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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1917
Page
3
The Spirit of 17 notes twenty men joined the naval militia over two days, with mobilization likely after Congress acts on the war situation. Five Chehalis boys returned home in uniform to recruit more, while Miller Freeman predicts orders soon after Congress votes.
M. Furuya a Seattle merchant and banker testified denying instructing F Ota to send threatening letters to the Japanese emperor or plotting against the throne. Four Japanese newspaper men Ito Seruwska Shuwahara Watanabe and Takabe face conspiracy charges over a run on Seattle banks last fall. Yamaoka, brought from San Francisco as a witness, had his testimony objected to due to felon status.
The trial of Thomas Hi Tracy for murder in the Verona shooting proceeds with emotional testimony. Frank Henning testified deputies beat him with a billy while raiding a street meeting, later seeking medical care and returning home with his wife Hannah Crosby corroborating the account. Seattle attorney Thomas H Horner also described injuries to Rowan the I W W, alleged to have been beaten by deputies.
Frank Brownell Jr of Yale and Hugh Kelleher of Harvard, both Seattle natives, have enlisted in the navy reserve.
Edwin J. Brown urges a humane, democratic war approach arguing against capitalism’s influence on statesmanship. He proposes a $3 per day pay for soldiers and a graduated income tax to fund the war, and he calls Seattle to end the fifty year age limit to let veterans’ fathers earn a living. He warns against hollow patriotism and stresses organizing an army with domestic responsibility.
The funeral services for Leverett W. Gerrish aged 67 will be held Sunday at 3 p m at the Masonic temple in Fremont correcting an earlier error that listed Ballard in The Star yesterday.
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