10 Dec 1921
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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1921
Page
12
Hal Armstrong, Seattle transit expert, warns a 5 cent fare would fail to cover monthly operating costs and bond payments. Even a 6 cent fare would leave a shortfall, given record monthly riders and rising debt. A zone or flat-rate reduction is unlikely to balance the books.
President Harding favors a soldier bonus in this session of Congress, to be financed with the refunding of the foreign debt. The plan, revealed to three House members at the White House, would gain public endorsement and quick enactment once the debt settlement is secured.
The article reports that Chinese crew are confined to steward and engine room duties on liners like the Pine Tree State, Wenatchee and Keystone State. It notes white supervisors and no Chinese in safety critical roles, claims about recruitment from home ports, and alleged immigration-law evasion with crews sent back and replaced.
Mrs. 8S. A. Hesa, 31, held Saturday after her car collided with another at Second Ave. W and McGraw Pt. Companion R. A. Miller also arrested by Patrolman Secheidie on a charge of intoxication.
U S President and British and French leaders backed a four-power pact rejecting war causes and scrapping the Anglo Japanese alliance. Viviani and Tokugawa pledged France and Japan to peace in the Pacific, while delegates from Britain, Holland, China, Belgium and others supported ratifications and a united effort to curb autocracy through diplomacy.
Secretary Hughes reports on Pacific and Far Eastern questions at the conference. The committee approved a principle statement urging respect for China's sovereignty and equal opportunity while avoiding special rights for any power. The powers, including the United States, Belgium, Britain, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and Portugal, are urged to assent to the resolution. China’s assent is invited.
Washington December 10 The United States will propose two reservations to the quadruple Pacific treaty before the conference opens One aims at isolating Yap and the other addresses domestic questions believed to involve Hawaii.
The Washington Supreme Court in Olympia ruled Blancs of Seattle may recover premises at Third Ave and University St from J C Corey and the University Street Improvement Co. The case returns to the court for a second time after a prolonged legal battle.
Senator Lodge outlines a four-power treaty to respect insular possessions in the Pacific, linking to Japan on Yap and mandated islands. He stresses no force or naval sanctions, calls the agreement a public effort to prevent war, and contends it rests on good faith and diplomacy amid a postwar world.
TOKYO Dec 10 American Ambassador Charles Warren said real progress is being made toward a satisfactory solution of questions involving the United States England and Japan after a long conference with Baron Uchida the Japanese government leader Warren dined with Uchida and then conferred at the foreign office with high officials in frank discussions He told United Press he was satisfied that real progress is being made toward general understanding on all questions of concern to the United States Japan and England.
Chicago December 10 union leaders asked for mediation as 8000 strikebreakers were barricaded behind packing plants. Dr J Hayes president of the Amalgamated Association of Butcher Workmen unofficially sent a peace feeler proposing arbitration by any fair minded person acceptable to workers on strike five days protesting wage reductions.
Dublin reports De Valera, called president of the Irish republic, losing influence as Ireland prepares for the Anglo-Irish treaty showdown. Catholic bishops largely back the treaty, while Cardinal Logue denounces De Valera. Michael Collins rises as a senior voice for freedom in a divided public, with only about ten percent of the population supportive of the former leader. An extremist ex-IRA member expressed surprising pro treaty sentiment, criticizing De Valera for abroad rhetoric during the fighting.
Secretly indicted by the federal grand jury on forging and counterfeiting government checks totaling about $500. Fred Kornick, formerly with the Coast guard, was turned over to U S Marshal Ed Renn by Newark deputy marshal Fred W. Stahlin. He is charged with passing three checks for 222 dollars, 201 dollars, and 54.23 dollars drawn on the Louisa C Frye Hotel Corp, New Washington Hotel, and Army finance officer J B Harper.
A burglar crawling through a transom at a city hotel room on 07 First Ave. was shot by W. J. Wilkins as he fired an automatic pistol. The wound was believed to have struck the intruder who fled before Wilkins could unlock the door.
Edward Everett Brodie, Oregon City newspaper man, sails from home to begin his new post as United States minister to Siam aboard the Pine Tree State. A thug attacked the patrolman’s small daughter Friday on her way home, leaving her severely injured before help arrived.
The Salvation Army runs a non cash work relief at 1726 First Ave offering two 26 cent meals and a 26 cent bed daily for three hours of wood cutting. Married men and clothing buyers may work longer for larger benefits while wood and coal supply limits daily labor. Commander Mays chairs the effort to maximize sales to fund the plan.
Nora Mahoney mother of James E. Mahoney the convicted murderer was released late Friday by Sheriff Matt Starwich after lengthy questioning over a possible link to an attempt to arm a revolver and ammunition to his jail cell. Rose Smith arrested as the woman who placed the gun in a package of pancake flour and tried to have it sent to Mahoney's cellmate refused to answer questions beyond saying she loved Jim. Dolores Johnson’s forged power of attorney case was postponed in superior court with motion for a new trial set for next Saturday. A woman runs a large dog farm at Skagway Alaska.
Colonel Wilda P. Richardson formerly a top army officer in Alaska was named army representative on the interdepartmental Alaskan board.
All unemployed ex service men are invited to attend a meeting at 1616% Third Ave at 3 p.m. Sunday. A permanent organization is to be formed.
A report cites four fatalities after an auto plummeted into a river near Paris. Authorities say a German submarine lander involved in the Lusitania sinking was not directly responsible. mutinous crew members alleged in connection with the incident. A Paraguayan warship is also mentioned in the broader dispatches.
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