The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 22, 1925, Page 1

AMUNDSE ¥e d{(ll - WEA THER ) | Temperature Last 24 Hours | Maximum, 36 Minimum, 48, | Today noon, 54 J — = ~ Botered as Becond Class Matter May 2, ~ VOL, 27. NO. 74 SKA Bo (H ome Brew ] Howdy, folks! Just as soon as the weather gets warm, why not celebrate by making faces at the Janitor? Sign of Spring No, 199,09%: When You discover that your wife has sold your favorite pair of golf shoes to the old-clothes man. a. | No, Hortense, @ raisin in a dottle} of Scotch docs wot indicate that it da imported whisky. CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON | WY CLUB | Bimbo who rings your telephone at 2a m. to tell you he is in Jail, | Science Department: A caterpillar can change inte « butterfly and a mo tor car can turn turtle. | eee letions, dandelions, 7 picked them aa @ child, now they're the wild, wild flowers That make the wild men wild, Sign on the back of a crowded Ford coupe 7 an —— x PACKED IN TIN—ALWAYS | FRESH | Z| The novice at trovt-fishing had} hooked a very small trout and had wound it in, until it was Jammed at the yery end of his rod. “What do I do now?’* he asked. *T've finished winding.’* “Climb npcand stab It” replied | the instructor, P eee ABIGAIL APPLESAUCE SAYS: “tt be time for the forget to C the screen doors.” will soon owe Four billion quarts of illicit Hquor | were consumed in the United States during the past year, according to} the department of . commerce. | Gosh, it gives us a headache just} to think of it! j POEMS FOR YOUR SCRAPBOOK A clean shirt a day Makes laundry stock pay. Automobiles have killed more than 40 persons in Seattle this year. This isin addition to the ones who worked themselves to death trying to keep up the installments, o* | TH OFFICE | | AMP, SEZ: | | A lot of hams, just because | j | + they can put their Armour round | you, think they ift. i The carrier pigeons with the Mac-| Millan Arctic expedition are to be) provided with rations of chewing tobacco, Well, we're glad they don't have 10 fly over Begttle! EVOLUTION NOTE | William Jennings Bryan says man is not descended from a monkey, but | created in the Garden of Eden. | 2 but a woman made a monkey of him shortly afterwards. ee Yakima orchardists are looking forward to a bumper crop of apples. Beattle motorists are looknig for- ward to a bumper crop of pedestri- ans, pe ae Photoplay at the Ieilig 4a called "White Fang.” Doubtiess it is a dramatisation of “The Danger Jane” or “Four Out of Every Five Suffer From Pyorrhea.” 8 aire YE pIany (May 21) Up hetimes, and by boat to towne, and Md see the schooner (, 4, Holmes, hound for the Pe mean, tacking oat of the fall sayles, dhe first time T have seen this in many yeares, and It righty Drotty sight, and by and by comes md we do talke non to lunch, where did win m pack- a lollipops at dice throwing, and 1 Druxman mighty mad m4 ‘ ee 7 gity mad that he did lose, Neartily at hin dle: ng to home, and merrie tayle by in’ the ugh i The Newspaper With the Big: 1899, at + Under the Act of Congress March SEATTLE, WASH , FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1925, i Pole Flight Route _ ARCTIC CIRCLE — }at We’re Living Fast! IFTEEN years ago people read that this or that explorer had started for the North Pole. Then they forgot about him. Months and sometimes years rolled by until his battered ship arrived again in civ- ilization, generally with a story of failure. Hearing the explorer’s name, newspaper readers thought back, trying to remember him. Thursday evening, going home on street cars, peo- ple read a short dispatch, saying that Amundsen had started for the North Pole. Early Friday, hardly 12 hours later, they learned that he had reached his goal and liad started back. It takes a spectacular stunt like Amundgen’s to make us realize the speed at which we live! If 15 short years have reduced the time of a pole trip from several months to eight or 10 hours, what om. CANA | aN = Da | Amundsen's line of flight from Spitzbergen to the Pole is which also shows the