Callis to Deed Magee Retires From Steel Ship Con Role
Magee, in charge of steel ship construction in this district for 20 months, plans retirement. He will sue W. A. Magee and the Fleet Corporation. Retiring to start a business, Magee was presented with a watch by a fleet delegation. Capt. Rue, traveling inspector for the shipping division, announced the move.
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United States
W. A. Magee
Fleet Corporation, Or
States Shipping Board
Magee
Rueght
Longshore Unions Clash Over Seattle Loading Work
Longshoremen in Seattle refuse to load ships as hours and conditions trigger a strike threat. Nonunion crews take on some unloading while officials negotiate with railroad administrators led by Director General Hines. A general strike vote is set for May 4 if deadlock persists.
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Game Union
Chicago
Paul
Seattle
Rall Iyead
Hines
Iafread
Longshoremen’s
Influenza Strain Hits Remote Islands In Summer Heat
The South Islands face a deadly influenza wave as heat worsens conditions. Natives suffer heavy losses while relief ships from Lavuka Fiji islands bring supplies and copra aboard the Amisin operated by Captain of Anacortes.
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Gouth
Anacortes
Lavuka
Fiji Islands
Shipbuilders to Boost Hospital Fund
Beattie and the shipbuilders plan a Friday night event at Dreamland to raise funds for the Orthopedic Hospital. Seven per cent of the proceeds will go to the hospital fund, aiding children treated there.
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Ipboncers of
Beattie
Their &T Dreamland
May lay cable across Pacific route proposed
A transpacific cable or wireless link between Seattle and Japan via a northern route is to be established if chambers of commerce succeed. Initiated by Seattle groups and endorsed by national and Pacific coast bodies, the plan sends route briefs to Washington officials. The proposed line runs Seattle Sitka Cordova Unalaska Attu Island Wakkanai Vindovatok Japan, claiming a 2922 nautical mile saving over the San Francisco to Yokohama path. Northern ice is not expected to hinder operation.
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Seattle
Japan
Chambers of Commerce of the
Wear
Seattle Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Club
National Foreign Trade Convention
Chicago
Pacific Coast Association of Chambers of Commerce
Washington
Sitka
Cordova
Unalaska
Attu
Phyllis to Load Lumber Cargo for San Pedro
The steam schooner Phyllis will arrive at Ballard Thursday to load at the Stimson mill, taking on part of a one million foot lumber shipment before proceeding to Bellingham to load more for San Pedro.
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Phyllis
California
Ballard
Stimson Mill
Bellingham
San Pedro
Vessel Movements and Coastal Traffic Report
Maritime bulletin details arrivals and departures across Puget Sound ports and coastal routes. Listings include Vancouver, Calcutta, Seattle, Beattie, Prince George, and multiple vessels such as Horatean Maru, Meratesan Maru, Rainier, and Prince George. Includes wind conditions, times, and passing in or out statuses with port calls at Seattle, Port Gamble, Dungeness, and Vancouver.
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Achr Meleme
Jack Caddo
Governor
Vancouver
Rm. Co
Calcutta
Kobe
Muroren
Rainier
Comma
Fulton
Frilish Columbia Porta
Prince George
Prince Rupert
B. C
Porta
Se City of Beattie
Porte
Cerdeya
Morsheavel Bay
Northwestern
Anchorage
Alaskan
Teremite
Port Gamble
Canada Maru
Oriental
Philadelphia
Enone
Southeastern
Alas
Port Russell
U. & Collier
Navy Yard
Prince c
Alaska
Hong Kong
Eded
Be Admiral Wainwright
Beattie
Manila
Seattle
Newport News
Se War Tanoo
Honolulu
Saiied
Ba Ningers
B.C
Se Niacare
Sydney
Se Queen
Tatkal
Mara
Seattie
Admiral Dewey
Honolula
Tue Tatooah
Bee
Bee Acapulco, From, Nanaimo, BB. C., Via Port Tow Vancouver, RB. C
Caddo
West Coast
Bellingham
Fa Phyllis
San Pedro
Ketchikan
Se H. B. Lovejoy
Galied
D. G. Scofield
San Francisco
Satie
Fe Ketchikan
Alaskan Porta
Dungeness
Se Horaisan Maru
Port Townsend
Se Fulton
Mexico Maru
Asparagus Market Slump Offsets California Shipments
Market reports show California grown asparagus entering on consignment while Washington produce profits shrink due to larger quantities. Consumers face price cuts as supply rises. Dollara and Plum brand strawberries arrive by express, at four fifty to five dollars per crate. Butter remains unsettled with a two cent decline held, and eggs and cheese trends unclear.
