The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 9, 1917, Page 1

W Enterprise association, for which he was iting exclusively, to take a position on the National Farm Loan Board, the associa- , of which The Star is a member, threw out its lines to land a man capable. The association found CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL, AND IT GRABBED HIM QUICK. That’s why you see Russell’s stories appearing in The Star exclusively in Going Up! The Stare dally elrcutation te now the biggest of any newspaper In the Northwest. And every day It grows a@ little bigger. SEATTL WASH.,, VOLUME 19 * * #* & Staff Writer for The Star Tells * coe ‘LOGAN TO GIVE WAR TAX BILL UP THURSDAY, | TO HIT MOVIES SAYS ATTORNEY; AND POSTAGE) “Logan Billingsley will give WASHINGTON, May 9.— himself up in open court at 9 The house ways and means ns eae eevee committee today reported out a.m. Thursday, and at that | si6 $1,800,000,000 revenue bill. time we will argue his appli. | | It was immediately introduced cation for rele: under bond by Chairman Kitchin, and will WORD TO WIFE; THEN DEES Max Freed Kills Himself in| | pending his appeal from Judge 90 before the house probably " 13 th tomerrow. Mutual Life Building) wimsrinn? 7 | ROME) vate io, ae at MoNeil leland: chairman of the ways and means é This was the statement made =| committee, announced on the floor, & A ter I e ing W at | Wednesday by Robert Hodge, | when he submited a report on the ; one of Logan Billings ” | bill, that he will call it up for ac 4 |tion tomorrow, when the house Pl d t D torneys. Hodge says his in. | MOR tomorrow, | j anne O 0. | formation came from “indirect Tariff duties, income and inhert tance tax increased postage and in in the last day on which | creased taxe many commodities lthe whisky ring head can have bis will be the means whereby the «in appeal considered. He has been in| ews rained. A 10 per cent raise hiding since he escaped from the im ie tac on all tariffs; the normal migration detention station, follow ince tax is doubled, while the sur. ing his sentence taxes are raised and »xemp: “There will be no reward,” says | tions lowerett this office. Evidently he had pulled} the trigger as he sat at his desk near the phone. Freed had desk space in the of fices of the Stanfard Tire & Rub- ber Co. He had been interested lately in promoting a firm to man Max Freed, 45, business pro- moter, and father of nine chil- Gren, shot and killed himself in his offices in the Mutual Life i building, First ave. and Yesler 7 way, before noon Wednesday. At 10:35 a. m. he cailed So! bed Friedenthall, of the Schwa- |ufacture loganberry juice bever-|srodge. “Billingsley will simply| For single persons, the income tax bacher Hardware Co. over the ages. |walk in and tell the court he ‘is|starts at $1,000; for married per- telephone. Financial trouble 1s believed to present. As for the little red-headed | sons, $2,000. The surtax is gradu Lo«an | ated, running up to 33 per cent on allow |incomes above $600,000. who, would have caused depression. He lived | newsboy, at Bellevue, and leaves a wife 40d | wrote Th Cecil Kane. Star, he- “{'m going to shoot myself,” he said, “tell my family.” He hung up the phone. Fried- nine enildre n. himself to be captured by, 1f [know] Postage stamps will cost 3 cents enthall notified the police, who Ii said he did not know | pitlingsley, he will give the lad $100 /and post cards while mag found Freed dead, with a shot Freed in ly, and did not from his own pock azines and papers will pay heavier Fred Billingsley 0 was given | rates six months on the Whatcom county| An farm, arrived in Seattle Wednesday | each 10-cent n of 10-ce morning. He was released under|-~-ticket is impos thus hitting bonds signed before U. 8. Commis-|a@ll movie shows and theatres sioner Alfred Black, Jr., at Belling-| Liquor, tobacco and soft drinks |ham, Tuesday, He also will appeal] Will bear a dar heavier burien than his case. at present. Star May Sell War Bonds, }thru the head, when they reached stand why he was called on to br ewa to the fam at one time owned furniture store in Vancouver, B | which burned down. Hoe has made his headquarters in Seattle for nearly 15 years, friends sald HARRY THAW WINS) amusement or f big ADVERTISING MANAGER'S DAILY TALK The Progressive Merchant | j ious tc ive} HARRISBI RG, Pa, May 9 jou bargai ) | Pennsylvania S S t M Ad “ ree get few: A gantirns' Gov. Brumbaugh today refused ays X ecre ar (@ 0O ’\ the request of New York for extra a hearty response encour- ai tion. Brumbaugh was guide) b The Star office may be used as a market place for a portion ages him to greater ef- advice of Attorney General|} oe tne g5.900,000,000 war bond issue. 