The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 10, 1917, Page 1

better paper every da now the big: in the Northw a. R. Not to Lead Division Conference Deadlock Broken and Bill Is on Its Way . MODIFY BOOZE SECTION WASHINGTON, May 10.— Eliminating the Roosevelt vision amendment from ti lective draft bill, house and senate conferees on the army today and will report to their ve houses. The conferees also eliminated the Fall amendment, providing for the Jeged of a volunteer cavalry force border duty. athe age limit was fixed at 21 to 30 years.. All men more than 21 and up to the age of 31, will be subject to service. As it stands, there is every probability the sen- some effort to re ‘the elt amendment, wince the conferees agreed to eliminate it, and the administration does not want it, it is not believed it could pass the senate again “< The agreement reached today ‘was forecast in detail by the United Press yesterday. After a short session this morning it w: announced all lines of differences | had been erased, but it was admit.) ted there might be some oppost- tion to the report in both the house | and senate. There were a fow minor additions | to the bill. The prohibition sec-)| tion was modified to provide that ooamage shall apply only to sale of liquor to those fn uniform, ani not to furnishing or giving away a) drink of liquor to a man off the! reservation. | President Wilson awaits only se- tion by congress on the report to/ fssue his proclamation calling for the men provided for by the selec tive draft section. RMAN SPY IS CAUGHT IN S. F. SAN FRANCISCO, May 10.—In the arrest here today of Lieut. Frank Wolf, member of the avia- tion corps of the German army, alias Frank Fels, department of fustice officials declared they have taken Into custody a man whom they believe to be one of the most) important agents ‘of the kaiser in| this country. | W. H. Tidwell of the department of justice, declared that Wolf suc- ceeded in joining the aviation corps of the 1’. 8. army and that when arrested he was found to heave complete data regarding | American cviation strength, maps | of the San Francisco bay and vi- einity, photographs and drawings of forts along the Pacific Coast end other data of tremeridous value ( an enemy to the U. 8. DVERTISING MANAGER'S ’ ony TALK ecin F. riday Again Tomorrow And it's a humdinger this time, folks. The ads in The Star today ought to result in your making a very handsome saving on things that you ac tually have to buy. Standard Furniture Co. Page 2! Bartell Drug Co. Page 2) liberty Theatre Page 3) Grote-Rankin Co. Page 2 WoodhouseGrunbaum Page 6 The Rhodes Co. .....Page 5} Bargain Friday Specials | RST Page Page 6) McCormack Bros. Page 6| Mission Theatre . Paze 7 Fraser-Paterson Page 7 Movie News and 8 MacDongall-Southw: leks Page 9 Ramaker Bros. . Page 11 on Marche ...........Page 14 Frederick & Nelson .. uM THE FASTEST GROWING PAPER IN THE NORTHWEST measure reached an agreement | Papers can't afford to buy The Star ass with Association—and the ted his paper is absolutel “squee? zers” club Going Up The Stare dally circulation te of any newspaper - And every day it Grows @ little bigger. en The Seattle Star will not raise its prices. Instead, it w il continue to give you a y, with bright, that are exclusive news features Newspapers all the nation the powerful Scripps over League Paper-making trusts ss. can’t (__#HE ON 19 ais price of success in this war, | the price of liberty in the world, | the price of safety in the nation is sacrifice. We are ready in this just and righteous cause to sacrifice every- thing—except our money. The dollar above the man. We will give the lives of our youths but | not our hoarded profits. The bal- ance sheet is above the flag. Is that the American of this situ- ation? NOT IF THE OLD U. §S. A. IS STILL THE U. S. A. | But that 1s about what we shall mean and what we shall start upon if we undertake to j pay for this war with more colossal bond is | sues, or with a tax on the actual necessities = | of life, such as is contemplated in the bill be- fore the house of representatives today, rec- | ommended for passage by the ways and means | committee yesterday. While the bill materially increases the tax mn incomes and | profits, it also strik js at at such other raising Newspaper Enterprise control y independent and therefore does not have