The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 28, 1920, Page 16

f NATIONS ARE —_ a BANDITS GET CASH, JEWELS Hold Up Confectioner and] Rob His Till About $110 in cash and $700 worth of jewelry were obtained in two North End robberies, believed by the policesto have been commit ted by the same pair of highway-|tne weight of members men Tuesday night. One ts composed of large men and The first holdup occurred shortly | the other of stout women. after 9 p.m, when IL, W. (‘Red)| The clubs were first started by Dr. Graham, confectioner at 4200 14th| John Dill Robertson, Chicago health ave. N. BE. was forced at the point | commissioner, who hopes the move of a gnn to watch his till rifled | ment will become nation-wide, of $110 in cash and other valuables. | —_ o The store was entered when Gra Ha l’s Appeal Again Postponed | Eat Less and Beat Hicost CHICAGO, Apri 28.—“Grow thin and beat the high cost of living by reducing the amount of food you eat and the amount of materials neces sary to make the clothing you wear iw the slogan today of two unique hicago clubs now working to reduce ham was alone. In less (hen two hours, the Fre: / mont theatre, N. 36th st, waa) held up just as G. H. Bramlat, 4227] CHICAGO, April 24.—William Hay 12th ave, N. E., was closing fr) wood, Vincent St, John and 93 other the night. The night's receipts had | areged I W., yesterday were just been turged over to E es of the appeal| Geddes, Bramlat’s partner, and of violation of the robbers missed the money. ever, they ottulned jewelry v at nearly $700, ‘The robbers ‘The alleged LW. W. were sen ped into Rramlat's automotile and | tenced to from one to 20 years in the drove away. The abandoned cur| penitentiary by Federal Judge Lan was found by the police two blocks |dis, but are at liberty, pending hear away. ing of the appeal. rhe case waa post until May 2 Ba Grow Thin to |WOMAN ENDS +latck and unable to work, Mre. Anna THE BON MARCHE } RGAIN BASEMENT THE SEATTLE STAR INCREASING ARMIES MILITARISTS ADDING TO PEOPLE'S BURDEN HER OWN LIFE |“gick and Unable to Work,” Says Note Leaving 4 note saying ghe was Lambert, 38, 4433 Greenwood ave., committed suicide early Wednesday morning by taking chloroform, The |body was discovered by EL T. Din jham in his apartment at 201 Yesler way, where the dead woman had been employed as a caretaker. 1 Dinham told the police that he | dincovered the doors locked when he | went to his apartment this morning | to retire. He broke the doors and found the bady A chioroform satu rated towel wasn bound about the dead woman's head. Woolen Cloth Is Still Going Up) SPRINGFIELD, Mass, April 28 risen to 40 per Febru: | ary, 19 and are still gong up,| | Preaident Wood told the annual meet | ling of tho American Woolen com papy here yesterd Period Following War Fails to Bring Reduction of Armament BY HENRY WooD PARIS, April) 28.—Militariem exists today in almost every country in the world on a bleger and more crushing basis than before the war, “La grande guerre,” which was to have been the world’s last war and which was to have in sugurated an era of universal peace and reduced armaments has had for its sole effect to date the Increasing of the milé tary burden of almost every country in the world, In fact the only exceptions are those defeated countries whose arm aments were limited by the peace but even these—and nota are do treation bly Germany and Austriw ing everything in thelr power to cape the treaty cluuses and increane their armies to @ much larger basis than is now stipulated. Even the United States, preeuma bly the moat peaceful country in the world, has failed to escape from the mania for increased armies which | “the lae® war" has entatied. Coupied with the increased cost of living, these Increased armaments and their increased cost of mainte While @ shorter pertod of military service is provided for the financial burden is immeasurably increased. In France, the definite plans for the reorganization of the army have | not yet been worked out. In the meantime France has just called to the Jana as her period of service has nat |yet been changed they come under | colors her entire class of 1920 | the old three-year term of service | Jadopted just before the war. With | the necewsity of furnishing the great | |bulk of the troops that are to hold |downh the occupied portion af Ger many for the next 15 or 30 years ae well as furnishing the great bulk | of the troops for all the foreign ex nis necessary for enforcing all arious clauses of the peace France hasn't a ghost of a treaty, chance of decreasing her prewar military burden either in men or | financially. While Sweden xppointed @ com minson to see if her regular army ‘could not be replaced by