The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 18, 1924, Page 1

U.S. Accuses Seattle Produce Men, Charging FOOD PRICES FIXED HERE! ERP DPD ODP PDIP LPP D DIANA PIP DDD PPP atte tnt, rata nt tte rnin t The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington e Seattle Sta Second Class Mt Mostly cloudy tonight and Sat- urday; moderate temperature Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 66, Minimum, 54 Today noon, 63. td Batered # May 2, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash., under the Act of Congress March 2, 1879. Por Year, by Mall, $5.60 SEATTL , WASH., FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1924, * TyoL. 26. NO. 124. ftome Drew Howdy, folks! Well, the con gmctors are rushing werk on the st. bridge. ‘They ; Eocene brick yesterday, Police Chief No. 9 on the Job|DEALE TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. See Navy Flyers in Action Here Seaplanes Will Maneuver Over City Saturday Afternoon While Crowds Below Watch Mimic Cloud Battle CHARGES |Complaint Names 96 |! | .Per Cent of Those} on Western Ave. in| Anti-Trust Suits SUIT to dissolve the Seattle | The delicatessens are responsible | for auto tourists, A man's got to out in the country these days | jearder to get his wife to cook him} a mel | eee “He also stole a ticket to Nampa, fasts, ond is believed to have! fats the night train.”—Tacoma Crime brings ifs own punishment. eee ‘The way the lee Angeles baasbal | Police chiefs come and go so suddenly in Seattle these days that a camera can't (Eset apd pan, | catch ‘em. Only Sam Groff, The Star's demon cartoonist, succeeded in getting them aed Beas waning streak, | At together late Thursday for a lightning sketch. Left to right, they are: Bill Sev- Fry By jeryns, Joe Mason, Claude Bannick, Mrs. Bertha E. Landes, Capt. Collier, Lieut. Olmsted, ‘The Indians have lost two straight | Capt. Hedges and Frank Fuqua. The little fellow on the extreme right is Capt. Han Jpmes to the Salt Lake Bees, And Damm, who wants to be next. Produce association, and to prevent alleged price fixing in Re wy @ deo can only sting once!| = the necessities of life, was filed same am’ by Quartet CONTRACTORS AGREE | i200 2 <= Ot fos: | - TO RUSH BRIDGE JOB 2: 82:2" Jedging from the enthusiastic re-| Iry A. Guller, United & pats of the democrats, John Davis’ | W L, we've got got another | . |qeneral, who ts in charge of anti-| shat qualification for the presidency | chief of police Friday. | Think They Can Have West Seattle ' prosecutions west of the Mis. | | | BY SAM GROFF ater attorney ‘Throw him out! What's he doing | Joe Mason ia politics? | What! Again? see | | Yeah. And not ohly that, we | More than 10,000 mother songs bad four chiefs—count ‘em m }OF association is asked and permanent | fave been composed, but we'd like soy Phe tat AEROS J UR contractors building the West Spokane street bridge | ndunctions nought to prevent al eres ee, none PoiwrUe |’ aqua, heb ty the freffic as. | promised Thursday to have their work completed that|‘*#*4 Price fixing vision, gave out this statement: |the bridge may be opened to traffic by Thanksgiving day.|¢ irossimLine | ‘The sult was brought by the Unit Jed States government and is a civil |prosecution. The dissolution of the jpthat he is a gentleman. Aw, g'wan! Who? Ae mere } Structure Ready Thanksgiving Bathe “I am the chief of police and | At a meeting in City Engineer J. D. Blackwell's office Tite ax hepesosie + there’ |. Gaga 1 ceuen site alte tee tice ie 0 vapetingy the contractors—the men on the job—| tothing to it” H. Hertzman, Bh boys at wee Byers “ii re bend for 9 big Bis Fs je seembege tt wakes DL detimes, and to breakfasting on nat c! , | promised to rush their workmen to the utmost that president of the Seattle Produce | shows air view of the camp. (first made singe the arrival o; squadron), a wo oO) pane of dried tenet and» cap went way 15 5 ri se pate | possible minute iofédelay. may be:-@lisnina: Hebbal Micra eM od Lota pn the pilots who will perform in the circus. The man with goggles is Lieut, F, H. Conant F E ed siting be at Sorte the hie eae ridge, which will largely solve West ipaletcls MEMES TOUT” ceternamert's out vic 11, publicity officer. The other flyer, anticipating the visit of some of Seattle’s fairest, edd A hieeg ae Licet — paar bed lem. Se mid he wan delayed by the “It's Impossible to