The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 29, 1918, Page 1

{ . oo EI 4 ANK LORIMER quarreled with her husband just before he left for France Can you imagine her feelings now? She's very much in love with Rob Lorimer—and yet, on that fate. ful day, this had to happen. Today she con tinues with the heart-drama that is belng enact- ed in her life Read today’s installment of “Con- feasions of a War Bride” on page 6. a! Entered as Second Clam Matter May 3, 1809, at the Postoftics at Heattie, Wash. The Seattle Sta THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST under the Act of Congress March &, NIGHT EDITION ONE CENT IN SEATTLE Per Year, by ¥ 7 Mall, $5.00 to $9.00 VOLUME 20. NO. 156 ATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1918, WwW eather Forec ast: 7. s* # CTY MUST TAKE CARS, ULTIMATUM Mayor Wars T traction Of- ficials Lines Must Come Under City Operation " TO BASE FARES ON COST An ultimatum to the traction com: | Pany is going forth from the office of Mayor Hanson Thursday after- | foon following a conference with the efty council at noon. The ultimatum ) im the words of the mayor “warns the traction company that it cannot disrupt the city of Seattle,” and asks that the company turn over its lines to the city, which will guarantee a rental equal to profits for the past five years plus an additional sum | of thousands | Of several hundreds yearly to pay for the power traction company is now selling. the Union men and Traction President Leonard met Thursday morning to Prepare the case going before the ‘war labor board on the traction sit uation. “Even the war labor board's decis- fon will not settle the matter for Se “attle if they give the men a smaller ‘wage than the 50 to 60-cent wage we are asking. If it is nothing more n the 42 to 48cent wage they carmen in the East the workers here will quit the cars wholesale and get other employ- ment,” sald J. A. Stevenson, busi- ness agent for the carmen's union. “Thursday noon, HUNS GET FOOD FROM AVIATORS AMSTERDAM, Aug. 29—During | Monday's fighting, German airmen| supplied their lines with ammunition and food, a semiofficial dispatch from Berlin stated C. W. Sample Was Man Arrested; It Was Not E. W. Banks| Cc. W. Sample, and not BE. W. @Ranks, was named as defendant in the complaint filed by Deputy Pros ecuting Attorney Brackett yesterday. | Sample was accused of selling liquor thout prescriptions. He is the present proprietor of the pharmacy at 2600 Main st, known as the Banks pharmacy has no interegt in the place, sold it months ago. GOV. GOODRICH HURT SERIOUSLY IN CRASH INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 29.—Gov. Goodrich, who was seriously injured in an automoblie accident here last night, was reported resting easy this morn: His condition is very sert- ous. An X-ray examination was to be made to determine if he had suf fered « fractured skull Interesting News is always to be found $ gn the Classified page. +4 you want to buy Something, look for it in the Classified news; if you wagt to sell something, «advertise it. Phone your ad. Call Main 600, You can have it charged. Banks, however, | having | ‘TAKE NOYON | RE oes # 8&8 8 © YANKEES TAKE 25,000 HUNS OF _ ALLIES’ CATCH BY CARL D. GROAT (United Press Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—Twenty thousand to 25,000 German prisoners constitute America’s portion of the great allied haul of 112,000 captives \sinee July 1. ‘These figures are based on careful estimates of important depart ment reports today. The la | figures on American totals 000, towards the end of th | Rheims struggle. | After that time several s' bags were made. The Amer! |have continued to take prisoners ever since the main fighting died| | down, What ratio the prisoners bear to the dead and wounded is somewhat |doubtful. One high officer estimated to the United Press that the Hun| dead and wounded certainly run| more than three times the captures. | 500,000 Casualties On the whole there is an inclina- | tion to believe that the German cas. ualties, including prisoners, run a half million or more since July 1, Germany was reported in March ready to sacrifice 1,000,000 or more men to accomplish her aims. The German morale now {s at a lower ebb than ever, Officers say this is proved by the increasingly large number of prisoners the Brit ish have taken |“Human Fly” Will Scale Smith Bldg. Walking on his hands and fe like an infant acros@ the floor, Jack Williams, better known as the “Hu man Fly.” will ascend from the ase of the Smith building to the nd story Tuesday, Sept. 2, under the auspices of the Marine Re ulting Office and the Our Boys in ance Tobaceo Fund If any girl or woman will let Wil ma carry her up on his back, she will be presented with a $50 Liberty Bond and a medal for bravery, ac cording to Tom Callo represent: | ing the “fly.” A collection will be taken up, part of which will be con-| tributed to the smoke fund. Several | copies of The Star will be vn down by Williams during the ascent, | and will be exchanged for Thrift Stamps at The Star office when pre- sented. | Williama has been touring the | United States to stimulate marine | recruiting, which has been tem- porarily stopped by the government. able | ans | Let Us End This Street Car Muddle lhe city officials and the traction company officials have been wrangling for months over the street car situation: In the meantime, the shortage of