The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 18, 1916, Page 1

It Ih Are you in trouble? Do you want advice? " \to March 7 inParade Band Will Lead a Thousand Charlies Up Second Avenue JUST WATCH FOR THEM ‘CHARLIE CHAPLIN. This is going to be good. You'll admit it when we tell you about it. Funny, too, that nobody ever thought of It before. A Chartie Chaplin parade! The Star, and Tom North, and John Hamrick, are going to pull it off next Saturday. Right on Second ave. And there’ joing to be a thousand Char! Chaplins in tine. That is, we hope there'll be. John Hamrick, manager of the Rex theatre, where is knocking them silly in Bis burlesque on “Carmen,” had the hunch first. He told Tom SNorth, who is Northwest manager Charlie this week BP the V-L-S-E Film company. And then they told The Star. Band to Play Hamrick’s going to hire a band The band, and the thousand Chaplins, and maybe some float will form in front of the Metropol ftan theatre at 11:45 a. m. Satur day The line of march will be to Fourth ave. along Fourth Columbia st., west on Columb’ to Second av » Second Pike st. east on Pike to Third ave,, and thence along Third ave. and Pine st. to Bon Marche park where the judges will award the while the band gives a con ave. Manager Hamrick 1's going to give a substantial cash award as first Tom North has fn ed brand pp which he’s going to put ond prize. Then there'll t of other to be a later. a lot prizes nounced Judges will be Tom North, John Hamrick, Mayor's Secretary Jimmy Crehan, D. 8. Tobias, of the Ne ern Pacific (just a plain m fan) and the photoplay editor of The Star. Must Be 16 or Under Charlie Chaplins who enter All he parade must be 16 or under They must signify their intention of participating in the 7 Friday noon, either ’ 4 their name es and addresses at Remiem we want A THO has a chance to land the capital prize FIVE BURNED 10 DEATH IN WRECK : Five are to 4 between the Gilt Ed rene and a local train on the Yor New ford, R. 1, last night Thirty-one were injured, ASK MISS GREY! Are you seeking information? Ask Cynthia. you need any help? Ask Cynth Haven & Hartford railroad at Brad | three | Ask Cynthia Grey. Ask Cynthia. Do ee VOLUME 18 \Chaplins Committee Holds [DoorsAre ‘Kicked In Program in House’ a | By Gilson Gardner | | Up Preparedness WASHINGTON, April 18—Just what has been done and | what has not been done by the ate and house on “prepar- ! edn | Have any actual RESULTS been obtained in thie matter of | great national concern? | | have just finished an investigation of this subject, and Preparedni as congress has It with that bus up to date, may be summed up as follow The Hay bill. tr an increased army, has passed the house and fs pending in the sena' The bill for naval increase has been in process of formation in the naval affairs committee of the house and senate—four months of “hearings.” The senate ts debating and will soon vote on the Chamberlain bill for increasing the ar this bill having been substituted for the Hay Dil as it passed the house. The Hay bill rejects the thac of a federal (continental) army | Supplementing the regular "anding army, and lays the entire emphasi« jon federal encouragement (by subsidies from the federal tre ary) of the state mi‘itia—what Representative A. P, Gardner cails “the 48 | little state armies.” 7 In addition to this, the house army bill increases the regular standing army from 100,000 to 0 (approximately), the Increases jto be added by enlistments extending over a four-year period This means in effect an increase in the actual mobile force of fighting men available in continental United States from 35,000 (the present strength) to about 6 », WEAKNESS OF HOUSE BILL The state militia, stimulated, presumably, by the subsidies from the federal trenaury, will be relied upon as a second line of defense The bill attempts also to draft the state militia into the federal army {nerve under the . without fresh ‘voldnteering. as re- quired at present, ts « question of constitutional Inw on which con | Bressional opinion is about equally divided The house bill is the result of two Influences—a committee and chairman opposed to any considerable increases in army preparedness and a powerful state militia lobby which feared the wiping out of the Iready decadent militia {f any such plan an Garrison's continental rmy were to succeed The worst feature of the house bill was re d when the 1 house rejected the amendment offered by the labor group, | seeking to prevent the use of the federalized state militia in the settlement of strikes and labor troubles. The senat (the Chamberlain bill) house bill in first an increase of the regular s but its iner greater, that from with certain provisions for federal reserves, of which none ‘s army b king woald Is similar to the ding army 