The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 5, 1916, Page 1

We don’t need repu Moines. need good bricklayers. sanship. BRICKLAYERS! bricks on Lafe Hamilton’s road to Des Nor do we need democrats. blicans to lay the We Vote for nonparti- TH VOLUME 19 FRIDAY, SEATTLE, WASH., Chairman of Public Service Commission Comes for Government Hearing Tuesday. Oregon's heavyweight representatives Northwest business men to w ger rates arrived in Seattle Friday and have peeled « the railway in unjust fight of passen their ipe out coats ready for the final fray, next Tuesday They are Chairman Frank J. Miller, of the Oregon pub fic service commission, and H. H. Hoven, the commission's * chief engineer. - On thetr arrival, they Immediate: | ly went into sessic with Chair oes ADMIT ONE Saturday, May 6 SEATTLE STAR DAY Left-Fieid Bleachers Good only for Boys of 14 You? and Under. eS aay BIGDAY AT | BALL PARK ” Boy Readers of This Paper Will Be Admitted Free CLIP OUT THE COUPON Saturday ls Seattle Star day / President Dugdale of the Seat- tle bal! club, The Star offers every one of its youthful read- ers a chance to see Saturday’s ball game FREE. All that is required ts that you be 14 years of age or under, and that You clip the coupon from this page and present it at the gate at the ders st. The coupon !s good for one free Sfimission to the left-field bleach- ers. The Star is planning a number of | Stunts that will be of benefit to fts boy readers and older ones as well. This Is one of them. Whether or not a return visit wi!) be paid to the ball park again this Season depends solely upon the be Bavior of the lads when at the Dark. The boys are requested to be Orderly, remain in one place during Ous, altho they may do all Footing they please. Boys are requested not to crowd the the gates, but to line up and march fh, with their coupon in hand ready for the ticket taker The entrance to the leftfield Dleachers is on th the grandstand Remember, boys, it’s up to y to behave, and get another chimes, RUSSIANS TO GIVE CONCERT AT MOORE The Cherr freat Russian mu give one Wednesday, May 1 theatre. it wil Cert in Ameri Brothers Brought side, what belongs to one bi % each of them, playing to Mot only in trios but solo Panied by each other for 14 years, all these factors r ni e tal hav MP Droduce the finest ving Rents of trio playing, noted « clare. TEPPELIN IS WINGED BSALONIKA, May 5.—A Ger man Zeppelin bent on raiding allies’ camps here was royed today. This is the Second Zeppelin reported de- Mroyed within 24 hours. lefthand side of concert in y the Accom the last join ball park on Rainier ave. and Lan the game, and not become boister- | man Charles A. Reynolds, of the} Washington commission, and Chief Engineer T. H. Phipps at the Chamber of Commerce. Together they are preparing the form {n which testimony is to be presented Tuesday, to Examiner Watkins, of the interstate com | merce commission, of Washington. D. C., to show that the people of the Northwest are being diserim: | | nated against by the Southern Pa | cific and Its allied roads in the mat Iter of round-trip passenger rates | }from Chicago to San Francisco | Keeps Tourists Away } | The contention of the Northwest | jis that a $ 50 cheaper rate on / tainable by the tourist over South | ern lines keeps 90 per cent of the! tourist traffic out of the North | western states to the great detrt ment of its people and business houses | It will be shown at the hearing | | Tuesday that it costa the tourist | } $17.50 more to journey by way of | owe Northwest In making the trip | from Chicago to San Francisco and |return than it does to go by way of New Orleans and Los Angeles, alth> the Northern route is consid: | erably shorter. } Two States Join Hands Oregon and Washington ha Joined forces in their effort to beat the railroads and secure an adjust ment of rates to place the North- | west on an equal basis with Call | fornia. “The Oregon representatives and myself,” said Chairman Reynolds. ‘are preparing our line of testi- mony so that every point will be |covered, but at the same time to | avoid duplication of evidence. Their witnesses will testify as to how} Oregon is injured by the existing | | rates. Our witnesses wih show how the business men here are suf- fering.” North Yakima and Everett dele gations will arrive here for the hearing late this week or on Mon- | day, it is expected The Star Started it Interest in the differential rate lease is due to The Seattle Star, | which started the ball rolling by a| i publicity campaign several months | ago The Washington public service, commission took up the