The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 27, 1919, Page 1

% ENATE PROBES U. S. POLICY IN SIBERIA WASHINGTON, June 27.—The senate today passed Senator Hiram Johnson’s resolution requesting the president to inform the senate regarding the government’s military policy in Siberia. Senator Johnson demanded a thoro airing of A nnn nnn nennnnnnns Tides in Seattle THURSDAY JUN High VOLUME NO. 106. ry JUNE? FRIDAY Tide Neh Tide Tide ow Tide Tide | Second High Tide Tide Second Low Tide > TY TO I merican milit An American Paper That Fights for Americanism Rotered as May ® at the Postofites at Reariie ‘SEATTLE, WASH., PRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1919 Wah, ander the Act The Seattle Sta fecond Clase Matter ot Congress Mareh 8, 1ATD NVESTIGATE ary operations in the North. LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE ar, by M $6.00 “Weather Forecast: 7" modera y { ans OST OF LIVING HERE By WILSONMAY DENY CRO SAVE BEER PRINCE NO | AND WINES IN GERMANY. | Enforcement Bills for Prohi- Holland Issues a Statement bition Are Reported Out by House Committee ‘PENALTY LESS SEVERE WASHINGTON, June Enforcement legislation for both wartime and constitutional pro hibition was formally reported to mittee today. the wote on reporting the legivia 17 to, 2. Aw the Dif now @tands, more lenient laws are pro wided in one section for war time pro- Bibition than in the constitutiona | prohibition section & ' 3 ? 4 1, Prominent officials and mem of congress still believed the President will take some action to re peal wartime prohibition as ft affects VMght wines and beer. This action Wil come up on the signing of the Wreaty, they claim. 2 Dry leaders in congress admit | ted that it will be impossible to pass ‘any enforcement legislation for the Swartime prohibition act in the twé Vegisiative days remaining before ¢ July 1 house judicjary | committee Was expected to formally the house today a bill with two dis- tinct sections, one providing for the enforcement of wartime prohibition p other for constitutional pro ition 4. Should congress approve the hhouse plan, enforcement of the war time prohibition act will be more Jenient than was previously planned by the house judic committee Only the manufacture and sale of intoxicants are prohibited, but the fhouse bill clearly defines intoxicat Ine liquor under the wartime act as any crage that contains more than ope-half of 1 per cent of alcohol 5. Altho enforcement Almost certainty cannot before July 1 Heve the wartime, act in vides quate mpfercement prov tions ie it does not define toxicating liquor," and sale of liquor is prohibited, with penaltie mprisonment from to 9 days. and fines of from $100 to $1,000 STRIKE CALLED IN CANADA CITY OTTAWA 27. eral Brandon statement positic walkout received Settiement railway xpected today report to legislation be passed drys in congress be tself pro the manufacture Ont., June A gen declared foree rein their Man of men who lost as a result of the recent according to a dispatch Toror compromise was to: atreet OF MRS. COLLINS wite ins, who ied V Sa ky afternoon undertaking £ - Saying Wilhelm Is Still on Island of Wieringen WILLIE TALKS THE HAGUE, Jone 27.—The Dutch government today official. ly announced that the former crown prince of Germany is still on the island of Wicringen. AGAIN | The former crown prince waa re. | Perted to have escaped from his. place of Internment and to hate en tered Germany. Advices received tn Paris were that he was accompanied Ho was interned { Wierlngen at the end Of the war when he entered Holland by a staff officer on the inland as a German army officer LONDON, June 27.—(United Pr FPrisderich Wilhelm. former man crown prince, reported yester day to have escaped from Holland into Germany, recently expreased to the Brussels correspondent of The Mirror his plan of living on his es tates in Silesia after peace is signed “Part Prussia and Silesia wt er agree to Polish domination,” the form: wan quoted as saying in this ew. granted at his refuge on the island of Wjerin gen There will be another war within | ten years telgium, Serbia, Italy. | Rumania and Greece will be furious at the peace terms. Only France, | Britain and America will be satis fied | “After peace im signed T intend to ive on my estates in Silesia. There truth in the reports that I in.