The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 19, 1916, Page 1

| oh - . [SEATTLE GUARDSMEN MUSTERED FOR BORDER PNIGHT EDITION TUESDAY, MAYRE, WE'LL G LAST WEEK'S WEATHER NIGHT, A. OCCASIC WITH THEIR GUNS KUT NOT SATHERMAN SALISBURY SAYS f, PAIR AND WARMER ET SOME MORE OF BEFORE, TODAY TO INALLY THREATEN. CLENCHED TIGHT’ THE ONLY PAPER IN VOLUME 19. : —— SEATTLE, WASH,, MONDAY, JUNE 19, Thus Girl Reporter Describes Scene| Today at Armory; Recruiting, Progressing © Rapidly, Colonel| Tells Her. OBILIZE 100.000 MILITIA! The Seattle Star SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS ON TRAINS ANi NEWS NDS he 1916. ONE CENT COL. INGLIS AND STAFF, COMMANDING MILITIA CALLED FOR BORDER DUTY WASHINGTON EXCITED BY WARRUMORS Reported Ultimatum From Carran- za Prompts Fears That Mexican Troops Will Precipitate Trouble on Border; U.S. PlaysTrump Card JUAREZ, June 19.—Gen. Francisco Serrano, war By Cornelia Glass HE Armory rings to- day the hundreds of men There are men with gold cords on their hats, men with red cords on their hats, men with blue cords on their hats, and men with ho hats and no cords at all. There are uniforms that are dull and worn, and uniforms that are pressed and bright. There are boots that are shapeless and stained, and boots that shriek their brown newness. There are men whose hair and beards are white; there are wide-eyed boys with heads held high and guns clenched tight In the big library, the walls are covered with charts for eye-testing with voices of and the floor with queer devices od. for measuring of height, weight and strength Every hour dozens of men swarm past the guard at the door and are examined for physical fitness to be soldiers. Meets Col. Inglis, In a remote inner office, in- trenched behind an alert and busy staff, is the iron-gray man who will direct the destinies of the Wash- ington men in the South When I finally wormed my way into his presence, Col. Inglis turn- ed from a huge filing case and nod. ded pleasantly “You are busy caring for new Tecruits out there, aren't you?” I nodded toward the library door. “Yes,” said Col. Inglis; “they have come in very fast. I think we will be up to fighting strength} fn a day or two. We only keep up to about one-third the strength nec- good will they do be ordered probably, to potatoes and orders to go then they will to American Lake, Grill, live on fried beans, and await South. Accepting Married Men, Too “But mostly to liv and beans, perhaps” Col. Inglis smiled musingly “Well, yes, perhaps,” he answer ed. “But they are really very good potatoes and bears “Will the married men go, on potatoes too? “There will be no differentia-| tion, whatever, between married and single men,” he said 1 lh know what action the federal gov ernment will take on that, but we are accepting all recruit d are sending all of our men In the hall, the men who were fight ordinarily, | then?” 1) in} }for the fourth time. ite is 27 years old | | “They seem young, almost too young.” I ventured They are. We hav» one chap} in our company who Is only 16, and several who are just 18. They have to have the consent of their | families if they enlist before they are 21, and their mothers and fa- thers come down here with them. It's both sed and funny, now.” should think your company would seem a little Iike a kinder- garten”” I suggested. Priv I. D. Smith, Company L. N. drew himself up to @ fine military bearing. Averages 21 Years i m “Our” company ba averages years,” be announced witheringly I drifted about in the smoke and listened to the various prognostl cations about the chances of being “shipped south.” What do you think about it?” |1 asked a black-hatred and mus | tached individual, who had a diz \aying number of stripes on his |aleeve, and several things on his collar. “About going South?” he inquir. “I don't know. I've changed my mind a hundred times, but right now I don't think we will.” A tall, whitehaired officer passed us just then Philippines,” said my companion “And,” he added, taking his hat off and turoing it about in his hands, “this served with me in the Phil {ppines, too.” The felt was worn smooth, and the color was faded almost past recognition. “Got to get it a new cord,” he went on. “I've lost my other. Sees Soldiers Salute Old Glory We were standing beside the door of the colonel’s office. At one side of the entrance stood | a slim, straight boy, on guard duty, eyes unwaveringly ahead, hands | closed on the barrel of his gun, and |the blue cord of the enlisted man jon his hat was the flag | As the uniformed men passed back and forth, each one would stop for an almost imperceptible second, | his heels would come together, and his right hand come to bis hat brim jin salute of Old Glory I looked at the man beside me. His eyes softened as he wate hed. “I Wke that,” he said. “I never | get tired of seeing them salute the flag. Doesn't it make you feel like/ | that?” | I couldn't answer, some way | Thad Iiked It so well that it hurt TEDDY TO GIVE O.K. TOHUGHES 19.