The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 25, 1918, Page 1

ounce ounce ounce ounce ard d; 27 allies, sian ,FOREY VOLUME 19 ITED .* # i) SUPPLY IS (MUNITIONS |___ 5 SOLD OUT; 2,000 BUY Crowd on Hand at 8 A. M. to Buy 7-Cent Salmon. Police Are Called. Farmers’ market has been a busy place. At & o'clock, the time announced for the opening, everything was not quite in readiness. And still the peo- Saleamen Baskett and April were still. cleaning and dressing their | ‘wares. Advance Baskett to the coun- ter. “What's yours?” A regular chorus: “Gimene two pounds'” three" “How much is there?” Fish Seem Slippery “One minute, please registered on the salestnar Then Mra. E. Whitehorn, First ave., was singled out. women first. “I'll take three pounds,” shouted. A bit nervous, Baskett. Plunk! The first purchase lay on the floor. had dropped it. “Oh, that’s all right. Concern 's face 1120 The she almost TN wash him at home,” said Mra. Whitehorn. Mut | it couldn't be done, and she got the cleanest piece among hundreds of clean fish on the counter. Only steelhead salmon were offer e4 at the municipal stall this morn. ing. Seven cents a pound was the uni versal price, too. McBride on Job “We're going to try it out that way,” said Dr. MeBride, city health commnissioner, who was on the scene bright and early and stayed right there until things were under way apa running smoethly. Behind the gounter, working with the saleathen, Was Dr. Anders, of the health commissioner's staff. The doctor is there to answer any ques tions put as to the quality of the fish. Dealers from other parts of the market flocked toward the city’s new enterprise. They admitted that the) city had “sure turned out a crowd.” 2. ‘They almost had to go without ice the city fish market this morning. When the ice man arrived, the crowd about the stall refused to make w ‘They didn't want to risk losing their places, But when it was explained that they just bad to get that ice in, they moved. cee tht 10 o'ctock, the crowd waiting to buy fish was so great that Dr. Me- Bride, city health commissioner, don ned a white coat and apron and play ed “butcher.” eee want my mamma! Poo! Hoo900' This from a youngster on the out skirts of the crowd. He said his name was “Just Tommy.” Mis moth er was “somewhere at the front” of oo ene gathered about the city fish “She's coming back,” he was told. lut he could hardiy believe it. ose Hat over one eye, hair strag ling out, eyes gleaming, one wom- an pushed thru the crowd, holding her purchase triumphantly in her armas. “I don’t eare,” whe said. “Good #al- mon at 7 cents a pound ix too good to be true. erin 0D Ge tepevte. It FREEDOM FOR ALL LL. LEASED WI PRESS “T want! that one| ther concession to those who have| | Agree on These Four Points First—Open diplomacy. Second—Freedom of the seas. Third—No economic barriers and equality of trade conditions. Fourth—-Guarantees for reduction of armaments. The above are the first four of 14 peace terms proposed by President Wilson. ER THE GREATES SERVIC XCIATIONS: * 8 DIRECTOR [S NAMED Sec’y Baker Names St tinius as Surveyor of All Purchases WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 —Faced | by a tremendous organized attack on alleged inefficiency in the war de A “surveyor of supplies” to coor. dinate all army purchases and who will be tantamount to a munitions director, was named tn the person of Béward R. Stettinius, New York. At the sumeigime the administra tion launched a counter-assault in de fense of Secretary of War Baker. In @ letter, endorsed by President Wil. lain, sponsor of the munitions minis try and war cabinet Pills, for an op- portunity to tell the country, thru a public hearing before his committee, “What America has really done in the war.” Play for Harmony The dual move was regarded by! | officials here as a strong play for harmony, threatened by the clash | between the president and Chamber. | lain ‘That {t spelled the collapse of the fight for a munitions ministry and| possibly for the “war cabinet” mea sure, too, was believed by many Appointment of Stettinius met His standing was regarded as a fur- demanded business handling of war | purchases | Despite the move, however, Cham berlain, continuing his fight | “entrenched efficiency” with Sur. geon General Gorgas on the stand— announced he will not swerve from his efforts for specific reorganiza tion of the war government. Stettinins, in complete charge of all allied purchases in the United States for « long time past, is regarded by | military experts as perhaps the best fitted man available for