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

"Fewer Accidents, Too, Since Tides in Seattle YRmar SATURDAY May 23 it Low Tide om a mae tnd Low Tide. 16:53 pom, 29 tt VOLUME 22. NO. 79. jail sentences. An American Paper That Fights for Americanism The SeattleS Entered es Second Clams Matter May 2%, 1899, at the Postoffios at Beattie, Wash. ander the Act of Congress March #, 1879, THIS IS NO CHILD'S PLAY; DON'T FINE EM; JAIL EM licensing of motorists nor a new set of laws will check speeders as rapidly as We have all the law we need to nab all reckless drivers. But we are too lenient in enforcing them. Judge Gordon has been fining those arrested for - traffic violations. They are not children. They know _and.understand fully the rashness of their acts. Ju- Fining them is only child’s play. Put them in jail! Speed Fiénds Slow Down = YANKS MOVE TO BATTLE LIN Allies Set HOPE 0F “WETS” G0 for War ifsas, 000, 000 SoldierBill Passed | ARRESTS ARE Police Got Busy Police activity against anto speeders haS checked reckless | driving. Only three arrests of anto vio laters were made Friday morn pared with 25 or 30 dur- No auto accidents were recorded Friday morning. Usually from three ‘to six smashups are reported | daily during the early rush hours. Police Chief Warren asked the city council Friday to appropriate funds ample to permit a complete survey @& traffic problems and regu lations in big Eastern cities. He wants to send Lieut. C. G. Carr, head of the traffic squad, to New York, Cleveland, Detroit and Chicago for instruction. Friday Arrests Those arrested Friday were: C. C. Edwards, alleged to have driven his car 20 miles and hour was arrested by Patrolman C, J Swanson on W. Green Lake way. He | was charged with reckless driving and released on $ bail U. C. Scott, 28, was released on his personal recognizance, after arrested at 12th ave, and Pike st flergt. W. F. Donlan and Patrolman R. R. Moulton. He was charged with | reckless driving. David Allenby, 18, was arrested by Motorcycle Patrolman W. A. El ott. He is charged with driving 35 miles afi hour on Rainier ave ‘Thrusday Arrests Charged with driving his auto on the wrong side of the struck Miss M. Tucker, 311 17th ave WN. and knocked her down, inflict wevere bruises, H. L. Quigley, 1 (United WASHINGTON treet when he | girgt @ay night, charged with reckles driving, and rele recognizance. Miss Tucker had just | democrats blocked Tuesday alighted from a Capitol Hill car, and! determined to force di was walking to the curb, when|qu F. G. Shaffer, 36, was arrested on a charge of speeding Yutes, 40, charged with ¢ miles an hour on Madison ¥. W. Rust, 6, Fourth ave. and Pike st., charged with standing his machine more than | re one foot from the curb Third ave. and Pike st. charged with obstructing traffic. feated In police court Thursday 18 auto | demanding (CONT'D ON PAGE TWO) ON DECREASE] 2emM Dollars! reader in the contest, which ends amount of the baby, wife, husband, may have figured Edmund Vance Cooke says his family can furnish funnier yarns + We've taken up his challenge, Now Send your stories to the “Laugh Editor” of The Cooke's contribution today follows: than any of The Star readers. {t's up to you I entered upon him. or two later he head and she laughed her fool head off. Wh Jolinon Demands Status of U. S. Russian Policy BY L, ©. MARTIN Staff Correspondent may ram 12th ave. N. E., was arrested Thur ment of the on’s demand for his | prer which | only the league, but certain feature: » in|of the peace settlement sed on his personal | resolution stion and get a vote on the reso Quigley’s machine struck her. She}Jution, it possible, was not seriously injured. roll 2 A hour on 12th ave. 8. Thursday. M.