The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 16, 1916, Page 1

am e oe ott CHRISTMAS Spikryy y Call up Say, you ourself a k Main 5 ask for welfare department courthouse bachelors, idie 900, get busy! Get the pub call at There are lots of kiddies who would like you to Santa to them—f ow! Forecast the poor play Rete any Sunday rain VOLUME 19. _THE ‘ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE The Seattle Star THAT DARES| TO PRINT THE NEWS WASH., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, ONE CENT 2y0% 185 9 1916 nrwe wTANDS NIGH Every « who has ne make the tizen ax to quaintance « Nonpartisan bill politi clan frowns on it Sign it today The peanut AND he BOMBS DIDN'T WRECK IkO GOVT. OWNERSHIP | SOLUTION OF LABOR PROBLEM, HE WRITES He question: “How can The Star best promote helpful relations between ve and employe?” This quest . of the Str jeves The offers $40 in pr the first, $10 for Editor The Star where I pt once and all ¢ en es. = NEN BLOOD IS ‘ ! tee SHOWING THRU ALLIES ACTION tion, then BY ED L. KEENE business m that as lover P. Staff Correspondent De 16.—First other, as that long we will problem, and no longer The so of the | lem is government ownersh new blood inject and French gan was natum to the Rig employer to em u LONDON evidences of ed into the British governments thru the re zation of the ministry seen todzy in the uit Greece and France's dun offensive erything used by man and no matter what it is. Governr 1 ership has ure at dest. hay Zealand for years, ernment owned the graphs and tel other things. and, altho it i Zs , i tle country, it has progressed r fully Being American born, I lo country and came back to to try to make it my home. Private ownership will cut its éGedtes own throat—-yet not before it has " hat ruined the nation. It is now on the | jr jor os of 800 verge of catastrophe or rather a News @eneral awakening to the fact that | ¢,, pf Europe is in war and we, by calm) gor. reasoning. annot follow any! longer—must get to business and es tablish a covernment for the peo ple, by the people and of the ple Is there still any one in interstate commerce and other commissions control what they being worse than useless? Lat the « nment ow ways and (here will be no rat ferentials There will be inste reasonable hours 1 wage railroad employes E. FEISST PEACE NEARING, “on ic BY ROBERT J. BENDER U. P. Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON dent Wilson closing gle tim: sven we new Ver hones ai Seattle undo mber the Lio and countries » all sources continues the evidence of renewed om days and months waited for his twisted limbs to straight- For years fully en } The © recent The lit clouds floated overhead ha tle lame prince lay there Joubt of ssions created rad ~. MASS MEETING ~ OF HOUSEWIVES - VOTES BOYCOTT service t c given t s mediate Dee Pre door abr * no attended Homekeepers’ club mass at the Press club Fr voted their ap. eggs and Seattle women w tune ti extend he is awaiting will follow afternoon of the potatoes, day P pr ter But the val on ed but women w as f une twice as their ¢ ormerly in SLAYER DOESN'T WANT CRIME TO SPOIL SISTERS’ CHRISTMAS : oking Saturday of Herbert M the who sh led M argu. uid spoil their Christmas . “This was the only request in the Mutual Life build ing Friday noon “Don't tell my sisters in Cali has It Stokes, fornia what happened ps ot piped Alexander ment, ilar after an MILLION A YEAR FOR E. B. M’LEAN ADVERTISING MANAGER'S DAILY TALK Fine Attractions the ill be eatre will be able information the tod ads in Rex Thea Mi Libe Coloni Ch Strand fon “WEDDING BELLS AT __MUTUAL LAUNDRY © effi thi Colise Clemmer 1 Moore t Ia " tr GERMANS REACH hn Poste aadeiate Jk SECOND LINE TRENCH :; ore the knot ‘was. ted tied Dot Dom did the ate Alham) Metropol! wa and Flora Only the right here in sERLI iNe, Dec. 16 of Zille-| elt an-' All four Laundry Workers MORE THAN 60,000 COPIES DAILY beke official members union, nounced statement LITTLE LAME PRINCES AND PRINCESSES AT FIRLANDS TO BE MADE HAPPY