The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 1, 1915, Page 1

Who's the Best Stenographer in Town? HE STAR has found her! She tells, on page how she suc- seeded, and she gives some good, yound advice to others, O the and death? say they don’t. Bob Hesketh Well, then, maybe they don’t. Let’s find out B for sure. Let’s get this thing straight. Councilman Hesketh has just come home from is on the fence, from all indications. WASHINGTON, July 1.—Ambassador Page has informed him the Armenian was engaged in ad-; ty business. bility of a controversy between the United States Germany as to the loss of American lives. The ship flew the British flag and it was reported y British officers were in charge of the cargo. state department today or-|crew of the Armenian & complete and thoro probe| ployed by the British admiralty case. Ambassador Page| Also, who was in charge of the instructed to send a man to cargo of mules carried by the @ scene to question survivors. steamer, particularly whether the is Were sent to Ambas-/man in charge was a British offt Gerard to get a report from | cer. commander of the U-238. An If circumstances were as repre is also in progress at New- sented, authorities agree that, un News. der international law, the Germans state department wants to were justified in their sinking of at Newport whether the) the ship. Res led Americans Tell How Armenian Was Sunk _ AVONMOUTH, Eng., July 1- pe take to the boats. While we any| Were pulling away the men of the . ° yeaa larger than any | submarine crew stood on deck and jeered at us. Two torpedoes and Ged and sank the Dominion | geveral shots were fired at the Ar a Armenian. | menian, and she blew up and went The vessel, which was sent to the | down. We rowed in the boats until landed.” Tuesday evening with its/”® . De Experts say the U-38, which sank ne ee nee ot ae tmantde song’ ott iae “nap mostly negroes, was the vic- jtype of submarines which have beer Ota huge undersea boat at least |assembled at Wilhelmshaven for feet long, according to sur- | raiding freight vessels carrying here today. | munitions. ‘A thrilling story of the chase of| It has been charged that seeming Armenian by the submarine ly Innocent wireless messages sent from the United States notify the the attack, was told by Ameri uf among the saved. Germans regarding sailings of muni Armenian tried to esc; eee; = carriers. Was shelled by the German ves which came to the surface, en those aboard the liner | tify her as the U-28. arine was at least Owner Dugdale of the Seattle ball club announced today he had d H. Benton, one ot| sold Pitchers Walter Mails and Pat Survivors. ‘It had a big, roomy | , On which several guns were! ited. Eastley, Outfielder Jack Smith and Barth, his utility player, to the ma jors. Malls goes to Brooklyn, Smith to the St. Louis Nationals the Athletics, and Barth to a, club | which Dug is not yet ready to name. i. This was not expected Dug modestly admitted the big ® were crowded around the | leaguers bought the players on his Peckhouse watching the chase when | recommendation. None of the men B shell ripped into the crowd and | is to be delivered until next year. Bew some of te men into the We picked up the wounded PORTLAND SIZZLES, TOO RS best we could in our haste to get| PORTLAND, July 1.—Today promised to be hotter than yeaster: “We were coming into the Bristol | | inel when we spied the subma-| Trickey 4, and the Armenian be WM tig-zagging to dodge torpedoes “We had the German guessing for | ® minutes, but she was too fast Armenian could make only 14| ordered ful! “T was standing near the wheel when the submarine began to cover. it we would be given time| the same hour yesterday, was em-| Eastley to! people of Seattle want clean milk? Do they want the milk that they and their babies drink insured, so far asmedical science can insure it, from disease The Star has thought, all along, that they do. But four of our councilmen, at least, San Francisco, after a two weeks’ absence. .S. WON'T LET'S GIVE fr The report of the ambassador is regarded as plac-| PARTIES the Armenian definitely in the class of a transport,!Trainloads Coming in Nearly Surgeon General of United ect to the rules of warfare, and eliminating the| | do what it can NO, 108 For pure