The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 19, 1918, Page 1

ad BY PLANKS CROSS DELA MORE THAN 70,000 PAID COPIES DAILY GR bse VES SE v' ITED PRESS ASSOCIATIC VOLUME 20 Enemy Is Food of U. §.” Surprised Saved Day byU.S.Men for Allies | ~ Start Clouds Hoover Labels Critics as “Gnats”; Tells How the Battle Tide Turned | Americans Bocheward North of Toul With Great Success ENEMY LOSSES HEAvY HE PRAISES FARMERS MILTON BRONNER w JASHINGTON, eRe aD x D. C, dune Dispatch From Frank 19.—"Last year we invented a slogan to the effect that food ee J. Taylor : } would win the war,” said Herbert | By United Preas Leased Wire H. Hoover, nat 1 feck aaaee AR Dmect ‘te The Ber istrator, in an exclusive inter % view today. “It is a matter of WITH THE AMERICAN simple truth to tell the Ameri can housewife and the American ARMY EN LORRAINE, June 19, | 72% Botnet a tionn food this —The first American gas pro- spring saved the war.” Jector attack was launched The last time I had an extended against the German troops north talk with him for readers ¢ The Star was six months ago. Every pre of Toul this morning, evidently causing heavy casualties. ion he made then has been vert He said the allies would need dic fled The boche losses were added to | Over 140,000,000 buxhels of our wheat when, in attempting a retaliatory at.| "1 that our housewives would save it. And it came to pass over 100 per tack, the wind blew the German gas! on, ’ : back into their own trenches. KICKERS, THO FEW IN NUMBERS, RAISE American engineers, using Ameri eitinhdy: prebecters.. Gecharged. & MOST NOISE Facsimile of letter sent to Mrs. A. H. Gould, 3206 13th ave. W., Shat Upon people of the na thousand American made gas shells The net effect in that every man Ue, by brigadier general now in France. stand by the preside into @ small German area. The| in responsible position is leading » The letter speaks volumes for the urgent need of sustaining the “Our commended the war projectors were fired by electricity. life of misery from morning unti! Boys in France Tobacco Fund.” Mrs. Gould has been a liberal contributor ™inistration The Germans were taken complete. night. in trying to deal with these to the fund thru The Star, Win the War ly by surprise. The gas attack was| complaints in the midst of fhore im followed by an intense artillery bar-| portant matters. [It is difficult to) Tage, after which the boches fre| keep one’s balance in a situation like quently shelled the American posi-| that tons. “Take a case in point. The middie The unsuccessful German attack | of last winter, when we were con followed their artillery bombardment. sidering the guaranteed price of — JUNE 28th — wheat, we were flooded with state! ments that if we did not increase! the price mentioned In the presi dent's guarantee, we would have no wheat. We were told the farmers would plant nothing but oats and barley and we would probably |starve. Yet, when it waa all o we had the biggest wheat acreage in MARNE; TAKE there was little Increase In the other dan | 99 PER CENT OF FARMERS gat From SUPPORT GOVERNMENT | | Lowell Mellett | “Had we been carried off our } corn y United Press Leased Wire feet by the wails we heard, we Direct to The Star would have, perhaps, had » big- x ts tise | ger wheat crop, but at the cost of other grains, and at risks with oar industrial population. We were backed by the great balk of the American farmers. The kickers did not comprise one-tenth of 1 per cent “We had their support. Yet dd no evidence we would have except our judgment of the charac ter of the people who came here to kick. They were not the people who| raise the wheat Th same thing happens in Washington ten times a day, where government has to in terfere in production, consumption WITH THE AMERICANS ON THE MARN' dune 19.