The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 30, 1917, Page 1

The Star receives the full leased wire service of the United Press, the world’s greatest telegraph service, and the full service of the Newspaper Enterprise association, the world’s greatest news-feature organization, NEW giving it exclusive articles by famous special writers which no other Seattle newspaper can offer its readers. Cp’ | -LAST_EDITION track of the calendar. Here is it, one day before May, and he's pre- STILL GROWING The Star'e daily circulation Is now the biggest of any newspaper In the Northwe And every day it grows a little bigger. dicting the same old wet stuff. RR re ee Says he: “Tonight and Tuesday, THE [THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS silent [ms ont 19 SEAT MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1917. ONE CENT S. May Send Guardsmen Into Trenches in Six Weeks; La Follette Holds uP ee by Referendum Demand ath ' _ al Logan Billingsley’s __PIRSI PICTURE OF JOFFRE IN THE UNITED STATES } Friend, the Newsie, : “i : s ; ' Is After That $100 | ASKFOR ‘ TROOPS THE LEAD NOW cription law is BY GEORGE MARTIN cw ASHINGTON, ies LONDON, Apri! may have lost her t fighting force in the war with Germany In the torpedoing of the Amer tive draft fight, night when the 8, after the 30.—It w c lean armed tanker Vacuum Sat ‘ on the question by a ter of a few d urday. Lieut. Thomas, U. 8. N 7 toy ; a a in command of the gun crew, ‘ ; ' p nseripei United States n and nine of his men were ; Lanes : , ‘ \ Pilla: now m lized this among those reported mi 9 they « ¢ ame seing two di ¢ net bills, country are on their way today. The total missing is ' containing many of the me features, it will now be the other in one of yen the whole ques< e is ready to prolong idment providing for ption, which he was n account of the thought to be 16 Three naval re were among those save to the European front and less than six weeks be they are actually e¢ tled with tl the Europe: chief ma Germar Cecil Kane, the newsboy friend “ j of Logan Billingsley : dations erican socie : ai . government ap- La } tte, it y a final vote for @ proval of the admit . ‘LOGAN WR one life c 1 peful that arrang tion e Ame ent e n opened, the senate may al days or more to dis- is possibility of the 4 being sent to the house MMeries—anoth tion, because a rule could be mar take hours }secured there limiting debate g the dispatch of the » within a few days. This: spoil La Follette’s scheme to pitate a discussion of his iment This question, {t was believe ie to. be of prime. inportanee | | ‘AGAIN; » ANSWERS « the conference bass between Pres! amet t Wil Vivi t the ping of & Hesse. orticlaiy, “Great | STAR'S UERIES, ghetnargahen, Re P. Dorp Field. Marshal Joffre, member of the French war council and hero of | {Ties 1m ’ France, at the left, and Gen. Hugh L. Scott, United States chief of staff, at the right, Ip an auto just 7° ale ditiouary-terce be sent. France has| | LOST WITH VACUUM re sess Ssottmsom arriteu ow thn preset sachs. the Myrtowes formally and strongly urged it thra Marsha! Joffre. Great Britain, how-| oak | Gar, te known to ve ta. thore ec| If this te the “redtatred m14,°| ON RETURN TRIP 5 9 cord with the plea of Marshal Joffre.) whom Logan Bill mentioned} NEW YORK, A Vaca Want Troops at Once one of b's Star, um Ot! Co. made fore crew r words, the bill today is position it was a we t to the introduction of ll amendments which have been and discussed for hours k It became known today that the| he is willing to tackle the job of noon a d nd indicating p @liies want American troops, in| cay ther esnaped: boo that t e'Vacwimant Hopes to Save 2 Million _Days in Seattle rain, who is in RESERVE OFFICERS batches of several hundred, to co He Kane t 4 all t rs Were t exellgeaedistesy cop oe at once to Europe aboard every ship ay Lieut. 7 as, U. BR ON, was in “Without a valid argunent start there will be some sligh - ‘ beac bour ay gee TO BE CALLED MAY 6 that sails. This will obviate neces-| wh * t le Capt.| against it, and with every class | fusion, ty yt Pr oduced, will not be J sity for the concentration of enor-| to 8.3. Ha ided the steam of people lined up behind it, (to wher of the pla er rif were on the dock | S5&0 aeeniedepanss Pe " ara 7 mous masses of men in one place! might daylight saving looke like a jare¢ ed a the shoot between pam | wPnt ! pyliger tee sits gga 3 : 4 ev nick ae and the crippling of food and munt-| by the mar : winner to me,” says Councilman Viewing it from the standpoint | s¢ nt ¢ mer Verona | niit be disposed of with such dis-|the leaders of the nation's: @ tions ships to carry them his desire to let the boy get t Hanna, father of the council (of economy measured In fer art deputies i o Everett | oat "a. vine “will be aetutad oe gers pedir ive notif cat May The allies want mobilized