The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 18, 1925, Page 1

Coal Zone Plan’ Must Go! Seattle Insists JAILER FIRED! The Seattle Star Rotered as Second Class Mattor May 2 VOL. 27 NO. 17 The Newspaper With he Biggest Circulation in Washington 6. Howdy, payday toll st Dear Homer needs the most a winter months? w Heavens, never come? wil at kind of plant ention during the ardener 1899, at the Postottice at SEATTL WHAT WE BUY AS BOOZE Chemist Analyzes First of Reporter’s Booze Samples y . a in the first of a series of A’ heating pant stories tn which 0 eee Star will tell @ ” Florida horticulturist hes create whieh he! @ perfumed grapefruit. But who — t Hn jo the wents perfume uirted all over ner ver them? NEW CLUE IN JAILBREAK Fallen Arch es : Betray Ban- dits, Starwich Says ae. Sf A. picked corps of ehiropedists was rushed to ms beact Ce Friday morning, perts declared footprints there were these of the stant pact desperadoes. The cov: ered every inch of the beach, and ft ts the belief of detectives that) joo. we went into the Acropolis ba practicing the 4 room adjoining a restaurant at 118 the bandits feet. were Charleston When overcome by flat ping ave Bloodhounds have been placed on the trail of three Blue Jay corn from plasters mysteriously missing the scene. CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON BY JACK HALL Ts 4 stuff, boy! I know this ow) He's all right) You drinkifig people of Ses rd this often the statement, fall” for it x man. And gov ernment ¥ how that enor sumed in Unnited States More of you 1 me than you will admit. or e a lot of so-called Hquor is being poured nto the sewers But how many of you know what you are drinking? Not one tn 10,000. You take the othe ow word for it, or you take the t dey word for it and he takes some other man's word for it It was to find out just, what the i anathach drinking man gets when he ‘Beoteh “gin” ‘or “moon- that I was sent out to get the} samples for the chemiat’s laboratory With another reporter as a wit or The place was dark, but &@ man was sitting near the window inside, waiting for customers. The room was bare in front except for some tables. A small bar, equipped Us, Wash. under the Act of Con March 3 % Per Year, by Mall, $2.00 ), WASH., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1925. Food Prices Jump, but Increase Is Less Here Than in Other Cities VJ ASHINGTO Sept. 18.—The general level of re- tail food prices is 11.6 per cent higher than a year ago, the United States bureau of labor statistics reported today. Wholesale foodstuff prices jumped 13.5 percent in the same period Pacific Coast cities average the least gain in retail food costs, advance Retail prices is Los Angeles and Portland, Ore., ad- vanced only 6.4 per cent. San Francisco's cost was 9.7 re cent higher and Seattle’s was 7.6 per cent. while Southern cities averaged the highest WOMEN HELD AT POINT OF GUN; ROBBERS LOOT HOME :;: Home Edition * TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE, MORGAN IS LET OUT; SILENT! “Gross Negligence” Is Charged by Sheriff in Big Jailbreak Sheriff Matt Starwich and a oup of deputies left for Kd monds, Snohomish — count shortly before noon Friday, fol lowing « telephone report that n resembling Ward was from Port Ludlow to on the ferry-boat mt Vernon, He was seen at Wednesday night and One Man Stands Guard Over Victims as pranane Nabarmpes He lls ; Other Collects Valuables boarded the ferry. He wore a black cap, blue overalls and a ; % dark coat, Aside from this re Rosey ans ome their -logt and pert and others of less impor kgoest Harare, bag tay tance, the search, locally, was mone Teams tr areed aan ae . practically at a standstill held Mre. Fa « t th a oS 6 A Mrs. Anderson, pr ~ aareettaiee (skis nearly haif an hour wh 4 looked into the m “1D. AVIE : Mi i play ‘ the pla eld by o - The aped, king two They for a > 3d furs, and a hoker. and sharply commanded t h Nd pees Both m masked. wn, One of pape rw About a m more ago two era stood guard over the ". gtvecite’ MaAPe ato ial mchatha