The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 31, 1917, Page 1

FRANCE AIDS U. S. ARTILLERY \EREEDOW ar DTiOl THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST sri? cae stoheaeataal ca VOLUME 19 GNiteS™ANERs MAROC TONS SEATTLE, WASH ONE CE PRIC T lverywhere in Seattle ATWER: TT TINGE: £ eee cE~ Time: 11:50 p. m. Place: Coliseum theatre. Girls: Delightful ones. Alexander Pantages, the vaudeville impressario, will Sounteh the ante, kc will be praineet bm ae Seattle’s beauties will be on hand tonight idnight i i PR . “ being especially built, located over the heads of the audience. ere the Pantages actorines — lance, si! bli bre tees the midnigh : frolic for the benefit of the Red Cross to serve the and make things gay. Jensen and Von Herberg have donated the theatre. All the proceeds will go to the public from start to finish, from soup to nuts, as it were. Some of them will be ushers. Others will sell balloons. Cross. The Christmas campaign will not end until the new year has dawned. Memberships for the Red Oross Others will handle confetti. It’s going to be a large night. will be solicited until the stroke of 12 at all the cafes, theatres and on the streets. Allied Diplomats|#2 =, |FLOODS RECEDE BUT [*z«2, |Uncle Sam Short Want Conference ————_ TRAFFIC IS CHOKED'—=—— of Guns; Allies to ture in Seattle Monday morning the prosecuting attorney's office, was 56 degrees above sero. doctors, lawyers, laborers, bunt on P eace P olicies See ees | FLOOD SITUATION TODA Vf rier fsa wnat the Rescue inl | | : In New York The food ts affecting vehicular traffic as follows: ed by The Star for the man or BY JOSEPH SHAPLEN fuss af th tetay, ta the 1} The Pacific highway i» open to Everett. woman who writes the best 1918 BY LAWRENCE MARTIN ike ries ;Cortaumeatont go tng gs shortage, eo, The ural read to inten and Monroe is closed New Year's mensage | United Press Correspondent : ie STOCKHOLM, Dec. 31.—Several allied diplomats| otticiat “temperature 4 teiow at} Tuam Gan bo vonche ty tb Die Danese eehbek te feet || ween Gtieted. for - oar Soamilere- ls phe gia hint a Poca and — oday reco Me aj tive govern- t }} nine miles are in bad shape tion The time was up to 10 |have agreed to supply artillery for all the American troop here today recommended to their respective govern ; a }) o'clock this morning, ‘and atill the jsent to France in 1918. They are prepared to furnish it rdy ments that they participate in a conference here which} messages pour in. The would proclaim a concrete general peace policy of the allies. Railway trains operated out of Seattle ax follows CHICAGO, MILWAUKER @ 8T. PAUL Olympian left for { ones, however, will not be cx 7 " 1 { ered, hicago by way of Vancouver, Wash., and Spokane, at 10.15 a. m. " jumbian due at $30 a. m. Sunday arrived here at noon Monday afternoon the deci port them in. : . 2 This was the testimony today of Maj. Gen. Crozier, Tive Mom FS atacror gua ta sealae Tuesday'® | chief of ordnance, before the senate military affairs coms { ‘ 5 mittee. Gen. Crozier put responsibility for this condition { { even longer if necessary. They must furnish it, because America has neither the guns to send nor the ships to trans The United Press learned from authoritative sources} ,.7*r° *" je discussion to that this recommendation was made in the belief that) rn tas cunadia. teeees such a move is the only thing that can stay the separate} ‘his week. Keeping them — eace madness of the Bolsheviki. Secretary ( lle . » inte ; 1 . AGREE ON PLAN | “As long ago as 1916, I and other officers persistently _ Secretary Camille Huysmans, of the internationa ft at 9:15 a. m. Monday for Snohomish, and one train urged larger appropriations for field artillery, medium heavy socialist bureau, j ived and forwarded to For- joe from Snohomish late Monday “The responsibility for our ) } ) ve py ] Brees. chet. Fyre