The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 22, 1919, Page 1

Tides in Seattle TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY JULY 1 at First Low Tide | Piest 7:20 a m., 0.4 tt 2 bi | Fiest Low Tide Tide | 8:17 am. —1.1 tt tt. | Second High Tide 140 pom, 10.2 ft Second Low Tide First High Second Low Tide T10 pm, Ta te ls An American Paper That Fights for Americanism Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1 9, at the Postoffice } VOLUME 22. NO. 126. The Seattle Star at Benttle, Wanh., underytho Act of Congress March 3, 1879 Per Seattle won’t stand any monkey-shines from the telephone company NOW. It has got to be good. The girls are complai of discriminations today against union girls, and are threatening another strike. Seattle has been patient with the company. if the phone officials won’t play fair with the girlsh—THE CITY CAN AND WILL TAKE DRASTIC MEANS TO MAKE THEM. LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Year, by Mall, o. a i » 45.00 to $9.09 SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1919. |NEW TELEPHONE STRIKE NO [IS THREATENED : Charging wholesale discriminations by the Pacific Telephone. and Telegraph com- pany against telephone girls who returned to work Monday, in compliance with the order ending the strike, local union chiefs Tuesday threatened to take steps to resume coast-wide telephone tie-up. returned to work Monday. (iceihimmnnenpetieepaemceeaninms | MUST BE If a change in conditions _ LAWIN CAPITAL ==.22: | “Girls who have been in i tipi Four Killed, 30 Wounded in they could not have their old local union. ' duly 22.— resolution | _ e asking President Wilson to pro- (with strike breakers. claim martial law in the Dis. Other Senator Harrison, Mississippi, in- | trict of Columbia traction companies to operate separate cars for whites end negroes. te Representa: Florida, | “T- tive Clark, that # spectal house commit- fee be named to investighte the race . His resolution asked what Police were doing tc stop the dis- orders which have gripped the fa- used tional capital for three nights, re-|their jobs Monday because sulting in four deaths and res | persecutions.” of injured. He.said it was the “sol- emn duty of the federal government | | to take immediate action” to restore order. ’ “Rush for Arms Coincident with congressional de- mands for action, Washington po- were trying to prevent sale of rms and ammunition in Mary- and Virginia as well as in the| rict of Columbia. Requests to prevent such sales, er to whites or negroes, went! reported discriminations. Denies Charges “T made a special effort Monday |to see if any discriminations would joceur, and no case has yet been | brought to my attention,” declared D. J. Harrison, assistant manager of the phone company. “The girls should have reported any discrimina- tion to the local management.” Adjustments with phone subscrib- *,.|@rs whose phone service has been , to the ah usa’ eter, tearbs | Dandlonpeed during the strike will Be canitine . |be carried out in the same manner ‘Alexandria police reported shortly | . “ receiving the request that|California Phone : ed : : h whites and negroes were al- Citlie at an End "ready there in large numbers at-| tempting to make purchases, SAN FRANCISCO, July 22—The In street fighting last night four| o siwide telephone strike in prog sons were killed, two seriously | acres and 30 others wounded.|ress for more than a month, will Scores of others were hurt but hob- | ena at 1 o'clock this afternoon. The led or were assisted by friends | central strike pater from the scenes of the clashes. | this haiti” 4hibtad a rebébulled ‘aot Ree eee eee the an, oveetine telegrams sent to the va- Feinforcing the 700 Pore tle to cope {Tous mass meetings to be held this gd (fara we nite they, were afternoon, saying the strike ts fighting rioters at one place another | "ded. @utbreak would be reported from a] 11° 0°" quarter of the city several blocks dis- | jform to Sant. | labor. {ators returned to work in the North t, Los Angeles and a few other | California cities, the central com. |mittee opponents of the order— |mainly San Francisco, Oakland, |Sacramento and Martinez workers |—decided it would be folly to con tinue opposition. committee, decision to return to work result of desire to con- regulations of organized Negroes Well Armed The negroes, better armed than the | w HOUSE VOTES DRY PENALTY |quotations at 1 p. m | first Enforcement of National |;% Prohibition Wins Approval |‘22* WASHINGTO July 22.