The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 11, 1919, Page 1

MEETING TONIGHT An American Paper That hd Tides in Seattle TURSDAY a MONDAY | ALG. tt ad ret Low Tide First Migh Tide mes tas 4 2F em TET eee Heh Tide First Low Tide on es tt Entered as Becond Class Matter May 9, 1899 NO. 143. ANDREW CARNEGIE, AGE 83, DIES at the Postoffiew at Beattie, ON JAP QUESTION Fights for Americanism eT LATE EDITION i) TWO CENTS IN Wash under the Act of Congress March 8, 1879 ly wind ick London Had Great Fun Writing | REPORTS ON HEARTS OF THREE. |preseatep PRESENTED “| Never Saw Him So Enjoy Writing An ything,” Governor Hart Sends Infor- | ' Says “Mirs. Jack” in Letter to The Star ; mation to Be Placed Be- | fore Civic Assembly | \ FREEMAN ‘WILL. SPEAK Information presented | |by Gov. Hart will be laid | {before the mass meeting} lof civic organizations | called by the Mutual | Business club to consider | | Japanese expansion in the Northwest, in Fine Arts hall, 1213 Fourth ave,, at 8 p. m. Monday. Governor Hart notified the | Mutual Business club today! |that he would not attend the’ j meeting, but would submit} | written information. | “It has been brought to my notice by the state hotel Inspector that the | percentage of Japanese controlled ho telx in Seattle has been over-esti mated,” Governor Hart said Monday |} "I have not had much time to in| | vestigate the situation lately, but it may be serious.” | Attorney General L. L. Thompson, } Here is her letter Gien Ellen, Sonoma County, California. It ian't toe late to tell you how pleased IT learn that you are to serialize Jack's “Hearts of Three.” & great deal of fun writing that yarn—you see, he did we to furnish the imagination, for once in bis life, and | therefore could increase his usual output of 1,000 words a day, to 2,000. It was begun on his ranch, in “The Valley of the Moon,” and completed down in Honolulu. I never saw him so enjoy writing anything, in all the 11 years we were married | With best wishes, St yours, CHARMAIN LONDON (MRS. JACK). P. 8.—I have been busy for the past year writing a thoro going biography of Jack London, and the end is not yet. who was in Seattle to attend legal | matters, has been asked to attend! | the meetings and is expected to be Thoroly Enjoy Reading Every Line of This Last Story of America’s Master Adventure Writer ; | An effort will be made to present j both sides of the question and Rev. U. G. Murphy, formerly a mission if jary in Japan, will be present to de-! fend the inerdasing Jhpanese expan TS i ef @ sion in the Northwest | A large number of organizations | | have already accepted the invitation | to the meeting, Frank Kannalr, see retary of the Mutual Business club, | | declared Monday | Miller Freeman, secretary of the | Veter Welfare commission, who | first brought Japanese activities here | -|to light in his expose of their con-| trol of businesses, will endeavor to have his recommendations favoring restriction of Japane immigration indorsed : CHAPTER I. : Events happened very rapidly with Francis Morgan that late spring morn In ever a man leaped across time into the raw, red drama and tragedy of | Me primitive and the mediaeval melodrama of sentiment and passion of the| 4 World Latin, Francis Morgan was destined to be that man, and Destiny} Will Offer Report et immediate upon him | ‘The commiites appointed by, the 4 . y , . a ; usiness club to secure { er,” he said to the valet, who had been his father’s before him, “did YOU| formation regurding the Aes mre yet corpora | and Poindexter said today ver notice any signs of fat on R. H. M. in his last days? E | lations of immigration and “Oh, no, sir,” was the answer, uttered with all the due humility of the trained ser-| ton laws by the Japanese will re:| Nant, but accompanied by an involuntary measuring glance that scanned — the ON rs suttivan, national chase, Man's splendid proportions. ‘Your father, sir, never lost his leanness. His figure was| 20 eine American Legion. will | lays the same; broad shoulders, deep in the chest, big boned, but lean, always lean,|expiain how Japanese nre crowding | tir, in the middle. returned soldiers out of a chance to| get employment in civilian life | | Zoung Francis Morgan, inheritor| “Yes, sir! jwas, he’s the only dixgrace in the taany millions as well as brawn 1 red some rods sent up. | family that he founded.” bis legs after the manner | F joint them and let me give! er faded out of the room in eS fUll Vigored menagerie lion, and|them the ‘once over’ The idea drifts|the ensuing silence, during which ‘an you make a at a headl : os he| I M in th m4 & headline of the morning thru my mind that two weeks in the | Francis gan buried himself tn the 4 2 pases which informed him of a fresh | woodu in what | need. If 1 don't, I'll Panama column and tearned that the || rhyme? slide the Culebra cut at Panama surely start laying on flesh and dis-|canal was not expected to be open * bg srt id's know ies Masgane a4n't| grace whale famatiy.teee. Yew re | fox trafic for three weeke to. camel Can you make ’em eat way," he yawned, “I'd be| member Sir Henry?