The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 8, 1917, Page 1

ae CAN YOU KNIT? Seattle women who can give part of their time ae knitting instructors to Red Crose auxiliaries are needed Immediately. Volunteer at Red Cross head. quarters in the Cobb building SESS iiiitiecticicccssrtsn teres — Select Army ‘Won't By Gilson Gardner WASHINGTON, 4 C., Aug. 8—Before the select service army or any of the state militia are sent abroad, the United States supreme court is to be asked to pass on the conatitutionality of sending them over seas. if the court holds such actiop would be unconstitutional, the draft arm¥ would be held at home, and foreign operations would have to be carried on by the regulars and by men who volunteered for such service. The constitutional test will be made by cases to be brought in various federal districts. Writs will be sued out in the nature of habeas corpus writs to prevent moving the militia toward foreign destinations. Appeals from these cases will be taken by whichever party loses, and all will be brought together in a hearing before the United States supreme court, which will be expedited in every way possible Hannis Taylor has been engaged to handle the question of constitutionality for those who believe the constitution is in dan. ger of being violated. The government has set its best lawyers to work to prepare the government's defense. Taylor was American ambassador to Spain under the Cleveland @dministration, and is the author of a standard work on the English eonstithtion. His practice is entirely before the supreme. court, and has a a ee as an authority on constitutional law. PLANS MADE TO CHECK SLACKERS Alarmed by the number of | men who pass the medical ex- aminations and then claim ex- emptions, local board offic! Wednesday planned a meeting discuss methods of prevent- ing slackers from escaping | service on flimsy claims. | “It isn’t reasonable to sup | pose that 99 men out of 101 ex- amined by this board are inell- Qibie for service,” declared D. B. Trefethen, executive officer of Division 4 Wednesday morn- ing, in commenting on the de- cision of his board to demand absolute proof of every claim for exemption. To Discourage Slackers This is Trefethen’s explanation of the ruling made by his board Polite Greek Is Unable to Read Pointing to a fairly good sized line of type on the eye-testing chart, the examining physician in the North registration dis trict asked a young Greek “Can you read this line?” “No,” was the answer. The physician pointell line of type nearly twice large. “Can you read this?” “No,” was the answer more. The physician then pointed to the very largest type on the chart. Still the man answered “No. What's the matter with you, to a as once Tuesday afternoon that married t' men would not be exempted from | anyway?” asked the doctor Select service “t os they have “‘Scuse me,” was the prompt additional claims reply. “I cannot read The ruling, according to Trefethen, Wednesday morning, was the said Trefethen. “IT am told that Made to discourage the presenta) arin” nis physical examination he| 25, shot and killed Mrs. Hateu | The signal men will train at Sp alconged Pagar ap ne *Ay8\ did his best to make the physt-| Watanabe, 26, as she slept at |Palo Alto, Cal, after being sw rot | al Me iid or parents actually | cians belleve him ailing, and this,! her apartment, 822 Washing- [Isto federal service | fe. ; for support, combined with his hurry for piel ey Orders to report at once at Palo dependent upon him p emption, has made ue want to con-| Alto, Cal, were received Monday Will the board send bim to the oi10) bis case before granting the Turning, he shot himself |by ‘the Washington quartermas ranks. mn claim.” | three times thru the breast [ters’ corps “But they must prove it,” said| “coe. of the boards have foutvd| and once thru the neck. | The first unit of field artillery Trefethen t the men claiming dependest He is near death at the city | Hattery A, was mustered in at Fort Trefethen cites the case of Dor-| vi iives do not contribute more to| hospital. They were said to | Walla Walla Monday, after federal | ris P. I bs sw eee their support than they could do| be lovers. in The unit {s ,composed | at,, who a red before the hoard) |e. iney in the army Sugii left the following note: |o¢ 2 : ight minutes of piranha All boards are watching closely| “To live is to lie; the truth is to ia Geeday and demanded that his|) "event “conscientious object-/die. I wanted to die and she want: | claim for exemption on the grounds ors,” who are not exempt under|ed to die.” SENATE PASSES of a widowed mother be passed up- on at once, as one needing investi gation. “He was in too much of a hurry, (Continued on page 10) German and Russian Ready to Fight for Red, White and Blue a Russian and a refused exemption fact they wante ADVERTISING MANAGER'S DAILY TALK A Canadian blanks, married, to “fight Stripes,” Wednesday. Col. J. M. Hawthorne of Division 9, immediately to German, Take Advantage’ Of the prices which prevail on summer merchan dise at Seattle's best stores They're clearing the decks for fall Full particulars in The Star every day, of course. | Today Standard the were despite and declared they with the tars when examined bargain and in charge As stopped Page 2 aser-Paterson Page in Co. Page Grunbaum ‘urniture dennccaied procedure make a speech pulogy The 1317 Fra Co. Grote-Rank men are George Bengel, 26th ave. 8.; Moie Markow, Page East Fir st., and Victor Eden, Page 25 Tenth ave. Page 7|. Herbert Mahler, secretary Page 10|!. W. W., claimed exemption and Ads the ground that he’s a Canadian a member of an organization to war ture C ” Rhodes ¢ ederick & Nelson The Bon Marche P. S.