The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 16, 1916, Page 8

THE SEATTLE STAR BARNEY BARNARD Tomorrow Until Thursday Creator of Abe Potash in Potash and Perlmutter ROLLICKING, BUBBLING, jur¥VUs CUmEDY DRAMA PHANTOM FORTUNES Five Acts Full of Hearty Laughs With a Little Heart-Touching Pathos THE BIGGEST COMEDY HIT OF THE SEASON M. GUTERSON’S FAMOUS RUSSIAN MUSICAL PROGRAM “Devil's Trill” ... +++. By Tartini Violin Solo by K. wi Ineland “Fideles Wien” .. By Komzak Orchestra Number PRESIDENT’S SISTER DIES PEACEFULLY Conn., Sept. 15.1ly notified Howe, only ster | after Mrs. President Wilson, died here at| |London. The body will be sent to! 6:40 a. m. today. Joseph Wilson, brother of the| South Carolina for burial, and the it, and Mrs. Howe's s0n$,! president and Mrs. Wilson will ac Bion aed George; her daughter,’ company the funeral party irs. Cothran, and Miss Margaret; Since the president was here, , Were at the bedside when/early this week, Mrs. Howe has end came. Mrs. Howe died) been under the influence of opiates fully. She had few lucid tntervals. Death * President Wilson was immediate. was due to peritonitis and attendant COLONIAL] TODAY ONLY Information here soon Howe's death was that During the last few days a Chris-| tian Science woman practitioner was with Mrs. Howe often, but ts understood to have. visited her as a friend, and not professionally the president will not come to New| ORCHESTRA Latest Florence Rose Fashion Pictures PATHE WEEKLY LINER CONGRESS IS SKELETON SHIP ’ oso Ore, Sept. 16 , Cousine and his officers to ey went aboard the shell of the burned liner Congress and found nothing left of the luzurious float ing hotel but a blackened steel jhulk, filled with twisted debris. | Pu nnels and masts still stood | Rollers and engines are believed ruined. The tng Oneonta from Portland today to take | Congress in tow for Seattle If the sea is calm the trip may |be safely made. At present the skeleton of the liner rides high with a sharp list, caused by steel wreckage sliding to one side. will arrive the Mrs. Howe was born in Virginia,/ and, like her brother, was educated there. She has two sons, William Howe, of Primos, a suburb of @warthmore, Pa., connected with the Pennsylvania railroad, and Dr. Geo. Howe, a professor at the University of North Carolina, and a daughter, Mrs, Cothran, of Raleigh, N. C BLAST KILLS 4 | PITTSEU RG, Pa, ILAES PLAYERS Grorerm Pa, Sept. 16 i Last Time Tonight—8:20 “THE SONG OF SONGS” Sunday—Along Ruth” A three-act c Moniay—“Roy Seo others were badly injured in an jexplosion that wrecked the am- |monia crystallizing plant of the } Aetna Chemical company at Oak jdale at midnight. Officials early today admitted loss of four lives. Continuous Today, 1:36 to nf pom. 1 THE 3IN DOROTHY EIpDER 3 RED" Vaudeville Photepiay and Selig-Tribune News, Mats, 19¢ Any Seat; Eve. and Sun Shows Change Thurs. . 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Fishback sp ceed himself BRITISH ATTACKING BULGARIAN FORCES SALONIKA, Sept troops have crossed Struma and are garians at Daamim villages along the upper and low er Gudell, it was officially an nounced today. Artillery duels are going on along the Doiran front ‘ZAIMIS STEPS DOWN LONDON, Sept. 16 Zaimis bas finally declined to at tempt to reform the Greek cabinet and has suggested to King Con stantine that ex-Premier Venizelos leader of the pro-war party, be in vited to head the new ministry, fd an Athens dispatch to the dvening Star today, unopposed for spent $20, whit nt $100.64 to sue 16.—British the River king the Bul h, Komaja and +From four to ten were killed and| *|toward the Premier | WILSON CANCELS ST. LOUIS SPEECH ASBURY PARK, N. J Preside Wilson tod: anceled his nt to address the National Life Ins nee Underwriters, at St Louis, Sept. 20, following receipt of | news of the death of his sister, Mra Annie E. Howe, at New London His engagements for Monday and | Tuesday of next week also were }canceled. The president asked S retary of War Baker to speak }him at St. Louis CITIZEN SOLDIERS BLAST Own BRIDGE - Citizen soldiers at Fort in their hasty Sept. 16 engag Lawton retreat Friday from an imaginary enemy, dynamited a |spar bridge, and the roar and shock Jeaused citizens in Ballard and other near-by communities to make inqul ries. They believed the powder |magazine at the fort had exploded The construction of the bridge was part of the day's instruction. BULGARS FLEEING | SALONIKA, Sept. 16.