The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 15, 1916, Page 1

pAnlarchist Plot for Wholesale Slaughter of Clergymen Bared in Seizure of Correspondence * \| t | 1 * * *% Gang Directed From Headquarters i in Rome Planned to Destroy Churches and Cathedrals, and Spread Death Thru Land; Score of Brokers Marked . The seattle Star 6H THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS : } NEWS EDITION SEATTLE, WAH., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, * % Star Ads Pack the American The theatre has been jammed to doors at each performance of “Undi showing again that advertising in Thi pays. American theatre centers its ad- vertising in The Star. Look at the picture on page 3. the VOLUME 18 1916, ONE CENT News wraxni CHICAGO, Feb. 15.—Police authorities of Chicago| and many large cities of the nation are hunting for anarchists involved in a plot, the ramifications of which spread all over the world, to wreck churches and kill the The plot was fully revealed today, after interpreters | had dug into Italian letters found on John Allegrini, ar-| |rested as a witness in the conspiracy to poison Arch- bishop Mundelein, Gov. Dunne and many other notables jat a banquet here, last week. GYM PLAN IN SCHOOL |headquarters in Rome, were to Is our athletic training sys VICIOUS ANARCHISTS SOUGHT BY POLICE CHICAGO, Feb, 15,—Dom- Inick Forte, believed to be an few-—to those who need thle training the teact? anarchist of the most vicious type, is being hunted by the This isthe opinion of Or. Ira C, Brown, medical inspector of New ‘kK poll They took up this search after the school, who Monday night recommended a new system to John Allegrini had protested that letters found on him and Indicating an international plot the school board, and whose recom lone will be fol- lowed, a st temporarily, at | the, new Nard high school. Dr. Brown believes physical cul | ture can be better developed to permanent advantage by simple ex- ercises of the hands and feet than thru elaborate gymnastic appe- atu, Not only is this true in schoot| life,” says Dr. Brown, “but after school, when the man and woman / have no gymnasiums on which to} swing from rings or use the} horse,” etc, the simpler exercises can still be used.” Consequently the full gymnastic | equipment such as was provided for Franklin high school will not | be Installed in the new Ballard |high school, not this semester, at| any rate. The high school pupils will be} instructed {n simpler forms of ex ercise instead The school board also took up| several recommendations made by Fire Marshal Sringhurst to pro- vide better fire protection | One of these is to provide bet MURJA IS BACK } FROM SQUIRREL HUNT IN EUROPE pe civereisy Man ee to! Couldn't. i KING WASN'T AT HOME| T TAKES a pret- ty good man to) ne a Star Readers Have Mr.HighGost of Living Cheated to Death! They’re Going to Get $1.50 Book-Size Novels in Star Every Week Then, the week following, will come “The Red Emerald,” by John Reed Scott Among the fiction masterpieces that will follow, from week to week, COMPLETE EACH SIX DAYS, are “An Outsider,” by Louis Joseph Vance; “The Ranch at the Wolver- ine,” by B. M. Bower; “North of Fifty-three,” by Bertrand W. Sin- clair; “Sunshine Jane,” by Anne Warner; “One Million Francs,” by Arnold Fredericks; “The Unafraid,” by Eleanor Ingram; “The Maxwell ” by Carolyn Wells, and HE STAR is going to give its readers a brand new deal. Always on the watch for new ideas in the making of newspapers, the men who strive to make The Star interesting to YOU wish to an- nounce today that, beginning Mon- day, this paper will publish a COMPLETE BOOK-SIZE NOVEL EACH WEEK. There! Some idea, isn’t it? The story will start on Monday and finish on Saturday. And then, on the Monday following, another story will be tion. The Star is going to it to you The Star tries to overlook no oppor- jeged to poison Archbishop Mundelein at a recent bana 5 The letters and the fact that police fond in Allegrini's pos session floor plane of some of the largest Chic: and churches, the evidence on which he was held. the king for what have done for Alaska. White, of the univer- Ibieat churches, kill clergymen and I, public bufidings in this coun- vig THE KINK oF- SweoeNn! Miss Frances Jack, the mysterious woman detective, arrested in strange case of eight-year-old Charles Bernard Storch, now missing for the third time in his short tite. oeee NURSE, IW JAIL, DENIES SHE (5 BOY'S. KIDNAPER custody of the child to Mrs. Baumbach, 3050 39th ave. 8. we ‘one was to keep the boy until Mra, Storch’'s divorce case was tried. On December 3 Charlies disap peared from the Baumbach home, That was the last seen of him. Taken From Sickbed “T located the child once for Mr, WILD, WOOLLY BANK ROBBERS MERE BOYS TULSA, Okla., Feb. 15.