The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 9, 1917, Page 1

WIFE CONFESSES! Rather, she opens her diary to the public, The great est human interest story that hy ed in any newspaper in recent years is “The Confessions of a Wife,” a daily feature in The Star, You can begin any day. Each day reveals an absorbing chapter of human life. VOLUME 19. WASH,, FRIDAY, The Seattle Star lg RAR ARR anne THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO ‘PRINT _THE NEWS FEBRUARY 9, 1917 NIGHT EDITION Fine for ducks weatherman thus speaketh tonight and Saturday.” Too much wet goods town, Lay off, weather The “Rain n this dry George ON TRAINS AN NAVE RTANDS. Be ONE CENT Secret Plans May Keep U.S. at Peace “STAR SPANGLED BANNER” ROUTS OFFICIALS AT THE CITY HALL | NONE OF ‘EM CAN Are Red-Haired Girls ‘She Stumps City Dads on “Star Spangled Banner” tI Ny: RS, : U.S. FOR WAR USE * NEW YORK, Feb. 9.—Henry ‘baby submarine” and said he REPEAT WORDS OF U.S. ANTHEM Miss Mildred Beverly of the “Hit the Trail Holiday” com pany slipped into her big fur coat, left her hotel and climbed aboard a car bound toward the County-City buliding Friday The clerk at her hotel looked surprised and gianced at the clock. It was 10 a.m Ten minutes later this lady why plays the part of the suf fraget in the comedy playing at the Metropol in Mayor Gill's office Went to Night School “Td to speak to the mayo she sald He's busy |han, mayor's secretar “You'll, do, then,” she sald mie smiled, and go did she 1 want you to recite the | Spangled Banner,” she said Jimmie’s hand went to t | His eyebrows arched, as he [his top-toes. 1 learned that song in school,” stalled the seoretar jl can't repeat the words du daytin And the result Misa Beverly, in that none of the hom ties can repeat the jStar Spangled l@e can And it replied Jimmie Cre m Star bets 85 town celebri ds of “The None of he play we Banae works the same real life Tn every city officials out Fitz Knows One “Now, I don't know the words by heart— personally man Pitegeraid. “Bot | have a man who ought to be able to speak ‘em for me.” Where Was “Who is he?” ane “ inlts she tests she Dale? demanded, next, “i can't repeat words in my . Miss Beverly demanded to tee them. Harry produced a souvenir Program with the words. Councilman Moore admitted he couldn't remember the words, Then he told a story on himself. Had Meeting On but I got the night ant | alibied Council; would stake his reputation as a| “Nine Seattle business men, fr- | manufacturer on the success of the | cluding myself, went to Victoria to {one man undersea craft. He asked 1897 as « delegation to the celebra jit it Was rot worth something to/tion of the queen's birthday, We {the government to have handy a went to a club, and the Canadian | plant which could miake 3,000 auto-| gentlemen sang ‘God Save the mobiles, each capable of carrying | | Queen’ It was up to us to sing ten men every day. |The Star-Spangled Banner.” ae a “Think they could transport | single one of us kaew the wor some soldiers?” he inquired “The| Councilman Bob Hesketh canit-| lother day | noticed a lot of flags|ted he knew the words. ; fying,” Ford said. “A good many| “Hut I'm sorry,” he explained, | | seemed to be from bank buildings.|have a committee meetin’ and “You can't tell about us pacifi- 'They all seemed patriotic—for | haven't time. See you later.” " Ford said. “Sometimes | hich is what actuates na | He fairly fled. tink a pacificist ie like a cat. It (except our own United! Council Clerks Sehrader, Drake may seem a gentle creature that States) to fight wars and Matthias agreed that they you -can fondle—an | inoffensive “But I did not see any signs of didn't know the words, harmless sort of thing. But back picks or shovels or ichaki about those Somebody start humming, &.cat up in @ corner—or & parificist bank bufldings, indicating they | Tom Kennedy, city attorney, “and —and you've got the worst kina of | were offering any practical help to|perhaps the words will come to a fighter you've ever seen.” the United States except what they me.” ont Se oneal declared his beilef in the' could profit from.” Then the quartet began singing land they got thru the chorus. | japon fell out on the last line. eeoee PISTOL AND |. 