Nation-| reward, in od t ar Fesolution to move the hands of cubic feet and kilowatts, one uses city dock, November 5, and wheth- | Patch ‘" Il be secured| They will receive notification May al Guard units which were at the| Star toda) 1 Seattic clocks ahead an hour [little ¢ e c ‘ A, is t nthe olhee she ania ua Neatnine pena Presidio, border, because they feel these Cecil is P fficer and| for the summer months summe orning doe se ject gsemve Who think. with the cratorical| Sah Weanelana oe Were equipped by their border work in a fat as five | following, saved The resolution was scheduled light on summer evening the : E ee edu z Se to go at once to the Western front it Simpson Williams, er for presentation to the council new ca case and train within sound of t bi a te ates and for a vote Monday after a fa are guns, so they will be tempered for Wit Giasos. oft neon. att too. ferac battle in not longer than five weeks er; Singros, Vime All Saturday evening and Ald to Food Problem It developed today that both Eng-| amen; Dia und A Sunday the phones a the And it ‘ th Dy Who Is Exempted? Jand and France have stressed the Hatton, w “doubtful five” councilmen were ties are a h Here are the citizens of the United States who will be ex- | meed of America’s food and money olas Hitson| beseiged by citizens asking for — ge the is r empted from the selective draft “Swat once, but have avoided asking now I . adoption of Hanna's ordinance. hei y. Sun All persons with dependent relatives (this includes all mar- of the Vac t y long ligh and bac ried men) and all physicaly or morally unfit persons eat numbers of troops at once d to give hin m Oil My phone 1 t resident of the United States and the legislative, 8 want ter! t was stated that the V fear of affecting the course of | Co 1 President Wilson's conscription| If Logan wants Cecil to get th a regular cargo boat, not ato save da but d state, bill in congress. | reward, instead of the Red Cro as firat reported. She had i hea H 1 1 t $ mi It is even thought possible—so| The Star » » glad to co-ope ed a cargo ta on at New h o e f well-rec 4 18 t n which the great is the European allies’ desire him t¢ at end his p was rt Mak . a0 is a pa t $s particiy to have the Stare and Str on f h a oa f fut " rd The mak « ‘ Rritt the t w *rov made } e di ry exemption or draft- the battle hat Col ‘ | ¢ 1 e p B can on e the Klatawa itary of custom house and postal velt himself might be the 6 Sta Ay Was | Cot t ‘ © the claim that for a little time after we (Continued on page 7) Hirect examinat testified en at armories, arsenals and navy yards, pilots put it there. This, however ‘ as | United Press ated that a tota rifles. were 1 near t an ee ly engaged in’ sea service, and farm workers. epg Fadl tee oe of 18 men. including Cart larris Shifting Clock Ahead One Hour Would Save })) (0°). ile entire ume th sons engage adnstries noceseasy 10 (30a will Fight Separately The Star offic ably lost Seventeen Billion Hours, Says Expert)! was a! the dock These troops the allies have a ' The Vacuur r ‘ | Under Attorne Vanderveer's The oe Limit ] sured this government will not be| The handwriting ar ators er BY F. M. KERBY the clock forward this spring ross questions, Britt admitted that fused with French, English, Rus-| are the same as those in previous | ret ns aaa NEW YORK, April 30.—Six turn it ba to normal .|a rifle was fired from Altho the age limits within which a man may be subject sia, Indian or other troops, but will | lett UL 8 trict Attorney | be erican teen billion, eight hundred and © next o that during | First he said that it was to conseription, lopted by the house of representatives, are fight as American units—under| Allen pronounces it Logan's signa- | the ners and Lie Thom thirty million | the five sun months an ex- | Verona left the dock; tt from 21 to 40 years, itis probable the ages prescribed in the sen- their own colors t es, in oc 1, the Americans num hours of day- | tra hour of daylight may be t was while the ate bill—21 to 2 the ones to be finally adopted by both The allies’ recommendations to-| The letter reads as follows ered light may be | automatically obtained for the etill at the de romise would raise the limit to 30. The @ay Were intended to wean this Sund. 6 The Vacuum was of 1,992 ton added to the H und ten millio Was Close to Ship ; authorized to designate which ages shall be called Sia “nue from. the idee. that mil se spviel two nus, forward And available time said Ma Mi || meas. you: geld Vanceniee before American troops go abroad Col al ¢ crew of the people Mark ent of the Boroug oe : ¥ re its substitutes. Boys under 21 may enlist they mu wi" h fo Dr Fa k (24. She of the United of Ma att 1 and ct not |e ; an ' ith oc f months. The to the fuil-|seemed to be t 5 » I tatesforpre | the ork Day! Saving Ee . (Continued on page 7) (Continued on