The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 24, 1919, Page 9

Police Disarm Thug Suspect PISTOL TAKEN "He s F ought Years AFTER THREAT «(27 Potis® Freedom , Man Is Held as ( as One of Rob- bers Here Vietims of bait cent holdups ore headquarters Saturday to make the acquaintance of Frank Lanik, believed by the police to be one of the highwaymen who has been terrorizing the city for several weeks Lanik arrested I When he to Caught attempting to steal feat from the automobite of EB. MacMoran inspector for American Express pany. En to poll iM an automobile, with Patroiman E. W. Oakes riding p the rugning board, Lanik whipped it a revolver and, pressing it into the officer's stomach, ordered him to jump. Oakes snatched the pistol, and with the « of a passing Pedestrian, succer in disarming Lanik At the station, a dozen visiting police was lay have nig been ver Ww the com station iss Ratlway Motorcycle of the fame ” s Pilsudski, founder Polish legion, has played . part as any man in the freeing of land. His father was a revolu st. General Pilxudski for years « fugitive, printing books and other Polish propaganc press in a Polish vill t liscovered and he was ¢ ted aped. I sided with th trians against Russia, | country Was cleared of Russians he turned to the task of driving « Austrians and Germans, and lan¢ in an Austrian prison. He recently released. “ALLIES STRIKE “| “RED” FLEET ied ti was Lanik was found Yo have in his possession a false Mustache, a rubber pouch, of red Pepper and four pawn tickéts, The Authorities say the man answers the description of a stickup who Das been working the city lately @nd holding up his victims at the Point of a Dlack-barreled revolver Lanik’s record includes a term fh the reformatory of from two @nd one-half to fifteen years for! attempted robbery and attempted murder, acconiing to the ye He was sentenced Decemh IDS, and paroled Octoder 16. a June but ut whe HELLO CIRLS T0 ‘Bolsheviki i in n Fear of Losing Petrograd COPENHA May M%— (United Press)—The Bolsheviki are reported today to be evacuat ing Petrograd, in the face of con- tinued advance of Esthonian and Finnish armies, Unconfirmed dispatches stated the soviet forces were blowing up ammuni. tion dumps near the city. Rus sian citizens in the suburbs were said to have risen against the Bolshevik The Ksthonians, a dispatch sald, have taken Volotvse, about 40 miles southwest of Petrograd. FIGHT TO FINISH, Julia O'Connor Addresses} Mass Meeting Urging a 100 per cent organization Of all telephone operators in the city Miss Julia O'Connor, international President of the exchange girls, ad dressed about 300 girls in the Labor Temple annex, Friday night “Czar Burleson is responsible for all our difficulties,” she declared. small | waa} Aus was but THE SEATTL ‘Bitter Partisan Fight to | beWagedon World League BY L. C, MARTIN (United Press Correspondent) WASHINGTON, May 24 ebate on the leagu fr promines to be tisan fight . t | house for y mnday on t bin Johnson to Valk t few du most bitter par upper thin Ann that he ance will pubileity be positt the sion for at " by Senator I it apply plain. not} to wenate Democrats a { speeches to count eee tacks, Robinson treaty, was said today erator the p pub arly nex ark nanUrAnce that much of in oper b making this cou Melty, republican will provide thelr demands for league cov t While b week-end connld priation bill The republican Are now Mt is ators F won th oppoalu cussion will he first tine Jemocratic campaign to stir sentiment will foree the league Debate on the the league will be 1 nator Hiram Jobne \illog for immediate presentation of full text of the treaty to the enate is the unfinished business and will come up each day until it has pen disposed of either by a direet | | vote or by being to the foreigr relations com! | The n re foree Me in the or lie which democrats hope 7 houtile senators lo vote for adern justification for dment of the covenant ; ay olution nued pro. of house the Indian a committee virtually complete. {d they will show that Sen nrose and Warren have r fight against progressive n to thelr being chairman of the finance and propriations committees, The new republican members underwt to have been selected for the foreign relations committee Moses and New. If thin # correct, it will add three opponents of the league tions the committee wh dies the treaty ent exp t of strength be publican 1 admint immir aterday deve tra . o reapectiv " three ] It will come iliteheock notion that t to com when & renew resolution be discussion of which is ex Senator ion tot tutier to the of na r ever bh han y phase n ounc © will Expect Treaty Signing or War Again by June | BY FRED 8 FERGUSON | (United Press Staff Correspondent) | PARIS, May 24.