The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 16, 1919, Page 13

Pages 13 to 24 The Seattle Star | <= | SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1919. PORTO RICO DEMANDS INDEPENDENCE * * &* & & SS ££ HF hb Hh e +» & * SAYS Food Chief Hold Over | “Bolshies” } | | | | * * & HUNGER WILL FORCE GERMANS TO SIGN TERMS ix Never Haul Islanders Flag Down, Are After Says Solon Self Rule” * 8 * NEW GERMANY AS MAPPED BY PEACE CONFERENCE ~~. Senator Kenyon Declares Prohibition, Labor Troubles Work in Porto Rico and Race Differences Only Half Done Cause Unrest a Hoover’s Assistant Asserts! German Government Will Have to Accept | INDUSTRIES ARE BROKEN) WILL OPPOSE FREEDOM GOV. YAGER IS DISLIKED © aed BY MILTON BRONNER (Special Dispateh) WASHINGTON, May 16——— Porto Rico is not particularity happy under our rule, and whem the next congress meets, is go ing to ask for complete inde pendence, such as we granted Cuba, . A BY MILTON BRONNER (Special Dispatch.) WASHINGTON, May 16.—The Stars and Stripes are up in the Caribbean and will never be pulled down by the American people. r am 8. Kenyon to all the Porto ar who badgered h when he 4 trip in the Kenyou went on his own hook paid his own ex refusing n the ce sional Junket He wanted to get first ma tic about the West gen Many « ans were NEW YORK, May 16.—Hoo- Ver's slogan shout food winning the war can be altered to “Food Will Make Germany Sign Up!" Vernon Kellogg says. He has Just emerged from the go _ @entral empires, and is the American official able to divulge the real state of affairs, there as to the food supplies. He made a ") Survey for the American food ~ administration, for which, during of the messag of lowa n poll-| time the ity guna { our house com insular affairs. The Porto Ri very wisely concluded that the way to impress congress was to this congressional committee was isk the pre lature has as membersh on “The food we are placing in th of the German government ts | its greatest source of power in stay ing off Bolshevism,” Kellogg sald, | \ \ : Upon landing here. “There ix being | \ 4 “Bent now 370,000 tons of foodstuffs manding : Germany each month, including | he, “bu 000 tons cereals and 70,000 tons y direct fate. It ts not a bit more than she 7 most of them did not mean it. I julres. | , — them quite plainly that _ Ge y, there was . merica millions for ee ce the pac sthpoinen signing the three ut ; islands that for- Peace treaty, but I believe they will | roped be longed to Deane. , have to sign.” of anama canal, Hunger, lack of employment and ly not give up the Gissatisfaction with the government Iso pro- what promote Bolshevistn in Ger .” Kellogg say: Among statements and conclusions his report are these Altho the public does not see the ties as military defeat, Ger Many cannot resist the allies now. ‘The Ebert govermment is a.com , with chaos ag a result, for embraces the most able and level headed men in Germany. | . Germany needs economic help to fulfil! peace conditions. Any fear f giving her a lift is idle, because | | Germany can’t compete with other | | Mations in business for years. | Huns Won't Work | in labor won't work. Demo: | the quite their Rican rous independence,” ‘orto poli. in de- said | when I pinned them down | questions, I found that x Pee a4 island are as follows: New taxation laws necessary by adoption of a hibition amendment, which emt off a fertile source of Labor troubles, due to of Isbor and dearth of jobs. Difference in race and iam guage from us. a8 ve to r we the canal. dust Beginning Ve are just beginning our work island. Thre things are more education, sanitation | and agricultural improvement. Many of the people are illiterate, But that | 1s being remedied” Weshave brought y, encradon of Porte Rican girl eS he Re tnbtrabuing the | children in both English and Span- | 1917, 33 ish, There are good school buildings Friction Develops — all over the island. And the very first session? Lexsons in hygiene are sadly need-|ed friction between the jed. People live eight and ten inland Yager. The legislature tiny huts. ‘Tuberculoisis 1s com-|to adjourn sine die. Insteaih i |mon, and over 50 per cent of the| tempted to take a recess @ all people in the country have the hook- | months, the plan being p i GENERAL STAFF US. ARTY worm. There is only one tubercu-|keep itself in continuous a othe rare tard srleigerad > WASHINGTON, DC | losis hospital on the entire isiand. | thruout the two years for Bestinformed social scien Z | “Agricuitur the island