The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 11, 1925, Page 1

~ Weather _VOL 27,. NO, NAVY 170, ponte Crew Rescued as Plane Drifts to Howdy, folks! New that win ter is here, apartment house dwellers would do Well to pour some anti-freere compound in the radiators, We car comes. hidden more until spring enbby-bole nm no wher fathers | da way thru This is also the season dust this one off Abner begin to work their sona’ college. sing | Fe You never one of the retrigerat to keep food fresh. He just pume it In the furt ye FAMOUS CHARACTERS Adolph. H. Ham burger, only jan tor in Seattle at who can play the é Chorus from I rovatore on the steam pipes. President Coolidge ended his va cation yesterday and returned to the White House. His first thought,’ no doubt, was to tell the milkman that he was tack “The Northcliffe apartment-hotel loses money on its $1 dinner, Of courec, it plans to climinate this Joss as soon as possidle, not by low- ering its “quality or ratsing price: but by increasing tts patronage. Advt. The first class in arithmetic will) now figure this out. oo In the old days an unmarried girl didn't have very much to do,| but that was before competitions for carnival queen were invented. LOONY LIMERICKS ter whose skirt was still skimpier, They both caught” the fla— And what will they do 'them farther from the lanes along which When the weather begins to grow! st erimpier? ee | bi Li'l Bee Gee {s so hard she re moves~the paint on her, face with 2 blow-torch. eee “King county legislators propose compulsory insurance for automo-| We owngrs.”—News item. Machines will soon come equipped is a town that has banned left-hand | ——— The Newspaper With the Biggest Cireulation shington ave | Tides } roma E Re Men Without Food Five Days Are on tors, crew of the seaplane PN-9-1 which was missing nine sjoiced at their which airmen remained with their craft until it had been beached and aviation circles everywhere with exp the flyers unparalleled adventure and went to bed. EDITION rr IN SEATTLE. FLYERS, RESCUED, TELL OF PERILS | Men Make Light of Danger and Relax in Sleep Story of Long Hours Adrift on Wide | Ocean Expanse Unfolded at Little Island 1 Hospital HONOLULU, Sept. 11. ‘11-—Making light of the ter- rible hardships with which they were confront- ed, Commander John Rodgers and his men today de- The Seattle Star iil Ml tered as & & 1898, at ver Year Mall WASH., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1925, TWO CENTS ie = Navy Flyers and Plane Found Sea After Being Given Up as Lost Unknown Waters Verge of Collapse When Help Comes at Last Moment BY THE UNITED PRESS AVED at the end of a heroic adventure of the air and sea, Commander John B, Rodgers and four naval avia- | ¢ ays after an attempted flight from San Francisco to . : ; * . . Honolulu, slept the sleep of exhaustion at Lihue, a little scribed their experiences while adrift for nine days island town in the Pacific, today, while the whole nation on the wide expanse of the Pacific ocean. rescue, Found drifting aim] in another md the At the Lihue hospital on the little island of Kauai, where the crew of the PN-9-1 was taken after its res- cue yesterday by the submarine R-4, the men told, in simple language, how they waited day after day for sly in the grip of ocean currents, day would have swept the seaplane be- reach of searchers, the PN-9-1 was towed to the island of Kauai, in the Hawaiian group, by the United} help, Then they relaxed into peaceful sleep, care States submarine R-4. € ‘ . 7 ° : z Seeing their adventure thru to the finish, altho they free again for the first time in 11 days. had been for the past five days without food, the gallant “We were confident all the time that we would be THIS IS A VIEW of the PN-9-1, re scued at sea yesterday by a United States submarine, taken at San Francisco shortly before the ship started | in the attempt to fly to Hawaii. rescued,” Rodgers said, “and we were.” Little by little the tired airmen unfolded the story of how they passed the long hours, stretching out canvas to catch drinking water provided by the South sea rains; listening to the radio messages of the ships seeking them, yet unable to answer; joking Lihue. Then while their