The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 31, 1925, Page 1

eS! | yy rT Fight Fans! Lonnie Austin’s ‘irst Story About Old Seattle Fi — ——— Weather Cloudy tontg end Tue light 6 winds. q Temperatures ; & M — = sday Tides TODAY ght (ut * TURSDAY " ry t me ‘ VOL, 27. NO, 160, ome A HOME BREW PRODUCTION Beenario by Homer G. Brew Titles by Homer G. Brew Art Editor . Homer Brew | Directed by Homer G. Brew A HOME BREW PRODUCTION Howdy, folks! The czars of Hollywood have proclaimed this Greater Moyle Season, so don't fall to see the Mack Sennett bathing girls. eee | Greater Movie Season will also be etlebrated by Seattle transfer com panies. Personally, we thought Greater | Movie Season was celebrated in} Santa Barbara a couple of monthe @g0, The boxoffice erect of Greater] Movie Season will be tabulated by | experts, who will gauge the increase | in attendance by the amount of new | Bum stuck under t eee SEEING SEATTLE er seats, You aré now on Pike st., other- wise known as Peacock alley. The most beautiful girls in the world promenade here every afternoon after the tea hour. Note the three artist's models on yoor right. A dozen men are said to have killed themselves for love of these beautiful girls. But what would our grandparents think of those short skirts, those saucy sailor hats, those bustles! Where will this jazz craving for continual excitement lead? “Department of Agriculture Deter. mines What Is in Sauer Kraut.”— Heading. Now, if they will just determine What is in hamburger steak! Baucr kraut, the government bureau says, is nothing but cabbage|UNfair system that still persists. Why gnd salt. of people who thought it was sca- weed. | Motor hints: Giaring headlights will not bother you when driving if you keep your windshield dirty. | | WELL, WHY NOT? he Seattle Star Entered as Bey Boosts Coal Cost The Newspaper Clase Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice #@ Beattie, Ween. under the Act of Congress March SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, AUGUST | off the team, other than | poor showing made by the Yankees. } "We have the best team in a THIS SHOWS THE WAY Seattle was divided into “coal zones” during the war—an | Young Tacoma Miss Sought by Father Here nobody knows! Figures This will surprise a lot/charges to the various zones in lots of one ton and in lots of two tons or more. indicate coal cartage tem, in Effect in City, Is Unfair By Alvaro | OLER weather impends and King Coal is about to! Shoemaker With the Biggest Cir | thie league, but Huggins is off | ‘ulation in Was! 192 ghts Is ington 1810, Por Year, by Mail, $1.00 one System, War Relic, on ‘ill * Sport Pa ge Today: HOME} TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE, Ruth Fights for Job! Appeals {SPEED GETS The Case of Babe Ruth, Transient Hero of a Nation Landis |\“Swat King’ Says He Is Being Made the | “Goat” by Huggins (HIIEAGO, Aug. S1—tthyU. Pj—Formal appeal from the $5,000 fine and indefinite suspension imposed on him by | Manager Miller Huggins of the New York Yankees, will be | made to Judge K. M. Landis, | baseball arbiter, within 10 days, George Herman (Babe) Huth, declared today when he f that Landis was out of the city, Ruth, premier slugger, still emart jing t w him by | after reiterated charges poor showing made by Seated his room to Ju Land I witl go before him and deman that he take action, There was reason for Hu is throy his nut and he's trying to blame me. He's been laying for me for a long time, and he got his chance the other — morning, when I pulled in about 2:30. | «I'm golng to New York this aft on to lay my case before Col pert. Only I'm afrald I won't anywhere, because Huggins has Ruppert where he wants where he'll believe an thru b air os he ta uncomfort him by a group of ma put to newspaper men. I gave the team the best J had in me," sho said. “I'm pounds lighter than ever, and I'm in better shape than ever before “Huggins had to have somebody for a goat, and T'm it." GIRL MI Ss] Ng Even Dealers Themselves Find Sys- COL, MITCHELL HURT IN CRASH Air Expert's Plane Wrecked ag ascend his throne. / | Seattle policewomen Monday were How much tribute you pay the sooty old monarch depends in Forced Landing Yoog— | making a search for Marion Cline,| upon where in Seattle you live. | GUYS | 14. of Tacoma. Her father, Wil- Unlike milk and gasoline and many other necessities,| SAN ANTONIO, Tex. Aug Daw |Mam R. Cline, reported she had) hich are the same price in Ballard as in Rainier valley, the | (By U. P.)