| Russian statement from the govern ing 30| ment crats was arrested at| forces probably enatora Poindexter C, E. White, 29, was arrested at | prepared to keep the R explanation of the best story submitted by a Star ‘amily laughter Five dollars is the three next best stories will be awarded $1 each The stories should be real ones—relating dent that has occurred in your family—funny episodes in which sister, mother, mother-in-law, or the old man Wednesday cond prize, and the n incl Well, turnabout’s fair play, I’ve told you how My small son held his father on the grid, But sometimes (as I hope that you'll allow) The “old man” puts it over on “the kid.” This jest is likely geologic in its date, Of Mesozoic period of Jurassic, But I refurbished it, so ’tis its fate That in our house it is a family clas ‘The small son was busily engaged in scrubbing his head . son Taking your week-end bath, ic. shing my head.” your weak-end bath.” d the fan laughed 1 said sober! id about washing my t's the EDMUND VANCE COOKE oyright, 1919) |formal recognition of the Omsk gov )jernment and deportation vik agents from the Unit Opent of the at Bolshe state: ack on. the blicans |amended league of nations covenant is also scheduled for today, if oppor tunity is given nators Sherman and Reed have red speeches denouncing not Sherman will offer a resolution to | parate the league covenant from nd will demand a| the treaty, so that the peace settle 1 if democrat Some republicans last session op- | miles an| posed ment may be ratified and made effec » and longer time given to con the advisability of the United s joining the proposed league house appropriations com administration | mittee continued its work on money e to send |bill#, It took up the $15,000,000 Ir ne foreign | dian bill, in an effort to report it for passage during the day. As soon as thi ia disposed of the District of Columb: bill will be acted on Karly next we k the committee is} a resolution|to take up the railroads’ financial the | needs, A bill appropriating $1,000, American policy, and King wants | 000,000 probably will be reported, rU. S LEGATION |S BOMBED WASHINGTON, May 23. (United Press.)-An attempt to destroy the American legation at San Jose, Costa Rica, by a bomb, was reported to the state department today. The bomb only broke glass in the legation’s windows. LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Per Year, by Mall, $5.00 to $9.00 SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1919. Pershing, in withholding ~homeward movement of the Fourth and Fifth regular army divisions from the army ing the Gernians a firm front in the face of their threats |¢ not to sign the peace treaty, according to the general belief supreme commander of the allied forces in France, and is ready to march into Germany should events make such a mittee. step necessary. ° Withdrawal of the Fourth and Fifth divisions from the army of occupation, in accordance with the announce- ment several days ago that they had been released to pre- ican combat divisions in France—or Germany—not released or actually assigned to early convo | The three divisions, the yeteran First, Second and Third Whe. American: rench and: British armies. COBLENZ, May ‘ 23,—(United Press.)-—Redistribution | of American forces in the Gpblenz bridgehead, as precau- treaty, was practically completed today. Movement of between 25,000 and 35,000 troops in motor |, trucks, from the west to the east side of the Rhine, was expected to be finished late today or tomorrow. These soldiers were being stationed at various vant- | age points and everything within the American area was being placed on strictly war basis. All sales of non-mili-! tary property to the Germans were suspended and regula-}! tions against fraternization were strictly enforced. counsel for James Bruce, 1. W. W. organizer, on trial before Su- | perior Judge Walter M. French, on a charge of criminal anarchy, | ; Prosecuting Attorneys PARIS, May 23. — (United | non-German territories, which it is} Chartes E. Press.)—In a scathing denuncia- | proposed to transfer. It ts the needs | Claypool took is 6 «Friday tion of Germany's conduct of the | of this smaller aggregation that we| morning in reading to the jury war, the allies have refased to | are called upon to consider extracts from “The Ked Dawn,” accept the contentions put for- “Inevitable Penalty” “The 1. W. W., Mg History, Or. ward by the German delegates “Cossplaint Je made in the Ge ganization and S@ucture,” and regarding economic conditions in | |... OrnPiAin’ Ws gh Ae gyi i and the Worker,” their country, The reply, made surrender her m nant tonnage, ex nary pamphlets teed | eee Over the heated objections