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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1922
Page
5
Classified items advertise doors windows furniture and lumber supplies from Williams Company and other dealers plus real estate acreage for sale and rent, auction notices, and securities listings. Names include Williams Company, PACIFIC Securities Co, and Liberty Cafe. locations Seattle area with Pi ke, Union, Northlake.
The last of Beat tie's delegation to the San Francisco shipping conference departs Tuesday night joining the Portland group. They will travel on the Shasta Limited Wednesday to discuss a proposed 30 million private corporation to control Pacific Coast port interests. Delegates include J H M Fox Judge James A Haight Daniel B K Trefethen George M H Lent William Pigott Mortix Thomeen Col George B Lamping J F Duthie and H Alexander chairman.
Inside look at why Will Hays may leave the cabinet to become the industry’s unifier. A plan to coordinate big and small theatres aims to cut waste from unshown pictures and save millions, enabling higher standards and broader uplift.
Margaret A. Butcher describes a humorous farm scene where a cat pig cow and other animals appear to respond to the Golden Rule. The narrator calls to animals on a Sunnyside farm and quizzes whether benevolent behavior governs even the farmyard.
Robert H. Foster was charged with first degree murder Tuesday by Prosecutor Malcolm Douglas in a superior court information. He is held under guard in the city hospital and accused of killing Mrs. Mary Bushnell and wounding Robert Walker on New Year’s Eve at the Bushnell home on Elm Place. Foster says he went to see his baby Georgia after a separation from his wife.
A. F. Haines vice president and general manager of the Admiral line told the Transportation club Monday that American merchant marine was unbalanced with few passenger liners and many cargo carriers. He urged laws be changed to cheaper shipbuilding and by equalizing with foreign nations.
Omaha reports the death of Mrs. E. H. Sprague a nationally known woman golfer from pneumonia She won the trans Mississippi women's title in 1905 and was widely celebrated in golf circles as a pioneer of the sport.
Kappa Delta sorority will be installed at the University of Washington February 16 and 17, according to word received by Chi Delta Phi, local sorority, which is to become Sigma Iota chapter of the national organization.
Former stage star Lillian Russell sailed from New York aboard the George Washington to study the human side of American immigration abroad. She is escorted by her husband, Alexander Moore of Pittsburgh, and carries a commission from President Harding.
Charles V. E. R. Dove will speak at a Wallingford Commercial Club gathering about the Green Lake Drainage Project. The meeting is at Lincoln High School Annex Four on Wednesday at 7:40 PM.
Washington January 17 A sweeping reorganization of all permit bureaus in federal prohibition enforcement offices nationwide will be implemented soon. Enforcement chiefs approved the plan after high officials in New York faced indictment over forged permits and graft claims. The plan introduces a new stamp system and assigns one official per office to be responsible for all permits, aiming to cut liquor illicitly entering from warehouses.
Doug Lan Tapp, 23, is dead and rancher C. M. Young, 49, is jailed on a murder charge. Young claims he shot Tapp Sunday night at the F. R. Eyre ranch near Elkton after a dispute linked to alleged moonshine production by the deceased.
Capt. Henry Austrem filed a suit in superior court seeking 15000 dollars for injuries allegedly caused by three hours of confinement in a safety deposit vault at the American Savings Bank and Trust Co. The case was heard in Judge J. T. Ronald's court on Tuesday.
J J Murphy grand operator and M G Crawford and G O Binder past grand regents led a joint installation of the Duwamish and Rainier Arcanum councils Monday night at the Beattie Odd Fellows Temple. A banquet at Mewes cafeteria preceded the ceremony.
A 1922 Spokane record details pedestrians struck Sunday and Monday by various drivers. Incidents cite unknown women, children Marion Turner and John McDonald, and drivers T M McIntyre S M Anderson P Larsen W Nolting with injuries ranging from bruises to slight harm.
Madison dispatch reports Hartwell Farwell commanded celibacy and forbade marriage in his household. His bachelor son Jamen confessed to killing Philip Houston who aimed to marry Farwell's sister Alice. A married sister was ostracized as the family enforced its anti marriage rule.
Nine candidates contest five student offices at the University of Washington semi annual elections. Winners will parade at Meany hall while the Defeated Candidates club initiates new members amid election gossip and songs. Voting runs 8:30 to 2:20 Wednesday with an initiation at 7:30.
William McMurray, general passenger agent of the OWRN Co, told Seattle Chamber of Commerce committees that no other tour through the United States or Europe compares to the Pacific Northwest. He praised the Chamber for funding a national tourist drive and said the expenditure will be worthwhile.
Three proposed steps to curb election scandals were presented in the Senate after Newberry was seated. They include a constitutional amendment to empower Congress to regulate campaign money, a Senate rules reform for tighter campaign control, and a bill codifying corrupt practice laws for congressional candidates. The second item notes a separate note on a British African railroad reaching 9,000 feet above sea level.
Arthur C. Burch, accused slayer of John Belton Kennedy, praised the two women jurors who refused to convict for 72 hours and halted the majority vote, saying they showed strong reasoning and character. He spoke in an exclusive interview with United Press after the jury was discharged. The prosecutor hinted at another trial to come soon.
Madalynne Obenchain, in an exclusive interview with United Press from Los Angeles, says she will testify in her own defense and reveal the full story of John Belton Kennedy’s murder. She notes the Burch jury’s acquittal on the co-defendant and expects her own trial to begin February 6.
Arthur Co. Burch faces a second murder trial for the Kennedy case on March 27 in Los Angeles. Superior Judge Sidney N. Reeve set the date after a 72-hour deadlock in the first trial and jury disagreement. prosecution and defense agreed.
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