The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 21, 1915, Page 1

Oh, You Tennis Fans! Don’t Overlook This N' XT week Norris Williams, new s champion, Seattle thru The how to go at the become an expert tenni is going to tell Mar, just layer game if you want to Williams can ex game as well as he plays it the sport page HIEF LANG'S silly explanation of his wine | party-cabaret girl escapade, made public today, | emphasizes his scandalous unfitness for ANY | responsible position, THE CHIEF ADMITS EVERY ESSENTIAL CHARGE AND STATEMENT MADE BY THE | | STAR. HE HAD TO. HE WAS CAUGHT RED- | HANDED. | But the chief of police lies, AND HE KNOWS | HE LIES, when he says The Star held this infor- | mation as a club on him in any way. The Star never demanded anything from Lang except that he should enforce the law impartially, protect de- cency, and eliminate brutality in the police depart- ment. The Star never even knew about Lang's night in Tate’s cafe and the Fairmount hotel when it de- manded a full investigation of the brutality charges - against Officers Phillips and Collins. i The Star did not promise Lang, as he in- | timates, to say nothing about the cabaret girl affair if he would fire these two patrolmen. The Star | never made any statement to Lang or any demand ALLOWED BY POLICE AMBLING joints have been operating in| J Seattle, month in and @onth out, under po-| te protection. At the time Sheriff Hodge and| osecutor Lundin took office, the word went put from police headquarters to the gamblers to ‘tlose down for a while. For two weeks the ‘gamblers didn’t turn a card or a wheel. And ; they-opened up again. Just now, as a re- ult of the turmoil caused in the police départ- by The Star, the gamesters are taking an-| layoff. Last night the curtains of many| alled “clubs” were up and men inside were ocently playing pool. : ese : | The Star has made an investigation this peck of some of the places Harry L. Dunaway, defaulting N. P. ticket agent, named in his note} to the public, telling how he stole $5,000 to pay gombling debts. Chief Lang says the city) “never was more free of gambling.” This ts first of a series of articles which will appear The Star, written by reporters and special in- estigators who have entered these places, which ¢ operated under the very eyes of the police the downtown district, and played the games. zal names and addresses will be used. By a Star Investigator STRIVE men were huddled together in the little anteroom | of one of the most flagrantly defiant gambling “joints” | Seattle. It was 1:30 o'clock p. m. : The name of the place, as it appears on the windows, the “Green Room.” It is on the ground floor, close ividual whom I knew as “The Bouncer.” He opened the door, which was locked. Ly I stepped inside. ‘ > The “Green Room” is sometimes known as “The T. M. A” It is run under that title by Jack Sears and R. C | Torrey, a former pal of Charlie Shomo, who was indicted a few years ago and who escaped from a deputy sheriff 0 was bringing him back here from Hot Springs, Ark. : The “VOLUME 18. IME JING }eom county into a furnace. D the alley between Second and Third aves. on Spring st.| - I nodded thru the window at the thug-like appearing) NO, 154. which it did not make in the printed columns of the | paper. And it never mad hold publicity. The important outsta atfair is that the chief made a disgraceful exhibition of himself in a public place, and in the early hours of the morning went to WHERE cafe. The rules of the he mit the girl singer to sit an i “The Green Room,” HE HAD NO BUSINESS TO GO, The chief admits he sat and boozed at a Spring st. resort, notorious among these who know Seattle by night unmolested by the Police, for several years. friends. And the rules e any promises to with- - TheSeattle Star Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News : | SEATTLE, WASH,, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1915. ONE CENT ADMITS VISIT TO GIRL’S ROOM ON THAINS NEWS STANDS, were broken because “it | was all right with the chief of police.” If any ordinary policeman had acted the way nding fact of the whole In the case of a chief of infinitely worse. a cabaret girl’s room— Tate's use were broken to per- d drink with him and his! Caught with the goc f 7 nn 1 Mm mI No ww TO SAVE HOMES BELLINGHAM, Aug. 21.