The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 9, 1918, Page 8

} HUNS PUSHED BACK RAILWAY LINES OF ENEMY CUT. BY FOCHGAINS 200-MILE LINE WASHINGTON, Noy, 9.—-Amert- ean forces on the Sedan front ad vanced 30 miles in eight days, Gen. March said today, in his weekly con ference with correspondents. In a brief summary of the military situation, he said the Germans now have been deprived of all railway Unes parallel to their front, They hold only lines radiating toward the fronts, which makes the shifting of | troops difficult. The American advance severed the Valenciennes-Mets raiiway at Sedan. | Regain Big Territory | The allied advances have pushed on the Mouse front. Details of any | the German front from a point 36 miles from Paris to more than 100 miles away, and have reduced Ger: | man occupation of French territory | from 10,000 square miles last July to 2.500 square miles today. March stated that the organtzation | of American forces into armies has necessitated changes in corps com: manders. ‘The corps are now commanded by the following officers. First, Maj. Gen. Dickman; Second,. Maj. Gen. Reed; Third, Maj. Gen. Hines; Fourth, | Maj. Gen. Mut Fifth, Maj. Gen.) Summerall; Sixth, Maj. Gen. Wright, | and, Seventh, Maj. Gen. Mencher, | FRENCH TROOPS | MARCH FORWARD PARIS, Nov. 9.—The French re.) sumed their advance on the whole | front this morning, it was announc ed by the war office. | “During the night there was ar.) tillery and machine gun activity at | several points on the front,” the | communique said. “This morning our troops again | started thelr march forward on the/ whole line.” | Bavarians Stage | Demonstration in | Favor of Republic! BASEL, Switzerland, Nov. 9—The Witteisbach dynasty has been over- thrown by the Bavarian diet in a de cree that was passed by the session diet palace Friday, following | Fs NEW YORK, Nov. 9—Robert J. Collier,.editor of Collier's Weekly and | president of H. F. Collier & Son, pub- lishing house, is dead. He died sud- denly last night of a heart attack, while he was seated at his dinner ta ble with Mrs, Collier. Collier a few hours before had land- from an army transport, after a/ to Europe, where he had toured | various battle fronts for the past He was born in this 17, 1876. a gies H a ALLIED ARMIES SMASH FOES ON LONDON, Nov, 9.-—The allies are continuing thelr Hberation of French and Belgian soll, while Marshal Foch awaits the answer of the German high command at Spa to his terms for an armistice. Latest report# show French, Frit ish, Belgian, Italian and Acertean troops attacking along a front of about 200 mil Ghent to the Verdun region. Impor- tant new gains have been made on a wide stretch of line. In addition, the enemy ts reported to be undertaking a great retreat American advance fn that region have not been received. The French and Americans hold the line of the Meuse from Mezteres southward. The great fortress cities of Maubeuge and Hirson are practically within the grasp of the British and French. The British have taken Conde and Haut mont, and hold the western portion of Tournal, Field Marshal Haig an nounced that his armies have taken | 18,000 prisoners and several hundred guns since November 1. French troops have crossed the Scheldt on a wide front south of Aw denarde, In the Balkans, the Serbs have do feated the Germans along the Dan ube and Save, and have crossed those rivers into Hungarian territory. They also have taken up the snarch to Sar. ajevo, Omar’s Disciples Get in Bad With Seattle Police | Five men are held in the city jail Saturday, following their arrest at 1405 20th ave. S. late Friday, where police allege, they were in posses sion of Omar's choice beverage, and | obeying his inspired injunction “Drink! for you know not whence you came or why; Drink! for you know not why you 0, or where.” Had they known where they were going, they would have spurned Omar as a bum disciple, the police say. Each man is held under $1,000 cash bail Six quarta of wine and & fivegallon demijohn of the same material are held as evidence. Fifty S.A.T.C. Men - Are Called to East Every man in the marine detach: ment of the 8. A. T. C. at the unt versity has taken out a $19,000 In | surance policy, thus establishing a 100 per cent The commanding officer, Lieut. E. A. Johnson, has just received a call trom Washington for approximately 50 qualified men to be sent East for a course of special training for officers in marine aviation. SHIPPER DIES AFTER ONE HOUR’S ILLNESS Following an illness of one hour, Frank M. Biggs, 5211 Sth ave. N. EB. died Thursday night of heart dis cane. Pacific Coast Shippers’ and well known in raflroad circles. HIP ACTORS READY With a prospect of a speedy opening of local theatres, the man agement of the Palace Hip has call ed its employes from the shipyards and other places of employment, where they have been spending thetr “holiday,” and has again com menced rehearsals. The chain theatre at Butte, with which the Hip is allied, was opened Friday FOR babii’ os MOTHER'S SON. THE Seattle National Bank STATEMENT OF CONDITION At the Close of Business November 1, 1918 RESOURCES Loans and Discounts . U. S. Bonds ......... U. S. Treas. Certificates .....