The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 26, 1917, Page 1

SPOILS ORFAIRDEAL? The legistature squarely before it the question of eliminating unnecessary duplication in courses of study at the university. It will make for better training—and also save the state money. Wil! the legislature play politics or olay square? will t VOLUME 19. THE _ ONLY ‘PAPE \l 4 INDICT BOYS RIDE TO DEATH IN STOLEN AUTO” LOAN BANK MANAGERS DENY THEY DON'T TELL OF MEMBERSHIP FEE oo Wh of the building tioned in ously den agers of several aw hen wanted, or} ociations me t they would The Star Thuraday vigor 4 Friday that - mma wal or me There is nothing in to trom t have made inv knowledge of the « Under the law association a memt are also | rifles and by ors from withdrawing a three mont x case may This information, hc ver, given to all investors, the latt claim, and many of them have by induced to make deposits, knowing they would be unab! Women of Streets Ask ‘What’ll You Do. With Us?’ It Stumps Crusaders you trust in God when sho are $10 a pair and wages $6 a week?” She criticized ministers “who | Want to drive us women out of the estmer each savi loan ree ey ent laws to preve Northern association, change building against ow is not on not whom clients t nose to | were 1 oda SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 26 “| vice crusade was in full swing to- day, with the probability that May or Rolph and the police commis sioners will soon announce the ap | pointment of a commission of 25 to| conduct an investigation into con ditions. And meanwhile the ques tion of 300 Magdalenes was ring ing in the ears of the crusaders “What will you do with us?” + This question and the action Bigay of 300 women of the under world who caled on Rev. Paul Smith, at the Central Methodist * Episcopal church, and asked for a chance to “make good,” had a dis- tinctly sobering effect on the meet- fng of 5,000 people at Dreamland last night. Eloquent Spokesman The case of the women of the underworld was presented to the pastor in an address of remark able eloquence by Mrs. R. M. Gam ble, their spokeswoman, owner of a| house of shame “We find it impossible to ex ist on wages of $6 and $7 a week—the wage paid women in this city,” she said. “Most of these girls are daughters of poor families, nearly every one is a mother or has some one dependent on her. There is no more bad- ness in them than in any other woman; they are driven into this life wholly by economic conditions. rust in God at $6” “One of our girls went to a minister for help, and he told her to ‘trust in God.’ How can “Meet it Squarely” Has your ct and your church a different God that you drive evil away from your city and your | |church to other cities and other} churches?” she cried Why don’t you meet the prob- lem squarely and educate the grow Ing young to @ proper respect for themselves and for greens His confidence in his ¢ cru somewhat shaken, Row, Mr. mith replied that he was non plussed by the age-old question, He Cannot Answer “I don't believe I have ever been | sadder in Mfe than I am right} now,” he said You have asked me questions that have been asked since the world began. They are still unanswered. I cannot answer them.” He promised his personal aid to any woman who will leave the ten derloin life. | ‘URGES WELCOME : FORIMMIGRANT WASHINGTON Jan Re newed effort for Amer'canization of immigrant laborers and a more perfect jon of immigrant | population was urge today by Walter C. Piper, of the National! Association of Real tate Boards Det before the National Secur it here today. Piper advanced Detroit as the | r in Americanization movement” and as “the most Amer ican of American cities.” Detroit businessmen and manufacturers said, have joined in a deter red campaign to Americanize De. 4 60,000 nov-English- speaking ens | As a result of this campaign, he said hundred per cent more} applications for naturalization pa pers were filed in Detroit in 1916 than the previous year NICHOLS PROPOSES RULES COMMITTEE ELECTED BY SENATE OLYMPIA, Jical yew 26. assimila roit ADVERTISING MANAGER'S Leas ‘SATURDAY SHOPPERS troit one 26.—One the | Jan of most r teps in the history of was taken today when chols gave notice he will ntroduce a new rule Monday pro viding for the election of a rules committee directly by the vote Senator of the sens This m tall tion” or was taken to fore ipt by the “organi legislation in the rules committee appoint: | eut. Gov, Hart | kre an at to bury actionary ed by L = ! re MORE THAN 60,000 COPIES DAILY | Until 1874 the Japanese used to | vaccinate on the tip of the nose. FIND THEM BENEATH WRECK OF GAR A joyride to death in a stolen auto was the fate of two Seat tle boys early Friday morning. The bodies of Lee Erland, 714 25th ave. &, and Andy Dech: tel, 918 29th ave. S., were found pinioned beneath a car, which they had evidently driven thru the railing of a bridge on the Bothell road some time Thurs. day night or early Friday morn ing. A asserby ‘first ked auto, and af and ordered ht to Seattle » Hoense tag ¢ Hotel He that h front of the » police tanding tn hs i Dechtel was killed Inat antiy, it Is thought, when « steel bow In the auto top pierced his brain. Ertan died & moment after the car w Mfted off him. Both were badly crushed. | Police declared that thi# wns not) the first time the two youths had| appropriated autos, Both had been| arrested and sentendeed to formatory tor auto thefts. BIRTH CONTROL ADVOCATE SENT TO A HOSPITAL NEW YORK Jay, 26.