The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 4, 1917, Page 1

hore trying to settle the lumber strike! fasree to talk things over. MERA A AARARRR nn nannnnnnnnnnnnn sssssssessesssessscsssssjsostsstetsesecsristetses ssetotissetsrsstosss ios tte WAR NEWS |The Seattle Star UMBER mill operators, get together with your employes and the government mediators who are The Star is sure that this strike can be ended if you will Act now, and let’s get this thing fixed up. It is for the sake of humanity. You want world war news promptly, and you want it clear and accurate And that’s the way you get t - Menon a . served ig vt staff of the United Presa, the greatest news gather ° ing organization in the world | GREATE ST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY NEWSPAPER “IN ‘PACIFIC “NORTHWEST | ij celiac A poet basic eto Aannnonnponpahee AAAAAARAPADARPDRADPPDAPPAADDAADALS igenssenssnsenseasnesssasszsnensnseaeaeninastineeseesneessasassiaesestttsreeny _VOLUME SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1917 ONE CENT aes SHILIAN BEAUTY SHOOTS ELIE FOOTBALL TAA Young Son Sees MotherEnd Quarrel by Slaying Di- vorced Father at Home. Press Leased Wire Direct to The Star ; Men of Root Mission Arrive in Seattle From Russia NEW YORK, Aug. 4.—Holding his baby hands to his ears, to shut out the sound of shots, little John de Saulles, four, the innocent cause of the tragic end kill at of an almost fiction-like romance, saw his mother his father, “Jack” de Saulles, at his summer home Hempsted, L. L., last night. Clutched in the arms of his aunt, Mrs. Caroline! Degner, the child watched his father, a former Yale foot- captain, reel as a Dullet entered his back and then} pitch headlong thru an open front window as four more shots were fired. With Mrs. de Saulles, a beautiful Chilean heiress in jail, charged with the murder and declaring she is glad she killed the father of little Jack, corrected detai of <ne tragedy were furnished by the family toda ¥: Little Jack was about the house |————-———-—-- and playing with his pets in the front yard today, ignorant of the tragedy that had robbed him of a) Charles Pettinus, a friend of De) SHIPS WITH USE Banlles, told the district attorney} story of the killing, after hav-| | talked with all witnesses OF EXTRA LABOR mother suddenly appeared with a fevolver concealed in the folds of her gown shipping board has telegraphed ‘As told by Pettinus, the story of| orders to over a score of the country’s largest ship yards requisitioning all ships of 2,500 father. | New Story of Tragedy ‘dAttle Jack was playing on the floor of the living room when his By United Press Leased Wire WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.—The the murder materially differs from the first police versions He vaid that De Saulles called) Wead-weight tonnage or more at hi- former wi home yester-| mow building. Management of day xfternoon to remind her the| the yards will be in the hands poy was due at his house August of the present owners, but un- § 1, according to the order of the der government direction. divorce court, which directed the About 675 ships are affected by| parents to have his custody alter- the government's order. Their ag: fe @ach month. He took the boy &regate tonnage is more than mobile 1,500,000. Included are many E me in his aw Greets ex-Wife Emilingly lish, Norwegian vessels and other foreign De Saulles wante} to have the Whild, as his father, Maj. Arthu @e Saniles and bis sister, Mrs 75,000 GUARDSMEN Degener, were visiting him About $:30 last night, while the CALLED BY U S family was congregated in the re, le s feption room, the mother burst In My United Press Leased Wire Wnannounced and stood in the WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.