-+++++++ Other Bonds and Warrants Real Estate owned ... Furniture and Fixtures . Stock in Federal Reserve Bank.... Cash and in Banks .........--.000+ ee eee -$13,852,131,86 1,938,289.88 8,095,000.00 4,562,525.04 217,700.00 50,000.00 36,000.00 7,544,681.06 $31,296,327.84 LIABILITIES Capital Stock ... Surplus and Undivided Profits...... Circulation ..... Due Federal Reserve Bank...........- -$ 1,000,000.00 446,472.48 1,000,000.00 2,500,000.00 seescesesees 26,049,855.36 from the vicinity of | By J. R. Grove. “Haw, haw, ho! That's one on Fritz. I was coming over here, anyhow.” BAN LIFT WILL | SOON BE HERE, SAYS M'BRIDE Continued From Page One ey oo - ” present time,” stated City Health | Commissioner J. 8. McBride Satur day. “People must not think that Seat | tle will be wide open, or that they are to celebrate by thronging to! town,” Mcliride warned, “for the dis ease will run for some weeks in a mninor form, and we do not want to | suffer a relapse of the epidemic.” Flu masks will not disappear with the lifting of the ban, declared Me: | Bride. The mask order is state-wide, and will not be lifted until authority comes from Dr. Tuttle, of the state health board. When tho theatres open, the movie fans will have to follow the films| with ther facen hidden by masks, = | Four deaths and 19 new tnfiuensa | cases had been reported to the health | department up to noon Saturday, in dicating the steady decline of the pandemic, Deaths reported Saturday morn ing are | Louls Cinkovich, 9, died in the Providence hospital. | Miriam E. Heath, 37, address un-| known, died in a local honpital, Einer Anderson, 26, died in the old courthouse emergency hospital. Carl Arthur Madden, 28, died at 5710 Ravenna ave. While deaths reported for Friday are double the death tolls for each in: | dividual preceding day of the week, the fact is not regarded as ignifi-| cant, physicians pointing out that an accumulation of cases may result in a large nucnber dying one day and a very «mall number the next. Thir teen deaths are recorded for Friday, | while 116 new cases wore reported. Deaths are Concetta Acquafridda, 35, 1101 29th ave. S. Rose Acquafridda, 2, 1101 29th| ave, 8. } Raffael Acquafridda, 6, 1101 29th ave. 8. | Victoria Shephersty 26, 1600 Bet-| mont ave. | David Mollanen, 27, 116 Fourth ave, 8. | Jennie Madlock, 66, 409 Second | ave Robert J. Wampole, 20, olf court- house hospital Richard Blight, 37, Arctic club. | Rudolph McCarty, 47, 424 Jeffer. gon st. J, Hilding Pearson, 64 Pike st. Mrs, William Sheridan, 1315 Sixth | ave, KE, BE. Anderson, 1925 Terry ave. Carl Madding, 28, 8612 45th ave. 8.| |HOME WORSHIP MUST AGAIN PREVAIL SUNDAY Church services must be observed |at home for another Sunday, ac- | cording to the mandate of the health commissioner, and various city pas tors have outlined tentative service | programs for the benefit of their | flocks. Rev. C. R. Gale, superin tendent the Congregational of Church Extension soctety, suggests the hymn fely Thru Another | Week,” following a piano or graph- ophone prelude, Endurance LONDON, Nov. 9.—Ilustrative of the endurance of the men sent over from America is this story of a wiry little Irishman who was set at work with a gang of stevedores unloading a ship. Gradually his load was increased Un he was carrying a 60-pound anvil under each arm. He wax half way across with his load { when the gang plank broke. He ) went spluttering beneath the wa ter, “T’row me a rope! he cried ; as he came up, then sank again “T'row me a rope, I say!" he ( shouted as he came the second { time to the top, then eank again. }/ } The third time he arose. Angry }) and almost breathless, he still }| } managed to shout, “If one of ( youn don’t hurry up and t'row (| ; me a rope, I'm golng to drop one || ‘ | of these things.” HUN IS SHORT | OF ARTILLERY PARIS, Nov. 9—The Huns are| keenly feeling the lonses they su» tain in guns, ammunition and ma terial abandoned in flight before the advancing Americana, French | and British Proot of these conditions ts con tained in a general order found on & captured prisoner. It says in j part: i “It has been reported by Gen.