—The West is still wild and woolly. Cowboy togs and jong black pistols furnished the stage set ting for the holdup of a bank here. Two youths confessed Twice during the last three years, Miss Frances Jack, train- ed nurse and private detective, of Portland, has found Charles Bernard Storch, aged 8, for his father, Bernard M. Storch, Today the boy is again missing, Jand Miss Jack is in the county jail, |charged by the child’s mother with He Had a Good Time “Hello,” he said, sleepily. “Hello, Emil; this is The Star. Tell us about the trip.” ‘Fine trip,” said Emil. “Cov- ‘ 4 BOOK-SIZE NOVEL EVERY WEEK. = ost interesting» newspaper possible, “We Garden Husband,” by Margaret Widde- feature this time, and we hope no reader mer. The book is copyrighted by J. B will miss a single installment of these Lippincott & Co., from which firm The WEEKLY book-size novels K. Fatteen persons are sald to hav [en this gang of “reds.” |The police are now making every , ; ‘. ‘ The authorities are ,hopeful of LL Seattle, thru the city council, will be asked to participate in the fight|earching Sean Croeel, taissing Ves being the plotter tn th ison ban. ist rates and bring’ annually tq the Northwest thousands of pleasure-seeking trav-|quetcase | elers. Chairman C. A. Reynolds, of the public service commission, announced this| ? |plot bore Chicago and Salida, Colo., * |date lines. At the same time, he declared he believed the Chamber of Commerce, cs : their contents, the recipient evi which thus far has held aloof from the right, is preparing to take a prominent|dentiy knew the sender and knew T4.2 . . were left in the writing. | This belief is strengthened by the announcement that the transportation| One of them told of a new bomb throw among a lot of religious peo- nolds, Frank R. Spinning and Arthur Lewis—to attend a luncheon meeting at) pie.’ after church attendance on the Butler hotel Thursday noon to Soom the campaign. ter attention to fire drills in high 4 Another discussed the Colorado! ghcools. | he strike and id things Were getting sity journalism department, in on| NOlds declared. “They have promised both moral and financial support in a fight | The plot is belleved to have tn Oe dacias Ripert goes the secret when he wrote a note! tg the finish.” lcluded the attempt, some time ago.| Mrs. Nellie M. Burnside, tn be. ett oir sea to destroy St. Peter’s cathedral, in| iin’ the Interview | committee, urged administration of Later the whole world knew,| "0°"! “1! be called for some day | Bankers Marked for Death |the mothers’ pension thru the when the plan was printed on the|"¢%t week,,to be decided upon at What the Tourist Rate Fight Is Letters found in Allegrini's room| school district instead of thru the a meeting of the citizens’ commit eee A round-trip ticket from Chicago to San Francisco, returning on | ll'\rad tor death tn the plots, | This ‘would require an act of the Now Emil is back—and he didn't] wit) Expose Kerr's Activities A round-trip ticket from Chicago to San Franclaco, RETURN. ||, 1ne Piottors are helioved to have) eee Ee eee get the interview, The purpose of the meeting will|] ING BY WAY OF PORTLAND, TACOMA AND SEATTLE, cos . E cane realize the difficulties con-|@ t expose the “inside tacts” |] b27-75. were made to get the release of Al D nected with such an ambition ken" |] cago to San Francisco and return, costs $62.50. Wit oo Ct Eagerly, we called Emil up early|neth Kerr, editor of the Railway ‘A summer excursion ticket from Chicago to San Francisco and & Marine News, who has taken up|} return, via the Northwest, costs $80. jouse the cause of the railroads. the public into believing tourist rates to the Pacific Coast are equal by quoting rates which have no We begin next Monday with “The Rose think we have put over a amashing big Star has purchased publication rights. Watch for the NOVEL-A-WE effort to round them up. begun by local business men and commercial organizations to equalize tour- 1 va gee ey Mis ene Latters revealing the antt-clerical plan Tuesday as the latest development in the rate campaign. They were unsigned, but from! part in it. |who was meang when blank spaces bureau of the chamber has asked the — service commission—Chairman Rey-|t#t would “be a fine thing to Sunday “Some mighty big people have lined up with us in the last few days,” Rey- The other Is to supplement hand | pretty hot” theme. explaining his plot. another. mies meeting of cits jhalf of the woman's legislative |New York first page of the University of hinted two score local bankers were | juvenile court as at present. tee on Thursday the Southern Pacific by way of New Orie: costs $106. The truth is, few of us Amert- bail for arrested members, Efforts concerning the publications of Ken A summer excursion ticket over the Southern lines from Chi- his morning at the Kappa Sigma - a round trip over the Southern route is 5,680 SUFFRAGE Kerr has attempted to delude bearing on the matter in hand nce of the round trip via the Northwest is 5,427 miles. The result of the preferential rates over the Southern lines is a loss to the Northwest of more than 90 per cent of the tourist traffic. 