—One FranecoAmerican unit on this ‘rent, under an American com- nander, faced the well-known fenth Landwehr regiment, it was established, in a daring pa- trol raid by American marines. A captain and seven men crept down to the water's edge near the town of Charteves (seven miles east of Chateau Thierry, on the e-uth bank of the Marne, and directly op posite Jaulgonne). In the darkne we they crossed to the opposite side in 4) 2n4 distribution boat. As they piled out on the bank they HOOVER LABELS THE SELFISH KICKERS “GNATS” encountered a couple of sentr fled without offering resista tho the patrol’s only weapons were ty and by every departmental the captain's pistol and the men’s | head must give up, because he will knives. » fighting gnats instead of doing | The Americans rushed inte the structive job. town and found five Germans asleep ‘ot by this year, altho from | in a cellar. They dragged them out|* Nutritional point of view, we had| and rushed them to the boat. Three | the shortest harvest in five years. of the boches were rowed across. Despite this, we have maintained ex In the meantime the alarm had Ports of food to our allies higher spread and the Germans sent up| than in any year in our history. The | rockets. A number of Huns fired at | @!lies have had to ration, but it has the boat as it was pulled for the | Rot been so drastic as to damage| American side, Despite this fire,| their morale which increased as more Germans There was a period during Febru rushed down to the shore, the boat|@ry and March in Europe when we ut back for the two remaining | Were under great anxiety about the food situation jon our railroads The storm blockade boche prisoners and the two Ameri and the shortage in cans guarding them After the prisoners and their cap-| transportation generally made it im tors had jumped into the boat, th possible to ship food in the neces started for the American wide again, | ®#fyY quantities. The allien’ supplies | ‘Am it neared the shore it struck | an down to a dangerous level, How the fact that | there al | 10) | | dangerous is shown by in London in March some submerged object and capsize ‘All of the occupants —JUNE Ah Mel: were rescued were 28th — \ (Continued on page Whenever enemies of municipal projects have no other-cry, they shout “Delay e power in Seattle is the cry of the Electric Trust ¢ tributing system, there is an insistent demand for a hydro-electric plant _ anything should happen to the Cedar river dam, Seattle’s war industries would be endangered. and its backers here. The Seattle Star But It is too perilous. Delay? Weather Forecast Thur wind, THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST General ‘Praises Smoke Fund Wre.b.8.6 $206 13th Ave, Seattie, oul, ¥., Fashington. y de z Ure. Goult; - bP found your addreeeset postal in one of the packages of tobacco wdicB I enclose herewith, contributed through "Our Boye in France ee 1 em sure that you will be interes t funde are doing for our boye, I ¢ ure you that your kindly contribution sae roughly appreciated. underetand that tobdac @ lusury but an ectual bec Dut the fact remaine that aany a front by the soo Re the boye at th eeen not caly im the trenches, 1 thankia bekalf of*the Boye I- Very Sincerely, Cac: Voetad >. | or he ed “SE ATTL E, W ASH., WE DNESDAY, su NE 19, 1918 Prance, March 15th, 151 . Boom Is On for Wilson Speaker at Democratic Con- vention Wants Old Prec- edent Shattered MARSHALL HOLDS CHAIR INDIANAPOLIS, June 19.— The movement for the re-election of Woodrow Wilson as president | of the United States in 1920 was launched at the Indiana demo- cratic convention today ‘obecce Pund® and, in knowing what @ thie Perhape our in the Arey ity? but in the boept The first «pe the reelection « M. Ralston, former « Camano Vs eb hen ik not stand nd a precedent Cal Brigadier-—General, wa. | ould wit Zs 4 cp the reconstruction perio. . the war I maintain therefore that the ex-| igencies the times call for the re Woodrow Wilson ared Ralston Vice 4 shall Mar naw FR chairman pporar which waa drafted CITY TO RESPOND TO | ——| The war ple | under the direct | non. nayer “The immediate purpore of the] democratic party, the putporse which taken precedence over every other, is n of President Wi +} to win the war, Thh fate of true| democracy everywhtre depends upon | ita bein won | FOR MORE TOBACCO | | Big Musical Comedy 4 STATE MEN