The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 13, 1917, Page 1

When news of the Halifax cat: astrophe broke upon an already sorrowing world, who Was it that answered promptly the cries of the injured, the homeless, the widowed, the or- phaned? THE RED CROSS. While others waited to hear further details before they could decide how to help, the Red Cross, already crowded with many responsibilities, did not wait a moment. 2 FREEDO ‘FOR. AL | FOREVER” \ ‘ te THE FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF SEATTLE, WASH., VOLUME 19 WILL VOTE O TRY MAYOR OR ‘inti ares. OT IS THE ISSUE cilmen Are Called in Extra Ses- 3&¢. sion; Lineup Apparently Is Against |»! | Any Impeachment; Gill Is Ready, j:2)::"%.2) "iors in" ae | \ He Says, at Once —— Cithes was called off at 1 Kvery striking employe was ordered to return to work. In several instances men who had been oat only a few hours SPEAK 20,000 Quit for 3 Hours to Win U. S. Arbitration of Disputes WILSON CALLED ed Press Le axed Wire 1—The gen Members of the city council will assemble in spe- cial session at 2 p. m. Friday to determine whether or mot to launch an impeachment trial against Mayor Gill. thes returned peacail <ccelapveuaal Resolutions outlining charges based on testimony = *«— ynted to the judiciary committee in secret sessions, {"* |\"~" being rushed to completion by Corporation Coun- : Caldwell Thursday, as directed by the council vote | 6 to 2 Monday. ‘The charges outlined in the resolu ‘will be that unwarranted vice with the knowledge of the Law Twin f the atr r the men back to work, f exident Wilson retary of Labor Wil» to probe the Minnesota situa: | an soon as it finishes its work Reattle | owing « ordered | * commis | hav of the city least two voting against Indications point to at the resole- and that neither he nor the | tion. This complies with the men's de | steps to suppress or elim Committee of 25 Busy rand Representatives of zations, who demanded | civic organi apeachment it, and that violation of ordi was encouraged by the con SECY. WILSON TOLD on of the mayor's name with | of the mayor, me the office law firm of Gill, Hoyt & Frye,|J. France Wednesday, and defir TO 60 TO ST PAUL Pwhich advised clients who joined the | decided to co we their ' ; ants’ Protective corporation. | spite the elimination of Chic By United Press Leased Wire Councit President Fitzgerald | ingham and the appointment of War WASHINGTON, Dee 13— famed the time for the spect jren President Wilson today ordered gion as soon as he learned that Cald Under the auspices of the comnit the special mediation committee, well had about completed the draft Mur hairma headed by Secretary of Labor it the eight-page resolution mor | Witson, to go to the Twin Cithes How Council Lines Up \ eae —— og nate i Discuss) hether 01 not | = at abor leaders in St. Pa = ogg ng “! huret Minneapolis were appealed t the counci! wil! set aside the charges ‘on the ground that they are insuf Ticient. or will promptly vote to try| over the long-distance telephone Members the Women's G from here by government offi Government league met at the Js in an effort to avert the Gill, have grown more fre cia ee have & Marche Wednend: 1 spread of the general strike quent at the county-city buildi rg omygha a Pesce hme thasetpare 2 ch day this week — , In a telegram to Secretary of La ; . r . io won at Seat nstructing the It is generally conceded that Han-|Prrmeme tg e i will vote for impeachment trial ING OF CHRISTMAS And always this has been so for the past half-century in similar cases. It knows no creed, or color, or race. organized for peace, as well as war. his is the kind of organization you are asked to join this week, the greatest humanitarian organization in the world, made tremen- drive for membership a ee more so because of the war. The Seattle Star ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC THURSDAY, NORTHWEST DECEMBER 13, 1917. CROZIER BLAMES SECY. B ON HI GILL IMPEACHMENT SEASON BILLS HE HALIFAX DISASTER AND THE RED CROSS The Red Cross is in the big Christmas NIGHT EDITION Weather Forecast; 1 and Friday; fresh #o sin tonight utherly winds erywhere Seattle PRICE ONE CENT BY RIFLES TESTS NOT War Probers Grill Ordnance