The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 24, 1916, Page 1

| STRIP CAPTIVES ‘caustwaven FACE TO FACE WHO'S THE GUY WHO GETS PRETTY CLOSE FACE TO F UNEARTH MEXICAN PLOT HER Pveien Agents Try to Buy Arms in Seattl The SeattlesS NIGHT EDITION 4 . BE, WITH MANY OF OUR SEATTLE NO ‘ WATCH? YES. BUT A STRAW HAT? NO. TABLES? HE RARBER CHAP WELL, WE HAVE AT NOT YET TRUE ENOUGH IT’S GET- Scone aba OSE TTEE re UGE TING VERY NEAR JULY, BUT OUR WEATHER MAN : AY, THE FIRST EFFUSION : 4 . a va mid : ON PAGE 8 wa sb iar ay THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS DOPE MST ane ChoWwusar ee VOLUME 19. SEATTLE, WASH., erence cE ae eUNAUAUUTEAUUVAE EAUUAEATUARAUUvUAeUtetvnaeenveenaetengegeneevvancce tense advent cence cetenenenndccncnicen cence cv ONO | “AND 60 PER CENT OF THEM HAVE NEVER FIRED A RIFLES” } EATTLE is due, tomorrow morning, to look upon the opening scenes ‘a what may possibly go down in history as one of the greatest tragedies that this coun- try has ever witnessed. It is the tragedy of a nation depending, for its defense, on a mushroom army. It is not a tragedy reserved for Seattle alone.. What Seattle will see tomorrow morning is being viewed in every town and hamlet from Maine to California. The tragedy will be on display at 10 a. m., when Washington's citizen soldiery marches from the Armory to the troop trains en route, via American Lake, to the Mexican border. OUT OF EVERY 100 MEN WHO WILL MARCH AWAY FROM THE ARM- ORY WITH THE SEATTLE CONTINGENT OF THE SECOND REGIMENT, PRESUMABLY READY FOR THE TRENCHES, THERE ARE 60 CHAPS WHO HAVE NEVER FIRED AN ARMY RIFLE IN THEIR LIVES agp don’t know how to take care of themselves in the field. They have never been Sally even the most rudimentary of the duties that all soldiers must perform. he 40 per cent, or previously ‘enlisted National Guardsmen, have a smattering knowl- edge of the work before them. They have voluntarily gone one night a week to drill halls and tried to learn the pri- mary lessons. BUT IT WILL TAKE THREE MONTHS TO PUT EVEN THE EX- PERIENCED NATIONAL GUARDSMEN INTO ANY KIND OF SHAPE FOR ACTUAL SERVICE, ACCORDING TO REGULAR ARMY OFFICERS HERE ON THE GROUND. This is no criticism of what the National Guard officers have tried to do during their years of preparation, or of the men in the ranks. They are a step nearer preparedness than the rest of the community. They have done their best, no doubt. But the fact remains that, watchful waiting, patience, and honorable endeavor all proving powerless to stem the present need of mobilization, when the call came the answer was pitiful. After a week of scurrying for recruits, the National Guard forces have not yet reached war strength. NOT ENOUGH TRAINED MEN COULD BE FOUND IN THE WHOLE OUT ON STRIKE San Francisco Building Trades Indorse Sympathetic F THEIR KHAK SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1916, oo TAINS AND BREWS BTANDS, be ONE CENT “STATE OF WASHINGTON TO MAKE UP ONE LONE REGIMENT OF IN- FANTRY. True, the basic appeal to patriotism is not present in this crisis. The safety of our country and our homes is not at stake—at least, not yet. We are at war with no nation. And so, when the jingoistic press calls us cowards, and khaki-clad young men hold us up on the streets and pin tags on us, we laugh good-naturedly and let it go at that. Most of the recruits who are going to the Mexican border with the militia are going because a spirit of adventure has called to them. BUT THERE IS NOT A MAN IN ALL SEATTLE WHO DOUBTS BUT THAT, IF AN INVASION OF THE UNITED STATES THREATENED—OR IF THIS COUNTRY WERE FACING A DEATH STRUGGLE WITH AN ALIEN FOE—RECRUITS WOULD COME, NOT BY THE DOZEN, BUT BY THE THOUSANDS AND TENS OF THOU- SANDS. We know that in time of real peril we would get an army. We know that—all of us. But even if we did get this army, what sort of an army would it be? Even if a million men—or ten million—should offer themselves, we would have a mob of