The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 4, 1915, Page 1

A Star reader in Sumne: or a shipment of poultry the Seattle paper which he are corrected right up to | Woman Correspondent Tells First Uncensored Story of Bombardment of English Coast Towns Ssseee DIDITCEEC 853 | PEOPLE GET VOTE ON AUTOBUS LOOP PLAN ar = | POLICE | FIGHT FLOODS An area six blocks square was» completely inundated, the foundations of scores of houses loosened. and hundreds ef families badly frightened at ® o'clock Monday morning, when water began rushing over the seven-foot dike holding the Duwamish river at Oxbow, near Georgetown. As the sheet of water swept down the streets, there. was a general scurrying — of safety. seeped. over the tte gradually rose in the streets Gepth of two or three feet. ‘Smother, whose name was not picked up her 2-yearold| fer the front yard after tbe) had risen nearly to its shonl- The infant was helpless in pped # caused by the high ve been similar oc @urrences in previous years. To = will not be heavy, it @f navigation are being prepared. JAPANESE WIFE S A DIVORCE al civilization is affect the Orient. lie the M@vorce complaint =. court by Fuji Kamiya her husband, Knotaro. In pan such things are not done. n never applies for divorce Bu€ Fuji lives tn Seattle, and Knotaro, like some American hus bands, has become addicted to claims. teen + VISITING SHIP TO , SAIL TO FRISCO) ; le Norwegians are plan- ‘ * ae send the Seattle-bullt Viking ship peed in the Seattle @ph, and now owned by Ger- hard Erickson of Bothell, to the Frisco expoajtion. A volunteer crew will take it down with oars and sails. " RESUME ‘CLASSES AT UNIVERSITY | Yersity Monday. The feature of the) war is the short session of the e of miges, under the super of Dean Milnor Roberts. This urse is for the busy man, who has» the time to ake up the whole HE WON BOSS’ CHICAco, Jan. 4—Because Prof. George Frazer wooed and won his daugMter, Helen, President Jame of the Universit, of — Iilinois has compelled the resignation Of his future son-in-law agg in to say he got $10 more through watching the market quota tions in The Star, than he would have received had he depended on relied upon, The Star's quotations minute. Every day on page 3. to their homes to-) will have to use boats. Means filed Monday in the King county), drink, and does not support her, nah Studies were reawne@ at the unt-| DAUGHTER; BIFF!| r, Wash., AST EDITION Saturday The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News VOLUME 16, formerly WEATHER FORECAST—Rain SRATILE TIDES AT the last SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1915, ONE CENT Nuws STANDS Be NEWS STANDS, Se Do Innocent Men Ever Mount the Gallows? Boalt Saw 4 “Bumped Off” at Hanging Party; Now He Tells How Guiltless Man Nearly Died | By Fred L. Boalt nid 2a | SALEM, Ore., Jan. 4—!GIRL SURPRISES NATIVES BY HER John Arthur Pender, sen-| SKILL AT RIDING BIG SEA COMBERS| jtenced to hang Oct. 28, and reprieved by Gov. West, is} serving a life term in the |, Penitentiary here for a dou- “BIG GUNS” SUMMONED TO GIVE TESTIMONY TO U. S. COMMISSION; QUESTIONS THEY MUST ANSWER The following men and women of national reputation are among the list of more than 50 witnesses summoned to appear before the U. S. commission on industrial relations, tn New York, beginning January 6 The motorbus plan, suggested by The Star, to nect Divisions A and C, of the municipal railway, boure 5. BRANDEIS AMOS PiNCHOT ble murder he didn't com- one rem ta ill ne litigati = the le’ SAMUEL OMPERS 4 nm vote CHARLES M. CABOT . WILLIAM H. ALLEN mit. PA <a Seach 2. nope tas, put ie * $ , j dita WITCHELL JOHN D, ROCKEFELLER, JR John G, H. Sierks, 25, an . iimaw “Bob” H : JANE ADDAMS JEROME D. GREENE i . " ate . Counci ‘Bob’ lesketh, Monda: