The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 9, 1918, Page 1

FOR. ALY FOREVER THE LEASED WIRE SERVICE PRESS ASSOCIATIONS FULL UNITED VOLUME 19 SEATTL 1D} W ASH UR DAY, FEBR UAR Y 9, 1918, * * * * * #@ ERMANY and Austria must have peace or go u Wm. Philip Simms, United Press correspondent, tions in the central empires, which will appear, beginni: Wheat Fed to Pigs in This State? Food | Official Explain Washington Man Makes Sen- sational Charges of Tons of Grain United States co Fails to Handle Is wheat being fed to to hogs and ‘other live stock in the} Yakima F. , a rancher of the valley, says that it is og Rey because the farmers cannot sell their grain and up.” They can sell their animals, tho, he says, Pag are fattening them for the market with wheat, while mment is appealing to the nation to “save wheat.” ST Hebberd, state food administrator, in Seattle Friday, said he knew that there have been cases where iB ‘ + ‘and work animals. However, he said that it is not because stock feed and grains are scarce in certain districts. “They have tons of wheat im their granaries, and can't uae it,” Campbell charges. “Tell them to let me know when they have wheat they| to sell, and I will see that it is sold for them,” Heb- : “The government is urging the grain growers mt to esr their wheat, but to put it on the market im- Faces ‘Need Food |. Conditions. as Campbell sees them. F,, Gre that grain is lying in the Yakima wy because a market cannot be d for it. The farmers are actu suffering in some cases for want flood and necessities, because they unable to sell their grain and get je They are fattening their ‘with wheat and selling them to ready cash. Some of them open @eclare they'll never plant wheat be says. ‘The reason for this condition, the bell, are costing Seattle about $2 a ton more than they should, because of a government order that they must not be hoarded, and must be handled at least once every 20 days. Because of this order, a man with a warehouse full of potatoes must hire a gang of women and children every month to “sort” his potatoes, he says. Hebberd says that he knows noth ing of this, but that there is a great surplus of potatoes thruout the country. “The people are being urged to eat », ‘wheat and other food grains were being fed to live stock| ‘the farmers are unable to sell their wheat, but because other | Potatoes, too, according to Camp- | * “GERMANY AND AUSTRIA MU ST xs. 8 * nder; the people both countries demand it,” declar« e has been continuously in a remarkable series of three dispatches detailing ij the scene of the great w ng Monday, in The Star. Simms was manager of the Par vestigation thru the best av bureau of the United Press for several years before the war, and since war was decls VICTORY | FOR THE KAISER Vast Stores of Food Are Opened by New Agreement AUSTRIA SIGNS ALSO LONDON, Feb %—Roth Ger. many and Austria signed the peace pact with the Ukraine re | public, it was officially annoane- ed by wireless today from Bertin and Vienna. | COPENHAGEN, Feb. 9—A peace pact between Germany and the Ukraine republic was signed at Brest-Litovek at 2 a. m. today, according to an official an- nouncement issued in Bertin. Austrialiungary probably was iso @ party to this pact Ukrainia, formerly a part of the | Russian empire, embraces part of the territories of the old kingdom of Po land. It is traversed by the Dneister river and is one of the most fertile lands in Europe. The fact that Ukrainia normally is & great wheat producing region may account for the anxiety of the cen tral empires to arrange @ separste peace. Permanent cessation of hhe tilities with the Ukraine would open reat source of food supplies to the Germans and Austrians ‘There have been two rival delega tions representing the Ukraine at Prest-Litovak. One, composed of the middie classes, represented the newly dee 4 repu The other, repre senting the proletariat, was loyal to the Holshevik government. It is probable the pact was algned by the