The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 11, 1914, Page 1

DUALT STANDS Pal And We, Stand Behind Him! _ The Seattle Star | The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News [> ee Seattle newspapers, when the news of Cor- respondent Fred Boalt’s arrest in Mexico reached this city, told their readers that Boalt was not a representa- tive of The Star, but of “an Eastern newspaper syndicate.” Boalt has been a member of The Seattle Star staff for nearly three years, having come from London, Eng- land, where he was correspondent for the United Press for two years, to accept a position on this paper. When the Mexican trouble broke out, The Star, with the other three papers comprising the Scripps Northwest league of newspapers, determined to send Mr. Boalt to Mex- ico, After he had reached Vera Cruz, The Star permitted his articles to be sent through the Newspaper Enterprise association, a Scripps co-operative institution maintained for distribution of news and illustrations to Scripps news- papers, so that the others might get the benefit, too, of his work. Boalt’s family resides at 2113 Nob Hill av. AST EDITION WEATHER FORECAST—Better tell your girl to take an umbrella along; it's apt to shower tonight VOLUME 16. NO. 117. SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1914. ONE CENT 2x, 2"!32,,082 and tomorrow. NEWS STANDS, be TURN TO “BIN” Shepherd, testifying be fore naval board of inquiry, sub. Stantiates Boait’s story of killing of refugees. Here’s the “Story” That Started It Alls | Boalt Tells How Refugees Were Slain 7 \ The Star herewith reprints from its issue of June! who took many prisoners water front, is the terminal station Ithe shattered leg was taken away, and cared for, and today $2 the article by Fred L. Boalt which has stirred u These prisoners were corralled in a room. At a word On the second day of the fighting, a sailor was seen|he is as goc new ie i a nation-wide pnt P from the ¢ , they were released and told to scurry for| staggering toward the station, dragging after him a wounded} There was blood on the sailor’s blouse and a tiny hole. sedis the next corner Those who reached it in safety, in the|comrade |The splotch of blood widened. It was then they guessed that 1 Boal opinion of the ensign, deserved to live The comrade was wounded in the leg and could not|his wound was mortal. sa ERA CRUZ. Tu By F Rs th ” faite baal But very few did | walk He tried to speak. Blood gushed from his lips. He swal- V 2 ait +qcealeya yr ag: Seaerbi at hee “- he ensign applied the “ley de fuga”—the law of flight.| But through the lungs of the sailor who was dragging lowed, while his eyes glazed. Then the words came: War is war; and one American naval officer did apply|him to safety a bullet had torn a gaping wound “I—want—to die—standing!” he said. Cruz, an ensign, in his student days pe full-back Anr the best lis ever had, had cc mmmand of a s« f men the law of flight. He admits it, boasts about it. me: They rounded the corner of the building. The man with AND HE DID. Lt Curiously enough, his friends applaud him for it. a ne s — — _ sc a i— —8 ee si UNDREDS of American army and navy officers and men know that this ensign and his men applied the forbidden law of flight—made sport of prisoners of war and even noncombatants, giving them a flying start and “potting” @ B them as they fled I have been told that it was fun to see them run HEN I was a boy, I had a bulldog who applied the law en Land my play-fellows had caught in traps a dozen or a score of f rats, we would turn them loose in a pasture The trick was for the dog to catch, if he could, all the Be are rats before they reached the split-rail fence which surrounded VERA CRUZ, July 11.—Congressional investigation of the pasture. Once through the fence, there was no catching WASHINGTON, D. C., July 1 1.—Fred Boalt, Scripps news- the story which led to + fer from the United Stat ar the rats, because they lost themselves in tall grass. Fe eee ie cenmesanses, ‘epmthe United States it |"" T'remember that the first rat that left the trap never got PAper Correspondent, arrested by order of the war depart- i Boalt of The Seattle Star f Vern C. | d likely|™more than a foot from it. The second ran a yard, perhaps | Boalt of The Seattle Star from Vera Cruz seemed likely |i ot,” ‘The last rat always ted desperately’ to ren Ment, ordered deported, and today released again after he There was a sensation following the opening of the| the fence hearing on this appeal yesterday afternoon, the correspondent | I imagine that my bulldog and the young ensign and ex- had demanded a congressional investigation, is standing pat. 4 q asserting that