The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 4, 1914, Page 4

TO TU Nava! Board at Vera Cruz Ignored STAR—TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1914. PAGE 4. RECORD OF BOALT TRIAL REACHES WASHI wuudnunutttd tenet . For instance, judge aavocate general says in Paragraph &:) with thie law of flight—the alleged application of the law of flight By Gilson Gardner ‘Mr, Simpson (an Associated Press correspondent), the next witness) and heard some place that story betore, that an Incident of that kind Washington, D. ©, August 4, 1914 on the stand, testified that he was never present among a group of! had occurred during the occupation, but Il told Mr. Boalt | would be A crude application of whitewash is disclosed by the record of the | civtllans and naval officers when certain incidents, such as the law of| very slow to believe that such an incident had occurred.” Payal court of inquiry in the case of Ensign Wm. A. Richardson, who! flight, were discussed; that he was present during a great many dis This textimony by Simpson, which is in direct conflict with what 7 told Correspondent Boalt the story of how he applied “ley de fuga” to) cussions of occurrences during the American occupation; that he n Tithe judge advocate saya he said, is again repewted in great detail Captive Mexicans during the battle of Vera Crus heard the law of flight mentioned in any of these discussions | further In the proceedings of the court : The full record of the case has finally come by mati and, with the But on page 17 of the official record of the testimony itself Mr. ere, a. 2: > = @pproval of Judge Advocate General Ridley M. McLean, has been for-| Simpson, under oath, testified The summary of the findings states, alno in parngraph 3: “It ap Warded to congress. Question: “Did you ever have any conversation with Mr, Boalt! pears that of the forty-one witnesses examined, Mr, Fred I und | Secretary of War Garrison has yet to pass upon the facts tnvolved,| concerning Incidents relative ito the killing of prisoners or Mexicans) Mr, W. G, Shepherd were the only o who had « or Bnd Secretary of the Navy Daniels may also further consider the case,| fleeing trom Amertoan officers? remote recollection of any such conversation having taken place as E The record is of interest chiefly in showing how far naval officers will Answer You, air alleged by Mr. Boalt, nor does it appear that any of this representative Se #0 in distorting facts and forms of legal trial to defend the “honor ot Question Will you please detail these conversations as closely | body of witnesses bad ever heard of the application of the law of fight i the service.” On its face the record is a vindication of Richardson, | as you can? to prisoners 5) The court sums up its inquiry in @ verdict that no such thing happened Answer; “I think the recollection is that | told him of having THIRTY-TWO OF THE FORTY-ONE WITNESSES CALLED BY © se Boalt wrote about and that the newspaper men who heard Richard. heard Ensign Richardson describing an incident of the occupation of | THE NAVAL COURT WERE OFFICERS OR ENLISTED MEN OF Bon tell it are descreditable persons. Vera Cruz that made an unfavorable impression on me, Ensign Rich THE NAVY OR ARMY, many of ‘whom took the stand merely to #tate UNFORTUNATELY FOR THE NAVAL COURT, THE OFFICIAL ardson, who was sitting at a table in the restaurant at which | and | that they had no knowledge of the particular conversation which Boalt © the raising of it an important task TIMONY IS NOT SUPPORTED BY THE STIMONY ITSELF. — SUMMARY oF FULL TRAN TE RIPT OF TE THE SEATTLE STAR. PAGUB OF NEWSPAPERS MEMBER OF NORTHWEST L Preas Assoctatto stoffice as Secon » Matter, Wash, P By mail, out of city, 35 per mon. up to atx a; six mos. $1.90; year $3.26 elty 2 & month By carrier N three palaces sat three monarchs, each close to the telegraph These three kings, just men, like the rest of us, owing their place to the merest accident of birth, were interchang ing messages in the endeavor to decide whether millions of] human beings, as fond of life as themselves, should be sent| @s pawns in the world’s greatest war, to suffer, to bleed, to die | ‘As the key of the telegraph ticked, fate hung heavily | each sound. The world waited. The world listened with Dated breath. But only the emperor of Germany, the em peror of Austria and the emperor of Russia knew what the} Wires were saying The millions whose ve Were not represented, were not consulted. Most of them were Wholly unaware of what was going on. In a million home they were singing, playing, sleeping, with never a thought/ that a few hours might see them hurled into frightful battle,} to do a despot's will. How grim the satire on twentieth century democracy How awful the responsibility with which those three dealt The will of the people must become the law of ] u every Ford Remembers Consumers HEN Henry Ford announced that Ht would share profits | with his workers, giving the lowest paid the biggest | share, you remember what you heard in every barber shop and street car?