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IMPORTANT WEE This is the last week in which your organization at once, K TO ALL THOSE IN U. S. SERVICE! TAKE NOTICE, MEN! you may apply for life and accident insurance with the United States government at special rates, if you were in the service prior to October 15, 1917 the insurance officer 1,000 VOLUME 19 If the war should di apply before February 12. Byis bEAgED. w ITED PRESS IRE SERVICE ASSOCIATIONS THE GREATEST DAIL LY CIRCULATION OF AN SEATTLE, WASH., MOND, The rates are far below those you can get in private companies, and you may take out insurance up to $10,000. sable you, the Insurance will be paid you in monthly installments PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST AY, FEBRUARY 4, 1918 At the age of 21, the premiums are 65 »u owe it to yourself—and to your country, to insure yourself TheSeattleStar . DO IT NOW—DO Forecast: rain; warmer PRICE ONE CENT each must for You a month DELAY ents T NIGHT EDITION Tonight and Tuesday, moderate southerly gales. ¥ rywhere beattle SERLIN CUT OFF Teutons low Eat |} Substitutes “for Everything Bin Teuton Diet, Says Victor Morgan S. SUPPLY CUT OFF | vea2 Bees 3 The reason for this, Morgan fw the use of the ersatr— substitute—for almost every ‘These substitutes fail to ‘build up the body. No substitute has been found, however, for the hot bath. Mor. (an adds: “And the hot bath, as @ daily Incident. has ail but passed out of existence” in Ger many. BY VICTOR MORGAN Editor of the Cleveland Press. 1918, by the Newspaper Association. Germany is the land of the ER TZ—the substitute. Immediately a necessity disan d from the market there comes into its place an ersatz. ‘The shopkeeper does not try to im it off on you by telling you t it is “just as good.” He merely ‘x, “It is the only thing of the ‘that can be bought in Ger- ‘The number of these substitutes Jruns into thousands. There are few things that bear any relation what ‘ever to life today that have not their | substitutes. The existence of this ‘vast number of substitutes in indi- eative not only of the scarcity of necexsities in Germany, but of th doctlity of the people who continue, year in and year out, to use these substitutes. “It is probable that few of the gubstitutes are injurious to health, but certainly all, or near- ly all, are lacking in nutritive ies. — appease hunger by fill- fag the stomach, but they do mot build up the body, and the people who undertake to subsist upon them become weakened and susceptible to disease. For coffee there are many Make ’Em Work Cname ADORESS? The clerks who count the votes would sure have to work If every voter In Seattle registered in time for the coming election. GIVE THEM A CHANCE TO RUSH AROUND SOME Register now and insure your self an opportunity to cast your vote. Registration office first Moor, county-city building. Convict Visits Wife’s Bedside; Returns to Cell SALEM, Feb. 4.—Keeping his Word to Warden Murphy, John Pender, serving a life term at the penitentiary for murder, is in the prison again today, after spend. ing several days unguarded in Portland while his wife underwent @ serious operation. Mrs. Pender’s yearning for her husband's presence during the crisis was #0 great that physicians feared she would not fecover otherwise. Upon his promise to return promptly, Pender was allowed to go to Portland, paying all of his own expenses. GERMAN HORDE AWAITS SPRING DRIVE ORDERS BY HENRY Woop United Press Correspondent WITH THE FRENCH IN THE FIELD, Feb. 4.—-The Ger mans to date have concentrated be tween 180 and 199 divisions (2,700,000 to 2,850,000 men) on the Western front, in preparation for the expect ed offensive, Since the allied drive, last April, the maximum of the German concen tration on the Western front consist e4 of only 155 divisions, until the Russian armistice permitted the in. crease to the present strength One hundred and fifteen divisions already are on the lines, while the re maining 65 to 75 are held in reserve. The Germans have 69 divisions on the Russian front, from which the best soldiers have been transferred to the West. BULLETINS $ By United Press s LONDON, British troops raided enemy trenches east of Hav- rincourt early last night, Field Mar shal Haig reported today. In the neighborhood of Lens and northeast of Cavrelle there was “some hostile activity.” sub-| CALAIS BOMBED BY HUN tutes. The leading one is cround| p_ANES; NO DAMAGE 8. cheaper substitute ground roots. Saccharin for Sugar substitute for sugar is a coal tar product (Continued on page 10) is made sac many ART PRELIMINARY IN TRIAL OF 100 |. W. W. CHICAGO, Feb, 4.—Attorneys for more than 100 alleged members of the 1. W. W. will ask Judge Landis to quash indictments and return Papers seized in raids. William ©. tte, assistant attorney general, arrived to direct the prosecu- ‘tion. Muito LABOR LAW UP WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—-The su- waerie court today agreed to ex- ‘This costs 59 cents a pound. | of | Calais was bomb- nes of the Gotha , it was officially announced to. le “There were no victims and |no material damage,” the staterent asserted PARIS, Feb. 4 |ed by enemy airp | tyr y ENEMY RAID ATTEMPT FAILS NEAR FRESNES PARIS, Feb. 4 A strong at- tempted enemy raid led north- west of Coucy le Chateau In the sector west of Fresnes last night, the official communique stated to- day. There mutual artillery ing along bank of the Meuse. CZERNIN, KUEHLMANN TO MEET IN BERLIN AMSTERDAM, Feb. 4.