The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 4, 1916, Page 1

A LOCAL BANKER ~-who is also vice president of the gas com- pany, is against preparedness. A member of an international peace society is for it. Their letters—and others—are on page 8. THE VOLUME 18 SEATTLE, WASH.,, TUESI AY, APRIL 4, 1916. Call Seattle ‘Lawyer’ S ‘Tragic Death Accidental i' TARMY SPEEDS| SOUTHWARD IN VILLA CHASE Near Chihuahua aking Quick Time U.S. T City; ! lean troops are approaching the Durango state line south of Chi- huahua . City, surprising army observers by the rapidity of their southward march. On Friday Col. red at San Antonio, near Cusihuiriachic. Simultaneously Francisco Vil- mountains. believed he will not at- to join Canuto Reyes in region. Instead he will probably hide tn the Durango Sierras. a thousand § Carranzistas | reported today marching | i poetaware on + sehhagar Absence of definite reports from the pursuit Teceued in Washington Brig. Gen. Pershing a re- Satevo with a reported he being hurt, the only an indirect | cutters, who claim- with a broken leg has since stated that clues from Mexicans are often ve Prose Staff Correspondent ARMY HEADQUARTERS, DUBLAN, Mex.—(By Motor to Co- sage lb N. M., April 4.)—Tho Col. 3 Dodd has been credited with American victory over Villistas San Geronimo, . Erwin led the 400 cavairymen ony Ii-hour ride which resulted tn! complete rout of the bandits. | ly all the Villistas had their saddled and were ready to| as Col. Erwin's men swept cs from the w only to fire a hurried vol- | , they ose gry to their horses and "raced toward the east. The Americans pursued. yelling | end shooting. clinging to their | peomaged with their legs so their arms w ‘ould be free to manipulate “rifles and revolvers. | | For five hours the saddieworn | Americans kept up the pursuit over d and dangerous mountain t Erwin’s men administered 1s overwhelming defeat after hav-_ been 22 hours In the saddle. The American cost was only fou | tr ypers Petree: WASHINGTON, April 4.—Adadi-| _ tional American forces crossed the _ border and entered Mexico south _ of Columbus last Sunday, the war, | department announced today. They _ will be used to strengthen lines of | _ communication. The reinforce- ments are oot ments _o! h cavalry Fit \ tal A Hh Wy SONG BETS ATER GONTRAGTORS :s23==== DUTCH REFUSE ALLY REQUEST BERLIN, April 4.—Holland has flatly refused the allies’ in- formal request that its German frontier be closed as an aid to the campaign of arvation,” it was reported today. There is no doubt that devel- opments at the allied military conference in Paris inspired re cent Dutch warlike activity, ac- cording to belief here. Allied ministers at The Presented formal “feelers” Dutch foreign office. Queen Wilhelmina replied by |summoning her parliament and can celling all army furloughs, it was | stated. Several sources reported that the Dutch minister of agriculture order: ed an accounting of all foodstuffs jand grain in the Netherlands MAN BADLY BURNED Gus Carlberg, a sheet metal worker, was buried about the head | and hands Tuesday morning, when a charcoal burning blow pot ex ploded. He was working on the new Heffernan residence at 27th ave. and Washington bivd. Attend Hague to the to be detach- lants at the Swedish hospital said| he would recover Fingers! | fh Contractors are violat- ing the spirit of the city charter by discriminating against American citizens, some of whom are heads of families, according to charges made to city coun- cilmen, A resolution calling for an investigation was scheduled to go before a special meeting of the council Tuesday afternoon. The resolution, introduced by | Bolton, directs the board of public works to furnish the council with & complete report as to the exact conditions under which the Wash ington Paving Co. 1s fulfilling its| contract for extensive grading In the vicinity of West 32nd ave. | The report must state whether | |the “spirit of the city charter as to employment of American citizens is being violated and a boarding camp conducted in such manner as |to discriminate against men with families.” |Counciimen Bolton, Hesketh | Fitzgerald, and also to The Star. Men with families, j the work, say they jcamp at } $1 a day “JITNEY LAW STANDS E INGHAM, April 4 junction sought by A. LL, keep the city provisions of the fitney An tn bus ordin. Brawley was communicated to Washington. | ave ance was denied by Superior Judge’ not only FALLS EIGHT STORIES 10 PAVEMENT | Bamford i a at ‘ally iy aH) {i\) |man | where he died In a few minut IN ALLEY A. Robb Plunges! From Office in Lowman Building | WAS SITTING ON SILL) Police inquiry into the death of Attorney Bamford A. Robb, wealthy clubman, who was found dead after plunging eight stories from his offices in the Lowman buliding to the