And “Oh, Boy!” Big M Company to Give Vaudeville Show at Noon Next Thursday. ; Don’ t Delay, Give } : “What You Can for ’ Boys ‘Over There’ Tobacco for American soldiers is a crying need. Yesterday The Star pub- lished a letter from Gen- } eral Manager Gibson of the American Red Cross, ask- } ing The Star’s further ef- forts in behalf of the to- bacco fund. Today, The Star publishes herewith a letter from a_ brigadier general, now in France, written to a Seattle wom- an, who has been generous with her contributions to The Star tobacco fund. ( Both these letters, as well s the thousands of postals from soldiers in France, received in Seattle by { those who contributed to The Star fund, give testi- mony to the urgent need of answering, the appeal for tobacco. } ) Do not delay. ( contributions to the Smoke } { k Editor, Seattle Star. ) Send your Oh, Boy! Listen! The “Ob, Boy” musical comedy company, which is coming to the Metropolitan theatre next week, will give a noonday vandeville When Professors of Philosophy Meander By, 500 Sheep « on the University Campus Cry Out | “Baah!” sheared th sheep. “Little Boy Blue, come blow And now, having obtained permis. | your horn, | sion from the government and a For flocks of sheep the campus | of regents ton & Co. went their adorn. | flocks to clip grass all around the They munch the grass and scoff U" campus and save the university at all, several hundred dollars expended And bask in the shade of Meany very month for lawn-mowing and hall!” hedge-trimming help. So far, #0 good. The sheep clipped the grass They are there. Sheep. Five hun-| ay right. The campus is shaved They | dred skeptical, bleating sheep. But that is not all are the property of Barton ¢ sheep mingle freely with the plesale packers, and fatten for ? ul matriculanta of recent date. late on University of Washington |). pe ‘ hep 4 " sate (hati Why] Ane sowners, ‘the campus gras May the world, the bachelors of art and Dire, dire. the results of Prest r philosop he bu ding poets and setentists and writer dent Wilson's fad With a few pet ph . sheep not doomed to mutton, the na Baah" They Cry tion’s executive gitained great suc Yes, with calm, scornful eyes, the ing them placidly on the| sheep stare at the student graduates Afterward he fresh and young, out to reforzn the cons in red White House lawn, n | pursuing | dent 1 put forth their best efforts in creat.| troops along the Volga river in the| Pave, Piave and gaining control of three | ing new acts and new stunts, and| Ural mountains. the dispatches si mportant bridgeheads, the enemy producing new laughs for a great big — JUNE ath — Srhec ages psn ie alg poled : benny teudnns Heh tenant throwing in reinforcements and are, Was able to drive forward for a gain Did. we aocepe tie attest. We did fighting hard to pierce the Italian yesterday in the Venetian a So next Thured bigae: * ie i | |river lines, ‘The Italians counter at.| struggling against the heroic defense maniacs: ltacked immediately after every ene- of the Italians to push farther on Palka apaNeeiae tel lore mbtanke the way towards Venice. More about the show tomorrow Ch; yen the: adindanlon wilt be | On the 25-mile front between Val.) It is apparent that the Austrians only 60 cents. “And every cent Koen 1On dama and Mount Tomba, a third of /are throwing every ounce of thelr fo the tatteee Shade On. Bor! “oe . = | the Austrian stormers lie dead be-| power against the river line in an Boy! WASHINGTON, June 19 What) fore their original trenches attempt to take the city. Thus far, —JUNE 28th— may prove $61 be an aa fe Wael ¢ Italians repulsed nine assaults however, the effort to flank the | re - a ins he ed § is OCC ©? | with fresh troops on the heights of Plave line has resulted in little b WASHI June 19—Impor-|at Attbriz, Persia, when the Turks| Mount Grappa bpedralata drei ronal Bue tation of manufactured rubber arti v ret Pw non is Sle tet Sar: the fos. ubber artl-| took that town, occupying the Ames JUNE 28th — |cles i# prohibited after June 25, the | joan and British consulates and at war trade board announced today