The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 18, 1918, Page 1

NOS AMIS Sammie. Now, Nos Amis is French for OUR FRIENDS Gibraltar, If this means that the rest of the world shall finally call America’s soldiers Nos Amis, can be most proud of, MORE THAN 70,000 PAID COPIES DAILY THE GREATE. ST DAILY WIRE SERVICE ASSOCIATIONS BE ATTLE, Here is one of the finest things to come out of the war so far. War Secretary B er, caught its full meaning, and tells it smilingly, but with tears in his eyes. We call our soldiers Sammies. When our soldiers began to arrive in France, the French people, hearing the expression Sammies, at once decided that we were trying to say Nos Amis, but rendered it and we are beginning to learn that when the French people announce friendships it will, in all seriousness, Imagine a nation whose soldiers will be universally known as bed RI RIE NDS! The Seattle Star CIRCUL ATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIF. IC NORTHWE. ST WASH, SAT Baker told about it in Cleveland recently. The French call them Nos Amis tie h be one of the finest things tl Shall we live up to the mark Nos Amis have at can come out of set for us? Baker, the intellectual, the student, the dream- pronounced nozamee, friendships are as lasting as the Rock of the war, and a thing we NIGHT EDITION Weather Poree IRDAY, MAY 18, 1918. | 170 U.S. ‘WAR we i. IN VAST | BLOWUP PITTSBURG, May 18.— More than 500 war workers were killed] or injured today, when a} terrific blast of TNT|2 wrecked the is of the} ‘PLAN BOYCOTT / Chemical Co., at} Aetna Chemical Co., a T0 CURB HUNS’ You did that a year ago, too, when the first of our volun- teers marched away; when the 18th Engineers, largely re- cruited here, went to France; when our National Guard men left; when the select service men paraded. You cheered and you promised to stand by them thru thick and thin. You know you did. You remember how the lump rose in your throat; how |INFANTRY DOES LITTLE DURING LULL OF BATTLE Oakdale, near here. LONDON,” May 38-—"There was : . ’ derable mutual artillery fight f Casualty figures at} CRUEL ACTIONS Givenchy ahd ‘Rodeos { 1:30 p. m. placed the Field Marshal Haig re | d I i Seattle mothers today launch ws ; : ee Mead at 170 and the 1n-| eds nation-wide none: fe HOEY, MOC MIOYS ‘The spirit militant and the boycott “madein prouck and Ypres al radiated from col jured at more than 400.) tictes'tor 20 years it 2 Idier made prisoner by the umns dy fighting men ane | ‘ % P| Somer te maglerensed. oon rifi ymen who appealed Beyond the fact pat A) enemy is maltreated contrary to WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES| [37 UChs wollen eireny large quantity of Trinitro- the usages of war. sic ete Seah dna 11.>-chaaee'—Ainle |S icon te sisse aed cal or ae toluol blew up, nothing was} The women intend to |) American official communique, is)| Red Cross. r _, {sands of signatures known of the explosion or its | pieage, which cause. Officials said that an | >< Germ jmued at 9 ¢ A wartime down First « ond avenue, pageant moved enue and up See between sidewalks inquiry will be launched im-)** aaa packed with humantiy. ft was mediately but that there was |“, © mised 1901 dtinot ave the opening call for community n the ser ted response to the war fund drive little hope of learning much) who h about the blast. the movement here, Judge Thomas Violent artillery * a 7 urke is co-operating with her in o PE fin Meiers ‘ The main building and sur-| janine 2 Yel ee IU ARADE IN FILMS 4 by the French ; ; rounding structures were| Pledges, for signatures, will be] yee today ‘ sea raped 3 wean? completely wrecked and their| widely distrinuied next week German raids failed near Mas junday at the Liberty pledge fc alg ur de Paria.” debris was rapidly being con-| wome aclematy | Meee ee Oe : re parade, Saturday noon sumed by fire that followed | jieage oursely \ ONE VETY FAY FORMER and other news happenings of the blast an hour after it oc If, during th in war, any 100 HUN PLANES the week will be included. ‘ .; American soldie I be made ie ici tiwer ieverueiy weated wnite in DOWNED BY ALLY x———————_—- i Vveral surrounding OWNS | the hands ‘of the enemies an: of the “Mother jumanity,”” were rocked by the explosion. | wine maltreated contrary to the us CRAFT IN ITALY which begins Monday and lasts 5 — ages of we will not mow, nor ROME, May 18.—The allies in the seven days. TRE PALA LAY LON NERO | tor a ge n after the élose of |last 30 days have ‘oyed more| Units, in thelr order of marching y (| this w bu article made in| than a hundred enemy airplanes on Col Allen and TELEGRAPHERS:’ | ;. or that comes f Ger an front, it was officially infantry and band from | AG DAY IS ON 1 the sworn statement of | a ced : i", b coast artit| { rican prisoner 9 “un DAVS PAY FOR MERCY ‘ ound forta, Fort Lawton . Telegraphers' tag day began } such cruelty or maitreat ambulance and truck equipment Saturday, under official auspicer. )| ment oF was a witness thereof shall 2,000 PLANES IN YEAR [inven trom naval training station or Hans tarted the fund )| he gufficient evidence of its trutt BUFFALO, N, ¥., May 18.