The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 6, 1918, Page 1

be FS 2S er : | cr += NEW DRAFT MEN TO BE CALLED IN OCTOBER OO aemmimimaIim—iaIaI I ll liiLNiAI=SAS— AE — = Ea eeeeeeeee—e—e—eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEeEeEeEeeEEeEeEeEeaEeaEaEaEPaEarQeEerErEeEeEeEeEOEOoEeee NIGHT EDITION ONE CENT IN SEATTLE penne SIBERIA \ The whole world is watching the situation in : } Siberia, Therefore, The Star, thru the Newspa- ) ) per Enterprise association, has a representative} ‘ there to give you an eyewitness picture of the {big doings. Burton Knisely, who recently wrote the articles on Japan, is now In beria, Watch fer bis articles, soen to be published. { THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST aanndaeRaRRORRRRRRORRRRRERRaRmEneRAaeE oon’ eb sibeaale Gunes ‘stdiaee pli 4; ibe a dich: SMD Reena, dic: sh cast axe Geuge e \hamte ME ste NO. 165 . SEATTL B, WASH., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1918, [ieee ie ‘CUBS SCORE 3 IN THE SECOND BY H/C, HAMILTON | PLAY BY INNINGS United Press Staff Correspondent. First Inning COMISKEY PARK, CHICAGO, Besten—Hooper walked Shean Sept. 6—Despite enthusaiam fanned and Hooper was called out at ran rampant thru Chicago after the “cond on an attempted steal on ac count of interference with catcher’s first great contest of the world's | throw. Strunk popped to Hollocher. series, Comiskey park looked bar-| No runs, no bh no errors. fen today, half an hour before time Chicago — § te to start the game between the potlocher for yusk De Cubs and Red Sox. Scott. Strunk dropped Mann's f The weather was warm. there | put recovered in time to force He was scarcely any wind and those cher at second. Mann was sa clouds visible were of tt Nght, first. Paskert flied to Whiteman, fleecy variety. These favorable No runs, one hit. no errors conditions, even when added to yes- Second Inning terday’s brilliant contest, appeared Beston—W bh! an walked on four to make no difference. Were, based on early arrivals, that today’s crowd would be smaller than yesterday's. The bleachers, as was the case yesterday, filled early The pavilions, one on each side of :nan at the plate, McInnis reaching the grandstand, filled more rap- third. Agnew filed to Flack. No ly, but the upper and lower tiers runs, one hit, no errors. the grandstand were sore spots Chicago—Merkle walked. The offi for the national commission and cial scorer gave Pick a hit on a hot the players, one that Thomas fumbled. Merkle The Red Sox took a brisk bat-|went to second, Killifer doubled. ting practice on reaching the dia-!' scoring Merkle, Pick going to third. mond, and were served with left- Tyler singled to center, scoring Pick hand pitching, evidently expecting and Killifer. Tyler out at second, George Tyler to start against them. trying to stretch the hit. Flack safe The battertes anounced as OM infield hit. Flack out, sh and Agnew for Boston, and | Three runs, four hits, no errors er and Killifer for Chicago, just Third Inning Sefore the game started. Boston—Bush walked on four b Hooper attempted to sacri Bush was thrown out, Deal to Hollo- cher. Shean forced Hooper, Hol- locher to Pick. Strunk fouled to Kil- lifer. No runs, no hita, no errors. Chicago—Hollocher out, Shean to McInnis. Mann out to McInnis, un assisted. Paakert popped to Shean. No runs, no hits, no errors: oe — 6 all A , | Hilde Today's game, complete, inning | by inning, in ti ri St | brand and Owens; National, O'Day Watch for it. dailies | and Kiem. * , , TRANSPORT U.S TAX BIL 10 IS TORPEDOED; | BE $4-000-000 REACHES PORT AFTER THE WAR WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.—The/ BY L. C. MARTIN United States troop transport Mount | United Press Staff Correspondent. Indications straight balls, MeInnis wae sa) an infield hit. Scott sacrificed, Killi fer to Pick, Whiteman going to third and McInnis reaching second. Thom as hit to Pick, who threw out White were at THE LINE-UP BOSTON—Hooper, rf; Shean, 2b; Strunk, ef; Whiteman, McInnis, 1b; Scott, ss; Thomas, 3b; Agnew, c; Bush, p. CHICAGO—Flack, rf.; Hollocher, =.; Mann, If; Paskert, cf; Merkle, 1b; Pick, 2b; Deal, 3b; Killifer, c; Ty- ‘er, p. Vernon was torpedoed but reached| {INGTON, Sept. 6.