The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 11, 1918, Page 1

—the have hou- 1 be FREEDOM FOR ALL VOLUME 19 EXtted Siete “ANBAR ICR PITY SEATTLE F you have pity, waste no more of it on H. C. Gill. Pity your city, Seattle, in- stead. Pity_your city because, after all it has endured, all it has suffered, it still has as its mayor, H. C. Gill. Pity Seattle because, after eight years of turmoil, eight years of police- mayoralty scandal, it still has en- throned at the city hall the cause of it all—Gillism. STATE, NOT GAS Bags | boxing instructors have been spect | fied as greenish drab, cut Norfolk style and for the ¥. M. C. A, car rying the circle-triangle in red on the sleeve. Newspaper correspondents now eo Ges SFR | _ a S& Bee 86GB vel- and ine 5 * qrensed wages of light department! on a $1 wsumers have not had/ only be $6,500,000. as @ result. the testimony given by/| the public Oliver T. Erickson be-| consider the FOR ENFORCING WHEATLESS DAY WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 leas days and rigid economy save 90,000,000 bushels of wheat for the allies, was the warning issued to the country today by the food admin. istration. Immediate restriction of wheat consumption in every house was anked Hotels, cafes and public eating cee Will soon be placed on a man datory saving basis, thru weekly wheatless days and prohibition of waste, Legislation already has been introduced. UNIFORMS FOR ALL AT CAMP Staff Correspondent —Almost all camp retainers here have been ordered into uniform. A camp retainer i a civilian attached to the camp, either in an official or semi-official capacity ‘The uniforms of the ¥. M. CA secretaries and of the athietic and are wearing olive drab officers’ unt Altho the city of Seattle has tn-} company today forma without marks of rank. On x! 000,008 Tate a een | their left arms they wear a white 11 to 14 per cent,| declares that the rate base should | "4 With & scarlet “C." The Ubrartans will wear the same ‘The gue company att askeq|Uiform as the correspondents, but service commission to 1914 valuation as a with a blue band worked In yellow and bearing their titles and the ini- fore the state public service com-| closed matter, and fixed, but Dr, | Sale of the American Library asso weight to the cfty’s contention | state consumers 25¢ for monthly , Welfare. and a rate increase of 15 | cents per 1,000 cubic feet. “But the city department has| permitted to increase Juggied its books, hasn't it?” asked Hance Cleland, attorney for commissioner. Ross of the light department was) to the commission Thursday @ high type of public servant. Assistant Corporation Counsel Meier, for the city, jumped to his feet, first ten months of 1917 Meier Calls Him “The attorney for the public ser- ‘vice commission is appearing more as an attorney for the gas com-|of 25 cents a month pany than a representative of the| tomer, he people,” he said. ft the proper attitude commensur- | tomers ate with the representative of a public service commission ture growth of the city.” reportd, was the extent of ridiculing the expert witness that the city brought here | lowed. This increase he limited to ‘Thursday by Cleland when he at-| would yield tacked the standing and ability of | $125,000. Dr. Edward W. Bemis, who gave ‘expert testimony for the city. Henry 1. Lee, the gas company’s expert witness, was recalled to the extra revenue Bemis’ testimony. He declared that the item of $969,-| sible production of light otis.” 633 for paving, included in the 1914 which Bemis property, ed by the state law in computing | they will be content with that. the reproduction value of the plant.” In other words,” he said, “we are/revenue is increased $125,000 the original cost. the cost of paving after tearing up| aty high. the streets. So this paving charge had to be considered.” J. §. Simpson, engineer for the! public service commissioners The figures and contentions of the testimony of Dr. Bemis, and W. Bemis, filed with the public serv. fce commissioners, stood practically z ce oh undisputed ‘Thursday afternoon, al-|/% B- Cllse, with Henry I tho they differed widely from those submitted by the gas company ex- Dr. Bemis, in short order But Hance Cleland, the The gas company experts declared that the Seattle Lighting company is \ today entitled to earn a profit on a $10,000,000 “rate base,” which is a physical valuation plus other ele- Ments, such as increased operating nical expert. Of this $10,(000,000, the principal item is the valuation of gas com Pany property placed by the public service commission in 1914, which wan $9,285,642, But Dr. Bemis declares this valu- ation is unfair to the people of Se “attle and not @ just basis for fixing rates, He says that included in it is an item of $960,000 for paving “for which the company never paid, does | land. not