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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1918
Page
7
Henry It Seymour of Seattle has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the reserve corps of the army aviation non flying. A Peterson of Jefferson Street reports a theft of $15 from his room Thursday afternoon.
A voice urges renters to resist long tenancy and consider moving, framing tenancy as a mild form of slavery and encouraging action to escape housing constraints.
Moving pictures trace aeroplane construction from timber to battle as a feature of a Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen entertainment at the Arena Monday night. The 14th Infantry Band and a colored quartet will perform. Speakers include Col Rice, Col Hinque, Mayor Hanson, Clarence Heamens, Capt K G Stracham, and A Hickford will preside. The league invites all lumber and shipbuilding workers and families to attend.
Louis Allen, 17, of 2419 with ave W., drove stolen car once owned by BE. Karger of Mallard in Starger’s vehicle at Woodland Park. Allen claimed a loan from another boy. police arrested him and took him to the juvenile station.
Deoree Kirchner, translated by Anna Grant Dall, will perform a violoncello recital Friday night at Cornish Hall.
Margaret Oleon a School of Expression and Dramatic Art presents a recital Friday at 7:40 p.m. to aid the Our Toys in France Tobacco Fund. Junior and children’s classes perform one act plays and recitations at the Odd Fellows temple corner Tenth and Market Pine. Admission is twenty five cents.
London May 31. Lord Mothermere, former head of the air ministry, says Britain's flying service suffers duplication and lacks a real strategic staff. He cites a large home staff relative to front line airmen and notes a small strategic council being formed to address aerial problems and serial warfare.
Victoria B C May 31 The shipyard strike persists as leading shipbuilder Andrew Wallace says settlement seems distant Senator Robertson sent to mediate reports uncertain progress Employers want a wartime agreement lasting through the war workers demand retroactive pay to February and refuse beyond August with talks likely to government to decide.
Strictly observed their promise to the pope made at the request of the German archbishop of Cologne not to bomb German cities outside the war zone on this religious holiday.
German actions on Corpus Christi Day included shelling Paria with long range guns, killing 18 people and striking a church. An air raid attempt on Paris led to bombardment outside the city after aerial defense. A British hospital and three other hospitals behind American lines in Picardy were attacked, with casualties among nurses, attendants, and wounded, after flares revealed targets.
May 27 dispatches from Petrograd report German soldiers deploying poison gas on several Ukrainian villages near Kiev, asphyxiating entire communities. The news notes the events were delayed in transmission and cites multiple sources.
James Lonney seeks insanity defense in a first degree assault case heard by Judge Clay Allen. Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Patterson alleges Lonney tried to shoot Attorney J. W. Jones at Jones' White Building office on April 40. Jones testified he had been Lonney's guardian after Lonney's release from a sanitarium and Lonney demanded $500, then returned with a gun threatening to shoot.
Saturday at the Metropolitan theater Seattle will host a first ever Camp Lewis military vaudeville show. The cast includes 50 soldiers and 20 women supporting the overseas fund, directed by Private Ray Hicks. Noted performers from Seattle and UW alumni join a 30 piece 364th Infantry band that won first prize among 91st division bands.
Pat Thompson age 19 of 916 Liowell Ave is jailed on a second degree assault charge after allegedly beating 16 year old Ida Carlson on a road near Fort Lawton. Deputy sheriffs arrested him Friday morning following the alleged incident in which Carlson says Thompson tried to force contact after inviting her into his car. Thompson reportedly broke down during questioning by Deputy Prosecuting Attorney John Carmody.
An American raid in force penetrated the German third line northwest of Toul this morning after a hour long bombardment. The Yankees crossed No Man's Land behind a perfect barrage and swept over trenches as survivors fled. Our losses were extremely light.
C A Peterson and A E F Bean residents at 1122 Jefferson Street suffered a burglary Thursday night. Thief stole all spare cash amounting to 58 dollars. John Ross Robertson longtime Toronto Telegram proprietor and Canada’s oldest publisher died this morning in Toronto Ontario TOROTNO Ont May 1.
Mayor Hanson secured a veto against paving the outer Rainier avenue sections while the council approved plans to pave the full length this year. He argued a bid call flaw to delay sections 4 and 6 for another year. The board of public works awarded a brick pavement for the first three sections.
Frank Wormbee a former I W W and now a soldier described sabotage methods used by the Industrial Workers of the World. He testified about spikes placed in logs and iron stakes in grain fields to ruin equipment and a member carrying liquid to start fires. He said I W W members resisted the draft and urged sabotage of war industries and even sought to teach sabotage in the army.
The American labor mission, touring Great Britain and France, says allied workers will continue the fight until German military power is removed. Professor A O Lovejoy praises Pershing and the army. James A Wilson notes British and French workers are united for war and aiding victory.
Ninety eight officers in training from the University of Washington sail from Seattle on the steamer President bound for the Presidio in San Francisco. They will undergo rigorous summer military training and return in August. A crowd of friends waved them off in high spirits. Phi Alpha Delta, the honorary law fraternity, initiated three members Wednesday night.
Washington announces about 275000 men will entrain beginning June 24 with drafts moving rapidly for overseas deployment. All states affected as camps prepare to receive large quotas, calls now in the mail.
May 21 report from the American Army in Lorraine describes delousing wagons used by the medical corps. Soldiers strip, bathe, and have clothing steamed and heated to kill lice known as cooties. The process aims to prevent trench fever and preserve fighting strength.
Albert Pearson, 44, of Seattle, was arrested by Justice Department agents and held for investigation after tearing down a British flag displayed in a local hotel. Pearson, a naturalized Swede, says he is not hostile to the Allies and claimed the flag’s prominence offended the U.S. flag.
Jack Lloyd, 109 percent in yesterday’s report, was at a disadvantage Thursday night when a burglar entered his room during a bath and took $22 before leaving. A Blanco, at the same address, was later arrested by Patrolman W Elliott and is detained pending investigation.
Geneva reports describe a false air raid alarm that sent crowds racing through Mannheim yesterday. Eighteen men and women died in the crush and many others were injured as people tried to flee believing an attack was imminent.
Photo shows Uncle Sam's hat insignia on the side of the aircraft flown by Lieutenant Allan Winslow in France. Winslow is credited with his first German plane victory while flying under American colors. The image captures the actual plane used in that victory.
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