COAST WOMEN
ARE TO RETAIN
NEWPOSITIONS
SKATTLK, Jan. M .-Washington
will not have to turn many women,
out of their wartime occupations, be-1
lieves Lawrence Wood, iederal di
rector in Washington for the United
States Kmployment service. Seattle
railroad officials and others who em
plov many women have been quoted
recently to the same effect.
public employment officials hope to
send many returned soldiers hack to
the soil and let the women keep their
present posts. Mr. Wool! said recent
ly. "Soldiers who formerly perform
ed tight indoor work will be better
men if they go to the land," he as
serted.
"The question of discharging the
women is not very big in this state,"
Mr. Wood added. "Washington was
just beginning to employ women in
large numbers when the war ended.
Compared with eastern states, our
total of employed women is small."
Women in Washington replaced
men tr. practically every occupation,
according to the state labor commis
sion. While the number was not com
paratively large, the women were
placed in many line;. They were in
all the lighter occupations, as clerks,
Janitors, taxicab drivers, elevator op
erators, meat cutters, laundry work
ers, bookkepers. and waiters. No rec
ord has been Lund, however, of wa-.i
on employed as motormen, conduc
tors qo'.ice.r' n or fl omen.
Kven in occupations classified as
"extra hazardous" >>y Insurance co n
parties, women were lound. State In
spectors found over 2 6110 women em
ployed in Seattle R. "hazardous"
post s.
One Seattle worn; a whom officials
say held the most hazardous Jolt ' !
al! Iter sisters, worked in a saw mill
riding a saw carriage. Mills, factories
ad shops employed scores. They dm
light work in sawmills, packed
shingles in shingle mills, operated rip
saws in liox and furniture factories,
worked in machine shops, irtteked
I'ri iglit. sorted junk and steel in steel
plants and did light work around ship
yat ds.
In the railroad offices and along the
lines women were employed its clerks,
accountants, car cleaners, painters,
and even section hands Railroads,
however, soon found the women not
able to do the heavy section work.
Recently the state insurance commis
sion barred woman from section
w ork.
.Most of the women received the
same .or almost the same pay given
the men they replaced. A Washing
ton state law provides that all women
ever eighteen years of age must tie
paid at least $12 20 per week.
Overalls were not popular among
the Washington working women. In
some lines overalls were necessary
hut in most of the occupations which
women filled they wore found wear
ing Iheir usual apparel.
INCOMPLETE RETURNS GIVE
DIVISION 620,000 MEMBERS
In spite of influenza and peace time
reaction, the people of the Northwest
answered the Red Cross Christmas
Roll Call by hundreds of thousands
last weke. Some communities have
found it neeesary to extend the date
of closing the roll call in order to give
all citizens the oportunity to join.
Reports are still very incomplete. Ac .
teal memberships reported for this,
division at the time the Bulletin goes
to press total 620,000, divided as fol
lows: \laska, 9,000; Idaho, 90,000;
Oregon. 200.000; Washington, lll’i.ooo.
There is every reason to believe that
the 191K membership of the division,
s;’,n.noo, will be exceded when returns
are all in.
REPLACE FAST CRUISERS
WITH HYDROPLANES
DKTKOIT, Jail la. Kant express
cruisers, which cun lie used for com
tncrcial purposes when not being
used in racing events, will soon dis
pa re hydroplanes as the object of j
inters! to yachtsmen in sped contest,
according to Commadore A. A.
Setiantz. of the Detroit Yacht club.
('otnadore Setiantz. is authority for
the statemnt that hydroplane racing \
is passing out. The type of power
boats that have been seen tearing
through tli” water at more than 11",
miles an hour in the famous (told cup,
races, the local Yachtsman declares, j
have little about them that is prac
tical.
"The government during the war."
Conimador Schantz. said, "did not re-,
gard any of these hydroplanes
seriously when it was having fast
boats constructed for the navy, and
that fact opened the eyes of the
sportsmen to the impracticability of
the racing machines we have built for
the annual races for the Gold cun."
Detroit will defend the Gold cup I
next fall, if necessary, he added, but
that will be the final effort of local
yachtsmen in the powerboat game.
Conimador Setiantz. believes the ex-i
press cruiser races will atract manyi
more entries than the hydroplane j
events.
