The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 4, 1918, Page 1

Wateh Tom Duff cut his f Star, 1 has been weeks or so, But now h spot, You'll enjoy his don’t forget Everett True On page 8 today, ar Oe TOM DUFF ha Vaoath al adventures. unny capers in The past two amy-on-the And vem one a day. th ight ffs THE Entered as Seed FULL LEASED WII VOL UME 20. NO. 101 RE REPORT OF THE nd Clase Matter UNITED PRESS ASSOCL ATION SEATTLE, WASH., - TheSeattleSta GREATEST DAILY CIRCULA ATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE P2 May 1899, at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash, under the COMPLETE WEDNESDAY, SE PTE MBE R 1918. Act ol SERVICE OF Per Year, ACIFIC ff Congress March JYORTHW. 5 1ATD. NEWSPAPER Weather } orec by Mail, NIGHT EDITION ONE CENT IN SEATTLE $5.00 to $9.00 ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION night and Thursday, kenthe northes sterly fair; winds. ast: YANKS CROSS VESLE! x. @# * * * * * * e * * # * * * # * 8 8 Desperate Effort Made to Stop Hun Rout at Cambrai | FIRE WIPES OUT CEDAR FALLS CITY ighting flames until daylight, 100 residents of Cedar River Falls, 40 miles southeast of Se attle, saved Seattle's municipal power plant Wednesday morn. ing. The postoffice, hotel owned by J. P. Jordan, and Nye Bros” merchandise store were destroy ed, together with nine of the 20 dwellings in the little settlement. One hundred and sixty acres of timber land was destroyed, and the fire is now reported to be sweeping toward Cedar Falls camp No. 2, on the Cedar river. The people at the camp have been throwing out fire guards J. D. Ross, city lighting superin tendent in Seat touch with the pow distance phone thru The houses burned are all located on city property and are occupied orkers on the Chicago, Milwau kee & St. Paul ratiroad ‘The roof of the station was burned off and the raliroad’s substation and ofl tanks were saved only with Gfficulty. * The fire started at 5 p. m. Tuesday and swept out large tracts of land on which the Pacific States Logging | Co. was preparing to start work. | The town of Cedar Falls is a new nt, and is not to be confused wich the old location, which has been abandoned. Sparks from an engine are believed to have started the fire MAY POSTPONE TAX MEASURE WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—Political fortunes of congressmen today threatened to delay final enactment of the new $4,000,000,000 revenue bill until just before or imcnediately er fall elections. fouse Majority Leader Kitchin and his aides plan to bring the bill Into the lower body Friday, and push it thru by September 14. While the house is bill, the senate finance will conduct hearings But meanwhile, house leaders are planning @ vacation after the lower body as passed the measure, on Tues n is to have the senate a joint recess resolution house to get away until he bill and is inference. warned and are debating the committee allowing th the senate has passe ready to send it to « City and Tenciion Company Face Suit M. ©. Carton started suit against the city and the traction company Wednesday morning. Carton, owner of the property as an approach to the Stoneway bridge, asks that th pay hin $2,100 and th be gis a court order granting him reposses: sion of the land on which the tion company’s tracks now rest ‘The city previously agreed to pay Int for property at $150 month, but the property was render ed valueless to the city when the old Btoneway bridge was torn out. _ used trac- the a w BASIC RULE FOR CLASS 1 Foch Pushes Onward UNCHANGED between 18 Class t ons that ¢ ion for » basic rmine this clas the ages men ° interpretation given mday to Mar aphic changes are basic classifica reports today, that “r ntemplated in the ton.” Th brief Registrants for the taken first from Class 1 ludes single men with atives, married men w children, or father of motheriess who habitu: failed married men w for support, or without family engaged. family lependent of basic regulations army whi are h in or with upon men with men not usefully supported by income his labor, registrant whom no defer. red classification is claimed, regis trant who fallx to submit question naire nd registrant not deferred and not included in any of the above classifications.” Arrangements may be made, di patches say, governing detalla re ing to men in certain industries. For instance, older men in railroad serv ice, and coal miners, may come under hew classification regulations. Exemptions of firemen and police. men will be more liberal under the new draft than heretofore. Gen. Crowder has issued regulations pro- viding that the fireman or police man need only file a statement of his chief that he is trained, how long he has served and what he is paid, companied by a statement of the reg istrant as to his reason for be his removal would be det public safety Gen. March and Gen. Crowt conferred with President Wilson con