untrained citizens —nothing more. They could be trained and equipped while precious days, sped by. They might be made ready, possibly, IN A YEAR. And in the meantime, regiments of half trained National Guardsmen would be sent to the front, just as the boys you will see tomorrow are to be sent, more than half of them entirely unfamiliar with the work of a soldier. A feature in the army reorganization bill, as it passed the senate, provided for com- pulsory military TRAINING—not service, but TRAINING. This part of the bill was eliminated in the conference between the house and senate committees, which decided what should go into the law as finally passed. The senate, it is understood, plans to make an- other attempt at the present ses ion of congress to get it thru. It is well worth further consideration. Unless all men are taught what to do when the hour comes, the fate of the United States and the freedom for which they stand are in the lap of the gods. Think it over when you see the boys in khaki march away tomorrow. and weeks, and months han 24 Hours Before EE TROOPS IN CAMP ‘cvitsaome, DECLARES GUNS HARD AT WORK”: <"-- ARE FOR JAPAN Walkout * Departure se : “< gent ten < 1 board the vessel and send EL PASO, Tune 24.—Subjected to insults and jeers, the - Soalien that the choc Agents pretending to ,man on 2 . PASO, 2 ) © realize ec Evin heout . [him over to Japan with it if you 17 American prisoners in Chihuahua City have been robbed COUNCIL WILL VOTE can yon the troops’ way to an| WORK HARD ATARMORY) represent the Japanese | want to : . of forms, according to passengers who arrived here war government, but believed Secret service men are waiti che getaabage RU lil watt tu the weariip the drab A general strike of Pacific | and the men wandered ar: with the) TROOPS LEAVE SUNDAY overnment, tried to |®¥ deal with the army and navy ‘ a P " LU. S. coval & coast organized labor, in sym- | limp, white ti ly on the grass, or dragged them, swol-| The Gesend infankey oom i 18.000 rifles and 2,- |SWPPlY people for arms or ammuai: colored khaki of the Tenth cavalry 1 len with stray nt-doors ganlec troy Sedtignel march 15, ‘ 2- Vaan aa pathy with the longshoremen, is ‘er aioe being considered today. The ts and pains awkwardly behind the un 000,000 rounds of ammuni- E. ¢. The American soldi ed only out of the Armory at 10 a.m. | Root of the Asiatic Export- indered om W A SRNR nae ‘ ‘ ce b sund with a mammoth coffee tion fre Stokes Kirk ng and Importing con 7 id clothing, are held in a stror guarded detention camp, the ; ry F 4 nya " Sunday. tok : : ni pporting company, sal Girivals stated building trades council here a th rd ed a hungry little shee move with freshly | They will do up Pike army and navy supply day the man who tried to pi ‘T M ffice t passed resolutions Indorsing week ‘ ‘ ce re place to Pike st, up Pike to sodnnand. in Guaitie Thurs the deal did not represent Ii® ty exi I shih 4 Ms. . The anocntien company street” basked peacefully in the s Fs and the| Second ave. and down Second ‘iby ny, and is unknown to him, colored trooper mn OSES Ry -ErOsn WORST tact: Oe seaxaluiscy ave. to Cherry st. They will Re t said he was working with They ¢ i e committee of the San Francisco iniforms of the men were all the same color Ge down Cherty et: to First ave United States secret service op- the the secret service People, 7 labor council will vote on sim- There was a pleasant smell of warm earth, new lumber and fir) oo then up First ave. to Uni eratives are searching for the on the way to their ilar measures Monday trees arelty ths ahd ews Univer tutte ing man who tried t make the purchase A petition to the governor, | Officers Proud of Sanitation mity: te. Raliypad (ave, where Evide know that the Kirk POPE ASKS KIN urging that strikebreakers along 9. te troop trains will be waiting. company hes a se eupply of the water front be disarmed wilt | But It’s “Going” That the Men Talk About scan ran walls Searels inie.