| Zietehn that at certain points at the front it is thought that the in fantry ought to be very strongty | supported by artillery and that the guns of the divisions at rest should be used for this purpose “Under no cireumstances such an idea be allowed to circulate It is absolute proof that the in fantry does not yet realize the value, strength and resources of its machine guns. “Reports of recent battles show | that the infantry ts alone able to completely repulse the assaults of the enemy if it knows how to make use of its machine guns by scatter ing them over the ground to be defended and hiding them from the view of the enemy “Perhaps it would be well to add that to use the artillery of the di visions at rest would place the ar. tillery, which hag alrendy suffered terribly. in such a position that it could not repair its force. “It im absolutely necessary that the artillery economize and reserve its force for future operations.” should | YANK ADVANCE IS CONTINUING BY WEBB MI (United Press Staff Co: WITH THE AMERICANS FRANCE, Nov. 9.—(12:30 p, m.)— The Americans resumed their ad. vance east of the Meuse today, both north and south of Damvillers, | despite a heavy rain. They are| pressing close upon the enemy and are meeting strong machine gun re sistance from the German rear guards, ‘The Germans are reported to have Fred Adams Claims House Speakership SPOKANE, Nov. Fred A. Ad ams, representative-elect, claims the | next speakership of the state house. Adams returned from a checking-up | tour yesterday, and pledges of his supporters show how the speaker begun a new retreat northeast of | Verdun, fleeing toward Briey (the | jeenter of the great French iron basin, 26 miles northeast of Verdun and 12 miles northwest of Metz), Between Wadelincourt (a mile south of Sedan) and the Woevre for jest there was great artillery and/ |machine gun activity during the 100 “OVER THERE” WITH THE YANKS THE SEATTLE STAR ~ MILES Li FOOD RULES FOR AFTER WAR NEED WASHINGTON, Nov. %—Govern ment direction of the distribution of foodstuffs after the war until normal conditions prevail in Europe will be continued under the ericulture, if congrens this end. The food administration will cease to exist with the signing of peace treatin, President Wilson now has ® program of legislation to be sub- mitted to congrena. Herbert Hoover, United States food administrator, has expreawed his de jalre to be relieved of hin duties as soon as posible. It is considered certain that the machinery of the food administration will be turned over to the department of agriculture. The efforts of the government will continue to be di rected at the maximum production of food in America, and the practice of conservation, #0 that the greatest pomnible supply of foodstuffs be made available for shipment to Europe. Naturally, however, with the ex Piration of the food administration, price acreements with farmers also will terminate, unless congress grants the price-fixing power to the govermnent. It han been maid that after the war more urgent appeals for patriotic ao tion in food conservation must be urged, inasmuch aa there ts no eff cient method of policing Food administration rules are now in force because of the patriotic en. Geavors of the people who have been ready to report violations of the food | regulations. |Help to Rebuild France After War | NEW YORK, Noy. 9.—France, after the war, will expect to have help from the United States in the form of labor, money, materials and ships. This was made plain by An dre Tardeau, the French high com- missioner and minister of Franco- Amertican war affairs in the French cabinet. Tardeau, in an address to the as sociation of French correspondents, said he hoped American troops would relieve the labor situation. He suggested that American technical units of other soldiers with their equipment would be able to help re- store France while awaiting trans- portation home. German safe conduct for Dutch vessels trading with Scandinavia is now promised. Germany will recog: nize the Netherlands Oversea Trust as the consignee, and the trust will | recognize German as well as British “Black Lists.” There are more than 20 lead pen- ell manufactories in Tokio alone, and monthly exports reach 6,000,000 Kross, Notice to the Superior Court: Being advised by Dr. J. S. McBride, Commissioner of Health, that it is to the best interests of the public health that court remain closed until November 18, 1918, all persons called for service either U.S. PLANS NEW department of | approves | the request of President Wilson to DEMOS BELIEVE _ PROGRESSIVES WILL AID THEM N BY L. ©, MAR’ Press Staff Correspondent) | NGTON, Nov. 9—With ab | most complete returns from ‘Tt day’n election indicating the nenate a majority of in ¢ bal penate con will be the