The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 14, 1918, Page 1

TWENTY-FIVE CENTS That's all r it NIGHT EDITION Weat you need to start a Thritt Ts r money t card, Cultivate the Moral satinfactic you have ondly, it pays wit) pay in th Une win the © Forec bit to help you will war will wet interest on ye THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWES' ywhere Beattie VOLUMi THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1918, PRICE ONE C r Be * Pretty Seattle Stenographer Gets Remarkable Interview - Fear Vast Explosion FamousMr. | No Trace Is |SUBS ARE BUSY IN ATTACKS ON BRITISH SHIPS venoprarnomec | Listening to Money Talk! | world.” Massacre by Turks Hun-Inspired Plot Threat- ens Safety of 3,000,000 Armenians and Others AMERICANS IN DANGER BOSTON, March 14.—More than 3,000,000 Christian Armeni. ans, Georgians and others, among whom are 17 American missionaries, are in imminent of being massacred by the s and Tartars in Northeast ern Turkey and Transcaucasia. This information was contained in ia private cable to the American board of missions here, and was nounced thru the Congregationalist "today The “advices, which came from agents of the board now in the line an Blof the Teuton drive in the East, said the Turks and Tartars, under man direction, are incited to wipe out the Christians. The details of Teuton p Would “strike terror to the civilized | according to the report the ans MORE CHILDREN | DIE AS ZEPPS__| RAID ENGLAND LONDON, Marelf 14.—-One man. | one woman and three children were ed in last night's raid over North fern England, it was officially an punced today. Six houses were de. molished and 30 others damaged by biBhis. i The casualties resulted when one of the Zeppelins, crossing the coast. @ropped a bomb on Hartlepool. In ition to the five killed, nine per: sons were injured ‘This is the second Zeppelin raid on England within 24 hours. Tuesd: night's raid, resulting in the death of ene woman by shock, was the first since October, 1917 AMERICAN WOMAN IS KILLED BY GERMANS PARIS, March 14.—One American woman was killed and an American man and woman were wounded in Monday's raid Paris, it was earned tod Miss Winga Caroline Martin, 32, of Rockville Center, L. 1, was one of six persons killed in a hospital wh was struck by a bomb. She w ¥. M.C. A. canteen worker Mrs. W. B. Phillips and Mr were wounde ‘The total casualties sd and 79 wounded TWO HUN PLANES ARE DOWNED IN NORTH SEA (INDON, March 14.—Two British seaplanes, encountering five enemy aircraft over the southern part of the North sea, Tuesday, attacked them, and after half an hour's en gagement destroyed one and drove another downward into the admi announced to British machines returned safely their base over Salzer were 100 kill BRITISH-U. S. CITIZENS ARE TAKEN BY FOE STOCKHOLM, March 14—A number of American and British citizens sailing from Finland on a neutral vessel were captured according to dis patches here today ‘Those of militar to Germany, it is said will be interned. RAINBOW TROOPS WIN WAR HONORS ASHIN( March 14.—Amer fea's crack “Rainbow division” wa loped the Ger when they tried out strong on the night of March 4 ed official com. mendation from the French general Gerard, Gen. Pershing cabled the war depart-nent tod: Pershing's summary of the wan Enemy attempted morning of the R with losses to the enemy slight. No Gen. Ge will be taken where they action trench raids ids repulsed Our Io commanding Eighth French army, congratulated divisior S cernmander on the way in which the tips repulsed rai Rajnbow ion, first big | AMMerican unit to | for France ade up of picked Guard troops from almont NAMES ALASKA SURVEYOR WASHINGTON, March 14.—-Prew {dent Wilson today nominated Chas. FB. Davidson, Alaska, to pointed surveyor general of Alaska, ; | Warning Given Netherlands | is stated, |RUSS WILL NOW reap-! LONDON, March 14.—¥ ves ifteen els more than ma were ording t and bmarined the admir figure un tonnage fishing craft were sunk last week, ac Plant Here $75,000 Stock and Big Building Is Badly Damaged ENGINEER IS INJURED An explosion of « gas oven par tially wrecked the Pacific Coast Biscuit Co.'s plant, 1205 Sixth ave, S, and damaged stock val ued at $75,000, at 6:25 a. m. ‘Thursday. One man was injured. No fire accompanied the explo- sion The accident followed an at tempt of C. H. Jewell, engineer watchman, to light the gas under the big ovens. Jewell was bi thru the air for several feet and received serious burns. He will live For the third successive week, the number of British vessels sunk has totaled 16. Allies May Take Ships From Dutch Government That Agree- ment Must Be Reached WOULD AID ” NEUTRALS WASHINGTON, March 14.