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Washington
California
Express
Sunnyside
Wholesale Produce Prices and Local Listings
A snapshot of regional produce pricing items and dairy products. Listings include artichokes onions lettuce tomatoes and greens with prices by crate or pack from Oregon Washington and California suppliers along with dairy items such as butter and milk products and meat items like veal and lamb.
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Dow
Humchee
Seerereeverences
Kennewick Beane
rHem
Winaingetead
Ees
Fiat Dutom c
Oregon Flats
Imperial Valley
Los Angeles
Crate
Florida
Tips From Trade Experts On How To Sell Surplus Abroad
Delegates at the National Foreign Trade Council convention hear expert guidance on exporting surplus American goods. Speakers urge expanding exports, reducing costs, and using American sales channels abroad to match rising production with foreign demand.
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America
Carl Sandburg
N. EB
Chicago
National Foreign Trade Council
James A. Farrel
United States Steel Corporation
Local Market Ad Lists Milk and Pantry Prices
Public Markets rIe T. Mall and The Stall sections show various item prices including milk at 16 cents, sugar and soap, Carnation or Mor dond’s milk, Fairy soap, Creme O11, Del Monte tomatoes, pineapple, Red Bear Grocery items, pancake flour, tomato soup, corn, butter, peanut butter, margarine, and fresh berries. Haikett Fish Co. advertises halibut cheeks priced per pound.
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T. Mall
Kristoferson
Mordon
Acme
del Monte
Lerce
Red Bear
Reval Grocery
Neparagua
Haikett Fish Co
Grocery Price List From Pine Street Stall 21
Readable items include butter at 14 cents per pound, Ghiradelite chocolate 30 cents per pound, Del Monte tomatoes 20 cents per can, large pineapple 50 cents, spaghetti or macaroni 24 cents, Carnation or Berden’s soap 18 cents per can, Bonbrite cleanser 6 cents, Ivory soap 36 cents per box, pancake flour 10 cents, matches six boxes, Hed Top coffee 40 cents per can, Alaska black cod per pound at 6d, and Hill coffee 43 cents per pound, are listed at Acme grocery basement and Elliott Fish company.
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Pine Street
Kristoferson
Glasa Acme
del Monte
Carnation
Berden's
D. Cleanser
Ted Beal Grocery Annex
Elliott Fish Company
Alaska
Royal grocery—Itill
Westlake Grocery Price List Items and Buys
A fragment lists numerous grocery items with prices including sugar at six cents, olives at large sizes, coffee at 1.25, pork and beans can, tomatoes and soap, and various meats such as lamb chops and veal. Also notes creamery butter, packets of marmalade, and oranges among stall labels.
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Westlake
Campbell's
Heins
Market Prices For Fresh Fish Produce And Dairy
Readable items show prices for salmon trout shad roe salt salmon and various margarine butters cheeses and eggs. Mentions include Wisconsin brick cheese Home grown asparagus and fresh Breen with weights and per unit pricing.
