The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 1, 1917, Page 1

JNITROGLYCERINE BANDIT te KILLED IN SEATTLE BANK sssssses ist ssittssss ssbb sisi ssi stsisiitisstististsrisstty REGISTER! Seattic has a chance to win new national honors on Registration day, June 5. By enrolling her young manhood with patriotic dispatch, and without any manifestation of a “dog-in-the-manger” attitude, this city can take her place evertastingly in the sun. VOLUME 19 The Seattle Star GREATEST DAILY CIRCULA SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, Mc ed 1, 1917, ONE CENT LATION OF ANY NEWSPAPER IN PACIFIC NORTHWEST ageetesesesestttstststiesseses ses tesstses tests sss tet Wii 77) OZ, NIGHT EDITION ee AZ, . | PILL LIED II One of the greatest orators in America, Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis, will discuss America’s place in the war at the Orpheurn, Third ave. and Madison st., at 1:30 p. m. Sat urday. Free. Weather: “Unset tled; probably showers.” EVERYWwHenn IN SEATTLN NEXT TUESDAY IS THE DAY! REGISTER OR GO TO JAIL Eo wae ais MUST REGISTER: (All male persons (citizens or aliens), born between the | WHERE: /n your home precinct. sixth day of June, 1886, and the fifth day of June, 1896, both dates inc lus €, except mem- bers of any duly organized force, military or naval, subject to be called, ordered or drafted into milttary or naval service of the United States; including all officers and enlist d men of the regular army, regular army reserve, officers’ reserve corps, enlisted men's reserve corps, National Guard and National Guard reserve recognized by militia bureau, the navy, the marine corps, coast guard, naval militia, naval reserve force, marine corps reserve and national naval volunteers, recognized by the navy department. you expect to be absent from home June 5, If go at once to the clerk of the county where you now happen to be, or, if in a city of 30,000 or over, to the city clerk and follow his The clerk may deputize him to prepare HOW: Go in person, June 5, to the registration place of your home precinct. instructions; if sick, send a competent friend. your ¢ ard. PENALTY FOR NOT REGISTERING: Liability to a year’s imprisonment, then WHEN: HOW SEATTLE PREPARES TO ANSWER CALL BY MABEL ABBOTT Everything looks just the same as usual; Most confusing thing of all. For how can everything ed 4 the eee YThe south-bound street cars are reading rooms for the men who & down by the hendreds to thelr dally work at the mills, shipyards and factories, Almost every man furls a newspaper as sovn as he sits down, and the breeze from the bay whips them into crackling white-caps, as the readers gratify thelr thirst for news. The patrons of the soutb-yound reading rooms are big-muacied, leveleyed, healthy — specimens, fare tween the ages of 21 and 36 On the south-bound cars, too, one @ees here and there another type of ‘man—spick and span, whiteco) lared, executives and office men. Many of them are young. And they, too, read the newspapers as they ride. It is interesting to note that dur Ing the last two weeks the grimy Workman with the dinner pail and the white-collared chap from the and that's the strangest, me when— office have one thing very much in} common When they open their they turn, with one accord. columns telling of plans select service army Some read stoically, tively. A great toveier, ad service! papers, to the for the some fur Mabel Abbott un-| On Tuesday, June 5, 1917, between 7 a. m. and 9 p.m. 300 ASSIST IN WAR ON WASTE Hear Speakers Outline Plan of Campaign at The Star Meeting at Bon Marche MANY WOMEN JOIN Not only a fuller understand. ing of what the food-conserva, tion movement ie, but also a grasp of ite practical and pe: sonal application, was brought away from The Star's educa- tional meeting at the Bon Marche Thursday afternoon by the 200 women and an unex. pected’ sprinkling of men who attended, | Every speaker set forth the sita- jation briefly and foreibly from bis own particular angle, ayd the re- sult Was an all-round view of the subject, which evidently met the wis of the Judging from the pe with which they _ rg frequent and} win raat Health Dr. B J. Lieyd, surgeon © in charge of the U. 8. public health erviee in Seattle, was the first speake He declared positively that necessity for stringent food-con- servation will be, In the main, & | benefit to the public health } Ninety per cent of the people will be better off,” he sald They will have to eat less, and practically everybody who can af. | ford it now eats too much, The other 10 per cent will have to be looked after. Even under ordinary circumstances they are not able to | buy the nourishing food they need | They will have to be made the sub- Ject of special care. j Warns Against Typhoid The war food problem probably enforced registration. ‘ASK MATTHEWS Jean Seymore Plans | to Do Her Share for Cit Denies Intention of Running ’s Liberty