The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 28, 1917, Page 1

i | : soos seessosss sosesssestetscsssest J LEARN FRENCH if you are sent to Flanders you'll want to know a little French. So learn every phrase you can The Star will help. Turn to page 3. Gi setts testsspetttbisssi st iit Shossbstssttesibto tests sti tases vo x ® * .B Row Endangers the Ally Cause Special Washington Corre- spondent of The Star De- ‘clares Situation Is Most BY H. N. RICKEY Special Correspondent of The Star WASHINGTON, June 28--—On February | gan her ruthless submarine war on the world’s shir Ger ala eT eS ; declared to the world her purpose to sink a million tons of ships a month, and, by so i doing, so to cripple Great Britain and her Ed other enemies that they would be forced to make peace at Germany's terms Germany knew perfectly well that this 2 meant war with America, but her war lords knowing that democracies move slowly in getting ready for war, figured that beiore the United States could mobilize its vast re the point of would sources material t military effectiveness, her submarine be masters of the sea, | ve England on her knees. in six,jnonths, and | Ws su France, Italy and Russia will be we will settle with America.” \ spake the German war lords as sea tigers. in men and they unleashed De The United States accepted the challenge, there being NO ALTERNATIVE: short of abject surrender of its right @nd duties as a great nation. When it accepted the chal the United States assumed many responsibilities, the one being the job of building merchant ships or faster than the German submarines could sink them it was fully recognized by every nation in the war that un less a steady flow of food and munitions could be kept going fo our allies, they could not keep on fighting WHO IS WINNING THE FIRST GREAT CONTEST? | ‘The first great contest was to be between German sub-| Marines and American shipbuilders. If the German sub marines won it, the German war lords would be one step, and a very long one, toward the goal of their ambition—world domination. They would have every nation in Europe at) their mercy ‘ Are the German submarines or the American shipbuilders winning in the grim contest, a contest which involves such tremendous possibilities for good or evil to the whole world tions to come? as fast For | THE GERMAN SUBMARINES ARE WINNING! | ® §$6They have not sunk a million t yf ships a month, or the average, since February 1; but the best figures obti c indicate that from February 1 sank at least three million tons a month; and the latest reports for June show that they are now equaling their deadliest record of a m lion ton month. | These June figures gave official Washington the most severe shock it has had since we went to war with Germany. | For official Washington knows—what everybody in this country ought to know—that this country is falling down on its job of building ships as fast as the German submarines sink them. four m June t y an average of 750,000 ton } The tragic details of just WHY we are failing in this supremely important task make too long a story to be told Me " ri the deta are too obscure to be understood here. much less explained But the essence of the j traged been a row on between Gen. ( Is, general manager of emergency fleet corporation, at h t : Mico Foard, over the KIND OF SHIPS to be built This row reached such an acute stage a few days ago that President W ilson had to intervene ED SHIPS UNAVAILABLE ORE NEXT SPRING Just what is to be the re or ue known at this writing, but I rs the council of national defense, nbers pr he cabinet headed by the sec enly alive angers of the situati A MEND Till Y WELL MAY BE, in view of these startling ., date, the shipping board has executed 17 contract a f 148 ships and hulls, with a total tonnage of | for a total of 4 Ni dae lude 28 steel ships, 32 composite] 48 wooden hulls | three months more quickly and about 25 per cent cheaper than the Ferris design. They're Needed NOW | One does not need to know any thing about the technique of ship. building to appreciate the fact that the situation calls for heroic treatment There can be no doubt about our ability to supply all the ships the world needs two three years| from now | We can build 20,000,000 tonsa of ships a year just as easily as we have been building a million and a half automobiles a year; but about 500,000. ships, 40 wooden ships, None of these new contracts will ovide ships available for service pefore next spring, the majority of contracts providing that delivery hall begin March 1 for wooden ghips and June | for steel ships ; No contract has been let for any of the much-discussed ‘standard glee boats sponsored by Goethals, q- the drawings for these boats i not yet complete SAN the contracts wooden fips are for vensels of the Ferris , which conforms closely to standard peace type design No contracts have been let pro- widing for