The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 13, 1918, Page 1

® = $ VOLUME 19 EUt SPAR, WIRE SONS FREEDOW FOR ALL TheSeattleStar _2m_ THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST , 1918, PRICE ONE CENT Yaa tanennetsneenhennnnenntnes — oe ———s aint at this camp. the war means the Bony AUSTRIA | } Star, has written @ series of four @rticles on “The Income Tax,” 5 whick affects thousands in Seat 4 te who ne before came under 4 |} the provisions of the, act. The ) ,] first article will appear Thurs- day in The Star. Read the four \\ articles “and get a comprehen- || sive idea of the income tax as )| it affects you | ind Order to Count HUN PRISONERS — i ae ine Ss. Army Ration Allowance — FREED BY RUSS) img | REMOVES DISCONTENT) BERNE. Feb. 13.—Exchange | POSSIBILITY IS STRONG of Russian and German prison- Staff Gervespentent ers has begun, according to Ber~ | BY ROBERT J. BENDER EW a tin dispatches. United Press Correspondent hone flere abel tae pi One thousand German prison. | Copyright, 1918, by the United Press be counted in estimating in- xn have arvived to Warsaw, cn WASHINGTON, Feb. 13— comes ufder the tax law. isis bate. | Peace between the United States Orders such effect issued i and Austria can only come Except In the case of men wholly when the Austrian people break ” | incapacitated, it is regarded as prob | with the G ot with erman junkers. caused general able that German prisoners will Im-| possibility of auch peace in strong, mediately be remustered into the! To drive home the former state wious announcement that|irmy ina military way. ( | itary way JerMAny | ment, while convinced of the latter clothing rations would be | wit got all the best of the exchange.|one, President Wilson made his an estimate of auger her men will again become #0] momentous address to congress, the jen caused the first hint) gers while Russia's withdtawal from | United Press can state semiofficial tussian prisoners| iy ‘The president wants the Aus were opposed to such &| will follow civil pursuits. trian people to know that this is not the govern ee & ewashbuckling nation should not reduce their earn- His address was designed to an- capacity by asking army service] 5 W/ ASHINGTON mwer the peace note spreading thru then reduce their small pay A ' M. out the world—and, at the same troops here have expressed no EN LISTED IN time, to serve notice on the German to escape the income tax, as| TUSCANIA DEAD 387% or" (et Americn iw not gulled fects the general population, but According to a semloffieial report | been against the point involv rations. General satisfaction is noticeable. | been identified among the dead in| tion of th jby the vagaries of Hertling Fight to Success definite interpreta * message, the from Washington today, five men from Western Washington have In seeking following the announcement that/the Tuscania transport disaster United Preas sought also to clear up years old the matter has been arranged satis-| Among the five names is that of | factorily, not for only Camp Lewis | q Seattle soldier, Robert F. Warren, | fun “men, but apparently for soldiers in| who had been employed as a book. | “all cantonments. keeper by the Schwager Nettleton The president is more than PRESIDENT FAVORS DAYLIGHT SAVING WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—The {| Calabreese @aylight saving bill, which has {| men identified as dead. | Germany been passed by the senate and is now before the house committee on interstate and foreign com merce, has been approved by Pres {dent Wilson. Senator Calder, of New York author of the bill, President to learn if made law, will set the locks ahead an hour, and the sen ator axserts it would save 1,000, 900 tons of coal a year. ‘The bill, all hand made, and hewn out. The| man of the republican national com: | with annour tops are four inches thick lenittes, He will p doubt as to whether or not it was amen & peace or war mew It was both Co. His mother, Mra. Julia ¥ ever determined to wage the war and his sister are living at 17 to a successful termination—but ry ave, the Ravenna apartments. at all times he is prepared to William Matthews, Bellingham;| meet the Teuton peoples in ne David G. Renton, North Rend; Wes-| gotiations for peace. ley W. Hyatt, of Lebam, and Rocco A separate peace with Austria ¢ the other Washington| can come, if she will break with The president han not backed | Gown from hia original stand on | “MUST CONTINUE “WAR, 7" peace. He will not deal with the SAYS PREMIER ORLANDO | ““the German people must break ROME, Feb. 13.