The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 18, 1917, Page 7

‘A Twesday Sale S-lRoom Fu ° TaN ID Phone Main 7100. I ot rmiture! TUESDAY sale that offers unusually low prices on Dining-room Furniture of that thoroughly good, dependable character for which | this store is known, and that at the regular selling prices represents the best values ordinarily obtainable. — $82.50 DINING-ROOM SUITE $62.50 | $32.50 DI A saving of twenty dollars on a s len- A 48-inch did, well made Dining Room Suite of | with round pe 8 pieces. Obtainable in wax or fumed Splendid! finish quarter-sawed oak. A suite that top. Splendid! will stand comparison and _ will give | Special at .. splendid service | —Buffet, Extension Table and 6 Chairs $55.00 DI Special ..... eases ° . $62.50 | —High-grade $50.00 DINING- ROOM, SUITE $39.50 made of solid oak, in fumed finish. Built did, well ial Table in fu value in a Dining is especially desirable for $19.50 DI bungalow Summer home use. Well | —45-inch top, made and attractive NING TABLE $26.75 lable li Colonial . destal and heavy flush rim on y made of quartered oak NING TABLE $27.50 54-inch Colon ial $27.50 well made NING TABLE $15.95 6-foot extension. Splen inexpen for service. Buffet, Table and 6 Chairs. “ Gainey Special ......eeee see eeeee es 839.50 wis A heey ae reoee G15-05 $105.00 DINING SUITE FOR $85.50, WILLIAM AND MARY DINING 7 —Nineteen dollars and fifty cents sav- ABLE $33.00 ing on this splendid, high-grade cight- | —A beautiful Table on graceful lines of piece Colonial Suite. _Fine, large S4-inch | tis period; 48-inch top, 6-foot extension top Table; large Buffet, and 6 splendid Special value at..........- .$33.00 Chairs - < William and M Dining ( quartered oak, in wax or fumed finish teathat eeats:. Spat! $3.90 Special ....... sate $85.50 Paigatiabs On Pour Wien SAFE SAVINGS This Institution for Savings went through the panic of 1893 and the succeeding years, with a fine record for Stability. It came through the panic of 1907, with more assets than it had at the beginning of the panic. We passed through the panic or “financial flurry” of 1917, caused by the failure of several commercial banking institutions, without a scar. We now have several hundred more savings accounts than at any time in our 27% years history On July 1, 1917, we will not only pay our usual rate of 5 per cent, compounded semi-annually, but will set aside in the Reserve Fund for your addi- tional protection more than $30.000.00. If you are looking for a Safe, Profitable and Convenient place for your savings, place them with “The Oldest and Largest Strictly Savings Institu- tion in Washington.” You may start with $1 and add any amount at 1 any time up to $3,000. (We will not accept more than $3,000 from any one individual.) 810 SECOND AVENUE DIRECTORS E.G. Ames Ivar Janson F, K. Struve HD. Campbell Hana Pedr Wm. Thaanum B. Finley ALP Cc E. Vilas Raymond R. Frazier James Shannon F. W. West David Whitcomb Fugene B. Favre, Spokane L. 0. Janeck, North Yakima Low Fares East VIA THE “MILWAUKEE” Tickets on sale June 20 to 20 inclusive—July 3 and 4 and every Friday and Saturday during July, August and September. Good returning for 3 months—Not to exceed Oct. 31. From Points in the Northwest to 4 Trip 119.20 20.00 | New York . st ouln Sioux City, lows Minneapolia ington, D. Montreal Phtludelpiie Omaha, Counct! Blofts, ‘cansos City and St. Josep 67.50 Proportionately reduced fares to many other points In the East. Return thru California at slightly higher fares. The “Olympian”’—The “Columbian” Two Fast Through All-Steel Trains Every Day Liberal stopover privileges and choice of different routes aro For additional information call on or address City Ticket Office, Second and Cherry—Ell. 4812 Chicago, Milwaukee & St.PaulRy. offers GERMANS HIT BACK AND GAIN | LOST POSITION, aan wm WAR WEST FRONT—Germans laanch tre- pendons sttack on British and wrest back advance positions south ef Arras. MACEDONIAN FRONT—Heitiah forces, it is reported, are withdrawing. It hae been insisted he house of commons that these forces should be on the West | trent SITUATION TODAY Russia is reported to he secretly pre paring for = vigorous offensive against the Germans. Paris and Rome reported ne major actions. LONDON, June 18—A tre mendous German attack on | newly won British positions | east of Monchy le Proux forced the British to fall back from certain advanced posts, Field Marshal Haig reported today “Early this morning the en- emy strongly attacked our new | positions east of Monchy fe