The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 3, 1919, Page 1

~_—_——reens Tides THURSDAY Seattle in Ist Wigh Tide 20a.m, 11 ted High ‘Tide S22) paw Lett “VOLUME 22. } ARMY WILL. T HE wa: Pershing finally Yanks War Department Cables In- The structions to Pershing on Home-Coming Plans NEW MEN TO BE SENT WASHINGTON, Apri —Sol diers in the American army of occupation in Germany will be released as rapidly as volunteers can be sent, the war department than fair. that our be home. Pershing was instructed to select the most meritorious cases from among his drafted men and those who enlisted for the war for prior ity in returning. The war depart ment also revealed the proportion in which men are being enlisted for | “Mthe various branches of the gervice. “j The cable to Pershing read: "We are now enlisting for three Fears 50,000 yolunteers as follows 35,000 infantry 15.000 field artillery; §,000 engineers; 3.000 medica! depart ment; 2,000 cavalry } f each detachment return to the United States for discharge equal Rumber of ‘men enlisted or drafted » for emergency, selecting most meri- torious cases, preferably those who fall urder circular W. D., 1918, | Bnd those with Class A and Class B allotments The circular number fo in the cable t) Gen Prescribes that preference | charges shall be given to soldiers Who are urgently needed for some Industria! Rave sicknes K* FRIDAY 1 URGE WILSON now. TL TO AID DEBS: ==>. === mE tT , Seattle when }] Walsh, Russell, Benson Ask rrercning’ home. 1f Respite in Espionage Case : a —— ij WASHINGTON, April 3.—Prest ed J) dent Wilson has been formally askea| {yhoune j fo grant respite to Eugene V. Debs if found guilty and sentenced to 10| Camp Lewis. f Years’ imprisonment under the e# Dionage law, it was announced at the White House today | = few days. . The application is now in the Wesnte Chien. if / Bands of the attorney general and Se laes Bis recommendation is expected to soldiers without delay ment has apparent) many should be many; if there chairman, indicates coming to its sens in Europe. army of occupation in Germany is to be released as soon as volunteers can be sent to re- place the men there now. line is in in fe life is not their life. the justice of this. * War Baker of the date of the di vision’s return, but it hag been unofficially Washington that he will order the great fighting anit back to It is certain that the Washington regiments will be on their way from Gotham in come from ~renennnnnnnne~nannnnrewnnernnnrnnnns Coming to Senses department's that eign lands be brought home policy which the war depart- adopted for the ried out also in France. The men who went overseas to fight the Hun have done their part. They are now entitled to They are not professional soldiers. Army It is not their career. If there must be an army of occupation in Ger- must be an army of road builders in France—those armies should be composed of professional soidiers. We have no more right to make the boys who are already in Europe carry the entire load of policing German and other territory, or building up the ruins of France and Belgium, than we have ‘These will be xent you in detach to conscript new armies for that purpose. We ments of 1.000 for assignment to ; tay’ er cteupation. Upon errival| have ceased to draft men for our armies. There- fore all those who have enlisted or been drafted for the war against Germany are entitled to be treated accordingly—to be returned home. The war department has been slow to recognize But it is on the right road * oe her strom. Rush Welcome Plans For soldiers’ welcoming announced Thursday that he expects word soon "i ad . ~ erners who will return to 6 I ened by Frank P. Walsh, Charles 114 Camp Lewis for demobilization. if E4ward Russell and Allen nson me “ol Mes Seeking respite of sentence Is a Plan Blaze of Color MEY e-liminary step, it wax stated, to| Seattle's streets thru which the S request for executive clemency in great parade of heroes will march i | the form of a pardon or parole will be’ covered with a canopy of 1 } Darling, I am coming back, Silver threads among the black Now that peace in Europe nears, I’ll be home in seven years. I'll drop in on you some night Yes, the war is over, dear, And we're coming home, I hear. Coming home to you once more Say—by nineteen twenty-four. Once I thought by now I'd be Sailing home across the sea. Back to where you sit and pine, But I’m stuck here on the Rhine. You can hear the gang all curse, “War is hell—but peace is worse.’ When the next war comes poste In the front ranks I’il be found. I'll rush in again, pell-mell Yes, I will —like L, like L. s and Stripes lished in France by our Yanks. Silver Threads With my whiskers long and white. Editor’s note—The “Stars and Stripes” is pub An American Paper That Fights for hindaiedi dr eSeattle Sta | VOLUNTEERS TO REPLACE YANKS ON RHINE LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE 00 to $9.08 THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWE: sbenilndicre: apa SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1919, eae “Weather Forecast: cable the s with reference to our today to Gen. government is This is nothing more with The Star's demand in Ger- army * Seattle’ s Argonne Heroes Hello fellows: With hundreds of Washington Yanks of the Sist division back are being rushed for the grand welcoming ceremony that will be staged in the boys Word has not heen received from Secretary of | red, white and blue by draping bunt- ing 1 flags between the buildings. Efforts will be made to cover the business district in a blaze of patri- otle color. Approves Plan Cooper, superintendent has appro@d the plan e the § school children streets as the 91st boys seattering flowers before veterans of the Argonne and crowning with evergreen wreaths men who “fought and came A_ hol will be declared the school children can gather evergreens and flowers for the Frank B. of , schools, to ha line th march by the the welcoming celebration lonor Men Who era The boys who “went We: not be forgotten. One seniog we the par » will be devoted to hon. oring the men who died fighting the Hun Another portion of the parade will remind the throngs of the boys wee are still “over there," watchin, waiting and working until the order comes to sail for home. Fraternal and other organizations, churches, and civic bodiea will be asked to participate in making the “Welcome Back’ event. 2W YORK, April 3.—Wwith le of cool courage to many more that may known, because of the modesty of boys, hundreds of Washing. ton's soldiers—members of the 9int division—disembarked here yester: day And now the general feeling among all these men is one of anxi ety and impatience. They can’t see why they shouldn't start at once for their homes in the West, where all the horror and discomfort modern warfare experienced some of the hottest last year of the be forgotten In High Spirits The spirit of competition among organizations of the 91st was always high. It held till the end, for the Washingtonians were in high spirits today, telling of how they were first into dock at Hoboken, after leaving a week than the Liberator. with 1,200 Californians on board. Waehington men returned on th hips sailed from St ¥ and never these in battles of the great strug can later the two battal (CONT'D ON PAGH TWO) On were Seattle's greatest of | ne} "Here, Kiddies, How Wadd ¥ You Like to Own This Helmet? The Star Will Give It Away Soon Photo by Hartsook will give away to the boy or girl drawing the best poster boosting the | Vietory loan, * * & * * BY FRED, THE STAR OFFICE BOY How would you like to have this helmet I'm wearing in this picture? It’s some souvenir to rember this great war by. Gee fellows, it’s a snap, get this helmet, all you have to do is to draw a poster advertising the fifth Liberty Lone} Get next to this. We got this helmet apurpose for a Seattle boy or girl, a reader of the Star WI ho) can draw the best poster by the h. of April. Yours to a cinder, FRED ROGERS. lor the Victory Drive. BY THE EDITOR All right, kiddies, hop to it. The Star has received the helmet whieh Fred is wearing in the picture, from Director of Publicity Wilson, of the Victory Loan. We asked him to get one for us, so we could give it to some Northwest boy or girl, in an atternpt to advertise the loan, Now kiddies, it is up to you. Use your Water colors, or crayon, or pen and ink, for that matter, The best drawing, which will boost the Victory Loan, will get the helmet. Send your posters in to The Star, Victory Loan Editor, by April 15. GIRL MYSTERY — END QUARANTINE } | Fred, The Star office boy, wearing a German helmet which The Star | IS UNCOVERED BAN BY MONDAY /Bus Boy and Daughter of|Health Commissioner Says Chicago Man Held | Epidemic Is Over SAN DIEGO, April 3. Quarantine of . Broadway ces H. Gray, daughter of George W.| Anne, and Ballard high school pu Miss Fran-| la who disappeared! piit who refused to be ay, of Chicago, vaccinated from the Hotel Maryland, in Pasa-|will be lifted Monday Dr, H. M dena, under mysterious circum: | Read, health commissioner ,announe | stances, wan located here this morn-| ed ‘Thursday ing in company with Jose Cardenas,| “Smallpox has practically disap. | formerly a bus boy for the Maryland,| peared,” he said. He scored as | according to the police. “conscientious objectors,” the par ‘The pair were taken Into custody | ents of pupils w) protested against as they were taking out a marriage| vaccination, declaring: “If vaceina license in the county clerk's office.