The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 23, 1918, Page 9

THE SEATTLE STAR—MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23% REGISTRANTS IN NEW CLASS ARE ANXIOUS TO 60 | Less than half of naires received by the local draft board of division No. 4 ask for ex ption, according to Charles Glea n, in charge of the boa | “If this proportion hold out the country, the nment would have 6,500,000 men anxious to get into the army stated ¢ m, | “but, of course, this high mark prob jably will not be maintat as many jwill fail in physical tests. During the past week a majority of Seattle men between the ages of the question LOAN DRIVETO "OPEN WITH BIG. _SONG FESTIVAL | Continued From Page One | Ke 1 in business houses, deposita the ini ments on bonds made by h employe. This scheme, too, will remove the necessity of subscribers making trips to the banks, They can let the pay. master or elected repre ‘ handle it for them and make ments at once. 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Sherman |¢ etter than a ay & Go, Third Avenue at Pine Seattle Tacoma, Spokane, Portland } | they did not Trolitint was launched by the Elliott it | | tank in the plant of the Burdette | and metal scraps were thrown in the | today show that up to and including | quota will be drafted. First ave.,| air for hundreds of feet. | The en tire interior of the plant was wreck" | being struck, by two huge pleces of | vered ed and hundreds of pounds of debris A Fauntleroy car narrowly missed | scrap iron, 20 feet in area, which | landed in front of the motorman. | The track had to be cleared before | the car could proceed. Windows in| several adjoining plants were broken | by the force of the explosion. Witnesses believe the explosion was caused by a bomb, as two dis tinct reports were heard Rodney Ford, an employe in the plant, narrowly missed death when a piece of the destroyed tank broke thru the ceiling near where he was standing. | KEY MEN AGAIN | DISSATISFIED A nation-wide strike against the government telegraph offices is fore- | cast by J. J. Rohan, chairman of the |lock-out committee of the Commer: | |clal ‘Telegraphers’ local, unleas | ed-out Western Union men are rein- | stated, with back pay for five| | months. | Rohan asserts that 8. J. Konen-| |kamp, international president of the Commercial Telegraphers, has made |his last demand on the government for complete reinstatement of the} Western Union men, and that if the | government refuses to meet the de- |mand a date for the strike will be | | set Tuesday. A TENDENCY TD ANEMIA MAY 1 BE INRERITED | A tendency to thin blood, or| anemia, may be hereditary. In fact lit often runs in families and in f | such cases it should be combated, |as soon as a symptom shows, by| }the use of a reliable blood-making | tonic | | Mrs. Monatesse, 2 Porter| street, verbill, Mass, and her| seventeen-year-old daughter, both used Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for | |the treatment of anemia and their experience follows: “I had suffered with anemia or |lack of blood from my girlhood,” says Mrs. Monatesse. “I was losing | my strengh, was run down, and had |terrible headaches. I took bitter tonics and other medicines, but seem to help me. 1 was discouraged, my appetite wa poor and what I did eat would not stay on my stomach, | “I had heard of people who were benefited by using Dr. Williams’ | Pink Pills, and I decided to try | them. I noticed improvement after | I had taken three boxes. My petite became better and I stronger in every way. “My daughter,. Antoinette, became run down about three years ago and seemed to |She was colorless and her ached continually. petite and her face broke out with pimples, Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills] helped her at once, and she began |to eat better, Her color came back, felt limbs fj}and the pains in her limbs disap- peared.” | Your own druggist sells Dr. Wil- liams’ Pink Pills or they will be sent by mail on receipt of price, 50 cents per box. Write to the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Schenec- tady, N. Y¥., for free book on the blood, | Mrs, Kirk Carr, who is employed in | have no ambition. | | She had no ath 19 and received their nt of the workers subscribe naires, and they will soon receive | tice of their classification d Mellett, wife of Lowell istrant then five days in which | Mellett, United Press war corre: | to appeal to his local board if dissat- | Spondent, ha pted an invitation iafied with hia rating to tour the state, making addresses | 2f there are 6h : fee nption | to organizations of women. Mrs, | on both depen and occupational | Overton G. Ellis, of na, stato grounds, the.lseal t chairman of the Women's Liberty the former and th in committee, has appointed Mrs, claim is decided by the district be car Ames to serve as chairman of Appeals on the dependeney King county and Mrs, M. A. Mat are made to the local board, while oc: | hews as cl@irman of Seattle cupational claims go up to the dis LAUNCHED AT REPLACE MEN e H =] ployment service. Each board soon will publish lists eu of industries in its locality in which re men should be replaced by women. | ping be ls were launched in phe tists will be on survey Seattle afternoon by the plants in each Skinner & Eddy corporation and the The surveys will