The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 27, 1919, Page 1

An American Paper That Fights for Americanism The Seattle Star Rotered as Second Clase Matter May &, 1899, at the Postoffics at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 8 WEDNESDAY AUG, 27 First Low Tide W what do you suppose a brook trout in a distorted tank thinks about? Nor are all fish alike. And some men get as cheap as four or HAT G0 you suppose a brook trout thinks abou! ‘We mean one of those elt ites trout #0, you morn- ‘Trout into gaudy fly ‘on the end of some- thing to eat. Any fisherman you that @ trout does a Indee@, he ts so ready a thinker blaine ny er Gicgtneapent est human bent on his en- mental machinery winds itself, and if his mind is as weird as his garb. Nuts are like books in one re- spect—of making ‘em there's no end. folks in it, but once in a while we discover some- thing that empties out our gladness like a punctured milk bottle. We stopped at our usual corner for our paper. morning we adG4 our pennies to the little heap in the cigar box, take our paper and £0. ‘This time the disabled chap who owns the stand was there, and as he emptied out the pennies said: “Wouldn't that beat you? I left 10 cents in change and seven pa pers here, and now a paper Is gone and 7 pennies.” And it wasn't any street urchin that did the stealing, either. The street gaming have a code of eth fem, and they don't rob the petty hoard of a news vendor. No; it was some miserable semblance of a man, who thought more of a pa per and a few pennies than he did of his honor, Men get mighty cheap some times, but when you can get them for 4 or & pennies, it weems a waste of g00 grub to keep ‘em alive. We hope the petty larceny pup that robbed the hapless newsman sees this, and gets a glimpse of what sort of thing honest world thinks him SHAH OF PERSIA WILL MAKE JOURNEY TO U. S. CONSTANTINOPLE, the Aug (WMelayes.}—The shah of Persia has ampounced he will visit the United States within the next few months. | Tides in Seattle 1240 am. RP te |e am, fe tt First Wigh Tide Wiest High Tide ‘ + WO MP TO ow. oo tt THURSDAY a 28 First Low Tide Erastus Brainerd See ener emetepnine- ool SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNBSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1919. Will Man California, Nevada and Ari-| zona Are Isolated Today | | } | t Sj pprozimately 7.500 men are out) in and about Los Angeles, The) mumber includes street car men and employes of the Pacific Electric. About 35 men are out at San Diego. about 1,300 men are out, according [to labor leaders. “Are Resigning” “The men are not striking,” Sproule told the United Press. “They are resigning as individuals. It in hard to ascertain why they are do- ing this. They my they are quitting tn sympathy with employes of the Pacific Electric, but that strike ts over. I have every confidence the men are going out through a mis apprehension and that when they take counsel with their advisers they will return. There is no adequate reason for their action. So far as the government is concerned ft in universally conceded its attitude un warrants anythi but reliable sery- lee by the men.” Reports trom Los Angeles today were that service on the P. BE. was “almost normal.” W. R. Scott, federal manager of the Southern Pacific, said no man had been discharged because they) had refused to move freight to and from the P. E. in Los Angeles. Suburban service out of San Fran elseo and Oakland were being main- | tained, Sproule said. The strike, which began in Los Angeles in sympathy with work. | ers of the Pacific Electric and Los Angeles street car system, first jumped north as far Bakersfield and Fresno and south to San Diego. Overnight and without warning it leaped | the intervening distance to this city. | All trains scheduled to leave over the Southern Pactfic, Western Pa- cifie and Santa Fe from San Fran- cisco from Oakland, including subur. ban trains down the peninsula, were cancelled. No tickets were sold at the union ticket office of the railroad | (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) PALMER AUTHORIZES GUARDS IN PITTSBURG WASHINGTON, Aug. 27—(Unit- led Press.)