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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1920
Page
8
Employers defend keeping the wage at 13.20 while activists argue for 18 as a fair weekly rate. Miss Jean Stovel cites yearly expenses of a working girl at 1305, endorsing an $18 minimum though protests continue and the industrial welfare commission reviews the issue.
State Senator Ed T. Coman, candidate for governor, opposed the Cartyon road bonding bill and a $30 million state debt. He urged road funding only as available and urged school education to counter foreign influence and demagogues. Col. R. H. Hartley of Everett was named speaker for the meeting.
New York June 3 Miss Marjorie Oakes of Nashville Tennessee raised the American flag aboard the battleship Tennessee during commissioning. She represented Governor Roberts who was absent. The ship will host about 1200 crew, including 600 Tennesseans, and features 12 14 inch guns and multiple anti aircraft guns.
Ellaworth E Robertson was found guilty by a jury in the United States district court for smuggling liquor into Seattle from Canada aboard the tug Monitor and was fined $500 by Federal Judge Netever. Frank Carr, chauffeur, was acquitted of liquor transportation charges by a jury in the same court.
Photographer M I Kirkpatrick names Seattle as the prettiest city with the finest complexion and strongest appeal for The Star Ziegfeld beauty contest. He contrasts Seattle with California and Portland beauties and predicts Seattle will win the beauty content.
Sixty five percent of all acreage farmed in California is now under cultivation by tractors propelled either by petroleum products or by steam.
Completion of the Lake Washington highway will be celebrated at Bellevue on Saturday. An auto caravan under direction of the Auto club will leave the County City building at 12:20 o clock.
The University of Washington students adopt a hard line on cheating with a mass formation drill, requiring all cheaters to have their names publicly exposed by the fellows.
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