The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 12, 1918, Page 1

. 7 ful and look well cared for, tho 1” late ts pWestern Union to reinstate is) Jame of them said they have had Hocked-out telegraphers and PY | iittie to eat lately. All are members + MORE THAN ‘70,000 PAID COPIES DAILY rus 1. LEASED NIT WIKRE sERvicR TED PRESS ASSOCIATION! VOL UME 20 GRE, T ‘ST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC The Seattle Sta THE NORTHWEST INE SDAY, “JU NE 12, 1918. SE ATTLE, WA H., Ww Yanks Take 62 Machine Guns; Belleau Held Lowell Mellett, United Press correspondent with the Americans on the Marne, at 4:30 this afternoon, cabled that the possibility of a German advance in that sector has been tically eliminated thru consolidation of the new posi- north and east of Belleu wood. The marines now solidly hold the wood, the last ma- chine gun stronghold at its edge being taken at the point of the bayonet at 10 o'clock this morning. The attacking party found the group of boulders filled with dead and wounded Prussians. The total prisoners taken in the wood i and contiguous territory has reached well above 400, with _62 machine guns, four trench mortars, a great number of rifles and a large quantity of ammunition. BY LOWELL MELLETT United Press Correspondent WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES IN FRANCE, June 12.—American marines have entirely cleared the Belleau wood, five miles west of Chateau Thierry, of enemy forces, it was established today. | The German defenders were slaughtered in great num- | bers, and those who survived fled in disorder. The American artillery prepara-| tion began at 2:20 yesterday morn-| ing. An hour later the marines at-| ° le tacked the Germans, who still held the northern portion of the wood./ They were under order to push thru | to the northeastern limits of the} wood ‘They carried out their in structions to the letter W. I J ( ASE While this fight was under way e © the Germans launched an attack, at — 5 a m., agninst the American units holding Bouresches, on the right Must Reinstate Key Men by | te amauit was completely repulsed. t «great masses of the enemy being Next Saturday, is broken up by artillery and riffle fire Prisoners Are Word Prisoners taken by the marines are the gladdest lot I've seen Many of them are extremely youth yet » The government has requested the} them for their lost time, according} of a Prussian unit, tho drafted from to advices received in Seattle)all parts of Germany. Several who inendas Nclais of the local]/*¢rved on the Russian front said im cap semameaes they liked it better there than on a. this front An answer has been asked by Sat Many of the German regiments urday. they said, are recruited from Jews These are unwilling to fight and are compelled to go into battle by ma chine guns placed in the rear of their lines. After they have entered the fighting line they are chained to guns and wagons. A captured officer said it was un derstood by himself and others that less than 200,000 Americans are in France. He was surprised to learn that the Americans had been here several months. This information was contained in &@ telegram from International Pres ident Konenkamp of the Commercial Telegraphers Union, who also an Telegraphers’ union, who also an- Agreement with the railway teleg raphers, insuring their full support in case of a nation-wide strike ‘The arrival of the strike order, now in the mails and due at any . is awaited by local union of. fictals. “The strike date is approaching.” President Konenkamp said. The question of submitting a refer. endum to all unions affiliated with the Central Labor Council on | question of whether a general sym-| pathetic strike shall be called to} back up the telegraphers will be| brought up at the Wednesday even-| BY FRED $. FERGUSON ing meeting of the council F : ' Commissioner White, labor concili United Press Correspondent ator for the government in the Seat | WITH THE AMERICANS WE! tle district complied with the|OF MONTDIDIER, June 12.