The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 15, 1917, Page 1

% 5 Every patriotic giri and woman in Seattle is invit ed to take part in the Red C appeal next week Headquarters will be opened for thie work in Ag sembly hall, fourth floor Arcade building, Saturday SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1917 Seattle Star | GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY NEWSPAPER IN PACIFIC NORTHWEST | RRR AAAI nnn puvaneetrnatentonasesanend VOLUME 19 ONE CENT NIGHT EDITION Get out the old bathing duds, Weather Forecaster Salisbury de- clares it's going to stay warm over Sunday. “Fair tonight and Satur. day,” says he; “continued warm.” i i ‘A MESSAGE OF WOE FOR THE KAISER © BY THE EDITOR OF THE STAR | OY, page the kaiser! We're not much on music, but we'd like to sing him a verse or two of “The Star Spangled Banner.” Right in the midst of our morning jubi- Jation over Seattle’s splendid subscription Cellar Protects ‘Seattle Girl in Charleroi Fight (Despite efforts by Germans, or German sympathizers, to Intimidate Miss Valeska Sadier, Seattle nurse, who went into Beigium at the beginning of the war to augment the Red Cross forces, The Star today presents more of her experiences. At tacks upon Miss Sadier were made when she granted Miss Ab- bott an interview, to stimulate interest in the local campaign for Red Cross funds. Today she recounts cxperiences which show the need of Red Cross assistance in war time, telling of the burning of Charieroi—EDITOR.) By Mabel Abbott lf “Nothing seemed very strange to us in those days. | sup pose our minds had become numb from constant excitement. When incredible things happen every few minutes, you get) so you can't feel astonished at anything But I think even we recognized that there was something rather remarkable | # about what happened to the ledgers of the Belgian doctor's ther-in-la Valeska Sadler, the American, girl nurse who stayed thru) the wild days and nights of the taking of Charleroi, Belgium, by the Germans in August, 1914, and remained in the Red Cross hospitals she had helped to establish there for three months afterward, said this to me yesterday as we sat looking to the Liberty Loan, the telegraph editor came into our anctum with a sheaf of “copy” hot off the United Press leased wire, It told how the nation not only had taken up the $2,000,000,000 Liberty Bond issue within the prescribed time, BUT The Appeal Countrymen: We are at war! Our sons give their young strength to perpetuate ‘ety and liberty of the nm. Soon their courage will stand as a valiant line at the battle front. Soon their sacrifice will be ma: and the broken will come home. We ask you to re ceive them tenderly, We ask you to send the agents of your mercy to the rear of the battle line to take them and care for them and send them home, Will: you sacrt ft deeply to this end and give all you can? Will you deprive yourselves for the deprived? Wil you risk your financial comfort for thone who have risked thelr lives and broken them? We ask it, we command it even as we are commanded ~in Humanity'’s name! RED CROSS COMMITTEE. M. A. ARNOLD, HERMAN CHAPIN, GEORGE DONWORTH, A.W. LRONARD, HERVEY LINDLEY, A. J. RHODES. HENRY SUZZALLA, MORITZ THOMPSON, R. H. THOMSON, DAVID WHITCOMB. out of her windows in the Amon apartments, Sixth and f-absorbed, was going about its} / Y Seattle, peaceful and daily business below us. It was hard to understand that it was in a city that once was peaceful and self-absorbed that] FOR RED CROSS f place | STARTS MONDAY the things of which she was telling me took } Red Cross Nurses Stayed in Charleroi to Aid Wounded Most of the citizens of Charleroi fled the day before the} Germans came; but a few remained, preferring chances with their homes. And the girl nurses stayed. There would be wounded for the Red Cross to take care of “About 8:30 that morning.” said Miss Sadler, p« me a cup of tea, “I and two of the other Is started one hospital to another. The Germans w already in the town, and the handful of French and Belgians were using what they called ‘Japanese tactics’—alternately attacking and reating- and in a short time we found ourselves entirely cut off. We hurried along, trying to find a street that was open, until, as we turned a corner, we ran right into a line of French troops. in their red tunics and blue trousers, draw n| up and waiting tor something ; “*Run!’ yelled the officer ‘The Germans the coming from] re to take their} that the Red Cr be presented to the public dent Wiison has called for $100,000, Get to shelter, quick!’ “We ran. The street was empty locked and the iron shutters were drawn dow It was like a solid wall on both sides he street, nd we : whose holes have been closed up. And all the time the o ficer was shouting Hurry! Get to shelter! The mitrail leuses will be here in a minute! “| remember I wasn’t very much excited. I knew the danger, but there just didn’t seem to be anything we could do er At none =e one} ry" 8 Front of Wine-shop Blown Out |girls will sing national airs thru | megaphones, and Mrs. W A. Bur Just After They Entered It “and just then we found a door that opened. It was a little wine shop, and there were three men inside, and they w drinking: Yat fm we went; and the door was hardly shut when we heard the clatter of hoofs, and next minute the whole the street ; , ‘ : “We went straight thru that house and over a stone wall higher than our heads. I don't know how we did it F i “A Belgian doctor who had helped us in the hospitals came run ning down the street and called to us: ‘The mitrailleuses are just Found the corner! Come with me to my mother-inlaw's house “The house near, and we darted in there; and a minute or : % were all shot out wo later the windows were all # : i : two lWe went down into the ement—a dark cellar, ankle-deep in water—and there we stayed from 9 in the morning until 3 in v Py p v as ta 7 he afternoon, when the town wa tne Miss Sadier and 1 looked down into the street below (Continued on page 16) WASHINGTON, June 15.—In ad- is « matter of conj @ition to drafting men for the new M. Lateham, originat mational army government will coma Rose society: probably have to draft additional most prominent Rosarians in bf the Ta forces to and National Guard with ¢ This view was expressed by high and backward in their growth orman names are stunted thorities today, follow military ing returns showing only 1,000 en Severs] dozen smoking pipes listments in the « esterday,| creitgund on Loren Leon Rendall e of the lowest amounts #INC€ 5) yeirg old, a paroled prisoner, April J hen he Was arrested ‘Thursday night by. Detectives O'Brien and Whe is Jane Eyre? Montgomery OVE OETA eee aN ECHO ZAHL PREPARES and the doors were all} 900 immediate fuods for Red meetings will be held Frida | pe front of the house went out into | Pe. into the yard at the back | day. the window | |take part Sunday, by marching thru the park and singing DRAFT MEN !German Roses Have 10 Hard Time in Tacoma |) eae: in 1 man) canvass for a hard| while others will be on the down ‘town streets fn the singing squads Assembl up the regular army city, reported today that all roses her Vomen of tion nation Every street car in Seattle will stop for one minute h day next week to remind peo- ple of the seriousness of the world conflict and the need of whole-hearted, instant response of the Red Cross appeal for $500,C00. Automobiles, too, are expected tc jobserve this silent ceremony men and women will then think of the days to come and of the wounded Amerie the fields of Fra remo Men are » their hate ‘This is just one of the many wa ness, Every city and # Hold Street Meet The first of }leigh will speak on “The Great air meeting will be held. Or. Suzzallo, of the state uni- versity, who heads the local campaign committee, and Mrs. Burleigh will make addresses. E e Red Cross uniforms are Need Many Women There will be wor for these men all next week Some will i house-to-house in uniform, ther the war is responsible|rt the corner tents e, but Frank) Headquarters will be opened Where did Jane Eyre come from? ARRAN. FOR A VISIT TO THE OL’\SWIMMIN’ HOLE IN OL’ SUIT--SEE PAGE 11. s33e304 Busy aid na will need on ss campaign will! Presi help gather this sum, starting were like rats) Monday. It is not a campaign for membership. |many as they parison cities of the West series of street preacher in Seattle is ex-| to deliver the message ¢f| Cross from his pulpit Suo Then, at 2 p. m. Sunday, in Volunteer park, a great open ery patriotic girl and woman ttle is urged to take part in t week's appeal, and all who of fair maic colored sill and more bare skin | Priday morning hall, fourth floor of the and one of the} Arcade building —_‘ Saturday, if you intend to do your bit ery station of life are earnestly solicited to volunteer. Monday, teains of business men sill go out and soliclt big con yutions—not merely $100 dona- | but $50,000 and $100,000 do. Patriotism Loudest in Lobster Palaces in Gotham in War Time New York in Wartime.