Japanese and Big Still Raid Precedes Seattle Strike Vote
Police raid a Cloverdale area garden tract uncovering two distilling plants with 3,000 gallons of mash and two large vats. Seven hundred street railway workers meet to defer a strike vote, seeking overtime pay and a physical exam for all candidates, while pledging loyalty to municipal ownership and fair treatment.
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Tom Sumida
Jimmy Sato
Railroad Ave
Spokane
Charles W. Bell
James Heylon
Cloverdale #1
South Park
Seattle
Municipal Car System
Col Phillips takes command of ROTC at University of Washington
Col Charles L. Phillips C. A. C. reports to the University of Washington to take command of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. He will oversee about 600 students.
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Charles L. Phillips
University of Washington
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
Let Us Match Your Hair Switches On Sale
Large stock of hair switches in many shades offered today and tomorrow at half price. Ventilated four piece fronts and various styles advertised at reduced costs. Try on pieces for thinning hair described as destroyed by influenza.
Slide crushes two coal miners in Black Diamond mine
Theodore Taras Mack Alff and Joseph Dernac died in a two accident at the Black Diamond mine. Taras and Alff were crushed in a run way after the crew had been ordered from the place. Dernac 14 year old son of Mr and Mrs Michael Dernac ran into the mine to search for his companions and died from gas after rescuers found him. Antonio Vasco was overcome but recovered.
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Theodore Taras
Mack Alff
Joseph Dernac
Tueway
Taras
Alff
F. C. Austin
10Th Ave
Dernac
Michael Dernac
Antonio Vasco
Arrest 19 Drivers for Breaking Rule
Nineteen auto drivers were seized by police Tuesday for using the wrong passageway under the elevated tracks on Railroad Ave. They included ship fitters, farmers, hotel proprietors, foremen, laborers, and one man claimed no occupation. Two of Chief Warren’s riders guard the routes issuing traffic fine notices.
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Railroad Ave
Warren
Ex-Service Men to Form an Auxiliary
A mass meeting of the American Legion of Liberty at the Soldiers and Sailors Club on Fourth Avenue and Cherry street approved forming a women's auxiliary. Any mother wife or sister with a son in the service is eligible to join. The dues for one year will be managed by the finance committee.
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American Legion of Liberty
Soldiers’ and Salors’ Club
Fourth Ave
Cherry At
Woman's Auxiliary
Legion
Auxiliary
Woman's Auxiliary Fund
Washington Boys Back From Russia
A San Francisco dispatch notes 115 officers returning from Siberia aboard an army transport. Among them are Lieut Warren Grimm former captain of the University of Washington football team and Lieut Stephen A Chadwick son of the Washington supreme court judge.
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San Francisco
Siberia
Warren Grimm
University of Washington
Stephen A. Chadwick
Chadwick
Supreme Court of Washington
Pershing To Be Honored In London Visit
Gen. Pershing will arrive in London on May 22 aboard a destroyer and be greeted by a guard of honor. He will present American medals to British officers on May 23 and lead 3,600 American soldiers through London on May 24. The king will salute at Buckingham Palace.
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London
Gen. Pershing
England
Buckingham Palace
Ten Thousand Return Home Daily in April Troop Movement
The War Department reports that the homeward movement of troops neared 10,000 men per day in April. A total of 287,595 troops embarked for home in the month, signaling a steady return flow as World War I operations wind down.
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Washington
War Department
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