The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 5, 1922, Page 1

“AP ESET AEA . Til “youume 24. NO. 191. (EDITOR'S NOTE) Thousands of men are shipped year out of Pacific coast to work in the Alaska canneries under condi- near to slavery as any- antebellum days. under contract to for Americans, ner white men. They are it for the season to Chi Japanese overlords, Under that strange and feudal jitution, the contract system, ea > entree 5E Chinese boss not only pays workers—he also feeds them BEF EXTRA EDITION “They are loaded then Into the stinking holds of antiquated windjammers that make up the salmon fleet. The conditions under which the men work have earned for these boats the name, “hell ships.” They are held virtual prisoners for days on board by private guards that they may not escape before the ship sails. Then they are sent over perilous seas for # nightmare voyage to isolated fisheries beyond - From 6 a. m. to 6 p. m. they work. And when the salmon run, A Nightmare Voyage on an Ancient Ship ~ SEATTLE, \ WASH., THURSDAY, OcTORE! R 5, 1922, PA Alaskaona The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor The Seattle Star Entered as Second Clase Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879, Per Year, by Mall, 86 to $9 Hell Ship And for this they receive as Mttle as $170 a season—$ month, But they are not permitted to collect that much. ‘The labor contractor hires a subcontractor to do the actual employing of men. This sub- contractor Is also an outfitter, And to get a job a man must or. der generously from him. The worker is not permitted to see the goods he buys and prices are exorbitant, considering quality. Gambling, bootlegging, prof. iteering, exploitation, disease, danger, death mark the voyage of the hell ships into the salmon flelda. ‘To get the story of the salmon fleet The Star aasigned Max ot Coeds have been forbidden to } amoke on the campus. Next thing ‘won't be allowed to carry pocket } j | | ee Little beams of moonshine, Little hugs and kisses, Changed the little maiden’s Name to Mrs. one Society Item: Hiram Hicophat, new Star reporter, is known to his | intimates as Bunkephet. won't go ‘home until morning; we won't go home until morning!" eee EA Franklin, intrepid insurance efjuster, says he has just returned { from a hunting trip in British Co-| '® lumbia. Killed 14 beers. F eee Having Jost 25 cents to Brown on the base§all game ges day, We are now certain that the Series in “fixed.” eee If you don't like moonshine you can get the same effect by taking a @rink of water while holding onto a live wire. eee Bonny, oh Bonny, come home with ™e now, The clock im the steeple strikes 3 ten; af eur nose is a wreck, your ear ts * chewed off, Don't go out on that gridiron again! Our idea of a dyed-in-the-wool Se baseball fan is one who can ee bet up over the Seattle to series while the Giants ‘Ors, battling the Yanks. see Price of sugar here again advances. But Mt kan't sweet cows. ee . + _ _Bhe-—Oh, the monotony of | Pince! I fear before the nig oon Mt wilt drive me wild! He—May I come around this even- ing? eee NOES HAVE IT! ston statistien! ex- ane that the average being of 70 years of age spent 16 years of his life at Faises the old question of & pinmber bs a human A Wi has _ those university girls know, they) MAY APPOINT APROSECUTOR | Judges in Session to Consider Plea of Grand Jury nine King county supertor were scheduled Thurs- | The indictment against Chilberg, |who was charged with illegal bor- | rowing of the bank's funds, failed) in court, following which, the tn- dictment against Lane, charged |with making the alleged illegal) loans to Chilberg, was dismissed.) upon motion of Lane's counsel. | Another probe into the bank |faiture, either by the old grand | jury or by the new one, has been | requested by the Depositors’ Protec- tive association, composed of depos- | ttore who lost money when the Scandinavian American failed. | Presiding Judge Austin E. Grit. Ra called the meeting for noon! Thursday at the Arctic club. The) absentee judges were Boyd J. Tall man, who is ill, and Everett Smith, | who is out of the city. Judge Griffiths has announced }that he will lay before the next| grand jury the carte blanche filing ‘of affidavits of prejudice against him by Prosecutor Dougias. ‘4 MILLIONS IN | SILKS HIT PORT by business men as an sadlention od the tremendous in- crease in shipping activities thru this port, one of the largest ship- ments of raw silk ever received in this country, with » total | value of nearly $4,000,000, ar- | rived In Seattle Thursday aboard | the 0. 