The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 4, 1918, Page 1

MORE THAN 70,000 PAID COPIES DAILY FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS VOLUME 20 Your Last Chance to Play Square With the United States—Buy That Bond Toda | The Seattle Sta THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCL ATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST NIGHT EDITION fair; winds Weather Forecast! Sunday, SEATTLE, WASH,, SATU RDAY, MAY 4, 1918. Everwhere PRIC E ONE CENT sn "Rtatte -YANKS ickesiais Baker in “Tin” Headpiece | Convicted | _ of Grafting | | ia “We are positive that James J. | | laghan and Lester Gandolfo were not the so only men involved in the big steals that have! ' been made from the county charity fund,” | Chief Deputy Prosecutor Helsell said Satur-| day morning. “Our investigations are going forward on) that assumption, as soon as conclusive evidence is further prosecutions will be made.” Public Welfare Commissioner Callaghan was found guilty of graft by a jury in Judge Frater’s court at 5 5 o’clock Friday after- atin ~~, Noon. {BREVITIES! susee3t ‘| ROM THE WAR WIRE we are going to get there.” A verdict returned by the cA L 150 VOLUNTEERS IR SPECIAL TRAINING) | Jury after deliberating over the mass of evidence for just 47 minutes, Two tatlots were taken, the first stand nov a to 1 for conviction. The sec ul us. WASHINGTON, May 4—-The pro- vost marshal general today issued a call for 150 men of grammar school education from the specialist volun teer class of Colorado. They will be bres John ¥, Dore for the de- fense immediately gave notice of ap- peal to the supreme court. Took Five Days Five days were required for the presentation of testimony in the case, and a mass of exhibits were en: | tered in evidence which fill aimont | an entire vault. Most of them are | UP orders and records said to have| he wore during his inspection of thé sent to the Colorado college, at Colo-| UCre 20, Te taghan in his ma | be wate aoe rado Springs, for a two cnonths' | P ulation of the charity funds. pret Of weaining 1° Callaghan mat as a man ina “WILSON SON ORDERS This picture o Secretary of War! Baker was xoapped in the trenches | front. It shows {wae brought in. The members of USE OF WAR MONEY |* nm || WASHINGTON, May 4.—Investi STILL ON J0B WOULD INVESTIGATE | Friday afternoon when the verdict gation of the use made of all war ap-| | James J. Callaghan is still propriations by the war department| | King county welfare commis | | CRAFT EXPENSE: was demanded today by Senator Gal- sioner, despite his conviction linger, of New Hampshire. Friday. No request for his ren- Gallinger introduced a resolution) | ignation or order for his dis BY ROBERT J. BENDER authorizing the committee on expen-| | charge wax made by the county United Press Correspondent ditures in tne war department to| | commissioners on Saturday. He | | tes make the inquiry, and giving it foull/ | has remained on the payroll WASHINGTON, May 4—Pres- jer to summon witnesses. | | pending his trial, and evidently |, ident Wilson has decided to tear | | will be retained on the payroll | the lid off «smouldering suspicion ROME REPORTS ACTION = ztine, ns appeal | The county commissioners are 3 AGAINST CHURCH MAN) Clave Ramana chairman He has determined upon a military Christ Knudsen and Lou Smith. | | probe of the charges that leading| ROME, May 4.—The Osservatore | | | military men and civilians have Romano officially declares that the | 5¢-— ee Te Tr %| profited in expending the $840, | 000,000 appropriation for the work. The president has instructed Bee- retary aker will—to open up the investigath with the ends in view of: Papal nuncio at Vienna has initiated | 11, ¢amily were in the courtroom ecclesiastical proceedings against | ji Gon gergt. William Callaghan Monsignor Geglic, at ie te cope” was present in the uniform of the because he is alleged to be favorab! tillery service toward Italy nest Callaghan was or n Coast Indictment aga ce suddenly returned January 19. He/| Court-martialing any American of ax charged jointly with Lester|ficer found guilty of criminal work CADET AIRMAN KILLED ni age cb ve : grote, Gan. | in the aircraft production program IN FLIGHT ACCIDENT dolfo appeared as chief witness for| Grand jury prosecution of any civ SAN DIEGO, May 4.