street cars and the general demoral- ization of traffic is growing worse. The street car company is asking for relief from the city. The city is making the street car company certain concessions, The time has arrived for the street car offi- cials to act. Either they must accept the con- cessions the city offers them and go about their business of supplying street car service to the people, or they should accept the city’s offer to lease the system on a profit and a maintenance guarantee. The time for dickering and for de- lay is over. U.S, TROOPS WAGE VIOLENT DUEL BY FRED 8. FERGUSON have been captured. (Waited Preas Correspondent) |last night, the flash of the guns il |luminating the sky. A counter attack against the Amer. | icans late yesterday broke down com. pletely in the face of heavy artillery and machine gun fire. Itiated by both sides on the fa- mous Alsne battlefield has result- ed in violent fighting along the Vesle. More than 100 Germans HE fact that Seattle has reaped a rich harvest in war industry and commerce is sufficient, of it- self, to put us on our mettle in the matter of a Quick Quota this week Think it over. >We are $3,000,000 behind. Let’s wipe this deficit out by pledging and buying our utmost this week. in War Savings Stamps. American artillery, working in the | open, hurled shells toward the boche | x. 8 # PORT BAPAUME HAS ALSO DRIVES MEN Sharp Noyon Pooket En- dangers Retreating Forces of Enemy 'MAY PROVE DISASTER Eaimesstiacontaeee: 40. tarasee alignment. Marshal Foch will not press for. ward recklessly, but will resume his | local drives after a careful selection | of the weakest spots in the new line Von Hindenburg is now establishing The front Von Hindenburg has se- cured by his hop backward toward the Somme ia almost geometrically cee tae ae pr 20 at Sng Pe eee men; but, unfortunately for Hinden- burg, it turns at right angles to the eastward at Noyon. Creates Sharp Wedge The wedge thus created is by far the sharpest pocket into which Hin- West front retirement began. If Marshal Foch were to succeed lin cutting thru the German angle at | Noyon, he would definitely sever Hindenburg’s southern flank from | his Western front It was for such a result as this that Von Hindenburg played and lost when, at St. Quentin, last spring, he tried to separate the British and) French armies. ‘The intensity of the German resist ance at Noyon is accounted for by | the fact that Von Hindenburg is} | compelled to. sacrifice his troops | without regard to numbers, in order to prevent Noyon from becoming, for | the Germans, a more fatal St. Quen: tin, Foch on the Alert Foch, for his part, is tnaintaining | strict accord with his basic strategy in declining to use his men for al reckless gamble at Noyon The chances in the present war have consistently shown great odds | against a break-thru If Marshal Foch were to make a major attempt at Noyon and fail, after having paid a price of 100,000 casualties, the laurels won would be Von Hinden. burg’s | By confining the Noyon operations | to a local scale, but remaining on the alert for any sudden weakness, Mar. shal Foch is course, Noyon must be evacuated eventu- ally by Von Hindenburg, and the whole German line moved back, but Hindenburg should be prevented | from compelling the allies to pay for | |this operation by a large casualty | list YANKEES DOWN 20 HUN PLANES PARIS, Aug. 29.—American avi brought down 20 German planes during the first two weeks of August and probably accounted 11 others, the Petit Parisian dectai jators or today. During the same period they made 964 flights, engaged in 84 fights and | Sromped. 11, hdl pounds of bombs, CZECHS TAKE “RAILWAY TOWN | captured Vorkhendinsk, 60 miles east of Lake Baikal, one of the most im portant points on the trans-Siberian railway, it was reported here today. In Eastern Siberia fighting contin ues between the Bolsheviki and the | Czecho-Slovaks. TO BUY 4900,000 PAIRS SHOES WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—Bids for about 4,000,000 pairs of shoes for the army will be opened tomorrow, at the quartermaster general's office. AND INTO TRAP o being heid by a mintmu-n number of denburg has put his troops since his | adopting the wiser | LONDON, Aug. 29.—Czecho-Slovak | |forces; continuing their eastward | progress in Western Siberia, have * * BRITISH HOLD TEN MILES OF HINDY'S LINE»: | WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN| FRANCE, Aug. 29.—British troops are re- ported to have taken Bapaume. This is |unconfirmed. PARIS, Aug. 29. —(5:10 p. m.)—The Journal par | Debats declares it understands that both Noyon and Ham have been definitely vanquished. | (Previous reports state the French were fighting in | Noyon, but the French were last reported five miles west of Ham, which is the most important railway center within the Picardy salient). | The allies are now within four miles of Peronne. French troops are reported fighting in the streets of| Noyon, while the British are on the outskirts of Bapaume. The four large towns remaining within the big pocket are thus apparently doomed. Albert, Montdidier, Chaulnes, |Nesle, Roye and Lassigny have all been re-occupied. The Germans already have been forced back to the reater part of their new Somme defensive line, between Berane and Noyon, Nearly two-thirds of the original Picardy salient has been eliminated. The only important trunk line railways still remaining ‘in German hands are those from Noyon to LaFere and Ham, from Ham to -Peronne and St. Quentin and from |Bapaume to Peronne, St. Quentin and Cambrai. } Apparently there was little fighting on a great por- tion of the battle front last night, possibly because of the recent heavy rains. The Canadians are within a mile of Bullecourt and Australian troops have captured four more towns, ap- proaching within three miles of the Somme bridge south} of Peronne. . Americans continue a series of local operations on the} | Aisne-Vesle front, and have repulsed attacks by Germans| north of Soissons, where U. S. troops are brigaded with Gen. Mangin’s forces. The British now hold more than 10 miles of the | Hindenburg line. PARIS, Aug. 29.