The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 26, 1918, Page 1

UNITED FULL LY __VOLU ME 20 20,000 DROWNED IN PIAVE RIVER. * MORE THAN 70,000 PAID COPIES DAILY PRESS D ASSOCIATIONS WIRE SERVICE INO CH THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER . WASH, ‘WE DNE SDAY, JU! Ni 26, 1918, The Seattle Stat IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST NIGHT EDITION Oays her fair PRICE * * * Class 1 in July Calls 500 Deferred Men Are Ad- vanced by the Local Boards _ AFFECTS MARRIED MEN Seattle select draft men of Class 1 will be exhausted in prac. tieally ali of the 12 divisions of the city by the July call for men to go to training camps In one or two divisions there may be insufficient numbers to fill the quota, even with the ad. dition of men moved up into Class 1 by reason of reclassifica- tion now being made. It is estimated that about 500 men in Seattle will be placed in Class 1 by the reclassification on dependency claims alone. The “work or fight” order, ef- fective July 1, will probably bring many more into line for immediate military service. All reclassified Clase | m Rew li-yearold registrants needed to fill the during the next gran of having arms by August ‘Vices say From Washington advices reached Seattle Wednesday that Washington Deen called upon to send 4,000 nin July to Camp Lewis. Local ds were in possession of their Wednesday, but under in- 3 not to give them out. 3 Tt fs expected the new cal! will take nearly 1,000 more men from the city and King county Provost Marshal Gen winced additional ¢ weaday. which bring the the month to 344,757 men for 220,000 was isqyed Tuesday 224525 additional Wednesday. In division No. §, embracing the Capitot bill district, there have been | about 260 changes in classification made so far, 225 being into Class 1 and 75 appeals are already filed | The jal Jump is from Class 4 to | Class 1, tho sone go into Class 2, as ekilied farm or industrial laborers, or whose families are not necessarily wholly dependent upon them. Divis jon No. $ has more married men “without children than any other tn | the city, and has the highest record (Continued on page 7) RED CROSS AID TO The Northwest division of the Red Cross, with headquarters at Seattle, has plunged into the work of relief for firestricken Cle Elum. At first word of the disaster that swept the mining town Tuesday afternoon, the wheels of the great mercy organ- ization were set in motion. Red Cross forces were busy all night. In close touch with the situation, C. D. Stimson, division manager, announced Wednesday that the retief situation was well in hand. “There wii be no need for the rais ing of a subscription fund,” he de clared. “The Red Cross is organized and has been given ample money for just this sort of work, The civilian relief bureau will be able to lend ev ery aid.” Send Blankets On an early train Wednesday were upped 2,000 pairs of blankets, 200 hen stoves, 200 sets of kitchen , of the ma be t's calls * pro under nm ad overnmen 0 day 000,000 men 1, Washin Crowder an lis for J A cal and Utensils, 110 large tents, and other supplies. P. Folsie, director of civilian relief for the Northwest division, ac- companied by D. T. Tilly and Karl Kirkpatrick, formed the first relief party. H. L. Enlows and Percy A Smith followed Wednesday All will remain until the situation in Cle Bium is cleared. Send Bringhurst Previous to the announcement of Manager Stimson, Mayor Hanson re ceived a reply from the Cle Elum req J | iet committee to his telegram offer i at the theatre A big motor car stopped wtage entrance of the © Attendants emerged, carrying # old, Moore an sedan, in which sat a woman, young in the ¢ pression of her ¢ | The proceeded toward open door of the waiting automobile A youthful newsie unmindful of Ane presence of a world figure, shout ithiens! 3 pper! Extr Big vietory” The sedan automatically stopped Mon ami! Achetez le journal! commanded t woman A dapper young man of her ret tinue immediately purchased a paper. The caravan proceeded The car then bowled down Second &ve, Another newsie shouted an ex 4 Older Men This Year Baker Says Present Plan to Change Draft Ages Is Incomplete BIG ARMY DEVELOPING Ry United Press 1 ased Wire "Nreet to The Star WASHINGTON, June %6.