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

in The Star's STATE NOT TO BLACK DECLARES Final arguments in the 1. W. W. trial began Wednesday. Prosecutor Lioyd Black, of Qnohomish county, spoke t thru the morning ses . The case cannct jury before Jate this afternoon or evening, it le estimated, It may not go to the jury before Thursday. During Black's argument he @ared that Snohomish county deen ill adle to afford the expense @ the trial of Thomas Tracy, and at it Would be overwhelmed if {t Were to try to convict all the men a the alleged conspiracy which re in the killing of Jeffe font Everett, November 5 Most of Accused Are Safe “Most of those who were on the geamer Verons are safe from pros and they know it,” he said He appealed to the jury to take! fato consideration the fact that the LW. W. “has stumbled upon an orerwhelmingly successful method of attaining their objects—that of the law in such numbers that jails will not hold them and the state cannot stant) the expense @ trying them,” and to remember that the only protection a commu- gity can have against this method ts @aviction of those who are tried. ick Talke Black said, in part | “The question you have to decide ‘very simple. ee some matters which are not ‘Thal in the case except that they we circumstantial indications as to fhe guilt or innocence of Thomas ‘Tracy. “Under the court's instructions, de " firea the shot that killed Beard at Everett, Novem- 5 bat whether the shot was by some one on the boat and if Tracy aided or Pease is thé Tongest in the of the state of Washing- (Continued on page 2) a While descriptions of the “kid- Mri” were flashed to sher. ie all parts of the state. and deputies of Snohomish and counties and the police of of the Northwest the roads for a “long, low, Toadster,” Elizabeth Dan 16, spent the first night of honeymoon. Tt seems that Lather Nedeau, 21, Miss Danhoff were married in Tuesday evening, and soon, ther witnesses saw them leave in| fhe direction of Seattle in an auto-| Father Danhof off reported that his tuurhter had been kidnaped. We Welay morning he confessed that Pebably she married her kid- Myer. Then the police went to Wel There is no trace of the faitires yet. WS HEWITT CASE WILL BE MYSTERY “Our detense is t that we @ tt.” declared Attorney G the jury in Judge Gillam’s court morning, which tonight) decide the guilt or innocence| . A. Hewitt, charged with mur- Hf fritg bis four children and burn } his house in Auburn January | % to conceal the crime. case will go down in his } Wry as one of the many unsolved He recited the facts in ] unsolved murders in Seattle Within the last two years He probably will finish his argu ‘Ment at 2 o'clock Going Up! now the biggest of any newspaper It grows a little bigger, But I shall have to) question is not whether Tracy! incited | cities | dally elreulation te And every day May 2 affaire committ WASHINGTON of the military dent's selec Uncle Sam was calling for volun Representative Frank W that not one of volunt em tory tell the story 8 Dent, jr and chi stayed in E Wilham ing to arms” Perey EF. chairm, practict who bell in stayed tn Ala. William Gordon ‘was 36; Charles P. Caldwell, 24; James ing fees as a lawyer. Daniel E. Garrett was 29, ical machine. ‘ Harry KE. Hull, 35 Daniel R. An John M. Morin was 30 bership Samuel J. Nicholls must be Where Were They WhenUncle TRY ALLI.W.W., |Sam Called for Men in 1898? Where were the thirteen members tve conscription plan in favor of volunt James of Mich Let their self-written biogra f advocate of volunteering, building a law practice and polit was mayor of Willi Was postmas ‘and his boast ts lifelong THE (THE ONLY PAP! PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS SACU ADA ANRARID AARON (ane one Par 19 #e who have opposed the prest when ring Spanish war? igan has teers for the pointed out 1] asional direc an of military affairs committee was 29 years of age, but ng law eves in the “million men spring 98, did { spring MeComb City and practiced law Ashton C. Shalleng W. Wise was 30 maburg ratl lowa avenworth rverein m forgiven. He was only 13 TO AID TATES RALLY ~ IN WAR: WASHINGTON, May 2— State and federal governments must work in closest co.opera- tion in the nation’s history if the nation is to be successful in the greatest of all wars, Secretary Baker told represent atives of ali state councils of defense when they opened ses sions here today. Especially will this comple | cooperation be necessary in | putting together the parts of | the great army machine a thorized by congress, Bak said. As far as posalble, every effort will be made to preserve the iden- tity of the National Guard in the building up of the great