—Show ers of ashes continued to pour onto this city today from the raging fires which have converted What The city is under a heavy coat of ash now, and a smoke pall has settled ‘over the upper sound country, mak- ing navigation difficult and haz. ardous. ) A score of farms have been wiped out, at least one town, Alki, four miles from here, has been destroy- ed, orchards and crops are ruined) and lives are endangered. } Damage already amounts to sev eral thousands of dollars, Strong Wind Blowing | To add to the seriousness of the! situation, a strong northerly wind! is blowing, and the weather bureau is predicting at least 10 days more of hot weather. An army of 2,000 men ts fighting flames thruout the country, but be-| cause of the prevailing direction of the wind, backfiring is out of the) question, and the only weapon is water, which is scarce. Fight to Save Homes | Dozens of farmers are fighting) | doggedly to save their homes, with| flames roaring all around them.) Many of them are carrying water) in buckets from creeks on adjoin ing farms. Hundreds of cattle are believed to have been burned, and as many more are endangered. With the burning at 9 o'clock last night of the Bellingham & North ‘ern railroad’s station at Wahl, the Postal Telegraph lines went down.| The south end of Mercer is all ablaze, and but few fire fighters (Continued on Page 5) TVE JUST CREATED ANOTHER ONERCTION THAT wit DO AWAY WITH THE HORRORS OF WAR. THIS 1S A BULLET THAT Hers A SOLDIER AND LEAVES A BLACK MARK BUT DOES WOT 3 THAT SOLDIER ‘S OUT OF THE i FOREVER. GET THE IDeA? | | OVER, No8oDyY Yes, JEFF, AND AN INTERNATIONAL UmPIRE SAYS” You'RE DEAD AND 1S8EE! IT HAD THe SAME RESULT AS IP THE SOLDIER WERE DEAD AND APTER THE WAR IS | are on hand, UTT May Think He’s a Thomas A. Edison, But JEFF Doesn't WAR % TRY 's For. EXACTLY J BUT BEFORG I SHOW IT To THE EDISON NANAK BOARD, LWANT To TegT IT AND BE SURE IT WORKS, SO YOU WALK OFF AgouT TEN PACES AND WEN “YOU ARE READY SAY “PiRE™ THEN Tei. La How (IT WORKS (ES, WE OUGHT To KILL Some BODY @ Wonder if those two friends of Lang’s will agree with him that he was the only sober one in the crowd that night at Tate's @ Gill says Lang was there to keep two drunken friends quiet. Somebody was drunk, all right. @ Oh, to be a detecatif and to sit in the stilly hours ot 2 or 3 a. m. and chat with a pretty cabaret girl in her room! That is the life! @ The chief says he went on purpose to the girl's room to be able to say he didn't go there for the pur- pose his “enemies” might say he went there for. That explains it all perfectly. @ Quoting from Chief Lang’s own statement: “After that we (the cabaret girl and the chief) played hide- and-seek with my shadowers for some time.” It's plain what they were trying to hide, but what was it they were secking? GERMANY WILL [ROME AGOG MAKE ENEMIES | OVER TURK PAY IF SHE WINS, BERLIN, Aug. 21.—Germany will | ment prevailed here today as a re- impose heavy Indemnities against | it ie the atrelall relations with her enemies if victorious in the! murkey, It was erally believed war, Secretary of the Treasury war with the Turks is imminent. Helirich declared ina speech In A reply from Constantinople to the reichstag today, Italys ultimatum demanding He estimated the war is costing Italian reservists be permitted to the belligerents a total of $75,000,-\leave Turkey, is expected at any 000 dally. time. (Copyrieht, 1916, by ML C. Fisher? \T OuT FIRST PEAR IT MIGHT on GA yy, It has been operated as a gambling joint, FARMERS FIGHT FOREST FIRES LAN GISMS WAR SCARE that} Lang did, he would have been summarily suspended. police, the misconduct is IN A PRIVATE INDIVIDUAL, SUCH CON- DUCT MIGHT BE CONDONED AND EXCUSED. IN A CHIEF OF POLICE, SUCH CONDUCT STAMPS HIM AS A PUBLIC MENACE. xis, the chief now pleads ee E TO DO BUSINESS 5 | * et) | ; a| || siaaadl i i. idl na PROSECUTOR TO ON GAMBLERS j ‘Prosecutor Lundin announced to} The Star Saturday that he intends | to proceed at once against the! gambling gangs known to exist in| Seattle—but in silence. | “I do not wish to enter into any newspaper controversy,” he deciar- ed, after jthat a making the comment) jorning paper had aided the gamblers by disclosing infor.) | mation obtained {n his office. | It leaked out several weeks ago |that certain persons prominently |connected with the newspaper re- |ferred to had called at Lundin's office and asked him to drop the prosecution of the gambling case which Lundin lost when deputy |shertffs failed to identify the pris-| oners charged. | “But,” said the prosecutor Sat-| urday, “I intend to go ahead with this thing in the only course that! is left open to me. I ask that every citizen who can give evi. dence against these gambling re- jsorts and the men operating them, call at my office in the Alaska bullding.” Lundin will be out of the. city Monday, sttending the Washington State Prosecuting Attorneys’ an- }nual convention at Portland, but |deputies In Bis office will handle any evidence that may be sub- mitted on that day. LINER WAS NOT CONVOYED LONDON, Aug. 21.