The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 22, 1917, Page 1

Ww siratin ane more = than who will never carry guns, But forpedcan t 8NS tpeeding their cheeks grow hollow oe Bi | i seh hy the prices of foodstuffs mount . of the lines and far So, tho we may not know a from the ships are the millions MORE THAN 61,000 na buy The Star each day, Counting four to a fam Pei My, Me moans that 244,000 are Star readers daily, ditty bag from a knapsack, we can prepare to fight the future battles againat food shortage We can grow potatoes, at least. It requires comparative ly little time and effort. THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE — THAT _DARES TO PRINT TH VOLUME 19. REPARE FOR WAR AND H.C. OF L. And it may be the number of potatoes, rather than the num ber of 42-inch shells, that fi nally decides this world strug gle But whether we go to war or not, every vacant lot in Seattle should be made to contribute to the food supply If your lot is only 2 5 feet by THURSDAY, MARCH 22, WASH 1917 100 feet, one quarter of it is capable of producing 1,600 pounds of the rare and valu able tubers The potatoes will mature in iE NEWS E CE TYPE yen PPP PPL PDL DPD LPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP ! TURN BACK YARD INTO A GARDEN! PLANT SPUDS now. get if planted help July To vegetable gardener—a prac: you the moat tical man who gardens himself, out of your back yard or vacant to write a series of articles cov- lot gardens, The Star has en ering EVERY PHASE OF THE gaged the services of a good GARDEN SUBJECT nnn nnn nnn nnn The Seattle Star LAST EDITION It seems that Logan Billingsley also has two-dollar bills. Down in the piker el what? RAR AAR, The weather forecast is: Tonight j and Friday, rain LOGAN DENIES BUYING WAITER AIR HOT CHARGE IN GRAFT TRIA Charges and counter-charges of jobbery in ttnesses further e 1 tl federal booze-graift rhen Logan Billing waley was recalled to the witness s Phursday morning Judg Neterer per: mitted the defense attorneys will, Chief Beckingham and the quartet of dete all Logan after a sharp contest between the defer and United States Attorney Reames PAID FOR WHISKY Logan admitted paying $2 last Su night t Metsdorf, waiter in ¢ an Wright's Third ave but said it was for whisky oney “Did you give him $14 to buy his supp on aske« Billingsley said, “Yes.” Logan denied he paid the money in men to suborn testimony in the booze-graft case WAITER TO SUPPORT HIM “Metsdorf will tell the truth if he comes t an declared confidently “This whole thing is a job by the Gill bunch.” SMITH TESTIFIES Billingsley and Attorney Fulton engaged in sever ages during the examination of the witness Logan told Fniton he (Fulton) had sent Wats see him Billingsley was dismissed from the stand at 11 4 called Watson Smith order to Logan, in a conference one night this week, offered him} frottonng a by aden, mor Bd KANSAS CITY, Mo. March 2 In a week Oberbelman returned! lolation of neutrality, the Inland 8 formulated by the nations joperated at one bat sf D to testify falsely against Gill and the other defendants. | commer of eu stance to ar-|Mrs. Frederick Oberhelman, bride| With the money. C. 8, J Empire farmers are worried for fear fense council and carried 0 Another subject of creat, ie - " th ward ' t 1.) ) maane BO yess r st of the tank y there will be a serious shortage of | the rome department [portance now coming tc i E ; Smith denied Billingsley’ $ inferences with regard to Ful-|rest, but ‘that he had sometimes |of a day, is grieving today over the wath “ pyre en ip on-|farm labor when the real planting claimed to be as advanced s vould is standardization of munitions. on’s complicity in the affair b between him and Billingsley had trouble with men who said |death of her husband, waid to have| stant handling of money, and Ober-|season opens tn the Northwes cco Logan Again Testifies they were I. W. W.'s NE vietim of “bapkers' mad-|helman. oi a Ot : nile Gk Mew called to.the| Am alterspt by ‘the: Getense to} eee 4 mn of “banker: nelman was xiven his Job again d etand, in the presence of the jury.