militia, the force of military events and in jereased military organization on levery hand caused this commingian to go Out of business last December. In Holland, thé action of the cham Marché Marquisette Curtains | $3.00 a Pair Curtain Scrims 23c a Yard Buy Them Ready to Hang or Make Them Yourself WHICHEVER YOU DO YOU GET A BARGAIN For here are both curtains and curtainin at such low prices that you will decide at | once that you must have new curtains, Hi) 4 The Marquisette Curtains are mercer. ized—300 pairs in all—with hem- stitched hems and trimmed with strong, ° durable lace edges in various weaves, White, cream and ecru—$3.00 a pair, 2,800 yards of Curtain Scrims with fancy drawn work borders —white, cream and ecru—very special at 23c a yard. Feltoleum Mats for Kitchen or Bath Room, a Bargain at 45c Feltoleum Mats, suitable for kitchen and bath rooms—in a good line of desirable colors—size 18x36 inches—ycw'll be wise to get several of these Mats while the price is so low. FOURTH FLOOR—THE BON MARCHE ber in suppressing a military budget ce will throw on the people of oat country in the world a mili-/@f 1,800,000 floPins enused the war leary burden infinitely larger and|™nister to resign, more crushing than waa borne be-| Hungary is more determined than ltore the war, The only thing that lever that the peace conference shal) : We Stick to Bargains. We specialize in value-giving and ¢oncentrate‘all our efforts upon giving you genuine savings. Naturally—because we do specialize—we do a better job than the store which offers bargains only once in a while. Come in Thursday and see what we have for you. makes it seem supportable at all is than what the military expenses were during the war. that if it ls more than what it was) we before the war, it in at least lone) let her have a larger army than originally conceded. Rut the military pretentions—and consequential burdens of Germany. |Mungary and the other defeated A Special Selling of Ne ‘ © =| staten—are tame indeed compared NATIONS OF WORLD with those of the new states that b ] 64 9 e IN MILITARY RACE have been born out of war, All ere Ss a ed. ur rise While all nations of the world | of the new border ata hat have} omen S ul Ss a ° [have not yet mucceeded in reorgan:| come out of Ruasia, for example, in-| for Shrewd Seattle Shoppers : ° e \I\ not @ single one that doen not pro-| serbia al fee! that their existence marked much higher | | vide foram inorease over what the| depends upon military strength 5 . : | S resses | military effectives and costs were) while they haven't even had time to are included in this | before the war think about reorganizing their * | While, theoretically, the question |armies on a peacetime basis, it in | at $9.75 This is another of those attractive bar- gains made possible by the Bargain Base- ment system of No Deliveries, No Credit, No C. O. D. or Telephone Orders, and No Alterations to Garments. Ten good styles, including long and short tunics, blouse effects, and two-piece mod- els. All have long sleeves. ° Trimmings are buttons, military braid, novelty braid, pin tucks, novelty vestees and other smart touches. Most of the dresses are in navy blue, but there are a few grays and tans. Sizes range from 16 to 40. Four Dandy Your A Fox Trot in-a: Both Played by Jom A Fox Trot “Peggy” and ‘ Both Played by Jon “Where the “Keep Movin’ “You'd Be Surprised” Both Played by All-Star Trio Two Fox Trots “Patches” “I Might Be Your Once- A One-Step and Fox Trot “Taxi Played by Joseph C. By Van Eps Trio And Scores of Others izing their armies on the basis which the recent war appears to have ren | dered necessary, yet in almont every leountry the reorganisation projects are under consideration, and there is Jot the military force to be main tained is purely an internal one | which every country has a right to rettle for itself, yet as a matter of fact, every country, as has always jto govern the «ize of it» military leffectives and strength by what its | neighbors are doing. Likewise as In the past, Germany ts still the world's jominating factor in thin respect. The peace treaty originally reduced the German |army to 100,000 men, Later this was temporarily increased to 200,000 In order torenable Germany to meet In ternal troubles and pomsible Bolshe | vik asenults from without | Im reality, the mont accurate infor || mation from Germany shows that fi sho still has 1,000,000 men under jarma. These consist of her regular jarmy of 400,000 men; of 12,900 sot diers temporarily serving with the marine; and four large organiz@tions attached to the minixtry of the in terior for internal defense totaling lover 600,009 men, With every indi eation and certainty that Germany intends to