The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 4, 1916, Page 1

ITS A Gcop CAUSE, FFLUERY! We don't know what the w be Christm i] ther | “ day, but we do ow the Red Cross seals are ready sale—and they help greatly in the fight against tuberculosie, Buy The weather forecast Is Occasional rain tonight and Tue day some. A arnnnnnnnnnrnnnnnnnnnnnneennw VOLUME 19. SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1916 orthwest Wins Tourist Rate Case FOOD EMBARGO FIGHT IS ON MARSHAL FIRES AS SPEEDING AUT KEEPS ON GOIN Mrs. John Mitchell, 4212 Orcas st., wa shot, perhaps fatally, at 12:40 a. m. today by Deputy Sheriff Dellahante of Renton while speeding over a bridge in an automo- bile with a man giving his name as Al Mc-) Coy of Seattle. The shooting took place on a_ bridge crossing Black river, near Renton, when Mc- Coy failed to stop at the command of Mar- ::: shal Edwards. aot perenne luded with t that when A posse of officers, including Mar-|went down the the h today it will shal Edwards, Night Marshal Jack | bullet struck Thuraday : q back, coming mmons Stewart and Deputies Jim Flynn and ee ee sence appeared before Del ing at the followed nee Prosecutor Lundin early Tueeday| which Asq king bridge for an automobile supposed morning. Th tter waid that no} roday, and in in assumed, | to be filled with liquor on its way action woul aken until Mrs./ the whole plan of reconstruction was | to Issaquah from Kent Mitchell's condition was definitely discussed. Premier Asquith sald| Edwards and Flynn were stand-'determined. Dellahante is held| further that whatever reconstruc: | ing near the approach of the bridge, blameless |tion of the government was decid: while the other two men were hid-| Mrs. Mitchell sald she was on her/ed on there would be no departure | den on the bridge. As the machine |way to visit her mother-in-law, liv-| from the polley announced at the} pproached a red lant as jing at Maple Valley, She was taken | beginning of the war. Asquith's| waved by Edwards. Me( to the Renton hospital, where it Is|own statement at this time held| ing a hold-up, speeded up. sald she has an even chance to re }that England was in the war to} Meaning. he says, to shoot out a cover | compel restoration of Belgium, and tire, Dellahante opened fire, dis | Mrs. Kyle, a sister, with whomjuntit evoh time «: Tipan gilt charging five shots at the disappeer-| Mrs. Mitchell makes her home tm | tariem was subdted and the inter ing machine. Seattle. went to Renton Monday to! rity of wmall nations assured. _He shot low, but he machine | visit the injured woman | Current reports late today were rE that the “reconstruction” means a | general change in the entire cab jinet rather than the mere forma: | Ition of an authoritative council This “small, compact body” for | ae of the probleme of the} War was the stiggestion first ad-| | vanced by those known to be fn mpathy with Lioyd-George, who | apparently prectpitated the cabinet | | erinis When Premier Asquith had con |cluded, Sir H. Dalziel sug had understood the resignations of | all members of the presant cabinet had been tendered to the premier. | | Asquith did not make reply DAUGHTER KEEPS INVALID MOTHER FROM KILLING SELF 1819 First hospital with nds in her breast as result unsuccessful attempt to commit suletde, while her year-old invalid daughter struggle to disarm her Monday morning During a & of temporar ancholla her health Ko son, Arthu 18 father and hin Then ENGLAND WILL ‘Billie Burke Looks Just HAVECABINET 28 Charming as Mother) OVERHAULING ge BY ED L. KEENE U, P. Staff Correspondent LONDON, Dec. 4.—England ls preparing a “reconstruction.” Premier Asquith made formal announcement in the house of commons teday that King George had rendered his assent to the “reconstruction of the government,” which a ata’ ment yesterday had announced was in contemplation, What course that “recon. struction” will take was not made clear by the premier He sux ed that al! questions members regarding the cab be deferred, and con WwW roach a Renton ap Mra. Mitchel her n rned tH ngth had with teh, it oun A not again The announce ont jahante Se were wa TRUSTY ALLEN AND ‘DIP’ MAKE ESCAPE | FROM COUNTY JAIL }. “Doctor” Allen has since been |king of all prisoners, and was a| |close friend of Harry Gardner, since they became jailmates. So confident were authorities that “Harry” was a model prisoner that he was permitted to breathe the clearer air quite often, and po lice officers noted with surprise that the . famous pickpocket was permitted to attend downtown box ing smokers in company with dep! uty sheriffs Gardner, according to city detec. | tives, is one of the clevereat crooks in the country. He was caught here It is believed the men had about |With “The Gorilla's” gang of pro-|; three-quarters of an hour start |fessional pickpockets, rounded up when thetr escape was discovered. jafter they had reaped a lucrative All of the county deputies