The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 17, 1919, Page 1

WILSON MAY KILL TREATY | CITY TO ESTABLISH DOWNTOWN CAR TERMINAL enn Tides in Seattle MONDAY Nov ww Tid 20 99 VOLUME 22. NO. Tas AS IT SEEMS TO ME eA SLEETH.. A SLEETH RS. CLAUDE J. COR LETT writes In, asking if the government Is go- ing to sell a lot of Dodge automobiles; she is a prospective buyer We are sure we don’t know, but Before such a sale ts held, public hotice will be given ‘This is published here to pacity the irate dealers in “good as new Butos,* who recently urianimously @oncluded the writer of t wmn was a Bolshevik, be Bdvised folks to put $15 bank before they bought an auto, Evidently our few passing re Marks did not entirely ruin the Second-hand car market, and we advise anybody having such a car fo address Mrs. Corlett at Colby, ‘Wash. . OTHER fellow tele phoned in this morn- ing and sald we had advocated wholesale hanging of meter in- Bpectors in this column, and he Wanted to come up and argue the matter So far as we remember, the only fellow we wanted hanged was the Foad supervisor of the Kelso dis. trict. and while we frequently have had our doubts about the eyesight tors manage to die of a ripe old age. Because there are so Many nuts in the world And so many folks roar ike © bull of Bashan long before they know what they are roaring about. Indeed, you can take 20 intelll- Pent citizens; jet them read a thou- gand-word editorial. and then have them testify as to what the editor meant, and no two will precisely of course, there are people do not care so much what the jer says, as to have him prove they think fs true about his ~, we bay people imagine that their Tip Mice ascret troubles are known to the world, and that every sob story fs written about their humble tragedy. And every so ten some good woman descends on Cynthia Grey and demangs that “Confessions of 4 Wife.” or “Confessions of a War Bride,” quit using her home se trets to make a story Merely proving how universal are some sorts of stories; and some varieties of trouble. . . ESPITE public opinion to the contrary, our expert. ence is that the average editor and the average reporter would rather boost than knock; would ratt iss a “story” than give a mothe @ heartache; would rather live peacefully, sweetly and modestly than wrathf wildly and blatantly. But in a world of rage and sor. row and misery, the chronicler who presents the news must deal largely in the unpleasant For humanity to date @ murder more worth @ lullaby, and the abs fer as more im faithful perform ea of a thow sand underpaid clerks, who loyal Ty guard huge sums and account for every pen ear in and year - oo} considers ing than nding cash tant than the D new are fair We know of no other business that will freely give its critics of its own resources to score it; that it will finance and ¢ voice to those who declaim against it And yet there is not a paper worthy the name that Mot donate valuable space (its sole resource and raw material) to set forth the windy complaints of critics who frequently have noth- ing to say that's so, and fess than nothing that’s important 4 wt of chaps who y he wubsidized press might prised if they tried to collect subst for a paper. If there ever was a subsidized press, in the common meaning of the term, never met up with it And this honesty pertains to every man on the average paper, and the reporter that’s crooked is fag rare as the reporter who has a second pair of pants papers usually news. will we A company has been formed in bricks of whieh has a greater fuel|men were compelled to kneel and|which could not be obtained other Denmark ‘heather, walue than peat, to make fuel High Tide G On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Extra Bite. Spinach? |Save It for the Hungry Col-| lege Prof. Who Can’t Afford Luxuries |SALARIES ARE TOO LOW) College professors and their famities used to eat fresh but ter, fresh eggs, olive oil, lettuce, celery, spinach, cream, bananas, oranges, grape fruit, bacon, chicken, cakes and pastry, They don't any’ more, The majority of the professors at the Uni versity of Washington have | A committee of the Association of University of Washington Instruct-| ore is making @ comparison of fac ulty family budgets and salaries |Faculty men with families were asked among other things in a the foodp) wholly eliminated One faculty man gives a long lat} of foods that have been eliminated} from his table, and adds. “The last| turkey my family has eaten was on| Christmas, 1917." The ‘professor| |was then working on an engineer-| ling job for the government with a |mulary of $2,000 a Year. He is now drawing a salary Of $2,100. He bas |five in his family. | “I was practically in the same condition in 1913 as I am now,” |writes an assistant professor whose jsalary is $2,000 per annum. “There |has never been any luxury In the foods that are consumed by my family, and 90, therefore, there can |be nothing to eliminate.” Works as Laborer A compendium of the answers to the questionnaire shows that usual |encrifices have been made by fac/ ulty members in not only foods, but standards of clothing, housing ac-| |commodations, household service, |reereation. Without exception fac julty men have made professional |ancrifices because of low salaries, |This information Js vouched for by |Henry Landes, former acting prest-| dent of the university, president of |the Association of University of| Washington Instructors, In report No. 6, an assistant pro- sorts that his salary does him to support his fam-| ting of himeelf, his wite| children less than 14 years His financial deficit has| een mot, he says, by working as a \day laborer in the shipyarda, work-| ling as a printer, writing for trade| |magazines, inspecting engineering material. He concludes: “Doing joo short of crime that will net me money.” He has been compelled to spend his summer holiday in this work. | One professor writes that hp at-| tends as few professional meetings} as possible “for personal reasons— |chiefly clothing.” | But It Still Runs | An associate professor who gets $2,200 and has a family of five writes: “My watch me $8 jtwenty years ago. I no jew | lelry and my wife has next to none.| |l have two suits which are pre sentable in public, one purchased in| the ummer of 1917 and the other! 1912, Neither cost more than I have had two new hata only| in the past five years; I have only Jone overcoat, a raincoat, which I| bought at a sale in 1913. My wife| |has had thr new suits in five} lyears at a total cost of $43, one} heavy coat at and one summer| coat at $19. Other articles of cloth-| ing in like proportion.” Walla Walla Nets | Four Red Suspects| WALLA WALLA, Wash., Nov. 17 Headed by Sheriff Yates and depu. ltles, a large posse of ex-service n en | | Sunday visited four construction | camps, rounded up every alleged 1 W. W., and returned to Walla Walla with four captives. Men in two camps were lined up, forced to remove their hata, hold up| their right hands and take oaths of | allegiance to the United States. Two cost wear kiss the Stars and Stripes. | however, | made no outcry, was lot supplies to leave whatever food | eral weeks. lunions here are circulating a declar Mount Baker Residents to Bar Japs Out Spurred to sudden action by an invasion of their dis- triet by the inevitable and persistent dap, the Mount Baker Park Improvement clab has issued circular let ters calling together resi- dents of that addition for an indignation meeting Tuesday night Many offers are maid to have been made by Japs for houses in the district is but the opening arne the club's cirew “A foothold once obtained by the Japanese is always fol lowed by further inroags, and will be in this case unless meas ures are taken to dissuade them from penetrating where they are not wanted.” Men and women are urged to cancel all other business or #0 cial engagements and attend the mass meeting Tuesday at § p. m in the Mt. Baker Park Improve ment clubhouse, at which “some course of action must and will be determined upon, provided there i» practical unanimity among the residents” NO WORD FROM LEGION POSSE Food, Ammunition and Rein- | forcements Sent Party |had known Deaver for 16 years and | ;> ™ CENTRALIA, Nov. 17.—(Spectal)| —Centralia today anxiously awaited | couriers with word from a second | battle believed to have been fought early this morning between 40 heavi ly armed woodsamen and three I. W. W. fugitives, barricaded in a hunt er’s cabin, 23 miles northeast of here, | since their escape after the Armin tice day maasacre. The pome, under the direction of Capt. Lioyd Dysart, was to attack at dawn, according to the plan mapped out before they left this city, The| men were to surround the cabin, In-| dian fashion, and close tn. Pert Bland, one of the alleged leaders of | the Armistice day outrage; a man knéwn as Hansen or Loughenoff, | and a third, whose name is not| known here, are said to be in the cabin | It was hoped during the advance on the cabin to’recover the body of John A, Haney, rancher, who was reported killed in the first battle at that point Saturday, Haney may, have been only wounded. He was seen to fall, and because he | left for dead when the posse withdrew Hunters’ cabin is reported well provisioned. It has long been the | habit of hunters using it as a base | they have left There is al-| ways said to sufficient food to ration a party of three men for sev over be It is surrounded by dense forest (CONTINUED ON PAGR TWO) |Gompers Opposes Direct Actionists NEW YORK, Nov. 17,—Labor ation by Samuel Gompers, president jot the American Federation of La-| bor, in