The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 15, 1918, Page 1

French Soil Cleared of Huns; Belgium Free Next Week RRR ne = —— The Seattle S lar NIGHT EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE THE GREATEST, DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST $6.00 to $9.00 Bntered an Becond Clase Matter Lean 8, 1699, ot the Postoffice at Beattie, We: under the Act of Congress March #, 1979, _SE ATL E, W WASH., Per Year, by Mall, NOV: EMBE R 16, 1918. F RIDAY, 3 _ Weather Forecast: might and Saturday, oderate southwest rain; _ealea. Evacuation Wilhelmina 4by TeutonsMay Lose Is Rushing Her Throne French and Americans Are Socialists Are Now De- Now in Advanced Forts | manding Abdication of IBOCHE TROOPS MAY END ARMISTICE Allies Are Getting Ott tos Wor Bacio 4 Nations [7 er ys ERECT Ready to JOBS OFFERED GYEARSMORE to Control Hostile Action on Part of Hun “Reds” Would Be Crushed EUROPE STATES UNEASY 16.—(British Ad LONDON, Nov. Miralty Wireless.)—"Tt ts evident } ‘that we must remain prepared for possible hostile action on the part of certain elements of the enemy) 7 forces,” writes the military corre-| | ‘qpondent of the Wireless Service. “Revelutionary councils have been | ext wD, ct Quickly," spriice WORK MEN QUITTING At the rate of 500 a day, the 6,000 men who have been employed in spruce production activities, includ. ing the building of a branch rat! read, on the Olympic peninsula, are being released m the job, accord ing to W. F. Carey, head of the Siems-CareysKerbaugh — corporation. About half of these men are soldiers who will probably be returned to | civil Lite, | Work in the shipyards, on the railroads, and in other industries where there is a shortage of labor, | ls being offered to the men by a representative of the U. S employ ment service. The corporation's contract called for 600,000,000 feet of spruce by | December 22, 1919. Logging rail roads, radiating from Lake Crescent, | were nearing completion when | government suspended operations, the two largest mills In world were practically finished, ana & considerable portion of the equip | ment had been assembled. Carey states that while the rail | Tread was primarily built for the pur- powe of getting out the spruce, the government also had in view ite fur poasibilities, and * \imatety $2,000,000,000 « OF BIG TAXES WASHINGTON, Nov ca will 1925, Treasury plans ag outlined to day show that the heavy for at least 1 be paying war taxes Amer! unul burden of taxation must continue six years The end of actual fighting has the 1918 cost by $6,000,000,000 Ps retary McAdoo announced, but im. FOR AMERICANS. mediate war expenses will continue | to come. Facing the treasury for the pres: | ent fincal year were expenditures of $18,000,000,000; for the year ending June, 1920, $5,000,000,000 and four the next four years the government expenses will range around $2 600,000,000 After January 1, 1925, expendi tures should settle down to approx may refuse to acqui jana at eo Angeles bor Sieme- )clale estimated. URGES TRAINING = OF ALLU, $, BOYS |} “PORTLAND, Ore. Nov. 15,—-tlen, |!" be offered by the Ger-| that from this standpoint a valuable | ator Chamberlain, chairman of the | year, offi | Peace Meet France, Britain, Italy and United States to Have Main Power , WORKING ON DETAILS By United Press Leased Wire Direct to The Star WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.—While the peace conference will be delayed another month, according to the best information today, this government and the allies are working on details | both at the home capitals and thru | the supreme war council at Ver | sees: The United | States for some months has been congregating its beg thru Col. House and nis A careful study has beca) rae with respect to peace adjust ments needed in the Neer Bast, one ew nations have risen out ct public. so that there might It should be placed VICTORY MONUMENT A victory monument—a triumphal arch —to commemorate the valorous part of Washingtonians in the war against war. The Star believes it is fitting and proper that such a mark of honor shall be erected by the citizens of this city and state. The money for this purpose ought to be raised as a voluntary appreciation by the The names of those who gave their lives forever, ought to be permanently carved on the monument, as they are forever engrav- || ed on the hearts of those dear to them. town—at Pioneer square—or in the trian- gle at Third and Yesler. The noble, heroic part our boys contrib- uted toward American glory and toward of Metz HUNS LEAVING POLAND Their Queen iy Vea Pen Lae Wien Direct to The Star ARIS, Nov. 15.