milk—4. SEATTLE, WASH., drinks. Hesketh THURSDAY, IULY 4, 1710; In a nutshell, this is the provision in the McBride ordinance with which the four councilmen opposing it are dissatisfied: ALL MILK SOLD IN SEATTLE EITHER MUST BE PASTEURIZED, OR IT MUST COME FROM COWS WHICH HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED TO THE TUBERCULIN TEST. The four men opposing the ordinance think there should be an amendment allowing milk to be sold as it is now THE COWS BEING TESTED. lified the state department that the British Admiralty Secretary Case of Actccudccted | Dr. | Here, Declares McBride Or- Club Suggests People En- tertain Visitors. Every Day Who Should Be Shown About City. Jang-a-lang! We answered the phone. It was Otto Case, the indefati-| gable secretary of the Seattle Com-| mercial Club. “Say,” said Otto, “I have just been furnished with a memorandum, of several parties due to arrive in Seattle the next few days over the Great Northern. More are coming on other railroads. I've got an Yeah?” we encouraged him. Why should Seattle concentrate its energies on entertaining visit ors to only two or three of our big meetings here? Why shouldn't we entertain ‘em all? Why shouldn't our societies and clubs make in. quiries of the passenger agents of the railroads, learn when these peo- ple are coming, and arrange to get autos and show them the town? Let's send them ALL away from Seattle full of enthusiasm about our city, and appreciative of our spirit of hospitality Sounds fine, doesn't it? The Commercial Club is going to Every one, almost, can help. For instance, two Pull mans, with a party from the Cleve land Y. M. C. A. arrive here the| morning of July They'll spend the entire day | eattle, A chance for Seattle's Y. M. ©. A. to get busy! A special train from the Brook lyn Datly Eagle arrives July 6, at 2a, m. The party stays in. town until 7 p.m. A chance for Seattle newapapermen! Chicago real estate men get in the morning of the same day. They will be here 12 hours So there you are, folks. There lare scores of such chances, Let's go to it TORNADO KILLS | THREE MORE DEAD catain brought the Ar-| day, When a season's record was es to. The submarine came | tablished at 95 degrees. At & a. m and the commander | it was 87, five degrees warmer thani ty, 5 INJURES MANY LAMAR, Kan., July 1.—Two chil-| dren were killed and 22 persons in | jured in a cyclone which swept th Mud Creek region Tuesday ni nt, according to reports brought here today 1 Hail stones os big as eggs fell during a storm following the cy-| clone KANSAS CITY, July 1.—Three| were killed by & tornado which awept Southern Kansas and North ern Oklahoma early today. Deaths! have been reported at Ottawa coun. Oklahoma, and near McCune| and Muscotah, Kan. “"NEGLECTED FAMOUS jas ye be the deciding vote. Rupert Blue, Visiting dinance a Good One. States Strongly Favors Tuberculin Test. The McBride pure milk ordi- nanc imed to provide against tubercular infection of babies and other consumers of milk in this city, which is to be vot: ed on at the next Monday meet- ing of the city council, has to- day the backing of the United States public health service. Surgeon Generali Rupert Blue, aking at an informal ban- at the Washington Ani night, voiced these senti- ts: he city council should pass proposed McBride sure The public health the milk bill service has always been in fa vor of pasteurized milk or tu- berculin tested cows,” he said. The tuberculin test is recogniz. ed by the ties as the most certain means of detecting tubercular cows, Every city should take measures to have the cows that furnish {ta milk tu berculin tested or the milk pasteur- ized.” Gen, Blue's work has great importance during th he has been surgeon general wiped out the bubonic San Francisco in 1903 and years He again in 1907 and 1908. He attract ed world notice by his operations against yellow fever at New Or leans in 1905. His indorsement of the McBride ordinance, therefore, is looked upon by those ehind the measure here as one of the most Important in dorsements the bill could have. Notwithstanding the general feel ing that the McBride bill is indis. pensable to the welfare and health of Seattle, there is grave danger that the measure may fall to pase the council on Monday