—Amer telegraphers’ request that he for-|ican artillery is pounding the Ger ward to President Wilson a message| man lines of communication far in as the French and boches calling attention to the se of the situation created by in the struggle on the new astward. iousness th the rear de-| grapple front to the fiance of the Western Union DEMOCRACY! Lumber jobbers and and wholesalers, fearful lest the government shall fix a price to consumers, are clois- tered in the Henry building today, trying to stall off any such wide-sweeping interference. “Tt is undemocratic,” declare the middlemen, “to ask protection against the abuses of a few jobbers at the expense of the rest of u Horrors! The fixed price to consumers seems to be a dark, unholy menace—even undemocratic! If the lumbermen are trying to protect democracy they ought to climb over on the other side of the fence, indorse price fixing, and see that the prices are the very lowest possible to the consumer. As a matter of fact, the commercial interests, little and big, are nearly all profiteering in one way or the other. Business men, little and big, give their sons to the service and are proud of them. But while they shake one fist at the enemy, they are often grabbing after extra profits with the other. And a general grab and grunt situation sucks the Strength and vitality of the nation. ¥ No, Mr. Lumberman, price fixing is not undemo- cratic. Properly administered, and when uncontrolled by profiteer interests, it will win the war by strength- ening the morale of the people at home and relieving them of unnecessary hardships. | | | Wednesday | fight \ in bri HIS FIRST JOB! AND Now, MISTER- HOHENLOLLERM You witt ACCEPT THE TERMS ( AM ABOUT To DIC TATE. WHEN CAESAR CROSSED THE RUBICON— 7 es &# * * NEW DRAFT |ssi,Gircuses Come |KERENSKY| They're coming thick and fast, kids! Right on the heels of Al G. Barnes’ prens agents, the fore runners of Sells Floto circus are IS cyl 2,000 ere sag es. Floto, will be eee tne tenn, |S0 Says Konovaloff, sential War Wor | their days of arrival. | Minister, Now in Here Seattle SHOUT CHARGES | oo... cmn nes ye FOR U.S.A. The “work or fight” order of Provost Marshal Gen. Crowder, | mice, will not visit the United announced from Washington | | States, ax reported, in the opin. last week, is creating = big | jon of A. Konovaloff, minister of shake-up in Seattle. | commerce under Kerensky and under Prince Lvoff, who arrived Tuesday night in Seattle aboard ® Japanese liner. The noted Russian, who « death at the hands of the Bolsh and with his wife fled across Siberia Probably 1500 or 2,000 young | men of the city are going to find | some essential war employment before July 1, or change their address to some training camp. dy necking new em ployment. Some who have done not much f anything bestir ring themselves to join the laboring | trouble AT CONVENTION Charges of June proGer and pul broke | Some are alre of Labor convention here today. The ington Wednesd: that he is on the adoption of | Official mission for the so-called cadet party of Russia or others arose over look towards securing the assistanc ‘It is having a most salutary ef)" 5, hed si fact siready,” eait Chairman Whie-| reur socialists voted against i8/ of allied governments for a seal { the board of district No. 6,|Sa0ption 1 Schlesinger, New | of the more moderate forces of Rus ee + ‘'York garment worker, was one to] sia to power 0 4 thie distri ft wnion to.| vot? against it. Frank Duffy, In-| “1 must keep in my jet, which Coane aeeny hotel see.| U&Rapolia, chairman of the commit-| know and have in hand until 1 get |tee on organization, refused to serve|to New York and see the Russian tions, naturally the home of the class | (°°.0)), ype 26g t ¢ men affected by the ‘work or| jesinger continued as a mecn-| ambassador and officials of the Unit » Bogart ber of that committee. jed States," he sald head what 1 order. Probably as many more | wy won't wtand for a pacifist and! “I was much surprised at the re will be rounded up in the district for | je. German on my committer,” he port that Kerensky is coming to this other draft boards, for men have) snouted. “I have relatives in the! country, which I heard when I ar come here from all parts of the coun| army, and they belong to the Car-|rived at Tokio, I think it ie er try | penters’ union, which has furnished | roneous But there a many points in the! 14 900 men for military service. “L go on to France, after confer new order which will not be known | Our organization has done more | ring in , York.” i‘ until the exact text hi A been or than yours,” retorted Schlesinger! In Seattle, former Minister Konov. ed by local boards and thoroly dl-| «ir he wants me to apologive forjaloff was met by S. S. Novonseloff, gested, It is this uncertainty that) a.cing questions about the labor! of New York, and Consul-General a flood of inquiries to ging in local boards. mission's him ke a lot of difference,” | Delegates