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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1920
Page
9
A committee debate over milk testing and infant health led to expanding welfare nurse numbers from two to three and adding staff for Firlands and the city quarantine station. The council approved five trained nurses to assist the city hospital despite not securing student nurses, at a cost of 5040 dollars.
County officials again consider adding an aeroalarm system to the County City building garage after Superintendent W. W. McGuire urged it. The issue is set to be revisited on August 3 by the county board of commissioners.
Secretary of Labor Wilson is recalled to Washington to take charge of the labor department's work in the coal strike. He is expected to report to the president soon, with possible actions to follow depending on the report's nature. The report was anticipated at the White House.
St Louis July 28 Conference of coal mine operators in the central competitive field was called by Thomas W Brewster chairman to decide on sanctioning a joint session of miners and operators to end unauthorised coal strikes. Brewster expected replies from four state conferences early today and would decide whether to join John L Lewis miners president in requesting a joint meeting.
New York July 24. Church leaders warn a new steel strike is inevitable unless changes are made in steel industry administration. The Inter Church World Movement report on the recent strike was released and sent to President Wilson along with a letter addressed to employers and employees in the steel fields.
The Central Labor Council schedules a meeting at Pecational Center Hall on 1%th 8. and Mein St with Rainier lodge and Masonic club speakers. George Logan and K de G MacVitty will discuss China and Indo China affairs for the China club and others. Veterans groups and Hebrew school proposal noted.
Frinday entries recall Lake Washington ferry region events and a sequence of hospital births and adoptions. Listed are multiple names with hospital affiliations, birth genders, and residences along with a batch of marriage licenses and divorces recorded for the Seattle area.
Deaths listing includes Emma Val Cook 9, John Tebo, Martha Fowler 84, James Cotterman 58, Maggie 76, Fumi Wagastuma 2, Frederick Koeph 67, Knut Laursen 63, and infants Laursen 29 days. Addresses appear as 1125 N 865th, 6011 Ninth, 607 Ma Nolp, 5300 Keyatone, and 6240 45th tira with assorted notes.
Misa Henrietta N, 17, of Paterson New Jersey, wins a beauty contest among salesgirls. Judges named her Paterson’s prettiest and she earns a trial on stage and in pictures at 100 dollars weekly to total twelve hundred dollars for the national contest.
Testimony at federal hearings highlights alleged Japanese dominance in Beattie area business, hotels, markets, and ships, arguing undercutting of American workers and rising prices. Witnesses urge scrapping the gentlemen’s agreement for a strict treaty while noting unresolved questions about those already here.
Representative William N. Vaile of Colorado, a member of the congressional Jap probe committee, will deliver a stereopticon lecture titled The Red vs. the Red White and Blue under the Veterans' Republican club. The public talk at 8 30 Thursday evening is likely in the Masonic club rooms and open to women.
John Armstrong Chaloner, grandson of John Jacob Astor, registered under an alias at a Los Angeles hotel and prepared to release a big story at 3 PM. He is known for his New York lunacy court fight and has not commented further.
Burglars Jimmy Window and another intruded the residence of B. W. Manters at 700 15th Ave. N. Tuesday night and seized a diamond brooch valued at the ooo.
In a candid chat Mrs T T Ansberry recounts meeting Jimmy Cox and a past plot to stir jealousy with orchids. Margaretta Blair first suggested the scheme, but true romance blossomed as Cox, an ex governor, won her over and even earned her father’s support for his next election.
The body of a woman found in a trunk in New York was identified today by Mrs. Leo Trumbull of Detroit as Mrs. Katherine Leroy of Detroit.
Coast police departments joined the hunt for Eugene Leroy, husband of Katherine Leroy, suspected in the New York Detroit trunk murder. Telegraphic reports said a rail porter saw a man matching Leroy on a train toward San Francisco or Los Angeles, triggering the nationwide search.
Detroit officials report E Fernandez alias Eugene Leroy alias Wood sought in the New York Detroit trunk murder case is now believed to be in Baltille Coahuila Mexico according to a message to Chief of Detectives Fox.
Superior Judge Everett Smith delayed the jitney interests suit against the city until September 20. The postponement follows a writ of prohibition from the supreme court returnable August 23. The temporary injunction against the city remains in force until Supreme Court proceedings conclude. City officials met in Mayor Caldwell's office but could not decide a course of action, with a proposal to ban jitneys in Seattle discussed but not voted on.
William A. Bitton files for divorce in superior court claiming he and Georgia E. Bitton cannot live together as husband and wife. The couple reportedly wed in Centralia in 1912.
Judge John B. Gordon reviews second degree assault against Richard Smith a colored porter after a barber shop quarrel over a porter’s marriage. Loy Slinkard barber was stabbed with a knife to the ribs while Myrtle Patterson's work was nearby. The wound required 14 stitches and narrowly missed his heart.
A bullet broke a window and lodged into the wall barely missing an eight person family at 178 Nickerson Street. Police could not trace the bullet or identify a suspect, leaving the case unsolved.
Neighborhood youths in Broadway N and Republic streets pelted streetcars with stale fruit, prompting police intervention as several cars were struck. No injuries reported.
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