The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 7, 1919, Page 1

RAR nnn nnn Hawaiian Tides in Seattle O. 140. Le “The Pacific fleet means the belated recognition of the Pacific Coast * * * There will always be danger in the Pacific until the Japanese question is settled. A remedy must be found in diplomacy and legislation. But nobody will listen to you unless you are strong.” —Statement of Sen. Phelan, of Cal., today. An American Paper That Fights for Americanism MES aoe few | ooo TWO CENTS IN Mid Glen bs | Sed mone SEATTLE Hntored as Second Class Matter May 9, 1899, at the Postofficw at Meatile, Wash, under the Act of Congress Merch 9, 1879 territory isnow a Japanese colony, and California is fast becoming so. See eee LATE EDITION Weather Forecast: 77n'#"{,nn4 Vridny, fair: mode SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1919. | ocal Street Car Men reaten Strike Now | att street car men threaten to call for strike vote within 48, Superintendent of Utilities Murphine recedes from ruling. : & Eddy shipyard workmen decide not to strike imme- ly, despite wage cut order effecting 1,234 men. ing on whether or not to join Great LL LL LaLa aay, TWO MEN IN LOVE WITH ONE GIRL a H ONE GIRL IN LOVE H WITH TWO MEN . a a a a a B 2 | | | French divisions in the Orient, it La r T lis shoot little Smith,” shouted an American soldier as he [Was learned today, have been or a e wye 3 e rushed into the headquarters of the 27th Infantry, Ev- This is the perplexing situation in above ttainmen working on th 9 Seectc’ JACK LONDON’S ‘@er from the Puget Sound : Light and Power i A. Stevenson, business agent tor (il car men’s union, an y he will place the 0f the union before Superin M Ine at once. He said Unless Murphine considers the union famand favorably, the strike baliot po Saad called within the 48-hour pi which will appear exclusively in THE SEATTLE STAR BEGINNING NEXT MONDAY The street car men who are com Plaining against Superintendent | ‘8 order placing the rank f Division A men over that of all other street car employes assert that Will give some conductors and who have served only a ths seniority above former company men who have working on the cars for from to 30 years, ° : ‘ aS You'll be cheating yourself if you a g a SGA ecutotiny tien ae fail to read this last great story of | a B z this few i iF Up offered to count continuous Mill ica’ . fither on city or the old ww America e oe cnneiee ines, for seniority, but this . 4 down, One employe writer Division A line, who ha five years on the traction going over to the mu division, was informed he Permitted to count his full im both services vision 4 men, however they had won their senior. | Civil service examinations, and insist on being given the first | even over the men who had longer periods of service Murphine was appealed to the Division A barn was aban ‘and the cars and crews shifted {6 the Fremont barns, and when it i known that the Division A f . Reais cates he Division Seattle consumers bought bacon, corned beef and Murphine asserted he had left canned tomatoes by the ton Thursday, when the city con- duestion for the men themsclveu ride! and that it “is a cloned Sie” He xaid Thursday m et | i Hs efeli iH z if i vs ; Pike st. public markets. ornings armen’s union that he had no to make at present Street car employes, accordin ” thelr seniority ranks, hove th. Was “too fat and too strong. of different “runs.” ‘The oid.