Must Register June 5 1917 For Males Aged 21 To 31
Next Tuesday is the day for all male persons born between June 6 1886 and June 5 1896 to register. Exemptions include members of any organized military or naval force and those subject to draft. Registration occurs on Tuesday June 5 1917 from 7 am to 9 pm.
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Naval
United States
Regular Army
Officers’ Reserve Corps
National Guard and
National Guard Reserve
Militia Bureau
The
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Naval Militia
Naval Reserve Force
Marine Corps Reserve
National Naval Volunteers
Navy Department
Register or Go to Jail in Your Home Precinct
Directing voters to register in person on June 5 at the home precinct registration place. If absent, go to the county clerk or city clerk depending on location. sick voters may send a competent friend. Penalty for not registering includes a year in prison and enforced registration.
How Seattle Prepares to Answer Call
A Seattle feature describes wartime draft registration procedures as at the city comptroller’s office where people register on June 5. A German-born wife explains her husband’s stance, while a crowd observes a city-wide march as a band plays Columbia the Gem of the Ocean in step with thousands enacting a shared wartime resolve.
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Gaines
Wagner
Second Ave
Columbia
Marion
Madison
Penalty for Not Registering Threatens Imprisonment and Treason
The notice warns that failing to register by next Tuesday may bring one year in prison and possible military service. Distributing anti-registration propaganda could be punished as sedition with up to $5,000 fine and five years in prison, or treason with the death penalty. Attorney General Gregory notes that fleeing to Mexico, Canada or Cuba will not help the offender.
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Gregory
Mexico
Canada
Cuba
Star Meeting Outlines Plan For War On Waste
A Bon Marche session draws about 200 women and several men as speakers explain food conservation. Dr B J Liegh stresses public health gains and immunization against typhoid for harvest workers. Mrs Ellen P Dabney describes home economics centers teaching economical meals. County King County supports the movement.
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Mdei Oene
B. J. Liegd
U. S. Public Health Service
Seattle
Ellen P. Dabney
Poindexter Adds Teeth to Food Bill Amendment
Senator Miles Poindexter’s amendment to the food bill makes hoarding or destruction of food or fuel to influence prices a felony. It carries a penalty of imprisonment from six months to three years in the penitentiary. The amendment was adopted.
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Washington
Miles Poindexter
Jean Seymore Promises Liberty Bond Support for Seattle
Jean Seymore of the Regent apartments plans gradual payments toward Seattle's Liberty Loan quota. She begins with $1, then $8 in June, $10 in July, two payments of $15 in August, totaling $8,200,000 for the city with Seattle subscriptions reaching $2,425,000 by Friday noon. She urges all residents to fulfill their share.
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Jean Seymore
City
Liberty Loan
Regent Apartments
Seattle
Uncle Sam
Anguat
Sam
Advertising Manager’s Daily Talk Warns Against Pessimism
A wartime era call urges economic optimism and continued advertising. It argues that war could harm trade but stresses billions to be spent locally, prices will rise yet people have money, and decisive spending supports national morale and trade to stand by the flag.
Ask Matthews to Enter Race
The Star reports speculation that Dr. Mark A. Matthews pastor of the First Presbyterian Church may run for mayor next year. He dismisses the idea as a joke and says he can do more good in his current role. Other names floated include Claude C. Ramsay Will I Humphrey Ole Hanson and Judge Burke J Smith and Capt J E Gibson.
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Mark A. Matthews
First Presbyterian Church
Claude C. Ramsay
Board of County Commissioners
Will I. Humphrey
Ole Hanson
Judge Burke
J. Smith
J. E. Gibson
Dirigo Sunk by German Submarine Off War Zone
The American bark Dirigo was sunk by a German U‑boat yesterday after being fired upon and boarded while heading to the war zone. First mate John Ray drowned. two other vessels Frances M and Barbara also attacked with crews saved at Cadiz and Gibraltar. Dirigo owned by A Sewall & Co of Bath Maine, left Seattle October 24, 1915.
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United Prees
London
Admiralty
Seattle
John Ray
Barbara
Cadiz
Gibraltar
Wilson Warns All Fleeing Slackers
President Wilson issues a proclamation warning men who try to evade military registration by fleeing the country that they will face prosecution upon returning to the United States.
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Wilson
Washington
Bank robber shoots self after warning note revealed
Franklin J. Whitman, about 45, attempted a robbery at a Queen Anne bank. He fired at the teller, was shot by Nordquist, the nitroglycerin bottle proved empty, Whitman died before help arrived. He left letters to his wife police and Rev. Viollette, and a receipt from Oriental Consistory No 2 Spokane.
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Franklin J. Whitman
Oriental Consistory No. 2
Scottish Rites Masons
Spokane
Frank L. Viollette
Queen Anne Methodist Church
Nordquist
Whitman
Chad Ballard
R. W. Green
H. T. Buckner
Roy Harner
Howell Jr
Harner
King County State Bank
Queen Anne Hill
Nordquist and Green
Lucille Chambers
N. Bouchard
Seattle
Kane
San Francisco
Lyceum
George’ S.t
Thompson and Moodie to Speak at County Democratic Lunch
Col. Will H. Thompson will address the club on American Honor and Albert Moodie speaks on Conscription and Registration at the county Democratic meeting Saturday noon at the Good Hats cafeteria.
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Will H. Thompson
Albert Moodie
County Democratic Club
Ular
Good Hats
Congressmen Aiding Anti Registration Plotters
United Press reports that some members of Congress are franking anti registration speeches, including Speaker Champ Clark, to sway votes on the select service bill. The anti registration conspiracy expands as arrests show plotters spreading their pamphlet literature.
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United Press
Washington
Congress
Department of Justice
Champ Clark
Ing
Select Service
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Mabel Abbott
Bon Marche
America
Poindexter
Matthews
Dr. Matthews
Mayo
Gill
Ron
Dirigo
A. Sewall & Co, of
Bath
Self
M . Whitman
Violette
Thompson
Congressmen
Carl D. Groat
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