The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 17, 1919, Page 1

NO STR Tides in Seattle SUNDAY SATURDAY May 17 tet Low NO. 74. OO VOLUM ORDINANCE TOPREVENT THUG GANG CAR STRIKE fouths Arrested Saturday Both Sides Predict Settle- Morning Admit Robberies, | ment by Passage of Police Say Overtime Bill Monday | TIP LEADS TO CAPTURE EXTRA SESSION HELD Four boys the police say have confessed they are members of ithe bandit gang that terrorized welers on the paved highways ‘out of Seattle for more than a week, stealing autos and rob- bing motorists and pedestrians, Were arrested carity Saturday morning. are Mannie Miler, 17, $444 Kirkwood Peaceful settlement of the street car men’s dispate with the city in time to prevent the pro- posed strike threai for next week was predicted by coun- citmen and union officials Satur- day. Passage of two ordinances intro duced by Councilman C. B. Fitager jd to provide payment of Umeand abalf for overtime to street railway Peter Jongejan, 18, 7505 24th ave. employes is practically assured Mon. [@ay as the result of special session jer ave.|of the council Friday afternoon to 59th | permit the ordinance to be presented. | ~ bid é: reer John, 18, 8629 Fe Ragnar Nyren, 18, 2315 arrests Were made by Police | mediure was called af Foveork and tenant J. A. Wickman, Detec linsted lees than five minutes. No} W. Go Witake and #, B. Wil-|other business was transacted. Those deputy secretary cf state, on present were Hasketh, “& Up given, to Witzke. | Bolton, Haas and Carroll, whose Nyren was arrested at work at| votes are sufficient to pass the or the Todd drydock, Scott was cap.) dinances Monday. don the street, and Miller and The first ordinance muthorizes the ean in the Donald hotel, payment of all enployes of the mu. th ave, and Olive st. nicipal street railways extra com- Confession Reported pensation for overtime work. ‘The four boys, the police say, ad Money Provided * they stole an vutomobile be In the second bill $5,000 is appro is to Mrs. Catherine Boyd, priated to meet the overtime pay ave. S, last Saturday night.| ment from May 15 to June &. the machine for ov< night and| According to street railway em- ae out on the Everett bighway | pioyes’ representatives who attended y evening, holding «up eight) both the council meeting and the omobilists and pedestrians. The | special sitting of the finance commit ts then returned to Seattle tee afterward, where the’ ordinances d robbed two pedestrians north Of were favorably reported, dectared | feodiand park, finally deserting |that the measure met with thelr ap e machine on Rainier ave., the po- assert. ] prova! Nyren, the boys asserted, did not They also say that no strike vote fake part in the Thursday night will be called on Tuesday. as planned, faid when 5. E. Bowen, of Sumner, |if the council passes the bills at Was robbed of $22 and his automo- Monday's meeting | “The ordinances meet our idea of Bile on the highway 1 mile from . Faw Tacoma. The Bowen robbery was what is fair and right in the ‘matter of overtime,” J. A. Stevenson, busi feeegee because fomeougerrs pete ness agent of the union, said after st, earlier in the evening, developed the council meeting If the council engine trouble and the holdups de adopts them, as we are told it un Ms ae cathe’ oar doubtedly will, the referendum strike Fast Cars Taken vote will not be taken. We are not anxious to strike; in fact, we use According to the police, Jangejan|that method of getting resulta only Acted as chauffeur, selecting the au-|as a last resort, but the council h tomobiles to be stolen before start. steadfastly refused to grant us im- ing on the robbery campaigns. Mil-| mediate relief, voting to defer action Jer is said to have wielded the au-| until budget making time, and our tomatic pistol with which automo-| patience is exhausted. I feel sure Bile parties were terrorized, while | now, however, that the matter will be| Seott and Nyren were detailed to/ satisfactorily adjusted in the next| gearch the pockets of their victims. Only high-powered cars capable of few days. We