The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 14, 1917, Page 1

¥ % | “We're \r a SPRVICE PRESS ASSOCIATIONS VOLUME 19 FULL LEASED WIRE UNITED jSECRET {HIGH DIPLOMAT | SUDDENLY FIRED Uatted Presse Leased Wire Direct to The Star STOCKHOLM, Sept. 14.—Oscar Werlof, first ecretary of the foreign office, was dismissed from the| Service today. } . The dismissal follows too closely on the revela- tions of Sweden's acting as messenger for the German ernment not to suggest that it was directly due to ica’s announcement of this intriguing. By Untted Press Leased Wire Direct to The Star MEXICO CITY, Sept. 14.—“The news is damn uninteresting to me,” was the angry retort of German) ister Von Eckhardt to-the United Press here today m efforts were made to obtain his comment on the) ‘American expose of how he used Swedish Charge Cron-| tholm as a messenger and recommended that he be dec-| F Going to Be | city represented with Wheral spmee. orated by the kaiser. Von Eckhardt denied mendations for Herr Cronholm’s decoration, for 7 Cronhoim's decors | vices rendered to Germany. Von Eckhardt readily granted an §nterview to the United Press and Ustened with patently growing an ger and impatience at the corre- spondent’s recital of what the lat- est American expose revealed. Efforts to make him comment | further than his denis! that he had SWEDISH DIPLOMATS SPIED FOR KAISER AS SUB (Written for the United Press) NEW YORK, Sept. 14— German imports from Sweden of foods and raw material for the manufacture of munitions will be seriously curtailed, or cut off altogether, when the full effects of the state de- partment’s revelations cor cerning Swedish intrigues in Latin-America are felt by the Swedish people. The use of Swedish officials to assist Germany's cause against the fnterests of the Swedish nation it Self is shown as much in the un- neutral Swedish activities in Mex- feo City as in Buenos Aires. The fevelation that Sweden's official and financial classes have been working for Germany at the ex- pense of the common people of Sweden, will, in the end, greatly Assist the spread of democracy in Sweden. he “had made any recom- | recommended |tion “because of any services ren. }dered Germany” were unavailing. When it was pointed out to him [that this denial only denied the reasons for a decoration and could | | be construed as no denial of the actu (Continued on gage 4) S SLEW SWEDES | marines and Swedish subjects were being murdered by the U-boat pl. | Fates, Swedish diplomats are shown j}to have been conspiring in secret |to further this very ruthlessness. | Sweden is the only neutral con-| }tinguous to Germany that has an joffictal and aristocratic class, mod-| jeled, in part, after the Prussians |It was the shortsightedness of this | | class that caused Norway to secede! }from Sweden in 1905. These Prus- istanized Swedes are disappointed imperialists, who long to recover Finland, wrested from Sweden by | Russia more than 100 years ago. At the same time, the capitalistic element in Sweden ts proGerman, because it has made large sums of money during the war selling goods to Germany. The official and eap-| {talistic element in Sweden fs sole. | ly responsible for the present Swedish scandal. The common | people of Sweden have long been| engaged in a struggle against those | * aye tomorrow "At a time when Sweden's ships |reactionaries, and have been de- were being sunk by German sub-|manding the further demecratize tion of their government -|KAISER AGREES conan ADVERTISING MANAGER'S DAILY TALK attention OUR special invited to the ads in to-| day's Star. You will find) \ t] the best and Hvest bust | the ness institutfons of Th other words, if you read the ate fn tortay’s Ster you will be in com ple toueh witk the beat oppor funities te buy to tie best advent INDEPENDENCE BY JOHN H. HEARLEY ROME, Sept. 14.—Repiy of the| central powers to Pope Benedict's andurd Furniture Co..Pame 2 Gave ly’ ‘ Page 3) Vaticam today, according to we ee ed officials. It was report the reply favors “absolute independ slence for Belgium,” demanding that Cpr) Sohormer eat Brow’ |...) Page ‘eodhoum Cruntium Co. Fes Be clothing Co King Albert's country “be inde- Fraser-Paters: p pendent of all military and eco Frederick & N nomic agencies.” Macbougall-Be ic Forma announcement of the re-! repie | By United Press 1 Wire a part of the plunder. MacDougall e . coipt of the reply and information |” Ree latter explained the with |" W YORK, Sept. 14.