prepared b JACOB H. HOLLANDER FREDERICK H, GOFF tinmate of the state insane luti obs ffi y, WENRY ¢ Foe Ivy L. LEE asylum, confessed fast night Een to that ie ect. Councilmen Marble, >» . Lt ' HN ANOREW CARNEGIE ; 9 , ore, CREUET. maior © Guantae We neiee hat it was he who murdered ae ee Fine, ‘oved the Hesketh JACOB H. SCHIFF ROBERT W. DE FOREST Mrs. Daisy Wehrman and |Co _ Paps oe ae fee Fong for th J. P. MORGAN JOHN HAYS HAMMOND resol which will be introduced ‘ it Suuie RASENWALD gy a |her little son in their lonely lution, | GEORGE W. PRRKIN' CHARLES P. NEILL DANIEL GUGGENHE! W.L. MeKENZIE KING Here ar@ the siz fundamental questions Which the commission will ask all witnesses: (1) To what ex@®nt are stockholders and directors of a corpore- tion responsible for labor conditions which exist in it and for social conditions which are’proguced? (2) How generally and in what manner ere euch responsibitities assumed by directors and stockholders? (3) In actbal practice, how and upon wh: labor policies of large corpomstions determin: (4¥ To what extent are Indtstrial warfare, unemployment, pov- erty and delinquenty the results of the defects and maladjustments of American industry? (5) Do existing private and public agencies deal adequately with these problems? (6) Do the large resources of endowed foundations constitute a possible menace? If #0, what regulation or supervision is desirabie? cabin near Scappoose, on the night of Sept. 4, 1911. Pender will be released by executive order in a few days. other comnciionts aan et, ae a Both propositions, therefore, will appear on. A Tittle ago, In thie | SAW FOUR MEN “BUM OFF.” | aw these men, full of youth and vigor and love of life, turned into corp: broken necks, all Insids an hour. There was doubt to the guilt of two of these men. A short time before the day set for the execution of these men the [sovereign people of the state of} Oregon had b Rockefeller and = 3? It was the will of Che people Miss Louise "McGovern | downtown — di The Seattle, Renton & Southert plan is to have the city buy the wey now__must bear_beeaues |portion of the railway which Hes) have no means of operation in within the city limits. For this, the) Loe sbagvag Seattle, where the =~ os 5 . .| traffic ip hea’ og jetty is hs > pay $1,500,000 in tnstall-| It will also relieve the ‘neces hespeaved covering 28 years. The pay-| of the city buying the Seattle, Ren- _ | ments, outside of the initial one of}ton & Southern line at an extor — | $200,000, which is to come out of a a oes tela ne pl he city could, as soon bond issue, are to be made out peaplé vote for the inctoctalanl of 20 per cent of the gross receipts | giemiss its condemnation of the railway | against the railway and its suit at- The Star's proposition isto (tacking the company’s franchise, Invest $25,000 to $30,009 in There would then be no further le gal objection to improving the reets in Rainier valley, which the ° tenton company is now blocking, . @ a aa aed HONOLULU, Jan. 4. — Mis# out, towing her plank. She mount | making the needed connection | pending the outcome of the litiga- | (Continued on Page 2) Louise McGovern of Palo Alto, Cal../ed the plank and was swept in to-| between Division A of the mu- | tion mentioned. rn e Ce) | & graduate of Leland Stanford un! werd the surf, where a great| Mlcipal railway and the Lake The two propositions will be sep | versity, has surprised the natives comber tipped her into the sea Burien line. arate on the ballot. The voters: ‘ALYS BRYANT here by beating many of them at Nothing daunted, she tried again The motorbusses can also cp- | will have a chance to vote fa x their owe gamé, the difficult sport She kept at it until she sue. erate on Whatcom ave. where jably for one or for the other, | Y