The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 3, 1916, Page 1

You'll find lots of it in The Star's to understand, unless you're a professional politician, which most of us aren't. reports of the political doings at Chicago. Not columns of dry, Not that sort of stuff, but real, ~“* in the unconventional, interesting way in which no other paper gives it to you. You'll find some of thi * * * You also will find a splendid array of notices, * * m for the week opening Sunday. Look them over today and decide right now which you'll see. And, selves, did you notice that The Star's half hour ahead of that of its rival. SOUNDS GOOD! “Son of the Wind” is the title of The Star’s next novel-a-week, which begins in Monday’s issue. Complete in six days, ending on Saturday—a popular, $1.50 novel for six cents. You always get the news first in The Star. THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS : | VOLUME 19. SEATTLE, WASH., ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS, Be SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1916. technical stuff that is hard to read, by special edition, Friday, containing the first news of the great naval battle in the North sea, The Seattle Star and harder still regular stories about what’s going on, told s kind of political reporting in today’s paper. in both the news and advertising columns, of the offerings at the theatres, photoplay and legitimate, the way, since we're talking about our- appeared on the street a LAST EDITION Remember what happened last Sunday? And how Weatherman Salisbury said it was going to be fair? Well, we'll try it again. “Fair tonight and Sunday,” he says today. = News] CENT First Complete Accoumt of World's Biggest By Ed L. Keene United Press Staff Correspe: LONDON, June 3.—Developments today clearly showed | jt that the entire British and German high seas fleets were en-| gaged on Wednesday in the greatest naval battle in the his- tory of the world. Sir John Jellicoe, in supreme command of the British naval forces, directed the English fleet, with Vice Admiral Scheer, Germany’s supreme power on the seas, heading the) >. Jin action and was all but trapped by the Germans. 1 cated boat charges, not one torpedo scored a hit ! | His cruiser squadron endeavored to cut off what appeared The port commander at Portsmouth posted notice today be only a German cruiser fleet from its base. that of the Invincible’s officers and crew, only the commander, But lurking behind the cruisers and low-hanging mists}a lieutenant, and three men were saved. All others were lost All aboard the Queen Mary were lost when that ship went down, with the exception of eight men On the Defense all lost, including Arbuthnot. From the Warrior, all were saved up from the Tipperary. jent was the German battle fleet of dreadnaughts and superdread naughts. Beatty could only retreat, but not before the heavy Ger- man guns were able to do deadly execution Her cruisers and destroyer: were shatteréd by the heavy and with Beatty signalling for help, Sir John Jellicoe, were Rear Admiral A few were picked kaiser’s armada. alt cision “oh ek + to| England’s guardian of the sea, headed his fleet of super- All were lost aboard the Indefatigable and the Black Against more than ritish ships which were sent to) dreadnaughts to the rescue Prince. The port commander holds out no hope for other the bottom, German losses were hardly half as large; but Then came the battle of ages survivors Britons found satisfaction when it was learned that Jellicoe Not a British dreadnaught was lost. The German state- Sinking of three more British destroyers in Wednesday's and his dreadnaughts had faced the enemy, that not a ship 7 : ment of the sinking of the Warspite is officially denied. But battle was reported today. In addition to the Shark, which of the first-powerful line was lost, and that the Germans (yo German dreadnaughts satis obthe fire kid the | earlier unc ffieial reports declared sunk, word was received re eines -s tame cone tah S000 Tiitiah’ officers| Tat was ordered. |today of the destruction of the Nomad and Nestor and men went down with their ships. Rear Admirals Hood Cats Ghenee Se 6 'debenes Wok Tinyiag <:teer at 190, aon, which sere nd Arbuthnot were lost. Infantrymen in Land Battles i : This ediery Fst go de 1 “i 1/000, Itho it - Ti j | With the fall of darkness, submarines and torpedo boats| ‘°° He | - ager sa nes Sir Pi BA; ils ar r Admiral Beatty | began like infantrymen in land fighting to make desperate) “** stated “a few surviv > pperary ha by German Battle