The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 12, 1921, Page 14

POOR SHIPS CAUSE MANY _ SEA WRECKS Faulty Construction Fattens | Profits of Builders Who s Shout “Sabotage” BY J, F. RICHARDSON SAN FRANCISCO, July 12.—"Tho gailors are committing sabotage are putting emery dust in the . Machinery” ‘This cry goes up every time a shipping board ship is disabled, and the public ts led to believe the men who sail the seas in government} ships are an organized gang of an-| Prehists who, at every opportunity, Open seacocks, scuttle ships and do. Vght in depriving America of one more boat. SINKING LAID TO BUILDING FAULTS Every day last year a shipping ~ ‘doard boat was disabled. Not one hour of each 24 in the 365 da 1920 but saw one or more shipping board ships laid up at some domes- Uo or foreign port, and “sabotage” Was not once called from the house. tops. But, since the seamen’s strike, @abotage, according to public report and popular fancy, is responsible for the disablement of ships. Not more than two years ago ships were sinking at the docks at Seattle after coming off the ways - @nd awaiting their sea trials. Loose rivets was the answer. Sev- eral of those ships showed from 500 to 5,000 loose rivets each, which | Meant so many jets of water into THE SEATTLE STAR | YORK AND HIS FAMILY | The greatest hero of the war, with his wife and 8-month- old Alvin York, Jr., in the yard of the mountain home that may be lost to the family by mortgage foreclosure proceed- ~ the ship when she reached her @lements—but nobody yelled “sabot-/ age” | At Cleveland, Ohio, it was proved that “piped™ forgings—that ts,| cracked in their centers—which were | condemned by both shipping board | A@n@ classification bureau inspectors and junked, were steadily rescued forge men, welded up at the) rusted with salt water and/ rough-turned to deceive in @pectors and deliberately placed in ships which were to carry soldiers and supplies to the trenches. Some of those forgings were cut ERS to be fractured to within half an! Yet the fed eral court at Cleveland ruled such Practice was NOT sabotage. SCORES OF SHIPS 1} DECLARED DEFECTIVE these forgings break, as bound to do sooner or later, of “sabotage” will again go || HERE'S MORE ABOUT common day laborer, thi dental to an act of Pro ‘That “act of Provide red-headed sergeant war's greatest hero, not only thru- out America, but in every allied country. On October 18, 1918, in the Ar- fgonne forest, York single-handed killed 25 Germans, put out of com mission 35 machine guns and march made the in two, In some cases, and found | ed into camp 1323 German captives, | and including a major and three lieuten. ants For his feat he won the Con gressional Medal of Honog and the Croix de Guerre, pinned on by Mar shal Foch himself, SPURNED OFFERS THAT WOULD HAVE MEANT WEALTH Spurning movie and vaudeville of ships in the board's | offers that would have made him |!ow prices. WORLD'S WAR HERO STARTS ON PAGE 1 to commercialize the fame which was only inet nee,” he says. - jtim almost directly acrom the road serip For a time things moved serene. jty. York, whose whole ambition had been to own a home in his Tenneance | mountains, farm his own land, hunt |the foxes that roamed the hills show true hospitality to the strangers who passed his door, was wholly content. A little later Alvin C. Jr. came, and life seemed even more worth living. But such good fortune was not to Crops were a big disappointment. Farm products brought exceptionally Taxes reached an wun have euch defective work and|rich, he came back to his mother’s | Precedented high figure. in them. PIANO WIRE, i OF A SURVEYOR's IN- STRUMENT. Those shafts were out of line as to or Jater, in- igh sea. out bear. hip” and tear loose thrust collars, iblic was not tolt not accused of sab- ‘was proved they such ships—they were profits on the ships they didn’t deliver in time for war—and was sald. But when ships, which man-jack of experienced per- gonnel of the shipping board knows 'ST SHOW BREAKAGE IN THE 4 OF SEA SHOWS UP FAULTY BUILDING were built at Beaumont, ‘Tex., with thousands upon thousands of short treenails in them—treenalls 60 short tl lanking could not be held to the ships long enough to get them thru their sea trials. When the sea, we hear of some more “sail- or sabotage.” At Cleveland, ships were turned Out with their refrigerating appar- atus choked with blocks, bolts, debris of all sorts. At the same place some ships WENT ONTO THE ROCKS IN THEIR SEA TRIALS BECAUSE OF DEFECTIVE STEERING AP- PARATUS. Did anybody cry sabot- age when those ships showed up @uch deficiencies? eThey did not—and the builders collected for such