| read parta of the report of the U. | ness jevneten nm and Miss Orla ¢ |CORBALEY ACCEPTS | * “Do you know Metsdorf? S. industrial relations comn fon For five years Oberhelman was ¢b#, Who were engaged, married. “Yes.” which was one of the pamphlets | paying teller of the Security Nation-| Eighteen hours later the brided ‘“ ” “Did you meet him at 10 p. m which Fox testified James Rowan | 4! bar here Suddenly he disap. « he hunting. When she re-/ | ie night? was selling at the street mecting,|peared, Bank officials said they|turned «he received word her hus “Did you have a conversation|®as energetically opposed by | missed $25,000. \band had shot himself in a hotel Gordon C. Corbaley, for the past | with him? | Veitch, on behalf of the stat |— —__—— — a gery sa thi decei on BY ROBERT J. BENDER could be secured on any resolution a en | “Yee—if that's the time I was in| “It may be true that there wa ae a e : 2 ry of th . MENS] United Prose Batt Cobvespondent |the present thay eae BY HENRY WOOD there good as well as bad among the) «what occurred? eee Sere ae ae WASHINGTON, ‘Mareh 22. It is for this reason that efforts nited Press Staff Correspondent Did you not state, ‘I want want chings of the LW. W.." he ar T tak Dae Potion tind: come igned his Spok on and will! President Wilson today began jare now under way by both parties Led a von x Pi ged to see you on important business’?”|gued, “but the defense can show | important conversation the executive secretaryship| work on his message to the |to make ull possible speed and sume DVANCING No. hat when its time comes. This is yun ey " 2a “war congress” of April 2. |sacrifices, if necessary, to expedite 3 BRGNIER, March) ton said ‘You better go up there f Com jsacrigiogs, ¥ a HAUNY AND a so sche Logan Denies Charge |not the tin i and hear what he’s Got ta cay, and ub. His} Simultaneously, senators and jorganization (By ear a Gasiean| “Die snot say. “You're the| ,Wanderveer and Veitch both talk-/14 meet him in his office the next representatives of all faiths | But even while the president was Sa areas er ae yn will etiok by mo?” |*4,8¢ once for a minute, j ecuhas.” Sie. Tate led te Me were wiring in pledges of sup nsi his “war address,” the acked even ee. pply a When you get thru,” declared cite Aad ded tise By Joun GRANDENS port to the White House. ttention of officials and diplomats of the American relief com did no Judge Ronald, “I'll tell you what seer - f 3 Among those who are re- | was today directed sharply to . aia y . Jeckingham told me ‘Those fel : aley, was elected secr gt a ply to inter: sion to leave the French civilian) Lo continued to deny the) oy ruling i y ee ee ee ee eet S . . <p : sponding to the demands for |na! developments in Germany. With abitants utterly without food. | statements Metsdorf says he m 5 He s the phiet was not |0%® 8f & nch of thieves and BERL IN Ma re re Spokane club, at a | Fig nation abuliek: GOs orté of fichehannats oa’ feed tige of every but admitted Metsdorf went with, PGP mgt crooks.’ Beckingham called up less to th» United a | $2,500 Soureseiys - shee re . ey took every vestige o BF iat Sere” satitnaaley's room tu | maerials, 104 the. trial prooneded. |r tas sola him to come up tolis tn coutasion. A ns many are members of the “little riots and growing restiveness a nrenen eam aad) him to Ors Billingsley s rece "| Howard Hathaway, je, Sverett |i.o crerry st. entrance of the Hoxe| tion axsinst oontit . group of willful men” charged jamong the German peoples came ir policy of insensate destruction the Navarre way une —— }iawyer, and at one time secretary |iitiging and bring a man og bos poisons gi : WOMEN IN NAVY TO | by President Wilson with plac. [rumors of possible peace moves, practically every house in cmengee Serense: te of the state democratic committes,| 8 ona tnok me to the Navarre| have refused to respond to appeal Ing the United States in a “con- nating from Teutonic sources. territory which they evacuit re age _ - od | WAS the next witness hotel wo hit big tegen : “ 6 DUTY ON SHO temptible” light before the | Revolution Aids United States “ : - He heard a meeting at the dis Re Si ke tines deck aie DO RE world, as a result of filibuster- For many months there have But ff the Germans hoped by +i Bn it who cot earns nee olfer-lwuted street corner, Wetmore and | ,, vith occa Set Pi vole : ing tactics in the last congre been elements at work in Russia of tem the tide of ed to 300 «with him if he| pee Reseorce c a's et Lo III rere Serer ing to the nature of the pres-| which the pd States was een stvance against them,,Would testify for the mre to ighawar ania tie speaker advo Sree cece ae Saud xe Banishes Him $!w Am car dN he naval re et citpation. it int Heved the fight | and whic % hal tt ay, been wane were disappointed. The French discredit Hatton's testimony.” I) ateq “direct action” and made | 0King | to ot g relies yg | ok my duty onty wilt Leifor organizaion will be short-lived |ful, would have created almost in+ ance has been so rapid that in) can said Be grea 5 to. wat the 1. W, W's | eee eee oe vinsie it.88. Fle Mocks U.-S. tcissced any the navy depart.|i the house, It is believed prob-|surmountable difficulties in the path y cases they have arrived at| Mdn't you lay » WOCOT to Everett oleae cee ? ae cs ment said today. Their pay will {able that some course of action will of this country's entrance into the urs before the| bills on the bed ie ie or citizen-deputy | -0san pul his close | ~~~ ~ = | ment, sa - pa: nl he’s d upon by leaders be war. Revoluti spose i =¥ ed panes to evacuate} “No—I paid him $2 OO ee ene dn and cag depury [und started talking about the case ¢ from $35 to $70 a month, with | be agreed upon — pre] war. Revolution disposed of ti Secours = 1 ave he| those who met the Verona Nev. 6.|,,Smith declared Logan drilled eee ee ee el Peace Signs Watched Full recognition will be accorded - brought oes eve Me I rifles taken to the dock {im on the a f evide nce, and Whether the women will be re-{ Th president can address con-|/the new Russian government as ora bi in $2 bills : manufacture ch sentence of a ether oes e zress before e house org . 10 ‘ established be : 'S LIKE WAR, Did you lay it on the bed? oa |fictitious conversation with Haz |quired to wear uniforms, and, if so,|8Te8% before the | a eens 2 tard. Cong bang en a ) / , Sonar ; it the untform is (o Include a skirt| Dut until it organizes no action doubt upen a sound foundation GEN. PERSHING don't remember : ; us lett, in which it was to apy tha : : to get something to ea sme friends of Gill bad en or the broad trousers affected Ys Saw Metsdorf sete. Charges Police FrameUp | cekihak some -saoney” and’ woeld lg [the women in the British ons *e _ Did you see Metadort Mcnda Yes—the police had sent him) ray him to testif \ | French naval reserves, has not yet ANGELES, | March 22 atl of tke tle esterday after up there. | “Ora ¥ to report to the gov < |been decided him y day afternoor 4 , alike war’ was ot er cteon | Didn't you tell him ‘You have Remember Metsdorf meeting | omment that I had been offered Lia popoctens “ol ee or| dae. 1k & Bel Of a Mor IT and Thomas of the Times in| ing mone’, and the goverament Se er Pershin nah year room Fee ede hgh RAIDER SUNK 22 | Wright comes down, tell him A waa to subpoena mo a | } the} el ses Mia ragged was not me, but a man nam ceil sald George Vanderveer| "ext morning nae SHIPS, IS REPORT | = ie i P ow ald Ge He said Kan cross-examined SHINGTON, re 20 i PSE a Of the South, as he prepared | Smith, a friend of mine |tried three times to get in touch |i i:,° and asked an exhaustive list = | P ideat te nears} approsch to Teaye| here for San Francisco to-| | Buys Pe biges igs pe in to| With bit last night by represent-| 6 questions. : : ei oalition congress that ever was : ERICKSON CHARGES — — ?. ‘old > plat 0 > A > le j Co8 c cc - ing himself to be a PI. reporter, pays ne I'd better fi > N N BERLIN, via Sayville Wireless, | © ote on the ques we |House it was not him but a man). later having a woman try to| Fach *e A spiny Biss $ [march 22-~The German auxiliary| called to vote on the question of | eee named Smith he wanted.’ persuade him to join “a party at|°Pot Couney Mts gers cruiser Moewe returned to her] WF Will convene April. en TALK You as: thee be Monies tolthe Seattle hotel oe Bela : Af «ae Seka cnet ot the Wavy tein her ae womtn pu rae ape ae up e@ Navarre hotel? od to said) ¥ He bores 4 e isto c ; nee ete hie to bet eerie ot |, Then Reames asked Logan to tell ty gay, ‘It was near a bench where| 9 S| "second cruise in the Atlantic! tion, when Miss Jeanette Rankin,| Councilman Erickson, following ; whisker * him to bring up @ pint f| 66 afrorta made by men to “button (Continued on page 10) N § | ocean lared a statement 18+] ongresswoman-elect ym Mon-|a meeting of the city utilities eom- Not Avail Logan said Metsdort came into|2°!e” him | | j psjseee De he, Qktictel (Drone Tiireaul tang, anewerd her’ name, mittee Thursday, charged the aj sates , Poli ha H | aay. | Yemocrats and republicans will] proach and tracks for the municipal Yourself of the |" r00m sesterday | cig Patice Shadow Him (NEUTRALS TRYING = [als ahip captured 22 steamers] « Deweersl® und cepubticnne wi /brosen and tracks foe Ue Seealgl Saye Kent Paid 9100 Le cae ve been seenaeed ¥ jand five sailing ships, with @ total) cach—there being two vacancles|the plans approved by the city Service of the Ads?} “tie showed me a $100 bill given OF ike crite evscvannare Laecoons TO HEAD OFF WAR § jof 123,100 gross tons that cannot be filled before the ses-| council and the board of jwhlic him by Capt. Kent, who told nim|)a.ceq for a guard last night, and " Wala ogee | sion starts. Five independents|Works last Monday, have heen The ads that appear|he'd have to be a witness. He! way given on : ine pee ans. | will hold the balance of power.| omitted without the knowledge or jtried to lackmail me. He broke | WASHINGTON, March That | |'They, however, expected to|consent of the council, and that n The Star from day tO} down and told me the whole thing| Says Logan Offered Him $100 [neutral nations may renew their! Judge C. C. Dally of Marinette,| aplit up—Representatives Call, pro-| there seems to be a misunderstand and that ff he went on the wit-| Watson A. Smith, Oxford hotel, | previous offers to assist in “straight-|Wis., has ordered Mans, a German, THRUOUT GERMANY Kreasive, and Fuller, independent,| ing in the engineering department day actually tell YOU | ness stand he would tell the whole | was called to the stand at 11:35 ening out difficulties” between the|out of the city, after serving five| with the republicans, and Repre-|concerning the intention of the se truth and wonld get hold of| He said he bec acquainted | Uyited States and Germany was|days in the workhouse on a charg : ee , sentative London, socialist, andj council when it passed ordinances how to save good hard Smith, who would tell the truth with Logan Billingsley last #um-|guggested at the state department|of boasting of the power of Ger PA ARLINGTON Mareh ; Randall, prohibitionist, with the|calling for the construction of the ; ‘ , | ni culing the e thousand cases of smallpox | democrats. “re .nd Ballard bridges ith There, To mer today many and ridiculing the United | Phirty the , democrat | Fremont and Ballard bridgi } sh on things that you ia > ahs a did you see him this| ‘This country, however, will nego-|States. Mans has first citizenship|tage in Germany and the disease] "Representative Martin of Louisi-| City Engineer Dimock said Wed- ave to buy. dele fy gab esa | wee ltinte neither with Germany directly | papers. War arguments involved|ix spreading, according to the} ana, elected from a democratic dis-|nesday night that there had been f t Logan * ia ay peo oe 4 -witt “Monday night, about §, at the! nor with her thru neutrals, until the him many times in fights, his ac apeen ae kee rise Men /etriet on a high tariff progressive; nothing done to block the construe- ory tte ogan ce ewee Wom t vartme W per 4 ent has withdrawn! cusers say ber Hoffman received by the state ke: lly holds the balance of) tion of the approach for the munic- ; oy ¢ ou better ng a inp 4. | Washington apartm We walk-|{mperial government has withdra 1 E ‘ b ticket n a nc ppre i They p ery ff “pes on tell d 1 7 4 ets ed to the Washington Annex, and/{ts U-boat de and renewed its department today in full | power ipal line, declaring that it was not yice—they offer you 4 ; : 1) he wanted me to testify Russell | pledges to the United State | known yet whether the municipal ae ‘ » fe sisted gone hen he got to the federal sig paid me $100 to testify Hatton LAUNCH 2 VESSELS <;;,;,, Huildera Mhuat NECKLACE STOLEN |cars would be sent over the bridge, portan y a building was in Hanson's room August 40. ‘ s, Half Leg \s o4 s The home of Mrs. P, A. Purdy,| -- ety tte Smith wanted me to lead him ; Mery hy ‘Asks tor Fialt eg | ae pee wer iHthuave, NU faa sentered be \ hich it will be much to} out ana ten me what they would | He agrer Rihtend ala Peart The largest merchant ship ever) Hurry, Says Daniels citalath Mati eihan ulent Wane! SWITCHMEN, BEWARE! a 3 ask him. { said, ‘They'll ask your |™ i Wiha. eiakaree hotel wae’ Fred Brisboia owes $75 on a $150 constructed in the Northwest, the} able jewels, among. them a plati| Warming against a frauculent pyour advantage {O} name, your age, ete.’ mats oe ab gia |wooden leg, if the allegations of 8. V. Harkness, oil tanker for the} WASHINGTON, March 22.—Sec-]hum necklace set with pearls kollettor was issued Thursday by oO clock a ‘ Q > » a “ 7 v1 d :. tle, president o! He Switel ‘know “Loans” Smith $14 He aaid he went to his room and|Arthur Sandberg, of the Sandberg | Standard Oil Co,, built at tho plant|retary of the Navy Daniels has di-|worth $125, were stolen, Mrs. |: | mete Lom So. fee ie ug ” e Jregor rtificial Limb Co., 17 14th st.,jof the Skinner & Eddy Corporation,|rected that the date for opening} p, porter e palice oat NO. thy best gn ot Seattle’s| “Smith finally told me he was |told his room-mate, Gregory, and | Art will be Isunohed at 4 p. m. Thure:|bide on: the 18 new destroyers belee oa eae e st offerin| 4 up and ehin nal 0! know h are true be one ' bids o' pia estroyers be) her total loss was about $250. | Matores appear regularly in The|wful hard up and wae behind in /said, “I don't know what to do.” jar) oe aing to Sandberg, one-halt| day ladvanced 11 days, from April 4 to] "®" ‘ts! lose Was ale THE JURY in the $75,000 dam: Star. qty aes apy Meee ANE to tell somebody.’ T.of the wooden log still remains his| ‘The 2,600-ton wooden auxiliary | March SAMUEL HILL of Seattle yester-|age suit of Dr, Charles 8. Noble | me Be aucaal avee tial est 16 T ald, Are os m rica right and lawful property, and he|schooner, the Portland, built at the| Shipyards were notified to send|day subscribed $1,000 in response |against the city Wednesday viewed . . m4 risipingg at ind een ae in seeking to recover either money | Washington Shipping Corporation's| representatives at once to Wash-|to a request for donations for the|the place where the accident which MORE THAN 61,000 COPIES We te ort bn ee euntantne | Fulton Saye See Him Jor half leg in Justice Whitehead’s| yards, will also be launched Thurs: jington to confer on building addi-|reliet of the families of French go1-}Dr. Noble charges permanently, ime eae ahaa’ the’ yolice crowd had! “Had you ever seen me before?" | court day afternoon, Itional destroyers, diers now at the front, jured him occurred. and a yi" abe 7 Metsdorf