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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1917
Page
13
June 2. Attorneys for Charles Sulzer seek court aid after Alaska canvassing board decides to count all ballots. If challenged votes are discarded, Sulzer may have won. otherwise James Wickersham is reelected.
Copenhagen dispatches report Berlin resists China's protest on submarine decree. Blockade measures are said to affect neutral shipping, but officials claim efforts will spare passengers where possible.
In Olympia on March 2 the Senate backed the bill to protect investors in loan bank associations, while Senator Johnson of Spokane accused Speaker Guy Kelly of gutting the measure to aid his Pacific Building and Loan ties. Debate highlighted fees as high as 14 dollars per share and 10 dollars total, with Wray citing losses to workers and widows and naming a Tacoma organizer as a major culprit. The chamber voted 32 to 6 to reject a substitute and pass the original bill.
About 200 people attended a Thursday noon rally by Dale Calhoun and Phelps at the Strand theatre. Allen Dale opposed the arterial highway bond issue despite initial support, citing costs and a concentrated government. Other speakers urged voters to reject bond plans as war and tax issues loom.
London editorials hail Germany’s plot to align Japan and Mexico as a direct act of war. Opinions in papers denounce the conspiracy and expect America’s entry into the conflict. Public sentiment and newspapers warn that Germany’s diplomacy threatens civilization.
London report says two American sailors, William Jackson of New York and David Walker of Baltimore, aboard the Galgorm Castle sunk by a German U boat. Ten crewmen perished. a lifeboat with 12 survivors reached an Irish port, another boat missing after 138 hours at sea. Survivors endured exposure and thirst. two Americans, Harry Merritt of Beaver Falls and Harry Richardson of Boston, were saved.
Japanese porter Harry J Kewabara at an Oakland hotel says he found five thousand five hundred dollars in a guest’s soiled linen and was offered a job at a mine in Idaho plus a twenty five dollar reward. The story highlights honesty as the best policy.
The remnant of the Police Relief association secretary D J Drew shows 88 persons received benefits totaling nearly $3 000 for the six months ending December 31 1916 Readers are urged to attend The Star next week for the mystery novel excerpt titled The Star.
Continued discussion reveals broad consular orders, including instructions for agents and dismantling of German ships in American harbors if relations fail. The piece notes German propaganda in Cuba Costa Rica and Colombia, with Costa Rica’s de facto government facing nonrecognition and shifting support from the United States.
The delay is linked to the treaty with Colombia and may influence President Wilson to push action. Senator Stone, head of the foreign relations committee, plans rapid moves after the extra session post March 4 to advance the measure. Haynes offers watch and jewelry repairs, while Liberty Theatre features talking machine records performed with fingernails by George S. Nissen of Chicago, a practiced entertainer.
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