The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 26, 1919, Page 1

WITNESS TESTIFIES 1. W. W. PLANNED T0 KILL SEATTLE OFFICER An American Paper That Fights for Americanism The Seattle Sta Tides in Seattle MONDAY TURSDAY May 26 2 99 VOLUM NO. 81. Entered ap fecond Class Matter May 2 09, at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash, under the “a Act of Congress March § LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Per Year, by Mall, a SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, MAY 26, 1919. Weather Forecast: $6.00 to $9.00 and ‘Tuesday, probably ‘onight gentle w era; gentle southwesterly wind wind showers; TTS A BONEHEAD PLAY GHlEF Your Cops Are Not Censors; Put Them Back on Beats T HE Central Labor Council has employed attorneys to oust the policemen who have been stationed as censors — by Chief Warren at the Equity printing shop. This shop i is supposed to have. _printed. anarchistic matter, anda ‘its principal owner is an accused I. W. W. Granting this is so, it.is still no reason why policemen should dictate what may or may not be printed. They have no more business there than they would have in The Star office to tell us what to publish and what not to publish. ‘Chief Warren’s assumption that a policeman can decide, in the twinkling of an eye, what is lawful for publication, and what is unlawful, is laugha- ” ble. His assumption that a cop has the right to decide this is even more laughable. It is a bonehead idea. It is in line with his recent policy to act as _ United States grand jury, district attorney, county prosecutor and court combined. It ought not be necessary for the Central Labor council to go to court'to keep policemen off the Equity shop premises. This matter does not even present the so-called “free speech” or “free press” issue. Whether the Equity printing shop abused the privilege of “free press” is one question. It is for the courts to decide that. It isa stupid blunder on Warren’s part—an arrogant, irresponsible act—a bonehead play. Put your cops back on their beats, where they belong, chief! HAWKER, GRIEVE TO GET ROYAL WELCOME ‘DON, May 26.—(United Hawker and Grieve set foot on soll today, nearly ‘week after they had been given up for lost in their attempt to fly from Newfoundland to Ire- land in a Sopwith airplane. ‘The aviators, who are the greatest ational heroes of the moment, | Janded at Thurso, Scotland, from the Danish tramp steamer Mary, which them up in midocean early | Jast Monday after they had been forced to descend into the «ea Hawker and Grieve were sched led’ to start this afternoon from S “Thurso for London, where, judging | ) from all indications, they will be F given a royal welcome tomorrow _ Britain has been jubilant ever since the news spread like wild fire o the land that Hawker and Griev been saved. Grieve, immediately upon landing, | sent the following message to his “Safe; will wire later.” When news of the rescue was first received, the Sopwith airplane com pany telegraphed Thurso firmation. Later it was confirmed ‘by. an airplane courier Had Given Him Up *a¥e had given him up for lost dlared Mrs. Grieve when heard the news of her husband's cue. She was too overcome to say gore. Grieve's native town, Frox ford, took on a carnival appearance ‘As the news spread there was great enthusiasm thruout Britain There were remarkable scenes in the streets, in concert halls and in mov fng picture theatres when the an E nouncement of the rescue was made she A mite is a very tiny quan tity, yet it is five-sixths of the word “mighty.” Don't ignore want alg because they are lit- tle. A service that sells real estate, rents rooms, finds jobs, focates buyers for automobiles and does other useful things, ying to as the goes ped at is not, be ane’ Want Ad Is of a A Star MIGHTY Help Time Need. Cal! Main 600 trained gf-taker will help you. in for con-! Crowds cheered and tossed hats in| the air. 5 A throng gathered~ around the home of Hawker in Surbiton, near London. The town was beflagged, as it has not been since the war } At the church the evening se was one of thanksgiving. “For this is my son who was dead and is alive again, who was lost and is found,” was the text of the Rev |T. J. Wood. There were special} | Prayers-and psalms of thanksgiving nd the doxology, “Praise God, Prom Whom All Blessings was sung. The rescue was many other pulpits Mrs, Hawker Rejoices Mrs. Hawker@received a telegram of congratulation from the king and queen, who, a few days earlier, had nt her a telegram of condolence the supposed death of her hus vice announced from NOY on band | “Sunday is my Hawker declare around her house She was almost Continued on Page 1 U. S..Will Keep lucky day,” Mra The as crowds gathered unable to talk Second at Section Strike had positi in (United ae Wilson has with ab | Sun WASHINGTON, Press.) President reached an agreemen lied stateamen at the |" jt nited States will reta rman met when | ships seized in American ports, it was ned today | Reports from Europe have indicat- | ed that Great Britain felt her ship losses during the war had been so grea that she was entitled to share of the tonnage America seized. INC-4 Still Held — Back by Weather WASHINGTON, May 26.—(Unit Press.)