The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 23, 1919, Page 1

GERMANS WON BATTLE OF CHATEAU THIERRY, CLAIMS GENERAL LUDENDORFF You maybe didn’t know that Chateau Thierry were defeated? Gen. Ludendorff, in his story of the war, today declares Tides in TURSDAY SEPT, 23 ride ‘ 1 ft Piet Low Tide Maeve Seow < Wish Tide the Americans at that the Yanks “bravely attacked our (the Huns’) Neither did we. But thinly-held fronts; but they were unskillfully led, at- tacked in dense masses, and failed. Here, too, our men Seattle WEDNESDAY Serr, t First High Tide Hirst Lew Tide a2 a m igh Tide « SE. ATTLE, , W ASH., DAY, SE felt themselves superior.” On that occasion parts of 28,000 men each faced six under the Act of each. And if he likes to consider what happened on the bank of the river there a German victory, well, it’s all right with us; eh, folks? Read his article, below. CENTS Late Edition Per Year, b: $5.00 to n divisions of ions of 10,000 two Ame: German div An American Paper That Fights for Americanism The Seattle Sta Becond Clase Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash, Mail 9.00 Congress March 9, 1879 :=PTEMBE R 23, 1919. ‘Weather F ‘orecast: Tenient * fair and itera moderate easterly wind TWO NLLED MANY WOUNDED | THREE MEN CONFESS TO $234,000 ROBBERY NE BILLY for one battleship, guar- anteed to be weather proof. H. C. L. prob- lem is deep mystery. E ARE im position to sup- ply one Angora billy to any unit of the Pacific fleet that desires a mas. cot with plonty of pep. An Oak Harbor subscriber Writes us that he has said goat And that he thinks a large shipful @f agile and husky young men Would be about the right foil for the goat's temperament. “My two boys are 3 and 6 years old, and they are a little too young for him, altho they are fleet of foot. Also. I don't want them to Acquire the running habit,” the ‘subseriber writes, Any of the feet that fs due for a seas patrol would find this fmvaluable, for he has just consumed hajf a roll of fourply Footing paper, and ia immunized, doubtless, to biizmrd, gale or simoon, His owner guarantees this goat to provide as much excitement as any Hun sub ever did, tho fre quently he is as meek and docile as the proverbial kitten. But when stripped for action, he is all goat, Any ship shy a mascot is invited to Make its Wants known. eee fuse to worry about it any more. or seek to explain the emprices of the markets. Sunday we had a nice, long talk with « farmer who has been rais ing hogs. He said, among other things “i'm going to quit hogs until the market goes up or feed takes a drop. With grain and mill feed staying up at the top, hogs have dropped from $23 a hundred to $16 and $17. And for rough stuff and shoats the market has been run. ning 2 cents a pound under that. If feed would drop in proportion, I could make a profit; as it is, I get about 5 cents an hour for my time, and the mill man gets the money.” Yesterday we felt encouraged to negotiate for a pound of bacon. We had been paying 60 cents a pound, and we couldn't afford it But if hogs had dropped 6 and 7 cents a pound, m pe things would be different at the butcher shop. So we picked out one of those “union” markets the motto {a “all for one and one for all” whatever that means—and we told the benefactor in the white apron to wrap us up a pound of bacon. Then we “How much And he “Seventy-five cents.” “suffering “Hogs have dror bacon goes up 15 cents it so?" “Dunno; pay the cashier as you go out.” was his one-for-all retort. If a live hog is worth from 15 to 27 cents, and bacon is 75 cents a pound, what's the answer?” Which reminds us that on a Ut tle jaunt Sunday we saw big red apples rotting on the ground And when we came back to town we saw big red a on the fruit stands at 60 cents the dozen. At that rate, there were more dollars under the trees out there than the land was worth, improve ments and all As we said Ned solve the I HIS H.C. L., goats, has tached our nanny We give it up: we re chere said, snakes!” we cried. yped 7 cents and how kum we have quit trying {.C L, anagram, Fred 4 Boalt, ex-Star Man, Is Seriously Hurt by Bad Fall J WASHI! bert has ri Fred Ie Boalt, editor of the Port land News, formerly The Seattle Star staff, ts in a crit eal condition today in a F 4 hospital as the result of an acet dental fall Boalt’s life, say physicians, de pends, upon ation which will be formed today. Boalt and a frie” were going thru some gym.