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HUBER MAY ASK
II. S. TO MAKE
OAHU BONE DRY
FIRST HONOLULU BOYS DRAFTED
WILL SERVE IN HOSPITAL UNIT
SYLVAS CALLED TO MAINLAND
Federal Attorney Says Liquor
Sales to Soldiers Must Be
Curbed or He'll Act
L S. District Attorney S C. Huber
yesterday reiterated an assertion made
a few weeks ago uiat, if the local au
thoritien find themselves unable tc
enforce the new federal law prohib
iting the sale of liquor to officers and
enlisted men in uniform, he will re
quest Washington to issue an execu
tire order making Oahu, or certain
portions of it, absolutely "dry."
Although the federal officials, tht
police and the liquor license inspec
tor have been maintaining a careful
watch on local saloons for violations
of the law. it is reported that "blinC
pigs" continue to flourish and to in
crease, and that "bootleggers' are ply
ing their unlawful trade nightly.
The Star-Bulletin Is reliably In
formed that there were a score or
more drunken soldiers in the principal
streets of the city last Saturday
night.
Marshal J. J. Smiddy said that
he has information to the effect
that "blind pigs'' are doing
rushing business, and that consider
able liquor is being dispensed to en
listed men In uniform in private
homes of the middle class. As far
as the saloons are concerned, says
the marshal, they are apparently do
ing all In their power to adhere to
the new regulations. No bartender or
saloon owner has been arrested 'since
the law went into effect. Several
were warned after the regulations
were made public, however.
A little flurry of excitement was
created yesterday when a report weut
the rounds to the effect that the
Hawaiian department had received a
cablegram from Washington to the ef
fect that an executive order was be
ing prepared which would make cer
tain areas on Oahu 'bone dry.
This report was later denied by an j
officer of the Hawaiian, department
who said. In effect, that the depart
ment bad . been notified that steps
were being taken in Washington
' which would" give the' president the
authority to issne executive orders
making "dry inch areas as he might
deem necessary in order to aid the
national defense.
. WOMEN TOO AMBITIOUS
Excessive ambition leads all sorts of
women to v exert themselves beyond
their strength. The girl striving for
honors In school, the busy housewife,
the shop-girl, the society climber or
leader, all overtax their natural pow
ers of endurance. Then come nervous
troubles, backaches, headaches, fre-
auentlv organic troubles, which re
duce them almost to despair.
Women suffering thus should first
- fecogclxa the necessity of putting on
-the 'brakes and slowing down. Be
' aides this, , $q. remedy the mischief
already done to their health, the best
reliance Is upon that famous and
-'Standard medicine for women's all-
meats, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. Adv.
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Dr. Francis K. Sylva (left) and his brother, Joseph M. Sylva, first
Honolulans to be drafted for service in Uncle Sam's new army. Joseph
learned that he had been drafted from a Star-Bulletin reporter, who
Informed him of the fact on the Wilhelmlna this morning.
TO be the first local boys to be called to the colors in the first draft
for the United States army is rh e distinction of Dr. Francis K. nnd
Joseph M. Sylva. The former received word from San Francisco
yesterday that the services of bofh himself and his brother were de
manded by the government. Returning on the Wilhelmlna this morn
ing, Joseph Sylva learned through the Star-Bulletin that he, too, had
been drafted.
Because they have ben attending school in California or the last
few years, both of the Sylva boys registered in San Francisco on
June 5. Before that time they had volunteered for a hospital unit that
was being formed by prominent physicians in San Francisco. Yes
terday Dr. Sylva received word from the physicians in charge of the
hospital unit that they had been chosen in the draft last week, but
that since they had already volunteered for service in the ambu
lance unit, they could remain In that branch of the service instead.
They will leave for the mainland in the near future.
Dr. Francis K. Sylva wac graduated from the school of dentistry
of the University of California this last June and returned to the Is
lands to practise until be should be called in the service of the am
bulance unit. He was formerly ,a McKinley high school boy. After
graduating from that school he went to California where he studied
three years before graduating. He no sooner got back here than he was
called away again.
