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'3 KS $2,200,000 ÜBOTTY YOU MUST HELP Have you given any of your time and your dollars to America' This li the 6'th day of our war against war. Half hearted Amertc an.sm won't win It. L. Billingsley Going Into Movies to Show Futility of Crime SLAV CANNON ROUT GERMANS DR. MATTHEWS AND NOTABLES TO ASSIST HIM Picture to Show Life as Whisky King in Three States DOESN'T PAY Logan B-llmgaiey la going Into the movies. Supported by Dr. M A. Matthews in peraon and other Seattle notablea who have fig ured In the former boot'egger's local career. Billlngsley Is to be the chief character In a un reel film, which will be the story of hla life. The plana war* announced Tuesday morning by Billlngs ley and members of the Ani mated Educational Film Co. of Seattle, who will make the pic ture. Two well known movia writ ers are collaborating on the jßcenano. and the story will 1 cover the events of the whole of Billingaley's bootieggmg ca reer. both here and in Okla homa and Weet Virginia. The film *111 t* one of the Unr est movie enterprise* ever under takeu tn Seattle, anil will he re leased all over th*. jStatea. tejiprtra} In* the pay chologlral Marv of a man who has made a fight against la* and order. Lo gan s film will point the moral that "It pays to be with society In stead of against it." And Hillings ley make* It pi >in that it *111 not be an expose of corrupt conditions in Seattle Seattle will only be the setting for the climax of the story, when the hero learna the lesson, and reform. he says. Most of the »r»rie* will be taken en the Sound The foothills of the Cascades «ill be the mountains of Tennessee and West Virginia, where I-ok an received his first training as a bootlegger. The Ok lahoma scenes will be taken "on the spot and a few pictures may be aet In California. l»g*n says the drama is tn he Psychological The spell of the moonshine still was cast over him In childhood and l>«- never over cacie it Hootlegging as long as a rran was honorable about it was an honest trade in the Cumberland*. "Bootlegging was Instinctive In me It was a psychological neces sity." said Ixigan "It wag my right Wma*e and sell liquor, and I al ways claimed the right. That Is the at' ry of the film. i predict that th« picture will arouse sentiment for a different method of handling th/> booxe situ ation In the United States. That Is its purpose. Prohibition should be national rather than local, and tho the picture* will not be propa ganda In any way, the facts will point to the necessity of national prohibition." Chadwick Ayres. an experienced photoplay director, will direct I»- Itan's film. and. while he will cast most of his characters from right here In Seattle, h" will Import a few prominent actors from I.os Angele*. r.*>ican believe* the story of his life Is something more than a tifcwtipaper story, anil will have a tte«aage for all time And when tie gets on the screen hfi expects his friends In West Virginia. Okla homa, Kansas, Kentucky and Ten lessee will be as interested In see ing him as those of Washington, and the Pacific Coast. The film decorator* nay that the •lory will also be told In a mag azine form in a ' national rniga ilne " Ixigan didn't say whether Bob Hodge and Mayor Gill and others whose name* are told In his his tory will have a part In hi* com pany or not. "Hut a number of Seattle people connected with my bootlegging career will be mem bcr» of the company," he *aid. Weekly Review of. World Opinion on Page 6 of The Sttar ! The Star today begin# publi i cation of a weekly digest of ) world-wide opinion on current ) subjects. This feature appear# cn page ' 6 In it The Star tells you how 1 various editors ti/e up various from wh,,t the German ! newspaper# thin* of America's / entry into the war, to wh«it ■ newspaper# of the Northwest ' have to say about Gen. Goe | that's shipbuilding plans. "HO-HUM " SAY MUNITION WORKERS; "IT'S ONLY THE KING AND QUEEN!" Hart's a pictur# of King George and Queen Mary of Great Britain, inspecting a hittrauUc engineer, mg work* where thouaanda of shells are turned out daily. Not* the woman worker tweeplhg th* yard, who doean't ceaae her labor or even raiae her eyea