this post. An Important Move Announcement of this tremendous move at a time when congress In tating for a munitions director, w made by Secretary Faker in the fol lowing official statement “Edward R. Stettinius, New York has been appointed surveyor general of all army purchases, He will be in charge of the procurement and production of all supplies by the five army bureaus, ordnance, quarter | master, signal, engineer and med. ical. Survey All Purchases “It will be his duty to co-ordinate such purchases and properly relate the same to industry to the end tha at | the army program be developed un der a comprehensve plan which will related to industry and the practical means he has used to accomplish his plans pre-eminently qualify him | for his poritic “Mr. Stetti is will assume his new duties at once and establish his office in Washington.” Stettinius, one of money kings, has long been asso- clated with J, P. Morgan & Co, The enormous contracts financed thru | the house of Morgan were in Stet | tinius’ hands, and his intimate con tact with all war factories and his recognized business ability are con sidered certain to go far in sweeping aside the halts and bickerings here tofore existent in war pure -. NEW SURVEYOR WON'T STOP WAR BILL FIGHT WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—The ap-| pointment of 1. KR. Stettinius, as solutely no effect on the fight for| the fight for the director of muni tions bill, Senator Chamberlain an- nounced son, Baker asked Senator Chamber. | with instant approval at the capitol. | against | Dest utilize the resources of the country “From the outbreak of the war, Mr. Stettinius has been in full charge of the allies’ purchases in| this country and has been responsi ble for the development of the pro: duction of war materials. His inti- mate knowledge of war conditions in rope and in the United States as “gurveyor of supplies” will have ab-| KAISER SHOWS Filth—Free, open-minded and ab] the government whore title is to byt neh territory and “righting of) autonomous development nity for autonomou evelopment. solutely impartial adjustment of all | determined. the wrong done to Fra by Prus Prec wcuation of F an Thirteenth—Polist pendence, colonial claims, based on a etrict ob Sixth—Hvacuation by the central | win in 1871 in matter of Alxace- Lor ‘ a their separate independ Fourteenth—A nerad 4 | guaranteed; Serbia to h an tion of nations must be formed Gm mery of the principle that In de] empires of all Ruadan territory and | raine ome covenants, for the pire termining all euch questions of xoy-|complete territorial and political in-| Ninth—Readjustment of — Ita welfth—Turkey's possessions not | p ding mutual cuarantess ereignty, the Interests of the popula: | dej 1. | frontiers along lines of national to be tod, except an to states | of independe and terrt- tion concerned must have ‘va Restoration of Belgium. Tenth—Austria Hungary's pe with n ities other than Turk inteerity to great and small weight with the established clara of Nestoration of occupied |to be “accorded freest opportunity of | ish, which must be afforded opportu: | states alike Th » S c attl f S tar Wenther Voreeant: and Saturday, JLATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST : ’ ie ifr iC? ian — ae SEATTLE, WASEL, FRIDAY, 25, 1918. RICE ON INT Everywhere . FRIDAY, JANUARY 191 PRICE ONE CENT Ryazan ush at City Fish Market | | SOME OF OUR “FIGHTERS” — i ia i GORGAS RAPS POOR SANITATION 'TRUCK KILLS | AS CAUSE OF CAMP EPIDEMICS By L. ©. MARTIN Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan, 25. — | Lack of proper sewage fac and overcrowding e ore | sponsible for epidemics which have left their mark on train- amps, Surgeon General today told the senate military committee Forging ahead with his big drive | against “war department inefficten- y.” Sen, Chamberlain summoned Gorgas to comb the health condi- | tions at national guard and army | camps. \¢ No Sanitation | Gen, Gorgas told the committee that “practically none of the na tional guard camps have sewag facilities. “His earnest recom-nend tion that fully equipped and sani- tary arrangements be provided be: fore men were sent to the camps was disregarded by the war de | partment, he said |" Forty per cent of the pneumonia cases In camps followed measles, |and measies epidemics resulted di- Camps Overcrowded “I have always recommended that | troops in permanent camps should |have 60 square feet of floor space per man. That was reduced to 50, |then to 45 at the request of the war department, I have been try ing to impress the danger of con- | tact between men who are ck and | |r who are well.” jorgas admitted that orderiles in camp hospitals are as untrained in the care of the sick as “country Hows He also acknowledges that some sick yen got practically no |care from trained women nurses, Nurses Untrained There are four of these untrained jexamtin to every trained nurse Gorgas said. It will be @ year from | the country's | rectly from overcrowding, he #aid.