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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1919
Page
9
Miss Grace 731, a Red Cross worker, dies at home of Mrs. J F Lewin at 945% 21st. Funeral services set for 3 30 p m Friday with Johnson and Hamilton in charge and Union listed as organizers.
Laur. 4d. Colman urges boosted ferry rates to cover a coming deficit. The other party presses for keeping low rates. A note mentions concrete piles being made live with water aid, hinting at infrastructure concerns.
Seattle presented its case before the National Free Zone association advocating a free port. Under the plan duties would be collected only when imports leave the free zones for national distribution, instead of at unloading from ships.
Funeral services for Mina Elsa Meyer, Seattle nurse, who died after a brief illness last Monday in St Maries Idaho, will be held Friday at 11 AM from Bonney Watson's Chapel. Meyer had been returning home from a vacation in the East when illness struck. her family resides in Seattle.
The labor conference formed a two hundred member panel proposes a six member committee to settle steel industry disputes. Workers are urged to return to work and employers to reinstate them while committee findings are pending. Proposals include collective bargaining rights and eight hour day.
In Gary Indiana on October 9 a military censorship order was issued to control dispatches about the Calumet steel strike. Maj Gen Leonard W Wood directs that any raids or arrests be submitted to Col W S Mapes to prevent radical agitators from learning government actions.
William B. Spooner, secretary of the Central Labor council, says strikers will not arm themselves and cites a plan to seek aid from the car men's international. The council will urge affiliates to withdraw deposits from all banks except the Bank of Italy, affecting sixty five labor organizations and their members.
More than 3,000 Standifer Construction Co. workers at Vancouver Washington resumed work at 8 this morning after stoppage. The report notes industrial activity and mentions that about 700,000 wine gallons of industrial alcohol are produced daily in the United States.
Hoquiam sends a strong delegation to the 1920 state American Legion convention with Miss Marjorie MacEwan a nurse veteran who served in Base Hospital 46 and the Meuse front. The city cites 400 ex service men in uniform at a Salvation Army parade and promotes 4000 Hoquiam homes for visiting delegates as it builds a $75 000 memorial home for veterans.
Union leaders in Pittsburg condemn handbills urging strikers to claim benefits from strike headquarters saying they are circulated by operators to create friction between workers and leadership. In several districts foreign workers are storming district offices per the circular. The situation remains unchanged as of October 9. Roundhouse employees in Altoona strike, affecting Harrisburg and Hollidaysburg with 1700 workers out.
The second day of the 5 400 mile transcontinental air race saw three aviators killed and one injured amid five crashes and three missing planes. Forty seven planes started from Roosevelt Field New York toward San Francisco while 15 began from San Francisco toward New York.
A Crescent Manufacturing Co truck plunged 30 feet from Spokane Avenue bridge near Avalon Bay after a collision with a Benson Auto. Laborer Jack Groves 4622 48th Ave S W was critically injured. driver R Safford and passenger Charles Mulford escaped unharmed or lightly shaken as officers investigated.
Gob Butchiuppie, a San Francisco resident calling himself a salty old sailor, asks Mayor Fitzgerald to resolve a tangled love triangle involving multiple lovers. The mayor defers to his private secretary G. Stuart Costello to provide guidance on the ethical dilemma and the best course of action.
Julius H. Barnes president of the United States Grain corporation will speak at the chamber luncheon at the Masonic club Friday noon. Governor Louis F. Hart and Mayor C. B. Barnes will discuss grain handling facilities prices and supply.
Gordon Stevens reports to police the loss of a suitcase containing $50 worth of clothing from Hotel Grand Central. He believes a thief used a passkey to enter.
Constantinople profiteers allegedly block food supplies to the Southern Russian army per the foreign trade bureau report. Admiral Kolchak, via his letter through Russian consul general N. Bograviensky, faults Bolshevik agents as international opponents aiding the profiteers to thwart Russia’s reconstruction.
Representatives of civic and patriotic groups in Seattle will meet in Corporation Counsel Walter F. Meier’s office at 8 PM Friday October 24. They will plan the city’s observance of the 50th anniversary of incorporation on December 2. Meier chairs the general committee. Scott Calhoun heads a subcommittee with Frank R. Atkins Edmunds Meany Mrs M J Carkeek and Mrs David Kellogg. A separate committee to arrange the program includes Vivian M Carkeek Judge Thomas Burke and Judge C H Hanford.
Thieves robbed a telephone box and a drawer containing school money at Stevens school. The incident was reported to the police by the principal on Thursday morning.
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