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

* * ee ae * 8 & * 8 & * * * ‘se 6 * * * y * *& * 6» * es * * & & * 8 6 ZGERALD TO CALL SPECIAL \ Tides in Seattle WEDNESDAY ocr, First Low Tide boy--we would him to be 13— into the lttle counter and or- himself a steak. reg crockery that ‘You can bet so long as the Swings to definite laws, no — finally win; and no '. lays ‘possum will a4 no Boss who seeks to IN DEAL world would fotee every able-bodied Man to each day per- some necessary Manual labor for his We Would not lose the taste K, and we would not become shabby-minded, ’ crew of slackers— and physical. ome reason the women tyrone men today. each day have to athome tasks; they lose their service! had to saw our own wood, Sved own horse, mend our and shingle our own mee, We WoUld, on the one hand, . honest work for the boas, the other, the boss would, Own experience, feel the of giving his workers an mending, sympathetic con- are three tyranta—the Pauper and the public,” it not very moral, man ‘One time. what he was talking tyranny of the worker the than the tyranny of or surge of the venge- ‘ k in an likely to be a aa the cynical, inbor-hat- pailk stocking he replaces, come from the frequentiy are the worst an today hardly proves of the undirected of condensing | THURSDAY ocr. ESSION ON HIGH RENT BILL On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Entered an Second Clase 58 REDS TAKEN IN GARY RAIDS U. $. Soldiers Swoop Down on 40 Homes in Cleanup GARY, Ind., Oct. 15—The mailed fist fell today with trip- hammer speed on Gary reds and bomb plotters. Forty homes, suspected of revolutionary activities, were raided between midnight and by United States soldiers under the direction of army in- telligence headquarters. Eighteen men were taken into custody and held with 40 others taken in is raids. An army truck was called into service to carry away printed propaganda, These raids are merely a start of what may be expected, according to | hints from army Officers. Reports that today was the day set for the closing in on suspects have been cur: rent for a week. A secret list containing 700 names} of “red” agitators fell into the hands of the intelligence department short ly after the soldiers took control here, This list formed the basis for their operations. ‘The intelligence officers have now determined to take no chances with the suspects, and) will Investigate the activities of each of the 700. $25,000 STOLEN ST. LOUIS, Oct. 15--The Potosi National bank at Potosi, Mo, 67 miles south of St, Louis, was looted today. Two bandits with ‘an acety. lene torch burned their way into the vault, They escaped, early reports said, with $25,000. MINERS’ CHIEF ~~ WILL GO EAST To Consult With Secy. Wil- son on Threatened Strike INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Oct. 15.— (United Press.j-John L. Lewis, act ing president of the United Mine Workers of America, will go to Washington to confer with Secretary Wilson, but he will not withhold the miners’ strike call until after the conterence, he said today. The call will be in the mails late today, he said. 2 Replying to Secretary Wilson's telegram, asking him to come to Washington tomorrow for a confer. ence to which Thomas T. Brewster, president of the Coal Operators! as. |aociation was also “Replying to your request for my |presence in Washington for a con- \ference wtih you, I advise I will be at your office 11 o'clock Friday morning, October 17. Delay 1s occa ioned by my inability to arrive at Washington in time for Thursday meeting.” The secretary's message asked Lewis not to send out the strike jcall until after the conference, I need a first class serving maid, For a Star want ad two-bits I paid, Result of this amall fee will be A helper of efficiency. Miss I. Salin, 407 North Broadway, is the author of the above rhyme. See particulars on Classified page. Matter May 2, 1899, at the Postoffice at SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1919. The SeattleStar |2 Beattie, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879 CENTS Late Edition Per Year. b; $5.00 to Mail 9.00 | Was She the Victim of Was It Suicide? Foul Play? Or Acciden 7 Will Have to File Schedule. of Rents Before City Permits Operation A CLUB ON EXTORTION Kennedy was herd at work on the ordinance Wednesday and he will have it ready for introduction to the city council next Monday, he sald today. Councilmen Approve “T am a victim of the rent ho« myself,’’ Councilman William Hick~- man Moore said Wednesday be don’t know just what the proposed ordinance contemplates but I om for any legal measure which will the wings of the rent profi- “It seems a shame that of our landlords are taking ad- vantage of a situation to extort unreasonable rentals from tenants,” Councitman John FE. Carroll said, ‘and I am in favor of an ordi- nance that will force conactenceless landlords to curb their appetites for the dollar."’ “Put me down for a vote against the profiteering landlord,"' Council- man Robert E. Hesketh said. “it in something new In legislation, but I will vote for the Kennedy ordinance and let the courts fight it out What we need is lower rents in Seattle,"* The ordinance which Kennedy has certain power license « ing how tle. ested In the city council to ery apartment house, room and hotel manager in Seat Must File Tariff very applicant for @ license to conduct an apartment house, hotel or rooming house will be compelled to file a tariff schedule of his proposed rentals under the terms of the ordinance I am drawing at the re- quest of Mayor Fitzgerald,” Kennedy sald, | “The tariff schedule must be filed | with the city comptroller, If a tem jant belie the rent he is asked to |pay is unreasonable he may file a | Protest with th eity council, That |body can order o public hearing at which landlord and tenant may pre j sent arguments If the counell be lieves the landlord is charging an unreasonable rental, the council may, under the ordinan pass a bill tix ing the rents to be charged by the landiord “Should any landlord fix a rental above that ordered by the city coun. cil his license may, under the ordinance, be revoked and the land- lord will be subjected to prosecution, A fine of $100 or 30 days in jail will be the penalty for convictions under the ordinance I am drawing. “The ordinance will contain an emergency clause, It will become ef. fective on passage, We want the rent | profiteer flushed out into the open before November 1, and I believe my __|ordinance, if passed, will have that effect,” TROTSKY YELPS HELSINGFORS, Oct. 14,—(Delay- ed.)}—Leon Trotsky, soviet war min- ister, is reported to have admitted Bolsheviki could not withstand a in a speech at Pousea that the winter campaign, and that there was no ‘longer any hope for victory. Many desertions from the Bolsheviki army have been reported recently, n course of preparation will include | Mrs. Bertha Elnor Miller, whose drowning in Lake Wash- ington has mystified the authorities. [ASSAILANTS OF [DOCK STRIKE IN " GIRLGET AWAY N.Y. IS ‘Violet Redding “Robbed and|Great Quantities of Food- Left Unconscious in Alley stuffs Are Rushed In | Police early today had foiled to] NEW YORK, Oct, 15.—(United find a clue to the couple—a man|Press.)—Enormous quantities of per- ishable foodstuffs, held at railroad terminals in Jersey City, Hobok@n |Misa Violet Redding into an alley) and Weehawken by the longshore- }back of the Lincol hotel on Madi-/ men’s strike, were being rushed into leon st. between Third and Fourth) New York City today, following the 7 ending of the strike shortly before and left her unconsetous after | 10M None of the perishable freight has WaY | been damaged by the “delay, accord home to the Penn hotel 1499) ing to railroad officials and produce Fifth ave, and was passing the brokers. It has been under refriger- alley when she says she heard @/ ation thruout the strike. faint cry for help in a woman's! California oranges and grapes and voice Pennsylvania grapes and apples and Playing the role of Good Sa-!pears from Washington, Oregon and | maritan, she stepped into the alley.) Montana were in heavy demand at lin the darkness a hand reached out|the first sales held since the strike Jand grabbed her by the throat. / started, and were slightly higher l#he saw it was a man, she says,!than last week Jand fainted, When she recovered| Dressed poultry, eggs and butter her senses she was in the Seattle also were quickly sold at slight in- ‘al hospital Her purse ws) creases, More than 250 ocean-going later fond where it was flung by | steamers were tied up the strike, the robbers, em jand will have to be joaded and - }loaded Wefore they can take abroad jother vast quantities of freight from jall parts of the country. ry street and avenue near both waterfronts was jammed with trucks today. HAMMONTON, N. J., Oct. 15.—A week has passed today since little |Billie Dansey, the “perfect baby,” |disappeared from his home in the outskirts of Hammonton, No trace of him has been found, and search- ers are as much at a loss as when the alarm was first sent out, and woman—who last night ured | aves | robbing her of $1¢ Mise Redding was on ber s Even the Police Dept. Has to Move A trusty’s life at the city jail isn't all that it’s “cracked up” to be. Early Wednesday morning, Sergt. of Police W. J. Alvey put in an order for every trusty to stand muster in the lower corridors of the police station, for it’s moving day, The police department is being moved from the first floor of the Public Safety building to the Bec- ond floor. Inspector C, G, Bannick's office has already been moved and the pa- trolmen’s assembly room will be | transferred by night. Brewers Petition Against Dry Law WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.——The United States Brewers’ association today sent to the White House pe- titions opposing the national prohi- bition act. The petitions were re- ferred to Attorney General Palmer, ‘as was the bill which is awaiting the signature of the president IN SPOKANE, TOO SPOKANE, Oct. 15.—S0 acute has become the house shortage here that one man in a newspaper ad offers $10 reward to any person who'll find him a vacant apartment. A special paste is used to keep melons from decaying in their trip northward IS ENDED NO MARKS ON . DEAD WOMA | The bedy of Mrs. Bertha Elnor Miller |whose death occurred during a launch trip |Monday with her husband, Walter P. Miller, 4 was discovered floating on Lake Washing. ton, three-eighths of a mile northwest of Parental school dock at Mercer island, a 9:45 a. m. today. No bruises or marks of v! the hasty examination of the ty coroner. The point where the body jolence could be found durin; body by Dr. C. C. Tiffin, was found is three miles the spot where Walter Miller, the husband, t f ; 3 wie | jumped or fell overboard while his back was cae i CE Miller is held.im the county jail ition of the woman's / The body was discovered by N. H. Heck, engineer for the United States |hydrographic survey, and hin assist- ‘ant, R. C. Costello, whose offices are at 202 Burke building. Coroner Goes to Scene They towed the body to the par ental school dock