The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 14, 1917, Page 1

Re womanly sort of a woman. Mabel Abbott tell: mame is, where she lives, how she goes about IT’S ALIVE “The Star is my favorite paper becauee it is ALIVE.” That's the compliment paid the paper with the larg est dally clrovlation in the Northwest by an Alaska school teacher who passed thru Seattle today, on her way home. There's no danger of diminishing vigor in The Star VOLUME 19 ead of Seattle at Night! ‘Trading WheatEn CHICAGO, May 1 14.—All trading in| | wheat futures was barred for a period of two) Existing contracts, however, will be permit- | ted to be liquidated at Saturday’s close. The |board likewise barred all trading in May)! corn and May oats for the entire month. John P. Griffin, president of the board, |in announcing this action, said it was taken |after consultation with federal agents and | representatives of the allies. No announce- |ment was made as to what will transpire | after the expiration of the two days. | Robert W. Childs, special ansist- | Mabel Abbott TTLE at night! Things that happen the city after dark are |! ant attorney general in charge of { to be told to Star readers || food probes, left hurriedly for i f ies Washington today where he will in a series of stories about |} confer with federal officers midnight toilers. Griffin's statement follows , Star Tuesday lrectors held this morning, it was Mabel Abbott has writ- decided to discontinue all trading : age % n May corn and oats. It was fur ten then in her best style. |i tner decided that for a period of While Seattle has been two days no purchases of wheat whatever will be permitted except {to liquidate existing eontracts | “The latter action automatically (Continued on page 6) WHEAT PRICES GO DOWN, DOWN, DOWN sleeping, Miss Abbott has been finding out what the night workers do, and her reports are fascinat- ing and informative Miss Abbott will you all about: PITTSBURG, Pa., May 14—~ | Three dead, two dying and several others wounded | wea the toll of two gun battles | today, marking a robbery at the First Bank of more tell National WHO IS CYNTHIA GREY | days by the Chicago board of trade today. | y |rollments were received after each answering hundreds of que: Folks have asked us this question very, very often. said frankly they thought she was a man. you all about her today--what her tion Some of them She isn’t. She’s a very . TURN TO PAGE FIVE tATT 1917 CITY DECORATED WILSON ORDERS |” AS RED CROSS ARMY BROUGHT DRIVE BEGINS UP TO 300,000 You couldn't get away from the Red Cross Monday in Seat- tle if you wanted to—which you don't it is swinging from every cross-wire on the streets, star Ing from billboards and restau rant menus, dropped on your head from aeroplanes, and din ned into your ears by bombs It will blaze from the top of the WASHINGTON, May 14.— The president today authorized four additional increments for the regular army, approximat ing 183,000 men The new regiments will each have a nucleus of trained regu- regiment lars will of be already » buildin Monday night, be used as the basis ¢ ormation tooted from fows by Boy | of two regiments of recruits Scout bug tossed on the U sued today, the white-capped wave after! reeu be filled to its wave of marching women, til! {ts ful! quota of 3¢ ) men meaning reaches the hearts of the) More than 00 of the troops dullest and quickens the blood of authorized in four increments | the coldest to the response that the have alre n recruited since big campaign is organized for—thelApril response that costs only a dollag) Or were quarter and enrolls you definitely on the! Master Ke te shelter side of the forces of humanity for the trooy points desig Drive Began Sunday nated for each regiment The sevenday drive for Red Cross members really Sunday, in the churches, began where en Big Liberty Loan service It was also actively, tho iv. » quietly under way at the home of Bond Drive Opens Mrs. Elizabeth Hanion, where, fac Help win the war by purchas ing a shortage of caps for the hun. | {98 a Liberty Loan war bond! treds of women who will march to This was the slogan Monday