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The Seattle Star

The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News

VOLUME 17. NO. 305 SI AI 11 I:, WASH., FRIDAY, NIWUAin 1 ( ),

AAR. TAXPAYER, keep your eye on The Star's editorial page, bottom of the editorial column. There Hamilton Higday, as

sistant secretary and traffic manager of the port commission, is explaining in a series of articles just how the commission has

•pent YOUR money, and what it has got to show for it. The kept press is telling you lies about the port projects. Ihe port

commission has built with an eye to the future. The time will come when Seattle will offer to mariners the best facilities on the

coast, and at rates that are going to hit the pocketbook of the private dock owner a mighty whack. That is where tho howl

comes from. Gen. Chittenden, president of the port commission, expert engineer and kn eminent authority, who is giving the city

his time and talents gratis, says the port projects will be self-sustaining in five years. WILL YOU BELIEVE GEN. CHITTEN

DEN, OR WILL YOU BELIEVE THE CALAMITY-HOWLING, KEPT NEWSPAPERS?

DYNAMITE

FUGITIVE

ARRESTED

David Caplan Discovered by Burns Men in

Shack at Rolling Bay, Near Seattle;

Charged With Complicity in Blowing Up

Los Angeles Times Building; Says He

Has Lived Here for Last Three Years.

By Fred L Boalt

PORT ORCHARD. Feb. 1» —

David Caplan. In jail h«r«.

charged with halpng dynamite

the Los Angeles Times build

ing. devoted the oreater part

of an interview today to deny

Ing lurid reports aent out from

here Immediately following his

arrest.

Me aavs no letters to or from

labor leader* were sened In

his cabin. Ke denies that any

high per cent dynamite, such

as was used In the Los Ange'es

Time* destruction, wss discov

ered.

He declare* emphatically, more

over. that he can prove he never

was Inside Los Angele* He ad

mlta passing through there a* a

news agent on Southern Pacific

trstti*.

Find Giant Powder

A stick and a half of giant pow

der wss found In his little cabin,

two miles out of Rolling Ray. Rain

bridge Island He had It solely for

the purpoee of clearing hla little

trart. he explains

Caplan sara he pot In three even

ln|s a week shaving the Rsln

bridge Islander* From the $J or

so a week that he made from that

and the * canty product of hi*

ranch, he was able to contribute

something to the support of his

wife and children In Chicago

He haa been here In this section,

he malntslns. for three veara. and

never ha* been In South Africa,

Europe or the other distant spots

mentioned In the earlier account

Won't Diacuse Caae

He made It clear that he did not

believe his arrest was a frame-up

on the pert of the Rurns agency',

and spoke highly of the treatment

he had received from the detect

ive*

Caplan speaks with a pronounced

foreign accent. He h*a the ap

pearance of an ordinary working

man. and wears glasses

He haa retained Gregory A Karr,

Seattle attorneys, to represent

him. and will not dl*cu*s his case

until he haa conferred' with them

With the arrest of M A Schmidt

In New York last Saturday, Wil

liam J. Rums obtained a definite

clue to f'aplan'a hiding place, and

hi* arrest here rounds up the last

of the group Indicted In J.oa An

gelen for the murder of 21 persons.

Was Asleep When Found

Caplan waa asleep when Hher

man Hums, aon of th» head of the

Rums bureau; Ouy Blddlnger, gen

eral manager for the Bum* agency

In New York; Dan I*on of the

New Orlean* agency, Charles Trot

ter of the Mlnneapolla agency, Wal

ter Thayer of the Seattle agency,

and Deputy Sheriff D J. Davl* of

Kitsap county located the shack.

The Hum* detectives srrlved at

Seattle Tliuraday morning and Im

mediately proceeded to Port Or

chard.

They apprlaed Sheriff Hhatturk

of their ml*aion. and f>eputy Sher

iff Iwvla waa delegated to accom

pany them to Rolling Hay.

The other detectlveg were dlatrtb

uted to ituard the window* arid

door*, and Burna, F!ldrlir.k«-r and

I iavia enteral t.he houn» Th» door

waa unlocked

"Hello. !•«»<*." tali) Rurn«

Caplan stirred uneasily.

"Who are you?" he a* Wed hut

almost Immediately added, "tome

In."