| tend to starr a pottery factory. The! n in Amerongen for} crown prince = no kaiser will rem some time HUN OFFICIALS ON WAY TO SIGN Mueller and ‘Bell Accom-| panied by High Officers VERSAILLES. June 2 (United The German delegation will sign the peace treaty left which Berlin at midnight and will arrive in Paris at 7 o'clock tomorrow morn it was officially announced toda party was scheduled to reach t Dusseldorf , noon, Foreign Minister Mueller and Colo Minister Bell, the German ag are accompaniqd by three including Herr intimate councillor and ex law, and Herr expert. There nia natorie Schmidt pert on international Kraus also three legation secretaries in the party Herr economic are Giesberta and Herr Leinert 1d been appointed to sign with withdrew at the last mo WHY THE STAR PICKED ‘BIG TIMBER’ rial rights to publi thwe: of ¥ and his love and women His Big by * that Ww imber at logging camp Bertrand fty-Three A. long Mat of 1 They utged that Star ig ‘Timber Sinclair Pacific North at outot true to read writers of Hi w #tre me kne and other begin in ‘elem prefer Sinclair to novel, “Big Timber,” wi SEATTLE GIANT COMES BACK “Just Did My Bit,” This is Corporal Eugene A. McInnis, Seattle Yank who has arrived home, totally He was wounded wh + * * 1 bumping over fields of Fianders, erfed pork physical giant * ering a pitted grunting like er, bang three. pounders t the little out Hun machine with the forward along, wiping thir day behind the in the mile pped up Heir ed of nung the Yank poral and a grinned After sweated and jammed round the yawning cannon by Huns asting in ‘thei shell unbearab stripe the waist, t) men mn banged at of destruetion t high-exBlonive deafening iteelf against the Ww and the o gasping floor, blood thro: corporal in the FROM WAR TOTALLY Says Yank Who Drove Tank in Argonne blinded, bat otherwise ile driving a tank in the Argonne, * * Corporal ne A. Melnnis. of Seattle “lay he the * *© &* *&® & third day of the his tank ahead, leaning up ma® and preparing ad wk his a mile physique he wrestler chine gun neate but he wil wa the American never see cary fully grumble Lota of the wnd man with eaw that day Obregon Candidate Watch vare ANGELES, June ( Obregon, Wh@ led Carran Saturday's paper nouncement of the winner in the Want Ad Rhyme] "° Contest. Also for particu. | uyitesto nublishe lars of next week's contest. | » Watch the Classified page. | ¢ for, an nounced his candidacy y ent of Mexico today Hi incement was in the form of BLINDED a for Mexico Chair publishec Look Who Stay! has Oh Boy! Is Comin’ ¢’ tained Freckles, nic strip, for daily les will appear regu larly star beginning in a day or #0. Freckles is a great comic for kiddies and Krown ups Wateh for him and get ac Even Dancing Professor Is “‘Agin’ Shimmie The telephone bell in Chief War- ren's private office jingled "Hetlo, “This te Onwald-—Professor “Twat” oqeme “the .Votee fepm | other end. “It's too crude for me “What?” “The shimmie. “Wel the Hippodrome | And hunburdened annwered the chief who are you” the dancing then the and are dixpla jery art at Pantages this I'm a young fella professor, “and I can st }lot-—but thie dance The chief scratched his head “TN have to see tb « the chief very ser y He tn scheduled * front row Friday night Mayor, Hanson Manager Pantages has that he'll get out n in t prevent the auth iping his jazzy STAND PAT ON PHONE DEMAND Girls Wire Representative to Hold for Strike week. ended in the mt rities from stop Determined their original increases to retroactive more Chas to stand demands of pay and $4 a day, to January 1, 1919, 400 telephone girls in mass meeting Thursday night, instructed their business agent, Miss May Duffy, to wire the union delegates to the wage conference in San Francisco to call a strike, if the company does vot grant their demands. new members were Mided at pat on M ntrenatic telegr from th who is repr at nompany’s accep’ maximum to the am dest he te th rortland conference the Anoe nd ods Pundamental ented wage Dew hy th kere a ne for a higher wage active feature accepted by company rep Local union heads de at these demands are the we jemand has vot atives funda n the tieup al, and if not a ext few days, the ¢ opted wast wide in Short, president of at the ingtor of La Wash who speak Ay'S meet A cit girls interest in handed t appear ve letter, appealing to the o take notive the each girl union acti wa LIBERTY BONDS QUOTED NEW quotations teday $0484 396, $95.10; fourth YORK, June Liberty bend $99.90; firet 4's 44m, third 44's Vietory 34 '™ $9 so4e Ain, $9418 Order Public Works Board © toMakeProbe Mayor Hanson went before