The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 24, 1918, Page 1

_ IF IT HELPS WIN THE WAR. THE STAR !S FOR IT- o?~-~-~-~~~-~ WAR SERVICE EDITION FULL LEASED WI VOLUME 20. NO. fs i i ; > Entered ax Second Cla RE 178 THE GREATEST DAILY REPORT OF THE UNiTED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS CIR mm Matter May 3, JULATION OF 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of SEATTL SEPTEMBER WASH, TUESDAY, 24, The Seattle Sta ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST Congress March 8, 1879 COMPLETE SERVICE OF THE NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE NIGHT EDITION TWO CENTS PER COPY Per Year, by Mall, $5.00 to $9.00 ASSOCIATION 1918, Weather Forecast: Zenith and,W-dnerter, fall 06 iglane ammcicciiom TAKE TWO SEAPORTS Star Liberty Bell Ringer No. 2 All that you have—all that you prize in life—all hood—your women, be it remem- bered—the safety of the prattling baby, the child own America, upon how you meet your indiv responsibility in this, earth's su- premest hour. You cannot, you dare not shirk. You cannot throw the burden upon others. Fron babies, call to you in th your duty, and do it now. your country, INFLUENZA TAKES 100 NN BOSTON Poy United Press I Leased wire | Direct to The Star | a os honor of woman- yet unborn, are now your taked dual BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 24.—With the death toll from the epidemic of | Spanish influenza mounting steadily, the women, the the schools of Boston were closed at comes the noon today until the disease is = stamped out under tones to do There were approximately 100 deaths in the 24-hour period ending today. “Of these seven were among men in the first naval district. Officials also reported 70 new cases among sailors this morning. Instead of decreasing with the fair weather the number of deaths - Mayor Says Handle Rent Cases; Federal Man Here | Mayor Hanson today announc- “@@ that the city will undertake ‘te complete supervision it the Fent profiteering problem by ap- pointing a commission, or taking other steps to force anecripel- ee everee to reason. mayor and the city coun- cil will handle the situation thoroly,” said Mayor Hanson. This announcement followed the failure of Walter A. MacClatchy, housing and transportation represen keep an appointment with the mayor this morning. MacClatchy, who arrived last night in Seattle, held a conference at the Chamber of Commerce, at which were present Harold Preston, chair- defense; J. W. Spangler, war chair- ‘and several members of the More Homes bureau of the Chamber Others present were Mark C. Cohn, assistant to MacClatchy, and Monte Appel, counsel for the housing divis fon of the shipping board. “The seat or government in this city is at the City-County building,” declared Hanson. “It is neither at the Chamber of Commerce nor at the Labor tempte. Spangler acted as chairman at the ‘Chamber meeting. MacClatchy's appointment with the mayor was for 9:30 this morning, but “the latter was notified by phone that it would be impossible for hicn Survey Is Made MacClatchy's presence followed a silent survey «to keep it in Seattle of the city ®rental situation by officers of the shipping board. It is believed that MacClatchy plans to organize com mittees of the Labor council, Cham ber of Commerce, city council and council of defense, with full authority to act One committee is expected to de vote its time exclusively to hearing complaints against profiteering land lords and take evidence. Landlords who profiteer will be brought before the committee, it is suggested, and warned that the government will commandeer their property unless they charge a moderate rental Seattle will be listed, and a central bureau established, to secure homes for incoming war workers. This will mean a canvass of every home in the city Both on Committee Landlords and rent victims alike will be represented on the rent profiteering board which the fed- eral government intends to appoint fn Seattle, according to tentative plans discussed at a conference in Be Star Readers @ant Horses, Cows, Sheep, Pigs Goats, Cats, Dogs, Rabbits, Chickens, Gee Turkeys, Houses, Lots, Acreage, m Lands, Automobiles, Stock Bonds, Hotels, Rooming Houses, Bird Cages, Rat Traps, Switches, Wigs, Tou pees, False Teeth, Old Gold, Typewritefs, Furniture, Stoves, Etc., Ete. @hat Have You for