The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 13, 1916, Page 1

LIKE A SERPENT Theda Bara has often been described as the “serpent” of the movies. Now she confesses she purposely dresses like a snake. She tells of her gowns—and why she wears them. See page 8. The Seattle Sur 2 ARP RAPALA LA PALL ALLA THE {: THE ONLY F PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1916. Le oa 18 ON TRAIN NEWS WTA ONE CENT ARRANZA THREATE MAYOR GILL Vi WANTS CITY TO SELL ALL LIQUOR: REQUESTS US. > TO WITHDRAW | ITS SOLDIERS COLUMBUS, N. M., April 13 (Cen- sored ).—While it would not be advisable |/— for the American forces to withdraw from Mexico at present, a break will be inevitable if Carranza’s request is not granted, in the opinion of a high military authority at the army base camp Many officers believe the troops will be withdrawn. Ail officers declare it significant that are occupying strategic commanding the: American Hines. 2 taken for their effect. WASHINGTON, April 13. Carranza considers that “it is already time to treat with the United States for withdrawal of their forces from our territory.’ ‘This announcement in a note from the) de facto government’s secretary of state, al text of which has arrived here, brought the administration face to face today with what may prove the most serious situation that ha grown out of the pursuit of Francisco Villa. | The Mexican embassy here declared the note was not an| “ultimatum” nor a “demand,” but rather a “request,” asking | for negotiations looking toward withdrawal of American |"° troops, giving constitutionalists a free hand to continue the Villa chase. At a 25-minute conference with Secretary Lansing, Mex-| ican Ambassador Arredondo presented Gen. Carranza’s sug-| gestion that American troops withdraw. After the meeting | Arredondo was reticent, altho he suggested Lansing had not yet had sufficient time to consider the matter President Wilson has canceled his proposed trip to New) York Saturday for the purpose of addressing the Young Men’ 3| Democratic league. Declaring that the de facto regime never formally agreed} to let American troops cross the border, the note said: “The Mexican government judges it convenient to sus-| pend for the present all discussion of negotiations in this! particular.” | Believes Own Men Are Equal to Task | “Disoccupation” of Mexico by American troops was asked | on the ground that Villa’s band is dispersed and on the fur-| ther ground that Carranzista troops believe themselves able to complete the task of exterminating the bandit leader and his band. : er Officials today frankly admitted there was a possibility of a misunderstanding having existed in negotiations with Carranza as far as they have gone The United States troops Mekico while protocol under which Carranza proposed the chase should be conducted was being completed, and before it had been fully agreed to. Now Carranza declines to complete this agreement or protocol, and. suggests that it is time to arrange for a with- drawal of American forces, taving further pursuit to Car- ranzistas. In proposing the protocol, Car ranza's tote says, Mexico*did not consider the raid on Columbus it gelf should result in Invasion | He emphasizes that it must have | been clear that Mexico gave the U. 8. troops permission to cross | (Continued on page 5) wes IT HAS THE PUNCH a @ Hazel Weir never saw Bill W agstaff until he kidnaped her and took her to his home, against her will, way up North did this unromantic beginning, Bertrand W » affair that fascinates from start to finish that isn’t mush It’s not that kind of a wel-a-week in The Star it’ NCH | | } entered he GENEVA, April 13.—It w reported today that the kaiser had returned to Potsdam on | account of iliness caused by | worry over the failure of the | Verdun offensive and the great sacrifice of lives there. Sinclair It’ story wt next that has the Pl If you miss it, you're denying elf ON MONDAY and finish it Saturday the novel is “North of Fifty-three.” affair wee and a novel a real treat night. The your BEGIN name of| |vote ts to bring political pressure | Rood, HIGH SPOTS IN MAYOR GILL’S STATEMENT @ “I am in favor of asking the legislature to enact a law which would permit the city of Seattle to sell whisky on prescription.” ‘te te © et & © @ “If I have my way, these saloon-drug stores are going to be put out of business.” rt 2 @ © *~_* * © * @ “I am told some of these men have come in here to sell whisky, prepared to suffer occasional arrest, figuring they can get rich at it, in spite of fines and confiscated stocks. “tw & © “e+ @& * @ “I am in favor of getting rough with these fellows.” SUFFRAGE | PARADE IS |°° T° chuRCH ON SunDAY ARRANGED W ITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN MEXICO, Sun- day, April 9, by Courier to Columbus, N. M., nacie, the star-sprinkled sky for a canopy and a batter- ‘ainelliie several Seattle Women Plan Enter- April 13.