army to be, Baker d, in outlining rough ly the plans for enforcement of the selective draft plan The sessions today marked the first real step of organized co-oper- ation between the states and the government in the matter of na tional defense. U. S. to Send Troo WASHINGTON, 2— Three major propositions com- manded the attention of the al- lies’ world war conference here | today: Speculation to what Ger. many's peace move will be in the reichstag tomorrow. The detailed offer of Ament May | “Make Registration day for the army draft a national festival oc casion,” said Baker We know that the world needs food and one of the war is wu the mited production conditions t war—as mune as at the front poke to Under modern whole nation is war in the home Secretary Daniels a the council. Secretary Lane retary Redfield, Gen. Hugh Scott, and other officials of general staff were present at meeting. Council representatives will meet President Wilson this aft ernoon, after which into session with the National Defense. Secretary of Labor Wilson and President Pler son of the lowa State Agricultural college will talk to the body labor and food problema Secretary Lane warned the gov L the the Council of on ernors that the war is bkely to be long. “And {t will be fought on this » of the At * he sa _“taless we beat the Germans to it ops at Once can shipping to our European allies, and organization of the “speed up” program for build ing more ships. The agreement of the United States government, over the ob- | jection of certain members of the war college to send troops to Europe at once if they are ‘wanted. ‘Allies May Consider Peace Offer WASHINGTON, May 2-—If Ger many’s peace proposal, reported scheduled tomorrow for submission to the reichstag, includes giving up her strongholds in Bulgaria, Serbia and Turkey, the allies may look twice at the proposition, it was stated authoritatively here today If Germany offers no concessions in the Eastern theatre, the allies will brand the peace move as a fake. because Germany's Eastern control would give her a death grip on “a vital nerve center of the world.” A peace based on concessions on the Western front alone—evacua tion of Belgium, giving up Alsace ; Lorraine and other similar conces- sions—the allies say would mean only exceedingly brief peace, a | mere breathing spell for the Teu- | tons. | With the food, man-power, munt tions and shipping problems of America’s participation in the war the allied world back today to as to offer in nearing compl mn. war council settled lawait what German Stater.) | Filed been amazed at the evi disbelief in stories of German Pde ms to be pre ip the United States Those who have been behind the lines, within sound of the eannon—ax | have been these tales of atrocities fables—that unbelievable truth ere were the acts of the More fiendish than in Hae Fez, 3 g aist ? = ‘Bes mountains Bedclothes From Wounded Thad the privilege of jour. eprme days under the guld Of the prefect of Lorraine, Mirman, and of conferring “ed Julie, the now famous charge of the hospital at lier, : Sister aif 2 He Julie it was who, nursing French poldiers when the ; r eres thru Gerbeviller, 6round in the hospital they are the| Lorraine jn the foothills of | famous head of the rbeviiler, | who truth of many of atrocities troops Sister Julie, hospital at vouches for heart-rending stories {committed by the German lin French Lorraine, the | the peace terms Jwulte of ways to win | ed ht -|Do You Think Germany Is “All In”? Read the Editorial on Page 4 AANA AAA AANA AAAS AAA AIA AAA AAA The Seattle Star INQUEST HASN'T [RUSSIAN TROOPS SWEAR LOYALTY TO NEW REPUBLIC, Lt e 2 te 0 eo REVEALED WEHN | MURDERER YET No testimony had been | brought out at noon Wednes day at the Inquest into the murder of Mrs. Florence Wehn | tery of her death Weston Harner, the me: ger boy who found her the morning after she had been brutally slain two weeks ago; Patroiman C. E, Rix, the offi. | cer who waethe first onthe | ne of the murder; Coroner C, C. Tiffin, and Deputy Coro- ner T. F. Koepfli testified Full information as to tion of the woun ed woman's he which tended to solve the mys. ! | the loca is on the murder | d was brought out | by Coroner fin, Four head wounds, a bruise on the cheek, and [two broken fingers, Were the re what the coroner ave been a struggle Wehn and her murd behind wound, Dr Mrs between | er the ear | | Tiffin | wkull fracture death belle Officer Rix described location of body wh found it {In the gully on Queen | the soldiers to allegiance to the new democracy. Gen. Lohvitsky, comm. Anno hill hampagne section, is here shown with his men, taki the oath in for the a draw pr zes fit.” They couldn't