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IWO ZEPPELINS SHOT DOWN IN RAD ON BRITISH TOWNS

Ichool Board Members All Fall Down on Brain Test Given to Child Pupils

BOY TENOR

BESIEGED

BY WOMEN

Theo. K«rle Johnston Enter

tains the "I-Knew-Him

• When" Club

HE SCORES A TRIUMPH

Our native aon, Theo. Karle

Johnston, doean't wear apata

or carry a awagger (tick.

Ha came back to Seattle In

the aama clothaa he wore when

ha went away, btfore he sign

ed to aing with Far

rar.

But the single women of th*

£1 Knew Him When —" club

are willing to overlook that.

Tbev are plotting to get him.

If* year

About 150 hungry hearted school

teachers of his. girls who want to

the same church, and they who

knew those who knew him well,

bought good iu> am Wednesday

night for Johnaton'a appearance

with the Philharmonic orchestra at

the Metropolitan theatre

Women Send Him Notaa

They had the usher*' running tIU

their * tonguea hung out. carrying

little J>llleta of greetings and con

gratufattona and Innuendoes.

Only Theo and the girls know

what was written In them.

Several tl-nes he wsa saved hy

a rising curtain when the women

msde a bolt back atage dar

ing Intermissions They went In

twos and three*.

The sir waa heavily laden with

algha.

And JM> wonder.

Has Wonderful Future

Young Johnston Is only 22 yesra

old "and haa a future tucked away

that would make a prlnceae yearn

to put her feet In his lap

He Is a great big, healthy look

''3( fellow, with a contagious

"SB 1 *

sing*

f When he threw b«rk his h»a4

and sonnded. "1 Hear Yoti Calling

Me." the single women breathed

hard He pulled 'em half out of

their seats.

No one would hold It against

the female of the species for feel

ing fluttery at the thought of car

rying Theo's grips.

Call Him on Phone

He's going to make a pile of

money, and be a lion in the music

world.

'The telephone atarted ringing

early this morning and be got

•Ight calls before he could sit

(Continued on page 6.)

—-—Rm4 "Til# Rmw> HnatiM

MAY TRY TO PASS

BILL OVER VETO

Councilman Manna's public safety

committee decided Wednesday to

recommend the bill board ordi

nance to the council for passage

over the mayor's veto. Members

of the committee are Krlckson.

Marble and Bolton. Bolton la

against the measure

lU«d "Thr Ro«# (iftrdm Hn*b«n4' •

'COLORADO SALOONS

SERVE AS Y. M. C. A.'S

DKN'VER. Colo., Feb. 17.—

Colorado, under prohibition. Is

more prosperous. less Inclined

to get locked up In Jail, and

better off In many other waya,

according to dry reports from

all sections of the state today,

aft«-r nearly two months' ex

perience with the dry law.

In the Rockefeller mining

rajrips the saloons have been

converted Into Y. M. C. A.

buildings In a few Instancea.

K»«d Th» K..w <~r,i,n tlu»tmad"—

USE TELEPHONE TO

_ AID TOM MORPHINE

Thursday Is Thomas P. Murphlne

day AH his friends have been

urged to use the telephone In order

to brxfit hla candidacy for corpor

ation counsel. Friends of his are

Ito call up their acquaintances and

|irge them to do the Hame. making

p sort of endless chain.

CHARGE DETECTIVE CHIEF

HELD WOMAN IN HIS LAP

OAKLAND, C«l., Fsb. 17.—

Charges of a cland?stin« court

ship, to say nothing of publle

kissing, art on flic In th* di

vorce action of Mrs. Florence

V. Peterson against Detective

Captain Peterson, formerly

chief of police.

Mrs. Meta K. Makins, di

vorcee, is named as core-

V^ondent.

Among other things. Mrs. Peter

son allege* Mrs Makins sat In

Peterson's lap publicly at a N'ew

Year's celebration In a local hotel

and that they kissed each other;

Ms* l once while passing the

EVERYONE'S WEARING MASK IN NEW

YORK; WHY? OH, IT'S THE STYLE!

Count *41 Wears a Five Cent Mask"

So She Can Wear a $6,000 Gown Her

Husband Doesn't Want Her to '

Wear.

*

RUSSIA GOES ON

WA6ON TO STAY

Czar Convinced Prohibition It

Best (or the

Nation.

RESULTS OF ONE YEAR

PETROGRAD, Ru«sia,

Feb. 17.—Kuvua has

taken a long breath,

raised her solemn right

hand, and *worn:

"Never again!"

