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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1917
Page
1
United Press reports eleven merchant ships and two British destroyers named 929 and 931 destroyed by light German naval forces off Norway. The official tally lists no German losses or damage, with only a fishing vessel cap sized among escorts.
An appeal urges Seattle readers to buy Liberty Bonds to fund convoys, weapons, and supplies for U S sailors and soldiers after the Antilles ship torpedoing. It stresses personal sacrifice, naming no victims, and asks urgent public investment to protect troops and defeat the Kaiser.
Seattle sub totals for the six million dollar Liberty Loan mark rise to $6,150,800 with $625,650 subscribed that morning. Preparations for a city wide campaign include street desks at First and Second Avenues, 24 buglers, 200 sailors and soldiers, 100 clerical workers, and post offices serving as loan bureaus. Major pledges include $200,000 from Great Northern and $125,000 from Carnation Milk Product Co. Boy Scouts begin city wide house to house canvassing under J. H. Piper with bank payments via scouts and a October 27 deadline.
Star Want Ads list numerous home bargains across appliances furniture and decorative items. Local shoppers can find discounted refrigerators sofas beds and cookware with prices noted and sellers listed for quick contact.
Seattle telephone operators voted at 2:35 am to rescind their strike after a patriotic appeal from the California State Council of Defense. More than 700 girls waited at the Labor temple as W. F. Delaney of San Francisco urged prompt return to work to support the Liberty bond drive. The vote returned them to duty within ten minutes, with exchanges reopening as night operators resumed service.
The Star Smoke Fund carnival ends this afternoon and tonight at Bon Marche park. Miss Olive Dolphin, daughter of Police Lieutenant Dolphin, is crowned queen in a throne room ceremony after a downtown parade led by the carnival band. Final queen votes show Lar son 1779 and Hazel McNeal 1600. Star’s smoke fund receipts exceed 1225 with the paper taking 50 percent of admissions and portions of shows and concessions. Admission Saturday is ten cents.
Ebbe and Hebbel Hoff, aged 11 and 10, seek buyers for a five month old Guernsey heifer to convert the sale into a Liberty bond. Interested parties should contact Ebbe Hoff at 5616 15th N. KE. Sons of a university professor, the boys promote investment rather than mere sale.
Seattle ministers launch a city wide anti vice crusade exposing conditions from pulpit and detailing investigations by the Mineral Federation. Affidavits have been sent to Army Navy and Chief of Police Beckingham. A morals committee endorsed Smith findings citing 100 to 300 houses of ill fame and 30 000 male clients. pamphlet titled The Social Evil in Seattle will circulate.
Judge Hiram Hadley agreed to lead a city anti-vice commission to investigate conditions and recommend a clean-up. Mayor Gill will ask the council to endorse and empower Hadley to select six associates for the task, with funds to be requested if needed. Chief Beckingham cautioned police limits in removing immoral houses.
Camp Lewis correspondent reports Gen Greene met Seattle Mayor Gill to review vice conditions and the boycott affecting 40 000 Sammies. Greene warned passes to Seattle depend on enforcement and reform, noting city machinery and laws may curb vice if applied.
A huge New York crowd gathered along parade routes to watch a captured German submarine hauled in three sections to Central Park. Troops marched with the vessel, which had been shipped from a British port, to be used as a puller for the Liberty loan.
Motion pictures of the game played this afternoon at Dennyfield will be featured in The Star Liberty News Weekly opening at the Liberty theatre Sunday. Also shown are Col Inglis Second Washington regiment in its last Seattle appearance ent raining for America lake to France, Seattle coast artillerymen buying liberty bonds and other items.
In Tacoma Deputy Sheriff Scott Matone said escaped murder suspect Albert Moorehouse fits general descriptions of a woman-slaying terror. Moorehouse, arrested near Rainier Beach, fled Friday morning after a Taylor mill arrest and is believed linked to the Sept. slaying of Ruby De Meritt. Police and sheriff departments scoured Tacoma yards and freight districts, aided by dogs, but fog hampered scent tracking.
The second suit by the city against the traction company to enforce the franchise paving between tracks was argued before Judge Dykeman and taken under advisement. The Grand Lodge of the Military Order of the Serpent offers a program in the Veterans hall Armory on October 31 at 8 pm.
Rev Leonard B Smith pastor of First Methodist Protestant church arrived in Seattle six months ago from Baltimore. He has led a vice clean up drive among ministers to curb segregated districts and immoral districts, citing successful police actions and marriages of many women. He plans to preach on vice conditions Sunday at the First Methodist Protestant church.
London report says two German raiders sank eight unarmed neutral ships and two British destroyers in the North Sea between the Shetland Islands and the coast of Norway. The Germans escaped with their prize and claimed all ships were sunk except one fishing boat. the admiralty denies this.
Four bandits blew safes at Farmers State Bank Alto and Middleville early today. They escaped with 15000 at Alto and 22000 at Middleville, leaving 5000 in gold behind. Police search after wires were cut and a woman witness near Middleville provides the only lead.
In Springfield on October 20 a lone masked bandit robbed L. Lynn Arthur, accountant for American Seeding Machine Co., of $10,582 in the company office. An alleged accomplice, a former employee, is in custody. Arthur faced a revolver in the hallway before the thief fled.
The Antilles, an American transport of a Morgan liner, was struck by a U boat while homeward bound. It sank in five minutes with 70 missing, a reminder that German submarines target American ships in convoy.
Chicago report says Bob Fitzsimmons remains in the ring today fighting pneumonia with unchanged condition. His wife Mrs. Fitzsimmons, exhausted by hours at his bedside, is in serious condition and feared to collapse as doctors warn of danger.
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