Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-01-06
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Digest Of Weeks Happenings In and Over
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yer, one bullet from wnlcn nan peen
fired by him into his left temple
Disabled war veterans living in Ia
coma are hard hit by the Scent car
fare and want the street car toll cut
to 5 cents, O. M. Thomas, represent
Ing the veterans, stated in an appeal
to F. R, Spinning Of the department
OF public works. Thomas wants the
state to aid the service men to get
a lower fare, declaring that the cool
men taking vocational training in Ia
coma could save around 81 each
month.
-Four hundred million feet Of lum-
Der have been shipped from the port
of Grays Harbor in 1921, marking the
largest trade for the port since 1912.
Three hundred and eighey-three ships
cleared from Grays Harbor in 1921
with lumber cargoes, Is less than in
1920, but they carried 3S,OO0,OO0 more
feet
Through its western general offices
in Seattle the Great Northern railroad
has announced a reduction in east
bound freight rates on all smelter
products from all points in Washing
ton, Idaho and Montana. Copper and
zinc are the principal metals affected,
the reduction amounting to about 10
cents hundred pc dnds.
One hundred tho dsand dollars worth
of moving picture films, with book
ing value of s5,OO0,OO0, were stolen
from the vaults of the Metro Pictures
Corporation in Seattle, by craftsmen
believed to be members of the interna-
tional gang of film thieves who recent
ly operated in an extensive way in
various parts of the country.
For posing as officers and robbing
Pete Maranoff of is cases of liquor,
and Maranoff, Tony Pelusco and V.
Williams of 1925, D. M. Schoonover,
ex-Seattle policeman, and Owen D.
Baker, alleged interstate liquor run
ner were sentenced at Tacoma by
Judge w. o. Chapman Of superior
court to serve from three to Is years
in the state prison.
C. B. Blethen, editor and publisher
of the Seattle Times, has resigned his
commission as brigadier-general of the
national guard of Washington and ter
minated all connection with the state
militia in which he has been an active
figure since 1913. Colonel Blethen, as
he is usually called in spite Of his
higher rank, gives as reason the
pressure of business.
Apparently nearly 100000 higher
than the expectations Of the port en-.
gineers, bids were submitted to the
Tacoma port commission by six con-
tracing firms for the erection Of the
new transit shed on pier 2 of the port
development project The structure
contemplated is 104Ox18O feet, and
specifications call for the most modern
type of fireproof construction.
Practically all state banks havel
now withdrawn from the bank guar
anty fund, only seven small institu-
tons having failed to give notice of
withdrawal, according to E. H. Farms.
worth, director OF taxation and ex-
animation. BY dropping out before
January 1, the banks are not liable for
any future assessments to meet claims
against the defunct scandinavian.
American Bank Of Seattle II was said. |
Evidence has been discovered by
federal agents at Seattle showing that
thousands of gallons OF alcohol have
been obtained fraudulently on permits
issued by the federal prohibition Of
flee In Seattle, Roy C. Lyle, prohi-
bition director fer Washington, an
nounced. The alcohol thus obtained.
Director Lyle said the evidence show.
ed, had been used by an organized
ring as the base for manufacture OF
synthetic gin champagne and
fancy vines retailed at high prices.
Because portions Of the new grade
OF the Pacific highway between Kelso
and Salama will not be sufficiently
settled to make the laying of hard
surface advisable, this portion of the
road viii not be paved during the sum-
mer Of 1922, as was originally con-
iemplated It is announced. Numer.
Gus sharp turns in the road have been
eliminated by grading and filling cut
offs in recent months and the decision
TO wait is based on the fact that in
nany of these fills the earth will not
have been sufficiently packed.