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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1921
Page
12
The Senate delays allotment checks for about 25,000 wounded veterans in federal training and hospital care. The holdup results from slow action on the veteran benefits bill, as reported from Washington.
Senator Ashurst of Arizona introduced an amendment to the deficiency appropriation bill asking for 1 million dollars to fund a hospital in Arizona for disabled veterans. He cited that 50 gassed men are dying in Phoenix due to inadequate medical attention.
Roy Gardiner admitted guilty to the attempted robbery of a Santa Fe mail train in Phoenix. He was sentenced to 25 years in Leavenworth federal prison after the plea. The Maricopa case ended in a hung jury. Inderlied, the mail clerk, captured him after a hand to hand struggle. Dolly Gardner wept as the verdict was passed. The bandit faces transport to Leavenworth under guard and will not face further Maricopa charges.
The notice announces two contests. The first awards $100 and $50 for editorials on what constitutes success at the Washington Conference, by college students submitted to Charlies Denby Jr in Princeton New Jersey by December 12. The second, from the American Economic Association, offers three prizes from $1000 to $250 for essays on the relation of capital and labor open to all American citizens.
Actress Alice Brady was slightly injured when a limousine carrying two company members overturned near Albany New York East Greenbush yesterday. In New York City a woman named Mrs Jena Gilickstein 63 was reported to have shot and killed Dr Abram Olickstein, the actress son, a shocking tragedy noted by family.
In Kalamazoo Michigan Dee 13 Mrs Charles H House and her husband bring Virginia Lee House age 25 months to town for a baby show after 300 experts call her a perfect baby. The family farm home near Leonidas provides outdoor play and fresh air as the winning formula.
Mrs Helen Emery Aoki, wife of Japanese businessman Gunjiro Aoki in Fruitvale, cites her American colonial lineage and five children to argue for interracial marriage. She says her children grade well and that she has had no notable prejudice with her husband’s relatives, asserting marriage rests on affection.
The Seattle 100 Per Cent club hosts its annual event at the Masonic club rooms Tuesday night with speeches on The Value of Mexican Athletes a musical num ber When Ina Seal a Muskrat and vaudeville acts. Participants include M D Drew W W Moriarity M Gutman Dr Frank J Morefall and O Drew. JOHN ERICKSON 62 died Monday at home 946 N Sidst survived by widow Josephine and eight children. Body at Butterworth Undertaking Co.
Postmaster Edgar Battie asks the army quartermaster in Seattle for 50 trucks to speed late Christmas mail. Special mail weighing tables are set up in the post office lobby. Businesses are asked to delay circulars and ads until after Christmas with the slogan Christmas mail for Christmas not for New Year.
Mrs. Kagi Yajima, head of the Japanese W C T U and attendee of the disarmament conference in Washington, D C, will address the Seattle Business and Professional Women's club at 7 PM Tuesday. The talk will be in the Fine Arts rooms at 1213 Fourth Ave.
At a Seattle Yacht Club meeting on Monday twenty six men and boys declared their intention to build tiny speed craft for an exhibition planned for next spring.
The text states a California churchman's daughter, Mrs. Aoki, is the pioneer in American Japanese marriages amid debates on citizenship and rights. It notes her birth and upbringing in the United States and her ancestors' long residence, highlighting her lack of voice in living conditions.
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