The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 27, 1925, Page 1

| | { ii WEATHER FORECAST | VOL. 27. NO. 73. FIRE AND EXPLOSION TRAP 71 MINERS! Home Fire on Gas-Loaded Boat Bre '. BY HOMER G. Offices BREW - + +1307 Tth Ave. He ome Brew Palace folks! ney Colvin has banned 16 magazines | Howdy, Prosecuting Attor- from Seattle newsstands, The Con- greasional Record is still being sold openly, however. oe Several of the magazines were pro- hibited because they showed scantily clad girls. Now let's prohibit Second Ave. eee The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in The Seattle Star | Bolored ae Geovnd Ciars Maller May &, 1899, ot the Postoffics at Meattie, W ATTLE, W SH Forces Crew to Open Sea | - 0 000 LOSS! | Crew of 17 Barely Escapes Blasts on Motorship NANAIMO, B. ©, May 27.— Driven into ship's boats when the motorship Wakena, with a deck- | load of 4,600 gallons of distillate and her fuel tanks filled, sudden- t-—————- Up, UpGoes the Price of Food! HE price of food goes steadily upward in Seattle. From 1918 to 1925 there was a gain of 45.9 per cent, March, 1925, showed a gain of 5.7 per cent over March, 1924, March, 1925, showed a gain of 4 per cent over February, 1925, These figures are compiled by the bureau of statis- tics, federal department of labor, and have just been released from Washington. The report is based on checks made in 39 cities of the average prices of 42 foods. These were the prices, s shown by reports from , WEDNESDAY, Washington ash, under the Act sions March 8, 1879. Ber Year, by May. $2.00 LAY Wy HOME ‘ e “The Jazz Age” What Happened? Read It in Lawyer; The Star coo This, Folks, Is “GLORIA” EA | | We're glad, however, that the ly burst into Mames at 3:35 this Ni Sa “sex” magazines have been barred.) morning, Capt. D, H. MeNell and Seattle dealers: ; The nezt step wilt be to padlock} his crew of 16 are stranded here A | Feb. Meh Pullman smoking cars. | today after a gruelling 10-mile Article Univ 1921 1925 1925 oe row thru choppy seas and driy- i : Cts. | Cts. | Cts | It used to be "The wages of sin are | ing rain, Birte steak a 124 3 | death.” In recent years, however, They have no clothing other Round aten 78 | the wages of sin have been a cheek | than that in which they escaped Rub roast tj 18.2) 26.2 from a “confessional” magazine. | from their vessel. Chuc K roast ..... 4 waee 15.0) 18.0 | eee | So flerce were the flames and so Plate beet do. 13.9 ¢, Risque Picture Stirs jsudden the outbreak, that it was e | 5. tar Jimpoasible to save the ship's papers vork chops 30.6 | 24.6) 40.4 | > 2, . i pap Prosecutor's Wrath jThe last two men to be taken off ford 0.0 | 44.8| 49.0) 63.0 ay This is the] Were unable to dress, having to ed 0.0} 48 7 jtumble out of their bur nd r of 18 46 r cover of “Tangy|the side in their night at HH ‘ 3 Tales,” which} Just he t patled . ; oan : laway, the distillate caught fire and Balmon, canned, red | Where you ran a carpet sweeper, Lam going to run an} caused Preseete| exploded with oud report. The wee t : 8.6) 12.0] 12.0 automobile. tor Colvin to ban| crow was showered with flaming Milk, evaporate can 10 10 poset the magazine In| embers and had to row madly away || Butter sesscoee «fPound « cavsec/ 440( 67.0! 622) 638 So Gloria Gordon told her mother on the eve of her wed- | Py |from the burning off, which covered | ding to Dick Gregory, young lawyer, at the Gordon home rank a | wide acon'ab the sbi! weat. dowt. Nat margarine ,..... * do... 29.8 | 30. fon Queen Anne hill, o theese ag 36.813 ‘ Ny — ed al biget Me Neill took command 6 sere sed fh And she meant what she said. So it was that the mar- f 4 boat and Chief Engineer *3 . eereters do.. 8 Irie . * exposed, ft ly ak | Knutson, the other, The men pull table lard substitute. ....| do 15 jried life of the Gregorys was filled with thrilling situations. vey tly fresh.. Doser Py | A story of a beautful young Se REE Mint w |. loged; and halt | °4 away for the Nanaimo Nght. omen . + 23.5| 308) 41.8 | asthe saaaieaamhin tapi a ro zi which was sighted just before the | | | q ASUY 4 iad Wintonts over: “ge + an Inch of wrist | ire broke out. Bread Pound. ......] 6.8 40.2 whelmed by thls. jane ages aA-wtory-}+ acts can be seen pro} A backfire, which spread to bilae Flour . . | do : a0 aa/ 64 jthat bares the realities of life in.»/ cader from the muff. The plioto-| oll, Js believed responsible for the || Corn meal . do 2.0 5.8|. 