The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 16, 1919, Page 1

Tides in Seattle PRIDAY ' SATURDAY mar 20 May tt let Low Tide Rant new Ha let High Tide | et Sigh bs a ; Yn. w ma Run Tide NO. 73. ptered e# Becond Ch VOLUME 22, = Matte SION TO RUSH CAR BILL May 3, 1809, at the Lottice nA TLE, WASH., FRI Ot Beattie, Wash, unde DAY, MAY 16, vo An American Paper That Fights for Americanism The Seattle Sta URY PUTS BLAME ON es * ££ © H F * * & * * * % *% % % * Aen iLATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Per Your, by Mall, $5.00 to $9.00 probably rly winds. AUTO BANDIT GANGS TERRORIZE HIGHWAYS TRIKE TO DEPEND ON If It Fails to Pass, Street;Money and Cars Taken by Railway Employes Will Hold-Up Men Who Work | Vote to Walk Out on Roads Leading Here PASSAGE IS PREDICTED/DESERT ONE MACHINE With the street railwaymen postponing their strike ballot | until Tuesday to await action by the council at Monday's session: and with a special meeting of the councilmen called for Fri- day afternoon to receive Coun- citman B. ordi- MOTORISTS ROBBED AT GUN POINT Police and sheriff's deputies of Seattle and Tacoma joined forces Friday in an effort to run down | the organized gang of highway } bandita, who have lsunched » | campaign of terror on the paved | highways leading out of Seattle. | | All roads will be closely watched | and detectives are working on tlews te the identity of young thugs. Operating in an automobile stolen evening from Dr. T. O,| the we the bill entered Friday, in ér-) sons on the Everett highway Mon- that it can be finally passed/day night, robbed BE. B. Bowen. of at Monday's session. Sumner, of $22 and stole his machine The city charter provides that) near Tacoma Thursday night. The} none but saiary appropriation or-| bandits then speeded to Seattle and dinances may be passed the same after eluding the motorcycle patrol- day they are presented, and it also| men statiofied to watch the roads, @uthorizes three members of the | helg up Gus Anderson, 2103%4 Sixth | council to declare a special session. | ave. at 21th ave. N. and EB. Repubti- can st. Anderson was robbed of $22 i. og et aoe, con, |* $2.59 Rold piece and a Swiss watch. er a three-and-«-talf-hour ference early Friday morning, 650 MPorrigg Sorry oe ee = | JA street railway employes decided At! night, an unidentified man called | 4a. m. to postpone their referen- | the police headquarters on the phone Gum strike vote. which, if passed. | and notified the office where the would tle up Seattle street car lines | jo nait car could be found. This was Rext week. It was agreed that the | done Friday morning, an unident! Workers would mark time until fied man notifying the police the after Monday's council meeting. | Ghee, if the council falls to nei| Paxton car was at 310 F. Harrison | favorably upon the eight hour day * and at least timeand-cne-half pay for work over eight hours, a car. men’s meeting will be held Tuesday Word was received from the Taco: | |ma police Thursday night the three highwaymen held up E. E. GAB the arte vote taken. him of $22 and his auto. Carroll Takes Seat | chine found on E. Harrison st Maj. John E. Carroll, newly elect-|day morning wax identified as the @ member of the council, qualified car taken from Bowen, men. and was sworn into office by Dep) The three highwaymen stole an uty City Clerk Street Friday morn janto from Dr. T. O. Paxton, 1116 ing. He will attend the special ses | tomes st.. during the evening, and) sion of the council at 2 o'clock Frt-| used this car to block the road and | day afternoon, when the overtime! force Rowen to stop. ordinance will be the first measure; Rowen was driving to Tacom: he will be asked to consider. (when he noticed the machine Other members of the council front of him, and blocking the pour: \ who will attend probably will be / He told the police he thought It was | Hesketh, Fitzgerald, Holton, Haas| stalled, ‘Three men seemed to be | and Moore. Thomson may not be| working on the auto. When he drove | DES Present. Erickson and Lane are on/ wp, one of the men pointed a pistol | an inspection trip to the Skagit/at Bowen's head and commanded <a ae <tais [him to “get out.” Bowen alighted | ‘orporation Counsel ‘alter from the machine, w’ the robbers Mat cid Puce teas worn oct | Tam the machine, while the ENT] Basses Away ay at Akron, at nances requested by Counciimaf | pockets. They then commanded him | Fitzgerald would be ready in time| ty “keep his ‘hp shut” and drove | Home of Parents for the council meeting. | away in his auto, — ne has hig eo — charge of| Running to a telephone, Rowen in-| y,, J, Ritchie, former managing edi @ referendum strike vote was &P-|\ formed Chie! rol > A Dolaled this morning.” sald 3. A.