The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 21, 1916, Page 1

The President’s Corner BY PRESIDENT COUNCIL TO CURB DANCE WILSON T VOLUME 19. WASH., SATUR The Seattle Star DAY, OCTOBER 21, 1916. HE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS | ONE CENT x nr BANK TRAGEDY Fi OLLO WED HANDS OFF THE DRY LAW! The present dry law should be left exactly as it stands. Vote an emphatic “No” against both Initiatives No. 18 and No. 24. : Let not the sophistry of clever press agents or the incon- sistency of any newspaper spokesman for brewery interests beguile you with the idea that ANY booze measure can in- crease temperance. Two years ago the people wisely adopted the saloons out of business Should either Initiative in a disguised form. It ing room and cafe If graft exists now, with either Initiative 18 or Both of these measures honeyed words of theirs, their newspaper mouth; delude you with the idea that cither measure ANCE. The present prohibition law is immeasurably better than It has proved a genuine hy the liquor interests. will it will increase any degree to enforce the dry law now, 24 in force prohibi No be 18 Initiative No. 24 saloon of the hotel or the a hundred it f or will be a the are the brain products of jeces, or sprang fr It has improved all legitimate business It has given food, formerly fell easy prey to Titis is fact. Ask any stores and other firms. and el ns club” Ask the cre shoes, and “the poor ma business house lique blessing | ¢ f tion law They voted the n will return \ g house and din- lf times it difficult in difficult more ousand more lerk, Canadian woman,’ terviewed by Sobel and his lawyer concerning bel's relations with William Matthews, a Spanish chauf-/ feur who had been driving a Cowen park jitney owned Woman Shot Boy | and Self After : Trouble at The murder of Leo G. Edwin Sobel, Mrs. Bank by of Commerce lowed warnings over the phone from her and from her husband, Pratt, and her suicide, in Friday afternoon, the fol- This was the statement of Lendorous Pratt, aged ather of the victim, “My son had been wa ’ Pratt said. “This by me. Let subsidized or interests their not advocates, rEMPER- any a desire for law t countless w proposed households. n to f thes to children of the poor whose dads the sa j yon lit managers of department Collections are steadier and better now Seattle used to spend from $12,000,000 to $15,000,000 a year for liquor Not all of the Billingsleys and Clancys and Margetts, not even the whole de- ined force behind the California Liquor Dealers’ association, which is seeking to Washington's dry law, can, under.any_circumstances, unload anything. year. the amount this city used to consume. The temptation of the saloon has been removed Initiative Bills Nos 18 and 24 will bring it back because they remove the difficulty of getting booze Under the booze bills, booze will fairly be thrust upon the people without check. Under the present dry boozé signs or liquor advertisements law, our youngsters Under the can gre booze again enjoy general cirerfJation Shall the state of Washington go bach true that It is true there has been more or less grafting only nine months. It is here. to confirmed drinkers only thetic army. It is only a question of time when the grafters will be caught, the | the It is no argument that we should legalize gambling because the in spite of the law ‘As far as the vast majority of the people are concerne: has been a perfect godsend as well as the small fry. bling resorts, as it stands today, amount of liquor can get it affords a check upon booze ward? bootleggers have dist They have made no new rec When the graft is cut out, It is the same with ev Those legally. The necessity for im consumption w an aid to officials against bootleggers. It would be a calamity to add new graft and renew old the enactment of either Init The booze gang will vote for both of these measures, hpieces will seek to concentrate on one. “No” against both of them. miseries by their newspaper mout The safe thing to do is to vote OPPOSES ROOT AS CANDIDATE By practically a unanimous vote, the Seattle Bar associa tion is on record Saturday against the candidacy of Judge Milo A. Root for a seat on the superior court. At one of the largest meet- ings held by the association, with more than 100 lawyers present, resolutions were adopt ed in department No. 1 of the court house Friday night con- demning his candidacy because “the misconduct of Judge Root | while on the bench would tend | to bring the bench of this | county