The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-04-04

~ SEATTLE, u.sA
/ Quartermaster Segt, Fowler,
+ Third Company. Coast Artillery,
has been working might and day Of
late packing up. In anticipation OF
u call TO the colorH. Capt u. y.
Moore OF the same company takes
off his coat. gets into blue denlms.
and holps tho work along,
Chief Rockingham has issued or
dera To pntrolmen. instructing
them not 10 interfere with the dis
tribution Of recruiting literature
ON the streets
/ Members OF the Seattle Bar az
I ISOLATION will assemble at Second |
ave. and Virginia at. facing on
Second ave. nj q 30 y. m. Satur
day 10 participate in seattle's pa.
triotic parade.
Feeling was running high IN Al. /
burn today as citizens were trying
70 learn who pulled down the I
American flag from the pole in the /
school yard Monday night and /
trampled Il In tho mud
During March. 3iT foreign born |
Seattle residents applied for eitl. |
lxenship papers. or this number +
MS we're from allied nations. There .
we're 10T Teutona and a5 from neu.
trai nations.
Plans ere being formulated by
he state Y. N. G. A. executive .
committee To erect building at
American lake. equipped with
ileovic maC hine. stage. reading and |
writing material for soldiers. n a |,
permanent camp Is established.
Books and magazines are want (
ed By tho public library 10 send 20
American lake IA reading materia.
Tor the guardsmen there.
II Marines. doing guard duty at the
/ Puget sound navy Yard. have been
/ ordered 20 shoot any one who re
fuses 10 answer challenge when en-.
tefing after nightfan.
Parzaes % res nssY recruits
/ viii be staged every day At noon
as part OF tho program 10 stimu'
late recruiting.
Girls have taken tho places Of
marines at the telephone switch
boards at the rayy yard. The men
wera needed for guard service.
Il 4. s. army engineering officers
have arrived az American lake TO
start surveys for the army post
They have estimated that nearly
50 900 soldiers could be modified
on the 1000 acres now available.
Company A. First military train
ing troops. has been organized hy
| former soldiers In juneau. Tread
veil. Douglas and lane. Alaska.
They'll train a body OF men for
rervice.
Luke Zeoh. formerly clerk In Jus
| tlee Wrightn court. hAA resigned
10 60 With Con rGny l.. SECOND Ia
| frutry. ~ O. W. as lieutenant,
state Representative Victor zsd-
rick Is tskinS his place In tho
court
itfoot fence has been erected
around the skinner a Eddy ship
ward as barrier against pro-C.r'
tusn van1ais. Guards ~ on duty
day and night. Workers are issued
rsss checks TO permit them TO 30
in or out
Nottingham high school students
Who enlist In the army or navy or
who become Red Gross nurses viii
receive .ail school credit for all
time spent in the service OF tho
ration.
Recruiting OF naval militia will
stop when mobilization orders are
issued.
For the first time woman IL
president OF the University OF Ore
gon student body. President
lJeureguy and Vice President Wat.
IIkins each left college to become sol
dIers. and Jennie Higgins. secre-
ltary. became president.
Records were again smashed at
marine corps recruiting office Tues
DAY when ~ men signed up for ser
vice.
Coast artillery officers OF the /
militia expect 10 be called into fed /
eral service any day. Their com
Ipanies would probably ne sent TO /
Forts worden. Flagler and Casey. i
TO guard the cntrance to Puget 1
sound.
Edna Simpson. from San Francis
co. has been assigned 10 duty In /
the navy recruiting office In the /
American Bank building. She's a
"yeoman," which is the navy term