The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 15, 1917, Page 1

MORE THAN 4 61,000 Persons buy Tho Star each day. Counting four to a fam y, 1 means that 244,000 are Star readers daily, nen { RARIIAIAAARAAR AAAS THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE ‘THAT. _DARES TO P VOLUME 19. SEATTL WASH., THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1917. | U.S. WILL . END UP | FRIDAY That Walter S. Fulton, attorney for Chief Beckingham, told him in the latter’s office “to keep away from George Vanderveer | because if there was any crooked work among city officials Vanderveer was mixed up in it,” was a sensational bit of testimony! by W. H. Pielow, Billingsley transfer man, in the booze-graft conspiracy Thursday morn-| ing. ! It precipitated the most bitter fight yet staged between government and defense at- torneys. It followed quickly an announce- ment by Assistant Attorney General Reames hat the government expected to close its case early tomorrow against Mayor Gill, the chief, ex-Sheriff Hodge and City Detectives Poolman, Peyser, McLennan and Doom. Hardly had the words left the [Hill witness’ lips, when Defense At- torneys Fulton and Tucker were objecting and protesting sn contri y's campa Bil noon ingsley Just bec took the stand mm his vehemently. bout paying money to Chief} i Finally Judge Neterer in (Heckingham on three < | f structed the jury to disregard when court adjourned for noon net onty Pielow’s testimony Efforts of Attorney Fulton to! about what Fulton had told him | discredit. Pielow on crossex about Vanderveer, but to disre- showing that he ha nent | fn 4 f ee a Mh ae gard what Pielow yesterday tes- € a ar ae = tified Fulton had told him ad by & ruling about fighting for immunity on objectio: = LAWYERS FICHT Before the judge ruled and Was not near battle su ided, charges of unfair his answers edneada CUT OUT THIS SQUABBLING! and improper and insulting con by counsel had been hurled back and forth, much to delight of the spectators Reames conter -, OVER WORKERS’ ~ NEWS ARTICLES witho assault hotly for his right to have testimony tock ew concerning Van¢ s Tal ond bewas torney of the Billingsleys, low's story tha Reames Explains Course Lo What Defense Attorney Van Whether Councilman Fitzgerald or Oe eee, tie’ witness aboot auting woue |" aeene arte cileeee ce eek Councilman Bolton is elected president a visit to Fulton's office, when he Pielow Angers Tucker | Tracy's character in issue by of the council is a matter of small con- Trt vepntotiy caled epoe Mr.|_ Pislow 1 Gnlch he: belonaart ana what cern to the city. fulton to conduct himself propgrls he p ts dlalen é z ‘ y aor te ieaby ry +45 oe er te ee hat Ge L The presidency is practically a nominal honor W. W. senches by ite own pas in which the councilmen alone are mostly interested. i ti it th tak * . . . Apap havticneny | Vhoweaey But the city IS interested in the chairman- morning, in the trial of ships and memberships of the various committees. Thomas Tracy, accused, with And f thi gees Liatly ah; n has a right to bri 74 other 1. W. W.'s, of the kill _And, for one thing, the city as clearly shown eet of the conversation, which was ing of Jefferson Beard at Ev by its vote last week that it does not want the rst mentioned by Mr. Fulton.” erett Nov. 5 i mas 7 bame management of city utilities in accordance with the fair k f a 1 Tee hic comnek ta er per t f plans of Councilmen Reginald H. Thomson and C Attorney Tucker accused Reames t 0. e € Fr y y Pielow Under Fire : Allen Dale Witte 1. Pielow. treneter man om all me | It is rumored heavy vote trading is going on. ; ecane : the: Jo | y g is going t ines read by States Attor- |) It is stated that the two labor members, Hesketh and Bolton, are most seriously, involved in this Were in a Hurry am, mounte vote juggling because of personal feeling against 10 a. m., to , er, secretary-tre each other. xamination at the ra’ Defense leag ; : er Fulton, attorney for} 1 vas asked Petty squabbling when serious conse- 4 ~eaghes hg the an-|Chiet Beckingham Attor ¢ or the