The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 4, 1919, Page 11

sim two | The Seattle Sta , THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER Pages 11 to 18 PRUCE CAMP FRIENDS LAND SOFT JOB FOR DISQUE RAILROAD MEN REJECT PROPOS!I ¥ STRIKE ACTION UP TO LEADERS: WASHINGTON, Sept. have voted overwhelmingly. to reject President Wil- son’s proposal for a four-cent-an-hour increase, but have also voted to leave the matter of strike action in the hands of their national officers. The vote announced today by the ment of the American Federation of Labor, taken in response to the letter sent out last week pointing out to the men that something definite should be known of the results of the fight on the high cost of living within 90 d. matters be left with the national officers that time. The vote was 345,000 to increase, it was announced. “There will be no immediate strike,” Ryan of the shopmen’s union. ment a reasonable time in which to show results in the at- tempt to lower living costs. “The vote authorized the national officers to use their discretion in the matter of whether making progress in in its efforts to reduce Prices.” State Closes in Allen Case; Clerk Is Grilled n conversations he || with Judge Allen. “% | kive a conclusive answer. Whisky held by the court June 4 Was declared irrelevant in a ruling Continued From Page Onel by Judge Everett Smith that lowed the two hours of debate late | say Wednesday. The rullng was con Strued as a setback for the state. Judge Smith ruled that testimony! Patterson asked. Campbell admitted telling the judge something amounting to terson quoted him as having said,| war forever. but was not very clear on any in structions he had received from the | Fegarding whisky other than five quarts involved in the grand fury indictment of Allen could not Be introduced by Prosecutor Pat terson. The state wanted to show that Judge Alien took a drink of Ol Boone's Knoll bourbon on evening of June 4, when a large Quantity of whisky confiscated by the court was being distributed the county-city building. Allen Charged with unlawful possession Of five quarts of whisky on June 28. The jury was excluded from court room during the long legal Clash that hinged on this point The state received another Judge Allen's court, took Btand to testify Prosecutotr Pat Rerson intimated that Campbell was| not telling the same story on Stand that he related to the grand Jurors who indicted Judge Allen Campbell avoided direct answers and failed to remember conversa tions considered material to State's cane. Earlier in the day Joseph Hensman, bailiff in Judge Allen's court, had taken the stand, and, according to Patterson, tailed to testify in accordance with pectations of the state. Patterson relied on the testimony of Frank Campbell, clerk of Judge ain the charge made in his opening speech to the Allen's court, to sus jury, that Judge Allen “sought have false evidence given to grand jury.” But when Campbell took witness stand as one of the principal witnesses of the state, his halting an tterson’s recollections of grand jury testimony swers, differing from P stirred the deputy prosecutor stinging sarcasm and {i uendo. He Was “Joshing The impression prevailed t Campbell would testify that Allen did take a drink on that date, supposed he would, Patterson then ried to show that Judge Allen is attorneys had tampered wit Campbell a nfluenced him Haven't you been in conference with the defense for the past week and didn't you tell m ed of Campbel one or it wher told were working on me ont A it in @ joshing manner just to let you know that I was talk Ing them,” was the answer en in 4 somewhat he Witness Hesitates to influence Campbell t« ly to the grand j dicular stress, After you had opened th and emptied the Judge Allen ask jury that you ha en the bottle? ou to tell the gr he asked on this When Campbell Didn't Judge k you to tell the grand i any other liquor in h bers except that being he federal authorities? Campbell still hesitated, ax weighing the question carefuli fore making a repl Patter» impa and torced the tried to prave broken his grand Judg, before the grand jury Campbell's rec 1 for inet that Campbe Allen what he had te railroad shopmen | railway depart- ys, and askin, 000 to reject the four-cent aid President M. F. “We will give the govern- the government is show that Judge Allen had tried to influence a grand jury witness, “Didn't you go to Judge Allen and ‘Judge, you"ve got me in a fine .’ and didn't he suggest that you! the grand jury | broken the bottle by dropping It that you had He also admitted having taken one of the bottles and, after drinking the | contents, breaking it and putting the pieces in the waste basket Patterson Angry didn't Judge Allen you he had told the jury that he had five bottles of Scotch whisky in his * Patterson asked. “My recollection is not clear about Campbell replied “And then didn't you dy had told them wrong and that there| were only four bottle: “My recollection is that I told ,hirn I had opened one of the bottles. don't recollect whether I told him I) had broken the bottle.” Patterson plainly Campbell was not had thought he would, and tried to show that the defense was respon He had not finished ex amining Campbell at the close of the | afternoon session COTS WILL BE AT A PREMIUM Big