The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 24, 1917, Page 8

RETURN ENGAGEMENT Beginning Tomorrow | 7 Anita Stewart portraying the role of Mr. Chambers’ most lovable heroine in ‘the story that everyone wanted to see in picture form, and for the benefit of those in Seattle who did not get to see “THE GIRL PHILIPPA” ‘whee {t played the week of the big snow, another opportunity Bow given to everybody to see THE WONDER FILM A PICTURIZATION IN EIGHT EXTRAORDINARY ACTS OF ROBERT W. CHAMBERS’ GREATEST STORY, READ BY PIVE MILLION PEOPLE IN COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE The story {s of a French cabaret girl who, holding the fate of @ nation in her hands, was forced to spy on those who fre- quented her little cafe. Special Music M. Guterson’s Famous Russian Orchestra ADMISSION 15 CENTS CLEMMER Seattle s Best Photoplay House PALACE HIP Continuous today, 1:29 to 11 p. ‘hs ao Pe ‘The All-Girl ‘ Revue of 1917” A Big Vaudeville phew Without «a Man ta Afternoons lic; OAK xx" = “4227S NIGHT OUT” Monte Carter and Company ALL, THIS W IHADA DOG Inn folk no iy m Eves. and Sun. 15¢ d after 20 years “ MOORE| Fri, Sat., Sun., Nat. Sat. 50c to Mat. 50c to 81.50 SEATS NOW #ELLING nur of the Army” Vitagraph’s “The Secret K Jos. A. Maller, Weekday Afternoons Mer. Last Times Last Tims ALL GIRL REVUE OF 1917” A Splendid New Hippodrome Road Show Tomorrow to Wed. WEIR & MACK <x “CAUGHT” LIGHT & ANDERSON q:tgtime Aristocrats KELLEY & ROWE BURT EARLE in “All for Fun” Banjoist Supreme In Comedy Sketch SEBASTIAN MERRILL & CO, Comedy and Noveity Cyclists THE MELVILLES “A Study in Electrics” reawre | Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne chapter“ THE GREAT SECRET” Chapter SHOWS CONTINUOUS TOMORROW, oy H 17011 P.M, STAR WANT ADS BRING RESULTS T GILL ASKS FOR SEPARATE TRIAL IN BOOZE CASE While attorneys Gill prepared today to convince Federal Judge Neterer on Mon day that a separate trial ought to be awarded the city’s chief executive, indicted In the booze-conspiracy case, H, 8, Volkmar, foreman of the U. & grand jury, denied charges made by Gill to get his job Scout master, as announced ex clusively in The Star Friday. JOSEF HOFMANN TO PLAY HERE MONDAY) for Mayor Gill filed a formal motion Friday, theu his attorneys, Frederick @susman and Wil. | mon Tucker, In spite of the fact that Judge Neterer denied the request when it was made informally weeks ago If his request Mayor Gill will Chief again denied face trial March 6. ox Shertff | wit Heckingham Tob Loe Billingsle and Josef Hofmann 1 toratio at th cost of helping ty 8, Who were named by| Josef Hofmann, the first world | convict the murderer who escaped probers }famous pianist to be heard at the| Without this testimony his fate ts ment Moore In concert for an entire | dubious. ye according ar, will pear there Monday) Doesn't Want Other Punished to t motion, has nothing to do| night, under the direction of J. W.) But Byrne ia unwilling to put with the acts of other endants, | Sayre, who brought the Diaghileff) another in his place An affidavit reviews th yor's| Ballet Russe and Schumann-Heink} “I want no other man to undergo activities in directing a smashing | here earlier in the season the hell | have experienced here ampaign against bootleggers ar “ during these 11 years,” he sald oints out the number of times the Rather than help convict another, ngaleyn wer cated. A list ENGLAND BACKS I'll go on to the end. My life ts » complaints ing one © jasted anyway, while mitted | his family in Ban Francisco, What mo to chan , meeeese t Cie net Wile to oe Jack ivek: hs riner prisoner. volve the Boy Scouts as an eee ' ho is 0 friend of Byrne's and who pe bere eyed ll cath LONDON, Feb. 24.—England | for ton years has known the ident!-| mayor may consider exists between) i, a unit behind Lioyd George. |ty of tie real criminal, recently df Re eee otkenan | Wholenearted approval of the |vulged what he knew to the parole | eee ee eee Clit irae hag | sternly restrictive measures |board. He maintains the same at-| which the premier outlined yes: ade against me to the officers of | the organ n were not new to| *efday before commons was ex- them, as Thad previously gone into| Pressed on every hand today matter with them and recotved| (The only fault newspaper 8 Se re -| editorials found was that per porary ssion after | ing Oi investiga-| Maps the speech was a trifle wer more pessimistic as to the pres x # I wan defendant in a} @nt situation than was justified. riminal prosecution in the su-| “Some members vk the pre > chart: 6f itinn count ne |mier drew too dark of