The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 17, 1918, Page 1

S.EBOOKS _ SHOW GAIN THIS YEAR d Declares Supt. Murphine > | City Utilities Depart- ment After Investigation ANALYZES THE FIGURES o increase in car fares by the traction company is necessary to provide better service and meet the mew wage scale of the car men's union, declares Thomas Murphine, utilities superintendent, in his re port on the traction situation, com pleted Saturday morning Even the contemplated charge or| 1 cent for transfers is unnecessary, Murphine’s report shows. Murphine’s report shows that the company, on the admission of own books, made more money in thar any of the previous years The earnings for the first six nths of 1918 were $79,931.81 above average for the six-month peri since 1913, and at this rate the pany, during 1918, would earn 3 per cent, or .65 per cent above the average, on a valuation of the com pany property af $20,000,000 ‘The report does not supply any fix ures showing that the company's capital is $20,000,000, as claimed. oP? Murphine denies the com- pany’s claim that it needs a «higher fare to furnish an 18 per ‘A cent inerease in service at a cost of $1,062,000. The company offset the cost of this better service thru the opera tion of 120 additional one-man cars, the adoption of the skip stop and the waiving of certain franchise obliga tions on the part of the city, he says. These alone would give t traction company an additional $1 295,863. To obtain the extra revenue, there are three methods, according to Mur phine. One is the adoption of a 7-cent fare with a still further increase if the aa, j a COST COMPARISON Salaries paid officials of the Pu t Sound Traction, Light & Pow er Co. total $200,000 yearly, ac cording to the probe of the com. expense of the which is $112,000 Alt of operat! the managerial city of Seattle. ¥, or $98,000 I expense is less. of $10,500,000 000,000 worth city one-half away. The second i of a 6-cent for transfers t rn i ch fare and a na The third recommends the cit Jopt § ix the best of the firms. i Under e thir cit y v3 : 7 would waive its r riod of thé war to som ns imposed on the tract franchise More than PPiveled on the cars du to the About 40 emen. empl report per fire It ne trac 1 Idi were these poll other cit deadhead: men and there were no company 18 enue ort claim principal saving the adopt (Continuea om page 9) the wives and de. of more one-m: The allowance pendents o' African cont e war have been Best Buys in Seattle in Homes and Autos Are listed on Pages 10 and 11, in today’s Star UTOISTS! Don't 5 tle is crowded \ sailors who would enj the boulevards or so Sund: your diers’ elu day-—and give the boys _VOLL MI 20, NO. 146 The Seattle Star forget that Seat- § ith soldiers and } oy a trip around } me other outing } car to the Sol- 5 bat 2 p.m. Sun a lift \ LL LEASED WIRE SERVICE UNITED PF ASSOCIATIONS Gen. Foch’s Rolling Pin GIRL, 15, ENDS ~ LIFE: SAID SHE WAS NOT LOVED orence Fi len Hogan, pany’s books made by Thomas Murphine, city utilities ment. Murphine contrasts this with }/ th the room of cha of the med was heard by M nt t ta Otta t of the shot. and called from the foot of the stairs I'm all right ured the revol | AR fy Aes Mis i ih 7 years old » carried out her fatal de Ta rat $29 a. m the floc na departmer She ex eptionally pre s, being a junior ding t : fs 1, W. W. TRIAL GOES 10 JURY CHICAGO er the 1 fenda ‘ began A 1, attract the charge that 113 W. W. lead ers had interfered with war work IlIness and other cause uced the number of defendants to 9 American Fliers Smash Hun Depot WITH THE MIES IN FRANC bombing plane itching tracks AMER iean 1 roundhouse at Conflans afte returned safel fired on continually wer craft guns and had several encoun: |a bo {ters with German planes, Aug. 17 scored 18 dire altho AN AI Amer esterda antinir t they THE GREATEST DAILY SEATTLE, W ASH., CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER Pntered as fecond Clans Matter May 9, 1499 at the Postoffice at Heattle, W SATU RDAY, lf GASOLINE