have completed ar- rangements for the strike vote Tues- great speed were taken for the high way robberies (CONT'D ON PAGE FOUR) On Sunday GREET YANKS: and Mr. and Mrs. L. & Griggs ot! Sunnyside, near Woodinville, stole Welcome Program Enlarged but No Parade night's raid, the ban $6 and drove Browder’s car about a mile along the road, leaving the party stranded g. Main, 1210 John st, and Miss Trene Ashford, 814 28th ave., were held up on the Everett highway and 7 stolen | s J. D. Sheridan, Diller hotel, was fobbed of $7 In the university dis. 4 _" 4 J Seattle will entertain soldiers A. O'Brien, 87th and Greenwood and sailors instead of soldiers five. pedestrian, was robbed of $6| and sailors entertaining Seattle near his home. in the future. Polies Probe Actions ¥ overseas next Tuesday, ttle will (i Bandits he bd "938 oe ne Near) rides, free bath tickets and free! Tacoma, sea oe ond, nowen’*| meal tickets instead of the soldiers Baie mixth ave. pedestrian, toning |ctertaining Seattle with a parade $22 and a gold watch. Anderson hieng soldiers do not want to parade , vvave, Noand f.|but they do want to relax while 1e eee we at 31th ey “lin town, the pommittee believes papas lay In recognition. of this desire on The police are investigating the movements of the boys in connec tion with a number of uther holdups committed in Seattle during the last month. The records show a num- ber of people were robbed by three young thugs in the residence sec- tions. Questioned at the part of the doughboy, the en tertainment committee of the Cham- |ber of Commerce and Commercial Club decided Saturday morning to enlarge on the usual entertain. ment provided for gobs and dough-| boys by branching out into auto- mobile tours, free bathw and free police station | reals if the veterans desire to t the at Saturday morning the doys are said ake | ne to have denied having any definite|Svantage of tho, offer vlan of campaign. They told the| i bfflcers they met at the Pope-Sibley |Orlando and House f poolhall and made plans there for| - each raid Meet But Disagree to q ore ane | PARIS, May 1%g(United Press| 3 33D TROOPS ARRIVE Following Premfér Orlando's con q NEW YORK, May = 17.—The| ference with Col, House today, it ik | transport Mount Vernon, carrying! was learned that no decision has yet 22rd division troops, arrived here been reached regarding disposition this morning. of Fiume, |The counct! meeting to receive the) Fitagerald, | Seattle is to be saved thehardshipsand discomforts of a street car strike. The council is expected to pass the Fitz- gerald ordinance granting street car men overtime pay for overtime work. The city has cause to congratulate it- self on the outcome. Not only is it saved a lot of grief, but it has the satisfaction of knowing that the square deal principle has triumphed. An American Pntered ea Becond Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoftic ] | ‘The picture shows the American seaplane NC across the Atlantic, two planes and h Striking of engine trouble, but managed to reach Trepassey, Newfoundiand, the ee of being first to the Azores. WARRANTS OUT FOR LANDLORDS, ‘Arrest Five » for Failure to Supply Heat Five landlords will be under arrest Saturday, charged failure to provide sufficient to tenants of their hotels apartment houses. with heat and Following receipt of a basketful of complaints against profiteering rent hogs, who would not even their furnaces, operate Health Commissioner H. M. Read ordered an inventigation The five warrants resulted from the first day's work by the inspectors, and more cases are expected health officials, noon, when L. of the Hollywood apartmen John st, |by the health department, him with failure to maintain heat his I in apartments. by the/ ‘The first arrest came Fr iday after. N. Lisle, proprietor | te, 118 was arrested on a warrant charging proper fe fur | nished $25 bail and will be arraigned | | before Judge John B. Gordon | lice court at 10 a. m. Monda thers who are being brow wia, Abraham | reptile; "yaae Western ave.; M nobe, proprietor Antler’s hote | Ornstein, Rosemont