Proux,.” he stated, “After se- vere fighting, we were com: led to fall from certain ad- vanced posts in front of our main new position. We still hold Infantry Hill.” Monchy le Proux, five |southeast of Arras, is one of the jturning points on the general Hir | denburg front, being on the | called Drocourt Queant ‘switch line }It has been the scene of tremen dous fighting ever since the Brit struck out from Vimy Ridge and drove toward Doual, The British field marshal’s re | port also mentioned considerable | mutual artillerying north of the 40 Scarpe, and heavy bombardment of} | British positions near Yr os STAGE VAUDEVILLE A night of vaudeville will be staged by the Wallingford Com munity club {n the Lincoln bigh school auditorium Tuesday evening a 8 o'clock Wishes He Was Brick “Ll wish I was a paving brick,” remarked a city jail trusty, who assisted Sergt. Putman's dry squad men pour $10,000 worth of confi cated liquor Into the sewer Satur. day afternoon CRUSHED Caught between the freight ele jecrushed thru a pane of wire-netted fire glass, and critically injured in ternally Sunday NATIVE DAUGHTER DIES The funeral of Mra. Adolph Behr ens, age 51, native daughter of Se attle, who died Sunday morning will be held from the chapel of 'hutterworth & Sons, Wednesday, at (3 p.m. | EXPLAIN JIT JAM Tha Commonwealth club will |1qeet at 6:30 p. m. Monday at Good |Fats cafeterla, W. 1 vwford will discuss the jitney situation, HOLD WOMAN'S FUNERAL The funeral of Mrs Ursina Eni, aged who died Saturday night the Providence hospital, from her late home, m, Mon at will be held 1423 26th ave, at 3:30 p. [49% miles} IN SHAFT. vator and the wall of the shaft, Gus} Stumpas, 28, kitchen employe at Che Wright's restaurant, was STAR—MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1917. — )] WOMAN SOLVES Fraser-PatersonCo GIRL’S NEW YORK, June 18-—The hand of the law reached out to ward Italy from here to draw back Alfredo Cocchi, the Ital ian repairman, who is believed to have murdered and mutilat ed the long-missing Ruth Cru ger, whose body, skull crushed and torso slashed, was found buried in the basement of Coc chi's shop, Three official investigations, one by the police, one by the district attorney's office, and one by the coroner, delved to ward the bottom of one of the most revolting crimes that has ever shocked New York, The wife and two friends of the missing Italian were held In heavy bail and 36 witnesses were rounded up The state department has ca bled Italian authorities to hold Cocchi Mra. Grace Humiston, the wor lawyer, whose shrewdness le the finding of Ruth Cruger's today hinted at an organised c of procurer lured knows the she other cel lars whe hool girls have been lured and rulned, Another Police Scandal T tatement, promise of a shake up olice department equal ing t Nowing Lieut f convietic r the murde man Rosent and t torney’s sta’ ment that he ficient evid upon Ww o try Cocehi w e swift developments in the case. r ing shoy oe are little, harmless-looh scattered all around a _high “schools and public PAG! MURDER hools naid | "Loungers of type infest the the Kirle going When a girl enters one of the ehops ie insulted. Other Heinous Crimes Phere other in New holding secrets hide jous as the one Cocch! hurried awa to Italy from, But if | told names | and locations before my evidence ts | complete, the criminals L want would get away w York does not Mra. Humiston, the most depraved ao places and watch to and from schoo! are collar Yor just as yet realize how systematized ts the danger for | the girls who live in it. The public readily says, when a girl disappears }{t was as much her fault as the |man’s, I know better. | “When a girl ie insulted in one Jof those places, she usually broods | over the horror of tt jehe tell her parents, for she is partly to blame, Little | little, her seduc ttor down moral stamina, soon girl ts missing. One Such Crime Every Month | “With the right sort of assistants, | I could show you # case equal in horror to that of Ruth Cruger’s ev ery month in the r Never would and th Discussing the case of the Cru | ger girl, Mra, Humiston expressed | the belief that she was attacked more than one degenerate he evealed what she termed “a murder, a ripper crime of th worst kind,” | Examining physicians agreed! with her | “Probably Ruth, on her visits to the shop, of while passing it, a tracted many men,” said Mra, H | | miston, { think there had be wpe ilation and plans a about her.” POLICE FEAR RIOT: MAY BE An armed provost guard, commanded by