Crowds Coming to See Fleet Review k when Frank Campbell, a clerk insinuated that) testifying as he sible for this Millionaires’ will ots in hall bedrooms and some folks be lucky if they {hang on while President Wilson 4 guests of Seat h sides waxed ussion Finding that Campbell was testi fying differently from what he ha as#istant chairm: nd must be content lot of inconvenience find rooms for modate them all to put up with at they were E OERt poseiety working on you?" Patterson demand program for and Commander opium, in wiv us is general and his party »pped and brok pondered over the chairman of en added to his prog put the plac- | baseball games cham who remain aboard # tre as it will be will not ha “Mr. Wilson, how about the Shan-| Washin » Hippodrome ¢ had jury oath by telling tified to | « tung settler the gallery, ax the president finished was on | spea drowned him out, The # about 445 minutes A throng which wt Thursday with only ¢ cons Were Vague hours rematning to finish the Job. LEAGUE OR NEW WARS--WILSON Must Sign, He Says, or An- other Conquest Will Come Continued From Page One | »” ~ “ to “go out and report to my fellow m on the peace. The only people I owe any re port to are you and y fe « of the United States, he Perhaps you would like ow what is in the treaty he read, b aid. no light on it speeche Punish Germany The treaty, in th said, is designed to p ‘The terms are severe, but not ur just.” he said The men at the peace conference Intended justice, Wilson declared, They had seen their lands devastated by an enemy that sought to terrorize.” he said. yet they practiced restraint and did not seek to overwhelm the German people in the pe settlement Th is now in Germany an ‘awakened consctence’ of the in iquity of the crime the ‘man gov ernment attempted, Wilson said. To Keetify Wrong “And the treaty is not meant to humiliate Germany, but to rectify the wrong done by rmany and in sure reparation and justice to the people whose rights Germany had trodden upon “IL am astonished by some of the statements made about thie treaty he said. They are made by those who do not comprehend the treaty The treaty, he declared, is a warn ing to any government that may contemplate a repetition of Ger man’s attempt The treaty was intended not mere ly to end this war, but to prevent any similar wars he said, He declared that if the best that can be done is not done to perm: firat place, he nish Germany antly end war now, the nation's! word to the families of the American | soldiers would be broken, am these soldiers were called to fight to end “The league of nations is the only thing that can prevent a recurrence of this tragedy and redeem our promises,” he assert. ed, smacking his hands together for emphasis. This is the only purpose of the league of nations, he said Germany would not have gone to war had she believed Britain and America would fight her, the presi dent said. Without the league, he warned, a/ [fresh effort at wrong would be made by some nation as soon as the finan cial stress of the last war is over. The treaty, Wilson declared, estab shed new «mati nations that cou 1 not have won thelr freedom without the treaty The treaty rectified age-long wrongs in Europe, Wilson stated which had been fertile sources of wars for generations He went into detail with regard to the racial and national lines in Bu rope, showing how they were altered to give every people its rightful ter ritory The audience, which filled every | seat, listened for the mont part in si lence, with occasional brief outbursts of handclapping Wilson apparently made no orator. jeal effort, but explained the tr y with painstaking detail, like a lec turer. The treaty, he enid, is “shot thru with American principles of let- ting the people pick the govern ment.” This brought loud cheers: Labor Magna Charta “The treaty contains among other things a Magna Charta of labor, a thing unheard of until} this interest ing year of grace.” He that an international la erence would be held in shington next month, under this And, let me tell you,” he added grimly, thrusting out his Jaw, “that conference will meet next month, no matter whether the treaty is ratified by that time or not.” The discovery has been made in the treaty, he said that nations composed of their peoples, not of governments, There is not a single act of an nexation in this treaty,” he said, ex plaining the manda league were for protection and ad ement of undeveloped peoples Criminal traffic ix ended by the trea he ¢ the traffic in arms and in women and “ under the sid, enume h by unserup regulated by the labor lous employers That's the treat he said, hold ng out his hands, palms upward, in gesture of revelation; “that's the Did you ever hear of it be Were you ever told what was If I couldn't have brought back the kind of treaty I brought back, I wouldn't have come back, because would have been an unfaithful sery unt Arguments against the treaty are based on misunderstanding, uxked his hearers to use eve l influence to acceptance of t ty And when this treaty is accepted, cepted, men in khaki to cross the seas t?" yelled a man tn ing. The applause for Wilson ch lasted FOOTBALL oe. Wavedtt You FELLERS PRACTICED KACKIN: LONG TZayAy, ENoven? aan ae Miner ret aonscind gf the «treet cheered the presi he emerged from People surged around his