The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 1, 1918, Page 1

= 4 TO TRAIN MORE THAN 70,000 PAID COPIES DAILY 24,674 THE GRE DRAFT MEN AT SCHOOL The Seattle Sta ATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PA CIFIC NORTHWEST NIGHT EDITION Weather Vorecast: Tonight and Sunday, fair; moderate southerly winds, VOLUME 20 LEASED WIRPF SERVIC® thiteh PRESS ASSOCIATIONS SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1918. ARIS f 412 Washington for Mechanics WASHINGTON, June 1.—A call for 24,674 draftable | men of grammar school education ‘for specialized training | in and agricultural schools was issued by the pro-| vost marshal general today. The quotas will be made up, so far as possible, from volunteers, and any lack will be made up by draft. Due to confusing announcement by Provost Marshal General Crowder, it was stated earlier in the day that school | were being called for war service. a may yolunter for| , up to June 7, and | SoCtale SOR mateemernget “The eve i part acl 1 Phage a greatly needed E gemeianl ross a departments of Mo edlecd set a a for $2,615 Today | A check for $2,615 for the Red Cross was received from the Rig and Stevedores’ union by Green Satur purwuits. Sqate Quotas Given state quotas and the || gers’ to which they will be sent in- |} Chairman Joshua clude: day. Washingtonm—103 to Modern Auto ) This represents a $5 contribu Spokane; 309 to Washington Pullman. tion from 623 dock workers who make an average of a little less than $5 a day NOTE—And practically alt of these workers probably are pay College. Corvallis, Ore. ° 206, to Colorado State Mtural College, Fort Collins, d |} dng higher rents. { H ; Tdaho—103, to University of Idaho, =a Secs CANTICNY LINE STRENGTHENED | BY AMERICANS, 109 to Waiversity of Ne Oregon—309 to Schoo! District No. | BY FRED S. FERGUSON United Preas Correspondent . Portland. Utah—453 to University of Utah, / WITH THE AMERICANS IN “Utah; 288 to Agricultural | College of Utah, Logan. PICARDY, May 31.—{Night.)—In the face of the heaviest bornbardments INCREASE IS BEING SHOWN and almost constant counter attacks, the Americans are proving they are} Just as good at holding onto a bit of | territory as they are at capturing it. The same dash and determination | are marking their consolidation and | occupation of the newly won ground | at Cantigny as they displayed in its acquisition, bringing them highest praise from the French soldiers and| officers in this region American aerial observers told -ne that the greatest sight they ever saw | was the advance of our infantry into Cantigny. At first they refused to) mention their own exploits, Later, | however, they admitted they had flown as low as 50 yards over the| heads of the infantrymen Airmen Heroic During the battle practically all| their work of maintaining communi. | | cation between the artillery and in- | fantry was done at a height of 200 | yards. Penetrating far into the boches’ fear areas, one American airman was attacked by nine Hun planes, | but escaped. Cantigny is completely wrecked. Only the skeletons of buildings re- main. German tanks are reported to have been in action in this region in the | last 24 hours. In addition to the bombardment of our new gains, the boches are utilix- | ing frightfulness schemes, apparent } ly in wrath at the loss of Cantigny Scores of bombs have been dropped, not only on the rear areas, but on a| town far back of the lines | In preparation for some of their counter attacks the boches have used considerable phosgene and “sneezing gas.” | Prisoners taken from the German 82nd division fought at the Somme | in 1915, then participated in the Galician offensive, and latér return ed to the West front. SLACKER SETS FIRE | TO TWO WAREHOUSES “J did it so I would be put in prix on and wouldn't have to fight in the national army,” Alford Borg tgid Deputy Sheriff Matt Starwich Friday | night Korg was arrested by the deputy sheriff after he had set fire to two warehouses near High Point, during the afternoon. He will be charged with arson. Borg 1s of draft age and has been | classified by his local board in Alas- | ka as Clans 1. | I MRS. ROSE PASTOR STOKES | GETS 10-YEAR PRISON TERM - ene 7 3h Mrs. Stokes was indicted on three Pe: counts under the egplonage act, fol overruling motion for a new 4 p, Atter naling © met lowing the writing @f a letter to the trial, Judge Van Valkenburgh today | yeoneas City Star. ced Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes.) government was mw York socialist, convicted of} The letter was & denial that she ‘the espionage act, to ten| had appealed in a published inter- No fine| view for support of the a3 r- ited Press vary in the increase, but in some dis-| gains of as high as 300) >The be period allowed for enlistnents ‘by the volunteer system was short. to the fact that training .