The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 24, 1917, Page 1

REGULATE ’EM There can't be too much attention paid to the many autos now carrying passengers. The police are busy, we know, but at the same time they should give all the attention possible to curbing speeding. If the bus drivers would also get to gether to divide the routes systematically, all the better. CHARGE VOLUME 19 ARAPPADRARAPR PPAR RAPD PPP PPP PPD DLP ALAR ARAAD Yours? You can't prove it, Ours? prove it. “WHOSE FLAG?” it their flag? We can't prove it, The food-hog's? The copper-hog's? They can almost prove it! But, glory-be! The steel-hog's? Not quite! SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1917 SHORTAGE Is it the flag of the hundred million? The excess-war-profit-hog’s? Turn to page six, and read the answer to the question—the biggest question before the American people today—a question that must be answered right! AIRDRIE Nn nnn Ry LILLIA APPL LD PD PPL RPP PPP PPPS PPP PPP APRA APP The Seattle Star | y “GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY NEWSPAPER | OF ANY NEWSPAPER IN PACIFIC | NORTHWEST } The hundred million can't Is “WHOSE FLAG” bess sbtsstestests tess iiss tisisssssisitersssscssssissci terse s cies LAST EDITION Offer of car strikers to arbitrate in fair enough, eh, what? You becher. Fair on the part of the fare boys, In other words. Where upon the weather man also says: “Fair.” He promises fair weather for today and Wednesday, too. ONE CENT "y""*™ HERR TO BANKER: ARBITRATION OF CAR STRIKE IS UP TO LEONARD OF UNION ARRESTED He Was Auiiane Cashier of | Union Trust and Savings Company CHARGES “HIGHER UP”) Deputy Sheriffs Frank Brew: er and Matt Starwich arrested Couch at the offices of his at- torneys in the New York | block at 12:30 p. m. scheduled to appear Judge Gordon this aft arrange for his bond. taken to jail while was being raised. bail A warrant was issued Tues- day by Prosecutor Lundin for the arrest of Charies Couch, assistant cashier of the Union Savings & Trust Co. who, ac cording to officiais of the bank, ig held responsible for the em | bezziement of approximately | $17,000. | The specific informat! against him, as filed in the si Perior court, only charges the Shortage of $1,829.03. Couch, according to Lundin, he didn’t take the money, but th: he covered up the shortages Yh der to keep his job. His bond wil! be set at $5,000. | The alleged shortage was} brought to the attention of the} Prosecutor by Hugh H. Todd, attor ney for the state bank examiner. The shor e first discovered when a customer of bank had his accounts investigated by a pub This is the first photograph of On the transport here shown, and cround have Just stepped from the Me accountant. A comparison with the books of the bank showed the accounts to be $2,000 short Investigation showed, according to Cashier Roll Sanford, that Couch was responsible, or at least knew of the disappearance of $1,829.08 of this amount. The in spection also disclosed other differ- ences between the accounts and the b totalling $17,000. Couch had been connected with DENMAN the bank for nine years 1 had | By United Press Leased Wire been assistant cashier since Jan WASHINGTON, July 24 wary, 1916. He is a married mao 4 : but has no children. In Seattle he s were taken lives at 1216 First ave. W., but dur n today to put ing the summer has his home at A Brownsville, Kitsap county He is u £ about 25 years of age, and came to rea rchant Seattle from Sedro-Woolley, where 2 | he was employed by e Bingham |" Banking Co those of Ger ana Until now, according to Sanford,| ger of the 1 ect be has borne “re jon Corporation, 3 ‘ hite "We don't know yet what acom-| >; the chipping | Figo Plete check of the bank's books ma Poe 5 Mie gek show 4 Sanford at noon. “We accepted. ¢ rman De at have Couch in several Hes, the hipping ard sowa and I don't believe asked to reeign that he didn’t tak At the same time the president aly covered up the announced the appointment of Ed Others so that he wouldn't lose win R. Hurley, Chicago, as chair dob.” man of the shipping board, and Ad Couch was arrested and brought mira) Capps, naval constructor, as & Burkheim attorneys, to repre- general manager of the emergency ent will be! fleet corporation. arre afternoon Pair abrid Colby, New York, named in White's place on cael resignation to the presiden na letter promising fullest sup Edwin N. Hurley until re tl lwas —_ n of th federal trade take charge of his busine ter OVER VERDICT f:siite: Bainbridge Colb a progressive prominent business SAN FRANCISCO, July 24.