The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 14, 1921, Page 11

LOOTING 2 bi s | 4 The Seattl Cc ) SHIPPING pert Tells of Quarter Bil- on Loss to People Thru Startling Deals BY J. F. RIC RDSON ormerly a member of the U. 8 “Shipping board special investigat Hing committee and an expert on ‘shipping affairs.) eee é ) SAN FRANCISCO, July 14.—A na- bor de junk trust with ramifica- im every domestic port is loot Be two hundred fifty millions worth pahip supplies, the property of the ck of business foresight on the of high shipping board officials fost the taxpayers $153,500,000 in| SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1921. S tar Pages 11 to 20 Mrs. M. J. Ragan KANSAS CITY, Mo, July 4.— portunities for sale of ship ma- | member of the shipping board | Mrs. Masie Jones Ragan,-and it's! Lorena Trickey likes to ride ‘em.|Loulie HK. Baker's vocat fused the public purse a loss of ght and one-half millions by | The shipping board is spending Pisp0.000 annually maintaining a| Sty and sales department which Is J fully selling supplies. festival of selling these sup- at 13% cents on the dollar is at its height. is the romantic rise of many collectors of waste rubber—on taxpayers’ money. H B. Miller, former director of) ping board supply and sales de- nt, finally admits all this, eee wr the House of Barde— the battle the Barde Steel u company of Portland, Ore., tt with the humble but highly- 4 guild of Junkmen, uncover to public gaze the scramble for of the people—and the amaz. p lack of business acumen in high HUGE STAKES House of Barde first stormed ington tn 1919. that time L. Greenberg, funk of Chicago, had bid in many inds of tons of steel left over shipping board's hands from struction. Greenberg had bid steel at a time when the mar- ‘was up. Altho he had put up in certified checks, and had len awarded the bid, the then chair- of the beard, John Barton . was led to believe Greenberg's id was too low, so the award was * d and new bids called for. bidders, among whom was assembled in the chairman's om old clothes wagons to limou material—that ahd assembled steel, and $45 for the plain steel—plates and 3 understood at that time the ered qthe assembled steel— was riveted together, and had cut apart to be utilized. This united the lowest grade of Barde was awarded hile the other bidders openly because they fore- that this junkdealing young invar out of the West was 0 ED TO CRAWL OF CONTRACT ird next move was to secure H. Weaver, former dollar-wyear ciate of Barney Baruch in gov-| nt work, and at that time member of the cancellation | ims board of the shipping | as secretary of the Barde pany. The claims board was organization which cancelled tracts and rendered surplus the fies in which Barde was inter eaver resigned his place on the board to be immediately re ginted special adviser to t by Admiral Benson who had geeded Payne as chairman of le shipping board. Again Weaver is a dollarayear man, and he tinued on the claims board, and D as secretary of fe That there was anything pngful in this connection of Wea , Miller refuses to assert. sNeverthelees, the next move in frenzied finance drama of the ink world was an application by irde to have his contract inter d by the shipping board as re- | ) ob @ him to take only the plain Waid fabricated steel, which found a ready market, and relieving him from taking the assembled steel— i least desirable of the material— he shipping board did it. Barde's com: | Law's the thing for women, says never too late to begin. She got her one/ diploma in the presence of her two | pion horsewomen. grandchildren. Mrs. Ragan, who ts & prominent club and suffrage worker, will open her law office in the fail, Snatches Etta Wendell was granted a divorce Wednesday afternoon from Harry L. Wendell, em ploye of Loman & Hanford Pub- lishing Co., following a two days sult in Judge Joseph Session’s court. Wendell, alleging that his wife hurled flat Irons in his direction, and called bim all the vile names Miss L. Trickey | CHE , Wyo, July 14.