The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 15, 1919, Page 13

‘AMERICAN DOLLAR NOW ONLY 69 CEN | EIGHT ARE DEAD \AIRPLANE KILLS CONCERT TO AID [sr The Seattle Star ‘ NN HT NWA Mal L i of Above map shows route United States flyers will take in proposed around- Leaving New York, they cross Labrador to Greenland, Iceland and world flight. SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDA ‘Will Make | | ‘Air Trip - inBomber | Route of Long and Daring | Journey is Mapped by Aviators FOUR TO MAKE ATTEMPT} BY A KG (N. B.A. Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, D.C, Aug S—Next—an airplane — flight around the world! | With the Atlantic ocean twice | crossed by airplanes and twice | more by dirigible, the air service | | | DHOF of the United States army is now laying plans to circumnavi gate the globe with an American army airplane next summer. | Major W HM. Frank of the air service, who c ived and in exe | outing the plans for the New York toSan Francisco Might, fath ered the idea of a flight around the world T. Menoher, ai rector of the air service, told him to go ahead and work out the plans Major Frank fs that a Martin bombing plane, equipped with twin Liberty Twelve motors of 400 horsepower CAN FLY AROUND THE IN LESS THAN 30 DAYS Alr officers 1 two w also General C positive each WORLD nervice the will be kn © conserva ven if the flight takes 30 expect made in li but they pr eatimaten th it will break all records. The fast. | ext time ever made around the world | was days, 21 hours, by J. H Mears, a New York newspaperman In 1916, Mears traveled—by boat and train to be followed by the army aviators “The army flyers will start from | New York about August 1, 1920,/ an summer ahd arty autumn} are considered the beat for long: | dintance flying | THE FLIGHT WILL BE MADE BY WAY OF GREENLAND AND ICELAND, thus enabling the ‘plane to cross the Auantic in short jump For thin reason the army can make the Might with a regular land type | of plane, inatead of a flying boat Another great point in favor of the Greenland route is its lack of | over much the same route late | believes that in the to air pioneers Norway m lceland cross the straits the next descent Sweden will 1K RUSSIA PLVED PROBL then e'a the rub: How his world nav ing to jump across the vast expanse of Russia now controlled by the Bol- aheviki, Major Frank hasn't yet de cided. He's hoping order will be rest i in Russia before the Might ix made. After trailing omes Russia—and | ators are go the Trans-Siber fan railway to Vladivostok the Norway, thence across Sweden and Finland to Russia. world. Loaded With Picnickers PARKERSBURG, W. Va., 16-—Eight persons are dead today @s the result of the crash between @ street car loaded with picnickers| and a Baltimore & Ohio switch en- ine at Parmaco, two miles north @f the city yesterday. Five more| rsons died last night in the city oepital as a result of their injuries | fand the death toll, it is believed, will be swollen with others today The crash occurred when the itreet car, filled with women and phildren, was struck by the switch ngine. A steam pipe on the engine as broken and crushed into the reckage of the car, filling it with team and scalding many | A bystander and witness of the ecldent fell dead while breaking the glass in the windows of the car in an effort to free thowe impris Pf oned. | Most of the victims were children 15——Mrs, Jeremiah | O'Grady, who believed herself left | penniless when her husband died| and secured work as serubwoman in| # hotel here in order to support her-| ‘self and child, received word that) cher husband left her a $10,000 equity | | fn valuable land at Martinez, Contra Costa county. H, Heapp, Richmond “attorney, sent the information, og i | | Aug. CHICO, Aug. F~ IN TRAIN CRASH THREE CHILDREN RYTHER KIDDIES Switch Engine Hits Car|Machine Plunges IntoCrowd Boats to Carry Music Lov- of Sightseers BALTIMOR the third make a Thursds Aero David Mass. which sons who were killing Md ineffect in an aerop Squadron, pilo R. Stinson crashed Aug. 15 