—The | jouse today gave final approval to| the prohibition act, providing for en- | forcement of both war-time and con-| stitutional prohibition. | ‘The final vote came after a motion | to recommit the and substitute | a much more liberal one offered by | Representative Igoe, Missouri, was LIBERTY BONDS QUOTED NEW YORK, July 22.—Liberty bond 3%'s, $99.52; 18; first second 4%'s, third fourth 44's, Vie- 98; Victory 4%'s, $99.96. Yesterday The Star printed two letters to Cynthia Grey, One was from a man who had served in prison, The other was from defeied by a vote of 136 to 255. |) 4 woman who had committed an The final vote on the prohibition |) indiscretion. Each wanted to pill was 287 for and 101 against, know whether, having led cor- and three absent | rect lives for many years, they || ought to bare their past to their respective fiances, ‘The follow- ing is one of the letters received today in answer: | Dear Miss Grey: I don't think | the “GIRL” in that case should |] confess, because a man doesn’t |] love like a woman, and forgive |] ness is not the ruling factor in | a man’s life I would advise her to go ahead You can now reach | | copy to insure best re- | sults if you request. ¢ becomes angry for to do if he ev at her. If he would ever The Star via telephone | | and marry ihe nian, and if he without delay. Phone | \) jeise have had a few years of your Want Ads to MAIN happiness, and he could never 600. We'll assist in throw it up to her that he tior ° “PICKED HER UP OUT OF ida ogg bn Hie, YORE || THE TER,” as he is liable | | With the linemen and oper-} _.. The discriminations are reported to be general along the entire coas distance telephone conversation Tuesday morning, Miss Mabel Leslie, union organizer, who is in Portland, reported the same conditions exist there. A conference scheduled to take place at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon in San Fran- cisco between Nellie Johnson, of the telephone operators, and J. P. Downs, general traf- fic manager of the phone company, will take up the grievances of the operators who CHANGE does not result from the con- | | WANT MARTIAL jference, local leaders asserted Tuesday they will take up |with international officers the question of going on strike the employ of the company {for more than 15 years and have worked up from the ranks to supervisors’ positions were informed Monday that positions back until vacancies % Race Riots at Washington occurred,” declared Blanche Johnson, vice president of the “These girls’ positions had been filled during the strike cases of discrimination Mon- day were the refusal of the company to put a great number |of the girls back to work with the same hours they enjoyed before the strike was declared. MANY QUIT JOBS “Some girls, who, because of their family conditions, “troduced a bill to require the Dis|had been forced to work nights previoysly, were put to work on the day shift with decreased pay. “The company even refused to allow one girl to regis- This girl had been on her furlough when the strike was called. Ordinarily she should have- reported back the office when her furlough was up but as the strike was on she did not report until Monday. refused to allow her to register. to Then the company A number of girls quit they could not stand these Company officials claimed to have no knowledge of the as was done at the end of the phone strike in November, 1917, say the company officials, When the last strike ended, sub- scribers received with their bills no- tices from the company that if they desired rebates, they would be re- quired to make application and the company would act on each case. “Most of our July bills have been paid already,” declared Mr. Harrison, “and any adjustment will have to be made from the August bills.” Tacoma Union Man Charges Unfairness | TACOMA, July 22.—The first hitch in the return to work of Taco. ma telephone operators and electri- cians came today, when charges of discrimination on the part of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. were made by Sam Roberts, chair- man of the Tacoma strike committee, | Roberts asserted that the compa had refused employment, yesterday, to four of the girl strikers, “because |they were too aétive in the labor | movement.” Two others who were |re-employed were treated in such a way that they refused to work, he declared. Don’t Tell Your “Past,” Advice of Man Who Did Tell—and Knows |Bandits Rob Man of $10,000 Bonds | CHICAGO, July 22.