The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 31, 1918, Page 1

AMMIES KILLED IN SURPRISE TRENCH ATTACK VOLUME 19 FULL bb Unite PPAR APRA DADA APPR PPR PR ALDOR PPAR PAPA PPP PPP PPP The Seattle Star THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST THURSDAY, { TTLE, WASH., JANUARY & Weather Fore continued ¢ hrm, NIGHT EDITION WILSON SEES WAR EN * * # * GAS CONSUMER BUMPED AGAIN Germans Cross Says Star. Writer;) Meal, Border for! Folks Fed on Swine Food. it’s better ee t's one + Ly Sima the second of Morgan's ee diet'is pretty poor, | than it wag at the close of last winter. | fact that Victor Morgan brings} tor Morgan, noted editor of the Cleve-| sent abroad on WHAT associated rts GOING ON IN GER- The first ap- BY VICTOR MORGAN. Editor cf The Cleveland Press Copyright, 1918, by the Newspaper Enterprine Association oor Kiddies Are ‘oo Weak to Play A Swiss who had just re- ‘turned from Germany no- ficed a strange thing. It was total absence of playing children in any of the places he had visited. “It was not because of grief,” iy he, “for, of course, are too young to realize a awfulness of what is going on. They were not playing simply be- cause they did not have the strength to play. Under- feeding brings lassitude and a yearning not to exert one’s self. The only games i saw children play were tron gh Bie: involving phys- ion.” Victor MORGAN. It is a hardy vegetable, cordy and ss rich in sugar, and, therefore, | " w b is Made from a sort of flour or bran pro- y stalks of wheat and rye. flour, and the combination is most unpal-| ot tive r “duced by by Perindinig "the dried ed with rye Tt is God’s truth that the| farmers of America this) night are feeding to their! cattle better food than mil-| # lions of humans in Germany and Austria have had at times. | Cow beets and straw bread—can you imagine hu-} man beings keeping alive on} such fare? Well, German people did, | and because they did, one} must feel that no privation,| no pressure of any sort, can} be made severe enough tc) start a general revolt among} the civil BF oy mere of the} empire. ever a revolution comes in Germany, it must have soldiers in it. And the soldiers will never revolt for lack of food or clothes. They have plenty of both. | Cow beet is American for mangel-wurzel. It is raised both in America and Ger-| It is altho not entirely lacking in nutrition. - The cow beet and straw bread are off the ( at present—a proof that CONDITION VY ARE B E CLOSE stores oh ER TODAY THAN THE WINTER. exhausted and recourse was had to|* Jan Austrian Ww It was then that the advent of the ow beet into the realm of human| " foods has given that lowly vegetable a prominence in Ger-\tui © icsythat it could-never have attained in a million ‘ing cattle hunger. , 1917, a meeting of 40 mayors of leading In German ities was held to declare war on the cow beet and | she ia icades against its return. German people grow bitter af the mere mention beet. e cow beet, it seer trusively, and in secluded se of the food directors, of 1916. tions of the empire, when it beeame apparent that the potato crop would not be sufficient to last thru the winter | \, The mayors demanded to know whether any such In hate it ranks seeond only to England. was put into the soil unob- by order action had been found necessary in 1917. ’ Failure of Spud Crop Holds Revolt Germ They declared most positively that their people would! Weve no more of the cow beet. said they, to restrict further the | mometer established a low record for It would be better, potato allowance now, than to test the temper of the people with the cow beet, should the potato supply fail tow Further, said the mayors, it was ¢ agrarians, end of winte: alk that the aristocratic Beeding potatoes to their pigs. the potato supply last? ard the or land own If that were so, how could | The mayors were assured that the potato crop would prove ample for the year, and the report about the agrarians | i)", was denied. The cow beet, the mayors were told, was off the menu for good. The mayors adjourned and went home | at satisfied, Sow wouldn’t it bevan odd page in history if the cal:| thy hould go cee and the cow beet should | ed yy mmon |" Star Photographer Catches ‘Famous Prima Donna Knitting | AMERICAN, FIRST AND LAST, THAT'S MITZI LAND OF FOE— A pickpocket sat on a prison wall and sang. The grim place became enchanted, a» notes, like those from a flute, melted away In the violet light. Suddenly the pickpocket drop- ped out of sicht, and— Turned up ten seconds later with knitting needies and a ball of gray yarn im the chints draped drewsing room of the Metropolitan theatre. The “pickpocket” was only a make-believe little waif, called “Pom Pom.” But it was pot “Pom Pom,” the pickpocket, wio set to knitting #0 industriously It was Mitel Hajow CAN comic op the stag to toll the AME! im