The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 28, 1916, Page 1

of press censorship and rible reaucracy in the war department 1 Baker Sanctions Trespassing net that 4 Pomerone is not picking whole With a boozeless New Year's ing, this is about the only way you can get a skate on, And, judging from the antics of the weather man we may have plenty ice for the pur pose. Forecast: Tonight and Fri day, generally fair BAKER BACKS - MAIL LOOTING ¢ BY ARMY MEN “Rifler of Mail Takes His Life in Declares Burleson His Hands, WASHINGT: army officer or civilian cept on r f the On A sworn statement o wishes it returned, take master General Burleso His statement + n connection ¥ such action was taken whith “round robin,” addressed to an Ohio YN, Dec post mas Onto n the ca EDITOR'S NOTE.—The wires recently carried the news story that the Eighth Ohio militia regiment, having addressed a “round robin” to the Akron Press, protesting against camp conditions on the Mexican border which the war department has allowed to become intolerable, is to be dis ned. The amazing charge is also made that the “round robin” letter was seized in the maiis en route to the Akron Press, and that this stolen letter is now in the hands of the war department offi cialis at E! Paso, who will use it as evidence against the men The following wire story from Gilson Gardner gives the view of the incident in Washington ang in congress.—EDITOR.) BY GILSON GARDNER WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 28.—Invasion ot privacy of the mails in time of peace by army officers or at the instigation of the army is just as criminal a { performed by a formance as if such an ac mon highwayman. This is the opinion of the postoffice departme officials, and it is this aspect of the trouble over seizure of the “round robin” sent by the Eighth O regiment that has stirred cong It is the for Senator Pomerene’s re solution demanding an ingu It Is intended, however ther ‘than exclu aoverat investigation shall take pufactur® of 1 and shall cover the w rece that initions of war departs mbers in rel with there are = who are intensely stirred and inter fense. It ested in the matter of offictal terribly consple nous failure anc usu nm under the guise of| fers no » ute for the Ha WAR POW ERS IN TIME OF P. O. Officlais Denounce It PEACE. A lot of trespassing has tot Akron matter, a , } 4 t to press reports, a ter already taken place on the rights ir pre , a : of civilians with the sanction of 'selzed while it was In transit fr SECRETARY OF WAR NEWTON the Mextear rto THE PR HAKER. ' A a m oa we ‘ The secretary has declined Pe Km to y \ nounce the reported seizure of : on, is arise #f ne and will not even discuss a hypo- | t? ain thetical question. state ‘that t cam Whateve auch seizure would be improper member a smal : Instead of instituting an independ-|™ay oF n Besos ave tor hk forma heir criticiams of supe ent airy for his own inform An ms Of sped tion and for the enlightenment of the public, he has followed the mil vie gritos — s itary tradition of calling upon the ee ee te ac:my officer tae Png aceusation for bythe : a report. Such report, of course sol HE al Bs will ndicate the officer in ques | tinns ee is . : ~“e tion. ne that In sa t mails are sac has no more r a letter or pilfer a pe a highwayman Disappoints Friends In doing, Baker following his 1 Much to the @ appointment of his friends and ad mirers, Baker has permit ted bim self apparently to UNDER to Intere than real reason VOLUME 19. * EN ro LINDSEY’S WI B IN MOVIES ACT MRS BEN B LINDSEY. Mrs. Lindsey, wife of Judge Ben the Lindsey, of Denver, Colo, will ap judge, based on juvenile court work, Der- in which the judge is interested. ym »» 50 MILLION IN OIL DESTROYED hin LONDON tary ir Dec troyed Romant a Ker meet an “see » rao H ol panied | , the FOOLISH SPENDING voc OF MONEY COMMON, «JUDGE DECLARES : ‘ F. Aunt the latter ad fooltaht 20 judge: spent their mone in ¢ “> WILSON, 60 TODAY, MISSES GOLF GAME - THE DOMINATION OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT CLIQUE. In the ’ er of the Lewis machine gun w ASHINGTON, De Presi his activities have all , Tau Ents yeu om pd lone up’ view he look the direction of whitewash been « sounge ng Crozier and the ordnance board ears young : Baker is becoming very popular ording to Dr. Cary Grayson with the Crozier crowd by doing resident's private physician 4 t ‘ ° * President Wils sver was in bet such