The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 5, 1918, Page 1

% } } ] MORE THAN 70,000 PAID COPIES DAILY VOLUME 20. NO. 110 .HINDENBURG SLIP Profit Hog Huns Hit by Firms Made New Revolt Big Money in Russia One Went as High as 2,000 Per Cent Excess, Report to Senate Shows ROFITEERING EXPOSED t By United Press Leased Wire Direct to The Star WASHINGTON, July 5 Profits as has 3 per c made by some bu: eases in treasury departrag: ted to the senate shows is @ partial answer to resolution, asking data on profiteer. ing. The 2.183 per cent example was that of a food dealer ‘The report listed the percen excess in 1917 profits over t 1916, together with changes in cap ital and other st the business, but gav Next to the food dealer Excess report age of 2493 per c came a liq With a capital stock of $5 hed an excess profit of 1,220 per cent. Another iquor man with $190,000 capital mad t A.cold. storage firm capi $19.09 exceeds its 1916 472 per cent. ;Im the dairying business Profits ranged from nothing t per cent; banking. nothing to § cent; contracting nothing to ent; clothing manufacturers up to 918 per cent. A miller, with $90,000 . showed an excess profit of per cent Department stores ranged from hing to 321.69 for one with email 1. Several with capital as high $300,000 showed no excess profits. fh $50,000 capital, a concern in the retail clothing trade made 1,181 per cent, jumping profits from $45,000 in 1916 to $127,000 in 1917 THREE NEGROES HANGED BEFORE ARMY DIVISION CAMP DODGE, Ia. July 5—On the grounds where four months ago they began their military training and in view of the entire 88th divis fon, three Alabama negroes—Fred Allen, bert Johnson and Stanley Trable—this mornir the galiow attacking © on the excess ninui white privates en and out of drawn up sprung the groes to the! traps that death Yankees Stop Foe in Vosges Attempt BY FRANK J. TAYLOR United Press Correapondent WITH THE AMERICANS IN FRANCE, Ju 4.—(Night.) Germans attempte Against an Americar Vosges yesterda preparation ly punishe captur ported that eight were kille Say Czernin Will Get Minister Post AMSTERDAM, Ju 0} a confere betwe Count Czernin and } n the Vienna Neue Freie Presse Clared that Czernin uld be re Editor The Star the months and years go on, and the judgment of Cynthia Grey me lows, an idea, born my mir of the evide ed of t and her wi erie expreesior f t their corps oO} uch brave. « eyed, broad-minded women as Cynthia Grey? rr parsons might be sent to the front, into 1 pyard ny where mu ‘ as Cynthia Gre J cannot imagine her thumping , out one creed for a whole par to swa tion All th the new nine which Kerensky voice of Russia bel sembly wh Bolshevik peace ne Cynthia's ¢ Kerensky Declares Bolshe- vik Peace Treaty Cannot be Considered Binding KAISER TO SEND ARMY? Dispatch to The Star by Newspaper Enterprise Ass LONDON, July sian situation once more is clouded in a maze of conflicting reports, but this much seems certain: Whatever government is set up in Moscow or Petrograd and whoever leads it, whether as emperor, premier or president, Russia is likely to reenter the war. to Might in favor of Ruse part in the war ‘The Brest-Litovsk scrap of paper “peace masquerades as a (Conianes on page » KERENSKY SAYS REDS NEAR END BY ED L. KEENE United Preas Correspondent LONDON July 5 -—Alexander ents still regard Russi hing sh the Front « declaration was made to th nited Press by Dr. Da consider said § ngs only to the ce h has regime and th gotiations of the RUSS PROBLEM — SOLUTION DUE TON f R ar be 1 to be only a matter te T ad e ft " f will t Lord Reading had urged him r commit himeelf to any definite DO YOU READ CYNTHIA GREY? WHAT os READER SAYS ish or church without regard for the myriad ex animatir men, women, and even children who differed from her ow rtleular cree perdi ¢hteous, narr r oted ome, indeed r emaelves to be to wonderful judgment and rarest of all things in man ¢ ho at A leak Al ‘ for all who care ead Lat her srvel@a en when vughed rt tara Moxt helpful fea and the factions here he RRR AA Sonclinamecieems movies) Ko albr Cll PAAR ARAL PPPOE THE GREATE. Finland May War on “Allies STOCKHOLM, July 5.—Fin land is reported on the verge of declaring war against the allies Finnish troops, in with 50,000 Germans be ready to carry the Russian Murman dist allied forces, including a few cans, are guarding military SETTLEMENT OR BREAK T0 COME NEXT TWO DAYS within 48 bours of all on between comp. city a nm tracth or Hanson and cou! to a head. re being withheld of the conferences is to a schedule of joint concession: will Improve car service, following threats of the shipping beard to handle both muny and corporation lines to provide better transports tion FAULKNER GETS A YEAR IN JAIL convicted aleigh M. Faulkner. U.S. AVIATORS BAG THREE FOES | : ITH THE AMERICANS ©! TH MARNE, Ju 4p. m)> wn in two aerial battles which k place this front this m ng. Two American airmen are mi " Four America nd nix ¢ man ma pated ea WILSON URGES _ WIRE SEIZURE |: NTOR'S NOTE— Our war expert yie when it s to analyzing day he was handed the upreme te interpret war item as Aa with which he iteh 4, July 6.