The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 17, 1918, Page 1

will be he Rus- commit rendum y might ination. nenia to STE uted , when wociety ge ul ar sav- aployes" ‘ashing: All of- e bank nt aod LEON TROTSKY SEEMED “LOOSE IN THE HEAD” TO HIS EAST SIDE JANITOR — READ HIS STORY ON PAGE 6 TODAY FREEDOW FOR ALL FOREVER. 4 LEAS! UNITED HD WIRE SERVICH PRESS ASSOCIATIONS * 8 #@¢ CIRCULATION SEATTLE, OF ANY PAPER WASH., THURS PACIFIC The Seattle Star _THE GREATEST DAILY NORTHWE NIGHT EDITION und Friday, Kalen Weather Forecast: Tonteht wtrong #southeaster! IN THE DAY, JANUARY 17, 1918. PRICE ONE . STAGGERS * *’. * * Declare County Legisla- Except Palmer, Hull, Christensen DV. LISTER IS BLAMED urpose. the views te several leg-/| nent citizens: returns from the! lands would be eaten up by In 1911, $300,000 |) remaining $400,000 of the million-4o!-| was appropriated, but ar appropriation is to be applied to/ | @nother building Senator Nichols | " and :nyself have fought the bill since 3911. SENATOR DAN LANDON—I don't think we should go to any ex-| _— on public buildings at this | OGENATOR G. E. STEINER—I'm “agin it.” I think we should wait til war conditions are improved lore putting money into buildings. ENTATIVE STEPHEN A. HULL—We ought to build an of. fice building for our present needs, but should wait for ornamentation and glory. A new building would take care of the state department, which now has to rent offices around town at considerable expense. That's all that is necessary. - SENATOR RALPH D. NICHOLS —I cannot understand why a man Mitting in a high offictal chair should ction such an expenditure under Present conditions. Such a trust fund should not be used when the Market prices of material are so high. SENATOR J. A. GHENT—An) state official who advocates the fin ishing of this, building and the on Necessary expenditure of money and skilled labor is nothing short of a near traitor to his government. This expenditure is unnecessary and un- If You Haven’t Registered Yet Only 19 More Days Get a move on. Don't be a al duties first floor county-city building. Open $ to 5 o'clock Primary election, February 19 General election, March 6 { called for. There is no reason why We cannot get along until the end ot | the war. I'm unqualifiedly againnt | going any farther with it-first last and all times. It's folly to even | consider such a plan now } REPRESENTATIVE WALTER T | CHRISTENSEN—Our capitol, if to} be permanently located, should be completed. The only hesitation in | doing so would be the possibility of | having it moved to a more central ga I don't think we should "SENATOR K B. PALMER—The Toney for the buildings has been collected now by levy, and they might as well go ahead with the Plan, as far as I'm concerned. We can’t stop what has already been done, and the money cannot be used for any other purpose, without a special act of the legislature. REPRESENTATIVE VICTOR ZEDNICK—The proposed expenti ture was all right when the money not now. Everybody is retrenching now and/| buying Liberty Bonds and thrift stamps, and I think the state should }do the same. PORT MANAGER TO HANDLE TERMINAL WORK, PROPOSED Seattle may have a port manager. A resolution was presented to the board of port commissioners, in ses sion Wednesday, whereby the opera tion of all port terminals will be cen tralized in a manager of the port. if the measure is passed upon favor ably. According to the authors of the resolution, the office of port manager would follow to a great ex tent the idea of city manager, as adopted by many cities thruout the country. |CHAMBER CONSIDERS CLOSING INDUSTRIES) A committee of the Seattle Cham. | ber of Commerce met Thursday to discuss the coal situation and to pian methods of meeting @ possible order to clone industry in the West A report on the advisability of « ing certain industries here is ex pected. “\Tars Kill | Officers at Kiel German Sailors Mutiny and Slay Thirty-Eight Superiors IT’S SECOND OUTBREAK LONDON, Jan. printed today Press aserts that recently 17.- the A dixpateh by London Px 38 officers were killed in a mutiny German naval forces at Kiel The Exprens story was received from Raale, Switzeriand. It mid a submarine crew was the first group to mutiny, being quickly joined by | the from the among railors crulsers at | naval base Included were several who partict. pated In the first Kiel mutiny, Inst summer. One cause of the mutiny, It was stated, was the steady decrease tn the number of German U-boats which are now on duty in the sub- marine zone. SIX SAILORS ARE KILLED BY MAST WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 were killed and three injured when the foremast of the battleship Mich! gan fell during a heavy gale at sea January 15, the navy department an nounced today. ‘The dead are: Osben C. Chipley, Fla.; Cart F. New York City; Clarence E. Denver, Col; Frank J. Prinz. Camp, Mo.; Julian S. Bell Tex., all seamen of the second clans, and John A. Chico, Thorwood, N. ¥ Belyeu, Marahren. Book Cole Crenm, | fireman of the third class. ‘The injured: Edward M. Donald. Rayonne, N. J.; Gordon § Farmer. Wilson, Iowa, and Virgil V. Diggers. Hardy, Okla. All the injured were seamen of the second class RUMOR THAT 8 MEN DIED IN SHIPYARD STAMPED MALICIOUS “There's absolutely no truth in the malicious rumor that eight