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vol. ci-sro. 29: JW0U BRITISH DESTROYERS AND NINE STEAMERS ARE SENT SOWN BY GERMANS 7ZV, TTfE NRTH SEA Merchantmen Were Being Convoy ed When Attacked by Fleet of Raiding Cruisers LL BUT THREE NEUTRAL Crews Left to Mercy of the Sea 135 British Officers and Men Perished GERMANS LOSE IN THE AIR Several Zeppelins Flying Over France Brought Down (Associated Press War Summary.) Germany scored on the water in Saturday's news developments, which recorded the breaking up of a merchant convoy, in the North Sea. by raiding cruisers that sank two British destroyers affd nine of the 12 convoyed ships. She suffered little less than a disaster in the air, however, when four and probably five Zeppelin airships be lieved to be returning from a raid on England, were brought down in French territory by airplanes and anti-aircraft gun lire. 135 Britisher Perished. The sea tragedy cost the British the lives of 135 of the officers and men on the dstroyers, Avho were left to their fate by the Graan raiders in their haste to escappr as were the ,'ctews o the sinklngf merchantmen. About one sundred of tbe merchant sailors, how ever, are known to have reached the shore in boats or on British patrol craft. All but three of the trading ships were of Scandinavian national ity, most of them apparently small vessels. Darkness .Saved Germans. The character ef the- raiding war ships is not exactly apparent. - The Etiiibh admiralty describes them as wy fait and heavily armed, while Berlin in its report, refers to them kg 'slit sea fighting: forces." They es "ped the vigilance of the ' British Siwrdships under cover of darkness both on their outward and homeward :nps. Air Surer iit Re-versed. Te story of Germany's reverse in e air began with the account of a aid on England last night In" which the bombs the Zeppelins dropped kill en twenty-seven Dersons and ininrp.rl jUr-three others. Reports soon be-j u-vue received, however, of Zep Pei:as being brought down in France, inese were at first supposed to be long to an independent raiding:, fleet, patches from Prance late in the o-r. however, declared them to be the raiders returning from England. -They ' appeared over French territpry, it stated, and were scattered to L,'U.part? of- the country as the aiaim went out, and the French air " lose in swarms to attack them. Made Desperate Strangle. f,P"B" as aInears from , the dispatches. K;f w?re the airships which raided "'and. their struggle to get over '111 an terntory was a long and des- f 0n,e- for those brought down One the sea when tney e"- i. them was chased Ithrough sev W ?lstricts of central France be ,'e,n Anally disposed of. The fcomb i -ne of them dropped any that France seems to indicate Previous- exhausted theIr supply ThaF-r in DMI"rae Plight. flJ Ration of the minor Russian man?nni W" Caught by the Ger" "f PiJ - waters around the Ckilf one T' a,'"uc-'y a aesperate , snn.s peGet'mans have sown mines to thP r - n hound to block n exit i-loi , V,1JSSlans there while they are Uonse forte?-the nrth by their 11 , r taking possession of r-' Jc'h wh,cn Berlin reports say man "? "cording to the Ger- n'", Rtle Contlnne. rtiii-" . . estern fighting front the 'i Fl-,iv are continuing both 1ut J; " arnd in the 'Aisne region, ar" renaw , y operatins of moment w . ,,n none of the other n of a -"" "as -me operations Mention nature to command especial TltR BRITISH VL-n., Berlin A. Y afORTH ATTACK vor of iY 2 (via London) .A )n . Vessels Kn..r,I r tvt coii- ' K.nelaj iiiu "ui w d v orway nav-'i s'"attacked y German emt III .?M Wednesday with iho TO (flnvoy am Vu au the sniP of the Ci,lding rL Pr0lectlng vessels. In Si'nlt Brlti3h destrovers. weri "8h n " "1C "ceptlon of aRmall . . lin k. - ' . 8,,,y stated6!' Eays a German. admir orces suffered no losa STr SBIP V..1BRE OP THE ,UIne in w Of 12 ships , Oct.- 20.