| nastié exercises when the newspa perman rupturing a kidney LONDON, Sept. 23.Rich oil de posits in Norfolk, near Sandringham, welt holding valuable oll rights, Fighters Paraded Before Public Shackled Worse | SEVERAL CLASHES Than Meanest Murderer IN STRIKE BY FRED L. BOALT Editor of the Portland News There were 11 of them in all—nine men in uniform and two in civilian clothes. One of the soldiers was a sergeant. All of the soldiers carried automatics. They marched thru the waiting room at the union depot and thru the gate. Inside the gate they halted. They at- tracted a good deal of attention. And NO WONDER! * % * * At every other time, when I have seen men of the American army, | have wanted to cheer. But I did not want to cheer these men—the nine in uni- form and the two in civilian clothes. We fought to make the world safe for democracy, but we have not made the army safe for men. We fought to destroy militarism forever, but we have not destroyed mili- tarism in our own army of “freedom.” * 8% 4& As they’ marched thru the waiting room four soldiers went ahead and four be- hind. The sergeant marched at the side. The two men in civilian clothes were between the two sets of fours. These two were clothed in grotesque rags. Each carried a large tin pail. They were chained together by their ankles. The chain clanked on the cement floor of the waiting room. *' eR | They had arrived earlier in the evening from Alcatraz prison, in San Francisco bay, and were taking the 11:30 train at Portland for the federal prison at Mc- Neils Island. The two prisoners had been convicted by courts-martial of is, nét yallidarg offenses. Why it was necessary for nine men, armed with Petey Ie to ghard two who were secured by leg chains in such a manner as to make it impossible for them to run away was not clear. ycyil”, offenses—that * * *% * I looked at the prisoners. Thy ‘maly) have (been they were nearer 18. I do not know what they did. But I know that, whatever their crime, the war department cominite a greater crime when it permits soldiers to be thus paraded. Stripped of their uniforms, decked out in rags, chained! * * & * The sergeant said there were 13 soldiers on McNeils Island whose cases had been re-opened and would be reconsidered. He and his squad would take the 13 back to Alcatraz. So courts-martial do make mistakes! I tell you frankly that the sight of those two boys made my blood boil. I am as good an American as Secretary of War Baker, who defends the court- martial system. But if I thought there was a chance of my boy being made a victim of that un-American and undemocratic system, I would not let him join the army unless the crisis were so acute that America’s national integrity were trembling in the bal- ance. And for no less a cause than that. If that be treason, the authorities are cordially make the most of it. 21 years ‘old, \ buk T doubt it; invited to a member of}, was thrown into pla the king left George Calais. American American gobs, beth and th the United ham at Ostend the king in democratic fashion, that he was in a hurry. indicate that the king may find him-| destroyer leaped from its moorings. In a short time Albert was comfort KING ALBERT ON|KOLCHAK NEAR OKLAHOMA MOB WAY TO AMERICA DEATH BY BOMB ‘Belgian Ruler | Enjoys Speed | Assassin Fails j in Attempt to ‘Police Driven Out During SEIZES TOWN Phone Strike Rioting Okla, Sept A mob of 2,000 gath four of Yankee Seamen Slay Admiral | | 23 (Unitea| CUSHING: Prees.)—A dispatch from | (United Press.) Monc reported today that at-lered from tempt had been made to assassinate | sary today Admiral Kolchak, head of the Guak eoveriuans a eb right, a few miles east of here. was thr guard Killing| Rioting last Mght that grew out of six injuring 12 city officials’ alleged _ interference soldiers, the said. The admiral escaped|with a telephone operators’ the By DON FE. CHAMBERLAIN LONDON, rt. United Press Correspondent ABOAR 8. 8. GEORGE Sept. 23.—King Al 4 taste of Amert eled in it wireless ow three or counties was in control of Drum. king re for more 1 speed i is ready Thé {nitial bit of wh and into a room. Ya message ininjared, chief of policeman being forced out of town after many shots were fired. One woman was report ed during the firing. Nicodemus, Police Chief Coral, a former ger, came to Cushing last night, after being ejected from their office, and purchased additional stores of ammunition Ostend to board the resulted in the mayor, Washington miles off It was staged by snappy naval officers and hu iy three police and one ably quartered and the Ingraham struck up a clip of 36 knots, Well done arch side the an liner addreswed to Capt. Le Breton, mander of the Ingri The offi cers and crew of the George Wash ington vowed today the king would witness further “snappy action” be fore he reached American shorca, ed woun Mayor and Policeman * exclaimed the mon as the destroyea When Albert, with Queen crown prince, boarded States destroyer Ingra-| nnouriced, Eliza ew up along His words were Ordera were shouted, The ing of further disturbances, s | | cause. strike, No reports | the have been received at 8:30 this morn. | sentence Both Sides Are Preparing for Prolonged Industrial Struggle TWO WOMEN INJURED By United Press Government action in the steel workers’ strike was sought today in a resolution unanimous ly adopted by the senate. Senator Kenyon, who intro daced the resolution yesterday, referred to the strike an the first skirmish in an industrial war in the United States, The resolu- tion provides for an inquiry by the senate labor committee to determing whether the situation warrants congressional action. The second day of the nation. wide steel workers’ strike opened with both sides for ers’ biggest victory today was won when the Lacka- wanna Steel company closed plant in Buffalo, The Donner Meel company in that city was also expected to shut down to- night or orraw. Order prevailed in most of the fe “dl some spo day. In Sharon, shots were exchange men were reported to hi wounded. At Buffalo disturb. ances whicht regulted in three calls last. night were re- sumed this morning, Several persons were orted been injured & number of arrests were mi Two men were killed and two wounded in clashes: a Fatrelf, FF last night, dnd ht Neweaatle, Pa., two women and five men were wounded when strikers and po: me together, PLEADS GUILTY TO BOOZE THEFT Jitney Driver Expected to Be Government Witness 4. W. Lochnane, jitney driver, one of the eight m nm trial charged with breaking into the U.S. customs wa carrying off liquor last March, p before Judge Jeremiah Neterer in the federal court Tuesday morning, and is expected to be a witness for the government. The men facing trial in the federal ed. Carey, jitney driver Fred Smart, former sergeant of po- lice; W. F. Patton, Digk F Ed, Hagen, former patrolm Russell, former truck driver for city health department, and Jim Morri son, waiter Ben L. Moore, assistant district attorney, represents the government at the trial which began Tuesday morning, while counsel for the de fense included Winter 8. Martin, John F. Murphy, Walter Fulton, George Rummens, Wilmon Tucker H. &. Fr: P, Ball, Frank Ham mond, J, J. Sullivan and John F. Dore Tuesday by the torneys court are morning taken government and defens in examining jurors Jurors impaneled Tue e W. J. Roberts, | Rashe C. Spauld ing, Agnes Dorsey and Edward ¥. Parrish, who was excused for cause when he admitted that he had formed definite opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the accused whieh would prevent him from giv ing an ir rtial judgment The men are charged jointly with conspiracy with intent to defraud government maximum is two years in the federal | penitentiary and $10,000 fing was up at for morning wi bur W \fhat would draw enough allied troops from Flande | | CHICAGO, Sept. 23 .— (United Press.) —|cemmamies saa a hree Chicagoans, accidentally trapped, ‘confemsed today to a robbery of $234,000 from the mails. Officers recovered $93,620 |of the loot, and went in search of the remain-| lder when the prisoners told where it was) cached. With the aid of a postal clerk, the men exchanged pouches at Whiting, Ind.,| last Thursday, taking the pouch containing | $234,000 to meet the payroll of the Standard | Steel Co. of Indiana. } The men held are Leo and Walter Filipkowski and John 3. Wejka. Wejka is a mail clerk, and is implicated in alleged confessions as the man who prepared the fake mail pouch and arranged matters so that the one containing the money could be identified by the Filipkowskis when toss from the train at Whiting. Police early today found Leo Filipkowski in a saloon and searched him on suspicion of complicity in a holdup. They found $20,000. Officers said Leo confessed at once, making it easy to draw confessions | from the others. ‘DID NOT STRIKE FOR _ PARIS’--LUDENDORFF :=: | Failure of one of his generals to take advantage of an op- portunity was the reason he got into the fatal Marne pocket, “qe incroased revenue, Murp Ludendorff charges. While part of his attacking force was asserts, will be sufficient to pay. rushing thru the hole in the allied line to the Marne and was | first installment, in 1922, on the trying to open the road to Paris, this general hesitated in|?! of $15,000,000 which the front of Soissons until Foch brought up enough troops to hold, i bpdiceeinmeliccty the vital corner. Five-Cent Fare to Stay Ludendorff, in the section of his book, “My Thoughts and| tn nis report filed with the Actions,” printed in The Star today, laments this faiiure. len city council, Murphine says He reveals, however, that this general got as far as originally | **Pe's to retain 5-cent fares in planned, for the highest hope Ludendorff had of the attack | °, %* city coun at the end of May, 1918, was that he would reach Soissons yand Fismes, on the Vesle. He was not striking at Paris, but only making a threat| Supt. Murphine Expects to Make Million Dollars Increase by 1922 If revenue from the munict street railway for the next | years continues.to increase at -ti | same rate as during the last the annual receipts will total $1, 000 & year, or more, report filed Tuesday with | Fitzgerald and the city Supsrintentest ot. © of Public Ut This ve pany wom: in tho the cost of operation about the same as in 1919—unless is forced to make extensions that. not revenue producing. creased wages to on October 1. According Murphine's rej | the revenues of the municipal rs to make| way trom all sources during Au possible another drive for the coveted channel ports, Early|totaiea $471,858.02, a gain of § in June he tried to retrieve the error, but he found “the en-| 629.86 over July, 1919, and an emy this time was prepared.” crease of $34 “MY THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS” =| Net Gain $2500 | (By Gen. Eric Von Ludendorff A total of $61,052.08 has Inhad by \The Star thru special arrangement with the McClure Newspaper | Copyrighted, 41919, by Harper and Brothers. All’ rights reserved. | ¢ mprrighted in Great Brituin by Hutchinson & Company and the London Times: \$ and Bariel; in Italy by Fratelit Treves; in Canada and reserved for France, Russia and the| (the devastated region which his jtroops were now forced to hold) af- forded too little cover for the neces- sary preliminary work. average charge for which, In front of the seventh and first judgment, would be $25,000. t of Rheims and along the| maintenance expenditure for Dames) the. enemy street car emp to bonds, leaving a net gain 28 for the month of A’ according to Murphine’s report. Holland. jaintenance expenditures, Belgium, ging for further opera- tions (April, 1918) there was no time to lose. The initiative which we had seized on the western report says in great blow must as soc sible be followed by a see: The ious m and st cone and, n English divisions, The strong posi tions on the hills certainly looked difficult to attack. But if our own ar Ulery had done its work well, only difficulties of the ground would alt with, They un-|of the car considerable, but | the easier to overcome than those we surmounted on the Italian frontier on October 24, 1917. Early in April the group of the | German crown prince wag directed to submit a plan for an attack between Pinon and Rheims. yYAILABLE TROOPS WERE TIRED At the same time, general head quarters had to determine troops were to make this attack, It would be necessary to employ troops of ammunit of the divisions, , the utilization of | way for the mongh. 157,642 car HOW THE FLU helped defeat the Ger- man armies will be re- vealed by Gen. Luden- dorff in the installment of his book, “My Thoughts and Actions,” which appears in to- morrow’s Seattle Star. The Hun military dicta- tor admits that the ever- increasing flow of American soldiers into France upset enemy cal- culations. He wanted to quit the big offen- sive, but did not dare. Be sure to rea ad tomor- row’s installment. corresponding month & Power Co. railway divisions ‘A’ and ‘C.’ To Save $1,600 a Day present standard of service. Mr rest h attack, and trained. of May’ these divisions would not be} West Seattle districts, fresh and fit to attack, But the preparations would | pleted, take as long as that. We dare not) of approximately $1,000 a day. risk failure, which would have de | “Our incre: clared itself in huge losses by undue} (CON TINT (CONT'D ON PAGE SEVE —_—_ | Young Man Drops vious. PAGE TWO) DO YOU WANT | LUMBER | NOGRAPHS 2 the experience gained in the last prvaki Age cr a attack, all these things and many others took time. That was a dis- advantage, but with the forces ‘| | actually available, it could not be altered. ing at 4416 35th ave, S., early Tuesday morning at U f TLOOR POLISHER BICYCLE: SHOW CASES APPLES b Read For Sale Miscellaneous Column on Classified Page |to work. ‘The most favorable operation in it | self was to continue the attack on the English army at Ypres and Bailleau but on that front the enemy was now so strong in numbers that it was im, possible, even with fore we could atts enemy must become weaker, and our ommunications must be supplement | 216 Spring st. joved to the morgue, broken, Deputy Coroner Koepfli_ investigated. jents said the jtrouble with his heart ed. Further south, conditions were similar, Besides, the i Somme area Re for this year over s a $7 over August <i a 052. been | ducted to pay interest on uated n offset depreciation, an — in our — This the was/ month of August is at the rate of Troops had been sent from | $1,134,611 for the year and is in ex. ere to Ypres and replaced by tired! cess of 20 per cent of the total rev enue for the municipal street raik | will be noted that we operated hours during August, © which is 20,245 car hours in-excess hours operated during of the previous year by the combined lines of the Puget Sound Traction, Light and municipal street “We have made every effort to improve the service but extra sery- ice has not more than equaled the increase in traffic, and until we can |finish the work now under construc what | tion it will be impossible to raise the — “We expect to be operating on that had already taken part in the! Leary Way and Avalon Way some ut since then been | time during October, which will give Before the end| increased service to the Ballard and — When vari. that was ob-| ous items of construction are coms — we expect to show a saying: Dead on Street © an elevator op erator in the Lowman building Hv dropped |dead, apparently from heart — Jave. and Cherry st., while ate pital by Frank Ruellias, Hotel Boyd, The body was later It first — |was believed that Lesiie’s neck waa Frank Leslie's pare youth was having and com- [plained when he left dome, Tuesday “Se an expense of $1,000 a day thru im ly of a rehabilitation character, to taling $94,550.88 during August,”