night, Mrx. Hanlon, Miss Ellen Carr | When Seattle banks started their and Mra. 1. F Woods work ike | Patriotic task of placing $6,000, sweatshop hands all day to com. | 9% Worth of bonds In Seattle plete the necessar mber homex "Ghedneal Wriett, the vesteicrent Any one can buy a bond for bree printed the Red Cross at the | 85°, $100, $500 or $1,000, or mul of his menus for the week tiples of these figures. They pay Women Will Parade 1% per cent int At 12:30 today, Aviators Ed Hub- Subscription blanks for Lib |e and Herbert M r sail erty Loan bonds will be fur over the city in their airplanes, || S/shed at The Star office. Call dropping Red Croas literature wrosend a self-addressed en. Red Cross workers are stationed || Yelope. Blanks are being dis n department stores and t tre |] tributed at all banks and bond obbies, and an office-tooffice and | houses and many business con cerns house-to-house ¢ mpaign was begur Lipa omens ‘or further Liberty bond news The Seattle Star (THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES ~ E ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS | NEWS ovaries oxi ee AO echoed diay GERMANY TO ASK PIT MANAGERS CURB WHEAT his NIGHT EDITION One practical way of fighting for humanity is to plank down $1 for the Red Cross, Dollar member. ships are open to everybody, Seat- tle needs 25,000 members, “To. night and Tuesday, partly cloudy,” says the weather man ONE a News J GAMBLERS & May Wed English | ‘Town Prince ance or he - o| | LONDON, Ma Chancellor probably make anr t of the central powers’ peate = | terms in a speech reichstag tomorrow, an Exchange | telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam asserted today. The German ellor has just returned to Berlin from | | conferences with « als in Vienna. Prior to this, he went {to German Great Headquarters for a conference with the kaiser oa The fact that he apparently has succeeded in triumphing @ over Hindenburg, who wanted to adjourn the reichstag, was believed by Holland observers to have made his position insecure ates are 1 ww definitely, "> headquarters y and left 7” On Sunday night he started” < aligned a Hollw same ¢ n the the return trip t ina Berlin | Beware, Thrice Beware, of Kaiser | Olive Branches, Warns Charles Ed: mn r( Russell! A Deadly Peace Offer Coming Up! BY CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL WASHINGTON, May 14.—This war's first great testing out for this nation will come about four weeks hence. Princess MAvuD Prince Edward of Wales, it is be married to Prin: | | reported, may } cess Maud Alexandra of Fife, who | It will not be on the battlefield, it will be right here ae 14 months older than h Her c father, duke of Fife, was a close youll acs ace ae re : ee personal friend of the late King It | not be a test of physical courage, but of our good Edward | sense, clearness of head and steady purpose Ve have had most of the other exams and come out AR | and as good as the best ee SLAV WAR HEAD Our grouches and other peoples used to say we ie) | not a nation, but just a lot of selfish kale grabbers from 4 the on any lands on earth. They used to say we could never unite ng, put anything over or care for anything but the QUITS, WARNING long green Castie Shannon, a suburb, and this morning, which will occupy the 5 i 3 % The nightly hunt for . : vidi i flan lentire week The first three weeks of war ed this war and who pushed his ‘ bf Sage CHICAGO, May 14.-Following| a fight between a posse and [Orr i a in the na |epiked all that stuff. The nation| followers to the most shocking 3 pirates in Elliott bay—by | the action of the Chicago Board of | the robbers at Bringeville. rade tonight are asked to assemble ace together. | and grewsome savagery against % the police patrol boat | Trade in setting @ maximum price! The dead: Frank Erbe, assist-| at the Bon Marche park, Fourth and FINAL PLANS FOR | We have voted an army womankind, mankind and child- ; for July and September wheat, /ant cashier of the bank; D. H.| pine, at 6 45, or a few minutes | We have voted the money, and! hood—against the world, a ne oIn antic rices tumbled today tn the pit®.