—Attorney General Palm- ler has authorized the United States) |marshal at Pittsburg to appoint ad-| | ditional deputies if they are needed |to handle the car strike situation, it | was stated at Palmer's office today |REPORT OHIO WORKERS | TO REJECT RAIL OFFER |Like to Win a Bike or a Gold Watch CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug, 27 The estimated 25,000 organized rall-| lroad workers in Ohio will reject by} jan overwhelming vote President | | Wilson's offer of four cents an} hour increase, according to reports here today from railroad shops| thruout the state | } « WAL NE ERE | Liberty Bonds Quoted ————— — 8 | NEW YORK. Aue Taperty bo so0ne nee SOT 76¢ first | $94.30; second W02,h0; third 44's, | $94.84; fourth , $05.02; Vietory 3h'* $99.66; Victory 6%’ $99.56. TRAINS ARE Curtain of Mystery | Shrouds Enemy Side of Colossal Campaigns On the railroad tracke at Air -lw-Chapeile, just inside the Ger man border from Belgium, a military coach and engine, ready to race to East Prussia, stood waiting on August 23, 1914 Two German officers boarded the car. An orderly signaled. ‘The train began its historic dash. Inside the coach the two men poured over maps, made notations, and addressed each other In low, earnest tones Ludendorff and Hindenburg were planning to make history Three weeks later, fragment. | ary reports reached the outside world that an army under | Ludendorft and Hindenburg had | captured 140,060 Russians, killed | and wounded a4 many more, cleared 10,000 square miles in East Prussia of Russian soldiers and defeated an invading Rus sian army three times the size of thetr Getman forces. Pacts ‘The world has never known the inside story of these East | Prussian battles, Legend grew | up which clouded the facts, The Russians, homehow, had been stopped. Vague reports told of men drowning by hundreds of thousands in @ trap of swamps. Hindenburg suddenly became the popular idol in Germany, while Ludendorff became _ the mysterious genius within the German war machine — the PHONE UNIONS REJECT TRUCE Wage Compromise Agree- ment Turned Down | SAN FRANCISCO, Ang. 27.— (United Preas.)}—“Telephone op | erators and electrical workers on the Pacific const, in ge Spel agreement under which they re cently returned to work.” ‘This statement was made to the United Press today by L. C. Gras- ser, international vice president of the Electrical Workers’ union. The official count was completed last night at his home in Oakland. Thi# in the first statement Grasser has made since the count was completed. | Grasser refused to state how large & percentage of the operators and electricians voted. “It might handi cap me in my further negotiations,” he said It was learned from another source, very close to Grasser, how ever, that “only a very small’ per- | centage of the operators voted, and that some of those who made the count said a strike would be “ridico- ulous” under the circumstances. Grasser said his next step would be to open negotiations with the Pacific Telephone company—the only company with which the operators are now negotiating. Grasser represents the interna tional, and the operators, by their vote, are rejecting the wage com r a ce in POL brains” of the organization, of which Hindenburg was the All thru the war the German aide of the war remained clouded to the outside world. No one hae told the enemy's side of the battle of the Marne-—-when a milion Huns turned from their advance on Paris and fled back toward the Rhine. The German side of Ypres, Arras, the Aisne, Cambral, Verdun, the Somme and the Italian and Rumanian campaigns is yet to be revealed. Star Obtains Book But the time is almost at hand. For Ludendorff, the genius of the enemy's collonal plan to dom inate the world, has completed hin Own personal account of the German side of the war. His book wf! appear in news- papers of Great Britain, Scandi. navia, Spain, France, Italy and Germany Ludendorft rights to publish the book serial ly in Great Britain and America. ‘The Seattle Star has obtained the publication rights for Seattle and vicinity from the McClure syndicate. The first Installment of “the greatest newspaper feature in the history of journalism” will appear in The Star Monday, August § POSTOFFICE MEN GET WAGE RAISE Increase of $40,000,900 Is Granted Over Protest WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.— Wage increases for postal em- Dloyes totaling $40,000,000 were agreed upon by the house post- office committee today over the Protest of the postoffice depart- it. ICEMAN AND BURGLAR SHOT TACOMA, Aug. 27.