republican. b: led pre upper branch will hi of power when the next March. According to Indications, there will be 49 senatora on the republi can wide and 47 on the democratic side. Any one eanive vote awinging to the side of the demo: | crata could, theref command a majority for the minority with Vice President Marshall's vote Thus chief interest centers in the ¢o which will pursued on t reconstruction issues by such men as Borah, Johnson, Cal.; Mc Nary, Ore, and Kenyon, lowa, all) of whom are more or lens independ ent of party The demoe strongly on the at Jeant preventing repeal many which the de have during their reign of power, to which substantial republican oppont tion has been made These senators are all publi ership men, and when t of continuing federal « roads, he a comes up. may be cour to oppose the “regular” republicans and vote with the democrats | It is on new reconstruction meas: | ures, however, that the progressives will get their chance to wield the greatest influence. They two, the noe * are support of counting of these them—in lawn men nome ot rats own: can beat any measure by fillbustering against it They can put thru a minlatiye liaw, because both democrats an [republicans will be eager to keep | their support Kenyon's resolution for -a com | mission to recommend a budget | system, is one measure which has I been held up, which now probably | will go thru, PIPE BREAK IN WATER SUPPLY IS THREATENED. ‘There is danger that the city’s! water supply may be cut off at any time, unless funds are made avail able for improvements in the pipe line from Cedar river to the city, | according to councilmen at a meet ing ot the city finance committes Friday, when the refusal of the fed | eral capital issues committee to au | thortze the sale of $200,000 in bonds was discussed. In August the city asked the/ | bomes. FROM PA committes to approve a $500,000 bond sale. Recently word was re | colved that $200,000 of this was! sanctioned to pay the cost of con | demnation judgments giving the! city the reservoir site at Swan lake, | and that the remaining $200,000 would not be approved until the city j i submnitted ite construction plana This $200,000 in badty needed, | lcounctimen say, to build the reser. voir and run a pipe line from the lake to the city. At present the/| water department ix hard preased | to supply the rapidly growing de mands of the city, and officials state that there ts danger of a break at any time tn either of the wooden pipe lines between the Cedar river intake and Swan lake. These pipes are old and worn, and are being re paired constantly The council is planning to act promptly, and will send to the fed: | eral committee this imformation without delay. MRS. CATT ASKS WOMEN | ON PEACE COMMISSION | NEW YORK, Nov. 9—Mrs. Car | rie Chapman Catt, suffrage worker, | believes women should have seats at the peace table. As president of the Woman Suffrage alliance, she has nent a letter to all national women's organizations urging them to stand together to have women adequately represented on the peace | commission. \Wickersham Leads | Sulzer in North JUNEAU, Alaska, Nov. 9.—James Wickersham, Rep, has a lead of 56 votes over Charles A. Sulzer, Dem., Incumbent, for Alaska's territorial | | delegate to congress, according to re- | turns received here from four divi | sions. NEW YORK, Nov. This is Ypres day. It is being celebrated with meetings and speeches in many | parts of the United States, in honor lof the men who died in the first bat tle of Ypres, when the Germans were | turned back, four years ago. Jurors of the RIS | Bulgar Rivals Hun for Savagery, Says Greek Minister Here ‘iat BY EK. C, RODGERS ther most important item future Dro WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—When tection against the Bulgarians, the the onetin conqueror retreats restoration of Greek property qq then you get @ close-up picture of *troyed and the return Of Greekeqg what he did while conquering Greece and hef provirices, The French, British and Ameri othing can ever right the cans are getting such pictures in| wrong done the Gre by the Buy northern France garians,” said First Secretary Co, jreeks are getting them to-|stantine, of the legation, 7 day in Macedonia, from which the Greek troops now reoc Bulgars have retired the Greek provinces which, sine, Official Statement the beginning of 1916, had been uy, The awfulness of Bulgar atroct-| justly occupied by the Bul tles may be judged by this official taking advantage of former statement made to the Newspaper | Constantine's treachery, have founq Enterprise Annociation by orge | the inhabitants enslaved, males dp Roussos, minister of Greece to the United Staten: “According to the cabled state ment of the Greek government just ported, and what is worse, half the |Greek women the mothers of ehj, Gren of Bulgarian soldiers, force into the vilest form of slavery py received, the German atrocities in the Bulgarians. A large Dercent, um could be considered child | 9° Of the women and girls have play compared to what the miser.