to look at royalty aa the king and queen paaa King George i« at the extreme left; behind him l« the queen, her head ahowing over the ehoulder of the plant'a manager. SEATTLE RALLIES NOBLY AND SEEMS SURE TO SUBSCRIBE FULL SHARE OFLIBERTYLOAN Kenny Beaton Will Speak at Waste Meet By Mabel Abbott (Waste Editor of The Star) With Interest lr> Wednesday's nan meeting of the Woman'a Army Against Waste, at the Press club, already high, the announcement that no less a pcreon Kenneth C. Beaton, the "K. C. B ", will be ore of the speakers, promises to make the occasion the cli m** Of the campaign. "K. C. B s" syncopated column of juaint and'Ajridly comment be. in The Star year* ago. and ha* sine* made him the leading feature Heirst papers and a national figure in Kis peculiar bri-nd of lit erature. * J. A. SpaniHer. vice president of the Seattle National luyik. who was to have been one of the speakers, was called out of the city a few days ago. and sent a special mes sage Tuesday thai he will be un able to reach Seattle in time to take his place on ihe program "K C. B." therefore, will tell in his own patented, copvrighfed and altogether Inlmitatile wgy, what part men have to play In the War Again*!. Waste The program which ha* Tieen ar ranged will contain practical sug gestion* for the Moldler* of the Waste Army, a* well as a view of the movement In Its relation to the whole war situation. So woman In Seattle can afford to ml*s If, whether *he has yet enlisted or not and It I* aimed a* much at. men a* at women. Interesting letter* continue to coffie to the Waste Editor, bearing on all sides of the food-conserva tion problem. Mr*. Lint* Help* Th' «e dl*etl**lons are a valuable part the work of the Army Against Wa*te A thought Inaplr- Ing litter from Mrs M II l.antz, Ti'.', 25th avr\ 8., follows: ''Editor The Star I wa* asked a short time ago If I had enlisted in the 'Woman's War Against Waste.' I HAVE! "Several year* ago. when princes began to soar and work became snarce (r.O men for every jobl, to gether with thotisanda of other workingmen'M wives. mother*, daughters and sisters. I enlisted In a forced war against waste, and each succeeding year the battle (Continued on pag* 10 < The Seattle Star GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY NEWSPAPER IN PACIFIC NORTHWEST VOLUME 19 Here Is Program of Waste Meeting Program of The Star* man* meeting for the Woman's Arinv Against Waste. at the Pret<s club at .1 p m. Wednesday, June 13: Justice llcsh M. Whltcbeid, chairman Kenneth Iteaton (K. 0 H i. "The Men'* War Against Waito." Mrs Austin K Orlfflths; "Practical Food-Raving Dr Carter Helm Jones: "The Country'a Xwd." NEW ARREST IN KIDNAPING CASE NAILS GERMAN KANSAB CITY. Mo, June 12 — fiovernriM-tit agents, Investigating the Keet kidnaping case, are hot on the trail of German conspir ators today. Important evidence ban been gained from the prisoners held in connection with the Spring Hold. Mo, abduction, and one ar res! ha* been made here, federal official* admit. Aside from Mating that the man Ih an officer In the German army, they will give no details. The man department official* are now neck ing I* Diek Carter, who in charged in a "arrant at Springfield with the murder of little IJoyd Keet. Prom farter tliey expect to Ualn evidence which will lead to the ar rent of the tnen higher up. These men are believed lo be In flu- employ of the 'iertnan govern merit. and their connection with the kidnaping was only a Hide line. MORE CANTONMENTS WASHINGTON, Tune 12. I>e* Moines, lowa, and Kurt Hllcv, Kan., were selected today an can tonment camp site* for the new Latlonul army. SEATTLE, WASH , TUESDAY, JUNE 12. 1917. If the succesa of Monday's drive for Liberty loan bond subscriptions Is any criterion, Seattle will over subscribe its allotment of 18,200.000 Subscriptions at Seattle banka. and those obtained by the Boy Scout* and the busi ness men's committees appoint ed by William Pigott Sunday night to Interview the weslthy men and firms. totaled $1,583,- 650. This, added to previous subscrip tions. raiseil the grand total thus far to approximately $(1,000,000. With three days more, there Is $2.2<'",000 to be subscribed. or ap proximate!) $750,000 a da> The Big Subscribers Among the big subscriptions Mon day were .1 F. Ihithle & Co , 1200, not) Centennial Mill Co, (40,000; Metropolitan bank. 125,000 addition al to a previous Mubaerlptloti of $50. 