The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 25, 1922, Page 10

TREASON TRIAL IS NEAR CLOSE Defendant Blizzard Denies Being General | THE MARION 315 PINE STREET | CLEARANCE SALE The Entire Stock Radically Reduced Coats, Wraps Capes, Suits Dresses A Real Money Saving Event A visit to our shop will con- vince you of the splendid values offered High Grade Coats $29.75 High Grade Suits $24.75 High Grade Dresses $16.75 : “ 40 Killed in Sub | oo Collision at Sea BERLIN, May 25.—Ten sailors on | submarine S-18 were killed last it when the sub collided with the battleship Hanover in man HERE’S MORE ABOUT STINNES STARTS ON PAGE ONE the Hamburg-American steamship lines, seeing his great business destroyed, didn't have the heart to go on, id he killed himself. But Stinnes was of tougher metal Seeing his greatest work cut into pieces by the allied victory, he as tonished all Germany by wresting greater achievement out of disaster ! No Germap business was harder hit than his German Luxemburg. When Lorraine went back to France jand Luxemburg was freed from | German influence, Stinnes’ commany | lost 60 per cent of its raw material iron ore and coal. For an ordinary business man that would have been a crushing blow BEGAN BUYING UP SMALL COMPANI But Stinnes tan't an ordinary man. He at once began, buying up small companies It was ss which could give his company some of the material it needed. But he was after bigger | game. Another Ruhr valiey family, the Kirdo had founded an organi- zation known a& the Gelaenkirchener Mining corporation. It wag one of | the biggest in Germany. It had over 55,000 workers. The-war also hit |this corporation hard. Stinnes |brought about a combination of his German Luxemburg, the Gelsen kirchener, and the Bochumer Verein Fully Relieved He made himself its master. He christened it the Rhine-Kibe union BY M it Mineral Treatments Seores of 1,000 times more than the amount with which he began his independent business career, NOW CONTROLS FIFTH OF RUHR | German Luxemburg brought the combine 14 coal coke ovens, seven fron |steel and iron works and four other people |||big factories, Gelsenkirchener had have been entirely relieved 16 coal mines, nine tron and steel of suffering from Neuritis, works and a number of other facto Rheumatism and all > us ed Aliments due to poison and jries. The Bochumer Verein had four {inflammation by thix remark- |||coal minea and two iron and steel able, natural mineral | works n in Germany was in a position like Stinnes. The coal he and his family own and the controls amounts to exact! Seattle No m Moorite Mineral is Nature's antidote for on and in flammation v the ison and — inflammation; lature perfects the cure. of the vast Ruhr production IF you sv | But he wasn’t thru with coal, With should call on us imm y. |[|August Thyssen, another famous We charge only |Rhineland captain of industry, and tacatment. jthe Dresden bank, he bought a con. |tories. Then the far-secing Stinnes Upper Silesian coal mines. Stinnes Full Line of Moorite Products M bas t | trolling interest in the Mulheim Min |became interested in the possibilities lsecured a huge block of stock in the on Sale oal he one-fifth |ing corporation, which operates four {big coal mines, has other seams a8 Mineral . of lignite. This fuel has becom on Ribecksachen corporation of H. ]| which owner 34 lignite mines, 15 fae jyet untapped, and a number of fac try since the loss of nd 912 Third Ave. Elliott 1549 |tories for the manufacture of coal capital of 600 million marks, or just | BY PAUL BR, MALLON CHARLESTOWN, W, Va, May 25 The direct cane of the defense in the Blizzard treason trial was closed today The prosecution rebuttal | Sergt. Timothy Lynch, Fort Thom ‘an, Ky., told of the entrance of fed eral troops into the mine war area ¢ August and described briefly how Blizzard accompanied him from Mair to the fighting line and helped him disperse the mir army. M, M,. Lilly and T, W, Guy, coal operators, testified, they heard A. C. Porter, United Mine Workers’ offt cial, make inflammatory statements at & meeting of miners b ore the armed march. Porter previously had denied making such statements. } Guy also testl i that ‘hillp Mur ‘ray, vice-president of the miners’ or ganization, was informed concerning the Reach creek shooting long before Murray maintained he had know! edge of the event. | Col. Willlam Wiley, vice-president of the Boone County Coal corpora. tion, alxo attacked Murra testi mony regarding the Beach creek shooting. | Blizeard, somewhat haggard from the strain of the long trial, yesterday told of his association with the armed marchers and denied strenuously that he was a general in the march. | Blizzard denied that he had: | 1, Led an armed body of miners up Lens creek, ax previously testified, | 2. Carried ammunition to Blair, as ° prosecution witness declared. | | began its final 3. Exhorted the union men to bat- tle against state deputies, “The first time I appeared In Lo | gan county during this trouble was jen September Bitezard