The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 26, 1916, Page 1

Just because dy today, and eh your fireside it's tle a ' e without first having done what you could for nonpartisanship. The | | ‘ forecast: “Tonight and Wednes day continued cold fair ) ROLL UP YOUR SHIRT SLEEVES Nonpartisanship will sink or survive by just the amount of help Seattle men and women will give it the next two days. If you have any red blood in you—you will fight to the last ditch. Already, all the crooks and grafters in politics, the cheap political ward heelers, those who make the public treasury their private loot, are smirking and snickering in glee because they think they have smothered nonpartisanship. Are you content with that? Chief Registration Clerk Gaines makes it possible to continue the campaign for signatures up to 6 p. m. Thursday. Don’t give up the ship! Let us fight to the last minute! Seattle has furnished 14,000 signatures, as many as the rest of the state put to- gether, and. then some. . But-Seattle can furnish quite as many more names. The petitions are still shy from 7,000 to 10,000 names. It is the city’s greatest opportunity to render the state its most valuable political service. Seattle can free it from party slavery. Seattle can make the state set the example for the whole Union, the example that merit, and not party bunk, should guide us in the election of public officials. Isn’t that worth an hour of your time today? And tomorrow? And Thursday? ‘ In an hour, you can get 20 signatures to the Nonpartisan petition. And 500 volunteers can get 10,000 signatures. That would be enough to make Nonpartisan- ship absolutely certain. Get busy, men and women of Seattle. ' Nonpartisanship headquarters is at 3107 Arcade building. The telephone number ' is Elliott 4255. BY ROBERT J. BENDER he “This official declared he is of the U. P. Staff Correspondent : pinion that “the proposals would WASHINGTON, Dec e unsatisfactory to t ranging | examination of ¢ any's j& pe aa conte: ~ df President Wilson's note a concerned fispatches from 6 ekteesee?: t - vat, tho’tore ost officials toda | oe vanta an bo by type Phx) pate pia Biro oe vernon mes) meeting based on such answe: ‘ Teutonic pro fi ry MORE THAN 60,000 COPIES DVERTISING MANAGER'S DAILY TALK SPECIAL Preliminary examination ed that the entente allies unwilling join such easion un NOTICE less the definite can get something on which to operate Those who are competing | in the ghborhood Drug- | i 5 } sists’ Con eave don't |} Every Little Noise | forget that must be _ mafled not la n6 p.m. | Has Own Meaning Wednesday, De ver 27th. | ulars were print When you hear a noise r of Friday, De- kitchen, don’t be too sure it's rember 16th. Your neighbo | cember 15th ur neighbor. heeatas hood druggist will suppiy sian cla ete vialis't you with contest blanks if you | abide police rush 0 will call Plum st. Christmas morning ews your letters to catch a theoretical burglar erhood I ut Con And when we got theré,” sa t Editor Officer J. J. Kush that a bunk of from the ceiling * car pattle that's all tified the hotels that the incre lcost of materials will necessitat raise in laundry rates, DAILY a round table will be more in the 1210 it turned out plaster had dropped | SEATTLE LAUNDRIES have » THE ONLY PAPER IN SE VOLUME 19. PROTECTION OF ¢ eral laws ng to this, Logan Bil an be convieted on his writing * against his brothers lev sre rather stronger tha a la Hint was still at the Pie ) Tuesday, where he s day, having . when he fail-{ edt t 500 in His attorn F. Vande to secure the bonds before ening Ora and Fred Billingsley and W H. Pielow, who have been eluding federal authorit when they w of conspiracy 30 CENTS PER GALLON PAID! Who is the “higher-up” In the Billingsley case? It was learned today that both the federal and state offi- cials heve received informa, tion that the Billingsleys paid 50 “higher-up” for each gallon of whisky ship Ped Into Seattle iiegally t Logan Bill cents to some amounts he les since last week ere indicted on charge and legal liquor shipments, were mil at. liberty Tuesday. ! indicat: | United States officers have been haunting the offices of the Plelow) Transfer Co. and the homes of the! Bilt nesley brothers, but without s county court house on numerous occasions, but at these times the officers happened to be elsewhere A.B. CG. NATIONS £ MAY SEND OWN PEACE NOTES BY CHAS. P. STEWART United Press Staff Correspondént ta re tentatively BUENOS in South AIRES, Dec. 26 American communicating re Cor ding the ¢ belligerents, backing up President Wilson's peace plea, forwardes here today No offictal confirma tion was to be w obtain: r, went so far B.C. gov The report, howe suggest that the A America has generally ap eliness of the peace and saw in Secretary hint of America jotning a nations after the war to nf eace an opportunity for a joser pan-Americanism, Lansing x that the United States ould t of all, feel the desire) joining with South American n in any such pian. ERICKSON FILES | fi He he FOR NEW TERM Councilman Oliver T led for re-election Tuesday has been in the council since nd has been closely identi © promotion of muniet oon paigns Erickson securing rec prior car as always run high ord-breaking votes SADDEST CHRISTMAS IN 71 YEARS COMES TO MAN AS WIFE DIES Into Seattle | i} i it Erickson | § NARA RAR RA pn SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, DEC, 19106. 