—Cadet Avi-| the state in the trial ian guilty of erimi: misapplica ator Nicholas Healy was killed and Defense Was Denial reir e co hatevinlie tise testi oe Cadet Emmett E. Oaniey Injured According to his testimony. 8TO-| «irresponsible reports” regarding the Inte yesterday, when their army|cerien were billed to forged names.|aitcratt program, with the nject I th near La Jolla was injured plane crashed t Cadet Byron and big bills of groceries were sent view of me James Wood, editor of the Town those guilt ng out punishment disseminating any when the plane he was piloting over| Crier, and paid for with county “hava Camp Kearney fell on the fi leharity orders The president's purposes are -two Wood, on the stand dgclared he) toi First, he wants to see that TAKE FIRST STEP IN paid cash for the groceries. Gan-| any betrayal of government trust is dolfo also testified Callaghan bought punished and, nd, he wants to 3 4 in the same Included with the listlarmy and patriotic civilians who} BELFAST, May 4.—The Ulster | yao, “turkey - PRO CIEE comaiaerany Section’ unionists’ council meeting. requested \iottnewn and be protected against irrespon by Sir Edward Carson, is regarded | ie eat or of the Post.intell tay (he. 59 as the first step in the campaign to : . hte RS | fight home rule. 8 defense was & general insets tho he admitted forging | names in order to help needy fami {WILSON SAVES GERMANS SAY HOLLAND jie), “amounts tn excess of the lar allotment ‘for humanity's } FOUR SOLDIERS DISPUTE IS SETTLED * sake THE HAGUE, May 4—A German! Deputy Prowecuting Attorney 8 ie FACING DEATH news agency declares the entire Ger” 14 Brackett and Frank Helsell con: | An é man-Holland affair has been settled) ated the prosecution. Judge Wil WASHING TON, M “satisfactorily to both parties.” GERMAN LONG-DISTANCE liam Bell and John F. Dore appeared for the defense four American soldiers abroad sen tenced to death for sleeping at Caltlagh e to ttle in 1892] post, and disobedience of orders, GUN SMASHED BY SHELL! ‘= © where he had been will not die for their offenses, | prominent in politica since 1883. He| President Wilson ruled today. J 4 PARIS, May 4 Paria newspapers |has served two terms in the lower veanital : “ The youn o ae four but on have received information from the !house of the California legisiative | ¢7he Your tof the fourm bu y front that a lucky shot hit one bid the | body. and s harbor commissioner of Two of the soldiers were granted y \ “Spiga tly sti ggediing: 7 Pn ne: full and unconditional pardon, and : In Seattle, he became business the » ar ae, yg ra ge oie 24 4 the en of thi a AVIATOR MAKING LONG manager for’. sartori & Co. real | fontirmed, bit commuted to. thren 4 seuets) fos ‘his arrival... Later: be ra of ‘penal servitude at Fort 4 DISTANCE LOAN FLIGHT | ieriimed the management of xeveral | | ervenworth a HARRISBURG, ry May 4 business blocks During 1903 he Privates F est B. bastian and r i Taput brges Vianchalre ari served as special investigator for the tere Cook were pardoned, and Pri , j 6 at 11:46 a. m. on his New York-| prosecuting attorney's office, and| yates Olan Ledoven and Stanley G i tisburg Liberty Loan flight was appointed later as a deputy | iishback will be sent to Leaven- . county auditor, At different times | worth BRITISH LOSE 36,262 he seryed ax King county member of |” 1n view of their extreme youth y : the republican state central commit: | tas’ dae’ ache thelr’ beneaee 4 + MEN DURING PAST WEEK tec. ana ax secretary of the Seattle | seem wholly free from disloyalty and : republican cent committer conscious disr ard of duty the e LONDON, May 4 Britieh casual op hl ties during the past week totaled 26,| His conviction on the grand lar-| president » his ruling for Sebas 242. according to official ists made eeny charge makes him lable for & | HO nat snentioned which Eebiic today casualties Were | sentence of from one to 16 years At) o6 ne our soldiers slept at their