The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 23, 1918, Page 1

MORE ruL UNIT EV OLUME 20 4 70,000 PAID COPIES DAILY THAN The Seattle THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE Sta PACIFIC NORTHWEST NIGHT EDITION Weather Forecast: ‘Tonight and Friday, fair; winds. 2D WIRE AS SERVI PRESS ASSOCIATIC SE ATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1918. « Slime ee Did William Horner, ‘ and finally This was the iam Uae } tf 220,452.11 SED BY , RED CROSS Lumber Ww the industrial committee, which promises a surprise when its report is made. Only $14,000 of ™ Monday pledges are included. More than 300 establishments of the city have reported themselves 100 per éent patriotic in the Mercy Monday drive. “The school board has decided to al low school children to subscribe thru agency of the schools, and all princtpals will act as represen of the Red Cross, who will have dona- tion -boxes installed on Mercy Mon day and credit each school with its total. It has been decided to give out of more. . Three hundred girls, clad in the white costume of the Red Cross, ask ed alms for humanity on the streets Thursday. Unable to wait until the (Continued on Page Four) U. S. IS FACING SHIP TROUBLE WITH HOLLAN WASHINGTON, May 23.—A sec ond shipping controversy is impend ing regarding disposition of Dutch ships formerly under charter by the shipping board and not included in the recent requisition by the United Pr es The owners of seven Dutch ves wselu, aggregating 40,000 tons, whose charters have expired, have refused to recharter them to the shipping q board. Not having been included in the requisition order, they cannot be forced into American service at present d This government, it is refused to allow these ships to load ( and clear for Holland—the result be ing that they are tied up at Atlantic ports, Charters of several other ships, | which voon will expire under similar | conditions will not be renewed. This will leave several thousand tons lying idie unless a new order in made. Such action, however, will be resented even more strongly than the first seizure, officials declare With the food situation in Holland becoming more acute, resentment to- said, has ward the United States is increasing, it is learned ficially and any fur e victus the crisis NAMES OF 13 MORE ARE | ISTED WITH CYCLOPS: YASHINGTON, May The ames of 13 men have been added to the list of Cyclops casualties, the navy deportment has nngunced. have been transferred to the Cyclops just before the vessel left for its! last voyage. L SAYS WIM. HORNER SHOT HUSBAND OF OF KELSO VICTIM of Republic, Wash., then go auto camp near Kelso last Sunday? eae figateoe’ 4 facing Sheriff TORN row yates oe eee oe together patches of evi- ager amg found dead, were posi- Chisholm, bookke ‘ednesday, two children, Ada Mildred and Azra Walter” ‘The total announced includes very | little of the amount being raised by | ficial buttons with donations of $1 or ing program | ‘The last men named are thought to! HUNS TO STRIKE ON LAND AND SEA ‘WORK OR FIGHT NATIONAL RULE TO BE ENFORCED, Deferred Classification Men in Draft Must Aid in War TO BE ENFORCED JULY 1 WASHINGTON, May 23.—All men subject to draft hereafter “must do a man's work or fight.” This rule, oo duly 1, provides that all loafers and men not in useful occupations listed in deferred draft classes must en- gage in useful war work or be drafted Into the fighting service. | Provost Marehal General Crowder | Jannounced today the plan for this | It will seize at once; | “pon gamblers, race track men, wait: | ers, bartenders, club, hotel and apart | ment attendants, persons engaged or occupied in games, sports and amuse- r Of the Sno-| ments (with some exceptions), do- Irs. Horner and | mestic servants, sales and other | clerks of department stores and mer. cantile establishments. mill worker, kill Fred off with Bassett’s wife murder them as they slept in May int ati eaahean Ford won thi ctogettio€. an re apie 4 men thus ee. erngh ¢ @ boards ronduet new Sheriff Harry :sharber-<é-Repebite powered to aummon hefete thems notified Stringer Thursday morning idlers and the non-essential workers that Horner had shat and killed| listed above, give them a chance to Kelley Bassett, husband of “Mrs. | explain their pursuance of non-useful Horner,” and father of Ada and/war work, and. if they fail, drage Azra, during a hunting. trip near) them into the army. Republic, in 1914. Break Up Baseball | “Horner” had carried Raneett’s | Strictly enforced, the new regula-/ body back and declared the shoot | tion should practically break up pro: | ing accidental, Later, Sharpe says, fessional baseball, officials admitted, | he was frequently seen with Mrs./as sports is one of the classes from | Bassett and the children. Jack| which the players now granted de. Schuster, night dispatcher on the} pendency exemption are barred. Rainier Valley 4 Renton street rait| The plan, however, is framed so way line, is a brother of the mur-| that practically all of the men thus dered woman, Stringer learned. | ahittea or sent into the army can be/| She was not “Mrs. Horner,”| replaced by women. Stringer said Schuster told him Gen, Crowder declined, however, to | give a mpecific ruling as to whether Suspect Released the order affects baseball until a| A suspect, believed to be Horner,| case has been presented to a local was arrested in Portland Thursday.