The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 18, 1918, Page 1

ene we eee HAD A WESTERN UNION EMPLOYE SNUBBED PRES. WILSON AS NEWCOMB CARLTON, HEAD OF THE CONCERN, DID, HE WOULD IN JAIL NOW ON A CHARGE OF SABOTAGE. IT IS NOT TOO LATE TO INTERN CARLTON, AT LEAST FOR THE PERIOD OF THE WAR. Onn enn e PRADA RRR RADA ARR DD DDD DDD DD DDD PDD DPD PLD DDR PPPDPDPD APD ODPL PPI ARPA wooo, | TheSeattle Star “st2™™ THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST —— SSDAY, JUNE 18, 1918, PRICE ONE CENT messes VOLUME 20 _Giifnh" ‘is "LMEARAYICR SEATTLE, WA H., |ITALIANS SEAL AUSTRIAN DEFEAT 1) ENEMY FOE CRUSHED IN SCORNS RED CROSS APPEALS TO STAR TO. | IN U.S. TWO ATTEMPTS WILSON SEND MORE SMOKES TO U. S. MEN | : TRENCH The Enemy, ~~ However, Advances WISHES | BEEN HANGING ee see a —_—— S U P P LY » to Three-Mile Depth on 15-Mile western Union Head, . ALMOST " ‘| Yankees Rescue “Buddy, '} Taken By Enemy Raiders Front in One Sector Letter to President, Re- y fuses to Yield in Fight in Luneville Sector |*— ‘aioe wine By United Press Leased Wire Direct to The Star. _y ATTITUDE IS A REBUFF) | AMERICANS ARE MISSING “rhe austrian drive. already “apparently stopped in | r | E Ay United Pres s Leased Wire Direct | | quicker time than any major offensive of the war, is begin. |!" Unit pi beg Boyd Wire cnn ; GET out, ry to The Star | ning to take the aspect of a crushing enemy defeat. : | You eC WITH THE AMERICAN Any | shears by a combined British, French and Italian) SPV Sicmb Carlion of the Lipa alg : zg , counter-attack in the mountain region on the north, the Aus-| #nt. Se ose io Wherein, which faided American po. tritns have quit there, at least for the present. They have | Fressiah” Wines" mate™ paliie | Mitions northeast of Luneville yes.| also failed to press their gain at Montello, the important | today, virtually declined to ae General Manager cinsont With Approval of Presi- dent, Asks Contributions terday, were driven br after a brief crest at the juncture of the mountain and river lines. oaae Henge | a Baye are ; encounter. Several ricans j ; board in the dispute between the + > caren ‘J ere - ot After crossing the Piave at several places, the Aus-| (oiipany and the Commerc | TITUS TO HEAD DRI During the fighting near Lunevitie| ttians have not succeeded in pushing more than a mile Or Telegraphers’ Union of America an American lieutenant jumped on| two westward. And the Rome official report, issued at mid-| a» requested by the president, the parapet and spotted four Ger | night, showed that the Italians already have inaugurated a| Unless forced to do so by the Tobacco! mans carrying oft two men. “Who'll | suecessful counter offensive on the southern portion of the | \y Kore ae de | id } “Send more go with me and bring back those ; | ik, } renee | Buddies” he shouted. Another offi-| iver region. |claton was not binding. as it was not) {TT ~ | , This is the appeal made to” cer and four men volunteered. They Emperor Karl, who is at headquarters just back of the | unanimous as provided in the presi | = g ran across No Man's Land under| Asiago plateau, has thrown the entire offensive strength of dential proclamation creating the} |The Star trom across tl - achleag henselae Of Austria's total of 1,104,000 men, 892,000 troops have | teicgraphers’ «trike a that the | The American Red Gall men was a Hun, while the other was an American. ‘already been identified on the Italian front. The enemy The former was being carried on & | ysing 7,500 guns of all calibers. t would 4 fit permitte doing ss ithru General Manager Gib os. cues Peg i oe ‘An Amsterdam dispatch declares that German troops 4.)0°'225 800" ao sereniaaab a ie son of New York, has sé Gosaptne A ‘wounded boche un. | are co-operating with the Austrians, fighting in anticipation The board of directors and the| the folio witie If 1 ceremoniously on the ground, they | of great booty as a result of the drive. execuUves concerned in the man ne following