the board of pul works Friday morning and asked for an immediate i vestigation of living costs in Seattle. theat_5,000 city employes must be given wage increases: to meet increased living costs, and said he would si an emergency ordinance bill appropriating the n sary funds, if the council decided to take action. + In his statement before the board of public works Son sail tae > ay se tal we had oftasion since my return from the to investigate the cost of living in the city of Seattle. the time the armistice was signed we all hoped, and m of us believed, that the cost of living would stop risin and some of us thought it would decline. “Instead of that being the case the cost of living in city of Seattle has increased on clothing, food, rents, all other necessities except city light, water and streete "P fare. It is my thought that-the members of this board and the city government should at once come to a decison as to just what this increased cost of living amounts to, and then: to grant to the employes of the city a compensation for their daily toil commensurate to meet the necessities. Should Not Wait city wait until you grant wage grudgingly under pressure. ask the members of the board public works to immediately investic, gate, in their different departments, and mmend to the mayor and) the council just what you believe th “The the lobby should not wait until = packed with men ask ing for increased wager. ‘The city fiary which w become should go. te and square have the until the put © wage next readjustment of Jar the budget next month, || effective. The the men with a fair adjustmgnt, and do so when ixed year will be may be necessary: to pass a i city ciency ordinance in order to immediate increase is fair and just, no member of the council should) ngainst it, and the mayer! the members of the “board in your employ a great many other depaytments of th city government also employ These men must be paid enough to and comfort It i neither good business nor good mor men; ative upon its passage.” thousands to ca next few days to plan the investign= tion CARMEN PUSH PLEA FOR WAGE INCREASE that the “living mot be governed by the profit or of a company,” members of Street Railwa Km. ployes’ Local No. 587, have answered Supt. Thomas F. Mur phine’s letter in which the utili; tem we ties chief wrote he ers of the to the iu increases rail n amoun’ more ¢ men and the 1,000,000 mpress city would continue in effect » company he impression,” kers, “that purchased this sys ens, and part own: em, would have some in making the rules and regs ns unde we work public were that we were working condi- wage It that some of our wages-- i Until wage is stability in In plain on the men must taken ider inefficient unsatisfactory condie expense. skec for our co-opers help you and your depart the people the best sem ible, but we must remind operation is a twosided system loss for the ion show ye reased whi wages paid a to maint adequat t of every ne men m day to day, we Won't stay amp the present be educe rgrer of Seiittle other standard of tay not be would ou living t the prove vice we do ieve and unnecessary You have Up Service ation te the Bring "While to you p dd wage of living’ may be te us me ment give pe you that co: vice of no ft is the rea question We from thi st of ing merits their The whieh being paid—ca and that safer « under highe They agair of the hours an oper liv trust’ you will reconsider proposed wage committee of wonditic ecommend our seale to the the council The carmen's letter is signed by M. J.. Murray, president of the union; EB. H, Davey, secretary, and J. A. Stevenson, business agent. far a budget families are concern that lk city carme they argue assert they are wage inefficient ati pe on is assured bring up the question SEAMAN IS LOST IN COLLISION OF SHIPS YORK, June 27.—(United One seaman was lost and Friendship, bound for with a cargo of Tin was badly damaged in @ cok with the Japanese steamer uruge Maru off Sculpin light early today, Ator must work n order in an eight-hour Often, claim, a mar put in from 10 to 14 hours hey Want Voice Supt. Murphi stated; in his communication to the carmen in nl relation to their wage requests and petition for better working con NEW Press.) the day they must chooner Buenos es He declared! ‘ increased cost of { wage in your department ‘should ee the immediate increase, but if this) ) nd will sign the bill, t6 bes 1 of pulic works decided] — A Special meeting within the §