case and) filed a suit against the Southern | Pacific, Union Pacific and O-W, R & N., with the interstate commerce commission, demanding that the| | rates be justified so that the North- west would not be discriminated | Interest, prac- | tieally, In both states will be repre | sented at the hearing before Ex-| aminer Watkins next Tuesday, and will be given an opportunity of showing just to what extent and in what ways the existing differential and discriminatory rate detracts from their profits year in and year out. "RAILROADS WONT | GRANT BEARDS ST. PAUL, Minn. May 5— | Raliroads of the country have | emphatically refused to grant the trainmen’s demands for in. creased wages, a poll of the various districts completed to day showed The conference to be held in New York June 1 will bring the issue squarely before the broth erhood leaders, who will have | the alternative of calling a | strike vote or agreeing to set- | tlement by arbitration. | : THOS. RIGGS IN TOWN of the is in Alaska at ” Riges 8, Jr ering commission ida getting r to sail for anks. W, C. Ede II arrive | Councilman Haas is taking May or Gill's place in the throne room Frida | Mayor Gill has gone to the re publican state convention in North Yakima. YOU’VE GOT TO READ THE STAR TO GET THE NEWS! HERE’S PROOF! * * * * MAY 5 1916, ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS AINS AND TANDS, A * * * * * * *% The Kaiser’s Reply to President Wilson’s Ultimatum Reached Seattle This Morning in Time for Publi- cation in the Early Editions of the Afternoon Newspapers, Going “‘to the Street” at 9:15 a. The Pictured Headlines From the Morning Editions of the S How the Two Newspapers Handled the “Story Note Meant a Break ’ With Germany Was Ine able. attle Times and The Seattle Star Show The Times Brazenly Informed the Town That the The Star Told the Truth About It. And Again Was Demonstrated the Superiority of the Virile, Efficient United Press, Which Furnishes The Star With Its Leased Wire Service. Over the Decadent Associated Press in the Handling of Big News. NOON EDITION vaevay ane Sersere ty ne BECKINGHAM TO CLEAN UP UNDERWORLD Four hundred cadets are Ilv- Ing In Seattle's underworld, ac- cording to Chief Beckingham, who instructed patroimen and detectives Friday to clean them out They are down in the old ‘district,’ and anybody who goes down there can find them,” said the chief. “I want to some officers get busy with The chief sald too many under. world characters think the police clean-up activities of the last few weeks are only temporary flashes. “It’s a hard job to make ‘em think I'm sincere,” he said. “There will have to be some rough handling down below Yesler way, and the ca dets must get out of town.” PACT RATIFIED WASHINGTON, May 5.— Both Wilson and Carranza have accepted the proposals of the Scott-Obregon conference, it was understood today. It is believed now that a sat- isfactory solution with regard to the presence of American troops In Chihuahua has been reached. Provisional President Carranza thru his secretary, informed the United Press at Mexico ¢ that the conference prop been accepted in principle provisional government That the United tes accepted the conference proposals was tele graphed by Secretary Baker to Gen. | Scott at El Paso yesterday. WILL MEET AGAIN EL PASO, May 5.—Generals Ob |regon and Scott, at their final meet ing today, expected to formally rat ify the agreement covering opera tions of American troops in Mex fe cott and Funsto El Paso for t for Mexico Cit ward WHY DID THE GIRL, a true patriot, sell her government's plans to a spy? “The Crime Doctor” finds out and tells about it in the next week's novel in The Star, AMIR MORE LEADERS rE | | ‘Three hundred athletes will dem onstrate Turner w by which ev ijery German soldier is trained for “| field service, at Arena Friday | |night, when the Seattle Turnverein |celebrates its 3ist birthday anniver sary BERLIN SURE WILSON WILL BE SATISFIED BY CARL W. ACKERMAN | United Press Staff Correspondent | | BERLIN, May 5.