Squadron |charges against the lines of their enemy. Eight British de-| Pied up = , eT Rear Admiral Beatty, hero of the fight which resulted in|troyers were lost. The Germans lost six The bighest. ranking officers who went down with, their {ships were Rear. Admiral Hood and Rear Admiral Arbuthnot of the Bluecher, was th the first British first British commander | _ Wife of Admiral Who Died in the sinking “of ‘the Binecher, wa: sink: _ Tt was declared @ at the admiralty foday th that in the German ad \ Action Is an American Woman | “The British losses in men were v in fact that three British battle cruisers b om lexplosions,” an admiralty statement said t | “Admiral Hood, of the Invincible, wer flown with his | ship.” Admiral Hood's wife is an American woman. She |was formerly Mrs. Geo. Nickerson. a | “Sir John Jellicoe reports that Admiral Hood went into | action with inspiring gallantry,” the admiralty statement) added |] | “Submarines took part on both sides kin tracks. Hope for a settlement of the long-1@ ° “The British ship Marlborough got into a nest of sub “Tgp epee mal ay “eho No strikers have been afvested. |shoremen's strike was current Sat-|| UNIONS OFFER TO HELP ||Marine torpedoes. She dodged three of them, but was-hit by r Detectives are Satur when District Secretary Mad Union longshoremen offered | a fe urth Despite the damage inflic the Marlborough wa searcing day, for an unknown man, believed jto be a union longshoreman, who urday, sen, of the I. L. A., announced that he was'trying to arrange for a meet-| took steps to y morning, water guard against further front strike riots. The police guard on the wa- ter front will be doubled Satur- | day night, and any attempt of strikers to fight in gangs will be met by uniformed opposition. “Then, If the situati worse,” sald the mayor, “I'll go before the council and ask for ‘an increase in the force. We will call every substation and to co-operate with Chief Beck Ingham Saturday to run down riot “We will who wi able to make port Admiral Beatty's call main fleet and brought Admiral number of British battleships to the sce Germans Lose Two Dreadnaughts in Engagement, Admiralty Says “The main battle then ensued with the British battleships = @!in direct engagement with German battleships, dreadnaught ing of the executive board of the| against dreadnaught union with water front employers | the British unknown for help was sent t Jellicoe and an | expel man | connected with th | Milwaukee dock affair,” they teld him. “The union won't | sanction any vielence. We are | confident of winning without any residence district p Iman to “During this part of the battle the Germans lost two the water front, if need be. | next Wednesday Ai eed se aecigaak ana haven't any objections against It has not been decided whether | Creacnaug ush n orderly strike pickets. But we or not the session will be held in rer iral Beatty endeave t ut off tl Ger must stop gang fights or shoot- Seattle or San Francisco. mans from t he vered a f German battle-| The proposed meeting Mice } *r 1 ing scrape: ips on hi ere the db hidi behind German} titty Seer front strike sym- thre the etforis.of U.S imi I , pda: : cy had been ng Pes pathizers battied with strike | tion Commissioner Henry M. W hite, | battle cruisers in a mi R guards, shot one non-union | jacting for the department of labor “Admiral Beatty was then forced to retrace his course worker and kidnaped one of the at Washingotn to the open sea guards, in the first cgay of | A board fence, 12 feet high, “Thus the situation developed with the German battle RS SO has deen erected in front of | hing and battle cruisers fighting against British battle ocean dock. shed for strikebreakers, at the | cruisers 7. C. Hughes, 1321 Edgewater foot of Jackson st., by represen- | At this stage the British were outnumbered by the at, Lee Angeles, who was oh “Punk tatives of the Water Front Em- | Germans. The Germans had no surprise en nese} ee taskeen ot ae He Avda “There were no 17-inch guns in evidence at the city hospital. He will foot of Jackson st., wh | ‘They are preparing the place £ " 4 recover. breakers will be housed if employ- | to house men who will take their “There was only one Zeppelin, the L-24. This was After a hand-to-hand fight with ers and tongshoremen owkt pest chances loading and unloading | injured and retired t leaders of the mob, Jack) an early settlement. The arrow in- vessels in Seattle, in the face of i a Warnicke, guard, was carried away. dicates the high board fence which the International Longshoremen’s | Admiralty Statement Describes He regained consciousness at 6 a. was erected the day the strike was | strike. | Four Phases of Great Battle m. Saturday, where he was left,|declared, to prevent interference | Agents for the employers are . . ‘ with the nonunion men. | signing up workers. They refus- | “Most of the firing was at a range of five six miles badly beaten, along Railroad ave. | Below, Preteiot iMe® or dat K. ed Friday to say how many they “Thus the four phases were comprised, first of Admiral | tke Gantt serske, ane Deatrick Secre- Pernathall wire the visinebrenie Beatty’s attempt to cut off the Germans; second, his forced | |tary J. A.M who will make an) ers are housed is built over the |Tetirement to the open sea by interference of the German] battleships when the British were outnumbered for a time; third, the arrival of the main British fleet under Admiral Jellicoe, when it became a dreadnaught against dreadnaught| fight, and fourth, retirement of the German forces in the face | effort to arrange a meeting of strik- ‘a water, adjoining the Jackson st ers and employers Wednesday. | | wharves Launches to Carry Men In 1908 “Funk” hall was first nsed as a itving place for non was attended for a gunshot wound by Dr. George Mclaughlin, at 1626 vf th attack Terry ave. union workers of the British atta : : Strike guards told Chief Becking, During a local strike, organized Eight German warships have taken refuge in Danish That was the “Son of (ham that one of the rioters had by the longshoremen of Tacoma | waters, according to reliable reports received here today saa been wounded and carried away and Seattle, the shippers estab: te ae A tone be AGOAteday of intern the Wind. The list of injured was swelled Mshed headquarters there Che oF ssh ak ordered t Heaye: Aregcp ag geaO : to five when E. O'Brien and L. | For months afterward, men | ie German superdreadnaugh denburg eportec Freedom lent him the ificrson applied for emergency who wanted to work had to go | wings of the air. there and obtain tickets first, Launches probably will carry the strikebreakers between thelr treatment at the city hospital They} were badly beaten by the rioters. No weight was ever sad- The attacking party escaped in| SEATTLE TRAIN CIRCUS GETS IN dled on him. the dark, after Chief Beckingham, | work and the bunkhouse. Capt. A. C. Sullivan, Sergts, Com- | high fence, it is expected, wil No burden did he ever | stock and Smart and six motorcycle | protect the place from violence GOES | ND | officers had answered a riot call, from Raflroad ave cates Water front employers have pe |titioned Samuel Gompers, president land appeared on the scene of dis | order. barrier ever blocked | wens sehr weit: Ne ry "ay h First warning of the attack came lof the American ration of! SPOKANE, June 3.—The east-| The John Robinson Ten Big Com is path— about 11 p. m., when rocks were |Labor, to use his to help|bound Glacier Park Limited, a) bined Shows arrived in the N. P.| : owered thru the office windows settle the longshoremen’s strike Groat Northern train which left] ratiroad yards Sunday for its pe Until the girl shared her = fot ir They have also notified the union |Seattie at 9:35 a, m. Friday, was). ar. dew and Tuesday at secret with her sweet A dozen strikebrenkers th officers that noless some agreeme wrecked at Katka, Idaho, at 1:4 . ‘ . h | heart ed guards, we leeping there is renched by Monday, strikebreat m. Saturday the q rounds at Fourth ave Then the assailant rat thru ers will be imported No pas were Loe * ie ethaun » Mond 1 Lucia Chamberlain the door Engineer McGinn and Fireman |The inva Wee ees ay | wrote “Son of the Wind.” Two young leaders are paid to REPRESENTATIVE DILL, of Dempsey, of Hillyard, Wash, are |leave the stiow Grounds peony ay ' ey have done the shooting Washington, will leave capital soon | missing. ce, and , It’s the _ novel-a-week Hughes says he was dragged trom | \tor Chicago to witness republican| The engine tumbled into the |Lenora to First ave., south on First which begins in The Star 11, bed. ‘The guards fought hand-| convention; from there he will go|Kootnal river, after running into |ave. to Washington, across to Sec mext Monday and ends {tohand with the intruders, but| to democratic convention in St,j}a mud and rock slide on the ond ave., and ort to enor, and Saturday. were overpowered, | Louls, tracks, back to the show grounds | petitioned | her KA FIGHT! by the admiralty to have been sunk in Wednesday’s battle. The Hindenburg is Germany’s newest dreadnaught. She was completed since the opening of