The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 25, 1917, Page 1

AVE H selves in lands wz the bodies of 15 old men whom the @ r EXTRA + LEASED WIRE SERVICE ED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS VOLUME 19 FULL UNIT your young son read this account of how the soldiers of autocracy amuse them- they’ve conquered, on their way to conquer America, and then take him to buy a Liberty bond: “In Gerbevillier, standing beside their graves, I studied the photograph of Germans had lined up and shot because The Gre- there were no young soldiers to kill; heard the detailed story of a woman whose boy of 14, being nearest the age of a soldier, was first hanged to a pear tree in the garden, and when the officer and soldier had left him and were busy setting fire to the next house, she cut the rope, revived the strangled boy, only to find the soldiers had returned, and while the officer held her hands behind her back, his assistant poured petrol on to him, and while he staggered about, a flaming torch, laughter.”—Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis, pastor of Plymouth church, Brooklyn. CRARDARARARARAADA DARORARARARD RARARARARARK - TheSeattleStar . test Daily Circulation of Any Paper in the Pacific Northwest SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, OCT. 25, 1917. Bandit Shoots Banker at Edison, Wn. B WAKE HEN Paul Revere rode from Boston i to Concord that night which now a means so much to us and occupies such a ] prominent page of American history, he didn’t stop to argue il aplain and point out reasons for Americans awakening. He told them of the danger threatening—and sped on! Those sturdy and true Americans didn’t yawn and stretch and lie abed awaiting more definite news from Boston. They rushed to arms, man and man alike, without a thought as to who had the * most acres to defend or who was the better __ marksman. They made of this a free and inde- ndent nation. Yesterday—LIBERTY DAY—another Paul Revere rode thru this land, over city %-Cy Noble Teaches - Art of Bayoneting ) ing Offi at Camp Lewis How to Loo World in That Branch of Fighting. Cy Noble, last year Washing- ton’s line-smashing football half- back, fas been sent to Camp Lewis, aé chief bayonet in- structor. Uncle Sam sent Noble to Fort Gili, Oklahome, last spring, to learn the art of blade fighting from veterans of every front. Now he is imparting his knowledge of the bayonet, and how to use it, to big classes of national army officers, at the American lake cantonment. Noble is exceptionally adept among hundreds of keen, well set-up young college football men from thruout the country, who have been} | technically trained to teach the men) fi of the draft army how to parry, thrust and kill with the pointed | steel Making Best Bayonetters He is one cog in the machinery} intended to turn out the greatest army of bayonet fighters the world hag ever known. All the experience of British, French, Itallan, and Belgian officers, who have learned bayonet fighting in bar- racks and in the bloody spots be-| tween the trenches, will be used to perfect Sammy's ability Added to this is the highly de- veloped energy of the young col- football players, who know gomething of the psyctology of the combat and possess bulldog te nacity and physical skill Earns Commission Noble hus been made a first lieutenant. He went thru the re- Fserve officers’ training course at the Presidio, San Francisco, with high honors, and from there hur. ried to Fort Sill At present he {a the only bayo- net specialist at Camp Lewis, and {nstructs officers there eight hours! |4 a day The Americans are to have the best bayonet equipment in the world, with steel and rifle bala ané lined to permit utmo: skilled Russian cleacy. Fo Fight With Grid Spirit When the Americans face they Geemans, they will have mastered every move in the maze of theo retical blade work, and are exp ed to carry the football spirit ov over No Man’s land Cy Noble, ex-university football crack, who is now bayonet instruc. |tor at Camp Lewis, Cy Noble learned football under Gil Doble, who taught his men how Confide in the bayonet, army|to use their heads and muscles gfficers declare, is one of the great-|and never, never give in, but to t assets of fighting men today.| keep driving Mt turned the tide of many a con-| Noble, army officers declare, 1s ict for the Japanese $n their war|ingtilling the Gil Dobie idea into |bayonet fighting Canadian ar-| So there may be some line mies 1 1 at the highost|smashing over in France, and it's point of general efficiency just now|a good bet rome of the Camp Lewis pen will make touchdowns, in bayonet work, 4 Former University Football Hero Is Teach-| streets and country highways, from ocean to ocean and from Canadian snows to the gulf’s warm waters. He called in a voice that reached every ear in every home in the land. He told of the Hun at our gates, of | the ruin and slavery that threatens unless we, as our forefathers did, spring to the de- | fense of our land and liberty. He called not for men. It was for guns, ammunition, food, clothing, hospital service, ambulances, and all the things our soldiers need to fight our battles, he asked. HE CALLED FOR MONEY! And liberty-loving citizens by the hun- dreads of thousans, from Maine to Caji- fornia, answered the call, some with $50— all they had—and_ others with hundreds, thousands, and tens of