tha Many of us will remember Mital wr wix ye when she first came here Spring craft, we a in a her with We his how Mitai—youth ortrayed in ev left marr ed when you read, and skep tical figured that she'd fall for that title just the same Well, she didn’t Mitzi won't talk about the war much, But she will proudly tell you that st 1 fullfledged “Yankee Doodle American, first time smile girl and all an the ‘ls Your Overcoat in Hock? _ Better Be moun going down, The ther day morning, when Tees, « record of the winter Thu it touched 26 lower than yes With this Jolt handed out in the “t of a winter that hay averaged Seattle started to really a terday one 45 dl shiv Probably get a little warmer to says Weather Forecaster But he ian't promising any sun winter sport in digging up that old that was bought during the onows of two years ago. Re port tc 3 PRS. DR IE A | that she sh She took BORN IN HER BIT | i out her citizenship papérs long raee| ~before the war. oe Mitzi's success Hes in keeping vik vactous—and war discussions are not healthy for that sort of disposition. But the war ix so gigantic In ite | scope that it embraces even radiant, sparkling, joy-loving Mitzi Hajor. It couldn't be otherwise. If th in any place in Austria-Hungary, where there ia a decided antt-kaiser spirit, it is in Budapest, Mitai's | birthplace. Read today what Victor Morgan, the man who stood on the Swiss border to study German condi: | tiongfor this and other papers, says | [abetit that. | ‘And #0, when Mitzi tasted Amert can air, what more ural than fall in love with our at L ty instead of with ratic baron? many months now has Mital, between acts of riotous stage | fun, sat in her dressing room, knit ting, knitting, knitting, for the Sam. mies In France. And Friday at noon she will give J her time but rh tal with that of nal ades, Am an ers r there” may have tobacco when their torn nerves ¢ out for it. Mitzi and the t stage a big be t ¢t Met for fund will be 15 big and the eserved seats, will sverybody, who can et} going, to judge from the deme m Pom" stars efit perform. The Star's acts le Lets Actions Speak It will be big ntaneous out} burst of happines “Our Boys in France Tobacco Fw The entire “PF to take part entertainment of * company is ntees an| Mitzi Hajos is doing her bit Getting It Out! | (doing @ thriving businéss in collects ing on pledged imitation ehinchillas every body's fecling a trifle hement about the weather since a per-hour wi id snap from the norning Hello. I# it cold enough for you?” That greeting wae used on Second times Thursday morning. a close second, at for ) Runnin Jy it warm @nough The upside down these days, trying to find those skates that they thought they weren't going to © @ chance kidw are turning the house BIG NAVAL BAND TO PLAY AT MET FRIDAY || ‘The big Natal Training Station band, of 40 pieces, from the uni- vetwity, will inject patriotic music into the big smoke fund vaude: Ville show, featuring Mitzi Hajow at the Met Friday noon Rand Master Thomson made oil the arrangements thix morn- music will send the aging thru your veins! n to be on hand Friday going to be SOME | * aftatr, ‘BERLIN STRIKE LEADERS SEND OUT ULTIMATUM ZURICH, Jan. 31.—“Berlin strik-y vording to sl rman socialist: paper, eived here today. he paper prints the text of an witimatum, which It declares was |served on the government by the strikers, This document demands tion of peace negotiatio basis of no. annexations and no in demnities; participation of all work men of all countries in peace nego tlations; better food distribution; res toration of the right to public ings; abolition of the scheme elera on the meet natitutions and equal suffrage by t necret ballot GERMAN. SOCIALIST LEADERS ARRESTED COPENHAC Jan, 31.—Copies | of Germania, received today, declare the German atrike is still growing, and that Under Minister of the In-| terior Wollraff continues in his re. fueal to negotiate with the work Many socialist leaders have b arreaied in various towns, it was r In Berlin a thick fog enabled agi tators to distribute revolutionary pamphlets undetected “ISAYS STRIKE IS LOCAL AMSTERDAM, Jan, 31.——“Thore 4s! no news of any serious strike move- thent except In Berlin,” declared som}-offictal n ved from | Die in Fight Against Odds BY J. W, PEGLER United Press Correspondent WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Jan, 31.