Port Commission Plans Belt Line Reballot
Port Commission to resubmit belt line bonds with a special election call proposed after election results showed belt line and bond measures fell short of required majorities. Ewald and Remsberg won port seats. Spencer re elected to school board. bonds carried for schools. voters also indicated favored terminus Des Moines for ferry route.
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Port Commission
Germany
U. S
Seattle
King County
Wlfi
Carl A. Ewald
C. E Renneberg
Spencer
George A. Spencer
Oscar McGill
Lilian C. Irwin
Rev. McGill
Irwin
Richard Winsor
Vashon Island
Des Moines
Three Tree Point
Vashon Heights
Tacoma Name the Mountain Debate Persists Across State Lines
The Mountain has inspired claims from both Tacoma and Seattle. Tacoma officials urge Governor Lister to form a state geographical board to recommend a national panel adopt the name Rainier or Tacoma, while promoting unity and ending a decades old quarrel.
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Tacoma
Seattle
Gill
Lister
National Geographical Board
Rainier
Germany will not recall Boy Ed and Von Papen without charges and safe conduct
A high official of the German embassy said Germany will not recall Attaches Boy Ed and Von Papen as requested by the American government unless the state department informs the German foreign minister of specific charges and arranges for safe conduct for them and their successors.
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Washington
Germany
Boy-Ed
von Papen
State Department
Papen
Eas
Berlin
England
Opening of Sixty Fourth Congress Sparks War Prep Plans
The 64th congress convened with anticipated broad preparedness measures. The 1917 defense and navy budgets show major increases, including a 1.0 trillion dollar level 1916-1917 shift and plans for armor and projectile plants. Delegates debated war-related legislation and early actions.
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Sen. Clark
House
Champ Clark
Congress
London
New York
Wickersham
Alaska
McAdoo
United States
War and Navy Departments
State Department
Five Hundred on Strike at Dry Dock Seattle Plant
About 500 to 600 workers at the Seattle Construction and Dry Dock Co. plant walked out at 8 30 Monday morning demanding higher wages. Riveters drifters chippers hip fitters fit ters helpers heaters and hold eners seek 5 cent an hour raise 10 hours pay for nine hours work and double time for overtime. They have earned 30 to 45 cents an hour and cite months of promises without action. A grievance committee demanded action Saturday. no disorder occurred as the punch boiler and blacksmith shops continued operating.
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Seattle Construction and Dry Dock Co
U.S. Ship Seeks Aid After Sub Attack Off North Africa
The State Department asked the Navy for a warship to rescue an unknown American vessel that wirelessed from the North African coast Saturday saying a submarine attacked her. American Minister Droppers at Athens confirmed Greek reception of the message. The cruiser Des Moines and the collier Caesar, now in the Mediterranean, will search for the ship.
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Droppers
Athena
Preas
Des Moines
Caesar
Mediterranean
Plot to cripple the Minnesota thwarted by secret agents
In San Francisco on December 6 British secret service men claim to have uncovered a plan to sink the Minnesota laden with food for England. Water tender W A Martin aboard allegedly conspired to delay or ruin the voyage, smuggling acid into boilers and vowing the ship would not return. Tug Dauntless and wrecking Iqua moved from Seattle toward Coronado Island as repairs and rescue efforts continued amid severe conditions at sea.
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Minnesota
England
Coronado Island
Secret Service
W. A. Martin
Seattle
Martin
Halfour-Guthrie Co
Dauntless
Iqua
Pope Bene dict Opens Peace Conference In Consistory
Rome December 6 Pope Benedict opens a historic consistory declaring a strong push for early peace. The new cardinal appointments include Alfonso Maria Miatrangelo archbishop of Florence Giulio Tunti nuncio at Lisbon Giovanni Cagliero nuncio for Central America Andreas Furwirth Austrian nuncio Munich Raffaele Scapinelli nuncio Vienna and Georg Gusmini archbishop Boulogne.
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Henry Wood
Rome
Benedict
Alfonso Maria Miatrangelo
Florence
Mgr
Giulo Tunti
Tolsbon
Giovanni Cagliero
Central America
Andreas Furwirth
Munich
Raffaele Scapinelli
Vienna
Gtroghr Gusmini
Boulogne
Water Shutoff Notices for Several Streets
Water will be shut off on Ferdi nand at between 42nd Ave and Lake Washington. Dawson St between 48th Ave S and 50th Ave S and 49th Ave S and Dawson between Ferdinand and Dawson. Also 54th Ave between Alaska Ave and Ferdinand on Tuesday December 7 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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48Th Ave. S
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Dawson
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Tacoma Seeks Mount Rainier Renaming Talks
Tacoma officials urge Seattle to join in renaming Mount Rainier to a name from aboriginal sources to ease discord. Mayor Fawcett leads a state wide push with support from local patriotic groups while Seattle’s Mayor Gill downplays the issue. The exchange cites the National Geographic Board and a call for conference.
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Mount Rainier
Mount Tacoma
Plain Bridget
Gill
Fawcett
Tacoma
Seattle
Charles D. Atkins
James CC
Drake
A. A. Mills
Odeon Mills
U. S. Geographic Board
Rainier
THANKS STAR FOR BELT LINE ELECTION WORK
Editor Seattle Star thanks readers for support of port belt line, endorsing the project and urging equal capital opportunity, new factories, and open meetings to attract investment and build a world port. also notes a reported deer with a glass eye and one caught in Oregon.
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C. EF. Remsberg
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