| board or until Secretary Baker has | but later released when he proved made a statement of policy thereon to be another man. Other war department legal ex-) of Descriptions Horner were | perts said the order could not be con telegraphed broadcast Wednesday (Continued ¢ on Page Twelve) night, and It is hoped that some ae where a photograph may be found! today which will help in bis appre hension. Horner i# said to be five feet, four inches tall, weighing about 140 pounds, His face is round and smooth. He has a gold front toot! and auburn hair. He wore a light BRITISH SINK HUN DESTROYER felt hat and somber coat when he| LONDON, May 23.—-A German de was last seen stroyer wax «unk and the mole and _ seaplane base at Zeebrugge were} i Stories Conflict badly damaged by bombs which Sheriff Stringer does not believe! British naval aviators dropped in} that Horner returned to Seattle between Monday and| er alleged commixsion of the crime.| Wednesday. the admiralty an-| nounced this afternoon “= CITY’S RIGHTS IN SKAGI TSITE | DECLARED SAFE Seattle sate in ita priority | tx on the Skagit river power site, | unced Thursday by May: | ‘The family had been traveling in a 1915 model, second-hand Ford, and | the officers believe that the murd aa forged into the South hey are convinced that the crime was premeditated Before the Hor ners left their home at Snoqualmie | conflicting stort were told regard |ing their destination. Mrs. Horner | {told neighbors quite confidently that | |they were bound for Texas, while Horner at different times, said that is it w or Hanson. 4 ann He walked on crutches into Judge Neterer’s courtroom Be taceneak $0 ans te Cok Poeirin good news was contained ina| Tuesday to testify against an alleged defamer of the Red the Columba. Fleer, tatid’ te ‘Neapebaen | letter from George H. Ceeil, district| Cross. Sergt. Dave Wells, U. S. A., had been “over there. in Prairie county, where he 1» aaid | forester for the department of agri A member of the first American aero squadron to go over- [culture at Portland, with whem SU: soqe he is now invalided home. Crippled he is—and weak |to have owned a ranch tBivodbniggs ood Sheriff Stringer is of the opinion | Weck filed amended applications tor |i” body. But, listen to him: “es lant | we that the man deliberately led his |had always seemed to be very poor |\LEFT HANDS.” [Me eat tft 74 ei us to pony prey calle for bide * * & & & |Horner had been employed at the gen ih thee eae et ca [irinotecan ‘| HOUSE VOTES BOYS WHO ARE MEN—every inch of them. They are C. Y U.S. TO SPEND | rm PLAN in. U.S. | TWO BILLIONS '—and even then continue to give. LY GIVE E are hold- ing the Hun, have not given him an inch, nor shall we, as long as one of us _ re- mains.” “We have been in action many weeks, and will|| be for man more, but, t the 66 are men. || Each one consid- ers that he and he alone, is hold- ing the kaiser. “One young boy in my company had one arm and one leg broken and many other wounds, yet he pulled the rings out of bombs with his teeth and threw them with his good arm. “Do you think Fritz will capture such an army as that? “Do not be wor- ried if I should be wounded again, as it is pretty warm here.” —From letter published in The Star yesterday of young E. M. Keenan, tle boy, to his father, A Keenan, of 1422 East Roy bow |the ones who really GIVE. They actually give till it hurts | DURING MONTH °°," «un Tt ig for them that the Red Cross is calling this week. [rANARHINGTON, | May 22-—"The| bill, 178 10 187. The amendment | It ig for them that you are asked for a paltry money sac- | approxima’ | war—and ly $2,000,000,000 into th a new record for war ex ident issues a. procla- | ‘until the pr vg the making of alco-| | mation stopr irifice. penditures will have been set holic beverages from grains and} racy to date has cost America - oe = 900,000,000, and is expected to dj ci = reac othe ” 16 The plann ‘oO reland io be on the wo ais tl Sans aie Hun Arms Plot IRISH TO RAISE nova to rnn wt bon ’ | With these facts to face, members Rumor Explodes| ARMY TO AVOID learned today. Recrutting. ‘stations | of the congressional committees were YEW YORK, May Deputy At will be established in the country to see President Wilson today, and|torney Gen. Alfred L. Becker today NEW DRAFT LAW Shite” + giments, headed by bands, Secretary McAdoo before the end of| reported to government authorities! DUBLIN, May 2%-~The conscrip: | will be paraded, Volunteers will be the week, in an effort to divwuade| that he had completed a probe of re-| don question in Ireland may be set-| btigaded with the present Irish ther from their purpose to Ko ahead|ports of huge stores of German-| ica yy the formation of an Irish brigades, thus forming an Irish with a tax bill, Whatever MeAdoo| owned rifles, machine guns and am army near New York | army This reverses the previous attitude believes should be done, however, the| munition hidden president will sanction, it is stated. the war office, and found the rumors unfounded, | The new recruiting operhtions | of \JAPANESE AND | CHINESE SIGN SECRET TREATY (iins'rom wis TOKIO, May 20.