The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 3, 1918, Page 7

SELLING OUT) HE’S SO TALL UNCLE SAM Wholesale and Retail WON'T LET HIM JOIN ARMY | |} Selling ot at Wholennte and eccount of retiring from & ie Men's 82.50 All-Wool Pants, Men's $10.00 Top Shoes Men's $5.00 Work Shoes nm ” tay Pe a3 #535 & SALE BE 4. AT S30 UES v BARGAIN STORE| 220-222 OCCIDENT . ate FS 563 usres F255 ees Cd 1 | (E=$2.502> The Best Is None Too Good We took upon eye ex- amination as a very im- portant matter—so should you. To secure the beat should entrust the ex | _ Ever realize what » giant Uncle Sam really Is? In the person of R. E. Madsen, shown above, he measures 7 feet 6 inches from head to foot. The young lady? Miss Daisy Henry, 5 feet @ inches. Ppticinn—one who: thr Here is a man who has tried five!than three square meala a day, He ears of specializing in ad- times to get into the t service. | is fond track athletics alwo, but Josting eye defects, ts ponl- He has five times been ref A be | t it fair to enter the ive of fitting them correctly, cause there is too much of him ts with the other boys He measures se af ots fachen Wouldn't Go Back in his stocking feet Unele Sam) nut when it comes to running for | 7 a mad x joe, th gthy » | His name is R. F. Madsen, and he | Sheed of the police, the lengthy Mr | in Omaha, Nebraska. Sees, Saaeee Cuore Company | stew 3 | Being tall doesn’t make Madsen When Madsen was 10 years old he | was six feet high. ad. He likes He saya he uldn't go back to the normal five 917 FIRST AVENUE ‘Near Madisen. Eat. 1906 He has never} ick a da is life and been sick a day in his life and) teet eight if Alice offered him the doesn't know what a doctor bill] ‘ leftthand mushroom straight from looks like, He weighs 210 pounds Wonderlar Just 21 Now He has only two regrets, One of them is that he can't get into the) army, and the other that he has| never been able to get near enough | a girl to ask her to marry him. | Madsen was 21 years old April 19. | He has been out of school two years. | During that time he has been on ue ins maricditer Pa a road with his film, “A Slacker’#| wont be drafted f Heart,” now at the Rex theat ‘The tall boy likes baseball better WON’T TAKE ANY}|| CLASS TWO MEN FOR SOME TIME WASHINGTON, May 3 Men or m one district while workers tn noneasentials are draft-free in It took nearly another three months to in bill,” but the | pass the “clasatficat 1% in finally done | ‘The bill changes apportionment of draft quotas drastically, as follows Quotas will be figured on a basis of the number of eligible men in Class 1, not on a centage of the total registrat It has fewer phy comp it men in Class 1 th another city of the same size men will be called from he from that other city PORTLAND POLICE ARE NOW BOSSED BY WOMEN PORTLAND, ephone operators today of the “‘Not Quotas, but Maximum of Patriotism’’ $.—Women tel took charge Portland tchboards at the rtuall They women took charge and em, patrols detectives | h‘s instruction 4) | friends and patrons. Countess Selling Bonds for Uncl a) / Let no one believe le TROOPS IN FRANCE, STAR—FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1918. PAGE 7 BASEMENT SALESROO White Milan Hats | In an Interesting Showing at $7.00 HE soft straw Milan the advancing season, and the white signalizes white trimmings further | this idea, | MA». They are adorned with | | aN 5 ornaments of white sou- v tache braid —flat white applique flowers—white hackle feathers—wheel orna- ments formed by white military braid, and just a fe show a touch of color or black. | An interesting display—at $7.00, —0 Ww ment Salesroom. Wide Variety in Little Girls’ Tub Frocks | HERE is apparently no limit to the -attractive youthful st and combinations Spring has evolved from Amoskeag and chambray ging- hams. yles Here are middy, Empire, belted and other good styles in wide array, sometimes combining plaid and plain j-olor, and trimmed with pearl and crochet buttons, embroidery and contrasting color. Sizes 6 to 14 