—The worse they buck, the better Miss No wonder—she's the world's cham. She won the title lat the Cheyenne Frontier Days cele. \bration against the best women |ridera of the West. Miss Trickey [used to punch cattle. } Mrs. L. E. Baker KANSAS CITY, July 14,—Getting women and girls out of jail ts MP | you bana’ fadt Mrs. S. R. Lewis TUBCALOOBA, Ala. July 14 found she could be of more service that way than in general welfare | around. work women are worthy, she goes on their |tory of music and didn't have bond. many unfortunate giria, lit by making ples, Can That's what made Mra & FL Lewis famous for miles When she wanted to send | She investigates cases, and if|one of her daughters to a conserva SEVEN WOMEN WHO DO UNUSUAL JOBS-—-AND GET AWA Mrs. E. Lingenfelter KANSAS CITY, JOly 14-—Mra. Elizabeth Lingenfelter is pioneering jin a job ds “student counselor.” Her work is to solve problema, other than those of learning, which confront boys and girls in schools here the | Flappers, the too-studious, the too. She's proud of having suved | necessary money, Mra, Lewis raised | popular, the unpopular and the dis- couraged seck her advice, Divorce From Her Husband on the calender, filed suit for divorce on May 38. Mrs. Wendell filed a cross complaint the following day on the charge that her husband had been living a corrupt life while in Seattle and had been spend ing money on dissolute women. Mra, Wendell was granted $80 a month alimony, and the custody of their two childre would ¢warf into anything yet put over in the fevered scramble of the speculators to lay hands on the people's goods bought during the war—the lump sum pur. chase of the $250,000,000 worth of supplies from the ehipping board. To this end Barde had Herbert Fleishhaker, banker and capitalist of San Francisco, aseure the ship ping board he was behind Harde. Whereupon Admiral Benson, on July 1920, did a very remarkable thing—altho it probably seemed best to him at the time, with the over head in supply and sales department running up to $6,000,000 annually and another $2,000,000 costa in oth er departments for handling the paper work—of selling the $350,000,- 000 worth of supplies for thirteen and one-half cents on the dollar, issued a letter to Barde, di. rected to all heads of departments, to permit Barde and his agents to inspect all records pertaining to sur- plus supplies, giving Barde inside information as to amounts, claasifl- cations, locations of stores, ware- housing costs, condition of materials, appraisal values, markets, . ete—in- formation not obtainable to others who wanted to bid on these sup plies. Miller admits the existence of this letter, of which he has a copy, and further admits that Admiral Ben- son was heartily in accord with the They Had, He Says, a Dreadful Awakening “Red” deportess to Rustia are a | disillusioned crowd of individuals | Bolshieland is not the utopia of con- versation of which they dreamed. | This ts the word brought to Seattle | Thursday by Capt. Walter 8, Milnor, veteran Seattle shipmaster, who has just returned from a trip to North European porta, P. B. Gales Head of Wireless Amatetrs P. B. Gales was elected president | of the Seattle Amateur Wireless| Men at a meeting Wednesday night in the ¥. M.C. A. H. L. Jones was chosen vice president; T. J. Bidner, secretary; E. H. Redman, treasurer, and E. G, Emery, publicity man, | plan of selling at private sale to Barde all the supplies and thus get ting rid of the heavy overhead. Miller at this time became direct or of supply and sales department and, he admits, was directed by Chairman Benson to deal with Barde. (In the next Installment Richard son will tell of how Barde bid on these materials and how the people | were caused a loss of millions by the action of one of the shipping board commrissioners.) SAFETY New First July, 19; period of 1920 PROFIT Opened during nking Days of jain over same 17h, Accounts Nine F 1921, 5m | CONVENIENCE | These three words—“Safety, Profit, Convenience” occurred in the Articles | | for 32 Years. Safety comes first. S. now, and always will be Savings Institution in 1889—82 Years ago. have been our constant ‘“Watchword” at all times the conduct of this Savings Bank. We do not be lieve the rate of interest you get on your savings is of importance. The important thing is Safety of your principal. Profit comes next. OW fa te '} | é pusands of tons of BS TAXPAYY DING THE SAU By this move the people were left ding 120,000 tons of assembled 1, mostly at Hog Island, which d cost them $7,560,000 besides the rk of assembling, while Miller ad is Barde took the cream of the | I and sold it as he moved it—| rather, moved it as he sold it | us a loss of the difference be een $25 a ton bid and fue market | lee of $9 a tor, ot about $2,000,000, é upon the people by the | pping board. ater—in February of this year— ler admits, rde had his con- jet for the steel cancelled by the ipping board when the market for el went down 60 per cent. So this steel now ying no market at all, remained | the people's hands while Barde | e cream of the steel on a high market, leaving | Gregs -— assembled steel and iy being relieved from his con-| et when the market sagged. 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