he got his information from.Ensign William | football star whom. I have mentioned, both of whom applied, Richardson and other olficers on the battiechip Arkansas, {the law of flight, aré somewhat alike. Boalt says he wil! prove the charges he made in his article the aay eat the case went into the records technically as/97 AM ptad that T can tell you of a different man regarding the shooting of Mexican refugees by U. S. armed fomised to'\develop, too, into an inquiry into Richard- He was only a sailor, an enlisted mar cond’ Bfommised te develop, t90, into an inquiry isto Richard. te aa ee oe the wy £0rces. His employers support him in his stand. Secretary “Pi d 4 ional i leat f from the man in whose arms he died. He was one of the 17 Sie ic ak.c or Gen Gene” coe Pome coken, Theos Th oee| At the fot. of a wide; eteent, chap to tht Verw Crop of the Navy Daniels and Secretary of War Garrison had a 5 conference today on the situation. Daniels asked Garrison — render my credentials.” : He was still held “in quarters” under technical arrest ! The witnesses summoned to testify included Wm. G.| to order his release. Later a cable from Gen. Funston, in Shepherd of the United Press, Kirke Simpson of the Asso i ciated Press and Robert Murray of the New York World command at Vera Cruz, said this had been done. | = : aR el Daniels suggested that Boalt ought to have an opportunity to testify concerning his published state- ment that American landing parties shot unarmed and fleeing Mexicans at the time Vera Cruz was | occupied. : Following news of Boalt’s release, Congressman Falconer of Washington introduced a resolution | cA calling on the war and navy departments to submit to the lawmakers all the papers in his case, to disclose inst him was issued, and to state whether or not the naval She ts a plain-looking woman, of} ha at whose initiative the deportation order a been making insulting remarks middle age, and she {s neatly/all day. ). . “ ” B | dress the > ‘lowly back| “Why don't you call a poltes-|Wmauiry at Vera Cruz was “censored. : q e; and forth in of the sales|man’?" asked the reporter. “Be it resolved,” said the Faiconer resolution, “that the department | stables of EB. E. Powell, at 1724) She looked up and down the! of war and the department of the navy be and are hereby required to & e tect a ati, eee | First a. & Ther white aay street and Inughed furnish the house with copies of all correspondence and orders in the Cri Ss a ers | 2 Across the bosom of her white here was one went past yes + “Carnegie was a telegraph operator. Rockefeller was a/shirtwaist is pinned small ban-|terday morning, but he isn't back | ™@tter OF an pennies tt a st nape agin from an, agi clerk. Schwab was a boy working around the forges. Frick oes Se - is er d = an am re she said. account of the publication of an article alleging that an officer o e ateurish hand, “Lahr unfair hen si ks ‘a bareicotibor on: the farm, Ming of the presidents of ® went home last night United States navy and marines under his command applied the ‘law a t E Her name is Mrs. M, Braakman,|she had been on the job a day and Hight,’ fi d Mexi 1 h a- 4 z our leading railroads began as trainmen. They achieved suc-| 1001 Rose st. She says she got|a half. * i He: ro r rb jo as ee gidseien inert Laat, coma a | ion of Vera Cru cess by watching for opportunity, by building on a founda-| buncoed in a hor and that Gets Permit From Chief } tion i A industr © atte inte bf ¥,, bd lounde she is going to picket the place un Before starting she visited Po. “Resolved, further, that said departments advise the house upon) y ‘ 6 ’ A wae til she gets satisfaction lice Chief Griffiths and got a! whose Initiative Boalt was ordered deported and whether or not the CHICAGO, July 11—The Newspaper Enterprise Association will I read that glowing piece of bunk in Leslie’s magazine. | Says Lahr’s Unfair | permit | testimony now being taken at a court of inquiry being held on board | support Frederick I. Boalt, threatened with deportation from Vera Why not also mention Captain Kidd, Boss Tweed, Robin Powell, a robust individual, sits I wanted to be sure it was all the battleship Texas, at Vera Cruz, is being censored by officers of the| Cruz, Manager Canfield of the association declared here today. Hood, Harriman, the fellows who wrecked the Frisco and the|‘™ the shade of the nee to the |right,” she said. "He told me 1| United States army.” The first message we had from Boalt announcing his technical New Ha is? They sre all boy > 4 1 ta d-naturedly.