The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 16, 1918, Page 9

JORIGIN OF OIL PIER FIRE PROVES A MYSTER $2,000,000 IS DAMAGE; FIGHT FOR 11 HOURS attempts to trace the re y for the fire that de- freat Northern oll piers, $2,000,000 —- yor two Oriental liners, an Cod the big port terminals, ed futiln The blaze at IL p.m. Tuesday, a is now as good as An- ta] Wxpiained Fire Marshal | whose staff spent Wed- studying the fire, “Its practically certain that the fire started in the oll lockers,” he aid. “How the off was tgnited, no ene seems to know We have been | warning against just this fire for! gore than a year, The fire wall | Bj rected after much insistence on our | ‘only saved the shore half of the pier. The oll trade has developed so | here that no proper precau: | | \ i Feoke out he fire raged for more than 11/ ours, and was stil! burning, but un- | ger control, Wednesday morning. | ‘Two Japanese liners, the Fushim! Maru and the Yusen Kabushiki Kal. | gba, trapped dy burning ol! on the) water and forced to stay within 100 feet of the Intense billows of flame, | ‘are believed to be safe. Canvas was) thrown over the sides, while Japan. | sailors Kept streams of water | & ly playing on the sides to| Keep the stee! plates from warping. No Deaths No deaths or serious Injuries to fire fighters have been recorded. ‘Tee Fushim! Maru, early this morning, was able to get a line to atug and pull further from the dan. ger pone. ‘Flames from the burning soy peanut and rape seed ofl hundreds of feet in the alr eit dock was leased to James & Sons, whose books, de-| losses, were burned. The | Mitsuit Co, Ltd.. who owned much of say their losses will be $1,- Losses were well covered ‘The allied advance in the Fland destroying the effectiveness of the ¢i ij The white line represents positions t FOREST FIRES AGAIN RAGING; FIND 600 DEAD BRAINERD, Minn, Oct. 16— i Hn g i was the heat that only i ahi got over in exactly 17 min utes,” said Capt. L. Boyd. “Soon the| so hot I couldn't put) to fighters have been seat to the | threatened district. DULUTH, Oct. 16.—Suspicion that some of the forest fires that swept northern Minnesota timber land and burned to death more than 600 per- sons were of Incendiary origin, was admitted today, by «fficials who have toured the stricken districts More than 600 bodies had been found today and it was believed the } toll would be increased, when re | ports come from isolated spots. Work of providing food and shel- ter for survivors was proceeding. | How to Save Food In these he td when the high coat of living pinches nearly every home, The 20 no waste should be overlooked. € of the most flagrant and easily prevente: a < food by 0 i 0,000 as e tu) destroyed annually by there Exterminate them with tearns’ Electric Paste and sav | this enormous loss of food. A smal box of Stearns’ Electric P and y rid ts Ino against cockroach: 4 waterbuge EVER-SOOTHING POSLAM HEALS BROKEN-OUT SKIN Let Poslam act for you as « sooth concentrated, healing balm, to cover right over that itch ing skin trouble and subdue it, tak the fire and soreness, and 8 Applications are repeated. the disorder to grow less less_ench day. Poslam cannot There ts no risk in tryin if it really will eradica or other sur lit to see your eczema, pimples face disurder. And the burden of proof is on Poslam for you will | watch for visible results. | Sold everywhere. For free sam- Labora Carter’s Iron Pills rite to Mmergoncy WI restore color to the faces of | m 143 Went sith Bt, New York | ho lack Iron in the blood, Uree your akin to become fresher, © most pale-taced people do. brighter, better by the daily use of Posilam Soap, medicated with Pos- ia THE SHOE THAT DEFIES PREJUDICE Wet weather is coming. Treat your feet to a pair of Shoes that will keep them perfectly dry. It will pay you. The 1. & J. Wooden- Sole Shoes are for sale at the following stores: K. K. Tvete, 108 Main st. ermer, 101 First ave & ‘White Store, 2001 Firs Golden Rule 1014 Firat ave. Aronson Mercantile Co, 1229 First ave. E. Lindberg, 2609 California Mike Cito, 6825 Duwamish The Call, 641 First ave. S M. Siegel, Pike Place Market. ‘The Shoeteria, 1609 Fourth ave. Jacob Hurwitz, 1600 Pike place, Green Lake hoe Store, 7116 Woodlawn ave. Demand the Trade Mark and the Union stamp SUPERIOR SHOE MFG. CO. Factory: 2720 Seventh Ave. 8. Seattle, Wash. POOOCOOOOOOOOOOO OOOO OOO OO OOO OOOOOOOOC® ve. 1403 Third av. ir jain -Btrehia’ in & Nordstrom, 1422 Sec- ond ave. ' —— _ —e | ABLIED SMASH IN coast. Thourout and Menin have been taken. skirts of Courtral and all of the allies in this region are sweeping ahead. oe | extent than the “flu” epidemnte. THE SE LIBERTY LOAN RETURNS NOW 20 MILLIONS headquarters, where campaign oft. | | clals are ateering clear of the one) topio which they claim has hamper: | ed subseriptions to an even greater With Tuesday night's total reach ing but slightly over the $20,000,000 mark, and final figures from the Payroll Bond club and industrial divt- sion uncertain, C. 8. Wills, county chairman, is urging his staff forward Peace talk ts taboo at Liberty loan | % | hae made to even greater effort In order that Seattle may not fail in her $26,872,400 | by Saturday night clia