2222: ACID TAKEN TO JAIL The patriotic notes drifted |thrn the transom, and dozen or #0 wanderers were crowd }ing into the council committer A sequel to the near lib _/ Stion of more than 96 King punty prisoners from the jail Wednesday, when a break was foiled by Jail Superintendent Ford stands ready today to loan” to the government any part of his = paces in addition to Y his jactur- and od it. made the offer wor'be his money nd an Interview here and added that he would not take a cent ‘of profit for the loan. His of- -fer-stands good if the country ie drawn into war. v Ri. a out ei who were in on the pro- jcedure kept their faces straight. oss others are still wondering. Maybe SHE Knows On the way out of the city hall The Star reporter asked Miss Bev erly, “How does Banner’ go, anyway?” “How dare you?” she snapped ue a Ce y loaded chambers, was discovered in | @ sack of pulverized giue by Deputy Hughes and Sheliberg, con- ducted the search The revolver, it is said, was who said | ‘The Star Spangied | con ave., who Is entered in the THE ENTRIES THUS FAR: laithean Fraser, 6126 Beacon ave. Josephine Tuc Brighton schoo! The Baker twins, Betty and May, employed at Holdt's res | ‘aurant on Third ave. Dolly Fuller, employed at thet a Be Come on tn, gif_s, the water's fine. Six red-haired girla have al- feady been entered by their friends in The Star's popularity contest, The contest s Wednesday, February 21, at 5 p. m. A school girl and school teacher, an entertainer, and two restaurant girls are in the ist now—and more are on the way, Beginning Monday, the total number of votes will be given each day. And, by the way, be sure you get The Star Monday, for it'll be special bargain day. Mond: cou- pons will be worth 100 votes each. / There is no age Mmit. The only ‘SENATE VOTES | AMORE HUMAN PENSION BILL ry teacher at OLYMPIA, Feb, 9.—The senate,| by a vote of 30 to 5, has decided to leorrect the crime the legtsiature lcommitted two years ago, when it} | stuck a knife into the mothers’ pen- |sion Inw. The fight to make the ‘jaw more humane was led by The i Seattle Star, the paper which first proposed the masstre, in 1912 Yesterday afternoon the senate! for home tomorrow, according to in. | i°es soon a} voted to restore the provision giv-|formation received by ing back the benefits of the law so | mothers whose husbands abandoned | | than a year. It was Senator Taylor of King county, who, two years ago, tried | |to repeal the entire mother's pen lsion law, and who succeeded in chopping part of it to pieces by | providing that only those whose husbands were dead, insane or in the penitentiary were entitled to the pension, Sheliberg, who discovered a set of stee! saws and several bolts and bars, was made known Friday when a loaded revolver and a bottle of un- known acid was discovered in the south end of the jail. The revolver, containing smuggted into the jail Sunday by | | two women, who visited prisoners. The jail authorities received an annonymous telephone tip the |night before the discovery of the proposed plan to liberate the pris oners, according to Shellberg In our first search we failed to find the revolver, which the mya- terions woman had mentioned,” |waid Sheliberg. “The search was continued, however, and late Thurs- day afternoon found it in the south end of the Jail.” County officers and members of the sheriff's office kept their dis covery very quiet, as it is under stood that the women are known and will be arrested within a short | time. The bottle of acid hands of the city for analysis About DIVERS SINK 6 OF and a number of their 78 ARMED VESSELS «:"rs01 0. home afternoon back of the Registration books will be Saturday kept night will close pending the four open until when 9p. m ADVERTISING MANAGER’S DAILY TALK | —- VALUABLE Just abour Don't think of Saturday shopping out consulting them Standard Furniture Fastern Outfit! Grote-Rankin primary the general election March 6. Those who failed to vote at the presiden- tal election in November and who have not registered sinee then must register Friday or Saturday if they care to vote In the city elec | tions Six election February 20, and we INFORMATION ads ne up Tint Page councilmanic » Page ra candidates out Page Paue A in the Friday as Ahouse-Grunbauin chemist Dougall-South wick Boston Sample Shoe Ca. 14 guests of the city jail friends held Thursday dripping Market Market d Market ‘arket Center Pine st Wenthake South Pubite Redelshelmer's Pacific Coast Con! Fraeer-l Ron Marche Frederick & > And ina worth , MORE THAN 60.000 COPIES DAILY slopes of Profanity hill The reception was a public affair and a quantity of bottled beer and whisky was daintily served The dry squad played hosts In brief, the city rolled several barrels of liquor out on Fifth ave. and Jail trusties began their smash ing with fire axes. The odor of liquor drew the cus MONTREAL, Feb. adequately armed passed thru the submarine zone Wednesday night, German marines were able to sink only according to Wm. Hoc of labor in the Brit special cabie to the jtoday declared, Out of 78 which easels up to b ge, minister cabinet Montreal Star EGISTER TODAY! (a | eee, eee kt fof 18 will be select the pri |maries February 20. six will be elected March 6. Voters will decide on the following bond issues: $600,000 for the ment of a municipally owned and operated cold storage and market | ing gyatem for perishable foods | $450,000 to improve arterial ways; $450,000 for the mission belt line, and lthe construction of the Montlake | bridge over the canal at Jtomary gallery of