—Officials | | here believe the reply forward. ed to Washington completely meets the demands of Presi ' | dent Wilson for changes In Germany's submarine warfare to conform to International law. The danger of a break be- tween the two nations is con- sidered averted. The Lokal Anzeiger da “We hope that id to- the sense of justice of the Amerl- cans will be Satisfied with Germany's friendly advance, made out of the full knowledge of the power, success and just. | ness of our cause. “The German standpoint can- not be criticised becau it Is based on principles of intern: tional law and humanity which America has rep tained.” WILL DEMONSTRATE GERMAN TRAINING Mayor Gill will speak and the po lice band and an orchestra will pro. vide muste, The program will be under direction of E. BE. Behnke, the Turner physical director. CONSCRIPTION BILL PASSES COMMONS LONDON, M The second reading of the military service bill for immediate military compul |sion easily passed the house of commons yesterday. Richard D. Holt, radical, moved to reject the | measure, but his motion lost by aj vote of 326 to 56, GERMANY STANDS FIRM! NOTE FAILS TO MEET pe! DE! SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY NOON, MAY & 1i6 || KAISER WILHELM’S AMBASSADOR, | WHO OCCUPIES TRYING POST BREAK MANDS! ov AFFICIALS wuenausawaRaN Allthe News % bed That's 4 Fit to Print ¥ ” Savsvasvaens "Pree FEARED om as +e, The Seattle Star BERLIN MEETS DEMANDS {OREGON OFFICIALS WERE. TO ASSIST IN FIGHT FOR AR RATE FOR TOURISTS | The Star Published First Authentic { News of Note’s Contents Eight Days Ago IGHT days ago Carl Ww. Ackerman, ina United Press dispatch from Bor- lin, published In The Star, ac- curately forecasted the tenor German submarine note. id: “The crisis in the German. American situation growing out of the submarine issue has vir. tually passed. “There will be no break pred- date. This statement w: today on excellent authority. “Pending negotiations for a more complete understanding, GERMAN SUBMARINE COM. MANDERS WILL BE UNDER CERTAIN EXPLICIT IN- STRUCTIONS FROM THE AD- MIRALTY.” The text of the re firms the United Pre cast. FOUR MORE IRISH LEADERS . | justify a break. SHOT; EIGHTEEN SENTENCED DUBLIN, May 5.—Four more of the Irish rebellion n convicted and officially announced to. it way day. They were Joseph Plunkett, Edward Daly, Michael O'Han- nahan, and William Pearse. Fifteen other Irish rebel leaders were condemned to death and their wkentences commuted to 10 years’ imprisonment One other was sentenced to elght and two others to 10 years |American minister at Santo Do- }mingo, who was arrested on a| charge of complicity in the Irish uprising This was done at the request of American Ambassador Page. It is understood that Sullivan is in an English “prigon LOS ANGELES, May 5 Irish today carried an appeal congress for mercy the Dublin rebellion. | Following a mass to | the buck” for leaders of meeting here | cerned Further trials are proceeding. | last night, Judge M. W. O'Donnell, . president, and Capt. H. C. Mul queeney, secretary, of the Tienda | ASK ABOUT SULLIVAN of Irish Freedom, signed a jonah LONDON, M The British appeal to Congressman Wm foreign office today wired Dublin | Stephens at Washington, ce for information about James M. ing him to put the matter before llivan of New York, formerly | congress * * * & THE SINN FEIN MOVEMENT! WHAT IT IS! | The Sinn Fein movement that has rocked Ireland Into a state of open revolt is non-sectarian, and for this reason has ral- lied to its standards every class of Irishman, The Ulster movement—which planned revolt by force of arms against British rule (and which proved a fallure)—aligned Protestants against Catholics The Sinn Feinists are trish home rule and national life, jon At first this movement was Now It has spread like a Irishman is joining Authorities agree that the German sympathizers. nationalists and their aim is for apart from Great Britain's domin coldly intellectual prairie fire, and every class of original Sinn Feiners were not But it is now charged that secret agents of Germany have provided funds and other means of spreading the propaganda of disloyalty to England, and from a society that held itself in a cold attitude of disapproval of England’s war policy, the Sinn Fein has become a dangerous menace to the home government's program powers. ‘8 war against the central LAST EDITION Just as we get word that Woodrow and Wilhelm have about kissed and made up, along comes Salisbury and spills the beans. He says: “Tonight and Saturday showers.” ~ ee! 4 ONE CENT UBIMARINES GIVEN NEW ADERS 10 CONFORM 10 PROTESTS OF PRESIDENT ‘Concessions Partially Hing- ed Upon Requested Ac- tion by U.S. Toward Great Britain. Extract From German Note in Which Germany Yields to Wilson’s Demands “The German government notifies the government of the U. S. that German naval forces have received the following orders: “In accordance with the general princi- ples of visit, search and destruction of mer- chant vessels recognized by international law, such vessels, both within and wit',out the area declared to be a naval war zone. shall not be sunk without warning, without saving human lives unless the ships attempt to escape or | offer resistance.” | BY ROBERT J. BENDER United Presa Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 5.