jobs, and a hand- fome profit they got under the cost- plus contracts, But when such ships whow defects since the strike—it's @abotage, and the sailor is the goat. Notoriously bad engines and boil- ers were placed in our ships—and ‘when, after a year or two of opera- tién, this bad machinery fails—the builder who put it there is paid his swollen profits and the sailor is ac- cused of sabotage, GAYS MORE WRECKS ARE INEVITABLE In the South Atlantic ports ships were turned out with the LONG BOLTS IN THE ENGINE BEDS MISSING. When that machinery mow shifts ‘out of line and wrecks @omething—more “sabotage”—since @ast hag just completed an expen- ive job of taking off of each of its Ships a telemotor steering system found to be undependable, and in- stalling a new one, Yet the bullders collecteg for that system—and no one yellea “Sabotage!” The shipping board knows of these cases, In ‘ts department of investi- gation are yolurninous files on 1,500 Or 2,000 cases of this sort. Was the Public told these things? It was not, Did the builders collect for such work over the protest of the shipping board's conscientious investigators and_ inspectors? They did—~tnd harflsomely, too, Sabotage i# a terrible thing. There hillside farm and took up the hoe ‘A short time later he married a firl of the netkhhorhood. Friends and admirers picked out a farm for SEATTLE KIDS SPLASH WATER Learn to Swim at Beaches; Classes, Wednesday Seattle youngsters, from 4 to 16, kicked and splashed at the Madrona and Mount Baker park beaches Tuesday, and succeeded in propelling themselves a few feet by means of the old-fashioned dog-paddle. “The first thing that must be learned is not to fear the water,” Instructor Ernest Wells explained. “The Dead Man's float and the dog- paddle are the best means to teach confidence. After them come the more intricate strokes.” It is not too late for the kiddies to Join the free swimming classes or- ganized by the park department. Wednesday's classes will all be held at the Seward Park beach. those ships give under the lash of |Giris' classes are from 10 a. m. to 1 Pp. m., and the boys will be taught from 1:30 to 4 p. m. CHILD DROWNS” SAVING FRIEND Little Girl Wades Beyond Depth; Companion Saved TACOMA, July 12.—Doris Ander. son, 10, is dead today, the result of her 10-year-old companion, Voight, lake, near here. Both were in bathing. The Voight girl sank suddeny Joris, wading to her assistance, went beyond her depth. A} Sodenberg, a boy swim- mer, saw the struggles of Dorothy and pulled her out, but did not see the other girl, and Doris drowned, Neither child could swim, Dorothy Movies Seized by Police in Hungary BUDAPEST, July 12-—When the theatres in Hungary be confiscated in June the owners of the Budapest movies inscription, “Private property is in- violable.” The police seized these screens as likely to incite the people to revolt. have ships breaking down 265 days a year, then, a8 soon as the seamen strike, accuse THEM of all this breakage?” And the shipping board must an swer this question. . conti 4 Which have been in itg files at Waghington for ah sailors, it is true--and the men guil- » ty of it should be sent to the peniten- tary. “But why,” ask the seamen, “why let builders guilty of putting defec- tive material and bad machinery into Ships collect princely profits from the people and go unscathed? Why two years and prosecutejjome of the men rveponsible for this Breakage? VANCOUVER, 8, Sze, Peking, new Ct’ San Francisco, arriy of Russia, | her heroic effort to save the life of| from drowning in Waputo| nment issued an execu- | f) that all moving picture | displayed screens with the} Disablement of ships ts hound to} . But why doesn't the ship. | ping board dig out the evidence in| @re a few cases of it in the ranks of | some of those 2,000 c C—Dr TP ' MORTGAGE AND BILLS ACCUMULATE ‘With the $13,500 mortgage for we balance on his farm due this fall, things went from bad to worsa, A $260 grocery bill accumulated and the grocer feels unable to extend much more credit. York ts tolling from “kin to kant” —from earliest break of day to the last Hngering light-—to prevent Wis life's dream from being shattered. But It looks like a vain task. “Religious faith sustained me In my danger and removed my fear,” he says. “I was only a pawn In the hand of Providence. Any credit that is due for my achievements should #0 to the Lord. For me to attempt to take any credit personally would be a great wrong. “But He will see me thru? HERE’S MORE ABOUT OLD BOTTLE STARTS ON PAGE ONE bus discovered ft. Terrific winds, that ewept with herculean strength over tho Northwest corner of the United States, felled