The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 13, 1918, Page 1

a Oe LONDON, Aug. 13. WORD MISSING OMING down on the car this morning, we | C heard a young man saying something like | this to another “Of all glad words tongue can tell, the Laddest | will be th aiser has gone | We got to our corner just then and missed the last word, oa get the idea, don't you? ( nn el — VOLUME Asks Ship City Lags Board for Behind in Big Loan WS. Quota Petitions U. S. Body for County Chairman Clarke $300,000 to Buy More Calls Attention to Negli- Street Cars Here gence in Backing U. S. ADDRESSES COUNCIL NOW $3,000,000 SHORT is behind its War Savings ‘This was the declaration of Mayor | increase in bank deposits and in sav Os Hanson Monday afternoon before | ings deposits in the bank since the the first city council meeting held | first of the year establishes the fact since his return from the East clearly that the people of Seattle : On top of this statement, the may-| have the resources with which to! | meet thie demand.” War Savings Stamps are a short time loan to the government—a five loan, subject to call on ten Tuesday morning sent a telegram ‘A. M. Taylor, chairman of the di vision of transportation of the fed @ral shipping board at Philadelphia, | yer Fequesting a loan to the city of $300,-| days’ notice, value absolutely guar 006 to purchase street cars to relieve | 4nteed with interest added. No Indi the transportation problems faced by | ¥idual in permitted to invest more the city. The money would be repaid than $1,000 in these stamps. after the war, according to the may-| War Thrift Stamps cost 25 cents ae each. These may be sgved until a ®¥he mayor announced that the sufficient amount is obtained to se traction company had been offered cure a War Savings Stamp, which money by the government at Phila. | costa $4.19. The government pledges Geiphia to improve Seattle's traction | to pay $5 for this stamp in 1923 system and build an elevated railway | Volunteer workers to classify the here, and that they had refused, al-| pledge cards secured June 28 are tho the money was offered at 5 per | needed if Seattle is to equal her cent. stamp drive quota. ‘The refusal had been based on the| “Only two offered their wrieviawe claim that the government should | yesterday,” sald Chairman C absorb the difference in equipment | Clarke at war stamp Gietiction costs as they stand now and will|/in the Lyon building. “We must stand after the war. This the gov-| have more.” ernment had refused to do | Out of 290 industrial War Savings Mayor Hanson forecasted the res | societies only a small percentage re Manager of the federal reserve bank | date of San Francisco, whom the mayor| Among the high scores now in the alleged had tried to block the Skagit | $10,000 club are Frederick & Nelson lans in favor of private power h $12,700 and a membership of nership and the Ames shipyards with An ordinance appropriating $100, | $11,980 and a membership of 88 000 to be spent in development of -——— the Skagit power site was introduced ALLIES BECIN ss oe at Monday's city council meeting by Councilman C. B. Fitzgerald. The bill also directed the board of public works to proceed with the Bkagit ‘project as rapidly ‘as possi l LAY | bie. * The $100,000 is advanced to the board as a loan and will be repaid to the city general fund when the first imwue of $1,500,000 in power bonds is sold le ; ‘Battle Analyse by | YANKS FIGHTING.” Ee Marsh WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES The down in Foch’s settled policy of not wasting the lives of his troops when time is working #0 pow IN FRANCE, Aug. 12.—(Night)—| rons on the aide of the allied The Americans continue to harass | cause the Germans north of the Vesle In substitution for direct assaults : varying hi artillery bombard-| With their heavy casualties to the wos ligt Vike thrusts, |@ttacking troops Marshal Foch is a ¥ again reverting to his squeeze plays. There was some infantry fighting | “Pressure at strategical points is the right wing of the American| now the dominant feature in plans sector last night, but this morning | being formed at Foch's headquarters Bete herea|_ The Germans must eventually fall they were practically unbothered | pack to the old Hihdenburg line and save for a German feint which failed) beyond the Chemin des Dames, as to develop into ack | well, and Marshal Foch is showing { The doughboys attempted to storm|that he will not force this retire { the German positions on the heights| ment within any given number of north of the river last night, but| da could not maintain their gains on ac Can't Nab Foch i] count of the he machi gun fire. ither the Marne attack nor the This was the of the ent drive in Picardy constitutes day, the Am over the), true major offensive. Marshal top from hast in the| och issued a firm , each " morning series of operations against any ex Advancing north of Fismette, they | tenuion of the thee drove the boches from a wood, cap-| stritiy Hmmited objective turing machine guns, which they!” «phe enemy was caught in traps on turned on the fleeing enemy. The! porn occasions and out-guessed and Germans later counter-attacked and| 5.1 veneraled i mare the Amsecicnte fewer. 