is just) was chosen. The governor and labor leaders think the war | being developed finally had his way, but hurt German industrial charac protest} __The Virgin islands are « problem. | was engendered. and that the Gefman will not|°f the world peace congress. | They are not self-supporting. This| The present legislature is A pitch in like the thrifty and in- | G¢Fftman authority may now be exercised. oT will have to anpropriate | ed by the unionist party, which! Satine fellows he was. now ghanged. $276,000 to run them. There are| separatist party. It not “Germany can't regain trade post-| A—Alsace and Lorraine, returned unreservedly 000 more women than men, and | adopted a resolution asking OUP. | 4—Danzig area internati with ample provision for Polish port {ities and aj Work is hard to get. There are no | gress for legislation that by dumping any surplus on the | B—The territory given unreservedly to Poland ‘ with peace. That would re C—The region to the west of the Rhine which allied troops will occupy for 15 years corridor assured along the Vi connecting Poland with Danzig. Region north of| Manufacturing industries and agri-)fer the question of the island's” ire ¢ast overproduction, and Ger-|‘o insure compilance with the terms of the treaty. This region extends from the Swiss Meme! River subject to disposal of League of N: ni culture is not highly developed. | ture to a plebiscite, Pi yy is put to it to restock her own | border to Holland and inctudes the various bridgeheads now held by the allies. b—Hamburg and Stettin to furnish wharfage to Czecho-Slovakia. ¢ sugar could be raised “7 The Porto Ricans have heard ives, L—Luxemburg, which is taken from the German customs union 6—-Kiel Carmi to be of t nations more cattle. | much about consent of the “The only method by which Ger. 1—The Saar valley region (shaded territory), in which full ownership of coal mines 7—Rhbine, Moselle, Oder, Vistula People Are Poor at the Paris peace confe could be pulled out of her pres: | is ceded to France and which i to be governed by a commission named by the League of all na “Many of the people a afflicted | they want to try a little of it, position,” Kellogg declares, | of Nations with German legislation as the baw Prusria o Bavaria will administer &—Heligoland fortific: | with pellagra. The colored folk far | Were 80 convinced of the Id be for her workmen to work | the rails and other public service. After 15 years the residents will vote on future $—Neutral zone 30 outnumber the white. The island of | "88 Of their cause that they: er hours at lower wages than | sovereignty. forces must not advance St. John has 940 p Only priated $8,000 for the purpose ic =< WANGY FLEET FORMER ‘U’ GIRLIELECTRIC SIGN \LLEWELLYNIS U.S.DIRIGIBIE 22. S22 2 seesomuae The odd part of the whole that this yearning for followed so quickly upon the ing of more home government to t People. Under an organic act, | gave them popular election, | of the house, as heretofore, of the senate of their legi first elections were hel : BASE MAP BY f MILITARY INTELIGENCE DIVISION) Here is the map of Germany (unofficial) as it appears after the reducing processes 2—The 982 square miles ceded to Belgium, with proviso that inhabit Within the heavy black lines is the only region in which within #ix months and League of Nations reserves decision. Dotted lines mark old boundaries of Germany 3—Schleswig territory which will on ation to and West Prussia which will choose by ballot between Poland and Germany by League of Nations until ve taken s may Denmark and area in East administered | vote anne to France. is and Niemen rivers to be open to commerce ona. ons to be miles razed, deep on east bank of Rhine rman armed ickly has ) to accept lower standards of life 1s ian. eal’ ive per | Went over there, Maan. they possessed before the war, nt white population About 80| OM the face of things, Porte: Bnd to assure a degree of industrial | | per cent of the children of the is | USht to be prosperous under slavery entirely out of harmony with | | tands are iliegitim: Many of the/C4" government. It is true ity fndustrial conditions elsewhere in sple are so poor that they are| Ports dropped from $81,000,000. 