—Detective B. Bryan was shot thru the right hand, and Santiago Galban, burglar, was shot three times in the groin in running battle between three offi ra and two burglars this morning. |The burglars were surprised at work the Oldfield tire shop, on Division ave. ‘The other burglar escaped. The officer and burglar are in the general hospital. Both will recover. U. S. Minister to China Quits Post IN GRIP OF ~~ STRIKE LATE EDITION OO . TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Per Year, by Mall, $5.00 to $9.09 ‘Weather For ‘CHOSEN BY TRUSTEES \Will Direct the Campaign Against Nipponese Ex- pansion in Northwest TO PRESENT ORDINANCE j Erastus Brainerd, one of the | most widely known journalists | In the West, was chosen execu- tive director of the newly organ- faed Anti Japanese league at the | | The league has been formed to garry on an active campaign against Japanese penetration in the North. made an extenstve study of Japanese expansion, ard ts a determined advo. cate of government action to curb the Japanese menace. 8. J, Lombard, state inapector of the Minute Men, on actount of the Presnure of activities with that or Ganization, sent in his resignation as & member of the board of trustees. He offered to co-operate with the leave in every way possible, but said it was impossible for him to ac tively engage in the work. Two Names Added To fill his place two names were suggested, John T. Casey, chair man of the committee appointed by the King County Democratic club to investigate Japanese activities, and Thomas M. Swale, exstate leginta tor, and chairman of a similar com mittee appointed by Filmer Noble post, of the American Legion, were the two names brought forward to fill Lombard’s place. It was finally decided to enlarge the board and elect both men to a place Dr. C. C. Tiffin, county coroner, was also considered as a possible member of the board. The proposed ordinance drafted by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, to license only American citizens for op eration of hotels and apartments, or for selling foodstuffs, was submitted to the league trustees, The by-laws of the AntiJapanese league are now on their way here from San Francisco, and a commit tee was appointed by the league to frame and revise them when they arrive. Frame Resolutions The question of the method to be | used in obtaining funds to finance | the new league will be considered by the permanent board of directors ap, pointdd at the Wednesday meeting. At the meeting of the Japanese investigation committee, appointed by the King County Democratic club held in the office of John Casey Tuesday afternoon, it was decided to prepare resolutions to be present ed to the club at its meeting a week from next Saturd The committee is composed of John T. Casey, J. F. Riley, G. A. Pidduck, Capt. D. ¥ Davies and Mrs, A, V, Robinson, The committee was appointed last Saturday and on account of insuf- ficient time to gather evidence the completion of resolutions, none promise which the international ASHINGTON, Aug. 27 The| were framed at Tuesday's meeting. signed with the P. T. & T. resignation of Paul S. Reinsch,| The po sped of the Lome yd bys | committe: > 0 action to Thia rejected compromise gave the | american minister to China, is in|” a t e ‘ imme¢ an antie Pa operators a scale ranging from $12 rn curb Japanese here. A mé e to $19 a week in cities, and from |the hands of President Wilson, it) be called next week, when all mem $10 to $15 in towns. The maximum | was learned today | bers will have had time to investi was obtainable only after five years| Ill health and the desire to re-| gate the question thoroly, and at sery ‘They asked a scale of from|turn to his business, were given as| that time resolutions to be presented $2 to $4 in all cities and towns. reasons for Reinech's resignation to the club will be finally shaped —————_—_—_—— - ————— - ~| At @ meeting of grocers in the S Y F ll H W Id Y jassembly room of the I. C, Smith ung Ww, w building Tuesday night, Frank 1 ay, oO eno! ’ +d ou ou Kannair, seeretary of the AntiJap- do you want | watches. ? And there will lot Say, young fellow, bey te win a new bicycle or & gold|of other prizes for the first five watch? cers Well you will have your chance) There will be plenty of