—Mre Ethel Byrne, who haMflow been on ja hanger strike for five days, was removed from her cell to the hos-| pital on F kwell Island today This was disclosed in an official bulletin, regarding her condition, iswued by Burdette C. Lewis, com misstoner correction, in which it Was stated that Mra. Byrne was noticeably weaker. Authorities are receiving stant reports on Mra dition thru Dr, Irma prison physician. They declared that if Dr. Howard | feels at time that Mrs, Byrne} sho’ na be fed, food will absolutely | ° her, They did not desig method | bulleti ‘ her pulse temperature low normal mal limits ‘STEAMER ASHORE VICTORIA, B. C., Jan. 26.— Word was flashed to the city early this morninng that the | Prince John, one of the Grand Trunk Pacific steamers operat- ing from Prince Rupert to the Queen Charlotte Islands, was | ashore and taking in water fast | in Wrangell Narrows. S. 0. 8, calls were being sent out for help, but the exact lo: cation of the boat was not giv. | en. The message was picked up by several vessels in north ern waters and help is being rushed with all despatch, The vessel is principally a freight: | er tho she carries passengers. Whether there were any passengers | on the vessel could not be learned | at the local offices of the company this morning. Lincoln had left f the hotel car | Ke con. Byrne's con-| Howard, a hts t si atated pre that was moderately slightly be | respiration within nor-| | today lood sure in weaker \FRENCH SAY THEY REPULSED ATTACKS , PARIS. ks Jan, 26.—German at-| four points along the | front from Avocourt wood and | Deadman's Hill were by | the war office toda | repulsed heavy was stated rit | was stated, however, small detachments penetrated ad French trenches | the Somme at stopped artillery on reported with Near 04, It enem vanced Along two enemy tacks were by fire. | comfort Ino matter | within his power to rob misfortune jot muc h bitterne | thoughts {bilities by |to my \invalids who are worse off than I, R _IN ‘SEATTLE. _THAT | ‘DARES_ TO PRINT THE NEWS ; ? ONE CENT FRIDAY, TLE, WASH., JANUARY 2 ON TH ENTS RETUR INVALID “SUNSHINE LADY” SHAMES WHINERS BY PLUCKY CHEER IN FACING AFFLICTION Miss Mabel Long, “Sunshine L ady” * + 8 8 of Seattle, Taking Magazine Orders Over Her Bedside Telephone * * * * 8 HR & BY JACK JUNGMEYER en to chat , comfort pit then Are you a whiner, bewailing no right to grumble at/r lowe your tough luck? ife 1 asked her Consider the case of Mabel No Comfort in Pity ambition now Seattie’s “Sunshine Her es Klint and her voice I'd like most of all to go around ashamed of rings with the dauntless spirit of «| cheering up burdened hearts—bring girl whom adversity could not ing smiles to gloomy 8,” replied yetakah. jihe “Sunshine Lady” of Seattle | "Whatever you 0," she request ee ted, “don't write a sob story about Now, what was that me. When one begins - to take whining about? WILSON PLAN IS ‘SENSATION IS APPROVED BY — SPRUNG DURING failure 4 ave ighty « ut greates yourself, For eight Long, who is ed. For five years ehe lay on an invalid’s bed, motioni Prospects are that she wil! always be physically helpless. And yet, from her wheel-chair, at 7915 18th ave. N. W., she faces they Imarch of monotonous days with m valiant cheerfulness that has not only pulled the ating of her own af-| mee but has proven an In«pira-| nm to scores of other unfortunates. Had Health and Youth At 22 Miss Long was an attrac tive, ambitions girl, preparing to en-| ter the business world. She had) abounding health, a wide circle of | agra wee Enea a life rich} years Miss Mabel 30, hae not walk- YOU were SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 26.— The state created a sensation today in the trial of Thomas Mooney on charges of murder in connection with the prepar edness parade bomb outrage when it put on the stand a new witness, never before referred to who swore he saw Mooney, Warren Billings, Mra. Mooney and Israel Weinburg, four de fendants, together at Stewart and Market sts. a few min- utes before the fatal blast oc curred at that corner. MANCHESTER, Eng, Jan. 26.—The British labor party today adopted resolutions at its conference, approving Presi- dent Wilson's plans of an inter- national league to force peace atthe conclusion of the war, There was just one dissenting vote in the 700 delegates pres ent. SNOW STALLS 20 U. P. TRAINS, LARAMIE, Wyo., Jan. 26.