tacking the American hospital, ac:| - —— | cording to reports reaching | the! American minister at Teheran —JUNE 28th — institutions of the earth ' Bah"! say the sheep, bitterly Like a multitude of ravens from the pen of Edgar Allen Poe, thowe woolly fatalista croak the stu dents. Nor, for that matter, are the professors #afe Even Prof Trevor Kinkaid eminent entymologist, was subjected to the « of the sheep, While 1 new specimen acroam the campus, the learned professor heard behind him @ scornful “Baah’t The specimen excaped. Dr got it next, while ambling with ait toward Administration from where Suz tatel hall ftalre aah"! aay the bitterly The vibrant melanchol and scorn were perhaps too much for the pres f the university For an in stant, vistas opened. He sighed. sheep object in to rid the world (Continued on page 9) —dUNE ith — FALL IN FIGHT WASHINGTON, June 19 Marine casualtion reported today total 130 show all its own on Thursday, a | V06d es followe week from tomorrow, for the |g 5. died pote : benefit of the “Our Boys tm | eis paverely if France Tobacco Fund.” Argus aathe re The names of three Washington! No sooner did The Star announce soldiers are listed as severely wound the appea from the Washington! 44 and one was killed action headquarters of the Red Cross ask: | Tra Evans, Bissell, Waah., was kill ing The Star to make special efforts! 44 The wounded are: Corporal Her to Increase the tobacco supply fOF | bert Woodruff, Sedro-Woolley; Pr the men who are now “over there,” | vate Fred Newm Tacoma, and than reaponses began to come George Ki Roberts, Spokane While Hazen J. Titus, who coed | —JUNE 28th — manage the drive, was out scou for downtown headquarters charming Star I am Miss Darling,” way of introduction in patie a young woman to The = BOLSHEVIK] ARE , BEATEN IN WEST said she And she was a darling, all right She in the press agent of the “Oh, | Roy” company COPENHAGEN, June 19.—The She told us about Joseph Santley,| F eviki in Western ria have the comedian extraordinary of the| been overthrown evolu company. He expects to| Uonary forces, who hay tab the Huns himself soon. | new government, sur by the nttme, he wants to do| Czecho-Slovacks, according to Petro grad disp published in German newspapers | The counter revolutionists have ptured Omsk, Samara and Nova h sk, it was reported. Premier is mobilizing Bolsheviki n here, And she told us t collection of pulchritude which Santley carries along. A score or more of pretty girls. And how most of them have been in vaude le, and how they're all anxious to what he of the gre Lenine LABOR COMMISSION | > ence a IN SECRET SESSION Behind closed doors of | the federal labor commission, whose duty it is to present ¢ ‘That the members the sheep are fast uprooting ideals of the student graduates 1 report to by sneering at their finer aspirations | (Ul) ‘i Ff nd ambitions is an admitted fact operators on the iatt | SUI, it is conceded the sheep eat ances against the Pacific Telephone | off the a4 nicely, And when the and Telegraph company, held a se-| sion in the U.S, Immig-ation | fat scoffers are slaughtered, the boys : se mer building Wednesday | overseas, doing the heavy work| Newspapermen were told that un against the Hun, will be served up |der no consideration might the public | some ct portions of juicy mut-|be informed ax to what was going on the very grane —JUNE 28th — | have disported | Waco, ‘Tex. June 19.—Intense heat which smashed all June records ‘There are 500 sheep in the flock. | in ‘Texas, was assigned as the cau They are all young, and constitute of spreading rails, which wrecked] the “Circle W" products, When|a Cotton Belt troop train late ye they are removed, 500 more will be| terday, injuring 24 soldiers and three | turned loose on the campus, and so| trainmen, seven miles east of this! on thruout the summer, or as long as city. Two were probably fatally the grass lasts, hurt Delay the development of additional electri¢} it in Los Angeles, where the trust itself owns the dis- Work on Seattle’s plant must begin this summer. If NIGHT EDITION t and