defer A ° ecause he wa 1 ie asked if he went under Were you the one who sent quences are at stake is ruinous, gentle- swer out f ane and de ered © ) veret Judge Absolves Rea , pes - {ors batt : ed Tracy to Everett men! Tucker we oe ) the Baker hotel P fairness ¢ accusation, but tlonar This called from Reames af by ti ‘aed | tnember om bis actior dec tha ; . * ? » BA, ‘ “ : questions and manner he had used Goes Over $600 Bribe cop . Soe . er Iton pressed the witness | fight a Betas nec aca siopoat ser, Than Fon, prema the etna |i Not Depend on Bribery ments of counsel and absolved), Works incident, where, he t Wa n the jurisdictior o ee rome ee Saree Sa ednesday, he saw Fred Hiill-| of the free ch committee Did Logan Billingsley pay | and that or Gill and the ness. Chief Beckingham $600 No, not uny time Mayor Gill that $4,000 bribe? other defendants knew of th Takes Stand i ; : ’ Mayor Gill tha fan y r an. eh seet ack Madden, | fF # truck load of Margett whisky Tracy Wanted to Leave This has been the big ques conspiracy thru correspondence deput sheriffs under!” ie rappel hief arrt bat Was fee ae ailed by the free} tion in the public mind for a | solned the Day and Night sen testified as to Logan| {he Star Carriage Wort usked 1 cor ee | month drug store July 25, and aided ee eee | PUltot he t down word he But the mayor is not on trial in various ways to help it Between 2 and 4 in the after-| wanted to leave and go to work, 80| for bribery, and from a l¢ alenie s noon,” F w ered I sent some one els standpoint the govern But from the jury stand Pounding question after question The committee ctically di does not depend solely on proof point,” says U. 8. Attorney ADVERTISING MANAGER'S =| Fulton had Pielow retrace the move. | banded itself after the Beverly af-| Gr this transaction to cinch Reames, “the $4,000 incident DAILY TALK ments of the chief and Fred Billir air, Oct. 31 case against the mayor makes a lot of difference cal ——— itor | 18 eading up to the time when The fight over the introduction The government contends He intimated that if the Free ipposed to have handed of the Ir Jent Worker, a) that the Billingsleys and the $4,000 story of Logan's ts di a P| ti . 7 over the six $100 bill week! er, Was renewed at the! jjqyor dealers conspired to vio | credited, the whole fabric of i | 3 Va Pielow said he would swear Fred|close of Mahler's testimony, and! tate federal laws relative to in Billingsley testimony falls to AGVerisim, awe and he peeked thru the crack be|the jury was excused so the mat-| torstate shipments of booze, | pieces. A\ ff leeen the doors, instead of cracks in| ter ght be threshed out to You Is Not A Mh the ding, and watched the chief want to introduce, in evi } rn me | ““ceninsessnseoe®""" 9 BATTLE GRUISERS COLOMBIAN TREATY in Bargaim Prices | » The Seattle Star ON THAINS NEWS BTAN ONE CENT | Rebels Take Capital; Czar May JFULTON PUTS “CROOKED” LABEL ON LAWYER LOOKS NOW AS IF 2, ‘THE R. R. STRIKE MAY BE AVERTED NEW YORK, March 15. The first managers arriving at the eight-hour day conference headquarters today gave out “unofficially” the tip that the railroad attitude would be con. cillatory and that they would be inclined to meet the four brotherhoods’ demand with a compromise The railway managers and representatives of the “Big Four” brotherhoods went into conference at the Grand Central terminals —_ prompt- ly at 11:30. The broth. erhood representatives were cordially greeted by every member of the conference com mittee as they walked into the room W. G. Lee and W. S. Stone, tw mittee, carried wit large leather portfol Farlier in. the manage “cla with wa ve 1d be Lec the Ada WwW. G peaking for the brotherho said T r i danger nay go t ar next month, any time America goes to war “ that, as patrio: citizer they must then stick at their post They also know that if we go te war it may be years before the get the eight-hour Therefore to get th go to wa we are bef ring we eight-hour da re N. P. ORDERS NEAR FREIGHT EMBARGO ST. PAUL, March 15.