-(Delayed.) nent between China recently at F held secret, it was announe altho it was sta lonly military matters. nd Jap will 1 today the pact covers} bombs being dropped in the Paris it-wes announced at his home here, ENEMY MASSES 1,800,000 TROOPS ~ ON BATTLE | LONDON, May 23.—The great battle in Picardy Flanders is about to be renewed. It will be the greatest battle in the world’s The fate of civilization depends upon it. Field Marshal Von Hindenburg has been fev forming his divisions and preparing to renew the off \It is now indicated that "he first blow will be k this week—two months after the beginning of the | Stage of the battle. |MOON NOW. FAVORABLE \TO HINDENBURG’S PLANS ¥ The moon is now in about the same stage as of oe Mant As the ed do a Hindeaburg little details that. According to the gana. of the French general the Germans have massed 1,800,000 men along the for the new drive. ‘The allies are not in the habit of announcing the ni their armies, but it ts an open secret that they, too, have their lines in preparation for the terrific battle. The greater part of their reinforcements are made up of ‘soldiers, who have been pouring to the front in a steady stream months,. Among them are many national army men. The battle the first test for the American troops, They. will take as im part in it as the French and British, GERMANS BELIEVED TO BE PREPARING TRIPLE DRIVE There have been some indications that the German general preparing for a triple drive along these lines: ‘ 1—A great offensive against the French and British on the west front, calculated to capture Ypres, Amiens and Arras and | drive the British to the sea. 2—A naval offensive against the British fleet in the North sea,” 3—A terrific drive by the Austrians against the Italians bad capture Venice. Since the war began it has been typical of German strategy -to A surprise on the foe at the opening of every offensive movement. 42-centimeter siege-cun, the use of liquid fire and poison gas, the | pelin bombardments, and the most recent, the 75-mile gun that Paris when the spring drive began, are instances. What will the surprise be on Some it a descent Spon Reon rican fieets| Maintain their superiority in for such a| Operations along the west front,” GERMANS WILLING TO by a German | LONDON, May 23.—The | was shown in the night official © of 7p critics believe will came in the form’ of English greater than ever befoi But the British and An are ready—eager, in fact, move coast GIVE 700,000 MORE LIVE Asse ay } nt ports This would be merely a diversion, | s ahd secondary to the great business| Field Marshal Haig ‘reportem other successful night raid a which lies before the German gen tere na etfort. to, Hebuterne, in which heavy ai ties were inflicted on the Gi Yesterday morning a second ati jof the enemy to raid British armies and force peace on the world. y man-made Hindenburg has been quoted 48) tions southeast of Mesnil was saying that he will sacrifice a mil-| pulsed. Artillery was active on 0 lion men to bring victory in the) pritish sectors. new drive. Its first stage cost him/ The French war office repo 200,000, so it is safe to assume that) heavy artillery fire in the Th he will not stop this time until 700,-| Hailes sector, southeast of 000 more have been hurled ihto the/and south of the Avre, on the inferno. | general front. French troops ‘This forms the best possible cri-| prisoners in raids southwest of terion what the battle will be like.| Signy, in the Verdun sector, and ses of German soldiers will] Lorraine, be thrown, wave after wave, against] Heavy allied cannonading alo the allied lines, to be left mangled| the northern portion of the Fla land dead on the field, The fighting | front, and between Arras and Al | will surpass in horror anything that| bert, was reported by the German the world has yet witnessed | war office. It was el: Employing such tactics in an of-| lied attacks near Kemmel | fensi we must be prepared to | Locre ke down lhear that the enemy has gained | ea some ground at first BRITISH AIRMEN _ BOMBARD TOWNS U HIS ARMIES INTACT But the German objective is not the capture of more French or Bel |gian territory, despite all the talk forces on r about the drive for the channel day night dropped se | ports and for Paris. bombs on enemy strongholds in Bel: gium and Germany, nounced today Some of the airplanes penetrated: as far as Mets, it was stated, bomb: | jing the railway station in that place, |The railway yards at Liege were attacked and two tons of bombs | were dropped upon a chemical plant 9 at Manheim. Three fires were, nsisting of two started in the latter city announc During the same period, 16 enemy. | airplanes were brought down, whi two others were forced down out Its real aim is to drive a wedge into the French and Brit lines (Continued oa page 4) | it was am — ‘4 DROP BOMBS IN PARIS ATTACK | (PARIS, May 23.—An air attack on Paris last night | distingt raids was officially ed todk The first squadron failed to reach |the city, being turned back by an control, and two balloons were There were no vic: | stroyed, Antiaireraft guns dis} s attack of two other enemy planes, INDIANAPOLIS, May 38.—Chi W. Fairbanks spent a good night” and was feeling better this morning, The second raid was made in eral rélays of machines, Altho met with another violent aerial barrg this attack resulted in a number of area. where he ip ill from Bright's diseamay: