The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 21, 1918, Page 1

4a. | Help for e & we, “Yriendship President Wilson is urs-| [i ing toward Russia. | 7 U.S, ARMY SOON any i Mrs. W. MORE THAN 70,000 PAID COPIES DAILY who proclaimed the theory of And it came to pass that the three wise men of the school board male teachers in high schools should get $300 more than females P. Harper, their associate equal pay for equal service. . met E. Shorrock, (¢ Nathan Eckstein It seemed meet to them that? And they so ordaine: ppened in the year 1818, they paid scant heed to What sa rt The Seattle Sta VOLUME 20. & WIRE SERV! Pi U Russians | Is Urged BY CARL D. GROAT . United Press Correspondent | s SHINGTON, May 21.-+Direct | American aid for Russia—troops, More Red Cross workers or money— | is being urged upon the government | from influential sources today. } Troops, especially the foreign: | Speaking men of this nation, are strongly urged. The problem. taken Up some time ago and rejected as im practicable then, is coming to the fore again Ald in the form of troops would be | given only if Russia were agreeable The American powition is that Rus sla should not be forced to accept anything she does not want, and she | has indicated she would regard as an encroachment any intervention by | Japan. Would Encourage Them ‘The suggestion for Red Cross workers contemplated the infiltra: | Pon of far larger numbers of those than has been undertaken to date ‘Their work naturally would be non-| Military. But their presence, some | Urge, would be a stimulus to Russia | encourage the growing anti-Gee | ism there. | in held that strong financial re- ita would give the Rus a chance to develop the-nselves, their shattered government | ff mt the antiGerman move state department today char- the whole problem as mili. | tary, and'left the impression that the war department was giving serious sideration to some form of help. Members of congress who have Vudied Russian affairs were enthusi- le at the “direct action” policy of TO EQUAL HAIG TROOPS IN SIZE WASHINGTON, America’s first field army—ap- ‘imately 200,000 men—bas proxi been formed in France. It is understood to consist of two army corps of three divi- each, with Col. A. W. Bjornstad as chief of staff. Maj. ‘| Gen. Hunter Liggett is under. | stood to command one of the | army corps. Army officers here, however, be Neve that Liggett, being senior, will command the field army, and Mal Gen. Chas. T. Meobr, who has been| commander of the Rainbow division, | iit demand one of the army corps. | Both field and corps commanders are expected to receive the rank of| Neutenant general by act of congress when Pershing makes his recom. mendations. ‘The American divisions, of which nderatood, there will be three rps. consist of 30,000 men. In| addition, however, each corps has some 10,000 corps troops” —heavy artillery and signal battalions, field) artillery, cavalry and pioneer regi ments and aero squadrons aking approximately 100,000 each corps the British army is greatly xt two or three winforced in the tha, it is likely that by August 1,"the number of United ates France will close ap size of Halg’s forces now | ermans, | ling revelation of i-| des being made by this putting men on the fir ame today from authori len. | ing lin tative PEACE, FAMINE AND CHOLERA AFFLICTING | STRUGGLING RUSSIA) WASHINGTON, May 21.—Peace| negotiations between Russia and the | Ukraine are probably well under Jepartment advices dat said today that the Rus tion was leaving at that to open the negotia ted in Petro said to be other parts of Ruswia reported in sections of the Chip ve fy ane ean 1 U, S. Asks Germany or a Conference on War Prisoners May 21.—The an asked Ger nish Berlin em . would agree to a confer Mee between German and American delegations in Spain, on the question Of treatment of war prisoners. ASSOCIATION ES WIN ON OU would not let a child cry its little heart out if you could help it. You are human. You would pick it up. You would comfort it. You would give it a nickel or a dime, if you are a man. If you are a woman, you would mother it, hug it, cuddle it close to your breast. You would want to dry its tears. You would want to see it smile. But who is there to mother the hun- dreds of thousands of orphans in devas- tated Belgium, northern France and Serbia? Who, but the Red Cross, the greatest mother of all? They are calling to you—these count- less waifs. Their fathers have been shot down, their mothers outraged and mur- dered. Orphaned, they have been left to die. They are calling you to save them. They are calling on you to strengthen the The Red Cross is calling. ANSWER. hand of the only mother many of them know. The Red Cross has snatched thousands of them from the very jaws of death. It took them from bombarded territory to safety and shelter, it nestled them close to its great humanitarian heart, it dried their tears, it gave them the chance for life and education to which every child is entitled. This work must go on every day. Don’t you want to be in on it? 1818 It | Macedonia. | ment east of 1918? NIGHT EDITION | Tonignt and wind! Impossible! was Weather Forecast Wednesday, sir, moderate westerly — PRICE ONE CENT [Y*gypats LONDON, May 21.