6.9 aon rie Ge every ged graph is of shameless Dyspepsia | outbrenk. i : Rolled oats do... ++ 7) 9.4) 88 in ig: mily read it—and pro- as Hives, star of the Beef Trust Bur-| | The Wikena ts 400-ton vessel. Corn flakes Soz. package IL7) 124) 12 It's the next big novel to appear and 0 en lesquers, in the costame she wore in| jai aged kes pa 4 iri itt y ‘ erially in Th t Were telling | isd of La Tor Alaska, for the Wh coren packag 2 le Y he & © elt wee |weasan, She carried a full load of Macaroni 181) 178) 17 yer ner ae me, Ser thaty you | ouse in baatt and bs ed to be n plan to be out of the city on June sida Gray, famous shimmy dancer, a eee ppigion t a me ore Cor ¥, when ‘The Flapper Wife makes iv pearing ‘at thé Columbta this | fone oh “te fan ave 0 act ax = ane, rev wk i Pi 1 ‘ Wt} Wt iG ake ya ah arene ler to shing flee! rotatoe de 0.9) 2 3.0) 28 ® anes, yo 0 ang = To learn what real sblenying te The, ap te value cs v10000 and | " 5 |/"Sa'Tseectt attest seta Trig Faces New Trial for ir Withou ape should take Sete tnsurance Cabba 4 13 jever written, It’s one novel you! ‘Teapot Dome Con a ee abbage x ‘ »-| do 7.2 t D | = jamdaraereee < The 8. &Gritfco, sighting the ship Heute, bekel c./ INO, § can M46 won’ he me to stop reading until! itacy Place to fi) And our hopes have bright new, able to rend meergnces: TRS #, canner j> a0 Bet WS) Watch toe it nthe Bas. ASHINGTON, May AL ~ ok ae dawnings!” [sem “a =a ween ‘ 4 ie} te) 38%. |} pass) cia ane dard bert B. Fall, former. sec- hs 5 ate ineipene ol dithel gy the springtime pocts -bisgetootineen ‘omatoe 1 do 6 4 4 | : % 3 a ae f vig Bene ine an make our; The Wakena. is owned and oper Sugar, granulated Pound 10,8; 83, 84 |] VS vei ell Slog tpeukey | Genes Che nomena Rtsaeeyt Dae tacutage. —Mew, {ated by the La Touiche Packing Co. rea d 74.8) 80.5] 186 j eh St ign pr es wy | versity way, se of Alaska. She Jeft Seattle Sunday || Coffoe do. , 43.4) 63.9) 51.9 | N i | Dio and Ida Richardson own it, Wilti& cargo of stpolion, Alle ls & | federal grand jury here, which l Solf-restraint is what a man at a| With a carg » : a has been taking new evidence |8%¢ Curtis Bros, house movers, pieni- has when he doesn’t take poocees ae hooner, 116 Ronnsal in} Prunes do 14 4 14.8 1°) iin Ot] Jehee Canes. jhave jacked it up, preparatory to sandwich apart tgfsee what's in it. | lensth, 26 feet In beam and 7 feet in Lisp va ae Ae eo | || Edward L. Doheny, Jr aon of 'Tundling it over to the same num- 7. |draft. She was built in Portland in| Banunas Dozen } 16.7) 12.7 tisk? Olt neat tio, was indicted | Peted block on 16th ave. N. pepe a ‘ fs ¢ oi] magnate, who was indicted | CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON |!!! Oranges. ees sv secsees ‘ 40.9] '48.6 with: tha threw last. year, was het | /Afid now. comes “Ered: B: Rolton, IVY CLUB | The crew of the boat here has | Warrant Out for Algona year, was not} ! te n einai) jalready had passage to Seattle ar-| Nationally the figures show that the price of food roeanlh aes ‘The indictments ob- anh oe ee i Pin cemir Nes 2 toa | f ained by Pome! ; ant of a residence next to where The dame who fs always raying | ranged for and ‘Thursday. Le Sos thid generally was 5.2 per cent higher in March, 1925, than Marshal, 16 Others D. P iabectss clapeolel arttenen the Richardsons plan to move bp: omahaed srry vo she Gees [there some, tans. Zeiten? it was in March, 1924, but that it had dropped 3 per rpg ar counsel, in July, 1924, were diy. | their house, and seek a. superior paerne: Olen Sar | cent from February, 1925, to March, 1925. apt By ce A. Clay fine | mated April 3 last. Pomerene and | court restraining order. ee | Saat 2 : IESPREAD violations of the m rf Se ae ? Wie ta z Li'l Gee Gee says her idea of an Portland prices, which took a 37.6 per cent jump CNR rN ! ; Roberts obtained a new grand jury) They claim that the Richardson, Tae FA ; stato antiallen Innd law in| on May 11 and commenced the sub-| house is “ancient and unsightly’ | easy job these days is clerking at} from 1918 to 1925, showed a 5.4 per cent gain from the rich valleys to Se of new evidence on. that}and has 13 bedrooms. They charge a hairpin counter of a department CUT DOWN ‘| March, 1924, to March, 1925, and a 1.5 per cent gain attle, were char Inesday by| date, resulting in the indictments |{t will be used for @ fraternity or ore. i f ny 5 25 Pro itor Colvin in connection | | e ? y, i rom bruary, 1925, to March, 1925. | | today, |rooming house at the 16th ave, N. i noes pels re | Situmi ¢ il, which in 1918 sold for $7.68 in with the {asus of a warrant for) ‘Two