180,000. be 100,000 se there are now GHT CONTINENTAL PLAN The chief re@pect in which the senatesbi {fers from bill is in its attempt to establish the beginnings force not unlike Garrison's continental arr This would be enlisted various congressional iets. The would be rules made by the president as commander-in-chief of the army and navy This provision has been bitterly fought by the atate and was saved from defeat on a rollicall by a ing votes, At this writing the provision is still unde: senate. The Chamberlain bill a regular army reserve and an officers the hous of a federal volunteer enlistments f militia lobby mall margin of favor. attack in the o provides for a volunteer reserve corps of reserve, a udents trained in educational institutions which shall adopt an approved course of Chamberlain bill provides also for mobilizing the ind of the nation for military purposes. It creates a te al res ‘orce. Like the house bill, it would also provide inc 1 pa the National Guard and increase the guard to 280,000 enlisted men and officers in active service, but the bill does not seek to federaline them or draft them into the regular army, as does the house bil COMMITTEE DELAYS The Chamberiain bill will be voted on in the senate today. 7 final army program will be a composite made up of features of the Chamberlain and Hay bill#, worked out in the conference committee and later approved by senate and house The most Important single Item of accomplishment in the preparedness program is the passage thru the senate of the Tillman government armor plate plant bill. This is pending BELIEVE VILLA in case of war, but whether the militia can be so drafted and made to! federal -aathority, SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1916. Today, on page 7, Miss Bara tells something about era. on The “Confessions of a Wife” has proved to be one of the greatest features ever run in any newspaper any- where. Today The Star is pleased to announce that Theda Bara, who has been writing articles for several days past in this paper on “The Heart of a Vampire,” has consented to continue her articles indefinitely. The Star believes they will prove just as in- eresting, especially to women readers, as the affairs of Margie Waverly in “Confessions.” er early life, and what she likes to eat, and what she likes to wear when not working before the cam PAPRPLPP LP LPL ADA LLP LPL LLP LDA PPP PPP PPP LAST EDITION The Seattle Star : THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS : ONE CENT Mme. Jomeili, in the Lincotn by Police ......... Gamblers Barricade Entrances | ®-——— . When Surprised by i Beckingham MANY ARE ARRESTED! Special details of police crashed their way thru locked | doors with axes and sledges to who barricaded them. at 208, 210, 213 and 217 Washington st. Monday night. They had been ordered by | Chief Beckingham to clean up the gamblers. While the doors were being broken in, many of the gam. blers aped thru secret pas sage ways. They left behind them the scattered gambling apparatus wi In chuck.a-luck, lotteries, poker and black jack. This was seized by the squad and taken to headquerters. H Sergt. Melvin, Patrolman Ed Magen, Fred Meyers and Guy Carle, ton were detailed on the gambling squad i At two of the places. the polos were kept out long enough for the , inmates to put things In order. Rette: ome down, ch and take a look,” the offic phoned to Beckinghbam who was at hea quarters “Things look pretty good.” The chief went tn automobdfle to the scene. We cin break up these tables: said to the amazed ¢ an The following Jomelti, famous er Interview with Mme. opera prima foans, th the Phitharmente Borrows More A concert at the Arena Tues- Then the chief went to a phone written by Albert Law » the fire department 17-year-old office hoy ”, p & be @ regular reporter. xtra axes we can bor eae ot. tn te ae nates By Albert Lawrence fire equipment for The Star's Office Boy those places looking} time of the day with me ! wood,” said the chief « morning 1 was opening on kam-| the mail when the city editor bling joint has time to be gotten In| came over to my desk (some. order. I'm going to see that thelr! thing unusual. He usually yells stuff is destroyed in such cases.” at me to come to him), and Play With Marked Bille placing his hand on my shoulder, Earlier in the evening Detectives) no gaid, in a fatherly manner, (Continued on page 10.) Albert, m'boy, I want you to see ll today . | ah, sure, boss,” says T, “but is t—this Jomelli? big te oprano, booked to Mme Jo is stay | ing at the In hotel. It was LONDON, April 18.—Dissolu tion of parliament and a gener. 