--Dur-| 14th U infantry, reserve offi uppor my the ked-out 48K DAY'S PAY FOR MERCY ing the first year of the war up to corps from lt Naval band workers of the teleg om pe. CHICAGO, © Ma 18 Chicago | April l, the Curtiss Aeroplane and | from Bremerton, I band sree ith '& cash Half }) aunched its $6,000,000 ed Cross, Motors Corporation made and deliv. | Red Cross surgical ¢ division of the fund ra was to be with parades | ered 2,209 airplanes, according to the | Adams’ band, knitti inion, Wag {| fund campaign today 4 Gonated by the rapbers tO )lang pageants in which 60,000 per-'report of the company made public|ner’s band, sewing oy 1 he seadlik AN conde RR $lsons, mowtly women, took part. today. | Scouts, and autos carrying Red Cross ivision. " EET READY F IRKERS KILLED You cheered the boys in khaki and in navy blue when they marched by today. You waved your handkerchief. You applauded. | wrormors ws nable te 1 mold loft, president litia, and officers of th of the organization, "We will al)| WASHINGTON, D. ©. May 18.—| corps and enlisted men of th ways ull that we can, And) Closer check on all retail dealers will] ed reserve corps, while in please credit the boys, They start-jbe kept by Fe Administrator | se and are putting it thru He lows an ay . priat which 1 ght re food ad ‘ must |atives, Hoover believes, would s proud you were of our boys, proud of their enthusiasm, their sturdy step, their confidence in their ability to get the kaiser. You remember how you told yourself that these boys from Ballard, Green Lake, the University district, Capitol hill, Queen Anne, South Park—the boys who put their lives up on the altar of Liberty—are entitled to every bit of help we at home can give them from the sidelines. You promised yourself, in that exalted moment, to do your share. Today, the Red Cross calls on you to keep that promise. Be true to your own conscience. Answer the call. PAGEANT CALLS FOR RED CROSS toro |WORLD REVOLT PLAN OF F. W. W. SHOWN IN TRIAL OF NEW DRAFT CHICAC Baldiz DRIVE SUPPORT =.) SET FOR JUNE 5 King county who have become America 21 years of age since June 5, 1917, or who will be 21 by mid- night, dune 4, 1918, must regis- ter for select draft service in Se attle on dune 5 joining the I. W Twenty-five thousand dollars with w is the amount pledged by ‘the workmen of the Skinner & Eddy plant to the Red Cross war fund drive. Representing every unit, mem: gover Claude R Orders to proce nd Sailors’ Relief Fund f the yard, will co * pay each to th arian enterprise me ONE DAYS PAY POR MERCY DYNAMITE NEAR FRISCO PARADE tANCISCO, May 18 f dynamite found on “1 to & search Su fact that the two blocks from Red Cros The law so as tor as they become 21 i ident W s hands already from nonth tration places on June 5 for their tration in advance ay le ; n was mroused by th dyna was found only of march of the ‘ Included mite the parade ONE DAY'S PAY FOR MERCY— TO SAVE CONSUMERS FIVE MILLION A YEAR y exceptions are per tary or naval United States and enlisted me Jarmy, the navy, the ma the National Guard and Cahill, of the with ‘of each the address and phone board. up to{ consumers many times $5,000,000 in reduced prices each month minder that it is (Continued on Page Seven) -RICE REGISTRATION with war service » received at head apply to men | in Pres: | It will be up to men to get to their proper regis or arrange | as penalties exact vice of the active} shot down number If uncertain what ONE CENT Eyegzbere R ACTION IN PITTSBURG BG SEA ATTACK IS PLA BY CARL D. GROAT United Press Correspondent WASHINGTON, Ma 18.—Von Hindenbur; trying to impress his will jlords and force them to jsend out the high seas fleet so that his land operations may be a success, according \to ‘the navy department's best information. He succeeded in compelling the mobilization/of the bulk of the % under full steam in its Kiel base, navy's information tends to in he has the whip hand and will some more desperate action from the fleet unjess the allied sea bea strike first. Hindenburg’s theory, according |the officials, is that, | were to take the channel ports land, a German victory would be impossible | was intact while American naval officers believe confidently that if the German army | master wins in his contention, he will ” nly sacrifice Germany navy lives, With the United aps Japan, in on ould be unable nte, it was said. PAY FOR MERCY— — Hf WE LONG FOR PEACE,” SAYS —ONE DAY AMSTERDAM, May 18,— to believe we will reach peace |this year,” Count Von Hert~ jling, the German chancellor, declared in an_ interview granted the Budapest news- |paper Azest. | “I am firmly confident the events on the West front will bring nearer the speedy end of the war. We only want a place in the sum d Austria are entitled e their actions, Emperor ror Karl discus» > ideas of the allf- will be made later, ment is not aggressive, me day would unite tional peace league, Gere uestionably would join ite nt conditions give litte We are fight- », and for the which we are longing.” DAY'S PAY FOR MERCY— gue. |CALLAGHAN IS SENTENCED TO PRISON TERM James J Callaghan, former King commissioner, must wo and one-half to 18 years in the state penitentiary, Sue perior Judge Frater ruled Saturday S/morning. Callaghan was found guilty of defrauding the county thru ‘) the issuance of fictitious charity on j de appeared nervow |prior to his ence in the court. room, and pa the hall outside for an hour or more before his case was j called —ONE DAY'S PAY FOR MERCY— GERMAN ATTACK ON YANKS FAILS WITH THE AMERICANS IN |PICARDY, May 18—Tt ans s,/attempted a raid on American posi-+ | tions ne Montdidier last night. »| They were repulsed with losses. Two boche sausage balloons were in the clear moonlight, | Airplanes on both sides were busy in attle loeal veport for issued Suture y one DAY'S PAY FOR MERCY the rest of the German war even tho Britan’s fleet VON HERTLING “I am still optimistic enough