Thursday, fair; northwesterly moderate ‘Third Term Jtalians Hold ‘Attack on Big Reserve Force Ready * By United Press Leased Ww ire Direct to The Star a A gain of three miles made yeatertay by the Austrians | in the Venetian area appears to be the only success of the enemy in the struggle along the Italian front. Today the battle shows signs of slackening, and the Italians, French and British allies are evidently gradually stealing the initia- tive from the foe. That the situation is considered serious by the enemy is emphasized by the presence of Emperor Karl and his | staff at grand headquarters in the rear of the battle on the ' Asiago plateau. It is known that Austria's maximum man power of about one million men has been thrown into the gamble, while Italy maintains a strong force of reserves. It was learned authoritatively today that strong Italian | reserves are held at strategic points back of the battle front, ready to go into battle whenever needed. The fact that they have not been used not only indi- cates that the Austrian menace is not regarded as serious but that Italy is well prepared to deal with the enemy should the situation change. — JUNE 8th — ‘ENEMY CONTINUES EFFORT T0 BREAK THROUGH PIAVE FRONT LONDON, June Allied [the Piave and Sile rivers forces still retain the initiative Allied troops in the mountain re- in the mountain areca of the Ital. | gion occupied Razea FPiszo, the ian front, while the Austrians [heights southeast of Sasso and continue their efforts at both ex. | routh of Costalunga, taking several tremes of the Piave line, it was hundred prisoners indicated in last night's official In the Fossalta region, the Italians statements. The Italians also pressed the Austrians back to the maintain an advantage at cer — Piave river and captured Capodar. tain points along the river. |gine, cutting off the Austrians in he Meolo salient (four miles west of While the greatest strategic dan. | ker to the Italians lay in the assault | the river), But the Italians later on their mountain defenses, as a ma-| were forced to fall back to the jor Au fn success, there would | Polants line, still retaining a gain of compel withdrawal of the armies |a kilometer. The Austrians have along the Piave, and probably evac-|made a further slight gain at Mon uation of Venice and Treviso, the lo. combined British, French and Italian) Along the Piave, attacks and coun. forces have stopped the enemy in/ter attacks constantly alter their tracks The latest Austrian claim is The Huns, theref: have shifted | prisoners and 120 guns thelr efforta to acquisition of Ilmon-| Both Emperor Karl of Austria and tello, the ¢ guarding the end of | Premier Orlando of Italy are at the the Piave line on the north, and to/ front the marshland along the Lower| The French war office last night Piave. In both thi reas, the Aus: | reported increased artillery activity trians, who are employing close to a| northwest of Montdidier, on the million men in the entire drive, have ns front, and between Mont reatest gain and the Aisne anced a maximum er Ilmontello, «ceu lin reported allied cannonading rious sectors on the Flanders of three miles o' two-thirds of the high On | front and between Arras and Albert mile front, between Fossaita Field Marshal Haig announced suc be the sea, they have penetrated cessful British raids in the sectors four miles, reaching the Fosret between the Picardy and Flanders nal at a point about midway between | fronts —JUNE 28th — : AUSTRIAN STORMERS FALL IN HEAPS ALONG MT. TOMBA LIN WITH THE ITALIAN AR | Three enemy divisions crossing the MIES IN THE FIE une 19. Piave on bridges and the islets in —The enemy has failed to make — front of Nervesa have been hemmed any impression on the mountain — in at the foot of I! Montello front, and the fighting is cen: tered at Montello and along the By throwing 14 bridges across the POLLS JUNE 28 Get ready to go to the polls on ) council will keep the polls open June 28 | from 4 to 9 p. m. on June 238. The day is not a regular elec- | War Savings Day tien di but it is the day upon The pledge cards which wil