self-explama ment of the property, with primary | reaponsibility to the public and the | tory letter: |"The American Red Cross, National Headquarters, “Washington, D. C. | “The American Red Cross cote mission in France is continually |eelving requests from the commam | ing officers for supplying great titles of tobacco for the use of tf American Expeditionary Foree France. The efforts of your p and other papers in the country secure funds, especially desig for the purchase of tobacco for army abroad, has made it placed the American on the stretch ‘ions @r and brought him back to the The Austrians have reached the Italian second line to the depth of trenches. , three miles on the 15-mile front between Zenzon and the Adriatic, it waa|SoVvernment, would deeply deplore a German Humor earned authoritatively here. The enemy also has reached the right — rg foie aatde poo thoes ” typical German | bank of the Piave, from Conegliano to the Zenson bend, to the depth of | Kuards that ox mee has Bee was Mik eae is eo in an-| three miles. Near Montelio, the Anstrians gained two-thirds of the high | be requisite and which are apport other sector. ground, In other sectors, however, the enemy has suffered crushing |S*tential to the preservation a German airmen dropped notes over | defeat. fective telegraph service.” towns in the rear of the American ‘The Setter, in part, follows: Dear Mr. President: Permit me| “Aines, saying: “See you next Sunday S k f I l he > nent: P ss ‘Counter Stroke of Italy Ree teed ‘On Sunday, these towns were sub ed in the midst of a group of sol-; diers returning from mass, mortally | = ROME, June 18—The Italians [tant Mon | | fected to a terrific bombardment by | | Friday | J the Hun artillery. One shell explod- licts y e eat | “The foundat on upon which rents | |the procedure of the national war | abor board contained in the fol-| lowing clause of the official paper, The er wowing two men. The wounded) continue to cheek the Austrians | men, were bunkies, were placed ies hy = ‘ insued with your proclamation of the | . be wide ty Mids tm hospital cots where| at all points, inflicting bloody | {N\t) sticks in tne it Sth of April | thus for the Red Cross to resaaial the last ™ rites were per-| defeats on the enemy at two outh of Montellc. between Zen When the board, after due effort Sauaee vimuae - being a > lof ita own Uu sectio: local cor a formed over them. places on the Plave, » commu- zon and Fonsalta (a three-mile front, | py rapier winters intys 09 rics to expend any Red Cross funds or otherwise, finds it impos sible to mettle a controversy, the board shall then «it as a board of ar this purpose. “We have just received from Realizing they were dying, the| nique issued by the Italian su- | east of Treviso), an important action pals shook hands across the space! preme command at midnight de = developed, but the enemy waa stop between their cots, bidding each other! clared. ped everywhere. They le 7 ' a snared nd ore gore 9 ; ywh fs BG | i ratdh, decide the avatravecwy and commission in France word that the larewell, A successful counter offer dred prisoners An ie 2 amount of tobacco which we have “Sorry I can't be with D company | was started by the Italians on the Between Maserada and Candetu | ™*** an aware a see © been able to supply them with in in. If it elect unanimous conclusio: do this, then It sha the past is not nearly enough to am swer the urgent calls which we are receiving and will receive in the fu- ture. I give below some extracts from recent cables received from our jcommission bearing on this subjects larch T—Not over 300 cases to» bacco in all our store houses. Last month distributed 1,000 cases.’ ee | March 13-—-Have now distributed) ar AL marriage Mayor Hanson—Unalraid <%= sone to get the German " one whispered. | Lower Piave (three miles southeast of Maserada), The Austri exhausted by the attempts to croms the Plave were |AngioFrench and Italian counter | bloodily repulsed. (Continued on page 4) | attacks in the north. have failed to! “On the Lower Piave, a counter of |renew their infantry assaults in the |fensive action resulted advantage | mountain: region and’ in the impor: [ously tous” PRESIDENT MAY a ACT AS REFEREE VICIOUS BATTLE ‘Hun Allies Cross Piave |, watlonmee ter tear rman force over three ing rece mes chair meena 2 Amer” at 3 Different Points fama on the of June 13-14, battled their way thru urge that telegraphers be the enemy and returned safely, Gen GENEVA, June 18.—The great- an troops along the | ' | newspaper tobacco a month for each Pershing cabled today est Austrian gain in the Italian black fog. Under ision.’ The fierceness of the fighting is drive has been made along the ols potorese the re ’ ; 15—Divisional bodies, our” JB indicated by the fact that every 07* — Piaye, where they have estab sais OGns condinustek Ot, was adm of the Americ wounded. troopers was ; technically Cariton is ; ae ! (| troops seattered detachments under ; Riaskd Sc aytinthy t “Come down to my office and explain your action ; i as well as sick and WOlliEy cipal crossings, according to a 5 |rights in dem | , i i yor $| 00, Sil make trresietiie\ an the media- TT wen of stered men “ br gp ig ge said the banker. ] Caves. per month against the cit said the mayor. dispatch from Italian headquar. be nominat > ety ) Zz tb | ters. The three principal crossings” | Uon efforts of the war labor board. | married «ince May 18, 1917, the date I won't do it, - teat: each division, The Austrians, the dispatch said. probably refer to that of Il Montelio| Members of the board today were] when President Wilson « Hips The banker come to the mayor? Haw, haw! It Sh ae Sek : Gu ae wee 1 Italian artillery and air: and the bridges St. An. | S8eattered all over the country, and it} draft act, will be appealed direct |} 4 and a ac ek when ons and reinforcements croased an umpire ' blinded the railwa " ’ \ planes by quantities of smoke shells,|drea and San Dona Di P' |waa believed Jikely the president! trom local boards to the district } isn’t done. It has always been the other way round. saeog gy aviator, who recently tantly rf agg ob xy ‘e807, { Sobe, 4 a. ‘ S| brought down two boche T0 OFFI OR | se hr tat \w bala et in t ve with official C board by Appeal Agent Thomas J. L. |} But Mayor Ole Hanson is a different kind of a} jn "ans hice teainen aaa i ra "4 i letermine what his course shail be. | Kennedy ) ‘ \j : " > Austrians Shift A ttack The suggestion was made that per-| Between 1,000 and 2,000 young men} ™MAayor }| eet tobacco for himself and ILL SEND cop” Es the president would act as um-|of the city will be affected by the } “If you don’t come in an hour, I'll send a police- ¢ " We are depending on you af pire | new order, according to the estimate | { ” P { py , {ged c 5 et y p SE hope that it will be possible for you ‘an Gal TO, dakethorns, man t> get you,” he said. > “yaxwos 10 maxxer tO Eastern Part of Line a. 2. Oe ea eo tne. Sour” acute No. 6 of the select serv " ‘ m pre 5 | “If ou don't come down to my ; ae Padogye ee | MII these efforts are being ef-| reguiations, which the. new order There are no flies on Mayor Ole Hanson. §| The need is pirat Eo. the a ' offic: to explain your action in in the northern mou' area, | fectively opponed, according to the| aa” anid: OA, Hawthorne, ‘at r ie eT ON ere . Vy ur troops abroad grows. We sine ] char ng the disloyalty of myself the Austrians have shifted their an war office, just as the British | or peongeou ren: ne tat ( When a mayor is both honest and unafraid, he s| y hope that#yvou can make your 7 and «ther city officials because | heaviest attacks to the Piave ch and Italians are preventing | government to suspend the institn-|} can fight any group of men, however powerful, to a \lendeavors proportionate and that 7 Mf our efforts to put across the | river line, on the eastern portion the Austrians from descending the pote Tt stated that standstill {| you