The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 26, 1917, Page 1

DON’T STOP NOW No one need stop helping the Red Cross. Go to headquarters in the Cobb building and take out a membership. Then spend some time each week sewing sottasssresesesssssssessssssssssase 3 Pcstitistississ see sssSeasseL SS Ssh SSS Sabi SSeS is tisetisttssitisiisctisssetssssrte Powers Wasn’t FELLOW OFFICERS SAY. HE TOLD THEM OF MONEY “Powers Told Me He Had Some Money to Deposit,” Testifies Capt. Sullivan, Secretary of Police. The defense in the Mike Powers bribery 1 its efforts Tuesday afternoon to impeach the imony of the State’s star witness, G. M. Wardell. Wardell testified re peatedly that he visited Inspector Powers at the police sta tion February 9 and gave him a $20 gold piece mounted as a watch charm and $30 in money [wo witnesses who were in the anteroom to Powers’ wlfice on that day and the police chauffeur, who says he drove F Powers to Providence hospital on that day, appeared in Judge Ronald’s court Tuesday srning to give the lie to Wardell Wardell says he paid Powers $50 “hush money” Febru ary 27 ; “We are going to show that this is a deliberate att to ‘job’ Mike Powers,” Walter Fulton, attorney for the cused: policeman, told the court in answer to an objection P from Deputy Prosecutor Ellis To testify in line with this the first witness Tuesday was called d case ¢ ued npt ac j Oruggist Testifies called Powers into the chiefs of 5 J. A. Ferry, a druggist of Kirk: tice while be was talking to Sulll-| & land, was the first witness Tuesday yan morning. : Ellis then called for an easel and 4 “How long have you known War posted a biue print floor plan of the dell?” asked Fulton police station, directing Roberts to point aet where all of the officers “What is his general reputation?” \aq stood while the conversation pitas the query. — was heldy Lit is bad.” replied tho witness. “Powers left the room with Carte: Lundin asked him if Wardell had ‘ton and in a few minutes they came tried to get, liquor evidence OM |back and Carleton had his hand on Perry's drug sore. Powers’ shoulder, telling bim that Ferry said Wardell had ih pan tmaertdt Cimet. be'uee the Tried to Sell Out chief,” sald Roberts “Since 1915,” said Ferry “Didn't he try to ‘sell out’ to Sergt. Guy Carleton was next | called rey oy, Carieton’s Version : 1 T was in the chlef's office, and . of the charity Mrs. Ida A. Brady. 0 then|the chief told me to get Powers sald Carleton. “Powers wasn’t in| first In 1913,| his office, and they told me that he} whe Sullivan's office. Powers I was in the Charities Organ a fmation Toctety, and later in the| going out. T ran and| Geanty offic Mrs. Brady said. | caught him by the arm and told him She was no permitted to say it was important.” that he had applied for charity, and/ ps eg ge Gara ; 3 + he had loco-, office by the chief's door mee 7 ther pire Did he have anything in his anni Kelly, 2 printer, took the)hands?” asked Powers’ attorne ctand, swearing that he and his fa-| “He had both hands full of pe ther saw Wardell, in May, 1915. at = fir svigece id : : . car line ‘arleton said he was anxious to ee oe, have Powers see the chief in order aid He Was aie A oo “Did Wardell tell you then ret Sores Po rare his, Car he bad had am injury to his head aren Ones hey | and that at times he was out of his/ “The only time you ever were : - | mind. and never would be right?” 40 arter Powers by the chief” commissioner's office, was called. “| met Wardell to Sullivan's | pret a 4. Ket: “IT am not anyoffice boy,” said ie did,” said Kelly Carleton | “Did he say he bad been slugged) “enians you come into the room doing detective work?” inquired) wien the deputy sheriffs had ar. Fulton conn rested Powers and say ‘The chief| “Yes.” answered Kelly wants to see you? Ellis, in crossexamination, at “And didn't Powers sa I tempted to get Kelly to say that) now it but 1 am pinched’? asked Wardell had told him that the blow | pi, had only injured his eyesight “! did not!” declared Carleton vehemently Wants to Explain | Roberts Was There Owen Roberts, in charge of the ett stockade. testified that “1 will explain it if you want me] he was talking to Capt to.” offered the witness | in Sullivan's office, on “The question has been answer. | noon of February 27 ed.” sald Ellis “Powers came into the room and You did see the deputies?” ask-| asked Sullivan where Danny was.” ed Fulton | said Roberts “Sure I did,” replied the witness He's gone,’ said 3 While | was in the corridor the} ‘I've some mone ctor called me back and told Powers | arrest “Give it to the desk sergeant See Chauncey