The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 30, 1918, Page 7

STAR—-WEDNESDAY, JAN, 30, 1918. PAGE 7 - | 15 Acts Arranged — RPHEUM | FREDERICK @NELSON New Hats at $5.00 Are Charming | Basement Salesroom Basement Salesroom harman | for Star Tobacco Fund Vaudeville Sugene Levy, Mgr. —NEW BILL TODAY— Top pleture shows Mitsi Hajow of the Pom Pom « Star's noon vaudeville Friday for the }in France tobacco fund. The ie pleture is 7 Walsh, veteran comedian, who will be the nouncer for each of the 15 acts, At the right Is Margaret Jarman, world famous grand opera star, who will take part In the show, mpany, who will headline efit of Our Boys mi m The Hats sketched of quilted satin with fur edg- ing, the other of metallic-em- broidered crepe with etraw crown — are from this new showing at $5. Y the skillful combination of materials, the new Millinery links the new season with the old. For example, fur trimming is seen on crepe hats, straw ornaments, wooden beads and metallic embroidery on satin hats, and straw facings or crowns on both satin and crepe foundations—all admirable for immediate wear. one + *' pia Advanced Styles Featured in New Silk and Cloth Skirts $4.50 to $8.50 HE new arrivals show by their clever manipula- tion of shirrings, plaits and kiltings and by novel pocket arrangements what the new season has pre- pared in the way of smart, original skirt modes to be had at little cost. THE SILK SKIRTS (one in center of sketch) are of } Basement Salesroom. s Silk-flounced Petticoats, $1.95 DDING to the durable percaline or sateen top a | wide double ruffled flounce of soft taffeta for the sake of smart appearance, these Petticoats com- bine good looks with practicability. Many plain colors and two-tone flounce effects, made with adjustable tops and cotton underlay. Lengths 34 to 40 inches. Price $1.95. Basement Salesroom. taffeta and messaline in navy and black, and priced at $4.75. F THE CLOTH SKIRTS are in bright gingham plaids, checks and stripes, also plain colors (examples at right and left of sketch), $4.50, $5.00, $6.50 and $8.50. —Basement Salesroom. “Novel Styles in Women’s _ | Smocks at $3.75 HE welcome change it affords from blouses is adding daily to the smock’s popular- ity. These new arrivals are of linen-finished mate- rials in pleasing color- ings, designed in coat or slip-over style, with large collars, patch pock- ets and wide belts. Fancy stitching, some- times in bright worsteds, forms the trimming. Sizes 36 to 44. Price $3.75. From the famous story of life in the wnderworld, by Alezandre Dumas. Also G New Transcontinental Trede ie 0y Bet me Bates Beemer tonight. = ‘Beg. Demonstrating Dr. Scholl Foot Appliances N expert from the Dr. Scholl factory will be in the Basement Salesroom Shoe Section tomorrow, and the bal- ance of the week, ready to advise in the correc- tion of Weak Ankles, Flat Foot, Weakened Arch, Ingrowing Nails, Corns, Enlarged Joints, Bunions and other foot Vaudeville Acts Lower Floor Twenty Cents. Crepe de Chine Underblouses $1.25 HIS new Underblouse is in the lace-sleeve style which so many wom- en favor. It has yoke ef- fect of shadow lace inser- tion, and ribbon-run lace beading and edge topping pink crepe de Chine. Price $1.25. Valenciennes lace insertion trim another dainty garment, in con ‘Palace Hip stain Centineces Dally 1 to 11 Be Sure to See the New Show Tomorrow! MISS MAGGIE LE CLAIR & CO wee” The Unfair Sex” evre n Bro. Novelty Dances All Their Own “Detying Gravity” Fred & Mae Waddell O. L. Goodhue and Ends of Danet Banjotst Vaudeville pti New Silk Dress Nets Exceptional 65 Cc Yard Values at OMEN planning new evening frocks for them- selves or daughters can provide for the mate- rial at unusual advantage in this offering. The Nets are of the soft, filmy qualities, in lovely colorings that are doubly effective when combined, show at the Metropolitan Friday for “Our Boys in France Tobacco Fund” Every member of the “Pom Pom” company, and it's packed with artists, will be in the per- formance. It's going to be a great, big, lively | 7) affair, folkw! Better reserve your) tickets right away Getting back to the program: It'll be longer and better than the Far and Near H Weekday