| McLain, cash of the bank, and) partie: T . . PETROGRAD, ~ May 14.—Minister| when the deliberate gentlemen on To this he will add some rhetors im nal |p 8 . arlier. The line of march, headed | U industry in a shipbuild- July at noon was off 20 cents from] one of the bandits by “Gen.” Dorothy Gibbs, will be a Oe jof War and Marine Gutchkoff an-| Capitol hill have wind-jammed long |{cal rumblings about disarmament, . i , he water || Saturday's closing—the maximum | Wounded: George Beltzhoover,| west on Pine from Fourth to Se. nounced his resignation today in ajenough, we shall get the other|and if that doesn’t land ‘em, says ing plant on the water |) 4: g2.55, and September was off |justice of he peace, = Cas-/and and south on Second to James. FRANCE ARE MADE) dramatic statement to soldiers’ del-| things we need the kaiser, nothing will. ont. 18 cents, at $2.28 |tle Shannon Nick Yoste, dis Don't try to excape the Red © egates from the front, asserting Peace at once and “NO ANNEX | -—— = |patcher Pittsburg Raflways| Co |artve. G Givban be agarverin |. ora LINGTON, May 14.—Finay| that Russia's existence was men- | Ready for War ideal nS ATIONS, NO INDEMNITIEBS,” Bae Q The night watch at th¢ || Castie Shannon; a third employe Bil plan a seeding an Ainericn!|aced by dual control plans for the| Are We Ready for Bun cept, of course, rmany will want Munty hospital and. w | 8 fo r a ear . y|that little strip of Serbia thag will county hospital and what R of the bank and two bandits whose - . , R . army and navy We are ready to meet our enemy |t Tnened to the sickest MNERGAILY TALK * |names azo not yet known. The fighting force to France were dis!” Tis resignation, he sald, was|man to man and beat him toa fare-|enable her to control her Sant ~sritapt he iain Nap So OMEN ROCHE! cussed at a two-hour conference be | necessary “in view of conditions in| you-well. But are we ready to un-| (Continued on page 10) patient. == =| Both actions occurred—as well as Peeen peirahal Joffre, members of which the power of the government |derstand that he fights with lies, | ¢ a running fight thru the streets of REPORT AT PARK oe aff and L etar aker and/and especially the authority of the|tricks, chicanery, plausible pre. : @ a band of busy You Can Well Afford Castile Shannon, within an hour Maj, Gen: Hugh ie Scott, today. [minister of war and marine, has|tense, smiling bunk and infinite con Chas. Dicke postoffice toilers start the || little time |#fter oon. The robbers escaped we pe concinaian jaker author-! heen placed, and which I am power-|games still better than with guns? | ns fad ; o 8 ¢ ¢ ‘ zed this en en ty | 4 city’s daily letters on their ||/to spend quite a li HMC) from the bank with a small sum Any girl or woman in Seattle || “rhe visit of Marshal Joffre and | ¢ss to alter That's the question, but it will Edgar Allen Poe Gieews to the fas" cor every day reading the adver-|of money, but were overtaken by |I who wishes to demonatrate herillsta state-was tor: avai { These conditions, the minister/not be a question very long. The ‘ } ; ¢ tig tising columns of The Star.|officers and citizens in automo-|[ patriotiam and interest in. the 8 staff was for a general summMINg | gaid, “threaten consequences fatal! quiet tip from the neutral chancel: Daniel Defoe ners of the globe : ‘ nile up of conferences going on with our | +4 the defense, liberty and even the|lories of Europe (being the places Ls lIn fact, it is doubtful if you! biles. city-wide campaign for mem-]! experts he defen lories of Europ 5 p * @ What a 4 Sues jin fa { Three men wearing dusters, au-|I bers of the Seattle chapter of f\°"> ae ge pe Jexistence of Russia | where the inside dope is gathered), Ouida Perv an 2 Ghy CAUAFSL. ©: | dan “afford NOT’ ° to i {tomobile caps and goggles, entered |} the Red Cross and t# anxious to [efron er continues Caer Tete | “1 ean no longer share responsi-|is that within a month the German | . ‘ like on Saturday night, || can’t tell when there might|the bank, cried, “Hands up!” and ar in the parade tonight, | Crered worried. and other membate |Diity in the grave sin being com-|government will announce Ger- Lewis Carroll and whether it has any » an opportunity to save|began to shoot.’ At the first round || which 4s atrictly for women, has | eeeret Worried, pers | mitted against the country,” he con-|many's peace terms, and that when | wet spots. a | fn cn Sone { the ads,|ffom the bandits’ revolvers, Me: |[ only to report at the assembling Sondiuon & ane ERE RED run-down | cluded. jthey come along, look out for trou- Charlotte Bronte ae pM pea ;/Lain and Erbe went down * badition to the lor | ble 4 i F | fe : fi and B point, Bon Marche park, Fourth || @The after- midnight || that would mean a atest - |. Erbe was killed outright. Me-|} ave. and Pine at. at 6:45 p.m : ss ‘SENATE VOTES TO Kaiser Is Planning # scenes at Central Police }|to you We Bie ae ee ie ‘ rate vineiee badly wounded that he hee ri be nisoslianeous Girls Kiss Hem of | | Another Cunning Trick station jan opportunity, fo: ance, , units to take care of those who ‘ ri | : ; : pois One of the men then grabbed a/} did not attend Saturday's or Papa Joffre’s Cloak | CON Licked on the battiotieta and They Wrote * When you have read |} The: tiercbants are’ middtig bag cae ognit less than $500 and, |] ganization meeting Ail | I te ratipg a pee aryl ‘a y ‘ote thi : | T cna ‘ 4 } ‘ollowed y i no! y vl | 4 her stories you'll know || sueciat efforts to get bargains toward the door. “They were op wee NST teats | CIMITING LIQUOR) coc. trciisn the wera we ix Classics 4 iow the wheels of indus- : ed there by Belt 4 | ile Marshal Joffre was in : | most cunning trick. He is 4 i 1 | se days. when bar-|posed there by Beltzhoover and | reales ° for you the je days, w ar | conference with Secretary | \ re ot going Yoste, who were attracted b | PARE FOOD ASHINGTON, M 14.— joing to propose universal and oe ral : " nl =. ilaed gains aré so much appreciated. | snooting and had rceabtiad tiple /AXMEN s Barer hogay eavarelsgiiie som ay aie eae. thevesnate Saturn | fimediate peace on terme that * Z . e ted at nicht aS || The results of their efforts are|guns an they left near-by offices | the state, war and navy depart. | gay evening adopted the Cum. | will everywhere catch the | Which Will Appear in “{ at night, and | told of in their ads |The robbers fired another round| “Axman, spare that can,” shont-| Ment swarmed ato. ae bla mins amendment to the espion Half-Witted and the Haif- atit means to do a , srings of Seat-|#nd Beltzhoover went down, with ajed Dry Squad “Commander” Put-| Service man Sey nae age bill, prohibiting the manu Hearted. > day's work at night Phe" best Onesings OF eet-| tT chen the chebk |nanr to his gallant forces when| Military cloak worn by the mar. facture of intoxicating liquor | That is to say, "NO ANNEX- And you will have been || tle’s best stores appear regu-| Yoste wax shot in the leg. The|they wrecked the New Cecil cafe ona anes vealdot ad eld hi from grains, cereals, sugars ATIONS, NO INDEMNITIES,” ; fe : y isk ‘ » larly in The r. | robbers ran three blocks, a growing | Saturday afternoon. “We must! em of eg . and syrups from September 1, everything to be restored to TI - nwa “YU d | q entertained | of crowd at their heels, When cap-|conserve the nation’s food supply 1917, until the close of the war. the geography and the condi- he | irst, nder Watch or the first . |ture seemed imminent, th jump-| HKverything but canned food went| W. R. Grace & Co. will transport| The action was taken after a tions existing previous to July Two Fla 5.” starts to- tory in Tuesday’s Star THE c FASTEST GROWING PAPER | oq into an automobile, anrued and|the way of the ax, following the|25,000 tons of rice from the Orient long and hard fight, the meas. 28, 1914, and all be good fellows ags, Head it one iarane IN THE NORTHWEST |fired several shots and then made|arrest of Proprietor J. [. Savage|to Cuban ports thru Seattle during] ure being carried by a vote of together. dav Rea anc oe, ll wan Vore for liquor law violation | 1917 38 to 32. This from the man who start: * ou’ o ee ll find fi one > ‘ 7 ‘ * A ’ nani his Rabbit Is a Wise Rabbit; e ity itor Won a e just Van l — NOT ALL EXEMPTED ITY EDITOR wits out of it, And then he lost