Sale? ‘Tell about Ad. Main 600, or, if more convenient, you may leave copy of your advertise- ment at Partell’s, 610 Second Ave. it with a Want tative of the department of labor, to! man of the King county council of | man of the Chamber of Commerce, | | and new cases increased at an alarm- City to | while cold rainy weather clouds today a further Increase. SHIPYARD MEN WATCHED FOR SPANISH “FLU” |the Chamber of Commerce Tuesday | morning. | The chamber meeting will contjnue all day. Spangler said the housing problem | in Seattle came under three heads: | rent profiteering, placing of war workers in homes together with a survey of available property, and the securing of more home buildings “A board with authority to en force its decisions is what is needed to handie rent profiteering,” Spang ler declared. . Outlining such a board he said it should consist of representatives of will be watched for symptoms of Spanish Influenza, on orders from| the shipping board. Municipal health authorities have | received no reports of any cases of the dixease here. “It is utterly impossible to take the temperature and diagnose every man, woman and child coming into Seattle,” Health Commissioner Me Bride explained Tues “When we were guarding against infantile par alysis, if was different. We were organized labor, the Y. M. C. A. the able to put nurses at depots and coundtl of defense, the Chamber of | docks, and they could spot the babies Commerce, and Director Wood of! coming in and examine them. But the U. 8. employment service. At this point some fear was ex the flood of possible influenza car hand We riers is too great to pressed by members that the rent/ «imply haven't the facilities. controlling board might become so| “A rain may come along and help radical in its decisions that in-/things out. Meanwhile, every one vestors would be frightened away.| must take care of himself, or herself, Preston also pleaded for federal and keep in the best posslbie phys authority to deal with rent hogs. | jeal condition. The council of defense had a rent There is no cause for alarm as invesigating committee, he said, yet. One difficulty, however, is the but tenants were lax in reporting | fact that a man or woman may have cases, influenza and remain at home with- Has the Power out calling a physician, on the sup: | General discussion as to whether! position that he merely has a touch tal Varanasi tion Monee ph eecie — tain ye of work is it ade + a Bast di ed * i Ra cinggere me . shin of ‘detahes . . . report from a certain division. | shut herself in her rooms, devour- bureauy and the council of actense Epidemic Serious Whenever a commander wants infor. |Ing the newspapers, fixing her at . i : j@| mation from the boches, he sends out tention on news from Russia, in- erttante Annet, counsel for tne) in Sweden; 69 Die) rr iviuan, who invariahiy returns ternal” disorders, In" Austria and Set “HAA! power’ to commander | epidemic ct ‘Mpanish intluenss “WI ies iain it nable to reckon din lagttatioe a Gemma Pe homes. He urged that nothing be) yery serious in Sweden, Sixty-nine cag ela cy saan aar aga Bisco Ney oi ’ , Beare ea cca nl es ba tn) ae tance except by hours. Being asked| The letter to Holland says the tor gutting: 4 Sak WAGER Oe Pr ee es , how far he went into the German |kaiser “has no time to comfort his money. " " lines, he says: “Three hours there;| consort” and that she is possessed Wilson Third Term _ three hours pack.’ of one tdea—that the military re- = P5 The Indian is credited with being | verses in France and the economic es Boom Started in able to distinguish boche camouflage | situation at home will spread Rus "3 trees from real ones. The Germans sian revolutionary seed thru Ger- TY AN Idaho Conference) iv. fais of miniature trees to con.|many and lead to the fail of the Special to The Star by N. F. A. form with certain movements, the | family of Hohenzollern. BOISE, Idaho, Sept. 24.