— Hopeless division of the jury active in the | Ne York and wa yf Wilson's candidacy in In the a Mooney bomb plot | 0" ing trial was indicated today when miral Capps is a well-known Eee, Seawall vooenvenes ng constructor, He was born court to await a verdict from the 12 men who hold the fate Va, in 1 t Portsmouth rom the L of the woman charged with Sted trom tle murder in connection with the Oy) ioe in th ade explosion ; gee He represents’ the score of ballots y-" 6" 4+ the international maritime taken, and that) ference in London in 1913, and ere standing out) {Oring the last two years has done freement were circu | extensive work in naval archi liberations of the| tecture PA Sheet” Jury have been exceedingly stormy hla iey was clearly shown. Within four) “We will start with a clean hours after the 12 men retired| sheet,” the president explained in wounds of verbal stife came clear-| his letter to Goethals, accepting ly from the jury room. One man,| his resignation offer. It was evident from the prompt fn heated deba was heard to call another “an rchist,” and hot ness with which the president act word idible even on the floor|ed that he had had the “house below wer ainly | cleant in mind for several days hea vening, how The ing out of the premier eve jurors quieted canal builder caine as a. complete presumed that surprise to Washington. It wa Noting was continuing. elieved that the president would 1 iooney remained her cell ke one last attempt to mollify two condending men aud get eal, but retaining her|them to work together in the great of confidence, nevertheless. | ship construction program She has told fellow prisoners that| In accepting Goethals’ resigna she feels certain that the jury can-|tion, the president wrote the fol Bot possibly convict her. lowing letter: looking worn out from her the or long smile GEN. GOETHALS AND ‘ ‘them to report at Atlantic and Pa STRIKERS OFFER — lcompany on strikers’ offer to arbitrate. lattitude of the traction com- jard told The Star PEACE; COMPANY PLANS WARFARE TODAY’S CAR STRIKE DEVELOPMENTS 4 @ Striking union carmen offer to arbitrate and submit list of leading citizens to the company who will be agreeable as the third arbitrator. 7 Offer made direct to company w hen President Leonard refuses media- tion plan of King County Council of Patriotic Service. |@ Leonard holds out little hope of accepting labor’s peace plan. \g Traction company imports 60 more strikebreakers and prepares to. operate cars again. @ City fights traction company’s effort to stage legal battles in federal court. Arguments before Judge Neterer last all morning. C. A. Reynolds on hand to intervene in behalf of the strikers by asking court to force traction company to obey arbitration clause of its franchise. @Strike of men in company power houses held up pending action of The first indication of therRenton this morning was to the! The union strike commie an effect that 60 strikebreakers were |yesterday submitted to brought from Argo Monday night|an offer to arbitrate all points 1a and k pt in Renton all night. Their |volved in the strike ff the re: whereabouts could not be|pany would reinstate tha men que mined | charged here and in T se That another attempt to operate | joining the union, The union cats will today is the want the arbitration board com- opinion at strik dquarters, but posed of a company representa= company officials were reticent on tive, a union representative and the subject one of the following men to be Fight Rages in Court chosen by the compa ‘ pany toward the clear-cut of- fer to end the car strike by peaceful arbitration made by the striking union carmen last night came Tuesday noon, {when President A. W. Leon- that “he pe supposed he would have to hy legal battle of the city to M. A, Gottstein, manager of the actual disembarkation of Gen. shing’s main army in France. It has b passed by the censor. |make a reply.” a court order compelling the) the Gottstein Furniture Co. many others like it, the American soldiers were carried to Europe. The soldiers shown in the fore “I can't