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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1918
Page
5
City officials including Councilmen and department heads met with the mayor to approve an amended civil service proposal. The plan calls for a $20 monthly raise for workers under $200, $15 for those earning $200 to $300, and 60 cents more for day laborers, to be enacted as an emergency measure and reflected in April payrolls.
Government consideration of running the nation’s great meat packing plants to address the meat shortage. President Wilson approves a commission to study the move while Herbert Hoover urges full cooperation of the packing industry to shape a national policy on production sale and distribution, potentially including price fixing.
Assistant Attorney General Clarence L. Neames praised the American secret service in cooperation with Britain as far ahead of the German secret service. He spoke at Tabernacle Baptist church where a service flag bearing 17 stars was dedicated. Commander Miller Freeman and others spoke.
Police discovered a string hanging from a window of the public safety building used to haul up tobacco and drugs. Officers apprehended men seen attaching a package labeled presents.
Portland reports Theodore F. Wilcox died Sunday from acute intestinal trouble. Arrangements await the arrival of Theodore B. Wilcox Jr. from Yale. Wilcox was a mocking commissioner of the eighth federal grain district and owner of a dozen Oregon flour mills.
In San Francisco Harry Earl Halliway of Beaumont Texas turned himself in to police and claimed Texas authorities want him for murder. He said he shot a Black guard during a strike in Beaumont in August 1913.
Tuesday morning sessions at the University teach women to weigh and measure children. Prof Steven son Smith leads a week long training in preparation for the national Child Week.
Capt Archibald Roosevelt endured 14 hours in a trench suffering agony after a German shell wound. A front-line physician’s letter to Dr Josiah Hartwell states he could not be moved due to intense German fire.
Mme Marie De Rocheau wife of a Petrograd banker arrived in San Francisco reporting she fled Russia where Bolsheviki robbed her of 10,000,000 rubles in stocks bonds and realty. Her husband accompanied her as far as Japan.
Oakland police were baffled by a crime wave that hit five robberies overnight. Loot included two overcoats a square of butter a watch and a keg of nails in separate incidents.
Hazen J. Titus, dining car superintendent at the Northern Pacific, resigns to lead Chauncey Wright restaurants. G. W. Nelson of St. Paul succeeds him. David Tobias remains as chief clerk in the dining car service.
Chairman Oliver T. Erickson urges Seattle to delay power site decisions after a site visit with Councilman W. D. Lane and City Engineer A. H. Dimock. He cites prohibitive road costs and possible engineering challenges, noting a $1,000,000 railway estimate and pending engineer reports. He also backs rapid Cedar Falls dam sealing to increase power supply.
Meyer Mroomfield of the Emergency Fleet Corp denounces landlord profiteers as the worst enemies of the shipbuilding drive. Speaking to Seattle shipyard representatives at the Masonic Club, he urges cities to fix transport and housing to keep production swift. Foremen should be trained leaders, not drivers or naggers.
A blaze in the Liberty theatre projecting room Sunday at 140 p m badly burned operator George Kalushe’s right hand and destroyed 200 feet of the feature Elsie Ferguson in The Song of Songs. The big organ played on as patrons returned to their seats despite the excitement. The second feature Jack Pickford in His Majesty Bunker Bean was shown and will run all week.
Funeral services were held Sunday at Fort Lawton for Perry Robert Mays a coast artilleryman who died of scarlet fever at Fort Worden He was 18 and the son of Mr and Mrs W C Mayan of 7729 First Ave N BE He was married three months to his wife Mays enlisted at Calexico and later underwent an operation to join the coast artillery
A major blaze in Atlantic City New Jersey destroyed a block on Atlantic Avenue from New York to Tennessee early today. The loss is estimated at one million dollars with extensive damage to multiple buildings and belongings.
An ad urges rupture sufferers to abandon trusses and adopt the PLAPAC method, claiming it safely closes the hernial opening at home. It touts comfort, no chafing, and compatibility with work and sleep, offering a free trial by mail from PLAPAC CO Block 721, St. Louis, Mo.
An advertisement touts four ounces of plain liquid arvon from a drugstore as a guaranteed method to dissolve and destroy dandruff. Apply at night and rub in, then wash in the morning. several applications claim to remove all signs of dandruff. It also promises relief from itching and a fluffy silky hair appearance.
Rev. Rigemund G. von Bosse resigns as president of the National German American Alliance during a sermon at the German Lutheran church in Wilmington Delaware he cites the welfare of his congregation as his reason and steps down immediately.
The piece describes a seasonal malaise called Spring fever marked by thin blood fatigue and poor appetite. It advises Hood's Sarcaparilla Peptiron and Hood's Pills as a threefold remedy to strengthen the body, ironize blood, and restore daily vitality.
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