News Clippings About Judge Rutherford, 1917–1942
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Newspaper Clippings of Judge Joseph F. Rutherford (1917-1942)
The following are various newspaper clippings (usually the entire page) that refer to Judge Joseph F. Rutherford, second president of the Watchtower Society. They sizes of the scans vary greatly and you will need to adjust the magnification to view these. Some scans are broken into two pages and you will need to fit them together to read them.
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endeavoring to find ways of reducing the cost of construction. Some of the shipbuilders, the message continues are meeting this situation "in a commendable way" and are in Washington in consultation endeavoring to find further means of reducing construction.
The steel company's reply, signed by E. G.. Grace, president, reads in part:
"It is our disposition always to do our part, and to meet you in this direct appeal we will be willing to make a reduction of 10 per cent in the prices already quoted. This to apply alike for one, two, three or four ships. We estimate if other interests meet you in the same spirit that you can effect the desired saving. We trust the Navy department will recognize the position we are taking in this instance and reflect same in future relations."
The cost of material necessary to build a 16,500,000 cruiser is about 10,000,000, it was asserted, but all this material would not be supplied by the Bethlehem, if it received the contracts.
RUTHERFORD SUCCEEDS LATE PASTOR RUSSELL Chosen Head of the Religious Sect Founded on Teachings of Deceased Founder.
Pittsburg, Pa.; Jan. 6.—Joseph F. Rutherford of New York was to-day unanimously chosen here to succeed the late Pastor Russell as president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract society. A. J. Ritchie of Ontario, Can., was re-elected vice president, and W. E. Van Amburgh of New York, secretary-treasurer.
The annual meeting of the organization was held in Carnegie hall, on the North side, this afternoon. This was the first annual meeting of this religious corporation since the death of Pastor Russell, who was its president from organization in 1834 until his death two months ago. Great interest was manifested in the result by many thousands throughout the world.
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Though I had an ounce of courage, dance in me. I found myself to play the game. I pulled up a chair and set down on it.
"I think we have must before," I said. "If this light in the room was dim, but so far as I could see their faces they part the part of invisibility very well."
"Ahayo, maybe!" the old man,
"haven't a very good memory, but
I afraid you must tell me your
nord, for I really don't know it."
oil and told, one way please, to
wash the face. But in their appearance was nothing
in that appearance to them before
the faces that had been wiped
in. In Scotland, but there were not
sitting there.
I simply don't explain why I, who is a New Abhaite, had been born of women and no new Abhaite. I must par- day. I, who have a good mom, my husband, my sister, could not find an institution. They seemed curious what they professed to be. They could not have given us to one of them.
I wash on plum, and every second I wash on my hand. I put up in my heart. It is about clothes. I am afraid of them. I know why my grief spins. Only anyone with my hodge would I doubt. I am ashamed of her.
There is that present dining room with stairings on the walls, and a table.
"When, Bob, look at the time" and the old man. "You better think about catching your train. Bob's got to go to town to teach him." he added, staggering to look at the clock, as if I looked at the clock, and it was nearly half past 4.
"I am afraid you must put off your journey." I said.
"Oh, d—it!" said the young man.
"I thought you had dropped that rot.
conduct Monday night authorizing the
committee to appoint a nationalist of the city,
and an official of the city for Wednesday to attend the tenth anniversary crime of the unlawful
criminals.
Mrs. Heinchel Cook left Sunday to
join her husband, in Denton Harbor,
Mich.
Charles Feller, of South Whalley,
spent Monday with his mellifers. Mrs.
Virginia Feller.
Mrs. Worth Dilly is nursing her mother, Mrs. (B. H. Dillingham), in Attendee.
Mr. and Mrs. Ford Street moved to South Town Monday.
Frank Ringle and Gina's Munny left Tuesday for Chicago, where they are attending the Institute evolution.
Mrs. Bruce Kowk and children returned to Chicago Presbyterian after visiting her sister, Ms. Earl Kemp.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hall, of Bristol,
wrote the poems of Lewis Hall
and wrote over Sunday.
Nature luthers on the importance of freedom to Union have largely ignored the importance of the three laws, associates of which an American, simply cited
HUBSY REFUSED TO
LET HER READ BIBLE.
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their children. But they did not
come from the house he would not allow it to go in.
In the window he let it to gaze at
in working clothes, and that he had
golden gilders to cut.
The inoculation of extracting jellyfish from soil samples is being investigated.
Hugs Bleaching Blue will wash
double as many clothes as any other.
Don't put your money into any other.
of the Philippine Bureau of forestry,
is collector.
Roast Beef with Mashed Potatoes for lunch Saturday night at the Cut-Bate Liquor Store, 1423 S. Calhoun street.
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"Well, then," I said, and all the time I seemed to myself to be taking quite soulfulness, "I have come to tell you
"I have come to tell you that the
gamble up."
than, the groom up. I have here a warrant for the arrest of you three gentlemen."
"Arrest!" with the old man, and he lofted really shocked. "Arrest! Good God, what for?"
two of an old lady in a bib more the multifacility, I could not wonder to connect them with my disappeared despair. I was so sad that he begged me, and I knew that it had been by Mount Olympus Appleton, Eg., of the sk. Ralphs club in a golf course. "I must keep him hold of Tervis Krause myself, myself myself holding out of this house."
1 "Well" said the old man politely,
"are you reassured by your scrier, sir?"
grin
I couldn't find a word.
"I hope you find it comfortable with your daily life or drop in the rainbowsness. I make no compromises, but you'll have to move hare to a double-page spread."
I shook my head.
"Oh." said the young man, "this is a
milton Eckhoff."
"Do you prepare to march off to the police station?" plunged the pump up. "That might be the best way to contend with the local branch. I have the right to atter to see your warrant, but I don't want to wait for any apprehension you may give." My duty. But you shouldn't bother me. What do you propose to do?
There was nothing to do except to call in my mother and have their breakfast. I got there, but I felt insuffered by the whole place, by the air of airiness, jungle—not innocuous, nor French, but innocuous, nor Japanese, and in the three focus.
"Mr. Peter Flemmar!" I pressed in immediately, and for a moment I went down daming myself for a fool and using their purity.