—With a arroyo as a taber- & box fas an altar, hundred khaki-clad soldiers bared rt heeds it in th of thelr God. wr! eee me Precence Sround, echoed to A touch of modernism was added in Billy Sunday's “Brighten the Corner Where You Are.” The smug church-goers in the “States” might ha stood aghast at the absence of sectarian niceties in the conduct of the service. The four chaplains were cfeered and applauded as each in turn clambered onto the soap box restrum to preach or lead the singing. CIGARETS AND PIPES GLOWED IN THE DARK- NESS, but the congregation was attenti d reverent. e chaplains met the men in the game spirit. They ermons with amusing anecdotes and per ations that drew unrestrained laughter from their hearers. By invitation of the chaplains, the sermons were in- terepersed by what Father Joyce termed “vaudeville MASS MEETING CALLED| Eastern suffrage envoys who ar! rive tn Seattle May 1 will be kept) busy for two days filling a schedule worked out by local women at the Lincoln hotel Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont and the other visiting suffrage envoye will be met by the committee of Seat- tle women voters at 10 @ m, on the morning of May 1, and jota to an automobile After lu eon in the homes of Seattle women, they wil! attend a reception at the University club and at 6 p. m. be guests of Mra Hugh Rood at the Rainier club Mase Meeting at Moore The big mass meeting will be | neta that evening at the Moore theatre. Only the boxes will be sold. The public is invited At 10 a. m. Tuesday they will be! GETS DETECTIVES ON JOB | probably speak to students there. Noon luncheon, in charge of} Mrs. Frederick Karl Struve, will) be served at the New Washington Formal general orders detailing every member of the police depart ment to concentrate efforts against | boot-legging, were signed by Chief ! will attend a reception at the | Sunset club in the afternoon aioe | of Police Beckingham Thursday morning 3 to 5. Train Started Satur Secretary of Pollee Charles Sul livan was then Instructed to see Carrying 31 suffragets, the spe cial train left Washington, D. C., that all members of the depart |ment were informed of the action, | Saturday | Following is the order The object of the crusade into} the states where women already| “It will be the duty of every member of this department to TROOPS FIRED UPON IN PARRAL' SAN ANTONIO, 4 April 13.—Carranzista soldi and Mexican citizens at Parral fir- ed on American troops there, Consul Letcher, at Chihuahua City, reported today, giving a8 | port here thority G Gutierrez. | “They are supposed to be going were no casualties. |to a certain drug store,” explained Gen. Gutierrez has adopted a) the lieutevant. “I sent two motor complaining attitude, Letcher re-|cycle men out and they couldn't ported n “ a the ae) ; 7 on A Walter G: He said he had no idea that the} he new chief frowned pose tap ure hc Senne’ Americans were so far south, and! “Have Capt. Tennant send out Mrs, A. H. Daugherty, Mrs, Hugh| expressed surprise at their march-| two detectives,” ordered the chief. Mrs. R. D. Merrill, Mre, A. H.|ing powers, This was interpreted | “We want to keep on our toes on Anderson, ‘Mrs, Daniel Kelleher,/as meaning that the Carranzistas| this kind of stuff.” Mrs, George McMillan, Miss Mary|had not intended permit the Sergt . G Carr, assistant in Prendergast [Americans to progress so far into|spector, was, ordered out to . a Georgetown to relieve Capt. D. F. bees fired and forty men, be-| Willard, who will be brought In to ° ‘|central besdquarters to take the | Heved to be part of Maj. Tompkins’ | cen ‘ command, prised the force} place of Capt. Stuart, who has NEW YORK, April 13.—A 3 rumor that German Ambasea- | he passed thru Parral They kept on marching, Me paying little attention to fir. | | ing. dor Von Bernstorff would be handed his passports within a fortnight caused a drop In the stock market today ye SPEAK 100 TIMES: Tho the story was uncon- DES MOINES, Ifa, April 13 firmed and without basis ex |The final round-up of the Towa com paign for votes for women opened here today, with the arrival of Mrs Carrie Chapman Catt, inte yrnation cept the word of Washington | brokers, it gained general cir culation. Leading stocks drop- ped from one to three points, consisted of solos and quartet selections by favorite singers from each regiment. The service ended with the