The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 3, 1918, Page 1

FREEDOM FOR ALL FULL LE. 9 ONttien VOLUME 1 Some lawyers and notaries are reported to be charging a fee. of $3 to help men fill out their questionnaires, ac- cording to reports reaching the lawyers’ advisory board. There is absolutely no necessity for any man paying anything for legal advice in this matter, as there are 400 lawyers who have volunteered their services to give this aid free. Consult your local board. ED WIRF SERVICR SS ASSOCLATIONS 2ATTLE, WASH., THU RSDAY, JAD 1918. The Seattle Star THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION | OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWE T NIGHT EDITION Weather Forecast: 1 trong #southeaster and Wriday, rain; winds night PRI E -AR SERVICE TOTTERS Big Gea Attack May Now Be Under Way Ask Hurley to PHOTO OF SURRENDER OF FIRST GERMAN SUB PRISONERS TO U. S. DESTROYER S. Admiral Urges Attack on Naval Base BY FREDERICK M. KERBY } NEW YORK, Jan. 3 mit s the appointment of Vice! Sir Rosslyn Wemyss as first sea lord of the British foreshadow a change in allied naval strategy? the long contemplated direct attack on German naval be the result? Can the hidden behind German fleets, mine fields and batteries of Heligoland, be successfully | d? If so, how? I put these questions to Admiral Bradley A. Rear former aid for operations of the United States navy, dent of the Naval Institute, and inventor of the tor- , the telescope sight PY e history of warfare that has revolutionized naval| > and many other naval appliances. shows that where decisive | have been fought it was in practically every case result of a strong attack against a point that was vital », the wy, and yet comparatively answered | weak,” | “That is the essence of successful strategy. 5) NAVY WEAK ~ . “Noting this, we can realize that Germany's weakest “The whole is her navy, that it is vital to her, and that, there- a strong attack should be made upon it. German navy is now concentrated in the pgion of Kiel and Wilhelmshaven; she has, so to speak, all naval eggs in one basket. gd lies behind great mine fields, just fort in times past was protected behind} “Her naval @ garrison 0: walls of a fort. “But when an attacking force found that it could not| — kthru the walls of the fort, it utilized scaling ladders | (Continued on’ Page 10.) j DWDER SAYS EW MEN WILL FILL U. 5. NEEDS _ WASHINGTON Jan. 3—Im. registration for military “ pervicé of all men who have be- ‘gome 21 years old since the first Graft registration was urged to- “@ay by Provost Marshal Gen. _ Crowder, in his annual report to “If this is done, and similar regis. r held each year, 700,009 phys. ly fit men of Class 1, the provost stated, would be available Semvice every 12 months, and L not necessitate taking ‘from the deferred exemption | san} cat Policy and belief of this of | fs that jn all probability it wil! Possible to fill all our military “from Class 1,” the report| filed tabor and farmers will be from the deferred classes, C intimated, “should the situ The situation in these respects is now, particularly in the uilding industry and in facto Working on war munitions,” he “It is probable there will be @ shortage of farm labor in the} altho ‘the new regulations We relieved that situation.” WAR BULLETINS By United Press Considerable r artillerying west of Epehy| Pduries the night and repulse of raid-| ern Eputh and southwest of Le Kasne | Was reported today by Field tarahal| Halg. IN, a London, Jan. 3 Frencif attacks in the Chacnpagne, north of Prosnes and north of L« Tegnii, ‘ail, broke down under Ger firé, today’s official statement “3 ARTILLERY ON FRENCH PARIS, Jan. 3—Violent artitiery-| Hing #'ong the Aisne front at Landri-| our. and Courcy, at Maisons de| Champagne, and on the right bank the Meuse. was reported in today's statement. | German raids south of the d at Cerniliot were repulsed. | welt | the soviet, 'PIAVE RIVER NOW FREE OF ENEMY ‘ON WEST BANK WITH THE ITALIAN ARMIES. 3.