The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 26, 1919, Page 1

“SEATTLE WOMAN Tides in Seattle FRIDAY SEPT, 26 12:42 am | SATURDAY SEPT. 27 Tide os tt An American Paper That Fights for Americanism CENTS First Wigh Tide | First High Tide 06 am, 10.8 ft ° Second Low Tide Late Edition Per Year, Mail $5.00 to $9.00 The Seattle Star Entered as Becond Class Matter May %, 1999, at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash., under the Act of Congress March 8, 1879 VOLUME 22. NO. 181. = WILSON IS OMANY rides in style these horse- less days. And the vagrant rustic takes his outfit and his stock in his gas sur- rey. E HAVE been hearing that the gypsies had de serted their caravans and their horses for the gasoline car, but until a |) few days ago wo had not had the Privilege of seeing a gypsy tribe in their new high estate. Out on the road to Tacoma, the thigh line road that winds thru for est and farm lands, we came upon a sro. camped for their ‘The fires were burning as of olf, the Diack pots bubbling, the stim, dark-eyed nin bright at- tire were ready to read the lines of and fortune within your palm; all the old-time glamor of wagons the files of horses of high and degree, awaiting the advent of the horse traders wf the neighbor- hood. All there was for conveyance @ little, told fortunes a little, and traded horses a great deal, Just what they do now for gaso- s Money and groceries, without ir horses, we don't know; one thing we are sure of, they do not soll their aristocratic lineage with menial labor, and all labor is meni- @l to a Romany. cee VERYBODY gets about differently these days. We saw another outfit on the high road that re- minded us of old times. ‘This was a rancher, doubtless a tenant going to a new country. In the old days this meant a cow ple of covered wagons, saddle horses, cows, and a few spraddle Jegged calves tied on behind; a toil- some, dusty, snail-like pilgrimage from one week's end to another. This farmer had it all on a truck. All his household goods, from Baby buggy to crib, from kitchen table to. sewing machine, were there. Coops of chickens were tied on behind; at the side a few pens of Reigian hares and a crate of gquabs promised Sunday dinners There were plows and a hafrow, and a wheel hoe, and a bicycle, a int, and sacks bulging with vege- And, way up in front, right back of the family of six or seven, was & muley cow, fenced off, with a manger of hay to keep her con- tented, And the entire outfit was getting the country at 20 miles an hour, instead of two. Outside of a team of work horses, which he could acquire in any ri tal neighborhood in half a Gay, t t farmer was all ready to start f ming ten minutes after he found . place that suited him. And his journey was merely a nice vacation after the summer's work Probably we will turn Into a na- tion of dwellers on the high road, and the house on the truck by the wayside camping place will become an institution over the land; With « system of itinerant schools, moving up and down the the last obstacle to per- petual travel would be removed for the average American family. And the man of the house, these @ays, can stop anywhere and go to work. 30 Are Injured in GAN FRANCISCO. 26 Sept Three persons with fractured skulls taken to St. Francis tespital fol ing « street car accident last n stilt alive today were Injured Fillmore street car burst Griving the motorm ‘The car raced three bi end in other street Both cars belgnged Railways. S. F. Car Runaway ‘Twenty seven A hot box on into nm from nckn ar to the United! ment where he had gone to change|gas retorts at the compa~y plant’ while in the field or in the trenches Gompers Flays. Brutalities in Steel Districts With the steel workers apparently losing a little ground lin the Pittsburg district in their strike against the United | States Steel corporation and its subsidiaries, efforts were being made today to extend the strike to the Bethlehem| |Steel company Monday. The vote in favor of this new |strike must be approved by the steel workers’ national com- mittee. In the all-importants Pittsburg district reports today indi- cated that some men were returning to work in many mills. In the other steel areas neither side appeared to be gaining appreciably except at Canton, Ohio, where 1,200 men were said to have voted in favor of going back Sunday. | Shots were exchanged between strike sympathizers and| police at Clairton, Pa., today, when men going to work were fired upon. Three strike sympathizers were arrested, Samuel Gompers took the stand in the senate investiga-| tion at Washington today and declared that the issue of| jthe steel strike is the right of labor to be heard by its |employers. j } ‘SAYS STRIKERS PLAN INVASION nibs | told the senate labor committee | 5,000 Said to Be Ready to! Sonvers was the second witness| Enter West Virginia | in the investigation ordered by the) senate. | “The issue of the strike fs the/ right of the employes to be heard thru their own representatives, |apokesmen of thelr own choosing; to have an opportunity for their own day in court—the employers’ office.” Gompers said } In the last 25 years steel workers jhave repeatedly