—The wil | ned by the allied and German between Ju some misadventure at Ce delaying The the |days to its arrival until Bunda treaty present wil indications f Germar ying rmans whieh are that allies take ur or five study before the ¢ will in armistice forecast owls r and wi abe ke are expected! ow their n « understood rwarded to the nited yesterday Karl Kaut one of the leaders of the Ger socialists, was in confer the en today allies proposals by May printed in b almost 2 jallied treaty of the counter will to have k for luminous mechar held up These te heer nky ma Vervailion < ma wi the part ‘The that ca independent work to bringing machine has been with train denied PLAN PROBE OF | FACTORY BLAST the to emy by mission TEACHERS GET SALARY RAISE m fol | For Atmosphere, Drama, Sumptuousnes and Size, No Production Has | Ever Equaled None Can Hope to Excel Incomparable AZIMOV IN: heRed Lantern 4 drama of mysterious China, ‘nies the story of an Eurasian girl—a strange combination of the white and yellow races—a prey to discordant and con- flicting emotions. MMER AY HO | > To SF CELLO SOLO “Fifth Nocturne”. Chopin Played by GEORGE ROGOVOY Famous Russian Cellist “and we'll fight him to a finish. Out | here in the West we are attempting to get our demands peacefully, but BY FRANK J. TAYLOR nited Press Correspondent) HELSINGFORS, May {Via London, May 24.)—-The Bol- t— Rumor Gunpowder Caused Fatal Explosion Must Serve 11 11 Years for! Maximum Pay sheviki are reported to have of fered important concessions to both the allies and anti-soviet Russians in an effort to avert capture of Petrograd and the threatened iselation of Moscow The advance of the Finns from the north and the Esthonians from the west is squeezing Petrograd in a vise, from which the only eseape is by evacuation of the The movement of the Esthonians also threatens to cut railway emmunica- ff this is impossible, a strike is in evitable. | Miss O'Connor leaves for Portland | She will organize the girls | there, and then will leave for San Telephone girls in Seattle will meet the fir: d third Tuesdays of every Month at Norway Hall, Virgittia st. | ‘and Boren ave and the Bolshevik forces apparently must defeat the Esthonians quickly or begin their retreat from Petro “AXLE BREAKS: Shipyard Employes Escape) ,,, ..::.. Injury in Morning Crash Battle at 1 fleet ording to uncon | tiered reports received here, is en gaging the resurrected Russian | Baltic fleet in the gulf of Finland A Georgetown § street car, | not far from Petrograd In coopera traveling south on First ave. at | tion with the Exthonmian army dackson | The Bolshevik leaders in Petro: at 6:40 o'clock, left | grad are said to be growing ponicky and crashed into the front of | and hundreds of their followers are the M. Sellers store. | reported to be deserting. The roof of the car was torn off Me than half a million workers by the store awning, but no one|in the factories there have been was injured. A broken axle in| called to take up arms against the the front truck caused the car to|Hethonians and Finns and the Bot leave the rails. The street car was|*veviki claim they have mobilized with shipyard employes on | 3.900,000 soldiers to oppose their en way to work emves on all fronts. / F. C. Dougherty was motorman of| Starvation tn Pete grad in under iitheeeet ear; and R. C. Adace| ged to be ianeniness and various re cents | ports have it tha sands are dy — Vinee - daily of priv than wwo weeks ago cquippel with Polsheviki passports cuarintees of conduct. The first word re f safc ceived from him was contained in the two telegrams yesterday, one stating he had excaped the Bolshe- viki after being robbed of every thing, and the other announcing he had reached Helsingfors and was about to leave for Berlin. LONDON, May 24.—(United Preas.) —The allied forces in Northern Rus sia attacked on a wide front last Tuesday, according to an official war office report issued today. In the vicinity of Medvze and Gora the Bolshevik troor sustainéd heavy losses, The allied forces suc ceeded in capturing Koldodary ite entire garrison. Italian participated in the fighting. Sea ing The © dixpateh was filed just befor or left Heisingfors Ber He went jnco Russia more Police Spread Net for Sec- ond-Story Man be A versatile housebreaker leved to have turned three is being sought by the police homes of Dr. A, A. Job BE. Prospect st; A. Shiffrin, 1918 Carl A. Carl were burglar $200 in Liberty and his nat sums were places, where second story The Bonds, mining uralization papers. Sn secured at the other the thief entered thru windows. Camp Lewis Blaze Destroys Theatre CAMP LEWIS, May 24.