04 During the Marne engagements as | reine 4 aa well as Marshal Foch has re led that it is useless for Von Hin 4 denbu irg to seek to entrap the allies, % Home At the point where Von Hin¢ burg seta out to “lure the allies on,” Marshal Foch immediate! brings M4 nds to standstill. Thia : ervice ution and of regard for men is in full con | > i tks a Marshal Foch’s ulti y Readers of The Star are incited to phone Main 600 nor the Chemin is n the Belgi and place their Want “Ads” main ob before the largest audience |) fii ante t 5 | in the Northwest. HUNS TO EAMBQRUSSIA Have your Want Ad SUPTERDAM, ‘Anqmmee ot in nts of landsturm | charged. ast Flanders have becM@pracred to Kast Russia, according to Uspatch i recelved from the frontier, “Seattle must own every mile of | _ Seattle rem atieg eee eae Stamp quota. It is 0,000 behin. ear line in the city. There's not| "swe are asked to secure and cover enough room here for the Puget! nis amount by pledges,” today de | Sound Traction, Light & Power com-/clared C. H. Clarke, cc chair pany and ourselves. I am In favor |™an, “in order that the treasury de of taking over the traction company | Partment m: be assured of a def at the earliest moment and paying |/Mite amount from this city. It is a them for their equipment.” demand that must be aatiafied. The lgnation of C. J. Shepherd, Seattle | have passed the pledged sum up to| THE GRE. SPAIN EXPECTED TO BREAK WITH GERMANY That a break between Spain and Germany +TheSeattleSta ATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST tered as Becond Class Matter May 3, is likel 1499, at the Postoffice at Meattle, Wash, SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, AUGUST —— }War Causes Loss |} 7,000 Births Daily (Spec The Star by N. BE. A) LONDON Aug. 13.—The regia } } ter-general of Eng 4 wtates that 000 potential lives are be: { }} ing lost in the countries at war [odes eteeiemreeteaes GAS MASKS TO HELP FIGHT ON _ SUBS NEAR U. S, | WASHINGTON | man Aug Ger ating all along the Atlantic coast From New England to the Caro |linas, the sea scavengers are exact ing their toll of fishing amacks and other mmall vessels, and have even gaased a lighthouse The navy department today added another victim in the Norwegian steamer Sonorstad, torpedoed off Fire island yesterday morning. The navy is taking all measures to meet the spectacular terrortat efforts of German U-boat commanders. | Thus far, however, there in no direct Jevidence that any of the enemy sub marines have been sunk. There is some cause to believe that a destroy er which had a brush with one of | them disposed of it | Secretary Daniels stated today that | precautions had teen! all pomsible taken to protect coast stations from further gas attacks by U-boate. Asked whether gas casks had been issued, Daniels said ‘Oh, yea; we are doing all things.” The Sonorstad, e4, was sunk only 35 miles off Fire istand. those :|Schooner Crews | Arrive in Port After Sub Loss. AN ATLANTIC PORT. Aug. 13 fishing schooner Acushla arriv here today with 14 men from the fishing vensels Progress, Star Ruck and Helena May, all sunk by a «ub marine off Georges Banks. The men were picked € Cod The crew of the schooner Mary A up 80 miles southeast of Sennett. which was brought to this port, told of the sinking of the schooners Old Timer and Cruiser They declared the crews of these ven sels were shelled when they left their ships and probably were killed The fishing veusels known to have been the Pr Helena Ma nd Nettie ance, Mar A. Sennett, Star Buck, Kate Palmer Cruiser and Old Timer Six Men Struck by Hun Sub Gas ‘Wave’ WASHINGTON. A at the coast guard station, « orth Car ea by a a Ger nubma Jepartment the recovered after a half-hour's i ek of chick ens was kil snimals long the ce d signs of distress ct of the gas on vegetation will be rmined by ar inv ation This in the first shore attack of any nature made by the submarines Say Patrol Boat __ Chased Submarine LANTIC patrol boat Island on the New other patrol boats were pursu ng it Another wireless received at 4 a m. from an unidentified Danish steamer declared to have stated that the steamer had been attached by a U-boat off Nantucket light and Norwegian Steamer Downed Off Coast WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—The navy department was informed toda that the werian steamer Sonor stad wa nk off Fire island day morning, by a German » rine. Members of the crew have been landed at an Atlantic port British Destroyer Is Sunk by Pirate LONDON, Aug. 13.