The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 25, 1916, Page 1

SOME OF “POSTOFFICE’ HUMPHREY'S FRIENDS : THINK THEY CAN MAKE SENATOR POINDEXTER WHA r : i OME OF BI 1 RK i KORGE, LOSE VOTES BY ADVERTISING THE FACT THAT “fap thn aap bn ona sh = Ot OR B 8 \ 1 MAN UL ; THE OLD HE VOTED POR BRANDEIS FOR SUPREME COURT — HEEZE TODAY n y nTONK H D WED UDGE IT’S RBALLY FUNNY HOW SOME MINDS . 4 songs 7 RUN ’ ? THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS NESDAY, UNSETTLED WEATHER; PROBABLY HOWERS. VOLUME 19. SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1916 ON TRAINS AND ONE CENT Ascronrk IN ri ! Police Seeking to Avenge Shooting of Officers | oe Wherea Shipyards Undergo Wonder- VED tha the council meetin se BATTLE ful Revival of Business; nd police department in ridding the shar e department ir iding the Water Front Booming ; | } { ; city of lawbr r », in defiance of the vs of God < “inp, iy, / Seattle as a shipbuilding center has always been con ts ; ” | and man ca ‘ lawful occupation Gidered more or less of a joke, according to seafaring men The port has been content to enjoy a rapid growth as @ pom of entry, paying little concern to where the vessels Were made which brought the valuable cargoes from the gan, Fred and Ora Billingsley, brothers, and their | father, R. W. Billingsley, are locked in solitary con- | finement in the city jail Tuesday. A special detail of Mt ciekt the islands, Alaska and the Orient detectives are out under orders from Mayor Gill to Seattle grew and outsiders supplied the vessels gather any evidence connecting them with the shooting: Along came the European war and by submarine and Sy ' ‘ | of Police Officers Weedin and Wiley, by I. Suhiro, the| Other devices a big dent was put in the fleet which handled | | : 1 | Billingsley’s Japanese watchman. the allied trade The German flag disappeared from Elliott 4 ; age en ; . The Japanese, along with Weedin, was killed in al bay entirely } With the shortage of vessels growing more noticeable gun fight at Westlake and Ninth aves. Monday night. | every day and with the greatest period of exportation in the) \fasy - - - — — First degree murder charges will be filed against | story of the Northwest at hand, Seattle engineering firms , ‘8 Ge IE SAARINEN HAN ND THIET Bg the Billingsleys before night, Mayor Gill declared. id at the freight sheds, wharves and warehouses filled TRAGEDY ENGULFS CHILOREN IN BOMB CRASH AT SAN FRANCISCO.—One of the most pathetic : esl y wpe ght, yo ‘- em “tg , Bee pee ~ incidents of the fatal explosion is pictured above. Mre. Cecil Wymore, of Oakland, Cal., one of the apecta: Police found a distillery with full equipment for manu- fo overflowing, with hardly an available vessel to relieve! tors watching the preparedness parade, was fatally wounded when the force of the explosion swept off both facturing whisky underneath Billingsley’s warehouse shortly the congestion her le: Her two children escaped miraculously. Virginia, 4, at right, and little Billie, 2, were rescued bY after noon, according to a report they made to Chief Beck- » So they got a hunch! aman and carried away dazed from the shock. The picture shows their mother being carried into a pesnient 7 Fi 4 } . ” 3 in a dying condition. Many children were injured. They showed asténivhing pluck and fortitude while their, ” And -srmce the: first the year, Seattle has stepped .out ds ‘wire e beng @ 6 a Dy physician } mtire ° int ned over to the™féderal | and over night built up a ship-buil ness that has nc hae ; | fival on the Pacific coast and ranks wel he fr | : v It was disc r ig an investigation of the building} Thousands of men are being employed and mil- prog 1 ‘d ors | lions of dollars invested in this new business which cked | The r went to Captai { Detectives Tennant per- way in a twinkling. Billings! % sleys Police Driver Robert Wiley The growth has been so sudden that few per- or hha alind vw em Gor-| | near death In the city hes sons in Seattle are aware of it | . is it ing ‘eg pot ce aes eres by in Judge et pital Tuesday, and Police Sere don’s court at 10 a.m. He was there facing a charge of al-| geant John Weedin and t. Emergency Caused by War Forces ed violation of the liquor law Suehiro, a Japanese warehouse Revival of Building Wooden Vessels George Vanderveer cautioned ngsley to “keep silent.”