The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 24, 1916, Page 1

15 | FOR THE ike ing securely. Gambling has ait ith jue. @ He was hungry for a ligent woman. He met one. Natalie nd T= ite ie ; ts ¥. Enthusiastically pledging 5, themselves to carry the fight $ for Austin E. Griffiths for i) mayor into every precinct in the city, 300 men and women yi met at the Good Eats cafeteria Wednesday night to organize their forces. The meeting was full of “pep.” Griffiths wag heartily applauded. When C. D. Fullen, who was ap- pointed chairman of the evening, Jannehed the remark that Chief lang ought to he fired, the audi- ence broke out in cheers. Another speaker said it means only trouble “when a dry town has a wet mayor.” Will Remove Lang In his speech, Griffiths said the removal of Lang would be his first act as mayor. But I cannot blame the present chief too much,” Griffiths added. “No man,” he said, “can be a good chief of police under Hi Gill, depending upon a salary, without running the danger of the pent tentlary.” That Griffiths will receive the Erickson votes and practically all the votes cast for C. D. Raymer was indicated by the presence of supporters_of both of these candi dates at the meeting. W. D. Lane, chairman ,of the Erickson campaign committee, of ered his services, as did Thomas PK. Horner. Hard on Playgrounds Mrs. P. Fick said that of the first things Gill did on suming the mayor's chair two year ago was to bring back old-lin “ward-heelers” into control, He eppointed Frank P. Mullen on -_———/ one PAY ONLY ONE CENT Start This Monday -@ Vendome was to go to Madrid as ambassador 7 the United: States. The fact that he was he dipped into Washington society for a night. After living in a dozen different European cities, he was in the mood, probably for the first time in his 30-odd years, to be interested in an intel- was trying to forget the tenacious attentions of Blake—one of the set of racy people that she didn’t like. Griftiths’ Campaign for Mayor Launched in Peppery Meeting STAR flourished openly. } WOMAN WORKER T | OF GRAFT CONDITIONS little companionship. So Tremaine was her name. young married * * * { the park board Mullen “didn’t believe in play-| grounds,” and as a result, the board! voted to remove all playground supervisors and made it so hot for Harry Stine, the director of play-| grounds, that he quit at the first opportunity, and no successor has yet been named, nor is there any | intention of so doing. @ | An Investment of $100,000 | “The weeds will soon be growing }in our playgrounds,” she said, “in spite of the fact that the city haa| | an investment of $100,000 in them.”| Other speakers charged that if} Hi Gill is elected mayor again, the state later will have to contend| with him as governor, with the op-| portunity be would thus have to | stifle popular legislation. Among others who spoke were) Former Congressman Bryan, Mre.| Sophie Clark, J. Y. C. Kellogg and | John Dunlap. Griffiths himself spoke briefly. Helped to Recall Gill “1 know there is a gigantic po-) | litical conspiracy to smother help-| }ful legislation for the benefit of the public welfare,” he said. “Mr. | Gili saya there is no issue of any| |importance between himself and | myself. He has no right to make) any statement like that | “L never voted for or suported| fliram C. Gill. { helped to recall] | him, | | “There is a vital, fundamental) | difference between us. I stand for! | the enforcement of the laws of pub- #\ tic morality and Gill does not.” —-- a) tonight and Friday. | Sees F Fair o 18. Investigator Relates, at Griffiths Meeting, Results of Visits to Line”; Says Girls Ply Trade A vice district is now in full operation on Dearborn and Weller sts., between Seventh and Eighth aves. 8. This was the charge made by Mrs. Remington Charter at an organization meeting, held Wednesday night in the Good Eats cafeteria, to ald the candi- dacy of Austin E. Griffiths for mayor. Or. Edwin J. Brown made a specific charge that First a merchants have known Ld months of the operation of a gambling resort in the Silver buliding on First ave. and Cherry et., and that the police