5 ered 1,500 miles, was traveling 2% months. Entertained. Got every thing | wanted.” “Well, did you talk to the king. and how is he?” “Well, no,” explained Emil Wasn't in the palace. I guess fotta get an application. 1 don't think he was in town. We went in the palace. They wouldn’t let us Into the palace, if he was in the pal ace. I didn't have an application.” Doesn't Know His Name “Say, Emil, what's the king's name in Sweden?” we asked confi dentially. “Wanta use it in the story.” “King o’ Sweden's name?” dallied Emil. “Oh, the name of the king of Sweden? 1 don’t remember now who he is, but Honken, or some th e that, is king of Norwa Yunderstand, 1 didn't king of Sweden; he wasn't in the “Did the king of Sweden know were in town? Say,” said Emil. Otlock, an’ I'm all tired out. you lat He x “It's only 8 Bee meet the) | |letters Tuesday Chairman Reynolds and the citi zens’ committee are sending out to all commercial bodies in every city In this state as well as those of Portland and Boise, Idaho, asking permission to use their corporate names as par. ties plaintiff in the sult against the rallroads. To File New Complaint A change in the plan of bringing suit against the railroads has taken place within the last week An amended complaint is to be filed with the interstate commerce commission, naming all commer cial bodies in the Northwest as parties plaintiff, instead of having each file a separate suit in inter vention to the main suit brought by the public service commission Expects to Win Case By this method the comn hopes to gain unity and bring t matter more forcibly before the in terstate commission. “There seems to that we will win our case,’ Reynolds. ssion be no doubt sald | | the| from the ja technicality The fight is against the Southern and Union Pacific and the O-W. R. & N,, their allied line, to equalize these rates. SEATTLE ELECTRIC GETS DELAY IN HEAT HEARING Because the Seattle Elec- tric lawyers wouldn't go to the mat with the city in the fight for heat in the street cars Tuesday morning, the hearing before the public service com mission was postponed until April 10. The company resumed in Tacoma Febru ary 28, interfered with setting the heat hearing at an earlier date. If the case 1s not postponed again, we will have plenty of time before next winter to fight the matter out and take it up with the courts,” said Assistant Corporation Counsel Ralph Pierce Tuesday WACO, TEXAS, VOT attorneys nosed up that let them out hearing scheduled for Tuesday. They had not had ten days’ notice, they said WACO, Tex., Feb, 15.—The city was voting today on the propriety of Sunday m 8. Now there won't be a show down for elght weeks | 16 telephone rate case heart ON SUNDAY MOVIES] to the crime a couple of hours later. ‘MISSISSIPPI RIVER LEVEE GOES OUT NATCHEZ, M The main Mi river levee, 25 miles above St. Jo- seph, Miss, broke early today, | pouring a huge flood over thou- sands of acres of land. QUESTION SHELVE | WASHINGTON, Feb, 15.—The | house judiciary committee to- | day, by a vote of 9 to 7, post. | poned until after December 14, 1916, consideration of any pro- posal for woman suffrage. This means that this congress will not vote on the Anthony | ye yrs PRONOUNCE IT: DON’T DROP DEAD BR AND-ICE | Louls D, Brandeis, President WASHINGTON, Feb. 15,— By a vote of 39 to 23, the sen- ate today passed Sen. Borah’s | motion to Investigate the | Wilson's nominee for the supreme court, pronounces his name as if it| were spelled Brand-ice, with the, nt on the “ice.” ibility of government } “If the the child, having kidnaped him, fortunate circumstance,” “OC fe’s parents stealing the boy back ever since their three years ago,” said Miss Jack. Never Saw the Boy, She Says It may seem strange, but spite the fact that I served Mr. Storch in the capacity of private detective in locating his son twice, T have never seen either the boy or his mother. “T know nothing of his present whereabouts, altho IT was again em- ployed to find Charlie by his fa- ther but a few days ago.” Miss Jack's eyes snapped re’s such a mystery about why don't the police de find him? 1 am sure I him in a short time if I have and tectives could locate were not in here tectives are stupid,” Suing for Divorce Mrs. Storch is suing her husband for divorce. She alleges he mal. treated her. Judge Dykeman recently gave the These police de-| ‘a very un-|Storch in Victoria, and once here, she avers.|but I never saw him, been |course, I haven't kidnaped him, but forth | my disagreement, | considerably la patient in Portland. in the dead of ” she said, “Of arrest has inconvenienced me I left the sickbed of wag arrested and night when I de- brought he pares” PLOT T0 BLOW UP U.S.S, KENTUCKY WASHINGTON, Feb. 15— Carranzistas, according to re ports today, notified the United States that a plot to blow up the battleship Kentucky at Vera Cruz had been foiled by Prince Oscar. the Kaiser’s Son, Writes Story of the Germans’ Part in Critical Battle of the Champagne. See Page7