The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 4, 1919, Page 1

NAY ARBITRATE COAL STRIKE * % & TWO MORE SEATTLE GUN VICTIMS: Tides in Seattle TURSDAY NOV. 4 Fret Wigh Tide, First Low Tide, Second eran) a "Law ‘Tide tt m. 18 Wigh Tide | WREsDAY NOV, 5 _ Wire High Tide First Low Tide Second On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Entered as Becond Clase Matter May 3, 1 _ VOLU ME 22. NO. 213. AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH one here present who contemplates a pleasure or business trip by auto to Portland ‘and south had better do one of two Bhings—stay at home or take a or such portion of a train ax be necessary, It is not insist 8. that you use an entire train take thé engine and a Pull or anything that’s conven take it from me, don’t go by hways that were supposed to completed weeks ago are still N up, and the detours, since the are bottomless. | Outside Olympia there's a de tour that takes one back 20 years, the time when there were no after the first of October. After one leaves Centralia, there sixty miles of detours and bad "And what was a fair road, from h to Vancouver, is now a muddy, hilly detour, be- they have started a lot of paving along with the fall | Bome time, maybe, all these vari- links and segments and iches of paving will be com but now you can't even v9 m¥el on such good roads as there because the lordly contractor, working on 200 yards of ¥, will close up 15 miles, so An be left entirely unmolested Af you think this is exaggeration, ire about the Chehalis-Toledo way, that is paved for miles is today barred to traffic. oe INQUIRED of a straw iy boas along the way why contractors seemed to 4M owalt until winter to start paving. S “ "Cause the digging’s soft after rains,” he answered. “But I thought you couldn't lay good concrete pavement in wet er,” I said. “Guess that’s right, all right.” he . and shrugged A contractor should worry about her a pavement lasts 10 years 10 months, and if an entire state to wade in mud for six months, t of it, xo long as the cost of ding is cut 20 per cent? ee ALIFORNIA does’ this better. The Automobile ciub of Southern California keeps a fleet of autos (On the highways of the state Whenever a bridge washes out it $= reported, and temporary repairs fare made, or a detour jaid out, kept in repair and properly signed. A contractor in California keeps Part of the highway open when he fe working, and the club sees to it that if theré are detours, the @hort, are kept sprinkled with or bedded with straw, as occas any day of the ywhere in that state and know he will arrive Even in California such efficien ty wan too much to expect from lic officials, so a private ergar tion undertook it But the main thing {« that in fifornia a tourist knows he « ays take a pleasure trip an here, in safety and comfort MF And business goes on every bin the year, instead of for | @even months, as it does in large sections of the Northwest The official mind wil! slumber on for 20 years before it discovers that Highways today are the arteries of our public life ‘The contractor will always shut up roads and hamper the public, i left alone. But the business Washington could well Of the situatic the commerce of the sta er October. | Washington can be an all-year © Btate for tourists, if it wants to. But so long as the bl nt dis- Fegard of the public’s rights is su me, as it is today on this Pa ific highway, from Olympla to Vancouver, not only will tourists Grinely keep away, but home folks fill take a train or stay in their own back yards I would like to take a Commer ) lal Club committee in my rough- Fiding flivver and make Seattle to Portland in nine hours. And point out where most of this mess is due olely to dilatory, careless and hog: Kish contractors. C2 But the promotion committee, if Mt is wine, will stay home and con- wider more important things than a mere main artery of a state’y life interests of take and see to it that cea not hibernate aft =| TheSeattles tar at the Postoffics at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March §, 1879 DEAD PPP PPI Per Year. $ CENTS Late Edition by Mail 6.00 to $9.00 = GrahamTot and Ludwi a Pass Away | Mother of the he Child Will Be Treated for Insanity by State OTHER WOMAN IS HELD| Murder claimed two more—a man and a little girk—in Seattle Tuesday, when 4-yearold Etiza- beth Dorothy Graham, victim of her distracted mother’s gun, ex- later, Thomas C. Ludwig, with » bullet thru his abdomen, gave up his desperate battle for life at