the case was heard, testimony taken |@slsting § sitaation. and the evidence submitted to the |Chronicle, “but there has been so! jury. Within ten minutes after re-(much complacent optimism about Uring to consider their verdict, the |the war that a corrective was neces Jjury 1 me gullty on the |sary. Loyd George tn right in re first ballot taken, and, of course, 1| fusing to mask the realities, for you was acquitted | ot get rid m by covering ] with a gauze of words and Headed Dakota Society Before coming to Washington to | PT’ permanently resid 1909. | lved|. The Chronicle, with most other ia South Dakota Years, 1|LOndon papers, announced a reduc served five ter yor of Mi}. (tion in size, in view of the curtatl of paper imports announced) the premier. 1 Weightiest Speech of War | Editorial comment today agreed that Lioyd speech was sitions {a the “When the 400 former Dakotans now resident In Seattle formed a George's lub a few years ago ! was hon.| Probably the most weighty of the| ored by election as its first preat-|*48* | Jent, and am today secretary of} “NO forecast of the statement ation |made by the premier had prepared I am entitled to be con-|the public for the drastic series of a my record and not on/|festrictions they find imposed to | any other basim I do not care today.” ald the Daily News, “Noth-| enter into a controversy with |!o® has brought the lesser penalties Mayor Gill, because I think he has jof the war as closely home to the to worry him at this time.|Deople of this country Lioyd Picked by Gill as Goat George's catalog of the commodities s quoted In The Star| We shall henceforward have to do jae having sald that he rned that | without.” |at one time I went under the name| of French. This {# not true. “I am also criticised because ps Ithe fact, according to the pve na that Winter 8. Martin, ant United States district torney, Was my attorney at one time. As a matter of fact, Mr. Mar- that the near-robbery State bank Janu me-up waved Floyd Morgan and Floyd Matthews, two amateur bad men, a long, long stay in “stir.” | tin represen for al Private detectives got the infor the organiz | The fact of the Hallerd ary 23 was a fr t divert rtant make at Mayor Gill fc at m atte rs and me the goat 2 HURT AS AUTO HITS STREET CAR short time, my cou the case referred to being Ch A. Rey. nolds and W. D. L “It seems to me is attempting to mation of a proposed r ry of the Olympian on January ut be cause the train was late, the rob- bery fell thru. Then for conveni ne sake, the two greenborn | tention from imp has undertaken to glars were “sicked” on the Bal-| lard bank PORTLAND, Feb. "24 Two men However, a crew of camera men, were injured, one probably fatally. of *, detectives, nurses. when their automobile skidded to- |p ete, were on hand. The day and crashed into a street oar.| burglars arrived. Th walked B. K, Clear of the James Amuse| part the bank. Their blood cooled ment company sustained a fractur-jand they started away only to be ed skull and is not expected to re | seized cover consciousness. Seth L. Roberts, a public acco badly crushed Ile Presiding Judge Smith sentenced the men to five months in the coun jell for carrying concealed A public belt tine is neces | @ o sary to reduce switching | | BELT LINE LEAGUE TO SEND charges, attract new factories SPEAKERS WHEREVER and eliminate extorsion, ac- | DESIRED cording to a two-page manu | Speakers to explain the pub. script submitted to the city || lle belt line proposition and franchise committes by Otto | | Point out its benefits to the Case, representing the Public community have been recruit Belt Line league, Friday. || ed by the Public Belt Lino It wag handed to members of the| | league ! committees just before they decided “All oivie, tlelghborhood or to lay over the proposed franchise| | lodge meetings who wish to ordinance introduced by Councilman | | » a fair discussion of the Thomson, which would permit the| | belt line hould call Elliott railways to build and operate a| | 294." Says President Cherry joint ownership line along Kast| Betterton “Speakers — will Marginal way. It was postponed| | Promptly bo assigned by the | till after the public belt line elec league, whose headquarters tion, March 6. are at 1201 Hoge building The uments pointed out that |® | the line would cost less than $450-| ¥. M. Dudly of the Milwaukee | 000 and be self sustaining by/said he could not promise his em-| switching cars at a low rate, Rail-) ployers would enter the project if road ave, it pointed out, 18 “althe franchise was grante chaos of useless tracks,” and an Only One Certain B. Graves, repre was certain that example of useless duplicati Rallways Kidding? It was discovered a on senting Judge ©. the O-W | | JOHN BYRNE TO SAVE MURDERER FROM JAIL HELL BY JACK JUNGMEYER GAN QUENTIN, Cal, Feb 24.