The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 18, 1914, Page 1

TURKS FIRE UPON U.S. SMYRNA FORT LETS GO AT CRUISER’S LAUNCH HOSTILE ACT WORRIES WILSON TheSeattleStari« The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News EDITION | VOLUME 16. NO. SEATTLE, Boy of 11, Sho on Field, Gets aHero’sMedal TO THE READERS OF THE STAR: Do you know the parents of Stanny isinws, the boy here of Austria? ©: Bit Shepherd Btanny's story. Plenee read it, all of you. It te the biggest, most WASH., WEDNESDAY, NOV, 18, 1914, ONE CENT Bila Sind { | The U.S. Cruiser Tennessee sins nscs ts tore vat ne ce for san You'll read during thie ote wae. AM Anstrin-engnry te ringing with the pratece ef Stanny, whose paren somewhere in America, Stanny doesn't know where. ‘And they don't know that their St his country’s hero. Help to find them. If you should happen to know them, write to the editor of The Star, and he will get them in touch with their bey. id to hat writes Shepherd, “though I do it if be has to.” By William G. Shepherd a pacers Nov. 1—(By Mail to New York.)—To and Mrs. Stanislaws: © strugeie along without = father or not saying he hasn't the staff in him to You're probably lost in the ruck of some American city! fighting out your destiny as immigrant citizens, but if this comes to your sight, it is to let you know that the 8-year-old son you left in Galicia three years ago has become the hero of Austria. And he wants you to know it He's in the hospital here in Vienna and he asked me to try to tell you, throt what has happened. to him In the first place, a representative of the emperor, all gh the columns of American newspapers, covered with gold lace, came to Stanny’s bedside yes- terday and pinned an iron cross to his nightgown, right above the big hole in the boy's chest. A million men have died in this and other wars to get the cross that Stanny’s thin white fingers have toyed with all day today. ] I haven't seen as much written in all the newspapers in Europe the biggest generals as has been written about Stanny Stanis This is how it came about You know the old neighbor woman you left Stanny with, near the town of Saybusch Seyweic? Well, he and the neighbor woman got along nicely together until last August, when school opened for the winter, and the old woman told Stanny that he couldn't go to school because he must work for a living Stanr didn't know where his father and mother were tn the United States, so he solved his problem on his own hook by running away Fleeing Lad Reaches Austrian Fortress Stanny wound up at Przemysl, where he saw trolley cars for the first time in his lif Then he walked out Into the country, toward the Russian border, and got a job with a farmer i One day he was stacking wheat in the fields when he heard drums laying. He looked up and saw a sight more wonderful than anything i he had seen in Przemys There were soldiers marching and soldiers riding on horses, and soldiers in automobiles, and soldiers in wagons and on cannons, and on motorcycles and bicycles j Stanny ran out of the field to the road. He looked on for many minutes with his heart turning some iii beat. As far ahead as he could see there were soldiers, and H| as far behind as he could see. They were overflowing the road and marching in the fields. They were even spilling out of the fields into the forests. If you've been in the United States (Continued on Page 2.) = CHIEF LANG TO 'DANCING CLUBS TO *| MME AUTOIST FIGHT POLICE BAN TOE THE MARK §=QN MODERN STEPS Police Chief Lang, on the Second day of his regime, an- | The continued existence of , when the police trial board meets, nounced Wednesday that he every private dancing club In I? hursday will take immediate steps to the city where the new dances Chief Griffiths left a hornet’s curb unruly drivers of motor are danced is thr nest buzzing around the ears of | and autos. by the refusal his bewildered successor when he j sued instructions to Retiring Police Chief Griffiths refused the permit members of the department to to grant a permit fog winter Youog people are demanding of see that the speed ordinance Is dances to the Bachelérs’ club, | Chief Lang today w he's going pecially a composed of high school and |to do about it—and the chief ts strictly enforced, ity students, on reco: |very frank to tell them that he | regards motorcycles, which he | univer | believes are the worst offend. | mendation of Lieut. Chari doesn't know e Dolphin, who declared the way I can't make any statement | Moved by numerous complaints} Members of this club danced | yet," he said Wednesday forenoon een etss| wae Indecent. This is a thing I'll have to study The variety of dancing done by | over.” the Bachelors’ club is {dentical Dolphin Says "Twas Fierce with that of other clubs in the| The Bachelors’ club takes violent ty lexception to the ‘statement of iffiths’ decision ts Dolphin that their style of ew chief, Louls| dancing is worse than he says