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TURK ARMY IS Ge THREATENING SUEZ CANAL ATHENS, “Yan. 28.—Fleroe fighting between British out. posts guarding the Suez canal and the advance guard of the Turkish army invading Egypt wae reported in dispatch ceived here today. A column ef Arablan horse men, scouting ahead of the Turks, toward lemailia, between Port Said and Suez, encoun- tered a large body of British indian troops, The Arabi started to offer battle but, die covering the enemy was in far greater numbers, fell back on the main Turkish army, after a sharp engagement in which the losses were’ small. The British garrison. at Bir Helefi, southeast of El Kantara, was attacked by a small band of Turks, who were repulsed. The British pursued the enemy after the defeat in an effort to an him but encountered a} superior force within 60 the Suez canal and re Splendid Bargains FOR FRIDAY’S SALE AT PANTON’S Extraordinary Specials in Lace Curtains ——25c 500 Single Curtains in lace trimmed Dimity Net, Battenberg trimmed Net Curtains, ruffled dotted Swiss Curtains, Nottingham Lace Curtains—many of them in pairs, but you can have your choice in the lot for 25¢@ each These Curtains are priced singly, of them in pairs —On Sa Wonderful Bargains in Lace Door Panels 25e Nottingham Lace Door Panels ie 75¢ Net Door Panels, with Battenberg applique : 12S real hand-made Battenberg, Door Panels Darn but we have many in Economy Basement nihilate of d These dispatches caused the widespread belief hefe that the ad vance of the Turks against the ca nal {§ much more formidable and has made much greater progress than had been supposed is evident that the Turks at-| tach great importance to this move ment and are preparing to prose cute it with great vigor. GERMANS STEM ~ RUSS ADVANCE PETROGRAD, Jan. 28.—The new |Russian advance against Konige burg, through East Prussia, is en countering stubborn resistance The Germans have posted sev eral batterfes of artillery on the) west bank of the Inster river, east! of Konigsburg, and are attempting! to block the Slav progress by! breaking up the fce in the stream! and preventing a crossing. At the samo time, the right wing) of the Russian forces is attempting | to Mank the Germans. | 10c 39c 49c 35c Remnants of Curtain Scrims, Yard 10c In pieces to 6 yards long. Curtain Scrims and Nets, in white or ecru or cream, Plain white or with borders in flow- er patterns in different colors, with hemstitching at edge. Values to Special 10¢ yard $1.98 Bath Room Rugs for In white, blue, ug tan, green, etc. Excellent ity. Regular $1.98 values. Special 98¢. Sc White India Lawn, special 10¢ yard —Economy Basement Comforter Bargains A good, warm cotton-filled Comfort. silkoline covering in attractive designs $1.50. Special 98¢. Another filled, Silkoline covered Comfort, quality in dainty colored patterns. } Dresden $1.69 © $2.98 | —Economy Basement —Economy Basement. 98c Artillery firing on @ large scale continues along the lower Vistula.| uthorities declare) the Slay progress toward the fort-| ress of Thorn continues, although stubborn resistance is being offered. | In Southern and Central Poland} the activities of both sides are} marked by heavy cannonading. In this, the war office declares, the/ advantage has rested with the czars arms. | It 1s admitted that the Austrian} offensive in Galtcia has developed) & general battle which may become important SUBMARINES COVER RETREAT LONDON, Jan. strategy has devi submarines in warfare Por the) first time in the history of sea fighting a flotilla of undersea bonte qual Good quality Regular price, is Comfort, cotton covered with good Sateen, in pretty patterns. Was | ' German! ed a new use for Regular $2.25. Special jand STAR—THURSDAY, JAN, 28, 1915. German Soldiers Forag, PAGE 2. REPORTER IN WRONG WITH LEGISLATURE OLYMPIA, ‘Yan 98 Mil feeling in the republican organisation over the McArdle bills came to a focus today, when J. W bert, corre spondent for a Seattle morning pa per, was called to the floor to ex-| plain charges that Representatives , McArdle and Zedoick were fram ing up soft political jobs for them nelvon. The two members took the floor) on a point of personal privilege and denied vigorously the truth of Gilbert's article. He had said that) the measures to reorganize the state boards were igned to car ry out patronage plans and that the two representatives would be the reciptents of fat jobs The house voted to call Gilbert | to the floor. He said the authority |for his article wan statements of half’ a dozen legisiators and com. mon talk about the capitol building | and {n the preas room. A stormy session ensued. Sug gestions were made that Gilbert be barred from the floor, but Zed nick and McArdle cooled down and said their only motive in bringing up the matter was to set their po- sition clear and that it had been | accomplished By a vote of 34 to 6, the senate today sustained the report of the roads