The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 8, 1915, Page 1

ay, Reader, Are YouaHockeyFan? Some game! Some game! dulifighting aren't in it with hockey! You yee, we were one of the 2,500 yelling fans that saw last night's opener, See the sport page for details. Football and . * e . . . GRIFFITHS, JR. MAYOR AT 25 b BEATS HIS DAD TOIT VOLUME ._*.* © © ‘Attorney for Renton Bond- holders Openly Says Judge Frater Is Delaying Com- pany’s Receivership; Won’t Apologize; Appeals Accusing Judge Frater of deliberately delaying his decision in the Seattle, Renton course & Southern case, which has now been in ,,, the courts for over three years, Attorney John C. Higgins Wednesday morning drew a fine of $100 for contempt of court when he refused to apologize. Higgins’ defiance of the court was the; boldest ever made in any court in th coun- ty, according to attorneys here. U.S. SHIP SUNKOR SAFE? wh QNDONs Dac. Aan certain today whether "tee Standard Ol! tanker Communi- paw had been sunk by a subma- rine in the M ran . Some reports placed her safe ly at Alexandria. None men- tloned her departure from there. Rome, however, reiterated the claim that her crew of 39 and five American officers had per- ished. parr pen. SAFE, COMPANY HEARS NEW YORK, Dec. &—The Standard Ol! tanker Communi paw, reported sunk by a subma- rine, arrived at Alexandria Sun day, according to a cable recelv ed today The message came to the Standard Ol! offices from Alexandria agent, but he did not intimate that she had been attacked by a submarine. SAFE, SAYS LONDON LONDON, Dec. 8.—The Stand- ard Ol! tanker Communipaw, reported sunk by a submarine, arrived safely at Alexandria Monday, according to a news agency dispatch today, which Id the information was “offi cial.” SUNK, PAGE HEARS WASHINGTON, Dec sador Page, at Rome, that a vessel believed be the Standard Oil tanker Communipaw had been torpedoed and sunk Page gave no details an to the nationalit the submarine nor the location the attacks. The department announced that consuls thruout the Mediterranean region had been requested to cable any available information GROCERS ARE FINED retail grocers $5 § —Ambas cabled today Above, Mayor Griffiths; below, Would-Be-Mayor Griffiths. b ° Tom &. Griffiths, former cap. tain of the University of Wash ington football team, age 25. was yesterday elected mayor of Cosmopolis, Wash. He defeated W. H. Belles by 36 votes. Austin E. Griffiths, his dad, former counciiman and chief of police of Seattle, twice candi- date for mayor, and again a candidate for mayor at the com Ing election In March, today wired from California the fol lowing message “I nope to follow in my son's footsteps.” In Geattle Mrs. Griffiths huckling right merrily. “The laugh seems to be on Tom's dad,” she id of of An and igustine & meat de: Justice ng a cold stor were fined Austin E. Griffit fi ra mayor of Seattle in 1910. He one of three candidates for the lican nomin of ition candic was Hiram ¢ has definitely announced his candi for | gacy. was | o* rst Griffiths, o- his son, left university in 1912. Of course he decided to make the himself, and left Seattle, e order to if Tom the pa jon. One the oppe lates fight ve for bod efore the election round of A lint ffith's sac Gill wa tad primary Griffiths Bott Gill's defeat ay withdrew in ou follow In your dad's foot ou'll be ted eltizen M ire to become a respe matter where nated and Your en a bet vigor longer being » than his health dently had elect re. ounetitr ed fo In the part he resigned from the counc was required to do #o, Gill was one of hin oppo 10 candidates tn high man ected In 1914 he chief of a Grit il, tho in smeter into the Grays got a job with the bor Lumber Co. pling 5 a month job as timeke Harbor Grays went not mber were nd for was sugcented ized city Griffiths police Mayor Griffith He beat his said Mra. Griffith his dad to ft, but dad will catch up consented under G resigned law practice third time Seattle to " ‘3 roping we de ing b And now for the may he he > his Baron Amistead Gladstone, dead, he | close He 4 g for or ¢ when{ to apologize the | tempt, remanded m hi garded by found a receiversht bi the fe ventured a ™ Higgins represents the bond. holders of the Seattle, Renton & Southern rallway, and a mo tion to fix a date for sale of the road was being argued Judge Frater granted a con tinuance of the hearing, and Attorney Higgins remarked that he thought the judge w Intentionally delaying the mat ter. I shall give you for that ort court is intention this case are fined $100 returned Frater. to jail until “You for con "You are! the fine i» ald.” Higgins at once served notice of ppeal and wag released. Judge Kaufman, of Ellensburg, al