—The willingness of an In nocent prisoner here to serve the rest of a life sentence rath- er than help convict the man for whose crime he Is paying Ie the remarkable case of sac- rifice today before the Califor nia parole board John Byrne, victim of cir cumatantial murder evidence, has already spent 11 years In Ban Quentin. Only a hasty commutation saved him from the gibbet. Gaunt and = graven with prison rigors, blasted hopes and lit health, Byrne, who is 45, has lgned himself to the Irony of miscarried justice Today he could gain freedom and titude as Byrne “I will not help put any one be | hind the bars in Byrne's place—b would not want me to,” said Black 1am tolling the truth, after 10 years, only to libera n innocent man and to right a great wrong Rivals Fiction If the real murderer escapes pen alty it will be because the law's In nocent victim chooses to bear his terrible fate rather than invoke be lated justice. Word of Byrne's de elston bas amazed the 1,100 other inmates here. The story of Byrne's conviction for a crime he did not commit ri. vals the weirdest fiction. Two men who resisted a saloon hold-up wer killed by masked bandits {no ancisco. One of the outlaws w also killed and the other wound encaped Real Murderer Married sleeping in the back room near-by, was arrested The fact that he had Byrne, of a saloon an a suspect in his pocket a blue handkerchief | similar to those masking the ban dits went hard against him. Dur ing the trial his chief witness died before he could testify. Bit by bit | Fate twisted her skeins about him. Meantime a cellmate of Jack Black to the latter that his brother was the guilty, wounded that Byrne had nothing to do with the holdup. Black, believing Byrne would easily clear himeelf because innocent, advised his informant to keep quiet and send bis brother out of the w For ten years Black maintained his stlence The real bandit is married and “77” Humphreys’ Seventy-seven For Colds, Influenza, GRIP For Instant Use While venty-seven ats vial of Grip a be carried the porte or in the hand-bag in vest pocket, in monnale, now so popular with the ladies; for tant use; at the firet sneeze or shiver; tho forerunner of Grip or Ja Cold; to get the best results If you wait until your bones ache, it will take longer. $25.00 FOR $10.00 | Special for This Week Only To Introduce our wonderful and genuine Trubyte Teeth, which are truer to natural teeth than anything yet produced, we will make you, this week only, a regular $26.00 set of these won. derful Teeth for $10.00, We specialize in can place a set of Teeth fit and look natural can't fit your mouth, find we can, Extractions Absolutely Painless NATIONAL PAINLESS DENTISTS Second F unt Plates, and which If others you will Friday that| his company would be willing to Great Coie ap and Milwaukee | follow out the terms of the fran chiefs in@he Kast are not seriously |chise if it wan granted Psychic P AB considering the proposed joint own Attorney C. J ep ¥ of the port syc ic Fewer — ooktet | ership belt line for Kast Marginal | commission pointed out that there |Containing remarkable forecasts for way Was no reason to believe the rail. |the United States; detalles of practic Councilman Thomson had intt-| ways would attempt to bulld a line, |e Tee eens OF | Spirit eagte te duced an ordinance to grant the|if the franchise was granted, He|tiree mammoth, Automatic Miter railwaye franchise to operate a| intimated they were playing to|Presse# from a German proter belt line there, It was believed the|check sentiment in favor of the | 2°%)4 "2 we) tne Hiri railways were anxious to start| public belt Hn ’ atu, re building the belt line to serve the| Arguments were then submitted eB district by Otto Case of the Public Belt | at A telegram from Great Northern| Line league in favor of the belt! oliowine officials in the Kast was read by|line proposition, which will be sub. |) Judge F. V, Brown, It sald the G.| mitted March 6, Speeches were N. “can't definitely say we'll go} made by C, A. Reynolds, Judson B y out there wn't believe a track | Shorett and others against the rafl Further sires loa East Marginal way is required.'