4 pe, world. ‘of the government. | 1917 to a little over $74,000,000 last to be 30 cents a ar, but this was due to the “This the German workman shows not the slightest disposition to un dertake GROOMED TO GO ‘The peace congress has acceded to U. S. Fliers Prepare for Long Islands Chief, WEDS GOVERNOR CAUSES BLAZE GIVEN MEDAL FOUND AT SEA ss Seattle Officer Promoted C-5 Brought In After Being ay; now th are 80 cents. Denmark did little to develop the islands, “We govern them now thru a co culty in getting ships for transportation, there being an of 100,000 tons over the normal over, |lonial council and a governor who 45, Wins $2,800 Damage Is Done by} i ire; i i a an admiral, Congvees stioula take |. 80 trouhl Bride of 18 Years Fire; Block Threatened | and Decorated for Service Blown Away in Gale iw an admiral, Congress should take pane, ouble ia thas Bi | | —— the navy, and put it in civilian | ‘hs. Ordinarily the island iw | CHICAC May 16—Elizabeth| Fire caused by the short-circuiting| After serving with the overseas| ST. JOHNS, N. F., May 16,—| hands, not because the navy is not | Stocked with labor. An island Wrentmore, formerly a switch connected with | American forces from June 21, 1918, | arnited The dirigible C5| doing a good job, but because terri or ones ies it has over 1, of Washington student and sign, Thursday ning of the Slemed in dathsten tories should have civilian govern-| 00 Population, or 358 per sql the shoe store Frederick W ment le. Competition for jobs is later a student at the University | of the Dinham-Strehlau Co., ond|former Washington adjutant gen.|®board the British steamer “I come back from the West Indies | “"4 manf laborers went to the jot Californ! at Berkeley, was|ave. and Yesler way, The damage |eral, returned to Seattle Thursday, | Davidson at a point 88 miles east of | firmly convinced that we should take | nd and to the other islands in |married at 6:30 p. m. Thursday to| was $2,800, About $300 of the loss is|to learn he had been awarded the| here today. The “blimp,” which | o all the islands we can legiti.| Carribbean, seeking for work, Francis Burton Harrison, 45, gov-|borne by the building, owned by the | distinguished service medal by Gen,|breke away from its moorings late| mately secure by purchase or other | Without much success, | ernor-general the Philippine | Griffiths estate. Pershing for meritorious service. yesterday, is now being brought to! equitable arrangement. The Carrib ‘or a time things were States headquarters here. | islands | » fire was discovered by Patrol-| Lieut. Col. Llewellyn assumed | this port bean should be an American sea.” {When over 12,000 young men The NC1 and NC3, which tra-| The wedding is represented as|man Fred Ivey about 10 o'clock. The |command of the First section of the} After making a record mobilized for training in the veled on the surface of the water |tne culmination of a romance that | fige threatened for a time to destroy | general staff of the 28th division five | fight from Montauk Point, Fresno to War on can army. However, the a from Trepassey to Mutton harbor | started a year ago, when the cou-|the entire block, but was checked by|daya before the Meuse-Argonne of.) the air continuously for 25 hours, 45 | es " and subsequent demobilization thi thru 1918, the North has had 219| yesterday but failed to start their|1j¢ met at a dance in the Manila|the efforts of the fire companies. naive, obtaining his citation be-| minutes, the giant navy diri Fakers in Uniform all these men back on the Victims, the South 2,834, the West | flights, were discharging excess par | Haiace of |The loss ia covered by insurance. ause of his “constant vigilance and|C-5 broke from her moorings during) r~sNo, May 16.—Military police | ™*et ae 156 apd Alaska and other localities} aphernalia today to lighten thelr |" Goy.Gen tireless effort,” which kept in active | 4 40-mile gale and was blown out! recuiations enforced by. world war Agitators Are Busy 18. loads. One man probably will be| married, his first operation the entire system of sup: | to sea. : _ | veterans in U. S army uniforms will| Tabor agitators have been b “Texas stands third in the list,”| eliminated from each crew before) 4, gying in San Francisco in 19 - o, [Ply traffic and evacuation, during, | In charge of Lieut. Charles G.| Sixe ‘an thy tedeani, ta and some of the employers gsiys the report, “with 335 victims.