|tion is nothing but a fad, it has The license was partly made out! been practiced on 12,000,000 soldiers when the officers interfered. jin all the armies in the war, It Cardenas, who says he is the son| was an honest effort to stamp out of a wealthy coffee planter in San the small epidemic of smallpox by red he intends to mar #, is unhappy met her while nd cafe. | nly method known to medical It was not an attempt t a hardship on any ndividual and there was no spite work in it Dr. Read asserted he has all au | thority other n rs held, and enfor jon and quarantine for has been Salvador, dec! |ry the girl, who, hi |with the Grays working in the Mar | Cardenas, who is 21 years of age, says he is @ univeristy graduate, studied law and went to Ensenada to pratcice law. He declares he will| and return with He refusal practiced here before marry Miss Gray her to his home in San Salvador ‘The Public 61 Health league The girl still Insista that her real organized to fight the quarantin name ta “Billie White,” and that she) and alleging the heath department w substituted for the real Frances | exc led its authority, announced Gray four years ago. She says she| Wednesday it wou t court ac loriginally came from Oregon, Miss | tion to remove the quarantine cards Gray, she declares, is now gn a ranch| Mrs, Maurice Tibbal, 1711 44th ave,, near Galveston, Tex is president of the league Queen | World’s Largest Memorial A Man’s Mark on a Woman THE om e characters in s that every man who oman leay cares for a w THE BOY men are supposed anyhow THE GIRL: “Weil, there's the boy who likes her when they're both young.” A bit of Innocent mischief that, but Joe straightened. The Girl aontinued Then they both outgrow that foolish After that there usually two nd she marries of them three. And ery man! How to care for a man woman are stgrow that as change book It's a book. Don't read that non nenme Then, because he could not help it, bent over and kissed ber arm. She was just 18, and Joe's devotion was very pleasant. She thrilled to the touch of his lps upon her flesh, but she drew her arm away ‘Pleane—1 thing.” “Why not?’ His voice was husky “It tent right. Besides, the neighbors are always looking out of the windows.” The drop from her high standard of right and wrong to the neighbors’ curiosity appealed suddenly to her sense of humor. She threw back her head and laughed. He joined her. he don't Uke that sort of The above is an extract from the first chapter of “K,” by Mary Roberts Rinehart. This famous novel, by America’s greatest wom- an novelist, begins in The Star Friday. Hall Planned for Seattle Seatde will build the largest in- closed auditorium in the world as a memorial to her war heroes, if pland to be outlined Saturday night are adopted at the open | meet and enjoy public enterprises. Four members of the Seattle chap. |ter of the American Institute of Ar chitects, David Myers, D, H. Hunt- ington, Louis Baeder and Car! Gould, meeting at the Metropolitan the- | are working on the plans for the me atre, morial Drawings are being completed to-| D. H. Huntington will introduce day. by local architects, according to/ Professor C. P. Bissett, as chairman specifications agreed upon by the/of the evening, who, in turn, will Joint war memorial committee. The building, according to tenta tive plans, would cover approximate ly two and a half city blocks, would | seat 20,000 people, and contain, be sides an auditorium, a theatre, art gallery, ballroom, committee and con vention facilities All Invited It would be a “living memorial,” in which all the people might More than 250 American cities are | © planning auditorium memorials, and France has already begun a series of similar edifices, Every one in Seattle ts invited to} the Saturday night meeting De legen from 200 civic organiza. tions have been summoned to attend " FRIDAY — In times past, when war was wag ed for conquest of territory, statues Says Japan Claims ches i no enta we used 40 arches and monuments were used 40 Won’t Be Granted | present the speakers, s Commander J, B. ¢ vu NG Lieut. Charles H. Paul, who has just returned from overesas; Marshal U Dana, of Portland, who {s president of the Ad club, and head of the Lib: erty Loan committee there; H. R. King, school board director; William Short, président of the State Federa. tion’ of Labor; Mrs, Edgar Ames, chairman of the King county divi m of the women's Victory Loan committee, and Carl F. Gould, head of the department of architecture, at jthe University of Washington, | will present slides of civic auditori- ums in other cities and ropean | memorial structures, follow ansem ble commemorat the dead, pointed out that America’s dead he WASHINGTON, April 3.