The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 8, 1916, Page 1

YOU CAN REGISTER UP TO MIDNIGE Councilman. Marble’s resolution to the registration books to the residence precinets did not pass Monday because C orporation Counsel . Bradford, changing his previous opinion, held th (A Fellow Has ‘to Be Nutty Ted Cook learns this from Lewie hall “dorm,” at the univers! wreatie with calculus all the time, Senet how the freshman gets “medical treat- rent” (7). it's on page 8. remove are ere doubt as ie the legality of such a “move Soh VOLUME Y DIES IN The books, therefore, remain in the building. Monday 3,006 registered, io 60,772, There are still 30,000 eligible to regis- ter who have not done so. THE ONLY PAPER 18. main. HAVE FY | ON A ERAL Prefontaine bringing the total PNDAY, FEBRUA ELECTION ON M Three days more re- € Star TO PRINT THE _ONE CENT ynws rants "peat IN SEATTLE THAT Sj 1916. vigor a YS “DUCKPOND IF THIS BOY ACTOR ISN’T JIMMIE GLASS, WHO IS HE? MYSTERY VEILS CASE OF ‘CHARLIE ROSS OF MOVIES’ TACOMA, Feb. &— Less than cight hours + after, ‘the company’s nitro- im ‘glycerine mixing house | #blew up, three ny ar at ted eat Cor tot rage wn accl it. frome Se of Jimmie Glass, 1 J. Cox, superintendent of the! the “Charlie Ross of the Movies.” | DuPont Powder Co., declared today|Do you see the resemblance? he is unable to account for the de “epee “WME CAHILL PLAY today that Gustay Wolff,/ of the men killed in yesterday's) plosion, was formerly in the Ger- army. _ He had been employed at the ' plant since last April. It fs believ- ed he was in the employ of persons who wanted the plant destroyed. | Superintendent Cox said last t's fire may have been set by ign agents, altho he had no evi- ence to support his theory. He said the powder in the house » exploded following discovery of the Mire, completely wrecking the build- NEW YORK, Feb, 8.— There's a new mystery in the Strange disappearance case of Jimmie Giass—the Charlie Ross of the movies. A boy who looks like Jimmie Glass appears on the film in the photopiay “Judy Forgo in which Marie Cahill starr And this boy's identity has been lost completely as if he never existed! Nobody can say that he ISN'T Jimmie Glass, because nobody knows who he 18! In “Judy Forgot,” a little boy ap-| pears in just a few flashes in a few scenes Friends of Mr "The fire department kept the thes from spreading to adjoining buildin " Seattle Woman ‘Should Worry About - Snow in Northwest and Mrs. Chas Glass, Jimmie Glase’s parents. wrote to them, saying the boy look ed like Jimmie. | Mrs. Glass and Jimmie’s two} aunts saw the film, and agreed! there was a certain definite re semblance. “Judy Forgot” New York The movie picture director who made the film Hayes Hunter, had need of th little children in several of the studio scenes The two children of Mrs. Lee, well known to movie filled two of the roles. According to Hunter child, a little boy, was by 4 strange woman, minor part for the day HF is the little boy the picture Director Hunter deciares he has not the slightest idea who the boy was, or where he came from! Nobody has been the Universal Film who does know! The mother of the missing boy Is firm in her belief that | where in America her tit tle son is held in peonage as a MOVIE SLAVE, his kidnapers living off the earnings he makes as a child photoplay actor! was produced in | Irene | fans | | a third rought in to play the you see In found at company MRS DAVID WHITCOMB. Mrs. David Whitcomb, 633 14th ave. N., should worry about this cold weather, and snow, and every: thing. She is spending these weeks in the surf at Palm Beach, Florida Mrs, Whitcomb is a Seattle #o- clety woman, the wife of the presi- dent of the Arcade Building & | Realty Co This picture of ber in a bathing | by at Palm Beach reached Seat le nny | Tonight and Wednesday, un- ettied; probably rain or snow. lfollowing the telephone | were the on such short run | WANT HEA i\Council After S. R. & S. Line Now Chances iook pretty good for less pneumonia and grip next winter eps are being taken to get heating equipment in ail long- run street cars. | Monday afternoon the city council formally passed resolu. | tions calling upon the public service commission to order heating equipment in the cars of the Seattle, Renton & South- ern line. The council already has taken up| the fight for heat in the Seattle Electric company’s care | The exact date for the hearing| has not been get Will Be Held Soon But an early date has been prom ished by the commission. Chair-| man Reynolds announced Tuesday that it would be held immediately rate hear-| | ing In Tacoma Counciimen only the resolution We had better begin at and heat our own cars,” Bolton sald sarcastically Division A cars on the municipal line are al ways cold. It is a joke to patrons | of the city line to request the traction company to heat Its cars Bolton ridiculed the proposition further by saying the public serv commission will probably hold no hearing on this question before the Fourth of July, and then the question will be taken to the courts, and “nothing will ever he sccomplished, anyhow | Councilman Hesketh, author of the resolution, replied to Bolton by informing bim that the Lake Bu rien city line does have heat, and that the intention is merely to pro- vide heat on long-run cars, and not as Division A Will Build Standpipe The plan of the council ts to have all cara heated after the tem-| perature falls below a certain! point | Even tho it takes months to make |the private corporation protect patrons by heating the cars, Coun cilman Hesketh belleves a fight is| necessary now to guarantee pro tection for next year. Bolton two and Dale) who opposed home | |200,000-gallon standpipe for Beacon | nection |M | shooting if | past years. | Imports amounting to $163,261. 