The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 6, 1915, Page 1

;| BAKERS TO RAISE BREAD PRICE | PR SAAR A, RAR eee The Seattle Star } The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News VOLUME 16. SEATTLE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY WASH., 1915, MOVIE STARS; ONE CENT its sister papers. before continuing his journey South. will not be limited to the schoolroom. There are hundreds of commercial possibilities of the great continent to the south. They will do much to broaden you: intellect. Roger Babson Fires First Gun Sree ea 6. ess | DENIES GERMANY INTENDS -ABLOW AT U.S. COMMERCE German submarine—an offer calculated to revive the long WASHINGTON, Feb, 6- Count Von Bernstorff, German | In August flour was $1.59 to $1.55 fvom Ambassador Gerard at Berlin that, on account of the fact that the 5 It shows that a 20-mile strip along Spain, or pa ufacturers don't know Cub | plays. The gi said they 4 per 50-pound sack. The latest ad loying neutral flags, old port of Cadiz, in Spain, or pass " Da | vance bas brought it to $2.15 a| Dritish are employing nein inden, /the coast of Holland by mistake |tng ‘aiong the coast of Italy! The Amevioan people don't know | found the love-making scenes rack gored was included in the “war sone. You, these American millionaires, CUb&. Even some American school | | highly embarrassing on the , leita? ;, es, these Ame; . , 1 | | first trial or two, but Whether the bakere’ advance, ~ yon pernastorff said that in ac cwhdrs of. great tectories' in. the teachers don't “know Cuba | | rst trial or they soon which will be in the wholesale price cordance with the universal usages 6 KILLED IN MINE Teachers Will Read Babson Stories to Their Classes |j\ . STAR today prints the first of a series of South American stories which Roger W. Babson, world famous financial and commercial expert, has been commissioned to gather for this newspaper and Babson’s opening article deals with Havana, Cuba, where he stopped for several days teacher to whom the story was shown said it was “better and more up-'o-date stuff than contained in any geography. It will be real modern education,” she declared. Study of these articles of Babson’s, however, It is to these, chiefly, that Babson is address- ing his information. Don’t miss a single one of these educational articles, no matter who or what you are. ? Trip; Finds Havana Tempting to American Trade business men who have awakened to the on South American | | | - — ° New Photograph, Giving a View of the Modern City of Havana From the Harbor. ° - ° “A City a. 550,000—-Modern, Historic, | Growing and Full of Promise—A Sur-! prise and a Delight to Visiting Ameri- cans, Who Know Almost Nothing of It— Cubans Dislike Us and Prefer German Wates”—A Search for the Reason. (Roger W. Babson, world-renowned now im South America, has been oo “the truth about South Amerten” in a series of articles, of whieh thie be the first, An. other article by Mr. Babson will appear in a day or two. Watch for it.) By Roger W. Babson should think we were éntering the, The truth fs that American man United States—men who are presi As I turn to my child's geogra - REHEARSE LOVE SCENE e 8.41 | boys hundred Seattle girls have paid eral and Seattle school teachers are manifesting intense interest in the feature. While Superintendent Cooper is le otlnag hx , ¢ hoe unable, because of rules, to issue orders to this effect, a great number of Seattle teachers are planning to embyrox: Chas Chaplins read the Babson stories to the children in their geography classes. The article printed below was submit- and Mary Pickfords. ted to Supt. Cooper Friday. He remarked that it was “very intevesting and very enlightening.” One The “studio” of the Oc- cidental Custom Film Co., |Seattle’s first film “produc jing” corporation, is one of |the busiest young industries in town. It is there these jyoung people are rehears- jing. It was about two weeks age | that an ad appeared in one of | the Seattle papers for “12 brue nettes, 19 blondes and 27 medi- s of good figure and peckert, the company’s attorney, in response, accord- ing to the officials. The ele- | vator man counted 1,000. Names and addresses were list- |ed and applicants instructed to ap- jpear at the studio, on the third |floor of the Liberty theatre build- ing or at the offices, 1110 Hoge building. They were told that positions in the troupes were to be given to stockholders. Five dollars was the | consideration necessary for becom- jing one. A whole lot of them | bought shares. Gorgeous certifi- | cates were issued, and the holders thereof told to report to the di- rector. Belasco Is Director In the brief annals of this com- pany there have been several shake- \ups. President L. D. McDonald still remains as president, but there is a new production manager | officers. The new p. m. is MR recently of Californi: | ship to David, of so: fame as a | theatrical producer, has not been | disclosed, The studio is a long loft running across the front of the Liberty the- atre building, bare and unfurnish- jed save for a few pieces in one jcorner. At either end are parti- |tioned off spaces, dressing rooms, jit is explained, for men and wom- en, respectively. The company has no connection with the owners of |the Liberty theatre. | Belasco a Busy Boy This studio has been a bee hive of cinematographic activity, Busy young would-be actors and ac |tresses are coming and going in a |stream, and Mr. Belasco has had }almost as much to do as the kais- Jer's chief mobilizer. He has been forming companies. | There are Company 2, Company 5a, | Company 5b, Company 6 and many jothers. Company 1, it is explained, Several were very romantic became proficient and at ease. With the advent of Belasco only, will also affect the retail price of warfare, naval vessels were jus 4 phy I find nothing to show that o + of big corporations for which ha pe we ‘ * is a question Recently the grocers |titied in destroying the merchant piper “i ee youtalt work--had Cuba is a quaint old Jand with Two of the enthusiastic ap- | Portland. Miss Wallace, not | Thuseday, eehaseante aa ites promised they would not raise their men of an enemy Mover before realized that Cuba ix|@eer, set customs, pilcants for movie queen hon- | yet wy ee reg alterations were ‘anneuneae rice in the event that a wholesale “ 1 CLAREMONT, W. Va. Feb. 6.