fix prices |i Lieut, A, P. Thurston. —Photos by Frank Jacdbs, Star Staff Photographer 7 hospital. ‘ city o oor’ pe whe a ARNO: i - tel aed ee ners body swipe it before I gets | Joseph L. Smith, who ts driving) ceeeey sigh ads ere “ibcinen| yr ae penges nalak i fix | i g -& i | * oe rae fuk heat ea - AY thru the aitorenss al tions of the concrete piling. prices or purchase produce. Aer ial Attack on; y be we © rumors | Pigeon Point, agreed to get his wor! “We are going to hold you strictly! Neither has it any way of regu: | 66 ns 99 f < ‘Guliapin is going to sing the lead- oe Rv piasg nd poet ae dono several weeks before the ex-| to your penalty,” Campbell sald lating the supply of foodstuffs | Aroostook Is Ingiele in an opera written around | ne ia ahasintatys. the Piration of his contract, which he| ‘The contract provides for $25 per| that come into the city. | ‘Te life of John L. Sullivan. pais vere,” {said Is December 5. Smith is bulld-| day penalty for each day's delay. A} “We have hefrd rumors of some} Planned Well, there ought to be a lot of ate jing the paved approach to the west 20-day delay will cost the contractor | Such 4 prosecution, but T have not} qed drinking songs in it. According to his own calcula | viaduct of the bridge. | $760. | peon notified of the sult.” A TMA Pa YRS: tion, Frank, who normally con paieasitn A Tonk Whe, have tasiciecs eee cota ao TH the program completed Fri fone fines himself to the daily srind- | contract for tha east approach, prom. | Cong AOR TO Se ere estes Ao | day, Sand Polnt was. in readi:| t i ns contract for thé east approach, DENALTY nization for the establishment of | 5... One of the stirring arias of the new| stone of keeping the city’s traf | (e415 have prvtagacthe gph sys FIGHT PENALTY srlean akcneia in - "94 hi aco | ness for the big aerial demonstration | Wera ought to be between John L. fle In line, is the elghth chief | October 23 Ramagiia said he will fight pay. which will be given at the field Sat-/ 23. ; Gt teke Kitrain, with Sullivan's © of potice which Seattle has had It will then require 30 business and the dissemination of | y afternoon, starting. promptly | tg Aha Se FMB ms le re days for the paving to cure before| ment of the penalty clause, but will |information, Hertzman sald, It has| at 2:45 o'clock, when bombing planes 3 fae remark a retrain: Get up| inside one month | the approach can be used, | push his Job to the utmost | no attorney and no legal depart-| win begin thelr mock attack on the 'Co il P ber U V. t Sch ° iad fight ee, THREE OTHERS Ramaglia & Ives were severely! “Why wasn't thi» contract tet|Ment, Its offices are located at 501! Aroostook, mother ship of the air| WOUNCLE & FO! 's Uncover Vas eme; y U DISPUTE FRANK | reprimanded by City Councilman W.| earlier?” Councilman Campbell asked | Maritime building forces, which is moored off the Sand | e ° 4 OPERATIC NOTE But, on the wk. other hand, |‘. campbell for delay in starting | ot D. Wo MeMorris, assistant ete], Herteman denied all of the! Point tela Find Discharged Cops Back | The opera houses of the world have| Lieut. Ralph Olmsted, and ( j work. They were given the contract | engineer, who is in general charge|Charees in the government's suit | Preliminary flying will begin when the fast Vought fighting planes will | take the air and begin flying In bat- | tle formation. Then both the seout- | * + ‘The complaint charges that the as: inj and the observation planes wii /Of departments, are apparently to blame for grossly ignoring ee ; bpeepecpactg iy yokane pe pacar jhop off, and the mimic battle wilt|the eity charter provisions for civil service rating, according Fuqua chief," they chorused, “so |price, It artificially creates short-| megiately simulate a formation nt Sancy, committee probing into civil service commission rec- we iwere ‘It,’ accorditig to the ° . ine’ tite BEIGE the’ Gonsunkdes erase pat Mae ue the Aroostook. Above Eee | Th i h tli < rules.”” ith Editor of Star Fe His vaaaea ten nate tbccataere en y the observation planes spot-| | at was the startling. statement of Ralph Nichols, com- ‘The free-forall chief's race be poriplaint: allewed eae rath eboed tathoneae (pa eeee chalman, following adjournment of the morning ses- Cs Batten Seater | phe association hax arbitrarily Losey i SihSteSE: tilains FEA ahithy sion to aie : : ha bs and iss ead been un: . s “I