The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 20, 1919, Page 18

Fear 450 Lost Aboard T ) Silver Borthers, Just Out of Army - il- Fated Valdanera . | Open Realty Office KEY WEST, Fla, Sept. 20. (Wnilted Press)—Wreeking crews and divers lef, here today to ox amine the wreck of a sunken Vessel, reported to be ihe Spanish Steamer Valbancra. It is be Heved that ship went dov fm the hurricane that sv Cuba 10 days o¢ The Vathanera carried , Sengers and « w Binee Septem ber whe ! i Of Morro castle, Havana fated by wircles th And put to sea aga Informed it was the harbor Saw Name Ensign b. 1. » the submarine cha On his arrival bh that he had plain! “Plate of the Valbanera on a “BUNK in 40 fect of water off Reb | Bhoals lighthouse, 40 mile a ‘West. > Nothing was known of the fate of Be passengers and crew. Divers to Were to enter the ship and EXPECT 6,000 IN NIGHT SCHOOL Registration Will Continue Monday | Beaturing English for foreigners industrial work for both men Women as well as teaching ali Mtary grade subjects, Seattle schools reopened Friday Registration will continue namy ship a from Key y. Night school was resumed in al! school buildings and in Cen- Washington and Colman schools. Main st. school wil! Used by Japanese and Chinese dents only. 8. E. Fleming, director of voca- training, with offices at 80: see to take night school work the year is over. The term | ‘of six months’ duration. ) Gas engine and machine shops already overflowing, he said @n effort will be made to get shops for school purposes. selling for girls and boys FEDERAL JURY _ TAKES A REST: Week's Session to “Be Interesting” After returning an indictment, Fri- night, against James Shea, for. assistant cashier of the National of Commerce, the federal Jury adjourned until Tuesday, “Twenty other indictments, two of are secret, were brought in at fame time by the inquisitorial In all, 51 indictments have Teturned since the first sitting, iy. About 50 more cases are be considered by the jury “The findings of ‘will be of more interest to the ” declared Robert C. Sayo. United States district attorndy, y. It was estimated that the would delve into the high cost ‘of living and alleged shipbuilding frauds, beginning Tuesday Construction of an eight inch Concrete pavement, 20 feet in on Westlake ave. from Val- | ley st. to the Fremont bridge at | Fourth ave. N., was authorized by ) the beard of public works meeting Friday morning. The contract was @warded to Fierlta Brothers, whose Did was $79,017. t building, says he expects | neighborhood of 6,000 stu- | am. } the jury next | h for bodies, The passengers were believed t entirely Spanish or Cuban, The Valbanera wa boun® from Spain to New Orlean via Hevana Ship Owners Get Word of Sinking NEW YORK Pinot & ¢ New tly Valbar Valbanera sunk off Rebecca hoa No trace of ship's crew or neers WEAVER CASE GOES TO JURY Tells of Gun Smuggled Into Jail wing a concise, word cutting | for conviction by Deputy Prosecutor John D, Carmody, the case of Frank Weaver, charged with aiding in the murder of Andrew Uren, 4 oll station keeper, near Smith Cov jury at 11:2 This man the academy Saturday has been schooled in of the penitentiary,” Carmody declared, “and as an ex ample to others, he should be mad: to pay the just penalty of his crime.” While Weaver was on the stand Friday afternoon, Carmody produced a.m a note, which had been smuggled in| to Weaver in the barrel of a gun, while Weaver was in the city jail this pring. The note read “Frank, take this and use it to the best advantage If you want two more guna, sing “The End of a Perfect Day” after 10 o'clock tonig! and you will get them within hours, “A FRIEND.” Gave Jt to Chief “The gun was a surprise to me when I found it in the pocket of my | mackinaw in my cell," he said. He| intimated that it must have come in thru the “underground railway,” “I labelled the gun as a frame-up,” he said, “and turned it over to the chief at once.” Weaver took the stand In his own be taught at Broadway high Gefense, and flatly contradicted the | 5 testimony given by John Ozek, con. federate who has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in connection with the case. The substance of Weaver's answers was that he had been “framed” by Chief of Detectives C. ‘Tennant, and thrown in the ‘black hole” hecause he would not confess. Served in Prison Carmody Introduced evidence show- ing that Weaver had served a prison sentence in 1912 for counterfeiting. Tom Page, counsel for the defense, tried to impress the jury with the extreme youth of Weaver at that time. “How old were you in 1912, when sentenced to the pen?” Page asked. “Seventeen,” was the reply, fow old are you now?" Carmody asked. “Twenty-six,” retorted Weaver. “This is 1919," poridered Carmody; “1912 was seven years ago. Seven from 26 is 17, is it?” Weaver did not answer, Gottstein Testifies “Well, you might have been older, mightn't you, Frank alibied Page. ‘Oh, I might.” Weaver said, cautiously. William Gottstein, twice convicted of. murder, at Uberty pending an ap- | peal, was the only other witness called by the defense. Counsel tried | to impeach the testimony of John} Onek, by having Gottstein testify | that Ozek had told him he had |turned state's witness to save his “own skin.” Yes, Rose, when the horse you bet }on comes in last, you will realize hat time is money. ent House is a aa Chilly apartment house dwellers will have to depend upon the gracious Mens of their landlords to furnish heat enough to keep them alive until October 1, or move out After October 1, the city ordinance compelling landlords to maintain heat at 70 degrees Fahrenheit will again become effective ie FOR ICOLDS. To Get Best Results To get the very best re. sults, take Dr. Humphreys’ “Seventy-seven” at the first feeling of a Cold—the first sneeze, chill or shiver. Tf you wait till you begin to cough, have sore throat and ger. Small vial of pleasant pel-| ‘lets, fits the vest pocket. At all drug and country stores. Humphreys’ Homes, Medicine Co., New York, 156 PINE ST. PENTECOSTAL MISSION | Will hold two services Sunday, Sept, 21, At Disciple Pentecostal Assembly, Sixth | Ave. and Vike St., 2:30 p, m., 7:40 p. m.| People’s Meeting 0 at mame place, aa ° it (Bat) at Must Shiver Until October 1 “ler had been Dwellers 1 to the hilt,” said Assistant Sanitary Inspector Chris R. Frasch, Saturday. | The city health department, during the last few days of cool weather since the fleet left, has been swamped with complaints of cold | apartments. One of these came from a dweller in the Ingomar apartments, 49th and Phinney, itaves sad etter the own ppealed to by the de rtment, It reads: “We need b and it has thus far been impossible to induce the owner or the janitor, or the agents, John Davis & Co., to furnish heat, | even tho one of our boys, 11 years of age, is sick, and we are informed by the doctor n only a few months more deplorable condition, and if this pre vails thruout the city, it is no won. der there is so much discord here ctually inhuman thie app ay be expec 4 to last This is a al to you will put a fire in | the heating plant of this apartment, | so we can give this bo: ry chance of recovery, or, at least, prolong his short life and give while with us.” him some comfort Negroes Get Life | Terms for Rioting| log bones ache, it may take| CHICAGO, Sept. The first convictions on charges of partici Jing in race riots here in June we | life sentences imposed today | Walter Colvin son, 18, negr | with ha | Cc, O. Crowder, 40, |fheer, was instantly struck by a large which was knocked under which the |derrick, passed. The body is uburn. Deputy Coroner Georg Scott ie investigating the acct dent Saturday. The accident oc. curred on the N, P, near Covington. 20 on 16, and Charles John They were charged ving killed a peddler a derrick engl killed by being stick of timber from a bridge car, earrying in om February 8, went to the! “And ft will be enforced clear up| It | and I trust that} the! Lieut. Max A. Silver | | | | | | Charies Silver But several weeks out of the army. lax A. Silver and Charlie Silver ‘jumped right into the midst of Se the announcement of the opening of offices tn the Pacific block for their real estate, rental and insurance | business. The Sliver boys are well known in| Seattle. Max university lentered the | student before America ar, He was president of many campus organizations. He wan one of the first men ap- pointed by President Suzzalio, of the Juniversity, to go to ly after America entered the war. | He graduated from there with the rank of second Meutenant and was sent to drill the rookies at Camp Lewts. | Soon afterward he went to France | with the Sist division. While there, he was promoted to a first lieuten ancy. He was discharged about a month ago. Charles Silver was for | years secretary of the T. F. Clark Co. He recently recetved his dis charge as a gunner in the 12th In fantry, at Camp Lewis many JOHNSON GALLS OFF LONG TOUR : Senator Decides Not Come to Coast ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 30— | (United Press.