--Backers Detectives arrested the sec. |ist, member of the Central Labor | ttatein Furniture Co, as to whether it was a Joint or|qrawala because the ministers|of the old theory that in war times| ond gang and recovered $7,000 Counell sagas Markets... group answer, was withheld by| «eit it was imporsible to carry births of boy bables far outnumber| worth of tires. Preceding the taking of test! the Vatican out Kerensky’s orders to ‘take cer-| those of girls were given a setback mony, the attorneys clashed on the ine St. M. t ree (Continued on page 4) }today at the news that the kaiser| William Fox @as a “resuscitation phrase contained in the indictment Tailored Heady Co SAN DIEGO, Cal, Sept, 14.— had another granddaughter squad” working over his hundreds | Charging “divers other persons" as Bon Marche Camp Kearn will be completed] WASHINGTON, Sept, 14.—-Many| The girl was born to Prince and|of mermaids and mermen at Ba well as the four ae fendants with Make up y shopping within ten’days, according to pres-|lives were lost and heavy dar Princess Adelbert at Kiel, The|tlarbor, Me, where they are mak bey conspiracy paneer ee! _ de turday f adw tod ent plans of the contractors. ldone to buildings, including the} crown princess also recently gave ling the Annette Kellerman ple PANE dd to know w ogy the 1 . Ss. Fin een ect from beiter,| It will at least be near enough to| American consulate, when a severe|birth to a girl baby, Thus the |ture, “Queen of the Sea.” Long | attorney meant to charko the labor fresher stocks, to ‘| completion to allow the 30,000 Na-|typhoon passed over Amoy, China,| most warlike family of the most | periods In cold water causes the | Union len replied hat some of Remember the best offerings of \ijonal Guardsmen from the West-|the state department was advised) warlike nation in the world has|complete and often sudden exhaus-|the labor men were disloyal, but ache star “PPRF FSU" | orn states to begin their training,|today. No foreign casualties re-jtwo girls born to it in the midst|tion of players. Hence the need|the majority were supporting the = they assert, sulted. + of the greatest war in history, of pulmoters, ete, (Continued on page 13.) nnn * ¢ a Ci ty of a Milli . DON’T MISS 1 SEATTLE | Wa TheSeattleStar _ The Greatest Daily Circulation of Any Pape WASH., FRIDAY, SEPT. 14, 1917. r inthe Pacific Northwest my ad * ¥ 7 FATTER TIE l s—— KORNILOFF AIDE KILLS HIMSELF IN PETROGRAD BY WM, G, SHEPHERD United Press Staff Correspondent PETROGRAD, Sept. 14.— Gen. Grimoff, who commanded Gen, Korniloffs rebellious troops, and who ordered them to surrender when all hope was lost, committed suicide to- day. Grimoff had personally super. intended the surrender of his forces, then went to Petrograd, He talked with Premier Keren- aky and then went to his home in the capital. There he kitted binvaelt. PETROGRAD, What punishment meted out to Gen, split the Russian cabinet to- day. Four ministers bave left the cabinet. Personal surrender of the revolt ing army ebief is timinent. His treops have melted away to a mere handful Government troops, whieh threo days ago captured his headquarters, to the rear at Pskoff, press wpon him from that direc tien, and in front ts the stone wall detenes of provintonal troops from Petrograd, Ministern Resign There in widespreal public ée mand tbat those respossible for the counter revolution be severely ealt with, It was this question, appareetly, which led to retire ment from the cabinet of Vice F mier Nekrasoff, Minister of For eign Affairs Tereschenko, Minister of Food Piechechonoff, Minister of Agriculture Tchernoff and Minister of Ways and Communications Gou Sept. t— shall be Korniloff Chiel Beckingham = WELLS ADMITS THAT HE FOUGHT Hulet M. Wells, principal de- enounces Speeders THe pRAFTLAW motorcyclists in the residence districts, endangering espectat- ly the Hives of young children, tras got to stop,” declared Chief of Police Beckingham Friday. “There have been too many | “Promiscuous speeding by | | | Instances of speeders running | down people in the streets and never even stopping to see whether they were kitied or | not. Following the death of little Cora Marie Middleton, aged 6, Thursday, | from the results of injuries which | she received when she was struck jdown by a motorcycle on Phinney | jave., Chlef Beckingham emphasized | |te his motorcycle policemen the} Necessity of picking up speeders on the city streets. The cyclist who struck her sped | on down the street without atop ping even te look around | “Heavy penaities should be im-| posed upon these fellows in tho| courts,” sald Chief Beckingham “Aa it ts, they get off usually with a $10 or $15 fine. They are mostly young fellows who think it smart to tear down the street at a break. neck speed and evade the law ff they can. If the courts would take away their privilege of driving any | kind of vehicle