The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 14, 1918, Page 1

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NIGHT EDITION Weather Forecast fair; moderate Tonight and Saturday, westerly winds pectionlins 4" 40RD WIRE SERVICE PRESS ASSOCIATIONS VOLUME 20 fie SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1918, ————-————— PRICE ONE CENT { ’ t CALL MEN | OF DRAFT Local Boards Receive First Detailed) Instructions on “Work or Fight” Rule; Send Out Notices ANALYSIS OF DRAFT ORDER Here's the gist of the “work or fight" order of the government, as revealed by the official text of the order, just received In Seattle by the local draft boards: Men of draft age, if not physically disqualified for military rervice, whether married or not or having other dependents, must change to some employment of essential war nature, before July 1, or be subject to immediate or early call for military service The following classes are affected Idlers, rich or poor (construed to include gamblers, race track and bucket shop employes. fortune tellers, clairvoyants and the like). Men engaged in the serving of food and drink, or either, in publi places, including hotels and social clubs Passenger-elevator operators and attendants; door men, footmen. carriage openers and other attendants in clubs, hotels, stores, apart ment houses, office buildings and bathhouses Persons, including ushers and other attendants, engaged and occu pied in and in connection with games, sports, and amusements, except ing actual performers in legitimate concerts, operas or theatrical per formances. | ] Persons employed in domestic service. Sales clerks and other clerks employed in stores and other mer cantile establishments. Note—The order waa interpreted Friday by loca! draft officials as of sweéping effect with regard to sports and clerks, including ball players and clerks in ail manner of establishments, from popcorn stands to machinery houses. if registered. Chairman Proctor, of the district appeal board, suggests that registered men clip and retain the 1+ In training for military service, coupled with the reclassification of many other men of deferred classes, faces draft officials. It is the duty of all citizens to re. port to the nearest draft board any knowledge they may have concern ling registrants who are idle or en gaged in one of the occupations list ed as nonproductive, according to the new orders. Whenever a local board shall have | become informed of the presence | within its jurisdiction of a registrant coming under the “work or fight | rule, whether the person in register. | |ed in the board's district or some other, he shall be notified to appear. }| Then within not les than three nor (more than seven days, he must pre sent any reasons, by affidavit or oth erwise, for his status. The board will make its own investigation of the case, also. ‘The results of the investigation | and hearing of the board will be for Here’s Bad News for Knockers of Public Utilities SAN FRANCISCO, June 14— ttle last year was the port of ‘entry into the United States ot 250,009,000 pounds of cocoanut oil, soya bean of! and other veg- étable oils from the Orient, {| warded to the board under which the! which would have passed thru {| man is registered. if he in found to fan Francisco had there been }| belong outside the district, and the! board or original jurisdiction make the findings If a registrant is found to be an idler or engaged in a non-productive occupation without excuse, the board may either simply withdraw hic de ferred classification or may both withdraw this and also his registered number. T will include him in the first call for men of his qualifica proper facilities, according to tes will timony before a Chamber of Com merce committee on harbor sur veys at San Francisco > It was pointed out that Seattle { offered her modern public-owned tank and port facilities for han dling this trade, while San Fran cisco was without such accommo ; } “Tne ra to {| tion: ‘The importers, according to }| tions witnesses, considered San Fran Must Be Reviewed The local board's decision must to the district appeal board for re | cisco the logical entry port if it ( Ko! had proper facilities (| view before induction into service, | See | however | Local and district boards must ad consider all cases “with sympathy and common sense,” accdrding to the instructions of the government The government saya that the clasnes of nonproductive work may be extended later. For the present, however. are warned to stick to the classes named and pt reasonable ex cuses, including sickness, reasonable vacations, lack of reasonable oppor tunity for employment in productive occupations, temporary absences not |to exceed one week, if such are not (Continued on Page Sixteen) Peace by Victory Only, Says Wilson WASHINGTO: June 14.—The American people will send men and erials “in steady and increasing volume until the forces of freedom have been made overwhelming and vietory achieved.” This ance toda DAY IS ASKED ST. PAUL, June 14.