The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 7, 1918, Page 4

IMPORTANT NOTICE The Federal Shipping Board has officially announced its intention to bring to Seattle, within the next hundred days, 15,500 skilled shipbuilding mechanics. It is Seattle’s patriotic duty to provide comfortable living quarters for these workers. This store will gladly co- operate with householders having one or more spare rooms that they are willing to furnish and rent for this pur- pose. TERMS STAR—MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1918. DEATH LOOMS FOR _ SERGEANT MAJOR | AT CAMP LEWIS y1S, Jan, 7.—Mill. Washington, will determine the ‘a Major Helmuth Rit suspect, who of Sergean rance of highly import war papers. Since his secret arrest, No vember 12, a farreaching inves tigation of his record has been in progress, Astounding discov eries were made which military officials for the time being re- fuse to make public, Death may be the penalty, Intimations were freely circulat | ed today that Ritter had gained | Intimate knowledge of fortifics- | tions, plans and other guarded secrets. | Ritter is held in the Pierce county | Jal as a federal prisoner, | Ritter, who is a German and who spent some time in the German ar | tilery in South Africa, in believed in | some quarters to be an International | lepy of high rank at Withetmatranne, | and in known to have been connect led with the staff of German con |wular agents in the Philippines, and later with Consul General Bopp in Ran Francisco. He im remarkably clever and an excellent soldier, and was on duty [as a regimental sergeant major at staff headquarters, He had charge of all outgoing correspondence and | was familiar with the plans of the goverament regarding this camp, | Papers Disappear | Shortty after he was placed tn of- fice here, officials observed suspl- cious circumstances: which connected [him with the disappearance of in ton, where authorition are conaider | ing the disposition of bin case. H Ritter was born in Germany, and, | tm 1911, left for South Africa, where he-werved in a German artillery com pany, Returning from Africa, he pe, and = then tates in 1014 New York and } tained first papers for naturalixa tion and entered the United States army Commanicated With Zimmerman Ho was assigned to an artillery regiment In the Philippines, He was & member of this regiment when | war was declared, and it is known | that at that time he was in com-| munication with Zimmerman and Mueller, German consular officers | in Manila. | Shortly after declaration of war |he suddenly obtained suffictent money to purchase his discharge |and return to the United Staten | In San Francisco he conferred! with Bopp and a few days later he! enlisted, this time in the Mth regu jlar U. & infantry Deserted While on Duty if He was sent to the Mexican bor |der and deserted while on duty. He was apprehended and tried. Fle was} Jeonvieted of being absent without leave and was restored to duty. | When the 14th infantry was sent to | this camp, because of hin exceptional ability he was made a sergeant ma- |Jor, and amigned to the most im-| portant post held by @ non-commis | sioned officer in this camp. U. S Attorney Clay Allien, when asked for a statement out- lining the Ritter case, said: “He PAGE 4 wrATH COMMITTEE OF COMMERCIAL WCONOMY ¥. DAMM, Chairman ! To Customers of | Shops and Stores The request has come directly from the Federal Government that all retail merchants put their business on a war-time basis. The Commer- cial Economy Board of the Council of National Defense has, after thor- ough investigation, selected a number of practical economies, and asks their immediate introduction by all retail merchants. « The State Council of Defense of Washington has been made responsible for the-adop- tion of the War Program in this state, and has delegated the carrying out of the necessary war-time economies to a specially appointed Committee on Commercial Economy. This committee has asked and is securing state-wide adoption, beginning January 1, 1918, of the following four war-time retailing economies: 1—One Delivery a Day 3—Selling Necessities and Staples tensely valuable papers. Intelligence | officers watched him, and his arrest was made November 12, Orders for | One