—Except for a few outpost positions near Detta, mouth of the Piave, the who ern bank of that river today clear gf AustroGerman forces. Italian troops, by their capture of the Zenson bridgehead, drove back the last of the strong enemy forces. Some idea of the magniture of the Zenson victory may be given when it is explained that the Ger. man position there a concrete “nest” of more than 60 ma Jan. at the the p we was was about | chine guns, cleverty concelaed under a bank of the stream. The position had been built with exceeding care and was evidently held impregnable by the enemy | It was captured almost intact by | the irresistible rush of the Italians. Drop Bombs Austrian aviators managed drop bombs on an Italian station five miles from Venice tod were evidently hi but were forced to turn back without achieving their ain owing to the vigorous Italian aerial de fensea | : New Blaze in Virginia City NORFOLK Va. 3. Fire started anew today In the ruins of | jorfolk's business section, threaten | ing to spread to other structures and} renew the conflagration of Tuesday. | Meantime, authorities had not re xed their hunt _ for Teuton spies! fire with tw $2,000,000 lows. The city is still patrolled by sailors and ma-| The original ia Norkfolk MAY CONTINUE PEACE TALK ON NEW GROUND. TENDON, roundup of suspects | but elty and continu: | line new suspects being taken at t ard and other naval to guard against Jan. Possibility Dele dele sion of | etrogr: “4 | | tral grounds was binted at t gate Kamenoff of the Russ gation at day night's cording to a P The message dispatch. was dated Wednes: TOUGH ON ‘SLACKERS BAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3.—~Bar tenders here are refusing to serve drinks to youths unless they can show registration cards, This picture shows the crew of a German U-beat, lined up on the the United States U-bost's deck, surrendering to destroyer Fanning. The destroyer Nicholsoo aided. in the capture. The men shown in this picture in the act of surrender are the taken by American forces. Receipt of the picture in this country was coincident with the arrival of the first details of the capture, Star | Saturday afternoon, December first German submarine torpedo boat the prisoners were transferred. which were printed in the tures, Committee on Public iedereantion,: w anand D. Ss The submarine’s sailors are shown walking down the deck of the submarine to the dory, which went over from the Fanning, into which The photo was taken by a member of the American destroyer's crew, and is copyrighted by the Committee on Public Information. | Headers of The Star who wish a eeearrette copy of this pie- ture may obtain it by sending TE: "ENTS to the Division of Pix- Inclose this clipping, or mention photograph } SLAV GOVERNMENT NOW APPEALS TO THE PEOPLE OF THE CENTRAL POWERS THEY MUST NOW RISE AGAINST KAISER PARTY “: Official Statement. by Slav Soviet Formally Rejects Peace Proposition CALL TO DEMOCRATS PETROGRAD, Jan, 3.—Rejec ing the German peace plans, the executive committees of the sovi et today adopted resolutions, ap- pealing to the German people, urging their assumption of the right to negotiate a “general democratic peace.” The resolution declared that the German terms “evade the principle of no annexat and are not acceptable to Russia.” The #0 appealed to the people of the central powers thus You compelled your govern to accept our motto, "No annexations and no indemnities,’ but they try ing to carry out their old policy of in Reme an immediate ends on you cW today Foreign Minis red 1 the revolution.” front telegraph for tet demo- “ sum, meeting the revolution but] we demand bread and boc An official stateme |roviet was “gaining authority Ukrainia from Ekaerinovay, n ing the central body of workmen and soldiers was dominating all affairs. ‘The soviet, it was stated, ranged to send corn to the ‘TROTSKY CALLS IT “HYPOCRISY” PETROGRAD. Minister Trotsky annou a specially called meeting of th viet that Germany's peace proposals were “hypocritical,” and said the Rolwheviki, government “could not consent to them.” U. S. TRANSPORT GOES TO AID BURNING SHIP PACIFIC PORT, Jan fi. transport Logan today ts ing to the assistance of th Kishen Kaisha freighter Shinyo Maru No answering wireless calls reporting the ship afire and in grave danger of total destruction, Jan A ment | | MARTIAL LAW Now ON IN MOSCOW, IS REPORT WASHINGTON, san Moscow is in a general anenn has RY J. W. PEGLER WITH THE AMERICAN AKMY IN FRANCE, dan Sammy Smiff almost got five days in the brig for saving the major’s life leclared the Holsheviki have 3 seized the banks there and are now the were the facts long and badly garbi ble from the consul today ARMISTICE MAY ‘NOT BE RENEWED GRAD, Jan K threatening to factories These able in a noize ian't Smiff, but today just to » to visit every every morning be he had Just complet od was walking back nmunication trenches ttalion post, when he * appealing