The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 28, 1918, Page 1

THE 1 Db WIRE SERVICE PROSS ASSOCIATIONS VOLUM GREATE. DAILY CIRCULATION TTLE, WASH., or ANY PAPER MONDAY, JANUARY IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWES 1918 NIGHT EDITION Weather Forecast rain, modera PRICE Ieverywhere In Beatth ONE CE NT} PARITY ALL READY FOR FRANCE DE LUXE. PRISONER AGITATES THE COURTHOUSE . THESE SHUIPS CAN'T SAIL They're tied up at New York wharves for lack of coal, and supplies for our troops and allies. altho laden Mor ships are in the harbor because with food THESE CARS CAN'T IRUN They’re lying filled and idle in railroad yards thruout the country, because con- is so great they can’t be rushed to the waiting ships and shops, but— HURRAE FOR TOURISTS Despite the absolute need of curtailing passenger traffic, the Pacific Northwest Mourist association voted Saturday to spend $112,500 of the people’s 's money to bring Suppose the legislatures of Washington, Oregon and British Columbia had not @ppropriated $112,500 last year (before the United States entered the war) for a tour- campaign. Would any real patriot even think of campaigning for tourists at this time? We do not need mere visitors at this time. to take care of the men we actually must have in our war Our efforts are taxed to the industries. utmost Tourists would only congest and complicate things. The Star took a leading part in demanding he appropriation to bring tourists here. But that was when we Now it would only be wasting energy to bring them here. were at peace. Can we afford that? The excuse offered by the. Northwest Tourist association is that other sections the country have not abandoned tourist campaigns. Ah, n the Northwest, should look for such an alibi. Our duty is clear, ne elsewhere. KAISER GIVES THANKS TO GOD ON BIRTHDAY; PEOPLE NOT SO HAPPY AMSTERDAM, Jan. 24.—Kaiser expressed thankfulness for “great deeds for the German K eae In ar to the Berlin Preacher Message wan in reply to felict- on th war lord's birthday day and said is with deep thankfulness that AmMemorate God's great deeds the German people. He gave Cal successes to our colors. Kaiser Is 59 Years Old German press today containe Usual eulogies on the kaiser’s| hiay and included a list of am granted to minor army and | pendent socialists were blamed an! except socialist papers warned the party to cease such agita STEAL 100 KIMONOS One hundred silk kimonos were a part of the $2,000 worth of loot taken by thieves from the at of N. F. Mobhas, 510 Pike st, Sunday night ‘The goods taken were mostly silks, according to the owner's the police. Thieves gained entrance to the store thru th ear, and evidently ha an auto waiting to remove the goods taken, as it was a 00d sized haul, HORSE MEAT IS NEXT | NEW YORK, Jan. 28.—Horse steak a la mode. That's the next.| will hold a Congress has been asked to appropri ru 12, avy ction f this|lected. Clark offenders on this oqeasion ate $100,000 for inspection oft Much comment was tacluded as to! delicacy by the veterinaries of four commissioner, @Mirike agitation, for which the inde- Eastern states, including New York, sveaker, Goldman and York once draft report to) deci et, od the quest of their mandate ecution of February x anarchists, for trying to a: » court refused to gri orderin Lincoln v the shame of it—that we, no matter what is EMMA GOLDMAN AND BERKMAN MUST GO TO JAIL IMMEDIATELY WASHINGTON, Jan, 28,—Eimma Berkman, must go to jail at the sele supreme court Alex New nt the re. ttorneys that the ynce be delayed until SAVIDGE WILL SPEAK The Young Men's Republ n club day banqu t > not y r V. Savidge, state land yen be the principal at! at today | the immediate ex- | HABEAS CORPUS’ STARTED AS HE LOSES OFFICE Persona official st doe Ambrose, thiet spend 90 days grate—that's p office of the ‘ling three days of ik furniture reluctantly dragged away day from hin happy home at the demand of the indignant com. missioners feels He's back | musty Sherift he rats and y jail there which amid annoyin old took letter odors in the when received read We demand that you immediately remove the criminal confined in the office of the King county commis kioners, These offices are set apart for of publi n@in no sense ax a prion for confinement of cr Puts Up Pight All three commissioners sign letter But Joe tant going away from the commi without a struggle Welsh and Dore, corpus proceedings get Joe back into the clean, atmosphere | Sheriff Strin maid ing that he bh p “request” of th tranne n the buw od the ners’ office Hin attorneys. started havens immediately to weet torn this with comminsioners or morr ot the their refused to during