said, in a somewhat husky voice, “I was or- |dered there by my superior officer, William Petry, to help United States troops to get things straightened out.” he said. | Bitiezard said he went Into the war region and spread the word that the | federal troops were coming, He was| [in an automobile with another union | official, “The men were afraid to come out | of the hills, and they refused to obey me,” he added. Fllxzard was attempting to prove jan alibl for his presence in Logan | county in an effort to show he was! peacemaker In the proceedings. | “Some of the men talked about hanging me when 1 make them go home,” clared. Panes used by some miners bear ing his signature were forgeries, Blizzard said. “I never authorized anyone to sign my name,” he sald briquets, five brick factories, 11 elec- trical power stations and five fac! tories for the extraction of mineral oll and paraffin, Lignite is espectally Valuable in this regard. Then fitinnes thought of another schema His own coal mines up plied fuel to his own steel mills, bat he looked around Germany and everywhere he sw consumers of coal. Their money might am well flow Into his pockets, FoR N FIELDS TEMPTED HIM | So thought, so done. He controls the United Coal Dealers corporation attempted to Bilzzard de of Berlin. Ie has «imilar companies in Nuremburg, Koenigesburg, Fiene burg, Hamburg, Bremerhaven and numerous other important towns where Stinnes coal mines sold to bie and little consumers. Foreign fielts tempted him, too, Some of the fin est iron ore in the world is found in Therefore Stinnes bought some Swedish ore tracts, One of the greatest foreign coupe came to him by simply sitting still In the old days of the Austro-dun. garian empire one of the greatest! companies in the country was the Austrian Alpine Mining corporation, which practically owned an inex haustible supply of high grade tron ore in the Styrian Alps-—a whole mountain of ore, in fact. After the peace treaty the great Alpine com-| pany found itself in a poverty-atrick-| en little Austria. Its former bases | of coal supply were now situated in| new and hostile states, In ite need of financial eupport, a great block of its stock went into the! hands of an Italian syndicate of au-} tomobile and steel manufacturers. They saw in the plant an excellent chance to get for Italy the steel ft} so badly But production failed. The Italians could give the company money and labor, but no! coal or coke, PAYS HUG M FOR ALPINE COMPANY In their trout they looked to Germany and naturally to Stinnes. He could shoot coul and coke right straight across Germany into the Styrian Alps and the great concern could work full speed abead. Only—there is almost always an jimportant only with Stinnes. He told them he would like to sell them cc but must be interested financially in the Alpine company. The Italians saw the point. ult Stinnes owns outright two-fifths of the company for which he paid the huge sum of 250 million Sweden needed This both than done. caused more political furore inside and outside Germany anything Stinnes has gver At a time when the allies were » demanding that Germany pay hu reparations, it was pointed out the must be lots of money in Germany when Stinnes could spend that much in one transaction. And inside Ger many opponents of the government asked why Stinnes didn’t pay more taxes. The t is the money was raised by & Swine concern in which Stinnes is chief owner. | it the rude socialists still laugh when you tell them corporation in the little town of Zug could raise all that coin. (Copyright, 1922, N. BE, A. | Inc.) | Service, In his next story Bronner tells of the ramifications of Stinnes’ gigantic electrical combin TRIAL HELD ON ROOF OF HOUSE NEW YORK.— Justice of the Peace Arthur Jones was busy paint-| jing the roof of his house when a! case was brought before him, The [trial was held on the shingles. junder the adverse THE SEATTLE STAR JILTED, SHOOTS | Amundsen | mara, es of North! for Convent Crime People of Seattle are going to PUEBLO, Colo, May %-—Re have the opportunity of hearing venge wan the motive, police be the story of Kaold Amundee lieve today, for the shooting of, polar explorations fr his own | Mine neuelo Baca, pretty 18-year lips before he sails in June on his | old convent student, by Mins Jose seven years’ journey b the ine Libert divorcee, here late Northern fastnenses. yesterday, Mins Liberto drove to! nawer to # demand from | the convent in a taxicab, entered! many friends that he speak in | and shot Mins Baca when she found public, Amundsen today | the latter in her room, ‘he girl agreed to make public lee probably will recover, . v on the evening of Mins Liberto declared Mins Baca’s May 31, in some large downtown | father, Dr, J. PF, Baca, prominent auditorium, local physician, had protested bis ie will speak, he told The Star, | love for her, They had never been on the Northwest Passage, the | intimate, she said, The young wom-| Northeast Passage and the dis | @", it was believed, determined to overy of the South ¢, also | Kill the doctor's daughter and her ouching upon plans for the | *lf after she alleged the physician fortheoming expedition, Me will | called her & “polronous snake tell, too, of the airplane crash on The gun jammed after the first nhot. | predated ae en) See Dr. Raca vigorously denies HH. U, Sverdrup will talk on the | Tberto’s © same evening on the scientific program for the polar trip, TE nN ETN HERE’S MORE ABOUT FREIGHT cUT TO | DEMOCRATS STARTS ON PAGE ONE Hart's claim that he had saved the Living Cost Thru Nation to |****, #1:200.000—because the leminla- j ture had app wiated $18,000,000 but only $17,000,000 had been spent. Be Lower y Ae i gmat BY HERBERT W. WALKER WASHINGTON, May 26.