attempt park » of the 88th d by Lieut ringfield, fence behind hundred per watching his flight children and injuring seven other per One of the children was cut ir by the pro peller and another's arm was sheared off. Lieut accident pital With chine was Sergt Dayton, ©. rapher BANGS AND TIPPETT SPEAK FOR CHAMBER John Kendrick the Ameri committee tated France and humorist, shared the honors with Dr. EB. H. Tippett who has tentatively accepted the office of executive secretary of the Seattle Federation of Churches, at the noon meeting of the Chamber of Commerce Friday, In to landing terson ot thru a several three sons. two Stinson collapsed taken after to the and was a Lieut, Stinson HJ observer in the Fulwiler, of and photog ne was demolished ma Bangs, director of n for devas They follow the line of the Transsiberian railway to Vladivostok then turn north and cross Bering sea either by the Cape-Nome route or the Aleutian islands to Alaska. the west coast of Alaska and Canada to Seattle, and cross York. This airplane is a Martin bomber, a type of the machine in which Maj. Frank, United States army air service, hopes to be the first to fly around the hos machine will turn northward and | cross the Bering straits or follow the Aleutian islands to Alaska; then down the Pacific coast to Seattle} and th acrous country, back to New York The will number four—two pilots and two mechanics. Who they are the air service has not yet even) considered | “But they will be youngsters,” | said Major Frank, “and we will train them specially for the. round-the- world flight There will be little if any dan | ker from engine trouble on the flight If one of the twin Liberty motors goes on strike, the other will carry the machine until the next landing place, ‘Three or four Liberty motors | will be shipped to various places on the route, to replace the original ones if necessary. All other «pare parts will be in the cargo. Arrangements will be made thru our consuls along the route for sup. plies, ities crew Then they fly down the continent to New landing places. and other facil-| | sale | NEW TRANSATLANTIC RECORD BY U. ARMY | PLANE IS LOOKED FOR esides being the first airplane to| | fly around the world, Ut army | machine which will’ ci |the globe next summer probably | will hang up a new record for a flight across the Atlantic Instead of taking the srtugal route, as did the NC flying! ts, of the navy, the New | undland-Ireland route, as did the ane Tt ANS fiatude ‘boat S8P0 S00 WAP | otis, plane, the army flyers will| tax ata will leave park | at 8 p. m, and will leave the Zimmer. | !8# new trail over Labrador, | man landing at 11 p. m. for Seattle, |CGreeniand and Toeland, landing in| Whe pipesele of the conor’ Will t ‘way. Whether not they will | 1 to the Mother Ryther | succeed in lowering the time records | fund, | of Commander Read and Captain Al Assisting | cock, army aviation officials will not} rt will be predict Mrs. Annie Louise Herold,| Here yowoprano; Mrs. Clinton P. Me. | records Cormick, soprano; Willlam Kueh, | *8#!nst | barit Gwendolyn Taylor Lewis,| May 16 pianist; Arville stad and Mry,| Trepassey |r P. Smith, accompanist ers to Zimmerman Home Axsisted artistes of th by Seattle's best known musical world 1 Friday night b. m Zimmerman, Seat a con cert will be Frederick W tle tenor, at his home “Under the Azores in East for fit of Mother Ryther’s home Firs” Seattle the bene ps or Tickets Lesehi Home Zimmerman in the Claude Madden, violin- con the trans-Atlantic flight army plane will go up the ist ™ 1919 N. F., British N. F., 12 min. irigible F-34 to Mineola, | | hours, 18 min. The grounds of the Zimmerman une 14, 1919 home will be converted for the night | Pl" St. Johns |into a paradise of colored lights and | Ireland, 16 hours, decorative effects. FRE 1, 1919—Firitish \t | to Cliften, | ust Fortune, Scotland 1.108 hours, 12 min July 1%, 1919—British dirigible R-34, Mineola, L, 1, to Pulham, Eng., 74 hours, 56 min NEW YORK, Aug. 15 | of daylight holdubs of » now Jexplained. Joseph Ryan, arrested |here after