"He is gone. He has triumphed!"
I've simply got to go. You can have my address, and I'll give any security you like.
"No." I said: "you must play."
At all I think they must have re-
ceived the news. They only chance and need to con-
ceive me that I was playing the foot
ball they failed. But the old man
said.
"I'll go ball for my nighty. That could to cool you in. Mr. Humphrey." Was it angry, or did I detect some but in the smogness of that rule?
On an instant the lights were out. A spike of strong tense gripped me around the waist, curving the pockade in his chest. It might be expected to tear a plexus.
There must have been, for as I guess,
alik him his geygly his glide to that black
hole like the whirl which fared illumination
on my memory. I drew my whitish.
"Buchan, braner" cried a robe.
"Buchall" as it spoke. I heard two of my fellows emerge on the moorhill.
Pastor Russell (top), his New York temple, and Joseph Kutherford.
Joseph P. E. Rutherford of New York, the successor of Fashion Runner Hilde and Tract Society, started his at the bottom of the ladder. He was in Morgan county, N.J., where he coached boyhood days on the farm and inter-boyhood days on the forest. He graduated from Morningside and a number of the New York state has in 1909. He was Foster Knight's adviser during 1897 until his death.
Saturday afternoon by Justice H. W.
Oklahoma.
Bolivieu was born Monday in the south of Natalteau. Kineg against Charles Davies, who gave a question represented for the detainment.
In the exit of Vet. Sturly against
Stuise Sturly, the divorce, the elephant
fled to appear and the cross-
coonblood was disgusted.
The Warsaw high school basketball team was defeated Salzburg evenly by the Sacramento high school team by the score of 37 to 18.
A mortgage licensed has been issued to Wendy D. Dineen and Darrolly R. Hanham.
Warsaw's Third Regional land was organized Sunday afternoon of the site.
their parents Sandra, M. and Max L.
L. Campbell, of Honolulu.
Judge: J. H. North, who has been
sure that is improving.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Miller co-
founded their business, writing an-
nouncements Thursday.
Giuseppe Macki transferred business
in Preston Monday.
Alfred Geard from Sunny with
Attention to DeLay.
Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Hoene and
and Iainth Roseborowe d to Claridge
Sunday.
Canada Types of Syrup, sugar
cubical business from Monday.
A timer was given by the Eagles.
In there ball, Wednesday evening!
Mite. Site. Spring game. Of fire.
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Get a tube of Senecio, (25c) today. The really clean feeling that follows its regular use will surprise and delight you. Sample size tube mailed for 4c in stamps.
"For the minister of Franklin Douder in London on the 23d day of instru mouth."
"I never heard the name before," said the old man in a doused voice.
One of the others upgright: "up to the war with the First World war plague. I read about it. Good badness, you must be from '69." (from form "Scottland") I said, "I did."
After that for a minute there were utter silence. The old man was star at the plains and furnishing with a large model of imminent death.
Then, the pimp one spoke up. He stammered a little, like a man picking his words.
Don't get mistreated, uncle, he said. "It is all a misdirection mistake. But these things happen sometimes, and you have to be hard to prove our insurance. I can show that I was out of the country on the 21st of May, and Hob was in a putting home. You was in London, you can explain what you were doing."
Midst. Mostly: Of course that's easy enough. The Shoe. That was the day I went to work. What was Loving? I came up in the morning from Wooling and joined at the club with Charlie McGregor and his manager. I remember, for the punch that a greeter with me, and I was soleep next morning, I brought back from the dinner! I brought back from the dinner!
He pointed to an object on the table and insured nervousness.
"I think, am," said the young man addressing me respectfully, "you will
"Nowtime I vote we have a name of bridge," said the plump one. "It will be named you and you know we are been waiting a fourth player. Do doff players, it!"
I accepted as if it had been an ordinary invitation at the club. The crowd was cheering. We went into the smashing room, where a cedar table was set out, and I was offered things to smoke and drink. I took my place at the table in a
The window was open, and the moon was flooding the cliffs and the sea with moisture. The mountains, too, in my head. The there had recovered their competence and were taking care...just the kind of sleepy tint you will have in any golf club.
I must have cut a run figure, stiffing
there knitting my brows, with my eyes
gazing.
19 patrons were the young, dark one. I play a face at bridge, but I must have been scary and had that night. They put them on my shoulders and put them more than once at their case. I kept looking at their faces, and they conversed very much to me. I was not that they looked different from me; they were simply likely to win the worth of Patience Figuerre.
Then something awoke one. The old man joked down his hand on its right arm, and he looked at me with a back gesture, just back for a moment in his chair, with his finger tapping on his knee. Then he turned to me, and when I had stood before him in the wooded farm with the place of his bed,
The young dark man leaped for the window, was through it and over the window. I stepped in and froze. I stepped the old chap, and the room seated to dill with flowers. I saw him shup one collar, haryn two, and then a third. When Frances pressed on the woad toward the ralled tiles to the beach table, one man followed him, but he
The gala backstage behind the Fugitive, and I stood in waiting with my hands on the old boxy throne for such a Ames to come. I waited in Jeans these steps to the sea.
kindly my prey leaves me from and things in my onethat on the wall. These same a few punishing for far below the window, and through the window I saw a chunk of chalk put out at the shaft of the stair-
As the handcuff clinked on my
wrist I wrote my last word to blue-
The old man was looking at me with blaring eyes.
"He is safe!" he cried. "You can
follow in time. He is gone. You
lift him suspicious." Esa bake much
sez Ebbaeva Sleim!
There was more in these crates than any common jungle. They had been bodeled into a bird of pray, and now they named him with a hawk's pride.
A white, whiteteen-hearted them in them.
A white, whiteteen-hearted them in them.
A terrible thing I had been put up against. This man was more than a
man. The font way he had been a
man.
Kostanen county, and Wozniak
meeting of the W. C. T. I. was held
with Mrs. F. E. Forms Tuesday afternoon.
bull, with a membership of treat-
Mrs. Mabel Younger, who is employed in Ireland, always dry good store, is closing all her home in Osmany.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Johnson are moving to Fort Wayne.