—-The na- jtion’s coat of living bill probably will be reduced nearly $1,000,000,000 a year as the result of the 10 per cent jreduction in freight rates ordered by | Mins “Why,” Steve wanted to know, “dida't they appropriate $50,000,- 000 and save $33,000,000 so they could have had a good figure to work on? That would have been ® good idea.” Steve apologized for his speech, the interstate commerce commission. saying he was only good in a fight, government statistical experts id 4nd couldn't shine at a harmony today, meeting, ‘This meang a saving of $10 a year eee for every person in the country, Tt wasn't such a darned harmon. The reduction will cut the nation’s ous meeting at that freight bill from $300,000,000 to) wittiam R. Lee, $400,000,000, according to official fik- near spilling the beans and turning ures. The government experts Who ithe convention into a truly demo- have been following the trend of the |cratic free-for-all when he insisted cost of living e#timate a decrease OF ‘on incorporating a league of nations an increase in freight charges '\piunk in the platform, against the more than tripled when it i» finally |wishes of the resolution committee. | passed on to the consumer, Lots of delegates who would The department of justice, It WAS have had a chance learned today, has orders from Brest dent Harding to wee that the rate /the opportunity to make speech out is “passed down” to the com land until Lee agreed to withdraw sumer, Just as rate increases during his motion, the convention resem- | the war were quickly “passed on.” [hind an old-time knock-‘emdown and The rate reduction is to become drag em-out affair | { Tacoma, came ever | in the world to speak otherwine took advantage of effective on or before July 1, and . administration Officials look for its refiection in cést of living figures abortly thereafter Administration leaders also hope! the rate cut order will have an im | mediate stimulating effect on busi Dems. The decision on fretght rates clear. | Emma Hayman, one of the most prominent members of the King county delegation, made & plea for a woman in the legis- lature from every county in the plate, eee A gentieman namea Durham, who ly Indicates a rong sentiment/denied that his first name was! Among some of the commissioners |}~pui put admitted he hailed from | for @ passenger fare reduction, but| North Carolina, said the princ ipal | the majority apparently still !s/srobtem confronting the state was to} against such a cut. The ner pp of | set “n set of white men te come te ilread passengers decrea. from «| ee ae aed ror oar Olympia next fall and clean house.” | © in January, 19: and it waa ad Francia A rrecht, of Spokane. mitted that the high passenger fares was elected permanent chairman of ronan e lobbies around Olympia that the be ordered by the railroad labor! noice was made to permit him to board in the near future an a sequel fire his opening shot against J. Stan. to the 10 per cent reduction in ley Webster, whom he will oppose freight rate came from a high gov for congress from the Fifth district ernment a y thin fail, He stated that the administration | od that a wage eee | reduction) Judge William Hickman Moore, of 7 ges effective in quelling the 11th hour held out a hand and THURSDAY, MAY 25 1922, ee an—«,-, wrwrnaedcm? me &@ @ Ww & am a a ee a i i as fight which nearly wrecked the con fray, he | thundered: “ Gentlemen, gentle men! I say gentlemen because bs enable the carriers to help/geattie, who was chairman of the carry the freight cute, resolutions committee, proved quite vention Advancing to the midst of the noise, The ladwes are still ladies.” Gang Preys on Wealthy Women Judge Walter M. French, of — Port Orchard, was generally con CHICAGO, May Police today etded to be the most gallant |rolieved, thru the arrest of democrat at the convention. ant, they had broken up a black When an argument came up ring which preyed on rer oe youthful rc samo d ved women thruout the country a certain prominent woman écle- Bryant was taken into custody ape Pa tages toh ena rage when be received a “dummy” pack commit you to Grand Mound.” . Benefits Seen as Result of Freight Rate Cuts OG vod That was the high spot of Con. Altho business in general will b¢) gremman Dill's speech on the New greatly stimulated by the freight