-Of 12 ships rdto nnir if0 Norway to Eng IUis. flVe tn ctb 17 by German nntinS a tItalWeI, Norwegian, repre ?anish, t t o MOO tons; two were " British oweaiBft' ne Belgian and So fa, hate8aUHiVors' after strenuous a ti, ua-e arrived "c weBt coast. "lwcul ptaves Fotir Zeppelins v Dow Were Probably the Airships That Took Part in Raid on England Fri day Night, Causing the Loss of 27 Lives Correspondent Says Possibly a Fifth Raider Was Forced Down On the French Front in France, Oct. 2,0. Four German' Zeppelins were de stroyed or forced' to land in various districts of France in the course of a raid undertaken by these hostile air craft during last night. PROBABLY FIFTH RAIDER WAS BROUGHT TO GROUND London, Oct. 20. Reuters correspond ent at British headquarters in France telegraphs that the four Zeppelins brought down in France were airships that had taken part in the raid on England last night. It is believed, adds the correspondent, that a fifth Zeppelin was destroyed at Bourbonne-Les-Bains. fThis nmhahiv refers. to the Zeppelin brought down at Rambervillers, near the Alsatin bor der). . There were eleven Zeppelins in the original group that appeared over French territory, Reuters correspond ent telegraphed later, and they scat tered over various parts of the coun S REMOVAL SSIAN CAPITAL Cabinet Meets-to Hear Premier ' &erensky's Report on His Visit to the Front BEGIN MOVING OCTOBER 25 Revolutionary and Democratic l-'ae tionn of the Government, Ope dally the Extremists, Op posed to Making Change. Petrograd, Friday, Oct. 19. The cabinet met today to hear Premier Kerensky's report on his recent visit to the front and his conversations with generals commanding the north ern front. The chief subject discussed was the evacuation of Petrograd. The premier expressed the belief that the evacuation of Petrograd was not ur gent and should he carried out grad ually, without undue haste. The removal is opposed by the revo lutionary and democratic factions and particularly by the extremists. The beginning of the removal of the government to Moscow is set for Oc tober 25, when the minor departments will leave. The government proper, however, is not likely to move before November 151 PUBLISHER ASSAULTED BY FELLOW DIRECTORS Three Are Arrested Following1 Fight in Editorial Offices Daring Directors' Meeting. Tuscaloosa, Ala., Oct. 20. Percy Williams, Prentis Blackwell and "Wash" Moody, members of the board of directors of the Tuscaloosa News and Times-Gazette, were arrested here late, today after a fight in which Ed ward Ioty, editor of the paper and president of the Alabama Press As sociation, was seriously injured. Doty was taken to a hospital and it was said tonight that he might not re cover. "What little details of the affair that were given out made it appear that a fight followed a controversy over the control of the majority stock of the paper. Williams, Blackwell and. Moo dv recently filed ouster proceedings to remove Doty, from active participation with the paper and today it was said Doty claimed to have obtained a ma jority of the stock. When a crowd, attracted by the fight, rushed into tfie editorial offices late today Doty was unconscious and Moody and. Williams were trying to re suscitate him. The arrests followed. The three directors were charged with the assault. JACOB SON AUTD HIS THREE '. - CO-DBFEKDANTS CONVICTED Found Guilty of Conspiring to Foment Revolution in India. Chicago, Oct. 20. Gustav H. Jacob sen and three co-defendants were found guilty tonight of conspiring to foment a revolution in India. . The defendants were also found guil ty of t actually committing the act of setting on foot a military enterprise. , Besides Jacobsen, the men found guCty .are Albert . Wehde. George Paul Boehm and Heramba Lai Gupta, a Hindu. ' Federal Judge X. M. Lrandls, before whom the case haa been tried, gave final instructions to the jury this af terfioon at 4:26 o'clock, and was in the :o'urt room a 9:255.. -o'clock tonight to receive the verdict, . DISCOS 0 WILMINGTON, IT. Brought n in French Terr itqry try when attacked "after a generai warning was sent out. They dropped no bombs in France. His later state ment said: "The approach of eleven Zeppelins was signalled throughout France late i nthe evening. "At once the air defense squadrons and batteries all over the country were warned the enemy's airships were at tacked and scattered all over France like a flock of frightened birds. "One