The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 27, 1918, Page 1

saseeeaeeeriemeenentnemenenen een oasmumane eee ETE ETT TEE TTT {pip You EVER WALK SEATTLE’S STREETS WHOLE NIGHT LONG? en ee FREEDOW FOR ANA FOREVER. Last Sunday night there were soldiers doing that. When it’s cold and wet and dreary and hotels and room- houses are crowded and the last boats and trains to Tacoma and Camp Lew ch else to the soldier ing Seattle ‘ow the you can offer Don’t NIGHT EDITION Weather VForee and Thursday walk to do but walk and morn open the doors of their home They can and will pay for the accommodation club RIGHT NOW and list that miess pe isit city ea them wait until the last the The pare room of 8? minute phone The Seattle Star _THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST | SEATTL E WASH, WEDNESDAY, FEBR UAR Y tonight winds Occasional rain rate southeasterly —__— Every __in_ Beattie ULL. Le VOLUME 19 — bxites ATTACK LOCAL TROOPS BY GAS NT SED WIRE SERVI _PRBSS ASSOCIATION 4 ue BY . S. Seizes w gees oe we it was officially to fe ~iai6 frequent collisiong at training camps. it is reserving tracts as oa etna? j@tations. around a ter | mile radius’ from flying fields, / was learned officially need for all possible ae ale program was indi- ATR as “Set Official assertion that it for the next few months the and German air evenly balanced and that air supremacy must be America’s speeding up. Transportation of airplanes to Europe is believed to be one of the greatest problems in the program ‘There will be abundance of person nel and the production program will carried out but the shipping of bulky airplanes will re quire tremendous space, which must provided frent the already over- resources of the shipping forces won be as planned be taxed board Old- ' Quick Wallingford” stories, and /Qhester, went to France especially for The Star to tell the story ef FRANCE TODAY. This ts the third of their inspiring » BY GEORGE RANDOLPH CHESTER AND LILLIAN CHESTER. Copyright, 1918 27.—“Well, — Feb. We knew from his grin the lanky young apes iy first visit to Paris; that, ad gained his earliest impressions of pictures of naive, scantily-lingeried women kicking at chandeliers, and that he expected ike’ most of us, he h: ce from right off the train 7, to see Paris mit Seer: of precious gems as Aladdin never er, tho huddled now against the p uniform, sits, as of old, - oe reo Time ‘GayP’ree’ Lively Town Yet George beeen aged Chester, famous writer of the “Get-Rich- y P’ree” never did exist, but we had an aching that the truly gay Paris be sombre and sad; for the tremendous she has met these pest dreadful years been at the sacrifice of her bright her depressi his wife and collaborator, Lillian boys, we'll soon be in Gay and his gleeful eye, that this into a swirling saturnalia of which we had known ig not ceaselessly pounding the shop wit of a sidewalk cafe, and swarms by him on the feet, brusquely give your direction, step in, and slam the door: not so! You wait until one stops in your block, or the next one, to dixcharge & passenger, then you rush to it im Ploringly. and tell the potentate where you would like to go. If he cares about driving into that neigh borhood, away you go, rattle lickety- | split, at a hair-raising speed; it reats | Uted Press Correspondent |entirely with him. however, whether | “Wuh! Wuh! Please Mr. President, Conscript Labor!” IS BRANDED AS FOLL OF TRICKS BY CARL D. GROAT WASHINGTO! Feb. 27—Prest- Bluffs Sergeant LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Feb. 27.—Mrs. Flotence Wettig, cham pion war bride, was celebrating her victory over a grizzled top- sergeant today, while her soldier husband was in a troop train, speeding toward an unnamed des- unation. Wie Private W. H. Wettig, St. Louis, was waiting for orders HERTLING TALK (caoid im Kaci) PRICE OF FOOD MADE BIG JUMP IN ONE MONTH WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Re- tall food prices In the United States showed an increase of 2% percent for the month ending ENVOY TO STAY ON -INRUSSIA Russians Now Show Fight| and Claim Several Victories FATE NOT SETTLED YET LONDON, Feb, 27.—Telegrams have been received from the British embassy in Petrograd, dated Wednesday, ‘Thia Indicates that the British am. jtnssador, at least, had not left the Russian capital today. Reports received yesterday by the department, in Washington, from United States Ambassador Francis stated that the Gernans were within eight hours of Petro ered. His cable report was filed on Monday. He stated that he would make an attempt to leave Petrograd with the [Japanese and Chinese envoys. | RUSS CLAIM TEUTONS DEFEATED IN BITTER FIGHTING AT PSKOFF PETROGRAD, Feb, 26.