The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 30, 1914, Page 1

GUARANTEED PAID CIRCULATION 90,000 COPIES DAILY The SeattleStar IGHT The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News DL Sues eee 11DES AT SHATTLF Hhets 1 a7. Oa n 10 ft, W655 p. INS AND ANDS, he CEN? co .! NEWS 1} {LEO FRANK PLEADS TIS CASE IN STAR A REAL PICTURE OF A BATTLE; PHOTOGRAPHED FROM BEHIND THE FRENCH ARTILLERY LINE NEAR THE ARGONNE FOREST IN EASTERN FRANCE » OLUME 16. SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, DEC. 30, 1914 ae et A tad ah’; h {enced to bang January 2%, at Friday. Justice Lamar of the airs supreme court hee supreme court of the By Leo Frank Heht, 1914, ty the Newspaper Bint prise Ase DEATH CELL, FUL TON CO. JAIL, ATLANS= TA, GA.—Sentenced to dié a felon’s death! To be hung” by the neck until dead, for the crime of another! What a travesty on justice! It would seem pre posters jous for such a thing 1) jhappen in the 20th century] land in the enlightenment | jof these United States. n war as now waged in Europe is mostly one long artillery duel. The cannon roar for days and then there is a charge of men which lasts only a few minutes. The photograph is of an artillery battle} And yet | am SBN» Argonne forest in Eastern France. A French battery is here shown shelling the German trenches and artillery in the distance. The photographer took his picture from just behind the French position. iT -NCED TO DIE FOR vas eRe CRIME OF. WHICH. - WELLS, ONCE © ist sore 3 ae: ts FAILS AT BO ims ag jinnocent, although a great It is easy for the humoriats to|that when he broke away from The/state puts the seal of its laay that the Seattle Sun has ceased | Star and started a newspaper of his to shine jown, he seemed to forget all he haa| approval on my execution, ST SREY Caught in an Awful, Awful Scandal; They’ ve Got the Goods on Us 1D anar car i At last the horrible, awful truth is told on us, “THERE'S “A REASON” > SPL RS ROM MOET Seattie evening paper has caught us with the goods. A sister of a reporter on The Star took the civil service ex- amination passed it, WAITED 13 MONTHS FOR AN AP- ee It ix easy for the after-the-fact/ learned tn the days when he worked , ;: POINTMENT, AND HAS NOW BEEN WORKING IN. THE It Is Well Known That « a ‘Certain Evening Publication Has wiseacres to tell why the adven-|on The Star, and invented a game it will be nothing more Oe ene een eet mee A MONTH PON THE Always Boosted Ross and the City Lighting tire ended in disaster lof his own, than murder degalized. PAST 18 MONTHS! Ain't it.a turribie, turrible ecanda There are a thousand and one| Perhaps that's why he failed. |The Lord Will Now you know, according to this editor, the deep, dark reasons why some newspapers fail.| It'was six years ago that Wells| secret of why The Star has championed municipal ownership Gie deltnaiain ales io cannes ao tae chee The big fact here is that the|left The Star. The Star as.a prop-|Reveal the Truth for 17 years. ning publication Of Meattio since he hee been In office and since A Seattle Sun has suspended publica-jerty had become so valuable that Life, though sweet, is a fleet. tion Wells, when be quit, sold his small . Now you know why The Star supported William Hickman vonachalfe ssuapetes ing thing. Honor and name ki ‘ot ol te hae hoeaat Moore on a municipal ownership campaign for mayor in 1906, ay saggy de f the City & conte @ kilowatt hour A few moneyed men nave yoon interest tn tt for $100,000. 1g thing. a age pi ast : <A Now you know why The Star boosted for the city water Gentile Ricctric Company two ¥ we. cttered to nahn 's Wee-pene 5 tol a a2 et a OS oN AES OR day be universally favorably on the Volimer- plant. @hieh they would save to the City about $55,008 per annum en the ory mi sen nied ana aint Sune! id recognized, even © und " Siento Lobeck resolution, whith | Now you know why The Star fought so hard to get the mu publis butldings tn Beat Neuta- been thrown out of employment (Continued on Page 6.) ' (Continued on Page 2.) prohibit the exportation from nicipal light piant established a dozen years or more ago. Conspicuous among those who! ascend have gone down in the smash 1s the author of the enterprise, Wells K. H. Wells, who, once wealthy, 2 BE LEO FRANK, SENTENCED TO HANG JAN. 22 ita von stort» 22] FOR THE MURDER OF A 14-YEAR-OLD GIRL enemies as a monster and a cun ning schemer. To those who do no! know him, be is an impractical dreamer, He ts neither one nor the country of munitions of bes! belligerents. the United States a| in “the greatest crime ¢etvilization in all