years. We Oe $1.25 $1.50 $1.75 $1.95 $2.50 | Basement Satenr Priced at — = Window Curtains | at $1.50 Pair OFT-HANGING and easily laundered, these Cur- tains of scrim and marquisette make desirable window hangings for any room in the home. They | include Plain hemstitched styles of scrim Lace-edged Curtains of marquisette Scrim Curtains with lace and insertion trimming in white, ivory and ecru, 21% yards long. Price $1.50 pair. Curtain Voiles, 20c Yard The colored-border and allover-printed effects es- pecially in vogue for bedrooms, patterning evenly- | woven round-thread voiles—low-priced at 20¢ yard. ~-Basement Salesroom. Heatherbloom Petticoats $1.75 OOD-LOOKING and serviceable Petticoats in Rose, Light-blue, White, Gray, Purple, Copen- hagen, Emerald, Dark-green, Navy and Black, with deep tucked flounces edged with ruffle and adjustable waistline. Lengths, 34, 36 and 38. Price $1.75. Basement Si room. Fiber-Boot Stockings 65c Pair OMEN'’S Stockings with fiber- silk boot, in pink, lavender, gold, white, gray and black, sizes 814 to 10, 65¢ pair. Basement Salesroom. HIS is the message The Union ure aaaigninig the nearent patr i git ap papain BY ©, ©, LYON should open up on the German po- Savings & Trust Company nomen anrwer al {700 °t|stae meperter With en, Persing's| sitions the nent afternoon at” 210 ish i ll it violations. ‘They were given a : Army __ fo'clock. Just why 2 ~~) Wisnes to give all its | WITH THE AMERICAN | been fixed inateac probably That a military ht, et night, about 9 (Controle Americainy— jean railroad artillery on the | inex without headlights pulled us western front is there with the | out of the railroad yards, where the big punch. It has just given | railroad artil is kept, and headed the Huns a walloping they'll for the front soon forget. And not an Ameri- Every mother’s son, from the gen Boys’ Shoes On the Army Last $3.50 ODELED on the last that adopted in the army, these Shoes are made of soft, specially - tanned leather, with soft boxing in toe and extra heavy sewed soles — as serviceable as they are comfortable. Size 121% to 6, $3.50 pair. ame has been 8 Girls’ Patent Leather Mary Jane Pumps in sizes 214 to 5 (without heels), $1.50 pai to 8 $1.95 pair; to 1, $2.25 2.25 pair. Children’s Tan Sandals, sizes 5 to 8, $1.00 pair; 9 to 2, $1.25 pair. “ Children’s Tan Play fords, sizes 9 to 11, $1.25 pair; 12 to 2, $1.35 pair. -Dasement Salesroom. Ox- Women’s Cotton Stockings 35c Pair OTTON STOCKINGS in White, gold, light- blue, pink, lavender and champagne, with double sole and hemmed top, 35¢ pair. —HBasement Salesroom Sleeveless Vests, 25c OMEN’S | Fine-ribbed Cotton Vests in low- neck, sleeveless style, with lace-trimmed yoke, sizes 34, 36 and 38, 25¢. —Basement Salestoom. Georgette Crepe $1.25 Yard HOICE of these colors in this desirable qual- ity of Georgette Crepe: White, Pink, Old- rose, Pearl, Emerald, Char- treuse, Black, Copenhagen, Burgundy, Brown and Purple. Forty inches wide, $1.25 yard. —Basement Salesroom. “RAILWAY GUNS POUR SHELLS ON ENE We arrived some miles behind the front before daybreak the next morn. nd there waited for orders to 1 to the firing positions y proved aden, Dark « clouds and mist ma b enemy rvation impossible. of a day for our operations,” declared — a battery commander — gleefully, “They'll nev shells begin hitting ‘ei Duv'ng the morning the heavy rail road cars on which were placed the wake up until our ADMINISTRATOR uel administrator for this state? who retires from this position to become fuel administrator, Dr. H. owner and a capitalist King realty for county, is a entative of the fuel administra- Operators’ association until he circumstances, the new from the ranks of the average represented in the fuel ad proposition? David Herewith ts a bal Whitcomb, secretary of who will remain in Seattle ini = can artilleryman nor an Ameri- {eral himself, down to the newest y that a minimum meas can gun has been lost private, was on tiptoe. It was to It may be ne time before full) be their first “show ‘ , ure can be placed on a ils of our first railroad artillery | -——-— - — ’ + as encounter with the enemy becomes | Seattle’s patriotism. available, but this much may be 4 . * said at this time: VO T. OR FUE { oD ) y Lo i i METHODICAL a ere will America’s railroad artillery ts kept 1 far behind the battle front—at a not close until Satur- point that offers exceptional railroad Who ought to be the new fu facilities in reaching any place in David Whiteomb day, May 4. ating I], enbcativi ‘seeeetary. G-4hb hatonal | : Word came that a big action was\| A. Garfield, is a lawyer, a large | impending John C. Higgins, fuel administrator “We'll be there,” was the terse corporation lawyer 7, > answer of the American general David Rotting, district repress In France Our Boys are And, in sequence, this is what tion, was secretary of the Coal veri: ri happened secured the present appointment De Me Metigt tee horde bil we is ve re The Star sugests that, under these Scant yeanebll Have Sleeping Car y of Service and Sacrifice ‘That night, several hundred ar fuel administrator ought to come BA consumer, who i® not now officially — y ? tillerymen left for the scene on a . ; , Cain snes. ok Bome, do. tee! “ i train, which carried care for ministration of this state epi ed them to sleep in, besides flat cars! How would you vote on this Second and Cherry land toe! » piled lot. Fill it out and send it to avery ais the The United States fuel administration, gu UNION SAVINGS & hasty construction of side tracks for the next few days. and It will his successor in emplacements be Whitcomb who wil done dur ll probably have the naming of rator of the state of Washing (Mark a cross for your choice.) rator Yours truly, AGAPOBB ss sccccrenees a a cls MRL bagi cata Hon. David Whitcomb. ing daylight hours because un air _ ‘ “ a @ | koe were constantly flying in the Sec. i 5 a Aseai ol ti PA | vieinity and the least activity be pe je slag ot ile Ld 4 hind the allied front would be sure Dear Sir: For fuel minis of to lead to a Hun bombardment ton, I vote as follows a OF SEATTLE fbi ths Mig be me Tee . F a corporation lawyer a GSS gwettl “4 Dh fome tle war ror 0) r fi e) [ . +++. ++ $5,000,000.00 f The “American general,” keenly : F “a ‘ H Resources more than $5, ‘ oe BRYAS tk TMA Hip taroed @ADUIA ive For a mine owner or ope Pst JAMES D. HOC n good account of themselves, ca 4 # J. D. LOWMAN f Countess de Bryas, who came to! around occasionally and noted the For an average consumer 4 * N. B. gee « Sige TLL Castier this country recently in the Interest| progress, | ees i (ST 1. GILL, Cashier. onstruction| On the ) day everything was jj ok. s. wuirry, 4. D. FARMER and CHAS. SCRUBY, Be Sotnl r Ab. Maditie. wad lett, to: Ba done Pe ET EIS i | Assistant Cashiers. except bring up the guns and the : shells up her relief work to sell bonds, It was decided that the, batt u_FREDERICKENELSON | BASEMENT SALESROOM | The Displays of | Women’s and Misses’ Coats Are Constantly Broadened by New Arrivals DVANCE styles are plen- tiful, indeed, in these assortments of moderately- priced Coats—models for the various occasions of Spring and Summer being featured in Wool Velour Wool Poplin Delhi Coating Tweed Mixtures Fancy Coatings and in these colorings: Pekin- Serge blue, Rose, Salmon, Copen- hagen, Navy, Gray, Sand, Beige, Tan, Black-and-white Checks and plain Black. Priced at— $9.50 $12.50 $15.00 $18.50 $22.50 —Basement Salesroom '|Boys’ Extra-knickerbocker '| Suits, $6.00 and $6.50 —designed especially for school and play wear, and ensured extra-long life by an extra pair of knickerbockers, The Suits are tailored in trench model, from gray mixtures, blue, brown and green cassimeres. Priced at $6.00 and $6.50. LITTLE FELLOWS’ SUITS, $4.00, $5.00 AND $6.50 —in blue serge, black and corduroys and fancy mixtures, white checks, | tailored in Junior Norfolk and middy styles. Sizes 3 to 8 years. BOYS’ CORDUROY KNICKERBOCKERS —well-tailored from dark-drab corduroy, in sizes 7 to 17 years. Price $1.25. MEN’S WORK