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Oldest Newspaper in This State VOL. LVII. NO. 52. 10 HOURS PAY FOR 8 HOURS IN WOODS WORKING CONDITIONS IN THE SPRKU CAMPS ARRANGED BY COLONEL DISQUE. Workmen for the government in the forests of the Pacific Northwest are to receive pay for eight hours at the same rate as the 10 hours pay heretofore in effect, and for all time worked above eight hours in any day they will be paid at the rate of time and a half. All differences between the men and their employers arising hereafter will be referred to Colonel Brice P. Disque, director of the spruce production bureau, and both sides will abide by his decisions. Agreement upon these points was the chief accomplishment of a con ference in Portland the fore part of this week between Colonel Disque and delegates from the various spruce districts representing the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lum bermen. All spruce districts of Ore gon and Washington were repre sented. Colonel Disque told the men that very soon they would not have to provide their own bedding, as the government is purchasing 150,000 blankets for them. A fixed price of 17 .35 a week for board at all log ging camps and sawmills was an nounced. Improved sanitary condi tions in the drying rooms also were promised by Colonel Disque. Colonel Disque declared his belief that the workers will accomplish as much work in eight hours as has been done In 10. Sixty representatives of Oregon and Washington timber workers' and shingle weavers' unions, at a meeting in Seattle Monday, voted to oust ail disloyal workers from their ranks. The delegates also adopted a resolution declaring that the log gers and timber workers in their) unions were squarely behind the government's war program. They officially called off the strike for the 8-hour day, started last summer and announced that Northwestern loggers and timber workers will wage a whirlwind cam paign to oust the I. W. W. from the camps and mills. All the local mills established the 8-hour day last Friday. All the em ployes of the Olympia Door company joined the Loyal Legion this week. THIRD LIBERTY LOAN ON FIRST WAR ANNIVERSARY Campaign Will Start April 0, McAdoo Announce*!, and Continue Thiw or Four Week*. The third Liberty Loan campaign •will open April 6, the first anniver sary of the United States' entry into the war, and will continue three or four week 3, Secretary of the Treas ury McAdoo announced this week. "The campaign should begin with great demonstrations of patriotism in every city, town and hamlet in the country that would truly express the spirit of aroused America," McAdoo said. "On this date every American should pledge anew to his govern ment the full measure of his re sources and resolve to make every re quired sacrifice in the sime fervent spirit that Impels our gallant eons in the trenches of France and on the waters of the Atlantic to shed their blood In America's sacred cause." The amount of the loan, the inter est rate and other features, such as convertibility of bondc of previous issues, maturity and terms of pay ment, remain to bo determined. Mc- Adoo said. CARNIVAL FOR HOME (iI'ARDS. Week'* Hhow Starts at Old Uibby Saturday, Which In Children's Day. The old Lobby at Seventh and Adams streets is to be the scene of merry-making beginning Saturday and continuing through all of next ■week, when a carnival for the ben efit of the local Home Guards will be staged. Saturday, the opening day, is chil dren's day and some special stunts are provided for the youngsters. The regular carnival features will be foremost in this show, a Jitney dance will be another attraction, and the various entertainments offered are expected to attract large crowds dur ing the week. Ray Hendriekson was the second Olympia boy of draft age to respond to the war department's call .'or chauffeurs and truck drivers. Washington Slantiarii ESTABLISHED NOV. 17, 1860. JUD6E MORRIS' FUNERAL WILL TAKE PLACE TODAY Supreme Court Justice Died at Seat tle Hospital Wednesday Afternoon. Judge George E. Morris, member of the state srpreme court since March, 1909 and a man beloved by Olympians, died at Providence hoß pital, Seattle, Wednesday afternoon, to which he was taken last week by an associate, Judge Stephen J. Chad wick, for treatment. Death was due to intestinal trouble and had been expected for several days, an operation performed last Saturday having found that his ill ness had progressed so far that re covery was Impossible. Mrs. Morris waß at his bedside through his last