— Secretary of War Baker today told the senate military com mittee that “for the present,” the war department believes it would be better not to change the draft ages. This insures rejection of the pending amendment to broad: practical! en the ages from 21-31 to 20-40, Baker told the committee that his chiet cuion to changing the ages thru the amendment to the army bill is that it is not based on a thoroly worked-out plan Pri . Whiison aid to have Suggested that the proposed draft age y bw 2 up until the next ses The change in plans for extending the draft age will not endanger de ferred classes unless some grave ex ige arisel, making It necessary to call many more an it is now an ticipated to call this year. Under the present program, the balance of the calls this year will still leave about 2,000 men in Class 1 on January 1 New Supply Due Extension of the draft next ses sion and a probable registration of December or January will insure a new Class 1 reservoir from which to draw. In addition, it 0,000 men will be added u the re-examination of questionnaires now under way Baker disclosed the fact that “an enlarged military program” is being prepared by the war department, tho he did not go into details. The American army will nam- ber 3,440,000 by September, and of these 1,450,000 will be in France, Senator Hitchcock an- nounced in discussing the pro- posal to defer action on the fall amendment. Gen. March and Gen. Crowder foi lowed Baker before the committee Roth agreed with him. SENDS CLE ELUM Tuesday night committee gave thanks and said subscriptions would wel ng assistance, sent The any come Fire Marshal the midnigh’ Bringhurst left on train for Cle Elum to | represent the city Gov. Lister answered the appeal of the stricken city immediately with orders to Adjt. Gen. Harvey J. Mons to take charge of relief work for the state and to furnish tents. CLE ELUM, June 2%6.—One half of this city is In ashes and ruins today. The last flickering flames and curting smoke is ris ing from charred heaps where yesterday, before 12:30 p. m., stood some of the largest busi- ness houses and between 300 and 400 homes. A financial loss of nearly $1,000. 000 has been suffered by the com. munity, it is estimated, from the fire that started in a store Between 1,200 and 1,500 people are homeless as a result of the onrush of flames that swept a mile and a f thru the city in two hours a halt. The restaurant, taken over by the relief committee, headed by Mayor Balmer, is doing big service among the destitute The burned area is being guarded by volunteers, Coal mines are shut down temporarily to enable assi«t ance to be rendered, and the ope companies, the Independ: Coke and the Southern (Continued on page 10) & Co. tra ager for News Again the car stopped. Again the young man purchased a paper—tho it wa a duplicate of the edition ac quired two minutes before. And so the party proceeded, stopping at al most every corner, to accumulate more new ners, The woman was the divine Sarah Bernhardt, whose magic voice has swayed patrons of the drama thru attempt tongue tho she nev her native the world ed to forsake French Her soul is hungry for every scrap of war news that hints at the fate! of French legions. So she buys, and| ToExhaust Won't Call ‘Yum, Yum! Some Girl! Oh, Boy! 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And they want to help ‘The last day for the auto ticket 1024 Third Ave. the amoke fund at the same tim A sales will be July 14—if there are * fine combination any left then Anti-Rent-Hog ‘The autos to be sold for the to, Only 40,000 tickets are to be sold bacco fund are a $4,000 Marmon, a The price ix $1 eact League to Meet i ey a ‘* E et The next meeting of the Anti Rent Star Newsies to BEN MOORE MARRIES Profiteering league will be held Mon P day evening, in Meves' cafeteria See Vaudeville MISS MARIE GABEL 1410 ‘Third ave, which has been do nated for the purpose, following its tae ‘carriers Will ‘eee-Patacd Fp] isc.4.'1, canal’ comer soulety rel citeotine bhaldeme ore fo vaudeville Wednesday night. Man’ rier and feature writer on the eoatnittha “oh iwien. abd ager Muller of the Palace Hip will poe: intelligencer’s staff, and Ben I. | means, headed, by Mayor Hanson, flip Moore, assistant United States attor- | Will hold a meeting previous to th y ‘outa who are carriers will Twin Holly, the Kirkland home of Opponents to rent profiteering and lead the march to the theatre the bride's parents landlords are ome, MME. SARAH BERNHARDT FORGETS ALL IN EAGERNESS TO FOLLOW WAR NEWS buys, and buys newspapers—explan- | ing, away off in the wild country Lying at the foot of a tree, badly ations of duplication by her Ameri-| Tuesday she attended the rose | wounded, the soldier tells the story can Thanager notwithstanding show at the Arena for the benefit of {of saving the flag Aitho she Carries Physician fatheriess children of France speaks but three English words in Mme. Bernhardt is nearly 76 years| Next week she will see her son— | th etch God bless Americ Yet her voice ie strong,|& man t 50 years of age—who| Mme. Bernhardt brings her audience d magical, an it waa in the | lves in Portland, Ore to a state of tears almost to frenzy rh wan auvretie Wines Paid $1,000 Day At the end, the soldier's voice chokes limb has been amputated. A Aitho aged and crippled, the art of from a wound in his breast, n accompanies her, A little | Sarah nhardt still sways men and Hardly Moves aughter travels as compa om”. women Martin Beck pays $1,000 a Mme. Bernhardt’s portrayal of the Then the a cretary, & man da for her act, and started paying