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Season-End Clearance Dolmans and Capes _ The remainder of our ocks have been placed*in At $15.00 Formerly Priced Up to $65.00 j if Gapes and Dolmans developed in Tricotine, Velour, Poiret Twill, Men’s Wear Serge and Jersey. At $25.00 Formerly Priced Up to $85.00 Capes and Dolmans of Velour, Tricotine, i Poiret Twill, ot. At Duvet de Laine and Bonbonette $49.50 Formerly Priced Up to $150.00 group comprising beautiful wraps for street and wear of such handsome materials as Duvetyn, Paulette, heavy Satins and Combinations. Every Garment Silk-Lined A Clearance of Lingerie Blouses ‘At Marked Reductions Offers decided savings—of interest to those three groups as follows: THE SEATTLE STAR—MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1919. AMERICANS END BANDIT CHASE U. S. Troops Return Across Mexican Border EL PASO, Texas, * The bandit eb Mexieo by American valrym vi ators is ended. Unit States forces are back o camps on this side of the t Withdrawal was night wh ndits see » American troop: M fected further i futile. during oll killed other su five ted wix pects and penetrated Hastern Chihuahua. The n xican bandits, arre on Americ few casualties were only & mules lost over cliffs Aviators George Tide and Boquet, missing on a flight from Marfa, were 4 at Terlingua Texas, whe were forced by 4a storm to } pack Louls ommand etora, be expedi conn kidnapers of Davis, th leven the Designed to punish the |Lieuts. Peterson ar troops of the Eighth United |cavairy “cleaned up” the wild Mext can country below the Big Bi soattered the ransom gang, five | Carranza f captured nine ‘other mbers of the band, taking them to Chihuahua City, where their execution is probable. Jesus Ten j}tera, bandit leader, is believed to have made good his escape. | The co-operation of tho Carran sista forces encountered by the Americans was particularly pleasing |to Col. Langhorne, Only once was there: danger of a clash between the two forces, it is now learned. Twenty j|American cavalrymen, under Capt |Boudinot, were surrounded by 109 | Carransistas, who threatened at first |to detain them for further orders jfrom Gen. Pruneda, at Ojinga, Mex d and their into king PRESIDENT MAY --REBUFF SENATE Wilson Is Expected to Turn | Down Treaty Reservations (United Press Staff Corre WASHINGTON, Aug n that Pi Wilsor to ratifi pence nate bh | ment or resery Hea t may f the | wh BY L. ©. MARTIN | treat un with ation was ¢ provide | senators > » of ratification at Paris on behalf of the United State textual amendments or reservations an part Of the re on of ratifios was hinted. tion are ma | The who @ gener € r ne thore was that such w dent would throw to the senate. T |ratify unqualifi take any further | deadlock Republican senators said if such a thing they would immedi ately propose olution declaring the war with Germany at an end and cling the president to re-es- tablish the consular ser thruout Germany Lat commercial treaties: could be made, they said. Democratic senators, cla this sanctioned either try aty hack in e wenate could then lly or refuse to tion, causing a curred, however, de would be wenators by never ma or by the belief that, in ove gency, the reservationist would be forced to back aliow the treaty to go thru wine, the rata de United States would be Jef while other nations enjoyed the com mercial benefits the treaty would give them, | } Senators recognize that President Wilson has full power to take this | course and precedent to support him. Pregident Taft refused to accept sen ate action on an arbitration treaty Kroups down and Other demo Now here, and scoring a terrific success with record-breaking audiences—the 8-part massive screen spectacle, made on two continents, with 23 principals and 8,000 extras— “WHOM THE GODS |ico, ‘The Mexicans shortly afterward | Ireat Gritain which » Brit | [permitted the American troops to 4 accepted, and ax | [Proceed ja y failed and has 2 0 } Conditions were again normal | S¢ver been revined. | ° |along the border today The Senatorial discussion of the treaty | lues U; Py 7s ae joltement here over the crossing into | Probably will not reopen this week Pe howe FS go a tailor ‘The PEG, carat Aad eS ‘i th Or Mexico Saturday of two troops of | ae Soe een regener Meets. © y or Voile wit venth caval eae Wh dlaposed of, or lace and embroidery trimmed in a gandy Vestees; also striped and checked ‘valli Rati Bente yon of pretty new styles. Volles, Tablier and Peplum styles. who have school needs to supply. WOULD DESTROY” The inspiring visualization of how the souls of a girl and a youth were steeped in the white-hot melting pot of Fate. ox orn 75 jhas subsided. ‘Their withdrawal w eames aauerats Clearance of Organdy Frocks At $8.50 Values to $19.50. Crisp, dainty Frocks in pastel shades, smartly styled. SECOND AT SPRING SCALDED BY COFFEE lions of steaming coffee severe burns on Harry 23, employe of the Pitts- h at Third ave. and when a box on