—Instruc | tions were sent today to all agents Jof the 7,000 miles operated by the Northern Pacific ments of live to aceept ship stock and perishable |freight which would not reach its destination by 5 p. m. Sunday, “sub: [ject to delay The time sent by |the brotherhoods for a strike on the Northern Pacific lines i p.m Sunda The instructions are looked upon as a “near embargo TAKE GOODS HERE Local railro are still accepting perishable goods for shipment to all point according to word given out by the freight departments Thurs | day i hetwomt! the halldings, hed TO BE BUILT HERE DEBATED IN SECRET y en pedagerepood teal SPentinuee enipage § RESIGNS POSITION wastiseros. Maren 15-The} WASHINGTON, March 15—The "f e ingle contract evér awarded 6 al for e é a GRAYSON GETS JOB PARIS, March 15.—Resignation | ~" He Naee: Aaeaetant ‘aunt senat hea ratification of th of Minister of War Lyautey today | ing to over $100,000,000—was com- | Colombian treaty is on behind clos OF REAR ADMIRAL wrought to a head the cabinet eri-| jiered today when Secretary Dan-|€d doors, following a voting down of | h has been Impending for | joie announced awards for building;a motion to discuss the .reaty in ffering Seattlnns si or ‘ 4 battle cruisers and six scout |q@pen session al *| WASHINGTON, March 15.—Dr muncement of reorganization | er t nne ss t mink New rt New ipbuildin Cary 7 yson ant surgeon gett Newpo 1 of the navy 4 President Wilson's | “8% expected to Co. wax awarded contrac riwo will be built, two by the Cramp, ? ghar pee tr | personal physician confirmed of the battleships. The New York) Co., of Philadelphi two by the MORE THAN 61,000 COPIES as medical inspector of the na Henry de Spain had the hardest | Shipbuilding and the tiver| Union Iron Works of San Francisco DAILY “ith the rank of rear admiral, by the! job in the Calabasas valley, but he| Shipbuilding Co. will each build) and two by the Seattle Drydock & | ae today. toved “Nan of Music Mountain.” |one battleship. The scout cruisers) Construction Co, | senate SAI i thaplin Now Gets Million a Y ALBANY, N. Y., March 15 Charlie Chaplin is dissatisfied ‘ar with his salary, He only gets $675,000 a year. And he has accepted an offer of an even $1,000,000 from a competing firm, It's real money, too. All this according to no less an authority than the Wicks mov ing picture legislative investi gating committee. LAST EDITION “WEATHER OR NO” “The confirmed criminal puts a comma instead of a period at the end of his sentence,” says Old Man Sage The weather man says fair to- 5 night and Friday; heavy frost to } night AND Quit PRO-ALLY FORCE IS VICTOR BY ED L. KEEN LONDON, March 15.—Revolution has succeeded in Russia. The czar may abdicate. The duma and the army—or at least powerful ele- ments in both divisions—have overthrown the govern- ment. Their object was to drive out of power forever the pro-German officials who since the start of the war have been reported as hindering Russia’s full participa- tion with the entente against Germany. Three days of intermittent fighting preceded as- sumption of full control by the revolutionists. Take Two Cities | The principal clashes occurred erlin statement did t streets of Petrog actual reasons. Ab The mar are silent | ned, Armed forces were is that the Russian lin encounters i ru the duma, have risen nst the Russian bureaue. minis-|Tacy. In this . the revolution — iding | Cannot fail t Russia even > er of | More pro-ally an¢ ti German than — heretofore. The Ru sian bureauc- charged with ~ enka always been . F it was leanings; there have been , ad established governmental it whispers of Russianiiga committees at Petrograd and Mos.| ficials selling out to Germany, ; ad The beauracracy represents @ In sublimated militarist government, jan an impro’ nent on the German coup d'etat system of complete control by if force ‘ Those who opposed such a sys at ltem could naturally be expected | y bitterly to oppose a German sys reported |tem, founded on much the same na as umed ! prine deta ged t by wh BERLIN GETS FIRST WORD OF NW h the following official report was Is bs sued from Petrograd, March 142 People incensed population of Petrograd, by complete one ae BERLIN | /ia Sayville Wire. less), March 15.