The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 15, 1918, Page 1

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BY LIEUT POLLOCK American Aviator in the Lafayette Flying Corps, French Foreign Legion, Copyright, 1938, by the Newspaper Enterprise Assocation OUGH I smiled, I was really a little scared when the} time at last came for my first fight with German air-| men. “Would y you care to go over the lines to! protect a small two-seater?” was the polite invitation of Captain Jean Derode the SECOND DAY I was at the front. “Yes, sir,” I promptly answered. “Very well; get ready.” This was July 17, last year. I had just finished my training and had been as- signed to Squadron N. 102, which was then acting as Escadrille d’'Arme to the French FPOLLOCK] First Army in Flanders, I was the only American in the squadron of 15. Our camp was on the Belgian frontier, west of Dixmude. We were the Belgian right and the British ieft. ‘The allies were preparing for big drive up the Belgian coast to clean up the submarine bases at and Zebrugcge. Squadron N. 10°, whose insignia was a dragon. engaged in photo-reconnaissance of a very elaborate and important and of a kind never before attempted. We had the best cameras ‘any army, and the best machines. Thad been given a single-seat always get this “flivver,” as u Spad is far too valuable to be with a green pilot. _ While getting into my flying togs, a rendezvous, 2,500 meters over field, was arranged by phone with the (wo-seater, which belonged to NT GRANVILLE A. 3 neighboring squadron; and my “cuckoo” was hauled out of the bes | ge Pale gla ‘That for a plane is a bessoneaux, its inventor. whole camp came out to see the Yankee make his first trtp. te the smnbnine. I quickly tested the controls, looked at the! chise. on the ‘switch, the La Rhone moter roared, and I was off “mission.” . . . and climbed for some minutes, and when my altimeter read looked out. and there was the two-seater a couple of blocks My correct position, above and behind the other fellow, and last fond look at my gun, we started off for No Man's Land. (ne pg Biondi pcalfhdy maar ne Palace eat trigger being connected by a Bowden wire to the handle of the lever or “stick.” THUS YOU GUIDE YOUR MACHINE AND ines when my companion suddenly devel- i aeae and disappeared. The last 1 saw tail as it plunged Into a gray bank like nding. ‘well, it was in French, so never mind I was game, I would go to the spot phed. There I hung around, 300 meters higher old kodak man in the Sopwith should be. Then, couldn't mins him. a . ° . It was all very new and interesting. My nervousness had gone. Below At the 1,300 or 1,400-yard level, were a number of our ordinary artil- ‘potting machines dodging “Archies,” antiaircraft shells. Their fascinated me. Was thus calmly enjoying myself when above the roar of the motor Die startied by a peculiar “rat-tat-tat” behind me. It sounded like a riveter putting up an American skyscraper. I looked around. and, lo and behold, there were two big, ugty black- fhatross single-seater scouts firing at me! THEY HAD ME GOOD | EY WERE BEHIND AND ABOVE. I WAS AT THEIR MERCY!| “Instinetively I threw on full motor to climb higher. “Zip, zip, zip.” were using “tracer” bullets. I could see the incandescent Bing: flashing over my top wing. If I mounted I would run into the line fie and be posted that night as “missing.” ‘There was just one way out. derking over the “stick,” I flopped my machine on its side ee * VOM wing ee. It was one of my tricks learned sag I dropped 200-mille clip. ‘The boches couldn't get over me, as I was falling and gotng forward at the same time. _ But escape waen't so easy. A squint up over my left shoulder showed that the first boche was nose-diving almost vertically behind me and ‘the time trying to spray me with a stream of bullets. #0 into a “vrilie,” or tail spin, I went. Now let the Hun keep my fevolving machine in his gun sights if he could. I recovered, reduced speed, flattened to a level keel and found my self close to a French two-seater artillery spotting wireless machine, loeerver of which was very excited and had his gun pointed up at my But the Germans, finding that they had run into a flock of » had broken