}—Senator Hiram - | Johnson today announced defin- itely his abandonment of a | stumping trip to the Pacific coast. He planned to end his to journey in opposition to tho league of nations covenant with speeches in the Twin Cities to day. Johnson's vigorous attacks on the league of agreement met with hearty response here. Before A joint session of the legislature, which last winter approved the Wil sonian idea, he drew members to nations their feet time after time for long} attle business circles Saturday, with | A. Silver was a prominent | the officers’ | training camp at the Presidio, short-| COMPANIES ARM TO BEAT STRIKE Police Are Called to Prevent Union Meetings ‘ontinued From Page One t 1 at In the « will er . map t al employe ary Foster, of the steel ' uiready be Kotlations for settlement comy n the Pittsburg t prof ittle concern over a general walkout, and declare thelr planta will open as usual on Monday Rely on Women to Win Stel St trike WASHINGTON, Sept nited Preas.)—-Women will be relied on te help win the nationwide — strike Against the United States Steel Cor poration, scheduled to begin Monday according to Chief Organizer Fits patrick | “Women investigators will be sent Into the homes of strikers and what help can be given by the union organizations to keep up the morale of the wives and daughters of the strikers,” Fitzpatrick maid Fitzpatrick today was on his way |to Chicago, following conferences here yesterday with F tent Gom pers, of the American Federation of Labor A. F. of L. to Help In reply to a direct question as to whether the A. F. of L. would give strong support to the strike, Fitzpat rick said ' “The A. F. of L. must give support The movement to organize the steel) workers was initiated by the A. F. of lL, which afpotnted a committees headed by President Gompers to do tt n in Ame a know the ateel *s in ce the | strike, are fighting thelr ba be cause the United States Steel Cor. poration is determined to destroy or ganized labor.” Strike Cause of Famine in Sugar BAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20—8tx thousand tons of raw sugar tied up Jin the harbor forced the closing of the Western Refining pany at midnight, with the #u' quent announcement that San F faces @ sugar famine atrike of riggers and stevedores has Prevented the replenishing of the ex-| hausted supplies. Smaller plants are expected to fol low the action of the Western Sugar Refining Company, which may bring & sukar crisis within a short time, it in maid union men Je, Sugar cisco ‘ 'Lackawanna Firm Will Fight Strike BUFFALA, N. Y. Sept. 20.—The Lackawanna Steel Company has de cided to continue Its plant tn opera- tion, In face of the strike scheduled for Monday. Mayor Toomey has applied to Sher- iff Bradiey and to Gov. Smith for | help, in case ft should be needed to preserve order. “We anticipate trouble tn the rad. foal centers,” the mayor mald, today “Lackawanna has its share of rad- fcala who have joined the unions, not because they favor the American Federation of Labor, but because nays are looking for trouble.” Sharon Firm Will Close Down Plant SHARON, Pa., Sept. 20.—-No at tempt to employ strikebreakers will be made by the Sharon Steel Hoop mpany. President §, P, Kerr, that company, today immued a tter to all employes informing them that the plant will be open Monday as usual, but ff the men walk out no effort will be made t | operat | an | Judge ia: Still Refuses to Meet Union Delegates YORK, Sept 20 f NEW Judge ‘ chairman of the board of di | re Ts of the United States Steel corporation, not at his offices here today will not luring the day, it waa state retarte They refused to say whether } had left the city for steel mill dis tric but made her staten 1d be it plain that no fur nt fre fortheon wo! | sustained applause. would nether confirm