The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 30, 1918, Page 1

ne music of the fife and drum.| a was mixed with civilian blue! MORE THAN 70,000 PAID COPIES DAILY VOLUME _ Balke WIRE sERVICR SE BSS ASSOCIATIONS - L E, THE A’ . WASH., | The. se attle Star HT EDM TEST DAILY _CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWE THUR SDAY, MAY 30, 1918. NIGHT EDITION Weather Forecast; Tonight 14 Friday, prob PRICE ‘ONE CENT [i"Boattie_ Rreowaae _ Wars’ Dead Honored by City Today Prayers for Victory Are Of- fered in Seattle’s . Churches OLD AND NEW PARADE The wheels of | industry and business nonessential to war stood idle in Seattle Thursday, while the city tendered fond re- membrance to the men and women who have given their lives on the altar of Liberty in this war and in the wars of the From every big building and from almost every we in the city, Mags were at half-mast, and here and there the gold star on a service Mag spoke eloquently of the day's solemnity. It was with bared heads—and here and there with tear-dimmed eyes—that Seattle watched her Veterans pass between cheering — in the Memorial Day pa- Manco was an occasional tear from the dim old eyes of the war heroes in the decorated automo- biles. Wearing the hat cords that once adorned campaign hats, the little pill box caps of the Yanks of the civil war, carrying flags that had gone with them thru battles fought in their youth, most of the white-haired Veterans sat proudly erect while crowds cheered and children threw roses in their laps. Only 26 of the civil war veterans ‘were walking. Only a few years ago were all tramping sturdily to ore than one veterans’ car, and father's hand rested on the shoulder of son in khaki, while 4 wnite-haired | mother sat knitting in one flower) chine and soldiers among the stood stiffly at attention as war: Veterans and flags went by.) ‘The bands played “We'll Rally! Round the Fiag, Boys,” and “Over and Seattle pledged devotion and loyalty in its heart. ‘The doors of most of the city churches were open, that Seattle People might fully observe the wish | of President Wilson that the day be | made one of fasting and prayer. Services will be held at some time! “during the day in many of the churches, and the service of the Grand Army of the Republic and its auxiliaries and the Spanish-Ameri the German trenches. and first Am for our country’s honor and our safety untouched by Hun shells There, at the head, ix the cross which marks all graves Over There. At the foot is the fag—our Stars and Stripes—for which Private Gresham gave his life. And on thy ici REPOSENT ES Premiers SOLpats de { “iMlustre ‘Repubfigue ox Exary- Combes enterte de Fiance resham, first American to reach n who made the supreme sacrifice It lies in a quiet corner of France ‘This is the crave of James Rethel ric jon placed there by French officials it nays: ‘ States, who fell on Wrench soil for justice and liberty November 3, 1917." On either side of thia grave are thone of Private Hay, Glidden, Ja, and Private Enright, Pittsburg, Pa., who, with Private Gresham, gave their all. The Meurborn Naked Graver Remembering still the old graves which are hallowed on this day, The old_graves long since blending green the eratwhile bluc a nd gray, Yet as a mother, while she scants no elder of ite share, Still yields the breastling baby of her first and tenderest care, So now we strain our sight acrosa the far Atlantic waves And give our tenderest tribute to the naked, new-born graves. Remembering, too, the home-graves of the ones whom death denied The privilege of service in the battle ere they died, Who faced and fought but could not win that combat with disease, But who are equal heroes with their comrades overseas; Yet half I think no well-kept mound at home but somehow craves To be the close companion of the new-born, naked graves. —EDMU} can War Veterans was held at the First Presbyterian church, following ® monster parade of soldiers of the past and soldiers of the present.