his alleged holdup cf a| ‘There may be a new trans-Atlantic Ninth ave, grocer, declares that| record before the U. 8, aviators start ju pre is nothing particularly danger-|on their globe-girdling trip next ous im th@ @o-called daylight holdup. | year, rn The secret es | Jit Is understoc clude the | Jon supplying arms Y, AUGUST 15, 1919. » { x MOBILIZE COTS FOR FLEET MEN 10,000 Jackies Need Sleep- ing Accommodations Every military cot in the state will be mobilized at Seattle for the use of 10,000 gobs of the Pa cific fleet in special dormitories, September 8, if Gov. Louls F. Hart gives the required permis- sion to the committee in charge of sleeping accommodations, James Lansbury head of sleeping accommodations committee this manner every gob who intends to sleep ashore will | be amply cared for Final officers and men of the fleet will be Friday at 12:30 at a luncheon the Bon Marche tea room. At this meeting the task of raising $100,000 for the entertainment of the fleet personnel will be discussed. It in planned to raise the money by popular sub- scription. plans for the receptions of made afternoon. o'clock at PITTSBURG GAR MEN ON STRIKE 3,000 Motormen and Con- ductors Quit at Midnight PITTSBURG, Pa, Aug. 15.—Re | Jecting the award of the national war | labor board and 3,000 union motormen conductors of the Pittsburg | Street Rallway company walked out | at midnight, paralyzing the entire electric railway transportation sys tem in the Pittsburg district Despite the counsel of their lead ers, the union car men voted unani- mously to refuse the war board's award, which granted them an in crease of 6 cents an hour, instead of the 12 cents demanded. Mediation by the Chamber of Commerce and the 1 Merchants’ association also was refused Japan Forms New Chinese Policy? TOKIO, Aug. 12. —- (Delayed.) (United Press.)—The foreign office. , Ww developing a new policy toward China, which will in following points ance to be given Hsu, that unification may be realized. Assistance by the government in making proper loans to China, Removal of the existing prohibition © that voluntary contracts may be recognized It is understood Japan will carry out the return of Kiau Chao, as stip- ted in the Chin panese agree ment, irrespective of whether China signs the peace treaty President so of China AROUND THE The first voyage around’ the world was made by one of a squadron of five Spanish ships under the famous navi Magellan, He sailed from Spain September 20, 1519, and after discovering the straits named after him, was killed in a. skir mish in the Philippine tstanas. Wour of his ships were sunk, but the fifth reached in, Septem: ber 6, 1522—having made the voy age in a few days less than three WORLD the | ARMY AVIATORS PLANNING FLIGHT AROUND WORL Why Your Dollar Has Shrunk GAR OVERTURNS, 8 ARE INJURED Motorcycle Crashes Ball Park Jitney Albert Miller, 23, an employe of the Northern Pacific railway at Auburn, and Hamada, a Japanese of Kent, were seriously injured and six other persons sustained minor injuries when a motorcycle driven by D. Saiki, 21, another Japanese, of Kent, collided at 245 p. m. Thursday with a jitney bus driven by Miss Roberta Ellis, of 304 Warren ave, at Sixth ave. S. and Dear- born st. Both machines were said to have been traveling at excessive rates of | speed. The completely around and overturned |by the force of the collision. The | machine was practically demolished. Miller sustained a broken collar bone, dislocated shoulder and in ternal injuries vere lacerations and bruises of the face; M. P. Sheffield, a fellow em ploye of Miller's and was cut about the head: jitney bus was turned lost a front tooth Miss | Ellis, the driver, suffered bruises and | Denni, | | slight cuts on the face; 8 1034% Jackson st. riding in the |front seat with the driver, was slight jiy bruised; D. Saiki, driver of the | motorcycle, sustained a slight con Jeussion of the brain and a bruised leg. All the injured were taken to the All but leity hospital and treated their homes. The jitney bus was en route to the |ball