—Victorious |Serbian troops are driving the de feated Bulgars in disorderly retreat Serbo-Greek frontier, in the direction of the Serbian town of Monastir, Serbian official | statement here today The Bulgarian losses mous, one regiment men BANK CALL ISSUED WASHINGTON Sept. 16. er of the currency a call for the are losing 1 enor 500 The today condition of comptr iasued llinked up with the er | Dubbed the | | | | national banks at the close of busi ness Sept HURL GERMANS BACK 16,--German |Somme were repulsed | French last night announced toda by the it was offictall LELAND R. HENDRICKS, man aging editor of the Oregon States: man, is believed to have lost hiv life Friday in the Willamette riv at | h north and south of the | | | E NGINEER'S HEROIC WORK IN HOT HOLD SAVES MANY LIVES ATSEA IVEARY IVIILES } MINTER MARSHFIELD, Or, Sept. 16, —Chief Engineer Martland, hero of the burning of the steamer Congress, who, over come by smoke and heat, went back to his bollers and kept the ilifated vessel at “full speed ahead’ until she had reached a point of safety and could go no farther, will arrive In Seattle y next week with the charred hull of the big liner. But for Martland’s dogged bravery the Congr have been the fun 423 men, women and child Martland is in a hospital at North Bend, recovering from the effects of the scorching fumes he inhaled during the race with death Captain Starts Race When the first flames were dis covered it was realized were t control. Capt the bridge, gave signal that started we thru the out from and ond from d the Congress leay * eight mi Cousins Martl the long Smoke shrouded the ship, and tr tense heat coming from below, gan to crack and warp her dec One by one men from the b reom staggered up the com way, gasping for breath Aw each appeared Capt. Cousin signalled down another order fo full speed ahead,” and th chug-chug of the pr au that Martland there. r on ance Woman's Feet Hot Suddenly Mrs. Margaret passenger, of New Or had standing on the other frightened gu Pacific Coast Stean out “My feet! burning!” Her soles were bilstered. deck had become a & BRITISH SCORE MORE BIG GAINS ae Reig ans, who k with tx of the >. erled bee My feet! They're The CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 fought like i grena b bombs men with bayonets ar shell torn ntry roads leading down German Losses Frightful When the last dispatches were received, Haig’s men were rolling steadily down the slopes leading to| Baupaume, but G nh resistance | was growing more stubborn as the} British advanced out of the area wrecked by thelr artillery. At that hour the villages of Courcelette, Martinpuich and Flers were firmly in British hands. The German losses are raid have been frightful, espectally the Bouleaux wood fighting, where the German resistance was most desperate. In the first advance into the center of the wood Gen Hale's mon found heaps of German bodies. Smash Third Line Trenches The British gains of yesterda t French ad week, corr ashing cor at three lines n positions on pract ally Somme front under at vance earlier in t ¢ y at Thiepval, where marvel constructed German works have delayed the British advance do the Germans still cling to th third lines. Thiepval was outf ed by the British, who captured Courcellette yesterday afternoon and {ts capture in the next advance the British left wing appears in News of the British successes, coupled with the allies’ great catns| in the Balkans and the resumption of the Italian drive In Trieste, aroused the London publ igh pitch of enthusiasm Armored Cara Play Havoc How large a part tn motor cara are the present British ad yet known, but militar this new war ight havoc among t Willies” ish Tommies, the new cars pre a terrifying appearance when golr has to the new playing nee ar critics be t Brit Neve t wr Cont test at 8:30 Preceded by FIRE DIVE they | Still the engines’ pulae wan beat ing, Martland was etill at his post "Madam," shouted Capt. Cousin. th ia no danger You will al |be landed safely | Another man lhell-pot below *Martland erted. Another jovercome! Capt. Couston set his jaws Find Martiand and keep ahead! he yelled thru buret out of the man has been speed the amoke Martland was found dazed, almost unc Rousing himself, |back to the engines. | At that moment a cry of gladness went up on deck "Thank God!" sobb clutehing her baby tighter in her jarme. | The dredge Col n sighted, | She gave whintle, Capt. Cousins answered, but the third replying blast