price and one set of terms for all. No Delivery Schedules are ra wag not more than Rather Than Luxuries one trip a day to same district. Other limita. deceptive phrases in our advertisements to mis- lead the uninformed. $ 50, nothing down, $1.00 week, or $ 4.00 month $100, nothing down, $1.25 7 $150, -$ 5.00 down, $1.75 $200, $10.00 down, $2.50 $250, $12.50 down, $3.00 $800, $15.00 down, $3.50 week, or $ 5.00 month week, or $ 7.50 month week, or $10.00 month week, or $12.50 month week, or $15.00 month Heaters, Blankets, Comforts, Rugs and other geasonable articles may be added to account any time without the usual first payment. ‘We Invite the Accounts of All Reputable and Trustworthy Hometurnishers. SOLE AGENTS FOR BUCK’S Union-made and Ranges, the in Davenports. M.A GOTTST FURNIT Ostermoor Mattress and EIN URE CO. wie £ 1514 to 1520 Second Avenue, Near Pike lors Held for Attack on Plant police details were on con- duty along Pike st, between fave. and the water front, , to protect the office of the Printing Company, 83 Pike from further mob raids, follow- Pike st. were unmolested. An extra edition, telling of the mob raid, was published by the Call, ws of the papers under attack, Sun afternoon. Shortly afterward a “ys of sailors and 40 or 60 civil ians went from news stand to news stand on Pike st. tearing up copies. Ralph Castater, first class must clan from the naval training station at the state university, was arrested by Boatswain W. A. Spencer of the Puget sound navy yard recetving ship, and taken to police headquar-| ters. Castater was booked for div orderly conduct. Arrest of the other two sailors was prevented by the crowd. Joe Smith, secretary of the Pigott Printing concern, announced that he would ask Prosecutor Alfred Lamdin to begin a grand jury probe of the attack, and would “ask for a warrant for the arrest of the man who In cited this attack by his newspaper publication.” Seattle Typographical union, No. 202, decided Sunday to send resoln- tions deploring the mob action to President Wilson, Rear Admiral ‘| Coontz, commandant of the 13th increases strength of delicate, ner- vous, people per cent in ten days naval district, the Washington con. gressional district and Mayor Baby Uncomfortable ‘When tta tender little organs are bound up with @ congestion of Constipation Makes his internment as an allen enemy, or his trial on a charge of espionage, in which latter case death is a pen alty, are waited here from Washing PSO SOSSS OOD OOO OOOOS and Telephone 3 | eecccccccccccocsoooooos COLFAX.—The Kincaid Machine |Co.'s piace here, and the Jersey |Creamery, were destroyed by fre Jearty Sunday morning. Total dam lage ts estimated at $55,000 | DENVER, Colo—Denver has too many churches of the same denom! |nation, says Bishop Irving P. John |aton. He advocates the closing of |many an a war measure. NEW YORK —In connection with the celebration of Lincoln's birthday and the purpose of combating Ger man propaganda, a national labor loyalty week ts to be held. PETROGRAD—Sanks were order. ed not to pay out money on orders of eign Minixtery Trotsky. He will hold over the Russian government depos- | tts. WASHINGTON.—The French gov- jernment bas taken over the entire wheat crop of the country. Seven enneen of war wend & Gay a allowed an individual. igpraehn $10,000,000 in to be raleed in this country by the Knights of Co- lumbus for war activities of the or der in France. The quota for Wash |ington state in $100,000 WALLA WALLA.—The fourth at tempt to burn Walla Walla college within a few weeks was discovered Saturday Private Panel F. Miller, who died in France last week of pneumonia, | while a member of Pershing’s forces, was a Seattle boy His parents, Mr. and Mra. Edwin #. Miller, live at 5444 Kirkwood place. Members of the naval Intelligence bureau Saturday arrested three al- leged alien enemies on the water front. They are now under investi- gation. The men are Gus Bock, William Rorneman and H. Miller. OLYMPIA, Jan. 7.—No war tax will William, collector of revenue. ruling affects the Seattle-Tacoma round-trip tickets. ‘There is an overcoat famine in the reserve officers’ training corpa at the University ot Wasttington. Uncle Sam furnished them with uni- forms, but forgot the ulsters. PORTLAND, dan. 7.