The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 2, 1918, Page 1

, * n . t 7 Oe MORE THAN 70,000 LDCAT OIL COMPANIES FLEECE LARGE NUMBER SEATTLE LABORERS The seattle Star Weather Forecast NIGHT EDITION ‘Tonight and Friday, probr PAID COPIES DAILY ably rain; moderate southerly winds ; THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST VOLUME 20 oe Pitiens VASROCTATIONS THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1918. ° PRICE ONE CENT j,2mrier® _ GET-RICH-QUICK — SCHEME TAKES — MANY MITLIONS oney That Should Buy Guns and Ammunition for Our Boys With Liberty Bonds Goes to Fakers Possibly, Mr. Reader, you h you have not had time to! figure up the tremendots amount of money lost to, Liberty Loans and to legitimate business by the rapidly mounting investments in wildcat stock companies, and so we call your attention to them at this time, when the savings of our people should go to help win the war and not to fatten wildcat promoters. At this time the oil promoter is running wild. Working people are making bigger wages than! ever, and they are easily hoodwinked by the un- scrupulous faker. Swat the wildcat game and help boost the Third Liberty Loan campaign—and every succeeding Liberty Loan campaign! They are operating in this city, either by local, gents or thru the mails. There isn’t a township in all merica which hasn't contributed in the past year to) _ these wildcat thieves. fT Star has made an investigation of the local situa- t and it has also got in touch with the wildcat game, as operated thruout the United States. In Seattle, shi BEd ‘workers and their families, as well as other toilers, have | specially preyed u e glib-tongued stock sellers. With the federal officers watching | for misuse of the mails, with the In. vestment Bankers’ association lying rake nights trying to get the goods jon them, the wildeat brokers never | theless rake in the savings of the poor, wash women, serub women. clerks, laborers, farmers. They do it} very cleverly. First a I il and that you are not rich enough to ji ti make trouble when you're “stung.”| and increase If they suspect you they will giv fever which | the wildcatter in Denver or Okla-| tends into many homa your address and he will offer| By wildcats is meant those stock | You the stock by mail. Sone Be suspicious of all stock with a| dishonest promoters, built out of | par value of $10 a share or leas. promises and doomed to failure from} Invest only in companies. the pro day their incorporating | moters of which you know, or whose| Pace one P&"| stock is Usted in reputable atock ex | changes, and even then investigate. | Beware of all mining. plantation. | oll companies offering stock with a) | par value of $1 or less. NINETY-| | NINE PER CENT OF THEM ARE INVESTMENTS; 90! founded upon fraud by | HAZARDOUS | | PER ST ARE OUT AND OUT) | WILDCATS. Before you buy consult your banker, any banker or reputable financial house. | WHEN IN DOUBT, BLY | } IBERTY BONDS! PLAN TO CHIEFS moter works: Leases land, begins boring a BY L. C. MARTIN United Presa Correspondent opens an office, prints gilded stock | certificates, placing the par value low, usually at a dollar or less, and WASHINGTON May 2.—Amert- | ca’s 1918 army, the foundation force on which the lies will build to beat hole. | promises victims great fortunes in a little time. When the fakir has soid the stock he fades ay Every cent invest Jost to the investors tend to use their money with him is He didn't in boring for He didn’t have any honest hope/ the Germans, was outlined to the of striking oll on the land he e4.| house cnilitary committee today by but he had to lease land and start 4! secretary Baker well as a basis for the promises and) penind closed doors, Raker, Pro-| “guarantees” he made in his adver tising literature. They reach the small men who have thousands to invest! don’t bite on these stocks, for they first investigate the company and the men back of it—by such glitter ing bait vost Marshal Gen. Crowder and Gen. | f of staff, discussed with | the committee the man power possi bilities of the United States during 1918 and 1919. The war department's ability to l equip, and transport men is the only limit to be placed on America’s 1918 investor 4 “Poor gd ee fortunes | army, Secretary Baker told the com irom smal Investments. mittee. “Such production as we expect Coincident with Baker's appear will make every investor a rich [ance before the committee, it be. man.” came known that the draft office “Buy (Blank) stock today at 3 | wii send out a call, probably Friday | cents a share now and be Kockefeller soon.” or Saturday, for a quota estimated at more than 200,000 men, the largest ® single call thus far m Another | | 100.000 will be summoned in May | Last year $250,000,000 which || 4+ the same time the shipping | might have bought Liberty bonds | | poura, forging ahead on providing was stolen by wildeats! extra tonn: revealed that 1,000,000 | ¢ |ltons of overseas shipping will be ded to the merchant marine as a All wildeat advertising is the same. | They're rich in. promixes and stor.|Fesult of its policy of expansion, fes of the Standard, Texas, Prairie, Midwest, Continental and other suc \§ if W@eseful of} ventures. |} Shah of Persia 5 hey talk about how easy it is it Perich quick 7” Dey point to flowing ofl wells in| Buys $100,000 the state department for $100,000 ¢ f s “Pear the land leaned lj Liberty Bonds} They promise big dividends \} WASHINGTON, May 2%—To} THEY “GUARANTEE” TO |) ghow hin heart is in the right ) DO gHT MAN |) Since, tho his country Is a hothed wit —T0 i} of German intrigue, his majesty, FIND OF, 5 the shah of Persia, today cabled Next off men hope to strike \ & gusher, but they won't promise worth of Liberty bonds, The or- )| You they will until the drill sinks } der will be promptly filled. | into the oil strats. ra such as haberdashery and leather goods and charged them to Gan | dolfo. I did it for Gandolfo,” said Cal laghan. “I paid him cash for any-| thing I ever got—be said it would be a favor, as he was hard up and| ed cash, and could get from 60) 90 days time to pay for the things. Explains Wood Bill The $300 grocery bill of James ' Sweeping denial that he graft ed on the county or purchased luxuries for himself and friends with charity money appropri- ated for the needy poor. was made by James J. Callaghan, welfare commissioner, when he took the stand in his own de bw before Judge Frater Seemingly at ease, he fluently explained some of the damaging accusations made by Lester Gandolfo, grocer and alleged co- grafter, who was the state's star witness. He was asked why orders for cer tain. poor families exceeded $10 «| month they have to be ese that you are a “sucker,” who'll bite at their golden —— arr Man Cupid’ { Gets the Drop on { Friend Bill Hart | ‘The ) | a Hart, roles on the movie screen, and Miss Mar. ( ne, daughter of a weal- (thy rancher, was announced here } filed in Seattle and paid for, are | LOS ANGELES, May jengagement of William 8 \portrayer of “bad man” (waret Ev \today by the film actor ‘The romance is one that began } When Hart / be woman and was a thru correspondence wan in Butte, Mont met the youn recently ql Wi THREE MORE DAYS You have three days left } to reckon with your con- ( science on the question of } i} Liberty Bonds. Three more days to do the right thing } by the government of the ) United States—and your town flesh and blood with Gen. Pershing “over there.” ) YANKEES WHIP | HUNS IN FIGHT AROUND. AMIENS BY HENRY Woop United Preas Correspondent WITH THE FRENCH AR- MIES IN THE FIELD, May 2.— An American regiment amal gamated with the French on the Amiens battle front, after being violently bombarded for twe hours Tuesday night, was at- tacked by approximately three battalions of German infantry. ime Americans, aft violent bat, repulsed the Germans, who {ett the field covered with dead The | Americans took five prisoners. The | battle occurred south of Grivesn between Cantigny and Fontaine Sous | Montdidier Despite serious lonses, the ns made a valiant defense i} | Fontaine Sous Montdidier is two | miles weet and slightly north of the ~ITELEGRAMS ARE SENT BY MAILS, | Ameri { Suitcases, filled with telegrams | important town of Montdidier. Can tigny is a mile and a half west of being taken to other cities and | Fontaine Sous Montdidier, The line there sent over the wires after a | between the two towns forms the | delay of hours, union telegra- | northern half of a sharp salient into | phers