was I! more The flames choking and cloun he staggered P. 8. Michie had four blasts han a wore had reached the botler Carry Him Out Martland fell to the floor of the Jengine room, where they found bi and carried him out On the bridge he half recovered “Can't much farther,” he erte out ring back toward the en oughing w ighing ® atag Martlan We're saf wald Here site. a @ boat work of the rescue was ray dispatched, women and chil being sent into the first boats 4d was taken to North comes The idly dren Mart) her with Capt. John sistant manager of the » company, he will leave North Bend Sunday with the Con grees’ hull he hull will be drydocked tn Se and the vessel rebullt, ‘KAISER'S TOLD OF A VICTORY BERLIN, via Wireless to Sayville, peror William hed the empress last night * of the central pow a severe defeat Russo-Rumanians 1 Marshal Mackenzen has ation that just sent me a communi the Bulgarian have obtained a decialve vic- over the Rumanian and Rus- wired the kaiser, An official ment issued at Bucharest last night admitted that troops tory sian troops,” has disappeared!” he | full} f “Youth’s Endearing Charm” | | a woman the world’s most charming and youthfu) photoplay artist, will be seen in a superb six-act picture FROM SUNDAY TO WEDNESDAY AT THE COLISEUM | ' r | | | Turkish and German} 15c—Children 5c aturday—Last Times BILLIE BURKE IN “Gloria’s Romance” WAR MESSAGE WILL OPEN NEW WATER ROUTE the Russians and Rumanians were/| retreating northward in the Dobrud ja, before the enemy's advance. Trials behind the front Hatg of thetr into action. had convinced Gen. worth, The Britteh advance yesterday) jmorning followed « terrible deluge | of shells poured tn upon the Ger man works. Courcelette village was literally blown off the map be fore the human flood began rolling down upon the benumbed Teutons The first stroke carried the Brit ‘oureaux wood and into the| Flers village. Sharp nd grenade fighting drove machine gunners from ition behind the ruins of the town, and Plers was in the hands of the attackers shortly be fore noon. sockroaches Rats andMice Nothing {s more disagreeable than a home infested with these pests. Destroy them with Stearns’ Electric Rat and Roach Paste, the standard exterminator for over 37 years NOT HERE YET | Sage, en route to Fort Lawton from Plymouth, Mass, had not reached Capt. H. W. Bunn, com- manding officer at Port Lawton, at 9:30 a m. Saturday. | It was scheduled to reach here jat 9 a. m. and was ahead of sched jile at points between Bu Mont., and Colfax | Capt. Bunn learned that it had left North ad, shere Tom Par none, to speed king, was bring ing it on the last leg of it# jour The sealed message left Plym- jouth Monday noon, and was sent to |test the ability of auto relays. PINK LETTER CASE | oO Does not blow Into food like pow- | Directions 1 in Cash Prizes ~ FINALS TONIGHT CRYSTAL POOL LOG ROLLIN A thousand people saw the ther lives last night in the log in the finals, John Perry and H Hampton, of Everett, will battle championship. Great sport! Admi: r ion Tonight— olling G CONTEST exciting water preliminaries. Powers, of Hoquiam for the Northwe: most contest of Tonight, and Ross oe Rolling -15c Swimming as Usual REV. J.D. CARLING Investigation into the sources of love letters written on pink paper, it was charged, to Darling by two |Cincinnati girls, exonerated the Wharton (Ohio) minister and for- |mer secretary of the Ohio Sunday |School association. The letters |had been produced at the West Ohio Methodist Episcopal confer. lence at Lima, Ohio. WILD FOREIGNER 1S FOUND INSANE George Y akic h, ran amuck and three men recently at of the Marne,” at Sec jon, was adjudged sanity commission tn ran's department Friday probably be sent to Stellacoom, M’DONALD MILL HAS SMALL FIRE Damages amounting to $550 re. sulted from a fire that broke out in the dry kiln of the McDonald mill at 14th ave, N. W. and 45th st, W. at 11:30 p. m. Friday night. the fore igner | who the insane by a He will PASTOR CLEARED IN]| nd and Un-) Judge Dyke: | The war department's relay mes- exp | | | ALBANY, Sept. 16—Thru navigation via the New York barge canal is being planned for spring by State Engineer Frank Williams from Oswego to Lake Ontario and the Hudson river. Williams ts investigating today to get an idea of the cost. It was pected that the United States government would help in this work, but there is no present indication that it will. 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