ee ORROO SHINGTO a tease cunhiog on eteetute and heavy artillery,” he said. eign Minister Trotsky at Petrograd the telegram sent by I mcr Blt ayy Prong tov onys Heer posi { T0 RELEASE AL failure to get it must fall upon the people as a whole.” j i Crozier was recalled by the committee to answer Arthur Henderson, leader of the British laborite party, REDS BATTLE se eee announcing adoption ofthe liberal war aims and op- Interurban service between Seattle and Tacoma is norma ‘ charges of inefficiency and lack of foresight, made by pre~ sek aie “Bist HO vious witnesses. He demanded that he be permitted to will be made, and the name of © other trains were to depart or NORTHERN PACIFIC No trains arri » the Cascades. Hegular schedules were 1 door dep nohe thruout / ; }) ) ntained cloned Seattle, Portland an@ Grays Harbor GREAT NORTHERN No trains running over Cascades. ur schedule between Portland and Seattle being maintained on the country as a whole for failure to prepare. orer sections | cold have posing a separate peace + { i Y i i ce. i uyallup river is receding, and no reports of rivers } inten tides oY Of ri ‘ Tuyemane also addressed & note | Geicoratic. elements in the canteal “ eee sidant te. } AMSTERDA 31—Te | make his explanation under oath. No other witness before 5 ris! been recei “ M, Dec. 31 | a : has 7 sw testimony, but upon the to socialists and laborites in all| Powers and neutralize the reaction: | ) |. eiebkiieds “ackdaeee: Sap \the committee has given sworn testi y, pol » and allied countries, asking | 7% 1t ts most Important that we itch Faas aaaat sae et pirciee . SN a Cee daa SE | suggestion of Senator Frelinghuysen “that the attorney gen-' " hasten: we ought to mest not later Journed temporarily today witha |) may later want to use some of the evidence,” Gen, for an “internationale”—or ® ©On-| than February Railway transportation across | out about one half mile southeast of | sabstantial agreement looking to. |eral may later wan : , ference of liberals—to discuss war| Tf ts declare that Hungariar the Cascades was still blocked — Kenton, making ot altogether ward a separate ce between | Crozier was sworn. aims wo Save dicadtir ‘alapies TOKIO, Dec. 31.—Fierce fight. | by floods, and auto traffic im that has gone. Russia 00d Gers ready te acsthchlice. i vols ais es aaa ; EARS SN OIRO fo pouing. a separate| ing is in progress at Irkutsk be peded thruout the Puget Sound No word had reached Seattle Mon-| be submitted to the governments chine guns, particularly Le wis | ui i ye ie Sedlkses “tn orded to etrengihen the | pence | tween Bolsheviki red guards and intry Monday, altho signs day from the North Bend district, ax| on both sides. yuna, Crosier declared the Lewig] tues cnt. Sere pr gg ers | Cadet Cossack forces, according | everywhere evident that wire communication has been cut off The agreement, it was stated, war! gun never proved satisfactory in ne ow y a. oe of ‘ ss ope to a dispatch received today by © was gradually sub- The Pacific highway between Seat-| substant t the Russians | tests until May 17, this year made thru the Automatic Arm) re + the Kokusal agency from Har tle and Tacoma ts «ti wed and | would withd cupied por tt tion 1] P The commeny, Wiehe. ae F B. Why is is 80 question 7! Lewis gun had been rejected that it bin. rally, traffic is going over the Des Moines tions of Aust gary. Turkey | cannot answer,” he asid ae » ayy cout ot ae De The Bolshoviki were reported ding, roadway : land Persia, if the ral powers did Recommended I | "Fite wan in ahoveat 10 Tawi aaa to have murdered a French streams are holding — Flo mditions in the Puyallup | likewise from and, Lithuania When war was declared, ¢ ment that he had repeatedly: ether consalar agent and two other | steady valley are much improved today. |Courland and other parts of Russia. | said all but $1,500,000 of $12,000,000 | tie gun free to the government, Dut | French citizens | | coat ortee AR eee! cet to the cessation of ainfall ov te ern te bat the anting the people of these ocew-| previously appropriated fo! aching Reports generally stated that nting the peor th previously appropriated for machine | tae offer had never been accepted, unday, While a lar sections a “free opportunity” | » area of the kima fiver, anc BY EP tL. KEEN T' kaiser probably had his hand! The town is said to be tn flames. | rivers had ceaned to rise, tyit had not ins had been spent thru contracts | Gosier also de! United Press Correspondent n very on a * guid a high offi-| Added to the terrors of the fight commenced to fall, The Yakima, Valley is still umder water, the flood | to decide their own future status, for machine guns and automatic pone ue of wt pire Bes pr LONDON, Dec. 31.—The allies | cia acting the tmpresaion | {ne is the almost total lack of food mish ar ia slowly receding and further dam Militia to Remain rifles | a by Lewis: He ana be eel intend seriously to respond to | that th cht be a real cnovernent | Supplie ure all steady at oP nagage ter slpind # there) During this period of decision the} On April 12, on Cronier’s recom: | qaoy) of this rarfge finder, altho the Teutonic peace terms, as an toward democrat c The population ts lite y starving |and the water should be a sudden rise in mountain | agre nt specified that only na-| mendation, th 500,000 was invest og prsie Panthers Popp ps 9 p + ratization. & , i: sihented. . the government had to spend several nounced from Brest-Litovsk, ac lied by Liberals > death and them is : ’ : : | [tional and loca itia was to re-|ed in Lewis guns, which Crozier said| thousand dollars perfecting this im cording to the best information the| Polat it was stated The Norther Oregon & naeasonably warm weather con: | main in the territory hart been greatly improved sir welitiow hedens iy eae CREE obtained today by the United k ‘ was P ceiving reements from | Washir Milwauke and Great tnues, but the rainfall today is light T delenntes pave datnehy leartier rasectane j & ‘ le. Press. orl ahatvanie uaaaee t= “ursk are operating by way und most of the snow in the foot: | stipulated terms for resu on ¢ No Record of Offer | It is od the right direction, by nominally bina gase’ 2 pokane. Bridges hile tan sy sedy_ sositee full and free commercial interes ; ‘There is no record that Col.| Geo y at least g the reichstag a| 14 AUSTRIAN SHIPS und tracks ¥ washed out Just ‘The Plerce county bridge, span an of war prisoners and|rewis inventor of this gun, ever of-| oon oo kek: lec te ee ee tenes avis. above Killen Sunday, on the ning the Nisqually ri went out | payment for damage done by vc: | fored his gun to this government free | Some of the press hold it was high RELEA ED BY SLAVS latest | time that such a step was taken, the a COPENHAGEN, Dee, 31—The | of + ms was| message wa enton road has been wast Jetour for automobile tra as tied up traf. last night, severing the Pacific high: | ounying troops | in that direction way between Tacoma and Olympia The agreement i vm ndred and fifty feet more and making necessary a considerable | yidex for restoration t oe pase , , ok t2.thel On Sis ha tia sented Rae antec wih ace Tom Duff, Who Cuts men fabrdegasiciyer. , Bolshevik government has re - - atten | esis law and ne ; riven to desperation by the Up in Star Every - ed bonged. nounced it as co 4 ies thought that he might have to kill to Ger - leased 14 Austr’ erchantmen ELLENSBURG WATER e @ | which have beer d 1 m } paced M ee sm ian some one if he was drafted into the ernment officials placed little| interned in Russian harbors, ac | SHADES OF ’89! eidea.during the ‘ ; Night, Swears Off |\rrs crear tne Rotel aiaeeeaacemiane the kaiser’s sincerit cording to word received here to- RKS KY DISABLED xs riers Baice 8 pos Sanders. f avertis- pave ready to relinquish The release of these ships | PORTLAND, Dec. 31.