23 Apr 1921
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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1921
Page
1
Speculation and public service arguments clash as a plan to move the public market from Pike Place to the Westlake district faces council vote. Critics warn of harming local businesses and investments while proponents tout safer congestion relief and continued market access. An attempt to push the relocation is reported.
Toroyoshi Abe and George Budwick were recaptured by Patrolmen C. L. Bryan and A. H. He after an early Friday morning escape from a United States station. Abe was barefoot and water soaked. immigration inspectors Charles F. Foley and Tom Wyckoff later identified him.
A rowboat adrift off Laurelhurst Park prompted a multi hour harbor patrol search Friday night. The canoe was found Saturday right side up, having broken from its moorings in strong winds.
In homes many articles are no longer used yet still useful and can be sold through Want Ads. The Star-Main 600 paper with circulation invites readers to place miscellaneous for sale notices.
Everett prisoner John Dennis was found with a steel saw hidden in his trousers during a Friday night search in the county jail. Sheriff Matt Starwich increased guards after a tip from Sheriff W West of Everett that a jail break was planned. Dennis intended to use the weapon on a stopover in Yakima Saturday night.
A Friday lightning strike near Allyn 25 miles from Bremerton left rancher W. P. Whitman unconscious and his son Curtis 22 injured. Both were moved to their Vaughn home as their shotguns were believed to have drawn the lightning.
In Spokane Washington April 23 closing hours of a sensational forgery trial featured defense claims that Jay K Hough bond broker was surrounded by falsehoods and counter charges that prosecutors sought to railroad him and hide evidence. Hough faces first degree forgery charges over alleged signing of irrigation bonds issued by Teel Oregon.
Ship ahoy smoke hangs low on Friday. Seattle opens its first envelope factory. George Beban receives key to the city. May 15 to September 1 set for straw hat season. Eastern papers urged to copy. Sumner sees a horse thief. FE H Epperson returns from the East as Modern Appliance Co president. Herman W Ross named Press club president. China road program noted by Chamber of Commerce. Clancy Lewin says LA not far ahead in manufacturing. Dartmouth dean Craven Laycock to speak at noon next Tuesday. King county Near East relief chairman Booth outlines Armenia needs. AAE endorses J W A Bellong for park superintendent. Chamber trade tour nears 100 applicants. Sand Point aviation field gains endorsements. Rev N B Harrison leaves church to preach in Northwest. Juvenile problem talk by Judge Dykeman at Asbury church.
Eighty five university students failed to report for duty on annual Campus Cleanup Day and were ducked into Freshman pond by the Knights of the Hook. They were dragged from beds in night attire and soaked in over six feet of water, some hurled together, amid chaotic searches and improvised punishments.
A 17 year old shy girl enters a Universal Star contest in Seattle. She tests on camera in a 20 foot scene, but arrives in a mature high fashion outfit that surprises judges. The piece contrasts youthful innocence with adult appearance amid talk of salaries and film history.
Laredo Texas April 238 Deported from Mexico for radicalism Linn Gale American has been turned over by immigration officials to military officials at Fort McIntosh and held incommunicado.
W W Ward of Taylor Washington reports a pullet named Whiskers has laid 139 eggs in 189 days and continues laying at the same rate. The owner notes the hen's name in a simple record of her production.
In Bridgeport Connecticut lawmakers note the word and in the old bigamy statute creates immunity for plural marriages. Herbert Thornton Andrews faces a hearing in Greenwich over a second marriage and prosecutors say the defected statute hampers conviction.
New York April 23 Lucille Pugh a noted lawyer warned that Connecticut's plural marriage law could create a race of Bluebeards in the United States if not amended She argued a married man may take additional wives in Connecticut without living there under the current statute.
In Hoquiam 80 year old Robert Burnett and 72 year old Nancy Horseley wed after two months of correspondence and a three day courtship. The nuptials follow Burnett meeting Horseley for the first time three days ago and marrying yesterday. Schafer Bros. Logging Co. takes over Hoquiam Bash and Door Factory and the Vir Products Co. of Montesano.
Postoffice substation 30 in a grocery at 35th ave 8S and Webster St was entered Friday night and robbed of 12 in postoffice funds and two cartons of cigarettes. Inspector Swenson said boys likely behind the theft after viewing the scene this morning. A side window was pried from inside and opened from outside. Inspector Imus and police continue the search for the robbers.
Tacoma police search for two men who lured Henry FE Steven son a Seattle electrical contractor into their car on Thursday He was drugged robbed of 146 dollars and a gold watch and left unconscious in brush outside the city.
W B Graff, convicted by a jury of burglary in the second degree for stealing a few cigars from Mike Billias' stand in the Prefontaine building, was sentenced Saturday by Judge Austin E Griffiths to not less than one year in the state's reformatory.
Howard Ewing of Crazy Bridge reported a one hour haul in Union Bay Lake Washington showing 43 trout 8 to 14 inches long. The rug merchant described the season’s best likely record fish display.
In Chicago Heights three gunmen forced entry to St James hospital kidnapping Fred Neff. Nurses and six others were held at gunpoint. Police captured Neff and his alleged liberators two hours later. Neff suffered gunshot wounds to both legs from a prior garage robbery. Three suspects escaped. Neff and associates are held in connection with the crime.
Detectives search for two bandits after a $20000 robbery at Pearce's Hollywood home. A wealthy timber, oil and mining figure from Kentucky was knocked unconscious and bound with a revolver used, while a Chinese servant was restrained. Jewelry and keepsakes worth over 620000 were taken. antiques valued at about 000 were ignored.
CHICAGO April 23 Julius Reingold owner of J. J. Jewelry Co. and a big brother were held by police today questioned in the theft of a wallet containing uncut diamonds worth 260000. The wallet was taken by two hits from Le Roy Present of Philip Present Co. of ester N Y while he was displaying wares in the Reingold office yesterday.
A fire at 418 E Ni fire ave, an attic origin blaze began about 8 30 am Saturday. Firefighters arrived to heavy smoke and could not determine the cause on initial inspection. Most tenants were away. all escaped unharmed. Insurance fully covers the loss.
Judge Boyd J. Tallmann sentenced Louis Castro to one to fifteen years in the state penitentiary after Castro was convicted of snatching coins from the pocket of Josephine Lips at Pike Place Market.
Federal Judge E. E. Cushman denied the city of Seattle’s motion to dismiss the action brought by Puget Sound Power and Light Company in federal court. The ruling was filed with the district clerk on Saturday.
Delayed by engine trouble the steamer Wenatchee is expected in Tokyo Sunday carrying Maj. Gen. Leonard M. Wood on a U S diplomatic mission. Wood plans to spend two days in Japan.
Carl A. J. Johnson part owner of the Greenwood garage at 8581 Greenwood Ave was fined $100 and costs after admitting in Justice C. C. Oak ton's court that he sold liquor to an agent of the sheriff. An unrelated purse snatching left Mrs. Rie Shinoda with a torn coat as evidence.
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