off the fight and turned Berlinwards. Mr. Whitcomb Might Answer This; We Can’t FAitor The Star fn your issue of Friday Avril 12, wnder the heading "Coal Prices Go Up as Much as 4 Dollar a Ton.’ you are laboring under #Bisapprehension or some one Is to camoufiage the unwar Tanted raise in the prices of coal the last week % the winter and spring 1917, the largest amount paid fuel was $4.95; at the begin Ring Of the season last the Price was advanced to $6 and first ruling of the fuel itor, prices were fixed M STA5; later the price wan in 67, and Mon than eight hours per day, The retailers were paying their men $4.00 and up for a 10-hour day, or approximately 40 cents per hour Let us say that each teamster delivers which is, I noticed an a very con rvative ent! 12 times $1.63 equals $19.56; deduct the wages of two hours from that amount, which leaves a balance of $18.76. What I should like to know tf Who receives the benefit of this last sum, and why? The statement made by the press to the effect that more equipment will be needed on ac count of lesser hours is at this time absurd. We are well aware that only a small percentage of the amount of coal handled during the winter months is being handled now. I would very much appreciate, if it is possible for you to do *o, an explanation thru the col- umns of your paper of this, what seems to me, unwaranted raise. Ww. F. MBYER administrator n increase of is the price ‘un the consumer $9.70 in lots or more for the Grade of coal that sold for At this time lawt year believe that no man be required to work more toe Nieuport 120-horsepower plane, New-| ICAR OFFICIALS FACE CHARGES OF CONTEMPT Tried to Influence Jury _ City Case, It Is Claimed USED ADVERTISEMENTS Traction company officials will | be brought into court to answer contempt charges for alleged ef forts to influence a jury in a case with the ci thru an ad: vertisement in norning paper, | if Corporation Counse? Caldwell's request made in superior court Monday is granted. The publication of the advertise ment came just a few hours before the court was to hear the city’s $60,970 damage case against the company for failure to pay part of the cost of the Fremont ave. bridge as required by franchise. Superior Judge Jurey at noon ruled that company officials would have to appear at 9 a. m. Thursday and show cause why they should not be cited in contempt of court The paragraph in the advertine [ment in which direct reference is | made to the case in question, and on which Prosecuting Attorney Cald | well based his affidavit, accusing the opposition of trying to influence the Jury on the day set for the trial, }im as toll | Refers to Case | “The company was given a fran. jchise over a bridge running until 1934 upon payment of one-half of the cost of that bridge. The struc: | ture was removed by the city | years before the expiration of the | franchise and more than $30,000 was confiscated and our rights taken from us by the transaction. The city refuses to make any a on any other bridge for the money pad pool of us for that unexpired fran- cording to litigants a fair and im partial trial, contemptuous of this court. and calculated and intended to obstruct justice.” Fights ‘The advertisement assailed the city council and public officials, mying that the community would not be crippled by their loss, and said that “bricks and steel count for more than gab and wind.” When the Fremont case came up Monday, Judge Jurey granted a con tnuance until May 6. at the com- pany’s request. Caldwell objected and mld he would apply for a writ of mandamus to obtain an immedi Ate hearing, on the ground that the company was attempting to delay action in hope of obtaining favorable action from the public service com: mission and state courts that would relieve them of franchise agree ments, “CARRY ON" IS CITY'S SLOGAN IN BOND DRIVE Seattle was sweeping on Mon- day, not content to stop after reaching first objectives in the Third Liberty Loan drive. For three weeks, the city and the whole state will “carry on,” determined to roll up a mighty over-subscription. Seattle's quota of approximately $12,000,000 was reached Saturday, but officials don’t know yet just lhow far beyond that mark sub scribers went. A corps of assistants | was still busy checking and entering | applications Monday. . The Seattle Can company and em- | ployes turned in $7,060, while the Western Blower company and em- ployes turned in a hundred per cent subscription, totaling $6,100. Em ployes of the Seattle Machine Works | subscribed $6,450, the company added $1,000. The Sumner K. Pres cott employes subscribed $3,500, and) (Continued on page ten) START WORK ON We ELEVATED ROAD |— NEXT FOUR DAYS .