—As a ry wult | =p rset: withdrawal from oc ions of NEVER AGAIN WILL I Con Seeainver Pee ba Pee on i ee tantrol their] would seem to indicate the ot d condition of the Yak:| | WASHINGTON, Dec Tusala ATTEND THE LADIES ne Monday ey n | sian overnment's inom ma it a je to raliroad | climba water The Russian delegates insist on im 1 be eeneed t « Causes Real Stir | carrying into effect of peac u : , ean phe Pie tat mediate withdrawa KNitmnG CLuB lt! | He had been obsessed by this Domi . tostins ¢ . connec.| Visions agr upon at the < a ' r wore The ¢ ounter proposition is — tho t for some time, and also was. directly t . sie page ps an tinteed 3 Brest-Litovek ¢ srenee North Pa een becomes bone dry MIL as for withdrawal after the Russians discontented with the work which pete , > and Se je are tod let Ing Alaska to the prohibition! pave refinquished their occupied he was doing. He relieved his * Weak nenne oo ab a ‘ of t tipulat : 1 sions the Gorenan pence overt was for t tland. Th rrangement may ranks was the first prohibition bill jands and after the peor n the |father, A. M. Sanders, night wateh+ a6. er gperieaion gray | terned civili ontinue a week while damage is be-| pansed by the house German occupied states have an man at the Model elgctric laundry ‘oes rib te ngs pan prisoners ond return of mer | 'e re paired yunced their choice of future gov | Sunday, so that his father might at- ] De ee commission today as the re SHOT AT HUBBY; German proposals to the fac ut 9 o'clock. When his mother and # nilies to pa ip lapse of a Northern Pa several of the ates’ partially 1 er went up to bed, Roland said IS MADE BY KAISER eration an that he desired to stay up and read wer geoomaeion = PRESTON NOT TO by Germany have announced in cere LANDS IN JAIL 2 g BY CARL D GHOAT h 7 1 da that backed up the ndence of Russia for awhile. nited Pr Correspondent newer wever, Gos ter Taking a shot at her departing old to La | . 3: VASH , hs 1—The | not necessar mean an answer fa RUN FOR MAYOR Wallace, Idaho, reports the local! husband is responsi for - a The ¢ FA bi oe ntly de bee o'slock, Mrs, Sanders kaiser 7 t Chancellor Ve rable to Germany, it was state Har Prest has been | hi 1] and many homes are endan-| %. Woodman being in Jail Monday. | cided, in view of the Bolsheviki lack pevard a thud @ she anc Hertlir 1 ‘ | here | decent > ‘he t thru. being undermined by Stes Kaetand, an vecmaiows Of the eet mn downstairs, And discovered the Ls ald ru “ n wele ‘ ire b na na to fi D a Ll of complete auth over Russia, to body of Roland lying in the kitchen. ie se 4 “eed ndidat e Placer creek, now at flood stage. The | Puget Sound Bridge ® Dredging Co., | hold f ed Russian d rh Re or which tie ect ‘Wa 1 2 troe ' € of i wa ent away with a couple of tr 1 he pla Poland an mitted was found later in the Cop » ' I! k ie ' tioned rounds of buckshot. He w not bit, 1 ania. Courland, Bett aah fire ma Tort 3 ;. dt . NOME, Alast rl Rogers, for but the shot broke a couple of win: | Li 1 are all thus affected T ft recent . ent expla se reporte a 4 Claude ©. | me ident of le, who In lows Ig we which he had board | SHANGHAI—The North China : here * ‘ Ramea rT of th ine Indus ed and entered two eats behind The Seattle Boys’ club will hold | Daily News reports that the Bolshe- t 0 deta were € either ast I H r wa ted with five| where Woodman was sitting. He] open hou ‘clock New viki rders at Viadivostok are in- ernment, was 4 the lows of life or the cause of the|a candidate, but b be of the editorial staff for’ told his story to the police, and con-| Year's da has moved to jer asi ind that the situation at ere explosion. statement to that ef ishing alleged sedidous articles. sequently Mrs. Woodman is in jail. /its new bome at 402 Ninth ave. Harbi Manchuria, is seriou