0 she was to leave for al election on the conscription | ber rehearsals i issue were predicted in the You see the fast work I made house of commons lobbies this to get there and get an interview evening 1 gave my hair a slick at the David Lloyd-George, minister of | Office mirror and tore out on my way Jacobs, the photographer, came cabinet today of winning | munitions, told |that the allies in the house, where there is much sentiment favoring it, as the war were thr ‘by a short-| along in his machine and gave well as amendments for the government manufacture of ot lage of men. He potnted out that| me a lift war munitions. liarge forces of German reserves He was bound the same way The delay in reporting the naval bill is due in part to the fact! were moased opposite the Britieh| on the city editor's orders, TO that the ho: naval committee is tle navy” and “anti-prepared-|iines and urged the government to) TAKE A PICTURE OF ME AND nes n its majority complexion In fact, the wh subject of navai| summon immediate to th olors MME. JOMELLI TOGETHER reparedness—the most important in preparedness program—1s| all single and married men who Nes: being blurred and muffled by committe dela | an be spared | We got there and | was ntro. BY THEIR VOTES YE * The voters of Seattle last December declared by their ballots for the principle of a municipally- owned railroad belt line. THEY GAVE THE PROPOSITION A MA- JORITY OF 10,000 VOTES AT THE POLLS. But enemies of the port commission, by bringing false issues into the campaign, had planted a loubt in the minds of sufficient people to prevent the necessary 60 per cent affirmative vote on a econd proposition, to authorize the commission to transfer money for ths project from a special building fund already ve inde where the Money was not now needed. The project, therefore, failed, tho having a majority vote. Again, in the March election, it polled an easy majority, but fell a few short of the necessary 60 per cent lhe port commission, meantime, asked the ity council for a franchise for. the belt line. The ouncil granted the franchise. Mayor Gill vetoed the franchise ordinance on grounds which Cor- poration Counsel Caldwell, in an opinion to the council, declared unsupported by the law. SHALL KNOW THEM Nevertheless, the council yesterday afternoon, voting on a proposal to pass the franchise ordi- nance over the Gill veto, failed, 5 to 4, to pass it. The five who voted against the port, IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT THE PEOPLE HAVE TWICE DECLARED BY A MAJORITY VOTE THAT THEY WANT A MUNICIPAL BELT LINE, were Thomson, Moore, Dale, Haas and Hanna. The four who voted in favor of the port fran- chise were Erickson, Hesketh, Fitzgerald and solton. foday these five are offering a medley of alibis, but their chorus is of the Dale variety— OUT OF TUNE. A fundamental wr ng cannot be glossed over by vague, indefinite apologies and an uncertain promise to do better the next time. By their votes ye shall know them, the five who held themselves above the majority of the people Thomson, Moore, Dale, Hanna and Haas. Those who kept the faith and voted for the belt line were Erickson, Bolton, Hesketh and Fitz- gerald. Albert Lawrence, Star office boy, Interviewing hotel, where the duced to Backus, her | ° the madame manager. by Mr. At first I was scared stiff. I couldn't talk. I didn't know what to say t She's one of madame's ae the best ‘ood But In a few moments I was telling her my mid was telling Jomelli ia plump, but n She is Holland Duteh English ts bre herself un | They tell how she h I don't kno Honest, 1 id of av jot too 1 oken, t jooked w yet told me at the office it she makes tood as well as the to | was so flustered 1 | didn’t even notice the style of | her dress | 1 1 know is that it was of some blue material | Maybe that isn’t enough for | the telephone girl, who ts ¢ ing me about it right now, but it's enough for me There’s no frills about her—at | least none that I could see } Then she began to talk to me | I guess she forgot she was due | at rehearsal at 10:30, We talked for about 15 self and her they were do to seize all fur Water wil the interme trict of Bal | ave, N. W 70th on | from 9 & m. ¢ travels ing. lock on the door SAYS HE BEAT GIRL 1 be odiate lard we minutes and she me many little stories about her nt t at of Among them was one about the king of Siam, now dead His highness, hen she was singing before him, thought she was very pretty, but surmised that a little betel nut on her teeth would look better | So they painted her teeth a deep black before she knew what But she made them take it off } even if they didn't w ‘SEIZE FURNITURE AND LOCK UP DOORS Court orders were given day to Sheriff Hodge, commar him to clean out Mrs Jennie Greenwald's house, at 318 Colum bia st, and lock the place up fo three months, in accordance with the red-light abatement law He was instructed to turn al roomers out to seek other lodgin and puta pad Alleging that husband flew into a