were [harvest at a milkmen’s picnic held scattered broadcast thruout thejacross Lake Washington, at For ity’ A watch is ‘being keptstuna park. at all depots and docks The gang was Allen Was Chief Trusty ree lh ope ae wee Sleds i. waite Woman Charmer hae te the | Dr Allen was convicted nu-| hospital ward for several days with |Pe"ior court for living with Mise © poanernbe Anna Marie Danielson, who died| aden Lalleves thi under strange ciroumstances here Ei aat out ot the tank n Jnly, after coming up from San as’ pried Birr Francisco with Dr. Alien Rte? iiccant that Burns detectives along the Coast =“ Ie worked on the case for weeks, and tried to get Prosecutor Lundin t le murder charges against “Dr Allen “Dr.” Allen, according the Burns detectives, had served in the Mlinois state reformatory, and been | connected with a number of mys terious cases since that time He posed as an osteopath, was a woman charmer He is a big and carr versation Percival V. Allen, under sentence following the mysterious death of Anna Marie Danielson, whom ne paimed off as his wife, and Harry Gard | ner, member of the Gorilla gang of pickpockets, awaiting the start of a five-year term in the state penitentiary on an appeal, escaped from the King county Jail at 5 a. m. The two men pried their way thru a door in the store room into the old auditor’s office, ac- cording to an explanation given Jail Monday at 5 a. m. The Star today presents the first picture ever taken of Mrs. Flor enz Ziegfeld, jr, known the world over as Billie Burke, the actress, and her baby, Florenz Patricia Burke-Ziegfeld, three weeks of age, at their country home, Berkeley Crest, Hastingson-Hudson, The famous a tress plane, to, return | to the stage in February. LABOR AND GRANGE | ' PLAN ‘CO-OP’ STORE. TO BEAT HIGH COST: Preparations for the first bat tle In a Seattie war on the high | cost of living were being made Monday Mr. Middieman, well-known influential factor in high cost of living circles, had no place in plans being worked out Monday by Seattle labor union represen tatives and organized grange of ficials fog a co-operative store to sell d&ect from producer to consumer. The plan. to estat Al Knutsen, the husband, works |ing station for for the Fisher Flouring mills, the | was proposed daughter told the police held’ at thé Labor “" BUCHAREST SHELLED ss smooth faced fellow COPENHAGEN, Dec. 4.— formal, flowery German artillery has already Gardner ttle begun bombardment of Bucha dark complexioned rest from a range of 11 mile Mexicar the newspaper National Tiden nes declared in a dispatch from Berlin today The dispatch asserts the Ger man guns opened their fire on the Rumanian capital Sunday. Mra. Al ave. N., | | two Knutsen sin the bullet wor of an ‘4 met Mre age te told mon was # h following Hughe: when arrested a to # nis ve chie took a revolver an he: nd the grange provat Menibe the A. ( Torinus and J organizations for ap. shot herself twice. Luzanne, daughter, was in the bedroom, an succeeded in taking the gun aw from her mother, and throwing | thru the window Alex Carlson, who drink establishment at ave N., heard the screams ports. He rushed tr Mrs. Knutsen from going yard for the gun, altho wounded twice. Her critical n committee are Cottre lo and M representing th Ho: jrown, J Grimm s was a ruse The doo some heavy tak runs a open sig 301 s and of wheke and a ba e and pt he of efforts to bring ity together or worker plain a & mo to get as he only and had al f it I con-! pris made trusty out of after he was admitted a quiet prisoner, ac she was tive A away had a ready served a sidered him oners and him short! en Madden sente part ne of the f exchange condition lat nen the produce direct and elim middleman, The farmers hase union label products DYNAMITE SUSPECT on BE BROUGHT IN et’ examination Prosecutor Lundir Tuesda: the recent dynamiting home on Vashon Sheriff Stone oring theoretically to will inat € will 7 sh a distribut union labor workers at a mass meeting temple Sunday to lowering the cost beat a consider sof of living If tt 1 offic ve union’ workers at the store, ished ried buye will get he labor unions les on on ratty well st prisor ted Supt adge “of earth's and rs ay will be ided between t b grange organizations will ite equally bed of a and the Bach the A | work them STEVE BUTTED IN WHEN HE SAW 2 “VILLAINS” ATTACK GIRL--AND brane SPOILED “MOVIE” attle the Sand S in front supreme in hot or Robles and breakfast dressed ispect in connection with Louis Lof island yf Vashon contri to ahiment committee w appointed to out detailed plans and submit 1 before the King county to the Central Labor council, prosecutor Monday and asked that he be allowed to bring the suspect to Seattle Stone refused to give t pame until after the intervi said the man has been u picion singe the night of the explo gion, but that he had been unable to connect the links of evidence until recently It is merely circumstantial now,” aid Stone, “and my deductions may fall flat. But as farias I can figure it out, I believe I have the right man.” RUMANIANS RETIRE PETROGRAD, Deo. 4.