The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 12, 1917, Page 1

YORE: 2D WIR FULL LEAS rr ASSOCIATIONS UNITED VOLUME 19, * * 8 & Doc Still Holds Altitude Record OSHAKEUP | IN STORE FOR FORCE yor Escorts New Head of | p rtment to His Office at Headquarters N-UP HIS AIM “We'll lift the ban from Seat- That's our job right now— and we can do it.” » Hands in pockets, standing his full six feet four, Joe Warren, Rew chief of police, voiced his re Belve in quiet, determined tones @ Star reporter, immediately after assuming his new duties, at BS a. m. Wednesday. Sits going to be a hard job—and Well make mistakes,” he said. “But got a good police department Chief Warren said he would make Teadjustments in the department he had taken more time to ly the situation. Will Make Changes gen will be made. tho,” BR added Mayor 4&1! e TWO INCHES | Taccer!! | v Wy, “AI, Me AX ne probably sorted the new chief to police headquarters They con ferred for § few minutes. Capt. Sul secratary of police, was called ‘The mityor left a few minutes| chief was given to understand Mayor Gill that he had a free! to accomplish results with the/| artment. fiters of policy, such as intern- Women for treatment, are, of sagtied by the counct) and my, "the mayor explained. “But you left free to accomplish the ends * Begins Stadying His Job ~~ ff Warren imnediately plunged Hint a study of the secretary's re-| Ports to gain intimate knowledge of police department. altho his ex has given him practically | the information concerning the| tion of the police machinery the meanwhile Corporation onsel Caldwell was hard at work | drafting the impeachment charges Against the mayor that were ordered by the council Monday. | Council Can Vote Thursday “They will probably be completed | jureday,” Caldwell said | ‘The city council will then be as bled to vote on whether or not prefer the charges against the and launch an impeachment om C. J. France and George Walker leaders of the anti-Gill forces, Tt that the resignation of ham and appointment of would not curb their efforts | push impeachment proceedings | the council. | If the council should decide to try | yor Gill, the mayor will defend if and not ask for five days to pare his case “I'd ask for an immediate trial if council voted to impeach me or Gill said. “And I’m anxious! (Continued on Page 5) japan Oh, Ole Joe Warren showed Bill Hart |The real cute pointers of the ti EXPLOSION IN, id he even showed Doc Mat KILLS 1 fl The dope on keeping off the fat _ | And reach the sky; United Press Leased Wire Gosh! SOME WILMINGTON, Dee. 12—An | explosion in_a loading room of gne of the buildings of the Beth- Hehem Steel company’s muni- plants, which was felt 18 Biles away, set fier to portion of the establishment eaerly to threatengd to cause heavy damage. One man was killed. Police Jacobson of thel plant was carrying a blazing case of SHIPBUILDERS ARE GIVEN A STANDING WITH OUR FIGHTERS United Press Correspondent PORTLAND, Dec, 12 government considers builders as much in federal ser — The ship Chief of vice as soldiers or sailors, shells from the building when | cording to a telegrom received they exploded. His head was | here today by Walter B. Beebe, blown off. No one else was ine | vice president of the Northwest red. | Steel Company, from Admiral :: explosion followed a fire in| Bowles of the Emergency Fleet the melting room of the projectile| Corporation. ing house. Only ten men w Working there at the time and they Sarriers to safety. The flames ex Ploded bun in of loaded projectiles COLORS IN N. W. MOred in the room. For more than an hour after the fire started a bar Te ESCAPE DRAFT | rage of shell fragments and sarap. si flew about the plant, driving! ppousands of men of draft age are firemen and others a half mile| ousting in th Northwest, pre Way to the safety zone ferring a service of their own choos . forme of the shrapnel struck |). to the National army Ounces in the Dobbinaville section 4!" "4 yyroximately 350 men are en lle distant army dally in Seattle | Misting in the wpread to an office | (ert ne and Portland One hundred Eeptiiding of the plant ly in| and forty men pase sed the navy phys Five workmen were slightly in jeal examination in Portland yes fured 4 Because of blocked trolley carn, | terday Biindreds of men oe ee sad BW. Williams, «paroled Pri Dot arrived Win the explosion