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Wisconsin
WEATLAKE FISH STALL OFFERS FRESH PRODUCE MIX
A listing of stall items and prices includes salmon trout 26 cents per pound halibut 26 cents, Columbia river shad 12 percent per pound, fresh coconut eggs and asparagus at 16 cents, new potatoes 2 cents, Crisco 66 cents, Lux flakes 25 cents, Schilling's coffee 4 cents, dried apricots 20 cents per pound, prunes 2 pounds for 60 cents, Pride washing powder 2.00 per package, with stalls 112 106 and 192 noted.
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Columbia River
Schilling
Local Market Highlights From Pike Place Stalls
Stall listings show prices for fresh fish and seafood including large shad halibut and salmon trout at 20 to 26 cents each, and Carnation milk at 22 cents. Other items include pasteurized milk 10 to 12 cents, cane sugar, Yakima potatoes at 12 cents per pound or 2.26 per 100, corned beef 22 to 25 cents per pound, and potro nat 20 to 32 cents per 100.
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Pike Place
Telegraphs Dumped In Waste During War Officials Reveal
Paris reports reveal that during the war the tele graph bureau withheld up to 40 000 telegrams daily. Wires clogged, clerks discarded excess messages into waste baskets, stirring debate as deputies probe wartime censorship and efficiency.
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Star
N. EB. A
Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Paris Telegraphic Bureau
Portland Market Report including cattle lambs and dairy quotes
May 1 market report from Portland lists receipts for cattle steers cows heifers and calves with price ranges from 7.50 to 15.60 for steers and 7 to 10.50 for cows and heifers. Sheep and lamb prices show prime lambs at 16 to 16.5 with yearlings and wethers and ewes priced accordingly. Also noted are local extras and dairy items from Potter City creamery and small poultry and cheese prices.
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Portland
Ore
Potter City
Kewe
Oregon
Grain futures rise on unfavorable weather at Chicago
May corn opens at 81.58 and moves higher. July corn starts at 1.67 and climbs to 1.60. September corn flat at 1.68 then gains. May oats opens at 0.9 and rises, July oats up and gains. Wheat and other grains show upticks as weather and flour release expectations affect markets.
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Chicago
Food Administration
Onte
Frisco Market Report May Prices and Goods
Frisco market report lists butter extras at 67 0, cheese at 21 cents, potatoes with deltas around 1.75 per cental, Oregon burbanks 2.35, Washington wheat 202.25, new potatoes 24 to 5e per pound, feed and seed per cental varied from 2.40 to 2.75, parley feed around 2.17 to 2.28 per cental.
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Ban Francisco
California
Oregon
Burbanks
Washington
Poneto House
Aliens to Lose Trainmen Jobs on City Lines
Traction official Murphine announced actions against 125 non citizens and 25 workers lacking first papers among 1,200 municipal car line trainmen. Street railway staff will be examined under civil service rules regulating city jobs to ensure American eligibility. Twenty five lack first papers. one hundred have begun naturalization and may stay pending final ruling.
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Murphine
Civil Service Commission
City Civil Service
Health rules seek permits for rummage sales and bedding sterilization
Health Commissioner seeks a bill through Corporation Counsel to require permits for rummage sales and to mandate sterilization of second hand bedding mattresses and old clothes before sale. The ordinance would force hotels to fumigate mattresses and bedding every six months and authorize inspectors to verify cleanliness in lodging houses.
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Walter F. Meier
Health Department
J. M. Read
Complaint on Lowman drive condition from 44th Ave to Blake Place
A district resident 8 C Stevens filed with the city clerk a complaint about the condition of Lowman drive from 44th avenue 8 west to Blake place. He says the stretch was impassable in winter and is almost as bad now.
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Lowman Drive
44Th Ave
Blake Place
C. Stevens
Stock market opens strong on May 1 in New York
The opening shows gains with American Locomotive at 76 up 14 percent Bethlehem Steel B at 72 up percent and General Motors at 182 up 1 percent according to United Press reporting from New York.