Wright or some. devised ivan after Powers had|body about my bond,’ he says to 5 he oney was depart-|me, said Carleton Se <scihom ce Glenn G. Evans, clerk to the Roberts said Sergt. Carleton had|chief, was placed on the stand. He - ———__——— told the j he wa in the ante % room, and that Powers wag hurry ce tists thie office with papers tr ADVERTISING MANAGER'S {both hands | DAILY TALK | “He was walking very fast for) him,” averred Evans | “Dh » the deputies in the hall? t 4d Fulto You Can Fatten Your '!)") inquired Pu Disputes Deputies’ Word | How long were they there A half an hour, I ¢ Bank Account lly in the course of 1e88, before | doing your buy-| Inspector Powers was arrested advertising colum I came bac nm lunch | Just jook th m.—Warde me tn over today, for instance, and see) There was another fellow waiting the many ¢ es to save to see Powers q 4 | “Powers saw Hubbard, the other Pr cc higen pier 1o}man, first, He let him out thru son se 6cithe street door | f Phe Rhodes Co Page b “Then Po came to the door! 4 Frederick & elson hot ‘| of bis office nd V dell got up} ; Movie N and Ads Page Te eale I see you a min McCormack ute?” Standard Furniture Co. 1 “Was Inspector Powers in his of Grote-Rankin Co. Page fice on the afternoon of Februar Woodhouse-Grunbaum Page 5) q% said Fulton of Seat-| “Powers,” FE said, “was wor ‘ ae teat appear regularly ried about t of hi " Ae * nephew, who was in Providence : hospital 7 Not There February 9 £— FASTEST GROWING PAPER He came In about 16:3 ‘ iN THE NORTHWEST morning and said Thi i i (Continued on page 5) i VOLUME 19 The Seattle Star ~ GREATEST DA DAY, JUNE 26, 1917 x. * in O While Civilization Bleeds! Is Are we at war for our existence or Is our democracy to resolve itself HAT are we coming to? patriotism coming to mean, “Grab all you can get’? just for a few scattered ideals? into a mere matter of “pork Congress stinks with the odor of hog-grease. “Pork!” “Pork!” everywhere, and “pork” the inspiration of statecraft, warcraft and every other craft located in the capitol for war business! Twelve locations are selected for the great encampments, and the men and money for them have been voted. The selections are made because best in respect of access to ocean transportation, sanitation, climate and health. But the majority of them are bunched in the southeast. At once congressmen break up the selections. That “pork” must be spread over more congressional districts. And building of all the encampments, no matter where lo- cated, is held up. Uncle Sam brow-beaten, bulldozed and plucked so that he cannot even prepare for war! + * * * al N insulting, seditious picket of women at the very threshhold of the commander-in-chief's residence! Immediate votes for women, when the issue is not whether American women shall vote in the next year or so but whether they shall be led into captivity by blood-crazed barbarians in the next year or so! “The president is lying to Russia; we are not a democracy!” greets the Russian mission at the White House door. If it is not sedition, as well as a braxen hold-up, what is it? A Seattle minister, obliviousso the -realitie®’ of the Prussian menace against humanity and civilization, prattles of theoretical pacifism and the beauties of peace—of peace at THIS TIME which means a yielding to the iron heel of autocracy. Vo team work with Uncle Sam! Pamphleteering comfort to elastic consciences of objec tors to Uncle Sam's servic é. A Boston minister gets up in his pulpit and roars, “Buy no bonds until we have national prohibition!” Sedition! Positive treason to millions of our young men who must offer their lives in army and navy! ae * * + * (6 POR 2 10 ships! Female suffrage at once, tho the kaiser may grant the whole nation no political freedom! Prohibition right away, tho we may mave to pay a German tax on our drinking water for 50 centuries to come! We are, thus far, the cheapest, easiest, weakest ally that yet has rise against German autocracy. Even little Rumania, Serbia and Montenegro cost the much in blood and money. Well may the kaiser boycott our war. All he has got to do is to thin out allied shipping and let us help Britain and France starve. We'll lick ourselves, if given time, and if the odor of “pork” lingers in our congressional nostrils long enough, We've got to clean our democracy of all other ideals than that of warfare for self-existence. We've got to do it right off. Civilization is afire. It’s afire down close to the very embers. We cannot stop that fire by sitting down to study out whether we will pour on beer, water, tea or coffee? We cannot get to that