ordered thé ratinagd sol@ $1,600,000 debts, . went into recelvership in| at the request of the stock! olders. A plea that St be Stiomee continue {n operation Judge Kay it hopelessly insolve ra long time there hav urings from Ratnier valley and property owners ¢ delay In terminating the Improve the litigation, and owners subjected to expense and Inconven gainst th een held up by onsiderable once However, no one has ever before to publicly blame Judge and re drawing salaries of jonth during the receivership. WOMAN CHOOSES TO an t Li t Frohock WINTER AT BETHEL «: &—One at the frozen Aiask1, housand miles fr little post ¢ winter, is and two bables. [ ernative of a lonel Jethel or a 1,000-mile “mnsh” over he snows, the woman, Mrs. P governmFfnt col ite wom cing the al winter at ® the Seattle Kr inkokw a 72nd Knat'ic an Brother.:, after pt. Louis Lester ethel IF ALL OF ABDUL’S WIVES WERE SH., WEDNE: MINNESOTA GETS A TOW; MYSTERY UNSOLVED DAY THE ONLY PAPER IN, ‘SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PR INT THE NEWS — 18 SEATTLE, WA 1915 ._* * & ONE CENT The Seattle Star DECEMBER 8 on NK THAING TAN ANY fe » * LIKE FATIMA, POOR ABDUL WAS UP AGAINST A TOUGH OLD GAME Men in Seattle Believe hin assignment At the O aid Fatim aret! Yeh?" One da her.” 1 ma, 1 understand she ® BY A REPORTER city editor look up ff book heum, this week js a girl Turkish danc by name; all same I queried politely is always, an a polite to the elty edite an's harem—his and all that stuff fave Go And so I went Fatima, sultan’ do the dances which she says used to delight dear old Abdul, At George M 1 tima, him. But- ems Leow * t dancer at yeht len, the press agent an interview with Turkish dancer,” 1 ant he * he protested They Fail for Mellen abe matter ed to be rom * he or ole of or. in rite soe the Orpheum, and one of his favorite dancers. out ra told in GETS TEN YEARS Judge French Sentences Man Who Lived With Two PORT ORCHARD, nt» have! DENOUNCES Dec. victed on, was ry today, with Port Orchard dis. trial, n boiling with closures Women PRISON w. 8—Frank Gibson, co ken to the penite rage at over made his h ER ne an abductor of wom. n when Judge French sentenced him to from five to ten years at hard labor, and told him he was sorry heavier sentence Gibson sworn out ston, rant company whom h found girl a the law allowed rested by with whose r Gibson had run awa with another woman had be v traced inty represe: his wife to Plumb. Gibson the ting an as his widowed sister-in-law The is the and son The three past Fre two w then to Portland, halls | wagor woods, RAINBOW BAZAAR Park Baptist La will give a Rain dinner this after the church Woodland | Ald soclety bazaar and and evening and Aurora The few ow oon at Weather Forecast and Thuraday. | Rain Colder tonight tonight FOURTEEN more vays! VMOU i friend of ire fO8 am. 147 1. TET am. 14.0 ft 10.0 #4 A child will be Kingston girl with her parents. her and Chet father o 4y At the trial It ran Englan ann year a 1 that ar-old latter declares old girl de away with t 1 when to th in Canada. Kingston ston Gibe 1 childre oped | that he w but s countr and for King wher and took ther where bh he all into to work who is now at h children 8 county are FILENE TELLS ABOUT PLAN OF WORLD PEACE Economie dis were A an addre Filene the Filene the a guest of the Seattle ss the main dining and about ” Filene plan of the of Commere ment foree arbitration Junior pital e, who | t has be ) tickets to jeember of the scussed and a plan fe aspects advanced ding at le Roston merch noon 1 Chub. head will speak at 8 Co Butler hotel 10 o'¢ Ad ¢ his addre an reserve’ have already’ been of, is deeply interested in United States Cham for @n inter veil of coneillat international ag concentrated mili As AN use gainat ne and agitate lons war of Orthopedic Christmas party eulld iving five yea no 16-year with are in was Kingston | ¢ d the other wom-| because of their displeasing activi Gibson | ported boy Gib. man ed for the | nino, and back to Che bough ta the born soon to the! ome | The other woman destitute In war | unt ard ant Wednesday lock lub dis. the ational jon ree tary who refuse | tents how: De. 28 in Christenson’s hall, who, accordin: Fatima is sad becau | English,” I interrupted, “But that’s} all right. I have often heard you quoting nice little things in numer ous languages to actresses.” | All the actresses fall for Mellen he's one of that sort. They lik to hear him talk. All, 1 should say, except Fatima WASHINGTON, “Dee. 8.