—<4:355 p. m.) —French and American troops have occupied the advanced forts of Metz and are advanc- ing toward the city. ‘The Germans are carrying out their evacuation faster than was | expected. It is possible that King Albert will enter Brussels Sunday. AMSTERDAM, Nov. 15.— Evacuation of Belgium is ex- pected to be completed by the end of the week. Food conditions in Berlin are re- |ported to be bad, in information sent out by the Germans. The dis |tribution of meat is said to have | been stopped. The horse races at Karishorst | have been canceled. Officials of | the course recently have feared to |traverse Unter Den Linden in automobiles with the gate receipts | |taru danger of being robbed. A Frankfort dispatch | grand duke of Saxe Weimar be freedom for all, conspicuously down- a the an NEW GOVERNMENT DUE f; United Press Leased hy Direct to The Star i eee :] LONDON, Nov. 15.—The |situation in Holland is be- jcoming more serious, dis- patches received by the Ex- |press declared today. |. The socialists are demand- jing abdication of Queen Wil- helmina. Jonkheer Colyn, former | Dutch war minister, has been |recalled from England to Hol- land, and it is believed will |be charged with formation of |a new Dutch government. GERMAN WOMEN PLEAD FOR AID OF MAS, WHLSON:” te | nounced his willingness to abdicaie ce but if the troops Leen property had been created that *enate military affairs committed, ix rthorder! the chief | the peace of the world, will live forever, providing the safety of himself acd! __ BY CARL D. GROAT acknowledge the authority of their | would be no loss to the government. On record for “elementary military monument or no mon | his family is guaranteed, (United Press Correspondent) @ommanders, and the army should) The spruce division of he signal | training Pa ‘all young men.” ‘The state department has done | ument. iy ts gu WASHINGTON, Nov. 15--Th allies: uh respect to the German | gs a IN, Nov. ~The oS: may still have! corps has announced that since| “Iridescent peace can only come | DOUIne poll for an early confer-| But it will add to If COPENHAGEN, Nov. 15.—Ger-| United States the allies will see { August, 1917, it has produced in the |by maintaining the discipline of the| To-. and the disposition appears .o our own sell-respect to | man evacuation of Poland, which is to it that rolling stock provisions of Te Qroutent. Victory Northwest more than 132,000,000 young people who are growing up.”| Po not to hasten matters unui Ger-|{ give our returned soldiers this visible mark __]|!,,t*, “f0es_ of revolution, has bo. | the armistice do not work an undue “The gained the allies is | feet of first class airplane lumber | he said, “as peace in always in dan | gun, it was reported from Berlin to-| hardship on German; 07 | many appears more stabilized than f ff por in t ¥. provided the ene of the most complete recorded in| @P41 14,000,000 feet of lower grade ger as long as there is greed in the | 4+ present. | of affection and love and honor. day. German troops and civilians | nation does its utmost to maintain Metery, the allied nations being in | ™terial. emer evs peer e Om However, it seems likely from ‘é |who were rioting in Warsaw are order. This, unofficially, ts the gov- he almost unparalleled position of di that constitutional | ‘ <) |said to have been disarmed and ar. | ernment attitude toward the German 0 Will start the ball ro: ing | : oo veggie dictate any texans they WHITE LOAF is PEA |Phanges are in effect in Germany ' rested. women's wireless appeal to. Mra please to enemy, who no longer now asd that steps are under way | _ row Wilson and to Miss Jane has any means of resisting or pro- | tor forming a stable government. PARIS, Nov. 15.