| which formed at 10:30 a. m. to march thru the downtown district. jewman Is Speaker ‘The parade, headed by Chief of Po- lice Joel Warren, mounted in mill-| ti fashion and with a mounted| GHP, marched thru the business dis- (Continued on page 5) NATION HONORS HEROES IN DAY nation, united, paid solemn ror ute on this Memorial day to its heroes of the past and its heroes | /,, and of the present. In pray: fasting, following out its presi- grave heed of the past and in- tense inventory of the present. ‘The withered ranks of Civil War Veterans who went to place upon tombs of the fighters of other days a garland of memory, were joined by those of the present generation who | | A a ed b dent’s request, the country took [ers In European waters, manned bY | ington Detective bureau operatives in j “ | honored the living heroes and the | drive dead martyrs of today’s contest with | lies autocracy | quoted figures to show wha ‘The lines of North and South, long | a since obliterated, cast no shadow on pbservance of this nation day. The Northland and the South land made of it a unified a crated time, sacred to the men of ordnance depa °64, but even more sacred to the boys | year of 191%, who fight not alone to save | $3,000,000,000. We | 2,000,000 extra rifles, We are m York, when they | ing 1,000 rifles each day “We have delivered 100,000 ma |; bile r a nation, but to-save a world. Wilson at. Church President Wilson, following his| own precepts, attended ehurch dur. | chine ing the morning, joining in prayers | tion will be 18,000 a month “The nation has spent $500,000,000 y to the cause of Ameri ed in the impressive ce the Grand Army of the Kt Down on the’ peacef@l Potomac two gigantic rose wreaths were set adrift, markers for the graves of the |#mmunition. Our production in this Lusitania dead. Daughters of the |‘s greater than that of France or 4 England.” ALKI BATHERS tion; just one among a hundred, or AWAIT OLD SOL | mniyve ie was a thousand park ‘Three bur-r-r-rs and a shiver. The| benches in the city’s storeroom, clouds hung low and the world was| awaiting the clarion call of spring dank and cheerless when the munici.|to detall us to duty again, even as pal bathing beach at Alki opened for|the snowdrop and the reason at 9 a, m, Thursday wood violet and the American Revolution launched the} first, the crew of a British warship the second. These and other solemn services marked the national capital's ob- weevance of the day; an@ thruout the land a determined folk joined in giv-| ing the last sad tributes man can 7 to man : i 8 ILS ON LAKE, Lake Washington in a small sail boat Wednesday evening, and has | ard, CHICAGO, 3 1,000,000 soldiers on foreign soil and has become the second na lof the world, Senator James Hamil OF MEMORIAL |ton WASHINGTON, May 30 day address in ze \f transportation is available. | dent 50,000 men,” the senator said. “We had war was declared. Now we is doing to p holi- | shipping have t “In ordnance we ha 4. conse. | 000,000 for projetciles,” he said. “The lies. Later in the national on the motor sect the “If the sun comes out,” the beach | Johnny jump-ups OY DISAPPEARS """""; 5 Police are Thursday investigating | noc the disappearance of George Ward,| beach every Qg@ of the warm days I may say it is a source of satix 17, Seattle boy, who started over pthia month.” The fresh water beaches at Sew-lever they y Madrona, Green Lake and]on being “llve ones"—these floyer-|all, for I had very not been heard of since, It is teared| Mount Baker park will be open Sun-|folk--for eight months out of *the| year, and when they cacne to take us | tain, for I have been freshly painte jay to winter quarters, in the day. LEWIS’ REPORT The Central Labor Counct! cheered |{ campaign lay 20.—America has} ‘al power|how Mayor Hanson handled private « hired by the Western Union ared in a Memorialjin its fight ainst oin teleg Lewis yanston today | raphe } your « for dear 0! December 1, he said, the army] It adopted resolutions declaring its noe in Mayor Hanson, Presi L. Proctor and Secretary rope would equal the English | confid have 150 warships and 50 oth-| James A. Duncan of an nd » |COUNCIL VOTES [A Letter From Chairman Joshua ! Green of Red Cross Committee | \ Sanders, Editor The am writing is to you and Th ¢ down to t ner that The Star mean the front page and other news items appeared, I 1 big factor, and then when you volunteered a big, sub: | My Dear Mr MAYOR HANSON |=: lustily Wednesday night when told) knew it was more tl is their sir Remembering those who sailed and fought to keep the waters free, And those those only battle was their struggle with the sea, Whose