—Bad weather about ine Azores continues to hold up the fight lof the NC-4 on the next leg of its transatlantic voyage to Lisbon. Ad-| justice |miral Jackson at Ponta del Gada|yolunt May str the ployes R. B al Worke in Winnip tion to ea ida up Calgar: strike culties w associates If post their tas begun day | was state |Allies Consider Bombing Germany PARIS, May (United Press.) The tion mbing German cities riin part of the military am to be followed in the event the Germans refuse to sign the treaty, was understood to- Trouble [day to have been discussed by Gen | affliction | Robertson, of the British army, and! the hair Gen, Liggett, of the American army. blue, tense toda of should Striker t I que in thelr strained pro} ernment touch with the general strike sit- uation in Winnipeg declared to day the strike will be broken be fore evening. The city, with hope, violence might be be dent.) Minn., and crisis. was noon (2 o'clock Eastern time), the hour set by governing officials for the return of postal and tele- phone workers and city firemen, said they workmen ill quit their aders ve aseu' tkers «sion nday n it aro rs’ unic i f I strikes tighter than a workers noon if claime ks, it Arthur Meighan. ay. br themsel ranks seems it white, city CRISIS IS ON AT WINNIPEG Officials SAy Strike Will Be Broken Today in return ranc 20 Dominion cities ' German Ve sels jobs if the situation is not settled to sfaction j committee nil day ilmont on, th the d. al worker was deliveries will s under guard, Other munl {messaged the Navy department that| cipal and government work will be } | Commander Read would not fly to under. similar migh makes and Russell, secretar: be Secretary then: annownoed the conditions, ne a the eyes red, the BY JAMES T. KOLBERT (United Press Staff Correspom “May 26.—Gov. officials expected crisis would be referred to the government ultimatum to its em y of the Met local whose difficulties caused the general strike said labor is in a posi that will tle Can drum.” Were Winn Justec do not return to announced acting minister of made still quiet, was even more ‘The crisis was awaited but also with a fear that | unleashed if there hinted WetsStart Out for Signatures. OLYMPIA, May the Califotnia Grape wecretary of state the circulated in the attempt lamendment by the state of The petitions will be and a state-wide will open headau yhomish, Tacoma, ne for us to get peti “Wet” forces were mobilizing thruout the state Monday for their whirlwh ign to ob ¥ ansoct Murphy orney representing tion, at noon today filed with the referendum petitions that will be of the federal prohibition John Growers’ formal tite to th to block. ratification Washington, off the printing p mpaign to obtain 2 in Seattle and in am, Aberdeen ions started in the ain the s8e8 in 12 ‘hours. Murphy signatures in 18 days Spokane, Yakima, Everett and Olympia, It may be im wmajier places immediately number of signature nicl We witle I hay quire € will ot amendment amendment.” tgive life to the 18th nation-wide prohibition The opinion of the as handed down Saturday |ten by Justi phen J and was concurred in by Main, Mount, Holcomb and tosh, Justices Parker, Mitchell, lerton and Tolman dissented D, Conger, superintendent Washington Anti-S alo ot expressed no fear that the of Washington would impede of the “dry" law to get the suffi of names required by said, “Even if a refer endum vote is taken, I doubt y much if the »ple 4f thi go back to the old ‘wet’ days or f fifteen and tobinson eourt was writ Chadwick Justices kin: Ful supreme m petition to refer to the people’the action of the last leg: islature when it ratified the na tional prohibition amendment to the constitution. The State Supreme court ruled. urday that the voters of the state of | Washi on are entitled to. ho! ferendum election to sustain or re | Ject the ratific The voters proval or di ture’s action tion if the “wet fling 22,650 signatures with the retary of state by June 15, or 90 ¢ r adjournment of the legislatu If the necessary number of sign tures are filed by June 13, and the people of Washington reject the leg islative action on prohibition, this state will have succeeded in staving off nation-wide prohibition until No | vember ¢ ur hence,” said John F. | Murphy mer prosecuting ney of King county, who repre \the California Grape Growers’ ciat this state, Washington is the 10th to hold up ratification of the nation wide dr nendment As there were ¢/46 states which ragified the amend ment, this leaves but 25, or one state| Nothing pleases some men more feelings |less than the necessary three-fourths|than to hear disagreeable things of the states in the Union required to about some one Shay: have wronged, George the | | | | | | | ot league wets final enforcement It's a long way number June 13," he ation Will register. their ap spproval of the legisla at the November cohorts succeed in eady to aiffi. Russell's 0 sta by ye by Victory Loan Total it WASHINGTON, May 26. | Press.)