The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 5, 1918, Page 1

FULL UNITED VOLUME 19 Aw On. pad LE: 7) z B58 5255 his last words were: for me lifted from my heart. AW Cynthia Grey. BY CYNTHIA GREY A truly Spartan mother Ras been revealed “Person of Mrs @f Nottingham, England Born under the evil star of the war-god has claimed She o me in mma Wilkins, Re ee _— gsi x step-sons and a brother in- . Old age is fast stealing her, with not even a pen- Sion to stay the tide of want, yet, this super woman faces & £335 83 B } Phe future calmly. bravely { I found Mrs. Wilkins in the | + Webby of the Y. W. CA. where she is stopping for a few days. Bhe is a bright-faced, rosy-cheek ed and pleasant-spoken English woman, past middle age. She is saddened, it is true, by her heavy troubles, but is still of a high spirit and mightily upborne by the thought of the splendid Fecord of her fighting men Here are the facts of the un usual life of Mrs, Wilkins, as she related them to me in soft, low tones “I was born in Nottingham. England, in 1870, when the great Franco-Prussian war was rag: Ing. My mother always called me her war baby. rr, “When I was 19 I married AVilliarn Wilkins, of good old Scottish fighting stock, and a member of the regiment of Scot tish fusiliers. Six sons came to us. When my youngest son was but a year old, my busband was called with his regiment to the South African war. I never saw again. He fell fighting at lodder Hiver. Sons in Navy “I only received & shillings and & sixpence for each of us a week Of course 1 could not support : © the large family on that so, altho © raised a gentiewoman, I had to and Si go as cook for Colonel Ralston, © of Watnall. Final kind ae, friend offered to take my three a} oldest sons to Canada with her. 1% = The three youngest, Arthur, Al ‘ bert James and Edward, went LEASED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS “Yesterday I fulfilled this sacred missic @ strange, sweet peace has come over me, Soon I will return to my little farm, in the Laurentians, years may be spent in the place bought by my poor husband, six sons, a brother; WIRE SERVICE ‘Like Spartans of Old, - Bears Loss of 6 Sons Comes to Seattle to Fulfill the Parting Wish of One of Her Boys; Meets Cynthia Grey. HER MISSION s my boy clasped my hands in the parting grip, ‘Mother, and the United States comes to help us, down to the States and kiss the Stars and Stripes if I don’t come back, please go and load as the that the rest of my lonely oti "—Mrs. Emma Wilkins, of Nottingham, Eng., 0 has lost six sons, her husband, a brother and er other relatives in war, in an interview with Mrs. Emma Wilkins very young to the naval school in Liverpool, th trained properly for the navy where were Jpon the advice of the wom an who had my eldest sons, I took my three youngest boys and joined our family in Ver vil Quebec. My family was reunited. Then came the really first happy days since my hus band’s death T ope a board. ing house, and my obtained good employment “Then came this great and ter rible war three oldest sons had been in territorial regimente in England, as boy recruits, and now nothing would do but the should be ¥ 1 away to their old companions. The | crossed with th second Can | adian contingent, and when I bade them farewell in Montre it was the last time I shall ev nee them on this earth two eldest, William and Georg were killed at Mons, and their step-brothers with them. The i (Conturnns on page 7) | PoourEs CROSSED BY CUPID, | HUBBY'S IN THE ARMY NOW | i! ¥ | Staff Correspondent ! | CAMP LEWIS, Tacoma, Feb. ia 6. —Now for three short reels of | romance which might bear th i} ‘f title, “Caught in the Draft; or, ‘ Cupid's Double-Crons.” | : Censors ha hard hearts, ‘tis | ji aid, but the camp censor won't 4 Permit the rank and nacne of the 0 leading man to be published Suffice to know that he came UL from a hamlet in Oregon. He ia 45 ars old. A year y ago he fell in love with a dash | fng young school teacher, much younger than himself. She liked young men, #o the obliging sult or changed his age to 25 years. She wanted him to Jol horne guard company, but he was able to