The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 28, 1917, Page 1

et Us Make Seattle Safe for Our Women! AST NIGHT another Seattle woman was slugged— ph prc aap been rye a yr homes ep ee space of three days. knocked unconscious in her own home by an in- and, as usual, there 1s no clue to the tdentity of thet assatlant, This thing has got to be stopped. if the police can’t stop it, some other way must be found. > )] der. While we are engaged in making the world The men of this town aren't going to sit idly by and see their wives, and mothers, and sisters fall into the hands of this inhuman fiend. There are ways in which our women can be protected, Safe for democracy, why should we not give thought, if the police cannot do the job. Also, to making our city safe for our women? The men of Seattle might, for instance, organize by precincts, and allot among themselves : With all of feminine Seattle panic-stricken recently by the depredations of the degenerate territory in their own neighborhoods which they could volunteer to patrol, each man working brute, who added to his list of victims almost nightly, the police never succeeded in even find- | Perhaps an hour. ing a trace of the man. They’re doing it already in certain isolated and unpoliced sections of the city. - Now, after a breathing space of a few weeks, we evidently are in for another epidemic of It is an idea worth considering—IF THE HELPLESSNESS OF OUR POLICE DE- horrors. PARTMENT CONTINU @. TheSeattleStar ois The Greatest Daily Circulation of Any Paper in the Pacific Northwest BMOOLUME 19 ERS ERMA SRT Ne SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, SEPT. 28, 1917. PRICE ONE CENT /evypgenere EN StAND PAT ON STRIKE No Clue is | SKETCHED BY STAR ARTIST AT CAMP LEWIS Deeded Obtained ’| in Effort to Settle by Police ‘Union Officers Say Steel sign of Terror Caused by y i a Fiend Among Seattle | ip Workers Wi ay Women; 12 Cases in One! Down Tools at 10 A. M. Saturday. } eek. Th indication Friday that at 10 . "I es ae ey here was every indication Friday that a a. m. es, ir agp ee Fo Meare a Saturday 12,000 Seattle steel shipyard workers will ay i Be eine Fave followed the Mee oF attacks down their tools and walk out of every steel ship yard ‘ het paige ar fg ty ) uot ae in the city, except Skinner & Eddy’s. Beason ee of women that has swept Working agreements with 15 wood ship yards and | The latest attack by the “woman slugger” oc- shops supplying ship hg id signed Friday, averte ri ¢ se ing Strikes in these yards, however. : ort ggg Mang a by err Munae Eleventh hour attempts to stave off the steel yard : ‘ f Mae ker unconscious. by 2 Siping cae thie strike failed, according to reports from a conference of j ~ ogee Saicked the house for. $5.75 yard owners and Metal Trades council officials, Friday ees {i} “enw d “LerT Facer ) . $ at > ice » Se eC “ti 1 The man came to the door, Mrs. Powers said, and ’ “awe _ * ‘ cs ta ee oe oro antious io, a ed for Dr. Powers. She admitted him, explaining fey * sara” before falling. im Mer) will accept no offers from the yard owners or the or was not there, b ‘ e wo a ippi i hone ere, but that she would call shipping board, excepting an absolute agreement to she turned to take down, ———— their wage scale demands. ‘ : . A. E, Miller, I. G. O'Hara, Pat Dono : hue, A. W. Dolan, J. J, Branting-, shipyard bam and C. C. Clise. resulted in an tried to get us to lift the gain hour lumber,” ‘and we stood pat on Pp Was & » talk of the wage scale, t me old argu ments for a inst the scale ever mm: . i uunced at noon that! wooden ship Tonight is the night of had signed the| dance id that the men would! The ALL-NIGHT dance 4 not go out in those yards or in the! nreamta: eo Skinner & E nt, which sign-| ¢ gy 7 the benefit of Tim i fl a ed up more than two months ago.