The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 31, 1917, Page 1

ail flillions Are Offered Seattle Banks weer RR ee rn ~ PPP PPL LDP PLL PL LPL LPP PPP PLP PPP PPP PPP asx xewste] The Seattle Star |=" Cowen Park and patrone ef ether oar. linee want’ te _ ; weather man-—and the kiae are Joye know. Search us. We thought the public service com. ous for another day. The forecast is: “Tonight and Thursday, snow nctutt hs winiesihenly swine THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS } BLE ana spares ONE CENT ON TRAINS AND VOLUME 19. NIP PLOT TO POISON LLOYD GEORGE ) GIRLS FROM S DON'T GET EXCITED! | ‘Axo tavtaces swine in sou’ FEDERAL RESERVE Keep cool! As The Star pointed out yesterday, “ee hadn’t been a bank failure in Seattle for 25 year | Northern Bank & Trust Co. was closed because it had bad | management. The solidity of no other bank in Seattle was involved. There is no more reason for fear of the banks in Seattle now than a week ago, or a year ago, or 10 years ago. The condition of the Northern bank has nothing to do with any of the others. At that, the Northern bank depositors The federal reserve board of San Francisco today sent the following telegram to J. W. Maxwell, secré- | tary of the Seattle Clearing House association, offering | practicaily government backing in millions of dollars }to Seattle banks: The Federal Reserve Board of San Fran- probably will get most of their money back. So solid is the general banking condition of Seattle that none of the banks insisted on their right to demand 60days to six months’ notice before the withdrawal of savings ac- counts. The banks paid depositors as fast as they came yester, outs ond ee we eee | cisco stands ready to act instantly in supply- ~ "The banks, in their statements to the government in the ing money in exchange for the commerci f aths. have shown themselves choking with industrial or agricultural securities of the ~ Ne |member banks of Seattle if they should de- sire it. Besides twenty millions of gold, we | | have twenty millions of federal reserve notes \in San Francisco and twenty-eight millions ~ | additional available for immediate shipment ~ ta can ope td Petraes Washington. money. Bankers claim they never have had so much money. For the savings banks, it was a clear gift of thousands Eo yg = (Signed) FEDERAL RESERVE BANK — No ene in Seattle ie enjoys | ball. OF SAN FRANCISCO. of dollars yesterday when some scared depositors withdrew ing the firet real snow of the Frances Nordstrum, who is play- JOHN PERRIN, Chairman of the Board. SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1917. * I . : their money, thereby forfeiting their interest. The Clearing House Association feels so secure and con- fident of the situation that it has issued a statement to the effect that it stands “willing and able to assist all the sol- vent banks of the city, whether members of the association or not.” : winter any more than mem- |ing one of her own skits this week This pools of the banks, bers of the theatrical profes. {at ie Alhambra, has been just If it weren't rant ered «(RRR TET SORE virtually : E 1g here this week. “too tickled with the snow,” matter, it would really be hu || 1), ; by hierar ee caern ae | net ~ aheee sod haw she in-| Morous to attempt a description e strength of Seattle banks | 1) totalling more than $130, ( eo 4 ‘are just-here from -eunny Cali- lautred, “Doon it eles of the people's whims and acts | | pa yay po ae pred <a in their attitude toward the banks Wednesday. fornia, where snow is about as common as orange groves are | Im the Northwest. } And a dozen other questions all pertaining to snow were shot with | vantage of their right to require | a 60-day notice before savings Ee: an ES - So, if Genevicve Forbes, of the | Precision and rapidity of a ma For instance, the biggest deposits are withdrawn. bi apparently in tho last stages of con- Lilac Doniino, company, at the Met: | chine gun ings bank, Sones GVeTaNe'PaCe ce F wo sumption. The woman was take: jropolitan, wis to borrow a small| She reached the first field of atanat eed Ye ye wg 6 oe e a : oO the Passaic county jail with her boy's sled and go coasting dowit|"00W back of Frederick & Nolson's| Sts while there ve ee the {able to get most of their money, it " jchildren. | at some others, Yet the uo |Seattje hills, or Frances Nordstrum, |¢¥ building. She dived in like &| peli bank has always car- |!8 believed. This will take several fon the Alhambra bill, chooses to | Ki« | ried the largest reserve fund of | 4438. wing snowballs at a traffic cop, or| Soon a man on a scaffold suffer-| cagh of any bank in Seattle. George Pantages, of the Oak the-|ed her first onslaught with snow- | . | jatre, goex in swimming in the | ball shrapnel |, It has more actual gold and sil | 66 Sound ev y, why simply re-| She spotted a truck drive: going | *°: proportionately, than any oth-; | member.4igysare-haman and are |down a-near-by street. She threw {°° bank y doing what\a large number of our|more snowballs and said the only| The Northwestern Trust and Safe| jown citizens. would if they dared. |thing that was lacking to make it Deposit Co., at Second ave. and| 3 | Genevieve Forbes, who was sent |a perfect day was Carl Reiter for «| Union st., kept its doors open until | a lby Andreas Dipple personally to | mark lafter 4 p. m. Tuesday, an bour be-| ” : join “The Lilac Domino,” left Bos- | ge BS. Pantages, manager of |Yond the closing time, in order to} ton about three weeks ago, where |the Oak theatre, doesn’t care so|meet the demands, Today the} she has a reputation as a remark. |terribly much r the snow, but he | crowd dwindled Pa | They later were taken to an asy AN D MAN R lium. The father was to be taken to} * la hospital today } i The boy was killed by a knife) [thrust thra his back. The blade! body was found by a neighbor, It | was lying at the foot of the basement DERBY, England, Jan. 31.—A poison plot |": in the Goldstein home. | fist Premier David Lloyd George and Ar- thur Henderson, member of the “war coun- Uf, [. As TU a 99 ° able concert singer. j\does like to go swimming in zero At tho andinavian American Joseph T. Greenleaf, cashier cil,” was revealed today in the en Surrounded’ by 18 small kida and | weather. bank, one of the targest in the elty,| the People's Marines tele alana hy women an one man, George Curzon, stage manager of I go in at least once a weel Iithere was a considerable crowd,| issued the following statement: at Guild Hall of three Ah | | the production, this little prima | winter,” he said just as he plungea | while at the Dexter Horton and the} “The People’s Savings bank is donna found trudging up aloff a diving platform at th Seattie | Union Savings and Trust Co., just) absolutely safe. Not a single pen- steep Seattle hill Tuesday after-| Yacht club into the So’ across the street, there wasn’t any-|ny will be lost to the depositors, © noon, pulling a sled behind her | On the rubdown table after his ng but the normal every-day busi-| This bank was named as one of the ~ 7) “This is just wonderful,” she |swim, Pantages explained that the | ness [gold medal banks in the United — smiled, with two pink spots, fresh.| water wasn't much colder than it! jyow to account for these various| States on account of its heavy fe » {ly bitten by the snow, glowing on | was in the summer time letrange ways of the depositors? serve funds. ;jber cheeks It is more like a It is'the cold alr that makes}. “We have offers of local and na- , |Roston winter than I've geen|this mid-winter bathing disagree-| Y° tional banks for our assistance, ; x yet, * * 9 able. I always have a warm place| When the by e but we do not need it.” ¢ a { | Hey conversation was cut short|in which to dress and a good rub|—every be the North-| . |when Curzon gave her a start|down, and I don't mind it ern Bank & Trust Co., which failed) ae down the hill and a kid accom-| Nevertheless the goose-pimples |~-successfully met all demands on SLAVS WIN BATTLE |panied her journey with a snow. were standing out all over him them | : csercas vans as! BY CHARGE IN SNOW. 1 over by the state PETROGRAD, Jan. 31.