former. |ANTI-AUSTRIA RIOTING | GOING ON IN CROATIA i, in the summer of 191 are tained in these vivid dispatche nt Many correspondents ha ¢ uu been ar ¢ nee it started. Recer t United Pre selec Simms to make an ie a es of actual conditions in Germany and Austria. His report detail AMES OF SURVIVORS LISTED RRR en ee FREEDOW The Seattle Star GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST NIGHT EDITION Tonight southerly Weather and gales, Forecast rain; fresh Sunday, \Peace Signed by Ukraini HAVE ‘PE ACE OR GO UNDE UR” ig the results of his personal investigation. Mr. and Mrs. David 8, Rodg ttle’ j Denes ber hu POLYGAMY IS band's name. THEY’RE NAMING A SHIP TODAY FOR OLD UNCLE DAVE RODGERS ors, Se- | premier shipbuilder and his wife, who sponsored the vessel that NOT FROWNED | —es Everywhere in heattle PRICE ONE CENT + * Officials Check Up the Men Saved Aboard Tuscania : Record Now Being Being Comp led With — Greater Speed; : Folks at Homes Re- — ceive Cheery News WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—Out of the war zone today came the names of hundreds of American boys saved from the torpedoed transport Tuscania, to ease iety in the homes of this country. é names are now being sent across the water in a steady stream and as rapidly as possible b , compiled for publication. Not until the entire list is” jin will the war department be able to check up al |determine those who lost their lives. Those thus far announced include: | Henry Albert, New York city; An thony F. Abrano, Flushing, N.W.; Washington Men Charles L. Ambler, Onsining, N. Y.; ; |Gallan T. Albritton, Myakka City, Listed as Rescued lowa Melvin Aarenson, Abbotsford, FRED W. LOKEN, 2432 West. { Wis; Edwin J. Allen, Salt Lake |{ gay gt, re City; Ray Anderson, Marshfield, | "Joseph we tchold: 3 Wis; Clarence C. Andrew, Wauke § wisn Meoarem sha, Wis; Henry Bronpyke, Grand : Rapids, Mich.; Robert H. Broyler, peprlige penile af Wash Kalamazoo, Mich.; Jamie M. Burke, a Beeman, Mo.; Guide Frederick Buth, |} °° state men were tn the Raia ° , several hundred Tuscania sur Waterloo, Win; Joseph — Bauer.!{ Vivory gent out from Washing Wautoma, Wis.; Oliver B. Benixen, 0! b he war department toe Wautoma, Win; Warren J. Berry, |) ir 0” ‘he war der - Wautoma, Wis.; Martin D. Bongers. ny! New London, Wis; Daniel Worth |} ,, THe lst is still Incomplete iam Bickford, St. Paul, Minn. Ernest \ eum are who surviver ia R. Bridges, Van Court, Tex.; Arthur || [ning peing replay FE. Bidney, Independence, Wis.; Fred |Braem, jr. Marshfield, Wis.; Harry od gad wll be octiaiea Arnold Burnham, Barron, Wis; Jo-/) 70 deter- seph B. Burkhardt, Johnstown, Pa - . és Claude Buckmaster, Barron, Wis; |} pe W. ‘Loken, 31. Joha F. G. Equi, San Francisco; |} Dis enlistment with the 20th aaa James Karel Brunslik, Haugen, Wis.;)) Sineers, lived with his panesiay ; ; Mr. and Mrs. Ole Loken at 2432 Hurlburt Berry, Virginia. City, Nev ie, and West 64th st Lyle Barnhart. Waukesha Wis. Se one & chine helpak ae James ©. Bickford, Oakland, Cal.; es 3 Joseph L. Barnitt, New York; Ed-'{ ‘he Skinner & Eady shipyanigs ward C. Barker, Port Jefferson, .. —~ ~ Y.; Harold w am snahan, | Ripon, Wis Joseph W. Crawford, | Flushing, N. Y.; Charles C. Cargill, | Westeh N. ¥. Frank H. Car-| roll, Norfolk, Va; George Chaves, " San Jose, Cal; Frederick Chellborg, Sea Cliff, L. I Y.; Mayor Cig Brooklyn, N. ¥ “Frank Clark, pleton, Cal.; Charles W. Collins. DIVER VICTIMS Jose, Cal; Harold Conklin, w bury, N. Y Albert Cornell, Roose- velt, N. ¥.; Newell Craig, Owen, | \ BY ED L. KEEN Wis; Clintoa K. Courter, Corso, | Staff Correspondent | Milan, Italy LONDON, Feb. 9.— British Clifford V. Hanley, Orputt, Cal;| ‘Tawlers and the coast guard Arthur A. Cantwell, Shawano, Wis. were conducting a thorough, Walter J. Callahan, Wautoma, Wis.;| ‘hough apparently —_ hopeless Byron 5. Christian w London,| Search for the bodies of 40. men Wis; Dewitt J. Cohn shomue, N.