things as indorsing the Ta bs : 7% : ; ‘ very lor system of stop-watch efficiency INTREAL, Dy Five men ‘ter health. Plenty of outdoor exer which congress has forbidden in| * Ned and six njured earl ef is what has kept him fit, Dr. ernment arsenals, and which |today in a rar end collision when Grayson says Crozier has fought for |the Canadian Pactfic Toronto train Myadey 4 oth eae VEL. ker also follows Crozier's rec é isual game of golf with Mrs. V . die is gt th ihe private |f0r Montreal ran into the local! som, and he spent the forenoon Ceaattiy indors private ! é : ee bite train from Cornwall to St. Poly-|\ quietly, with hope of an automobile Jcerpe. Owing to a heavy fog, it ide this afternoon supposed the engineer of the train fron nto either failed to the ADVERTISING MANAGER’S DAILY TALK or misread then HE merchant who advertises want your business and will appreciate it. He will make special efforts to such service you a | give you as will make of While crabs are known to have ©° lived for half a century, the average ‘ite of the oy but four years RETURN NONPARTIS PETITIONS TODAY! Y PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES pear in photoplays written by the) SEATTLE, © aniaiatiiiatmnisiaie OAL TLE, WASH., Tt MHURSDAY, DEC, 28 11K WEAUR IRIGIIMT ‘Seattle's best interests demand a com- Hete reorganization of the Chamber of Gommerce and Commercial Club, ‘No middle-of-the-road program will do, “The slate must a wiped clean. ‘There must be truly a fresh start. “Consolidation, in itself, ts not fictent, “The consolidated body must have new leadership in the people of Seattli have confidence. It has been lacking here- tofore. “A civic body, like a newspaper, mast have the confidence of the people, in order to be an influence for good.” i Oe ea The Star made the above statements before, It repeats them today on the heels of the news that a consolidation of the two clubs has been effected by the conferees. The union of these two bodies, with a complete reorganization and new blood in its leadership, is capable of the greatest substantial and lasting good to the city. The Star welcomes it—and again expresses the hope that mere per- sonal consideration for any of the old of- .ficers shall not stand in the way of the real success such a consolidated body can achieve suf- vhom Let’s finish the old year ‘and start the new one right, boosting for Seattle, all hands joined. < DILLING TO HEAD MERGER OF CITY’S BUSINESS CLUBS - apito sed ‘Thomas W Practically all detaile in the ' ' rm Wy ston,’ and consolidation plan of the me ote ’ ye are Chamber -of Commerce and tle " Tale a Ti Her bwe Commercial Club will be com Aor snet AR 5 tip from-one who’played pleted. today, according to nce ) Washington-Wall St. game members of the merger com ear s and the big interr sublicit mittees. > M ar game long defo Following two meetings Wed r entative in 1S cpough to distingu nesday, the committees met In p been affiilat. (Stock exchange ahd a ¢ again today to discuss the final 6) with ¢ spend less t draft of the proposed plan, in the ee , et on thi which will be prepared by Wor he 1 ee , to ht ral Wilson, of the Commercial ered a oe ndate Wall Str an Wash Club, and 8. J, Wettrick, of The ort merge ingto the Chamber of Commerc tee fn © acted “on There .were on xt 1, mil won't admit that he the at & o'cloc Reservations for the | th n to om sident of the solidated elu ‘ I ade thes And t tip. «ao, is tw t Is practically an assured fect t be ot later | te best of spirit Dilling has bee active in Com than | p 1 Frida Probe Would Scare ‘Em If it was actu ed in Washington there was to be a re: investigation o last week's leak there would not be in Mon 1 there ea hifting of bant m ar to those n the igar inves . tigation days Whethe r ne TOKIO, Dec. 28.—Fifty sur ch, tis feared, however, that card from vou ¢ vivors of the passengers and may hate frozen to dea rest ea n th wi crew of the steamer Sankaku, st dispatches wer your public. talkt re which was wrecked off Cheefoo, that there were 400 rted by the pre nd that when landed safely, according to a rew aboard the Sankaku when s ou digest newer, you will dispatch received today. The went ashore Today's advices ac-| know mor OU ashington-Wall survivors included two Ameri: count for only 50 Amer na{ Street ste rbling leaks than can passengers. A few Chinese Japanese and a “few Chine ,.