Matiness 16c) Evenings and Sundays, 200 $1.50 A WEEK THE SPECIAL TERMS Columbia Model 75 As Illustrated This fine Cabinet Columbia can be had in a number of dif- ferent woods and finishes, and comes to you with an assortm: it lections (10 doub: anced 1 The Records), edles, for $93.50, on Mpecial Terms of $1.50 a Week PORTABLE MODEL NO. 35 in equipped with hinged top, has ail the latest Co- lumbia improvements, and will be sent to you with « cholce of 12 selections (six double-faced 75e Records) and an assortment of Needles, all for $49.0, on Special Terms of $1 Week Tepehone Elliott WE CLOSE AT 6 P. M. INCLUDING SATURDAY News by Telegraph and Telephone The public ts invited to » joint meeting of the Taxpayers’ league and the Community clubs of the city to be held at the Good Eats cafeteria ‘Thursday at 12:15 p. m. for the pur pose of hearing the candidates for the city council. Funeral services for the ate Thomas Wardall will be held Thurs. day, January 31, at 5 o'clock at The osophical hall, 6000 Arcade building A Japanese, described an being 5 feet tall, 19 years old and wearing a yellow working suit and hat, is be ing hunted by the police. He was a roustabout aboard the steamer Ikso- man Maru and was reported by the |captain of the ship to have escaped Tuesday afternoon. Rev, Hugh Gordon Ross will begin a series of Bible studies at the Plymouth Congregational church Thursday night. The lectures are given particularly for students and teachers of the Bible. According to Tienma K. Lin, Chi- nese banker, the Chinese people de sire to co-operate more fully with the American people. Lin carried a letter from Chu-Paesan, chairman of |the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce at Shanghai, to the for eign trade bureau of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce and Commer. Have Your Teeth Cleaned Pyorrhea gets its early start largely through a lack of care of the teeth and mouth. If you would rid yourself of that menace, tartar deposits, have healthy gums, a clean and hy. gienic mouth and guard against pyorrhea, visit our office and have your teeth carefully and thoroughly cleaned and polished. Charges, $1.50 up. We are Crown, Plate Specialists. AT REASONABLE PRICES. Good--Dentistry—Always AT REASONABLE PRICES ATIONAL . NRONTISTS L THIRD & PIKE _ = SO Bridge and Formerly at Fourth and Pike. Open Day and Night, Not Open Sundays, Main 3256. highest-priced vaudeville bill in the world Here's List Mitzi Hajos stands at the top o' | the list of light opera stars today, jand she will do the big number of | the show, supported by “Pom Pom" men Then there's Charles McNaughton. the noted English comedian, and one it fellows of stagedom, y a vaudeville bill. “A Bunch of Fun"—that's his act. Boyd Marshall, handsome baritone, who wins Mitzi in “Pom Pom,” will offer his piano monologue Larsson and Jackson, wonderful Australian tornado dancers, will put on a big closing act. Margaret Jarman, who has appear: ed in every gre elty in the world in grand opera, will be on the bill. Then there will be Detmar Poppin, who plays the Big Biassou in “Pom Pom"; Ben Hastings, one of the fun niest fellows in the world, in a c edy skit, and Hattye Fox, the sou brette. She is a niece of Della Fox, famous soubrette. She'll Open Mouth Have you seen “Pom Pom"? Well, LAllian Morton is the girl who dances with Mitzi. She hasn't a line to speak in “Pom Pom,” and a lot of talent is going to waste. But she'll have an ypportunity to show the rest of the ompany, and the crowd, something about singing character songs. And George Brigger, baritone; Vic tor Le Roy, popular entertainer; | Gleanor Livingston and Helen} Leyne, in a singing specialty, and the | team of Livingstone and Birney, in| Dance des Pierrettes, are other acts. Tom Will Be Announcer And Tom Walsh, the big burglar inchief of “Pom Pom," will be the! announcer and appear before every | act! George Martonfalvy and his or cheatra will be on hand, and the en-! tire company will join in one of the numbers, Stage Director Harry Child ts working 18 hours a day getting the 1cts ready, If your lips are cracked—stay away from the Metropolitan Friday! Because you'll have to laugh most of the