cerning enforcement of the mental man-pow unteer workers a ae boards and service trars will be «worn in Frida ning County Auditor Norman M. Ward all has requested of the registration officers of the county that they same cap as the heads of precincts « he cour act in the registration The work will be WASHINGTON Marshal ( nouneed t Sept Crow t banker aged in employment regarded ication Provost deferred « pm ply for exemption on grounds r work is the As Warrant now tion, en holding Re. important positions 4 Cross and similar organi those engaged in public employment red, classific announced. This rul danger of a too nar of rd “in mar boards ding bankers commerce and in similar occupation in th zations assification statemen ing removes the row construction wht. construed as incl engaged those engage atries raft have thone in Richard Engle, son of M. and Mrs, Compa. 6 h infan and is in a World’s Series Game Postpo AGO, Sept. 4 that showed no signs of postponement tod me be A persistent cHic drizzle ing, caused the of the first world’s series JUST SAY “Main 600” Tell us what you want and we in turn will tell YOUR WANTS to the largest audience in the Northwest. You can charge the want ad, price 111/2c per line. ned by Rain tween Cubs The tu shifted back series will open mea will be Saturday Players of first di league clubs have ommendation of the mission that the: of their share of the activitie It was predicted the American league players will follow their lead the ach ane wae the Red ,utomaticall and the big here tomorrow Fri Sox layed here before the clubs jon National greed to the National rec com 0 per cent money to wa Only Natives to Stay in Moscow | AMSTERDAM 4 dition of Nikolai Lenine shot by a girl day: again reported critical in dispatches from Mosce today The bullet which penetrated the upper part of Lenine's lung, haa been removed. The crisis is expected in three days All persons not born in Moscow or Petrograd have been ordered to [leave the cities, opt The con who was weve ago, was | tent | This map portrays the intéresting situation an well battle gowards Cambrai and Doual Picardy front vance thin the broken one which Hritish troops have r year. ped th the « T ad yuching wing the are atened by miles from Cambr WE DARE NOT’ FAIL Seattle Ur be forced t This would mean portunity—and a hum nds of f 4 5,000 b w » withhold war an unne ami increa. » built 1 mor in mit returns on home building The first be cared for tained home Iwellings m fore | Activity b built att Christmas pledge committees wil lay 1 the ntinue Satu thou now li worker |Ukraine Peasants builder More Home ted ‘ith STOCKHOLM ‘Th rixing of Ukraine peasants Germany has broken out ag renewed violence rding Russian paper, The Cra “ prints a Kieff dispatch stating I the rebellion is Increasing dail in spreading rapidly from district te district The re declared to have t |the Beliazerkaff, | Caneff and Berditcheff d | Ukraine railroad settled Sept in with to Journs most serious olt ken place aragchatscha The un are in | trict strike is still | THE SOUL | th Ana become good for kays an old ada when ® woman, recently 1 war bride, opens to the public, it ls good for every oul that reads her “confer The no greater hu man ha penned “The Bride chapter @ page 6. Confess is soul up her soul sion Star belleve interest story been during this Confessions Begin it war of a with ( I} pat PA Pte he be allowe ‘TW solid “line at the at the that than War today's ? left ab cir wa me = ._ MORE THAN 300 WATCHED BY. 5, mar Kne handl Renew Uprising, up | day, | ed, di his in. The Sea cific humil nett, | committee of Tacoma, who asks that here, compared with 1,005 in Port-|from Spa, Belgium, to Verviers, ing problem for Baseball Aviator Foe Seeks Cover Behin LONDON, Sept. 4. d Hindy Line (4:30 p. m.)—Americans and French in strong forces compris- |ing both artillery and infantry, have crossed the Vesle river at Fismes, it was learned here today. Indications are that the Germans must retire very soon, if they are not al- ready retiring. LONDON, Sept. 4. jonly penetrated its outskirts. The Germans have wholly evacuated the learned here today. FLANDERS POSITIONS Dispa , Lowell Mellett United Preas Leased Were | Direct to The Star | — Low MELLETT (United Press Correspondent) WITH THE BRITISH AR MIES IN FRANCE, Sept. 4— (11:15 a m)—Bvkdences are piling up that the Germans are retiring from Wytschaete and Messines ridges, (These rides now developing in the an the southern sector of the we the Germans’ farthest ad Hind urg line t bh the French h In Flanders, between ht is the the and wh 1 Armentieres, were te fight of Ypres ar ximate of most of the desper bra scenes ai and Can ing in the Ger: last <= April) \ be Ger the anding where nt now ered by th mann behir Hind the fact are Kee burs th If high com: itwelf is nert er hor aig nment week a greater text of the war a Lasses Enormous ers of Monday