The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 26, 1917, Page 1

‘ee, TheSeattleStar . UL LEAS) INT Pr DP WIRE SERVICR Dd 8 ASSOCIATIONS VOLUME 19 May Name Murphine to Curb LIBERTY BOND OWNERS RALLY IN F INAL 2. MILLION NEEDED TO REACH QUOTA | All Seattle Goes “Over the) Top” to Insure Successful Climax of Liberty Loan Campaign. Every Liberty bond owner has been appointed a bond salesman by the Washington state central com- mittee for the remainder of the week, with special in- ' Structions to bring in at least one purchaser before the close of business Saturday night. Eighty bluejackets, leading a flying squadron of civilians, will launch a final drive Saturday ina supreme effort to push Seattle Liberty Loan subscriptions past) the $13,000,000 mark. Banks will remain open until 9 p. | Approximately $2,000,000 must te’ pledged to Uncle Sam during the next 36 hours here—or Seattle “will have failed to do her share. ‘Total subscriptions Friday noon} were $10,823,650 for Seattle Cal 979,950 for the state. ‘s total apportionment | |the map when it comes to standing | by the United States, fief ex ponent of government by democra the % was day fay in construction hamper war work. There is no dispute over types ef ships as in the Denman-Goe- thals row, but there is far less construction than America and her, ailies require. Capps’ {ll health will probably gerve as the vessel for his elimina tion sooner or later, while amend- ment of the shipping law also ts quite probable, so that there will mot be two boards as at present One board constructs ships; the her operates them. fut where Whe first hesitates the other is erless. That appears to be the culty today. + Hurley is in favor of conserip- | Wfion of labor as one means of A Colorado mati eloped with two women. We can’t figure out Lo save us which one of the three was th biggest fool. PLEDGE TO BUY A LIBERTY BOND I hereby pledge myself to call at some bank or at Liberty Loan Headquarters, 822 Second ave., Seattle, ad ie tomorrow (Saturday) night, and buy a Lib- Bond, for cash or on the easy terms provided fo by the United States Government. cording to Saturday. second Liberty loan, according Barney Sitko, charter member of tater Edgar Battle has 2°-| the first Lithuanian soctety in Se) Mr. Sitko, who subscribed yester. } cueegpivtions to the | government's! aay to Liberty bonds for -each of | Aesks of Seattl have subsertt {ale three daughters—Mildred 9) | Isabella, 2 years old, ceclared that) oe yt oad Aecoreand his was but an example of otbers./ tere ah MEE Waibtagton state | Farthest North, in Liberty bond 1 1917 D. Carzea|4ay, When Circle City, @ sinail set-| and Capt. input ance complet-| tlement on the shores of the Yu.) ing @ canvass of the colony here. | kon. Just where the mighty North. is _very much Oj transmitted $6,000 by wireless to }the Dexter Horton National bank} _ EW SHAKE UP to buy government war bonis for) = very Arctic zone itself. | | This ts but one example of many} from remote camps in the interior | jot Alaska, Subscriptions received to have banks, settlements which have to tranamit their subscriptions fed wireless and send the money in By United Preee teased Wire | total $60,000 WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.— Twenty-five thousand dollans The American Shipbuilding or- | received yesterday and t. dergo a second reorganization. Seattle's 30,000 1001 children Rear Admiral Capps, head of have been deputed 4 solicitors Emergency Fi King county’s schools, under Goethals, will step down or be = rows, have fallen in Hine, and Cam forced out, unless present indi- paign Manager George W. Allen cations fai said the county pupils are doing @evotion to duty, which kept him Boy Scouts are canvassing the at his desk 18 or more hours a day city. J. H. Piper, scout executive, constantly. Besides this, there are yesterday reported that the Boy man Hurley, of the United States 1,500 subscriptions to date. Bhipping board, and he are not in Saliors on Job pe meron. Forty sailors from the naval sta hortage of vessels and such de! job, aiding the Liberty Loan dri under Ensizn Rex Roudebush Fri day, and 49 more will join the ‘These @uilors, with federal em ployes, bank-rs, Insurance men and a host of other volunteer workers quest of Americans who haven't yet done their bit with their dol lars. Bond button, he'll be fair prey for workers Friday afternoon and Sat urday hind the drive and invest in war | bonds New subscriptions Mppecding construction. Three Charien Frye fe C0. Fao a nD bundred thousand to five hundred | (a iiorted to Seattle); Union Pacific, $42 antil some strong hand takes ac-| tiie to Seattle); A. W. Mylroie, tion abipbutiding . ,Sestined to be] $15,000, and Mrs. Myirole, $46 000; ere eee Northern Life Insurance employes, 1K. Uyeda, $15,000; FP. K.