—Premier Orlando, | aw absolute control of Jdressing parliament, declared the | Hind nd Li | central powers, in their recent peace | need not dethrone their kaiser, w | programs, had “affirmed nothing but | is regarded by the president mer |the most obstinate, irreconcilable de |as a teol in the hands of militarista, | termination to carry out a previously | but they must {naugurate electoral |formed plan of imperialiatic domina-|reforms to insure this government | tion.” | (Continued on page 3) ‘The premier declared Italy was| called on the his attitude. conference at Versailles, he said CENTRALIA, Feb. 13—Moembers| council had found peace = ead the ef Company M, 16ist United States| and had decided to-direct its whole infantry, formerly the Becond Wash. | attention “energetically to the con- ington, now in France, are quartered | tinuation of the war.” Jn barracks that were used by Napo- " leon’s soldiers, according to a letter received from a member of the com + HAYS WINS NEW JOB incon: pany by his father. The tabies in| eT, LOUIS. the building are several hundres 12.—The prospect ertised Hindenburg s provoking much alarm jerman citizens and appre >. 18.—John T. Ad-|hension among the troops, accord ama, of Iowa, announced his with-|ing to reports toda They are of black walnut,| drawal from the contest for chair-| Berlin has been secretly placarded that the Prus to nac “ni ce Will H. Hays, | sian gn ate ar pe or / | of Indiana, in nomination. This will|rifice aWother million men. A num. BAR GAMBLING AT CAMP | *“""" the election of Hays. | ber of socialiats have been arrested. CAMP LEWIS, Feb. 13. i | fogs, we're thru. With this touch. BERLIN REPORTS RAID — | VATICAN BELIEVES WAR | ing farewell, Black Jack and Pe | BERLIN, via London, Feb. 12 Maia two taverite pant ot ean | «our aviators bombed ‘the Frencn| 10 GO ON THIS SUMMER gave up the ghost Tuesda | fortress of Nancy with good effect WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—That a Brig. Gen. Foltz ordered their exe-|in reprisal for the enemy raid on|note of conciliation and reconsider etition, and they were shot at sun-| Saarbrucken, on Februar 5 t ation of “previous demands” in allied rise. | German war office stated today war aims utterances ts “bringing i near” a peace on the basis a terms Call M: den City ME Mishould be understood, in con Ing whether » @ity, ff Bi missioner’s office, apd then tell him, or one of his clerks, that you hi that piece of land th it tight You will have started doing your! tr you have m plot of land ot your| ARE SEEN OFF NORWAY it toward making Seattle a real » Ainused | ot have to be in the center of the quantity of governme you h | fhe Rainier valley, or somewhere help the nation win the war. ) Mandal is the southernmost town gine in the county ne ‘s car line, some worke willing. OFFER A GARDEN LOT? | [ice onic pet beth allies to oe reach a just and peaceful agreement Don't forget to notify the county ily might be glad to camp on it dur.| The Vatican, however, does not ex welfare commissioner, county-city|ing the spring aff summer while|Pect the end of the war before an A building, that you are going to let! raising the garden other summer's campaign has been } somebody raise a garden on that va-| At all costa, however, let the com. | fought to its bloody end cant lot of yours! missioner know. Details can be ar-|_ It still believes there can be no | military decision, and therefore pro: longation of the struggle is unjustifi ranged with him next week, there should be a of several hundred plots of land ly can offered for use, in the office of th es atiean jcirelen do not believe it ad. | Welfare commission, — Councilman | Austria will break with Germany jolton and Str ‘ane will underta n 6990, ask for the com someb him your name et Commissioner to plow big GERMAN DESTROYERS own, a back yard or an adjoining) COP s lot that could be tilled, cultivate it ber of large destroyers, suppose urself. By writing to Congress German, passed Mandal, spee you have a piece man John F. Miller, at Washington, | westward, it was reported here or not, that it does D. ©. you may be able to obtain a) day submarines have been t seed. see ea lot well out In| Help Seattle to help Hoover to HAGEN, Feb. r the end of! The boys in France are doing|in Norway and is | and his fam-| their share—do yours! Skaggerak, tendorft, They| “I want to enroll for shipyard , : cording | LIEUT. MARCH FATALLY |Qhio | I Ay eee og aa et LHAVE YOU CALLED UP TO | "et ow te pve an) HURT IN AIR ACCIDENT! ioce Gorges sn Ae cet eek ins =| BELGIAN ATROCITY. — TO BE REPEATED Germans Boast of Power to Wipe Out Swiss Army in Two Days—Would © Enter France (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the third in a series of stories by Wa. Philip Simms, revealing conditions in the central empires.) ‘ BY WM. PHILIP SIMMS United Press Correspondent Copyright, 1918, by the United Press ZURICH, Switzerland, Feb. 13.—After Belgium— |is Switzerland’s turn next? | Hindenburg is massing troops against the French — |right flank, with vast stores of ammunition and The people here are asking whether the treaty of 1815 will be the next “scrap of paper.” | Germans in Zurich are openly boasting that Luden- \dorff could smash the Swiss army in 48 hours. BOAST OF POWER The Prussians, while gorging themselves on little republics, brag they could occupy this city the Tiel Gay They declare Switzerland’s 1,500 machine guns, 16 six- inch cannon, 80 batteries of three.inch field guns email stock of ammunition is insufficient to cause much trouble. They may there are only 100,000) troops under colors, and that of these but 45,000 are on the German border, | which’ could be pro mt aside and He'll Give $5 to France entered before the remainder Help Get Rid of of the Swiss could be mobilized. Invasion Planned Kaiser William The consensus of opinion of people 1 kaiser Bill had better look out! I have talked to is that if Hinden Because B. Sohieloff, the Rus: She Wants to Change Rattle of Cups and Saucers for the | Bwiteerland in en effort to turn the|| nat from Renton, whe Gea Noisy “Rat-tat” of the Riveter sonnaere it strstaaeaiy oowcs. 11", Se ence am Mie Emma Neia, Seattle girl, who has asked Uncle Sam to enroll her for ship yard work. “I’m not much of a mechanic,” she anys, “but I can do some carpentry.” The picture proves it. J. H. Hovedsgaard, 2510 Hol- am told the Germans have planned e st., called up The Star thie Miss Emma Nels, 822 2th She worked four years as a tele-| the invasion to the last detail; even |} morning. ave. would like to tackle ship- [phone operator and came Weat| #8 Wa skeleton governments for the can-|/] “rll give $5 toward a fund to yard work. |three years ago. She has worked tons (Swiss states) exist. |] pay this Renton man to kill the She's the first woman in the jon a farm helping in the harvest SILENC FOE At the trial of a number of suspec' .| kaiser,” announced J. H. H., em U. S. who registered with the [4nd packing fruit, but has cooked ed spies of Vevey, documents in evi- |] thusiastically. There ought to public service reserve for this | most of the time. dence named a taflor as the mayor |] be $1,000,000 raised for him right branch of war, following the ap: | ‘A year ago she joined the Progres- of a town upon Prussian occupation. || in Seattle!” peal this week for 000 work. |#ive Working Women’s club, an or (Continued on pave 6) ers thruout the U. 8. ganization of girls who cook. They | Miss Neis called at the local have a home at 416 East Denny/ BY J. W. PEGLER registration office in the Cobb | > United Press Correspondent RUMORS HINTING OF building Rh Mathys al Mg BO goed WE te AMERICAN ARM-| BRITISH MILITARY ‘RUMANIA WILL pron and dish-towel. I've heard the| IES IN FRA umphed over the Germans in the | rnited Press Correspondent NGTON, Feb. 13.