apartmer 18th ave, N., and H. Oaki, hotel, First ave. and Seneca C. R. Frash, assistant hea | gineer, is making the arrests, ing personal penalty provided for violation city law, which requires h investigations. in po: y ught in apart Yama 1; Mrs, nts, 214 Sherman at. Ith en follow: -The of the at to be With the arrival of 600 men from| maintained in rooming houses, apart ments and hotels at 65 to 70 degrees, or both is $100 fine or 40 days imprisonment Ruth Garrison May the turmoil tion and silk canvas. us. back. The trial John A, Miller 1 with murdering his part ank Burghardt, ‘vith a ham pruary 13, will start in su perior court Monday morning. The court department and time will be ., SATL IRDAY, ‘MAY which today set a new world’s record “hard luck” at the outset of the flight from the ? in time to start jast night with the NCI and the'tm mense sine of the plane and the three huge The Congierers! HILE the rest of us are still more or less in of war's .aftermath, are humming into the futur They are getting away from We stare up at them as they soar thru the daz- zling sheen of the sky, and marvel. The future unfolds with the pioneer flight of the gigantic Yank plane, the NC-4, over the ocean. little world of man shrinks and is agog, while the world of scientific man laughs exultantly. feel the almost-forgotten thrill of exploration and ad- venture, of romance and excitement, war or peace or ruthless conquest, achievement—progress that leaps far out and yet has its basic scientific framework and will not fall The mystery of the universe opens again. lure of unexplored planets and star-dust are recalled to the visionary, while the less speculative mind, if it contemplates the future, mighty events and wonderful things. Paper That Fights for Americanism The Seattle Star at te, Wash, under the Act of © i LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE £6.00 to $9.00 Per Year, by Mall ongress March &, 17, T night and Sunday, probably showe moderate southeasterly winds Weather Forecast: by w York base the airmen on wings of inspira- The We all that is not in but in discovery, The sees the unfolding of MILLER MURDER START ANARCHY TRIAL TO START TRIALS WM MONDAY : The first direct attack on the con stitutionality of the I. W. W organization will be made by cuting Attorney Fred ©. fice Monday, when Jan as an a0 trown's of es Bruce will | determined by Presiding Judge Boyd) be placed on trial on a charge of J. Tallman early Mon:ay morning | Deputy Prosecutor T. H, Patterson has charge of the state's case. Miller if alleged to haye made a confession of the crime to Captain of Detectives Charles A, Tennant, Not Leave Sunday (fiterine a plea of selfdefense. Mil Ruth Garrison may remain in| ler and Burghardt were stopping in mttle Sunday, ccording to latest! Miller's home and Burghardt was Ivices from Sheriff, John 1, | killed while shaving, a being Stringer, who says the state peni-| battered in with a heavy hamm: |tentiary traveling urds are still) The body was placed in a bath-tub, | traveling. They were in Belling- tially destroyeg wita chemicals, |ham Saturday morning, and no|and then carted, wrapped in mat Jone of the local sheriff's office| tresses, to a gully south cf Renton, |would predict when either would|where it was discovered several arrive here days later by two soldiers | Ruth was scheduled to be taken | away Sunday morning, by Guard! et. Cromo and his, wife, 'she| Are Considering will go direct to the insane ward| Strike for Mooney | of the state penitentiary at Walla| ¢ Walla, from where the board of |,,8AN FRANCISCO, May 17 (United Pres#)—The International control may move her to the Kaw lern Washington hospital f the tn pe het Defenne league is tods sane at Medical Lake considering putting vidual’ unions the questio eral strike July 4 in behalf of Thom up to the Frankness may ruin 4 man, but as J. Mooney, seeking a new trial in duplicity dishonors him, the preparedness parade bomb plots. | criminal anarchy The criminal based on the anarchy charge is allegation that Bruce is a member of the I. W, W., and, aw such, On February 20, advocated | adherence to the aims of the organi zation, the overthrow of the federal government and the citySand state government, The trials of 22 other men, charged with criminal anarchy, will follow White House Gets Wilson’s Message WASHINGTON, May 17.