singing of “America,” while slinking coyote hordes far outside the rim of the campfire light yelped a weird obligato. cencsnitrate hie efforts, On or off duty, in suppri boot Jegging and in the e you Gannot immedia' a ein sufficient evidence for an arrest, it shail be your fur- ther duty to at once report places suspected of boot. ging | to your commanding cers.” while in! on congress If the house judictary committee holds back the Susan H. Anthony amendment, and keeps tt from be ing votee upon, the organized wom en voters will be ready to mix In the fall election fights. They propose to oppose with their full strength any national party that does not pledge itself for woman suffrage. Stimson Chairman Mra, C. D. Stimson was chosen Wednesday to act as chairman of the committee that entertains the Eastern envoys !n Seattle who attended ing were | W. Sharpless, Mra. R. C Brinkley, Mrs, Otis Floyd Lamson, Mrs. C. Dell Floyd, Miss Frances! Skinner, Mrs. Winfield Smith, Mra C. B. Lamont, Mrs. J. 8. Goldsmith, Mrs. Harry Whitney Treat, Mins Lucy Case, Mrs. Frederick Karl| Struve, Mrs. R. P. Oldham, Mrs,| jat_a lively pace Thersday. He called in Orderly | Forbes, who had been | waiting for Chief Lang. “You don’t want to stand around cereres, he my eee. do you?” asked the f, “Wouldn't you rather | go ts gor outside?” Forbes said he would et as | ih. be outside,” | Immediately arrange) |made for him to go on a beat. | Lieut, Dolphin came in @nd told the chief that W. A. Pitcheork, of the Antl-Satoon league, had report jed 50 cases of Seotch witlsky be ing unloaded from a steamer in man-in- Wednes to Letcher | two months, 'U. S, BATTLESHIPS WASHINGTON, | April The battleships South Caro. lina and Michigan collided while they were crulsing north of Guantanamo, the navy de partment announced today. Ne 13.— Jal euffrage leader, who will give her time from now until thp elec tion, in November, to the campaign, delivering at least 100 speeches in every county in the state. riously sailors were injured | been given a leave of absence for | : ! | HOW OUR BOYS IN mexico| ARRESTED DRUGGIST TESTIFIES eo 7¥ Denies He Made) Pee eS. to Wits TELLS OF BOOZE SALE ingeley, youngest of three brothers op- erating tHe Stewart Street pharmacy, boasted of killing one man and said “We will put another over the road and half. kill another in @ few days,” for uncov- tions, itiam’s court Wednesday afternoon. On the Witness stand, Thursd Billingsley denied these alleged threats, whereupon Deputy Prose cutor Palmer declared to the court that he thought the state should a allowed to show what occurred “ the few days” following the atieg:| ed threa: He then asked the witness if it | war not true that F. W. Smith, an/ |investizator, was arrested on blackmail charge made by the Bill ingsley brother and that Logan Billingsley sn the head of another 1 in the course of the next three days. Judge Gilliam ruled the questions hay: Billingsley is being tried before I, jury for the alleged unlawful sale of alcohol Alfred Nelson, “ | Ness, testified he went to the drug |matism, and that Sherman Billings. | store and purchased a pint of alco- hol, saying he wanted it for rheu }ley sold it without asking for a pr When = Pillin for 90 cents, cription y learned he ew chief was kept moving | wanted it for purposes of prosecu tion, Nelson sald, the former made ‘NO, "TWAS JUST A STEAM VALVE Td. Westen person in Seattle Thursday morning was the tele phone switchboard girl at the plant of the Pacific Coast Steel Co. at Youngstown. During the early morning a hoarse, woke every one in and a lot of folks on the bay They thought it was a fire, may be. ened. The police hours of the throbbing roar West Seattle, this side of were besieged with |telephone calls, And then, about daybreak, the police found out what had happened An aceident to another part of the plant had overcharged ‘a boiler the company, and the steam, thru the safety valve, caused the racket The company's telephone was very industriously girl explaining | the affair Thursday to hundreds of | preme court | nquirers COLLIDE AT SEA DENY WITHDRAWAL _ OF BRANDEIS’ NAME WASHING" TON, “April 13.—Ru mors that President Wilson was considering withdrawing his nomi nation of Louls D. Brandeis as su justice were denied |today at the White House .