313 poured into Seattle during 1915. The year previous total imports were $89,239,742, | The gain tn jand domestic, jsingle year | Those figures show just one of the forward leaps. Big Gain in Exports There was a gain of $29,260,879 jin total exports thru Seattle in 1915, jas compared with 1914. Ships steamed into Elliott bay arrying goods worth $94,531,080 |last year. In 1914 they carried $65,270,201 |worth of goods. | THE GAIN IN TOTAL IMPORTS AND EXPORTS IN 1915 AMOUNT- [ED TO $103,182,450 The figures for 1914 were $154, 609,943. Total | and exports for 1915 were $! 393 Foreign Imports Doubled The gain in foreign exports alone during 1915 was more than the total foreign exports of the year before Foreign lands received shipments valued at $3 624 during 1915, a gain of $21,044,917 over the 1914 foreign exports, valued at $16. 511,707. The same relative comparison holds for imports from foreign ‘countries, The gain during 1915 amounted to $45,124,614 Foreign imports for 1914 amount ed to $40,165,015, WHILE IN 1915 THEY AMOUNTED TO $85,289,629 The revised police auto ordinance| Every figure in the report spells that will substitute Fords for $1,000 | progress and development in the cars was referred back to the pub-| business of the port Me safety committee The year of promise ts 1916 IT’S UP TO GERMANY U. S. Insists on a Full Disavowal WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.—Naught but Germany’s) absolute admission that the Lusitania torpedoing was! illegal, coupled with a disavowal thereof, will be 4 able to this government, tion sources today. Ii imports, foreign was $73,921,571 In a T IN CARS Council bills were introduced pro- viding for the construction of a hill, with adequate standpipe con This word came simultaneously _ with a conference between Secre |tary of State Lansing and Presi-| say hasn't be- walk Complaints have been made to Supt. Valentine of the public utilities department ‘PREACHER IS SHOT SHERMAN, Tex., Feb. 8.—With PRINCE Is WOUNDED) his wife by his bedside, the Rev, H.| BERLIN, by Wireless to Cagle lay dying today, too weak Sayville, Feb. 8.—Prince Oscar, ke a statement concerning his} fifth son of the kaiser, was by Mra. Annie Faust, a! slightly Injured by being struck farmer's wife. Mrs, Faust insist#) on the head and thigh by that she was justified. She alleged| shrapnel, said a sembofficial the pastor had slandered her, i announcement. SNC YW Dc YE sNT WORRY bere Wilson, in the latter's private CAR MAGNATE TREAT | From the conference was expect ed to result a decision as to the ac The people who have to ride ceptability of Germany's so-called on Harry Whitney Treat's Bev Kai Io the ches nn jerman information was that the Loyal Heights car line aro hav- |/poiin ~=memorandum — practically ing a hard winter. meets the administration terms, and They Harry jthat “Germany had left Ittle for gun to worry about the snow | Swe dint States to concede." " ‘he diplomatic situation over the on the tracks, and evidently 18 17 usitania torpedoing looks hopeful depending upon the Chinook |the White House sald today, fol breezes to do the cleaning off. lowing the conference between the In the meantime car patrons president and Secretary Lansing The administration is hopeful that a satisfactory settlement may be reached within a day—probably | at the Bernstorff-Lansing confer-| lence this afternoon The situation 1s now up to Bern- storff ton AND THEN THE “SLACKERS” WILI NO MORE OPPORTUNITY R THE COMING PRIMARY ELECTION cept-| according to high administra-} NLY THREE MORE DAYS! | The books will rema Tuesday, Wednesday and is the strongest weapon in ‘securing good “SLACKER.” TO QUALI- RY 21, OR THE GEN ARCH NEWS government. REGISTER! IGH EDITION in open until midnight Thursday. Your vote your possession toward DON’T BE A TERS GIVEN OUT ‘Lreasury Department ~“Shows Up” Local /Congressman in ‘Fight on “Pork Bar- ” Methods. GTON, D. C., Feb. 8.