| could do it as long as I kept mov Falconer explained that Boalt is his friend, and he wanted full in- arrest,” said Canfield, “said his article was not only true as to details, +: Spite ta ngs -ssiy hey were all boys at one time, anc to picket a long | ing. formation concerning the status of his case. He tried to have his reso: but that be received his information from several officers. more or less arefoot because Lahr ian't he says she bought the horse | lution read, but Congressmen Fitzgerald. Gardiner, Underwood and He has as hig reputation for veracity and honesty as any corre. There was a time in the careers of our Rockefellers and| he m He's in Auburn wagon late in May for $60, on others objected. spondent anywhere. » has been in the newspaper business for years, says it's all wr t ng, any rig next |if sh: jon that she found it unsa he Forester stables. jin a we ould return it Finally other business shut off the Washington lawmaker's request. Carnegi vhe ey shoulc ave q vreedy oody | srnegi®s when they should have quit the greedy, bloody ircerey ‘Giene| Ha: obtained peoilebion, however; to: have e for money. They had all that money could possibly e 1s not an unt , untrained man, likely to make mistakes un- is remarks extended on the der the excitement of a big assignment record. 1 “He is well known in the Middle West, whereshe worked for dif. she got the Zut greed possessed them and they continued wresting district out there is not] “It was unsatisfactory all right. Speaker Clark referred the resolution to a committee. It is priv-| ferent newspapers. Later he went to London as a correspondent and 7 yrtunity from others, wrecking struggling competitors by| ge populated It's a whole-| The horse was balky, And bit ev Be gan unless the comnmities makes a Javoraple ar unfavorable re-| special writer. Three years ago he was arapldred. by the ee Be aha’ thee oe ry ae ‘ ke t a “| sale district, with Ilv and teed | ybody who came near him. We| port within a week, Falconer intends to call it up for discussion in the|a Scripps paper, and as such a ember of the Newspaper Enterprise a ret ey mnabely te MOFC| stables here e turned him. They refused to| house. Aweocta ints He had been there since, until he went to Mexico, millions |_ On ius the pla him. Now my husband fs try-| At the navy department it was stated that Admiral Badger has 1 am sonally intimately acquainted with his work, and hai The clai these men acquired their enormous for-| wher displaying }ing to give him away.’ pointed a court of inquiry to consider Boalt’s charges against Rich-| been for 12 years. tunes by w for opportunity, by building on a founda-| ber 8 not more; Powell says she bought the| ardson, but it is not known who are the members of the board. “We certainly will support his demand for a congressional investl tion of indus th and integrity is enough to make Satan|'*" * dozen an hour | hore wagon, harness and a goat At the army office it was learned that the order for Boalt’s depor-| gation : veg ie i sg ‘ Policemen Are Scarce from Labr, and that there was no| tation and for the cancellation of his credentials was actually sent to “As yet we have received no word thst the truth of his article waa laugh. They monopolized opportunity by foul means But Mrs, Braakman 1s deter-| such agreement. | Gen. Funston, but that later Secretary Daniels learned of Boalt's state-| denied, but under regulations governing war correspondents almost as ~ Chrift? There is something pitiful in Rockefeller’s advice,| mined to see it through | ment that he got his information from navy officers, whereupon he closely as the actions of army and navy officers are controlled, it is Save y !’ Had he mere nies, he| A crowd of stable loungers sit| Ducks sleep on open water. To| asked Secretary Garrison to suspend action. Garrison complied. possible to arrest and deport a correspondent if he publishes anything tonit't ARE HE ironed {2% the curb and watch he the | avold drifting ashore, they keep Following publication of Boalt’s story, Daniels was deluged with| offensive to the authorities at Vera Cruz f . per a “4 ) only woman {n several blocks. She! paddiing with one foot, thus making | letters criticising the navy department. | “It appears utterly impossible that Roalt could merely have tmag- 8 ul_market house tiie |told_a Star reporter ) they them move in a circle Boalt is still in Vera Cruz, awaiting the outcome of his case. ned the ‘law of flight’ was adopted by Atmerican marines and sailors.” Pannen = THE STAR'S JACK SPRATT'S A LIB'RAL GUSS; WOOD'S CHAIR LOOKS GOOD TO TEDDY. JOHN BULL, HE WINS THE LIGHTWEIGHT FUSS; RAR AAA ARR ennannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn A ‘PINCH’ SHOULD WORRY FREDDY THATS A WHERE IS HE 4% MORE COMFORTABLE GOING To SIT? Re 0 BULL COPS ANOTHER /ONE ~