—~Austrian Foreign Minister Czernin, German ‘oreign Secretary Kuehimann and Quartermaster Gen. Ludendorff were the right he the hearing of the conati-|due in Berlin today, to participate in tutlonality of the child labor lawja series of discussions on political at the government's request. The Ase was wet for April 19 and economic conditions, it was learned here. } ARMIES ] | | | Fight on Wilson Is Renewed Hitchcock Charges Mis- management in Speech for Central Control |BAKER IS SCORED AGAIN WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 jing that “the war department is bet }ter equipped with prakes than with motive power,” and that chaos alone has resulted from other departmental work, Senator Hitehcock (Neb) to- | day renewed demands for coordina | tion of the nation’s war efforts, He declared Secretary of War Baker's “sanguine prediction” re garding troop shipments to Europe was “exaggeration of the wildest Hitchcock charged specifically that: ‘The war department has fallen down in most of its important functions. Seeretary Baker's efforts to correct defects in his department would be futile ‘The transportation system has fallen down, and ix “a gigantic wreck.” ‘There is no power to co-ord- inate transportation across the Atlantic and here. Lack of directing authority has resulted in the present fuct situation. The present condition of our shipbuilding is “nothing less than shocking.” Efforts to move food for our allies and ourselves have mis carried. Monstrous Wrong “The president is quoted as ob jecting to any change in the law on the ground that he is responsible for the conduct of the war,” he said “It would be a monstrous wrong to hold him responsible for the many shortcomings, because nothing out the genius of perfection and the power of omniscience could enable one man to look after these vast interests. “He cannot at one time design and conduct our difficult foreign policy, chiet of the army and navy, act aa his own prime minister, design all legislation for congress to pass, dic | tate all industrial, financial and polit- lical activities of the country, and liook after the expenditures of $250, 000,000 a week. It is out of the ques tion and out of reason.” He declared that the present sys tem is obsolete and cumbersome, #0 that efficiency is well night impoasi. ble. “We found authority for checks: tions, delays, debates and dis coments, but little or no pro vision for prompt decision and ener- getic action,” he fisserted. Charges Neglect Nine months after we entered the nd three months after our men gathered in cantonments we found in the dead of winter thou sands of men without lacking woolen breeches, blouses other wa were overc without woolen anda serious short “We found machine gun companie | unable to drill two months after they were formed because they had no ma chine guns. Even in December we {find 1,200 still kept in storage for some foolish and inexplicable reason while each camp had been supplied with only 89 machine guns. Drilled With Sticks | “We found hundreds of thousands lof men drilling with wooden sticks for weeks and months b ause of de lays in ordering rifles spring We found men sent to France with. | rifle or machine gun practice. | We found a distressing amount of | sickness In most camps and an un | y mortality due to lack of | | (Continued on page 4) SEN. WILLIAMS CALLS HITCHCOCK MUCKRAKER WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—Senator | Williams, Mississippi, attacking Sen ator Hitchcock, after the latter had finish xpeaking today, declared muckraking of the administr part of the German last out neces \ th }tion was a | game.” He cha haa nemy was true, reed that Hitchcock revealed information to th and that if all he had # |"we are whipped already.” He bitterly attacked the war cab: |inet bill as being unnecessary Have you bought a thrift stamp? Do it today. j Declar perform the duties of commander-in-| Investigation of the boost in prices of barley flour and corn meal by Seattle millers, follow- ing the food administration's plea that they be used as wheat flour substitutes, was started Monday by the local price pub- lishing commission. nquiry into the sudden ad: vance in prices is being conduct- ed by J. W. Godwin, assisted by other members of the commis sion. Announcement was made Saturday that the price of bariey flour had jumped to $| a barrel. It had been selling at not higher than $10.50 per barrel flour is now held at 90/ more than wheat flour. The! commission alno has received numer. | plaints from consumers who | [have found corn meal much higher than wheat flour. | dwin said he expected to have al report of the Investigation by Tues} day. He maid there was 4 very a_i quantity of bariey flour on the mar ket last week, and that no jobber could give a quotation for the pub lished price list of food commodities i Jobbers and retailers may they are | doing business on a small scale, and are not responsible for the high Prices. They say Eastern millers are