The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 12, 1917, Page 1

ee pean “boner Going Up! x ; NIGHT EDITION” Send a message home to mother The Stare dally etreulation is ; orrow. It's Mothers’ aaj ct morrow, It's Mothers’ day. The now the biggest of any newspaper Westher fotweaet lot « ‘ in the Northwest. And every day ‘Showers to W grows @ little bigger. THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS enh pab tages VOLUME 19 SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, MAY 12 ONE CENT” IN WONDERFUL PHOTOGRAPH OF GREATEST BATTLE IN JUST BEHIND THE BATTLE LINE. This wonderful picture comes direct from the western front in France, where the British and French are attacking the Hindenburg line in the greatest battle in the world’s history. The pepsi: shows war at close range. It was taken immediately back of the battle line, at the first dressing station behind the trenches, and shows wounded soldiers being cared for and bodies being removed. Notice at the left, two German soldiers, Wearing small round hats, being used, after capture, to carry stretchers. CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL TELLS TALE OF GERMAN CRUELTY MayYetGet - RUNNING AROUND INCRCLES | WX heat NoJob Mayor Volunteers | 3/7 .| Pit in Yet in of City for France ! y / _ Riot Sight! IsSho f | Gamblers Uncurbed as May! Echo cin Feb id oo of) bg 2 Old He a of Des | ri Bi | losed | ler rch for lenseless Town a Vote of 215 to 178 Orders Reeae pm: See | Work Put Wo Dest : seh es rf * tas toe | ANSWERS ADS IN PAPER|HOMES BROKEN I Conference Committee to ; FUTURES SKYROCKET Liiseed = The following rd Russell, stal Give Roosevelt Chance to| | (iy, qf @-° a auate essing of May tature bye ae = eo mi « ee . p tention of wheat speculators to commission which ts to visit Russia te Raise Four Divisions. f RO ‘ the July and September deliv ; id in the organization of the mew fer ‘ PATER ISS (oa Ps ¢ onieans 8 cries today. They forced July 4 pablie. ‘ N up 28 cents over the opening | WASHINGTON, Ma 12.—Supporters of Colonel ; ; , ; bid, to $2.75, and September up | By Charles Edward Russell 4 ‘ opi “ a €& . 30 cents, to $2.46, at the close r WASHINGTON, D.C. Roosevelt won an uphill fight in the house today when, | 7} { * me ‘ , of a riotous day | May 12—A_ letter from by a vote of 215 to 178, the house recommitted a con- : ; Ls ~ May Ms t whi h Jesterd y at Senlis, in France, tells me ference report on the select service army bill with in- “ oa . : por j e market today ae work oft iis tie rf ” Niet ‘ “ “ t . old town, so far as it can o se a ooseve volunteer division & “ = - “i Officials of the Board of Trade, ¥S ’ ’ structions to insert the Roosevelt ty: L i . “4 se j which fixes wheat prices for the ever be restored, is now plan. ae Se % -Aep A world, stopped trading in May fu nndéer. wae The slight democratic majority jer se. For the first Aaa ae = 5 ~g ~ ie a 4 ‘hheal anthe 3ut it adds that no ef- tein the house was overcome by a da orig als were api int ia Po, < -- 1 official sala today that fort and no time will ever Sprinkling of democrats from all pay Aah se Clark, the last to vote. 4 . as action of the board prevented a rise soften in the minds of the was wildly cheered when he vote “Ne, ‘ J a . jwhich might have sent wheat to people the recollection of bill. By the house action, the bill| “No,” as was Minority Leader “Sh asada ; | $0 A spectal committee will mest} what they went thru, and joes back to conference between | Mann, who voted the same <a, : tes 4 aay to set a pri ora ng 7 7 wah S PSouse and senate. House conferees| Miss Jeanette Rankin won loud| ; .. ‘ contracts in May wheat. For the . having been at Senlis I instructed to stand for the| applause when she voted to let “ . inp, *#E Don'T KHOW |Present, at least, July and can well understand. Roosevelt plan to the last Roosevelt lead inteers to the| iy ree > 3 | WHERE HE'S ber futures will not be affe It was a quiet and quaintly beaus ‘The senate originally adopted the | fighting fro | ‘ ae GOIN’ But The crisis which brought about tiful place 25 miles north of re Roosevelt plan. The house origin resentative Sherwood ‘ ‘ HES on the action of the board is supposed ) } It had 20,000 inhabitants, ally rejected