burglars broke | * Farley home women while his companion r a“ r: ” tthe sitbreak and took some furs and silverware. the house. icine tah Th were seen lea is the house by A r finre to.'wertoren (his yimaun H. W. Howard, who pur- ran down Sar ear the’ disdrines sued them for sever blocks, firing In a flivy a” tama sintte laienion a he ran NEO en toets bP cc ee | POAILY AMOUR to a diecharge was baad BAW Oe OR Ishown when “Starwith said: °The MITCHELL TO TESTIFY AT } Board Wants to Waste te No Time in Probe; Colonel Told to Be Ready suspebsion will Jast until 1 can get aibr for Morgan. AIR INQUIRY NEXT WEEK ": * lalso failed in the pinch, b I can hot discipline him because he was ting fo arnkey matter in closed so far as jailers aré concerned,” he added Roxenfelt, my finger print expert and official photograph a regular ack is not sur | desper criminals . with ginases, pop and o rail, was rar ei : i rtmant Reax| | “Ualee. Riley caught , t ) AUTUMNAL ODE nidden by a ser He did not anes | nine to tose ia apr a Hilary P. Jones. completed ; usecvar He walked down a now the bri September | tion our purpose peep copes pang venta for the Shenandoah |saita directly into tho muszels of coed | “Haye you any Scotch?” we asked] yent Coolidge’s special air Inquiry | disaster inquiry board, which the, diready “berated outlaws. He Whe’ trees, with (gol ( and. scarlet | nen: board today decided to cail on Col. | convene at Lakehurst, N. J., Mond jay Fore oT ROT blaze; “Huh! he grunted. “The only wittiam Mitchell, air service critic,| 3.—The judge advocate general's bod Ma : ‘The woodland beckons, blue skies! geotch you get nowadays is made | ror téatimony early next week office at the war department was CALI ro Pace ; : call |right here In Seattle. Fae FOE <. | drawing up formal charges of in t in Morgar ase he Am aureate haze hangs over all “Well, how about sot nv" | The board phadeboe ge ae Hats *| atbordination againat Mitchel! for, Sheriff declared, “it was different But why should this give > gin.. But if you come up to | Partment to Lal sips id him- | tye court martial trial in Washing-|#@ Was in charge and forgot : to thrill |my room I'll make you some. . I've |*lf In readineas fo STROOD fun’ dhs atiout trou wealka reach over and pull the emergency When I've just paid my fuel bill?) got some juniper Juice there.” ore the committe after the pres. |'0n In about two weeks | | riot call lever connected with poll . “NG. thantes.” we xaid. “What | entation of “routine” testimony by |. Mah | MRA ate friena | Mesdanarters, He had several op : sent | New York banker and intimate frien you got? ar, navy and postoffice ariment | the president, told his fellow mem. | Dortunities: to. do. so when he was z officials, the United Press learned. E Pr sags (Turn to Page 11, Column 1. a ba a ‘Advancing along three different | bers of the special board that econ MINES PAID FOR TURF” lines, the administration today con- | OMY would be necessary, sir there & PRs, * “Live got jms men ere. centrated on the aircraft inquiries are no congressional appropriations ee Good stuff! I know the fellow whol ‘eurnated to vindicate army and for the probe The Prince of Wales will visit the) makes it navy “‘welley oe” witetantinte “Col United States again nezt summer. So we bought a bottle and paid $2 William Mitchell's charges of de- It is understood that his visit is|tor it. The chap was lonely and) jartmental “incompetency, criminal being sponsored by the Rotogravurc|talkat Se lnahoay Sat alticet troxecs™ Basors more * “Business is rotten,’ he said “I) 1. The president's aircraft board. . have, to keep this place dark. Idon't!in a house committee room, studied IN AIR PROBE IVY CLUB The boro who always wants to stop craps. the bridge game and shoot When the frost is on the pumpkin, And the corn is in the shock, Then we buy the wife a fur coat, And we put the car in hock. $008 THE TRUTH ABOUT BOOTLEG | LIQUOR! Pictured here is one of The Star’s| $25,000 to see special investigators with a bottle cue: liquor which It is either