000; the Northern l.lfe Insurance Co., an additional $10,000; the II C Henry Co. an additional $10.- 000. Kbey lagging Co., $20,000. the Rhodes Co. $30,000. employes of the Rhodes Co., $12,500; ('. || Cobb. $ 15,000; Carrie 11. Cobb. $10. 000 V C Healty estate, $12,500; K G Ames. $l,00O; Mrs Mary Itono hoe. $10,000. The Muy Mcouts and the btinln«>iiß mi n will coil tin up their drives for •ho remainder of thp campaign, which ends Friday. The Ho; Scouts. It is estimated, secured $.'.00,000 subscriptions Monday. anil Hip business inpn obtained $700,- 000. 2.500 Hear Gov. Litter At the Arena Mot.day nlirht, an aedlence of 2,#00 heard Wlihard Hamhleton. vptpran of Hip Canadian for e< at Vlmy Uldge; (Jov Krnest Mister and l>r farter Helm Jones lliimMeton, an American, who Joined the Canadian pxppdltlon, told in a simple way of his pxpprlpncps at thp front, and, tho untrained in Hip art of oratory, hp waxpil elo quent at Hnips, and once stirred the house to ureal roars of applause when he declared that, after eeelng Germans, French and Mrltlsh In ac tion, "tin American was the damn best one of them all." It was thru thp heroism of Amprl can soldiers, Canadian and those of the I'nltPd Slhlps, that thp Vlmy Ridge battlp was won for the allies. Blind Frenchwoman Sings Mine Christine I.a llarraqoo, the lilli d Infer. liorn In Finni c, touch ed the hearts of her auditors when she delivered feelingly "The Star- Spangled Manner" and the "Mar sellalse " (Jeorge Hastings sang "Tlip Trum peter" and "Keep the Homo Firps burning." There remains less than three more days in which to raise Seattle's share of the Liberty Loan. We've raised six million. Our share is $8,200,000. This means that we must raise $750,000 a day for those three days! Can we do it? Are we slackers? Have too bought YOUR bond? GET IT TODAY WAR WIPES OUT GERMAN BABIES, RECORDS SHOW Longer Fight Means National Suicide, Says Expert on Military Affairs BIRTH RATH DECREASES By J. W. T. Mason (United Press War Expert.) NF.W YORK. June 12.—1f the great war lasts two and one-half years longer, babies will disappear almost com pletely, in Germany, unless the government devises meas ures to check the proportion ate fall in birth rates during the first two years of war. Germany is facing the greatest catastrophe that evet threatened a modern nation. An alarming decline of child hood is hovering over the l«nd at home, while the ob literation of Germany's youth and manhood is occurring on the battlefields. Decay «f ©"'man R*c* Decay of the Cirmin rae». be cau*e of Ineufflc ent replenishment from tourer* In* de the country, x not » fanla*tlc drum of Germany'* enemle*. but It a disquieting pot *iblllty of the future, which Ger man acientiatt have bean ordered by the government to Investigate thirlng 1915, German births fell by 20 |>er rent below the record for 1914. the your the war began, and according to figures which have Just «UfDW(li«l In passing the liirmin (ooMir. the decline In 191* <n about 40 per cent under the 1914 figures Thi* same steady fall In births, r.t the rate of 20 per rent additional \early. would make the decline 100 l>er rent at the end of 1919, with the practical disappearance of ba blea truni Oermajiy. It la not certain, aa a matter of abaolute fart, whether thla blight upon future Gorman humanity would be Wholly complete, for Ger man statistics refer not to amall country vlllaKea, but to cltlea of 16,000 or over It la possible the birthrate haa not fallen ao extensively In the agricultural district a; but If not. this la due to a large excess of Il legitimate blrtha Russian prlaonera of war are be- Ing extensively used to aupply the war's deficit of agricultural labor era In Germany, and theae are tin derstood to have usurped the placea of husbands of German peaaant woniin, who In many cases. actually assisted In the ca|i ture of the Kuaaiana The German governing claaa realizes there la no future for Ger many If It haa to depend for Ita coining man i>ower upon audi un ions BH theae