Admits Hit Identity

When the light* were turned on.

Caplan. who had been known at

Rolling Day a* Prank Moller. and

who had run a small barber (hop

there, admitted hi* Identity.

"I know who you are." he aald. to

Rurna and Rlddlnger 111 go bark

with you and fare the music."

The powder, a quantity of fuM>, a

revolver, a number of letter*, re

i*«tpta for money and a bank book,

showing Caplan had aeveral thou

•and dollar* on deposit In a Seattle

Lan-. »«« found In the . a .in

While t'apian e*lnced mr

tloo of attempting escape. Itetertlve

Rlddlnger handcuffed him to hi*

wrlal. and both retired to Kltaap

county jail at fort Orchard.

On Trail Four Year*

Rums detertl\e* have been on

Caplan * trail for nearly four year*

Me wa« at rarlous times reported

dead Hla wife. Florence Caplan

who Uvea in Chicago with their twi

children, twlie subpoenaed be

fore Ix>s Ange!e« grand jury, but

■he testified that she neither knew

his artdre** r.<>r even whether lie

was alive

Caplan and Schmidt are alleged

to have accompanied J. R Mc-

N'amara to the filant Powder Workr

near Richmond. C»1 . where the trio

bought the dynamite fur the Time*

mploslon

UcNimiri Place* Dynamite

The actual placing of the dyna

mite which caused the explosion I*

charged to McNamara and Ortle

Mc Maniacal

McNamara ls serving a term In

prison upon hi* plea of guilty, fol

towing a sensational trial M<-

Manlgal. who turned states evl

dence. Is at liberty, living abroad

The Rurtia detectives, with the et

ceptlon of Thayer of the Seattle

agency, have remained over at Port

Orchard, but they may decide to re

move their prisoner to the Klnr

county Jail tonight.

Thayer today declared that evi

dence ha* been obtained In New

York by the Rurns detectives thai

McNamara. Caplan and Schmidt

were re«pon*lhle for the attempted

dynamiting of the Lyon building In

Seattle In 1910.

AREN'T LAWS ABOUT

WOMEN CITS FUNNY?

CHICAGO. Feb 19 — Arwn't

American naturalization lawn

funny?

Mr» Aneglo Murolo, born In

t'nlted States, and a 11f»> lon* rent

dent of till* city. cannot vote In

the fitjr primaries nezt Tuesday,

the election commission decide*

Mr*. Mlnnte Clemen*, forelftn

bom and naver natirallied, can

vote

And why' RMttlM Mr»« Murolo

married an alien. Mr* Cletneni'a

huaband, now dead, wait natural

ized 1* yeara «*o

Fat Women Can't Become

Vampires, Asserts Theda

Star in "A Pool There W as" (jivc> Some Pointers on

How to Make fools of Men.

}

•V STANDS

FOR

VAMPIRE/'

SAYS

THEDA

p'uplr |n( wllh

lb<«l* Mara thr I'rfßfk nrirrmm.

« Nrn «br rcrrailt appeared ■( Ifcr

% Ibatatbra aad Hta*l<»a »#»«»il»»a |»lr

««ira I brai rra la a film »rr«l»*a nf " \

I «*«i| 1 fcrra W mm." M««*la »•

*mltb. nku niilra for Ihr »lar tml

It* alalrr paprr*. Ialrr»lr»*f«l %lllr.

Hara la Nf % orb

By Nixola Greeley-Smith

NEW YORK. Feb 19 V *tand*

for Vampire, and when Theda

Flara. French »cire»*. lean* her V

»h»t»*d fare In another V made hv

her *|ender arm*. *he truly look*

the part *he c ime all the w.iy from

Pari* to play In the ino< le* "

Mile Flara ha* tile *tar part In

"A Fool There Wa*." the film

dramatization of the Klpll'U poem

about the "fool «ho made hi* pray

er to a ran. a bone and a hank of

hair."

On the *t<t*e thl* alcrder. *»r

pentlne young woman pi.iv* the

part of the «elfl«h creature who

dralna a man* heart to It* laat

drop, wreck* ht* life, and end* t>

gloating over hi* dead body.

She denie* that ehe la * vam

pire heraelf. but bar life ha*

not bacn without Ita vampire

Incident*

A few year* ago a young man

killed hlmee'f in ber dreeaing

room oecauaa abe bad spurned

hie love.

