The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 17, 1920, Page 1

ED REPUBLIC IN BERLIN ce" “Sa e ) x ¢ lt On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromi: TWO C ENTS IN § he Seattle Star EW Weather Lea Thursc Pes a winds Tonight fair and moderate vesterly LATE EDITION Temperature Last {4 Hours Maximum, 51, M Today een, Kotered an Second Clase Matter May 9, 1899, at the Pomtoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 9, 1819, Per Year, by Mall, $5 to 69 DAY, MARCH | 17, “1920. NO. 328 _SE 1a TITLE, WASH., WE DNI BIL | RADICALS SEND MAN SLAIN "TIS. BUSY DAY FOR COLLEENS ULTIMATUM T0 ANDROBBD cviiLinG ON EVERY coRNER REVOLT LEADERS ‘IN A HOTEL . | |German Communists Attempting to Gain Control Over Ebert and Von Kapp in Uprising Tangle Woman Sees Pool of Blood | and Summons Police Five Hours After Tragedy | Majority Organization Will! . Give Support to Bonus | st, patrick’s Day Is Measure at Session Hoodoo for the Crew St ; q | The political situation in Germany today apparently was” .. passing beyond control of either the counter revolutionary — | government in Berlin or the Ebert group in Stuttgart. at the special session Of | wiicn was rat tientas | _A Berlin dispatch said the decision of Dr. Von Kapp and the state legislature, which at Pier 2. py toa officers, A case ag am 7 Sixth ¢ x y ; ve che ree Von Luettwitz Le resign if eee oe bry coun on , ic-|of whisky found aboard the vessel re | $. and Jackson st ’ § r § : revolutionary government was caused by the threat o: renes Monday, is practic aia = the ee agg i > men to proclaim a soviet republic unless the dictator and his ~ lly assured. men: EL T. peal of blood \defense minister withdrew immediately This was the word brought)». crospy, 41 ae Pomeunyan There were indications that the Spartacan and radical ele- Seattle today by Senator| “4 etic Me ments have taken advantage of the general strike and the © Landon, after attending! ™** ay out generally chaotic condition of the country to push their hope conference of the joint-ap- Smell’s body wa F F . ad |for a soviet government with all their power. opriations committee in Finn Only Man to Patrick's day proved disastrous of Monitor. ™ Police today Passage of a soldiers’ relief) 0 ew he tue ning Mrs saw a arrest of the fol 20, A O. L, Smith Thruston, 24 and E owing and ca who kr n the engineer , H. Jensen, seaman. disrobed, | cook Butts, . Coroner the en industrial dle” id. great trict, the pockets turned {nside hot thru the h 4 i Abels ’ iffin said hee had been - ‘ ‘ a pia Tuesday. ars when found “The soldier bit will Sut Opposition,” said Landon. PIG will provide a $15 oth for the time spent in service ing the war for allpwoldiery and s from the state of Washing ‘The measure will go to the peo for a referendum vote In Novem be passed per oi ‘The proposed relief bill doex not in the proposed poll tax feature, © Landon said ‘The measure introduced by joint appropriations committee, the said, and wil! contain practically © Mhe same features embodied in t Mamping bill, which was defeated & bitter fight in the state sen a year ago. it that time the shige te defeated the meadyse returned ped noes men ge “wide demand for recognition of Enjoy St. Patrick Souse Otto Maki, 43, @ Finn labore the distinction of being the ont admitted to the city jail hour Wednesday with a St Pa souse. has man ate ick’ |Captain Michael Is Sporting His Emerald Capt. Michael the 17th the police me emera 1 his is a gr solemn | served Capt. Powers, when h tion was called to the gem iHe Wears Green Tie Powers celebrated Every St. Patrick’s Day nted to “A A and room had been re wed in the he had Kierk The Jackson at Detectives believe this clathing to the man who rented room. They named A are v looking (pr & logger Larvik | 700 Are Slain in Bloody Fighting of German Revolt 00 persons have killed and hundreds wounded in fighting resulting from Ger unter revolution