The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 23, 1917, Page 1

NIGHT EDITION “Total Prohibition Gets the O the Mouse Committee,” newspaper headline. If it's O. K. for the bone dry law, it must be K, O. for booze, The weather man says Tonight and Wednesday partly cloudy,” Temperature 6 a. m., K of Says RRR nnn 38; noon, 42 annem VOLUME 19. SE BT TLE, WASH, TUESI ‘Putnam Testifies in Graft * * y pk. P. V. ALLEN FACES THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE * THAT DARES “TO PRINT THE NEWS JAY, JANUARY 23, 1917 * WI WILL SEATTLE PERM PORTLAND T0 OUTDO IT IN TOURIST RATE CASE? PORTLAND HAS SUBSCRIBED ITS SHARE OF $2,000 TO THE TOURIST RATE FUND, WHILE SEATTLE HAS BEEN eer UlLy WAITING” FOR THE LEGISLATURE TO There must be no further delay. only $1,000 thus far. $1,000 at least. No one thing is as important to the Northwest as equitable tourist rates. For years Southern California has had an advantage over this section of the ntry because it cost less for the tourist to go from Chicago or some other wn point to San Francisco by way of Los Angeles and Southern California by way of Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, Portland or any other point in the Nothwest. It cost $17.50 more to go by the Northern routes than by the Southern foutes, altho the former is a shorter distance. The tourist, confronted by the excess charge, naturally would choose the route even tho it was hotter and less comfortable to travel over in sum- mer than the Northern route. THOUSANDS OF TOURISTS Seattle and the Northwest thus fost thousands: of tourists. Restaurants, hotels, steamship companies, merchants of every kind, 9 trade that built up the city of Los Angeles We bave trips We have the climate b We have tte scenery Alaska with which the tourist should be familiar oli always had every means of attracting the tourist--EXCEPT 7 WASHINGTON Grawal of Gen. Mexico is This city has contributed By noon tomorrow, there should be another And now we hate th BUT WE MUST FIGHT TO RETAIN In other words, we must prevent the Southern Pacific fis appeal from the decision of the interstate commerce and C. A. Reynolds is the attorney we m GAVE HIS TIME AND LABOR When The Star planged into this fight, a year ago, there was only @be who had sufficient confidence in the case to take it up and WIN it ‘That man was ©. A. Reynolds, former chairman of the public service commission. He took the case, without charging any fee. He made the fight for Seattle and the Northwest—-and he won it His complaint, on behalf of the le of this state and Oregon, was heard+by the interstate commerce nm, and the order was final Iy issued to remove the rate discrimination on February 15 next | Seattle and the Northwest we ightily tickled when news of this great victory ca: but it was a litt emat sikas Sealey’ s rath the bark ern Pacific Railway Co. filed se pp wmcina beaches Ses ment $15,000 from the McGilvra e NEED $5,000 FUND a ES ait = LEAK PROBERS GO | INTO WALL STREET contrary to pulation, any ruling to remove the rate discrimination, THAT DECISION Jan With Pershing’s forces and. way outposts have already been in and the general move t northward toward the bor r will follow immediately, it was from winntn: 23 pission ast secure. Th rawn jast ch ro dition to get Villa is being s still at large ciry To BUY ISLE | saed the ordi on. Villa Anna Percival From left to right, Mi Marie Danielson and “Or.” TL Allen A petition for a urged 000 be r The expenses and legal ously on this job until it court, if ped b The Ch money nis purpose The legislatu Meantime, allroad was busy Northwest had no one there to r Accordingly, the interstate quest of Southern P: Fates will not go into e' that a foe 1 continua ve ne any In the and the for « ve at Wash ngton, D.C esent it the new tourist comme commission gran until April 2. hen The Northwest has ordered to reply to the failway for a reopening of the case by February 23 PORTLAND HAS PROMPTLY ANSWERED BY SUBSCRIBING $2,000. WILL SEATTLE DELAY ANY LONGER? If, by any chance, the legislature should appropriate! the necessary money to hire Reynolds, any morey con- tributed by individuals would, of course, be returned. In the meantime, however, Seattle business men cannot take any chances. They must subscribe at once. Send your subscription to The Star or to Manager Bass of | the Hotel Frye, treasurer of the tourist fund. Men Would Be Courted at Inaugural Ball of City’s Women Officers UMATILLA, Blushing males flowers and the their brothers’ shoes (figuratively) if the inaugural ball, in honor of wome officials of Umatilla folks sug ific good ethics Noble sald as you put and then pine. of the ex xplained been BY CARL D. CROAT fanythin U. P. Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Jan. 23.