6, ‘Maxine Elliott, Decorated for War Relief Work, Has | Returned Home for a Rest : Maxine Elliott has just returned home to rest, after aiding 35,000 Fred Pillinesley has been Widows, orphans and wounded soldiers in Belgium, She was decorat- non the streets and in the King @¢ by King Albert with the order of awarted 3 a ver cross bearing a # gold crown. the Crown of = | Leopold, being AUSTRIANS WIN | BATTLE AT SEA BERLIN (Via Wireless to | Sayville), Austro-Hungarian destroyers made a raid in the straits of Otranto, sank two patrol boats and, |fer terms rnd to carry the routed six enemy a Vienna official statement de- Four chancellors! on the way atch of a note to perior type back, and speed, clared today. “On the night of December 22-23,” the statement said, “four Austro-Hungarian destroyers on a raid in the Otranto straits, ntr were tainly concerned in’ Jery combat. On the class, bloc ron "NO CHRISTMAS TREE. FIRES IN SEATTLE, Not one been Tuesd day keep their Hghted can Claus, according to the firemen. ntinued, A violent ce recorded iy every blazes are recorded People have back state-; way » Indomito/ ed ur squad. naued hoe and three * were hit at short rang wounded.’ mas tree fire had | at headquarte year six or seven grown careful and} whisk ay from| whiskers away from] yra.op es when playing Santa | joff thetr home rule amendment to the state MORE THAN 15,000 persone at | constitation urged by Ix hos-|which there ors of greater type and stronger, unknown type, were rout! men, it appears 26.— Dec. successful | destroyers of su- sank two armed patrol boats after artil- The enemy's sea forces, among Was one vessel of| Of our destroyers, one received | two hits in the funnel; troyers hit on the superstructure. ‘Our lossea were one dead, none} another was |HOME RULE BILL LOOKS GOOD TO CITY OFFICIALS Mi and the city counetl- Tuesday, will tak coats and work for the| Corporation jtended the first annual community /Counsel Caldwell in his annual re Christmas Wright's park, in Tacoma, in | port The tree Monday night AN FRANCISCO, Dec In a shack on Bright st John Mauk sat alc get the da ing to f Christmas in his 71 Attendants in linen yesterday led Mauk to a cb back the city mor body of a wome slab. The old man omething bou ked a wedding ring woman's hand, huffled out of The woman Her body was saddest year jackets room It » the on a mumbled Ka off the kissed it and the place in tear was his wife. Half chicken, a little salt and a Sal vation Army near. abled lay ha and tryin husbend charity » find her way and her home with @ Chris On Christy bad enough the great fire claimed his daughters, the bitterest of all for him, Ne complete not step od out of the mire of an n front swamp. a loaf of bread, a | Tuesday Mayor | munity probably Christmas card The aged woman Saturday night | while | to her hed tmiserably mas dinner s in 1906 It was for Mauk when | two yesterday was lof t Walte slough but amendment take control of chises out of the hands of the pub- service corporation jthe mayor, affect enfors ;aie other eri Counctimen 2 BOYS enue SNOHOMISIT, 1 boys Jensen, 15, were found in a near Catheart They had gone aud evidently overturned. which would eity utility fran and place control with all cities of 20,000 population or more, reached the mayor's “Tean't eee why anybody would desk Tuesday out for home rule,” said “so long as it doesn't 1 statutes.” GML said the small com- state legislators would oppose the measure Paul Grenier, 14, and yesterday, canoeing Sunday, | “satisfactory, \the war on the side of the allies Jar ment of the dry law} ‘obert Hesketh and | | Wit! Hanna both came out in favor of Caldwell’s proposed amendment ON NEWS HAN’ ONE CENT tinople. gle of nations,” come,” U.S. MAY WIN ALLIES SOON; BY ED L. KEEN U. P. Staff Correspondent LONDON, Dec. The Seattle Star ATTLE ‘THAT DARES TO ‘PRINT THE NEWS. THAIN AN NIGHT The lady, Miss o Non partisanship needs help In two days she will be either saved or it “t drowned! is ( up to you 26.