in three hours last January 29 as much timber as is cut in a whole year tn all the combined logging operations tn this state. And tho debris, —tInnocensible, mamed and drying beneath the tan gled giants of the fo that fell, walts only for a match or @ care less cigaret—or the broken bottle} and the #un—to start the fury of unquenchable flamen, In the heart of that mass of fallen timber, which represents some 6,000,- 000,000 board feet of lumber, there are no roads, Thru a 60-mile stretch from La Push, an Indian village, south ward to the Quillayute Indian res tion, humans have never trod, except occasionally a wandering hunter who crawled thru trails of the wilderness. For that reason the 6,000,000,000 board feet of timber, victtm of the storm, will never be salvaged, For that reason, too, it cannot be reached by an efficient apparatus if a spark | kindles at its heart. IMPOSSIBLE TO LOG FALLEN TIMBER Hemlock, spruce and aflver fir, trees that will rot in two or three | years, dropped in the mighty cy. clone, If railroads were built into! the unpenetrated forest to bring them out, the trees would bé worth. | less by tho time the lines were in| operation, Moreover, danger lurks for the men who would log in that forest. Uprooted trees are hanging In mid-air, supported by each other's dead weight, The release of one would release many. Lumberjacks could not shift to safety. So, with other thoughts bealdes that of garnering gain from the storm's toll, interested parties * are hoping—merely hoping—for the sal- vation of the 25,000,000,000 board feet of lumber that still stand, Persons who held small claims for years have abandoned thelr ventures and charged them up to loss, For, it was the «mall claim holder who was hit. ‘The storm jumped from spot to epot, devastating here a few acres and there 2,000 or 3,000 acres at a blow. Kast of the Olympic mountains the great forest was untouched. “In that wonderful section, with government trees of 10 and 12 feet in diameter, there was one of the finest pulp wood chances in the country.” said W. G. Weigier, supervitor of the Snoqualmie National forest. “The chance still remains,” he added thoughtfully, “if im the next two years fate plays on the side of man—if, in = word, the match, the cigaret or, yes, in deed, the sun and the old glass bottle do not conspire.” ‘The Washington Forest Fire asso- ciation has issued a statement In which it declares: “The fire hazard iu very great and one cannot con celve of a worse condition, The ait- uation cannot be alleviated by clear. ing up debris or by constructing fire trafla. “The vtate and association patrol force in this zone consists of 20 men. A detail of the State National Guard is stationed at Lake Crescent to rem- ulate tourist traffic, Autos and wpeed wagons are covering what roads there are and three airplanes are patroling daily.” | We are doing everything pos- sible,” said an official, “and that | amounts to little.” “Little, indeed,” Welgier remind. ed, “if the chunk of glass and the HY {Ba 17 | black, gray, brown and 16 to 42. i || solid leather. The Pump: heels, 4nd the high shoes C and D widths, 1% and 5 a pair THE BON MARCHE RGAIN BASEME | —Wednesday— ‘One Thousand Yards of 37-Inch Superior English LONGCLOTH Chamois Finish Taffeta, Tricolette and Crepe de Chine Dresses $11.90 — And besides these there are dresses of taffeta combined with Georgette. awaits your choice, and the colors shown are mostly Women’s White Shoes $2.00 and $3.00 | They're high shoes and low, in white canvas or reignskin, and all have welt or turned soles of good, s and Oxfords have high wun should work! Ca Yd. A profusion of styles navy. Sizes range from s have high or low heels, B, Sizes 5%, to 8 $3.00 a pair SECOND FLOOR A Special Purchase of Fifty Satin | and Silk Dresses—Wonders at... Long-waisted models in blue, brown and black crepe de Ohine, Canton crepe and heavy satin elaborately beaded or trimmed with ribbon fringe. THE PON MARCHE 25.00 TheBonMarché MEMBER SEATTLE BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU Wednesday in the July Clearance Will Be a Day of Shoe Savings Reduced prices for quick clearance and very low prices on special new lots both play an impo ant part in these superior economies. Broken Lines of Oxfords at 5.95 A broken line of sizes in footwear—bought at a price to sell at a price— Brown Calf Oxfords with sensible heel—also Black Kid or Calf Oxfords. * 13.50 High Grade Pumps and Oxfords 8.80 Reduced to Excellent Shoes, these, in gray suede with one strap, also plain pumps of gray or brown suede with fancy inlays. You will also find brown and gray suede Sport Oxfords with kid trimmings to match. Boys’ 3.00 Scout Shoes for 2.15 Boys’ 4.00 Scout Shoes for 2.85 © Scout Shoes, made of chocolate colored calf, with sewed and nailed soles—just excellent for vacation wear—sizes 10 to 2 at 2.15—sizes 214 to 81% at 2.85. 