A year without vodka

has convinced the offi

cials, from the czar down,

that prohibition will al

ways he the rule in Rus

sia. Here are some re

sults of the first twelve

month without liquor as

reporter! officially and

semi-officially from all

over the country:

Crime (all kinds) haa de

creased 62 per cant.

Absenteeism In factorla*

has fallen <0 par cant.

Suicide rata haa dropped

anormoualy.

Hospitals formerly ovtr

crowded ara not filled.

Efficiency In factorlea In

creased 10 to 15 par cant.

Practically avary Inhabitant

la at work.

Saving* deposits have In

creaaed 8 par cant.

Fire damage haa fallen off

38 par cant.

Wagaa In aome districts

ralaed 600 par cant. (Thla ap

pllaa to paaaanta working aa

day laborara.)

People ara eating batter and

coetller food.

Batter clothing la worn by

the poorer claaaaa.

Agricultural Implement aalaa

60 par cant larger.

Imprlaonment decreased 72

per cent.

Offsetting these remarkable re

sults of Russia s sudden dryness Is

this startling development:

The death rate from drunken

ness ha* Increased enormously!

This seeming paradox ti ex

plained by thla statement that dlp

•omanlaca have turned from vodka

to methylated aplrlta and other

poisonous substitutes.

—j-lwd Thf Roam I'Vdfß lllahanil"

Fair tonight; Increasing

cloudiness, turning to rain Fri

day.

Makln* apartment, Mrs Peterson

h<ard the couple kissing, and, upon

Investigation, found Mr* Makins

In a bathrobe, while Peterson. she

alleged, was fleeing thru a side

door.

Peterson gained considerable

prominence last year thru an ad

dr«-*i on the vice question. In

which he declared man Is polyga

mom, and that "we have tried

prisons, laithes, contempt and ban

ishment, alas too long, in our ef

forts to control, mitigate and sup

press this great social problem "

Peterson was a witness for Mrs

Maklna when slid received her dl

vorce.

The Seattle Star

THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS

VOLUME 11 SEATTLE. WASH., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1916.

Staff Special

| NEW YORK. Feb. IT. — ICver

alnce the Maaked Marvel cauaed a

aensallon in wrestling here, the

mask haa been the thtng In soci

ety circles, theatrical quarters and

crook* lines.

Nowadays police cannot tell a

thief from a society leader. theat

rical star or banquet guest hurry

ing hoir.e In the wee sma' hours.

Ju*t th» <nt»er (tight a masked

gneat. who la a well-known croolr

spending the winter out of Sing

Sing, entertained 100 members of!

the Friars at a dinner

All Friars wore maska. so the

crook might not feel out of place

!J»*t night a bery „f B irl» from

a ahow appeared maaked In a

nroadway reataurant. and danced

until the place closed

Neit week Broadway la to aee a

musical comedy, called "The Mask

ed Mode!"

Even now It I* n«»»tnic a model

who wears a maak that may rout aa

much aa 5 cents and a coat said to

be worth M.OOO

The story I* thai the roimlw«

was stage struck and her hu«tiand

wasn't. so ah»- haa to wear a maak

to keep the count from recognltlng

her.

— KM«I Th» RM# H»»hM4" —

FIRE DESTROYS HOME

Fire early Thursday consumed a

dwelling house formerly occupied

by school teachers at Heahurst. near

Burlen.

The occnpants had left the house

Sunday night.

— K*»d "Tb# K/mw> l.arrf#ii

Evidently This Bus Wu

Not Rtiied to Be Jitney

William Hie! and Hen Alma, of

Everett, have brought suit In su

perior court here to recover 11.000.

the purchase price of an auto, from

K B. Tolsma.

They allcic Tolsma told them

the machine "would run 24 hours

a day forever." They say it won't,

Rmul Thf Roa# liwdm lliiabanA" —

PLANNING SUICIDE?

AMSTERDAM. Feb. 17—"If

It Is necessary to commit sui

cide. please drown or hang

yourself."

Thus read* n placard Issued

by the burgomaster of Holtes

ford, a amall village near Mrus

seta.

The firman military author

lllea recently fined the vlllaxe

11,250 because a citiren s<> far

forgot himself as to aulrlde by

shooting The flelglans are for

bidden to have firearm*.

Krn4 "Th* Hop* iimrlim llu*hM<l"

Men Who Like

to Dress Well

Will he much inter

ested in the announce

ment of Tonkin's, on

page 6 in today's pa

per. It tells of a sale

of a lot of men's high

class suits at hall

price. Don't fail to

look it up.