terrible rage on Sun¢ April 2, and accused her and their four daughters of wrong-doing threatened her with bodily harm and cruelly beat their youngest daughter, Georgia, 11 years old Mrs. Marion Gordon, wife of a teamster living at 4023 12th ave N. E., started nit for divor Tuesday WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE shut off in service dis ith and north of West Wednesday, to 5 p. April m. 19, } aa ealsieareengveehennarsnesisen —? TRAINS AND NEWS ATANDS, be IS STILL Albert Lawrence, The Star’s Office Boy, Gets Interview With Prima Donna, Jomelli; Says She’s“Regular Scout”--J ustLike That, One of the e tt ways we know to get a smile is to peruse the daily doings of Mutt and Jeff in The Star. Weather forecast: “Tonight and Wednesday unsettled, prob- ably showers.” ALIVE SAD TALE OF DEAT PLAN | REPORT ON VILLA’S DEATH EL PASO, April 18.—Gen. Gavira, in Juarez, announced today he had received confir- | mation of Francisco Villa’ | death from Gov. Enriquez of Chihuahua. ~— a SAN ANTONIO, Tex. April 18—The American expedition is toeing the scratch today, ready for a new start in the hunt for Francisco Villa, The Parral incident and the report, now disbeliev that Villa's body had been found, temporarily delayed the chase. Gen. Beil, in El Paso, reported to Gen, Funston hi belief that the story of Villa’ body having been found was manufactured in Juarez. from Chihua- Consul Letcher advices from that declared Cusihuirachic failed to men- ! “The very idea,” Jomelli tion the finding of a body. sniffed Earlier advices said that When I left she said to me red American detach. Tell the people of Seattle. ments were gathering at Sate- thru T that I am glad to vo for a resumption of the hunt be here once more. I have been | OM @ scale conforming to the here before, but like your city | communications. better each time. And tell them | Consul Garcia said he had no that Iam glad to be singing for | fresh news from Cusihuirachic with john Spargur. It is indeed a |Tekard to the body reported to be pleasure that of Villa. He saw no reason, "ee he i, for changing the belief that the corpse was Villa's. When I got back to the office 1 |" Garcia asserted Carlos Carransa started my story six times found the remains from 30 to 50. Thad in some regular stuff like, | miles from the railroad, in a region She sang her way into the | reached only by rough trails. The hearts of the audience with |removal was most difficult. Ho} Perhaps, he said, it might be only pped it to the boss, | necessary to bring in the head. A . chart of Villa's teeth, taken at El Aw, come again. Gimme some | Paso, may prove important in REGULAR stuff. I want to know | identifying the body. how YOU got along, talking to Pershing has returned to Nami a iceag quipa, midway along the communi ee what I've written. |eation lines, where he will be able Don’t blame me lto wateh the situation more closely, Blame the guy that signs my |and better direct the army. tewabeaining No Am are believed to be ALL CONCERT TONIGHT south of Santa Cruz If Villa is alive and has gone into Durango, as reported, the pursuit is apparently halted If the exhumed corpse is not that NOW READY FOR of Villa, neither American nor | Squads of carpenters worked all| Mexican authorities have any {dea | Monday night and Tuesday trans | Of bis whereabouts, they admitted. \rorming the Arena into a great|.S4exicans, the only persons who | concert the Arena Into a steat| professed to have direct knowledge season . mmer that Villa's body been Sea | Five thousand seats have b |claimed that the telegraph wires | precited area eats, have, been | were down and that this prevents wide. Four exits and dressing |the receipt of further information, rooms have been added ‘Their failure to immediately pro- ind gold, awning-striped {duce the body for American identt | domes the auditorium, and | fication increased skepticism here, | lattice work hag {tho the delay may possibly be due e place will be opened formal: | portat esday night ‘by tl the Ph Jeanne j the It n a violin Vier arks t Director 1 causes, like slow trans- to natura n. concert of orchestra, with | MAY WITHDRAW SOON prima donna of WASHINGTON, April 18.—With- rand opera of the 25th annivers within yargur’s debut as maybe ilharmonic Jomelli na expedition from the next month is without “getting” drawal | Mexico Nikely, Villa y of Folia LESS THAN 20 CENTS ©) Ways whot a French franc is worth in the United State In war times, a franc is worth even less in this country @ BUT—one little causes a million franes’ worth of s in Little Fortune,” a detec tive story by Fredericks, which will appear as next week's n a-week in The Star Vhrilling ad venture, of course, runs all thru the six installments, id \ meet that famed M. 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