualties of U. S. 285 WASHINGTON, April United Press.)—Total casualties the A. E. F. were 285,950, ac to latest corrections the war de} ment announced today. This is increase of 1,164 over previous tot: given out. Total deaths now re ported number 75,344, an increase 305. The Bolsheviki hold 15 cn prisoners, according to the | Crimes During War Listed in F PARIS, April 23.—The offi port of the responsibilities sion, comprising 65 pages, left printer today. It contains # minority report, dissenting from Proposal to try the former ‘Thirty-two classes of crimes are Ils ed, specific instances of each PARIS, April 23.—United Press.) —A dispatch to I'Information from Berlin today, relayed by way of Zurich, sald the German peace dele~ gates probably would leave April 28, arriving in Versailles on May 1, Here’s Dope on First Ball Tilt Season's first Coast league ball game starts at 3 p. m. Wednes- day, Rainier Valley park, Rai- nier ave, and Lander st. Seattle Rainiers meet Oakland Downtown parade starts at || given, together with the a Fourth ave. and Lenora st, at 12:30 p, m. an Se ‘ood Mayor Hanson pitches first c nd F to German Zones WASHINGTON, April 23.—] ed quantities of food may now exported to other parts of G than the zone occupied by the al the war trade board announced to- day. Export permits for. these : ments must be obtained from board * ball. Chief Joe Warren will try to catch it. Batteries for opening game: Seattle, Bowman and Coleman; Oakland, Krause and Elliott. Take Rainier valley car on Fourth ave. or Mt. Baker car on ‘Third ave,