Ways inuat be de vised to keep the cltlea well sup plied with liiHtv youngsters if Ger many la In tflay even n secondary I art In the world. Paris Paper Tells of New 'Sub' Chaser I'AHIS, .lunp IS A new Amerl ciiii submarine liuntpr. which has Just arrived at a French port and i reated a sensation lipchiisp of lis radical departure from preconceiv ed idpns of shipbuilding was de hcilbpil by l,p Journal today I hp vessel, II wiih Mtiiled, Is near ly 100 fpet lohk. I* propelled hy pisollne and Is capable of thp cm>r iiioiih speed of 30 knots Hy a spe rial arrangement, thp boat's fui-l I" l eplenlshable at sea, long tubes connecting with n hlilp'h reservoir. The arm*ment which thlh formld i.hie vessel carried Ik declared to permit the most rapid offensive power hy long range guns, She In equipped with thp IntPst type of listening Instruments and when not under navigation Ih capable of long submergence In thp wut<% l,c Journal declared Hint within 11 feu months there would bp sev priil hund-pd of tlieae vessels in in'tlve service. The Star Spangled Banner floats more proudly over every home that gives a soldier or buys a Liberty Bond. ONE CENT ECHO ZAHL IS MOBILIZING ON THE TYPEWRITER She Lines Up Toy Soldiers by Combining (Closely) Let ters and Symbols SEE EM GO! HEP! HEP! BY THE CITY EDITOR Krhn 7. thl wax lapping Indus trlously at h«*r tH'-writer a* I en tered The Klar local room this mornlriK She thro* roe a salute »* I panne I "I'm mobilised. lio**'" said she , "Whaddayamean, mobilised?' raid we. i leverlv. "Pipe thl* row of and*." said ! fhe \\ e piped. ' Y«>*." we piped "Now look'" said Ml*« 7,ahl, "look rareltillr. I strike a row of < li s. now, iliual; "Ye* yes**, go on'" We jUM|xtd. "And now I drop the paper a bit ' and make a row of i>erlod*." '"Now llntm, young lady," aald we "I am entirely too busy to be kidded, if you are desirous of dls liming your stenographic skill you can try It on Kddle Hill and " "And then." aald ahe. "I add a row of diagonal dashes, Just like thin:" ] "I'll huh'" aald wo. "Next I slide the paper up a trifle and stammer a bunch of \\"a. after which " "I am beginning to believe there l» something in your head," said we. t ' Some double quotes at the t>ot torn, for feet, complete the regi ment." said she. "What do you call 'em?" "You cau name 'em anvthing vou like " Mere they are. Hep' Hep' RESUME TONG WAR Tong war was resumed In < hlna low n Monday afternoon, when Char ley King. 46. was i hot and killed by two Chinese alleged lo be members |of the Hop Sing anil Suey Sing | tonus The shooting occurred on Jackson St., between Fifth and 'sixth a'es S. The assailants fled Dp an alley, pursued by .1 P Kussell. manager of Ihe H.isili hotel, and disappeared near Sixth anv s and Washington st Mnp was no! ii long member. ADVERTISING MANAGER'S DAILY TALK A Good Way to Reduce Waste Is to gel more fur what you spend. And one of (lie sur est methods of doing this is bv keeping in close touch with the announcements of Seattle's leading business houses as they appear in The Star from day to day. You will find many an op portunity to make a good substantial saving on things you positively are obliged to buy. I'he ads are well worth your most careful at tention. The best offerings ill Seattle's best stores ap pear regularly in The Star. THE FASTEST GROWING PAPER IN THE NORTHWEST »:% KIO W II Kit M IS M-.4TTI »fl SET FIRE TO QUARTERS OF ARMY STAFF Newt that Russian demands for a clear statement by our alliet of their war aims had been fully met thru England's dec laration for an independent Poland, which followed President Wilson'a note, promised to make the 67th day of our participa tion in the war memorable. Thia was followed by word that Russian artillery had fired and routed German staff headquarters on the Eastern front. At home great pressure to defeat the food lobby and claar tha way for the food control bill divided attention with the closing drive for Liberty loan subscriptions, pleas for Red Cross contributions and a nation wide round-up of slackers. That the latter are not so numerous as was at first thought proved gratifying to all Americans. The kaiser's undersea pirates sank another American ateamer, and the fate of half its crew is still unannounced. The espionage bill, which has taken to much unneces sary time in congress, was passed by the senate, and has gone to the president for his signature Appeal for a billion dollars—half to be used immediately —was made for adequate preparation to enable America to decide the war favorably in the air. Chances that American troops will be detained in thi« country for months because 6f a lack of ships to transport and provision them at the same time that the allies art viaioned and munitioned, loomed large. PKTRCXiRAD. June 12.