Kill State Plans for New Roads
January 20. senate roads and bridges committee seeks a statewide halt on road projects for two years. A resolution calls the state highway board to survey all proposed additions and report to the 1923 legislature, aiming to block new road demands by factions. Oliver Hall defends completing current plans before adding new roads.
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Ympia
Roads Aid Bridges Committee
The
Senate
State Highway Board
William Bishop
Clallam
Jefferson
San Juan
Considera
W. W
Skagit
Oliver Hall
Ing
Little ‘Park
Hall
Anti Japanese Legislation Talk Planned in Seattle
Olympia January 20 A conference for legislators and American Legion leaders on anti Japanese measures will be held in Seattle this Friday or Saturday. Councilman Tindall has invited several salons and plans to spend the weekend there for the purpose. Roanoke Virginia Saturday 2000 employees to be laid off by Norfolk and Western Railway Co.
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Olympia
American Legion
Seattle
Tindall
Roanoke
Norfolk& Western Railway Co
Paris Worried by U S Yeggs
Paris faces a rising problem with American bandits described as deserters and ex sailors. French police may seek aid from the U S State Department to require passports and separate criminals from respectable Americans. About 490 such men are said to be in Paris, blamed for auto thefts and burglaries.
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Paris
State Department
Pary
Paria
Burglars loot Port Orchard navy yard safe
Burglars pried in, unlocked interior, and carried the Port Orchard navy yard office safe away. The safe held heat tickets worth 87,000 dollars, 727 in checks, and 93.37 in cash. Police hunt suspects. safe weighed 290 to 300 pounds and may have been taken to the beach by boat.
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Bremerton
Port Orchard
Navy Yard
Harry Howe
Thieves Loot School House and Other Burglary Run
A burglary damaged FP Tarrison school at 32nd Ave and KB with a broken rear window. Desks were rummaged and a furnace tampered causing steam. Fire department investigated and notified police. Separately a red haired robber robbed Green Lake Drug Co. at Green Lake station.
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FP Tarrison
32Nd Ave
KB. Harrison
Green Lake Drug Company
Green Lake Station
Carlander
G. PB. Dearborn
Ward
Hanonka’s
Too Firetave
Misa M. BR
Roberts
6Th Ave. N
Burial for Seattle boy Merle O Rear in Arlington Cemetery
Burial services for Merle W. O Rear, a Seattle boy killed in France on July 12 1918, were set for 2 30 Thursday afternoon at Arlington National Cemetery Washington D C He was the son of N W O Rear who supervised customs liquidations for the district Also a note from GUIDE ROCK Neb reports Tobbera tunneling through a brick wall securing unknown valuables from private deposit boxes in a state bank.
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Merle W. O'Rear
Seattle
France
Arlington National Cemetery
Washington, D. C
N. W. O'Rear
Rock
Neb
Tobbera
Congress in Session Reviews Bills and Appointments
Hearings on Calder coal bill and disarmament feesiation resume. President Herbert Hoover appears before agriculture committee to discuss curb on cotton and grain speculation. House, Ways and Means, Judiciary, and other panels handle tariffs, railroad valuation, river improvements, and international trade measures. Appropriation subcommittees examine army, navy, diplomatic, and rivers and harbors needs.
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Manufactures
Calder
France
Prore House
Herbert Hoover
Exricultere
Ways and Means
American Legion
Interstate Commerce Committee
Rivers and Hartere
China
Convict Fourth Hioward Street Gangster in San Francisco
Allen McDonnell became the fourth member of the Howard Street gang convicted in San Francisco on charges tied to assaults on Jessie Montgomery. After a short trial, the jury found him guilty of aiding and abetting James Carey and Ed Murphy in the outrages, and a second count charged a more direct assault.
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San Francisco
Allen McDonnell
Hioward Street
Jessie Montgomery
McDonnell
James Carey
Spud) Murphy
Vanderlip Seeks Soviet Concessions Amid Deportation Row
Vanderlip says he received from Ludwig A Martens a letter stating his concessions remain unaffected by the US deportation of Martens. The deal, tied to Kamchatka development, would have Vanderlip’s syndicate buy $3,000,600,000 in American goods. a verdict is due Saturday.
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Ington DD
Vanderlip
Kumia
Ludwig
A. K. Martens
United States
Martens
Kamchatka
Los Angeles
Poseur Cop Detained Over Alleged $10 Bribe Incident
Minar Aho, 34, was jailed on an open charge after allegedly posing as a police officer and taking a $10 bribe from a Chinaman in exchange for protection. Patrolman Dotson arrested him at Maynard Avenue and Dearborn Street Wednesday night, claiming Aho had the money in question and discarded officer gear, including a police tag No. 23.
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Minar Aho
Aho
Dotson
Maynard Ave
Dearborn St
District land office moves to Seattle from Vancouver
The District Land Office at Vancouver has been discontinued and all files and papers relocated to the Seattle office. An unrelated note states the average annual tax per capita in France is now 420 francs.
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District Land
Vancouver
Walsh
Seattle
France
Bon Marche
Raid on Sinn Fein Centers Hits London Areas
Important documents were seized in a raid on Sinn Fein centers throughout London early today. Police reported no arrests as they searches in Baywater Barnsbury Padding Stepney Eastham and Hanwell and examined homes and meeting places amid rumors of a wide plot.
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Sinn Fein
Secret Service
Bayewater
Barnsbury
Padding
Stepney
Eastham
Hanwell
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