a as follows K Officers iad in Walla : 1g Ae 4 6 ‘ 60 Wound the state penitentiary posts, this statement leads to th paling Mi ui lief that Sebastian and Cook were 1.492, men, 26.994, Missing | Walla. i “ $41; nen, 6,799, Callaghan is 67 years old, guilty of the lesser offense, : PIERCE. THIRD LIN | CALLAGHAN: GUILTY: MAY PROSECUTE OTH AMERICA GOES OVER THE TOP FOR 3RD LOAN Finish the Job, Lundin J. CALLAGHAN, charity commis- pS SNe ee sioner, convicted of | |) sacs! Mma” “tm grafting, is not the only Yan one guilty. This is ob- ly today. vious. It is plain that if Callaghan Minimum Quota at Noon Today WORKERS STILL BUSY incomplete returns showed that the loan was oversubscribed at that hour by $6,000,000 and vast sums more | are expected to be reported today. There wax strong hope that the | final figures will show $5,000,000,000 an oversubscription of 60 per cent Between 15,000,000 and 18,000,000 misused county charity funds _ fff»! »-« mse sumcriptions Reports from every section of the to make country told of great numbers of gifts to friends, SOME of those friends may have had guilty knowledge of the graft operations. subscriptions flooding in at the elev enth bour, campaign been waged as that which went on thruout the land today. Last Minute rumors that the time of the campaign might be extended were said by lo&n officials to savor of en emy . seeking, rn ene Crooks who fatten at the Fuh tacar Oven WEL clown promptly at midnight, it was official- ly announced. \UNFURL SEATTLE |FLAG OF HONOR AT NOON TODAY Seattle sped down the home stretch of the Third Liberty Lean campaign Saturday, with more than 21 per cent over her minimum quote. At noon a total of 70,249 sub- scriptions, aggregating $13,883, 750, were recorded. This means that 7,453 subscribers answered _ the call during the last 24 hours, signing up for total loans of $722,330, Seattie’s minimum quo ta is $11,420,000. Seattle's flag of honor, presented by the United Staten treasury depart ment, waved in front of Liberty joan headquarters, in the Central building, at noon today expense of widows and or- phans, at the ex of feeble and needy, do not de- serve any pity. Neither their social or po- litical positions shall spare them. They have cost King county, thru their baneful po- litical chicanery and crooked- ness, even more than the money graft they operated. Seattle 21 Per Cent Past! Never before has such a | ‘'Sammies Rout Foe BY HENRY WOOD United Presa Correspondent WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES IN THE: FIELD, May 4.—American infantry Fri |penetrated to the German third line \trenches in the region of Dogs’ Wood, Lor= |raine sector. : Three hundred American infantrymen — tin this attack conducted their first operation — 4 with exclusively American artillery suppor after intense preparation by these batt The French official note which the action said the American gunners played perfect mastery of French | ARTILLERY Battle | pages ON NO ‘LINES RUNS Bl Lineup LINE; Today) peed an epphaes: me er | practically the entire northern | The Germans began a heavy bom- of the Flanders battle front this morning, Field Marshal” reported today. bardment on two distinct sectors in| ,, * Flanders early today, apparently pre- | “The enemy opened an ini paratory to simultaneous drives bombardment early this against Hazebrouck and Ypres. from the neighborhood of Loere The area of the cannonading indi- | ” Gatés that should the attack develop, | 2°UNward Of Fores.” the | it will be a frontal sweep westward | d against Hazebrouck, and a flanking | “The enemy artillery is thrust northward to encircle Ypres| activity from the Nieppe forest | from the west. the Meteren sector. The sector under bombardment! The French took several | before Hazebrouck is a seven-mile/in a successful attack near front from the Nieppe forest north-| We tmproved our positions | ward to Meteren Hazebrouck is/ northeast of Hinges (three slightly more than four miles west’ north of Bethune) in a local of the line where it passes west of! jast night, capturing two Vieux Berquin. The latter town is! guns.” about midway between the forest | é : The banner and Meteren, Prosecuting Attorney Lun- which testifies that the city has over:| Most of the terrain between the FRENCH HONOR ‘ " |subscribed ftWequota for the third | present line and Hazebrouck is ex : i and his is' ts have | war loan wa# unfurled at 1215, tremely low, especially along the| UNITED PRESS din assistan | with speeches and patriotic demon: | Plate Beoque river. E. iP N, NT ’ io oll cleat |strations oe | CORRES. 