The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 27, 1918, Page 1

lson Asks MORE THAN 70,000 PAID COPIES DAILY tw LEASED WIRP SERVICE __ “VOLUME 20) Ghitich™ Pras “Ana PRESS ASSOCIATIONS VOLUME 20 e Seattle Sta THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST NIGHT EDITION Weather borecast, Tonight and Tuesday, fair; warmer tonight; moderate northwesterly winds, SEATTLE, , WASH., MONDAY, MAY 27, 1918. PRICE ONE ONE CENT fa'‘acacde. RENEW DRIVE! At Peak of War, Says President From Wilson’s Speech “We are not only in the midst of the war, we are at the very peak d crisis of it.” “The profiteering which cannot be got at by the restraints of con- ecience and love of country, can be got at by taxation.” “An intense and pitiless light beata upon every man and every action in this tragic plot of war. If lobbyists hurry to Washington to attempt to turn what you may do in the matter of taxation to their pro- tection or advantage, the light will also beat on them.” By Robert J. Bender voies Press Correspondent Wie May 27.—Linking his appeal with the resumption of the German drive on the West front, Presi- dent Wilson today demanded that congress cast off political thought and turn to the work of enacting a tax bill this session. Turning from his manuscript, In, come to ask you to prolong your ses concluding a forceful address to com | sion long enough to provide more gress in joint session, the president/ adequate resources of the treasury spoke externporancously: for the conduct of the war. “Just as I was leaving the White; “I have reason to appreciate as House,” he said, “I was brought the| fully as you do how arduous the see news that Germany had apparently|sion has been. Your labors have been severe and protracted. You | have passed a long series of meas ures which required the debate of many doubtful questions of judgment and many exceedingly great differ. ences of principle, as well as of practices. Duty to the Full “The summer is upon us, in which labor and counsel are twice as ardu- patred by laswitude and fatigue. The elections are at hand, and we ought, as #000 a@ posable, to go and render an intimate account of our trustee ship to the people who delegated us to act for them in the weighty and anxious matters that crowd upon us in these days of critical choice and action. “But we dare not go to the ¢lec- tions until we have done our the full. These are days w! stands stark and naked, with closed eyes we know it is there. Excuses are unavailing. We have either done our duty or we have not. The fact will be as grog: and plain as the duty itself. In such a case, lassitude and fatigue seem negligibie | . | enough. the volume of our might. This,| “The facts are tonics and suffice he added, is being pushed ‘and | to freshen the labor. faster, as “thousand after a"| “And the facts are these: Mast Have Revenue “Additional revenues must mani- featly be provided for. It would be “Gentlemen of the Congress: It is|@ most unsound policy to raise too with unaffected reluctance that I (Continued on page §) RED CROSS FUND IS NEAR $!,000,000 NOW Already past the $950,000 mark, a A it Red Cross workers set out Monday | to pile up a total of more than $1,000,000 for Seattle district on the |.” last day of the campaign. | No satisfactory response, however, had been reported from William Pitt ‘The executive committee announc-| Tricnble or J. W. Clise. ed that it was not after further sub-| ‘trimble made an appointment scriptions from those who have al-|,, meet the Red C ready done their duty, but intended | wonaay aftern ross com-nittee to further investigate the list of|" yercy Monday totals have ameunt ygraee paceg who have failed to! eq to $85,000, it was announced. ‘The Ferry-Leary Land Co., Isaac * Lurie and Carstens Packing Co., it was announced, had increased their ,000,000 LOST, IS GERMAN ADMISSION BERNE, Switzerland, May 27.—Germany’s own military experts are ‘only now beginning to admit that Germany’s casualties since the war began exceed 5,000,000 men. Karl Bleibtreu, military writer in Das Neue Europa, West & Wheeler, adjusted their contribution. (Continued on page 5) ives the following statistical return of German losses in illed and prisoners only from Aug. 2, 1914, to July 31, 1917: WESTERN FRONT 713,461 9012 250 320,450 604,961 1914 1915 1917 (7 months) Total. .ccccccecsveccscccsccsvops “ ia i FRONT 1914 pee 1915 . 1916 .... 1917 (7 months) eccvvece Total + eee + 1,484,550 Grand Total ..... « 4,089,511 From Aug. 1, 1917, to Feb. 1, 1918, Bleibtreu estimates the total losses on both fronts at 367,450, making a total of 4,456,96: for the period of the war. Adding those who died from illness or ye and losses in colonial and marine nA the grand total, he says, considerably 000 men. 163,900 699,600 359,800 261,250 . ous, and are constantly apt to be im- | was stated, have also satisfactorily | J. E. Pinkham, chairman of the so. | | A NATION'S PEACE Huns Launch a Double Blow at the LONDON, May 27.