neanion He | whether he might return }to the cony ning atmon | phere of the commissioners’ office after the commissioners left for the | day The comminsioners are of a mind that he shall not Find Him Snoozing What made the commmixsioners sort of unhappy this morning, was coming tnto their offices and finding two benches pushed together, piled high with Mr. Ambrose’s bedclothes, and that «miling lover of the mace ron! peering at them from beneath the folds of a comforter. “Take that hobo's bedctothes Jeverything eine that belongs to him out of here.” mt of the commianioners And out went Ambrose ceooold, corrruel world | Fixed Their Attention Whether Judge Mackintosh will sentence other convicted prisoners to serve their time in the commis sioners’ offices, he refused to may But it's likely to happen unless that county jail is fixed up. “Thia sentence certainly brought |the matter of the condition of the | county jail to the com tention,” says the Jud | particular mode can't be worked again, there are other ways in which the jail’s condition can be kept in their minds.” |T. A. WARDALL, AGE 102, |DIES AT 11 A. M. TODAY Thomas A. Wardall, 102 years old, and a personal friend of Abraham Lincoin, died at the he of his son, Alonzo Wardell Wal nut ave., at 11 Monday morning. He | was the oldest man in the North west. Wardall was mentally alert to the last. Norman Wardall nty jauditor, a grandson, one of the direct descendants Thomas A. Wardall was born England in 1815- month af the battle of W He cam the United States of 20. and lived in Wisconsin, and later at Springfield, ll, where he knew | Abraham Lincoln. | He here seven years to live with his son, Alor He was the father of 13 children and has 124 | living andchildren great grandchildren. OSAKI PLEADS FOR MORE WAR AID IN JAPAN BY RALPH H. TURNER United Press Correspondent TOKIO, | denu try Ambrose airy, welee into the pinsioners’ at “and if this is aterloo. to at the age and a rauch! minis that in’ Jan An impassi lation of the 1 | an eloquent 5 more vigorously livered today in th tatives by Former Minis Justice Onaki | lamented the * in Japan, and the nation increase the aid extended the allies, with whom, he said, rela | tions were becoming strained, owing 4 |to the government's policy 16 entente,” he asserted, “is fighting for democracy, but the Jap- ministry represents cnilitar and enter difference to SHOT DICE ON FERRY, (SEVEN MEN ARRESTED |; Ames shipyard workers | ¥ when they walked off » ferry and into the hands of th police officers Mon day morning, who had been detailed to stop gambling. Sergt. Roy Olmstead, Patrolmen Reynolds and Neil, the following men to police quarters; Harold Call, J M. Skelton, George Weiss, J. F. Gourty, L. Smith and Charles Brown. They're out on bail, charged with shooting dice on the ferry, assisted by | took | head Me: | WASHINGTON thousands day gain ¢ cope with the . revival of the cold and snow thru |out the Delay ing bargoes on freli | eff Ds und official embargc "1 at | present disturbance |HEATLESS DAY COMES | PHILARELPHIA nec hit Philadelphi Hathaway,|on the dup t With the #1 ingly severe behind in schedules. wan tee setttind These cyos within the last two weeks have gazed acrows the barbed wire frontier that separates Switzerland from Germany, and have actually looked upon scenes WITHIN the land of our enemy, They are the eyes of Vincent Morgan, noted editor of the Cleveland Press, who has just returned from many weekw on the German frontier, where he } many ing and informative things about inxide conditions in Germ today o 2.88 spending wtar any @ The Star and its associated papers have just come to the culmination of an enterprise which is going to prove one of the outstanding features of the joi nal- ism of the great war. @ We have succeeded in h ving a representative penetrate to the very edge of. rmany, to stand at the very barbed wire frontier of the country of our enemy, and THERE to conduct a study of what in- side things are happening today in that land of mys- terious silence from which no first-hand word of con- ditions has reached our ears for nearly a year, ever since we declared war on the kaiser. The man selected for this difficult, almost impos- le task was Victor Morgan, the noted editor of the Cleveland Press, one of the most influential evening papers in America, and the manner in which Editor Morgan has brought his assignment to suc- cessful conclusion in the face of staggering odds, will constitute, when told, one of. the newspaper ro- mances of this war. @ Morgan sailed for Europe in November with no other instructions than to find out “what is going on in Germany today.” He learned, after