The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 9, 1919, Page 2

THE TTLE STAR-—SATURDAY, AUGU VETERANS ARE WILL SELECT GIVEN CHARTER FLYING FIELD Membership of 400 in New Expect Seattle to Be Air| Legion Post Mail Port ‘The American Veterans of the| Seattle ien't going to fall t a iltnes. 40 n active member. | Other municipatities of the co we gba innagy se in the move to f ommercial! BY FRANCIS R. SENGLIETON Pe of chowt 40, received (het! etainn [Secretary Seattle Real Estate sharter in the American Legion dur | A committees compos ¢ Sidney | Prepesal of the county ing the past week and will hereafter | Peters, former army Hot ' W.! gessor to tax leasehold be known as Seattle Post No, 1§,| Graham, president of the Transpor-| fotels, rooming and tation club, and David Whitcomd,| ment houses as & means potion Lage will select a landing field in the tg epestiintion Mombers are all workers and have | cigy ot wn be never asked or received donations| It is expected that Seattlo may t ge pte > es from any source, and have done com a “port of call” shortly in the fed of siderabie relief work for returned | eral aerial mail servi Tt is with quarters, finds Veterans. They received their work: | this object In mind that a landing opposit ing funds thru initiation fees, dues | field is to be selected. An effort wil Rebtel @ wets and entertainments be made to have the city purchase} Mental agentin wt At their regular meeting held in the field It in said Mayor Hanson | fects of the rent profiteering their hall, 1616% Third ave, Wednes day evening, Aug. 6, it was decided by a vote of the Trench to hold elec Two SEATTLE YANKS “ten of officers for the new post in | two weexs irom that date, which will | WIN WAR CROSSES) be Wednesday evening, Aug. 20, at favors such @ plan which time all members will have ‘The croix de guerre, with two cita been notified of the election, ard a| tons, has been awarded to Ranald large attendance is expected. Ferong, son of Mr. and Mra. J. ¢ The port has a tive entertainment | Ferong, 4315 12th ave., according to are renters as a_claas|& cholce in securing their homes committee which also acta as a re-|* letter received here Friday. Fer-| di often openty Rostile|Only a slight excems of housing ac freshment committee and serves re.| OOK is serving in France with the|but also the public outery has had|commodations over the demand can freshments after each regular meet: | Mth field artillery of the Second divi-|a strong tendency to discourage |create the competition necessary to ing, where the vets have an oppor. | #0”. the construction of apartment reduce rents now heing demanded | tunity of getting better acquainted, | George FE. Feich, of Colfax, was | house and bh a and, to large |t the lease speculators and forc ig nd it is requested that all returned | Friday awarded the Italian crove di extent, detached houses for as) them out of the business Veterans visit their club rooms in| Sverra at the local recruiting head: | well | Investors Hesitate | Roosevelt Veterans’ hall, 161614 | Quarters. Feich was formerly @ pri | ne Beattie Koal Watate aasocia-| Practically no hotels and apart- Third ave., at any time, day or night. They can secure employment if it| is desired, by applying to Secretary | Harry Edison, and they are especial- ly urged to be present apy Wednes- day evening, which is the regular division. they will meet familiar places where they have served Those wonderful picturesq accurately in the screen pi SYMPHONY MALOTTE on the WURLITZER ORCHESTRA “Polonaise Militaire” .... . Chopin in Meditation, from “Thais” . assenet “Orpheus,” and “I'm — “William Tell.” overture Rossini “Slumber Little Jungle Maid’’..... Wallace Always Blowin’ "i CONCERT—1:30 SUNDAY Bubbles vate in the 361st infantry of the %18t tien has given DAWSON IN 1897! ue days of an era never to return are reproduced m now here— JAPANESE LEAD AS LEASE PROFITEERS whieh has resulted from specu lation in leas mainly ried on by anxious than others to as it much the question, trying to devine some) structed at the prevent time and | effective meeting night of the post, and where speculation tn means of leases by rent DOROTHY PHILLIPS jesday— “Arctic” Night Coliseum’: ws Service Assn apart held to no had ef Japanese, are more speculation unjustified in- reflects al business, attention the Japanese | built for laces fromiand relieve owners of realty from/and high taxes, the odium of stopping an well as the profiteering, | public attitude aguinst the rents now being charged, rake the in- vestor hesitate and house-building But until F; Tuesday only DON’T DELAY ~Say Realty Men It will pack Jwhich Is hurting: the realty business thie hhetase @reatly but hae found no imme diate way of reaching the abuse to the Blame Tt to Shortage | doors As long as there In a shortage in housing acaommodations in Be attle realtors may they know of |no means of stopping lease specu-| jlation and profiteering by un scrupulous holders of leanes, for the man who is without shelter will pay the price demanded Under | present crowded