Joseph M. Sylva has been studying at Stanford and In his extra
time has been making quite a name for himself in the Stanford Glee
club. He, too, was a graduate of the McKinley high school and
while there was prominent as a football player.
The ooys are Hawaiian born.
HAWAII BANANA FIBER SOUGHT BY
WASHINGTON STATE PENITENTIARY
Experiments Launched in Ho
nolulu to Find Substitute for
Jute Proves Success
BRUSH YOUR TEETH
THOROUGHLY
TWICE DAILY WITH v
BORADENT
THE IIILK OF, MAGNESIA
TOOTHPASTE
AND
KEEP YOUR MOUTH
CLEAN AND SWEET
Everything
Now-A-Days
Is Based On
Efficiency
We are making every
effort to make our
Optical Department
the. most efficient
branch of our busi
ness. 4
Let us serve you.
WALL &
DOUGHERTY
Opticians
Second Floor
Young Building
As soon as the International Fiber
company begins turning out banana
fiber in large enough quantities, its
product will be purchased by the
Washington State penitentiary to sup
ply its grain bag manufacturing de
partment with a substitute ror tne
Jute fiber aoav used.
This statement was made toaay Dy
C. P. Stewart, president of the com
pany and Inventor of the machine
which is now making fiber from
banana stalks in a manner quite sat
isfactory to the inventor. He is mak
ing a change in the crusher rolls to
get more Juice out of the stalks and
render the fiber dryer.
"I received a letter a few days ago
from Henry Drum, warden of the
Washington state penitentiary at
Walla Walla, Wash.," said Stewart,
"Informing me that be will not renew
a two-year contract for jute to supply
the penitentiary, until he hears from
me how much banana iiber he can get
from us. He writes that jute fiber is
very scarce, owing to the shortage of
freight steamerj and high freight
dates from the Orient The quality
of jute, be also says, has become in
ferior. He has tried our samples
and finds them much more satisfac
tory."
Stewart says that if some way could
be found for banana growers in the
islands to sell all their fruit, by mak
ing banana flour of the ripe fruit,
drying the bananas for sale as a food
stuff, such aa dried apricots or apples
and by making "banana fig" and
"banana raisin" from the fruit when
it is at a certain stage of ripeness,
the growers would then increase in
stead of cutting down the size of their
banana plantations, and would make
instead of lose money, as the stalks
could be sold to the fiber company,
which will soon need a large amount
to turn out fiber for sale to Wash
lngton's state prison.
"Washington state penitentiary has
a plant equipped to make 3,000,000
bags a year," he said, "but it cannot
turn out that emnay because there
is a shortage of material. Jute has
been extremely hard to get since the
war started, and the quality has also
deter loiated. California's pen! ten
tiaries turn out 10,000,000 sacks
year. The prisons of both states are
anxious to get banana fiber as a sub
stitute for Jute, and we will soon be
producing it in commercial quantl
ties."
LEPROSY EPIDEMIC
PLOT IS ALLEGED
OAKLAND, CaL. July 13. Corn
plasters said to contain leprosy germs
were sent today by Sheriu Geo. Davis
of Stanislaus county to Sheriff Frank
Barnet of Alameda county, who sent
them to the University of California
department of bacteriology for analy
sis.
If the corn plasters contain leprosy
germs, it is thought that a widespread
and dangerous plot against the Amer
ican public may be unearthed
According to a meager report by
Davis, the corn plasters were found
on peddlers working through Stanis
laus county. Information reached the
sheriff that the plasters had been in
oculated with the dangerous germs,
and Turlock citizens were up in arms.
The peddlers were placed in jail and
the plasters sent here.
According to Davis, a similar case
arose recently in Minnesota, where
Germans were thought to Bave ar
ranged an epidemic of leprosy through
infected corn plasters sold on the pub
lic market.