Jumped to their feet, de Chairman Whitney,| manding recognition, but Gompers | order will snake every | pounded them down report, T won't serve with | Nicolas Bogiaviensky of Seattle and | other Russians of the city spent the day with him Wednesday. He leaves for New York Thursday vorts 1 ha rard since I fled It will mr points 0 ‘whether the of the occupations listed man in It was a misunderstanding,” said! from Russia, in March, lead me to as non-essential change to some oth: | Gompers believe that the workers, peasants er, whether physically incapacitated!) srhe American labor mission re d soldiers of the soviets now see for military service or not, or wheth-| cently returned from England sug-|that the Bolsheviki can bring them er it will affect just those fit for) gested Gompers as one of two men to|only famine and distress,” he said. | service whose turn has not yet come.| remain in Kurope for the remainder | “However, | have been long out of | Must every waiter, for instance, find | of the war, welding laborers together | touch with events in Russia, ‘The some other work? in a “win the war” epirit last I saw of Kerensky was in Oc La ling salesmen, especially for) German atrocities in Belgium were | tober, when the government fell.’ nonessentials, are wondering wheth:| rm vivid to delegates to the feder NOT BOUND | Ex- | | | | ARINES BAYONET WAY BRITAIN HALTS RENT PROFITEER ‘LAND HOGS ~~" CURBED IN ENGLAND Faced by Same Conditions That Now Exist Here, Government Acts "WILL CONGRESS DELAY? BY FREDERICK M. KERBY In Great Britain, where the realities of war are closer to the people, and where everything that stands in the way of the na tion's war business has been ruthlessly thrust aside, they do not permit landlords to bleed the men and women who are carry- ing the burden at home while their men folk are fighting at the front Great Britain, early faced with the same problem of rent-profiteering that now faces America in menacing form, dealt with the matter with characteristic thoroness and speed. In addition to the war housing acts, passed six days after th laration of war, authorizing the gov ernment to build houses for work lers, the profiteering in rent resulting | SUNS. shortage has been stop | fre n houme 4 law, passed December 22 which restricts, for the period of the war, the increase in rents and axex on small ing houses after November 25, 1915, over the stand- d rates in force August 3, 1914 Effect of Act The effect of this act is to say to the British landlord “You may collect as much rent as you were collecting before the war, but you may net have a Penny more.” The act applies to the dwelling and yard or jot connected with it The landiord may not increase the rent for decorations, but for alter. ations and repairs he may add an amount equal to 6 per cent interest Jon the value of the improvements | deducted by | nd neventy-one Se-} Eckstein, West Seattle; Judge Rich-| Broadway; Hazel McConaghey, vale fat adents graduated ard Winsor, Franklin; Superintend. ‘ictorian, West Seattle; Della Dore Wednesday noon and received . + prank 1. Cooper, Queen Anne; U8 Valedictorian, Lincoln; Kai diplomas Jensen, xalutatorian, Lincoln; Grace The padway school class Assixtant Superintendent T. R. Cole,’ y. Lamb, salutatorian, Broadway was awarded diplomas at Meany | Ballard Amon Hiatt. salutatortan, Weat Seat hall, on the university campus. ‘The valedictorians and salutator!- tle, and Roy Lindbloom, salutatorian, | Other high schools held exercises ans who delivered orations at high Queen Anne in their respective auditoriums. school graduation exercises Wednes- Flowers or presenta could not be Chief speakers were: George A. day afternoon were: Winnie Spies received for or delivered to members! Spencer. president of the school eke, valedictorian, Queen Anne:|of the graduating class at the time| Pairs kept up; nor is ft permissible! board, Broadw Director han Chester W. H valedictorian, | of the exercines. to raise interest rates above the | rates in force on Aug. 3, 1914. The iki! the calm of the American Federation | to China, denied, at the Hotel Wash-| tion to announ: un | many classes, Secor are anxiously inqulr-|the American labor mission's report refused to go into th ¢| « voard ° efused to go into the purposes of| about he Jing of local draft boards whether | o¢ itm trip abroad, which carried an! iis visit, generally andere me or | About her they are going to be affected |implied criticism of socialism. | | er they