the Hough design of boats, which, authorities \ (Continued on page 12) could be bullt from two to Shipping Board THE “ TWENTY MILLION TONS OF) _ a tEATEST DAILY CIRCULATION 4 LUME 19 * HE pernicious activity of the “meddlesome parson” — re- ceived a well-deserved rebuke with the acquittal of Inspector Mike Powers. Seattle is disgusted with the idea that a public officer, be he the well-meaning — Prosecutor Lundin or the square-shooting Sergeant Putnam, should SE- CRETLY receivemoney for pub- lic work from any private source. Whether the motives were laudatory, whether Dr. Mark A. Matthews was actuated by an un- selfish desire to serve the com- mon weal or by a desire to “boss” the town, the results are the same. Seattle and King county do not want any private indi- vidual, be he a parson or knave, to grease the palms of their public officials for ANY purpose. -Lheyedo- not want-their -Put- 5 nams and their Lundins to get‘ So ee a A OR URIBE SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1917 Or, M. A. Matthews, who, ac- | a erermigrmneT The Seattle Star | SEN. JOHNSON WARNS COUNTI ats Winning Contest With U.S. Shipbuilders MEDDLESOME PARSON”! GIVE SON” any private individual. In the Powers case, Seattle could not help but be particu- larly disgusted because the methods employed by the investi- gators, reprehensible to begin with, h,d to depend, moreover, upon crooked detective work. Even were Mike Powers the guiltiest police officer in crea- tion, the accusation of so unsav- ory a character as Private Detec- tive Wardell was bound to fall flat before any jury of self- respecting: men and women. The Star exposed the Wardell record months ago. It warned Prosecutor Lundin to look well before he leaped, and to make sure that his own detector of crooks was not himself a crook. The Star did that because it knew Wardell, and because it knew that of all the low creatures that inhabit this earth A CROOKED PRI- VATE DETECTIVE IS THE LOWEST. cording to testimony of Sergt. | A d H H : Yy a! nd it money secretly from ANY ONE. | furnenea the fangs orn wrick | roa i Th »@ >1) Ge f these > i Private Detéctive Wardell ran a more exalted creature sim- he expenses of these men, as gambling joint as a part ot ply because a parson paid for " « » ac > ar a plot tot ! ti Pp . . . well as their acts, must be ac- | 0°U2pung ones =~ his. gambling hole and his counted for to the public, not to Z 4 bootlegging joint. MISS LUSK MAY BARE HER LOVE | tinue the dry squad when the Reed makes the state bone but he says that has do with Putnam's case amendment dry July 1 nothing t COMMUNITY STORES Lighting Strikes Seattle Residence Lightning struck the frame resi of J. H. Connell, 118 24th 14a. m. Wednesday, dur dence ing the second thunder storm Se is SPOKANE PLAN attle ha experienced in a week The fire ant, called of, pre-| By United Press Leased Wire vented the me from causing SPOKANE, June 28 The city of more than $ damage The house Spokane will open community is a story and a half building, val tores, at which fuel and foodstu ned at $5,000, No one was In-|will be sold at cost, ff the plan jured the city authorities here today ma terlalize in ‘The prospect of a near famine wi fuel xt winter pric t of Teach of the ave family, prompted the authorities to | adopt the community stores plan. | SHIP BUILDING FAME IS SPREADING EAST food d JUST TO BE A BOY NCE MORE The fame of ttle’s. shipbuild ing industry and trade epreading to all parts of the t Ponce de Leon searched the world over for “the fountain of youth.” He didn't find it It was a worth-while effort, tho How much would you give, wecording to James D. Hoge, pres! dent of the Union Savings and | Trust Co., who returned Wednes: | from a two-month trip in Hast orn cities, Hoge r ly inherit Mr. Man, just to be a boy oq $2,000,000 when a wealthy uncle again? died Well, one way is to go back ane to your boyhood favorites. | Unhurt in Zep Fall: By United Phew tegead Wire LONDON June 28 A fall of ore than two miles thru the air on a disabled Zeppelin resulted in nly minor injories to two German iviators recently This announce ment was made by the admiralty Wednes One had sustained limb fractures and the other was practically tnhurt The Zeppelin fell 12,000 feet and was in flames | when it strack the earth Become acquainted again with your boyhood books, your boy hood heroes. For instance, wouldn't it bring you back to boyhood joys to read “Robin- son Crusoe” once again? Try it will appear in The Star, beginning Monday, the story of the shipwrecked man who lived alone on an island for some 30 years. GILL THREATENS TO JAILED SUFFRAGETS SLEEP WELL, REPORT cy dd Pree Leased Wire iTON, June slept soundly 28.—Six suffragets thru last By United Press Leased Wire right and as late as rules permit WAUKESHA, Wis ne 28.