The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 21, 1917, Page 1

Seys in France Tobacco Fund,” at the Arena next ‘CATTLE, WASH.,, How would YOU like to be without a smoke over in the trenches? Then kick thru with coin for a ticket to the benefit boxing show for “Our eobee | GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY NEWSPAPER IN PACIFIC NORTHWEST | TUE SDAY, AUGUST 21, 1917 ONE CENT inne LS yi al A <5 halle LAST EDITION @ We have a new weather predic tion, folks. Forecaster Salisbury says: “Tonight and Wednesday, cloudy or foggy.” Heretofore we've been holding out the fog dope. GREATEST BATTLE IS RAGING ¥U. S. TO BOOST SHIP YARD WAGES IN SEATTLE. ) WORKERS’ # CREASE CONCEDED ocal Shipbuilders Forced Issue, According to Re- ports From Washington STRIKE DANGER PASSES Mr. Russell is now writing for this newspaper the story, in a series of articles, of what he saw and heard in great Russia, and his impressions. He will tell the truth about the revolution, the government and the thousand and one things of interest in that huge land—the truth as revealed to him in his double capacity as an Amer- ican official and a conscientious reporter. His articles will appear ex- clusively in The Star and its sister papers. They will be by far the most important and interesting newspa- per articles on the war, to date. They will reveal the inner workings of the Russian democ- racy, its hopes and aspirations, its plans and fears, as they could by no one less than the trained ob- ‘Seattle shipyard workers Will be the first in the nation to receive wage increases for bor on government con- cts. This was the word flashed om Washington, D. C., over Jnited Press wires this morn- Ag. with the announcement it a nation-wide strike in teel shipyards working on ‘rmnment contracts had prevented by granting eases. Encie Sam, in first clash rganized labor on war work ha Tecognized that increased cost Mving Warrants a higher wage Beattie shipbuilders, according put the new wage up to the govern brought the isaue omptly to a head Advance of 50 Cents Agreements between shipbulld @re and the Metal Trades Union Workers expired here August 1 Gnd a new government scale will fake ite place ‘ Dhe new scale is am advance of than 50 cents a day in some patances Daily w of most of the work will be jand upward The incraPfex will be granted nout the country as union agree- ‘ nis expire. ) Where no joint agreement is now effect. their ca will be sut mitted to a propos comn lof three members Russell’s First Article Answers the Query: Will Russia Fight? ne appointed —— fof Labor. and the third te be ap ‘pointed by the s Officials of the government and, union, which controls boiler hers. drillers, shipsmiths, mc King garage, at 10th ave. and Jac and practically every employe Eastman, editor of t the steel ship hulls, indicated son st.. would like to have the 2... | she couact! jere is no doubt that the den il be granted dvance 50 Cents a Day cash je new scale is an advance of ver } jore than 50 cents a day in some was $1 more in the dr | Cases. failed to get o he told the The New York shipyards strike may be settled before the special é commission pian ip put into effect.’ headquarters Tuesday morning bin H. D, Lemieu, proprietor of the By United Press Le ter and $3.25 loose dic the ounobet « drawer, know police sday night is a pleasant t % oacco Fund” scientific boxing benefit at the Arena next Tu All morning we have below. telling us that their checks are in the ma they arrive We will not! The wise n $5.00 checks promptly—some used special delivery stamps to be sure that we got thing in the morning Hazen J. Titus wa of those to be “held ur ‘ Virgil C. Garvey, the well known pool room man of Second ave. and Seneca st to The Star office this morning with a $5.00 check in his hand because his name was not on the list published yesterday, held up for five beans. We accommodated him in Everett when he saw The Star with his na We insist that if the boxers are willing to give and take punches in the roped arena, men honored by us in the “hold-up” columns ought to be tickled foolish to get a ringside Beat for $5.00 member, Walter Do rform for ‘poor nu r off his troile two children, and I am a long ways from be » about one hundred more down here at First he right side of the column, I am inclosing he of the Metropolitan Building Co., is givi 0 wrote the only Nut Yours t nly Nu Nut House. er’s bank for $5.00 ‘ on fe certaint sing some’ when you put me in the same column with such ires as Joshua Green and Alex Panta pntribute toward that $5,400,000." W. W. Connor Prederick Strave Col. Geo, Lampini A. W. Leonard 12 feun Dr. M. A. Matthews Jake Gottstein J. BE. Swalwell A. L. Landin R. V. Ankeny ert Butterworth . , Walter Fulton Kert Swezen ante cain Dr. Clyde M. Mattice Dr. Carlyle De Mille Dr. J. 8. Metride 1. Trotter ohn G. Von Merbers dudge Borke Dan Bass A. Cheshire Mitchell dames Banker dadge Wal! aa Sion s nt isston af te" Fwierscn GARAGE THIEF DID WILSON KNOWS TOO SEEK AUTOS TO TAKE S. S. MEN MP LEWIS : ping board NOT GET ALL OF IT MUCH FOR CONGRESS od Wire MILWAUKEE, Aug TO CAM Do you own an automobile? 