men were killed and 14 injured in shipyard, either Saturday or any other day,” announced Secretary W Bowles, of the J. F. Duthie com pany, today The rumor has been widely cirew lated all week. The Star brought the to and he imme and found it was our Officials believe the story was coined in an effort to make it bard: er to get labor for the shipyards. Six men | Vests of Glove Leather! It’s the Latest Idea for Service Men “it will eure be a Leather glove mobilization! That's the latest It is the summons that has gone forth from the National League for Woman's Service, with offices on the seventh floor of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ club. Leather glove vests for soldiers and sailors are being made They are more cold and wet proof than other garments. Mre. David Bowen, chairman of the vext committee, of the Seattle chapter, National League for Wom an's Service, and her 12 committee women, are turning them out. ‘The committee has been establish: 64 four months. Mra. Bowen is mak Ing visite to all of the local achools asking the children for old gloves. The response in wonderful, she de clares now Originates in England ather-covered riginated in England. It was n up here by Mrs. Ella Dab apervisor of the home tment of the public schools. Thru her inspiration, school children volunteers set to work on the garments, under the supervision of the Woman's league It i# estimated that somewhere be tween 500 and 1,000 have already been presented to soldiers and sail vents ors. Fighty Forty pair making of to the underwear. sweater get soaked, ikeep the body dry It is worn next If the coat and the vest will HOOVER TALKS TO STAR READERS Gives Exclusive Interview on Food Profiteers; He Maps Out Course for the Future BY MILTON BRONNER United Press Correspondent WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 17.—“We have endeavored to build up in this country a basis of confidence and under-| England?” I asked. Hoover's serious face broke into a smile. “The English food controller can do anything he wishes standing tween the food administration and millions of| consumers and producers. We have been of mutual service | to each other. hemes to sky-rocket prices, will hurt us any. “One of the gratifying things about this job is the) hundreds upon hundreds of letters we receive from the | plain people in which they not only show that they under- stand what we are trying to do, but also seek to send along the encouraging word.” The speaker was Herbert C. Hoover, United States food administrator, who has been the object of an “investigation” by a commitee headed by Senator Jim Reed. Hoover, next to President Wilson, is about the hardest man in Washington to interview. I asked him to toss his modesty into the discard for once because it was important that he speak a word to the readers of The Star, lest they fused by the sound and fury Claus Spreckels, the sugar kin, attacking other sugar kings, succeeded in getting into the Record, under the benign questioning of Reed. Hoover refused to be drawn into any talk on Spreckels| to Br Reed. He felt the public should have all sides. Aimed at Fair Prices to Consumer and Producer “When we took hold we had one big object in mind,” said Hoover. ‘We had to secure fair prices to the American potoes and the American consumer with the minimum to the producer and the consumer thru the handling of foodstuffs. ministration bill.” “But not anything like as much as Lord Rhondda has in| I do not think that attacks made by that) by a mere stroke of the pen,’ minority of profiteers, who have been balked in their pretty | power thru our ability to license many of the w Jers and manufacturers of food. not go. “Of course, our outstanding pieces of work have b We had some power granted us by the food ad- “We have positive yholesale deal- Further than that we can- ” he replied. een the stabilizing of the prices of sugar and breadstuffs and) pork. voluntary agreement. In the case of sugar what was done was achieved thru How U. S. Was to Get Its Sugar Suppiy “With all the world, outsi de of the central powers, grab- bing for Cuban sugar, we succeeded in getting an interna- tional committee, representing the buying needs of America, France, England and Italy, which arranged for the purchase of all the Cuban sugar crop. “This was to be financed by all the refiners in this coun- try in common, and they were their refining capacity. to get raw sugar in proportion “Also by voluntary agreement it was arranged their about $25,000,000 a year. | profit for refining the sugar should be $1.30 per 100 pounds instead of $1.87 they had enjoyed before. This item saves “We then, thru our power to license wholesalers, limit- ed the price so that the consumer got sugar at 914 cents to 10 cents per pound, and beyond this, by buying the Cuban (Continued on Page 6.) 