The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 23, 1925, Page 1

“ ppeained, did | Ww Fs d = meen et HUNDREDS DIE IN JAPAN QUAKE! WEA cir and bx a east Temperature Maximum, 59 ko a noon, 59, VOL, NO, 75. Home re EST. BY HOMER G. BREW Rates.........56 c per copy ‘Tho Star... © per copy | Without The Star.......2¢ per copy Howdy, folks! It will soon be time for June brides. What a fortune somebody could make by cornering the can-opener market! se We don't know why Captain Amundsen wanted to fy over the North Pole, unless he spent the} winter in an apartment house and/ was looking for a place with a little warmth, Undoubtedly it wilt be a inighty fine thing if a lot of new land is discovered around the North Pole. We are badly in need of more perk- ing space, Arehk But what would be the use of Amundsen finding new territory inj the Aretic? mediately annex tt. Rt. P. Gr lie the remains of Jay bald Dow, Who thought he could drive without | first learning how; His nerve was tinbounded, his steer: ing was rotten, This stone is put up so he won't be) forgotten Li'l Gee Gee says that up to her| place they are so darn rich =| wash their dishes’ with Gold Dust eee Divorced are Mr. H And Mrs. McF ee; Bhe fed him nothing { But salad. and tea, see Today's Fate: Onite upon a time the Seattle ball team played an en- tire game and Manager Killefor waa | not banished ones for talking back} to the umpire. VAUDEVILLE ' 1 OUR OWN He—Who was that bum I seen! -ceatest drop ever noted in lake|in them you with yesterday? She—Oh, that was my husbum. eee Motion picture at the Winter Gar- den theater is called “The Silver oviously not a Ford. eee 1 Ashes to ashes,” Duat to dust, What's become of the Forty-cight bust? ee Photoplay at the Palace Hip is named “Passion'’s Pathway.” The scenes, no doubt, are along the Bothell highway. . . laid MUST BF ANOTHER CASE OF DUAL PERSONALITY m The Star) Wheeling bis luggage down the gang- the steamer, Will King mad ppearance in Beattie Weanesday, | will entertain city theater-lovers dur- ing the summer, WT King’s back. The popular Jewish comedian arrived | tm Seattle this morning on the Shasta| Limited. He was accompanied by bis| troupe of 59, The municipal waging a campaign street car riding. One efficient method would be to} have the conductors scatter tacks In the paths of automobiles. . railway is now to increase Li'l Gee Gee, the office philoso. pher, says she has discovered that most hard-boiled eggs are yellow in- Pier yer GC... models wear stockings made of rose.”—Fashion note, My Rohosiery! e+e More than 73,000,000,000 cigarets | were smoked in the United States last year. Of which the vast ma- jority were borrowed from some body else, eee TA'l Geo Gee told her sweetie to- day that they weren't making enough mortiey to get married on. “Oh, that’s all right,” he replied. ‘tm wiing to skimp «long on your present salary until you get a raise.” one XE, DIARY 2) y ea to removiny to the attick, und mighty glad, too, to xet rid of it, albelt it did 1 warmth in the coide went ft serve to make bot %, the stove and when T wae fh my wyte, me for monies with my a new dress, but 1, on ve the wit to deny her, Ape already uving w dress, And ao to whe de Be \Lake’ s Level Drops | THER | tonight and rate to north twoinds. Last M4 Hours Minimum, 46, age Pauncil Hears Charg Rn nnn etn enn tant en pnp tntnentn The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington SE. ATTL E, WASH., SA’ at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash., under the Act of Congress March 3, 187% TURDAY, MAY 23, 1925, of Skagit Bond Fraud No Cause for Inquiry, Officials Now Believe ‘City Out of Deal, but Might Take! Action on Criminal Complaint — | EMBERS of the city council Saturday saw no cause] for official investigation tween R. C. Storrie & Co. a including R. M. Grant & Co., E. Price & Co., bonds. of an alleged conspiracy be- nd a group of bond buyers, Carstens & Earles and John to control the purchase of Skagit power The city, councilmen feel; is well out of the deal, having made its final settlement with Storrie & Co., the contractors. | Should the council learn additional facts that would war-| rant an investigation, the m natter will come is now connected iwith the council charging criminal conspiracy and naming} |probe by his committee. COOLIDGE SICK;.. STOPS WORK © [icin Engagements