The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 26, 1916, Page 1

baseball season opens Thursday. As usual, The Star will give its sport page renders the hottest news and livest gossip of doings in the Northwestern league. A new feature, the batting average of the Seattle players, day by day, will also be in vogue. You can't bat .300 if you miss The Star's sport dope. Sniff! Sniff! LANSING DENIES THREAT WASHINGTON, April 26. —Reports were circulated to- day that Ambassador Chinda has made threats to the state \ \ department in connection with ~ the stand his government has taken against the Japanese ex- ¢elusion clause in the immigra- tion bill, recently passed by the house and now pending in the senate. Secretary Lansing characterized the reports as “absolutely false, “Such a thing has never been suggested,” declared Lansing. He asserted that Chinda’s negot!. ations had been entirely diplomatic ‘and that the ambassador had sought to prevent inclusion of the ‘Takahira agreement for ex- elusion of Japanese laborers in the zee & ehip of Frank I. Wals paper workings of rh ‘BY BASIL | onty $80,190,694. The total at least THREE 10N DOLLARS, now calling moet ARE THE NATION 8O ENORMOUS THAT AN INCOME TAX RANGING FROM 1 PER CENT TO 6 PER CENT your mind. pan will Be altered slightly to make it less effensive to Japan. ‘The changes wil! be chiefly in the logy, Chairman Smith of the senate tmmigration committee asserts. amendments will be offered to admit Japanese laborers, he said. Germans Join With Japanese; Back War in Central America MEXICO CITY, April 26— German officere are directing the revolution raging in Guate- mala, seeking to overthrow President Cabrera, It was learn- ed today. Japanese agents are supply- ing arms and ammunition to the rebels. Three columne of revolution- lets have taken the field and made some progress. They de- mand labor and land reforms and Improved educational facll- Klee. Reports that Felix Diaz was In Guatemala, seeking support for hie Mexican revolution, proved unfounded, it was learn- ed from a trustworthy source. U.S,T0 GET ARMY OF 175,000 MEN WASHINGTON, Asa result of sta Sen. Chamberlain, leaders of the house and senate in con- ference on the army bills said April 26.— its b: today the outlines of the mill- tary measures ae they are ex- | of her day. i Domes ee eee ‘The Eastern womet, who are on |tnets way aboard a special train to convince their voting sisters in Se nl al understanding of aitie that national suffrage planks ib y must come first and party affilia 1 ne on ney tone post ery tion second in the next presidential Fe ee eee n may be entirely \compaign, left California for the pa oor al i Northwest Wednesday The militie will get about all it| In the meantime, Boatile phe oe demande in the way of incresced | Working under the direction of Mise for officers, more equipment, |Marsaret Whittemore of Washing my sf sind ton, D. C., are preparing for their bare nate plan into Seattle Monday morn 96 posse pat the busy two days they fab will provi: for a regular army of 175,000 men, accord- for a govern. | entrance ing, and for the newepapere which are members Fprive ansoctation a deep Noted American Economic Investigator The federal income tax for the year ending June 30, 1915, yielded }. tax collec than $400,000,000. The nation was thus defraude These enormous fraude were accomplished In the time of the nation’s greatest need, and were per petrated by many of the same individuals who are expenditures to defend THEIR PROPERTY from real WEALTH AND INCOME OF WILL YIELD $400,000,000 TAX WHO ARE THE THIEVE 18 THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT WOEFUL- LY INEFFICIENT OR CORRUPT? These are some of the questions that must immediately epring to Tam going to answer the last question firm. The treasury depart BUSY. TIME AHEAD: HERE FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE LEADERS Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch, famous suffragist, who will be editor of the special suffrage editions of The Star next Tuesday, with her Elizabeth Cady Stanton, now dead. Mrs Stanton wi of Susan B. Anthony, and one of the most prominent suffrage workers VOLUME 19 et et & aweeping tmvest M. MANLY ould have been not less, t HUNDRED AND TWENTY MILL- and probably more. loudly