02 Oct 1922
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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1922
Page
1
Jumbled notes mix hunting chatter beer jokes war horrors and slang from a stray Chicago Tribune pickup. Fragments reference cement shortages, a fighter Sik, Jack Be serely, a baby boy, and goofy definitions of terms like Lemon-squeezer and Firealarm amid casual daily remarks.
The Star announces a 10 day savings offer with a 50 cent gift for each first deposit. Open a $1 savings account at Seattle National Bank by presenting a Star Thrift Coupon with 50 cents. Each family member may open an account. one dollar must remain on deposit for 10 cent coupon deducted on closure. Liberty Bell savings bank provided.
A dramatic appeal urges Dr. Adolph Lorenz Austrian orthopedic surgeon to visit Seattle after healing the sick in New York and Los Angeles The Star recalls his prior visit and notes Seattle as a welcome destination for his mercy mission and transformative touch
Mercedes Tezen Oct 3 J Dundes Jones United States customs officer was shot and killed in a border gun fight near here while attempting to arrest a suspected smuggling band. He is the second American customs official killed within a month.
The American Bankers association convention in New York opens with about 10 000 delegates from sections expected to meet Friday. Key topics include world finance and a push by independent bankers against branch banks while L F Loree urges government supervision of labor unions in an address to the clearing house section.
Former Senator George Q. Sutherland of Utah takes the oath as associate justice, succeeding John H. Clarke. Chief Justice Taft administers the oath. court adjourns to honor the president at the White House with no business conducted today.
New York report states Baby Guy Stillman is ill at the Stillman lodge in Grande Anse Quebec. Referee Gleason recently upheld his legitimacy at Poughkeepsie. Dr. Charles Green has been summoned to the lodge.
Mayor Brown calls for a further 81 260 cut in the city tax budget and vetoes automatic salary increases. He proposes raises only for workers earning under 7 000 and says payroll is out of balance. He cites departmental waste and urges reorganizing to curb spending.
Despondent 35-year-old postal worker H M Knox leaped 45 feet from the Ford street bridge into the Jefferson street gulch after learning Hazel Colt, the woman he loved, had married another man in Stockton. He survived but suffered a broken leg and severe hip injuries that may cripple him for life. A brushy clump broke his fall.
New Brunswick New Jersey two wells on the abandoned Phillips farm were drained and searched for weapons tied to the murders of Rev Edward Wheeler Hall and choir singer Mrs Elinor Mills. No weapons were found. State police search fields around the crab apple tree where the bodies were found hoping to recover the knife and pistol used. If recovered investigators will trace prints and revolver numbers.
After a manhunt lasting over two weeks detectives arrested Michelena 19 A Mon tion 34 and Louis Burns 24 at the Mountain hotel 803 Charles st They faced grand larceny charges in a gang linked to Eastern criminals in the city and Tacoma The loot exceeding 1500 was found in their room including fur thefts from M D Johnson of Tacoma and Main Tailors in Seattle Police say most goods have been recovered and returned to owners
In Kenton Ohio on October 2, large game parties armed with army automatics scoured nearby woods for two lions, a male and a female, reported at large. J H Thomas a Big Four engineer said he spotted the beasts near the W W Borden farm while on a train. William Wilkerson claimed he drove two lions from his cow pasture days earlier.
Fire swept the coal bunkers of the Japanese freighter Etna Maru anchored in Astoria harbor while refitting holds for a bulk wheat cargo. Spontaneous combustion of Oriental coal is named as the probable cause. the city fire department aided in fighting the blaze.
BAN ANTONIO Texas Oct 2 National prohibition for Mexico is under consideration as consuls along the border begin gathering data. The 18th amendment and Volstead laws are being investigated and other information regarding prohibition gathered on instruction from President Obregon Mexican consuls here said
An electrical storm struck Union Oil Co. facility at Oleum on San Francisco Bay last night, destroying two fuel oil tanks valued at about one hundred thousand dollars. Adjacent tanks were saved by pumping out oil and using special firefighting chemicals.
In Detroit on October 2 a gathering of twelve hundred maintenance of way delegates from the United States and Canada convened for what was billed as the most important convention of their union. Key debate focused on fallout from the recent rail strike.
Byron Stauffer pastor of City Temple and noted revival preacher and columnist died this morning in Toronto from a heart attack. The obituary notes his prominence in religious and newspaper circles and his expected public memorial.
Seattle National Bank under federal supervision offers 3 percent savings interest. Open weekdays 10 am to 3 pm and Saturdays 10 am to noon and 6 to 8 pm. All ages urged to save. Liberty Bell savings bank provides a redeemable penny toward deposits.
W. M. Onnbey of 6963 24th Ave W was robbed of 54 by two men in a soft drink parlor on Occidental Ave. Doped whisky, he was placed in a moving car and later found in a ditch on Rainier Ave in a dazed condition. He was taken to city hospital Monday.
POMEROY Ohio October 2 Susan Kraus 63 known as woman Ponzi in embezzlement case continued a hunger strike in jail here with her husband George Kraus joining her in refusing food. The couple is held on bond defaults totaling 3 000 dollars as reports describe frenzied finance operations involving nearly a half million dollars.
At a special meeting Port commissioners approved a one mill tax levy to cover the port’s assessed valuation. The measure was set for formal adoption later Monday afternoon.
The essay by Herbert Adams Gibbons draws on a decade of reporting from Turkey and the Near East. It outlines Allied aims after World War I, the Sevres treaty, and Mustafa Kemal Pasha’s rise in Angora alongside Greek and Franco-Italian actions in Asia Minor, signaling a shifting balance in 1922 1928.
Dispatches from Constantinople London and Paris report near East peace talks set for Mudania on Tuesday. Britain may accept Kemal demands to occupy Thrace to the Maritsa river as tensions with Turkish nationalists rise. Twelve US destroyers head to Constantinople signaling American involvement.
In Constantinople area tensions ease as Kemalist forces withdraw from contact with British lines around Chanak. Kemal is reported moving toward Mudania for the preliminary Near Eastern peace conference while Britain commands the Dardanelles coast.
Paris reports immediate danger of war between Great Britain and Turkey averted by Kemal plan. French foreign office believes Britain will accept a Mudania meeting tomorrow with Turkey Great Britain France Italy and Greece to discuss armistice and pave a final peace conference.
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