The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 26, 1915, Page 1

EXT Tuesday, the county commissioners will have before them the application of the Puget Sound ©. . | Traction, Light & Power Co, for an exclusive franchise | to supply electric service thruout the country districts, with the exception of the few places where the city and | we Overheard at Tate's! SW Ow oe : the company now enjoy common user privileges. A bigger grab has not come up in this county for many years. The commissioners should waste no time in killing such a presumptuous application, If this franchise is granted, it means that the city light plant would be excluded from giving those districts NO. 158. SEATTLE, POR PRR A PPPRPRRPPPPRD PPP A APR PRPRPSRAAPPAPPXAPARPPRPLPRPPPPAPP PP PPRPPPPPPPPPPS The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News : VOLUME 18. WASH., THURSD _|FOLKS, KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TUESDAY! { which are tributary to Seattle the benefits of a publicly into existence. The day of exclusive franchise should be owned and operated institution | forever past | I h ith : h e ON TUESDAY, MESSRS. CARRIGAN, HAMIL- t means ¢hat with no competition, the private ¢om TON AND KNUDSEN, COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, | pany will be able to exact the extortionate rates that have | WILL HAVE THE CHANCE TO SHOW JUST prevailed in this city before the municipal plant came | WHAT KIND OF PUBLIC SERVANTS THEY ARE. AST EDITION Partially cloudy; unsettled TIDE AT SEATTLE High Low. 508 oom, 127 1 em, a4 ft ON THAINS AND . NEWS STANDS, Be 6.00 pom, In7 ft AY, AUGUST 26, 1915. ONE CENT REPORTS SHOW CHIEF LANG CONTROLLED GAMBLING AT WILL SHUTS DOWN ALL “JOINTS” JUST BY | SPEAKING A WORD the city council passes Councilman Lundy’s resolu-| #@ tion for an investigation of the charges againa!| Chief of Police Lang, testimony will be introduced, i developed today, that Lang permitted gambling joints ‘fo open and ordered them closed at will. It will be shown positively that one of Lang's first acts in office was to order a quiet investigation of the gambling resorts. | He was inspired to do this by a current rumor that} when Prosecuting Attorney Lundin and Sheriff Hodge ‘ook office they would launch a campaign against the gamblers and put Lang “in bad” at the start. Lang set out to “beat them to it.” | That is, he had INVESTIGATED AND CLOSED | the following clubs: |. The Lions’ club, 1616 Third av. | The Washington Republican club, top Olympus building. | The Union club, Union block, 713 First av. The Business Men's club, Crown building, d James. The Douglas club, Third av. S. The Manhattan club, King st. The T. M. A. club, Spring st., between Second and } i } } e)) Second The Dumas ttub, Fifth av. The plain clothes men who lected and close] “clubs” for Lang made to him a complete report) ‘in writing, which included the names of the owners and} ‘their police records, AND THE FACTS THAT THEY | WERE GAMBLING JOINTS AND “BLIND PIGS.” It was on Lang’s order, after the investigation, that these places >..0 closed. | It developed about two weeks Inter that Lundin and Hodge were ‘tot contemplating an open attack on gambling and that Lang had had ‘Bis trouble for his pains. The word was then passed to the joints that they might reopen. Lang put the plain clothes men who had conducted the inquiry him in uniform and “sent them to the foothills.” 2 cater stil, when Harry Dunaway, the Northern Pacific cashier, pilfered $5,000 of the company’s money, which he lost in the g hells which Lang permitted to reopen, became a fugitive Justice, and when, coincidentally, Prosecutor Landin made comment concerning the absence of police and sheriff help he Mea rend in his efforts to down gambling, Lang came back at the “There is less gambling in Seattle now than there ever has been.” Lang knew all about the gambling joints. He knew where they were and what they were. He knew that most of them had well-equipped bars and sold liquor defiance of the law. He knew that these places were outlaw institutions operated by breakers and that they were frequented by sharpers, thieves and fi ppeea all about them, HE SHOWED THAT HE COULD CLOSE THEM iF "he WANTED TO. Having closed them, he was pleased, ‘when it served his purpose, to let them re-open AND RESUME P ING UPON A GULLIBLE PUBLIC WHOM HE !8 PAID TO PROTECT: Councilman Landy said Thursday his resolution for an investiga Yion of Lang's conduct would be introduced at Monday's meeting of the council. It is regarded as certain that {t will pass. E yor Gill says he will fire the chief if the council finds him guilty ‘of the charges that he was a member of a wine party In a public down- town cafe, and that afterward he went with one of the girl cabaret en ftertainers to her room. LET UNCLE MOVE YOU FIRE ON AMERICANS CENTRALIA, Aug. 2%6.—It's) BROWNSVILLE, Tex., Aug. 26.