committee indefinitely to postpone senate bills cutting public permanent highway levies half mill. The game committee ropor for passage bills repealing stat has covered the retreat of an un successful squadron of big ships. Admiralty officials today admit ted that the success of the German | submarines in such a maneuver | during Sunday’s naval battlo in the| North Sea had prevented the de-| struction by British warships of the} German dreadnaught cruisers/ Derflinger and Moltke. | Vice Admiral Sir David Beatty's} report sald submarines, and not the) proximity of a German mine field, had forced him to abandon his pur. sult of the enemy at a moment) when the latter's complete destruc tion seemed near. MARGETTIS PUT BACK IN UNIFORM BY CHIEF LANG Kd Margett, the police otticer| who had been in charge of the cafe and tenderloin characters, has been | removed from tho plain clothes detail to uniform duty by Chief} Lang. The chief was uncommunt cative as to the cause. Margett was closeted with the! chief for quite a while Wednesday | His reassignment followed shortly afterward The chief's summary action Wed. nesday in dismissing from the ser. vice Sergt. Lee Dagner, C. G, Stan. ley, motoreycle patrolman, and Ernest Ohistrom, chauffeur, will be appealed to the civil service com mission. | The chief says these men with-| held from the police the detalis of the auto accident which resulted tn he death of one man and the in-) for Tom MURPHINE HAS Juries to two women. The auto be Kes WHITE SLAVE BILL 2:0, to Sergt. Dagner, and was a OLYMPIA, Jan, 28—A pill mod.| driven by Stanley. ‘The latter faces jeled after the Mann “white slaye”|a manslaughter charge. act, but much more stringent {n its| All three officers have had good No matter how long you have been provisions, was introduced in the|records before house today by Murphine and Lane of King It applies to the transportation SHORT BALLOT) tortured and disfigured by itching, burning, raw or scaly sn humors, OLYMPIA, Jan The short| just put a little of that soothing, anti. | ballot and a constitutional conven-| ie Resinol Ointment on the sores (107 Will be diecussed by the joint | |make provigion so that commission form of government may be adopted by a vote of the people in any county. The Bankrupt Stock Of the Ladies’ le Suit Shop Is Being Closed Out Rap’ Don’t fail to inspect these unheard-of bargains $15.00, $18.00, $20.00 and $22.50 Suits ‘$22.50 and $25.60 Suits for. $7.50 Dress Skirts Franklin seniors rehearsin play Feb. 12. A FINANCIER of females within the state for im moral purposes. Violation of the law would carry a penalty of from to fifteen years in the peniten tiary. Marriage of the cofple in | volved would be no bar to the pros | Jecution of the man The bill was referred to the mor als committee. 28 and the suffering stops right there! peter ri _ the house and senate tym Healing begins that very minute, and Ory tnorsballot wil be din | tn almost every case your skin gets froin two standpoints: State aet| “G0trock's grandfather made his well so quicitly you feel ashamed of county Ate and) money in bonds.” the money you threw away on useless For the state it is proposed that| “Government?” treatments. Avoid imitations. the governor and leutenant goy.| "No, matrimonial, He married Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap clear |CTHOF shall be the only, elective of.| thrice, a rich woman each time” S7H7 pimples, bgsthends, and dandruf. Hold [floers, the others tobe appointed WILL DISCUSS rescribed by doctor For the county, it 1s proposed to| 75 BELONG IN PORTLAND PORTLAND, Jan, 28.—Jitney bus men here have perfected plans for organization, The organization sas about 76 charter members, List your Real Estate in Star! | Want Ads. PANTAGES bounties on wild animals and cre jating a trout hatchery on Mineral ltake Providing for a new reapportion ment of the state school funds on a basis of actual days attendance in each district, and eliminating at tendance at night schools, a bil! was introduced in the house b Timblin, of Spokane Other bills in the house Include one allowing incorporated towns to jmaintain free lbraries and permit |ting cities to lease lands for in dustral and commercial purposes outside the incorporate imita WHEAT PRICE REACHES $1.50 CHICAGO, Jan, 28.