alley Monday night, ended Tuesday when they learned he was. in the habit of daily sitting on the low window sill. No request has been made to the coroner for an inquest Present indications point toward & general acceptance of the theory | that he came to his death acct | dentally. About 8 o'clock Monday night F. | L. Conforth, First ave, was passing by the alley on Cherry st between First and Second aves He heard something hit the tele graph wires tn the alley, and looked | up to see the body of a man stopped | for a second on its crash to the pavement. Dies at City Hospital An ambulance was called, and the taken to the city hospital Police found a broken lysol h under the body, A paruy fled bot tle of lysol found in Robb's office cabinet. U p in the Lowman bullding they found the lights on in Robb's office and the doors locked from the In side TEPPELINS IN ANOTHER RAID, BERLIN (By Wireless to Sayville), April 4,—Zeppelins again raided the southeast coast of England last night and dropped explosive bombs on the fortifications of Great Yar. mouth, the admiralty announc ed today. The Zeppelins returned in afety, altho they were subject dd to a heavy shelling by the Britioh, U.S.CODE STOLEN BY CARL W. ACKERMAN United Press Braff « BERLIN, April 4 Ambassadors} Seattle |Gerard and Penfield and Minister Van Dyke Complaints have been made to|ed in a protest to the state depart and|ment against the continued use of at The Hague have join American diplomatic the present ving near | code. cant get jobs| unless they board In the company’s | American | from ota to the Balkans shortly It learned today that an code book was stolen an attache of the American| be | was fore the outbreak of the war. Secret service men tried for} weeks to trace it before the loss| It is not known what belligerent Allen, to| possesses the volume, but American from enforcing the| envoys important Buropean power can are convinced that the diplomatic but thel naval secret code. y | special j committee Attorney 8. H. Kelleran, who oc cupies part of the sulte, was work ing In his office. thought nothing of tt. He did not know of Robb's death, he said, unt! the police questioned him Robb's room was tn order, The wistow was wide open. His coat were thrown over a chair The aiaae sill ts but £0 inches high. Was Lying on the Lounge | The Lowman building Janitor said |Robb had answered the door when jhe knocked early in the evening and had told him to come in and |clean the room, which he did He said Robb was resting on the lounge, and that he locked the door ter the janitor went out Business friends, including John J. Sullivan and C, K. Poe, say Robb was tn the best of spirits Monday Poe said Robb habitually went to \"". window sill to sit down. Robb was 43 years of age. es a wife at 520 Boylston ave. | He was a member of the Seattle 1 Golf club and the Rainter club. GREECE BALKS! BERLIN, “Aprit 4.—Greece hae requested the allies to withdraw all their military es tablishments at Salonika, ac- | cording to dispatches from Athens today. MAY REJECT BIDS All bids for the $ $370,000 ‘Tenth | bridge ds will be rejected by the city council if the recom mendation to be presented at a meeting by the finance| Tuesday afternoon is | followed. Legal questions are blocking the deal | ONE CENT persons were killed when fire de |two hours. The Seattle Star ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS : } NEWS SeWS ara. IF YOU BELIEVE IN GOING TO BED EARLY AT NIGHT— Don't, for heaven's sake, read the complete novel which The Star is going to publish next week, begin- ning Monday, as soon Siren of the Snows, running, is finished. The new story Is “The Ward of Tecumseh,” by Chit- tenden Marriott, and will appear complete In The Star In six instaliments. it’s the sort of a yarn that is hard to lay down if you once start it, now A French nobleman dies In Eastern Canada and leaves his daughter in the re of Chief Tecumseh. A lute Englishman, mem- ber of one of the branches of the family, tries to get the girl, in order to marry her for her fortun The chief has sent for a member of the father's fam- ily to hurry northward from Alabama in the meantime, the war of 1812 breaks out, and the girl, declaring her heart Is red and not white, goes with Tecumseh and the British to war on the Ameri. cans. She is dressed a boy and is not recognized un- tll she reaches Fort Wayne. Her former nurse makes the discovery and keeps it a se- cret. In the meantime, the mem- ber of the family arrives in search of her. He proves to be a handsome youth. The girl falls in love with him. She Is torn by her conflict- ing love and patriotism, How @ it all turn out? Read the story and see. GOV. JOHNSON ALMOST SURE TO COME HERE SACRAMENTO, Apri! 4.