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

ARABI Tides in Seattle WEDNESDAY | JULY First High THURSDAY JULY 2 Viewt High ‘Tide. lam PLIPLPLIPPPII PPI AAA AAA An American Paper That Fights for Americanism he Seattle Star Entered ar Second Cl Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffics at Beattie, Wash., under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879 LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Per Year, by Mall, $5.00 to $9.09 VOLUME 22. NO. 127. SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1919. FIRED FOR "‘t discriminations, took same up with | on! aa chief operator. UNIONISM $o Declare Union Member: Charge Discriminations Are Increasing Despite assurances of phone company officials in San Fran- cisco that alleged discriminations practiced by the com y against the girls who returned to work here Monday would be eliminated irt a few days, local union leaders declared Wednes- day that the company had fur- ther aggravated the situation by discharging a number of girls Tuesday for announcing publicly their allegiance to the union. | “Instead of conditions improving, | are growing worse,” declared he Johnson, vice president of local union. “When our girls, in i to each other in the rest n, are heard to be defending the i and deriding the strikebreak- ‘rs, they are reported to the Four girls were dis- ed Tuesday in this manner. “That's just what the company n It wants to clear the ex: of every loyal union mem- is doing so in. a mighty . ‘potiew posted r etanate tells the girls is ‘not Necessary or essertia! ng to the union. Girls Are Abused “The conditions are especially as > geavating in the two downtown ex- r where union gitls are be scolded and blared almost be- ond endurance by the strikebreak- . Girls who worked ing the strike ure allowed to sit boards with their heads in elbows and are addressed as by the supervisors, while loyal girls are being worked almost loyal union girl, a member of e executive committee, was y the floor Tuesday evening, Opts in as hard a day as ever experienced at the ex- and was called down for trivial offense in such a man- that she quit her job right then yd there.” 4 ling of the conference held in Francisco between J. P. Downs,) I traffic manager of the com- , and Nellie Johnson, interna- vice president of the “helio the following telegram Jocal union headquarters Wednes- arrived | MEN LOSING IN FIGHT ON FIRES Flames Edge In Towards Spokane Suburbs WASHINGTON, July 23.—See- retary of the Interior Lane to- day asked congress to permit him to use $500,000 from department funds to fight forest fires raging in Idaho. He requested adoption of a joint resolution permitting this as an emergency step. SPOKANE, July 23—A smoke pall hangs over Spokane today. Back in the timber thousands of weary men are fighting a losing battle against a score of fires. tho a light rain fell in Spo- kane early today, none has visit- ed the burning areas, | Local firemen, for four hours last evening, fought a stubborn fire in the Hollywood section of the city, which is covered with pines and brush, New fires are reported from half a dozen sections. Supervisors are nearly at their wits’ end. There is| w shortage of labor and a high wind| morning: Regarding your wire in reference | Downs Tuesday, Supervisors gwitchboards with supervisors’ pay will be put in their proper positions jn a few days. Also working hours| will be straightened out. If the same jg not done in reasonable length of time, advise me. “J advise that you elect adjustment | board to take up local grievances | should they arrive. I informed Downs that discriminations as had existed | would not be tolerated.—Johnson.” A special meeting of the executive board of the telephone girls was held at the Labor temple Tuesday night to discuss the action of the. "phone compan: its alleged discrimina tion against inion. mbere girls who returned to work ee '¥ Lollow ing @ three-weeks strike. It was decided at the meeting to await word of the outcome of the conference in San Francisco between J. P. Downs, general traffic manager | “¢ the ‘phone company, and Nellie Mohnson, international vice president| of the “hello” girls. No word was received Tuesday of the decision reached by the wire con- trol board in Washington, D. the retroactive pay demands of the phone workers, Local union chiefs expect to hear from Julia O'Connor, their representative in Washington, Wednesday. ‘The phone girls will meet Thurs @ay night, in the Labor temple, to act on any word received from their international officers in Washington, yy. C., and San