A Htar Want Ad will aell your

acreage for yo*

Earl Kitchener Tells

British Parliament

Germans Lost Two

Aircraft During

Last Bomb-Drop

ping Invasion of

England.

LONDON, Feb. 17.

—The Germans lost

two Zeppelins in the

last raid (in England,

Karl Kitchener de

clared today in the

house of lords.

On the afternoon of Feb 9 It

waa reported that two German

■eroptanei bombarded Hntntgate

and Ilroadatalra, near txindon

The Hrlilah offlclala re|*>rted no

damage «aa done

tHa|iatrhea from Herlln of Feb

10 aald (hat In the raid. Zeppellna

bombarded and aank the Hrtilah

rrulaet Caroline and the deatroy

era Kdrn and Nlth.

Thla *«« denied by the Hrltlah

admiralty at the tlm*.

K— d Th» Km— '

DEMAND PLEDGE

FROM EN6LAND

WASHINGTON. Fab. 17.—

Great Britain muat pladga

that her liner* will not fire

upon German aubmarlnaa be

far* Germany will Inatmct

h*r undirtti commander* not

to attack armed m«rchantm«n

without warning.

Thin I* Oermany'a counter prtv

poaal la im»«r to America'* oh

jectlon to the Teuton dcree pro

poalnc turh unwarned attack*. tl

known after a 20 minute

Informal conferencw hetween Am

ha»*»d<>r liernatnrff and Secretary

Uariti-

Germany and America are

a*r»-.«t u[Kin the Uualtanla »«Ule

m«ul •aoaiit.lbat the U. & coofid

•m fwtnr* mitimiriit* •«

"*«ll aa thnae of the paat. must be

cared for.

Ijimlnc Inilated upon adherence

to Uie prevlouil) proclaimed Amer

Iran atand for the right of mar

rhantmen to arm for defrnalra

purpose*.

l<ert»torff Indicated he muat a*k

Berlin for Inatructlon* before

meeting American term* He doe*

not expect to aee Lanalng before

next week.

Rm4 Thr Rm# (i«r4*a Hn«h«nd

LINER IS AFIRE;

REACHES PORT

RAN FRANCISCO, Feb. IT.— Re

port* that the Toyo Klsen Kalalia

ateamer, Panama Maru. freight

laden and with a few paaaengera.

San Francisco 'for Yokohama and

other Oriental porta, wa* afire,

were followed today by further ad

vice* saving *he had docked aafely

at Yokohama on Feb. 16.

The T. K. K, line here had no

advice* from their Jai>ane*e head

quarter*.

The m«r<n» department of the

Chamber of Commerce, however,

got word of the fire, followed aoon

by the cable telling of the arrival

of the ahlp.

The Panama Man formerly In

the Seattle trade. Railed from here

Jan. 23 with a large cargo, a crew

of about 100 and only a do*en pa*-

•engere. She touched at Honolulu.

——lUait "Hi* Kmm> (*mrtl+m llmhMid" —

ON RAMPAGE; CAUGHT

SAN PEDRO, Cal, Feb. 17 —

Archibald Duncan, Santa Ana

rancher, who went on the ram

page with a rifle, waa taken Into

custody near here today. Ho will

he charged with Insanity.

——"Tl»# (i»M llnihiMid"—

5,000 SLAVS KILLED

AMSTFRDAM, Feb. 17-Flve

thousand Itusslsns were kland

several thousand wounded In the

last throe ila»* of battle before

Krxertim, Turklah Armenia, said

Constantinople dispatches today.

SAWDUST BOMB CAN'T SCARE

OUR POLICE CHIEF, B'GOSH!

A can full of pebble* and

sawduat. empty of explosive*,

with *lQht Inch** of fu*e, con

stituted s "bomb" addressed to

Chief Louis Lsng that wn

found nssr tho N. P. tracks

between Auburn and Sumner

Wednesdsy.

"Home hobo had a weird acneo

of humor, that's *11," says Special

Agent Payne of the railway con

pany, who brought the tinware an

sawdust to the chief Wednesday

l>»n Mcleod, one of the watchmen,

pulled II out of a (tunny sack lying

about si* feel, from the truck*.

The "bomb" was wrapped In a

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its readers MORE IOR THEIR

MOM V THAN ANY NEWSPAPER

IN I 111 CITY OF SEATTLE EVER

HAS GIVEN THEM BE FORK.