| another attempt to start is made. Dares adeond with, Sure, Maia! Ford-Tribune Suit | engagement, Stopping now at|Little, of Newburyport, Mass, a| Dotty «rafters who are disgt shown themselves utterly callous Fifty colored women and eleven! The planes failed to hop off yester-| y 4.61 tHarrison, obtaining a final MT. CLEMENS, Mich, May 16 the home of his uncle, J. W. Spang biting crew of 100 men fought with | tne khaki, according to a resolution|t®€ needs of the men. There White women were lynched in 14|day because they were too heavy tol 4) 66 of divorce at San Diego just | (United Preas,)Twelve men were in |<? a Laurelburst, Lieut. Col. Liew j the wind for the control of the huge pted by the local W. W, V,, ask-|™Uch bad housing, and on top tates. Nebraska was the only state |rise from the harbor. While they | Sire. “1 ee coneral’s, third | the jury box, approved by both sides {cl will return soon to Camp Lewis | as bag Ing the sheriff to deputize a number {this rentala have’ often beam @utside the South which lynched | were trying to get up, the NC-4 came | Tt oe eee eee tried of Henry {for tscharge. Ho will live in Seattle} | When it v | of soldiers aa Geputy ahacttts creased from 25 to 50 per cent. women: The North and West to-|in sight, finishing its trip from Hall.|™OE He” a. ciety mother. {Ford's lbol auit. for. $1,000,000 | With his wife, longer possi In order to secure respect for the} Workers. on the sugar and tob 4 bapa “sha “ American army uniform, we must | Plantations have succeeded in eA th dae a, first respect it ourselves,” declared ther have lynched 21 persons dur-|fax. Thereupon Commander Tow " — re 10 hie: " > : rey ing the last five-year period.” [docked <0) dale file: attuete te iment wer ct ere Wreotmore, Gees: of agaist the Ohigawe Tribune wae on | ting some raises in pay, but not z r 3 the College of Man vigorously |at the morning session today |Man Badly Crushed [0rd to deflate the bag. ‘The cord Major Philip Williams, head of the|t®@ men on the coffee plantations, | broke. Lieut. Little was forced to} ( “ “sf | war veterans, “and we are going to by Hotel Elevator away and make another try with ee cargoes lightened, after the NC-4 | opposed the marriage were cireu-| It was indica that both siden Whatever form of government the | ‘ e lated thru the press for some time | will assun milar tactics. Counsel » fro: ght of 25 feet, s' sland is e crew had had a chance to make | ace rs pri thas ‘ \ for oa cad yw! per pe she tie from = ne ct feet, SUS | oe that no one begs or sells worth. | ‘land is allowed, it probably will aly |ceasary repairs and join the squad-|F iz epg >| With both legs broken as the re-| “ining 4 sprained ankl |tess petty things on Fresno’s streets | Ws have to look to us as its Beat | ron small party of guesta were! prove to the jury that the Tribune sult of being caught ween the Lieut. Commander W. Coil and his in an army uniform." customer. Last year all the pest of , ic ent 4 he wed¢ e cere | 4 editorial was working a bl crew of five me: re asleep abos y - © world boug i M ¢ When the NCA nt “ate th meters th oes is ie i ait rind win gil Mo lfloor of the elevator and the upper | sei of fv jinen were 4 sleep aboard| "'Heserters and men not entitled to| {World bought from Porto Rieod ef eeing t Y Md hea senssroees Bibs “ |frame of the xhaft gt the Busch | the crulser Chicago at the time. | wear the uniform also will be prose: | $ While we took $65,514,989, ji |hotel, Sixth ave. S, and Jackson » The destroyer Edwards put to sea! cuted, | Thursday afternoon, Robert Downie way from their moorings in ‘Tre: | mony Myers, pastor of the Im-|ing war with Mexico in 1916. _aehile e t0ok S85 BARRE immediately with orders to follow| . 50, a guest at the hotel, is in the city Soldier Gets Job; ’ 4y yesterday on the way to | Johnstone lthe starting place, the crews were|manuel Baptist church Prof.| The Tribune attorneys previously world sold Porto Rico $4,448,524, the “blimp” and to bring her down while we sold her $58,945,758 worth: hospital, His recovery is expected, | With her guns if necessary, The bag According to Edith Peters, 2301 1 Killed Next Day HLEHEM, Pa, May 16,-—To }h rtily cheered by the men on the|Wrentmore and his wife are at| stated they will attempt to show that | supply ships and by the fisher folk | Manila, a telegram of congratuia-|the sense in which they used the of goods. We take from the island of the town of Trepassey. |tions being received from the lat ‘anarchist’ in referring to distanced the destroyer, however. her grapefruit, oranges, eocoanuts, ‘The crews of all three planes were | ter. Ford was not in any way libelous. Madison st, who operated the ele.