'f you do, you and your ma chine may be ° the committees that started to work Tuesday to autos in which to raid of President Wit knows so much tor when he reported the theft tothe don't know how he can be put to wo quota to the national army to Camp Lewis As part of the plan for ag examined b who are to be called to colors Stanley Ed Dotsor with the first outfit, patriotic car drivers of drive the boys to the gates of the cantonment two in HANDS UPI!) “Holding people up for the patriotic purpose of swelling the “Our Boys in France T natetinn isda cn been receiving frantic phone calls from gentlemen named in the lists and will we please hold the presses until ing physician men examined among 400 men nen whose names today are transferred to the right-hand columns sent us their owners to pledge Many Promise Cars Auditor Norman Wa me heading the list He lost no time, and his $5.00 was the first to arrive at The Star He felt “slighted,” he and insisted that he wants to be ary to the mayor Assistant Corporation © B. Covington, z the Arena, money goes to buy tobacco for the Sammies at the front up in the paper,” writes Anton Delkin, the Chief the first to promise p asked to leave Altho the commi suspension of the practice, the or-|high cost of living very der was held up on request of May ve. 8S. and Stacy st ith a check on N Chamber Runs Draft which got under way today os, Hope you will buy a package of nuts today of Commerce Commercial Club will have , Was on the stand T THESE HAVEN'T PAID THESE MEN PAID Hawthorne to ar range for the 4 has given his indorsement efforts of the ganizations to honor the various patriotic asked The division boards and the dis ruled that this would | work considering exemption claims » necessary of the division boards 10 Eighth ave., | Dance at Dreamland Friday Night to Help Tobacco Fund for Sammies-— The Story of Great Russia Today BY CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL he Star today announces to its readers the return to active work of its staff writer, Charles Edward Rus- sell, who went to Russia on the Root commission by appointment of President Wilson server that Russell They will peer behind the mystery of that sudden revolu- tion, pierce the obscurity that shrouds recent history, and bring into the light of publicity the mo- tives behind the peasant revolts against the new authority and the hidden strings that seek to wreck the newest republic. PHEY WILL EXPLAIN KERENSKY, the “New Na- poleon,” not as he has been pic- tured, but AS HE IS; and they will detail the wonderful stories of Siberia’s prison camps when they heard the word of freedom. They will answer all the questions that anxious Ameri- cans are asking about Russia. They will be full of human in- terest and description of man- ners, customs and people. Read it TOMORROW IN THE STAR upe > ten dance at the ; who told Miss Dre and Fr headquarters Say night to hel; that would rather the te >» fund hoot a mat for the boys 4 not unwilling to Join France. Dance as f you want force ha ing th Joe Schern when he offered ision The ia bla hah You can fox — trot and one-step Eddie Pinkman 2 pounds, He has all his) 0a hay : «aes hair cording |2"4 5 tep to your heart's h and hair, and, 4 TdIDE | tone nd it will cost you only card Bickford, the examin best speci can have a good time a was the 7 e time help out the n Corporation Counsel |terially, Just look ther Caldwell, who asked for the hearing | today, for instance, at Richardson, superintendent |the chances — to Puget Sound Traction, Li money Standard Furniture Co. testified that the | Grote-Rankin Co. $1 000 invested | Red Front Clothing Co in properties here, and traction at-| McCormack Bros torneys attempted t6 bring out the to show that they oper-| The ated at a loss. When Corporation Counsel Cald- | Fraser-Pé Woodhouse-Grunbaum Rhodes Co. | Bastern Outfitting Co. aterson Co. Frederick & Nelson his assistant, Walter | ‘ that detailed ap-| Bon Marche pratsal figures be presented, the! rhe post offerings of Seattle’ Star it impossible for the to cross-examine Richardson stalls, He