—Auto News ‘on page 4 today ne best 0. 1 - of the and rings of Seat-|OPposed appear regu n The § tle larly ar | WATER SHUTOFF NOTICE _| Water will be shut off on West ~ | Mercer st., Beach drive and Elliott THE FASTEST GROWING PAPER av IN b heed NORTHWEST we. from 9 a, m. to 1 p, m, day. » here| of} on} from First ave. W. to W. Pros-| needs of Russia in } DRAFT LAW ATTACKED ee ae ae Sail Till Court Rules WAR PLANS ARE HALTED , Jerstand me,” says Taylor am not opposed to this war nor am | in the service of any pacifist lar organization ! believe t is a terribly important question to the preservation of the constitution at stake, and there are others who believe as I do: and » determined this case shall be argued properly and decided pro: b these boys are sent abroad Taylor has set for s opinion in a pa: t ent Loyalty to the Constitution T and of Patr In support of his contention quotes the of torney Gene Wick am, who, on February 17, 1912, advised F ident Taft that the constitution would not permit sending the na militia abroad The constitution distinctly enumerat the three exclusive poses for which the militia may be called into tho service the t States,” Wickersham wrote. “These purposes are: First, to execute the laws of the Union; second, to suppress insurrection: and third, to 1 invasion. ¢ three occasions, representing emnities of a strictly character, plainly indicate that the services of the militia only upon the soll of the United States or its territories.” T or also quotes several statements made by President Wilson tn public addresses, declaring that the constitution does not permit the jent to send the national militia out of the United States. Taylor contends the draft army n reality merely the organ ized national militia, Th w providing for the draft is ly an extension and amendment of the mal defe act o ne 1916, which is a law defining th ee mition of the r tia, and dividing them into three classes—national guards, naval militia and lunorganized militia. The draft deals with the unorganized militia Who'll Keep This Man’s Child and | Wife From Hunger “I can do any kind of office 'U. S. TROOPS TO CO TO RUSSIA | work except shorthand, or I can run an elevator. If I don’t get work pretty quick it looks like AND T0 ITALY | my wife and the baby would have to go to the poorhouse and || ®7 United Prees Leased Wire | that I'd starve to death.” WASHINGTON, At &.—That | ‘This is what M. M. Horner, |/the next American troops Ko | 2116 Arch Terrace, West Seattle, }|®>road will be sent to Russia, and the Star Tuesday morning. || that others are soon to go to Italy r has lost one leg. He|| as the declaration of Senator J says be has a college education, || Hamilton Lewis on the floor of the but that for more than a month || Senate today he has searched Seattle for a fob. The Charity Organization so- ciety, Elliott 4576, will be glad tell Horner that somebody has found a job for him. SIGNAL CORPS GOES TO LAKE s Two hundred and fourteen enlisted men and 14 officers, In | the First Field battalion of Washington Signal corps left Seattle under command of Ma- | jor Jesse A. Jackson for Amer. | 4 HE LOVED AS Ioan lake, Wednesday morning. | | The men are in Companies A, B | SHE SLUMBERS and C and will remain in training | ' at fean lake until they re celve further orders from the war | A Japanese love affair ended | dep it. The Signal corps was | | in tragedy early Wednesday 1 from a company to a | | battalion last January, upon return | morning when Gutaka Sugll, [oe pyoid ( A from Calexico. | any victim of the affair |was the infant daughter of the | woman mii grasped the child, |carrying her away from the dying mother. An innocent THE FOOD BILL By United Press Leased Wire | WASHINGTON Aug. 8 great food control bill, most sweep. ing measur er legislated the law of this country, was find lapproved by the senate, 66 to 9, 4 |4:05 o'clock this afternoon The measure having been adopt Jed in its completed state by the |house, now goes to President Wil json for his signature, | | Herbert Hoover has completed | |the last detail of the work perpara | jtory to putting the law into ect IN WASHINGTON Scores of agents scattered thruout the country ready CO operate with the food control de | sy United Press Leased Wire | WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 the the 4 and fell with rms, just outside door. he was found The we husband {8 in Portland | Sugli was a student of science, more than 100 technical volumes in English being found tn his room. |He had been operating an elevator |in the Washington Annex hotel, ‘The partment at Washington RUSSIANS AGAIN STRIKE AT FOE’ United Press Leased Wire PETROGRAD, Aug. 8.