Franciso. ‘ All indications point to yet higher rentals on residence property. Why not solve the rent prob- || lem by owning a home. Read the For Sale Real Estate column. is fanning old fires into renewed ac tivity. Thompson Falls and St. Regis, | | Mont., are in imminent danger, while |fires are being desperately headed | off from Newport, Wash., Enaville, Kellogg, Mullan and Burke, Idaho | | ‘The Bear creek fire spread during |the night, traveling about a mile up | the North Fork of the Coeur d'Alene river. Another crew went in there | today, making about 200 men fight ing this fire. Kellogg, Idaho, |saved late yesterday by heroic ef forts on the part of Philip Ness, in charge of the fire and his crews | Fifteen hundred acres are blazing | there. was Fire Fighters Flee | | A new fire has broken out on Land | creek, four miles west of the south nd of Priest lake, and a crew has Rone to fight it. The Round Top| | fir om tiie divide has broken from ‘control, forcing the fighters hurried ly to move their eamps, Mrs. Howard Flint, wife of Supervisor Flint, said |today. The Boulder creek fire is | barely under control. Fires west of Newport, Wash., are held and the smoke-filled town is not in immediate danger. It was calmer during the night, but a wind was rising thia morning, accentuating | the danger. Three new fires have broken out in the Coeur d'Alene district, Super: visor Wolff reported this morning One is above Burke, another above Mullan, and the thir¢ of Coeur d’Alen fire, which had ained headway The Steamb ing held and crews |around the Jordan ¢ | “Little change, | Ryan, at Sand Point, which ig cov-| Jered with clouds of smoke. “They |had a good night on the Pack river) |fire, but it’s still spreading.” | | east | ereek ntrol, mile gale. been under under at fire are working |\Schooner Reported | Aground Off L. I. | NEW YORK, July ~A fou mastec schooner was repor |ashore off Edgemere, L. 1, early| today, Coast guards went to her aid, HE prince of Wales might find a bride in America on his forthcoming visit— and then again, he may find that not all his royal titles will win a heart in America. beauties. But Albert will meet in Washington some of America’s most charming And Washington society is learning to curtsy and studying up on the proper greetings for royalty. Three of the girls here shown, Miss Harding, Miss Brown and Miss Simonds, were picked as the prettiest at the Southern relief ball given recently in Washington. The other the daughter of Representative Bank- head and the daughters of Secretary Glass, are among the most popular in social circles. That war veterans of this state should protest against the appointment of Senator Kuykendall to high public office is but natural. Their indignation, born out of the utter indifference of 21 senators to real reconstruction measures, demanded by the men who had given unstinted service to their country, is entirely justified. Their protests deserve to win. But they probably will fall on deaf ears, for they are addressed to Governor Hart. If our recollection is correct, it was Governor Hart who called the conference which laid the groundwork for the defeat of the Lamping bill, the measure sought by the veterans. If our memory serves us right, it was Governor Hart who lent ap- proval to the legislative orgy which appropriated large sums for new armories here, there and yonder, tho ordinary business caution would have demanded that the state at least wait until we knew more about the future status of the state militia—until we knew whether there would be a state militia at all, or whether it would continue as a federal institution. And while Governor Hart approved these appro e ia- tions, he helped to create, if he did not actually insti- gate, the cry of “economy” when the soldiers’ relief bill came up. That politics rather than economy killed the Lamping bill is quite generally known. But while the veterans’ protests will have no ef- fect on Governor Hart, they will serve a valuable purpos They will help those of us who are not politicians to remember! Lest We Forget! TO BURN DOWN CITY STOCKADE Dr. Read Condemns Work-| house; Council Notified The buildings of the stockade on Beacon Hill, nounced as a “public nui and unfit for habitation” by Commissioner of Health H. M. Read, will be vacated before Fri- day and burned to the ground, according to a letter sent to Mayor Ole Hanson Tuesday by Commissioner Read. | The 60 prisoners who are housed Jat the stockade will be returned to | the city jail | At the order of Mayor Hanson, | condemnation notices were posted on the buildings of the city