| Still missing from the torpedoed Y.; Harry B. Cc Hortonville, Wis; | tansport Tuscania early today. Laurel J. Conat, New London, Wis.;| Revised admiralty figures: Nathan F. Carhart, Trempeleau,| showed 2,235 saved, 166 missing, Wis; Thomas M. Clanton, Tyronsea,| and 126 bodies recovered. The liars, rancher declares, is that WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. — Ante | dealers claim they have all | more potatoes,” he sald Friday. “Put | justrian demonstrations have taken wheat the government will let with such a surplus, naturally there | pince in Croatia and in Zagred : m | them handle at any one time. are many that must stay in the ware: | (Avram), the capital. Scores of agi . &, David Rodgers. rather modest about It a S0f course,” he says, “these farm- houses until a demand for them I | tatorw have been arrested, according | These letters loomed from the prow] A Star reporter found Rodgers POLYGAMY! rs who are suffering are the ones created in the locality.” to dinpatches received from Geneva | of @ great steel hull that glided down eating, at home, in his shirt-sleeven Officially the kaiser dares not oplin jwho put everything they had into The farmers, Campbell says. are toaay the ways of the Skinner & Eddy| Friday night, after a hard day’®| sigeove it, But unofficially, i Wheat. Many of them are working | looking for help from the govern “Austrian papers recetved here,”| corporation shipyards Saturday af-| work, He was in @ hurry to get aig 4 wi oom ’ | the German government EN- @n leased land. The wealthy ranch-| ment. Hebberd declares he doesn't o.° dispatch stated, “admit that| ternoon back to the yards, where he was op Pha bb ame | © or grain grower, with plenty of know of such « situation. where the | there ia great unrest in Croatia. The| And who is David Rodgers? | kept busy until midnight COURAGES IT, writes Victor ener. can afford to hold his wheat farmers are starving and feeding | Daimatian deputy to Vienna, Dr, T.| Some statesman? Some merchant| “Dave always works until mid-| Morgan. “wntil he can sell. | wheat to their hogs. Pavichitch, and the editor of| prince? night on the night before launch-| . 3 the Croatian newspaper Hrvatska! No. Jing,” his wife smiled | BY VICTOR MORGAN | or Drzseava, Dr. Andelunovitch, have] David Rodgers is a worker, He'n| It’s Not Me” Editor of the Cleveland Press icloth |been banished for participating in ala man who wears a derby hat, and| Retween bites, Dave declared that! (Copyright, 1918, by the Newspaper many |demonstration at the Croatian cap | sometimes it's dented 4 smeared | it wasn't himself that was doing Enterprise Association) Ital. by « touch of red lead. t w derful work to defea cng con exon ong stens Saree ne dares not officially approve the Proposing that a ruling be ‘The fishing industry of the Pacific " rt ne] Crwsniantion. “Why ras MDKS empire in force prohibiting Amer- | cout, needs resulation, the federat, OF RUSSIA TO RUMANIA « ae ear Date teeetoh Bose andi betenie Se apa a Gaal 7 Te vome timathe “sunlnetialdl fean fishing vessels from unload- | representatives at the conference de-| AMSTERDAM, Feb. 9—Germany| TO every port between Suez and) firm be Fal ee te well 824) newspapers of Germany carried on| ing their catches at a foreign | ciared. It should be brought com. | will offer Kumania a slice of Russian Panama will be carr al : ey 8 wi Gay's work in re-|, reet propaganda, doubtless at port, Washington and Alaska pletely under the control of the fed-| territory as part of the peace terms me re * —— builder on agen nl ‘tg de aay einen the behest of the authorities, to test federal food administration rep- eral government, that profiteering | the central empires are anxious to| ll his men resi. atlaatatn: Merrerpe dq : é the temper of the people on the sub-| Fesentatives were in conference (in this food xupply may be pre-|Proffer the Balkan states, it was | hia namesake } "And men who don't come| ject, No progrens could be made. | at the New Washington Satur- vented, and that salmon may be) learned here today She Cracks Bottle