upon the nation for increased | ENORMOUS FRAUDS POS. THE 8? | friend suffrage movement tn the East. Women speakers will address the mass meeting at the Moore Monday | night | jhe exclaimed, and he shot | |My keys are tn my | Mrs. Harrfot Stanton Blatch of New York will be editor of The Star! |Tuesday. She is national political] chairman for the Congressional union, Others in the party are Miss Lucy Burns of New York, national} vice chairman; Miss Anne Martin) lof Nevada, national legislative| \ehairman; Mrs, John Rogers of New| York, member of the national advis-| ewe et Tremendous Thefts by Rich, Amounting to Over Three Hundred Millions of Dollars Yearly, Can Be Stopped at Once if President and Secretary of Treasury Will Use Their Power and Correct Mistake of Congress. ent ts NOT tneffictent, measured bureau, which is responsible for t a Organized upon the most efficient plan. DEPARTMENT I8 NOT BUT THE TREASURY PLACE RESPONSIBLE FOR TH The original responsibility (Continued 4 NOT a bit of evidence to Indicate that corruption of treasury als is responsible for the enormous evasions. Drug Store Tiff! Hidden Whisky! Bingo! Biff! WILL PRESIDENT WILSON AND SECY.M’ADOO ALLOW | UNCLE SAM’S INCOME TAX LAW TO REMAIN A JOKE? ~e ee bo government standards, and there} offi. | The internal revenue he collection of the tax, lacks the IN THE FIRST E FAILURE TO COLLECT THE rests upon congress for intro on page 8) LIFE SAVED AS COIN STOPS BULLET When Conrad Leo, rooming house proprietor, pressed @ re- volver over the heart of T. &. Dunbar, real estate man, and fired, on Second ave., near Sen- eca st, at 10 a. m. Wednesday, the bullet was stopped by a dol- lar in Dunlap’s veet pocket. Leo then ducked thru the crowd, ran up Senece st. and fired a shot into his own brain, a0 he stopped near Fourth ave. He died on the way to the city hospital, 20 minutes later. Dunbar, who Iives at 1111 Colum dia had sold Lao a roomin house 1107%, «Fifth ave, week “You'll have to sell that property again,” he told Dunbar when he stopped him on Second ave. Then he pulled a 22-caliber gun out of his pocket “That rooming house ts no good, Dunbar jooked at the powder burn on his coat and yelled: “Stop that man.” Leaves Note to Brother He unbuttoned bis cont and fatied to find the bullet hole or blood stain. Then he reached down and pulled out the dented dollar. The | flattened lead sltpped into the lining! lof hie vest. Police officers found a note in Leo's pocket addressed to his broth er, Ernest Leo, 5627 Eighth ave. N. W. It waa scribbled on writing paper, in an envelope carried in Leo's pocket It read: “Brother. brother—I can not stand this life any longer. My last will is In my safety deposit box pocketbook, 1 owe Mr. Daniels $15. Good-bye.” Tried Suicide Before Dunbar told the police that Leo had been acting strangely and had threatened to commit suicide sev- eral days ago “I went to his room a week before the deal went thru,” sald Dunbar “He had his revolver cocked and started to put It against his temple. T took {t away from him." Leo was 62 years of age and un married. For years he ran Leo's cafe, at 210 Spring st (GIVE “BECK” A BOAT! FIGHTS PORTLA. 2, Ore, April 26. —A 15-galion keg of beer is floating In the Ifle o A off the Oregon coast, Captain Dawson of the 8. 8. Ventura, Ban Francleco to Portland, re- ported to the U. 8. hydro- graphic office today. BOOST MRS. COWLES DEL MONTE, Cal, April 26. Women delegates from western states will support Mra, Joseph Jo- siah Evans Cowles of Los Angeles $1,900 THEFT 1S LAID TO ment nitrate plant and trade train-| ing for soldiers will probably die. | The conferences may take a) month. | wi li apend here Three features will mark the vie- it of the suffragists here. First is the big open-air meet- ory council, and women who head the movement in Eastern states. The itinerary of the suffrage spe- the seopectival for national the Callforn president of the Feder. ation of Women's clubs, it became known today at the convention of la federations. ing at the King st. station, at 9:30 a. m, Monday. Second is the big public mass | meeting at the Moore theatre, | Monday night. Third is the suffragist edition of The Star, editediby promi nent women workers from the East, on Tuesday. The rest of the time will be util {zed for organization