being celebrated in naval with unrestrained joy and ssions of official gratification in Washington, told in a few simple phrases the story of their rescue Was Moses Says Hawaiian seas around Hawaii turned to their bases, Food Supply Gone After Fourth Day; Airplane Fails to Sight Them Vessels of the navy and aircraft which had swept the| in nine days of incessant search re- while exponents of the new type of heavier-than-air craft, of which the PN-9-1 was one of the] finest, pointed with pride to the seaworthiness which had ridden out the waves and winds of the Pacific since September 1. The airmen’s supply of food ran out after the fourth day. | of the plane, | Flight Must Be Made Seaworthiness of Plane Used Is) Proved, Asserts Commander BY HAROLD E, United Press Staff Correspondent WISHER __ | | with one another to keep up their spirits, yet all the time wondering if they would ever again see land. “We saw one merchant ship jand glimpsed one airplane,” Commander Rogers said, smil- | ing cheerfully now danger was past. “The airplane didn’t glimpse | ‘us and our rising hopes suf- fered a severe dampening. that all, William Bowlin. ‘He didn’t have | much chance to steer the bus while |we were bounding about over the water, but he did a lot toward keeping our spirits up. “Things looked pretty gloomy at times, when we were drenched by rainstorms, but even the showers were a benefit, as they furnistfed us with drinking water. “The second day we sighted a They had not stinted themselves, expecting every day to} be picked up. They knew their comrades in the navy would . be searching for them. Once they saw an airplane, off in |the distance, and their hopes rose, but the plane flew off without sighting them. zon, but the PN-9-1 w the crest of the waves, © who lived in Olympia | without coming to | water dependent upon rain, and with the currents carrying death from starvation or-exhaustion. Men Are Near Breaking Point’ - |When They Are Finally Rescued the story of their suffering, a story they kept concealed | SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11,—The United States navy to-| The seas were high when we) ‘day claimed a victory in the argument over the efficiency piLauiteng sige sn glade oho the nation’s air defenses. om pAb tire when it passed out of sight we felt The seaplane PN-9-1, snatched from what seemed certain | fo See eee we were but @/ jatner weak.” oblivion in the Pacific after nine days riding the waters, was Spee Be hen: ure He ilies) wed held by naval authorities as proof of the sturdiness of the| “The worst weather was on} pa ae a paltaee’ goca Sodio wae 2 2" ft. the third day, when it rained, | a me as service's aircra before him, he was unable to send News of the sufety of Commander John Rodgers and his| but the plane rode the waves! ou: messages giving the plane's lo- merchant véssel and our hopes rose, but it failed to see our signals, and At another time they saw a merchant ship on the hori- a mere speck in the trough or on and the steamer, too, passed on the rescue. four aha ei was received joyfully at naval headquarters | | well and, aside froma wetting, | cation, due to the fact that the For five days, with their food gone, their supply of here. Capt. Stanford E. Moses, flight project commander, | We did not suffer. We spread | craft's antenna were dragging under Was overcome with emotion. he Can re ae some of the | ye could hear many of the mes- “It’s glorious news,” he said. ‘But aside from our re-| Water for drinking purposes. | ...-.. the searching ships sent out, joicing at the safety of our comrades, we cannot help but feel| We had no food after the) put we couldn't do unything to help that the adventure proves the seaworthiness of this type of| fourth day, as we did Not | them,” Stantz said. plane.” stint ourselves on the emer-' * ” The Hawaiian flight attempt must be made again, Moses gency rations we carried. declared, undaunted by the failure of the two PN-9 planes to “No, you can't give Com-} reach the islands, with the safety of the Rodgers’ plane and | ander Rogers too much cred- the swift de- royers of the navy were racing in search of them, the rd men, in their crippled cyaft, faced the prospect of LEASE