|5t@t’s “Boys in France Tobaceo) I declared “The man who maleep at Miller could not estimate the | Fund.” pee ver, he struck her on the! she sank to the floor un PRISONER SAYS | Dr. Pow ers _ When his home, he informed gy vr but they were unable to effect a HEWIT ] FIRST Z capture. \ A Woman was accosted by a Ny stranger on Spring st. between AL Second and Third aves. Thursday Ww might. She escaped by running up ieee eer Mitts catrence of George Smith, a prisoner at — : | the county jail, testified before hotel 1 Superior Judge French Friday In a darkened room, with much! that §. A. Hewitt, on trial for hesitancies and prompted by her jail breaking, had possession of husband, Mrs. Powers told the the revolver which figured in story of her attack to a Star re-| the sensational escape of six porter. She is suffering from se prisoners, August 18, and that Yere nausea, and talks with ex-| he “got cold feet” and gave it treme difficulty. back to Smith before the es. Last night was the first night in| cape. One, two, three, " ny many months that Mrs. Powers has + EE SET RR OD memories | days when they used to practice piano te his post will 5 Seer number of men employed in the If you dance, go and help buy “ = pl ony came as a st “fair” yards 3 been alone. A woman friend ha: ha to tha btbase, which to hone p mar’ yards.” smokes for the Sammies. If you stayed with her constantly while Mech T Metal Trades officials an ing that Hewitt did not break jal, nounced after the conference that|7"'t dance, go anyway. Becatise Dr. Powers was at his office, a few bee it at the invit the signing of the agreement by|the thing in which we're mainly ~ blocks distant. he deputy sheriff ¥ Covered His Mouth the wooden yards in no way affects| concerned is getting our money for | Hewitt took the nd in his own the boycott against 10-hour lumber| our fund heard a man coughing on the! defense and testified that Jailer Al being waged by the carpenters,| a2 Fporch shortly after 8:25 o'clock || ark told the men that they and that this would. be still inj. Manager Joe Schermer says helll night,” said Mrs. Powers.| + ter recat it was their force. F let ‘em go to it as late as any one ee wy husband, | Many of the yards are already| Wants to stay opened the door, A man stood e " only “to|— ——<$<<——— any of the ae s Dates ar = ae pulp | eyortts amercan [TWO CONGRESSMEN 5200" Sac"al oc ihc") 23 sharge * De Sas Nala face. He seemed to be suffering Ju ch ° Sal ed to permit U. BATTLESHIP Haiietiy W te of )| Lake, Sept. 28.—“Battalion, | IN FISTIC BATTLE es is made. ee sh ts pak stven ese | feared he he Glasgow enting Ex-Minister Would \\ “erenue'” | WASHINGTON, sept the vonterstoustanever era Schermer says there'll be Saree Ge Mee | eal settlement is clearly out of the | Plenty of entries and lots of fun. going to have a spasm. 1! not Hewitt, to attempt to Pei ao . b words came roaring how emaciated his face was revolver got into the jail or to show Go to Jail Also thru a megaphone somewhere hhe seemed extraordinary tall, prob-|an alleged betw ) . | down on one corner of the huge an conspiracy een a Hy United Press Leased Wire ably because he was so thin | deput sheriff and EK. George PETROGRAD, nt 28 | parade ground. ” Mrs. Avis Kowman of Hartford, eget + ;| question now,” said Edgar sight Aiipvely ae pee em Ames, of Ames Shipbuilding | Wash. sent The Star a check for a NOON. | Go, after the conference. “So |$! today for the smoke fund, with “He said, ‘Is Dr. Powers in? Brown, anothe oner, to ob-|97.° PHN Ties Wel ee gaxhomiluote the butter A lite of men two miles long | when Heflin and Norton engaged apron t f It SP ptten answer door calls for|tain these AN ATLANTIC PORT, Sept. 28.) Mme rahemiett PN pothdalad straightened as tho actuated by [inn personal encounter. far as | can eee, there 8 noth: {ite og wt ettae in yestenanall the doctor, so I told him I would . A United States battleship t8)) te var, on wh uathful a big mainepring, and stood | Norton asked permission to dis-| ("9 that can prevent a general Mothers | Later 0 ee telephone to him at his office | ashore on the Atlantic Coast today, |{ IMter of war, on whose youthful }1 Sie’ Bag unyielding atte Gata ce ee walkout tomorrow.” | Star. 1 enclose my “cheat aaaa ba t wh i” and rivolities some o' es committee and oda ent |) More orders came. The line {decision not to press an investiga Seattle shipyard owners this ie oe aaa ad tar we Rea “1 turned to the tel the! 150 I. W. W. Indicted |#¢ording to an announ $ ‘alah cenliten he } his friends blame his treachery § |Cross, 1 have sewe y th from the naval authorities her d broke up into smaller ones, and |tion of Heflin’s charges, when the| Morning asked the Metal Poking op srandculldsen, aa front hall and had my receiver, when I felt awt| by Grand Jury |, The vessel, whose name is with | OV gtennene” edaye th eats squads, and companies, and reg- | Alabaman objected Trades council to use its