| “People mustn’t expect to set pPiraktast bacon to slice} Smployes are permitted to select|paper thin,” ci fficials declared. “We're selling arm st|paper thin,” city officials s 4 y (CONT'D ON PAGE TWO) pe y (CONT'D ON PAGE TWO) | state |that the bacon “is sugar-cured and corn fed and ought to YANKS NEAR BATTLE TH JAPS IN SIBERIA |Peid! Government Is Easily |tinued its sale of surplus army food in the Westlake and | informed of the action of the Despite the cheering assurances of city’s sales force || be good,” numeroug, complaints were voiced that bacon|| ono You Want War You Can arcupuxt Have It,”WarnsU.S. Major @ How an American-Japanese battle wasnarrowly averted in Siberia— Overthrown and Cabi- @ How 250 Americans defied 20 times as many Japs— net Arrested ‘i 4 ape aeiinsiel seine bit seb @ How a Yankee major said: “If you want war you can have it”— Mate Sar” otic (Is told in this news story by PEGGY HULL, American Sok war cor- Peg age i yeti respondent, who has just returned from Siberia and the Far East with dias anmeepomenahaes to uncensored news that tears the veil off many mysterious happenings Snake ong had sabi = the Orient—happenings that previous cables have only vaguely hint- Ba. BR at. fice, ian sald, "ther, ee ‘vo (Other news articles by Miss Hull will in The Star. If you’d manors of the cables wile see behind the curtain in the Far East, DON’T MISS THEM! It was held by the peace confer-|—————. ! ence today that the Rumanian ultt matum to the Hungarians, demand: | : | BY PEGGY HULL ie surrender of materials, upsets ap eve a e The Girl War Correspondent of the Newspaper Enterprise Associations the reparation terms of the Austrian e | Who Has Just Returned From Siberia. acd French Troops Sent In “For God’s sake, major, come quick, they’re goin’ to dered to Budapest in case the Ru ° . manian forces do not leave, as or genevka, Siberia. econ by the allies : “Who's going to shoot him?” asked Major Fitzhugh side Cast, agen’ easther wats of Clashes With Japs Lee Allderdice, as he reached for his revolver and belt. minor detachments of French, Brit-| “The Japs,” replied the nervous doughboy. a 3 0 P | . . . z Hudapest jointly with the numant| ‘That a national Japanese wave of anti-| ‘The officer of the day stepped into the room and wae conference} Americanism, which was punctuated by |overheard the last two words. Without an explanation the Pillage Budapest istreet fighting and an acrimonious attitude|major turned to him and commanded: The peace conference was advised) gy the part of the Japanese army, is quite “Sound the call to arms!” that the Hungarian social democrats, ef A a ‘ n . a represented by the Peidi ministry.|eyident in Siberia, is the statement made to As the officer of the day disappeared thru the yawn: d appented 1 * jing doors which the soldier had forgotten to close, the mit Rumanian occupation and estab.| The Star by Capt. Stephen Chadwick, Seate rrr wigelad into his shaapbie a ishme! o co 2 pres : ment. ‘The Rumanians weve report.|tle lawyer, recently returned from duty with “Why are they. going. to-ahoos: Sriteh?” hia’ aaealk nd today to be pillaging Budapest! the American army in Siberia. Chadwick and the surrounding country This sction apparently had ven lig a son of Ex-Supreme Court Justice Chad-| Threaten to Avenge Punishment of en after the Rumanians had noti-| 4 the Hungarians that, inasmuch| Wick of this state, Jap Who Attacked American Sentry the armistice terms embodied in| Chadwick said that every move and action of the} “He didn’t do anything, sir,” said the private anxiously, ee ee te oct | Japanese showed plainly the feeling of dislike for Ameri-|“he just happens to be one of the guard at the station, A would cros# the Danube. The Ruma.|cans. He cited a number of instances where fighting re-|Jap troop train came thru about two hours ago and one of nians threatened they would carry| sulted between soldiers of both armies as a result of the|the Japs tried to go where our sentry told him not to go, oft live stock, food and other mate-| Tananese bittern jand the Jap hit the sentry across the face with his canteen Fiala Genpies the tact that Budapest |" | “The articles further stated that|strap. The sentry started to shoot, but his gun jammed, are ne ia’ | gation had been sent|So he stuck him in the neck with his bayonet. Then the , | to Paris following the original p Japs said they’d shoot an American to get even, and they’ve ee ie hae iP8 | delegation for the avowed purpose of |got little Smith.” se immediately called for| Combatting the antiinvasion plank Several officers having heard the call to arms, joined help, asserting the American has as rout eed pa npiptrayer sting forged bit major just as he was leaving headquarters. The officer cording to an Exchange Telegraph | sulted him. A squad of se Meteeen | shgaodee signed the peace treaty for /Of the day and a lieutenant had gone to the station, just dispatch from Vienna Pe came out and hayonattes feel pp meg Pema ak sectee © two blocks from the American gafrison, Rumanian action against Hungary . . 