DECISION When they were sighted and rescued by the R-4 they crew, the PB-1 which did not start with the other two as Au Ae ee eve ne came Bans DUE SATURDAY were near the breaking point. Lined, gaunt faces told originally scheduled, is primed and ready for the attempt. |it all,” said Machimst’s nee Lieut. Commander James Strong| But the PN-9.1 pressed on, pass- and the craft with insurance policies and mort-| behind brave fronts as they made light of the perils, } is eager for opportunity, which, id saree Ae ru AN Ba S | Metropolitan Squabble to oages : All five were in as good physical condition as could be it Je thought probable, will be wiveD | out the next day it flew, unt vel! What Interests _ || Be Aired R ae 4 expected and apparently none will suffer serious effects him, now that none of the flight y seemed certain. ae Today's Definition: A metropolis! th. adventure. participants thus far has been lost.| But shortly after 4 p. m. the guso- Folks. yhow? || Decision by tha: state tax. com: turns. Sues for Divorce."—Heading. C History of the PN0-1's adventure | line supply ran out, Wild rejoicing took place at Honolulu when word was Wika {eb pobll “inte "water: within 900 DITORIAL | mission on increasing the valuation The Northern Pacific hearing has bs ihe | flashed that the PN-9-1 had been found, for while the navy is.anothes dramatic chapter: in OY tie sof Ate, goal: An intensive HAT interests folks? teeter nee Suis Co.'s by seap! e left Sa 7 9. D1 ie y TODAY’ 8 |had not relaxed its search, it was generally feared that seaplane left San search started Immediately. More) Here's what 24 hours |] Coote, iepeaten Friday, i steaet a y ch of Bi francise i] € t C0 ‘ed ave broug | . i \ the seaplane had foundered and gone to the bottom. | | 7 Hokie By 7 rea is oa i ue Ph Se wel: Neve Re Pak sited ent | {ved until Saturday, according to Didi : at 242 p or d ah hs ‘or miles arount narcotics __ as word received from Samuel H es bound for Honolulu, 2,100 miles dis: Six days brought only false ru j shoots and kills a Jap in Spo- | Chase, chairman of the tax com- Ves erties ‘ tint mors ofthe plane's discovery. On|] kane, captures two other men, || mission at Olympia. | They’re safe!” was the} Accompanying it was the PN.93, the seventh. day, © aptain Moses |} and officials announce that || Mr, Chase said decision had been 1 g je 0 D, Snoddy cha 5. eed at he 0 we | " . mee aris bozo who is so opposed to! nich was forced down er naval authorities paid the gest “dope ring” operating on tially ore sil Series / Defi Phage aaa aera | when the navy Hawaii flight! oft tne Golden Gate and picked up trihute Ite Goat’ Tees rantise THRE: (| lta ayaa mela Mee aan halr, with military brushes. | plane PN-9-1 crew was found | (uring the night | But a few craft around the islands|| sHOULD interest every parent || prevented completion of the report rs Sets | ; i jhung stubbornly to the search!) in the community; every ad- || in the Metropolitan case. *JeaJous of Dog, Seattle Woman | floating “10 days after its 2 ing to give up hope. \And lato|| \oeate of decent ving | ar forced descent because of fuel yesterday) a sub mnstnes Phe, ket n0y. erally they're . alous of some a | ee } Five cases of booze border yesterday in| were smug-| ‘Committee Named to In Investigate Data Few read it. No one talks which hadj| ayout. it ed many times soe 1, wallowing | been | other Friday. completed and valuation of roads being taken up The commission will com- plete its hearings Friday, and Sat- ng along over waters presumably been befor, found th I in th swells. was samy. Top to bottom, they Did You Miss are: Seattle coal dealers meet to : ; The plane had drifted primey elliiliis 5 coml 11 Sutin pled across the i re “ ” J discuss elimination of the coal || urday will go into executive session @ load of shingles | Revealed i Ca: paign e Star pane John i athe f any “Footloose Boot, Cai AON alton toate aes it}] gone distribution system. It's |/to constder the mass of data sub- Aged fn the wood? - in vis Jieut. B. J. Connell, Pilot S. Be SOT UR ONE @ matter that, put into effect, mitted by public service corpora- Ske # ig y | eis ie : Installments? A towline brought the disabled ||- would save coal purchasers a {| tlons : Leaders in. congress predict in-| Tt Rt cae} AB ‘iy R. Pone, O. G. Stantz, chief aircraft under control, and the sub-|| dollar or two on every ton of yet anes be | Jin all zones by the dealers did not ; ; er erin later ; a torte | ‘ " < | Bae. tex plany - says: news “ther: |) Ag the res n meeting of more |cure the underlying relative diserim.