—An_ execu- tive committee of the Russian “The wma has accomplished a suc. | incensed cessful revolution in Russ imprisoned all the ministers, and now controls the govern: ment, according to “an official statement from Petrograd” is- tion of beng service and of ali- n metitation had long been trritated — against government and had — become restless ‘ The population held the govern- sued by the official press ment responsible for all its suffers bureau today ings. The government, expecting: | The duma declared the cab- |trouble, took measures on a large ©) inet no longer exists. seal: ntain order, and, among The statement was dated ot sures, ordered dissolution — of the ag and the duma, Duma Balks duma, however, March 14, on the third day of the revolution, when order had returned swiftly “The on Marea The capital is in the hands 11 deci not to accept the Im of the executive committee of perial uk but to continue meet the duma and troops garri- ings. The duma immediately inst > soned ig Petrograd and which tuted an executive committee pre- sided over by President Rodzianko That committee declares itself ‘as a _& provis! sional government.” number more than 30,000, all of which eres ied revolution About ful revolution, ' as P atecstau Why Berlin Got © _ First News of Revolution ~ t how Berlin should receive! he British censor has usually an official report” from Petrograd | t lenient in transmitting Te is not made clear in the statement! ports of Russion disorders, If above, London dispatches seems likely the duma commit- ly have expres rank apprehen-|tee is in control of the government’ © sion as to the exact extent of the it would be anxious to announce) ] nt disturbances in the Russian| its control to the world, _ capital explained in Petr ad dis. Therefore, first news of a suc- solely to d monstra-|.0 olution coming from supplyin ‘Berlin seems inexplicable, utches as due for better food STEAMER SUNK "/BRITISH NOW AT. : BOSTON HEARS KAISER’S LAST Ce BOBTON: , METS die Une LINE OF DEFENSE Withy & Co,, steamship agents, re- | ceived advices today that the | ‘g steamship Sagamore, bound — for | LONDON, March 15.—British Liverpool, has been sunk 1o | troops are making their advance company stated that no word re-| to the very gates of Bapaume | garding the conditions of the sink-| '" the face of a blinding down ‘ Bt sto” | pour of rain and a sea of mud, 7 ing had been received, Today military experts es | timated they must be fighting ; Sagamore is listed as a stee before the last line of German a rew steamer of 5,197 tons built 1a] defenses of the city. ae at Liverpool and| Field Marshal Haig’s report Jast Whi “ ng Might placed them within a few 7 owned Ate DINMONT hundred yards of these positions Steamship Company, Ltd jafter a further advance on a front The Sagamore left Boston for/of approximately 1% miles ims Liverpool on February 21, and was | mediately west of the city, p due to arrive in England March 7.| Dispatches from the front insjat. ‘" Her cargo consisted of grain, foo@|ed the German retirement was stiff stuffs and general supplies, mostly jening, and that for the most part consigned to the British govern-) what was started as a pursuit by ment, but no munitions were on /|the British has-now developed into board No details have been received as when the sinking oc a British offensive, the enemy only leaving his position under the term | rific score of British guns, instead 4 of voluntarily evacuating, as has 4 to where or jeurred been the rule recently, WASHINGTON, March 15.—Ray 4 meres Baker, Nevada, formerly attached CHURCH RUMMAGE SALE. to the American embassy at Petro: A rummage sale, under the grad, was today confirmed as di-|auspices of St. John's Episcopal rector of the U, 8, mint jchureh, will be held in Frye'’s Cems 4 mond Stevens, New Hamp-|tral market, First’ ave, betwean J shire, was confirmed as chairman of} }the shipping board, Union and Pike sts., on Friday and. Saturday,