radio of contraband uit to analyze. me drink ast—or and you take it vertically ried out fish. tree, it is pagne. Watch tions! horizontally. will test it by feeding it to a gold- troller's books If the goldfish leaps out its bowl and chases the cat Jackson you crossword and are car-| The expert | $19,674.89, Street for further revela-, he Is start to Scotch— of up a cham- out on the street, I am out on bail on three charges now and this grand jury which just met, returned (urn t to Page A c olomn 3) Skagit Survey Costing Tax payers. $3,000 Month ‘And Nobody Is Sure ure Just What It’s 3 Going to, Be Worth When Uhden, know does Carl F. the How much | the man who built Jabout the Skagit? | The city council | costing taxpayers just about if the city council's {s right or wrong. That sum 1 three hydraulic engi neers to check up on Unden's work And nobody is exactly sure how much the hydraulle engineers know plant, fen't sur the ha Already the city has pald out uccording to the comp. on appropriation or dinances vetoed by the mayor and passed over his veto ‘The three expert engineers, mak ing up the city’s Skagit survey com mission, comprise Joseph Jacobs, W. | {Chester Morse and Sterling B, Hill. | Despite the hard fight made for| They've been working since March | him here a singl@ precin race mayoralty the way did weak her how «i earnest or jent), ° a yard wide!” whimay, methinks, and indeed the weneh | hath a pretty wit. heartily, to worke, . ct in Mayor Hylan didn’t win King county |to the city per month and is now out of the New York | cut in the modern 1 # she (1 know not whether in They are all wool and whieh And was a merrie Innghing & 4, & Huhould be the next step Instead of | $4,124.98, j\ the Diablo basin, at the rate of about $3,000 expense And councilmen say they have one | lwhole unit to survey yet. and then | jimay 6 to go back over two others | to check one against the other for | final recommendations “The commission must still stud, a prospective ator- | ige reservoir between the Gorge and Ruby pe Utilities Chai man Tine ned ‘Thursday, “I would prefer that they be allowed to | complete their work as soon 4 sible without any hindran | trouble now.” Councilmen do not know what the |commiasion will report. It was au | thorized to work after Uhden er ing hia connection with the city, sub- | ing that [struction of the Gorge masonry dam |mitted n report aio con | phone, records of the last congressional air ecret Lagsiter army the initial probe and the in preparation f hearings Monday report, public No Heavy Winds, Dirigible jin Distress, Says Witnesses CAMBRIDG Ohio, 18. |) (By t P.)—New evidence ts al- leged to have been found hore that the wrecked dirigible in distress for at least two |hours before she crashed and that during that time no winds of veloc- Sept Shenandoah ki B. Southworth Claims Sewage Plant a Nuisance Suit ha been court against the of Seattle Jasking for $4,000 damages on ac count of alleged damage to a resi dence property by the construction of sewage disposal septic tanks Roy B, Southworth ‘alleges that {the plant erected at the corner of Lakeside ave and Alaska st is within 200 feet of hi and filed city in superior residence |000 had been done Fuel Dealers’ Half- Hearted Defense of Old _ Discriminatory System Is Not Acceptable | . (EDITORIAL) HE statement in defense of the obnoxious “coal zone plan” in Seattle, issued by the special committee of the fuel dealers, is not an excuse that will be accepted by fuel users. It is only a lame attempt to evade a duty that even many of the dealers themselves admit they owe to the public. The ‘zone plan,’ a holdover from the restrictions of war- time, is grossly unfair and discriminatory. Under it home- owners on one side of the road pay one price for their coal, while those opposite are charged another. Dealers will haul coal the entire distance across the city, into a low-priced delivery zone, for one amount and charge, perhaps $1 a ton more, for coal delivered two blocks from their bunkers, which happen to be in