4 trom On April 24 The Star wired to the treasury department forts in the future. Op- offering its office for the sale of some of the bonds which the C itie c Save|\ Qrai Ya United States will offer to provide for war against Germany Parnes We Beh \Grain Gambler and also for loans to the allies money are especially ap- Called Embezzler Wednesday a roply was received from Secretary McAdoo advising that the offer will be considered when the bonds are preciated just now, and ready for sale to the people. The letter of Secretary McAdoo is ots of in| DAVENPORT, In, May 9—Re |} ftp there are lots of them SA Te eecnbe Ik Ma ac) * follows : i the ads. poston from playing the wheat “TREASURY DEPARTMENT “Office of the Secretary | market, J. H. Currier, former man- | bre The best offerings of Se-| reer GF the Purity Oats Co,, of this “Washington, April 1917. Editor The Star attle’s best stores appear icity, was arrested today on ; app charges of embezzlement. It Is I have your kind telegram of the 28th of April, conveying regularly in The Star. Currier signed over insur the offer of th ttle Star to co-operate, without charge, in Ss: i Ww ence polict to rotect the com placing the fortheom bond tasue This generous ffer in ay ». S.: Auto news and ence abet ; preciated, and | shall give it my attention when the terms and ads on page 6 today. conditions of the new issue are fixed, At that time it will be WHEAT GOES UP 24, CENTS|] a pleasure to send you full Information ie MINNEAPOLIS, May 9.—July ‘Sincerely yours, “Ww, G. M'ADOO, THE FASTEST GROWING PAPER wheat jumped up 24% cents today,| 4 “Secretary.” iN THE NORTHWEST following publication of the govern-| — ment crop report, going to $2.77, HEN Herbert Quick left the Newspaper | The Seattle Star THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NE’ THE NEWS ROMOTER SHOOTS SELF Have Done to Our Nearest War Neighbor, British Columbia WOUNDED VETERANS RETURNING FROM TRENCHES, ‘PHOTOGRAPHED IN RAILROAD STATION AT VANCOUVER | 1 cent per), ’ this community. Russell is admitted to be one of the best newspaper writers in the nation. He is a student of economics; he is a student of history, and he is a student of government. RUSSELL KNOWS! You who have been following Russell’s articles in The ‘Star know that he knows! It is because The Star gives its readers exclusive, high-class articles of this sort, as well as the complete news of Seattle and the outside world, that it has THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. NIGHT EDITION annnnnnnnnnnn ALLL LLP Logan Billingsley must have de- veloped paralysis of the id, or traded his postage stamps for a rallrowd ticket. Weather Man Salis bury predicts: “Tonight and Thursday, showers.” ONE CENT WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1917. invw «nk nk#enek# & What Three Years of War } S 4EDITOR’S NOTE—Our nearest war neighbor is British Columbia. Van- its principal city, approximately 160 miles from Seattle, has had the taste } of war for three years. Our own govern- ment experts declare the war is likely to last two or three years more. Have we anything to learn by the experiences of British Columbia? After three years of / war, what has Vancouver to tell us? The Star sent a member of its staff, and its photographer, to get first hand informa- The first article couver, tion on this subject. follows. The picture at the right shows 42 returned soldiers, one of the largest groups to return in one body, to their recruiting point, Vancouver. Crippled, limping, some of them hardly able to walk even with crutches, they have “done their bit” in the trenches and have officially been declared unfit for further service. ‘CAPT. MATT PEASLEY, FICTION HERO, COMES | HERE TO JOIN NAVY | IN THE TRENG | ithe Br ‘War Takes Heavy Toll of Population; Conscription — May Replace Volunteer System. well-known heroes of Peter BY ABE HURWITZ r—] Re — 3 co Kyne'a “Cappy Ricks” stories | In the Saturday Evening Post, wants to have a hand in the war. He Is at the Northern hotel, pending conferences with naval authorities to de- termine whether his experi- ence as a master mariner will entitle him to a commission as an officer. | A sight of Capt thing of a shock to th Matt is some- who have | pictured him, from the stories, as ve a brawny, clean-cut, young fellow VANCOUVER, B. C,, May 9.