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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1917
Page
5
The draft drawing starts at 9 30 A M to determine 1 858 district men, double the quota, amid expected exemptions. Names will be flashed to the local headquarters as numbers are drawn, with eleven typewriters and eleven checkers in use. The full list will be published tomorrow morning.
Figures received yesterday by Herbert Hoover from principal receiving centers show a sharp rise in slaughter of calves despite efforts to curb use of immature animals for food. Prices for cattle up 4 per cent, sheep 4 per cent, hogs 53.4 per cent, lambs 18 per cent higher than a year ago, while receipts of cattle rose 9 per cent and hogs and sheep fell about 5 per cent.
Officials from several departments urged immediate enactment of a proper retirement law for government employees before the oil service commission of the Senate. Commissioners and aides cited that many demoted workers suffer severe health decline. A proposed plan by Herbert E. Brown would cost about $5.0 million this year to implement.
Jerry South, a clerk of the House of Representatives, was found not guilty of assault by Judge Pugh in the police court after testifying he struck dealer Meegan in self defense. Witnesses, including clerks, supported his account amid a dispute over a long lost copy of a handwritten journal.
Capt. Max V. Thierichens, former commander of the German raider Prinz Eitel Friedrich, stood mute in Federal Court in Philadelphia when asked to plead to indictments charging him with smuggling and Mann Act violations. The court directed a not guilty plea. trial set for September. Thierichens refused to plead with counsel’s advice, who cited protecting rights under international law.
Gustavo Garcia Menocal brother of the Cuban president and congressman from Matanzas died near Havana at midnight after months of illness. He held a lieutenant colonel's rank in the Cuban war of independence and will receive military honors at burial. President Menocal remained beside his brother during the illness.
Fitzgerald Ga July 19 Lawrence Phillips a sawmill owner and three negroes were killed when lightning hit a house they hid in during an electrical storm. Joan Phillips was burned probably fatally in the blaze.
Flat correct hat to be printed lists exemption districts and where draft numbers are posted. Franklin School at Thirteenth and K streets NW serves men registered at Franklin Arthur Gate schools. Dimbar High at First and N streets NW covers Dimbar and Thompson registrants. City Postoffice at North Capitol and Massachusetts Ave NW serves Tonerant and Force schools registrants. No 4 police station at E Street SW covers Jefferson Greenest and Randall schools. No 5 police station at Fifth and E Streets SE covers Elastero Sled Bryan Van Neas acc Schools. Room 427 Municipal Building covers Peabody and ff T. Biew schools. Western High School covers Western High Reservoir Eston Tenley Brown schools. Business High School at Ninth and Rhode Island Ave NW covers Business High Garnet Emery Schools. Cooke School at Seventeenth St NW between Euclid and Fuller covers Morgan Adams Cooke Powell. Xoa 10 police station at Park Rd between Georgia and Sherman Aves covers Washington Normal Park View West Brightwood and Brookland schools and Jcoze-Wiles Biscuit Company. Lantern High at Nighth Street and Penn Ave SE serves Congress Heights Ketcham Rasdle Highlands Benning Burville Langdon Wheatley.
War draft officials abandoned the double drawing plan after widespread card numbering errors across districts. The simpler direct draw will fix the last man in each exemption district while numbers 3900s or 1000s groups are set aside. Gen Crowder’s office worked through the night to prepare 9,400 key numbers and shuffle packs of registration cards.
In Chicago on July 17 a protest against Friday military drafts was sent to Secretary of War by Bishop Fallows and W H Gray of the Union League Club. They do not oppose the draft, but oppose Friday drawing due to superstition and urge changing the date. Messages urge change and call the Friday drafting a psychological mistake.
Federal agents probe a claim that a clique of professional cripples is being hired as substitutes for registrants to win war service releases. Reports say cripples were offered 5 to 100 dollars for exemptions. Foreign born men, aided by purported lawyers, allegedly file claims with boards to gain relief from service, according to Immigrants Protective League officials.
Louis Wiley of the New York Times urges free speech and a fearless press during wartime. He warns censorship could let a few officials control war news and praises voluntary self censorship by newspapers. He condemns the Post Office for suppressing socialist papers and calls treasonable content to be handled by courts.