stall out of that. When the a elect service registration ) came ‘round, tho, the bride 4 ft that hubby signed a « “It will be now,” id him; “you'll be able day naw #0 nice to get 4 ito the army and wear one We those perfectly ducky uniforms.” he “Shrew Him Down” e signed his card and came fo Camp Lewis, Then she “threw him down for a traveling salesman,” 90 the atory goes, and 1}. jove's young dream wan shat tered. The soldier presented hin case to Capt. Karl Plummer, of the exemptions board “He looks 45, and he acts 46, ai. and there Mind that he is 45, right in the army,” said the cap: tain, “but when we wrote to the county seat of his county for his birth record, we found it was de wtro: in a fire some rs ago. All he can remember in proof of his age is the fact he vot- ed for McKinley. That iun't isn't m doubt in my and has no She ; $100 } the American standard of } living ) { the by that jall that was needed tile fit for h jail for the blame on THE GR SEATTLE, W SH., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1918, oo * 8 G i ®) This is the amount of- { fered in prizes for the best | five letters answering the } ) question: “Can ; ) man, earning a month, a married a salary of maintain and save something for Thrift Stamps?” See answers on page 5. BUT FOR FOUL | AIR AND PIPES | OUR JAILIS 0. K. Accommodations in King ce ty’s jail may be uncomfortable because of iack of fresh air, poor plumbing, and — overcrowding, but— There are no roaches— ‘There are no buge— There are no “cooties”— In our county jail! This was the 1 urled at Sher titatum bh yunty comm ff Jack Stringer Tuesday after they had made public a report the county medical inspectors “soap, water and paint” were make the bas n habitation ners by Don't Want Blame “Why send a of throwing asked Stringer of the commissioners. “We didn't send any committee up there for that purpe answered the commissioners in chorus ve aren't going to sit ¢ and let ev erybody blame fe me < we are not responsi om cau so Wwe sent a committee to invextigate Soap, water and paint od." grunted Stringer. “There are more of those things being used there than ever before in the history the jail. It's scrubbed and t every morning Ventilation on Bum Overcrowding and insanitary con to Stringer. With accommodations for 70 prisoners, he is given 124 to ced placed there by anarchists nd floor of the ake 1 gang her little burden of investigating nd making a wr ten report ia fixed on the superior by statute, they sa ‘¢ curious to know how m en up there to do that d belle that the pre fixed to give all facil tie the prisoners, 4 Comr sior maay. “And we are & to fix it up for that purpose. Of course, we aren't going to make it to attrac th prisoners will want to get there 1 full rd of commissi *, U Immigrat Inspector Whi and Sheriff Stringer took a trip up to the jail at 2 Tuesday after: }noon, to see for themselves. Wants to Aid U. “There is one thing certain,” says Lundin. “That is this: If the] government wants any more room mie its prisoners, it's going to get it We are going to coo them to the fullest extent. No mat ter how hot the fight gets, that's settled.” dence 'HENEY RAIDS. SWIFT & CO. FOR EVIDENCE CHICAGO, Feb, Armed with a search warrant, Special Counsel |Francia J. Heney, of the federal |trade commision, today seized the | Swift & Co, files in the offices of At |torney Henry Veeder here: Over the protests of Veeder and Jother lawyers for the packers, | Heney and four Assistant U Fleming *, accompanied Attorney J. A obtained possession of evi the commission's packing investigation, which Veeder had fought to prevent The warrant { by Jud, Landis today charged the Armour, Swift, Cudahy Wilson packing companies had com bined on meat bid for the can military forces that enough for us.” fo P amo-Deleted-by Powers Are’ in ing squads right and squads left on the drill field with joints that creak, committee up to the] the | | with | Federal a Amert- “lus ia the R IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST * * The Seattle Star ATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPE: ERLIN STRIKES ARE CRUSHED RRR AP A PPR DSP DDD NIGHT EDITION