— The Unit Mates and Great Britain have notified the Nether. lands government that Duteh ships in American and entente ports will be taken over, unless an agreement regarding tonnage is reached by next Monday, March 18, This action ships in § the brick wh lemoliahed bullding was built bulged outward severs Timbers and braces in the be ing room were ripped from their «up would affect P entente harbors ing between the the East Indies of the total will be food to the excer " #, and some of them shattered by brick Mock Is Seattered ates many are necessary to suppl neutrals. There are some 62 Duteh aggregating about 350,000 that could be taken over t United St the harbors along the At t alone Almost every vensels. | door in the b the catter en in of An in charge ¢ HL. Clark, was rtly after the explo time in the for concealed fire of the damage Manager T. B lantlc cot Such action by the a noth intern. wion and butldi nal law, it| plant she ine of ar oked Fran durin: g new in but im the exer ognized right whict the Pr the present co The Ur en over porta spent some was if searching ald be supplied by rman states In the war and repented! ready has tak Hear Explosion unt of mixing room rebuild for machinery ts It the baking machjnery apparatus that we use,” he said 1 cont more to re ACCEPT PEACE, |"2'0'..20,"32!4,cxt more 20 BUT PLAN WAR ‘227 1 8 siding cannot be either, I be BY JOSEPH SHAPLEN nei United Press Correspondent PETROGRAD, March 14.—-Ratifi of the dictated peace imme lutionary 1 depend up. Such B puld be a The heard for b PAY MAXIMUM FOR HALIBUT THIS MONTH jackler ‘obat Germar te preparations for a war Incl isa fi en the par at Moscow ompromise effected by cation with it $7 of w round the explosion was usion Ww a ‘onvenes the vat The congress perman han of from Petrograd About 3,000 workmen sacks us fact decide on a Pug delegates, including Admir peasants, soldiers and Cos will attend. of ha TROTSKY WANTS |. "00 0 soooancet wuinesdsy TO FIGHT HUNS ©’ none food WASHINGTON, March 14.—Leon | *4mini Trotaky, former Bolsh foreign| The minister, ia talking of organizing an | *T° army under to figh the Germans, e% ving re newal of war on the ¢ agreed on per ling cod, 6¢ the maximu con No. 1 medium hi 1 pou sable or t iron disel idently ed on rman) month CANADA ATTACK RUMOR WAS MADE IN GERMANY SAN FRANCISCO, March 14 tarted rumors of rt Ambassador logda sent to the state He # be ituation port Franc department Trotsky was curious about the and very that any overnight reported to er Siberian the nations Ht expeditic of the in gained from the diar rashoff, of the German er dence at the toda in tt the ¢ read telegram r Francisco, quiet! sensitive o re an of the allied entering Siberia The authorities regard t nage as significant in ky’s split with Lenine. Portland Loses Round in 6-Cent Carfare Fight PORTLAND, March 14—The of Portland today lost another rour n its fight against the 6cent street car fare A tribunal of sitting banc murrer of the Ore commission in. th the commission er granting the fare increase city made the Portland Rail Light & Power Co. a party to| ly ult ing to halt its col cent from pa er against Canada waa one eating bits of information of Capt. Chas gunboat Hindu re. templated 6 mes view of Trot G trial One entry kept while Honolulu Following diary which r was interned was at ived from consul, San to consul, Honolulu nnocuous attack and in way circ rumors on Canada ulate ofa judges, WOMAN TELLS STORY the de six circuit susta yon public city’s sult from enforcing railroad com 14 the sunk, Mrs, Mack steamship was arrived today from Denmark with a of the sea raider Wolf, former. the Spanish Igatz Mendi The Wolf, she said, sank Ameri can and French ships after confiscat ing their provistc When in mid ——— Atlantic, the ship what ap. parently were two American trans Open Air Stunt | to Berta) abe anid, Dut tbh oat Aid Smoke Fund mitted them to pass without attack sara, who ta «|CONGRESS MAY ADJOURN TO AID LIBERTY LOAN WASHINGTON, March 14 may take a “win-the-war to well Liberty Bond: LONDON ntewardens unza, which March of to en enzie Ma here story its or pany a The way the lection of an extra weet sighted the handcuff and “escape appearing this wi Hip, will giv n Friday Second n out noon, in front and Spring. | He will from a regulation xtrailtdacket while hanging in mid r The loan, thor Pitroff will make a fre | plan believe, will be ¢ tion for the Sm Fund, ical points in the war, exhibiti thi Con of the tre: ape gress the erlt backing of the next will collec ke » effect. | OF SEA WOLF RAIDER in per-| ! Gives Talk Promises Big “Come-Back”! After the War ls Ended KEEPS EYE ON FUTURE Miss G vate Auditor Schuster, pri- to County pinned on! out al in- Bill,” clerks, adys secretary Wardall, her hat and started , just got a persor terview with Mr, Dollar she told her fellow id I've got to go.” “Mr. Dollar Bi! sked. Yes, I never heard him| talk plainly as he did to-| day. And I'm anxious to car-| ry out his advice.” , Her colleagues grew excited “What did they queried “Well, here it is I too it down as fast as he spoke.” And this is what they| read they} quite (BY A. DOLLAR BILL) I'm not the same Bill I used to be. IT can only do about half as much work as I used