—Ruma- — work?” she sald ttle of cups and saucers long] layed.) le of cups and saucers long | layed Americ The clerks pricked up their ears. enough, and now I want to listen to| “What's that?” they asked In | gy, rat-tat of the riveter chorus L Wtouldn't tind setting grease {Un duel which began with yester-| LONDON, Feb. 13.—Rumors were! WASHIN 3 3 She repeated the request on my hands or cheeks if I could Gay's sunset and lasted until today's | plentiful in London today that min-| nia has ignored Germany's 24-hour looked at each other dumb-|only get down there. | gawa. isterial and military changes are ‘!timatum to “conclude immediate founded. A woman boilermaker?| “I'd rather have a piece of me Pa ere * imminent. | Peace.” Never heart of such a thing. Nor|chanic's waate in my hand any day| ‘t '* Rot yet permissible to an-| Following exciting debate in com: | According to a eitxsage flashed by a woman riveter. Never heard of) thar old wet wiping towel jRounce the object of the American|mons yeate politicians were | Wireless from Jassy to Salonika and ere’s not. much to look for-|firing, but the bombardment ac-| contrasting Lloyd Geor ed by cable today to Dr. Con- fone, All night | Suarded statements regarding Field | Stantin Angolasca, Rumanian minis : Nt night | rarshal Haig and Gen, Robertson, | tet here, Rumanta has “disdaintully feminine blacksmiths or pipefitters either ward to in cooking and washing | cor jut Mise Netix’ card was one of | dishes three times a day, and itl Kk 9 sky flickered and 'thived a0 R . State Director Robert Moran from | comfort | wisps up and down the horizon praise of them, and Chancellor of the | “Survive. or perish with the allies, the Seattle office Tuesday night So far, #he has not adopted the » Man‘’s Land was continuously | 2Xcheauer Bonar Law's cautious d With Teuton divisions on one side, ‘There in slim probability that she overalls for her daily work Imost as light * | miat that Robertson had resigned as| the Bolsheviki on the other, ‘and will ever be accepted for shipyard) “I'm not much of a mechanic,"| There was little infantry action | °hlef of staff. jmany miles away from a friendly) work she sald, smiling, “but I'm @ pretty|during the night and today. ‘There| Political writers in the press were/ force, King Ferdinand's plucky iam Nevertheless fair carpenter.” was routine patrotiing and sniping, |Unanimous that the debates revealed | tion fs fighting harder today than An overall job is what T want,”| And she proved it | but sn “Wades ecpuseed a more hostile attitude toward the|ever before, according to dispatches | ished its p 8 day Miss Neis told a Star reporter at! She hurried into th ment and government than ever before, | today her home. brought out a naw and a two-by-| , Airpla Are Busy Rumanian troops, the cabdles stated, Of medium build, quite good look-| four. Then she found a small box| The vnusually good vistbility pre |have crossed the River Pruth, and ing, Miss Neis is just an av for a saw-horse. She placed her | ailing ay brought out allied and | STEAL TWO MILES OF | now occupy the entire Russian prov- rplanes. sky was p girl. Physically, abe te no Herculer,|knee on the box and held the etick,| eneiny « ‘| COPPER PHONE WIRES ince of Bessarabia, which recently | but firmly |odically broken out with black and) On ie conper wire, h declared its independence. Bolsheviic Look at England,"she says. “She | “Zip-a-zipazip!” white shell puffs. ee asslen Of the Nocthwontenn | troops have been defeated in sey~ has women in munition plants, on| ‘The saw ate thru the wood like aj An Omaha reserve Heutenant dined | along the poles the Northwestern) cai patties, and have withdra rx’ club to-| Long Distance Telephone Company | ot from {on the Des Moines road, was stolen | "0™ sday night knife thru butter comfortably at the Offic ” ahe laughed night, after a narrow ¢ T learned that at Broadway night|@eath or capture during a daylight | Tu he mus he in the province, which ism | being ruled by a provisional govern- | ment railroads, and in mines, All nition factories in this count the East, so we women must try th shipyards.” school. 