Weather Forecast rain, colder tonight; r Pi § FIRE ROUTS SIX RAIDS SHE CAME TO KISS THE STARS AND STRIPES—THIS LITT LE GRAY MOTHER OF DEAD WAR HEROES, WHO FOUGHT FOR ENGLAND PPP LL PAL PLL LLL LL LLLP ICE ONE CENT -h! It’s a Secret! Elks Will -renade Pretty Ruth Osborn, a Seattle G irl, at The Moore | | | who will be honored by the Elks at the Moore theatre tonight Roth Osborn, Seattle girl, “Adopted Daughter, Seattle eel knows all the fallings and] of Elks blew ot bars She has taught) Sash! She doesn't know it—yet | ana Ttaltan | Who in she? M Ruth i# a| Now that she has started on her dainty colleen, and # own, Way to conquest In Orpheum vau t Sh aking i] ks are going to ret thie w r act and and. the rish song b will provide the harr k An t un A th te talons cats: nt thie Sent. | 1 daughter of their ' ‘ ower floor for | ha. 1} It will be some night, and. at e N. BE.) seeh! ‘This is still a secret: Miss huret fl har-| will initiate s “Adopted Bolsheviki Would : : Find Germany Easy | BY VICTOR MORGAN | Editor of the Cleveland Press Copyright, 1918 If Bolshevikism should come into control in Germany- by the Newspaper Enterprise Ansoctation It would find no vast disorganization as in Russia; in- dustry at sixes and sevens; commerce and transportation in a tangle. | It would find ready to hand the most nearly perfect or-| anization and centralization of production and distribution ever n in this world—more perfect, perhaps, than even| Ke HA urx dreamed of as possible. line of production in manufacture and in agricul- bait is bp firs operated directly by the government or under so close a supervision as to mean the same thing. The same is true of transportation and all other elements in distribu- tion. In short, the Germans today, thru their government, manufacturing and farming and distributing the products thereof a nation, and not as individuals. | | This haa | elopment se re its | could be ors Certainly the machine would b in the hands of the most methodical and orderly f in the world, As h new order of society, Bolahevikism would have in Germany @ test und the most favorable of conditior is, how exactly the ma-| Poison” Reaches ‘Teutons that the Bolshevik and his| Austrian and Hungarian regiments n twin, the Industrial Work-|on the eastern front were supplied the World, have been telling | with the outline of a definite system gency that can abol- | of prog 1ake brotherly love| the Russian troops. zation between Ruswian and German maintained | troops that resulted from the arm t this|istice, the Kaiser's forces preached the in-!unceasingly the laying down of arms (Continued on page 6) wonderful machine made to work for the toil-| conception and its de in in the lust for power and world turn of its whe aggres: evil conquest. Every hate, bloodshed pple and is for sion Easily Turned to Workers 18, 2€ | chine | Americ er of one fraternt-| lish poverty and orld practic alshevik that with a little adjustm machine, now operated in terests of the masters in Germany, ¥ has | tore "'MILITARISM OF KAISER SCORES _ FINISH VICTORY BY ED. L. KEEN Staff Corresp nt LONDON, Feb. 5—German militariam is still supreme in the central empires, Hs iron heel today had crushed out practical ly the last vestige of resistance by the starving, enslaved com: mon people Cowed by the threat of the firing squad, and fearful for the fate of their women and children through reduction of their al ady meager rations, the pro- testing workers had practically Only one isolated continu ane rted Tagel rexistance was Jena nat wan tt where the third of the men employed Imperial Chancellor Hertling pre | viously had refused to intervene in Ditumann's cane, dec he ring invoke no civil procedure no long as ary was supreme in the cap-| 1 the mi ital Heinrich Schultze. leader, is under six for distributing strike li MPERIAL HOME | maid al bad | | Americ an front and fighting strength behind the er popular Artillery Proves ) | Six times the Germans were re Ph ported pre 4 to rush American a posts, varying in « from a tiny Ustening post, occupied by two or | oe three Sammies, to the wide sector in ¥ |front of which Saturday night's boche