interested spec tators. Sliortly ing to after 5:30 p. m, accord several of the uninvited guests, the fag end of the barrels began to appear, ‘The coppers wearied over their vigilance and gradually, one by one, thy disap peared Somehow, one of the trustie’s hands became fixed to the tall neck of a bottle of beer, His only es cape was to break the bottle, This night injure his hand, So he drank Popular? ree of the| stablish- | high: | You Becher! NEUTRALS AND BERNSTORFF JOIN IN EFFORTS TO KEEP U.S. AND KAISER FROM WAR |excepting the United States rT) Miss Luthean Fraser, daughter of Mr. and Mra. George Fraser, 6126/¢ho she does not rescind her “barred zone’ red-haired popularity conte: qualification is that the girl enter ed in the popularity contest must jhave red hair. The winner will get a theatre box party, a theatre! luncheon, auto trip, and the rest of the little things to make an even ing’* enjoyment The six most popular will be given free tickets jto the Hritish-American “colonial” ball on Washington's birthday Png this ceunme for your favor- coupon ie for FIVE ese | In the “Red-Headed Girl” Pop. ularity Contest. Please credit i To. 7“ | TOBE RELD HERE The 74 1. W. W. now in the Ev-| jerett jail held on murder charges, ! will be tried in King county, March So Judge Ronald ruled at Ever-| jett Friday morning i At Everett, Fred Moore, chief counsel for the men, showed that it} would be impossible to hold a fair! ltrial at Everett Thomas B. Tracy will be the first} of the 74 tried WASHINGTON GUARD TO LEAVE BORDER SAN FRANCISCO, Feb, 9.—all| Oregon and Washington troops | | still at Calexico will probably leave | j the United | Press today | These troops are merely waiting ad to see what on earth had hap them and their children for more) for the completion of arrangements for railway coaches. It was stated | that the necessary cars are leaving Lox Angeles today and will prob- ably get to ¢ “alexico tonight, $500 Waits for Seattle Girl, But Where Is She? Five hundred dollars is wait- ing for Bessie Pearl McKenzie, and she can’t be found. Eighteen years ago she lived in Fremont. She wae 2 years old then. Attorneys have been search. ing for the six months in a vain effort to find a trace of her. The money was left by Bes- i father when he di a year ago. He had not seen her since he became divorced from her mother here in 1898. | the beer and the bottle fell into a} barrel of its own accord Other trusties began suffering the |same fate, With the wild spirit of recklessness thrilling thra their veins, these smashers of contraband liquor invited the innocent bystand- ers on the curb to join the im- promptu booze fest A bottle would be dropped to one side and a passing spectator would swoop it up under bis coat, People on the Yesler way bridge anickered, It was very comical By Robert J. Bender WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. “While the United States hopes al- |most against hope—and prepares for any eventuality—a tremen- \dots sub-surface move to keep this country at peace is now pro |\ceeding. With what is believed to be the secretly tacit, but wholly in- |formal sanction of this government, the move today had de- 'veloped along three lines, namely: First—efforts of neutrals—confined now to almost all neutrals, -to have a conference called at Ma- drid, with a view to confining the war to its present limits and if — | pos ble to get secret or public assurances from Germany that, al- ’ decree, she will not oa eapondent rm American or other neutral rights. Second—an effort by this government to avoid a break with © Austria by having Austria modify her indorsement of Germany's |undersea campaign. Third—and last—the expected efforts of German Ambassadall Von Bernstorff to preserve peace after he reaches Berlin, pro-— vided, of course, the “overt act” has not been committed by Ger- man by that time. on is an independent move on Bernstorff’s pi it can scarcely fail to meet with this government’s ‘ | Rumors of this sub-surface peace, | maintenance plan have been preva | lent for several days, but not until |today did the full extent of the move become known. Two Sig Trump Cards The two big trump cards are secret moves of neutral diplon here to stall off war betwe ’. 