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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1918
Page
8
In recent offensives both sides fired over 1,000,000 rounds in minor bombardments. The March offensive saw two days with nearly as many shells as the entire Franco-Prussian war. Near Verdun over a million and a half tons of steel were embedded.
The Cologne Gazette reports that over 75000 Iron Crosses of the first class have been conferred. Recipients include 146 princely army commanders, 943 generals, 23 ministers, and 44673 officers.
Secretary of the Treasury and director of railroads Henry McAdoo and Charles Schwab head the visiting party expected in Seattle next week to review shipyard steel deliveries and launch schedules. The 25 member unit will tour California and Portland before Seattle. Regional and local officials will discuss Western rail and road integration with transcontinental systems during the visit.
Identification tags show 104 men enrolled in the second non commissioned officers training camp at the University of Washington campus. Maj. A F Campbell led squad work tactics and a military courtesy lecture as the first day proceeded. The larger camp includes business men from Seattle and nearby towns. The Columbia disaster death toll rises to 19 with two more bodies found yesterday. 17 still missing.
The Clemmer Weekly Digest presents wartime scenes from France and Italy as a new film feature, showing actual combat and logistics through marshes and snow cliffs. The program runs alongside Madge Kennedy in The Service Star and other attractions at Colosseum and Rialto venues, highlighting contemporary themes and entertainment.
A new German torture scheme is shown in the Liberty week’s feature The Clown of the Hun. Charles Rayte stars as the son who is tortured at the German secret service HQ while his father Endures in a munition plant office nearby. The son urges his father to endure via a telephonic link.
D W Griffith discovers six year old Ben Alexander as the littlest brother in Hearts of the World. The prodigy acts with real tears and fear as German shells fall, earning audience cheers and praise for his standout performance.
New federal sugar regulations limit purchases for canning. Only 25 pounds per permit, and a second permit requires proof the first was used for canning. Hotels and small dining establishments face a ten day limit, with sugar cards required for others. Korea students improvise with sand as writing slates for lessons.
A vivid description notes in Griffiths Hearts of the World at Lavy's Orpheum, where gas and flame projectors unleash terrifying scenes as an attack begins with billowing vapor from the apparatus.
Clara Kimball Young stars as a railway magnate's wife in The House of Glass at the Strand. The program also features Tex Wilson in Western Brood at the Mission and Dakota at the Colonial, plus We Can't Have Everything at the Coliseum with a Red Cross wedding scene honoring wounded soldiers.
Earl W. Lindsay of 5229 19th N. E. sues the city claiming he contracted smallpox while at the lands sanatorium and that negligence caused lasting pock marks. He seeks 500 in damages for lifelong scars. finance committee considered the claim.
Thomas Murphine Seattle's superintendent of public utilities is named as a special poll man without pay at a Monday city council session as part of his quest.
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