oc: | oner érom Walla Walla, w rested | | surred. | Tuesday and charged with robbery. » The Seattle Star ANY PAPER IN WEDNESDAY, “He's a gogettin’, arre in’, gun-totin’ guy—this Joe War. Ho he a ctg ¢ 1%, and put ren!” another in his pocket Eight hard-boiled bandits be- Now we're goin’ to the atation came convinced of this 29 years | he remarke ago. ht men filed out ahead and Joe And as they were talking it | marched in the rear with over, in an old abandoned cabin ea his arm, on the border of Idaho, the man The telegraph operator at Hauser who is Seattle's new chief of po | © gasped, and he od lice was getting mad. oh police } He was in Spokane then, and had th been elected chief of 5 ° t THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF SEATTLE, WASIL, x. * 8 & *% * Good ILuck, Chieti cue JOE WARREN will have good wishes of all the citizen who sincerely want to see army quarantine wiped out He fortunate in assuming his place at this time. He has a freedom of action seldom accorded in peace times to a man in his place. And he has back of him a community fully awake to the laxities heretofore prevailing. No good work on Chief Warren’s part will go un- noticed or unappreciated. a" RY large majority of the that in his appointment only a beginning toward the desired cleanup has been made They will “carry on” thru a sense of patriotic duty and lend him that constant support that is so much needed by conscientious officials If Chief Warren is to be as successful as Seattle expects him to be, and wants him to be, he will have to clean house in the department be- fore he can hope to clean the city. Neome he nor the city can afford to take further chances with crooked police Warren d to the of this city. He has it to begin with. him entirely whether he will retain it or The Star wishes him success, and bespeaks for him the unprejudiced support of the com- munity. He deserves the opportunity to make good. And the city will be satisfied with nothing less. the hearty of Seattle, the disgrace of the is people feel will It is up to lose it. Chief ‘New Chief Pulled Bill Hart Stunt to Catch Bad Men | remark crook catch. Goes for Bad Men There had be a jail break Five f the eight men discussing this man at Around and Smoked” Warren had gotten away rn and the ragged ts me to get ‘em.” con | ieht " Bie Warrer c ered down to the Wel Mr b nd boarded a freight | You up wher ar Joe's friends a arriva Joe had a hunch t Spokan Word had filtered up thru the No,” explained Joe; “we all just Soe SS 6 © GOMPANY TO MINE Hauser junction and nix zocor a aaa ca COAL IN ALASKA r had seen A! py United Pre t ht the A FRA Re files th : f the fir ones t t " tn Pulls o Bill Hart marking the ¢ coa Did Joe Warren wire for help, and | resour ler th ensing plan hen sit down and wait an f 1 today by the orporn Hoe pulled a Bill Hart posed of a numb wealthy Ita setting be ed tor al in the Matanus And there, curling up from a rocky field A propose neg po culeh an a ribbon of ame roduct to San Fran 0. beat y mikey cme. es AUSTRIAN WARSHIP glowed between th cracks, and the He crawled a SU D There were the kers| AMSTERDAM, Dec Sinking with them were three others—tough- ¢ torpedo Sunday ning, was an nuts of the carly days, ready 8N4) nour in the official Vienna dis willing to knock an intruder out Of | Catches received here today pigs navy uddenly the big bulk of a police Wier 4 class D battle Get er backs to the wall!” he eiled Pres. Muchada of The i . Gran Jeu eiaciled Ohato; lone. 9) Portugal Jailed one By United Press Leased Wire On the table was a bundle in a LISBON Dec 12 President blanket Joe back to it He un Muchada of Portugal was arrested wrapped the bundle and found—a afternoon by the new revo: box of cigur lutionar regime it was announc aa: haven't had a amoke all day today ) IN THEATRES, STORES, CAFES, IN HOMES, EVERYWHERE GOES THE GREAT RED CROSS APPEAL Men and women ugly comfort (and hotel dining rooms, eager to able, sat fied in Pantages |!unch and converse. Women, dress T ed in garments of merey, glid chentre "Pueniay night tween the tables, Men forgot Suddenly a bevy of chorus girl#! nose and appetites and though hurried down the runway and cir-|the war, They signed K culated among the audience, ‘Then | membership blankd faded, while Red Crosa member ‘The doorbell rang at the home of DEDWs. Were CreUlaiNd Bright. 