—After hinting at possible congres. sional action to prove “con certed” bear drives on the stock market, Attorney Whip ple of the house leak note com mittee today called for stock exchange clearing house rec ords for the period of Decem ber 10-23. He also called for all New York brokers’ records for the same time, along with names of their big customers. President Noble, of th rom d delivery house records threatened the committe into every house tn th |city if the broker records were not produced petition of the Streik pring n of that hod Anaconda, the General Motors Reading and mentioned as { pecuilative heerin Steel Ma wil Union ym) rine | lys-Overiand | Pacific nent were tock then stock dd ea afternoon ses arney eral ‘ probe, was on hand sion to testif, Baruch, times =m plunger, in the witness, ntic stock of Whippl ex ad on the again CHARGE PUBLIC SERVICE BODY A FOE TO PEOPLE : to send broker Hunt Big Speculators Whipple wanted to sift out big speculators in his hunt for sible beneficiaries a leak on President Wilson's note to belliger Jents, After much discussion, Noble |promised to take the request up | with the governing board of the ex change forthwith Noble himself had held there was nothing immoral or unethical]! OLYMPIA, Wa an, 23 in creating a pool fund with which |Jones em ney bill, to increase a selling movement.¢ing $88,000 to the pt tarted by bad news. Most of the |morning se was taken ABC New methods the Ore, Jan 23. will be the wall girls will wear Th Ne appropriat ADVERTISING MANAGER’S DAILY TALK iblic service next place a grec ission for railroad valuation the senate today there has been public officials mon Landon of King tack on the com recalled that $80,000 in 1913 for val jcomm raised a lesson in Declaring torm in that Promoter York project ropo sof the “inaugural ball think it would be ap- ) much as the women’s " & its sessions di bod had President Jexchange as its first He at questions man{pula to raise or lower the market oda in (a no other | who squan¢ th useless! here, red people nator count led the |mission. He ppropriated | uations And not accomplished raise telephone lic Noble of \For Your Own Profit ads DAY. issue, ain the very would ing or ticket lambasted all the men can¢ dates—for those of the gentler sex to do the inviting, | They suggest men houra |" Eee Ased earde on aiteon stem House May Consider It cae achanae aad Git hekalvaly rings | He had read about such move hunches waiting to be, asked to | ments to lower prices, but had no ne “neg ane ee ee ? | personal knowledge of such things. Wate, " Asked whether he had investigat Other Umatillana favor a regu rumors of “preconcerted move safe and sane, old fashioned ball | ments 4 the V occur Mrs, Laura] py of city, | 78 witness, hied on the wi a single thing has been he said, “except to rates to the pub in The Star Don't miss a ause that propo- mea ngle might cont sition that Lt Senator Nichola added fuel to the flames when he declared that he had never known of any important wrobably in-| together Ting of the commission that had tends starting California this fF gaiting allot erable | benefited the public " recreation to’ > 1 against pa jon to raise rate contracts and charter said That 1s a question the house| ith the people, li ple fe : | Not Immoral st me Star Want Ad will disse it. down as to any, “immorality” or and get results. ,, ,esi@pnmason to depre: No. he had not indicated h mproper in men « market, handso at “* sald mayoress the arche ting absent. She nothing the knoe mi ing com mis out ngs obligations sald yet JAMES MURPHY, a n terda econd ng- | prevented,” he har 2 ; Leal ion amiate trial for time on ali MORE THAN 60,000 DAILY COPIES charge of arson alleged throw ng of a bottle of phosphorous, ac cording to the complaint, thru a g' window of Pier 2, last August 17, Pinned there was JAIL BREAKER IS BROUGHT BACK TO STAND TRIAL HERE! recessed for| | | | “Or.” Percival V. Allen re. turned to the Sea’ city jail Tuesday from Hemet, Cal., in custody of Detective G. A. Bergstrom, to face a charge of murdering his wife, who was formerly Mise Anna Marie |, Of Minneapolis. wae eDes Alten from the King county jail with Harry Ga ner, a member of the Gorlila ickpocket gang, where he was serving a year's sentence for living “Unlawfully with Miss Danielson. Allen's whereabouts known for several weeks. was recognized by a H and the Seattle authorities fied Detective Bergstrom sai Tues- day that Allen was an ideal pris oner during the 12 days travel, and | that he was the perfect gentleman | tbat all his women victims describ. ed him Women His Victims Allen, Whose mania to brea) down the moral reserve of women! and wateh them imb to his blandishments, refused to discuss | with newspaper men his escape or murder charge, other than to} Sesion his ignogence He admitted to hig guard during the journey Northward that he was | guilty of an indiscretion with Mins | Danielson