are affected. A big oll com tion convention by Professor A, ( ation of Labor pany has inquired whether its sales-| Van Hecke, of the Belgian labor | The railroad telegraphers formatlty | men must go, adenitting that it might | mission [agreed that they will refuse to han do all its business by lett | die commercial company telegrams “A man who saya } has $7,000 In CHICAGO, June 12 Following an | The is no likelihood of a walkout a dance hall below ¥ came in tolindorsement by the Order of Rail. | by the railroad men in the event of ask me about his ca I told him it| way Telegraphers on the attitude of |a telegraphers' strike because th looked to me certain that his occupa-| the Comn Al Telegraphers’ union are now government employes, The tion could not be called essential in ite controversy with the t raph | war labor board w seheduled to At least a dozen men registered companies, President §. J. Konen- | meet today in Chi It is regard in my district, who have scattered to| kamp the Telegraphers’ union /ed possible that the board might corner of the country, (Continued on page 4) consider further the telegraph situa ton, very have | will leave Chieago today for St. Paul | to confer with officials of the Feder: | fact that the Furthermore, the landiord may not ask the tenant to make repairs for merly made by himeel?f. ther may he extract a bonus or other Premium for renting the house, but such a bonus, if charged, may be the tenant from any rent due The law makes it unlawful to fore close a mortgage, if interest and in stallments are paid regularly and re making of any the guine of arrears was prohibited (Continued on page 4) PATROL VESSEL FIGHTS U-BOAT BY CARL D. GROAT Tnited Press Correspondent n coast patrol vessel has had one battle with a German U-boat raider. From an unquestionable source to day came this fact, together with the navy has had a mass of reports from patrol commanders. None of these has been made public. Secretary Daniels has taken the position that only absolutely authen ticated cases of sinking or capture will be But announced 1 Press is in that t the Un posi of the beyond a 1 fired on a one reports indi doubt that a patrol ve He! submarine and dropped depth bombs: The effect can only be | conjects ured ;COUNT MINOTTO WILL REMAIN IN DETENTION CHICAGO, June 12—The appeal of Count James Minotto, son-in-law of Louis F ft, Chicago packer, was withdrawn in the federal court of appeals here today This action formally ends the young Italian noble's opposition to internment under a presidential war rant. Minotto, now at Fort Ogle thorpe, Ga., was represented by at- torneys NEW WAR ORDERS WILL GO TO WEST AND SOUTH| WASHINGTON, to the limit, June 12.-Loaded ther expansion of war indus New war orders will go to the Middle West and South until the congestion is relieved CREWS REPORT DIVERS FIRE ON TWO STEAMERS NORFOLK, Va, June 12.—Crews of the steamers Walter D. Noyes and the Pajos, upon arrival here re ported that they had been fired on by submarines Sunday night off the Virginia coast SENATE REJECTS “OPEN DIPLOMACY” MEASURE WASHINGTON, June 12.—The te today went on record against n diplomacy, By a vote of 50 to . it rejected the Borah amendment for public consideration of eaves. illegal charges under | the east United States | n staked off as a barred zone | NIGHT EDITION Thursday, winds, mostly Tonight and moderate Weather Forecast probab! hower ___ PRICE Ot ONE CENT [n’*ieettie CENT f% — Grim Struggle TInereases; New Battle Siarteg A new battle is raging on the front, southwest of Soissons, where Py | mans struck on a four-mile front between t | Aisne and the Villers Cotterets forest. lenemy has failed to progress. | At every point along the entire front from Mo \to the Oise, the desperate struggle continues, the |tons continuing their pressure in the face of violent ance by the French troops, who are fighting ma in this, one of the greatest battles of the war. : Not only did the French hold the enemy to unappre> | ciable gains yesterday evening, but improved their iti ‘on the western flank by continued counter attacks. }ermans were thrown back to a maximum depth of miles on a seven-mile front, losing 1,000 men and AUSTRIA- LOSES 2 WARSHIP Paying « ghastly cost in lives, the enemy was able to make some prog: lress, crossing the Oise river near Ribecourt. . The French evacuated | to prevent a sacrifice of men. | The Germans are feeding their re- [serves into the battle recklessly. Military experts declare the present battle is fast developing into the se- | rious crisis of the war. 