fire by spending our time before our wardrobe in selecting some appropriate moral or political uniform in which to serve as fireman. We’ve got to, at once, grab the wettest quencher at hand and pour on floods and floods of it, in our shirt-tails, if that’s the sort of uniform that’s quickest put on. « t: 4 a K,” tho we have no encampments, no powder, no guns, kaiser ORD! we sit and debate and chew on “pork” and diddle- daddle over each others’ political liberty and moral convie- tions, when there isn’t going to be any “pork,” or liberty, or mor- ality at our command, if we don’t make war the immediate, ex- clusive business which it sure is. “Too late!” said German autocracy, upon our declaration of war. We will be, unless the administration and congress at Wash- ington, and every business concern, every family and every patri- otic individual make warfare their exclusive aim and business. But we won't be too late in paying an indemnity with millions of American lives and billions of American dollars, later on. William Hohenzollern will see to it that we’re prompt in that matter. ILY CIRCULATION OF ANY NEWSPAPER IN PACIFIC NORTHWEST " ONE CENT 'NAME EXEMPTION BOARDS ffice Day Wardell Says He Paid Bribe, ay Witnesses Called by Defense to Clear Police Inspector ! se OT ECE SEATTLE AND STATE ARE PROVIDED WITH JUDGES Labor to Have Men on All | Exemption Boards Accord- | ing to Latest Plans of Gov- ernment. THE 81ST DAY OF OUR WAR Exemption boards, to handle the cases of those drafted men who have, or think they have, reasons for not serving in tne select army, were announced in all but three states of the Union today, the 81st since we entered the world war. This announcement divided the interest of the country with the fight in the senate agriculture committee over the food bill as passed vy the house. There the fight predicted as @ result of the national prohibition section developed rap- idly. Enemies of the bill, under cover of the prohibition fea- ture of the bill, tried to overload the bill by asking for con- trol of coal, oll, and the like The suffragists, who have been hampering the government with unpatriotic banners and trying to distract official Wash- ington from its serious war program, were on the job again at the gates of the White House. Nine were arrested after their banners had been taken away from them Elihu Root made further progress in his friendship cam- paign in Moscow, and the Russian mission visited the senate, where the Russian ambassador delivered a most optimistic address on behalf of New Russia. Plans to curb the shipment of American goods thru neu- tral countries to our enemies were being rapidly perfected by the president. A plot to block the ship canal leading from the Gulf of Mexico to Houston, Tex., was nipped. The whole country surveyed with satisfaction the over. subseription of the $100,000,.000 Red Cross fund, Seattle's part | in the jublfation being particularly keen. | Recruiting week, during which Uncle Sam asks for 70,000 volunteers to fill all branches of his military service, was well under way. *__* District exemption boards which will pass on the citizens of Washington who are to be excused from select military service |were completed Tuesday. The names of ithe men on those boards were given out \by Governor Lister today. | The members for the 12 Seattle and two |King county boards as announced at Olym- |pia, with the war department’s approval, were practically the same as those who |served on the district boards registration broaden the house food contro! bill to include coal, petroleum products, The prohibition fight, pending in the senate, today endan. gered the whole legislative pro- gram. The Lever food bill is block steel, oil, farm im plements and other necessaries. jday. The names follow: Local exemption boards for city | ward of Seattle are as follows Ninth District—J, M, Hawthorne First District——T. C. Tideman, L.| William Duncan, Dr, U. C. Bi | A. Brewer, Dr. C. W. Knudser | Tenth Distriet—Pliny 1. Allen, a Dr. Ernest E. Breck- Second Mistrict—Loren Grinsted, | 94 | Welford Beaton, Dr. A. B, Kindd tL Distriokeann ir A ates Third District—1 Landon,| ings, George A. Grant, Dr. Wm. H Paysse, Dr. W wold S letann | Fourth District—D. B. Trefethen, Twelfth District James A. Dow Chas. 8. Gleanson, Dr. H. BE. Allea./gan, John A. Bennett, Dr. Donald Fifth District--Leo Barnard, J. E.