808 plain little fami! A mother left. In a little while the perform ance went of answered, and there, facing her, wa a 09 Hed Cross worker, who explain Noontime crowds flocked to cafessim mply that all Seattle is being asked rt DEC, 12, 1917 * © mH 'TRIO ESCAPED EARLY FIRE IN | THE PACIFIC % ‘ NORTHWE * * KAISER SHOWS FEAR OF U. S. CONG GRESS DELAYS WAR START .WE’LL LIFT BAN FROM SEATTLE,” SAYS WARREN NIGHT CLOTHES BATTLE FORCE Rescue Sta at Rainier Pershing’s Line Is Near Beach as $17,250 Loss Alsace-Lorraine | Is Suffered | Border ROCKS ROL A thrilling reseue marked an carty morning fire, which swept iness block . do After ain 4. Bernhart, his wife and his 19-year-old daughter by throwing pebbles — against their windows, J. 8. Nolan, a butcher, living nearby, placed a ladder against the wall of their house and enabled them to es cape the flames, which were rag ing thru the rooms behind th The Hernharts, living ove r Beach Mercantile compar ©, did not know of the lan awakened them waiting t anything er thelr night m their way to a , d down the i wh ed for therr Hutchinson, in the Mer be s The © buninens which building were ated the Montera pharmacy, a butcher shop and tments. A garage at 9609 Rainier boulevard was destroyed, but the were In it were saved the real extate office sepb, and a «mall bu Samuel Jo. ting used as a | barber ahop were destroyed ‘The fire had burnt about § o'clock. BOTH SIDES REST IN MEANS’ TRIAL I Press Leased Wire iteelf out by By Unite .. GERMANS ACTIVE AROUND VERDUN By United Pre axed Wire PARIS, De nusual Germar was reported in today’s atatement On both banka of the Meuse, th war office naid, there was consid able artillerying. North of Hill 344 ed a raid A large number of k layers » needed in the n « n aviation rect at men must be t to the army recruiting ling SLEEPERS HUNS FEAR BY J. W. T. MASON Written for the United Press NEW YORK, Dee, 12.—Ameri ca’s battlefront in France may be the mysterious objective for which Germany is massing new tr in the west No other part of the allies’ line from the North sea te Switzer. land presents such strategic pos sibilities to the Germa It is now known that the American INVASION trespass | milimeter troops are facing the German within artillery range of the Lorraine border. i et same Ume Switzerland's excha of communications with America concerning assur that American troops will not territory, stre sug Alsace, bordering Switzer with The the Americar nes Alsace with nome of the mont intense |and rifles for training camps in this country. therefore, will probably be activity of the war when America’s najor offennive begina Would Hurt Morale fro dangerously near t r raine and - n be but ttle doubt © » Ger man morale that would result from a quick advance by the Americans thru Lorraine and Alsace toward the Rhir of this character, the ¢ be planning an early ttempt to prevent a maneuver |¢ncy fund granted the president mace and Lorraine before the Amer-| icans are ready, In reality, fro e al on o° asked jermans may | keep contractors at work on many ‘ene my os oun ae attack in Al-|of our orders,” he said. “From civil life.” said Crozier, We got one appropriation June |«rhe army did not have the kind of such a| 16 and no more until October. In| ment could une wh the meantime, we discovered that 7 oy ae eet ae move would be a defensive-offennive denigned to throw back the present French lines and compel the Ameri na th make a longer journey be © reaching German) Means Slaughter of Hans There ttle on to believe however, that a German attack in Alsace or Lorraine would be more nuce a1 than along any other part of the weatern front. A second Verdun might well ensue for the n crown prince offensive tactics em Germans in the west 1 work to the advantag of America’s strategy by depleting wtill further Germany's waning man Yet, if the Germans can pers the Austro-Hungarians to dona me the slaugh Alnace-Lor raine will prot ee Von Hinden burg taking a before the wir too near German soil for the r’s comfort - WILSON CUTS DOWN | | WASHINGTON, De Presi Jent Wilson today ts a procla \ er n limiting the holie con tents of malt liquors, excepting ale r, to 2% per cent. He also! red that the total amount of fi fruit and feed materials shall not exceed 70 per cent of the Average consumptior the pr tion of malt liquor during 191 By United Press Leased Wire