—Advane- cattle Clearing| ing waist-deep in the snow, Rum ~ charged with “conspiracy to murder. Crown Prosecutor A. H. Donkin, who ap- AND HIS CHILD peared against the quartet, declared that the, plot had been hatching between December 4, pau 4. Turner, American 26 and January 30. It was also stated that Bank building, a prominent Be Scotland Yard and the secret service had) divorce Weenie th the been working on the case since Saturdays! (ithirine tuner with having when the conspiracy was unearthed. Katherine Turner, with having | Be no other interest in life save | _— % The four defendants are: Mrs. The fact that the chief inspector Alice Wheeldon, Miss Harriet/of Scotland Yard had assumed per “to shine as a social light.” George Pantages im as —_ _ — j i eens | his wife was insanely jealous, | | te Wheeldon, her daughter; Mrs. Wil-|sonal charge of the case Was Te] She Sblected to hie taking cor aaidntnar ta fred Mason, another daughter; Al-|garded as evidence of the gravity! tain kinds of cases, he claims, | maned by the j can't account for it ed yesterday The physician charges that bert Mason, a chemist with which it Is regarded. and was bitterly opposed to his House association, with combined) sian troops have stormed and cap- i Mason is the husband of one of| Altho existence of the pl t WS) treating women. resources of $10,000,000, Seattle/ tured at the point of the bayonet 2 Mrs. Wheeldon'’s daughters and is| discovered Saturday, no info bation! “She objected to my going out on| bankers confidently feel the flurry,|German positions on the heights ‘one of a number of individuals In| concerning it became knowito the| night calls, and taterfered with | which began yesterday after the|east of Jacobeni, according to toe 3 England who have sought to evade! public until the arrests had been|my duties in the city hospital,”| announce mt of the Northern| day's official statement. military service becanse of “consct-| made charges Turner. | 5 Bank and Trust Co. failure, has al - B entious scruples” against war After formal evidence of the plot] “After practically objecting tol a ready subsided | BY PUTTING in the proviso that ‘The three women are supposed had been outlined by the crown|every method I had of earning Official statements to the gov-|her term of 10 years in the state to be suffragets prosecutor, the four prisoners were|money, she turned around and ac |ernment show there has never beer | penitentiary might be served in the Publication of the charges against | remanded until Saturday. jcused me of not supporting her. % \ a, {80 much money in Seattle banks as/ county jail, Judge Card saved Mra, four persons arrested created a| In presenting their names to the| “Her sole ambition was to shine xplain what | now Rosa Albutt, of Jovita, from bettie ation, coupled with general in-|court, the crown prosecutor gave /at social functions. She idled ber The affairs of the Northern bank, | called aconvict, She was convieted dignation that England's “man of ‘the names of the women as Wheel-|time in such affairs and in dicker in the meantime, will be put in‘for assault on Mrs, Gertrude L, | ae | NEW YORK, Jan. 31-—A | OLYMPIA, Jan. 31—Stories | They are wanted t “rumor” and “common gossip” | of alleged cruelties and tor. (they know of tie | were booked today to be blamed tures inflicted by attendants | Leone C. Peck in the institution on for the newly discovered leak June 18, last, when, it is alleged, the hour” should have been the ob- don. : : - ing with athletic sports. She finally | on President Wilson's note to on patients at the Western cheoseas beaten; Graawed. by the ape wo Rhat Gepoaitors wa & Soe Se oma St ot such & pidt The only evidence which the /left me, and is living in New York) pentigerents State Hospital for the Insane hair, and tortured under a cold —————— a te Mer eatettent oe thal’ OW ‘ie Ie | Geepite the inwardnese of F. at Ft. Steilacoom, told by for- shower bath in the bath room of - : nt , ot the| “We are absolutely of opposite : mer patients who have the hospital charges on which they had been|temperments, and cannot possibly! A Conneliye interpretation, | been declared sane, have start. An account of the alleged crne} ADVERTISING MANAGER'S [ff ‘aken into custody. live together | wired from Waahingten a ed a sweeping investigation of ties was told to the committer E. F. Hutton & Co. brokerage It is understood the crown has 30 is one child, and the plain the Institution toda: rda . y by