The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 14, 1915, Page 1

It is idle for Chief Lang, or his attorneys, or Coun- cilman Dale, to argue as they did at the opening session of the Lang inquiry yesterday that they do not know what the charges against him are. SUCH A CONTENTION: IS BUT THE SUBTER- FUGE OF PETTFIFOGGERS,. TRIMMERS AND SIDE- STEPPERS. Such an attitude depends on_ technicalities and hopes to avoid the real truth and merits of the case. But to give even Councilman Dale and Lang’s attorneys no opportunity to mistake what the charges are, The Star will repeat them: 1. Chief of Police Lang on the night of July 22 was a member of a wine party at Tate’s cafe when the rules of the cafe were broken because “it was all right with the chief of police” to have one of the cabaret girls sit and drink with the chief and his friends. 2. Chief of Police Lang shortly after 1 o’clock that same morning met this same cabaret girl in a downtown street and at 1:45 or thereabouts went to her hotel on First ave. and entered her room. He stayed there about an hour, visiting with the cafe singer and another girl. . ; 3. He used a city automobile and a city chauffeur to drive him to and from his cafe party and subsequent social call at the hotel. There are other matters which the council might want to investigate. But these three, enumerated specifically again, are sufficient todetermine whether Lang has con- ducted himself in a manner uxbecoming an officer. That is what the council must determine—-whether such conduct is proper for a chief or not. In the recent past it was rather positively decided : that it is not: proper for a Seattle police chief to be a ; crook. Now the council must decide whether or not it ‘ is O. K. for a Seattle chief to break,a rule intended to 4 disorderly conduct in a cafe; whether it is all | right for a chief to use a city-owned auto to carry his party to and from a cafe; whether or not it is right and _ {ill proper for a chief to call onacafe singer at 2.a.m.in | ¢ the morning and again misuse a city-owned auto to i carry him home from his social call. Now that these questions have come up, it seems that they should be decided upon their merits. A de- cision will be mighty valuable. It should prove a cor- rect guide to our future chiefs. It will tell them just how far they may go without going too far. Lang’s conduct was either proper or improper. That's what the coun- cil must determine. If proper, the council should recommend that he stay on the job. If improper, he should be removed. If the council finds it proper, the council then determines: —lIt is all right for a chief and his friends to break cafe rules because “it’s all right with the chief”; it is all right for a cabaret girl to sit and drink with a chief of police and his friends in a public cafe, tho she would not be permitted to do so with any other party. —It is all right for a chief of police to make a date with a cafe singer and to take her to her room at any hour of night. It is all right for a chief to use—or rather misuse—city autos and city chauffeurs for his cafe revels and cabaret so- i ODI 3 3- cials. ie a ae re aleagiaae oe : attempt to end her life. Then she ' telephoned her mother, Mrs. 8. E : 4 Mitchell All Mrs. Mitchel! heard when she LONE BANDIT answered the phone was, “Good-bye mamma.” She sent her maid to find out what the trouble was. The maid x vcoya, sept wee th. 181 found Mrs. Keith lying on the floor.|..4eq an’ armed Virginia Keith, 1811 Howard! st lies in the city hospital, recovering the effects of tukxing lysol, a She summoned medical assistance, »Oivean 40 and at the camp of t and after a hard fight the woman's life was saved The Seattle Star in Seattle That Dares to Print the News : NO. 1 WH SHOT BY | AFFINITY Soul Mate Finds Her With | Another Man and Empties His Gun. | |RUNS MINUS CLOTHES | Wealthy Vancouver Hotel | Man Is Now Under Arrest | —Woman May Die. | : VANCOL uw. M and m thia cit a trin) for t ning over an er with a t night fig ured in aw shooting fa! which Mra, Cora Abia is not expect ed to live Cottingham, who {# enamored of the woman, made a midnight call last night and found another man} present | He drew a 44 Colt's revolver and oper ymbardment The woman was shot thru the left bur clothes followed nghan r arrest bulleta this morning PENSION CASE: MAY APPEAL IT Superior Judge Dykeman refused | to grant Tuesday the petition of) lAttorney G. Wright Arnold that! }Mra. Rose Snyder, a deserted moth- er of three children, be given a mother's penston [p Arnold: attacked. the constitution: | y of the act of the last leginia-| g the