- campe choked with men in some j canes agnd In all districts are well fitled. York's enlistments showed gain, but do not compare from other parts of the particularly the Middle | We REGISTRATION TO BEGIN 7 A. M. ON WEDNESDAY Everything is ready for the regis: tration, next Wednesday, of young men who have become 21 years old since June 5, 1917. Registration will | ‘be made before the board which has Jurisdiction over the territory in which the registrant resides. No difficulty is anticipated by the boards in securing a complete regis- tration, but complete birth and age records of men Mable for service are fn the possession of boards. Offices be open for registration from 7 @ m. until 5 p. m. on Wednesday, June 5 ROBBED AS HE SLEPT N. L. Nelson slept soundly Friday night, and missed $185 from his pocket when he arose in the morn- ing. He lives at 6801% Duwamish ave. G. A. R. Parade in Star-Liberty Film }| The Star-Liberty Weekly for next week, that goes on at the} ty theatre Sunday, shows ( ‘Memorial day parade, kiddies of the B. F. Day grammar school, in May day exercises; the yeo manettes of the naval training @ “Mercy Monday” dance and R. O. T. C. men off “Somewhere.” i a an _ NSAS CITY, Mo. June 1— No Nearer Paris Than Before throwing his major strength against the new French front between Soissons and Chateau Thierry, which blocks the roads to Paris. Despite the enormous Ger- man slaughter since the Aisne offensive began, Hindenburg has not got appreciably nearer Paris. The closest part of his front to the French capital now is Chateau Thierry, which is 45 miles away. At Mont didier, Von Hindenburg was but 50 miles away and was un- able to advance in the direc- tion toward Paris. There is no relationship be ITALY 18 READY TO MEET ENEM ROME, June 1 Military critics consider the arrival of Gen. Roehm Ermollt at Friuli and the council of war held in the Undine under Boroevic, aa certain indications that an Austrian offensive is imminent. The Austrians continue massing along the Italian front. Reinforce ments are still arriving from Ru-| mania and Ukraine and new Turk ish contingents are expected. | The Italians are fully prepared, and the morale of the troops is high ext AMERICANS SMASH 32 DUGOUTS IN WOEVRE WASHINGTON, June 1—Gen Pershing today reported a eeful American ansault ainet the Ger. mana in the Woev with the result ant destruction of 32 dugouts, More than 20 of the enemy were killed and wounded. A machine gun was cap- tured. DOCTOR IN TROUBLE | LOS ANGELES, June 1—Dr. W. C. Langhorst, recently of Aurora, Iil., | today faces a federal grand jury on | a charge of circulat ed seditious book. He arrested » ul weeks ago ay the author and clr culator of “Reduced Privilege Class,“ Edueation.” LISTER GROW CHICAGO, June 1 Ernest Lister, of Washington, under treat ment here for cardiac troubles, will return to Washington after a ten. day rest in a hospital, His physt, clan reported his condition as favor- able today. eT Ae | FIRST JUNE BRIDE BETTER Gov SHE’S LOS ANGELES, June 1—In order to become California's first June bride, Miss Ella Mae Laughlin, of Willobrook, waited until 12:01 this morning to marry Ray Henderson, of Redondo. WAK VETERANS WILL MEET British and Canadian war veterans are requested to attend a meeting to | be held at room 627 Lyon building, Third ave, and James at., Sunday, at government) 2 p. m., for the purpose of organiza: | Germa: ; ton. | auring ROAD |Map Shows Huns on New Front; | DISTANCES . SO19S0N5 CHATEAU T BAPAUNE MONTDIOIER TO PARIS tween Montdidier and Chateau Thierry, 60 miles separating them. The Montdidier road be- ing blocked, Von Hindenburg is now trying the route leading from the new French front. In desperate fighting, Foch is holding his own and there is every reason for confidence that the assault at the heart of France will be permanently checked. Gen. Foch is showing confi- dence that no fatal damage is threatened, for otherwise he would not continue to keep the American troops out of the fray. The new German front of measures 75 miles because RAR, q CROWDS SEE LEWIS | MEN ACT ON STREET } Crowds blocked downtown streets Saturday morning, when 10 Camp Lewis n ared be. camera that TEUTONS TRY TO DECEIVE ALLIES: IN NEW SCHEMES BY WM. PHILIP SIMMS United Press Correspondent WITH THE BRITISH ARMIE! IN FRANCE, June 1.