—The United States will call service tomorrow into active its last group of 4 Her hands were foldg of her dress. them the midst hidden o in OEATTLE FIGHTING Bring Good N Russia Th ing their first day on Unit their return trip, Saturday sage that time will adjust the great republic and that lable ally in the war for Tho travel worn after a continu- ous journey of nearly 6,000 miles, the commissioners submitted good naturedly to the demands of cam- era and moving picture men, re- |porters, and prominent citizens who came to welcome them at the Bell st. dock, where the United States transport Buffalo, which brought them from Vladivostok was tied up at 10 p. m. Friday There was no rest for them from the time they finished their break fast, at 8 a. m., until they were ready to leave on their way to Washington, following a public luncheon at the Arena, at noon, ar ranged by the Chamber of Com} merce and Commercial Club. Root Warns of Danger “As sure as the sun rises tomor- row, ff this war ends with the tri- umph of Germany, our people will be a subject nation of the German ruling clase.” o warned Elihu Root, head of the American commission to Rus sia, in his first public ad ss here before a gathering of several t! sand at the Arena this afternoon Don’t argue about the cause of the war, or whether we should or should not have entered it he continued, “Realize this, the time as now come when American Ifb- erty and justice, the independence and freedom of each of us, are at stake for which we must fight Root’s speech, a tremendous ap- peal to “sacrificing patriotism,” roused the audience to mighty fervor. When he concluded every one rose, like one man, and cheer ed wildly Because it was a diplomatic mis- sion that went to Russia, Root de clared that it was not “suitable to talk of the special cirounistences or conclusions of the conimission “But T cannot refrain,” te “from saying that we ow. he bria, Maj. ¢e Sanlles was on the lounge. National Guardsmen, numbering | ibid age ot » Seine aint lone De Saulles smiled as the woman 75,745 soldiers. At the same time . Sate the. trestle that . at his nd and all militia troops not now federal- lic in golving the problems tha entered. He put out his hand an = ave taken 140 ava, Mepped close, saying Why, ized will automatically be sum pr pets taken soe abot yg Ne pe mon and have not yet succeed oT] ae Binancs: With this latest eall, the country |. Above, the first automobile containing members of the Root mission leaving the Bell st. dock. A. J. Rhodes, president of the Cham- also our. siticere admiration for Shoots Him in Back has an estimated total of 40.000 or| ber of Commerce, and (in rear seat , left to right), Gov. Lister, President Suzzallo and Elihu Root | Russian character. We bring back A brief conversation ensued, the! more National Guardsmen’ ready} Below, at left—James E. Dunc an, vice president of the American Federation of Labor, one of the members of the mission. At right, |an abiding faith that Russia, thru Man standing, smiling, the woman,|fop intensive training in So uthern | Echo Zahl, of The Star, interviewin g Maj. Gen. Hugh L. Scott, chief of staff of the U. S. army, aboard the transport Buffalo, which brought [trial and tribulation, will work out, her eyes fixed hungrily on her child, | camps the mission from Russia veh and make perpetual a great, Rot glancing at her former husband.| with the mobilization completed, | «oe \f democratic government.” “It is no use,” she said; “you Can-\the war department proposes to sed Mea | zee buh War Truth Near Guns Rot have the boy. I have come tO! send a portion of the better trained | e Root then plunged into Ameri feeabout taking him away.” units abroad between now and win-| | 3 ca’s own problem of the present “Th sorry,” replied De Sautles.