Lieut. Herbert Rush, from the Puget Sound navy yard, patrolled the district south of Yesier way Sunday night to forestall any attempt on the part of 1,200 sailors on 48-hour “liberty” to repeat the Saturday night at- tack on the |. W. W. hall, 20814 Second ave., which resulted in the wounding of Private W. E. Miller, Third company, C. A. C., stationed at Fort Lawton, and the arrest of 51 1. W. W. Miller was reported recovering, | Monday morning, at the city hos- pital. He suffered a deep bullet! wound tn his left thigh. Because of a lack of evidence, 37 of the L. W. W. were released Sunday. Four teen were held, on suspicion of hav- evaded select service registra- ne } ton The police fear further trouble. 300 Participate Three hundred sailors and sol- & era from the Puget Sound navy yard and Fort Lawton partictpated in the Saturday night riot, which is feald to have been provoked by at |tacks on the army and navy made by LW. W. ‘street apeakers Miller waa shot from a window at the rear of the hall. He was with a crowd of sailors and soldiers, who, after failing to gain entrance into the hall from the front, marched in to the alley, intent on scaling the fire escape. A man aa yet uniden tified appeared at the window, flour ishing an automatic revolver, and shouted: “It's going to go off! It's going to go off!” Fires Six Shots He fired six shots into the body of the mob below and vanished Miller was only man hit Pandemonium reigned. Five thou- sand men, shouting and yelling,| jammed the streets for blocks around the hall. On the corners hundreds of enlisted men gathered, their leaders exhorting them to ‘clean ‘em out.” | CONTINUED Officer F. H. Bralliard telephoned ® riot call to police headquarters and Lieut. Dolphin ordered the rest dence district patrolmen from their beats to disperse the mob Declare Martial Law Within five minute detectives we scores of city on the scene, and |the hastily summoned naval patrol, in command of Lieut. R. 8. Hatch and Ensign E. B. Cloney, was at jtempting to clear the streets. As} }soon as possible, practical martial law was declared, and no foot or | Vehicle traffic permitted for a ra-| | dius of three blocks around the ball. | The first symptom of trouble oc-| curred about 8:30 p. m. Saturday, when, reinforced by several score of soldiers, the sailors heckled an 1. W. W. speaker on Washington st.| The 1. W. W. refused to heed the mob, and after considerable discus-| }slon the party proceeded to the 1 W. W. headquarters, a block away Try Front Door A small group ran up the stairs The door was slammed in their faces. Policemen then cleaned the soldiers and eaflors out of the hall The crowd, with another that had| formed on the street, then went to| the alley, where the shooting took An Attractive Offering of ) Cretonnes v% At 25c¢ Yard ‘ includes lengths of two yards Featuring and upward and presents a timely opportunity to pro- Basket Wares at Attractive Prices Housewares Section quotes very inter- ting prices to close out a surplus assort- s, Straw 3amboo Sewing or Fruit vide for bright and cheerful Summer draperies for town or country home The choice of colors, designs and textures is wide, enabling tultable selections to be easily | made for curtains, slip covers, hions, overdrapes and many other purposes Upholater jon, First Floor, i ii ment of Clothes Hampers, Waste Basket Shopping Bags and Baskets. The following items included: WASTE BASKETS AT 25¢@ EACH choice of three sizes: 12-, 13- and 14-inch. Ma of bamboo, in faney weave. Suitable for hotel and camp use. Price 25¢ each. MATTING SHOPPING BAGS, 10¢@ EACH choice of five sizes, ranging from 8 to 10% inches long. Of closely-woven matting in natural straw color, with cloth lining and drawstring top. Price 10c each Another style, also of matting, has two handles Priced, according to size, at 10c and 15c. BAMBOO FRUIT BASKETS, 5¢@, 10@ and 15¢ Round, bowl-shaped Baskets of mahogany-fin- ished bamboo, substantially made and finished. B b Tet zes: the smaller suitable for bonbons, the a 'Yy larger for fruits, nuts and sewing materials. Ex- i and 15c ELMWOOD CLOTHES HAMPERS, $1.00 EA. Two sizes—24 and 26 inches high—in these Clothes Hampers of split or shaved elmwood, which are made by Indians of the State of Maine. Provided with fit-over cover of the same material. Price $1.00 each. MATTING PORCH CUSHIONS, 25¢ EACH 18 inches in diameter, in fancy for porch, lawn and boat use; Housewares Section, Basement. Vudor Porch Shade nal values at Sc, 10c Carriages (Third Floor) ANY new patterns in