The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 4, 1918, Page 1

P creasing America’s fighting contin-| e r grad, according to formal announce. L¥ ment today. collection plate gees profits. United States and the allies, in 1918,| an lay a firm foundation for vic so far ax the military situation now L appears—that the war will actually | decrease end in less than two years. and psychological Fbring a quicker collapse, they sa 4 EREEDOW LEASED WIRE SERVICE PRESS AS! TIONS FULL UNIT VOLUME 19 _THE GREATEST DAILY CIRC! UL? ATION OF AN SEATT LE, W ASH., ‘RIDAY, JANUAR Y 4, The Seattle Star Y PAPER IN THE PAC! IF IC NORTHWEST NIGHT EDITION » WEATHER FORECAST: Iba urday; high southeaster night and Bat ales 1918. v thes ONE CENT #2 ‘tele HDRY SQUAD HEAD ARRESTED AS OOZE RING Ail SMASHES ITS PREVIOUS WORLD RECORD Seattle established another world’s record as the est modern city in the world, during 1917, when ere were only 6.91 deaths for every 1,000 population. No, city in the world, that keeps health records, las ever had such a healthy 12 months. Only 2,533 people died during the year here. In 1914, when the city’s population was much 2,537 people died. _ The percentage in 1916 was 7.07 deaths for every 4,000 population. It was also a world record. Seattle’s population, Health Commissioner McBride , was estimated at 366,445, and obtained from the Jnited States census bureau as basis of establishing the record. Recall Admiral to Face Probers, RAINIA GETS ‘ INDEPENDENCE, SS ASMINGTON, dan ami te of the navy convoy system abroad, | 1 has been relieved and ordered home, dikceowtotse the independence of/as « direct outgrowth of the tor- was reached by the commis | pedoing of the American transport ; Antilles. en Somer. This fact leaked out today, a con | siderable time after ita occurrence, | following charges of Representative Britten that the Antilles was sunk thru navy negligence. Rear Admiral Fletcher—not the Pletcher of Vera Cruz fame—did not; | believe sufficient convoy was at his! disposal, it is claimed, but it in a Mooted question in navy quarters whether Admiral Sims, chiet of oper-| ; ations, provided sufficiently. In event. it was held that| hen her's removal was advisable. No court-martial was held. «0 the prece e_comprising sections of the/dent does not stand officially | Polish kingdon. A movement | a oainst hix record. Independence hax been in prog > il |MAYOR’S DISBARMENT Iman on Way! TRIAL UP ON MONDAY to See Bolshevik 2! 37222! board of law examiners, it “LONDON, Jan. 4.—Dispatches| announced today, will be p en Germany via Amsterdam today| ent here Monday when Mayor that the central powers’ dele-| Gill and his law partners, H. are all returning to Brest-| 8. Hoyt, H. &. Frye and James and, coupled with this intor-| Raley, will face trial at 10 a.m. lx the report that new and| in room 407 County-City build- Moderate terms were to be of. ing, on disbarment charges. egw coh aie e a The mayor will defend himself to be was not indicated. The | 24 file a written answer to the it was said, included For. eet made against him for Minister Kuchimann, Coun | Petmitting his name to be used as igen gral | member of the law firm delegation. 7 and) senting the Merchants’ Pr | corporation If convicted the mayor and his ASSEMBLY JANUARY 18) ractice nw in the state and their VPETROGRAD, Jan. 4—Opening ot | !°ense# will be revoked constituent assenbly was’ fixed January ih. it quorum of 10 | THIRD LIBERTY LOAN STARTS FEBRUARY 15 WASHI Jan. 4.—Third Libe: will be open ed arned today amount {s to be raised in t third drive could not pe ascertained | the council of com- that is, a meeting of the ‘executives which the Rolshe- pamed to administer various ‘and states of Russia—repre the will of the Bolsheviki gov decixion to acknowledge "a Independence ts virtually for the Cossack rebels. is the so-called “white any No one has heard of any church groaning under ex JHOUSE MISSION PRED TO 1920; ARMY IS GEARED UP. addition would not be enormous perhaps 4,000 a month sited Press Correspondent it would hetp WASHINGTON, Jan 4.—Membe the House mission believe the| ,., BY CARL D. GROAT ‘ 4 this plan of getting addition thru pooling 4 doubtful that such help can come from this source until U-boat lo and ship production is talk} allied shipping tory. But they hold out no hope—| in Political | creases: may| Secretary Paker said today train Ing of troops is proceeding fly as possible. And, he po this speeding up has bee ent of Gi ining director and elements experts declare must proceed with a two three-year fight in mind, and | their plans for even a longer strug gle to be on the safe side. They believe that too much empha. | #i# cannot be Iaid on the need of uni Geof attion and purpose, and, above | on speed. Whether the mber of months’ Plan Pooling » |tratning on this can be reduced Ts thie end, much thought is be- | materially will depend wholly on the | ing given to ways and means for in ship situation. Other visible aspects of the gear ing up pro Creatin the