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

“A GOOD EGG BECOMES A VULTURE, THEN A GOOPHER, AND AFTER THAT A GIMPER.” That’s how Lieut. Eddie Rickenbacker, famous American airman, defines the “gimpers,” of whom he is the chief. If a gimper ever lost his nerve—well “it’s zoom for him,” says Rickenbacker, “back to the woods.” Read Rickenbacker’s first of a series of 10 articles on page 5 today. x00 | Theseattle Star “27 THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST Per year by mall $6.00 to $9.00 Entered as Hecond Clans Matter May 3, 190 At the Postoffice at Heattie, Wash., under the Act of Congress March &, 1879 ARIA FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT OF THE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS * COMPLETE SERVICE OF THE NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOC IATION | ASED WIRB SERVICE SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1918. Weather Forecast: PRESS ASGOCIATIONS VOLUME NO. 135 moderate’ wenterly inde — 20. DESPERATE * * os 8&8 &@ @ 8 EN, Stiffen Line Above Vesle i in Attempt t to Stop Rout ~~ — — —— —-— Ba} TRY NEWMISIMLD, YANKEES Brinsing tome me Becon | Allies Strike: SF POCKET | MARNE DEFEAT | SHELLED Aisne Flanl RERNE, the past 48 Sirs to Faiies capturing 1, 500,00 shells, taking thousands captive, crossing the Aisne 2 several points, and pushing the enemy back also in th Picardy sector, a Berne dispatch today on the state ¢ feeling in Berlin carries special significance. Despair and discouragement control Berlin. * downheartedness never before was witnessed,” says tl Tageblatt. The Germans, it was indicated by official at has goin Ty “enone | Flanking Movements feat ag j-imatueed unepeaka*| Supply Base on n Vesle Taken | ‘ E Ends of Vesle Line Bring | Taccbiatt aeciares Suen out in Desperate Battle With breaks of utter discouragement and Added Danger to HUNS — downneartedness never before were Prussian Guards witnessed.” The Frankische Tage Post de MAY DELAY TOO LONG jicces tne wid rumors that toe MARCH IN RAINSTORM kaiser and Von Hindenburg have — been assassinated and that Von Hin. | # " denburg was killed in a duel with Dispatch From Fred | By United Press Leased Wire | By United Press Leased Wire ot f ae : Lalit elds Direct to The Stor mest _savera ponnition for’ the oneg| Quick staff dispatches today, may make stronger resistay ‘ DPA GPS eS ce aE RRND responsible for spreading these along the Vesle line than had been expected. | an XEW, YORK, Aug. 5—Amoth. | rumors. WITH THE AMERICAN AR deadly pocket le being formed woe MIES IN FRANCE, Aug. 5.— Gen. Foch around the Ger- | 2 . German artillery has opened up on the Veale. The Germans Riot on on the Amertean lines and rail- | Hearing News of reads more vigorously than for Crushed Army _ the past two days and there is ROTTERDAM, Aug. 5.—The Ger-| machine gun octivity shest the jman people are beginning to feet, Testen of | Flames now in the restive under the effects of the de| bands ; jfeat at the Marne. Thin is evi ing fg i em OM os | denced by statements from Luden| >” a Foeh's Present -purpore is tO! dorff and Hindenburg to correspond. American patrols are acronp the | ove ove hie east and west flanks north- eats tending to bolster up the spirits) Vesle. After the Americans took Altho the allies have established bridgeliéads Fismes, Bazoches and Jonchery and are moving inwi from the flanks north of that line, the French war fice reported that elsewhere strong resistance had beet encountered above the river. At the same time, patches. from staff correspondents stated boche has opened the most violent fire in the last two. @ most important geographical objective now it | diately before the allies is the town of Vailly, on the: bank of the Aisne, nine miles east and north of So hi nye faster than his center. By this | the public. Plemes, other United States troops | sle a E heaves a condition similar to 4 Fremdenblatt, copies of which | moved northward in the Mareutl-En It is about two miles east of the junction of the Vi q h existed when the Ger-| nave been received here, report riots Dole region Aisne and four miles north of the Vesle. It is the ¢ ‘ ps ok re oe will again | in the market with the police un | They marched steadily forward 4 a highway suction: and is on the railway which f ‘Phreaten Von Hindenburg. able to cope with the situation. thru a downpour of rain Saturday the railway to Soissons. The longér Von Hindenburg clings) ftumors are curr@nt that Hinden- night and Sunday and spent mort of y Saturday and Sunday were red letter days in the advance against the Germans in the Rheims-Soissons The entire army moved forward on a 35-mile front maximum gain of about 10 miles in the two days, miles being covered on Saturday. The Aisne