Chief for Failure to Get Rifles and Make Test of Machine Guns, None of | Which Have Been Delivered WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—Eight months after the United States entered the war, rifle factories in this country are only making half as many rifles daily as they were making for the allies before we got into the war. The machine gun officially adopted for the Amer; ican army has never been given a test under actual war! |conditions. These disclosures were made today to the senate! jmilitary affairs committee, during a grilling examina- jtion of Maj. Gen. Crozier, chief of ordnance. Presiden Wilson, appointing him today. Began Before the War _—— We declared war in April. When| " ee "| Pershing'’s forces have been sup did you actually begin equipping! ...,, h : Ce aka eek Goan? nd Hiteheock | Pued with machine guns and amo dle te the war,| nition by the French government, we were then setting the |Ccrower said. The French are com . » bd Unuing making machine guns for ‘ nt for the first increment| the trited Stares army, autherized by the ac a ‘7 rmy, autherized by the act) ‘Some French machine guns af6 Postal nded why it took | 20% being used in training camps im this country after war was de sag) ee ee eee astnnates of needed |, Fee number of factroles are a Per ad started | Preparing” to manufacture Brown pees crement of the 22S Suns, Crozier stated. But until work r > aaa they actually begin delivering them, Peace the American armies will have to de many checking up ty caused Pend on France for most of its mar chine guns | Not Taking a Chance $10,000,000 as at 4 community organiza 4 that Erickson will vote against | Commun” a “| $100,000.00 as] Senator Wadsworth inquired | Queen A Emily, Peters B petore tne oT | whether “we are not taking a chance cen is kaown cothege rose | chairman Eva 8. ¢ . Minneas eo pr nt a VhY by planning to equip our army with me. Woes BOL VO 4 thak he F ~ ar) t 7 oe “ age otal en answerer tested in the field.” dered. the bearings betiee < mg Maat to confer © put Cece, 3 msking: “When did you first ask) Wadsworth brought out the fast eee See «nat mmission, intr represer “G “s , tein he * ” ag 2 gees Pon rs |that snore than 30,000 light machine Muce convincing evidence ; ee ee eet Great Scott! Woman! D'y’e — wer se oe | first rmal request WAS) nuns will be needed to eaulp the 45 george oie a3 A spute there, | ge gpd angle a Crozier. i yt| Uivisions of the army. “And none of : rsa ‘ * suthor ‘ | remember speaking about I/ them has yet been delivered?” Wade ittee's ergy a “J - : “ ° ss viene poy Pacts nee or twice before that time aeeeehr ahaa ges be draftes pat indica son ! | “You got it as soon as you “sted © t he would not vote for impeac n dealing with the situation now ex righ eta cage: oli N replied Crozier. ; 2 WOMEN ESCAPE oc gh cob poe t When will they begin to be?* nt trial ; ; i akieds tutdwenta weten jak te in ns Next April What the final attitude of Coun After grilling Crozier three ' Haas, Moore, Hesketh and ved, it esired th rs in open session, the com use ee Imen ae padion’ hrchsiyenpalgi 7 J be gun, lish do?” insisted ine will be, they hav : rd . ; ste pepe awe . ee went into c with | Wwadswo @ further than to vote for a dra Helen Fishe interned a Wap pe rontontetae sae WASHINGTON, Dec, 18.—The | $64 nilotte tation fal | “We are getting enough guns aie the impe chment ch Arges. i‘ 4 i } os on ore of publicity will be turned publicity on which hee been lack: | shown | the French nswered Crosier. N vote with Hanna, the the the pul , waa § innermost corners of all o ng informa. | facts and rdnoo - | “Thruout this summer the Ameri: carry. If one of them| by . r : 4 . chine kun and art ree i 4 Industrial peace in the North war branches of the governm | « ans-08 of machine guns for he resolut th it will fogg ir Y i Chames to jaa the {| is likely to need late It developed today that the ha | pn, as it affects the |rorces was proctically Other man Thomson is 0 nement . probes of the war depart us to the $ 0,000 ex | . m id an 8 tam Al west's mam r camps ' | a Crozier said. “The delay was not T ia } Navy Radio Service Thursday or early Friday ar nit the public informat oe sca sisacs segypigeed tue