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_NIGHT EDITION Ever Eat Spinach? “You got to admire the cleverness of that fellow.” How often was that expression @Eused of Logan Billingsley. But look Floyd Rader, county agriculturiat, tells Star readers, on Page 3 today how to grow spinach in a war gar den. Better read his garden advice The Seattle Star —a« ("THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS | oe Re F ee mo ee ee ee eee Oe ee | tonight and Saturday.” VOLUME 19 SEATTLE, WASH,, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1917. ONE CENT ‘Gounan aa Wivives : in ‘the Coaan Building Murder STOPS NEAR WHERE EMPLOYEES SAW MAN FLEE DOWN THE HALL INTO AN ELEVATOR SC Burnside Hat Store Clerk _ Saw Dirt on Man’s Hand | —May Have Slipped Down | Green Bldg. Fire-Escape. | (The Greatest} CIRCULATION By the Editor of The Star T took a lot of you by sur- prise, didn’t it, when we printed that line across the top of the paper: “THE STAR HAS THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST — AND leeve ered w the man People have, in years past, referred now I re be nrctieé ght brown, Seana and then to us as “the plucky little eer namie Star,” or “the bothersome little Star," | feeb Ses 5 rc according to their lights. We have stood J The hat rth ave t ly half shoulder-to-shoulder wjth the citizens $1 ‘000 am GEMS MISSING of this community in many hard-fought THE DAGGER! cS ° tel battles against a common public enemy. edd gin Labotmrce WITH WHICH | | Re Hise ees: Generally, being in the right, we have ae os -Gpeoctires eve, act detereolne) isa 2 qauarre It must be confessed we do love a not make ex building by eleva good fight, when we've got some- ae aid whic te in na Al Ht and then | A clerk in the Burnside shop believes the hatless, mat thing worth while to fight for. And, be- ~ cause of this, there have been those who have looked upon us as a “little” David, eternally vigilant for a chance to whang the Brobdingnagian Goliath on the }came. from the alley... li rom dirt. “Tis stremgthy re escape theory and the ered with beezer. tv A friend once referred to us as donk tates u é or a cap, without am The Biggest Little Paper in the Hi WHERE Flext Wlanie Geakaio < eahetd ag anoad at en World.” We like that. We have al- OccurRReO WAS FOUND BLEEDIN ways known that some time we had i \\ si Y bl ciel SEEN THIS MAN? to “grow up,” but there is just a tinge of regret for us in the fact that we are no longer ‘The little Star.” The diagram shows the acene of Broker Rehfeld’s murder in his office, and the route taken by the flee ing murderer in.making his escape, if he ran thru the corridors and went down the elevator. Police also are working on the theory that he dodged out of the corridor, thru another office and climbed down a fire aims and ambitions with the highest sraimaadanrcom het AQ OOO. GERMANS — SCULPTOR ond Following is the description of the man the police are looking for in an effort to clear up the Green building murder mystery: Height—About 5 feet 8 inches Complexion—Dark Weight—About 150 pounds Sult—Dark blue or purplish Cap—Light brown, “fuzzy,” with white stripe Face—Smooth shaven He escaped into the noonday crowds, following the stabbing of Aaron Rehfeld, Thursday noon. We have tried always to square our mistakes. To err is human, and we IN CONFERENCE STAR men are only human. Bat in any matter of public controversy in CUT T0 PIECES WITH TENNANT which the line of right or wrong could be clearly defined, we have BY HENRY woop S| Pellee were emeining fur way out the lish suit out five rk hair, never failed to take our stand on the oA 0g ther evidence today in connec rk ¢ side of right. WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES IN THE FIELD, ten sith the murder ot Mrs ish and, 5 rence Wehn, wife of James ah 20.—Seve Ss . $0 » had 20 eventy-seven square miles of pran RET A Weaken, Banat cokleien aoe =| CLERK KEEPS CLEW TO HIMSELF And so it will be ALWAYS. The D laimed up to today from the invader by fi was brutally slain Tuesday heat, fea to be big, complete, modern Star shall Gays dy smashing by the French. : ot ee ee 1p ext om. the f Gen. Nivelle’s »n have y rogressed over day morning in a ravine i 1 lee jer (ied never falter, and shall never deviate. : en. Nivelle’s men have now progre Twelfth ever W.ibed’ Whose | / i 7 a . front of nearly 40 miles to a depth of from three-quar i me It may be prosperous, but it shall never darevot a aie to four full miles * tor ¢ remet taking @ , ‘ pe ° } ‘ ‘ 1 was again Py d ee : | be fat and contented. W henever A score of villages and towns have been taken | care geub over dak cukiy a : srr e ¢ ground there is a worthwhile battle, it shall be since Monday, when the great offensive started. | Aten ath believed to have worn his coat and ve ' found at the front, on the firing line, The German losses have been staggering. Two Wehn hetd The man I carried told me he was after a doctor fala a De man wl va t,” says Dew He left the elevator and complete divisions (40,000 men) which made a coun eeu oe true to its policy, true to its history, true ter attack on Juvincourt, were literally wiped out by|ecring the to its traditions. vent out on the DOCTORS pert SLAYER PLES the French artillery alone. Demoralization is spreading t : ‘ | a ab Dr was across the hall from among the Germans—even among their offic ers the pas the A feld’s firm said ession on his faces) toward the ADVERTISING MANAGER'S DID 18h NOTICE THIS? E. M. Wheat, clerk of the Burn yw, if the other afternoon ; t ‘ Me % DAILY TALK Miabagrs: “ip oh ed ws ae side hat store, at Fourth ave. and “Tve se the man a number of times in the hall,” DEF time Fre . Union at., who sold a cap to the mur.) 7 athrop say Is it in my mind whether or not he ATTENTION! : {Reve figured out repard. the: ad derer wore a small, dark mustache. I thought he had on a Sule da a whistle «: e Ostel and Courte | F and German | ffin . toe -_ —— sand want.” Satur Shoppers news eached the propor: | { Between them was an abana aah vn ge NEW HEADQUARTERS have|°*'.3" ; ewes ; y Joshua tions ¢ cceus, The ut-|oned Germany battery, stark and ioe Soaahd BY the Welttls Lodge lhis, the police struec t mean that the man car will find In today’s Star com iportance is at-|bare on the snow. As I watehed a complete in-of the Loyal Order of Moose at the murderer The con- rmidable positions} 1 saw one of those bits of French) vestigation Second ave. and Seneca fheting a vest made their pr a hate at the Snows | Thay <Rueh. (nto Tose Whether or not the knife used 1 Stark ttle of the sno ' M . ne alee ae It Is the pattie Oe tne ten today. | ‘The French established lines to OIL DYNAMI 1 E PLO | ny the murderer, belonged to Reh: | mw www ‘ é ; u 4Y-\ the rear from this abandoned bat ; wey ten asianlined. (BLIGH spor most strates teched to th newspaper to tell |completed there strategy executed tied to the gre 4 t he wore a suit coat oF rore difficult of the tragedy, wie being sold turns h y on all the downtown streets y mud , 1 there 4 re A 2 as not been established } _ Spe for two full hours before the | | luen which Hee my to seek ate|Man Tries to Blow Up Ohio Capitol Clerk Sold Knife i in Today's Summ other paper, having learned of e_mean .were advancing—al abandoned VR White, sale F ; hie what had happened, finally got aya advancing—today The ruse was suecessful COLUMBUS, 0., April 20--Thatjthe man, who had a slouch hat|* eet 5 out an edition containing the 1 uc ed in. following the| watched, out the German an attempt was made to blow up!puiled down over his eyes, The |4 { Gardening Story . Page 3 o t news of the day French advance in this battle of|Thelr horse hie the capitol building here yesterday | 1 imped up, MeCann sald, an an Monday, Out. tie Do }} ExitenaleNovel Page 4 ¢ got to read The Star | |the snows on one namoless| hitched to the morning lea out today yrabbed a small box and ran out Pe no eerie inberument t) eee Page 5 to the news and get it |hit, southwest. of Moronvilliers,| Then the French machin Maj, P. J. Berry, in charge of the of the state house 1 Mdn't fibax a Gane Confessions of a Wife . BAgiaas ¥ firet Trenches, dugouts, shelters every-|‘enly spat death. Hor nen rhird regiment troops | rly| Rerry in Mibibe Male Teme ue & Eo $ War Bread : Page 7 ere ee lad mith German | ail except 20 Germans—were Wiped | \¢gterday received a_ re sae Lanes ere ie in the Navy ......-Page 8 dead jout in a twinkling |W. H. MeCann, a Col setting off b has not been definite; eatabiahed |) Corie unin +n: Si: nual Dazed Germans Among Dead | ri laa f y the police, An incompleted re- |} equiva Poth Reporter Passi ‘ “a { Seattle «| Dazed. Germans were being| WAR TIMES and no new gowns | house (Continued on page 14) SD f the Dufts Page 12 ntl * held Fr Apr tl hauled from dugoute where they|for the Junior and senior girls at) saw & een Doings of the Du Page 18 . «* a r Harvard had hidden, burrowed deep in the|Lincoin \ high this year at the | kne lurk: | — a =r | { is whi : uses ne eee Me stores appear regula * Star | Dine at. Karl R. Irvine is chairmau| piles of their own dead Junior Prom, held tonight in the, the treasus the vicinity || READ STAR WANT ADS ||} Mothers Give Up Sons . .Page of the committee iu charge. | Warther back, where French! wuditorium of the school, McCann vas found, ® nee Bree ‘ M heat, the .clerk,.noticed them 9