been denied the right of association, he added, and said: | BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 26— Labor's right to = day In court ls the issue in the steel strike, COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 26— Governor Cornwell of West Vir- Kinia today wired Governor Cox that 5,000 men from the vicinity of Steubenville were reported to be about to cross the Ohio river into Hancock county, West Vir- | ginia, and compel workmen there to quit their places. ch effort,” Cornwell warn. | Will be regarded a# an @t-| This was done with all the pow! tack upon the sovereignty of West |, wealth, influence and phar | Virginia, ped lof the steel corporation. Governor Cox immediately wired| «they were denied this by illegal, |W. G. Baker, sheriff of Jefferson) sywarrantable and brutal means.” county, at Steubenville, « follows!“ Committeemen believe they are on} Epave Sp means of knowing the way to bringing together the whether the delegation in question | spioyes and employers without ex:| contemplates anything which would |*mployes am be a violation of the laws of Ohio, |“Utlve | but I respectfully urge upon you to| , aah are use your best offices in order to cakton prt | Pe tre ery Oe agiict be-|which John Fitzpatrick, strike head wonlth and the state government or (told the committee yesterday would bring the men back into the plants | West Virginia.” | “(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) STILL STUBBORN 222s cies, i. so LONDON, Sept. 26. — (United Press.)}—The railway strike will be 7 a jcome effective in Great Britain to. ini pi ale pg er ge |night, it was officially announced by Suaee Gass, of ett | union leaders today. ‘The announce Gievetores of the U. 8. Steck car |mentwas accompanied by the state ag ment’ was a¢companied by the state poration, reiterated that, in his | ernment officials and union repre belief, the company would not | sentatives had failed to reach an receive union representatives in | Yorn “I will say for myself that 1,200 READY TO RETURN questions of moral principle CANTON, Ohio, Sept, 26.—Twelve | being made to get head of the steel cor to arbitration, cannot he arbitrated nor com- | hundred men employed by the ¢ | promised,” he said, “and in my |ton Steel company are reported by | opinion such questions are in (officials of the plant to have od | eluded in the present unfortu- in fayor of returning to work Sun- | | nate struggle.” day. ® 'Air-Gas Plays Pie Trick; Be-Custards Cafe Porter and Blows Up the Range Air in gas pipes leading to a |while G. B ark, the barber, was| stove in the kitchen of the [phoning for the police. Wortunately Lotus, 309 Pike st., caused an ex- | no one was hurt plosion Friday morning that | hurled a custard pie out of the kitchen and into the face of | Company Blamed | The explosion was said to be due John Yamamoto porter, who to the practice of the gas company,| was mopping the dining room | since the strike of gas workers, of | floor. blowing a mixture of water-oll gas Yamamoto wiped the custard from! and air thru the maina by means of hig mouth and emitted a yell just as!a high pressure blower at the Lak the force of the explosion caused a! Union plant. . pile of miscellany to topple over with; By this method the company @ crash in the back roomof Conner | “stretches” a small amount of gas & Clark's barber shop at 305 Pike and forces it thru the mating. As st, next door, long as the air mixture is not too Charles Koyama, cook at the|great there is little danger, it is said. Lotus, hastened up from the base-|The strikers report the main coal clothes after lighting the gas range,|are still shut down. d SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1919. Why Should Housewives Be Denied Sugar Thousands of Seattle housewives cannot ob- tain any sugar for canning purposes while Ar- mour, Libby, McNeill & Libby and the other big packers have all they can use. The excuse offered by the wholesalers, that the strike of San Francisco longshoremen is respon- sible for the shortage, is utterly false because the shortage has been serious for several weeks, while the. lhoremen ,olong after Th crines became effective, "These charges are made by Westlake market grocers. D. McKenzie, manager of the market, de- clared that altho he had been able to buy only two sacks a day since the 28th of August, his allowance for the market had been cut t6 one sack Thursday morning. Fruit is spoiling in large quantities in Seattle be- cause the big packers have hogged the sugar, and during the coming winter the packers will be able to sell their canned goods because the housewives were unable this summer to get sugar for canning, During Canning Season— While Packers Get All They Want? President’s Health Breaks Under Strain of Vast Responsibility ‘ORDERED TO TAKE REST j | BY HUGH BAILLIE |(United Press Staff Correspondent) | ABOARD PRESIDENTS ; TRAIN, NEAR WICHITA, Kans., Sept. 26—President Wil- son, suffering froga an attack of Mervous indigestion, today start- ed for Washington, abandoning his league of nations tour, Tho president, in his private car, dictated the following statement to the people of Kansas: | “It is with