The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 9, 1918, Page 1

\ e Ba R open at 9 a. m. aving E t —eeee HIT THE KAISER A POLITICAL WALLOP YESTERDAY—AND YOU C ‘sx ~TheSeattleStar FREEDOM FOR ALL FOREVER come THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS VOLUME 19 3AN General Foltz Issues Order SE ATTL E, WASH., WE DNES Shift Work Hours in Big Plants,Plan to Solve Traffic ' Peak Load on Street Cars Would Thus! Be Eased; Dr. Suzzallo to Meet With Joint Interests. Two sets of resources will be utilized to solve Se. _attle’s transportation problems, if plans today outlined by Dr. Henry Suzzallo, president of the University of Washington and chairman of the State Council of De- | fense, are adopted by a joint conference of city, county, | port and private interests. He will propose first that the hours when shifts of | Workers arrive and leave the various shipyards and ia Plants be arranged to distribute the transporta- fom ed, Just as some retail stores have consented to the war, certain shipyards will asked to change shifts an hour or so later, or earlier, at present, Tiis will tend to distribute the flood car traffic that swamps facilities at certain hours. _ Dr. Suzzallo’s second resource will be the voluntary dination of all facilities, namely, that the harbor es, traction company lines, steam lines, port com- hission and city facilities should lend themselves to a ogram designed to give co-operative relief to the con- 4 gem program will be laid before fifteen representatives ana the involved interests by Dr. Henry Suzzallo Thurs- night a the county defense council's rooms, 418 County- City buildin: The cacnced of this plan will depend largely upon the ~ of Motes og which greets the program. has been spending several days conferring over ae problem. He has been assured co-operation from th» city officials. Altho Dr. Suzzallo will present his idea of possible steps that may be taken, he will call for other plans, and a com- pe survey may be made before any one scheme of action The meeting Thursday night will be closed. The defense council has requested that representatives be named to attend the conference from the following in- terests: Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Co.; Seattle, Renton & Southern R. R.; port commission; shipyard work- men; shipyard employers; city council; ‘county commis- port commission; city utilities department; the United ‘States government. $ A ‘preliminary meeting was held Tuesday night. Those who attended were: Chairman Harold Preston, of the county lense council; R. L. Proctor, president of the Central Council; Frank Gates, of the defense council; C. W. . Dr. J. E. Crichton, F. V. Brown, J. P. Todd and f. Edwin A. Start. Committees representing the Duwamish waterway dis- trict have been appointed to confer with Dr. Suzzallo and with Councilman Oliver T. Erickson relative to transporta- tion for workmen to industries located on E. Marginal way. (he os 9 wot en tsctlen aimee ae teat ai a eta ceascatteas HOSPITAL SHIP. |*0u8 FimeMen Kite were killed and four others serious SERGEANT MAJOR T. H. RITTER ba BY THEATRE WALL SUNK BY HUNS CHICAGO, Jan. 9.—Four firemen LONDON, Jan. 9—Another Brit- ish hospital ship has falien victim to) Hun barbarity ‘The admiralty today formally an- nounced the loss, thru torpedoing, on Friday at midnight of the hos- pital ship Rewa The ship was sunk In the Bristol channel en route from Gibraltar. ee of her crew were said to be iesing. The wounded aboard were trans. | ferred to patrol boats. ‘The admiralty announced that the) ships carried all lights and markings indicating a hospital ship. The Rewa was formerly the prop- erty of the British India Navigation, of Glasgow. and was of 7,308 tons. She was built in 1906 | bombardment of ly hurt early today when they were | buried under the falling walls of the Chicago theatre, a West Side movie, which caught fire shortly after mid night. Lieut. Chas. Anderson and Fire. men Jas, Horan, Jas, Kerr and Fred Stoll were instantly killed. Fire. men John Ryan, Emil Hanson, Chas Ebling and Richard Dempsey may die. Policemen had just driven a crowd |from the danger zone when the wall fell BER Jan. 9.