—Fire, sweeping thru Greene par) e ment zone of Camp Lewis, Friday morning caured damage estimated at $140,000. The fire originated § the Hippodro theatre gaid to be due to defective The thentre was destroyed. Private Michael J. O'Brien soldier-fireman, was seriously in jured was struck by falling pole other soldier burned « ndx and legs. WHITN"=Y CHORUS IN BiG CONCERT SUNDAY The Whitney Poys’ will wing evening Plym outh Al Sixth ave. and ( t. The concert will begin at 7 o'clock. There will be more than 800 boys on the platform. Addrenses Will be made by two of the choru« boys, one of whom, Don aid Shanks, spoke in the Bulgin Aabernacl+ t Sunday. The average man lets good oppor. Phe address of the ming will be! tunities go while waiting for a better ‘@ilivered by Judge King Dykeman, one, and troops b 24.—(United Isheviki forees have begun to evacuate Moacr ing to travelers who have here from Petrograd Stop Interference With Beer Makers NEW YORK, May 24.—(United Press.)—In federal court yesterday afternoon, Judge Mayer tasued temporary restraining order joining federal officials from terfering with the manufacture per cent beer ‘This injunetion was the Hoffman Brewing company, behalf of 1,500 brewers, members of the United States Brewers’ a oclation. arr amt and wirkng, when of 1 a vat the was hy in sough Chorus at the church 10 © CELEBRATE P BACK LONDON, May 24.—To celebrate Peace day, It im expected that the Guards’ regiments on palace duty will exchange thelr khaki for the for mer glory of scarlet and gold, with the big bearskin headdress, Congregatic tion between Petrograd and Moscow | for | | CEDAR RAPID: Cedar Rapids meet today j extraordinary sift rumors gunpowder caused the blast wreeked Douglas Starch here Thursday, snuffing out more than a score of ble reported that relatives of men killed in the b t had sald they had been told gunpowder was being manufactured the plant the investigation entered the bodies of 33 be buried tebris been recov- as mining appeared to May meo au“ wilt la. All high school teachers who have been on the job since 1908 sive yearly wa $2.100, war offic tle Board of In nervice business ye tS & maximum an Increase of $150 ny decreed by Seat Sducation Friday night words, after it . now as jury that that plant prob lives: & coroner's the the t other ntinuoUs or wil high schoo! $40.3 ably Rel nag teacher week Ry teachers will maximum salar, sources of $1,800 yearly ense of $200 yearly it w that high school and teachers will receive these maximum ma lation. There A minimu: month for grade & month for was approved by the board night. The new scale of will go into effect when the open next September Compulsory all students 0 with physician's certificate of in apaeity credits for music and the opening of part-time schools next matters to the an retly While under way, searchers ruins to search for | missing men thought within the smoldering Twelve bodies have fered. One man listed ince Thursday night da Fourteen were seriounly injured and known that at least 50 other persona escaped with mi cuts and bruise Allan Suspected of Brooklyn Crime TACOMA, May 24.—J. B. Allan convicted of first deg murder for shooting Robert Davis here May 6 ix believed to be one of the two men who killed two tellers and robbed the Ea trooklyn bank, of New York of $15,000 December 8, 1918 Albert auxintant district attorney of New York, and Wm. D Roddy, captain of detectives of the New York arrived bh ‘1 day and spent the day Allan. Alt in the Brooklyn asked for a new Los Angeles Metal Men in Conference SAN PEDRO, ¢ May 24.—The shop committee representing 600 thachiniste on strike At the Ls Angeles Shipbuilding & Drydo company's yards went into confer with representatives of the ympany at 9 o'clock this morning effort to settle the strik possibility of the Metal ine calling out a ettlement f# not reach the outstanding feature this morning sec in was at in im salary of $100 « and $12 school t teachers high salaries schools persona t in physical except « for armed apectal board for meeting. The for a four-year training. ‘The were presented t ite next w new state calls courm physteal lance art k ye and girls “4 nd 18 years a Em ployers are compelled allow em ployés of both sexes between 14 and m attend «of the part-time schools. BILLIONS OF HUN LOOT IS HELD .. Stoves, Candles, Dynamos, | © Soda Are Captured {N. E lal to The NAMUR, May Four dollar That's th of t captured from