1 would have my overalis| bombing raid over the Metz indus he thieves, it is believed, used &/ "One force of 300,000 Russians, for Mins Neia han bee: ng heron, only they look out of p. | tria ion light wagon, coiling the wire ay | , Rue : Mins Nein han been fighting her on, only they look out of place here, |tFial region. 1 numerous| drove along beneath the poles, |Merly under -Gen. Teherbatehatt, own battles since eight yeare ago But just walt till I get into the] |The Omaha and numerous | r have been driven across the Duele: (poeus both parents died in Michigan, | ehipyarda! | r Am ans ying with a | ter, where they were disarmed by the: | French squadron, encountered stiff | opposition from enemy aeropianes.| KIEFF ($ BESIEGED | | Uxrainians, the dispatch dectared. URICH, Feb. 13.—A state of | @ has been prociaimed at Kieft, | JACK ‘LONDON’ ‘S FIRST pe pate whe cea ie ion eae | WIFE SUES ESTATE r 1 and its gas tank punctured,| | OAKLAND, Cal, Feb. 1%.—Mrs. fractured skull and injuries suffered depth of several f artery ved ren | Rut ho dropped his bombs and re-| | Kieff, in| southwestern Russia, | Bessie M. London, first wife of Jack in his 1,000-foot fall in an aeropl ye ay a ggan' hea been fought over. by the London, novelist, has a suit oa file " : on a boche, who retur | FORT WORTH, Tex., Feb. 13! CLEVELAND, Feb, 13.—Buildings| fire 4 i Air Lieut. Peyton ©, Mareh, jr 4Y) were tumbled into Lake Erie, sum-! pial | was not expected to recover from 4|/mer homes were turaed to his own lines at. Bike seaid Waateen lin othe . . te , hg ical got oJ iene ™ go ne a sie thts ae ve the bias g wrest 23 priprecs bee. vetoes $10,000 against Lon- a - | He had received his commission | water -rose ten feet in less than for a pecond het ng of ice cream. | hands of the Bolsheviki | vrhe comapaeint @Regee: that Maal : aoa [eRe 8 gw: Hours: Dekere (een x London's death the author agreed to + | = | dent | today the water receded pay hie first wife $18 sadnthiy Ae | Lieut. March is the son of Maj,| sever I feet, and it was belleved tur-| HELP K, OF Cc. FUND. |Bill Proposes to | her re-marriage, and $37.50 monthly | Gen. ‘Peyton c i” arch, who is to|ther danger of floods was over. | * for each of their two girls, 8icaagee | PRO-KAISER TEACHER | ma SPEEA OF COUNCIL ei Une at 9260 sr, Lontn age nt lh a JTON, Feb. 13.—Legisla-| hag filed claims against the estate, |REPORT STEAMER IS__| _IS OUSTED AT CAMAS §2nivyu'%c'ulumius'n then atts |tion to increase the price of wheat s been allowed by the execu: 000, Seattle's portion of the year from as fixed in the| Dee. 1, 1916 CAMAS, Wash., Feb. 13.—Fecause | for 8 SUNK BY SUBMARINE |. oi iiioged to” have. repeatedty | $10,000,000 to be raised ' , to $2.50 was introduced in} ine rer tionally MADRID, Feb. 12.The steamship) made disloyal re the Big: onADEID, Feb, 12.—The steamship loyal remarks In her lass: |a war work fund f body. | SAYS GERMANS TRADE rino has been torped 5 48) room and attemp' o circulate Teu-| 17 oung Ladies’ institute reported here tolay, ‘Thirty-seven| tone propaganda, Mise Emma Toth | aid in the campaign thru, soliciting HOLDUP Is RETIRING CARDS FOR MUNITIONS survivors are said to have b n| was Instructed today to resign as in-| subscriptions, Booths will be erected A retiring holdup is at work in LONDO! Feb.1 3.—Russian sol- towed by the submarine and landed| structor at the Camas high school,|in public places and will t Seattle, |diers have given Germans ammunf- st the Canary island. following an investigat of cb n Thursday, Friday and Saturday, He at pted to hold up R. A./ tion and guns in exchange for pla: \ against h Miss Roth states Tuesday saw a slump in the|De Cou, 5215 19th ave. N. E., late| ing cards, according to reports from Lloyd's has no record of such alis of German and Austrian parent. amount subscribed over Monday,| Tuesday night, but fled when his| the eastern front, There have been, dispateh did not give|age and is the niece of un Austrian | only $4,000 being secured, as against| Would-be victim started to walk |inatances where a machine gun has her nationality. | general, 1 $5,000 on the opening day, Jaway. been swapped for one pack of none h tors si rks in her ¢ vensel, .