The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 28, 1919, Page 1

; Spee —— RSDAY TY First Low Ti rae a First Te « h Tide VOLUME 22. NO. 158. tshesemntinieananatintaadl Tides in Seattle | First Low Tide rn 09 te lacot am, OF tt Low Tide 28 tt Tide | Second High Tide Lit FRIDAY AUG. 29 1:89 am, 22 tt First High Tide | Second Low Tide 203 pom, 24 ft TST Dom, 108 ft “po AN against the United States. America’s entrance into the world conflict. “AN ANTIQUATED AND EASILY DECIPHERABLE CODE” just one of the hundreds of This in toric An American Paper That Fights for Americanism T is a cloak that struts proudly, but is ever such a one worn outside the movies? Ever try to sleep in a hotel with window facing strect and mufflers wide open? N THE glittering parade that constitutes the fashion show given at one of the theatres this week there ts one outfit that certainly looks the money. It is a great cloak of salmon hue, with luxurious fur collar. When BAsp Of joy. That cloak, with a big ruby hair ornament, a glittering dinner gown of spangles and jet, and or- dinge and velvet; golden stockings and pumps, and a black and gold Pleture hat, prébably would come sometimes they are enforced, but in this town they are not. And the open muffler doubtless does more to madden and wreck the nerves of city dwellers than all other things combined, The majority of the downtown hotel rooms and apartments are nearly impossible because of the open muffier. All thru the night. bright youths! with striped Lizzies and brave taxi drivers with big, loudly exploding machines, camp undér hotel windows and fire their mufflers in volleys, with no pro- te lorcycles £0 popping and barging about unchecked, tho a Motorcycle has a muffler, as well as the auto. Trucks go howling up the hills, murdering all repose for five blocks. Seattle. thru indifference, thru Official sluggishness, has become the noisiest city In the West, and even State st. In Chicago, and Broadway, in New York, are far quieter during the night hours than is the Seattle hotel district. All this disturbs the rest of tens of thousands; it is senseless; if a few of these howling maniacs, with their popping tin carriages, were given a chance to pop open a few hard rocks in a nice, quiet stone quarry for 30 days, more of us would arise in the morning with 4 disposition less resembling that of a starved wolf Mister Chief, will you kindly get busy? Belgian Rulers to Make Visit in U. S. BRUSSELS, Aug bert and Queen EF gium, will leave for the United States September 22, it was learn ed today. They plan to spend a month in America Four Are Killed in Airplane Fall BERLIN, Aug. 27 {Delayed.)—A Caproni airplane, fying from Vienna to Rome with two Italian govern- ment representatives, a pilot and an enginver, crashed to the ground and It four persons were killed, it was > te here today. 0. K. With Judge Judge Allen Called by Ship Probers; Tells Why He Opposed Him Convinced that Capt. John F. North Pacific district | Judge Allen's opposition to Capt. Blain was read into the record in response to questions by Chairman James J. Walsh, of Massachusetts, after the committee and Judge Allen had conferred behind closed doors for nearly an hour. Coupled with his sensational testi mony regarding his opposition to Capt. Blain, Judge Allen flatly #re- futed the testimony of Howard G. Cosgrove Wednesday that he, Cos- grove, had nothing to do with the appointment of a recetver for the Meacham & Babcock Shipbuilding Co. Suggested Capt. Dawnon + Touching the appointment of » receiver for the Meacham & Rabcock matter of an appointment. “Mr. Terhune suggested that T appoint Capt. W. C. Dawson, Seattle representative of the Osaka Shosen Kaisha and other steamship lines,” (CONT'D ON PAGE TWO) WILSON MAY NOT VISIT IN SEATTLE Will Start Tour of Country Next Wednesday 5 WASHINGTON, D. Aug. 28.— President Wilson will start his tour of the country for the peace treaty and league of nations next Wed- Inesday, September 3, ft was an- nounced at the White House today. His first stoo will be at Colum- bus, Ohio. The first stop after Columbus will be at Indianapolis. According to a California senator, the president will speak at San Dt ego, Los Angeles and San Fran- cisco. He is also urged to make platform speeches at Sacramento, Redding and other points. There will be » speech at Portland, but Seattle was not definitely included, it was said. Secretary Tumulty: said the speech at Columbus will probably be at night and later speeches will be both afternoon and night, Denver and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, are included in the president's {tin erary, it wan learned. Points on \the Oregon Short Line will be vis ited. Present plans also call for stops at St. Louls and Kansas City. Whether the president gets to San Francisco September 15, depends on how many speeches he delivers on his way West. There could be only a few stops, if he is to reach the Coart by that time. Word has been received by the navy department from Secretary Daniels that the re- tentatively set for September 1 The early beginning of the presi