|thousand from Wi “THRU? NOT YET!” SAYS — CRIPPLED SOLDIER; KEEPS | FIGHTING HUNS TO FINISH! John N Noble wentover withithe first hundred peg, Man. ecf and hé took his turn in| 1 Germatisg And he did it. d him fighting away in the the hell of whizz-bang ex- blood and» broken men in His job was to August, 1916, mud and the wet plosions that spr their wake. A roar, and an \they carried Pri ing station witha plosion! ‘Then one evening John Noble back to a dress- attered shoulder. For 18 months surgeons and the nurses cared for Private Noble. But jl damage is hard'to repair. were days when his name was posted on the “doubtful lis He couldn't even be gent back home then. It looked as tho he would make the stpreme sacrifice—his life. oe eee | Miracles happen in the war zone. The broken bone and | flesh somehow healed, tho it left a withered arm that will not function. Private Noble, the surgeon said, could go home! He left. His pals waved good-bye. A transport steamed | lacross the Atlantic and brought back the broken body of} this man. oe ee A Star reporter found Noble in Seattle. the British recruit station here. “Well, you've done your bit, Noble,” “You can look the world in the face.” Noble did not reply. He's helping the reporter said. ue Noble spoke slowly, quietly : “The Canadian government will give me land,” he said. “T get a little pension.” “Fine,” said the reporter. “Now you take that money and put it into the little old farm.” “WHO? ME?” The words were fairly hurled at the) reporter. “ME READY FOR A FARM? HELL, |NO! I'M NOT THRU FIGHTING YET.” “Any money I get, I put_in Victory Bonds, Noble] “Any time I have, I put into rec Construction of the city elevated | line to the shipyards will begin this week, Mayor Hanson Monday. “And anyone who hinder construction will be an ob structionist to the war program, in he auld, “because the attempts my opinion,” chief object of rushing construction | congention, | is to relieve the traffic which is hindering ship production.’ Promise that the line will be pleted within six or elght moi barring unexpected delay, hi made by City Engineer Dimock to | Mayor Hanson. ‘A proposal to extend the elevated | from First ave. 8. on Washington | to Third and Fourth aves, with a janding platform at Yesler and a spur on Third ave., will be placed before the city utilities committee this week by Councilman Oliver T. Erickson, announced | to} E have filled our quota in the 3 Third Liberty Loan. But are we thru with our obligation? No, not yet. To fill our quota is the minimum service we can give Uncle Sam. Our goal should be the maximum service. Let us, ili then, double and treble our iI] quota. There} YANKEES HURL |Kaiser’s Shock Troops Fail | to Daunt Fighting Men From America ENEMY SEEKS COVER BY FRED 8, FERGUSON United Press Correspondent | WITH THE AMERICAN ARMTES IN FRANCE, April 14,—American | troops the right bank of the | Meuse (between St. Mihiel and Ver dun) were attacked by picked detach ments from four companies of Ger on mans, following a violent bombard. |ment with high explosive and gas shells, which lasted from midnight | Junttt early this morning The enemy swarmed trenches close behind thelr barrage, just as the Americans burst from the shelters wielding bayonets and hur ing grenades pulsed, leaving 34 dead and 10 wound ed on the American wires. Thirty more dead Germans were counted in No Man's Land A party of Americans, rounded by a superior outside the trenches, fought their way thru the Germans and returned to the American line with prisoners, An unknown number of enemy dead and wounded dragged back to the German trenches. HUNS KEEP UP ATTACK ALONG my force were WITH THE AMERICAN ARM TES IN FRANCE, April 14 (Night. —The Germans are continuing their | attacks on the American outposts in | the sector northwest of Toul. ‘There attacks are a neque) to the vidlent asmults on this sector Fri- day and Saturday in which the en- Nineteen more Germann have been taken in raida by French and Ameri lean troops: | pulsing the Germans in their heavy jassaults on this difficult position. |\U. S. AVIATORS WING TWO FOES IN FIRST DUEL WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES |IN FRANCE, April 14.