6.50 and 8.50 Pumps Now at 4.95 Footwear specially re- duced for this event— Black Satin Pumps with one strap and Black Kid Pumps with two straps— all sizes in the lot, but —— not in every style—at a 4.95 a pair. Women’s 10.00 to 11.00 Strap Pumps Are 2. 80 Reduced to Gray Kid and Suede Pumps—values that will win much favor in the July Clearance. Made with either Louis or Baby Louis heels—also Black and Brown Kid Pumps with one or two straps, with Louis heels. A Group of 8.50 to 10.00 Sport Oxfords Reduced to 6.80 In this clearance lot of Shoes you will find both strap and lace style in combination colors of brown and white, blue and white and biack and white—Tan Calf Oxfords with stitched tips and sensible heels— also Black and Brown Oxfords with low or military heels, and Black Kid Pumps with one strap. UPPER MAIN FLOOR—THE BON MARCHE Useful Items From the Drug Sections —Men’s five-row extra quality open-back Hair Brushes at 45¢ and T5¢. —Hughes’ Ideal Cush- ion Brush at 79¢ to 1.75. —High grade Fountain Syringes at 2.50. —Large size Water Bottle—No. 2 at 95¢; 2-quart size at 1.25. 5.95 6.95 6.95 dozen 6.95 dozen UPPER MAIN FLOOR Satin finish—68x68—napkins to match ALL-LINEN PATTERN CLOTHS 68286—formerly 13.50—Napkins HALF-LINEN CLOTHS 4.95 70x70 inches—formerly marked at 7.50 HALF-LINEN PATTERN CLOTHS 6.95 70280 inches—formerly 9.50-—Napkins PATTERN CLOTHS 2.95 Mercerized Damask, 70x70 inches— formerly 3.75—Napkins 3.95 dozen Linens and Bedding at 3 “Buy a Year’s Supply” Prices’ ALL-LINEN PATTERN CLOTHS TURKISH TOWELS, 18x35 . INCHES, 19c Bleached and hemmed BLEACHED TURKISH TOWELS. AT 39¢ 22z43—fine to take to the beach BLEACHED HUCK TOWELS 10c Neatly hemmed—size 15x34 inches FANCY BEDSP. IS AT 2.25 Size 72290 ceckasallthe tty 8.00 ‘ FANCY BEDSPREADS AT 2.75 Printed effects—81x96—formerly 3.50 FABRIC FLOOR—THIRD — shinai A Most Extraordinary Offer—A Discontinued Pattern in Community Plate at Half-Price WARRANTED FOR 50 YEARS Only once in a long while does the Oneida Community discon- tinue a design. The Louis XVI. pattern which we are offering you at half price is one of those exquisite designs upon which the fame of Community Plate has been built. No such opportunity may come again for years. 4.50 Tea Spoons (set of 6), reduced to 2.25 8.50 Dessert Spoons (set of 6), 4.25 9.00 Table Spoons (set of 6), 4.50 13.50 Dinner Knives (hollow handle, set of six), 6.75 9.00 Dinner Forks (set of 6), 4.50 8.00 Salad Forks (set of G), reduced! to 4.00 5.75 Oyster Forks (set of 6), reduced to 2.88 3.75 Berry Spoons reduced to 1.88 3.00 Gravy Ladles reduced to 1.50 2.50 Cold Meat Forks reduced to 1.25 1.50 Sugar Spoons reduced to 75c 1.50 Butter Knife reduced to 75c SILVERWARE SECTION—UNION STREET BASEMENT Cotton Goods Prices Are Indeed Low FLORAL BATISTE 25c Fine quality Floral and Figured Batiste, for mak- ing summer dresses — 28 inches wide, and et a low price. 39 AND 40-INCH » MUSLIN 12%4c Mill lengths of Unbleached Muslins—good quality, 39 and 40 inches wide, lengths to 10 yards—to sell at & price for Clearance. DRESS GINGHAMS 10c 2,000 yards of Dress Ging? hams priced very low for Clearance. Plain and striped styles—26 and 27 inches wide. JAPANESE CREPE 25¢ Your ironing will be much less if you make sum- mer clothes of Japanese crepe. Stripe styles, 30 inches wide, good colors, FABRIC FLOOR—THIRD é t Pocket Edition of Shakespeare’s Plays at 15c ATTRACTIVELY BOUND IN REAL LEATHER Pa 2,500 volumes, clearly printed on good white paper: These little vol- umes may be read at odd moments, for they tuck. easily into your pocket or purse, Excellent to buy now and away for gifts. 15c a volume, 2 for 25¢ and 1 for twelve. LOWER MAIN FLOOR—THE BON MARCHE. am: lay Clearance Prices Hit the > 2 ‘ Boys’ Section BOYS’ SUITS REDUCED TOO * 5.65, 9.75 AND 13.75 Three very attractive groups of Boys’ Suits are to join in the Clearance Sale. Suits well made and in colors that will please you. They sure will stand the hard knocks they are sure to get during vacation. BOYS’ NEW KHAKI KNICKERS 1.65 Vacation Knickers in sizes 7 to 18—mede of good heavy government khaki, cut full with belt loops— . two hip pockets and flaps. BOYS’ NEW SPORT BLOUSES AT 1.00 Light and dark patterns in Blouses—pereales ay madras cloth. Fast colors, in sizes 6 to 15—to wel when you would an outing go, UPPER MAIN FLOOR—THE BON MARCHE a FANCY BEDSPREADS AT 3.50. Good-looking patterns—formerly 4.90 1 | | | 1 J s &