Leprosy is not easily transmitted.
It has to come by continuous subjec
tion to the germs, such as would hap
pen if one wore leprosy-infected
clothes, according to local physicians.
For two years France has been on
the watch for diseases purposely
transmitted to Its citizens by the Ger
mans, sometimes with deadly results.
Frederick Funston Post No. 94,
Veterans of Foreign Wars, will meet
this evening at 7:30 at Phoenix hall,
Fort and Beretania streets. All mem
bers and visiting comrades are cor-
oiilly invited to attenl The chajr
will remain open till July 31.
DAVIS RETURNS,
BRINGS
BRIDE
Foster L. Davis, former chief clerk
of the federal court, returned thii
morning on the Wilhelmlna with
bride, after a year's residence In Cal
ifornia. Mrs. Davis was former!)
Miss Elise Piuttl of Berkeley, and
they were married on July 14.
Davis has been employed during his
absence in the Pacific coast office ot
Libby, McNeill and Libby. He say
he is returning to Honolulu to engage
in business with his father, Henry
Davis, accountant in the Waity build
ing.
Davis was formeily federal court
clerk and was removed by Former
Judge C. F. Clemons, following which
he was indicted on a charge of mis
appropriating the funds of his office.
His demurrer to the indictment was
sustained by Judge W. W. Morrow of
the appellate court. The supreme
court of the U. S., however, reversed
Morrow.
Wins Back
J DAILY REMINDERS 1
Wanted Two more passengers for
motor party around island, $4 each.
Lewis Garage, phone 2141. Adv.
For Distilled Water, Hire's Root
Beer and all other Popular Dr'nks
try the Con. Soda Water Works Co.
Adv.
This is a good month in which to
get SERVICE out of the want ads
particularly if you are thinking of
moving.
Some day you'll find a want ad
which will pay you "bankers' wages"
for all the time you have ever spent
in reading the ads.
But Silent On
Governorship
Says Coast Trip Was One of
Business; Daughter Volun
teers for Red Cross
Clinton J. Hutchins. reported guber
natorial candidate, returned from the
coast on the Wilhelmlna this morn
ing from what be says has been a
purely baslness trip and visit to his
family in Berkeley, Cal.
As to his candidacy for appoint
ment to succeed L. E. Pinkham as
governor, Hutchins is silent and says
he knows nothing new regarding the
naming of a successor to the present
territorial executive.
"Nothing more to say than you have
said before?" he was questioned.
'Nothing," he reiterated.
The reference was to a statement
issued sometime ago by Hutchins
when he said that if the appointment
was offered him it waa ah honor no
man could refuse. Hutchins has teen
mentioned as a strong candidate for
the appointment, because he is re
ported to have aided greatly in carry
ing California for Wilson in the presi
dential election last year.
Hutchins anticipates that the gov
ernment will eventually commandeer
the Matsonia and Maui of the Mat son
line, for use in either transport or
hospital work during the war. He
says this will be just as soon as the
hips are needed by the government.
Both the Matsonia and Maui are
Ideally equipped for hospital ships
and the government will take them
ust as soon as they are needed," he
says. He believes, however, that
other ship, possibly some of the re
built German ship's, will be kept on the
Pacific for the transportation of sug
ar, molasses and fruit cargoes to
the states. "It stands to reason that
some provision will be made for get
ting our products to market," he de
clares. "The Government Is as anx
ious to get our produce as we are
to market it," he adds.
Hutchins refused to comment on
the published statement that Gover
nor Pinkham had informed the na
tional government that all the molas
ses produced here was needed local
ly. Hutchins is the representative of
the company which takes all the mo
lasses exported from Hawaii. He
said he had heard that the governor
was supposed to have "spiked'
my chances" In Washington, by this
message to Washington.
Miss Doris M. Hutchins, his daugh
ter, he says, has volunteered for Ren
Cross war work and is now waiting
for assignment to duty. She is a
post-graduate student of the Univer
sity of California, and fecently she
completed the university Red Cross
course.