which every loyal citizen of Se constitute the ballots, are to b attle is expected to register a filled out to show how many ainst Bill Hohenzollern War Savings Stamps each resi this, all that will do dent has bought so far, and how ssary is to sign a pledge | many he can buy during the re card to invest in a definite num. | mainder of the year. There is no of War Savings Stamps by | age, residence or other qualifica end of the year. | tion on voters. A polling pl will be estab | King county has War Sayings lished in practically every pre | Stamps of a maturity value of cinet of the city, some in \ $8,241,000 to buy by the end of number, In most cases they will | the year, This county quota is be the regular polling pla 80 to be divided up between the dis that people will be able to find tricts of the county, and each them readily asked to meet its obligations. The arrangement of the poll It is to be regarded as a neces ing places is in the hands of the sary act of loyal citizenship to Council of Patriotic go and register for a definite which will later annow share in raising the county's exact locations, Members of the quota of savings. E Rheims Shattere Desperate German A to Take City “At Any © Price’ Complete Failure |36,000 MADE ASSA PARIS, Jane 19.—A desperate — Fort La Pompelle, a | complete half-circle about the y on the north front, east west. Thirty-six thousand Ger- mans participated in the repent ed attacks. > “Yesterday, at 6 p. m, the mans launched a violent | bombardment on the whole |front, from Vrigny to Fort Pompetle,” the comm | said. (Vrigeny is five miles west jslightiy south of Rheims. Fort | Pompelle is in a corresponding tien to the eastward.) “German infantry attacked French positions between those points. The French resisted the emy attacks with full success. “Between Vrigny and Ormes miles east of Vrigny), the G were stopped by the French fire hurled back several times upon t lines of departure. They were able to reach the French lines at time. “In the vicinity of Rheims was violent fighting, with heat emy losses. The Germans were Pulsed everywhere. “To the eastward of Rheims, fighting resulted to the advantage of the French. The Germans who etrated the wood northeast of (two miles south of Fort La | pelle) were hurled back by a counter attack |_ “Prisoners taken in the Rheims gion declare the town was attac by three divisions (36,000 men) was to be taken the same night any price.’” —JUNE 28th — ITALY PROBLEM LESS SERIC | LONDON, June 19.—The Ital. ~ ian situation is more favorable than it was yesterday, it was | learned today. | The danger in the Montello is greatly lessened. Between rat Brenta and the Astico rivers, Aus) ~ ltrian gains were again reduced, im | Three Austrian attacks were re) | pulsed between the Brenta and the} — Piave. —dJUNE 28th — ITONS HALT TEUTON ee LONDON, June 19.—Successtul British patrol operations and the: repulse of German raids was Pee; _ ported by Field Marshal Haig bey 4 day South of Hebuterne we made @ ssful raid last night.” the statement said “In the Vieux-Berquin sector we: [attacked and recaptured a post which the enemy had taken the; {night of the 14th. “An attempted enemy raid was repulsed in the Locre sector. There | was hostile artillery fire in the Ancre valley about Merrucourt Merris.” —dIUNE 28th— YANKS MAY HIT ~ AUSTRIA FRONT WASHINGTON, June 19.—Gen, Pershing is to determine whether | thousands of American troops may |be spared from the western theatre |for transportation to the Italian | front. as learned today. Italian sador De Cellere, in nal conference with Secretary emphasized that the advant- |age of American forces against the | Austrians would be to discourage | the invaders, who have been fed by Germany with the propaganda that the United States is not in sympathy with Italy —JUNE 28th— BAKER WON’T OPPOSE DRAFT AGE INCREASE HINGTON, June 19.—Declars ngress appeared to favor ex. tension of the draft age, as a result of Gen, Crowder's draft data, Secre. tary of War Baker has ot attempt officially that he would not a any opposition to such extension,