stockade | | Tuesday morning. At the same time | Mayor Hanson sent a letter to the | city council, asking them to provide suitable quarters for prisoners lodged at the stockade. In his letter to Mayor Hanson, | Commissioner of Health Read said | You are hereby respectfully noti fied that I have this day condemne and ordered the vacation of the pr lent city stockade on the grounds | that same is a public nuisance, and junfit for human habitation. |The building will be vacated within three days, and the building department notified this day to remove and sal. vage at once such material as is of use to them, or has any material | value. The building will be destroy- jed by fire thereafter. | A man does a lot of things he dis- likes to do beeause his neighbors don't want him to do them, hursday, gentle probably showers; northwesterly winds _We: ithe r F oreca. CHARGES OF —“FRAME-UP” ARE ON FIL EX-GOVERNOR IN MEX: PLOT? Charges Made 0 of Communi- cation With Villa MEXICO CITY, Mexico, July 23.—(United Press.)—It was an- nounced officially today that the Mexican government will publish correspondence captured in the recent Villa-Angeles raid on Jua- rez. The correspondence, it was stated, contained alleged commu- nications from Former Gov. Geo. W. Hunt of Arizona, intimating to Villa that Senator Fall and other Americans wished to visit him at some appointed place in the state of Chihuahua to discuss the extension of aid in his cam- paign against the Mexican. goy- ernment. NEW YORK, July 23.—(United Press.)—A drive to force Ameri- can intervention in| Mexico is under way, according to Manuel Carpio of the El Heraldo de Mex- ico, dean of Mexican newspapers, in New York. It started, he said today, the moment President | Wilson arrived from France. | “In certain newspapers of this |country, in congress, and among the inner circles of your big financial interests,” Carpio charged, “insidious influences are at work. Insistent jin goes are moving heaven and earth to |force the United States to commit a | greater crime against humanity than |that for which Germany must atone. “For the first time, the Mexican people are being told the truth. Thru» | out Mexico newspapers are informing |the public what is transpiring |the Rio Grande. The nation is bein awakened to the un-American influ: | ences that are at work to make us a} vassal of the ‘colossus of the north.’ Says people, prope cross pple Amazed informed of the anti nda some “The Mexican | pers are printir jare bewildered that great dailies can }unqualifiedly charge the Mexican government with attacking the| jAmerican flag when a few ragged |robbers steal a watch, a ring and a| |pair of from an’ American | | sailor | “Crimes |in Mexico shoes gainst American citizens | re fewer and of less con than offen: committed |againat Mexican citizens |country. The latter the 2 as police court rather | state department problems. | “But while we are informing our | people of the evil de: s of your un- principled ones, we 3 them that 4,000,000 American the leadership of Samuel ¢ |have pledged themselves to us their power and influence to prevent | intervention. “The campaign of degradation that | has been going on against Mexico is asserting itself more than ever. Our| \side of the question has not been, | and probably will not be, shown ¢ all to the American people until a| crime against the rights of humanity | has been committed. The name of | that crime is ‘intervention.’ BULGARS TO PARI SOFIA, July 23.—Members of the Bulgarian peace commission left for Paris yest sequence case than} | who | bomb. | cause |blase a lof conversations of |fice was WASHINGTON, July. 23. —Charges of alleged injustices done Thomas J. Mooney ~ |during his trial at San Francisco, on the \charge of bomb-throwing at a prepar ; | parade, are made in the report of John B. | Densmore, special agent of the department for the government. Densmore points to several incidents as indicating the trial was a “frame-up” to discredit union labor. - port was sent to the house today by Secretary of Labor | Wilson, “The plain truth,” said Densmore, in his report, dat ~———~ | November 1, 1918, “is that there is nothing about the cai |to produce a feeling of confidence that the dignity an majesty of the law have been ‘upheld. d\n effect pein ake meds) resembling consii ten ¢ effect. being that of a patchwork of incongruous ake shifts and -often desperate: expediency. Seueus : EARLY TRE several months had a dictaphone Other Defendants Ask in the office of Charles M, Fickert, San Francisco district attorney, 2 taining much information | “The reading of the