AND WAR STAMPS “This is over big,” every gasoline station an agent for handle the stamps. And my hunch to put the War aid a well known citizen tod Savings Uncle every time a pa ~~ fellow Stamps fake Sam to buys $1 worth of gas, he’d buy a two-Bit stamp, if it were iggested to him. In two weeks’ time over the top for our quota.” Perhaps it would But who insist that the use work, is not in good form. all doubt. teady contributor to a patriotic fund. tunity to remov be as be with Mixing gasoline be a dandy concoction. take it’s a good suggestion, a constant aid to Uncle § more than two isn't it we'd be wee There are those of gasoline, except for war Here there is an oppor The gasoline buyer would Sam. War Stamps $8 PER GALLON IS NEW WHISKY TAX : WASHINGTON tax f $8 a gallon on wh va wit fl ntatively de new rate uubject if the committee should AVIATORS BOMB LONDON, Au ntrating their efforts on Z ke, the Ger man submarine } Belgium British aviators, working with the dropped 60 tons of bombs on enemy positions during the period from August & to 15, the British air ministry reported today | In addition to operations against | Yeebrugge, bombs alxo were dropped on the Ostend docks and the air irome at Varsannacre, where fire were observed The tated 16 enem munique machines and one captive balloon re destroyed, and 15 machines re driven down out of control Three Gritlkh machines are missing A was bagged over Zeppelin th and a direct bit with ZEBRUGGE BASE : hort of the $8,000,000,000 goal the t ready to report I n other liquors are raise 1 n, but the committee ling information for two rea irances of extreme high rates would cause withdrawal ite from bond to escape taxs rate nged to mmittee t Ar per cent war profit tax, ask ed by the treasury department, will be enacted, with an exemption of 8 per cent for transport ming. per cent f¢ h other The wiopted by the per cent exemption, a flat Profits between 8 and 20 per cent ure taxed 40 per cent, and profit above 20 per cent are taxed 60 per cent A THRIFT STA appears other 10 per cent for manufacturir and 12 mining and dous undertakings excess profity tax committer nd general business, oil operators xemption of $3, He would to tentative get more rev was working f ex fea ation corpora practically in a 000, “ day | PM, AU at 1918, IN THE PACIFIC under the Act of Congress March & NORT. HWEST 1879 Enemy Prepares to Clash Sends Protest Note to Ger- many on Sinking of Steamer Somerstad With Growing Force of Allies in Russia CZECHS TAKE WASHINGTON, Aug. 17— German intention to break with the Bolshevihi and throw an 0 Russia to con ats in various developments on the East front, reported here in official circles today Withdrawal of German jor Von Mumm from Kiev | tend to depend upon th Ambaana declar in. indicate ir military to carry out program of levies on the wheat crops of Southern Russia forees in the Ukraine the elaborate Next in importance in the arrival from Moscow of the Bulgarian and Turkish ministers to Russia Feet ng against both of these diplomats is aid to have been bad, on account ¢ Bulgarian and Turkish violations f Russian territorial integrity. Re ral attempta on n were fru ki ports were that ses m ed by ives of both © Bolshev Protect Ambassador strat ‘The German ambassador to Russia staff at Pxkoff are reported ected by heavy naval from German warships at only 50 miles away, and ported prepared to flee to safety on the ships at the least sign of an up: rising The opinion here is that the mans that the Bols ower has waned, and that the course is to prepare for reesta re re Ger pvik real ment of the battle Mn far within Russian territory as pos En dis posed they ¢ fight. 5 make ath Dnetper riv a stand on ward to Kha Kov or the ack sea. Form New Line Te hold Rumar domination of © central powe r of military men hold the rmany will make a spec pon Petrograd and also seize Moscow erman press is very pessim t erning the Bolsheviki. Ber np admit the disappointment ist rule, which lared to be ir danger of collapse CZECHS CAPTURE SIBERIAN TOWN Aug. 17.