— ted today in their iron chamber in The authorities today were count rl the district prison house. Undis: |ing on the ald of Miss Grace Lusk mayed by Imprisonment, they car the high school teacher, who shot That Sergt. V. R. Putnam { Starts Investigation Salen! ako the iocuy a4 tah Mrs. David Roberts, wife of her al-| ™ay be fired from the police +3 gl be Senate be itr ot] gave a-nong service and a lester 2 beet : whether he should be fired from hy e and a lecture leged lover, in solving all the an-| force, and hie dry squad die | 1° )001 U0 Boole ie ee tam to White and colored sister in gies of the Roberts Lusk-Roberts| continued, was intimated by . : tes and pledged that sooner or “love triangle Mayor Gill Thuraday. The POE, $0: EKG! m F0l) TAPORESTOB. | toe 9 hou praiuationa thadiiesed ‘Tidak wresailt)| 2.9 ayer is angry peesvee Putnam |futnam told the council that the {vel Tonee afoul» age nd. na that Mis sk woul " 00 he KK " 1 tthews ith men in the suffrage. tell everything concerning ber al! took money from Or. Mattnews Re Pn we rye rege There is no hunger strike. They lose with Dr. Roberts and laid a trap for his super jars that it took about $s00 Preakfasted well and were shown were in the tag of he iy rou yr lone Peventss by Matthews’ money to let War. ; the consider ation that prison attorney at the coroner's inqu iri i tect! : rules would permi ° dell run the gambling joint permi late yesterday, that he be permitted Wardel! to tey ‘and bribe him. ‘a wean tvdiouee _Ton row the wil step forth oe ate ad no right to lay BP Ae free again, determined to go ahead jambling {s against the law, R # denied thie privilege, on | trap tor his wperior mn ora,” nai hcttaet BEAN teee. at ‘: ith thelr suffrage campaign. Just objection of, the doctor's counsel. Mayor | Gi bg iy not. Where did the earnings go?” | “bat thelr colleagues plan is a se fe coroner's ju urned a for e had no right to do anythis - : ret, which even a woman keeps The mayor says be HT © p mal verdict to the effect that Mrs. but what [ told him—namely, run! ),/ 0 IMvOt wt 3 Nei per Pe mal verdict to the effect that Mra bat what I ms grind wen be tae vee" TRICK UNIFORM MAY fiicted by Miss Luak The mayor says he may discon.) pane nD SHAME SLACKERS | By United Press Leased Wire | WASHINGTON, June 28.— Yankee ingenuity today aut classed the British method of shaming recruits into the army POWERS IS FREED OF BRIBERY CHARGE Police Inspector Mike Powers, vindicated late Wednesday of by pinning white feathers on the charge of bribery which slackers hung over his head many weeks, An inventor offered the war de went fishing Thursday. He will |partment a “trick costume,” in resume his duties Monday, the order for his reinstatement be- ing made a few minutes after his acquittal. It took a jury in Judge Ron. | ald’s court one hour and 50 min utes Wednesday night to decide that Powers did not accept a bribe of $50 from G, M. Wardell, private detective, February 27. There three ballots taken |which he offe | at to parade hunting volunteers. Seen from one side, a man clad in ft looks like a khaki uniformed soldier, The view from the other side shows the astonished witness an effeminate civilian wearing a monocle and a straw hat A placard shouting, “Don't Be a Half Man,",lent the final punch the were s nse and when an explanation of certain on testi was made to four hesitat ADVERTISING MANAGER'S ing by their fellows, the a¢ DAILY TALK quittal was speedy i Powers says the charge was} “spite work,” and that Sergt R s Friday Is uitnam, head of the dry squad, who a hired Wardell to “test the suscepti Bargain Day (Continued on Page 12) No Kaiser for Them BERLIN, Wis.—The this town 1 to be V You will find out all about it in the ads in today's Star, Seat tle’s best stores are represented with fine lists of spectals, which are well worth your careful con sideration of the mayor us called Standard Furniture Co..Page Bartell Drug Stores Page Grote-Rankin Page McCormack Rros Woodhouse-Grunbaum The Rhodes Co Fraser-Peterson Frederick & N Movie new MacDougall. Sou Bon Marche 8 9 kulser, becative the name of| Page 12 the place. An ordinance has been adopted making it a misdemeanor to refer to the executive in the old way, Berlin folk think the name of the place is bad enough as It is, without adding any trimmings. ot THE FASTEST GROWING PAPER IN THE NORTHWEST CIFIC NORTHWEST | " ONE CENT ‘the vigor of which I was capable, 2)and gag our —_.} and the demand of those whom the| howev emperor mupterotechaigepicn anna aan DOCU Ee Sriissstitshtstissteesstcciecsisssecciret esta Lia LAST EDITION i Been watching Mutt and Jeff lately? They're in the navy. Every & } foolish in The Salisbury rays Cloudy tonight and tomor # seseeszeeseeste: ssettestistsssiissinssiiitss sf DOLLARS TO SAVE | LIVES LATER That’s Advice He Gives in - Speech in Senate; Says He | Doesn’t Like to Grant _ Autocratic Powers. i 83RD DAY OF OUR WAR | (ficer had flown over German lin action » into the world Major of being the first jcates that Gen. Pershing if no the conditions he'll have to meet when he ade that National Guard unite are kents which are to follow the van= convoyed the first American troops to France jas in Parts today, enjoying to the fullest ve feted leave of an tor flying under Freneh colors wan reported — the food bill and hope for fo badowed all the main issues control by July 1 was aban= legisiation in (he senate Wy United Press Lensed Wie Direct to The Star WASHINGTON, June 28.