—While the armies of the Prussian crown prince are thrusting southward acroas the country traversed in 1914, drunk with the success of the first phase of the battle, the nan high command is making every effort to deceive tho allies as to future turn ing of the offensive. | me prisoners claim one thing All, probably are their captors ims offensive and that the Others say be toward primed to Some declare th real blow is yet to come, the main thrust is to Ypres It is hardly possible that Foch and Haig will fall for such cock-and-bull stories, Likely enough they have a good notion of the main plana of the enemy and will act accordingly. Shelling and bombing of areas far in the rear of the lines continues, | Poperinghe and the’ Flemish battle fields, the Arras sector and the Somme country are principally in volved 28 FOE PLANES DOWNED IN ONE DAY’S BATTLE LONDON, June 1.—The latest of:| ficial. issuance of the ment mentions the destroying of 28) n airplanes and two balloons the 4 a5 war depart | more one day. Five allied ma To PARIS som HIERRY TO PARIS 45 M som PRICE ONE CENT B i ( { ’ its salient form, compared with 50 miles of straight front that existed before the Aisne of- fensive. To hold this extra 3 miles with any degree of se curity will require 15,000 men. indenburg That means will have 150,000 less troops to op- pose America's offensive when it starts toward Metz and tho Rhine. As America progresses, Hin- denburg will be compelled shorten his present front to to find men to guard the Rhine. Then will come the opportuni- ty for Gen. Foch to strike wi ith the possibility of throwing the thinly held German front into confusion. WAR MOB CASE READY FOR JURY YWARDSVILLE, Ill, June about noon. } fore a motion ptctur The lives of 11 accused lynchers of ) filmed a scenario on Second ave. Robert Praeger, at Collinsville, will ( The men were experienced actors rest In the hands of the jury late { with the 364th infantry vaudeville {| today Arguments were opened at } show that will be produced at the {/# a m., and it was early indicated } Metropolitan theatre, Saturday { that final appeals and the court's night. {|instructions would be completed Manager of $25,000 Religious Drive Is on Job in Seattle | .; Headquarters for Paul evangelist, who will open week campaign in Seattle 22, have be in thi by G Meinardi, n ope ut business manager Division of the city where f every Tuesday evening, starting 1, 1s one of the activities of Mein The evangelical campaign will into dis Y Rader, eight mber M ader’s tricts ayer meetings will be held July pardi cost $25,000 and will be underwritten in notes of from $100 to $500. © ‘ollec tions will be taken at each meeting Rader’s sala Tabernaci to meet expenses. paid by the Moody Chics LONDON PAPER PROU OF YANKEE SHOWING Pe on ail ciots also was fore bri LONDON, June 1.—"The American victory at Cantig received the attention it merits, ares, © more we hear of the A can army, the better they ap The Americans, in this last ver ry is jo of D Mant has * the meri ppear, nture, beat the crack Siliceans and Brand enburgers, and held their against all comers, SEATTLE MAN 1S AGAI gains N IN JAIL IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, ing investigation by of justice, Albert ¥ is back In jail again down th British flag in able b where, he sald, it conspicuously displayed American, for which he was June 1.—Fe » depart . of Sei raon h to slow ment attle auled a fashion was than first $26. Authorities cannot get apeak. ‘ L | Foch Confident { That Hun Drive { Will Be Crushed i ‘ { { | ‘ARTILLERY LEF BEHIND IN FAST | MARCH OF FOE cralisnimo in his armies | BY HENRY WOOD neral, you saved Flanders in 1914. You won't leave it in danger in 19187" Foeh replied When one remembers how we ntopped the enemy four years ago one must entertain no doubt with the means we have at our dinponal today.” When Gen, Foch recently vise ited Dunkirk, the mayor said to hin United Preas Correspondent | WITH THE FRENCH AR MIES ON THE AISNE FRONT, May 31.