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

SHALL STATE KILL? Shall the state of Washington return to the barbarism which permits “legal” murders? Shall the death pen alty be written into the “law” again? If you are oppoe ed to it, write to your senator and representative at Olympia Running around in circles should be left to wheels and horse races, But that isn’t going to stop C. Alien Dale and other “statesmen.” The weather forecast Fair tonight; Wednesday, rain 2, WASH., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1917. ONE CENT 2°} rates, An SHATTLE WOMEN OPEN CAMPAIGN MILLION READY FOR NEW ARMS FOR 15,000 RED CROSS MEMBERS WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—The house this afternoon, under stress of national emergency, almost unanimously adopted Chairman Padgett’s naval committee report which appropriates additional millions of dollars for naval preparedness. The house acted in committee of the whole. This as- sures passage of the item. Included in tHe appropriations ; ments Other appropriations favorably vorted to the house today and to- taling $151,000,000, it was said late The Seattle Star | THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT ‘DARES _TO- PRINT| THE NEWS As VOLUME 19. SEATTL '\ Girl Who Helped Man Buy # Engagement Ring Has Him | Arrested on Theft Charge —] SAYS HE TOOK WJEC CIBL © | ssoanocerr 5 Patriotism or Cheap Politics HE'S IN FRISCO, es ; - ; Men are certainly the gay de The flag ceremonial of the Seattle city celvers, says Miss Agnes Mein are $1,250,000 for machine gu $1,000,000 for antiaircraft gun ) . ° Oe ‘ ota: ‘hart, 2190 Queen Anne ave. | and ammunition at today may be withdrawn as amend- council as either a mighty Sine de oe a , Whose heart hae just been ! “A for atteries for mer- ments and introduced as separate : ; ee , ee hy given a cruel twist by the in- auxiliaries, with $7,281 rill tion of patriotism, or itt ts concetved / cons of Robert Strana for ammunition for the latter, Al ‘The amendments adopted thie | rogues and scoundrels for the purpose o han, her wayward sweetheart. the appropriations were “addition- afternoon constitute a portion of ie aking p Liss nal pit al Pree othe — and won the al’ to the regular appropristions, the most far-reaching preparedness: < olitical capital, affections of Miss Meinhart. In whieh total $251,000.000, and were campaign ever introduced at One TT . >. a 9 » od ne fact, hy id nthuel granted in t 0} f ame e in be D1 The time has come for a shou down. - tered cine bile pave rant i t form of amend-,time in both branches of congress, W hich i id Prosecutor Palmer Tuesday, / “ that che consented to marry T If it merits the approval of genuine him | WAR DECLARA ION va Get alae and alack, Robert | patriots, there 1s no better time than the hed pet the wherewithal! to in Seattle, every public offi vale in the % hole t art's desire D* .. Gee resis Larle ot R she replied eed eye state of Washington, similarly adopt the ibe ont By lamang en | BY ROBERT J. BENDER Jing that if the United States is. flag ceremonial. t away right-hand ec (United Press Staff Correspondent) |called on to strike, it can do so See ener 4 a tewen WASHINGTON, Feb. 6— |immediately and forcefully. was stronger than ever Germany's answer to President A policy of almost complete se- SEATTLE SHOULD RESENT THE IMPLICA- She wilted. Wilson's notice of a diplomatic crecy has been adopted in all TION THAT ONLY ITS COUNCIL IS PATRI is $ r the first break is expected within 24 | Jartments, and for the second OTIC. ment on our agement ring.” she | “Fifteen thousand members in Seattle!” hours in two years the president tb te candle i pacar \ Me ote said | That's the slogan of the Red Cross campaign started here. The women in this picture are directing it may be a declaration of ‘discontinued conferences f£ councilmen are not patriotic ess they sa And (he next day a burst of sun. the work at 1309 Fourth ave. In the foreground, Mrs, H. J. Sheppard. Standing, Mrs. R. A. Hulbert. Miss paper men, owing to = detiate