—Under uninterrupted pressure by the en the Rumanian forces are re round Pitese! and Torgo % accom-| €, F. GIFFORD and Kay McKay ttle rral estate operators, have Yor Kast to get settlers | Washington farme cost of esta humane superintendent for treatment of h « left ward | for man’s He der sus re! seas Valle That wa e Compan ond th bend Steve picking poppl Two men rode. snd awung from their saddles, She shrank back in fear. One of them seized her wrists and threw her down saw a of Steve aut Steve Makes a Mistake ard TEVE YEAGER he up| Yeager Villain » 1 went to the ground Lay hands on a@ lady, will you? Steve turned to Villain No, 2, backed away rapidly In alarm with! From a grove of cottonwood half who a dozen men in “chaps” came yards running. The fat little fellow pawed the air with rage a Ever see such rotten 1 Spoiled the whole scene One of the men joined the young emy woman, who was assisting the vil- | tirtr lain Yeager bad knocked out vistaja, the war office stated today Looks like | done barked up the! In the Oltuz region attacks (Continued on page 4) were repulsed the had before the tide settlement had spilled alley. Finally Uncle aliced off most of the left and called it a fore Vherefore the Lone old holdings Steve Ye of al omewhere Lon who into Sam acreage now t reserve a Star outfit Wheref< of him were Into the short, fat man or fifteen cone of actio: he the Dragging bh pit One solitary si his trouse Four E would ta cart wheel Then trans would had its ‘om the n at had to Ste ick gallop the been also er had had we had followed ear sadd job, It re | rs earlier en he girl pony ground the little of his tools as he caught sight! leexed out the occupation ix twenty-three could hang on to a horn y Bi wed around a tongue of a foot-hill moment would ¢ of h ond fer ¢ pocket Steve had had quit bim. be Jackwon ne the eminded one Snemy A te Then *|diplomates and THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS" on NEV THAIN ONE CENT FILE MANY BILLS. IN CONGRESS TO DOWN HIGH COST WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.— Legisiative proposals intended to shatter the high cost of liv ing marked the reopening of congress today Representative leader of the embargo forces, introduced four plans—two of them calling for food export embargoes, the other two for regulation of cold storage and for reduction of parcel post charges on food. Rep tative vania Fitzgerald, | Farr of Pennayl an bare ” wh resentative of New Y list measures propost virtua dictators aidbnial Congr ters faven Represen tricta wa thre ned br Ithey were pertty Action in the ised by Senator He said bh to provide nt be empowered on which corner ts attempted, con-| demn t and then resell to ¢ public. Re 4 Lon ndustrial cen contro vas against the bills ions e and rested their pros neonate Lewis « 4 introduc govern’ prom lilinots wou bill that t _ President Notified Roth hotaes passed resolutions to nofffe President’ Wilson that! they are sitting and ready his mesaage tomorrow The > convened when Speaker C order, and the se business three min At 12:11 the senate re til 3 p meantime ommittee was ready for at lark pounded ot down er essed un pointing « he house. {t isiness. was roundls like chatter the come home squads had been qu ed, the chaplain within our borders sentatives stood Fitzgerald's bil No. 1--Provisior out-export jucts and man Prov spend exportatio: In the t j cheered ¢ ° prayed for while their p provid peace repre cos an farm j foodstuf out embargo of actured f sion for th extortior require action Broaden Parcel Post Regulation of prohibiting of foods, ot | stored onger than with distinct labeling on which the goods were stored 4—Abolition of postal zones ' nsota as farm products and man tured foodstuffs are concerned paintaeion’ < k to post In packages up to 150 pounds at 3 for the first pound and 1 pound thereafter, with No {age ment cold s stave than butte ten months f the date! tor. by ir ship-| such goods parcel embargoes American citizens abroad, as\| {well as famine or war victims. {public service commission when the! fight was determined upon. The Seattle Star The Coliseum theatre circulated a f new dimes new dimes aren't Ask the butcher, Sunday, but, say what you will, these worth as much as the old ones were AND STANDS, GREAT VICTORY, SAYS REYNOLDS WHO AIDED STAR Seattle and the Northwest have won their fight for fair tourist rates. The interstate commerce comngission at Washington, D. C.," |today handed down the decision, which, ac- 'cording to Charles A. Reynolds, former chairman of the state public service commis- sion, “is the greatest thing that ever hap- \| pened for the Northwest.” Under this decision, the same round-trip- 'fare rates will be maintained on all railways from Chicago to San Francisco, whether