—Night)—The German advance on this front has been so rapid that at present artillery is playing » comparatively minor role in the battle. Rifles, ma- chine guns and trench mortars constitute their main offensive | arms. | A few mmall detachments of the enemy are reported to have reached lthe Marne near Charteves, but his main forces are still on the plateau above Chateau-Thierry, which de aconds abruptly by sbarp-sloped hills to the river's edge. | Following the capture of Fere-en- Tardenois, the Germans were able to | | advance with great rapidity, under cover of the heavy forests south of that place. Altho the battle was rag- ing desperately on the plateau today, 1 OC lentire 75-mile front between Noyon KE the New Fror on Marne Rive BY HENRY WOOD United Preas Correspondent WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES THE MARNE, May 31 (By courier Paris, June 1).—The French are still solid holding every bridgehead and across the Marne. Asa result of this determined resist: the Germans apparently have withd: from the edge of the river back onto plateau above the river valley, where th are now seeking to advance to the we: Checked in their attempts to cross the Marne, the Gere. mans are now confining their efforts to break down the” resistance on the wings, at Rheims and in the region of — Soissons, . British troops on the eastern flank are checking progress in that direction, in spite of the fact Rheims, partially surrounded. Consequently the Germans’ h efforts are to the west of Soissons for the purpose of ing up the recent advance with the original Amiens front and a ite prenence could hardly be detected, nave for occasional shots from the | French “Tis” or the German “77s” | and trench mortars, as the latter | |sought to dislodge some French na- chine guns. | Few Shell Wounds | The Germans having advanced rapidly, they were unable to bring up | Jany except their lightest artillery. | Thus, the wounded who passed me | were suffering almost invariably from bullet, instead of shell wounds. | Returning from the vantage ground where I had seen the fight | | ing on the wooded slopes of the pla- | tens, I encountered French infantry | men, who stolidly took up their posi-| |tions in houses and sheltered nooks, eating and resting while the occasion | still offered. | Long lines of infantry, muledrawn | |machine guns and ammunition wag [ons were held ready to rush up and | throw theig weight in the path of | | the boched. | Here I also met, standing in the middie of a road and surrounded by hia staff, a fanous French general. | His troops, who were then fighting | on the plateau, had withstood with: | out a single break in their front the German advance clear from Chemin des Dames. The general, who had just return. | (Continued on page 10) BRITISH TROOPS TAKE | | PRISONERS IN RAIDS IN FLANDERS REGION | | IONDON, June 1—Local fighting in the Picardy area, resulting to the advantage of the British was report: | Jed by Marshal Haig today. | hostile raid was repulsed east Villers-Bretonneux,” the state- | ment said. | “Local fighting in Aveluy wood | and north of Albert resulted to our advantage, We took a few prisoners "There hostile artillery firing early this morning in the Villers-Bre- tonneux and Hebuterne South and west of Lens and in the neighborhood of Givenchy, there was active cannonading last night.” | |GOVERNMENT MAY TAKE! | OVER COTTON AND SILK, WASHINGTON, June 1,—Possible | ng of all cotton, woolen goods was indicated today was sectors. with the appointment of John Scott Chicago, as “textile administrator” of the war industries board. Fixed Will Search Out Alien Enemy Property in West CHICAGO, June 1.--A campaign in the Middle West to search out | alien enemy property, was begun to |day by J. Linberger Davis, assist ant to the alien property custodian. Headquarters will be Chicago, “There are more than 21,000 re-| ports of enemy-owned property on said Davis. | file in Washington,” ‘WIZARD OF 02’ AUTHOR SUFFERS FROM ILLNESS LOS ANGELES, June 1.