News-Pilot from San Pedro, California • 4

Wednesday Evening October 30 1918 SAN DiA'IL? 'PILOT 1 4 ri I I INFLUENZA NOT iThings that never happen CONQUERED BUT ON THE WANE Need of Caution and Possibility of Drastic Measures WITH YOUR next Brockway grocery order have us deliver some choice fruit or vegetables ---that will help to conserve food for Uncle fighting forces 599 Seventh St Phone 325 Grocery We Rent Guns- Those who enjoy hunting will find that this store renders the best possible service and besides having a complete line of guns ammunition fishing tackle etc we rent guns and issue hunting and fishing licenses FISHERMEN CANNERS SUPPLY CO Exclusive Agent Fairbanks-Morse Marine Engine Fish Harbor Store Sunset 754 415 Beacon St Sunset 161 For Quick Sjale Good Five-Room Modern House 15th Street near Grand Avenue $3000 one third down Balance Easy EP RROI R- BEATON 62? BEACON fit 1 LlliUUiJlj Fire Insurance Phones 188 and 76 Five Sailors Picked Up at Sea in Open Boats SAN FRANCISCO Oct Five members of the crew of the Shipping Board Steamer Dumaru which was struck by lightning 22 miles from Guam October 16 resulting in the destruction of the vessel by an explosion of her gasoline and dynamite cargo are on their way to San Francisco) according to advices received here yesterday The fate of the! others is unknown Government vessels have been dispatched to search for them The 'rescued are Captain Bor-risen Second Officer A Saats Bamfield oiler Gaston and Morris seamen The men were in an open boat when picked up by a government vessel commanded by Captain Barrett The report indicated that all the men got off the Dumara after the explosion but said nothing as to what became of them after they entered the small boats HAS PERHAM WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER 105 if th Street Official watch Inspector Pacific Electric Lenses Duplicated Eyes Tested Our Optical Department is in charge of DR JOSEPH GREGOR Contract for Alameda Shipyard is Canceled WASHINGTON Oct The United States Shipping board has cancelled its contract with the Bethlehem Steel corporation for a $60000000 shipbuinding plant at Alameda Cal Work on the project which amounted practically tp doubling the plant located there was stopped two weeks ago Officials'explained the plant could not be completed before the period of its usefulness would have passed Officials of the shipping board and Emergency Fleet corpo ration were in perfect accord as to the disposition of the plant it was said after the Spanish influenza epidemic was in evidence here certain preparations and drugs were entirely exhaused and although the wholesale houses charged us more than formerly Vhen we re-ordered I am glad to say that neither of our stores advanced a single price on any epidemic said Albert Killian manager of the Beacon drug kores are endeavoring to obtain supplies necessary for the prevention of influenza and no matter what price we are charged there will be no advance in price to our customers While fewer new cases of influenza are being reported it is important that every precaution be taken If you wear a mask wear a smile and if you have forgotten how to smile come in and I'll show you 26 1 Perry Whiting of the Whiting Mead Wrecking company of Los Angeles is in San Pedro today In former years he had an interest in the Hammond Lumber Company Mr company razes most of the structures that are torn down in Los Angeles He said he had run down to see old friends who had removed to this town Pilot Classified Liners Bring Results Used Cars Warren-Detroit 175 Buick Roadster 450 Oldsmobile $1100 Hudson 600 Buick Roadster 475 Used cars always thoroughly overhauled Immediate delivery on new Chalmers Maxwell or Chevrolet SAN PEDRO GARAGE Phillips Keightley No Palos Verdes St Hobbs and Prest-O-Llte Batteries Sunset 167 No 2 521 Pacific A Anto Repair Work of All Kinds Service Car Sunset 218 RE-ELECT Ray Chesebro (IncumbenJ) Police Judge i On Ballot As JUSTICE OF THE PEACE of Los Angeles City Headquarters: 510 Equitable Bldg Main 49 Dr Baldwin DENTIST 108 Sixth Street San Pedro Phone 976 Use Union Both Phones OFFICE 276 SEVENTH IT lunset 116 Home 162 Pure Fresh Milk and cream raised In San Pedro from our 'own cows passing tuberculosis teBt Delivered twice a day Best milk for the baby LIBERTY DAIRY Sepulveda Ranch Home Phone 190 Ranch for Sale FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE-80 acre hog and fruit ranch Mendocino County Quick $1606 Earl Black 455 Lucas Los An gel SAN PEDRO CAFETERIA 10:30 until 8 pm DeNEGRE Prop Open Fifth and Palos Verdes Street Funeral Directors Licensed Embalmera Pacific and Ninth AMBULANCE Phones