—Two automo | bile bandits today held up a bank | enger of the Austin National | Bank, Austin, Ill, and escaped with | $10,000 in Liberty Bonds and $400 in | cash. | The robbery took place a short distance from the bank. The robbers | m SCHOOL BONDS ARE UP TODAY Voters Will Decide on Issue and Tax Levy Polls opened at 8 o'clock Tues- day moring for the special school bond and tax levy election. A heavy vote was predicted by school officials as a result of the interest taken in the two propo- sitions before the voters, The Seattle school district voters will decide: Shall the school board Issue $4,500,- 000 in bonds for new schoolhouses of Permanent character? Shall a levy of 3% mills be made to Provide $450,000 to pay increased sal- aries and to provide $370,000 for th- creasing the teaching force? Need New Bulldings The $4,500,000 bond tasue requires a 60 per cent majority to be valid. If it is approved, as the school au- thorities believe it will be, the new buildings will be made possible. The plans call for permanent structures of the latest type, to replace the doz ens of small, unsatisfactory portable buildings now in use. If the bonds are not approved, still more portable structures will have to be used next near, and the crowding in all rooms} will increase, The tax of 3% mills which the| school board is asking permission to) levy will furnish the money to pay | the wage advances promised the Se-| attle school teachers, and permit the employment of additional teachers. | A survey of the school needs of the | district by the school board showed many more instructors are required now, and still more will be necessary next year, The wage advances were granted to bring the salaries up slightly, but these advances do not boost the school teachers’ pay nearly in proportion to the advance in the cost of living. The board decided the | increases necessary to keep teachers |from going to other cities where sal- jaries are higher. The polls will be open until § o'clock Tuesday night. | Proposition No. 1, as it appears on| the ballot, reads as follows: “Shall Seattle school district No. 1, | in King county, state of Washing: ton, borrow money and issue and sell |its negotiable coupon bonds therefor, | jin the sum of four million, five hun- dred thousand dollars ($4,500,000), | said bonds to run for a period of} from three to forty (3 to 40) years, sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) of | | said bonds to be payable at the end |of the third year, and a like amount to be payable each six months there- after, the proceeds realized from the} |sale of said bonds to constitute a | special fund of said schoo! district, to | be used for the purpose of acquiring buildings of a permanent character authorized by law Proposition No, 2, for the addition al tax levy, will be as follows | escaped give, he will forgive when he does find it out, and she will then have had a few years of good conduct as a recommend, and another little lie will quiet things down until he forgets all about it She will at least “KNOW THE ROPES, jd will not be led astray again NOW FOR THE MAN: He should know by this time that the life of a man is seldom an open book, and the less he says about his past, the better ‘for his future. If she ever finds it out she will likely forgive him, and if she don't, he should worry I don't cry over old graves, and the world will forget my past sooner than I will, T am an old bachelor now just be- cause I confessed to the “ONLY WOMAN.” I still hope for another chance never again will I | “Shall the directors of Seattle | school district No. 1, King county, | state of Washington, be permitted to }levy for general school purposes during the school year beginning July 1, 1919, a special tax of three | and one-half (3%) mills, in addition | |to the ten (10) mills now allowed by | law, for the purpose of raising ap-| proximately four hundred fifty thou ane dollars ($450,000) for increases | recently made in the salary schedule, | {and approximately three hundred seventy thousand dollars ($370,000)/ |for increase in number of teachers, ‘for repairs and improvements to| | buildings, and for increased cost of supplies? I{ Skull Found on Beach; Spokane Man Is Missing SANTA BARBARA, Cal. July 22.