illneßß. The funeral will take place in Se attle Friday afternoon, at the Scot tish Rite cathedral, and a large number of Olympians plan to attend. The services will be conducted by Seattle Rose Croix, No. 1, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Rev. James H. Crow ther, pastor of the First Meth odist church of Seattle, will preach the funeral B?rmon, and Chief Jus tice O. G. Ellis of the supreme court will deliver a eulogy. The remain ing justices will act as pallbearers. JUNIOR RED CROSS GROWING RAPIDLY SOCIETIES FORMED IX MAXY MCHOOIiMEBB. ADA J. LEWIS WORK DIRECTRESS. ! Organization of Junior Red Cross societies has been completed in all of the grade schools of Olympia and in 24 of the schools of the county, and way liT'the local high school. City Superintendent C. E, Beach, who has charg& of the work, announced yesterday. Superintendent Beach also an nounced the appointment of Mrs. Ada J. Lewis of Brighton Park as work directress for the Junior societies, and of Sh'elley Mowell, assistant cashier of the Capital National bank, as treasurer. The schools In which societies have been fully organized | are: • * The Washington. Lincoln. Gar- I field, MdKinley and Roosevelt schools and Providence Academy in i Olympla, the schools at Maytown, Little Rock. Sherlock. Grand Mound. Fairview, Chambers Junction. Mima. , Rocky Prairie. McAllister Springs. Butler's Cove, Alder Grove, East Union. Boston Harbor. Independ ence, Gibson, Forest Grove, Black i Lake, Bush Prairie, South Union, 1 Collins, Case. Lacey. Tumwater and North Star. The school children of the county are taking a great interest in the work and the societies are being or ganized as rapidly as the different districts can be visited, Mr. Beach says. The work the societies will undertake will consist chiefly of mak* lng refugee garments, gathering sphagnum moss, making infants' layettes, patchwork quilts, handker chiefs. bright colored bags, tray cov ers, wash cloths, gun wipes, gun cleaning rags, and the like. The boys are expected to make the boxes in which the garments will be shipped. liONti-TIMG RESIDENT LEAVES. ('. H dough and Family Go to Rose burg, Oregon, to Live. C. H. Clough, resident of the Turn water neighborhood since 1892 and an active Democrat, Mrs. Clough and mother, Mrs. Bates, left Tuesday for Roseburg, Ore., where they expect to make their home. Mr. Clough re cently sold his farm to H. W. Myers. Mr. Clough is probably the oldest salmon canner in the Northwest, though he retired from the business 26 years ago. He started in it at Eagle Cliff on the Columbia river In 1872 when only four men were en gaged in the business, William Hume, whom he calls the father of the busi ness, G. W., Joe and K. D. Hume. Mr Clough's partner was G. W. Hume. He followed the canning business for 20 years, until he came to Thurston county and bought a farm in 1892. The state's quota of 100 chauf feurs called for by the war depart ment the fore part of this week was filled by 3 o'clock Wednesday after noon, Captain Irvin W. Ziegaus, in charge of draft operations in this state, announces. "HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAT. OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1918 WESTSIDERS OBJECT TO NEW SIDEWALKS PROPERTY OWNERS REGISTEft VIGOROUS PROTEST TO FROJ.I ECTED IMPROVEMENT. Vigorous protests to the proposed construction of cement sidewalks on Jackson, Garfield and Hancock streets, on the Westside, were voiced by property owners of the district when the ordinance for the improve ment was before the council for con sideration Tuesday evening. The protestants declared that the chief boosters for the improvement were persons who would not have to pay the cost. Final action on the ordinance will be taken at the next meeting of the council, March 19. Similar protests and charges of having been "double-crossed" were made over completion of the contract for grading and gravelling Vine street, but the council, refusing to stop the work, instructed the street committee to straighten out the situ ation. The ordinance for the grading and gravelling of Washington street from Thirteenth to Fifteenth and of Fourteenth from Main to Franklin, was passed to second reading. HEBBERD ADVOCATES USING MORE SPUDS WHEAT FLOUR SUBSTITUTE SAME IF POTATOES ARE BOUGHT. SPOKANE, March 8.