testimony in the case is apt to cause one to| wonder at many things,” the report says. The report following obj at the trial: The apparent failure of the dis-| Superior Judge Clay Allen, i |trict attorney's office to conduct a|°4 by @ grand jury June 28 real investigation at the scene of| 2esed unlawful possession of |the crime, the easy adaptability of|WU@tts of Scotch whisky, will some of the star witnesses, the ir-| ‘©, trial September 2. regular methods pursued by. the| The date was fixed Tuesday afters prosecution in identifying various| 00 by Presiding Judge Boyd |defendants, the type of men Jand women brought forward to prove essential matters of fact in a case of importance, the of well estab: sang froid with tion occasionally ple theory and another not quite the refusal of the to call witnesses the falling of the| then enumerates the stions to methods used sorry torney for Judge Allen, insisted his client be given a hearing in court at the very earliest oppor- tunity. The action of Judge Tallman in setting Judge Allen's trial date on — the indictment setting forth that the — the lisher which the adopted an unte jthen changed to preposterous, public actually his possession unlawfully, caused deep unrest and woe to Prosecuting Attorney Fred C. Brown, had instructed Deputy Prosecuting Attorney T, H. Patterson to insist on fixing a date for the Allen trial on a second indictment, which al- leges that the jurist had in his pos session unlawfully a quantity of liquor on June 4, of which he prow posed to dispose. Overrules Deputy “We wanted that indictment tried first, so that the people of King |county might know the whole | scheme of this liquor mix-up,” Brown said today. “But Judge Tallman overruled my deputy, and we are pinned down to the narrow case af- at the trial) fecting five quarts of Scotch whis- of the} ky.” Mooney.| 4 C. Higgins, attorney for to the| Allen, told the court that he then re-| had no doubt that both indictments against Judge Allen could be quashed without ever coming to tria so prosecutor saw short * * * the and improbability adduced together with a absence of anything that !voks uine effort to arrive at] facts in the case. “These thin in the decided ‘In flims general ess of the testimony total are calculated to of the most rebelli minds mental Brands Oxman Perjurer The declares Frank G. Oxman, star witness, was that the presiding judg and the attorney general state a new trial for Fickert, previously agreed new trial, Densmore said, fused to agree to tt Of this, the report says: “There a excellent grounds for the belief t the prosecuting attor-| sudden change of attitude was prompted by emissaries from| some of the orate interests most bitterly opposed to union labor Fickert's efforts henceforth were di. rected at a clumsy attempt to white wash Oxman and justify his own motives and conduct thruout. With the report there were more} than 100 closely typewritten pages} Fiekert, sata to| been obtained thru the dicta:| placed in his office by De: report testimony of prosecution | proved perjury and} But Judge Allen is a public of ficial, occupying a judicial position, and he wants an immediate trial on the indictment accusing him of un+ iawful possession of five quarts of cotch whisky,” Higg told the | court “We know your honor will realize the importance in the public interest Two) ey’s (CONT'D ON PA NOTICE) For some time The Star ear- riers have been collecting for ‘The Star each week in the city, the subscription rate being 12) cents per week, At the request of many of our subscribers we have decided to go back to the former system of collecting for The Star by the month. The price of The Star will be 60 cents per month by carrier in- stead of 12 cents per week. Our c rs have been instructed to collect up all their accounts in full to next Saturday night on the weekly is, and then go on the monthly rate, ATTLE 8’ have graph more. Dic raph Placed Two or they the Placing more persons heard of conversation alleged the dictagraph in the of most difficult, Densmore office was always heay. all offered rds report uid, as the ily guarded He did not state was accomplished just how this SACRAMENTO, Cal. July Lieut. B, ©, Kiel and Sergt. F McKee, flying JN 4-D Cu left Mather field today trip to Seattle. ‘They tonight Medford, Portland tomorrow, day. The journey of recruiting f vice ank | iss planes, for a round plan to stop Ore. flying to and Seattle Fri is in the interest the army air ser- | of labor, who secretly investigated the case | The re- Tallman after John C. Higgins, at _ | jurist had five quarts of whisky in —