meetings, |iuncheons and receptions. The envoys aboard the “Suffrage Special” are being sent to the Wem ern states where women vote by the Congressional Union for Woman | Suffrage. Mayor Gill and Mrs, Frances Ax tell, chairman of the Washington lbranch of the Congressional union, | will speak at the station meeting Last year, for the first time in| Answering talks will be mad more than half a century, new rall-|the envoys way construction in the United! The party includes some of the Gtates fell to less than 1,000 miles.ablest women identified with the WILL HOLD SLAYER | FOR EXAMINATION Juvenile court Aidhostictaca | after studying Joe Burke, 12-year: | old slayer, declare hia mind cannot differentiate between right and wrong They say he Is otherwise above normal! in temperament | The lad will be held for observa. | tion in the juvenile department for | the next few weeks, and will prob- | ably be placed in some state insti tution for correction | Joe masked himself and shot | Frank Healer, millman, Sunday night jelal takes them thru Nevada Thurs. day and to Sacramento, Cal. Fri- day. Saturday evening will be spent {in Salem, Ore. The party reaches Portland Sunday morning, and leaves at night for Seattle | HOLD PEACE PARADE DUBUQUE, Ia, April 26.—-In a demonstration against war with |Germany, several thousand women |and children paraded the rtreeta last night, waving flags and singing Yankee Doodle, The parade was two miles Jong, four abreast GERMAN GUNS BUSY. | PARIS, April 26.—The Germans [pounded Avocourt wood and Hill Delegations from California, Ida-| ho, Washington, Oregon, Utah and | other western states’ will Join at| Ogden to make up a special train for Mra, Cowles’ supporters | | ELKUS TO GET POST, WASHINGTON, April 26.—It {s| believed Abram I. Elkus, a New| York lawyer, will be named ambas- sador to Turkey, to succeed Henry Morganthau, who resigned yester- day. | T. R. GLUB TO AID The Women's Roosevelt club will take an offering at their meeting) Thuraday afternoon at 607 Malden 204 with an intense bombardment \during the night, ave., and turn over the funds to the! national woman suffrage workers, BOY OF 23 | Herbert W. Braden, former book keeper in the offices of the Royal Milling company, in the Colman) butlding, is under arrest in Vancou ver, B. C., Wednesday, charged with grand larceny {n connection with an alleged $1,900 shortage in company accounts. Braden {es 23 years old, and, until local authorities began to investi gate his habits, was supposedly liv. ing with his mother, Mra. Catherine L. Braden, a milliner, at 329 Coryell piace . Tt was found, however, that he was keeping a separate apartment | in the Ravenna, 1627 Terry ave., oo- cupied by a young woman acquaint- ance, for which he had paid rent in | advance to May 6. | F. B, Pitcher, nt for the Royal Milling company, who employed | Braden, first noticed an alleged |shortage of $216. Braden went with Pitcher to the | former's safety deposit box and made the shortage good in gold coin, later that day Pitcher says he} }found a further shortage of $400./ t notified the bookkeeper, who, Pitcher says, promised to make the amount good within 48 hours. That night, according to Pitcher,| the office safe burglarized and| the $217 given him by Braden that} |morning was taken. Braden then| left the eclty The specific charge against Bra- |den ts an alleged theft of $66 on February 5. ‘LANE RECALLS STRIKE TROOPS WASHINGTON, April 26. Secretary of the Interior Lane today requested the war de | partment to rescind its orders of yesterday directing regular troops to go to Anchorage, Alaska, where a strike was re- ported on the government rail road. Lane declared the situation was quiet despite the strike. ' | BERLIN, April 26.—(By Wire-| |less to Sayville, L. L)—The Brit ish tanker Goldmouth, 7746 tons, after having been warned to halt, fired on a German submarine and was sunk after an engagement of | 30 minutes, it was learned today CHIEF'S ‘AGIN’ BOOZE | BREMERTON, April 26.