The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 10, 1919, Page 1

ISITING SAILORS in Seattle Friday, S ed to the call, it is reported today. There lunch boxes for the sai Saturday and Sanday wilt go hungry, according to present indications. are thousands of lors still them at your grocery. Fill them, and return them to Bon Marche park on the date printed on the box. Tides in Seattle WEDNESDAY ser. 10 Piest heh High Tide TROOPS GUARD B ide THURSDAY se in First Low Tite ty Seeom. wp m An American Paper That Fights for Americanism eSeattle Star 2 Entered as fe _SE md Clase Matter May 3, 1899, at the Ie stoftics at Heattle, Wash., under the Act ATTL WASH., WE EDN SDAY, SE PTEMBE R 10, 1919. of Congress March 3, 1879 Seattle women have not respond- awaiting response from the women. We ather ‘Forecast: Get CENTS Late Edition Per Year, b $5.00 to OSTON (AISER SOUG HT RUTH LESSNESS Police Strike Brings on Reign of Terror BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 10.—The entire Fourth brigade of the state guards, including cavalry, machine guns, mo- HE town is all dolled up with candy cruisers and flags and bunting. girls are not a much. But it was a real fine day. = But we're getting all p] dot up, aren't we? A Lots of fellows rush ing around town these” Rights, sticking up flags and pictures of great of pictures reminds us flaming cartoon of Wood affronts the Elks’ build Wliron is by no means naturally, he has the prolongation of our old 5 he is too much jaw iM angular portico for real at that, Woodrow 4 what this banner the banner gives him je mahogany complexion of ¢igar store Indian; it his head until the scant ft sticks up like he bad a wit ‘ith nothing but a fistful of in & fubber squeeze this modern master big scale sculpture of e Seattle harbor front: every- from the Smith building to Jap’s dog up by the Armory, then he carved out, or put, a whole fleet brie the bay, and wound up & regular man-sized biplane ‘overhead:! and another, or ittwas the same genius, @ fine battle cruiser out With guns and gobs and feattered real natural all it, that fellow can do all that Just frosting, what might he with the makings of a 2 wee LOT of these girls never ‘had no raisin’.” remarked the affable chamberamid yesterday, speaking of Various tenants she ‘Up after. 2 Pity the man that mar. ‘mm. They loll around in bed ten minutes of time to go to and then they leave their ‘and slippers and towels and all over the room; never the hair out of their comb or sill powder all over the and don’t pick up the dress. for a week at a time, Just i fa what T say.” she's right: the fine art ping—indeed, of per. deanliness—ix frequently m in this hurried age. : ASNT yesterday a wonder of a day? ‘The air was clear, the | Mun was hospitable, rath ] @F than hot: a fresh, but came whispering Mf the Sound—altogether It the best of «pring, and mid er and autumn, tourse, to Teally get the bene . hots day like that, one » + the forest tratix dog, and O8t for that fat blue grouse Sas hooting over this way a ago M4 you never really appro S harvest moon in the cit Mise most of the glor May; penned in the brick 1 town of being a fo make a \1y few adv: convenient town has 44 want ad to The Star, how I got this fine big car ¥Ou trade, rent, sell or In to try . Johnson, S., submits @ poem in the it Ad Rhyme contest. 6610 Ludendorff Tells of U- Plan Boats Today The Star publishes the third chapter>of Gen. Erie von Ludendorff's man side of the war. The historic book on the Ger- first chapter revealed te belief of enemy military leaders that the entrance of the United States in the world war was expected by them. The second installment frankly admitted that the Huns lost heart in 1916, realized the ever-increas- ing strength of the allies and carried out the colossal campaign against Rumania in an effort to spread a false impression of superior strength. Today's in- stallment lays bare the responsibility for Germany's decision” to-adopt unrestricted submarine w. the fatal move that brought the United States into the conflict. Additional copies of The Star of Mon- day and Tuesday are available for readers who are anxious to obtain the first two installments of this historic book. Or you may begin with today’s chap- ter and follow Ludendorff’s revelations. |submarine warfare on Pressing the view that |ripe for it. The chancellor spoke to the same | effect In the reichstag on Septem tber 28. The question of the expediency of the submarine campaign had, mean-| while, led