dectared today the German front | Workers are ready to make Cantigny is 14 miles south of ‘One woman had tuberculosis and| }guest at her father's house affida substantiating this | Villers-Bretonr where the Brit five children, and $10 would not hav |. WES 9 mS: charge, View President Charles i#h and French lines supposed to given her fuel rent,” he - | PF. Rice told the Central Labor | converge. and is 17 miles south and Another woman had five child: check I paid him be lost in a gam-| Couneil Weenseday night. Many | east of Amiens and her husband was in the peni-| bing game. and I told him then that] telegrams are being mailed, he | Americans are thus fighting in at tontery I wouldn't haye my personal checks| sald. least two distinct points on the I helped her on recommendation | of the sheriff's office,” he said Confronted with the list of names of charity beneficiaries which Gan-| dolfo said were forgeries, Callaghan | said they were presented to him by Gandolfo In fort to conf the witnens| that th vernment will back us in| Said It Was Favor Helsel! led him thru & maze of ques-|OUr effort to bargain collectively He told me the list was of people) tions regarding the technical admin Unless the government becomes recommended by three priests istration of the county welfare of.|'ndifferent to our struggle, we will worthy of care said Callaghan. | fice which left the court m « | not strike, Otherwise we may have never made special investiga-| tators 1 the members of the jury|t® exert our economic strength tions of cases recommended by the| obviously dazed. Court was ad| J. A. Campbell, international vice clergy He was then asked to explain why it was he made personal purchases, | Wood, prosecution says was paid for by the of Wood & Reber, which the | county, was paid for with cash, Cal-| laghan said “A number of Olympia people were | buying in whole: per cent laghan them Wood p lots to save 10) waid Cal-| “Wood's brother was on on groceries,” conelut no reason why he the plan, and #0 placed with Gandolfo The state gained an advantage shortly after Callaghan took the stand, when the court ruled that no testimony could be introduced in cases not brought out by the prose eution Attorney Dore, for the defense, took exception to the court's ruling and indicated that in case of convic tion, the action would appealed to the supreme court Callaghan denied he ever had any Agreement with Gandolfo providing d that | should not adopt! the oi was for the payment of hie private nt with aunty orders Paid Cash “I always paid either with checks or cash, Usually cash; for the last peddled around gambling houses ‘This in the situation, despite the as a French report is With the exception of a period of| announcement by company officials | sued April 22, referred to “Franco 10 years, Callaghan stated that he/that they are able to handle the American position behind Han had held tical positions either in| traffic as usual,” he said. “We| gard En-Santerre and Hailles. These, California or Washington ever since| stand ready to return to our posts. | towns are 11 miles north of Cantigny 1883 We have not struck. We fee! sure |and Fontaine Soux Montdidier journed before light Shortly before 3 p. m. Wednes- day the state rested ita case. Judge William Fell, (Continues on oer: WILL ANNOUNCE ADDRESSES IN appeared attorney CASUALTY LIST | was NGTON, May — Names of nearest relatives and emergency address of Ameri can soldiers killed, wounded or missing in France, will be re- stored to the castalty list, it was announced at the war depart nent today. e change, effective tomorrow first result from Secretary Ba th er's study of the questions of public 1 that ity for the army. It 1 daily communique of Pershing’s forces low #0 is expect the oper will fe tions SEATTLE ‘MUST GEAR UP ON LIBERTY LOAN for Amiens front pre dent of the Commercial Teieg. ere’ union who arrived from Vancouver Wednesday, continued to Inspect organization progress Thurs- day. Mayor Hanson Thursday morning vetoed the ordinance passed by the } council, granting a franchise to the “Statements to the press made by | National District Telegraph Co. to Western Union officials that they | operate a signal system in the city are keeping up service are false,” | [pn hia