The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 28, 1918, Page 1

7 t) vol UME 20 MORE THAN 70,000 PAID COPIES DAILY LATION OF WIRE smnyie ABROCTA TIONS SEATTLE, W OF ANY PAPER I ASH., ‘TUESDAY, } MAY 28, BY WILLIAM United Preas PHILIP SIMMS Correspondent The Seattle Sta THE GREATEST ‘ST DAILY CIRCU. IN- THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST 1918, Weather Forecast; ‘Tonight and Wednesday, 4 4 fair; moderate westerly winds, | _ nd “PR ICE ONE CENT % : tically all of the ground | the enemy won yesterday. anks Capture ' Trench: Slay. Many WASHINGTON, porns have occupied Teutons May 28.—American a German trench sec- tor, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy and some prisoners, Gen. Pershing cabled the war office today. ; United Press BY FRED S. FERGUSON Correspondent WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN PICARDY, May | 27.—(Night.)—Three determined attacks, in the nature of scale raids, were delivered against the American large lines this morning. Y The first was before Fontaine-Sous-Montdidier. The ‘and third were launched, one to the right of Can- tigny were the attacks captured positions until } to their original line. — MILLER ASKS — - U.S. TO TAKE UP VICE WAR Proposes Federal Intern- ment, Following Seattle’s Health Plan ' INCREASE MAN - POWER Uncle Sem hes been asked to follow the lead of Seattle in iso- lating men and women suffering from vice diseases in a bill intro- duced by Congressman John F. Miller, following conferences with Health Commissioner Me- Bride. Copies were received by Dr. McBride yesterday. If passed, the bill will accompli . the aim of Seattle's health commis- about pon a six nation wide in scope. The measure is titled to the industrial man power of the United States,” and is a war meas general will to nt surgeon if the bill is passed be appointed take charge of a special division. Internment hospi be est. ished to receive c over by municipal or sta ice disease Is would ses turned e authori An appropriation of $3,500,000 is suggested to put the measure into effect. 75 More Men to Go to Army Wednesday || Seventy-five more men of Seattle and King county, the last of a spe cial call of th select service de partment, will leave Wednesday for Vancouver barracks will be given a dinner and sendoff under the auspices of the King county council of defense, but no parade will be held ‘The dinner will be served at the foldiers’ and Sailors’ club, at 11:30, by members of the National League of Women’s Service. Senator 8. H Piles will speak, and Judge F. V. Brown will preside stunts and music will enliven the entertainment. Tobacco, cigars and . box of lunch for each man will piven Bic S ing to the astronomers, folks down Chehalis way are due for « terrifying thrill about 3:55 p.m. on dune & They're going to be crawling tnder the mattresses with the ides that the earth is about to “Dey wit suddenly turn into increase Vaudeville | the other again before Fontaine-Sous-Montdidier. were repulsed with heavy German losses. but the Americans drove the a. from their trenches in a counter attack, holding Not only they were ordered to with- | The first attack was preceded by & barrage and followed the pounding of the American rear positions by enemy artillery all thru the night The boches advanced in two waves. in the face of heavy machine gun and artillery fire. They succeeded in entering our lines, but a counter at tack was organized and they were driven out The retreating Germans were tak ing an American prisoner with them |when several of his comrades leaped from the trenches, caught up with [the boches, killed the entire party | guarding the prisoner and brought him back Hans Cat Down ‘The second assault before Fon taine-Sous-Montdidier was aa violent as the first, but the enemy was un able to penetrate the American lines. The counter attack then car ried the Americans into the line, which the id for more hour. Near Cantigny, \" h a hot reception that they did (Continued on page 10) bochen’ an : HANSON CALLS “Call ‘em off,” was the advice giv en Chief of Police Warren Tuesday by Mayor Han 1, when he learned that the police department was keep ing a cordon of plain-clothes men at the expense of the city, about the block in which the Western Union has its main offices, in the Central butiding. “What's the use of guarding to avert trouble when there ian't the least sign of trouble?” inquired the mayor. “There never was a better- | behaved set of men and women than | théMtelegraphers.” | The mayor received a telegram rom Secretary Tumulty, stating inet President Wilson was calling the attention of the war labor board to the mayor's wire relating to the telegraphers’ case. Mayor Hanson wired the president on May 20, tell-, ing him that the