to grave differences of opinion among the political parties, | and had excited unusual passions. | While the parties of the right (the junkers) were enthusiastically in favor of its adoption, the left (the! roctalt which was more in touch nment, was equally 4 Bethmann’s statement for the first time brought the supreme! army command into the field of pol-| itice to support the government. | This I regretted deeply, and in my| view the statement should not have| been made. The supreme army command had consistently held aloof from all po litical activity and had no wish to alter its policy in this respect, s0 that the political excitement created by von Bethmann’s step was all the more embarrassing to the field mar- shal and myself, Nevertheless, the Z army command came, in f more to be regarde ponsible for the adoption or om of the unrestricted subma arfare. beginning of October we sed the question of adopt weapon with th chief of staff In the course of dence with the chan the matter, we again urged him, on October to settle the estion of responsibility. He re 6th, with state decision really lay emperor, as the war lord but that it was also owing chan non , on the the ment that n the the empire of foreign policy t on neutrals; the accordingly was, the only person 1d could not transfer the den to an ne else; but the tude of the field marshal to [matter would naturally have lgreatest weight with him. a questior effec “MY THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS” By Gen. Eric von Ludendorff Military Dictator of Germany The field marshal and myself had both | spoken against the proposal for unrestricted | Chancellor von Bethmann stated | | this quite clearly at the time and added that | | thenceforth the decision to carry on the sub- marine warfare in the form of “blockaded | area” fighting would depend on the declara-| py of the field’ marshal; that is to say, un-| restricted submarine warfare was to start | when the field marshal wished it to start. August 30, 1916, ex- the time was not yet This standpoint was unexception able. The field marshal was not in @ position to take any of the chancellor's responsibility, and had never even thought of doing #0; I quite agr with him, The chan cellor’s declaration was, however, a subst change of front when comp: to his earlier statements, which had been the as sumption opposed to the made that we were submarine warfare UBOAT WARFARE HELD Ur In October, 1916, submarine eruis er warfare began, ships being stop: ped and searched. This met with lworme suc and had a disturbing | effect on the economic situation of| |the enemy. This success well for the submarine we the enemy's de against proved siderably our b and. res ell soon off im con:| In estimating omic effects of the various for of submarine! warfare we were compelled to rely} on the judgment of the chief of the naval staff and of the The supreme army in constant ms chancellor commana communicatio both thes » the matter, an p r question of the exy of adopt-| ing unrestricted | After our vietories in Rumania, the supreme army command did not expect that either Holland or Den-| mark would enter the war against It was, however unwise to) take any risks, The stricted | campaign could obviously not be in-| stituted before the Rumanian cam.| palgn was at an end and our troops there had returned home and ar rived on the western and eastern fronts. It was soon clear that this was| with whole on the} (CONT'D ON PAGE TEN) s When you think of advertis. | | | ing, think of The Star, || ® measures) - be your busy day “NOBODY'S BUSINESS” “It is nobody’s business how we deal with our men.” Manager Lane’s statement to this effect in behalf of the gas company is the keynote to the present trouble. It may be nobody’s business. Evidently State Public Service Commissioner Spinning, after spinning and milling around here a bit, is willing to accede to Lane’s view of it. “The welfare of the people in Seattle is in no way jeopar- di gs pep or Spirining, and in the next ath, he adds: “Strict economy of gas is urged owing to present conditions.” Poor Mr. Spinning! But no one really did expect the state public service commission to get It never has in a sit- uation like this. * And, in the meantime, thou- sands of gas consumers are with- out the service that the gas com- pany, by the terms of its fran- chise, is in duty bound to give. It is not giving it because it has violated the first principle of co- operation between labor and capital by erecting a