—The papal nun |elo at Vienna formally visited im |peror Karl and left with him Pope senedict’s protest against Teutonic unguarded cities, according to Vienna advices, Ritter, Spy Suspect, Mere Boy; Stout-Hearted, He Only Longs for Word of Home ~ \fore the little tar-paper-roofed build ing of the %61st infantry ra} house, with its makeshift windows | of wire net, the guard was drawn up for inspection, and inside the pris: oners were gabbling among them selves—all save one He stood gazing thru the diamond- | shaped screen and his face bore the look of @ man who sees much and endures much, but who says little. The pleasant-faced officer of the day inspected the credentials and passes and letters of the correspond ent, and led the way to his office in the guard house. He dispatched an + Staff Correspondent CAMP LEWIS, Tacoma, Jan. 9.—He's only a boy—this ser. geant major whom military and federal sleuths declare is a hire- ling of the kaiser. For the first time since he was arrested, November 15, and charged with stealing vataablo documents from the offices of the divisional adjutant, and transmitting to the country’s en- emies information of grave im- portance, Sergt. Maj. Thomas Helmath Ritter was interviewed yenterday. horizon and| Orderly and a moment later the door had just touched the Be-| (Continued on page 7) s+ Jthe bugles were blowing retreat. SDAY, JAN JARY 9 9, 1918, AN HIT HIM TODAY—-REMEMBER WHEATLESS DAY! NIGHT EDITION Tonight and Thursday moderate northeasterly Weather Forecast: fair; colder tonight winds, Everywhere in Seattle PRICE ONE CENT IS LIFTED! Today Special Messenger on Way From Camp With Good Tidin GAS RATE HEARING | ‘DISMISS RALEY {| DELAYED HALF DAY} | Seattle's fight before the public service comminsion to prevent the Seattle Lighting company from continuing to collect a 26 cent monthly service charge from each consumer and a rate in crease of 16 cents 1,000 feet, did not open on schedule Wednesday The hearing was continued un Ul afternoon because of failure of Chairman Spinning t Beattie, Expert witnexsen are to appear in the Chamber of Com: } merce assembly room. YELLS “PEACE” GENEVA, Jan. 9.—Crowds march ed thru the streets of Bertin, Leip shouting, “We must * when news of breaking off of the Brewt-Litovak ne fotlations became known, to reports today DECIDE TO RESUME? AMSTERDAM, Jan. 9 and central powers another — preliminary Tuenday plenary sittings of the meeting to- day, according to Brest Litovak dis Patchen today HOW ABOUT IRELAND? ASKS TEUTON LEADER AMSTERDAM, Jan, %—German political lenders want Premier Lioyd George's plan for self government of all peoples to be applied to Beypt, Ireland and India—according to in terviews received here today “If Lioyd George is really sin cere,” declared Philip Scheidemann, leader of the majority socialists, “how about Ireland, Egypt and In dia?” Portland Wars on 6-Cent Car Fares PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. 9.—T city attorney An appeal to the courts from the rul ing of the Oregon commission, allowing the Portland Railway, Light & F Co. to raise car fare in Portland from Se to 6c. public service | | the Ponition of a subordin: Russian So far delegates held he will not appear in hin present conference position again. and decided to resume the Mr IN DISBARMENT | CHARGES HERE dames G. Raley was dismissed as one of the respondents in the disbarment trial against the law firm of Gill, Hoyt & Frye upon the recommendation of Attorney General Tanner as he closed bis case Wednesday forenoon. At the same time, Prosecuting Attorney Lundin filed an infor- mation in the superior court to prohibit the Merchants’ Pro tettive Corporation from operat- | ing In this state. In cloning his case, mange ved jeral Tanner made the mtatement to be considered nesy a fo wr en rather than a motion: mend that the proceed: | inigs ig ‘iseniesed insofar as Re apondent Raley is concerned. take the stand that he occupies the e in the of fice of Gill, Hoyt & Frye and that he is interested only in the collec according | tions of the corporation and not in| the contract or future business. He has been punished with a great deal of unpleasant notoriety ax the public is concerned I recommend that | Raley be excused.” After & recess of five minutes, ar } thur W. Davin, presiding over th board of examiners, announced that Raley was excused “Any comment the board may have on this phase of the proceed ings will be made at the time the| general filings are made,” he said. | with his feet on a desk and smoking is at work preparing | He has been instructed by the city | council to fight the raise. It ts con idered as a test case to establish the rights of the public service com: mission to fiz _tares. LUNDIN FILES SUIT TO ELIMINATE “PROTECTIVE CORPORATION” IN STATE Prosecuting Attorney Alfred Lun din filed an information Wednesday