conditions, even! the ‘opm “i tax on lease lds in likely to prove only an added bur den on the tenant, for the holder of the lease will add the taxes to his rents as lang as he can get! taway with it | The ofly effective method of} leurhing the lease epeculator and} rent profiteer is to erect enough |Dulldings in Seattle to give tenants to) ments of any size are being con- very fow, if any, houses are being) rent. High building costs for profit is confined almost entire ly t© construction of amall ho . for immediate sale. Not enough of these are being constructed to mee jthe demand. we | The appeat to the Individual own his own home was adopted by the Real Estate association as |the only effective means of meet- ling present conditions. Home own-| ership in the only eseazie from in- ereasing rents and frequently costly | |moving. The new rent levels make }it cheaper for any one to own his own home than to rent. The home-|/ |buying movement has been very! strong for the past year and still! continues unabated but the supply! im lone than the demand and prices} jbased on present building conts. | 80, the realtors my, the prob- lem haa become a personal one;| |the Seattle man who seeks a per- |manent home must become a} builder himself; must help elimi-! [nate the lease specuiator and rent | |profiteer by building a home for! himself and adding that much to! jthe housing capactty demanded by increasing population, ‘COUNCIL HEARS SALARY PLEAS |Flat $25 Per Month Boost| Is Asked | City employes left thelr signs wide open on their desks u typewriters idle Friday afternoon, and it wasn't « Ro- man holiday, either. ‘The city council declared a special | mension that the empleyes of the jetty might appear before the @uguet body, which has the power | to a@4 to or cut away from the | Payrolle as they are to appear in the 1920 budget, and show cause why higher wages should be theirs. The employes took advantage of the opportunity. They were 100 per cent present. A fint Increase of $25 per month was the motif of their plea. They ‘ showered the council with data show- ing that everything, from hair nete / cpt to granulated gurlic, had risen to Man | heights prohibitive to the city work ere’ purses. Counetiman Willam Hickman Moore said that the present scale jot the city was higher generally ASKS AlD FOR |than most other corporations, He objected to the proposal to pey! employes a bonus, asserting that TIMBER UNION such system was all right in pri- Short Appeals for Help in Yate concerns operated for gain. He said there was no gain in the busi- ness of running a city. Counciiman Jobn FE. Carroll said he belleved the lowest city em- ploye should receive at least $150 Lockout per month stirs No action was taken, but those An appeal for help for the Present at the meeting were as- Timber Workers’ union men who sured by the counct! that their pe- titions would be given considera- tion when the time came to make & ruling on the future wages. Parisian. Styles to were locked out by the Bloedel- Donovan Mill Co, of Belling- ham, was issued Saturday by William Short, president of the State Federation of Labor. Py * ways has been the most vicious ele- Go by Air Freight ana in the lumber industry fight- LONDON, July 30-—(Ry Mall.)-—|ing the labor movement,” declared “Yesterday's Parisian styles? Yea,| Short. “In this case two members Magiame, here they are, but {f you! of the Timber Workers’ union were can wait about half an hour, we! fired because they were union men. will ve today’s styles in.” Between 1,500 and 2,000 men walked Thie is what customes of a Lon:| out after this incident. don department store de juxe will Start of Fight hear shortly “This is the beginning of the fight As soon as the government wit! > grant permission, department buy.| {Or the right to organize. The Bloe del-Donovan company absolutely de- nies this right. The right to ‘or- ganize ix one of the liberties guaran- teed by the constitution. Labor ean- not pass this up, or permit the com- pany to get away with its actions. “The BloedelDonovan company controls most of the industrial life |of Bellingham, and there is no other ers will fly to Paris three times a week to round up the Intest styl Buyers will leave London via aero. plane in the morning, make the round of the fashion shops and boulevards, and return inthe after- noon of the same day, laden with the latest in frocks, hats, hosiery jand boote j with has been to break the TACOMA HOTEL IS SOLD | ismvermen | unions, but some of the bigger lead TO ALEXANDER CO, rs have been growing more liberal TACOMA, Aug, ¥.—The Alexander !n their views. The Bloedel-Donovan Realty company has completed a|veople, however, have grown more large realty deal here by purchasing |@nd more bitter. ’ the Tacoma hotel for $275,000, it was| “Now the Timber Workers’ union announced today. plans to te up every other plant The company plans to remodel the| controlled by the Bloedel-Donovan hotel, company. Thursday an entire log a = ging camp struck and others will ADVERTISE IRRIGATION follow. Only the firemen and pump- SPOKA Aug. 9.