—2:30 p. m.) Addams, of Hull House, Chicago, re longing the struggle for a single day. ‘The main question is whether any | The last of the German armies have ceived by the war department over- _ “Henceforth, the problems which | particular government will stand at ‘ ’ retired beyond the borders of | night. Ie before us are political rather than | this time with unrest and revolution | ar ‘ai rive i France, it was unofficially announc-| The appeal declared that German military, but for the moment we are dertying the whole Teuton situa | this afternoon. women had been starving for years, faced with a situation which may re-| , WASHINGTON, Nov. 16—The| Mayor Hanson's reconstruction pree cians German civil and military authori-| and would now die of hunger “by mil- tive further military effort from) A™¢rican public may now eat ail! committee, which was appointed! More than 25 nations have @ rignt | ties were in conference at Nancy to-| lions” if the associated governments Ell ce als chs ation white bread. The white loaf may | Thursday to advise the city, county to placen at the peace table as bel €! 11 ere un a day with Albert Tirman, state cour | did not relax the stipulations as to . “The whole of Central and Eastern setern. and state government bodies on |iigerents against Germany. They cellor for the Metz district, relative | seizure of railway material. Burope is in « state of extreme un-| The food administration has an-| peace problems, will hold its first| wit not have equal voice in the ses: | j§—_———_— ——-) the city will t 4 |to assumption of the administration| It was indicated here that the gov- ‘feet, from the Rhine to the Urals,| | nounced that all regulations for sub-| meeting in the city council cham: | gion, even tho technically entitled to he bation: . x . yor steed 6 for con-|of Alsace-Lorraine by French offi ernments have no intention of modi- and the allies are pledged t recon, | stitutes in baking are waspended. ber Monday. The time has not! i Instead France, Britain, the CHILDREN HELP poe sewn Bes pe Peay wocneys will be | cials. The present schedule calls for | fying the armistice terms. But at ets = » Pie po this |_However, Administrator Hoover | been set. Vinited States and iisly will have| : mn ich’ galaperaend py The po-|the French to enter Metz on Mon. the same time there were indications sal Po sagns oy Pine it to | Mtl advocates restricted consump-| The women's reconstruction com: | the main power || With @ War Work Fund ||stop automoblies Pee ge {| day strictly for the purpose of mili rn ihe rolling stock seized could be tion of wheat bread. | mittee has not been selected, but quota of $400 assigned them, ite act @t/ tary occupation. placed to aid the Germans if they impossible to say, but it is evident| 4), dy plana ure being perfected | will be announced within the next | A | | Lowell school students ag me ae ae ioe drivers, this bs Strassburg will be occupied about|#mother the specter of Bolshevism en f = to peace! i, care for accumulated stocks of | few days, accordmg to Hanson. Army Supplies Are | | earn it right away. They will | | wnich on Saturde Of Owning & car, | Nov. The official ceremonies in| now stalking in their lands very gradi cereals, Under the new order, the| At the initial meeting of the com | H Id U b Strik | | work,after school and on Sat- pacorce ry ure ay at least, will be | connection with the restoration of “It is imponnible to tell whether | coarse grains will be used mostly for| mittee, details of organization are| e! p by e | urday, at almont any kind of | |rcerpreted as a sign of opulence. | the “lost provinces” will be held the ee ee eine a ie ne ag animal feeds. to be worked out, declared the| jn New York Harbor | | employment, they say. Those aed ao alas ne bent be iiven /first of December. oni ie =_—_ mayor, and the committee will be who can offer them work are ° ee wee: Sa AO EM SFT>9 | pervmity, refuse to carry out its A to NEW YORK, Nov. 15.