The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 19, 1919, Page 1

/ QUICK PEACE URGENT, SAYS WILSON ‘ANTILJAP SOCIETY IS ORGANIZED HERE} Tides in Seattle First Low Tide 4eh am. OF ft Firat High Tide n m, 82 tt Second High Tide | Second 1.2 te lite VOLUME 22. NO. 150. An American Paper That Fights for Americanism TURSDAY Ava, First Low Tide S80 am, 00 tt | w | | | Wiest tien Tide | | ar SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 191 The Seattle Sta Per Year, joa as Hecond Class Matter May 8, 1899, at the Postofficw at Geattie, Wash. under the Act of Congress March % 1879 by Mat, LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE $5.00 to $9.00 Weather Forecast: We Tonight and Wednesday, fair; nenday; gentle winds, mostly we [AMERICAN SOLDIER & MEXICC EL PASO, Texas, Aug. 19.—Eighth cavalry troops crossed into Mexico below Candelaria, Texas, early today ii INVA | pursuit of the Mexican bandits who released Lieutenants Peterson and Davis for $15,000 ransom. Aeroplanes ¢ scouting with the cavalry in an effort to pick up the bandits’ trail. Feeling on the border is extremely tense. window shopping on the street, on a hot apparently, enjoying coat and a thin waist .| diate action. racing motorcycle dashed and darted and dipped and dodged thru the traf. thirty miles an hour. The missed running over a dozen people by inches, and being run oer by fractions of an inch. The guiding genius was a slip of girl about 16. She was arrayed in a pair of fawn-colored, tight riding breeches, a faded yellow sweater, a green cap, with the visor pointed of her neck, and spiral puttees. She was a pale bit of a girl, without enough strength to lift one wheel of her devil wagon if ever she had a spill, but no racing @river ever handled his machine in @ traffic mix-up any more cleverly than did this girl. And, at that, she probably wears summer furs when she goes to the movies with her special knight and “protector.” blueness out of the auto mobile and by his colorful creations is putting dash and color onto our streets. He would be interested in a sun burst we noticed standing at the curb down by Yesler way yesterday It was one of those sport roadsters, slim and lean, and all dolled up with funny extras. And its color scheme was some thing to enchant a madhouse futur- int. The body was painted with long stripes of green and gold. Its top was a bright red. Its upholstery was of red and pink ticking. And brightly polished copper discs formed the wheels, which looked like the shield of Mighty Jove. That sort of a chariot, going at 40 miles an hour down a sun-bathed summer roads would certainly give the natives a thrill. From the fussy and frolicsome tints @ome Seattle sports are adorning NE automobile designer boasts that he is taking the dull drab, black and | Grocers’ association last night. anyone interested in curtailment of Japanese immigration Green building, where temporary headquarters have been | check the flow of Japanese into the GROCERS VOTE TO FIGHT JAPS A permanent organization to deal with the Japanese problem is under way today. This became at a meeting of the Seattle Retail The grocery 100 Pesto their co-operation in the movement dir it further Japanese penetra- tion of the Pacific Coast. } Membership in the new organization will be open to into the United States, and in curbing Japanese economic e ion in the Northwest. | * Applications for membership may be made at 1012} established. A permanent secretary will be enga: to serve the! organization. For the present, Frank E. Kannair, secretary | of the Mutual Business club, will serve as acting secretary. Financial contributions will be received by Kannair. Before a permanent secretary is = | appointed, a meeting will be called | immigration committee, asking him| to outline the work of the club, and|to fight for the restriction of | |Feceive reports on other Pacific | Japanese tmmigration | |eoast organizations alrvcdy attempt-| After agreeing to support the | ing to deal with the Japanese prob-|new organization in every way lem. : possible, including financially, the | Committees will be named by the | grocers named a committee with! | club to carry on the work of expos-| full power to act for the associa- | jing Japanese control of business|tion in the furtherance of the | here, and definite steps will be taken | movement This committee was) to bring before the state and federal | empowered to take any other steps governments the necessity of imme-|that might be necessary to combat the Japanese menace Coast » Jap Colony “The Pacific Coast is fast be- coming a Japanese colony.” Free- | man told the grocers. “The whites | are being exploited unmercifully. | The popular demand resulted in the