-<«ft4er an order issued by Charles Hetifterd, state food administrator, the wheat flour substitute basis for Washington was changed March 4 from one-third to one-half, ahd a campaign for in creased use of potatoes was Inaugu rated by an option allowing the old requirement to stand if a pound of raw potatoes is also purchased with each pound of flour. "Under the new rule, with each 50 pound purchase of flour the consumer must purchase either 25 pounds of authorized substitutes or else 16 pounds of substitutes and 50 pounds of potatoes," Mr. Hcbberd's an nouncement states. The campaign for increased con sumption of potatoes will be carried into every corner of the state, accord ing to the food administrator. Post ers and booklets, pointing out the advantages to which the vegetable may be put and urging its more ex tended use In view of the surplus crop and the scarcity of other food products, will be distributed in every community. Mr. Hebberd urges that potatoes be used more In hotels and restaur ants and recommends that they be served with meat or3ers without ex tra charge. He asks housewives to serve them more in their home as a vegetable and use them more liber ally for bread making. Rotp.llers are requested to make leaders of pota toes with different displays and ad vertisements. Manier New School Director. Patrons of the Olympia school dis trict by a vote of almost 7 to 1 elect ed Attorney W. W. M:\nier as direct or to succeed A. H. Christopher, in the election last Saturday, when the largest vote for some years was cast. Manler's majority was 682, his vote being 799 and Chrlstppher's 117. C. H. Goodpasture got 68 votes and F. L. Satterlee 2. Woman's (Tub to Celebrate Monday. Arrangements for the luncheon next Monday noon at which the mem bers of the Women's club will cele brate Its thirty-fifth anniversary, were concluded at the club's regular meeting last Tuesday. Invitations are limited to club members and the affair has been simplified to accord with war-time demands. Council to Scrutinize Petit ions. In order that the council may know how many of the petitioners for street or other improvements are property owners in the district in volved, the council Tuesday night instructed City Engineer Wood to prepare lists of the petitioners ii> the future, showing what proportion of the affected property they own. Scace Fined #2OO and < o*ts Guy Scace, Tenino druggist recent ly convicted of violating the prohibi tion law, was fined S2OO and costs, amounting to $61.40, by Superior Judge Mitchell, in a judgment given Monday, following denial of his mo tion for a new trial. TELLS VEGETABLES NEEDED FOR CAMP GREATEST DEMAND EXPECTED FOR IiATE CABBAGE, CAR ROTS AND TURNIPS. Late cabbage, carrots and turnips are the three vegetables for which it Is now believed there will be the greatest demand in the Camp Lewis martlet, supplied by the Thurston Count}' Dairy & Farm Products As sociation, and A. J. Saltzer, assist ant county agricultural agent, is sending an inquiry to the farmers of the deunty to ascertain the acreage they 'expect to plant this season of thes» vegetables and 17 others. "It Is difficult to determine at this time with any degree of accuracy the quantities of the various vegetables that will be required to supply the Camp Lewis market during the comgßi season," Mr. Salzer's letter says. He adds, however, that, "ac cording to the best available infor mation the demand will be in the following order: "Lnte cabbage, carrots, turnips, earl/ cabbage, string beans, corn, celery, parsnips, beets, broccoli, to matoes, cauliflower, green onions, squash,, pumpkin, spinach, lettuce, cucumbers, radishes and peas. "In order to avoid over-production of one or more kinds of vegetables," the letter continues, "I desire to have a record giving the acreage of each kind of vegetable each farmer expects to sell to the Camp Lewis market. If on the return of these reportp it appears that the acreage of one or more kinds of vegetable* is more the market can use, I will notify those interested and suggest reductions." samnEHH KILL BE DEPORTED SECRETARY OF LABOR ORDERS ROUND-UP OF ALIENS ADVO CATING SABOTAGE. A vigorous policy for the suppres sion of anarchists and all who advo cate sabotage and other forms of lawlessness was announced this week by Secretary of Labor Wilson In or ders to immigration officials in the Northwest to proceed immediately to arrest aliens guilty of spreading such doctrines. Even though they may not com mit any overt act, they wil be do talned and deported. Mr. Wilson held that membership in the I. W. W. organization was not in itself cause for arrest or deporta tion, but that alien I. W. W.'s or any other aliens who preach overthrow of the government by force, assassi nation. or who are in any other man ner