—-The load 1 88 they have subscribed. "The world will not be snfe unul ot Wactieguen, People | cupplies for American troops abroad gg | Instructed its men to stop all cars Germany is powerless—unti!l she ts | na | was almost at a standstill in New : ~* not displaying the tag, and make| | Fp | York harbor, as a result of a strike, With a quota of $620,000, King | their owners give an accountin and the allies have occu "a |x & Died & sufficient extent of her coun No More Openings of workmen at the great army sup county had subscribed $260,000 by! Another feature of Saturday's pro- | i ra to render it impossible for her at the Na Yard ply base tn Brookiys. ue great noon Friday to the United War oa wit be ihe sale of doughnuts | | { resist our demands. Our first! with all tables crowded, Gov. Er. vy against the abolishment of all over | oo cam, Stat scrip. | COOKSd on auto trucks stationed at | _ i ER ‘ object must be to enforce the peace | nest Lister commenced his peace-| No further vacancies will be filled | time ork campaign. oa P| downtown vantage points. Salvation | LONDON, Nov. 15.—(11:50 a. m.)—| paRIs, Nov. 15.—Three deputies EIR ors want to war. and Pe carey Po EOC et aitucre by the civil service commiasion at| Approximately 7,000 employes| tions on a $1,705,000 quota outsce | Army girls will do the cooking, as it|The Belgians are in possession of today served notice they will move this is done we cannot relax our ef- ° the Chamber of Corhmerce, in the the Puget Sound navy yard, accord-| who «walked out yesterday, refused of King county were $500,828 Friday |is “done” in the “huts” in France. | Antwerp today, according to reports | that the allied governments open ie- forts or reduce our effectives to any | Sining room of the Masonic temple, |ing to a telegram which has been|to return today, declaring the gov-| noon. Seattle had subscribed $231,-| Stoves have been furnished by the saith ‘ | sal proceedings against those re- Material extent.” tints Arcade building. Friday, at 1|recetved at Bremerton from the as-|ernment wage is inadequate with-|419 49 by Thureday night, with a|/LAns | Manufacturing company,| | . sponsible for the war, thru. estab- at tvartirns while Hazen J. Titus, representing dispatch does not indicate | jish; f b .m. Leadign business and profes | sistant secretary of the navy. jou $580,000 quota. These figures show a 4 . ment of a tribunal composed of Gompers Outlines beth men listened keenely as the cant | ‘The war department and the |i.) "state, city and county are fall.(en¢ Chauncey Wright restaurants, bo oa a phy the| representatives of all the countrivs | f labor are taking steps to ne will supply the “dough.” ‘The slo.|Cty or whether the Germans had| which} state's chief citizen told of the path G bureau o ing far below expectation, in spite e pa had aah Manin jwhich have suffered from tie ve to ets Libert in bring about a settlement and have || ve |fan will be: “Dollars for Dough acua: and Belgian civilians r»| machinations of these men. J World Peace Plan | washinsion state wit nave to bew ¥ the employes return to work. of excellent work and oversubscrip: | nuts; Doughnuts for Doughboys.” | sumed charge of the city. | They declared in memorandum of American Labor LAREDO, Tex. Nov. 15.--The Program that labor will seek to have incorporated in the world peace treaty was presented by Samuel) Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, in a resolution @t the opening meeting of the paa American labor conference here Thursday. The resolution declares for a of free peoples, with no vin dietive reprisals or restrictions, and no territorial changes except those based on the welfare of the Deople affected. It stands for free amemblage, free press, and free Speech, the right of sailors to leave Ships in port, an international chi.d | labor law, and an international eight hour law © program has been referred to the resolutions cornmittee ee ee Classified Copy Left at The Star Downtown Branch, 610 Second Ave., Up to 11 A, M., will assure inser- tion in all regular editions of The Star. * ’ j ‘ : ; } } rf ; } { } § 5 * in facing the questions to be brought | about by demobilization. occupied tables near the speaker. | Building of Ships Must Still Go On WASHID IN, Nov. 15.