—Dollar and bd half wheat has come. May opened on the Board Trade today at that figure, jan advance of 1% over yeaterday’s | ele ioning. July made the same gain opening at $1.95. Other grains were up ” Corn opened at 81% to|e4 82%. Oats were up % Both May and July wheat vwer a fractionally, and were 4% lower at 10 a. m. The opening price of May was the highest mark wheat has touch ed since the famous “corner” oper ated by Jos. Leiter 15 years ago. Provisions opened at 5 to 10 cents higher, and receded slightly later, TONIC MOORE Seri: Farewell of FORBES- ROBERTSON 4 Bat. Mat, “Hamlet”; , “Paesing of The World's Grestest Dancer RUTH ST. DENIS And Assisting Artiste ste Oriental, Greek and Modern Dances nen Tues., $1 Hest Seats, x Prices, 500-$2.00, SEATS NOW SPI Popul LOEW'S EMPRESS OWS DAILY. Reserved Keats The Sensational Story THE TWILIGHT SLEEP ITALIAN EARTHQUAKE PICTURES The Golden Troupe jeaused detectives to examine against him, « eis The Best Music You can enjoy with the tions you have played by the complete outfit your cholic great is offere band at A first payment of $6. on liberal tern in and hear t for Their Beds in Polish Village ‘ACCUSE GIRL OF PASSING BAD CHECKS Because whe went to the public morgue to identify the body of young Howard L. Jones, killed in a revolver battle with police officers when he was caught looting a home in the Greenlake district, Voelger, 18, is held at the elty jail on suspicion, With her companion, Louls Steurenagle, Jones’ room mate, and Elaworth Sperry, 21, of 607 Tist st. she is accused of pase Ing worthless checks. She stoutly denies the charge. Sperry is alleged to have fersed to Acting Chief of Detectives Kent that he, Jones and Steurenngle blew the safe of the Metropolitan laundry Dec, 24 Inat that Jones and Steurenagle attempt ed to blow a safe in a coal office & few weeks ago and that they robbed a safe in the Edmonds post office, where they procured a few pennies. Sperry’s statement concerning the cracking of the laundry safe the bodies of the two young men tn Jail to nee If they are wounded. The police believe the men who did the Metropolitan job were wounded in ® resulting gun battle. Neither of the boys, however shows any scars Steurenagie denies any knowledg of any of the crimes charged Dorothy | He also nays! ASK FEDERAL |@ | Jewel Columbia Grafonola. for Home Dancing all of the new dances any evening In the 20 selec © of the finest dance music is and orchestras, and the $41.50 in your home, Come 0 places it ns, with no interest ACHINE HEADQUARTERS SUPERVISION | GEATTLE'S TALKING M OF FORTUNES NEW YORK, Jan. 28.—Mem bers of the federal industrial tions commission indicated today that they intend to rec ommend that all foundations whose endowments exceed $1,000,000 be placed under the supervision of the federal gov- ernment. They also made it plain that, In spite of the testimony of fe: by John D, ckefeller, It. Hier in the week to the contrary, they were not satis: fied that foundations may not become a menace. Reports in the session of Dr. Wm. H. Allen show, a member of | the commission said, that founda tions may become a menace. “This the in brief, is Third Floor Back A prologue, in which you see a cheat, a slattern, a painted Iady, a bully, a shrew, a snob, a coward, a cad and some other very human, very familiar and very unpleas ant characters, A transition part, in which they all meet a passerby. An epilogue, in which the cheat has become the lady of the house |the slattern, a happy servant; the |bully and shrew, a loving married couple; the painted lady, a maiden lady; the snob, a rich aunt; the coward, a sweetheart; and the cad, jan entertaining person. They still jare very human, very familiar, but Dr. Allen recently resigned his|very changed and pleasant people postition as a director in the Rocke And just as in the prologue, feller bureau of municipal re-| Wednesday afternoon there enter search, explaining he did so be-jed the Moore theatre a thousand cause Rockefeller interests inter-jor two Seattle cads and bullies. fered with his work shrews and snobs. And, just as in John D. Rockefeller, jr, dis-|the epilogue, two hours and a half cussed conditions in Colorado to-|later they walked out, loving mar. day with Frank Hayes, internation-|ried couples, happy sweethearts— al vice pregjdent of the United | good, wholesome folks Mine Workers; John R. Lawson,| Such is the spell of Jerome's district board member of the or-|play when linked with the magic der, representing the Colorado dis-|of Forbes-Robertson's acting. trict, and Edw, Doyle, secretary-| It is impossible to see this Eng treasurer of the Miners’ Union. lish drama without recalling “A | BROKE, ENTERS T GAME; INCOME Seattle is entertaining one pe the, Kreatest ficures in the motion pic ture world, Lewis J, Selznick, vice president and general manager of the World Film corporation. Selznick is a short, rather hee y Practical Prescription Against Stomach Acidity Nine-tenths of all cases of stom ach trouble nowadays are caused by too much acid. 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We carry parts) and supplies for all makes of machines pairing and new Sewing machines Expert re- 1424 Third Ave., near Pike Main 1525 War of the Tongs 0c and 200 f operation necessary | NOW IS $1 50, 000 | back or the friend, es he is called, set man of about 40. “Some time ago, while in the/gross returns 2 jewelry business in New York, 1) against a total of 1.268 cars f Awoke to the fact that I was cleaned |of last. season, with returns dead broke,” he said today to a| about $800,000. Star man. “I was offered a num mi ber of positions, bringing very good BURGLAR SENTENCED salaries, but having been head of ABERD! . Jan. 28.