Mrs. Harold Kelly, of Menton, visted
Friends late Saturday.
Mrs. R. G. Douse, of Springfield, O.
and R. M. Blyd, of Adrian, Mich., are
the guests of Mrs. James Boudreau.
Joseph Todd and J. W. Steinbach
transacted business in Fort Wayne or
Tuesday.
Wilo Feller and Oral Fusterer, of Procton, were the guests of friends here once summer.
Paul Wright was the great of his mother, Mrs Flint Wright, at Preston, Middlesbury.
Mrs John Chapman und Miss Vera
Balthas vollert in Fue Wiyan on Mon-
day.
Mr. and Mrs G. R. Rodbaugh, of Milford, were the guests of Wurwaw Friends Month.
Mr. and Mrs. Hurty Finley left on Monday for Vishal, N. C., where they will attend the runter.
Clem Brogan and Mick Johnson, of Naghamee. United Friends Bene over Sindur.
The Anna Klinger has returned home from a visit with relatives at Bingham.
Fred Schubert and Herbert Stahlbein of Nat Wayne, were the guests of friends here over Sunday.
Miss Corinne Vandegrand returned Saturday to her home in Peru, after visitation.
Mrs. M. Gaskell, of Bourbon, is the most of William Dabrock.
Bryan Chen and Wesley Linha have accepted positions in this Electrician works.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Johnson had 94
Wayne, is the guest of Wes, Jenna
Fiber.
M. A. Frankford and daughters,
Tuftsia and Mackey are the grunts of
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Mills at altair.
The Two Tailer delivery wagon,
the two-wheel wagon, is a street car. In East 1st Street center,
one of the vogues, leading off at one end of the vogue, learning off at another. The vogue goes on a nine-mile route. A Nice boy will drive her wagon.
The running expenses of the city of Warsaw for last year, was 3,937,100 more than not incurred. The people of Warsaw, who alone, with whole-occupation, were 3,937,100.
"This time he has invented a pastime!" Ms. R. Bronson has said. Mrs. I. Bronson has returned being from Gloucester, where she was embroiled in the death of her sister, Mr. William Bronson.
Chateau, T. Cater, aged 64, anna,
died in home, in Earl Court street,
Tuesday morning. His death was due
to Bird's disease.
After a long Christmas vacation the
Zeeland Reading club met at the home of
Miss Holloway Tuesday.
Harvey Wicken, who has been com-
mitted to the hospital for four weeks
with pneumonia, returned to his house,
in Prague. Thursday.
Organization val and $2,223,000 changed
in Kansas City county footwear.
The annual magnification of the cam-
sels of the Kid Meen hold Monday,
october 1.
Waltmann Shaffer Instructed American
in Kita Green Moulaye
Mrs. Charles Thornton and Mrs. Augustine Gaine, of Paceleton, visited with friends late Tuesday.
The "re-roads of East Market street died a plumb on Monday evening with the city council, asking that Market street be moved to the city limits.
E. A. God was in Chicago Tuesday
in business.
An ordinance was passed by the city
except the law like all England,
and we don't want Scotland Yard to be making foods of themselves. That's not usual."
"Certainly, Bob." The old and fellow student said. "Well, do anything in our power to assist the authorities. But—but a bit is too much. I can't get it."
"How Notte will chuck it?" and the man looked up. "I'll tell you all about it." and nothing ever happened to you. And new you've got it. Thick and strong."
"Joy you, Jane! Just think of it. You're a man. You're a man. Mr. Hammage's advice I should be able to show my innocence but it's not easy. Right now, right now, right now, I looked so grim I thought I might have been living in my sleep and killing people."
It couldn't be acting. It was too confoundedly gruping.
My heart swirled into my books, and my new impulse was to apologize and reease one. But I told myself I must be a teacher. I must be the laughing man of Britain.
The light from the dinner table condiments was not very good, and to cover my contours I got up, waked to the door and wilted on the staircase. The oven plate came tumbled down, and I stood scanning the three faces.
Well, I made nothing of it.
A little thing, holding cray on a second,
that I could have had my eyes on my ears at the time and misused it. But I
The clock on the mainplace struck 10 o'clock.
the three faces around to change be-
fore my gaze and reveal their gestures. The young one was the interpreter.
Now I can creatively read with enthusiasm the guest. His bird. I could hear him and hear the Buddyer to the floor.
His kid had get the bullet in Karoze. The jumping man makes failures even when he is on the ground and looks at them. He hides a face, only a blinding smile that he could assume when heed. That chap killed him. He was buried with his bats he had been Lord Allon of the night before; perhaps not. If it wasn't murder, I suspect he was the real killer. He left the candle on bin. Seward said he lined, and I could imagine how the adoption of a big night up now, the old man was the piece of the story.
No he womens brain, toy, cool, collectibles, as rubbish as a stream hammer. Now that my eyes were opened I wooded where I had been the observant. And when I saw eyes eyes eyes had the inhuman illumination of a bird's.
"I however Pranl will bear the trouble you,
I ought to tell you that the Athlete for the last hour has been in one hand."
These weeks later, as all the world knows, we were to war. I joined the new army, the first week and, ending with my Marriage experience, got a cap that made me available to fight. It felt that done my best, I think, because I put on blanks.
THE NEW
WARSAW NEWS.
(Special Correspondence)
(Special Correspondence.)
Miss Helen Cratchney, of Piccorn,
the guest of Miss Juline Deeh
last week.
Mrs. Guy Allipanitch and daughter, of North Manchester, visited Friends If the only Saturday.
The officers of Chilome lodge. Daughters of Rebekah, were installed Tuesday evening.
Washington council No. 18, and Wur-
mentary commentary No. 19, K. E., teld a
joint institution at the Ansonian hall.
The building is in connection with.
Warren W. R. C., No. 184, met at
G. A. R. hall on Wednesday opening
and inscribed officers.
Kosciusko lodges, I. O. O. K., had its regular installation of officers Wednesday day evening.
Watson business houses now close
at 8 p.m.
L. R. Weaver left Tuesday for St.
Mike, Mo., on a business trip.
George Nicky is critically ill at his house, in West Market street.