—Sacrifice your dollars Ow; and save many lives that otherwise will be sacrificed, Se Hiram Johnson told the American people in a senate § today The nation; Me declared, has the power so to industrially and economically within a year as to m allied victory possible “before a single conscripted A soldier has set foot in France.” a | “America,” Johnson warned, “must make the sacrifice jin dollars and creature comforts within the next year or she |}must make thereafter the sacrifice in men—and then the sac= |rifice in material things as well. The short cut to victory i§ organization.” For this reason, he said, he would give his vote for the | food bill “according to the most extraordinary’ and autocratic powers ever before conferred in our nation.” Sounds Warning to Administration | That It’s Responsible to Country control Johnson paid a high tribute to Herbert Hoover and> |warned the administration that the country would hold i responsible for results With the obvious design of this bill to prevent speculas tion in food products and to control food prices, there is ape parently universal sympathy,” Johnson said. “The objections > voiced are not to the purposes or the objects of the legisla- tion but to the methods chosen “I concede that the powers conferred by the pending measure are of such extraordinary character that they Must be justified only by dire war necessity; but in the determima> tion of whether or such autocratic authority should be jconferred upon the officials of our government we are come lepend, in a great degree, upon their judgment, not | pelled t¢ {Granting of Autocratic Powers Is Necessary in Time of Peril Only he I do not grant such powers as have already been granted by acts passed by the congress, nor those embraced within” > this bill, because I like to or because T want to. oe “| do it because those whom the people of this nation }have chosen to administer in time of peace and to command in time of war most earnestly insist that the war can be car Iried to successful conclusion only by concentration of the autocratic powers demanded ; ‘In time of national crisis there must be lodged in one central agency the right immediately to use and direct every 4 }resource of the We have placed this authority with the president His is the power and his the re-} —— nation sponsibility “We, who fondly regard ourselves jas jealous guards of the rights and the liberties of the people, will be quick to resent and swift to remedy | | Jany abuse of the power we give STENOGRAPHER Personally, | have voted, and} will vote, to give the autocratic! 4 powers requested without fear of) The death of Elizabeth Dav- democ-| enport, 20, who died as the re- sult of a criminal operation, Wednesday, will be investigat- ed by a coroner's jury Friday, at 1:30 p. m. The girl worked as a stenog- rapher in the Green building, and lived with her mother and brother, at 211 Ninth ave. Mrs. Nellie Waughop, a nubee, who runs a sanitarium at 2180 B, Madison st.; Dr. lL. A. Wetchbrodt, who was present when the girl died at Providence hospital, and het mother and brother, have been summoned as witnesses. Coroner Tiffin personally is con- ‘ducting the investigation, and is | being aided by Deputy Prosecutor | Carmody STILL COUNTING COIN Five aiding machine operators ultimately affecting our racy, | have an abiding optimism} in the democracy of America, And a concentration of powers greater than those of any ruler on earth In a time of peril is a test of the cour and the confidence of democ in its own strength and vir ra tue “The same optimism which leg |me without fear to confer despotic | |power upon those who command us jtoday with the fixed determination | jto recall and redistribute these [powers when the crisis shall have passed, led me to oppose, with all to muzzle our people. the endeavor press: | Glad to Confer Power “A real democracy, sure of itself, may centralize its power for its own protection and can always tell its people the truth. That democ racy, Which fears to confer upon its chosen instrume he powers {necessary for its maintenance and | y still tabulating RedyCross do» {preservation and which fears the! nations Thursday mornifig, Many truth to its own people, has within | lists of employes who will give: it the seeds of dissolution. | amj|one day's wages have not yet been very glid, therefore at the request | received. The total donations, r, will probably not exceed (Continued on page 12) $450,000, #