The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 3, 1915, Page 1

ILLIONS OF MEN IN WAR TRADE?| ] N {SHALL U.S. TRAIN) the breast of nine American citizens out of ten there is a vague disquiet. It is the feeling a man experiences when, after trav- ing for a day with a company of strangers and night 60 in the turmoil of a midnight tempest he hears at door of his sleeping room the prowling feet of robbers, id, knowing that he has much treasure and no arms izes that the traveling companions of the day have be- me thieves, murderers and assassins of the night. the nations might send against us! | How can we get it? How much of an army Must we have? What sort of army shal it be? What will it cost? These and a dozen other critical questions should be tudied by the citizenry, and thus a body of intelligent nion built up that we may understand what congress y_ be trying to do when it meets and confronts its gi- tic tasks. _A mobile army of at least 200,000 men in the ited States is called for by the most modest: pro- ls to increase the regular army; but that would be enough. An alliance of an Asiatic enemy and a European could land troops enough on either shore to lc | for more than this number on each of two fronts ie once. 4 Two hundred thousand trained men, fully equip- : could be landed from Asia in four weeks, 500,- i 1000 in four months, and 1,000,000 in 10 months. 4 Similar invading hosts could be landed from Europe ; National defense requires millions of trained men, not ndreds of thousands. On page 10 today we print the first of a series of on the Swiss army system, a system which trains i men in military ways. | We ask you to read these articles. | They will interest you. WIFE HELD AS SLAYER GOES TO FUNERAL OF HER HUSBAND _ LPROVIDENCE, R. 1, Sept. 3.— $5,000 for killing the physician and arra: for the Laie ed ge girl. the utmost calmness, Mrs.| One negro, the chauffeur, stalled Mohr, accused by three/ Dr. Mohr's car, while the other of having plotted the mur-/two crept up from behind on mo her husband, attended the torcycies, firing the fatal shots. funeral of Dr. C. Franklin) The calmness of the widow has here today. surprised her friend: Dr. Mobr was shot to) She still refused to see reporters and his companion and of-\today, but authorized the reitera-| assistant, Miss Emily Burger, tion of her dental of the: negroes’) Seriously wounded when at- stories, characterizing them as aj while sitting in a stalled “pack of Hea.” on a lonely road near The theory on which the police Mrs. Mohr has displayed the|are working is that Mrs. Mohr be- composure. jeame intensely jealous when told negroes, arrested, told the the physician was paying attention Mrs Mohr was to pay them to Miss Burger. Bible Caused Her to Lose Her Hubby, She Says NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—It was & passage in the Bible that caused Mra. Mollie Koswick to lose her prospective ‘ husband, according to the papers in a soit for $100,000, charging breach of promise. Mrs. Koswick alleges that William A. Waite became en- gaged to her a year ago. In June, she says, Waite dis covered in the Hible that if a divorced man remarried, he for- feite his chances of going to heaven | WS PEACE WITH SHERIFF HODGE 4 Por more than an hour Friday.| sagan Lundin sat closeted with 3 . Hodge, sheriff of King ms ity, in the latter's private of- | The conference is thought to "have been brought about by the itor, who for several days, heen seeking to _ establish Peace between the two offices. - — ave the third time, according} eriff Hodge, that Lundin had Mate an otticial visi to, te SOMMUTZ RETURNS Sheriff's office since their election A breach between them was taused recently when the sheriff's men, suffering a lapse of memory, falled to identify a pack of Chinese Samblers in justice court. Lundin Was prosecuting the case, and was and outspoken in what he Charley Schmutz, a Seattle boy, for the past two seasons with the Brooklyn National league club, was turned over to Seattle by Charley Ebbetts Friday Schmutz is still/ the property of Brooklyn, but will finish the season here. Said about the deputies. | | “We were just talking over buat- Wrior the onterce saa. | TO HONOR GOETHALS) haye nothing to say for publica SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3. ~San | | The high sheriff left his office) Francisco will honor Maj. Gen | Immediately, hastening away In his| George W. Goethats, builder of the Fo-er, Packard car, Pananm canal, Tuesday at the fair JEFF Wouldn’t Even Finish His Story wel, I UNDE estanD 4 GALL THE OFFICERS IN , THE TREUCHES WAR WRIST-WATCES So T MIGHT Ag WELK GET USED To IT say, muTrT, ft JUST SAW THE FUNNIGST THING | A Guy r sitting ON J THE RAIL sfNdD —— f WAS | government, The Seattle Star : The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News : VOLUME 18. 