did not take any totals on. the/ der civil service. We found a street ’ . ie .] eliminated competition in the prod- x a ko. Ah thc ghigs-ellorcibacaas hed He s From Virginia, Where They Settle uce business,” Guile charged. pina dh/ie & number apparently illegally. hired,”| car employe working since January, tain Hedges and Cap. Collier aver that they were chiefs Thursday. They didn’t quarrel among themselves about it, shar. ing up the day into three cight hour spasms quite friendly-like. “But Joe Mason never issued any general order making Frank June 25 and had 90 days in which| of bridge conatruction. to finish the job. “We had to investigate the finan.|SAYS ASSOCI Ramaglia, who attended the confer. (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) | REGULATES and characterized them as “absurd.” | TION | UPPLY | ng capitalized aroun B |B the fortunes of an an | bull . Now who i be the first to ORE than 100 persons are employed in practically every city department, without civil service listing, and heads ages and reaps huge profits by boost soldiers demand to be pald 43 American soldiers, what reasonable little chaps ate, to be sur: A is ote Bil Severrna. | Inspector gee Diff Th t W ‘None of.the members of the as. ERAT Cae | Nichols said, “but just from run-|1923, and he hag never been given 3 4 | sociation acts individually, but thru} i 7 |ning over the card indexes:and the| civil. service okeh; OUR OWN TRAVELOGE petites | iirerences a ay the committees each dealer benefits| The fighting planes are light and| personnel sheets, it would seem that] “What we want to know now.” Steilacoom, Wn. thru the price manipulations of the|!48t singlescated machines capable | : ea . a Homer: City Engineer Blackwell 1s from given a day's extension of time| group!" pulations of te! o¢ speeds of more than a hundred | there are woll over & ki obar ron nd bend ott eines over here on your vacation. Virginia, he told the editor of The|unless “some act of God” had pre-| srg “TLLEGAL miles an hour. They are capable of | Of them are in’ the Ps charter provides that they must be are Jots of colyum conductors | TRADE COMBINES’ The Seattle sult was developed |thru the investigations of C. Fielding Lemmon, if Homer: Do you have to use al stationery for letters sent by Edith. GEE GEE, TH’ OFFICE VAMP, SEZ: A lot of Seattle boys are con- fo follow in their father’s if they can detour | | x ] FUNDS COME Y. M. B. C. Workers Report to Headquarters DOLLARS ROLLING IN Too Busy to Total “Em, Is Leader‘s Story | Star Friday. As Virginians are supposed to be {fighters and to settle personal dif: ferences by way of tho fistic route, Mr. Blackwell walked into the edit- or’s office Friday morning and said he would “go to the mat” with the jeditor if The Star again charged him with incompetence in connec- |tion with the West Seattle bridge fob. editor thinks, proved. Jt is hereby reiterated, Blackwell, in spite of the fact that he is city engineer and as such Is ‘The charge was repeated, and, the} vented him from finishing the job on time. Taking up the several contractors and the reason for the delay in each, Blackwell explained, in substance, as follows: EACH APPROACH: Hore there Was @ question of determining what should be done with the street rai way tracks. Several conferences were held, Contract couldn't be let until this was settled and work couldn't be started until the street |railway department moved its track |The contract was awarded April 31. (Contractors now are working on the | Western anti-trust division of the at Brewer, assistant attorney general, |who have been in the field here for | several weeks. | “The case ts one of « number being brought west of the Mississippi by | Attorney General Stone," Guller said, “We have started several prosecu. tlons in California on the same basis Jas the Seattle suit, and also have one jin Utah, | Hughes, special assistant to the| torney general's office, and Ellis de| an alreraft carrier, which the Sand used defensively to protect slower | planes to attack enemy p used are of the “U. 0.” type, andj on | puted, Each plane carries two | battle fleet by radio connection. here are of the H-16 type twin-| flying and landing from the deck of | ment. “Frank | Point field will represent. They are chairman, tary, were present at»the time we ‘ Boyle, commission and offensively they are used | uncovered ani | tioned them and they told us that Observation planes that will be}a man js given civil service rating of the head of the are seaplanes carried on battleships| department from which they are usually cata-| ployed. “Evidently it pilots and & special radio set. They|partmental head ignoring the rules spot and control gunfire of the|/and keeping without the formality of employing ‘The scouting and bombing planes| them according to the charter. case of a log employed under civil service rulings, how ‘can a departmental head, even jearelessly, overlook the first re- quisite for an employe for nine months or six years? “We are not jumping on the com- | mission. We are simply trying to find out how this branch of city gov- ernment functions. And the fact that men, not employed under ciyil service, are being discharged from duty this week, following start of our probe, indicates that something is wrong," Nichols charged. + He referred to a report from a man wha had been installing machinery and then. ss employed by the city at Ce-|at the Charles st. city barns, who, ‘alls, He has been working] With five others, was dismissed this “The object is to free the consumer ist Go Turn to Page 7, Column 2) é i siuts, | ¢ the work on this andj work fs in sight at the bridge.) te Patt: C y week. He had not been employed from the the Young Men's Business club,| ordination o' ie “ se.) {from illegal trade combinations that | —— faint Sat: He ploye By that the pees ee cert | working to raise subscriptions for| all other contracts, has made no| STEREL SUPERSTRUCTURE: [tix prices and take unwarranted under clvil service, steadily, the proposed salt water park, Fri-| . onder what a pint ts there? ers, working without civil service ta pint costs there? okeh, were also. fired at the city wasn't able to tabulate and total the| the part of other city departments. | considered ample time after check of | nad not been notified of the sult F asphalt plant,” Nichols added. is mbers who are work- “4 i Rare rechelpe books. In which ‘the | blamed nearly everybody with whom |/ng company at Sax Irancisco, pees iG probe of the acts of the civil serv- flay : ciated. VIADUCT CONTRACT; = Contrac- ice commission, as invited by “apack-making contest subscriptions are entered and in-| he is associates J : < | . b 5 ir (oF eh ty structed not to turn in these books | ASSISTANT F AILS tor ordered to start work Iebruary Maj. MacLaren Is Force Down 'y Mayor EB. J. Brow ‘w Eile) until they are filled. This makes it}TO VERIFY CLAIM 25, 1924, Delayed two months by | men employed in installing machin- ‘ ‘i bridge would be finished and ready-|to move buildings in Ine of right-of A ery at the, Charles st, car barn were Winner's were batter. ee nor 1 dist ten Ontabete is ibe. sali itiel reek | Mediterranean Sea summarily dismissed on civil sérvice THE \ lown asistants and the contractors | KILL AND CUT THRU PIGEON | ‘ BY MO » TAKS tion with Tokotuan ‘bay, where Mac: see So busy were 25 or 30 members of | responalble for the efficient co-| concrete piling, but no construction motored flying boat, Each plane | effort to overcome delays that could} Contrac Seca in 1922, Ordered | profits = “This man told me that many oth- " s a 1 by even a whis-,to start work January 9, 1924, given sin Pes f 4 day, that Dr. Frank Woods, heading | have been avoided pe f | | G. 8, Gill, secretary of the associa. the drive committec of the club,|pered request for co-operation on|170 days in which to finish Job. This | tion, named as one of the defendants, 5 A peculi . ¢ Is Tllen ee: gifts. He estimated, however, that| His own statements prove that. Hea veoh ee to finish similar work | gay “It looks like we are beginning to BH wears her hair more than $500 was raised Thursday.| Instead of assuming the responsi- hint yak a es; Sotractor. had ditt get under their hides,’ bility he is charged with, Blackwell | culty. obtaining steel from shipbutld. The committee is pushing a Hurri S Ship j : “I have been informed that six a if : Vad, | He still insisted Friday that the |failure of city building department | Hurricane Swamps Ship in ° R d b J W h: 8 flapjacks were good,| hard to get daily totals, Dr. Woods | p p Fog; escue: y japan ars ip ss since the-investigation” start. mit >| be remembered, also, that | ALI, bret aon made to ae-jaereed to that "Thursday at the POINT: Contractor’ ordgred to.start July 18.