Sunset 165 Home 165 Goodrich UNDERTAKING CO luttestor to Booth tc Ooetrlel (86 6th St Homo (0 88 141 Telephone Sunset 678 or Home 340 for Laundry Only Hand Laundry in San Pedro Ray Parks of 434 Sepulveda street was seriously injured In an automobile accident last Saturday on his way to Glendora accompanied by Walter Price In the machine At Monrovia Ray stood up just as they came to a rough place in the street He was thrown to the ground striking on his head He was taken immediately to a hospital in Monrovia The last word relatives here received were that "Ray will in all probability recover if no complication sets Fracture of the skull is blamed All merchants and proprietors of places of business wflere large loan posters were placed for the Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign are requested to take them down This does not apply to the win dow honor posters nor to the honor roll cards Have your suit dress or tailored garment made by Miss Shaw expert tailoress Will work at your home or you may see me at the Palos Ver des hotel 423 Palos Verdes street w-f-m-tf Dewey Brickey son of Mr and Mrs Brickey of 370 Fourth street Is attending the student army training school at Normal in Los Angeles Mr Brickey began the training two weeks ago and It Is to last three months Alien soldiers in the army are being naturalized rapidly Recently at Fort MacArthur there were Inducted into citizenship seventeen British nineteen Italian nine Greek seven Russian two Danish three Belgain two Dutch one Turkish and one Swiss soldier I Lemons are good for yoUr health and complexion Pure lemon juice no waste 75c per quart bottle Standard Bottling Works Phone 32 24-12 Schafer is moving his law I offices to the rooms in the First I National formerly occupied by John Rough who went Into the army in September These rooms are In I connection with the suite of Goodspeed Mrs Bernard Flshel of 228 12th street and two of her children Gyneth and baby Bernard are ill with Influenza To save daylight the Marine Hardware Co and other ship chandlery stores will open at 7:00 a and close at 5:00 during the winter months 24-6 Nick Papadakis proprietor of the Richelieu cafe is again able to attend to business after a Biege of influenza Both he and his wife and baby were confined to their home at 538 Twelfth street for two weeks Mrs Papadakis and baby are now greatly Improved Mrs Smith is at present visaing her son Aaron Smith of Glendora Private dancing lessons at Liberty Auditorium Six on-half hours $500 Dally 9 a to 10 Storer Has been acting as clenk at the health office ever since the work has become so heavy owing to influenza Dr Cooke eye ear nose and throat specialist over Beacon Drug Co Beacon St 6-tf "Sweet and face powder has proven to be popular not only because of its high quality but also because a little of it goes a long ways Each brand comes in big generous boxes and costs one dollar but will last longer than the ordinary face powder because it require so much to cover the Puritan Drug Co 26-3 We have the buyers List your property with Wallace Insurance and Realty Co 617 Beacon street 23tf Mary Ainsworth aged 84- died so suddenly that an Inquest was held resulting in a verdict that death had been caused by valvular disease of the heart A complete report from the Swedish Auxiliary Association of Los Angeles shows that San Pedro local lodge of the Vasa order of America Viking No 256 subscribed to the Fourth Liberty loan the sum of $355000 All credit should be given I Evenson and Olov Holmer captains from the lodge who spared no opportunity to get members to buy bonds Lodge Viking No 256 again bought a one hundred dollar bond as well as one in the Third loan The lodge now has nine members In service it a a Doctors express the hope that the worst of the influenza Is over At the same time they are kept busy to the point of exhaustion and the same is true of the undertakers The latter find It impossible to ob tain extra help Mr Cleveland has become a sufferer and Is now in the hospital with a special nurse At the Goodrich parlors the limit of service is required from the small force The latest figures for the whole city to which San Pedro has con tributed a proportionate share showed 1029 new cases The day before there had been 1343 cases reported The health department here is subsidiary to the department under Dr Powers in Los Angeles and the same precautions have been taken throughout the municipality Dr Powers said yesterday that unless a decisive change for the better appeared soon more drastic measures would be taken These would Include an obligatory wearing of masks He asks that the public be careful as