are ot So officially the government con: | day to determine means of con- | conserved should the necessity arise,|_ Copies of the Exsener Aligemeine agers, wife of the) a _ ‘ . ; . , yy paemns polygamy; UNOFFIC LY ee {rolling the American salmon | This they announced as the object|7#itung, the Krupp organ, received manager of the works for v E nas » nearly | yp EN $ IT oe at the taactidie, here today, carried the following the #b is named, was|* lifetime to shipbuildin Ho was! Asa re love colonies have market. . emecit at the confer: | statement Cracking a bottle of cham. ;'@sed in Belfast, a noted ship) sprung up in many parts of Ger $ The object of the meeting, it was| The oo Sigs Seegg il ii alin gy The Rumanians, by renouncing all | }) paid ap Te Agape sean building center in Northern Ireland./ many, The Berliner Tageb pre ) Us maid by State Food Administrator ence, which was 1 ip Ne | claime to extensions weetward, can |" 3 ne that stands for|At the age of 10, he served his ap-| sumably the mouthpiece of the kal ‘Charles Hebberd, was to get together | public, were: Frank Warren, of the| oie. compensation in the south-|("° Yeese! & name tha prenticeship with his father, a ship. scantly commented .on.. this the data on the salmon market sit- United States food adminiatration;| Vout corner of Hoasarabla j the recomnition Of. SUBARIY. OVS" | butler, Late te =Weat to a0 GRA) tant ine thas of the erentneht wa uation, and to decide upon the ac-|R. A. Gunnison, federal food admin: | |in a big industrial plant , served as ship carpenter Ee cig Gaeans comlaiems thes . tion to be taken by the government |Istrator for Alaska; Charles Hebberd.| pegsarabia is the southwestern.|_ For David Kodgers bas demon.) it, come to this country in 1886) ™Atl th organizations,” says | food administration to gain complete federal food administrator for Wash-| most province of Russia, lying be th 5 baidpvray 4 Re A iy hd has spent the last year "the Tageblatt, “desire to improve control of the markets of the country ington; D. Campbell, chairman of the |tween the Danube and Pruth rivers oh Bade men tats wie he iq the Pacific Coast. He has been in the Germar th rate 34 0 nard of the fede ‘ood ad ‘ ontaina | * uman consideration sgh attle . le fh went to é : for this food supply salmon board of federal £ 1-/and the Dnelster river. It conta oe aad oe ee He first went t 1,500,000 Killed Regulations controlling the pack-minietration of Washington, and | the important city of Kishineff. Such ne rvs San Francisco to hel One| ivi: sae Geko ieee vat thst ing. shipping and sale of salmon| August Bushman, who has just been | an arrange t would give Rumania k er rbd ot mg Iron Works company build the Jap|German killed. i# not available were also proposed lappointed to the same post in Alaska. | complete control of the mouth of the inde Record an cruiser Chitose. Later he} 1 509,000 would be a conservative ew. a Danube. The result is that Seat has de- |}, Iped build th battleship Wiscon " “ a ee e — a sia veloped one of the most. efficient | anon he worven eu te qit,| aeke. | Moet, of the | killed ware re be - says oung men, the athers of the 7 — - ; | ship construction plants in the world, | ter at the Puget Sound navy yard. |YoUné men ne fu OH! AMERICAN GIRLS MAY BE __ ||" Wide Variety of | sco torn nats now | * tec roa Pony we } A know from ast to Singapore. Rodgers was superintendent of the| | “TOMMYWAACS” IN U.S. ARMY | \| Scenes in Star- || “A'stauncn vouset of 8,800 tons, the seattle Dry Dock & Construction», The kaiser has always had an af A 8. 8, David Rodgers was put into} company eight years, Then he went| (ection for nu a poptile te Liberty Weekly || the water in recora time, 72 days|to the Watines shipyard at, Van. | E&fly sharrlages have Deer anaes SPASHINGTON. Feb. 9 The, The Baker committee is com-|% " > Waa} from the morning her Keel was lald.