sincere regret that I jam unable to meet the fine people lof Wichita and Kansas, to lay be | fore them all the facts regarding the | treaty of peace and the league of |nations. I know with what candor they would desire to treat this im | portant matter and I am confident | what their judgment of the facts | would be. It is a real disappoint- ment to me that I must leave Kansas did not walk out until | the room in the La Clead hotel when Weather Forecast: Tonight and Saturday, fairy * gentle southwester! Slayer Makes Escape; Man Is _ Held by Police Shot thru the abdomen by an unidentified thug Thursday night in a room at the La. Clead hotel, 22193 First ave., Mrs. Siltana, 34, proprietor of the Cla hotel, 1123 Fourth ave. S., died at the ¢ hospital Friday morning at 11:15 o’cloc An operation by the hospital surgeons Friday failed to save the woman’s life. John Loback, driver of the “for hire? auto, who took Siltana to the La Clead hotel and who accompanied he the room where, according to the story told the police, intended to inspect five cases of whisky that were up sale, was 5) thru the abdomen by the bandit. He p abby ee altho his condition is precarious. C) lice spread a drag net over the entite city” to capture the thug who did the shooting, no arrests had: been made at a late hour Friday. . The thug was scribed as about 20 years old, black hair combed pomp dour and having prominent teeth. Police Doubt Story According to the story told the police by the woman and Loback after they were brought to the hos pital, Mrs. Siftana had just entered ay a masked man leaped out of a clothes closet and ordered the two to put up thejr hands, Mrs. Siltana ‘in Attack Manager McKenzie asserts. PACKERS BUYING UP | STATE CANNERIES? | “The talk about the longshoremen’s strike in Frisco fj} being the cause is all bunk,” declared McKenzie. | “The shortage has existed since August, and the | strike started long after the sugar gave out. “T claim that the packers have hogged the sugar. | It is reported everywhere that the packers have bought up the little canneries around over the state. That means we will have to eat the packers’ canned | goods this winter because the women couldn’t get | sugar for canning.” | Market men reported farmers are cutting down | their fruit shipments because of the sugar shortage | and much of the best fruit which ordinarily would | be sold in the cities is being sent to the canneries operated by the packers, where the price is cut. Sales of fruit for canning were cut down heavily because of the sugar shortage, it was stated. Efforts to locate the representative of the sugar refiners in Seattle failed, and wholesale grocery houses informed The Star reporter that there had | been no sugar shortage until September 1, and the shortage which followed was due to the strike of the San Francisco longshoremen, HUN ARMY OFFICERS BITTERLY ATTACKED Germany's great military machine was going to pieces as early as June, 1918. Men who had been trained to give fin- plicit obedience to their officers were beginning to question and to assail those superiors. The officers’ corps, so long the superior caste in Germany, the men who shoved men| and women off the streets, ran civilians thru if they dared| show disrespect, kicked and cuffed | their soldiers and en- jforced the rule of “blood and tron,” were being called tc account, “MY THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS” Eric Von Ludendorff nent with the MeClure, Newspaper Hrothers, All right reserved Company and the Lo y by Fratelli T i Belgium, Hollan Published ¥ Byndicate. ¢ pyrighted tv against the officers of| field kitchen, In billets behind the (in| lines one offer was always served from the field kitchen, while the others messed together. ‘The non commissioned officers and men were represented on the mess committee, (Continued on Page 13, first page, Seo | ‘ond. Section.) ints followed one another the army June, 1918) as if by order The off it was implie much better than the men, lived tho they had their meals from the same without having the pleasure of com ing into personal contact with them," Grayson Issues Order Dr. Cary T. Grayson, the presi- dent's physician, spent almost all of last night with him, it was learned, before ordering the tour abandoned. When word of the president's ill ness spread thru Wichita many peo-| ple rode in automobiles to the re- mote spot where the special train was parked, Secret service agents formed a cordon about the private car and refused to permit any one to approach it. They also made the people maintain silence so the presi dent would not be disturbed. Announcement of the cancellation of the remaining dates was made be fore a crowd of 15,000 which jammed the auditorium here, President Carey, of Wichita National bank, made the announcement The city was crowded for the president's Visit, Crowds massed in ts adjoining the auditorium, to catch a glimpse of the executive’ in a parade which had been planned. Throng Is Silent When Carey made the announce ment to the crowd that the presi dent would be unable to speak there was no demonstration. A quartet (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) HI