— “Mighty slick advertising dodge; but if he’s making so th, why not remember the consumer?” | Well, here Ford comes with te announcement that he} femembering the consumer. Now that he’s proved that} wages and better living conditions mean better work and|} iter output, he slashes $60 off the price of his cars and fises to the buyer a further dividend of $40 if sales reach b certain level in 1915. That’s what comes when a man of imagination and effi- Giency tackles manufacturing with the aim to make welfare! ‘as well as money. } ' The big fellows who are playing the business game for| ‘Self alone, as Ford can tell you, are missing a lot of fun Men Not Barred HE appea! of the women for trinket offerings for the suf- frage melting pot is plain enough to need no explanation and strong enough, we hope, to bring a generous response. | It is going to take quite a bit of money—clean money— to put speakers and literature into the seven states (the Da Kotas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada and Ohio) which ' a@fe to vote this fall on suffrage amendments. Of course,| not such a pot of money as men would use if seeking privi- | lege instead of justice; indeed, not as much as one big trust | * would give if after a senatorship—but still enough to make _ Maybe, Mr. Man, you'd like to help. Perhaps you have @ ring or two that isn’t working or a coin or bill which you could spare to make the campaign more interesting. If so, we dare say the suffrage managers wouldn't object Democracy ought to mean as much to men as women. We're all in the melting pot, as a matter of fact, whether we contribute knowingly or not—the melting pot which is to attle? life | ; Se hate {Aaa Caw vou mame A ife blood was in the balance |] |)Avase mow 4 Sows —+—— Yesterday ©. some other civitions sat, entered upon a discu ithe machine gun. The discussion in which this came up had to do! 1 TEL4 YOU MOUSE. YOU oa Three Kings mata — 4 eae "TWAS THE LAST, LAST “MURPHY” Are the Ulsterites active in Se A. Johnson's potato had tontified to. The number might easily have on of the efficiency of THE SEATTLE STAR’S LAUGH DEPARTMENT QUEAK OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE THere! THere (ris! THAT'S 4 CUSPIDOR! AFTER THS WHEN You'Re IN MY OFFICE USE IT INSTCAD OCF DECORATING THE TOA Corrected THE NERVE OF HIM Teacher—Hart, did you whis A New York artist, noted for per today? i ; Se Oda wenn his etchings, tells one on bimself. Clarence, should Earl One summer, while sketching owunst?” in New England, he made a study nee—No, he should have of a farmer's barn. The farmer ald “twicet.” happened to appear and sald he'd afi like to have the sketch, “if it He Was It ien't too expensive,” he added “Yes, the last of my daughters cautiously. was married yesterday Oh,” wald the etcher, whose * “Indeed! Who was the happy works bring a stiff price on the metropolitan market. “I won't 1 was. charge you anything for the cee sketch, but"—his eye lHghted on Expensive the pen TH tell you what “I wanted to etay in Now You can give me one of those York two days longer, but I nice pink pigs lying there.” couldn't afford 1t” The farmer frowned. “Why “Why not? man.” he exclaimed, “do you “Forgot to mortgage the farm before I started.” JUDGE MOORE ENTERS RACE FOR CONGRESS know what those pigs are worth? They're worth a doliar aplece.” Judge William Hickman Moore,man Bryan on the progressive. It announced today that he wil! file as|is probable also that Austin FE. Grif. been increased to five hundred with INDISPENSABLE “So Willie Smith ts captain of your team? I suppose he is your beat player, then? Naw. But he owns the bat ° ° Easy Money s Curley kept a pri- vate school, and one morning was interviewing a \new pupil. “What does your father do | to earn his living?” the teacher asked the little girl. “Please, ma'am,” was the prompt reply, “he doesn’t live with us. My mother supports “Well, then,” asked the teacher, “how does your mother earn her living?” “Why,” replied the little girl artless manner, “she gets paid for staying away from father.” | ° eee Cockney Repartee. A young gentleman with a very plain face was rather annoyed because his view of the stage was obstructed by the hat of a pretty girl who was sitting in front of him in the gallery of a London music hall. Wishing to get a glimpse of the performance, he plucked up courage and, in @ ner- yous vobve, exclaimed. “See here, miss, | want to look as well as you.” “Oh, do ye she replied in a rich cockney accent, as she turned round and looked at him square in the eye. “Then you'd better run ‘ome and change yer face.” cee Sick of War. “Would George enlist?” : { don’t think he would.” “What's the reason? He comes of fighting stock.” “That's the reason. He's soured on fichting. His grandmother is a Colonial, his aunt is'a D. A. R and his mother fs a militant.” HANSON OPENS CAMPAIGN HERE Ole Hanson, progressive candi date for United States senator, opened his campaign in King coun- reduce our differences and produce a better common good So if you feel like giving let her go SEATTLE BANKERS turn down offer of $1,000,000. Well, aren't patch was relieved of Its contents to the last “Murphy.” Johnson lives at 2802 West 75th st A stone hurled out of the dark struck Mrs. Hattle E. Graham, 1978 hey the purse-proud fellowet l Harvard av. N., last night, as she si was leaving her home for Ahe RHEUMATISM DOESN'T bother him, declares Judge Humphries.