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Maoist iistoiiecsiccsisteemerisscsssscsi tf ee i 1f you get impatient waiting for Willing women are needed to take part in the c © cito ‘our Red Cross campaign. Several hundred must assist he S C att e S tar a tb Neen bide. ih jonation to Room 5194, Arcade in the house to house canv If you intend to do your bit, register Thursday afternoon at Room 4033, Kreade building ) GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF "ANY NEWSPAPER IN PACIFIC NOR’ THWEST f jig mera a rare se stnnsssssssuasssasanassssaamnesstiazmmaremmantssitaneess VOLUME 19 SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1917 ONE CENT %Y"nvwerne N_ SEATTLE MOB WOMEN AT WHITE Take Over All Transportation, Says U.S. Board of Trade FLAGS Notice, You RED CROSS |‘I Say Unto You, This Poor Widow MOVE URGED Who Offer TOR N Your Lives! CAMPAIGN a ee —_ Than They A U SO INDUSTRY a A little woman hesitated at main streets of Seattie, warbling my sweet WASHINGTON, June the door, then walked into eat, luring men and women to the downtown imeem ae - ERP OTS Ue RE ORY CARRS NPL 20.—Incensed at suffrage Red Cross headquarters on the street corners to listen to the speeches of THE 75TH DAY OF OUR WAR | pickets, who flaunted de- 7" FIGHTING Americans, fourth floor of the Arcade the male element in our machine ie especially to those who building Wednesday. She laid a wore a white uniform, sprinkled with ¢ i nunciatory banners before have registered for select check book and a bank book which had been loaned to me The 75th day of our participation in the war brought the the White House gates as service and have claimed no ex on the desk in front of DOr recommendation of the federal trade commission that the gov- the Russian commission emption, The Star addresses Henry Suzzallo. | _ voice roare M ountry, "Tis of , ernment take over and operate ail transportation, beth rail and d to greet President this message | can't write,” she said. “But tr 1 sometimes missed the “high notes.” water, during the w: as an emergency measure of prime im- entere 8 There is a fight to be won for | want to give $10 to the Red hed Crose sleters didn't wonder at wy Wp portance Wilson, an angry mob Of | America and democracy before Crose—I've Been saving. You y, too, were wisaing a few, For it wasn't It is obviously of far reaching consequences and is urged 300 men and women, you are called to the front will write out the check, won't coterie of grand opera stars, skilled in all on the ground of necessity. That it might conceivably lead to mostly government clerks In the senate there is a your" hanical trills t human voice, with ulttmate government ownership of the railroads must be af hb hare: threat of fastening the cost of The bank book showed de- whom | was singing. Just yo girls who, all apparent. mat Of JUNCH HOUT, CATE the war upon those who are posits totaling $65. div dine had Warked ubdh Red Angered by banners attacking the president and the Root ed the women and tore least able to pay it. “It's what I've saved in the Cross, and who how were topping off the even “ commission, a Washington mob took them away from the the banners to shreds. In beth houses there is the last two years,” the woman ing with good old national airs, sacrificing suffrage pickets at the White House gates and tore them up. “Presid Wilson and Envoy threat of letting the speculator explained, as she gave her mite pleasure, self and time to the gripping appeal The banners were displayed for the special benefit of the Bet are deceivin ssia,” was control the food supply of this | whole heartedly for life-saving on the blood-soaked battlefield Russian mission, which passed thru Seattie last week, when ide accusation printed in black country, until the poor must in aA ed oe 6-3. © it went to the White House to be received by the president. type on a banner 10 feet high dis-| evitably face famine. In this spirit almost everybody . Pioneer square, our machine stopped, but Announcement that select service men will have to take payed at the two official en-/ Fighting men of America, you nh Seattle was actually contribat . : “ : their chances on the branch of the service they will land in | we didn ® sing unt cro had fances to the White House. | have registered. ing, or f¢ aring to give, to the nhl ‘ “hi top singing a rowd a may result in increasing enlistments! before the selection takes j athered place. “They say ‘We are a democracy. | You have dedicated your lives [city’s $300,000 fund Wednesday Puan “Wieih Gimeter teteh debcahke ited Help us win a world war so that to the service of your country. | Subscriptions of Wednesday nes eae “- a rp copie THAT New light on German atrocities in Rumania was shed by emocracies may survive.’ Woe, the| Don’t let this opportunity to morning totaled $61,473.50. . ree oe mesttnn tol oF Ca ee een ee staan Dae: mally Jaa ‘omen of America, tell you that| serve it go by. Your voice car. | bringing the total for two days VS: WEAR AS WAR : shdites barthe Aetanane 1d Atiatn). and 46 dacdganion inate ica is not a democracy,” con-| ries special influence and up to $166. 673.50 I looked out over the crowd that Amoricn be told the fall auth of the Gortnan aeneee. Debate on the food bill began in the senate, with Senators the legend on the banner.! weight at this time At the end of the first day, Tue Li hyga eeroet nage tier SB baapderagh ss enty million women are denied Let congress know that you @ pa od en pe Gore and Reed opposing this most vital of pending war right to vote. Presid ‘ -| believe in the conscription of LKS DONATE BOXING COIN WITH COMPLACENCY : ; Pde: prs ial roy tn is the chief opponent | wealth, as well as of men. The entire proceeds of the * ct nr pe: Meh of cheering for Senator : Mtional en{ranchisement. All the wealth of a Rockefel. | boxing show to be held Friday yagi ha sey ger preciation only WASHINGTON, June war-time *govern- “Help us make this nation re ler isn't worth a drop of your night in the Elks’ gymnasium py ar a pl ‘ 3 trol 4 sad tear parte naan Tell our government that it; blood. will be donated to the Red s ering handclaps when Nichols hundered ment control w urged 1 c and tra i ati ’ liberate its people before tt Why should it be held more Cross by the athletic commit , p behind ne ye hom We are , the federal trade commission toc d the or adequate of h [ iT y must win ‘ * - claim free Russia aw an ally.”| sacred by congress? toe-of the ledg y ~ remedy for an alarming coal price and supply situation. The " -- ~ t fow hats came off when we Woe Laser! . ‘ Miss Lucy Burns, New York, and | Tell congress, too, that those 8 usted Ranner.” "ton of Youn serged i lrecommendations are the most revolutionary of their kind Lawrence Lewis, Philadeiphia,| near and dear to you must not lections thruout Sp : ; , PR ‘ astttad Ge the eSuuntieio’ ; Police Don't Interfére | be exploited by food speculat- totaled $425,000. Of tht 5,2 | saw one young woman apologize to a pass- ‘ ever submitted by the com ior ‘The police guards at the White} ors. Demand passage of the sad been gathered in Seattle. ‘1 ing friend, who saw her in the crowd. - Complying with congressional requests for a coal probe, gates, with whom the suffra. food contro! bill. state's allotment {x $1,000,000 MBE | the commission pointed out that the coal situation threatens y pickets have been on very Write your message in your the $100,000,000 to be raised in the WE ARE AT WAR! iddsities and: individuals; and'-recoitimendéd the -follewentes diy terms since they started] own handwriting, or clip and | nation The ery reechoed in my eare is the urea nihdietriation “of -<ontaeeen their “cuard mount,” were grimly| fill in the printed message here Starting Friday, the city-wide 1 wanted de ately to jump down among First: That the production and distribution of coal and Ment and made no move to che with, and send a copy to each collection will begin. those * and women and CONVINCE ‘coke be conducted thru a pool in the hands of a government the crowd when it advanced sud-| of the following: Senator Miles Nurses will call at your them that facing the gravest agency; that the producers of various grades of fuel be paid Mealy toward the pickets | Poindexter, Senator Wesley L heme—eo leave your money ore 2 their full cost of production a uniform profit per ton Several men then jerked down] Jones, Representative Jonn F with your wife and tell her to 1 wante’ desper se them awakened ‘ : x cs lity 2 ar i efi f the banners, tore them to shreds Miller, Representative Lynn H give it to the Red Cross to ation of w . there, singing (with due allowance for quality of product and efficiency of id trampled the remnants under| Hadley, Representative Albert The Ngo thru the business Ame and “The Star Spangled Banner service) ; and thot. Government and office clerks| Johnson, Representative Wi! section, too. § g squads wil and the “Marseillaise,” s ¥, out of their -cond: That the transport § es of the United & diocks around rushed to the] iam La Follette, Representative | pass « etl e Mercy bar dance, might emerge from their irritating mene | ©. C. Dill, our congressmen of | reix will orner to re complacer and give—give—give, that the Red 5 D y d T Police from the White House this state cei an t can be con-| Cross’ work of mer may go on across the sea on government account under the direction of the president fMabdbed several ringleaders in the | @——— — erted into cash oe ee and that all such means of transportation be operated as a a ie Seon: ie cores To . F The speech ended. Our auto had started unit, the owning corporations being paid a just and fair com- fered their release, He himself) Washington, D, ( More Women Needed | asain, when a woman pushed thru the crowd pensation which would cover normal net profit, upkeep and Hoped down the last shreds of the) | and clambered up on the running board. She ; fanners. The women carrying the Under the act of congress Hundreds of women are lack, tlt-Fite 1 betterments d 4 signed by the president, I reg. needed to take part in the Red was dressed in a black, ing suit. In the : ’ Parra Ope Kp he chee Manners were unharmed. f In addition to those main recommendations, the com istered for service June 1 | Cross campaign Friday, Sat flare of the street lights, | could wrinkles 1 eee police took the frame on 4 no exemption. 1 urday, Sunday and Monday around her eyes. mission advised against recruiting miners for the army, point- ich the legend was mounted int have claim ne i be White nim ya zeae. ed into) | am ready and willing to serve Some will solicit funds, others Here.” she said, holding up two silver dollars ing « that the uncertain labor conditions have already country —to for it reside over “mercy barrels,” to Senator Nichols. . “d to disorg he indus at a ic ountr, Pp y Sake aontrbutian new," he enlds. “T tended to disorganize th ts try at a critical time. if you would bring it to the In brief, the committee fi is J 8 been stimulated, uncertainty that while anthracite production (Continued on Page Seven) RRR een AAA RRA nnn ee building. Weather Showers to or FEF ~ PRES Rebr MOTs and water, be primarily pooled and operated The incident was called to the} | ™¥ “ . Mic the anartinent of fue It is, therefore, with a sense hand out literature, parade and | can’t tee shortly after it occurred, and shame that I note t ac sing. All must register and re would be giad i i invest on ¥ started at of certain unpatrioti ceive equipment at Room 4033 Arcade building bern 1 a iT ” “Tl work all - _ — - dividuals and concerns who Arcade building, preferabi But | am a widow,” she 4 om gowredl aaaines a just wa Thursday ahatooan ” day | leave the house so early in the morning Echo Zahi, in the Red Cross uniform in which she WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE tax and against the food con: | | and get home so late at night that I can't get ng last night on Seattle streets. om a a teat anal ane “ . there. Please take my money g Gol bil. "The war 90 a!) Titus Has New Stunt |] “*sens nd yet care. by 4heehs. whe ase PES eee 2 Nel. Ot Senator Nichols took the money ri ceiaWe (Gas than words WINS IN COMMONS FINANCIALLY ABLE to pay, | a osses floated up and + 2 j ; just as the select service | |40¥n Second ave. with the crowds 1 sto! a br ing spell from “The Star \ kk up, and saw the rich | LONDON, June 20 P army is to be made up of those | Wednesday. They 1} men for Spangled Banner” to look after the dark figure " r its into the treasury prity of 330 votes se daeking who are PHYSICALLY ABLE. | | ™°tive power. f the woman, as she was swallowed in the , én al atetain ° widow BY ROBERT J. BENDER Gore poaianged see bill will cost en the warmest supporters There should be co: wd ssc alae Clerdiaimiias wheat growers 000,000 and ee Warmont _ spp rters of Th hould be conseription ae 1 ee ti ehitharsdwwo. titen vine ee pond ree Somers | een ed neas e prinety of| | of wealth, as well as men. The urn Over Interest On the morrow, perhaps, she would get along M rae WASHINGTON, June 20.