own and never deserved.” An government as advisor in the and telegraph lines. He in app was a charge of $1,549,096 “develop: | smiling. ment cost,” which represents prof-| “Well, you're not a pracical its never made, but to which the|sinecr, are you?” asked the commis company argues it is entitled as a|sion’s attorney, fair return on investment. Three tical” assembly room Friday, to| Serves commissions and the inter. commerce comminsion have the Seattle Lighting company | *dopted the policy of rectifying mis. | fm ite attempt to | ‘kes made in the past for public | the | ing the consumers each a monthly | ready-to-serve” charge of 25 centa,|—Soldiers must not have tattooing Erickson said he resented such | and an increase of 15 cents per thou. | done. an insinuation and declared Supt.| sand feet, were formally submitted their company ipsignia tattooed on "ai cents a month to cxcn cor | ALGERIA COMMAND | PARIS, Jan. 11.—Rehabilitation of | le to active participation | without “I hardly deem | precedent” and unfair to many cus-| He pointed out that operating ox penses no doubt would be abnorm “At this hearing the attorney for|ally high during the war, and that the commission has even gone to|}a “small increase in rates to ail classes of consumers” might be al-| 10 cents per 1,000 cubic feet, which ot “Possibly better than any increase in gas price,” he said, “would be a reduction of the required heat units| The Reynolds resolution on the by five per cent. This would require | gas rate increase protest postponed jand Friday to discuss parts of| much less oll, which is now so ex pensive, and would increase the pos- the King County Dr. Bemis contends that if their| they| PETROGRAD, Jan. 11—The Bol required to show what it would cost | will be earning 6 per cent on a true |*heviki government today suspended to reproduce the plant, as well as) “rate base,” with which they “ought | Payment of dividends of all private Gas mains could|/to be content during war time, lcompanies and prohibited all stock not be laid now, of course, without| when cost of everything is abnorm-|transactions, pending “nationaliza Fine for State Lawyers—Yea? Attorneys for the gas company, | be paid. and commission, also took the stand Fri-| their counsel, devoted all of Thurs day to tell how ‘he commission had| aay afternoon's session to an unsuc checked up on gas company figures. | cessful attempt to undermine the his city’s technical expert, Dr. Edward) onief accountant, Andrew Sangster. The gas company’s chief counsel, Lee, the corporation's Chicago expert, at his elbow, exhausted his store of cross examination questions, directed at pung at torney for the public service com missioners, made a long drawn-out| attempt to belittle the city's tech- It had been brought out that Dr. Bemis has appraised public utility properties by the dozen for the last | 15 yearn, and is now engaged by the| federal farm los “I've had a goed many opportunt other iter he contends is unjust|ties to do #0,” Dr. Bemis answered, “I was of the impression that the|dresses of a good many years was quite prac: | Lioyd asin ctation. the Chamber of Com-| Bemis pointed out that other public ‘net 0 vs po | officers’ garb, minus rank insignia, | }and with the Red Cross on the left arm. De Temi conclusions on wheen.| SOLDIERS MUST NOT or or not the gas company should be | its earnings CAMP LEWIS, Tacoma, Jan. 11 Many of the men have had their bodies, but because the infor. “The profits of 1915, 1916 and the| mation would be of value to the en- he con. omy, should | cluded, “furnished a sufficient re-| genera) order today forbids the prac {turn on the true rate bane, expectal. | tice. ly in view of the extent to which the| Visit Seattle Saturday property has been built to meet fu they be captured, a Thousands of soldiers plan to GEN. NIVELLE GETS Gen. N in French army affairs was indicat ed today, when his appointment as |commander of an army corps and transfer to Algeria was announced. c mander.in-chief of the French forces \following the April offensive of last year. RESOLUTION OF GAS HEARING TO BE READ some weeks ago until January 12, by Democratic club, will come up for setion at the club's The company experta contend that| Saturday noon meeting and lunch at physical valuation of gas company/|they are asking increased revenue Good Fata cafeteria. testified | of from $240,000 to $290,000 in 1918, | . should never have been allowed for/and that this is only about 2 taihnd Fate making purposes, was “requir |cent on their investment, but’ that | BOLSHEVIK! SUSPEND DIVIDEND PAYMENTS | tion” of business and exact determi |nation of the amount of interest to MILITARY OFFICERS DENY ABSURD RUMOR Staff Correspondent CAMP LEWIS, Tacoma, Jan. 11 | Beyond a denial of a rumor that the |renoval of the quarantine on Seattle | had