The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 22, 1918, Page 1

\J _ the capital, Petrogra | NORTH HALF OF RUSS FRONT IS SEIZED BY FOE WIRE. SERVICR $ ASSOCIATIONS “The Light of the World” Slavs Pin Hope Now on a) Revolt of the German People " cITies ARE EVACUATED BY JOSEPH SHA By United Press Leased W' wre PETROGRAD, Feb. 21 ‘The Germans have occupied the en- tire northern portion of the Russian front, it was reported here today The Russians are retreating in dis. Russian northward HUNS ASK PETROGRAD cavalry is being rushed AS PEACE GUARANTEE! LONDON, Feb. 22 @emanded occupation of Petrograd as 4 guarantee of its peace treaty with Russia and « 30-year trade agreement. according to a dispatch from Petrograd, dated Thursday, re- ceived here today. TEUTON REVOLT 1S RUSS HOPE LONDON, Feb. 22-—The people's commissaries (Bolshevik minister) have issued a proclamation declaring they agreed to a peace with the cen- tral powers, with esormous conces- sioma, t save the country from final exhenstion and the revolution from Fuin. according to dispatches today, dat yhursday. missaries sald they accept- @4 the conditions “until the German revolution changes them.” ‘The German government is not hastening its reply, the ministry Pointed out, because it is “evidently ing to seize as many important Points as possible.” The commissaries are firmly convinced the ‘workers will rise against ‘any attempt to stifle the Russian revolution. “The soviets and army organiza tions should devote their efforts to re-creating the army.” the proclama tion said. Another dispatch to the News said ft was Foreign Minister Trotsky’s Yote for peace which decided the tie in the ministry in favor of sending the peace message to Berlin. An in- dignation <neeting of the Bolsheviki wan held Tuesday night. the dispatch said, to protest against Trotsky’s at- titude. Trotsky, it was said, prob- ably will resign RUSS LEADERS ORDER TROOPS FROM FINLAND! PETROGRAD, Feb. 21 —(Night)— The people's commissaries have or dered Russian forces to Finland Germany has declared they ‘This is accepted as meaning that the Boisheviki, in concentrating their forces to resist the Teuton invasion, e abandoned their attempt to con quer the new republic of Finland which has been fighting for its inde-| pendence. RUSSIAN CITIES LEFT TO ENEMY PETROGRAD, Feb. 21.—(Night} Russian forces are ¢ Pak off and Polotek, it orted The capture of Minsk grav dangers Homel and Mohileff, where huge supplies of ammunition and foodstuffs are stored The Austrians were reported have taken Lutsk and Dubno. acuatin as to 150 miles southwest on the F It is about half wa than which yesterday's of ad beyond Germans Pskott ts ca Petro: railw: and {s more Voimar, betore were reported in German |! evacuate | “Liberty” in New York Har. bor, presented to America by France, her sister republic. It Is for this—Liberty—that the French people are now struggling in a way more heroic than any the world has ever seen before. To see them is to see the greatest national spectacle in history, To see them thru the eyes of a brilliant reporter is almost as thrilling. ‘The Star has sent the great- est reporter In America, George Randolph Chester, author of the “GetRich Quick Walling ford” stories, to France to write the human story of the people of France as they are today, February, 1918. His series is History! It will begin in this news- paper Monday. DO NOT MISS IT! official statement. ) Polotek is 60 m Vitebsk, capital |where the Russian ported to be con | Gen. Bonchbruyevitch Minsk is 125 miles southwest o vii Mohilef 60 of Vitebsk and Minsk. Homel west of Vitebsk Volynia, both a shor . of Rovno, w 1 to have les northwest. of the armies were r entrating e province. already ta BELIEVE RUSSIA WILL WASHINGTON, Feb. 22—Rusal: will form a fighting the German the n offic ernment line to re: invasion, accordin of reliable diy clone touch ally réported to th view | This stand against the Teuton may It it be but just as s continues to dr Russian ¢ view of the ¢ not be tar back jas th ly res ernment German rely will the ist him, is the informant. DO WAR WORK Hbrarian at the 1 given two month ‘Thursday, to at Camp gents war work Frem miles sowth vent WEINBERG TRIAL JURY} FORM FIGHTING FRONT |comoticity in of | ers were killed 9 e Seattle Star GREATEST OF AN FRIDA THE DAILY CIRCULATION SEATTLE, WASH., ANS WELLS FACES | SENTENCE AS A SEDITIONIST |Pass Brothers and. Sam | Sadler Are Also Found } Guilty JURY OUT FIVE HOURS Holet dent of ell and M. Wells, the central labor coun for ond #, face ponst ttoday, | k former presi socialixt candidate mayor, Sam Sadler Morris and Joe F ble fine and impriso following the verdict of guilty returned at 10 p. m, Thursday by the federal jury that decided