Japanese Agree to Navy Cut Signals to Major Powers
The Japanese diplomatic adviser approved a 5 5 3 naval ratio and will instruct the delegation to pursue a four power agreement with the United States Great Britain and France. A committee will study issues from sailor discharge during reductions and an independent inquiry into anti Japanese activities in California is urged by Tokyo press.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Dubose Jokyo
Ited
Honolulu
United States
Great Britain
Nee
California
Tokyo
Fragmented bits and scoffs fill Seattle talk on events
A jumble of city chatter covers politics on the Seattle council, theatre notes with a spoofed tone, and gossip on Christmas planning. The column references Ireland and Kaiser Wilhelm, Harding spending, a Babe Ruth tie in post series funds, and odd stage lines.
China charges Japan trickery in Far East talks
Amid stalled arms talks Japan’s reply delays strain the quadruple agreement and naval ratio proposals. Chinese delegates resign in protest while Tokyo pushes for Shantung railroad access and mine concessions as the Far East party remains divided over accepting in principle and moving to concrete proposals.
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Washington
Japan
America
Pacific
Tokyo
Tyau
Cuba
Huang Fu
Tsai Ting Kan
Chow Tei Thi
Far East
Shantung
Railroading China Out of Conference
Washington dispatch reports the Far Eastern talks taking a grave turn with powers driving China toward submission. France and Britain challenge China’s delegation as the stalemate deepens. The article notes doubts within the American delegation and fears China faces browbeating and exclusion from key discussions.
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Washington
China
France
Lumber Prosperity Sounds Across Northwest Mills
Joseph A. Swalwell of Union National Bank of Seattle argues lumber prices have risen from 6 9 12 to 10 15 20 per thousand feet signaling a revival in trade. Washington mills run at full capacity 14 hours daily year round, boosting confidence in spring prospects with a lumberman investing 12 million feet of logs worth about 2000000.
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Northwest
Joseph A. Swalwell
Union National Bank of Seattle
Northwest Products Committee
The
Chamber of Commerce
Swalwell
Washington
United States
Say Mail Clerk Confessed To Shortage At Seattle Post Office
Theodore Wood a 23 year old West Seattle post office clerk was bound over on 1000 bail after admitting guilt to a 400 shortage in his accounts and tampering with registered mail. Postoffice inspectors cited gambling debts as a cause and the shortage was found during a Seattle wide check. Wood has served four years in the postal service and has been a general clerk at West Seattle since 1919. He is unmarried and resides with his parents at Three Tree Point.
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Theodore Wood
West Seattle
Federal Grand Jury
United States
Rh. W. McClelland
Postoffice
Wood
Seattle
Postal Service
Three-Tree Point
Seattle Draft Aims to Revive Building Boom
An ordinance proposing major revisions to the city building code was sent to the corporation counsel on Tuesday for a legality opinion. Real estate men expect the measure to spark a new building surge in Seattle.
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Seattle
Corporation Counsel's Office
Consuls to Talk at Trade Conference in Tacoma
All Latin American consuls in Seattle will join a discussion on expanding trade between their countries and the Northwest as part of the Pacific Northwest Foreign Trade conference to be held in Tacoma Thursday and Friday next week. BE J Bartell, export manager of Continental Pipe Company, Seattle, will lead the discussion.
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Seattle
Northwest
Pacific Northwest
Tacoma
BE. J. Bartell
Continental Pipe Company
Ole Hanson Critiques Seattle Utilities in LA Times Speech
The Los Angeles Times reports Ole Hanson blasting Seattle's street railway and light departments as total failures in a recent speech. The remarks come as Hanson criticizes municipal utilities amid ongoing public debate.
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Ole Hanson
Seattle
Los Angeles Times
Ole
Harding's expansive plan to restore US economy
President Harding proposes a comprehensive program to restore normalcy, speed tariffs, reform shipping and debt laws, and aid relief and reclamation. The plan includes a permanent tariff, industrial court, tax revisions, debt refunding, farm cooperatives, and home-building efforts.