river has been crossed at different Legs the allies hold the Vesle river line from Soissons to Jo cherry, the enemy on the line west of Rheims fighting st bornly to delay the allied forces. American troops entered the outskirts of great Teuton supply base on the Vesle, Saturday on Sunday in a desperate battle with Prussian 7 ee ceeded in taking the place. to the Vesle the more time will be | burg will stake all on a final blow the day feeling out the boche posi given to Gen. Foch to drive his/ against the alliew in September, with tions in an effort to establish con- | flanks northward. thus deepening | three points his objective—the Cham: | tact | the new Vesie salient. jpagne, farther north along the! Late in the afternoon the German Must Use Reserves | coast and at Verdun, with Paris the) arijiery began violently shelling the | Von Hindenburg can overcome this | by ayer on en Americans, Whether the enemy in strategy only by withdrawing from tends to make a stand or withdraw | the Vesle or by throwing an immense | his artillery further, it is igponsible number of reserves into defensive | to guess at this time, but American Soissons and | officers believe the Germans must positions north of Rheims now of a necessity retreat beyond If he thus uses up reserves for the Alane defensive Gghting, Von reer yyanaded 9 ome bp ab was <— by will be playing Gen. Foch's game. vigorous shelling Just prior to an ex Every ‘omecataaerd unit pir ame WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.—"Our tended artillery silence. After a to the present fighting weakens the | troops have taken Fismes by assault great outburst of shell fire, the boche foree with which the kaiser must de- | and hold the south bank of the Vesie artillery remained quiet for two da Enormous quantities of war material have falles) fend German territory against | in this section,” says Gen. Pershing’s| and the American guns necessarily “ike. tae aaiee the hands of the allies during the week-end, and on Satu so hago Cay mee ag agg pee j Ponepnaniase fe Heghtise| Ppp American casualties during the ee ea REE | alone, official reports declare, more than 50 villagea mans in the present trap is greater|the severest losses, has proved in.|P@*t 48 hours have been amazingly | September 5 Aa } tiberated from German domination. pe A at tha Mate. XC Gen. | capable of ete dena slight, considering the depth of our 5 och can aotd bin tae wortirward | se cur boone: Ta the comes ot a |aavence. Tyawr.an advanced dress egistration | ‘ Bu ee Sonia: Seo ae tebe = bs for a sufficient distance before Von | operations, 8,400 prisoners and 133 '"# station empty. the doctors idie IN SIBERIA BY D Unilor Plan LEAVE WRECK horses and battered, twisted equipment were leftin the Hindenburg starts to. retreat from | guns been captured by our men 2% ambulances lined up with the ay, Un of 2 ‘age as they fled towards the Aisne. the Vesle, the allies will begin to| alone.’ Givers, vesting.” Bverytiing: ‘beans ASHINGTON, Aug. ‘ he German rear guard was trapped below the Vi clove In behind the Aisne river, five se aise out the statement of officers and ALLIES IS DUE } tember 3 wil he re ration } OF VILLAGE by a reeeiae flood and was practically wiped out, the “sel gale elon oie baad Captain and 13 tle for the past two days—just a | “Eiiedletas “Mowe 16 cua a1, | mainder being captured. When the Germans then com * gar > mareh TOKYO, Aug. 5.—-Official an} 32 and 45, if congress heeds the ; BY LOWELL MELLETT Gen, Pershing, in a cable to the war cepa mence to retire, a disastrous flight | Men Missing in Over the sround of the recent hao nouncement was made today that) urgent plea of Provost Marshal | (United Press Correspondent) the heroism of American troops, giving them credit for thi She gpd obese gc ey Mote U-Boat Sinking) {31 G2 'German dead iny tn vaileys, | the allies have determined to inter Ceeerdetn nee’ getting plana {| WITH THE FRENCH ARatEs| Capture of 8,400 prisoners and 133 guns during the cou sed pom pikiems be Alshe is now| WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.—Thirty | woods and towns, while the Amert-}vene in Siberia. Allied expeditions ander way for apesdy aaiae of $ ELD, Aug. 4.