knew it. Mrs, Charter told of her personal observations in the vice district She had investigated conditions there in the past two months, she sald. She first went into the section of town, she said, to distribute some pamphlets behalf of Griffiths’ candidacy They Want Only Gill “In one house,” she said, “there were six women and 4 negress, The negress superintended the place. They laughed at the idea of voting for any one but Gill,” They told her: “We know when we're well off. There was one young girl there, Mrs. Charter said, not over 17 or 18, She was coughing. The negress caressed the girl and said: “Breathe thru your nose. won't hurt you so much.” Mrs. Charter’s sympathy for the girl attracted her confidence some what, she said Girt Tells of Systern “Aren't you afraid of the police?” Mrs, Charter asked. “1 should worry,” the girl re- plied. “We pay our landlady and she has a perfectly good arrange- ment. All we're told is not to show at the windows when the cops are on the beat close by, But some- times we do show—and then, oh, well, THE COPS WINK THE OTHER EYE. No, we don't have to worry about that.” Mra. Charter told of a number of houses In the same district. There was only one respectable house in an entire block, sho said lower merely in Dr. Edwin J. Brown, himself a candidate for the council, said he wasn't concerned so much with bis own candidacy as to see the right man in the mayor's chair. “It is & notorious fact to all of us on First ave. that gambling has been permitted, with knowledge of the police, In the Silver bullding, and there are gambling resorts seattered all over the elty,” Brow, said. “The negro gambling hous never did close. Houses of shame have been running under the pro- tection of Hi Gill and his chief of police.” Brown blamed Gill's big vote to a lot of respectable women and men whose neighborhoods didn't happen to be infested with these resorts. “1 would be willing,” he , “to have the vice district re- moved to the Furth plat on front of my house on Capitol hill, a0 that the people In that district might get a smell of it and, In their amug self-satisfac- tion, learn better,” District ‘“Below-the- tor Right tol SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1916. ion of grafters, more numerous Sketch showing interior arrangement of one of the Seattle “badger houses.” Neath a stairway, photographing the unsuspectin In the upper corner is shown a picture of | wealthy victim after th el Clayburg, who is under arrest in Los Angeles, in connection with the blackmail syndi- SRWwe «TANTS ONE C in” had landed him. ON TRAIN ann } WASHINGTON, Feb. 24,— Tho an apparent truce marked the , both the pro-adminis- tration forces and those want- ing a modification of President Wiison’s policy toward the Ger- man armed merchantmen de- cree, seemed making ready for a renewal of their conflict to- morrow. } Having blocked every effort | to obtain consideration of a resolution for a warning to citi- zens not to travel on armed ships, congressional leaders | agreed to let down tg bars somewhat tomorrow. The senate will then hear Senator Gore, whoee efforts to get an audience today were thwarted by ction from Senator Brandeg: and prob- ably the house will listen to speeches in favor of a warning such ae Gore wants. Administration leaders agreed to this concession to the opponents of Wilson, as it fs believed the situa- tion can now be controlled, regard less of discussion on the floors of congress | Flood declared the house commit- |tee would not report any warning resolution. | Ambassador Von Bernstorff said today he had not yet recetved in structions from Berlin as to his course toward the American re- fusal to concur in the Teuton proc lamation of war against armed ships, The president's friends point out that passage of a warning resolu- tion by congress would mean re- pudiation of the president's policy and would embarrass, !f not actual- ly kill, his efforts to maintain peace and friendship with Germany, and still preserve American rights at sea. Representative McLemore and others had planned to bring up the warning question in open debate. Senator Gore insisted upon his right to make a speech for a warn- ing. President Wilson telephoned Flood last night during a confer ence, after hearing of the Mcle more resolution, Favor Giving Warning Both Senator Stone and Repre sentative Flood favor a warning to | Americans to keep off armed ships rather than to risk war with Ger many thru a break in diplomatic relations. It is believed the majority of both foreign committees favor the same idea as the chairmen Despite the fact that a rupture TACOMA, Feb, 24.