8. K. liner Hawali Maru. } Within three hours after the steamer had docked at Pier 6, the| |huge cargo had been loaded on 19 jexpress cars and was speeding to |New York. Thus a record was achieved in| both the size of the cargo and the expedition with which it was handled These two things go hand in hand} for, as shipping men point out, ! freight passing thru Seattle will in. | crease in direct proportion to the In-| crease of efficiency shown by port | officials, A few years ago it took several | days to get a cargo of ailk far small. | er than this thru the port. This costly delay has been elim. inated by the foresight of port offi. ¢ials who, when learning that a car. | go of silk, is coming in, meet the ship at Victoria with her papers and | obtain her clearance. ‘Then they take an airplane fsa to Seattle, arriving here in advance | of the steamer, #0 that all arrange- | ments have been made to start un-/| loading her with special crews the | moment she docks. | The Africa Maru, the Hawail| Maru's sister ship, which arrived at Pier 6 Wednesday night, sailed for the Orient Thursday morning with 200 passengers and @ general cargo. |Boy, 22 Hours Old, Has Own Bank Account’ Infant Shares in Star| Gold Shower ; $16,000 Deposits First Day BY ROBERT B. BERMANN we been born with ao i Flt Shower of Gold coupon, clipped from Btar, to the Senttle National bank Thursday morning and opened an account for Charles Wilbur, he exhibited the following certificate | from Dr. Schuyler Winfred Case: “To whom concerned: This is to certify that Charles Wilbur O'Neal was born at 11:26 @ m., Oct. 4, 1922, at 3647 Greenwood ave, to Mr. C. W. O'Neal and his wife, Mra. Ida N. O'Neal.” my children—not if a little sav- ped can prevent it.” On Friday he plans to take his jother child—a girl, aged 12 months (Turn to Page 7, Column 4 Friday Is Star Movie Day for Thrift Kiddies It's gonna look like Hollywood at Second ave, and Columbia at. Friday Jacobs, the movie man, will be there to grind out a few thousand feet of film to give the Northwest a view of the crowds that are learning to save thru The Star's Thrift cam paign. Jacobs will be at tne Seattle Na- |tlonal bank at 11 o'clock stay on the job until 12, “because he | wante to get just as many mothers and bables as posnible in the film, which will be shown first at the Lib- erty theater. Friday, as you have been told, ts} | Babien’ day, Besides getting into | the movies that day, Seattle tiny tots will have opportunity to compete for & prize of $10 which will be awarded | \the youngest baby for whom a sav ings account ta opened. Here's all that is necessary Obtain a record of your little one’s birth, Including the year, (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) i He will | Stern, University of Californian graduate and newspaper man of years of varied experience, to sign up with the “Chines gang” and sail to Alaska. For months he was with the cannery workers, aboard ship, In Alaska, He worked In the worst cannery in the northern terri tory and in the best, Stern and 71 others were packed into the dark, unventilated hold of an ancient ship, Iving on two miser- able meals a day, for weeks giv: en one cup of water a day for both drinking and washing, be- calmed, storm-driven, before he returned to Seattle, That, tn brief, is the story which Stern will unfold. Head his first chapter today. WAR REGION {Dread Epidemic Is Starting; Kemal| Cavalry Moves CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 5.— Plague has broken out in Con- stantinople, which is crowded with Christians who have come ie regarded with alarm here as constituting a menace to Constantiople. It was considered that Kemal hae ordered the move to intim!- date the allies. GREEKS FLOCK TO VOLUNTEER ATHENS, Oct. 5.