been because of pelitical reasons, officers of the camp declined to dis |cus# the matter Friday. The denial was made by a high officer, who re. fused permission to announce his name. Prevent Wreck of Farm Loan System WASHINGTON, Jan. 11. — The n system was saved ap | from disaster today when the house prainal of the value of the railway| adopted a conference report au- ais-|thorizing the secretary of the treas- ing the Chicago gas properties, and|ury to buy $200,000,000 worth of rates thruout the country have been| farm joan bonds in the next two based upon his recommendations, “But you've never worked for a| report, corporation, have you?” asked Cle years, The senate agreed to the HERTLING TO REPLY ALLIED PEACE PLAN on-| BERLIN, via Copenhagen, Jan. 11 —Imperial Chancellor Hertling will| police under the new administration, probably reply to the peace aims ad President Wilson and George in @ speech in the reichstag Monday. PASS LAW SOON ' CAMP LEWIS, Tacoma, Jan. 11.) HAVE TATOOING DONE more than $250,000 a year by charg. | Staff Correspondent n. Nivelle wax demoted from com-| | Damm at the central station | driver is hand slow service in a restaurant; or at a | jauto as he discusses the intricacies RRA SEATTLE CHICAGO, Jan. 11.—~The winter's} biggest storm was continuing ite) march today, sccompanied by a) heavy snowfall ‘an@ iow temper | atures that caused intense uffer ing and heavy damage. At the same jtime, the snow will add miliions of | dollars to the value of the winter and spring wheat and oats crops. Ita influence was felt over the en tire country, from the Rockies to | the Appalachians, and the snow area extended from the Missourt valley Jeastward to the Alleghenies, and from Lake Superior southward to the Gulf of Mexico. Six Inches of snow fell last night and today in Northern Texas and | Waiting Line on Deck to Listen to Damm Talk How wHhAT WAS THAT RESOLUTION | | every Borys Dow’ wry, Everybody's doing it these days. Calling on Police Lieutenant Hans If you don’t believe it, ask him It's all the result of Police Chief Warren’s drive on traffic ordinance breakers. Upon a first violation, the 4 a mandate by the officer, commanding him to appear at police headquarters and receive a reprimand, This is Lieutenant Damm's job The explanations for stdnding over 30 minutes in a prohibited zone are as varied as ingenious, Being delayed while getting a shave is a common one, Another favorite is doctor's office. Occasionally a man forgets his of a thousands-of-dollars’ business deal, And once in a while there ts an indignant citizen whose auto vio- lated the ordinances of its own ac- cord, and against the owner's re- monstrances But the reprimanding days will be over soon, and the fining days will mence, declares the lieutenant, “Pretty nearly every auto owner in town must have been down here t least once,” says Damm, “Why, sometimes they are standing In line out there, waiting to get in.” COUNTY TO WAGE WAR ON HIGHWAY SPEEDERS Beware, specdera! Following the example net by the Sheriff Jack Stringer is golng after speeders on the Pacific highway. Deputies have already apprehended many. 4 STATE LEADS FIGHT AGAINST CONSUMER. CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST NIGHT probably rain; fresh easterly winds. . WASH,, FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1918. AD HOT F BSNS AND | JUST GOT THIS DRESS FROM THE GENERAL"! Oklahoma, and nine inches in Kan. ™s. Snow fell in Galveston and a temperature of 22 wan reported. Practically the entire northern part of the country will have re cetved several inches by tonight. A temperature of 10 below zero was reported In Kansas. At Omaha it was 20 below The coldest mpote in the United States were at Devils Lake, N. D,, and Valentine, Neb. where it was/ 22 below. In the Canadian Nortn went the mercury dropped to 40 be- low By nightfall the entire wheat and oats belt of the country will have been blanketed by snow. Grain ox perts maid today that not only would this form a protective covering and provide moisture for winter wheat, but would soften the ground to an ideal condition for spring wheat and oats planting Railroad and local traffic in the WASHINGTON, -Jan. 11.