it » margin of 37) cra ears old, a ely . to have resulted from jold Roman amphitheatre, a Betas votes by which the Roosevelt|ovation when he for the 7 A, : . we ~ S M Vast quantities of wheat being} | ful cathedral, a gem of an old Nor amendment carried was surpris-| Roosevelt plan y Leader a4 RY Te . bought that do not exist and cannot |man church and an old man of a * ing even to the colonel's friends. | Kitchin changed f s intended P Sy ys < be obtained jcharacter so remarkable he was fa= The house cheered frenziedly as/ vote and responded “No. Adr ‘ Purchase of wheat that cannot be | mous thru all that part of France, Speaker Clark announced the vote.| istration leaders generally voted 80; : LoS - frané by al Ee governments, and and might have stepped out of a Seldom has the chamber been #0 against the Roosevelt amendment Pits reas ‘ | Muleting of Western traders, who | | romance, ape are credited with having sold to | ‘This was Eugene Odent, the : “ iia European governments and others | mayor, and what made him not wheat they could not get, by East. | | only celebrated but revered and ern financiers who knew true con | beloved was his extraordinary Serrerne\o | ditions | kindness, gentleness and active ‘ ee benevolence. RE T a * * * # * * Most of his time was spent in | listening to the troubles of his peo T T : le. He regarded them as his ehils "pil GIVE H. S. FESTIVAL PEASAN RY REVOL S Bee. ana of them, Ded ee ged ee Preston, of [the plan will work to two pod | Gtadents ’ ot ‘Bredawes -tleh | jand touching custom, called him oi Borvioe iibring the oie: “Besides making the boyn feel |*Chool gave their annual May fes Fight f Land M i N R i Cen seme Ee of haat Jchk tithe luke th “ - “ltival in the schoo! auditorium Fri Fight for an enacing ew ussia Worked to Aid Sick i a va ie fa over the country, who voted for the| pee community solemnly aj a ( -— oo Phe: d good reason. tintin at they are do! day night, before an audience of 800 ie ’ They hai : ey, Wddes. teh chaleee of te |will tend to unity Beattie doing, I eople BY WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD — |Iy 150,000,000 acres of land have| (@) S 1 He had been mayor when thé } wet © . Unite Salt Correspondent been seized by the peasants thru {cholera swept Senlis years ago, and reer Voeieteanes:, 80 Would Send Committees PETROGRAD, May. i2— |" Russia. The sants could | had worked day and night among proclaimed a patriotic fete day, “I'd like to see committees sent Anxiety of the plain people of [not wait for the promised break | This is Miss Echo June Zahl, who | the sick before the executive committee (to each of the registration places ADVERTISING MANAGER'S Russia instantly to bridge the [ing uy of vast. estates under 1 CIGARET WAS left the University of Oregon, at| His father had been mayor when of the council at its meeting The committees, I think hould be DAILY TALK chasm between the autocracy | pniedyes that such a distribution gq Ns | Eugene, and came to Seattle bent the Prussians invaded that region Sedatronsay merning composed of men who represent that was and the democracy | would come soon after the assem the name they gave | upon finding work. in 1870, and for. courage, devotion Mayor Hiram ( ll is another |something in the city’s life. There that is to be—without carefully : | bly had definitely mapped out Rus cere Y : Echo Zabi, whe left} and steadfast wisdom had won the édvocate » {should be prominent labor men testing out the bridge—men- a the girl who loved 4 to Se sia's future ‘ reluctant admiration of the ine “I'l do my bit,” says Gill, “If| prominent bankers and merchants tars aces Russia today | Confiscation and distribution of with all her might, pps: * vaders the mo ent finds favor | will|4nd professional men. It should “The werkman and soclallete land has in many sections of Rus | : : He ‘ At the end of August, 1914, the proclaim the day a holiday and fll| be their duty to tender to the lads) mistrust the duma leaders, [sia heen formally decided upon by tho in vain, el ‘ Ws : describes | Prussian hordes came down agaity be on a committee to greet the | Who register the wishes of Se At Seattle's theatres tomorrow in-| therefore the government is her au will be “| vote