The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 6, 1917, Page 1

Are you reading the novel a week n The Star? You get, free of extra cost to you, the popular novels that sould cost you $1.50 to $2.00 other wise, A new one starts Monday The weather forecast: “Rain to. SEA 1917 VOLUME 19. URDAY, JANUARY 6, FIGHTING FACE CF CLAY ALLEN Bremerton Will | Build $3,000,000 Ship for U. S. The authorized $3,000,000 ammunition ship e fir ever built for the United States navy, w nstr 1 this yard, according to information obta rom Wa ion, D. C., late Friday, Commandant R ( t The ways and means for buil r ure | for in the 1917 navy bill n b ! expected t yard today for a tour of investigat "The award « is contract es tl ediction t be bec Bremerton is destine me ing yards in the country : j With approxim ropriate r the equipment of hip means that the govern ill in ‘ x the] next few years in the Puge ir 1 rt . ill go in wages PEACE LEAK IS LAID TO WALL ST. PAPERS, {Wall Street BY J. P. YODER Journal and Finanel: | U. P, Staff Correspondent America WASHINGTON, Ja‘ 6— re was a suggestion that the | Representative Gardner, Mase Journal of Commerce and New | achusetts, today supported his eke Con ns ’ resentatives | would be includec emphatic charge that there was a leak of advance Information | on the president's message by Gardner quoted the tieket report as follow reading a dispatch which was ‘The A wed se! «in the | sent out by the Dow Jones market Is due to a report recelved News Ticker service shortly %Y brokers’ private wires fre after 2p. m. of the day before Vashington to the effect that 4 the note was released for pub- - pine n Poe in the near fu dress to the be , some suggestions of regard to peace Nothing proposals Gardner made his declaration and read the copy of the news ticker’s report to the house rules Ueation. 1" | de obtainable om ¢ committee, when it reconvened, to|'" # istrat probe the charges of Representa Mind you.” said G er, “this tive Wood, that some one “tipped | Statement was made four hours be off” Wall St. and precipitated an| fore the news of the unprecedented downward price | POte Was Ki ut. = T movement on the stock exchange. | fToof of a Miracles don't go Suspicion of responsibility for a/ ©" at st a8 ex pyr hig Jeak on President Wilson's note to “alligerents today practically nar. d down to financial writers and embassies’ attaches abroad Subpoenas were issued for the entire Washington staffs of the |i prophets. tary Lansing’s rs on the Discussing statement to noon before th th e note was 1 t such a comm and that re in confi The above shows Clay Allen, U. S. dtstrict attorney, in action. See the set of the jaw and the pursed lips He's the man who as a number of bootleggers. jeneral at Washington, D. ©. ent rs and would were being tol NEW OFFICERS if they are presented, against Seattle officials, as well | will handle indictments, unless his request today for a special prosecutor is granted by the attorney Har parently other TOBE ON JOB ie" ALLEN GIVES GILL 3 MASKED MEN r 1 “A, Curtis,” old him about all Monday will see several {010 him aban al TARENTUM, Pa, Jan. 6—A Changes at the court houses [rioity and the reat of vester bank messenger and his While at the same time the 15th | eee tee ood a ia oc’ had tak ie ‘$9,000 to the Fla legislature will convene at (© es a 1 4 offices to rt the Olympia. arg agg vt For eacressed —_—— ig payroll: ware HOLA Gp Lists County officers elected in = ravage agli %,” but ha U. &. District Attorney Clay | part I donot careto presume to |ronved by three masked men to November will begin the new [TPCT Ti ne eri nink you should Allen Saturday issued a brief | do so. What action the grand da term Monday. have made inquirien as 10 who this| formal statement giving Mayor jury may contemplate, or any na ; Gov. Lister's second inau “4 eongghy gach tet Malte Gill a clear field for speculation ich ‘ tor the | will take place Wednesday syed bey ed