316th ammunition train, as Mrs. David Bowen, National League for Women's Service, shows him how to wear his new glove vest. ® cold or wet night,” says chairman of the vest | More gloves, more workers who Will volunteer all or part of thelr time, snore sewing machines, thread and sewing implements, are needed While most of the leather used is ob- tained from the cutting up of old gloves, any leht leather, of any color whatsoever, will do Here's How to Help The linings for the sweaters are Private W. L. Kramer, Co, G, committee of the local chapter, donated by MacDougull-Southwick ». Frederick & on and Fraser Paterson. The Pantorium Dye Works, City Dye Works, Dixie Dye | Works and Lakeview cleaners have volunteered to clean all the leather used Any one Interested can get full in formation by calling on the seventh floor of. the Soldiers’ and Sallor® ciub, or by telephoning Elliott 3102. EX-CZAR AND HIS FAMILY ESCAPE, IT IS REPORTED PETROGRAD, Jan. 17.—Reported ~ of the former czar and his family, led the people's commissaries to telegraph to the most remote parts of Siberia today, seeking infor mation. No detailn were available here as to the truth of the reports. ‘The czar and his family have been under careful guard at Toholsk, cap. | {tal city of Wertern Siberia the past six months or more, follow ing their removal from Tsarkoe Selo. On several occasions attempts have been made to force transfer cf the whole royal family to the more secure fortress of Sts. Peter and | Paul, in Petrograd. sky and Rolsheviki have resisted. CLUB WOMAN SAYS DAUGHTERS SHOULD ASK MEN'S HANDS| | CHICAGO, Jan, 17.—Mrs. Arthur | Filiott, in a mpeech before the Home Department of the Chicago Wom Jan's club, declared that a | woman of today “should be so rear ed that she could enjoy the privilege of selecting her husband.” ‘It ix too bad that our customs do |not permit the sincere, earnest young woman to say to the man of her choice, ‘I love you, and desire that you should be the father of my children,’ instead of being compelled |to resort to underhand methods, | suc! han the wex appeal in dress.” |Alaska Soldiers SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 17.—Find ings of the court-martial in the cases of five men from the 1th Infantry, stationed in Alaska, reached Maj Gen. Murray for review today, While the results of the court-martial not revealed at army headquar it is reported the men plotted te stroy Fort Seward, namite, and kill the loyal members of their regiment as part of an an- archiatic plot FOUR SAMMIES DIE WASHINGTON, Jan, 17—Four deaths from natural causes were re- ported to the war department today by Gen. Pershing, ax follows Private Isaac Jorden, engineers, pneumonia, Vaidoa, Ga.; Private Ru dolph Brandmisl, pneumonia, Calu met, Mont.; Private Won bronchitis, Anniston, Ala; Private Robert Payne, pneumonia, Morgan ctr. La during | but the Keren-| | overnments ® | ple of the village had misunderstood | young | MURDER CLUE MAY BE FOUND IN DEEP WELL CHEHAL that county arrested Doser B. Main, brother of Supreme Court Jus- tice John F. Main, for the alleged murder of Fred H. Swayne, Nap- avine grocer, because was himself in love with Mrs. Swayne, were made by Attorney Maurice Langhorne today. Lang- horne is one of Main's attorneys. After arrest of Main. people spread the intimation that he had been familiar with the wife of the murdered groceryman, who was found killed with an ax in his store Sunday, January 6 Mrs. Oscar Main said that the peo- the friendship: and formed suspicions.” Right private detectives |to be in Napavine and Ch day working on the case for fense in an attempt to solve the mur- der mystery and so clear Main. of the two families “narrow-minded little xe 8 8 8&8 @ Senate “Committee Demands a Delay of at Least Five Days | cially Napavine | Re-| affect the general situation ports were current that these men | were receiving $25 a da of his friend—s His defense now rests largely the hands of Maurice Langhoerne one of Tacoma’s widely known @ial attorneys; H. FE. Donohue, former | prosecuting attorney of Lewis coun ty, who was engaged imm: j within a4 Main was at home today with his | templated regulations, wife and children, confident that he | possible by some officials, altho he will be able to go to trial March 5 | personally passed on the plan before |and prove he was not the agi it was announced last night. ately | Navy department jping out of a c BY ROBERT J. BENDER United Press Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—While the senate to- |day debated resolutions requesting Fuel Admini : |Garfield to suspend for five days his shut-down order, |the senate coal probing committee went into executiy. session with Garfield. : Garfield was called to tell why the drastic order” was issued, with no warning to the public. Committee members told him the country has bei aroused as by nothing else the government has don in the war. Senators showed him thousands of grams of protest, which have been pouring into f capital all morning. Garfield's appearance marked the climax of a d of the sharpest denunciation of a government act @ }heard in the house of congress. “This thing came on us like light sky,” said Sena tor Hitchcock. will throw hun dreds of thousands, even millions of men, out of work, and deprive them of wages they vitally need. It will slow up production of munitions at a time when we've been straining every effort to have this production going at full speed.” Senator Vardaman declared the Tesolution should be adopted to avert jan “actual calamity Congress Amazed Congress was amazed and puzzled by Garfield's order. Many members of both houses ex- pressed the conviction that the ordér was issued because Diretoor General | McAdoo has found it impossible ,to | keep pace with the coal