—the old original] A telephone gixzed and, thru the jingle? - ard from this existence, Sir He the buccaneer old swash- | electric nerves of a consummate ely . W: i “Oh, ker?” buckier?””" ilization, Destiny made the first out Enter the Want Ad . Yes, wir.” he said hastily, ‘1 . wir.” reach of its tentacles and contracted || Rhyme Contest and win a sir; I've read of him, thy with Francis Morgan in. the Ht } Parker had paused in the doorway and the of the mansion his father had builded until such time as the ebbing of his) 7 ne, sir. You are in the pink of see cash prize Y or Show. aE CONTRADICTIONS young master’s volubility would per |om-Fifth ave \ rf lemme a iy et Ut lifet” the young man | mit him to depart on the errand. “But my dear Mrs, Caruthers,” | It’s Fun! o i may not be getting . his protest into the transmitter “Nothing to be proud of; the old; Whatever it is, it is a mere Certainly xrowing #oft.”’| pirate? toca || It’s Profitable! No, sir; no, I mean no, | Wg “ » protested.| flurry. Tampico Petroleum is all| ? . * Just the vame as when Bs A ag igbeny only Hel right. It ty not a gambling propo: | See partic ulars on trom college three) died respected." |sition, It is legitimate investment.'| Classified Page. 3 a “It was a merey he didn't di¢| Listen, please, it's not « flyer, Our J ‘ hanged!” Francis laughed. “As it (CONT'D ON PAGH BEVEN) INDUSTRIAL CONGRESS; WILL DISCUSS PROBLEMS WITH LABOR AND CAPITAL WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—(United Press.)—Industrial conferences, in which Pres- ident Wilson will meet representatives of capital and labor for open discussion of eco- nomic problems, will be held at the White House before the high cost of living problem is disposed of, according to plans being made here today. The men whom the president will meet will form some sort of unofficial cabinet. The object sought is a free exchange of ideas to clarify the atmosphere and eliminate misunderstandings between the workers and —” and the development of constructive suggestions for betterment of relations between labor and capita Advocates of oa PhS gsr | te ltd Famed Rich Man Passes AwayToday the railroads intend to lay it before this industrial confer- ence. This probably will not} take place, however, until | next October. Backers of the} nationalization scheme have} called a national conference) to meet here October 6 to| Again Put Nicks in Old PayCheck; Java, Bread Up ‘The old pay check will receive another nick Tuesday wherPSeat tle bakers add another cent to the price of a loaf of the well Mocha and Java brew will cost 10 cents from now on in prac tically every restaurant in Seat- tle. Come now the dairymen with consider the “Plumb plan” | known “and necessary staff of a plea that the profession of LENOX, Mass, Aug. 1— i st] lite plain and fancy milkers has be Andrew Carnegie is dead. and other programs for ulti Pound loaves wil! cost 12 come a fine art and that a full The aged steel baron, whose mate disposition of the lines. cents per and ones weighing a string milker, instead of receiv- benefactions totaled more than ‘The plan abproved by thie soubor pound and a half will cost 17 ing $30 as he did in 1918, gets $300,000,000, succumbed to bron: ence—which rcord! to ent | cents, according to President $125 with board and room and chial pneumonia at his summer | on, aocording presen Gust E. Rassmussen of the private car. Hence the 15-cent home here this morning. indications will be the nationalization Master Bakers’ association. Rass- per quart milk A statement issued by attending scheme—will then be submitted to mussen lays the increase to And then hay has “riz” to $75 physicians merely said: the industrial conference for discus freight charges, labor and “gen Before the a ton on the stack “Andrew Carnegie died shortly sion eral conditions.” war and the popular sport of after 7 o'clock thi Ad President Willing Not to -be outdone by the nicking the pay check, the salad | gen chawener ica jonah President Wilson's attitude toward bakers, the restaurateurs came cows’ diet a private secretary, were at the bed- the industrial conference idea was along Monday and, owing to a wie: when the .end:came, set forth in his last speech to con sudden discovery of the high — Dairymen of the county, with Carnegie had been seriously {il reas, wherein he said he was wili-}| price of crockery, cream and an earnest view towards the only since last Friday. His condi- ing to meet any groups of his fel pearis in the South Sea islands, young babies and others of their tion became critical late yesterday, low citizens who “know what they're to say nothing of the increased consumers, are considering a it is understood, talking about” to take steps for it cost of rubber arms for rock- plan where they will do their Funeral arrangements have not proving enpitallabor relations. } ing chairs, raised the cost of our own distribution, nothing defin been announced, but it is believed Senator Poindexter, Wasnineton, is only drink not banned by the ite, yuhunderstand, just sorta the body will be sent to Pittsburg the author of a joint resolution ask: | ing the president to call revresenta- tives of capital and labor for a face: to-face talk. This