—Efforts to identify a skull found on the beach here late yes: terday by W. A. Wafford, a junk dealer, were being made by the police today. They were working on the the- ory that the skull was that of J. Lewis Clark, Spokane millionat who disappeared mysteriously here three years ago, Weather Forecast night fair; Wednesday fair am er; gentle northwesterly winds Shall We Send This Man to a ¥ a FIRING SQUAD? Shall Bhagwan Singh, a leader’in an attempted revolt against the BRITISH government, be condemned to death by the United States government? It means exactly that if Singh is de- ported to India, as United States Com- missioner of Immigration White pro- poses. Singh has just completed a term in the federal penitentiary at McNeil’s Island. His crime consisted in an ordinary criminal. joining with others in speaking and writing against ‘ British rule in East India, his native land. But he is not Be- cause he did that, he was convicted of “violating the NEUTRALITY” of the United States, as the alleged plot occurred in 1915, two years before the United States had joined the allies in the world war. war case. Singh’s crime was therefore not a war crime against the United States. It was a POLITICAL crime so far It was a pre- as the United States government was, or is, concerned. But, should Singh be deported, it would mean his execution by the British government. Why should the United States do that? It has never before in its history turned over political prisoners to the countries that sought them. At this very moment, “President” De Valera of Ireland, is on a speaking tour of the United States, spreading propaganda against British rule, a political refugee even as Bhagwan Singh is. Would we send De Valera to prison for “violating neutrality” or anything kindred to it? Has the commissioner of immigration threatened to deport him if he should ever touch foot on Seattle soil? And rightly so. NO! This country opened its arms to Carl Schurz after the unsuccessful revolt of the liberals in Prussia; and he rose to eminence here, and gave the United States devoted service. It has been the haven of refuge to thousands upon thousands of political refugees. abetted the revolt of the Cubans against Spain. It has always extended a hand of sympathy to its South American neighbors As a nation, it aided and in the attempt to throw off the yoke of monarchs. Are we to forget all our traditions of the past? Are we, too, to grind under our heels every human aspiration to self-government? This is not a plea for self-rule in India. This is not a plea against Britain. It is quite natural for Great Britain to seek the punish- ment of Singh—and that of Valera, too. But it is a plea against the United States govern- ment linen.” “washing another country’s dirty As long as these men are in the United States they can be considered as nothing more than political refugees. And this “land of the free and home of the brave” cannot, in good con- e bb science,” be a party to their execution. * Bhagwan Singh, one of the 19 Hindus accused of hatching @ plot in the Uni * * 8 od State (CONT'D ON PAGE TWO) against i | | | | | | | for the Second di who had joined | At a meeting of | Roosevelt Post No. | i kendall was begun ningham, J. K. “Whereas, the btll known as the mental in doing this to high litical j county, as y jer; and. whereas, ernor made thes and wheres | every veteran of the ington; and whereas the governor to reca | n today re: with yesterday dent W | ferences | postponed dysentery. well as can be expec Cary T. yson, his 7 jis still weak, howeve being against him.” Senator Edge, New ident discu league covenant with h Whether the preside’ have any effect on speaking tour is not White House: | the trip will not be un |health is not good. 12, ARRAIG Superior Judge Clay speaker of the state house of repre | sentatives W. W. | democratic G. Heifner and nine ged complicity nee of a large qu from the county-cl the night of June 4, by counsel Tuesday aft raignment. ‘The before Superior Judge for ever politically ostracized as the Honorable Louis F. ernor of the state of Washington, has appointed two of these senators office, Senator French, of Clark county. commissioner for the Second District, and Senator Kuykendall, of Garfield lic service commission- it is the hope of Theodore Roosevelt Post No. 24, Vet- erans of Foreign Wars, that the gov-| spread burning gasoline in all direo ointments with- out knowledge of the attitude of these two senators towards the veterans;| attorney, opened today. , as these appointments constitute an affront and insult to PK “ President Again | Meets G. Oo. P. Men | ‘ames over the people in the bank. WASHINGTON, July sumed his con republican | , Wag the first caller