- plosion, a series of crashes, shouted |orders and a rush to clear from the ship marked the last moments aboard the American destroyer Jacob ones, after she was torpedoed by a Pboat. A summary of Licut. Commander David Bagley’s report today on the ainking commends -nost highly the men and officers for their self-sacri fice and heroic work Floundering hundreds of miles off shore, the engine room and three large compartments flooded, the Jacob Jones settled into the sea at 4:21 p. m Remaining at their posts until the last minute, the officers and men iH Uf. An ex-} mad cers and 39 of the crew of seven of. Destruction of the radio apparatus and the electric power cut off means of signaling aid, except with two small guns, from STILL SKIDDING! Vt Y Y Uy Me Wf ‘SNOW AND STORM EVERYWHERE IN U. S. EXCEPT PUGET SOUND Southwest was seriously handicap ped. Western Washington and Oregon were getting along nicely today in while districts east of the mountains were enduring @ snow | @ winter rain, storm and cold wave The weather bureau reports the tal sections in the Northwest plateau more fortunate than the region thru Eastern Washington Oregon, Idaho and Montana. The 1 wave extends from Canada to boundary of Texas, the northern with below zero weather prevailing While the rain storm in the coast nection is of,a winter variety, no se vere cold weather is predicted. The bureau has no report today of snow at Vancouver, B. C. The minimum temperature here for the last 24 hours was 37 de grees, while the mamimum reached 40 degrees HEROES ALL ON JACOB JONES WHEN TORPEDO SINKS VESSEL possible the rescue of five offi ficers and 103 men which two signal shots were fired. the vessel sank, stern first 15 minutes the crew and then submerged again Lieut. Commander Werestill on top. ‘Ten men were recommended by for commenda ic work. Commander Bagley tion for their h COLORADO BOARD BUMPS INTO SURE ‘NOUGH MONEY PROBLEM DENVER, Jan. 11.- men subject to draft, which must be furnished the war department. War work in]statehouse executives and the commonwealth of Colorado was | halted while 60 state officials of high| state house to do the work on their and low degree, solemnly pondered | the momentous question of how to| secure copies of 30,000 names of! Saturday half holiday. Justice 8. Harrison White, state supreme court, objected, de. claring that “to save $400 we are | going to crippte the efficiency of Discussion of the question threat-| the state to the extent of $10,000." ens disruption of statehouse circles, When the draft board found women} His patriotism was immediately nal attacked by Gov. J. G. Gunter could not be secured to copy the}members of the draft board. names at $60 a month—the maxi mum allowed for the work—draft board members called a meeting of! HOLD POSTAL THIEF SUSPECT jury on a charge of robing the Had- lock postoffice, according to Deputy | U. §. Marshal Tobey, who brought | him from that town Thursday night. ‘Tobey said Duncan took $150 from a registered letter In the Hadlock | ¢ireular ad office on Dec, 17, when the post: | meeting master was not looking. When the loss was discovered, Duncan was accused “pailroaded,” he said, he borrowed Just to keep from being | dustrial Worker newspaper, Rhoady Kenehan, secretary of the board, declared it would cost $5,000 to have the namos copied. $150 from two brothers-inlaw and his motherinJaw, and gave it to the authorities. The money returned was of the| pear in ; same denomination as that stolen. | States Commissioner McClelland Fri | Dunean was arrested Thursday and |taken before U. §. Luther Duncan, “squaw-man," ‘a| Clyde S. Lindsay at Chimacum. He in the King county jail Friday,|Pleaded not guilty to breaking in awaiting action of the federal grand | *h® Postoffice. PAPER CAUSES ARRESTS! | by tho appearance on the streets of tising an I, W. W. After investigation they that the circulars were tn © folded copies of the In. discove din ne arrests wore made, “DENOUNCED BY LEON TROTSKY. PETROGRAD, Jan. Trotsky formally asked suspension of the Brest-Lito conference until Russian and Ukrainian delegat could formulate replies to central powers’ proposals, acco jing to an official statement today. at a further sitting at 11 o'clock today, it was stated. | Ukrainians and Russians recently decided upon joint acti jat Brest-Litovsk. PRICE ONE CENT 2"grbe® 11.—Russian Foreign Minister The reply will be a PETROGRAD, Jan 11—tue | UKRAINIANS ARE STILL vised by German imperialists; she will fight “to the bitter end,” AFTER PEACE CONFAE and rely on the great plain peo | Trotsky so declared in a speech at Brest-Litovsk, in the first of the renewed peace meetings, ac- cording to dispatches from that place today. An if to back words, Petrograd was in a fever of war preparations today. “Ruasia has no intention of suing for mercy,” Trotaky declared, “If the imperialists refuse to listen to the voice of the people. “If the central powers democrats ” do not speak, Russia will fight to the | Miter enaot go much trom toe| BAW ER TAN trenches as in an uprising of the vet people to interpore barricades at ev- |ery step against their oppressors.” Lenine of Like Opinion Trotsky insisted upon transfer of | the peace negotiations to Stockholm. Lenine reechoed his fellow-Bolshe- | viki's sentiments as to Russia's de-| termination to fight for an adequate | “1 fear we must halt our demobili |zation and prepare for war,” he de “If Germany will not accept | jour conditions, we