Zeppelin was brought down at St. Clement, near Luneville, by anti aircraft guns. Two others were brought down or forced, to lWnd, one at Ver geannes (?) ln?the Department of Cote d'Or and the "other at Lamarche, in Haute-Marne. One of these was dam aged by French airmen and the oth er by runs. A fourth Zeppelin, after being chased throughout central France through the districts of Lyons, Dijon and St. Marcelling, was brought down at Gap, in the Hautes-Alpes. "No bombs were dropped in France by the Zeppelins, which were practi (Contlnued on Page Two.) L PRAYER IS SET ASIDE President Designates Next Sunday as Day to PrayEspicially for Success in War HE ISSUES PROCLAMATION Exhorts All the People of the Country to Observe the Day In "Solemn Prayer That God's Blessings May Rest Upon Us." Washington, Oct. 20. President Wil, son by proclamation today declared Sunday, October 28, as a day of prayer for the success of the Americans arms in the war in accordance with the re cent resolution of Congress. Th ePres ident's proclamation follows: "Whereas, the Congress of the United States by a concurrent resolution adopted on the fourth day of the. pres ent nonth of October, in view of the entrance of our nation into the vast and awful which now afflicts the great er part of the: world, has requested me to set -apart by official proclamation a day upon which our people should be called upon to offer concerted prayer to Almighty God for His divine aid in the success pf our arms. "And whereas, it beTiooves a great free people, nurtured as we have been in the eternal principles of justice and right, a nation which has sought from the earliest days of its existence to be obedient to the divine teachings which have inspired it in the exercise of its liberties, to turn always to the Supreme Master and cast themselves in faith at His feet, praying for his aid and suc cor in every hour of trial, to the end that the great aims to which our fath ers indicated : bur power as a people may not perish among men, but be al ways asserted and defended with fresh ardor and devotion and, through the divine blessing, set at alst upon endur ing foundations for the benefit of all the free peoples of the earth; "Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, gladly responding to the wish expressed by the Congress, do appoint October twenty-eighth, Jaeing the last Sunday of the present itionth. as a day of supplica tion and prayer for all the people of the nation, honestly exhorting all my countrymen to observe the appointed day, according to their several faiths, in solemn prayer that God's blessings rriav rest nnon the hls-h task wHtxh i. laid upon us, to the end that the cause! ror wnicn we give our lives ana treas ure may triumph and our efforts be blessed with high achievement." MeKINNEY, NOT KINZEY. ONE OF SEAMEN LOST ON ANTILLES Washington, Oct. 2a. J. C McKinney, a second class naval seaman, of New ark, N. J., was among the men lost in the torpedoing of the transport Antilles Wednesday by a German submarine, the Navy Department was advised today by Vice Admiral Sims. His name be came confused wih that, of E. f). Kin zey. a seaman , of Water Valley, foiss.; who was reported among the missing, in the first dispatch -from Admiral Sims. Klnzey was saved. No more details of the . sinking of the Antilles had) been received by the department ; late today. Zeppelin In Flames. Paris, Oct. 20. A", .Zeppelin ' was breught down in flames late last night at Rambervillers, near, the , Alsatian border and two others were forced to land. They belonged to a squadron composed ,of a : large number of. Zep pelins which flew over the Vosges.. NINA DAY C, SUN JAY MOiimNG. PEOPLE ARE AGAIN REQUESTED 10 USE I Food Administration Blames the Shortage Upon the Consum ers and . Candy Makers REDUCE SALES TO LATTER Distributing Agencies Urged to Limit Amounts to All Man ufacturers of Sweets Washington, Oct. 20. Blame for the present sugar shortage north of. Sa vannah and east of Pittsburg is placed squarely on consumers and on manu facturers of candies and other sweets. by the Food . Administration. In a statement today, the Food Ad ministration