—-The torch of war was carried thru the streets of Athens today as volunteers of all ages nnd classes crowded recruiting | offices, answering a call to arma to [Oght to retain Thrace for Greece. 1 Indignation, stirred by fanatical |apeakers, ran high upop reports that |the Mudania conference had decided upon Greek evacuation of Thrace jand the handing over of a portion of Europe to the Turks. A report spread that Mustapha \conscription ef troops in Asia Minor. [It was also reported that Venizelos had counselled the Greek cabinet not |to agree to the evacuation of Thrace eee /AWAIT REPORT BY LLOYD ALLEN LONDON, Oct. 6.—The British cabinet was summoned to meet at 4:20 thin afternoon to hear General Hafington's report of the Mudania j conference, where, it ts understood, agreement has been reached, avert. jing war. Official circles were optimintic, ex pressing belief the war clouds on the Near East horizon have definitely | been dispelled. No official confirmation has been received here nor in Parts of a re. | port that a protocol of a preliminary agreement has been signed at Mu dania. Former Premier Venizelos of Greece called at the foreign office (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) | The Seattle Star Thrift Coupon Worth 50 Cen ts; Cut It Out i HE SEATTLE STAR hus arranged with the Seat- tle National Bank, Second ave. and Columbia St., to help every Star reader start a bank account. This coupon is worth 50 cents to you. Cut out the coupon, Take it with 50 cents to the Seattle National Bank, October 4 to 14, inclusive, and you can open a $1 savings account. Besides being credited with a $1 account, each depositor will be given a Liberty the bank SIGN YOUR NAME A Bell bank. appears here. ND ADDRESS HERE: A picture of | Kemal had again started a hurried! ON ARMISTICE) | Top to bottom: The Count- ess of Clonmell, Lady Poyn- \ter and Countess Annesley. Some of England's most Mitious and successful business |women are members of the British nobility. The Countess of Clonmel) has opened a inundry she calls “The | White Elephant” in the most aristo- cratic section of London. her bustness running smoothly she frequently goes into the workrooms herself to superintend, | Lady Poynter, wife of Sit Ambrose Poynter, the architect, and a famous |bewuty, ia now an tnterior decorator. Her shop t# in Beauchamp Place, |Lendon. Countess Annesley has gone into |the millinery business, She has a shop in London and takes an active part in serving customers, FIRE RAGES IN TORONTO, struction of at least a large poten Ont., Oct jof the town of Haileybury, five | miles northeast of\Cobalt, of the ail: | \ver mining center known as North | Cobalt, and of various other small {centers along the Temiskaming and |Northern railway between Deane | Janda Cobalt, a stretch of more |than 50 mifles, has been wrought by \|what in believed to have been the| |most destructive fire northern On |tarlo has known, Owing to the almost complete col |lapae of wire communication be- tween Cobalt and North Bay, it is not possible to gain a clear idea of the extent of the disaster, but it is estimated that the property loss will run into millions of dollars and latest advices from North Bay early thia morning indicated that grave fears were felt for the safety of at Hleqst a score of persong in the fire- swept aren. It is stated by one eyewitnesmthat |ho personally saw several persons Saga! in the flames, IMoover Ill; Unable to Address Bankers NEW YORK, Oct, 5.— Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce, ts ill at the Commodore hotel and was unable to address the American Bankers’ association today, To keep | ONTARIO TOWN N TS IN TS IN SEATTLE _ IE ‘GAME IS CALLED! ~e BATTLE ENDS EVEN SCORE 10TH INNING Score Is 3 to 3 as Teams Are Halt- ed by Darkness in 2nd of Series Giants Yanks . Ctente - NEW YORK, Oct. 5—Dark- ness fell over the Polo grounds the see- with the Yanks and the Giants ted at 3-3. Forty thousand fans in the stands gave vent to loud disap proval, ag it seemed another in- ning could have been played. The Meunsel brothers, rival outfield- ers from Lon Angeles, were the big figures of « thrilling came. Afteroren and Frisch bad singled | OF inning, Irish Mewsel hhouses in the first picked