Harrison, “in| ag to what action the federal ena bAyact ge ag Pad sd bt me the holdup ocenrred are no changes in the state offices hat you den grand jury will take next Tues. | O%0e., . ” y n Sixth ave, near the Pennsyl In the county offices, Lou Smith eeaation of day on the confessions made by | : earacbenie’ "Ve py | SAni® station, and Claude Ramsay replace Lafe B Qhestion of pe Logan Billingsley and his broth. | The atatemne » Hamilton and M. J. Carrigan ae 5 BE ° ers about the operation of the Allen for publication since the in- eee aps Nuk ded a re commissioners. Ramsay will prob ¢ nd that the letter Seattle “booze ring.” phy haan vaca decay te bie. |Gasioe SOM witaalie ia’ otior ck bly be chosen chairman ba se : His state t followed announce: | tha ey Bad talk reely to him,/ ciation will mingle cigar odors al John Stringer succeeds Bob|, He said he understood Curtis’ in-) ent that he Ired to the de-{and that if their stories could be|a dinner in the Frye hotel next @ as sheriff, Percy Thomas is) fFMation was based upon state-| 14 of justice 11 Washington |substantiated they revealed “shock-| Monday night at the opening of a . 5 me of ¢ ers g condition three-day convention r ew county clerk, Norma mi other king for a special prosecutor aa| ing con Wardall Yaa Sew ‘auditor, fam ide whom did you confer be- | 44 he read In The Star Mayor | ———— aes ete nr | Humes the new engineer, Dr. C. c,| fre Introduet the resolution?” | (41) to ask Senator J. Ham . . made eofoher asked Harrison, but the question ;, chelannointeh, | the K t . ee tne DEW corer was riled out Levis to) ot imono heceptions at {ras then that Harrison made “4? Mr. Gill chooses to antic! | " >) : the flat statement, in answer to a f pate the actions or investiga A t povensiaine wanscans [weston hevermaive cane £2 Wyte tate | re Recounted in DAILY TALK ell of Kansas that he thous he is at perfect liberty to talk there was a leak, “and furthermore | as much as he likes, For my t went thru representatives of the Divorce Testimony financial journal DS ERLE ILD i Wha’ I It was brought out that Wood did } ey Tn Doi “1 6—Rus | The Russian count developed | ng not try to get in personal touc ; NEW YORK, Jan p with Curtis, but bad merely writ i MISS GREY ON sian counts, ftallan tenors, | when Miss Marlowe related a 10 H\ten him, asking him to furnis VACATION French mashers and other men OME TOLIGK Ahetana ate facts. Wood said he had received friends ¢f “Mrs, ‘Robert Bee tis id t ‘ oP ia ‘ - aiiiesg Nolker, with calls on late ris olker paid to the n bleman’s t is answer ‘: many similar anonymous letter Cynthia Gre « taking a Ajurtment in the Hilfmore hote etwietiiy mm ihe ade ince the resolutions were intro- ) week's vacation. No letters will Ing gentlemen, receptions tn. | ot round. I noni st edad ; Auaee ; 5 iad duskik ter alaenee kimonos and such endearing id, found bin According ; { we Oe Bat oR phrases as “chicky” and “dar. | to Mis ever, he re Clemmer ent i le she 1 fing,” all. figured prominently \celved the two ladies just the W ceolve prompt atte indy e and eve ee ) LOVEBERRY FILES away poslve prtipe ntten Men ta Wearinde in NaIKar® me an 1 Mss Jump t c it of bed { tion er return, Monday, to have endly struggle with 1 it against his wife 6 ( January 15 divorce suit ag Mrs, Nolker, seeking to regain his FOR COUNCIL JOB '...-.-.-.- navs| The relator, for the most watch, which Mrs, Nolker. had part, was Miss Albertina Mar- dropped down the bosom of her NO WOMAN OR BOY lowe, 17, who, as “baby” Mar- — waist and which he sought to fish George W. Loveberry, owner lowe, a few months back had | yp of the Manly and R nier sta a bad spat with her friend and The French masher figured SHOT SAY TEUTONS The Seattle Star ee |THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS | in} Pes-'told hin what bles, is the latest aspirant to companion, Mrs. Nolker, after |un episode in Paris, where Miss | She) Ottiae ior Oy caunellinan RERLIN, via Sayville, Jan. 