--Idaho movable trees concealing machine| The kaiserin suffers violent aoe : s fired the first gun in a cam-|gun nests and observation posts. But! pains in the head, followed by ign for a third term for Presl-|they are unable to deceive the In-|fainting fits and hallucinations.” Gent Wilson democratic cen-| dian Her physical and mental condition Three plans on which to buy Lib-| tral committee of Ada county, the — is completely undermined. erty bonds of ‘the fourth issue—and| county in which is located the state as in some cases, four—are open to all expital, proyites vi rc ; crave & Artillery Battle Condemned House » 7 The committe adop' a resolu. | F Plan No. 1 calls for cash with sub-|tion thoroly indorsing the war aims in Aisne Region to Be Rented by City scription. Plan No. 2 calls for a 10/ of President Wilson and demand- | Reported by French +. hale wes “Guaten'e. beau per cent cash payment; 20 per cent/ing that he be a candidate for a) papig, sept. 24.—Artillery fight: | problem, the house formerly occupied November 21; 20 per cent December | third term. The resolution was re-| 112 in the St. Quentin sector and be- by t Italian Sisters’ school, 12th 19; 20 per cent January 16, and 30|Ceived with a big demonstration of| tween the Ailette and Aisne was re-| ave and Judkins st, is to be per cent plus accrued interest on de- | 4PProval | ported by the French war office to \opened as a rooming house by the ferred payments January 30 Another resolution provides for'| Gay city, according to Superintendent of Plan No. 3, which is known as the the spreading of President Wilson's! «tn the region of St. Quentin and | Buildings J. A, Johnson, The rent “bank plan,” and which many con-|! he New Freedom,” thruout) between the Ailette and the Aisne, |is to be moderi All proceeds from | sider the easiest, requires a 10 per|the State as campaign Iiterature the night was marked by artillery the building ar ye turned over to cent cash payment with the subscrip-, Incidentally, the meeting of the tenting,” the report said the city treasurer, stated Johnson tion; 10 per cent on Oct 28, and committee was dominated by mem-| «In the region of Perthes and |and several other houses in the 20 per cent on or before the 28th of | bets of the Non-Partisan league. | pear Butte du Mesnil, our two sur-| district are to be fixed up and rented each succeeding month. Subscrip: = . prike attacks resulted in 40 prison. to hom The house was tions under this plan are imited to| Double Guards in ers.” ‘condemned by city authorities. In addition many business houses are taking blocks of bonds for | their employes and financing the op: eration out of the payroll Chicago Postoffice CHICAGO, Sept. 24. ards in al building w doubled to: nd every person entering was The amount of the Fourth Liberty | searched, following rumors that an Loan, forecast as around $6,000,000 mb had been found there 900, will be announced within’ the 1, state and city — officials next 24 hours, according to news dis-| were investigating the report patches, Terms of the 1 have , been decided upon by treasury offi:| DEATH FOLLOWS RIDE clals, and it is likely the bonds will be payable in 1938. It is probable) ON YESLER CABLE CAR Secre McAdoo will call for all William R. Wilson, city lighting over subscriptions. This, it is esti-| employe, dropped dead of heart fail mated, will bring about $7,000,000,-| ure on an inbound Yesler way cab! 000 into the treasury The three) car at 7:45 a.m. Tuesday, An ambu previous war loans aggregate $9, met the cable car at Third and| 984,000,000, Of this sum $5,021,000,- | and took Wilson to the city 000 has been paid over to allied Kov-| hospital, where efforts to revive ernments, and credits of nearly] him failed. Wilson is survived by a| $500,000,000 more have been extend: | sister-in-law, Mrs. L. F. Share, 4505 ed, but not paid. iy First ave, EK. The body is at the county morgue. Did you know that you can ingure Whitney, chairm Liberty bonds against loss, fire or| W. f the theft? The department of loans and| draft exemption board No. re. currency of the treasury will look| turned to Seattle Monday after a five weeks’ visit in Ohio with his parents after this for you on pa ‘small fee, yment of a indicated | | very shipyard worker in Seattle | Ten U. S. Divisions in _ Italy Could End War by Christmas, Says Russell NEW YORK, Sept. 24.