Labor groups Push for Federal Rent Commission
Seattle labor leaders unite to demand federal action on rent profiteering and wartime housing control. They passed a resolution urging a central government rent commission with power to seize blocks or hotels to curb 100 percent increases and to supersede local agencies. The move targets shipyard housing costs harming war production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Organized Labor United
Seattle
Labor Council
Metal Prades Council
Oir
T of Labor
Dunn
Central Labor Council
International Timber
Brice P. Disque
Housing Drive to Begin on Monday
Housing drive headed by J. B. Douglas as chairman and A. Eldridge as manager will begin Monday. Offices on the Cobb Building first floor serve as headquarters where experts will advise war workers on building problems and housing needs for the 12,000 workers expected, with 5,000 building tradesmen to be drafted to hasten construction.
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J. B. Douglas
A. & Eldridge
Cobb
Casualties Declared in Franco American Drive Total 3032
The war department reports 345 total casualties today six hundred thirty five from army and marine corps. Army breakdown includes 131 killed in action 16 died of wounds 1 from airplane accident 5 from other causes 62 wounded severely 22 wounded degree undetermined. Marine breakdown lists 2 killed in action 1 died of wounds 74 wounded undetermined 20 wounded severely 1 wounded slightly 19 missing in action. A. S. Averell of Seattle appears among wounded.
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War Department
Army
Marine Corps
A. S. Averell
Fifth Ave. N
Seattle
Zeppelin Crew Shot Down Returning to Germany
Amsterdam reports the entire crew of the last Zeppelin raid on the Fingliah coast perished in the North Sea when their dirigible was shot down by English anti aircraft guns. Captain Strasser, a leading Zeppelin commander, and his crew also perished in the incident according to officials from Herstin.
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Amsterdam
Fingliah
North Sea
Germany
Strasser
Herstin
Packers’ Trust Breaks Backed by U S Board Findings
A federal board finds monopolistic control by five meatpackers over livestock producers, markets, storage and refrigerator cars. It recommends railroad administration take over cars and treats packers as a monopoly to curb abuses. The report notes international reach and that 16,000 Armenians have been massacred recently. Export of Irish meat is restricted by license.
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Ths
Sugar Rule Tightens Purchase for Caners
State administrator Charlies Hebberd announces new sugar rules allowing initial 15 pound canning purchases only with county administrator authorization. After 25 pounds, repurchases require proof of a family of four or more and use for fruit on the applicant’s property. Central building food administration offices were crowded with sugar applicants all day.
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Charlies Hebberd
Food Administration
Reporters Remain Essential. Crowder Lists Nonessential Ocp
Provost Marshal General Crowder states newspaper reporters, especially editors, are not among nonessential occupations. The exemption board in Waterloo faced action over work or fight orders on a newspaper reporter. The Austrian press also notes a mint creating Italian notes for occupied provinces.
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Washington, Aug
Crowder
Waterloo
Austrian Presse
Japanese News Centers on U S A Says Publisher
Publisher Wilfred Fleisher of the Japan Advertiser reports that Japanese papers devote more space to American news than any other country. Fleisher, returning from Washington, plans a monthly Transpacific magazine with Japanese and Chinese supplements. Accompanying him is Hoderic C. Penfield, late Harper's Weekly editor.
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Wilfred Fleisher
The
Japan Advertiser
Orient
Washington
Fleisher
Japan
the Transpacific
Hoderic C. Penfield
New York Mail
Harper's Weekly
President Wilson May Pay Tax on Salary Under Revenue Bill
President Wilson may owe an income tax of 24000 dollars a year on his 75000 dollar salary if the new revenue bill clause passes. The provision would tax incomes of the president and federal judges and extend to state officials and bond interest from state county and municipal bonds.
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Wilson
Washington, Aug
House
Ways and Means Committee
May issue permits for pure alcohol in Seattle area
United States District Attorney Saunders ruled that prohibition orders do not include pure alcohol. Auditor Wardall orders deputies to inspect druggists beyond the five mile limit, suspecting bootleggers will operate just outside Seattle's boundary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Saunders
Wardall
Five Mile
Seattle
U S Tank Officer To Recruit In Seattle
Lieut G G Garland of the Tank corps will recruit in Seattle on August 19 and set headquarters at the King County Council of Defense rooms in the county city building. In Sacramento Lieut John Floyd Newton buried with full military honors after a fatal fall from a New York hotel window amid postwar gas exposure.
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G. G. Garland
Tank Corps
National Army
Seattle
King County Council of Defense
Sacramento
Cal
John Floyd Newton
New York
Newton
France
Seattle School Board Probes German Language Instructors
The Seattle school board will investigate all foreign law instructors following a decision by the board. Judge Thomas Burke, who moved the inquiry, cited propaganda and German influence in foreign lands. Directors clashed over a home economics salary request before shelving the matter.
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Seattle Sch
Wednes
Thomas Burke
Germany
Seattle
Bhorrock
Eckstein
Supt. Cooper
Citizens’ Committee
Shorrock
Graves to Command U. S. Siberia Force
General William S. Graves will command the American expeditionary force sent to Siberia to protect the rear of the Czecho Slovak army. Two regiments of regulars from the Philippines will form the nucleus of the force. Felix Cole, U S consul at Archangel, was arrested by Bolsheviks but released after the city fell back into allied hands.
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Washington
Wiliam
Graves
Siberia
Philippines
Felix Cole
U. S
Archangel
State Department
Fiancees May Join Washington Soldiers and Sailors Group
Registration lists for the Parents' Association of Soldiers and Sailors of Washington State are growing. Offices are at Commerce Hall and the University of Washington. Mothers sisters and wives are eligible for membership.
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Parents’ Association of Soldiers and Sailors of
Washington State
Commerce Hall
University of Washington
Association
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Viseedaen
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Turka
Ireland
Boston
Boston City Hospital
Psychopathic Hospital
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Liseres
Milans
BON Marche
Milan
Second Avenue
Percale
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Mary Jane
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