—The liner Arabic was not being convoyed when she was tor- pedoed and sunk by a subma- rine, fement published by | the Bureau, and said to | be authorized by the admir- alty, said today. By vT Ww wh, PA SAGE, AND |the statement he gave out Satur- “BUD” How DOES JOR ? AST EDITION Falr Sunday, Cooler tonight TIVES AT SHATTIX High. Le 249 pom, 196 ft, 1:50 a om 4:06 p. m., be that he did all these things because he wanted to find out if certain police officers were “spying” on him. Any peace officer who saw Lang emerge from the cafe, and meet the cabaret girl, and go with her to the Fairmount hotel at 2 o'clock in the morning, who would not be curious enough to fol- low him, would not be human. Just how Chief Lang could detect “enemies” and “spies” by sitting at a wine table and having a girl drink with him and his friends, is not plain. It’s also a mystery just how the chief could detect “spies” by remaining for nearly an hour in the room of the cabaret girl on the third floor of the Fairmount hotel. Its also is a bit confusing to note that Lang Says none in his party was drunk, while Mayor Gill explains that Lang was in Tate’s cafe “attempt- ing to keep a couple of our prominent citizens quiet.” LANG'S “EXPLANATION,” ABSURD ON ITS FACE, IS A CLINCHING ARGUMENT FOR HIS REMOVAL. MAYOR GILL’S DUTY IS PLAIN. SO IS THE COUNCIL’S. OH! HE WAS PLAYING AT DETECTIVE |says, to get further proof that he | was being spied upon JUST HOW HE EXPECTED TO GET THIS PROOF AT 2 O'CLOCK IN| THE MORNING, IN THE GIRL’S ROOM, HE DOESN'T Ex. Aha! It's out! Speak not harshly of our chief of police because he drank wine in Tate’s cafe, ‘ | PLAIN. enjoyed the company of al baie. tlic aseuieaiae girl cabaret singer at his | terous. table’ (something that is against the rules for ordin- Simultaneously, Mayor Gill gave out @ statement in which he said that In Tate's cafe THE CHIEF ary — patrons) and then | WAS “ATTEMPTING TO KEEPA went with her to her |COUPLE OF OUR PROMINENT room at ‘the Fairmount | CITIZENS QuieT.” hotel at 2 a. m. for a lit- 1 believe Chief Lang was indis- creet in going to the girl's room,” said Mayor Gill, “but it is not a | heinous offense for him to have | been in a cafe, as long as cafes are |licensed. There are not sufficient grounds to justify his removal.” Gill {s continuing his investiga- tion. Friday afternoon he sent for the proprietor of Tate’s cafe and questioned him. Johnson admitted that the entertainer sat at the tle chat, as told in The Star Friday. For the chief (he makes it known today) is a de- tec-a-tif He says he was beiog shadowed. And he, wizard Hawk- shaw that he is, he caught ‘em at it, b’gosh! How did he do this thing? Well, that isn’t quite clear from (Continued on Page 3.) ae at "se Sars ABE RUEF F REE, BUT HE CANNOT VISIT FRISCO girl entertainer, he says, because SAN QUENTIN, Aug. 21.— he thought some members of the! force were spying on him, He met) her after the cafe had closed. He went with her to her room, he/ Abe Ruef, noted politician, wae paroled from the state prison here today on condition that he would not return to San FORMER CHIEF WILL TALK ON cino county during the first three months of liberty. | Ruef has actually served a little |more than four years and six | months of a 14-year term, to which jhe was sentenced, Counting time taken off for good behavior, he has served seven | years, which makes him eligible to | parole. The report of the board of par- dons granting Ruef's parole was | unanimous. | Ruef will leave San Quentin for Mendocino county Sunday or Mon- You'll Have to Hurry if you're gaing to have trip beautiful Puget Sound this One of the most attractive ex- be run tomorrow to Olympic Peninsula, the steamer Whatcom. he fare is only $1.09 round trip for adults ; | Ex-Chief of Police Austin E. church Sunday evening at 8 o'clock on the subject, “The Moral Responsibility of a City From t tandpoint of a Chief of Police.” “We invited the former chief to address us,” said Dr, Ralph Atkinson, pastor of the church, “in view of the recent develop- ments in the police situation.” The church is at 14th ave. and East Spring st. FISHER an excursion on season, i cursions will on $0c for children 5 to 12; children under 5 | free. And those hot days are when you'll appreciate such a trip the most. Full details on page 5.