The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 28, 1916, Page 1

EDITORIALS BY STAR READERS ON MAYORALTY CANDIDATES ON PAGE 9 PP ALP LPL LDP LLP PLP PPP DLP PPP PPP PPLE IGH = EDITION ‘BRANDEIS NEW SUPREME JUDGE UNDIN CHAR GES “VICE RING” MAYOR LIED, OTAR MAN INVESTIGATES DISTRICT ‘Lundin Inclined to Blame Police for Exist- ~ The Seattle Star ) THE ONLY PA ‘IN SEATTLE Grittiths Assails Gill’s Tax Record Candidate for mayor ridicules Gill’s claim that he is the friend of the taxpayer. His letter is on 8 page 2. THAT “DARES “TO PRINT ‘THE NEWS JANUARY THE ONLY PAPER SEATTL ONE CENT ‘ INK AKD ANDS, VOLUME 18 WASH FRIDAY 28, 1916. _* © oft the Sctiering i | Asks Seattle to Give Ajid ~_* ee . BY JACOB H. SCHIFF World-Famous Financier of America and Leader in American Jewish Relief Committee Written Rapecially for ‘The Star NEW YORK, Jan, 28—The nation-wide week for Jewish re- lief originated in a desire on the part of a large element of our pretation to ewshen te s in ence of Alleged ‘‘Ring’’; Mayor Reiterates the terrible suffering to His Orders That Policemen Shall Not Be Zr mkera the Thine weumee Permitted to Enter Houses at Will; Will Galician and Palestine—prob- Not Dismiss Officer BY A REPORTER ably comprising elght or nine million souls—have been sub. jected in consequence of the world war I went to see Prosecutor Lundin Thur rioon fe FR raged ete mt garding a statement made by the mayor ie Seigton, in Sorkin ead te | Gill said the police department had furnished the prose: Armenia, which has so deeply cutor all rec of arrests and convictions made in what aroused the peop! f th as come knc earbe stric i i This photograph shows the ) it gives a vivid idea of the | that biew 85 miles an hour | force of the wind broke the United Gate CANNOT OE - Ps af kn Des trict, with the i steamer Northwestern, now in | Vicissitudes of Alaskan travel | The steamer was blanketed deck railing and damaged the EVEN COMPARED with the Prat EAmng “bss : Then Lundin, the during a stormy winter. | with ice from hull! to the top o' | companionways and the bridge. miser: h. hy . mayor said, w Seattle, as she appeared upon i Deen Melee auto wtienehe | ie flagpost. While it did ee The shove. pheteprenh le Po many mathe Wa ane es It came out at P man Edward J. Margett’)) her arrival in Juneau last Sun- left Cordov: it was 14 below | snow or hail, the water con produced by The Star thru the zones just spoken of! A ithat a “xisted f % * ti 4 day, after a trip of 52 hours when she arrived at Juneau, gealed rapidly, the waves courtesy of H, Simornson, one part of the Jewish™population bpbesgely & existed [or Sms ae from Cordova. after making her way in a gale _washed againat the ship. The of the passengers. in these zones has been made ghtigcod a and Maynard ave, Soianwmaney wy . HOMELESS, is practigally and that it ; WITHOUT FOOD, and is, Whether st, and if so, why, was what whilet suffering from many | 1 determine “ WILSON i vik di EVEN WITHOUT a MEDICINES in many in- ; ig stances! rict assured me of that " eam Jews of the Unites forbidden local color, but 17 aten, many of whom have so j : " en solicite Sisailee willingly lene their fellow. he 0 : pei al women’ solicited se tama | Urges United Support of Pre-| Water Two Feet Deep in the|ft StGzene tn sreviding rellel tor paredness Issue In Streets of petted al ppt | District Comprises Several Blocks : Speeches San Diego have already amongst their And the district isn’t restricted to two blocks, as was @ own raised somet! 15 months, to be applied for testified at the Margett trial, either, It is a sort of unrestricted restricted” district, I should \ JACOB H. SCHIFF —_——" NEW YORK fan a | LOS ANGELES, Jan. 28— the relief of their suffering say, comprising several blocks. Not all the houses are of am | (By Wireless.)