dent's tour also means that he can- not be in New York to greet Gen. Pershing, who is to land there Sep- tember 8 or 9. At the White House It was said -|that arrangements for the trip are las yet incomplete, and it was un- certain just when the president would arrive in Columbus. From Columbus he could make Indianapolis for an afternoon speech if he desired, altho the Indianapolis plans are still to be definitely an- nounced later. Those accompanying the presi- dent will be Mrs, Wilson, Admiral Grayson, the president's personal physician; Secretary Tumulty, Gil- |bert Close, the president's stenog- rapher, and other officials, A large force of secret service men will also go. Blain Not view of the Pacific fleet, which the | president hoped to attend, has been | the Postoffics at Heattle, Wash, w The Seattle Star tered as Becond Clase Matter May 3, 18 r the Act of Congress March 8, 1879 relations E first chapter of Gen. Ludendorff’s book on the German side of the war has reached The Seattle Star office from the Mc- Clure syndicate of New York. It will be published in The Star on Monday, September 8. Each day thereafter one chapter of this historic document will be published in The Star. The Ludendorff book will appear serially for approximately 100 days. In the first chapter Gen. Ludendorff outlines some of the diplomatic procedure within high German circles that led to He even declares that he personally warned the German foreign office against using the Hun effort to establish military cidents that are revealed for the first time. with Mexico LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Per Year, by Mall, $5.00 to $9.00 SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1919. Weather Forecast: Tonight and Friday, f 4d warm er; Kentle winds, mostly northerly i] going on down at This of the case. NOT SO FAST. NOT SO FAST Changes at the city hall, involving the election of a mayor and a councilman, are not things to be railroad- ed thru in a few moments. The public has hardly had time to realize what is the city hall. wholesale shifting of responsibilities is too im- portant a matter for the council to play fast and loose with. Wholesale changes of office in a jiffy may be a satisfactory procedure in political circles. But let the public have a little time to absorb the situation. The city might be able to worry along with- out a mayor for a day or two—or without a council- man or even without a finance clerk. The program, as it is now—cut and dried—may be entirely satisfactory. Probably there is no other man able to step in and fill Hanson’s place as wellasFitz- gerald. Drake may be a good man for the council. But no doubt there are plenty of people who believe to the contrary. There ought to be time to hear both sides | | | WOMEN TO JOIN ANTI-JAP FIGHT League Decides to Organize) Auxiliary Society Here ‘The women of Seattle will be asked to jein with the Anti Japanese league in contesting | the extension of Japanese hold- | ings on the Coast. Decision was made by the league Thursday morning to taunch a campaign to form = woman's auxiliary to the league, This will be done in view of the intense interest that has been aroused among the women of the city by the Anti- dapanese investigations and par- ticularly that concerning the ple ture bride system. | The system whereby a woman marries “a picture,” comes to this | country to meet, for the first time, | a man already her husband, and then is forced to compete with | American labor in the field and in| the shop, at the same time bearing | children who will become future | American citizens, has met with se: | vere condemnation among the wo: | men of the city, Increase to 21 The forming of the auxiliary will) be done in conjunction with the enlargement of the scope of the league. At the meeting of the| board of trustees Wednesday, tt was argued that the immense in- fluence of the league would neces- sitate an expansion of Its power. The board of trustees will be tn- |creased to 21 members as the first move in this direction, Efforts will be made to secure unlimited co-operation from other civic organizations that are not represented on the board at pres- ent. Several applications for mem- bership to the board were received Wednesday, The board will be composed of representatives of or- ganizations, almost exclusively, al- tho one or two members will be on the board as Individuals only, Meet Each Wednesday Wednesday has been named ox the permanent date for meetings of the board of trustees, and at the next meeting, Erastus Brainerd, elected director Wednesday, will be inatalled, and the work of the or- ganization actively put under way With Brainerd in charge, the means of obtaining the financial backing necessary to carry on the league's work will be adopted, Sev- eral large contributions have been offered the league, but until such time as it is definitely organized these have been listed without be- | ing accepted. ‘A capable woman to direct the work of the woman's auxiliary \# now being sought by the league trustees, HERE’S WHAT CITY COUNCILMEN SAY Here's what