indictments were returned,|E. location, ‘The new location, they Howotl. écheader ae OS ed anne 2 ath AL the arrest of 1. C. nigie, town | one charging Fall and Sinclair with|say, is in a Class B zone, restricted} He always calls “Aida,” Ada, see Old Silas Grump, the sage of Pumpkin Holléw, says: “If were no mo where would pe ple go to talk one saddle again.” Sign on the back of m Ford: | Confirmation of the report was oR —————-K | seen Wednesday, when ft became peor, 2 POUCH, OE STER | | known that the state taxation depart- : =n P| ment had lopped off $6,000,000 from orn ¢ "| rail valuations in the state, The cut} Making a speech over the radio should hold no terrors for anyone who has talked over a four-party telephone lin: A modest girl Is Susie Blase ; Keeps in the shade & days. On sunny The city council is planning to buy the Rainier Valley car line, Well, it elthe: ought to buy the} Ine, or move the bull park closer to town. YE DIARY (May 2 Farly up, the day twittering in the a-sparkle on the bay, to tow Iotters, So, very loath, where did receive dozens of &. Colvin, tho publick prosecutor, do ban from the newsstands, Anon to work, and 10 home, where rend: body after all queried my wyfe, why not? y onge And #0, mighty proude, pwadays when a man comes down the office with a big grin on his ce, it is hurd to tell whether there is a new Imby ut his house or whether ho has just succeeded in logging WHAT. tee Tielat baxeball and golf Poor Archibald Storr Could not keep the wolf Away from the door, es there | ee Save $300,000 by Low Val- uation; Someone Must Pay At the January session of | Washington legislature it was a by- | word that “the railroads are in the) was fade by Supervisor J. M ‘Thatcher in March of this year. ‘The Northern Pacific, which tock | |sp lead in legislative activity, gets al 5 per cent reduction; other roads are | | cut 2 per cent. ‘The total saving in taxes, to the roads, will be about $300,000 a year. | Thatcher tried in 1924 to make the reduction, He was blocked by the state hoard of equalization. The | roads sued, however, and won, Then they dismissed the sult without | prejudice, pald their taxes under pro- | test and sat down to see what would | happen. The new, | mission, a formed state tax com- Jorthern Pacific idea, may overturn the reduced: assess- ment in August, or it may not, Under the law, a fixed valuation on the roads must be made by May a1. The tax commission, Olympia re- ports said, is “seeking some method of revising the valuations’ before that date, Bilectric railway properties in Western Washington also are recipl- ents of reductions in valuations. McVicar Loses Fight 4 ‘ Against Disbarment TACOMA, May Warl A. Me Vicar, Heattle attorney who sought to enjoin the attorney general's of fice from prosecuting him and the state board of law examiners from hearing disbarment charges, lost bis court Mght yesterday when his suit was diaminsed by a three-judge fed. eral opinion, It was argued recent. ly before Cireult Judge Gilbert and District Judges Webster and Cush- man, al the | Seattle and which by 1924 had gone to $10.03, was still reported at $10.15 in 1925. | The bureau’s index number, which includes 404 commodities or price series registered 161 for March, 1925, as compared with 160.6 for February, and 149.9 |! for March, 1924. = ‘Amundsen Believed to | |Explorer May Have Crossed Crossed Pole and Pressed | | Spitzbergen, where he took off with }Lincoln Ellsworth and four others last week, and intended to forge his } way from the North pole to Alaska, Jexploring the intervening “blind \fpot,” which man has never trod be- |fore. He, it i sald, will return by way of Seattle. Thisis the evnyletion of a number of persons who claim to have ample substantiation for their bollef. Kore- most umong them is Mrs, Vernon Prentice, sister of Wilsworth, who suys her brother definitely told her ried radio sets, With radio apy us, he would have been expected to| keep {n communication with the world he left behind. The constantly growing belief | that Amundsen was headed for) Alaska when he left Spitzbergen opens up interesting passibitities as | to any land that the expedition may | discover en route, Inasmuch as| Ellsworth, his companion, is an American, both Norway and the United States may concelyably tay claim to any such land, ws it may the party would go on past the Pole} be yaluablo in the future, because to Aluska, Others who insist on this}of the prospect of transaretio alr theory In accounting for Amundasen’s | ways. failure to return to Spitzbergon have “+ known Amundsen affd have heurd| OSLO, May 27.