The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 11, 1919, Page 1

DOWN THREE | WHT TE HOUSE HEARS SEATTLE MAYOR Tides in Seattle THURSDAY DEC, tt First Low Tide 104 First Tide Second Low Tite o— Second High Tide DANA SLEETH “we exservice = mer monary hospita ned to thank you for the interest you took in | bar behalf. People have been very kind in afswering our appeal, Altogether, 8 received about fifteen records. | A Mr. Poole sent us six records. and the girls in the office of Geo. Bush & Co. brought us out six Bandy recorts | Mihe boys are thankful, indeed, to peive ‘the records, and some of have kept the machine going it of the time. *} Again thanking you, we EX-SERVICE M Ralph 8. Jeffrey, Co. B, remain 624 *Engineers. eee HERE, that@ the sort of ® thing that makes you feel good. To know that a few timely words, scat- ‘a happiness and forgetfulness out there is not much, and nome benevolent plute wants to ‘this conscience this Christmas “time by « true bit of Christian © fiberality, he protably won't find a D better spot to spend a few idle dol- % than in a real phonograph. while, fifteen records are "fot wany, and there are dozens of | you folks who can spare a record @r two. Send them out by parcel 4 : put ft on your Christmas list; | these ex-service men will not have P much of anything to make life Christrnas<y this season but their e ‘em lots of that. the exact address | Monary Hospital, Riverton "RF. D. No. 3; Box 230 --ank you Pul Wash.; HE editors Gf schoot books have queer ideas about things sometimes, Recently our eldest a told us an amazingly S Blood-thirsty tale about a prince who took a sword and who sought P the princess, and who cut off th Pheads of every obliging stranger whe directed him on his way. Ir feed, this butchering princelet chopped off, without benefit of Ielergy; the sole and remaining head 4 nice old lady bad I wondered where a Second [grade pupil would catch up with » that sort of Bolshevik! philosophy and was pained to discover that this was the introductory tale in N the Second grade reader. In my youth I followed the ad ®Wentures of Old Cap Brady, the ames Boys in Missour!, and other indit gentry, but it was not dur. ls school hours, believe me; it was after hours, and when safely @oncealed in the haymow Tf they start to feeding them Way meat and hot gore at the ten- y ‘der age of 7, I would like to get private squint at what thes * handing out for post graduat fumption these ferred a detective story Novel; I would rather th a rough, rude bar 5 with some poll d, pink-socked, | fellaw villain Ido not absolutet byt I preter it to » FIND WORKER DYING OF GAS With the gas stream two opened jets, the I of Peter Kelley, found early by a roomer in the tel, 916 Eighth av Kelley death P the eme hospital adore murder nobbery. g from morning Europe ho- Thursday near was rushed to first Phys pow wency where aid methods were employed Diciane declare there is a sileht of recover according who noticed the Kelle to R é firet Jor of gas, and Bho found tater had’ live woke. He ehorged from plant Be a where he Kelle iad apparently bee good health Sand had plenty of He bad f4.23 in Gash in bie poxression and 4 tank books showing $80 in de vollerma ke elper mone | get cen FRIDAY rH Virst Low Tide Second 1 Tide Ow On the Tesue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Entered as Recond Clase Matter May 2 He Should Worry About the Snappy Weather; Has Nice, Warm Job; 160 in the Shade The furnace man at the steel mill Who has the hottest man’s town? Who should worry when the mer does a Steve Brodie toward job im this eury ue Who seorns the sw the extra nd the warm over ho i# the most comfortabi * burg, a ny x, no and netr it’s not the hot tam is it the « it the ip guy who walts an ove if or best and Pike The who has job w t to the bla such the warmest t fur jin t teel plant at Yourtgst He Should Worry Members of the Ancient and 4 Order of ¢ 1 Peda Improyell O; elp a pt Ac atmos of the may Imen hiver and degrees Fat When the furnace man is ready L hope ft doesn't et remarked the furnace he mopped a qu from bis bi furpace man is er ng thin cold 1ometer to ur man t oying Dec, 11.