| watchman for the Billingsley * ¥ ; ‘ » German Ambassador Will Chairman of Quiz Committee Twenty- three Workmen As- . i 4 brothers, are dead, as the re- And, as one veteran of the old wooden vessel “game ; . Bail Is Refused All Prisoners; wit of a gun fight at Ninth ys aaliiee “eagle claret tape hiccet« Ghee ‘od ni Confer With Promoters Meets Suzzallo and phyxiated Far Beneath in Si Cells and Westlake avenues at 700 Bid, Seattle is -renty. ag A oe tem se as ge earn of Line Prof. Hart | Lake Erie Locked in Separate Ce! |p. m. Monday. of life in a business a as been d or 26 . pe aca The fi . & . young druggist submitted to search without a pro-| The Japanese killed Sergt He referred to the building of wooden vessels VESSEL MAY INTERNE LEGISLATORS CALLED|ARE OVERCOME BY GAS ,,., Weedin, sitting * th wnat fears J d States led the world in the ma eee } i "y an automobile, after a close-up fac saga oan come ‘ dink st asviindende-uan BY CARL D. GROAT Deep, heavy secrecy hangs in | CLEVELAND, July 25. Thirty minutes later, Detectives Doom and Peyser arrived) revolver due! with Wiley: ae i ieetic So hinard and even the Pacific coast did a United Press Staff Correspondent big siabs at the League bulld- Twenty-three lives were snuffed | at headquarters with Fred Billingsley, aged 23, and R. W. Bil- Wiley was shot in the groin briving business turning out wooden ° vessels Then came | | 1 f 5 5 i he fi { BALTIMORE, July 25.—The Ing, Fourth ave. and University out in the new water works |lingsley, the father, aged 51, and Ora, 25 | be Ne eax: cngteat, je tee! liners and thriving cities shriveled to nothing. The stay or departure of the Ger. st., Tuesday. tunnel, it was estimated at 1 3ail was refused them. They were locked in separate} gun Into Suehiro. mae stee! |i ties s y oO ne éiness was dead and there was no one who would predict} man submarine Deutschland The hearing by Pref. H, P. p.m. today when workmen | cells Suehiro, fatally wounded, 4 may be determined tomorrow Torrey. of Reed. college, .Pert | hat it would ever revive In a conference here between : , } “g One 1 jand, as representative of the Lake Erie. gists,” and t t armer )ra said he was a tailor.| consciousness at the city hospital, HOWEVER, WAR DID THE INEVITABLE the promoters and German Am American Association of The gas, ignited by electrical | The fz s been in trouble repeatedly with the police| told brother police officers that SEATTLE IS BUILDING AND PREPARING TO bassador Von Bernatorff. versity Professors, into the machinery, exploded with ter. ae weit ‘ |and Weedin, atter completing their BUILD NEARLY $20,000,000 DOLLARS’ WORTH Despite the mass of misinfotma causes which led to the dis rifle force : hi P oak, Pe tagn se work, were returning from the _(Continued on page 6) tion surrounding her venture, it. /ssal of Prof. J. K. Hart from xdies have been taken from t $ tole uld have to negotiate | Ford automobile plant to head- EEA leaked out ¢ that Bernstorff the University of Washington hole. The rescuers estimate 13) with ay i: a quarters when they were stopped Consul Luderitz and others plane tc faculty a year ago, was begun men are dead in the tunn led i arte } on Ninth ave, near Westlake. meet here at 10:30 a, m 1 escaped with injuries, pits gee ‘ i. eal Tell Them of Holdup 1. S, Unless the Deutechiand’s sister| But the public is not to know! purrowing towards shore, e little y je askec “Two men ran out to our auto- | ship Bremen is reported saf the @nything that goes on until after pang of workmen 125 feet below mobile and told us a Japanese Lee ee ee ee Pies oe ee i aiprall over atid the A, A..U. Wien bdo gr-ged » ow Mayor Grows Indignant When | standing in the shadows had a gun * j ro the surface of Lake Erle plunged Uncle Sam is preparing in a jat San Francisco, August 1 sata 10% Will bo 00 the matter of eth has formal y passed on the case.| novels into a monster natural gas Attorney Asks About Bail jand, was trying to hold somebody igantic way, thru his depart- rrangements were completed|er indefinite! internin @| That Is the plan outlined oa rt og “Rail Ant be f oe , ahi ‘or | BPs ley explaine: went of labor, to bring about a |Tuesday for financing the strike, |Geutschland or making a bold sue | Preceding the hearing, a confer.