—Irk n gee by Crecho assisted by Siberian state department an ment favorabl favor of war organized to the al with Ger Says Bolsheviki Defeat Slovaks in Kazan Engagement ° AMSTERDAM, Aug. 17.—Soviet forces have rounded Kazan, } by the Czecho-Slovaks, and are bom barding it, according to a dispater from Moscow today Another soviet army, advancing toward Onega, where a new allied expedition has landed in northern Russia, has occupied Kierillowka, On th outhern front” (probably the Don region, where the Cossacks are advancing northward), there is vio: | lent fighting Kazan is a of about 000 people on th nk of the Volga 100 miles north of Simbirsk and 450/ miles east of Mos W 1EN TO BE HAGEN, Aug. 17.—A defi on has been reached by the wers that Arehduke Karl | n shall be king of Poland, ac: cording to Berlin pewspapera, KING CHRISTIANIA Norwegian g¢ tons, w east of F August According government were naved IRKUTSK FRENCH WARSHIP DOWN 17.—The has protest Aug vermnent steamer of nk 25 miles south 4 on the morning of the United States of her crew of 30 to ail t. George Hansen declared the torpedo which sank the steamer cir cled the ship before striking, giving rise to the bellef that Germany onay have perfecte torpedo FRENC 4 a wireless-controlied H CRUISER . SUB VICTIM PARIS Hood ar na perixhed. rescued the # The Dupeti 17.—The French t Thouars has been 1 sunk, Thirteen per American destroyers urvivors t Thouars was complet ed in July 1901, and had a displace. ment of 9.517 tons. Her normal complement was 540 men, She was 452 feet long Her armament consisted of two 7.6 inch guns, eight 6.4 inch guns, three or four 3.9 inch guns, 16 three-pound ers and two submerged tor tubes, She was listed as an armor ed cruiser GASOLINE SHIP _IS SENT DOWN SHING eame Bri sunk off Cap torpedo yeste navy departn Nine of the ed at an early The Mirlo. ¢ Hatter ly by n, the 1 today ad not been land hour today it is believed, had a car e. That a torpedo hit not been definitely es- pre fterne announce rda ew b Spain Warns Huns They also cover Neyon, fromthe westward’ and) ae of U-Boat Trouble wherefore it seems but a matter of time before the Germans a toe LONDON warned Germ Spanish ships are a] man foreign c Aug nany Spain has that if sunk toll of any more she will take interned G harbors, the arned, Kronstadt Seized by German Forces, Is Finland Report PARIS, Aug, 17.—Rumors are cur in Finland that the Germans seized Kronstadt, the Russian al base, in the Gulf of Finland, recording to Stockholm Premier Le Trotsky recen vernment stadt, whict from Moscow a dispatch received from nd War removed th ntly Minister soviet to K miles is le than 236 Officers Are Executed as Aids ounter Revolt! to C STERD. of Kronstadt be lutionary ten uted, a N exec AM, Aug. 17.—Of a ficers imprisoned at unter revo have H loscow dis atch stated. 100 Are Killed in Rumanian Explosion ZURICH in a shell dey killed more tl jured 150 ceived from explosion is incendiary. Aug. 17.-An explosion vot at Vasiui, Rumania ran 100 persons and in ording to a dispatch re. Bucharest today believed to have been NO HIGHER STREET CAR FARES, SAYS REPORT SWEEP HUNS BACK |tor and in the neighborhood of Mer. Aisne bridges effectively yes ris. A few prisoners were taken. | nued their operations to | Hostile artillery showed consider effort to comple able activity near Mount Rouge and Seeuctiog f te aes er also Scherpenbe e 6 vie al herpen’ nd in the vicinity |" “nrartic across the Aisne in the last The | Noyon. Farther north the crescent is less pronounced. | new positions, the French have under their guns Butte Ge Plemont, Bois de Resreve and Mont Renaux NIGHT EDITION ONE CENT IN SEATTLE Per year by mail $5.00 to $9.00 Weather Forecas te inde Ad it winds: Evacuation of the Roye-Lassigny-Noyon salient on the Picardy battle front appears imminent. French troops have penetrated to within a mile of Roye and Lassigny, and are pushing northeastward ward Noyon, along the Oise valley. Capture of the dominating Lassigny heights has the French control of all this