0: DE. : only begun the jobD oF c jeaning Seventy-two thousand Liberty Sesks Chain of Hills | PARIS, May -Henry We A fi bond owners in Seattle have a share! The only heights of any impor-| United Press ccceinontiall with th Th - in the flag tance are Kate hill and Monte de up is mess. ey must fin. EEE |Merris. both Just south of Meteren, | British armies in the field, was deg 7 A sailor bugler called the waiting crowds to attention. |} Following unfurling of the flag Dr. Henry Suzzallo, chairman of the state council of defense, made an ad dress of dedication The unfurling of the honor flag is expected to speed up attle contri butions for the last y of the cam paign Seattle's flag of honor, by the United ish it. Let the chips fall where presented tes treasury depart “TWO DIEINO-W. HUNS IN PRISON (Continued on page 10) \ TELEGRAPHERS SEND WARNING ‘Two men were killed and a | trainioad of Seattle passengers narrowly escaped death and in- ATLANTA tempt May 4 wholesale delivery Ga at fo Fort: McPherson in ter Germans at jury when Oregon-Washington — was foiled late Friday, when guards train No, 563, familiarly known | discovered a 50-foot tunnel from a OF SPIES HERE as the Owl, was mysteriously de- | barracks toward the barbed wire Secretary of War Baker was pas Died,’ sive | Marine divas ad leila warned of the danger of espion- railed at Thomas Spur, nee inclosing the camp, it became age in telegraph offices in Seat. miles west of Kent, at midnight | known today tle, and urged to take over oper. Friday Guards had noticed groups of pris-| ation of wires pending settle Seattle at 11:15 | ONPTH enkaKed in discussion. A fight| ment of the telegraphers' lock The train left Seattle a ; | was precipitated, blows were ex-| out, in a telegram sent by. In- Friday night, and a short time | changed, and guards were compelled — ternational Vice President J. F. after, a vague report of the to advance with fixed bayonets be Commercial wreck was wired in from Thom fore the bunch of angry Teutons Saturday. as Spur. The engine and tender | would disperse pro-Germans are -reading had left the track, and dashed When the disorder had quieted wages,” Ci wired to the bottom of # 10-foot em- | down, a systematic search of the! He pointed out men were| bankment, The mail and bag risoners’ quarters was begun, lead-| gaining access to wires indis. gage cars also left the trac ing to the discovery of the under-| criminately, following the lockout of ground tunnel Several prisoners charged with be ing leaders have placed in The passenger cars remained the rails, and none of the pas sengers were injured. 200 ployes am Western who Union and Postal em ed the union. William Elliott, of 6312 38th ave, | finement to be dangerous. pro-Germans S. W,, engineer, and Roy Crane, fire mentioned in the messag man, were the men killed. Both were Campbell suggested that the sig caught under the heavy engine when nal corps take over operation of the ‘FIGHTING GROWS orated, Thursday, as chevalier of Legion of Honor, in recognition his work on the French front di the past 20 months ‘The cross was bestowed at Finale general headquarters, with the trae ditional ceremony, by a major gen The other bombardment area ex tends from Locre eastward to a point south of Ypres, a front of about six miles, Here the Germans, in pre vious assaults, have swept north: | ward beyond the nest of hills, with the exception of Scherpenberg, which Hes just north of Locre. ‘eral of the French staff. Theghonor This point, strongly defended by | was conferred by the French governs” the French, has barred enemy prog-| ment at the request of Gen. Petain, ress in this direction several