JOHNSON ON WAY TO COAST WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 tor Hiram Johnson was off for the Pacific coast today to present his side of the league of nations ques tion. in opposition to President Wil son's view Sena AUGHT in own trap! This happened to the Germans when they en- couraged Bolshevism in Russia, They attained their purpose, the dis- integration of the Russ army, but they were play- ing with fire. Bolshevism rose to annihilate the boasted Hun army effi- ciency, too. Ludendorff recalls this with bitterness. The Star today publishes two installments of the Ludendorff book. One be- gins on page 1, the other on page 13, attacked the thug and he fired twice, one bullet striking the woman and the other piercing Loback's right side. The thug is then said to have fled from the room. Tony Anderson, who, according to| the story told by the thug’s victims, had the five cases of whisky for sale in the room, is being held by the police for investigation The police frankly doubt the story that Anderson had any whisky in his room, and hint that Mrs. Siltana was lured there for the purpose of rob: y. Mrs, Siltana told the police Thursday alleged whisky dealers and did not take any money with here, altho she was told the liquor could be pur- chased for $125 a case. Thug Was Excited It is believed the woman's sudden attack on the thug made him so ex cited he pulled the trigger and fired aimlessly, the bullets striking his in. tended robbery victims. After the shooting the police made a thoro search of the La Clead hotel but could not find a trace of whisky. Mrs. Siltana is survived by brother, John Panttila, and two chil dren, Amelia, 14, and Linssi, 13, She came to Seattle from Butte more than a year ago and leased the Clar endon hotel two months ago. Her body is at the public morgue, CHARGE YOUTH | CHOKED FATHER Creeping down stairs in the dead of night, Henry Semmern, Jr., 20, 819 15th ave., crashed in the locked bedroom door of Henry Semmern, sr., his father, and leaping on the sleeping par- ent began choking him, according to a report made Friday at the police station, W. Warner, a brotherin.aw, who was sleeping up stairs, according to the father, was awakened by his cries and came down and pulled the in- furiated youth from the bed. ‘The police were notified and Sergt. G. L. Carnto and Officer E. C. Scully investigated. Young Semmern was urrested and booked on an open charge. Relatives appeared at the police station and deny the story that the youth choked his father, They say that there had been a family quarrel and that the father had locked his door to keep the youth out. The an gered son then went outside the house and obtained an axe, bent on getting in the room, After he had broken down the door, the relatives say, the father began yelling. The son put his hand over his father's mouth to stifle the cries and did not choke him, according to them night she suspected the} | on Woma 1 While police were searching the city for a man known as “Rath,” a mysterious acid-thrower, his young and at tractive victim, Mrs. Ione Lar son, was confined to her apart- ments at 609 Columbia st., re covering from his attack and suffering from an ugly burn on her left shoulder. Less than a year ago Mrs. Larson was the victim of a poison plot, which she believes today had some connection with the attempt of “Rath” last night to splash acid in | her face, | “Last November,” she said today, }“a friend of ‘Rath’ was living in jTooming house I ran at 4239 11th ave. N. E. I brought home some ;cold meat for luncheon and put it im |the cooler, I intended it for sand- |wiches for my Syear-old boy and jmyself. The boy didn’t eat his |sandwich, but I did, and an hour — |afterward became deathly sick. IT | had given the rest of the meat to |my dog. He died in great agony,” Yesterday about noon she left her apartment and went downtown to © do some'shopping, intefding to go — to Fort Lawton to see her father early in the evening. } “All afternoon,” she said, “F noticed this fellow ‘Rath,’ which was” the only name I know him by, fak lowing me around from store to store. When I boarded the Fort Lawton car I looked around to see if he was getting on too, I saw him climb into a for-hire auto.” Thé “for hire” car followed her out Mercer st., Mrs, Larson said,and she became frightened. She got ott on Queen Anne and went into the Mercer St. drug store, where she Phoned Walter Wilson, a special policeman at the gas works, with whom she sald she is slightly | acquainted, Found by Passersby “This was about 8:30. I had only a few blocks when ‘Rath’ denly stepped out from behind: tree. He insulted me. I pulled out my hatpin to defend myself and he grabbed me. He pulled a small bot tle out of his pocket and n a the cork out with his thumb, © |ducked my head and that is all} remember.” ; About 845 a man and passing in an auto saw Mrs. i lying Wack of the tree and roused her. ‘The acid had burned thru her coat and shirtwaist and was eating the flesh. At her request they hur ried her to the gas works, wher Wilson gave her first aid, then rushed her to the ality poagttal An walk ‘ * Fs) bi hour later she was able to home,