Bolshevik uprisings feared in Austria and Czechoslovakia
Berne reports imminent Bolshevist moves in Austria and Czecho Slovakia aimed at Hungary. Vienna faces shortages as authorities promise aid if order holds. Prague socialist leaders threaten nationalization and a general strike. Rumors claim a Czecho Slovak army advances into Hungary near Raab.
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Austria
Czecho-Slovakia
Vienna
Hungary
Frits
Budapest
Bela Kun
Count Karolyi
Karl
Switzerland
National Assembly
Parma Castle
Archduke Max
Seattle Prepares Public Takeover of Stone Webster Street Car
A special Seattle city council session considers turning the Stone Webster street car system into a municipal utility. Murphine seeks a $300000 April operating appropriation and envisions wage increases over $200000 monthly, offset by reducing minor officials and others. Acting Mayor Lane signs $15000000 in bonds to pay the traction company, as the city readies to become the largest municipal operator aside from Cleveland.
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Seattle
Murphine
Council and
Public Utilities Committee
Traction Company
Civil Service Commission
Lane
Rainier Valley Lines
Ballard
Rainier Valley Company
Lake Burien Car Lines
Third and Stewart
15Th Ave. N. W
Nickerson
Lake Burien
Send Us Our Boys Home Demand Grows Across Nation
The plea urges immediate repatriation of American troops from overseas and calls for action by Congress, Secretary Baker, and President Wilson. Citizens are urged to write their representatives and officials demanding return home now.
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Secretary Baker
President Wilson
Youthful Athletes Rebel Over Vaccination at City Schools
A wave of student protests hits Ballard Broadway Lincol n and Queen Anne high schools as 300 Ballard students and about a quarter of Broadway pupils refuse vaccination. Health officials, led by Dr. Ira C. Brown, push for inoculations amid threatened suspensions and quarantines.
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Ballard High School
School and Health Board
Health Department
Broadway
Queen Anne High
Ira C. Brown
Hungary in 1919 Soviet Republic fully established
Budapest reports the Hungarian Soviet Republic firmly set with no bloodshed and broad socialization. Volunteers form a Red army paid with full social welfare. courts replaced by tribunals. private stores must disclose stock data. cash over checks, free public baths, and widespread worker support across classes.
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Stock Exchange
Rumanians Face Attack as Bolshevik Campaign Expands
Dispatch from Chotin says March 25 marks a planned delay of the Soviet republic and a new offensive against the Romanian army of occupation. Bessarabia, formerly part of Russia, borders Romania and has been claimed and occupied by Romanian forces. The Bessarabian army has taken Sadagora and drives Romanians toward the Pruth river near Larga. Moscow Budapest line cited as Bolshevik aim to link capitals. M Liskim leads the Bessarabian government with Chotin in the province.
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Chotin
Bessarabia
Russia
Rumania
Sadagora
Pruth
Larga
Moscow
Budapest
M. Liskim
Bolsheviki Forced to Defend Ground In Dvinsk Area
Anti Bolshevik forces begin a strong offensive in the Dvinsk region with Bolsheviki defending positions near the Miona river. Heavy fighting reported in Livonia and along the Turkul Mitau railway, according to a Moscow dispatch.
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London
Dvinsk
Moscow
Miona
Livonia
Turkul- Mitau
Roosevelt Jr Replies to Seattle War Parents
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. responded to Seattle parents urging him to run for vice president with a telegram thanking them and asking that no candidacy organization be formed. War Parents' Association VP William Bickel called the message nondeclamatory and expected Roosevelt to await sentiment crystallization. Roosevelt, a lieutenant colonel serving overseas, is praised as a man who offered his life for the country.
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Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Seattle
United States
William Bickel
The
War Parents’ Association
Roosevelt, Jr
Bickel
Roosevelt Jr
Shipbuilders and Men Meet Over Pacific Wage Dispute
In Oakland California union labor accuses discrimination in shipyards as leaders from Pacific coast shipbuilders and their workers start a “family discussion” to amicably settle wage controversies. The Emergency Fleet Corporation is not directly involved, plans for Macy wage board to end after March 41, shifting talks to the workers and labor leaders.
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Washington
Oakland
Cal
Pacific Coast
Pier
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Fleet Corporation
Piez
Macy
Comic Page Fun with Pete Annie and Tom Chutff
The panel features Pete and Annie cavorting with Mr and Mrs Tom Chutff, Everett True and Balmy Benny in a lighthearted comic moment.
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Mrs
Tom Chutff
Everett True
Balmy Benny
The Star Weekly Delivery Rates Announced
The Star announces home delivery terms for daily issues including 12 cents a week in the city, 50 cents a month by carrier in the country, and mail rates of 1.50 for three months, 2.75 for six months, and 5.00 per year.
Paine Denies Sedition Talk
In San Francisco Paine, creator of the Victory monument, denied making seditious remarks after federal agents arrested him on charges he said workers should be killed or captured in Russia. He was released on bonds posted by Col. C. E. Wood and Lieut. J. T. McMillan.
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San Francisco
Liberty
Col. c. E
Wood
Portland
Wae
J. T. McMillan
A. N
Robert Paine
Paine
California
Russia
No Confirmation of Report on Green
Attorney General Reames said on Thursday he had no information to confirm a telephone report that Leon Green an alleged fugitive criminal anarchist was in hiding near Three Tree Point. The report followed a police call by someone seeking confirmation after Green disappeared during the general strike.
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U. 8S
Reames
Leon Green
Three Tree Point
Green
Witnesses recount Gottstein’s murder scheme and alibis
Testimony describes Gottstein instructing driver Good to mislead investigators, scenes of the woods visit, and attempts to conceal the crime with changes to the timing. Abe Greenbaum identifies a revolver sold to Gottstein, while prosecutors prepare to recall five more witnesses in the ongoing trial. New York dispatch notes a separate fire tragedy where Louise Mercier perished while saving her brothers.
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Stein
Des Moines
Good
Gottstein
Murray
Renton
Abe Greenbaum
Greenbaum
Third Ave
Carrol Graves
Groves
New York
Louise Mercier
Ruth Garrison Charged With Murder at Storrs Court
Ruth Garrison is charged with murder in Storrs per the sheriff. The trial may begin about three weeks after 1:30 p.m. Friday. Detention and witness issues are discussed as two attorneys and local officers pursue the case.
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Ruth Garrison
Storrs
Mately
Sheriff
Stringer
Okanogan
Ruth
Broadway
P. D. Smith
M. Storrs
Seattle
Brerlin Court to Try Weimar Dispatch Makers
The national assembly plans a special court to try Endorff, former Chancellor A Mann Hollweg, and other figures alleged responsible for a dispatch from Weimar. The proceedings aim to address wartime actions and political accountability.
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Brerlin
National Assembly
Endorff
Amann Hollweg
Weimar
Weather Outlook Sees Rain After Eight Dry Days
Forecasters predict rain in Seattle after a stretch of warm dry days. The period ends with a likely shower on Friday as summer weather gives way to cooler, unsettled conditions in the region.
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Seattle
The
United Man
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