thousands—whatever they could spare. | Laborer and millionaire, man and wom- an, and LITTLE CHILDREN, TOO— answered the call on LIBERTY DAY. Yes- terday’s sun, as it threw the last faint streak thru Golden Gate, illuminated a_ pile of wealth heaped high by patriotic Americans | for their country’s war chest, for the arming | and maintaining of American soldiers where American soldiers are most needed—“Some- where in France This morning's dispatches from all sec- tions of the country tell of Liberty day’s bond subscriptions passing the $3,000,000,- 000 minimum—truly a tremendous sum for any people to raise in one day. But this is not enough. It is not the heaviest dollar broadside this country can fire at kaiserism, and nothing Jess than the most we can do is worthy of us now. Seattle subscribed more than a million dollars, making the city’s total subscription for the second Liberty Loan approximately $10,000,000. But that is not enough. better—AND WILL! We are proud of the record to date but we will be far prouder when the close of the campaign sees the $5,000,000,000 maximum is reached or passed. Seattle’s full quota is $13,000,000. This can be done, and without putting a crimp in our pocketbooks. Even if it did, Seattle can do stopped at the alley, aves, N The other passenger—a woman whose name was not learned—and members of the crew, were not in- between 16th and 17th | Ja seat twice, when the car swerved | into the curb, ripping out trees, It | a telephone pole near CAR PLUNGES jured. E. EB. Browning was the con ductor That the car did not overturn, he {and completly wreck Itself, was Three passengers and the | viraculous, eye-witnesses | sald. crew of Capitol Hill car No, 607 escaped death miracuously Thursday noon, when brakes failed to hold, and the car left the tracks at the end of the Front glass and mechanical trap pings were broken. | | Edison ‘Worked on | } | what matters itP We are not giving away the money. We, as subscribers, are not spending it. We are merely LOANING it at a profitable interest rate upon absolutely safe security. It is necessary to continue the second Liberty Loan campaign beyond LIBERTY DAY because some Americans didn’t wake up when Paul Revere rode this way yester- day. How the kaiser and his autocratic war junkers must grin with ghoulish glee as they read today their spies’ messages from this country, from this very city, telling how some Americans paid no heed to Pau] Re- vere’s call! Wilhelm Hohenzollern never received a report of a victory on the battle- field with as much pleasure as he will a re- port that America failed to OVERsubscribe her second Liberty Loan. It is not because they are not as patriotic as were those New England farmers that some Americans have not YET bought a bond. r It is not because they haven't the money. It is not because they lack in love of lib- erty and democracy and country. It is not because they fail to realize the dangers that will engulf America and the world if the Teuton wins. No; none of those things. They failed to answer the call, because they thought: “T'll wait, there's plenty of time.” “Let Bill Blank subscribe, he’s rich: when mine ts needed I'll give all 1 have.” “1 only have $50; that won't help when billions are needed.” You don’t mean to be unpatriotic, a pro- German, a henchman of the kaiser’s by thinking those thoughts, BUT YOU ARE, Wake up to that! Paul Revere has called. WAKE UP! The second Liberty Loan MUST be oversubscribed, and this must be done to- day, tomorrow, Saturday. “To do this will be one of the easiest ac- complishments if every single American— WAKES UP! City Shy 3 Million’ in Liberty Drive jup to their limit must loan more money ¢ Approximately $3,000,000 yet must be subscribed by Seat theites to reach the city’s min- imum queta of $13,000,000 in Bond buyers must carry on per sonal campaigns and = urge their Liberty bonds by Saturday friends and neighbors to get be- night hind Uncle Sam rf And those who have neglected To this end, thousands of pa: line and raced one and a half 4 gel to help the Liberty Loan must | blocks down the 45 per cent | Sub Weapon at Sea] frietic citizeng were Neneing | coma to their senses | Gaylor street hit, i ORANGE, N. J. Oct. 25— | Optimiam grew, as It became With this spirtt, Seattle was Mrs. M. C. Murphine, 2 Thomas A. Edison, the veteran |nown that Seattle hit the $1,000, (Continued on page 4) ave. 8. W., sustained Inte Inventor, has spent the last 10 | 000 stride on Liberty day eae ; é CG ye se Ft : weeks on the high seas, striv- About $150,000 was subseribed in| Nothing In a Name Motorman 1 Hastrop gave | ing to perfect some means of de- | amait amounts by pedestrians who! ny Staff Correspondent hia car “ carry it thru the| . feating the submarine, his lab | gigned up at the 25 street bureaus | CAMP LEWIS, Tacoma, Oct. Y-nwitch 1 of the line,| oratory announced Segay: te 's | maintained by federal employes. | 25.—William Baker, of ' Spo- 16th ave. and Gaylor st. When| "ow back “somewrere in Ament Seattle, to date, has subseribed| kane, is a butcher in the Depot his alr brake 4, the car shot, ©,” With the results of his stud: | a ynroxtmately $10,000,000 brigade, while Frank Butcher out over the pavement, and went| [ee and experiments. City-wide Liberty Bond activity,| is a baker at the cooks and Fs ig down the hill on Gaylor| ‘The first news that Edison had) the committee believes, is neces-| bakers’ training schoo! st,, about 15 miles an hour carried his search to the 6ea8 WAS) gary to put Seattle triumphantly Charles Goodnight Boozer, of Hurled Over Seat Murphine was hurled over (Continued on page 5) | Mrs, made in a brief statement by Wm.