—Twen- ty-six police chiefs at their state meeting here decided to ask the leg islature to stop importation of liquor for private consumption, The dry law would have to be amended. | The Seattle Star THE ONLY PAPER SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1916. IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS i ONE CENT ON TRAINS WS RTA WILSON EXPLAINS U. 8. STAND HATS OFF, MEN HERE’S THE CHAMPION NOSE! a A “close-up” of the famous mos of Sergt. Putnam, offic 1 who rches Seattie drug stores for egal stocks of booze. | Vietor R. Putnam, police ser- weant, is sniffing bis way to fame. His delicate nostrils are worth dolisrs to the city. But they are fatal to druggists who keep corn juice where the pineapple ought to be, at the soda fountain. When Sergt. Putnam steps be- hind the marble bars, he runs his nose along tl Uke a pl Then, suddenly, he stops. The tip of his nose quivers like a rabbit's His eyes gleam, and be smiles a smile that shows a row of shining, set teeth. A sweet aroma his olfactory nerves! The secret hiding place of the forbidden “licker” is revealed! Sergt. Putnam yanks out the por- celain containers. playing with AN a, ‘ship would be decided from all the NIGHT EDITION Right-up-to-the-minute latest news in The Star’s Pink every day. Last afternoon edi- tion issued. Try it. Weather forecast: “Tonight and Thursday, showers.” D be AMERICANS T0 BE WARNED OFF ARMED SHIPS WASHINGTON, April 26.—Warning is to be issued to Americans to refrain from traveling on certain armed ships as soon as the administration learns what vessels are under mandatory orders from the allied gou- ernments, it was learned today. WASHINGTON, April 26.—Belligerents should presume armed merchantmen to be peaceful unless there is “conclusive evidenvce to the con a This position has been taken by the United States government, it was officially declared today by the state department. Merely because an enemy merchantman is armed, there is not sufficient caus for a belligerent to declare it a warship and attack it regardless of the rights of per- sons aboard. These points were announced to the world in @ memorandum intended to clear up the American posie tion on the subject of armed ships. The memorandum is aimed to forestall Germany from asking the American position on the present method of submarining. Ya neutral waters, the memoran- dum said, the status of an armed . - 2 circumstances of the case. “A neutral government may pro- ceed upon the presumption that an) armed merchantman of belligerent | nationality is armed for aggression, | while a belligerent should proceed | on the presumption that the ves sel {s armed for protection,” reads the memorandum | The memorandum agrees with| United Press Staff Correspondent the German position concerning | COLUMBUS, N. M., April 26. vessels in the government service} —Two United Sta soldiers BY E. T. CONKLE And jangling bottles of intoxt-|/ "00" ia for hunting submarines, were killed and several wound cants go rumbling toward police |. 4 warships, but disagrees witn| ed in a battle with Villistas headquarters in the police patrol Germany's contention of right to} turday, according to advices Sergt. Putnam is a living exam-|Gfrmany ® Cone chantman on the| today. ple of the rusty theory that a po- Hee officer gets recognition for honest, faithful tot) For years he bas had the reputa- tion of being a courteous, aggres sive, square, nonpartisan officer. That may, or may not, be the reason why he has been detatled Reckingham did when he took of: fice two weeks ago was to send for Putnam A column under Dodd of the Second cavairy defeated 300 assumption that it is necessarily armed for the offensive “By direction of the president,” Villistas in Western Chihua- the statement reads, “a memoran-| hua. The bandits’ losses were dum was prepared during March,| unknown, Meag Villistas were apparently sev- eral bands concentrated under 1916, in regard to the status of armed merchant vessels in neutral ports and on the high seas. This [suse ate ikeceni teat pororandum {s now made public| four “generals.” The Amer. ray from the white lights. iet|# &. statement of this govern) cane routed them and plraue@ “ trent’s attitude on that subject. | them until nightfall. The memorandum declares that any enemy warship ‘may properly | exercise force to compel surrender | BY H. D. JACOBS » NAMIQUIPA, Mexico, April é NAT foiplbs yk Dna pcb ed if the armed merchantman fires to Colum Ty . first.” s were Bee ne ae epee cee aoa |, The right to sink neutral mer |’ and 18) ‘wounded in oi Tia that you don't play favorites,” I've|chantmen