The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 17, 1917, Page 1

— | P ONE CENT ALL EDITIONS All the Time STAR WOMAN RUNS B OFFER MADE TO‘FIX’ BELT LINE BOND ELE PASS THIS BILL A bill introduced by Rep. Adams, before the ™ legislature to appropriate $5,000 to pay for the services of Attorney Reynolds in the Northwest tourist case It should pass. People of Seattle, Portland, Tacoma, and other places, have had to dig into their pockets to make up that fund. The Star urged them to do so, rather than depend on the legislature. It was a case of safety first. The Northwest was in danger of losing ground already gained in the rate fight to give this section the same chance for tourist trade as Southern California has. But it is really a state matter, The whole of Wash- ington is affected. A few private individuals should not have to bear this tax. The money is for public service. The legislature should pass the Adams bill STATE ASKED TO PAY FOR TOURIST CASE ercial Clu tha is sion and have y nolds should be the man he who has handled the the start With Friday as the lay introducing bills in the legislature representatives from the commer cial organizations came to Olympla to see there was no further hitch. These representatives were 8. J Wettrick, attorney for the trans portation bureau of the Seattle Commercial Club; Jay MeCune, While the name of the special secretary of the transportation bo counsel to handle the case before reau of the Tacoma Commercial the interstate commerce commis Club, and Gordon Corbalay, execo sion is not mentioned in the bill, tive secretary of the Spokane the attorney general, the commis Chamber of Commerce. OLYMPIA, Feb. 17.—Representa- tive Adams of Spokane yesterday introduced a bill appropriating ko00 from the general fund to pay r the services Attorney ries A. Reynolds in the fight to| preserve the Northwest's victory in the $17.50 passenger fare differ ential rate case. The bill has been given the ful} recommendation, not only of these commercial bodies, but of Attorney General Tanner and the public serv ice commission. the Comm case BREAKS NEAR BERNSTORFF TO WITH AUSTRIA, | BE HELD WEEK SAYS BENDER NEAR HALIFAX: HALIFAX, Feb. 17.—How thoro will be Engiand’s inspec tion of the liner Frederick VIII. bearing Count Von Bernstorff back home, was indicated to- day in the semi-official an- nouncement that it may be a week or more before the liner is “passed.” A huge staff of naval, cus toms and immigration officials, with interpreters, women as. sistants and translators, swarm ed aboard the Frederick Vill. today, beginning thelr work shortly after daylight. rmed guards watch the Fred ick VIII, and no one is permitted aboard be: id offic gaged in the inst On those armed with passes frc thort These 1 to « BY ROBERT J. BENDER WASHINGTON, Feb. 17— | After two weeks of broken re- lations with Germany, Presi- Wilson today finds the in- situation increas ingly difficult. A break with Austria seems Bf mpending, in view of pers te to nt reports that all negotia- ‘ons tending to dissuade Aus Py_.-ia from following the U-boat Course of Germany have failed. Officials are convinced the resultant economic situation In the United States makes some action designed to open the way for American shipping Im- rative. tbeence of word from American agents in central power als ¢ consular aan were only officials passengers wer mitted to le today, nor will they be granted such permission during the stay of the liner. SHIPWRIGHTS AT PORTLAND STRIKE Feb. 17.—Thirty and shipwrights at gineering company M Germany in her course of interference with Ameri can privileges and American rights In spite of these developments of the last two weeks, howe there fe no belligerent step immediately fn sight, recording to those close to president lg Shipping I's Tied Up | The most distressing problem Is that of American shipping, now at] a standstill in American har | (Continued on page 8) ma Is 24 Hours — Than David David lightning graph operator the nes, failed for the first time tn his life to be on the job at 7 a. m. Saturday “{ didn’t get up,” he told his em: because I thought it was ave er PORTLAND, j union caulkers | the Columbia Er were discharged by President Mears today, and {mmediately fellow employes dropped their too Eight hundred at Shipbuilding plant before night and walked out the Peninsula Tacoma | inay strike | SECOND TRAIN OF Sullivan tel for ployers, Sunday.” WASHINGTON Feb. 17.—A nec. ying Amert rious parts o Berlin fo announce. state de can consul t ADVERTISING MANAGER'S DAILY TALK from any will leave Tuesda T Gert Berne ment partment toda DON’T HAVE TO OBEY LAW UNTIL READY OLYMPIA, Feb, 17.