nations #on as military t by giving all division commanders ing and fighting. All Geared Up gents, All this depends on shipr. One of the first plans suggested| 1 as to stow some troops on every Appointment of new chiefs to hip—tramp, tanker or what-not-~| lie the administration of vital ing the war zone. While the|war plans in the coast artillery, ard ew are of a war council | 45, Crowder estimates n an opportunity to see foreign train: | j eit ix in pre WE WANT SERVICE! Editor ‘The Star: T tter in written as an individ and not as an organization expression Rut If do want to say Just a word in appreciation of the leading story in The Star tonight, demanding that every body get together and work out some reasonable solution of the problem of « and from the yards. This whole thing can be worked out any time all the her around a table and « United States are jest a rests of anybody elae. on the chaotic condt. ual, arrying the ship yard workers to p of this matter will cause them t Your very truly G, C. CORBALEY, Executive Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. some move, Hugo Kelly of Renton called up to ask: “Why not the jitneys in this emergency? Why play the dog in the manger and not tet them give us the ¢ nervice we on account of some doubtful law Ole Hanson, candidate for mayor, declared today that perdina tic the passenger traffic in Seattle must be immediately undertake Not only because it tx a service to our comforts, but because it isan actual war necensity, explained. C. J. France, candidate for mayor, and attorney for the port commission, prepared a written statement on the subject, printed on another page. DRAFT MEN OF 31 TO 40 FOR LABOR , WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—Increasing the draft age from 31 to 40 or 45, is one of the probabilities of the future,” according to Provost Marshal Gen. Crowder, in his compre- hensive report to the secretary of war. The draft of the older men should be mainly for skilled| war labor, but also to distribute the burdens of the war. There are plenty of young men for the first line fight- jing, Crowder has shown, but he also points out there is a | danger of “injuring the coming general draft by taking away too many of the aggressively patriotic young men.” OLDER MEN Out of the 10,683, FOR LABOR 249 men between the ages of 31 and ‘5,472 are unmarried, and that 39 per cent of the latter figure, or 1,389,388, would be accepted for servi service under the | present regulations. Mo SaeezT ver WILSON TALKS ON RAILROADS. of the Russian it agre it would be WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 dent Wilson today 1 upon | gress to give him full and unre strict | nduct the federat| stcyre tale vas meetin tlon to the Lenine ment or to acknowledge Lit vinoff as that government's ambas- sador in London, Meanwhile, it was admitte the present situation necessitated unofficial dealings with the Bol sheviki which, in the absence of British Aw c done thru ing the officials. ure JAPAN TO RESUME to aoc RUSSIAN RELATIONS ‘nuns COPENHAG Jan. 4 The “Private interest Tageblatt dispatch Tokio that apan had decided t diplomatic Presi 1 that mi of the cess of Dir adminiat Russian eral McAdoo's explained the dy taken was “necessar the mobilization of the re of America by effective s." he said, “must for the present give way to the pub ee ry means for protecting ICTS WAR. | the in Measures to protect travelers and Jsafeguard private shippers Compensation for the ed on the averag me of the thre June 40, 1917 He added that “it is probably too | much to expect that even under the lunified railroad administration suf. fic ffected to make it possible to add to other pment and extend their oper: ative facilities as much as the pres »jent extraordinary demands wilt render desirable without resorting to » national treasury for funds." It was a plain, business n | taking but 15 minutes to deli was received quietly by the , | letors » years ending nance : nt economies can be lays. rae, wecretarysh) ministration post now 0 need for auch is that its pres will meet the vital reorganization plans making in the legislation considered by the war rs stopped in fro and four men ¢ men in the other on guard. while the » remained congressional probe, plus th House mission recommendatic gone far toward putting a pun 4 purpose into war work. Less t authorities agré ney add, for 1918 ix some of the bloodiest strugela, PORTLAND, Jan, 4 night steamer se yetween Portland and Salem, officials, who & service by January 16 ice inaug 1 ‘This ts well destined to se fighting in Chief Springs Sensation; Patrolman Revelle Taken Also; to Nab More Dry Cops Chief of Police Warren, Sheriff! Stringer and federal officials reveal the workings of a gigantic whiskey) ring Friday when they arrested dry) squad police officers supposed to have conspired with Raleigh Faulkner, ex-| convict bootlegger. They are alleged to have permitted liquor shipments to be smuggled to ‘Faulkner and received a commission, |according to