The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 17, 1917, Page 1

\ tinge to the congre re OU fust realize that camp life isn’t good for young men, if left to themselves, and vice, dissipation and homesickness will take a terri- ble toll before our soldiers ever reach the trenches, unless you give liberally of your eS, T VOLUME 19) USHah LEASED PRESS WIRE. SERVICE ASSOCLATION ONEY in order that the Young Men’s Chris- tian Association may be adequately financed for the great task Uncle Sam has thrust upon it. Nationally, the association must raise $35,- 000,000, and Seattle’s share is $200,000 in THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF SEATTLE, WASH., SATU TRDAY, NOV. ASH. This amount must be raised. The money will be spent to provide clean amuse- ments for your soldier in camp, on transport, in trenches; to keep him wholesomely occu- pied in leisure hours in camp, so that Pa APER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST he Seattle Star FTER the war, he may be returned to you, clean in body, mind and soul. Is it worth while? The “Y’s” whole vast machinery has volunteered for service. Its efficiency be in proportion to generosity of the public, NIGHT EDITION WEATHER PORNCAST Kverywhere n Seattle PRIC ONE CENT BARE GERMAN PLOT AT CAMP LEWIS Poor Grades of Halibut Are High ‘Enormous Quantities Stored Here Are Being Sold at JsaJop War Prices. Seattle people are paying from 25 to 400 per cent more for fish today than they did a year about They are paying halibut and from 20 to 25 ago. cents a pound for pound for salmon. 25 cents And Seattle is the world’s leading port for salmon and halibut! Is there a shortage ot fish war, has increased, owing to the supply. ever before in the history More fish are being of the industry, Hardly. The demand, of course. So has the caught and marketed than according to everybody connected with the fish business. Still the prices have soared skyward! LABOR VOTES ail, GO IN FOR __ POLITICS SOON United Press Leased Wire BUFALO, Y., Nov. 17.—By & vote of 215 to 21, the American “Federation. of Labor today de termined to abandon its life long non-partisan attitude and actively enter American politics next year. This action took the form of a Fesolution to change the federa tion’s constitution to provide for the annual convention in June of each year a few months prior to the elec tions instead of late in November after the elections It is -said by labor leaders t change the entire complexion of Organized labor movement in this country amounting virtually to the organization of third party in op Position to both the old line repub ican and democratic tic This vote assures a | 13% cents a pound, rong leader mnal elections | next fall. The American Fe of Labor convention hereafter expected, will be looked upen most as much of a presidential nom pation convention either the re n or democratic conventions ENEMY SPIES INFEST LABOR CONVENTION _ SAYS PRES. GOMPERS BY GEORGE MARTIN United Press Correspondent BUFFALO, Nov. 17—A plot to give organized labor's official war program a proGerman pBitwist was uncovered at the American Federation of Labor here today. All that was available thru President Gompers himself was repetition of the statement that “German spies and Teutonic agents honeycomb this conven tion.” ut from well-informed members as learned that this pro-German lack has taken definite form in ef ts to push thru insidious rese ms originating in all parts of the ntry to shape local labor affairs their own ends he unus getting to concrete business, it was fPned, is because of the exception Pally careful scrutiny to which of the 16% resolutions is being mitted Try to Split Some of the suspec aim to stir up violent fa rels and split the ers, if adopted for disastrou work in various parts try. One has been fc which proposes to ¢ local or ceeeone of international unions the de in each sub: Solidarity conver yuld pave German pro of the | their halibut as What « the answer? en difficult for the & housewife to bu ans ha High Price, Poor Qual Tt is for the a ‘ that qua average of Fishermen numer pays ar nts a pound celve an average of and the retailer pays pound First-< ped East a pound to schooners Prices years an averag wholesale