a higher-priced zone. The committee complains that the margin of profit at the bunker is not sufficiently large to enable the dealers to absorb the hauling charges. The public doesn’t demand this. What the man who buys coal] in Seattle wants, and what he is going to insist upon, is a delivery system that is equitable— one under which his coal costs him only as much as his neighbor pays. The Star is not in the coal business. It is not in the hauling business. The remedy for this system that the dealers’ com- mittee itself says is “imperfect and defective’? must come from these men themselves. But they must act, and act now! Only an end to unfair discrimination and the installation of a plan that will permit of delivery of coal on a mileage, or some other such fair basis, will be acceptable to the public. JAPAN CAPITOL: ZONE PLAN UNFAIR, BUT TO IS DESTROYED STAY,FUEL DEALERS DECIDE BY FLAMES - Upholds Wartime Tho Defective Valuable Records Are De- stroyed in Fire Committee, in Report, Measure as Best, HEARTEDLY defend that h tem, reports a That the s follows present system Hen pi ‘ir effect Ince the {of hauling under the zone plan was he comm of fuel dealers, in tuted years ago, and during the LOSS 18 $1,000, 000 statement lawued Frida ar the price to be charged in each rest u wler zone was fixed by the United States . ‘ remove it fuel administrator and the pian ap- Third Great Disaster for) tne committee was named by P.J.| proved, and has since been revised mt, president of the association, at! and prices reduced. Tokyo Recently BY MILES W. VAUGHN Ualted Press Staff Correspondent TOKIO, ‘Second—The margin of profit at ¢ retail bunker, based on the cost 4 selling price on @ commodity as heavy and bulky as coal, will not permit the dealer to absorb the mecting of the dealers, September | 10. Its members were inquire that the plan was un- made in a rec fair, 4 series of Sept. 18 ‘Tokio was vis The Star ited by fresh fternoon, This was the committee's state- charges; consequentiy, the when fire rig liament ment retailer established the present s: bulldings. ® ‘The committee appointed at a/ tem for the benefit of the consum- Both the house of peers and the| meeting of the wholesale and retail) ¢t based on the cost of delivery house of representatives were to-| fuel s of t c of Seattle, | from the nearest delivery point. tally destroyed. held at Wolf's « | September} ‘“Third—While we realize that Firemen succeeded ¢ in saving | 10 to a motion there may be some imperfections some of the parliamentary records. unanimou carried, authorizing the 0° defects in the present system, and that there is a slight difference Troops were called out soon after | appointment of a committee to pre the fire started pare a statement for publication, |!" charges in the same locality, ow- After wreckin, » two pariia-| setting forth the reason forthe pres-,/9& to the dividing lines of the ment houses, the fire spread in the |ent hauling charges under the zon.| Tones. We are convinced that from the standpoint of the consumer, it is the best plan we ‘have been able to puild: | —— ea oon to djoining ings. The firemen’s efforts finally devise. At any time a more just brought the fire under control to- and equitaable plan is suggested, we evening, but not until dam will be willing to give it careful con- sideration. Respectfully yours, nest Newsham, Blake D. Mills, Muehe, J. 8. Vining, W. B. P. J. Emt, chairman.” age estimated at more than $1,000, HEAD HERE Douglas Among the some valuabl records apers of parliament lost were Robinson, assistant TOKIO was visited in 1923 by ® secretary of the navy, reached Seat- | quake followed by fire which swept 11. avigay morning on the North UNT Y away hundreds of @tructures, cating : . 