Loan] | GILL Or. Mark A. Matthews, pas tor of the First Presbyterian church, for mayor next year? Several people have suggest ed it to him—and the idea is ding #0 t that wher ever a few politcians forgath. er for the good and welfare of the municipality, it is a choice morsel of discussion. Star heard the doctor was considering entering the mayeralty race. “Ret! Rot! Ret!” “How about it?’ he was asked i “Yes, two or three people have | * the doctor replied, “but | considered it a paca | 1am! pot considering running for mayor. {spoken to me about it,” pieasantry, nothing serious. What do | want to be mayor for? I can do more good for the city in my present position.” Gill Not Loquacious Asked what he thought Matthews running for mayor, o. Gill replied tersely “He has a right pute up the required The mayor stated of darn?) whether Dr. or didn't. Taking Ole Again In political circles, other TO ENTER RACE Pastor Boosted for Mayoralty Dr. May- to ron if he further that ie didn't vare a snap (or was it a) Matthews ran names | SHOOTS SELF EN CLERK Failing in an attempt to hold up King County state bank in the Uni district, by bluffing the teller with |declared was a bottle of nitrogl: |Franklin Whitman, 1824 Fourth ave. W |shot and killed himself in the bank at 11 m. Friday. Whitman is heliered to tate wa : manded $3,000 in gold or currency, ¢ behind the counter and fired a shot t | wood, hitting the robber in the left leg. jman, seeing his bluff had failed, ned own gun upon himself and pata: Bo his’ I with a shot thru the stomach. A receipt for dues made out to, were also in Ahe bank at the | Franklin L Whitman by officers of! of the attempted robbery. Oriental Consistory No. 2, Scottish) Whitman had been a resident Rites Masons of Spokene, was/fenttle since last September, jfound in the man’s pocket. He be moved with his family from was about 45 yeurs of age, and well kane. During the winter he dressed severe sick spell, which fs bell Beside the receipt, there were by his friends to have affected him | several letters In his pockets, one mentally. A week aso he went jw? | addressed to his wife, another to.San Francisco to sing with a maiy the police, and a third to Rev./quartet in lyceum work, leaving & The city ledisesesigt 8 office ix al will make itself felt, among other busy and impersonal place; a region of hard, polished oak counters) ways,’ the federal officer sald, “by | and meta) filing cases. the certain things whieh| Above one of the counters a huge flag has been stretched lately,, Dae never been used as food in and there Chief Registrar W. A. Gaines and a flock of clerks answer| America, such as whale meat, In questions concerning select service and receive applications for regis creased use of canned goods, the ion from those who will be out of town on June 5. jue for supporting the work of At the bottom of the application cards, after the questions as to|t¢ Pure food inspector so that the lionality, age, employment, etc., is the question, “Do you claim ex.| W#lity of food may not be lowered emption?” [the use of much food which has AND TWGTHIRDS OF THE CARDS HAVE THE WORD “No"| bitiferto been thrawn away, and ti WRITTEN IN THE BLANK THAT FOL Lows, | probable rease in the amount of A little woman came shyly to the counter the other day vent for liquor | the wife of a man who will be away from home on June 5 warning given by him was use of ne She is that are also toyed with as mayoralty | Frank L. Viollette, of Queen Anne position with an aeroplane mani» oxsibilities ‘There was quite a| boomlet a short 16 ago for! C'aude C. Ramsay, chairman of tho! voard of county commtesioners. ‘There had also been some tiik of running Former Congress E. Humphrey Ole Hanson, too, occupies a for- midable place in such discussions, |tho, in the past, he hos refused to |e a candidate for mayor | Others mentioned at times are Judge Burke, ©, J and Capt. J. B, Gibson ve various Smith Methodist church Handed Over Note When Whitman cntered thi bank, he walked to the telle window and placed a email bot- tle, wrapped up in paper, on the ledge, and laid beside it a piece of paper bearing these words: “Do not give any alarm when | am in here and you will live. | have two pints of nitroglycerine and just tt to die. One signal of alarm and | will blow up the fecturing company in Georgetown, — He leaves a wife and five smail” children in Seattle. ‘ Here's the Letter His letter to the police, in tina clear, legible handwriting, follo: “When you get this letter, T hopeful I shall be dead. For a long” time T have been getting crazier” an derazier. Sometimes imagine I was on a business trip, and would go to San Francisco or _ some other place and stay a week }or so in my room and return, He had made early application for registration, and had remem. boys and girls golng to the bered afterward that he had,sent no stamped return envelope, as re quired, and as he was