lane halibut, which is ship | brings as high as 33 cents fishermen here at the Five pound. La of 8 and are 1 to the public for as high At the same time, high as they are are great quantities of fish kept in storage Speculators Store Fish are there 1 prices as Ther canned today 61,2 salmon ar leed fiat termina of pounds of Spokane st com: stored at s of the p iasion alone s im just a accumulated by fract serve stock magnates in vate plants and ed to the limit are beginning to un —at high tide war ; No Regu The fisherman w in getting a wholesaler ix getting The retailer and so, naturally ries on his sho boosts While meats, and wheat odities have Ko mental attention and regula tion, the fish business has prac ally gone on to higher and higher itudes without uses are before. broker, the er r pre higher price the consumer car a big pays a rs these various and other com re n some any check * of what 4“ think nents of this reso’ a change would give just the kind of frul want to work Ger * ai local conditions the under No. 62 Tests Patriotism proposal has been introduced ix expected to bring them to colors. This res It @ yun A which light in their true fied endorse gram of Pres Gompers remote an out federation expre be represented at an “international relati ot conference called.” terma peace * PICKETS OF WHITE HOUSE GET WRIT Ry United Press Leased Wire RICHMO 1 Tudge 1 granted ht by ket court Edmund trict court the dire rpu impris White House pic Alexandria ear in fino 4 Year. A@o Year Ago nal BATTLE PUBLIC GOT THIS MUCK \ A THIS Site SALMON FOR, sa - CONGRESSMEN | UNDER FIRE IN A Year. Wov Gor John F. Miller of Seattle, Dill and Johnson Near Death nY W AM PHILIP SIMMS United Press Correspondent WITH THE BRITISH AK MIES IN FLANDERS, Nov. 17 of the Amer congressional delegation —Five members lean were under fire on their recent visit ¢ Heigium, German w front line trenches in it developed today lied somet unusual fire ‘i Amer hends of an inl Th who fra the emer, the Boche fire Mille e 5] inharmed them Jobr Hic Wit Dale a thene five were ower th of Dixr The » were ted from the remain the ade t - 5,000 KILLED IN | PETROGRAD AND “ MOSCOW FIGHTS. LONDON, Nov. 17—Ruassia’s internecine strife already has cost probably 5,000 lives, and thousands more in the crowded centers of Petrograd and M cow now face death by starva tion, unless the coalition govern ment today reported forming takes immediate steps. By United Pr ia ‘AL | ‘AN ARMY HEA British artillery is in action today. Manning thei the British Sellen have c plans for an advance. Observers reported the ire guns — w firat dire Rusia b now on the news gre rad in we . Premier ‘Staseine nae German lines b at One report/noints the ish (Continued on page 8) tensive ITALIANS DRIVE The Teutonic artillery ish guns. A wilderness of n FOE BACK ON PIAVE with tack < of bridges across th ROME has forced the enemy for th palett inch field guns. Many of these batteries. has of the ha an retreat TO KEEP GERMA BY ED L. KEEN ed Prean € 4 LONDON, Nov, 17.—British nonttors are in action against German Austrian troops in’ the marshes of iving to hold back the je invaders from Venice This announcemen VILLISTA BANDITS ENGIRCLE JUAREZ PASO, Nov a of Vil first aid wit? that of rating forces Rome toda the EL guard t rom an line was Duel weeping ont of th ern fringe of the 50 Mile A flerce ¢ the Artillery luel from the pater v. Ss. “WON'T OPEN ANY VILLA PORTS PASO Alp In the mountainous land the Ital Jesperately to their lispatches today literally for army was with the sufficient No ports held 6 United | ty eh Aus to neh of ultimat ine London it preser |danger t and Juarez and M1 Paso will led in case Vi rem be Juare vawnnd ' suspend la attack BRITISH GUNS CHECK GERMANS IN ITALY against the de adly ve been “ BRITISH MONITORS USE GUNS and slipped into from the Germans. omy watchfulness centered on a gap in the breastworks of the lines here—breastworks being made neces sary at this point floods. When the they Were gree bullet to this a per The Americans got point ted wi smewhere reaming « The and Wh rt out a solemnly that it was very foo! 17.