German Axis Plots Exposed Across Northwest
News dispatches reveal a broad German covert network in the United States including espionage at Bremerton navy yard and White and Globe buildings schemes. Agents targeted selective service, propaganda circulated in Seattle, and arrests like Hans Crow and George F. Schloetenberg highlighted intensified federal action.
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United States
Seattle
Hans Crow
White Building
George F. Schloetenberg
Globe Building
Bremerton Navy Yard
Longlake
Bremerton
U. S
Clay Allen
Howard Wright
Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
Portland
Alvo von Alvensleben
Wilson
Northwest
Canadian Post
Allen
von Alvensleben
British Columbia
Central Post Office
Gambling Open Report Reveals City Crap Tables
A reporter visits two gambling dens in Seattle, describing a tour from the Tourist hotel area to a laundry front and night operations. He witnesses crowded tables, a fire-door casino room, a Chinaman presiding behind the chuck-luck counter, and a vivid scene of men gambling as police presence is noted nearby. A second item notes a Ladies of the G. A. R. card party planned for August 10 at the Veterans' hall in the Armory with prizes.
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Octal Ave
Goddess of Chance
Seattle
Ita
William McKinley
The
Veterans’ Hall
Armory
Bargain Friday Unusual Values Slash Summer Merchandise
Bargain Friday promotes deep discounts on summer merchandise from Standard Furniture Co and other merchants. The ad highlights clos ed out stock and store pages listing Bartell Drug Stores Grote Rankin Fraser Paterson Woodhouse Grunbaum The Rhodes Co Frederick Nelson Marche and more as part of a regional sales push.
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Standard Furniture Co
Bartell Drug Stores
Grote-Rankin Co
Fraser-Paterson Co
Woodhouse-Grunbaum
the Rhodes Co
Efforts to Find Peace in Mill Strike
Separate conferences of lumber employers and striking workers met while the state council of defense deliberated in the Henry building. After two days of talks, both sides agreed only on a desire for an eight hour day, though employers warned war orders would suffer. The council proposed a 90 day eight hour plan with eight hour pay, to be evaluated after three months.
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State Council of Defense
Henry
General Conference
Tme
Council For Defense
Oldest Seattle Resident Wardall Turns 102
Thomas Wardall, Seattle's oldest man, celebrated his 102nd birthday while bedridden with a fractured rib. A lifelong believer in happiness and the Golden Rule, he left a message for Star readers about living rightly. He left England as a boy, has 126 descendants, and counts Norman Wardall, county auditor, among his three living children in West Seattle.
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Thomas Wardall
Seattle
Star
Theddlethorpe
England
Baptist Church
Wardall
Anna W. Scott
Mr. Wardall
West
Norman Wardall
Max Wardall
Ray Wardall
Mills Efficiency Change Sparks Tentative Proposals
The article notes that the efficiency of the mills may have declined due to the change. Both aides offered tentative proposals and did not commit to acceptance or rejection.
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Aide
Trace Bettenhausen's Wider Spy Activities
Portland reports Louis Hollewig Von Bettenhausen, suspected German spy, arrested in Seattle and later disappeared after a brief role with Albert J. Capron, a former naval militia paymaster. While a federal prisoner at Alcatarz barracks for army desertion, he was allowed mail access and connected with Capron.
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Portland
Louis Hollewig von Bettenhausen
Seattle
Albert J. Capron
Naval
Alcatraz Barracks
U. S. Army
Capron
Von Alvensleben Kicks on Sleeping Near U S Flag
German reserve officer Von Alvensleben arrested in Portland crowned as temperamental prisoner for refusing sleep in a jail cell with an American flag on the wall. He refused to eat mush and milk, was taken to the Benson hotel for breakfast, and faces imminent transfer to Seattle for interment.
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U. S
Portland
A. von Alvensleben
von Alvensleben
United States
Montag
Benson Hotel
von Alvensieben
Seattle
Allison Pearls Mystery Necklace Recovered Then Vanished
Constance Allison offered a 929,000 reward for the return of her pearl necklace stolen twice in one night. It vanished again from her dressing table after an earlier return, and the tale unfolds in an upcoming Star mystery titled Allison Pearls.
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Constance Allison
Allison Pearts
War pictures misled Leach at city show graft claim
A Kirkland man A V Leach visiting The Star news room complains of a Washington street show featuring war pictures and a black curtain dance act claiming the 60 cent price was a graft with only 10 cents spent. Leach reports women without clothes glimpsed and a split Australian woman on display.
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A. V. Leach
Kirkland
Washington St
the Star
Mr. Leach
Leach
Australia
Wives Told No Excuse for Draft Exemptions In Seattle
New orders from the provost marshal general tighten exemptions for married women and others. Wives who worked before marriage and can work now are not valid excuses. Men slightly under weight or with repaired teeth may qualify, while boards prepare stricter examinations for fishy claims.
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Seattle
Seattle Divi
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South
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Kaiser
Echo June Zahl
Bettenhausen
the City
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Trefethen
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James Venderlwel
Commodore Way
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