the flag every time they start a jon, ither are shine sparkled on the proper fin. | Frances Skinner is seen at work, with her back toward the camera. ; lef is rapidly Fit cohen ituation. : . . members of our ol board ger of the left hand. She 0 ng among officials that this : t judges of our courts, or members of ou boa eer eh re Pd waa tik : brs Poon Fifteen thousand men and | The first responsibility, how-! It te an extabliehed fact that Se final step is inevitable and Ro te er wiser iy ‘ and park board, and board of public works, and j ~—". : | women are wanted immediate: ever, is to gain members attle Red Cross workers will prob: if Ger- : * sate | he we as indeed bright,| | "i . 3 Jed today in many countries. oa men, and firemen, ad county commissioners, an | thought 'y to join the —_ society There are 15,000 Red Croas mem-jably be called upon to anize a it now. This belief elop that neutrals are to foll slature. These"at present “have no Mag ek Coronal oie COG eee { te Seattie: nite tina! id Syren t one” at thé lead of the United Stated, WHY NOT? But right here the smooth work | Orders have best issued from : Seattle ought (o have no less This would Include beds and Berlin press dispatches quoting | probable a conference of all of ° ? pores : Washington, 0. C., calling upon than 10.000," sayn President Living: equipment for 260 patients and a Foreign Minister Zimmerman | wil) be called ; ¢ Beg i MATS yeaa de nsteaGos ing plana of the romance 9 . ried ‘ . b ‘ called to discuss the part | If trve pa riotism demand a ie p Ss ¥ The gay young Lothario ren the local members of the organ ae as ve an. torney ond Red an pa oe teained nurses, surkeons. eae | eac h is to bear in bringing pressure at every session of the il, w t have alsé ed the upper righthand bu » tention to prepare for the mon- OE Nags peepee ina gg excctdlay ee par tea mo step backwari jon Germany to relax its sea war- t y wéssion of Are judges of a different drawer the poppy covered umental responsibilities that Joining the Red Cross is a simple They will be organized thruout contemplated following Presi- [oe at every ses Wipers, he : aide of «ach would fall upon its shoulders in Matter nad involves little or great the country, according to news dis. dent Wilson's action.” taeda mold than councilmen? Indeed not Then make every Robert Fer. i and| event of war. iresponalbtilties. For inwtance, one! patches from Washington, D. ( Also, It was recalled that tast! judge, every jury, every clerk of the court, salute th departed, not saying good-| In leas than 24 hours after orders ny wit ng the $1 Meeting Held Today spring, when the Sussex sinking | flag, and this goes for the supreme court of the state ye, Mins ohert told Palmer were received here, women mem ying @ the Red) A meeting was held in the Cobb bn oe aoebia diploma ape =| and of the United States—as well as the police court it wa n Feb. 1 the unhap-|bers had opened downtown head. “TS ine included building a 0 a. m. Tuesday, to bassador Von Bernstorff said suc! : ; py Agnes reports, that a jeweler lenatiers fu the Cobb building at member can help in va-loutline pla fc he campaign, @ break would result in a declara- | here and the superior courts called end: demented <md 11008 Taare ave ried way which is etpected to reach into tion of war by Germany aoe we. © return of her engagement ring. It Busy Women Volunteer To Prepare Hospitals iany hor that have formerly At the same time, President Wil The chosen task may be simply known or nothing of this hu. son told members of the foreign! Let the legislature lose no time to feat Reber ban ‘erie’ Goin ate women threw aside every and nitarion work relations committee that he had| “e doen tuabeld Of tha 840. tha eat called upon by Red To Mrs. H. J. Sheppard. Miss Frances been “reliably informed” actual} clothe itself with this pepe: : = pres- fiidown instead of the $25 she gav x aasman tat REA Auk Fonte aetkseh, Ausa| Wat. weal Gollow x Ueeak Bere:| | MENAG ’ mor t Olympia. Miss Mei t sought legal ad cted that they will