pag ! v4 paredness, | Soenmiltiegs |i) tae, oe Bo i te haTabald Ot ane All Must Register se ae nae’ (Catal ool to the end Yes,’ said Britt : All men liable to military service under the conscription P | ‘er, a period of Britt testified that no rif 1 an will be ec apelled to report then nselves for registration at WAR BONDS WIDE SAE B® = fo the lead ta | 000 hours of additional da | shooting tl : : ve wo me he If they fail to do so, they will be held Abie for trial a PARCUS M.MARKS orn by all tho | lent uring one hour fo: been im i SAE pty ied aval misdemeanor charge, and imprisonment from three months to e Star Offers to Sell U. S. Bonds Over Its Counters to Public} veiigerest nations of Burope | exch’ man, woman and child in |Mim without his seeing them ane yeat dew ts will be saves 3 | sod caecis tate few a game | Se Cae Ra eee | To Be Called at Once HE United States war bonds will b’ choline dlgell | Seater ic ot New Yor could be utilized in such a way, | ADVERTISING MANAGER'S rhe first 500,000 of the new army, composed exclusively in denominations of $25 and upward sheila its Represent. |. figuring 1,000 men each, wore. DAILY TALK of the young men summoned to the colors under the conscription | It would be yu or t government ma Missouri, at | Ing elght hours a day for | bill, probably will be assembled for ing in August or early | country if eve ald ne m. Here y Daylight three years on each ship, Sun- | n September, The first quota will be drawn: by lot : Py / 4 ra The ent t ecretar ew York days and holiday included, to | ° more g wae He y n't. | Suva 860 rirat tine batteenipe, | THE H.C. OF L. Pay of Enlisted Men 4 ernment € r bea 1 Se a ‘ by the counting the extra hour as val 1 ae Be The house bill contains a provis to Increase the pay of an grou und capitalists, but ibe lanee hora committee, of whieh Tam uable to only half the popula. | = won't bother you nearl tite igen and noncommissioned officers in the anny and Sime } the ole of the people Seattle, Wash., April 30, 1917. chairma riefly, to turn | tion.’" } so much if you~ will al Guard by $15 a month, making the pay of enlisted men $30.30, : Wm. G. McAdoo , a watch the ads in The Pope nts to help give these Secretary of U. S. Treasury, 2 GUARD COMPANIES NO OFFICIAL worD Star every day and take The Roosevelt Division While the house killed the Roosevelt plan of raising a volun- bonds as wide a distribution as possible Washington, D. C. | : a Sea 5 i $ advantage of the oppor- teer division, the senate passed the Harding amendment, 56 to 31, printed herewith to the secretary of the United States goyernment the immediate jee tunities to save money France by the volunteer plan. treasury use of its business office as a selling PORTLAND, April 30, —~ Com-| WASHINGTON, April 30.—Neith that you will find there. op one Star regard a patriotic priv- place for the disposal of a portion of the [panies A and 1}, Third Oregon In-jor the navy nor state departments) — oattia’s Jivest and best Prohibition F ‘ he gove . is fantry, # nder quarantine today had any official word of the tor ned ak. s seta Wit aaa tad bibeic-iiu acis Gel or it to give free to the govern war bond issue, such service to be per- te ihe Armory, as the result of two |pedoing of the Vacuum up to early] stores advertise — their The senate alopted:s: provialon fobvcding:(hs sled the adver ng ar put ty formed by us without commission of any well-defined cases of spinal menin-| afternoon | cig b § to soldiers in uniform. ; ‘ e of t th ection kind xitis, which have developed in the While the navy refused to give choicest bargains in The The house rejected a prohibition clause. In addition will turs We believe the general public of Amer- ie ti oles Gia Cadets ted Cer duet yas te EUS A ularly, You 16, 500 in Seattle bt the ica wishes to take part in a really popular Soe oie detention’ carn eat thal meen Law O, C. ahbia might just as well get ately 16,500 young men in Seat is estimated, ur tion disposal of these bonds, particularly those Clackamas rifle range your share of them. ubject to the draft between the land 27. About , ¢ bonds 1 of small denomination, and we hope you BU Pears tA ekt i pif) =o A dr aaa 72,000 are eligible in the state. Only a small percentage of these, will allow us to be instrumental in t YORK ty dnt iaine LALEBBRLU ai aoe Myer cai however, Will be called in the first quota of 500,000, according te P reer E Roosevelt. tc ered to raise Mitche 10 escaped from. the ; Se iggests that bond dealer rendering such service alike to govern- not one, but four army divisions to| King county jail last October after |THE FRE NoRTrUeer Adjt, Gen, Thompson or other institutions equipped ment and people. be rushed to the firing line ip|serving about half of a six-month | bonds, EDITOR THE SEATTLE STAR. France, sentence imposed for shop liftin, work of distributir