and summoned the coroner. ‘ A special launch carried Coroner Titfin and his assistant, Frank Koepfli, Sheriff Stringer, Deputy Sheriffs Beebe, Hamlin and Murdock, and newspaper reporters to the spot where the body reposed. On Mrs. Miller's wrist was a watch which had stopped with the hands pointing to 9:40, ; Sheriff Stringer placed importance on the fact that the body was found floating three miles from the spot where Miller says his wife disap- peared below the surface of the water. Coroner Tiffin said he would hold an autopsy Wednesday night to determine for a certainty whether the woman was drowned or was dead before the body en- tered the lake. He will also ex- jamine the stomach, he said, for | possible traces of poison The body was found floating face downward. The lower part of the woman's coat, upturned, shrouded jher head like a hood. Her hands were tightly clenched. “From outward appearances,” said Coroner Tiffin, “I am inclined to believe Miller's story that she jwas drowned. Phe only cireum- stance not in Miller's favor, would say, is the fact that the body was found such a long dis- tance from where he said his wife went overboard, And eyen 0, the man might have been so confused in his excitement that he couldn't tell where he was.” After the preliminary examination the body was placed aboard the of. ficers’ launch and brought to Seattle for more careful investigation, Deputy Prosecuting Attorney T. |H. Patterson said today Miller's |freedom practically hinges on the \results of a careful examination of the body of his dead wife. As long as Miller sticks to ‘his joriginal story, and no conclusive new evidence is established by ex: |amination of his wife's body, Pat- \terson will continue his investiga- |tion on two conflicting theories, One theory is that Mrs. Miller, crazed with despair and despond. jency, afraid to face a body-wrecking six weeks’ cure for the morphine habit, suddenly decided to drown her sorrows in the depths of Lake Washington and jumped overboard. The other theory is that her hus- band, during a sudden fit of tem- per, knocked the woman overboard. Patterson has definitely concluded | that the launch trip was “on the aquare"—as the deputy prosecutor expresses it. He believes that Miller and his wife started out to cross the lake to the Lakeside sanitarium, where Mrs, Miller was to undergo six weeks’ treatment for the m phine habit. This plan had been agreed upon, after Miller had de: elared he would not seek a divorce if his wife could be cured of the drug habit. “She declared she had been cured of the drug habit,” says Patterson, “while her husband was not willing to believe her.” Only Miller Knows This conclusion is based on state- ments of friends of the Millers who had definite information concerning I 1 —— their domentic relations. x But just what happened in thé, launch during the trip no one know: except . He has ‘elated hi story, He declared his wife disap, peared while his back was tu Whether she leaped over bvard or fell into the lake by accident, Milier ; not attempt to say. : No. signs of a struggle in launch have been found by inv: tors, They searched for hairpins of bits of clothing, but found none, = Experts in the city health de; 4 |ment began a scientific analysig” | Wednesday of the seven bloodstali in the launch which Miller explai by showing a cut on the cushion of his thums. He sustained the injury, he says, while frantically slashing at @ small rope that tied the tow rope of thé launch to a cleat, after the | steamer Atlanta had come alongside to pull the launch to Kirkland. “ Health department experts exe | plained that blood corpuscles of one (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)?! ORDER STRIKE "OF COAL MINERS |400,000 Get Notice to Quit; Seattle Affected INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 15.— (United Press.)—Four hundred thousand coal miners were or- dered to strike November 1, ina call issued today by John L. Lewis, acting president of the a Mine Workers of Amer The order affects practically all bituminous minérs in the United States. It was issued fol- lowing failure of the union Jead- ers and operators’ representa- tives to get together and settle wage demands made by the min- ers, Altho the order affects only 400,000 men directly, it was announced at the | Offices of the United Mine Workers jot America that more than half a million will respond. In fields where labor is only partly organized, it was predicted miners not union will wetk out with their co-workers, The strike is the direct result of the conference between miner and operator representatives at Philadel: |phian, which adjourned Saturday | Without reaching an agreement. At | this conference an effort was mad@ | to formulate a new wage scale and working agreement, The order was signed by John Ta Lewis, ident, and William Green; secretary-treasurer, of the miners’ organization, It directs “the mem: bers in and around the mines of the bituminous coal-producing districts within the jurisdiction of our orgunt- zation in the United States to cease the production of coal at midnight, on Friday, October 81, 1919.” More than 6,000 men will quit work in the Puge Sound country, when the nation-wide strike is call on November 1, by the bituminou| coal workers. Most of the men ai laborers in mines in the west part of the state, adjacent to Seatth Seattle coal dealers were reluctai to give’ information as to the probab! effect of the strike on the city wit! out further investigation inth th@ supply of coal in the various,dm@o ers of the city,