—A British ¢ troyer, damaged in a collision, was sunk by a submarine in the Mediter ranean on August 6, the British ad m y announced today. Seven j lives were lost, ts now appear to i: oper: | i it was later reveal MAYOR URGES TAKING OVER TRACTION LIN Ci Bread Loaf Size; Why Not Rents? Editor The Star: A large number of the cities in the United States have passed ordinances regu- lating not merely the size but also price of a loaf of bread. The bakers immediately contended that such an ordinance was unconstitutional and the supreme court of the United States in passing upon the issues held that such an ordinance was the proper exercise conferred upon municipalities of the “police power and states. If the supreme court will go to such an extreme in protecting the exercise of the police power of a city, why should The Star apprehend that an ordi- nance regulating the “Rent Hog’ should be held unconstitutional? The controlling of the rents in this city would be nothing more than the prevention of the fraud now being perpetrated upon the peo- ple, made possible by virtue of the war. Is there any particular reason to believe that a federal] judge would refuse to issue an injunction re- straining a rental agency from increasing the rents and compelling them to show cause why injunction should not be made permanent? What is the pur- pose and object of the federal legislation against war profiteering? Let's get an opinion from the United States district attorney. The bar associations of the various states have admonished the attorneys not to render services to the slacker or Hun. Why not bring pressure upon the attorneys of Seattle to refuse to prosecute any case on behalf of the Rent Hog? If you can bring that about, it would be much more effective than statutes and ordinances, The hardships caused by the Seattle Rent Hog and the German brute in Belgium are on a par and equally condemnable, for they both select the woman and children as their victims. One dollar increase in rent means one dollar less food for the little ones. The Star is the only Seattle paper which has the courage of its convictions, and it is up to you to get the city to pass a proper ordinance and get an injunction proceeding started in the federal court. It would be interesting to find out how the candi- dates for election to the legislature stand on this question. The Star has the facilities to compile a list of the owners of the apartment houses in Seattle. Let's have their names and a little family history of each It safe to say that the majority of them family trees which sprouted in Germany and which they are endeavoring to camouflage with Liberty Bonds and Thrift Stamps purchased with money extorted from their tenants. That is another reason why they have placed their buildings in the hands of agents. A LAWYER. | one, is have ish hevik rule, A_ revolution | between the start of the drive and DONEY PLEA as broken out in Kazan, and M Sunday, In addition, they are Be: Olshinsky, the Bolshevik leader, has Neved to have captured 1,000 cannon De t while on che Sl and 10,000 machine guns. a sar toft. to ne ipe ave 3 Increasing activity in the Plam clared agalr . sie se | ders region and around Arras was sin and Novogorod, revolutionary reported. An enemy attack was re n antirent hog demonstration) WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—Presi a lementa are mnorted to be SIAMBN-| 1 ON DON, Aug. 13.—(1:15 p, m,—| Pulsed near Merris, while prissaetll und parade by thousands of ship-| dent Wilson today was formal ss The Germans, as the result of Were taken in patrol encounters near ard metal work was fore'|titioned by representatives ‘of labor French pressure, are evacuating the | V!