which he y overturned. Bordusin the coffee into an urn, taken to the city hospital. a and bleeding, you have wo-called Riggs’ Dis- » which is a menace to good ‘We are the only Dentists Northwest who specialize ble dreaded disease. Examl- and estimate free, Special taken of children's teeth. discount to Union and their families. work guaranteed 15 years. Phone Elliott 3633 rs: £30 a, m. to 6 p. m, _, Sundays, 9 to 12 ONLY ONE U.S. PLANE THERE And It Belonged to Huns, Says Aviator Here that Capt. William 0. McKey, liaison officer of the Sist division, whose communication with the airplanes, should have supposed there would be American planes at the battle of Ar. gonne? But Secretary of War Raker, long afterward, at Washington, testified Continued From Page Onal * JAP PROBE IS ORDERED HERE Democrats Appoint a Com- mittee; Grocers to Meet —__—_____________-» || Continued From Page One | [ness interests of Seattle would have |cooperated with Iabor a few years jing to combat the Japanese influ lence here much of our présent trou- |ble would have been dissipated, but as long ax the Japanese were not disturbing the burtness interests by [reason of competition in the bust before a committee of three con- ness world the business men were gressmen—James A. Frear, of Wis-|content to sit idly by until today consin; W. W. Magee, of New York,|they find {t a difficult problem to and Clarence F, Lea, of Callfornia—| compete with them in many lines that there was not a single Ameri- can-built fighting plane over our troops during that battle, Then the committee came to Se- attle. It came to the lot of Capt. McKey, of Seattle, to refute the testimony of the secresfiry of war. American Plane Was There There was, in fact, an American battle plane over the Sist in the Ar- gonne, and only one Alone it represented 142,000,000 feet of spruce cut in\the Northwest logging camps. The boys of the Sist had waited long for it. German planes had re- Peatedly, day after day, swept low over the lines, raking them with ma- chine guns, killing many and wound ing many more, but no American drive the Germans back Then came the flying Yank. There it was at last, material proof that the American air service was a thing concrete and tangible, Their drawn faces relaxed. ‘They smiled—and “Yank” Opens Fire The American plane soared high at first, then circled lower—and into their upturned, Joyous faces sudden- ly loosed a sputtering, deadly hail of machine gun bullets. That was the only American fight ing plane at the battle of the Ar- gonne, Word was hastily sent back to dl vision headquarters, “The Amer! 19 shooting up the American lin A French scout hurried out to detect | what the trouble was. He reported |back that in the American plane there was a German, - Such was the testimony ‘of Capt. | cheered. the spruce probe committee, in the |federa} building here, Saturday aft | ernoon, Probers Take to Hills It was this interesting bit of world war history that the committee car- Tied uppermost in its mind to Mount Rainier Sunday. The committee ex- pects to reopen its hearing at 10 a. |™. Tuesday, in the federal building. |More world war heroes probably will | be called and heard from. ‘There was another American plane at the Argonne, but not a fighting plane. ‘There's a difference between the fighting plane and the scout plane. The other American plane in the Argonne was a scout. Kvery time it saw a German it had to run. eee “T'd ike to say a word,” begged J. J, Donovan, of the Bloedel-Donovan Lumber Co., of Bellingham, just be- fore the hearing was adjourned Sat- urday, “I know, thru conversations with many men, that the boys whe stayed Powd “in the Laps camps, 1,000 thmes rather have been plane had appeared to retaliate and | MeKey, called as a witness before | jot industry and business.” Casey Heads Committee The sentiments of thone present at the meeting were tn favor of probing |the Japanese question to the limit jand finding out the exact facts, | A committee headed by John T. | Casey, local attorney, was named to investigate and present resolutions founded on the findings at the next meeting of the club. | J. R. Colvin, of the Merchants’ | Manufacturing Co., has called the special meeting of all grocers in the city, to be held in the assembly room of the L. C. Smith building. “The Japs have beaten us to it.” |Colvin said Monday, “They have |organized so that we can’t compete with them at present. We must or ganize more efficiently than they are, to combat them.” Frank ©. Kannair, secretary of the AntiJapanese league, will ad | dress the grocers and explain the | steps that have been taken so far in the anti-Japanese campaign, He will teli of the campaign begun by the Anti-Japanese league, The meeting also will take up the [high cost of living, and it will be | shown to.the grocers how organiza tion will help to reduce the exorbi | tant cost of groceries, at the same | time quelling the Japanese, Blind Man’s Hound Forsakes Master