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New York
United Press
American Locomotive
Bethlehem Steel
General Motors
New York Prices Mixed in Harsh May Trading
New York markets report mixed commodity quotes with coffee up and sugar centrifugal holding at 7.28 a unit. Trade notes frequent fluctuations and broader market uncertainty in early May.
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New York
Seattle Taxi Driver Arrested on Perjury Charge
George Swingle, driver for Seattle Taxicab and Transfer, was arrested on perjury charges at the request of Superior Judge J T Ronald and released on 1500 dollar bail. He allegedly testified inconsistently in the taxicab company's injunction suit against the Seattle Auto Drivers union. The injunction hearing concluded Wednesday afternoon and Judge Ronald has the case under advisement.
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George Swingle
Seattle Taxicab and Transfer Company
J. T. Ronald
Swingle
Seattle Auto Drivers’ Union
Ronald
Flyers May Start Weather Improves for Transatlantic Flight
Weather improves in Atlantic wireless reports from merchant ships. Sopwith and Martincyde airplanes stay in hangars and no pilot announcement was expected before the afternoon on whether the transatlantic attempt would proceed today.
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ST. Johns
Nff
United Press
Atlantic
Allied leaders meet Germans in brief Versailles session
In Versailles on May 1 Foreign Minister Prockhorff Rantzau and Herr Landsberg handed credentials to Allied representatives Jules Cambon Henry White and Japanese Ambassador Matsui. The meeting lasted only five minutes.
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William Phillip Simms
United Press
Versailles
Prockhorff Rantzau
Herr Landsberg
Jules Cambon
Henry White
Matsui
Italy Debates Peace Return
Rome papers report Premier Orlando and Foreign Minister Sonnino will stay in Rome until the allies agree to confer with Italy on a new basis. The Italian peace delegation in Rome held a late conference to decide if they will return to Paris for further talks.
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London
United Press
Rome
Epoca
Orlando
Sonnino
Italy
Paris
Labor Day Observed Across Europe Amid Upheaval
Labor day celebrations spread across Europe with heightened enthusiasm due to industrial upheavals and gains by organized labor. In London a monster Hyde Park rally drew a record crowd to hear speakers from Britain and the continent.
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Europe
London
United Press
Hyde Park
Oregon Hospital Men Land in East Oregon
Base hospital No. 126 operated by the Elks lodge in Oregon arrived in New York aboard the transport Finland under Lieut. Col Rsh Eyenne. The unit will be sent to Camp Lewis for demobilization and most members are from Portland.
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New York
United Press
Base Hospital No
Elks’ Lodge
Oregon
Finland
Rsh Eyenne
Camp Lewis
Portland
Passengers Paid Amid Harbor Strike Delay
About eleven hundred passengers converge on the bank of M Berardini seeking $15 each from Union Navigation Steamship. Delayed from sailing to Italy on March 20 by the President Wilson strike, they were paid $1.50 daily during the ten day hold. Each passenger had saved $2,000 or more for the voyage.
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New York
Bank of
M. Berardini
Union Navigation Steamship Company
Italy
President Wilson
Munich Soviet Report Appears Crushed
The Berlingske Tidende reports the Munich soviet government overthrown though the dispatch is unconfirmed. In Cleveland, Postmaster General Burleson faced a labor federation resolution urging resignation for allegedly avoiding organized labor representatives.
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Munich
Copenhagen
United Press
Berlingske Tidende
Cleveland
Ohio
Burleson
Cleveland Federation of Labor
Organized Labor
Italian Barred While Returning From Vancouver
Marco Ponzio editor of Il Corriere de Seattle was denied admission to the United States as an undesired citizen after a Vancouver business trip. The Italian consul appealed, Commissioner White ordered an investigation, and a Seattle postal clerk narrowly encounters a suspicious parcel during inspection.
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United States
Marco Ponzo
Il Corriere de Seattle
Ponzio
Vancouver
White
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