leaving immediately had sent his wife to supply the omission She held her head rather proudly as she gave his name “He is German-born, but he says he is willing to go if he ts it’s all right with me.” Gaines smiled approvingly as he searched for the card “Of course added, “he'll be fighting bis own people he's first—and it’s all right with me “Probably he won't be called,” Gaines told her. About one in 27 will be selected in the first batch.” I—I don't know how I'll get along if he’s called.” she saic Bot 80 very well—and the baby will be born when he isn't her ft's—all right She put her head down on the hard oak counter. Gaines had found the card. It had the word “No” written after the exemption question, Nothing more than that. Everything in the big, impersonal, business-like office was Just the same as usual, ex and the sobbing woman. °° * Wagner's band came down Second ave. of me Ocean,’ 4 of a wagon with an ertisement of the same fine old band that has played Seattle d Fourth of July celebrations for nearly a generati ner is a ttle grayer now than he used to b +. And it was the same fine old tune and added ‘alled. And Gays We figure only *Tm— but playing “Columbia ” ahe re and; war pict rut that's| all the differ heard all Our lives we hav on th jon, eve idewalks on both man was march epishly at each other as they realized that they of them grinned, and some looked very grave. And down the street they tramped together, old and young, rich and poor, strong and weak, radical and conservative—and, | believe, even willing and unwilling—in time with the old tune Played by the old band, but obeying a new impulse which had touched ever it the same moment. es of the street, between it the dis propa carries with after which gister next Tuesday ar's imprisonment liable militar ti-registration or edition by Offende tributing to service Those unti-conseription a maximum fine if the the m nished as € years’ imprisonment or. case treason, the death penalty is Ni- ed that Mexico General Gre b gory ft escape trying flee to but he| the Gem | harvest fields this summer should \be immunized against typhold | The water supply on many | farm. s not safe,” he asserted know, because I have been there. | If proper precautions are not taken, » will be serious trouble, But} t id prevent ed by immunization method has wiped out the in the jarmies where it ha used.” | Schools Doing Good Work Efforts of schools economical use scribed by Mrs supervisor of t We have economics cen ters 1 t school ings,” she told the women, “where at stated times all women who wish can take a practical course in that furnish all} nut absolutely That disease n be: 0 public in the} food were de len P. Dabney economics to meal ents of form for the economize by an unbalanced rat » to pay the doct And it isn meal that peeperis & you whib family lo prepare a will not ea Dabney took a whack atthe American saiad. “The a not only indigestible but ex and bas Wttle nutri value,” she sald County Aids Movement popular erage salad is How King county is co-operating | food: | drive for increased (Continued on page 4) POINDEXTER PUTS TEETH IN FOOD BILL WASHINGTON, June 1 Miles Poindexter’s amendment the government's first food would make fe or destruction to influ af punishable by ment the penitentiar: le th in the Senator to bill for m lon in The amendment » year was build | oy «1 or fuel hoarding | than six months or more than Jean Seymore Regent | that buying a The total subscriptions the Liberty Loan bonds in t noon Frida of the Jean Sayme has she best do her bit b: nd. ‘Thurs¢ wubacription lank « iret $1 toward 000 that Seattle is going or Uncle Sam will add $9 more Ithe sum; in July she will her payment of $10 1 ist will be a little ts of $15 each Angust 30 she will have done her bit, and while will have | done a good turn for her Uncle |ts Sam, she Will not have inconveni 1 herself greatly either al °* SEATTLE BARK amounted allot can Liberty |tait da |made the the $8,0¢ to rais In June payment be ° ¥ ° ist like a debt. If every one paid | my it up honorably like a debt, there} vould trouble raising the} United Preas Leased Wire LONDON, June 1 ot the American bark | terday by a German ymore has only lived in| ee : years, but she is glad |*%4 drowning of the mate w mite to the sum inced .by the Seattle The Dirigo wax the first vessel jleave Seattle for the war zone, parting October 24, 1916. fired upon without the mon U-boat, the vesse’, using her The bark hove to and the Germans the Dirigo thoroly finally sunk her with bombs Jolin Ray, first mate was drowned. The admiralty also rene tacks (presumably — followed sinkings) of the Americ sailin vessels Frances M |Barbara, The Fra M. was on shells from a German marine May 18. The crew was t¢ |ported safe at Cadiz, The Rorbar was attacked by submarine fire May 24, The crew ed at Gibraltar make harder ee Ito add her vas been assigned to raise. that | 