The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 28, 1925, Page 1

flag - —— Weather Ff oe ef 2 es $f — VOL. 27. NO. 184 Mayor Threatens City Delivery ‘of Coal! RRR PPE tpn cn ccc The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington e Seattle Sta Botered as Becond Clase Matior Mey 2, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash + Onder the Act of Congress March &, 487%, TWO CENTS IN ‘SEAT TLE. MONDAY, SI Send Radio week med this morning, and the x should be full of songs some of the singers should Mhowing movies in a nies the | . , by heaven, we'll learn who is those peanuts | YO e ee | trattie | he days are shor hl is offen in th r with arms and shoulders the least important member) Pete! ‘the Home Brew staff is Miss Til /Mamhocks, manager of the cate- and Lucille, 2. them all impartially—one him alphabet ‘soup. | PROSECUTOR TO c vata * [QUESTION PARENTS ds just a question of time until | iy will hang out a sign, morning. . {he said, |Challacombs, Petera. came Bothne, drank some beer ‘ . downright versatility continued thelr drinking. , the cradle with his foot |quarreled, Chaliac he is playing bridge. eee his’ house and Peter’ left HOUSEHOLD HINT |> “About ectric fan can be used for said he saw the Peters the house by putting it into ‘aflame,’ Challacombe said Rair it blew out Iast summer—j|to the scene. Peters » Meee 4 mass of roaring flames f wives received time and | Pe half for overtime, we hus-| would alw ays be broke.| to rescue the children then.” fe is pouting about. FOUR CHILDREN DIE IN SILVER LAKE FIRE; PARENTS ARE HELD Emt, the power he requested to appoint six members of a committee to meet with three public representatives to be ‘Crane Ships Unable sina), so tar as they were conce to Operate in Heavy Swells =~" Prosecutor to Tragedy “x\Elders Accused of Drinking Bout Pre- a, poe Sens: a9 ceding Fatal Blaze; Held for Bee the laden” veny irono, Questioning by Officers guerre UR small children were burned to death early Monday F ALSO SERVE WHO ONLY when fire destroyed the home of Nels Peters, dance hall ~ STAND AND WAIT” proprietor, at Silver Lake, 25 miles north of Seattle. and his wife are being held in the Snohomish county jail pending a probe of.a drinking bout which preceded the fatal blaze. Both the father and mother were drunk when the blaze occurred, according Challacombe, of Everett. Sheriff Jim McCulloch and Prosecutor Roscoe are inves- | tigating the affair to determine whether either of the par- ents is criminally responsible. The fire victims are Morse, 6! ions for rekcue of men} pron submarine e halted this afternoon. were running wake of stormy to Acting Coroner Stowell weather over- AT THE SCENE OF THE TRAGEDY. ; pointing to the wreck of a baby’s cradle in the ashes of the Nels Peters home at Silver - “They were asleep in an upstairs room when the father,) “ke, Where four children burned to death early Monday morning. 1 to an oyster stew. Miss|@fter drinking all night, entered the kitchen and, throwing 2 is also an educator, hay-| his coat on a table, upset a kerosene lamp, which exploded, — ght the office boy to spell! xccording to testimony I got,” Challacombe said. 6; Melvin, 5; Fire Chief Charles E. Stvanson, of Everett, counted upon to holst the could not operate tarter & Bradley Fort Bliss “Gag Rule’’ Keeps Officers Silent on Aircraft Situation PASO, Tex., Sept. 28.—(By U. Discussion of the air defense of the United States was placed on the forbidden | list of officers by Brigadier Genera! Cast- r, commander of the F ion of Fort Bliss, here today. “Any officer about the air martialed and put where he will never again Castner declared in a state- ment to newspaper men: who sought infor- mation as to the condition of the aerial | equipment of the fort. BOEING SHIP N jand his wife to Everett and turned Hans Bothne, a neighbor, in whose | them “¥@/home the Peters had spent part of | ties te Dogse | bingty: ool | the night and morning, was also | {being held. Prosecutor Roscoe will | thie worta really needs ts | question the three just ax soon as ‘make the baby sleep late on | their condition enables him to do 50, to the county authori this would oc- | Coroner Challacombe said the four bodies were completely | The skull and ‘parts of the larger | bones were seen lying in the Iron etadié held the rem According to the story gathered by} nants of the baby's body, home | combe » about midnight trom Bothne’s house. | ; | He tad been drinking.” Hé aroused HERE, V'Li. DO IT Mrs. Peters and the two, casion was not Craft coming back from the scene sinking “declared there itewas'™ Castner implied criticism of the “talking . William Mitchell, army air “There will be no ‘Colonel Mitchell’ | on the Fort Bliss reservation,” he declared. | “This idea of allowing a bunch of officers to run around the country criticising their superiors doesn’t make an army. | a bunch of bolsheviks in uniform,” he said. “Discipline is the first thing that a sol- As long as I am an offi- no one is going’ to talk unless I tell he may,” the general said. | awkward derricks could not operate. | FIND NO SIGNS LIFE ON SHIP nander Flannigan BOAT IS ‘SEIZED EY they returned to Bothne’s house and | | Coast Guard Arrests Fish- erman in Neah Bay s Archibaldus Ridge, | About 3 a.'m. Peters and his wife mbe was | Bothne ordered one of them out of | t Cavalry divis- Press that he had been disappointed | failure of divers