NEW CATHEDRAL
IN HONOR OF
SOLDIER BOYS
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SKATTLK. Jan 10. \ fJioo.OOo ■
Victory Memorial Cathedral is t«» bo
built in Seattle, by St Mark's Kpisco
pa’ elmreli in memory of the Ameri
can men who served ami died in
France, according to an announce
ment made by l(r\ Krnest Vincent
SI ayler. rector of St. Mark's Parish.
Architects are working on tin* plans,
the announc ement asserted.
Twelve windows in the cathedral,
according to preliminary plans will
be named in honor of twelve of the
nations allied in the war wi'h the
Pniteel Stales. Bronze tablets bear
ing the* name:; of Seattle men who
II in battl# ar# to bo placed in the*
building. A Victory Tower with
chimes has been proposed.
Steps being taken for the construc
tion of the cathedral arc- believed the*
first eleliinifo plans made in the state
for a memorial Throughout the* state
move are being made to erect ni'.Mii
orials but most of tin- plans are still
in a tentative state.
In Spokane the woman's clubs may
plant trees on school lawns in mem
ory of the* soldiers and sailors; Bel
lingham's Father's < lub is le ading a
movement for tip* erection of a mem
orial clubhouse*; ('.ray: Harbor resi
dents are talking of purchasing a
bronze* tablet bearing the names of
all men from the harbor country who
died in the service*; the Chehalis Citi
zen's club is planning a $uoo,unu corn
inanity center building and the* Olym
pia Young Men’s Christian associa
tion lias named a commift«*o to plan
a memorial.
Several Semitic* organizations are
planning memorials, tin* I’niversity
«'! W -hi ! ■!<*!; alumni max ere* t a
monument in honor of tie* under
graduate- 111 the* ' e * r \ j I' e ; tile M 11II ie 1
pal b-ague is beading a movement for
the ere*- lion ot a memorial ball, and
eommitte-, from tin- c hamber of eon
m« ic e- and tin* Y M A. are* work
ing together planning for a nn-morial.
Suggestions have* been made that the*
committee consider cres ting a $ld"o.
OOu state or reconstruction hospital
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SPOKANE BOY
REVENGESFATE
OF BROTHER
81’OKANK, Jan. in. How he left
his own unit, stationed far behind the
lines on the fighting front in France,
and joined his dead brother's machine
gun company, where "for live glorious
weeks" he sought vengeance on the
Germans for his brother's death, is
related in a letter received here by
the parents of Ralph Burch.
ills brother, Charles, the lirst Spo-1
kane man to be reported killed in nr
tion in France, died in No Man's
Rand, standing by his machine gun
after all support had left him and
Ilia three companions, and they had
been surrounded by the Germans. He I
was posthumously awarded the1
French war cross for his sacritices.
Months ago the parents ceased to
receive letters from Ralph, the sur
viving brother, and were fearful that
he also had been killed when they
heard from him under the date of
November 1J, the day after lighting
ceased The letter related how, mi
srucessful in obtaining permission to
leave his unit, ho had gone direct to
the front and joined in the thickest
of the lighting that preceded the
signing of the armistice.
"And for live glorious week I have
hen with Charles' old outfit, and have
had my chance to get even with the
Hun," he wrote. T stayed back ot
the lines so long as 1 could stand it,
and when the last big show started,
I left to do my hit. My old outtlt
doesn't know where I am. Now that
it is all over, I'm going back."
ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY
TO GET OLD COACH BACK
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 10.—Janies 'Red''
Smyth, a former Cardinal outfielder,
who was drafted into the national
army last July did no tget over to
Franco and has now been mustered
out at Camp Funston. He rose from
a private to "top" sergeant In five
months.
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Job printing at Daily Times office.
RED CROSS IS
FIGHTING FLU
IN NORTHLAND
For two nuuit h - pa i \ ,.i lk t bn
h< « ii in tin- grip <»i lim inMm-n/.a Tie
si altered population m tie* t« i rit*»r>
ha: been .i M • • t • *< 1 quit •• • aan 1 . as
some of our larger < iti* . and difficul
ties of meeting the emergency have
naturally been much greater.
The Ked Cross Chapters in Alaska
brve all ben active in combatting the
epidemic. Nome, with but one doctor,
has. been heavily afflicted. The Nome
ispter has done everything possible
to alleviate the situation both loeallv
and in its chapter territory vv h*v • the
natives have been dying in lar; <• num
bers.