—Amer- port safely, according to an an-lica’s annual tax bill after the war Rouncement by the navy depart-| will be at least $4,000,000,000, R ment this afternoon | resentative Kitchin, chairman of the The Mount Vernon, formerly the| ways and means committee, pre- German Kronprinz Cecilie, was tor-| dicted today, opening debate on the pedoed off the French coast, but! $8,000,000,000 war tax bill. A billion returned to a French port at 14/a year for pensions, a billion more knots. No loxs of life is yet re-|for the army and navy, and ported. $1,250,000 interest on war bonds will The torpedoing occurred 200 miles|take the bulk of $4,000,000,000 each eff the French coast. year for years after peace, he de- clared. Notice was served today on the group of congressional trying to delay passag politicians of the war ENEMY LEADER tax bill until after election, that The bill comes up in the house ent ‘ ” today. It is expected to pass with VA, Sept. 6—German Chan-| ‘Oday, it ts expected to Paw ie cellor Hertling has handed his resig-| 11, senate finance committee be- nation to the kaiser, on the plea of ill-| (10, nate Kinane ea eady health, according to reports from Munich, via Zurich. It is not known |‘© Tewrite the bill as soon as it passes the house. Finance com- whether the Tesignation was accept- ed. The chancellor was reported yes mittee members hope to send it to the senate no later than Septem terday to have said the kaiser’s dy or 15 c ead o} nasty is at stake. He urged fran peal cs 2 Se tui Re eed chise reforms. A Beigian has been sentenced to seven and a half months’ imprison ment at Remacheid (Prussia) for tear.) Student Training Corps Enrollment ing down a German war loan poster | displayed in the works where he was | employed. GET WHAT YOU WANT MORE CER- GET WHAT IF YOU MAKE YOUR WANTS KNOWN TO THE GREATEST NUMBER OF PEOPLE. IN SEATTLE HE STAR CAN TALK OR YOU TO THE LARGEST AUDIENCE. PHONE YOUR WANT AT TO MAIN 600 OR LEAVE YOUR COPY AT BARTELL’E, 610 SEC- OND AVE. ARE TO WANT »pYOU TAI YOU | to Begin Saturday Enrollment for the student army training corps at the University of Washington begins Saturda tember 7, at 9 o'clock, at th trar’s office, on the university pus. Owing to und equipment, sible that man ment will hi cam of barracks considered pos imitation it fi candidates for enroll to be turned away. For that r on, officers in charg urge immediate application Men living out of town may make preliminary enrollment by mail They must inclose official certificate from an accredited four-year high school, showing that they have been graduated from that school € Applicants must be United States citizens and able to pass the regular United States army examination The training course begins Octo ber 1 ? A THRIFT STAMP » day | will keep the Hun a. 19-21 Men Expected in lst Call Uncle Sam will begin calling 1845 men to training camps by October 15, 1918, ‘This was the word received in Seattle Friday along with an ap. peal by Provost Marshal Genrral Crowder to gear up registration Nery to top speed. Very Well, Ludy, But Why Run From Yanks AMSTERDAM, Sept. 6.—American aid is of great benefit to the allies but it is not sufficient to win the war, in the opinion of Gen. Ludendorff. An interview expressing these views was given the Azest and telegraphed here from Vienna via Berlin. The Americans are there and are rendering no inconsiderable aid, both in men and material,” said Ludendorff. ‘That American assistance will be the Haig’s Men drawings, whi decisive factor in the war, how r, is a vain hope. Peover piers a " The entente, especially the French, have always a e “a Washington, D. C., by October 2, ac lived on hope— first, hope in Russia, then hope in oriing to war department plans. America. We settled Russia. We will settle the For this reason, registration re Americans. Rk “Our will to victory remains unbroken and we 0 President Wilson, within the next shall break the enemy’s will to annihilate.” few days, Is expecte to 4 te _ — which group of registra Pay United "Pre. Leased Wire clanst first i Direct to The Star | It in believed he will ask that 19-2 » i ; PB registrants be first classified, an LONDON, Sept. 6.