to shut off the Merchants’ Protective corporation, for which the firm of | Gill, Hoyt, Frye & Raley are attor from doing business in state of Washington. AUTO HITS LITTLE BOY WHO DIES AT HOSPITAL Brice Murphy, T:year-old son of Mrs. M. Murphy, 2010 Sixth ave. died on the operating table of the city hospital at 6 o'clock Tuesday evening, following an auto accident The lad was knocked down and run over by a machine driven by W A, Sheldon, Virginia hotel, on Sixth ave. near Virginin st the | ¢ During the recess, Mayor Gill me & cigaret instead of his corneob The state's case closed with the! testimony of Deputy Prosecuting At torney Lane Summers. He was ex |amined by Deputy Attorney General | Murphine regarding the names and number of alleged disordenjy; houses | that were on the membership list of the Merchants’ Pre ive Corpora tion, Thirty-two hotels were named Witnesses examined Tuesday aft-| ernoon included Deputy Prosecutor | Lane Summers, City Attorney Ken nedy, former Police Sergeant Victor R. Putnam, who also was head of the dry squad; Rev. U. G. Murphy, nan ager of the American Bible society and a missionary among Orientals inj Seattle, and Canole Hendron, secre. tary of the Seattle Bar association grievance committee In Police Court Often | Summers testified that about 20! hotels listed as subscribers of the corporation had been notified that they would be closed under the lement lnw unless conditions were improved. Mayor Gill cross | amined him for several minu’ favorite Btaff Correspondent CAMP LEWIS, TACOMA, Jan. 9.— On the recommendation of the mili« \tary police, Brig. Gen. Frederick Foltz this morning revoked General Order 52, which prevented soldie: from visiting Seattle because of vi ‘conditions. The new. order is paragraph one of os |General Order 2. messenger: “To the Mayor of Seattle: “I wish to express to you my high’ \appreciation of the most excellent and = iefficient work Chief of Police Warren is accomplishing. “T am in a position to assure you he” ‘has the confidence of the federal au- thorities and merits the confidence and © support of all the good people of Se= = lattle. Respectfully, “F. S. FOLTZ, Reads Ordinances The session opened with Tanner ading a number of city ordinances fining the duties of the mayor. James Crehan, private secretary to the mayor, was the first witness for the defense. He said he had oc cupied his present position for near. ly four years, “What, if any, instructions have been given you regarding the direc tion of law. business?” Attorney Fred Clarke asked. Crehan on Stand Crehan said the only instruction he ever received was when he was once asked by an elevator boy where to obtain a lawyer to handle a divorce case. RUSSIAN BILLBOARDS TO DISPLAY HIGH SPOTS IN WILSON’S PEACE MESSAGE. OF “FREEDOM FOR ALL, FOREVER”; GREATEST MORAL OFFENSIVE IN HISTORY IS BEGUN | «itr ise miutass" sano BY ROBERT J. BENDER inited Preas Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan, 9.—President Wilson is conducting a “man-toman” peal to the Russian people and the Wberals of enemy nations, Thru “open air diplomacy.” he is trying to|in the world, but gave orders for bili-|ing, not only in Rusia, but in convince the Russians that their safety lies in allegiance to the prin. ciples tor which America is fighting. Following Wilson's Airect appeal | to these peoples yepterday, it was| [learned today that the official text of |the message would be placed before the working classes of Russia and |the enemy powers, The committee on public information not only sent | the address by cable to every capital | |board display in Russia and aero | Plane distribution on both fronts, |The work is a part of a tremendous world propaganda. Shown @ United Press Petrograd! by billboards, giving America's views on the international situation, her aims and her peace ideals. The theatres in cities large and small are showing motion pictures sent over by the Creel committee, and literature of all kinds is being | distributed by the ton. In Austria, aeroplanes ate drop-| {dispatch today, stating that bill- boards and theatres were spreading |the gospel of Americanism, Chair |man Creel, of the committee on pub- |licity, admitted this to be part of the “educational work we are conduct my countries and neutral nation: It ia not being done behind closed doors or in secret reasion with diplo | ping educational matter over the en-| mate Jemy trenches to convince thinking In Russia the work 1s being done|people among the soldiers fighting | ‘that