He was furlouely Jealoue of

an Eaet Indian Qaekwar tnen

vla'tlng In Parla who bad given

the actreaa a wonderfully

wrought enake bracelet contain

Ing an Indian polaon.

Mile. Bare wa* ehowing the

young man the eecret aprlng by

which the polaon wa* releaeed

from the mouth of the hollow

gold enake when he auddenly

eelzed it from her and. placing

the enaka to hla llpa, dlad at her

feet!

"I do not know what irlve* rertaln

women a atrunur witch like powi-r

over men." »he anld. "One thing I

know \ vampire rannot lie fat

There never waa and never will l>«

WHEN A MAN'S MARRIED

OKI IT rt'MT o* l*W%l%* AMI

UIN 1.. tr.lN 1 xKU» % | It

A MAN

KILLED

HIMSELF

FOR

THIS

ACE. w

a fat vampire'

"Slnee I have been In N»* York

I have r*«elvc<l Irttrr* ftom m»n

who told in* they never believed

In vamplies till tln->r saw my fsc<

on the vri'i-n.

Y«t »hit am I <-trr| l an ordl

nary •nman. a llttlo tall, a Ut«l •*

of shadows?

"A vampire mutt never love,"

Mile. Rara told n e calmly. "I

have never loved, and If I ever

fall under the spell of a man, I

know that my power over men

w.P he gone. EVERY WOMAN

MUST CHOOSE WHETHER

SHE WILL LOVE OR BE

LOVED SHE CANNOT HOPE

FOR BOTH!

"But. believe me, for every

woman vampire there are ten

men of the same type—man

who take everything from worn

en—love, devotion. beauty.

>. t v - jnd give nothing in re

The vampire that I

the vengeance of my

n it* exploiter*."

JITNEY BUSMEN TO ACT ON

LIABILITY INSURANCE PLAN

The question of liability Inst

ance for |ltne> bus owners promise*

to be solved satisfactorily tonight

when the owner* am to gather to

hear a proposition submitted by a

big insurance company.

The plan Includes a mailtnuni

Hahlllt) of $10,000 for every car,

together with tine establishment of

Jitney bit* claim departments In all

the principal cities wf the Pacific

Cnaftt.

Policies will be Issued to Individ

ual owner* at a nominal monthly

rate Prior to beginning these

monthly pavmfnt* e*rh policy

holder will be assessed a certain

MARRIED

BY ORDER

OF COURT

Justice Appoints Guardians

for Father of Child and

Ceremony Follows.

BABY WILL GET HOME

Broken Romance of 14-Year-

Old Bride Ends Happily

After All.

NEW YORK, Feb. 19—Mar

guerite Murtha and Samuel

Jacobeon. chief actor* In a

drama which hae tttrred up the

whole country for week*. » r e

now man and wife'

The ceremony wae perform

ed at the home of Mr* John

R Gregg, No. SO West BMh at

Thrlr marrinc" »>• ma*)'* pot

«lb|e » hen Justice Cloff of the atate

—JCi— ■ «—lt appointed guardians

for Jacnhaon, (hue giving legal

sanction to the union

Thla mean* that the unburn

child of Marguerite Murtba, luat

*i*"k apparently doomed to re

ceive birth In a penal luailtutlon.

' «111 have a name

Will Live With Parente

(■ mean* that the child will

live with Ita iwrent* In their own

hon>< Instead of helng "furmed

mil - airontlug tw U* • hlt|p

molfi-r burns a traile in~ffrt»<rn'

CM women of (he clt\ consider

I <ti*tlc* tioff'a action as a victory In

ihe c«mpal«cu for an equal sismUril

|of moral* and to thla end have

! formed » permanent committee to,

earn on the woik beyond the Mur

tha caae

In Judge Mavo's court, nroee

cuted by the llrooklvu Society for

[the Prevention of Cruelty to t'hll

drett. I.ti ot> on jtechued ln< otn

lietent to KiipiHirt hla child and the

girl le hud wronged

Guardian* Replace Parent*

Justice Ciolf auatnlnr-d the »en

lence bv which the Murtha girl wa«

deprived of matrimony and lieuiloil

i for a i"MmI Institution

In appointing guardian*. Justice

Ooff 'll<l w» because of scruple* of

Iscobsop's psrents. who rrfnml In

permit their son to tnarrv bera'ise

of « dlffrmica In religion.