—Heginning on the 15th of the month, the Port land suburbanite will have to get used to using pennies for street car fare, The fare will be 6 cents then. A meeting of Red Cross officers is |to be held in the Y. M. C, A. Wed- nesday afternoon, January 16, at 1:30. Many topics of importance will come up for discussion, foreign embassies Saturday by For.) Up payment until foreign banks turn) be tmponed on short distance | |round-trip fares, according to David) Thin | Alaskans Can Get in Army Easy Now| OLYMPIA, Jan. 7.—Provomt Mar- | shal General Crowder has made a/ special ruling for Alaskans that will permit them to join the servy- foo anywhere. Hundreds of Northerners regist- ered in Alaska and then came ‘| the state for the winter under the! impression that they could join here only to find that such was not the cass, Under the new ruling, however. they may present their registration | card at a marine or naval recruit-| jing station and jotn without fur- | ther trouble. If they desire to enter the army they may appear at the fearest local board and fill out| thetr questionnaire. SYNAGOGUE BAZAAR BEGINS NEXT WEEK | ‘The Bara Bosaroth bazaar for the | benefit of the Bara Remroth syna- gomue fund will be held for a week beginning January 13, at the Wash- | ington hall, 14th ave and & Fir at | The committee of fifty, under the! chairmanship of Dave Lipman, in| | Working hard to complete arrange ments, Practically every Jewish or- fanization in the city will be rep- Fesented, ‘CLD DOESNT LAUGH AND PLAY IF GONSTIPATED If peevish, feverish and sick, give “California Syrup of Figs.” Mother! Your child tan't naturally crow and peev See if tongue is coated; this is a sure sign ite Little! stomach, liver and bowels need a cleansing at once. When listless, pale, feverish, full of cold, breath bad, throat sore, doesn't eat, sleep or act naturally, | has stomach-ache, diarrhoea, remem. ber, a gentle liver and bowel cleans. ing should always be the first treat ment given | Nothing equals “California Syrup |of Figs” for children’s ills; give a teaspoonful, and in a few hours all the foul waste, sour bile and fer menting food which is clogged in| the bowels passes out of the system and you have a well and playful }ehild a n, All children love this harmless, delicious “fruit laxative,” | {and it never faila to effect a good | “inside” cleansing. Directions for| babies, children of all ages and grown-ups are plainly on the bottle.| Keep it handy in your home. Aj Uttle given today saves a sick child| tomorrow, but get the genuine, Ask| prices. desire to get upon a war-time basis. Carry your purchases, expect less service. early. tions are also imposed and affect special, C. C D., will call and low value purchases, and re- turned goods. 2—Limiting Credit to Thirty Days This does not affect installment contracts nor old accounts. It imposes cash or other settle- ment within thirty days of all open accounts contracted after January 1, 1918. The advertising matter of stores, their display of merchandise, and their personal salesman- ship will place major emphasis upon necessities and staples effective January 1, 1918. 4—Store Hours Stores will be open not longer than nine hours and will close not later than 6 p. m., Saturdays included, effective January 1, 1918, ° The Following Needs of Our Country at War Must Be Met With Maxium Efficiency: 1—Man Shortage of the Country The government needs millions of men directly for war producing work, in addition to its need of man-power for army and navy. Curtailed delivery will release tens of thousands of able- bodied men; a sensible schedule of nine hours will add more thousands of men to the govern- ment’s war workers. A nine-hour schedule will free, estimating conservatively, 50,000 hours a day of the store workers’ time, which saving of time can be turned to Red Cross or other patri- otic work. 2—AIncreasing Savings The billions required for our first two years of war must come from all alike. The person of average wage or salary must help finance our war. Curtailment of delivery will save at least $50,000,000 a year. Prompt payment of credit accounts will save more millions of dollars, and | will guard against America’s tendency to over- buy. Purchasing necessities and using fewer luxuries means millions of dollars more saved. 