—Plans to hire|men are left on the fob. a publicity expert to advertise the Need Help Now The genegal attitude of the Columbia river basin irrigation proj-| “The Bellingham fight is managed et were talked of here yesterday!) by a committee of 12 men, thr when the survey commis#ion met the from the Metal ades council, thr Chamber of Commerce. BE. F. Ben. from the Building Trades, three from son tate agricultural miniasioner, tf Central Council and three Tim: | was against the plan j Workers - ‘The men are showin an excellent REV, CAIRNS T0 TALK japirit, But, they need assistanc 1 Rey. George Robert Cairns will) am sending word thruout the state preach at the Fremont Baptist! for labor to help. Money should be chureh both morning and evening sent at once to James KE, Dyke, sec Bunday, 00 = pe ° “The Bloedel-Donovan company al- } jgroup we would rather fight it out | MIN SUNT Ls TREE etapa’ i] | First Lieut. Frank I, Marshall who went overseas as a |lieutenant in the supply Jof the 161st Infantry, ond Washington, has his home in Seattle 20 months overseas the Mexican border with the Second Washington infantry in 1916. He was commissioned second lieutenant second company the old Sec returned to after serving He served on Heutenant in April, 1919. poi asicne Besa AGAINST U, 8. CONTROL Congressman Guy U. Hardy, edi- tor of a newspaper at Canon City, Colo,, who is a visitor in Seattle, stated Friday he believes the public was unfavorable to government own: Jership of the utilities. Congress: man Hardy arrived from Portland, | where he attended the National Edi torial association convention, of which he ts president 1815 Dock st., Bellingham. These boys must win.” Short returned from Bellingham Saturday, after attending a big mass 4 retary of the Timber Workers, atmeeting of union workers Friday, Back From France == } AN EXTRAORDINARY ATTRACTION- (>, A slashing comedy with a real star cast, including WINNIFRED GREENWOOD RAYMOND If you are thi ing of going into ~ motion pictures, "Seattle vou" New Alaska Railway Chie | | in May, 1917, and promoted to first | &-~ and eS = g RUSSELL on the WORLITZER Za. fH FOR BEE SEPEEFEFELE ¥ > Fick FB By LBEDSE : eip @ BSSEE WR IOEE Worked Up From Rankig Col. Frederick Mears, who was ap-|the American army. He is ang pointed Friday by President Wilson army officer, having served a as chairman of the Alaska engineer- | 1599 in the army, enlisting i O& ing commission, will arrive in Seattle year as a private and receiving with his famlly and party, consist-| commission as second tenant & ing of officials of the commission | 1901. se and the Northern Pacific railroad| Col. Mears replaces Chairmas ™ Wednesiay C. Edes, who has been nd Col. Mears has recently returned | consulting engineer of the a from France, where he was inj sion. Two more vacancies im! ebarge of all rail y operations for | commission have not yet beet Says Girl Jumped in Ocean After Suicide Pact; Man Held by Polic Q@ Fi,2222233", SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9.—Ajdrugsist gave him when he story of a suicide pact between for poison. valk himself and Helen Steel, 18, whom}, “t the Emergency hospl he was rushed and treated for he says is the daughter of a) soning, it developed that wealthy Los Angeles contractor, had been given a harmles® was told to the police today by John when he sought to buy polsom Shippie, 22, a waiter of Oakland is now in the city jail while Shippie was found early today are investigating his story. suffering apparently from poison. Many points in Shippie's He told the police hejand the girl are conflicting, police say. made a pact to jump into the ocean off Lurline pier and that the girl far they have been unable to the parents of the girl in Lae did so. Her cries unnerved him,|geles. The Los Angeles Shippie said, and he fled, later tak-/have been asked to co-operate ing the contents of the bottle ajthe case. ——e {Yakima Business Men Are Urging | Completion of Sunnyside Project YAKIMA, Aug. 9.—Business men ‘Thomas B, Hill, Gordon C. Corbett of Yakima, roused to the need of | J. W. Spangler, of Seattle; © | c Harry ¥. Sb completing the — Sunnyside-Tieton | R. Cottrell, of Kent; is Washington, D, C., and two Uelty men | Proponents of the move state mt the passage of the Mondell pint woul! reclamation project, were consider. ing @ proposal to ask the Washing ton State Chamber of Commerce and the Washington Farmers’ Feder-| mean the providing of 26® send a joint committee to Washing: | Cates section firm, ton to promote the passage of the onal n, Mondell bill, carrying an appropria 8.000 PAINTERS STRIKE tion of half a billion dollars for ¥ < ot thet Al reclamation work and community} NEW YORK, Aug. 9—Eié} Many sand painters, decorators and hangers will strike here Aurust For this committee the following |unless their demands af ay) men were proposed: Ross K, Tiff-|union officials sald today: any, reclamation director, and|men ask $1 an hour for an Orpheus C, Soots, of @Yakima;|day and a five-day weelt land settlement throughout the coun try.