their battle is a vain one, should Germany be victorious and place her iron heel upon Emperor Charles’ domain. Hundreds of thousands of dollars are being spent in the undertaking, probably the greatest moral offen sive in the world’s history, but confi [dential reports show the effort is |bearing fruit, Conditions in Austria Hungary, and even in Germany, are Ai, “C d Div., U.S. A * ommander 91st Div., rmy. visiting Seattle, was placed on the city by Maj. Gen. H. ye Greene, November 22, after he had declared that the city He charged that gambling, boot legging and vice were thriving here i ‘nigh author, | “WAR ORDER WILL KEEP es but refused to “lay his cards Ud Gi on th at the request of the MEN AT CAMP HLL Impeachment Move Results | bee lifted for its effect on the coun: G pene, who later left for try generally, but as far as Seattle is any particular difference,” said May+ tine, altho various efforts were | : made to get him to withdraw the ar Gill, when informed by The Sti that the men can't go over 20 miles tions, however, inde d his move, > and pledged, him their. aippert from the camp, anyway, and so Ta- impeached grew out of the quaran:| for the soldiers to go, just as it haa tine dispute, as did his dismissal 5 pointment of Chief Joe Warren. Isolation and treatment of im WON’T AFFECT SEATTLE city The war department issued an o charged that the information given| Chief Warren immediately set out Murphy he would co-operate with them, and he held conferences at Camp Lewis. the arrest of Dry Squad nstock, last week, © rave out the si ment, applauding the work of Chief Warren. Greene was in line with the national policy recommended by the Fosdick moral atmosphere of training camps everywhere in the U. 8. “I rejoice that the ban is lifted,” formed of Gen. Foltz’s action by The Star. “I suppose it will stay lifted if ht to be all the nore vig in ir efforts, in order to Pp faith me the order came in response ises from Chief Warren. We The ban, which prevented Camp Lewis soldiers from was not morally safe for his men. with the knowledge of city council | “Iam very glad that the ban has France, refused to lift the quaran. | °oneerned, I can’t see that it makes paver he Many ‘citisene add organina of Gen. Foltz’s order. “I understand ‘The movement to have Mayor Gill coma will continue to be the place of Chief Beckingham and the ap 20-MILE LIMIT ORDER moral women was adopted by the by Summers was furnished by Rev, |t© try to show the military men that | Saville Satisfied head of the military poll The quarantine move by Gen. committee, appointed to guard the DR. MATTHEWS REJOICES Dr. Mark A. Matthews said when in . | we will clean up the town, Citizens for I "| must begin to fight all the harder.” to the rulers at the demand for dem ocratic government by the liberals, In Russia the Germans have found that the spirit of the peasant cannot be easily dominated, and thru a better understanding of the allied position, resulting from the successful appeal to President Wilson for a restate: ment of allied war aims, Russia at last appears to be awakening to her danger. IS OLE HANSON’S ADVICE tine is lifted,” didate for mayor, when informed by ed. “Let us now so conduct our ei government that it will stay lifted. | LET’S KEEP. BAN LIFTED,| “Iam very glad that the quaran-| certainly said Ole Hanson, can-| authorities, der for all camps recently, to the ef | fect that soldiers were not to go out |side of a 20-mile radius without special pass. This was a general order, intended to prevent congestion of passenger | traffic on trains, and will in no |interfere with the Seattle situation, it Was stated at Camp Lewis, Sol- |diers now wishing to visit Seattle jean easily obtain the necessary passes from their company com: |manders, was the interpretation giv: en the order. |“’LL WAIT WORD FROM CAMP LEWIS”—WARREN When informed by The Star that the ban had been lifted, Chief of Po lice Warren stated that he was "glad to hear the good news,” but would make no statement until he had been officially informed. “I prefer to wait until T am in: formed by Camp Lewis authorities,” he said. “GIVE WARREN CREDIT,” SAYS U. S. ATTORNEY “The credit for the lifting of the ban should go to Chief of Police Warren for his activities in remedy- ing conditions in Seattle, which were objectionable to military said United States Dis: Attorney Clay Allen, when ins triet The Star that the ban had been lift-| formed by The Star that the quaran- tine imposed by the Camp Lewis aus thorities had been lifted,