|ter tho the bulk. of these troops | ( O Ld ll 1S | time “but g cannot discuss that. I don't) wi) be trained intens ly until} | “Almost in sound of the guns,” wan? to argue.” | spring | Jhe said, “we came nearer to the He tured to end the talk and — jtruth of the war than we had been step) an open French window, | | before Wherf he stood with his back to ‘FOUR CONCERTS IN — We see now why it is that all bis angi wife. nddenly Mrs. de | the world is at war. We see that Sautees hed the gun from her PARKS TOMORROW for centuries we have been build “ a would go into a supposedly wild | my Gress. and began shooting. She By vps June Zahl bunch of Indians, who had gone | = Charles Edward Russell, noted journalist and lecturer,|ing up @ structure of | civilization ftdted after the first shot, Theré will be four band concerts | Aboard t od ship Buffalo, on the warpath to slap pale- |special writer for The Seattle Star and its sister papers, and|We believed: the world was grow- four more. in Seattle parks Sunday. The Moose} on which the Russian fon faces, a la movies, and always hea He re \ R i ing better, more humane, more - Degener ran from the stairs) hand will play at Alki beach, from] has sailed to Russia and return, caine back without using any. |# member of the returning American mission to Russia, dis-| just, more willing to permit fellow where she had been standing and) 9-29 yntil 5 p. m., and at the same! TI talked, Saturday, with Gen thing but the peace pipe and |cussed his experiences in that country with a reporter for}men to enjoy freedom, B seized the child, but he witnessed |tji16 Wagner's band will play at} Hugh L, Scott, chief-of-staff of persuasion. He is an authority The Star aboard the Buffalo Saturday morning “We believed that the dark tt Woodland park it tates army, veteran | on Indian sign langua and A N 2 | 1 r yeriod of tyranny had passed away | oO} ndia a a c ccording to Mr. Russell, the American public has aj? ta according to Pettinus, Mrs.) In the evening, from ti19, Due} Indian er, and champion he ith Gara Of the anilatmant ie i | \ : N ‘4 Rt ite’ as 1 tr rat “| «In that cause of efvilization and MP Saulles remarked: | ,,,|thie's"band will play at Volunteer | arbitrator of Indians and of several com. | WTO08 1 ee apie gar ee Pc ae one fi on, pss ae om, our American republic ell, it's too bad, but It ha park, and Adams’ band at Leschi It isn't easy to talk with a | nies of Geronimo Apaches at }Of war, and famous a € most powe gure developed|was born, and all that is best in Be done, 1 suppose it's time to send | pary. | general. And this espec en- | one time Jout of the swirl of the Petrograd revolution. Russell has had| American nature, was given in that = get coadion told a similar story eral, towering above me, cram: He settled the last Indian up- | opportunity to study Kerensky at first-hand [oause. Ft facia gener told a similar # med the few ties I coule rising, nearly three years ago, helena Marae yi A sph gg yolk a ’ utocracy Challenges Wor! hé boy was sitting at the foot |NEUTRALS BEWARE, | think of back down my throat, tn Southeastern Utah. The gov: | Ke ren rh he ae i. i t t lomina HOM tual that “But we find today, instead, that a mad Mal. Go Soutien | eo for Glance ernment sent him into an ap- [he is generally pictured to be ¢ is a man of ordinary ap-la great military autocracy has ‘on t when she entered.| 1§ GERMAN WARNING) (0 ce presenta ne | parent hornets’ nest of cattle pearance, to pale and slight, and apparently not in the best|thrown down the gauntlet to civ. A jong é after the shooting ‘< India 1 } |!jzation and liberty, Germany re- he couch in the living | My United Press Leased Wire tock his eyes off the sea gull he men and mad Indians, and |of health : tates the pole of mopality Ff on head tn her hands, gaz-| ROME, Aug. 4.—Germany is in-| was watching and threw a | then settled back comfortably, “The Russian people resent any belief that a strong man{PUdiates the rule of morality of room, her head in bh han fork » neutrals who are consider rlance to me down five feet of because it knew Gen. Scott was 1 1 . 5. the i fPing |nations. It casts aside the law o ae Aeraight abead. 1 asked her| forming neutrals who ote conelioy| flan oh the am must ar from their midst to save the new government.|nations to. which she solemnly 5 " ad done this thing ng closing their frontiers aga his person. mT ‘ »R sople do not F a Moses, anc ey do no eed a 8 on f Why she had done thi ed.