reasons for the veto he inti Campbell said today “The are|} mated that the city will ta over j sending paid-up telegrams by mail| ¢ fire alarm signal system and land messe r to Tacoma and Port-| make it a municipally owned utility land to be sent out. They are not! An agreement has been re: maintaining normal service, and | whereby city will be allowed te many of their customers could get| take over the system of the Instan identical resulta by at this time Campbell declared that spies are undoubtedly at work in the| Mayor Hanson gave as his reasons commercial telegraph offices of the | for the veto his belief that the city ntry, and that the government could acquire at a low value, either should establish a stringent cen |by purchase or condemnation, the is] ship to curb them.” |aystem of the Instantaneous Alarm k Word reached the union officials | company that the Western Union was offering transportation and double pay to tel i | eeraphers in Portland to me to Se ot attle and fill vacancies caused by the lockout using the mails Alarm Co ise rights, without paying the mayor inti ce | Duplication Unwarranted He says he is convinced that ex systems in time of war is unwar. Postal Fires Men | ranted; and that no franchise of mo- All employes on the night shift of | ment should be granted by the city the Postal Telegraph who wore union | of Seattle without a vote of the peo (Continued on page 7) | ple. He points out that the signal |aystem franchise was introduced in /HANSON AND SON CLOSE 1917 and was not submitted to the k Haig said penditure for a duplication of alarm | many Starts Peace Talk—Cannom- . ading Is Increasing — % The Germans continue to emphasize t importance of the vi Franco-British forces in the hills south of Ypres early this week, by refusing to new hostilities there. Marshal Haig’s report today showed t } sector remains as quiet as a graveyard which the deadly fire of the allies li turned it. Staff correspondents forecast a resumption of the Field Marshal Hindenburg to possess these hei » he will require days, perhaps weeks, to re-for his shattered divisions for this effort. German artillery was Wusy today jbut its activity in only two sectors | was worthy of mention on Haig’s re port. This was in the neighborhood f Merris, three miles southwest of BalNeul, and in the Villers-Breton | neux sector, east of Amiens. 4, The report also showed heavy en- BRITISH TAKE | 9,241 TEUTONS DURING APRIL | LONDON, May 2.—The Western battle front continued quiet yester. | day, only the usual artillery activity ction and local encountérs being re- ported in over-night statements. Marshal Haig reported enemy bom- bardment of the back areas near Be- jthune and French positions in the |region of Locre The French war office said there was lively cannonading north of fontdidier. Despite the allied tatements that there were no infan- combats of importance, the Ger- |t ‘man war office said that several | French assaults were repulsed. “Successful reconnaissances” on both sides of the Somme were claim ed near Dranoutre the British German prisoners during Apt took 5,241 April ESTIMATE HUN LOSSES 900,000 : LANDON, May rset “high English authority” is quoted by the Graphic as estimating the German losses in killed, wounded and captured, since March 21, as at least 900,000, VETOES FRANCHISE: — PLANS CITY SYSTEM tain a franchise in Seattle. The letter to th uneil Surely, fire alarm service is al | most t jon as a fire department fore, there is just for the operat fa fire dep. asa fire alarm system, Our should own ana control all branches of such service, The granting of this franchise would mean a duplication of service, 4 duplication of construction and an unwarranted use, of labor and mater. jal in this crucial war time. “Thomas I, Murphine, tendent of public utilities, who has mad careful study of this fran. chise and its provisions, states in a communication to me that thé city of Seattle should own its fire alarm | service, and that it should not be unreasonable to extend Chis service to residen well sstablishments,” Tells of Purpose Relative to the propoal made by the city to the Instantaneous Alarm pompany, Hanson says Th reason profit, | as much for priva tment city superin. as business Seattle has