Bob, the bloodhound pup which used to guard the newsstand at ‘Third ave. and Cherry st. for “Blind” Lang, has deserted his post, and the fa- } miliar boom of the vender’s voice has @ catch in it. | He and the dog had become |Pals, until the pup grew fickle over {attention paid him by passers |by. Lang declares he'll forgive the dog should he come back To Reserve Seats for Butler Talk Reservations can now be made with Roy C. Lyle, secretary of the | Young Men's Republican club, for | seats at the weekly luncheon of the club, Thursday, in the Masonio club, jin the Arcade building, when Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university, will sponk, there in France, fighting the Ger. mans,” he said, “They weren't slack- ors who stayed over here,” “No,” agreed Congressman Frear, “not all of them, But we can’t cover up the fact that when only 200 De Haviland Fours reached the front in France to show for the 143,000,000 feet of spruce cut and delivered in this country, that there wag some thing wramg—somewhero,” carried out Saturday evening, after |faiture to pick up the trail of the Mexican cattle raiders, FAIL TO FIND U. S. AIRMEN Search for Missing Flyers Is Being Continued SAN DIFGO, Cal, Aug. 25.—~ After another 18 hours of fruit- lens search for Licutenanta Fred erick Waterhouse and Ceell H. Connolly, army flyers, missing since last Wednesday, the hunt Was renewed today with a de tachment of troops from Fort Rosecrans aiding the airplanes which have been scouring the country to the east here, The only authentic trace of the two young officers, who left Yuma for the return to Rockwell field, is the report by O. J. Adams, a mining engineer, that be had seen an air |plane paxs his mine 40 miles south ot Campo, Cal, on Wednesday |Campo fs a mountain town on the duty it was to keep the front lines in |40 When its organizations were try.|Mexican border, The search today | centered in Lower California, where Gov. Cantu in offering overy nastet- ance to the American searching parties. Two squadrons of planes were in the air yexterday, one flying from North Iland and the other from | the border patrol base at Yuma. Trinidad, Lower California, has [been selected as the base from which the flyers will pursue their hunt to- day If Adama’ report in true, it means that the missing young men are far into Mexican territory. The mine |where Adams in employed ia 40 milen below the line, and is an expecially rugged country. WITHDRAWAL IS VOLUNTARY: ACT Return From Mexico Not In- fluenced by Diplomacy WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—The de cision to withdraw from Mexico cay jalry troops which crossed the border jin pursuit of bandits who kidnaped two army flyers was wholly a volun diplomatic negotiations now in prog |ress, it was made plain here today. The orders to Gen, Dickman at the time of the crossing on to Mexican | foil were so plain, it was said here, that he had plenty of authority to withdraw the expedition without fur- ther word from Washington, These orders were that a swiftly moving force could be sent acrons the border on a “hot trail.” After a chase of several days, during which the troops were hindered by ,two rainstorms, the trail, army officers sald, probably grew cold, and Dick- | man decided that it was time to with- draw, More expeditions, tt was plainly tn dicated, may go into Mexico at any time if the bandit bands which Infeat ereat/ the border become sufficiently bold|the treaty, awarding Shantung to} {to warrant it, providing border com | manders see a chance to wipe out a bandit band. Word that Secretary Lansing’s re ply to Mexteo’s note of protest against the crossing had gone for- ward was still awalted here today, Veterans’ Show at Metropolitan Theatre Tonight A vaudeville and moving pte ture show will be given in the Metropolitan theatre Monday night, for the benefit of the World War Veterans’ association, |] Acts will be furnished by down. || town vaudeville houses, Officers in charge of the entertainment are; James Mack, commander; Miles Price, Hentenant command. or; F, Marone, adjutant; o, a, |] Yates, nsnistant adjutant, and | C, Welch, quartermaster Roy and business agent, tary one and was not influenced by} INSPECT BOOKS OF SHIPYARDS iCongressional Investigators Continue Work Here Upon the recommendations of a committee from the National Houre of Representatives will depend Beat tle’s shipbuilding future insofar as jovernmental contracts are con ned. The committees berun Monday an inspection of the books, accounts and governmental contracts of the Skinner & Eddy corporation that will be continued until the books, accounts and governmental contracts of every shipbuilding plant In Seat. Ue have been scrutinized. “The future of the shipbuilding tn dustry of the country is involved in the inspection trip of our commit ltee.” says Representative P. FF. | Kelley of Michigan. “The question |of cancellation of contracts and dts position of materials ow