| way franchise Bo He ALVORD ANG ANT ES aE AA MS 206 N. Y. Block, tn the county jail confessed | outlaw, and) | "advanced position HF SmRATTLE STAR SECOND WEEK STARTS TOMORROW Screen Every Second Night Life in New York The Gay Cabaret “THE WORLD AND | THE WOMAN” | * \ | ALL LEAD TO THE ETERNAL TRIUMPH— No Advance 15c | Children | 5¢ | Loge Seats , 25¢ | JOHN HAMRICK | ' > SECOND AND UNIVERSITY | has a family. He is modestly pros- perous, and a respected citizen to- day. His wife and children do not know, NEW YORK, Feb. 24.—One Ger man submarine was sunk and two merchantmen destroyed a battle between seven submarines and nine | |From the fact that there were more than n person Appears certain the the one sunk. was 4 stool merchantmen off the Spanish coast ar Tarragona, according to Buenos Aires dispatch | today’s New York He LONDON, Feb, 2 24.—The cap- and six of the crew of the ish steamer Grenadier were rald. The information was said to k ane tunic toden” That povaesel, was nave been recelved in the Argen o spate ‘ the crew was safely landed. The peecsonind in dispatches from Bar. British steamer Trojan Prince has also been sunk. | Among the ships sted as funk : YANKEE TELLS | HOW SUB WORKS WwW ASHINGTO? » Feb. 4.—Solo. mon Troizhe of San Francisco was Lioyds lists two British steamers ‘enadier, the largest of 1 Me 83 Newcastle, registered at penieee’ G registered at of ° 5 tons, in the cre arger choad r The Trojan Pi vessel of 3% r |tons, registered at Newcastle aboard the Norwegian bark Blen “| HK jheim, bound from Pensacola to ( . " |Greenock, which was sunk by a Queen Anne ( Grads |submarine on February 22, Consul Have Big “N »p’?| Frost, at Queenstown, reported to endow £ fixer the state department today, Troizhe fe agers the entire crew were | ‘The graduates of Queen Anne|**¢,'%¢ entire crew were sa pepe renee at the school we meee fate Fast erelggaar A: eggs Sa ph Powens [et When the master signaled sub jist of speakers. More a he tne vessel was then «unk by shell home pital oer "The submarine tossed a line to |the lifeboats and towed them until la Bri fish naval vessel appeared on [RAISE IN PAY SOOM (3,2'):2:2 00s cesar anenret on DUE TO MACHINISTS °722202°%: No one was injured Trizhe was born tn Porto Rico, but spent most of his life in San BREMERTON, Feb Francisco. The Blenheim carried jearly increase in pay {80 guns or wireless. | by the machinists work, as thelr pe | TANNER SAYS U. S. | Ba] An is expected joing ship repair tion asking for nts a day has been a raise of 8 ¢ favorably acted upon, and early ac hoped for. Membership in the na-! oLysrpra, Feb. 24.—The federal val reserve iw growin | ra; ‘rohit! ee para ity ak tha eatin, at none dry” prohibition amendment » the postoffice bill, passed by of employes have signed up. yngress, will, When it becomes ef aie ; fective, knock out the permit sys h Bill Takes p tem in this state, Also, it will ren Time of Legislature] OLYMPIA, F 24.—Practically | all of Friday ternoon was passed by the se in poring over Bill No. 287, containing many amend ments to the general fishing code. GERMANS RETREAT BERLIN, via Sayville Wireless, Feb, 24.—"In the Somme sector the! English occupied some parts of an which w rill A Think I Much ed with mud and abandoned by us." declared today's official statement, | Better Mre William H. Hinchliffe, No "READ STAR WANT ADS 1/20. Myrtle St, Reverly. 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This is the opinion given today Attorney neral Tanner on thi newspaper accounts of th federal amendment. ; by basis of Woman Threatens to Spank Boy Holdup: “Put that gun away and clear out 7 of here or I'll spank you,” declared 7 Mrs. P, Cox, who runs a grocery store at 400 Harrison st., Friday fternoon when “cash” was, de manded by a youthful robber of about 14 years. The would-be hold+ ; } up had a companion outside, but by the time Mrs. Cox reached the © door they were both streaking it up the street on a bicycle. CHAUFFEUR NOT HELD FOR WOMAN'S DEATH Tho verdict of the coroner's jw the inquest held Friday aftemag noon into the death of Mrs, Nettlé Van Ormer, 65, of Bryn Mawr, wh was struck and killed Sunday nigh® by a jitney driven by O. Disler, 32% N. Broadway, was that “the d@ ceased came to her death from want of due care on the part of thé driver and on the part of the de ceased 1 do not believe justifies any charge, cutor Carmody to be that and the the evidence) said Deputy The evidence both the aged driver were t@ woman blame,”’ and I can say that it has & great deal of good for arrh of the head and throat. I commend Peruna to all sufferers with catarrh. I do not think I ever felt much better. | am really sur 1 do said for Peruna. Our booklet lin Pp well, free to all Those who object to liquid med cines can now procure Peruna Taba lete te you how to ke