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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1922
Page
1
King county voters awaken to graft and misused funds as state reports indict local officials. The essay calls for careful leadership, honest department heads, and draft of high quality candidates to clean the courthouse this summer.
A kaleidoscope of clipped quips and columns touches on the Legate case rumors and a confession of suicide speculation. The page references flit between jokes about marriage, indictments, and local gossip in a weathered newspaper voice.
Regional executives proposed a conference with Bert M. Jewell of the shop crafts union and promised to answer later. Hooper said the proposal does not surrender anyone and would not modify the labor board. Shop craft chiefs and company officials were conciliatory and ready to concede, as big four railroad brotherhoods and switch men’s union hint at strengthened strike action.
William R. Short president of the State Federation of Labor denounces the last two years legislature for exploiting state prison labor and opposing free organized labor. He accuses the warden of the penitentiary of being targeted for a top state post and vows to clean out the legislature this year. The convention proceeds under harmony as delegates read names and former Congressman J W Bryan criticizes the Republican party machine. President Harding has pressed against the direct primary.
The 1920 census shows Seattle population at 315,312 with 133,208 men aged 15 and over. 72,673 or 54.6 percent married and 118,606 married women. There were 5,157 widowers, 12,331 widows, 2,633 divorced men and 3,150 divorced women.
The Seattle Star reports a flood of applicants for a bathing suit model contest during the week of July 24 to 29. Eighteen winners will model at daily luncheons for merchants, with cash prizes for the top three and a made to order suit. A separate Wayfarer sheep photography contest offers prizes totaling 25 dollars.
Japanese newlyweds Kanesaka lose their one story frame house at 8227 Second Ave North Kansas when a stove overheats during breakfast. The owner J M Applogist valued property at 1000 and furniture at 400.
The report notes Sullivan will face arraignment. a $1,500 property bond was posted for his release by McCafferty & Cohen while Sullivan remains uncaptured. Prosecutors may add charges after uncovering two Seattle brokerage offices and dealings with government funds and army supplies.
Mrs Hamilton Douglas Jr and her Artists in Miniature join The Star radio film show at Pantages theater next Friday at 10 30. Hamilton Douglas Jr and the Georgia sisters will perform ballroom steps, with Fred Berrens on violin and pianola, plus a Christie comedy Any Old Port and the special Make It Yourself radio film.
Dense fog stranded two Seattle bound ships in Puget Sound. The Willamette ran aground near Point No Point on Whidbey Island, and the Northland struck Smith Island at Point Partridge. Princess Victoria rescued 35 passengers from the Willamette, Cordova stood by, and tugs aided the disabled vessels as high tide approached.
Major E Green a laborer from 297 Avenue sustained a crushed right foot when struck by iron at the Pacific Coast Steel Company. He was taken to a science hospital for treatment.
James W. Egan recalls the mayor and himself joining Doc in the ceremony to cast off lines for the H. F. Alexander American carrier’s maiden voyage from Seattle with 600 passengers. The moment drew cheers as the mayor arrived, marking a simple yet impressive event.
Mayor Brown demanded full evidence and records from the detective department in the Legate mystery death case. He criticized Captain Tennant and Deputy Prosecutor Patterson, contending only they support death by own action while urging a broader investigation with Douglas Severyns May criminologist in attendance.
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