gentlemen's agreement between; the United States and Japan to re- strict Japanese {mmigration. Ja-| | pan pledged on her honor that | \ would restrict immigration into| 0 age Jeger ype |this country, but during the war ber of the legislature, and Kannair, |‘ Japanese came in at an alarm- tary of the Mutual Business |'™® rate. We must formulate or- club, who have already investigated |Fanized action to solve the prob/ the wae ie ae i: | “The Japanese have formed an | Organization, and adroitly received They outlined the plan to create| the indorsement of 16,000,000 church | & permanent organization, and it! neopie in this country. This is the was after they had presented data | organization propagating the ¢ on the increasing penetration now before the United | f | ick plan, | Japanese here that the retail sTO-| states senate, If this plan carries | we will then be living in a Japan- cers voted to back the proposed or- ganization 5 - | (CONT'D ON PAGE Nr The association ordered a tele-| mira aah ae |gTam sent to Congressman Albert DEAD IN BLOWUP’ their cars with, we surmise that Much of the drabness, and the dull, muddy lines of our motor busses is |Men Are Trapped in Colo- rado Mine Explosion | Want Immigration Checked The new organization will attempt to focus attention of national and state lawmakers on the need for new or amended immigration laws to United States. A campaign will be considered to} curtail the expansion of Japanese already economically intrenched here. going to be wiped entirely out. | ee UMANS are not the only personal property that have trouble in finding a stall to back into these nights. The homeless au- tomobile appears to be as frequent as the weary wanderer hunting a | niche to tuck himself into, Downtown garages enough space for flocks of cars that seek a hiding place; and, besides, the rate at these garages has been boosted until they are nearly on the price level of the hotels. So, all over the city, one will find automobiles left for the night. Some | times the thoughtful owner puts on some gort of a cover, but for the most part the machines are left un protected, either from the weather or the thief. | Many of these care are expensive | heavy, inclosed cars, with fine TRINIDAD, Colo, Aug. 19.— (United Press.}—Eighteen miners were killed by Monday's explosion in the Oakview coal shaft near La Vota, it was definitely established today. ‘The bodies of 11 have been taken lout. ‘The remaining six dead have been locdted and are expected to be brought out today | do not have the flocks and Nowhere to go but out; that ap-| upholstery and cut glass vases, and|Peare to be the situation a lot of} all sorts of frippery, to say nothing |Seattle folke find themselves in| lof extra wheels and tires, more or|these days. liess firmly attached to them. | The request of The Star for ex-| | ‘The next step will be for the home-|periences of house hunters has al-| |less brigade to unfold a roll of bed-|ready brought letters aplenty; not-| \ding and camp out in the homelews | withstanding, and howsumever, we autos, want your experiences; we want to| | ones | on learly today, |from Marta, Col. George Langhorne, at Marfa, wroopers across the Mexican line in accordance with his standing orders from the war department authorizing such punitive expeditions when hehad a “hot trail.” This \was the ninth crossing by Langhorne’s men after Mexi-| can raiders during the past two years. There is no undue activity among the American armed forces jat Fort Bliss here, and General James B. Erwin, district command- ler, had received no intimation from Washington that any move- ment into Mexico on a large scale would take place. view of the tense situation along the border, poned a visit to a” } Cambe Seeind main at his headquarters in El Paso. t- | Cloadcroft, N. M., and will re- sent the American However, in! BY de Se General Erwin pedite the ratification of the |today opened his conference TREATY SIGNING - IS VITAL ISSU —Says President. — MARTIN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—Urging that the peace treaty, Presid with members of the \foreign relations committee at the White House by The hunt thru the bad lands below the Big Bend sector is ex-|a long statement in which he said: pected to be over today and the pursuing troops should be back on the American side tonight, according to military officers here. Lieutenants Peterson and Davis joined the cavalry and acted as| guides in the chase, according to anunofficial report reaching here. The expedition consisted mainly of the mounted guard, led by Captain Matlock, | which escorted F. M. Fenell, Marfa banker, with the $1 had a few hours’ start of the American troops. listas in the band, according to