since Sat according to compilations arly been the man ¢ urday today Unofficial dispatches alties distributed 500 revealed follow® many casu Kiel—400 to wounded Berlin— killed 69 killed, large number 9 kil dred wounded. Eaxen—20 Hagen 23 wounded. Frankfort wounded. led, several hun 80 wounded. killed, many led. 20 killed, 200 ary labor council falist in the lower Rhine and Westphalia districts, The nurpose of this coalition would Be ishment of a dictatorship /@f) prolétariat, it was sad, a Spartacan outbreaks already had been reported in Dresden, Munich and other South German cities, Reports of clashes between com the parties servatives ers of the ernments were Ebert or Von Kapp gov- continued. Twenty-three at Hager when workmen clashed with soldiers who attempted to occupy the Unofficial estimates placed the dead in the counter revolutio more than 700 Politica! observers in foreign killed 4 radicals and support Westphalia; E. B. Bodwell, attache of Police Judge John B. Gordon's court, inaug- | urated the fifth anniversary of the presentation of a green necktie to him ted the Lamping Bill. The vote ‘ ure 21 to 21 once, with State Senator | PY Thomas BH. MeMahon, Irish ator) Mr se nus Thomle, of Snohomish coun. | "*? fire absent. He had promised to sup McMahon gave me the tie five the soldiers’ bill. He finally fs ago, and I wear it « Pat ; coy mgd» svthes Hick's day every year,” explained = Was immediately called to . Rite engined Foom by opposition leaders. ton roused TWinutes later he cast the vote as coent d the bill Fatally Hurt : ying ‘“Brakeman” ‘ACOMA, March 17.— While play “brakeman” Weldon Sparks. 16, fell between an engine and ear at Puyallup yesterday and fatally injured. Students Put on Their Exhibit, An exhibit of paintings, drawings ind designs, the work of the Seattle VArt Students’ league, is on display ‘in the Fine Arts gallery, 1219 Fourth ve. It will close March 24. The is studying under Miss . . mnett Edens, of the Univervity of . ’ Muhington school ot Designs, ana | 9lU@ St. Patrick’s Day F. Tadama, teacher of the “iite| for Phil Shaughnessy Patrick's merifice made by Washington who went to war. For three days the state senate From Burning Crib Percy Babbington rescued her from eth during o hich pra lestroyed the Homer 1 Monet a burr ated from a ¢ her baby the remal the night MILK DROPS A CENT, BUT NOT TO CONSUMER Wholesale other drop tod: per quar ra Jt |Wears a Shamrock in Every Buttonhole Martin J. Cleary, alleged Irishman upset precedent Wednesday by ap- pearing at Central station wearing @ grten cra and a sham rock in every button hole ne tenant that in a eburet milk prices took 10 |Freshmen on Campus Don Green Toppers atrick’s day the campus wittiien resumption of the wearing of the green by university freshmen The first r men blossomed out with little green “lids” which had been discarded for the winter months. Co-ed freshies are sporting green ribbons from in case on of milk to aq The slump is said to be king of conder ultant reduction Jd by the ye art dur to the oversto and ar price p ser in the to the farmers . Astronomer to Try for Altitude Mark NEW YORK, March 11.—Prof director of the A and Amher ed that with will ‘Twas blue Phil his son, C. with robbing s but de for him textify SEATTLE SHIP wc toKew— NOW OVERDUE; | . Place to Keep It! rie tate of the F. A. Saku, Rainier G: freighter Higho developed was looking for a new myster with re Wednesda vessel is @ix days overdue St Day Shaughnessy only w John Campbell Tom Wong. and @ $7 box of cigars at and Le st, December uty ‘sheriffs were in effort t tri Shaughnessy char; Many advertisers are Jax in finding out just what advertising costs them. It will save you money to investigate Star Classified adver- tising pays. Phone Main 600. few weeks he lish a airy in from Omaha id ent him new ane flight an make the ‘The of the tion and meteoro! Boilermaker Held for Theft of Auto’ ANGELES, March 17.