—Ger. | many is yielding from her po- | sition that she must know the | facts on which America de- manded the recall of Von Papen and Boy-Ed of the German em- bassy. This belief today caused a marked relaxation in the situa tlon Von Bernstorft is said te |recommended — acquiescence |these demands after he was con vinced that President Wilson would jrisk a breach in relations rather than meet Germany's request In view of the clearing of the sit-| uation, it is expected there will be | rly ‘resumption of negotiations England's course problemat: | | teal ha in is |MAY DEPART TUESDAY } NEW YORK, Dec, § |Boy-Ed and Von Pi 1 was asked Attaches pen, whose re this government ties, will depart Tuesday, it wa around the federal buliding today |Washington May .| Ask Explanation | of Attack by Sub j WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.— America apparently faces an other serious submarine con | troversy | Shelling of the Standard Oil tanker Petrolite, with the wounding of one man, as re- ported by the U. S. cruiser Des Moines’ captain, brought the administration today face to | face with the possibility of new | diplomatic trouble. The preliminary report in tho Petrolite case said the attacking submarine was of the super type, and ¢ arried the Austrian flag. further information 1s not soon | al hand this government will ask Austria for a on the as sumption that sel was Aus |trian The Petrolite was formerly of German registry, but this question officials hold, does not excuse the attack Any shelled report the ve assumption sho for this clud the assumpt English diver did it not entertained here that reason would tn ion that an This view isf was i winiam | FIND KNOCK- ouT again DOPE ON SUSPECT helleve they have aj riminal in the person of | arrested two days ago O'Brien, on a disorder-| person charge. At the time of} his arrest, O'Arien caught Dovan trying spill the contents of a small bottle In his pocket. By work O'Brien saved part of the con When Dovan Tuesday ordered the fluid teste nesday Dr. Leach, at the pital, found {t was chloral, common |ly used as “knock-out” drops, The desperate Jack Dovan by Officer J ly police quick came before the judge and Wed city Judge Gordon | pow CONSIDER | thruout United TO BE I told him 1 his feet and seeme n thing for you ARE TERPRETEDR He shuff at ease, MY IN iM unusual him She French aint Fatima, ake said very But, a peculiar if you In * he it f appears, Was one 1d to be one of the Turkish e theatre managers won't let her the many wives of Abdul Hamid II sultan of Turkey, until he was de 1 four years or #0 ago. of broke up his housekeeping, and several of the members of harem got away, among them his | Board Asked to Instruct Sev-| enth and Eighth Grade Girls PROPOSAL Seventh and eighth-grade Se- attle school girls are to be taught the proper care and training of children if the sug- gestion of Mrs, Helen M. Fick, 3208 Hunter's boulevard, and Mrs. Mary 8. Jennings, 2555 Tith ave. N. W., is adopted by the board of education. The board is seriously con- sidering the new plan Wedne: day, with the probability that it will be inaugurated in public school curriculums before an- other year. Simple instruction on how bathe, feed and clothe the b said Mrs, Fick before the Tuesday, “with special stre the importance of mother's milk should be given every girl in those grades.” Want it In University, Too Both Mrs, Fick and Mrs. Jen nings were active in organizing the Mothers’ Training school here, and ure back of & movement looking to establishing for the study of child problems in the University classes Both women pointed out to the board that such instruction is being given in Hurope as a means of offset ting the high death rate caused by war Th 80 mothers’ schools In they sald, and England and France mere children were being taught how to care for infants. Need Trained Mothers We in America need more trained mothe said Mrs Too many babies are dying the healthiest city in the Sta and the ‘ond in thie death rate class in the world, 8 per cent of our babies die.” In Milwaukee and Kansas City, training classes in child welfare been established and are pr sing wonderfully The natural ten “play house” and hate developed >a desire real flesh-and-blood Walks Backward; Arrested; Dies in Cot at Hospital City hospital physicians are still puzgled over the death of Tom Axland, 42, who wa found walking backwards at Third and Yesler, Monday night, and who died at 1:15 a. m, Wednesday They can trace his death to no particular cause. When picked up by a police man, he seemed dazed, but there are no marks of violence on his body, and no skull frac ture. When taken to the city hospital, he sald his wife was living here, but he could not remember her address, He said he was out of work. There will be an autopsy. high ly Fick In Seattle #, low of girls to dolls was to care for babies It sort | his | IGH EDITION