—(Night) of the operations in the Rheims-Soissons area. Ra, a nol. That means serious | survivors of the tanker O. B. Jen. can dead were on the ridges. Thin | however, will not interfere with in mn power Site ta ; r the German war beast is The German retirement north of Montdidier on tillery nings, sunk Sunday about 100 miles |!s due to the boche system of estab-| ternal affairs and will safeguard } in the house and } £0lns. it's 4 slimy trail he ts leaving | Bicardy front, reported in last night's Paris communique aifficul in getting heavy 4 ~ | 1 0 o € y ish achine gun nests Whe | territ: 1 egrit said the an 5 " peohin . ‘ oo caamppard prog Sivas er erie a ¥ che folk, te wae cay 7 ilage oe obae te aidas faa a chi re nid : piers yo ra ship gaged eal I 1 on Hill 205, dominating the| Was made on a front of more than 11 miles between Ci poe to de fatal. to Yon Sigsenbure | wave reached Norfolk thenaty ae|chine guna are carefully placed in| At the eame time, it was learned Inged hepand September's, if, plateau leading toward Fismes, this and Mesnil-St. Georges. It reached a maximum depth, partment announces. ‘The captain | hollows 200 yards from the top of a jauthoritatively that ® ministerial’) the calls for October, November )| trv cunt io gels were? or 5 eine about two miles. It included most of the American se 2 lowa Crops Damaged ia 1) “nen are stil! missing ri plateau crisis waa avolded ax the result of|} Gna December are tobe met out )/ Unusual loveliness, jut moving onto an fn advancing Americany have no|a diplomatic council held August 1. } of Class 1, caused house and | the plateau ‘ounM@a wide path o 7 Eee ee By Torrid Weather a hint of resistance until they reach | in connection with Japan's reply to)! senate leaders to consider recon. )| destruction é Germans Lose 350,000 in Retreat gare R: ns d F the crest of the elevation. The|“a certain power” regarding the Si Villages were battered and burned “pall papacy tramp gr GET ANEE y cmaa c eae | Sock then able to open a wur-|berian question LE Oe ee ee emda || tields were a Incework-of shell he LONDON, Aug. 5.—German losses since July 15, e st weather in 40 years pre . : «| boches are then able to open a perian «¢ m1 te bean werk ict k ‘ J Mk sae ene aout wantin anetion Arrive in Berlin) prise tire ana the doughboys have to —___——— i forests were mangled and uprooted, date when the crown prince began his last drive, were lowa, and no relief in aight, indi-| AMSTERDAM, Aug. 5.—Runsian| Tush the nests ~~~ | while roads were pitted, altho a bush | officially estimated today at from 300,000 to 350,000, Feng ‘ bor battal pidly leveling . : cations are that serious damage will|and Finnish peace delegates have ar-| |The entire country from the Refuses Lawyer: them asain, unite crushed store | Which 40,000 are prisoners. Allied losses certainly H Fesult to corn, potatoes and gardens. rived in Berlin and opened diacus-| Marne to the Veale is now a vast Hasn’t Fai | . a Fat weediank: . Maarasly ia! Yair from the ruined houses much less. a ja ¢ weather bureau pre-| sions, according, to advices received | 20n 5 F Eee Bt to . en, remains unbreken, the Unburied Dead & ror, dict high temperatures of 100 for Des | here today. Em, Tells Judge E — a pches hav ashed wit all clung the odor of death : Moines and southern lowa Tuesday fammere, Beery town and vilage| Two defendants arraigned before a t hatlea SeTENe Prueman PAR (Noon.)—French troops haye met) and inesday. Lack of molsture|y -Range Guns is wrecked. Not a house is intact. |the federal court Monday morning who had remained to fight German resistance everywhere north of the Vesle, ie 4 ener ote. weeks anes tenes” % 4 * 4 All about may be seen typical Ger- refused the privilege of counsel, say r ward actions lay all about. In French war office reported today. ‘ hapa oorniae a tom ae Bombarding Paris nan sicns, trom those directi ing they “never had any faith In| WASHINGTON, | Aug. She one fiekd German helmets. were as “Light French elements. that crossed the Vesle met 4 ee ee PAR ug. 6—The Ic fie to ones renaming streets lawyers great man-power bill, making the) thick as daisies ; Ke a nany: Dee Moines! Tibardment of Paris was weaned) the latter beers the name. “Ki T. A. Montgomery, youthful de draft ages 18 to 45, was introduced, Plessier-Huleu wood was shot to|German resistance everywhere,” the report said. : . wee apeond ih thecU. #., with 116.3 home . * umed) strate." There are numerous ‘ar-|fendant, charged “with espionage.|in the house and senate today. The! Pieces. In an open field between degrees, and Omaha ranks third, with today. row gauge railways built by ‘the|staunchly refused the court's offer of |i) in the house was referred to| the, wood and th 139. degrece the, wood and the town Of the, same Allies Capture 1,500,000 Shells boches with small steel freight cars| counsel and refused advice to pro: the military committee but it every indication of j c 3 CARER * standing on the tracks and more|cure legal aid, He entered a plea of | uniikely that it can get con a bitter battle, including great num-| PARIS, Aug. 5.—(10:50 a. m.)