6 Mrs. Nolker had charged ner | \arlowe said Mrs, Nolker was also He filed Friday Abaoiutel auivde was the ‘de with stealing $1,000. present, Mrs, Nolker insisted or Loveberry has lived in Seat tal veninteved: by tha press bur It was the Italian tenor—a man, talking French to some. gallant tle 20 years, and his home is at || eport published in for-;named Guido Clecolint, Miss Mar- near-by until her husband thre so © ign pt that a woman and allowe sald—who, the witness as him-—and then the wife upbraid if ey ld boy ft been recently |serted, had remarked to her once ed butt Y a8 big Dutah St. Loui \ s t . ir eln, Belgium. when she found Mrs, Nolker and boob” who thought he was “a man ORE THON. 0.000 COPIES HF) Cr ece ma en 1 vie tate the A woman had been Aly ed to i Pease pe that “the only ain in|of the world.” Nolker is president - soba snows near Alder. have practically |death on conclusive evidence, but|thix sort. of thing les in being jof the Aero club of St, Louis — given up hope of finding them alive, | was pardoned. }found out.” itimony was given before a referee. LAST far, Chief Beckingham takes first prize in the booze graft inter view c He said Bunk! Bunk!" Almost as good “Tut, tut.” EDITION ontest as oN news ONE CENT MAY INDICT LOCAL OFFICIAL LUNDIN DENIES HE GOT ENOUGH EVIDENCE ‘Mayor Admits He May Have Been Mistaken as to Helsell Being There Developments came fast Saturday in the airing of the federal prosecution of the Billingsley bootlegging ring following Mayor Gill’s statement in The Star Friday. That these developments may lead to indictments being re- turned against Mayor Gill, Chief Beckingham, Sheriff Hodge and a score or more police officers, when the Billingsleys’ confessions are presented to the grand jury next week, was predicted today. United States District Attorney Allen asked for a _ special prosecutor to present the Billingsley evidence to the federal grand jury next week but had not received a reply from Washington. Prosecutor Lundin and his deputy, Frank P. Helsell, denied portions of the mayor’s interview relating to the surrendering of evidence to the Billingsleys on August 29, the day that the mayor gave his approval to the dismissal of all city charges against them. Helsell denied having been present when the agreement was approved by the mayor. The mayor later said he might have been mistaken, that Chief Beckingham said he was mistaken, and that he would ask Helsell. Lundin told how the city’s agreement to drop the Billingsley cases followed his flat refusal to agree to a similar proposition made to him by Logan Billingsley and his attorney, George Van-_ 'derveer. Lundin told how he had issued a subpoena for the letters from the Jesse Moore-Hunt Co. of San Francisco, to Logan Billingsley, when he learned from Vanderveer and Billingsley that the city had agreed to drop charges against the Billingsley brothers and return to them their correspondence. « He also said that even before the subpoena was issued, call- \ing on Chief Beckingham and his secretary, Charles Sullivan, to produce the Billingsley evidence in Judge Gordon’s court, he had had the chief’s word that that evidence would be held for use in | prosecuting state cases against the Biilingsieys. When asked if he had been quoted correctly in Friday's... ie aa answere¢ t | Jesse oore- t Star, the mayor said {was not,- ‘We'll es tag ‘Spe Billingsler vent ona “Yes. My recollection is that We went together to po How did you know it existed?