in- ‘ren. for ms non 0 Blow in the back of the head. It| By United Press Leased Wire | Held for military re NOt tie tT peeon: With imenta. marched and’ counter | Immediately Norton strode over| fluence to lift the 10-hour lum. | % 100 BrOatgrande lilt bes nowt was not a hard instrument. It felt) CHICAGO, Sept Whe tederal | NAved t© be in be Bt GROROr. |i Te mal cont trial exe marched. to the tatter's seat, selzed him by| ber boycott, and In return inti. | Will, try to sew, or knit; Saag soft—like a sandbag—and that’s) gran bis atten Her bow is hard aground, and it is)} en Pi siag The first battalion drill held |the shoulders and shook him mated that. & settlement of SW o) |e er Bannan hin sme! grand Jury this afternoon returned said her double bottom {8 flooded, |} her trom hare ‘ Metal Trades council demands Elmer F. Conner, clerk of Home Mt that 1 ean remeinber d S eeina’ Gans Mickhoniiincee auitte by the national army forces | Other members of tho house and |Camp, No. 286, Woodmen of Found Wife on Floor indictments against 160 persons as |necessitating the removal of stores. |) fone Cink Minnie oor }| quartered here took place |sergeant-atarms rushed to the| fer hlgher wages would be litt scoas in a $5 contrit tae 3 “I came home at a little before | é It of W dai ‘ Thursday afternoon. Fifteen | s and the two struggling mem-| forthcoming. , ie| from the W codmen, aa 9 o'clock and found my wife lying h of p Ww id ae tan. Mukchontlinte is Ee wed thousand men were onthe huge |bers were arated, Heflin. re ARt GHEWEr THO UNIONS RCO) scm oe Mis guns of the living room, 1|that organization thruout the coun.| Butte Worried Over } cep: BAkhomiluots Je 65 Oars 57 Saran aNOUNe, tired to th nocratle smoking| W&8 Hot known, but it is understood | yciten sicon “wendy ‘aaerelaall had no what was the matter |tr Sight of Aeroplane It will be repeated several |room. Norton hastily left the floor, |th#t they will remain solid in thetr| DOR. toys will need It” #0, of course, did not notify the Federal officials threw more Ig s ple een mrt times a week from now on. - | munpott gs pe anes Labor Sar (yrs SW pebent ‘d 30 Fifth 4 1 @ ust ir Of 6 nited wed Wire regal icin tin ia ties cil and the Buildin s council, | 5 * 29 Police until some time later. I) than the usual air of secrecy |By United Beky (Michaelis Talks In Hoong the feht aceinge aijave. N. B., accompanies her ole worked over her for some time be-|@round the nd jury's work as, BUTTE, fore she re 4 conse jousnesa,| the time for returning t indict. |men in B and then she ave you got|ments drew near, The grand jury |ing over him?—and | kn ‘there was foul! sessions were transferred from the | morning 8.—At least four $ The staff artist stood with me as . " . inst “un- velock this| (“These girls may have brothers Those who attended the confer. ong, some of the men in uni AMSTERDAM, $ 8 x ) R Sept. 28.—The| ence were play, but whe lapsed back into un-|federal building to a downtown Carpenter so certain they #aW |i iia steve ‘ec of Gee,” he sald, “that makes a guy|war aime. in time Se Consciousness repeatedly and {t|hotel two days ago, it was learned |an aeroplane they are willing to| told St Ball harged {n Po-/ feet good. But I'll bet It's hard for| Chancellor Michaelis told the main {presides ie one F Dots was a long time before I could get | toda make an affidavit. The droning |lice court with following girls; those rookies. There goes one out| committee of the reichstag today & Dry Dock Co Duthie the #tory.” This afternoon the police were|and purring of the motor could be|home, Thursday. “I'll fine you $6, of step, now. See, he's thrown the) ‘The question of Belgium, accord-| Wey prepaene te te oe, Jury eae Gea Kelly, : | ger Oo! u ie dd Edear rged with he sca ax mur No less than 12 cases have been| notified to hold certain detectives | plainly heard, they declared, An your hospital bill, if they should quad out of line ing to dispatches, was discussed by 3 geportes at police headquarters|in readiness to co-operate with fed |seroplane was recently reported at male relatives, would be A, was busy with his pen|the chancellor and the committe reter baby toy Bey, Ames Ship was discharged at 1:30 this — (Continued on page 13) Jeral officials. Helena, jmugh larger." (Continued on page 14) , in secret session, OL the. Siebel. 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