—The heavy earn isolated terday. No trains were runpin or from the elty, and highways leading both north and south were not in use becadse of the depth of the snow, Street railways were shut down, this elty If you don’t believe it peer at his picture smile » mercury was flirting with when the gentle manly photographer flashlighted him t the steel plant biast fur just take a Note the glad nac tty soft for some people ~ Many a . Child weeks | conditions 1899, at the Postoffice wt ATTLE, WAS CA Strikers (Operators Slippery , THURS DAY, DE Beattie, Wash, under the Act of ¢ MBER 11, 1919. CENTS | Edition Per Yoar, %, + $6.00 to narene March Tonight and Friday, _tonight fair: oe moderate northerly w Weather Forecast: FALLS OVER EMBANKMEN No ‘Sign in of Fitzgeralt Are Slow flere Balk Pavement Cold Let-Up Gives Dé fo Return Men in Some Sections Are| Going Back to Work After Walkout Ends AWAIT FORMAL WORD The gigantic strike machinery of the United Mine Workers of America was still carried for- ward by its own impetus today, despite the fact Its power was shut off by its engineers late yesterday. Indications were that the coal hea” Reports from various bituminous | félde today showed that only tn scat tering communities were the men re sponding to the call to return to the mines, Only a few stragginont were coming back in I Penneyiva nia, Indiana and Confidence wan expressed, that work would become normal next week, All Michigan ‘The situation in cated by state mines Restrictions on coal consumption were expected to continue for several until wuch time another reserve has been acquired Ohio, however miners were back Kansas was compli operation of the Following the mee at Indian »polis yesterday, in which the Unite Mine Workers agreed to accept Presi dent Wilson's propowal hn L Lewin isaued the following statement ‘The United Mine Workers’ repre sentatives agreed to accept the presi dent's proposal as a basis of settle of the coal strike. They did bee it provides a definite concrete and practical method by which adequate consideration and a proper adjustment of their, claims for an increase in wages and.improved of employment \may be ment (CONTINUED ON PAGER TWO) From three to six million school children In the United States are un derted, sayn Misn R. Haver, legislative repre ative of the Na tional Cons league Will Save wie nt Shoe Leather in Future *: Seatth as and under 5 yea from for and hi been immune aeon * have the same father street cy fare aw period traight a gentler 7 and others the In have ductor dl Nike the case may be. mother end father, full well! thar Johony was beyond the 5-year maidered it entirely le debate with the car conductor, and thus niekel never or a lady, a Mary's knowing or M limit Kitimate atreet wave a But Monday For dB Mat day the new rule again after next F nto “children in free municipal Already an Ingeniou ing father has evolved a to beat the terms of the amended ordinance pavved by the city counell on November 4 What ts there to prevent a husky husbandman from carry ing Wille or Jane, even tho said Willie or Jane 18 10 years old? Nothing, apparently, except lack of musele on dad's part “How commented Thomas F. Murpting, superintendent of public WHNEés Wednesday, “it a father wants to lug a big ebild into « street car and hold it in is, he ts welcome to try . That kid’ will be allowed to ride free so long as he is in armas.” effect, namely, only will be carried the of the arm: of charge ov treet rt and lov atinerease Coal Situation in This State Is Not Yet Definitely Settled CONSERVATION IS URGED Warning to all people of the state was issued here today by | . Gilman, district represent Rot to relax stringent measures te conserve the coal supply. | “There in yek doubt that the | largent coal mines of Chis state will whey | core even now that the atrike ts ended.” Gilman said. “There never Wan greater necessity for fuel con. | than me ‘The stock of even should the vines i thee eto continue far « tong period.” today | ative of the fuel administration, | / Yuet dealers Here forecast that the shortage will continue all/ winter, whether the mines reopen or Detiying reporte that still serious obstacles to be overcome before coal minen ean resume opern- tion in the state of Washington, Villiagn Short, president of the} tate Federation of Labor, predicted) that practically every coal in the state who went on November 1 will back in mines tomorrow Operators Balk | Mine operators point out, however, | that thelr acceptance of the 14 per cent wage increase allowed by the government as a basis for settling the strike would result in so great » lone to operators in thin state =i resumption of mining may not neces sarily follow “There in no serious