—Gov. Jonnson said today he will accept, If possible, the many invitations he has received to speak on nonpar- tisanship in the state of Washing: | to fam sd heartily in sympathy with the effort now being made to} carry nonpartisanship in the state of Washington,” said the governor, “that, {f possible, I shall accept the many Invitations extended to me to visit there and participate in the campaign. My difficulty will be to arran: dal Jonpartisanship tn state affairs | is as certain of ultimate success as government is certain to progress and improve. The time is coming | when men in state affairs will be | chosen as men and for what they represent rather than because they belong to thelr grandfather's | party 200 KILLED IN A FIRE LONDON, April 4.—Two hundred powder factory in the stroyed a it was officially an county of Kent nounced today The fire broke out last week news of it day. The official statement said it was accidental, Serious explosions oceurred at frequent Intervals for They could be heard in London. Germans announced that Friday night's Zeppelin raid had started fires in several munitions fac tories near London, However, the |county of Kent was not mentioned AINT BOILS; FIRE Fire which started in a plumbing shop in the basement of a frame house at 511 Madison st Tuesday morning damaged the establish ment to the extent of $100, Bolling paint started the blaze. A THOUSAND WOMEN’S GUSTY SIGHS GREET MODELS AT MEN’S STYLESHOW fe Went(Poor Nut) and a Our Wife: We're Off These Fashion Shows for Life; Today's She's Mad and Mean and Naggy, and All Because Our Pants Are Baggy) EATH languorous lights "'N against a field of flaming orange stepped the models —their chiseled chins held high A thousand women breathed ard A thousand men, with trousers bagey at the knee, scrambled to get their bush league hats, under » the eats. Ten men models, wearing only what is proper and right, were parading in a men's fashion show, staged by Cheasty’s hab- erdashery, at the Coliseum Mon day night. One by one, they sallied out One by one, they strolled, glove in hand, hat on head—biase os you ple -while the women sighed and the pikers gaped The tremulous music had died away, and the lights had been dimmed, and a dull drab silence pervaded the house Women with hungry he: cursed fate for giving them upifteresting men NONE OF 'EM MARRIED The 10 model dressers live arts a) The “Afternoon Formal” Boy right here in Seattle, buy their clothes at Cheasty's, and not a single one of them is married Not one! So, ladies, don't husbands and fellers the parlor because possess that majestic that makes a model look upon kick your all over they don't omething sweet to Re reasonable Remember that the lights, and the color, and the music, and the canes, and yellow gloves, all had something to do with ft Remember that they wore duds selected with a paaston for class and cut Now take instance Henry ber, with the ed down all with a wee belt Henry Dorian, for came out, you remem Panama hat turn around, and a coat in the back, and ay bit of white stocking trouser and top of his shoe! He carried a cane, you remember, | and nad yellow gloves, Open-Throat Shirts for Sports Well, take {t from us, Henry is no such Apollo wen he's on his regular job keeping books He gete dirty and everything Just like the rest of us. Take it from us, girls, it was what he did with his clothes, and where he did !t, that got him by Not that we're running Henry down, y'understand, He's prob: ably all right, and a good fellow, but, darn him, he has got us In wrong with our wife. She we've got to doll up in an outfit | like that one he had on Ale Arnson, who wore the white silk sport shirt, and the lily-colored trousers, and the duck hat, and twirled a tennis racquet, {s no demon on the courts in real Mfe, In fact, he spends most of his time behind the counter at Cheasty's | And so {t was with all the els (Darn the luck; we'll en with ‘em!) don't hang says | around studios ‘om Jacobs, ‘ ing Wear the “formal « boy, goes to Queen |night prayer m Anne high school Albert Stubb, who knocked ‘em cold in his “afternoon for- mal,” goes to the university And so it ts, girls. The boys tn the fine duds and the Apollolike figgers are just like your own sort of men. Brush back their hair, get ‘em some gloves and a cane, and an after noon formal coat, and the dream comes true |REV. SLAUGHTER TO REMAIN AS PASTOR, CHICO, Cal, April 4.