| B. Lyon Quigley, Dr. Ernest L. Bickford Boards for King county, outside | Sixth District—W. M. Whitney,]of ttle, are as follows |W. W. Connor, Dr. BE. C. Lee | Board No W. H. Overlook Seventh District—Wilmon e-|Kent; Van G. Sarver, Route 3, Se |ker, A. S. Burrows, Dr, James F./attle; Dr. B, E, Hoye, Auburn Hill Board No, 2—Thomas P. Revelle, Kighth District--J. W. Frerich,! Haller Lake; A. C. Wilson, Renton Walter Schaffner, Dr. W. C. Wood- Dr. George T. Sparling, Newcastle } ei BY WEBB MILLER ) 1 Gompers, president of the ONE Gmaeen,. dune aie n Federation of Labor The laboring man of the nation J © labor commit will have a “friend at court” of the on the appellate exemption has boards that sift out the men for America’s armies, it was s to the ap learned today ellate tribunals, The list con nach of the district’ boards |tsins the ames of several accept sxemption claims for oc-|4ble men in each federal judicial Joupational reasons, there will be|<istrict. Other leaders of labor lthe representative of the laboring | have sent their suggestions inan—in most ca ognized | With the exception of Maryland, eader of nessee and Wisconsin, the per community vnel exemption | om national labor men, the war ‘ ntry was to artment has decided to give la- day grams to the | representation on each of the | gover ed the final draft of higher tribunals. the lower boards _ ENEMIES OVERLOAD FOOD BILL BY ROBERT J. BENDER jtion and not to production. A spe United Preas 8 Correspondent | cial committee including Gore, Ken WASHINGTON, June — jyon and Chamberlain was named The senate agriculture sub- |t0 consider this. The dry amend | ment was not acted on during the | committee today voted 0 | morning | | | The committee amended the bill ed by the tremendous confusion io exclude from contro! of the food resulting from injection of the administration food con ion sweeping dry amendment by what the people shal cir the house, s. It wag further a to re Let prohibition go thr on its lease the farmer from ila-| own merits and not under the food tions under the bill governing! control measure,” urged one dry power to requisition product member today enator Gore contended the bill) Meantime the senate finance uid be limited only to distribu (Continued on Page 10) less children of France is to attend the Rose Show at the Arena, which closes tonight tonight. and warmer tomorrow.” LAST EDITION One way of helping the father. y a Weather “Clear stisthssreste st: ORTMANN WILL BE "CENSORED Chas. Osner, American, Will | See That German Press Is Loyal |STAR STOPS ATTACKS | Paul H. Ortmann Editorial utterances of the Seat- tle German Press are to be cem sored and Americanized. promise was made by Chas. — Osner, responsible American i er of the new: triet Attorney Clay Allen afternoon. Osner declared that the future, the policy of the paj | Which is edited by Paul H, Of jmann, would be more in accord with American ideals, ang that he would personally censor the writings of the editor. é The attention of federal authori- | ties was called to the sneering edie \torials published by p* |The Star Saturday called |Ortmann ‘to his office Monday afternoon for a conference over Ortmann’s proGerman propaganda land attitude toward American war. lactivities, Ortmann, accompanied |by Osner, made his apologies and promised to be more American im” | future + DR, SUZZALLOIS “HEAD OF STATE DEFENSE BOARD OLYMPIA, June 26,—Dr, Henry Suzzallo of Seattle, pree ident of the state university, was chosen cnairman and di- rector of the state council of defense at the council's first meeting yesterday. The coun- cil convened again at 9:30 a, m. today. In planning the financing of the jcouncil, Gov. Lister suggested that — |it might be possible to make use of |e $5,000 fund for investigation which he has, and that offices cam{ be had in the state house, : ‘2 INDICTMENTS __ ARE RETURNED | Two secret and two open indlet- | ments were returned by the federal | grand jury at noon Tuesday, | Federal officials refused to tm. | dicate the importance of the secret | charges ¥ Their nature will not be made public until arrests have been made by the United States mar- shal’s office | ae » Me, a Chinaman, and Morris Ebersthitz, already under arrest for alleged smuggling of opium, were named in the open bills, RUSSIA WILL WIN _ DEMOGRAGCY,HE SAYS | WASHINGTON, June 26,— | The Russian situation is grave, Ambassador B, A. Bakhmetieff, head of the Russian mission, | told the senate today, but the ultimate outcome js certain to be favorable to democracy's cause lie declared the upheaval in his nation ¢ naturally resulted im vorious interests striving to assert themselve \ stron thru the of optimism ran ador’s address, He w given a arty welcome by the upper house, senate and gallery” jjeining in the applause. r, to U. 8. Die ‘ wa