—-Struek by a hur. | PNOKYO, July 18— Mah Ac Stuart! Laren was found this morning after | ed," Nichols said. of flapjacks has itg| THe drive ts wierd afibbe thnet | bride conferenery He called. one jwork June 9 1924; given 150 diya | ricane while off the volanie isiand of | L’ Mact nissing British world] being lost 48 hours, said that the big haye also been told that’a num jae bare toe uth GY Des Moines, [of his men by felephone+ andi let {to complete job. Work held up an: | Pantolieria, Sielly, Lhe Ttaliun cruiser | flyer, was found — today safe on] plane was not damaged and all of its | ber of men working at the “city VERSATION. |The lib now. {8 privately owned, {the cditor of The Star také® the }tif Couneliman William. Ty Campbéll |Ofanto of 240 tons, sank in the Med-|Uruppu isiand, in the Kurile group, | four; passengers . were well and in| phalt plant had been: simflarly fdis« Bs cnet aes hah, Wee. uri orice Se DHe™, 2° M8 SEGPEA A? BRA Sane Mater ple aranea, Sheng he toe Tm /aEE od cred aonb TapPRiec ce Muntne te tl ed ee Aetanekr tel oe ; - 2 / ig ant say the grading ‘and KHON | ¢ od. day The airman had covered abo nt g* force © landing, the dis ro not qualified under civil serve . THE TELEPHONE ined, be turned over to the state Point cut job would be eorpleted | “1 na been unjuatly accused,’ | The crew ix reported rescued by a: the distance from Hokkaido to) Para-| patch ‘said, ich, ‘Apparently something is wrong." Yes nd kept for all of ws—and: pak) oo oher 1 or theredbouts, teat yell. "Trup, numerous |Jupanese.steatner, but airplanes, Wir | mushivur islaxd, wher) forced dowr.| MaeLareh plans to start at 4 am.| Nichols declared ‘that the probe: is teritys-just ms ft is, Instead of saying thet, the asaiat-|delays have been experienec but gibles undesteamers were dispatehed |e had /just begun the most, perl / tomorrow fer Paramushiru, if the ting upder somebody's hide.” Yes There is a «plendid ‘bathing beach, | 444 arter a long delay, satd Wejmy office has moved us fast it to the spot, where the cruiser went ‘Sus part’ of “his round-the-world] weather will permit, At Paramughtru | Jur investigation is not based on Yes plenty of timber’ and, altogether | couid seo no reason why this con-|was permitted to py other depart. | down fight--the crossing of the Pacific) a major baso for tho flight ts located. | sensationalism, but a desire to ins My ¥ as fine an outing spot us any 1) | tract hould ‘not be completed later ;ments, We are under chance reg: | errs in short pa from one Tokotan bay ts on the island of! crease the efficiency of clty depart: ry 5 the West. The state proposes 10! than November 6. Blackwell arked | ulations, and we can't rush thru a PIONEER 18 DEAD whipped, frozen island to the next Uruppu, midway between Toshimoye, | ments,” said Nichols. ‘ Yeu tuke over the park and operate "\) tor the phone and the assistant re- | job like we would if it were a pri-} TACOMA, July 18—Trank 1 | MAIO Maclaren had been mis sing | Yetorofu island, and Broughton bay.| ‘The committees also has found that y as any other state park ts run, je ated that statement to him. vate one,” | Col oneer resident and widely | nearly 48 hours. Word that MacLaren sufe Was/many policemen dismissed from the apy Sid Both Tacoma and Seattle are! “tfe'y epeaking a little guardedly Blackwell said more men should | known thruout Northwest. lumber| MacLaren willbe off again for the| relayed here by the Japanese de: force for cause were reinstated on Yes Joining in the drive to raise thélthis morning,” sald Blackwell, |he put on the several jobs by the {cireles, died at his home hero early | storm-swept North at 4, m, tomor:|stroyer Isakaze, which, with the do:|the eligible list, after taking new ex: Inecessary moncy. Only a short) flushing. contractors. Men, hoe inaikted, are|today, ‘Two sisters survive. Iu | row jstroyer Hamakaze, had been engaged |aminations, according to Nichols, Yes time remains until the option wo-| Blackwell said he would insist |not plentiful; the contraaturs can neral services will be held at 8! A‘at h from Nemuro, island of} for 8@ hours in patroling the flyer'sland that some of them have been re- Yo cured on the land oxpire that not a single contractor to beluse more, o'clock Saturday, Yezo, which ig in radio communica. (Turn to Page 10, Column 1) employed as patrolmem,