| Pocket. With tremendous force,| sail!” exclaimed the mayor. “We're holding them for|""“; jumped out of the auto and settlement of the Pacific Coast | according to Madsen, who sald the | for home—taking chances with the |¢00® between Prof. Torrey, Presi-| GUS Snel oS ba them tn the 10. first degree murder. It’s a shame that these fellows] went over to the place they point- water front strike. union would begin at once to pay|ailied patrol off the Capes dent Suzzallo of the University of | 700 parva agit Then came a\came here. Jack Weedin was a good friend of mine and jed out. I found a Japanese there, Immigration Commissioner | strike benefits in proportion to the |” ri. fr Washington, and Prof. Hart was : one peor iy |standing outside the Billingsley Henry M. White, acting strike amount needed by each family Fs held to letermine a basis of in.| terrific explosion, in which the gas | yours, to i: a ,, | warehouse. mediator, said Tuesday that Abo s00n Monday 75 strikers! The Bremen had positive orders Yestigation ignited from a spark in electrical “Sure, a shame Q Vanderveer, “but you can’t I showed my star and said, ‘You within the month, probably, a (rushed a ganz of nonunion men we 2 Several witnesses who had. been | machinery aoe art eRene AF! Hol when there © evidence to show they had/got a gun. What's the matter, number of special agents from | working on the port commission's | runnir to the fleet of all war.|Rotified to appear at the opening |turned Into a death hole in a twin hawtiile Jo with it rt s no use of you going crazy|Chatley? What are you doing the department will be sent to Stacy st. wharf discharging cargo | ging off the Virginia Capes session were told to be present at | Kling ) hare confer with the longshoremen steamer Admiral Evans.|” this wa ’ hnown to the 2 olock. Among them were W,| It was seven hours after the ac-| over | “Then he shot and hit me. I and employers in qvery city The men hastily boarded the| tnited Pre ofay ty a hi gh off D. Lane and M. ©. Harris, mem-| cident before pulmotors and he P , his affe last night,” in-|emptied my gun at him. Weedin ted. p and disappeared into the hold | «ai of the E Forwarding Co,| bers of the legislature, and Rev.|mets were secured. It was two i eho Saver | was sitting in the car, and backed ampaign will take several where they remained 10 minutes San orgs Sydney Stron hours before help arrived : "s ‘ ' t , it toward us the minute he heard months’ time to carry thru, White until the strikers dispersed. : The American Association of| Etght men, led by Gustave ( anderveer said he would start habeas corpus pri ceedings | the shooting. said, as the entire attitude of both WASHINGTON, July Wid-| University Professors deputized a|Van Dusen, superintendent, made|later in the day | “I ran over toward him, and so he strikers and employers will | ows of National Guardsmen killed | committee of three to investigate|a heroic attempt to save the She nc her b her, has not yet bee rrested did the Jap, The Jap fired once, the striker ° herman, anothher brother, has not yet been arrestec :<a have to be changed. TODAY'S TIDES AT SEATTL in service on the Mexican border |the Hart case. trapped men, but were themselves r and Weedin dropped down over White conferred at length with High PEM... must be paid the same gratuity as| Prof. Hart's friends charge that|caught behind heavy steel doors,| Lundin Says He May Charge the wheel, The Jap fell then, too, were trapped in a gas pocket > B sley brothers gave their occupatior “ * shot Weedin. 125 feet below the surface of Two Billingsley brothers gave their occupations as “drug-| wiigy ‘before he lapsed into um en will put in at Bos before leaving Germany not to risk tam ~ Madsen, district secretary mgt alts ‘ ache ‘ me 183 # | widows of regulars, Treasury he was disinissed because of ad-|which were automatically locked by Billingsleys With Murder Then a crowd began to gather and @atter of the proposed conference | -@ Comptroller Warwick said today } vanced political views _ithe gas pressure. I was hustled to the hospital.” Prosecutor Lundin said the Billingsleys would be held in Dies at Hospital BY CORNELIA GLASS Smythe’s name even the first time I appeared pro-¢sult in one of aks that I had eclare ‘ ! ge Logan, ¢ wossibly the Even wardrobe that ills 16 Mr. Kerr blushed fessionally he said been z wear only maddened der certain beastly circumstances “bu an't find out r, Smyth