of popular assemblies love sent her directly third story. Me Five miles north of Senlis is » lads who are chosen. attle. clude powerless and practically under Soldiers Desert to Get Land . - B ECHO. NE long rise of ground, trending north “I'm not strong for ‘rah, rah, rah’| “And if we compose our commit aMcana e wine arrest in its own house,” was The movement has become so in the path of the |BY "JU ZAHL |!" south patriotism on the part of us who |tees in this manner th who are ptt chyna | the apt summary of the situa general thruout the land that Ger bullets — and the “Good morning!" | “3 fatter Defenseless City are too old to go. It's the boys {on them will come to have a p Margaret Illington at Mission tion made in the duma yester: etitd Nidve wricomeded fo sn | | | On September 1 the Germans drew up their artillery on that ridge, and the first thing the startled peo- |ple in the town knew, the shells 1 started out of a messy who are called, but this kind of a|er and a better understanding of pet Sri aimee mh ved olo-| day by Delegate Shulgin, |r eieat dissatiatanlion aniohs man she loved, him. pea at se Prt Ree pares celebration make them feel | What It’s all about The friction between the dumal soidiers at the front, by insinuation self a hero “Under ; better make them kn Wants Mass Meeting } nial ; detite Blane |leaders and representatives of the|that unless the soldiers deserted ‘ ‘ ee eyes. : ‘ that the city is bel hem Gaines thinks a mass meeting Raith Storey at Wie Sameer: > |soiiers ant gworstcian, GEN PONE! cn! wane niime th perticivate in Two Flags,” lived. | saw your name on the reg failing among tad ing them well s eclating the should be held to appoint a central Clara Kimball Young, at Rex been apparent Today, however ister at the office,” said the The place was utterly unde= | at ‘ ‘ | owner of the eyes. im their share. Numerous desertion @ it IS OUIDA’S | “Wh a |fendea as Paxton, Il ‘ D greeters’ oc tees f difference. Russ 06 i) : 0 put it the: rowl- ste Oe 1 fot the plar and for aud eb Apso fing | and entertaining things are com. | Point o atts 4 a fs Bs i pram. | have come from this report Bart nbvaln aReaHE ee put it there?” | growl > ie Germant tam Bain jastic le also advocates a great meeting | 1h yap rage lants are taking things into the eS b ead it o Hag . ae ne tae toneatien is re. |and "daee Bt tab Ley Gerth py A SHO. CUNO Oe) ES han | The St It ia “Why, you did—last night.” igainst such devils leeiving support. There le a unt-jafter the final ection is made| } Peasants Are Not Heeded TO HURRY MISSION nm the otar, a She smiled. ‘Twas a nice |tries, they handily scrapped versal belief that some mark of es-|some days after the registration. | yruyi particulars in today’s| Pleas by duma_ representatives gins Monday, and is smile with the r 1 Star. sent broadcast thruout Rus to j So this was the Y, W. @ A. 1 Their target was the old cathe Relatives and friends of the mem preach the doctrines of the new| WASHING TON, N May 12.—Depart the first of a series of jst eighveuen up and gave my bou-|dral ure of the American mission to Rus. six classics — each Golr. the onoe-ove There were Hide in Cellars William Gaines, chief city regis-|ington infantry, will give a dance| THE FASTEST GROWING PAPER) jorant peasants to Walt for com | fenly four more beds in the room The people hid in their cellars, i *\the confiseation, they would lose sacrifices they are about to make, committee to arrange the detail And many other interesting Came word of an equally menacing teem should be bestowed by the | city on those who are about to fight for democrac bers of D company, Second Wash plan of government and tell the ig tration clerk, who is receiving |for the benefit of the company mess| IN THE NORTHWEST plete organization are apparently) *# Will be speeded because of ad-/} complete in itself. _ Room for Another Bed | All day the bombardment went on, games of volunteer workers to|fund, at the Knights of Pythias hall, falling on deaf ears vices of continued internal dis-| Gee, they're conservative with} Ry night about one-fifth of the help reg rvice, declares Saturday night Word indicates today that_near-'turbances ther | (Continued on vage 8) _(Continued on page 8)