- Russian artillery has set fire to the Teutonic -laft headquarter-, in the village of Meerisliki, it was <lectare<l today in the official report. "The military staff quartered there fled from the big fire, • pursued by our artillery." the war office asserted. Meerisliki was located by the war office as a village three miles north of Tveretch. ALLIES MEET SLA V DEMANDS FOR STATEMENT OF WAR AIMS l'nlt<il t'r> Stuff <"orrr»i>(in«l<-nt LONDON". Ititie 12.— It is now tip to Russia. England, France and the ( nited States in behalf of the allies have frankly restated their war aims and those war aims coincide with expressions which have come from democratic Russia. If Russia desires publication of all arrangements and revision of these treaties, it can be stated authoritatively that the allies are ready to take this This was the general view here today following publica tion of England's note approving President Wilson's com munication. France, thru vote of her parliament, has already gone on record in the same manner. I'very request of the new Russian government lia> therefore been met. Editorial analysis of the situation today agreed that ever\ possible objection to Russia s full co-operation witli the allies had now been met. \\ hat was particularly lauded by the newspaper comment was the full order to revise all agreements contained in the British note. President Wilson was universally credited with the initiative in the allies' unanimity in expression of their aims, Ills note being held to have clarified the situation. The greatest interest is now manifest in what Russia will have to say in reply. POLES CHEERED BY BRITAIN'S PLEA FOR INDEPENDENT POLAND WASHINGTON. June 12. —Great Ilrltain's "message to Russia." for ms lly declaring for a reunited and independent Poland was hailed with rejoicing by the millions of I'oles In America as "one of the i list momentous happenings of the day." A statement to the Polish people In America from the Polish cen tral committee today said. To the Polish people the mes sage Is of great Importance be SLAV SOLDIERS WONT CONSIDER SEPARATE PEACE, SAYS EDITOR BY WM. G. SHEPHERD rntiml I'rtNß* Staff <'orr<*w|»«»i\«lr»nt PKT ROGKAO, .lune 12. —"No limn In the Russian army dares speaK of n separate peace; If he did, lilh comrades would shoot liini Instur.tly," declared Nicholas Naekoff. a former New York ed itor. who returned today from the fiont. "I made a tour. urging an of fenslve war, In behalf of the work men's and soldiers' council," he ■aid. "1 met nine different regiments THE 67TH DAY OF OUR WAR By Lowell Mellett LAST EDITION Perhaps you can lew socks for the university boys who are going to France at a field hospital unit. Get specifications from Red Croat headquarter* Weather Man Salis bury taya: "Fair tonight and Wed nesday." I cause It removes the Polish ques tion from the twilight zone of idiplomacy. While many Kngllsh ;statesmen in the past have shown a sympathy for our cause, the |note expresses the sentiment of the entire nation. • • • "The re-establishment of Poland is the most effective step which jean be taken to block the 'middle lOurope' plans of Germany and the frustration of those plans Is an ab solute necessity if democracy is to | be saved* for the world." and spoke in all to probably 40,000 men. 1 think 1 can therotore speak with authority when I say that no soldier would consent to separate peace by Russia." ESPIONAGE BILL IS UP TO PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, lune 12. The senate today adopted the confer ence report <»ti the Gregory eaplon ' aK« hill. The measure now goes to the president for his signature.