Court Refuses To
Accept Guilty Plea
To Capital Offense
Ignorant of the fact that the crime
carries a penalty of death by hanging,
or life imprisonment, Ciraco Fernan
dez, a Filipino employed in a local
restaurant, pleaded guilty in Circuit
Judge Heen's court this morning to
a charge of criminally abusing a girl
under 12 years old.
Fernandez was Indicted by the ter
ritorial grand Jury yesterday after
noon. Circuit Judge Heen declined
to accept the plea. The Filipino said
that, when he entered his plea, he
did not know what the penalty would
be if he was convicted. According
to City Attorney A. M. Brown, the
Filipino, shortly after his arrest, ad
mitted his guilt to several members
of the police department.
Judge Heen appointed Attorney A.
D. Larnach to defend Fernandez, but
withdrew his order when the Fili
pino Informed him that the woman
who employs him had promised to
give $50 to help defeffd his case. The
case has been placed on the calendar
to be set for trial.
MAUI PROPOSES
TD MAKE SHOWING
AT CIVIC MEET
(Special SUr-BuDetla Corrsspondenc.)
WADL.UKU, Maui, July 21. Maui
held up her end with credit in the
big civic convention at Hilo last fall,
as she also did the year before at
the Kauai gathering. She is not go
ing to fall down on her record at
the civic convention in Honolulu on
September 16, 17 and 18, this year.
This was the consensus of opinion
of the members of the Maui chamber
of commerce at the quarterly meet
ing held Thursday afternoon. Pres
ident Wadsworth was empowered to
appoint a committee of three to make
preparations for the big event.
The committee to be named was
instructed to make plans for holding;
a big booster dinner within the next
month at which steam will be worked
up for the trip to Honolulu that will
made a real impression. It is pos
sible that the Booster club of last year
will be reorganized.
HAWAII TO GET
IMPROVEMENTS
HEALTH SERVICE
What They Are Will Not Be
Made Known Until Dr. Pratt
Reports to Governor
Dr. J. S. B. Pratt, head of the ter
ritorial board of health, was a re
turning passenger this morning from
a trip to the mainland, during which
he attended a conference of board
of health executives froi all the
ftates and territories, and from
Canada, with United States Surgeon
General Blue. He also Investigated
health improvements and methods in
New York and Boston. He has been
away for three months.
Dr. Pratt says he has information
concerning Intended health Improve
ment for Hawaii, but that he is not
at liberty to divulge these until he
has submitted his report to Governor
L. E. Pinkham. He says he has
heard nothing to the effect that the
United States leprosarium on Molokai
Is to be abandoned. This move by the
government had been surmised be
cause Dr. Donald H. Currie, surgeon
director of the United States Leprosy
Investigation station, has been or
dered to report for government duty in
Boston. Dr. Pratt thinks he has been
recalled because the government has
PDccial need for his services during
the war.
Mrs. Pratt, who met her husband
in the states after he had gone East,
was a returning passenger by the
same steamer.
RATES
OAHU RAILWAY and HALEIWA HOTEL
Thirty-day excursion tickets between Honolulu and WaJaloa, IL
leiwa or Kahuku: First-class, 13.15; second-class, L80.
Special weekly rates at Hotel during summer months. $:s.uO.
Splendid bathing, golf, tennis, glas-bottom boats, rowing, pool
An ideal vacation resort.
Oahu Railway-Haleiva Hotel
BB'B'BBBaaJBBssis
It Will Be A Difficult Clatter
for yon to succeed in life with eyes below the normal
standard. Consult Dr. John J. Mundorff (formerly of
New York City) now with the
AMERICAN OPTICAL CO.
1148 Fort Street Blaisdell Bldg.
Honolulu, T. H.