into disrepute.” The resolutions further urge that | | against he had ever been dishonest Charges a Plot “Underneath all these charges, he said, “was a plot to destroy me. “{ have been asked why I re signed, and I admit it is the biggest argument that has been made me; but the facts are came to Seattle from Olympia, was sick, was ordered to bed by my physiclan, but instead | responding to a summons of an ed- |itor, went to his office, where I | was informed by him that my col leagues on the supreme court wished me to resign, a statement which I later learned was untrue Makes Threats I thought this editor was acting these I The dry But they have hich is healthful for the individual without booze even seeing literature will w up bills been in existence derable booze sold their booze King Alcohols pa- " ruits s igher-ups ng will re some gam- bootleg cease law 1, the prohibition law, who want a_ moderate porting it from the outside as well ery ative No. 18 or 24. tho M a \4 4 a ford, but I'll give you something to|" think about if you do, for you peo-|® ple are not going to trample on me | without hearing from me.” James A. Kerr, one of the attor |o neys who represented Judge Root |° at the hearings in 1908, asked him why he resigned, when under fire without consulting his counsel. Says It Was Mistake "My opinion is my resignation was mistake,” replied Root. Then {s It your belief as a law-| that you should from an eth-| (Continued on page 8) 2,000 PARENTS SEE yer \r \e s Mrs. action, LAW BODY ALMOST UNANIMOUSLY === = at. | with “The boy Sobel. hews last Saturday. ind out what he could. Leo G. Pratt WOMAN KILLS WOMAN WITH HER MOTOR Evidently becoming confused at |the blast of the automobile horn, Hartley D. Smith, 56, stopped the middle of the and Stewart Friday and was knocked down nd Instantly killed by a machine riven by Mrs, Charles W. Hart ire. tockstill in 738 15th-ave. N. E. Smith was returning home Mrs. Hart Mrs. t 14156 Kast Olive st |told the police she saw the woman start across the stree and sounded er horn more for precaution than ecessity as Mrs, Smith had plenty | f time to get out of the way Mrs. Hart was booked on an pen charge and released on her | wh recognizance ‘PRINCE HENRY WILL HEAD GERMAN NAVY AMSTERDAM, Oct. 21.--Kaiser m has appointed Prince Hen y of Prussia, nis oldest brother, rand admiral in the German navy ‘aid a Berlin dispatch today aturday. rned both by Sobel and the! was after Leo had been in Mrs. So- had told them what he knew because Matthews had talked to him about his relations with I knew of their relations, too. Sobel was considering divorce That's why he went to my boy at the bank to I fired Mat- “Leo wan an innocent victim of ireun: cos. I told him to stay ay from the postoffice, because { believed Matthews, instead of the woman, might do him barn for the service Leo had rende: fate... During the excitement imme diately following the shooting in the Canadian Bank of Com merce Friday afternoon, some one at the bank told The Star over tho telephone that they understood the h woman who did was Oliver. This was entirely incorrect as later identification proved. Ollver is the name of & stenographer at the bank who in no wise concerned in the affair. clared, while talking to detectives, that “if I were @ man without a wife and danghter, I'm afraid I would do something rash” to re- venge the son's murder. Matthews, the chauffeur, he said had been “running around” with the woman all summer, and had} tried to borrow money from his em ployer to go to San Francisco to seo her there. Sobel Sought Information “When Sobel and his lawyer went to the bank to talk to Leo, my boy first called up his mother and asked her if he should tell what he knew afout Matthews and the woman,” the father said. “His mother told him he had better tell the truth.” Pratt said he had read love let ters written by Mrs. Sobel to Matthews, and that complaints had come to him concerning the use of his car p * by Matthews to take out Mra, Sobel, and that they had been together in California during the summer. Sobel Suspected His Wife “Sobel first suspected something was wrong when he saw his wife (Continued on page 8) AMSTENDAM, Oct dress to Lis troops of th front, commemorating the d, the kaiser said We who survive will fight until none ever dares again assail the honor and liberty of the German people 21—In ad western German ome | 19-year-old bank | University Couple Spring Surprise by Hurried Wedding, Wilhelmina daughter of Mr. and Mra. Elton 8. 