BOLTON WILL MAKE

LONE HANDED FIGHT

T H Bolton, candidate for

councilman, today emphatical

ly denied he la lined up with

any other candidate He la

running absolutely alone, he

aaaerta, and will not combine

with anybody.

I mm. with which a reserve fund will

i be created The company will be

ready to tnset all claim* by April

i I, the officer* sav

The Insurance company will

handle the reserve fund ai a charge

I of 25 per cent. It will merely act

a* treasurer for the rest of the

' money

I Two hundred (.rivers In other Pa

• rifle Coast cities have already sub

scribed A hundred or more will be

required here

Plans to accomplish thn defeat of

the bill now pending at Olvmpla.

requiring a bond of $'>.000 of all (It

'nev bus owners will be decided up

Night

EDITION

Tonight fair. Bat. probably rain

TltllfcM A r *HA I I I K

lllflti U«r

1:411 • an , II 1 ft I4t «. m, • ' ft

UOS |i M . 11l fl * 4 I f» 111 . 411 (I

LONDON. Feb. 19.—The Norwegian tank steamer Bel*

lidge, en route to Amsterdam from New Orleans with a cargo

of oil. was torpedoed in the Straits of Dover today. Eighteen

members of the crew and the admiralty pilot are missing.

It is feared they perished. The Belridge in a sinking con

dition was towed to Walmer, where she was beached.

This, with the attempted destruction of the French S. S.

Donorah, was the first move by the Germans in carrying out

their blockade against England.

The German submarine U-16 torpedoed the Dinorah

off Dieppe while en route from Havre to Dunkirk. The sub

marine's torpedo did not strike the Dinorah with full force,

and only one of the vessel's plates was sprung. The Dinorah

was towed safely into port by a tug.

The B»lridge vvn (teaming along in mid-channel when a violent

e»plosion stove In her plate* below the water line. Pumps were start

ed. but the lower dec* was soon awash. Fires were drawn to prevent

a boiler enplosion. and the small boats were ordered lowered.

The pilot and 18 members of the craft left In these and have not

btcn heard from since.

Several volunteers remained with the captain on the (hip until

Jover tugs arrived and towed her to Walmer.

The German fleet Is not participating In the blockade, but Zeppelins

are patrolling the North sea. on the lookout for vessel* carrying cargoes

of food

The Dutch steamship Helena was stopped by a Zeppelin today,

n..,.. ~T , ,V «• . I. A,,er ascertaining the vessel's identity, the pilot of the Zeppelin sl«-

' *** naled the Helena to proceed This was tie first time, with the e*c»p

••nrnnl tod;i Mint navy mil rati* tlon of the raid on the British coast, that the Zeppelin* have been real

'lri>art mrnt of fit litis h>v« dlftrufsed factors In war operations.

• • • • •

DISCUSS

WARSHIP

REQUEST

Washington Considers Ger

many's Suggestion for Con

voy of U. S. Sea Fighters.

FEAR HIDDEN MINES

Administration Waiting for

Developments on Blockade

Problems.

the qti**flon of n«i>lKiiltiK *ar«hl|m

to <-(.iivo* American merchantmen

through th«< *«r nmr

They Mill maintain, however, that

thla plan. auKK>-ated by Germany,|

would prove Impracticable In view

of Germanv'a (tinuuncfd Intention

(o |i|kul mlnee

"Watchfully Waiting"

\ "watchful watting' i>ollry hat

bwn adopted toda\ by the ailinln '

latrallon regarding the lin •rum lon

al problem* confrontlnit America,

ami particularly thorn raiaed bv

iiiTium a ;.i Mibmarln'

blockade

Ameilcan relation* with Oar

many are not regarded an omlnoua-

I) «* the} »rr» before the receipt

of ilt» 4nrt#i'Vw)il* to the Awrert- "

can proteai. although eonie official!

admitted they ncre atlll grave.