—The Norwogian from his own lips of his ambition to| government is now prepared, if nec toke this hitherto untraveled thru unknown, frozen wastes, route} essary, after to, send the Amune a rollet expedition en-llsworth pe ‘Thus it would appear that Amund: | fivers. This represents a ehange in] pend and Ellsworth very likely are} front during the past 24 hours, f¢ now ut the North Polo making ob-|the government earlier declared, wervations or that they have finished this work and ¢ over Into the “blind spot on the way to Point Barrow or somo other Alaskan point, It in also suggested thu thoy may already have arrived in Aluska by thro its foreign minister, that the ot for a relief expedition had not 11 considered, The government has both ships and naval airplanes whieh are xeady to depart at @ moment's notice, be sl efi amiemeenidni Slane ra upseali reign NDA wes Sedat | ranchers, | ficial Be Headed for Alaska marshal of Algona, and 16 Japanese conspiring to lease the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve without competit- ive bidding, and the other charging Fall and Doheny with the same of- fense with respect to the California oll reserve, ‘The government Jropped its accusations of bribery against Fall and the Dohenys McGonigle and the Japanese workers are accused in Colvin’s, of- | information, with conspiracy | to evade the alien land law and McGonigle, charged with the lens: | ing of county and privately-owned | lands to Japanese, working on varl- ous places estensibly us hired hands, neither “indictment charged bribery Sheriff's deputies started Wednes-|as was charged in one of the in- morning for Algona, where they | dictments against will place the 17 defendants under | last year, arrest and return to Seattle with them for a hearing. | Back of the specific charge In} this individual case is a network of | eneral information relating to con- apparently has |ditions thraout the farming area | | On to America lof King county. ‘Ths tends to iS BEATEN | show | BY UNITED NEWS plane, altho Mrs, Prentice says they | A wholesale plot to violate the’ — [Rover MUNDS' expected tormake most of the long 1 alien land law in the leasing of Says Contract Canceled; No | of the South p journey from the pole on _ foot, | forbidden ranches to Japanese in the A : |to achiove the greatest feat atill re.| Amundson's secrvey regurding such {Duwamish and. Whie river valloys| ° Grounds for Injunction jeaielee for Arctic explorers, He |Aan attempt m: count for the fact}and other fertile acreage in the |had no intention of returning to|that neither of the two planes car-| county J. YD. Ross, municipal light. de Possibility of a monied men controlling syndicate | of these partment perlor head, Wednesday in su court admitted himself whip- 2 illegal operations from a safe retreat} ped in his efforts to sell municipal in the background, power outside the city Hmits to a Japanese swarming back to|Renton mill and charged that his 3 these lands t profits us lessees in the again reap the /competitor, the Puget Sound Power and virtual owners /and Light Co, is seeking to enjoin alleys. ® contract which is already can- The warrant for MeGonigle fol-|celed and power line work which is lowed 4 personal Investigation of lalready complete. (Turn to Page 9, Column 4) At the samo time the city tried |to clear {ts skirts in the injunction mattor by claiming that it had never authorized Ross’ contract with the Delayed to June 22 Savage Lumbef Co, of Renton for Tho grand larceny trial of Ray|300 horsepower of current. Zbinden, sclon of a pioneer Seattle It left the Puget Sound Co, at- family, slated: to start Wednesday, ltornoy, James B. Howe, asking for has been postponed in superior court Trial of Zbinden Is an injunction whieh Ross claims until Juno 2%, because of INAbHILY (6 }ig solos and which the city says try It on the May calendar, aay [A008N'E atfoet It ( Deputy» Fito aa tbat celts Superior Judge Griffiths halted ho cane would bei atypoue , “ithe reuments shortly before noon fore the court vacatlén #tarts July 1, 4 Zbinden plended guilty to a simi {Nd told opposing counsel ho witl lur charge of fraud thru purportedty [Near the caso on tts merits, “Tt forged uutomobile sales cont was before him on an order to more than a month ago, He was|show cause why the Injunction given a suspended sentence and the jshould not bo grantod and efforts prosecutor's