difficulty tal thin state,” President Short declared | today. “I believe the statement of the operators is overdrawn. It is true that there in greater difficulty | mining coal here than in the Middle West on account of geologi con litions, ‘This makes the cost of op. eration higher. Washington oper too, must compete with cheaper mined coal from British Columbia, But I believe operators and miners will get together without difficulty Stayed in Camps “Not many men have left the coal camps because a settlement of the strike has seemed always in sigh, and I th will all be rep 4 work tomorrow. They will re. turn, it should be understood, under » sort of armed truce, without an agreement, and remain in position to atta k ayain pending a decision of coal commission If the right kind of a commiasion is appointe! by President Wilson and 1 right kind of an investigation made into the merita of the case, I do not NTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Pasadena Chooses Oregon‘U ASADENA, 11— The Pasaden ment of roses football committee at noon to extend an invita- University of Oregon foothall eleven to represent the west in the national football » kame here New there are} today ri strike the be ttore belleve Cal 1 wit Kast, the tournament today stating that Harvard wil € Too Cold to Buy Marriage. Permit) Frigid weather is blamed for the | few marriage Hoenwes issued by Mor, ris “Cupid” Kenedy. Theres were only 10 Heenses to wed issued Wed- nesday and only one party of pros: setives appeared Thursday up until | noon { Barbed wire entanglements have | been known as far k as the first war. Only, instead of the wire, trees: ahd bramble bushes bed plaged mainet the enemy. | ening turtle in midair, ‘iman was unhurt | Bighth ave; |those who know him as | Co. } Perilousin City Yet to Tum Leonard Benson, a schoolboy, living at 4252 36th ave. 8, bs ina critical condition, and two other persons were injured in a series of automobile accidents that hap- pened in rapid succession Thurs. day afternoon, due to ley pave- ments. Benson was riven by K. L at Rainier ave who reported was unable to hold} j hin car after applying the brakes.) | ‘The car crashed into the lad and bore | nes down with brakes set He was removed ta his home, where the extent of bis injuries had night and Friday, announced = been Aetermined at a late hotr:! this noon by Weather Observer <inu’s report to the police was that the boy's hurts were not serious. | Salisbury, was for coothiued cold Struek by « motortruck Lelonging | Weather. to the Bennett, Hox faetory, anyther! ‘The mercury registered 29 Pan esky IRS driver and) above zero at 6a. m. Thureda: eh ‘ ae; S22) was ane degree ae Corwin place, crashed thru 4 fence at! same bour yesterday Ninth ave. & Gnd Holgate #t, and/# a. m. Thureday the Mermloosier! plunged 12 feet over an embankment, | registered 20 degrees, which was one degree cotter than the same hour | Wednesday. At noon thé mereury showed a temperature of 21 degrees | above zero. No indication of more snow was | ‘ ; | announced by the weather observer. Peg A. B. Field, 3131 Vennett st It probably never will be known | ment of his conference ‘weet taken to the city hospttal with both /now many thousand members of Se- | sing vy igre om legs badly injured after being |attle Branch No. 1, Association of eth y cae Sa crushed between his milk wagon and| American Furnace Chauffeurs, shim-| Jay ved Tumulty. For two 4n auto driven by George T. Duncan, | mied to the cold, bleak basement this | forced “dl poco and Tumulty 1355 32nd ave, at Bor st. and 318t/morning, there to shiver and shake | weed re, wee “id pres Bre - ave. jena quiver until the fire blazed torts the entire industrial situation ing [nippy north wind \caused many a| ties. bury is more cautious, Covered With § the veins, there is no keeping | tte warmth |attle and the Northwest was jMasal apparatus to blossom red.) Mayor Fitzgerald will But Seattle is getting off easy| EUGENE, Ore., Dec. 11.