telegraphers merely asked reinstatement, that they were devoting themselves to patriotic serv ice while locked out, and that the ac tion of the Western Union is un American and unpatriotic. HANSON TO TALK THRIFT The Pacific Coast Company War Savings society will meet in the gen eral office of the auditor, 77 Wash- ington st. at 11:45 Friday. Mayor Hanson will talk the Germans got! POLICEMEN OFF ‘SEATTLE ALONE | GIVES MILLION FOR RED CROSS) State, District and City Give Double Their War Fund Quotas TRIMBLE COMES THRU Seattle, unaided by King and Kit sap county districts outside the city limits, has given more than $1,000, 000 for the Red Cross war fund, with last minute contributions still roll ing in. The campaign ended Mon jday night. | Counting the donations in the dis | trict outside Seattle, the collections gee approximately $1,100,000. Incomplete totals give Seattle's share as $1.001.200, and that of King and Kitsap counties combined as $1,090,460. ‘The quota for Reattio alone was $400,000, The city so far han over: subscribed her allotment 0 per cent Figures for the committees as an nounced at a late hour Monday night credit the solicitation workers alone with a larger quota than was allot ted to Seattle, King and Kitsap counties, $571,000 having been turn ed in to date The industrial committee co'lected | $182,000; Mercy Monday $131,860;/ King county, outside Seattle, $%2,000; | Kitsap county, $275,500 ee, $20.-| 000; booths, $55,000 500; Japanese, $7,000, $1,000, sprakers. and Chinese, | “oe Ge ks to the Hellenic association for $500 donated to the Red Crom was out Tuesday morning by R. & Taylor, of the Mer cy Monday committee. The Hellenic association raised the money by an entertainment given Saturday night | tee A let of w “Toul.” the bull pup sold for the benefit of the Red Cross, goes to T. RK. Judson, 119 Wh who war asked thru the preas Tuesday to call Bast 495 i eee } Pitt has made © subseription, and dis played fine American epirit his was th nouncement of irman Joshua Green, of the Red | Cross executive committee, after Trimble had met the members Mon | @a2 eave | Trimble afternoon ater the executive committee is-| vane a statement, saying “the amount | subscribed to the Red Croas fund by | | Mr. Trimble was generous and fully satisfactory to us.” | Went & Wheeler (Continued RAISE $144,000,000 WASHINGTON, May 28 The American Red Cross second war fund in now $144,000,000, according to the latest report MOONEY UP FOR’ DEATH SENTENCE) SAN FRANCISCO, May 28 Thomas J. Mooney, convicted of} complicity in the dynamiting of the preparedness parade here July 1916, again appeared before Superior | Judge Griffin today to be sentenced | to death | rental page . agents, 10 An appeal from Judge Griffin's de cision refusing Mooney a new trial on a writ of “coram nobis” already the is on file, Should supr court uphold Judge Griffin's decision | that the trial court | Jurisdiction, only | Gov, Stephens can from death. — ORLANDO IS AT FRONT}, ROME, May 28.—Premier Orlando in reported to have gone to the front has no further | clemency from fave Mooney | night, and strange things will happen in the skies. A total eclipse of the sun--seme thing your dad never saw or your) json never will see—is scheduled | that date, and the shadow will diagonally across the United States, hitting the Northwest near Chehalis, Professor Samuel L, Boothroyd, as- head of the! Is authority for the | prediction that it will be a scary per formance. “A total eclipse is a truly terrify ing sight,” says Professor Boothroyd. “Vancy, it you ean, the shadow of the moon blackening the heavens and moving toward one at the rate ‘Love Is Stronger Than Kinship, Judge Ronald Rules in Baby’s Case Thelma Vivian Smith A head of gloriously red hair, the, rougish squint of baby eyes, the pout of Kewple lips—for these, two families battled in Judge J. T. Ron ald’s court. Mr. and Mrs, George P, Smith, 2065 63rd ave. 8. W., or the claim of 1 love, ahd Mr and Mra M 200 Keventh ave. N. because of kinship ties | After spending pleas night on making the * Judge Rona Tue morning declared that love en tho red, was stronger than neglected kinshiy Thelma Vivian Lande, prattling year-old girl, was the contending is sue. She the youngest of five children left orphans by the death of both parents less than a year ago, This little brood was « for a time by the juvenile court Then kind-hearted neighbors put their heads together and formed the | Happy Hour club, and rained funds to keep the little far together home harge of the 1 Hour elub ere Mr. a Smith found her it Judge Dykeman immediately her into th hearts and he and lavished of the care and affection of real par ents upon her all of their plans for the} bright little tot's future w ruptly interrupted by the © of