said that had its recent request for the curtailment of the use of sugar been heeded present conditions would not exist and it again warned the people td economise until new sup plies are available. As a preliminary step for conserva tion of sugar against a iurther short age, the Food Administration today sent out a telegram urging reduction of sales to candy 'manufacturers. The warning was Bent to all the sugar dis tributing agencies of the country no tably the American refineries conimit tee of New York and the sugar dis tributing committee of Chicago, which handle cane and bee sugar respective ly. "We consider it essential," the tele gram read, "to reduce consistently the sales of sugar for production of candy. Must be reduced in order to provide for household and allied needs. This re quest applies to manufacturers of gums, cordials, syrups and luxuries. Manufacturers of food products should have preference, condensed milk com panies coming first." . Havana, Oct. 20. -The. special war -tax, ojw sugar promulgatcdUijy deeree of President Menocal today, becomes effective -November I. The tax is di vided into two classes, ordinary and extraordinary. The ordinary tax con sists of a ten-cent levy on each sack of centrifugal sugar, which must be paid by -the producer as soon, as the product is sacked. The extraordinary tax consists of an additional ten ctmts a sack so long as this grade is quoted at three cents or more a pound In Ha vana. Investigate School Strike. New York. Oct. 20. The board of education today ordered an investiga tion of charges that many teachers had encouraged their pupils to engage in the strikes against the Gary school system. These strikes have resulted in riots by thousands of boys and girls in Harlem, the Bronx, Yorkvilie and Brooklyn. Leonard to Join Colors. New York, Oct.' 20. Lieut. Benny Leonard., lightweight champion of the world, who has been commissioned as a boxing -Instructor to United States soldiers in training, will join the col ors at Camp Upton immediately, it was announced tonight. CLAIM SET AT NAUGHT Card Found on German Surgeon Gives Fresh Evidence i Reveals That German Armies Were Mobilised Before the Date Admit ted Federal Agent Arrest Suspect. . Newark, N. J., (Oct. 20. Conclusive evidence that Germany mobilized her forces long before the 'date on which she admits having done so, has been obtained by Ahe arrest by Department of Justice agents of Christopher Schur rer, a graduate of the .University of Leipsic, having degrees iii surgery and arts, it was announced here today. The maifwas in hiding at Lake Hopatcong, where he was working as a laborer. In Schnurrer's effects was found a card issued by the A imperial -. German government, directing him . to report for military duty on. July 17, 1914, a fortnight before Germany started hos tilities on the plea that Russia waa already mobilizing.. .Germany was obliged to admit that some of hef troops were on Belgian soil early in August,, but the Germans, have insisted that their mobilization did not begin until : the latter part df July, or when Russia was found to be preparing her self. .' .. . : " ... ; 3 American Transport Sunk BUY A BOND Now and Fire Your First y Shot at: the Submarine J That Torpedoed It. ' SUGAR AINGLY RW MOBILIZATION OGTOBKR 21, 1917 Liberty Loan Progresses To Threshold of the Two Billion Mark, and Pauses Washington, Oct. 20. T-.e Liberty Loan campaign today progressed to the threshold of official expectation, and paused. Treasury heaids had hoped the $2,000.000,OD0 line would be crossed. Apparently the big total "stopped just short of the mark, with an estimated total of fl.973,000,000. The result means that the huge sum of 1500,000,000 a day will have to be subscribed every day of the remaining week of the campaign, with a handful of millions to spare, if the ?5,000,000,000 goal is reached when subscriptions close next Saturday night. Official returns from the 12 Reserve banks representing subscriptions upon which the two per cent of the sum ap plied for actually has been palu Into the ReserVe banks increased during the day to within less than 11,000,000 of $1,2&0,000.000. As announced by the Treasury tonight, ine official returns and the estimated subscriptions were as follows: uistrict Official Boston $141,300,000 Estimated $175,000,000 660,000,000 155,000,000 150,000,000 95,000,000 25.000,000 375,000,000 100.000,000 55,000.000 65,000,000 18,000,000 100,000,000 New York 540,412,000 Philadelphia .". Cleveland . . Richmond .... Atlanta Chicago St. Louis . . Minneapolis . . Kansas City . Dal Ins San Francisco 33,481,850 144,850,u00 44,307,000 10,642,550 138,999,000 26,746,100 44,000,000 11,902,000 10,048,650 53,051,400 Totals .. . .