— ARTERS, Nov DOI Austro-Germans | Sy red al od very interesting front line ged to d but | to trenches un precision, | vinit ith machine- like one was ob! at gaps torn in the Austro- rain of shells. At many paralyzed the enemy's of- BEING UNDER FIRE BY LOWELL MELLETT United Preas ¢ dr LONDON pretty ¢ were badly but five perfectly can congressmen who ware them got back here today all safe and sound from a front line experience with Fritz's methods of strafing The five D . rresp t Nov —VFive suits of clothes mussed by mud— good Ameri anged by the Brit- 1ud along the front, coupled | é Livenza and Tagliamento, é most part to rely on five. is outr | British were Representati Miller Wash Timberlake Hicks expe ace on morning silenced by the the rience Friday front Conducted t King sonal a NS FROM VENICE when 1 turne officer what it that it Lie officer We fo tary was remarking other pera end. of down an tion « made Austr have an defense there has or the just that moment heads and TWENTY » battle a coxtly one whiz exploded YARDS At the ard: auc miles into momer The resol trial of strength against machine kept wht prett ping down, too t ne minded that We got out thru « unt maximum nfante 1 the This m evident from ns so far parring fight awaiting the ‘ome of the fighting in the north The 1 today ptiimi itho frank been nature of ition n line a communicat ing PETROGRAD STILL HELD BY REVOLTERS ss Leased Wire WASHINGTON, Nov. 47.--Petre grad was still under Bolsheviki cor trol yesterday, and the Russian situ ation was chaotic, according to unof ficial Stockholm advices which reach ‘ed the ¢ prnme nb today mdon press the was more vation 1 for the worst prepare RODIN IS DEAD PARIS, Nov, 17. Auguste I France's great died By United Pre odin sculptor earl today The ill for of the ar-old sculptor had been nly a brief time of congestion ’SEATTLE PAYING RECORD PRICES FOR ITS F agp t TRE ¢ AniWwer ? a stir in| the public » tors in charge of the build that ing an arm¥ here. trenches | spent becaume of the | itary police after three commissioned off i " FOOD DICTATOR IS 1. W. W. Raid Links BELGIAN TRENCH Vice With Enemy Disclosures May Follow Ar-. rive popce weirs) Yest of I. W. W. in Bunk House Inside Cantonment, CAMP LEWIS, Nov. 17.—The milittary police of this division today are working on what probably wi prove the greatest expose of German propaganda | methods made since the United States declared war. While definite information is being withheld fromy there is every reason to believe that by thé 14.1. W. W. in a bunk house of the contrags ing of the cantonment Thurs day night, the government came into the possession of evidence showing a concerted plot to damage the cane | tonment and embarrass and hamper the work of trains” ot arrest lhe officials here to connect German agents with vice ittle, and scores of department of justice oper secret service agents, aided by military weeks gathering evidence to show is inspired by German capittal. | sembling about the house. At a signal, the doors wer thrown open and the Lo W. W placed in custody. They submitted conditions in Se. tives and se that the L W. W. Whether the officials have suc ceeded {s unknown. The Il. W. W. arrested Thursday night were taken by a squad of mil refused to talk singe their capture Their identity is kept secret by the offict as hoboes, had enter house and begged the sleeping there for thet ers, clad <d-the it privilege of n men "had only 1 and that the par days were part of here, it is purpose.”" e the government prosecution of the known. the confidence of the he ed to lar ace for a det flag What ans of the organ aie in th 4 cordon of police is not wor and whi Hirec 4 the re is r agitat anathema w nst Preside and heard th vation dis cusse was as = ANNANIAS F, KRAUSE, GERMAN nest tos oe" Jgunson pescriBes NATIVE, CAUGHT BY U, S, AGENTS the plant union, Operatives ard Wright After spreading propaganda among workers at the Pacific Coast Steel plant for eight month Annanias Frank Krause, native of Ger. landed in the hands of ‘al agents at 6 p. m. Friday be interned for the period proGerman working under Howl in charge of the bureag of on for the department of and City Detective D. & Majewski made the arrest. Krause says he altho h the Un He many Altho in Seattle Jun he did not register, and told officers he planned to go to ) to Mente to evade trouble, Louis