The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 14, 1918, Page 12

YANKS HERGIC IN LAST DRIVE NOTHING COULD STOP U.S. MEN IN FINAL BLOW BY WEBB MILLER United Press Correspondent WITH THE AMERICAN AR MIES IN FRANCE, Nov. 6.—(De-| layed.)—There were numerous tates | of individual heroism as the Yau kees pushed their last peace drive One of the most spectacular wae | furnished by Lieutenants B. © | Acom and W. Darwin, of Chicago, } aviators, who engaged in the stiffest | fighting north of Beaumont. Ger man machine gunners forced the two to land close to the enemy nests. | Instead of surre feans used the § Then they escay American lines ness fell reached the morning this Engineers Heroic | One of the gres ing work eve: American ari the Meu i where the Yanks were under terrific shell fire. In building used boche boats and materials cap tured during the fighting at Cha teau Thierry. These had been brought from Germany for the kat ser's Paris offensive in July ‘There was more than enough ma- terial to cross the Meuse, which was flooded to a mile in width, thanks to the boches’ ambitions last sum mer. Hundreds of civilians robbed by | the Germans were rescued by Amer icans as the latter took village after the pontoons, they children gra@sfully tell of how the first wave of dough boys shared their food with them. Knew the Yankees “after a terrible bombardment, I sheard voices speaking in a strange language outside,” said Mme. Marie Fournier, of La Neuville. “I soon ’ knew it was not the boches. I had | “rrr char PA ep OTE Rever seen an American before, bUt | racing Ge Weit, Younes! I knew it was the Americans who had come. The Germans said the Americans were wild and barbarous We did not believe it. “When the first Americans open- ed packages of hard tack and it with the children, we were because we had nothing to| kind soldiers—no tea, no wine. iH tots, Yvonne, Louisette and all under 10, dirty, climbed motor truck, their hands with food the doughboys them. Yvonne, who i» 4, said she had never seen her who is a sailor stationed at Americans sent the Hy } Th The him. Girts Are Brave | pioneer unit rushed ahead under | to conduct its own campaig. choose its own front, but to es tablish contact with the enemy. ‘Three Salvation Army lassies, Mar garet Sheldon, of Chicago, Anna/ Swenson of St. Paul and Louise | Young. of Poughkeepsie, trying to keep pace with the advance, reached @ battered town at 4 in the morning. | A tent already had been erected by the supply train and the girls) if "were ordered to pile into it and get some sleep. Instead of resting, they started to work. Before 9% o'’clocn they had made 2,000 doughnuts and were serving them with chocolate along spenee Sree line. | YANKS WANT TO BUY AMBULANCE .—**: FOR AUTO TOUR (Special to The Star by N. PB. A) PARIS, Nov. 14.—Peace will (ind Unele Sam with thousands of bat tered motor ambylances on his hands. But he need not call in the junk man. Three out of every five Yanks tn France have a bright idea They each want to buy a worn out ambu Jance and start out on,a sight-seeing tour of Europe. Every soldier who incubates the idea thinks no one else has thought of it. If everyone succeeds in his ambition all Europe will be overrun with ambulance touring parties. Worn out ambulances are now popularly quoted—among these am bitious doughboys—at about $50 each. SALUTE RED CROSS! (Special to The Star by N. F. PARIS, Nov. 14.—Consternation ‘among Red Cross officers in Paris, Every day or so one or two of them are reprimanded for failure to salute. Hhe taskmaster is Col, Williams, re- tired brigadier general of the army. He's Red Cross disciplinarian now DOUSED Bertha D. Wick has fi swer and crons-petition Jegations named in a by Alvin H. for a decree of ¢ of her former name. and alimony —Omaha on filed She asks restoration rtha Lamp, Give Once, bat Enough for All. U. W.W.C. THEATRE PLAYERS WILKE Last Time Saturday Night wiATS YOUR oy ? The DOIN G Ever Nights 25c-500 Plus war tax, vie Seven ‘Chances? a Bendey Apother Yaugh Feast Mill jtry. I ‘'Started Out to Be Doctor Bid als But Ends i in Orchestra Pit} | CHARLES (“TI Tiny Burnett, leader of the Moore | theatre orchestra, started out in life to be a doctor, He graduated from Columbia unt- versity in three days, the only thing | that was missing from his achieve ment being a diploma “The first couple of lectures were great,” declares Tiny, “but when the work in the morgue started, my Man, and Up With the Coun- dia ything but grow. I have!been in Seattle ever since,” Charles 8 is Tiny's business name, but very few people ever call Him Charles, and few, if any, know of the 8. BURLESON s a“ NY") BURNETT Charles S. was changed to Tiny some years ago, when he was play ing in the Butler hotel orchestra. All of the other members of the or ganization were regular “gianta,” ac | cording to Burnett, and as he was jamal, the name just seemed to “grow,” and it has #tuck ever aince. | He was born in St. Joseph, Mo., 30 years ago, and has escaped the trip to the altar as yet Tiny plays a harmonium that and sounds just like a reed o. He tw the only orchestra ron the Orpheum ciroult who with @ harmonium “I can carry the melody with my left hand,” explained Tiny, “and di reet with my right, which cannot be ‘done while playing a plano.” PEEVED AT SEATTLE LABOR MAN “Postmaster General Burleson in the most discourteous public official that I've ever met in all my life,” declared Business Agent C. W Doyle, in reporting to the Seattic Central Labor Council Wednesday evening on his efforts, while in Washington, to secure the reinstate ment of the locked-out Western Un ion telegraphers. Doyle said that, accompanied by A. E. Miller, who gave him ail thy help he could, he also called on A» sistant Postmaster General Koons. and found him “just such a man as Mr. Burleson,” Doyle stated that when he began to tell Burleson of his mission he was abruptly interrupted by the lai ter, who exclaimed: “Allow me to | Lansing’ 's Sisters Decorated With | French War Cross | Dray, EMMA LANSING Sisters of Secretary of State Lan sing, the Misses Emma 8. and Kath- erine E. Lansing, of Watertown, Y, have been decorated with the sisters worked in the ted Cross canteen at Fp ernay ring the bomt displayed marked herolam. the first members of the F canteen to receive this honor, ous | tell you, sir, that there'll be no} Strike of telegraphers’” | "I am not representing strikers,” |replied Doyle, “but 165 seckagoct | telegraphers, who feel that they have a just grievance.” The postmaster general, Doyle re ||| ported, promised in a somewhat in definite way that he would take the matter up, of the telegraphers who had really heen discharged “for belonging to a/ union.” CF, union, Washin, definitely settled “We are now worse off than we were before,” he maid, “and the indi cations are that the locked-out teleg raphers are going to lose.” Tice, of the Telegrapherw | cised Doyle for leaving " JEALOUSY IN ALLIED WORLD, GERMAN HOPE BY J. W. T. MASON (United Press War Expert) NEW YORK, Nov. 14—Germany is continuing with subtle persiatence her effort to secure the support of the United States as special counsel at the peace table By trying to create the impression |that in the United States Germany has a lenient friend at court, the gov jernment at Berlin is seeking to start controversies at the peace conference between A-neric tions | There is | America’s w prestige in this ef fort of the una to isolate Amer |fea from the allies, Hitherto world | a and the other na undoubted danger to and would reinstate a1|]) before the matter was ||| THE SEATTLE STAR THE BON MARCHE | STORE HOURS 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. Making Up Corduroys Half Price be half price, colors and black. 21 and 30 Inch Velveteens 69c net and Burgundy in the Jot. 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