measure !s pend. | ing in the senate labor Committee, | ne would uplifters considering it for burial. in to Die Rich” Carnegie, early in his career as a financial leader, expressed the firm conviction that it was “a sin to die rich.” He sought, thru his countless gifts, to avoid this self-designated Commission Men Declare Federal Price Probe Doesn’t Scare Them seek early action on it “Labor and eapital ought to get! Local creamery men declared In Portland, following a rumor oH % together and talk it over,” larcd Monday morning that any gov. that the government was 4 Rectan Rikge Sei ops en Pistrotie nO 45). Senater Overman, North ¢ ernment investigation into the to begin an investigation of mawvevec: | See teste Serer es ae who studied labor conditions in de prices of butter and eggs in the prices, Swift & Co, lowe quo mbes te ngks See Hea: een tail during the recent investigation City of Beattie wauld not lower. tations 2° conte Maturday morn upon lis wealth, of Bolshevism quotationain thie city ing. All creamery ‘men tn the Carnegie had’ been incapacitated "What we need,” he said today, “is The investigation would sim- city immediately followed suit Tor pavers! Fears: Daring, ibs: eiray an appreciation of each other's prob ply make our position stronger,” The markets on butter, eggs part of the war, ‘which came. 4a. lems by bring representatives of declared one prominent Western and cheese continued steady terrific shook to. him. and Shatsenay both sides together. They would soon Sud’ edhataolon wae risa his ideals, he began to fail rapidly, Mohd 14 excubelhiad WAN each ociiee and thereafter appeared very seldom iF ieiah te 2 cane Wee 1c-tnent ae in public, He was under almost con Fcrpakett sthtiation wt P if = wn jstant care of physicians, from | oo ; ————| time to time it was reported that All Wo Profit | jhe was totally incapacitated, Senator Gronna, North Dakota, URGES OU | At the time of his daughter's mar- chairman of the senate agriculture | riage recently to Ensign Roswell committee, and in private life af | Miller, U. 8. N., it was reported that banker and farmer, believes all] | the aged philanthropist was some s would profit if labor and cap- | 1 what better. He attended the ‘ could solve their difficulties | mony, but was very feeble, Since peaceably that time he had been able to move (CONT'D ON PAGE SIXTEEN) |Cruiser Montana to Arrive August 14 Altho the ifle fleet will ar. “I think it would be very benefictal, and I in favor of anything to help stabilize conditions and make] the different factions,” | Hanson Requests That Con- struction Ordinance Pass am © among {Tacoma Launching rive in Seattle September 8 in Fight on Prices full formation, the cruiser Mon. | | ey Acts 11.—Attacks on the tana, with 600 m nd officers, | hih cost of living were t power develop | Work on the 8k should he sald today Poindexter the tion named several original resoly prominent labor al chiefta in ment project started at and induat who should | Once, according to the recommenda: | proceeding be called in, but this aroused protest, | tion made to the city council Monda will arrive about August 1 in | Pere today. * 5 especially from Basil Manly, of the) afternoon ‘by Mayor Hanson, who| Bremerton, where two-thirds of | | oe kW, (Cobway, aanniems war labor board, and others, who said] j..cq his recommendation on the fa-| het complement will be dis: hited States attorney, was acting that a broader committee would have | 2 8 4 charged at once. under directions from Washington to be selected. Poindexter explained | YOrable report made by City Engineer! mnis” word was received by the|te unearth and prosecute relentlessly today that his lst was only a sug-| A. H. Dimock Chamber of Commerce Monday | all cases of violation of the anti-trust gestion to the president, and that} The feasibility of beginning con | morning from Carl Bush assistant | @nd anti-hoarding acts, pther# should be called. He favors! struction o the Skagit has been con-| secretary of the chamber, who is in| Herbert 8. Griggs, former county allowing each group to choose its | clusively established by Dimock's re Angeles, where he went to make | food administrator, was expecting im own spokesman port, Hanson declares, in his recom: | plans for the welcome of th] struction from the state administra~ | mendation, and legislation should be here He wired that a 14.page | tor, requesting him to resume office —- 8 passed to permit the work to pro-|letter, setting forth plans for the} temporarily and exercise xtra Vor Editorial Comment ar ‘ome, has been mailed. legal” powers to crush profiteering. See Page 6 | “Drilling on Ruby creek indicates| The fleet will spend theee days in| William I, Askren, county pi Wa | that solid rock in the center of the} Seattle, then go to Tacoma for two/ cuter, was continuing his probe tato ‘3 ida o |river is ‘leas than 65 feet from the|days, and later scatter about the| th coma "milk trust,” with a view Wo who talk most usually! surface of the water," Dimock's re-| Sound for a few days, some ships) to commencing criminal proceedings, mean what they don't say port declares going to Portland if possible, this week,