uck of money, nor to labor | sel The radio service t avy } Important progress in settling the ed shes litions, and I have never been four hour 5 . toda « a1 n t oat labor differences betwe North forerunner of bre more wt | the suns had pre-/entirely satisfied what it was due Help Halifax; ot been apprehended y } tion on. the 26 {Seu inmbermen, and employes penvtrating Inquiries rill ort rior oak vo BS M ped patina be — T { Smith building. red ‘Thursday, when Thru senate mr ngaged conduct war, “T no | American forces fore we | senator Hitchcock, Nebraska, told $12,000 Raised 4 Japanese Troops men are nes mambers of the West Const | on various expenditure ne the intention’ to prejudge anybody nor] zo Into the war, in spite of the tact cronier that many high AE oft be giver r pr ermen’s association got will the truth about will any be red that a large appropriation had been | cers have told senators there has iow at Vladivostok ) et aval ¢ n to brass tacks with Labor extravagance with the war Se the People May Know | uade for these weapons been needless delay in providing rh The Canadian club of Seattle has N ASHIN ap 2 oO y B. Wilson If the people are to pay huge Who ts responsible for this situa-| ties and artillery about $12,000 for the Halifax | anese troops are at nya the to enlist « conciliation Congress Is Critical taxes, they must not be Uon?" demanded Chamberlain “We want something specific,” { ster sufferers, this being almost | American consul there th parrrmnnmrannd) commission at the New Wash ress, returning from “back to see It frittered away on n scoretary of Ron replied | said Hitchcock when Crozier resum= If of the desired amount. Word|state department te r ington hotel home” in a critical and Inquisit u eS ed his statement at the opening of s been received from Anchor: |! rmed reports of rioting th we an of the guilds of St.) ‘The meeting was behind closed! mood, propoes to get at the We hear a great deal about Crozier said that altho the Brown: | the session today of the war probe. Tiaska, that it will send not least ever, and pointed to the need of n'a parish, West Seattle meet | door of claims that too much m America’s last dollar, if nece : udopted in| “We want to know exactly what -"y troops in the cit Thursday, at the rector Granting a regional eight-hour iad heehnne rhaps Win the war, We are for that ¢ aRChING | you have done toward getting ready day was main problem to be threat fg 4 in the but we are against wasting on¢ 4 : not yet being | for war. We don’t want generals el out : s t papeete that expes pub- | those dollars ; pmautacta tho the war} Hes, Let's get down to cases,” sald Wilson for r Day ced to advertise, Other departmental investigations e di altho the war] ritchcock Cc; + Tame! ‘ h ites S > ( > ( Cc C member , office equipment tion to be proposed within a few|«un, the ¢ overnme ts Ma to buy in| every maniber of the, sae > WE aan B I OO! EF R I Ee M R A Y seatve ared that telegraph tines | (av6. | Lewis guns from Great Britain, with| C\ovier declared. that to ive the THE YEAR WE ) ) FOR DEMOCRACY || cisr stunted tnt” they" rhe that ara et A ae wet on sty Lance hay ie | ney oar et al eight-hour day, on the theory! might by m rye ontinuing he a peonam en chi it demanded would reveal military that it would wre the nduastr More er, it w consider uch | statement, cov ‘ me aeons not ha any machine WANTED — A» { out there then io I took in , don’t know who the are, and The favor a national eight-hour | charges and even era bir la nance situation guns as the Mexica (Continued on page 5) (hag ae erty. Every ¢ earned ar > I'm advertising for But the action of Idaho pine men| complaints that our men in camy proverty thru years of w it has ens If I can find some |in granting the regional eight-hour ‘are underclothed, lack blankets and A ; arated “i ‘ aemament my w I may be topet Ueednon aod Fria aie ated ; sg hycti y) i 4 IIG 1 . ‘hoe Ne Wilson and Secretary Wilson are in! menace health and life . meanest | eens gyro ma esed ie Ab Nie Tal oe tng SAMMY PLEADING FOR CANADIAN DRAFT ied adivertinemen eich the “ ve basia for pre T y , « 4 4 4 Last night they howled ana [eight-hour day, ga ' The senate will want to know A negro worm bent