$1,199,740,550 $1,973,000,000 The $5,000,000,000 total can be attain ed next week, officials asserted, if there be no let-up in the campaign and if districts in the Middlewest, the South- THREE COAST LINE CLERKS DISMISSED Refuse to Obey Orders When Di ' Tecled to Take Place of " Strikers at Richmond UNION MEN REMAIN FIRM Say They Hve No Intention of Return Jnr to Work Until Demands Are Granted Strike Has Caused No Tie-Up. (Special Star Telegram) Richmond, Va., Oct. 20. Three men from the office ot the assistant general freight agent who. had been directed to take the place of striking A. C. L. freight clerks here were promptly dis missed from the service of the com pany when they refused to obey orders, according to information given out to day at the headquarters of the strikers. The strikers assert that tbey have not the slightest idea of returning to work unless their union Is recognized. According to officials of .ne company, no tie-up of freight has yet. occurred along the lines, despite the fact that clerks in half a dozen or more places have already walked out in sympathy. From Florence, S. C.,a telegram came today saying that the entire force of clerks there walked out this morning. Those at Goldsboro, Wilson, Tarboro, Rocky Mount and Jacksonville had al ready responded to the call.- J. J. Forrester, grand president of the Brotherhood, is in charge of the strike. John J. McCarthy, of Norfolk, is assisting him In this territory. Mc Carthy was largely instrumental In the settlement of the Seaboard Air Line clerks' strike recently when recogni tion was accorded the union. EIGHT CLERKS WHO Q.UIT AT FAYETTEVILLE STILL OUT Fayetteyille, Oct. 20. The eight members of the Brotherhood of Rail way Clerks who walked out of the A. C. L. freight offices here yesterday. In sympathy with the strike started in Richmond when a member of the Brotherhood was discharged, are still out tonfrght. One of th striking clerks stated today that thej are fighting lor recognition of the Brotherhood and will not go back until this is secured. FRENCH NATION TO HONOR THE MEMORY OF GlYXEMEU Paris, Oct. "19. (Delayed) The chamber of deputies today silently lis tened to the proposal of Deputy Lasies that the memory, of Captain George Guynemer, the fanous French aviator, be commemorated by placing ah In scription in the pantheon. The pro posal was adopted unanimously every member of the house rising as the vote was taken. - Jacques Dumesnll. under secretary for aviation, announced that every avi atrpn school tomorrow will hold a cer emony in honor of Guynemeri FOUR SUFFRAGETTES ABU ARRESTED OX PICKET DUTY . Washington, Oct. 20. Siiert senti nels of the Woman's Par y resumed picketing the White. House gates today and four of them, including Alice Paul, were ' arrested. They late we're re leased on bond for trial Monday. The pickets went to the White House at the ' hour when government clerks wera leaving work, and a tip crowd had; gathered before the "polico arrived. The only demonstration-wa the cheer ing and hissing of the women as . they were, placed In the patrol wagon. , v -x ' " r : - west and the West are aroused from an apparent apathy which thus far has caused great concern. Liberty Day; it is thought, will be the banner day of the campaign. A total subscription of $1,000,000,000 on this day, next Wednesday, is the goal which hundreds of thousands of work ers are striving to reach. GERMANS BOMBED WITH . LIBERTY LOAN POSTERS American Aviators Yesterday Dropped Tens of Thousands of Posters Over Enemy- Lines. Washington, Oct. 20. American avi ators in France, the