Madge Anna Sawyer Acquitted After Murder Trial
A 22 year old woman, Madge Anna Sawyer, is acquitted of murder in the second degree after a swift trial that featured dramatic courtroom testimony and a verdict delivered at 5:40 p.m. by a jury of eight women and four men. Sawyer announced she would leave everything to divine guidance and plans to travel with her mother to Vancouver for rest and reflection.
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Pilot
Seattle Star
Braley Joins The Star As Daily Poet Laureate
Baw Braley the People’s Poet and Romance of Today singer joins The Star staff today. He will write a poem a day for Star readers lagging in Braley fans. Berton Braley, a 10 year popular American writer, has 5000 poems 150 stories and two novels. He has worked as a deckhand farm hand janitor elevator man ditch digger reporter coal passer and miner. He sings humanity in verse that is warm cheering and freshens the spirit.
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Great Lakes
Beaten When He Resists Arrest In a Northern Pacific Incident
Joe Sarba, 37, was taken to the city hospital and later jailed on an open charge after he resisted arrest by Northern Pacific special agent J. E B. Burns. Burns said Sarba entered an NP shed on Stacy Street thru a window, resisted arrest, and was struck with a revolver butt. Det. Capt. Charles Tennant planned to question him Thursday.
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Germans Battle Polish Troops in Upper Silesia Fight
Berlin dispatches report heavy Polish losses in an attempt to seize Kosel from German irregulars and Italian troops. Both sides used light artillery. German fire caused major insurgent casualties while Polish officials seek an armistice to retain seized territory. Mine owners warn of hidden explosives as tensions rise.
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Wirth Completing German Cabinet
Berlin May 12 Chancellor Julius Wirth concentrates on finishing his hastily formed cabinet. He seeks strong men to relieve him of duties as foreign minister and minister of finance. The latter post was filled but may be replaced along with several other cabinet members.
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Julius Wirth
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Republicans Assure Harding On Senate Dissent
President Harding was told by Senate Republican leaders Senator Lodge and Senator Curtis that reports of GOP opposition to reentry into allied councils are greatly exaggerated and that only few senators are unsettled. They personally conveyed the assurance at the White House.
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Italian Minister Reported Resigned in Unconfirmed Report
Unconfirmed reports in London on May 12 say Count Sforza, Italian foreign minister, resigned after returning from the supreme council for not pressing immediate action to defend small forces in Upper Silesia against Polish insurgents. In Chicago federal officials pursue men who sold League of Nations stock at ten dollars a share.
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Gorman Elected President of Seattle Teachers League
Miss Margaret M. Gorman tops Seattle High School Teachers' League election with victory. George D. Hubbard leads state hospitalization efforts for veterans welfare. Camp Fire Girls report funds toward summer camp amid three days left in campaign.
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Hoop skirts revived by Mia J. McKlevy
New York May 12. Mia J. McKlevy, 80, of Pittsburg and grandmother, favors the resurrection of hoop skirts. Painting and powdering and the hair worn over the ears would not have done in grandma's day, she says.
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Pittsburg
Strike Still Ties Up Ships in Port Silence
No local developments Thursday in the seamen's strike and no ships docked here, but two liners. Bakersfield and Wilhelmina, sailed with full non union crews. Efforts to sail City of Seattle and Queen bound for Alaska continued in Seattle amid charges of an international plot to destroy American shipping by Andrew Furuseth.
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Williams, Diamond & Co
Europe
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Veterans Groups Weigh Sea Trip for Disabled Washington Vets
Representatives from veterans and civic organizations met at the New Washington hotel to discuss a summer ocean voyage for Washington’s disabled soldiers. A plan to use an army transport to Honolulu was set aside in favor of exploring a cruise on naval hospital ships to Alaska. A committee was formed to study the proposal and report back before action, with Capt. Ralph A. Horr presiding.
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Davenport Bank Janitor Greets Passerby in Quiet Incident
In Davenport Washington a janitor at a local National bank waved to a passerby around 10 p m when a general burglar alarm was triggered by a pedestrian who mistook a dust rag for a gun.
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Plugging Up Volstead Law Faces Hearing Start
May 12 Congress opens hearings on a Volstead Act supplement pushed by Representative Volstead with Anti-Saloon League support. Drys seek to block Palmer’s beer as medicine ruling and extend prohibition. measures cover medicines, import bans, and apply to Virgin Islands and Hawaii.
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Volstead
Minnesota
Anti-Saloon League
House Judiciary Committee
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Doys
Virgin Islands
Hawaii
Stowaway seeks adoptive home after return to U S
Marcel Du puys a 16 year old French war orphan who was sent back to France by Peter B Kyne returns to the United States as a stowaway and asks Kyne to adopt him again he had been declared incorrigible in the past and now seeks a new guardian question of his future remains unresolved.
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Marcel Dupuys
France
Peter B. Kyne
United States
Kyne
Woman Defends Self Against Street Attacker
Mrs. Dorothy Hodgetter of 620 Third Ave N fought back after a man leaped from behind on West Garfield Street near her home. The assailant, about 30, wore ragged clothes and fled after her screams. No injuries reported.
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