— e corn growers $i , Homan suffrage was adopted in the oor are already paying too Mre. J. D. Terry Gisen’ bons witho ficient food And He said: ‘Of a truth T say unto While the allied’ food buyers To the argument that the presi- - of commons last evening.| | heavy a wa x in the higher gests that: ‘all Labarty For . with a woman like this you that this pc widow hath cast in Dermained. tale and nauveal; Oe dent could stop shipments of food S next step is expected to be 4/ | cost of ng, and, both to | 7 olders turn over ¢ an sacrifice ; more than they all. For all these have tions continued contracting 0 Neutrals who are transshipping Proposal to cor ne f hise on conserve the nation against 1 A Yesterday 1 » first day of the Red Cross ri A { s and food, )lebate it to Germany, thru execution of —-eemgu : < ear to the war a of their abundance cast in unto the of or grains & the embarg ac: omen on sis as on| | waste of food and to save the t t ' ete .. “tt sHlections, Be save $105,000 toward the Re see ake fagal eantral Bilt he embargo section of the espion peo jor from actual want and fam vould eaiount ia 4an7000"" 00,06 is city must rais ferings of God; but she, of her penury, a ch ccaiats today age law, which he has now signed. Bir Frede Pant who sup ine, the food control bill should ch “can bru” handsomely » hath cast in all the living that she had.’” Th Secl gavathie: srk ppose M eG rocaiee of the food control bill Ported an amer ninst the| | be pa Ayietg od be passed without delay " ‘ ‘ The ‘ to | : Beasure spital of the it! Ae a citixen of the siate ot || ot. Bernards to ane! Seren! denounced the measure, rwhich |"heet’ be canft stop ouch spell Mile of Jeanette Rankin, congre \ Baton, Lenk Goulto-vois | | (Got 6 Be Herian don? re even German secret agents Gis Ucateke con. ike |.crre tnenantty aa: ageiniat the Hasan tea 2 F Wivakinna) | Doc Matthews Will _ serve the nation’s food supplies for fron buying up vast quantities and pariea" declaration of | war,| | dollar. | the Red Cross, wants to borrow you Pray in U. S. Senate| "Rei’and Gore, in the senate, | Holding. them in storage. Under aha déscsibak 44 estartons papper 7 ti a a the food bill, and only under the The definite proposal to enfran ona tributio tarting Friday y| Dr. M. A. Matthews, in Wash. | nd Representative Joe Cannon, iM fooq pill, is this impossible.” proy Signed . 4 n & Frida Appl , e. employed all their ors Wise women of 30 years and over| | |to him on the fourth floor of the| E 80 ington, has had a talk with Her. | {he Howse, Cinploy ee ere | Chamberlain, Kenyon and other $obab! 1 ibmitted Wednes. Address Mes os . Areade building bent tory to bloc he measure supporters of the measure pleaded Hoover, f s bill will bring ine in se alestoral reform. cover, food adminis This bill will bring famine in toy speedy action Pp ‘ eae : poe trator, and will offer the prayer | 1918,” shouted Gore. ecinc y Meeting Fomorrow RP D at the opening of the senate Hoover admits wheat and flour JAPANESE GIVE COIN t Red Cross motion pictures did not go up until last year’s crop| Seattle Japanese will do their State of Washir some time this week, according A " speech or two, anc ving by 3.000 was used up, and until men of his bit toward raising $300,000 DVERTISING MANAGER'S ¢ I rt 1 singing b to arrangements made by Sen aising @ 0 for Red DAILY TALK nurses will mark the open air pro BY J. W. PEGLER Sa ALTA ilk began their cry of famine Cross. Senshi Ohy, 45th ave gram in Marche park at 8 p.| t “1 + ator Poindexter. shouted S. W., will manage the collections, “A pe hes | pestRovER FLOTILLA. IN er “a age : : : tPenny Earned” ‘SELECT MEN NOT Longest Day of Year] mye mariachi eee Civil War Veterans Say Kaiser Bill Will war nal dct" att) TQ PICK SERVICE wage peyanaee | teedaih siiaanen ets toriaaceea™” ~— Haye Tough Time Winning Against U. S. gram will hold good Thursda | 2 BY wee Teeeee : and weide maine the tise. base in an English port today PARIS, June 20.—A titanic | Battles of today and yester. | United States will win it, we know about war there 4 Proms with 80 survivors of two tor artillery struggle is in progress | day are fought in the lobby of They think it is an unjust war wouldn’t be any need of Red | | | You can save many a penny and | ma dollar, too, SHINGTON, June 20.