BY MOVIES little Firlands kiddies who never aged 6, and the other is Everett, aged 8. oe —__-. — @ FIRLANDS MOVIE CONTRI. ~ $350,000 FIRE |late las of the|kin's business district GIALS StE DROP OCA Dec. 16. { CAMBRIDGE, Mass Prof. Hugo Munsterberg, o Harvard noted German psy chologist, dropped dead today while lecturing to a class of students at Radcliffe college Prof. Munsterberg was lec turing to a class in psychology when he was taxen suddenly He fell to the floor and died within a few minutes after be ing helped to a chair. The medical examiner was sum moned, but did not immediate ly announce the cause of the death With his last breath the pro fessor attempted to quell the disturbance which spread thru his class of girls as he fell to the floor. |. Pr in New of the } twas ne nt Lowe Yor see moving pictures, Une is suward Lindhoim, Their father and mother died at the sanitarivm which took him out to sec | world. |] There ts $ 99 or magical world to the at Firlands Just big-bearted human foik Check Are neeted to (ell The Star they John | will help. Chec ; 2 * 7 Mire BUTIONS acknowledged yaterious the folks nothing m about sbowing Httle 00 YOU KNOW OF Previous! oe a ee ! Provident Loan Society... J.C. Hopkins MAY OVERLOOK?) Herb Sch Dads of ¢ fund is growing! vanced up with hen we receiv ym the Prov ¢. 8. Tra ave some Jump to da obeck for lent Loan Com anager aside a in, rtain ained “ve best Christmas serv dl render Wet me ti Re GERMAN MORTALITY WAR MACHINES HUM THO COLD HALTS HUMANS BY WM. PHILIP SIMMS BERLIN |w sere | Copyrighted by the United WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE, Dec, 16.—This is tar a machine war. One realizes nt this more as winter swamps in the earth with mud and wet year the The purely human element is about balked, but the machines keep that tint aonb war grinding on. The infantry | 19 partiig: about 0: Wik Ot “Eek can't march, but auto busees predicting that he intends Shunt the men back and forth eave a ledal Saotinr: piles like magic. The scouts are al leuk "aut dueanrestan most paralyzed, but aeroplanes of m to be sh defy the elements q ev de b Christin The soldier onl than “Aa The inf children les w in than one as 29.7 after Edward Lindt miling hol tween their enemy, anc and trench whe the There is noth doesn't mean the for machine cease Just chilliest, dreariest record seems be lately mortars COUNTRYMAN WILL LECTURE SUNDAY ntryman of ( r and at meeting At Y. Mo « theme Goodn knows cor n enough t¢ fighting silent onderft without s cheeks ver the never w world now one of lect the snowfall wettest on on ushe corr ndingly sc flakes of trous ng in winter bling com tlons ifternoon will culty w the is unta feat »roposition enone! pistaly arresting which to y the at time limit the penens: ly a hundred yard The Star Hut artillery a about a plan, ar gor on Nothing ed fe worst possible guaranteed ng along But a machine have goose er Anne ial « ision and at he hasn't et with mone ative tle oft An rais jean Young organization ort ‘sin standards of Amer ts is a political | iw and champion and fog prevent all attempt walker of the servation, there are always many charted points against which the BERLIN ADMITS IT artillery hammers, The trench W have suc has been telling f League of d how big-heart given cash, and to the dd trenc war this are The only citizen ive, and i distance lows ha film weather Even when the rain amateur good motion picture world to show filma which fully guaranteed, been more mortar men have the exact range the enemy trenches in front The freezing weather and are damaging to trenches. ix the British Tommy's the mortars busy, a are wasted Keven if there are no ea the enemy, his trenches are usual-| ly damaged, the soft condition of| the earth rendering explosions dou bly effective. of the little in a enehantir cloak into a of lame bs BERLIN, via Sayville Dec 16 The French sded pushing back Germa force, of their most ad vanced posit in the Verdun di trict, it announced in today statement The sam sauce ful a new