— | OYSTER BAY,. June not on duty were chatting Col. Roosevelt will publicly in- groups and couples. The alr Wa! gorge Chas. E. Hughes, the re- heavy with a mingling of tobacco! publican presidential candi and photographer's flashiight ter the hearing of the smoke ive national committee It seemed to make war almost a real and present thing. Here or there a woman—mother, wife or sweetheart, 1 suppose was waiting or talking to her man On a ide one could catch a voice with a sob in ft, and an an ewering laugh, or a would-be reas suring, “We'll never leave the lake—don't worry Hears of One Soldier Who’s Only 16 Somewhere in the haze I found 1. D. Smith of Company L, N ‘ort of funn te watch the youngsters their fi stment,” he They're er nervous, you know, and feel as tho war were right on their heels Smith hinwself has just enlisted | at Chicago, it was learned to- | day. HUGHES HAS “CONFERENCES | NEW YORK, June 19.—Charles E. Hughes returned to his political headquarters at the Hotel Astor early today, with an important series of conferences with repub l\ican party leaders scheduled | ‘The subcommittee on organiza tion was to meet Hnghes this aft | ernoon | Murray Crane was one of | Hughes’ first callers He refused to discuss his visit, but it was assumed had talked lover the matter of the of a national chairman }ed to meet other subcommittee, giving them Hugher views. appointment and return members. of “That man served with me in the | At the other side of the entrance | nal staff. Col, Ingiie and his per jexican border. Inglis command the Second regiment, Washington National Guard, which will leave Reading frem left to right, the officers are: Capt H. A. Wise; CCapt. J. R. Byrne; Maj. O. R. Austin; COL. W. W. INGLIS; Capt. J. R. Gay; Capt. L. O. Meigs; Capt. Hinma SEATTLE GUARDS. men Must Endure aie | Secretary Baker \- ery to Get Properly gress to Make Militia Hardened | rr BEGINS AT BORDER | WOULD RUSH NEW idee] By peothneh aye of all the state of Washington national } guard }eal and hospital corps | started Monday morning Orders were flashed to all parts of the state before mid night Sunday, upon receipt of word from Governor Lister News of the call was first made public in Seattle Sun infantry, cavalry, for field signal corps and the medi service on the Mexican day night, and altho the men were not ordered to muster at| inking water, and the whole man Hay of the house ¢|#"d the United States. ats their respective armories until & o'clock this morning, as early | pre A — be ‘rained * a military affairs commit- The ec a ae situation in Mexico is extremely bad; agg jer ic rain o ' ord gy to otficia Or 5 as 6 o'clock little clusters of guardsmen were sete ae at] » oe tee, which, if acted upon | cording t ficial reports j a | y eerviee (saa yemmrerame |. ! | his reacts for trouble by creating a chaotic condit headquarters, waiting for their officers | territory | favorably y congress, | his reg t ) ating a © condition | The guardsmen are’ under foll| But in the end, when the raddy,| would make effective at {and by stimulating banditry among men whose only sus DI | War discipline. They will be given|toughened Johnny comer marching) once that section of the | tenance seems to lie in’ loot. V An oppertunity to arrange their|home, his own mother will hardly} 0 5 gales ER IS jcivilfan affairs before leaving, but| know him ead law which gives | HOPE Eek tae peek j to all intents and purposes their The ideal soldier—the soldier the war department au HOLD CA I RAP PED |military service actually began at| ready for fighting—must not thority to order the mili- | The militia call, officials hoped, may cause Carranza te |8 o'clock this morning poe “ physloaily strong, ve tia into foreign territory. make efforts to hold his men in check | Will Sleep at Armory pal mateo eng Guin the 4a a. | : ae 12 gatcrncedh he Seyee wes The orders issued last night contemplate having about unanimous consent today fo 5 | They i eat at the Armory and! fooq. water and rest |passage of the resolution. {100,000 more men ready for border work | p thera | No man will ever forget his first The guardsmen could not be used} The demands of Carranzista Gen. Trevino that Pershing’s | A. Verbeck, a deep sea diver,|¢ Beoy ex o ee Bie joutside the borders of the country! forces do not move—except out—under pain of a Mexican : oP Te . }pack on his back and the rifle on) without the authority of congress, . . < as of ca Y r v hic! wine ay, Pinned boncath antec! ralll| THEY'LL GET NO DINERS | (his shoulder and bis ammunition Inlor until they had volunteered tor | attack, i hairy here as'a :partiot! Mexican tical a five hours and 40 minutes Sunday,| |, CHICAGO, June 19—"No ||his belt—more than 50 pounds /that duty, under the old militia Iaw| Will go unheeded. : : jand who was given up for dead, ts dining car for the militia en