8. and Germany and the Ger approval. BRYAN MAKES SECRET MOVE TO ENLIST BERNSTORFF’S AID IN * | RY AVERTING WAR WITH GERMANY By Gilson Gardner WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—If war is avoided, one important contribution to the result will be credited to the former German ambassador, Count Von Bernstorff, who, since his ports were handed to him, has been, | am informed, co-operating ac- tively with former Secretary of State William J. Bryan and Chairman Stone of the senate committee on foreign relations, to induce the German imperial government to refrain from its threatened acts of war against the United States! A conference took place last Sunday between Bryan and Stone, wh made use of a prominent New York business man as an intermedia’ who handled the negotiations with Von Bernstorff. Thru this mediary the situation was discussed, and Von Bernstorff | j was asked by Bryan if it were not possible for him to use his good of- fices with the imperial government still to impress on the kaiser and his advisers the unwisdom of adding the United States to their list of | enemies Von Bernstorff expressed entire sympathy with Bryan's point of view, and replied that he would be glad to express his opinion to this effect to the imperial government, 1s no longer ambassador, but only a private citizen, communicate secretly, or even publicly with no means to Bryan replied that he had no doubt arrangements could be made yet to have @ code, or even an open, message sent by the Sayville wire less, with the approval of our state department, to Berlin, setting out his feelings and advice The matter Was taken up with President Wilson, stood this was done Whether a message of this sort from the ex4jerman ambassador will have any effect in Germany is a matter of pure surmise. and it is under- [LANSING ASKS WHY GERARD’S DELAYED WASHINGTON state ¥ ‘eb. 9.—The department has asked G many why departure of Ambassa- Gerard from Berlin de. too, | ved: This action was taken thru "| the Swiss minister. Secretary Lan sing expressed himself as doubtful if Germany intentionally — held | Gerard While a United Press dispatch | said Gerard would leave Saturday, the department has not been noti- fied of this officially ‘Iam very loath to believe that the German government is inten- tionally detaining Mr, Gerard in Berlin on any excuse whatsoever,” Secretary Lansing said toda mother took the child, and afterward remarried The father married again, and died last year. In his will he left daughter Attorney Frank P. Christensen 1518 L, C, Smith building, is now searching for her. He has checked over marriage records and canvassed Fremont, | Hut the 18 years have evidently covered all trace of her unless She has married Is she still in Seattle? | dor was $500 for his | Then, as the barrels became; town,” he said, as he deseribed the fewer, the trusties and thirsty| wet banquet in the back yard of the guests of this unannounced party| city jail became more daring | “I believe one out of every The driver of truck No, 41434,"| bottles that went into the says W. G, Lay, of the Mason room-| unbroken and filled ¥ with Ing house, filled his coat with bot-|iquor, Men were giving bottles away and filling their own pockets J, Andrews, in the wild scramble, while a row a good joke. of a hundred or more. spectators It certainly looked funny to see| another who thought the party was a bunch of men using a public) stood on the bridge above them and} street for a drinking house in a dry| laughed, | saw no officers with five was 515 Yesler way a ' but was stopped by the fact that he | with the German foreign af-| “) will ees) man envoy’s known and aggressive — desire to preserve the peace bi | which he has long struggled. ~ | Administration officials do not | admit that the moves are going on under the surface, but the United | Press learned definitely that the | neutral program is ambitious and | that the state department had been jat least unofficially advised of the — neutrals’ intentions. The Swiss minister here, Dr. Paul | Ritter, is a leading spirit in the com- ference plan. Hé and the other — (Continued on page 5) GERARD TO LEAVE | BERLIN SATURDAY | BY CARL W. ACKERMAN United Press Staff Cor ndent BERLIN, Feb, 9.—American Ambassador Gerard is prepar- ing to leave Berlin on Saturday. First news that the German government had decided to grant him passports was given the ambassador by the United Press. He at once instructed Secretary Joseph C. Grew to make all preparations for de- parture of the embassy staff on Saturday. All preparations for departure from Berlin of Ambassador Gerard his staff, American Red Cross off |cials and consular officials were | completed today A special train, in two sections, probably leave Berlin tomer row for Berne. On that day the Spanish ambas- sador in Berlin will formally begin representition of America in Ger- ‘PERU FORWARDS ITS. SUB WAR PROTEST | LIMA, Peru, Feb. $.—Formal pro |test was made to Germany today |by the Peruvian government jagainst sinking by a German sub- marine of the Peruvian sailing ves- kel Lorton | | | |TRUSTIES AND SPECTATORS DRINK BOOZE AT POLICE SMASHING PARTY | stars about.” | A Schulsinger, 605 Yesler i substantiated the story told by those who witnessed’ the destruc tion i \ “There is no reason why If shouldn't tell what I saw. About a hundred others saw the same thing, . All | know is that there were sev eral bottles of liquor that didn’t find their way into the sound.” Announcements for the next o¢- casion have not been posted iy po- ‘Hee circles yet.