sald three ap-| als had been made President W. H. McGreath was on the stand in the afternoon. le Get Tickets for Tobacco Dance Quick, Boon — for a Single Battle cents. Ladies will be admitte tobacco in OPENHEARING $= cue ON CAR FARES ————— ADVERTISING MANAGER'S Whether or not the traction com DAILY TALK pany should be permitted to discon +|tinue the sale of 25 street car tick ets for $1 was the subject of a hear the state public service at the Chamber o' and Commercial Club you will watch ads in The Star fully every day sion ordered the/Will find you can redu best stores appear regularly in ‘The THE FASTEST GROWING PAPER IN THE NORTHWEST Allies Pounding German Line on 435-Mile Front! Attacking Waves of Crack German Troops Broken by Terrific French Fire. By Henry Wood ted ¥ tt « ndent VITH THE FRENCH ARMIES. TN THE FIELD, Auge 21.The greatest battle of the world was being fought today. Ir © se ‘ frontier—over 435 miles—the ¢ ere g a practically continuous offensive. rance’s great assault at Verdun, still driving on today, pleted the chain of battles which were welded in the forge war into one gigantic action of unprecedented extent and rower The great battle started with the Anglo-French offensive Flanders extended to the British offensive at Lens, attacks around St. Quentin, then to the at Chemin Des Dames, Moronvilliers and uded with he artillery fighting in Lore e down toSwitzerland The Western Front Has Never Seen cuch an Extensive Battle as This rhe s rity every been so asserted. th three € onths of fighting weather this yeah! é become precarious” and co-ordinated strategy underlies iting into one great battle es timed such a blow, but not in the French attacked the southern pivot of the 1 front has never seen such an extensive battles tern front may attacks. They have been so timed ch was pushing with terrific power today. © a week after the English attacked the north- lay the French are acking the southern pivot, where the German lines hinge on their famous Meuse retreat posi- Che drive comes exactly two weeks after the English k in Flanders threatened the German northern hold on vo huge offensives developed today, the \rras, St. Quentin: along the Aisne, and with unabated intensity Never ew soy Savas So Many Guns pifort it icentration of men artillery in the 1916 assault on Verdun. No offensive the intensity of this one, but the French in the ident ical sector, had surpassed it. d German artillery brought into the greatest concentration of nade superhur " whole r has yet seen. Dur- ng ry preparation by the French, alt] French military rules strietly of artificial lig I was able and proceed to an observation nt city than Douamont, as y thousands of gun flashes. \ ly light It was as tho there were a mill ht flashes |Great Shells Exploding in Air si? {Light Up Battlefield at Night The artill gave light enough for the French trench *'artillery to advance with every pock mark of No Man's Land n giant 380-millimeter (15+ ligh in the air they exploded with a flame and their brilliance outshone even of the countless other flashes. After each bursts the air seemed filled with long Is, punctuating the blackest sort of smoke hrapnel bits 1 1 had taken the German first lines in an amaz- ingly short time after leaping over the top. French Observer Hangs Helpless in Air as Target But Escapes The Germans sent out hurry calls and massed great re- serves, but in vain, Later special strosstruppen units (picked storm troops) were assembled for counter attacks—sev- eral at Beaumont at once In all the hell of fire in the air—one picture stood out vividly, It w attack made by a German airplane on a French observat “sausage” balloon. The French observer leaped out of | basket, but his parachute caught on the edge, leaving him suspended hundreds of feet over the earth, Phe German flyer darted back and deluged the air with a $}hail of machine gun bullets as French soldiers down below pulled frantically to bring the sausage down. When the balloon was finally brought back to earth the observer was ;/ disentangled, absolutely unhurt Prisoners who poured hack behind the lines in a steady stream today were authority for the statement that an aver- age of a hundred Germans deserted each day during the weeks of fearfully concentrated French artillery preparation for the attack Chey described the effect of ¢ shells as nerve-shatter- ing Germans in the front line trench were half-crazed from the inferno of noise and death around them. Scores crawled away from their positions rather than face the French bayo- ‘nets after such an artillery pounding -—Tickets Now on Sale, 50 Cents ate