hae justic five years. in Elmshorn, born Krause attempt Gen ment again he ment’s w jes, and himselt with the I. W. Ww bring about 4 to aro’ was Americ He a strik attempted t ‘PLEASURE AUTOS TO GIVE WAY FOR WAR WORK SOON By United Press Leased Wire WASHINGTON, Nov facture of pleasure be cut down 40 per cent in 60 day@ officials estimated today. If possible » find immediate war use for nw ous plants for transition of thé factories into producers of munitiong and materials, it will be even more PROBING MEXICAN , BEEF MAN’S CHARGE y ed Pre SAN S ) Unit ss Leased Wir Mexicar i © buyers for for sa rod Ay of mar cat can find of beef mar he has minis Merritt A ‘ont « m the Butchers’ exchange he day inform of quantitie was started toda ph P. with e meat ¢ automobile industry commit: headed by Hugh Chalmers, is ade vising manufacturers to be prepared out of the pleasure e war lasts anothes Well known automobile soon to take government titles is gc he in quar market wh to go entirely quality, but ca? business # maintained that if it ar or two worthy Merritt sumption it heads war jobs. eration in the present food crisis HALF MILLION LOST he _— BLAZE cased Wire The FERRY VASHON TO RUN TO PORTAGE county e the fer the commissioners ry Vashon will be phe un to Portage next Tues By Uni DET mated ight dollars wa night, when | day The of moving pic vessel Over several thousand film went up in smoke. co by ¢ a by burning elluloid, many firemen had to be carried out of the building. has been undergoing an overhauling at the National Steel Construction Co.'s plant, in accord: ance with the federal inspector's ruk ling. ture s genera y IRL WRITER’ S TEARS WIN INTERVIEW WITH BOSS OF TAMMANY © FRENCH LICK SPRINGS, "Nov. 17—The weeps of a om woman reporter got Boss Murph pest, pnd he came thru with an in It was a tiny one—but still an in-| terview. Here's the story BY MARIE. BAKN ritten for the United P I tipped told them I with Cr Ik York Tr biggest tip found him sitting on the porch night breeze. He had spent the earlier part of the evening fox three wanted te Murph: H in the vas cold trotting with ter at the da Gives Ladies What fr. Murphy, I pointed Indiana waid They uff Ask dixap came vote and tion the But O near getting before ladies wha “Then suffrage thru Tammany? really did win omething here with an, bows of Koger Sulli Tammar Th mith, Tammany sec maybe you w e . and Murpt Tammany it doe in an apparent confab, Are you ploking the ident I don't know But te to make wh mse frage wh next ome thir nul we would still have political ambition um what f uid to must have you hope to win thru ‘Tammany? “1 don't know,” think you ar@® | ou ] took off hi pardon eht hat, and begged my began fect a woman have on the boi hat, for instance, would he do if he saw @ little blonde weeping. T squeez ed out a tear and tried to pass off a laugh for a series of Boss Murphy licked his lips Kee and said he believed went weepy bedtime. And anyhe it chilly. He hortly after important,” I replied what ef would wondering Mr. Murphy nounced it ‘Moipby told me to go tell the little lady sorry doesn't under Lam She stand me that's no on him before knoc to tell reporter ever swallowed sorter ed him it was out went inything Mr inside and mith, the Sends His Secretary walked up and down the several times, approached, cretary, eame rae elt after women writers down, what tal ull of the Eastern he has turned chance would we porch | at the ne I the bos won etion onfe ited until he was thru and said | would have an ins terview with other than Mury himself. At last (“Aba ‘Tammany control the hen Smith told me all about Boss Tammany Hall. For two hours the big boss came thru he told me the ma I have had a strenuous six chine months,” he said. “That's why The I came to French Lick. I come every to take a I'm rea as bad as pay ind magazines paint ind God-you know it is not And L've got heart, too—I've got a heart, even if reporters don’t always recognize it.” ‘ none has uw tree that the stone most und it pro: he after election re the he did they intending to « “ 4 the next president, “but one ney er knows what Will come out of Er have been working for months: police, have sf quietly to arrest, and, it is said, have ~ altho he belongs to n@ | i