The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 29, 1919, Page 9

| A® t jobs. worse. YOU, Mr. Average Cit reat them when they are ready for their civilian work again. Are those jobs ready for them, Mr. Employer? YOU must make g Congress was not AIN The Star takes occasion to say that the real welcome to be accorded the soldiers and sailors, returning home to us today, will be manifested by the Today, there is the blare of trumpets and the waving of flags. Are YOU equal to the real test of welcoming these men home? en, must not follow in the miserable footsteps of characterless politicians. T omorrow, they Ww ood, way = we rill be in ne¢ of The legislature failed even (ro | The Seattle Star | =~ J SEATTLE, WASH,., TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1919. : Aid | Wounded | “Yanks, Tho Ice ~ Covers Wasp ©. Thomson, 1129 Melrose place, Is ‘ane of the six “old timers,” each of whom is represented by a star on the t of the flag ship of the 8. C which arrived in Seattle Tues: | smorning | ‘On each of the ships is a pennant, | ‘and on the pennants are varying © numbers of stars—cach star repre senting a man who has been with the E ship over a given length of time | Thomson and his five bunkies are the okt guard of S.C. 294. They are ‘All Seattle men and left Bremerton ‘ the vessel when she started her unting career almost a year “The 204 left Puget Sound as flag. ship of the flotilla, She came back today as fagship. Others, however had that honor at different Lieut. Rosco Howard took nine little undersea-boat hounds | the Pacific to the Atlantic last . His pennant flew from 294. siz Seattle sea dogs on the are Ensign R. W. Capps, com- ; Bian Mate Charles Thomson, H. M. Janney, Coxs'n | Wooten, Coxs'n Omar Welch, Machinist Mate H. H. Horne. Diggest experience came the Northern Pacific, the big transport, went aground “Fire Island in December. For farce days and two nights we slaved ‘® stop, taking 125 nen a ‘from the wreck,” says Thom- om ” fhen we headed for our base in York harbor and spent a week fee off the little tub from Rest Gown. She was al- $ \ t x ish, and ( on flagship 8. C. tion of being engine room k, according to because they could not the life on the chasers.” related the rescue of soldiers from the stranded | Pacific last winter. anchor would not hold in sea and for three days and/ ‘Rights we drifted around the The wounded men were the side in stretchers, could hang on, would om the rope, We load-) from our chaser to the| destroyers. When we got we chipped caked ice off our and one rail had been torn the official slogan of the| Of the sub-chaser fleet. The | part means meals. @ays is the longest I've on ome of these boats without anything,” says Ships Cook Coons of 8. C. 293, “and that! the Caribbean on the} time. The old Carib- to perform in the | ttle hostelries before | He says he} ys on the submarine @ pipe there,” he adds. “When she got rough, we just sub- for dinner, or breakfast, or it was—and there you No pitching or toss Fe of Question to Ensign Wilmer Hew- | executive officer of submarine | 296, familiarly known as “Bill” to his Seattle friends, his | chaser did everything but turn over the terrifle storm which the | Btilla encountered in the Caribbean. | “We couldn't find the galley stove, ‘Gnd we were the four days without anything to eat.” he says. “Sleep Was out of the question, too; all we bao do was to hang on ordinary tines we wouldn't wae going out in a #ea like that ® gas engine fitted boat.” ‘ie ee is well known in Se ton and mg emmissioned at Bremer A and detatied on convoy duty in | Operating from Char. c. “Not Near Enough to Home Folks,” Is ’ Only Kick Pe 4 Williamson, 120434 Terry st., poh - Onborne, Lake Forest park, ‘ mind anything about the B > ~ Aig that the home folks are ere, OF Near enough for you to l "ARE LIKE CORK’ Bobbed Up and Down on Every Ripple, He Says So Ensign R. W. Capps delivered himself this morning from the deck of Subchaser No. 294, the flagship of the fleet. Yet. as he did so, his eye roved lovingly over the burnish ed brass and gleaming decks. Ensign Capps in a Seattle attor. ney who lived at the University club and practiced before the bar here before he enlisted as an able- bodied seaman in the U. 8. navy. That was on June 1, 1917. In No vember, little more than five months later, he received his commission. He has served with the sub chasers in the convoy service out of New York, and made the trip thru the canal and back with the boat he now commands. 