| ferme and ammunition purchased lately, without ti rede nena | be sent by the labor council to- Save for the fact that there are more men in the troop and taking, and be rushed directly rom the U. S. gov age the ( ‘APT URED I ROOPERS ing more tents this year, it might be just the usual summer en pone ttle mally ay foreign Anant t to J. K Taylor campment. : 4 ger 0: e army and navy} The laughter is a little more frequent, and in a little higher a Fe rine ventliternea beta supply store, at irst ave. WASHINGTON, June 24— |morrow. Hut they feared the sup Hundreds of union longshore key, perhaps; and some of the men have brown goggles tled oast artillery | The agent ppeared to be an This government has demanded rting forces will ring proof men on strike thronged the sreund their hats, “to protect our eyes when we get to the bor- escort them " - ed with an im release of the negro troopers the whole hemmed in, water front Saturday morning is t these are, email things. § | Pediment in his h j captured in the Carrizal fight without a| watching small squads of inde t ith » to the sanitatior stip) to ele He first told Taylor that he had 3 : and now held by the Carranzis- pendent workmen file Into the rinking water from a dé and to the com Nine companies out of the | Deen sent there by Maj. Lemuel L. BY JOHN H. HEARLEY assistant adjutant of the Washington National G docks 12 that tas at Chihuahua City. and begin work moving make up the Second U. P. Staff Correspondent It became known today that congested freight ALK MORE OF THE CHANCE OF GOING Washington infantry were not I ie ctinnaed: tila: art ot hie ROME, June 24.—Pop: Bene- the demand now is on its way visal ‘sit There were no demonstra 8 sure of a million dollars as 1 am of going,” an-| yet up to full war strength | 710 Mane mS dict held a lengthy conference to Carranza. Whether it was with Mexico is| tions. Jewellyn, of Troop B, cavalry, of Tacoma, challeng Saturday today with the Spanish ambas- I told him we had the guns came in| f the infantry contingent to es given to Arredondo to forward, | Non-union stevedores were Less than 24 hours remained seamunition ahd: would gall ¥d ta sador, It is reliably reported was sent to Consul Rodgers, The first militia troops to move| @™mPloyed at the Grand Trunk There are a good many seasoned men in the camp. Private Liew-| in which to assemble 229 re- | Taylor explained to secret s¢ he discussed the advisability then to be given Carranza, or |. 11. border probably will go fc dock and at Piers B and 6 | ojjyn in unmistakably one of them | cruits thruout tne state, put . He th sroduced of asking King Alfonso of whether it was made direct | wird Monday. Bo for! ‘They were few in number He stands with the slouch of @ man who belongs on a horse; and| them thru medical examina- |the Asiatic Exporting & Importing| Spain to mediate between the from the state department tothe ty-f | Under the direction of Capt. | ne views the process of making a comfortable camp with the philosophic| tione, administer the oath of |company, with the name ‘E. C.| United States and Mexico, Mexican minister of foreign af Eighty-four members of the Tenth| J. §. Gibson of the Water | detachment of a man who has camped in many and hard places allegiance, and have them isd gape Fe president,’ typewritten faire was not made public cavalry were with C and K troops| Front Employers’ union, fences He was in the Third cavalry, regular army, for six years; on the| ready to entrain for American {across the bottom WASHINGTON, June 24.