Secretary Redfield submitted to the Senate a report explaining that army draft quotas were computed from actual registration figures in each state and subdivision. He noted higher estimates in industrial centers due to munition work and warned against assuming uniform nationwide proportions. The report cites 9,659,382 registrations as a share of 108,636,300 total U.S. population.
Federal officials approved by the Attorney General will pursue an investigation into an alleged poison court plaster plot in Kansas. No concrete evidence has emerged, two of three arrestees are released, and one remains under questioning. Guinea pigs were inoculated with tetanus germs from suspected plaster, but University of Kansas tests found no tetanus traces.
In Norfolk Virginia on July 19 armed troops protected the Lafayette River bridge and the Norfolk and Western viaduct after Rear Admiral A C Dillingham received word of threats to his communications. An attempted arson on the viaduct failed and a plan to destroy Tanner's Creek bridge was reported. About 3 000 men labored at the new Pine Beach naval base. If Tanner's Creek bridge falls, transport to Norfolk would detour via Ocean View lines and Mason's Creek division.
The defense council munition board warns that unless the American railroad situation is remedied by January 1918, the country will need to use the entire rolling stock for army and navy needs six days out of seven. The board calls the railroads the weakest link in the producer to consumer chain at present.
Senator Penrose said he will push a sweeping probe before senators on Monday. He will question the Cree regulation and demand the U-boat report be sent to Secretary Daniels by Admiral Gleaves. He also will seek reasons behind Baker's objections to the coal man offer.
About 160 women attended yesterday afternoon’s lecture on food conservation given by Dr. J. A. Le Clerc of the Department of Agriculture at the John Baton School. The takeaway program today features a lecture and demonstration of two meat substitutes by Miss Blodwett at the Henry D. Cooke School located at Seventeenth and Euclid Streets northwest.
Chief petty officer A Copassaki reports gun crew on the Moreni fought a German submarine two hours off Cape de Palou Spain after the ship was set afire. Despite four shots fired the firing pin failed and the crew abandoned ship as the sub steamed away. Four merchant crew members died in the sinking.
A meeting chaired by Mr Outerbridge and Irving T Bush of Bush Terminal Company revealed naval and marine data showing ship speed greatly reduces submarine losses. Experts warn slow ships are easy targets while fast vessels endure danger zones, urging speedier merchant fleets. Day's Army Recruits Total 1,276 regular army recruits were accepted Wednesday.
Senator John Sharp Williams declared slacker applies to legislators who waste time in the Senate without regard to the international situation. He cited a Post article showing senators delaying the aviation bill. Senator Chamberlain said the aviation increase bill would return Monday and likely pass before adjournment.
Fritz Baumgartner once lake Erie Iron Works superintendent and Cleveland club member was arrested by federal authorities and ordered interned for the war. He was refused a permit as a German alien to remain in his position on parole. Also held were engineer Fred Schmidt and I W W agitators Arthur Froelich and Max Koch.
A committee was appointed at a District Council of Defense meeting in the district building to examine retail deliveries. It aims to curb unnecessary deliveries and foster cooperation between housewives and retailers. The panel was instructed to report at next Thursday's meeting.
Charles Cohn balked at signing enlistment papers declaring I am yellow and I won't go through with this. He cried I got cold feet and heart fails me as Simon Cohen tried to enlist alongside him. The incident, described as the first of its kind in the city and possibly the United States, drew attention from the recruiting office.
The army quartermaster’s department allocated 10 650 trucks out of an estimated 75 900 to six manufacturers. About half to be delivered before January 1 and the rest before July next year. Three-ton units total 2 200, two-ton machines the remainder. Packard 1 800, Locomobile 446, Four Wheel Drive 3 750, Nash 3 000, Pierce Arrow 800, Garford 200.
Bonne Terre Mo July 19 two hand drilled holes in a concrete powder house holding three carloads of dynamite were disclosed today and a large electric searchlight sweeps the district to aid soldiers on guard duty to prevent disorders. Twenty men were sent to Hillsboro jail and sixteen to Ironton after arrears in deportation of foreign born miners last week.
An average of 130 men from each company of 150 at Fort Myer will enter active service after the camp ends August 11. Two hundred men at the Virginia training station join the quartermaster corps, 20 to ordnance, 10 to intelligence, totaling 230. Appointments will be based on efficiency, not outside influence, per orders sent yesterday. Secretary Baker says the regular army is on trial in selecting officers from training camps to meet the emergency.
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