—Bight] gave westbound passenger trains on the }Union Pacific railroad are held in the local yards here, and 12 east-| mysterk with bound trains are stulied near Medi-|tache five: bi cine Bow, Wyo., as the result of one! an autom whiet of the worst snowstorms in recent to years. Traffic east and west of | shortly before th Laramie is at a standstill, and rail ey, he said road officials declare the tieup is| running board holding the worst in the history of the road.| Aijtings and my Four snow plows are working be-| took it from and tween Hanna and Boulder, but the| Stewart st aid snow is drifting so badly that they| are practically useless or pos night spinal men- | ingitis struck her down, left her @ permanent invalid, partially paralyzed, and whitened her widowed mother’s hair with an- guish. For five years she did not rise from her bed. But this terrible living death did} ot crush the girl's amazing pluck The retarn from the paralytic’s bed to the wheelchair she sits in to-| day is the measure of her indomt-| table will—the ambition that would] not die. jecomes Magazine Expert She began taking magazine sub scriptions from her bed by tele phone, which friends had installed. As her strength gradually increas- ed, she established a business desk in her home, planned and organized her work more definitely, and came a “mingazine expert That was a little over two years ago Today Mabel Long has helped lift! the mortgage from the little home in Ballard, earns enough money to buy her own clothes, pays her tele. phone bill, has eased the burdens)" h neals are being served to sr widowed mother, and is as| evra, vat passengers aboard the stalled Preidiyy. 9 ubirrg as by railroad, and but » everything tummke for; ee” the Soanhare cast ata am aligh tdiscomfort has been felt so and happiness far. Whining Called Crime | It is because I regard moping ’ and whining as. crime against one QUAKE KN FELT self and others,” she explained with her infectious smile, “Every one, but 1] smile The witness was 8. C. Oxman, an Oregon cattle dealer. One by on he identified the Mooneys, Billings Weinburg as the four persons the ner and he a vivid description of the seene that ensued. With these four, he said, band he sow at fatal oc was a black m said, were rile ap Stewart be Moon the suit case man started along » expl was stan on terious Woe to Girls at Boarding Schools sidiens a girl WASHINGTON paint affected by Washington day was principals. Rouge, beauty pencils and lip sticks form ally expelled. With them goes the decolette gown that heretofore has permitted a full, unrestricted survey of shimmering — arms shoulders and vertebrae OSTEOPATH BILL BACK IN COMMITTEE Jan, 26.—War girls at exclusive finishing schools abolished by order ef spots, eyebrow how burdened, has it were a cheap optimist, power of Tam not know the Healing MONTREAL, Quebe very was recorded here about afternoon So far ks can be learn ed, no damage was done, as the Jan, 26.—A perceptible earthquake shock “Tho confined to my wheel-chair 9:48 tule indoors all the time—I manage to bear a share of the home responsi taking magazine sub-|iramors lasted 15 seconds seription orders over the phone. I don’t do this by making an appeal | 3 ‘aciitcuon. No one, T main] WILL NOT ABOLISH | : tain, has the right to flaunt his mis-| | ou YMPIA, an, The suB TREASURIES |" , Permitting osteopaths to prac bid for special considera: | | tice surgery, was finally sent bac to the committee on medicine, den Jan, 26.-—Sen-/| tistry, surgery and hygiene for fur might wish. Often it is almost | Str Norris’ amendment to the ex-|ther amendments after the house Vii couraging. But that gives me no| ecutive, legislative and judicial bill | debated it two hours Hebt to whine. 1 feel that the|t® Abolish the nine sob-trensuries,| Fred Hastings moved to postpone fault fe mid, hot thee beowlet, gcruae serena by a vote of 46 to 15) it indefinitely. fate'’s, I try to organize my poor talents so effectively that snecess wR inn 'ALLIES WILL BUY y manage le SHEEP IN OREGON pleasure out of life. deal I telephone PORTLAND, Jan Allied |for a mile on the «9 agents have entered the market for|the River AA (Riga couragement, | have interesting/ @regon sheep, it was learned today, | Kalmceo, following an obstinate talks with peddlers and agents who! Heavy are I made | battle with German forces, to the door and stop a fewl for shipment to Europe. official statement said, tion Organizes for Success “Often business is not as good as WASHINGTON consider: I read a great! daily to many to PETROGRAD, Jan, 26.