landing in France, that the eastern part of Switzerland, which in speech, custom and sympathy is practically Ger- man, must be his hunting ground. But when he reached there he found this region to all intents and purposes the land of the enemy, and that opposing Prussian spies were everywhere. @ In no time, they had ransacked his trunks while he was absent from his room, and finally demanded from him, face to face, his mission. They set them- selves firmly against his bringing it off. q@ But, new8paper ™ believe us, he put it over—good American n that he is! @ Morgan has just arrived in this country, straight from a German border town. He knows more about what is going on in Germany than any other writ- ing man in the United States, or England, or France for that matter. He is going to tell it all, and im- mediately, for the benefit of the American people. It is the most important information that they can have. @ This batch of big news from the enemy country will begin to come sizzling over the wires to The Star office just’ as soon as Morgan can get his informa- tion compiled and onto the typewriter. His first article will appear in The Star Wednesday. NEW BLIZZARD SWEEPS OVER EAST ON “HEATLESS MONDAY” 28.—W ith | of and busi | uses closed thruout the coun: | the second “heatless holl and cold swept the| d, clogging freight. | he snowfall of the r hit this section, #ix inches o'clock, stopping street cars| all other traffic ilros administration the nsiderin w congestion caused by | Monday Jan industries TRAFFIC PARALYZED IN MIDDLE WEST BY snow * CHICAGO, paralyzed traffic Jan, 28.—Snow again in the Middle West was net saving effect The extended from the Rocky mountains to the Atlantic se Little freight and passenger | late. 1 by and cold wave measures to fuelless snow Hast 1 passenger trains are be taken off at some points, em » in voluntary tern lines: board. being were was trains on most ¢ annulled. Weather |out little hope relief, pr | continuing flurries | weather by nightfall. | Milwaukee, with seven inches over night, making 650.6 inches of snow since J ry 1, was practically iso lated from the outside by rail p av ge Middle ¥ t winter's snowfall has already been excoedod by 50 per cent A fourinch fall to in a hopeless tangle.| day v ported in Kan. dela yw becoming an increas | hora and Missourl, halting traffic blizzard, all roads were |and causing suffering, but benefiting winter wheat prospects, bureau forecasters for snow held licting and zero ntinued until the is over. k will be ¢ IN 40-MILE BLIZZARD Jan, 28,—The nd heatless-wheat Monday at 40 miles an hour, wings of a’ snowstorm that or ANOTHER BIG STORM} today, and east of the Mississippi off- | In many cases schedules were | SEC.BAKER ON STAND TODAY [Every Man in All Camps Fit to Gaul “Over There,” ever They Are He Says, “When- Needed”; Defends © His Official Acts. BY L. C. MARTIN WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—The United States will have more than 500,000 men in France ear- ly this year and “more than a million and a half” ready to send, Secretary Baker told the senate military committee this afternoon. WASHING claring that “every man in 32 ‘ational Guard and National ed,” Secretary of War Baker to- day struck back at critics of the war department. In a statement he delivered before the senate military com- mittee, Baker showed the great this sudden and some without suf- — preparation, to win the Z reply to those who have criti- cized the government, he declared: Pershing 0. K.'s Rifle ‘That laxity in the medical service at camps will not be tolerated. Three officers have been court- martialed and dismissed because of ject in attending sick Gen. Pershing himself 0. adoption of the modified Enfield rifle. A great army was called out before guns were ready for it upon the rec: ommendation of Maj. Gen, Leonard | Wood. overy man in France has his own gun, and was trained to use it Many times as many men are now in France as had been originally planned for this date. Gen. Pershing decided against the | Lewis machine gun for land work On November 20 140 machine guns were sent to each training camp. Every man@ in the 32 camps is now dy for service in | France. Our army in France—now large. and it will be larger—will have the type of artillery it wants and needs. Three hundred three-inch anti-air craft guns will be turned out month ly in this country before another year Official reports, based on careful information, that camp hos pitals the equal of civilian hos pitals and in splendid shape. Men Before Guns Tonnage is the crux of the whole situation and this country is using French guns to save ships for other