|couver, B. C., and supervised the soba g- See has ions y e yoned of The Aberty News pekly The avid Rodgers is the] cons ® c o poise ie weap ae basen ded American army may soon have its| posed o | Th Da fs nstruction of five submarines for) fir Res ; eeeeatan Atbeenanicl wire! Se iweae.’ |" Mrs, Maurice L. Cook, Washing-| Will flash a wide variety of interest-| 15th vessel turned out by David|the Russian government Bee Cae ace orcHieh Inve Bac! je remot The advisability of organizing alton; Miss Mary Van Kleeck, of the|!ns scenes In and around the city at) Rodgers himself for the On February 14, 1916, less than | (i 2 | otland, woman's service here similar to the| Fussell Sage Foundation, New York, |the new showing Sunday, at the Lib-| Eaay corporation. Thirte twd years 4 xigers broke It was numbers that counted— | her . ¥ nd ml © ne wor "a division of | *T'Y 0 ne high seas, e cround for Ve kinner 4 \¢ pla | Ks r ei noted British organization is to be| 2nd hend of the woman's division of |° TT sa one the man who turna|*re.0n the high Five y bpp com rout 1 for the Skinner & Eddy plant.) nen for the armies of the future Pp. investigated by a committee of #ix|the ordnance department; Miss Hen-| |, | ‘ toll mandeered and two were built under} An enviable reputation has been built] __and the kaiser was on the side women and three men, organized by|Fietta Rt. Walker, of the Rusell| ine jgem hae Arranged the follow: !airect government contract. The|up since then those measures that made for nen a " nen, OF la fentidaetans d Mesimont hs a vid get was built for »| The e: of the shipping world 7 thes! the secretary of war, Baker an-| S# wenteaten Mit RAMONE) A Camp Lewis tleching gun bab) Deve teers Was US ei eaten nls Se ane Oe Wr |. tperinee | Ihe Teut Mpunced today. | Robbins, Chicago, president of the| sation raison te colorw Stolt Netisen company of Norway| were opened when the 8. 8. Senttle,) ‘The German Society for the Re-| ckgrow! ne aeiteaal @ | National Woman's Trade Union| 4 ‘no, i oy wig 7 but already has been command he first vessel built in this coun-| generation of th Race 16 the line, a The || Tommywases’” — sisters - I | league; Miss Amy Hewes, of the com- ite thé lonch Route eeneny. T4| by the shipping board try for the shipping board, Was! name of the leading organization dusk of Be en ean Tommiee—are| mittee on women in industry, of the!’ ‘Rotary club gives poor kiddies | While in the government service | turned out in The Tronto-| which believes that only. plural her vs ad ee ean army | Council of National Defense; Mal-|treat—nuto ride, candy and such like. | be Will mail under the name of West: |lite, | recently completed for the) wives can overcome the vast dis o'clock. agthe Tommy himself. They have) coin McBride, Cleveland, of the com-| Launching of the David Rodgers | lke, but at the close of the war | Standard Oi! company, is sald to be} parity between the number of % tHeir own uniforms, sleep in regular unching of thi javi lodgers he t 4 shi . thus ff Sinha P ar {mission of training camp activities; | at the Skinner & Eddy yards the name of David Rodgers will be|the best constructed ship re-]men and the number of women in ing be 3 ie righting ha sg oy bias sponte Miss Maude E. Miner, New York,| Bill Hanson—Ole's boy—and his|restored, All vessels built on the|célved by that corporation. |the empire after the war, There are | e British » away Seam aes chairman of the committee of protec-|“kid army,” showing Seattle young-| West coast are to bear the prefix | other organizations of like character, e lives of a ee yfront. One of ping Dreamed OOS work for girls, and L, H. Nichols, | sters at drill “Went.” jROOSEVELT IMPROVING, Homer iomiteide dua ote. No coe . od mer ree. a eeDiN | Ruffalo, secretary. And David Rodgers is not a silk aden Colonies and the New Ord bares graves of their fighting brothers | Buffalo, secretary. | | PROHIBITIONISTS To het bows He worked hie way to| SAYS LATEST REPORT | Tha ‘various sucleties sivaoal- , and properly marked. | ‘i PEN! | \the top, and still ves close to the] NEW YORK, Feb, 9 rming| ing the practice of polygamy ad- voy ‘3 : FRENCH PENETRATE an | P | . f scientific e: were in Have Grim Rules | LINES IN LORRAINE JOIN NATIONALISTS | ing-rnusctea men in overatts symptoms in the internal ear, whigh| vance so much of sclen os cant of the The British “Tommywaacs” live} paRIs, Feb. 9.