Seattle Strikes Halt Building Across Lumber Industry
About 5 000 carpenters joiners and helpers are walking out in Seattle as part of a sympathetic strike. Strike officials say the action aims to win eight hour work days for 18 000 timber workers in 20 wooden ship plants along the waterfront.
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Seattle
Washington
J. G. Brown
International Timber Workers
Henry M. White
Department of Labor
Metal Trades Council
Brown
Seattle Central Labor Council
John 8. Jurey
Edwin Con Strom
Submarine Attack Report Fades Into Coast News
Wireless reports claim a German U boat attacked a merchant steamer off Nantucket and warnings spread in the western Atlantic. British and other freighters corroborate alerts, but many earlier sub sightings proved false and Navy officials restrain full details until a formal report to Secretary Daniels.
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Atlantic
New England
Newport
Navy Department
Daniels
Puget Sound Navy Yard Employees Get Highest Pay Rise
The Puget Sound Navy Yard awarded a wage boost under a board recommended scale, making Bremerton the highest paid yard in the country. Strike actions by timber and shipyard workers threaten yard operations with eight hour lumber policy central to a settlement, while mediation and labor councils urge restraint and oppose 10 hour lumber.
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Puget Sound Navy Yard
Washington
Navy Yards
T Readjustment Board
Roosevelt
Puget Sound
Bremerton Navy Yard
Mail This Edition Costs Thirty Cents to Mail
A brief notice invites readers to mail this newspaper edition to friends back East for 30 cents, highlighting Seattle’s bright future and encouraging sharing.
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The
Star
Seattie
Peace with Prosperity: Seattle's wartime victory dream
A rallying editorial urges victory through prosperity not blood loss, envisioning postwar reconstruction and Seattle’s regional boom. It calls for bold thinking, big plans, and a collective push to broadcast Seattle’s financial, commercial, agricultural and industrial potential to the world.
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Seattle
Great Northwest
Thorely
Kaiser to Offer Allies Bribe to Save Hohenzollern Rule
New Yorks United Press reports German propaganda hints the Kaiser will trade Belgium and other territories for Allied acceptance of a non democratic Germany. The piece argues the Kaiser seeks to end the war while preserving autocratic power, fearing future revolts without a constitutional government.
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House of Hohenzollern
United Press
New York
Germany
Belgium
France
Alsace-Lorraine
Reichstag
Hohenzollern
Navy Yard Bustle In Star Liberty Movie Weekly
The Star Liberty movie weekly will show the first US Navy yard wartime images since entering World War I. Filmed at Bremerton by permission of Secretary Daniels, the yard scenes depict war preparations. Also featured are Mayor Gill crowning Renton fair queen and Seattle clubwomen swimming three miles across Lake Washington.
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American Navy Yard
United States
Star-Liberty
Liberty Theatre
Bremerton Navy Yard
Josephus Daniels
Gill
Renton
Seattle
Lake Washington
James W. Gerard to Visit Seattle
James W. Gerard former United States ambassador to Germany will visit Seattle as a guest of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Club. He telegrammed acceptance on Saturday and said the visit time is uncertain though he may arrive September 24.
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James W. Gerard
Seattle
United States
Germany
Seattle Chamber of Comerce and Commercial Club
Gerard
Berlin Paper Urges Silent Exit for Count Luxburg
The Berlin Vossische Zeitung suggested spurlos versenkt as a treatment for Count Luxburg, the German minister at Buenos Aires, noting his intentions were good but he was too temperamental and should be recalled. The term means sunk without a trace.
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Spurlos Versenkt
Luxburg
Berlin
John Grandens
United Press
London
Berlin Vossiche Zeitung
Count Luxburg
Buenos Aires
Army man may attack draft law in civil courts
In San Francisco on September 16 Federal Judge Van Fleet ruled a man in the army may challenge the constitutionality of the draft law in civil courts. The judge interrupted Daniel OConnell's trial for obstructing the draft after testimony that OConnell said men who took the federal army oath lost civil rights and were subject only to military law.
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Hy United Press
San Francisco
van Fleet
Daniel O'Connell
Ashley Turner
O'Connell
Korniloff faces death demand after misjudging Russian democracy
Gen Korniloff and key associates are arrested as the provisional government confronts his alleged treachery and failed revolt. Public anger rises over alleged surrender plans and panics in retreat while workers and soldiers push for land reform, nationalization, and worker control.
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Petrograd
Korniloff
Russia
Isstesmia
People's Organ
Riga
Peasants’ Committees
Democratic rule asked by Slavs
United Press Leased Wire reports Petrograd Sept 15 that Slavic leaders urged a democratic republic as an immediate solution to Russia's internal difficulties. The dispatch notes calls for broad participation and national self determination amid political upheaval.
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United Press
Petrograd
Russia
Women in council elects first woman mayor
In Matilla Oregon on September 15 the city elected Helen Duncan as mayor, succeeding Laura Starcher who resigned after moving to Parma Idaho. This marks the first city administration in the nation to be composed entirely of women.
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Nited Preas
Mmatilla
Ore
Laura Starcher
Parma
Idaho
Helen Duncan
Mexico Won't Take Action Without U S Disclosures
Mexico will take no action in the Eckhardt Cronholm affair unless the United States makes direct disclosures affecting the Mexican government, announced today by high officials.
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United Press
Mexico City
Mexico
Eckhardt-Cronholm
United States
Booth Visits Seattle to Talk of Volunteers’ Work
General Ballington Booth, president of the Volunteers of America, arrived in Seattle and spoke to the King County Democratic club at noon. The organization, founded in 1896, has established 56 homes for the destitute.
Bandits Rob Breakers Cafe Revelers
Five masked bandits raided the Breakers cafe near San Francisco late last night. They held about 100 revelers, shot at three entertainers who escaped, and escaped with around 200 dollars and jewelry. Sheriff units search for the culprits.
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United Preas
San Francisco
Sheriff's Office
Breakers
Cowboy Unearths Chest With 400000 In Spanish Gold
In Phoenix on September 15, cowboy Joe Walsey while trailing cattle northwest of Solomonville uncovered an iron chest buried a few feet down. It held 400000 in old Spanish gold coins and vessels believed cached by priests about 75 years ago.
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United Press
Phoenix
Ariz
Solomonville
Joe Walsey
Poison Cakes and Gun Shot Ended Rasputin
The Star reports Charles Edward's account from three months with the U S mission to the new Russian government. A young man planned to kill Rasputin using poison after consulting a doctor who tested the method on a dog. The duke, allied with the monk, gained Rasputin's confidence while the plot unfolds with women said to be dying.
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Rasputin
Charles Edward
The
Star
United States
Altho
Japan to Help With Her Ships
Washington reports that Japan will divert as much tonnage as possible to Atlantic needs. Arrangements for a new alliance are nearly complete and a proclamation will be issued soon. Japanese shipyards will build British ships and Japanese merchantmen will transport supplies to Russia. A freight rate agreement among the allies is nearing completion.
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United Press
Washington
Japan
Department
Russia
Mother Finds Boy After Long Hunt
In San Francisco on September 15 a mother reunited with her son, Private Stanley, who had not been seen since infancy in Dublin. A letter from his mother arrived ending a long, hopeful search.
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United Press
San Francisco
Dublin
Stanley
Smokers 50-50 Club Sends Smoke to Sammites in France
A reader writes to The Star proposing the Smokers 50-50 Club to share cigars and tobacco with American troops in France. Members would split purchases, recruit new members, and mail a two dollar contribution to the Our Boys in France Tobacco Fund with their name and address to the tobac co editor.
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France
Star
Our Boys In
Smok
the Star
Sammy
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