—Determin ed to continue as pastor of his chureh here, but resolved never to set foot in his pulpit until five im morality Indictments against him are disposed of, Rev, Madison Slaughter announced — today would conduct the Wednesday ting as usual and meet all members of hi* congrega tion face to face, ON TRAINS . but} was withheld until to-| he} Don’t let father his umbrella when morning. Witness tribution today: unsettled; probably aun NDS be LAST EDITION forget his rubbers and he goes to work in the George Salisbury’s con- “Tonight and Wednesday showe HAFTER THREE MONTHS OF PROHIBITION-WHAT? DRUNKENNESS ARRESTo IN CITY SHOW INCREASES NEW DRUG STORES OPEN 'BusinessMen DeclareRental Conditions Have Improved, However, and That People Buy More Articles for the Home Than Before Jan. 1” eo @ March shows a startling | arrests ie drunkenriess. | crease over February. increase in the number of @ Violators continue to trifle with the prohibition hw and pay penalty. @ Fifty new drug stores hav e sprung up since January @ Business men are satisfied with rental conditions, which show improvemnt. Investigation of tions in Seattle after three months of prohibition de- velops two facts: The map of the business section has been changed as complete- ly as that of Europe will be altered after the -war,. ~ afidwhat is considered the most “air-tight” anti- liquor law in operation has proved inadequate to stem the ever increasing flow of spirituous beverages March was a blustery month for | the prohibitionists | Not only did drunkenness increase jover the previous month, but it ex ceeded the two previous months, jand more than doubled the Febru-| ary record. | The squad of tipplers who found | |their way {nto the police station! |during March numbered 294. Dur. ing February the number was 117, and during January only 94, The record for March, as a mat-| |ter of fact, Is only 66 lower than that of the same month 8 veer ago. condi- N ite rr During March last hers eae | Juveniles were picked up intoxt-| }ecated, This year during the same | |month the number was reduced to five. | “But there have been no wife| beaters,” said Sergeant Roy Olm- | stead. Two special details of police, jconsisting of two sergeants and |three to four men each, have been | working constantly trying to en- | torce the law. Prosecutions have | failed in but few instances The records in the auditor's of | fice at the courthouse show that in January, 2.117 permits to ship} | liquor into the state were tasued. In February the number creased to 4,269, and in March es n- | | 1 Beer Shipments Increase March beer shipments into the state increased over February by more than 10,000 quarts, but orders | for other liquor decreased some- what | Orders range as follows for March: Beer, 33,312 quarts; whis-| ides, 6,309 quarts; rum, brandy, | 139; alcohol, 169; gin, 59; ver-| mouth, 13, and wines, 238 quarts. | Hundreds of gallons of liquor | have been destroyed by the police | as fast as its owners were con-| victed | Those convicted under the city | ordinance now are being charged! also under the state law and tried in superior court in an effort to| stamp out the traffic in contra-| band | Storerooms Are Filling Up } @ empty saloons are filling up| at a very satisfactory rate, said) Henry Broderick, one of the largest | dealers in rentals in the city, “And,” he added, “rents been reduced from 10 cent.” A department store manager who | | was strongly against prohibition before Jan. 1, and who has asked that his name be not used with bis | | Statement, said “To tell the truth, jis much better than It was. Peo |ple are buying more for their| homes, and, on the whole, have a| More prosperous appearance than formerly.’ \ZEPS OFTEN ROUTED) have per to 25 our business | LONDON, April 4 one recent attempted raid on England has been od without the public's knowledge, Under Secretary Tennant declored | ain the house of commons today, More than Zeppelin | \to wed by very old eggs, with unhappy, turbing odors. They were plastered with curacy over the front door veranda, according to Patterson, This evidently not sat the bombarders, the door opened and a few tosse. the hallway. Patterson wae especially de tailed by Prosecutor Luni handle liquor cases ra | weeks ago, and belleves some persons convicted thru his ef. | forts threw the eggs. ; POISONER 1S SUED BY WIFE FOR DIVORCE eonenanarnoapenninoeenttthy, yooririetvervensverceneisiessuneneneen SSO ST MRS ARTHUR WAITE GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, April 4, Divorce was demanded today im a suit filed by Mrs. Arthur Warren Waite, whose husband has con- fessed that he poisoned John Peck, nis wealthy father-inlaw, in New York In her complaint, she charged her husband gained her consent fraud, treated her ecru- elly afterward, gnurdered her par- ents, planned to kill her and plot- ted to slay other members of her family She alleged he had {legal rela- tions with Mrs. Margaret Horton and other women “unknown to the plaintiff” ‘BRANDS | IT FOOLISH SAN FRANCISCO, April 4.—Re- ports that German ships interned in South American ports are planning to arm and go (o sea as commerce raiders were declared “nonsense” today by K. Reid, who escay ‘trom the Teuton ship Henrietta,