Treasury Depart ment announced today, were flying over the German lines today dropping tens of thousands of Liberty Loan posters. Large supplies of the posters were sent sometime ago to General Pershing and arrangements were made to have American aviators on the western, front shower the German lines with them simultaneously with the aerial cam paign of dropping paper bombs from coast to coast in this country today. The posters selected for use on the front depicted Uncle Sam with an army of millions and an airfieet of tremen dous proportions. Another poster se lected for this work was the one de picting the Statue of Liberty. Northdiffe to Keep Job, London, Oct. 20. Lord Northcliffe, the really Chronicle says, it is request ed to announce, has no Intention of re linquishing his appointment as chief of the British mission to the United States. , MADE $20,000 LOAN TO HERMAN Adolf Pavenstedt's Testimony Gives "Additional'interest'to Bolo Pasha Case DERNBURG PUT UP $15,000 But tile Loan to the Late Editor Was Supposed to Have Been Made by Pavenstedt, Then Head of . Amsinck Banking House. New York, Oct. 20. Perley Morse, expert accountant retained by Morton E. Lewis, states, attorney general, to investigate the financial transactions in this country of Paul Bolo Pasha, German spy and propagandist now un der arrest in Paris, made public today testimony .given by Adolf Pevenstedt, former head of the banking house of G. Amsinck and Company, to the effect that he lent $20,000 to the late Her man Rldder, publisher of the New York Staats Zeitung. Pavenstedt has admitted that Bolo's negotiations with Count von Bernstorff, the Germa.i ambassador to the United States, were conducted through him. Amsinck and Company 'handled German funds for Bolo. t ; Pavenstedt'3 testimony concerning the Ridder check was given on Octo ber 12, but not made public until to day "for reasons connected with the purposes of the investigation." It showed that $15,000 of the payment came from Dr. Bernhard ; Dernburg, former German colonial minister and director of German propaganda in this country, but that neither Mr. Ridder nor any member of his family ever knew of Dernburg's connection with the transaction. , Mr. Ridder came to him about the time the ..European war began, Pav enstedt said', and declared he was in serious financial trouble. He asked a loan of $20,0fl0. Without Mr. Rid der's knowledge Pavenstedt went to Dernburg and told him the situation. He said he told Dernburg the Ridders "have always f oHowed a very good course for the German interest here." "Then I asked him if he would put up the money," Pavenstedt testified. "Dernburg replied," he said, "that be cause he wanted him (Pavenstedt) interested, he would give $15,000 if Pavenstedt would give $5,000. "I talked to my partners about it, and the nrrry of Amsinck and Company first advanced the $5,000 with the $15, 000 of Dernburg's, but I afterwards personally took the money from my account because the partners objected to my having it on the books, because it did not' belong, they said, to the business," continued Pavenstedt's tes timony.. , In the. re-organ:zation of the Stat Zettung, which was then effected. Pav enstedt saidr he became a director of the publication. "You were - then the representative, as director, of Dr. Dernburg as well as the Amsinck Company?" Pavenstedt wrs asked. The .witness replied: "Yes. I was supposed to be the only man who iiad given the money." Prior to Dr. Dernburg's departure from the "Cnlted States, payments of interest on the loan were madejto him by Pavenstedt from the earnings of the Staats Zeitung, - the testimony i snowed, After Dernburg left the country, the payments were made to fr. . Heinrich Albert, commercial at tache of the German, embassy at Washington, and upon his departuro I' from the United States, three or four payments -were -.made to 'Kuhn, Loeb and Company,. Pevenstedt. testified, to (Continued on Pago-ZTwo.) DR WHOLE STUitBEIi 39,207 SWEEPING CHANGE WILL BE MADE. Ill DRAFT MACHINERY President Approves Plan Which Will Greatly Lessen Work ,.. of Exemption Boards l WILL CLASS REGISTRANTS Each Will be Assigned to One