and others had given the defen tt iSwOrn statements saying Logan had tried to hire ther Testify falsely against Gill Billingsley said he loaned $14 in $ s to a man na Watson Smith because Smith was hungry ar ‘needed midating n> 30 and the Smith, who.said he lived at the Oxford hotel, testified} REPORTERS TELL OF ‘VERONA’ TRIP ON FATAL DAY Statements by Herbert Mahl er, former secretary of the Se- attie branch of the I. W. W., and “Red” Downs, another member of the organization made to reporters the night be- fore the Verona took a crowd of Industrial Workers to Ever- ett on Nov. 5, were repeated by the newspapermen on the stand Thureday morning in the trial of Thomas H. Tracy. Tracy, with 73 others, is ac- cused of first degree murder on account of the killing of Jef. ferson Beard, a citizen deputy tion was continued by Moore. He testified that on the night of Ang. of Everett, who met the boat when it arrived there on the ft Verona shooting resulte « publication of an artic J Two Thousand | W. W's to Invade which wa read ithe t t | The nr re exat Wm, Jones and J. J. Und Sanford As ¥, of Marysville, | was ont 1 just before noon the Verona to go to Evere vember 5 nowln I. W. W. expedition ¥ on the Calista, wh h also took a number of the LW. W.'s but dh ot land a Pvere He eaid the crowd rly crowd of workingmen Resisted No Arrest | The first witness Thursday was | Sergeant M. J. Fox of the Everett | port e for whose cross-examina IBANKER’S MADNESS ‘SHANGHAI FARM DRIVES TO SUICIDE LABORERS INTO | Frederick Oberheiman and Wife ¥ DCH ald | say CANADIAN ARMY Investigation was Thursday by Immigration Com- missioner White from Spokane that laborers are being shanghaled Into the by promises of farm work at un- high pay gcross the begun of reports American Canadian army usually border. A warning will says White be issued, in case facts prove to be as represented to Inspec tor B. A. Hunter of Spokane who laid the matter before his superior after hearing the stories of some near-victims of this alleged scheme in the In land Empire metropolis Labor agencies in Spokane een enticing tarm laborers to ( sa a under promise of high pay it * too for farm work in fi He Pauly, who used to help manage the Hotel De Gink b found al men io Spokane wt aid t were Canadian ari de orters ng gone into Canada a ear a unde milar elrean neces as thone er n The given t terms or joinin and they woke up in the army barracks friends got them drunk The department of been asked to look in Spokane. Aside from its being » possible justice has into the matter DANIELS SPEEDS. UP PREPARATIONS WASHINGTON, March 22.—The navy needs 74,500 men—and needs them now. Secretary of the Navy Daniels sounded |an unofficial call for that number today in |an appeal to the press to stimulate recruiting. One of the first requests on congress when the extra session begins will be that 100,000 men—the navy maximum—be au- thorized as an increase to the navy. NATION NEEDS MEN IN ARMY AND NAVY BY CARL D. GROAT } be expected at this time. eintea whaed ward eieesebenn te vartment is ccowd- H its recruiting, filling wp its | WASHINGTON, March 22.— arious reserves. The influx of | Men—more men—is the na- (men under the stimulus of a pa- tion's call today. triotie wave gratifies officie's tm The navy wants them and [charge of the work. the army wants them. Likewise gular army recruit The navy is doing all that /ing is on the increase. human energy and endurance The war department is prepared can accomplish by way of |to follow out with vigor any cours? | speeding its preparations. The | congress adopts, altho proponents army waits upon congress, j|of universal military training fear that their schemes will be blasted in case of a call for volunteers, in- fa-|asmuch as a double system— olun- ready to heed what it may say as to calling men. Naval, military, economic, ‘dustrial and financial preparation|teer and compulsory—canrot be” A pees