—(Special.) supplies, en route from the Hast to Smiths Cove, Seattle. AUSTRIANS ATTACK SEATTLE TRAIN BEARING MUNITIONS When the train was going slowly Twenty organized Austrians board-|®t 15th and Dock sts. the Aus . ” |trians cut the air hose. jed ‘a Great Northern munitions | Gehan ihe’ trata peopel, thas train and made a desperate effort| swarmed aboard. Special guards to destroy the shipment, near the | fought them off and captured Sam | heart of the city at 7:30 Thursday| Rusky and John Ross. They are morning. in fail, The others escaped The cars were loaded with unt- Police and railroad detectives forms, field autos, and general war|are trying to uncover the details jof the plot, The train reached | Seattle two hours later. had been prevented, at least tem- porarily, leaders are uneasy | “I regard this as the most sert ous matter I have ever had to |help face,” said one, ‘We have | met it thus far and I believe we |can continue to do so, but it ts a} | bad situation.” | How strong the opposition to the | president ts was evidenced from | the fact that such men as Speaker Clark and Senators Overman and |Cummins favor a warning. Several senators are opposed to the president's course, but they | favor informing him of their sen }timents, privately, rather than to have an outbreak on the floor. Introduce Substitute Rep. Foster introduced a substt-| tute for the McLemore resolution which would “authorize” instead of request the president to issue a warning The McLemore resolution pro posed that any one disobeying the warning should sacrifice the right to American protection Representative Webb and others $50,000 FIRE IN. WESTERN AVE, A carload of matches, and general brokerage merchandise valued at $50,000 was destroy- ed when fire broke out In O'Callahan & Graham's, 613 Western ave, Wednesday night. They are merchandise brok- ers, Stock valued at $1,000 In the | John Deere Plow Co. store | | room in the same building was | damaged. | Water and smoke destroyed butter and eggs belonging to | Perry B produce stock at | 611 Ww nave. The bulld- ing was saved. The cause of the fire has not been determined, All losses were covered by insurance. NAME VICTIM IN BLACKMAIL CASE: The Seattle Star : THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT VOLUME Nich EDITION BREEDING GRAFT AND GRAFTERS!I ~ & Hi Gill is Hi Gill! When Hi Gill is in control, gamblers, white slavers, plain grafters—in and out of the police department—feel themselves, whether rightly or wrongly, under a benevolent protection. Gill is mayor, just so long will there exist an unhealthy atmosphere that engenders license and graft. @ Since Austin E. Griffiths resigned as chief, Seattle has had a Lang scandal, a police officer convicted of grafting from unfortunate women, and Felix Crane, negro boss of the underworld, sent to the penitentiary for levying tribute upon the women “below the line” for “protection.” EVERY DOLLAR FELIX CRANE’S ORGANIZATION COLLECTED FROM THESE WOMEN WAS SPLIT WITH SOMEBODY HIGHER UP. THAT IS N OPEN SECRET, THO CRANE WENT TO PRISON RATHER THAN TELL WHO IT WAS. @ There is the underworld district itself—an institution brought on anew with Gill in office. There are rows upon rows of houses within a few square blocks in the district between Sixth and Eighth aves. S. and King and Dearborn sts., where women ply their illicit trade, right under the noses of the police, openly and AND NOW, in spite of Hi Gill’s recent pulpit mouthings on the grand old prohibition law, the police, with their incompetent ief, are winking at the sale of booze. Any one who wants a drink knows where he