—Frene sd in military service ha not eng , taken to hunting truffles with pigs, augment the nation's f¢ up: BY POMER FOSS (War Expert) he 1 por n of ft ie i thet nat tt of war conditions may ven result in a new co-operation are reported to a campaign into t, where Amer supplies a break found amend the two Ix to no man inter contradict om peasants national sport for our sister republic after tha war. ability. ROOPS OF ALLIES TAKE 2,000 ENEMY PRISONERS: ADP LLL LL LLLP LLL NIGHT EDITION TheSeattle Star * Weather westerly win T DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWES 1 Clans Matter May %, 1499, at the Poatoffice at Beattie, Wash, under the Act of Congress March PRICE ONE CENT Vor year, by matt $100 to $9.00 ING JULY 1918, ATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, ea ae ee FFENSIVE A GERMAN BIER GARDEN __ / Bloodlust — of Leader Is Checke ‘Imperial Headquarters Has” Lost Confidence in Ability of Hindenburg to Win KAISER DELAYS New Gains. Are Made by Allies Germans Lose Ground and Men in Reverses on Fourth Celebration AUSTRALIANS WIN BIG MAY ASSUME DEFENS Battle Analysis by J. W. T. Mason By United Presa Leased wees Direct to The Ster Battle Report From _ London Today My United Press Leased Wire Direct to The Star * - * YNDON, 5 —While cith of allied countries formally Independence day, diers of those nations ad vanced on three fronts, making important gains and taking over 2,000 prisoness. In Picardy, A * NEW YORK, July Hindenburg’s delay in new offensive along the front is strongly indicative new lack of confidence at kaiser’s headquarters in the ity of the German army to decisive results from the | field. There apparently are powerful | fluences at work, trying to per | the kaiser not to permit Hi |to continue his policy of slaughtering Germany's man | for chimerical results. A defi ceptance by the Germans of a sive role is undoubtedly cussion at general headquarti Whether this relinquishment the initiative shall be ack: daly tens celebrated the se stralian and Amert can troops, supported by tanks, at tacked on a front of about four miles. between Villers Hretonneaug and the Somme yesterday, advancing & max | imum distance of more than a mile! and capturing the village of Hamel and the woods of Hamel and Vaire At the same time, Australians ad anced 500 yards on @ fromt of three quarters of a mile east of Ville-wur Anere. 1 these two operations at once or only after another nore 1,000 prisoners were | effort to break thru the allied f take is 4 matter which the kaiser Fr tween quickly decide, 3 Refuses Consent | He has refused his in two attacks be the Oise and the Aisne, ad vanced nearly a mile on a threemile front, taking 1,066 prisoners on the . eve of the “Fourth.” least, to an impetuous offensive tn= The Italiane made further gains dertaken like the latest Ger on the lower Piave, on both «fl drives, without due strategic | thought. This much is known the exceptionally long interval has passed since the fourth of drives. It may mean that the America's first 1,000,000 in has erercised a decisive influ the side of the conservative }| leaders, and that authority has |taken from Hindenburg to |German armies at | thirsty will AMERIGANS AID ey w Parpy TEN HUN PLANE ANZAGS’ ENTRY jor ‘suor pow the Brenta river plateau and on the A 509 prisoners were Nearty i Germany Combs Last Dregs of Its Man-Power ; WASHINGTO: July 5.—Germany is tapping the last of her man-power re- } serves, says Sam L. Rogers, director of the United States census. ITALIANS FIRE FOE'S BRIDGES United Press Summary of War Events PICARDY FRONT—The Ger mane last ht faile tempt t his own Wilson Speech is Carried to Huns by Ally Planes BY ROBERT J. BENDER e Somme, which was captured t Austra r and Am: an United Press Correspondent ¢ pri eon in yesterday's WAS ern, a psi LONDON, July 5—Ten German ease idie ak: caine, ibaa. nLite ges ip Aetage Meeity Darrtgahacugy FP" airplanes were accounted for by mie x 5 ext propaganda effort of the war . Wisc, British airmen Wednesday. ; oldie Italian War Office Thruout the night and today. the Dispatch From William During the day and night 16 tons at m 2 5,08 cable wirele and every means *3s, . | ; OISE, CHAMPAGNE AND Report a domthaniontion. at the Philip Simms laa Ger mae as ; VERDUN FRONTS—Freneh pa Ry United Press Leased Wire posal of the government are be By United Press Leased Wire ur machines 4 trols brought re Direct to The Star utilized te nd to all neutrals and | Direct to The Star sicdhaiiac caielaiale VosGRs A X | pelligerents the ple¢ he for: | % — an ecede 1b “ TH THE ITALIAN ARMIES eign-born here ent's a WITH THE BRITISH ARMIE repulsed t THE FIELD, July The Ita are at Me and de IN FRANCE, July 4.