The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 15, 1919, Page 1

Tides in Seattle MONDAY serT, 13 TURSDAY Piest Low Tit Piest Wieh Th Second Low Tide : ri High Tide m, 103 ft Second High Tide | Second 5:03 pom, 108 ft | oer op Vv OL U: ME 22, BOVE it all the glory of the gob impressed us most. The flivver did its duty, too. And the cops deserve a medal or two. By an Oil Driller The more you know about oil, the more money you have to invest, the more likely are you to invest your money in something besides oil. Since the publication a few days ago of The Star's E DO not know what par cular impression struck you deepest, what bit of the colorful flow of life these last three days re : aE sen, ter to uo the warning to suckers to steer clear of oil stock promoters, clean, yorral youth of the peri fake gold mine promoters, waste land lease agents and Patetic gob was the big thing : ; Teche: oils ales laturen imilar scoopers-in of loose change, we have had several the picture of that black frock letters on the subject, but none of them denied the truth coat, topping the wellcreased ;. - ‘ Ma Ceuta tee oak meee or timeliness of our warning. ing the silk hat, while the If any man should know whether or not there is likely assed crowds roared their w to be oil in this state it would be the man who makes A to the nation's chief, like some Roman mob hailing a victort business of drilling the holes. — was a picture of The man who sinks wells every day; who goes doyin And the tis, blueeray, squat, thousands of feet all over the state; whose businesg/it stling tron giants, sullenly is to know what lies under the earth's crust, and “ho blowing smoky bubbles out over the deep green waters, while the Chief circled the armada In review. That was a picture. And the farstrung lights, like ‘red, white and blue balloons down the crowded night avenues, packed from curb to curb with jackies, | ‘and officers, and pretty women, and throbbing motors; life heaped ; up and running over; that was thriller, too, But the gob finally we came Back to and marveled at. Twenty-five thousan@ of him, and all of a type. Boys, averaging much younger than those In any other branch of service Clean boys; bright boys; boys by the thousand without a blemish. Boys whose training, whose ; surtty of action, whose poise and self-confidence and innate decency stuck out wherever they were. The pick of the nation, and that ans the world—that's the story ‘of the gob. { Yale, Harvard, Princeton, West Point—no student gathering of the chosen sons of the nation will show a higher type of lads than this Pacifie fleet does. Looking at these thousands of duty-loving, patriotic, cleareyed, joyous boys, one feels that the feet of the nation are on a rock, and that it will endure, knows what the drill rigs are doing and have done. Here is a letter from such a man. Before you invest a cent in oil stock, in wild-cat prospects, in backing the || seductive palaver of the professional oil stock peddler, read this letter. Here it is from a man who knows, who is honest, and who backs what we have said before: “Your article on the front page of this evening’s Star entitled, ‘Oil Stock; Don’t Be a Sucker,’ may open the eyes of some people, but I doubt if anything but a blue sky law, prohibiting the sale of fake oil stock, will ever overcome the tendency to get something for nothing. “I did the testing on Seneca street, and while working there we were asked from ten to fifty times a day if we were putting down an oil well—with a little machine that was Sy 00 of going about 200 feet—over the top of the G. N. tunnel. Again on Tenth avenue, between Garfield and Blaine, a well-dressed gentleman came up to me and informed me that if we were starting an oil company he would like to sell the stock. “Now, I am in the drilling business for all the drilling there is in the state of Washington, but I do not want any widows’ or orphans’ money. If any man with suf- ficient money is willing to put down a well that might discover something in the line of mineral, I will gladly eee || sink the well for him. E DIDN'T see many gobs | “The average well, to the 3,000-foot level with water tle nate eners |{cut off and put in shape for production, costs between may have taken a cou. || $35,000 and $70,000. The average man’s conception of to It, but pemterdag ther tertainte || drilling is that a few thousand will discover oil, and he sotentea their hospitality to the gets led into the idea by promoters who are always ex- pecting something in the near future. || “I have put down, in the state of Washington, wells from a depth of 40 feet to 2,000 feet, and have never For a hundred miles around Se- attle were autos with sailo There were big, inclosed cars, and Openfaced flivvers. There were , art ¥ servants in livery, discovered oil of any commercial quantity or in fact any- nd some driven by her, with ‘ i Rother ‘and four aes do "te thing except a symbol of a color, There is a gas well front neat, and some with a small on Green river which is flowing a good stream of gas, girl or at the wheel and half but this is no widow’s or orphan’s job, and if The Star can do anything toward procuring a blue sky law for this state it will surely be of great benefit to the people of Seattle and vicinity in general.” “Very truly yours, “G. M. DYER.” a dozen rollicking tars for cargo. Occasionally you would happen on a wayside group: gobs and auto- fst, and spare tubes, amt pump, and jack, and everything, all spread out and busy For the day, Seattle adopted the Bob: perhaps 4.000 families became @4-father to four times as many Sailor lads for the 4 and every. bay had a perfectly | 4 The adaptability, soc congeniality of the American a 1s only equaled by that of the aver: age American taxpayer, out doing the honors of his Scratches Match; Britches Explode ‘BUILDERS MAY | ADOPT BOARD police did themselves LOS ANGE Cal., Sept. 15 Burford McCleb ia at home suf. fering from painful burns today but he knows he was wrong. It was strenuous ng three. |Ratification of Plan Is Up to quarters a million Workers McCleb got his trousers sat T urated with gasoline cleaning his Hee worked overtime, and a itomobile ' of It | Unions affiliated with the e careful,” a friend warned id with Building Trades council will vote ee “and | onan adjustment board to settle "They won't burn," answered all disputes betw — McCle b, as he scratched a match old-time s lations builders and building ¢ Lehager ages on the time-honored locality to that marked the when | This was decided upow at the reid special meeting of the counc! 1 Sunday afternoon. Returns from the referendum will be made at the regular meeting of the coun men from the f the city coppers and there was r with Hia trousers literally exploded Quick work by friends prevented serious burns a clash anywhere ; Our idea of nothing special to do Friday night. | « uld be to stand on a hot corner The board, if ratified by th wane ' ‘ at of three mem . for nours and direct a boiling, |and file, will consist of t Jubliant, scurrying hee bers from the Building Tradex coun Doubt if Leaders j crowd, composed equally of atr i, and one each from the Master Can Delay Strike ers who didn't know where Hullders’ amoctation, Bullding OW”) crriexGo, sept, 15.—Steel unton were and of home folka who ¢ \ers' assoemtiaie and sub-contractors! CHICAGO, Bept lh-~eitel | union sf alba f 1 crm snsecstin the bullding industry. |otticials of the Chiongo district PA : \s Mer elect a voventh [day discredited repo vat the na eyllse,the thronged three days These six will th | Oe Cie te Uae gat’ taps ae ree days w ntown streety | neutral chairman Athi agenda . ig the|tember 22 has been ca from curb to curb day and “This proposition will bring SR Pagal acta age Boke eae od without a de tin, |auickest reeults,”. sald Prank Cot There is nothing to the report : ee aie a ee weary of the Building|#0 far as J know,” sald John H MEA Something blocks the atrestemcee, |‘Trades council, Monday morning,|De Young secretary of the Chicag Mm pletely, a gencrai fire alarm | -neemmee . the ployers, building | district We are all set for the started 68 craie aad vrai public have |strike, and I doubt, even if it was Altogether, we guess it wae expressed themselves as favoring a|decided to postpone hetlon it we, Melebration |hourd to adjust controversies on!could restrain the men from str about as succes . a the town ene, building work ing.” t the Postoffics at Beattie, Wash, under the Act TTLE, WASH, MONDAY, 8 “EMBER 15, 1919. EL CENTRO, Cal., Sept. 15.