The Warrior city school responded Monday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Mottor spent Sunday in Wahwah.
Ralph N. Brown and Mary F. Atkinson, both of Warranty, were matted on
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a gang of desperate outlaws who long had terrorized the country surrounding their mountain home?
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Q That is the job assigned to Henry de Spain, young, good looking, a crack shot and who knows no fear. He accepts the task and meets Nan, a high-spirited niece of the leader of the band
There are many thrilling adventures in the war that follows--hand-to-hand combats, pursuits, captures and escapes through all of which is interviven his growing love for the mountain lass.
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VOL. LXXXVIII.
WAR'S RESULT TO BE TOPIC AT SESSION
That the present order of things is coming to an end with the termination of the world-war is the belief of Judge J. F. Rutherford, who arrived in Oakland last night to attend the convention of the International Bible Students' Association, of which he is president.
The present convention is one of a series which started in Boston August 1, and which has moved westward, stopping at Aurora, Illinois, and Tacoma, Washington. Next week the convention and delegates will be in Los Angeles, terminating the present trip. All the delegates travel at their own expense, special trains being provided for the purpose. Several hundreds have attended all the conventions held this year, which are held particularly for the intensive study of the Scriptures.
SUCCEEDS RUSSELL
Judge Rutherford stated this morning that something better is coming after the war, and what that something is he will explain at his public lecture on "Ase We At the End of the World?" to be given at the municipal auditorium tomorrow afternoon. This lecture has aroused a great deal of interest wherever it has been given, and it is expected that several thousand persons will be in attendance.
Judge Rutherford succeeded Pastor Russell to the presidency of the association, after the founder's death last winter. The judge has been intimately connected wtih the work for the last ten years, having devoted both his time and his money to the propagation of the association's work. No salaries are paid to any members of the association, and no collections are taken up. The work is conducted solely by voluntary contribution.
This afternoon Judge Rutherford addressed the convention on the subject, "The Harvest Truly is Plenteous." The last of the four parts of the mammoth photo-drama, Creation, will be given in the auditorium this evening.
According to Judge Rutherford, the circulation of the association's publications is greater than that of any other books with the exception of the Bible. Last year more than 50,000,000 copies of one magazine were distributed free.
IMMERSION PLANNED.
Tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock the baptismal service followed by water immersion will be held at Piedmont Baths. The convention will come to a close at 7 p.m. with the love feast, and the delegates will prepare to leave for Los Angeles.
Judge Rutherford said the Bible Students' Convention was different than many other conventions of like nature in that it took no money out of the town. No collections of any kind have been taken up during the stay of the convention here.
SOUVENIR OF ANCIENT OAK FOR HEESEMAN
REPORT AT CAMP
A silver-mounted gavel, suitably engraved, was presented to Heeseman by members of the park board at a banquet held in his honor last night at Hotel Oakland. Those present were President Walter Cole, Dr. S. H. Buteau and Dr. L. F. Herrick, directors of the park board, and Lee S. Kerfoot, superintendent of the playgrounds.
Charles J. Heeseman, who retired as a member of the board of park directors July 1, is the proud possessor of the first relic to be shaped from the old oak tree that stood in the city hall plaza until the first of this year, when it came to a natural death and was removed to make way for young. "Quercus."
Scores of men. reporting for training today at the second reserve officers' training camp which opens at the Presidio Monday found the routine of registering working with clocklike precision. Profiting by the experience of the first camp, army officers in charge are fully prepared to handle the 1600 men who will train at the second camp. Candidates will report today, tomorrow and Monday, and it is understood a few have been granted permission to report as late as the first week in September.
REED CAMP HEAD
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 25. Major Elvin C. Reed was today designated commander of the second officers' training camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Ind. He was a senior instructor in the first camp. Major Reed was chosen after General Glenn had recommended Colonel Gignilliat, because the latter had already been assigned to a post in the national army.
TO OPEN SESSION
The second annual assembly of the California College of Divine Science will open for a three-day session beginning tomorrow. Three meetings each day will be held in the headquarters at 727 Fourteenth street with the teachers and graduates giving the addresses.
KRYPTOKS
Woman Battles for Existence on 10 Cents a Day
While the high cost of living has been causing consternation among housewives, the discovery has been made that in a squalid basement abode in the midst of more affluent surroundings, Mrs. Elizabeth Clark, 67 years old, has been endeavoring to eke out existence on ten cents a day. Neighbors who became acquainted with the situation and notified the police of the Northern station.
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CHAS.H.WOOD
Patrolman William Halde man, who was assigned to the investigation, went to the aged woman's address, 960 Fifty third street. His report, which will be referred to the Associated Charities, recites that his "survey of the conditions of the place she calls home" brought to light that the aged woman is dependent upon charity and that she "drags out a weary existence amidst the squalor of the basement." He found, he says in an interview, that Mrs. Clark is allowed 6 a month by the charitable organization, with wood and coal. Of the allowance 3 goes for rent, leaving $3 for sustenance.
LEADERS MARKED BY VIGILANTES
BUTTE, Mont., Aug. 25.—Warnings similar to the one found on the body of Frank Little, murdered I. W. W. leader, have been sent to R. F. Dunne, leader in the Metal Trades Council strike movement, and Joe Shannon and Tom Campbell, prominent in the Metal Mine Workers' Union.
The labor leaders today appealed to the police for protection.
The warnings, which were sent through the mails to the men at Finlander Hall, union headquarters, were written in the same hand as the warning found on Little's body. They carry the initials D. C. S., standing it is believed, for Dunne, Campbell and Shannon.
Dunne and several other strike leaders have been made deputy sheriffs and given permission to carry a gun. They have a bodyguard all the time and the places where they sleep are kept a secret. The three men said today they did not fear the warnings and would not lessen their activities.
ENEMY ALIENS CAUSE STRIKE
NEW YORK, Aug. 25.—Employment of enemy aliens on government work in shipyards at the port of New York is one of the chief grievances the thousands of striking mechanics have against their employers, it was alleged by J. J. McIntee, business agent of the International Association of Machinists. He declared the strike would be long unless the government intervened.