Seattle's councilmen |had to say Thursday about the city jhall shake-up: C. B. FITZGERALD: “I expect to be elected mayor by five votes In case there is a deadlock, why the council will simply have to keep meeting every day until a mayor is elected. However, I don't look for a deadlock.” COUNCILMAN W. D. LANE: “There is no doubt in my mind about who will be the next mayor. I understand that the pres ident of the council automatically becomes mayor, according to the city charter, upon the failure of the mayor to fulfill his duties, or in his absence. In case there is a deadiock 1 presume I'll be mayor. However, fixed and Fitzgerald in all proba bilities will be elected.” COUNCILMAN T. H, BOLTON: “No mayor can come into the coun- cil chamber and call us a bunch of cut-throat robbers one day and then come back the next week and ex- pect me to fall for his wishes. Hanson is pretty slick He showed it when he was able to cajole the council out of five votes to elect Fitzgerald, and I understand he has done this. “The mayor wants to get out of office so he can make a speaking tour thruout the country during which he will lay his groundwork as @ presidential candidate at the next election.” COUNCILMAN WILLIAM HICK- MAN MOORE: I will vote for Hugh M. Caldwell, former corporation counsel, for mayor, You can say IM not vote for Fitzgerald, Cald- well is an ex-army officer and for mer corporation counsel, and he is the only man who will get my vote.” SOUNCILMAN JOHN E. CAR Thinks He Can Sell the Moon “Central, give me Main 600, please, 1 want to sell a pair of skiis; The Star want ads can sell them soon, they could even sell moon.” For the 1121 7th Frank Shore, ave., is author of the above thyme. Want Ad Rhyme Contest ends Friday noon. Send in your rhyme. I think the cards are all) ROLL: “I will vote for Fitzgerald.” COUNCILMAN ROBERT HES- KETH: “I understand Lane is a Possible candidate, along with Fitz. gerald, but I intend to vote for Fitz, I have worked with Fitzgerald for gix and a half years, 1 have always found him 100 per cent ef. ficient. Lane in a good man, but his experience is not as great as Fitzgerald's. He has been in the council only two and a half years.” COUNCILMAN R. H. THOM SON: “I don't wish to forecast my ballot, I can't tell what I will do| this afternoon.” Councilmen say, however, that Thomson is lined up| with Fitzgerald, OLIVER T. ERICKSON: “I'll vote for Hugh M. Caldwell for mayor, but I don’t think it will do any) good as it seems fairly certain that| Fitagerald is to be the next mayor.” COUNCILMAN A. F. HAAS; “I didn’t know much about this af- fatr, I was talking to the mayor last night and he didn't say any. thing to me about his resignation However, I see they have lined me| up with the Fitzgerald faction, so I guess I'll have to vote that way.” French Cruiser Off Schleswig Port! COPENHAGEN, Aug. 27.—(De-| layed.)}—Despite a protest from the | German admiralty, the French cruiser Marseillaise has arrived off Flensburg, the chief port of Schlew wig, to be present during the plebis- |clte which is to decide the status of Schleswig. Germany protested on the grounds that the presence of the French warship was not stip ulated in the armistice terms, Waiting Word of U. S. Army Flyers CALEXICO, Cal, Aug. 28—Army | officials here still waited today for |word from across the border con- jcerning the condition of Lieutenants Waterhouse and Conno reported found 60 miles east of Ensenada by Cantu soldiers Tuesday, It is believed here the men will |be returned to this country by way jof Tiajuana, |F our Are Hurt in Train Smash EUREKA, Cal, Aug. 28.—Three men were probably fatally injured land another was seriously hurt to |day when a southbound Northwest- jern Pacific passenger train was |wrecked at McCann, 60 miles south of here. The train struck an auto j truck, The injured were all in the au |tomobile. No train passengers were hurt, Four coaches left the track. lsafe. With the stage set for his resignation rea. gerald’s place. Lane as acting mayor. |\Councilman C. B. Fitzgerald as his successor, Mayor Ole son at noon Thursday gave out a statement that he was lea ihis post as chief executive because of pressing need of a rest /a vacation ‘and to earn a living for his family. He would neither affirm nor deny a persistent rumor that al purpose is to execute a whirlwind lecture tour of dit |primary states with his ultimate goal the presidency of nati According to the program mapped out, gerald is to get the votes of five of the councilmen to fill vacancy in the mayor’s office, and A. T. Drake, jcouncil finance committee, is to be elected councilman in Fitzgerald is counting on the votes of Coun jmen Haas, Hesketh, Thomson, Moore, and his own, to elect him The special meeting of the council at which these changes are |to be enacted, has been called for 1:30 p. m. Thursday. | “My health is not broken,” said Hanson. any means, but I need a good rest and a vacation. Had I not dev cided to resign, I should have had to leave Councilman: W. I would as soon have taken a man the penitentiary and left him in the mayor's mayor. jgerald, who