'BOCHE ADVANCE BLOCKED ALONG ENTIRE FRON } PARIS, June 12.—The Ger- | mans, striking along the entire Oise front yesterday evening and last night, were blocked at every point by the desperate French resistance. The battle is still the French war office sank two of the largest naughts in the Austrian Monday morning, and to their bases, it was announced today. The daring exploit occurred | the Dalmatian islands, on the trian side of the Adriatic. ‘ In the pursuit which followed, Austrian destroyer was badly @@ aged. | A simultaneous attack on the | western portion of the Marne * was flung back. Two torpedoes were fired at “Between Montdidier and the Oise, | first ship in the line, and one tor the battle is going on without] pedo at the ship immediately foll change,” the communique said ing. The Austrian dreadn re of the Viribus Unitis class “Yesterday evening and last night, |German attempts on the left were] Were sunk June 10. broken up. The French progressed| The torpedo boats, under east of Mery and Genlis wood. mand of Capts. Rizzo and The Germans attempted to throw | @Milazzo, passed boldly thru a us back upon the Aronde river,|0f enemy destroyers and atts Despite the violence of the shock} the two leading ships of @ and the heaviest enemy losses, they |*@Uadron which was steaming fleet formation FOCH’S TROOPS © HURL FOE BACK failed to succeed “On the right the Germans, despite repeated efforts, did not suc ceed in debouching from the south bank of the Matz, we holding them at Chevincourt and Marest-Sur. Matz. According to new indications, yes: | terday’s counter-attack prevented a powerful German attack under prep- LONDON, June 12.—Frenely aration on the same front. forces opposing the “Prisoners taken by a single] drive between Montdidier French division belonged to four] the Otse yesterday counter ab German divisions tacked on the western “South of the Aisne, the Germans pushing the enemy back a max | eked this morning between that} imum depth of about two miles | and Villers-Cotterets forest.| on a seven and a half-mile front, | most violent combats are going| capturing 1,000 prisoners. on along the Dommios-Outry-Am A similar counter thrust in bleny front the center huried the enemy — —_— | nook about a mile on a front ef . four miles. ‘Great Victory,’ Says} the enemy progress was confined . entirely to the eastern wing, where the German Kaiser (tiey"crossed the Oise ‘near Ribes June 12-—-“It is| court, and apparently compelled the a ‘ one of the great victories upon which |evacuation of the deep salient exe our strong future rests.” the kaiser | tending northward toward Noyon. yn declared, upon being informed of the| This would indicate that the German advance in the Oise region,| French have given up practically all according to advices received here/of Ourscamps wood, and that the today | new front and the Marne front are |linked up seven miles directly east — jof Ribecourt The Germans | tional prisoners. total since May claimed 10,000 addi- raising their alleged 27 to about 75,000. A THRIFT STAMP a day | will keep the Hun away. | OR A ieee as ables fe wont ‘HAW! HUN EDITORS WANT TO ‘SAVE EUROPE FROM AMERICA AMSTERDAM, June 12.—Germany has now turned the vials of its hate from England upon America. Since the German people have come to realize that the army of General Pershing is not the “contemptible” force they were led to believe it was, their prayer has been changed from “Gott Strafe England” to “Gott Strafe Amerika.” The Yankees are no longer called a “phantom army"; they are now “a menace to the whole world,” in the comments of the German press. The Cologne Volkszeitung goes so far as to predict a general Euro pean war against America after the present conflict world's greatest enemy is American mammonism so long as it secures its monstrous profits, the butche: nations is nothing but a prac “al means to an end “It is high time that, to ‘ombat that murderous unspeakably devilish finan mankind swimming in blood vu as neutral peoples were called on to unite in an anti-American campaign to which, of entire and eral European war of defense against America mast {¢ form the final chapter of the world war, if Europe does not wish to abandon forever her role in the universal development i of the world’s civilization, Up, then, ye nations of kultur, against the common enemy who stands grinning with Satanic mien on the other side of the Atlantic.”