To-| day; Goes on Cruise Sunday | WASHINGTON, May 23—Preat-| dent Coolidge was forced to cancel | his business engagements today by | a@ slight attack of indigestion, ap- parently caused by eating fruit for breakfast which did not agreo with | | him. ‘The attack was of such slight nature, however, that the president went ahead with plans for his usual week-end cruise down the Potomac with a party of friends aboard the haga aos 7 Feet During Night) ALPENA, Mich. May 23. = The | levels occurred last night on Lake Huron, when fluctuations from a/ four-foot rise to seven-foot drop oc- curred. At Rockport, 10 miles north of} here, a steel freighter was dropped to the bottom and then carried off} by the fluctuation. A barometric pressure wave,/ sweeping from west to east, was ot signed a as the cause by _Jertm. City Appraisal Less’ Than Named Amount Seattle qepartmental heads did not appraise the Seattle & Rainier! Valley railway at $1,152,000, Clark} Jackson, utilities superintendent, de- clared Saturday, answering news- paper articles which gave his ap-| praisal at that sum. | “I'm not correcting this in the} light of attacking the city’s offer,”| he said, “I'm remaining neutral as| to how much the line is worth to the city. Our appraisal wan $1,093, | 002.89, with several items of equip-| ment and track not figured in when | the appraisal seasions were closed | and the council made Its offer,” \some present or past city official, he sees no cause for a CONTROL OF COUNCIL ALL ED IN W XY The sensational charge ee ities bonding f ma C, Storrie & Co. in their an swer to a mult for $170,000 brought j agalnst them by R. M. Grant @ to. It was filed in San Francisco | Friday and a! of the ctly council! and Cart F. den, Skagit construction engineer, the bonds were to be acquired thru padding the construction estimate, at a discount of approximately 17 ber cent. The answer mentioned the name of C. BD. Fitagerald as president of the council. Attorney John C. Higgins, jaw firm of Donworth, gins, counsel for the bonding com pany, Saturday branded the answer and cross-complaint of Storrie & Co. ax “an attemut to bluff us into & settlement of our claim.” “The charges are falne, and in my opinion simply an attempt to force un into a settlement of the claim,” Higgins said. “I all of the officials of the bond houses and am certain these scan dalous charges are merely bluff. I don’t think there is a word of truth ma were of the CALDWELL PROBED SKAGIT BONDS ‘che sult was brought by | Co. Higgins sa to take Judgment for $175,000 advanced by the bond- ing houses to Storrie & Co. to carry on the work. The firm evaded serv. }ico in Seattle and it was brought in San Francisco, Higgins said. In due time a reply to the crons-complaint I be filed and the case will be | noted for trial. Grant & That the Skagit bonds were being purchased at a discount of 17 per cont was revealed to Hugh Caldwell while he was mayor, by a San Fran- claco bond house man, who informed Caldwell that if the contract could be broken his firm would pay 92 per cent for them, Caldwell sald Satur- day. “I took an affidavit with the pur- pose of laying the matter before the county grand jury, but failed to ob- tain sufficient evidence to warrant the action,” Caldwell sald Saturday. “I was satisfied that there was a combination working in the purchase of the bonds thru which the buyers were getting what (Turn to Page 2, Column 5) Fitzgerald Says He’s ‘Not Involved in Deal Former Mayor Believes Skagit Fraud Charge Not “of Interest to City” BY ©. B. FITZGERALD Former Mayor of Seattle DECIDED not to be a candidate to succeed myself as a member of the clty council In the March election of 1924, and no retired from the city's service at that time, But I understand from the dally press that contractors on the Skagit tun- nel job, R. Storrie Co, of San Francisco, recelved their final eatt- mate on the job and have signed the complete release from the city and do not claim that the city owes them any money, I was not # member of the coun: cll from March, 1920, to March, 1921, at the time the machinery was bought for the Skagit Job and the method of having the contrac: tor buy the Skagit bonds for cash and then be pild back as the work progremed was put Into effect. 