—Public serv ice companies don't have to obey the law until they get ready The house decided this when it sed House Bill 72 the time for the electri panies to comply with the law d in 1913, compelling the con atruction of electric lines and the ulating of wiring on a standard that would insure the safety of linemen ALL N. G. TROOPS ORDERED HOME STON ———— — wa the New Programs at All the Theatres Today and Tomorrow » find out detatle a te da extending Page t neo 8 rane & MORE THAN 60,000 COPIES DAILY WAS tional jard troo ren | the border have All na nin een ordered home. on CONSULS TUESDAY ThesSe THE ONLY PAPER VOLUME 19. SEA BRIDGES CHARGE Charges that a city registra tion clerk offered to “put over” the public belt tine proposition at the March 6 election for $1,600 were made in a speech by Robert Bridges, president of the port commission, at a meeting of the King County Democratic club, at the Good Eats cateter ia, Saturday noon Bridges said the man called | on him three times, and intimat | ed he was in a position to issue instructions to election officials which would result in ¢ swinging votes to the proposi tion As a reference to his ab the thing over,” * referred me n, who, he sald, was familiar od that wae ence voters to adopt site for the new county-city Ing ! of conforming Bogue plan site T think the put lity Bridges said Lawrence Col with used to | to th ie ought to know how prot fons are put over,” Bridges explaine an motive for airing the incident It shows what money can do, | how strings have to be pulled some times to get the proper results some 1 He sald his caller first made the} loffer two weeks ago, and had call 4 twice since then. “Two hundred dollars was to be paid over’ immediately, said Bridges, “and the remaining $1,400 placed in a bank {n escrow, to be delivered only if the proposition was carried e man also offer hire a pamphlets FARMERS INDORSE PORT BELT LINE BILL SPOKANE, Feb. 17.—Farm. ers, grain growe and ship. pers assembled here in conven tion yesterday indorsed the Guie bill calling for publicly owned belt line, grain elevators and other port developments in Seattle If the legislature kills the Guie port development pian, the farmers declared they would ship their gri to Port land ; took could beco Pacift maintaine ware and storage plants were con y a public belt line railwa development bureat cr Com the position that e the grain publicly ators Se attle port of the ed and tt own owned terminal plan SEATTLEITES WATCH DOUBLE LAUNCHING cts of Se ped into the at practical! jaturday attle ferry, Rob- Alaska Pacific motorshtp Oregon aunched yards, slip ra of Eliott ba ne tim new W dees, and the ion Co. easfully at Miss Marie Levendahl, 3263 42 r of the West Seat wa 4 or for nded by a at high ferr ber Whil slipping glided down the wa on the West waterwa A large del egation of Portland business attended the launching. a membe school the She num was atte of her sche the I t Br the Oregon ges was rom a plant Evidently He Kept Had Long Enough NEW YORK of hia three r the head Feb. 1 customers with a club amethyst Mark one gems i When hit and tra remained enough to safe and one him gra Jeweler the Clerk onl the Had Novel Way to Announce Secret MARY A brat 1 Miss Florer herd had the news of her betrothal to Harry | Lewis flashed on a movie screen, VILLE new Cal plan for Feb. 1 A announeing ported here 11 IN SEA TTL TTLE, WASH,, SATURDAY, © THAT DARES TO FEBRUARY 17, 1917, ” = ————— Society Girl Lobbies for Blind; Wins! ® = ' - | JOSEPHINE. CRISLER Miss Crisler Is the heroine of the blind im Tenne She is the PRINT T iT THE NE ON THAING NEWS STAND ONE CEN’ \W Asa LAST EDITION a \ : - Don't be fooled by a woman with Genius grows in the haad, not on It, Weather forecast today: “Unset. tled; occasional rain.” AND te LOCKADE + * % # & TION ~ Mary Boyle O’Reilly Makes Thrill- ing Trip on New York From Liverpool; “Battle Hymn of Republic” Stirs Passengers. (Mary Boyle O'Reilly, of the staff of The Daily Star, has just arrived in the United States on the last boat home, the New York, the only American liner to start from England after the new German U-boat campaign went into effect Miss O'Reilly was in London as correspondent for The Star. The assignment to make the trip thru the war zone marked off by the Germans and write the story of run- ning the blockade was cabled to Miss O'Reilly, and she bravely accepted the risk. EDITOR.) : We Got This in the Mail Today } and |? Be it enacted That any words one saying Darn *tronger than be inder the age ring corsets be wearing heels er one inch high ( male wearing more } in her clothing noking a be fined person r cigarette ale using