|Ainer, of Tacoma, who tn turn sot |tar of The Seattle Star, dled Thure Stevenson, business agent of the | thea the Seattle police, A carmen's union following the meet- | ieading into the two elties were clone-| Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Ritchie, in Akron, | ing, “Ballots will be prepared und|iy guarded and every automobile |Onio, He had gone there from Se- | everything will be in readiness for | stopped and ite occupanta scrutin-|aitie in an effort to regain his| a strike vote Tuesday. There 1s|jged. The description given by Row | health, which began to break down fo question but that a walkout will | en of the three men leada the police | anout two yeara ago. He left his} be voted for by the men, should! to believe that they are three of the| pout on The Star in the fall of 1917. | the council fail to take favorable! four men who last Sunday night |! Ritchie was 82 years of age, and} ee, We aneerion [held up eight people along the Hoth- | eaves a five-year-old son, Robert “The boys believe they have just et highway and north of Woodland| ji, wife, Mildred Riteble, died at| ee eae Se Te Sey pant Akron last Christmas of pneumonia. thanges its policy and puts into} The automobile stolen from in| effect a real eight-hour day by |ront of the home of Dr. T. 0. Pax.| granting extra pay for overtime | ton, James and Boren, at 9:30 o'clock Want It Retroactive |Thureday night. and used by the “We have only asked what pri-|three auto bandits, was found Fri vate corporations ai! over the|day morning at the spot where it country are now paying, and sure-| was abandoned, about a mile north ly the clty should be as fair to its|of Tacoma. The city marshal of workers as the Puget Sound Trac-| Sumner notified the local police de | tion, Light & Powér company | partment Friday morning of the re- | “The majority of the men belleve|covery of the machine |Awaits Shipbuilding Status] they are entitled to this pay from | Apri 1, when the efty took over| ated cae | From U. S. Men | the lines and since which date no| DN RECEIVES VISITORS | May 16.—(United Press.) extra pay for overtime work has! been paid We shall ask that the} was no session of the ‘‘big Bil be retroactive to April 1 in-|four today, and President Wilson stead of May 15, as now proposed.”|«pent the “ay receiving numerous Faced a Majority | visitors. Counciiman ©. B. Fiergerald, fath- ‘ " er of the new overtime bill, says| The opposition had the majority. that he has enough votes to carry| “Now that we have the majority the measure and may even get more|in the council and present such @ than five, should one or two other | measure as our own, I would not be members of the council prove to be|surprised to see a couple of the weakening in their stand with the|others decide they belong on our opposition side of the fence.” “It haw been a case where several| He expressed the hope that of us here have been in favor of the | sage of this ordinance would carmen's request al! along.” sayn| block the council investigation Fitageraid, “but it would have been|the payment of extra useless for us to attempt to force overtime in other Paecaich @ measure before this. without authority. Pigs; was, wil PAR The May 1 (united | the Pacific coast | council scheduled to} it was the impres. OAKLAND, Press.)—With metal trades adjourn today, dion of those gates that no radical action would be taken pending some decision from the shipping board eatadtiety | ing the status of shipbuilding the Coast. | The Macy award, it Is understood, | will stand until Oct. 1, under the} agreement to that effect ‘The council has sanctioned the! sixbour day with $8 flat for me chanics, ‘The delegates are now studying ways and means to en- force this plan on the employers. pas not of money for departments, \f upon promptly. METAL TRADES COUNCIL NOW Oath Administered to Major! Friday Morning Major F. Carroll Councilman Carroll in the office of | John became Clerk Street adminis» to the newly |Deputy City tered the oath of offic elected counci! member. It was necessary for the obtain bis discharge from the army before he could hold office under the city.’ He was granted his release on Wednesday at Camp Lewis, under wire instructions from Washington. Anxious to get to work? You bet!” safd’ the youngest city dad. But I'm kind of rusty what's been going on in the past two years. only a per and T must old major to on Didn't get much news or clipping now and then polish up on conditions in the home town. “L shall take things easy at first, « Lam atill a bit under the weather I'm only « few days out of the how | pital ax a convalescent from. influ enza.. .L lost alot of weight and it left me rather weak, but I'm com ing back strong, and in a hurry.” Councilman Carroll said he pected to sit for the first time with | the council Monday, but a speci meeting called for Friday afternoon ox ame day he is sworn in GIRLS’ COMRADESHIP MEETINGS TO START The girls’ division of the Msfond Camp Community service will sta the first of a series of vaudeville | entertainments and conmadest! Dp} meetings Friday night at 7 at} the Broadw: high school audi torium, More than 1,500 workin] givls of Seattle will attend, PERE | matter what BE ENFORCED Government Prepares to Punish Violations WASHINGTON, May 16.