have amination’ must) Milburn, Mrs. Sherwood Gillespie storff recently reiterated his for- | ent there ts no flag ceremonial a ym pli rieiss Metshart sought legal ad. actually manufacturing hos-|be passed. ‘The xame 1i true with| ané-Mrs. R.7A, Hulbert were among|mer statement If a councilman is a rogue because he does duties, euch as ambu-|the firet {o report for se-vice Mon-| Should Germany make the war WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—!f result, Stranahan was ar ay decision, some officials believe she] think there are other interna: not salute the flag at every session, mem- [J Ax the result, Stranshan was ar base her declaration on the| tional relations that are more 4 he iaeetiam tied ap eed : president's efforts to align all meu-| ominous and more imminent bers of the legislature should be fon the same J Francisco and will be brought back Dry noverngacte tase teeck than those with Germany,” Sant class. And while it is getting that patriotic 1 feel sorry for the girl,” sotilo Hope for Modification ator Poindexter Cooley aE ceremonial for itself, the legislature should ] quived Palmer, “but that is no ren Some, officials. howaver, in sbttal. 5" teterciig, da SURG a J . * son should y the . } . 4 ° ° things she of the German declarations, believe make every council in every city of the | aia. rments at headqua in other fi ® Hance dr sweetheart be arrested nnn | Wil she 1 modify her U-boat cam- In the course of a speech op- state and every other public body and of- ¥ watet't,manime “ee “eon Cantain DodgesCamera and Denies Damaging S axonia Pie mre & Sresiar’ “Sree Pd: Son ee Gels aay ficial salute the flag. If that is patriotism, Grinning with all the enthu- {had done no demage, as far an|xkiffs to a German res at, While awaiting the step which | dexter said: may mean war, the president is de- m of @ boy, Capt. Frank [could be learned); members of the “Ragle Harbor . | “The country {is more or les® let no one dare to be without tt. UNITION IS Tables, ok tae Hamburg-Ameri- |Saxonia crew follows: ‘Chief! Captain Doesn't Like Chinese termined that this government jaroused by strained relations with shall make no move not fully and)/Germany, I myself think we have se kh can interned freighter Saxonia, (Officer Ernest Hanann, Chief Capt. Helfer objected at first to/it2™ iy justified by the laws of ne-{e , ‘@ ee ol usted ' pte: iterally justified by the laws ha | been subject to more or les: 4 avbe it’s wagged his head in negative re- gineer Arnold Hustedt, Paul Gille, detention seg dag ts S Un- | But maybe it's only sham patriotism. M be : sponse to volumes of questions [Christian Jensen, Otto Schnelder,| “I can't stay here with these Chi. “Ons and 1 _— jfounded hysteria over the matter, only the kind of patriotism which Macauley referrec put to him at the United Stat Lorenco Lau, Fritz nese,” he said. “I should have leanwhile the government |] am very much in hope that there to when he said: “Patriotism is the last refuge of immigration detention station |Jungniteh, Rico been permitted to stay aboard my /Oved apidly aM cent clei will not be a material conflict bes scoundrels.” Tuesday, concerning the wreck- | Burchold, Frank Hintzie and Jakob under guard pa yeahh id and perfecting details tween the great German empire and For wi never hear of this fl the ORFOLK, Vs Feb. 6 ing of the ship's engines, while | Bertwchies wa ven more exelu-|° “eh Preparation jthe United States of America, n os sap. . 