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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1918
Page
3
A letter from directors of the War Savings Campaign notes a worker named R. Bux, poetmaster at Cop, mushing to Fairbanks, then to Stamps, and finally to Seattle to urge miners at distant points to join the war effort.
Former U. S. Attorney Clay Allen took the oath and joined the King County Superior Court bench at 9 am. He was assigned to the Mack vacancy. The first case before him is Carrie Gilbert versus William I Gilbert, alleging the husband had her committed to an insane asylum to gain her property.
Congressman William Jones of Virginia’s First District, the longest serving member in Congress, died at George Washington University Hospital after several days of illness from a paralytic stroke. He had served continuously since a previous era and his passing marks the end of an era in Capitol Hill.
Wireless dispatch from Berlin confirms Baron Burian has succeeded Count Ceernin as Austro Hungarian foreign minister.
Washington reports Uncle Sam has become a socialist force seizing German and Austrian enemy property in the United States. He will step into management of hundreds of firms via alien property custodian A Mitchell Palmer and appointees, with over a billion dollars in assets tied to Liberty bonds. Reported penalties for failure to report reach ten thousand dollars and ten years in prison. fourteen thousand reports already filed.
A federal grand jury quickly found Ralph Burgdorf guilty of willfully failing to fill out and return his questionnaire. Burgdorf, who declined court-appointed counsel, claimed conscientious objector status at registration and chose to defend himself.
A photograph shows Kaiser Wilhelm carrying a large war map at a railway station on the Italian front after a conference with Emperor Charles of Austria. Engineers mark the map with areas where civilians, including women and children, have been slaughtered.
The general managers committee met in conference to discuss postwar plans for unifying cattle railway terminals. After a day of discussion they toured the OW Rh. & N. station and weighed closing it. Traffic and operating officials disagree on the impact of closing the station and the capacity of three freight houses to handle seven current ones.
Charles Anderson alias Fritz Khrum remains at large after an F B I official momentarily lost sight of him in an office. He has eluded federal authorities twice in under a year and is not yet located.
The Seattle Grocery Co. alleges F H McGowan owed several hundred dollars on account. McGowan signed an affidavit selling his store claiming he owed no man. Deputy Prosecutor Brackett filed an information charging the storekeeper with perjury.
Senate Military Committee opens hearings on Senator Chamberlain’s bid to transfer spies and propagandists from civil to military authority. States report repeated escapes, legal loopholes, and weak judicial action enabling dangerous aliens to strike in the United States. A second move targets German language newspapers, with Senator King proposing to bar such papers from the mails as German propaganda signals.
Testimony presented Wednesday in John Meeks v city argues thousands of pounds of fish from the municipal market have been sold to canneries and always met federal inspection. Affidavits from the state fish commissioner city health officer chemist and health experts were read to Judge Gilliam along with statements from private market operators. The case contends the city may build a market but cannot engage in buying and selling fish.
A jitney bus on the Eastlake line driven by May Hawley of the Manhattan apartments collided with a private property at Past lake and iame Tuesday at 1140 Ph mM. The jitney was badly battered and several passengers were slightly injured. Mrs W H Cummings of 6311 19th Ave North sustained bruises while others suffered cuts from broken windshield glass.
Joe McGinnis, an Irish man, returned to Tacoma with a bride and found his cigar stand in the county city building decorated in his honor yet summoned to court for beating King county out of a $4.50 license fee.
George Conigne of 122 Fifth Ave N was hit by a car driven by Jasper Hayden of 2313 Fifth Ave W as he darted from between two parked cars near the curb between Seneca and Spring Street. He was taken to city hospital with a severe head wound.
The clinic claims rapid growth from a small start to a large, well equipped practice. It stresses patient satisfaction, professional credentials, and low prices via high volume. Dentists are described as graduates with state board certificates and Novo Cain anesthesia. Patients are urged to visit for thorough exams.
A vivid profile of Seattle police report clerks as a hub for city troubles from accidents to thefts and homicides. The piece follows their calm efficiency, odd humor, and the typist's ritual as three clerks handle calls about dogs, stolen cars, boot thefts, murders, and factory blasts.
The dispatch notes a civilian deputation welcomed troops as Seli fell to occupation east of Lake Varn. Batum, a crucial Russian port in Trans-Caucasia on the Black Sea, lies near the Turkish frontier.
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