shall declare a |revolutionary war. We will agree to a shameful peace.” ‘ Here in Petrograd today there was Joined in assaults upon Baker's @ a sudden display of great energy at the ministry of war offices, where ft was admitted seeking to reorganize the transport of supplies, in view of the possibility of war continuing. Defense plans for Petrograd itself being drawn [shifted from the Northern front. En-| We are approaching one of the Krylenko, commander-in-chief, | est crises in our history, Our ordered all of his officers to return | in the next eight months will be to posts at the front which they held| ger than in the past. It will be prior to the Bolsheviki revolution. make him acknowledge that he overdrawn the picture of p correct. : | |initial rush needs have been met,” sd |he said. “Every man in France has ~ AMSTERDAM, Jan. leaders of Silesia and Moravia met at Prague recently and adopted res olutions demanding a Czech repub- lic, according to reports here today t minutes after being struck, About r the submarine came to the surface and picked up two of Bagley, who jumped overboard as the ship sank, was picked up by a motor dory. At his order men searched for those who | exhibiting alarm over growth of such a republican senti-| 70 DEFEND MEN ment, and had doubled the garrison STUDENTS THREATEN TO STRIKE; COMPEL PRESIDENT TO QUIT) 1: —rignt 1. w. w. arrested some: BERBA, ©., Jan. 11.—A strike of| time ago at Camp Lewis and im the student body of Baldwin-Wallace | aicted Thursday by the 3 college was averted today with the S taaean " Dr. Arthur ln Brestich, grand jury in session at Tacom@ president of the school He was removed following charges | by students and citizens here that he was proGerman. Tho student body | 7. Oe | threatened to strike if Brealich was| They Will be not removed by today. . Ream, religious work di has been Dr. A. R. Storms, former pres proposed to commandeer employes of the of the charge, pending Reams arrival here. NATURALIZED GERMAN JAILED FOR THREATS James Bell, naturalized German, arrested by federal agents after he alleged President Wilson Bryn Mawr, was bound over to ap- federal He was taken to the county Commissioner | Jail, after failure to post $3,000 bond. to|NAVY MAY TAKE OVER WESTERN OIL RESERVE WASHINGTON, Jan, 11.—Senator Swanson, Virginia, today introduced ‘The police were puzzled Thursday | 4 pj] authorizing the navy depart: ment to take over naval of] reserves in California and Wyoming. | HANNA FILES FOR JOB William Hanna, councilman, filed |artillerying southeast of Ypres broke the city clerk for re-| down,” said election, This is the first filing of|™ment. Boveral AMSTERDAM, Jan. 11. | Brest-Litovsk dispatches, | via Berlin, had declared the Ri German peace negotiations def ly suspended, yesterday arriving late today, reported a ‘sumption of the meetings. It stated that the Ukrainian were presenting their demands, Whether this meant that the conference was resumed, or that up his vigorous | Friday meeting was merely central powers’ delegates and resentatives of Ukrainia, now m nized as an independent state, not clear in dispatches here. Foreign Affairs FIRM IN GRILL BY SENATI | WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 tary of War Baker today sat the fire of senate military criticising him for his “rosy of the supplies situation not | Yesterday. | Chamberlain, MeKellar |laration that the initial rush | of the army have been fully met. “You have created the imp thruout the country that e ul is rosy, conditions are fine and | there is no need for further h | said Wadsworth. “The facts are,” he added, the Bolsheviki were Guns are being | wise to create a false impression © In the face of insistent efforts ness, Baker stoutly maintained that his statement was Our 11.—Czech | full equipment.”* ne 6, VANDERVEER government, it was | HELD IN TACOMA Staff Correspondent CAMP LEWIS, Tacoma, January federal, on charges of circulating false mors concerning the treatment vy! the soldiers at the camp, will probs ably be tried early in February. 7 represented by At-= torney George Vanderveer, attorney for the organization, Vanderveer was chief counsel for the LW. W., accused of the mur- der of Jefferson Beard during the riot at the Everett docks two years, | ago and now is representing LW, W. held in Chicago for alleged nationwide espionage. jPeroooccccccooocooees WAR : e : BULLETINS ¢ By United Press 3 SOCCCCOLOSOOSOOOE ARTILLERYING EAST OF VIMY RIDGE ' ‘i LONDON, Jan, 11.—Hostile arti lerying east of Vimy Ridge was all Field Marshal Haig had to report _ today. a BERLIN SAYS ENEMY ATTEMPTS LINE RAID BERLIN, via London, Jan, 1 “The enemy attempted to penetrate Jour lnes yesterday morning, after appointed acting State college, is in threats against at his home in court by United today's official state