13 Nov 1922
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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1922
Page
1
A rowdy digest of campus humor and sports chatter notes the University of Washington cheerleaders' victory, with playful taunts about revenge as the football season opens. The piece blends jocular lines, cultural quips, and dated references to college life and history.
Miss Lilian Claire Hebert, once chief yeoman in World War I, becomes the only inner enrolled active member of the John Paul Jones All Navy Post in the American Legion. She served 1917 to 1919, stationed at Bremerton, now works in commercial engineering with Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co.
Police link arsenic deaths to two women named Tillie Klimek and Nellie Strumer known as Bluebeards. A new hospital victim from the same Chicago neighborhood boosts evidence of a large ring. Twelve exhumations proceed as chemists test for arsenic amid suspicions of insured marriages.
In Seattle a group of safe crackers blew open the Quality Meat market at 9936 Wallingford Avenue, operated by Mrs. Richard F. Hartwig. They drilled the safe and dynamited it, taking 700 pennies and six slabs of bacon and four hams before locking up with a new padlock.
A fire at Humble oil field near Houston Texas, started by a bolt of lightning, threatens multiple large tanks. Authorities estimate property damage at 2,000,000 dollars with initial losses reported at 1,000,000 dollars as a lake of oil burns and steam jets blanket the area.
The U S Supreme Court supported compulsory vaccination regulations by upholding Texas court action in dismissing a $10,000 damage suit filed by Rosalyn Zucht of San Antonio. The case involved her expulsion from school after her parents refused vaccination.
Clara Phillips left the jail with a defiant smile as she faced a crowd outside the court. Defense attorney Bertram Herrington prepared to present the final argument in her murder case against Alberta Meadows.
New York report states Harry H. Frazee, owner of theaters and the Boston American League Baseball club, is sued for divorce by his wife Elise Fravie who cites Elizabeth Nelson, an actress, as the alleged other woman in the case.
A devastating earthquake and tidal wave struck northern Chile causing about 1400 deaths and widespread destruction from Valparaiso to Antofagasta. Vallenar Copiapo and Coquimbo suffer the worst damage as relief caravans race to aid survivors amid disease hunger and exposed survivors.
Presiding Judge Austin F Griffiths ordered a new grand jury to investigate the dismissal of the commissioners and others in a case involving misappropriation of county funds. The panel is also to probe perjury, improper disclosures, and a wide set of alleged offenses including prize fighting violations bootlegging and gambling. Indicted are County Commissioners Ramsay Dobson and Smith and ferry lessee John L Anderson with former transportation aide H K Tomkins slated for separate trial.
Seatte area hospital reports indicate 14 year old Lloyd Jensen, a Port Townsend crash victim, is in critical condition at Providence hospital on Monday after being brought in from the scene of last Friday’s accident that claimed one life.
In a crowded Paris Opera, M. Jonquelle, Prefect of Police, lingers near a box with a bouquet of Oncidium Kramerii orchids titled the Mottled Butterfly. He buys cigarettes, then enters a private box as Mme Zittenzoff’s Salome captivates the audience.
The U S Supreme Court held Japanese are not white under American law and thus ineligible for naturalization. The ruling upholds prior decisions denying citizenship to Ozawa Yamashita and Hiokonos while leaving citizenship for their American born children intact. Justice Sutherland noted the white definition creates a gray zone for borderline cases.
Wapato lawyer Joseph C. Cheney urged amending the U S Constitution to bar citizenship for Japanese born anywhere, arguing that granting U S citizenship to those born of Japanese parents in America creates an ongoing threat. He said acts limiting leases on the Yakima Indian Reservation removed the menace, but citizen births would undo it without a constitutional change.
Norman Repp, 11, lay in critical condition at a Portland hospital after being shot by P. Hari, a Hindu peanut vendor. Hari fired twice to stop teasing near his wagon. a shell exploded, wounding Repp near the heart. Hari is held on a technical charge of assault with a dangerous weapon.
Fire completely destroyed the army quartermaster warehouse in Mount Clemens Michigan causing about 1 million dollars in damage. The blaze today left no injuries reported and the cause was under investigation by local authorities.
Guards investigated missing mail on Joseph Erjaine's porch in Joliet November 18. They spotted Joe's goat chewing envelopes and letters, solving the case.
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