-All Japanese and Chinese immigration into the northern district of Lower California is prohibited until the Mexican congress passes new immi- gration laws, under an order Gov- ernor Cantu, of Lower California, is reported to have issued. GERMAN SPIES Ludendorff ESCAPE PRISON “by, Unrest Four Recaptured at Ogden; Others Get Away SALT LAKE CITY, Utah,, Sept. 15.—(United Press.) — From 10 to 17 German spies escaped from the compound at Fort Douglas early today. the war. Today's Von Bethman-Hollweg. Four: men, believed to be|in The Star daily, some of the escaped enemy|ment and have no difficulty i aliens, were captured before By GEN. ERICH ve The situation in Berlin noon at Ogden. The prisoners cut a large hole in the wire fence form- ing the compound. The escape, which, it is believed, was refully planned, at 1 a m. time he accurately ‘gaugec was to be put forward by the discovered by a try. Col. George F. Byram, com- mandant of the prison, nounced following an investi Both these measures e nemy’s an- Bulow would succeed him. confusion was « 4 when the Austro: Hungarian government openly sided that Prince Further time on BOSTON UNIONS TALK WALKOUT nudd with the imperial chancellor, von Bethmann, and against Prince von | Bulow Vote Goes On While Lead-| ,,7me,;mperor find Geeta ate issi tay, . Who had ers Meet Commissioner | rr. i'n Deelin, had given way er all that nad happe BOSTON, Mass, Sept, 15— | After all that nad tect While unions thruout the elty | viatt oi were voting today on the quew sheds tion of a general strike in sym | pathy with the striking police- labor this ut of the nded of und lead the eountry war | depths of ita depression to victory leaders | men, prominent had become evident to me that in hada conference with Pollee | order to conquer in the field, the Commissioner Curtis at which | poneral staff needed the co-operation the situation was discussed. of the «tatesmen at home, and the The labor leaders present were:| better acquainted 1 became with the Je McInnes, president of the|Keneral situation after assuming policemen’s ui Guy Oyster, per-| duty, the more convinced I was. This sonal representative of Samuel] (CONT’?D VEN) Gompers; M. J, O'Donnell of the Central Labor union; Frank H. Mo- | of Labor, and Martin T. Joyce, | After being closeted with the com | missioner for half an hour, the| labor men dec ed they had no} tement to make. Commissioner turtis likewise declined to talk | | Chimneys Demolished; Roar| New Police Hired | Accompanies Shocks | That Curtis reiterated to bor men his refusal to reinstate any} of the police who went on atrike,| EUREKA, Cal, Sept, 16.—(United was assumed in view of,the fact! Press.)—The fifth earthquake in that Curtis announced that 30 can-|week struck this section today, de didates for places on the new police| molishing a number of chimneys. force were ready to be sworn in It was the most severe of the ‘The majority of the applicants are|series, and was companied by a a veterans, it was stated. roar like thunder 3 a" believed to| The shock was felt at 7 a, m Lehi! gas eben ast > b | Another sharp shock was felt at 9 mark the end of negotiations be| otis morning tween the authorities and the labor leaders, inasmuch as both Governor , Coolidge and Commissioner Curtis)! 4 want ad in The Star will bring | have stated that the strikeers will ie ak | not be reinstated and that further ||Almost any little thing | Aiscussion would be futile || Just try a Star want ad today; — | ‘The unions now voting on the|// have, and found it sure did pay, | > i uestion are do || | sympathetic strike quest r | i : 5 | Ine eo at the request of the Central)! — Carrie L. Lyons, Medina, | bab a h take of a | Wash. is author of the) While there is much talk of a 7 general strike, the serious possibili- || above rhyme. See particu- | tles of which are fully sreallsed »y|| Jars of Want Ad Rhyme! } th authorities, the ve was strong today that such action will!