1210 16th N, and @ sity of Wash her unt jolet Dungan, Dungan. nVve. member of the Univer ington faculty, surprised | versity friends, as wel lents, when she met George R Keith of the state universicy exten sion department, j 7}as Mayor Gill, bo ' Mr. and Mrs. George R, Keith a hastily their Canada | Mrs. Keith's jnounced the ranged marriage, left for neymoo at Banff Springs, had an Sunday, parents engagement wedding in Apri!, following her res. ignation from the faculty. The couple got their license at 2 p. m. and wore married by Dr. M A. Matthews at 3 p.m, They left jimmediately, without even ac- quainting the girl's parents of the marriage STEAMER ALMOST ON REEF OFF FRISCO SAN FRANC s18CO, Oct, 21.—The steamship Daisy Gadsby, San Pedro to San Francisco, narrowly escaped Jisaster today on Duxbury reef, the “graveyard of the Pacific,” near Point Reyes, when she was stop- ped just in time to save her from drifting on the rocks in a dense Of. She is 300 feet off the reef, both anchors down Unless a heavy gale blows up, she safe, It was declared. idgortange PROGRESS LONDON Oct 21.—Further progress for the British last night near Butte De Warlencourt (three miles south of Bapaume) was re |ported by Gen. Haig this afternoon {Roth north and south of the Ancre there was intermittent enemy shell ing. with is * as her par-| Friday, and after) jand were planning on an claborate | Be PREPARED MACHINES IN KI MEANS YOL 1AY VOTE STRAIGH OT WANT TO. VOTE PARTY LABEL, THE TONIGHT AND SUNDAY you A NG COUN SHOULD BE LAST EDITION USING VOTING KRT! THAT OK ELSE YOU ft TICKET, THO MAY FOR THE MF THE ATHER MAN PAIR CAREFUL, you NOT HALLS ARNING “Forty-nine” dance hal be curbed. Mayor Gill, Chief Bec is already on the way. “And if any of these f Gill, methods to stop it.” Chief Beckingham said ago to warn George Ecke in jail. ye Counctimen Hesketh and Hanna, ! of the license committee, as well said they thought most of the underworld dance hall managers were making an effort || t© respect the dry law New Law Needed “I have had two conferences with Caldwell,” uptown dance balls ip mind. “We will have to deal with the ‘@anee hall managers ifke we do with the pool halls. Every appli- cant will have to appear before tne license committee, and the council will take over the power of revok- ‘ing Meenses of managers who be- | come Irresponsible.” Under the present system. any- body gets a license by planking} down $25 to the comptroller. at councilmen never see him. Thea} they get a permit from the chief of police. | May Raise License Fee Counciiman Hanna id that he was in favor of increasing the fee to , prohibiting girls under 21 from going into the places, taking out all boxes and promptly revok- ing the license of any irresponsible manager. | Councilman Haas declared he fa- |vored “closing them all up.” | Erickson had “given the matter much attention.” “I supposed the police could han- die the situation all right under the present ordinance,” he said. |" Bolton and Moore both were of the opinion that it was a matter for the police, “The council is certainly not re- sponsible under the present ordi- nance,” Bolton said. Mayor Gill said he did not favor | closing the responsible "49 halls, as long as the uptown halls were per- jmitted to run. | “All these managers,” Chief Beck ingham said, “have agreed to keep their girls from leaving the place during the evenings. I wish this rule applied to all of the places in town.” | Councilmen Hanna and Hesketh made a personal survey of the sit luation several nights ago. | Prosecutor Lundin said Saturday ‘that he desired to do everything in his power to work with Chief Beck ingham in cleaning up dance halls below Yesler way. “I wrote the chief a letter a while back, in which I called his attention to the dance halls and their meth- ods of operation,” Lundin said, “and I understand that some of them are pretty bad “[ thought of having the grand! jury investigate them, but later] learned that they were operating| under city permits that were rev- | ocable upon the word of the police, so I felt that it wasn’t my place to interfere.” Mayor Raps Way — Girls Are Lured © y fe he Is, below Yesler way, must — kingham and city councils men agreed on that Saturday. New legislation, to change the method of licensing the dance halls so only responsible proprietors operate, © ellows get girls down theegt by misleading advertisements in the papers,” said Mayor. * “my advice to the chief is to use strong-arm | he sent an officer three day t to immediately stop his method of luring girls, as reported in The Star. “The matter was brought to my attention,” the” mayor said, “and I was even in favor of throwing him T J. BENDER Staff Correspondent LONG BRANCH, Oct, 21.