The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 28, 1919, Page 14

- German Official Wireless, ; Millions of Berlin Gold, Proved Costly Boomerang vf BY JACK VILLE ci . estigator Who Has Lived for Years Gar exice ad’ Whe Has dust Speat Four Months There on Special Detail for The Star.) (Copyright, 1919, Newspaper Enterprise Assn.) a MEXICO CITY, April 28—A boomerang costing millions. That is the sum and substance of German propaganda in Mexico. Since the signing of the armistice, a Teu- ton here is just as quiet as in London, Paris or Washington, lieved German imperialism might devour democracy was not due to mysterious wire- less communications as propaganda sought to make America believe. It was due to a pair of shears and a second-hand typewriter, operated by Her mann Rueckheim, former correspondent for the Frankfurter Zeitung, and author of the war-time “German official wireless.” In a dingy room, hardly a | directly from Germany, that at stone's throw from the Stars and Chapultepec. Stripes, the farintriguing kaiser Uncle Sam's wireless men and ‘was thus enabled to win victor- investigators say no station was fes that temporarily shook the powerful enough to send to Ger _ foundations of » nation and fill- many. ed a people with awe. Rueckheim's messages were sent Today there is nothing left of | via Chapultepec to San Salvador for these victories except expense propaganda in that country, but |they were paid for at commercial | rates and under conditions applying |to any straight message. Documents Seized Documents sent out by or directed Vicious Campaign |to the German {nformation bureau ‘The pro-German campaign in Mex: |fell into the hands of American feo was so vicious, clumsy and pat-|agents. I examined many of them ‘ently untruthful that not an intelli-| A copy of the Hun confidential re gent man or woman in Mexico was port on propaganda not only re |. It was moral suicide for | vealed the machinations of Ruec! Berman Minister Erich von Eckardt. | heim, von Eckardt and the Austri Rueckheim with his old typewriter | minister, Koloman Kania von and shears, labored day and night ya, but listed every German sub for his war lord; stealing press dis- | dized periodical in Mexico, Not one from American papers to|of them was self-supporting, and stubs. Germany is not officially rep resented in Mexico, and the new German government is still um recognized by Carranza. and falsify them: turning Hun | since the armistice most of them jes into magnificent victories; | have gone out of existence. TFewriting minor guins into huge suc | ‘This report showed nine pa. ag and capturing more territory | pers in Mexico Clty received from all France embraces. | Von Eckardt sums ranging from To make them appear euiientio’ “Berlin Official Fifteen subsidized papers out- American agents in Mexico side the capital got $3,500 City told me that no trace was and print paper down to ‘ever found of Mexican wireless $500 and paper. Contracts to stations receiving German mes- buy so many papers per day se- sages. Only one of a dozen sta- cured virtual control of some thons republic, I am smaller sheets. THE BON Ba COVERALL APRONS 95c —They are made of good quality percale that will wear and launder well; lots of neat stripe patterns on both light and dark backgrounds—some are trimmed with white col- lar and cuffs or neatly taped in white. COVERALL APRONS $1.39 All well-made, full cut Aprons in coverall style— neat and practical for home wear. Both Gingham and Per- eale Aprons at this price— good quality and light and dark colors to choose from— neatly made and trimmed. Aprons at style, of lig! . cale with a ee That many Mexicans at one time be-| RGAIN BASEMENT Aprons by the Hundreds In a Special Offering for Tuesday And When the Basement Makes a Special Offer You Can Feel Sure Prices Will Be Low---Lower in Fact Than You Would Expect---Low Enough to Enable You to Buy a Supply APRONS 49c Several styles of straight band Aprons of percale and checked gingham—or Margaret seallop around the bot- tom and pocket. SE SIRS MER OE NN remap ti | PRO-GERMANISM IN MEXICO A THING OF PAST] 7,DomManché ¢ What About Baby Brother?) Is He Properly Dressed for Spring? attractively fitted out as little sister if you | Eee ree cn DEPUTIES RAID GOMPERS HURT : : ROADSIDECAFE — IN ACCIDENT the Anna El Weedin place, who N. J. Bryans, w rvices in t hure with her husband, olding hureh, died be fore medical aid could reach mplained of being evangell |Half Bottle of Whisky and|Ribs Broken When Street Car Hits Taxicab ‘* Proprietor Seized » the parlor, w aign against bo re} Continuing aggrensive wing been in evange { John st Sunday |work for many years and was deputies to raid the Moto merly in the Salvation army 4 rogdhouse ated near Au body ix at the Home Undertaking |purn, on th ific Highway An examination was to be made parlors which was reported to be a rende®| today to determine the Gull extent of — jvous for bootleggers and thirsty! his injuries. An announcement, tt fluential ta of Mexico! motorists wan said, would be made after a con City, whore liter, Deputy! The proprietor, Harry Greenwald, | sultation of physicians. Rafael Martines, hy en recently |and C. W. Sample, were arrente Gormpere was hurt late yesterday, | elected to the Mexican senate, are held in the nty Jail, Thin i when a street car ran down a taxicab Meets Exposure the seo © Greenwald haw been! in which he was riding, The labor An exposure of Martines's potit | *frested recently. Bot leader sustained two broken ribs and feal record caused such a drop in| ’nd hie were lodged in jail) other injuries | March lowing a raid, They| ‘The taxicab waa thrown 20 feet to cireulation that he was forced to dis the ourb, ¢ later released for lack of evi 1g) | dence When onlookers rushed to the “ The deputies seized a quart bot | scene they found the labor leader itor intial /tle partially filled with whinky and| pinned under the wreckage, uncon: | Mexi y dailie lined with |*everal empty bottles in Sunday | scious. He was