The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 22, 1917, Page 1

| er and (ta I: irl FREEDOW FOR ALL YOREVER THE GRE. ATEST RVICR PULL LEASED. 1 TATIONS UNITED Wirt PR ASSO VOLUMI DAILY CIRCULATION OF SEATTLE, WASH,, SATURDAY, DEC EMBER. 22, 1917, NORTHW, The Seattle Sta ANY PAPER IN THE PAC IFIC NIGHT EDITION Weather Forecast Fresh ‘Tonight and Sunday, probably rain westerly winds rywhere cattle PRICE ONE CENT LEWIS HOT AFTER CROZIER Stock tickers and } houses are circulating a report | that the Krapp munitions works | are on fire, No confirmation Says Papa EXTRA Ukrainians J. F. man o Who'll give a goat to the kids at Firlands sanatorium? ‘That's what worrying Joe New: berger and Jacob Winkler, who have an annual Christmas habit of making the little tubercular youngsters happy “Everything has gone all right so far,” sald Joe today. “We had a big show last night, with the movie outfit The Star assembled as a Christmas present last year. Bait we need a goat. Winkler has given the kids a big express wagon It'll hold three or four of them at a time. But the kids want a goat—they've got to have one.” Maybe some Star reader can solve this great problem. How about it? Stringer | Measles Shuts in that | the entire Kiddies at Ryther case is cleared up except ment gh details concerning the dis- trom 2% tw 14 years he Mother F er Child H osition of enormous {)" Sethe ounts of whisky stolen jocory tat How the littl year-old daughter of S. L. Graham, charged with the murder of William Applestiel during a raid by whisky thieves in Auburn. exploded the accused man’s alibi, | apy ana how J. F. Casey, another member of the ganc. fessed, revealing the operations of a» new bootlegging ring, was ex old girl, whom we found at school, has exploded his story.” “Graham fired the shot that d Applestiel, and Casey, who was with Graham, has told the whole story,” said Sheriff Stringer today They agreed on an alibi, and Graham stilt sticks to it, but his little #yeor old girl, who we found at school, has exploded his story.” t tate ir : ah sie Find Little Girl sp Graham and his sowin-law 1 that he at home and found the litt L. Graham Now Faces! , ody! | Assert Independence of Rus-! Trial for Murder of Au- and Take Over Troops burn Watchman las a on Rumanian Line me PARTNER ( CONFESSES [COUNCIL APPROVES IT} in Aub 1] PETROGRAD, Dec. 22. Murder Case s —Ukrainian troops have Ca taken up positions along a wa a Kiddies-at Firlands Hospital the border. to Sheriff String-| Have Express Wagon for All Ukrainian Cossacks Carmody, and tells > S-/MEASLES AT RYTHERS ized and a far-reaching Lag awry illed — yom " revolutionary § movement om] against the pages" seems to have been set def- Workings of a sy initely in motion. as sensa’ . noon declared the soviet of | Grebam, charged with soldiers and workmen at , sticks to story that Kieff had declared tis sup- ia innocent, and his wife | port of the Ukrainian de- ma ae mand for independence. -year-o — ree 8 W N t brokerage Mi bil 0 United Press by cable at 11:35 0 C = — 7 By United Press Leased Wire | Developments in Auburn uty Prosecutor, Christmas have been ordered mobil-| the Billingsleys, reveal ed. | Reports here this after-| is now said to be issuing its | |own money and to have founded a complete inde- pendent government. _ BATTLE RAGING = ON THE STREETS roy BY SHAPLEN United Press Correspondent were looking f Chrt fe 408 family to take Then along came aught A great order, and nov But LIGHT ¢ — ES FOR GIRLS’ RELIEF BAZAAR IS ON ITS LAST LAP The girls of the Girls’ War Relief bazaar are on the last lap Saturday in their drive for the $100,000 for the base hospital to placed behind the for the American & P and the fund for dependents’ re lief The receipts have $50,000 mark, INDUSTRIAL CLAIMS AKE BEING RUSHED * farr are being rush “Mrs. was 0 BIT ular ng HERE'S CHANCE DO CHRISTMAS Eighteen tuber ;hool house rlands are « PPand brother Stringer belie thieves were suspl Bthey murdered, and feared that new too much concerning their pperations Graham and Casey ployed as switchmer racks at Auburn (Continued on page 8) man he passed the Tube ° girls say ough ere both em the maze of in new patent where the qi HERES XMAS HUNCH JOIN TWOBIT CLUB When yc maliman stage! ers in| Prisoner Released to Answer Draft! >::. ASTOR Dec. 22—Deler G i boat, was re thorities when called in the Wash., and was w B Res Cross Enriched by Swearing Employe no ma By United Preas Leased Wire DES MOINES, Dec ‘Oh, he said an emp p of the Marx Hat ¢ here today, and another ce bed up for the Red ¢ have agreed to pay a ve cuss word tras packages, pre tamps Post x Two Merr mer s te in nold NOBODY ASKS CUPID Ls TO PLAY SANTA TODAY epid & f Sor n "bean tp tru nd ¢ Chr before tma. before appear Come Hertha of the thousand You hb the call ne Have you answered? BOY WANTED The Star has an oppor- tunity for a bright boy to DA Rape relate gee gan the newspaper busi North Pole ness. This is ‘a good] *u Nick. The w ether chance for the right boy.] (7 atheanter Apply Business Office ro 4 Seattle Star, 1307 Seventh | Seattle substituting | with ane. war saving stamps for gold coins as @ gift for Christmas, aid 40. clor’ Friday ough more were put to work total to ne to bring arly 100 carriers and oyage 1 the wart for thi important word man gales enlisted men, ub-consclou ump every sounded, th been delighted who give a people are the feature You hear the epil. Mave you answered? _'Neutral Nations to | ‘| Get No U. S. Butter! *.