subject to deportation under the immigration laws should be taken into custody at once. Secretary Wilson's order was issued with a full personal knowl edge of the situation in the North west. As chairman of the presi dent's mediation commission, he in vestigated the unrest in the lumber camps and sawmills last fall. The new orders followed accept ance by the lumbermen of Washing ton and Oregon of the government's proposal to establish the eight-hour day. • Orders Columbia Street Work The council Tuesday night passed the ordinance for the grading and gravelling of Columbia street from Twentieth to Twenty-first, and in structed the city clerk to advertise for bids. It passed to second read ing the ordinance to construct a con crete bulkhead along the Main street side of General Stevens' property at Eleventh and Main. The cost, esti mated at $403. is to be charged against the Stevens' property, the or dinance says. Parcel Post Packages Larger. The maximum weight for parcel post packages in the first, second and third zones will be 70 pounds after March 15, Postmaster James Doherty was notified this week. The former limit was 50 pounds. In all the other zones the limit is raised from 20 to 50 pounds. There is no change, however, in regulations governing packages cent to American soldiers and sailors in overseas service, the limit there remaining at 11 pounds. Hanson Is Seattle's Mayor, Ole Hanson was elected mayor of Seattle by a majority of 4,623 votes, in tlie municipal election there Tues day. latest reports indicate, defeat ing James E. Bradford. PRICE FIVE CENTS. Gin ASKS GOVERNMENT TO ERECT HOOSES HERE Seeks $230,000 of $50,000,000 Fond for Hounlnx Shipyard Workers. Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars will be appropriated by the United States shipping board for houses for workmen employed in the local shipyards, out of the 150,000,- 000 appropriation recently author ized by congress, if the Olympla Chamber of Commerce is successful in negotiations it has been conduct ing for some weeks. At the request of Congressman Johnson, the Chamber is now prepar ing a statement of housing conditions in Olympla, pointing out that if the contemplated expansion of the Sloan Shipyard is carried out and work Is resumed as expected at the Olympla Shipbuilding company's yard, the city will not be able to accommodate the workers unless the government helps by the construction of new houses. ISK RESERVE BOM ERR BONO OECKKM COMMISSIONERS PIT «600,0Q0 ROAD ISSUE UP TO GOVERN MENT FOR OPINION. Information as to the 160Q.000 road bond issue on which Thurston county residents will vote at a spe cial election March 26 has been tor warded to the federal reserve hoard by Chairman T. Ives Dodge and Com missioner J. C. Sams of the county board, with a request for an opinion as to whether the Issuance of these securities would be contrary to the national interest at this time. The commissioners asked for an Immediate decision and '.t Is expect ed that it will be forthcoming before the date of the election. The ques tion whether the issue Is advisable during war time has been raised fre quently since the project was pro posed and the commissioners have asked the federal board for its deci sion. Meanwhile County Auditor Annie Gaston Is having a lot of trouble ob taining voting places in the different precincts and up to date has been unable to complete arrangements In the Second precinct of the Sixth ward, Olympia, and the second pre cinct in Tenino, while in two ptb*r Olympia precincts she has been com pelled to rent rooms in private homes. Discussing the situation yesterday, she said she would ask the county commissioners to confer with the city council relative to the purchase of portable booths for usa at this and the regular elections, believing that the demand for accommodations in Olympia would continue and make It Increasingly difficult to obtain poll ing places. Registration for the special elec toln ended Tuesday night. While no reports have been received from the county precincts, the registration in Olympia is lighter than usual, only 2,230 being registered in the city proper and 2,472 when the three outside precincts are included. <• »;• <• ❖ •> ❖ •;* PARKNTH HKAIt FROM I JOS- * ❖ TKR TWOHY. ❖ ❖ Lester Twohy, the Thurston ❖ ❖ county boy on the torpedoed <• ❖ transport Tuscanla, is safe and ❖ well in Ireland, according to a •> letter received by his parents •> ❖ the fore part of this week. It ❖ ❖ was written February 5, shortly ❖ ❖ after he had been safely landed. <• He told his parents he did not •> ❖ save anything out of his be- ♦> ❖ longings, not even his hat. ♦> ••• *** ••• *** •> **,* *!