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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1917
Page
1
The Star urges Seattle council members to pass an ordinance moving clocks forward from May 1 to October 1 to gain an extra hour of evening daylight. It notes three favors, two against, four undecided, and asks residents to call undecided or opposing members to support the measure.
Logan Billingsley promised in a letter mailed at midnight Friday to surrender to a Star reporter next week. The $100 reward offered by U S Marshal Boyle will be given to the Red Cross. He had abandoned plans to surrender today at Third Ave and Stewart St at 2 pm.
House passes conscription bill by 279 to 98 and 57 to 30 in Senate after debate. Senate vote expected before midnight. J P Yoder reports from Washington. The nation moves toward a selective service draft.
Debate centers on the Dent and Kahn amendments to the army bill with Rankin opposing conscription. The vote shifts between volunteers and selective service as Speaker Clark and 98 others align with the pro volunteer stance. Senate debate highlights Roosevelt, Harding, Lodge, Williams and fears of German influence.
Citizens and workers including E. E. Hinsdale and D. L. Seaton express strong approval for advancing clocks. Businesses like Erie Railroad and Cascade Fuel Co. favor the plan, while many Seattle residents urge council adoption to extend daylight for work and leisure.
The Elite building man J H Jahn and his bride Miss Pearl Schy of Spokane eloped to Tacoma. The ceremony was performed by a preacher named McGinnis and the couple registered as Tacoma residents. Mrs Haine claimed to be the sister and confirmed the couple’s happiness despite the hazy reports.
Seattle detectives led by Capt. Tennant worked extended hours to find killers of Florence Wehn and Aaron Rehfeld but gained no new clues. City editor The Star disputed a prior list of 22 unsolved murders, noting one omission and recounting a 23rd case, George Buckle, found murdered near Puget Park.
A letter from Logan Billingsley declares willingness to surrender to The Star and directs a $100 reward to the Red Cross. He mentions trying to locate a red headed freckled 12 year old newsboy seen at Owl drug store and Day & Night drug store but cannot identify him. He proposes arranging a surrender date for next week.
The Star confirms Logan Billingsley, escaped from a government detention station, may still be in Seattle. Receipts of letters to The Star and authentic signatures support the claim. Logan allegedly lay ill with tuberculosis at the Manhattan apartments near Boren and Howell, evading Marshal Boyle and local police. Police searched the location Friday night but found no trace.
A traveling salesman notes price variations for potatoes by location. In Seattle new potatoes cost 15 cents a pound while Issaquah sellers offer six cents per pound after Seattle shipping. Old potatoes run 3.50 to 5.50 dollars per sack, with Bellingham at 3 to 3.35 dollars.
Secretary of Labor Wilson told Congress the 1919 wartime request amounts to 2,513,246 dollars. Of this, 1,000,000 dollars would fund guarding and maintaining interned enemy aliens. An additional 750,000 dollars would hire 108 more staff in the department employment bureau to secure farm labor.
A Star letter asks Tolaman Billingsley to answer five questions by next issue. It requests details on surrender arrangements for the $100 reward to the Red Cross, escape methods from the detention station, reports of illness, hiding locations, and views on capture efforts.
Arthur W. Davis of Bellingham a Curtis aviation graduate of 1912 becomes the Northwest s first aviator to offer his services to Uncle Sam The War Department will commandeer his hydroaeroplane and Lake Washington shops when needed Davis not a professional flyer runs a local furniture business and flew with Ed Hubbard from Bellingham to Seattle last summer in two hours over about 90 miles He is a Dallas native and a Jeff Davis descendant.
Guatemala severed ties with Germany and expelled its minister, according to a state department announcement. The government offered the United States use of Guatemalan territorial waters ports and railways for common defense and all elements available for that purpose.
Dra ID Zansaloft was acquitted Friday in federal court of smuggling aliens into the United States and immediately rearrested. He was taken to the immigration station to be deported on a prior conviction for a similar charge.
Theodore Roosevelt urged the West to farm and arm to defeat the Kaiser, addressing 1,500 at the La Salle Hotel. He pressed universal military training and service and mobilizing labor, warning of food shortages and calling for Americans to back a strong home front. He also commented on Gen Joffre and Chicago's invitation dispute.
Corporation Counsel Caldwell will join with Tacoma legal representatives to oppose Tacoma Traction's appeal after the public service commission decision. The ruling upholds franchise agreements and blocks petitions to overturn them. Caldwell said the council was petitioned to join Tacoma's fight.
Josephus Daniels Jr twenty one year old eldest son of Secretary of the Navy Daniels enlisted as a private in the United States Marine Corps reserves this afternoon. He will train at League Island Navy Yard Philadelphia after a Washington enlistment. This move brings Marine strength to seventeen thousand four hundred men.
The steamer Elihu Thomson owned by Pacific Coast Cold Storage Co was struck in Tacoma harbor at 7 30 am Saturday by the steamship Tacoma. The Tacoma bow cut through two plates above the water line. No one was injured.
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