—-Ten divisions of American troops could win the war by Christmas, Charles Edward Russell, who has just returned from Italy, declared today, in an interview with the United Press. Russell was a member of the Soctal-Democratic league mission, which went abroad tq study war conditions. “If there in Italy now, the war would be ended by Christmas or before,” he said. “This is not a rash assertion of a@ civilian who has seen only a few battle fronts, but it ts the deliberate judgment of the best mili- tary observers who have carefully studied the exact situation in Italy “Even if the battle the shot on training in Italy Americans never fired a line, or never went out of a camp, the effect of their mere presence would be so tremendous that in all probability || RUSSELL | the Italians would break the Austrian Hneeand in- flict a blow that would put Austria out of business | “With active American help on the battle line, this result is re- garded as absolutely certain. “Austria, according to the best information, {s not far from collaps- jing, any way, and with one swift punch, such as the Ttallans would |give her if they were adequately supported and encouraged, would |leave Germany in the impossible position of carrying on the war alone. “Italy ought to have, ax she has the most liberal and Practical support from the United States. She is, at present, in very [eee need of coal, steel and, to some extent, of lubricating oil. “Last winter she was practically without coal, and the suffering |She ought not to be compelled to go thru another such INDIAN SCOUTS Kaiserin Is Ill WITH-YANKEES | Thru Fear of FOOL CERMANS Czarina’s Fate BY EDWARD M. THIERRY BY FRED 8S. FERGUSON ris Correspondent of the Newspa- (United Press Correspondent) per Enterprise Association) WITH THE AMERICANS ON| PARIS, Sept. 24.-The German THE METZ FRONT, Sept. 24- “ i : ‘Auide fromm artillery bombardment of *#iserin 1s prey to overpowering important German centers, with | fears that the fate of the Roman- counter shelling of American posi- | offs will be visited upon the Hohen- winter.” were ten divisions of American soldiers | of the people, especially in northern Jtaly, was very real and very great. | I EVENTS LOOMING IN GREAT WAR BY WILLIAM PHILIP MS (United Press Correspondent) PARIS, Sept 24—The most colossal battle of all time is now raging, the battle line stretch- ing from New York to the other side of the banks of the Jordan. Perhaps the intensity is varying, but it will not stop until the boches are beaten everywhere. The allies hold the whip hand, and big events seem brewing for the com paratively near future. Sull, every allied officer and man | today is most emphatic that there |never was a time when the allies needed more to keep their eyes wide open, and never more needed to be strong than now Crities disagree but on minor are in accord regarding the big theme points that a decisive moment is ap- proaching. {next month; but certainly in 1919 they can see an allied victory, provid ing the allies do not spare their ut most effort, afioat and ashore, fight-| ers and civilians alike. Indications poffit téia gran@Tihale. | |The Americans, French and British | are pinning the Prussians tighter | and tighter against the Hindenburg wall, with mightier efforts in ‘per spective; the U-boats are defeated on the sea, Gen. March announcing that one and three-quarters millions of Americans are now in France and Italy The Balkans already are aflame again when Gen. Allenby’s cavalry gallops the Turks off the field of Ar- tions, the Woevre front is quiet \zollerns* mageddon An American raid on the left cen That is the real reason, I am! But the real field of Armageddon is ter yesterday netted some prisoners. | told, for the continual illness of|in Northern France, where the titan- The enemy laid down a barrage on the empress of Germany. The|ic armies are set for the final get the adjoining sectors, but their in- jatest confirmation comes from | 4Way. fantry failed to come over to face|-The Hague in the shape of a letter; The Bulgarian debacle is big in our counter fire received by a noblewoman of Hol-| Possibilities, and the rout of the Near St. Hilaire another American jang from a friend of the kaiserin's Turks may have {mportant repercus- raid resulted in the taking of 14 pris: Court sion elsewhere, but the fate of the! oners, Scarcely an airplane or bal-| 4¢ ig said the kaiserin‘'s illness | allies will be decided between New loon was seen in the sky all day yes gates from the arrest of the czar York and Switzerland—first by keep. terday, the rain stopping aerial ac: ang the czarina, becoming acute in& the seas clear and teeming, and tiv when news came of the czar’s as-|!ast, by cracking the Hindenburg The entire front ts largely mud- |. \Sination line and marehing on Berlin. locked. An instance of the effective The front is all one, from New Reads the News ness of the American Indian in cer Close Cabaret on ARCHBISHOP IRELAND Sailors’ Complaint ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 24.