park at the time of the crash | ‘The six persons in the machine were pinned beneath the wreckage of the car, Sheffield was the first to craw! from the debris and, assisted by pedestrians, righted the machine. Hamada, riding on the rear seat of the motorcycle, was thrown over the top of the automobile, alighting on | his face. ‘The motorcycle, according to the persons in the machine, was crossing the intersection at a speed of 40 miles per hour, and the jitney was traveling well over 30 miles per hour. At the police station both drivers | declared their respective machines [rere traveling at a moderate speed. |Andrew Carnegie Is Laid to Rest NOX, Mass. Aug. 15.—Funeral services for Andrew Carnegie were held at his old summer home, at Shadow Brook, in the |'Thursday, There were | beare and following the |the body was taken to Sleepy Holloy |for interment in a lot chosen My | Carnegie years ago. Only intimate friends and members of the family attended the services | Dr. William Pierson Merrill, of the |Brick Presbyterian church, Fifth Jave., New York, officiated. |ROMANCE OF WAR | ENDS IN MARRIAGE | "TACOMA, Wash, Aug. 15,—(By | United Press).-A romance which harks back to the fields of old | Flanders was culminated here when Joe C, Williams of Tacoma and Miss 3, Outtrim of Rome, N. Y., 1a marriage license and were fd. Tacoma man met his future wife when they found themselves members of the same base hospital unit—the %3rd, and the friendship which developed during their care of the wounded soon ripened into love, no pall Into Hamada suffered se: | | TIES” Miller and Hamada were released to | Berkshires, | services | | been awarded the distinguished serv- Pages 13 to 24 | rd, rer, jon- f ago Lite 1d * t REAL WAGES HAVE 'Former Cost of Labor to deal with the problem of wages and the cost of living because of his wide study of these problems, has helped to work out the Lane plan for putting soldiers on the land. This is the first article written by Mr. tion of the High Cost of Living will follow. BY BENTO} ACKAYE | Labor | Where the average union worker earned a dollars 69 cents’ worth. And he’s earning less today. | To be sure, the wages actually PAID have gone up, meantime the food he could get for a dollar back in 1907 jhas taken on a price of $2.05. The price of FOOD 5 je is |CREASED LESS THAN HALF. ‘ | So REAL WAGES—what a man gets, not in ‘the contrary they WENT DOWN. They went down from |one dollar to a wee less than 69 cents. | paper, or tell your little boy to get his slate, and you di $1.41 (what you earn now in place of your 1907 dollar) you are “perfect” in your arithmetic your answer will just $0.68784. |1907 and 1918. The answers we recorded on the bottom curve shown in the cut. The other two curves are S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The average of retail food prices for 1907 is calle?) 100, and higher—from 100 in 1907 up to 205 in 1918. The average of union paid wages for 1907 is also called 100, and |_- The “real” wages then run from 100 in 1907 to 69 in 1918. High Flight in Prices Means | These figures seem to settle the hash of your easy-goit |optimistic friend who jollies himself, and tries to jolly you |going up because wages are also. The next time he pulls this narcotic, just those “paid wages” skirting along like javiator who flies close above the chimney so as to stir up a big n | Next show him the “food prices” going it a little easy till the yea |1915, and then shooting up into the sky like Harry Hawker when he: | The vesult of this high flight in prices was a “NOSE DIVE” IN RE. These had been gradually “volplaning” down from 166_ | Down they plunge points in two years Look at these curves again and then wonder why, according to ER CENT OF AMERICAN BOYS Benton Mackaye was picked by the Department of He has served the Department of Agriculture and he Mackaye for The Star. Others dealing with the solu- Living Expert of the U. |worth of food a dozen years ago, he earned last year |Where he got one dollar in 1907, he got $1.41 in 1918. But |THA DOUBLED WHILE