So far the influenza does not sc -m
to have invaded tin* Tan.ms, Valley
country but it is general along the
coast. Kmcrgcncy hospitals have been
opened at many points. Anchorage
h; s opened an emerge.icy hospital
and has sent aid and s.upplie by dog
team to Sm itna which is a distance
of two days travel
(love. Thomas R'ggs, Jr , of Alaska,
whose emergency funds bad been
thoroughly depleted by the expenses
incidental to the wreck of the Prin
cess Sophia, for a time fared a very
serious problem in dealing with the
h.fluneza epidemic. In a recent con
ference. with the officers of the
Northwestern Division in Seattle he
stated that the majority of the mem
bers of the Territorial Legislature
have agreed to vote an appropriation
to cover the deficit incurred.
Meanwhile the Red Cross, th.rugh
it Alaska chapters Is doing every
thing possible to deal promptly with
the local situations.
Lven before the situation had be
come acute the Division office equip
ped tin* S. S Spokane with ten nurses
ml several thousand dollars vva rfh of
ledicine. The ship went north under
the direction of Dr. Kmil Krulish of
the Cnited States public health serv
ice, who took with him ten phy
sicians This party is reaching uli
the influenza stricken communities in
\k:ska that arc within reach, treating
the sick and relieving destitution
among the natives.
Two days before Christmas addi
tional medicines, suplied by the Red
Cross started north on the steamer
Admiral Watson—Red Cross Rulletln
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RECOMMENDS PASSAGE
OF FEDERAL AMENDMENT
SACRAMENTO. Jan 10 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Ratification of the pro
posed prohibition amendment to the
federal constitution was recommended
to the California assembly today by
the federal relations committee.
The senate also will likely ratify
the amendment.
PERSONAL AND LOCAL
NOTES OF INTEREST
Tier* w a> 1 mail »<, : , . ' mni the
Slab- v.hbh arriv -i m. Hi* freighter
Sk.ir v\ ,i > .
Til*' ’••a*:, h 11* \dmira I War on is
■PI*- a? S* v. ill’ll f«*mn! row , a!.*1 vs lli be
h * -1. ♦ on Sunday;
Tie t *•.! m bi). Mam**da w i1! I • here
at •* «»'< i. loinomiw morning bring
itig pa • agers. mail and tons of
freight.
The funeral of Lewis Huff will be
held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock
from the Holden undertaking parlors.
Rev. K. IV Ziegler will conduct the
services.
If Is reported that the Pioneer Lack
ing Company will build a large addi
tion to its clam plant this spring, thus
giving employment to a greatly m
creased force of people
() J Berg, manager of the North
Midas Copper Company, arrived from
Strelna this afternoon and brought
down with him five gold bricks weigh
ing about forty pounds He ha. shut
down the mill for the winter a ml is
on his way to Boston to attend a
meeting of the stockholders of the
company, accompanied by bis wife
\V (1 Roe and II. Moe also arrived
from Str.• 1 lui today, and tho formor
will rfturn to his home at Boston
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TEACHING FOREIGN-BORN
IN ONE CITY OF MICHIGAN
A definite "get together" program
has been outlined for assimilating the
foreign born population in Manistee
county. Michigan, with the native (de
ments. and fusing them into one vig
orous group, with a common basis of
achievement. As a beginning, a series
of seventy two meetings will be held
during the winter months in Manistee
privileges of American citizenship will
lie given and instructions in the Kng
lisli language will lie furnished Many
of the foreign born people ni Manistee
county are emigrants from the north
ern countries of Kurope Large m.1,1
liers of them already have declare I
thidr intention of attending the meet
ings and Knglish classes.
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JIMMY BURKE TO MANAGE
ST. LOUIS BALL TEAM
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ST. LOUIS. Jan. 10 - Announce
ment of the appointment of Jimmy
Burke as manager of the St. Louis
club of the American league for the
1919 season is being awaited by his
admirers Burke finished out the 191X
season, succeeding Field Jones, who
resigned.
I'hil Ball, president of the club, is
not ready to niako announcement ot
Burke's appointment. "But." he add
ed, “where could I get another man I
as capable?”
Job printing at Daily Times office.
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