Chinese wall of exclusion and shutting off, arbitrarily, any opportunity for friendly discussion of points at issue. The gas workers may or may not be entitled to higher wages. But the strike resulted directly from the fact that the company refused to negotiate with the workers’ committee. It refused to meet them Satur- day—before the strike. It re- fuses to meet them NOW. And the people—who gave the company a franchise worth mil- lions—are holding the sack. BATTLESHIP OREGON DUE AT FOUR TODAY BULLETIN It was reported at the Mer-, chants Exchange at noon Wed- jay that the battleship Ore President Wils |should be choosing a vantage point somewhere on pier 1, for instance, to unfold your stool and wait You won't be lonesome, All about you will be surging folks with more |cameras and field and sharp e but and lunch kets ows that will |prod your ribs and like it in Elliott bay at 4 p.m. ther gasless | Wt Fri be turning hh day, you'll want out about 5 | And at 10 a. m., to your eyes, you'll be straining for the first glimpse of the great gray prow of the superc aught New Mexico, flagship of the fleet, ad she | slowly feela hér way out from behind Magnolia bluff And then, as if by signal, will buzz past you overt queer capers in the sky play and whistles shriek mind you, i# going to| first cry of “Here By 8 o'clock you] (CONTINUED ON PAG with your glasses pokes and @ Pir sors h in the other and a folding ¢ p stool under one arm and # camera un. der the other, heading with long strides to the car line, dockward b sl, v Wriday airplanes to cut bands will TWO) tor cars and infantry, was rushed this afternoon to tect Boston from further outbreaks of rioting, following a strike of the police. AUSTRIA TREATY _ ISSIGNED BY HENRY woop United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, Sept. 10—In the absence of the elaborate details such asx ne- companied the setting at Versailles, the allies made formal peace with Austria today, Dr. Karl Renner, Austrian chancellor, and head of his country’s delegation, signed | the treaty at St. Germain at 10:15 o'clock this morning No speeches were made by the Austrian delegate, Premier Clemen- on behalf of the allies. invited | the Austrians to sign in the same terse fashion he had employed at Vernailles before the Germans. LEGION ORDERS peace PROBE OF JAPS. NEW YORK, Sept. 10.—A commit tee to investigate the Japanese situ- ation in the United States, tion to the welfare of the citizens of this country,” was appointed yester day at a meeting of the national ex committee of the American © whs provided for in Sullivan, Seattle, and Bishop | Brent, New York, vice chairman, The committee will prepare « port for presentation befor he na tional convention of the legion to be held in Minneapolis in October, | Frank A. Kannair, secretary of the AntiJapanese league, received a ram Wednesday morning. from Jack Sullivan dent of the or ganization, notifying him of the ac tion taken by the executive commit tee of the American Legion Tuesday. |The committee decided to conduct a |probe of Japanese aggressions this country The telegram was read at i meeting of the executive board of the league in the Masonite club Wed nooft and was heartily in nesday dorsed Big Water-Wagon of Lemonade for Tars Every Day A water-wagon full of lemonade! Yep. The real thing—a water wagon transformed into a cruiser apd holding 750,000 gallons of quenching julce—will steam out to the fleet every day the ships are here, and the boys will drink deeply, and under the auspices of the Knights of Columbus K. of C. lemonade cruiser followed the fleet everywhere since leaving San i's steaming up ity-five K. of C, secretaries the direction of Fra ning, of San Fri co, were in th Wedne rfect plans for showi the time of ol ashore their rd, beds kin sastorn. here, and amusements of r every man in navy That is their mission “in rela: | in | BOSTON, Sept. 10.