1 aac t lay in Eagle Harbor Quards Heard Destructi said he would| Every instrumentality at the di There are variou id. adtttnal Simos dle movement 0 a onsiders i a struction 8 reasons for council except during political tim a glec- mount of ammunition from the He would not admit that hie | Guards aboard the government admittance into the rection of the president, congress that; there are many indications, 1 tion is coming in Marct The primaries are to be hele Norfolk na ard—St. Julian m men bored thru the cylinder tug Sotoyomo noticed the light States under the immigra-jand the departments was being | think, in the last few days, of a dis= late this montl azine rthern ports, is under heads, tossed brass parts into (burning in the engine room and ised toward ting all arms of the position on the part of Germany te : Yesterday, at the council meeting, a Mrs. and Mr way, it became know ay. Ar the Sound, tore up blueprints | heard the clanging of hammers and p t was taken to the nation's defense strengthened and | avoid such a conflict, and I am gure Tot Re hci t listed in the city directory nusually strong gua h been | and plotted to burn the ship the splashing of the water ax heavy | federal building Tuesday morning, equipped for the first gigantic Ser there is in the breast of the Ameri : John Reed, who are not listed in the ¢ spi 4 jaced around the magazine He merely grinned and look- | parts were thrown overboard Where he talked with Customs Col: vice since the Spanish-American |ean people the desire that no incl 2 who have only a seempotery residence abe as i LS bs vo ed from side to side, evading | iby or povecginneney the engines lec saya s sear aa the A EO ead GSN is [ent of sufficient cause shall arise — nows, raised the s ceremonial question even direct eye-to-eye glances could be seen floating about the an he captain to under e de E e itr plunging “ , : kn taised . : cabinet today and canvass the sit.|{F Plunging this country into war 1 arrest-|ship Monday morning. The blue-| stand that the customs guards we ‘ 1 OW, THANK YOU, SAL tre ttinen'eio tac! The blue the customs guard ’ s ed with him late Monday and held prints had been destroyed to pre-/ merely placed aboard to act within wation—what has been done and with Germany.” It is charged that th have been instigat to do this by a campaign committee backing Counc behind bats at the immigration de-| vent speedy airs the scope of their powers—that of What is being planned toward mobil-| F man C. Allen Dale, the man who introduced the resolu The mild weather that we havejtention building, at the foot of! As early as Sunday customs of-| seeing that no customs regulations izing the tremendous resources of ‘CLUB WOMAN ‘DIES for the flag ceremony been enjoying for the past few days! (Union st., atood around with coats |ficers went to Eagle Harbor, fear-| Were broken,” Drumhedler explain. the country for threatened war, tion tor the tag - ’ is to continue for a while,” predicts off, amoking and talking exeitedly.|ing that an attempt m » made ed Can Strike Quickly F ; Weather Man isbury All over When faced by a camera man,| by the crew of the Saxonia to de The status of the ship, he satd The greatest effort is being cen-|__ Mrs. Kate Rennebohm, 48, passed If it is true that Dale 1s making the the West the temperature Is moder- | they broke and ran, dodging behind /stroy her had not been definitely determined. tered upon the navy. It is probable|eway Tugpday widening at her ating the bunks | Monday morning vectors ‘T. M is merely a foreign ship with: that work on some of the big ves-|20me, 2907 Queen Anne ave eu- 4imerican flag the center of politic al in- . Notting doink,” cried one of Fisher, J. V. Stewart and Watch: Olt clearance papers, with its Cap eis will be stopped inorder to|MO0Ia wa the cause of her death. them, red. faced, and weating alman George Petterson were soni|tain absent,” sald the collector hasten completion of. submarines (She is survived by her husband, aie % trigue, he does not deserve to be called an blond paint brush’ beard and a Uttlelthere. The arfests followed Capt, Johannes Wohlers, of the/and vessels. for opposing subma,| ert J. Rennebohm, dock foreman of 4 . 