I| A standard, $1.50 hook of popular fic

tion published EVERY WEEK, begin

ning on Monday and ending on Satur

day! No long waits for the next install

ment ! Xo expensive visits to the book

store! Not even a trip to the public

library! Just a telephone rail to the cir

culation department of The Star, and the

paper will be delivered to your door for

25 cents a month.

•I Begin with us Monday on this new fea

ture. Read the first of our books, "The

Rose Ciarden Husband," by Margaret

Widdcmcr, BICiINNIM; MONDAY

AND ENDING SATURDAY, IN

THIS NEWSPAPER.

PARENTS. TOG AT CHILD IN

COORT WHEN DIVORCE SOU

IS DISMISSED BY lODGE

"Vou glvs me that boy!"

ahritlrd Mra. Alameda Hill, of

1116 Fifth ave. N. 'He'e mine

and you can't have him!"

William M. Hill, bar hua

band, looked down at her and,

clasping their 5-year-old aon

tighter In his arme, kisead the

little fallow.

"OhI" cried Mra. Hill. "You!"

Leaping up, ahe grabbed the

child by the arme. and pulled.

Thla acene was the close of a

domestic dram* enacted Thursdav

In a tiny room In the attic of the

King county courthouse. Mrs Hill

sued for divorce.

Year* before. In that *ame room

another drama ended In a trag

edy. when a man, a murderer, waa

Jerked, screaming, to hla death at

the end of a nooa'd rope.

Judge French, of Kltaap county,

held court In the hangman'* room

Thuraday to alleviate congestion

In the courta below

Judge French found that Mr*

Hill* allegatlona were Insufficient

for a divorce.

She testified she had lived since

last March, when Superior Judge

Dykeman refused her first appllca

Hon for a divorce, at the home of

her parents, and that the c|»lld.

Oalen Cheater Hill, lived with her.

"The law does not make It a

man'* duty to support two homes,"

declared Judge French 'A* long

aa you left your husband to live

at hla mother-In law'*, he need not

support you."

Hill had come prepared to testl

fy na to hla fitness to hold the

son's custody. He had brought

along a bo* of toola and a football.

Thetio he Intended to Introduce

a* evidence of lilr affection for his

son. He H.ilil he hail presented the

tool* and bull at the mother In

law* home last Christmas lie glfte

for Chester

They had been thrown out of

the window Into tho mud. he said,

after he left the house and the

boy never not them

When .fudge French dismissed

the case, Mill picked the child up

in hie Rrms, with the result that

copy of the Morning Grouch, with

words "Kangeroua lio not open,"

scrawled over It with a pencil.

"There wasn't any explosive In

the can," explained Payne, "Ijing's

name was written i.ong' on an at

tached note that said 'Mr. Chief

Kong, I have 75 bombs, nnd If this

don't get you, one of them will.

A. P. K.. :n;iV4 P A, Tacoma.""

A well known bluff about 150 feet

high corresponds to the Pacific ave.

address In Tacoma. There are no

buildings or houses In the 300

block there.

"I shall keep the homh for a

souvenir." declared Chief Lung,

Wednesday. "1 refuse to worry."

*»• writ*

ONE CENT

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mance- and adventure are

comprised in the list of

books to he published in

The Star, ONH BOOK

SI/I I) NOVEL COM

PLKTE HVERY WHFK.

Mm Mill engaged with htm In a

brief tug-of-war on the spot whfrs

I»e»tli tugged with Ihe life of a

condemned man several year* ago.

"You!" repeated Mri. Hill. "I,et

*o of that boy!"

Mlll'i fare grew hard for a mo

m« nt, then hi* big hand* relaxed.

He aet the lad tenderly down,

picked up the Christmas presents

he had fetched. and at rode out of

th« room. looklrg straight ahead

and uttering no word.

lU*d -The !!..» l.nt.lm Hii.b.n.l

MAYOR DAVIS' WIFE

BAKES OWN BREAD

CLEVELAND, Feb. 17.— Mr*.

Harry L. Dkvli, wife of Cleve

land'* major, bakes her own

bread.

"1 do It because I think no

housekeeper ought to buy from

the baker what she can make

herself," said Mra. Davis today.

"Reside*, Harry llkea my

bread "

lU%a<f "Th* llnw (mnlen llnnhMtd"

FIVE MEETINGS FOR

AUSTIN GRIFFITHS

Austin F. Griffiths, candldnte for

mayor, will address five meetings

Thursday evening. He will speak

at Thome's hall, Green l,ake. the

Ijibor temple, Interlake achool.