sional was ever nervous, and | Mr. Smythe laughed reminiscent. , , ’ a 1 over which he has no control refuses to disclose it, and I am told him so. ly body of the ad police serge nd adjourned until Driver forced » satisfy nyself Mr. J. Anthor ythe know with the Mr, Smythe laughed I completely forgot my inten-| Wiley recovers sufficiently to a witness J, Anthony arrived in Seattle last fact that the ‘J’ blends ¢ aphonious 4 Mercy, He Was Nervous! tion to study that afternoon. I did “] am informed,” said Lundin, “that Suehiro made the | ni is en eek to become » leading man|ly with the ‘Anthon know thai 2 “Ot co tre nevver o ithe Seattle shops—and my friends! ..peme eS rea pe are ‘ b Aart ~~ va aie § seople who know him well cal! him course we're nervous,” hi a ant ete ane fam statement before he died that Logan Billing gave him the with the Wilkes players at the Or-| peop | assured me. “Every opening night| 7824 1 am still wondering where a 4 - “rg d s ” pheum. He came with a traveling| ‘Tony,’ tho,” he added, brightly We swallow all sorts of lumps in|! ‘id collect all the articles that| &un with which Sergeant Weedin was slain . WHO SAID THIS—A bag and @ pasteboard slip that en-| 1 met Mr. Smythe in his dressing | | : {our throats went to make up my attire Satur-| Lundin is determined to “go clear to the bottom of this! @ERMAN? titled him to 16 wardrobe trunks if|room. It's.a little square concrete} “1¢ wah a little worse Sundey| 487 night.” | es me,” he said. preser t Vells-Fargo Ex-|room, with one side covered with | : res ; mirrors and the other three with| ght for m ause | knew wha The Trunks Had Come I ee as ; press Co. 5 n a deservedly popular person Mr.| I needed only to look at h ) ecutor by the An oon league secretary, George He presented that slip religious-| books and hangers Hitter hed hgoorih: Gnd t badvan| iwalive teak tiie ante had ‘lasliy Rue sproneen rac by: She és 1 Saloon eRg Ue. Borers. ston Eee A CITY EDITOR. ly every day, and—but that comes Oh, Girls! A Dimple! ; rived #0 late that I had not master-|come. He was faultlessly attired inj D: Conger, that the Burns Detective agency has had the} later The new leading man has a y ed the of my third and fourth|a dark gray business suit and car-| Billingsleys under surveillance for some time | He sat at a desk and di- Maybe It is “Jay” charming way of meeting a person tiring act since I had arrived f! ried a shining, gold-headed cane. A mass of information contained) pla and they boasted when they rected Grace Christie, the nt to the theatre Monda He ia tal t I presume that is a OY had been haunting th ess of But, with all y vr every- in letters and telegra rning here obody had been young woman feature J. A. 8. and wate he pre-re 2 to being a leading fice for my trunks, 4 hey had thing came out beautifull 1 sug-|the brothe operations ib neg pagers: iy v al of next week's pla c blac air c traight not arrive aturday morn gest ma and West Virginia r e police toc a stenographi writer, in Amazing Mar from sh forehead d he , After rehearsa Saturda Ye t admitte tr: eeanacutote aéal tatement from Logan Billingsley Grace,” the novel-a-week First 1 found Mr. James F, Ke as erful dimple in the mid Wilkes told me that I would have| Smythe fellows are trying to buf. at midnight Monday | which starts in Monday's ho should know everything about |dle of bi n. | was busy watch p 4 to be at the theatre at the close of| Mr. Walsh put his head in the|falo the police and everybody else Deputy coroners, as well as city! Star, Pic Wilkes players, because it's his|ing the dimple when I realized that the third act, to be introduced to| dressing room door lin authority,” declared the prose- detectives, are out Tuesday, tryi duty to let the public know ev he was speaking to me ig the audience, and it came to me) “It's 12 o'clock,” he announced, | cutor They want to scare every-|to clear up details concerning the BETTER BE SURE thing about them, I asked him| “I was never 80 nervous in my|py James & Bushnell mddenly that 1 had no evening) “Act 1, please, ladies and gentle-|body so they'll be afraid to act.|shooting. No date for the tnquests} AND READ THE What the “J.” stood for in Mr.|life as | was Sunday night—no, notl J, Anthony Smythe lclothes. The fact that I had a new | men.” That's what they did in other|has been set. FIRST INSTALLMENT,