1 know from the record that that plan®was followed in the purehinne of tho machinery, When tho voard of public works got ready to call for the contract for the Skagit tunnel, that was the plan followed, Naturally, 1 had no control and ho Influence over Ue board of pub lic works at the time of the letting of the contract, as Hugh Caldwell was mayor, and the board of public work was appointed by him, but I do know that the board of public works prepared plans and specifica- tloris and that there were three bid- ders on the job, BELIEVED BID LET BECAUSE OF LOW COST ‘They were R. C, Storrie & Co., San Franclaco, whose bid was $2, 203,865; Grant Smith & Co,, $2,476,- 840,15, and Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Co, $2 71, I know that the board of public works let the contract to Storrie & Co. and I always presumed that they the contract to them because they were a couple of hundred thousand dollars lower than the other bidders, Carl I, Uhden, engineer in charge of the Skagit job, was hired by A Il, Dimmock, elty engineer, but 1 believe that Mr, Dimmick made a wine choice, because the record now in written, The Skagit is complet ed, is delivering the amount of en. rey that he claimed it would de liver, and the record shows that it {Turn to Page 2, Column 6) of ed that thru control | Un: | ‘Todd & Hix-| have talked with | before the} Los Angeles would im-| council efficiency committee. Chairman Nichols said Satur- | |day that no one concerned in the charges | with the city council and unless there is a complaint made | TERRIFIC HEAT WAVE | | Says Seatt s aH —~| | “Feel Fine, Thanks!” le, Smiling on Her 72nd Birthday QaActLE siniled thanks Satur day to “Many happy returns f the day She was 72 years ng. A birthday party was being held in the afternoon, under sun hy summer skies. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Denny, pioneer couple, were hosts at their home, Loch. kelden, on Lake Washington. The 76 acres of grounds were crowded with guests, ‘The police band played. A children’s choir from Sacred Heart orphanage, tu tored by Mra. Bert C. for everybody. ‘Then a huge birthday cake was cut and old-timers sat and strolled Ross, sang around, telling of the years gone by, before the town grew up. Afterward there were talks by Col. Byron Phelps, former mayor; Judge Hanford, Mrs, Homer Hill, |{ Councliman BE, 1. Blaine, J. T. | Lawler, Judge J, T. Ronald and | other pioneers, | ver since the Rev, John M Lyle got the idea for the party | Mr. Denny has been busy getting his place ready for it. He is the |) | only person living who was here | when the infant city first saw the | { light—and he was just a baby at the time. In all the 72 years thin is the first real birthday party the city ever han had. CAUSES TWO DEATHS Many Prostrated by Unpre Unprecedented Temper- atures in Middle West HICAGO, May 23.—At least two deaths and many pros- trations, already have resulted from the extreme beat wave Be ‘ipping the Middie West and “Southwest, aceording 10 reports to the weather bureau here to- day, The deaths in Nebraska, one succumbing In Omaha and an other in Lincoin ‘Temperatures were thruout the state ranged from 95 to 102 degrees, but the torrid weather reemed some- what broken this morning. Five prostrations were reported in Milwaukee, where the mercury climbed 28 degrees in 20 minutes and 40 degrees in an hour, mount ing to 91 above yesterday after noon. Terrific rain storms, accompanied by high winds, crippled communt- cations {n parts of Minnsota and North Dakota, but brought relief from the sweltering weather, Min neapolis had a mark of .99 dogreen in the afternoon and reported two Prost rations. | Many prostrations resulted in vari oun nections of the country, Chicago's millions, who suffered 94 degreom weather in the hottest May 2.1n the history of the Chicago weather bureau, today waited skep. | tically for promived relief, which did ' jnot materialize during the carly | working hours. | St. Louis’ thermometers showed | 90 degrees, and no city in the Middle | West reported a lower mark than that, Heat records for May 22 in| | many cltles were shatered. | Only two other May days, since | Chicago has had a weather bureau, were hotter—two marks of 94,2 de-/ green were registered on May 25 and | 26, 1911. see While the East sweltered Satur. day, Seattle was comfortable, with cool breezes, bright sunshine and prompects for an {deal week end. Temperature shortly before noon | downtown was 55, with little chance | for any great jump during the af- ternoon, GALE LOSS BIC Minnesota Storms Destroy Hundreds of Buildings ST, PAUL, Minn., May 23.