—A basic elght hour day during the war period will be insisted upon by organized labor Resolutions embodying this principle were passed today by the convention wf the American Federation of La bor After a half-hour’s debate vention voted down a resolution pro viding for two women members in the executive council it also refused to give the execu-| tive council the right to select the annual convention city In observance of Flag day vention rose to its feet as President Gompers re! d to} yernard M ruch wor industries board gram to the federation boards ac the con: the con chairman of has ad the dressed a te congratulating labor on its boralty | in the war President Wilson's aswu to President Poincare of DOES What's the caliber brai , forces camped on the campus. Sam wants to know the age of every man in his The paychologists of the nation have undertaken to tell him and they are using new acience called payehiatry Stevenson Smith, professor of psy of your Unele mental av uniform. ne, put your foot on the ac- levator and see jf you can't i¢ the old dome throb! Quick now, who shot Garfield? Are a crow’s toes pink? No, gentle one, this is not an ex i i amination for entrance to a mad-| chology of the University of Wash 1 house—only a fair sample of the ington, is directing the examinations, Questions the psychiatrist at the Uni How Fast He Can Learn | Yersity of Washington is asking the Psychiatry aims to tell the exam Men of the naval reserve training! iner just how accurate and reliable 4 } ity | nation’s capital. ‘AND COAL HOGS | here. interned al Rent-Hog 100 Per Cent Tax Is Rem- edy, According to Leaders AFTER EXCESS PROFITS BY FREDERICK M. KERBY WASHINGTON, June 14--The federal covernment has constitution al power to prevent rent profiteer ing. Taxation of excess rents ix the remedy. That i« the opinion of Congress Ren Johnson, of Kentucky chairman of the District of um! bia, and au’ of the bill, which passed the house by a huge major to stop rent profiteering in the His bill, which has now passed the | senate in amended form, and ia in conference between the two houses, declares that rentals charged above the amounts collected for the year ending September 20, 1916, with an allowance of 10 per cent for increas. | ed coats to the landlords, are “excess Profits,” and shall be taken by the governnent as taxes. “The power of congress to tax is unlimited,” said Congreswman John. son, when I asked him about the ag thority of the federal government to | prevent rent-profiteering “This was clearty stated by Mr Chief Justice Marshall, in a famous case early in the history of the re public. He declared in effect in that decision of the supreme court that the power to tax ts unlimited. “And that, in my opinion, Is the way to get after these graft ing real estate owners, who are holding up the peaple in enor. declared to be excess profits, and taxed up to 100 per cent!” Othem authorities on taxation in congress are of the same opinion. ‘The effect of much legisiation. it is pointed out, would be to prohibit, un- (Continued on Page Twelve) | SELL US ROCK L. B. May, 611 12th ave. N., real} estater, started out Friday morning | Hanson, newspaper editors, Prest | dent Rhodes, of the Chamberof Com. | jon offices He carried with him a box of hard carboniferous fornation alleged, he said to be coa This slate, explained May, “is rock bone, It's sold these days for | | I paid $9.20 a ton for this A few months ago I paid “Tm not a socialist. I've fought such ideas. But the way the people | are getting it put over on them in this coal business makes Holsheviki I know it! “They tell me that it's a shame the way the big coal companies put it over on the fuel administrator They tell me that the coal men just put it over—that's all.” DUTCH ATTACK BOCHE FLIERS YMUIDEN, Holland, June 14, —A mob of Dutch fishermen at- tacked a hotel in which German airmen interned, as the re sult of a submarine shelling the life boats of a Dutch lugeger, which was sunk without warn. ing, Sunday. The Huns were saved by the police ‘The satlore made land after rowing for twelve hours, The sight of the aroused the indignation of the fishermen, who tried to lynch the jation nin re brain of his ‘vietim” tn. He n't care how much or how uittin| e sailor knows, he only seeks to! find out how rapidly the man can| learn and how much of what he knows he can apply speedily and ac: | curate } ie questions asks and the! tauks he sets seem ridiculous, but if! you'll follow the instructions in the, accompanying examination, you'll| see that it iwm't as easy as it looks to pass the examiner with flying | Has If not, has he noti- O you want to help stop rent profiteering? landlord raised the rent on you? fied you that it will be raised? If he hasn't raised the re do you want to keep him from doing it? Competent authority, according to today’s dispatch from Washington, says CONGRESS CAN ACT to stop/ If you| want to keep your rent from being raised, sign the follow- We say, CO ESS MUST ACT. this outrage. ing petition, get your neighbor to sign one, and mail Congressman John F. Miller if you live in Seattle or