| why hed a bottle over) prosecuting wit-| Tt had a lot of them fright-| LAST EDITION Four drug stores already pinched, 1,000 cases of beer taken off a scow, and several other little affairs may yet make us dry. BUT, here’s Salisbury’s dope: “Tonight and Friday showers.” WOULD STOP TRAFFIC AT | _ Mayor Gill today proposed, in a remarkable interview be with a reporter for The Star, THAT THE CITY OF SEAT+ o. GO INTO THE SALOON BUSINESS. he mayor offers this startling suggestion as the only ettecsjve means of eliminating Ghe illicit sale of liquor by. drug cine 1 suggest,” he told The Star man, “that the next sé! sion of the legislature be asked to enact a law permitting: cities of the first class to take charge of the sale of whisky |by physicians’ prescription. Druggists should be forbidden to sell it at all. The city should establish stations at distributed points in the city sufficient to accommodate emergency needs.” Such a law, the mayor declares, would quickly put of business.drag stores which have sprung up for the purpose of harvesting a. fat profit off whisky hedron ap Persons who want liquor would be compelled. to t-by the method provided in the prohibition” lew, °€ permits issued by the county | auditor. And the worst of the blind-pigging would be, wiped ott, at Jeast/so sfar as ‘Seattle is concerned. |Prosecuting Attorney Indorses Plan : | Mayor Gill has given the prohibition enforcement prob- ; lem considerable study. “There may be,” he continued, the plan. I don’t know about that. |certainly looks feasible to me.” Prosecuting Attorney Lundin Thursday gave the mayors | lidea his emphatic indorsement. He said he sees no reason it cannot be carried thru It is possible that the state republican convention, to be held at North Yakima on May 6, may be asked to adopt resolutions favoring such a law as the mayor has advocated, “There are a lot of shyster doctors,” Gill declared, “who will sell a whisky prescription to anyone. As long as Seattle is afflicted with these fellows, and with professional blind- |piggers, we are going to have trouble enforcing the law.” The mayor told of the frequent inquiries he receives for information as to how the prohibition law is working o in this city and state, |\Declares Prohibition Has Helped City | “T tell these people,” he said, “just what I can see with my own eyes--that prohibition has been a wonderful thi: for Seattle. I know men who now keep their families cloth and their grocery bills paid who, in the days of the saloon, never had a nickel—men whom I've seen almost every day for years. I know that times are better. I'VE SEE <OUGH TO KNOW THAT I AM NOW A ‘DRY’—DRY —~- —AND I'M GOING TO STAY A ‘DRY’ “There may be some soaks who still go into: the back room of a ¢rug store and guzzle their booze, but your boy, and my boy, aren't doing it. There aren't any saloons for them to walk into. And if I have my way, there aren't going “some legal obstacles td But if there aren’t, it J. the death threats to frighten him jto be any saloon-drug stores either.” | The mayor intimated he will adopt a new policy in j}dealing with drug store violators of the liquor law. “T am told,” he said, “that some men have come in Ba to sell whisky, prepared to suffer occasional arrest, and fight the cases thru to the highest courts, figuring they can get ric h fast enough in spite of fines and confiscated stocks. , “They are willing to fight a defensive battle in court. It costs them money, but it costs the city time and money too, in prosecuting them. And the blind- piggers figyre they can charge the expense up to profit and loss, Mayor Proposes to “Get Rough” With Guilty». “I AM IN FAVOR OF GETTING ROUGH WITH THEM. If the police drop in on them every day for a while with h warrants, and perhaps wreck their places for them every now and then, they won't have such an in- solent disregard for our laws.” The mayor indicated he would have a conference with Chief Beckingham and give him some instructions along this line Also, he is contemplating asking the council to support him in a drastic war on the illegal drug stores, “The city,” he said, “will be sued for destruction of prop- erty, I suppose, but 1 don’t believe any jury would ‘stick’ us very hard on the complaint of a blind-pigger, and I'd like to take a chance. Anyhow, it wouldn’t cost us very much, and we'd be getting in some darned effective licks.” The mayor suggested he might start his “rough stuff” by giving orders to have the 1,000 cases of beer found aboard ja cow in the East w: aterwa Puesd ys dumped into the bay. PAY TO FIT THE JOB FORM BUILDING CO. Fire lieutenants who do the work of fire captains, whea the captains are absent for more than three |the Dexter three days without pay, are entitied and new Arctic club bulidings, to captain's salary, That was a Charles E, Horton, PF. 'T. Rradiey ruling made by Corporation Coua:|and H. J. Singleton have organized | sel Caldwell Wednesday, the Charles E. Horton Co. the management Horton, Amos To hendle of Brown