slowed up, instead “Mr. Murphine has received a let , ‘or the reason tha “ ' of apeeded up in the Third Liber: The realty offices of Hanson @| People for the reason that a similar] tor from Corwin 8. Shank, attorney 2 5 referendum was defeated in 1908 by ’ ty Loan during the last 24 hours. }/ Son closed Wednesday., Mayor Ole) i’ \ote of 14.638 to 10.742 for the Instantan Alarm com Only 1,873 new subscriptions }/ Hanson, who hax dropped business|" Tne council passed the franchise! P&8Y: in which Mr. Shank makes a were recorded. bringing the total {/ affairs since taking the mayor's o.jimy by n wote of seven to] entative proposal, whereby the city number to 61,275. Total subserip- {| chair, intended to leave the manage. sorte Manadionee’ tate oh ad op.| Of Seattle may take over. the equip tions are now $12,017,100. ‘The §| ment of his office to'his son, Ole,| oeca it Ha was, supported te) ent of their company without pay ubseriptions for the last 24 hours §| jr. Serious illness, from which-Han- | a Lh DY | ing anything for the franchise right | Erickson, The Central Labor coun-| !" totaled only $174,000. fon, jr. ix not yet recovered, will) oi) passed resolutions urging ‘the| is letter I am sending to your hon Seattle is below her maximum }| make resumption of work impossible. eg pong laprhi einen id erable body herewith, and think it quota, ‘The campaign ends this {|} Young Hanson has just returned| Ne. should be referred to your proper weak. from a five months’ stay in Cali Should Own Service pmmittee and action taken there fornia. E The National District Telegraph] gn.” ‘SULTAN FACING TRAP; TURKEY — SEEKING PEACE Hun Drive in West Slumbering—Ger- ~ } | tant Turkish bases, | company has fought for years to ob-| by mayor further states in his] in the hope that a part, at least, of as necessary to proper fire pro-| | i} i} | ing to indicate the frank and ined by tory gi ; ' emy cannonading last night in Oi St. Venant sector—the wi o point of the Flanders around Arras and Lens, This front’ is in the sector di main Picardy and Flanders front. TURKEY MAY BE FORCED TO MAN SEPARATE PEAGE BY J. W. United Press "War ge NEW YORK, May 2—A arate peace, with the reluct consent of Germany, may forced on Turkey with the newal of new and highly impor tant operations north and north. west of Bagdad by the expeditionary forces in potamia. ‘orth of Bagdad the British within less than 100 miles of Mi and northwest of Bagdad a British column is following the phrates to Aleppo, which is less # 300 =niles from the present place of the invading expedition. Both of these objectives are ii The capture Mosul would give to the British session of the most important center | f communication in Northern Meso | potamia. § If British troops were to occupy Aleppo, the whole of that part of the | gdad railway supplying Mcsoptanie would fall a prize to the British, imultaneously the: Turkish forces in Palestine would be forced to surrender, because all of their supplies are received by, way of | Aleppo. A catastrophe of this magnitude would be the severest blow that | id be inflicted on the pan-Gem | ans Their major ambition is to domie. nate in future years the entire now deing won by the British Meso- potamian troops. Rather than the total collapse of the Turks z the capture of the Bagdad railway | Great Britain, the kaiser might well advise the sultan to surrender, the territory could be saved for fue ee German exploitation. 7) TEUTONS START WHISPER DRIVE TO GAIN PEACE BY ROBERT J, BENDER Unite Press Correspondent INGTON, May 2.—Ger- many’s expected “peace of ive” against allied morale seems to have begun, In the view of authorities here to day the sudden and widespread launching of rumors, printed reports and whispered confidences reaching Washington and involving likelihood of peace proffers from the pope, Em: _ peror Charles of Austria; King Ak © fonso of Spain and even the kaiser, is merely Germany's same old game to slacken the fighting spirit of her enemi It may be stated that President Wilson is not concerned in this: late est war development, There is negotiations he demands peace steps may be taken. Is Hun Camouflage It is significant that most of the reports have had their ortgin in * ite before x Teutonic sources,