Reed-body Baby Car- riages, in the popular fin- ishes, are displayed on the Third Floor; also Folding Go-carts and Sulkies in a wide range of improved de- signs. The Baby Carriage Pictured with reed body and hood, in -cream or brown finish, is priced at $20.00. Circular style, weay suitable price 25c each —Firet Fioor. Pottery Jardinieres 50c and 75c The OHIO Range Heats Quickly N. Summertime especially, the housekeeper appreciates a range that is ready for bak- ing shortly after the fire is | place | City detectives forced their way | started, and that heats water into the hall, arrested 51 1 W. W quickly. and, after @ search, discovered an| 7 automatic revolver. According to} The io ii Lieut Pee ogee it had been hastily | NEW shipment of | Ohio is ready for cloaned and oiled. One shell was if : ii i H in the chamber. One loaded and| Pottery Jardinieres | Baking Eigh t Minutes five empty shells were found in tho has been received in the After the Fire is Started alley. The police also found ball bats, a blackjack and a handful of loaded rifle shells with their noses | clipped off. Broke Into Store Some of the mob broke Into a sec! hand store and took rifles and revolvers. | | When the rumor circulated that) they were going to burn the bulld-| jing, additional guards were called |from Fort Lawton and Second infan |try headquarters, and the district | cleared. U.S. WILL FIX STEEL PRICES WASHINGTON, June 18.—The government will fix prices pald for stee! used in constructing Amer ica’s food fle On the heels of rports that stee! companies have boosted prices and plan to make enormous steel profits on contracts | with the it wi liearned today that any such move will be met with sharp check. For the last ten days the Taw committee of the-Coun cil of National Defense has been working with the heads of the country's big steel plants fixing on sasonable price” for steel nd shapes government | | materials | ‘The price determined upon—ex- pected within a few days—will, if approved by the president, be the one paid by the shipping board in steel ship construction If prices determined upon by the steel companies are not agreeable to President Wilson the govern |ment has the authority now to com mandeor all steel products and, if necessary, the plants turning them out Reports of threatened high prices in steel for the government grew out of tentative agreements reached between Gen. Goethals and eteel concerns for certain contracts for ships, These contracts provide that the government pay approxl |mately $85 a ton for steel plates, while the navy is paying only about $60 a ton {Sammy Bohne Back in Big Show With | Sammy Bohne, former Tacoma ‘Tiger, who went to the St, Louis Cardinals, is back with the Cards again, after having been farmed out to St, Paul, 'U. S, ORDERS 90 FOR NEW SHIPS Cards} SHIPS FOR WAR WASHINGTON, June 18.—Adadi-! tional contracts for 10 complete | | steel cargo carriers and 24 wooden | hulls have been let by the U. 8 shipping board, it was officially an nounced. The total number of con tracts of the emergency fleet to |date, to cope with the submarine menace, call for 28 complete steel composite ships of wood 30 complete wooden ships |and 48 wooden hulls | The Seattle Construction and} |Drydock Company was awarded contracts for 10 steel steamers cor plete, first and second to be deliv ed in June, 1918, third in July 1918, four and fifth in August, 1918 sixth ia September, 1918; seventh | and eighth in October, 1918, ninth in November, 1918, and tenth in Do- cember, 1918 SELECT SERVICE WILL TAKE FEW f Continued From Page 1° ¢ ¢ number down to 500,000, so that the chance is one in three of be ing selected from the list chosen by lot Married Men Uncertain | Will married men be excused? At this writing this question is un answered, It may be covered by the regulations which will before | long be published Probably = tt will be left largely to the judgment cf the local exemption boards. Will sons with — dependent mothers be excused? in the answer is to be found tn the regu lations and the judgment of the local exemption boards Broadly speaking, it may be said that those having dependent rela tives will be excused, Not all, however, will be excused, They ere more likely to be excused, how- ever, if their ocoupation is impor. erawing mat green finish, so desir able for porch and indoor In the style pictured, they are priced as follows: 7-inch size, 50¢. | 8-inch size, T5¢. | —Third Floor. Fifteen minutes after the fire is kindled there is enough hot water for the