to do be- the Se centa used to do as I do nou 50 cents could buy what I buy now But some day I'm qo- ing to get my strength back again. That will be after the war V'll bet you Stamp right nou within two months after America licks the Hun, I'll be able to buy at least 30 cents more goods than I can nou In the folks, why wouldn't it be a good idea lay fore enty much Sometimes war as Thrift that a meantime, to me aside when I worth against the day going to be more to you? I know that some us Bills have got to go for food and clothing, no matter how weak we get But there are a lot of us that are going for luz- uries and things you don't really need. I don’t want you to put iv or behind clock case until the boche is whipped. You will not increase my value quite as much by hodrding as you will by investing me in absolute safety If you take four of us Bills and add 14 cents to us this month, making $4.14, you can geta Thrift Certificate from Unele Sam that will pay you ex- actly $5 January 1, 1923. What does to you? First, buy a whole 1928, when, am of me the me on that mean your money will lot more in we hope, the war will be than today Your — original $4.14 will buy at least as much as $5.50 will today. And top of that your original $4.14 will be $5, and you'll be able to buy as much as $6.65 today. In other words, you will have added approximate- ly $2.50 to your original $4.14. That will be an actual | gain, too. There is noth- | ing ‘imaginary or theo- | retical about it. All of | us Dollar Bills are valu- able only because we can | buy things people want, Tam more valuable when 1 can buy more of those things than when I can buy less of them. There- over, on | display | gle : Wrecks Big Dollar Bill sn fore that $2.50 greater buying power that your present $4.14 will have is actual gain, actual profit You, therefore, fited by personally, will, be greatly bene putting ‘THRIFT DAY T0 BE BIG AFFAIR ON WEDNESDAY. One Thrift Stamp foF each man, woman and child in Seat tle on March 20, That is the goal set by the War Savings Stamp committees for the Thrift Stamp sales next Wednesday To drive th dn the year, the plar home, more on other patriot are reaching of the day of aborate Each of the stamp nple ome importance the apparent salesmen will vi 1 industrial plants Downtown, business will made by universt studen ° will be made at inter the day, with und Mayor Ole Hanson behalf of the house each nattle posters and school ur public speeche thruout t Lister vals Gov Erne appearing ment At night there naval end militar 10 o'clo in move will street be a parac huge at which various or ‘The first intentioy to ceant, the Cen ed last in na will take announce its in the py council body ganizat part to public! participate tral Labor to mareh EXEMPT. pNEWS MEN SYYRACUSE Y., Mareh Onondaga count Mau trict Jed that workers were exempted from one in the draft, It was declared that such publications tial while the war lasted HUGE SUM FOR NAVY WASHINGTON, Mareh 14 rying $1,325,000,000, the largest sin naval appropriation bill in’ the reported out by affairs committee on new Clas papers were eNse Car in nation's history, w the house naval today. night | boare fe to | the Miss Gladys Schuster whatever money you can spare in War Stamps. Savings And Uncle Sam —your own Uncle Sam— will gain, too. For he will have the loan of your money at a time needs it. Felt the War in America,” He om when he “You Have Not Yet “You have not yet felt the war in Americ declared Surgeon General George 8. Ryerson Wed. nesday “The Will to Win,” ing of the lief association. 700 pp in op! Eagles’ night in his address on at the meet- British American Re- Without a sound, hall sat rigid with interest while he con tinued: “You have been only a little coal, a little bread, or a little pork, You prep til you have ships and suf rifices that th are suffering Following Gen Ke r it 4incerely determine force national crisis, world at stake, united, public opinion purpose 1 the same ed the same yen at Ryerson to deepl win In thi of the a strong, tered upon the oi with the we nin Thursday ni speak at the dand Pine, The d to stimulate the radian and British are residents of Seattle. He will cil of the Chamber of Commerce day noon at the Masonic club, je building. POLICE CLOSE SHOW Ryerson temple, ht, Gen Masonic enlistr address the members’ co denied white » to stand by the guns un hard- sve » front hop and this on earth can stop you fate must have cen of win- will Har meeting will be nts of subjects who n ri Ar AND ARREST WOMAN The Flos Flore Lowre nesday by the police, and of entertainers and the brought to headquarters Miss Lowrey left $100 and is now sie museum. was raided ball police at again rank being held used in the if Flossie is prosecuted 1 cheap entertainment men, located on Wash tween Occidental and has been closed temporarily. Kirehner for hem arlor ngton st pcond ave. conducted by Wea a number proprietor with liberty for t ARMIES JOCKEY | enemy Found of 6- Day-Old Tot ' < |Mysterious Foreign Nurse Girl Involved in Strange Mystery | |CAN’T LEARN MOTIVE TACOMA, March 14.