— (Delayed.) — America’s fighting forces suffered more casualties y thru a German raid. American soldiers were killed, jously, and one was taken pris- oner by the enemy, in a sortie against a small American. sali- ent carly this morning. Sell Lives Dearly The Americ: sold thel They © battled heroically superior odds, There of bloody fighting in the line on which wr wou d, one ser. ns r lives dearly against was evidence small corner of the the enemy worked heavy, low-lying mist up an 4 small s ned by fi v rain the of high ex communica: tion wir might have summon Mist Hides Ro The mist, hid roe which the Americans sent up. had to fight without the aid of a counter barrage from their own guns because of this lack of com. munication, t they fought valiantly was in the blood and dis- litle nic did not have a wainst the vastly su Jermans, who swoop and who did not (Continued on page 10) EARTHQUAKE SHAKES CLEVELAND DISTRICT CLE AND, Jan, 91.—An earth Jauake, which lasted 20 seconds, and shook vicinities within a radius of 500 miles of Cleveland, was recorded t St, Ignatius college here yes! day, The shock was not noticeadle The Sammies | hey held, |” PROVE HOAX Seattle's 50,000 gas consumers will not be required to continue paying a 25-cent monthly “ready- to-nerve” charge, but the small | consumer will make up @ great part of the revenue the cam has been securing in man ner thru increased cont of gas. These were the outstanding first glance, it appeared to ‘Seattle users of gas that a vic | that would nearly make up for the “I's outrageous!" Reynolds said. “They are soaking the small user of | gas by increasing the cost to htm, and reducing it for jarge quantities, where nobody will be affected. “They'd have done better if they had left the ‘ready-to-serve’ charge im force and hadn't touched the fates.” Slap It Back “They haven't given the company quite all it asked,” Meter explained, | “but nearly as much, They've knock- ed off the 25-cent charge and slapped it back in another form.” Here's how the new rates affect you: Say, for instance, you used 1,000 cuble feet This would have cost you $1 prior to last November. The company contended this much #28 should cost you $1.40, According to the new: rate, it will cost you $1.25. This Shows How The rates that the company will be (Continued on page 8) MANY EXEMPTS MUST SERVE; NEW RULING} WASHINGTON, Jan, #1.—Changes lin the physical requirements for men of the national army, by which thousands who have been or would be rejected under the first’ regula tions can now be accepted for serv ice, were announced by Provost Marshal General Crowder The modifications indicate that the war department is determined to! hold for service, eith n registered them fit Physic edied an defects that can t © the men fit for se ice will be r Hed or the men put ]into some special work, not so rig orous as trench fighting, says AUSTRIANS IN” UPROAR 8, the story as. sed to fire on Dispatches from Vienna received here agsert that soldiers started the recent strike, many Austrian offi cers leading. These offic it was declared, tore off their insignia ral joined with their men. A dixpateh to the gning in Austria. Prague messages reported local authorities were unable to sup press the strikers, and that troops were arriving to ald “WE NEED HELP OF ALL uM “We who love our ERDAM, Jan help of all AMS need the political leaders," declared the G * Democrat ¢e-| “A revolution, not a strike,” | the } WHO LOVE US”--KAISER' ! »| pledge y | those Crowder | efforts. | ly tested people, expectally our | wave struck the Temperatures ranged from 88 velow man kaiser in a telogram to the king | st ers reported here today. jail the allies to $4 Hoa pane WASH INGTE Jan. 31. —The |minating crisis of struggle | has pany had obtained rate increases|£Q@ “And in facing this et ‘isis, he said, “it has turne that the forces that fi freedom, the freedom of all over the world, as Ls our own, depend upon w an extraordinary and pected degree for sust | for supply of the mate which men are to ive fight. Will Be Our Glory “And it will be our when the war is over, have supplied these m and supplied them ab ly, and it will be all them glory, because in sup them we have made o preme effort and sacrifice, “We are fighting,” president said, “as truly #6 the liberty and self go ment of the United State if the war of our own rev tion had to be fought again and every man in business in the United Si must know now that whole future fortune lies the balance. “Our national life and whole economic developn g will come under the sinister™ influence of foreign com hs eral, mii-|if we do not win. therefo: not asl and fortunes rest of the nation “We must win. shall wi x of the rem-|the accomplishment of that end. “I will not appeal to you te @ tinue and renew and increase I do not believe if da °mt (Continued on page 10) | GERMAN: TROOPS REFUSE, RUSS LEADERS ARREST ‘|TO FIRE ON STRIKERS; REDS FOR THREATENING AMBASSADOR FRAN! BY JOSEPH SHAPLEN United Press Correspondent PETROG number of a to the pan-sovi were arrested rchists, delegates congress |NEW LOANS TO BRITAIN. = . TOTAL $275,000,00¢ WASHINGTON, Jan, 31-—An ae 000 the British total to 000,000, and the grand war tour 900,000, FROZEN UP TIGHT IN NORTH DAKOT) PAUL, Minn. Jam Sta Northwest st. in North Dako to 25 e