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...nights after Christmas, the colored lights on three large fir trees on a sweeping lawn in the exclusive Point Defiance residential section of Tacoma, Wash., glowed festively through a steady drizzle. They threw a gay pattern on the white front of a fine gabled house. In the living room of the house, where another gaily lighted tree stood, 10-year-old Charles Mattson, his 16-year-old brother Billy, his 14-year-old sister Muriel and her schoolgirl chum from Seattle played and talked as they waited for Dr. & Mrs. William Wrhitlock Mattson to return from a wedding reception...
...once practically all maritime activity in all U. S. ports from Seattle to San Diego came to a stop. In San Francisco 47 vessels lay idle. Twenty-two were tied up in San Diego, six in Hawaii, 57 in Seattle, Tacoma, Portland. In San Francisco, a separate strike of 1,400 warehousemen further complicated matters. In the Northwest the lumber industry was hamstrung, began shutting down...
Last week acquisitive old "A. P.'' Giannini made his first foray into the State of Washington by purchasing some 51% of the stock of the $18,000,000 National Bank of Tacoma. Sellers were National's Chairman Samuel Morley Jackson and the estate of the late Chester Thorne. By amicable agreement, the great lumber family of Weyerhaeuser retains two directors' chairs on the board and local officers will stay in office. Presumably the Tacoma bank will become the centre of Trans america's incipient Washington network...
...Freddie Steele, orangutan-fisted boxer of Tacoma, Wash.; the world's middle-weight championship; by out-pointing Syracuse's Charles ("Babe") Risko in 15 furious rounds; in Seattle...
...Washington he called in newshawks, gave them details of the capture. As excited reporters were ready to rush away toward telephones, someone asked when the Bureau expected to catch William Mahan, scar-faced ex-convict who last June got $200,000 by kidnapping 9-year-old George Weyerhaeuser at Tacoma, Wash. (TIME, June 3, et seg.). "Oh, by the way," smiled Director Hoover, "I almost forgot to tell you. We picked up Mahan in San Francisco at 12:30 this noon." Forty-eight hours after being captured, Mahan pleaded guilty in Tacoma, was bundled off to Puget Sound...