The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 5, 1919, Page 14

STO DECIDE | READ'S POWERS . Brown Reports Smallpox at Lowell School Claiming $5,700 damages, sult has HM. M. Read and Tra C, Brown, i to quarantine pu who refuse vaccination ‘Phe suit was filed by Mr. and Mre Hy, Hoktsworth. They claim t mo smalipex in the Lo and the only contact the n had was with nurses and tatives of the health depart . Ira C. Brown, school medical . reported to the school board that during Mareh there) 25 influenza cases in the West land school and a few scattered Smallpox was reported in the | Broadway and Queen Anne schools, and the Lowell, LaFay ‘and Alki grade schools, Dip- and scarlet fever were preval The report showed 16 more . eight less of diphtheria 29 less of smallpox. {OBBER SLAIN 4 Man Is Identified as Former Convict ND, Or. April 8.—Shot ‘trying to rob Henry Simmons, of a soft drink establishment, oelock last night, Fred Rg s iti ¢ 3 Mayor Hy! also g officer to rom Europe. to Washington navy officials SHIPPING HEADS FORMING UNION Organization Includes All Pacific Types SAN FRANCISCO, April 8—Plans for organization of all types of American shipping on the Pacific coast and Pacific slope waters, to se cure better recognition from the ‘United States Shipping board, will be outlined today at a meeting of representatives of shipping interests from every Pacific coast port. A committee chosen from inland, , transPacific and other lines of shipping will recommend policies and methods to be included in the organization. The associa tion is to be known as the Pacific Coast Shipowners’ association and will be entirely representative of coast activities. The organization is being formed at the request of the shipping board fas action thru the organization in- stead of with individual companies facilitates the work of the board and shipping men. A. F. Haines of Seattle, vice pres- ident and general manager of the Pa- ¢ific Steamship company, is chair- man of the organization committee, Runaway Concrete Mixer Rams Auto A runaway concrete mixer crashed into an automobile at First ave. and Stacy st. and seriously injured S, Terada, chauffeur for Mr. Sea born, general manager for Skinner & Eddy, Monday night. The mixer was being towed down First ave. by @ truck in charge of D. Fitz ij gerald, of the Longfellow Transfer company, when the steering appar- atus broke. Terada was standing in front of the auto, filling the water tank, and did not see the runaway as it bore down on him. When the mixer hit the auto, the machine also started to run away and knocked Terada down and passed over him. Terada is in the city hospital with a frac. tured rib and numerous bruises. searlet fever in March than| performing some mighty clever p BY STORE MAN tribute a good bit of comedy MARGINAL WAY | FINE NEW BILL | AT PANTAGES: Extra Good Talent Marks Local Vaudeville Program The only possible fault one could find with the new show at the Pan ‘act that in not Ke inn't a dull ’ am, and 8 which tages this week, is the sisters are re sy beginning of two ho of ¢ entertainment Dressed in pretty fluffy ruffle gowns the girls open their act with song, from which they drift to instru-| mental music. After taking several bows, they were compelled to re spond with an encore This act ts followed by Irene Tre vette, a tall, good-looking brunette, who sings the popular ragtime song, | “My Sweetie,” in French and Span: | ixh. Besides possessing a good #0 prano voice, Miss Trevette has an | abundance of personality One of the best acts seen here) for some time is a rollerskating act called “Ob, Sarah.” MeLallen, the! male member of the team, besides stunts on skates, is a good comedian. He gets a great deal of fun out of | joshing his partner, Miss Carson, a/ pretty young woman, who has a knack of wearing extremely brief costumes. Murray and Voelk, two men, con How: | ever their comedy ix nearly eclipsed | when they burst into song, their har |mony being particularly beautiful ‘They found it hard to get away from Monday night's audience. | ‘The last act on the dill is called “Mise 1919.” Clever dancing is the | feature of this act. Benny and West ern are two young chaps who offer @ catchy line of eccentric dances, | and Eva Warden ts a fairy-like toe dancer. When one is not watching} the principals, there { group of) six pretty young girls, clad in be coming costumes, to gaze upon, Altogether the bill is the best that | Manager Pantages has sent oat thie| way for a good many weeks. | DEBATE IS HOT} City May Take Smith Build- ing Office Space Debate on the question of approval or rejection of the Marginal way condemnation awards led to a heated discussion in the matter at Monday's meeting of the council. Charges that attempts were being into the L. C. Smith building. Three thousand feet of the ninth floor would cost the city $375 a month. The whole matter was laid over a FIRST YANKEES IN WAR RETURN NEW YORK, April 8-—Arizona cowboys in kilties and tam-oshan- ters, Alaska miners in British) guards uniforms, 2,700 Yankees wearing the garb of 50 different English regiments, arrived in port ‘Tuesday on the transport Maure- tania. The Americans are returning to their homes after serving under the British flag. | Some were members of the famnous Scottish guards, while a few wore | the maple leaf of Canada on their | shoulders. Military crosses and awards for valour glistened on many a soldier's breast as he marched | down the gang plank. | The Yankees left 32 states to join | the British before the United States lentered the war, Two Portland, Ore., | men, Lieut. A, BE. MeKenzie and | | Lieut. Alex Gordon, were on the | Mauretania, Lieut. McKenzie was | captured by the Huns and impris- | oned at Villingen. A contingent of negro soldiers | from the West Indies were on the | Mauretania en route to their homes, | The transport Metapan also ar-| rived Tuesday with 30 officers, casu- als, of base hospitals 28, 52 and 53, | with 71 nurses belonging to the hos. | pitals, RATHBUN PARDON PROBE) IS NOT YET COMPLETED! DES MOINES, Iowa, April §—~/ The house judiciary committee, in- vestigating the issuance and revoca- | tion of a pardon to Ernest Rathbun, | Ida county social criminal, did not) jend its investigation last night, as expected, | According to H. W. Byers, coun- | se] for the probers, today’s testimony | will wind up the investigation. REWARD IS OFFERED J. G. Maurer, Baden hotel, First | ave. and Pine st., took off his vest while he washed his hands in the hotel washroom late Monday. Some- body robbed the vest of a $50 Liberty bond, Maurer has offered a reward as big as the bond for the capture of the thief, A shade tree 80 years old, cut down at Hydeville, Vt, made’ two cords of firewood. 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