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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1917
Page
7
Public utilities committee and Chamber of Commerce held a conference to discuss street car traffic in the shipyard district. A later meeting included C. B. Fitzgerald and Mayor Gi, focusing on speeding the municipal elevated line along the waterfront and a spur on East Marginal Way.
Seattle packing firms plan to replace striking butchers with women while strikers hold headquarters at the Labor Temple. Union leaders demand eight hour days and higher wages. packers deny wage links to the strike and say only a closed shop dispute remains.
Citizens led by W A Peters seek a city cleanup as Major Arthur Kyde and Capt. William Patton are unavailable due to military duties. Maj Gen Irons says officials will not receive delegations, while ministers and women’s club leaders organize mass meetings. Two Sunday rallies and district gatherings are scheduled to urge civic action.
Washington announced two American airmen were wounded in France on Wednesday. Corporal Walter A. Warren was slightly wounded and Private Edward F. Ebsen was severely wounded. Warren’s sister is Mrs. Ida Smith of Dublin Georgia and Ebsen’s father is Gen. H. Ebaen of Buffalo Missouri.
Police raided the Seward hotel on Third Ave between James and Jefferson just after midnight Friday. Arrests were made for disorderly conduct including Helen Holmes 22 Mabel Morrin 25 Hattie Cooper 27 and Mrs De Gree 31 among others with several men held for disorderly conduct and one man William Willard held for federal investigation.
Camp Lewis, Tacoma December 7. John McCourt, Portland special representative of the War Department, urges Tacoma to close a dance hall and quarantine women with social diseases to curb temptation for soldiers. This follows McCourt’s Seattle plan. Tacoma authorities may follow.
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