the city hospital. Prosecutor Fred C. Brown, said he would charge Nora Edwards, 27-year old alleged slayer of Ludwig, with |tirst degree murder Tuesday after: | noon, | The little Graham gir! went to join| [her 6yearo! brother Neil, who was! instantly ed when Mrs. Graham | went insane in ber home, 1053/ ‘Thistle st, last Friday morning, and} shot the lad, her daughter and her self. Mrs, Graham still survives and will be treated for insanity. Ludwig's dying statement waa that Nora Edwards had shot him when he went to her house, 606 12th ave. &., Saturday night, to look for lode ings, and protested against her price for a room. Sobbed Violently The young woman was taken be- fore Captain of Detectives Tennant} and informed of Ludwig's death} Tuesday morning. She burst into] violent sobbing. I don’t want to talk to anybody, she cried out. “Take me back to my cell.” ’ Tennant was unable to learn from the girl the name of her relatives. She told him her parents live in! Portland, where she said her father | was formerly a wealthy saloon man, now driving an ice truck MAJORITY FOR RENT HOG BILL Haas’ Attempt to Kill the Measure Fails With three minor amend- ments, Mayor Fitzgerald's ordi- nance designed to curb the ra pacious rent hog, was approved by a majority of the city council, sitting as a committee of the whole, Monday afternoon. A final vote on the ordinance will be taken at a special meet- ing which probably will be called next Friday afternoon, The approval of committee the whe not the | nance until after three hours of de bate, in which councilmen, landlords and representatives of tenants en gaged. | When the vote on a motion to re-| port the ordinance mendation that “it taken, Councliman Erick |to cast his vote. | ed to read the jbefore making Councilman the ns for paswage. ( | was absent when t |Councilmen Bolton, | Hesketh and Moore | (CONT'D ON PAG ‘Dime Costs This Conductor $250 the | | of was given ordi with recom was | leclined | on explaining that ordinance again his decision Haas voted against to recommend the ordi-| Lane taken. | motion punciimar Drake, Carroll, voted to report w SIx Al Barton, a conductor Cowen Park street car line, paid $250 for a din in Justice of the! | Peace Otis W. Brinker's court Tues day ‘morning. Several days ago caught pocketing a a passenger, “a Detective Jay M Meany had the conductor arrested charge of petty larceny Barton was released on $250 bail, | but forfeited that sum Tuesc on Barton was dime tendered ording to City on Wind and Rain Forecast More weeps from the heavens ‘Tuesday night and Wednesday were |promised by Official Weathersmith George N. Salisbury when Tuesday morning. Along with the drips there will be fresh southwesterly breezes, the weatherwright prognosticated, seen “SEATTLE, WASIL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1919. EX-KAISER TODAY IS A White Hair and Beard Revealed in a Remarkable Photograph BROKEN DOWNOLD MAN; P atrolman| President Unable to Cast His Vote WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.—~(United Press.)—President Wilson and Sec- retary Tumulty will not follow their usual custom of going to New Jersey to vote, The president strike and is i. The other government ness will Tumulty from making the trip for the first time in seven years, coal bust- prevent | Prosecutor Brown Will Prosecute Ss Degree Charges nl Filed in the Superior Court Today SHOT DOWN CARLETON First degree murder was charged Tuesday against Motor eyele Patrolman Charles A. Roselius, who Sunday night shot and killed Police Sergeant Guy L. Carleton, who, Koselius said, had wrecked his home, The filed by had per information Brown after ly investigated the xamined both Rowelius tus, who with Rowe him. contends the shooting was accidental Mra “and I/ wasn't giving me I craved to ride was he won: shootin) was us whot ‘Auto rides were new to me Charley | proper attention The information reh whole story of the shooting and the events preceding it. Killing Not Intended | “I tapped the telephone wire and heard my wife make the date with Carleton Sunday night,” Brown says Roseliux told him. “1 followed her down to First ave. and Yealey way where she got in Carleton's car, I | trailed them in a jitney, but had no tention of killing Carleton “We both got out in front of the gas station at Hanford st. and What jcom ave, The gun went off ac cidentally.” Roselius did not about shooting at ¢ wing him to halt Carleton first met Mrs. Rosellus on the beach at Alki, Brown says He was thrice warr way