—Allied i #/Limbs Amputated rails for further construction: not guilty in a firn voice. Montgom-| tion before. the house. reconv bers of unburjed dead. established two strong bridgeheads on the north bank | | will keep the Hun away. by Candle Light ere ery denied od ne apts of the 1aW | August 19, Chairman Dent said qpSolatons shows lens re yt aamaee/the Vesle at Bazoches, three miles west of Fismes, and : : —_ or court procedure. = han might be expected, altho it Sige a ——a (Special to The Star by NF. A) | Agouged General Mins June O'Donnell, charged with Ks 5 j ; bears out the report of the chasseurs | Soncherry, six miles east of Fismes. ; LONDON, Aug. During a re selling liquor to men in uniform, also| THREE MORE “E MONDAY that the Germans made some slight The German losses in the Fismes region have 4 cent air raid on itish hospital Becomes a Farmer |feniea right of counsel. Judge Jere-| ‘The | following candidates filed| remistance. Here and there were fu as at any point in the retreat, it is ted. I cluded. ] Teleph goa aga ls alec gas ape ; ‘The Star by N.H.A) |miah Neterer requested that she| Monday: Dan Harle, 6021 Redwing| tile barricades of .tho filznsiest sort| ce vcre po » it is ay ~ elephone ed and operations, including several) (Special to Ue ‘b.digh. Stakes | poatyon’ entering her bled OF SUDEY |igt, for athis Mannion roms tha Siar tatreldhied anroes the street “win the material captured by the allies are 1,500,000 shells © Your ‘ daha 3t Ba 11 Peak il neta Bi Gough, commander of the British | until she had talked with a lawyer | district; Clay Allen, Terry hotel, for of bp cong ed ae Hindenb: h ‘3 candies » while the instruments) sigh army, which broke and fled | whom he appointed. judge of the superior court, and W ‘ ince July 15, on indenburg has engaged & on abl ed about thru the)! » 7 enress r ere} Want m the table Jumped about thru t! the Germans in their first ad M. Peane, 715 eX, represen Committee Meets divisions (1,044,000 men), including 47 divisions (564, to Plan Welcome men), in the Marne pocket. M Ad. vibration caused by the explosions of s bombs Acting Mayor Bolton's committee, — Mai ain 600 EIGHT AMERICANS INO eS Ben BE Say gg Hey 3 Blow amd Where ) cuss Sits ri, Large Enemy Force Awaits Allies ance in Pieardy March 21, has tak |Board Commissions tative from t en up farming. He is awaiting an CANADIAN CASUALTIES Tom Retrieves His shipping board ay assigned A party on their return from the Bast,) WITH THE FRENCH S| were pushed back and the F training ship to the Great Lakes, Its was scheduled to meet Monday aft)|IN THE FIELD, Aug. & threw small forces across the ri nplete arrangements for | m.)—German resistance is stiffening there. === | americans inentioned in today's cae) Stolen Automobile port wit ve cevetana nis ix ome || WEAR TARIES | J ernoon to arrange mG wiitrening 7 ea re as , thirteenth training ship to be com the public weleome and parade, The | all along the Vesle. Violent fighting occurred at ualty list are Somebody stole the automobile of ¥ my; rf <ille yr , superintende miasioned by the shipping board and | demonstration to the men who se French patrols which crossed at ter farm and station, near Rt i= You ° e oiiiaelat Phas a Byte 4s sogane tbie a free pais “3 will be under the direction of Capt Will Fall cured for attle the right to put! several potnts bearing but the Germans were unable to: re Pre i ; cadgbimaked ° 01 hine was Irving L. Evans its Skagit power project at a | guns and large supplies of g capture them fe if €an Redmon, ee ia ois he ipa eB a oe ge | apa 9 Claud Kitchin, chairman of the 5,500,000 will be in charge of | reported indications that the enemy ‘orth of the Vesle, La Gi Have Woundel: %. B. King, Bishop,|car. Suddenly he spied the familar) LONDON. Aus bg) committee on ways and mean win J. Brown, R. Li ctor, | has large forces on the river, rm has been mined and blown Up ; h Cal four wheels and body of his auto,| Ment in to announce officially soon democratic floor leader of the president of Central Lab Coun-| Th Germans are employing ar by the Germans. Fe Them “Gassed: J. T. Lommelt, Seattie,| drawn up at the curb, He alighted.|that for every: merchant ship do-|f house, has written an article on Fl oi; 1, D. Nichols, J. W. Maxwell, | tillery freely to harass the allied French artillery heavily shelled , Charged |\Wesh: A.C. Armatrong, Yreka,| climbed into his own machfne, and|stroyed by German submarines, com: |} this Important subject. It will be 1) president of the National City bank; | troops. large concentration of boche pe jarge LE. M. Lafterty, Peru, Jll.; A. A.| drove the balance of the way to his| pensation will be claimed when peace |} Published in ‘The Star tomorrow. |! Mrs, Daisy Dennis and Mrs, Thomas | Mulzon (five miles west of Rheims)|in the region of St. ‘Thierry, /, Seuss , hoa a :Crahaa. was hotly disputed, but the Germans | miles northwest of Rhelma, : Tew, Sausalito, Cal \ office, terms are discussed,