Councilman Hesketh, who has not voiced his opinion on the bill . is the dark horse. His will 2 FLEETS CLASH IN BALTIC PORT PETROGRAD, July 1—A German torpedo boat struck a sunk in the Bal- Monday, when Russian vessels engaged ene my ships endeavoring to land troops, an official statement announces. One battleship, four light cruisers, and several torpedo boats appeared off Windau, in tending to disembark troops for an expedition against Riga, torpedo boat struck a mine and was blown up, ~ AUTHORITY highest medica! authort-| been of} ' | in “Birth of a Nation” Just) Wandered Into the Studio ‘Thousands of people have been going to the trouble this week to tickets in show advance for a FOR A MOVIE order movie” sHow! And they've been paying higher prices than for any vaudeville show in Seattle—and quite as much as for many plays on the “legitimate” stage. All this week the Clemmer the atre has been making photoplay history in Seattle. | In faithfulness | Birth of a Nation” in detail, “The| has no equal in lany production, moving pleture or | gtherwise, and it is no wonder D Griffith, the producer, is ac woowiadied today as the peer of them all It is said it coat $500,000 to put ‘The ee of a Nation” into film. All actors Who took part in| The “arth of @ ion” never | on the | late stage | played Most of them got their training un | dew Griffith Mae Marsh, who plays Flora, the pet sister of tl Little Colonel,” and whose leap to death from a precipice to avold dishonor, is one jot the most touching scenes in the | play, ie barely 20 years old. Yet there a® few who can touch the heartstrings of an audience as |she can, It was rather by accident that she became an actress, She was visiting in the Griffith studio. and The Seattle Star : The Only Paper i in Seattle That Dares to Print the News : VOLUME 18. oN ONE CENT OUR COUNCILMIEN WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! Without Hesketh, the council lineup is like this: Against pure milk—4. You can see Hesketh’s position. His decision will decide the fate of the McBride milk ordinance, which comes to final vote next Monday. Now then, let’s put it up to Mister Hesketh. Let’s tell him whether we want him to say the word which will place in jeopardy the lives of Seattle’s children, or will insure them a chance for a clean life, free from the danger of tuberculosis. Tell him whether YOU want tubercular bacilli in the milk YOUR baby nance resolution at AND IT attle? Name . Cut out the above, WRITE ONLY YOUR NAME WITHOUT PASTEURIZATION, OR WITHOUT AND ADDRESS, and mail it. UNSEALED. U S HEALTH HOW MAE BROKE INTO THE MOVIES Girl Who Has Leading Part’: TRAINS NEWS #TANDS, The King County Medical society is unanimously for the new ordi- The Municipal league is for it meeting in the new bill through how to make milk safe from tuberculosis. its convention last year, and pasteurization the only at WAS PASSED WITHOUT A DISSENTING VOTE Every one seems to favor the new milk ordinance except the councilmen lined up against it ple want the change. All right, then—what do YOU think of it, Do you want the new bill? Sign your name and address to the accompanying coupon, and address it like this: Councilman Robert B. Hesketh, I hereby earnestly urge you, Councilman Rob- ert B. Hesketh, to vote in favor of the original McBride milk ordinance. EAT BREAKS SEASON RECORD nnn AST EDITION Weather Forecast Fair and warrr TIDES AT SHATILE - High Low 640 # Ihe ft 19 oom, AO AND 0:08 pom, A M146 pom, TA ft The dairymen themselves passed a Saturday, asking the council to put argue that the doctors differ on The American Medical society, at voted on a resolution declaring the tuberculin test olutely safe methods of combatting this peril Seattle las Some councilmen Some of them are not satisfied, they say, that the peo- Mothers and Fathers of Se- Council Chambers, City Hall, City. It will go for one cent, If sealed, a two-cent stamp is required. THRONGS TAKE DIP Please do not blame Mr. Salisbury. He doesn’t j|make the weather. He reports it. He weighs and measures it with delicately adjusted instruments. Thus |he learns how hot—or cold—it is today and how hot— jor cold—it is likely to be tomorrow. | Mr. Salisbury is not responsible for the heat. jhas asked The Star to tell you this. It appears