today. the treaty and Conner; state chairman used VETS PAN, GOV.HART OFFICE Veterans of the big war—and all other veterans | Preparing a statewide protest today against the appo jment by Gov. Hart of Senator Kuykendall as public ser commissioner and Senator French as safety commissio strict. the U. S. the Resclutions of protest were unani- mously adopted and Major T. J, Cun- Witherspoon, Philip Tworoger, were appointed a committee to communicate with the governor and with every veterans’ organization in the state. The resolutions follow: The Resolution the most flagrant act of injustice was the defeat by the senate of the state of Washington of ‘Lamping bill,’ and whereas, the 21 senators instru- should be for- nd where- as safety state of Wash- the nominees have not yet assumed the duties of their office, it is within the power of Il the appoint- | ments and cancel them. | “Therefore, be it resolved by Theo- dore Roosevelt Post No, 24. Veterans | of Foreign Wars, that we demand, in | the name of all the veterans of the | State of Washington, that these ap- pointments be recalled. Presi- senators when he ¥ | confined to his bed with an attack of | “The president is getting along as sted," said Dr. physician, “He r, the weather Jersey, repub- The nim. nt's health will his proposed known at the It was said today that dertaken if his NED IN BOOZE CASE Judge John S. Jurey Hears Pleas Tuesday Allen, former former Charles other widely known residents of Seattle who were indicted June 12 by the grand jury, in the disap. antity of whis- ty building on appeared onls ternoon for ar: appeared John 8, Jurey, Theodore 24, Veterans of Foreign Wars, last night, the fight against Senators French and Kuy- and Hart, gov- _ Both these senators voted against the Lamping b which had provided for state compensation to every n service during the war. amount was to have been $10 a month for every month |actual service, so that the men, upon discharge, would noi have to rely on charity to fit them out with civilian cloth jand other needs before obtaining permanent employme The Lamping bill was one of the — | bitterest fought in the senate. Fight Begins tal Press.}—Twelve dead and | jured was the final count” of casualties in Chicago's modern tragedy—the fall of | aircraft thru the skylight of metropolitan business Late yesterday a Il dirigible fell blazing into counting room of the Ill Trust & Savings Co. Two members of the express, a photographer, employes of the bank among the dead. Most: them were burned to death the gas bag with its heavy | burst thru steel and plate glass owing! and tions. A score of investigatio headed by the coroner and the state’ Seven men, mostly employes of the G year Rubber company, owners of “Wingfoot,” were held for tion, The flight of the balloon watched by thousands in the s The great “blimp” was making test flight and had been flying the city for several hours, about 500 feet above the bank dirigible burst into flames and crashing thru the glass skylight the bank and its iron supports, falling to the marble floor in the rotunda beneath. : The two gasoline tanks exploded |and burst into flames. scattering the Many were cut by great chunks of broken glass from the skylight. Women on Fire The employes of the bank, mostly women, some with clothes afire, ran | | screaming from the building thru |the two exits, The exits became | blocked and jammed with bodies, | Meanwhile hurry calls had been sent. for every available ambulance and police patrol in the city. Many of | the surviving women won their way | to the sidewalk to collapse in a faint, | The intense heat inside the bank |broke the plate glass windows on the outside and made rescue work | difficult. The work of rescuing the bodies of those burned beneath the | huge craft could not be started until 35 when the wreck FOURTEEN) | News Photo Man, Dying, Inquires | About Pictures CHICAGO, July 22—(United Press,)—As a coroner's jury be’ gan investigation here today of } the first aeronautical accident of | the kind in which a falling |) “blimp” wrecked the interior of i a metropolitan business house, the list of deaths was increased. } to 12 Milton G. } photographer, ) ) Norton, newspaper aboard the Good- year company’s “Wingfoot” when it fell headlong into the Tlinols Trust & Savings Bank here, died of injuries today. Norton de- scended in a parachute, landing ' heavily in La Salle st. Reeover- ing his senses, his first words ) were: “Where are my plates?" ‘Then he died, y | | r