2, I War is murder. War is assassination. War is rob- 4 And our peaceful companions of the sunshine of yes- day are, some of them at least, the midnight assassins this night of civilization, looking greedily our sures. We must prepare for defense. We must have an army.{! We must have an army great enough to repel from our ores any landing army of invasion which any nation or Se AUSTRALIAN B NO. 164. SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, GIVE PORT WARDEN AN AWKWARD HOUR Juvenile Visitors From Antipodes Quiz Paysse and Boalt on Harbor Facilities, and They Mark It All Down in Their Note Books. By Fred L. Boalt ORT WARDEN PAYSSE and | did a good stroke of business for While cruising about the harbor in the port war-| annihilation. ye poured into 35 pai den’s launch, w eager Australian S pattle yesterday. ears so many facts of young and gures and fancies about Seattle, the Seaport of Success, that, if upon the return home of the Australian Student Tourists, this city does not rise in the estimation of the folks “down|the brush and closing under,” it won't be because we didn’t do our best. The Australian Student Tourists demanded more} facts and figures than fancies. The 35 tourists range in years from 10 to 20. tenant J. L. Simons, who is in charge of the party, says) been forewarned when the nero- Lieu- they represent the flower of the West Australian youth. It must be true. never met. A wiser, more alert bunch of kids || raiders yesterday were recovered And earnest! | like to think they will go back to Australia, and, in telling the home folks about America, retail Paysse’s facts and figures and my fancies anent the Seaport of Success. | feel The Student Tourists were sent to this country by the Young Aus tralia League, of Perth. They were selected from all West Of all the boys of West Aust | they are the pick in scholarly at in deportment, in nd in versatility. Paysse Has Awful Time They are to see what they shall tainment: physique, seo and later tell about it. They ha fairs. They arrived part of the cost of t by giving concerts. the cost the parents of the boys Frankly, Paysse an fal time. as I dealt with western America, including terday, spent the day with Paysee, | and left last night for Vancouver. All the boys are musicians, and falls upon the Australian | league My part was the easier, fancies. sure they will. Australia. league a @ seen South both | in Seattle yes- is in the air he trip je met, It was The rest of| and the|!9 the BY c. WASHINGTON, Sept hinted concessions to the submarine " Mexicans before being killed. Boil- ers LF, price phar fenavaice ing water was poured over them, (Continued on Page 11) PEACE “FEELER” ~ IS THROWN OUT P. STEWART 3.—Peace here today that Germany's United States controversy | might be of such nature as to lead da thad an aw-jto further Paysse negotiations in the “right direction.” Today diplomats belleve events was suffering from brain fag WheD| ary moving with moderate rapidity the cruise was finish ed. His stock |The belligerent of facts and figures was exhausted are throwing out peace “feelers The Crose-Examine: | Powerful interests are encourag We thought It would be easy, but|ing them. Experts “sense” a re- ft wasn't. The crossexamination |turn of “sanity” at the belligerent began the minute the launch left | capitais Pier 1 It continued up the East The following are among the waterway. It was going good at tangible signs of this new feeling West Seattle. It wa: at Fout-mile rock guished the along fringe docks, Paysse increased the speed of the launch and w “First thing I know these kide'll It had not lan-| at Smith's Cove. | As we were completing the circle,| by 8 at its height; submarine the of downtown | that the hispered was in Germany's open unofficial from Amba’ Berlin memorandum behalf of Amercan co-operation Germany's concessions in the contro! dor securing to end ask me something I can't anawer!"