DESIRES TO BE
INTERNED WITH
HUBBY IN UTAH
In order to seek permission from
President Wilson to allow her to be
interned with her husband, who is a
prisoner of war of the United States,
Mrs. Eleanor Blaine Gebhard, an Am
erican who recently passed through
Honolulu, has arrived In San Fran
cisco from Manila. Dr. Karl Gebhard,
the husband, is held at Fort Douglas,
Utah, with the other officers of thj
former German converted cruiser
Cormoran, which was blown up by
her German crew at Guam when this
country declared war against Ger
many In April. Mrs. Gebhard was on
the Cormoran a few hours prior to
the explosion. Gebhard was surgeon
on the interned vessel. Seven Gei-
mans lost their lives in the explosion.
The Gebhards were taken from
Guam to Manila by the war depart
ment. Gebhard was brought to this
country, but his wife had to remain
behind, as the authorities refused to
bring her across the ocean. She took
passage on the first liner to begin her
efforts to join her husband in his
detention.
As Miss Eleanor Blaine, the young
woman was a navy department nurse.
Last year she went to Guam from her
home in Philadelphia. An acquaint
ance with Dr. Gebhard, who had been
governor of German New Guinea, re
sulted in their marriage last New
Year's day. Mrs. Gebhard ia a sister
of Captain John Blaine, representa
tive of the United States shipping
board in Seattle.
MAY SHIP BEEF NOW
FROM HANALEI RANCH
Decision has been reached by the
board of agriculture and forestry to
allow butchered beef shipped from
the Hanalei ranch after due care has
been taken with it
The regulations prescribe that th
animal shall be held under investiga
tion for 48 hours before being
slaughtered, and that ante and post
mortem examinations be made by
either Dr. Golding, Dr. Glaiyier or
Dr. Case, veterinarians.
Live animals from uninfected dis
tricts may be shipped only on con
dition that they be immediately
slaughtered.
PERSONALITIES
CAPT. J. MORTON RIGGS, officers'
reserve corps, has taken up his new
duties at the constructing quarter
masters department
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HAWAIIAN BAND
MOANA TONIGHT
The Royal Hawaiian band will give
a concert in the garden c'. the Moana
Hotel this evening. Adv.
Boys' and
Young Men's
Vacation Shoes
Black Calf in English Bin
cher lasts, with black
Neolin Soles
$4.00 and $4.50 a pair
Regal
Shoe
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(MBEZ
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Taste Lingers
it the idol drink. It has the Snap and tang that
refreshes and invigorates a tired mind and bodv.
PHEZ fairly teems with the picjuant flavor of the l:fiz9us login
berry, from which it is nude. 4 ati c.1
Absolutely frt from fermeautioR Al All lOilllIlS
Juirt say PHEZ
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An Attractive Collection of
New
Mid-.Summer
Hats
will be ready for choosing tomorrow at very
special prices. Hats for all occasions sports,
afternoon, street wear and becoming affairs for
summer evenings. Practically every kind of
smart straw and trimming mode that could be
desired is represented. No matter how many
hats a woman has, she will surely want another
when she sees these so inexpensively priced
SACHS'
Hotel near Fort
The Beauty of
Youth Always
A skin that remains pure,
smooth and beautiful. That
retains the delicate softness
of youth. That always has .
the wonderful, pearly'white '
appearance so much in favor
among the women in Society.
Yours can be such a skin
if you will consistently use ,
Gouraud's
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the supreme liquid face cream. It purifies the skin, protects
and beautif ies-results iare instant, racial blemishes are effect
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Non'grtasyin use 68 years. Send 10c. for trial size.
Gouraud's Medicated Soap
The skin is constantly subject to poison and infection from the dirt,
dust and matter that collect in the pores from the air. An efficient
antiseptic and cleansing agent is necessary if you would avoid this
danger. Gouraud's Medicated Soap thoroughly cleanses the skin.
Its refreshing, antiseptic lather genetrates the
pores, and destroys all poisonous matter
Ideal for skin troubles. Makes a perfect
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Send iOc for the trial size.
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