The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 13, 1918, Page 1

autitully inat Fe ‘A COOKE BOOK COVER America jon to ye A large way THE GREATEST DAILY CIRC SEATTLE, ULATION OF WASH., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1 ~ TheSeattle Star ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST NIGHT EDITION Weather Forecast PRICE ONE CENT ° a 1 Wemttioe, LAWYERS ROB GIRLS YANKS SET HUN TOWNS AFIRE ‘ASKS NEW WAR” POWER TO TAKE * OVER LOGGING Lumbermen Are Opposed to \Charge Shysters Are Detrauding Interned Women “2,\:<"- Pretend They Can Get Releases for CONGRESS |S PROBING Hopeless Cases; Girls Are Given . sitea BY, 6,0, MARTIN No Chance for Exercise Huge sums have been paid Seattle attorneys by women; eafined in the quarantine ward of the city hospital for ser- ees never rendered, according to City Attorney Thomas . L. Kennedy, who launched an investigation tod ay. The women are prisoners taken in Seattle’s war on vice ere are 170 of these unwilling hostages of society in q tine, and every one of them is eager for liberty. Some ‘them, according to Kennedy, have been the victims of un- rupulous attorneys, and have paid sums ranging from $50 © $1,100 for help that the attorneys knew they could not give, and never attempted to give. _. “The status of the women has been fixed by the courts,” said Kennedy Tuesday. 3ecause of their diseases they ar @ menace to the public health, and no writ of habeas corpus, mandamus or injunction wil! help them in the least A leper cannot buy his liberty for a single hour and, in the ag rs the Fae these women, for the same reason, cannot pet Fines msamggli » che. tember! | free themselves until they are cured and have ceased to be! S0y\cegin Se bee. bel Rishiwerous to society's beat intecsate.” and logging interests a hearing, b ginning today before the senate mi! ftaire committee. The timbe They Watch Reports {ot Soot, Rl tee’ aaeeeadlaer tine oe Kennedy declared that, knowing these facts, lawyers! . 7 ye sana: Yad we lied and deceived their clients into paying them big ms. A common practice is to watch the reports of women released. A lawyer has a client who was arrested with|' f another woman. The other woman is discharged as cured f. and immediately the lawyer kriows that his client is likely to|t turned out within a short time. According to Kennedy, these lawyers go to women about “ to be released, with the following proposition: “Pay me (here he inserts whatever he thinks he can get) and I'll bribe some nurses and a doctor, who will say you are well. Then you will be released.” She, or her friends, Kennedy says, usually pay. The lawyer sits back and waits until, in the time, the woman is cured and free to leave. Then she unwittingly gives the attorney credit for re- lease and recommends him to her friends still in quarantine. Lawyers have advised their clients not to accept treat- ment, and several women, afflicted with the most loathsome of diseases, are da growing worse and refusing aid be- cause some lawyer, s Kennedy, is bleeding her and telling her that this is the only way she can be free. Report Futile Strategy Others go thru court proceedings that have time and again before and have failed, clients that they are working for their re They haunt the corridors of the quarantine wards, nedy has found, and do their best to harass the phy and arouse strife and discontent among patients. There is widespread mutiny in the quarantine ward. Here are women who have been istomed to an seeposnee of clothing and a wide variety of food. A ging- im apron is the standard hospital garb and the hospital kitchen turns out good food, but very plain. Women in the hospital demand privacy. The city denies them the right to see friends, except thru a screen, and opens their mail to! Prevent them smuggling in drugs. Investigations Made The women have pleaded for months for an investiga- tion of conditions at the hospital. The women are segregated according to the na » of their ailments, and the seriousness of them. hose who, in addition to being sufferers from di e, are also drug | Users, are in one ward of the hospital, and, so far as is possi- e, the wards have been divided so that the older and more unstrustworthy girls are separated from those whom the nurses believe will lead better liv when they leave the quarantine. The authorities deny that the girls’ mail is ever opened, except in their presence. The girls declare that often this done out of their presence. They make repeated com-), Plaints on this subject. Want More Exercise Perhaps the most frequent complaint is against the k of exercise. The girls have made many attempts to k quarters and have to be watched closely to prevent excap Some of them have gotten away Taking them from the building for exercise is not prac- ticable, city authorities , and there is no adequate place in the building for exercis It is possible that the roof may | later be turned into a 1 playground for them. withheld today investigates to being while congress learn its need. dent wants aw deer standing tin 1 what timbe i of what lengths, and say how it shall be jority t| But bermen that ner ting the shipp Lack Information ng to witnesses the r, no Accord n, there course of |* and BRITISH TROOPS ARE MISSING AFTER RAID March 13 . Br \NDON party raided been tried » convince their Ken sician FRENCH CAPTURE HUN AIRPLANE AND CREW Mutual unk f Jown FIGHT FOR FREEDOM, SAYS LLOYD GEORGE d Witt e fighti LONDON Offensive Coming on Western Front} Gen. Mau-| front that | | “IT WILL TAKE YOUNG WESTERN GIANT TO WHIP THE HUN’—GEN. GREENE SHE'LL JUDGE LOVE LETTERS" OFFER SEATTLE. Miss Marie Wells, soloist with “High Cost of Loving” Can You Write Perfect Love Letter? ‘High Cost of Loving’ Free If You Can Convince Her : CAPT. ROOSEVELT IS WOUNDED IN ACTION ‘Fish Trust Agents ‘\capr. ROOSEVELT IS AWARDED FRENCH CROSS HE WAS A LIBERAL SON ™ wit IN © Croix de prose the British fronts in invitation of Dr ed from a flying vinit to the man to|French and Ameri command the troops in| France, At France,” he continued. “The admin-|Mark A. Matt istration made no mistake in select-|a welco » pioneer general ing him to be the pioneer «i v of America in Fra As for|T smartness of appearance and smart « of saluting and general militar « American has them all war zone. General Pershing in American “St will take the young West bi to " successfully.” was the declaration jen. Henry A. Gree mander of Camp Lewis Seattle men and a | number women at a dinner held in honor at the First Presbyter. jan church Tuesday night. It was the general's first visit to Seattle since his return from the He ca tomoblt Col, 8. E. Allen, in comn opinion General Greene is recently return-| district of coast artillery, mpanied b 1 of this and an| be 1 uid Fre appla laugh “Pm glad to be back on the Coast, and I don’t want to leave it again until 1 lead a first class * DALLAS, MY€ ace 1 his Texas, March 13 TH THE AR FRANCE AMERICAN Murch outer saying dependent mother “a months," claimed ¢ m army service negro Capt Thee orated with Freneh tion. ‘The No de tion froi mother $30 ith ‘he is ready two go to war Guerre 1 for gallantr Horace dramatic ntation was The board © sul " ’ jer and will pay his said | practic! Yankees Hurl Many SMELTS AT 1 1-2 ~ GENTS POUND Thousand Shells M’Bride Says Fish Market Upon Teuton Hosts Is Willing to Supply Demand FISHERMEN ARE IDLE German Aeroplane Captured and Towns Back of the German Line Set Afire; Fighting Intense BY FRED S. FERGUSON United Press Correspondent WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN (FRANCE, March 13.—Many thousands of ‘shells were employed by Americans in bom- bardment and barrage fires on the Toul front this morning. It was 20 minutes be- |fore a single German gun was able to get |into action. The American artillery is making good in its daily exchanges with the Germans. The Yankee gunners have been fast ie x,ing up the details of the present war game, — |and their work in connection with recent |raids proves they have reached top-notch \efficiency. in the Chemin des Dames} crew of a German air. 4 fallen near Clamen * * y fish mar “a day caught City Health Officer McBride is selling an average of more than 1,000 pounds daily of Lewis river smelt at the city market, but there are hundreds of thousands of pounds available which will be wasted unless a market for the fish can be found. M waid “In the Champagne region. our storm troops took 90 French prison peas ARMY WILL RECRUIT 9,500 RAILWAY MEN WASHINGTON, March 13.—Nine t additional ‘uited in this 4. Maj, BE. rmy recruiting: ve tonight for Cleve: the railroad brother sistance in the cam-~ turday he will attend a merican, Canadian and uiting officers at Chica 0 men will include about nmissioned officers 34 ARE KILLED IN PARIS RAID PARIS, March 13.—German alr ders Paris killed 34 persons 79 others Monday night. these casualties, 66 per uffoc ated in @ crowd that in a railway entrance e Killed and 50 wound e Priday night raid. - CZECH DESERTERS IN BATTLE AGAINST HUNS COPENHAGEN, Mar arge new quanti dumps Silence Hun Guns Tam ted from my bat min t was rep n other where ed int s also said German rrived within nine VAST SMASH TO END WAR, PLAN OF THE ALLIES “ints wee ZEPPELINS AID IN ATTACK ON BRITISH peng LONDON, March D. GROAT » March 13.— Plead Guilty and Pay $13, 000 Fine Strong, tion on the in the war depart- sent program of heed- ing the French request for faster troop shipment That the allies are now planning aggressive action instead of waiting on the nans, is the indication from p maneuvers. Amet will have a greater part able action thy thought pe ago. Military authorities say that the basis of victory can pe formed this year if the allies do not delay until Germany has reaped the advantage of the Russian and Rumanian crashes tatt © particip © last fall FRENCH DROP SIX TONS OF BOMBS ON TEUTONS PARIS, March 13.—During Mon night's air raid on I French made counter raid on h in the of the rman lines, it was announced to: of bombs were drop several fires were ompro in this pre Atte Allen e maximum da taken to © from G t | Ge erns } ngars rear mbination viol original ations se fout int indictment da six tons ! I'm satis hat in this indefinitely.” division to France fi to hang neck of the life lw Lieut. G. 7 quently he use and ter, during that had 1 him most of the things Kaymond was interrupted by more frequently b his recital of the amused him and his trip. member of th mbout $52, for ots in Paris, Scorpion a club, 00 franc during A 4 he pair of army offic in Paris \ “Once we were in the trenches after 1 tung rman raiders, comprising and nine Irons, sus: Germany within a year and a half will be well sustained respects far, four food and eeded supplies three Gothas! which # m the near been reported |" 60 Go tained us lose including and one biplane shot down, 19 ALLIED PLANES ARE BAGGED, SAYS BERLIN BERLIN on, Mareh 18 Ninete and two ch officers climb: , und, Not t ne, the Americans fol ther Shells began comfortably close and Americ climbed still in Ww months or a year, March, chief of staff, all the speed humanly possible will be injected into the troop shipments, The first of the National Army divisions will be on its way te France soon, Upon arrival it will be German training center back of the office “There | front, where it will receive advance reconnoita sng aetions at vari-| instruction in the latest methods of the sto*ament i warfare, ’ , a| bad The French were Lirplanes “Our transport was surrounded by A fleet of torpedo boat chasers and (Continued on page 8) | war wer ous western point.” 2