| before yo trying to locate passengers escaped by boats to enger This homas W. Lawson, of Boston Dairen before the others left the accounted fo Wood Wants Full Probe Sankaku. Dairen) mention Tokio Vood said th at at not p has h : cable is believed to refer to Tairen,|Stited he could fot locate Lawson The fate of the remainder of the across the Straits of Pechili from | ° touch with him. He 400 passe # and crew who were Cheefoo, Tairen is a short distance | ®#¥8 he's taken it for granted when aboard the Sankaku when she went|north of Port Arthur, and about 75/'!@ Proper time comes, there will Pia no trouble in reaching Lawson by aground {8 not made clear GAS EXPLOSION 'BOMB-REWARD KILLS 5 PEOPLE TOTALS $8,50 the| miles from Ch The Seattle Star TO PRINT _THE NEWS| ON VHS ONE CENT TO HEAD COMBINED COMMERCIAL CLUBS Ex-Mayor Dilling INSIDERS MAKE. 60 MILLION ON PEACE “LEAK” WASHINGTON, Dec Over $60,000,000 war Wall Street by thor having advance information on the president's peace note, accord- ing to a telegram today from Thomas W. Lawson to Repre sentative Wood of Indiana Lawson's NEW telegra YORK ally? envelope cate me, re \desk is ar mas W. Lawson rt un interior town c anded at my Boston of f df short time Chairman Henry mmunicate with me. from any window in and getting a full statement from him on what he knows concerning leaks connected with the presi !dent's peace note. Wood furtger tt stated tion cast Law upon every member o nd senate” was sufficient Wswar rent the fullest inv yn ofall be matters involved in his fesolu vee SATAN EDI It may be cold on the street care but pretty hot some folks who t any Billings ley dough it's getting jEae NIGHT any BILLINGSLEY CONFESSES -] BIEGIN Tile, NiaW Wry RE INVOLVED, SAYS C. ALLEN Logan Billingsley, the. “brains” of the bootleggers’ ring in Seattle, today completed his confession to United States District At- torney Clay Allen, which not only involves him, his two brothers, the Jesse Hunt Moore company of San Francisco, but also a nume- ber of officials here. “Billingsley talked freely and of his own volition,” Allen said today. ‘To what ex- tent he has involved others, I cannot say.” Billingsley, who is under several federal indictments for violations of the interstate act against liquor shipments into dry terri- tory, was closeted with Allen for three hours late Wednesday. He w then removed to the] Billingsle has as yet been ar ree count ail, being still un-| rested to furnish the bonds of $13 Hesides Margett, Sergt. Putnam 500 requi of him and the following officers of the At 11 o'clock this ‘morning, he|@FY #quad testified before the aa eats % to Seattle by |srand jury G. Hasselblad and De wuty Marshal Fleetwood and im-|Patrolmen C. V. Harvey, W. We jate was taken to All s of- Morris, W. L. Bs J. 0, Revelle, P. Olsen, A. G N. Nelson, ©. Ford, A. Johnson, R. By ve min-|F4 Norman, F. "He J there only ff “4 ft the federal building | Colby and Bert Tvedt , Neither Fred Billingsley, © tl orted that he may | Billingsley nor William H. Pielow, have decided to induce his indicted at the same time as Logap jeré, Fred and Ora, to surrender, Billingsley, has as yet been a He ix to have another session | with Allen this afternoon Fred Celis, manager of the Plants While the books and records of /¢'8’ hotel, and Fred W. Varneiig the Jesse Hunt Moore Co, show |“0ck agent, were witnesses bag : the grand jury that Billingsleyy had bought ap- |‘? 3 ie Pent 470,000 - pei The Billingsieys at one 4mm whic stretched” with water and ™Ade the Planters’ hotel their head: © ran the total up| WéArters other ingredients, to approximately $200,000 when Billingsley sold he is today al °° MORSE QUITS: He is! Today STATE BOARD jooked rather haggard and pale It is believed that he wants to} a “clean breast of the whole ring and the graft that went) OLYMPIA, Dec. 28.—Frank G, heit.’ because the men whom Morse, republican member and ie had “ereased” failed to come | Chairman of the’state board of com thru with bail money for him trol, has sefit his resignation to” gt. Putnam's Gov. Lister, to become effective De ug stores and ware-|cember 31, The governor has a& a/cepted and is understood to have crimp in their bankroll. This,'practically decided ypon Morse’™ did not amount to any]Successor, but has not yet announG. protection” money |¢d his name. + ngsley, in his sy-going| That the appointment will not go alleged to have paid to va-| to a Woman is indicated by the gov+ ernor today in an informal opinion have been ar-|that