¢ux-Barquin and south of the asted t L. Be rep: | thruout the country to use his po s# southern defenses of Ribecourt, it | 5c@rpe river enentative of Seattle union en-|ers a8 commander-in-chief of pd Ukrainians Bury et was learned this afternoon wn > mr ams eae ens aay eeewiiek arm to take Thomas J. Moone Invaders Alive The enemy retired from. their SINKING OF TWO from control of the California 4 trenches on @ front of nearly three Boddy, who is a lender in the} courts and see that he gets a WASHINGTON, Aug. 19. —Ukrain| ming tending from the Oise at a| veuesi trade’ coundll. anld Stal ian, peasants are, show ETOWINE | Hoint about a mile southwest of Ribe- | ave been suffering the affliction of House, and the to tha appeal iers move about the country only) ‘The French occupied the deserted 1 ver increasing rents for months. | Winn awa al /in large squads, Otherwise they are positions. tired of Inaction and unless attacked oe pone Biy done speedily they're Armed peasants who capture them to get out on the streets of torture them and bury some alive, LONDON, Aug. 13.—The pila: eattic and give this city a demon rding to the departme in- Pris of two Spanish steamers by tration that will be long remem ‘mant German submarines to consider- This informant. who is not an offi able unrest in Madrid and may cause metal trades council meets cial, added that the Germans w a break with the kaiser. This was s evening and we're going to e . YEAR TERM succeed in H 2, 300 OFFICERS : followed by the internment of the ke a thoro probe of the rent sit or organize its the army w of a U-boat that sough sation and t ue action of some H. Kaufman, former county | German troop been increased | PAT 13.410:16 a. m)—/ in @ Spanish port. In spite ot te kind Assessor Bellingham and at one, there ause of nrest, and now | German prisoners taken from Thurs: | the Spanish cabinet, following a sper Boddy alleged that real estate| time ndidate for governor of|/ number between 4 ) and 500,000 | day to Sunday exceed 37,000, of | cia) meeting Sunday, issued a states firms and large landlords in. the| Washington, was sentenced men which 2,300 are’ officers, Marcel | ment, declaring that it was vital for city had entered into an agreement | coma Tuesday to five years ir Hutin, military writer of the Echo) spain to maintain its neutrality, to further boost rents September 1,| penitentiar . ere de Paris, declared today ws . I tried to pay my own rent for) Kaufman recently was convicted HUNS TO CONFER | Hutin said more than 1,000 can KAHANAMOKU TO ENLIST; » months in advance,” he said, “and| of making seditious remarks in a| AMSTERDAM, Aug. 13.—-Chancel-|non and over 10,000 machine guns| NEW YORK, Aug. 13.—Duken the company refused to accept the| speech at Olympia in which he said | lor Von Hertling and Foreign Minis-|have been captured |Kahanamoku, Hawaiian swimmer mone They even refused to ac the we was “started by profiteers. ter Von Hintse have one to 1 total of enemy prisoners |and holder of several world records, cept advance payments for three|and declared that Liberty bonds|man great headquarters, it was/|taken since July 18, is more than | declared today he would enlist as a | months. | were not a safe investment, [learned today, 0,000, Hutin says. naval aviator within a few weeks, under the Act of Cong 1918. ‘ely was the report received here this afternoon. NIGHT EDITION ONE CENT IN SEATTLE |} Per year by mail $5.00 to $9.00 J ‘ ght fair ednenda nd warmer nued warm erate northeasterly winds Weather Forecast: } Austrian Views Medals Now $i. 25 | 2 Allies ‘Seize The Star by }] Aug Medals | ruck in Austria to celebrate the {| { conquest of northern Italy are be- { } ing wold for $1.25 each in Vienni Prone HUNS MARCHING ON PETROGRAD; . SLAVS TO FIGHT | COPENHAGEN, Aug. 13— German troops are marching on | Petrograd, intending to occupy the city, according to the Hel- singfors correspondent of the Politiken. Hun Shells © Dispatch | From John De Gandt By United Press Leased Wire | | By Direct Direct to The Btar —d) oo Se From United Press Wire to The From Battle Front | LONDON, Aug. 13—(4 p. m.)—The evacuation 6 Roye is expected within hours, according to word Fr ceived here today. The since the start of their PARIS, Aug. 13.—44:10 p, m.}— The Germans have been hurried ly removing great quantities of war material from Peronne, dur- ing the past 48 hours, and enemy troops are crossing the Somme. Roads about Peronne are reported to be crowded with German trans BY JOSEPH SHAPLEN (United Press Correspondent From | Rassia) NEW YORK, Aug. 13.—Kvents| DOU attempting to get this material sive have gained between are sweeping Russia back into the | CK toa safer spot. | | jand 10 miles on a war wad front. ’ Rady every reason to hope | son-Sur-Matz and Orviliers, contain- ow that next summer will bring res . _— ing millions of shells were abandon- oration of the eastern front. The | ed by the enemy in his flight and! LONDON, Aug. 1 abrogation of the Brest -Litovsk Fave been captured intact by the |p, m.)