—Roy| a bollermaker, was hic Smith grand main. purpose obtain new al data Los Seattle-built | M. Thurstor into a] arrested here a telogr that the| warrant from Chief of Police Yoko-| of T Wash., charging lare Thurston is alleged to stolen an obile in Tacoma sold it in Portland Mrs. hotel, keep her money ung men appeared at her day, knocked her unconscious robbed her stocking of $50, she the police. Clark Monahan and : FBoseph Milcarek, both 20, are held i Walsh and Frazier, : 3rd Party Ticket? WASHINGTO:! Mareh Prank P. Waleh. Kansas City president, and Lynn J. Frazier toda ort at omni hama Dispatches from day stated that the treas 700 miles off the Eldredge was tempting to dwsist her. Since then no word regarding the Higho has been received. T freighter loaded a cargo of lumber Struthers & Dixon eha at Port Ludlow and Mukilteo ASIAN Grrninces GF Aintamia to be conwal her maiden voyage February 20, for| joner of internal reven Kove | T al, port of Teintsein, after be-| OP Tt it c. Roper, resigned | @rnor of North Dakota, for vice pres yed by condenser trouble at . Gdent—that’s the most likely “third port Townsend party” ticket this year, according to| shipping men here have received Washington gossip around headquar-| no reports about the vessel ters of the committ | There are 45 Seattle men aboard Side URE a3 | the ship. Tacomans Favor | he: Nae. uae Daylight Saving Says He Wanted TACOMA, March 17.—The action to Rest in Auto of the Tacoma Advertising club, in| Joe Tobin, 17, climbed into a ma Preparing petitions urging state leg-| chine at Second e. and James st félatures fo pass state daylight |early Wednesday morning, to take « waving law at sewsion | rest, according to his tale to th next, week was unanimously indorsed | lice. He was arrested bec Eby the Tacoma Kiwani club yester- patrolman had a suspicion t intentions were not good room the Orient Mon ship was in dis Tokyo and that standing by, “| Williams Is Named | for Roper’s Office WASHINGTC March 17.—The president to the senate today the nomination of William Martin auto ent ein place Lincoln Students Will Sing ‘Martha’ Lincoln high school students the opera “Mart auditorium Friday nights wil in the and Satur sing school day Rush Completion of Fire Station| new $25,000 city station at 15th ave and EK, Har-| st. will be completed, says Architect Daniel Huntington | a the In 90 days, the fire | rison 'Muny special Begin Grading for | $60,000. Réscues Her Baby } MAY HAVE CLUE IN TAX ROBBERY Here are some of Seattle's St. Patrick Day shamrock erie Garbarino and Foster Are “ al sold tags for Briscoe home. right—Bernice Below—Dorothy Gill, 913 16th ar 2720 E. | Cherry. Roy st. Upper in Conference | Frank 1. Garbarino, of the | United States department of jus ties, sakl Wednesday he had a | jattier of great importance” to impart to Capt. Thom: Foster, of the secret service, in connec. tien with the hunt for the two bandits wh ip Cashier K. d in the internal reve nue collector's office, in the post office building, Tuesday morn ing, and escaped with $26,000 in. come tax receipts. ybody in town is ‘sa reason. The The second is. They're "Most ever today. Ther Orphan Boys. this morning! jand when the} if they were, and the hearts as warm. They’ |the 106 kjds out at Orillia. them! r ton sthy consul absolute nothing raid Foster everything | ment diamonds which th na pur a deput pt his pr Ine rob ing reve perty Several pers carried off to Chart Jo! W BRITAIN, fhe body of Mrs was we collec we n arch 17 0. was d We aid, had b end eft w Anna Evans, 2 for found in in her ax security @ trunk apart ment today been for da whom was found He was not a new emy supposed, but a man thoroly | who had worked in the post a number of ye anitor search was strangled reins, by looking ; her yester and ques which were k as wa throat. The police # for trusted, office for her husband, Geor Mra. » Evans * prior to his going into