a slow ball waist high and dropped it into the hordes in the left field bleachers for a home run, giv- | i i | ing the Giants thelr only three runs. Thousands gathered early and filled the bleachers and the up- per stands for the second game of the series, One hour before game time it was obvious that yesterday's capacity crowd would be duplicated. It was intensely hot. Only a few | martyrs of propriety in the bleachers and in the sunny sections of the stands braved the torrid rays under coats, FIRST INNING Giants—Bancroft out, Pipp. Groh singled Frisch singled to left on @ pop. that groppes between Meusel and Scott, topping at second. E. Meusel home run into the lett field scoring Groh and Frisch im. The crowd went wild. Ward to to conte: ac! It wae an easy Kelly fouled to Behang. Tiree runs, three hits, no errors. Shawkey was wild and was con- stantly in the hole, being forced to groove 4 straight ball on every bat- Young flied to Witt chance. usels homer was Waist. ball through the heart of fer. high f the plate. Yanks—Witt down the third base line, making the bag by @ step, Umpire Hilde~ brand called it @ foul ball and brought him back to bat. Witt out, Groh to Kelly. Groh slipped to his knees for the ball, but got It to (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) BIG FIGHT ON BUDGET TODAY On its third day of budget slash- ing the board of county commission. ers was scheduled Thursday after- noon to take up the disposition of the road and bridge fund of $1,100,- 000. Whether the county tax levy for 1928 will remain at the current rate of 10 mills depends to a large extent on the amount the commissioners are able to eliminate from this fund. Delegations from all parts of the county were scheduled to line up against any decrease the commis. stoners might seek to make in the es road and bridge fund for their par. ticular districts. Boys! Football here. season is Do you want to own a regulation inter-colle- giate style Football Turn to page 14 and read the announcement telling how you can get a dandy football Free! beat out @ bunt) lReporter Tells About “The Price of Salmon” BY MAX STERN RANT AVE., San Francisco, is one of the most fascinat- ing streets on the Pacific Coast, for in its short com- pass of a half mile you can shop in the atmosphere of three civilizations. Its tour blocks running north from Market st. are like Seattle’s upper Second ave. It is here that milady does her afternoon shopping. The city’s most exclusive stores spread gorgeous Parisian gowns in their ample show windows; flower vendors line the broad sidewalks; dainty tea-rooms tempt the smart shoppers into cool and fragrant rest. The trackless street is filled with monogrammed limou- sines, driven by liveried chauffeurs. Success, leisure, re- \fined well-being pervade its sunny expanse. It is the apex of a civilization that 150 years of American striving have wrought in that California city. A short walk up a steep hill brings you to Sacramento st. and the gateway to the old worid. Here Grant ave, nar- {rows into the main thorofare of Chinatown. For a half- |dozen blocks you walk, as in a dream, thru a lazy maze of strange sights, sounds and odors. | After New World Comes Glimpse of Old China, Then a Street From Naples Jade, ivory, silk, sandalwood, dragons and the images of strange gods pass before your eyes. Sidewalk displays of mangoes, mint, watercress, snails and abalones, crates of fowls, crowd you into the narrow, populous street. You pass meat shops filled with eels, cuttle fish, dried shrimp and other impossible creatures of the deep. You gaze into stores stocked with queer Oriental hi restaurants with ornate balconies under F eaves and dark basement steps, leading heaven knows: | where, And under it and over it and thru it swarms, like in a hive, the slant-eyed race, quiet and inscrutable, but \cidedly busy with its own affairs. At Columbus ave. the street changes again. Here is the gateway to Little Italy. Of a sudden Grant ave. has become the marketing street for the Neapolitan fisherfolk of North Beach and Telegraph Hill. Bakeries of anise-seed bread, baccalatoes and pastries of a hundred shapes alternate with neat stores filled with