that fat ta payers have been complain- jing that, if Mr. Salisbury can’t give us cooler weather, {he ought to be fired. It appeared Thursday afternoon as if there was a good chance to beat Wednesday's heat record. At noon the weather bureau. reported the thermometer at 82, and going up. The government kiosk at Second and Yesler stood jat 90 degrees. A breeze helped things some for the folks on the Street. | No records have been broken except this year’s, /On June 8, 1903, it was 96. | ‘The weather man, having shed ev. He hundred and forty-two obtained | garment he can spare, say bathing suits at the munictpal bath the heat wave, which started Wed-| house Wednesday. |nesday, is going to slacken a bit; Hundreds of others splashed in Friday. Lake Washingt Mr, Salisbury’s official thermom- ps eter touched 85 at 4 and 5 o'clock REPRIEVE pe Wednesday, breaking the 1915 rec ALBANY, N.Y, July 1— ord The hottest day last year was July 18, when the mercury climbed ‘0 88. Gov. Whitman today granted former Police Lieutenant Chas. Becker a reprieve until July 26. After a conference with the Official thermometers |darn conservative! The glass at the kiosk at Yesler way and Second ave. said 96 at 4:15. It didn’t get below 90 all aft ernoon on the street level | Everybody said to everybody else Thursday “Is this hot enough for you?” are too This foolish question makes re- governor, Martin Manton, at- b ne impressionable, she made|cently arrived Hasterners home-| torney for Becker, said that, al faces at several things. | sick aside from granting the re. Grittith saw great possibilities tn Nine thousand people took the! prieve, Whitman would not in- the expressions of her face—and| cars to Alki beach Wednesday,| terfere with the carrying out of he jud well es and the travel beachward was| the death sentence imposed Her death scene in “The Birth of| even heavier Thursday. Nineteen! upon Becker. a Nation” {s an achievement of | true art A village had to be built to set the play In istic reproduction of a small town in the old South of the period A battle, in its grimmest moments, is shown The California state militia were and the secured for this pleture for it had to be a real civil war POLICE AND FIRE BANDS TO GIVE PARK CONCERTS plan of battle, over a distance of] rhe Police and Firemen’s bands | Policemen’s band at the “American snr mae prepared by noted|are to give 18 open-air concerts |{ization day” celebration Sunday Nita perta. |during the summer, to supplement afternoon, on Bell s y Griffith used 200,000 feet of film! the bands paid by the ark board,| Jim Crehan, mayors coral in taking the » but it had) and the ones financed by mer-|who has been ‘an active worker ia to be cut to 12,000 so that it could | chants-in the vicinity of Leschi and|the cause, has worked out a pro be presented in a three-hour show. | \iyaison parks grain providing for the vlaying oF A CORRECTION | Thru an error made In the ab- to Prosecutor R. C. McCormick was named Wednesday in a red light abatement suit filed by Lundin as the owner of a property on It developed Thurs. McCormick does } not own the property and is in no way connected with it. stract furnished Lundin, Yesler way. day that Mr. [A + | This was definitely announced }| Thursday with the receipt of a let ter by Mayor Gill from O, M. Sny , secretary of the Musicians’ af jation, giving the bands the per mission of the association to play Snyder, in his letter, pointed out }/ that inasmuch as all the funds ap: ' propriated for band music had {|been expended, the union musi } ians would Ide nothing by it \ the band in the people who cannot afford to go to the park board’s band concerts live. 1e tentative program is: One ce rt at Salmon Bay park; one at Green Lake park; one at Cowen Kk; two at Woodland one at Queen Anne hill; one at the University park one at Pioneer and the water front; one at a Walla playfield; one at Jef ferson park; two at Columbia play- field; one at South Park playfield one at Young's playfield; one at | Hiawatha playfield; one at Alki playfield, and one at Leschi park, districts where The designated season will be from July 1 to October 1, and permission is granted with the understanding it is not to establish a precedent The first concert will be by the names