The Seattle Star Keeps Prices Low Amid Industry Increases
The Seattle Star vows not to raise prices and pledges a better paper with exclusive news. Chicago papers like the Tribune and News announce price hikes from 1 to 2 cents amid rising paper costs, with several others planning increases before June.
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Chicago Tribune
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Sacrifice for War Funds Too High If Taxes Hit Daily Life
Editorial urges against war bonds and broad income taxes that would raise living costs. It argues the nation should not balance liberty with higher taxes on essentials like electricity and gas and warns against consigning wealth to fund the war. It calls to fix the income tax with transparency and effectiveness.
Fugitive bootlegger Logan Billingsley surrenders to U S authorities
Logan Billingsley, a fugitive bootlegger king, surrendered to United States District Attorney Allen at 10:45 a m. He spent 10 minutes in a cell, was haled before Judge Neterer, and admitted to a $7 000 bond pending appeal from a 13 month sentence to McNeil's Island. He later reentered liberty after arranging bond, after escaping detention on April 22. The Star received his dictated escape narrative before surrender.
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Neterer
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E. R Tobey
Logan
Unite States
McNeil Island
Roosevelt division amendment dropped from draft measure
Washington report states conferees eliminated the Roosevelt division amendment and the Fall amendment. The border cavalry plan remains, with age limits 21 to 30 for service. Administration opposes reintroducing the est and senate lines may resist the report. Prohibition now covers liquor sales to uniformed men only. President Wilson awaits congressional action to issue the proclamation.
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German Spy Fraught With Data In San Francisco Arrest
Lieut. Frank Wolf alias Frank Fels, a German army aviation corps officer, was captured in San Francisco. Justice officials say he provided aviation strength data, Bay maps, fort photos and drawings of Pacific Coast defenses, a trove of value to the Kaiser’s agents.
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Frank Fels
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Bargain Friday Anticipation Promises Wide Savings
Bargain Friday returns with a humdinger sale across The Star ads. Readers are urged to shop Standard Furniture, Bartell Drug, Liberty Theatre, Grote Rankin, Woodhouse Grunbaum, Rhodes Co and more for big savings on needed purchases. Movie news and local merchants fill pages 11 to 14.
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Standard Furniture Co
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Liberty Theatre
Grote-Rankin Co
Woodhouse Grunbaum
the Rhodes Co
McCormack ‘Bros
Mission Theatre
War Tax Bill Will Hit All United States Tax of 33 Each Person
A new war tax bill in Congress proposes a $33 tax on every man, woman, and child to raise about $1.8 billion. It taxes domestic necessities such as electric light, gas, telephone, tickets, liquor, tobacco, cosmetics, automobiles, and amusements, with a graduated income and excess profits scheme reaching high rates for large incomes. A separate note states Vernon Heathman, paroled from prison, was arrested in Oroville, Ore and faces extradition for forgery in superior court.
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Ways and Means Committee
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Congress
Vernon Heathman
Oroville
Ore
Vancouver War Effort Echoes Bit Motto in Canada
Vancouver and British Columbia respond to the war call with the slogan Every man must do his bit. The Canadian Patriotic fund has disbursed over 1.2 million dollars to families of enlisted men, while government aid provides partial support. Baxter, ex mayor and fund chair, notes West hope for more generous relief as war continues beyond expectations.
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West
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Canadian Patriotic Fund
C. H. Bonner
Germans Say Americans Held By Police In Peace Submarine Debate
Berlin reports quote two diverse German factions the government and the socialist league on Americas entry to war and submarine warfare. They defend use of U boats as defensive and say torpedoing ships in warned zones is not hostile act. Continued on page 5. Fresno county California reports a grasshopper plague with 25 000 000 insects per square mile.
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Germany
Government
America
Foreign Office
Philip Scheidemann
Scheidemann
Fresno County
California
German Destroyers Chased by British Near Zeebrugge
Eleven German destroyers fled from four British destroyers in a long range duel off Zeebrugge and the Dutch coast. The exchange lasted 80 minutes with hits claimed on the German ships and one British sailor slightly wounded.
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Zeebrugge
Admiralty
Harwich
Extreme Russian Socialist Wing Declines Stockholm Peace Talks
The extreme wing of Russian socialists will not attend the Stockholm conference. A Petrograd meeting branded Branding Worgbjerg and others as pro German and imperials list agents.
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Worgbjerg
Logan Explains Escape From Immigration Detention
Logan Hillingsley describes to The Star how he escaped from the immigration detention station on April 22. He recounts a night-time window approach aided by an unknown helper with a long pole, as he sought to avoid an 18 month sentence and pursue an appeal.
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