mothers’ pen-| sion law to exclude deserted moth or ite benefits | in amend from In passing, however, Judge Dyke man sald he was so far in doubt} that he felt it would be necessary urt to hear the for the supreme cc petition Cla the Under iW ed mothers who bh state a year were en each ort and education from | certain amount for the stat Arnold refusing be ers class | declared the amendment | nefits to deserted moth | 4 eitihinprnitapianemaliii details of th ceived as yet The telegraph operator at Inde-} pendence wéred this morning at 1| o'clock that a suspect had been fired on by one of the fp that he had made his escape the bushes. | WASN'T HE SUCH A SOCIABLE CHAP? Mrs. Mary Hilleware, of 2203 | Bigelow ave., testified in ask ing for a ivorce from Rene | Hilleware, Tuesday, that he had objected 80 strenuously to her having callers come to their home that on one occa- sion he took the ax and broke up the benches on which her visitors had been seated on the : cS company at Ind V lawn. Niu chines’ that obo ies company of. last night, shortly after 8 0 In the month of June, 1912, Hille Jus 0 be lies) North Yohiand, watnt o pany of and obtained $250. The ba «| ware allowed her $2.75 to spend tana © 1© fers to sell plant to caped to the nearby woods, and| for groceries and m she said " w. county fair opens, es led by four sheriffs and dep-| hearing 1s before Judge | g the country, No|T Since MUTT Got JEFF to Join Fren . S Pariout cap? 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Testifying that Chief of Police Lang practically converted the Hudson automobile, belonging to the city | of Seattle, into a private car for himself, Driver Jack | Williams, the first witness in the case against Police | Chief Lang, created a mild sensation Monday afternoon. | Williams, tho called by Corporation Counsel Brad- \ford, who is conducting the inquiry in behalf of the city against Lang, showed thruout his testimony his friendli- ness toward Lang. His testimony, however, proved ing to the chief, especially in a clumsy attempt to lay the foundation for the chief's “detecatiff” alibi. In his direct examination Williams said he received a telephone message to meet the chief at the Rainier club on the night of July 22. shortly before 11 p. m. STARTED AT RAINIER CLUB Three other men were with Lang.. They came out of the club, entered the city auto, and were about to proceed to the Washington hotel. On the way there, one of the men— Williams said he did not know who—suggested going to Sid! Wirt, well-known actress, formerly of Seattle, where she sang Tate's cafe. at the Butler cafe, is engaged to marry John D. Spreckels, Diego, Cal., It was recently announced. Young Spreckels is the son of 1. did not know wh« » of San John D. Spreckels, muiti-miliionaire, and one of the West's wealthiest capitalliats, Se SEATTLE GAN DEVELOP BIG LOSE MOTHERS’ SOUTH AMERICAN TRADE, ):::ts5 2% =o JOHN BARRETT TELLS BOALT BY FRED L. BOALT John © Barratt, diplomatist, formerly U. 8. minister to Siam, and long before that a Seattle newspaperman, and now director general of the Pan-American Union, suggest: ed to the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, Monday, that this city send to South America # delegation of business men te study trade potentialities there. Barrett is probably the best Informed man in the U. 8. on South American condi- tions. Barrett ed me an interview ng, at the con h he departed for Tuesday Inston of wh Washington, D. My suggestion,” he sald, “was well received. 1 believe the Pa cific Coast Is coming to see the op portunity to expand {ts trade by America, The West can compete with the East in the South American field.” Down to Brass Tacks 1 suggested that this was a gen erality which had been much dis wed, and that, if the Pacific st was ever golng to do bust with South America, the time down to brass wooing South cus was at hand to get tacks The diplomatist laughed and | said What, then, exactly, is it that you want to know This: What have we of the Pacific Coast, and especially the Northwest, got that South America wants? And what has South Amer: ica got that we want? And where are we going to find ships “l'm glad you asked those questions,” said Barrett. “You've got raw and manufac- tured lumber, and the west coast of South America needs it, The standard of living in South America Is the South American veloping a tasts for handsome homes and nice furniture You've got flour. You can eell it In South America. You've got canned saimon, canned fruit, canned milk, The market is down there. “Consider the potentialities on Somewhat--Oh, Well! - - the west coast alone. A