SAN FRANCISCO, Miss Katherine Stinson, de her remarkabl flight from San Diego to San Francisco, 610 miles, to prove to military officials that wome should commissioned in aviation corps, she told United Press today Thus far the refused to give * she waid jw th: be than a to war department ) Washington war department has woman a and I just want department that a even capable any com mission. ed woma for war work She announ: at once she would take her au direct to press he New Won an's Record his is an airline distance of 610 and breaks the previous record for non flights by a woman which was set by Miss Ruth Law who flew from Chicago to Hornell N. Y., 612 miles, “Now that I have completed this feat,” Miss Stinson said, “I would to be back home and give everything to joify the Red Cross. The mother took a Christmas dollar changed it for a Red Cross member und ex It was a sacrifice America is at American mother but she realized and she is war an A huge tank turned the corner of ond ave. and Pike #t., just as the early evening crowds began their habitual sweep thru the retail dis ‘trict. Men and women stopped to Jsee mother and father. I wish I knew what they said and did when they knew I had made the trip In accomplishing the it, Miss also attained the distinction nly living aviator who ever ueross the Tehachapi, 8: us Christofferson, the only other person do it, having been killed last spring, The aviatrix has ex pected to reach the Presidio at p. m., but was delayed two hours by strong headwinds in the Sun Joaquin RESCUER DIES By United Press Leased Wire RASH OF THE AMERICAN FLO. TILLA IN BRITISH WATERS 12. After David Wor tenant commander torpedo had Dec th Bagley n the boat destroyer Ji been thrown into t when the destroyer was by a German cued by leu American ob Jones water torpedoed was res The and in submarine of later died from cold one his rescuer juries: watch the lumbering, gun-trimmed | ceipts of his labors and went to 1424, busy men and women are being link vehicle Third ave. He bought a Red Cross| ed a little closer to the responsibil It # A curious crowd membership. tles of war time. sembled na speakee suddenly oe Wednesday was the third day of emerge d appealed briefly but Politicians ceased their heated ar) the drive and 6,408 new member urnestly for Red Cre member-|guments im the corridors of the| ships have been obtained thus far, nip county-city building, at the interrup.| Seattle's mark is 10,000 a day, cee tion of pleasant mannered young| But the campaign is just gaining : A newsboy, who had called his |girls, Cigars were promptly tossed | momentum, and everybody will bp caovn. tim rx than an hour, and ®Way, While the politicians signed expected to wake up and join—it Caan iiaid im ta lgninn bak OED I only takes $1, and the right Inclina: x . Uon-—-before the end of next week . ne ees and new stockings must) And so a great army fs being re-| Women workers are still needed, |be acquired somehow, took the recruited in Seattle, and hundreds of | Apply at 1424 Third ave, NIGHT EDITION | Weather Forecast: 4 na rain; strong easter PRICE ONE Ce CR ee LACK OF FUNDS WAS Ne Gen. Crozier, Ordnance Head, as First Witness in War Probe, Tells ‘of Early — Troubles and Allies’ Aid | By United Press Leased Wire Direct The Star WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—The snail-like pace of congress, war department red tape, bickering with con- ag and the labor situation were blamed today by |Maj. Gen. Crozier, chief of ordnance, for “serious dé- \lay” in getting America on a war footing. Crozier de- clared that, in spite of all delays encountered, we will be caught up with all shortage of ordnance by next summe ‘Aid from France and England.in furnishing 75 guns and howitzers has proved of inestimable value in keeping Gen. Pershing supplied with artillery,” © he s ac 1. é “The most pronounced shortage has been artillery Crozier was the first witness at! Lacked Enough Help the senate military affairs commit | “Our purchasing system caused tee investigation into the whole|More delay. We had to submit) 19 military altuatior prices we hoped to pay for the muni’ Inability to obtain appropriations | Hons bef the cnunitions commit- from ngress quickly cost much |e headed by Frank Ascott time in getting started on an artil Lack of personnel also hampered F ery program, Gen. Crozier stated —o- department q sefore the war I had 85 men im Lacked Appropriations ..