car while soldiers, police and boy scouts sought to hold them back. non manifested mood as he set He waved anc greetings to occasional crowds gath ered at small stations to » and his manner was spright Wilson Meets Father Who Lost Two Boys in Battle PRESIDENTS |textmony against the spruce produc Y BOARD THE and a number TRAIN, Nearing Columbus, O., a Red Cross canteen, long journey of Red Cross workers came out West in his campaign for unamend e could remain a while help them welcome a troop train, due ion of the peace treaty, At Baltimore, the Red Cross nurses eichigh 5 distributing cigarets late to soldiers on a troop he was unable to stay in the ome Gen. Pershing. manner was cor Dennison, O. y for the first time ‘on platform of his car and « The president, declined with he had just finished dinner and “ about filled up.” women were Dr, Grayson platform of his private car when the xpecial halted to change engines, and a crowd of 30 or 40 people gathered to greet him. talk apparently of repartee between of the men in the At several stations on hand with flowers. the president's physi) itandshaking started when an old man stepped up, president's hand I wish you success on your jour- I lost two sons in Dennison voted a but we'll vote . gripping the and that he was in Kood trim for th adi d strain of making one or two xpeeches a day for ne The president laughed and shook attention by Grammer had been compelled to so: want things fixed so I.won't have The exact time to be spent | fornia cities wtill is ind arned he probably will remain two days in San Lon Angeles stay in San Diego. SOLONS TALKING INDUSTRY MEET Labor-Capital Conference Is_ Up for Discussion ¢ wanted to t Impromptu Reception ¢ an overnight use at this, and the people pressed forward to shake hands, * a most inforr Phe private car had stopped beside 6.0, P, EAGER T0 OPPOSE WILSON MEETS TUESDAY Republican Orators Will An- | swer President’s Speeches ‘ations for the and labor and al reception in Washington soon after bis return, delegates thereto. MUNY LEAGUE the pro| WASHINGTON, § Dean Miller Will Hn. G: of L. an industrial con ce next month was to t joint session of the BY FRED 8S. FERGUSON or committees ndexter-Kelly resolution, in opened today Wilson in Col Senator Poindexter replying to crit # Administration of dem from 4.8 Washington College of Busin Louis business man some men of prop: ure not even aware hington end of attract during ganda of revolutio ning to the muni | 13 hours here instead of two day idea of paying very delightful » fact that the Railroad Workers Fight Cummins Bill |, CLEVELAND, O. s revolutionary Poindexter continu expected to obsery Cummins bill for and return of the railroads Hoosiers Waiting Coming of Wilson trotherhood of Railway of the danger which con representative of Commerce v « will greet President Wilson sted to Poindex organization of our Pacific fleet in your (during the visit of the Prince of | Thursday that a thief entered his crease the! Wales, and will confer with Admiral! room Wednesday night and stole He favored Rodman and make such arrange: an army olive drab shirt with ments as are possible. chevrons om the arms unalterably oppos umb plin was unanir concentration of action local action by each community, tion of Labor lt night | will start at 7:80 o'clock D INCREASE GENERAL FLAYS PROBE CONDUCT PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 4.—When Chairman James A, Frear, of the congressional subcommittee investigating the spruce production division, rose half way out of his chair and shook his finger at Brigadier General Brice P. Disque, retired, yesterday afternoon, the latter replied: “You don’t need to shake your finger at me.” “You can calm your tone,” added the witn quietly. “I want this scene to go in the record. You are becoming personal.” Frear asked Disque if the G. Amsinck company in New York, of which the former general is now president, isn’t partly owned by Siems-Carey-H. S. Kerbaugh company, which received the much-discussed contract for spruce pro= duction in Clallam county, Wash. Disque replied the corporation hasn't a “nickel’s worth — \of interest in the Amsinck concern,’ Questions from Frear brought the admission from the witness that the Amsinck company was bought by the American International corporation during the war; that John D. Ryan, former director of aircraft production, is a director of the American International; that Ryan recom- mended Disque for his present Position. — Disque was summoned here from |————— ew York New nd made an unwilling witness during a severe examination by Chairman James A. Frear. “Ww salary do you receive president of T. Amsinck & Co. asked Frear Gen. Disque declined to answer, on the ground that it was a personal Do you know mored to be $30,000?" Frear pur Charged With Murder sued Disque disregarded the effort to Frederick Britz, German, — draw from him the facts. He said) stabbed Mrs. Lena Schmitz he had been offered a salary practl qeath Tuesday night tocnaalll cally as good ax his present pay bY | her dog chased his chickens, will two concerns of which Ryan is not 4| 96) tor his crime on the gallows director. if Deputy Prosecutor John Car- At the outset of sensational test!