green, olives and olive oil, strong-scented cheeses, dried fish, sausages and green groceries, and thru the street floats a pervasive, pungent smell, suggestive of cellars of good red, wine, But Strangest of All Is Shop Without ea Stock Which Sells Only “Unsight, Unseen” The stores of the three nations that line the sides Grant ave. are many, and strange, but the strangest of thi all is a certain men’s furnishing shop, run by J. S. M and Solomon Young. This store stands at a point on Grant ave. where the exotic charm of the Orient is fading into the picturesg ness of the Latin quarter. It is just north of Columb ave., where for he moment the street becomes ugly ce of a of cheap Jod oa mg group . It is a sort of Alice-in-Wonderland store. It does a tremendous business and yet it needs only al clerk. This clerk can barely speak the English language. — Unlike any other store on the avenue its shelves are bar- ren of goods, and its show windows hold no tempting dis- play or design to attract the buyers. In this store customers may not see what they are buying until it is delivered to them, and then it is too late to ex- change it if it does not fit or suit. Jobs in Alaskan Salmon Fields, Too, — May Be Bought in This Establishment In this store tremendous profits are made on cheap and there are practically no bad debts to worry the Pra prietors, It is a sure-thing store. It is in this store that is held the key to the labor situa: tion in the Alaska salmon fields, and it was hither that I was walking one fine day last April in search of a job in the salmon canneries. As I walked down Grant ave. toward'this store I realized that I was in for the adventure of my life. I had been as- signed by The Seattle Star to ship aboard one of the 40 wind-jammers that each spring leave for the salmon fish- eries of Northwest Alaska. I was to go “incog” as one of ; the army of common laborers who put up the annual salmon pack for America. | Bach year, for years, some bit of scandal indicating that jall is not well with these workers had broken up thru the undercrust at Seattle, Tacoma, San Francisco or elsewhere, and found its way into print. Stories of Neglect, Distress, Danger, - - 4 Exploitation Come From “Hell Ships” In 1919 a crowd of college boys from the University of California, thinking that the voyage would be a lark, |shipped on one of the Alaska Packers’ association barks. |They planned to spend their vacations working in the can- neries of Alaska. But one night in the hold of the ship had been enough. Two of them jumped over the side of the vessel as she lay in China in on the eve of sailing, and, swim. — — ashore, notified the police of conditions they had ound, A police launch was immediately dispatched and rescued the rest. Safe on shore again they described what they ‘had seen, and what they told made startling news; copy. Their stories confirmed much that had been told by jreturning workers, and it earned for the Alaska salmon |boats the name they still bear—“Hell Ships.” The tales of neglect, distress, danger, Teication s and ex-— ‘ploitation had not been confined to doings aboard the “Hell Ships.” Life in the canneries on the shores of bleak Alas- kan rivers and bays held its secrets, and some whispers of |these secrets had come to be heard by social workers and leven by the law-makers. My job was to uncover these |secrets, if possible. Whiskers, Shabby Clothes, Room in Cheap, Lodging House Prepare for Adventure At the same time I had to keep my own secret. I had ~ rented a room in a cheap lodging house, south of Market jst., and had taken an assumed name. I had raked together my oldest clothes and was wearing them. I had let my whiskers grow, and presented what I considered the picture of a regular blanket bum. I had been directed to the store of Meyer & Young as the | Proper place to get myself hired. It seemed a strange thing MP do, to go to neers to get a job with the Alaska ;salmon packers. But I was expecting str: happenings. When I got to the store, I'd ask some o! oft the other white men about it. But when I hove in sight of this store the sights that met my eye filled me with wonder, *. TOMORROW—HOW WORKER MUST BUY HIS JOB. iw 5 se eNE