*s @ GIRL OF EIGHT EXPLODES HER FATHER SS / You hear the call. Have you answered? Sixty-five thousand Seattle men, women, boys, girls and little children have answered the call of the Red Cross. They have enlisted in the of mercy. But a 05,000 increase in membership is not enough. Every man, every woman and every child should be a Red Cross member—it is so little a part to play in the world struggle for safety, but it is a vital part. Maur Christmas conscience ought not let yott pass another day without joining the Christmas membership ranks of the Red Cross. volunteer army TWELFTH DAY SEES RED CROSS | FUNDS SOARING TO BIC TOTAL: twelfth da The Christmas of the Red Cross) drive, the solicitors ann ounce Every one wants. tq give,” F n and tt) man king membership mpaign netted §,000 new mombers, bringing the $66 a wpruns w Bynes cur noon when and girls of ¢ He. orpwince ther show thelr Red buy ne, providing or élse nged for them, and anced the campus marking HAUSER SENTENCED FOR FIVE YEARS Ha \ PETTY GAMBLING victe be haking one Seatt and known a ‘| Armed oa Hold Up 40 White Workers Ry United Press Leased Wire ALTON, TiL, Dee r negroes held at the Fee plant as Friday Leased Wire De By United Pr WASHINGT war board ha hibiting exportation of butter CLEVELAND id Geor at the Dec Wentz, in bandits he olice that the | Hart, but h Twelve mar lit up © truck company corps, will give n the Ta-| You hear the call The men of m ith Quarte a dance Saturday ever coma armor . SEATTLE LEADS WORLD IN SHIPBUILDING - :|Chairman Hurley Tells Senate This Is Banner City; 60 Government Contracts Here | lead ubma Seattle ship: in ards monthly $1,000,000 drawing a Seattle shipbuilders are today m world in the ship uinst the kainer’s ing the ximatel tion race a Government let tle gregating $60,61 dition taken over by Une The total number tracted for thruout Washington b 89, at a total ¢ Southerners | told the terday tha had fa contracts. bec They w during 1918 ments of Chairman United St hipping was called before the se esterday 1,000,000 ton irda for 60 ir These ship commandeered b« to tor t t of Hurle board state of the who investi ording. ttom ites to the am here of sation committee to report hip on government progre Thruout the United States, ship builders have a total of 1,427 ships of 4,573,108 deadweight tons under con Hurley gators hipbuilder airuction for the government British admiralty ¢ that German submarine campaign be defeated if the | United States can produce 6,000,000 | lumbermen had tons of shipping next year sary lumber and that 1,600 cars There are now 17,800 men employed of fir had been sent from the North: | timates indi cate the to make ¢ on ause Southern pine | the al Ar ed Presa ( TOKIO, De reign off! "JAPANESE NOT TO INTERVENE BY RALPH HH. TURNER ndent Fore contem _. WILL BE OUSTED HUNT IS SEATED AS ARIZONA GOVERNOR By United Press Leased Wire PH Thomas a few hundred Campt ' WANT OREGON BOYS | HOUSED FOR WINTER By Unit 0 the central uk the ra the local Arme west to help th that that ha prom With Seatt ernment From 16 t fo om an ev t Press Leased Wire rain, the war auxiliary lopartme until unti em out © Bastern mmittee today Maye » Vancouver t r arrac vealed to transfer is pro ug is pro had lost ard) Away with le shipb biggest re es and they wil sponsibilities er-inereasing ng in from 60 to 90 da s facing of number sent there by the wh 1 sddition to tart * OREGON SHIPYARDS WILL DO THEIR BEST PORTLAND, Dee. 'S ALIBI INVENTOR OF GUN TALKS STRAIGHT FROM SHOULDER He Says Ordnance Chief Has Been “Flim-Flamming” for 15 Years; Army Trouble Is Crozierism By United Press Leased Wire WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—Responsibil- ity for ordnance and rifle shortage in the American army was laid on Gen. Crozier, chief of ordnance, today by Col. Isaac Lewis, inventor of the Lewis machine gun, in testimony before the senate committee. “Gen. Crozier is responsible, more than any lother man, for the obsolete equipment lack of any equipment of the army,” said that/can’t arm and The 4 on na jx not fighting the battle of | J’ vut the battle of America. it's a “shame that American! ve to beg artillery fram France, “already near bank roptey. and hed white.” The former West Pointer, who saw his machine! gun