—French troops| County prohibitionists will hold a| Workmen call him “Uncle Dave"|had been noted in the condition of In thelr reasons for existence " eS | i he & surly every ship! Col, Roosevelt, are disappearing, ac-| that it is easy to trace in them under grim military rules. Their| penetrated the enemy lines north-| convention in the Arcade assembly Gnd he KAGws Heariy Syery © vobetg “4 | " oday tor oR a \P the Pacific coast lcording to a bulletin regarding the| the hand of the university yy today 4 Uificern” are directty responsible to| west of Dioncourt, in Lorraine, and | hall Tuesday, following action Friday | mechanic on the Paeific cons bir way b J | savants, in peace time the pets nt for “headquarters.” and military punish: | brought back prisoners lant night,| night to indorse amalgamation with| Despite the fact that | Dave | condition Be ae PeOrIOr PRR OCDS | oo ase headaae, ie enka Mae Fo ment is relentieanly meted out Ae rench war office announced the new national party, Delegates to] Rodgers has set the shipbuilding |issued at the Roosevelt hospital to (Continued on page 4) wayward members, today. @ national convention will be chosen. | pace for the whole country, he's! day. . o jordinance for an insertion by Cald-| 4 | well of the amount of money desired |, TWO Of Seattle's sons, who, x or te tan feared, had been victimized oa Ger ; In his letter Saturday, Caldwell /M&@ny's assault upon the troopship | cording to Caldwell bodies recovered are believed to be included in the 166 classified as “missing.” ‘The missing are believed to include 145 American soldiers, according to details available early today, This estimate was carried by the United Press on Thursday morning, and ap | perently is as accurate as is possible, based on present reports. | Stories of Bravery | Survivors’ stories wired from Bek | fast, today, continued to emphasize |the sangfroid of the American sok (Continued on page 8) (Continued on page 7) SAYS THOMSON DELAYS FIGHT 6-CENT FARES Corporation Counsel Caldwell asked for $100,000 to fight 6-cent street car fares, and intimated that Councilman Thomsen was SONS LANDED iv s his answer to the finance | which, on Thomson's mo- | returned the opposition | nis w commit tion Friday Tuscania, are safe in Ireland. Cablegrams received by friends, and relatives here late Friday told jot the arrival at a British port of | First Lieut. Richard H, Connor, un- Jattached, and Corporal Ralph Fy called attention to the fact that the ordinance was sent back on motion of Thomson. He also pointed out that Thom son's “long civil engineering experi ence” should qualify him to form an r opinion on the amount needed by the | Dreitaler of the Twentieth Bn- council, instead of leaving it to the|#ineers. Dreitzl picture appear- Jed in Friday's Si legal partment. Caldwell said only . a part of the $100,000 might be neces: Reports that William B. Cooper, pee son of Superintendent Frank By The committee's action will cause | Cooper of attle’s schools, was unn ssary delay in the matter, ac-|®board the vessel were substantiated yesterday. “I haven't heard anything to indai- cate whether or not my s0n is safe,® | Superintendent Cooper . said Satus day. A letter from Caldwell, read at the committee meeting Friday, stated that it is clear that the foundation is being carefully laid for an increase in fares, As an instance, it is cited that " ast there is no legal reason why there | SK CALDW) LL “TO SPEAK should not be women conductors to| Corporation Counsel Hugh M, Cald- run the cars now, and the commis sion’s ruling against it was merely “paving the wey" for 6-cont fares, | well has been invited by the Central zabor council to address a m February 20, on public utilities,