~Russia's under orders to discuss specific troops have resumed the offensive no way until,on the Bessarabian-Austrian fron the official report has been sub-itler. Two villages have been cap- mitted to Secretary Lansing. tured and 300 prisoners taken, ( Presi dent ly what may be in the great war Wilson will soon know exact expected of Russia With the rteurn | to Washington, today, of the Rus-| }sian commission headed by Elihu | Root, plans involving the “baby re | public” will be threshed out By Members of the commission are | GREA TEST DAILY CIRCULATION O OF ANY 2B NEWSPAPER ‘IN PACIFIC” NORTHWEST | YMILITARY EMPLOYE OF KRUPPS HELD AS SPY ° the end of the war, the (Continued on page 10) ployes until | eesesteteeestseeteeeeteteeeeestseeetsee ttt LAST EDITION ARR een With lumber employers and strike ing employes finally in the same room, things look brighter. Fore caster Salisbury predicts “Fair and warmer tonight and Thurs day.” |SERVED AS OFFICER IN GERMAN ARMY; | TELLS AGENTS HERE OF HIS DISMISSAL DR SUZZALLO ASKS PUBLIC T0 Returning to Germany, thé boy entered the army and a jattained the rank of lieutenant At the federal building Tuesday Von Bettenhausen, |pressed for details as to why he had come to the United Rta ates, insisted he had been disinherited by his father and With an appeal to public cisive factor tn the conflict in dismissed from the German army. opinion to back him in his de- Ne saat said Lieut. Col, Rees “I wanted to marry a banker’s daughter,” he declared. mand that the warring factions |“W® be evs tn you end trust in|“My father objected. When he refused I made many debts, in the lumber industry confer | jn this hour of need "U8! and was later dismissed from the German army so that the construction of | “We want spruce, You must ‘My father assumed debts amounting to 75,000 marks. I 5,000 airplanes, which are [give us spruce and we will win|was given 25,000 marks and permitted to go where I wished.” needed on the French front to |the war in the air,” declared Maj. | It is known that young Von Bettenhausen {oe Maj. t is kne rr c f sen immedi put out the German artillery | Perfetti dock tip Highly. declinical idacrhetdh Sorebatiee seed eee eyes may not be delayed, Dr. Dr. Suzzallo promised for the i ably at Essen, be- Henry Suzzallo introduced to a | Northwest that the delay in the|catse a few years later he is diaccvers in the Orient as 4,000 crowd of Seattle people [spruce industry would not longer |a | Senne agent at the Arena Tuesday night |endanger the cause of the allies ———— “Representative of the Associat- the commissioners from the al- ‘We are going to settle that ed Manufacturers of Essen,” wet lies who are in the Northwest |strike which has tied up the lum |his title. : in the Interests of the aerial |ber industry,” he said. “We are | Wife Talks to Reporter war fleet. not going to have it said in Europe His present wife, who lives at The four visitors were Lieut.|that we delayed the winning of |the Yonkers apartments, 1722 B, Col. L. W. B. Rees, of the Royal|the war by not supplying the nec Thomas ae ae Lee Flying corps of Great Britain; |essary spruce. The loggers will |Tuesday night that her husband MaJ. Raffaclo Perfetti, of the Ital-| go back to work; the mills will op- |was till connected with the jan Royal Flying corps; Capt. Hen-|erate &gain and we will ship the BY CHAS. P. STEWART | Kruppe. ry Dourif, of the French aviation| spruce. We say to the members United Press Staff Correspondent A bride ow service, and Allen, member|of the International aviation com-| BUENOS ATRES, Aug. 8.—An ex-| bride of a few 2S i of the lumber committee of the| mission, you have ce to the|tensive German spy plot, as a re-| (Continued on page 5) ae national defense council jright place; we have the spruce] sult of which ship sailings and oth-| They all concurred with Dr. Suz-}and we are going to give youler Information have been revealed revealed extended organization of zallo that whatever may be done| spruce,” concluded Dr. Suzzallo, | was discovered by the foreign of-|the spy system | here in Seattle toward hastening| The entire audience rose to its|fice here today Numerous suspects are under lthe production of spruce lumber | feet and for several minutes chee ‘The miscarriage of a letter in-! surveillance of the police today. for airplane construction may save | ed the speaker | tended for the. head of the esplon-| No arrests have yet been made, the lives of many thousands of/ The commissioners declared {t]age organization led to the discov-| however, owing to doubt as to American boys by bringing the/was tho largest, most enthusiasticlery of the plot. The letter fell in-| whether the Argentine laws make war to an end, meeting that had greeted them in'to the hands of the foreign office.