rejected by the American war Wepartment and accepted by the allies, told the committee his gun never received a fair trial here. Tells Its Own Story equip them. « gun, Lew said, picture, a “figment of imagination.” That Gen. Crosier had spent mii. jons trying out the Benet Mercier [machine gun, which was later dis carded, was charged by Lewis. Lewis sald he once wen sier's head and offered to Gen. Wood, then chief of staff. At the meeting of the fortifications board, of which Wood was chairman, sent, and Crozter, ex of- ng, again turned lared that an outrage troops abr | of the Lewis 1 said ¢ Jown story today on every bat in Europe. The only Zeppelins that the British have brought down were brou Lewis guns.” Lewis said that for the sake of his {two w with shing in | France, and for “sake of all sons who will be there before | this terrible faster prBgress should been made in equipping the army j 16 system has controlled the d | signs and production of guns for th ars. I know because I was in service that long Prejudice in Army inefficiency narrowness, etc cited eight different ord rventions of his own which opposed “Crozicrism,” He Says admitted he had publiely charged Gen. Crozier with “flim flamming” for 15 years. The colonel’s wrath toward Crozier flared up later, when he was asked: “What was the trouble in the ord- na department?” ‘Crozierism,” he shouted. “It's the system Crozierism, rather than Cro zier—-that the country is suffering from. A range finder for coast artillery, which I invented, was opposed by finally was adopted by rd,” said Lewis. at his failures here, Lewis said he went to Burope to live in 1913 Then he recited how a little group ankers had backed his gun, how he had discovered two Ger- man ammunition makers among the directors of the Belgian company and how, after “a merry row,” these directors had been ousted. Went to England After disposing of the Belgiam rights, he sald he went to England, and in 48 hours he had his gun sent - to the Birmingham Arms Co., which today turning out 1,300 trench guns and 300 airplane guns each week, for the British army When offering his guns to the United States, Lewis said he offered the royalties on all bought. Ones he said he sent a check to Secretary taker, covering royalties on 358 kuns originally made for Great Britain, but taken over by the U, 8 This was finally ac- cepted, but receipt. never ac knowledged. The way I know it was accepted,” | he said, “is that my bank told meso,” The Browning gun looks good enough on paper, he testified, “but | nobody knows what it will do.” Manufacturers who say it is @ arm, the best in the he added, “are fooling not themselves, but the govern: ght down by Lewis the war hav 8 over There's hopeless due t be tem.” el, what's the reason for the the ordnance depart Lewis gun,” he jon in was y want to kill it e the label off of it * he shou heavy they want but they hat it would working. t. 1912, wh ion to try out maneuvers in Con an-| nee nen efused 5 rmy gun at necticut ‘In response to Gen the try out said Lewis my send m Th mounted on an airplane. or abroad Took It to Wood Gen. Cre however, ind refused to furnish i did not feel like ammunition from orps to A request n airplane I had two guns made at own expense, and I offered to to pilot the machine. 4 gun had ever been either here Scriven of he said its my on check was before vaier protested, ammunition buying and the erless world only | me that a year would not gun United 8 Hansen of the Colt com- who testified before you that de y of the Browning m ates to n soon, is mistaken, in my opinion. All the manufacturers eho think thee Wil seat begin pro- ducing Browning guns in large qualm tities going to fall down." rmaster Gen. Sharpe ts iuled to return to the stand next Then the committee will ex- profiteering in army iforms as one.of the causes of seri- delay. Facts in this line are said > startling. Mr. pany have a million men on the Europear supply quantity \front, because our syste we today preparing to!) pledge the construction of 150 wood-| u for the merchant marine At ting with the emergency |*hipyards are next year 1m comp! the United States war The Star had sey- and editorials pointing wovernment fell down Long before entered the articles how the peration's request for an estimate of the state's output, it was agreed that it least 625,000 tons of shipping can | be built | The output of ships will be led upon later | dination of lumber necessary { aii It eral out ine: Browning gun A. B. told the today activities production has | ernment * proposed to make | Arty tion from the woods | <=nmittee where the timber is cut to the com-| makes the Lewis gun, pleted hulls, n ie, of the Savage senate probing Rorie's company adopted by the been pledged \ thoro organi is Co. allies, You hear the call. Have you answared? You'hear the gall, Have you answered? ¢