"All that we ask," McIntee said, "is that the government remain neutral in regard to its labor contracts. We do not want to have employed on government jobs men whose loyalty and fealty to the United States is a matter of question.
"If Secretary Daniels wishes to be fair in this matter he will, in the first place, insure that no enemy aliens are employed on the so-called repairs of troopships which the government intends to place in operation in the near future.
"We would like to settle this strike tomorrow, but we cannot do so, so long as the employers continue to be obstinate."
GRANTS PASS, Ore., Aug. 25. Two attempts were made last night, it was learned here, to damage the Southern Pacific tunnel at Wolf Creek, nineteen miles from here. The first attempt was frustrated by guardsmen who fired forty-five shots at a gang of men prowling in the brush near the tunnel. The men returned the fire, but no soldiers were hit. After the fight, which lasted fifteen minutes, the prowlers disappeared in the woods. An hour later four men appeared in an automobile near the tunnel, but when challenged by soldier guards put off at full speed.
PALO ALTO CAMP ORDER MUST STAND
S. P. IS MENACED
SLAYS FAMILY
Representative Ka'n of Californias sent a telegram to Mayor James Rolph of San Francisco today to that effect after a conference with Major General Scott, chief of staff and other army officials.
IDABEL, Okla.. Aug. 25.—The bodies of Ward Briton, a farmer of Ringgold, thirty-five miles northwest of here; his wife, infant son and cousin, George Hughes, were found in the Briton home by neighbors. Idabel officers who investigated reported that apparently Eriton had killed himself after shooting the other three. It is believed he was temporarily insane.
The War Department will not modify its decision to transfer the Fortyfirst division national guard troops from Palo Alto to Charlotte, N. C.
However, if a water-borne sewer system can be built at Camp Fremont for 80,000, as California business men say it can be, the army department will not abandon the 400,000 camp, sending to it at some future date, probably by winter time, another division of troops. The Forty-first division, originally destined to train at Fremont, has been ordered to a cantonment at Charlotte, N. C., Secretary Baker refusing to countermand his order, made immediately upon receipt of injunction threats from officials of the California State Board of Health.
RANCHER IS HURT
Officers at Camp Fremont look for a troop movement about September 1. Records, sent down from the Presidio and to be installed in Major-General Liggett's headquarters, are being packed up again and will be shipped back to San Francisco along with army clerks and an office force. Officers of the medical and hospital corps say that they have received orders which indicate an empty Camp Fremont for some time to come. Men, sent here to man the big base hospital, capable of holding 1500 patients, are getting ready to move again.
DELAY WOULD BE FATAL TO WAR PLANS
ONTARIO. Aug. 25.—"Devil's dance floor"—so named because of frequent fatal accidents due to the slippery surface of the highway—claimed another victim today in the person of W. A. Moore, well-to-do rancher, who was fatally hurt when a car skidded into his ranch wagon. Moore was knocked from his seat and the automobile passed over his body.
John S. Dunnigan, clerk to the board of supervisors, San Francisco, is on his way to Washington to tell the army men that a modern waterborne sewer system may be built for the additional expenditure of $18,000, making it possible to eliminate the latrine system over which western business men, health officials and Washington army officials battled
Late reports from Washington indicate that Camp Fremont will be in use for troops by the time that cold weather sets in. These troops will, in all probability, be transferred from American Lake, Wash., numb- hering only a part of the division stationed there.
Representative Kahn has sent to Mayor Rolph of San Francisco, one of the leaders in the telegram battle to save Camp Fremont, a message saying that the War Department would regard it fatal to its plans to have four week's delay entailed in putting a proper sewerage system into Palo Alto camp. It is regarded here that this may indicate the government's wish to have Fremont ready immediately for service and that the long wait for winter and cold weather may not follow. Western estimates place the construction time at two weeks.
That the recreation commission at Camp Fremont will not abandon plans is the statement issued today by James R. Williams, war representative of training camp activities. Williams believes that a large body of soldiers will be at the local cantonment within a short time and is continuing his plans for a large recreation center at the San Francisquito creek park, near the camp. Williams is looking for a permanent office headquarters.
PROMISES MADE TO BOARD; NOTHING DONE
Representative Kahn. Senator Phelan and Aacting Secretary of Interior Alexander Vogelsang, a former San Franciscan, join in bewailing someone's blunder and the consequent danger to Camp Fremont. Dr. George Ebright, head of the State Board of Health, and who has been accused of bringing about the present trouble through his orders against the latrine system, wrote the following letter to Governor Stephens, explaining his side of the controversy:
"Captain Fleischhauer informs me that in spite of everything he could do nothing materialized from Dunnigan's promises. Dunnigan represents a committee of business men of San Francisco. Two weeks ago I called his attention to the fact that it was urgently necessary that his committee and San Francisco should do something to get the matter straightened out or the Board of Health would have to enjoin the military authorities if it came to a show down. I was informed by him that he thought the military authorities could take care of themselves and he continued to do nothing but promise anything he saw fit to Captain Fleischhauer. I was finally informed Friday by Colonel Littell that the orders of August 3 prided for complete sewerage system. I immediately interviewed Captain Fleischhauer, who informed me that orders of August 3 received by him provided for the construction of a sewerage system large enough to take care of everything, but that only the connection should be made for water for baths and kitchens and specifically stated that pit latrines should be continued. I then sent a telegram to Colonel I. W. Littell reading as follows:
"The real trouble came further back. Dunnigan, clerk of the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco, had been promising the army everything in the way of sewerage systems and water supply systems.
Bootlegging Into Oregon by Pullman Employee Charged
Pullman Car Company officials here are investigating charges, made in Oregon, that their train employees have been doing a-thriving bootlegging business for some time. According to news from Portland, D. E. Stevens, Pullman car conductor under arrest in the northern city for alleged bootlegging, is said to have confessed. He is alleged to have made the claim that almost every employee of the corporation, working on the trains between Oakland Pier and Portland, is guilty of bootlegging.
"Instructions August 3 expressly provide for use of latrines at Camp Fremont. Unless orders are received by officer in charge of construction
According to word from the north, state, city and county officials are preparing to war on what is termed a serious situation. Other arrests, in addition to that of Stevens, lend credibility to the claim made by northern officials that the traffic is wide-spread and its organization extensive.