4 ame » {ts way thru the flimsy construc. | Coast Limited, and was met by Cap. tion ax tho paper. More recently | tain Olmstead, assistant command Tokio had disastrous flood ant of the 13th naval district and members of the mittee of Commerce The assistant al affairs com Seattle the Chamber of $25,000 Price Put on Riffian Leader| Seattle Boy Due Today secretary left im | mediately for Bremerton where ne From Dayton, Ohio PARIS, Sept. 18—(By U. PJ—A}is spending the day with Admiral] — | price of $25,000 has been placed upon | Chase and inspecting the navy Lieut. G. P. Tourtelot, army pilot, the head of Abd El Krim yard. He will return to the city; and B. Jones, navigation engineer, Le Journal reports that the sultan | tonight and spend the night at The| were due to arrive at Sand Point of Morocco has offered this amount) Olympic Hotel field Friday at 11:30 after a cross to anyone who brings Krim or his Saturday morning the assistant! country flight from Dayton, Ohio. brother in, dead or alive secretary will inspect the Sand Point} Lfeut. Tourtelot, who is the son Offers of the reward have been aviation field and also the Boeing | of G. M. Tourtelot, 6801 Bighth ave. cattered by airplane over the Rif-) airpiane plant. He has declined all|N. B., was to be met at the field flan lines, public entertainment a will leave by his father and taken to the | ut noon for Portland family home. | Speed Plane Flies Assistant Secretary Robinson is; The aviators were to have reached | 5 i 4 nephew of the late Theodore} Seattle Thursday but were forced at 302 Miles Hour) rooseveit. He was appointed to{down in Spokane by high winds. CURTISS FIELD, L. 1. Sopt, 18,| 8 Present position upon the resix: {ate flight was made in order to Speeding faster. than a human PAtion of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. | tost some new aviation instruments, being has ever traveled before, a ey Curtiss racing plane piloted by Lieut N jity of more than 40 miles an hour} soo ——— | During the Jast two hours the) ante enjoyment of life and property erecting the Ruby dam as favored ra eevee ae are arapeis and annoys, injures and endangers by some councilmen. Wage Lad ede psa 4 co ‘ort ‘epose ne and} Since February, when the original | Statements attributed to witnesses Hin re yet Hiaine i nies cont $12,000 appropriation was voted, de Sa ae Lili died say the moon) ciint seta forth. ‘The tanks also é thee teas ons Joroten: t and sta ere 0} | WOU bo n waste af money, thé com: |. (Theos facta related Id the Cam |Site Ore) Cemenions, crcre And. ff mission, with the ald of three other | bridge Jeffersonian by Ernest Shee latureie ton rps ovale ea ae ll pérsons, a clerical employe and two| haa correspondent, on the eve of pearing insects, and 1s \a/ ploy the opening of the naval court of constant and. offensive eyesore In engineers, have studied the Gorge, | the landscape.” the Ruby and the Cedar Hver sya: |squiky’ at’ ‘Laketturst, purported tot c/a e hs allege 7 tems, including the power site pro- | 81¥® evidence that some caune that he Southworths allege that thelr | Wie iag than a storm. might have precipi-| Property, which they value at $10, posed by Tindall at the Lake Youngs tated the water reservoir. ated th disaster ..| “Dr. H. W. Arndt, of Lore City, Jtent of $4,000 by the tanks, Ki A study of the comptroller’s| ent miles cast of here, says he|V. Ewing ts the attorney for the books st t, the follow! 5 ooks shows, in part, the following | ww the Shenandoah at 3:30 a. m.| plaintiffs payments for the commission's #¢rv-) wien it passed over Lore City and | Ices and for expenses such a# tele-| tint the tall of the ship was turned rent and supplies and ata- up. To Dr. Arndt it was apparent tlonery ap | that the pilot was fighting to keep March — Hill, $656.97; — Jacobs, (Turn to Page 11, Column 3) $704.27; Morne, $380.96. | April—Hill, $1,211 Jacobs, | $1,311.70: Morse, $761.55. May 41,648. expense, clung A DANDY $1,202 for Hill || USED CAR June Hilh $1,100; Jaco Here is a special listing offered to $1,146,01; Morae, $700; 1. Ay South: |] you, ps0 gure and read {t over. worth, $200; George Holmes Moore, 60; Miaw Florence Patterson, $10.16. | 22 NUICK 4 TOURING There are about $2,000 expendi:|} This cnr a aie pent GD alah tures not showing in the service Baulpped with four brand new Ayroll, Standard 