SHIRTS —of blue or gray chambray, $1.00 and $1.50. —of black sateen, $1.25 and $1.50. | | —of blue or gray flannel, $2.50 and $3.50. Men’s Overalls with Jackets to match in blue, black and white. Unionalls in blue and khaki-color. —Rasement Salesroom. | Pink Satin C amisoles (as Pictured) $1.25 ILET- PATTERN lace insertion and _ edge, ribbon bands of blue or pink and ribbon shoulder straps trim these dainty Camisoles of Pink Satin— shirred over elastic at waistline. Price $1.25. Other dainty styles in Camisoles at $1.65, $1.75 and $2.00. —Basement Salesroom. ‘ big guns, some of which throw) had the satisfaction of being able to” shells weighing half a ton more than) hear distinctly the noise of their 18 miles, were pulled to their re-| bursting shells. pective positions, and the shell| The shelling lasted from 2:10 until rrying cars also were brought up clock, and in that time each gun On the temporary curved side-| fired some 45 rounds at the different | Hun targets. ; Within a few minutes after the | firing ceased, the Americans’ were: “pulling up stakes,” preparatory to, | tracks which had been built, it was possible to maneuver the gun cars into any position to cover various objectives on the enemy front or be: hind his lines. Telephone wires were quickly con cted up, putting artillery head: beating a hasty retreat. Make way “This is a hit-and-run-game— this railroad artillery fighting,” quarters in direct communication with every gun | said one officer. “The Germans | Charts were brought out from} haven't the least idea as to our headquarters and each gun com-| ‘range and by the time they get it we'll be back at our base, far out of harm's way.” d in what he} "1 to do. afternoon mander was instruc! jand his m At ex tly 2 every gun opened fire. skies had cleared and aerial observya- A major furnished verbal explana-| tion was possible again, Hun alt tions, planes came over and spotted the “It's impossible to see what we're| Places where the American guns | shooting at,” he said, “but every| HAD BEEN. Thinking, however, | yard of the enemy territory is chart-{ that the guns were hidden under and we have only to follow our | range sheets and train our guns ac cording to our charts, and the shells will do the re Blow Ammunition | “Now, that first target we shot at jis more than nine miles from here and is, or was, a big ammunition dump behind the German lines “We American artillery officers don't believe in keeping our gun crews in ignorance of what they are shooting at. Otherwise, long-distan artillery would bore everybody extinction | terrific bombardment and today the ground is torn with immense shell craters, But the American railroad artillery had gotten away during the night, |Germans Clamor for Report on Yankees ir. War PARIS, May 3.—The German war J office is finding it ine ingly hard to hide from the reichstag and peor ple the true extent of American pare ticipation in the war, according to reports here tod “Vague replies were committee from the re led by Deputy Noske, te days, our airplanes will to tell us what damage our shells have done and we'll immedi |ately give the information to the |gun crews, We find it keeps up | their enthusiasm and efficiency.” A little later a captain was over all that a hstag, head received when | heard telling his men. |they sought information at the war “Now we're going to give the Hun| office The result was that many oad yards a few of our calling} complaints were made by reichstag ‘sa lot of enemy ar at in those yards and we want| ‘The reichstag committee then de to smash it,” | manded that a representative of the? | Hear Shells Burst general headquarters appear Mele While it was impossible for our air-| give the body true information as to | planes to operate during the shelling, | how many Americans were fighting | owing to atmospheric conditions, yet} on the West\front. ‘The request was ‘from ume to time, the Americans’ refused, member: Early the next morning, when the =” camouflage, German guns opened &