to some you seven major ed toward which issued from the }iast trench to the right of the trench. The battalion out 100 yards to the left ution trench. Get right, because it is ed his tour along the idences the « will force entice eeparate the ar. com stintions and th not be renew are now apprehen-| of « move by jerman trickery in every the Teutonic deleg agents here and at Brest-Litovek | Serious differences, |had been to a the conference between Russian and “Oh-b-h-h-o-h, Shootcha German commissioners to discuss ex change of war prisoners geography | part of the stor Can't Shoot “Francs” it was stated rable developed here regarding the forelble transporta tion of thousands from Russian ter presum: many's ritory occupied by Germans any protesting against atment of these deportees ‘TEUTON CHIEFS ARE DISPLEASED AMSTERDAM, Jan, 3.—All Ger. man political leaders are apparently opposed to the German pr terms as outlined at Brest-Litovak, accord ing to Herlin dispatches today, The genera) undercurrent of dinsiatistac tion was strikingly indicated in a seven-hour and very lively session of the town cou ttended by the nd Ludendorft met yesterday w ter Kuehimann, and expressed disap: proval of the government's policy. v independent socialists are! violently gitating against the} Czernin peace endeavors ‘The main committee of the reich stag is duc to meet Thursday, and dispatches today said there were ob jections being expres al eting duting the at n Secretary Kuehlmann, WASHINGTON, Jan, 3.—If the United States had undertak en to clothe its soldiers as well as Germany clothes hers, the shortage in uniforms and over- coats would be much greater, M i, superintendent the Rariden, N. J., Woollen Mil testified today before the mili- tury affairs committee. Driscoll, an expert, was hy fre A hesitatingly cloth w urty leaders also th Foreign Minis er to make than our uniform cloth,” he said Driscoll testified that made by the supply committee of the national defense council in the speci fications for uniform cloth did not improve the wearing qualities or the warmth of the cloth, ‘The wear ling quality, on the other hand, was | lowered "Tt is the uniform now being iss | lent,” said Driscoll Ti changes my individual opinion that ed is too loth ui uniforms is ¥ for the army," he said qualities are about equal, he said. A cheon will be held in t ner than that us Armory on Friday, noon, Stevens Kelief Corps No, dy * CUD ti., TELLS PROBERS. din the marine corps | Wearing paintu Sammy Smiff, Shooting Craps, Saves Major From Boche Shell Sammy Smiff's shooting arm, ‘shoot 10 as it were third line trench, the not toward his bat usual, but to the right, rview Sammy Smiff “I'm Letting You Off” Sammy's fellow-shootsman major and got away Just then many things happened all at once in the third line—down, to the “left” of the communicating trench. About where the major would have been walking if he had not turned to stop the crap shooting ‘They threw mud on the battalior but no! ut. Ti looked at the bursting shells and at ff. Then he picked up the bones and put them in his pocket You might have been sente need to five days for gambling ib jor, “But I'm le @ you ott this ume nin the tre nes,” in verboten hes aching the tur Dn post major saw thi body was major ADMIRAL COONTZ ‘AND STAFF GUESTS HERE Rear Admiral Robert E. Coontz ill attend a luncheon given by the attle Chamber of mmmerce Bri day in the Masonic club cade building. pany Other aval Comman | staff, Gen, F. | command at ¢ | bers of his staff; Adjt and staff, and Dr. zaljo, chairman of the state of defense. TEN-YEAR FIGHT FOR DIVORCE IS RENEWED} A 10-year divorce fight, on grounds of estrang perior Judge Frater’s court day morning, when Henry st, living at the W , took the stand . Violett rooms, him. guests w son Thurs St. Louis SHIPYARD WORKER | IS HURT ON 108! | Struck on the 1 by jiron, A. Pringle, 28, 1 N,, a driller at the Seattle tion & Dry Dock Co., sustained a tho not serious, —sealp ursday morning 1908, by Pierce a plece of wound 12 German shells banged | ~ | mighty quick ment, was renewed in Su- | eodings were started at | Operate Cars” | to Shipyards | Seattle taggering under a street car traffic problem: |that is delaying the United States war program by delaying” shipbuilding and heaping discomfort upon the public. Many shipyard workers are forced to walk more tham la mile to places of employment from the nearest coe |while men and women stand on corners for as