relative | positions of the taking-off and |Northern Alaska. It was] \oxiginally intepded ta fly from | Silisberven © Wainwright, | | Alaska.” Below is the explor- | jer, from a photograph taken jin eattle three years ago. ‘Await Return of | Explorer From Trip HE North pole has been conquered from the air for the first time in history, | according to an unconfirmed | Central News dispatch from Spitzbergen, Friday after-| noon. | It has been impossible to confirm the report. | Two airplanes, carrying Roald Amundsen and _ five other men, left the air base King’s bay, Northern Spitzbergen, at 9:15 a. m.,! | Thursday, Pacific time. They planned, if possible, to apend several hours at the pole, | j making observations and “taking | sounding» A nopstop round flight’ would have consumed less than 15 hours, | the distance being about 1,300 miles. ‘The second plane was piloted by | {Lincoln Ellsworth, American ay ator-explorer. Eath ship carried} | three men | | If both ships were wrecked, the | | flyers were prepared to set out on foot in attempt to reach Etah, | | most northerly settlement in Green land | If nothing is heard of them, it will be months before their fate can be ascertained. They could |not reach the settlement before the |ice closed in on it next fall, mak- | ing communteation imposaibie, Noth. |ing could be learned until the sum: |mer of next year | | A relatively small supply of fuct) | was aboard the two planes, and it is | probable that this reserve would have | exhausted if the filers encountered difficult weather conditions, Tt was (Turn to Page 11, Column 3) eee Trip to South Pole Lasted 18 Months Amundgen’s trip to the south pole, from the time he*started from Maderia until he reached the south- ern axis, took him 18 months. His successfi north polar trip have the next 15 years in store? 2 GAS BLASTS; Explosions in City Kill One and Injure Ten pA Te ONS) Flyer Killed in Parachute Drop NAVAL AIR STATION, hurst, N. J, May 22.—Lieut Rowland Kyle, Jr, naval avintor, was instantly Killed today in full view of a group of officers, when he leaped from an airplane and his para chute fajled to opeh until Mat before Lake: James CLEVELAND, 0. May 22—One man Killed, two others seriously in- PrAick ein mt ee tittle | juftod and the lives of many were lig body a(vuck the equi’ yany wt every puge, xs Rj endangered here today ax a rexu Kyle had ascended to make a prac ereature! And wo to bed. 4 of an exploslon of m gaa heater In| tice parachute drop, hed ap an apartment house. el A A a el Today's Fable: Once upon a time} ‘The entire nelkhborhdod was Shere lived a movie ptar who had rocked by ‘the blast, which was fol.) under control in a half-hour fight Hot been 4 Mack Sennett bathing| lowed by fire, Windows of the|Thia i# tho second gus explosion to dele! apartment and nearby homes wore} diy. An explosion. In a rooming 4 ’ ee shattered. house intured eight mon, one prob Aad Be Five fire companies put the fire |ably- fatally, took him about elght hours, accord- Ing to Thursday's news. Steamship and dog sleds were used in the first trip, and airplane in the second. eee BLA COG ( POLE FLIGHT RECALLS ILL-FATED ATTEMPT IN BALLOON BACK IN 1897 HE Amundsen ox pedition brought to mind today the fact that Andree, a Swede, set forth in 1897-to reach the pole in a balloon, He never heard of again || ‘The north pole has been the woul of expeditions since time fmmemorial. Probably plorer was who, a few hundred y wont forth to hunt in th was | | the firat the ¢ Aretio ox Pythaas, rs B,C, Cc of the sensational charges made in the R. C. Storrie complaint. that the only people who ever have purchased Seattle utility bonds are the ly known that there was no sule for that the werk had to arrange the sale of their to | they |the bond discount in the bids on \the work, . (i tra sale of the bonds to Grant & ¢ any other group of bond buyers. 