—Hun- dreds of farm buildings were do- stroy and thousands of head of Hve- atock killed and injured in two vio- lent wind atorma which swept most of. Minnesota last night, a check. to- day showed, Line of communication in Western and North Central Minnesota were severed, causing heavy loss to tele- graph, telephone and power com. panies, Only two persons were injured, ac cording to meager reports from the hardest hit areas He’d Boss Police; Autoist Loses $50 If you have an idea that you can run the police traffic bureau, don't tell the cops down there about it. Mike Chaila, 32, did Fri- day afternoon, and lost Challa left his car standing in a safety zone, and when he went to headquarters with the traffic tag, was met by Sergeant Joe Czech, who requested him to register his car, Whereupon, Czech says, Chain be- came abusive, and said, “maybe I'm running this show, brother.” Challa was arrested for disorderly conduct and posved $50 ball, ‘Advisor te to Abyssinia King to Arrive Here After spending six years as mia slonaries in Abyssinia Mr, and Mrw Fred Russell and the shildren will arrive in Seattle aboard the Presl- dent McKinley, according to wire. leas advioes recetved by Mr. and Mrs, J. H, Russell, parents of Mr. Russell, of 1444 21st ave, Russell, an agricultural instructor, worved as agricultural advisor to the Drys Wreck 2 Bare and Nab 7 Persons VWederal dry raiders wrecked two soft drink bara and arrested seven persons Thurae night, The raids were at 6049 49th ave, 8. Ws and 116 Third ave. 8, Those arrested are Albert Mehus, Guat Andoniou, Viddie Graham, George Chowralif, DLomosCascus and Bill Chaxeriy. MAY SUE ROSS | Kennedy Won't Represent | Him in Power Dispute Light Supt. J. D. Ross must face the litigation brought by the Puget Sound Power Co, alone Monday, in the injunction sult brought fn su- perior court to block the sale of clty power to the Savage Lumber Co, at Renton. Corporation Counsel Kennedy Sat- urday formally notified Ross that the city cannot defend his action in signing # five-year contract with the lumber firm to furnish city power for the lumber mill Kennedy said he may be called{ jupon to sue Ross personally for lexpending clty funds to construct |the transmission line to the plant. A check of the records to determine Just what the city spent in erecting the line was being made by the city comptroller's office Saturday, The data will bo placed before the clty council at its request, for its guidance, Car Hits Light Pole; Driver Held in Jail After his car had crashed into a cluster light pole at First ave. and Virginia at, Friday night, HH. 8. Hartness, 42, salesman, was arrested for reckless driving by Patrolman Perey Pizor. Hartness did not fur nish ball for his release until Sat. urday. _———— || BUYING A GOOD USED CAR Is much easler if you watch the Star Want Ad Columns. . Here is a rigees, Mating: STAR TOURING In fine condition, has spot light, automatic aWipe, sun visor and spare tire and ja a real buy at $296, eany terma, i D COUPKHS $825 and $496 De sure and have a look at these two coupes, They have lota of oxtras and are in first class condition, Turn to the Want “Aa Columns and see who ih offering theno cars to you, BE SURI AND RWAD TODAY'S WANT ADS WOR GOOD USLD CAnS, The SeattleStar Botered as Becond Clare Matier May &, 1 Per Year, by Mall, $4.00 * AMUNDSEN LOST IN ARCTIC Silent Northland Is Holding Fate of Explorer’s Secret INES YORK, May 23. — Capt. Roald | Amundsen and his five | companions were still | | ' held today in the grip of the Arctic, ‘ot a word has been received from the men | since they hopped off | from Kings bay, North- ern Spitzbergen, Thurs- way to conquer the North Pole by air. When Amundsen left he! jexpected to make the trip to| jthe pole and back, a distance, of approximately 1,300 miles, | within 20 hours. Amundsen and two aides| " [hopped off in one plane and} 'Lincoln Ellsworth, his Ameri-| lean companion, commanded | the other. Thero is no possible way of ob- aining word from the explorers} until they return to civilization, TI planes did not carry radio outfits. | |Should the men meet with a m&| known hap the Arctic wastes will hold the secret of the penetrate the