'KAISER’S FATE IS DISCUSSED Secret Peace Session to Con- sider Hohenzollern BY LOWELL MELLETT (United Press Staff ( » PARIS, April 29--The fate of Wilhelm Hohenzollern wjll be fur: ther discussed in a secret plenary seasion of the peace conference, it developed today. The date for this sexsion, which will consider the com- pleted treaty, has not yet been net. The action of the peace conference is expected to be limited to formal acceptance of the majority report of the responsibilities committee. This, as made public in the capitals of the various allied countries yester- day, provides the former kaiser shall stand trial before an international tribunal. The minority report, signed only by the Japanese and American (Lan- sing), representatives, held that Wil helm is not legally liable to personal responsibility for the inception or conduct of the war. come committee, greeting Lieut. Commander Stewart 'ANTI-SUB CRAFT | ~- | \| Ensign BR. W. Capps Alleged Smugglers | Cart R. Tiffany and George Can | non were arrested early Tuesday Sumas, four officials at in an smuggle tion at |tempt to United States The Chinese walked border and the six men had just boarded an antomobile when were caught. The white men were brought before the United States commissioner at Bellingham, where they will have a hearing Tuesday afternoon. BRITISH LEAVE FIUME GENEVA, April 29.—To avoid fric- tion with the Italians in Fiume, battalion of British troops, which have been stationed there since the signing of the armistice, left when! the Italian delegates quit the peace conference at Paris. “Few Clothes” Is Mascot | | ————- | really the “Tin Fish” Terrors Arrive in Hom Here Come the Boys “Here come the boys! They come! They come—" The joyous welcome swept the line, Three hundred thousand “Here come boys—your boy and mine. From King it spread like To Pine, down Second, ji A city’s voice in “Here come the boys—A shouts like one roaring flame, st the same; acclaim— rgonne! Argonne Rose-covered pavement, flag-flecked sky, And a line of march like a lane of love— All these were there when they swung by, Heralds of olive branch Men with a mighty duty "ton with a gle ck to the lend of the se Thus cari Gob the boys—Argonne! and dove! done, us victory won, tting sun— Argonne! W. BG s Enjoy. Daily Concert Transmitted by Wireless “Radio watch” is the latest thing In maritime amusement Ite not like dog wateh, or star board watch, or other familiar watches beloved of writers of sea fiction. They mean work—bholyston: ing decks or reefing the fore-t’ gallans’) On the other hand, radio watch ts last word in enterta ment aboard the United States nay U. S. Officers Seize _ siv-cnasers tied up at Seattle's docks | today Way out at sea, when land was only a memory, and the dread sub- marine was to be sought out and bested in his lair, the wireless tele. morning by United States immigra-| phone played an important part in | maneuvering the ships of the mow- Chinese | Quito fleet Mv | tical across the Canadian border into the they | | | | | | “loud talker” It was absolutely prac within a radius of five miles, talking on a 360-meter wave, {( was more distinct than the telephone has across the | ever been. All i But for one h radio watch was lexs telephone Records ir every evening stood.” The wire: as awitched onto the receiving apparatus with a megaphone attachment, much [resembling a phonograph horn. On| | the one ship of the fleet boasting a | | talking machine, the horn of the) | phonograph would be put up to the | Wireless transmitter. On all the other ships, not s0 blessed. the loud: | | talkers—that’s their official name— | would be hooked in, the crews would \ather ‘round the chart house win: | | dows and doors and the whole fivet would hear the latest dance records jor popular songs. Tell by Propelier The wireless ‘phone was used con |stantly for communication between the flagship and other ships of the fleet. Two or more conversations may be carried on at the same time | by the use of different wave lengths Another device which was used with absolute accuracy, was the un derwater listeneror submarine de | teetor, Bach ship carried one and | their listeners become so proficient |they could tell whether the pro peller they heard turning was that lof battleship, tramp, destroyer or submarine, and almost its exact lo- | eation with regard to their own posi- uon. Seattle Is Two Days Behind in Victory Loan Schedules Nineteen million by May 10th? A cinch, if the people of Seat- tle do their duty; a shame—if they don’t! ery bond salesmen. Despite the poor showing to date, | A. Swalwell of the Victory loan drive and County Chairman k. H. MacMichael are con- fident that Seattle will not only meet her quota but will overshoot it, However, the fact remains that in- stead of reaching the $7,000,000 mark by Tuesday morning—the fig- ure which should have been reached Seattle's total subscription was only $5,187,300, In other words, Se attle is two days behind her quota. Thoroly realizing that the Victory loan drive calls for more power than State Chairman J the four previous campaigns, work: | ers are flinging themselves into the fight for the second week of the drive with more enthusiasm, Short Boosts Loan The Seattle North Pacific Ship building company’s plant was in- vaded by bond saleamen, who re- ceived a warm reception. Corp. a decorated war and Frank Walker, representa- tive of the