—A general feeling of satisfac- tion with the German reply to the United States, received this morning, is apparent here. The consensus of opinion }here is that the submarine issue practically is closed. a cabinet session lasting two and one-half hours, t Wilson and his advisers considered the unofficial the German note When the meeting ended there was no question but that tion was viewed with optimism ident Wilson's final decision is not expected until late tomorrow . German Ambassador Von Bernstorff, accepting his gov- ernment’s reply as satisfactory to the United States, will call at the state department early next week to take up the matter of “British violations of international law” mentioned in the note Von Bernstorff plans to point out that the United States, in its note, assumed the role of an upholder of international law, no matter’ where violated. He will call attention to British violations It is the belief of officials that the ambassador will not find a receptive attitude at the state department. Senator Hughes of New Jersey called at the White House after reading the German note. He said he was “pleasantly surprised.” The opinion of other callers was, like Hughes’, that the president should accept the offer of Germany as given in good faith A high government official, intimately in touch with the uation, said after a careful pe- rusal of the reply: is tion Rejection of dence in the S) a thorn in t this country’s evi ssex case, however, e side of optimism, “Germany appears to have vernment had considered made great concessions. | do gainst Germany on this | mot see where there is any- | point complete thing at present that would | Germany's complete backdown Germany has gone much farther than earlier reports would have Indicated.” Miay Bring New Issue It was pointed out that Germany has issued an order that meets the was made conditional upon the suos cess of efforts it urges America t@ make to force Great Britain to obs serve fully the principels of interes national la Concede to Wilson American contentions. Germany fully concedes Preah If Germany later, because the | dent Wilson’s contention that fm United States fails to bring Great |the future no merchantman, wheth- Britain to meet the German con |er freight or passenger liners, shalt tentions, rescinds the order an. | be nk without warning, either nounced today, there will be a new/ Within or without the war zone Issue for United States to face, around the British isles, unless rhis has no part in the present they resist or attempt to escape |situation, it was said Wilson has already conceded the | On the other hand, some officials |\German right to sink ships under —Local | believe Germany has again “passed | such conditions, to the U.S Await Official Text So far as the language is con officials are inclined to certain caustic, irrele- ‘for home consump: Submarine commanders have ak ready received new orders, meet ing fully the demands made, The government expresses fms plicit confidence that these orders will be executed in good faith. COMPLETE TEXT OF ANSWER pass over vant passages RERLIN (Via Wireless to Say-|as torpedoed by a German subs ville), May 5.—Following is the text | marine, is actually identical with of Germany's reply to the latest | the Sussex | American note regarding the use of | Makes Play for Time submarines “The undersigned, on behalf of| the imperial German government, |has the honor to present to his ex- }cellency, the ambassador of United States, Mr, James W. Ger- ard, the following reply to the note of April 20 regarding the conduct of German submarine warfare The German government handed naval authori ties for further investigation note concerning the ex as municated by the government of the United States, Judging by the re sults that {nvestigation hitherto | ylelded, the German government is alive to the possibility that the ship | mentioned in the note of April 10, over to the proper con the | “The German government begs to reserve further communications on |the matter until certain points are ascertained which are of decisive importance. | “Should it turn out that the coms mander was wrong in assuming the vessel to be a man of war, the Ger mar ent will not fail to draw consequences resulting therefrom In connection with the case of the Sussex, the government of the United States made a series of statements, the gist of which fs the assertion that the incident is to be considered but one instance of a de: | (Continued on page &)