say when we will company to furnish service, raged J. Allen Smith, professor of ship. Others still aboard are eagerly waiting opportunity to get down the gangplank __lanswer,” said Leonard, “and %!! morning in federal court before) political and social science and i AR STRIKERS LEONARD CALLS ASWAR MOVE — IN LABOR WAR The strike committee of the J. H. Bloedel, former presi- street car unions Tuesday dent of the West Coast Lumber. morning started a move to men's association, and one of | place the jitney busses of the the most active mill owners in city on a firm financial ba the fight to defeat the eight- «© hour day strike, was called into BOTH OUT, Hieving the to ‘ t wean the trac. conference by President A. W tion coms od invest. Leonard, of the traction com: ment as substit trolle pany Monday afternoon, short- car, the comm an layin ly after The Star's editorial de- plan h morning to tain the nouncing war on labor was backing of the 1 Coun. published, They were together cll assoclatio’ of the nearly three hours Carpenters’ } » stockhold Altho It was announced that ers of the Mutual laundry, for the) Leonard was “very busy and Mutnal Bonding Co could not see visitors for some an, father of the plan, time,” Bloede! gained admit ca th whl t ma ” some tance when he told the clerk tin e all of the details in the outer sanctum that “Mr. be worked out thir t Leonard phoned me to come able that th is will offer their, over.” properties ecurity for the loan edel's call on Leonard may of $350,000 which Insurance Com a direct bearing on the lum | missioner Fishback says the Mutual per and street car strikes Bonding Co, must obtain before it While Sacretary, Gordon -C.. Cor Admiral Capps, appointed by Can write bor for Jitney baley, of the Chamber of Commerce President Wilson to succeed Gen. Sse and Commercial Club cooled his Goethals as head of the Emergency , The Labor ter is valued heels in the ante-room, Leonard and Fleet corporation. $120,00, the Car hail Bloede! conferred - $250,000, and the Mutual laundry 4 Risedal toot leasing’ pert $50,000. a leading part in My Dear Goethals: Your raising (he lumbermen's $500,000 letter of Ju ) does you great Jackpot to resist the eight-hour day t 1 oe elwed a ‘ine atrike spinit Or'bublic Auty, ch as I bot ‘5 6. SNYDER T0 eonard had just fintshed refus learned to expect from yo ing the King County Council of ‘This is, as you fa a 4 7 atriotic Service plan to mediate where the service of the public ne ktrike, when Bloedel arrived the only thing to be considered. T won't discuss my conference . with Mr. Leonard,” Bloedel sald Seif-Forgetting Course Wuseday “Persc cling and personal | Leonard's refusal to tell what the proferenc be resolutely put meeting was about v sai aside, and we must do the thing | 4 a that is most serviceable Within a few days, Edgar C, Sny It is with this fact in mind that) der, newly appointed federal com I feel constrained to ay I think! missioner of conciliation, will! AQVERTISING MANAGER'S that you have interpreted your!) make an attempt at medisting the | DAILY TALK duty rightly lumber strike which threatens to — No impartial determination of|tie up Uncle Sam's Puget sound |~ the questions at issue can no business Seattle leading tores COAL TO HOLLAND . United Press Leased Wire AMSTERDAM, July 24.—Ger- many stopped all exportation of coal to Holland today. navy department today requisition ed seven oll tankers and ordered| p; THE FASTEST GROWING PAPER N THE NORTHWEST cific ports, in order to meet urgent fuel oil needs of the navy. TOBACK “JTS” BLOEDEL TO AID :: are| the shipbuilding program on Snyder announced Tuesday mor way promptly and effectively to ing that he would offer his services |offering unusually attractive} completion and success. It ix best|/ag a mediator within a few days 4 ¥ vargains these days, to partly that we take the self-forgetting and that he hoped to arrange for) ”” ¢ 1 1 course you suggest and begin again! confer between the nm nd }compensate you for the extra with a fresh sheet of paper—begin! employers within a short time trouble of coming down town.