|@dioman, and W. H. Bolin, If you did, back We the pore sana 1, to be met i}, coal they bought, Well, if they slash ours in half,}i525 100 focal coal dealers at Wolf's | in ata MBaIGHESHUAY 10 cos ; ba : F as destr i AMacDonough, os | But it causew ttle. exolts we'll only have to pay a nickel. te Thurad ; evision of | ¢ ic erclty av chapters, up to an dered to give the five heroes of tho ment. y! o-8 6 feasts oy Th %4 day sae ie etn g Aistricts In or b Gating ; r a ; f sine ventardayl service every comfort and gal eee ¥p DIARY fabty, be underiaken bY 5 agi posed to gaiiatieiie ot Ha cavatiin R N Sa Le them to Ilhue. MAN who formerly was # (Sepvember 19) bie Haalacs le oBig) WME! phastden’ Gee: oraale) installment, can pe state supervisor of tax- , and to yelling to Dame| while the motion providing for a}association, expressed. the -opinio: tnad at 1" Star ation testifies at Olympia that in my collae, wench?” and Mites Saenger tek the | Con: OxP eee onl aion obtained at The Star ii " for four years he permitted pattie sic ae fi wh, Where’ you. left it,;committee merely stated th ne |that the matter should be worked MeeniRnontde part 0 oar : SPOKANE, Wash., Sept. 11.—One wany,” and anon to shouting, “Where Is| committee should prepare a public|out thru action by the dealers them circulatior pé Northern FASB sais man was shot dead and two others tender pe dd it, vied oe anewer;| statement, it is understood from coal | selves, if investigation by a commit ment bac Pelt table aa 4. 2 captured ina raid by federal of- hy did howl, “Where is my trains?” and she you left it, V Woodshed, where busy chopping kindling, | and anon did overhear Little Homer “Where | th sy Brew, Jr and Little Veter Snicklebarg | members of the quarreling, 1 thw, ent it seolde him rr heard your fath ing that way,” omer did aay, | or: nel T did | You never | other talk- | th he did start snicker, so that I did iarrup him, the atter- | Merchants And so to the ling plans for ©\ posing the discrimination from which he made his re- “That's Fine; That's Fine?!) Sport on Is His Rejoinder | t it will go much fur- | te once set about mak: | tended to establish ‘The Star‘ | data as being Ho «would Will Be Made Assistant revision of the zone|appoint the committee Friday or Aeronautics Chief submitted to the| Saturday, he said, and they would ficers on a dope den on Haverdale island, a suburb of Spokane, Thurs. day afternoon, Narcotics valued at $23,000 were confiscated. valuations for tax Assessments. It's a matter that hits every property own- er and will correct for the Asking stem, later to be ‘ ri , i or wt rely in the pocket- a et R Seattle Fuel Deal-| then draft a statement for the public. | r , re not ape Tae Ch Bue The man killed was Sam Fuijl, “’ Credit asnociation W. A wecretary of the asso.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—(By U. If you have n WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—(By || book. Japanese proprietor of a local res- pe ! “ starte 0g 3 United Ne Secretary of the Some read it. A few talked , The action of the coal dealers was| ciation, expres imilar views Fri! P.)}—Commander John Rodgers, of started to read this 3 taurant. Officers sald the affair Wilbur said) that he was} about it, to date, has when notified early | 9-1.