—4United Press)—Formulation of the govern: ment’s policy on enforcement of the oasis | (ay night at the home of his parents, | the city clerk Friday morning when | July 1 prohibition act was practical ly The polley in. clue Use of internal revenue officers in finished today. reporting violations. Collection of the manufacturer's liquor tax on alcoholic beverages of more than five per cent aleoholic content, even tho, manufactured in violation of the law Justice department to begin action against brewers making 2 3-4 per cent beer immediately after the hand. ing down of the expected court de cision. Meanwhile, justice « -der agents are collecting evide all violations of the act which prohibits rr manufacture after May, 1, no the alcoholic content according to the department's inter pretation Nothing vent the rtment now, will pre States from going bone dry July 1, as far as sale of coholic beverages Ie concerned ex spt a court decision’ declaring the law unconstitutional or repeal of the law by congress. it Unite seems closest to the dele-| changed this, He takes his seat the) Showers Due With Southerly Breeze Official Weatherwright George N Salisbury gave it as his epinion Fri | be | |GERMAN SUB ON WAY Ob: | day morning that there may sprinkles Friday night and Saturday | After looking into his books server Salisbury opined t chances were greater for than sunshine, And along with the weeps, it is prognosticated, we will have one of those “gentle southerly breezes,” the showers | PASS THAT ORDINANCE Councilman Fitzgerald’s proposed ordi- nance, granting time-and-a-half pay to street car men for overtime work, should be acted This means Monday. The car men have shown good faith towards the city in withholding their strike ballot, plan- 7 ~Fuesday. . council should show equal good faith in the disposition of the Fitzgerald measure. There must be no evasion or sidetracking tactics. The issue is presented plainly. must be equally plain and decisive. ‘council must give clear evidence Monday ican Sa ll that the city will deal squarely with the There must be no strike! ‘The The vote The ~ (GARROLL IS IN. DRY LAW WILL WINNIPEG IS IN GRIP OF STRIKE 25,000 “Workers Quit; dustry Is Stopped WINNIPEG, Ma Press.) —Winnipes grip of a paralyzed More most sympathy In- 16.—(1 Inited today in that the | general the bity strike has trade with thar ry rkers al ir ades w in striking metal ¢ the and city officials possible to wall by firemen quit and nearly the metal tratior bakers plies water out, rut All have are 5 bread exhausted. Heat employes walked tel are and light postmen stopped work and ure idle en 1 the outside ephones Polic ained tion with ble only by railroad men Job. Communica points possi telegraph sery re on is irregular Senatér Robertson, minister said he of labor, appealed to could do| nothing Street cars ceased running Newspapers publication when presemen walked every restaurant and postal | terday me forced to stereotypers out, — Practic in the city clerks quit Sixty unions volved in the strike declared, is not tled immediately. ning top nd ly has were closed are said to which, likely to be in it was be set-| TO THE GREAT LAKES HALIFS May 16--On the way to ma Lakes, the former German submarine UC.97 ar. rived today, escorted by the U. 8. 8, Bushnell, WONT SIGN MOTORMAN TERMS, HUN CLEARED ENVOY SAYS NEGLIGENG Demands of Treaty Cannot probe Held to Be Fulfilled, Says Brock- dorff-Rantzau U Responsibility for D of Wreck Victim TEUTONS ARE UNITING “«suoe” FAILED TO LONDON, May 16.—United Press)—An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Berlin today re ported that Foreign Minister Brockdorff-Rentzau, fol wing a conference with the other Ger- man delegates, had announced he would not sign the treaty in its present form, Faulty brakes or braking facilities on the big © hill car which plunged inte # rear end of a one-man Eighth ave. and Pine st, day afternoon, killing Carroll and injuring 18 Passengers on the small” were responsible for the the coroner's jury Werder mora inquest, . The Diet says: | | terms could not be ed. | | | } ERNE, May 16.