—(Night.—The Vednesda jan attack on. the lower Plave toda tatla of the battle east of Amiens this -norning onts compara the most for is destined to occupy a niche in his TTALIAN FRONT- engagement of The Australians, aided by Ameri advances ¢ the WASHINGTON, July n vessels, totalling ard e been lost thru U-boats and es during June, official cables t@ the legation here stated. can detachments, fell upon Wilt of Hohenzollern’s men and sign defeated them in a attack at daybreak, taking )0 prisoners. ed and the the word many and « being carrie Austria, Allied air dropping the pre: b and th planes are surprise artillery resolutions dent's apec and cap Italian troops surrounded of foreign-borns here over the en- | All objectives were att ording to an [| tured several groups of the enemy || emy tines tag ares Thirty-one men are missing, all Germany i# [ among the many canals in this re 1 ack began without artillery | S¥PPosed to be lost Allies to enter gion Saat preparation, Two minutes before tt refrain the troops went over, British guns Ridgema ieee WASHINGTON, July 6.—-Presi.| Not accident marked the began a bombardment. A smoke FRENCH PATROLS © lent Wilwon today issued a ships on Seattle's . 4 the battle front from front Thursday. ¢ tive order, suspending the e wate »wds that | the Ancre to Luce (a front of 12 da fo aborer work on alla ni approach wit. Miles, extendin. north and south of logic survey of the department of emergency flee Suddenly, a great number of tanks PARIS, July 5.—Patrol activil which resulted in additional prison. ers were reported by the Fret war sector before the | Sri. today = nen The latter ween Montdidier and the Olse, | 7 n " in the Champagne and along the! Kamerad right bank of the Meuse French pi, tanks came the infan- | trols brought in prisoners,” the re- ard steadily and oc - Village and Vaire and which had been brought up secretly during the night emerged from the smoke cloud in th terrified Huns. kly, holding up their hands resisted only wes and crying Behind the try, moving fc cupying Hamel The success of the French peasant! As soon as the pig has rooted up seems, therefore, of international im- the truffle, he is rapped smartly portance, since a national recreation over the nose with a cudgel before pends on it he can eat it. The mental agony of = ameNT ra ho poorly equipped with plebeian the pig so great at this finer Hamel! woods WASHINGTON, July §.—Senator) | pigs and fra d leas the that he sounds like a slaughter house rei eriatatiet ae peasants are represented to be round. for m: around f a five-minute in > y : io) peperaae” panes, < a ing up the truffles in great numbers, | terva One senhopabcas ican hahteh io States, Japan. 396 ae This gives rise to the fear that the| Under the promise of new truffie Uiller Relief corps will serve a din: | Britain form an sgrestiegy igi truffle may become extinct M however, he is prevailed on to con Bac Vaieres bn D, AROEY tur." vent German aggression, Gi iiaiaam day from 5 p. m, to 6:30 ciffe ocean ures to safeguard then probably will tinue the search. At rare intervals be taken, and special hunting sea-| he is fed a small truffle to sustain sons pointed. uffle hunting | his flagging hopes a eee licenses will be ned The pig is the only animal in the of success | world that * worthy of | in Meanwhile, the secret fully locating truffl a truffle, nak port. The n scent it a truly democratic Snapshot of Well-Known War 1x ‘Sun Runs Wild-It’s pert in Daffodil Field more than passing tion. poorer ¢ may have just com he secret is in the snout of the mon pigs, with an occa val gaudy It 1s extremely probably that those leash, and the affluent have auto Rising in the W ih in the social world will eager! Lévai onions mobile pi with Russian leather es eize on thin 4 pursuit, followin loushes, but when it comes down to the cessation of the wo struggle t yxtrils of the pix cogni-| the essence of the thing and getting ““oorreee adapting it, with slight modifications, zant of truffles within an extensive ‘after the elusive truffle, the zest The sun is rising in the west! » their own requirement urea, and whenever one is scented there in either instance Ov the world’s revolving backward !! Their pigs would, of course, be| he dashes for it with all of the pas What does t behavior of the sun portend? * 's of big im at's certain, Star has a stery, and we have a hunch we'll seem | be able to explain this weird phenomenon. Watch tomorrow's Star for further developments! sionate ardor and love of his system. ca ‘ul by ling will no doubt de-jemitting a series of shrill, triumph velop a more acute tryffie-smeliing |ant squeals. His master follows, tugging at the leamde sristocratic and clean and ee (EDITOR'S NOTE.—The truffle is y wild potato, that will not be domesticated, and grows only in the | mens dasvlate places.)