will be able to furnish saeiiaay agit power site bonds, I'll send of the new 100-mile Italian of- | slopes of the Asiago platea hat LOMSON, dune Dieleit | aan inh ypensvgan thyicoed standstill, {| large quantity to equal the needs a policeman up to get you,” was | ga Bre stat etetementa | retnt Grappa onto the Venetian | troops - conducted ipasenaitens pabod | eerie katon 16 to find out if} naan 4] aa indented tO eee the threat that Mayor Hanson | je nig! pitielal si r ents | plains southwest of Albert and in the neigh-| they had been entered into with the a fy re aoe ee a. telephoned to C.J. Shepard, | indicated that the enemy is try The Italians claim 4,620 prisoners, | porhood of Moyenneville,” Field Mar-| primary x Mhanager of the federal reserve | ing to complete the occupation while the Austrians claim 12,000. | ehal Haig reported tod of El Montello, the crest that In “ Mien shamed pga AME OO refused to make bis explanations protects the junction of the river and French forces gained par-| xieppe forest resulted olding avin | Cc NIZE HERE T | “General Manager.” love OR A oO Tr eal, which is vouched for capture - , ther ev , ent Wilson, as head of the over the phone, Monday an the “mountein bog A | tial successes at several points in a|prigonera and machine guns,” the|dences of courtship previous to May | Red Cr s one that Seattle and Hanson anked Shepard to admit or| *tFong etlert dine Ss OGRE meds | counter offensive ftatement said. 8, 1917, as evidence of good faith, | the state of Washington must an+ nm the capital to debouch from the crossing al The British war office announced Hostile artillery wa active in| and gave registrants the benefit, es | swer promptly deny that he had wr there w 1 , vvhich will decide | ready effected on the Middle and = | there was little change on the Brit-| the Ancre valley, south of Albert and | pecially if the wife was an expectant Titus to Conduct Drive 16 mountain region, the Ital hank in Seattle, when the latter fesues committee - the Bkagit power site issue, that May-| loonie the Italian fron | west of Serre | Biothee: | Seattle renters, gouged by unfair to the hog. ‘The American} Accordingly, Hazen J. Titus, the or Hanson, Corporation Counsel Cald ve | "Southeast of Villers-Bretonneux,| “Now the most deferred classifi-| tandiord profiteers, have organ- |ho« Is soing the even tenor of his|man who conducted the successful was repulsed | cation that can be given is aa 2, to w asking nothing more now than| Red Cross drive last year, has been J will consider plans fora | - oo ae asec ¢ before the war. He is going ahead! named to conduct a tobacco fund ‘refuse to move” strike that may =| putting on fat and is the backbone |drive here. Details of his plans will | well and Councilmen Thomson and | a hoatile raiding part Fitzgerald were “men of small pa | u tt: ng nem last night. A few prisoners were | be given only if there is a ehild, born ae re oO e or uabora on June 9 last cen courts could offer no relief. Wh at 7 pom, It arrives back in Se- (Continued on page 4) attle 12:30 p.m, It has aceom ant tell you, sir, that any t » abundance of war m 1 wantG tell you t DY er with an abundar f war n Se Gatigabe tot a sana trioti#m.” | ws is Hy “If I did do it you cannot sue me ey ET PRR oe | involve hundreds of families. Jott soldiers’ food across the} be mado later iy fer stander, as jt was © private om urie gainst tali ians This was the decision reached ocean’ : | ‘There are nearly a million Yan- gga’ eke bt Rat ee ROME, June 18.