—Col. William Mitche | disappeared from the home in Ta. Joe Bungstarter was at the “defferson Park golf course yes- “terday, but he refused to make any shots from the tee. He said he was afraid of being arrested for driving while drunk. s0- It's a solemn thought that you, fair reader, may be using this column tomorrow to paper your pantry shelves. | What sweeter fate than to be buried under 50 jars of blackberry jam! eee Coal miners in the United States) Nave been called out on strike, but! this doesn't worry apartment house janitors. j They never use the dally stuff. * . Whi Hen Ford is changing) Lizzie's appearance, we wish he| Would teach her to speak in quiet, re- fined tones, and not chatter so much. ee YE DIARY (August 10) (lord's day.) Up betimen, and to the morning boate, where did welcome M. McBride and wyfe, and they did) bring many pletures of our vacation on Vancouver island, all mighty comikal. | Anon to sailing about the harbour, in frim little sloop and did only ship 5 qnl- | Jons of water, and #0, proude enough, to) home, In the afternoon, many people | did drop in, A. Girard, Phil O'Neill, Kt, IAllico, 1B. Kribs, and others, So passed this daye, with good companies and in Kreate contente, albelt suffering with » hhangnall, \ Now that the convention season is over, | lounge lizards can again | write their letters on the stationery of thetr ite hotel | Well, the hunting season will soon | nd Gosh! what a thrill mo- get flushing a pedestriant | This job is finished ‘we've gotla go h ! * Heck, now r-A. J. 8, coma about midnight Sunday. with Bessie Waring, 12, who had $7 in cash. The two youthful girls are believed to be looking for work. Marion has golden hair and blue eyes, according to the police report. pencil, figures a while, and s The Star always has b building tow enmpaign can now being made by HH. conditions generally ° what * Alaskan Business a Stream of Gold the metropolin of the W. same in the University district He believes she came to Seattle | town, for coal you pay according to your “zone.’ Coal prices in Seattle are known, ; a map, a book of logarithms x * BY H. F. KRETSCHMAN NE hundred and thirty million fish! ' That number, tumbling over one another in a monstrous stream, are Alaska, canned or salted, great “land of opportunity” taken out of the waters of and shipped out of that for Puget Sound each year. It is estimated that 80,000,000 salmon, 52,000,000 herring and 2,500,000 cod, halibut and bass were caught in Alaska last year for shipment, that vast quantity of fish repr 487,500 tons of cargo. and shipped outside. Ready sents And 80 per cent of that cargo is shipped thru the port of Seattle, most of the remainder going to other Puget Sound and Northwest ports. It js because of such trade as this that commerce with Alaska means so much to the develop ment and prosperity of Seattle, And it In to a great extent, because that trade has grown to such enormous proportions thaf this city 's today of the country But fish is only one of the commodities shipped from 1¢ Golden North" to Seattle, ‘True, it represents about 66 per cont of the (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) one Most prosperous in the and West Seattle as down- | the most uncertain quantities When you ask your dealer for prices, he gets down a slide rule, a scratch pad, a} 8 “it will cost you about’”— The “about” is the thing s about. zone” system is a heritage of the war. It was installed by the fuel adminis- during the war, and the coal ‘8 apparently do not know the is over. Here is the way it works—check it | up on the map printed elsewhere | Suppose you live somewhere—any | where—west of 10th ave. W, to the water front at the foot of Magnolia | Bluff, and go to some of the dealers along 15th ave, W,, in the Interbay or Smith Cove district. You ask for the price, He gives you the bunker price, plus $2.30 cartage on a ton, | Your lot may back up to the yard, yet the price is the same But he will deliver the coal three to five miles away, in Zone A, for | $1.26 per ton added to the bunker | price, $1.05 less than he charges you | He will deliver it to the south Seattle | limits, In Zone R, for 35 jton than right in his neighborhood Or to the south city mits of Zone T, | almost to Renton, for 15 cents less, | | Or to Green Lake, in Zone F, for 20 cents less. | Or you can order your coal from some Rainier Valley dealer, 10 miles | away, and he will deliver say, to Fort Lawton, at the same price quoted by | | the coal man next door to your house, | | EVEN DEALERS DO NOT SLIEVE SYSTEM EQUITABLE If you ask the dealer the why of! this, he will tell you he had nothing to do with the zone delivery system: | wa | ents less a} badly bruised today when he stalled motor, The Colonel was forced to avold telephone poles and wires and narrowly escaped sorious Injuries, The accident occurred as he was taking off. Colonel Mitchell, former assistant chief of the air service, was piloting a PT-1 ship, had been making tests, He was tak ing off from the division flying field at Fort Sam Houston and when « short distance from the ground his engine stalled. The plane was almost directly over the Austin road, whi ix lined with poles and wires, Quickly maneuvering the plane, Colonel Mitchell succeeded in. coast ing back over the field, but the ship was wrecked when {ft struck the ground, The Colonel's injuries are not believed to be serious, WIND STORMS KILL TWO DALLAS, Texas, Aug. 31.