which he denounces govern. ment by direct action the wea-| |pon of those who minority | |rule | Gompers points out that the Brit ish trade union conference in Glas gow refused to indorse direct action and urges a constructive policy for labor, The direct aétionist philoso phy, he says, is to “strike atethe ballot box with an axe,” or use the strike to secure political demands as seek wise Postotnie. SEATTL E, WASH., MONDA Jurors Shy at Death Aged Ex-Sergeant Major Ac-| cused of Murder; Trial | Before Judge Gilliam YOUNG WIFE SPECTATOR| Because they sald they were unalterably opposed to the death Penalty as punishment for first degree murder, two Jurors called to hear the case of the ‘tate against James K. Deaver, retired sergeant-major of marines, were | | dismissed by Judge Mitchell Gil. | | lam shortly before the trial | opened in his court Monday” | | morning. Deaver is accused of first degree | | murder of Henry Clay Holt, an Alki | grocer, who, the defendant says, | | wrecked his home. Deaver flatly de- | nies killing Holt The latter was} shot to death the night of September | 27, ae he was carrying an armful of | Krocerien to the home of Mra, Dea-/ ver, who had separated from her hue dan and, with her 12-year-old son, | Marl, was living with an aunt in’ Went Seattle. | + Wife In Denver in 61. Hin wife, Mra, Min. | | nie Blaine Deavér, is 31 | tntere, ted spectator in the court: | room, She aut three rows back from | the front. Se was heavily veiled and! |leaned far forward in her seat to | hear every word spoken by judge, counsel and jurors as the latter were | being questioned. Fy | T. A. Franzioll, 3309 19th ave. 8., | the second juror called, was cused | |by the court when he dectared he| could not convict & person on cir-| | cumstantial evidence. His seat was | taken by J. P. Mavsen, who, as a/ | soda water salesman, sald Holt was | an old customer of his. He said he She was an it Beattie, Wash. wi x; NOVEMBE R 17, 1919. The Seattle Star Entered a2 Becona Clase Matter May 8, 1! 1 the Act of Congress March 8, BEGIN DEAVER CASE Pretty Hat Girl Sues Chicago Hotel for Her “Tips” MUDED | MLDLERAND BY HOWARD MANN CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 17,—The suit of Mildred Hildebrand against the Hote! La Salle of Chicago for $3,000, MACHINE GUNS had read the account of the crime in| representing the tips she received | the newspapers, but had no opinion during six months as a checkroom 4s to the gullt or innocence of the | girl, which tips were taken from her man on trial, levery night, reveals a new twist to Offers Alm la very old game. murder occurred about §| Wild West movies and other Detectives hurried to the/dramas have shown us how the home of Deaver on Alki beach, more «miles of beauty have been trans than a mile from the scene of the| muted into gold, but the setting has shooting. Deaver was not found) usually been sordid. Here we have and the detectives departed. At 11) the old, old game transported to the p. m. they again visited his home| git and plush corridors of a big and found him asleep with a pistol | hotel. junder his pillow s 2 Ha sala "be had been ins poot| CHECHRDOM.GHRLS. room in the Green building, Fourth |” ave. and Pike rt, at the time Holt) Miss Hildebrand is beautiful. She was shot. An employe of the pool|explains that EB, J. Stevens, manager room corroborated this statement.|of the hotel, sees to it that all the A neighbor woman, however, said|checkroom girls are beautiful. She she saw Deaver in the brash back/left her job last May after six of her house, next that of the de| months’ service and is now at her fendant’s, when 1936 S. Troy st the detectives | home, searched the place the first time “Of course: I'm: going that evening., | that money,” she says. Says Ho Wrecked Home }to me, And six other On his way to police headquarters |!n& to sue, too. Deaver is said to have told the ar-| "It was a resting officers: “Holt wrecked my|we collected $7 home.” it ran up to $10. Holt to $15. I remember one the |torned in $21 I had collected in tips. Deaver charge {That was a cold day, I remember, of the marine recruiting station|and there were a lot of ov: here, and was known Hott's to collect “It belongs girls are go good average each was formerly a boarder at Deaver home, formerly was in ‘coata. | ; Asks $3,000 1 éntimated, will save the street car * “The average tip is a dime, but often some fellow would give a quarter or even a. half. TRIED TO “HOLD OUT,” | BUT IT DIDN'T WORK “The girls work “split tricks’ like the street car conductors. I might jwcme on duty at 11 in the morning jand work until 2 and then come hack at 6 for the dinner rush. We were allowed to have pockets in our | drenses, but when off duty we had to put our tips in an envelope and |turn them tn. | “Did some of the girls