Aero Club Announces Seattle to Skagway Flight Plan
An aero plane pathfinder flight linking Alaska to coast states is planned with a first leg from Seattle to Skagway. Sponsored by the Aero Club of the Northwest, routes include Bellingham Vancouver Victoria Prince Rupert Ketchikan durangell Petersburg and Juneau. A trial Alaska flight was postponed with no immediate date for this year.
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New York
Associated Press
Alaska
E. N. Gott Aeroplane Manufacturer
Seattle
Skagway
Yukon River
St. Michael
The
Aero Club of the Northwest
Bellingham
Vancouver
Victoria
Prince Rupert
Ketchikan
Durangell
Petersburg
Juneau
D. E. White
Northwest Aero Club
Johnson Leads Wood in Vote in Oregon
Incomplete returns from twelve Oregon counties tallied at 10 am show John son leading Wood by 1661 votes. Lowden Hoover trail as GOP favorites. McAdoo unopposed for the Democratic nomination. Chamberlain leads Harvey Starkweather for senator. Nevert N. Stanfield holds a substantial GOP senator’s majority.
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Portland
Associated Press
Oregon
Johnson
Wood
Lowden
Hoover
McAdoo
Chamberlain
Harvey G. Starkweather
Nevert N. Stanfield
Repubblican
Wealthy Klondiker Dies at Tonopah
Adolph Fiss Binder, a prominent Klondiker who made a fortune in the North, died at Tonopah. The report notes his fame in the Klondike era and his wealth, with terse wording from the Associated Press.
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Klondiker
Tonopah
Seattle
Associated Press
Adolph Fiss Binder
North
Wilson Inflation Policy Criticized in Report
New York May 22 The Wilson administration is charged with maintaining an inflation policy that financed the war and caused rising living costs since 1914. A banking currency committee of the Republican advisory platform says the policy, continued after armistice, opens the administration to sharp criticism.
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New York
Associated Press
Wilson
Banking Currency Committee
Republican Advisory Platform Committee
Furs See Large Price Drop at New York Auction
Prices at the international fur exchange auction fell 20 to 25 percent from February levels. Friday sales totaled about 86,000 dollars with nutria and otter as main offerings. Nutria brought six dollars while otter sold from six to sixty dollars.
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ST. Louis
Associated Press
International Fur Exchange
Seattle Physician To Face Manslaughter Charge
Deputy Prosecuting Attorney J. M. Selden says he has enough evidence to charge Dr. A. P. Calhoun, a Seattle physician, with manslaughter for running down and killing K. Kimura, a Japanese man, near Tacoma.
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Tacoma
Associated Press
J. M. Selden
A. P. Calhoun
Seattle
K. Kimura
Here
Merchant Marine Bill Passes Senate In Silent Vote
The Senate without a record vote approved the house merchant marine bill creating a permanent merchant marine policy and sent it to conference.
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Senate
Washington
Associated Press
No Change Recommended in Apostles Creed
Des Moines May 22 a committee on state church of the Methodist Episcopal general conference reports recommending no changes be made in the apostles creed.
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Des Moines
Associated Press
Committee On State Church of the Methodist Episcopal General Conference
High Marks Maintained by Big League Batters
Chicago May 22 Associated Press report shows Johnson of Cleveland leading the American league with a .417 batting average and Nichol son of Pittsburg top in the National league at .460. Ty Cobb hits .277 and Babe Ruth at .260.
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Moran
London
Associated Press
Frank Moran
Pittsburg
Frank Goddard
Chicago
Johnson
Cleveland
Nicholson
Ty” Cobb
Babe” Ruth
General Parra Linked to Attack That Killed Carranza
An Associated Press report from Mexico City states General Rodolfo Parra led an assault that killed Venustiano Carranza in Tlaxcalal, Tongo after Carranza fled Puebla on May 6 with $27,000,000 believed recaptured by rebels. Carranza died near Rinconata in Puebla’s northern panhandle, eighty five miles from Sanaderies.
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Parra
Carranza
Mexico City
Associated Press
Tlaxcalal
Tongo
Pueblo
Rinconata
Mexico
Roldofo Perra
Perra
Puebla
Sanaderies
Carranza Assassination Report Emerges From Obregon Sources
May 2 reports from Obregon to representatives claim Carranza followers say he was captured and killed in a betrayal during the war era. The article traces Carranza’s rise from Coahuila judge to president and details his conflicts with Huerta, Villa, Zapata, and Orozco amid the Mexican revolution.
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EL Paso
Associated Press
Obregon
Carranza
Herrero
Venustiano Carranza
Mexico
Victoriano Huerta
Coahuilla
Huerta
Carranza Ral
Kaiser's Draperies Sold at Auction in New York
Draperies from the Kaiser's throne room and royal palace furniture were auctioned in New York today. They were transported from Copenhagen by a reliable Berlin art firm.