—George my own business I didn’t want to| Bonner, confessed burglar, a jone my personal identity. penitentiary sentence of from 5 to “In other words, I didn't want to|15 years yesterday. be a mere cog in somebody else's whee It was with this spirit “that he entered Into the motion picture game. And he made a big success e|He ts today the head of his new company, financially as strong as the rock of Gibraltar, “About how muc making dowadays was asked ‘Oh—er—woll, jor $150,000 a year,” he replied The World Film corporation, | since November 27, has been oper ated on a profit sharing basis. The profit sharing plan is almost a part of Mr, Selznick’s religion. |Ho talks {t day in and day out, and jhas studied it from the ground up. |. “I do not do it merely for the benefit of my employes, but also in the hope that other companies will adopt similar plans to increase the efficiency, happiness and rewards of their employes,” said Selznick Mr. Selznick is accompanied by his wife and C.R, Seelye, his d tor of sales, The party will | today for San Francisco COLLEGIANS GET CASH FOR BLOOD | NEW YORK, Jan. 28.—Columbia |students have found a lot of new | ways of making money. The most |unusual {s the sale of blood to St |Luke’s hospital for transfusion pur poses, One boy got $25 for eight ounces. Eight others sold smaller |quantities for proportionate smaller amounts. | Paul G. Holter, secretary of the jemployment committee of the uni |versity, found work for one stu dent because he was exceptionally | good looking. The exatt nature of his employ |ment ts not known, but it was said that he became a “model.” | Fifty students altogether found |places, most of them demonstrating gymnastic apparatus of one sort or another. Tho fact that they show windows did Holter found PPLE RECEIPTS LESS NORTH YAKIMA, Jan. 28 report of General Manager Sic’ of the Yakima Valley Fruitgrow- Jers’ association shows sal |this season of of “Scientific salesmanship” subject taken up by new Y. M JA. salesmanship class. 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Ranges January Stoves and at Special Reductions. | Six hundred men busy disenfect ling Chicago stock yards against [foot and mouth disease, The Passing of FORBES-ROBERTSON TURNS BULLIES INTO NICE FOLKS respectively, in the three parte, impels a recollection of Manson in the American play. Either may be thought of as one's better self, oc- casionally as one’s conscience, as the spirit of the golden rule or even a8 a reverent representation of the Christ himself, if one seeks a key to the allegory. tut the similarity ends with this one character. In other ways the plays are far apart. In one sense, the Passing of the Third Floor Back” is not a play. It has no plot, merely three related glimpses at a group of English middleclass folks. It is, as the bill classes it, “An idle fancy,” but it is an {dle fancy well worth while. And it is a splendid vehicle for Forbes-Rob- son and his company’s artistic acting, IF KIDNEYS AND BLADDER BOTHER Take a Glass of Saits to Flush Out Your Kidneys and Neutralize Irritating Acids. Kidney and Bladder weakness re- sult from uric acid, says a noted authority. The kidneys filter this acid from the blood and pass it on to the bladder, where {t often re- mains to irritate and inflame, caus- ing a burning, scalding sensation, or setting up an irritation at the neck of the bladder, obliging you to seek relief two or three times during the night. The sufferer is in constant dread, the water passes sometimes with a scalding sensa- tion and is very profuse; again, there is difficulty in voiding it Bladder weakness, most folks call it, because they can’t control urination, While it is extremely annoying and sometimes very pain- ful, this is really one of the most simple ailments to overcome. Get bout four ounces of Jad Salts from our pharmacist and take a table- spoonful in a glass of water before breakfast, continue this for two or three days. This will neutralize the acids in the urine so it no longer is a source of irritation to the blad- der and urinary organs which then act normally again. Jad Salts is inexpensive, harm- le and is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined | with lithia, and is used by thou- sands of folks who are subject to urinary disorders caused by uric acid irritation. Jad Salts is splen did for kidneys and causes no bad effects whatever, Here you have a pleasant. efferves- | cent lithia-water drink, which quick- ly relieves bladder trouble. SAVE MONEY NOW THE JANUARY SALE Furniture, Rugs, Stoves, Etc. umed "$18, 50 Oak | $12 Ladies’ Oak Writ- ing Desk $7.25 Bed, tn biue, $6.50 $50 Turkish in genuino leather Rocker, 25 9x12 Brus- ‘8, now $9 at. The $20 Velvet Rugs, 9x12 nize, now at... $13.50 at. S. H. 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