| hostilities. When the Student Tourists The German ambassador's werent taking notes, they were recent informal outline of Ger- taking pictures. And when they| many’s peace terms. weren't taking pictures, they were| Sir Edward Gri asking questions—questions which| gion that at least t showed they knew a surprising lot of freedom of the about navigation and kindred sub-| vanced by Germany Is nego- jects and wanted to Boys Demand the Facts know more tlable | The assurances from Great modification of the tentative White House The 10-year-old asked as many| Britain of questions as any of them. | rule of blockade. Nearly every question began| — Pope Benedict's with, “I say, sir—" overtures to the Paysse began by describing the thru Cardinal Gibbon (Copyright. 1918, by Tf C. Fisher) BROWNSVILLE, S 3.—American soldiers sur-| rounded the Mexican mur-} lderers of Earl and J. H. Smith in the} brush near Fresno today.| Donaldson, Smith and Stan-| ley Dodd were kidnaped by Mexican bandits yesterday Dodd escaped and Ameri- can soldiers and civilians Started in pursuit of the desperadoes. Early this afternoén the bandits were battling for their lives. Three Mexi- cans, including one woman, have already been killed. Reports here declare a band of 50 or 60 raiders faces Aviators Sight 'Em Aviators sequting ahead of the American troops located ‘the Mexi- cans, They could not drop bombs on the bandits for fear of hitting soldiers who were scattered thru | | fa, The jbrush where the Mexicans are mak-| jing this stand is so thick it Is im: possible to see more than a few feet ahead. When the camp of the! Mexicans was located, however, it was raided and the bandits, having| | planes were sighted took to fight.) {Animals which were stolen by the and a quantity of dynamite was found In the camp. Tortured Victims Stanley Dodd, the surviving mem- der of the trio of Americana kid-! aped yesterday, sald Smith and) naldson were tortured by the fieclares. The heads and bodies of the two Americans were riddled with bullets. Poases are forming thruout this region today and practicaliy every- one armed in anticipation of a general border battle. MEXICAN SOLDIERS TAKEN NOGALES, Ariz, Sept 3.—A band of Mexicans ‘attempting to steal a herd of cattle from the Ed Holler ranch, one mile west of here today was rounded up by Line Rider Glover and ten soldiers {rom the 12th infantry. Surrounded, the Mexicans fought until one felt wounded. Two surrendered and four escaped over the border into Mexico, The prisoners said they |had been ordered to raid the Amer fean side to get food for Nogales | | Sonora, where Gov. Maytorens, Vi)- lista commander, is bottled up by | Carranzist (MUST FINANCE HIS | _ WIFE'S. DIVORCE, | Clyde L. man and president of the C. L. Morris Construction Co., was ordered Friday by Judge Jurey to deposit $250 with Mrs. Marion L.| Morris’ attorneys in order that she| |may go ahead with her divorce. | He was also commanded to pay her $100 4 month during the time the case is pending in superior} court 1915. (ANS, 3 MEXICA RDER BATTLE RAGING OYS [Max ept. Maxine his infatuation was as frank as it was ardent. | their titles, financiers offered her | wealth last winter was familiar gossip in London drawing rooms, tho their | Per picture. | engagement was never formally an- nounced form Maxine Elliott Morris, wealthy clubd-|Of the drawing definitely from society Miss Elliott fitted out a supply boat j}It was an there were no men in Calais, where jit was anchored, to help clean tt and cleaning her direction, it was stocked with food and clothing and taken to Bel- “ on PARIS, Sept. 3—Maxine El. llott, famous American actress, is facing death day and night In the trenches on the Beigian battie front, or In a damp and musty supply boat, on the Ypres canal, because Anthony Wilding is dead. The secret that has both and London society at last out. Anthony F. Wilding, brave soldier, world-famous tennis star, was her lover. And when word came several months ago from Constantino- pl that Wilding had died in action in the Dardanel Max. ine Elliott flung her life in death's face in the foul-emell- Ing trenches. That Wilding was devoted to Elliott all London knew; Peers had offered her | and position, but Maxine} That they were to t ied drawing rooms. Her slain hero- r nonein in lover, A. F. Wilding, corner of up- Wilding’s deeth seemed to trans- The favorite rooms With the ald of Lady Drogheda, old, musty boat an Maxine Elliott did the scrubbing! herself, and, under THAINS NEWS STANDS, Be NS HAGUE TO SETTLE IT withdrew) WASHINGTON, } States is willing to settle the Lusitania snd Arabic 4 tion claims at The Hague, it was CAN’T GET BULGAR IN department | | United declared today Settlement of claims relates only to the amount the kaiser shall pay for the lives of AND ine Elliott F aces Death i Trenches When Lover Is Donaldson! Her Soldier-Lover Slain in Dardanciles; Seeks Same Fate. Maxine Elliott on her supply boat, Sept at the state the mericans who were lost when the! war 2:25 pm, A268 p,m, 128 ft SL 3.