jin all lunder which they are called out. Army men openly express fear that neither Carranza nor htly improved at the| , “oute to the border.” | The first few miles are easy The new Hay law, which would/his officers will be able to prevent an attack on Pershing’s This was the edict of the | The weight is sctentifically dis-/make militiamen available for duty } P . scini f " ; Monday b he f column, and the consequent precipitation of intervention, , Agee central department of the army tributed, and he feels could | ar \ apdar’ tia fenebal hoy es a aes pe a Verbeck was employed to raise| | today. The National Guards | |carry it forever ernm does not go into effect ROAUG Cais occur, TREY SUC, WEE WOU TOnoe some steel that had fallen {nto the men must either carry their Th it begins to feel heavier.|until July 1 Admitting the gravity of the situation, Secretary Lan- cove while the Kahlo Maru was be-| | 004 with them on the trains | | Th & Weariness in the spinal) “A Precautionary Plan" sing said: “There is more excitement and irritation in Mexice ing loaded. His line became en-|| OF arrange to detrain and eat | jcolumn. Sweat breaks out wherever| Neither the secretary nor Gen./than heretofore.” ‘ , a rn at restaurants en route | |the weight bears down upon the|Crowder would discuss the step. 5 y Py tangled and one of the rails, {0 _Y | ctotnine , y loteer ctiieericatone arte — The statement was the more significant in view of Lan- shifting, pinned h 0 F | fficers, me 80 an : t Finch, another diver, succeeded ° a Little raw places begin te grow w eral staff, insisted it was merely | Sing s refusal t weeks to mak any comment except to men- lin raising Verbeck to the surface! All members of the National Aste, sore was h are irritated by|" ibe eataniaay plan tion “co-operation” with the de facto government jafter nearly six hours, A pulmotor/Guard reserve are transferred to| %#tY perspiration hey said the situation admitted-| », ate mr was used jn in reviving him |the active list by order of Adjt If the man is heavy his breath /ly teemed with the wildest possibil FORCEFUL REFUSAL OF DEMAND | 2 ’ |begins to wheeze in his throat, and | ities, and that every effort will be FOR WITHDRAWAL SENT TO CARRANZA | Gen. Thompson (AND WILLIAMS JUST ‘WON'T BE ‘SPOOFED‘ " came the voice over the “a man here is insulting in the Guard permitted to duties for ment been Guard another The! now return Full war but who have suspend their one reason or| “Hurry! telephone. |me terribly | ‘The desk sergeant at police head |quarters quickly dispatched Officers Wilson and Blake to the Colman dock at 10:30 Sunday night They were to reacue one Floyd H. Williams, 508 White butlding from terrific assault Williams pointed out Tom Cara |tens, a longshoreman, who lives at |the Seaview hotel That's the man |got to catch a boat return to prosecute him,” “But what did he do?” the cops “What didn’t fairly shouted. Spoof!’ to me.” CALL A CONFERENCE MEXICANS BRING | hutiation Commanders stajory ~—- UP FIELD CANNON 240 of these. to active duty strength of each pany is 142. The Washington com panies at present have less than one-half that number Col. Inglis is confident the full strength can be attained before the local companies concentrate at American Lake Wires Are Kept Hot Just when the infantry will move from Seattle, he would not. pre dict Each company is its own headquarters ory bullding Long-distance the telegraph were (Continued on page A. are who must co ‘T've will he cried now, but mobilizing at demanded in the Arm telephones and kept hot Mon he do? “He said Williams ‘Spoof! Fred Liewellyn, John 6. Carroll6f 3 . deattle, and orge Lovejoy of LAREDO, Tex. June 19. Pullman, reported at Adj. Gen Manue! Garzia Vigil, former Thompson's office in the Haight! editor of a Mexican paper in building Monday morning for in-| this city, arrived today in | structions Nuevo Laredo, across the bor. der, with 16 three-inch field 300 artillerymen to pieces and the Carranza garri reinforce son there. Indian to OUTPUT OF Navajo blankets last year amounted $750,000. border The reserves are men who have! not completed their term of enlist-| i Capt. S. &. Sulliger, chapiain, ‘MAY USE GUARD PITILESS TOIL | ACROSS BORDER AWAITS ROOKIE Asks Con broken in, excess weight must | be sweated off, parched throats | must be accustomed to little Crowder, sent a copy of a special resolution to Chair | Minister Obregon’ 's chief of staff, arrived here today on a secret mission. It is rumored Serrano will take com- mand of all Carranza troops in Northern Mexico in the event of war with the United States. Serrano refused to discuss his visit. WASHINGTON, June 19.