the victima Reports have come from | Kings bay that the men reached the pole and started back, There is no way of confirming this, ‘The fact thatthe planes are not back at Kings bay show conclusively that they were forced to land, If they still have enough fuel and were not dam- aged in landing, the ships may yet return to their starting point, If the fuel In exhausted or planes damaged, then the explorers must start the long trek back to civilization, It im estimated that this would take them until the sum- mer of 1926, duo to weather condi- tions, tragedy until rescuers Northland and fi the TANS STILL T OF RETURN Norwegians still hoped their in-/ trepid countryman would win thru, | according to Oslo despatches, Amer. jeans professed the same faith in | Lincoln Ellsworth, piloting the sec ond Dornier plane. Norwegians’ raith In their intrepid countryman’s skill—and luck—kept the anxiety from degenerating into gloom however and everywhere, with men and women silently pray jing for Amundsen's safe return, there was still the belief that he had actually conquered the air and reached the pole. Some polar authorities believed Amundsen may have continued his (Turn to Page 2, Column 4) U, 5. PLANES T0 SEEK FLYERS Polar Wastes to to Be Scoured for Trace of Amundsen WASHINGTON, May 23.—United States naval airplanes with the Mac- Millan Arctic expedition will search for Roald Amundsen and his party this summor if it develops thelr ex pedition han come to grief. Inquiry at the navy department and tho National Geographic society, backer of the expedition, brought the unanimous response today that the three amphibian planes accompany- ing the expedition would unquostion- ably bo sent to scour the polar wastes for the intrepld Norwegian and his comrades if they are not heard from before then, Such being the case, Amund: sen and his party would not have to spend the year trekking across the loo to the northern tip of Greenland, they aro said to have counted on if| thelr planes crashed, i ‘The MacMillan planes are sched. uled to arrive at Etah, tho Green land baxe, the latter part of July, By immediately setting out for the pole, they should be able to locate the ex: plorers within a few days, it is be Heved, Man Killed by Gas; Think It’s Accident} Belloved to have been killed a dentally by gas, Joo Lavan, truck driver, was found dead s@ urday noon in his room at 611 Sov enth aye, Ono of the burners of the gas plate was partly open, Indicating that he had brushed against it be- fore going to sloep Friday night, Lavar was «& member of the teamaster'’s union, The coroner is trying to locate his reladves and family, i | , x 6 {il HOME EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. orror Is ncreased by Fires! Coast Towns “Leveled; Thousands Homeless in New Catastrophe; Casualties Are _ Are “Mounting” By United | nited Press APAN has again been ravaged by earthquake and fire, the worst since 1928, ruins. Several hundred dead have ing to a message from Osak | reported found and casualtie: when Tokyo and Yokohama were laid in already been reported, accord- a. Two hundred bodies were are believed to be large. The towns of Toyooka, Tsuno Saki and Kumihane were followed the earthquake’s pat! In the flourishing, important citie: uriously reported totally or partly destroyed by fire, which h today. of Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe the quake was felt with tremendous shock—even worse jthan that which wrecked Tokyo in 1923, but without caus< ing damage. The quake centered in the on the west coast of the islar “Mounting” casualties are consumed by fire. The regions |Eastern and Northern Japan The direction of the quake ;movement from the usual belt of heavier Kansai district—old Japan— nd, fronting on the Japan sea. mentioned, with many houses are léss populated than the districts. tends to indicate a southward tremors. Amanohashhidate, the famous touring spot, otherwise as “The Heavenly Bri the damaged towns. So far, that any tour .. OSAKA, May 23.