4 according to deputy comp:|| ovataize | trollers, ‘That exhausted the fi MATTIE pak Mops are Ai allotment of & 00, and a new ap} which look# Ike new, Shows propriation of $13,000 was passed extra good care, The mechant- over the mayor's veto, when hej] cal condition In perfect, Iull complained that “there is ng, end in|] _ Price 14 $896 sight and no intelligence as fo when Turn to the Want Ad Columns expenditures. of money in this en-|| and geo who Ix offering thin oe | terprise will cease nor when a re-\] to you, USED CAR DEALE port, will be made," || OFFER THEIR BEST BUYS Since then there bas been pald|] wyBRY DAY IN THE WANT out, for July, $9,660.42 for August, |] AD COLUMNS OF THE STAR +|Boeing Plane Won't Try| $000, has bi damaged to the FLIGHT 1S OFF Pacific Hop This Year | | SAN | | FRANCISCO, Sept. 18.—| Contemplated flight of the navy's| Boeing seaplane to Hawall probably | will not take place this yer o. | cording to flight officials here to-| day i} | The PBA, left behind when two} Jother planes attempted the hop, is not yet in shape for a real test | flight, but will make a trial Mon. |day before leaving for San Diexo jto be permanently based Captain Stanford Moses, Hawail Jan fllght project commander, ac companied local officials today on in aerial Murvey of locations in the! San Francisco bay district guitable for airports or seaplane buses, |mi tA SE a || TO SUBSCRIBERS er course in a test today nal flight | Over Lake e Ferry Service iidependens Opera itor to Bellevue “Attacked” The Star by Anderson Before State Board will be unable to supply copies of the at complete story of “The || ‘The warfare over ferry service on, Sherman states in his answer to Flapper Wife,” to its read- || Lake Washington, which started /the complaint that prior to the in. three years ago, when Capt. John L. | stallation of his ferry line, the citt Anderson was given a lease of all] zens of Bellevue did not have direct | county boats, and has waged fitfully | ferry service to Seattle, but were | since, broke out again Friday | compelled to take a bus to Medina ers after this week. Altho several thousand copies of the complete “Gloria” story were published in 16-page || Capt. Anderson is the aggressor, | and then transfer to the ferry. newspaper form, the de- || with residents of Bellevue and vicin- He further states that while the mand has been so great ||!tv rushing to the defense of Eu-| fare charged by him is less than that ly will be || #ene Mi Sherman, operator of an | the combined bus and ferry fare, it at our supply Will be |) independent service between Belle-| is greater than the ferry fare from completely exhausted. vue and Leschi park Medina to Leschi. ‘The combined Mail orders now on hand |} capt. Anderson has filed com: } } bus and ferr © from Bellevue to aeschi is 162 cents, while the fare charged by Sherman for direct » from Bellevue to Lescht is nts. and those received up to |} plgint with the Satirday vevani = , |{ public works, Saturday evening, will be ORB es of filled and forwarded, MGHeAte anid if state department of | alleging the xed by Sherman nded to oppress the | To avoid missing any of || complainants,” | Residents of Bellevue are circulat: the installments of “FOOT- The complaint further states that | 6 petitions ar aaa LOOSE,” the schedule maintained by Sher. | fry Service and schedule, the “Flapper Wife” sequel which is now man does not accommodate the resi dents of Bellevue at all hours of the | appearing daily, order The || day, but gives them only morning | Weather Star delivered to your || and evening serivee, thus taking the | gyowors ented 1a ome by authorized car- am of the trade.” le 4 he We y ! | It asks that Sherman be made to | %/ternoon or to- Ht is My my i ida Seas i Increuse his rates and maintain af night; Saturday)” oD Ms Only 50¢ a month, Phone |} service which will give the residents pair: moderste if rey ay ‘otetallavueks . oie eo on " ySt) 6c (au Ain-0600, f Uollevue service thruout the ens | west winds, eet [tire day. | Me bate » 3) ——