—Presi- jont Wilson's message to the forth. Indl: | of a gen-|message will be read to congress | get Be 6 coming congress was 1 White House today It mately 4,500 words long, multy announced He refused to disclove any of the president's recommendations on do mestic legislation. It is likely the | Tuesday, as Monday probably will be ocoupled with organization work in both House and senate. ashi ute Cte "4 ‘ ses WORLD RECORD ESTABLISHED IN ~ OVERSEAS FLIGH WASHINGTON, May 17.—(United Press).—At 1 o'clock this afternoon the latest word received at the department as to the location of America’s trans flying fleet was NC-4 reported “arrived” at Horta at 9:20 a. m. NC-1 reported passed station ship 19 at 6:14 a. n NC-3 reported off her course between station and 18 at 5:15 a. m. The navy has received no radios on positions of flyers since shortly after 11 o'clock this morning. WASHINGTON, May 17.—(United Press.) —An can seaplane, the NC-4, “jinx boat,” of Commander To transatlantic flying fleet, established a world’s overseas flying today. When the word reached the b> ele navy department here that gel ton 9 this now famous ‘nancy’ | | thang amour "nae, MMMM HERE AZORES group, she had officially co ered 2,200 miles of the aa ah | from Rockaway Beach, N. Azores, or Western hree groups of v¢ N. th Atlantic, about 860- fo England. The leg ree est of Portugal, to which since last night, when she | belong Yankee airmen, in. hoisted anchor’ ‘Trepassey, race across the Atlantic, fi is 1,200 miles and she made landed on the Azores today. a record of 80 miles an hour. |) started on the historic trip arriving over the Axores Islands in the flight | The NC-4, NC-3 and NC-1 jumped |) day. the NC4 wax compelled to turn back on account | off from Trepassey, Newfoundland nc It outdirtanced the other Propellors. last night, and thruout the flight of | ficlals kept in toush with their prog reas by means of wireless messages, | radioed to the line of naval vesssia| eon Newfoundiand and pees *| The NC-1 ‘is reported following | close behind the NC-4, while the| NC-3 is lagging, and may be off her ) TRAFFIC SMASH IN WINNIPE {an washington wan ‘ritea at| Streets Are Filled With INJURES THREE te note sak. Seen Sel raders; Police Watch Motorcycle “Collides Head-| most radiant expectations of navy on With Auto prong ne is now only 150 miles from) ‘Ponta Del Gada and has traveled ae Pray 0 17. — St the longest leg in the navy attempt were crow: with parading st Three persons were injured in ‘He longest trail, to Hurope,|Many — private automobiles ® traffic smash-up on Green Lake Nine hundr and fifty mile Pressed into service to take the bivd. at 7:50 a.m. Saturday when away is Lisbon, her first conti-|0f trolley cars, carrying p & motorcycle, driven by M. Han. nental goal aes tale cae son, 5601° Fifth ave. N. W, The navy dispatch did not make! There are 7,000 soldiers here. G . clear whether the seaplane had|Ketchen ordered them ready for crashed head-on into an automo ny at Horta |stant duty. The Northwest Mo mile driven by Joe Bement, ship- yard worker, who lives at 553 E. th st. police also were ready. The dominion police, which teered for war work, was ready Makes Quick Flight | ander Read made the flight Hanson was thrown under the au Dailies tn 1 eure 400 38 i ce eee obbed 3 , 2g figuring his arrival at} One restaurant was mi tomobile, which, according to the po- m today. This was as|Cause the owner displayed a lice, was driving on the wrong side | a dule time of ap-|Teading: “Shall Bolshevism of the street at a speed of about pegeimately ) hours. ‘This was|in Canada miles an hour, Bruised and cut| verage speed of nearly S0| , Commercial telegraphers left about the head and body, Hanson|miles an hour, as against an ex-|Posts at 1 o'clock this afternoon, Ate | was taken to the City hospital |pected average of around 60 miles | HASwereents were made before J.T, Wallace, 3082 12th a .jan hour. left for communication lings ais and J.