Peterson and Davis. AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. the recruiting of the Texas national guard 16,000 men. Adjutant General Harley was ordered to proceed |to recruiting centers thru the state to hurry recruiting. |guard consists of two brigades of cavalry and one brigade of| infantry. $15,000 RANSOM IS PAID FOR AVIATORS SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Aug. 19 (United Press)--Official reports to the headquarters of the Southern de partment here today mid the full $15,000 ransom was paid Mexican bandits for the release of Lieuts. H. G. Peterson and Paul H. DE #. According to headquarters here, the formal report of the deliverance of the captured aviators said Capt. Leonard Matlock of the Bighth cay airy deponited $7,500 across the line near Candelaria. Returning a few moments later he found Lieut. Pe terson. The remaining $7,500 was then deposited. Capt, Matiock depart ed. Returning again, he found Lieut Davis. cavalrymen, jdent F. M bank, with lected to the border. agreed alone Lieut release, escorting Fennell Vice Presi of the Marfa the money, was carry the money Signal lights upon, Matlack se- ACTORS Peterson, raid. “We fell about noon Su thought we rere about two miles from Canf «. We walked Sunday “ 4 Sunday night until @ 2 o'clock Me morning, «hen we found a Mexican who talked Englith He told us Pilares was three miles south We asked him to take us there but he told us the Mexicans would kill us if we went there So we got him to take us to a r which shortly after his day. We oon 4 20 EL PASO, Tex., Aug. 19.—Lieuts. H. G, Peterson and Paul H. Davis, set free by Mexican bandits on pay- ment of $15,000 ransom, arrived on|we walked about an hour, the American side of the border} “we slept about one and one according to reports! half hours until 6 o'clock Monday Tex |morning, when we headed down Captain Matlack of the Eighth} what we thought the Rio United States cavalry, carried the|Grande. We started climbing over ransom money to the bandits’ |the hills, following the course of camp, returning with Davis, while|the river. Then we walked all day Peterson preceded them |Monday, walking an hour and rest The ransom money, raised by|ing half an hour, Monday private subseription in the vicinity! we walked by moonlight until 9:20 of Marfa, reached Candelaria, |p, m., when we went to sleep and ‘Texas, opposite the bandits’ hiding|slept until 6 a. m, Tuesday. We place, last night. Captain Mat-|bought Mexican tortillas at a little lack, in charge of a small squad of (CONT'D ON PAGE NID ad down was rent he is gouged for, Here is the letter: Dear Sir; Your article in Saturday's paper noted, and 1 am sending in my. experience. 1 have just come up from San Francisco to go in busi- ness here, and I have finally secured an apartment for $42.50 stair up enough discussion and pro. | test an dargument to, perhaps, get us somewhere. Here is a letter from one comes to Seattle to invest money and establish a business It gives another reason for the high cost of living, for he must hand to his customers the high i who his had been! conditions absolutely depends jthe way. However, the bandits} That the only obstacle which appears to stand There were a score of well-mounted Vil-|way of immediate ratification is doubt about the of certain provisions of the league of nations. Discusses Article That there is no doubt in the minds 19.—Anticipating an early climax in| >t thov who wrote the covenant that the Mexican situation, Governor Hobby today ordered the so-called doubtful provisions speeding UP | mean exactly what the United States to full strength ° javante wants them to mean. The president discussed the effect of reservations on article 10, the | Monroe doctrine, withdrawal and do- MEXICO CITY, arnulfo Gome: was Texas | mestic questions. He declared there can be no objection to passing a res- from the American point of view, but this resolution, he added, must be ie tt —_——————| kept from the subject of ratification. | If itis made a part of the ratifica- | | tion, the president said, it will force | the United States to go to Germany tion of the covenant, and that is something, Wilson declared, which he is very reluctant to do. - By 10 o'clock, the hour set for Refutes Accusation Carran- | member of the committee was in the za Troops Are Unreliable »!e room of the White House, where ro jthe president met them Aug. 19.—Gen.