|the Teutonic emplre thgt such an rand aikd, don ttle | Wicca WisulansW rane Phe Russian people do not want a es, and they do not|agreed when its interests conflict It had to be dot * t will be considered cause for} anyt ' I While in Russia, Gen, Scott [want the world to think that they accept Kerensky as a|with them. Treaties are spurned § ad Wher a pP police aC , = E ~ | - 64 2d > _ . } eS to a B te p rr | ghee I Hee! another sister! The German threat, it is said had} eyes that smacke | bers of the mission were de |, nsky has accomplished ie t rd “Innocent people and 4 ‘ Tiinatington, L.jbeen declared especially against] for an awed female reporter | tained in Petrograd have three daughters and two ful results because he has |‘lsregard. § innocenl people & oO ea A Fe ae ev aties| Holland Well, general,” 1 oxsayed “| saw the Russian advance sons, One of my boys is with ‘one about his task sanely, and be- | °° ae Aaa of cada ahd wert E, today handed he fepenon nearity, Mia eevee acian at Tarnopol ax plainly as:! can Gen, Pershing, and another has | cause the people are anxious to co ieee a b pea Ahnaniee and ee (i pe | ighter, eb seo that stretch of land He just graduated from the Platts- [operate with him. True, he has a poe ny pretreat aad Misha ih Sa m., for bu 7 ‘ d to Alki point, “Seven burg training camp.” marvelous gift of oratory, but the | Cre ; er = n Kk $ P STRIKE OFF Well, I've had a little deal pointed to Alki poin t: : : c uy . a ‘ ‘ apie, GHarerneen vali | jog sith thet” he replied thousand Austrians were taken And then he went to studying |secret of Kerensky's success is not | fet. The ide mis of thin republic “Jack” de Saulles is @ NAM), 1164 prem Lenned Wire | TEA meses Mone pelonaat another gull, terminating our [his oratory, or his personal mag |MUSt go down netnre the oe (Continued on page 8) itll Ben ince, Oak t dasha, i mew wine ot (hea) And then Itried to worm from talk. lnetism, but the fact that a vast|Moloch or bt ae a eee There will be no strike o “esd yes ca : reporters closing 4n | him some of his thoughts about It's been o morning of high j|majority of the people of Rusaia|!deals must throw their manhood F VINCENT DIES Les epg dug 5 grt) “Bul ou're an awful fighter the battle, and other battle tension, all right--but listen want the new government to suc-|t0 its support ss : Ee . nouncement was made today that 3 : Bet ae had aleneayeanoveds ons | neral isn’t such a bad (Continued on page 8) We are none too soon in begin Collapsing while he was at din- the brotherhoods, yielding to pre when rouse au ‘i hs Me elite ath | t that. Cause when he Jning our preparation for preserva ‘ . s Generally settle by arbitra 18 80 eC k nis . = 180 | . Ber at Boldt’s restaurant Friday | sure from the federal board of con ien ch andther tack | passed me, pedestrating along | SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4.—| tion evening, W. F. Vincent, 58, a/cilfation and mediation and the} tion,” he returned. *diad te beitomet bn my tWo hoofs, as usual, he | President Baum ofthe Coast league} Besides Root, James A. Duncan Wholesale lumber and shingle|national defense council, had sy se kesh gt hp aye py sod tack took off his hat and made a |comes forth with a denial that the/and Charles Edward Russell, of the broker, died in the ambulance on|agreed to postpone the strike) he was the tan the govern, “{ certainly am," he said girl's heart quicken by waving ugue intends, or ever did intend,| American commission, and Basel the way to the city hospital. It) pending arbitration. The board of] ment always sage “Last night | got the first news it from his seat in the Packard {to close 1ts season before the sched.