— # the longest ones of the ‘i if th ‘ . th Watching the ads in The ae liden tees acer aenilan tis ae | Led eet Mahine aeenintad io: pedoed merchant ships. _| on the greater part of the the Frye hotel, headquarters on the other side of the water Cross parades—they'd give ail and advantage of lest Eomaceietinnwillto aa The rescues were made at a! French front, today's war office of the Grand Army of the Re- | and a just war for Uncle Sam, they could spare.” er unities of which they tell.|+4n+ have to take thelr chance: - WILSON ASKS FOR | point at sea ane from le than acatarmenit ssvenlen A ae public, now in convention ee jaa ou will find the best offerings at, Ra ; ’ any torpedoeings have yet been re setween the Ailette and Moulin| here Uncle Sam’ll Do I 5 rm NB lt the branch of service in which ‘ | as, CARH: tes WaeOnte eae |Uncle Sam lo It Wants to Go Again” - Star gay The |they shall serve | 70,000 REGULARS)" total run on this errand of cnennier a Sot hatin ar "We didn't do It thataway | Jesse Barrick, Third Minne How old do you eink I am? Stand. F i estas Cts An announcement by Provost +) |mercy was several hundred miles. | Rheims, this fire was heaviest from ai sf maya (ene. talir Ago |sota, now of Suquamish, says the asked Charles H. Whitford, now ] iture Co Pase Marshtl Gen. Crowder today stated} WASHINGTON, June 20.—The| Thirty-one survivors from one ship|the German batteries A violent} ® d P SAUERIER TO” TS: “Oe! | American yple are in a jackpot. of ¢ r, in the war a member sng nae ‘age 4 that the assignments to the differ-) week between June 23 and 30 was| were picked up in boats and a| bombardment of French positions| "@4° “We have to fight to get out," of the 1th Wisconsin volunteer Re ionebGoriten rs 4 ent branches will be made at the di-| this afternoon designated by Presi-| little beyond 49 from the other) was directed there late at night “You bet we didn’t,” says [he says, “but Uncle Sam is. the The reporter guessed 65. Whit The Rhode ing at Page ’ rection of the war department, Most| dent Wilson as “Recruiting Week,” |inerchantman were encountered Along the Champagne front it was Comrade No. 2, “When | was | man who can do it. ford laughed 0 Pa of the men brought into the army!in which the president asks that} Vice Admiral Sims, the American | more of a duel of violence, guns on| at Shilo—" Then the war of eRe Highty-eight last month,” he {by selection are for the infantry. | 70,000 men volunteer thetr services| fleet commander who now in| both sides roaring unceasingly thru the past has begun Helped Win in '61 said And 1 wish they'd let me iThe d is for pe army alone—! jor the regular arm ch are of all allied naval operations | out the night | Before either realize it, the “The women fought the 8° #sain in no cases are the men to be as ection, personally talked The Germans unsuccessfully at-| scene has shifted to 1917, and Seterick jel ; 71 ‘ 1 greatest battles of the civil yr Bd Bon Marc ours 1) | signed to the ‘ SUB LOSSES BIGGER! |: ich a nummer af tip argivora on | tacked b anmall OREM ERG teRTA ate ItMtiay i are beating back Von | war,” declares H. Montville, Not Ready for Job their arrival in port. The flag of ton and Cornillet, and further west,| Hindenberg or — defending of the Fourth Wisconsin, who H, M, Guptill thinks the na- | SAN FRANCISCO, June Lib: | LONDON, June 20.—Losses by|the American admiral now floats following bombardment,” the state. Paris. now lives at Kent. “They tion aerate to “Tight. crease. It is probable this week’s|on the coast where it is visible forlwere thrown back to the German! the war will last a long time; Cross then, but they did the our boys, but when they do get loss will reach 100,000 tons. miles at sea, trenches THE FASTEST GROWING PAPER |erty bonds wold here today at rat rman submarines are on the in-|from a flagstaff on a proniontory| ment sald. “The German attackers Most of the old boys think MIAKtt Onli cANOMMaNIGAA! (had “ie will take a year te trete IN THE NORTHWEST a premium of $6, in private i tranvaction all of them know that the work. If folks only knew what (Continued on page 10)

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