attack broke down before the walked out Saturday May Renew Trouble There ix a disposition ficialn and students of ¢ regard th wan ot [strike ax only mporary sure of the ce ‘ ires’ industrial political problems The work of the extraordinary courtanartial at Berlin in in eevere penalties on strike ~ ted to provid fur for furth trouble Wilhelm Dittmann, soc int member, wan sentenced to five )( years for “inciting to high treason,” and was given an additional two | upon the heads of the boches another jr” FRANCE, Feb. 4—(Dela: months for “resisting public author-|crushing American barrage. It isle American army ie hUNgEy ity." not poaitive that a strong German} e Speed Crushing American Barrage Is Too Huns; Eager for Revenge BY J. W. PEGLER United Press Correspondent Much for WITH THE AMERI 1.—(Delayed.)—Rer Feb. raid the American front today were defeated by c ing bar rages from the Ya The Germans are wi and material for informatic |mies’ par pet is. Attempt after attempt to appr: Ameri Try Six Times et over the top. ptivity jermans could Every enemy Attack was planned. United States curtain of flame and ste ed it getting under way. The to every replied ach ans’ defense made officers the enemy is very apprehen. called down | If it was, the cannon—burling a/ 1—prevent. bart: ar Against Foe Yankees Now CAN ARMY IN FRANCE, © peated German attempts to- nkee artillery. ling to pay heavily in mea on regarding the width of # U.S. SOLDIERS. BY J. W. | United Press Oeiredpondl WITH THE AMERICAN AR revenge today. The baptism of shells the Sammies received Satar- day night just whetted thelr Utes for more. Those who were wounded in b sremwrd artillery duel are most anxious Ulery deluge, augmenting his can-| more fighting. Many of them, nonading with pineapple bombs, | they had been hit, refused to h bombs and hand grenades. These outbursts of bomb throwing we but mildly judging from the fact that no es were reported. nolsy only cannonading | violently dangerous, | their places on the line, They ed there In eagerness, hoping boches would come over No Land. They remained on the st until certain the enemy had given up all hope of attacking. Bullet Barrage This brand of heroism was appar-— German machine guns have sent|¢nt all during the fight. When Ger — over bullet barrages, apparently try-/™Man shells cut the a jing sweep the communication | Wires, American dispatch rut |roads over which food and supplies | Tepeatedly attempted to penetrate are brought up to the Americans in| t® enemy barrage. With splendid e trenches. disregard for their own safety, they When tueke ces were turned | took their lives in their hands again | GENEVA, Feb German strik. | lo thousands of bullets snarled /@"4 again in their efforts to fight era threw a bomb against the im-| Ver the fighting line and fell in the | thelr way thru the rain of shellgy sania} . oe ting to Tear areas, widely missing their ob-| One New York Sammy was Knocks pe Been teeter eae | Spotiven ed from a ration wagon by a direct today be the louenal Da Gent S|" on Saturday night the Germans! bit. His wagon was demolished, ie Sataine wae a sven. mal De Genev. NO} aia a tittle damage. Their machine | ules were hurt and the soldier was be ae gun barrage caught a small group of | 8¢"t spinning. As soon as the New eat; Seumeniial aevaral Yorker was sure he had no wounds, Periodical machine gun attacks| he rounded up the frantic mules and and hand grenade encounters con-|!mly shooed them on to headquage | tinue rtillery is normally ac-| ters. tive ntly whooping it up| Private Louis Ouslel was killed VAST ARMY DEAD IN WAR, ZURICH cost Feb. 6 ° wa has rmany 1,20 in de ad, and have rpacitated. gitz <¢ t, accor here. today IN OUT IN ns many n wholly partially more or Socialist the Ba patch clared in ng to di or varian 4 received | JUNKERS BERLI AMSTERDAM, Feb. Semioffi celal dispatches from Germany con firmed reports from other sources the victory in the central empires by put tin sm has achieved junker wn the general strike The number of “strikers declined” sterday, the time limit set by mili tary officials for inauguration of the extreme penalty, and cnany works| were