—Los Angeles co-religioniats, who, it is averred, are being DISCRIMINATES disorderly character, but most of them are. a Indirect flank ate | and Southern California are AGAINST BY AUTHORITIES charged with dissemination of Having established that fact, I went, as I have said upon America’s position | completely isolated from the relief. hatin & , , s > 4 , | eutside world, except by wire. If a large part of the human beings Involved in | Lundin nn in the Western hemi- | jegs. thie catastrophe eh larger sume than Lundin asserted sphere is what the United | The flood waters, which will have to be ob. There is a great vice syndicate in Seattle, well organi tained. swept down upon the entire it is now the privilege of the Seattle people to A; ! t malt States has to fear, if any southern part of the state y join with their fellow-citizens of the Jewish faith in Th a peste bata ‘ é thing terday, had wrought greater demonstrating their interest in an effectual manner. ne prosecute acked himself against the wall in Deputy) To guard against this, havoc today than any flood in Lane Summers’ office and regarded me with narrowed eyes. ‘4 she must be prepared the history of California, altho His fighting blood was up, apparently : no fatalities had been reported. “When members are the s sane ts dustrial way various cities of Southern Califor - Sppeat WR money, tor he same attoriea She must think in terms | nia, based on latest advices, fol re them all | of the world and abandon |/©¥s ok his big fore a \ The $1,000,000 Los Angeles out |S Hi forever provincialism. | git sewer broke today” in Engle hows im Selduniia Turned Over by Lang Such, in brief, is the | wood, and sewage threatened to : gs 4 keynote of President Wil- ISooa” the lowlands, The whole | ‘And the wierig tell me they are afraid to act under the son's preparedness warn- |¢ountry between the Los An There you have the case, People of Seattle, presented present orders of Mayor Gill. J hey re afraid he'll fire them “@ ing that in the next two geen ror farm and Santa Ano to you, at the request of the editor of The Star, by off the force IF THE MAYOR SAYS I WC { weekn he will sound thru-. |", wWener tw Clty werpete one of the foremost Jews in America, and leader in the JJ} WHEN THE So E GIVE ME EVIDENCE Ess out the Middle West | ‘The water runs two feet deep in relief work. On page 12 today, the local relief commit CIENT TO RED-LIGHT A HOUSE, HE LIES, ee He first propounded it to the na-|the lower streets of San Diego, tee tells you how YOU can help in this work. ‘Turn to I asked why, if the police department had reported mat}ag tion in a speech last night to the, with « 50-mile gale blowing page 12 and read it ters, Lundin had failed to carry out his duty. 7 : Rallway Business M association! Piltinore lake, which normally Deputy Lane Summers, who in charge of all red-light here covers 18 square miles, covers 50. cases, showed me the reports se Chief I The town of Elsinore is complete him by Chief Lang. a It came upon the heels of « day lot speéchmekiag. tt wh he had|ly marooned. : _ Lang is not a lawyer, Possibly that is the reason | notified the world that while the| Garden Grove is flooded to # jwhy he did not furnish data sufficient to warrant red-light 7% U. 8. seeks no aggression, no * depth of three feet. The Rio oe | Prosec utions against the half a hundred houses he did report ritorial aggrandizement, he and theo is on a wild rampage, and 1| But the records are not sufficiently complete to even sug> nation are not “too proud to fight.”|*mashing bridges in many pacer . he ‘ : i, | Will Fight for Ideals Santa Ana is isolated. The Santa| |gest a conviction, the prosecutor says C. Any fight, he suggested, will behAna river has broken {ts banks} | Some convictions have been obtained, however, under the | a fight to maintain American ideals, |east of Anaheim , | red-light law. IT'wo houses were ordered torn down and It will be in the epirit of liberty Hiden gon eee aces Re doy Ad Mewes several others were closed Z Abypeetieg ogi wean eg leeaie Tocmnen | The Young Business Men's |suthorized, as well as the appro Lundin is positive of the existence