holding up the prices. Will Mill Barley One Seattle mill began grinding | barley flour M y, and others are preparing to manufacture other sub stitutes in a few days Heretofore | there han been very little barley flour on the local market, and the quota tions were not announced until the| recent advance. | Prompt investigation of attempts of wholesale or retail dealers to make | excessive profits on wheat flour or substitutes will be made by the na tional food administration. Word to | this effect has been by |B. C. Beck, Western Washington }food administrator, thru Charles Hebberd, state administrator. Disregard Replacement ubstitutes are not to be sold at more than a reasonable advance over actual purchase price, without regard to market or replacement value. | Grom maximum profit to the wholesaler must not exceed 25 to 50) cents a barrel, Gross maximum profit to the retailer on original mill packages must not exceed 80 cents to $1.20 per 1, depending on the character of vice, and on less than original mill packages must not exceed 1 cent a pow Cat Down Purchase Wholesale dealers cannot buy from millers more than 70 per cent of flour purchases for the months of the previous year, figured | ¢ on a quarterly basis, Sales to retail! trade must not exceed two pounds|y of wheat flour to one of substitute, | Authorized substitutes are rice, flour, oatmeal, rolled oats, buckwheat flour, potato flour, sweet potato flour, | soy bean flour and foterita and m Is. Graham, whole wheat ra are not classed as subs r Beck says reports from hotels and ||, restaurants show that Seattle and] n the entire state are saving large| quantities of foodstuffs, particularly | | wheat and meat. |r Harley received rice | flours | 5 flo COLD SNAP STRIKES IN EAST ON HEATLESS DAY! WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—A_ cold snap, following in the wake of 48) |hours of wa weather, again| swept the F states today the third and the athe into mer stern probably holiday” went as last ef he most serious conditions now | n oxist in the New Englarid most other communities east of the Mixslasippi affected by the fuel shortag: having improved some what under the closing and em- bargo orders. LACK OF COAL MAY ‘ ‘ € WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—Closing of New England textile mills from coal shortage is imminent, accord ing to telegrams from the National Association of Woolen Manufac turers and National Cotton Manu- focturers, ‘The messages » sub- mitted to the senate today Closing would suspend making of thousands of army uniforms. Tel ecrams were rushed, asking that colliera be despatched to New and with coal i BLAME CAPTAIN AND Mont ment findings. quest that he resign is to be of the Fifteenth judicial district night | prove | the nation. witness in Hel man CLOSE TEXTILE MILLS) gun‘ana thre the harbor posal of the cilitate steamers THE HOUSEWIFE’S NIGHTMARE (After Trying to Commit to Memory the New Food Schedule.) Zz QEEZPTILL. B Vist i 00 (zt Vi OA QL Y / y hv, PILOT AS CAUSE OF HALIFAX EXPLOSION HALIFAX, N. 8, Feb. 4.—The | a | | corresponding | explosion which nearly destroyed the ty of Halifax was due to careless. Pilot Mackay and Captain wmodec, of the munitions ship Blane, Judge Drysdale, head of probing commission, charged re lay Wiackay and were taken | t ustody and eharged with man- | ter ting neas by Lemodec to the commiasion, the liot i master of the ship vio ated rules of the road, and ram-| med the Imo. | Recommendations that y's be revoked and Lemodec be | by the French govern were included in the fcenne unished also MONTANA JUDGE HELD DISLOYAL BY CITIZENS FORSYTHE, Mont., Feb. 4.—A re r 0 Chas, L. Crum, presiding jud to: by the Rosebud county com mittee of 100, following an examina, states, | tion of the jurist as to his loyalty oday ‘The committee holds he himself sufficiently failed to loyal to character a recently for a charged with seditious utter d the federal prosecuting alleges that Crum dre | ned to kill him dur in the attorney gen-| Crum appeared as a ances, attorne ng conferenc pral's office. TO RUSH SHIP LOADING SHINGTON, Fob. 4.—Fifteen | ra on the Jersey side of | were placed at the dis snipping board today py the railroad administration to fa loading of transatlantic ‘Twenty-five shi accommodated at these Jeral prisoners except in exc HUN AVIATORS _ BOMB VENICE and bombed repeatedly yesterday by it was officially Venice, Padua, were attacked enemy airmen, an A today at damage was done, it was civil hospital at Treviso was hit The heaviest damage was suffer ed by private houses. There were no casualties » damage was done in Venice Sheriff Stringer Says County Jail Too Crowded Now The “insanitary condition” of the county jail, and its “unfitnes: human habitation” came into the limelight again Monday, the in troduction into the county commis eting of a letter from United States Immigration Commi. sioner White, enclosing a letter fi Sheriff Stringer, in which he state that he would refuse to accept fed- eptional by sioners’ m cases. ne sheriff's letter said that the “insanitary” condition was, height ened by the crowding of prisoner d that there was not sufficient r to properly take care of all federal prisoners. Ax permission to pl prisoners