Testimony Begins in Stringer Grand Larceny Trial
In Seattle court Tuesday morning Judge A W Frater opened the trial of former King County Sheriff John Stringer on grand larceny charges. Defense attorney A J Falkner outlined the strategy asserting the $1141.38 cited by the state was government paid, not Stringer’s misappropriation, and that he was entitled to funds under a 1919 contract.
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A. W. Frater
Malcolm Douglas
A. J. Falkner
Hands
John Stringer
King County
United States
Falkner
Stringer
Girl Saves Churchman From Shame
London reports Archdeacon John Wakeford of Lincoln cathedral lost his post after the ecclesiastical court found him connected with a hotel visit to a woman other than his wife. He testified he only spoke with a young woman about church architecture in Peterborough and could not identify her. Mrs Freda Hansen, 19, then stepped forward as the supposed "girl in the church" saying she did not appear earlier to avoid involvement.
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London
John Wakeford
Lincoln Cathedral
Peterborough
Wakeford
Church of England Ecclesiastical Court
Freda Hansen
Another Trial for Arbuckle Awaits January Hearing
San Francisco December 6 District Attorney Matthew Brady announced preparations for a second Arbuckle trial. Defense counsel Gavin McNab said the next hearing would be shorter, with a tentative date of January 6. Arbuckle has gone to Los Angeles and related prohibition charges in federal court are postponed until after the manslaughter case concludes.
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M. D. Tracy
San Francisco
Roscoe Arbuckle
Matthew Brady
Gavin McNab
Arbuckle
Los Angeles
United States Commissioner's Court
Prose and Stringer Trial Opens With Check Deposition At Seattle Bank
In opening statements Prosecuting Attorney Douglas asserts Stringer deposited a $1,141.38 check to his personal credit at Seattle National Bank. Judge Wrater set 1:30 for the first witness after the noon recess.
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Douglas
Stringer
Seattle National Bank
Wrater
Spokane Oil Stock Bubble Ends in Dry Spring
Spokane’s so called marvelous oil spring in Rockwood district wells dried up while two wells show traces of oil. Analyses by chemists and the U S Bureau of Mines note kerosene mixed with vegetable oil as the product. Dozens of oil stock firms halted operations as geologists question the locality’s natural oil prospects.
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Spokane
Rockwood
United States Bureau of Mines
Auto Thief Ring Broken Up in Northwest
Four alleged members of a major auto theft and liquor running ring were jailed and nearly a dozen cars recovered. Three men confessed. J. Kline of Tacoma denies involvement. Detectives Worsham and Smith led the arrests, uncovering about 200 cars tied to the operation and a booze-smuggling scheme.
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Northwest
H. E. Dotson
Seattle
Henry Smith
J. ©. Kline
Tacoma
Kline
J. C. Wickman
W. F E. Worsham
J. Pr. Smith
Worsham
Smith
Mother of two kills herself near Medina
Mrs. Martha Schoeber, 40, mother of two, shot and killed herself at her home near Medina Monday night after months of illness and a nervous breakdown. Coroner William H. Carson investigates as neighbors say she was despondent over ill health.
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Martha Schoeber
Medina
Dry Squad Spilled After Futile Raid
Police dry squad members recuperated Tuesday after an overdose incident following a raid on a South Seattle house. After a thorough search nothing was found and on returning their car collided with a large army bus at Rainier Avenue and Atlanta Street, spilling the officers onto the pavement as the bus drove away.
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Seattle
Omar Khayath
Rainier Ave
Atlantia St
Logger Dies After Runaway Train Wreck near Pysht
Harold Dayton 27, a boomtender for Merill Ring Lumber Co at Pysht, Wash, died Tuesday in Providence hospital from injuries sustained when he was thrown from a runaway logging train last Friday. His widow remains in Pysht.
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Pysht
Wash
Harold Dayton
Providence Hospital
Dayton
Rill. Ring Lumber Co
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