| over the finish line Seattle, is a prohibition advo- Thoso who have not purchased| cate. —~ AMERICANS! ! the boy’s head and clothes, set fire they shrieked with ha SEED NIGHT EDITION OC ANT moderate onight and Fri+ southwesterly PRICE ONE CENT f*Senttor POSSE KILLS — OTHER ROBBER | MOUNT VERNON, Oct. 25.—Earl Spurgeon of Sou | Bellingham was killed by a posse shortly before noon tod jafter he and his brother Ray had held up the State of Edison, fatally wounded Matt Halloran, chairman: publican county committee and a stockholder in the b and started out of town with $2,000. Ray Spurgeon captured unwounded. The holdup occurred at 10:30 today, when the § |geon brothers forced the cashier of the bank to su | While they were gathering up money, Halloran, who has {insurance office in the rear of the bank, rushed into the street to give the alarm. _ One of the bandits shot him thru the back, the bul! |piercing his body and emerging thru the abdomen. Physi- jcians say Halloran cannot recover from the wound. COIN TO FIGHT THE GAS GRAB brothers fled from town on foot. A running battle was fought Ten thousand dollars with which to resist the rate grab of the Seat = tween posse men and the robb After a volley of shots from | pursuers, Earl Spurgeon was |to fall John K. Hannay, assistant ier of the Edison bank, told the tails of the robbery and capt) that followed “My father, Matt Halloran, tle Lighting Co. was voted by|tIra I council Thursday at a_ special / th meeting. Pi enid Hannay. ir. | Opinion was freely expressed od was just making the e of a Liberty Bond and leaning over the counter ing to him “One of the robbers, name is given Ray Spi | sooved a revolver in our faces ‘told us to hold up our hands, don't know just what weapon it wai but it {that there was little hope of re ceiving a fair hearing before the state public service commission, which has already ordered the Seat tle Lighting Co. to adopt a new |rate schedule But the procedure was agreed upon on the theory that the city must fight to the limit, if it expects to ever obtain any measure of jus-| Mighty big to me. tice from Gov, Lister's present My father, Letherwood and | aaekinntiie i ee into a vault and : + . ed io. ust as this took Corporation Counsel Caldwell | 4.10. Jist as shocthe: plage and Superintendent Valentine, of 45 on the outside of the city utilities department, were| Hur On the outalde o the cout authorized to draft an ordinance | On? (yas, shot as he tried to alorm The bandits seemed badly tled. They managed to scoop $2,000, and left that much more in the bank as they fled i “We were in the vault only @ short time. We keep a screw — driver inside for use in just such an emergency as occurred ro and lost no time in <inecrenaeaa lock and getting out. * As the men ran out of town foot, & posse gathered and t |pursuit. In the shooting that fole — lowed a man named Pete Cw Fs shot Earl Spurgeon with a i The shot struck him fa the |and he died a half hour later, | “After I got out of the vault, F jumped in my car and met | posse coming back. The unwor jed robber refused to talk. “Halloran, who is about 70, wag, al at Burlington, al condition.” calling for the services of account- ants and an expert gas engineer » data, Results of their on will be presented to sion , n to spend $10,000 for the expert assistance was made by Councilman Moore Two official arraignments of the public service commission were in the hands of Gov. Lis- ter Thursday, condemning the arbitrary action of that body in the Seattle gas rate case. One was a_ resolution | questing him to either rescind the commission's order, boost: } ing Seattle gas rates until the { | re- people's case is heard, or to re- move the members of the com- mission, It was passed by the council in special session Wed- | ake | her was a complete file of re a peel se the city’s correspondence with the jcommission, showing futile vl (Continued on page 2) anese are producing ane 100,000 tons of coal Pree) IT ALL DEPENDS : ON WHO YOU ARE { T ‘ 3 7 8 Hi eeeceeeeeeeeseeeeeee | HIS is what happened Wed- T nesday afternoon In the council committee rooms: Councilmen Willlam Hickman | Moore and Robert B. Hesketh got into an argument that de- veloped into an exchange of per sonalities. Moore struck Hesketh In the face and broke his glasses. moto with a cuspidor. | Hesketh Immediately announc- | Mrs, Yamamoto stepped in, 2 1 ath een bie” but not befcre her husband [ee : was more or less jolted, But Councilman Haas and ‘A few minutes later a polloss Committee Clerk Schrader step- man took them both to head. ped between the belligerents quarters, and Wednesday after. | noon Con Clements and J, and prevented a counter attack. | Yamamoto faced Police Judge Ten minutes later Hesketh | | | | | | | challenged Moore to “step out HIS Tuesday afternoon rooming house at 611% Sixth ave. S.: Proprietor J. Yamamoto and Guest Con Clements got into is what happened an argument that developed Into an exchange of personali- ties. Yamamoto pushed Clements, and Clements crowned Yama “You're fined $100 and 30 inty the street.” Judge Moore stepped into an elevator. No arrests were made,