and Tuesday pd total July r offensive start nly the Ger their dead and the figures on number of stionably What hown Tuesday the miles from Caznbrat, hay was bla breaking thr e line means noor ng ady from the oper nearly mile defenses German machine guns are indus. ndleating the intention of the to hold the at I Cambrai meantime, another ints Gen, Byng's patrol ir of Cambrai fire ted in the German head the list ¢ cities officials nd tr canal line off th tempo. threat i ast, staving ¢ to Unit the 000 prisoners from the British have in several Manancourt ithwes' encountered upp he rtment 4 are pla facture wledge 0! ha ing PARIS. Mang edge the and gradually to ward the Chemin des Dames, accord to dispatches to the Journal to- Sept (10 a. m)—Gen th nd war mater f this si been in the ha the — transpe n have of are 4 troops reached Vauxaillon table 1 progressin tation . and ome time. ing day Vauxaillon itself is about a mile a half east of the allied line Soissons. Progress in this shows Mangin continuing to flank the Ve positions Dies of Injuries in WORTH, ‘Tex pt. 4 G. Milliken, former pitcher Pittsburg Nation who wa was kill his move positiong menace their RT ment German along and new the Chemin des Dashes, | | din an airplane on n which Lieut, Greene eA today at the juries post hospital of LONDON, Sept. 4.—Aerial activity bombing and patrol encounters, east of the Jordan river, were reported in the Palestine and Arabia commu niqu ued by the war office today There were raiding enterprises in ‘Toweira-Aburna-Am ar Frederick is of new ‘Tamada, Italian army was erroune portrait in the by I of the din Tuesday's Star the GOOD FOR | Seattle Only Coast | City Below Quota: Pa subseribed | put this city forts, Drive leaders say that it is slackness of men able to subser the limit of $1,000 that is responsible fe attle’s failure The list of men whd have subscrib ed the limit will be published. Five hundred limit pledges are on record ttle is the only city on the “over the top” in he coast that has not the avings stamps, says V k Quota drive says Seattle should feel uted by the offer of L. H. Bur of the war savings of war sé Frederick Brown, director chairma d to come to Seattle and! land, -(4:22 p Crown Prince’s Alibi AMSTERDAM, Sept. 4.—‘“The war is one of an- nihilation, but by the enemy only. We do not want to annihilate our enemie: rman crown prince is quoted as saying in an interview, according to a dispatch from Berlin. “But we mean to hold our own and not let ourselves be vanquished,” he added. “We are fight- ing for existence. “The enemy onset continues and our elastic de- fense in this war of movement is withdrawing at several points. yme of our people have become so accustomed to our continuous advance that they misinterpret our withdrawal. In judging the military and political situation we must not forget that we are conducting a war of defense both militarily and politically.” ‘ALLIED ADVANCE IS NEW PERIL TO FOES Steadily pushing toward Cam- bral, the British have made fur. ther gains, according to today's official statements and battle front dispatches. The greatest gain was apparently at Permies, reported in London to be in British hands. This represents a forward movement of more than two mi) urt, to the northward w orted taken of than a mile ¢ Inchy-En Cambrai du Nord at various places on the front and, as the w« ae mean “north nglish, it assumed there of them, but the most im is the unfinished water ms one of the prin Douai and Cam are rt way which defenses ne bral London reported today that since August §, the Germans have used advance | 9 or approximately 1,164, 000 also r a divisions more Seizure west men Paris toda he | French the | skir some Vesle The flank tions fend des Dames the Vesle In I continue Nieppe Art brought miles officially announced troops had reached the out of Coucy-Le-Chateau, and that 1ilied troops had crossed the river movement toward Coucy ng maneuver against the try to de Aisne and f they are ejected from of Ecourt-St. Quentin and still further north, vied, showing a Rumau have slight Br vurt be isa * Crossing of the Haut-Allaines, Peronne, was Haig annour hed the been Canal du Nord, at two north of unofficially reported ed the British hi © of the canal, Ther » Canal miles the German 1 The British two miles from Arm: HUNS DAM SCARPE RIVER LONDON, Sept. 4.—In fort to cover their retreat before the British, the Germans have dammed the 8 and anders. retreat re reached flooded th siderable patch from the Daily Mail an ef country over acon. ling to a dis British front to { arpe river the Oe GRAVES LANDS ENEMY FORCED WITH 1,000, S. BACK ON RIGHT | MEN IN SIBERIA BANK OF CANAL * Dispatch From Carl D. | Dispatch From John | Groat De Gandt | United Press Correspondent, | By United Press Leased Wire | Direct to The Star t. 444 p, m)—Toward miles north by east of nch cavalry today is fore my back, according to re fternoon, The enemy is withdrawing from the right bank of asthe North canal Around Jumecourt (north of Sois: the Chauny-Laon railroad has assed, The French are mak- 1 Ainsey-Le-Cha PARIS Guiscard (fiv Noyon), Fr ing th ports this WASHINGTON rival of Maj. American troops in Sib officers and 1,088 4 ; was an. od today. “by Chief of Staff 4.