times. pe i The British hold the strong strate: | |gic point of Voormezeele and Dicke bush. Ypres is more than two miles north the farthest German ad. | vance hei Between the two bom barded sectors is a stretch of four miles, back of which are the strongly defended heights of Monts Rouge, Henry Wood's home is in Omaha, and his first newspaper experience was on the Omaha Daily News. Lat er he worked on several Ohio He has been with the United about 10 years. He was in charge the Rome bureau of the United at the time of the death of Pope P | X., and scored a famous beat en enburg has thus selected the! event He was afterward atively easier offensive areas | of the Paris bureau, and has been in case his infantry follows up the! the field with the artillery preparation nees of late, ho ans have bombar prely to screen only one of them the tacties he in French armies In several in j about two years. rs the Ger-| ‘The Legion of Honor is an order of or more! merit, created by Napoleon Bona — n attack On| parte in 1802, as a reward for civil This may well be| or military service It has five is pursuing today. | classes, Including the chevalier. ALLIED LEADER ‘SAMMIES TAKE OPTIMISTIC ON | HUN PRISONERS BATTLE RESULT | ON AMIENS LINE BY LOWELL MELLETT BY FRED §, FER United Press € deveapecile nt United Press Correspo' PARIS, May 4.—The inter-allied WITH THE AMERICAS council, whic oN THE F H neil, which has! iRoNT, May 3.--The Americans been in session at Versailles for two) yave captured their first prisoners was in full agreement on all! on the big battle front. Two boches military questions and the results to|in machine gun positions were SUE.” BATTLE supreme war days on it overturned, Both are Seattle men. wires, Ante wees cunaite satisfactory, it| Prised and overpowered by & patrols — Hiliott owned a home here. Crane The 200 men who were locked out| was officially announced today, — and another was captured in a shell lived at a local he began to devote their spare tim woah Aieite. An hole. Roth engineer and fireman were T urday to selling War Savings toa” ene ae tae ee 10 | eaentriation by - ineelilanl of: still buried under the wrecked en Stamps, They repeated their will-| St) we Sin Me eae ficers revealed there had been no ime gine Saturday, A wrecking train), VIENNA, via London, May 3.—/ingness to fill their posts at any | “O08 te SP perros Shah eer ey | portant change in the German order from Seattle was dispatched to the) The fighting Increased to consider: | time, and that no violence woult be| premier Lloyd George, Pi p N |of battle, ‘The prisoners belonged to giana: arciving about 448 & 1 able violence on the Italian front, he { D4 \ . sae Bega da la replacement regiment. The caune of the accident Is still al tween the Giudicarta valley and the non-union telegraphers| wae Sy bhies oe ing |" Minor patrol encounters have oo myatery. Whether it was due to the| Adriatic sea, Thursday, it was offi w left by men locked’ out] 2 fe’ boning and Petain: Admis os curred during the past couple of ing of the rails or the rails had | lally announced today sa Saturday morning from | Wemyss and De Bon, and War Sec. | Nehts. ‘The American. front lines n tampered with has not been de Portland siecncadgngd ill Bee Seo''have been under heavy intermittent | termined FRENCH REPULSE ENEMY, ac a meeting of the tockedout) Pur’ apenas dare thoes con | mbardment by shrapnel, while the Approximately passengers * ut the Labor temple, | miter ' rear areas have been heavily spray: eee train, Anew train was) ON LINE NEAR RHEIMS at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, ;@dered. “ ed with gas shells, » perfected for hursday 60 probi holding a evening. A be held 4—"Hnemy attempts de Courey sector and| t of Rheims were! office announced. | made up of additional coaches and PARIS, May plans we an engine dispatched from Seattle at, in the Cavalli 5 #, m. Saturday, which conveyed the | north and northw passengers to Portland. repulsed,” the wi \ The weather has cleared and it f@ | warm and sunshiny. Ante x the THIRD Lin) : guns are busy firing at G | Invest in | ERTY LOAN planes,