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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1921
Page
4
Sheriff arrests Carl Mattson proprietor after he defied Sunday dancing ban and charged admission to a April 17 event. Mattson jailed on Sabbath breaking charge as enforcement of local blue law persists.
The Star urges readers to help reunite separated relatives and friends. Mrs. Kitty Doubleday seeks Frank Terry Carolyn Terry and Evelyn Terry last heard in Georgetown and Winnipeg a year and 16 years ago respectively. Christopher Watson is sought by sister Sarah Hutchinson box 778 Sadie Woolley Wash. Mrs Hutchinson recently arrived from England.
New York April 18 Magistrate Marsh in State Island court fined Andrew Order one hundred bricks for petty larceny after he took thirty bricks from Julius Binka building material dealer. Order accepted the ruling.
Four hundred members of the Order of Liberty feast at a Seattle banquet honoring Dr Sun Yat Sen as president of the Chinese Republic. American guests include Malcolm Douglas and Dr William McKibbon, with speeches praising liberty, unity, and China’s republican future. A cable to Dr Sun followed the event and Rose Law Yow spoke on the party’s aims and US-Chinese friendship.
Nebo Daniels, a film star serving a 10 day sentence in Orange County jail for speeding, spends a Sunday behind bars. A reporter describes her jail routine as she hosts visitors, plays records, eats, and shares candy with fellow inmates and guards in a surprisingly social confinement.
The Crystal Ice and Storage company of Portland is named defendant in a government suit alleging it forms an ice cream trust with 80 percent of Oregon and Southwestern Washington sales. The Clayton act is cited in a federal trade commission complaint charging monopolistic control of about 1,000,000 gallons yearly in Portland The Dalles Myrtle Point Pendleton Bend Grays Harbor and Centralia.
Adolph Loege sues August Mehthorn Jr for slander seeking 25000 in damages. Case in Judge Calvin Hall's court features Mehthorn secretary Loene Mehthorn calling Loege dishonest and a shynter, with Mehthorn denying the allegations. May 17 1918. F G Pugsley and Frances M Ser are noted in the proceeding.
The April report from Johannesburg notes a severe diamond slump causing famine in the Western Transvaal. Digging families without money struggle to buy food as stones drop from $200 to $35 per carat and maize trades for small gems. In SPOKANFE, rancher John McCollum surrenders after being charged with killing his brother.
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