—Several hundred dead have already been reported as & result of the terrific earth shock followed by fire, whieh ‘struck “Ja- pan's western coast today, Reports say the casualties are be. lieved to be ‘‘large.” ‘Towns within five square miles to) Toyoooka were almost completely de- stroyed. In the destroyed towns, tun nels, water tanks and bridges col- lapsed. ‘The cities of Osaka, (chief city Kyoto of the province of that name) and Kobe were reported to} have escaped damage, as did the naval establishment at Maidhuru. i affected arca. Traffic along the Japan sea region is paralyzed. Two hundred homes and the rail-| way station at Toyo Oka are report- ed destroyed. Fire is reported added to the terror at seven points. | Kumihama, a town in the prefect: | ure of Kyoto, was almost entirely | destroyed. The shock centered in the Kanzai district, lying westward of Kyoto, (Turn to Page 2, Column 2) TRAIN IS LOST Passengers Believed Buried in Twisted Wreckage LONDON, May 23. —A Tokyo dis- patch to the Evening News re- ports that a train near Toyooka, the earthquake-hit Japanese town, is missing and belleved entombed in the collapsed Ashiya tunnel. A train near Genbudo was over- turned while the shafts of the big Ekuno silver mine caved in, said the message. eee Presbyterians Send Sympathy to Japan COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 23—In the name of the nearly 2,000,000 American Presbyterian church mem- be Dr, Charles R, Erdman, mod- erator of the national embly, in session here, today cabled sym- pathy to earthquake stricken dls- trlete of Japan, The cable was addressed to the American ambassador at Tokyo and bestows the “assembly's blessing of Almighty God upon the government Japan, and people of Eye-Witness ue trains are rushing to the} idge,” lies in the vicinity of no dispatches have indicated ts were affected. JAPAN CENTER FOR QUAKES [Since Disaster in 1923 | Island Has Had 5,400 On September 1, 1923, Japan was | shaken by a terrific quake. Yokohama was entirely destroyed; | Tokyo was three-fourths razed. The | disturbance was felt over more than | 9,000 square miles. Thousands of persons were killed; 2,000,000 were made homeless; 634,« 000 houses were destroyed; the money loss was figured at $933, 000,000. Japan is the center of earthquake activity, There are 88 volcanoes on the islands. Records from 1885 }to 1892, showed 8,331 quakes of varying intensity in that period. Since the 1923 disaster, records show more than 6,400 small quakes. |In January, 1924, there was a lesser shock, causing death of 50 persons in Tokyo. Cause of the quakes is said to be change in the floor of the Pacific ocean, east of the islands. The sea \here is extraordinarily deep and | subject to terrific pressures. Theso | pressures are forcing Japan upward, making rises of seven and eight feet in coastal elevations. The immense pit of the Pacific is thought by some scientists to have once been occupied vy the moon, ‘The moon's mass flew into space at some early period in world history, according to this theory, leaving the hole to be filled by water, 89 Die in Smash Poultryman Sues “Wuxtry, 89 Killed in Auto Smash"—well the headlines didn’t say it a week ago Friday but W. BE. Downs, poultryman, thinks they could have. His damage sult for $89 for loss of life, $152 for dam- age to his truck and $6 for other losses was filed Friday afternoom against Jack Whorton. The smashup occurred on tha Everett highway, north of Bothell. Whorton is accused of speeding, The 89 who lost their lives were ae See Downs was hauling. Tells of Devastation of Quake Correspondents Fly Over Wreckage Left by Temblor and Fire BY MOTO TAKATA United Proas State Correspondent (Copyrigat, 1925, by United Prexs) OSAKA, Japan, May 28.—Tsuno Saki, once a smiling city of 600 dwellings, noted hot springs -and health hotels, is tonight a smoking, ruined city of dead. From an airplane—rushed there with staff correspondents of the Osaka Malnichithe first views of the disaster were obtained, A great cloud of smoke rolled up from tho elty, which appoars a cindered pilo after earthquake and fire swept it today, Wire spouted out of 20 different places within, the city almost. im: mediately after the earth sock, _ And several hundred houses, many of them only frail bamboo structures, tumbled down beneath the force of the inexorable earth rattlings, Later the whole city was swath- ed in fire, Your correspondents saw from the airplane only a very few houses unscathed. It was 6 o'clock and the curling black cloud still spiraled up from the health resort. hero is a chance that many how tel guests at tho hot springs pe: ished, for it is known that there was heavy registration at the Moe ae a aes be