—CNight)— Ten detachments of revolutionary troops, headed by committeemen, have been dispatched toward Pakoff, it was semiofficially announced to- day. A number of armored cars are ineluded. Morgow haa sent 70,000 troops to Rologoe, a small town near Vitebsk, 200 miles west of Moscow and the saine distance south of Petrograd. The hatte for possession of | Prkoff, 162 miles southwest of Petro- grad, which was continued thro the night, ended in a Russian victory The Russians have succeeded in re moving most of the vast store of supplies there, valued at 400,000,000 roubles, into the interior The commissariat has admitted that Reval, capital of Estbonia, sit- uated on an afm of the Gulf of Riga, 200 <niles west of Petrograd, was cap- tured after a battle in which saflors and Red Guards contested every step. Enthusiasm for the defense of the revolution grows hourly. There ts a constant stream of armed men leaving for the front. Two hun- dred thousand proletariats have en- rolled The staff at Luge }south of Petrograd, on the Riga- Petrograd railway) wired they would be able to halt the Germans if they had reinforcements. These were sent. Officers are joining the garrisons, | | } | patate (100 miles ON PAGE 4 If you don't understand the char. ter proposals and bend propositions Op to Seattle voters March 5, ture You'll find « sammary B, SKOHIELOFF ASKS 30 DAYS | TO GET KAISE Driver” on Mission of Death Skohiefoff, the Russian who has twice offered to go over to Germariy | and eliminate Kaiser William, re newed bis proposition in a letter to The Star today. Writing, this time from Hoquiam. Wash, he laid down the following outline of his plan: int---Fifteen days before my start to Europe I would need $100,000 | with which to make preparations and Day expenses of the trip. 2nd—A. deposit of $150,000 must be made tn some bank to be paid me as @ bonus after I succeed, and on my return to America. In case of death this would be paid to my family 24—I guarantee to do the job truly, and within 20 days after my arrival in Europe. Wants Auto Driver 4th—A second man may accom pany me on a witness. This man must be a good automobile driver. Sth-—-After my mission is accom- Diished, a history of my accomplish ment is to be given publicity. According to Skohieloff, “the $100,- 1000 ought to be raised, without any difficulty, in one day” as “people ought to give freely to get the kal ser’s neck.” Tn fact, he says he overheard a German in a Seattle street car, while reliding in The Star, remark: “I'd give $100 myself for the damn kaiser ‘he put.us in all this tronble.” “All this may sound -foolish to nome people,” Skohicloff writes, “but let me tell you that J am able to save milons to our allies by the elimina. tion of the kaiser. Great turmoll in Germany would follow his removal. The western offensive, no doubt, wWopld be impossible. “The Star and the people must understand that this is no foolish ness with me. I mean business. “I would like to bring the kaiser's sword to Seattle. Yours for human: ity, R. SKOHIELOFE.” Teuton Troops Are Halted by Russ in Fight at Vitebsk BY JOSEPH SHAPLEN Wants to Take “Good Auto! “IT’S NO FOOLISHNESS”) MEN DIE IN RAID | Shower of "Deadly Fumes from Enemy Catches Sammies Unawares ARMY SEEKS REVENGE BY FRED 8. FERGUSON United Press Correspondent ; WITH THE AMERICAN ABR MIES IN FRANCE, Feb. 26—(De layed.}—Five American soldiers were killed and 61 were sent to howpitabs ‘today in the first German gas st tack on Americans. These were the casualties up to the hour of cabling this dispatch. The first victims included bere; from Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Indiana, Kentucky, New Jersey, Tennessee, Rhode Island, Ohio, New York, Washing- |ton and Arkansas, t ly % came suddenly early — this morning after an all-day rain. The clouds had parted and the moon © was shining brightly. Suddenly there man trenches as the min were discharged. Then came the detonations of high explosives with the quick spread of deadly cases. Three officers ran inté_, dugout and closed the curtain. Three were .killed and nine this sector alone during the first a1 tack. When the attack came, (Continued on page