supplies The allies urged troops before anything saying France and England could supply us with artil lery Baker next turned to shortages in the supply of ordnance. He review ed the situal answering criticisms in the dalay in settling on the modi fied Enfield army rifle Pershing Decided Pershing, Baker said, was at the con| t which the modified | Enfield w ided on | “We did not then know whether our armies were to fight with the | French or the British.” | Baker took exception to the sta me uin's speech th: the United had a motley col lection of rifles show are Gen. ‘an Has Gun “Aso fac had 600, t army rifle in the world,” said Bake The result of our decision to sub ordinate great speed im rifle produc jt t, we ion to exc 2 man has gone to France | not who has rifle and had training in the use of it | “Many times the number of mer Ave gone to France than it was ex would be there by this t | And not’a man has gone to F\ without a first-class rifle and trai ing in its use Doesn't Defend Self | “I am not here to defend myself, Jor to deny that mistakes and false rts have been made,” he said he impression has gone abroad that the war department has fallen |down, The country is entitled to |know what this war is, what its re.” then paid | r a high tribute to army officers and civilian helpers of the department alike for their “de voted, untiring efforts to rush war found errors, remedy,” n we have liately sought the we he “T have no bias in favor of individ vals. If Gen, Crozier, one else, had shown up some morn- K.'d the) training | myself, or any | ing in the casualty lists, it would not matter nearly so much as that this great enterprise should deserve the comment that it has fallen down.” ¥ eher's testimony was interrupted | by noise from a huge throng, | which crowded outside the big room, Owing to hundreds who demanded Jentrance, the committee was force | (Continued on page 7) © | " odie. ‘GEN. WOOD IS INJURED; TWO WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—That & | fresh announcement of i participation in actual battling be forthcoming soon was the Sees of many here today. This thought was strengthened the fact that several infants the past week have been repo killed or wounded “in action, Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood has beam hurt by an accidental explosion 3 ry i News of the wounding of Wood, jformer chief of staff, but now com= — |mander of Camp Funston, Kansas, — was included in a dispatch from American headquarters telling that two of his staff, Lieut. Kilbourne and Maj. Joyce, were injured and five French soldiers killed. Another dispatch from Gen. Pershing related | that five infantrymen had been Rial Where or how either of these ac Vs thy. wounded im. tia. aa Wood, like other general officers a3 |has been having a chance to see the” | training at close range in France, jbut the accident may have occurred at a point on the allied battle line, The casualties of the past week ime dicate that a portion of the Ameri. can forces may be finishing their training by having front line ¢x perience. Pershing has not intimat ed it in his casualty reports, but it is likely that the casualties resulted: from patrol clashes or small trench raids. | Aimawiioites Aviator Killed in France WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—First Lieut. Jack M. Wright y York ty, a proplane ae ci Pershing | cab! n. <1 today . | First Lieut. H. A, Brown, nati, Ohio, was wounded 31 a np with fore ded | ths from natural causes: s follows: Nurse Ale Roberts, Ma: N. JG H. L. Roberts, Warren Karl M. Morris, Jirehy British on, Private Ohio; Private Wyo. | TROUBLE IN RHEINISH | INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT IS GROWING SERIOUS LONDON re dis= turbances in the zt accord: Hague Jan, 28.—Seve Ave tria from i curre | Rheinish tnd jing to today district reports The that mas tributed to details were dispatch guns } No chine troops, en dis further | given =| TWO AIRPLANES ARE WRECKED IN CRASH SAN DIEGO 28.—Two air | planes collided in midair at North | Island today at a height of 300 feet, Both crashed to earth, and it ts be leved both pilots were killed. ‘The machi wrecks, Army officers refuse any information STEVEDORES HELD IN SHIP FIRES MYSTERY SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 28.—Fed- eral agents today examined 18 steve: dores who loaded the motorship Ze- | landia, and it is said several are une der arrest as & result of two “pes uboard the vessel. Probes reve: ted that an inflammable liquid had been poured over bales of cotton ia the Zelandia’s cargo while it was being loaded. 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