—Neith: The question of an armed in a arrizal have been thrown up as barri border three years; he was in a five-hour fight at Hachita; he was |! Lake Sunday I d him where the stuff)eT mediation nor arbitration could sion of M hangs upon the na Eleven have eturned to Gen cades against possible inter of the guard that b t 40,000 Mexican refugees to American soi) 1 4 ae wa be sent be considered in the present case, ture of the first report of ar 4 larters. Sixteen! ference by the union men a was in the relle that drove the Villistas out of Columbus a ha : ee : Japa was his answer high officials said today, when missioned off who part the rescu Fort pecial policemen out Of the raid. He held the rank of sergeant, and was on Col. Scott's stuf : ie an I 1 him who he represent- shown London wireless reports that fn the Carrizal fight, 1 h cavalry, |50 appointed by } r » Frt-| for a time, His home was in San Antonio. . ine tailors ed ir pan, He said that the , Was making offers alive today, |day were swor . front - nt karla He behay Astatic Exporting @ Importing both President Wil- pay ir score of the Carrizal fighting {duty and took the aPinces on the | It’s the Excitement That Calls, pe hyeh will Bo to American | company had been instructed to | arranza, dent Wi now In hand. Officials do not know |docks under pay fra the shipping ’ ian a get stati on the amount of ed the two govern- retary Bake fate of the remaining 70x | (Continued on page 8) And at That It’s Not Always Exciting The sanitary corps of the Second | arms and unition in the Un an now solve the “We are oblige that 17 are reported ca Only a short time ago he came North—and now he is going back as| hfantry will entrain for erican | States to try to purchas present problems. ther word from ¢ Chih ia City a private, rather than stay away lake Saturday afternoon at 4:15) 909 guns 2,000,000 roux - — ee en Seer Baker sald this “score ‘THREE BANDS PLAY Yea, | know the border y well, all the way from Douglas, Ariz,,|?, M They have been sent ahead | ammunition DELAY OPENING OF a aid thi > him if the stuff wasn’t 1 hot old country t e, Tex,,” he admitted. “It's ¢ eport from Gen, Pershing. The SUNDAY IN PARKS | o Brownsvill tablish a camp hospital and have tines rey aha Yes, I've seen a jot of Mexicans, Saw some of them when we chas-| { a. vod going to Mexico instead v arte " that stories of the] od thems ont of Columb pee BGG AS ENON IEE pan was NATATORIUM ate who ed his camp nemo unda y t ergent, and th vod ry " , ‘ ee Ob, yes. | was scared to death the first time I was under fire Hal x ‘ Hi wer was, ‘You can put a gent, and erefore, it ree hand concerts w , : : cet ‘i : e een company reache Mee iameaibla te Get ba Beddsals leiven th’ Genttio va ee Why | want to go back? Oh, | don't know—! guess it's the ex Ase bg ena get A capa The bathingeult fashion sale 5 of the fight arrizal from ‘ band 1 1 4) cltement, And there isn't so much excitement about it, either. For a be U. ‘S. AVIATOR KILLED P , , a 4 " eeaedtan ke f bn tea good while down there | never saw a soul but the 12 men | was with Pac over ind opening of the new salt water ek. Pevabitur + 1 éndl Woodland park from a to ote | We lived mostly on bacon and hardtack, and we couldn't even swim for"! there iverted to some} PARIS, June 24.—The American’ natatorium at cond ave. and practically van den: rs ng He ed od ) f r h the Green Lake fear some Mexican would take hot at us. f the wea ante aviator, Chapman, attached to the Lenora st., scheduled for Saturday today that more than a handf pees eet tant ea AG : ok wheat “We pulled the body of one fellow out as he came floating down the| The only ompany Up to| Prench-American flying corps, Was) night een postponed until I iad leny Mie et ag | of rant. K.. Tenis. satals An gHED From 2°30 to 6:30, river, He was cut up-—-I can’t tell you, but he was cut horribly 142 was A ¢ fi , killed in an air battle Friday, after) Wednesday evening machine gun fir oe -_ 4 wr lied ‘A ie weine “northwest! From 7:30 to 9:80, the annealing Oh, well, 1 couldn't stay away if there's going to be something) Company K, Walla Walla, has|pringing down two German ma | The big pool and side equipment y Army men said that perhaps al picker vis me h ‘om 7 ? (Continued on page 8) chines, will not be ready until then, pew sicry would arrive before to-! of Santa Maria, band will play at Volunteer park, | doing.” f pag 1