—Austria’s fall 1 the at } ED MUNICIPAL CAR pea meeting, Held at: the “T th nett wen bre Met Mee Ae ae cerita cwwaet aa have said over the phone. — , uments and the statements of prison . uink vere are about § per} each wit ) cents’ worth of tobacco In the course of half an hour effective itary strength al ers there is no doubt the enemy | . M. A. Monday night. The cent of the landlords who are prof-| per week means a fund of $250,000 a Shepard appeared the mayor's of | ready has been thrown into the command sent its troops into the of} LINES OPERATE AT PROFIT | AntiRent Profiteering league jiteering.” said A. N. Atwood, of week. Upan the basis of 1 per Aan fice with his attorney, John H Italian drive, according to a fensive with the promise of booty u nth ati ies was organized, and instr to |John Davis & Co,, real estate agents, | of the national quota for th i \ Powell semi-official statement today Cannon and trench mortars were Reduced operating expenses, mo oper 9 ia Organizati who spoke for the rental agents It| Washington should give ‘ p out a course, Organization : F hy one who questions my pa-| Of Austria’s total of 92 divisions the Austrians in ie reased receipts, Which we confidently Seust ‘will 5 te aocame Of.{ndividuale, ‘Wa have |-week, and eatin wins Ane ttiotiem a: a pie Poon contemptible | (1 state kant 71 divisto (892,000 a by: tha Ganmane In sett sonpied with ree” =e! result in the ne gain being }| of tent colonies is also under con. | downers it ote ne Syd ¥ . ie bs mf wii riotism a ig ; ¥ ssc ~ H gehts Hn ii put the combined = munictpal avo, larger,” says Superintend- sideration, sneha S taa ss cur. Vl back that up to the last | men) already have been identified on | according to prisoners, the Austrians ith t eae the rents above reason and we have ‘Laas “= drop of my blood,” Hanson told | the Italian front have permitted a German “requial street car lines across with a'set ent Murphine. }| the meeting was called by the so parame a hive have ft ae Shepard. | So far as quality is concerned, | tion” battalion to operate on the Ital profit for the first time in May, During the three months re- {| cial service committee of the Good ‘ties. I know of & man vna|| 3. W. Foster, of Fletcher. a 6 You had better wait until you) these consti the whole of the en.| lan front, in order to secure a por according to the report of Su- ported upon, revenues were: { ‘Templars Another open meeting | owns apartments who has raised his| | has offered to turn over the en- know what you are talking about,” |emy's really tive troops tion of the anticipated loot perintendent of Public Utilities March, $11,019.08; April, $i1,- {| will be called in the near future tenants $5 at four different times, | | tire proceeds of his regular Sat nd Shepard | Have 7,500 Guns \} T J. Murphine, submitted 015.10, and = May, a yd 86. (| entative of John Davis &| aimost 100 per cent inc e."" | | urday night excursion and dance = r z ores ‘ ‘ ed that there was | | Dect som deew't deny thet you! abe Austrians aled have at leaat or Hanson Tuesday. Expenses, including interest | Co ly admitted t «gl ay lt ; ¢| for the benefit ‘of the tobaces a eres. ee ter B) The Austrians ase t > he three months of : follows: profiteering among landlords, and : 4 eB navel. in a nd Phe steame! re made the charge,” returned the|7599 guns of all calibers and their During the th 4 r Hun‘s gun,” said F, Walker, of the| | fund he steam Liberty the new administration a deficit , S14, Judge Calvin Hall declared that the | yrotar Trades Council I know of| | leaves foot of Spring st., \} hh joss of i a hi na my patriotiom & erial LONDON June 18—The arn the Ma ; bg | nar Ga ihe nnares and if he will : Yet they have only progressed at mercantile cruiser Patria was tor ing redu 4 more a day in wages, and doubling or trebling the rent, do a % modations for $25, Take in the repeat it te me personally, be willltwo points where their gains are|doed and sunk June 14, the admiral the May profit hein SIM. thru service was established on {| lose your sense of fairness and jus: JUNE 28—SAVE THE DATE excursion and dance and help have to afewer for jt” chipped in| very alight compared with the ob: ty announced today. One officer anal “We have put into effect this Division A. {lee ane sae at tina nares | FOR WAR SAVINGS STAMPS, | | | the smoke fund. (Continued on page 10) Jectives Sought. From captured doc-|15 men were drowned,