—British hostility toward President Wil- patch London 1 regards it as hav ing been sent with the main pur pose of forcing Germany state | nplica |tlon that unless these America may en There was, however, consid able continued was termed the president's obse ity and “infelicity and his apparent r ciples since May 27, when he st ed that America was not conce’ ed with the causes and objects the war The declaration in the ment was “in touch” with Pre dent Wilson five weeks ago was| ling the almost universal initial lief that the appendix note American + to the pea SAN FRANCISCO, Dee. Even Christmas does not keep Cupid from working. Marriage cense Clerk Munson locked his fice yesterday, but two couples, 26 married, and insisted on getting licenses. BY JOHN H. HEARLEY U. P. Staff Correspondent ROME, Dec. to her enemies a sealed packe containing port in circulation here today The report had {t that this pac was sent wit was only to t |to German jtente in enemies of the those powers, answ Benedict, Germany | holy father to read t of concessions and demands No official comment was obtain [bere today, either from the Vatican the specific terms upon which she was willing to make peace, according to a re- perred to have been con- Hified today. The ibutable to the ons of the mo- terms are ter er. criticism of what of language ersal of prin at rm of Swiss | {statement that the Swiss govern-| W&S “Also the imperial government is of the jregarded as conclusively disprov-/ opinion that the great work of prevention of future wars can be begun only after the end ~ "m0 of the present struggle of nations. be. ro was LOVE FINDS A WAY | u ! of de clining to wait until today to get went to Munson'’s home KAISER SENDS HIS TERMS UNDER SEAL 26.—Germany has handed to the neutral na tions whose services she asked | in forwarding peace suggestions t kot instructions that it ead and forwarded en er the list ned HUNT ON FOR BILLIN GSLE Y HIGHER-UPS Says He'll Aid U.S.in Fight for World Peace BERLIN (via Sayville Wireless), Dee. 26.—Germany today proposed a meeting lof delegates of belligerents in her answer © 'to President Wilson’s peace note. Her formal reply to the American peace suggestion was made in a note handed to United States Ambassador Gerard at Berlin and at the same time the American diplomatic representatives at the capitals of the other central powers—Vienna, Sofia, Constan- The note also hints that the “great work of the prevention of future wars can be begun only after the end of the present strug- and declares q Germany will ‘be ready with pleasure to collaborate en- © |tirely with the United States at this exalted task.” : The German note holds the “most appropriate road to reach | the desired result” is an “immediate meeting of delegates of bel- j | ligerent states at a neutral place.” The text of the note reads: “when this “The high-minded the president of the United States of America — in order to create a basis for the establish- _ ment of lasting peace have been received and | considered by the imperial government | in the | lfriendly spirit which was expressed in the | president’s communication. “The president points out that which he has at heart and leaves open the choice of the road. “To the imperial government the imme- |diate exchange of views seems the most ap- | propriate road in order to reach the desired It therefore begs, in the sense of its declaration made on December 12, which of- fered its hand for peace negotiations, to pro- pose immediate meeting of delegates of the | results. belligerent states at a The text as transmitted over Sayville wireless by the official press bureau in Ber- lin does not contain any peace terms. {Whether this is the entire text of the note not made clear in “It will (namely, |ment will), when this come, be ready with pleasure to collaborate /entirely with the United States at this exalt. led task.” or the court, as to this report, or as to the official view on the peace suggestions contained in Pre Wilson's note. It was apps ever, that officiald¢ ing there is some diplomatic secret behind it The Italian press today continued its speculation concerning Wilson's step, and found countless possible motives as impelling it. | The nspir retar Lar sing’s pro-Germanism,” down to the| possibility of this being the frat} step in America entering the war. SHELLS BURST CHRISTMAS NIGHT PARIS, Dee Active artillery action Christmas night on the Somme front, in the Lehions region, was reported in today's official | statement, The answer finishes with the usual terms of international politeness. EDITION Jit HELP have moment _ shall suggestions made by neutral place. the wireless message. the German govern- moment shall have — A DIAMOND the size of a hickory nut arrived in the morning mail. BUT YOUNG FERRIS DIDN’T WANT IT You would not have wanted it either had 7 you known the mys- 4 tery of 4 The story starts in” Monday’s Star. It’s a | novel by Charles EB. Walk.