—Leiding a hand mational campaign now being waged by i ar a and magazine in the the government the no- torious Seattle postoffice site for $169,500 in Janu- ary, 1912. This site, at Sixth ave. and Atlantic st., has been rejected by Secretary McAdoo because it is not only under seven feet of water, but is out of the way and not easily acces- sible. According to the postoffice authorities, it would cost $19,000 a year extra to handle mail from this site. In a published interview in Seattle, Rep. Humphrey, when confronted with the undesirability of the site, attempted a flat denial that peewee 7 he had had any part in in- | W-€.Hurphrey | fluencing the selection of the site. | Humphrey Denies Part in Negotiations “I never had anything to do with the purchase of the site,” he said in that interview. “In fact, 1 alway) have refused to take any part in negotiations having to do with the expenditure of government money for sites | within my district. It is ridiculous to assert that I »ar. ticipated in the negotiations.” As showing Representative Humphrey DID interest himself in the matter, several letters written “by Humphrey, marked “confidential,” |Uave been found in the files of the treasury department They were written to the then Secretary of the Treasury «Mac Veagh and to Humphrey's old friend, Bob Bailey, then assistant secre- tary of the treasury The site was purchased thru R. W. Hill, jand close political associate of Humphrey | Hill was appointed United States census taker for the Seattle dis- | trfet in 1910. | The property was bought from Frank W, Baker and others of Se. attle. Raker was at one time campaign manager for Humphrey | Today, for the first time, the treasury department has given out \the full text of Humphrey's letters. They speak for themsely | On October 12, 1910, Humphrey wrote to Secretary Mac follows “1 wired you yesterday in regard to the purchase of the postoffice [alte here in Seattle. There are many ugly rumors afloat in regard to is matter. Under al! circumstances, | think it would be best for the department to hold this matter in abeyance unti! Senator Piles and myself can see you in person. There are some things which we can tell you which we do not care to write at this time. | think also that (Continued on page 5.) Ss a Seattle real estate man eagh as GERALDINE MARRIED TODAY V YORK, Feb, 8—In the flower-decked library of her home, aldine Farrar, opera singer and movie star, at noon Tuesday |became the bride of Lou Tellegen, actor. A few close friends were the guests. The bride's father of the hospital after an appendicitis operation |chair to witness the ceremony, performed by |Brooklyn Unitarian pastor. Mr. and Mrs, Tellegen went to Albany in a new play there tomorrow The bride will return tomorrow to complete her rehearsals with jthe Metropolitan opera company A more prolonged honeymoon prob: ably will be taken this summer Tho Miss Farrar had ridiculed matrimony and never wed before she was 40, Tellegen, extremely happy, her previous views did not worry him. Just out was propped up in a Rev. Leon Harvey, ¢ afterward, Tellegen opens vowed she would declared that | 2620 West Galer st., MAN AND HIS WIFE OIE IN SEATTLE: { || TEMPERATURE Tl THAW IS POSTPC Owing to a beans bet dicted for the next 24 At | o’clock the tei ture had reached 38 and was climbing slowly. The wind was light, from the northeast. Relays of Ballard police, fire- men and citizens working steadily since Monday night have failed as yet to recover the body of Edward W. Gur- ney, 38, buried, with his wife, in a mass of mud and debris at the foot of Magnolia biuff. Thousands of tons of earth slid from the face of the biuff early Monday night, carrying away the Gurney home and two other dwellings and crush- © ing both Mr. and Mrs. who were trying vainly to « body was recov- covered soon afterward. It had been carried, along with the ruins of their house, broken trees and large boulders, to the very water's edge. August Bauder, a neighbor, of 2400 West Galer st, narrowly em caped death. He and J. Ackerman had been helping the Gurneys get | their household goods ready to move to a place of safety. When the four heard the ava- lanche approaching, they broke from the house, Ackerman leading. He got safely away. Bander was caught on the crest jof the torrent of mud and borne more than 100 feet, buried up to Bis armpits The home of M. J. Hanley, at and that of R, Miller, adjoining, were swept away and demolished. Both residents had abandoned their dwellings several days ago, fearing a catastrophe. Mrs. Gurney’s body was found under less than a foot of mud. Had she not been held by the crotehed branch of a tree, she might easily have extricated herself. Gurney, who was a sign painter, had been employed lately in the Lotus refreshment parlor, 309 Pike st Firemen sluiced the mud with a large hose Tuesday, but had not uncovered the body of Gurney at noon MRS, INEZ ASHER IS ASPHYXIATED Coffee boiling over the pot extinguished the gas fiame, and the fumes from the stove killed Mrs, Inez Asher, wife of Sol Asher, widely known pianist, at the Asher apart. ments, 2121 Seventh avi 1:35 Tuesday morning. eart trouble is be have been partially ble for death, Mrs. Asher, who is known well in Seattle musical cireles, had re cently undergone an operation, Since that time she had complain. ed often of heart trouble. Her husband had an engagement to play Monday evening. When he returned home about 1 a, m., he smelled the ga | He went to the basement and jturned off the gas, then enterea the kitchen, There he found his wife unconscious,