2. came to a climax with the announce- | Amer by an Amer | Take Over Amur Fifteen hundred Japanese soldiers were drawn up with » that an ultimatum | lan van to mmnitk| In citing an example of Japan's fixed bayonets in the square adjacent to the depot. Inside . imperialism, as she practiced it in a) there was a babble of strange tongues, and the guard room instanc t small Chaawick said brushed by who was ¢ a proclamation outlining t ¢ government of Hungary, ac the American w in Budapest, de-| Who ungariang surre iia ivan spit country where she was all powerful, | tiketin whe b10m soldi of war and other | Look for Trouble | Chadwick told of the Japariese oow of the Amer icans was closed. Japanese soldiers had crossed British and American {pation of the Amur province in|their bayonets on the door, ‘nat: the Sietmaaternes: The al-| ivan bad © os Micke 1 el ggg ekg | As the officer of the day and the lieutenant started to re arv have ordered Rumanian| Russian vodka joint by the pro: ae weere all eye get enter the station, the captain in charge of the troop lunged troops to evacuate the Hungarian|prietor, ‘Two doughboys thot the| lon. was accomplished, }#t them with his sword. The officer of the day caught capital, Allied military detachments | scene an amusing one and guffaw: engineers, |the full blow on his left shoulder, but his sheepskin coat are reported to be on the way to re-| quite enthusiast The clvili Russian, but re|for Amur, you understand, is the/prevented serious injury. lieve the situation did not blame the Rey ead atc pale cstaly é ; : ; |Ported the Americans, A few. min ere te Capers ae In the meantime Major Allderdice had turned out his ‘eg Legh Fees ster ith tinal bayonets, were! Fehabilitate trade, ‘The businessmen /entire command of 250 men, The machine gun company Do You Want || couring the town like wild men in came, too and she: Dev ibae tae faced the station and the soldiers from the troop train. | b 2 || search of the soldiers.” Sige ee eee avon °C Directly behind the Americans were 3,000 Japanese belong- | thadwick, who was located in} "6 -" ing to the local garrison. a Job: Chadwick, who wax loca the same, pallcy prevailed’ in |!ng to the local gar | }) Rheeareuss. = Sy seeton iti| Korea, the Marshal and stine | The officer of the day had just demanded that the | A little Want Ad will) ee eeeiiuh thanslation of the| islands in the South Seas, and| Japanese soldiers be removed from the guard room door, get you one, The author |] sapane Jitorials And news stories| Wherever this method could be got when Major Allderdice and Major T. Airi, commandant of | of the following has the || avowed feeling against} ten away with a the Japanese garrison, arrived. é idea: | the United States | ain the Japanese captain lost his head and started right idea: | i952 ae | | Again the Japanese pt s s head and starte pie ataterionte: were. made to| Shuff Is Name for Major Allderdice with his saber. The Japanese major ian hitiecs || the United tos | x J0 4 , nal J IRENE STERMING ifs 5 ake of Hart’s Secretary | jumped in front of the American major and received a deep I'm out of a job and money, t hands and at the! .., Pig saber cut in his arm. a in the family What'll I 4 % ti-Oriental SPOKANE, Aug. 7 Gov, Hart to. Sate ct rie ee naa Rae TS “Insert aster want ado you aay, | ee ee stanie in ite. poltey of ex-/day named C. I, Shuff, local reat es-| Major Allderdice and his officers drew their revolvers, bah aa woe pansion,” continued Chadwick tate man, as his private secretary, (CONT'D ON PAGE TWO)