long as minutes, waiting for service thruout the city. Superintendent of City Utilities Valentine’s latest move |was to wire Chairman Edwin S. Hurley, chairman of the federal shipping board, asking the government to run steamd cars to carry shipbuilders to and from the yards. “Electric lines here are absolutely insufficient and cam not furnish in even a small measure the amount of servi |to do justice to the men who are helping build the shij needed by the nation,” Valentine informed Hurley. | “Some of these men, many of them, even, are req ito walk more than a mile in getting to and from the street cars, and then they cannot get anything like decent service.” | Situation Likely to Grow Worse j Traction company officials have thrown up their hands jand admitted failure to supply service. They have even gone further and declared that the: situation will get worse and worse because crews are q! ting faster than new men can be employed for the wi the company pays. | An effort will be made to get the state public se commission to permit the company to hire women. A lic hearing will be held by the commission on the ui at the Chamber of Commerce Monday. | Councilman Erickson has worked out a plan for extend- — \ing city car service to the industrial area and serving plants |which have petitioned the city to make extensions to them, This would connect the Lake Burien line with an artery that would run right thru the congested area and connect }with jin Ballard. The people will be called upon to indorse the plan and vote the necessary transfer of $350,000 car bonds in March, The council judiciary committee indorsed the plan today. -|Many Ideas and No Co-ordination Ferry service is being attempted by the port commise ~ sion to relieve the situation to one or two points. But there has been no co-ordination of efforts to solve. the problem. No attempt has been made to bring together the city and port officials, traction heads, or public service; commissioners for the purpose of, solving the problem. Traction company, city and port officials have not at tempted to get together and work out a solution. Traction Officials |Wait Watchfully Officials of the traction company are evidently waitii |for the situation to become so hopeless that the governm | will step in and furnish labor. S. H. Hedges, who is in Washington, D. C., presenting problems of Seattle shipbuilders, will confer with Hurley jconcerning the car service problem, according to Valentine, {A LITTLE SERVICE PLEASE--AND QUICK | While nobody denies that Seattle still faces a car service |situation that must be straightened out—and straightened no co-ordination has even got to the discus- |sion point. Councilman Erickson has worked out a plan for ex- tension of city car service to the industrial section, and asked the voters to approve it at the coming election, Superintendent Valentine suggests that steam cars be operated by the government. | The port commission is attempting to give some ferry *| service to shipyards. The traction company is hobbling along, discouraged {and admitting failur Why don’t they sit down to table and try, at least, to *|make an intelligent non-partisan, co-ordinated solution? Perhaps they'll all agree that Uncle S who can straighten ' em out TWO BLUE SUITS ARE STOLEN FROM OWNERS Max Mueller, 1701 West Spok st., reported to the police Thursd | morning that his room had been en tered and a blue suit and a foun tain pen stolen, Albert Symons, Gr ee nion hotel, Fourth ave. and) Which, Yesler in that a thief, piri twat 1 is roo! 1 a pase | MOY, Passed Taste and bring in Or ed naples m with | Pass) more revenue, @moot’s bill will hit pigs ol ais s profits harder than the press law, leaving taxes at uit the same Tato As now, | MONEY UNDER PILLOW the sane Fate an wanes MISSING IN MORNING) muct improved, however Makusi will think of a better] le his money than under-| Sam is the only one 'Would Improve Revenue Laws WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—Complete reconstruction of the war revenue he provisic way, rang | key, | exce ent income | K place to hide | neath @ STORM WA iG » rents| Southeast storm warnings were or night | dered displayed at 730 a.m The = Seventh | storm is moving southeast, from the: was minus} North Pacific ocean, and will cause: Thursday strong southeasterly gales today, to” night and probably tomorrow, ave. and King st $100 when he morning. awoke inicipal tracks extending to the north city limits ~