Kitsap Miller is the representative in the house of the county. First Congressional district. If you live in King coun outside of Seattle, or in one of the Northwestern counti |write to Representative Lynn Hadley, representative of the If you live in southwestern | Second Congressional district. | Washington, write to Representative Albert Johnson, of the Third Congressional! district. If you live in the central eastern part of the state, | |to make extensive calls upon Mayor| write to Congressman William La Follette of the Fourth Congressional district. If you live in the Spokane district, | merce, and finally the coal adminis-; write to Congressman C. C. Dill, of the Fifth Congressional | | tra district. And also write the two senators, Senator Miles Poin- dexter ahd Senator Wesley L. Jones. They are represen tives of the entire state. CONGRESSMAN . U. 8. CAPITOL, WASHINGTON, D. C. As a citizen of + I believe that congressional action is necessary to curb for the period of the war the landlords who are profiteering in rents. I urge you to work for the passage of logis- lation, either as an amendment to the new finance bill, or other. wise, of an act which will declare all rents in excess of the rents charged for the year ending September 30, 1917, plus 5 per cent allowance for increased costs, to be EXCESS PROFIT: upon which shall be levied a tax of ONE HUNDRED PER CENT. I shall watch with a great deal of interest your action in this matter, Very respectfully yours, (Sign) (Address) ALL ARGE CROP OF 300 KILLED IN jL FOE GUN WORKS | your GRAIN BURNED {HINDENBURG FOURTH Sub Sinks Ally Ship Near U.S. British Steamer Keemun Is Attacked by Sub Off Vir- ginia; Sends Word NO WORD OF CREW FATE WASHINGTON, June 14.—The British 8. S. Keemun arrived at an Atlantic port today, the navy department was advised this afternoon. AN ATLANTIC PORT, June 14.—Attacked by a German sub- marine, the British steamer Kee- mun, have been sunk off the Virginia coast at 9 o'clock last night. There is no word of the fate of the crew. A European port today picked up the Keemun's wireless calls for help. The Keemun hag been in the Brit ish government. service for some ume The first SOB was heard at 7 p. m.. according to word brought here. It said: “Shelled by submarine.” SHIP AGROUND; 182 ON BOARD ST. JOHNS, N. ¥., June 14.—With 182 persona aboard, the 9,000-ton Cunard liner Ascania is ashore near Rose Blanche, 20 miles east of Port nt, Aubesques, There is no definite word yet as to her exact location or condition, EAST COAST IS “DANGER ZONE” AMSTERDAM, June 14.—The Ger man admiralty intends to declare the least coast of the United tes from Mexico to Canada, a “danger zone” and will warn all neutral shipping. pcording to reports from Berlin to LEMBERGERS IN FOOD RIOTS ZURICH, June food riots occurred in Lemberg last Saturday, it was learned to day. Mobs plundered shops and military lorries loaded with sup- to ty, es, ta-| Plies bound for the Italian front. A report was received today that the Austrians have executed M. Pod |tiolkon, president of the People’s | |Commissaries of the Don region Thirty peasants were killed in a jbattle between peasants and Aus: | trians in the Jampoul district. The | Austrians have occupted several vil lages 136,000 WOMEN "ON ENEMY LIN June 14.—Thirty- six Austrian women and girls of all ages and classes have been forced by hunger to join the women’s — battalions working close to the front line, according to reports from the Austrian Tyrol today |PREMIER VON SEIDLER RESIGNS IN AUSTRIA INDIANAPOLIS, June 14.—Mire AMSTERDAM, June 14.—Premier PARIS, June 14—An explosion I | tonowing an explosion today, de-|Von Seidler, in an audience with the Skoda Gun Works, near Pilsen, | stro the Cleveland Grain Co's el | Emperor Karl on Wednesday, offer on May 26, killed m than 300 per-|evator at ch Grove and ol his resignation, according to Aus sons and injure 0, according to| 100,000 bushels of corn and trian advices today. The emperor d that the blast ¥ sthing else besides lice sta by “son Journal today 50 miles the word received b The blast was heard | earth than chalk. 3. An ostrich 2. Salt is more soluble in wate resembles a horse caused | postponed action until he could con: | military dust | sult parliamentary leaders. OSTRICH RESEMBLE HORSE? ANSWER! IF SO, ARE CROW’S TOES PINK? IT’S PSYCHIATRY | colors: { more than a turkey fishes HOW MUCH BRAIN HAVE you?; 4 China ts larger than Australia, Answer the following questions in 20 seconds, Simply write “Yes” or). ‘The hands of a clock make right No” after each one, If you think | angles ‘ the statement is true, write Yes ‘Ther more children b and if you believe it) incorrect, sa. n 3 and 4 years of age than be No Afterwards look them up. 12 and 13 years <n . 1, The moon is larger than the! 7. Four eats and two hens have |more legs than three men and two dogs, .. 8. The north pole is colder than (Continued on Page Twelve) mer arriving here from a BATTLE A DEAD STO Teutons’ Last Attempt Ended Five Days; Enemy Troops Back to Original Line. BY HENRY WOOD United Press Correspondent WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES IN THE June 14.