♦ *!• •!• *!* •J* IXICAIi MKN NOW TIUSTEES. Elected Olrectors and Officers of Olympia Light & Power Co. Local stockholders in the Olympia Light & Power company were offi cially recognized this week when, at the annual meeting Tuesday morn ing. they were elected to the board of trustees in place of the Boston men who have hitherto served. General Hazard Stevens was re elected president. Attorney P. M. Troy was named vice president. L. B. Faulkner, manager of the company, was chosen treasurer. John T. Otis secretary and G. ('. Winstanley trus tee. The meeting was well attended ami confidence expressed in the com pany's present business and future prospects. WHOLE NUMBER 3008 K KISS MEETING 111 cm sum GATHERING IN AFTERNOON TO CELEBRATE "GREATER FOOD PRODUCTION DAY." Residents of Olympia and Thurs ton county, in common with resi dents of every other community of the United States, will celebrate Greater Food Production Day*' Saturday with a big mass meeting at the statehouse, beginning at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. The nation-wide observance la being directed by the federal food administration and Joe Reder, Thurs ton county food administrator, fa making the arrangements for the local celebration, being assisted by the County Counoll of Defense. The chief speakers of the ■»«'' will be E. F. Benson, state cotnmia- Bioner of agriculture, C. J. Lord and T. E. Skaggs of the state board of control County Agent C. H. Berg strom has been asked to make a brief statement of his plans for the coming season. Publicity regarding the meeting, supplementing that given by the newspapers. has been spread throughout the county by the Mla ute Women, the schools and the Oranges, and the Council of De fense hopes to make it the larg«t patriotic gathering in Olympia ntriet the United States became involved tte the war. Showing the importance attadNt to the gathering by the food adSE istration. Administrator Reder ceived a telegram Wednesday fi*ta Charles Hebberd, federal f oed tth minlsrator for this state, inqa||£ as to progress of the arrange*Hr Governor Lister also ssued a state ment urging "all organisations and individuals • • • assist in makiag the day one of grsat benefit." THRIFT STA*P COKTF.ST OM TO CO UN TV SCHOOLS. Nix Prizes to Be Given, Three to Clt» and Three OnUlde, During March. , The Thrift Stamp contest inaugu rated among the school children ot Olympia during February has now been extended ao that all the pupfte in the county are eligible, and six prizes will be given by local mer chants to the pupils buying the moat Thrift Stamps with money realised by their ovn efforts. Three of the prise* will go t6 cMt pupils and three to those of tka county. They are certificates 'good for a dollar In trade at certain stores, the prises • for March being given by Reder ft Phillips, the Btott man Mercantile company, Rosen thal's, J. P. Kearney ft Co.. the Har ris Dry Goods company and the Smokehouse. SHIPYARD WORKER IS MOLT HDRT RHMRRT K.VRIi TUCKER BADLY HURT HI 18-FOOT FALL AT SLOAN YARD. Serious Injuries were sustained by - Karl Tucker, an employe of the Sloan Shipyards, Monday afternoon when he fell from a 16-foot scaffold on ship No. 6, striking head foremoat on a 6x6 beam on the platform below. He was removed immediately to St. Peter's hospital, where it was dis covered that, though his scalp had been gashed across his head from ear to ear, his skull had not been fractured, and Dr. N. J. Redpath, who is attending him, believes ke will recover. Besides the severe In juries to his head. Tucker also suf fered a broken left arm and • sprained right wrist. Tucker, who was working on the staging, heard somebody shout. "Look out from above." and started to whirl around to avoid being hit. His corked bQots, however, caught in the planking and threw him off his balance, and he fell to the plat form. sir»o4l for Soldiers' Kntertalnment. The Olympia Recreational com mittee, advised by the National W»r Camp Community commission that $1,500 would be allotted to this city for soldiers' entertainment in addi tion to the SBBO contributed hfeflfc, this week submitted a budget and brief to cover this amount. Some plans contemplated when the origi nal budget of $5,000 was submitted had to be eliminated, but the com mittee thinks the work can be con tinued satisfactorily on the smftUijfr amount, with the continued co-oi»if ation of local citizens. T , Published Continuously 56 Years