winding-eheet is ocean-foam, whose head-stone is the sky, Who bravely went to death for us—who know not where they lie; Yet we like to think them rescued from the lipping, lapping waves And cradling with their brothers of the naked, new-born graves. O, tender, new-born, naked graves, see where the grass has crept And striven to cast its mothering robe above you as you slept! Ah! more those struggling, straggling blades,mayhap, than wereitours To strew you with the largess of our most memorial flowers, For, haply, in that symbol of the tender-spreading sod We see life lifting from the grave beneath the breath of God! ND VANCE COOKE. DISORDERS IN r: One of the first letters of tar meeting of the papers in our office I to be a big factor in our EVA, May and sent in a sub ution, I felt The Star Austri tribution from The r Own 48 A personal « an ite part, and our executive comr at & meeting according to a dispatch from In. your part in this campaign was expl asked me nissbruck today re thanks to The Star, to you personally, and to }| Serious riots have broken out al {| Jugo-Slave attach {| The soldiers killing and wounding several such fine work and helped to make a big record Recent riots condemning the tactics of the Wash. eged attempts to break down 75,000 nen in the navy when| morale of locked-out union girl teleg ‘Two girls, 16 and 18%, have had it 400,000. We will have 500,000 before| it to them, ‘Hither you sever your fr connections or your family tes,’ # zing the present German) secretary Duncan, in telling of the as an effort to terrorize the al-| pressure against which girl teleg | WITH THE into a speedy peace, Lewis|raphers are struggling They are Ameri- | outside of the threshold of their ent such an end-| parents’ home tonight 1 1,750,000 tons of Let's adopt them," wa n comple bp He 4 wounded ar % quick a. response nt ¥ One woman jumped up and offered (Continued on page 5) spittin tment In the ee contracted Hamilton "gst AUTO RACES CALLED OFF is" EW YORK, May 30-—The auto- machines called off on wounded by guns. By July 1, the produc-| Sheepshead bay we account of bad weatl n of the at Arlington he participat- | building monies of | they bli sublet for 700,000,000 pounds of ex a, 3 object of no particular tmportanc with me the subject of no particular atten-| Tonight I am out crocus, the jemone, t nd all the vat of “we'll probably haye| flower folk in Nature's underground king crowd this after-| storehouse were awaiting the same There Have been mobs on the | call +e faction for me to reflect that, how. | strong 4 twelve we are in the same class with | all U. S AVIATORS raphers “| WIN LAURELS IN aap yeh ohio BRISK FIGHTING 100 cease eset”, CLEMENCEAU PRAISES SPIRIT OF WARRIORS PARIS, May 30.—Premier Clemen BY FRANK J. TAYLOR United Press Correspondent LORRAINE, John A, Hamilton an encounter with two ed after the falli German bipla of his opp the ground to | H Tayler, of New/as the result of the plane he brought | 41, sighted two b y promptly attacked es scheduled for today at| In the first machine gun bull but sent_one animate park bench, an| But yesterday, I say, it was thus! hardly be expected that they would preen themselves | content, I assure you, hard usage last | have been dec - FIRE DESTROYS TOWN mer WOODLAND, Cal., May 20.—The business ce stroyed by fire which resulte om a gasoline explosion in a gar f age early today AMERICAN ARMY sosnapetiionscsssiiamoitiersoninieinepaiiiovesis u has ned from the May ¢ Lieut 1 . re b i the forward near F denois, He of Maryland, De e his wounds, Hamilton div He 5 A Cross road W ere three minu g plane rday, disabled it with machine gun f and then fol | distance from the ground it burst in ppering A short | ghelt ‘Our men are even mor nachine almost to to flames and dropped with a crash. | cent than T hoped,” he s » its destruction. Lieut. Eddie Rickenbacher is now ot Be eee sl aan eeklign eten t return. “They are equal to the most patrolling n | officially credited with four victims | Critieal situation singing. ‘Their chie he | down Tuesday. worthy of the s s Douglas Campbell rescued a Brit ec Hamilton was |ish bombing plane which was being | pursued by two German. fighting enemy planes | planes terday wives. We t contracted for BY CORA MOORE ) them—that from October till May, or} fall, they threw me