—The fi oa of peace treaty may be expected any| inch. it was learned todi |expected hour! a ire ‘ | Meanwhile, altho there is a com- P The late Count Mirbach's princtpal | parative lull In the fighting between |foree the Germans to | work in Moscow was to prepare for the Somme, it is believ- |the downfall of the Bolshevikt and | th° pite and the Sora for we additional retirement 10 miles along the the establishment of a government | | iw activity. The military critic of similar to that of Skoropadsky in| 1." pesess expreased the opinion that Lassigny had been enveloped by the cording to information French and possibly has already day. the Ukraine. Put Russia's passion pte | n taken, | The Somme bridge for freedom and unity has frustrat |ronne has been United Press Med governments to send an army into Russia to help reorganize her military forces for a renewed fight ed the schemes of Germany An open invitation to the al-/ |ting off the enemy’s from that direction on Germany will follow. Russia is coming back into the| |dering the retreat. war. She in coming back to fight | for the establishment of a reunited independent republic of Russia. The democracy of the world may prepare to welcome her back into the fight. | WANT KERENSKY Atter = night. of a on the Picardy French today made rtant gains over a front of nearly 20° miles, extending from the ter of the battle front near to the extreme right wing, east of Ribecourt. Roye, Lassigny and Ribecourt Summary of War Events PICARDY FRONT—The French have made gains on a wide front, in creasing the danger of enemy troops Be: in Roye, Lassigny, Ribecourt and, fe all threatened by a = other places in this area. Ribecourt Operations as the result of a is being encircled. Americans and, Progress. - TON ‘ Roye is menaced fro WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—Keren-| British made gains north of the| m the sky, onetime hero of the Russian | Somme [and south, while Lassigny is im ¢ revolution, is being groomed as the) VESLE-/ FRONT —Ameri.| £*F from the northwest and possible leader to drive out the Bol-|can and French troops, by counter | ®t. Ribecourt is slowly being aheviki and reestablish his country,| attacks, have won back ground tem. | “ircied. it was indicated today porarily lost in the Fismette sector,| During the night, American He is about to go to Archangel, it north of the Veale river. British troops advanced is learned authoritatively, to throw) FLANDERS FRONT—A German) "°Tth of the Somme, and troops improved their positions near Roye. Huns Fall Back French pressure has caused the enemy to evacuate the southern a fenses of Ribecourt. A peermdas F on a front of about three miles, his weight with the new government hern province uarters expect qn attempt this government, under leadership, to all of Rus: attack in the Merris sector was re | pulsed last night. The British took prisoners in patrol encounters near | Vieux-Berquin } vos AND UPPER ALSACE FRONTS—Attempted German raids Observers doubtful, however, just how ‘ agfey god broke down last night tad, tak i bh bm a} the governments would take to anita ade, the French occupying the al NT—Italia Kerensky as the new Russian leader, ITALIAN FRONT—Italian and) trenches left by the Germans, ’ 2 Austrian airplanes recently engaged : altho some groups in France, Great American troops who are coopers in an air battle over the Adige valley, nee rking I) in which Exnperor Karl was review. | tne with the British north of his favor. ne his Ses Somme, now face the most a8 rot terrain on the whole present battle. ERMANY—Chancellor Von Hert: | front, be: ing confront the twists ling and Foreign Minister Von r rides Huns Report More Bolshevik Trouble and turns of the meandering interspersed with irregular of high ground. Hintze have been summoned to great headquarters AMSTERDAM, Aug. 13.—Russian| RUSSIA—German troops are re-} ‘The Germans made a counter dixpate received via Germany | ported marching on Petrograd, with | tack near detail the spread of the anti-Bolshe | the intention of occupying it. Chaulnes and vik government. BELGIUM—Detachments of Ger-| pulsed The Vialka Soviet has been over: man landsturm are leaving for Rus-| ‘The allie: ol | nes took addi thrown by social revolutionaries. | sia. lana are’ dee ae rime prisoners.” The t nv district has decided to abol |to have captured more than 87,000 _