— theaper to send furniture we be Mexicans fired on American sol- » os yours rg Mg Meorgptner|| diers from across the river near) feacher therefore today sent 400/Santa Maria for two hours last) ) passersby, ) floor of}} { expected force of men from the t { \ | tion, loff, she said, ‘pounds of household furniture by|night, wounding two horses, ac- Parcel post. cording to reports here toda SHAKE, JERR SmaKe ! vorne Twawr To CONGeaTAL ATE FACTORY WORK SHOURS CONGRATULATE AS FOR SLAIN HOME GURNED NDER the very shadow of the city hall, where Chief Lang sat com placently directing the move- ments of 400 men awaiting his slightest command, gambling went on all Wednesday after. noon and evening, persistent, unstinted, unmolested. Below Dearborn st, at the southern end of the old vice Gistrict, painted women leered thru windows of houses that | crowd close to the edge of the sidewalk, beckoning at men and no policeman interfered. Squalid Chinese stood guard over the gamb houses ready to warn tho side of the approach of any un- outposts 9 sheriff's office, or any suspic- lous person who might, per- haps, be a stool-pigeon. GIRL DECLARES Gambling Going on NOW Almost Within Shadow of the City Hall) Negro “jigger-boys” watched for the safety of the redlight resorts. Up and down the streets in the Chinese section, from the sidewalk could be distinctly rd the rattie of poker chips and the undertones of the gamblers Scores of gambling houses in full operation within * of the casual pedes With a blow of their nightaticke pelicemen under command of Chief Lang could have shattered the painted glass doors of at least a dozen such resorts and burst in upon “joints” in full operation These places are all situated on the ground filoo: Many others are conducted in up- stairs quarters in the second and third stories of socalled hotels, and over stores. Many of the “stores” are mere biinds. were ae |GERMANY WINS MAN ENTERED | ANOTHER GREAT HER BEDROOM VICTORY IN EAST Naval Lieut. Joseph 8. Hul- ings’ sudden disappearance from thie city a month ago re mained an unbroken secret un- til Thursday, when the cause of his unexpected leave taking was made public thru dis closures of Clara Milanowski, 13, formerly employed as maid In the lieutenant’s home, 1951 Third ave, W. Lievt. Hulings, who was acting as inspector for the navy depart ment at the Moran shipyards, where six submarines construction for the government, ] are under} vanished with Mrs. Hullngs and their two small children shortly after the girl's father, John Mt) lanowski, started an action to recover $5,000 damages for an attack made on the maid July 16 Judge Jurey found the girl ent! tled to $500 for the physical exhaus the shock to her nervous sys tem, fered thru the Ieutenant’s brutal | conduct. On the evening of July 16, Clara | declared, Hulings and his wife! were away and she children to bed, then retired to her) o room for the night. It was quite late when the lew \ cant returned, alone. She al leged he shortly appeared in her room, clad only in his summer un-| derwear. She screamed and the room. She ran most of the three miles to her home in Ballard, | arriving there at 2 o'clock the fol- lowing morning. iN Luck. tT IVST Gor You & JOB (NM AN AmmuniCTION FOU ONLY A DAY AND GeET#Z0 4 WEEK WHAT Tie DOGO To WoRK MAY I fought him | finally escaping from | & street car motorman, | Hulings | BERLIN, Aug. 26—Brest Litovek, the main fortress base of the Russian field armies, has been captured, it was an- nounced. The Russians surrendered Jast night a part of their defensive works had been stor Brest Litovek has been the Objective of Field Marshal Von Mackenzen since the capture of Lemberg. it is 120 mi east of Warsaw, on the Bug nd is the junction point fied and was Russian general staff to serve as the bate for the Slav armies when able. Field Marshal advanced from the Brest Litovek ern Galicia of the Russians, them back across the Polish bor and the humiliation she suf-| der, and then pressed on to Lublin. | Von He cleared North Fortress Is Enveioped With the capture of this point, he} line imperative, and the fall of the| Brest | fortresses of Bielostok and Grodno tho the movement of the |is now expected at any time. put the two/|Austro Germans tn this region was | without support until after Warsaw advanced Litovsk, steadily upon was captured Following this Leopold advanced eastward thr Praga, Novo Minsk and Siedlee and | within the past week has been aid ling Von Mackenzen’s forces in the|left is attack on Brest Litovsk by assaults | swamps, from the west and north With the two forces against the fortress, it was prac- tically enveloped. Some military critics rated Brest | fortress as practically impossible. MUTT Didn’t Pick the Kind of Job JEFF Was After (Copyright, 1915, by H.C. Fisher) YOU GO To WORK AT TWO (IN “THE AFTERNOON AND QUIT AT FIVE PM Mackenzen south against thrust victory, Prince| withdrawing to the east and north operating | HUSBAND NAMES SON | | AS CO-RESPONDENT | IN HIS DIVORCE SUIT Responding to a fire alarm at 5:10 a. m. Thursday, firemen found the scorched body of Charles Arndt, 30, a blacksmith, in his shack at 3303 20th ave. S., with a rope tight- ly tied around his neck. Death was due to strangulation. The bedy was found on the floor, and the \police are uncertain whether he was mur- \dered or whether he hanged himself, the rope lbreaking. One part of the rope, lying loose near the body, showed a break. | Arndt was a German and unmar-, found. The fire also ried He owned the shach oud for the past t e years. | It sted of three ms, a itehen, a bedroom and a asipall | | workplace