the ds several} months ago. Quitting shipyard job a few days ago, he returned to| his former position | Two women janitors were in the internal revenue office cleaning up @ short time be the oc it is said. It ts considered ible that the bandits might have itered while the women were at work and concealed thems Albert Powell, a sister of Mra. a went to the latter's home to Not finding her, Mrs, Powell apartment, and noticed had been moved from its usual place in the center of the room. She notified the police, who broke open the trunk and found the body The body | no. nvans day. the a large wardrobe trunk was clad only in a kimo nition of the body indi [cs that she had made a hard fight for her life. Mrs, Evans met & Colo, where he was said to wor as a miner, under the of Kvinort. Municipal News Is No Longer With Us No longer will street car patrons receive the Municipal News with nickle dropped into the condue tor's hopper. Acting Superintendent of Utilities O'Brien has ordered pub Heation suspended hav name Motorists Have Gasoline Blues Motorists suffered blues Wednesday, Standard Oi! offt ms boosted the price 2 cents a gal and said they had to do it to ya p all the gas from being drained | by higher markets, every Two New Pavilions| Grading for two new open-air pa vilions at Firlands city tuberculosis anitorium has begun. They'll Seon NET ORE CEM AHR OO ‘Allied ‘Rhine Army Is Strong Enough Mareh 17,—-Marahal allied commanders ‘Husband i in ‘Pen; Asks a Divorce | Isadore R, Kdelstein is in Walla Wa penitentiary for burglary.| meet any emergency caused by the noes Edelstein, his wfe, sued for| German revolution. Foch has re- Wednesday turned to Paris, Rhine ent to voree all over town, over smile at you—faith, there goes another dime | The hundreds of colleens selling tags on St. Patrick's day may not all be Irish, but, sure they’re all as good-looking re going over the well-known top for ®* And most of Seattle is going with, = WOMAN'S BODY BOY ADMITS HE ‘ana in Roulder, | from gasoline | killed, 80 || {tals hoped the meeting of the tional assembly, scheduled to” vene in Stuttgart late today, Duisberg — 14 wounded. Leipzig—® kilied Hanover—"Some Schwerin—"Bloody Bresiau, Hamburg. jorlite—" Fighting WANTS HOOVER AS REPUBLICAN Ralph P. Merritt Is Califor- nia 2 aatigaile M 7 eae the ed figthing.” Weimar aad of @ stable plete) TEUTON SOVIET ; [FORCES GROWING © |MORE POWERFUL LONDON, March 17.—(1:30 mj—A news agency dispatch , Copenhagen says the independ — | ent socialists and communists in — | Berlin have proclaimed a republic | and delivered an ultimatum te Dr. Von Kapp, head of the reve — lutionary government. A second dispatch quoted the Frankfurter Zeitung as saying — Merritt today that after the independent social- California manager) istis and communists had deliy- of the campaign to win the repub- ered their ultimatum te Von _ lican nomination of Herbert Hoover app, threatening establishment _ for president of a soviet republic, Von Kapp Merritt announced his resignation and Von Luetwitz announced — and controller of the cir readiness to retire and to University of California hand over authority to Vice My decision in this matter is con-| Chancellor Von eer, seed Merritt's statement, . . ause I served during the war as ONE REPORT SAYS of the president under sersat wan food co: VON KAPP IS NOW ifornia Photo by Cress Above-—Dorothy Mason, Brody, 2912 E wearing a huge shamrock tag » first is the Briscoe Home for well, you saw them yourself 1,000 of therm SAN FRANCISCO. a gues are as quick and their cretary |troller for He declares that “as a republican, | FLEEING BERLIN | believing in the league of natio LONDON, 3 per manitarian national program of Mr.! Wolfgang von Kapp was beens Oxsceota | Hoover 1 in the necessity of @] near its end today. cour us business administration.