—“It is understood we have been back slightly at one West Fron point in the neighborhood of Rheims,” Evening Standard declared’this afternoon. drive, south and east jand Paris when they \the Western front. / area. attacks were against and _Voormezeele. _ intimates you have not Cross may go on. Shame, William Pit You are wealthy, William Pitt Trimble. is only part of the land you own in this city. alone you receive a rental of something like $200,000. You are a Once you sought the honor of being Seattle’s mayor. Red Cross is waiting for you. Today, thousands of Seattle's toilers are giving up_a day’s pay for mercy, giving up ‘actual necessities so that the great humanitarian work of the Red Shame, William [Pitt Trimble! William Pitt Trimble, st sail He. up. The Red Cross committee says it is waiting for your subscription. Half of the Bon Marche ground From that piece of given your share. They give while you, who have grown fat on Seattle, hesitate. t Trimble! BRITISH AIDING FRENCH ON NEW BATTLE REGION LONDON, May 27.—British troops | jare now operating with the French | jin the line south of the present | Picardy front, Field Marshal Haig’s official report today showed. This is the first intimation that) | British forces were operating south lof the Avre, and is accepted as fur ther indication of Gen. Foch's pol icy of coordination of all allied | forces TEUTONS WOULD OPEN ROUTE TO | FRENCH CAPITAL BY J. W. T. MASON It roperty jonaire. And today the KALAMA, May 27.—"I'm thinking that a temper is an awful thing.” That's what William Horner, con | feased murderer of Mra. sett and her two children, in a tent near Kelso, told the United Press today. “Do you think the court and jury'| will be lenient with you?” he was asked. ‘I'm thinking case,” he said. He paced his cell nervously, and stopped from time to time to stroke it's @ pretty bad | ones who came to the Jail to see) | tim, Sheriff |_Seudebaker says _there ia} |\THWART PLAN TO FREE PRISONERS IN IRISH CAMPS BY WEBB MILLER United Press Correspondent DUBLIN, May 27—Discovery that part of the Sinn Fein-Ger- man plot provided for the release of hundreds of Austrian and Ger- man civilians now interned in Ireland, and for arming them against the English, has been made by the British, according to statements of officials today. As @ result, deportation of these | men began today It tw declared that the conspirators | planned to arn these allen civilians with weapons delivered by German | submarines. Despite the arrest of their leaders, Sinn Fein adherents were active Sunday. Companies of them drilled at many points around Dublin. No secret was made of this fact at head- quarters, where it was stated that Fred Bas) the aide of his face, and peer blank-| ly at the walls or out at the curious) ‘PRETTY BAD CASE,’ SAYS HORNER Confessed Murderer Says Temper “Bad Thing”; Jailed in Kalama {no danger of a lynching. When he passed thru Kelso with the prisoner @ curious crowd looked on, but there were no threatening remarks. The bodies of the three victims will be taken to Republic burial, by J. E. Schuster, tle, a brother of the of Seat woman, ‘Confesses When He Sees Picture of His Victims William Horner, after admit- ting that he murdered Mrs. Nel- He Bassett and her two children ‘as they slept in a roadside camp { mear Kelso May docked in Cowlitz « ce FLOUR HOARDER PR; FINED $200 HERE James 1. Cullen of Everett was fined $200 by Judge Jeremiah Ne terer in the federal district court Monday morning for hoarding flour. The contraband flour will be given to the Red Cross. Charles Graves was sentenced to 15 months in the federal penitentiary at the same court session, for im- personating a government secret nervice agent. Both men were tried several weeks ago and had been awaiting sentence. drilling | to! | Sunday was observed in ‘and continuing preparedness fight agadnst conscription. GIVE PATRIOTIC CONCERT A patriotic | Boy,” will be given Monday night, at the Queen Anne theatre, Queen Anne ave. and Boston st, by the British: American Relief society, at 8 o'clock, Wash., for | concert, entitled “Her | United Press War Expert NEW YORK, May 27.—Paris and the Marne are the objectives of Von Hindenburg, if the strong German attacks between Rheims and Soissons, reported by Mar. shal Haig, are the forerunners of the new offensive against the allies. American troops have been report vars ed as undergoing training in this being arrested on the road to his | sector, and just behind the front is ranch late Friday. Ja highly important railway line. Confession of the crime came when| which runs directly into another a ghastly photograph of the dead vie-| American sector in the Verdun tims was thrust before the prisoner | region. If the German attacks grow by Sheriff Prosecuting Attorney at Kalama. He was brought to Seattle Sat- urday night by - Sheriff Clair Ward, of Okanogan county, after Delos Spaul-| Americans will be called upon to ding of Cowlitz county. | help stem the enemy advance. “God, I did it," sobbed Horner, as| This sector is the most advan. he collapsed into a chair, “I killed | tagesous, from the allied standpoint, | jthem. Oh, God!” in which the Germans can attack Denies Murder of Husband The Marne is from 20 to miles For hours he had stubbornly in.| south of and parallel to the Rheims sisted that he had not seen Mrs. Bas. | Soissons front, and Paris itself is 60 House Will Get to Work at Once on War,Tax Bill SHINGTON, May 27 Leade Kitehin iously opposed to . voiced approval of dent Wilson's message today, commander-in-chief has ‘said Kitchin, “Our duty is plain, We will at once go to the task. We expect to be able to report @ revenue bill by Au- gust 1.” | sett since May 15, when he obtained | Miles away. Slicht gains by Von i | (Continued on. page 16) | Hindenburg can best be afforded by {PRAGUE RIOTS Solssons and Rheims would be ¢ agreeable for the allies, but there ar wo lother communication lines. If the RRY POLICE | iii iiriner tnconvenience to com , ZURICH, May 27.