—/* . a emiel “Staaltt No, our manufacturers and busi, ors. tic roles. Ma a x “shaadirs| was compelled eaian ho ontas ioe a pt deb Six men-were killed today and four | #!most as old as Spain itself ness men think of Cuba as a “new Above is Miss Theo Wallace, Below is Miss Alma Juhlin, |in the line-up of the casts. Next The bakers’ advance ill bring! to the prize of $1,500, offered in were fatally injured by an ex 1 repeat this conversation on possession,” a new island which 1814 Minor ave. Her father, a | age 18, 52nd ave. S. and Orcas | — (Continued on Wane 2) the price up to 4 cents per loaf, dol-|- England for the first merchant | plosion of gas at one of the New| shipboard, as it, perhaps, ilustrates Speer Oe ee laundryman, and her mother | % Fate ac cvaueeer ots be uced to 25 loaves. | ver Coal Co.'s mines near here. | bette than anything else one rea ontinued on Page 2. are temporarily residing In iss Juhlin Jar} ots b ing red ice At 25 Li a «| ship ramming and sinking a River al s mines near ep : ng | Ble ARS Beh high After leaving school she | HARDLY KNOW WHAT ‘TO DO ABOUT PANSY, TOM COMPLAINS ABOUT SHE ISA GooD COOK AND DOES ) HER WORK WELL. lg WHEN A MAN'S MARRIED —— worked in offices, as a plano player in a movie house, and at housework. For some time she has been out of employment. She looks for a great open. ing in the motion picture com- pany, and thinks it will be the salvation of herself and her mother, whom she assists in supporting. STEALS $10,000 FOR SALVATION | ARMY BLAZE | That some of the men who par ticipated in a raid on the Salvation Army headquarters several months ago may have been responsible for the fire which Friday night serious- lly damaged the new industrial LIMA, N. Y., Feb, 6—A rob- (home at Ninth S. and Holgate, ts ber entered the Lima bank to. one of the theories the police are !" day, covered the cashier and |working om today. Two evenings his assistant with a revolver ago the Army's storage rooms next and forced them to hand over | door burned between $10,000 and $12,000 Friday night's fire started at jlearned that The robber escaped. NORA’S HARD TO PLEASE NEW YORK, Feb. 6.—It wae Nora®Bayes, the act ress, had filed sui®for divorce from | Harry C&rke, her third husband originating in the basement. “ightren down-and-outers were |housed in the building, some escap- ing with difficulty, Heroic work In effecting thelr rescue was done by Harry Holsminer and Thomas Rob ert, lodgers, and other department heads and°— jis not yet formed; is res petinc ae ote ‘ eT f for the cream of ll the Goalaai ment today declaring his gov- ing.” HAVANA, Cuba, Feb. 6.—The first surprise one always al's talent ernm not intend to in An informal conference between! vets when entering Havana (or Habana, as it is spelled in H 1 SO PR df or Geacmeatioe Saute d lowever, quite a number of terfere with Amerttan som | State Department Counsstior Lans-| Cuba) is the architecture of the island |young women admitted to a Ster merce by the new biockade ing and Dutch Minister Van Rap- |man that Mr. Belasco or one of his of England and France. paed was held here this afternoon We are apt to think of Cuba as new ter predecessors had confided to thal There is nothing new in the) It was believed to be the first ritory and of Havana, Santiago and Matanza |that they were slated for the honae = jcommunication of Feb. 4 with re- move for concerted action by neu de “nnentaw’ cities.” Some of them he'told to report The price of flour is up 40 | spect to the attitude of the German tral nations as a result of Ger ook ; 6 lto “Company 7.” which he tafmeal 4 cents throughout the entire | imperial navy towards ships of the | many's war zone order. When we go to Spain we expect to see} }ed them was to be Company 1 sub % Northwest. That a rise in the lenemy or towards neutral com State department officials were low, stone hous with red-tiled roofs and! rosa until the time came for dis« a | merce.” Von Bernstorff's statement | groping about in a maze of interna ink or blue wails. We do not think, how-| closing the truth - Price of bread will foliow with- | said tional complications concerning apace og Aer ee OS re Rehenrenie ‘Now: On in the next 24 hours is said to It is absurd to describe the proc: which they have no definite know ever, of seeing a quaint Spanish city within The secrecy was resorted to, be inevitable by Seattle bakers, |/amation as a ‘paper blockade. The edge three days’ sail from New York | they were told, so as not to dis- The Master Bakers meet to- |communication is simply a state State department officials mad« a; How queer and picturesque everything hearten the less fortunate. And night. if ¢ ment of what has been, since the|no effort to conceal the fact that Roger k \ scents ok Me fe girls like secrets anyway F beginning of the war, the attitude ,»,. ce ~ the situati i‘ absort on aid a group o mericat yusiness ) q Wadaal: hake y % hey regarded the situation a : Rehearsals began this week raise the price them: of all the belligerent powers toward crave men to me as our Red Star S Kroonland entered the beau | One of the pieces was a comedy 3 Northwest millers freely predict mee i eign cen to the|.The official text of Germany's tiful harbor of Havana and passed Moro Castle centering about the activities of a that flour will soon reach $8.00. To- ld that) she proposes to con.|%2TBing to neutral shipping Issuec We did not expect to see such|son why we don’t sell more goods |marriage bureau, Another dealt day's jump forces the price up to| {O's destroy abips of the eriemy | hursday reached the state depart 414° Spanish architecture down in Cuba. | | with a situation in which a girl was 755 and $7.60 tinue to destroy ships of the enemy niont this afternoon in a dispatch wa < Why, we cee | | disguised as a boy. q “ie adh peste and adds a notification to neutrals here,” they remarked |