be J. F, Duthie Co, The Skinner & Ed: | minute. h job will be studied dy corpe the West to determine whether a woman can | Loquassuck and West Cressy, while} ¢j1 it | the J. F, Duthie Co, launched the Westpool. The 3,000-ton motorship 8,800-ton standard type ship: 1 ves: haa on all industrial | board's district. Publication of the lists is expected | to cause employers to comply and ut c substitute women, as a result of the| ¥ Shipbuilding Co, Saturday, repre- moral pressure thus exerted. Where ating the first launching by this) moral pressure fails, stronger mea company sures may be taken. The employ The Little David, named tn honor | ment service, working thru the war of David Rodgers, Skinner & Eddy | industries boards, has power to shut corporation general manager, was| off thd supply of raw materials from launched from Skinner & Eddy plant| any plant. No. 2, The Little David is a modern | sixty-foot towboat, with an 80 horse- | The Elliott Bay Shipbuilding Co. has announced contracts for five 5 1 3,500-ton wooden freighters, to be built for the emergency fleet corpor: ation | New regulations for inducting | men into the navy and marine | corps have been announced, | To i} DELIVER FIRST | sists Each month the navy will absorb |15,000 men and the marine corps MILLION TONS *: Men who have special qualifica- ” ASHINGTON. on 1, | tons for definite navy work can en- WASHINGTON, 23—Fig.| tst—or “enroll,” as it ie now called, | Ures compiled by the shipping board! The remainder of each month's and Seattle is made the drafting center for Idaho, Oregon, Mon- Sept the first two weeks of | the September acific coast shipyards have de their first million tons of completed new vessels. The Pacific coast yards lead those of the Atlantic ast by 376,300 deadweight tons and those of the Great Lakes by 611,305 deadweight tons. The Pacific coast yards have delivered about one-half of all the new tonnage. The Pacific coast also leads in ves- | sels launched but not yet completed | and delivered. More than half a mil-| lion deadweight tons of new ships |* | are off the ways on Pacific coast wa Tee as ae, pr Fe shipyards, approaching completion. eo Men in deferred classes because they have dependents will be taken in the navy, on the theory that naval pay will enable them to support de- pendents. Those who have had pre- |vious navy service may reeniist. | Only American citizens, who can read, write and speak English, will/ |be accepted. Applications may be made at the regular recruiting of- fices for the navy and marine corps. | We will win this war— Nothing else really matters until we do! cnayt JUICY FRUIT pda ison - \=—= Writes Notes, Then | Takes His Own Life! F. G. Nicholson, 65, employe of R. G. Dun & Company, 12016 Alas ka building, committed suicide Mon day morning at 8:30 by shooting himself thru the head with a re-| volver, His dead body was discovered in a room on the 12th floor at 8:45 a. m. by Carl Johnson, janitor of the Alas- ka building, who reported the mat- | ter to the police, Nicholson left two notes, one addressed to his daughter, the First National Bank of Bremer- | ton, and one to the county coroner, who now has the body in charge. Nicholson stated despondency as the reason for his act. | OFFICERS IN BATTLE JEROME, Ariz., Sept. 23.—City| Marshal Jos. Crowley and Deputy U. | S. Marshal Henry Carlson were se- verely wounded and one Mexican s killed in a one-hour battle be tween the officers and five Mexicans here early today. The officers were attempting to arrest the Mexicans on | a charge of killing Horace Harrison, mine guard at the United Verde | mine, who was murdered last night. | EMPLOYES AGAINST | EXTRA OVERTIME PAY The Waterfront Employes’ associa tion, a new labor organization, was Sunday afternoon at Moose hall. Some of the principles adopted are: “No affiliation with the Longshoremen or American Federa tion of Labor,” and “No extra pay for overtime.” The union asks $1 an hour for an eight-hour day, The officers are: G. H. McCloud, presi dent; L. Rossman, secretary-treasur- er, and B. J, McMullen, business agent, store. Extra! Chinamen | Grow Whiskers! | A Chinaman with a full grown | pard, carefully trimmed, was one of sights on Third ave. Monday | morning, as he strolled along inspect: | ing shop windows. “Evidently a visitor—I know that Chinamen could whiskers that length—did you? the usual comment. Call for Women to Take Up Nursing The Columbus sanitarium, operat by the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, has issued an appeal didn't raise was to young women to take up nursing in the course now being conducted by the sanitarium. ‘The mother superi- or is making all arrangements for the induction of new student LICENSES HELD UP The city license committee again held up the licenses of seven em ployment agencies Monday morning until the corporation counsel can render a decision as to the legality of the contracts the employment agencies ask the workers to sign. first payment. ap 4 7 To be eminently fair in all transactions; FAIR to its cus- tomers; FAIR to its em- mexicans soot? || ployes—=this is the unswerv- ing policy of the Gottstein We extend the FAIR and LIBERAL credit terms of this establishment to every trustworthy person. M.A.GOTTSTEIN FURNITURE CO. 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