—America’s mailed fist cons fronts the Car ernment today. Orders for practically all state n bor ervice, backed by dispatch of more tiehting hig nd transports, constitute the threat. | It is the administration’s last trump card to quict # troublesome situation | If this last trump does not take the trick, officials feat war will follow Some administration officials frankly admit a fear thaf dispatch of 100,000 more men to the border may cause some of the more reckless of Carranza commanders to commit an act that could have only one result Others seem certain the mailed fist will have the de- jsired effect | They believe, tho, that the United Stafes will be thoroly prepared by the latest step for anything that develops below the border. CALLING MILITIA DOES NOT MEAN | INTERVENTION, WASHINGTON INSISTS Calling the militia does not mean intervention. | The policy is still to keep Gen. Pershing’s column where Jit is and to strengthen the border patrol so much as to end | A pitiless course of physical | VASHINOT( IN, June hardening awaite Seattle mili- = Secretary Baker took |the recent outbursts of banditry | thamen who ere sent to the Mex steps today: to. male the | The most disturbing thing in a mass of perplexing ru- | Jean border. National Guard available |™ors and facts is the report that Carranza has set an ulti- Soft muscles must be tough for immediate duty in |™matum demanding the withdrawal of American troops within ened, tender feet must be Mexico. Baker, thru Gen, |@ week. Behind the militia call last night lies a realization, | officials admit, that Carranza is growing gradually weaker, | with a consequent possibility of trouble between his regime he feels as if he could drink a made to be prepared for any event A note of 10,000 words or more—a strong and forceful ion of r. uality ° o 1za's drawal reques' | Soon he has consumed all the| All Militia Called dle ; aes shies fae vrawel reageat: Ua lukewarm water in his little can-| Reports received today from va-| Ute to Carranza betore might } fe | tee and begins to think he willl rious points over the country indi This note may precipitate the trouble that every official pat die of thirst before he cov-|cated that quick action ts being|fears—an actual clash between Mexicans and American re another five miles obtained on the war department or: | troops ater e lei he ck of ca de sent out Sund duste! "7 off this false sensation of thirst, |the entire militia strength of the|@fter the Mexican embassy had delivered a secret note to Night comes and the column halts | nation Lansing, presumably a request that this government's reply jiust as the “rookie” is sure his} The guardsmen are, in most! be hastened ae knees can bear him abe Pte Rathi ably pendant Consul Silliman is en route to the border. Meanwhile, He crawls into his shelter tent|be called upon for border duty as/new warnings to Americans to quit the country have gone jand tries to sleep on his poncho] rapi as Gen, Frederick Funston, | forward }lafd upon the bare ground commanding the American forces | | So the ordeal goes on day after}aiong the line, may need them day, with fatiguing skirmish drill] The mili ‘ase about 20 muscles no longer ache, the feet nojon the border for service in Mexico. jlonger bliste: ant ne bod ca aker's orde ‘ace at FPunston's i have eau’ vtierw cheng “acres |arstees be necttameta ot torte WASHINGTON, June Ite. ( [Qa Train ie (Os ota once «tung the flesh Gen, ‘Mills, In charge of miiliin| ‘resident Wileon today awaltad “| ore in the: oasnkas ae The rookte feels a new sense of|affairs, estimates that more than| fesults of the acid test applied | forwarded to Wilson. strength and powe: /100,000 troops will respond to the} +) UI A Pd atin real Choe content ae | He laughs at his former misery. | call the issuance for National a real crisis confronts the prea- | AND WITH THAT LAUGH HE} There are 79 batteries of flea] Sard mobilization. peigpl nities |BECOMES A SOLDIER! jartillery, 99 troops of cavalry, 25 TANS LY pies iad | ibe ee ptdyse LO: president told 500 veterans of field hospitals. civil war that “within a month” it might be up to the nation’s Industrial chiefs to determine NOT CALLED UPON whether the new militia law Miss Barbara Keaft, 408 W, Galer PREPARE FOR A was to receive the support eee ist. Was the victim of an unusual CTION which might be expected from Thus far the Coast artillery, of auto cident Saturday Her ma the business men in their en- which Maj Clarance Blethen i@ | chine topped, and Harry Stokes BROWNSVILLE, x, June 19. thusiasm for preparedness. commanding off! , and the nava§ president of the Stokes Co,, got out) All women and children, prison President Wilson regards the militia, of which Commodore W, to see what the trouble was. The/|n the city jail and patients in the| present situation a strict ap. B. Allison is in charge, have net auto started, plunging down a steep| hospital are being sent into the in plication of the test. been called out in the general or bank, capsizing #everal times, Miss;terior from Matamoras, Mex, op As rapidly as the war de- j|der to mobilize the Washingtom \Keaft's ankle was fractured posite here, partment received reports to National Guard,