—Two persons were Killed, ono seriously injured and considerable property damage caused by @ series of wind and rain storms in the state over the week end. GOOD BUILDING LOTS listed in today’s Want Ad Here {8 a special lst- Are Columns, ing. HALF PRICE 76x100 CORNER The necessity of immediate forces the owner to #no- One block to car, level all nts ex sh, bale $950 canh, rif ice corner, copt menta, Want and see who Is offering this dandy Turn to the Ad Columns that jt was ostablished during the) putiding lot to you. READ THE war, Then if you ask him if he be-|] gran WANT AD COLUMNS Hleved it equitable, he will say; FOR THM \BMET BUTE) IN “Just hetween you and I, no, But!) pwar, HSTATE : (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) 2 ) officer of the Eighth corps area, was | wrecked his ship in landing with a| more with which he} Ruth St. Francis of Ass outer darkness, morals, of the Methodist church. player. started to believe it. Emerson. Why shouldn't man? “great men.” great men in history. young men do. Speed gets ’em. HAWAI FLIGHT STARTS TODAY Two Planes Leave; PB-1 to Start Later in Week | | | " 3 - BY HAROLD EK, SWISHER United Press Staff Correspondent AN FRANCISCO, Aug. 31.—Two Ss bulky naval seaplanes, each dis- | placing as much water as fair-sized motorboats, will thru the waters of an arm of San 2p. m, today and lureh shallow Francisco bay at ltake the air, prows pointed west- | | ward, Out thru the towering cliffs of the Golden Gate they will soar and on across the Pacific, attempting to set a new record for naval aviation by a non-stop flight to Hawatl, 2,100 miles away They will leave behind the {plane PBA, which had been sched juled to be with them, But the PBL dev@loped internal troubles on Jthe tri down the coast from Seat sen tie and had to have a new engine installed. ‘This task was completed only last night. ‘The plane spent hours today in the alr making test flights. It is expected to leave to (urn to Page 7, Column 4) All in the world Babe ever did was knock 299 balls so hard that he was able to make 299 home runs, For doing this the American public paid him hundreds of thousands of dollars and expected him to live a life combining the best traits of President Coolidge, si and the late Rev. Dwight L. When Mr. Ruth failed in this, because he simply didn’t have the mental equipment, he was cast into The public, which honored him because of his ball- banging ability, assumed for itself a censorship of his It said: “You must not only hit home-runs, you must lead an impeccable private life, as well.” It ignored altogether the fact that, while the Babe had the brawn to biff baseballs he didn’t have the brain to conduct his private life as a respected deacon It was a fine summer day that the big boy walked up to the plate in Boston and banked out his first homer against the New York Americans. thought very much of it, least of all, Ruth. In 1916 Babe made only three home runs records gave him only two. and folks began to talk about him. time that somebody told him he was a great ball In 1919 Babe turned in 29 homers and, from telling him he was a great ball player, folks started to tell him he was a great man—which he wasn’t. Fifty-four runs came from Babe's bat in 1921, and kids started to look up to him as a sort of hero. 1922 the total was 35 and in 1923 it was 41. was about convinced by this time that he WAS a great man. He drew bigger crowds than Edison, made more money than Coolidge and was looked up to as an oracle by more folks than ever heard of Ralph Waldo The usual thing happened. You can read stories about some of the Few were immune from the same sort of stories that now enwrap the Begum of Biff. The only difference is that they possessed what Babe Ruth never had—brains. Don’t let your brawn outrun your brains. The same thing always happens. BY JIM MARSHALL tee gets em. Babe Ruth, whom Sultan of Swat” and who everybody knew as “The was the lodestone of mil- lions of men and boys in America, is the latest transient hero to go down, Ruth’s spectacular crash might have been anticipated 10 years ago, when the big, lum- bering kid knocked out his first home run for the Boston Red Sox. Be- cause, since then, he knocked out almost 300 four-baggers, the public made a king of him. Now the public, which is always cruel, has knock- ed his throne from un- der him, Nobody 1917 In 1918 his total was 11 It was about this And he In Babe he think he was a great It always does to all Many Alaskans Relive Pioneer Scenes Nearly a thousand old-time Alas. kans re-lived old adventures at the Alaska-Yukon pioneers picnic Sun- day at Hall's lake in commemora- tion of Discovery day. The sports program in the afternoon was fol. lowed by dancing Recent “W ar” Dealers Tack On One Cent; Another Ad- vance Predicted N AFTERATH of Seattle's milk war and last winter's nine-cent milk developed Monday when it was announced that the price of milk Tuesday would in- crease one cent to 13 cents a quart. Predictions are freely made that it will go to 14 cents before winter. The present price of milk is 12 conts a quart. pe crease was announced Mor he Seattle Milk Distribut the central organization of the distributors of the city. It is made without regard to any further ady * to the farmers either by tors or the condensaries. mdensary price of milk regu- the amount the farmers are by the distributors. This will a association, paid be announced Tuesday for the first two weeks of September, “Dairymen are being paid more for their milk now than they ever have | received on any September 1 in the past,” Capt. A. A. Paysee, executive secretary of the milk distributors, said Monday. e | “The pastures have been destroyed by the dry weather and dairymen |have been feeding cows on. winter |rations for the past two weeks.” Paysee declared the present in- jcrease is partly attributed to the Jheavy losses sustained by producers during the disastrous and prolonged milk war last winter. They sus- tained deficits of more than $500,000, |he said, and the industry was demor- \alized. The “war” was started by the dis- \ributors in an effort to control the market. When local dairymen re- fused the terms Seattle distributors shipped milk in from distant counties. At the settlement of the war it was Jagreed city deliveries would pay | dairynen 60 cents more than the con- densary price. As a result the price |to the farmer has climbed steadily |from $1.85 during the milk war, to 1$2.80, the present quotation. Con- |densaries pay $2.20 . | The retail price has climbed from {9c to 18c. Further advances in re tail prices to 14c a quart are indi- | cated for this fall, Paysee said, Brookhart Leading in Unofficial Vote WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—(By U. | P.)—Complete tabulation of the en- tire Iowa senatorial votes gives Senator Smith W. Brookhart a lead of about 200 votes over his demo- cratic opponent, Daniel F. Steck, according to unofficial figures to- day. The official figures will | released by the senate |until later in the day. not be recounter 'No Decision Today in Met. Lease Case | OLYMPIA, Aug. 31.— Chairman | Sam Chase, of the state tax commis: ‘sion, announced today that there | would be no decision in the Metro- | politan Building company’s leasehold jtax case until some day late this week. “We have had such an accumula tion of work,” said Chase, “that it has been impossible for us to get to the Metropolitan case. There is a mass of exhibits and detailed infor mation that we shall have to give v thoro consideration before we reach @ conclusion.” Thousands Enter Star’s Primeval Animal Hunt Seattle took to its first prehistoric animal hunt over the week-end like a duck to water. Scores of allosauri, object of the first three days of the hunt, were taken, captive, to the Strand the- ater by their captors, Then captor and captive were admitted free to seo he Lost World,"* Conan Doy’ Rreat story of life ina Sauth American jungle ten million years ago. M Saturday 24 girls distributed 9,000 buttons downtown. Each button hore the name of some prehistoric animal, seven vartetios being rep resented. The game was for those wearlng allosaurus buttons to be captured by those wearing buttons representing any other yariety of ailimal. When this happened the two but ton wearers went to the theater and walked in, If you have any other button, EXCEPT an allosaurus button, you should hunt for somebody wearing an allosaurus marker, When you do, take him or her to the theater and walk in. The allosaurus hunt closes Mon- Jday evening. But those allosaurt who have not been captured still mill have a chance. Tuesday and Wednesday the quarry will be the pterodacty! Anyone with an animal button (Turn to Page 7, Column §) i SEATTLE MILK PRICES UP! eee tee