—The en tire detective department of this city is at work Thursday on a kidnaping mystery that, up to a late hour today, remained a puzzle. Some time between 10 p. m. and = midnight Wednesday a nurse employed to care for the sixday-old twins of Clare Deal, carpenter, 6109 South G st., dis- appeared, taking with her the boy baby. The baby girl was left behind. The mother the birth of the having died following two babies, they were taken to the home of their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William Young, who reside near the Deal home | No sooner moved had the twins been re to the home of thelr grand- | parents than a woman giving the | name of “Mrs. Wagner’ applied for |a position as nurse. She was hired }and told the aged couple that she jhad been residing with a sister and |that her husband was in France. The Youngs declared she had a | slight German or other, foreign ac cent. | Father Mystified | Last night the householt retired Jat 10 o'clock, but Mrs. Young waa Jawakened about midnight by the Jerying of one of the babies. She | went to their bedroom and found the boy baby missing. She immediately searched the house for the nurse, and failing to find her, aroused the and later notified | rest of the family the police | The police declare that the father is as much mystified by the disap- pearance of his new-born son as they, and can advance no motive for the kidnaping TEN RUSSIAN SAILORS HELD HERE BY U, S, Ten members of the crews of the three Russian ships that have been |docked in Seattle for three weeks taken ashore Thursday morn- ng by customs offi and sent to the detention station federal in «* He gains and you gain, and I, Mr. Dollar Bill, | will have the patriotic | feeling that we have worked for victory. | What do you say? me enlist in today. Let that cause jals Mutiny of the crew, it was rumor jeciuliny of the com tt wera ficials, and resulted in the arrest of the men. Colle rr of Customs Drum- |heller was busy all Thursday morn- ing working on the | The thr ships are the Nijni Nov- gorod, the Toula and the Kishinev. They arrived at the Great Northern docks from Russian ports nearly a month ago. It xpected that be aske for the days, but the government will not permit them to sail. BOLSHEVIK SEAMEN IN MUTINY AT NORFOLK NORFOLK, Va., March 14.—For Bolshevik seamen were ars following an attempt to Russian steamer Omsk night FOR POSITIONS “ON WEST FRONT BY W AM PHILIP SIMM: United Press Correspondent WITH THE BRITISH ARMIE IN FRANCE, March 14.—Ba planes fill the air along the case, parance will vessels in a few probably west front Art more regions Quentin Sausage iNerying has be pronounced. of I me more especially sschendae and in the and St ty-nine dh se the Wednesday BAKER INSPECTS DOCKS IN FRANCE A FRENCH PORT, March 14.— Secretary Baker and Gen. Pershing today inspection of the gantic buildings and other fa- cilith the terminal which sup. plies the American forces in Franee. Four miles of docks will be built capable of allowing 40 ships to 1 simultaneously. This Will also be brought down 79 the terminus of 1,200 miles of tele the first 10 days in| STaph and telephone vw aa SAYS HER HUSBAND ming)” TRIED TO DROWN HER cars Only balloons with observation beneath, minutely opposing lines. The entire front is in a state of feverishn The spring-like weath: er is speeding up the work in all de. partments. Signs are not are up every offic watch where rs swaying ng lacking of intense activity by the enemy, whose forces are constantly growing The air men on both sides a busy night the British bombing mili tary works along the Germans’ lines; the latter hovering over Paris and open towns, murdering women and children The British planes during March As an example of the job began dock and day of lines. airm: » dived toward a r train, derailing th with bombs. The engine was un-! coupled and raced northward. The| na Mec plane followed, close to the ground, |of her husband, L. raking the engine crew with machine | occ Both times gun fire attempted to shoot piaue he tried RAIDERS ARE ACTIVE | shoot, but to LONDON, March 14 wae raid north of the Ypres x . way was repulsed, Marshal Haig re- ported today Southwest of Epehy raiders enter: ed enemy trenches and brought back | one prisoner. There was mutual ier southwest of Cambrai, ' Hostile tillerying inc din th hood of Neuve Chapelle culssart, ly expert dodging saved Johan: from murder at the hands McCoy, on two she claims, he In a fit of more—not to He cut. the was riding to © charges were made ‘oy when she filed suit Thursday sions. her once drown, she | by | |f Mrs. ‘or divore RAILWAY BILL PASSED WASHINGTON, March 14.—The railroad control bill is now ready for President Wilson's — signatu The house today adopted the conference report on the measure previously ap. proved by the senate, ying ay and Pau}