|&24 no word was heard of it until pineapples and the bulk of. her vator, she had closed the door of the | the Chicago received a wireless from sugar, molasses, cigars and tobacco,” car, preparatory to going up, when | thé British steamer Clan Davidson | have passed thru the great war un .: Downle ran up, opened the door and seathed and then return home and secure work, only to be killed on the ond day of his civilian emple aboard them early this morning, Porto Rico raises $5,500,000 that the bag was in the water 80 leaped in while the machine was in ment, was the fate of Willard RB. Me carefully going over the big ma of coffee, but almost all of it goes miles off shore. motion. He lost his footing and fell moyle. The young men fell 80] chines, which were moored at their| Councilman-Elect Jeustomary locations in ‘Trepassey to Spain and Cuba, We supply: The C-5 had answered all require- Porto Rico with most of her wheat backward ments on her trip from Montauk feet from the top of blast furnace at the Bethlehem Steel company and hay, ‘These berth are wome distance) Gets Army Release flour, rice, beans, peas, cotten elotl Point and the final arrangements nearly every bor in his body was | from utton harbor, the actual The vacant seat on t city coun | jumping oft place. A start could not | cil will taken Monday by Maj. bags, iron and steel articles, leatl be made from Trepasse: ay because | John KH. Carroll, counciiman-elect, to for fuel, food and clothing for the meat, oil and paper. HARD LUCK WAVE it ig too small and congested with | fill the term of Roland W. Cotterill, men were to be made and the trans Tt in nos felt “hare that aie | | Atlantic trip undertaken will seriously consider granting: broken A sister of the dead man was drowned a few months og pd to- day the mother is in a serious state CHICAGO, May 16 Meraid | small boats Maj, Carroll has ved hin dis dependence The have, at Jot nervous collapse, Keliogg’s idea to send Germany 440, 900 tons of food per month. Ger. many pays, he says, and with the allies shares the expense of feeding undernourished children, a special endeavor. Jump Across Ocean BY A. E. JOHNSON United Press C TREPASSEY, N. F., May 16— | Another attempt to start the |"''% American transatlantic flight was to be made as soon as the NC4 had been overhauled and weather corlitions are improved, it was stated today at United of an electric an electric displ night, broke out 18, Univer Press) rmistice Liewtilyn 3,224 Killed by Mobs During Past 30 Years NEW YORK, May 16,—In the Inst 30 years 2,224 persons have been killed by mobs, according to a report by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. For the 20-year period from 1889 was and taken} in Clan} of breaking being in the governor-general Harrison has been twice wife, Mary Crock |Pick Jury to Try et. seen that it was no to hold the “blimp ordered the engineers to pull the rip Belgian Merchant Fleet Will Grow (Special to The # N. B. A)| BRUSSELS, M Belgium ts to have merchant marine, Th allies have promised this, It will b greater than the Belgian fleet before the war. Sixty ships with a total tonnage of 300,000 been prom ised. This was the tonnage of the Belgian ficet before the war. Nearly half of the ships then owned were lost. The new fleet will there fore Have a tonnage of 500,000. Work has begun on restoring the port of Antwerp, and NC-3 taxied | Pr as 16 is NOT PREJUDICE! MT. CLEMENS, Mich., May 16 One of the jurors in the Ford-Trib une libel suit said during the ques tioning that he was the owner of a Ford car but this would not preju dice him either way. HARDWARE CONVENTION EN Visiting members of th if Northwest Hardware and Implement | Dealers’ association were guests of Auxiliary Co. L, 161st Infantry | honor at a banquet Thursday night, |* Auxiliary Company L, 161st infan that closed the twoday convention | try, will give a dance this evening at of the association here, Douglas hall, at 9 o'clock, s EDMONDS TO HOLD MEMORIAL xi Brown rolled into « lot of hard juck| The next time an attempt to start | charge from the army, having Special memorial services in the when bandits held him up, took his|is made it i# understood Machinist | ported to Camp Lewin for the papers | Edmonds Opera house in honor of been tentative plans for statehoo watch, money, slugged him with «| Christianson of the NC-1 and Lieut. | following wire instructions from|the four local residents who died in but even this will not be grant n and drove away in his new au-| Rhodes, NC-2, reserve pilot engineer,! Washington. He expects to qualify | the service will bo held by Kdmonds while the illiteracy on the Jas great as it is now, ab will be left behind, and take the oath of office Vriday. citizens Memorial Sunday,