—AnthGerman| munication would be suffered by the lemonstrations occurred in Prague ajlies, but no critically serious dam celved here today. ‘Troops dispersed | the crowds, arresting many, and hauled down the Slav colors, which ings, OQithrof thr |. tho f St Cou ghtin, | tone. gurcde tha | or naliona- * Loss of the railway connecting | | CONTINUE TO Germans were to reach the Marne on Friday, according to reports re-| age would be done. had been hoisted on several build- thar We: Y Gots 7 ro] Lew Matw 7 Gince spoken, Clark Studebaker and) into a serious menace it is probable} Rheims is at the extreme eastern point of the new of the Picardy front. LONDON, May 27.—Ending the long lull on the batt the Germans ‘early today renewed their drive for channel struck suddenly in two different They thrust out on an entirely new trent south of the P region and at the same time started a hot attack in the Ype | Reports from the battle in the North declare that slight |\ress was made in the initial push forward. After a heavy bombardment the enemy advanced on |fronts along the 35-mile sector between Rheims and Soissons, tending eastward and southward of the Picardy front. The o S positions held by the French between Soissons is 10 miles south and west of the southern extremity of the Picardy battle front in the ity of St. Gobian forest. Rheims is 35 miles to the 4 and south, the front suddenly veering sharply to the | ward before Soissons. This front includes the famous Chemin des D sector, where American troops have been in the line’ fo | time, i Voormezeele is less than two miles directly south | Ypres. Locre is about five miles west and south. ‘of the hottest fighting in the entire Flanders offensive joccurred along this line. “Strong hostile attacks, following a bombardment | great intensity, were made early this morning on wit |fronts between Rheims and Soissons,” the statement “Attacks were also made against the French lines tween Locre and VOOM Ft r C BY FRED S, FERGUSON BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS United Press Correspondent | United Press Correspondent WITH THE AMERICANS IN | _ WITH THE BRITISH ARM- PICARDY, May 27.—Fifty Amer. | poet we a May 27.—The fean engineers who got into the got under way early today, is German positions by mistake at reported to have in night, fought their way back to j spots, but it is too early to knew their own lines with the Ameri- . Teo at ae can and boche infantry both fir- | Gea. Arama Betts ing on them. | Siseonvecg: a mile northeast Owing to considerable gaps in the | Locre, where the French es In some places, It is easy to ag from the Germans a welt = id b 4 the American line: : boty Ath a 6 2: a8, Batween Arras and Albert, the | For instance, a motor truck driver, | /i°TMnn {rullery is Pounding furious: headed thru such a gap, drove half-| 7; as’ shelling, Several. Geemee way across No Man's Land before | iat were repulsed btw, German ae |the rattle of machine guns warned | Th") uiiey e een Cortte 7 him that he had passed the line. — | " ‘The cannonading on this front has | manutiete sont ee [Increased somewhat, but it is all Gay th Brier eae Satur duiet, compared with a week ago.|@4Y three strong German raldesi ‘There is increasing activity in patrol posal res ae ie Rolsinghe and ling. Encounters are frequent, and | Dvmude aes Lage back. ‘The American patrols constantly are! ine anor ene dee te the front: penetrating the German first line. waee nuakeis Ene Bag Ph, Corman Bag Five Planes | The allied troops are fighting: The marked effectiveness of Amer- | brilliantly. ican artillery fire is partially due to| The battle for Scherpenberg began jexcellent work of the American air-| With a heavy bombardment of the _ | plane service. The American flag is| Y¥res-Comines .canal, half a mile carried daily over the American sec-| ¢@st of Voormezeele, to the French — tor by airplanes. Boches make stren-| frontier, a mile west of Locre. uous efforts to bring these machines| The artillery opened up at dawn down. So far they have failed, and|®4 in the midst of a haze covering five enemy planes have been brought| the Flemish lowlands, the German down in the attempts. infaptry swept forward in successive The liason of American and French | W8Ves. planes is extremely effective. Amner- Huns From Balkans licans from Chicago, Indianapolis,| The weather has improved an@ Pittsburg, Washington, Silver City, | fighting conditions are better. Pris” Ia., and Oxford, O., are working wi ree Bethe ua bescaciapiye - a erack French fliers. | ing of Mackenzen being on the west "4 | American aviators recently partici. | front, and insisting that he will have ” pated in one of the t air con- | Charge of the coming operations. I centrations in histor Forty bomb- | /8 also rumored that German troops Jing and 150 fighting planes, after a| have been withdrawn from the Bale |rendezvous over Montdidier, carried | Kins for use on the west front dump more than @ score of tons of high ex: | 76 the plosives over the German lines and | dumped them on various military ob- Jectives, They returned without be- ing molested,