to join the Read The Star and save yourself money nD The Seattle Star THE [THE ONLY 1 PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS | Seattle prices ; The Star Others Want More of Your Pennies; But The Star Doesn’t Have to Squeeze Pocketbooks SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1917. ok 2 necessities as household light and heat, both electric and g it puts a on freight bills, which means, necessarily, added costs to food shipped by freight We don't need any more bonds in this war. Most of us seem agreed on that. We have no need to fool with any such deadly and polson ous thing, which hangs @ crushing burden on us for generations to come. Nor do we need to add to the misery of those in the present generation who are even now weighted down by the high cost of living, who are already paying a severe war tax Conscript wealth! That’s the idea. Go ahead on the basis that if our lives belong to the republic in its time of need, so do our dollars; that if one is too holy and sacred to be touched, then, by the soul of liberty, so is the other! ‘ Take the machinery of the income tax, as it now stands and make it really work! Make it produce something. it with publicity of returns. it more than a sorry joke. Arm Make WAR TAX BILL WILL HIT ALL... 10,—A tax of $33 will be placed upon eve of $2,000 would pay nothing. On a itis jing, insurance, automobiles, tires, $3,000 income, he'd pay 2 per cent estimated, by the new war tax |tubes, musical instruments, phono-|on $1,000, or $20. On $4,000 he'd bill, to provide an additional [graphs, records, motion picture | pay $40 $1,800,000,000. \films, jewelry, sporting goods, golf! Above these amounts the tax will The bill ommended by the clubs, baseball bats, billiard and \then be 4 per cent house ways and means commit, [pool tabies, balls, pleasure boats, | Tax Big Incomes tee is before congress today, |perfumery, cosmetics, proprietary In addition there will be a grad-| ready for action, but will prob- | medicines, chewing gum, admission unted surtax on everything above ably not be voted on finally by to theatres and other amusements, $5,000, It will be 1 per cent on in-| both houses for two weeks or |dues in clubs and other organiza. comes between $5,000 and $7,500, more. In addition taxes on incomes and excess profits, postage, liquors and tobaccos, and a higher | tariff, the bill. proposes also to in- vade every American home by tax- ing luxuries, The following are among the artl-| cles to be taxed WASHINGTON, D. C., May stamps jcards, |seats, berths, on pipe lines, man, woman and tions, incomes to increasing the interhal revenue rates on|16 per cent. Incomes are to married men, up. many necessities as well as|graduated scale. Tax Domestic Necessities Electric light and staterooms, advertis Tax on Excess Profits ‘The tax on excess profits is to be! Single men having an income from $1,000 to $3,000 and mar- ried men with incomes between | $2,000 and $4,000 will pay 2 per Tax of $33 to Be Placed on Each Person in the United States! documents, passenger coach | $40. The married man with an income playing) and will then rise to 33 per cent on incomes of $500,000 and over Thus @ married man with a $7, lincome would pay $205, as follo: taxed from|Two per cent on the 000 differ. 00 be $1,000 for single men and $2,000 for|ence between the exempted $2,000 It will be on aland $4,000, or $40; 4 per cent on the | difference between $4,000 and $7, 500, jor 140; a surtax of 1 per cent on \the difference between $5,000 and | $7,500, or $25. heat, gas, telephone service, tele-| cent. Thus a single man with Vernon Heathman, on parole graph messages, freight, billx, pas-| an income of $2,000 would pay, {from the penitentiary, arrested at senger tickets, express bills, liquors, after exempting $1,000, 2 per Oroville, Ore, will be extradited soft bacco, cigarettes, to-| papers, snuff, drinks, cigars, cigarette cent on the other $1,000, or $20, On an income of $3,000 he'd pay |for trial in the superior forgery charges, purt on ) today CHICAGO, May 10.—The Chicago Tribune (morning) announced { that on May 14 its price would be raised from 1 to 2 cents The aminer and Herald (morning) and the American (afternoon) made similar anno “ments ra- 7 cent! High price of paper and operating expenses is given as the reason for the } increase } The News (afternoon paper) has also announced an advance to 2 cents, { while other ( Chicago papers will raise their price before June, it is sai 5 oes CR be, eee CEI SOIE a ill i "He Raises Cash Does “Bit” in Canada “If You Can't Fight, Pay,” Slogan in British Columbia Balitor’s Note—Our nearest w ber ke Hritich Colambte, Vane princteal clty, appresinnstety from Seattle, has had eet ty hand information on this subject, eecand article follows By Abe Hurwitz VANCOUVER, B. C,, y 10—“Every man must his bit.” No one in British Columbia—or for that matter, anywhere in Canada—~is for t that “Tf you can’t fight, pay is the corollary slogan that Ma g; | tween goes with the first In British = =Columbia alone $1,206,474.99 has been disbursed to depend- ent families of enlisted men, out of a fund en- tirely raised by contributions as the Canadian Patriotic fund The Canadian soldier is paid $33 a month. The government gives his wife or mother, as the case may be, a separation al- | lowance of $15, provided } he himself gives up $15 | of his wages for the same purpose. Thus, the wife or mother of the enlisted man gets $30 from the {government directly |But That Isn’t Enough for Family in West | But that is not enough to ke RAISE MONSTER FUND pernpitted. to. Is} ep Ja family of several children, espe. in the West.” declares T Baxter, former mayor iver, and now chairman the Canadian Patriotic the province of British Columb |The mayor's former secretary, | H, Bonner, is secretary of the fun | Baxter | when the war broké out. Sey |days after the war declaration | August, 1914, a monster mass me jing was held | “We then thought the war wor | last a short time,” Baxter told 1 | “We'd all pitch in and Mek t enemy one, two, three. We ask for a $25,000 fund to take care cially man 8 | Vane going overseas. was an immense amount subscribe more than that month in British Columbia,” Started in Vancouver, the id Continued on page 11) mayor of Vancouv ru of of fund for ia. Cc nd. er en in et. ald ne. he ed of the families of the troops that were We thought that Now we every ea for War Relief peepee otra Truman 8. Baxter, former mayor aising money of Vancouver, who for relief of soldiers’ families. ‘AMERICANS ARE ' HELD BY POLICE, SAY GERMANS, BY JOHN GRANDENS nited Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN, via London, May 10.—Germany holds no reason for an offensive against Ameri- ca, but will not forego her pres- use of submarines for an be ended only that no dishonor. able terms be inflicted upon any nation, These many he | clalista. The government's view of Ameri ca’s entrance into the war was giv- sment authorized by the United | en in a sta foreign office Presa Philip leader, er extreme been ganda. thru the Scheidemann, element, which Both and Scheidemann which he has admittedly been vocating, must rest. Call Sinkings Unhostile The foreign office does not gard seribed by Germany, act, as all countries were of its existence The government regards this © marine warfare as its (Continued on page 5) zrasshoppe there are plague. to the square mile. on expressions were obtained today by the United Press from the two most diverse elements in Ger government and the so- socialist | voiced the views of the oth: | has | most active in peace prop: defended Germany's | use of the submarine ae her most | potent means of defensive warfare, | gave expression to the basis upon which the peace) ad- ub: most valu- Fresno county, California, has a Reports say 5,000,000 of the insects LONDON, May man destroyers 10 fled “Hight cruisers scouting duty from Harwt cruising this morning t the British and the Dut the statement sald, “wh on were coasts,” to the course, We closed in, opening fire, the enemy at full speed to the south. cover of dense smoke, and, enemy being engaged at range. take them. “We lost wounded,” they sighted 11 German destroyers Eleven Ger-} before four | outdistanced and destroyers ich ne ch en south, pursuing a parallel | on long | conference We were unable to over-| Rranding, one man slighlty| | TO PORT BY THE BRITISH The four destroyers the slower tained on the Radicals Not Slav the torpedoing of Aumerisan'| ships within the danger zone pre- as a hostile warned LAST EDITION ARR een Women, help Mother Ryther and her home for destitute children and working women, by volunteering to sell tags Saturday. Report at room 319, ¥. M. C. A. Salisbury predicts: “Fair tonight and Fri- day.” GIVES STAR ACCOUNT OF HIS ESCAPE SELECT SERVICE AGE FIXED AT 21 TO 30 YEARS” BINOCULARS FOR UNCLE Everyone 'Dictates Newspaper Story © | to Stenographer Before ™ Going to Federal Build- ing; Is Released on Bond Logan Billingsley, fugitive bootlegger king, surrendered | himselt to United States District Attorney Allen at 10:45 a. m. _ Thursday, spent 10 minutes in a cell at the request of United © States Marshal Boyle, and was finally haled before Federal Judge Neterer and admitted to $7,000 bond pending decision of his appeal from 13 months’ sentence to McNeil's island. At noon he was in the custody of Deputy Marshal E. Tobey artanging bond, which was fixed up at 2 pea” After. that he was again at liberty. Logan April ling atic’ 2 Just cape, Bill rapher, point dering him! his brother, Fred. | right. to Logan 9! If Thureday morning. U. S. Attorney Allen mysterious adventure. He bowled down Third ave. n automobile from the offices (Continued on page 2) Logan Explains Escape | apparently | moving | |destroyers to the sheltering range |cruisers and did not halt in their Jof their own guns of Zeebrugge | hot pursuit until they were within | \forts today in a long range run-\range of the Zeebruege land bat ning fight detailed in an admiralty | teries elatement today The admiralty seid hits were ob to Go to Peace Meet} TROGRAD, May 10.- ision was here during Rorgbjerg and ist agents, Pp he ex: made off/treme wing of Russian socialists U nder | will not be represented at the con the chase | ference to be held at was continued for 80 minutes, the /'phis d Stockholm, reached at a) which | other members of the extreme wing were branded proGerman and imperial- | | in Story for The Star Logan Billingsley spent the last few minutes before he surrendered | Thursday Walter B, Allen, 521 Lyon in the office of Attorney buitd- | ng, dictating an exclusive explan: | ation for The Star of how he April 22. His tion station, | follows BY LOGAN BILLINGSLEY On the 19th of April 1 was much discouraged and disap- pointed at finding myself sen- tenced to serve 13 months in the MeNeil Island penitentiary, after I had been promised the privilege of changing my plea to not guilty on the charge of conspiracy, which would have given me a trinl by a jury But the attorney general ad visel me that | was entitled to an appeal from the court's ruling, and that he would start this immediately, For some reason, however, this appeal was not begun. Feared Secret Plans Suddenly, Saturday after- noon, two days later, when I was in the United States deten- tion station, I learned of facts which led me to believe thers was a secret plan by some of my enemies to have me rushed off to the penitentiary bef my appeal could be perfected. Learning of these facts, 1 be- es- caped from the immigration detent story | gan to feel much disturbed. Later in the afternoon, when my brothers were taken to Bellingham and I was ordered to make ready to go to the pen- itentiary within 48 hours, T be- came much alarmed, Up to this time I had not even dream- ed of trying to escape. But as darkness came on, T remember well how I sat on the edge of my cot, all alone in jail, and wondered if there was not some way I could stay out of prison until my appeal had been perfected and acted upon by the higher court. Unknown Friend Aids Tt was aboyt 11:30, I think, when I heard a crackling sound at my window, which sounded like gravel or small stones striking the glans, | raiséd the window and looked out Li could not see anybody at first, but as I continued to look, I saw a man come slowly toward the station from the lot ad- joining on the east He appeared to be crawling, with one hand on the ground, In the other he carried a long pole. I think it was a fish pole, but I could not tell in the carkness. A moment later the end of the pole was where I could reach it from my wim dow, On the end of it was @ (Continued on page 14) sawed his way out of the government detention ag 22, and has been successfully dodging United’ | States deputy marshals and police detectives ever since. before he surrendered, Lo} gan dictated for The Star an ex- clusive detailed account of his clearing up details of that: The arrow in the above snapshot by Frank Jacobs, Star photog: jey, in federal court, after surren- To hie right, back turned, te ig seen on the extreme