The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 2, 1917, Page 1

MORE THAN 61,000 3 day. Counting four a “244,000 are Star readers dail that | | INCK ROSE AND JAMES FRASER UNDER ARREST Arrest of Policemen Jack Rose and es Fraser Friday morning by deputy ww sheriffs on charges of accepting bribe money marked the second step of Prosecutor Lundin in his campaign to uncover poli¢e graft. Fraser has been working in plain clothes out of Chief Beckingham’s office while Rose} went to Chinatown to do plain clothes duty! during the tong war activities. Previous to) that he was on the police patrol boat. Both are charged with accepting money February 8, which was the day fore Inspector Mike Powers, arrested Tuer day, was supposed to have taken $30 bribe BRANDS DARCY AS “SLACKER” = and ALBANY, March 2.—Brand- ing Les Darcy, Australian pugil- Gov. Whit- in the warrant rapher. ar photog tet, a8 @ “slacker, In the meantir man today directed the state | scott Malone athletic commission to prohibit | his room at him from entering the ring at Fraser has b t Madison Square Garden, in force since 19 ed the New York city, Monday even. (department in ing, for a bout with Jack Dillon Lundin Is Silent the athletic The members of How ch Fraser is charged cor sion conferred today with) with taking as bribe money wa t Darcy will be pro h taking part in a ’ be t in the state oa y, so I am informed, is a or y from his own country,” “In disguise he t in the cause intrymen He pr yition at rae of 8 Carleton’s Partner ane work carried Hesketh Almost ts ida Butted in on Dale), He worked» below Yesler wa ape ton yrométion to ergeanc Yep, C. Allen Dale has the ex Soith aco 1d s wean clasive right to pos cag einer ied Miteer igtt the Ge jeutor’s office he refused t " a h 1 on nad 4a 1 Queen Anne | ‘hat his tion had ar ia do with the arrest of Powers ice headquarters Rose r y morning that Councilman : Hesketh had his pictures on the } ail was pl PA. company's poles along Queen isn't % as contrary to | xed amount es placed in jail if bail was not pro daced | | ADVERTISING MANAGER'S DAILY TALK It's a fact that at about 3 p. m. the average person's mental efficiency is at the lowest ebb of the whole day. So the clerks and officials at the Northwest Trust Co., at Second ave. and Union st., all make a rush at three bells fot the back office for the “Tea Party.” It’s the truth. | Bankers tal of th 1e afternor relaxation a good and the Oo are p of tes minutes or - that a for 15 thing But who President Shorrock was a | “Oh, it's « turn-about mat MORE THAN 61,000 COPIES DAILY washes the ¢ i Kats “VOLUME 19. SENATE VOTES FOR MEASURE UNANIMOUSLY: WASHINGTON, March 2.— The administration's giant $535,000,000 naval bill—the Greatest national defense meas ure ever passed by an Ameri can congress passed the sen ate late today by unanimous consent without a roll call. The vote was taken under an unani mous agreement reported late Thursday when democrats an republicans welded by the sensational developments of the past few days agreed to a “safe conduct” for the bill The anticipated filibuster by Senator La Follette failed to materialize, The bill as passed carried increase of $! over the house provisions meet this increase the senate authorized a $150,000,000 bond issue. Virtually every member was present. Senator La Follette was in the chamber when the motion was put and offered no opposition. bribe FEMTONSN U.S. MAKE LOANS TO: ~ MANY MEXICANS BY ROBERT J. BENDER WASHINGTON, March 2.— Millions of dollars have been Sent to the Carranza govern ment of Mexico recently by Germans in the United States, it was learned on high author- ity today. Some of these mil lions were in the form of “per sonal loans” to Mexico. Other millions went into the purchase of smelter plants wherever available in Carranza’s republic The money was sent in spite of warning by the United States that such “loans” would not have the support of this government unless all details of the arrantements between the loaning parties and Car ranza met with the approval of Washington Whether or Bernstorff Ordered Ship Damaged «= BURNS T0 DEATH my . HIGDAY AND DUNCAN AT THE DEMO CLUB ilten M. Higday A. I or Co Har They Pour Tea at Three . Daily in Second Ave. Bank,: day 4 { girl stenographer, t next a clerk my turn The m of centurie for a better of this bank that check y lumps do take ‘Traction, Light a coun-| th ent it n Dale, From ne | t . parties are after the ther of all the | diva sustained three broken ribs in| s been found to| the understanding fore THIEVES STEAL 30 question that} ou The Seattle Star hag ese SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1917 ‘CHARGE COPS TOOK BRIBE SPY TRAP FOR 20,000 TEUTONS SET IN THEU.S. BY J. H. DUCKWORTH NEW YORK, March 2.