nor de: | Here last night Johnson repeated | lished statements relat to the pol his set speech, tronically comment-|icy of the oration during the ing on the 14 points of the presi-| Strike, except to reiterate that a dent's early am and the fin wed shop will not be countenanced. shed program; the manner in which | England, France and Japan “had ‘ fashioned the covenant to thelr uk |U. S. WON’T RECOGNIZE it America for and handed to ytion.”” meeting at Duluth last night ing ad was attended 6,000 persons who jammed the armory in which the| senator spoke. | WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—Sens |tor Lodge wired Senator Johnson yesterday that he considered John gon’s return to Washington un- necessary and advised him that it |would be a good Idea to continue |his stumping tour to the Pacific Coast Senator Pornh twiceb efore wired Johnson advising him to return to help in the fight for the Johnson |amendment & the Unitea {States a number of votes equal to |Great Britain in the league of na- tions: | Senator Borah twice before wired |treaty speech to th nate yester day answered ut ances made by |President Wilson during his tour | Wadsworth recalled the presi dent's statement that the league lis greater than the American gov- lernment, and added that if that is true it an people. That would be a false doctrine, he said. { is greater than the Amert- | WAIVERS ON CITIZENS WASH TON, Sept. 20.—The United States government will not recognize the waivers which Mexi | can authorities require foreigners to | sign before they go to the Tampico oll region, the state department an. nounced yesterday | If the Americans signed the waivers, the state department an. | nounced, the United States never- theless will continue to furnish pro. tection for its citizens: “ . Vive Weelsin!” Mexicans Yell in LOS AN When FP btroll thru here yesterday hand was one of the firs nise him “Woodrow workm sident Wilson took a Santa Fe yards a Mexican section t to recog. Weelsin, dropping a eyes snapped in ‘Woodrow Weelsin—I betch Vive Weelsin, Vive Presidente. The shout brought fellow work ers to a halt and in a twinkling 20 bronzed Mexicans were shout ing "Vive Presidente.” yelled the pick. His excitement HE SEATTLE STAR DIVERS GO TO SUNKEN SPANISH VESSEL, » - | Pre lent Wilson Admiral Rod EW YOR: ept Em tod I 1 Continued From Page One tle. Senators and ff Goldemit Qs t * w from the Pacific coant ' of jewelry he the f t od va sep hig children away from sch 1 into by congress an we r i 1 oe he h not the m t fter ha re f « 1 t 1 to b them suff them the plant, in kage for one-th fw 10 pay all their own expenses while and. 1 4 would dor tn families ashore Enlintment in the marine corps he workers demanded a 25 ices as manager for #ix months ‘The chief source of complaint I", for periods of two, three and t increase in wages and They uid yroposition officers in the fleet my, that upon t 1 29-hour work week was too big for them 4 the the advice of Secretary Daniels, th be kept open until June s we are making only 10 would rather | the pe present congress with the signing according to word recely- t now c demith ent reare of the armintice, cut off the commu.-|ed fr Washington at local re- tation of quarters, Thin, the officers cruiting headquarters, All re-enlist. may, has reduced all men with fam-/44 men will be sent to the Paciff ; ies to @ ‘starvation basis . It in further ted among ofti- | Me vers of the fleet that one reason Bec id eae retary Daniels assigned for advocat ing the elimination of commutation of quarters was that the record of Liberty bond purchases by the of cera revealed they could get along P = without the added compensation Union Men Fail to Accept May Act Against Gas and coming under the commutation of Adjustment Board Strike of building trademmen con-| After asking gas and telephone| “The officers say this sort of rea.