CLUB TO HOLD FLAG-RAISING
Patriotic exercises will accompany a flag raising ceremony tomorrow afternoon, when members of the Steinway Terrace and Boulevard Park Improvement Club dedicate a new flagpole at Forty-first avenue and Mera street. Prominent men of Oakland and nearby cities have been invited to witness the ceremony.
The program includes opening remarks by W. E. Rowlands, president of the club, who introduces Edwin W. Woodward as chairman of the day. Patriotic pieces by the Fremont High School band will precede a poem, written and read by Fred Emerson Brooks. The Lawrence Brothers Quartet follows, after which the raising of the flag will occur. Mrs. Lucile Hartsook and Miss Gertrude Martin will raise the flag, while the band renders the national anthem.
Professor H. D. Bracefield, principal of Fremont High School will give a patriotic address, following which Miss Barbara Miller is scheduled to render a vocal solo. Emile Cordinal will give a tenor solo. The audience will close the exercise with a rendition of "America."
Officers of the club are as follows: President, W. E. Rowlands; vice president, Dr. Guy Brown; secretary, L. Ernest Phillips, and treasurer, Mrs. Lucile Hartsock. The committee in charge of the exercises includes: Chairman, Edward W. Woodward, L. Ernest Phillips, E. C. Sydes, secretary, Mrs. Effie Martin and Mrs. Alice B. Cox.
OUTING PLANNED
Two hundred Native Daughters of the Golden West from Bahla Vista parlor, Oakland, will hold a family outing at Pinehurst tomorrow, for which all arrangements have been completed by a committee composed of Miss Louise McDougall, chairwoman; Miss Eva Pine and Miss Evelyn Johannsen. Dancing, prize waltzes and other attractions have been arranged for.
Memorial service will be held at the Salvation Army Hall, 533 Ninth street, Oakland, Sunday, August 26. at 8 p.m. for Major Tanner, the late matron of the Army Bulah Home for Girls in Oakland, who died Wednesday, August 22d. The major was a successful officer of the army for over thirty years. She had been stationed at the Oakland home for tht past nine years.
That Secretary Baker believed the new sewer system would cost $500,- 000 is indicated in a statement issued by Senator Phelan yesterday. Senator Phelan has been working hard for California's retention of the cantonment. The message from the Senator is in part as follows:
at Camp Fremont within twenty-four hours to dispose of use of latrines and construct acceptable sewer I will
BELIEVED COST WOULD REACH $500,000.
HARBOR WORK FUNDS SHORT, KEITH HOLDS
"The facts are that the quartermaster-general and chief of staff reported to the secretary that the State Board of Health, on August 17, threatened to enjoin the army from the use of Camp Fremont unless a waterborne drainage system was installed, which was estimated to cost $500,000 and which would take from one to two months to construct. The secretary had no criticism whatever to make of the State Board of Health, but said it would be poor economy to spend that amount in completing Camp Fremont when the department had a vacant camp at Charlotte, N.C. By sending the Forty-first division to Charlotte, the department would save a month or more awaiting the completion of Camp Fremont, and in any event the department had no intention of keeping the Forty-first division in California for a longer period than six weeks. So he approved the recommendation of the quartermaster to close the camp just as it was."
Despite the probable addition of 45,000 to the harbor funds by release of the cash bond in the appeal of the Merritt waterfront suits, the city will fall short 62,667 in the amount necessary to fulfill its contract obligations on harbor improvements this year, according to W. W. Keith, former harbor manager, who resigned last July.
Security Bank ELEVENTH and BROADWAY
It was this construction of the situation which caused Commissioner Morse to oppose the budget in its adoption by the council. He protested that he was not allowed a sufficient sum to carry on the work of the department.
Including the budget allowance of 4,962 with the probable net cash receipts over the waterfront, the total amount available for necessary work is estimated at 38,295, said by Keith to be wholly inadequate for what will be demanded.
The $45,000 put up as bond money in the suits was a remant of bond money voted by the people years ago to start harbor development and it can only be used for restricted purposes. The city is under obligation to do dredging work in the Key Route Basin adjacent to the Albers plant, and to maintain certain property. New sheds and repairs are considered necessary at this time in addition to the acquisition of dredging pipe.
The budget allowance this year was based upon an estimated revenue of $96,000 from the waterfront leases and tolls and wharfage.
PART OF BONDS.
THIS BANK WILL BE OPEN EVERY SATURDAY EVENING FROM 6:30 TO 8:00 O'CLOCK TO RECEIVE SAVINGS DEPOSITS
Keith points out that the figures are misleading for the reason that approximately only one-third of that amount will actually be available. Hc cites that the other two-thirds must be refunded to companies operating over the leaseholds to reimburse them for improvements made by them and which are chargeable to the city under their contracts.
As an example of the situation confronting the city, Keith recites the following:
"For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917, the total earnings from dockage, tolls, wharfage and rentals amounted to 104,976.89. Of this amount 40,075.95 was paid back to the Sunset Lumber Company, Howard Company and Albers Milling Company on account of construction in accordance with the terms of their leases. $25,219.49 represents charges accrued against numerous shipping concerns for use of shipping facilities of the Southern Pacific Company, the
REDDING, Aug. 25.—A violent eruption of Mount Lassen. California's volcano, which began at 5 o'clock yesterday, was reported today by campers arriving here. The eruption was not visible here because of the pall of forest fire smoke hanging over this vicinity.
The campers, who were eight miles from the crater, heard a rumble and roar and the earth quivered. A column of smoke shot far above the atmospheric cloud which hung over the crater.
New Eruption of Lassen Is a Violent Shock
This is the 144th eruption of the volcano during the last three years, according to count kept by observers here.
REVENUE FIGURES.
Western Pacific and the E. K. Wood Lumber Company leaving a balance of $39,681.45 as the actual cash receipts or about 26 percent of the total accruals.
"Providing the tonnage passing through the port of Oakland keeps pace with last year, which is doubtful, due to abnormal conditions brought about by the war, the total port revenue would again reach 100,000 in round figures. Apply a more liberal percentage, say 30 percent. or even one-third of the total as actual cash receipts, 33,333 coupled with the budget allowance of 4,962, would make the total allowance for harbor improvement for the fiscal year, 38,-295 or $62,667 short of enough to cover the budget provisions.