— all fronts, according to the night official reports. cessful coups were made by allied troops in Picardy, in southern France, on the Italian front French troops attacked east and northeast of on the northern portion of the Flanders front, and gi all their objectives last night on a front of nearly miles, Marshal Haig reported. Th won a minor engage-| “MOTHER AND 2 CHILDREN ARE. FOUND KILLE , May 21.—All of Ore gon and Washington within & 200-mile radius was being comb- British betw Hebuterne Arras and Albert Enter detac un Lines French nis penetrated | the German and »# 4 lines north of Rheims, the French war of. ® On the Albanian front, in . Macedonia, French and Italian | % ‘etary for an old-siyie Tia troops, in a threeday action, machine and its driver, whe is believed to be the murderer of woman and her two children shot in cold blood while they” drove back the Bulgarians on a wide front west of Koritza, ad- vancing their positions 124% miles. This is the most import ant advance on this front in slept. more than a year. The woman, aged about 35, | The German war office ciaimed| about 13 and a boy of 11, were | that the French assaults near Mont|in a tent along the Pacific higl |Kemmel “broke down with heavy! 1. 4 small boy from a near-by lonnes.” ‘The fighting on the Italian ‘front,| The tliree had been dead for 48 hours. according to the Austrian war of I fice, resulted favorably to the Aus trians. TEACHERS LOSE about 140 pounds. The authorities presume the. JOB AT W |was husband and father and 8 § his family following a quarrel, * ; ling, however, until they fell Dr. Frederick W Dr.| He removed all identification m Conrad A. Tressman, and Instructor | and fled Hans H. Hoff, all members of the| One arrest was made today. BR department of German Uni-} tf, Studebaker was informs aie Iman dr a Dodge car was ai ed at American lake by military 9 The sheriff believes the muir \ Pencilea records indicated ee had motored 132 miles Wednesday, Thursday and but had not traveled on 8 People along the highway having seen the party ‘and 4 ; machine as an old-style The man who was driving, they. was short and stocky, Meisnest, at the faculty roll and} 14 versity of Washington, bh dropped from the will not be reinstated, according to|derer escaped in a Ford from Dr. Henry Suzzallo, president of the | spot near the Pacific highway, whi University ! the three were found shot ‘The resignations of the three Ger-| —— man professors were asked by the| Seattle police and King cow board of regents following investiga-| deputy sheriffs are on the Ki tion which showed that the and| murder case trial, following 4 for German had decreas per|ery of a medicine bottle containl a prescription filled by a Snoqu mie druggist, and a supply of 8 tle groce in the The name “Q' cent, calling for a cut in the German faculty, Dr. Suzzallo says “Only those of unquestioned sym. pathies” can be retained on the Uni versity of Washington faculty, Dr. tle, but Di Suzzallo stated, in talking of the resignations While the question | remember the customer. Police havg in their ry transac of loyalty did not enter tly into} the resignations, the men for whom | there was the least demand were nowever, are lropped.” nclusion that the Dr ost was removed as head pm Seattle, and residents here, se yh nt ewe rect FRENCH CAPTURE | roan pein Amer =| 500 GERMANS IN __— _| BRILLIANT DASH WITH THE ALLIED WILSON NOMINATES = jax“ ttanps HED MARCH AS GENERAL stacking ARMIES |” French border WASHI fON, May 21.—Presi » Hospice, dent Wilson sent to the senate | wood south of Brule yton | roads nearby, and several farms, ads ral. vancing their line some distance te other nominations { ded the of Hill 44 » be general by brevet—Gen. Tas-| ‘The 500 unwounded prisons ker H. Bliss (major general, retired, | ers. » French casualties hief of staff. tlight MADE YOUR DONATION YET?_ WHOLE CITY IS RESPONDING | | wages to the cause, while wealth. ier citizens in many cases pledg- ed a portion of their income to be paid every month, Reports on the second day's results were to be checked at the noon luncheon at the Arena, which is open to the public. eee has subscribed its iy desire to do nd gladly. Wash quota yhan has also reported \ (Continued on Page Four.) | RIGHT FROM RUSSIA! Zenith Ven Svare, nAmerican journalist, just returned it jon-torn cour ly for The ditions, and interp most recent personal knowle Russian view of