—The repara- reparation! AST EDITION WEATHER FORECAST—Fair TIDES High. AT SEATTLE Low. 124 ft. 41a ‘ee OSES ALL WIFE SAYS Superior Judge Jurey al- lowed Mrs, Ethel |, McCurdy, of 3314 Third ave. W., a divorce ified her years squandered gambling in China- | town. “I don’t know just where he went,” she said, “but he toid | me there were five or six | places that he visited. He said a gambler n d China Pete | got most of his money. When | he went to Chinatown, which was nearly every night, he seldom came home until! 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning.” Mrs. McCurdy said he had never supported her properly and when their baby girl was born, nearly jfour years ago, she had to find em- | Ployment to keep the child and her- self from starving. | Threatened to Kill Her A year and a half ago, she said, they separated. McCurdy was & jheavy drinker, she told the court, |and had threatened to kill her twice, Being a plumber, she said, he was able to earn $4 or $5 a day, when he worked. She stated that |she wished no alimony, but was amply capable of earning enough to support herself and the »baby. Judge Jurey, however, said he considered it the duty of the court to provide for the maintainance of the child and ordered McCurdy to pay $20 monthly alimony. Prepare for Heari Despite the fact that’ eit voted to exclude the gambling sit- uation from the investigation next week of Chief of Police Lang, prep- arations for the hearing are being completed. Corporation Counsel Bradford, who will present the case against the chief, went over the evidence Friday which is to be introduced to | substantiate the charges that Lang |has been guilty of conduct unbe- coming an officer. SHIP IS SUNK 1,870 DROWN Elliott remained indifferent until | the a Rath Kot Ragas 7 rey the yc tennis star laid sie: | worn a le front. Miss , her (ond Racca apoiea tte ‘°| below, as she’s known in London BERLIN, Sept. 3.—A British transport struck a mine at the rance to the Dardanelles and was destroyed, with 1,870 men aboard, a Sofia dispatch stated here today. Ali of those on board—320 officers, 1,250 soldiers and 300 members of the vessel’s crew—were drowned. Six hundred bodies were recovered. PARIS, Sept. 3.—Diplomats have almost abandoned hope of securing Bulgaria's early entrance into the Serbia’s answer to the pro- posal that Macedonia be ceded Bulgaria as compensation for the latter's participation on the side of the allies, is understood to be ia- | sufficient. mis| JAPS FURNISH GUNS lsions today made public charges of! LONDON, Sept. 3.—The British earlier) government has received hundreds Wood,| of thousands of | gf liners were destroyed. | | gium | Mrs. Morris ts seeking a divorce.|""resnite warnings, she has re 5 BIER | 2 or |peatedly forced her way into the TRAGES |WILSON TO SEE EXPO |.3 tie trise’ ine ‘than’ “any otter E wore engaged In relfef work In| mw YORK, Sept. 3.—The board| WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—Ru.| PUTO! . of commissioners of foreign mors that President Wilson will] Danser seems to fascinate her, visit San Franciseo were revived horrible Turkish outrages against} here today when the White House! Columbia River Grape carnival|Armeniana, substantiating Jannounced the president would not|to be held at Kennewick Septem-icabled reperts of Henry ireturn to Cornish this year. ber, and 15, “THE YoaT GAVE A LURCH AND —— PRoceed! Proceed? Warr A minute ¢ J /Tt. Go Ger (Your PowDE R United Press staff correspondent, By “Bud” Fisher rifles made in Japan, it was learned today. You can read about bargains to your heart's content in The Star to day. And if you will make up your Saturday shop- ping list while you do so you can save a mighty neat sum of money. Se- attle's best, livest stores fell about their best bar- gains today. No matter what you intend to buy Saturday, Clothing, Shoes, Millinery, Groceries, Dry Goods, you'll find It adver- tised and at a money-sav« ing price. Take advantage.