—After ‘The Columbus cabaret, on Wash ington st., between Second and Occi- | losing consciousness for the first dental aves., was closed by the police | time during his long illness, Arch Monday night, following complaint of | bishop John Ireland | four sailors that they had be over: |early today. His si : charged there, Herman Meyers was |A. Welch, said the prelate's , wonder arrested, and is held at the city jail, |ful stamina saved him several times on a disorderly conduct charge, The | during the night Sees sailors ¢ nm they were charged 50 AAA of near cent over nts apiece for four bottle an increase of 400 pr standard price, ' { Umm! Sen. Lewis } Got ’Im a Cream Colored Plug ac | the Rockdale 1.W.W.s Brought to City) Hight I. W. W. members, charged with attempting to break up the gov- ernment spruce camp at Rockdale, near North Bend, are lodged in the county jail, awaiting federal investi- | | gation, | ‘The nen are alleged to have threat: | ened the life of the camp cook when | he refused to become an I. W. W. WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.—Sen. |} ator Lewis, Illinois, is now the proud poksessor of a cream-col- ored plug hat. He says it’s the prince of war collections brought from the other side, He bought it in London, from a shopkeeper who “had been working six years to find a customer with enough dig: nity to do the hat justice.” is IS AGAIN CONSCIOUS: York to the Jordan, but the war ulti mately will be lost or won in France HUN PREDICTS U. S. ATTACKS COPENHAGEN, Sept. The Americans have completed their artillery concentration on the St Mihiel front and new attacks may be expected, declares Gen. Ardenne, writing in the Berlin Tageblatt Ardenne also states that the Ger mans probably will abandon St. Quentin shortly Odds 6 to 4 No Peace by July BY HAROLD E. BECHTOL (N. E. A, Staff Correspondent) LONDON, Sept. 2 Lioyd’s will bet you 6 to 4 hat peace will not be ared by June 30, 1919. ehind that announcement is the whole summarized story of the war ation odds are ONLY 6 to 4 be cause the Germans are on the run, it is only a question of a compuratively short time until the allies will have a decisive vic tory Foch is apparently in tent on keeping the Germans going and is beating the German chiefs at maneuver; because the allied troops won because have the Germans scared; because wis out to “finish it quid?” su i the first “crack,” new in war The odds not even because America, and the other allies, too, in tend to whip Germany until she ac knowledges she's whipped, even if that means marehing on Berlin. The betting is brisk. Which means a number of the more optim istic think Germany can be decisive ly beaten by une nd puting up $40 expecting to celebrate the victory by collecting $100 \Bulgaria Admits Front Gives Way SOFIA, Sept, 22.—(Delayed.)—Re tirement of the Bulgarian armies be. tween the Cerna and the Vardar was by the Bulgarian war of They do not mean that | | this will be tomorrow, next week or | [FIGHT ON 100-MILE BALKAN LINE | HUGE VICTORY GROWS HOURLY The scope of the allied victories in Palestine and Macedonia is increasing hourly. British troops have captured Acre and Haifa, two [important seaports and railway terminals on the Medi- terranean, representing a total advance of 75 miles |since the drive began. The British also have progressed 10 miles east of the Jordan, occupying Es Salt and striking directly toward Amman on the Hedjaz railway. Arab forces are driving scattered Turkish elements northward along | the railway toward that town. The total of prisonérs will “greatly exceed the 25,000 already mentioned,” ac- cording to Gen. Allenby’s report today. In Macedonia the allies are advancing on a front of nearly 100 miles, between Monastir and the Doiran region, the Serbo-Grecian frontier. British troops, it was learned unofficially, have captured the town of Doiran. Serbian troops are only five miles from Prilip. The Bulgarian war office admits retirement on the whole line to points south of Monastir and north of — | Doiran. ‘ The Serbians alone have taken 12 ,000 prisomem jand 140 guns. Gen, Ardenne, Berlin military critic, says new at- tacks may be expected from Americans on the St. Mihiel — front. He adds the significant remark that the Ger- mans will probably abandon St. Quentin shortly. Hot Battle ONWARD co Is Coming, ALLIES IN” Says Kaiser By | United Pre: axed Wire Wiret Direct to The Star AMSTERDAM _ FAST RU LONDON, Sept. 24.