—(Uhited-Prens) | jr“Onty an saiog would sign sugha | find. owant -C peace,” declared Herr Grit, mi¥irlty his death May 13 by | socialist Jender, in addressing a Bes-|frectured skull due to a sion of the Prussian assembly, a/ street cars, due to no fault Berlin dispatch reported today | part of the motorman, but due’ Assemblyman Hergt charged Pres-| to faulty brakes or insufficient Bq ident Wilson with bad faith, while | ing facilities on Capitol Hil Assemblyman Merbolm said the! 607 treaty i* a travesty on Wilson's| The exhonoration of John principles | motorman of the big Capitol ees was signed by Mary A. Jo BERLIN, May 16.—(United Press.) | foreman, and L. B. Cham The Vorwaerts and the Lokal An be n Stuart, dre. J. Cae |moiger urged today that a nationf| W. Stokes and C. E. M. Jones, m wide referendum be held on signing bern ee heey the peace treaty D. W. Henderson, traffie The Munich Post, the most impor. | tendent for the street car tant majority socialist paper in Ba-| Called to the witness stand, varia, said big Capitol hill car was in “We neither can accept nor refuse, | der when it left the barn | We must sign under protest, hoping | brakes were in working comdid the en will come E.. B. Smith, 10 Jel conductor of the big car, emergency brake would not h car, and told of throwing the when he noticed the car wild. 0. to its senses.” ig ' BY CARL D. GROAT United Press Correspondent BERLIN, May 15.—American and British officers today were ordered to wear mufti outside J. 8. Dooley, 6523 Fifth ave, their quarters, lest the Germans | Pedestrian who witnes the 4 be invited to acts of violence, | Gent, said the conduct nd American couriers in uniform |™#n were working at the are compelled to remain inside eg the car passed him, the the Hotel Adton. man pulling the sand lever in a1 The feeling prevails in American | effort to make the brakes hold. quarters that the demonstration| F. J. Toyer, 1858 Westlake Nu € against the peace treaty before the |!nspector, testified when he | Hotel Adion in which 15,000 persons | Charge of the car after the | participated Tuesday, may be only | the brakes were set tight, the forerunner of even graver oc-| John Hector, 330 16th ay. currences man of the big car, declared he 1 te the fact th. everything he knew to stop the em of police has warned the people there | @nd worked hard at the bral must be no repetition of the Adlon | #sserted the brake-shoes wo incident, the of unrest in the} hold city is obviously growing and sonia ding to allied officers must soon Hamburg Crowds Condemn T; |find some outlet | In a food riot | northeast of Berlin, BASLE, May 16.—(United wounded yesterday A great crowd staged a deme | tion against the peace terms in ff Jof the Atlantic hotel in Hamb | headquarters of the American o mission, according to a dispatch ceived from that city today, Several protested “assassination of the German peoples An interpretor translated : speeches for the benefit of the Ai icans, here was no violent Report Bolsheviki Fleeing Petrograd May 16.—(Unii i nal Tidende x it had learned ‘res x the prefect at Stettin, 80 miles 10 persons were according to ad-| vices rived here ‘Phone Operators Await Girl Leader All plans for the coming Seattle phone operators’ strike to take effect in conjunction with the coast wide walkout are being held in readi t for the of Miss Julia O'Connor, international president of the “hello” girls, whose arrival is ex pected hourly Miss O'Connor, when will assume the active f the entire coast-wide ing her headquarters in either Seat-| 1 O'Cg today | tle or San Francisco, it is believed. Julia O'Connor was in charge of the |Table source that the under Gen. | army recent strike in the easte states. iy arrived at Rjdoostrow, only a Bolshevik |in which girl operators were granted pi At ns miles from Petrograd, | wage increases, to be ff | ficials reported cow, from ‘ad to Mot orators arrival | she mana strike, arrives, ment mak were Petro; \Italian ‘Delegates Are More Hopeful Ready to Present PARIS, May (United Terms to Austi Italian delegates were optimistic] |woday for the first time since they| St: GERMAIN, France, Maye (United Press)—While the treaty }returned to Paris, as a result of| 5 |the reported “conciliatory attitude” | Pot Be Presented to the Austral egates befe jof the other « They express aes hedecontidencs that the, present e Fentated yor |wotiations will result fn a solution | Wy. Completed tot . & solution |" “the program will be almost a! Jof the Adriatic proble pale mis ria problem within al 1ct duplicate of that at Versaltieae Alhenians Want 16, Press.) very Germans Agree | to U.S.M | Give Up Coal Mii -_o andatory| PARIS, May 16.—(United Presg.j—es PARIS, May 16.—The request of|The German counter-proposal the Alhanians for the United | garding the Saar basin agrees to sume” States to accept a mandatory|render the coal mines, but over that country was reported to-| upon retention of political jw Nels to have met with a “sympa. ‘tion ever the region, At