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...through which landings might be established. His conclusions: > The first Japanese landings would be established in Washington and Oregon. Their focus would be the rocky, grey, low land around Grays Harbor, where the Wynoochee, Chehalis, Wishkah and Humptulips Rivers have scooped out the best natural pass inland. Centering on Centralia and Chehalis, the invaders would throw their left flank toward Seattle, their right toward Portland. They would seize the passes in the Baker-Rainier-Hood chain and sit tight...
Died. John F. Bickel, 82, father of Actor Fredric March (see p. 39) ; in Centralia, Wash...
...Near Centralia, Wash., in the fall of 1917, while the rest of the U. S. was busy with World War I, a hunter bagged some pheasants which he wanted to keep for his Christmas dinner. As an accommodation, an ice-plant operator named J. A. Winchell plunked the birds into a water-filled milk can, froze them in a solid ice cake. On Christmas Day the frozen fowl came out of the ice cake fresh...
...Growing fear in labor circles that desperate Communists might provoke disorder, try to create a new Centralia* case, was heightened by a riot in Aberdeen, Wash. In this lumber centre with a big Finnish colony, the Finnish Brotherhood scheduled an anniversary meeting. Grays Harbor Communists then scheduled a "Victory Dance" for the same date at the old Red Hall in B Street, two blocks from the Finn Hall. Twenty-five Communists appeared for the dance, huddled in the hall while a crowd of some 400 battered down the door, pulled siding off the walls, tore out the plumbing, smashed...
...Centralia, Wash., in 1919, crowds attacked an I.W.W. hall, were fired upon. Result: four dead, seven imprisoned for 25 to 40 years. Last September the last imprisoned member of the I.W.W. was released...