°G, Allen, 8053 12th ave. N. E.,| His accomplishment passed even | left open from Chicago to Saskatoon,’ passeng in the automobile, were the most optimistic expectations. Regina and other important points, cut by flying glass, and Allen sus-| Previously, naval officials had| Postal clerks also are out. ‘i tained a broken rib expected the NC-4 to go to Ponta|,, We want the authorities to Bement was booked by the police,/ Del Gada, 150 miles further, . in| there will be no weakening on and charged with violation of the | view of the progress he was mak- part & labor union official told the: traffic laws. He sustained no injur- | ing 1 ae supe —— pe oe jes. | ‘The first news of the arrival ‘of| Session receiving reports of Roth motorcycle and automobile ee seaplane reached the ns de. | Strike from all sections ef the eltyy wrecked, The collision oc-|partment thru the United Preas.| The official declared the newsnae curred on the boulevard, near/-me official message was received | P's Would have pares wont : | opinion against. the strikers Hogue station lby the department a few moments U. S: Spent t Hu * Commander Read's feat was ap-| today and lant night som all pe gx |plauded by all navy officials, in| o¢ the province. They were view of difficulties he had at the Sum During War} peer of the flight, which put him |behind the other two flyers here by the government at O1 In addition, Gen, Kitchin |all soldiers in the city not to | the armories and barracks, but te ready for duty at a moment's WASHINGTON, May actual war ex 23,262,000,000, Ameri ditures to n, March, r Comes Up bah of ere renee te According to navy messages, the| fine depots and bread lines a ia $2,969,000,000 represented | x¢-.4 arrived at Horta at OA In operation under union Jand $21,294,000 represented extra . . lqwar- couta, Of thie” $14,000,000,000 |Tmmnine_landing, difficult, and of: food was served to anyone not wai ast we ficials were of the belief that this|ing a union badge. jwae"epent by the army condition may have forced Com-| Perishable goods at freight house; mander to land at the first! and express offices have been A port instead of going on to Ponta to eold storage houses under Afraid of Wifey; Det Gada. lorders, Loss of goods at 4 4 The NC-4 first repor sighting | warehouses was declared to be ba Wants a Divorce } 1an1 «t 7:35 0. m. Latest infor- | mendou mation from the NC-3 was the | Newspaper managers decided was off her course, somewhere be-| would be futile to attempt to pete Leo Tomany of his wife. is afraid in a a glazier, He admits it |] divorce complaint filed Saturday, ||tween stations and 18, ‘This |lish during the strike. ; On April 18 last Tees complaint |[eaused some uneasiness, in view of| ‘The council has a labor maja says, his wife, Marian, called him || reports of f ather condi-/in its membership and pra s |} a “vite” name, slapped his face, ||tions. ‘The NC-1 passed station 19/all suggestions by the union My. cut his finger half off with a [/at 6:14 « jcommittee were adopted by |] buteher: knife, hit him on the ‘ jeounell, head with a stove poker, and “Sa eat eee ne Ubrew.'e heaeyiation ot Wood at'|| | i Additional News of him, injuring the back of his Transatlantic Flight Will Be ||Full Text Is Held head, Found on Page 1 of Section 2 | Her temper is frightful, his suit |) ™ ~ Until Huns Sign papers charge PARIS, May 17.—4(United Leo thinks she is. fit.to have PARIS, May 17.—(United Press.)— |The “big four” decided today net |] the custody of their S-year-old || In carrying out the inter-allied occu-| publish the full text of the Gern child, but he wants provision |/pation of Smyrna, the Greeks occu-| treaty until its acceptance, it made for him to visit the child occasionally, pled the city, the French the forts !learned from reliable sources, and the British and Ttalians the sub- resentatives of India were urbs, it was learned today, by that body this