from her after he had be her attentions—once by Chief War once by his wife and the last |ume by Roselius, Each time he pledged his word to quit going with her, but failed to keep the promise, Brown declares Kissing Not Denied Roselius admits going with the informa- does not deny sed th say anything rieton’s car and “Mra. Carleton frequently,” tion states, “and she he kissed her.” Her husband did her, she says. In his defense, Carleton started |to draw a gun on him, Roselius says |v the fatal shot was fired ward Shubert, 4208 I drive, the jitney driver the car in which Re Carleton, said “If I had known was going to I | followed Funeral services for Carleton wi jbe held at the Mt. Baker Presby | terian church Wedr Jay at ll a The body will be cremated. Ser ps will & under direction of the Relief association puck SOUP FOR | FLOYD PORTLAND, Ote., Nov. 4.—Pick ing up decoy ducks three weeks ago, Capt, Floyd Cook dropped a valuable ring into the lake, The ring was found yesterday in a dead duck coop. NEWS FOR HUNS CHICAGO, Nov. 4 over. The German club has reviv at the L niveralty of Chicago, all he could for 7 who drov jus followed what Charley would never have Today the ex-kaiser Is a broken down old man with grey hair and) — — ~ beard. at the world. at the left, How were the pictures taken? A load of hay stopped beside the wall surrounding the ex-kaiser's hay fell off. |hopped off the wagon and began pitching back the hay, Along the garden wall, inside, came Willian garden at Amerongen, Holland, Some and the hay. he said, the peasant, “Guten Morgen!” The hay replaced, the driver talked to "his horses and the wagon | Then a horse cast a shoe, and the driver unhitched. it moved a little. and started back toward the village. He is not the arrogant ruler with pointed must; Wilhelm is listening to his adjutant, who Is reading a telegram from the ex-crown prince. From the toad of hay the peasant with the pitch jo took two good snapshots of the x-kaiserin,’ That photo is shown above. x Heals hay on which the photographer was standing. ‘The peasant was Ruben Velleman, photographer for the Amsterdam He was arrested immediately, but h ‘They were published in Het Leven, istry of justice at the Dutch capital tried to suppress the paper. t the attempt was abandoned. newspaper Het Leven, his plates to a confederate. used such an uproar t The photo shows that the estafe in which the former ruler of Germany is “imprisoned” is far from prison-like. Hohenzollern. one of whic e who sneere jeneral Domm The ex-kaiserin is | A Dutch peasant He saw And he didn't look at the peasant again. Th included the ‘The arrow points to the load of | had handed The min- Come On, Poets! Try your luck this week and win some free tickets to the Clemmer. The following rhyme was submitted by Day. ton Davies, 616 15th ave. rth. For Christmas presents I will buy Subscriptions to Star, So all my grateful friends may try The want ads, which are best by far. Rhymes and Want Ads may be left at tha Downtown Classified Branch, located in rear of Bartell’s, 610 Second ave. The Daily wman | Weather I Forecast: MINERS’ CHIEF TALKS TRUCE Lewis Says Wage Negotiations Could Be Started Again; Government Of ficials Are Encouraged | Congressional action to end the ‘coal strike was started — |today when Senator Kenyon |for appointment of a commiss The resolution, which mus’ |would permit the commis tempt direct ion settlement of terms. | While this action was bein L. Lewis, president of the U saying and operators to set in motio Lewis’ BY J. L. O'SULLIVAN (United Press Staff Correspondent) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Nov. 4.—John L. Lewis, acting presi- dent of the United Mine Workers of America, today issued a significant statement. He said: “The machinery of the joint system of bargaining in the min- ing industry is intact. It would be a simple matter for the gov- ernment and coal operators to again set it in motion to nego- tiate a wage agreement This is the first statement Lewis eral Judge Ander- a temporary restraining joining the strike leaders eting the strike. was considered significant in of the many reports that the would end soon statement }son issue | order | view | seri | The was issued Lewis was questioned regarding re ports of a quick ending of the strike. | It can be stated definitely, that Lewis |has not communicated with |Gompers or Warren Stone ir ‘0 a strike settlement Any plans to operate the mines under present conditions would be foolhardy, Phil Penna, secretary. treasurer of the Indiana Operators’ association, stated today | “It would be foolhardy to imagine an attempt to operate even the BY RALPH F. COUCH (United Press Staff WASHINGTON, Nov, 4.