| not only on the shipbuilding, but Snyder received his appointment |The Star, as usual, has com the further administration of the|by telegraph Monday from Secre-|yJete pews of what yoing | program. The shipbuildi bap-|tary of Labor Wilson on the re ee ti tiaettpeae ey fl Ke 6 pily, in large part, begun can|ommendation of Henry White, im ; be now be readily r ot debates! migration commissioner of the dis. News that you really can’t} that have unquestionably darkened | tric afford to overlook See to-| it He will confine his attentions to day’s ads, for instance With deep appreciation, there- strike outside of Seattle The best offerings of Seat fore, of your generous attitude, and . (Gant : 10 r tle’s best stores appear regu pnbnued sn'nage, 49) GERMANY CUTS OFF iariy in the Star WASHINGTON, July 24,—The Judge Neterer. Corporation Coun: sel Caldwell appealed to the court to send the mandamus suit back to ec Caldwell and traction at- torneys argued, C, A. Reynolds, for- tO mer head of the state public service commission, and now volunteer at-| torr for the striking carmen,| d the outcome, ready to inter: dean of the U. of W. graduate school. Henry Suzzallo, president of the U. of W. and Lasers of the State Council of F Harold Preston, preeldag “of se the King County Council of Patriotic Service. U. S. Immigration Commis " sioner Henry M. White. : I can’t say yet what our atti- tude will be.” The arbitrat ie strike ¢ carmen, ard late ye noon mad \ wi head's refu to ac lide aka * &\” | vene on f of the men The striking carmen agree to re cept e pla 1 of ediation ad “If the court hears the mandamus /turn to work, pending arbitration — anced by the King Countyjsuit I will intervene on behalf of of all other differences with Counce of Patriotic Service.|the strikers and ask the court to) pany St had cepted it when order the company to obey its fran The offer was framed in the of- te ? . final ¥ chise obligation to arbitrate,” said|fices of Charles A. Reynolds, for) eonard’s re a wa Te-| Reynolds. | (Continued on page 10) : ceive NC TCORL ERED ‘ The Patriotic Council was in executive session all morn- ing. No one except council members were present. In the eantime, according to strik ing “guards” at the Jefferson st. car barns, three automobile loads of strikebreakers were unloaded and escorted under ORDER TO ARBITRATE guard into the barns q No Progress Yet Immediate arbitration of the | prepared to make the move for We can't report progress t any! oar strike by court order will the labor men at the first open- nd,” said President Prestur., of in 3 the council, at noon. “All morning| be demanded by striking car- This marks the first etal the we have been talking ways and| men, thru Attorney C. A. | strikers into the legal arena. means, and we are hoping that) Reynolds, former chairman of Points Out Subterfuge a there may be a way out the state public service com- Thetr petition will point out that |” The councll will meet acain to-| mission, If the company refuses the company is bound to arbitrate night with Dr. Henry Suzzallo,| the strikers’ arbitration offer, | by its franchise, and its course in chairman of the state board of ce renewed late yesterday. refusing the fundamental right to 9% fense. | Prepared to intervene as a organize is a subterfuge for the Preston says no plan of action| party in the legal dispute be- | “sole purpose of preventing arbitra- will b ented for Suzzallo's| tween the city and the traction _ tion.” considerati but that his opinion company over resumption of Because the city and traction will be requested. | service, Reynolds was in fed- company attorneys were involved A well authenticated report from! eral court Tuesday morning, | (Continued on page 9) Will Leonard Measure Up? The Star all along has said the street car men are right. The men today have proved they are right. Only men who are right, and know they are right, are willing to arbitrate. The street car men today offer to ar- bitrate everything if the company reinstates the men it has discharged or suspended here and in Tacoma for joining the union. This is but a trifling concession asked of a «om- pany which is advertising that it is not opposed to unions and collective bargaining. In the opinion of The Star, the men have gone the limit. Even tho struggling for their very existence, they have recognized our national peril, and the necessity for indus- trial peace at home. They have proved themselves real patriots. WE HOPE MR. LEONARD AND HIS ASSOCIATES WILL MEASURE UP TO THIS SAME STANDARD OF PATRIOTISM.