—As a re sult of overwork on his latest novel, | L. Frank Baum, author of “The Wizard of Oz," is seriously ill at his Hollywood home. his wife announced today, and altho under a nurse’ care bo makes no improvement, GERMANS STILL HAVE RESERVES | | bank of that river, between Chateau-Thierry The French communique, however, indicated that @ point have the crown prince’s armies been able to a crossing of this important defensive line. On the left flank the French appear to be holdin Germans between Noyon and Soissons. South of the k city they have even swept the Germans back to the G river by fierce counter attacks, retaking two villages. — On the right flank the British and French are batt the Germans along the Dormans-Rheims road. ‘ is two miles southwest of Verneuil, on the south oO the Marne. The road runs northeastward thru Vi { Rheims. Rheims itself is still held by the allies, altho it is now surrounded on all but the extreme south, and is in| the apex of an extremely dangerous ing operations around Villere-] neux and Albert, resulting to the vantage of the British. ee FLANDERS FRONT—German ar tillery was active near Givenchy on |the southern portion of the ie front, | last night. ITALIAN FRONT—The At continue to mass troops along. Italian front, bringing new divi from Rumania and Ukraine, contingents also are expected The arrival of Gen, BoehmEB at the Udine front and a council éalient. Cabling from where he saw the Aisne the battle around | Chateau-Thierry, Henry Wood said the Gernan advance had been so rapid that only their lightest artil- lery kept up, and that many phases of the present battle are being fought | mostly with rifles and machine guns. | PICARDY—The Americans con-| war there are accepted as further Ins 7 tinue to improve their positions’ dications of an impending Austriam around Cantigny, despite constant offensive er FRANCE—The Germans Z their long-range bombardment s Paris today. | “On the Chaudin-Viezy line, 7 French, counter-attacking i | feat, hurled back the German that was launched on that | gaining ground everywhere and take ing several hundred prisoners, e “South of Soissons, the Germans” |were hurled back on the Crise, Chaudin and Viezy were taken ken and were finally kept the French after the fiercest fights ing. : “In the Chouy Neuilly front re gion a fierce tle is under way. © French hurling the Germans b: The French broke up the German the Crise river by counter attacks, | attacks and maintained their lines, recapturing Chaudin and Viezy and| ‘Immediately to the east of these taking several hundred prisoners. | localities on the north bank of the Sharp fighting is going on along) Marne, German outposts border the the road from Dormans to Rheims, river norh and east of Chateat on the right flank. |'Thierry, as far as Verneuil. “The German attack continued| “On the right the French are hold> yesterday evening and last night,” ing the Dormans-Rheims road where the statement said. “It was most, sharp fighting continues. hs: violent on the front from Soissons to| ‘The situation is unchanged northe Chateau-Thierry west and north of Rheims.” bombardment and frequent counter attacks Field Marshal Haig reported raid. TWO FRENCH T PARIS, June 1.—The Germans now occupy a 13-mile front on the north bank of the Marne, be- tween Chateau-Thierry and Ver- neuil, but have failed to force a crossing of the river at any | point, the official communique said today, The Rheims Violent fighting occurred yester: day evening and last night on the left flank, south of Soisson British and French still hold 1. KEEN Unite is Correspondent LONDON, June 1.-There is no disguising the fact that the military situation is very serious, not only use the Germans advanced 28 miles in five days, but because they still have a large number of fresh reserves which they can throw Into battle, according to the opinion a high authority today Until it is known where these re Will be used, the situation will | tives—the channel ports, se) |of the British and French armies” and capture of Amiens and Paris. German reserves can be used in one of these—it is impossible to tell which. The reserves at the right and left of the crown prince's army have not yet been touched, it is known. he German attack in the Aisne was not a complete surprise, because an enemy concentration there was known to be in progress, "| but there was no definite informa: remain anxious tion that a great drive was impend The transport of British and ing : Freneh reserves is working smooth It is not fair to blame the allied) nd there are now plenty to command for the reverse. It Wal check the German advanc witn the outcome of an inherently un” ev hope of holding the enemy to favorable strategical situation, With) | little more progress, it was declared./a numerically superior enemy, the) Three Objectives | allies cannot have adequate “3 Asie from the main German ob-/ at all their attacked pointa, iS fective of crushing the Anglo-French | would be tlie only way of pi ing armies, tho enemy has three initial y b