Faulkner’s alleged con- fession. Those arrested were: pecs G. H. Comstock, head of the} squad, and successor to Sergt. Vise Putnam, who was ousted by, Mayor Gill. Joe Ravelle, who is alleged to have, pocketed gambling stakes during a raid. Comstock was taken to the county| jail without bail at 1:15 p. m. Arrests were made by Chief War- ren, Inspector Claude Bannick, Capt.' | ate Detectives Bergstrom and ochran, W. C. Gray and Charles Pet-| pa ay special investigators for the federal department of justice, and \Sheriff Stringer. Faulkner, who was arrested Satur-| iday at his home, 719 N. 66th st., is al-| »|leged to have revealed an astounding .:|story of protection, according to Chief |Warren. “He claims that dry squad officers! \let whiskey come in concealed as auto polish and dry squad members were paid a definite percentage,” the chief of police said. Faulkner is alleged to have told) |\Chief Warren that he paid $42.50 a can, on 210 cans of whiskey, to the dry squad. Dry squad officers, according to the chief, are also alleged to have raided the Commercial hotel, near the Great Northern docks, on December 14, and pocketed money they found in a gambling pot there, but never made arrests. NEVER MADE RECORD They also seized liquor, according to in- formation in the hands of Chief Warren, but never made any record of the case. District Attorney Clay Allen Friday said he had “gotten Faulkner in a mood to ‘ talk” and then “turned him over to the de- partment of justice” and “really didn’t know what Faulkner had said,” and that the matter was “in the hands of the police, way. "Sheriff Stringer, Chief Warren, and Faulkner have been holding daily conferences. Faulkner was re on $1,000 bonds by federal authorities he had pleaded not guilty to violation of & 'Reed amendment to the postal law, 'prohibits importation of liquor into dry ritory. This was the first indication that he “getting along” with federal officials, probably making alleged confessions. — Chief Warren declared that two Police Chief Warren. other men, familiar with Faulkner's! Jt was that night he is operations, had made statements which backed up Faulkner's confes- sion. William Mertz, ex-saloonkeeper arrested as an alleged allied booties: ger by Sheriff Stringer, is believed to have made staternents revealing | how liquor was imported from out-/ wide the state and permitted to reach the operators’ base out at 719 North 66th st. Investigate for Week | _Fautkner ts alleged to have re ceived 4,410 quarts of liquor with |; the knowledge of the dry sq cording to the chief. It came con cealed in 210 cans, for which Faulk ner says he paid $42.50 a can “pro- tection,” according to the chief. That a eweeping investigation has been going on for the last week || was apparent at the federal build: |\ ing and at police headquarters, Of | ficials were closeted for hours with Faulkner. Talked to Federal Men Finally it was revealed in letters found by Stringer that 50 gallons were to be shipped to the bootleg- gers every other day by Gill, Gra- ham & Co., Cincinnati liquor whole- salers The mine how these Were getting past the police. Faulkner's confession is believed to have followed talks with federal officials, apparently eager to get at higher-ups.”” or two nights Faulkner was clos: eted with officials from 7 p. m. until midnight, but refused to tell how he was protected Discover Liquor in Comstock’s Sergt. Comstock was | baad betere | at Re arresting party, phoned police headquarters ) five quarts and five pints whisky, three gallons of and a small amount of beer found there. problem then was to deter- enormous shipments On the following day) he was with Allen all day. in the evening taken to the day (Wednes- and home of “IT’S JOBBERY,” SAYS SERGEANT COMSTOCK 1 fixed up piece of job- bery Sergt. Comstock sald to reporters at police station, fol- lowing his A certain party came out to my house for some liquor one night, and they didn't Bet. it They've been sore ever sinc arrest Police Chief Warren JAILER IS HIT WITH © BOTTLE; 4 ESCAPE TACOMA, Jan, 4.—Four prisoners escaped from the county jail here early today, after assaulting Jailer: Peter McCabe and lashing him to the bars of a cell with ropes. Armed with the officers’ keys, the men be | }ransacked the prison offices and secured between $500 and $600 from the safe. Deputy sheriffs and police’ are now searching the city and surrounding country ’ the men. Among the escaped prisoners is John Johnson, ma. An attempt was made to liberate George Pidd, th soldier sentenced by court martial to life imprisonment 7 in a military prison and temporarily incarcerated at county jail, but the men were unable to break the loel on his cell, prisoners, it was said. If in the jail corridor g himself with ey could find, together with automatic pistol and weapons as were They then let them out of the building and it was time before McCabe could himself and give the alarm, jailer was sum his three confedera midnight ‘The men then leisurely searched s shortly after