| “Dispatches said that von Kapp,” such as he is preeminently qualified! faced with growin " purposes which I have in mind for) \upporters, had tendered tps hia |the next few months e again) ignation. — entering the field of private enter-; there was every ‘scuaiel that ti prise,” faction of the dictator was bare Merritt's statement was a letter{time to avert widespread elvil sites | KILLED FATHER March 17 ties toda SIBL county Y. Ta autho} announced have signed confession by 1 Jess, 15, in which the youth mits and father having shot The youth jail here. Claude Jess, jr is in the awaiting ion by authori ties, he Tacoma Gas and Oil Prices Are Boosted | | TACOMA, March 17.-The price of | gasoline advanced 2 cents to 24%) Armenian Drive Interest here was directed toward |cents in Tacoma today, Refined oil at MEAS haat smllon. and ‘tue! Begins April cae where the German na: Washingtow state's drive to raise | tional assembly was to meet todays $300,000 for relief of starving Arme-| (Gon, Maercker was said to have are nians will begin Easter Sunday,|rived in Stuttgart from Berlin with April 4, and continue one week, in|terms of the revolutionary governs charge of B. A, Potter, of Spokane, /ment's offer to resign, It was be it was announced tod: she in official circles here that the parr Ebert government will continue its Landscape architecture will engage | firm stand, refusing to negotiate with full attention of Robert W. Hoffman. jthe revolutionists, He has resigned as manager of Mus-| Maximilian Harden, editor of Zus (ust Turn the Page) county the grand jury addressed to the regents of the Uni-| \ report received in Paris late last dmits, according to jroenty) ot wees Figg a Rag night said that von Kapp had fled ment as joovel ‘ |from Berlin. This was not confirmed e killed his father because a . * ssntooda sada ete eevtrstten {from the, California, Hoover Repub-| trom other sources, Be , ; jay an n Hean club, Scores of lives have been sacri< ha amount of his spending in rifte| — J | fice and hundreds of persons wounds } a ot his led. Fro 00 1 «he lay in bed. according to the}! Read It and Weep; |, 10m 10 {0 800 persons were | confession. L eturned ‘room and finding hie parent atit|| LACOME Taxes Stay | area the cits, according to a Kiel ; dispatch to the Morning y living, fired ano’ o jliving, fired another shot into his! Up, Says Houston] cruiser opened fire when antikapp | , tind 3 WASHINGTON, March 17 groups staged a demonstration, the ri eral income taxes cannot be |) dispatch said. Hea loss of life was Ex-Service Men to reduced until after 1 Secre- ||reported in other parts of the nay ° tary of the Treasury Houston to- || tion, Scores were reported to have Get Books by Mail |] 2 eee eee ana ||becn Killed in clashes In the Berlige Ex-service men who are far from|| means committee Hamburg and Dresden districts, | public libraries, will be sent books by | He decla however, that re. Berlin dispatches said Field Mar. mail, as part of the new library ser | vision of several of the present || shal von Hindenburg, German mili- {vice plans adopted thruout the na-|] federal taxes should be made and || tary idol | tion |] revenues adjusted to make up for || thing to do with the revolution, but are gre the loss the government will sus: ||that Gen. Eric von Ludendorff con- tain as @ result of the supreme |/ tinued participation in the von Kapp court decision that dividends paid in stock are non-taxable. | Bloody fighting between commum ists and police was reported from Duisberg, where 14 persons were said to have been killed and 80 wounded. — | oi Boy, Playing Ball, Struck by Auto| Frank Bennett, 17, Seventh | ave. reported to the police Wednes that Duvid Schofield, 9, ran into} | his automobile at 10th ave, and Ter race st. While running after a bave-| ball. ‘The lad’s injuries were slight. t ¢ Builders’ association, reach decisions enabling the forma — a “revolution: | has been const | tuted to negotiate an alliance with had refused to have anys e va