rate berry question, reductions announce by the inter) ef state commerce commission, it in the] lumber industry that will receive the} mowt signal benefit in this section, according to predictions Thursday Reductions in the Pacific North west will average 12% per cent, it in| figured by J Veitch, assistant| traffic manager for the Chicago, 3 waukee & St. Paul ratiroad The following figures on freight; rate reduction for lumber were given by R. B. Allen, seor Coast “The man th the senate will sel will buy a meat in the vote to which that seat entities him. with a rex Shotwell, ax ry ofthe West] George F. Cotterill, of Seattle, |H- Shotwel Lumbermen's polation, !eoined a popular name fe poli} Boleen. Han” setter, which reports a big boom in business |ors’’™, neveen to oe {he poll] “he letter declared that facts in during the week ending May 2 eee From Puget Sound to San Fran-| paul R. Schreider, university stu-|result in @ divorce of the Shotwells, cimeo, a reduction 4% cents periaent delegate, was the most disap-|¥°Uld be suppressed if the money 100 pounds; Puget Sound to Los An- pointed man at the convention. He|™ paid, Authoriths said Bryant goles, 7% cents; F and to San fought earnestly to get a plank in|CoMfessed knowledge of the letter, Francisco, 3% cents; Portland to Los the platform attacking the high fees |%Ut claimed an accomplice who sign- Angeles, 6% cents at the U. But he didn’t have a/®? bis name “Fontaine” was the During the week ending May 20! chance, After losing out before the |#etual writer, the 130 milis of the West committee, he tried to take it up on| “You are dealing with a coast-to. Lumbermen’s astociation report that the floor of the convention—but he {Coast blackmail] gang, which has been they manufactured 89,395,938 feet of couldn't get recognized. operating for 20 years,” the letter lumber, sold 105,609,6 et, and eee to Mrs, Shotwell said. “We know shipped 94,125,566 feet Willis Mahoney, youthful may- [how to deal with people of your _— or of Tekoa, displayed the best | ‘yr footwork of any of the conven- Many of tion orators. Thruout his specch |matrons received similar letters FREIGHT CUT his legs tried to emulate a classi | within the last year, Altho police AIDS SEATTLE! cal dancer, | | were notified and made every effort | to catch the writer, no trace of the reduction in tariff; There were more women, propor-|blackmailers was discovered until the ordered by the tlonately, in the Pierce county con-jarest of Bryant, tingent, than in any other delegation . at the convention. ee ant cashier by Mrs. A demanded in a Coast Chicago's wealthiest “The general and freight rates interstate will have busines ee HARRINGTON, Neb. May 2 jugene Bryant, alleged head of a State Senator Carlyon, republican! Chicago blackmail ring, is a victim warhorse, was in the gallery and lis-/of shell shock and polson gas, which tended to all the denunciations lev-|caused him to turn to the adventur. eled against the Hart administration.|ous and romantic, according to prices of other com:|11® didn't seem to like it much, frlends here. Bryant, the son of aang s | ounty Attorney Wilbur Bryant of this city, returned from France in ocratic delegate, completed @ [bad shape, friends said. He bad political cycle, He has been iden- | been studying art in Chicago. tified, successively, with the re | publican, progressive and farmer- labor parties—and now the demo- Premier Poincare cratic. Assured Confidence which tends to bring thet ry ia BY WEBB MILLER toward the general level of prices |Ancendiary Fires PARIS, May 25.—Premier Poincare ¥ 2 . already is assured of lary yot of now prevailing * > Se vote have a Reported in Belfast confidence, as a result of the discus. BELFAST, May 5 A constable. sion of Franc '# foreign policy in par was killed today, making the over: liament, political observers declared night casualties in B fast's secular) today. warfare four dead and 20 wounded. | Most important of the develop Incendiary fires were reported in-/ ments of the two days’ debate in the jceanantly thruout the night chamber of Ceputies has been the evi ) La evening was one of the worst nee that the Poincare ministry has on alone, if for Relfast has experienced, a severe out- not yet deci definitely to send no other, the decision of the com-|preak of bombing using many army into the Ruhr valley if the ¢ mission will result in greater busl-|casualties among Protestant workers mans do not pay up ky naxt Wed ness activity returning to their homes day, commerce — commission A stimulating effect upon conditions generally,” said Frank Waterhouse, president of the Chamber of Comm ie, morning in a ‘Thursday review of what th action will mean to this s “While th modities have duced to a norma of transportation has ction been re) Rob Hodge, by appearing as a ama, the coat! | den remained on| the high level established during the! war, which has undoubtedly had the| of of discouraging business ditions whieh} have existed. 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