the yesterday afternoon by Miss DAILY TALK witnesses to support the charge of |tiff asks that the court grant him ee ones Connally abr | senate committee on state /Simmons, of 226 St. Helens ave. “conspiracy to murder. |the custod tends that he had no “Inside charitable institutions. |Tacoma, and Mrs, M. de Monte, of The couple were married in Mo- Dr. William N. Keller, super- ¢ Harbor, both of whom say they y . : tion.” M he de- ree bh Frank D, Wilt, stant super. Hoth of them, former { T | * che ta Wilso| brother-in-law Pp , former inmates, > g ome ad h o | | dent oe 7 intendent, and an inmate at- /have entirely regained their san Phe following statement was issued by the b fF A.C ty ~ . v.48 5 The Aver e | ‘NIPPON MARU gn dave. icntany | lie wh tendant, Kate Knowles, have ity, and declared they did not ap Clearing House association Wednesday: HI f ve , Boil 4 een summoned to appear be- | pear to make charges against a The Clearing Associati “k ing ag T0 HAVE SLAIN | | i Wetted ay iheate tease. fore the committee this after. |one in particular, but only to see The Clearing House Association, knowing that é noon, | (Continued on page 5) there is not the slightest foundation for alarm on On the other hand, Connolly ——___—— — - ibe sera eal | —— iT the part of the public in the present momentary bank | Hi - ington gave him the news about} | SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 31 that the patients, whose sufferings | Fes rs were expressed today for the|they described, were given hu-| | 5 disturbance arising from the failure of the Northern PATERSON, N. J, Jan. 31 De > o treatment at the hospital, 1 panese liner Nippon Ma of the | man | rangement thu poverty, knowledge| Toyo Kisen Kaiske line whan in Demands Senate Action | th Lh of the fact that she was about to|nearly four days overdue at Hono. John R. Peck, of Mabton, father ‘ claime “common gossip” in Wash-| assist all the solvent banks of the city, whether mem- bers of the association or nonmembers, if the occa- sion should arise. The banks of the city have resources totaling Bank & Trust Company, stands willing and able to bring another child into theljulu, Usually the master of the vos. inlaw of the dead woman, also ap-| world, and worry over the condition | gel sends word ahead to the Hono.| peated, declaring that the explana i of her husband, desperately ill of|tiiu offices of the time of his arris (Continued on page 5) WASHINGTON, Jan, 31--The, LONDON, Jan, 31—Englond lost tuberculosis, are today believed by{al, The Nippon Maru was due at gir mone pea ee sais i saiieece and men killed in}f more than $130,000,000, The association is in the the police here to have caused Mra.| Honolulu f Yokohama January, OSAKIS, Minn., Jan, 31.—Siipping| “bone diy” prohibition bi ecember. ies x pe OTRAS | a thastivn a hare Anna Goldstein to murder her baby 21, Mie eaviy (edad ideal Otley aitently thr Dalton like a phantom| ‘The bill not only prohibits the| ‘The total was announced in the close st touch, with the situation affecting all the bank- ’ boy 13 |the company said she had notere-|in the wight, Prank Hartman, the manufacture anit sale of Intoxioss official casualty lists ing and mercantile interests of the city and knows 4 Mrs istein was arrested, fol-| ported pieky American driver in the Win-| ing Hauer in aska, but w not . acp : k carte A Aaittimnvata ur 4 ; lowing an indictment by the g Some fear wan felt that the liner Pani dog derby, and his|permit tt to be skipped into the| 0, A. KJOS, sales manager of | Hat the present disturbance is not a Jegitimate cause jur They found her with might bave fallen victim tois ‘Ge 1 team of Alaskan mate-| territory the Western Dry Goods Co, wit |f of alarm, : i children, half-naked, crawling about| man raider in the Pacific s car.{muites, arrived at Evansville at 1) ——— |apeak at the free salesmanship tec-| f AR ee, rele Labi = fa hon ig SAAT |the floor of a dingy shanty, while|ried a number of passengers and|® M., 17 mileg ahead of the nearest} USE STAR WANT ADS FOR RE- ture at 8 p. m. Wednesday at the THE CLEARING HOUSE ASS’N. OF SEATTLE. P SSSI her husband lay on a soiled pallet,|3,000 tons of cargo, | rival. SULTS AND PROFIT ¥. M,C. A