for three months| and give them a taste of Jail, there | wouldn't be so much of it, in my| Girl Babies Born in Kaiser’s Family During War Time} |from the condition | Gyear old girl, opin fendant in the anti-conscrip- “Furthermore, there seems to be] ton conspiracy case being a sort of unwritten law In the auto tnablte aa motorcycle fraternity] "eerd by a jury in Federal that whenever a driver knows! Judge Neterer’s court, Friday elsa van on the atreet,| Morning frankly admitted, thru he gives ot high sign, mak-| his attorney, George F. Van- ing it more difficult for the offi derveer, that he ordered the po ai printing of 20,000 “No Con- ‘We have about 20 motorcycle| scription” circuiars and that police officers here and at the cen-| they were delivered to him on tral station, and two and th May 11, 1916. This was more each precinct station, Th than a month after war wi have orders to keep a sharp look-| declared, and a few days b fore the president signed the out for speeders.” Complaints draft law, Besides Wells, three fendants are on trial Sam _ Sadler, former the Longshoremen’s union; Fislerman, secretary of the social ist party in Seattle, and R. G. Rice, socialist. Wells was an employe of the city lighting department at speeders riding with open mufflers at night and of fost driving on the residence streets have been rife at the police sation for several months, and numerous accidents have resulted They are secretary of Aaron The way the case of the who was run down police Wednenday and received a skuti {the time of his arrest social fracture, from which she died the | !8t candidate for mayor in 1912, he next a flagrant example |Teceived more than 10,000 votes of tbe ruthlessness of drivers, but | Attorneys Squabble that they have no means of locat-| | Following the Wells admission, a ing the culprit, as no witnesses Of |oontinuous battle ensued between the accident learned the number of |}; gs Dist. Atty. Clay Allen for the the machine, government and Atty. Vanderveer - for the defense to show whether | Ori S neo ein Meeais Wells attempted to suppress bis Thieves Steal Loot |commection with the circulars, The of Rival Gangsters) witnesses examined Friday morn ! Ty United Press Leased Wire ng, when testimony was begun, CHICAGO, Sept. 14.—While | Were W. R. Saunders, manager of one gang of thieves was locked [the Trade Printery, 88 Jackson st.; up on a charge of stealing |Nell R. Smith. clerk at the print $50,000 worth of automobile |ery; George P. Listman, superin |tendent of the printery; Ravid Le | vine, secretary of the county cen. |tral committee of the | party, and J. G, Friermund, machin- tires from the Grand Trunk railroad, another gang invaded their rivals’ quarters and stole in the Next Eight Years”| HAT’S what one of Seattle’s biggest men says about Seattle’s future. You’re going to have an oppor-]| tunity to read it all, and prophecies from other Seattle men WHO KNOW WHAT THEY’RE TALKING | | ABOUT, in a special edition of The Star to be issued tomorrow. We advise every Seattle business man, every | Seattle home-owner, every Seattle person who has confidence in the future greatness of our city, to obtain n » %. @ > os A : oe ’ é ‘ ° ‘ : ey | - copy : tomorrow’s Star. I or, dipping into the future, this edition will reflect the “peace with prosperity” destined to be with us when the world conflict is over. We are today one of ¥j ihe world’s greatest ports. We are going to be greater. The Star's special edition is going to portray this coming greatnes T! LAST EDITION ts strong southerly winds. Tonight and Saturday, rain PRICE ONE CENT 2°9¢am ° n Seattle 000 CARPENTERS ON STRIKE SERVICE EXPOSES SECOND SWEDE SPY) The Kaiser’s Army in America, Hoch! | 3000 HAMPER 24 = = | r— w~ = | et = ~A Wooden shipbuilding in Seattle was at a standstill Friday as the result of a sympathetic strike of 3,000 ‘ship carpenters and joiners called by the Building Trades council to assist striking lumber workers to obiain an eight-hour day. Four steel ship plants were seriously handicapped. Two thousand house carpenters employed on sev- — jeral hundred jobs in Seattle also went on strike. Seven hundred riveters walked out at the J. F Duthie, steel ship yards, shortly before noon, when asked to build a scaffold with 10-hour lumber. The men | did not refuse to work but did refuse to take the places lof oy striking carpenters. The plant practically ceased — work, we disorder has been reported to! other de-| socialist | the police, and J. G. Brown, presi-| service would be recalied and cert dent of the International Timber | tyed for service. 