—The total subscription the Victory Loan will be $5,249,908 300. excess of. $749,908,300, or 16.66 per cent the quoth of $4,500,000,000, according t fina! official figures tabulated the today All districts cept and Dallas | sertbed quotas, ‘ (United over prescribed nk. radicals be tveagury Atlanta their re tate ex oversub Over Five Billion | of | ° SAYS LT. F. W. BECKE NAMED IN DEATH PLOT Members of the I planned to kill Lieut, F. W Becker, navy Intelligence offi cer in Seattle during the war, and other army officers here and in Spokane, according to testimony offered by T. R. Alli- fon, former sergeant in the in- telligence section of the United States army, when he resumed the stand Monday morning as a witness for the state against dames Bruce, LW. OW. or ganizer, who is facing a jury in Superior Judge Walter M French's court on a gharge of criminal anarchy heard BE. I. Chamberlain several other members of the I w ylan to kill Lieut, Becker ‘eh Buh they said he framed a fellow Allison told jury cross-examination Georg Vanderveer, chief sel for defendant Chamberlain on f the members of the I, W W. arrested as iminal anarchists His total may follow that of Bruce ‘Th plan to ‘get’ Becker diseu: in my presence in kane about the> first August last year Allison told the jury respor question by Van w. Wwe worker ¢ by cour ir e to a veer as to whether he ever h and was | when ‘tome of the I. W. W. asked me to donate to a collection, the proceeds of which were to be used hire some one to kill army iny| telligence officers who were hot on |their trail Allison did not |veer’s accusation ‘stéol pigeon’’ but self with eautioury jwhat he termed p “TOW. W. killing’ REPORT 15,000 DEAD IN JAVA Volcano Eruption Wipes Out 31. Villages May ws to Vv was him- jury the resent that he contented telling the part of program.’* up (United A Agency dispatch from Amsterdam today reported that an eruption of the Volcano Kloet, in Java, had wiped out 31 villages and i aused deaths estimated at 15,000. | LONDON Press.) heard an I, W. W. advocate killing : Admiral Doyle Is asa their propagarida. part of Was The court ter during tion when, From Lincoln room rang with Allison's laugh crossexamina in Fesponse to a ques tion by Vanderveer, the said that the following quotation “sounds like .a socialist” to him labor things produc by tt fe belong te ad them the worthy ar that th product object “Di props mand produced all such whose labor laborer is the ernment sound like 1 Vanderveer to his each that anda’ i pounds like socialist to n responded, ‘It just pens to be a quotation from ham = Lincoln,"* — Vanderveer | marked. Vandery tion after | witness aims each lal eure of of Ww 1 me. hap. then question in knowledg launched a ques. EW We Ord testif Ww with the Allison the 1 MW of 1918 speeting join intention of m re pledge he | member } “L just went in on orders te | investigate them,"’ the witness told the jury. “I was present one da; witness @oasmuch as most good things test of the Returning to U. S. SAN FRANCISCO, May Admiral Robert M. Doyle, command: er of the North Pacific fleet, arrives tomorrow on the transport Sheridan, |from Honolulu, ‘ding to word re ceived today by his brother, Dr. O. Doyle, Fresno. Admiral Doyle has in the naval service 51 years, graduating from Annapolis in 1875. He plans to live in California when he is retired full Daylight Saving Repeal Bill Up) WASHINGTON, May Press,)—F 1 of the ing law was attached the agrictultural rted out favorably by the house (United daylight sav as a rider to | committee today The repeal would take effect the second Sunday after the pas: vot French Troop: yt Nearing Budapest ROME, M (Ubited Press.) reported today that. »| French troops have crossed the 1| Tisza river, and expect to enter y Budapest within three weeks Nazionale nder- | appropriation bill, | A Bucharest dispat@h to the Idea.) YARD MEN OUT IN THE SOUTH Leaders Say 6,0 6,000 Will Quit Before Night -_— SAN PEDRO, Cal. May 26.—The strike of all crafts egnployed in the yards of the Los Angeles Shipbuild- ing & Drydock Co, began at 10 lock thie mornin After two-hour r aders é n meeting, the nnounced that the en sanctioned, and the d out. Just how many responded not be ascertained definitely, but the strike leaders declared that practically the entire working force of 6,000 men would be out before night After was thru me could this morning's meeting ared some of the their representatives, posed striking, but that when the final vote stowed to be in favor of heeding the Metal Trades’ coun- jecil’s call for stwike, all unions agreed to abide by the decision, Difficulty in estimating the num ber of men who went out is made greater by the fact that the yard has been operating on the open |shop basis. Union leaders declared, however, that by far the greater part of the working force was com posed of union men. The trouble leading strike started a week 60 union machinists we tt unions, had op. deel: to today's ago, when nt out, de« claring union men had been discrim inated against Wilson in Favor of Ship Building WASHINGTON, May 26.—(United Press.)--President Wilson has cabled | the at he is entirely in sympathy with [the desire of) shipworkers thruqut the nation to continue the building Ieg is merchant marine, The pres- t has.sent word to Philadelphia workérs, thru Michael Francis’ | Doyle, tithe favors ship construe tion work, \His message was in re+ ply to one gent from the Philadel phia worker urging this course, The child © of | today is the criti. of tomorrow, but unfortunately, parents never realize the fact until , tomorroy,