of George F. Vanderveer, chief public today, charged that the sting OF in cour: t ; Allison, former sergeant report of the German economic A ys ay ‘ nstruction in the intelligence section of the commission, upon which For: oe nat avs 1PM | United States Army, who became her shipbuilding capacity for a limit per of the I ed term of years Spokane Extract from The eign Minister’ Brockdorff-Rant zau's note was based, is “marked in parts by great exaggeration.” WwW. at “No mention, however, is made of One of the statements made in the| the fact that a consid written by Harrison ¢ rman commission's report was|0f the smaller tonna ail, traced the histor “those who will sign this treaty|4* left, to her unimpaired; and) shevikt in Russia and predicted the rable po of German sign the death sentence of many | Seems to have entirely escaped the| downfall of “yellow lists” who mi 18 of German men, women and| MOtice of her spokesmen the | i¢ sught to st flood of children sacrifice of her larger shipping radicals, would be torn limb from “The German note opens with the! the inevitable and necessary penalty | jimb statement that the industrial re-| for the ruthless campaign which, in) Lengthy excerpt of all laws and precedents many are inadequate | defian i during the last two y nt | She wa ism and the Worker ars! of Gustave Herve sources of G before the war for the nourishm: argues ‘ad tho thin were the total for | Shipping of the world trine which sneere which the diminished resources she| “As a’ partial offset against the | try stil! has will be called upon to pro: | 12,750,000 tons of shipping sunk Vanderveer opposed the reading © vide ply dl is proposed to transfer 4,000,000 tons | tne pamphlets on the ground that This in not the case, The total|of German shipping. The universal) tye suthenticity of the booklets must population of Germany will be re-| shortage of shipping is the result.| fret be firmly established by ghe duced about six million persons in | __(CONTD ON PAGE TWO) leat ‘A “The defendant should not be he BY CARL D. GROAT jdorff-Rantzau, it was learned today.|, JUde® Wrench overruled Vander United Press Correnpondent | Unconfirmed reports were in cir.| Vers obiection a aft May Alteration of| culation that Foreign Minister Brock. | CUUns Attorne finde Chale final counter proposals |dorffRantzau, head of the German| (olewing opinion of ite nn ee was undertaken here today, follow: | delegation, has expressed hiv disap:| bigrict court in Portland, when he ing receipt of information that the | proval of the German government's | 1°" natut tion papers of ies had granted extension of time | suggestions regarding change of the SAPP! \ treat The Berlin workmen's and soldiers’) itneut concluding, by fait and im Char heldemann and Count|council at a plenary meeting late T dedbetiony thaé it NOt only’ ts om a member of| yesterday passed resolutions demand. een once varchist 1 the fore personnel, may £0 | ing that the treaty be signed and ap-|\ city ta opposed to all forms of go to Spa to consult with Count Brock: | pealing to the entente proletariat, | TCally ix opposed to Bt Cort eee and constructs {ts own moral Important Senate Italians Send New which ace not in accord with those | Post Given Lodge Men to Conference) Witness Atiison resumed his testi | WASHINGTON, Senator BY HENRY woop mony after the pamphlets seized by Lodge of Massachusetts has been| — (United Press Correspondent) him were read to the jury | definitely appointed chairman of the) PARIS, } Count Imperial, | orelgn relations co! ee by the| Ita . © Creat Brits ‘ rornnuittes on coramittees, Senators |and Signor Crespl, Italian food com. | Chinese Delegates Balking at Treaty Penrose of Pennsylvania and War-| missio’ have replaced Antonio re ol yor g are fav 1 as Salandra and M Fe ania inne’ and: aaiones Lat On. {Ha LeRSaTL PARIS, May (United P pe one rept ‘ Wellington Koo, member of the Chi nese peace delegation, declared to: ia under: | was officially announ day that the treaty will be signed by noon Nothing—something the rich man| Yes, Hazel; a man is the most im ‘hina only with reservations “if at ts, the poor man has, the cniser | portant pleco of furniture in @ wom: ‘all.’ He said the delegation wi spends, and the spendthrift saves, /an's air castle, , sul considering its course of action, quis Salvago-Rag delegation, it d this after nmittec priations ¢ tood PeaceFails 9 > piANs T) DOUBLE TAR WASHINGTON, May 23.— of Seen e See is taking precautionary measures and show-/ag the rank and file is concerned- WASHINGTON, May 23.—(United Press.)—Senators Sh pard and Jones, republican, today introduced bills for enfo pare for their return home, would have left but three Amer- ment of war time prohibition, which goes into effect July 1, WASHINGTON, May 23.—(United Press.)—Without d \regular army units, comjirise on!} about 75,000 men. With the senate today passed the deficiency bill, appropriating required far"a.complete occupational OOO to pay war risk insurance allotments. The bill had condition, but Fil 0: ag gra mek “jess than the] Passed the house. It now goes to the president. bond | . WASHINGTON, May 23.—(United Press.)—-A high fp tive tariff, approximately doubling the present customs rat tionary measure in the event the Germans refuse to sign the| been decided upon by house republicans, it was stated by membe lof the ways and means committee toda: FOR STATE This Is Big Night for Bruce Jurors ‘The first jazz dance and pho- nograph concert to be enjoyed by the Bruce jury will be held Friday night in Superior Judge Walter M. French's court room. A big box of jazz records were sent to the jury room this morn- ing after being given an official OOK. by dudge French, The nce tonight will be attended, ly by the jurors and This combined person. 1 comprises five women and men IDENTIFY BODY FOUND ON BEACH Woman Had L@gved From Boat Thuisday he bod the woman found Edmonds, wa e i y B. Challa By us t f Mrs. Ri ‘ " mmitted icide by jumping overboard from am. City of Angeles about 10 a, m. Thursday, when it was an hour from Edmonds : The woman was being taken rome from the insane hospital at » Wooley to Friday Harbor, San ur by her husband, and 1 into the sound when he 1 left her for a few mo d to officia Puget ind Navigation Co, the woman had threatened to commit ide. VOLCANO TAKES MANY VICTIMS ROME, May 23.—(United Press.) The voleano of Stromboli is in violent eruption, according to re ports received here today. Several persons were said to have. perished and many have been injured. Re ties were reported to be route to the island from Mi (United Press. )—Congress—so —appears anxious to pursue | hands off’ policy toward President Wilson’s recommendation here. at : _ \repeal or amendment of the war-time prohibition act. The beli Marshal Foch, it is understood in Washington, is stilllig that the recommendation will never be reported out of a ce ‘right in their claims. A very great ILRI TEAC (Special to The Star) OLYMPIA, May 3.—The © ht for higher pay for school chers will not be ended until ° salary. scale attracts the best men and women and keeps them in the profession. e school teachers should receive the same pay as high school instructors, provided the nal qualifications and ng are equal. is the statement of Mrs, Corliss Preston, state nt of public instrug. » not anticipate trouble, for hat whenever the people are ven a chance to vote on. the eachers: laries, they yote righ The. people have proved eminently fair, 1 do not believe it will Be necessary for the school teachers to organize unions to get a fale “Disgracefully Underpaid’* “We have got to come to the tion that the schools demand the choicest men and women, We want the best; we have got to pay “School teachers have heen dis? racefully underpaid, and, as result, t »| system has sul fered. ‘The schools have done Pe- ma well to retain their teact statt ay ide school teachers want pay equality with the high school instructors. I ‘believe they are many of the elementary teachers are as well trained, have spent as much for their education, have: worked as long and faithfully as the high school teachers. I do not under-rate the high school teachers, but T plead for justice to the Je school men and women, “The elementary schools are the’ very foundation of our school tem, our civilization, ‘They ake next to the home. True, the high schools take the boys and tm difficult ame, but ws