to detect | signs of life aboard the submarine. | xa ean | However, he held this was not c |clusive and he, and Admiral Christy still clung to the desperate hope that jthe two great cranes might bring up | the boat with some alive was still the outside limit of transcript of the investigation, of the number of those But {t was plain ——7 | that even the most optimistic were | 2 >) | weakening in their faith, naturally were hopeful that the Monarch and the Century could I sive the necessary lifting power. But minutes Inter Bothne of my command who talks will be court- booze to some 200 fishermen operat y and in Neah >. Christensen, of the fish was arrested by boat Monday, ac controversy ing off Cape when it will draw in the| awakened Mrs. Peters and they ran an standing |in the yard of his home, which was | be able to talk,’ coast guard patrol dier should learn. ters was drunk. Mrs. Peters | . head of the coast ted to push into the house, [her husband grabbed her and they | | fought. Bothne said tt was too late | found ‘on board the K-311, who might live. TERE Ly TODAY’S lexperienced husband {s one) §. M.- Crawford, a motorman ulead and'is being towed in to Seat B guess in 19 minutes what} the Everett interurban, saw the fire tle, with Christensen a prisoner. ~/KELSO FACTIONS sofa for you to sit eet two spots from her hus- i @ ten spot ‘commissioner Frank Paul. Ratan tg eo oare, for. Tt made) “reputable undertakers to Waving one wife is monotony. | Warters. ° they look after the calves |!" ames Sencies, | if they could not, {t would mean that Vase virtually WANT ADS remade furniture. be abandoned ASTORIA CRASH SIGN TRUCE |State’s Officer Assumes! Charge of Probe siovnssorvn—* “ABOLISH COUNTY MORGUE” men who eave needles on | SAYS COMMISSIONER PAUL Forced Down; Is Damaged! *| Will Submit Resolution to Save $20,000 in \apeeae for the next move. It would dramatic search within the buried submersible First, the diver will be put aboard | ready Tuesday, commissioners were (Turn to Page 9, Column 6) are somo npecial offerings. While Being Towed by Boat WONDERFUL, WILL MEET DEALERS AGAIN! |Fuel Association Pres- ident Says He'll Name Committee MUNICIPAL coal yard was suggested Monday by Mayor Brown as a means of getting fuel to the people of Seattle equitably. The mayor's statement was made after he had learned of the action of the Seattle Fuel Dealers’ Credit association in denying its president, P. J named by the mayor. It was the plan of the mayor that the nine should constitute a fact-finding commission to make recommendations in re- gard to the present inequit- able zone cartage charge on coal. FUEL DEALERS A ANOTHER MEETI | “I had accepted the jon of the Friday night meeting of dealers as e4, and had turned my mind to an- | other plan to bring them to time,” | Mayor Brown said. “However, 1 have just learned that a group of beseaie officials, headed by Mr. | Emt, desires to meet me this after- |noon to reopen the matter. I be- lieve we may get together and out this unfair zone sys tem. If we can't—well, the fuel deal ers will have to be shown that no group is bigger than the interests of the people of Seattle as a whole, nor greater in power than the gov- ernment of that people. MAY ASK FUNDS FOR CITY DELIVERY the two enormous| “If the dealers persist in their . lumbered back | refusal to place their case fairly » lee of Block| before the public, I shall take it . while the second giant was snaked out to the direction of other harborage where the running tides not damage them. How long a delay that they have so much to conceal about the present zone cartage plan that it simply must be changed. If we get nowhere at the meeting to- day, I shall ask the council to ap. propriate money to enable me to fo into the open market, purchase out | coal, use the city’s trucks, and show the dealers—and the public—that summer/| fuel can be delivered on a flat as shining, casting a glint of | charge much below the present cart tilver across the Sound. age rates.” President Emt of the dealers’ association, stated Monday that he would see the mayor during the day and offer to appoint three re. tailers, asking the mayor to sug- | Rest to three wholesalers that they ‘sit in on a committee to be com- pleted by the three which the |mayor suggested he would appoint. Mullane Report Due on Tuesday | Because he had not completed a | Prosecutor Colvin was unable to |submit a report on the Mullane- jMenitz county fund probe to the county commissioners Monday. J. E. Mullane, county building j maintenance man, and Robert Men- |itz, county paver, were charged in Ja recent affidavit filed with Com- missioner Paul with Irregularities in employing county workmen on their jown homes. The report may be | told. cal factions at Kelso, whose members | have Been battling for biggest hydroplane, at the Cape Disappointment Used SMALL | Wiel) Appiesauce says she re- | Budget by Dismissing Deputies @ trousers last night—a five MOVE to abolish the county morgue was started Monday by the following seven cost mounted from $3,356 |and in 1920 was increased to $19, His resolution effective January 1, eadeautt neously | with the arrival of attorney general. cause of failure of her forward on He was to submit a resolution | 498. in The Star) | Monday, which, he says, would ef + What « mess life was, Gloria! fect a saving of more than $20,000 Tt made you care tor the peo-|in the 1926 