according to the hall was selected to succeed tion with Corporation Counsel Meier in the latter’s office. When they emerged Councilman Fitzgerald announced procedure had been definitely coi Fitzgerald immediately made arr for filing the necessary bond required of the mayor. CLAIMS ALL IS WELL Hanson hastened to his private office, where he gave the fir jofficial announcement of his_resignation and plans for the fut “By leaving Mr. Fitzgerald in the office as mayor, I shall k \fulfilled my duty to the city,” he declared. the legality of the intended firmed by Meier. done. been. “Long ago, after my trip East and my breakdown, I realized I must have a I couldn’t take a vacation without leaving Lane as acting mayor. “Lane is a man whom I know full well is unfit for the office. jdence in his citizenship or his patriotism. By resigning I could open the way for council to elect a loyal and patriotic citizen to fill out my term. knowledge that I have carried out every pledge in my platform.” Fitzgerald announced that his first official act as mayor would be to learn Whether he would make any changes in the personnel of Wi duties of the office. staff he did not say. Finance Secretary Drake, slated to take Fitzgerald’ he had first learned of Mayor Hanson’s program when would accept the council position and he replied that he would. You Bike Speed Fiends! It’s Not im Too Late to Enter Race Carnival For some weeks Mayor Hanson | has been compiling a book, doing his writing behind locked doors in an office in the L. C. Smith building. The work, when cofhpleted, will be known by some such title “Bolshe- vism in the United States,” he said Thursday, and will tell the history of certain happenings in the United States, When this is done he intends, it is said, to tour the Northern states, lecturing. He would not say wheth er this tour would be the beginning of a campaign for the presidency, “I'm going to take that with me,” he said, pointing at a poster on which is engraved the Lord's Prayer, in large letters, and which hangs on the walls of his private office. Councilman W, D, Lane, president of the council, automatically becomes mayor until a council majority elects @ successor to fill a vacancy created by the resignation of the city's chief executive. A. T. Drake, who is slated for a seat in the council, said Thursday morning: “You can see Fitzgerald's and my position—conceding that the whole program is true, we don’t want to be quoted in the matter,” Drake has beema city employe for 15 years, having been appointed au- ditor in the comptroller’s office by John Riplinger, in 1904. He is ac- tive in Spanish-American war vet- erans’ circles, At thé Centra) Labor counci! meet- ing, Wednesday night, a resolution was passed, demanding that Coun- cilmef Bolton and Hesketh support W. D. Lane, instead of Fitzgerald, to succeed Hanson as mayor, df case the resignation is submitted My eft. open to me was to resign and let the The Skagit project is safe. The city street car system The business of the city is in the best condition it has LEARNING NEW DUTIES There will be lots of thrills at The Star's big bike race carnival at) Green Lake station Saturday after- noon, Eddie Hubbard, Seattle aviator, will do air tricks over Green Lake jafter the races and will drop candy to the crowd at Green Lake. cial prizes will be found of the packages, It's not too late to get In on the races, They are open to every- Spe- in some | Fitzgerald Is to Be the New Executive council elect a Shortly before noon the mayor and Councilman C. B. program worked out at the ¢ him as mayor, went into consulti S place as councilman, on July 2 he was asked if 1 the election Councilman clerk of “I am not ill, b rem “My work here T have no confi I leave with the” body. Fill out the entry blanie. found on the sport page and send it In today to the Bike Race ef The Star. There is a big list of prizes to given out Saturday which are lished today on the sport along with the rest of the dope the event. Send in that entry blank and in the races for the big tries will be accepted unt at 6 p.m. Revolution Breaks Out in Montenegro LONDON, Aug. 28.—A revolution extending over the entire country has broken out in Montenegro, ac- cording to dispatches received here today. The situation is described as serious, Fighting is widespread, with Serbian forces unable to sup- press the revolt, The Montenegrins have cut the railway running to Antivart, ELECTRIC TRAINS TO BE TRIED ON MILWAUKEE SPOKANE, Aug. 28.—Following successful tryouts of electrically operated trains between Beverly and Kittitas, regular operation of elec- trics will start, the Milwaukee an- nounced today, SELL $10,000 IN FOOD HER Housewives Keeping Carriers Busy ‘With the arrival of two cars the consignment of 36 cars of | plus army food for Seattle, the of the goods by parcel post is gressing rapidly. ag More than $10,000 worth of ceries and meats have already bes ordered by Seattle hou: K cording to Superintendent of Perkins. 3 Inspection of the food was way Thursday by army officials & the quartermaster's depot, Staey and Marginal