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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1920
Page
1
The Star invites Seattle readers to submit letters on carfare policy. Five of the best replies will be awarded ten dollars each, up to fifty dollars total. The page notes ongoing suggestions already sent to the Carfare Editor.
Gilson Gardner renowned Washington correspondent launches a ten part series on Famous Conventions. The first piece profiles James K. Polk as the era's first dark horse president and explains how nominations are formed behind the scenes. Gardner has covered national conventions since 1892.
The speaker rails against clerks and city work drawing labor away from farms and laments lettuce prices, urging Americans to grow their own food. He argues farm pay must rise or city jobs must shrink, and advocates personal effort like tending gardens to ease shortages.
Jitney bus service is back on Seattle streets with over 200 permit applications filed. Maj. Carl H. Reeves, head of public utilities, announced that qualified jitney operators may run until the city council rules on their permits.
Elizabeth Dahl seeks divorce from Bernard M. Dahl after 44 years of marriage to the Chand Trunk mine owner in Oregon. She hires a woman attorney to prosecute the suit and cites dissatisfaction with men. Justice Read M Whitehead connected to her church. they wed in Minnesota on November 13, 1876.
Dispatches report widescale Sinn Fein assaults across Ireland with over 1,000 participants. Fire destroys Waterville and Cloyne courthouses near Cork, Dublin agriculture and city offices, plus coast guard and police buildings. Estimated damage in tens of thousands of dollars.
Coroner's jury ruled murder and death by own hand in the inquest over the bodies of Mr P D L Wait and Harry Lappas. The pair were found on a sleeping porch at the Wait home with evidence they had been dead about two days. Wait's husbanding a lineman had been away at Orland. Lappas reportedly shot Mrs Wait in the right eye then killed himself in the temple.
May 26 Chicago prices for staples fell as vegetables and fruits declined from five to thirty five percent. Commission men predicted further reductions as summer progresses.
Off San Francisco May 26 officers of Charles Nelson company report the schooner Oceania Vance partly waterlogged and leaking while seaworthy crew pump as steamer Humboldt aids nearby. The vessel carrying Captain Charles Sexon his wife two babies and seven crew left five days ago for Sydney with lumber. No current report from the ship to the local Chamber of Commerce.
Judge Pierce in the supreme court dissolves the temporary injunction against the Harley group restraining them from interfering with the Christian Science Publishing Society business in Boston. The ruling lifts the restraint effective immediately.
Classified ad in a Tacoma paper offers a one and a half year old healthy boy for a three room house or small dwelling plus children clothes or furniture worth about 500 dollars. Parent described as sickly and in debt with more children to support. Authorities seek to protect the child as readers are asked to assist.
Seattle salesgirls compete with New York beauties for a six week trial at a Ziegfeld show and film work. Judges from Mrs Ames Ambrose Patterson and M P Kirkpatrick pick contestants with Natoty a beauty must have a way with her and wear clothes. Miriam Cooper will train the Western winner for six weeks at $100 a week with two more weeks as a Ziegfeld star.
San Francisco May 26 Charles H. Graham manager of the San Francisco Seals was fined 50 dollars and suspended 10 days for actions in last Sunday's game at Oakland League president McCarthy announced The suspension starts immediately Graham will watch from the stands through Saturday An umpire report described an incident with Eason after a close decision at the plate tied 4 to 4 in the ninth inning O Connell’s would have won the game for San Francisco if called correctly
Mrs. H. Seamon faced Justice Otis Brinker after a sheriff raid at 702 KB Union St. She grabbed a half pint of whisky from Deputy Julius Von Gerste, hid it in her stocking, and the deputy could only smell the bottle. C. H. Kearney found multiple empties. Seamon pleaded guilty and was fined $100.
N P Wilson a longtime campus gardener did not report to work and was found dying under a campus tree by Supt F W Elwell. He was taken to the university gym office and then to the city hospital where he died from natural causes. A search is underway for relatives and belongings.
Former President William Howard Taft arrives in Seattle this afternoon and rests at the New Washington hotel before an 8 o'clock address at Viret Methodist Church on "The League of Nations Up to Date" for the MCA. A 6 o'clock banquet at the Rainier Club honors him, then he departs for Portland on the midnight train.
New York May 26 reports predict rapid changes in Japanese silk prices due to Nippon political and banking turmoil. The suspension of two major Yokohama banks, the seventy fourth bank and the Mogi bank, signals financial stress affecting the silk trade.
Four men from the Union of Russian Workers escaped from the i ton detention station by sawing bars in a second floor cell. They lowered themselves 18 feet with a blanked ladder, escaped through a 10 inch gap, climbed a drain pipe to the roof, and jumped to the sidewalk. Names include Luka Efinchik John Boiko and Mike Mostowy Russian and Charlie Fieldhouse Canadian son of a Vancouver merchant. Deportation orders for the Russians are ready and to be sent with the next group. Fieldhouse case pending in Washington. No trace found of earlier dining room escapees or the instrument used.
ongoing police hunt for Matthew Riley the daylight bandit who vanished from the rear seat of a prison transport guarded by Deputies Coffee and McMahon. A jail inquiry found Riley missing from the county jail area while the other six prisoners remained accounted for. The report notes Riley had been granted three days by Judge Gilliam in connection with a robbery of Max Willer, a Georgetown pool proprietor, last Friday.
After a closed door conference with Corporation Counsel Meier, Mayor Caldwell announced the investigation report on the car line deal will be ready Thursday. The city seeks to determine if action is warranted to recover part of the 15 million paid to Stone Webster interests, and missing valuation reports likely were not turned over to the city.
The government asked the Supreme Court to hear arguments in October on the constitutionality of anti profiteering sections of the Lever Act. Judge A B Anderson in Indianapolis ruled sections 4 and 26 unconstitutional.
In St Paul on May 26 Mrs W A Snyder told National Confectioners Association delegates how she built a half million dollar business from an original small capital. She described steps, challenges, and milestones in expanding from a tiny start to a major enterprise.
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