—"The |continued need for building Ameri can-owned tonnage is obvious,” de clared Chairman Hurley of the shipping board, here, in announcing that shipbuilding in this country will be continued steadily | Ships will be needed to supply |the devastated areas of Europe un | til they are self-suporting, he said Vessels erected here must be of | new types designed to meet peace | needs |Night Schools in War Camp Planned M. C. A. officials in Camp uals are making arrangements for the vocational training of sol diers who re awaiting demobiliza tion. If the plan is approved by the war department, night schools will be immediately opened for in struction in stenography, teleg. raphy, typewriting, bookkeeping and other subjects. U. S MISSION WILL Hi WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 i ports that an Am going to Spa Saturday, led to th belief here that this was probably the United States’ representation on the mixed armistice commission, | which is to supervise fulfillment of the armistice terms, | Mayor Hanson and Senator Jones Draft Card Case BUTTE, Mont., Nov. 15.—Federal |Judge George M. Bourquin dis | missed P. F. Sullivan, charged with failing to carry his draft card. The judge ruled that the carrying of cards was not compulsory “Access to Australia by the short route, thru the signing of the Aus trian armistice, is responsible for lthe sudden abandonment of the en forced use of wheat substitutes by the food administration,” said Charles E. Bryant, executive secre- tary of the state food administra. tion, Friday “With the signing of the arm istice by Austria, the route thru the Mediterranean re-opened commerce | with Australia, where there is an ac |curnulated surplus of wheat, ‘This, with the need of wheat substitutes for stock feed in this country and lin Europe, that our dairies may not |wuffer, is chiefly responsible for Hletting the food bars down “AML the purpose of the food ad | ministration will be lost, however, land cautioned against wanton waste of wheat and other foodstuffs. Famine Not Improbable “This nation must do its part to ward feeding the peofle who, thru | Not PRINCE'S BOY SAFE AMSTERDAM, Novy. 15.—The for-| mer crown prince's adjutant has taken Frederick William's eldest son by airplane to an unnamed place of safety, it was reported here ) today. have exhausted their resources. only must Germany, Austria | and the allies be fed, but the en. tire populace of Russia must looked after. If train loads of food stuffs are held up by Russian and German revolutionists a famine in those countries parallel to the fam: ine of the middle ages may be ex- pected.” ‘The food administration {9 of the | belief that corn will be the chief wheat substitute sent to the war torn countries. Fats and oils, which there is @ great shortage in those countries, will also be shipped war, | from the United States. | it| allotment jean mission WA the public is not sufficiently warned | B, C. Beck, assistant federal food | administrator, announced Friday that an additional 60 per cent sugar | per month is now avail able to manufacturers of the non- essential classes, which include candy manufacturers, confectioners and bakers. Certificates covering the additional amount of sugar were mailed out by the local food admin- istration Friday |ignated as ‘Here It I ---Why Americans Can Have More Wheat Now | formulated by drive offici tion in some communities, officials | warn, Carrying lard pails for cash con tributions and blanks and receipts for cash subscriptions, 5,000 me and 1,000 women will constitute a house-to-house “bucket brigade” in behalf of the United War Work campaign Sunday, which will be des: “Service Sunday.” 