—€ fidential reports, received at the White House, today encouraged belief among government of- ficials that striking miners are looking with more favor upon sident Wilson's offer of arbi- tration. Reiteration of the arbitration offer by Secretary Tumulty and General and Tumulty is believed to hav psychologi at the Whi The utter: head of the United that it would be a |for the government and. coal oper. ators to set machinery for negotia tions in motion, was regarded as sig | nificant her Many officis John TL. Mine Workers, simple matt js saw in Lewis’ state: |ment an invitation to the govern |ment to vacate the injunction order jso that the miners might act with | the government to start negotiations Jagain, If miners should take such {action, it is probable they would ins:st |that a time limit be placed on ne gotiations, so that it could not be jdragged out for months, it was re | ported here. The government is ready to start arbitration proceedings the moment operators and miners give the word within that time, the commission would then be empor |to issue public recommendations of what it regards as fair Se The measure was referred to the senate labor com- | mittee, of which Kenyon is chairman. when | Correspondent.) | Lewis, | introduced a joint resolution ion of three members to ar. range settlement by “all lawful means. t receive the indorsement of — the house and President Wilson before becoming effective, fifteen days in which to ‘ the strike. If ere 4 ea: g taken in Washington, John. nited Mine Workers, issued @ statement in $idianapolis—the first since the strike began— “it would be a simple matter for the governm n” the machinery of the joi system of bargaining “to negotiate a wage agreement.” statement was regarded in official circles in 1 capital as a possible invitation to the government to its restraining order so the unions might act with the ernment in re-opening negotiations. Attitude of Union Head ™ Appears More Favorable — jmines,” he said. “We haven't any — miners to operate the mines and we cannot operate without miners.” | Steps which will be taken by coal — | miners’ representatives in litigation started by the government to stop — |the miners’ strike were outlined to the United Press today. The plang were definitely decided | upon by United Mine Workers’ attor- neys, who have been in conference — here for three days. They include: 1. Asking the federal court to dis solve the restraining order which lowe prevents union leaders from di- recting the strike. 2. Fighting the government's pet tion for an injunction and a court jorder demanding union leaders with- draw the strike call. 3. Asking modification of the in- |Junetion in order to allow miners* unic pay strike benefits. ne of these steps will be taken be p next Saturd the date set by the court for the hearing on the temporary injunction. Miners feel the federal government has not ac complished its purpose of preventing the strike by procuring the injunoe tion, ons Union Argument Instead, they will contend the |miners have been deprived of re | s of wise leadership. |straining for (CONT'D ON PAGE SIXTEEN) U. S. Officials Ready to Start Strike Peace Paln of acceptance. A list of names from which the arbitration commission would be selected, is before the presi- dent Play Waiting Game That the government now consid+ ers it best to play a waiting game in hope that the two sides in the coal controversy will show a spirit of conciliation, was indicated b fact that the regular weekly cabinet meeting was called off for the day, Palmer, who is directing the gov ernment’s effort to end the. strike, was one of several cabinet members. who left Washington to vote, Tumulty, hgwever, did not go to y to vote, | e here today were gather- ‘ling new figures on the number of ‘men at work in the various mine fields of the country, According to figures issued yesterday, non-union. jmines are going full blast, and 15 junion mines rseunfed in West Vite ginia, | Edgar Wallace, Washington repre sentative of the miners, today denied that the strike ts beginning to break, Denies Strike Break “In a few districts the union men w not ordered out because they ad contracts,” sald Wallace. “A few © did go out by mistake, They went jback yesterday. Some union men |were ordered to stay on the Job ia — (CONT'D ON PAGE SIXTREN)