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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1922
Page
10
The Evening American will publish from the Beb d building at 1409 Ninth Ave after leasing it from local capitalists led by Marita Thomson F. K. Struve Captain J. Gibson and partners. First issue slated for mid September.
Capt Roald Amundsen, at Point Barrow with his giant monoplane, is ready to begin his historic crossing of the North Pole. Creighton C Hecht of the U S coast guard, Amundsen's escort at Nome, voices optimism.
The city zoning commission will host two public hearings this week. The first at Broadway High School on Tuesday evening at 6 o'clock, the second at Madrona School on 32nd Ave and EB Spring St on Thursday evening at 6 o'clock. Experts will explain proposed zoning regulations.
City officials plan action against unlicensed card rooms. A new ordinance requires all public card rooms to pay a $2 per table annual fee. fewer than half have registered.
A three day Klondike celebration begins with a downtown parade at 2 p m featuring 24 floats and many marching groups. After the procession the Arena hosts a Klondike display of miners gear and a recreated gold camp followed by a re created ship Portland sailing into Lake Union recalling Seattle's 1899 gold rush era.
Senator Borah urges creation of taxpayers associations in every village and county to pressure Congress for tax relief. He warns that mounting government spending fuels discontent and a “mortgage upon the brain,” urging collective action to check tariff, ship subsidy, and soldiers bonus measures.
C. W. Mersereau, 62, special policeman, was arrested Sunday night at Eighth Ave and Holgate for obstructing traffic while intoxicated. Held in city jail Monday after Patrolmen D. G. Hogan and C. G. Stanley took from him a special police badge valued at £63, a revolver, and seized his automobile.
An English passenger aboard an express plane forced to land suddenly was found fast asleep in his cabin chair. The event occurred near Paris on a day described as July 1 with details of the crash or emergency landing limited in the report.
Lawrence Hedon outwitted 10 guards warned to watch him and made a dash from Hull prison to liberty on July 17.
Plum er N D July 17. Higley a 90 year old farmer killed his wife 88 and then took his own life in the aftermath. The tragedy occurred as local authorities investigated the double death.
In Dublin on July 17 a 73 year old woman, Mrs Bella Gallaher, was dying at her Churchill home when an intruder killed her with an ax. Police launched an investigation into the shocking murder occurring as she lay ill.
Belgian police pursue the so called Bionde Woman of Antwerp after the Paris arrest of a Bavarian accomplice. The famed war spy, alleged head of an espionage network for Germany, is said to have disclosed French and Belgian secrets. The Paris prisoner has given important admissions.
CHICAGO July 11. Mrs Jane Ford sent a registered letter to her daughter saying she would kill herself and then drowned herself.
In Emporia Kansas a motorcycle struck and killed a child near the city. The rider sped away without stopping.
A fragment lists radio call letters and time slots for programs on KFC and KDZE stations. It shows 360 meter bands and evening slots from 6:30 to 7:45 and 8:15 to 9:15 p m, indicating a brief broadcast schedule.
The 1922 record lists several pedestrians hit by cars: Cunnings at Fourth Ave and Pike St bruised. Liggitt of Madrona Park reported struck while turning a trolley at Madrona Ave N and Denby Way. Sklennar at 15th Ave N struck by auto driven by Harry Gordon at Fourth Ave and Union Ave.
Providence hospital hosted thirty wounded veterans as guests of Mrs. FE Brown wife of the mayor and Mrs. C H Carpenter at a Sunday picnic in Woodland Park.
Under the auspices of the Seattle Radio Association radio engineer R F Burglund will open a series of 12 lectures on practical wireless problems. The first talk is set for Wednesday evening at Arcade hall.
The report notes that thirteen million people attend moving pictures daily across the United States, highlighting cinema’s wide popularity and reach in American life.
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