quite recklessly | consciousness of 10,000,000 rounds of small arms Ch ct thereabout asinanimate as|into the truck and nearly finished ) out, is there? I have always held to | y cart thing of wooa | 1.8% 98 far cing of any particu:|me on the spot | that opinion And I have alw eeeron, + HAO See 4 iar use to the world is concerned, at] Of course, they have put mo in a|S¥Mpathized with women in nails, a weather-beaten, dilapl-| any rate different place this year, It could | Perpetual craving for new froc bs hey must be an inspiration. | frocks, T mean - have any consideration for senti- ment, I suppose—my old associations and all, you know. in the park, about so tantal! ingly. trifle harsher than I should | However, here I am. orgreens screens mo|chosen had I been consulted A clump of & tect me from the glare of a nent sun and shield me from the too-| get in this, as in many another 1 the stars) So, even if my artistic sense and make | quite seriously offended, 1 sof hu still refrain from making any curious moon and fr that wink at earh ot |merry over the little ef sturdy ax new, and very|ing enacted around me and that I| that attitude toward things for the at| Myself take so seriously | period of the war IT am looking very fit, that is « to be here morning. (To Be Continued) Really, there is no tonic like the s|ENEMY WITHIN | Brouille ‘ward and northeastward around Rheims to the heights’ St. Thierr: "Here lie the first soldiers of the {lustrioun republic of the United ‘counter attacks, inflicting heavy! points on the Aisne front, the with hostil AUSTRIA STOP bot ee “ GERMANS ( CIRCLE. Fa A ye prevented "nen wag | crossing Paris and brought down one | ; : 30. —Internal disorders in Austria-Hungary have paralyzed the project of the n offensive against Italy, 1 7, | jum depth Gf sseré) | miles on the Aisne front, accord- ing to the night report issued by ch and Grats, where Slavs ¢ 1 Austrian troops. d into the crowds, Prague are said to serious. It is es 000 casualties er a French’ general was killed by 4 | rapidly being st magnifi ad on his ‘They go into ca learly Tuesday night Ukewise, Jott. The numnber of boche prisoners r Saving Stamp today. st well turned | |gunners, took heavy toll as the especially in spring, When Nature flaunts newness My own green is a bit brighter, a aw but | from the main path, while a couple | understand the war has something lof friendly willows overhanging pro-|to do with paints, and we are expect n imperti- ed to be satisfied with what we | fierce counter barrage, virtually wip: | three missing in action, man interest that are constantly be-|about the matter, I have adopted|they are obviously heavy, not only r-| I think my paint should be dry by! that the losses in the vi SIX MILES OF MARNE RIVER The allies, aided by reserves, have ap- parently checked the Germans at all points on the Aisne front, according to today’s re- port of the French war office. The battle continued all last night, and was still going on fiercely today. The French report revealed the Germans have ate tained a maximum penetration of 20 miles at twouy points in the center, Fere-en-Tardenois and Vezilly, andy a at the latter place are within six miles of the Marne — river. The battle line now apparently runs from Coucy-] Chateau southward thru Soissons, where the French hold the western outskirts, to Hartennes, southeastward t Fere-en-Tardenois, eastward to Vezilly, northeastward , eastward to Thillois, thence. sharply swings north The Germans have succeeded in! Snsenties taking Soissons, Braine, Fort Conde. Fismes, important railway town, and other places. 1 river ree cromsed by the ordes, ar the shell-racked — ci Rheims seems endangered as the allied de stiffens. ne Gersnans claim the capture of | PICARDY FRONT.—Americans, | since the capture of Cantigny, have] PARIS, May 30.—The allies successfully withstood five desperate! are holding the Germans at all — ermans' | take Can.| Efench war office announced te — ne im: | day. The battle continued all — loswes on the enemy. bvious determination to ugny results from the extre portance of the heights as an ob- night, and fierce fighting was” still under way. The French still hold the western outskirts of tie Cas Soinsons. vans defeated three raiding parti “The battle conttnued thruout America brought down an | night.” the communique said, other biplane on the Lor-| french maintained the western, rai sterday skirts of Soissons, FLANDEF FRONT.