igainst I thaws Thus it idea to keep few projectiles emt in from some his un floatin ort aeroplane, jon wa alties of | tatement reported a thrust by the Ger mans tish troops around | Ypres SHAMOKIN, Pa. Dee, 16, Fan high winds, fire that started | night swept thri Shamo: and caused an estimated loss of $350,000, 2AN FRANCISCO, wait strike ended c ultaneously the musicians strike over. De W. A. HOLZHEIMER, of v-|has been named assistant United is| States district attorney, with el fices there. Juneau ned by The| Later the AKIDLET SANTA | ‘a LAURETTE TAYLOR | WRITES OF CAREER) | RATE STANDS STILL ate C, DOWNEY IS CIVIL SERVICE PROFESOOR sem Ooo FROM year-old tell Sanberg the par ed N. P Kirkland parents and at Rec to notify t sent the to try Br f the dwa ar MAY EXTEND LIFE OF RAIL PROBERS : ASHING TON, Dee anothe th | CHRISTMAS BONUSES FOR 10,000 S. P. MEN FRANCISCO, hris cent of to bonus iving will according day, The loves rece nd © rail rhoods CAVE-DWELLER IS _| TAKEN NEAR BOTHELL " a heavily be een livir r Bo to De rought late Friday hecks, a I ne with their T EDITION CO. S00, 000 15 BAD WIRE LOS ANGELES, Dec. 16— That the fire destroying the Liewellyn Iron Works was the result of high-power wires be- coming crossed, was the theory advanced at noon by Reese Liewellyn, president of the con- cern, Detectives King and Fere land and Deputy District At. torney Claire Woolvine, follow. ing a rigid investigation to them taag 1 the second floor me before being no explo- til fire had and ascribe fact that a quantity of kept in the building, theory held by that the dev It of a bomb, nt that the ed by dynae expert im evidence of the cause of a possibility that than at first Thus far officials have able to reach vaults fm f lildings, and ntain plans and half a million, 500,000 loss te nd machinery. Whether ns escaped destruction fg sroblematical David Caplan, convicted of mane slaughter in connection with the nond| Los Angeles Times dynamiting, just and|12 hours before che Llewellyn ex- hem.|plosion, declared no associates of his were in any way connected with the explosion, which some ascribed es a demonstration against Caplan’s lconviction. He declares that any |such movement would cause him ir jre parable injury. Two alarms were sent in, but for | some reason there was delay im getting the apparatus to the scent and a short time one engine worked alone SOUDAS TOLD GIRL HE CUT HIMSELF IN SWIMMING AT ALKI Mrs was dispelled a in the as the ri his st lexpl bomb as the se greater een ents | ticle Janu most the | e W aS a son, employed by saleswoman in his ake ave, defendant afternoon wimming end. She late in the afters complained of cutting > bathing cigar coun ed ter o ‘rs, another said the accused loyed by her as @ nearly a year at the Country club, where yed testified Mrs, reated by us my baby e WOMAN MURDERED character witr had en NEAU, Dec. 16 nvestigating Police here the record of Har- who was arrested Fri- tion with the murder Brown in Douglas last ure ry Againsky day in of “Babe Wednesday The Brown band recently followed t has times, |} hus tmi An: woman left in an will her hus+ alifornia, and was him to Alaska. She en witn him several owing the murder the rane ppear It is claimed Again at friend trown’s 1 er HURT GRAPELAND, nembers artillery broken less been s not road oft Dee. ttery A were 16.— First injured rail on the Internas Northern railroad Pullmans on a pase leave the track near A brakeman also ard been d inty Great train to early today d here puty | wa tl had ble him THE SEATTLE CAR & FOUN. dry Co. will begin immediately the construction of 200 box cars for the | Union Pacific railroad er Own Lilte Story It Edna entertained Evening life story. is said that Ferber, the millions i in gifted her novel, “Dawn author whose America thru O'Hara,” stories have n the Saturday Post and other magazines, she told her owl “DAWN O'IAIRA” Is the story. of a girl reporter. It will appear next week in The Star, beginning Monday. It will run Saturday. in six installments, concluding