—Japan’s roex were warriors of liberty, who| insistence on elimination of racial ave their lives for an ideal of de ‘ * . * Haye ace and ae.such should be hon.{Uaerimination under the league of oved by a living memorial, which can | M*4Ons cannot be concurred in by be njoyed by the masses. the United States, according to a Hence it is suggested that a civic StHtement by Senator Hitchcock, auditorium will most ably express chairman of the foreig relations | the love of Seattle for her heroes a Committee, in the last senate session. lmonument where all classes may K” PRIDAY Thinks Terms to Business concerns are Be Ready Easter now making money—con- PARIS, April 3 havev always ditions are right. This ap- | ‘°Ueh) and | som, ore ha plies to small as well as | peace wo be don Germany large business institutions. | 5)! 'f "oly Defore Baster (Apel If you want to engage in| ciored in addressing the French business for yourself, now ng — association at dinner is the opportune time. A K” FRIDAY list of desirable invest- NURSES ARRIVE ments will be found on the NEW YORK, Apri The trans Classified page. See classi- | * a een fication heading of Busi- | ie Poiippines, with 271 tiers of ness Opportunities. : Pte hme . e. eB Rag inv medical Metachment who | ANNOUNCE ~ THEIR PLAN FOR PEACE Would Agree to Cease Fight- ing and Stop Propaganda in Other Countries |ASKS BLOCKADE LIFTED | BY FRED 8S. FERGUSON (Copyright, 1919, by United Presa) PARIS, April 3.—The Russian soviet government is not asking for recognition by the associ- ated powers, it was learned from authoritative sources today. The proposition recently submitted to the peace conference by Pre- peace with us, enabling us nd the numerous little wars that jare being waged on Russian terri- }tors Lift the blockade so as to permit |us to get food and materials. | “Then we will ‘make good’ and |you can recognize us—if you care to.” The Russians’ attitude is that the also willing to make a separate peace with the associated pow that is, without including the new Hungarian soviet government in the | pac By making peace with the Russians, is naturally meant with- drawal of ail allied forces from Rum» sia, and cessation of participation in that such campaigns as Odessa district. Would Cease Fighting Lenine agrees to cease fighting, it is declared, and stop propaganda work in other countries, applying his governmental machinery to purely national affairs, in which he expects to show it is possible for a system to succeed in which a rich man can- not get anything, merely because he is rich. The Russian’s attitude is that the military operations they are now carrying on are in self-defense. It |is known that the peace conference [is giving serious consideration to the latest reports from Russia, and is be- coming more impressed with ac cumulation of evidence that violence and bloodshed is not stopping Boke shevism. Mannerheim Stoned An instance of this is contained li reports reaching here from | Copenhagen regarding the reception |accorded General Mannerheim in neutral countries. | Mannerheim: crushed the Holshevist movement in Finland by killing hundreds. When he went to Stockholm recently, @ huge crowd, awaiting him on the pier, hissed and hooted. Manners heim did not leave the boat: In Copenhagen, he was stoned while riding thru the streets with the king. He intended to visit Norway, but his visit was canceled. | In view of the reports’ of serious | food conditions, as well as the spread of typhus in Russia, coupled with danger of a Russo-German alliance, the peace conference is said to be considering whether the associated powers can afford to ignore the pres- ent opportunity to effect an immedi- ate agreement with the Lenine goy- ernment. — “K" FRIDAY — “REDS” ATTACK EAST PRUSSIA Hindenburg Arrives Near the Scene of New Invasion BERLIN, April 2.—(Delayed.)— A Bolshevik offensive was re- ported to have been started to day in East Prussia, The Ger- man troops are said to be mak- ing a successful resistance. Field Marshal von Hindenburg, it announced, has arrived at Glel in Prugsian Silesia, only 10 ‘om the Russian border in the was wits miles fr rmans have been preparing Ishevik offensive on the east- for several weeks, Field Marshal von Hindenburg re- cently called a council of war at Kolburg to discuss defensive meas " The Rolsheviki announced some ume ago that, as soon as weather conditions permitted, they would con, for ern al frontier duct major offensive operations on All fronts, T have carried out this threat in practieally all regions save the northern front, where it is still winter, and on the easterm German and Polish frontiers