territory, and all towns are practically untenable. Further north the British have made additional along the Ancre, above Albert and between Roye and Somme. In Flanders, British patrols continue to seize positions around Vieux-Berquin and Merris and enemy retirement on the western edge of the salient s probable. Reports from Russia, received thru Bolsheviki soure declare Czecho-Slovak forces have been surrounded Kazan, on the Volga, and that the city is being bomb In southern Russia a violent battle is raging between Pie and Cossack forces. The Bolsheviki claim to be dri the allies back toward Onega, in Northern Russia. f DISPATCH FROM JOHN DE GANDT \ (By United Press Leased Wire, Direct to The Star) PARIS, Aug. 17.—(4 p. m.)—The French are at gates of Roye. They have occupied the advance defe of the town southward of the Avre river. They h also occupied the junction of the Montdidier-Estrees Dennis roads. St. Mard has been taken after the fiercest fi from house to house. The Germans had formidal fenses at this place. Beyond Loges wood the Germans were pushed b behind the Roye-Lassigny road. Camp De Car, a mile west of Roye, has been captui while the Midian trench and Plessis de Roye, less than mile southwest of Lassigny, have been occupied. A number of prisoners and a great quantity of n terial were taken. The enemy is reported to be prep for evacuation of the Roye-Lassigny-Noyon salient. German troops are said to be constructing Hindenburg line. i DISPATCH FROM WEBB (By United Press Leased Wire, Direct to The Star) PARIS, Aug, 17—Almost yard by yard, French and British are prys r way between five vital points in the Germans’ Picardy line, rene old on certain places snore and more precarious, eXtreme southern corner the battle front the French h € ed n. Von Boehm over the e of the important r heights, dominating the country for miles ind. They are now p ng slowly over the difficult country southwesi of Lassigny, which cut up into hills and valleys which are ideal for ma gun nesta, 4 « and metho lly, Marshal Foch is tightening ¢he crescents shaped line around both Lassi and erting pressur> on the horns of the crescent between Chaul Lassigny, and in the center of both Meanwhile, he is aiming between Royéuan a between Lassigny a scents. a thrust directly wcuate Lassigny—the second of the bulwarks of the present ling: BRITISH GAIN ACTION ALONG IN FLANDERS | VESLE BATTLE AND PICARDY FRONT GROWS LONDON, Aug. 17.—Further prog AMERICAN ARMIES ress on the western front was re: Aug. —(Night.—= ported by Field Marshal Haig today. | Fighting along the Vesle river today British troops also advanced in| was the liveliest in several days, on the western edge of the Flanders| The Germans, shortly after mids | salient | night, opened with a bombardment 4 which continued for hours. They used more gas than at any time in 7 e than a week pressure of our troops north and north of the Ancre con the statement said In the neighborhood of Vieux » big guns of the Frengeene uin our patrols’ engaged in| Americans answered _ vigorously sharp fighting yesterday and there | cneling enemy positions from the were further encounters during the/}cights just north of Vesle, Clear sity back to the Aisne d in this sec- ‘Our troops progre American airmen, who bombed of Zillebeke lake. French and U. S. Men Sink 2 Subs |few days has been much heavier }than usual, according to observers, It consists largely of ammunition trucks headed south, and ts accepted as indicating that the enemy has de _ PARIS, Aug. 17.—-President Poin: | termined to hold the present lines Ins care, after witnessing the debarka: | dofinitely : tion of an American convoy a - -— French port today, was told that two) LOUISVILLE, Ky, Aug. 2% German submarines had just & Nearly 2,000 student soldiers received sunk, One was sunk by a French | commissions as second Heutenants at vessel and the other by the Ameri.) the first graduation exercises ag cans. After debarkation, Poincare|Camp Taylor. Maj, Wm, Snow @e visited American debarkation camps, | livered an