—Six minutes after the front line signalled German serealngs crossing the American enches this morning, Lieut. A. S iw inslow, of Chicago, and Lieyt Douglas Campbell, of California, had brought down two enemy aviators. One of the German machines was set, afire while the other was undamaged. | Both pilots were made prisoners. Campbell ts beileved to be the first | American aviator trained entirely by Americans to bag an enemy plane. Roth he and Winslow have received the Croix de Guerre. FOCH IS GIVEN | ALLIED HONOR) PARIS, April 15.—The British | and French governments have agreed to confer the title of com- manderin-chief of the allied armies | in France to Gen. Ferdinand Foch. ‘This was announced here today in an | official statement SAUNDERS SLATED TO | Robert C. Saunders, president of | |the Washington State Bar associa tion, will be appointed successor to| District Attorney Clay Allen, | “Heard the Canadian government is going to give each || according to rumors at the Federal | ma of you returned soldiers a piece of land,” the reporter went building Monday Allen expects to leav | day to succeed Judge intoeh. court meth Mack He says that unless his resig | nation ix acted upon by Tuesday in| Washington, he will proffer his res ignation to U. 8. District Judge Jer emiah Neterer, and ask that a suc cessor be appointed immediately | FRIEDA HEMPEL CAN’T | SING IN DES MOINES DES MOINES, Ia,,April 15 ri id Gov jer today for. erman op from at the Col tomorrow night. The singer wen here several days, trying stablish her loyalty to the United States, despite her nationality. News: and local organizations her appearance from the ¢ issued an ¢ eda Hem: papers fought start WASHINGTON MEN IN CANADIAN CASUALTIES OTTAWA, Ont., April 15.—The fol lowing Americans mentined in today’s Canadian casualty list Killed in action L. Bullock Maple Ridge, Mich Died—J. Bunce, Sequim, Wash Wounded—D. B. Kdward, | Townsend, Wash. CHILD DIES IN FIRE SAN FERNANDO, Cal, April 15. A little child was burned to death lin a fire which swept thru part of \the residence section today and de: stroyed five homes. c. Port The Germans were completely re-| AMERICAN LINE |‘ ‘The Americans are re- | | GET ALLEN’S PLACE} -TREPEA TE D ATTACKS 01 " BOCHES OUTOF BROKEN ON BRITISH U.S, DEFENSES (yp DEFENSE IN FLANDERS I /ALL | BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS | United Press Correspondent |__ WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN FRANCE, April 15. front local fighting continued On the Lys battle today for tactically important positions. The tenacity of the British in the half- burned city of Bailleul foiled Hindenburg’s plans. Egli thru to northward of Von Eberhardt attacked Neuve- e more than 10 times, hoping to break Bailleul. He took the city but could not progress beyond. wo ve GERMAN PAPER ADMITS DRIVE | IN WEST HAS NOT SUCCEEDED | |result.”” AMSTERDAM, April 15.—‘ strategic plan has not been accomplished,” \declares the F rankfurter Zeitung. “The bat- nur-|tle apparently does not produce the desired ‘The full ‘TEUTON ATTACKS ARE MORE The first phase of the the British victorious. | | FEEBLE; BRITONS STRONGER Flanders battle is over, with Hindenburg has failed to attain any of his ambitious strategic or } | | Vimy and Arras. [ENEMY TROOPS LONDON, April 15.