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New York
Associated Press
Royal Palace
Copenhagen
Berlin
Hitchcock Baruch summoned to testify on campaign funds
Washington May 22 Frank H Hitchcock former postmaster general and Bernard Baruch were summoned by the senate investigation committee as representatives of McAdoo to explain campaign expenditures.
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Washington
Associated Press
Frank H. Hitchcock
Bernard Baruch
Senate Investigation Committee
McAdoo
Labor Party Endorsement Repudiated by Union
The Central Federation union that backed the American Labor party now repudiates that endorsement and endorses the non partisan policy of the American Federation of Labor.
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New York
Associated Press
Central Federation Union
American Labor Party
American Federation of Labor
Oregon Governor to Fly With Pilot Tomorrow
Governor Olcott of Oregon will ride as a passenger with Lieut. Ralph Kelly in a Blaine Washington to Stockton California flight. The pilot expects to complete the trip in seven and a half hours.
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Seattle
Associated Press
Governor Olcott
Oregon
Ralph Kelly
Blaine
Wash
Stockton
Cal
Lieut
Kelly
Alaska Railroad Funds Barred From Coal Plant Plan
Washington dispatch reports the sundry civil bill cuts the coal wash plant from the Alaska railroad project. Navy funding of $1,000,000 for coal development will handle the plant. Also adds birch timber export permission and raises the Alaska insane care appropriation to $120,063. Land office clerk salaries rise to $2,200.
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Seattle
Associated Press
Washington
The
Post Intelligencer
Alaska
Matanuska
Navy
Villa releases Miller held for ransom in Mexico
Camargo Chihuahua May 22 AP report says George Miller superintendent of the Alvarado Mining Co was reportedly captured by Villa and held for ransom but is now at liberty on his own recognizance. He will stay at Boquillas until obligations are fulfilled per messages received here.
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Camargo
Chihuahua
Associated Press
George Miller
Alvarado Mining Company
Villa
Boquillas
Soldiers' relief bill advances for right of way approval
The house rules committee reports the soldier relief legislation favorably by party vote. Congress faces no adjournment agreement. Republican senators fail to reach recess plan at the national conventions conference in Washington May 22.
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Washington
Associated Press
House Rules Committee
House
Congress
Movie Theaters Dodge War Tax, Treasury Orders Action
Treasury reports indicate about five thousand motion picture houses fail to remit taxes collected from patrons. Revenue collectors have been instructed to enforce payment. The International Revenue Board notes ticket scalpers profit by pocketing taxes and urges extreme penalties.
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Washington
Associated Press
The
Treasury
International Revenue Board
Bureau
Railway Cars En Route to Seward Reach San Pedro
The steamer Anyox and the barge Baroda, loaded at Balboa with railway cars for the Alaskan engineering commission at Seward, reach San Pedro on their northern voyage.
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Seward
Seattle
Associated Press
Anyox
Baroda
Balboa
Alaskan Engineering Commission
San Pedro
U S to arbitrate Armenian boundaries announced
Paris May 22 Ambassador Wallace told foreign diplomats that President Wilson said the United States would accept arbitration of the Armenian boundaries. The disclosure follows U S mediation efforts in the region and signals a move toward a formal settlement mechanism under international mediation.
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Paris
Associated Press
Wallace
Wilson
United States
Canadian Telegraph Tolls Raised by 25 Percent
The railway commission authorized a 25 percent increase in telegraph tolls for western Canada. In Oregon, Oregon Agricultural College defeated the University of Oregon in a track meet with a score of 80 to 50.
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Ottawa
Associated Press
The
Railway Commission
Western
Canada
Agricultural College
Corvallis
Ore
Oregon Agricultural College
University of Oregon
Canadian sea lions to be slaughtered in Prince Rupert
Premier Oliver’s plan to kill sea lions for skins gains local support from fishermen in Prince Rupert. Plans move forward for wholesale culling as fishers say each sea lion consumes around fifty pounds of fish daily.
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Prince Rupert
Associated Press
Oliver
Draft evader Bergdoll escapes again from lawyer’s office
Grover C. Bergdoll, long time draft evader, escaped while at a lawyer’s office to sign papers. He had been confined at a military camp for five years and vanished after dashing from the office.
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Philadelphia
Associated Press
Grover C. Bergdoll
Watson Blamed for Bumping Fishing Boat
Federal Judge Neterer ruled in the admiralty case over a collision on October 20, 1918 between the steamer Admiral Watson and the fishing boat Helgeland near Ketchikan. The court found the Watson at fault but held its negligence did not justify the Helgeland in changing course. Half of the damages and costs were assigned to the Watson.
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Seattle
Associated Press
Neterer
Admiral Watson
Helgeland
Ketchikan
Watson
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