in: {of intelligent affection in a rabbit's |rabbit When his first paroxysm of joy |ted. He wants me to scratch him voice his thoughts : a ids saint summer a man |terest eye: | si daa had spent itself, he would seize} behind his big, flopping ears, | My wife, who is economical and Because t assing my house in an automo-| My wife says the rabbit is alc cuecerla a scientific theory that] Nevertheless, I claim that mine is|something—an old newspaper, per-| He fawns on me the way a dog | practical, says my rabbit has cons ol he object of granting | P®@ ny boy: |nuisance every type of man has its prototype |no ordinary rabbit, Anybody could | haps—in his teeth, and play with it.|fawns, and sometimes when I pet!sumed more green garden stuff freedom {ro bile stopped and sald to m y p | Be ta 4, Oe Ae ee | cman, Ab. vod. wait & xebeitT’ | eee among the lower animals. A fero-|love this rabbit of mine |T have seen him walk on his hind-|him he attacks me playfully, stab-|than all the rest of the family come worked on Tacht hardébip being | ie toy said yessir, he did, and| So it is my rabbit. I am the only |cious man, for example, ix attracted| He is so doglike in his fidelity |legs, shaking a newspaper, bing my hands with his forepaws. | bined, and that, in view of the h. Gy Of the Nationa: Qumites, officers) ae enan handed him a very fluffy |friend it has in the world. Itisnow|by lions and tigers. A sneaky, {and affection that it seems to me ae Then he stomps the ground with |of lL, we ought to eat the rabbit. * rd Eee een ee rons big rabbit treacherous man has a fondness for |he ought to have a tail to wag But it is not in that mad mood |his powerful hind-feet. and hops, She has her way in most things, instr t i brown bunny a big nations! ‘Pureau 4 @ man said,| | appreciate thgt most people do|snakes. And you have, perhaps,| All last winter, every time I went /that I ike my rabbit best away but on this point I am adamant, of 1 Be good to him the ma v * iy / repbgie:s0 spin] POOP es Cagney i not know |not care for raMbits as pets, pre-|seen a pugilist leading a bulldog on {down cellar to tend the furnace Iam making garden. 1 recently At other mes he rolls over on) We may have to accustom our families Married men whose | wo he was, but if | did 1 would|ferring them in ple. Rabbits are|a leash we kept the rabbit in the cellar—he |spaded the ground, My rabbit was|his back, again doglike, and looks |selves to many strange diets before) a , he ode teen eo to him aod thauk him. For 1 popularly regarded as witless crea-| No pugilist was ever seen leading | would meet me at the foot of the |with me all the time, He followed jas silly as any fondly foolish dog the war is over. [Will at 1 must, ee eed ge ised | tap Peege ore tu which do not respond to the|a rabbit on a leash, Nor was any-|stairs, He would run madly ‘round|my spade and wanted to He down |does in that position eat horse, 1 will eat dog. 1 will Absence” “ondueted in thelr lov vay my” rabbit advisedly.|{rlendly advances of hnmans |body ever able to inveigle me into{and ‘round, the way a puppy does |just where | was working. I had| When he is laboring under the |even eat cat. 4 4 You know how it is with boys. My| Dogs wag their tails, and cate rub {the roped srena when he is mad with joy |to shovel him out of the way, excitement of affection he utters) Rut | will not eat my rabbit. } vi Jett toy atted y rabbit pretty nearly | Lege your leg, and horses whinny| The conclusion is irresistible, He would get under foot. le} Tam planting seed now. My rab-|strange, guttural whispers, It is as| My stomach might assimilate le first anon club will celebrate | hoy Dotted my vey He chased itjat your approach. But there is, it|therefore, that the rabbit is my pro-|would get {n my way when 1 was|blt comes to me and pokes his nose |if he had much to tell me and was |him, but my soul would die of tu: im aaniverary afin 1 dent Ore hea end ecaseé tho'ls polnied ouly uo answering gleam ‘totype. And this 4s why I love my ‘eplitting kindling, into my hand, He wants to be pet-‘distreseed because he could not! digestion. Sanization at a banquet May 19.