|P¢¢? diseased by the Bulgarians» able Greek populations of Hast| That ix the trail of the Bulgarian edonia have experienced ror in Macedonia. Much evi. The population of Serres was ilar nature ts piled up 000 before the occupation and |p the Washington headquarters of hardly 6,000 are left today, The! Serbian, Rumanian and Monte majority of them look more like | °#rin diplomats, ghosts than human beings. No| Armenian and Thrace have suf. woman or young girl has been re- | fered in the same way at the hands apested of the Turk. “Cavalla, which was a flourishing! A eek delegation is now in tow appears to anyone who had| America to acquaint the Urllted known it in her happy days, as hav-| States government with the fright. ing been the prey of an earthquake | fulness of Turkish warfare in or of a voleanic erup Thrace, where the Greek Christian “We understand tha® the Greek} populations have been butchered, government is making an urgent Javed, and where the women peal to her allies and neutral gov nments to send representatives to been treated as shamefully ag the Bulgars © spot so they can see what|qonians, and the Huns treated havoc has been inflicted on that| peigians, 5 part of Greece. | - 60,000 Deported |JAPAN IS PLANNING TO INCREASE FLEET “Sixty thousand males have been deported tnto concentration camps in Bulgaria, where the elementary vrinciples of humanity are ignored.| According to utterances of five They are looking to the United! prominent Japanese naval @fficers, States to intervene so that they|in Seattle en route to New York, may be allowed to return to their | Japan contemplates a x. penditure of 5,000,000 yen \- Whatever peace terms the other! 000) in the United States to aug. en may have, Greece considers ment her battle fleet. on Cm ee eansomaaniltn FOR ALL CREEDS AND ONE CAUSE. U. W. W. CG r UE to scarcity and pressing war demands, countless articles of everyday use are higher in price than they have been in years. Now is the time expenditures should be watched closely and those high- priced articles left unpurchased. Every dollar saved now and added to a savings account at this bank will do double duty after the war. Open Saturday Evenings 6 to § o’clock COMBINED RESOURCES Dexter Horton Trust and Savings Bank and Dexter Horton National Bank OVER > $23,000,000 Oldest Bank in Western Washington. BE LIBERAL FOR OUR BOYS. U. W. W. C. Seaboard National Bank of Seattle Report of Condition Under Comptroller's Call of November 1 RESOURCES Loans and Discounts .............+.$ 958,237.05 Overdrafts 411.48 U. S.‘ Bonds ‘ 82,550.00 Other Bonds and Securities. ..... 67,670.35 Furniture and Fixtures . 16,787.04 Stock in Federal Reserve Bank. . 7,200.00 night. The French are now holdi yar : ir re ss it tu watts airondy {80 Sedan mtation, as petit jurors or as grand jurors, for the Cash and Exchange .........s0se2+4 492,257.02 $31,296,327.84 [fl give Adacns 60° votes for speaker, | pee ah month of November, are hereby notified aries While 49 are all that are needed to | Veteran Marin . +7 nt $1,625,112.89 elect. Adams is an attorney and has er not to report for service until November been giving much of his time recent'| to Make Home Here} 18. 1918 LIABILITIES y to food administration work, “ gr ss 4 ’ . R 200,000.00 OFFICERS: Wn. pace sacs ala Nitiam B. Gregory, veteran Pa. | Dated N I 8 1918 Capital Stock si... i525. i ccccecvccecth. SOG cific Coast mariner, who i ; DANIEL KELLEHER, Chairman AGED JUSTICE WINS menced his sea career $k seate cnet ate shia ber, 9, “* Surplus and Undivided Profits...... 69,143.07 lV. K. STRUVE.....,President E. G. AMES. SL ARTETINOO, New) Arsiahe baa clipper ships, has returned to| CALVIN S. HALL, Reserved for Taxes ........ 1,000.00 3. W. SPANGLER... Vie. me. SAL. ces cher, Justice of the peace at Half | Seattle from the East, with th rey ‘ HV, ANKENY. Vise Pree, Gr IncLe OR ALD.; - Cashier Til soon tay for 46: yeare, has heen | nouncement that -he has been, re. Presiding Judge. Deposits ... PyNs Sinan «94 1,354,969.82 P. B. TRUAX......Vice Pres. J. H.NEWBERGER Awat. Cash, ap toe i maid seeay he is Lired, (following $2 years in the . & PE. Vie 3 B. K. SILEY. Z mining to celebrate i" Inited State: Mehth ° r | WM. ®. PEACHY. .,Vice Pres, 8. K. RWILEY.....Asst. Cash. BiDnGy on ene bench. He is 12| Capt ance watts bee $1,625,112.89 years old, in Seattle,