thrills Saturday afternoon when The Star’s| Saturday, Eddie Hubbard, local air annual bike racing carnival will be|man, will perform over the Green taged at Green Lake al | There will be races for everybody,| ra | Lake business district after the cea and toss down candy, Some of age and shorter races for the| prizes. youngsters The first race gets under way at ‘Two regular “He bikes will be|2 p.m. at Green Lake station, given the winners of the 12year-| Fill out the entry blank found on bid and Myear-old events and the|The Star sport page and send it in winnern the 14-year-old and free-|to "|forall Mathon will receive gold big doings. srattannesemen to day if you want to be in on the ible |anese league, spoke on the Japanese | question “Those who may think anything but the purest Jism behind this antiJa {ment are all wrong,” Kannair said “Every one interested in the Anti Japanese league is there on a basis |of 100 per cent Americanism, | “Phe league way formed to stand there is American: anese move- la Marathon for boys qver 16 years|of the candy bags will hold special] behind the members of congress and | | all others who are fighting increased | Japanese activities, We want legis. lation passed to limit them and to | settle fe er the Japanese question, |The league is of vital importance to every one who believes in America for Americans, age Ant i-Jap Society Disque Stalled on Legitimate Offers, Charged byButler : That the government’s “cost-plus” contract for spruce produc- ‘s tion was “profiteering of the worst kind” and that food unfit for human consumption was provided for soldiers working in the | spruce forests, are latest charges made in testimony before the congressional investigation committee now conducting hearings in the federal building. e |, For more than four hours, William C. Butler, Everett banker and one of # jbig logging operators of the state, sat before the investigators Tuesday. He jacterized Brig. Gen. Brice P. Disque, head of the spruce production division, |a government officer who “coldly stalled” the “loyal and patriotic | of th |state”; as a man who, after “playing with big business and big business men,” » of 2 general, but |was awarded a distinguished service cross and the gold star |who “produced no spruce.” Coupled with Butler's impressive | = arraignment of the shortcomings of | the United States spruce production | corporation, was a short but atirring | clash between Chairman James A. Frear and Representative Clarence | Lea, and an anger-compelling tale jot alleged inhumane treatment of doughboys who worked in the spruce jcamps under civilian bosses | John H. Kane, Seattle attorney 3 who represented the Siems-Carey-| Kerbaugh corporation, told the com-| |mittee Wednesday of the acquisition | jof the logging railroad right-of-way |from Joyce to Lake Pleasant at a cost of approximately $80,000. He) jwent into a detailed description of | |the work involved in securing title] iF sities of his government; we see him, ; however, promotéd from lieutenant |to 45 parcels of land. |nck, We, Lindaay, attorney for the colonel to colonel. He goes back to the | |rerh, uckused the Slemecarey-Rer|| East with a distinguished service medal baugh corporation of a refusal to and the gold star of a general on his collar—BUT NO SPRUCE.” pay for the use of a complete set! of engineering estimates and blue! prints which, he said, cost Lindsay and his associates $150,000. sia | —— | Butler, who is a brother of | Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university, and president of the First National Bank of Ev- erett, presented cold facts as he saw jthem, in which he assailed the [contract with the movernment as “| U S PROSECU 10N a | the worst s s lcontract with the government as profiteering contract of the fleet corporation of certain ships: | built at Grays Harbor. One of these | kina.” | ships, he said, had to be docked twice: this district are facing criminal |for repairs shortly after its prosecution as a result of their (pletion. activities during war time was |. Howard G. Cosgrove, counsel for brought eut at the hearing be- | the Dost corporation here, was ques fore the congressional shipyard | toned by the committee concern ‘s liek Sibi veal | the legal bureau of the corporation . jand how it functioned. sumed Wednesday, at 314 Securi- | That the