the charges of seditious conspir acy for which they have been on trial. The sentence fine and a $5,000 fine ment or a prison ne: Sadler control of And « As from pres he and very or whenever One senumen And, We are may range from $1 And muse day's ment and «ix Or there may b imprison America's hed (Copyright, ine alone is a and a we brothera were urt last w 4 Conscription league Mterature here | After five hours of deliberation the jiury. at 10 p. m.. informed J | Jeremiah Neterer had reac | verdict. The defendants were calm t was read. They ¢ for sion Pell, defense attor- | by Judge W. R (Continued on page 12) |7,000 MAY STRIKE ON | BOSTON RAILWAY LINES BOSTON, Feb, 22--Un quick fs taken by the Boston Eh tiway Co., the H t railway aystem, | vated, surface and be tied up by ‘ It wan estimated today that than 7,000 of the 8,500 em; voted to strike unless higher wages and heated were granted by WASHINGTON "uate bins WILSON | IS OBSERVED WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—The sen-| Seattle pansed Friday to ob- ate to take from| serve with reverence the birth- 1] President Wilson the power of initi-| @ay of George Washington, lead conferred on him by the ee of other war days, after ig ne Bha whom this state wns named. r|, Without a roll call the senate de! "S’hools, banks and pubic of | feated an amendment by Sterling.| tices closed. Mail deliveries were ¢|leaving the interstate commerce com | frre Cunt | Getermine just ané oa Men in olive drab—members | ib's entire ad lines, will | sec BIRTHDAY OF a str | more today refuse | ating rites | ra 4 ¢ but mission to er of the Washington state guard— é Sa a paraded. | WOMEN IN VENIRE FOR Memorial exercises were held | at the Washington statue on the university campus — and ANCISC 2 many organizations met and lis ‘cluded tn the| tened to eulogy of the nation’s te an | first president jurors ap In the teigi| A lst of local observan ea tol with FR Tw women venir pear M f prospe: nday for service charged preparednes Memorial ob. ue of Washington p campus. D. A = see. rs. The venire numbers 1, charge. Gen. Hazard Stevens and - Prof. Edmond 8 Meany, aa rs 2,500 SICK; CITY IS ; anaes dese oF Ve TESTING WATER SUPPLY {r."recstsportation tus -atriotiem” by Judge F. V ut Transportation club meet PEORIA, TIL, Feb. More than >atriotic luncheon of . ted poisoning Young Men’s Republican club. 1 a. m. served at the at on the university the members of Good nda, h cafeter Judge Carrol B Parker to be an apeaker grippe. Pre pom with the guard, parade battalion, two ssioner tinal being tak water supply FOUR MINERS KILLED | VIRDEN, lM. Feb. Washington and review machine gun com panies and infirmary, W. 8. G. take part. Line of march: down First ave. from Armory to Cherry to University, the and north ntate Third inte up n east to Fourth ond Fourth and Virgin Colliery company p. soft ve to Lomonos mission m.-—Prof. George V he of Runsl, on DO YOU KNOW HOW TO MAKE GARDEN THINGS GROW? WELL, YOU ean LEARN IF YOU WATCH THE HARPEN the ol’ scissors i) Mix up a little paste. Get all ready, folks, for th big spring drive. The Star is going to tell you how to make things grow in a war garden. County Agriculturist Floyd Rader has been at work pre- paring lessons. They'll be printed in The Star. Ciit ’em out. Paste them in a-garden scrap book. And then get ready to peel gur coat and roll up your sleeves, because there won't be any excuse, this year, for slackers who do not help in- crease America’s food sup- ply by putting in a garden. You don’t know how? Agriculturist Rader and The Star will tell you. You haven't a enough Plot of ground? the county welfare y-cit mm or call listing nd to be loaned for If have a lot rking him know away lot plowed, means to plow it? application for to Counellman Harry building, in 1] has made an ap: for free plowing. ma n be able to ob free government seeds immediately to Con John F. Miller, Wash- D. ©. building He is you we let right 1 want but haven't the un city county-city tain gresaman ting ington too small! No lot too must plant that we're all we have gardens this year, prepare for lesson No, 1. It will appear in The Star tomorrow, a garden. agreed that as on ng down Time's river, past the hour which gave him birth. upon the man So from the glimmer of its dawn to setting of its 5 | Y PAPER NORTHWEST Y, FEBRU/ SEEK IN THE ARY PACIFIC 1918 22, ming pdat Mount Verr deck" and taut and trig the crew ident to ve and every lip stood there ecabin-boy we N. nails by in a whip of the U. 8 that hallowed #1 t envelope all, and all elee ts for a larger craft, we stand upon the Earth mtirred of soul and turn aside from work or play who gives his luster to this day wun art leaps up and gives miute to Washington 1918, by the Newspaper