® ” Frank Helsell was there, at the c kaunen rea sha tdand the? Putnam. Ma: ab “ ciate ds Rien Bhd Ra Se qua nd nd itnam had shown me every chief's office, had been thing after making the seizure.” was turned over, as | said in Pha: conver eneeatekh enka’ Gamblers Pay Big the interview. Charlie Bec he-had not been notified of the is aft money amounting to $18 ingham teils me I'm byt uance of the su is alleged to have been paid Maybe | am. — I'll go up anc Prosecutor statement /over to a clique of police officers ask Helsel! ae al ' one backed up Helsell’s November 1 by gamblers, accord- : Helsell was not present during is is supposed to have been there then or not " t lera here then I on the laliewed [bemotationa: Gr ween uncovered by federal inspectors, Deion ae neg to Allen, Were turned back to aid to have been working for se¥> laiuect wait Hides a lone Il On the eral months, but whose jurisdiction 2 ' ss ea an atiaied does not extend to this matter. of police and 4 + igh Another story is that every bare an “collecto ‘ fa 5 | of Billingsley liquor was taxed and Chief Rec om A or graft money, paid a clique of Alien Asks “Special” : policemen District Attorney Clay Allen <n ‘3 The grand jury will convene nounced having carried the fight to|° It will probably take @ Washir s 2. C., oF ng for a week to examine witnesses, who, special prosecutor, as Gill threaten=| ||) Btn when 1 heard that the/®ccording to general belief, will be ed Friday to do sshed to{D-Peta might be turned. beck called by District Attorney Allen, sgieyeg afte Lundin Turned Down Logan | ed against the mayort™ he was ash ned they ed I'd nee this thing No. It didn't appea ary He referred to the, The mayor seldom evi federal grand jury, which will con-|dence in a criminal case | vene day Why did you issu ubpoena?”; ge Amounts Named Because Logan and George Van-| TACOMA, Jan. 6—Pierce county Amounts of cash payments a Gervenr i apie sit been tO) is voting at a special leged to have been paid by /see me shortly before this compro-| tie question of issuing Billingsley, accarding to his con-/mise in an effort to clean up state! ,onds, the money to be used in age fexsion amed in rumors Sat-|cases, He wanted me to drop sta sn ehhete ee tan Tt anid positively % <wax quirir a7 acre tract at Amer rday ; ph ican lake fc mobilization camp That Logan donated $1,000 to the | not.” of the United States army Borge carr Par iy ane Pet dead the subpoena ever serv-|" gecretary of War Baker Gam never bothered as a result, and | e agreed, if this land {s donated, to paid $4,000 to Mayor Gill’ at the VT don't know, It was turned) maintain onthe tract a division of time of the “clean slate” agree: lover to the desk sergeant at police) Monie troops, Which, atthe raf e of recitals | headquarters, as is the custom.” sy ne ment, was the substan recita 1 imum strength, would consist of of the confession in circulation. | Contradicts Mayor 670 officers and 15,000 enlisted | He is alle to have told federal! «Was it true that you had all you! men _ investigators that one of his bre wanted out of the pile letters ¢ ers paid various sums to ¢ and documents seized by the police,| THE U, OF W. glee club and Heckingham is stated by the mayor in Friday's! tango band gave a concert Fri 1 was not present when papers | star night in Meany hall, which was f were turned back to Billingsley No. The important thing was}lowed by an Oval club dance Helsell declared Lundin and Ujthe corr mdence between the/the gymnasium did almost everything to prevent —__—_——- — them being turned over Mayor Mistaken OVERLAND RED EAGERLY READ If the mayor means that T wa present during negotiations and nol otest against the deliv - : aga ga ‘ beet Klara’ at | Read the first It's human ery of what we considerec : ie dance he ig mistaken installment and and it's funny, I even got a subpoena from! you will read with a touch at Indge Gordon directed against Sec-| thru to the last with «toa retary of Police Charles Sullivan nA to prevent him from turning back ing. Then I told Sullivan ssued the evidence subpoena had been i His story be- Red’s a tramp Later in. the day | heard the ( gins Monday pilling had obtained the pa-| Poet, with a and ends Sat- pers before the subpoena had been | philosophy all urday in The served his own. 5 - Mayor Found It True Star. Then I went to Mayor Gill hud heard, ‘Are “OVERLAND RED”—STAR NOVEL NEXT WEEK, have been turned | you sure they Ss