2, 1978 >’. a gest €irculation in Washington he Seattle Star the Postoffice at Beatle, Wash. by Mall, 92.00 4 L x § Bl x FRAUD CHARGED IN GIT CONTRACT! Alleged Inside Deal Revealed! AN dollars in connection with the Gorg project, was revealed Friday. harges of a highly sensational nature, involvin, at the time the contract was aw ALLEGED conspiracy to defraud the city of Seattle out of thousands of | tunnel contract, in the Skagit power | g members of the city council | arded, and particularly C. B. Fitzgerald, then| | president of the council, and Carl F. Uhden, engineer in charge of the Skagit! plant, are contained in an answer filed at San Francisco by R. C. Storrie & Co., | in a suit brought against them by R. M. Grant & Co., to recover $177,425 which | Grant alleges was advanced to Storrie during construction work. Storrie & Co. were the Gorge among the three bond houses which secured the $2 issue that paid for the job. plant tunnel contractors. Grant & Co. were 2,205,000 special utility bond The answer, filed in the federal district court at San Francisco by Attorneys | Stephen L. Chadwick and John L. and Engineer Uhden. The arrangement failed, according to the Counsel Kennedy blocked the deal. The alleged ee oe ew ge piggy Startling 1. 2. the job. 3. 4. 5. gineer. 6. employment of Carl wishes and that he any contractor approved by the three bond houses or lose his job. 7. houses demanded. L in Storrie Answer aeNG Startling allegations in the R. C. Storrie cross-claim complaint are the following: That G. Austin Haskell said no contractor could secure the tunnel contract without the consent of three bond houses, Carstens & Earles, Inc., John E. Price & Co, and R. M. Grant & Co. That the three bond houses caused a “joker” to be inserted in the bond ordinance making it possible for them to dictate who should be awarded That the “joker” was a clause giving the attor- neys of Carstens & Earles (Preston, Thorgrim- son & Turner) power to reject or accept the bonds and that upon their opinion depended whether or not a contract of any sort was let. That the three bond houses controlled the then city council thru its president, C. B. Fizgerald. That the three bond houses had secured the That Uhden would be subservient That these concessions would be ample to make it possible for the successful contractor to ac- cept the bonds at par and allow the discount the bond Charges F. Uhden as project en- to their would give concessions to “Carl F, Uhden was employed on the Skagit project when I was not & member of the B. Fitzgerald, former president, sald Friday, elty council," council when told “It is a commonly known fact three bonding houses involved in the litigation, It is also common: the Skagit the bonds at par and contractors who bid on bonds when bonds were given in payment or else could not finance operations. | Ab a rosult the contractors figured be “Storrie & Co. were 200,000 under nt Smith & Co, when the con- was lot "As to the deal being blocked, 1 remember reading that the city coun @# made 1 final settlement in which mont of the contested items were paid in full or in part, somo months ago," Witzgorald denied the existence of any combination ®r clique to f Wngineer Carl 1, Uhden flatly dented knowing anything about the valloged transaction, Fitzgerald ‘and Uhden Deny Alleged Frauds) “T was hired to build the Skagit, not to finance it,” Uhden said, “I built it and know nothing about the financial end of the business, I never talked with Storrio & Co., until after the contract was let to them; neither did T ever consult with any member of tho three bond houses involved in the litigation,” Buying Real Estate fer Good Values Is much easier by watching Tho Star Want Ad Columns, Here is ono of today’s, listings. RANGE, ALL FOR $3,900, WASY TERMS Practically @our own terma on this @markablo home buy. Strictly modern, of course, De- Nehtful combination Hving and dining + has hardwood floors, b asen, artistic fire~ place; dandy cabinet Kitchen} 2 cheerful, woll ventilated bed= paet, ote, Cex . laundry, ga. home is situated This «a wonderful lot, Turn to the Want A Columns and seo who Is offoring this home to you. RHAD THE WANT ADS DAILY. —— Storrie & Co. were to bottle up| were to secure the bonds