| . $10,000; H, Wakefield, and ¢ Alien Dale, $2,600 campaign officially closes at|¢¥. in subscribing the bonds of the Friday afternoon to solicit | *tte. ed more than $100,000 tn Liberty | years old; Frances, 4 years, and tral committee for the second Lib-|*™Dscriptions, was reached yester Dietancite lern river touches the Areti¢ circie, | the loyal Americans living in the) to date from séttlements too small a AND GET SHIPS, he spring, after the ice breaks up, ganization is likely soon to un- before from these amall carops tion and successor to County Superintendent A. 8. Bur Capps is in ill health, due to a fine work many manifestations that Chair. Scouts have obtained a total of Officials admit that there is such! | 00". ) the university were on squad Sa urday will go from office to office ‘In Unless a man wears a Liberty Everybody is expected to get be County-eity employes, Hthousand workers are needed, but fee ty tho state. (9178,000 at me | $4,000; Skinner & Eddy employes, BME ccoes coe Phone Fi out Liberty this pledge and take or send Loan Headquarters, Saturday | | the The Gre-‘cst Daily Circulation of Any Paper in the Pacific Northwest SS} seeeeeevessecessooees RECALL : LOUISE STRONG Seescecoosesseesees Ae LOUISE STRONG, member of the school board, must go! Her recall must be made certain. One year ago, The Star fought for her elec- tion because, by educa- tion, training and sym- pathies, she was equip- ped for school service. Today, another, and a larger issue, must be con- sidered, It is the issue of Americanism. N the present crisis of our national life, there can be no “ifs” or “buts” in the measure of our Americanism. .It must be one hundred per cent Americanism. Miss Strong’s pacifist activities, however safe- ly “within the law,” fail to meet the acid test. Her Americanism has been challenged. Out of sympathy with the war, out of sympathy with the draft, Miss Strong has permitted her loyalty to the country and its aims to be placed in se- rious doubt. Candidly she _recog- nizes the issue in her re- call petition, and_boldly she ch,llenges tHe city to a devision. EATTLE must ac- cept that challenge. There must be no doubt as to how this city stands, Anna Louise Strong and her brand of “pa- triotism” must be over- whelmingly defeated at the polls. — SPIES OPERATE IN ARMY POST AT VANCOUVER By United Press Leased Wire VANCOUVER, Wash., Oct. 26—German spies are operating in the army post here, ac- cording to evidence gathered today. A number of army mules have been stabbed with a pointed instrument, making it necessary to kil! several Efforts have been made to pol son the water which supplies the barracks, and it is persistently re ported poisoned bread has been nd he post commander today flatly denied that a German had been shot as he tried to gain entrance to the barracks bakery Both inside and outside guards at the post have been doubled and the activities of the alle enemy agents have been decrea Col. Jones, post commander, ad mitted today that army authort ties were conducting vigorous in vestigations of alleged attempts to pelo the camp In {ts water's sup “ie peated attempts to poison the water are said to have been made Evidence indicates that the plot ting is the work of German agents within the military reservation {dently the plotters are soldiers or Danis es at the post FLOUR IS CHEAPER IN SAN FRANCISCO : SAN FRANC Flour was a little nearer book range today When the stores opened here this morning {t was down 40 cents a barrel, A 50-pound sack sold for $2.95 Millers declared it would be im possible to sell any cheaper with wheat at $2.14, and some predicted the new price could not be main tained. 26. pocket POOR HEALTH CAUSES WAR LEADER TO QUIT Hy United ¥ Leased Wire GON, Oct, 26.—Frank Cleveland, chairman of industries board, resigned lil health was giveo as the A. Scott war today reason. EATTLE, WASH., : GERMANS ROUT ITALIANS FROM | VITAL POSITION Dealt by the | Austrians | \¥ ICTORY DECISIV in United Prees Lewsed Wire ROME, Oct. 26.—Evacuation by Italian troops of Bainsizza was officially an- “From Mount Maggiore, west to Auzza, we have with- drawn our boundary, evacuat- ing the Balnsizza plateau,” the statement said. Dy United Presse Leased Wire BERLIN (via London), Oct. | 26—Austro-German forces in | the great drive on the Italian front have already captured 30,000 prisoners and taken 300 guns, today’s official statement declared 'ANGLO-FRENCH STRIKE AGAIN By United Frees Leased Wire | LONDON, Oct. 26.