4 ADVERTISING MANAGER'S Boo 11. jooked like the standard, sailing vessel Steinbak, was Not tines |the Northern Pacific at Pier 1, and j American, ; DAILY TALK vaudeville comedian Captain Is Arrested feeling so jubilant as Capt, Helfer) go quickly is the work proceed Ithree sons, The Americ an flag should not be per- They were being held in de- _ Five members of the crew and| Tuesday, He sat gloomily looking ; f Feta ghton tention at the immigration ota. |Capt. Helfer were seized when they out of a window, He had not dam mitted to be dragged into any political mire. tion here Tuesday on the tech. {Came ashore. The captain thengaged his ship, according to the fed-| ’ ’ Jordered the other men aboard the}eral officials nical charge of entering the or icla United States without permis. hip to give themselves up, | ~ ereno age Ss aug er, Customs office guards were ‘ Raith sion | You Profit in More ctcho an’ armed government’ (placed atoan! the —_ . . * . , i onli, as x~ eek ® x eet BRAZIL WILL 2227. PP wasethewone™ PP ectaarstatieriams tonite SPAIN SENDS Sabra, Ready to Quit for | d and joked about ea it t we eed ot mn to worked unmolested for hours sth eae 4 a SEND PROTEST oat rica rte aan aes before daylight Monday bering jtheir arrest, and presented their} Mit BP aM Sia! tk ek & What answer Brazil shall return cylinder heads, Fomeving AES tee i es PENS By e rT} i - : ”? i Sore ong We Seeger ow | = nborn Generations } ed States for joint action by nei ONO Viet cada, ‘Peddlers Must MADRID, Feb. 6—Spain made S a aE ve Pas Ri Sap ‘ trals in breaking o relations with (iformal protest to Germany against 4 RTSON } gain . . / BY H D. “ROBE '80) Harmaty bes hot, yet been. deter Two of the seamen were taken| Bathe Regularly } ser iniiunted anbiatine Canpalen For 20 years Sereno’s half-brother, Henry, explaine:- e RIO DE “JANEIRO, Feb. 6- mined b the cabinet CRaEE into custody wit ssthore cmuaklng ti aan daa \|inaugurated February 1 in a note to people they were only “half brothers.” The next 21 5 Brazil has sent, or is about to ‘or the present it is stated Brazi arrangements for the purchase of } + Argentina, Feb. 6. {/handed to the German ambassador) he tried to make ‘em believ . send, to Germany aformal note | Will be content to await Germany's four barrels of coal ol! from the |) —Perlodical baths for street ped- }|today. Action in sending a note of g x ideali abe they were real brothers protesting against violation of (reply to her note of protest Standard Oil Company at Bagle|{ diers have been decreed by the} protest precludes an immediate ereno was an idealist—and so the people learned t | | international conventions in Harbor. = La Plata city government, For {break of relations between Spain love him. He remained poor. the German submarine peiley BERLIN, via Wireless, Feb. 6 Planned to fig ane aan pvigiation. of Bie cat, Ane pene and Gertakny li is stated, how And that explains why his daughter, Sabra, woul: and declaring it “imperils the Germany has been in the grip of a They were planning to fire ) is the lend. \ ever, that the note declines to su x . sanition, S70 4 lives of Brazilian citizens and | severe cold wave, the official pres chip, according to the federal of|} e's license. To insure that the \‘nend Spanish shipping ro that dan.| uit her position to take up eugenics. “Why. work for is a blow at Brazilian inter. wureau reports today, ‘The Vistula ficialn |) baths are thoro, it is provided) ger of an overt act by Germany will a few individuals, _ She says, “evyhen I can work for ests.” has been frozen. The Rhine ca Those arrested were Pras} 5 that they eal Ne: SAlsstt in the ( continually be present countless numbers in the ‘unborn generations?’ ” Announcement to this effect was ries floating ice and these tem MORE THAN 60,000 COPIES HH} jielfer, captain of the Saxonia; Jo-|) municipal establishment, under | ad whens f . ily in: made today Foreign Minister peratures are reported DAILY hannes Wohlers, captain of the in-|) the direction of a sanitary in- | Stuttgart, Germany, is building s ee " Pes the wonderful Gage fan ly ay ‘The Lauro Muller, discussing the min Koeln, 24 below; Isterurb, 25 be terned vessel Steinbek (he was the |} spector S}a new central station which wilt | eed of the ighteous, the novel now running in The isterial conference which last/iow; Berlin, 17 below. only man stationed aboard her, and, anne |) COS $12,000,000, Star. You can BEGIN TODAY. Turn to page 4, : i N