hold out? Sure. I tried it mynelf, but it did not work. The superintendent is al | rave watching and he can figure Jout very cloxe how much the day’s| |tips should be, He used to walk |around the racks and keep track of the hooks that were filled. He knew as well as anybody how muci a full | set of hooks meant in tips. “Every few weeks the manager | would give prizes to the check girls. He always kept track of the money turned if by éach girl. At the end of each month or six weeks the girl who turned in the most would get a $2 the $20 and yn down to $5 t the girls who did not turn in much, they got a talking to, The manager would ask them if they were holding out and would tell them get busy. If they didn't show | bonus, next ged, ANSWERS DOOR as the |Overcoats make tips bette wealthiest enlisted man in the — aervice. Holt, ys their Mrs with were according to her relations than merely friendly, she his last will and testament, left all his property to Mrs. Deaver and said she innocent of any | wrong-doing.” Judge Gilliam would | not accept the will for probate, however, because he said it was| not properly witnesse Deaver, | courtesy no nays. al but more | |Thugs Attack Man, Take) $435 and Watch Dennis Smith, of the Rivoll apart- ments, Second ave, and Lenora st., was beaten and robbed of $435 and a gold watch at 2:80 o'clock Mon- day morning. Smith was awakened by his door bell ringing he was ass FOR SPOKANE SPOKANE, Noy. 17.—'Two heavy Browning machine guns and 60 high-power riot rifles have been or. | after rough nding, forced an ery for the police department |trance, threw him into the bath by Police Commissioner ‘Tils-|room and made off with his watch y, he announced today. and money. This, he explained, 'To Motorcycle Officers W. Dench cautionary measure and N. P. Anderson, who answered Companies H and 1 of the Na-|ihe call, Smith described the men tional Guard, hastily called for duty |as leing about 2. re of ago and late last week, were demobilized to-| both weighing in the neighborhood day. of 150 pounds. Commissioner Milsley today for-| One of the men wore a gray nally aske the council to reeatab-|crushed hat and a black raincoat, lish the rockpile for the benefit of | while the other wore a black cap LW. W. and @ olac's overcoat, iIted by two men, who, as a pre i) BELL; ROBBED As he opened the door | PALMER ASKS Measures Against Reds to Be Taken Up by Congress WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—(Unit- ed Press.)—Action on Attorney |General Palmer's request for addi- onal legislation to fight the radi- cal disturbers will be taken at the Jregular session of |month, house leaders said today. Such measures will be the first in order at the next session, which opens December 1, Leaders realize the seriousness of the situation, but are inclined to |blame Palmer for not having called |the attention of the country to the wide activities of the radicals earlier. The largest movies shown was at the Methodist centenary at Colum bus, where a machine 350 feet away projected pictures 100 by large. tips right away they were dis- | STRICT LAWS, congress next | 7b feet} Subway in View; Also. Elevated | Won't Need Transfers When. Central Station Is Estab- | lished; Save $500 Day ‘WOULD PAY FOR ITSELF Seattle is to be a city without | street car transfers, if Superin- tendent of Public Utilities Thomas F. Murphine can bring about such a condition, Thru the construction of a huge terminal building on the block bounded by Beli and Blanchard sts. {and Second and Third aves., from) which will radiate street car lines to; every section of the city, it is Mur. phine’s plan to do away with trans fers, speed up traffic, and, with a/ nyntem of elevated roads and sub-| | ways, bring Seattle's rapidly congest- | \ing street car traffic up to a point} [where the crowds can be handled. Murphine's plan contemplates mak- ing the porposed terminal building the focal point of existing street car lines. The elimination of transfers, it is system $600 daily, or $182,500 a year. Pay tor Seif Receipts from concessions and ad-| vertixing space will pay for the cost | of the termina! butlding and its main-| tenance, Murphine believes. The sub- way and elevated system would cost | | about $5,100,000 | It i» Murphine’s plan to eliminate |transfers on the municipal street railway system thru payment of a) fivecent entrance fee to the term: | inal building. Payment of the en trance fee of 5 cents will entitle the) payer to a ride on any street car| |line radiating from the terminal | butiding. Or, if a passenger boards a street car which run, to the terminal build- ing, his fare will automatically en: | title him to a ride on any other line without the formality of a transfer. Immediate construction of the pro posed terminal building is feasible, Murphine