—Alllied successes in Macedonia and Pal- estine continue tc grow. Control 24.—The kal: ept. sep, addressing Austrian officers at| of Siberia also is being rapidly Briey, while visiting the Alsace-Lor-| completed by the allies. raine front Sunday, expressed his Italian tenons, Be operating on the confidence that they would give the| left flank of the British, and | Americans “the right answer at the) Greeks in the Vardar valley, have advanced 10 miles since yesterday, according to advices from the Saloniki front. British troops have captured the important town of Doiran, on the southern shore of Lake Doiran, in Macedonia, according to dispatches received here today. They have occupied the important seaport of Acre, Palestine, it was announced tod: Acre is on the Mediterranean, 22 right moment.” nu have come to fight our bat ,tles, as good comrades,” he id. “You know, perhaps, that we have heavy fighting before us. You know who are before you. The Americans have prom! France that they would give her Alsace-Lorraine, which France alone cannot conquer. ‘The Americans also wish to add big deeds to their big words. With me They have reached the confluence of the Var- dar and Cerna, 30 miles north of the nearest point in ‘ eae the help of my troops, you will give | miles northeast of Nazareth, where them the right answer at the right the British cavalry was last reported. moment.” It is a terminal of the railway run The kaiser distributed 400 iron | ning from Dera to the coast. It has crost and addressed Austrian, Ger- a population of about 10,000, man and British and French wound-| The operations in the Balkans ed in their respective languages. are taking on the aspect of @ major defeat for the Bulgarians, — . Their armies in Southern Serbig Baron Burian Says and Northeastern Greece have: Wilson Was Hasty ‘er virtually split by cutting of a °4—Raron the, Uskub-Saloniki” and Gradsko- AMSTERDAM, | Sept. 24—Baron | pritip railways. ‘The allies are ade Burian, Austrian foreign minister, in vancing in. the whole region. bes statement to the Berlin evvinay {Ween Monastir and Lake Doiran, pers, declared he was not surprised | ang the original front of about #8 at the allies’ reception of the AUS: | mites has been stretched fo 100 trian proposal, but that nothing! mies by the growth of) the | tie anole be neglected to bring peace wedge being driven northward. nearer. “The rapidity with which Presi Six Miles From Prilip dent Wilson replied is remarkable,”| ‘Thru the seizure of Kalyani, ale he said, “He clearly wanted to antic:| lied troops are only six miles ipate the other tnemt southeast of the important city of tente |Prilip, which is one of their im- He always wanted to be the ar-| mediate objectives biter of the world assumed role. Fven his neutral-! To the eastward they have pene- ity was an and he is|trated much farther north, and are now striving to keep up the role, I lleling the Vardar from. the do not say he ere, but there iran region to its junction with are cases in n history in Cerna. West of Doiran the which America herself vic allies ure within reach of Bogdanee, points he formulates, six miles west and north of the Says Line Will Hold » of Doiran, while their left Proof that the entente fears the | WINK lms passed Mogila, five miles effects of the proposal he Bi ste! efect As RrOp OEE OF:0G Serbs Take 12000 Prisoners ists is shown by the speed with! orriciat reporta of pel a which Premier Clemenceau and Bal Oe ack ane Tae guns to date are lacking, but it four spoke. It would serve no pur-/ EUS t0 3 stated | thaeaa pose to reply to their speeches See have takes alin There was complete agreement oy auurans end none between Germany and Austria Hun. [7 i00) Nalgarians and ite bi gary in rgard to the dispatch of the British. jreek, tomestae gary with Italians and Szecho-Slovaks, “The Hindenburg line will hold. Me ecniint ey the offen but we must neglect nothing that 8 atest Cham e Sandu neeaae (Continu will bring pea d on Page Twelve) Ke BHALKAN AND ST, QUENTIN TURKISH, 12 TODAY MAPS INT