North Fnd Progressive club and

the Zlon Baptist church

Rfml "Th* R«(»r <»»r«|rn lliml*rui<f"

WEEPS EVERY TIME

SHE SEES TROLLEY

BT. PAtTL, Minn.. Feb. 17 —

Because she weeps every tlmn

she thinks of a trolley car.

Miss Rose Mather Is today

suing the St. Paul City Hallway

Co. for $22,500 damages. She

clalma her condition resulted

from her being In a street car

accident.

Hoi%,t "The l<n«e liftnlfli lln«hAn<l"

ACCUSED INNOCENT

RRNO. Nev., Feb. 17.—N0 bill

w«r returned today by the Mineral ;

county grand jury at lln wt home

against Dr. Frank McKlnley In-!

dlau agency superintendent, and 1

K. It, Hnllou, agency farmer They i

IjWern accused of killing Frank j

Sveber at Schurx 'ist December. J

The alleged strt.-vulatlon of

Weber, how ever, will not be drop- '

ped.

ll«vi«l "Thp <o»r«trn II n-littnil"

IS ROCKEFEI LER OIL

FEEDING U-BOATS?

ATIIKNB, (ireece. Feb. 17.—

Is the Standard Oil company

providing fuel for the 25 sub

marines now actively engaged

In torpedo warfare In the Medi

terranean? The question Is

often asked In Greece *lnce tor

poUolngs have become frequent.

EDITION iL

PARENTS PROTEST

QUESTIONS; GILL

ALSO IS 'STUMPED'

You have heard a lot al>out "the city with the best public

schools in the United States"—Seattle.

But wouldn't it give you a jolt to learn that, according

to an official mind UM used in the public schools on 12-year

old children, mo«t of the officials who govern this remarkable

municipality arc "feeble-minded"?

Not to say that some of them have proved themselves

practically "imbeciles"?

According to the much-discussed Binet test, the ranks

of the mentally unsound have been augmented by the follow

ing distinguished company:

Mayor Gill.

Councilman Hesketh.

Councilman Fitzgerald.

County Clerk Sickels. f

Sheriff Hodge.

Secretary Jones, of the school board.

AND ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OP

EDUCATION!

The Binet test, the invention of two French psychologists,

has been under criticism in other cities for some time. Under

its provisions hundreds of public school pupils here have been,

declared to be mentally below par.

Parental Curiosity Leads to an Inquiry

Parents of some of these children finally began to asWV

themselves, "What is this test under which our little ones

have been branded as feeble minded?"

This started The Star in its inquiry.

The Star learned that when a pupil'a work begins to fall

below classroom par, he is put thru a mental efficiency test. ,

If he fails to pass, he is placed in a class aegregated frotnT

the rest of the students. He is then known as a "deficient!?

A totally deficient child is sent to a school for feeble

minded at Medical Lake.

Here arc two sentences which children, under the Binet

test, are expected to re(>eat after hearing them once:

"I saw in the street a pretty little dog. He had

curly brown hair, short legs and a long tail."

A normal child of 12 is supposed to be able to repeat the

sentences exactly.

Not one of a score of grownup Seattleites. officials and

private citizens, could do it. *

When Mayor (lill was asked to repeat the sentence, he

declared he would not attempt to.

"I'll bet any man in Seattle $100 that I can start in at

the top floor of the Alaska building and ask every man on

every floor the same thing, and there won't be 10 per cent

of them that'll do it correctly. I don't believe 1 per cent

could."

Councilmen "Fall Down" on Te*t

Councilman Hesketh gave the answer this way, after the

sentences had been repeated thrice to him:

"I saw in the street a pretty little dog. He had brown

curly hair, short legs and a long tail."

He had the words "brown" and "curly" transposed.

Here's the way Councilman Fitzgerald got it:

"I saw in the street a pretty little dog. He had curly

hair, short legs and long hair."

Sheriff Hodge, after the first reading, repeated, "I saw

on the street a pretty little dog. He had brown curly hair and

a cunning little tail."

When told that the dog had a "long" tail, the sheriff

leaped out of his chair and declared the two sentences were

misleading.

"Whoever heard of a little dog with a long tail?" he

shouted. "1 got the sense of the thing as it should be. A

This Pretty Miss Has Forsaken a

Drawing Room for Fame in Movies

Fade out, "Boclety life," cut In, "Seek* Movie career." That'a

what Mite Nan Carter It doing. In pr!vate life ehe la Mm Nan B.

Slgourney and prominent In eoclety, but new »n« hae foraakan lha

drawing room for dramatic rolaa in filmland,

(Continued on page 5.)