of surf riding cessfully navig 4 t breakers the field is ripe for just.thie against both. or in favor of both ce a ulz. WEDS AGAIN In “her own home town,” without half trying,” as she her-| kind of transportation. In this “Ft will leave plenty of opportuni: MecGovaen is a member of se self expressed it manner, the municipal railways. | ty to get a full expression of opin, Alys H. Brysin®; the aviatrice fea-|*0rorities and an athlete of ne — 2 | ed of the deficit” ‘fon from the people. | NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan, | Rocketotter, Jr.'s, correspondence | tired in the last Potlatch in Seattle, | accomplishments. SS howed how the Rockefeller-owned He yt £| When she came to Honoluin she | : |4.—John D. Rockefelle Colorado Fuel sand Iron Co, had am Moneay ais ta ace gi immedintly rere ptoveated “ts M B O’R ill See jound ot | break! oming in fro: ope’ ldrew ¢ carnegie ‘head a list of GOVERNMENT BROKEN entineer of the Sound steamer | breakers coming in from pen GOVERNMENT se ea, skillfully balancing themselves | , esses AT WEALTH ye 4 g|on’s nar more than 50 witnesse Facts about the Colorado strike,| The couple arrived in town abou ineral basié are the pick up a lot of busine trict, besides | can be reli ‘ ; plank FRANCE AND BELGIUM—Floode h I] f th 7 x a midnight, and took a taxi to the res-| “I can do that,” announced Miss tie up military operations In North; e. Ss fe) e ermans . fram whom, : beginning as developed before the com:|tgance of Justice Otis W.’Beinker.| MeGovern to a crowd on the hotel French aviators destroy German | Tuesday, the United States wrecige ene ge nda Rigen They were suppiied with a merriage jstepe. EE nee dirigtble sheds and kill several at e | it Fy Sa ie me pre oO C1 from Kitsap county OR. je . erbeo c on industrial|there p eben license Stoea: eraeatel fo bor f ar e ool Saacns will to learn Herd neytligd elsewhere | and) “Callow was divorced exactly atx| the girl athlete, kracefil tm her An | GERMANY—French claim slow In jrelations will seeK to lea 4 ¥ nent) months agi seals The restriction agaiget | Petts but steady gains, attended by des | ; had broken down before the pres Iwhy pj tria rOV) ol as ar ad vs at remarriage, under the law@of Wash-| perate fighting, in Alsace. Editor's Note—Mary Royle O'Rell 1 iy, see | why the syne ic al ern me os ‘wit overly, ae ington, expired exactly at midnicht |A SUBSTITUTE RUSSIA—Germans launch new ‘ r ment, with headquarters in| *#i0 “halrman sam Cote. Callow didn’t lose any time rete t nah The correspondeace from John) Callow didn't tone any time, | POR THE SALOON? [fanking movement from northwest : against Warsaw; Turkish successes | claimed in Transcaucas AUSTRIA—Russian Invasion of Wall st., is stronger in the/p, Rockefeller, jr, and bis Eastern| ,,Mre. Fallow wan tie wrote “| | pinches than the political ssents to his Colorado agents in-l Victoria two years ago Thé public welfare comraittee of dicated that the proposed investi wi “4 pal league ing a ‘ | governme nt, with head-) gation of the causes of industrial jthe Municipal league is mak Hungary through Carpathians tem R CORRESPONDENT \ Jashi unrest by the $100,000,000 Recke N THER FAILS strenuous effort to find a suitable porarily stopped. WAS PRESENT IN MARTLED 'OOL om the day of the bombardment.) quatters in Washington. 000 | - ANO | feller foundation HAS NOT BEEN | substitute for the saloon. A coffee] TURKEY—Attempted landing of i se i Mai eece nan i rAIT HARTLEPOOL, Dec. 16 “(By Mail).