| Contest on Classified page. | not be taken, ema Readers may begin with toda n following the narrative. | gation that from 10 to 17 rag A tach tainbicn, jes a fan Oo hand in his resignation, rman spies are missing. : fused on the 11th. . At Kreuznach we thought for a| WILSON HEARS WELLS GASE An American Paper That Fights for Americanism of Congress March 3, 18 EXICAN GOVERNOR TAKES STEPS TO BAR JAPANESE It is designed to relieve unrest in Lower California, the Mexican population over the sudden influx of Oriental laborers In the Imperial valley the order is expected to have a good effect on the campaign to stop smuggling of Oriental labor across the border. ‘ TREATY COMES Worried in Germany install- IN LUDENDORFF beeame more acute. On the 8th of July (1917) the chancellor, altho at that 1 the enemy’s destructive intentions, agreed to the peace resolution which was and, at majority partie the same time, definitely promised them to apply the reichstag franchise law to the elections for the Prus- an house of representatives. must have strengthened the will to an incalculable extent. On the after- noon of the 10th the imperial chancellor felt obliged which was, however, re- CONGRESSMAN ASKS VOTE ON “FLU” BILL 15.— a re pic be WASHINGTON, Sept With some cases of influen ported by the United States p’ hea service efforcs will made this week to spur congr into taking steps to prevent a general recurrence of the dis Representatiy #, Ohio, who | providing for kovernme hope of plague, is planning to the house this danger of congre His bill has b investigations in the for the to point out k the great inactivity ering in months. DAMAGE GREAT } M GULF STORM HOUSTON, Tex., One ma ing a cure n slum Sept, 15.— | is known to have been property damage is ex- pected to run into hundreds of thousands of dollars, rail and wire traffic are interrupted, and ships held in Texas Gulf ports, as the result of a irrence of drowned, | Sen. Lodge Calls Up. Pact} The Star today publishes the seventh installment of Gen. | | Von Ludendorff's book on the German side of the war. |The six previous chapters have outlined the thoughts and]... actions of,enemy leaders previous to the adoption of sub-| marine ruthlessness—-the move that brought America into installment reveals the part played by Ludendorff in bringing about the downfall of Chancellor One chapter of the book appears the tropical storm which struck the to Brownsville yesterday. Texas st from Galveston | Loss probably is heaviest in the district between Corpus Chgisti and Brownsville, ‘The worst of the storm was believed over early today The storm extended far inland Wind reached a velocity of 50 miles an hour, Wife Beats Her Hubby; Fight Over Phere is a fight a4 2101 24th ave. | startled volce announced over | the telephone Monday morning at the police station Motorcycle Officer Ed rushed to the scene of th reported upon his return: "A family quarrel. The wife whipped the hus: band, so the fight was called off.” bs | day.” | CENTS Late Edition Per Year, by Mall $5.00 to $9.00 fair; winds night and Tuesday | TABOR MEN MEET THE PRESIDENT due to anxiety of | Labor representatives who |met in secret session with President Wilson at the Washington hotel Sunday and for an hour held conferenee on the general problem of un- rest and its solution, were ex= pected to give out a public statement Monday of whad transpired, Up to noon, however, the statement had not been made public. The delegates presented Wilson with a memorandum of the views of labor on “industrial despotism,” Hb- eration of political prisoners, indus trial reforms, deportation of Hindus and direct representation of labor the proposed labor-<apital conf to be called in Washington at president's suggestion on October A petition asking for a full |for Hulet M. Wells, now serving two-year sentence in McNeil prison for circulating pi against the army draft, tion of his full citizenship. BEFORE SENATE for Discussion BY L. ©. MARTIN « Staff Correspondent) b—T | With these words, Senator [was presented. The brief had been Lodge, chairman of the foreign | prepared by E. J. Brown, attorney relations committee, today for- | for Wells. i mally opened the discussion in’ | At the conclusion of the confers the senate of the peace treaty, oe ence, Joseph P. Tumulty, as reported by the committee. to the president, announced that the For the first Ume in the senate) president had informed the pom great Raga wie sonatas gates he would give carefal ered in open session before thronged | tration to. the hey. had galleries, instead of behind closed problems = presented and was hopeful of. doors