time! School Children | Are Celebrating “Save Fuel” Day WASHINGTON, Jan, 30—More than 21,000,000 school children are today bringing to the attention of America the absolute necessity of saving coal. The school children are making a house-to-house canvass, tagging coal shovels with screaming notices to “save Coal and Win the War." Fuel Administrator Garfield desig- nated today as "Shovel Tag day,” and lattle, first ship launched under the ailments. His experience in fit- ting the Dr. Scholl pe ae for the relief of these conditions is at your service, —Basement Salesroom. one over another. In 40-inch width, there | are Mais, Purple, Co- penhagen, King’s - blue | and Tan. | Priced at 65¢ yard. In 36-inch width, vy, Pink, Old-rose, Bottle- green, White, Cunard. —Rasement Salesroom | nection with ribbon-run lace bead- ing and edge. Price $1.25. Rows of Valenciennes lace in sertion sewed together form an effective finish for other silk Underbodices, and they are fin- ished with ribbon-run lace bead- ing and edge. Price $1.00. —Basement Salesroom. SEATTLE NOW BUILDING 135 SHIPS FOR U. S. More war work for Seattle! Shipyards here have been awarded $27,000,000 worth of ship contracts by the States emergency fleet corpors tion. This represents 22 big car- go steamers. Fourteen of the new boats will be built by Skinner & Eddy, on con: tracts totaling more than $20,000,000 The remaining eight will be built by the Puget Sound Bridge & Dredg ing Co, The Skinner & Eddy boats will be of the 800-ton steel cargo-carrying type made famous by the 8. 8. Se government's emergency plan. The Puget Sound company’s boats will be 4,000-ton wooden, Grays Harbor type carriers. With Tuesday‘s contracts, Seattle has 135 boats building for the gov-| ernment emergency fleet. They are distributed as follows: Skinner &| dy, 32; Seattle Construction & Dry Patterson-MacDonald | 20; Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Co., 11; Meacham & Bab. cock, 10; Ames Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., 9; J. F. Duthie Co., 9; Erickson Construction & Shipbuild- ing Co, 8; and Elliott Bay Ship- building Co., 6. BOATS WORTH MILLIONS SWEPT AWAY IN FLOOD EVANSVILLE, Ind. Jan, 30. River vessels worth more than a million dollars have been swept by this city, in a total loss, in the rush of water and ice following the break ing up of ice gorges along the Ohio ri he largest part of this loss was at Paducah, I Among those lost were the Spri Bagle and Gray Eagle, of the St. Louis Packet line, largest on the river. Vessels worth millions of dollars are anchored in the mouth of Green river, and should the ice gorge at Rochester, Ky., break, they would be lost. The river is rising and river men called upon the army of school chil- dren to ald the government in seeing fear the ice will break before night. to it that users of coal, both large| Vessels worth $80,000 are anchored and small, save at least a shovel of|in the local harbor, but they are in paeelllncailaseetapeoe To PROBE GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS FOR SHIPS WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—Investi- gation of the influences brought to bear in obtaining government con- tracts for the Sloan Shipbuilding company of Seattle, thru the Clinch- field Navigation company, ‘s indk cated in an announcement by Sen- ator Sherman, of Illinois, to the senate commerce committee, con- ducting the Theodore E. Ferris probe. Senator Sherman said he wanted to know the names of officers and stockholders of the Clinchfield Navi gation company, and how they got the contracts for the Sloan company. He said he wanted to learn what in fluences were used to get the gov- ernment to go into the deal. The representative of the shipping board said he would obtain the informa. tion, PORTLAND POLICEMAN - SCENTS GERMAN PLOT PORTLAND, Jan. 30.—Statements of Patrolman Humphrey that he has positive information that an organiz- ation exists here favoring Germany, and that it recently sent $2,000 for German war purposes, were ampli- tied to officials today by Humphrey. Humphrey could give no names of persons belong to the alleged organ- ization, but he furnished valuable clues for investigators. FIVE BOYS CHARGED WITH DYNAMITE THEFT PORTLAND, Jan. 30.