"Last year there was apportioned out of the tax levy73,280.90 and a further allowance of30,000 to be derived from port revenue or a total of
LEWISTON, Ida., Aug. 25.—Victor J. McCone, Socialist party secretary of Oregon, is under arrest here today charged with treason. McCone was taken into custody by Captain W. P. Morse, commanding federal troops here, after it had been charged he came here from Portland to cause discord in labor circles and to work against the selective draft law.
TREASON CHARGED
A Lost Opportunity Returns
NEW POLICE HEAD WILL 'HARMONIZE'
has been denied many who would have liked to do so. We fill that desire by maintaining two evening classes a week. Phone Oak. 1131. Oak. Institute of Law, Syndicate Bldg.-Advertisement.
Chief of Police J. H. Nedderman who will assume the duties of his new position on September 1, plans to put forth his best efforts to harmonize the workings of the department which has been in a state of internal upheaval for many months during the bickerings of the council over the question of who should be chief. With the unanimous endorsement of Sergeant Nedderman to head the department, the council, it appears, is ready to work together to back up the new chief in any policies that may be determined upon.
Whether or not there will be any radical changes in the hitherto policy of the administration as carried out by retiring chief Walter J. Peterson, has not been announced. For his part Chief Nedderman has expressed a desire to bring about such monious conditions as will reflect to the highest efficiency and with credit to the city.
"I am ready and willing to assume the responsibilities entrusted to me by the council as head of the police department," said Chief Nedderman. "My appointment came unexpectedly to me although I had consented to become a candidate for appointment following the resignation of Chief Petersen. I did not particularly seek the job but when it was offered I accepted.
"As to the future policy of the department I am not prepared at this time to make any statement. That will be determined later. However, my first effort will be toward monizing the department to the end that we all can work for the best interests of Oakland."
Between now and the first of the month Chief-elect Nedderman will put in his time at the city hall getting in touch with the inner affairs of his office. He will be under the tutelage of Senior Captain J. F. Lynch who whom he has worked for many years and, until recently, at the northern station. Captain Lynch has been acting chief since August 1 when Ollie Petersen went to Arcadia in county of Battery E.
Probable transfer of officers and patrolmen may include Captain Clyde Bock who is now at the Central station, and changes in the inspection department. Present acting inspectors, four in number, Frank Nettle John Gannaw, William Smith and Frank Roesick, may be put back on the street and their places in the per office filled with other patrolmen if this is considered necessary.
Hear Hon. J. F. Rutherford OF NEW YORK
"ARE WE AT THE
END OF THE WORLD?
and the Relation of the War Thereto
Judge Rutherford has spoken to large audiences in all the principal cities of the United States, Canada, England and at the world's largest colleges.
Auditorium Opera House, 3 P. M., Sunday, Aug.26
ADMISSION FREE
Can "U" Sink a "U" Boat?
FULL DETAILS IN TO MORROW'S TRIBUNE
The picturesque sight of sixty members in bathing suits undergoing the solemn rite of Water Immersion will be witnessed by several hundred members of the International Bible Students Association at Piedmont Baths this morning. The water immersion, signifying the washing away of sin and the birth into a new life is optional with members of the association, and this morning's baptism will be the largest ever held at one time on the Pacific Coast.
Today is the concluding day of the convention in Oakland, most of the delegates leaving tomorrow to attend the last of the conference in Los Angeles. The main purpose of the convention is that members of the association may come together for purposes of intensive Bible study.
The feature of the convention will be the address this afternoon by Judge J. F. Rutherford on "Are We at the End of the World?" This lecture is free to the public and will be held in the Municipal Auditorium.
LECTURE CRITICIZED
A Voice From the Trenches German Defeat Only War Cure
By G. David Stelling.
LONDON, Aug. 25.—He wore three chevrons above the elbow and two little perpendicular stripes of gold below, and on his face the look of a man who has seen death. I met him in the tube lift at Charing Cross and prevailed on him to come and share a war lunch with me at my club.
It was our third meeting since the war broke out. The first was in August of 1914, when he announced he had been accepted in the ranks of a famous battalion of the London regiment. The second time was in a rat-infected, German-built dug-out near Loos, in September, 1915. Our meeting and greeting was a hurried one, for various reasons, of which the Boches' seven-to-one superiority of shell power was not the least.
So we met again in a tube lift. He was on leave and I, being a "crock," was engaged in a fairly comfortable job at Battalion depot. I felt apologetic and humble before this veteran of the trenches. I had known him well in the days before national life was a struggle and when he used to write articles for a weekly journal, which lived mainly on its unfaith. It didn't believe in patriotism and it didn't believe in the empire. It didn't believe in religion and it didn't believe in humanity—except foreign humanity, of course. If it had a motto that motto was "Whatever is, is wrong." My friend, who was young, enthusiastic, sincere and rebellious against the inequalities of the social
the trenches. And all the important good that centuries of Christianity and the English tradition have instilled into our national character comes out of them, That's why I have never accepted a commitment. I love my men too much to get separated from them in the way that you people are, near as you get to them sometimes. Our mode of life is in its way an epitome of ideal democracy. It's all for all and none for himself. Two things make it possible. We're all working for one end; and we're living under a rigid discipline which we accept cheerfully because we realize how absolutely essential it is."
"That was before I had any experience of life," he replied. "I may have been almost an academic anarchist in those faraway days before I knew anything. But I have learned a lot since then. Anarchy might be possible to a race of intellectuals without the human emotions. But human beings want some sort of rule. Otherwise they don't progress; they follow the line of least resistance. That is one of the two big lessons that war has taught me."
I smiled. "You were very nearly an anarchist once," I said.
"I used to be a pacifist," he said, "was against armaments and military preparations and all that. I know now that we pacifists of the old days
"And what is the other?"