asserts, In response to a request by Mayor | Fitzgerald, Murphine submitted ten tative plans Saturday, which will be| considered at a conference of city officials some day this week. The conference will include Mayor Fitz gerald, Councilman R. H. Thomson | jand others. Murphine’s plan contemplates a subway starting at Third ave. 8. and Yesler Way and ending at Third ave, and Blanchard st., a subway running | from a point near Thomas st. and | Dexter ave, to a point south of the State Armory; an elevated system / across the railroad tracks near the) State Armory, proceeding down Rail road ave. to Washington st., to con nect With the existing elevated road and surface tracks along Fifth ave, Traffic Getting Big | Murphine'’s plan calls for unload |ing stations at James,’ Madison, Unt versity and Pine sts., with entrances from Third ave. by elevator, and from Second ave, by slopes It also is Murphine's plan to make | Second and Third aves. one-way traf. fic roadways, vehicular traffic to pro ceed south on Second ave. and north | on Third ave. The city’s growth and the constant increase of traffic, as #hown by Mur- phine’s reports, will demand addi. tional means of transportation in a very short time, he declares, It is for this reason that the subway and elevated systems are proposed. The Blanchard-Bell terminal is an im mediate necessity, The Want-Ad Poet | There was a poct named Ben- ner, Who at rhyming sure was a || winner ; | He picked up his pen, Wrote and ad-poem—and | then | |] Got seats from The Star for }} | the Clemmer. Try this line week: “My business needs a good used car.” See classified page for details. this Pep Year. b | peace settlement by refusing to lef _ CENTS Late Edition Mail 6.00 to $9.00 Tuesday, rain; winds, incre moderate ng in force. ———— Objects to Sen. Lodge Proposals If This Resolution Is Passed Wilson Will Probably Pigeonhole Pact BITTER CONTEST IS ON BY RAYMOND CLAPPER ‘nited Press Correspondent WASHINGTON, D. C., Ni 17.—President Wilson today creed defeat for the resolution — of peace treaty ratification oa taining the Lodge This was the outcome of conference the president with Senator Hitchcock, istration leader, this meena) according to Hitehcock, The president, Hitchcock “will pocket” the peace treaty if it is ratified with the Lodge reserva= This means he will refuse t@ a it, ‘he president is much better 1 na is “full of fight.” c tary Tumulty today. After Wilson's confi Hitchcock, he rode in House grounds in his wheel the first time he has left the @3 tive mansion since early in Oc He planned to stay outdoors hours. Hitehcock and the p talked for nearly an hour in Wil sickroom. The president, it learned, directed that the ad tration supporters should against the resolution of tion, which is now being by the senate sitting as a com of the whole, and which co the Lodge reservations. May Pigeonhole Treaty If it is defeated, Hitchcock place a substitute resolution of fication before the senate, and this is defeated he hopes for a promise. j However, if the administration © senators do not succeed in ‘chal | ing the first resolution the president: will pigeonhole the treaty. He has the power to do thi ply to lay the ratification aside ignore it. Wilson evidently is taking control of the treaty fight as it ters its most critical phase. Hitchcock said he found Wilson much improved. He is standing pat on his contention that the q reservations, specifically the one qualifying article 10, nullity the ~ treaty. Apparently he is proceed — ing in the theory that the opposie tion will not dare kill the whole | more ratification resolutions be im troduced after the first one is fe @ jected, Immediately after the conference Hitchcock hurried back to the itol to make his report to other ators, Lodge to Fight Republican Leacer Lodge ap peared to have marshalled his forces for the final fight. A tenta tive plan had been agreed upon, it _ was stated, by which the republican majority will vote to declare the treaty rejected in event the Ledge _ resolution containing reservations is — defeated GRAND JURY IN SESSION TODAY, The King county grand jury ¢om vened Monday and went into secret — |session “with Prosecutor Fred @ |Brown and his deputy, T. H. Pat | terson. The grand jury will inspect the county hospital, jail and st ‘ | under orders received from Judge A W. Frater Monday, “The grand jury is not a detective — Judge Frater instructed the 15 grand jurors, “nor is it sup: — posed to go around the community hunting for crime or against whom to ments.” Progress or final findings will be reported to Judge Frater Friday. An investigation into 1. W. W, ao tivities may be conducted. Joka Reamy, one of the jurors, could be found Monday, He ifs to have left the city. B. F. could not attend because of Dana W. Brown is foreman,