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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1921
Page
1
A young boy named Sherwood Heinke saves a friend from drowning with quick calm actions. Heinke agrees to pose for Star staff photographers Price and Carter. The Star promotes a life saver product describing speed light draft seaworthiness and reliability in emergencies.
Tokyo reports an outlaw attack near Nikolsk killed Colonel Miwa, chief of staff, and many officers. Clashes ongoing between organized outlaws and Hunghuzes amid uncertain details, with potential impact on Japan forced evacuation timelines in Siberia.
A note found in Miss Nixon's stocking addressed to her mother spoke of death by own action. She collapsed crying My mouth and throat burn and died en route to hospital after a Lysol bottle was found in her room. Dr Lanter attempted lifesaving measures before her death at 7 15 pm. The body went to Columbia Undertaking Co.
A Washington state widow fights a bonus claim for her late husband Francis M. Skidmore. Despite broad public support for the veterans bonus, a legal technicality voided payment because the law took effect after the veteran died. The case went through Auditor Clausen, the superior court, and the state supreme court, all upholding the technicality and denying $360 to Mrs. Skidmore. The piece laments misused legal trickery and apologizes for the error.
Readable scraps from a 1920s era page include jokes about prohibition, mentions of Miss Mabel Lump and Bland at Omega church, a Tokyo cable on evacuation in Siberia, and a tale of a ship’s crew. It notes a Wisconsin or Illinois audience at a church ceremony for M. Zuecher and Annie Fahr.
Sherwood Heinke, 11, saved seven year old Franklin Barbee from drowning in the Duwamish river at South Park. For his bravery he received a black and yellow swimming suit and a return home after helping to revive Franklin with first aid.
About 3000 to 4000 people were refused entry to the University of Washington stadium for The Wayfarer as gates closed 45 minutes before showtime. Reserved seat holders were admitted while others were turned away, with crowds lingering after 7:15 PM and some planning to return tonight as cars were restricted from parking near the stadium rim.
Reports from Reval Copenhagen and Berlin detail mass suffering as drought drives Russians to flee toward harvest regions in Ukraine and border areas. At cross roads thousands of carts and pedestrians clog routes, dust and heat kill travelers and even pack animals. Soviet relief efforts expand while mutinies over ration cuts and a heavy Kremlin guard signal increasing wartime austerity.
Street Railwaymen's union in Tacoma conferred with T R P officials over a wage cut rejection. The company proposed a cut without a contract renewal, and workers reportedly would accept a year long contract in exchange for the wage reduction.
Twenty four cases of whisky dumped into shallow water by booze runners who fled during a gunfire exchange were recovered at Port Townsend. Federal prohibition agents and a deputy U S marshal were in Port Angeles, with F C Reagan, assistant U S district attorney, preparing to travel Saturday to investigate.
An American study claims women spend 6.545 billion hours yearly on hair care. If bobbed hair saved 75 percent, about 4.909 billion hours could be redirected to improvement and efficiency. The figures, attributed to The Star’s F. W., address critics of bobbed hair’s impact on productivity.
W. C. Willard the proprietor discovered a looted safe after opening the office. The thieves wrapped the safe in quilts and poured nitro glycerine in the cracks. The door shattered and $450 in checks and currency were taken. a crowbar had pried the inner door open. Detective P. T. McNamee said the job was done by expert safe crackers and a thumb print was left.
A large truck on Bellevue Avenue N plowed through a tree a telephone pole and a cement bulkhead after brakes failed on a hill. Drivers G. Yagi 24 and G. Miaoki 25 were injured while two Japanese passengers clung to the seat as the truck crashed into a garden at 311 Republican Street. Yagi suffered severe cuts and bruises while Miaoki had a head wound.
J. Fair, ordained in youth, pled guilty to forgery in the first degree before Judge Austin E. Griffiths. He was sentenced to one to 15 years at Walla Walla. This marks his third prison term, following an escape from Deputy Downey two years ago and subsequent arrest in Portland weeks ago.
Secretary of the Navy Edwin K. Denby will not visit the Pacific coast and Seattle next month as planned. He will remain on duty through the summer.
Denver July 29 A grain of radium valued at 77000 will be sent by registered mail to Philadelphia for use in city hospitals. A second shipment of similar size will follow from the Colorado radium company. The two grains represent about 1 15 of the world’s annual output, says W V Kithill, vice president.
Jess Boydston, accused of attempting to kill Mabel Baker and Thomas Baker near Portland on April 20, was arrested in Bozeman Montana. The capture ends a nationwide manhunt extended into many states, according to Sheriff Hurlburt.
A movement in Columbia Missouri pushes to name William Jennings Bryan as president of the University of Missouri. The report notes Bryan may become president despite current positions.
In Washington on July 2 a senate inquiry will ask why American troops remain in Germany at nearly 1 million dollars monthly. Questions will cover why they are not home, when they will return, and how overdue support of 240 million dollars from Germany will be collected.
Readers are invited to compose a letter to Cynthia Grey offering guidance on a perplexing problem. The best reply will win a five dollar prize and be featured in the page. Submit thoughtful, clear, and well argued responses.
In Boone Iowa July 29 Mrs Ida Crouch Hazlett New York socialist leader faced a jeering crowd during an outdoor speech. Doughnuts pastries were hurled at her but she persisted and finished her address despite the uproar.
In Chicago a police officer Kellogg shot attorney Lemuel Ackley in a crowded domestic relations court before turning the gun on himself. Judge Charles A. McDonald had ordered Kellogg to vacate a property owned by Mrs. Salina E. Bartow. Ackley represented her in court.
Alfred Anderson of Blaine is jailed in Bellingham after he allegedly shot Deputy Sheriff Chatfield who and deputy Dick Crain had stopped two men on a forest trail near the international border. Anderson says he mistook the officers for dope runners. Chatfield died hours later. Tool is held as an accomplice.
James P. White a Black resident in California asked police for protection after receiving two letters signed K K K warning him to leave town by August 1 or be ton tured out of his life. White said he would stay and defy the threat though his wife was hysterical.
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