taleu cream, ete, on her face That the use? any person—Oh SUBSCRIBE! daughter of one of the South's leading surgeons and a leader of the WW WW..nnnnrnrrnrnrnnrnrnnnn younger set of Memphis to provide for a commisison for th his | senator called her “the most charming She worked so earnestly for a bill she wrote ee that one state in the r ¢ blind of Tenne little lobbyist She succeeded in having the bill passed PUBLI SERVICE-- THE ISSUE The issue in the coming primaries Tuesday and the final election in March, at which three councilmen are to be chosen, is plain. It is “Public servi Councilman Dale, other night, a public meeting the dicated that his first interest is the Puget Sound Traction, Light and Power Co. His record in the council more than indicates it. Plainly, he is not the public pays him his Two men, already a PUBLIC servant, tho salary of $3,000 a year. in the council, have proved their PUBLIC service, and should be re- elected. They are Councilman Oliver T. Erick- son and Robert B. Hesketh. No truer type of democrat with a little “d” than Erickson can be found. He gave up a suc- cessful business career for public service, and he is SERVING the people, not bunking them. Hesketh, a member of organized labor, has also aimed to give service to the majority of the people, and not to a select few. Vote for Erickson vote for Dale. SH KENNET, Cal, Feb. 1 William Herniman, aged 48, was shot and killed by Clad Reppert, aged 43, today, when appeared at Rep call Mrs. the former pert’s home to Reppert The slayer notified the ties 0} tragedy on police au f the and th She worked in a_ settlement house. And years before she had been a street waif herself, later a cheap little actress—a moth whose wings were singed by the flame Julia out a It will Begin 's “The Story of Page,” who turned wonderful woman appear in The Star. it Monday. and Hesketh. Do not OOTS MAN TRYING Jed that his vietim break up his home Mra. Reppert tod Mrs this statement The tragedy the Reppert ting at had tried to persuading with him confirmed to elope Reppert home Herniman ren 1 home today, instead of going to work, as usual. He wa waiting when Herniman arrived Reppert drew a revolver and fir ne shot. The bullet entered back Herniman’s head and entirely thru ft, Herniman fell dead GREW TO VIENNA PARIS, Feb 1 Grew, serretary to the American embassy at Berlin, and recently in charge during Ambassador ( i in the United St ordered to Vienna to lenfleld 1 gay red in front of Reppart Joseph ibsence toda Amba dor ¢ wa ssist Ambassa the instructions to sador Grew Judge Says Each Lie Told Him Worth $25 CHICAGO, Feb. 17.—Federal Judge Landis estimated Levy Zim. beroff, bankrupt, told him 700 He: He ordered Zimberoff held under $5,000 bond, “or $25 for each lie |you have told me, ‘HIGH COURT SAYS NO DAMAGES FOR MOTHER'S DEATH OLYMPIA, Feb In a de. cision written by Judge Chadwick and concurred in by the remainin members of the supreme bench, Su perlor Judge Jurey is overruled in granting Cedric Whittlesey a $6 verdict against the city of Sea Whittlesey wa awarded dam ares as the result of accident when the machine into a deep ravine at Crockett st and Third ave, N., March 1913, | killing his mother. It was alleged the citv was negligent in the con dition of the street upreme court could not be collected for death of a unged | rongful wife or | Here is her story.— BY MARY BOYLE O’REILLY NEW YORK, Feb. 17.—With the Stars Stripes at the taffrail, but no barber pole stripes on the sides or checkerboard flags on the mastheads, I have just passed thru the sub- marine zone of fright- fulness on thé Ameri- can liner New York, THE LAST SHIP FOR HOME. A vast landing shed held by soldiers; one table at which British- ers sit to be questioned, another at which Yan- kees stand for the same ordeal. A final inter- rogation, a grudging stamping of departure cards, a swift passage along the last gauntlet, and I and 200 other “safe” on the last boat Hlar Bo le TO Reilly American citizens are home. _ No parting cheer to the towering ship, no final greeting to the empty dock, as the first an automobite| blockade runner slipped into the stream. Such jare my last impressions of Liverpool. Passengers are carefully cabined near the gangway stairs and life belts are laid open be- held that side every berth. I take my orders for the trip from a calm- ‘The decision does not discuss the CYed stewardness from the lost Titanic. question of negligen It covers | many pages, and cites the common law rule that damages may be ob tained for the wrongful killing of a d father, and of children. but nos the death of a wife or mother, Th atutes of this state it was held, did not change the com. mon law MAYOR INDICTED IN huab CHEHALIS PROBE»: CHEHALIS, Feb. 17.