Waahlngton Facia Eauer

German y'a pruiei>alona of com

plcte friendship for the I'nlted

Stat'-a ha*c i aimed the authorities

to bell«-»e that, with the cxerclae

of precaution*, no American mer

chantmen will be sunk In the en '

dangcre.l lone

It I* admitted, however, that

• hould Mrltloh merchant ahln* fly

the Amerlian flat, the German aub

marine* might eaally maki- a mix

take which would end dlaaatroualy

to American commerce

ENTER HERE AND

perish; warning

OF GERMAN PAPER

nBIUJN. via Amsterdam. Feb.

I? Whoever enteia the danger

gone must expert to perish.

Thl* was the warning voiced to

dav by the !.okal Anr.elger., which

refle< tit the viewpoint of the high

eat government officials In u lead

ing editorial

• Because of the illegal and un

warranted methods of Iter enemies"

the paper aald, "Germany waft

forced to begin veaterday a de

fensive fight to retain her place as

a world'powei Her people were

threatened with starvation. We

are now engaged In a fight for life

and miiat push aside all consldera

lions of third parllea toward tia.

'•The flflht Into which we

have entered must be fouQht

with all recklessness or not at

• 11. Henceforth we are re

solved to fight without regard

to the conaequencea.

There I* no Intention on the

pari of German* to wake a coin

merclal *ar on neutral shipping,

but whoever enters the danger

lone must expect to perish "

or According to Fe r -iart Pnitlp'i

of the Seattle Auto Transit associa

tion, the passage of the measure

will utterly destroy the Jitney bus

business.

The meeting will be held at R

o'clock In the Lyon building. Third

and James.

CHANNEL

TRAFFIC

STOPPED

Norwegian and French Merchant Ships At

tacked by Submarines in New War Zone;

18 Men, Including British Pilot, Lost Off

Former Craft; Zeppelin Halts Dutch Ves

sel in Mid-Channel.

SUSPEND TRAFFIC ON CHANNEL

WASHINGTON. Feb. 19 —

The atate department wa* ad

viaed today that all travel be

tween England and the conti

nent had been auapended by

order of the Britlah admiralty

until further notice.

The new order la taken to

mean that Great B ltain re

gard* the German blockade aer

• • •

DEFENDS GERMANY IN CONGRESS

WASHINGTON. Feb 19—The

<!»•< laratlon that Germany la not '

KPttins Juallro In the I'nlted Stale*;

»•* mad* today by Rep. Hart hold! ' I

of Missouri, In an addre.a* In the i

house. lie voiced » demand for i

U. S. STEAMER SEIZED BY BRITISH

WASHINGTON. Feh. 19 The by the Starriard Oil Co. with a

Mate il-imri n.Hiit wa* Inform*! to- °" 1 h I ,d T" ,h "

, , BrttUh warghipg at Malta. She was

• .av that the British ateatimhlp en to Grecian and Bulgarian

lOnrka, *hlch had heen chartered imrtf.

Josiah's Record

Josiah Collins

HERE'S THE RECORD OF JOSIAH COLLINS.

CANDIDATE FOR THE CITY COUNCIL:

(]j \ oted against mothers' pension ,is a member of the

state senate.

J[J Voted against minimum wage law for women.

|| \ iitol for amendments to defeat eight-hour law lor

women workers.

fl Voted against workmen's compensation act.

e Voted against anti hanging bill.

\ oted against red-light abatement law.

fj| Voted for initiative, referendum and recall, after try

ing tn kill these measures by parliamentary subterfuges.

01 Voted to allow persons, ui't citizens of the United

States, to own land in this state.

{]] \ oted for loggcd-ofi land law but backed out when

the Chamber of Commerce came out against it.

fl < )p|io-rd publii ownership of the water plant.

{]] Opposed establishment of municipal liglil plant.

tf| Helped frame the llink\ Dink charter.

1" ACTED AS CADDY FOR PRESIDENT TAFT

AT THE SEATTLE GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB.

By Ed L. Keen

ioualy and doea not propote to

risk the Uvea of paaacngera In

the danger zone.

At the aame time the Stat*

department wat adviaed that

the German authorltle* ar*

now requiring that every man,

woman or child who enters

Germany must have an. Individ

ual paisport.

• •

"hour«t neutrality.' and arcuaed

the n»wapap«-ra of printing "vll#

ralumnlcs" on (he Fatherland.

Should the I'nited State* be era

broiled In *ar. he said. th« Ger

man* would rally to the Star* *ud

Stripes