ten) 30 SEAMEN DIE INU.S. SHIP WRECK, IS FEAR The bodies of four dead wes reached Philadelphia. The complement was five officers” and 25 men. ‘The 10 known survivors have been landed. The iit of those aboard will be made public soon. The message gave no details of the foundering. Daniels’ statement read “The navy department is advised that the U. S. Cherokee, a navy tug, foundered yesterday morning. off the "4 as a huge flare from the Ger Me / As dent Wilson is waiting upon the re- likely as not, he won't | ply of Count Czernin, of Auntria, to his last peace terms message before | Every Spoonful Counts |determining his future course as to ‘The reason Mes not in any lack | new statement before the tribunal | of humanitarian interest in your |0f the world welfare, but in the fact that he in| If it shows a conciliatory and re only allowed #0 many litres of ceptive the president will! sence” per day, and he must make | sain appear before congress to am-| every spoonful count. Naturally, | Plify his statements, according to} mutual necessity promotes the flow | the belief among international au-| the grand dame! of the milk of human kindness. thorities. Whether he would reply aie grand. dune qvaike, too We had an Important errand, and | to Chancellor Hertling, of Germany, | cheortul about it; and pam-|Tushed to meet the first taxt which | ot be stated now. el now walk which never|stopped at the curb, but the lady| The general apirit of today, after F their paws before. As the| Who alighted, smiled, and held digesting Lertling’s talk, was one of bieal Frenchman says, With|® warning hand. rejection. | “I'm sorry, I'm not thru with it,”| ying a Game she apologized. “What direction are| Everywhere the thought was that there are a few taxis,| You going?” Hertling was insincere, that he was lly by exnoldiers who| We told her |playing a game. This game, accord the fight to become| “Splendid,” “My pl |ing to the general view, was to tr right on your way, and if you don't|to foster pacifist spirit within the are not Jordly mind waitfhg while I run in to buy |allied nations and to try tO cause a any f you this chauffeur a pair of Christmas| split in them. eat the curb, bold rs—he's been nicel—you may| There is much camouflage about! Suntil a taxi races (Continned on page 6) this remarks anent Belgium, about self-determination and about Ger. S SP IN |man war aims, according to the thought here. The disposition of problem is considered an neuver. pCROT N, Ys, Feb. 27—An| vcording yas made today to blow up|of the federal building. pressor in the plant of the| It was generally believéd that the ih’ Phipyards Co, here, the |Tturns will concern persons. charged he will wait to bring you back pilentic cosa See aboard, five officers and 35 enlisted men, 10 men have been landed at | Philadelphia. Four dead were picked up by steamships, “The 10 known survivors got away on the first life raft. Four got away on the second life raft, but two were washed overboard and the other two were dead when picked up.” The ten survivors of the U. steam tug Cherokee, who were tan jed at Philadelphia are: Boatswain E, M. Seenott, reserve, Boston; L, P. Acher seaman; H. H. Pointer, fireman: J. Hall, seaman; C.,E. Barker, chief machinist's mate; Ft, A. Kozeck, fire: man; P. H. Warmack, fireman; A, A. Wailim, oiler; E. L. Gudgel, fire: man; B. F. Blumfield, radio elee trician, |“CONTINUE ADVANCE,” IS ORDER TO HUNS IN DRIVE AGAINST RUSS —_—_—_—_— . BY a PH SHAPLEN GERMAN SOCIALIST GETS|Pisrrocnab, rem 28-avienty— FIVE YEARS IN PRISO The nan command advancing to- jward the capital, informed that the BERNE, Feb. August Horn,| Russians had accepted peace, quer secretary of the Stettin socialist|ied their representatives at Brest league, was sentenced to five years | Litovsk. three months’ imprisonment! The reply came back conviction of treason before | ‘The advance must continue. & court martial in connection with} The Germans evidently are deter- the recent general strikes, mined to occupy Petrograd, and are Four other socialists we: also seeking to cut off the capital tenced to a month's hard from the south. RED GUARDS CAPTURE HELD FOR TRIAL, MAN DON COSSACKS’ Town| FORGOTTEN BY POLICE LONDON, Feb, 27.