wait until they ‘STRIKE TIES UP As soon as news of the fall of czardom in Russia came to the Russian troops in France, priests swore | _LAST EDITION Congress will double the soldiers’ pay, to $30.30 Every little bit helps. And now for soldiers’ in surance and an honest administra tion of the food market, so that little old H. C. of L. will no longer men- ace the country. The weather man says: “Fair tonight and Thursday; light frost tonight.” DO N 2— e. , Thirteen me the crew rm of the an steamer and su a Gerr submarine, today when a brought in word of thru tragedy timony of 138 urvivor The 33 were picked up ; ye terday They were ia | two boat One | with | 13 men is still unaccount- ed for. aid a German sunk the Rock- submarine ingham. | oe | Lloy not Americ ingham list Rox 1s does an an steamer “Ahoy, Entertainers! Volunteer Now for! | Stunts at Firlands) \@ ————® | Wanted—F ers and = entertain- ers to play and sing Friday even- the patients at the Fir- ital You remember jof Seattle fell in tion of The Star how the people with the sugges- last Christmas ander of the Russian troops in the| dropped 40 cents a barrel, to $14, My first ddea was to find out and bought a moving picture ma- wae one hangs Morera i —_—~ chine for the folks who are bat- looked in her purse, found her ‘ tling against tuberculosis at the |drens and went to her i: e : LET RED CROSS | | Betton oan , COUNCIL WILL cityrmaintained hospital? ce. as only a fe Well, the local Moving Picture away s Star Regular } Operators’ union has been furnish- Her husband was t N YOUR + 4 VOTE MONDAY {ng operators free, Now, this is a Mra. Webn Nae fo call for volunteers in the enter- he to her father's. taining line. several scatans | We want all good amateur enter- e did not suspect ltainers and professionals to an- that anything was wrong. I went lower the call. You will get noth- ped to eel p 7 aoe yd ing in money for your services, pone, leavin, ‘atre an lard at oecrgpagaaet ‘ ., lo 7 ye y re’ e the house, When ! Wehn had BY MABEL ABBOTT }} Council will vote on the daylight but with be ri ay ead Mi in te asked absolutely no question as to The Seattle branch of the seving ordinance ‘next Monday. | ks of your audience, what was the matter with his| wed Cross is organizing a big , es eae 4 len rage -tpsegan If you can sing, play the piano, sehr ; membership campaign, to be- pone the matter. violin, or other instrument, call up diamond ring; and two pea af , Joe Newberger, Main 3133, and they will go|earrings were found fn the clot gin. next weet, It wants 25, Couacilman Hanna, father of the); a. your name and address, Ing of Mrs, Webn, according to the | 000 members*in this city, each bill, and a member of the commit-| 500), piayers for the “movies” are testimony of Deputy Coroner| with his or her $1 annual mem. nee _ ae especially needed. Koepf, who testified to the! bership fee in hand, to supply | | -_--— state of Mrs. Wehn's body and! surge for an posing so A THE WAY iT WORKS | clothing when she was brought to! Cita unit and an ambulance | Here’s the way the “daylight || WHEAT PRICE GOES the morgue. pv | saving plan” would work cv a we | ‘ The night before it goes into UP AT THE CLOSE THOUSANDS VISIT sess) sissnsis "et, sone i Leon meter are lber the first days of the Klondike i) | sual hour, but be: ~ VANCOUVER AS BIG ert, it aus at the recottection ‘ > would set all the || CHICAGO, May 2.—May wheat Within o few dave. after thé § the house an“ hour | | jumped 14%%c, to $2.69% per bush- Kold-#hi Portla startled the ! | el, at the close of the market today. WAR SHOW OPENS fori Sonic trot Wooked tke | The famous poet and fiction | | If your bedtime ts 10:80, set | |'A’ buying wave started on the amateur production of “The |) writer, Berton Braley, whose stir. { | the clock at 11°30. All clocks || strength of an advance at Winni- 5 echt ‘ Spotters ring pen has been lifted often of {| | all over the city are moved !| peg, a feeling that peace talk was VANCOUVER, M Vancouv: |" “All Tried to Go at Once late in these columns in patriotic }| | ahead the same way. You get | | futile at present, and an unverified er opened wide éts this morn Everybody wanted to go North |{ paeans of preparedness, is with ) | Up next morning at what used ||report that Bngland had further ng to thousands of visitors wh at © Nobody knew just what | The Star as a regula ? to be 6 o'clock—it is n 7. | | requisitioned ships for the Amer- will make this cfty their t t or how to do ft, but they Braley, whose work is familiar { | Mor that one night you lose an |{can trade. There was also heavy j the rest of the week, during wh were all determined to do some-|) to our readers, now becomes a {|| hour's sleep, but your other | | buying by traders who took profits time a gigantic carnival i# goin |iine and do it quickly regular instead of an occasional | | nights are just as long as usual yesterday jon Sha dintieitaetad | eananeor: ), || And your days run just the | | - Vancouve hants have da ountry, dazed |} His poems will be printed sev- {| ®ame—office hours, home du- | nated $100,000 worth of merchan nent, parad-|) eral times a week. {/ | tes, ete. All Is just as before, FLOUR PRICE OFF dise ng ry kinds, which will be by ed happily und in the stage | EXCEPT that when work stops posed of on the carnival grounds pod 3 egies > heanae for the day the sun js an hot each ticket holder being entitled to | Pirate Cot ba pe capyraee higher than before, a aid i MINNEAPOLIS, May 2.—Flour | A is an hour more of daylight for | | ing no blan The en nk te o we ~ recreation and social purposes in the Minneapolis market today, A high British commissioner ex-| wilt be given to the Canadian Pa-|S0t t0 Alaska to wear them: and On the last-Bunday dm Bee 4th practically no demand, Cash pel “pearghatd 91 2 amet a "#) equally - 24 hours of “the trai shortening, the hour hand js | |counting of peace rumors and with padest foundation The carnival grounds are throng pony nse? paced gp eee changed back agan favorable Northwest crop news. Secretary Balfour met Secretary ; difelgpocf ibe . | Th ight alleged dog-teams ft 0 reta nd the city is tire fo! lowe Sirs 4 i | McAdoo for a conferende of review | the first tit ce war began, Sol- |i ae SOT -EOGE First ave. with | ‘ a searenite | on the shipping and finkncial prob) aiery and sailors of Uncle Sam and “ lems tod The work of co-ordinat-| Japan are taking = Haut te I distinctly ren r one such} VANCOUVER, B. C., May tee, filed a minority report. ‘Coun ADVERTISING MANAGER'S ing and developing tbe resources of| abe” * perry rativ|that I saw, It consisted of a grey-| ‘Demanding an increas cil will consider both at Monday = DAILY TALK this country continued among the} visitors are h commo:- | (Continued on page 5) | cc rate with the high « neeting i other war commissioners Teas de ceed Gos | Jot living, the shipwrights, ship) ‘The matter is creating consider —— = But extreme curiosity as to the} RUSSIANS RETIRE joiners, boat builders, caulkers and | able interest in all parts of the city, nature of Germany's move perme | | shipyard sawyers hive declared &|and the telephones of the council The Ads Are [netfee sateen |UTAH FORT SELECTED) trie “asa noc a, "tic iting ten re kepe Piwiag tang siete of Special Interest CONSTANTINOPLE, May 2.—| driven in the yards of the leading | by thase who would advocate the AMSTERDAM, May 2—The AS DETENTION CAM Evacuation of Mush by the Rus-| concerns today, This course of ac’| plan or who wish a more complete Today Berlin socialist’ newspaper, \sians and their retirement to the| tion was decided upon at ting | explanation of it “ead a : Vorwaerts, today flatly putsurotl SAN FRANCISCO, May Fort/ north was announced in an official| held in Labor Temple on Tuesday If you w ant to save dicts the announcement yester. |Douglas, Utah, has been selected as/ statement today night and a further meet'ng will be FOOD UESTION Is money, just look over day of the Tageblatt that Im- the Internment camp for Pm y < i at held tonight to receive a report of} Salat Ghancsliek Von Poly a lations” » this district, according to| EB. H. Smith, manager of the Co-/q special committee of the men | the choice list of bargains Hollweg is to make announce. [announcement by Brig. Gen, Wil-|lonial theatre, Wednesday morn-| who will interview the managers of | BOTHERING BRITISH in the ads in today’s Star. MAIL OF Gannany's. war altne L. Sibert, commanding the| ing resigned from the muntcipal| the shipbuilding firms | = in the reichstag tomorrow. tern army department Ac-| board of theatre censorship. He is} Three shipyards are affected 3 : | Frederick & Nelson Page 10 bd ly arrangements are being| leaving for California. Mayor Gill | LONDON, Ma England's! Bon Marche Page 10 In PMisburg, janitors of some of made to transport the interned has announced his intention to ap- The American botanist, Asa Gray,| War cabinet ectentnl sonside ring a Fraser-Paterson Co. Page 7 lthe high office buildings rafselallens now held here to the new] point John Hamrick. manager of! could instantly recall the names| Compulsory rat & scheme, Capt.