|| whether such activities on the 6 result of articles in The Star, ex-|day morning. lthe Pp: Me beng William I, Worth, heating engt- would assist materially in breaking up a ring. fascinating sequel to su 9-1, will be appointed assist made “very hap any effort to discover dit ys 3s j today of the finding of the PN: ant chief of the navy bureau of | Hc ¢ wt “The Flapper Wife | acknupes, for the |Cauity of present zone cartage| neer, in a talk at the meeting, called | : u Ya silelitad . a a Sathatahensenn til ECS BE IF |v US 5 ,incknapes, for the | vr irgos, fixed by the federal fuel| attention to the saving which could | Meronautiéy td sticceed Capt. A. W. which. is even BET- Z| {1m blighted and very happy, part of Mr. Thatcher constt se ! y easure » offec ) srmos Johnion, who asked for sea duty, | . Wilbur said, tuted malfeasance of office, administration as a war measure. |be offected by une of thermostatic | i mt "| TRR tl the “Gl 1 Sr griRaWbe an paein take Gutnlle nee een An old-timer {4 one who remem. A subsequent horizontal reduction | furnace and heat control Houncd id Navy Wilbur aii A eit hal neat Ihe dlacovery of ithe plane, and} IVE aviators, in a navy hers when the gang from the South | Teno es ria” story, STAR F i Wav orewe. wannucl liydro-altplafie; cleave «fax ls eg | vs |when told that the crew was in hydro-airplane, leave San Lotiis :Balitipen wwua® convicted: Os fehiool was the toughest tn town, Mitchell Pleased May Avert Strike ODAY/” ahd in. te ES yond teuith ealderopuatenny Wractipeaale ER YR ep EN [I Rena ee narra with the Rainier school second, awd | t Fl ers’ Rescue| in City L dri ‘Avtiltsve Held as f ny “That's fine; that's fine.” || fly to Hawaii, and are forced |} ytat's departinent of superior court the Walla Wallas third | a y y Laun es | meantime, order The zt || ARR eages teaw shay: Be ae ne a eS #t gite | as, Sept. 11.) Mayor Brown was to try to save; iy A aay ie cas : f | icked up, after spending ‘Heth 6 a * Sor es BT Cae Gee has sunt. bangheC Clots evaserad TOC courte: THe | hard wordie iouehivea: trom fath Rum-Running Link = Star delivered to your ‘Urge Seattle to |] picked up, ater #1 & |liate Thursday and the Jury retired | | HST { |}; foodies days: adrift, Friday morning, It returned ayers gold-fish bowl, She she h flyers had one chance in a hun-| other duty, Priday WESTERLY, KH, 1, Sept, 11 home by authorized ole Newspapers Issue extra ed Y r after retiri always wanted to live near the!dred to be found and luck » i He, summoned the laundry opor:| Ttescued from drowning after, theit waa an@scn vet Boos. a Place Sea Exhibit || (3) iundecan, of persons dictate baled icq aes | water with them,’ said Colonel Wilflam | ators’ arbitration committe for al hydroplane had heen wrecked off A ‘ x ‘ ss treat: carne: 7 ger 4, 08 he | d Tate c 4 were hold Suggéation that the Chamber of}] talk it over on street corneys. with the death of Miss Jessie Clark | Mitchell, when asked for an ex: | conference on the threatened atrike | Watch hill, two Te J wer ia month, Commerce or home@ other | Beattle Women shedgtoars, Yet not fi air ater hooldoRe MERGE G0 TARR Oe Pies | pression concegping the finding of | of 1,400 workers, ‘The committee |by the New London const guard to ‘organization interested in marine one of theac’ persons would Ballinger’s car hit a telephone pole don't know what's the mat-|the navy plane PN91 and its| composed of J, C. Hagen of the | day on a charge that thoy comprised PRT Ey skoneST. ak GRR ErORhthe recceHinanne. af the five Avie is Biba Lvs condita idey CMe ter, Here on entire week has| crew | Troy Laundry; H. 1. Lowman, of | the connecting link between shore PHONE LEM ALA a Raat en FN Atocn HERS He Bauabe Ton thee c Rneraet abla ienetie pawed and nobody has tried to} In helaboring the navy air de-| the New Method Laundry and G,| liquor interests and the ships in rum neg ihe. BaposliGAsinay beant mande| || NALERAG Med PRapentee stanararn whe awim thé Wpglish channel | partment last week with his charges |G, Missler of the Supply Laundry, | row i ar edie i A ai Ch as 45 uty rowed sph 4 ner of incompetency, Colonel Mitchell | were to mott the mayor at 9 p, m.| According to TAeut. Commander i MAin-0600 =| Mada tS tact HRA Pie What. intoraste: folic, oud .,|)Randled, the case, for the, stats Finita colyun! Viva la Wfastekt| cited th enandoah disaster and Brown has interviewed spokes | H, Young, of the New London coast |S SI tion, The exposition is being held established that Ballinger was ine 7 the ome de Be caumples of myladmlalatratign, Now York elty duyting Marine |} Why? Do you know? toxtoated when the aveldent og uppoved low of the seaplane as! men for the da avact tae walnut 4°84 NePAe | etn toga Able ently, Mm Fa ween Novoutes 8 aa Soest | URE Mae" gH ap Rin Ri { .