—The w the lid on some folks. No Indication of Relief From ‘Conference With Pres Freezing Weather Is, Secretary Is Thorogo in Sight Lasting Two Days (D0 NOT EXPECT snow/MAYOR Is ON WAY Activities in Seattle and struck Kino, and Gennersee Seattle is still in the grip of the cold spell and there are no indications in sight of an early release from freezing weather. ‘The forecast for Thursday dealing with the “reds,” the subject of » two full days MeConaghey and the driver were pinned underneath. When rescued later McConaghey was found to have | sustained a fractured leg. The other) presen It is thought that Mayor | aa must have given the 4 of justice a startling array of fi was | | night failed to materialize, altho for sumed that a considerable porti So What Can ‘Merry Christ-| Amateur prognosticators of weath « few minutes shortly after 5 o'clock | the conference was devoted to | yesterday afternoon, a few skinny | cussion of red activities and the P er freely prediet that the current! mas Co. for Firlands Do? | vol speit witt inst quite a while but When the old zest of Christ- flakes fluttered to the ground. A| means of stamping out such Weather Observer George N. Salis mas spirit gets to zipping thru | Promised snow for Wednesday | cussed from every angle. It is | Automobiling was chilly sport. | home Thursday nareday night. Willamette Valley compared to other cities. | Per Willamette valley is covered witl When the Merry Christmas Co,| More than 40 hours of continuous|@ mantle of snow all the way fron asked readers of The Star for $100/*7°Wfall cut Portland off from the | three inches to three fect deep. to-furnish Christmas dinner to Fir-| Ut#ide world yesterday. Street rea snow is about three inches " non.| traffic was paralyzed, schools were | Eugene, and for a while all sti lands hospital patients, limiting con-| ioeed Wr J tributions to $1, it did not take into|©% ednesday. Bot. % panwagers Sore. Were OO See Account such irepressible chaps ax{°f *feieht train moved in or out of | f trouble on the transmission the unknown writer of a letter re eos osensw ar and telegteph Siig ieee eee ived today, The letter, which was) pug cpa igeny dads fang ers Bich susiness and car and train traffic mpanied H was being resumed there today. “Dear Christmas Star: After read As near. to Seattle Cheh ing dear Herbie's note suggesting @|two feet o on reg way to evade your dollar rule, Oe ee ee a 3 reported. Water pipes were You Can Buy Booze If You! ' Promise Not to Drink Ij frozen and train service blocked snow drifts, Train service into Seattle from Fast is from seven to nine hours hind schedule, ne 1) were note, tho you know me, #0 you can't send any back “I've a father and a brother, Two uncles and a cook, My mother and her mother Are also in the book. “My kiddies with me And Scottie, who's our pup, With those above in Christmas Love To fill the needy up.” three must join | Joe Newberger, president of the Merry Christmas Co., was consulted. ! There was nothing left to do, he ad vised, but to accept the $12, and it went into the “kitty” with a lot of other dollars from: Samuel Sherman, of Outfitting Co.; Dd also the astern ehman 1808 irreff, of Green offers his services as an entertainer; L. C, Bausman, of the Continental Mil Co; Frank| W, Hull, county assessor; T. P. Neil: | sen, of Ded Danske Brodersamfund’s Adam Beeler and John 'T. Sullivan, | aw partners, and Henry Clay, toc Henry's contribution is deseribed?by “consdlence | Lake, who booze not booze? When you can't drink it. Thi? was made clear fo. pros: pective purchasers of 8,000 quarts of s¢ized liquor offered for sale by the customs authorities here Wednesday. Tongue-rolling eugerness to buy to, complete indifference, was made known that the dynamite -was being» sold pei non-beverage Proof of the wouldybe buy ent to deal fairly with in Igine. nae regulations rej ternal revenue. office, and parted from the posteffice bul leaving the booze—worth $150,000—in the hands of the officials. “And they certainly looked as they,left the buildin, cyt a custonts officer, unsold § spirits, which cree in the government at Lenora st. and Western a clude part of the 1,717 bottles: | money.” Kindly accept tni | Firlands Christmas,” says, Boshman in hiw letter, “I know What ft ts, for my wife died out there.” | Use of a motor truck, if needed, | is Offered by. C,"P, Wood, general manager of the Cascade Motor Sates | small gift for “for “And J, haven't got much to do on | ¢, Christmiag day said C. H, lone of the company’s salesmen, i jeating liquors, eve Whe sage.” [or the. prospective purchasers aia ury depart the disposi ‘The. Mev#lest’ Christmut Firlands! they wanted the lquor for * Woppital) hyd ever seeri-—that's the | rubs? and. some ald oy red-eye geahof the Merry Christmas Co,| would be used for ” Send your d@ollars to the Merry’ Haagen but the Potratsoae Co, in care Of Tee ftar. to get them a € 8 .