the the British Hun re Eight hundred carry 800 tons And there treasure Homo of the loads were supply the G hours each w | between Conway lice que n denies any imy murder A. Spe tar) billion ence of th erman of the oath loot by of ive war urmy haste in an rt Trade craft mate value the treat barge loads, each Twenty thousand behind ng meeting trucks hold only a part - of the coming in to rman army. Some wer and | But the One b ‘ bolt Ip one 00 tons aker Nies «hipment to was the rried 400 ton: from the many part of iron WHITNEY Boys): CHORUS =. «mall area of ehicor was 100,000 ean 1,100 tons of soda 1,000 farm implement and pickaxe one sale of n disposed of and French A cargo of rags was bid up to a ton before the auctioneer ered what the bidders had already learned, that the rags covered a store of copper Here ust a partial articles seized and now being sold by the disposal board: Brooms, buckets, trench om dried tripes toilet water bottles, hammers. lamps, pump, earbide spring mattresses, mousetraps rotary pumps, wheelbarrows mosquito netting (by the dy), churns, oll paint, cutters, bags, paper medical stores, uniforms, bells, alarm sirens, 00 dynamos 8,000 shoy b mostly (700 BOYS) Evening Song Service Conducted Entirely by Boys Plymouth | Congregational Church M in paper derbuses beds be harn thousand y Sixth and University, 7 P. “4, shoy string, paper bage, huts, field forges, Klaxon horns, gas wire does not | grade | * minimum seale | achers | Friday | seized | stoves | list of the | blun: | ‘ RED DOCTRINES MUNY CONTROL | Gruce Prosecutors to Read Six-Cent Fare re Edict Arouses Propaganda Monday Rainier Valley Patrons Residents and property own of the Rainier Valley are planning to redouble their efforts to induce the city to purchase the Seattle and Rainier Valey street railway lines, following the decision handed down Friday at Otympla, when the Public Serv- jee Commission granted an in- creased fare schedule for the sys tem. Members of the _ | Business Men's association and other Court | residents of the district have peti JUdK* | tioned the ety council for several Mon- | months to purchase the lines and op mead them in conjunction with the he | newly acquired municipal lines. They are now urging Supt. Thomas F. Murphine to make a survey of the lines to find what they would be worth to the city Effective June 1 fare increases awarded the six-cent fare, and for transfers is sued and twocent charge fers taken up. School tickets will raised from 2% cents to 3 ‘The new rates become effec Jurors sitting in judgment on Janes Bruce, 1. W. W. or izer on trial before Superior Judge Walter M. French on a charge of criminal anarchy, will listen Monday to extracts from 1. W. W. books and pamphlets as read in relays by Deputy Prosecuting Attor- neys Charles Claypool and | John 1D, Carmody. | At the conclusion of session Friday afternoon Freneh adjourned court until day morning at 9:50 o'clock ing of 1. W W. literature jury started Friday Members of the jury scowled by turnae when Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Carmody read parodies on familiar religious hymns from the red-backed 1 w w mophlet songs Fan the ames of Dincontent Hear Red Songs w. W | inter Valley the laughed and The a read from radic he Ino be nts ju “Sabo tage xet | Walker ¢ Pou t Frer the on subj by awaiting on name The granted over the commission's ting that cost of revenues from October to March, and that employes are paid less then the wage given by the ‘The property was valued the ompany, the z $300,000 roine was city re excer now criminal an inve | ln am li mwa » Ranson by Ni smiled read, ‘4 from but fMushe parody when city Jones, the Sa Ww scowled ward Carn aney be the | Union Hea timate n ig Boe nky Nickel Enough « F. Murphine, when action of commission, {Christian § oe: Tardy Nor Absent in 10 Years diers «bs dy ably on a The city will not 1 higher fare for ent time. he has alwa cars can be opera fiv nt fare basis ler requesting it the muni BOY IS KILLED BY ELEVATOR | Found at Bottom of Shaft) by Janitor Reported missing to the police at almost the same time his body was discovered, little Albert ears old, of 1818 Old Fifth found crushed to death in bottom of an elevator shaft in White building Friday night PD. Mitchell, janiter, found the at midnight, while the was urging the pollee to put forth their best efforts to locate his Coroner Tiffin declared the had been dead several hours, only explanation of the boy's being in the basement of the shaft is that he had crawled there in play jand had been caught by a descend Completing” a ng which time sh ent or tardy, Miss Prar duated from the chool Wednesday pleted years pen high ub Enum Miss F sen in the high grammar seven made school and course in three | was jr the |] Learn to Swim the | Before It Is Too Late ye Take the 8 Lessons for $2.50 At the Y. M.C. A. jij, May 26 to June % its M. Mondays, Wednesdays Jing car MW H. D. PATON ||I| Noted’ seeimier, in Charge {ll PALESTINE TO HAVE IH). Slama. Aes 18 Sere A HEBREW THEATRE | REGISTER AY YORK, May %4.