he M Late, the clubs will find| saw on the notorious Barbary themselves in the position of the|Coast in San Francisco, and that from residence distri took steps to silence autolats who speed through the realdence streets with cutoffs wide open, and the exhaust discharging with the re ports of artillery A city ordinance provides cut offs must not be open in any part of the city . | Bachelors. they ragged something fierce. No exception s made for hills, ‘phey include the Moochers, the Mrs. Frederick Christensen, wife — |Wistaria, the Bro-Links, the|of the proprietor of Christensen’s The chief was seeking an opin-| promers the Canttella, the Follies, | Dancing academy, where the Bach as to the valldity|/the Musketeers, the Steppers, the | ¢lors hold thetr dances, ts Indig a requiring auto own-/Q AB. P.’s and the Saturday | nant ers to park their vehicles on the/night dances of Christense The Bachelors’ club ts compos planking strip in the middle of) Pougias’ and Faurot’s dancing |¢d of a fine, clean set of young Fifth av., relieving the congestion| academies jmen and women,” she told The on the buster streets, If it will Club Will Fight Order tar, Wednesday by dance “hold water,” he will instruct the| Members of the Bachelors’ club| the hesitation and the one-step, to traffic squad going on duty at 8/announce they will fight the thing|sether with the walk, it is t p. m. Wednesday night to clear the|to a finish, and, to start the ball|but there is nothing one could business district of standing autos.| «rolling, they have filed complaint | take offense at I intend to find out if these are| against Lieut, Dolphin, and will “go| “They dance with the lady's left good or bad ordinances, by enfore ‘with him as to what is|and the gentleman's right arms, ing them strictly,” commented! inde | (Continued on Page 5.) Chief Lang. ‘cut city sauanes SEN. JONES’ MOTHER BETTER NOW | WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.—Senator W. L. Jones of Washington | VANCOUVER, B. C., Nov, 18—| bas returned to the capital to resume his labors, after spending severai nt In dances, The wages of ail city officials and| weeks at the bedside of his aged mother in Bethany, Ill. The senator's workmen have been cut from 10% | mother, who was reported to be ne th several weeks ago, has to 20¢ l rallied, and is said to be recovering ra | FRANK COME HERE A \MINUTE, | WANT TO pret You SOMETHING Se ~ the best means of providing the| J, Eugene Jordan, who had been | vocal een Bis | TERRIBLE-TERR\BLE-| (ISN'T THAT RicH F NO, NOT A WORD, mY nee eee mobile forces he recommended. | treating the man for tuberculosis, THERES’ KO TWAT'S THE WoRST BUT SAY, DON’T BUT How oweaRTH{ [SHE'S Just Liki MAN In any scheme,” he added, “to| believes he may have been pa | DovBT ABOVT ” EVER -HA-HA- REPEAT WHAT I'VE DID You HEAR. CAN'T KEEP. - create such a foree of mobile|soned. Am analysis of Robison’s Iv WHATEVER, Tod You To ABOUT IT? SECREY ihe —| stomach is being made. —_—_—=— A SOUL. “" — Robison died at the Navaro ho- | UNDERSTANDS tel, Seventh av. and Pike st., Sate | oeeiva JOHN DOES LOVE | iss's'%'st WASHINGTON, , Nov. 18.—Official con- firmation of a report that Turkish land batteries had fired on a steam launch from the U. S. Cruiser Tennessee in the Gulf of Smyrna was received today at the navy department from Captain - Decker. The first report indicated that the cruiser herself lhad been fired at, but a later message was interpreted as meaning that the land batteries opened fire on the cruiser’s launch, as it was en route from Vurla to Smyrna. The cruiser’s launch carried the American flag. All the navy department knows is that a shot was fired. The department will |“mark time” pending the receipt of further advices. Secretary Daniels and Acting Secretary of State Lansing conferred for an |hour and the latter attempted to get into communication with Ambassador Morgen- thau at Constantinople. The launch, it was reported, was 07 its way to Smyrna to investigate reports hay American interests were endangered. According to information given out by Secretary Daniels, Capt. Decker’s re- | port merely said “his boat” had been fir2zd upon. Jt was generally believed this meant the cruiser’s launch. “Information so far received concerning the incident is very indefinite,” Dan- iels said. “All we know is that a shot was fired. Whether it was fired with hos — tile intent or as a warning to Capt. Decker was not explained. : “Smyrna is a closed port now and is probably mined. The land forces may ~ have fired the shot to prevent the launch’s destruction, or apy FI the Tennessee — itself entering and running upon a mine field. I hope this is the case. In —¥4 event, we cannot take steps until we have the official facts.” President Wilson was noticeably anxious over the Tennessee incident. ordered all reports concerning it to be sent to him at once. Government officials expressed confidence, however, the occurrence would not result in the development of international complications. ~ A report received here via Montreal that American Ambassador Morgenthau — had demanded his passports was characterized as “absurd” by the White House and the state department. t w id More hau was cat triscdey ees te porte and|ed Monday. He said everything! garding the safety of the ; ‘as tranq American consulate at Smyrna that Turkish officials were con.