Boilermakers, Tron Ship builders and Helpers’ union, No. 104, made speeches. Women workers surged thru the residential district. Monday. Many women reported they had made sales before 8 a, m. An intensive drive by workers in the industrial section under leader day at the Ames Shipbuilding and Dry Dock company’s plant. William Short, president of the Washington State Federation of Labor, was the principal speaker, Seattle Second Reports from Pacific coast indicate that Portland is leading with a sub- seribed quota of 50 per cent tle is second with 24 per cent, San Francisco is trailing third wit! only 7 per cent. In an effort to speed up bond sales R. P. Oldham, chairman of the speak- ers’ bureau, will send a flying squad. ron of street speakers thru the city on Tuesday, while h of publicity, announced tions for the first week of the Vic tory loan drive ds follows: Spokane, $1,421,250; Walla’ Walla, $713,000; Yakima, $1,543,150; Tacoma, 729,- 460; Wenatchee, $357,000 Seat: | ‘Seattle Sailor Is Glad to Ret urn HG Baldwin COUNCIL END _ INVESTIGATION |File Report on Vice Disease | Quarantine Probe Investigation of the city vice dis ease quarantine system was dropped Monday afternoon, when the council | refused to adopt a report by Council man Harry Bolton that the present eystem was “unjust and encouraged Meeting as committee of the whe presented by Fitzgerald, which p! ed on general file all matters pertain ing to th Bolten and tion Altho the hearings have been drop: ped and the investigation ended sistant Corporation Counsel Kennedy is preparing an ordinance, in conjunction with Health Commis: sioner Read, which will regulate quarantine procedure. a rickson Opposed the mo: ship of W. W, Ladd was made Tues: | |Woman to Manage | Automobile lant | SACRAMENTO, Cal, | Miss P. Michelson, San Mrancisco at | torney, will don overalls and « active management of the | West Motors company her | few days, she announ woman attorney was recently chosen general manager of the plant by the stockholders, and she declares she's not to be a “swivel chair’ manager, Iden within a INDORSES LEAGUE PLAN SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, April 29.—(United Press)-—-"The new draft Charies P. Burnett, state chairman | of the league of nations covenant, in| Value of the lines at $ subscrip:|my opinion, meets any criticism that | unless the assessment is withdrawn can be offered,” said United States Senator King, democrat, today. |am much’ pleased with its provisions jand feel sure the senate will ratify fin’ e Waters « Snohom- ing from left to right, top row), three Seattle tars: Lieut. Ernest Gregory, commanding the sub-chaser flotilla; Frank Gates of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ wel- (below) Lieut. Commander G. U. Stewart, commanding the U. S. C. G. cutter Snohomish. _ SOUND CHASERS | —~*| GUARDED YANKS: Served as Convoys for Transports Leaving N. Y. Rolling the ship's log and box- ing the compass may be all right for some, but—H. G. Bald win would rather stand behind a little brass grill and count money or cash checks. It's a better trade, he says. This morning he h mud-books of sub-chaser 293 into the waters of Seattle harbor. It was the official ending of the great war for him, for Seattle is his home and he is here to stay | Until he enlisted in the navy in 1917, Baldwin was an eesistant cash. fer of the First National bank and lived at the Windsor apartments. | Just Missed Sub “Experiences? Had a world of experiences!” he said. “We didn't get our sub—didn't even see one as far as that goeg—but we saw enough of their work to know that they stopped at nothing. ‘e left Bremerton on May 6, last year, went thru the Panama canal in June, and early in July we passed the Diamond Shoal light- ship just five hours before she was torpedoed by a German submarine That was about as near as we came to a sub that we know about. “We'd have b out of luck if that sub had got wind of us, for | none of the chasers in our fleet had their guns, They were mounted at New London later in the month. scorting Transports “Only one of the boats from Bremerton got across, It went as far as the Azores and had its base i the convoy and York And Boy! They passed us a couple of stiff pills, too, Twenty- nine days at sea one tour, only ty- ing up for gasoline and provisions | when ran out, and 31 days another time | “We would go out | voy—our fleet—with hydr |planes and dirigibles overhead | watch for subs underneath, a great sight. duty munitions escorting ships out transports we in a big con- whole to e, the council passed a motion| “Several times we picked up dead | | victims of Germany's ruthless sub- marine warfate, and a part of our so-called investigation. |duty lay in picking up unexploded | Fire 1 and floating mines, It wasn’t the safest job in the world, but there was some excitement in it, and a As-|man has to have excitement at sea} ASK VACATION OF CAR TAXES | Asking the vacation of the assess: |ment of the Seattle railway lines, | Walter Meier, corporation coun in a sub chasi | | | *\sel, and Chief Deputy Kennedy ap before — Clark < commissioner, in Olympia Monday, James B, Howe and Nor wood Brockett, representing the traction company, also urged vaca- tion of the assessment. Tax Commissioner Jackson stepped in several weeks early to make his Assessment of the traction lines be- fore the transfer to the city had been completed. He placed the 00,000, and | peared | state R. Jackson, | |the city will have to pay $200,000. “|The city holds the tax commissioner | for acted unfairly in rushing to slap a tax on the lines when he knew they would soon pass to city ownership. . of New) It was} Hun Divers Kept Clear of Chasers Ensign Robert Capps of Seat tle, commanding officer of sub- haser 294, the flagship of the lila, sketched « picture of duty the Kast const jor the benent of a group of Se attleites on the Everett dock Monday afternoon. who was engaged in lew at the time of his enlistment June 1, 1917, was com Bremerton in Novem 1918, the sub- canal for New London, where the anti-submarine gear was fitted. Of the original erew of 27, eight members returned to Be attle On August 30 the flagship began convoy duty at New York City, in which she was still en- gaged when the armistice was xigned. Capps, practice in the minsioned er, 1917 ct left navy at On May 5 ser via th Tuesc boys worked continuously, with little shore leave,” said Ensign ¥ sone of our chasers oper- The con . dirigibles and seaplanes accompanied the transport oF freighter 125 miles out of New York, Forty ships were sometimes used for freighter convoy; and three to nine sers and destroyers for a trans | port ‘Fire Island was in our convoy zone, and when the Northern Pa- ed help last January 296” were detailed to bring off the Listened for Subs “At the time the German subs ine fested the East coast and sunk cruiser San Diego and several tank ers, the flagship was assigned to lis tening duty, of all our sea duty the most irksome. We would three days at a time, lower our He tening gear and ‘listen’ for subs." S. C. 294 was never called upon te shoot a depth charge from her “¥* gun, or “ash can. in Jackie vernacular, guns, which are placed on the after deck, will shell a 400-pound charge @ distance of 150 feet. As : armament, the sub-chasers carry three-inch antiaircraft gun and two machine guns on the bridge: i tled, but otherwise the sub-ch carry ail the semblance to a war. craft. In addition to the wireless egraph each craft is fitted with wireless telephone, for short di communication among the men of the flotilla, which is in charge | A little raft and a small boat a twoman capacity represent emergency equipment. the amount of 3,100 gallons is ried on each chaser, 2,400 gallons im the tarks and 700 gallons on \decks. Each craft is equipped three Eastern standard engines |220 horse-power. Each member E the flotilla displayed a signal num- 7 jber of “A” or “B” division. Sema- phore and wigwag flags, with a fog | whistle for thick weather comprise | the signal apparatus. These veterans of convoy dui ried gold chevrons on their pal like their Jackie personnels, indieat- ing that they had operated from three to 15 months in submarine in- fested zones. Freighter Nearly Ended Career of This Sub Ch William Warnell, who is native of | Mississippi and making his first t Kt West on 8, C. 294, is one of the old- jest men in point of service on the — |Magship. While engaged in listen- ling duty in the fog off the New | | | ship had a narrow escape. “We had our listening gear down — |and detected a steamer approach. jing,” he sa “At the same time, | however, this vessel, an American | steamer, shut off its engine and be |fore we knew how near it was it | passed us 12 feet off our bow.” | Sub-Chaser 293 Rescued 87 Men From Transport » The 293 was the first boat to the’ | Northern Pacific when she grounded Butcher, been on the Atlantic as a member of | her crew. He says the 293 took off $7 men {and continued to New York with |them. Practically all the fleet which — | was on duty out of New York took |part in the rescue of the soldiers |aboard the grounded transport, Sev+ jeral of the ships which returned to- | day saw service as convoys out | Norfolk, Va., and Charleston, 8. C, | Pershing Confers on Troop | PARIS, April 29.—Spee jcontinues on the import of Pershing’s conference with dent Wilson last night, Altho no official announcement | was forthcoming, it was believed | have had to do with ‘continued | drawal of American forces, It | understood Pershing favors gettii the Americans home as quickly | possible, leaving only a small in Germany. LET ROAD CONTRACTS: OLYMPIA, April 29.—Conts $215,144 in road paving bridge building were let Monday b the State Highway commission, to be begun immediately, | | etur! Gag real. Our ship was assigned to| Jersey coast, he tells how the flagy : sland, according to N. Ws 126 Taylor ave, who has 7