of the vice syndicate “@ | tion fough ¢ . oney 1 7 " ‘Analysis of his speech leads to| _ Long Beach Schools Close | club, comprising 100 of Seat. /Priation ee Pia ane and is just as positive that it could not exist if the polic# |the belief that he has information| One hundred — wae tle'’s most energetic citizens, (ring of a wuit in intervention with} Were not under certain orders which, he says, he is told, tending to sew that the Wares roe S ays othe” : am have taken a hand Friday in (the interstate commerce commis |are direct from Mayor Gill States, or at least the weetern hem-| no Stel Be orl the fight inet fair rail. (sion } : * b . A th ght against unfair r 3 iaphere, will be the target for Buro-|Beach i= completely covered itd) We, OU aatness The matter came up thru an in| Says Policemen Fear for Their Jobs ; pean aggression at the end of the| water At a meeting at noon Thurs- (formal discussion by two or th ‘tN . id ode oairien ge at me parts of 9 ey e © arrests or raids may be m without warrants, war | _ The sitnation in so ; nbd day the club decided to expend |members, said Vice President E.| 2:4 Tundin. “That is one of t peihele! dedk Ther 4 In this connection he declared he| that city is serious, and fs sv veueue! more energy toward civic and | M. Osborn efore the meeting | S#¢ una ba one of the mayor's OPGers here could not predict what the interna-| were compelled to Ko to the voaeg| commercial benefit, closed we decided we all were in|is no authority in law for such an order. On the contrary, | tlonal relations of the world would bs many The schools are close Appointment of a committee to favor of taking hold and helping| there is authority, vested in every peace officer, to arrest va be from one day to the next—and|there work with Chairman Reynolds of|out every way possible. That's] o+ | testi Why f ; } {s flood boats grants, which include the class ¢ omic in houses we | that “tomorrow is as certain to ber is looded als and 9 | the public service commission was| what we're going to do - Dearborn st. district aie ut : oar Peace ee as bright as today are rescuing persone marooned b ou Wid raat he earborn st, district, the Ww ants. | He made « ptea for the cement-|high water in thetr ee PR “Yet, the police tell me they brit uch a prisoner Barnnoes- ing of friendship with the rest of| Santa Barbara and Pasadena e FEAR LINER iS LOST | without having first secured a warrant, will lose thei¢ caped with no serious damage te ; 8 vurst and | jobs (Continued on page 5.) The Van Nuys dam has burst an WITH 300 ABOARD . ; i : | ~s : nnn, |the town of Van Nuys has been | At the mayor's office, Hi Gill mself explained to me WASHINGTON, Jan, 28— |born in Louisville, Ky. He was fe as pce “\i flooded to a depth of four feet. | < | order in question The White House today an- |educated in Louisville and Dresden, TIDES AT seams - 5 Redlands and San Hernardino| LONDON, Jan. 28.—The Af | “That hotder has ibeen sth Loree. eaeieenae choi nounced President Wilson's se. | and holds an honorary A. M degree | cine oes rt. mee wn Oe we rt. {are without light and power todas Healt diner Apeans, Preach Gee | at or as, Deen 3h © ey re ook offices 7 lection of Louis 0. Brandeis of | from Harvard | . Bile pe mes £8 Hf) Railroad and {nterurban traffic in} “Ca” tor’ Liverpect, with ever i |he said, emphatically AND IT’S GOING TO AY IN Boston for the post of associate | He was counsel for Glavis in the |) nanny ll directions is paralyzed 300 persons aboard, is missing FORCI justice of the supreme court of | Pallinger-Pinchot Investigation — — . and, it is feared, sunk off the “T don't stand for my men breaking in doors and smash- 3% the United States, to succeed [the shippers in the advanced freight coast of Morocco, ling up houses unless there is eeme celeon for tt ‘here’ the late Associate Justice esti¢ation jn 1911, for the The British S. S. Tregantle | . if : € ie A h re : ome reason for i Vhere’s no Lamar. people in cases involving