and |} answer, | | McNab, bares what is declared to have been an arrangement between Storrie & Co., and Carstens & Earles, Ine., John Price & Co. and R, M. Grant & Co., whereby the tunnel contract and the three bond houses hown on the map, above, realize unlawful discounts thru “concessions” to be allowed by the | city council | because Corporation rrangement which Storrie| & Co, admit they entered into with the bond houses, in- volved, among other things,| an advance of moneys by the| city council sufficient to cov-| er the cost of the contrac-| tors’ construction plant and the adit tunnel desired by | the contractors to expedite the work, These two items, repre- senting a total cost ap- | proximating $288,623.88, were, according to Storrie | & Co., to be covered by | the estimates advanced | by the council and would | not thereafter be deduct- | ed, causing the city to purchase all of the con- tractors’ equipment. En- gineer Uhden, Storrie & Co, say the bond houses assured them, would at all times be agreeable to this arrangement, as well as to other concessions profitable to the con- tractor. They, it is charged, had secured his employment and he would look to them for the safety of his job. Tt was in September, 1921, the} answer states, that Robert B, Muir, having secured for Storrie & C plans and specifications with a view to bidding on the Gorge plant tun- nel, was approached by G. Austin Haskell, then an officer of Car- stens & Earles, Inc, Haskell informed Muir, the answer states, that if they in- tended to bid on the job it would he necessary for them to enter into an agreement with Carstens & Earles, In KE. Price & Co. and R. M. & Co. whereby — those | bond houses should secure the bonds. Haskell told Muir, it is charged, that unless Storrie & Co. con- sented to such an agreement there would be no contract let. Thru the influence of the bond houses, Muir says Haskell told him, | a “joker” clause had been inserted in the bond ordinance as follows: “Tho contractor shall within 60 days after the execution of this contract, deliver to the board of public works, the opin. jon of Preston, Thorgrimson & Turner, attorneys of Seattle, re- (Turn to Page 11, Column 4) FIND NEW TRAIL Boethounds Again Seek Missing Ballard Youth Sheaff Starwich's — bloodhounds wore in the field again Friday, hunt- ing Leroy Matteson, 22, missing in the North Rend cqayntry since Sun. day afté@noon, Thirteen postemen searching un: der P. C, Peterson, government hunt: er, discovered an apparently fresh trail late Thursday, They summoned ald from the sheriff and ho sent Deputios Sears, Gibson and Davis, the dogs’ handler, to the Mount st section, Friday, Matteson wandored away while on ® pienio trip Sunday, Irliends have offored a $126 roward for him, EDITION} TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. They Figure in Skagit Suit C. B. Fitzgerald, former mayor, and president of the council at the time the Skagit development was started. Carl F. Uhden, engineer, formerly in charge of the Skagit plant construction. omas J. L. poration counsel. PORTLAND Seen in Auto on Highway at Tenino by Friend : Portland police were asked to aid in the search for J. H. K missing steamship man of Seattle, who ‘disappeared last Tuesday at- ter resigning his position with the Pacific Steamship Co. He was their general agent in Alaska, No additional clues whereabouts have been found by local police since H. I’, Williams, of Tenino, wired that he had seen Kline driving thru that town Tues: day afternoon, apparently heading for Portland. Willams, in a message sent to Mrs, gXline at her home, 1805 1. Howell st., stated that he had known Kline several years in Jue neau, Alaska. Tho missing man has many friends in Portland, according to Detective J. FF. Little, and they have been notified to watch for him and in case they see him, to let his wife know, As Kline was driving lis Chev. rolet coupe, the police believe that to Kline's ho gAynot escape observation long, KI fs said to have been dospons 0 Syvor financial reverses. and 4 ‘god suicide, .