| the war." | the war | demanded that a statement John W, Tincher, now before these untrained order- | lies are competent nurses, he added, Knights and Ladies ut the ager of the died Thursday night » hospital after having n run down at Seventh and West early in the evening by an a driven by L, M. McKinney the Fortune Hungarian Premier Quits His Office COPENHA » Jan. 26 Resig- nation of Premier Wekerle, Hun garian premier, was again reported truck employe of Japanese gambling joints be Three here today, indicating continued po|jow Yosler way were raided Friday litical unrest in Austria-Hungary, | morning by the police BAKER REQUESTS CHANCE FOR WASHINGTON, Jan. Secre given their aid to the government in tary of War Baker today asked Sen-| this time of stress ator Chamberlain formally for an|_ Moreover, he ‘suggested’ that the people of th re éntitled to full answer. Baker's request was made with direct sanction of President Wilson To Touch New Topics If Chamberlain grants the request, as he probably will, Baker will delve into topics heretofore untouched by the senate committee testimony, to prove his contention that a vast work has been done on a broad-gauge scale, with the least possible delay or friction under the circumstances. Baker's letter says: ‘AMERICAN TROOPS “CARRY ON” country opportunity to make a statement be fore the senate military on giving the complete summary of ‘what has been done by America in committee He proposes in a big way, to an- awer Chamberlain's charges against office, In hid letter to Baker held that justice Chamberlain, in view of the sacrifices and th spirit of officers and men of the army and business’ men who have IN FIGHTING ON FRENCH FRONT WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—Early Four were killed on January 21 this week American forces on the! Act French front were in action on sev. jaw jermans i ral occasions, Gen, Pershing today |on Monday. No details of the con- gxted to the war department, flicts have beea received. o/s WY JOHN TINCHER' | . district man. | ‘Transfer REPLY TO SEN, CHAMBERLAIN ON HEEL WILSON’S PEACE TERMS REJECTED BY HER AMSTERDAM, Jan. 25.—German Chancellor Hertling t the main committee of the reichstag that the speeches of F || dent Wilson and Lloyd George contained “certain accept H principles” to Germany, according to Berlin dispatches rec d here today. “Concretely the outlines are unsatisfactory,” the said. He demands that “enemy leaders” set forth “new |posals.” | The chancellor’s oft-portponed and eagerly awaited sp |was delivered to the reichstag committee Thursday afternoon. — “On January 3 the period expired for co-operation among # jentente looking toward a general ce,” he said. “After thi y was no longer bound by her offer to the entente. &§ | pe ot ag Bc peace negotiations. Since t |war aims speeches have been delivered by Lloyd George and F ident Wilson. Lloyd George showed an alterattion in tone. THINKS LLOYD GEORGE IS BETTER \ | “He no longer abused us, but he showed an inclination |negotiations. But I cannot go so far as the foreign jo |which have read in the speech an earnest desire for peace, jeven of friendly feeling toward us. “In declaring he does not seek the annihilation of Ge jand never entertained a desire to destroy us, he even used wo of appreciation of Germany’s political and cultural position. | “But his other utterances force the conviction that he belie jhimself entitled to adjudge the Germans guilty of all pe Can't Understand It i “We cannot understand such feel jings, nor can we find in them any | proof of a sincere will | “I acknowledge that President | Wilson's tone is now different from | what it was before his attempt, by means of the Ame an reply to the | pope, to sow dissension between the erman government and the Ger man people | “He no longer talks of autocratic suppression of the Germnan people by the German government, and his for mer attack upon the Hohenzollerns | is not repeated | Commenting on Wilson's war aims the German chancellor as-| | agreement j will be sati |an economic German Chancellor Hertling today raised, an entirely new apparently impassable obstacle to peace. " He