coast $000 miles tong. Twenty million | People, Who spend annually, in for- }elgn trade, $560,000,000. You can fet most of thet, business.” And what have they got that |} we wantT’ What They Have “Hardwoods such as do not jin this country stance grow Mahogany, for in. Rubber for the manufac. ture of automobile tires. Why pay to ship rubber to the Eastern staten, and then acrosa the conti nent, when it might as well come| direct by water? You could com- pete with the East in the manufac- ture of tires if you had cheap rub- ber.” | “And nitrates from Chile, manufacture of explosives tillzer and so And All the coffee you drink first to the Eastern states and then by rail across the country You could get it direct by water.” Plenty of Ships “And the ships to carry all these | things to and fro?” “SOUTH AMERICA HAS MANY the fer- on. | SHIPS. Just now they have about jall the business they can attend to. The war is largely responsible for this condition. German ships alone |are cut off from participation in 1 the commerce of the seas. IF YOU GET THE BUSINESS, THERE WILL BE NO LACK OF BOT- | TOMS TO CARRY IT.” REPORT TONIGHT Investigation of the contention that the Lake Washington canal has been siow in opening to small craft has been made by a committee of the Commercial Club, headed by J. M. Haw. |] thorne, and will report Tuesday night to a meeting of the club. | FRENCH SHIP SUNK | LONDON, Sept. 14 cargo boat Oued tons, has been torped¢ ‘but t rew WAS § The French of 1,540 and sunk, | “Fine idea,” said one of Lahg’s friends. Williams said » any of the other three in the car were. Abandoning their original intention of going to the sotel, then, the four stopped off at Tate's cafe. yout 11 o'clock, Williams said. WAITED HOUR AND HALF “While the chief and his friends were in the cafe, what Bradford asked. w |That was ashing j 1 waited there until about 12:30, when they came out, jgot into the car, and told me to drive them to the Washing- ton. They got off there, and I went back to headquarters.” “Did you see any of them drunk?” | before morning. He then went back “No; I did not notice anything/into the cafe and came back with |unvsual about any of them.” |his friends about 15 minutes later.” | "When Attorney Willett, however, Oh, My! Oh, My! took up Williams’ examination, be! winiams named nine policemen iat once directed his attention to the whom he said he saw passing famous “hide-and-seek - detecatif€” |-Tate's cafe during the hour ani 30 pattol, |minutes the chief was there. Seret. | Smart and four others in plain clothes were there together in one group. Smart and Patrolman Hagen, who covers that beat, in- quired if the chief was in the cafe, \said Williams. Two others, Capt | Sullivan and Sergt. Hedges, passed by in an auto. Another policeman, whom Williams could not name, was also there, tho it was not on his beat, said the driver. But Not Strange Enough On redirect examination, Corpora- tion Counsel Bradford asked Will- iams: “You thought It was strange there should be so many policemen there?” (Continued on Page 5) GOVERNMENT ASKS ALL U. S. | CITIZENS TO LEAVE SONORA Memory “Refreshed” “Don't you remember that Chief Lang came out ahead of the others and talked to you, and then went back into the cafe before they final- ly left for the Washington?” asked Willett. aid Willlame. “it SEEMS to me he did.” “When did he come out, if you re- member?” “It SEEMS to me about 15 min- utes before the others and the chief came out together.” | “Did you say anything to him then?” “Yes; I told him there were a large number of policemen there. It seemed strange, and he sald he'd give ‘em something to think about | NOGALES, Ariz., Sept. 14.— d Texas rangers combined Cam- Americans owning property in bp ban! and Hidalgo counties today for Sonora, where white men are| Mexicans believed to be massing in |the direction of Harlingen for a big attack United States troops are digging trenches near Fort Brown, opposite the Carranza trenches at Mata- moras, a8 a safeguard against pos sible attack across the river. working, sald today they had re- ceived notice that Washington wants all Americans to get out of Mexico at once Consul Frederick Simpich at No- gales, Sonora, refuses to confirm the report He states that he is — unable to discuss the matter. That} some kind of warning has been re-| NO ceived is plainly indicated. NOWATA, Okla., Sept. 14.—After THIS IS REGULAR ict cverpowered Jutiers ts the | WAR; DIG TRENCHES jail early today, they found | jonl ODY HOME only an empty cell where they ex- Sept. 14.—Two | pected to locate B. 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