in full operation on that day, it was reported. Seventy-five to 80 per cent of the employes of the Bersig | factories, at Teges, and other big} armament plants, were working yes terday Britain Protests Jailing Aviators Feb, The British . thru Holland, has pro gainst thi LONDON mn offic tested to Germany sen tence of ten years’ imprisonment of two Rritish aviators for dropping propaganda literature over the Ger man empire, the London Mail as. serted today Aft careful investigation, the reign office has b nh und e to discover any breach of international law, the Mail said. € many, th eign office said, hi nda work, on an and unless’ the av 4 reprisals will be ators en. military status of aviators mentioned dispateh was ignored by Germans. the ‘The | British above FB. Yoshiyama, Japanese, commit ted suicide by cutting Monday, at 667 King st » STRIKE TEST another done similar | xtensive are two in the the his throat ramental outburst of ex down to its usual thundering, contin uous monotony of noise. shells, then dying | and 16 American soldiers wounded in violent mutual artillerying on a wide sector of the American front, Sature day night S Seven of the wounded suffered — Gunners Are Fast gunshot wounds. Several of the | The American gunners can give | woun refused to go to the dresm 4 ¢ the firemen back home many point-|ing station and remained at thelr ers on getting into action in a hurry. takes a 30 seconds for them te get started wr ut vigilant post sentry ne ening his signal rockets demand a bar: Within half al is flashe: ners, in their dugouts, ters to the rear, have sc American gun- ina anticipates a minute after the many kilome- ambled up, | posts on the firing line, STORM BREWS AMONG POLICE jumped to their p! , and sent an impenetrable wall of steel crashing down upon the E hes’ frént line. ~ Factional unrest has out in the police depart LEAKING GAS CAUSES $500 HOTEL FIRE Fire damage amounting to $500 was the result of an early morning fire in the sland hotel, First ave. y morning. Thi 219) Tennant, over action of the civil service commission and the council in granting the rating of permanent inspectors to Police Captains Charles Sullivan and hartes: with salary increases from $150 to $200 and $175 @ fire started when a leaking gas} month, respectively. hose was ignited. Chief of Police Joe Warren ng ladders were used to res will go before the commission eu night to ask that this uests who were crowded to the windows by smoke. Six people were| action be rescinded. He refused, carried to safety by firemen working however, to discuss the situa. under Capt. J Maloney tion, It was feared that one guest, Joe} Unrest has been brewing in the Larson, Was about to leap from the |department for several weeks over window sill of his room on the sec-|the news that Sullivan, who is po ond floor, The firemen yelled, and | lice secretary, and Tennant, who cap him not to jump. He was) tains the detectives, had been sud: down the lade denly rated above other captains. rooms on burned, and none on the oth The b 8 put out by chem. CLEARINGS OF LOCAL BANKS BREAK RECORD’ the second floor| action did not increase © bit,” Civil Service at declared Tuesday, n decided that these men should get salary increases, and this only way to do it” mbe however, said rating would inerease “But this their powe was the Police that the n ww their powers, in that it gave them Figures on Seattle's bank clear- | pr over the other, and in some Puesday showed the greatest | cases older, captain gle day’s business In the history} Rev, U. G. Murphy, of the mins of the city. The total was $8,757,-| terial alliance, who took active 550.69. he average normal day's|part in the movement to have GIL business is from $4,500,000 to! recalled, started an investigation of 00,000, ‘The closing of a num-|the commission's action several days of business transactions involv- | ago. Ing large sums on the same day,| “It created a great deal of dissatio it is said by banking officials, is! faction in the department,” he id, ¥ responsible for the great inerease,| “so I simply inquired to find eut |The balance was $1,041,077.12, Macienteryrn ye