by way of Seattle or by way of New Orleans, El Paso and Los Angeles. The heretofore was $17.50 traffic more b Northern than by the; ment ithern route the distance When the Chamber of Commerce from Chicagg to San. Francisco by tically ignored this fight for way of Seattle was shorter the Northwest, acd the Commercial The ar deserving of the Club took only a balf-hearted inter greatest debt of gratitude by the est in the matter, The Star, with whole Northwest by launching this the co-operation of Reynolds, called campaign and Waging {t to a fin- a mass meeting at a local theatre ish,” declared Reynolds today downtown. Hotel men and ot! Reynolds was chairman of the) were interestedand «the The case was prepared and a with the interstate commerce com- mission by Reynolds. When he later resigned from the public sery- ice commission, he agreed to ap pear for the state in this case= without any fee. Last July he went to Washington to argue it, and today word of the victory was received in Seattle. The ruling by the commission re- quires the railroads to put the new rates into effect t February 16s AMERICAN LAKE TO GET BIGGEST ARMY POST ON THE COAST the and demanded fair treat £0 tho 8 about a year ago. pointed .out that the was being deprived of tourist trade from the coast ause of the maintained by the and Southern Pa ight was begun, The Star North west the great East to th discrimination Union Pacific cific railways It pointed out Washington, a that the Oregon sid railway Union Pacific company, was taking money from Seattle and the Northwest in fre ight and passeng rt suk TACOMA, Dec. 4.—Mayor 6, to Fawcett, head of a committee of Pierce county citizens, today announced that Newton D. Bak er, secretary of war, had signed a formal agreement that the government will station a full division of United States troops at American lake, near here, and establish a permanent can- tonment, mobilization and train- ing camp, provided Pierce county will donate to the gov ernment 70,000 acres of land. A monster petition, which been circulated quietly here for several weeks will be pre nted late today to board of county commisston ng that a cfal ed for January vote 000,000 of bonds for of the desired tract. The county commissioners, can- vassed in advance, have agreed to submit the question Secretary Baker's agreement contemplates stationing a mint mum of 15,000 men and 670 officers, including two majors general and five brigadiers general, at Amert- can lake. The government agrees expend at once on temporary cantonments, storehouses, hospi- tals, officers’ quarters, stables, gar- ages and the like, $1,500,000 for ma terial alone The proposed the purchas has camp is three the size of San Francisco’ residio and three times the size of the Platisburg camp, In addition to furnishing a man- euvering ground for the regulars, {t is proposed to have it used by all spe- MISS STRONG WINS the state militia as far east as the I PLACE | Anna Loulse Strong enjoys the distinction today of being | | the only woman elected to the school board in Seattle since 1896. Nathan Eckstein and Dr Strong were easy victors in the Saturday election. The school bonds were approved by a vote of three to one Robert Bridge port commissioner {tion, The port belt Ja majority vote, but f tion because the law per cent vote. was with: bonds fled of requires a 60 A WOMAN ON THE BOARD || * Anna Le trong majority and will be Seattle school board To those alarm” soothing rise W the fir who, living i advent of a may ye « the won words not Cheer topple healthy in Anna Louise Strong, fulfill the duties of credit upon the city heads up, over your vigorous, broad-n her 1 since If relics, nde | 1 one kotas, business for men’s train- ing camps, for Red Cross training schools, for rifle associations, for high school cadets, Boy Scouts and should universal miiltary training be established, for all such work arried on in the Pacific Northwey — ADVERTISING MANAGER’ DAILY TALK Christmas Gifts This subject will be one of intense interest to all for the next three weeks What was as follows board—Eckstein 15. Danz 6,791, Ent 1,063, Rensing The vote For school 268, Strong 11,024 wistle 1,251, Lepper 983, Downie 88 For sc 4,551 Anna Lov William Pig¢ bonds 13,175, against se Strong will succeed ton the school board Both Eckstein and she were elect ed three-year terms, beginning January 1, 1917. Only once before has a woman served on the school here. In 1896, Mrs. Winni Thomas was elected and serv year. board fred ed one would be nicer than piece of furniture? tod Star Stand urniture Co... Page Fur- Page Furniture Page make many ap- aggestions for sen- tmas gifts. You find them well worthy of i attention is elected by a st woman 896, handsome the Woodhe niture Co A Th propri sible ill are Grunbaum erve on Gotistein na 5 pads te Chri an misplaced the vu I world \ will f the dly will MORE whe decide THAN 60,000 COPIES DAILY ition, and who of be