Enterprise Association) ways of communication, nddreases | mane meeting at Hippodrome. Opening of South Park Red Cross auxiliary's carnival and service flag dedication, at South Park field house. Attorney Glen C. Beecher, speaker. Booths, amuse- ments, dancing, and luncheons and dinners will be features Friday night and Saturday | 730 Washington day ban-| of Pennsylvania ge club. | Annual ball of Police Relief asso- onic temple Meeting of Seattle Auxil ighteenth United States en s, Manufacturers’ building, Fourth and University st; Judge Claypool, orator 8 p. m—Dedication of service flag and special exercises at Mount Raker Hughes, ora- NEEDS OF NEW RUSSIA TO BE TOLD AT 3 P.M. Prof. George V. Lomonossoff, head of the Russian mission on ways of communication to Amer. jea, arrived in Seattle at noon Friday and was scheduled to ad- dress a monster meeting in the Hippodrome at 3 p. m. William Short, president of the State Federation of Labor, presided. The mission obtain starving peop cording the hell Berg, Evening m auet of ‘Universit slumnt at Ce ave is in this country mic relief for of Russia, who, a mission park clubhouse; K. ¢ tor. number millions. 8 p. m—Retall grocers meet to hear address by Frank onnolly fe president of National Retail Grocers’ association, Montelius hall Third and University at. & p. m—Oberlin college alumni an- nual banquet, Plymouth Congrega tional church; Dr. F, A. Churchill orator, m was met'at the sta # from the Cham and Seattle Friday, tion by committe ber of Commerce Labor Council Prof. Lomonossoff will address a ave : |SITUATION IN to the j secretary, ¢ meeting Was open, free, to the Lomonossotf, upon hig arrival in| the Central NIGHT EDITION” Weather Vorecast: 7 “n PRICE ONI eh EACE! CENT Demanded by Germany Parleys to ence AMSTERDAM, Feb. 22.—Peace nego- tiations between Rumania and the central powers will be started tomorrow, accordi to reports today. The Rumanian premier and Rumanian foreign minister are said to be in Bucharest, © |the former capital of Rumania, where Aus- trian Foreign Minister Czernin was repo! |to have gone several days ago. ‘GERMAN TROOPS. MUTINY; SHOOT | MANY OFFICERS. AMSTERDAM, Feb, 22.—Gercian — recruits in a camp at Beverloo, Bel- — ginm (30 miles east of Brussels), mutinied and shot several officers after one of the latter had a soldier, it was reported from frontier today. A number of the mutineers are sald to have been court-martialed shot. BRITISH TROOPS | AUSTRIA GROWS) MORE DESPERATE | BY CARL D. GROAT WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 —nve | tria’s internal situation grows con- | stantly more desperate, according ‘| | advices reaching here yrvold The ocialists, the and | Slavs are becoming bolder ta. thatt | desire and demands, and there is a | growing feeling among the popu lace that Austria should cast off the es that ‘ind her to the Germans. That the emperor, however, is in- clined to curb the insurgents is manifest from his reported threats to dissolve the reichsrat and put into effect an iron-handed rule if tel provisional budget is not suppor ‘The socialist demand for peac eo | gotiations with the United States is | by far the strongest step the liberals | have taken, and there is in the whole | | |situation an element of revolution. This, tho, is as yet not sufficiently mature to indicate that the govern- ment, with its Berlin alliance, would mounted troops entered Jericho at be unable to control it. 8:20 this morning establishing them- | Dissatisfaction with the German selves on a line between Jericho and annexationist policy, with the Teuton Wadi Auja,” an official dispatel Jadvance into Russia and with the from Gen. Allenby declared today. Ukraine settlement are the imme. Wadi Auja is a small tributary 6f 7 | diate causes of the present demands the River Jordan, which runs abows tho the more fundamental five miles north of Jericho, ; SLAGKERS ua WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—Immedi- ate drafting into service of all slack ers under arrest will be begun um der a plan being prepared by the justice department, it was stated to day County jails, it was explained, | have become crowded to excess with mace, ingly serious eco- 4 a general dis content over continuing to feed men to the cannons. The problem offers Germany of the most serious hindrances her | one *Bethmann-Hollweg” Buys Liberty Bonds cas dle bat * Former lor Von Bethmann WASHINGTO! | German Chanc B | tinued today on the American front, meeting at the University of Wash-| foi) at 10 a Monday on eco-| Liberty bonds. conditions in Russia. The caretaker of the ex-chance! and Washington st. ned es! Wings in Waco, - }GAS RESOLUTION WILL | Tex. Bas asked inet ee tee Well! Well! Here’s| 3. gt SATURDAY hn cha property, approx which are he kaiser. ‘Latest Story About | tt Kins County pemocr {George’s Li’l Tree | : Ing this today, officials of dressed by General Secretaary Clar.