| PU i% ME is NT tinued In a deadlock Saturday, Hope |company off here to SIpTOve | ct Tal @ donee officers uid toon & mensage to Joseph A. Hertogs, Bel- f an early settioment were blasted | *rvice, E. V, Kuykendall, chairman they had purchased Liberty bonds by | gian vice consul, from the Belgian At the meeting of the Building of the tate public service commis: borrowing money at the banks, atlieeation in Washington. ‘The date ades council Friday nftht when | sion had returned to Olympia Satur PA engi jo eigen ib pot ion ‘ame of his arrival will be given later. the report on the vote fiken by/ "Sr. 4.11 eatd before leaving Se|had been unable to mest the pay.! Plans for the reception of the dis snions affiliated with the counell attie that he would ask the commis. | ments and were compelled to surren-| tinguished churchman were started kosher gre ype ie saot agp nm, at ity Monday meeting, to neek | der the bonds yesterday by Cone Mates. ae de enlightenment fr the attorney ‘0 these reports Secretary Dan-| ginal Mercier, one of the most herole general an to the ntepx necessary to! {els entered an emphatic denial. He| An adjustment board was propored | enforce an order compelling the two declared he had made no reference | {ures to come to this country since which would endeavor to mediate | Companies here to give satixfactory |to Liberty bond purchases in eonmes. |e War, arrived in America on Sep- all differences between master tember 9. He was delegated by the builders meeting of the counct! submitted the board to a referendum | joint freight rate, Kuykendall took | had an understanding with the naval | Tndered Belgium during the war, = iy bossa lated unions, This was! oecasion to make an investigation |committees that the whole question | urned down A“ which convinced him, he says that of navy compensation should be Putlding radeon, icing ear ule convinged him, he’ aayn that ot navy "compensa WAR-TIME DRY ACT enters lathers plat rers, ——f here are bad, Ho said two engines ‘One of the great difficulties tae! |NCLUDES GRAPES, TOO mixers and laborers, have been on : : n a fag the commission had been quietly | ing the fleet out here is the lack of apnea Moet strike since September 2, when they | tivestigating conditions here for the | skilled mechanics, So far the enlist-| _ SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20.~ Jemanded higher wages from the |iast three days mente ha United States Judge Van Fleet yes- ders’ ansociation. The de While the commission has no pow remedy this condition, one ob-| teTéay rendered a decision uphold- manda were flatly refused. er to attempt to adjust matters be-|stace, {t appears, is the far higher |!" the constitutionality of the war- All efforts at mediation since that | tween the gas company and its atrik-| wages offered machinists for land) me prohibition act He declared Ume have ended in failure. Thy ing employes, be maid, it has aut? employment. For example, the ship | “ine Srapes are included under the Justment board was indorsed by the |ity to demand adequate service from | yards are offering wages to machin: | ¥ master builders, and with some alter-| any public utility corporation Sas dheed tina ted. tases tht 40 Workers Refuse Offer of Factory; Strike for Raise Daniels Admits Our ‘ Fleet Is in Bad Shape quarters provision, Claim It's Tragedy Phone Companies Cardinal Mercier, Belgium's hero prelate, is coming to Seattle nervic Altho his mission here Friday was to hear complaints against a certain * ton with navy j statements before the committees of congress. compensation in any val affairs He said he and employes. A mpecial last Sunday lgian government to thank this |country for the aid and assistance utterly failed ations, this was the plan the unions fered for naval service. The deatroy St.Paul Stove Repair & Plumbing Co. on 1“ — . er flotiila attached tothe fleet is for | Firebacks, linings 1 om on WHL TAKE HIM BACK the most part ie, when in fit con- and repairs for ail _ FALLS OFF ROOF Leslie Jones, 18, is in the city Jail! aition, to maintain a speed of from a oe | © Seattle General hoepital Satur | officers from the Chehalis reform. Under present conditions, the/| and coils put ia ay with @ fractured ankle as the|atory, from which young Jones is| speed of the destroyers by specific and connected. esult of & fall from the roof of a|maid to have escaped six months orders has been reduced to not more 608 PIKE ST. house at 26th ave. and Charles et.jago. Detective W. G. Witzke made/ than 12 knots, Fleet conditions were Main 875 on which he was working the arrest. ‘discunsed at a conference between as The Rubber Service Co. GEORGE C. 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