where he haa a portable j forse. I was in the last place body was st tarted there. | It was some time after the fire |men got to the shack that Fireman ed Carter, 1924 17th ave. S., found the body Altho Arndt received some burns, it was clearly evident) the fire did not cause his death.; The rope, a cotton clothesline, was not even charred Arndt bas been out of work for three months, but, according to J S. Griffin, 2313 22nd ave. friend, he had money in the bank | anJ was not in want. | Women Were in House Acting Captain of Detectives | Kent does not believe it was a case of suicide, there being no indica- tions, he says, of hanging, and he} | does not believe Arndt could have} choked himself. WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—It was reliably reported this after- noon that in his conference to- day with Secretary Lansing, Neighbors declare that some women were also present in the} A™bassador Von Bernstorff leback Wednesday night, and they! g@ve assurances that Germany jecould hear the sound of voices up} to midnight. A number of empty will limit her submarine activi- ties and practically pledged beer bottles were found in the| that no more Americans would place. Arndt has $50 in the bank be harmed in any circum. He has no relatives here, but cas stanc some in Hamburg, Germany A post mortem examination wil! |be made by Coroner Mason Thurs- day afternoon. The police are investigating a story that a woman spent the night ‘ore jast in the shed with Arndt. orts are being made today ate her. The damage to the house and) GERMANY PRESENTS CASE contents by fire was probably not) BY CARL W. ACKERMAN over $25 BERLIN, Aug. 26.—Germany’s position in the Arabic case EX-GOV. BLEASE The state department had not re ceived, up to noon, the report of Ambassador Gerard on his confer ence with Foreign Minister Von Jagow. It is believed the ambassa- dor's report, cabled last night, may even go further toward clearing up £0) the situation. Mrs. Adelaide Smith LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 26—Jsenlor, hes Just secured a divorce Mrs, Adelaide Smith is the chief/from her on the charge that she| | Doss maintained wrongful relations with | | figure in one of the most amazing | hit ity carold armel divorce cases ever featured in a) wife. court Her husband, Joiner P. @mith, a| It !* believed here that the in. stance of a father naming his ow traveling salesman, many years her * : it |tr y son as co-respondent is unparal-| i leled in court annals. | based on the facts so far re- ceived was laid before the state Litovsk as of more strategic Im-| To make th eles eit | PLEA department in Washington to portance than Warsaw Rie e the case still more day. Its ¢ urrender | *trange. the husband maintained MAKES A it is believed the first expres pture makes th Kovno-Br jot the ¢ efended her alleged actions on the ground that she was sacrificing herself to save the son of her husband from the dangers of the world Denying misconduct with her| |stepson or any attempt to protect | thim along the lines suggested, Mrs | Smith has applied for and secured | Their right wing ts protected by | permission to have the case reopen forests on the north, while their | ed that she may present evidence guarded by marshes and |in defense of herself. which seriously delayed| The theory of Smith and his at | the advance of the Austro-Germana.|torney was that Mrs. Smith, thru Vast sums of money were spent| reading a recent novel, conceived| at Brest Litovak by the Russians, | the Idea of protecting her stepson | |who regarded conquering of the|from evil companions and asso-| jates by sacrific herself. “B By FOR MOB SPIRIT Aug. 26. no longer then ilberty Is was the statement of Cole Blease, former governor of South Carolina, In an ad- dress before the governors’ conference here today, in which he championed South- ern mobs who take the law into their own hands. Lynching for unmention- able crimes, Blease declared, wae a protection to civiliza- tion. D” tire t Litovek sion from the imperial govern- ment thru Ambassador Gerard will pave the way for a settle- ment of the incident. The ambassador sent a long cable to Washington last night, following a conference with Minister Von Jagow. He would not discuss the message, but expres: the belief that the situation growing out of the sinking of the Arabic would be settled without a break. The cable outlining Germany's position filed last night is the first of several messages which probably will be forwarded to Washington iregarding the Arable, FISHER Do You Read the Advertising? The rapid develop- ment of advertising in | | this is the most extraordinary phenomenon of this age. Not so long ago the number of good people who did | | not believe in advertis- Thought It impregnable ‘The Russians who retreated from the fortress base are believed to be You Dour WANT (tr? ee BREAKS UP ONE'S AFTERNOONS 50 country business ing constituted a ma- | | jority Today advertising is deliew A AHN UTM AUT a Advertising brings profit and | | growth to the merchant. It also brings profit and growth nd woman who to the man « read, The habit of datly keep ing in tough » the adver - tising pages of The Seattle Star enlarges the understand- Ing and pays as it goes.