—Federal agents today took an interest in the case of five boys charged with steal ing 60 sticks of dynamite from an Bast Side powder magazine, on the theory that they may have been the tools of German agents, planning a sabotage campaign here. Most of the powder was found cached near railroad yards and a government wireless plant. DEATH MISADVENTURE LONDON, Jan, 30.—Death by mis adventure was the verdict returned by the coroner today in his Inquiry in the accident by which Lieut, Gar. rett, of Washington, an American army officer, was recently killed in flying. (Uncle Sam pays compound in- terest on War Savings ‘THINK WILSO LETTER HELPS ALLIED CAUSE WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—Publica- tion in neutral countries of Prest- dent Wilson's letter to the United Press would do much toward sharp- ening the sympathies of these neu trals toward the cause of the United States, members of congress and dip- lomats declared today. ‘The letter declared that “the United States will in no case be the ag. gressor against either the political independence or the territorial integ- rity of any other state or nation.” “At the same time,” the president said, “the United States is proposing and insisting upon similar pledges from all nations of the world who have its peace at heart and are will maintenance of that peace.” An Admirable Stroke Characterizing the letter as “an admirable stroke toward cementing more firmly the friendship of the sister republics in South America with the United States,” Chairman Flood, of the house foreign relations committee, today said: “The president has spoken again in a typically clear statement the motives of this country, It should prove convincing to those neutrals who have seen and experienced the unjustifiable acts of many. It should prove a great factor in swing: ing them to the cause of the allies. “The statement should prove to South America that this country will do nothing except for the mutual good of the democracies of the Americas.” “The president's statement blasts the Germain plaint that this nation was waging war with selfish motives, and attempting to embrofl neutrals with selfish aims,” said Majority Leader Kitchin af the house. Should Reassure World “The statement should again reas- sure the world, and particularly the neutrals, of the high motives of the United States in entering the war,” Representative Gard declared. Representative Meyer London, New York socialist, declared; N_ |CAMPAIGNERS GEARING UP BUSINESS MEN mined to gear up Seattle for the” rapid growth that is facing the ety, struck out from the Butler early Wednesday morning to spend an- other day campaigning among busk ness men. They are recruitng the man power and the money that will be used to carry out plans of the Chamber of Commerce to not only fit industries: here for war work, but to build solid for the future. The campaigners Tuesday got $25,- 000 in subscriptions toward the $75,+ 000 fund necessary for the work that is to be done, Thirty-seven new members were also added to the chamber. One of the developments of the campaign will be a public efficiency beard of 25 or 30 men to perform conscientious service in connection with the big problems that are loom- ing on the horizon. The committees out campaigning reported at the Butler at noon. for luncheon. president gives a code of ethics which I hope will become the code of ethies for all international dealings.” South American and Mexican dip lomatic officials were enthusiastic, They, too, believed that it would clear the decks for a more sympa thetic understanding between the pan-American republics and this country. WOMEN BANDITS STEAL SIX PAIRS TROUSERS KANSAS CITY, Mo, Jan. 30— Woman bandits! That's the latest intrusion of the frail sex into maseu- line pursuits, Two of them held up a store here in the business dis- trict, and stole six pairs of trousers and other merchandise, the Columbus sanitarium with pto- maine poisoning Friday, was report “Nothing better could be said, The ed improved Wedneaday. coal today. no present danger, Best investment in the PmwSEAR WANT ADS BRING RESULTS) ee RE