budget by permitting | Coroner Koepfii, svernor Hartley and John Dunbar, being towed to Astoria by the Capo} Disappointment |thoro investigation the commissioners postpone action | morgue until hearings start on the iets In addition, Paul. pointed out,| budget, at 2 p. m., next Monday. fs going to abolish poly. | abolition of the morgue will. permit | According to dispatches. j Use of its floor space by other pub- BMY is having two or more|lic departments now in crowded life-saving boata. While towing the plane thru the | narrow channel of Bakor’s bay, Disappointment went aground. her momentum, | Kelso editor. were to act a resolution late Moni ‘Todd, ex-may-| nd cause of most of the jensuing disturbance, still is t “take the stump ¢ |he knows about Turn to the Want Ad Columns, charter amendment for the March, Carried forward by | the plane ripped her | | left wing upon the stationary stern life-saving boat. (Turn to Page 9, Column 6) where you will find a k on the ballot caused by increases in traffic He declared ndling an average of 100 Ab pt | of good used furniture of. o-* Paul's resolution proposed to cut| IONS AND ANSWERS | ‘he morgue budget from $27,765 to| Why do they cait| $4200, and would eliminate the atx | "Drugstore cowboys?”—Ourl- | Morgue deputies and all morgue ex- penses except a hearse to be used im to Page 9, Column 6) Ruppert, owner of tho New fakes, bAs just been elected | ofthe United ates Brew- | prewent The county cremates paup He 1 said to t Packing of the pretzel 8 Your old man!” Candidates tor unive reared c of Wash- team hardened the ' appeared in various towns of Wash: working in|yoon, ‘The men play upon Mthomreiven hy MW atore bargaty are of people with money, and Paul reported that most of them are |" sli ortacies st] Western Washington “White Spot’ in Nation’s Business handled by local undertakers at! * mE nave| tra at prevent, and he believes the| Favorable Report on and | undertak i assume that duty ose . jn return for the other cae | Conditions in | His resolution points out that the | ieee was established in 1913 and | Northwest lord STERN WASHINGTON Is belt J too, | one of the six ‘white’ hing wood from the spots on the Nation's Business yes grow chilly, ouse of a morn- | Ih wall eternally Veterans Warn Against Al- ditions, as shown in an advance bef este, And doth ape M804 Tented bricks, = October map of business con: the | copy received by the Chamber % mncitne| leged Fake Solicitors | of Commerce today. | Buninean mine the 27th daye of Kep- Minter coming on npn: ¥ oink to whom this fall will be brisk and im proved over what it is now This map which is generally accepted over the country an a true reflex of business condi, tions, credits the city or district With the White spot only when business if rated ay good. The map is coripiied by the manag ing editor of Bradstreet's from e reports received from every nem: | ington and are expected In sesitis gba atch eg ld tember Western Washington | Warning against a band of maga- xine solicitors who are selling al- lleged fake subscriptions to a din labled veterans’ paper was Issued | Monday by F. H, Mulnix, state ad |Jutant of the Disabled Vetorans of |the World War, Mulnix nays the solicitors have yin, sympathies of housewives and ac- y tolling on farma.|cept $1 from each, Mulnix says.| wWisirnted as falr, thought Patrontzing |that any such paper exiaty Mulnix| servative investixators view tho 10) Inventigations have failed to disclose Additional proof of how con- YB, outlook for business this fall the following statement re- the Financial and Trade sales conditions should be wit- nessed on the Pacific Coast for co of this year, increased lum. sales and a good building program are the most important expected dur ing the past month, yolumo of con atruction work parts of the United States has proved demand for lumber and 1 business in Oregon and Washington from crops will _ COUNCILMEN READY TO 0.K. MANAGER AMENDMERT ‘Members Say They Have the Vi otes, Despite -| Strong Lobby Expected Fro} From “Revisionists” an ane bionltion petition submitted to them late last week asking that | the council call and election of 15 “freeholders" as a “charter revis- fon commission." The charter amendment resolu- tion may be delayed in passage thru the council Monday it was con. ceded by Mrs. Bertha Landes, coun- cil president, altho other members insisted there were sufficient votes to have it adopted. Mrs, Landes said she expected friends of tho “freeholders’ com: mission” plan to lobby against a vote on it until the judiciary com. mitteo has had time to act on their potition, A charter amendment was defeat- ed last spring In a municipal eleo- tion by & small margin. Voters ob- jected to the proposition that a city Manager be empowered to namo the corporation counsel and city comp- troller. Now the Municipal league, spon- soring the amendment, prop s to remove these objections by allow. ing the council instead of the man- ager to name the comptroller and corporation counsel and relegating the city manager to less power in the auditing committee than was possible under the original tor amendment” plan Eckstein to Speak on Community Fund Nathan Eckstein will speak on the Community Pund Tuesday at tho luncheon of the Kiwanis club at Tho Olympic Hotel. Reports from the Vancouver convention will be given by Prestdent, Harry jman aud Hugh Caldwell, noc sat THEN Pita tH oroHe