—Fritish | French forces in Flanders in another great drive today Northeast of Ypi | French troops att at |this morning, and made satisfac tory progress,” Field Marshal Haig reported | “Rain fell heavily during the lat ter part of the night, and ts tinuing today,” the official state ment added This ts the second blow struck }by combined Drittah and French forces against Germany's vital spot in Flanders in five days. and joined |French Give Kaiser , ’ , : Year’s Worst Beating BY HENRY Wooo Proms Seatt ondent | WITH THE H ARMIES |IN THB FIE! Oct, 26.—With every hour today there grew evi jdence that Gen. Petain’s stroke on |the Aisne had {nflicted on Germany her greatest defeat of 1917 | Demoralized by the triphammer blows of the great French war ma- jehine, the Germans today were |abandoning their guns in an effort jto retreat across the marshy | Allette valley and the Aisne end | Oise canal. Fighting with the des-| peration of men who knew the are beaten, the enemy gave w lor the French wedge, until toda) It had been jammed more than} (Continued on Page 16) GERMAN VICTORY IN | ITALY SHOWS LOSS | OF AUSTRIAN POWER, | By United Press Leased Wire LONDON, Oct. 26.—Germany’s | rious at the start—but the season aside Thursday by Presiding is bad for such a campaign. Italy lie well munitioned and amply vided with troops, and observ are united in complete confid in her ability to weather whate storm the Germans may raise This view wes expressed here to- day. What interested British ob servers the moat in the whole sit uation was the fact that the Isonzo offensive was regarded aa fur ther evidence of Austria's military impotence. It is Germany the Italian drt German officers, tions and German war in control Well informed observers here held the German control of this ef. fort likewise established Germany's intention to keep Austria under complete vassalage to Berlin, | United which is waging German troops German muni planes are Iowa Man Invents | Cort Cornatalk on Broadway Introduced by J. M Dinman of Storm Lake, Ia He faserted that cornstalk shoes retail | for 60 and out-wear leather. hoes ar n of Of cornstalka and glucose, into a fabric by a secret patented by the Iowan a composition presued | process FRIDAY, | four lcharge for from 21 | men each day jat iter The | 4 | CT, 26 1917, ‘ELECTRIC LIGHT RATES BOOSTED. ALSO, ON QUIET $ | Teutons Put Force Into Blows) Industrial Plants Affected by New Rate Schedule Al- lowed by Commission ITY LIGHT UNCHANGED Investigation by light department revealed Fri- day that the Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Co. has been permitted to boost power rates in attic by the State public service commis sion. The entire procedure has been kept quiet, it was point. ed out, so the traction custom. ers would be unaware of In- creases in thelr bills, Application was made by the corporation for the rate increas July 16, 1 T went into ef fect August 14. No notice was sent to the elty W. C. Bnow, assistant agent in the elty lig sent to Olymy days = . try and dig up the new |xchedule, following rumors that, it had been filed and pasred. He found the documents, and made copies. They are now {n the hands of A. E. Williams, light de partment sales manager for the elty This sudden boost in rates is not bothering the elty ght depart ment, however, as it will permit the municipal plant to m: fur ther inroads on the Stone Industrial business here. Hit In the Dark “But It makes a lot of difference to the consumers who must the bills, Willams pointed out, “and the whole procedure has been kept secret, on the theory that few would realize what was going on. “These increases, for would make $1,000 a month differ. ence in the monthly bill of one Be attle shipyard, after their present contract expired.” Spectal rates by the power com pany for shipyards, lumber and milla, steel mills, foundries, dredges and refrigerating are can celed in the new schedule All power rates for 100 horse power or over have gone up from a minimum of half a cent per kilo watt hour to a minimum of 1 cent The minimum | kilowatt hour to 100 horse 4 from 9 of a the city contract partment power, has advan cent to 11-8 cents, and for power ranging from | to 20 horse-power, the new charge is 114 cents in stead of 1 cent BELLINGHAM BOYS, SONS OF BANKERS, DARN SOX IN ARMY AMP” LEW is, Tacoma, wo Bellix two of the ric Oct. 26. ham bankers, sons of est men in Whatcom county, are darning their own socks and taking their turn at kitchen police In the 361st infantry, at this cantonment One of the men is Victor Roeder, son of Victor Roeder, sr. one of the ploneer financiers of the Northwest, and the other is Henry Roth, son of Capt. Roth, mentioned in the histories of the state as the first man to build a steamboat on Puget sound And Roeder is married and has a baby "You bet I miss the sald yesterday kiddie,” he “His mother says he misses me, too. I wish there were some Way he could be near me, but babies In the army are not according to military Hoyle 2 Roeder been prom is & mess sergeant, REYNOLDS TO TALK ABOUT GAS GRAB “Public Service Commission Con | trol of Gas in the state of Wash ston” will be the subject of for chairman of this commission, ries A. Reynolds’ address to » King County Democratic club, gular meeting and lunch at # cafeteria, First ave. and Saturday noon, October 0d 8. P. Wilson, D. D., the club also on racy.’ Gerald Relf, baritone, will address “World Demoe will sing. BABY - KILLERS CRY Huns Complain at Prospect of Reprisals! BY JOHN GRANDINS ! United Prow Staff Correny BERLIN, via London, Oct. 26. —If the allies, and England In particular, hope by brutality in bombiag unfortified German cities, to bring Germany to her knees, that hope is vain, ac cording to the belief expressed in the highest official quarters | today. The United highest authority should not forget that jeont Press was told on that the entente there are| numerous French cities in easy reach of German boublns air fleets | if the allies, including America, car ry out any program of attack on open German towns his same declared Talk to Keep Up % urage “The British press t..e8 to com fort the British population with as surances at the beginning of t! winter cessation of the Fland battle, Wnglish air fleets, aided by (Continued on Page 16) ‘ebster |} foot) instance, | authoritative source Tom Murphine May Head Vice Clean-Up ___Thomas F. Murphine | CARELESS WORK © BY DRAFT M. D'S COSTS MILLION : | Ry Btatt Correspondent CAMP LEWIS, Tacoma, Oct. 26.—Inefficilency on the part of | local draft boards has cost the | United States government, at this camp atone, $1,000,000, ac- | cording to estimates made by | mustering officers. | Eleven per cent of the men sent here by the boards and recommended by their physi- clans as physically fit for serv. | ice, have been turned down by | the physicians here and some | of them for diseases which are apparent even to the laymen Men have come here who had lost fingers and toes, were blind in one eye or extre: af. Some of them have had no teeth and others noticeable malformations. Average Cost Is $300 As a resujt, Uncle Sam has had to pay for their transportation, their food and has even bought them clothing, all of which is a to- tal loss. The average cost per man from the time he w Hed until he is examined, rej nd sent home is $ 1 of which is lost to Unel am, in addition to the waste of his officers in training the man. Three thousand and thirty-one men cted to date from a ced the per “It is inconceivable, lared Lieut. Knubenshue, mustering offi cer, “that such arrant stupidity could have existed among the gx amining physicians of the local boards. Thru their carelessness, the government has suffered Eight per cent of the Washing ton men examined have been re. jected, while Oregon leads, with a percentage of 10.5, and Wyoming next, with 10.1 per cent Foliowing the tabulated rt of the must office Sent Rejected i] three hundred been re is re Pet 10.6 \tate iregon fontana Tah daho 6.69 015, 1,044 Jevada Vash vye alifornia wc ® GERMAN ARRESTED FAST TRAINS CRASH; | AT SEATTLE DOCK | Lieut. FW. of the Unt ligence offi dock, caused Gerhardt crew of the Grand because of an ment regarding berth Gerhardt fs said to have given | Holland as bis birthplace when he signed up on the Curacao, A |search of his belongings 1 d the | ship disclosed the fact that he was | born in Germany, and that he rm ie his first papers at Necker, 45, in charge States na@¥al intel. at th Trunk the ar John ships car . of the steamer Curacao, at Trunk dock Thursday alleged false state the place of his Tacoma in 1902 Gerhardt at is booked the city nes jail Men Belie N Jat Ry Staff Ce CAMP LEWIS, | | Tacoma, | Oct. 26.—What's In a name? F. Antiheroo is a soldier from \ Umatilla county, Ore., while Frank Coward halls from Seat. | | tle and Ten Million of the same town borrowed the price of a meal from Kenneth Pennypack- er, of Spokane, yesterday | | thelr way thru the floor, | burg! broke into the Ajax | | pharmacy, 86th st. and Greenwood | lave. and took 200 pounds of candy, Thursday night, Sawin |hood, having attended the Uni- NIGHT EDITION wraTnen and fete vind onight aterly where jeattle Vice DRIVE | LITIA MAY ALD TATE ATTORNEY Conference Held Between Gen. H. A. Greene, Atty. Gen. Tanner and Seat Man. OLYMPIA, Oct. 26.