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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1922
Page
6
The Pacific Northwest Products committee and the Chamber of Commerce plan a Pacific Northwest merchants convention and industrial exposition at Bell Street terminal July 24 29. The event, with a $12 000 appropriation, expects 3000 visiting merchants and expands exhibit space for food products.
Dean Miller, dean of the University and press of the Kiwanis club, will aid a $2,700,000 Seattle hotel campaign. He will give up his summer vacation to support the drive as division leaders gather names for 7 percent hotel bonds. D. M. Linnard sent a $5,000 subscription and praised Seattle's enterprise. Paul T. Shaw urged firm city hotel support to attract Northwest tourists.
Police in Los Angeles and New York search for Mae Meta Waugh daughter of Webster Waugh Seattle who died at home two weeks ago. Investigators suspect she left to oppose her parents view on movies. A photographer George J Err located. authorities say he had no involvement. Funeral services for Mrs HB E Scott 77 of Seattle will be held. she died in Winslow and is survived by four children.
R W Swetman of the Washington Educational Association and Educational Council spoke to A M Fitz secretary of the State Ed Women's King County Republican club Monday on the 30 10 plan to redistribute school taxes.
The narrator returns from marriage and recounts a comic police story sketch. He recalls a tongue in cheek intrusion into a Second Ave furniture shop with mock danger and a slapstick dialogue about prices a purse and a mortgage. The scene ends with plans to rent a tent in Weedland park.
Fresno officials hunt for a suspect in the killings of 16 year old Pauline Grate and her 21 year old companion Alex Winter. The victims were found beside the road near Sanger after their car was ambushed late Sunday. Winter was shot in the brain and Grate suffered multiple injuries. Investigators seek youths connected to Miss Grass, a recent grammar school graduate, for clues.
More than 200 officers and men of Washington state troops start actual training at Fort Worden in Port Townsend. The initial contingent includes personnel from Olympia Snohomish and Aberdeen and the encampment runs through July 29.
Budget estimates filed with Mayor Brown show Seattle's municipal tax bill likely to increase in 1923 after a 10 mill reduction last year. City departments face further cuts as eight of twenty heads have submitted estimates with little or no decrease, signaling tighter control under Mayor Brown's directive.
Seattle residents eager to see the Denny Hill regrade gather Friday evening in the Sacred Heart church basement. The North Seattle Improvement Club hosts the meeting with port commissioner George F. Cotterill expected to speak and a report from the regrade expense committee.
A new radio protection group is planned to shield the public from unscrupulous radio equipment salesmen. A committee from the Engineers' club will discuss handling of radio Friday evening in the club room. Arthur H. Halloran, editor of Radio, suggested the idea. Northern Pacific Railway has ordered new cars and equipment valued at about 4 000 000 dollars.
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