maintain as much of her European country ts forced to take | this into consideration in her own army reorguntzation. | England, for example, haa defi- | nitely decided ppon her new army organization which is for 485,000 |men divided {nto 14 divisions and organized Into a regular and a terri |torial army. The budget for this |military organization ts 125,000,000 pounds as against 29,000,000 pounds before the war, This means a mill tary burden four times larger than before the war Naturally, the size of England's army, just as much as the size of rmany'’s army, dictates the size for every other country. | SEC, BAKER ASKS FOR 500,000 MEN At Washington despite the recom mendations of Secretary Baker for an army of 500,000 men, the present bills before congress pro only for 300,000 men. Nevertheless, thin is double the United States effectives of before the war. In Italy the reorganization of the army provides for an increase from 108 regiments of infantry to 120 and from 38 regiments of artillery to 30 drawn by horses and 15 by tractors. Title Insurance Wins on Its ° Merits No system of doing business succeeds unless it satisfies a public de- mand and serves the public well. Year after year Seat- tle’s demand for Title In- surance steadily in- creases, There are two. reasons for our success— | | Service and responsi- ]}} if] bility. | The thousands of sat- isfied patrons who al- ways demand Title In- ]]} surance ‘are our best ad- vertisements. | Dance Records for Victrola and One-Step—s5e :” and 850 -While” eph C. Smith's Orchestra and a Waltz—8ic | ‘On Miami Shore” eph C. Smith's Orchestra S50 Smith's Orchestra Lanterns Glow” | been the case in the past, in obliged | int on maintaining armies that will be an increase rather than decrease jover what the Russian’ army was |before the war, * |. Poland. Crecko-Slovakia, Rumania, absolutely certain that whenever that time comes, each will insist on an individual army that taken alto gether will more than offset any re duction that might have been hoped for by the breaking up of the ol4 time military levy of Germany and Aurtria. Aside from this actual tncrease tn the standing armies of the world that “la grande guerre” has brought on the Increased cot of living with its tnereased cost of army mainte. nance, which means that the world {a looking forward to « greater and more crushing military burden than ever before carried. Gust’s Party Is Ended With a Dull Thad Lost and trying to find his way back to the Alaska hotel Inst night, y | Gust West met a party of four con- genial friends, he told the police to day. They suggested a spirit party, which West was giad to join. Escort ing him ‘to their quarters in a near- by lodging house, he said, two of the men offered to go out and get the spirits in caso he had the money, parted. An hour later, about 2:30 a m., the other two decided to go out and try their luck, In case West wanted to furnish the capital. He pulled out his wallet and gave them $20 each, whereupon one of them grabbed the purse, knocked htm down and fled, None of the four returned. Sen. Lewis Says. New War Is Coming WASHINGTON, April 28.—Presi- dent Wilson will be a third term nom: inee if war breaks out in Burope, “as now seems inevitable,” former Senator James Hamilton Lewis ‘de clared here yesterday. Lewis called on Secretary Tumulty. Afterward he said “The second war has followed every peace. If war breaks out anew in Europe, the people will call on Wilson.” Railway Deficit Passed by Senate WASHINGTON, April 28.—The senate has passed the urgent de Jclency bill, carrying $300,000,000 for penses incurred during federal control of railroads, and $9,000,000 for other purposes. Collegers Hold Annual Election Collegers at the University of Washington voted Wednesday for jeandidates to the student board of | control, president of the associated students and the editors of the daily newspaper and the Tyee, the annual publication, Masons Direct State Ceremony OLYMPIA, April 28. - Masons from all over the state are expected to watch Governor Hart lay the cor: nerstone of the new state administra tive building Jriday. Ceremonies He gave them $20 each, and they de- | | | | Suits that have been lot. Are you seeking value in your new suit? We cannot buy some of these suits at wholesale to- day for what we are offer- ing them to you. And the styles are new— ripple and semi-tailored ef- fects in mixtures, checks and velour. The suits are lined with plain or fancy silks. Buttons, silk braid, nar- row belts, semi-Tuxedo tail- ored or convertible collars are features. Quite the thing for trav- eling or street wear. ~ In sizes for women, misses and a few extra sizes. 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