the child's aunt, Mrs. Tons | Marks, and her husband, who hav two boys and want 4 girl CARE DUE FOR CHEHALIS! TURN OFF SUNLIGHT! of 2,000 miles an how with the black apace of the moon covering the day giving orb and tongues of flame and silver leaping upward thousands of feet to form the cor-| ona.” Just faney! Chehalis has had fairs and more (Continued on page ‘4) The appeal of Thelma's adopted mother was pathetic. Her body tense tears streaming down her cheeks, she pleaded with the judge to give her Thelma That Head of Red “da little red. cross exam counsel for the Mar ib how she had been caring 01 to show her fitness, She detailed Thelma’s daily life, from the bath in the morning, the appetizer of orange or prune § the care of | her teeth and eyes, her breakfast of mush and milk and toast, the hours of play, lunch, nap, dinner and final ly @ romp with Mr, Smith and “to bed." There was not much room to doubt the thought that the young foster mother was giving to Thel ma's uprearing You are attached to her?” asked the attorney I e her!’ was the earnest re spon Mr. Smith told of his business in terexts % member of the Puget Sound Marble & Granite Co., and of ht s to make her his heir “ 500 GAS SHELLS HIT U.S. FRONT BY FRANK J. TAYLOR WITH THE AMERICANS IN | LORRAINE, May 27.—(Night.)—The Germans made a heavy gas attack in the Lorraine sector today, setting off 500 large phosgene gas shells, each taining more than three gallons quid phosgene The shells were all discharg multaneously by electricity. sult of the attack is not yet known This new attack undoubtedly was so-called Luneville sector, to the east of the Toul STORM OF GAS SHELLS SWEEP BATTLE FIELD, | French Fight Like Devils in| Counter Charge Against | Hun Troops STRUGGLE ~ TREMENDOUS WITH THE ALLIED ARMIES IN FLANDERS, May 28-~-There is a stupendous acnount of gas shelling | in the battle on the Ypres front. A considerable area has been smothered in gas, but a proof of its | failure is the fact that French have |retaken practically all the territory Jost in the first German rush yester day, which drove a wedge east “| Dickebusch lake |_A counter attack captured wit woods, the Germans overran. A group of machine guonets Caught off on thir ridge refured to surrender, and fought like devils all day until the! in the together with a ridge a | French retook the position, evening. Hei gas shelling also is under way in the Amiens region and along the Aisne heights, where the British and French are engaged im heavy fighting There in every indication that the enemy is putting everything he has into this thrust, and perhaps it is the ultimate phase of his offensive. It is believed that large masses of Ger man troops are concentrated in the | bulge in the front around Peronne, Roye, Ham, Nesiee and Noyon | The allies calculate that more than | 100 German divisions (1,200,000 men) of fresh, or comparatively fresh, re-| nerves are at the kaiser's call. By the| usuml rotation system, others can be brought into the offensive. The fact that the German offensive was re sumed at three widely separated places is regarded as significant The thrusts along the Aisne and into the hills southwest of Ypres made some progress in places, but the at tack in the region of Montdidier ap- ntly was stopped without trou This last may have been only a | teint | (The attack “in the region of Mont: | didier" apparently refers to the three German assaults on the American positions yesterday morning.) GERMAN FORCES | CROSS AISNE IN FURIOUS BATTLE LONDON, May 28.—The Ger- mans are pushing their offensive on the Aisne front, Field Marshal Haig reported today. Along the Aisne, which was crossed to the left of the British sector last night, Haig said that enemy attacks-of great strength are developing on the whole 40- mile front between Soissons and Rheims. The fighting in Flanders, he said, is centered east of Dickebusch lak where the Germans made tempora: gains against the French troops in the resumption of their drive yester- day morning. nemy attacks late yesterday car them across the Aisne to the t of the British sector, compelling left line to fall back the state the ment said hemy exerted continuous | pressure against the British on the | Aisn front thruout yesterday Se} vere fighting is still continuing. ‘On the right the 2ist division maintaining contact with the French, held its battle positions all day, On the center and left, the Eighth, 50th and 25th divisions, in a determined resistance, maintained their second line until a late hour.” The enemy is developing The cks | of great strength on the whole Aisne front.” (This British sector was astride the Aisne in the vicinity of Berry Au-Bac, about 24 miles east of Sois. | sons.) | “Local fighting commenced this | | morning on the Lys front in the area} east of the Dickebusch front On the remaine of the British front a number of prisoners were taken in raids last night “Both artilleries were active at dif. ferent points.” WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN FRANCE, May 28-(12:55 p. m.)