removed to a how the allies from the beginning of the @fternoon's raid pital war, In fact, practically every pa nee me Be Reem ag = appa) per of importance in Mexico was | pre ty without the stimulus of a 1 cent in r] eo | of taint certain Mexican officials with proGermanism Several months ago Von Eckardt's | work cam to an end when the | Swine nister at Washington for the second time informed the Mex! can minister that Chancellor Ebert |had went from» Berlin, de | nding Eckardt’s return to Ge _— 2 “3 . ' ed at Once and here is | many break in if so inclined From New York, G Glidden, Air Servic 15,000 RECRUITS NOT LEAVE U. W. Needed in American Flying Returns From Faculty Re- Service Immediately | —_cruiting Trip in East recruits for the| Dr. Henry Suazallo will not desert | his post as president of the Univer Washington to accept offers her insututions uny here for 2@ A ha ye said, on hia re All| turn from a tour of 15 colleges, Dr in the | Suxmallo interviewed &7 educators in an effort to obtain faculty recruits Fifteen thousar United Staten Air Service are need orders how you may Von Kekardt Canned He left watul at tempt to persuade President Carran 2a to permit the German cha officially for Ger t, Charles J after an unsucee come,” to take pe nt of the nation’s air serv tee an an aviator or dirigible balloon | for the University of Washington affaires to act many Von Kx removal was | pilot, chauffeur, mechanic or work | There are still 25 faculty vacancies due to a rican tip rt at some 30 other trades required in| 4t the state university | that b between the |the air kervice, by sending their| He announced that the war depart Hun propagandist in Mexico and | names and addresses tn care of the Ment has made arrangements to American food in Germany Department of Air Service Officer, | rain reserve Coast artillery officers The intriguer departed not with 104 Hroad st, New York, immediate |4t the university, indignation meeting they decided 000 marks, forced from them for the! s Army Flying school at Souther FOR EVA APPLE their spokeamen, “we were casy _ the blessings of Mexico's German ly, will receive an important com that German war drafts for 10,000, fruitiens propaganda campaign, were pieid. Americus, Ga., and at the U _ worthlens, # Army Balloon school at Fort | | marks for the Hohenzollern.” The Bremerton navy yard wants! pm; - <a g : = |-nore than 300 mechanics and tabor | Diver Fails to Find Body in} Lake Washington | Junkers, but with their curses. At an munication on the subject which I have prepared after serving as an officer for several montha in the U.| “Like our money,” said one of) Omaha Neb.” « from Sheriff Stringer's Fifty-two salesmen of the Goodrich Rubber company will hold a two-day | Dusiness and social conference at the Butler hotel Monday and Tuesday ere, The pay ranges from §3 to 85 a day, according to a bulletin berued by the 11th United Atates civil ser | ; view district ' have abandoned search for) the body of Eva Apple, 24, be-| lieved to have drowned herself in| Washington early last ‘Tues. morning, near the Lake City home of Mrx. 8 D. Claunen | where she had been a guest since arriving here from Spokane, a) week aso A diver searched the take Lol fom near where the imprinis of | the young woman's bare feet wore jtrmeed to the shore. Depution betiese «undercurrents may have carried the body miles away. De MARCHE | ‘Picnicker Killed by Truck Wheels | Returning home with a party of picnickers, Ellxworth Lambert, 20, | who lives at Second ave. and Har. | rison st.. was instantly killed when |he fell from a truck on the Des! | Moines-Kent road late Sunday after | noon. The wheels of the truck passed over his head. | | The body was taken to the C. BE. [Chittenden undertaking pariors | Lambert is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew C. Lambert | last Division Men | Are on Road West | ST. PAUL, April 28,—Bound for Western demobilization camps, four irainloads of troops passed thru! |here yesterday. They earried inem-| [bers of the 41st division trained in| | California, Lieut, H.R, Holm, | |Walln Walla, took one contingynt| lof GS men to the Soldiers of |Satiors’ club for lunch Machine Gun Troops) Given Discharge | BAN FRA “1800, April 2S. Discharges e being given today to 269 men of the 348th machine jmun battalion, which arrived at |the Presidio yesterday for demo- | bilization Many of the men were |decorated for gallantry in the Ar-| xonne fighting. | COVERALL APRONS $1.79 If you are looking for some- thing specially practical— something that will always look neat at home, these plain blue Chambray Aprons will appeal to you—made cover- all style, trimmed with bands of plaid gingham. |Maj. Riley Allen Much Improved) Major Riley Allen, attached to the | American Red Cross in European Russia, formerly a newspaperman in Seattle, is convalescing from an at tack of typhus, according to an off cial telegram from Perm, Russia, re- ceived here Sunday. Major Allen is en route to Vladivostok under the | jeare of Red Cross officials, the tele gram stated, OUTSIZE APRONS $1.79 A special offering for the woman who must have some- thing a little larger; neatly made Coverall Aprons of per- cale in light and practical dark colors with stripe pat~ terns; taped in white. Sizes range from 44 to 52 and the price is special at $1.79. PORTLAND INVITES SEATTLE An official invitation to Seattle to} | participate in Portland's annual rose |festival has been received at the | | mayor's office from Mayor George L. | Baker of Portland, A victory parade will be the chief event and Se. asked to enter a float. When Mayor Hanson returns from his Victory loon tour the invitation will be pre sented to him. this price— ‘ht color per- aca Poconsrnangers buttonhole University Baptist chureh members subscribed $5,500 Sunday to purchase | the two lots south of the present ch building for a new building. o lots are at Brooklyn ave. ). 45th st. A $75,000 church will be built BUILD GEN. 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