—Russian 26. tern bank of hoping to give them a word of en sector) toward come NEWS STANDS 6 BRITISH LABOR + BOMB HEARING Gort | ‘SLAVS ADMIT LOSS forces were compelled to withdraw | today’s | NIGHT EDITION Every littie bit helps. Even a lit tle sunshine is welcome these days, “To- partly cloudy.” EH + and the weather man says night and Saturday he ANE NAMES SECRET AS MARSHALS G0 AFTER THEM Four secret and three open indictments | were returned to Federal Judge Neterer by |the federal grand jury at noon today, fol- lowing weeks of investigation into the rami- | fications of Seattle’s booze-graft scandal, as ~ |charged by the Billingsley brothers. | At the office of District Attorney Allen — |it was said that the indictments ay | minor offenses, and did not name any of the [seed “higher-ups” among Seattle offi- \cials. Three Chinese—Ah Sing, Ah Lee and | .|G. Shung—were named in the open indict- ments for alleged infractions of federal laws. | The identity of the other four named ii ‘the sealed documents will not be di ‘ until their arrest has been made. | Warrants were immediately placed in |the hands of the United States marshal. The grand jurors reported to Judge Neterer at 10 a. m. and immediately after ‘roll call retired behind closed doors. Witnesses who had been subpoe-| ~ PEACE NOTE ON HIS BIRTHDAY, noon The list included Jack Aden former county jailer under ex-Sher- iff Hodge; William Chadwick, taxi and transfer man; M. W. Palmer chauffeur for Chief Reckingham [Deputy Sheriff Allen Stark, Patrol man J. O. Revelle, former member of the dry squad, and Roy Alden {newspaper reporter, LONDON, Jan. 26.— That Logan, Fred and Ora Billingsley Kaiser Wilhelm plans to make remained in the corridors thruout, his 58th birthday tomorrow the the afternoon, but were not call occasion for another peace | E. J. Margett waited all day for) move—with more acceptable a conferen with Assistant Attor- terms to the entente—was re- ney General Clarence L. Reames. ported today from several It was generally believed that the; sources. long-drawn-out probe bout to| The nearest thing to an official close. A small crowd remained in| hint of this plan was read in the the federal building and waited to Speech made yesterday to the Hun- see if the grand jury would report, arian parliament by Count Stephen at 5 p.m Tisza, the Hungarian premier. But the “We are inclined to continue a further exchange of views regard- ing peace with the United States government,” was the way the pre mier put it More than usual significance was attached today to this intimation, in view of the fact that Count Tisza supposed to have been one of the premiers of the central powers who recently held conference ag Berlin The second rumor came via Swit zerland and Paris. It purported te be based on private information from Germany, and stated the Ge+ man emperor planned to be “the first promoter of universal peace, and would propose that all parties meet forthwith to discuss this firat, and principal article of the wars termination—the reorganization of future peace.” ‘and Thursday N y was jurors disbanded prompt- m. and went to their yared to reconvene at 10. LOUIS HILL AND MOVIE MAN CHASE DOG TEAM RACERS GLASSTON | Miurtus Hanson and Mike Kelly fishermen, are leading the other seven contestants by 18 miles in the Red River: Dog Derby Winnipeg to St. Paul, started on the third day of the journey at {6:15 this morning Louis Hill, president |Great Northern and promoter of | the race, is following the racers on rain. A moving picture man is on the special. The three leaders have little to say concern: | ing the advantages they now hold. | |They just have one aim = and| that is to keep pushing on toward | the goal » Winnipeg who of the} TEEL WILLIAMS IS WINNING FAME AT FOREIGN TRADE MEET | According to a wire received here | today from Chicago, Teel Williams, /PAPER MILL BUYS | Stissourt Pactties bas beee: alana 100,000 ACRES OF OREGON TIMBER | read a paper on the shipbuilding in dustry of the Northwest at the For MARSHFIELD, Ore., Jan A big Eastern paper milling company, 1 special eign Trade Council in Pittsburg, Mr. Williams is a delegate to the council and is representing J. Fy Duthie & Co. of this city In addition to being the only rat. |not yet named, has secured an op. |Tad man at the council and in point tion on 100,000 acres of spruce on | Of ae the youngest delegate there, \the Smith and Lower Umpqua riv-|2® scored an individual hit on the lers, ‘The price is said to he Special train from the Pac $4,500,000. This is one of the big-| by issuing dafly a newspaperette, gest purchases of timber on record. | filled with clever personal shafts | on the many other delegates aboard, Manufacture of alcohol from wood | wast as been proved by the for Jest laboratory at Madi not only chemically commercially profit In the Argentine republic, if a man engaged to marry hesitates be- |yond a reasonable time, he is heave ily fined, and if a resident of the ‘republic fails to marry he ts taxed until he reaches the age of 80, products son, Wis., to be possible, but able.