possible and particularly that persons having to cough end sneeze cover their faces at the time Total deaths from Influenza or from conditions arising from attacks of the malady have been 621 The rise in the mortality rate has been 100 against a rise as high as 500 in some eastern cities Last night a hoy of 14 Dementia Luna who had been a strong lad died after a brief illness The body is one of four now at the Goodrich parlors that of Peter Afardesick whose death at the hospital yesterday has been announced being another Mardesick was an Austrian fisherman owner of a boat There is beginning to be difficulty in procuring sufficient help at cemeteries and undertakers have trouble in getting one funeral out of the way of the next is said Mr Goodrich this morning "that the influenza seems worst when the persons attacked are strong and what might be called Ninety per cent of the cases I have handled have been of persons between' the ages of 12 and One of the fatalities which has particularly shocked the community is the death of Mrs Joseph Glaze of 563 Sepulveda street who passed away last night after an illness of less than one week After the first attack she got up in two days then suffering a relapse Mrs Glaze was a daughter of the late A Heisterman her parents being among the pioneers of San Pedro She was but twenty-five years of age and was the picture of health until stricken She is survived by the husband and one son Donald aged three years Mr Glaze was formerly a member of the Los Angeles police force being stationed htere for some time A brother Harry Glaze is reported very ill from the influenza in Los Angeles Tony Streva who has been connected with the National Bakery for several years tells how the People formerly treated Spanish influenza back in Italy many years ago remember when I was a boy that every few years Spanish influenza swept through said Mr Streva "it necessary to pass any law to prevent people from congregating as they all stayed at home Business of nearly every kind was practically suspended until the epidemic passed and people never went out into the streets or down town unless it was absolutely necessary The principal remedy in those days was quinine and Epson salts and we used to take so much quinine that made us Agnes Pothoff thirteen year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry Pothoff of North Grand ave died today at 12 at home after being ill with influenza The body was conveyed to the Goodrich Undertaking parlors The funeral arangements have not as yet been completed Isabelle Alice Thompson was laid to rest Sunday in the Harbor View cemetery saving succummed to infl-enza She was the wife of Maurice Thompson chief radio operator of East San Pedro Mrs Thompson was member of the Presbyterian church and loved by everybody who knew her She loaves besides her husband small son Harbor Sheet Metal Works 331 BEACON STREET SAN PEDRO Ship Ventilators and Plumbing Pipe Fittings and Job Work in Brass Copper and Sheet Metal from Our Stock Manufacturing of Cornice Gutters Skylights and Tanks Retlnning a specialty Henry Houston of Los Angeles son-in-law of Mr and Mrs Bellman of Seventh street passed away Saturday of the influenza Mrs Houston is also very low Mr and Mrs Bellman were away on a tour in the North but were notified and arrived in time for the funeral which was held today Both Mr and Mrs Houston are very well known here Art Coons who until recently was working in the department of the A yard is contemplating going east to the Hog Island yards many friends are sorry to see him go because they loose a good man A Fletcher GROCER 411 Beacon Sunset 442 Home 1691 (Advertisement) -Vv 'L I i The Shirkers And The Workers Here live those who own the land They are now spending 'a fortune on billboards advising people to vote They want to keep things as they are luxury and poverty Their souls are dead selfishness is their god VOTE ow Numbers November 5t5 Motor Vehicle Registration Books A directory of automobiles motorcycles exemptions chauffeurs and dealers of California may be obtained from the State at cost of $700 List contains register number name I address of owner make type and factory number Make application to State Printer Robert Teifer Sacramento Here live those who work the land This is an actual photograph taken along the line between Los Angeles and Hermosa beach Those who live in these hovels are Caifornians American tenant farmers Twenty-three families live in this little group of hovels Do with this kind of tenant farming by voting on Amendment 19 then these people will be able to own theiy own 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