—Back at Shadow Lawn, after what be re sards “the most successful trip” of his campaign, President Wilson Prepared to launch his most vigor © ous efforts during the two now remaining before election. This afternoon he addresses @ delegation of farmers from the Ve _ randa of the summer White jhere. The democratic liew no longer believe Wilson will ry” the election. They are tall “landslide.” They're a mighty come fident group of leaders. They Neve the trip of the president thra” Pennsylvania yesterday when thoue sands of people met the train at every station, in spite of the com- tinuous downpour of rain, indicates “the way of the tide.” At Lancaster _ last night, a community which has not gone democratic since the war, fully 10,000 people waited in cold rain for more than an hout | and gave the president a greag- ovation. : INDIAN CONFESSES TO OLD MURDER WEAVERVILLE, Cal., Oct, 2L—— Frank Barker, half-breed Indian, was placed under arrest today, fol- lowing his frank story of the killing of Joseph Bebeau and Fred Holmes near Hayford eight years ago, and of his receiving $100 for guiding the slayers to the cabin where the crime occurred. Barker will be held as an acces sory, pending appearance as the state's star witness in the trial of — Robert McKay and Joseph Chase, recently indicted on a charge of murder. SAN FRANCISCO.—She was wills Ing to serve her husband his breaks fast in bed, but when he threw the breakfast at her for serving it @ little too early, she objected, Mi Lavina Leffman szid, in suing for @ divorce. THE UNIVERSITY extension course in commercial correspon- dence will meet Monday night in the assembly room of the Henry building to outline a course for the . eaeate Henry visited the United 9 the press of the county republish | ‘od faith, was told it was the Ts report of the eommittee of the| {= Sood faith, was te . courageous thing to do, and State Bar association which investi-| gated the Root case in 1908, at the Tequest of Chief Justice Hadley Judge Root made a statement in his own behalf. He denied Judge Hadley urged an investigation. He declared it was himself who asked | Jndge Hadley to call for the inve tigation. Investigated by Grand Jury “I was investigated by the grand jury,” said Root, “and that body, after gathering all the evidence for #ix months, finally returned a true’ bill against me. ‘As to the charge that I had a) patlwoy pass, I admit it. I was not the only one who had such pass, but that was before the days when paiving free passes was prohibited pees it is now Judge Root emphatically denied ‘no | honest, I did resign You men may publish my re¢ 7 DROWN IN GALE ON LAKE DETROIT, Oct. 21.—Seven sailors are known to have been drowned, |two lake vessels were sunk and sev eral stranded in the storm which lewept the Great land today Scores of vessels were driven to shelter during the 50-mile gale, and | it is feared late reports may ring news of additional disasters. Lakes last night) About works 2,000 fond parents saw the of their children Friday night, at the opening of the junic exposition in the Y. M. C. A There are 4,000 entries In all, ar. ranged in 12 different divisions, in cluding agricultural, ies, art and design, pictures, pets, and so on The program will be repeated Sat urday at 2:30 p. m, and again at 7:20 p ‘The Boy Scouts will collections, m. pitch a camp in the tennis court) association butid-| across from the ing. NEWTON POSTON, sales man ager of the Pacific Coast Co., has |been granted an indefinite leave of absence to recuperate his health. home econom-| Jan honorary degree trot. Harvard university. He is 54 years old. THINK AMERICAN LOST WITH LINER LONDON, Oct. 21.—E. R. Sloane, an American horse dealer, probably was lost on the Al , Charles | Brodie, of Washingte 1, re ported to the American embassy this afternoon Brodie said he was in a lifeboat lwhich had pulled away from the liner'’s side when he gaw Sloane land a Russian passenger running | about the decks searching for life pelts, The vessel sank a few mine utes later, Something Is Going to | | Idyll novel of “The Twin Eaton's to live in The Star on Monday. how on a run-down and Tt is the new novel-a-week Starts Monday, one ends Saturday. each day Fires, a colle; worn-out Walter ge professor resigned Pritchard farm, begins , and a good one, too. Six healthy helpings, SEE