the work of overseeing the 18 Judge Neterer yes-|State institutions ts harder wofle. yn. but this was post-|/than a woman is physically fitted for AID PETERSON FUND Billingsleys put ious officials Billingsley fore was afternoon . is represented in the by "Wwitbur Cum mings, of the firm of vaiiervon: & Cummings relic KB. J. Margett, former Seattle po-| Further contributions to the fund iceman, who is under indictment in| for the Peterson family, which was another Hquor ca was one of the] visited by a disastrous fire last chief witnesses before the grand} week at Alki, are as follows: Maine jury Wednesday, It Is believed that | $4; A Wanderer, $1; A Read. he “squealed” on Billingsley. r, Cashmere, $5; Henry Brown, Margett was suspended from the force last fall when he is alleged | to have tipped off Clarence Gerald a raid was planned by Ser am and the dry squad ter he was arrested in a ware spondence showed | | clothing that Putn I house, and corre him to have man active bootleg. ger, his business beingeconducted with the Jesse Hunt Moore com pany of San Francisco, the same firm with whom Billingsley dealt Thi orning, wh Billingsley wa bre to the istrict attor ey's of he met Margett there Hello, Margett said Logan, Pleasantly Hello, Logan Margett replied That was all that wa said be-| Reside: Margett, Sergt. Potnan and he following officers of the Ty “1? dry squad. testified. before. the} @ The Chinese handig grand jury, G. Hasselblad and Pa-| over the little carved ivory trolmen ¢ V. Harvey, W. W. Mor ! bo th a I d ris, W. L. Bayh, J. O. Revelle, N.| DOX—Men he ropped Nelson, C.F. Dinea:A. @. Ronda) dead. Ferris, young Los orma ohnsor i Co | 2 — . and Bert Tyat ‘| Angeles attorney, had fis Neither Fred Billing sley, Oro | | nally come into poss Bilt W Mie 1. Piel pos ession Indtoted at the same tine ae Logan | Of the strange jade it Camm tained. @ Was HE a | j Bring in your Nonpartisan petitions to headquarters, 3107, yoUNT HOLLY, N. J. Dee. 28.| SALT LAKE, Dec, 28—-With tion and that the senate and house markedy for | permanent customer of |} wea : WT Gap de aelireapes AT 1 Be pe r | Arcade building. Even if it contains only one name, be sure) —An acetylene plant in the cellar reward of $8,500 offered for arrest | OU t yb dniiios should insist on DEATH? ; | his store. iN iy Feeethe iit of the Madison hotel exploded at/of the plotters who sought to blow) ¥ qt foll thi " | 4 ‘ Wl ; ‘ ‘ 11:30 today, destroying the bulld-|up the home of Gov. Spry Sunday 10- TER oO ollow his myS- lg Be a gir * Xe : the petitions mu si lay vey must be filed | jag the no. [Reht by means of an infefnal ma |SUB CHIEF SINKS terious tale of crime, gget | Seattle’s best stores ap- with the city registration clerk by evening There were 28 persons in the ho ning, an army of governr ’’ ar nee ; ‘ ; i ne time, 23 of whom have Bat vernment 9 . Monday’s Star and_ start | pear regularly in The |} There is no time to delay. Tomorrow will be too late, tel at tan ‘ein fauned the oth, [cret service agents; city detective 138 SHIPS; HONORED 108 "ANGELES, Dec 28.—Deny ant he t Star 4 | Every name ints—and it may be that your petition jer five have been killed deputy shertite “and <netvate del’). cotemniat pen seelsicas tinea Crolas, Bid selene pt 8 - F ' } Foes dg Shy ‘ : STE » Dec, 2 Subma- kDayvic ‘plan, convicted of mar “ ” by is he | contain just enough names to make the eampaign for non-| rm inj rd Phaetital in the Bur’ tectives, ## running down every| rine Commander Valentiner of the |slaughter in connection with the ‘THE GREEN SEAL ay = Raitnaciehin succeastil ington coun pits lew German navy has been degorated | Los Angeles Titres dynamiting in Gi PARRY ay 1. Bae MORE THAN 60,000 COPIES |f|° "The petitio auires at le 32,( . aa C An expert on explosive will] with the order pour le mefite for [1910 Superior Judge Wood sen pits a ove s DAILY The petition requires at least OO signatur everal] peropianes, ready for delivery,!make a complete examination of|hix exploits In iking 188 ships tenced Caplah to 10 years’ impris:| Charles E. Walk, comple {thousand are still hy 3ut there are 1,000 petitions out in arg on sale in @ Broadway (New)the infernal machine found at the] with a total of 282,000 tons, accord-fonment today. This is the maxt-| ; 3 ; ES Oe ee circulation. Bring them in. And hurry! York) store. governor's home: ing to Berjin dispatches, ‘mum penalty. in six issues of this Paper. — ' ° 4 fr , pad a ee