before he wed her at} Tacoma, but said he did not kill her, | He said he left Gardner on the} night of the escape and had reen nor heard of him since. than this he refused to ta was calm and while bor Allen denied that to join another wife, living in Los Angeles. He was employed ag a barber when arrested Faces Prison Charge Allen faces one of the strangest poison mysteries on record Thrice married, twice divorced, and a figure in many a love affair Dr.” Allen met Miss were un when he net officer noth was not | Other but biase being he went South | cisco boat By the time the reached Seattle, he love. He obtained a marriage cense, but was arrested by the a thorities before it was learned that a return been made on the license hort time later the woman very mysteriously at| the Sh apartments | Her de: med due to the ef. rts of a subtle poison. But the} | autopsy failed to reveal this, Later | Miss Danielson's relatives star an investigation, which revealed slight traces of strychnine in her system Allen couple had won ee fore a sinst him. tor Helsell Allen soon caped b charge was filed Deputy Pros would talk to murder | sald he 69 DEAD IS TOTAL IN LONDON BLAST : | LONDON, Jan -Sixty-nine persons were killed, 72 seriously | injured and 328 slightly hurt in the | explosion of a munitions plant “in | the neighborhood of London’ last | Friday, according to official figures | issued today, This, it was said, is believed to a complete list of casualties URGE MILITARY ROAD OLYMPIA, passed a joint ve Jan, 23.—The memorial to con gress today, urging that body to hulld a military road along the Pa- cific Coast from Canada to Mexico, senate Danielson | ral months ago on a San Fran-| | the | questions PPP PPL LPL LALLA LLLP PDP DLL ONE CENT ON THAINS The Seattle Star Flags are at half-ma Frederick Gilham As day, Seattle extends its Capt tragic theatre fire of the man who died in NEWS STANDS AND % BACK UP «BNO TORY Sergt. V. R. Putnam, dry squad head, Is believed to have verified portions of the Billingsleys’ story of how they operated here without molesta tion from the police during late months, when he went before the federal grand jury Tuesday morning He carried a small black leather bag into the jury room, in which it is believed were the private records, which he put into a safety deposit vault when Logan Billingsley told The Star he depended on the Gry squad trader to verify parts of his confession. Putnam's records consist of daily reports, which show his major movements every day since he sumed charge of the dry squad If Sergt. Putnam's testimony lowed the lines Indicated by L Billingsley in his account of opers tions to The Star, it is believed it will strengthen the government cate against Mayor Gill and Chie! police fol tha Pitpaun was sent when big shipments were Mayor Gill and Chief Beckipgham denied that this was th Assistant Attorney General Clar ence L. Reames, who is now h dling the me nt witnesse in t nied Putnam into th Testimony Follows Conference He held a conference with Put nam at the federal building Monday afternoon. Logan and Fred B on hand again Tue port was current again be called jurors lingsley day, and the re that th would w witness, w appea iff Harry C. Bish of Clallam county. It wa derstood that he nee in minor county with the n ° was Sh liquor cases of to do nvesti hi and has nothit booze-graft | gation D ty Sheriff Dave k Madden and Allen Star corridors of the federal Former Boyd, Jac were in th building That it would be at least 24 hours more before the grand jury would announce any de. cision was a current predic- tion around the federal build- ing. Minor the inquisitors nd the county former Deputy Boyd and heard Assistant Attorney ¢ erce J, Reames spent }noon conferring with Prosecutor Alfred Lundin, Sergt. Putnam of the dry squad, and the Billingsley brothers Capt. Foster of the government secret service office here was be fore the inquisitors Monday after [noon with evidence against F. 6 | Nisbols, who was arrested Sunday - SENATE IS ASKED TO DEBATE WILSON MESSAGE MONDAY cases were presented afternoon including Sheriffs Dave Madden, were not Monda witnesses, Jack eneral Clar the after | world—“the friends of humanity,” hold temporal power—depends Europe is to be based upon “equality” a today } * * & FLAGS ATHALF MA st in Seattle today, in honor who met death Saturday in th he is being laid to final rest to warmest sympathy to the family, ON DUTY all honor obe } E MURDER CHARGE oa GALLED TOWILSON MESSAGE WINS APPROVAL OF COUNTRYMEN By R. J. WASHINGTON, Jan. safe trom future aggression. This regarded today prompted President Wilson address before the senate. The president is now w nouncement is received by pates objection. But he fee first note to the warring pov jhas time to seep into the mi 1S lof the peoples concerned, it will appeal more strongly, | He