| the allen property custodian's off! ; SNNYAN, N. ¥ . » Gilbert Hong, of the American | declared some of the money ) 7 h i Proportional Representation league. |8% been turned into bonds not a cherry tree at all, ea : It that the caretaker didn't hack it down with }| He comes from Philadiphia. | jown with shipbuilder, will talk | ®eted on instructions from rand new hatchet, either i pry ees proof was brought out p to the gaze here today by | himself. ond L, Moore of Bluff |PRINCETON HEAD SAYS | at oe Ableeatine weauiingion, GERMANY IS WINNING! ther of Washing NEW YORK, Feb. At referring to the inci- }| °red by the club. pre ‘many is winning the ted March 1, 1739, and é war, clared President John Grier | Hibben, of Princeton university, be This SEC. LANE OPENS LAND \fore the American Institute of Min. a. m, 1 found young }| IN 2 STATES FOR ENTRY jing rnsineers | plum tree spoiled w v. I{! WASHINGTON “We not winning the war and it was rome vagabond. Tntavioe Diane ‘an.| We might as well confess it. We of it at My opening to public eatry | MUSt Mobilize the intelligence of the owned the deed, Fi ; Acres of public domain in| country and especially ntific in-| was excited and minded to whip S| Now ‘M distributed am follows: | telliser This must turn the ba but didn’t. “He was truthful }| Qua1 county, 92,100 Roosevelt, | #ce. Sion Bidet diese 1t with {) 78.780; Union, 9,000; 4,900 } my small hand-saw. i ehlederry + So there! It was a plum tree In North Dakota 437,000 acres, it tip ce i yD apa pulled off }! was announced, are also now svail ) {able for settlement | SOLDIERS CELEBRATE WASHINGTON’S DAY CAMP LEWIS, Feb. tion of Washington's jcamp Friday consiste a r program in. the Liberty was defeated in the ate today. | 10 a. m., under the direction of the| By a vote of 46 to 25, the senate re-| fourth Knights of Colum. | jected Hitchcock's amendment to the | bus. was no official cere-| railroad bill, providing that the presi dent must have congressional au- | thority for all orders affecting rail-| road control | An early passage of the bill is ex: pected, m.—Washington's birthday ation and dedication of service Salvation Army at citadel, ington nomi aor us * urday ra already is assume Joxph an his impression the nation: and r Charles A. Re on the put sion’s consideration of the t ast will be finally consid ynolds’ resolution up. commis ephone state service orge and the “A fine day and warm my b Seere oy tary of the today ad the of 68,800 noon on nounce sareh Wilson ’s Power | Upheld in Vote on Railway Bill |* BY L. C, MARTIN United Press Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb, 22.—A de termined effort to curtail President Wilson's power to aside laws hampering free control of the rail-| ads under federal management, | |U. Ss. Guns Pound Teuton Trenches WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRAN b. 21 (Delayed. | Heavy exchange of drtifery fire con. se} | In a brisk fight this afternoon, |American guns pounded German po- jsitions, doing damage | behind the lines, ax well as destroy: | mony ling -wire: entanglements. Most of the men were given leave American airplane observers, work {sae 6 o'clock Saturday morning considerable ‘There ing in conjunction with the artillery,|@nd many of them celebrated in did excellent work. ‘acoma and Seattle, has subscribed to American | | dians, Hollweg | | peace the shirkers and quick relief is im | perative. INDIAN SQUAWS GO ON WARPATH TO RESCUE MEN — GOLD HILL, Utah, Feb. |lowing th t here of sevea 7 alleged draft evaders of the | Goshute rvation by a detachment Jof soldiers from Fort Douglas, squaws of the tribe went on the war path here last night and raided the jagency, threatening the life of Jim Clover, Indian interpreter, who was in charge Clover was saved harm by Dr. J. H | physician, who has a eni the Ind censed squaws were quieted. The seven Indians taken by the | sotater ers are being held for thvestiga- tion charges of attempting evad draft law from actual a Salt Lake kindly tnflu- ns. The in Peck, the WOMAN LOSES ‘SUIT FOR $100,000 HEART BALM DETROIT, Mich, Feb. 22.—Mrs, Havilas Cure, of Dallas, Tex., will get no heart balm a result of her $100,000 breach of promise suit against J, J. Waters, Detroit. After hours deliberation, the fury 1 she had no cause for actiog The defense sprang a surprise just before the trial ended, by introducing two telegrams, showing Mrs. Cure has a BEWARE FALSE PEACE, JUSSERAND WARNS ASHI must Preneh ssador Jusser- and declared here today, in a George Washington address to Sons an@ en oF Daughters of the American Revel — ti