office immediately filed |{O stiaze the Ulal Chis woele will & Hew charge, . be mado, « ‘A Fall and Doheny | | if to residences, Judge Ronald will decide the mat- ten Meanwhile, the old house sits up on its jackscrews and doubtless, wonders where do we go from here? Gales ’n Rain City’s Guests Next 24 Hours: sc THERLY) gales, thick weather and rain during the next 24 hours will be caused by a Pacific storm which is moving eastward, This is the report of the weather bureau Wednesday which ordered‘ southeast storm warnings hoisted at coast stations north of Cape Blanco at 10 a. m : The disturbance ia centered at latitude 48 degrees, longitude 150} degrees west | HOME BLASTED Dynamite Believed Placed by Jealous Suitor = | SACRAMENTO, Cal, What is believed by second attempt of a to injure Miss Susie and pretty Malian here carly today, At a, m. a dlast of. dyna- mite wrecked the Kitchen of the home of Ralph Madront, with whose family the Relill girl is staying, A similar blast tore away a portion} of the house on the day after stor, No ono plosion. Ronowed efforts to apprehend A dynamiter have been started by the police, Mis# Reilll is unable to ald the officers materially in their May police to be a Jealous suitor Rell, young girl, was) made was Injured in the | TWO CENTS jeution witnesses | mony wearch, SEATTLE. Goes to the Alta r! ONLY SIX Gloria Gordon, Seattle Flapper, Marries Dick Gregory, BODIES FOUND | Relief Treats Rushed to North Carolina Disaster Scene ASHIN IGTON, May 27. —Seventy-one miners were entombed in the Caro- |lina Coal Co,’s mine at San- ‘ford, N. C., today by an ex- |plosion which Avas followed by a fire, the bureau of mines was notified by an agent of the Dupont Powder Co., on the scene. Six bodies have been re- covered from the mine so far, \the report added. The governor of North Carolina and other authori- ties asked for help and rescue equipment, as there is none |available in the state. The nearest mine. rescue | car at Thomas, W. Va., and ig being sent to the dis- ter scene by special train , but cannot possibly get there ‘until tomorrow morning, bu- reau officials said. Experts are also being sent by the bureau from Birming- tham, Ala. QUIZ MAN ABOUT LOST WITNESS Crowe Pushes Probe in Germ Case Alleged Tampering CHICAGO, May 27.—John C. Kel- ly, an insurance agent, was held incommunicado today as State's At- torney Robert E. Crowe pushed his investigation of the alleged attempts to tamper with the jury and prose- in the Shepherd germ murder tri Kel! according to Crowe, acted as the go-between in the discussions preceding the disappearance of Robert A. White, an extremely im- portant prosecution witness. White is believed hiding in New York city, Crowe is hunting for Arthur E, Byrne, a private detective and in vestigator for William D. Shepherd, on trial charged with killing. hit ward, Billy McClintock. During some 15 hours of questioning, Kelly admitted having been present at a meeting of White and Byrne on the night before White vanished. White agreed to change his testi- for $5,000, Kelly said. But sd far as he knows, White did not complete the proposed transaction, Kelly sald, ASSEMBLY SPLIT OVER CREED | Presbyterians “War About Accepting Virgin Birth COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 27.—Torn hy doctrinal differences over whether it is essential for clergymen to be~ lieve Jesus was born of a virgin, the 187th general: assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United tates of America adjourned today to meet again next May In Baltl- closing session was marked outeroppings of protest church government's Virgin birth as a holding by the tion of the pre requisite Presby teria putpits, Rey. Charles B. Swart, of Chi+ cago rallied to the support of the much maligned modernist Presbytery lot New York, which was found to be in error for ordaining ministers who refuse to accept the virgin birth, and started eireulation of petition protesting against the as- sembly’s action, to Own Your Qwn Home Real Hstate firms offer their bes buys every day In the Classitied Columns of ‘The Star. Hero is « dandy, HOST HUY IN € ure FOR CASH ting a real before you m house, huill hy day labor for a home, doors; full length mirror bedroom; ‘built-ing," ete, ‘Two largo lots covered with all kinds of frult, flowera and n. Chick en yard with’ 40. chicke House newly furnished, with ‘Turn to the Want Ad Columns and read more about this uns usually good isting, READ THE WANT ADS DAILY, in if ij ae