Glass, Wilkes player, has beon added to the staff of speakers visiting cafes and restaurants at noon. Business houses wanting noon time speakers are asked to call Hl | ott 1548 | F division of the Fourth Liberty Loan, | announces that his division, haying already attained ita quota, in under taking a 200 per cent drive. $11,000,000 DEFICIT Dr. A. L. Kobanowski, secretary of the Russian consulate, is taking subseriptions from local Rusdana in anawer to instructions from the con sulate at Washington, D. C. | Urging that peace talk be forgot. | tus of Harvard, whose reputation an! ten until the Fourth Loan Is attain: |4@n educator, scientist and publicist | ed, Gov, Lister has issued the fol lowing statement: s NAIN T- 7 , ors area has cut the line to Bruges, nemy submarine area on the Belgian The Pritish are in the out hia morning. TEUTONS GROW MORE BOLD IN _ WAR CRITICISM || Continued From Page One || | e— rite wo. citioadhond | the war as tho the peace notes had/ not been exchanged | The military authorities are dis regarding peace prospecta thru diplomacy entirely in their plans and calculations, They are arrang- ing “force without stint,” going on the theory that #o far the mont con: | vincing argument with a German is| }@ “bullet in his head.” | | Turkey Near End | | Authorities lodk for the early col lapse of Turkey. Her request for | peace will probably be answered | by the allles with a demand for un:| conditional surrender to be ar |ranged with the commanding gene } |ral, along lines similar in seope to ‘those applied against Bulgaria. | From Turkish collapse to disin tegration of the Austrofungarian | empire, is regarded as no far cry. | With these last props gone, it is felt | that the Germans will listen to reason rapid will see that kaiser dom i# a poor investment. One point which is causing «| vast amount of discussion is what) will occur over the demand for} return of Alsace-Lorraine to! France. This has been regarded a» lm sticking point, but ft Is felt! here that Germany's military sttu-| ation is such that she cannot dicker| lover this matter now, If sho does) not choose to accept an armistice land democracy, Foch's armies wil!) settlc the Alsace-Lorraine question. | Reported anti-kaiser demonstra- tions in Germany plus imminent |trouble from the Poles and Slavs to the east, are big factors in the peace situation Diplomatic circles are receiving indications that distinct movemonts are afoot in Poland, Bohemia and | Moravia, looking to throwing off |the German and Austrian yoke. Concerted action between Poland and the Czecho-Slovak states may force an early elimination of Aus- tria and the creation of a gra situation in the East for Germany Cxcho-Slovaka in Moravia hemia have completed their political organizations and have been waiting an opportunity to de- clare thelr independence. Berne cables show that the Polish regency council at Varsovia has de- clared for incorporation of Prus- sian Posen and Austrian Galicia in the new Polish nation | The Poles apparently see achance to rid themselves of German dom-| ination while the Teutona withdraw their Near-Eakt garrison, But tt} ia deemed likely that Germany will | try to retain a grasp on Poland. and GLEAR ROAD FOR LIBERTY BONDS WASHINGTON, Oct | Bonds hereafter wil! have no compe- tition during loan campaigns. Treas |ury officials today cleared the path | for all future war loans by absorb. | ing bonds issued by the federal farm | loan board. The order announced that no more |farm loan bonds will be offered to the public directly, simultaneously placing complete treasury control | over every issue of stocks or bonds above $100,000, and, in effect, the United States treasury becomes su preme in deciding where the na tion's finances shall be used, Issues of stocks or bonds by private inter | ests have n under supervision of the capital issues committee of the treasury since February. Officials of the farm loan board | stated there are not likely to be any 16,—Liberty | farm loan bonds offered to the pub: | lic even thru the treasury, until lomm, after the war ends, Proceeds | { lof bonds sold last June are believed |to be sufficient to meet loaning re quirements of the banks until after | January 1, 1919 |for from them | Ure $11,000,000 yet to be raised must “Saturday next Is the closing day of the Fourth Liberty Loan cam-| Dpaign. Of the state of Washington | ‘quota there yet remains unsubsertb- | 4 about $11,000,000. Most of the| counties and smaller towns have al ready subscribed the amounts called Practically the en:| come from King, Pierce and Spo kane counties. The cities of Seattio, | Tacoma and Spokane contain the} ereater portion of the population of these three counties. | “The peace discunaions of the past | few days have undoubtedly held| back subscriptions, The position ot | the United States and its allies has | been #0 clearly and unmistakably de | fined since the receipt of the last | German peace note that all now realize the war will continue until complete victory is achieved “If the funds necessary to conduct the war to a successful conclusion are not forthcoming from the male of bonda the money will be procured by direct taxation & Uige since the beginning of the} war when the financial situation has | been so acute as now. We must meet the call made upon us and fully subscribe our quota. Thone| who have already purchased bonds must increase their subscriptions. If | there be any who have not purchas | ed bonds they should now do #0 to the full extent of their ability. The purchase of Liberty Loan bonds is not a gift, but a loan to our nation, #o that its honor and integrity may | be maintained. “The Fourth Liberty Loan must not, norw ii it fall if we do our full duty.” DOUG GETS $20,000 FROM CHIEF WASHINOTON, Oct. 16.