believes it will add mate “*\ peace discussion. admission that he! silent mass of man kind ywh which have as yet unable to “speak their real shows, it is believed president expects Jed support for his His frank speaks for the ever been hearts whe the n e the , | Program Considered Message Carefully ~The president did not prepare his address suddenly. On portions of it be had worked “f many days.” Many WANT STATE 10 ® OWN ALL WATER POWER SITES OLYMPIA, Jan. 23-—Turn all the great water power re- sources of the state of Wash- ington over to the people to own and operate for the best use of the communities in which they live! Condemn all the advan- tageous water sites in the state —whether privately owned or otherwise—for public use! | This proposition was flung into ring Monday in the form introduced by six of the insurgents” representing Tacoma and Spokane ‘obably the most far-reach of legislation that will ‘ore the 15th legislature. prepared ty King county and spon-| Landon of King, Johnson | and Phipps of Spokane, rehild | and Davis of Pierce. | Up to Voters in 1918 In the neficial use | of water for irrigation, mining, | manufacturing, domestic and gen eral industrial purposes is declared to be for public | Turning the entire water r ces of the state over to the it ates ‘a water utility munict pality—a municipal corporation It puts the proposition up to the vote of the people at the general election in 1918 The powers of the water munici pality, the bill profides, would be administered thru'a water utilities commission of five membe to be elected by the peopl ‘or of the as he has voiced! leading Seattle It is 7 piece bill Nichols sored by was of neasure the use our WASHINGTON, Jan, 22.—Serr- COAL BARGE CALLED ator Cummins offered a resolution today asking that the president's address to the senate be brought up for discussion by members of senate Monday Senator Cummins stated it would the senate to any official) action on the involved in the presi dent's message until the president submits plans for entering into the yeace tribunal to the senate 'JITS TO BE TAXIS IN PORTLAND SOON for be take impossible land jitneys are going to be regular taxicabs after next Sat urday, according to the scale of rates announced today by the Drivers’ union They will charge 5 cents for 15 minutes, and 5 cents for each five min utes additional. Under this ar- rangement the buses can oper ate, disguised as taxicabs, and thus dodge the law against jit- ney: The average run is made than 15 minutes. | beal, DIVER FOR TIME LONDON, Conn Jan barge, which liked better than the Thames, resumed its dawn today when ed there was abso. of trying to be merchant submarine | When the barge night rumors of the arrival of the I schland, or even a larger submarine, were flying} thick NEW A big outer icy coal harbor shores of the real identity it was discov lutely no the German Deutschland anchored last HAS FOUR CHILDREN. Ha has } dry we for a man who} experience driving a lam ‘on, but will be glad to cept any kind of He has a wife and children dependent on him. H If you know of a job, let M, Gray 1110 Seventh ave, know, You can reach him by calling his neigh- bor, at Main 1117, any one work work? four Bender 23.—Upon Liberals of the not individuals who whether peace im and rendered conviction whi¢ epoch-making the ver his y as to del aiting to hear how his Pro- the belligerents. He anticie® Is, as was the case with his = wers, that after the message nds of the governments and rially to the momentum of before. Such phrases as “goverm= ments derive all their just powers from the governed’—reecho from previous utterances in which he said lasting peace was only when powers of making war resi with the people, and not alone in select “ He has declared in the past foray league to enforce peace. He sug gested it most forcibly in his first i note to belligerents. The same ip true of his expressed belief that (Continued on page 6) ‘ENGLISH LABOR CHEERS WILSON MANCHESTER, England, Mention of President V name by G. J. Warder, in opening the conference of the labor party today was cheered for five noisy minutes The ovation was spontaneous, thie” here | presiding officer intending only the mention of the American briefest I stions HEALTH HUNCHES Nightmares, which often dis turb the busy workingman, can be avoided easily. Get a Job nights and sleep days. |The Laughing Glow of Dazzling Sunshine Brought No More Joy Than Did Lucy Price Tn Che unique novel a story that is and different from any it has thus far published in a long list, including many of the Star new offers PORTLAND, Jan. 23—Port- THIS MAN NEEDS JOB; | the best sellers “Polly Staff,” the Emma, of Hospital by Cc. Dowd Meet Polly in and the nurse, Lucy Price, next’ Monday Star. The novebappears con plete in six chapters, ending Saturday. i possible — groups of men.” ea