the war and was regarded as the last word in German naval construction Unofficial Holland dispatches, today report the loss of the German cruiser Elbing Forty warships took part in the engagement. With reports of these additional losses also came dis- patches telling how bodies of hundreds of British and Ger- man sailors were seen floating near the scene of the en- gagement by neutral ships which arrived during Wednes- day and Thursday Admiralty Admits Loss of Six Destroyers Reported as Missing Engla day anxiously awaiting further de= tails from the but aside from a late statement admitting the loss of six destroyers, first reported as missing, no later statement has been issued ay than the initial announcement ef | made yesterd Unofficial details of the fight drifting in from various points thrilled all England. One Holland dispatch indicated that the German « (Continued on page 5) nd was t admir as sses fleet —— oe WOMAN ADMITS SEATTLE CRIM Sympathy for a woman who had once befriended her triumphed te day over Mrs. Maude Robertson's love for her husband. Mrs. Robertson appeared this morning at the county jail aloni ed for Jailer Mike Hally, and voluntarily confessed to him that she, and not Mrs. Brownlow, is guilty of the crime for which the latter woman was convicted and sentenced to serve from one to 15 years in the state prison at Walla Walla. Knowing that her confession |meant that her husband, Charles, Mre. Robertson Robertson, would never see her) yy). again, Mrs. Robertson declared she said Saturday did not know Brownlow had been operated was ready to bo taken to the pent-/°%:,a0¢ supposed her to be fm tentiary as hporiagy anal releas We stored the furniture in the pe had come all the way from asement when we: las the Ryron, and when we went to Vic- Viet ia, B. C,, to give herself up, /torja intended to send for the furs after Robertson had told her she niture later. W I, she said, and declared Prosecutor Summoned e would have nothing more to do It took me six months to finally ith hee It abe weat make up my mind,” she added, Other Woman til After I found out that Mrs, Mrs. Brownlow is lying near prownlow had lost her case I de death at the county hospital, cided to come and make a clea where she has undergone a serlous preast of it operation I sold her some of the furniture. The suffering due to the opera: That's how she came by it. I tion, coupled with grief at being qidn't tell her it was stolen. She condemned for a crime of which n't know it.” she knew she was not guilty, and|— the thought of going to the peni Prosecutor Lundin was summon+ ed to the jail at once and will take tentiary, have nearly resulted fa-|jmmediate steps to bring the mat: tally, it is sat ter to the attention of the court. Mrs. Brownlow was found guilty by a jury, May 20, 1915, of grand AMERICAN IS SAFE founc he had asement of her BALTIMORE, June 3.—A e, the Byron cablegram was received today ntosh sentenced her, by relatives of Lieut. Com mander Powers Symington, U. S. N., who was reported on board a British battleship sunk in the After she went to the hospital| North sea, announcing he wi and death seemed certain, friends| safe In London. Lister to extend me ee a pardon WORK ON new Pantages the This Was denied, tho the gov-|atre in Tacoma started Saturday; ernor commuted her sentence to alcost of building to be $300,000; year in the ail will be one of finest on Coast. SMITH BUILDING WEDDING COUPLE HAVE DAUGHTER John A. Biehn's chest meas- | limelight, urement, during the current [nobody could week, has expanded some—so j|turn out after all the degrading the boys say down at the North- | publicity of it—and all that ern Pacific dispatchers’ office, The Star takes keen delight in where he works—and for just /asking th old beefers to stand and sufficient cause. |up and receive the horse-laugh She appealed to the but lost Sentence Commuted preme court, Gov. county and the boy—dear, dear, tell how he would You remember him, of course | Look at John A. Biehn's swell- the young bridegroom at The ing chest, you old knockers, and Star's public wedding on the | weep Smith building tower, when Hi The Star knew the Biehn family Gill was an and Dr. M vuld vil A. Matthews the paron It has, Perceive Some of the old crabs and killjoys BORN Yo Mr. and Mrs. Johe always present where ange ar|A. Biehn, 3454 Alki ave., May 29, to tread predicted nothing would | daughter. ever come of it-—and the bride was And she weighs—how much do you think? SEVEN POUNDS AND A HALF? sweet and young, and it was a shame to have her dragged into the