—The American custom att, in real life, is brawny f ery he ie P re ‘) e | enough, sand cleah-cut, too, but heat officer at Blaine, Wash., the border town adjoining the Cana= 9 never see 60 again, and HE HAS dian boundary line, was busy with his morning shave. A BIG BLACK MUSTACHE, which His good spirits, however, were not in the least disturbed? he twirls while he talks Doesn't Come Here Often Matt is captain of the schooner Fred J. Wood, loading lumber in {Aberdeen for South sea ports. In | ten days the boat will put off with- out him, tf the governme nt accepts his application for serv Matt isn't much of a landlubber He sat in the lobby of the North ern hotel Tuesday night and told his trips from Australia to the There were five of us in an auto, driving over to British Columbia to see our neighboring country aiter three years of war. A huge sign had notified us to report to the customs officer first before crossing the boundary. “A fine day,” the official said between dabs of soap. “Any of you like to have Canadian Officers Are Businesslike He ed hea be offered in dry 1 | a shave?" as he informed us, “It is a]l that can rtily Bay of Fundy n | He smiled often as he relived in: ‘ He had but few questions to ask. One could hardly call cidents among the Fiji islanders,|Captain Matt Peasley, Himself, injit an examination—it was so perfunctory He bade us a and his eyes had a faraway look Real Life {jolly farewell and we walked over to the Canadian customs | Forty-eight hours on land is a/— Joffice, 30 feet away record for Matt. This trip to attle is his first in four and a half ispicuously near the rotund official whom looked us over steadily, a bit sternly, and he's got me so talked about) that I rather like it. His stories A rifle stood cor found there. He jyedrs and his longest land-stay in| vin cortainly not suffer if 1 go to| Vo 18 months, In 18 years he has) i. Sete nicknamed mo ‘Matt.’ It| His eyes took us in, one by one, methodically, carefully. He been oe Blain akeaklne is hard to find a skipper without|demanded a searching account of each of us | saaname ron ante tea man} timate, tT ercwed tl] Conmang Known Only as “Huns” what you think of him,” he laugh ( ed, “but when you're across the ‘ g out printed forms, giving further identiti- bar, you can get anything off your at pase Meta oe oe and purpose in going to Canada, when one you could ea he meant {t,|@id worked his way to captain. | official arrived. Ile appeared to be the senior come Tile card is ved, “Mr, Ralph | There is no place like the se for | mander Che younger man reported to him, Erskine Peasley.” He was named| Matt. He has reached 60, vet his It was not until the detailed examination was concluded Jafter two Scotch divines, but he pie he Se ee nig (shat the Canadian officers relaxed their stern demeanor, lemae ate erate Hg bine llgee face, but cannot blot out the smiley} “Can't be too careful,” said the older man, and to prove \tabin boy. Sometimes he takes|!imes that loll around his brown | his friendliness he showed us a souvenir he had just received his wife with him on bis six/eyes when he talks of his beloved | from his boy in the trenches. It was a bit of metal on which Bea, months’ voyages, Ss name of a German soldier who had been He confessed that on the high WAR COSTS ENGLAND peas a wife is handy to play cards was inscribed the killed in battle with and talk to. “Every Fritz carries one of these,” the Canadian exe | Matt nnd Peter B. Kyne, the} HL plained, “so the Huns can keep track of him.” author, worked | for the Doibeer 34 MILLION DAILY % Carson Shipping company tn New Jargon Heard on Other Side San Francisco from 1900 to 1906, : ft ae ens 1 eae Matt.as master of the schooner LONDON, M England's Au ; I was at the front niyself for 14 mon the customs Wawona, ond Kyne as bookkeeper | expenses each day at present total) ire informed us in the company’s office $4,560,000, Chancellor of the Ex He said it in a matter-of-fact manner, as if he were i] Pete “Fictionizes” “Pete isn't always as truthful as he might be,” smiled Matt, “but there is some truth in bis yarns, coed a a amo tne ye] telling us he had his breakfast an hour before. the house of commons today. He “The Huns got me—” he laughed—and he was the only, asked the house to vote a war credit of 600,000,000 pounds, (Continued on page 10)