voiced demands that in the plan for future freedom of the seas, Britain be required to surrender to the world her great fortress at Gibraltar and her other world-wide naval fortifications, Count Czernin, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister, in a speech on war aims, received coincidentally with Hertling’s, indicated what may be a significant difference of opinion with the German war aims, He adopted a much more conciliatory tone in discuss ing Wilson's and Lloyd George's peace terms. Press dispatches from Russia today said that no wire less messages had Been received by the Bolsheviki from Austria © » wireless received at Smoiny institute, and made publie reporting the organization of a revolutionary ministry, and speech, 187 “There are no differences b us and President Wilson as to free dom of the seas,” the chancellor age with Ukrainia, which tory, especially from viewpoint.” For Freedom of Sea erted “On the first four points an agree ment is obtainable without difficulty No Belgian Violence | “On the fifth there will be some| Continuing, Hertling pointed out|serts. me difficulty, It chiefly concerns Png-| that Alsace-Lorraine was originally| “But it is most important for land, but. President Wilson’s pro-| German in 1689 and that it had] ture freedom of navigation that posals into considera. | merely been restored to Germany in (Continued on page 11) nand tion respe ed by Germany “The sixth concerns only ntral powers “The seventh can only be settled in peace negotiations, but Germany has never demanded the incorpora. tion of Belgian territory by violence. “On the eighth point, Germany os not wish annexations by vio ce, but this is a question only to France and Ger “that an exchange of views between. |Austria-Hungary and the United” ates might form the starting point |of conciliatory discussion — bet i states hitherto not | gotiations.” a a The Austro-Hungarian leader re viewed President Wilson's 14 joutlining America’s war aims, in | much the same spirit as German Chancellor Hertling and, after ex. 4 plaining that views of Austria-Hune |gary and America “approached,” he | COPENHAGEN, Jan, %5.— “Austria and the United States practically agree, not only on great principles of new arrange- ment of the world after the war, but our views approach on several concrete peace ques- tions,” declared | Count Czernin, Austro-Hungarian foreign min- ister, in a speech reported in Vienna dispatches today. ‘The address was a frank and Russia | and the discussed by | many er, we cannot talk of the sion of Alsace: orrelps oe open bid for discussion of the | declared: ent of whoes population's ier | differences between Austria-Hun- | “The differences are not great es h 4 tenth polite, gary and the United States, look- | ©0ugh to prevent discussion whieh On the ninth and tenth points.) Tee's possible adjustment. would clear up matters."* oe ere | wae Oe Suggests Discussion | “The interests of these two bellige _ Hung sumer an excision by tho| “It 18 obvious,” Crernin declared, (Continued on page 11) German censor or an undecipher- | ——__—_—_——_ i ‘BERLIN IS SCENE OF RIOTS AS s to coal lith point,” Hertling a Axatto. wher td for. the ident Wil: fo tar a 1K cnet must not forestall her stat titude as to her in | tegrity jerman empire n well energetically support her. son, cerns Turke On the 12th, ANGRY CITIZENS DEMAND PEACE AMSTERDAM, Jan. 25.—Severe rioting on Wednesday and Thursday in Berlin was reported in dispatches reach= League of Peoples ing here today. One report asserted that mobs were “As to the urteenth point, Ger. + : . : many would be ready when all other marching in the streets, demanding peace. 3 | questions are settled to discuss a It was regarded as of great significance that Thurs league of peoples. WV rs h - “Doubt has often arisen whether care newspaper ad not arrived today from Berlin, as the Russians are in earnest in their | USUAl peace negotiations. All sorts of wireless messages are going thruout the world, with exceedingly strange contents, and these might strengthen this thought “Nevertheless I hold fast to the REPORT SAYS U. S. MAY |CONTRABAND CIDER Is RECOGNIZE BOLSHEVIK! DESTROYED BY POLICE PETROGRAD, Jan, 2 A report A portion of the 1,300 gallong hope -that we are shortly to arriye| that the United States would recog . i at a good conclusion with the Rus-| nize the Bolsheviki government very |“"4 cider confiscated by) the Brest-Litovsk, shortly, was circulated in Petrograd Saved in recent raids was hope soon to conclude an! today. Officials refused comment. |! riday morning,