—Revolutionary SPENDS MONTHS IN JAIL forces have ptured Novo-Tcher- SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 27. kask, a wireless dispatch from Petro-| Frank Dombosin, arrested weeks ago grad stated today, The cadet offi-|for failure to register under the OoFs: fed. |draft, was at liberty. today, after {having spent three months and four days in the county jail without a hearing. He had been placed in jail to be turned over to federal authorities, and the police forgot he was there. When he was taken into court, Cushman, of ‘Tacoma, siding for Judge Deol PETROGRAD, Feb. 26.—(Delayed.) ~The Germans have been hurled back at Vitebsk and 18 miles from | Orsha. Vitebsk is the capital of the prov- ince of that name 300 miles south of Petrograd. Orsha is an important BEEN REACHED BY HUNS|F#!'road junction on the Dneiper | road, 30 miles south of Vitebsk. PETROGRAD, Feb. 26.—Delayed.|* After fortifying Borisshoff (80 | Despite our readiness to sign a! miles west of Orsha and 38 miles | German peace of usurpation, enemy| northeast of Minsk), the Germans tachinents continue to advance,”| advanced toward Orsha. Russian the executive council's press pro-| forces made a sortie and beat the} claimed today. Germans back 18 miles out from the “The German imperialists do not | city. desire peace, but the strangling of| Then, retiring upon the city, the the workmen and peasants, Russians blew up a bridge over the | “Occupation of Reval and Pskoff| Bereseina, where Napoleon suffered and e Petrograd, which fa still) heavy losses in November, 1812, and distant, cannot decide the revolu-/ began an orderly evacuation. tion's fate. Should the threat to-| Germans seeking to occupy Vi- ward Petrograd increase, the coun-|tebsk, where the first mobilization cil's government must move to/for the defense of Petrograd oc- li curred, were thrown back. Germans are organizing detach- ments of Ukrainian prisoners at Rovno (in Volhynia.) to board a train with his com- pany. the bride, who was Mins Florence Cunningham, Dallas, Tex., appeared with a motor car, and the county judge. Despite the protests of the ser- geant, she “kidnaped” Wettig and s@d to a nearby grove, where the ceremony was perform: ed. Five minutes later Wetti boarded the train as it pulled dut. CONGRESS IS" WORRIED OVER MONEY WASTE WASHINGTON, Feb. 27—Con- sreas ia worrled about money and nts what many legislators call * eliminated i story, but not cent for waste,” i® the slogan a sen: ator suggested today, while thin sentiment has been reflected in both houses. A number today gave notice that they will urge the appropriations committee to force the strictest econ: omy, while Senator King prepared to introduce a bill standardizing gov ernment salarien The Hog Island with ite of enormous sums spent of huge quantities of use }lews documents at government ex and many kindred matters worried members and stirred | * since gasoline is so Practically every has been com- itary purposes. the kaleidoscopic uniforms of allies, as the - procession Sand chatters past, there are danuary 15 over the preceding month, the labor department an- nounced today. Four of 15 necessary food articles | showed a decrease—fiour, 2 per cent; lard, bacon and corn meal, 1 per feent each. Hens sgowed the greatest increase $ per cent. Eggw and potatoes in | creased 6 per cent; butter, 4 per cent j milk, 3 per cent. Sirloin steak, round steak and rib t increased 2 per cent; pork chops, ham and sugar, 1 per cent each. During the year endin, the price of food as a w! 25 per cent Corn meal jumped per cent, which was the greatest @iange re corded in any food prices. Bacon in creased 64 per cent; lard, 63; pork chops, 44; ham, 42; milk, 35; hens, 29; butter, ges, 26; sugar, 18, and flour, 17 which are reinvigorated and being | organized hurriedly. RUSS EXECUTIVES SAY PETROGRAD HAS NOT } Tore so than of old, and p girls, and an entirely new na up one with a do not up your to your | glo w ” nd every position, nd locomotive and acles in the road “We must dete railway station Interpose all to Petrograd. SIBERIA SITUATION IS SERIOUS; JAPAN TO ACT Feb. 27.—Japan ly to act in Siberia if German jactivities spread there and into th |k r East, according to sources to the Japanese embassy today ‘The United Pfess is 1 Japa is aware of the se the Siberian situation, in view of the Russian collapse and German propa ganda, and that she is ready to ful fill her obligations to the allies in the Orient There was a growing feeling in Millionaire Mayor Accuses Woman in Blackmail Hearing ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 27.