—"“NewYork's patriotism is loudest in the Despair and Love _ Mingled in Final Suicide Farewell Despair, mingled with a great love for two chi called “Our boys, into every line of the farewell note which Jack Hamilton, 34 re BY J. H. DUCKWORTH NEW YORK, June 15 While forts, mines, ships and air equadrons New York, the nation’s this town’s moneyed in their orgy of sensel wasteful extravagance. Gorged with war profits, they toss gold away with reck- less abandon, while the profes- sionals whose business it is to fr profits ter winnings ~God save the mark! —of PATRIOTISM! New York these days reminds me of London in the fall of 1914, |when the rule was “Husiness as | usual.” But New York, blase and brazen, outdoes London, rivaling the Ro: e of Nero's time Patriotism Loud in Cafes Recruiting officers harangue | lerowds from the {lie Mbra of the pub- They « recruits Put not as es, they get r et in com h ot New York's patriotism is loudest, not in the recruiting offices, but in the lobster pal- aces. In th ene gilded r arets and “revues” featuring wom- | Wife, en and girls half-clad in the Stars} how the battle was getting too and Stripes, while diners and win. | much for him to bear. ers dizaily applaud “patriotic” afra | sung to ragtime music by chorus} girls in olive drab, in Re |costume, or in tights of red, and blue Cross Not All Is Sordid representations of Lincoln, nt, and of Wilson, Sta Washir ston, G | Pershing and even Roosevelt stalk in the limelight amongst settings na, Showing much tri And still not all is sordid, for parties turned out of the cabarets | Jat 1 jhave be m., the new closing time, 1 1 to wateh with (Continued on page 16) Consul! Repudiates Phone Interview The Greek consul, C. Liliopoutos, | repudiated the in- terview given out in his name over |the telephone Wednesday by a the| charge of Mrs. A, Oden. Report to{clerk in his office. Lillopoulos isays that he hasn't been officially | informed of the abdication of King! Constantine, and for this rea |son is not in a position to discuss| the situation. EXCURSION SUNDAY | The first excursion of the sea con will be run by the Puget Sound | Wedgesday, the admiralty announc i Navigation Co. Sunday to Hood] e@ ranal points lobster palaces."—J. H. Duckworth, THE 70TH DAY OF OUR WAR at war today loan of two billion dollars by: giving that and many milli more tween $500,000,000 and $1,000,000,000, it was officially }nounced at the treasury en whom he were written Thursday. The police say it is one of the most remarkable sul- cide letters on record. With a last reque wife might marry man who would be kind to “the boys,” Hamilton sent word that he would be at rest in the Sound reached his les, smaller home, at 1415 Boren ave. He had | been missing since Wednesday Hamilton had been r months with what he believed to an incurable illness, and he had not| rte are cab-| breathed a word of ft, even to bis The letter tells the story of Writes Decision to Die I have decided, for white | the boys’ sake and yours, to put myself where I shall not be a bur den to any one.” “You must not feel too bad in a year or 80, the meantime I would probably ring you and your SINN FEINERS BET AMNESTY LONDON, June 15.—General amnesty to Irish political pris- oners was announced commons today by the Exchequer Bonar-Law. The prisoners are mainly those concerned in the Dublin riots and the Sinn Fein plots of recent months. merchant cruiser Avenger was tor pedoed and sunk in the North sea) pany have let good in my am incurable staying would only mean w money sweetheart, if relle the “L did ti] this morning not and that God will forgive me, believe I am as est wife to not heen better to you you ree rest boys for me. ean for my more, “Ldve | Hamilton {his family | Los Angeles ithe 1) Dock Police detectives have been meeting this afternc not be necessary before fall ‘ well zlet me work for time, even If I did lay off a lot “These stand I have never done I am perfectly satisfied » You of greater grief in shes Her to Marry Again T am going to put away you burying me. “You will some good man marry quest ts that you do so if you think he would be good to the boys. will get and, go back they boys better than I would if I stayed give up entirely | hope 1 am bothered with the insurance money ou had better F 000 worth of the bonds, and Mrs. McDermott bought the same STEAMER Is ASHORE amount Asks Her to Kiss Boys “I'll say good-bye now The local committee announced during the morning that at 10 ~ m. the New York district's total subscriptions were § This was regarded as making it} > certain that the billion mark would Care for Wounded | be reached by noon | LIVERPOOL, June 15.