| Soldayen Koff, Russian represen J belived death was due to heart) mediation and conciliation will act} settle tndial Usable anuer be ' of my family since May 1 | twinsix ule has been completed. tative to America, spoke. ie explicable manner wo 4 * trouble. jas the mediators, Lad 4 4 i ; ALLL LD PLL LLL LL PPL PPP PLP PPP PPP assazasasasasnzaguscssasaresszast24s420220900990093$22000S020224:t42022850383638% man will do their part tomorrow if warmer Sunday,” THRONG HERS. Will Do Her Part — | in War for Democracy. — Optimistic of the "future American commissioners, headed by Elihu Root, spend- world democrac LAST EDITION The street cars and the weather ou want to take the family on @ lenlc. “Fair tonight and Sunday; says Salisbury, LK AT ARENA ews That New of New Russia, the ed States soil at Seattle on gave out the cheering mes= the present uncertainties in it will yet prove a formid- | Koff roused the audience by pro posing, at the end of his speech, three chers for America. The aud fence gave that, and also three” chers for Rusia A red pennant, denoting the breakfast hour, yet seeming sym 7) bolic of the great democracy across the seas, flew to the breese together with the American colors,” when the first member of Seat tie’s reception committee, Richard A. Ballinger, former secretary of the interior, reached the dock. »By- idently scenting the busy program ahead for them, the commissioners held themselves secluded to every one till 9 a. m. The official reception committee | was headed by Gov. Ernest Lister, wf who came here specially from Olympia; Albert J. Rhodes dert of the Seattle Chamber President the University Commerce, and z Suzzallo, of of Washington ae | Other members of the committes ” consisted of Judge Thomas Burke, William Pigott, former Congress: men J. W. Bryan; R. L. Proctor, president the Central Labor Council; R. A, Ballinger, James A Wood, Austin E. Griffiths, J. W, Maxwell, Louis E. Shela, Julian Ly Shay, Mrs. Thomas Crahan, Thomas S. Lippy and Dr. E. 0. Hor of land, president of the Washington state college. They represented ” various civic organizations of Se attle From the dock, the commission was taken for an automobile ride about the city, after which the Arena luncheon took place. Sem ator Root was the only one of the commissioners scheduled to speak at this gathering. it secret service agents, head- ed ot. Foster, of the Seattte offic companied the commission on its auto trip, and a special squad of 30 police, on foot, in aute, and on motoreycle, headed by Lieut. Hedges, were detailed at the dock and at the Arena As soon as the sent word to Dock Officer Flood at they were ready for visitors and the waiting photographers and newspapermen, the deck of the Buffalo swarmed with people. Root Greets Burke “Hello, Burke,” said Root, as he stepped out of his cabin room and almost swung the door on Judge Burke Hello, John," 8 commissioners shouted Charles Edward Russell, as he spied John H. Perry, attorney for the Scripps papers. Perry, a former resident of Seattle, and now of Cleveland, had nh a visitor h for a few days and left for the East this morning, While free to talk in general terms, the commissioners refused, | however, to discuss the official Rus- sian situation, and referred all in- | terviewers to “Senator Root, official |spokesman of the commission.” Senator Root proved the most taci- |turn of all, and beyond expressing ageneral belief that Russia’s stabil- ity is not uncertain, he declined to voice any mc intimate op!nions. 'These will be ed for his offi- cial report to President Wilson, At the Arena the doors were open- ed at 11:30, A large attendance had been assured by the sale of tickets for the luncheon by a committee of which Ralph Horr was chairman, Members of the Party The party includes Mr. Root, John R. Mott, chairman of the na- |tional war council of the Y, M, G |A.; Cyrus H. McCormick, president of the International Harvester Company; Sanggel R. Bertron, a |member of th banking firm of | Bertron, Grisconl & Co., New York; James Duncan, vice president of the American Federation of Labor; Charles Edward Russell, the soctal- |ist writer; Maj. Gen, Hugh L, Scott, chief of staff of the United States ‘army, and Rear Admiral James HB, Glennon, naval ordnance expert. Charles R. Crane, another member of the commission, remained in Petrograd With the mission are R. B. |L. Michie, aide to Gen, Scott; Col. William Lee Judson, military ate tache to the mission; Col. T. Bent- ley Mott, aide to Mr, Root; Lieut. (Continued on page 8) Col ‘