—As A. G. Candler, multi-milionaire mayor of Atlanta, today took the stand as the first witness in the sensational black mail trial of J, W. Cook and Mrs. | Herman H. Hirsch, he repeated the told the grand jury Hirsch, he sald, came to his » February 6, ostensibly in the interest of Red Cross work, Sudden ly, apparently in fright, the mayor id, Mrs. Hirsch exclaimed: “There's some one watching us from that win dow The mayor stated when he turned to Mrs, Hirsch, after examining the | aniomatic quarters that the situa window and finding no one there.| tion in Siberia ia growing #O serious mar Hirsch ‘had removed her hats | that Japanese intervention will be disarranged her clothing, and was | M404 waste tivach ‘pened te dor.| BAT EQUR SAYS RUSSIA’S FATE NOT SETTLED xclaiming: “Ah, So this is h ple mayor.” The mayor asserted he asked Cook and Mrs. Hirsch to explain the mean Sate ing of the but that they dia] LONDON, Feb, 27.—"The fate of apt occupied Russia, regardless of any. Russian or Rumanian peace treaties, onal Chureh | will be decided at the general peace hold its 17th | conference,” Arthur J. Balfour, # annual meeting Sunday, night at the|retary .of state. for foreign aftairs. Pilgrim =. Congregational — church, ed in the house of cominvha tor Broadway and Republican st. Indictments Due Noe Federal Court Late Wednesday First cninor indictments by the fed feral grand jury wereisocheduled to returned in Judge Jerémiati Neterer jes urtment of the United States 4 rict court lite Wednestlay aftern: to rumors in the corridors the Russian adroit ma probe, t and upon trie a pense, hay them MAN WHO SHOT THREE 1S HELD AS DERANGED) SAN FRANCISCO, Feb, 27.— Guido Tuzzi, violinist, who shot three men in the Musicians’ union} hall here yesterday, was removed to the detention hoxpital for observa- tion today. Officials believe he is mentally deranged ‘Tussi refused to salute the fing and fired on three men who expelled him. He was captured after a chase | by the police. “OFFICER 666” WILL GET STAR NEWSBOYS| Wednesday night looks like al bie night for Star newsboys.| | They've all been invited to see “ foer atjthe (Wilkes theatre Wedne nif however are e sen- labor, f Novo-Teherkask 4# the capital of the Don Cossacks’ province, and is located 25 miles, northeast of Rostov TEUTONS CAPTURE RUSS BERLIN (Via London), Feb, 27.~ North of Dorhat (157 miles north east of Riga), we captured two Rus: | ing. followed Judge Dooling's ruling sian regiments which were retreat.| that pyisoners should be heard with- Ing,” the Getmuin official statement! ing 24 hours after arrest, and ‘said, mediately the prisoner was difficult, Austria’s yearning for athe plat jcourt to be registered ha information charges | appeal sent toda to Presi The chancellors statements anent Germany's war of “defense” are re garded here as threadbare sophis which, in the light of German | ties, appear ludicrous. rnin, may adopt a different tone as he has in the past ip iw such that the president be. lobia being to delay the work on |, sidan gay and tending wy bil « « political campaign should be ull ships for tyg emergency) ‘Two informations already have jeontinudd there % " | been filed by the United tes attor-| Tue Prior was ideteated by the masta tthe ageinet conga rer ‘ | VAST SPUD SUPPLY. ROTS isilate Of Wo Hogan, a guard. |r arson pleaded guilty to having fail-| ST. PAUL, Minn, Feb, 27.—Thire teen million bushels of po | Northern Minnesota are provided to bring who wae ding over, |into service up, struck the guard) ‘The \ other head with « ohb 14 | Patrick ¥, Sullivan, sr, with import | public safety commission, P Hogun was knocked uncon-|ing 12 quarts of whisky from Butte | dent Wilson @ Ume, but recovéred and|on Novernber 14, in violation of the| mearch of the plant | Reed amendment | Be & jtrchine te found «| Asgigtant United State Attorney| FATHER, 2 SONS BURNED! bendi@, which he, picked up and! Donald A. McDonald had charge METROPOLIS, Ul, Feb. 27.—| hurt far wa could, {Ag the the cases for the governme Cha 1 und his two boys, aged mined posed caring | needay snorning, and Aww | 8. and 11, were. burned to death early ” r | today ino fire whieh destroyed their While Austrians 0 linked to Hogan saw man working at the|ed to register under the rot unle according to an up t Util» Moore prepared othor ¢anen f vas home near hee, soene, Germany by debt that a break tw id thought him a work-| draft act, and was # them to the mark by the Minnesota ene ntuttin, « lay pli