|my departme: ‘ow 2 * In September we had to get $35. | 115. coy nt. Now I have more %. 000,000 from the $100,000,000 emerg: onthe from the $1 re Where did you get the others to neers, chemists, lawyers and highly trained business men.” Most of the artillery and rifle com” tracts, have been made on a basis of cost plus percentage of profits, be cause manufacturers refuped to take contracts at a fixed price. the program on which we had em- barked at the beginning of the war was no program at all, particularly an to artillery Congress Blocked the Way Manufacturers refused to risks of making contracts bef Profit by Allies Mistakes c congress appropriated — th This was due to fluctuations in Ta money coula not be begun nd material costs, Crozier stat- we were All our private rifle contracts used delay, Cro: | were made at cost plus 10 per cent.” cent d. since replaced by the/ genator Chamberlain inquired war industries board, several times | whether this country had profited by ould not agree on @ fair price for mistakes the allies made with regard certain equipment retary of /¢o artillery ‘ War Baker, on one occasion, had to] “We profited by their mistaken iam step in and end the bickering | idea that shrapnel was more impor- * Allies to Our Rescue |tant than high explosives—an idem In sf of delays and obstacles, | we have since revised,” said Crozier. aid gr it France and Great “We were informed on this early Britain will make it possible to sup | enough in the war so that we made ply the American forces abroad with (our contracts for more high explo % lenty of artillery promptly, said | sive shells than shrapnel’, 4 | Crozier Perey e constant moving about of 4 1,500 1$ TOLL abor has hampered war contractors. Men are enti away by offers of higher wag In any effort to be made to have | so that it will be stabilized? asked | Senator Weeks ty United Press Leased Wire Will Stabilize Labor HALIFAX, Dec, 12.—Fifteen “The council of national defense hundred men, women and chil- has appointed a committee to take dren died in the Halifax disaster, according to estimates today based on records of bodies recoy- question, I also have submit to up this I intend to from bidding against ¢ ered and checking up at all My plan involves identification stations. A big 4 contracts to percentage of the recovered dead entice labor away from other) have not been identified. Justice Drisdale, art of the supreme expected to start his investi. vernment work tor Wadsworth, N. Y., indi the inquiry would be long ation into causes of the disaster to- arching, objected to holding| ay. Witnesses of the collision be daily sessions of only two hours tween the two vessels in the ams Crozier was asked to state what|ToWs sald the Mont Blanc flew no had been done towards providing ar flag as prescribed by regulations Ullery, rifles and ammun n for the | When she entered the harbor, n force He reviewed the | Relief work ts going ahead rapidly. » situation from the date of the | Threatened distress from lack of break in diplomatic relations with | 0d has been averted. Germany Compressed Program LLOYD GEORGE PUTS “Before we got into the war, v were working on a program inv y 5 of 1,000,000 in five years,” he said. BY ED L. KEEN When we got into the war we United Press Correspondent pr that program = = and LONDO! Dec. - Premier money to make it effective in one| Lioyd George will make a statement ar on the war before the Christmas ad- ‘Our first delay was journment of parliament. n the necessity for showin Chancellor of the Exchequer Bonar mates for funds to the war co! law made this announcement in the the general staff and the secretary house of commons today, It had been of war, Each had to receive full ex-/expected that the premier himself planation of the = pt ses money would speak, and that he would out was required for iline very fully the war aims of Eng After that, we had to explain toyjand. congress, But we did not wait for rhis is the second postponement of congress to act. We started to get}a speech by Lloyd George. establishments going met the obstacle of manufacturin, It was then we Neo Oudenereu, 31, was severely refusal of manufacturers to spend/burned Tuesday by a premature money without assurance of pay-|blast at Oak Harbor. He is in the ment Minor hospit