tn any circumstances | three-hour running fight be heard that you wouldn't take f doubtful, the memorandum de| tween a smail American de- saa oe ake free | vires. tachment under Col. Dodd and meals where many of the officers have been eating their heads off. BY CARL W. ACKERMAN | | about 260 Villistas under four | chiefs, near Tomachic, Satur. You're the fellow I want to come U. P. Staff Correspondent day in here and grab these bootleg- Dodd unexpectedly came upon gern.” BERLIN, Apri! 2—President | 1, Vittistas at 4:30 p.m. Althe So it was that Sergeant Victor! Wilson's demand that subma- | outnumbered,.and his mounts jaded, Putnam got his chance—and he's) pines warn freight vessels a8 he ordered an attack and the Ameri- making the most of it Putnam is in charge of the spe cial detail of police, working in plain clothes, who have gone into drug stores and soft drink bars to) ferret out hidden booze. They have rummaged cellars, and att and sounded false partitions, in a relentless crusade against boot: | leggers. | 3,000 OUT ON STRIKE. PITTSBURG, Pa., April The Westinghouse Air Brake Co.'s plant closed down today with nearly 3,000 | of {ts employes on strike | LONDON, April 26 umber of Americans who left Germany convinced that a diplomatic break between the United States and the kaiser is imminent arrived today at Copenhagen and ¢ A @ Still, if she had to die, it was just as well that she died the night Jane stayed with her, the way it turned out. q For, afterward, it opened the way for Jane to get married, when it looked as tho the poor girl was going to be denied her chance at happiness. @ This is just one of the little climaxes that make Anne Warner’s story, “Sunshine Jane,” delight- fully different and interesting. The Star is going to publish it beginning Monday, in six daily in- stallments. week series. It is another in this paper’s novel-a- cans charged The Villistas made a brief stand then scattered into caves and can- yons. Dodd continued to Minica, his | base, to await fresh supplies. well as liners before attacking them is a most serious obstacle in the path of an amicable set tlement of the German-Ameri- can dispute, the United Press learned today on good authori- ty. Other points at issue may The organiaztion defeated by the be disposed of without danger Americans was a picked band con: of a rupture. centrating under Generals Cervan- Imperial Chancellor Von /tes, Baca, Dominiquez and Rios, Bethmann-Hollweg and Admiral Von Holtzendorff arrived today r Wilhelm’s field head- BY E. T. CONKLE EL PASO, April 26.—Gen, Obregon, war minister, will in- sist on a speedy withdrawal of the American expedition from Mexico when he confers with Gen. Hugh Scott, according to Carranza officials today. He will plead that the de facto gov- ernment cannot pacify Mexico long as the expedition re- mains, and evacuation will be manded on Obregon’s own terms. Obregon reached Saltillo today on |his trip north for the meeting, and jean reach Juarez by Friday, pré& German-American retations. Von Hollweg is expected in Berlin by the week-énd, per- haps with a rough draft of the German reply to American sub- | marine demands, ACQUIT MOTHER IN MURDER CASE NEW YORK, April 26.—Mrs, Ida Sniffen Rogers, charged with mur- vided that city {fs his objective |point, Speculation as to the scene jof the conference is still rife, La- gle Pass are considered locations. yen, Eduardo Boquer is reported dering her two children, was ac-l/t have entered Mexico west of El quitted today. | Paso to start a new revolution, Gen, Mrs. Rogers poisoned her babies | Salazar {s heading into the Ojinagea redo and possible ( that they might not grow up to | district. learn of their illegitimate birth A small detachment of govern- ¢ = a ment troops left Juarez in pursuit of Boquer. Carranza secret service agents are watching the Felix Diag revolutionists in El Paso. BELIEVE SHIP LOST | 26.—Local TACOMA, April 0 R lost the British steamship Val LONDON, April 26.—Four etta, out since January 1, for persons were killed and 12 wounded by the German cruis- ers on the English east coast England. The Valetta sailed from Ta | coma with 9,000 tons of barley yesterday, it was announced for England, under admiralty today. In addition to Lowes: | order, toft, the town of Yarmouth was AMERICANS. e iq