bath. Prices, including water connections— $58.00, $62.00 and $66.00 —Third Fleer. use HE sketches show two of the pleasing cuttings in these Nappies and Vases —desirable for gifts and Cut Glass Nappies and Vases‘ $1.00 Pathe cin, which are in 6-inch size, may also be had in unhandled style, and there are several shapes in Vases, all 6 inches high. Price $1.00 each the —Basement Salesroom. the @war department is the crea- tion of these boards of appeal, one in each federal judicial district. tant to industry It is expected that about one the militia and regulars are desig- nated. ag Se etoal ventana tients | Judicial districts are quite large Will Keep Them Grouped These requirements will neces and such appeal boards will be| Im assembling and organizing sarily be relaxed from the se- | Very busy after the exemption |the men an effort will be made to vere tests applied to the regu- boards have done their work, hear- j hold localities together. The boys lar army and will come nearer ing cases brought to them on /|from Seattle, for instance, will not to those applied to the state appeal |be mixed up with those from St. Louis or Chicago. The law directs | that so far as it may be practicable men from the same communities | be kept together. Men in the select service army will be eligible to officers’ commands and it is announced that the third series of officers’ camps | will be made up of men chosen from the selected soldiers. The second camp is to be Angust and the third will probably come in October or November, Lawyers Not Needed It is not necessary to have a lawyer to make this appeal, The purpose is to have everything In- formal. If a candidate feels that he is not being fairly dealt with by his local exemption board and that he has a proper ground to be ex- cused he may come before the ap- peal board and tell hie story. The work of selecting from the registered men is expected to oc- militia If it should happen that exemp tions for occupation, physical de- fects and dependent relatives re duced the number {in any com munity below the number required from that community another would be made from the registration list and new candi ates would appear before the ex- emption boards Many Boards Same These exemption boards will be |cupy nearly two months. in many cases the same official By that time the government will In official circles it is pri- who did the registering. It is not|have a roster of a half million or vately admitted that the chief necessary, however, t¢ they be|more able-bodied and more or less| Purpose of this lect r= vice army is for the defense of this country. Much has been said and written about send. ing men to the trench in France, foot-loose young men. These young men will not be called until the cantonment bar- racks are ready for them, This will not be before Septem the same officials. Nominations for exemption board auty are now being sent to the president and by him forwarded to the war department where they are investigated to discover their qual-|ber 1, according to the present Men are going to France now fications to serve on such boards. | prospect. and It will not be long hefore Four men in organized labor in} Pay will begin for each man| Gen. Pershing has a couple of the state of Washington were|from the time he gets orders to| divisions there, but It probe recommended Sunday for member-|report or takes the formal oath as| bly will be a long time before ship on exemption boards by EB, P.Je soldier, It will begin whether| the men now about to begin Marsh, president of the Washing-}he actually is ordered to camp or| their training will see active ton State Federation of Labor. begins drilling or remains at| Service of any kind. Marsh acted at the request of |/home, He will be issued his uni-| iis does not mean that America muel Gompers jform and shoes and when he has/is not to take its full.part in the The men recommended are J hut them on he will resemble inj war, It merely means that one of Brown and R. K, Proctor of Seattle |all respects a soldier in the na-,the most important tasks this end William F. Coates and D, P.| tional dor regular army. country faces is the preparation of Reid of Spokane. There is nothing distinctive|a large reserve army, mobili Appeal is allowed from the de-|xbout the uniform of the select equipped and trained to be used, cision of exemption boards andjservice army unless a button on | necessary, to defend this country ‘eugrovaton, one of the big jobs now faced by from foreign the collar be used to designate as Pm.