| Movie News and Ads ...Page 7 cs %s t. of . chickens on the roof. camp. theatre of 25,000 plants Bathurst, of the food control de. Auto News and Ads ....Page 6 ser Mosse sail hb hed Sie wna a om aa en ey, wes ones ae — j partme nmi, announced today in the} The Rhodes Co. -Page 5 | house of commons | Woodhouse-Grunbaum .Page 5 | i (A. Gottstein Furniture | | Grote-Rankin Co. -Page 3 | Standard Furniture Co. .Page 2 room, and saw the German troops tear the bed-clothing from the pa tients to see if any were so slight they asked by name for this fam ily's home. An officer entered the home and inquired for the elder sister. Mother and Daughter Shot He written to the younger |} She adm'tted authorship. | “Leave the he ordered }and when door she followed, brother stepped out shot. Her also was shot oe she was and mother Also at Gerbeviller was a family of four sons, three of whom joined the army. The fourth, an epileptic, showed her a letter she had | of the | | emained home with his mother, | man officers, and dragged over the | and Stenger were the German com When the Germans came they | roads till their legs were worn off|manders of the troops that com, found this be the door of the | below their knees. mitted the worst atrocities in Lor-| | ly wounded as to give combat | home, and despite his helpless con At Senlis, Mayor Odent, for}raine. There must be a reckoning eee dition they banged him to a tree in| answering wrongly a question, al-| with them! | | _ At Gerbeviller was a family con ae ee rane a Be pret tho it ts believed he thought pa x nied » nex. tour born tl him hang e, havi newer correc and bur | Ee ee cont our | been told by a neigbor, she became | ted, WHILE head Woman c. for \] sons fought in the French army insane—and 1s Inssne now first, with his feet sticking up! | Enlistments From | The elder sister wrote to the Crucify Priest ead | geishiap aes me ? youngest son, exhorting him to| The cure at Aershot, Father Der: In a hospital I talked to Robert N. Y ‘ Prize Ring || bravery and heroism, asking bim|gent, refusing to tell of the where-| Avril, a young French soldier, a| @ always to do his duty. abouts of French troops, which he| mere boy, whose teeth clenched in|” NEW YORK, May The fig When the Germans came thru | did not know, was crucified—natled | hatred as he told me of the crimes |game in New York has been pulled to the cross; and his wrists an@| committed by Germans in the ter-|into the war, and a woman did it ankles were broken | rltory Just re-won by the French Mrs. George Wheeldon crawied At Roan |'Etoppe soldiers set fire to a cottage in which a | ring at the night before thru the the Manhattan Casino last “But surely,” I said, “you would not commit the same acts when you ropes of baby was sleeping. The |reach German territory that the |the Welsh-Kilbane bout was started mother tried to enter and save mans have committed injand pleaded for followers of the her child ance glove game to enlist Two Amer “Stay; 1 will bring him to “Not the same.” he said, “but jican bluejackets accompanied her you!" said a German soldier. | there will be reparation,” “You boys like a fight,” she said He entered the house, and “But why do you feel so say-|“We've got a real fight for you brought the baby to its mother | age?" I asked, to draw him out |\Come and help us run off the sea —ON THE POINT OF HIS | “Madame, in some towns we |those hell-hounds of the ocean who BAYONET! | found all the women and girls over/are sending our boys to the bot At Au Pin two boys were tied to the tails of horses ridden by Ger- | 10 years old had been tled to the |to beds!” he sald. We know. that Gener She was cheered as she left the Clauss ring. | BILL IS PASSED The best offerings of Se- attle’s bay stores appear re gul arly i 1 The Star, | | WASHINGTON, May 2.—The | house today passed the army and navy appropriation bill, totalling $2,827,553,653, the big- or es | THE FASTEST GROWING PAPER IN THE NORTHWEST gest of its kind in the history of the world, by a vote of 362 to 1. Myer London, socialist, _Yoted against the bill. WHY DILLING? Politics does strange things, and it must be on this theory that efforts are being m. to land George W. Dilling on the federal trade commission “progressive.” Dilling is the kind of progressive who knocked President Wil- son in the 1916 campaign, who knocked the progressive can- j didates in state and county in 1912, who attempted to put C. Allen Dale, mouthpiece of Special Privilege, Into the council for another term; who, as mayor, lined up with reactionary influ- | ences again and again. Dilling is the kind of progre ssive who knocked President Wik the “progressive front” for reactionary propaganda and candi- dates, he was usually laughed down by the public. HIS APPOINTMENT TO SO IMPORTANT A POSITION AS FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSIONER WOULD BE A JOKE —BOTH ON SEATTLE AND PRESIDENT WILSON. orrrwe se erae mcm mer amore OE aR PR ' : a: