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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1922
Page
1
Seattle ration directors chose the Olympic Hotel as the name for the city’s $3 million community hotel. The design features many windows offering a view of the distant mountain range that inspired the title.
A garbled radio of quotes and jests from a Pacific Northwest page notes local gossip. Mentions include birth records crediting Mr and Mrs Grubb, a Walla Walla style sheriff rumor, President Harding veto timing, and light political quips about Seattle posts.
Third Officer Hoare underwent emergency appendectomy aboard the Admiral Ruth Alexander after acute appendicitis. Dr. J A Ghent and Dr E S Hall improvised with two old forceps a scissors and ether to operate on a ship for the life saving procedure. An ambulance awaited at the dock and Hoare was rushed to Providence hospital for recovery.
Mayor Brown condemned the city council for failing to cut expenses while noting his own secretarial staff was reduced. He accused council clerks of idleness and urged the streets and sewers committee to have work done by regular street department clerks.
Thomas Jordan aged 41 of Tacoma died in city hospital from injuries after being struck by an auto driven by Lloyd Davis on Jackson Street between Fourth and Fifth Avenues. Jordan’s skull and hip were fractured. An inquest will be held Saturday by Coroner W. H. Corson.
Everett Mayor W H Clay will extend a formal welcome as the seventh annual Pacific Coast Norwegian Singers association festival opens in Everett Saturday morning.
Michigan growers face massive losses as commission houses demand only select grades. Freight costs and bumper nationwide crops force fruit into spoilage. examples include Idaho potatoes and Nebraska apples sold below cost to cover freight. Michigan crops remain huge with canning factories operating at peak to process the excess.
Washington fruit shipments rely on water transport with three times last season's refrigerator space, easing Eastern growers' freight constraints. Merchants' Exchange notes Seattle as key to resolving transport issues while Eastern Washington growers secure space to move produce to the seaboard.
Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle, American film comedian, is aboard a steamer bound for Japan. A radiogram from his secretary requests hospital arrangements in Tokyo and immediate admittance on arrival in Yokohama tomorrow.
City hall officials announce a 20 percent drop in electric charges over the next year and a half. Skagit hydro power will add 60,000 horsepower by late 1923, joining Lake Union and Cedar River generation to provide cheaper power. Home rates fall to 6 cents for 46 kilowatts and 2 cents for the rest.
Fire rekindled at the Argonaut gold mine in Jackson Californiaon September 1 after smoldering for hours near the 2,500 foot level. A crew on the 2,500 foot level reportedly set a flame-guard to halt the blaze and prevent spread while 47 miners remain trapped.
Former Mayor Hugh M Caldwell injured but victorious after wrestling a porcupine in Fairbanks Alaska He plans to bring the animal to Seattle on September 9 to present it to Woodland Park authorities as part of his longstanding habit of delivering animals to the park recently including a camel from the Orient.
Laurene Lindgren, an 11 month old Haddon Hall resident, shows precocious talent with typing and reading. Her father Bertheld Lindgren, organist at the Blue Mouse theater, says she writes unaided and reads from simple books. Psychology professor Stevenson Smith plans a full test next month.
C D Cunningham of Centralia criticizes Washington National Guard officers as unfit for active service and claims the guard has become a rendezvous for politicians. The convention in session will discuss a memorial for Legion men killed at Centralia by I W W members on Armistice Day 1919. Joe Kindall and Charles H Paul are named as potential state commander candidates.
Babe Ruth, famed home run king, was suspended three days by AL president Ban Johnson for using vicious and vulgar language in a New York game. Ruth protested an umpire's decision in Wednesday's match, fueling the dispute with baseball authorities.
Seattle mayor rejects forming a businessmen committee to study traffic and vows enforcement of speeding laws. He cites impounding cars and fining speeders as central to his campaign after recent deadly streets incidents.
F. 8. Graham a 19 year old machinist was sentenced by Acting Police Judge Jacob Kalinu to 30 days in jail and a 100 dollar fine for driving while drunk. He was arrested at Rainier Ave and 66th St and tried to forfeit 200 dollars bail but was rearrested on a bench warrant. Graham gave notice of appeal.
Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson issued a sweeping temporary injunction barring union heads from striking railroad shopmen. A hearing to make the injunction permanent was set for September 11. U S attorney general Harry M. Daugherty argued the government must intervene to prevent national disaster and preserve unions within lawful America.
Federal action mounts as Attorney General Daugherty seeks injunctions to curb strike violence. Reports describe bombs, arson, and threats against railroad leaders while federal agents probe conspiracies to disrupt interstate commerce and a nationwide plot uncovered in Albuquerque. Two men arrested.
In Missouri two people died and about thirty were injured when Frisco passenger train No. 805 traveling from St. Louis to Memphis plunged through a trestle near Wittenberg. The bridge collapsed under flood pressure from a cloudburst last night, scattering two coaches into the river.
Eleven people were injured when a Big Four passenger train ran through an open switch and struck the rear of a freight train on a nearby siding near Brownsburg Indiana. Officials rule out sabotage as the switch lock was intact and say the collision was an accident caused by the passenger train splitting the switch. All passenger cars except the Pullmans derailed.
Local federal authorities say they have nipped a plot to dynamite railroad shops in Atlanta and to blow up the sleeping quarters of the workers. The incident was uncovered on September 1 as agents investigated threats tied to the facilities.
Gov Len Small has honored a requisition for the return to Michigan of William Z Foster president of the Trades Union Educational League. Foster faces charges or proceedings in Michigan related to his leadership in the labor movement.
Checkup of the passenger list of the Chilean steamer Itata shows 400 dead and 27 survivors after the vessel struck rocks off the Choros islands. Government inquiries probe possible overloading and unsafe conditions aboard.
Advertisements promise a strictly modern home with cement basement furnace fireplace tile bath built in tub breakfast nook and garage near a paved street for 4500 with terms to a responsible party. Watch STAR WANT ADS in the WANT AD SECTION for more details.
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