—Baron | | NEW | i jn poy Nia is | James de Rothschild, a major in the | ish I which i a part of the | 1 Department | tish forees now occupying Pales: A. Main 5208 tine, has pledged $10,000 annually for three years to developing a Hebrew speaking theatre in the Holy Land, Special Course of body boy's father | son ehild T Om, for trans: | the | Rushmeyer, | JURYMEN HEAR CITIZENS WANT Cooke tent the Only One With “Family Stories”—Read These Come on, Mr. and Mra. Seattle and you little Seattle! Dig right in and cop off first prize in this “family laughter” contest of ours, Ten doliars will be awarded for the best story submitted by a Star reader before next Wednesday. Get in before that date. The second prize—$5—will go to the man, woman or child who kicks in with the 7 second best yarn and the next best three stories will enrich you t@ the tune of a dollar Edmund Vance Cooke thinks his family has a corner on good stories—funny incidents which he says are world beaters. Here ip @ © chaneg for you to show him up. Go to it. Send your stories to the “Laugh Editor” of The Star. Cooke's offering today is this: eo eho Heads are not simple just because they're small, Nor are we wise because our limbs are grown. And children hardly have begun to crawl Before they match their wits against our own, Well, as for me, the child who scores a hit And knocks me off my proud parental pins Receives full credit. Give him joy of it! Together with such guerdon as he wins. Only, in this case, it wasn't a “him,” it was a “her.” ‘The youngest daughter was fond of good things like all childréef. We were not over-strict with them, but occa sionally denied a mixture of dainties, or thinned something down because of its concentrated rich- ness One evening. there was ice cream and cake. It seemed rather too much to put both inte small stomachs, so we decided to allow them the © cream, ‘but omit the cake e small daughter spooned at her cream, with ” eye on the forbidden accompaniment. She didn't pout, or tease, but finally she said, rather plaintively “Papa, don't you think little girl, got the ¢ ice cream is pretty rich without cake?” She DMUND VANCE COOKE. (Copyright, 1 N. E. A) Etv. COOKE Oliver Baker ‘My little of 308 Bell st. challenges Cooke with this one: Weston, was naughty one day and hig mother spanked him, She heard him make a peculiar sound, and she turned around to ask him what he was saying. He replied: ‘ am swearing, but I am chewing it up so that God won't hear me!” cousin, Samm. And another from Unele Carroll, a you like oleom *"No,” said “Well, then, “"L don't i here's Pawine Lackaye of 300 Kast 72nd at.: said to S-year-old Josephine: ‘Jo, do | } rgarine | Jo. uid Unele,’ do you like Ole Hanson? w, Unele, I never tasted any of that kind.’" That's the stuff the you anything funnier? If Cooke what a real story means NO AGREEMENT RANTZAU IS NOW AT WINNIPEG AT VERSAILLES Strikers and Citizens Fail of Adjustment THIEF RIVER FAT May 24—(United Press,)—No agree: ment had been reached today by the | employers’ committee that conferred with strike rs in the attempt to bring about a settlement of the gen eral strike at Winnipeg, Man. The employers are said to haye de nions abandon the | principle ral strike in sup |port of a single union. ‘The strike} representatives refused to accede te these demands Laugh Editor” have, send sort of is receiving. Have you it in and show Brother {Returns From om Hun cone ence at Spa VERSAILLES, May 24.—4(Unil Press.)—Foreign Minister Bi Rantsau returned here t f |Spa, where he conferred yeat with representatives of the German government. 4 24—(United Press. Chancellor Scheidemann, Mathias Sraberger, Dr. B. Dernberg an@ | Count Von Bernstorff conferred with |}Poreign Mnister Brockdorff-Rantzau and other members of the a Minn., SPA, May according to information the Zionist organization of merica, The theatre will be regarded as a cultural institution, devoted to the fostering Hebrew drama. As the| movement develops, Baron de Roths child is expected to increase his sub- scription eaching | peace delegation here this aft noon. s Piven ‘you think of advertising think of The Star,