LAWYER ACCUSES JUDGE; FINED _*+ 2 * Hill Vessel Is Being Taken to San Franci Trouble Due stopped the fo knots Dauntl thi felt th reports up the and de The lir taker with the and they of Seattle The frequent itic ‘Su were before were edt all } wire inqui ard . n and sco; Shipping to Bad Boilers. engines spies or mutineers—= making about four in tow of the tugs Jaqua and her ials prepared to send forenoon showed her creeping nat a storm might overtake her the third tug could reach her. as as the tows have been tampering went dead together-= she slipped out stopped must ilers rily be soon here rer be te a is still silent, in spite ry, regarding the liner’s exact spect Fire Room Mutiny Due to Dangerous Boilers Seattle seamen and shippers, who know the Minnesota, are of the opinion today that, when the facts are revealed, it will be found that the blame for her trouble must laid at the door of the owners’ policy, which in- duced them to send the giant vessel on a long voyage, por bly overloaded, and certain with rotten boilers. When she left Seattle, on the voy- age th m, he Minaenciaa long before tubes. l were coud On her last trip to the Orfent, the Minnesota was five days late teaching Seattle, owing to boiler | trouble. The engineers, |to work in four-hour | eight hours layoff, were on duty al |most constantly repairing break- downs. A Japanese fireman was scalded, and the entire Oriental crew in the ‘glory hole” quit in a blue funig 12 Engines Quit It was reported when the Minne- sota was lying in the stream here that two white men were scalded by blowouts and that one of them died, but this report could not be verified, and that, while the vessel was crossing the harbor from West Seattle to the water front, the bot- tom of her condenser fell out Of the 14 engineers on the Min nesota before this voyage to Lon don, 12 quit, Among these was the chief engineer, George Allen. The Minnesota is equipped with | 16 tal b “Nickelaus’ of 6 boilers, having a to- tubes. “Nickelaus” jlers are no longer manufactured The company, it is said. had prom ised Engineer Allen new boilers, but had not made good. Replaced by Old Tubes As the-tubes burst, they were re- placed by rusted and tubes, which had been taken out years ago and repaired he boil ers were 12 years old, and some of the tubes had lain in the warehouse 10 years The boilers were passed by the local inspectors, whose report on their condition has been called for by the supervising inspector at San Francisco. The inspectors boilers in bad shape, but, stood the air pressure test, sel was tion that as they the ves- allowed to clear on condi the pressure be reduced supposed | shifts, with | corroded | here found the | 120 per cent below that of the previ- ous voyage Had Few New Tubes | The ship carried 100 new tubes— all it had—about 700 old ones, which might serve, and it was stip- ulated that she should pick up 500 jnew tubes at Rio Janeiro. | A prominent shipper who knows the Minnesota as well any one |told The Star Wednesday: “The Minnesota has always had botles, , trombie, bas, h been, “te ee by the high rates created by war | conditions. | “The seamen’s law had nothing to do with it. This was to be the big clean-up, “I do not take any stock in the |story that she was to be sold to | the British government. | After the “Big Money” | “She was going after the big | money, and the failure to provide her with new boilers, which it was | notorious she needed, must be blam- ed to a mistaken policy of econ omy Experienced marine engineers say the “Nickelaus” type of boiler is troublesome because the tubes lie at a 6degree pitch. Therefore when one tube bursts, the water must be withdrawn from the boiler. One bad tube puts a whole boiler out of commission. | If there was a mutiny in the fire | room, it is the consensus of opinion |among firemen here that it was a passive one by white men, who re- | fused to risk their lives in a “glory hole” while boiler tubes were burst- | ing. | Always Had Yellow Men | On all previous voyages the Min- nesota has had yellow men in the | “glory hole.” | “The curious silence of the captain of the Minnesota is hard to explain, | unless it be that he knows the com- pany blundered in trying to send the ship on such a long voyage with rotten tubes and so does not wish to explain his dilemma to the au- thorities until he has acquainted his employers with the cireum- stances Women's votes may invalidate | Des Moines, lowa, election. German newspapers think Ford is a flivver, Kaiser and Kaiserin Visit Crown Prince | This Photograph Was Made While t | ing the Crown Prince at the Latter's e he Kaiser and Kaiserin Were Visit- Headquarters on the Western Front.