of. Five Groups According to Liability to Service Washington, Act. 20. A sweeping change in the machinery of the Selec tive Draft, based on division .of the 9, 000,000 remaining registrants" Into flvo classes in order of their, eligibility for military service, was announced today by Provost Marshal. General Crowded Details of the plan, which has been ap nrnva T:. t j . .... cDiuenc wuson, are not ' 'i-.r. disclosed. It is calculated, however. t do away with virtually all the compli cated machinery of the first draft and "iatlB tne operations of the local i r boards hereafter little more than rub- I'A ber stamp proceedings. " :f Th plan was worked out at confer- ences with local and district board of- pi flcials and approved by the various .' Jif State authorities. Its chief features - s '1 are that every registered man will t f know his exact position, and be able to' P'l arrange his- affairs accordingly and f f that no man deemed necessary in any : . t " important industry or needed at home f.M to support his family will be called to ' -Hf. 'it the colors unless the military situation ' i $ is desperate. , , -i-. Regulations Being- Prepared. ' Detail regulations to govern the new - i - rt system are now being made ready for ' .iif distribution to local and district board . -I J1 members. General Crowder, In a for- V i mal statement, assured them that they - fj will be given ample opportunity to fa-' miliarize themselves "with these rem- ' lations before the machinery provided is -called tnto use. - -As the next "calf to the colors is to be made under the new plan, this assurance .is taken to indi cate that the second call Is not to be expected before the first of the year1, although no authoritative statement on this point was available tonight. Crowder Issues Statement. Provost Marshal General Crowder is sued this statement: "With the completion of r the draft of the first army of 687,000 men a new system will be installed for the crear tion of -succeeding armies, which wili greatly lessen the labors of the local and district boards. So, far- has this been accomplished that, it is believed that under the new system 80 per cent ,of the work will be eliminated while the forms to be used will not exceed 20 in number as compared with approx imately 182 forms . which the present system requires. "Along with the reduction of labor there will be provided a system which will classify each one of the nine mil lions of men who have not yet been in duced into military service and each man will have been given his place la the national scheme of defense. Questionnaire to Registrant. "To do this, it has been determined! (Continued on Pag Two.) WEST DECLARED OFF Men at Seattle Agree to Return to Work Tomorrow Morning ' The Portland Trade . tjnion TJt-Steil lar Action Yards Have Been Tied Tp Since the Latter Part of September. Seattle, Wash.,-Oct. 20. The Seattla shipyards, tied up since September 29 by a strike, will resume operations Monday morning. The boiler, makers i the last union of the metal - trades council to take such action, today vot ed 1,457 to 1,239 to return.t work, re versing a decision reached a week ago to stay out until their demands were met in full. STRIKE AT PORTLAND IS r OFFICIALLY DECLARED OFF Portland. Ore., Oct. 20. The ship yards strike in the Portland district, was officially declared off tonight, a majority of the unions involved having voted to return to work. The Federal labor adjustment board left tonight for San Francisco. THREATENED SBIPFIV TIE-l'P WILL BF AVERTED New York, Oct." 20. Through submis sion of all labor questions to a com mittee to be nominated by the Federal government, as agreed upon today by representatives .of boat owners, he threatened shipping' tl4-up of th port oi New York November 1 will be avert ed. This announcement was made to day by Richmond , B. Stevens, chair man of the adjustment commission of the Federal Shipping Board, after a conference with 75. representatives of the New York JBoat Owners Associa tion, the Tow-Boat Exchange, and varv ious railroad companies SHraRD STRIKES III 3; f s 1 '
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