—(4 p. m.)—French and American) troops striking eastward between the Ailette and the! Aisne, are approaching the Chemin des Dames, greatly| endangering the Germans between that famous highway and the Vesle river. | Considerable progress has been made in the region lof Juvigny (five miles north of Soissons.) |Australians and Canadians Forge Ahead in Picardy Front Duel WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN FRANCE, Aug. 29. —Australian troops have captured Feuillers, Zerbecourt, Ashevillers and Belloy and are now within three miles of the| important Somme bridge south of Peronne. Haig’s troops this morning took Ginchy, an important} high point south of Bapaume. (Feuillers is on the south bank} of the Somme, four miles west of Peronne. Herbecourt is a| mile and a half south of Feuillers. Ashevillers is a mile and ja half south of Zerbercourt. Belloy is a mile southwest of Ashevillers). The Canadians are within about a mile of Bullecourt (a mile and a half southeast of Croiselles) and Hendecourt (two miles east of Croiselles). They spent the night cleaning out a mass of dugouts and! pockets filled in by the Germans, even including the famous 2,000-yard concrete tunnel running from Bullecourt to the Sensee river on the Hindenburg line. At noon the Australians were about three miles from the Brie bridge, south of Peronne. The German dead west of Bullecourt probably outnum- ber the numerous prisoners taken in that vicinity. The Brit- ish advance has been so rapid that mopping-up parties are kept busy cleaning out enemy nests with bombs and grenades. | Flight of Enemy Forces Is Heading Towards Hindenburg Line | PARIS, Aug. 29.—(1:00 p. m.)—French troops are fighting in Noyon, according to reports from the battle Jed of the prospect of | their work: front early today. The town, which now forms the apex of a sharp salient, is heavily defended by machine guns. It already outflanked from the northwest, | Speeding up their advance, the French have enlarged their hold on the west bank of the Somme canal over a wide front south of Peronne. The German retreat is| reported to have been precipitate at some points last night. | There is every indication that the enemy retreat will) not halt before it reaches the entire Hindenburg line, altho} the boches are resisting tenaciously in the vicinity of| Noyon. is French Troops Advance Six Miles on 25-Mile Front;; Take 40 Villages LONDON, Aug. 29.—French troops have crossed the Roye-Noyon road near Sermaise, three miles northwest of yon, and Catigny, two miles north “of Sermaise, They have also reached the region of Cachy (Continued on Page Seven.) ee and Friday; contim winds, mostly weate Wair t war To Send Man-Power ure to President Today # for Signature ‘SOON To “BECOME LAW By United Press Leased Wie Direct to The Star ‘ WASHINGTON, Aug. 29= Conferees on the man-power bill oS Senate conferees yielded for { reasons—because they did not to delay the army program cause the present draft law @ provision that no man’s e1 shall continue after th which it was granted no tong ists. That, conferees agreed, is @ or fight provision. The Treadway amendment, ing for a re-combing of classes, was stricken out on ground that it might embarrass G | Crowder's plans, To Educate Youths \ The house amendment on voo al training was substituted for the senate proviso, The difference that the house amendment | the training effective now, while senate plan was to begin it when the men below 21, who are drafted, ® turn to this country. The sole point to smooth out conference was the Penrose an ment, jeving registrants of # need for claiming exemption. The how nd senate conferees (Continued on Page Seven.) Enlistments Now Closed to A Marines and Na WASHINGTON, Aug. 29- purely voluntary system of ment in the army, navy and m corps is definitely at an end. Regulations are being cont ¥ | however, whereby the navy and rine corps will receive a certain tion of draftees for their services, While a man cannot actually unteer, there will be certain latit as to induction in the fe branches of the war department, ‘oo cluding navy and marine corps, tails are withheld. War manufacturers, having learns invasion of have conferred with cabinet officers. In general arrangements will be made for exempting for actual mill tary service of any skilled worker now employed in special war Tomorrow}, Last Day! Register | ‘Tomorrow is the last day to reg: ister for the primary election, you voted in the last city electio you need not register again, you failed, you must gp to thet county-city building to qualify, § Important officers are to be elect: ed, Do your American duty as citizen and vote. You cannot bin if you are not registered.