Immediately after Lodge had for-|"8lts from the coming labor conference mally made the treaty the senate | business, the first gun ina barrage | Asks Remedial Suggestion i of epeeches from the democratic side] The president also told them, Tue of the chamber in favor of unquall-| mutty fied ratification, was fired in a speech by Senator Jones, New Mex Jones, one of the treaty’s most | jardent supporters, will be followed | tomorrow by Senator Overman, North Carolina, also in favor of its ratification as it is now. First Business Now said, that he recognized jrights to have grievances, and them to submit a suggestion as te remedy ; Delegate L. W. Buck, 5 of the State Federation of said a very definite remedy been outlined and added that president had been asked why the The treaty will remain the sen-|government — prosecuted i ate’s unfinished business, taking prisoners but did not prosecute precedence over all else. Senators profiteers, today estimated that the debate upon With Delegate Buck at the con it will consume from four to six/ference were James A. Duncan, seo weeks. jretary of the Central Labor council, Lodge also put into the record a and C. R. Cottrell, secretary of the copy of the treaty with Austria, with | Triple Alliance. the allied note telling Austria to take Urge Releases the treaty just as it was written. ‘ Mi Lodge said he was given the treaty |The Principal subject taken “sim with the president was the release by a Chicago newspaper. He an * nounced that, _ following Jones | ton wn aceviean Se 7 ae % speech, he would ask that the Aus-| Toot /0t vee eee Gadioc, eal trian pact be read. Pr tal . Morris and Joe Pass, convicted Amendments First with Wells. Reservations to the league of na lowlzis “the. corifereness aan tions will not _come until after the cate Cottrell left the city for Spes textual amendments are dispowed of /kane. Delegate Duncan declined) (0 8 eh there will be a different) comment Monday on phases of the . eas thealty ” eobeaens amit |COmference because, he said, he did hile treaty opponents a¢ ot feel at lib t a there is doubt about their ability to | °° DO eee ment which Delegate Buck alone pass amendments, are that| 109 been authorised to mali, they deel reservations of some sort are cer. tain, Whether the: reservations | will be mild or strong, they depends upon the outcome. of con: | ferences now on between the mild reservationists and Senator Lodge, | who is for those framed by the fc eign relations committee. Treaty supporters today saw new -HEAR PRESIDENT BY HUGH BAILLIE strength added to their cause in al, : . committee of 250 leading Republicans | (UMC Mreks State Correspondeeiy and Democrats, formed to bring | Wien. ‘ckaneas President Wilson, stumping the nation in behalf of peace treaty ratification, arrived in Portland at 9 a. m. today to make one speech and spend the rest of the day motoring and resting. about unqualified ratification. The organization of this commit | from prominent men of 40 tes was announced by the League to Enforce Peace, The statement of tne leag te, which accompanied the announcement, de- | jclares that “our land requires” im- | mediate ratification, and adds that} the “world is put in imminent peril of new wars by the lapse of each | Wilson to Speak From Glass Cage GAS SUPPLY |S STILL TOO LOW Altho city gas service showed a slight improvement Monday morning, reports from outlying districts say that the gas supply is still too low for general cook- purposes. N DIEGO, Cal, Sept. 15.— President Wilson is to be “caged” in San Diego, When he speaks at the huge Stadium here on Fri- day, he will stand in a glass “cage” with 250 members of the press and the official reeeption committee, This precaution is taken be- cause of his physician's advice against outdoor speaking, The thousands who fill the big Stadium, however, will hear every word he utters thru a new inven: We are supplying gas to all dis-|f ton, the “magnavox," which mag. tricts except the shipyards,” an-i} nities the volee of a speaker and, nounced Supt. Hutchinson” Of ithe|] Mirtieg dt for a. great. distance, gas company, Monday. “We have|| {ewe one of the most unique settings for a public speech in a full foree of men*at work and wal history. are hoping to be back to normal in a@ short time”