from iallad “ast i ane of dictions that the employers might | some facty as to disposition of the toll, walked into The Star office e y na '0NG OC | On fluenced to change thelr atts cs and handed a slip of paper to od alone sit oe ee Se : BY OWE ER supply wagon | “Of course you're right.” the “classified man The jon grew, and litt nis Fd deed Ma re have . Mary Pickford pare Staff Correspondent | What will happen if conser You're doggone right i He read the notice, and his home-owners came there it doesn and that way yin, ed aeats AMERICAN FIELD HEAD tion n Canada?” he de right,” the New Yorker assented. none for news scented a story have concluded t didn't talk with the ‘tra wo the ten hor tan Marine Band in S. F.. au airrins. rrance, peo. 18 mande Why, the ‘Canadian Now what'll happen if you "Yor. had better £0 a | sit wast ne at gage yaar far casita cama oo Conscription i Canada will win corps will melt from the line like boys and all other Canadians he Geezested, “and rs.” | they don’t want me around, but | ditional negro accent. | Her | Despite the pressing demand tor te Help Recruiting ina witk-ir the sentiment of | September snow under an Indian | vote your heads off in favor of troubles to a reporter, if some | to sell out. They are trying to | ¢ material for gover nt shipbuild. | By United Press Leased Wire Ca uns among the American summer sun. Am Ir conseription Well, this time body is threatening to kill you.” | drive me out 1 know hite people . ling and airplanes, Northwest mills SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 13 military now ean be regarded as | ‘Of course you ‘ rip \ on an year we ¥ be oe ‘ er Stole aren't like But some | are failing to turn out a normal sup Mary Pickford, in the uniform of an indication an answering yell from bis audi steins in the kaiser’ fa RK, 80 she climbed the stairs to Her Fruit Stolen |: people iat beat born’ with Mate lane , at marine, leading the*Ma The simon pure Americans in room at Berlin, and the kaiser A the editorial rooms I built a fence around the | for our poople—the int can't. |) That Labor Secretary Wilson and! rine band up Market street! the expeditionary forces routed u're oe e richt, I'm | will be ing the allied street There, with quivering lips, she back and sides—but they stole’ bitp it lake neuen cans Gn ee ternal te uae ra the ight whict out all their Canadian pals to. the orator resumed | cor ner for a job pushing lened her mind of the op. the fruit from my trees. He » Mra. Minnie Campbell, 40, | tle their differences in record time xreeted San Francisco today, and day and cheered them as they | 1 what'll the kaiser say if the broom, Am I right?" gression heaped on her tired cause I'm black, they don't rahe dha kes > vik ase ie made certaik Thursday, when| thousands were on hand to sec entered polling booths to vote on | co! tion lose Again, laughingly, the chor uiders seem to think I’m entitled to sweat of her brow, and fighta | President Wilson ordered Secretary} it. It marked the opening of the the question Well, he'll »slap Hindenburg oused shout came back t's my color,” she sala. “1 | *uatice the fight alone, is struggling | Wilson and his commission to speed! Marine corps’ newest recruitin Out in front of one polling on the shoulder an say—'Hindy, Of course you're right.” out in a little shack on two | Now they gather around ugainst the passion of intoler to Minneapolis and Paul, where| drive, A cordon of police head place a red-haired New Yorker old boy, we've licked Canada You're dog-gone right I'm I bought 11 years ago at 700 | night after night and hoot and in tht r, 1917, when a city-wide mpathetic trikes, be ed Mar parade; then came formerly a Tammany Hall soap Am | right right,” yelled the New Yorker, in 73rd st yell at me. They threaten to 1 is afire with the flame of | cause of the traction company’s lock} Mary and her band and detach | box orator, pulled an impromptu The chorus came instantly | conclusion ‘ . “There wasn't any one else kili me, and shout abuse, 1 | democracy. out of union men, are threatened. ments of marines and sailor. electioncering speech from a and thunderously Then the crowd melted away on 2 4 however, showed his faith in Crozier by reeo™