the consti reported picking up a damaged |law that says they can do that Brandies is known as a rad. tutionality of the Oregon cael Appam lifeboat. The company ca As far as the Dearborn st. neighborhood is concerned, ical, with stfong pro-jiabor [Illinois 10-hour laws and the Ohio owners admitted they had no WASHINGTON, Jan. 28— | there have been more arrests down there than in any other awe, | nine-hour law rd of her. | ' n i He played a prominent part | He opposed the New Haven basa y 4 | Senator Sherman of Illinois in- | part of town. It isn't protected and never has been while 4 in the interstate commerce |R.'s New England transp va | troduced a resolution today, de- | I have been mayor.” a J commission’s 5 per cent rate |combine, and served on the arbi MAYOR URGES FORDS claring the senate cannot re. So there you are! t onse. tration board of the New York gar 43 é poe The nomination of Brandeis for-|ment workers’ strike in 1 SEWARD, Alaska, Jan, 28 Her, may ‘complet airs before the} gar japan's recent demands | mally went to the senate at 1:15 p.| He bas written many articles |seering gear broken and part of “Ay is over, Three of her crew, in| sfayor Gill will meet with the fi-| “Pon China “without profou d | m, There it created a sensation, | about the trusts and on labor prob sock load of lumber swept| "tempting to 6 the deck 100d.) nanee and pnblic safety committees | concern,” and that it will re Z where every one was committed In| lems er deck 1 ; lum p, Were washed overboard, and Were) Priday afternoon and urge an ap gard further pressure as a “re favor of one or another of several A strong fight against confirma-|away by a terrif orm, the freight reyeued with gr diffientty propriation for Fords for police | 4 4 candidates. tion of Brande nomination afte tossing Because the collected in such | 4 The counell recently passed| Strietive act on American Mayor Gill by ‘that. 'Pe-| T ‘ myer Rtas ig roa d noth A ‘The Southern » en-| predicted for weveral hours, £veat Quantities that it was feared) ay ordinance granting Chief Lang’s| rights.” | trolm irich Smith was tangled spree Fo elated Pete ri ® pecially startled pe i 0 mites |2" would become top-heavy, | request for $1,000 cars for police | ip by Lundin, and his testimony | tactimony sounded brokder than ht © © \ieved that, inasmuch an a CHEHALIS HAS FIRE :: t in at Latouche, Alas miles ie captain ordered a big portion of! patrol work in the residence dis- | misunderatood, at Margett trial, 80 meaning. He did make One mia ] t of here, late yente rown overboard t 2 ea te di¢ ke one cer onthe bar ine emtrt gyi care to vert | fA | LABORERS KILLED [smite sore toot tol menning, My Sid ths cosa vagy gi i , volice r 1 house on Dearborn street, fray f ere expressions} CHEHALIS, Jan rh art-|14 with war munitions, railroad joe satya} . , eres gee while Wreedel hed i yp yy Pent gpl ae san [24 and lumber for @iberis. ~~ ne | A ranchman in the Santa Ciara | THE DALLES, Ore., Jan. 28.~| “Smith was right when he testi Mayr ard to ighth ave, is ocd é 4 mentioned and urged by nu-|two adjoining buildings were de-| She is owned by the Alaska Tonight and Saturday, unset. |) Valley, Cal., who wished to trim 40 |geveral Greek laborers are report-| “ed that re wore lneus A not to|nled by professionally. | Ieaniga 3 ; ys papers, it was considered | stroyed by fire Friday when a fire | Steamship Co., of Seattle, and war)? tied weather; probably snow. ithe “branch att 9 Hy eer ie| 1 to have been killed when ar a nt solletting or tap-|thete have base etels and samam i : de ci > ™ Jate the branches o with a rifle.* je¢ Dien we Augh c na or tap rere have hee hotels and ” ng little politica king | former. 16 8 estimated | house ‘0 u ure } ‘ ‘ issue’ id th . | works mn for years,” E vrandeis is of Jewish extraction,| at $60,000. Her damage is not serious, She, [the tree, 140 feet to the top. into a work train near Celilo toda) had been ed, said the mayor,! working mei yeara, 4 , a“ P H 4 i ad