DECORATE QUINAN LAD FIGHTS BULL
Fred J. Halton, Pacific Coast representative of the Hawaii Promotion committee, will address the Advertising Bureau of the Oakland Chamber of Commerce at the weekly luncheon next Tuesday at the Hotel Oakland. His address will practically be a travelogue through the Hawaiian Islands and will be illustrated by both still and motion pictures, the very latest that have been taken in the islands.
All of the wonderful features of the islands will be shown, including views of the volcano of Kilauea, both by
LONDON, Aug. 25.—The first list of those on whom the King has conferred the newly created Orders of Companions of Honor and Order of the British Empire, was issued last night. The list of new Companions of Honor which is a comparatively new one, is headed by Lieutenant-General Jan Christian Smuts and includes K. B. Quinan of California, who is mentioned for "special work in connection with the explosives supply of the ministry of munitions." Many women are among those who received honors.
night and by day and in moving picture reels. The volcano was more active at the time that these were taken than at any time within the last quarter of a century.
Halton will tell how these features advertised Hawaii and how Hawaii advertised these features.
CHARDON, O. Aug. 25.—It's a long way to Barcelona, Spain, but it means nothing to fourteen-year-old Herbert Hosmer
Herbert sought to feed a bull a nice ripe apple. The bull raged. Quick as a flash Herbert grasped the bell ring of the infuriated bovine and succeeded in landing squarely on its back. Roaring and snorting, the bull raced about the lot. It stopped suddenly and Herbert was projected through the air for a spell and then landed hard. It looked like it was all over with Herbert, but the lad fought gamely. When the bull charged he rammed his little hands into the animal's nostrils and gripped tight. The bull sank to its knees and Herbert took a chance and raced for the fence, made it, and vaulted lightly ever to safety. Herbert breathlessly told the story of the fight to his father.
The elder Hosmer seized a shotgun and killed the bull.
Marvelous New Collections of Fall, 1917
The sum was divided as follows: Common school districts, 751,331.18 (82.49 per capita; high school districts, 582, 680.81 (1.88 per capita); other districts excluding road and reclamation districts 11,534.11 ($0.037 per capita).
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Of the 19,502,836.14 received by the fifty-seven counties of California during the fiscal year 1916 for road, common school, high school reclamation and other district taxes, the share of Alameda county was 1,346,546.10, or $4.34 per capita.
New Tailored and Demi-Tailored
This address has aroused considerable criticism wherever it has been given, and in Tacoma, where Judge Rutherford spoke last week, the most prominent minister in the town jumped upon the platform and called the judge a liar.
An enterprising newspaper man, who happened to be near the stage, managed to obtain a fine photograph of the minister shaking his fist in the judge's face.
In the belief of Judge Rutherford the present world is to come to an end with the termination of the world war, and the establishment of a new order of things which will be "Christ's Kingdom upon earth." The judge has been accused of being against the government because he asserts that the bond issue will never be paid.
WHAT DIFFERENCE?
"But what difference will that make in a world where money has no significance?" the judge exclaimed. "If a new order of things is to come within a few years it will make no difference whether they are paid or not."
Judge Rutherford has spoken in every city of consequence in the United States and Canada, and has made several lectures, tours to Europe, Australia, and South Africa. The convention ends at 7 o'clock this evening with a Love-feast.
REWARD McGRATH
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 25.—Edward McGrath, former superintendent of mails in San Francisco, who was suspended two years ago and subsequently reinstated as chief clerk, has been appointed assistant superintendent of the railway mail service in the New England states. McGrath's selection for this important post came as a reward for his services in improving the railway mail service in many eastern states. A number of innovations were introduced by him which caused increased speed in the
transportation of the mails.
system, was one of the most brilliant contributors to the columns of this journal. The realities of the barbarians invasion of Belgium sobered him and he was among the first to forsake the pen for the rifle. I had enlisted in another battalion of the London regiment at the same time, but the fortunes of war took him to France eight months earlier than me
My old impressions of the man rushed back to my mind as we walked together along Whitehall. What, I wondered, had become of all his early shibboloths? I asked him about himself. A sniper's bullet through the thigh had brought him back as far as an inland base hospital for a fortnight, and a bomb splinter in the face had caused a longer sojourn at Boulogne four months later.
"Except for my three months in hospitals and at base camps I have been two and a quarter years in the field," he told me as we walked along. "And how many times have you been home on leave?" I asked.
"This is my second time home," he said. "It's good to be here, isn't it?" "Aren't you getting about fed-up with things out there?" I put the question tentatively. "I was only out about six months myself, so can't judge what war feels like to the man who has had two years of it at first hand."
"Fed up, good heavens, no! I wouldn't have missed it for worlds. Don't misunderstand me. I hate war. I hate bloodshed and suffering and cruelty and all the bloody horror that war brings with it. God, I've had my fill—mangled horses, mangled men, the gasping agony of the gassed, the cries of the gradually dying, the blood-lust of the best men in the heat of battle. But, for all that, I wouldn't change places with the men who have stayed at home. For one thing it's the men you live with. You get down manity when you're living the primitive sort of simple life we lead in
were dreamers in a world of stark realities. Force respects only superior force. We were blind to that, we sentimentalists of the peace era. Now I have learned different, I am fighting force with force. And that is the idea at the back of every man I have ever met in the trenches"
"Yes," I demurred, "but they'd be only too glad to be done with it and get back to their homes and live peaceful lives."
"Of course they would, if they could feel that they'd finished the job they set out to do. But they haven't done that yet.
"The British Tommy is, as a general rule, a reserved and inarticulate person, not given to subtleties of opinion. But he's quite clear on this point—and I've had plenty of opportunities for ascertaining his views. He joined the army mostly of his own free will, because he was vitally conscious that principles to which he was vaguely, subconsciously attached were being outraged. He saw a power that, as he might have expressed it, was 'hitting below the belt.' What has happened since has only confirmed him in his views of Germany. 'Belgium' was only an earnest of the manner in which the Hun carries on war. Tommy isn't a plaster saint by any means, but he does from the very depths of his being abhor the atrocities that have made the name of Germany stink in the nostrils of every right-thinking man. So in his own quiet way he subscribes entirely to the declaration that 'we shall not sheathe the sworn' until the principles for which we entered the war have been established. And he knows that the only way to establish those principles
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