3—Changing the output of sach of our nonessentials factories as luce and luxuries in these war times to essentials, to goods of which the gov- ernment finds itself exceedingly short. Consumers may _ in a gradual conversion of such nonessentials by purchasing more of necessities and less of luxuries. | 4—Keeping Business Solvent and Going The Federal Government needs demand that all legitimate business produce continuously to meet both the present and after-the-war problems, Retailers all over the country have answered the call to patriotic duty by adopting the above economies, and you are asked to co-operate. Do not ask your dealer to violate his pledge, but back him up to the letter in his Savings effected will help hold down Shop The following list of retail merchants will live up to the economies ap- pearing above as a patriotic duty: LENNON’S ERNST HDW. CO. PIPER & TAFT, INC. THE RHODES COMPANY PERCIVAL COLLINS, INC. TRICK & MURRAY A. G. SPALDING & BROS. S. FRIEDLANDER & SON L. E. MILLER HEMPHILL BROS., INC. THE FLORENCE COMPANY THE GROTE-RANKIN COMPANY LOWMAN & HANFORD COMPANY M’CORMACK BROS. stomach waste in the bowels, Baby in @ mighty uncomfortable morsel its dis- your druggist for a bottle of “Cali-| THREE JAILBREAKERS | fornia Syrap of Figs * then look and | RETURN TO TACOMA“: that it is made by the “Califor nia Fig Syrup Company." TACOMA, Jan, 71—Three of the |four men who escaped from the | county Jail he Ay, t 0 mal and happy once more, | A ms A fay, after over- Dr. Caldvhit'a Syrup Pepsin te }| Powering the « ‘© captured expecially. desirable for children, {/and returned Sunda because it contains no opiate oF in many instances. 9100 forfeit if it fails per fall explanation in large article soon appear in this paper. Used highly endorsed by for ited States Senators and M fe of Congress, well-known clans and former Public " ith officials. Ask your doc- tor or druggist about it. of humanity, and re comfort in’ its di Mother will just dose of a mild laxs Dr. Caldwell's Syru congestion will quickly loosen and be expelled. and her child be por- ‘StopUsingaTruss THUss WEARERS, Here's Great, Good News fo rr Must Musterole. See How apne eon cen Ten wi in! _ madewith oil of mustard. Use it ad | nareotie drug, being @ combination of simple Jaxative herbs with sin, mild#and gentle in action, positive in effect, and very palata- Bic... Children ike st and take 1¢ brugeists poll Dr. Cald- epain for fifty cents 8; @ trial bottle, freo of charge, can be obtained by writing t Wash- read A It Relieves po Li plaster, Will not blister, || 8 ‘and nurses use Muster- | pan it totheir patients, | gladly tell you what relief from sore throat, pee - When sizes are And when It com: Ld you mush on each of at FLORENCE UPsTAms Sam Suddc th is the only fugittve Tom Preset, one brought back, was Jured, The her two are | drier and John Johnson. | SEATTLE STORES ARE ON A WAR BASIS NOW You'll have to do your shopping on a war basis from now on. The master butchers have decided to close-at 6 p. m., including Satur days Dozens of other establishments |have agreed to make the following war adjustments: One delivery a day, credit for 30 days only, elimina |tion of luxuries as far as possible, |and a nine-hour day. ‘These rules are expected to release hundreds of men for war service, OVERHAUL TILAMOOK The Tillamook, Capt. R. M. Rose, of the three sertously in- Arthur |largest Pacific motorship in coast | wise trade, will remain in this port a Month to receive Its annual over- hauling and undergo extensive alter ations, She has been carrying can bc ned saknon from Alaska canueres 9 "Prince Rupert trusses ean be nd It's all because PADS are different rangement to securely in pl the puble bone. ted themselves in t a ¥ 10 prove it by O FRBB. Address oe ALBERT HANSEN MacDOUGALL-SOUTHWICK CO. N. M. CARMAN FRASER-PATERSON COMPANY HARDY & COMPANY W. H. HAHLO COMPANY CHAMBERS MILLINERY SHOP SPELGER & HURLBUT, INC. THE BON MARCHE, WOODHOUSE-GRUNBAUM FURNI- TURE CO. WOOLWORTH COMPANY RHODES BROS. COMPANY STORE BAXTER’S BOOT SHOP STANDARD FURNITURE CO. KING BROS. COMPANY J. S. GRAHAM 10c Many other Seattle Merchants are ready to comply with this program. Their announcements will appear later.