jn the jail had been granted White by the board, they will take the matter up with the prosecuting at torney. MUNY CAR LINE HAS RECORD DAY SUNDAY ‘The “muny” street railway ex- tension to Ballard made a record day Sunday with a total revenue of $246.8: Operating expenses for the day were $181. for | POE puccamrchos |CITY MAY CONSIDER ANOTHER POWER SITE An ordinance calling for bids for the delivery to the city of a complet: ed hydro-electric power plant on oth: er than public land was sent to the council by Corporation Counsel Cald. well Monday. It was prepared at the request of the chairmen of the utili tes and judiciary committe: ‘aldwell, in a letter accompanying it, stated that there is a question as to its advisability, as it is likely to | divert attention from the Skagit riv ler project, which, he points out, calls jfor prompt action if the site is to be acquired. | Trainmen Present New Wage Demands | WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—Condue- |tors and trainmen of the National | railroad today formally presented to j the Wade commission their de- } mands for 35 to 40 per cent wage increases | At the |B. Garretson, | conductors, was $5.20 a hundred and $3.25 for passenger conductors. President W. G. L of the train- | men, had figures showing increases in living expenses, They demand |an increase in wages amounting to | 66% per cent of this increased | living cost. formal hearing today A spokesman for the prepared to ask ‘| EXPLOSION AT PRAGUE | COSTS LIVES OF MANY ZURICH, Feb. 4.—Many lives were |lost in the explosion of a munitions |depot at gue, according to dis- patches toc Central powers news papers allege a plot. All reports of the explosion here have been mutil ated by the censors. STEAL LIBERTY BOND Some thief is going te hard time getting rid of a $500 Lin. erty Bond stolen from Jos. J. Wells, guest at the Rhein hotel, Eighth and Union, The bond is registered. have a miles for freight | & SEATTLE PRICE BOARD Kaiser's INVESTIGATING TODAY Fatelsin Balance | Have Strikers Gone Back to Work? Whole World , Awaits Answer |MILITARISTS IN SADDLE No direct word has been | received concerning the sit- juation in Berlin today. BY LOWELL MELLETT United Press Correspondent LONDON bd. its own borders today. people, whose general strike to en- force demands for food and consider ation of peace, found its climax ia” rioting and bloodshed last week, have ing been given the alternative of re turning to work or paying the ex- treme penalty—death by the firing squad The fate of Germany, and, in ® lesser degree, the whole world, de pends upon the strikers’ decision. May Be Civil War * If they submit to the supreme com- mand’s ultimatum, it will mean that” German militarism has won another © victory, and that the central powers may again concentrate their efforts in preparing for the spring drive against the allies. If they do not submit. bloody civil war thruout Germany and Austria Hungary will result There is a tendency here to be Meve that the death threat will tem-” porarily cow the workers into sub- mission. ‘There is belief, too, that such a victory for the militarists will furnish only a short respite. New Revolt Possible If the coming offensive is effective and the slaughter heavy, both of which are anticipated, another upris- ing by the people is regarded as al most certain. The statement from the inter-allied conference at Versailles yesterday, declaring for vigorous prosecution of the war until peace can be obtained, based on the principle of freedom, is. expected to be, seized upon by Ger- man leaders to convince the people that it is necessary to fight to the last man to crush the allies. At the same time the statement in- | dicates the allies have made supreme preparations to nullify such an at: tempt. Therefore it is believed that if there is no revolution in Germany now, it is merely postponed. GERMAN STRIKE IS ON WANE, BERLIN REPORTS AMSTERDAM, Feb, 4.—The gen- eral strike in the central powers ts waning, according to German news. papers ‘here today. Thousands of workers were reported to t turned to the factories S in isolated sections small new walk- outs were described | A copy of the Vossiche Zeitung re- ecived here today declared that Sun- ay night strike rs counselled umption of work in the face of the death threat of military officials, In Magdeburg, Ludwigshaven and Breslau, it was said the strikers fol- lowed this advice and flocked back to the factories. “Conditions are normal” in Essen, the newspaper said. ‘The Vorwaerts, describing the first military court-martial of strike agita- tors in Moabit, a suburb of Berlin, said the building was heavily guard- ed by troops, and that citizens were excluded, One Is Sentenced ‘The first case called was that of Heinrich Schultze, an independent socialist. He recefved six months? imprisonment for distributing lteras ture. In Cologne the president of the labor organization attended a meet ing to convey the demands of the im- perial chancellor, After a short de- bate the strikers decided to return Mito work all Can Married Man Support His Family Decently on $100 a Month and Save for Thrift Stamps? Read Answers in $60 Contest on Page 4, 4

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