| infliction of penalties for such of “Your spruce will prove the de-|the West. \ An investigation {s said to have fenses possible. | ngdon Gould Is Called U S I ° 2 for Exemption Is Filed) eo oge By United Press nee YORK, E™. Cc lvl 1es mon 8 I'm not oc bloated, “heel fee : holder. I have to ‘é Li careful about y dollar,” said Kingdon wuld s f . today, in defense omni 4 of his filing for a mal application . . . 9 for dra exe ormer icer in Kaiser’s © nd that J bd d Ft Army Imprisoned at Ft. ~ will not claim ex “em Se eae, awton, lracke ver timated BY a ae plication becuse or ecret service, © that was the only BEN iawn E ay to leave ‘ ve nie aeat | A nation-wide search for Louis Hollewig Von Bettens @ can't artaiipe may |hausen, agent for the Krupps of Essen, Germany, Unites 3 affairs #o as’ to States army deserter, and suspected German spy, ended care of | my Seattle late Tuesday, when he was identified by Ho : grandson of JEP Wright, in charge of the bureau of investigation for the fed= 98 Gould. eral department of justice : ins ae Following a career of international adventure, Von’ Bet- thought a rich tenhausen is now in custody of United States army officials man owed more at Fort Lawton. He will be imprisoned at Alcatraz, Cay 9 than aaah pending his trial “4 h oor Inan, ” rc Tod, tala Gould ssid _ Technically, he is charged with desertion from the United 7% Miboia wie States army 2 purse, yes: of his 3ut government secret service investigators have ‘discove 7] blood, no.” Jered his tracks in China, the Philippines, Vladivostok, Borneo, 9 Editorially the | Java, Australia, Hawaii, Mexico, and finally in the little towns ne eee jof Leavenworth, Wash., on the summit of the Cascades ga a thet OC oe Large numbers of I. W. W. have been passing thru Leaveni=) am porations Gould worth the last few weeks, en route to and from Washing= is connected with, ton agricultural centers a and contrasted e end contrasted TRYING TO CONNECT HIM : emption with that WITH I. W. W. DISTURBANCES HERE : P 1 East Side immtntearthe | Federal agents are endeavoring to connect Von Bettem | “What different jhausen with recent I. W. \W. disturbances in that distriefy word sha oe the Kingdon Gould and Bride They are investigat a trip he made to Leavenworth from 9 case conclu Se ee P a the editorial, “when he who on the face of the record is the slacker| >cattle th ree weeks ago happens to be a son of George and a grandson of Jay Gould?” _ Orders to proceed with the arrest came direct fromyaay Late in June Kingdon Gould startled New York's 400 by marry-| Washington 4 ing Annunziata Cammilla Maria Lucci, the Italian governess of his Von Bettenhausen arrived in Seattl , 3 + ae hister, After the 400 had raised their eyebrows they settled down|in. name | H He 4 ' Fe ical es Jester 30, asi s to await the usual consequences of Gould lovers. And now, before|‘2¢ Mame Lous olewig eceral agents immediately 4 the experiment has proven disastrous or otherwise, a new third party|Place him under surveillance on suspicion of his being Vom has entered the usual triangle. War—cruel war—is going to tear| Bettenhausen aa ingen) 0 Bee INVESTIGATE REPORTED THREAT BY ] GERMAN TO BLOW UP U. S. SHIPS : Only 31 years of age, an expert mechanic, and former = | lieutenant in the German army, he obtained employment first with the Puget Sound Machinery depot and later in the ce. Duthie shipyard e That he threatened to blow up United States ships, and paid visits to Germans in Eastern Washington, possibly to 93 |secretly distribute German money and stir up industrial ters rorism, are developments now under investigation oe Settlement of the Northwest employers insisted that the Government ag s, tracing Von Bettenhausen, have une , lumber etrike thru arbitration only ney out of the difficulty | covered bits of information concerning his career in Germany, hung fire Wednesday because | pints Apes dies ay +i fg ti |the Orient and the United States, which dovetail with the 7am of the refusal of lumber em- eight-hour day in the whole |few admissions he made to Special Agent Wright in Seattle ployers to submit to the plan lumber industry. |since his arrest last Friday of arbitration suggested Tues The session of the state council The son of Baron V« Bettenhausen, of the German © day by Dr. Henry Suzzallo. of defense was resumed Wednesday | finlomatic corps, young Hollewig : 886, While representatives of the | behind closed doors, with represen ae sg ' piss 7 {> vate : ough was born August 9, J labor unions declared they | tatives of the labor unions, the em-|/4nd, at the age of 12, was brought to the United States by his would waive wage demands |ployers, and a committee of lisia.| father on an “educational tour,” Wright says. a3 and leave all questions except | terested citizens present They stopped in all principal cities, and later went to |) the granting of the eight-hour Arbitration of differences be-| Pe : here the elder’ Von Bettenhaa day to some sort of authorized [tween lumbermen and their em India Mae alge hha > ‘ e bs desi} f oi reek nhausen made tribunal, under an agreement based on an investigation of|‘¢Ports for the German government on frontier conditions,