| 48 tranquil then y' ” see | May Recali Cruisers causing much anxiety Morgenthau, it. was. declared,|_ It was reported that the cruisers ‘ conlt not demand passports of his | Tennessee and North Carolina will| It was interpreted as indicat. Se eition. he could only act in|b@ recalled from Europe {n order| ing that much anti-foreign feel- such a matter after he had been |to avold the possibility of another ing exists. | | | stantly praising bis work positively instructed by the prest-| “Maine disaster.” Secretary Dan- Unofficial advices indicated Sent, who would not even consider |!els, however, would not discuss| that foreigners have been en. such’ action without consulting first | the report, dangered in many parts of with the neat “We sent the two cruisers to| Asia Minor, but that so far Trying to Reach Consul lauter’ Daniels said, “with funds) Americans had been exempt. to relieve Americans there who| It was believed, however, that plained he had not communicated |Were unable to get money. Since) inasmuch as Horton bee: with Constantinople for two days,|then they have been kept there to) caring for the interests of Eng- aoe eee eden of the. cable | assist in the rellef of Americans in| land, France and Russia, as and the fact that messages must|the war zone wherever possible.” well as those of the United | pass through territory of European Capt. Deckers declaration | States, the natives may have that Horton was. anxious 1 threatened him. Acting Secretary Lansing ex | belligerents. I id communication to Asta ‘inor requires from two to five 7 ays, ; | Lansing was making every ef- 4 fort today to reach Geo, Horton, the U. 8. consul at Smyrna. No direct word had been recety-| ed from him for several days Ambassador Morgenthau report WASHINGTON, Nov. Jtroops as contemplated above, we | RPSE OF HIS America needs more soldiers. |cannot do better than follow the This was the positiv example of master minds in mili- tion in the annual report of tary organization for national de- | Gen. Wotherspoon, chief of (fense. The policies developed in | | staff of the U. 8. army, pub- this direction include, among | | others, the primary plan of using | shed today. Wotherspoon maintains that} the standing army as a school for retiring | not only is the United States un- training men, who, on graduation | . . ysrepared to resist invasion by a|from that school, would pass into |W. M. Clark, a traveling man, lv-| fret ieee power, but also that we| the reserve force and constitute the | ng Yale apartments, 609/16 jn no position to defend the| real national military strength.” f st, noticed his wife] Panama canal, the Philippines,) cold. He pulled the bed-| Hawaii or Alaska. |clothes more closely about her. | He contends that the probable i Wednesday morning, when he|value of our coast defenses 1 4 awoke, she Was in precisely the| questionable |} same position as the night before.| In his report, Gen Wotherspoon | He aré and dressed quietly.| urged that the nation’s standing] ' hen he tried to waken her increased from 105,000 to 5 | army bi he was dead, She had died, ap-| 200,000, and that in addition there rently, soon after reti be a mobile army of 500,000 first Clark says she has been suffer-|iine troops and 300,000 second line ing with heart trouble for some) troops | time. Distribution of the nation’s forces| ‘inset on a wide front was advised by| Peculiar circumstances surround Gen. Wotherspoon because a wide! ing the death of John H. Robison, choice of landing places was open|a bartender, caused Dr. J. Tate to an enemy Mason, the county coroner, to hold en, Wotherspoon hinted that| up the burial of the man Tuesday, Germany's system of training was) following the funeral services, Dr, | Tuesday night, before urd | n days ago a statement made to Dr. Jordan by his patient arous+ ed the doctor's suspicions, Upon |the man's death, Dr. Jordan took | the matter up with Coroner Mason, The body is at Manning's under taking parlors, pending the out HIS LITTLE JOK! ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. Nov. 17,—Because he indulg- ed in an Innocent little cir- cus act of standing his wife against the wall and then hurling knives to see how near he could come to her head without hitting her, John Coan will serve the next 50 days In the county jail and then pay a fine of $25. come of the examination. WON'T GARE FOR ’ VICTORIA, B. C,, Noy. 18.-—The city council has wired the govern. ment authorities its refusal to care for alien enemies who have been detained in Canada,