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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1921
Page
1
Citizens urged to vote next Tuesday to support sane management of the city car lines and confidence in Seattle bonds. It denounces repudiation and private monopoly, cites the Unholy Alliance, and backs Fitzgerald Bolton Carroll as safeguards for Seattle's street railway. Polls open 8 to 8.
A civic tribute praises Judge J T Ronald for tempering justice with mercy and supporting peaceable acts such as donating barber services to orphans veterans and hospital patients around Seattle. Edwin R Tobey earns praise for calmly handling the disposal of 44 barrels of condemned mustard without protest or weapon use.
Former Senator Henderson was shot in the wrist by a man named Grock in the Senate office building. Grock, claimed Nevada ties and insanity history, was disarmed by Henderson and aides, then held by capitol police as Henderson was treated and transported for further checks.
Mrs. Max West argues in 1921 that public schools rely on homes for a child’s health. Many kids arrive undernourished or ill and require medical care before learning can begin. Improved funding should go to teachers and facilities, not just clinics, to lift education in the long term. West joins The Seattle Star as a child care expert, promising Q A features for Northwest mothers.
Memorial rites in Washington for Charop Clark unfold with flowers surrounding the casket. Leaders from across the nation send tributes though President Harding and ex-President Wilson could not attend.
Pierce County Bar Association presents a resolution to Presiding Judge O Chapman seeking abolition of the current presiding judge system in the county superior court The group argues the system hampers court work as presiding judges are busy when signatures or attention are needed for legal documents
Smoke from a bakery fire at 2 All Westlake Avenue drove 25 guests from the dimer ald hotel in their night clothes at 3 25 am Saturday. Firemen opened windows to clear smoke. hotel not damaged. Guests staggered to the street in fear as corridors filled with thick smoke. The blaze started in a flue in the bakery. kitchen ruined and part of stock damaged. Fire inspectors probing Saturday. Damage listed as nominal.
Two clerks in a motor car transporting mail from the Santa Fe depot to Sugar Creek post office were held up by four bandits who escaped with two bags of mail.
Reports from Reval say Russian rebels have seized the Baltic fleet and fortifications while Petrograd sailors flock to the white standard. Kronstadt HQ of the Baltic fleet and naval training center appears under white command. A March 5 dispatch claims revolutionary forces control Petrograd and Kronstadt per a Revolutionary Committee communique.
In a sealed verdict in Federal Judge Neterer's court, L. J. Lennard, one of four defendants, was found guilty of theft of TNT from government stores and fined 500 dollars after the jury recommended leniency. James Galount was acquitted. Charles Hossough and Nick Akaloff were found not guilty. The trial featured clashes between ADA Robert K. Capers and defense counsel George Vanderveer.
A thief took a dress a pair of nippers a knife and face powder from Mrs. Burnett on First avenue early Saturday. The report notes the thief altered behavior by mimicking an example set by others and mentions a witness JEFY GIVENS at Main street.
Loots from a Thursday mail truck robbery in Los Angeles may exceed one million dollars. Three or four bandits handcuffed a driver and a clerk as they fled with dozens of registered mail pouches toward San Diego, with officials reporting over $100,000 in cash and bonds and about $750,000 in checks.
Odilon J. Secord, a Seattle druggist, was found guilty by a federal jury of illegal possession of wine and whisky. Sentence will be pronounced March 14.
Four years after leaving on leave Jack Machae learns his father once tried to elope with Elizabeth Morton. A yacht clash, a boathook blow, and a fateful pursuit to Vancouver follow as Jack uncovers his father's long buried history and Elizabeth's later marriage to Horace Gower.
Donald MacRae believes Horace Gower harmed him in business as Jack McRae reflects on his father’s feud and his mother’s absence. Betty Gower offers quiet sympathy when she finds him brooding by Poor Man’s Rock.
Federal agents and inspectors found opium cocaine morphine and other drugs valued at $20 000 hidden behind secret panels in the home of Chuey Lim a local Chinese leader of the Blue Sing tong in Portland March 5 This is the largest drug seizure in Oregon since the Harrison narcotics act took effect.
Vancouver authorities report to American prohibition officials that dope is smuggled by plane from the Lower Fraser to the United States as far south as San Francisco. Landings occur at night.
Forty chauffeurs from two rival taxicab firms fought in Lincoln Park Chicago early today. A running gun battle yielded scores of shots fired with several drivers arrested and no reported casualties.
The senator led a bold push this week in the senate for the ami alien bill and opposed business and Japanese interests who sought to sway him from his path with forceful language.
Mia Kraus and Agnes Kraus with daughter May hear liquor smell on a dark night near 24th Avenue and Interlaken. Deputy J. D. Lutz investigates with revolver and flashlight, moves toward a woods cache, exclaiming I have it.
Two Camp Lewis soldiers and an ex soldier were arrested with three guns a blackjack and an auto believed stolen. The trio Paul Hall 21 Gilbert Burrows 23 and Duval Mignery 18 face charges. Investigators say they may be the men who tried to rob a pool hall at Taylor Thursday night.
George Budwick a Tasmanian is at the immigration station awaiting deportation to Australia. He recently finished a one to two year state prison term in Walla Walla for burglary and will be shipped as part of a sailing vessel crew within a few days.
Big gains in daily municipal railway receipts enable redemption of the first payroll warrant issue a week early. City officials expect the railway fund to be cash basis a month sooner than planned as revenues exceed February 25 payroll warrants. Ed L Terry had forecast March 10. funds were available March 2.
Henry M. White, commissioner of immigration, will return to Seattle from his Orient trip around late April in a letter to Assistant Commissioner John H. Sargent. He notes the party is receiving a royal welcome in Japan as they departed for Kobe.
Information charging illicit manufacture of liquor was filed in federal court Saturday against G A Goddard. Goddard was arrested Friday night when federal prohibition agents found a 20 gallon still in operation on the second floor of his home. One gallon of finished product was held as evidence.
Edward J. Henning of San Diego California was named assistant secretary of labor in Washington on March 6. The appointment was the first official act of Secretary of Labor Davis and follows the vacancy left by Louis Post. Henning took the oath of office immediately after Davis assumed the role.
A theft report details missing gold, silver and butter from Hatfield. The thief targeted items include gold and silver with a total loss cited at $26 and a separate $224 Walnut value noted.
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