can get it. The police know, too. @ It is not safe for Seattle to take another chance with Hi Gill. The suppressi job. Nor a Louie Lang job. IT NEEDS A STALWART, VIRILE, SQUARE, INTELLIGENT CITIZEN LIKE AUSTIN E. GRIFFITHS! HOW BLACKMAIL SYNDICATE IS SAID TO HAVE TRAPPED ITS VICTIMS | ATTORN than ever, with bootlegging privileges, is not a Hi Gill The camera-man worked In a tiny padded room under- PUT QUIETUS ON WAR SPEECHES WILSON AND SENATE HOLD CONGRESS IN CHECK ON SHIP WARNING had prepared petitions ‘asking the president to issue a warning. was reported that a can It 88 of con- Sressional sentiment would be pre- sented to the president as soon as possible, perhaps today. PORTUGAL NEXT TO GET INTO WAR LISBON, Feb. 24.—Austria and Germany are expected to declare war upon Portugal im- mediately, as a result of the Portugu y's selzure of 36 Austrian and German steamers. The vessels were confiscated because Portugal needed trans- ports and feared the Teuton ships would escape to the At- lantic and possibly rald vessels of the entente allies, In this connection is cited the fact that the German steamer Ockenfels had escaped from Funchal, Maderia isiand. BOMB EXPLODES IN STATE CAPITOL LINCOLN, Neb.,, Feb. 24.—A fourfoot bomb, enclosed in a steel casing, exploded in a fur- nace used for burning walag the state capitol last night, was learned today. Only a part of the bomb ex- ploded, being thrown out of the furnace against a stone wall and scattering flames. The janitor put out the blaze with a fire extinguisher. The motive for the plot has not been found. 149 at 188 ft. m,, 11,6 ft. As long as -ISHELDAS PLOTTER | Louis P. Sichler Arrested as “Camera Man” in ie Picture Syndicate | |WON'T TALK OF Samuel I. Silverman fs named today as ‘the P tended. victim of Sichler, arrested by shers iff's deputies late Wednes- — day on a charge of black- mail in connection with, | operations here and if 1 | other Pacific coast cities ~ of an extensive “badger” ndicate. * According to the information obtained by Prosecutor Lui ‘on which he issued a com) against Sichier, the latter is the alleged camera-man who obtained photographs which 1 were used in “bad, @ score of wealthy and promi. nent men. 4 Deputy Sheriffs Brewer and Gillivray arrested Sichler mediately after a warrant had issued by Lundin. They had searching for him for more - hours, and had orders to m up without a warrant if they found him meanwhile, He refused to_discu: otter thant to say hb ubout the “blackniail but admitted he “knew Clayburg, now under arrest in Los Angeles, and Lillian who is said to have left Billings, Mont., within the last week for Los An geles. ‘ Charged With Blackmall ‘ Sichler is a lawyer, private de — tective and a former financial agent, who lives at 327 E. 58th at,, and is the owner of considerable — property here. FA He {s charged with blackmail in _ “having threatened to connive and publish a libel” in an attomele to extort $2,000 from Silverman. The latter is said to have refused Sichler anything, and to have threatened to deal summarily. with any one who attempted to force the issue, . Mrs. S——— Was “Siren” Mrs. S$ , the woman wi confession to Deputy Sheriff has been the basis for the action taken by Sheriff lige and Prose: cutor Lundin, she never re: ceived any money for her alleged part in the Silverman “job.” According to the statement she fs. said to have made to Hally, which was taken verbatim by a stenog- rapher, and later read in pres- ence to Lundin and acknowledged by her as correct, Mrs, S- was the “siren” who lured Silverman to the “badger house” on 20th ave, Calis Him at Club “The next man was Silverman,” her statement reads. “I met him thru another man to whom I had been introduced by Sichler, Q ba srt t (Continued on page 7) ‘ ----—- HOT SHOTS FROM GRIF. FITHS “The first thing | do mayor is to fire Chief Lang. o. | “Mr, Gill says there is noe great Issue between himeelf and myself. There is a vital difference. 1 stand for the en- | forcement of public moral | and decency. GILL DOES NOT, | see “No man can be a good | chief of police depending upon a salary under Gill without the