—Mannel, The first Liberty bond sold onj|former King of Portugal, has just the New York Stock Exchange to-|been appointed by the British Red day sold above par | Cross society as head of its section A block of $10,000 worth of the | of orthopedics, relating to the treat- ble to find any trace of the miss-|bonds sold at one-fiftieth of one | ment of deformities in wounded sol- months ago from He was employed Seattle Construction HAD OVERSUBSCRIBED IT A BIL- LION DOLLARS. 8 Oversubscribed a billion! Sound the news of it to the Hohenzol- lerns, the Von Hindenburgs, and the rest of the pack of brute Germanic militarists whose claws and fangs are bared to seize every American fireside. Sound the news to these barbaric chiefs, who reckoned on a weak-kneed-and divided America as a puny participant in this world combat. Oversubscribed a billion! AND WE HAVE SCARCELY TOUCHED OUR REAL RESOURCES. NATION BACKS — TROOPS WITH Oversubscription of the Liberty loan of $2,000,000,000 made today, the 70th since we entered the conflict against world au- tocracy, a red-letter day for America. Probably no other news of the day will do so much to h America and dishearten overtaxed Germany. Yet it is just a beginning, and $3,000,000,- 000 in bonds to raise funds for our allies will soon be on the market. a Gen. Pershing continued to get one ovation after another in ‘aris. The darker side of the war situation is pictured in dis-— patches from Washington to the effect that congress is giving way under pressure from foed speculators and seems ‘ikely to deny | the president's Vequest for food contro! jegistation, That coa-.,. Qress is thus storing up future trouble for itself and the nation, 1d inviting food riots, seems at least possible. ‘9 g WASHINGTON, June 15.—The rank and file of Amedeae answered Uncle Sam’s request for an initial j The over-subscription to the Liberty Loan will be bee department this afternoon. a cretary McAdoo announced just before the cabinet ) : fe n that another Liberty bond issue would — The stream of subscriptions still tion may reach a billion, one hun- pouring into all 12 federal reserve! dred million. districts after the closing hour was! same story—over-subscription. Ap- taken to indicate that there are| parently 2,000,000 Americans made more billions where these two came up this great purse of war money from, to be had for the asking. \for the nation. The government Wall st. shouldered its trusty dol- estimated that the average indi- liar mark and did its bit How, vidual subscription was $1,000. This” * as shown in the announce-|{s the average struck between tha | ment at noon that the billion mark,| $50,000,000 subscription of Morgan four hundred million more than! & Co. and the myriad of $10 and | Uncle Sam asked, had been reached! $50 subscriptions from working j with untabulated millions still to| girls, widows and men of moderate jbe reported, New York's contribu-! means. Elsewhere it was the ‘SEATTLE OVERSUBSCRIBES ITS SHARE OF THE LIBERTY LOAN Nine millions in Liberty | There will be more than Bonds—$800,000 more than the | 10,000 individual subscriptions, government's estimate! That demonstrating well the unity is Seattle's record, according to with which the city bought. the Friday morning estimates | Rich and poor, great and smail of the Liberty Loan committee. | alike, contributed to make Seat- The city made good—more than tle’s quota, and the figure good—in helping to assure vic- 10,000 is an estimate of Seat- tory over the kaiser. Seattle tle’s patriotism, say the bond spirit came to the fore and salesmen. placed Seattle on the honor role The Liberty Loan committee of of American cities, (Continued on Page 16.) $40,700 IN BONDS GO BID 101 FOR WAR TO BON EMPLOYES BONDS IN CHICAGO One of the large blocks of Lib-) CHICAGO, June. 15.—“Informal* erty Loan Bonds bought. in was made up by Individual sub-|were made toda scriptions of employes of the Bon|the Chicago Board of Trade, Marche They bought $40,700 worth of the bonds, Besides this, tle | sids of 101, for Liberty Loan bonds on the floor of ik MeDermott purchased $1 NITRATE CARRYING The Norwegian steamer Sinaloa, |WAR BOND TRADING [re oe sc. ieucices: wren a IN STOCK EXCHANGE ee of ‘hand went ashore off NEW YORK, June 15. Blanco, wiles north of iseo, Thursday night, A Govern-|San Frar ors of the New York stock ex-/tug has b sent to her rescue, change today decided to open trad The Sinaloa has a net tonnage in Liberty bonds at noon of $11 tons, and carries a crew of 40 men o00,000.; King Manuel Helps man, but it is believed that he{per cent above par, equivalent to/diers, The former king has for AM except one of those on| carried out his threat to kill him: | $100.02 A few minutes another |several years been interested in Ci block of $250,000 sold at par | work of this character. ns