—Uncle Sam's se- \cret service agents claim today they have a list of 20,000 persons suspected as spies, on whom they can lay their hands the instant war is declared by or against Germany. For two and a half years they have been working in unofficial co-operation with Scot-| land Yard. Together the organizations have com-| |piled the long list of men who they believe, |might pen to*blow up fiunitfons plants, are) senals and other government buildings, rail-| road oe powerhouses and waterworks. | One list, containing names of 1,000 Pron German subjects,” is said to have been und among papers of the German agent oe Igel when federal detectives raided and searched his office i in » Wall st. a year ago Y ES, WI 1Or start old man fn Sav of the Conditions t Like in ) Ereten nd of men to his wife nah 4 this tale Dale Star-8) LEWIS KNUDSON had charge The fire ne United States has made a study on the spot of the way Eng.| land handled her spy trouble, im A perfect as it was, with the result | » that on word of hostilities between tho Errata this country and Germany danger. | | Friday that th ! ous Teutons would be put under lock and key. n Wal c who Hved in Ballard a wife - ubject 1 be an jects of en ‘ould not posst- | | | Diva’s Ribs Heal, | She Wires Stahl it would ta t Madame Schumann i to guard them. nvering rapidly from | eived when she was These camps, of course, would be 1e| struck by an auto in St. Louis Sat-|only for those who remain in this | and then—It may be | urday brought a grin to the face. of|courtry us German, Avstrian or | Harry Stahl, Fourth ave. restaurant | Hungarian cith.en no: for Ameri man, I cans of Teutonic or Magyar birth old I got a n today,” he said, | from Mac Schumann-Heink wiih ws WOMAN DIES FROM old-time friend EXPLOSION BURNS accident A, N, Houser, who was Sie | | Mrs ed Thy pated y at her home , When she tried to in the kitehen ran gk on a little kerosene, lay at the died | city hospital cn late in the Her 1-year-old son George, who sale |had juat returned from a ranch in t-|Idaho, suffered painful, tho not se & | rious, barns on his legs een| Mrs. Houser was the wife the 'N./ Houser, an employe of the Sound Light and Traction Co, «| SACKS OF SUGAR English whole: The H ral vet | al stolen Thursday morning fro store room, 74€ verett situation, Kelly lation But the The ght and Sat- ONE CENT: New THAINS ANTS ANDS, Be CROOK? Is Mike Powers being crucified on the word of a shyster private detective? Developments today indicate that is the case. Maybe Mike Powers is guilty as charged. And maybe he is not. The Star holds no brief for any accused policeman. The Star has not seen Powers or discussed his case with him. However, when a prosecutor uses the danger- ous old “marked money”’ trick in attempting to capture a crook, then it is up to the prosecutor to be aware of his go-between---to know thatthe man who is to pass the marked money is not crook or a ‘‘framer.”’ Developments today indicate that the trapping of Mike Powers didn’t come as a result of what Prosecutor Lundin terms as his eight months’ in- vestigation of the police department. . The trapping of Powers came about when a shyster private detective (so far as any one can learn) offered to trap him---and Lundin accepted the detective at his own word. The Star is just as certain as itis possible to be that there are grafters in the police depart- ment. These grafters must go. The Star will be behind Prosecutor Lundin in sending real police grafters to the penitentiary. But, when The Star has information, such as it has today, indicating that ny sensational trapping of Mike Powers s based on nothing more than the word or the imagination of a scheming nonde- — script, then this paper is just as anx- — ious to see that an innocent man is not disgraced or persecuted.