| Senators Ask Questions, federal forces at Tampico, today in-| had concluded his statement dignantly denied the charges of for-jtors began questioning him. The eign oil companies regarding the | questions centered about the league danger of attack if Mexican escorts |of nations and the effect of reserva: was no truth in the charges that] Senator Lodge brought out facts Carranga’s troops were unrelia concerning the matter in which the » party of bandits held respon- | covenant drafted. President sible for the attacks and robbery re-| Wilson sald that the final draft was of prominent petroleum companies, | plans, and that his previous state and also suspected of being guilty of|ment that the Smuts plan had been bbing the launch from the Amer-|the basis for the covenant was prob- ican cruiser Cheyenne, were captured | ably somewhat misleading. has confessed he had participated mn |Cumber questioned the president in both attacks |considerable detail concerning the ef | One of the flants of George | fect of reservations. The president McDonald also was captured. Mc- | Was asked whether the other nations rived at Tampico safely The | simply by keeping silent with regard bandits have been promised a quick|to them. He replied that it would | trial |take months for the United States to learn whef¢her their silence meant olution interpreting these provistons begging her to accept our construc- MEXICO PERIL the conference, practically every commander of the| Immediately after the president were provided. He declared there | tions cently committed on four launches |made from the American and British near Tampico Sunday. One of them| Senators Borah, Lodge and Me- Donald was reported killed, but has|Could not accept the reservations Aequiescence or not Daylight Saving | Again Repealed WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—The re- Peal of tife daylight saving law was passed today by the house over the veto of President Wilson. ‘The vote to override the veto was to 101 Mrs. F. Homewood, 9053 17th Ave. S. W., has. the right idea. She knows the short cut to a fulfillment of her wants. Listen to her: I want to trade my old gray mare, And of this fact | am aware, To buy, or sell, or rent, or trade, A Star want ad is my best aid. The*above rhyme is sub- mitted for this week's |} Want Ad Rhyme Contest. |} See Classified Page for }} particulars. I a month, After moving in, I find that the man who. rented me this apartment does not own nor lease the building, He lived in thiy apartment and, hen rents went up, he moved to a cheaper place at $25 a month, and made $17.50 for (CONT'D ON PAGE NINB) sena- | He stated it as | That the readjustment of our national life to ne on getting the treaty oul |. . That until it is out of the way the mines, factories facilities of the country, both domestic and foreign, jat a tremendous disadvantage. 1 That Great Britain and other nations that have 5,000 ransom. The crossing was \the treaty will get the jump on the United States in a th | made in accordance with a prearranged scheme for these troops to take up the bandits’ | way. | trail as soon as Matlock returned safely with the two aviators. in the ye A his opinion that would be absolutely necessary r nations on reservations, Senator Lodge stated that It) his impression that under tional law silence would con acceptance of the reservations. § president replied that there difference of opinion among about that. Senator Pittman, Nevada, the president knew whether many put the same interp upon the doubtful clauses of jeovenant as the allied go and the United States. The p said he had no means of ki |but pointed out that if any 4 should avise in future years over res jervations accepted by silence, Gel | many could claim that they tuted new matter in the ts |which she ‘had never agreel om a, | The full text of Presi Wilson's statement to the ate foreign relations commi regarding the treaty of will be found on page 14. »— SABES U.S. MAY GE PACIFIC IS WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—{Uni Press).—The United States may |tain control of the Island of Jin the Pacific for naval and | munication purposes, it devi day at President Wilson's with the senate foreign committee, Japan's secret agreement | Great Britain for disposal. of | tung and Germany's Pacific isl | would not interfere with the Ui States getting an island in the cific, Wilson said. American naval authorities | pointed out the importance of | United States having such @ jand Wilson said he specified at peace conference that control of | should be reserved for & general ference which js to be held on ownership and operation of ber w rt re Cod cat |Approval Put on Pact With WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 proposed Franco-American treaty constitutional, the senate judic sub-committee decided today, The committee found nothit the proposal that conflicted wi the warmaking power of © rn Senator Walsh, Montana, was ed to make a favorable report: the full committee. The vote unanimous, with Fall, New Me