history. ig to prayers for peace offered on Sundays in various; Vollmer said | the United States stopped fur Now you know why, when this sister of a Star reporter was kicking around in the kindergarten, The Star was conspiring to have a job for her when she grew up. It clears up the mystery of why The Star fought for better car service on the Seattie Electric lines, and why it demanded transfer privileges between the Renton and the Electric com- pany lines. It explains why The Star was against the blanket franchise 9 posible in Seattle, 1s to be made wp trom the general fuse munitions of war to the bel-| | granted the Seattle Electric Co. In 1900, which tied the city's the City the price it should pay—vet the price to the Clty yen the war would end in 90 inde til! 1934, Soe Alpe Mogserc avon To us who know Wells, he is a It explains why The Star wants ¢ar tickets sold on street sak” Cuts UT Ge teat tees cele war tee oe likable man and a capable’ news Present neutrality has un cars at 6 for 25 cents, and why it has a sympathetic word for porte Ro paper man. He is more, for he has strange change since the the straphangers’ club. One Abe Murwits, who ls & reporter om alld paper and covers Ross ée- lately shown qualities we did not of the war. ri Perhaps it also expiains why The Star protested against the BRT AY a cor ent p mvt opmaegt mgt apt phtere slgetime data suspect he possessed & “Munitions of war trom the United Hanford injunction to make Rainier valley folke pay extra nick- tempora.#y—dut on the return of th Wells was once the editor of The are going to the allies only eis to the Seattle, Renton & Southern; undoubtedly it sheds ‘as there was practically no work for euch & ¢ Star—its first editor, Before tha light on The Stare’ ressone for urging the Impeactirhent of courae it Abe Wurertt an esp la later in the Lianting Department he was a newspaper man, not ait. Judge Hanf Perhaps it also explains why The nything else to do, he would @o to erent from the average run of ge Hanford. aps so exp y le god on wheels—and would support newspaper mev, Working on the fought the | meat polsoners, and gambling joints, and the and white slavers, and the “pink-cuff gentry. the losses to the taxpayer might be roade dance hall, 4 reason for the me pleasantness foreeaid publication and Mr Rose end bie department staffs of San Francisco papers. When he, with others, undertook the launching of The Star in Se Everything is perfectly plain since the editor of the even- atile, he was well grounded in the ing paper referred to heard the “certain lady's” story and went Reproduction of the editorialn last Sunday's issue of a Seattle principles and methods which gov and peached on us. evening paper, telling the reason why The Star |e for municipal ern all Seripps newspapers. THE STAR DID ALL THESE THINGS BECAUSE A $18- ownership, Incidentally, the editorial re’ It may be stated, parenthetically, TER OF A REPORTER ON THE STAR HAS BEEN HOLDING which pays as litt po AN $85 CIVIL SERVICE JOB IN THE LIGHTING DEPART- person who wrote this masterpiece to know that The Star is the MENT FOR THE PAST 18 MONTHS! only Seattle newspaper THAT OWNS AND PAYS TAXGS ON ITS AREN'T WE THE HARDENED OLD GRAFTERS? OWN HOME. WEATHER CAUSES A HALT IN FIGHTING 1D -—Cabinet considers o in protest against British ia with American com- merce on high seas; prolonged ne- Getistions likely. rs . sis - PARIS, Dec. 30.—Belgium and FRANCE AND BELGIUM—Oper. in Alea: version; Montenegrins active in as rapidly ae bad roade permit; declared practically unchanged and | northern France are swept by flerce | ations in extreme north tied up by AUSTRIA—Rusasi claim Aus Herzegovina. successes claimed against Turks in Germans said to be advancing in Po-| gales today. Torrents of cold rain Ke pate but French center and clare retirements were strategic, RUSSIA—Petrograd tells of Rus. Transcauca land; French and Russian claime|fell. There were occasional snow 4 ailic gains claimed’ but German accounts uphold Slav sian advance westward in Poland GERMANY—Weetern situation denied. flurries, , dedigeninitinatine sia fecpamnsinnde r- PUT YouR CoAT | foee, it has eeen | | JOR: | Want You To HoLo | PUT A HANDKERCHIEF TOM, WHAT . PAE get g 1G Since | ul ARK ERCHIER im Your IM TH z ING { , 2 HAST WaD on fea ] HAND 50 That You won'r i tae ano a ! 100) 0 at AG HOME. Ive MADE] L_ SoiL MY DRESS F— L_,_OF Your _co- ° ENOUGH OF 6 A SHOW OF S MYSELF ef Character Sketch of Leo Frank, Made From a Photograph Taken @ Frank in Hie Death Cell at the Time He Wrote This Message to Gp American People.