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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1918
Page
7
A dense ad page offers land plots near Lake Meridian with low down payments, bungalow options, and furniture included. It also lists job openings and a variety of sales pitches for clothing, furniture, and services, with multiple local businesses and contact details interwoven.
Seattle expects to launch seven vessels in the big July 4 program, five steel and two wooden ships. The steel ships measure 8,800 tons each and the wooden ships 8,500 tons each. Shipyard committees and planners met Thursday to finalize plans, with more ships possible.
The United States Shipping Board will operate five vessels by a thin company on the San Francisco to Hawaiian Islands route. Four ships were built at Tacoma and the fifth at Aberdeen. Captain T. Barker, port engineer for the Matson Co, is in Seattle supervising the vessels' equipping.
The fleet ship launched at the Todd yards in Tacoma has had its name changed from Tacoma to Chebaulip by naval authorities.
The Western Chief a 9000 ton vessel from Kobe Japan arrived in Elliott Bay Friday flying the American flag and joining United States Shipping Board service. Cargo unloaded at Tacoma then Seattle port of call. ship renamed and formally accepted by Shipping Board. The Eastern Chief is part of a fleet of 16 similar ships built for U S service in Kobe with Patt er a Sun already in service. Other ships are being brought over as completed. The vessel will be manned by the Alaska Steamship Company with the Oriental crew returning to Japan shortly.
J. I. K. Wood, inspector for the Emergency Fleet Corporation, is in improving condition at Seattle General Hospital on Friday after being stricken with blood poisoning Thursday at the J. F. Duthie Co. plant.
Thousands of dollars of soy oil unloaded from a Japanese ship spilled into the water when a Hodger Brown Co scow sprang a mysterious leak at the foot of Hanford street about 7 a.m. The fireboat Snoqualmie arrived and pumped out the oil as investigators sought the leak’s source.
The Sandstrom Shipbuilding company of Seattle is taken over by J. H. Price of Price Shipbuilding. Six ships, idle for three months due to Sandstrom insolvency, will be completed. A workforce of 600 to 900 men will be employed, compared with 750 previously at Sandstrom, with yards at Victoria and on the Columbia river.
An evening excursion on the Fortuna steamer of Anderson Steamship Co. on Lake Washington will be held next Saturday as a farewell event for several large ships to be handed to the shipping board. The Fortuna will be donated to the Seattle Mary of the Red Cross.
Skinner and Eddy launched the Daranoff a 7400 ton steel freighter at their plant No 2 The hull was among three left incomplete by Todd interests The other two hulls will be completed and 7800 ton ships built Prof E S Meany of the University of Washington attended the launching
Frank Lin Remington, president of the Foundation Company, announced in Victoria that the shipyard is a permanent addition and work will continue. He said fears of halting construction were unfounded and the yard remains a key facility for the company with headquarters in New York.
Gordon C. Corbaley and Dr. Elwood Mead urged collective control of industries endangering postwar recovery. They called for reconstruction of social life, break up of land monopolies, and long term low interest sales to home builders as California leads a state and federal cooperative plan for soldier settlement and public lands after the war.
United States fuel administration to study coal prices supply and demand in Washington state. District 10 Mine Workers union expects unanimous support for a government action to curb competition from California fuel oil and secure full time work at Washington mines. Convention also bonds officers handling finances and approves a defense fund of 3000 dollars monthly.
Chicago police joined a manhunt for the woman’s male companion after her half-clothed body was found on the Burlington right of way near Sheldon Massachusetts early this week. Investigators say the pair were in a drawing room on a Burlington train from Kansas City Friday night. The man reportedly left the train at Quincy, Illinois, while the woman’s body was found by a track walker Monday with no signs of violence.
Tacoma June 21 George Pidd Camp Lewis soldier sentenced by court martial for assaulting taxi driver Lawrence Berquist will be released from federal custody after President Wilson signs pardon papers. He will be rearrested by county officers to face trial in civil court. The conviction rested largely on testimony from his wife, which an army ruling deems invalid for proving a conviction.
Judge John Jurey and Police Chief Joel Warren refused to release James Treanor Patrick McGovern William Baskin J J Extell LWVs after a raid on the Second Ave headquarters. Assistant Corporation Counsel Thomas Kennedy argued the five SWW causes were improperly united and the judge upheld the city.
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