by the | government will be considered by the committee, Our visit to the ship building plants on the Pacific coast will give us first-hand information which we can use in making recom. mendations to the shipping board as to what shall be done insofar as the government ts concerned.” ‘The investigating committee will remain in Seattle three days, after which the members will go to |Tacoma. The committee plans to |viit Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego in the order named. While tn the Northwest the com- | mittee will investigate the Grays | Harbor Motorship corporation, a jcompany that has one of the big gest contracts for government ship- building in this district. lesen He Fears Japan May Be Isolated TOKYO, Aug, 20.--(Delayed.)— (United Press,)—Addreasing the dip: lomatic council today, Viscount Uchida declared st to be to Japan's in- terests to join unconditionally in a consoruum with China, With other nations surrendering | their vested rights, he sald, they | might interpret Japan's insistence upon the exclusion ef Manchuria and Mongolia as showing designs upon China. Japan would thus be isolat- ed, he said War Minister Tanaka led the op: | Position, which arguen that the con: sortiur {fs a political move, The be- |tief 1s growing that Japan will join unconditionally, London Newspaper Pans U. S, Senators LONDOD Aur, 28, (United Prews.) Bhantung amendment lto the peace treaty, proposed by the |foretgn relations committee of the |Untted States senate, ig "more evi Jdeneo of good will than ge the Datly News declared t “If the amendment ia adopted,” |the paper «aid, “it will mean a new |treaty between Germany and Amer lea, Germany a dy has ratified | Japan, Her only course, therefore, |would be to refuse the American | proposal, meaning that the two na jtions would remain in a state of war,” Mount Vesuvius ‘ ‘ Is in Eruption noMn, Aug, 4,( Delayed.) |(United Preas.)--After loud under |ground rumblings, Mount Vesuvius began erupting today, two streams lof Java flowing toward the valley, | Bo far the eruption has net been so heavy ag to threaten the villages at the base of the mountain, OPPOSK RATIFICATION ROME, Aug, 24,—(Delayed,)— (United Preas)—The Catholle group in parliament passed a resolution to- day against the ratification of the peace treaty, FASHION SHOW SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 31 men under Brambilla, playing the The most gorgeous display of wo- men’s apparel the stage here has ever known— Tonight, Tuesday and Wednesday—7 and 9 P. M. Serenade.” “Pagliacci” grand selection and “Titl’s Coliseum’s News Service Silesian Trouble Priest and Short . * ° . | Growing Violent} Will Discuss Pact} LONDON, Aug. 25. — (United) Dean Arthur Priest, of the Uni- Preas.)—Disturbances in Silesia are | versity of Washington, and William spreading and have become more Short, president of the Washington violent, according to dispatches from | State Federation of Labor, will ad- that district recelved from London.|dress the members of the Seattle | The German commissary, Hoer-| Treaty Ratification league Monday wing, has tarued a proclaamtion for | night in the Labor Temple annex, bidding strikes and ordering the in-| Firth ave, and University st. stant execution of persons found | > with arms in thelr possession, Un-| The populations or two mining vil der this order 30 persons have been | lages near Kattowitz have been pun- shot at Bytom and nine at Bubro-|ished for revolutionary activities by | wits, ‘ deportation to Germany, Mrs. Carrie Phelps, ; : Pioneer, Dies Here Mrs. Carrie M. Phelps, pioneer resident of Seattle, died at her home 3803 Fighth ave. S., Sunday night Mrs. Phelps was 65 years old. She is survived by her husband, Charles E. Phelps, and a son, William B. Phelps. Funeral arrangements wil? be announced later, — AND PROFIT BY NATIONAL ro naar On these days there OVER 76,000 CALORICS IN USE Save % to % the fuel Heats entire Buildings of 18 rooms or less thru ONE REGISTER Installed in old or new homes GUARANTEED FUR We have made special interesting and profital one register. any change in ‘ way. You will : _ LORIC WEEK ho 304 Aneliusive will be a nation-wide demonstration of the famous PIPELES S NACE Ic ‘TE OniGimat PATENTED PIPELESS FURNACE pueparations to make this an le event for every visitor. It will be an opportunity for you to learn how the heating industry has been revolutionized by utilizing the natural law of heat circulation—how the CaloriC heats entire buildngs, upstairs and down, through Possibly you may feel you are not ready to make our heating system, but come any enjoy this demonstration and per- haps when you see what the CaloriC will actually do and learn its low first cost, and what it will save, you will realize, like 76,000 other people have, that you really cannot Patented Sept. 7, 1909, COME! afford to be without it. FRNST [JARDWARE . 514-24 PIKE ST. SEATTLE. U.S.A.

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