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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1921
Page
1
A stitched-together page of jokes notes and stray captions comments about politics taxes school fees and social scenes. It weaves diverse items from a school board remark on fees to manners and odd verse with casual references to public life and daily observations.
In Tampa Florida on September 15, Mrs Ethel Poulnot—a 28 year old grandmother with three other children—expresses pride and happiness at the birth of her daughter's baby girl. She rejects race death by self action and recalls her early marriage and blended family.
Four of the nation’s largest packers establish open shop and form employee organizations to negotiate working conditions and wages. Armour & Co. Swift & Co. Wilson & Co. and the Cudahy Packing Co. adopt the plan with over 90 percent of their 75 000 nationwide employees voting in favor. Morris & Co. has not announced a shop representation plan. No wage or condition changes announced.
Attorney General L J Thomson seeks a state supreme court review of the Maximilian bonus case to widen the ruling that those in service when the war began on April 6 1917 were ineligible. If upheld, many veterans now paid may be ordered to repay.
Capt. Christensen and his nine crew were rescued off Point Hueneme near Santa Barbara after their power schooner Lotus burned at sea. The Humboldt steamer aided the rescue. The Lotus had departed San Francisco for San Diego on Tuesday. No fire details were available.
Emmett Dalton, former outlaw and president of Standard Pictures, writes for The Star urging Roy Gardner to surrender. He recalls past escapes and warns that continued crime leads to prison or death, while noting Gardner’s wife would prefer a penitentiary path and that a pardon may come with time.
Mary Buck, a 14 year old crippled Indian girl aboard the steamship Victoria from Nome, became the most popular passenger in Seattle. She and four native children were bound for Chemawa Indian School Ore. After Nome flu outbreak, Mary cared for siblings as parents died leaving five orphans.
Fragmentary report from Tacoma notes blood spots found on McNeil Island with unclear details. The brief mentions a date and names but lacks coherent context or conclusive actions.
Sept 15 at McNeil Island two shots echo the night escape of Roy Gardner. Hunters flood the island as warden Maloney considers new tactics after a failed recapture. Wounded guard Bogart recovers while Everett Impyn is reported dead from the same rifle fire.
In Tacoma on September 15, Mrs. R. J. Biehn and her baby were abducted in a daylight residential area by an armed bandit, forced into a car at gunpoint, driven 16 blocks, and released with the remark that the assailant had made a mistake.
A Sedro-Woolley asylum attendant K C Peiffert describes brutal neglect and unsafe conditions. He says one attendant is tasked with 80 to 100 patients, praising warm-hearted staff yet admitting failures under strain. The piece assigns responsibility to higher officials rather than frontline workers.
A Northern State hospital night attendant defends staff efforts in Ward 1, describing the heavy burden of supervising 110 insane patients, the need to prevent self harm, and the general press criticism faced by hospital workers. He notes attendants care for 25 patients each, and questions readers’ willingness to work under such conditions.
Superior Judge EB Shortall presided as the county grand jury filed an indictment shortly before noon today. Bail on the manslaughter charge was set at 10000 dollars, with 5000 on each bond, but the court required disposition on the first degree murder charge before admitting Arbuckle to bail. District Attorney Brady indicated he would not decide until Arbuckle is brought to police court tomorrow morning, and suggested the murder case may be pressed while manslaughter charges could be dropped. Arbuckle was not present when the indictment was returned.
Babe Ruth broke his home run record today for the New York Yankees. With one man on base, Ruth hit his 55th homer of the season, a new world record for modern baseball. Bayne pitched for St. Louis.
Henry McKinney twenty seven year old dope addict escaped from a patrol wagon while being moved from the county jail to the stockade shortly before noon Thursday. He leaped from the car during a burst of bullets and grappled deputy Lee Downey who fired several times. McKinney was among ten other prisoners in the wagon and was pursued by officers but not captured.
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