demands with the present equipment. The ef- | fect of the order, it was pointed out, would be to let the railroads catch up with the demand for coal. Caught ip a whirlpool of business confusion #hd dismay, Fuel Admin istrator Garfield sought to draft an intelligible order that will suspend industrial activity east of the Mis sissippi for five days, beginning mid night, Demands for postponement were made in congress resolutions Not since the war began—prob- | never in the nation’s history has there been such violent protest, such country-wide perplexity or such denunciation of a government order. | And behind it all stands the offi-| imprisonment for violation. admitted fact that Garfield| may not have the legal power to enforce the regulations he has an-| nounced to. the country | operating in was snowed | The war department, the greatest confusion, under with inquiries from every} ., ability of the order. | The fuel administration was in a] “wg Frespplosicctmdbnar ys turmoil, utterly unable to answ closing of all. but a few Samet the questions fired at it from every! tries east of the Mississippl river source. “ That it may be necessary to post Lb dilartrenpeniy | ser pone carrying out the order effective| he held a holiday and all plants at midnight was admitted closed on that day, for 10 weeks, The navy department and ship- While violent protests ping board filed requests with Gar-| int. the capital from all points, field to exempt shipyards of all! 75,990,000 people and thousands kinds from application of the order. of industrial plants began the gk Some modifications of the order! antic task of adjusting theme are ex 1, but it is emphasized! Toves to the new regulations: |that they will not be such as tol Mfuitions of dollars in wages and output are affected—but 30,000,- 00) tons of coal must and can be saved by the order, it is stated. Brings Serious Problems rising out of the hard ships faced by more than seven mil- igh |}ion employes in the affected tenth tory are admittedly great. An ap = will be made today to indus "| Exempt Destroyer tries not to curtail wages for the Yards, Says Navy) “test period” any more than is nee WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—The | ®S*T¥- today asked the|, Extra precautions already have day, newspapers limited to edition of the number } ily printed on holidays, and fuel consump*ion must cease, the above exceptions. Establishments engaged in exempted from the provisions: operations of the order. Penalty $5,000, or one = = That President Wilson will act/ hours to alter the con: was believed Court-Martialed | Alaska, with dy: | Champion, | afier Main was arrested last Sat.| fuel administrator to exempt from urday night, and Supreme Court | Operation from the coal order all| Judge John F, Main, | shipyards engaged in destroyer con- Main, when arraigned in superior | §tructlon. The shipping board took | court Wednesday, answered “Not | *milar action guilty” promptly and forcefully, | Well groomed, and clear eyed, he | WON'T COMPLY TILL HE looked straight into the eyes of the | judge. He wore the same suit he jis alleged to have been wearing on| MILWAUKER, Jan. 17. Sunday afternoon, Jan. 6, the day of | ¢rst semblance of a clash with the the murder. fuel administration over the drastic He was given his freedom a few | conservation order developed today minutes later, when he posted $7,000 | when President Otto Falk of the big bonds, | hitle-Chattnera plant declared he s for the ax that was used | would take no closing action until |in the brutal murder is to be contin heard from the navy department ued under the direction of Prose. ‘he plant is making important cutor Herman Allen. | equipment. According to the detectives on the | - case, the weapon was brought into the grocery store by the murderer Was it dropped into the well back of the store? ‘This will probably be determined be ‘e the date of the trial, it is believed. Hither a diver will be en gaged, for the well is said to be ex tremely deep, or the water will be pumped ont ORDER HITS 300,000 ST. PAUL, Jan. 1%.—Two hun- dred thousand persons in Minne- sota are estimated today to affected by Fuel Garfield's order. Another in other Northwestern states under the order will also be fected’ by shutting @owa Incuste 100,000 not af- HEARS FROM NAVY) — The} Administrator | other departments fairly shook um: = | been ordered to prevent outbreak of any kind resulting from enforced | idleness of millions of workers for five days. As the country awoke to the sig: nificance of the step ordered by the government after conferences be |tween Fuel Administrator Garfield, Secretary Baker, President Wilson, and state fuel administrators, there was a violent blast of protest. While the order, jed today, affects oni jhalf of the United States, fuel ad: ministrators in the Western states |have the power to enforce the Mon |day holiday there, also, | ‘The order is so! for fuel re | striction, it was stated. Those busi: | ness offices and other establishments which wish to remain open, tho using no coal, may do so, it was ex- plained, This would permit heat less saloons, barbershops, dance | halls, office buildings, ete, Congress, the White House and der the reaction from the order, ‘That Garfield had exceeded his thority, was charged beg in (Continucd on pag