—The maid in the | Chairman Frank P. Walsh is |UNDPRTAKEN IN GOOD FAITH anette. Gaabha x men house, workingmen’s Y. MC, A,|Russlan fharines at Jaffa repulsed, | Parapet y, ‘ The te . | bere end oo m0 8 nummer of IAN EPRORT TO | chant couldn't stand high | and the Edinburgh, Scotland, club- |hotel at York who bade me “gooc morning” ‘venture | government agents who have |pERPETUATE FORTUNES rerite and had to @urrender to | room plan are among the sugges friendly remark: * : as : } worked for months on the ques Our commission thinks the put) the landlords’ attack | tions discuamed . TO INVESTIGATE “It seems a storm is brewing, ma’am. tions which will be asked of Bi i ia lic has a right to know the motives Martin's glove store, 1012 | UNEMPLOYMENT There’s a queer thunder at sea.” a the nation’s leading money ‘behind that foundation and @ther| Second ave., closed up Satur "RE WILLING ; I listened. Faint and far borne drifted kings, social workers and Indus |, dations, such as the Carnegie| day and assignment to cred- THEY + 4 committee of prominent men| Win | telieannlen Wind raivakherweas n° Of: trial experts, and Sage foundatigps. itors has been effected. ROME, Jan, 4King George and{and women to inquire into the ¢ akabje: rey ‘ation « The same line of Investigation It think® the people should know| Notices to that effect were | : Se \ «Tiled favorably to | causes and remedios of unemploy- } guns. Tt was the “thunder” which shook will be followed at the local hear-|whether those foundations are de-| posted on the bibs Bi ie poe ipresoua that prisoner: | ment In § » will hold meetings| | Liege and echoed about Brussels. ing as that pursued {n the Colorado signed to benefit the public or per-| store is a small one, but the “lhc ake s permanent disabil:|in the Y,. M. C. A. Wednesday,| “Good Lord!” the maid exclaimed; “it’s bHo | ly $800 |of,war suffering permanent disa : ; 3 coal strike probe in Denver last| petuate the fortune@ which they| rents were approxtmately pg the oe Thursday and Friday of this week. Te 4 . ” ‘month when testimony and John D.\ represent | _amonth, | tty shall be exchans ee ed | them! The Huns are here! A rush to the railway station, a short 87 train run to the coast and I arrived at the city of falling debris—just too late to wit+ ness the shelling of the Hartlepools. ° West Hartlepool @pd old Hartlepool, twin ead. WELL, 1 mus¥ Go Home | | CO FLORENCE MOW TO TAKE MY J) | 4, z ; 5 PE YoU VERY OF TEN.| eMOCAL LESSON f ) RUM iM ANY Tie | “ — Be hy ern ports, lie crescent-wise along the low coast of Yorkshire, just north of Tresmouth, Both are work- vgmen’s towns. J WHAT MADE You ADVISE] ) For THe DesT WHY DID You ci TN WER 10 GO ABROAD REASON IN THE STRING A YOUNG Gil STUDY] You KNOW SHE | WORLD, SHE rR | ME OVER in } RENCE, WE Don Tr | MY ISNT SHEA) [WAN NES, | CAN {Much MPR [REMEMBER WHEN SHE bgp! shear WAS SUCH A MODEST ALONG THAT WAY 2 . On HAS NO : : Shipbuilding and export of coal, iron andtimber 1 Tin GIRL 7 ¢ LT TLE THING Yeisen LIVES NEXT D ave congregated 90,000 peace-loving people on ti® 1 - oy: n. vractically uNprotected boroughs, el inviolate’ England act under attack? That was the , Cay: question I asked myself as I left the station. A phlegmatic cabby reckoned he knew what brought me. “Ay—we've been bombarded. Maybe you'll hear some talk about ft—just at first 1 don't call it no great achievement, super-dread- | naughts vomiting red ruin on workingmen’s homes and us helpless with- out a gun to strike back. Makes one kinder sympathize with them Belgians, Last month the Hartlepools took in quite a few refugees. Quick as the first shells screamed THEY KNEW. Every man of them ran through the streets, shouting, ‘Quick! Into your cellars! Quick!’ “Shrapnel was fallin’ Ike rain.) “Them Huns was bombarding poor But them Belgians paid no heed.|folks’ homes — steel thunderbolts Pretty plucky I call that. It prob-|against tenements. My house is ably saved quite a few. Only there/gone with the rest. Eleven-inch wasn't many cellars for us to get ee into. (Continued on Page 7.)