—Following a conference yé terday between Gen. H. A, Greene, Attorney Genet W. V. Tanner and Assistant Attorney General Tho F. Murphine, plans for state control of vice conditio in Seattle are beJieved today to be under way. The conference took place at Camp Lewis. While the exact plans discussed have not be jmade public, it is believed that the attorney general ma y name Murphine, who is a Seattle man, familiar with the situation, to handle the matter, with the assi$tance the newly organized home militia. -3 The latter is subject to the call of Governor La tis co eo if such a plan is adopted, is regard WIFE OUT AND KILLS Hi | legislature of 1913 and 1915, and | drafted @ white slave bill to sens to cases withia the state on |same principle as the Mann lcovers cases between states. In the last legislature, he was special attorney for the legislature, appeinted to draft bills. A resident of Seattle since boy- Dr. Thomas Tiero, 42, at time a prominent physician In” Chicago, fired a bullet thre: : brain shortly before noon day In his apartment at S1t — Second ave. N., killing himself When asked for a statement of| almost instant!: their plans, however, both Tanner | and Murphine refused to say any- | wite, Peg | Tarhi bow: to | jthing today. They would not ac-| i icrning paper. He fired the fe " |knowledge even that they were per ar nat working on some plans | Sas tosad by her cpon Ser Soa Gen. Greene, while refusing | Seaman me Ste me ‘s go into details, issued the follow. | Oe Cording to the Ing statement concerning the con. | ,_U"-,Tiero, according prose wabhapaas's rated wife, had been suffering © 1 inf f - |from a physical collapse nformed the attorney gener- the last two years and had said Major General Greene,| conrined to his bed most of an interview “that we time. . are willing to place at his)" “rey had lived in Seattle te ‘i Dr. Tiero disposal all evidence that we ave. . . nearly two years, have, but that for me to take any/ pom in Spain. He nie hand in the cleaning up of Seattle . or attempt to dictate methods | medical education at the Unites would be entirely improper. heiee finandiel 3 th ‘t told him that discussion of| 2°) ausme the last few years the problem at this time ts useless, Poncwing “his breakdown, that the time for action has come,|(Howins his | breakdown, they the county” a PRICE ONE CENT 7% + ine versity of Washington, and en- gaged in the law practice here since 1907, until his recent appoint- ment as assistant orney general, Murphine is belie Attorney General Tanner to be one of the best equipped men in the state to handle the “clean-up campaign.” al,” in My stand on the question is known I have stated what my alternative; The body 1s would be if conditions in Seattle are not improved. The conditions are known generally, But it is not within my province to start to right them. I pointed out to the attor. ney general that the state has in its hands the power to act, and it is up to the city and state authori- ties to have a house cleaning.” at morgue. ACQUIT WOMAN ; IN MURDER CASE Mrs Amy Rosenburg Friday stands acquitted of second degree murder in killing her husband, ~ Fred C. Rosenburg, by a jury in Judge Smith's department, after — four and a half hours deliberation, Mrs. Rosenburg was charged with shooting her husband follows ing a quarrel in their home at 5218 Brandon st, September 22, She WIFE LIKES ANOTHER MAN; IS DIVORCED Mariani Mangiolordo, Italian, told Superior Judge Bell Friday, in his suit for divorce, that his wife, Nun+ ziata, had told him “to his face” that she l’ked another man better, “She go to a dance with me, plained Mangilorado brokenly, I no see her again the rest of the night.” The divorce | was granted, Smit GRATIFIED Rev. Leonard B. Smith, the man who Howracens te investigated vice conditions here and Jaid his evi- dence before the Mirtsterial Fed. eration, Friday expressed his grat ation that the state was getting ready to take charge here. “After a talk with the governor,” he said, “I am sure we have his heartlest co-ope: ration i FIREMAN KILLED MACON, Ga., Oct. 26.—The Roy-| al Palm, south-bound, sideswiped the Kansas City Special, north- bound on the Southern railway, at Reed’s station, ten miles south of here, early today Fireman , Will Mathews, negro, was killed and > K, Burgay was pain Both we on the > H fully injured. Royal Palm THE SOCK, THEN 5 Nell Why don’t you give him About 150 men went on strike the mitten? | Friday at the Boledel-Donovan Relle-—It isn’t cold hands he has,| mill, Bellingham, for an eight-hour it's cold feet day The Star i in the Trenches The Star can be sent to any soldier or sailor abroad or at home, in the camp on this side or in the trenches in France at the following rates, postpaid: One Month, 40c; Three Months, $1.15; Six Months, $2.00; One Year, $3.50, All mail subscriptions must be paid in advance. No phone orders taken. Remittances must be accompanied by name of soldier, the number of the company and that of his regiment. Name of ship must be given if The Star is to be mailed to a man in the Uniied States navy. g