—Dr. J. T. an yor of Chehalis, indict ed by the Lewis county grand jury suing a prescrip where the liberty on Colen on a charge of Is tion for liquor | n was not sick ball dictment char Colemen wrote an ill tion for Fred Nehring on Decem 3, Dr. Coleman claims Nehring needed the lquor. The g%nd Jury dictment, wh cret Air Mail Route Is Being Planned a case voted anc being Minn., Feb, 1 Aero be carrying 1 to St. Paul PAUL p will from Minr Chicago flight sT oon eapolis making day and deliverir ' the Twin Cities each day mail writ ten in Chicago the same day The time now med by rail i 12 hours for the 450 miles, Pc er A. E. Purdy of Minnenpoli Postmaster Otto N. Raths of Paul are working together plan. 2 ARE KILLED WHEN each con mast and SHIP STRIKES MINE ::. LONDON, Feb. Two were killed, nine missing five injured Were rescued when the British $. S$. Lady Ann struck a mine, it Was announced today, The injured have been removed to hos. are men and pitals The | Ann was an tron steame of 1,016 tons, Sunderland, and the pro; Lambton & Hetton Collieries, crew registered at rty of th Ltd Julia Page grew up on the pave ments of San Francisco, on the|lean hull lung but “Madam will dress warmly with fur coat and sea rugs laid ready,” she tells me. “There is a handbag for money and jewels, the state- room will be hooked open and you will have jone night’s sleep fully dressed lying upon the couch,” she added. the ders come nf bridge—th al rule of the jously, t Ing faintly, she begins Not “Columbia,” eer mMy Coun try,” but that nobler clarion call, “The Battle Hymn of the Repub- lic.” “As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free.” It is the creed of Ameri- cans facing Fate on the last boat home. The ships heads into a new course, southwest of Hatteras, along a lane shipless to its dim- mest horizon. The ocean, green and sullen, fs a vast loneliness, This charting evades the lurk: erman raider,” con 1 a zone of broken water, York banker, “Where esau inside the fastnet to avoid|{s almost easy, threats of attack mine fields, a glimpse of the) prove the folly of frightfulness.” guardian ring of trawler patrols—/ “And the futility,” add the dozen indefatigable, unhonored and un-|disciples of destruction, American ung, fishers and fighters, too. engineers returning from exploding if anywhere, pirate Rumanian ofl wells for the British w we get government Shuffleboard and quoits have lost their interest, The latest pastime rehing for undersea cruisers, The newest pastime is finding those ignificant holes in the deck plank- which mark the position of @ scoutship's quick firers. The old warship is racing home to cast off civilian gear,” comments rded_ boatswain. tighteen years ago this month somebody mined our battleship Maine. Before (Continued on page 8) Shovel Attack Is Cause of Arrest th non-cor aptain o} a There is no mention of raiders or submarines Gray, murky a shrouding the and the Lusitanta ships shrieking thelr nationality from waterline to topmast. The Philadelphia, limping into port with a smashed sc w Two slim, black torpedo boat destroyers sneaking thru the deepening gloom. That e picture the harbor presents ad ff ound sea Arabic Gaudily painted ves of the He rines other sut thru, an ships can follow in lie Amer afety Tie Children in Life Belts Women glance men’s are tied belt montions either the the War-w p are Ameri at each other { oe yw 1 children No one grim » life mans or ind warp cans goin dden, the ship's long thru hills of water breaker is dange Then, of The blockade thru the first God of storms A wild nigh tramp da the lor i irfew call From the silent chamber whisvering wireless world’s news, &@ mes the captain. He confident News of Diplomatic Break llow-citizens, the United State 1 diplomatic convoyed ne by the tire. thru] wept bow, | a doub the All's of watch from sea - t's « Information cherging first degree assault was filed Saturday by Dep uty Prosecutor Barto against Voin the| Voinvich, a laborer in the employ of sto/the Builders’ Brick Co. a plant at tired-eyed, | Ninth and Charleston. The assault, according to the ine formation, occurred on February 12, when Voinvich, after an argument over a question of work, approached Ben Atkinson perintendent, and The flag under which we sail. | beat him over the head with a shoy- ed is no longer a protection el handle. Atkinson was confined An elderly lady slips to the | for several days in a hospital, Voin. piano. Her cameo face, flush. ‘vich’s bond was set at $1,500, “lonely as} ac where drips enger spec rises iP has re with Germany relations