death is cnasterly So great is her ager and two m t the day she left Paris, and will/art, that, altho she hardly moves in Bach morning at the Ne continue to pay it until she returns her 1 ition at the foot of the tree Washington, she arises early Some | there the audie writhes under the spec mornings she motors. Many morn-| In the modern war sketch, “Du |tacle of an intense physical struge ings she spends painting Theatre au Champs D'Honneur,” writ and agonizing suffering. Went Fishing ten by a French officer, she plays| She also plays the last act of “Ca At Vancouver, B. C., she went fish-| the part of a wounded color bearer, | mille. Americans OustEnemy From Wood Apex of German Drive Gains Flattened by Success of U. S. Fighters CAPTURE 221 TEUTONS i Dispatch From ‘ Lowell Mellett United Press Le Direct to By Wir * WITH THE AMERICANS ON THE MAKN June 26.—10:35 a. m.)—The Americans took the remainder of Helleau wood last night. The German wounded were very lost at 1 prisoners, including a captain and six other officers. The Americans machine guns In this ther Gattened in killed They lonnen and least captured many action the na fur Ame pute « © Ar the German Desperate Fighting Germans desperately the advantage of without which a the Meaux is impos Uterally crowded their forest with machine The to retain wood ment toward nible. They part of the guns Our suceess remulted sought holding move from heavy shelling Tuesday, which was fol lowed by an attack at 5 p.m An hour and a half later the enemy was reported as attempting woods. They were swept filading machine gun f fighting to the death, ot rendering The Germans, with the exception of one captain, who knew before we did that we had him surrounded. fought until they were driven from their strongholds by hand grenades or bayonets. ‘They reserved their rifle and machine gun fire until the Americans closed in German losses in dead and wound ed were heavy, while our losses were not disproportionate the success obtained MORE YANKEES ENTER HUNLAND BY FRANK J. TAYLOR WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES IN FRANC June An Ameri can unit has taken over a new sector n Alsace now permis Already it has nor German ra pounce several m This new sector in the vicinity of Gebweller. The ine runs thru an extremely rugged territory of mountains, deep ravines and dense forests it is the third sector taken over by the Americans in Alsace ‘man territory s are now available of raids on the Ame of Ra Sunday 1 Germans the second in ¢ Deta Germar arat sid down two b barra two completely sur Franco-Ameri simul »ymbed Badonvil to the north the sunded un outer positions aneou enemy a Neu plane pr ar er During of German in’ more than and Americans barrage, two ntry, each numbering attacked the French who had been cut off. In one of the po the Americans failed to § tho they outnum! groups were one. Most that will porarily The other trated a French wounds tem them received incapacitate them onl hes pene few oners group of village and and = Americ They fled before a On the Toul front are heavily bombarding the Ameri n positions, throwing large quan tities of gas into Bois de Jury de Remieres and other 13-YEAR-OLD _ SHOOTS BOY; IS ARRESTED took a pris counter attack the Germans ors TACOMA, June 26.—Willie Sal is hovering between life and death in a local hospital today, with a bullet wound in his abdomen, while Chas, Savisky, 13, is in jail charged with shooting him on a country road t last Sunday and a companion met who had been fishir Some followed after thi Savisky is said to turned and fired a rifle did it near Burne Savisky Willie and boy suddenly from hi He n the bullet at Will to frig sma told offic other ul navy yard needs me Apply at Brem Puget So chanics, laborers, helpers office of recorder, navy yard, erton. YOUR CREDIT IS GOOD Your credit and your neighbor’s credit are good with Uncle Sam — so good that he doesn’t ask a single man to spend a dollar on Friday——Na- tional War Savings Day. But he does ask that you come to him on that day and give your I. O. U for the . biggest . possible amount that you can rake and and save to spend for War Savings Stamps between now and December 31. It’s all together now! ‘United Press | Dorecast nort War Events} | Summary of 0,424th day of the war; 98th day of the big offensive.) ITALIAN FRONT—The west bank of the Piave has been com pletely cleared of Austrians, the last rear guard surrendering aft er it had been nearly annihilated. The Italian drive northward is believed to be a defensive move to make the expected Austrian offensive in the mountains more difficult. The enemy is reported to have concentrated all of its reserves there. ‘The Austrian mated a 000 include 20,000 Piave MARNE FRONT American troops completed the capture of losses now esti are reported to drowned in the Belleau wood last night, inflict ing heavy losses on the Ger mans and taking 221 prisoners and a number of machine guns ALSACE FRONT-—The Amer foans have taken over a new sec rin German territory near Gebwe and already have re- pulsed several raids. LORRAINE FRONT — Ger mans heavily bombarded Amer: anf on the Toul sector v French took prisoners in PICARDY FRONT — Enemy artillery bombarded British posi tions along the Ancre FRONT — Ger British lines in FLANDERS mans shelled th the northern and western part of the front ENGLAND Alexander Ke rensky, former Russian premier aft ndin igys in Lond x to be en route to America, Hijalmar er, urged American socialists to by President Wilson's war aims program. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY declare the Swiss Austrian further downcast victory on the newed its de dispatches population by th Italian Piave and has rr mand for peace Under xas be June AUSTIN, Tex., June 26 libition act, T at midnight winds, ONE NGE IN DRAFT Gains on Austrians Additional Prisoners and Huge Quantity of Mater- ials Are Captured FOE GENERAL SUICIDES By United Press Leased Wire Direct to The Star ‘, June 26.—The LONDO.: portant success in their northern counter offensive, it was learned authoritatively today. In the Grappa sector, south-. west of Monti Asolone, they advanced a mile. ROME, June 26.—Italian forces extended their gains at Caposile and repulsed several counter attacks, the Halian war office announced today. ; having reoceupied the at Caposile, we extended provoking numerous counter at tacks. the statement seid. “We took 375 prisoners Yesterc bridgehead Y |Continues “We are clearing up the battle |” field. A few hundred more p have been taken. We are comj ly recuperating all our arms and materials, with an mous quantity of Austrian mats Despite the success of the li counter offensive begun by the | jans on the mountain front, it is known that the Austrians have com centrated their remaining reserves there and the Italians may soon be forced to change their tactics in that region ‘The mated at 250,000. Of these it is re- ported 20,000 were drowned in the retreat across the Upper Piave, The ist and 32nd Austrian rifle regi- ments covered the enemy retreat un-— til only 80 men remained unwounded. — Then they surrendered. Gen. Von — Cronstadt, their commander, shot himself. The Italian booty includes several enemy batteries, hundreds of ma- chine guns and thousands of prison- ers. The body of Maj. Baracca, the famous Italian aviator, was found at the foot of Montello crest beside his burned machine. He had committed suicide to avoid bins: ITALY STRIKES AUSTRIANS IN MOUNTAIN ZONE LONDON, June 26.—The Ital- ians, striking northward into the Venetian mountains, in conjunc- tion with their counter offensive along the Piave, have won in- itial advantages, the official statement shows. concentrations are aiding ans. The Italian war office on the Asiago au and in the Mont Grappa sec ven in the Tonale pass region, near the Swiss frontier, the Italians defeated the enemy The west bank of the Piave has been entirely cleared of Austrians, Rome declared, the enemy's last cow- ering force surrendering. The oper- ations on all fronts won the Italians 3,060 additional prisoners. Vienna claimed a total of 50,000 Heay successes & prisoners since the offensive began, and said the “lowest estimate of the Italian losses was 150,000." KERENSKY STIRS UP 26 Russian appearance LONDON, June Kerensky, former a dramatic premier made at the labor conference here today d h lak ch in i British Arthur leader issian, introdu Britis After Henders Kerensky He was “Tam ¢ being th made & on chee loudly rtain the Russian uy will join) with you great of freedom,” Kerensky declared in his address. “I have just from Moscow. My duty as a man and socialist is to tell th people the come state world that the Russian people fighting tyranny wh are » democracy, The closest fr and America is most nece s future well bel the Bolsheviki rests of German or Russ I belies work but ing their Kerensky reported as days are numbered who has varioush dead, as en route Amer as organizing a new lrevolution since his overthrow by the Bolsheviki, arrived in London on n to . and Alexander } LONDON IN SPEECH June 19. Only a few persons knew of his presence, which was not pub known until today hortly after the announcement, it reported Kerensky was en route America, Thi rt added to surprise th his appear- at the labor conference liely was to the ance rep t grec ‘ON rence WASHIN con’ June 26.—Inter- on the problem of Russia were advancing rap: but it was stated on high that no definite policy has upon yet. President of an open mind,” allie aid for idly today authority been agreed Wilson is still “MOTHER” SHIP OF SUBS SIGHTED AT W. INDIA NORPOLK, Va. June 26—What is believed to be the “mother ship" of the Atlantic coast raiders, has been sighted in West Indian waters, She is of cruiser type to have sunk a large British steam ship. Austrian losses are now est — and is reported