—Just five days after the hour that : |burg opened the battle for the French forests, there Ww every indication that his drive had been stopped. | The terrific counter-attacks launched Tuesday |kept up since then, not only have prevented the mans from advancing, but have hurled them back fros |their original advance on practically the entire |Montdidier line. | BY J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert. NEW YORK, June 14—Gen. Foch has. in Hindenburg the most serious German defeat of {The German general staff has checked Hindenb \furiated sacrifice of German man power for futile t |gains, and tke fourth phase of the German offensive cna United Press Summary of War Event has ‘ranged, with the roads to Paris | an itw objective, Gen. Foch is as se | cure as before the offensive began. ‘The small areas sold to the enemy for so heavy a price in blood do not improve Hindenburg’s position to (412th day of the war; of the big offensive.) OISE FRONT—The G drive southward, between Mont” didier and the Oise, believed to” be the most desperate effort of | any serious extent. Nothing has into German possession that }is well worth the Hun death toll ex the entire present offensive, ap parently has been stopped by the French strategy of “beating ‘em _ acted in advance Hindenburg stands baffled north to the punch”—meeting them) more than half-way by counter ? | ‘ | } } ‘of Compiegne. No explanation can |cenceal from the Germans at home| the fact that Compiegne was the! principal objective of Hindenburg’s fourth offensive, and that Compiegne | still remains in Foch's hands. The weakness of the latest drive |cannot fail to doubly impress the German people, coming at a time | when the German government no longer is able to conceal the fact that attacks hundreds of thousands of Americans MAR) Both artilleries were active between Villers-Cot- terets forest and Chateau Thier- ry » are in France Hindenburg has made the most antic sacrifices in military his | tory during the past 12 weeks to win ° war and has failed. By no pos sibility can he continue this bloody slaughter of his own men much long er PICARDY—The French war office reported “local actions” north of Grivesnes, and Haig re ported hostile activity in the Villers--Bretonneux sector. HUNS LAUNCH FIGHT SIMMERS | “GAS STORM ON DOWN ON OISE- YANKEE FRONT MARNE FRONTS WITH THE AMERICANS ON | PARIS, June 14.—Fighting on | THE MARNE, June 14.—(Noon.) the entire Oise-Marne battle © —Following the first quiet night front has simmered down to le spent by the Americans in the cal actions, the French war of- Torcy-Boresches sectors for two fice reported today. weeks, the Germans began a A German attack failed in the oem heavy bombardment of our lines | ter of the Oise area. There with gas shells this morning. | active cannonading on the One American unit suffered sev. {front between Villers-Cotterets fore * eral casualties. est and Chateau Thierry. Elsewhere: ‘The latest batch of German pris-|Only raiding operations were Pe oners yielded some especially inter- | Ported. | esting personal correspondence. | “Only local actions occurred last “Our divisional commander has Night north of Grivesnes” (four miles” been killed by an airplane bomb,” | northwest of Montdidier), the com= 7] | said one letter, “We will take Paris |munique said oe fon June “We have identified “A French raid in the Courcelles Jan American division,” said another, region resulted in the capture of 30 |“"We will give these gentlemen their ; prisoners. | final death blow.” “At the Ferme des Loges, the \ | French progressed. A German ate | | tack failed in the Antheuil sector. | “Between Villers-Cotterets forest t] 1 jand Chateau Thierry there was active artillery fighting. “French patrol took prisoners at Bussiares, west of Rheims, and im the Champagne region.” WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN LORRAINE, June 14.-An Amer air squadron carried out the all-American bombing raid yes destroying certain German establishments 1 Metz | Hight airplanes dropped ten bombs) each on cantonments, supply sheds and railways in the vicinity of Metz Dommary and Daroncourt, return ing in perfect formation, without los ing a single machine. ITALY BREAKS ENEMY EFFORTS AGAIN STOPPED. LONDON, dune 14.—Blocked in the center, the Germans yes terday attacked on the extreme wings of the battle front, which includes all of the Oise theatre and the northwestern portion of the Marne area. A powerful enemy counter attack on the two-mile front between Cour: celles and Montdidier was stopped before the Germans reached the lrench position, the French war of- ROME, June 14.—-An Austrian at-| fice reported, tack designed to force the important; The German war office announced Tonale pass was broken up by Ital-/ that “repeated enemy attacks north+ jan forces, which drove the enemy | west of Chateau Thierry [back and inflicted heavy losses, the | Americans are engaged) bre war office announced today. with heavy jean first rda | | | | | |