1 admiraity today phe folk “Tam strong for raising the full! quota. she declared “Seattle is Any ought be able to] big enough, and big hearted enough nake those payments said}to make every penny of her ap- Priday “And it's every one’s duty, | ;ortionmeat igo was ing by tacking guns boarded jansacked ADVERTISING MANAGER'S DAILY TALK SOUND AS A BULLET! the sound as two Notwithsta . the country { The way the deel Hing great res sibilities tha a bul por are crowding upon jon of war might damage us commercially and industrially at this time, would be for us as a people to set aside cold | logic and refuse to see the arithmetical facts in the case-—-and turn tall like seared horses, and R-U-N-—and that ts something we have far too much se to DO! Why prosperity hotld we sb now? , and run away, and break up the wagon of | There are billions of dollars here among us! Times HAVE been good | We ourselves kick over the ed bark owned and Sewall & Co, of Bath WILSON WARNS ALL bull by to be spent for all sorts of things right Me. : They beans! will continue to be good—unless | Prices will be high, it is true for but people will have money to spend! This is not the time idle or faint-hearted! pessimism—and this is no land for the WASHINGTON, June 1.— President Wilson today issued a proclamation warning “slack- | ers" that attempts to evade reg. istration by fleeing from the country will expose them to prosecution upon return to this It is now up to us to write a new and splendid chapter in the his tory of this nation, and in order to write It we MUST GO STRAIGHT | AHEAD! We must advertise—We must spend our money. for the of life—Because We must maintain the normal processes of comforts TRADE SUNK BY DIVER The sinking Dirigo yes: | note, ked up and saw Whit-| submarine to de. The Dir worn at dock They and of the Dir- ay | fired gun was land The Dirigo was a steel four diag FLEEING SLACKERS | Se a Jadopted, For only by so doing can we properly stand by the FLAG! country. whole block, | want $3,000 in gold or currency. You don’t need to hurry, When | am tired of waiting I'll make the explosion. | carry a loaded gun, too.” “Lately T have imagined I w. These words had been printed | holdup man, and would walk tor en the paper with a rubber stamp.! hours back and forth in my bake! Fires at Robber yard. Then I would be rational and When Nordguist had in such a mood I would realize the ons shia awful condition | am in “IT have some glycerine and at! soing to blow up some bank and, kill myself one.” He then gives the address of Mra. Whitman, and in a postseript says |that no one else is mixed up with his “crime,” and that he himself was never guilty of any eriminal act before. The letter “Then I would get my rel, and We interested in choir work al church work, and, really, | would be happy in my ignorance. R Imagines He's Holdup read the revolver at and man pointin, Nordquist du thru the counter them struck Whitman, then g¢ ed off hit the wall, The oth |shot went straight to the wall | Motorcycle Policeman Chad Bal- liard, who was sent from headquar: ters at a call from Cashier R. W Green, found that the bottle which Whitman had called nitroglycerine vas empty Whitman was dead | when Dr. H, T. Buckner arrived with the ambulance. | Goes in Jitney Bus Whitman had hired Roy a fitney dri 1107 take him to the ner declares when ed his machine he to be taken to the state bank and thence Anne hill, Beside Green, Lucille Chambers, ste lographer, Miss him, | fired two shots One of rv] addressed to Dr. La © Violette said I want to tahnk you for all the kindness you have shown mo. Tam too crazy to Hive, jt om ta ‘ing a very foolish way to ic it all.’ THOMPSON SPEAKS said he wanted! Col. Wil H, Thompson, on “Amer King County | fean Honor,” and Albert Moodie, to Queen/on “Conscription and Registra. Nordquist and} tion,” will both address the King? college student named| County Democratic club at its regs and the bank! ular Saturday noon meeting aud! N. Be lunch at the Good Bats ¢ atotorlas CONGRESSMEN AIDING PLOTTERS | BY CARL D. GROAT United ft Corre | WASHINGTON, June | Part of congress is aiding the anti-registration plots While the department of jus- tice is hewing at the roots of | the nation-wide conspiracy, some members of congress are franking out anti-conscription Speeches, including that of Speaker Champ Clark, it be- came known today. posedly are using their frank: Harner, Howell st.. to| university. Har-| Whitman boa ing privileges to explain thelr Votes on the select service bill, but the effect of their act —be it to block registration or not— is manifestly to encourage the Plotters wherever their litera: ture reaches, The anti-registration conspir- acy is taking on broader aspects than even the most pessimistic had feared, . Arrests show that. the preach. — ments of the plotters are spreading (Continued on page 7) dye Many sup- | { would — Hope T don't hurt any |