-| mody has his way. A charge mony, Dixque declared that the con-| Gf fipst degree murder has been grexsional sub-committee had accept-| fiteq against Brits. ed the “grossest misrepresentations| this man is simply a Prussian,” | that ever appeared in a public Tee: Carmody declared. “He is a result ord.” of the Hunnish system. He is Falsehoods that I can disprove,” ress of just what we have been |was another of thrusts at previous |ing about the Germans for the last He stabs the to tion division and himself back a ‘second. tale ial Had not witnesses, who testified| make sure she is dead, and then earlier in the spruce investigation, | boasts of how he did it” been protected by the badge of “priv Carmody investigated the case ‘leged communication,” Disque de-|Wednesday and then filed 2 clared, “more than one man would charges. Britz and Mrs. Scoala be facing suit today lived in adjacent houses at 3800 The former general's statements|Ninth ave. S. After warning her revealed the fact he had consulted a husband that they would have to number of lawyers as to the possi- move unless they got rid of bility of action against those whom | dog, he attacked her in her kitchen _ he accused of filling the ears of the Tuesday night congressional committee with libel-| After slashing her with a butcher ous falsehoods because they had “a/ knife, he was driven off by nelgh- grudge of some kind.” | bors. While they were attending the Disque’s sweeping indictment of | Victim, he returned a second time, before he could be stopped, the investigation camé close to the |“? subcommittee itself when he made | Stabbed her with a pocket knife. She the declaration that only “men with | “led before she could be removed to »,|the hospital. a “grudge” had been called to testify; | = - Col. C. P. Stearns, the present| . “I killed her,” Britz said Wednes commander of the spruce production |4&Y, “and they may hang me by the corporation; J. J. Donovan, director "Ck, but I am satisfied.” of the corporation, and Maj. E. 8. licit the coramittee for an oppor- ANTI-JAP CLUB tunity to be heard Pans Witnesses The former commander of the spruce division said that most of the witnesses at the hearings so far had given “opinio evidence.” He given opinion evidence” Me Solicitors Are Out After New knew the facts Members Disque told of bidding farewell to his family and going to Washington| With a flock of solicitors on the pre was spru and Washington ared to go overseas, Then he/| job, canvassing the city Thursday ked to take charge of the| morning, the drive of the AntiJapa- e production division in Oregon | nese league for members is fully ume Vor a week I would not listen to| At the meeting of the board of ition,” he testified, refut-| trustees, Wednesday noon, Frank EL by Maj. C.|Kannair, secretary, was given ate ing the evidence offer: |B. Sligh, whom Disque replaced,| thority to engage the solicitors and that the latter had sought the “soft/start the active campaign of the — berth” in order to escape fighting | league. at the front. He said his whole idea} The plan of campaign, as outlined was to get into action at the front}by Kannair Thursday, is to maké @ jand that anything else was distaste-| direct appeal to all civic organtza+ ful to him tions for co-operation, Representa+ Answering the frequent allegation | tives also will cover the city by @ that he had followed his own course, | house-to-house canvass, Disque testified that every major| “We'll have enough money within operation was guided by the advice/a month to get the antiJapanese of experienced men, who fortunately, | campaign under way in fine shape,” he added, in no instance had per-|Kannair said Thursday. “We will |sonal interests at stake. j hammer at national and state offi- clals until we have impressed upon i them the vital importance of the Jap- Fleet Review Cuts ances sea? . ’ a Kannair is directing the work of President’s Visit | tne soticitors at his office, 1012 Green SAN FRANCIS building. tle's success in obtaining President Wilson to review the Pacific fleet Republicans Are rere eoted toda agains’ Sa i 29 th reacted today inst San} hing Treaty Francisco | Sept, 4.—The re Secretary to the President Tumulty | publican majority of the senate for wired the local committee the presi-| eign relations committee has prac- dent would be forced to his | tically completed work on the peace visit here until September 18 and /| treaty that he would be able to spend only| Reservations, which will be pre+ |sented to the senate, have been because of the change in Seattle | agreed on, as have the amendments plans | to the proposed text of the treaty, The president will arrive at 9! All that remains is to hold a formal 4, m. and depart at 10 p,m |session or two and record the votes hebben that will order Senator Lodge to lay the treaty before the senate, Part of Fleet to The democratic minority, joined . by Senator McCumber, republican, Greet the Prince (),212"\3" prevent a 'minority. te. VANCOUVER, B. C., Sept. 4—Act-| port, probably in the form of a ing Mayor Owen has received a mes. resolution for unqualified ratifiea. sage from Secretary of the Navy | tion, Daniels, regretting his inability to —_—_—-_— Accept an invitation to Vancouver,! Some thief is masquerading as but saying: lan army officer in Seattle, thinl “I would be pleased to have part | Robert Paul, of the New Ricl arbor | hotel, who reported to the poll 50, Sept. 4.—Seat