-B and French troops are counter attacking southwest of Ypres. The fighting was still under way at the time of cabling. At that time they had retaken prac- Allied Armies — ALLIES COUNTER ATTACK IN YPRES REGION AND REGAIN LOST GROUND ate Yield Slightly ~ on South Line The Germans were still pressing th ,0ffensive today on the Aisne front. After forcing their jat various points on the 14-mile sector bh |tween Vailly and Berry-Au-Bac last night way across the the enemy was attacking furiously along the _ entire Aisne front this morning. The French war office declared British and French were greatly outnum- bered on this front, but reported the of reserves behind the Aisne plateau. . On the Flanders front the fighting was centering east where the French repulsed the enemy succeeded in reaching Pont-Arcy, 1 miles east of Soissons, on the south bank of the i the French war office admitted in its night yesterday. The This represents an advance miles, About 10 miles to the eastward, in| the vicinity of Berry-Au-Bac, British troops were forced back to their sec- ond line positions, Field Marshal Haig’s night report revealed. Altho the Germans attacked at several points along the 49-mile front between Soissons and Rheims, they! apparently were held except at the two places mentioned. The German war office claimed capture of the entire Chemin des| Dames, the famous highway which | parallels the Aisne from a point] seven miles northeast of Soissons to} the vicinity of Berry-Au-Bac, at an average distance of about three miles north of the river. This would rep: resent an advance of one to two miles on a front of 20 miles. The attack in Flanders, which was | made along the six-mile front, from Locre to Voormeezele, resulted in slight penetration of the positions r Dickebusch lake, in the center, but the line was later restored by | counter-attacks. The fight was still| under way there when this report was filed The French violent | rector war office reported cannonading in the Verdun near St. Mihiel, and on the | Lorraine front. American troops are holding portions of the line on these three fronts. Ship of Stone Due | Here Late Tuesday The concrete ship Faith, still buck is expected to arrive in Seattle late Tuesday afternoon or evening. The vessel has passed Cape Flattery, making about four miles | per hour, in the teeth of the wind, at midnight Monday PARIS SHELLING PARIS, May 28.-The long-range bombardment of Paris, which was resumed yesterday after a cessation ral weeks, was begun again IS ON of se today Minute men of Precinct 136 will meet at Summit school at 8 p. m.| Tuesday APPROXIMATES 16 900, 000 May 2 ‘The Wilson to ra’ WASHINGTON, authorizing President urally suggest to every Just how big For of course the \ must be ] The best method of 5 Germany “unlimited” army, Com Germany ) \ ie } United States .. This is equivalent to 15 per cent of the total population of each country. | port said. ; PARIS RAID BLOCKED | blocked American the will “an unlimited limit——e approximating its size is by which has stretched its man-power to the ison of the total population with the size of the army raised by Germany gives these figures | UNLIMITED ARMY FOR U.S. of Dickebusch of slightly more than Soul PLAGUE SWEEPS SPAIN; KING IS ONE OF VICTIMS x Se es MADRID, May °8—A mys terious plague is sweeping Spain. oa It is estimated 40 per es cent of the population is affect ed. The disease resembles in- fluenza. So far there have been no known fatalities, but the greatest alarm is felt. King Alfonso is confined to his bed, and it is feared he is a victim of the plague. The premier and min- isters of finance, education and ma rine, and the under foreign secretary also are suffering from the disease, Many business houses have been forced to shut down, ALLY RESERVES GO INTO FIGHT WASHINGTON, May 28.—Allied reserves have arrived on the Sois- sons front and are being thrown into action, cables received by the British military attache here today stated. In the sector between Locre and Loos the Germans early today gained considerable territory, but counter attacks restored the situation, the re- PARIS, May 2 ed air raid over Pi by last night Another attempt- ris apparently was the defense forces late An alarm was sounded at 10:45, and “All clear” at 11:45, but no aire ships passed over the city. passage by congress n unlimited arm question American army’ an act ise * + tl nat- en to an itimate to raise Population 80,/ 00,000 110,000,000 Army 12,000,000 16,500,000