2 Workers, who is chairman of the! ~The government,” sald Jobm strike committee, said that he t doubted whether picketing would be used at the plants The only shipyards out of a total of 26 which are not affected by the letrike are the Meachem & Babcock | Wooden Shipbuilding corporation, with 260 carpenters employed, and the Skinner & Eddy corporation, about the same numbei m & Babcock showed con ts with eight-hour mills and Skinner & Eddy signed an agree ment not to use “unfair” lumber. Resent Intimidation | Members of the Ship Carpenters’ jand Joiners’ Local, 1184, which is lthe chief union engaged in the strike, branded the statement of Al-| | bert Moodie, in charge of registra- | tion at the adjutant general's office, | made in a morning paper, as an at- |tempt to intimidate the men and prevent them from striking Moodie was quoted as saying hat in case the men went on strike hose who had been granted occu |pational exemptions from select 11 OWNERS OF PROPERTY ARE HIT BY ORDER Temporary Injunctions re- straining 11 owners of property of Yesier way from permitting their property to be used for immoral purposes were issued by Superior Judge Frater, upon the application of Deputy Pros- | ecutor Lane Summers Friday. Two red-light abatement cases filed by Summers some time ago were continued while two others were granted over the protests of t t the owners In the remainder of the ps |the attorneys for the defendants jagreed with Summers to let the court grant temporary injunctions and then to fight the cases on their merits when they come up for trial Contest Two Cases { The two cases: contested were those of the Rainier Power & Heat Co. and Puget Mill Co. State Senator Ralph D. Nichols, representing the Renton Heat & argued that the proper decent and had always cent so far s the knowl edge of the defendants went Power Co., The two cases continued were those of the Cayfiga Land Co, and H. B, Kennedy, They will be heard next week, | Injunctions Granted | Injunctions were granted against | the 4pllowing owners: Yukon In- vestment Co., August Daverso, J W. Norris, Christ Meyer, W, Hl. H. Jam Nelson Lagholm, H. H.| Hamlin, Ferdinand C. Bereudes, Anna Henke, Emily T. Walker and the Quong Tuck Co. In the cese of the Puget Mill Co no injunction’ was granted against the company, but one was issued against the Quong Tuck Co. ten Jants, | Lindsay, member of the carpenters” press committee, “will not take part in such a fight against the eight hour day.” Moodie Repudiates It Moodie repudiated the statement Thursday, declaring that in his opinion the matter would have to be taken up with the provost marshal general, and that nu action would be taken here unless the strike was prolonged, and then only on the or der of the war department. The Washington Shipbuilding cor- poration, one of the largest wooden vessel plants in the city, with five ships for the French government on its ways, was completely tied up, accordi to President S. HL. Hedges. The plant employs about 400 men, 100 of them carpenters. Ames Plant Crippled T. A.D. Jones, assistantt to the pres- ident at the Ames shipyards, a steel ship company, said that if the strike continued long, the plant would have to close down. It norm mally employs 200 carpenters and Joiners. The Seattle Construction and Dry Dock Co. was operating, with 160 carpenters on strike. It builds steel ships only Operate Short Handed - “It will probably be several days © before the full effects of the strike are felt,” said Brown, of the strike” committee, “because many of the plants can operate short handed tor a few days, but after that they will be forced to sign our agreements or close down.” Brown said that the house carpen- ters had stopped work on the new Frederick & Nelson building, at Fifth ave. and Pine st. SHIP STRIKE DUE IN ASTORIA SOON By United Prose Leased Wire ASTORIA, Ore,, Sept. 14.—Hope averting & strike at the McBach. ern shipyards was practically abandoned here today. The ship carpenters threaten to strike at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning unless the following demands are made: Flat scale of $6, half holiday, Sat- urday with full pay, release from paying hospital dues and state com- pensation fees, and the opening of the yards to walking delegates, AMERICAN STEAMER IS SUNK BY DIVER © By United Press Leased Wire LOQDON, Sept. 14.—The American steamer Wilmore was sunk by a German sub marine Wednesday, the admir- alty announced today. The crew was saved, The Wilmore was a_ steel screw steamer of 5,399 tona, owned by the Berwind White Coal Co., of New York. REDDING, Cal., Sept. 14.—Mount Lassen began a mild eruption this morning, Smoke bubbled out of the east side and settled around the peak, forming a smoke cap, b