|theatre. She fell and screamed, as Who ever said tt was rheumatism? her assailant approached. But T i STE RIS J. Marks, 2254 63rd av. 3. W., also 4 KING GEORGE Is cousin to both the czar and the kaiser. | Make a choice as to which cousin he'll help lick. a pain Ponca a UNCLE 8AM now has more gold than almost any two other nations 3 combined. He's bound to be looked on with great respect by fighting : nations. Has to COLORADO DEMOCRACY decides for “throwing the mantle of charity” over its mistakes. Better order a mantie of boiler Iron. 3 WILLIE WIED, king of Albania, seems to be another monarch wh fe to be fried on both sides. Pinter ets eS | i ANT untold. | | Miss Alice Fleming, Dwight A.|22 as the date of hearing on the| y iF HE hae more tears, let the standpat howler prepare to thea |e eae hich old. Use! erench seciallete vote to defend| Mon id the remaining artists of| recall muddle, in which Commis | them now! The first year of Wilson's administration shows a surplus | » which reaches} country, instead of seeking revenge|the Metropolitan Players, is cxcel-| sioner A, U. Mills of Tacoma plays iy immtead of a deficit. Z _____ over 45,000 homes every day. for assassination of Jean Jaures, | lent. the title role. tment ee —— — ——<—$—$$—$—$—$—$ ca: oe on — = musH. I Must cer RID OF THIS Pest, | Diana _ | Dillpickles In CSMON PI 45° MINUTE | | |"OH, HERG Comes MR, DE | | OF ONE. | 4Reei . | ‘Screecher Film "SAY DIANA, DO YOU KNOW WHY THIS BScause 17'S A QUARTER | approached and frustrated his plans | A purse with $16 therein, a dia | mond ring and gold wedding ring | were taken yesterday from Mrs. R | W. Howell's desk in the Cobb build ing. | A purse snatcher grabbed one be }longing to Mra. A. F. Hazel, 3809 23rd ay. 8. W., as she was Inspect ing bargeins in a department store yesterday, | Don’t let another sun set | make the contest one of the hottest |self an aspirant for the democratic] the republican ticket and Congress-| Moore, | eee |WHATSKUNKDID) wuat THE PREss SAN DIEGO, Aug. 4.—-One poor! AGENT SAYS Nttie skunk, under a sidewalk here yesterday, baffled a long siege on the part of a big crowd of men, called out most of the city’s small boys, stopped auto parties, and : | sent all his assailants home for a wted in this week's bill at the|ruchos, change of clothes before his tor.| Metropolitan theatre—George Barr| 40, both ¢ | mentors finally Kiljed him | McCutebeon's beautiful story of a love behind a throne—“Graustark.” | Sisson, Cal. hemmed In by forest, The dramatization 1s very close to |fires, has $40,000 blaze, of incen.|the original novel text, and the diary origin. | production, In the capable hands of tin E. | Ey ry woman with one spark of 22 tioe F & candidate for congressman on the) fitha will file on the progressive|ty last night with two big street democratic ticket for this district.| ticket meetings in Auburn and Kent. He Judge Moore's unexpected entr ilowing Moore's announce-| Was accompanied by J. W. Biggar, |into the congressional ra will| ment, Col. J, M. Hawthorne, him-| candidate for congress. The crowds were attentive, and received Han in the history of the state. He will nomination, withdrew from the/son well. ‘Tonight he speaks at » Congresaman Humphrey on|race and declared himself for| Renton and Issaquah. | aturday night Hanson and Aus Griffiths, candidate for con-| gress, will speak at the Press club. SLIDE KILLS 2 AUBURN, Aug. 4.—An avalanche | of gravel fn a pit on the Northern Pacific, romance in her makeup will be In-| snuffed out mile east of here, the lives of Jim Ne- and Lewis Siakandares, peks, yesterday, SETS HEARING OLYMPIA, rman D. Aug. 4.—Chief Jus. Crow has set Aug out throwing The record shows that Boalt’s story was sustained by the s who had heard from Richardson of the appll- ight—Boalt himself, Shepherd and Simpson. mony of three witne cation of the law of NGTON; HERE IT Is: Much Testimony in Whitewashing Ensign Richardson; Court Feared The Seattle Star Man Was a Socialist y light on ‘the subject or having any bearing on the case, testl- Every effort was made by courte! for Richardson to break down the testimony of these witnesses. On the other hand, B: opportunity to cross-exami it was not present and did not have an witnemses called to descredit him or his story, nor was he represented by counsel, and the record Indicates clearly that Boalt did not understand that he was entitled to be present or that he was regarded by the court as the prosecutor. 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Auto, bicycle and motorcycle In collision; no one hurt. Widow of Ernesto Di Natale, kiil- ed in Wellington disaster, awarded $500 U. 5. transport Dix will carry 15 tons of ammunition to Manila. Steamship Mariposa arrives from North. Admiral Sampson returns from Alaska with report that Mt. St. Augustine is smoking. ship | — — > NEES 4 Boys set adrift dummy on raft in Niagara river and read alarm. ELSEWHERE ican volunteers come to “rescue. | National convention of Eagl opens in Kansas City; 10,000 pres- ent | “German embansy at London ex- |plains interference . with British ships by Germans as “police meas- ures.” Secretary Redfield fighting for wire drag for Alaska. Senator Lippitt of Rhode leland favors postponing trade commission } bill until after the war. Jimmy McBride, Yellowstone park scout, captures one of the bandits who robbed stage coaches last week. 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