3,500 Lard Pails For this purpose, Barton & Corn pany, local wholesale meat packers, have contributed 3,500 specially-de | signed lard pails, with cover slots of | sufficient size to allow insertion of dollar contributions, More pails are |forthcoming. The 6,000 solicitors will be divided into teams, each of | which will be assigned to a city dio- trict, with orders not to leave it un til the pails are full ‘This is but one of a number of ag: gressive campaign plans hurriedly Is to meet and secure the apathy emergency Seattle's $580,000'quota. Unless extra effort of a determin ed and sustained character is made, Seattle will certainly fall short of of | subscribing her quota, say drive of: | fictals, ‘Therefore, the closing days | of the campaign will #e strenuous. With 1,200 solicitors and business organization committees and suo- committees working hard Friday, supplemented by high school stu dents’ organizations and co-operation, new and intensified ef forts are to be inaugurated Satur. day, which drive managers recog nize as a “short” business day, wherein it will be hard to obtain re- sults. individual | | Antwerp is the chief seaport of | Belgium. It is located on the The draft has caught in its mest. | Scheldt river 22 miles north of Brus the Individuals mentioned, to act as|sels and is 25 miles from the near- |splelers for the sale of doughnuts. |est point in the Belgian lines, as e: Doughnut Sellers | Dr. M. A. Matthews, Mayor Ole | tablished at the close of hostilities. | Hanson, Dr. J. BE. Crowther, H. W. | eR RR areas ed King, “Weary” Wilkins, Judge T. 1. |MeMahon, Wm. Kieeper, |French Warships Rodgers, “Bill” Hobson, Ben | vell, Major Clack, Dr. W. A Go to Scotland Father W. J. Noonan, Rev. PARIS, Noy. 15.—(12:40 p.m.) Bywater, Mrs, W. A. Burleigh and The cruiser Admiral Aube and two torpedo boats have sailed from Brest for the Firth of Forth under orders of Admiral Grassel, French sentative of the commission charg- Jed with the execution of the naval | terms of the armistice. indicates that the Leola May Blinn. Bucket Brigade Volunteer solicitors to help out in Sunday's “bucket brigade” drive, whose community standing is estab lished, are urged to present them- selves to Louis Friedland, chairman of the drive committee, and offer their services. Sunday is expected to be the momentous day, when a| large part of the proceeds will be taken in, The dispatch jeast coast of Scotland, may be one |of the internment bases of the Ger- man fleet. Drive managers hope to have com plete reports from the large ship-| 100 Are Sly yards by Saturday, which are ex: | ted to swell the fund consider in Berlin Riots) COPENHAGEN, Nov, 15,—During the revolution in Berlin 100 persons were killed and were buried in the Two" mass meetings will be held | Friday evening by the War Work committees, one at the First Meth: | Friedrichstrasse church yard, it was | | odist church and the other at the| reported here today. Plymouth Congregational church —-— Speakers of international signiit- | cance, some detained in Seattle be AUSTRIA- HUNGARY IS cause of the influenza, will maxe Addresses. "A eollection” wil be| PROCLAIMED REPUBLIC taken, Among features, will te} PARIS, Nov. 15.—46:30 p. m)—A singing by Theo Karle, world-fa anblle has been proclaimed in mous tenor, who will come over| Austria-Hungary, according to a from Camp Lewis, and selections by | Vienna dispatch received by way of | the Naval Training Station military Zurich, published in Le Journal to day. On this day, every drug store in band. repre: | | Firth of Forth, an estuary on the| that even if Holland should refuce extradition, “the fact that the kai- ser, the crown prince and their ad visers had been condemned by such a tribunal would place them in such a position that their only refuge would be death.” | It is now expected that the peace | conference will be held in Versailles early in 1919. Foreign Secretary Balfour and Foreign Minister Sov- jnino already have arrived here. | Premier Lloyd George and Premier Orlando are expected soon. Col. House is working overtime. |American Airman | Lands.in Cologne | COPENHAGEN, Nov. 15, — An American airman landed in Cologne | yesterday, it was reported here tu- | aay. Cologne, the northernmost of tho |important Rhine crossings to be held by the allies, is 38 miles from the nearest point on the Dutch bor- der and 125 miles from the nearest point of the allied line as establish- jed at 11 a. m. November 11. ig Veterans Are Landed in America at he YORK, Nov. 15.--Four bun- dred officers and men who have ten fighting in France, were land- jed here today from the auxiliary \eruiser Harrisburg, which arrived late last night. Many of the vet- ‘erans were suffering from wounds and shell shock