HIS PAID WAGES |but in bread, beans and sausage—didn’t go up at al. On How do you figure this? Why you take a piece $2.05 (what you pay now in place of that 1907 dollar). | This has been done for you with every year b from figures collected from all over the country by the prices for the years following are shown in the curve as p i |wages thereafter are proportionately higher up to M41 in 1918. |Sudden “Nose Dive” for Wages that “after all” it makes no difference if food prices MR poke his face into <u and make the people look up at him. jstarted his trans-Atlantic for Ireland. |in 1907 to 91 in 1916, or about nine points in eight years. Then BANG U. S. Children’s Bureau, 220 F ; GIRLS DON'T G UGH TO EAT. Food, of cours the big thing in the average American fi : budget. From 35 to 40 per cent goes for this item. But “there @re others.” Let's take a look at them. j Of the main necessities, lumber—that makes most has risen (at wholesale) from 100 to 1907 to 155 in 1918, But this is @l easiest of all. Fuel and lighting for our homes have gone up, during same time, from 100 to 188; house furnishings to 190, grub to 212, for our sick folks to 215 (with a “luxury tax” on top of that); shoem” chemises, and clothing generally, have gone to 227. “ALL COMMODE> taken together have gone up to 209 But now at last some workingmen (the railway men) have gone to congress and told the solons to let up on Shantung and FO! POLITICS long enough to take up some HOME ECONOMICS. The men say they want RELIEF AND WANT IT QUICK!! % They've put up two programs: No, 1, “wages up"; down.” Suppose they take No, 1 and put wages up—that is, paid wages Then the price of everything that rides on rails will go up also is, go up a little higher—and real wages for us all will drop a lower So the only hope of real wages is to forget paid wages, and train your antiairplane guns on Mr. Aviator Prices and bring him down, But it’s no cinch even then. We are up against more than one king q of profiteer. All kinds of causes and all kinds of remedies are being: suggested, But here is a “practical” point to keep in mind: aq ‘This price rising business, remiember, is no new thing. Wholesale prices of “all commodities" have been rising slowly but surely since way back in the ‘90s, In 1896 the prices were two-thirds of those in 191 But last year the prices were double those in 1915 A The gradual rise, therefore, that had been going on for many years. before the war, is one story—due to what we might call “fundamental® causes, But the sharp rise, since the war began, when prices began to stand right up on their hind legs, is another story—due to “acute” causes” (or an acute development of the same old causes) i And so, in all this, the point to remember is that WHAT'S @OO FOR AN ACUTE CAUSE (THE SYMPTOM) IS NOT NECESSAR) WORTH A HOOT FOR THE FUNDAMENTAL CAUSE (THE DISBA ITSELF) PEACE ARMY _\LEGION WANTS \. NOW STARTED MORE MEMBERS Generals Bullard and McAn-| Will Help Entertain Pacifi drews to Offer Plans Fleet Sailors Here hak 15.-Lieut. A concentrated drive to obts who commanded the every returned soldier as a m s my in France, and Maj.|has been started by Elmer J. No Gen, MeAndrews, who was chief of | Post, American Legion, staff for the-A ¥., were called The legion has been called) up before the senate military affaira|by the entertainment comm committee today to discuss the war |charge of the reception to department's plans for a peace time |the fleet, to do its share army of 500,00 men and universal |taining the men still in. th military training. Arrangements for the = of Lt, Col. Theodore Root discussion of possible clu will be discussed at the Monday night at the Soldi Sailors’ club, when A, V, T of our hom No. 2, “pi WASHINGTON, Frederick Mears, Alaskan railroad Aug. 16. chairman of commission, ~Col, the has representative of the natio; {ce cro; e y ‘ cross for “exceptionally meritorl- | eniion. will add Mog q ous and distinguished service in the transportation of supplies to the front lines,” , J Rh Vi GONE DOWN, NOT . Department of a &