—Riot- ing breke out in Scolly square shortly after 1:30 this afternoon. Great crowds were reported moving toward the downtown business sec-| tion. There was much fight- jing. | At 1:45 an emergency call, |which summoned militia to |mobilize at the city hall, was sounded on fire whistles at \Cambridge, where the 11th lregiment will gather. | ‘The strike went into effect at 5:45 yesterday afternoon jcally every Jat that hour. | mand | union. j;, Seon afterward rowdies started their work of looting and destruc- tion, There were clashes with the [handful of police on duty, but as s00n as one disturbance was quelled, others broke Out in other sections. | Jewelry stores, «hoe shops and men's furrfishing stores were broken |into and robbed. In many cases the looting was done by boys, but in several cases organized mobs smash- ed their way in. In shoe establishments the novel [spectacle was presented of thieves sitting in the chairs while other | | thieves fitted them with shoes. Several groups of vandals roamed the streets, broke into store windows ond scattered thelr contents about! | the streets. Law-abiding — citizens, including women, were terrorized in severa districts and the streets were soon deserted by all save the lawless ele. ment Stores in Avery, Westminster, Washington and = Summer ats were looted, while Scolly square to- day presented a scene of destruction | unequalled anywhere in the city. Tremont st., in the stores had s from the broken win walks. Ma store keepers had taken the precaution to barricade their windows and doors with heavy timbers, foreseeing just such results as were attendant on the strike, At 8 o'clock today several hun dred Harvard students were called | upon to do police dnty, following the offer of their services by President Lowell volunteered for police duty, were also assigned to patrol the streets. It |was feared that even this force is Jinadequate to cope with the situa tion, if lawlessness of last night is} egg ed Nonight STATE ATTACKS | SKAGIT BONDS Attempt to Tie Up Power Project © of $1,500,000 of er site bonds a year ago was Invalid and a suit to establish | that fact will be attorney general F. Leghor state boar In versation with Mayor Fitzg from his office in Olympia, I calmly informed the mayor t power site bond sale was illegal by reason of the fact that the bonds Were sold at a discount “Somebody is trying to muddy th waters and ‘prevent the constructio of the it river power site proj ked Mayor Fitz rhe hung up the receive don't think the attorney-g ind his suit will get very far. B bond has been marketed and the state will have a sweet time mobilizing all | those bonds should the sale be de | clared invalid " instituted by according to Jan thi pountaney was for recognition of the || fashionable | shopping district, showed the results | vs covered the side. | A few hundred citizens, who | Skagit | accountant of the a long distance telephdne con: | » | from GAS T00 LOW FOR COOKING || Developments | } ¥———__—_—_____» | | Insufficient gas pressure reported in West Seattle, |University District, Ballard, |Mount Baker Park and Rai- nier valley. Striking gas_ workers, blacksmiths, engineers and |machinists make written re- quest for conference with Supt. S. R. Hutchinson, of Seattle Lighting Co. Public Service Commission- er Spinning says that the jcompany is making an ade- |quate effort to supply gas. Company officials refuse to attempt settlement with strikers, Seattle is still suffering from » gas shortage. Despite promises of Seattle Lighting company officials that a normal supply could be expected thruout the city today, house- wives in West Seattle, University district, Mt. Baker park, Rainier valley and Ballard complained that pressure was too weak for cooking purposes. Residents in these districts have been suffering from gas famine for 84 continuous hours, No action to improve service is contemplated by the state public |service commission, Commissioner |Frank R. Spinning, who conferred with company officials Tuesday, con- |cluded that the company is “in no way’ jeopardizing the welfare of the people of Seattle.” Spinning, however, urged gas con- sumers to practice strict economy in order to “give the company a chance to fill reserve tanks.” Refuse to Mediate Recause the gas company is mak- ing an effort tq supply gas, Spinning holds that the gas company is fulfill- ing franchise obligations, Per Cent Better” supply,situation is 30 per this morning than it was yesterday morning,” said Supt. Hutchinson, Wednesday. “We have a 100 per cent force at work, and. if it were not for the extraordinary use of gas for the last few days, we would be back to normal.” Hutchinson attributed the —ab- normal demand for gas to the prep- rations being made for the fleet and » the fact that restaurants and bakeries are protecting themselves ® possible gas famine during the fleet days by preparing food in advance, noon Wednesday Hutchinson Public Service Commissioner |Spinning began a tour of all gas | manufactur plants thruout the | ald to me- | have failed, so far, to brin Tn answering Sse pepemettenre