--Douglas Fairbanks, motion picture actor, haa skin becomes. Yea! It is harmless. | 99- arrived here with $20,000 aa a sul| scription to the Fourth Liberty Loan, which he secured from Abeieta, chief of the Pueblo tribe of Indians, New Mexico. SOLDIERS SUBSCRIBE $110,000 CAMP LEWIS, Oct. 16.--Subserip. tions to the Fourth Loan from men and officers totaled $140,000, in an swer to @ telegram from Secretary of War Baker, urging that army men support the government loan. EMPIRE WAY BONDS APPROVED The capital issues committee, at Washington, D. C., bas approved the insuance in Seattle of $120,000 Em pire way condemnation bonds. UNION SUBSCRIBES RESERVES The executive committee of Seatte Typographical union, No. 202, Tues day unanimously voted to invest ita entire reserve fund, $1,000, in Fourth Liberty Loan bonds, at . | DISTRICT 60 PER CENT “OVER” | SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 16.—The 12th federal reserve district loan sub: scriptions reached $241,220,350 last night, or 60 per cent of the district quota. 1.6, NOT HALF OVER THE Tor WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—Total subscriptions for the Fourth Loan, from thruout the country total $2,954,870,659, or lows than half of the amount of the issue, according to an announcement by the treasury partment. de Gov. STEPHENS SETS EXAMPLE os A LES, Oct. 16.—Gov Stephens has followed his recent Liberty Loan proclamation urging the people to borrow if necessary to buy bonds, by setting the example, | it was announced today. The gov ernor borrowed $1,000 and with it} bought another bond from Miss| Helen Keller, famous blind woman, | who is aiding the loan campaign. WEDNESDAY NAVY LOAN DAY| WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—Today Navy day for the Fourth Liberty Loan, Secretary Daniela has issued a statement calling on all men in the navy to subscribe to the loan, to show further proof of their patriot ism. | Naval parades and demonstrations | which were planned for Navy day in| Seattle have been canceled thru the flu” epidemic HOGE DOUBLES SUBSCRIPTION James D. Hoge, chairman of tho| board of directors of the Union Sav- | ings and Trust Co., has doubled hia previous subscription to the Fourth | Liberty Loan, and ts now credited at | headquarters with a total purchase of $150,000. ‘The onset of influenza or In grippe is sudden, the nose, throat and lungs usual Foley's Honey | . hoaling coating ‘hroat, clears the | ng and dry tick- | the tightness and hard It given m grateful feeling | of warmth and comfort and helps trom the first dose, Buy it now, | expert and author of book# on There haa not been | } ATTLE STAR—WEDNESDAY, OCT, 16, 1918. Y ARMED VICTORY IS EXPECTED IN SIX MONTHS | Continued From Page Ona] eminent international law experts in the nation. Some of the names mentioned are W. H. Taft, expresident of United States and an authority on international law Louls D. Brandeis, justice of the | United States Supreme Court, who international law and racial problems a life-long study. Dr. James Brown Scott, secretary of the Carnegie Endowment for In. ternational Peace, who was sent as America’s expert in international law to The Hague peace conference of 1907 and in now special adviser to the state department. Colonel Edward M, House, who represented President Wilson in various trips to Europe in the in a terests of peace before the war and | Graham, head of the railway | cain has been his diplomatic rep- | renentative since we entered it Oscar A Straus, former ambasaa- dor to Turkey and former member of the Court of Arbitration at The Hague. He is vice president of the Internadonal Law association and his intimate knowledge of Turkey would make him a valuable mem ber of the delegation. Charles W. Eliot, president emeri in world wide. Elihu Root, president of the Car negio Endowment for International Peace and former secretary of state, John Sharp Williama, U. 8. senna tor from Mississippl and member of the foreign relations committee. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university, ternational law. David Jayne Hill, expert in Euro pean diplomacy, former ambassador to Germany and delegate to The, Hague. David BR. Francia, ambassador to Russia Walter H. Page, former ambasm- dor to Great Britain. LEMON JUICE WHITENS SKIN Girls! Make beauty lotion at home for few cents Squeem the juice of two lemons Into a bettie containing three ounces of Orchard White, shake well, and you have @ quarter pint of the best bitaching and skin whitening lotion and complexion ‘beautifier, at very, very enall cost. 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