claims of the Sloan ties building. | ‘ard, operating at Olympia and The committee, composed of Con- | cortes, against the fleet corpor gressmen James J. Walsh, of Massa-| ‘tiled between $2,000,000 chusetts; I. M. Foster, of Ohio; P. H. 3,000,000 was revealed at the h ties ng Tuesday afternoon. Loggers Are Gratified } “Speaking for the loggers,” Butler | |summed up his testimony, “it is a | matter of the very greatest con | | gratulation that the testimony as far | as presented indicates that no logger, | no millman, nobody in this industry | is in any way involved or concerned | with the activities of the spruce production board, so far as they re-| late to these Siems-Carey contracts. | We will never quit being thankful for that. “Now I want to say the proposition of the giving of these contracts, the That certain shipbuilders in of Michigan, and Lin H. Had: |! very ‘peculiar mysteriousness of |} of Washington, called Capt It was also brought to light | thelr being given, the fact that the| Sverre Rustad, the emergency fleet | shipbulide: were paid as high as men giving the contract were quite! corporation's acting assistant in| $5000 bonus for early delivery of | |ships, and that the government |Dought the properties of the Seattle Construction and Dry Dock Co. for | $4,000,000, turned them over to Skin- ner & Eddy for operation, and then went to Tacoma and gave the Todd as unappreciative as the men who take it, knew not what they were doing. (They knew, however, that} 7 per cent on $25,009,000 was $1,750, 000 “In addition to that they came out charge of wood construction for this district, as its chief witness Wednes. Rustad testified that he had occasion to make adverse reports to company $2,000,000 to start a ship. | ¢ « ie at 4 3 <, r 3 here and on neuOAge wing Bia ome tract with Siems-Carey-Kerbaugh | yard there. ‘ ‘ y abo Bdee carry at will?” demanded Congressman | Skinner & Eddy paid the emergen- |ity and their bond, a | bond? Was there ever a performance bond? There is only one answer. The answer is, Mr, Chairman, that the people who were able to obtain this | contract enjoyed very singular polit: | feal support, not only in the secur. ing, but in its execution, all the way | along the line Lea, the only democratic member of | cy fleet corporation $125,000 out of the investigating committee. i | (CONT'D ON EN) “Yes; and I often wondered why / Rage sm the government didn’t do it,” Butler | shot back | Lea asked the witness point blank if it was not a fact that the loggers | of Washington were “bluffing” in their offer to produce spruce for war Result a “Shame” | purposes without profit | “The whole activity of this spruce Investigators Clash | division is centered on this Siems-| “It is an insulting remark he has Carey contract in this district. Any-|been placing in your mouth,” Chair- one who runs can read, and what is|man Frear said to Butler, “from a the result? The execution was con-|man who has given his services ducted with singular devotion to the|free, and for a body of men who interests that obtained it, with the|have given their services free; to All for Fifty Cents “Central, give me Main 600, I've traded my old gray mare with | : case, result-what is the result? Is it|come up with such a disreputable |f,, ° ] not a shame? ‘The result {s we see|remark and put it in your mouth—" |} /’P¢ igo my room and bought |the man entrusted with this grave| “I don’t understand I have placed |}. responsibility playing with business} (conTINUED ON PAGE TWO) with Pr Mlatg cent want ad in The men, playing with the dire neces: | = | : { sities of his government: we see bim.) — ANLANDER MAY COME Frank H. Berry, 1615 however, promoted from leutena ; sats tasaikweih ti 5 i at to colonel. To goes back to} Word has been received from A. |] 15th ave., contributes H. Saastamoinen, of the Finnish le- | gation at Washington, D. ©, in re sponse to the invitation of Reginald H, Parsons, president of the Cham | Was It a Bluff? ber of Commerce, to visit Seattle, | «pid you not know that the gov-| that he will include this city on his ernment could have canceleé its con- itinerary, if possible, above to the Want Rhyme Contest. If want to go to the Cle Theatre send rhyme. | the east with a distinguished service | medal and the gold star of a general on his collar—but no spruce. ee ne earn enn