—Ar. Graves, of our Sept. . Wm. At the same time he identified the 20th division the Americans who distinguished themselves in the Flan, ders fighting during the past week und as the 32nd division the Ameri cans who valiantly battled north of agons with the French nbarkation for 0,000 August 31 ‘aves will at once the American units now | totalling close to 4,000 in Siberia n. March stated that the Cana dian troops, who pushed straight for: ward across the Drocourt-Queant switch line, are 7% miles from Cam- bral, which is their objective. (Ca bled press reports show these troops are now only five miles from Cam. bral. The sons), been ing teau progress towar along the Aile Mangin is reported the Paris:Hirsen Guignicourt ailways. (Opera the Jumecourt region and along the two railways named, which | follow the general lines of the Vesle and the Aisne rivers are evidently part of the big flanking maneuver Against the Germans holding the Vesle line and against the des Dames positions.) advance: ing along and Sois. son all he assume fronts said Troop ¢ passed 1,6 tions in LONDON, Sept. 4—" British have crossed the Canal du Nord at Haut-Allaines, more than two miles north of Peronne, it was learned to- day they hold Romancourt Gust south of Keourt-St, Quentin, eight and a half miles west by north of Cambrai.) It was also learned that the Ger 14imans have used 97 divisions since August 8, has Flanders progress British push, he says, rather flattened out the alient and the maximum has been 14% miles ’ RDAM.—German quarters have b AM staff h general moved miles from Liege, posi: | Chemen | Chemin p. m.)—Lens is so full of gas that the British have as yet city, it wes HAIG KEEPS TEUTONS IN HOT FIGHT Battle (United Press War Expert. NEW YORK, Sept. 4—Von Hin- denburg is throwing reserves into the Cambrai-Douai utmost rapidity, for the purpose of preventing his retiremerit from be coming @ rout. The continuation of F sure in this area is bein, avec | heninwe Cambrat from two dirsstions, i and southwest. The envelopment of Cambrai is thus increasingly threatened. Von Hindenburg is adopting desperate ex- | pedients to prevent an over rush from cutting off Cambrai be- fore the German plans are perfected _ for its orderly evacuation, problems Hindenburg’s difficult, Haig is now threaten. ing Douai as well as Cambrai, The development of this new attack 15 miles to the north of the Cambral operation greatly enlarges the line r which Hindenburg must spread his reserves The occupation of Douai prema- turely by the British, while not a# disastrous as would be such a catas- trophe at Cambrai to the Germans at Cambrai, would have an important. |influence upon the securing of the German positions defending Lille. * Dispatch From William Philip Simms By United pa leased Wire Direct to The Star ! PARIS, Sept. 4.—Cambrai and Douai are today directly men aced by the advancing British, As this is cabled, the Canadians, English and Scotch are within nine miles of Cambrai and Douai, while the Drocourt- Queant switch line and Hinden- burg's line have been smashed and left far behind. Between Haig’s advance guard and the important cities of Cambrai and Douai, little in the way of fortifica- tions remain and if jchecks the allies before they reach be gates of the two towns he must sacrifice a great number of his fast | dwindling rves | Lens is a more and more pinched by Gen. Horne’s British Fifth army and may give way at any ae ery yard that the British ad- ——*4] vance astride the rpe river now adds peril to this bastion of Germam resistance. . (Unofficial dispatches yesterday re ported Lens captured, but Haig's ef ficial report only mentioned slight advance of British outposts in the city's western outskirts.) Caught Napping Apparently, Hindenburg and Lu dendorff have been caught napping again, They little dr allies would tack® the strongest de- fenses on the western front without long and hard preparations, but just southward of the scene of this latest victory Gen, Byng last fall sent an larmy of tanks crashing their way thru a simitar barrier of earthworks, tunn and barbed wire the size of a man's little finger. He thus had the to this (Continued on page §) VON HUTIER TO STAND ON OISE AMSTERDAM, Sept. 4.—-Gen, Von Hutier is preparing to make a stand on the Oise river, according to re« ports today, crediting this statement to Chancellor Hertling. answer ‘The Oise runs east and west, cross ing the Hindenburg line at La Fere, and behind that line it turns at right, |angles and runs north, sector with the — Von Below © med that the _