--Tha Germans have again retaken NeuveHglise. “There was severe fighting all day| | yesterday before Neuve - Eglise,” Field Marshal Halg reported today. “After beating off numerous at- | tacks, we were compelled to with | draw for a second time from the village.” | ‘The Germans have been driven | back with great loss in fierce fight Jing northwest of Merville, Haig re- “In this sector, during the course of the day, tacks were repulsed with loss.” he said. « “Once the enemy advanced in five | waves. | our line we @ counter attack completely restored jie no less than seven at-| heavy | bent slightly back, but} geographical objectives. He has been unable split Haig’s armies and has captured none of the im- — cities for which he was driving—Hazebrouck, Bail- | Aaire, Lillois and Bethune. @rive at Bailleul, on northern edge of the Flanders salient, at St. Venant in the center, at Bethune on the southern edge, for a few days. But the heaviest as- saults are expected to be switched against Ypres itself, or southward against The British positions around Ypres are retarding the Flanders drive, while Vimy ridge and Arras hold up tho Picardy drive, by threatening Hindenburg’s lines of communication. STOPPED AFTER ‘CAPTURE OF ONE SMALL TOWN | “Southwest of Bailleul enemy par- es temporarily penetrated our po- | sitions, but a counter atack restored | our lines. | “On the northern bank of the Lys | canal, hostile infantry attempted to advance, but was caught under our artillery fire and was unable to de velop its attack. | “Successful minor operations east of Robecq last night resulted in the | capture of 150 enemy prisoners and | several maciiine guns. “South of the Somme, in the neighborhood of Hangard-En-San- | terre, in fighting early this morn- ing, we improved our positions and took a number of prisoners, “There was hostile artillery fire last night in the vicinity of Bucquoy { (between Albert and Arras.)” BATTLE TIDE IS TURNING IN FAVOR OF ALLIED WARRIORS BY CARL D. GROAT United Press Correspondent | WASHINGTON, April 15.—“The turning point in the west is being reached The war department's weekly sum- y of operations today voiced | this view, ing that the German field,” and will soon be compelled gain limited objectives: The statement warned, however, that the “Germans have scored a dis- i | Charlie Chaplin Will Don Uncle Sam’s Uniform ANGELF April 16. Chaplin, motion picture n, has been drafted and call for mobilization lS I , \) } Los } Charli com expects about June, it was announced at his studio today. Altho Chaplin ) is an Knglishman, he has waived his rights and expects to wear { Uncle Sam's khaki in a short time, Chaplin is at present tour- ing the country for Liberty bonds. CZERNIN OUT BECAUSE MILITARIST CONTROL | WASHINGTON, April 15 resignation was jregarded today as largely attribut- able to failure of his peace efforts, Count | Czernin's reported | but more to the fact that the militar- | ists now in the saddle were in stronger control. The Austrian peace trickery and | the blundering of her secret diplo matic moves, as exposed in recent days, probably had much to do with his retirement tinct advantage, which it would be | very unwise to endeavor to belittle.” | The summary’s revelations were supported by other official informa+ |tion which indicated the struggle is | likely to be long and bitter, but shows ed that Gen. Foch has his troops so disposed that probably the Germans will make little, if any, more real {fice Tues | has failed “to achieve victory in the! progress. German news reports contained of the King county superior |to go back to old tactics, seeking to| the warning that another war winter may be in prospect—a virtual notice that the Teuton has not achieved his (aims: ;| “FOR GOD'S SAKE, SEND AIRPLANES,” IS PLEA N ATLANTIC PORT, April 15. Send us airplanes, for God's sake, more airplanes,” was the plea of Major Gordon Howe, of the royal flying corps, who arrived here to day | ‘The initial success of the German drive was due almost entirely to the enemy mastery of the air, Maj. Howe | declared. When th ied airmen |got the upper hand, Hindenburg's Progress ceased | KAISER VISITS FRONT TO CHEER HIS TROOPS AMSTERDAM, April 15.—"The kaiser was on the Flanders battle | field, near Lille (18 miles back of the | Present — lines), from Tuesday to | Thursday, according to German pa: |pers received here today, He con: j versed with his soldiers and declared | he was convinced the army is desir: Jous of a decisive victory and @ “strong German Lai Presi- up his baseball April 15 passed at the WASHINGTON, dent Wilson te usual attendance | “opener” here. i War-tim conferences: his attending. prevented