—Field Mar-) mans could not pass, despite shal Haig reported minor raiding] attempts. operations on the Flanders front,| “Pierce fighting is going on in @ tillery firing on the/region of the Soissons-Harten southern portion. — |road (running southeast of S60 WEST FRONT AL.—|and 20 miles from the original French mil 'y authorities estimate! and Vezilly (nine miles east of @ the total German losses from the| Fere-En-Tardenol start of the offensive today, includ-) The French, sustained by fee ing the : ycimgeasege te 5 Se el serves, are opposing the German ade men. These figures a ootines & vance with great tenacity. French {@MBrmation that every German di-| ang British troops broke up all as vision has suffered on the average 4/ cauits on their positions at minimum loss of 2,000 men. Count: four miles north of Vezilly), ing those divisions which have been! (4 miles weat of Rheims), and used two or three times, 260 di-| woe ¢ Res o ims (on the hel; visions have been employed by ee Thierry)." one ot Be enemy. The French believe the FRONT.—During a terday (presumably | sector) the Ameri air raids over French territory las' machine Premier Clemenceau returned to Peis from the front | his confidence that tt allies| f ure | to holding the enemy] there | LONDON, May 30.—The Ger- mans have penetrated to a maxt the French war office. All but the western outskirts of Soissons were in the hands of AGAINST SHARP S's‘ tnt - -apllegtigiole: Bh. 7 capture of 25,000 prisoners, includil BY FRED 8, FERGUSON a French and a British genera am United Press Correspondent | ‘The line of the German advance, WITH THE AMERICANS IN ording to night official states PICARDY, Ms he fifth sue-| ments, now extends southward from cessive counter-attack against he region of Coucy le Chateau, thru tigny was repulsed by the America to Soissons, southeastward last night thru Ambrief and Charrise to Lous Yangee artillery repsonded to the yard thru Brouillet to » with heavy and ef northeastward to St Machine guns raked ‘Thierry ‘ Rheims, which the British are defending, is surrounded on three side Its evacuation is believed fective enemy positions, ‘The new American positions are | trengthened, infantry and engineers digging in regardless| imminent of constant boche shelling. Describing the American capture Three of the attacks took place /of Cantigny Tuesday morning, the and one yester-| German war office said: day morning. All were easily beaten est of Montdidier, the enemy, | auring a local advance, penetrated en in this ar is 240. into Cantigny.” Efforts of the rmans to recap-| On the Flanders front, only raiding: ture the village and heights are in-| operations were mentioned by Fiel@ a ative of the importance they at-| Marshal Haig. He reported the re- ach to the heights for observation | pulse of enemy raids north of Keme Norpee € mel. GIVEN ON U. S, CASUALTY ROLL wave succeeded in reaching th American line, This happene 7 p.m, The infantry and machine WASHINGTON, May 30,~Thirty- boches advanced. When tho surviv-| give names were on the casualty lit ors reached the line, they were bayo-| issued today by the war de; ‘G neted or shot down, Those who re-| divided as follows: partment) ae mained fled in disorder. | Bitve kitiea‘tn antties: alll Artillery smashed all the other at-| wounds, four dead from peers: tacks, As the boche waves advane- | dead from disease, nine wounded ees ed, light and heavy guns laid down a . two Slightly Woundel al ing out the first and second waves.| Lieut, George Squires, St. Paul, fs All the reserve and support positions | reported as dead of accident; also were heavily shelled, preventing 1%, A. Keonne, Rocheste the enemy from reorganizing Huns 1 1,000 N.Y An accurate estimate of the Ger-, missing, is now a prisoner, man losses is not yet possible, but DR. MEAD TO SPEAK in the first lines, but in the par or Dr. Elwood Mead, community land here are indications expert of Berkeley, will speak at the © alone land development ‘congress in Seate tle, June 20 and 21, in the Chamber |of Commerce assembly hall. and Lieut, J. F, Crawfors Warsaw, , Who Was previously reported ganizations, will exceed 1,000, ¢ losses in counter attacks,