—Striking seer cucde oth thactient ratte So ri ing | ory O Pak me Quaint be made. straigh: . a Plans are to complete all the British have forced crossings of classifications of 1845 men by Janu the Somme south of Peronne and ay | ove an ar O advanced nearly four miles in All available men now in Class 1 some places, today's report from Wield Marshal Haig showed. Mons EnChausee and Athies, on the Amiens-St. Quentin road, have been reached, the official announce | ment declared. | La Pere, the 20 miles north of Soissons, it ts extimated, will be in training by October 1. | SHIPPING HEAD By American Girl (Special to The Star) SOMEWHERE IN AMERICA | Rensie naid. And he went off to en lint in the royal flying Corps and was 50 orted in flares. In he a SPY? kined. porte n ‘ IN PARLEY NOW The spark of an old love ‘tens! Who Is Her Mother? 1 ORME, Penrest approach | 00 Jane Lorimer, America’s “original| Hin) baby ‘ie: being brought up by | 2 Fere is in the region of Chauny, 7% miles southwest of it) | war bride,” and Dr. Hamilton Certeia Mr®. James D. Lorimer. She only Hildetn the Olas 5 the ‘adele has tremblingly started to fare up | knows who the mother was ie es ented Bese again. Jane's husband, Bob Lortner, Jane, netting out to solve the mys Pe . Ml ier ne tia. eit “edie | bain Massif, it was learned here this M. Taylor, head of the housing | Went off to the trenches after a fool ¥ « " * maternity, sud 07% wn A. M. Tayle eee et the | ish Quarrel with Jane. Dr. Hamilton |deply finds her own self initiated) “fimmoun | and transportation 2 rtels—"Tony Curt,” they call him into the mysteries of maternity. She . panytben United States shipping board, went to operate against Paris was located sterence Friday noon with|—<Was the cause And before abe | POUrs her whole soul out in a beauti- | /0 UPere © Mtn eG iecer: we counciimen and|Could make up her quarrel, Jane's fal letter to her soldier husband, tell“ o4,4 French have captured Outre Mayor Hanson, ing hin of the wonderful consecra. ’ tondent of | "oldier-husband had gone! Some of his acquaintances are a bit suspicious of polished “Tony Curt,” but the naive little war bride, hurt by her husband's seeming indit. ference, is lured like a moth by the Mame of hin #triking personality court Massif, between and the Oise (Mons-En-Chaunsee is 4 miles east the battle line, as it was when ast reports were issued. Athi is south and slightly west) The British have thrust eastward from Peronne to Doingt, the st ment said, an advance of a mile an a half. Several towns along south of Peronne were Thomas Murphine, superin tured Outre public utilities, on the traction ser viee problem. Taylor, who has arrived in Seat tle from Philadelphia to settle the local traction tangle, discussed the street car situation with officials of the Puget Sound, Traction, Light & She Finds Skeletons Power Co., thruout the night, at the/ She is living with her husband's New Washington hotel | wealthy family. The great war world He heard the company side of the | of terror and drama in which she cane and ita appeal for higher fares | has hitherto led a protected life, now afternoon he i#| suddenly breaks upon her in all ite tion-to-come of their love. But will that letter, thrown out Into the war torn wilderness of France, ever reach her husband? Will she ever see him again? This in the heart-wringing chaos of love and adventure in which the heroine of The Star's great serial, the “Confessions of a War Bride finds herself today, It is a portrait of woman against a background of war. It is a story of and for every ot the Somme taken and German supply base, | important progress was made on the | YANKEES TAKE 6 TOWNS ALLIES NEARING ST. QUENT! : Three Hun ‘Armies Continuing in F light {ALLIED SMASH INCREASING ON WEST FRONT The retreat of the German ar- mies continues today from the line in Beigium down thru Picar- dy and the Oise regions on to Rheims. British and French troops are driving for St. Quentin, on a front f 16 miles north and south of cronne. The British have ad- advanced from two to four miles ( along this front, crossing the $5.00 to $9.00 Americans Brave Gas 1 § Somme, while the French farther ( south have crossed the Somme { & canal and seized Offoy, (|| By United Press Leased Wie At this point of deepest penetra- ‘Bter } tion, the town of Mons-En-Chaus- tal Mesa } see, the British are 12 miles from WITH THE AMERICANS } St. Quentin. They have taken Ene Sept. 6—41 pee ( eight towns. —More than half Important allied gains were lages between the made all along the front from Aisne are in Rheims to Flanders. American Our troops are still following forces have reached the Aisne on the German withdrawal. a broad frontage and are ap The mein Ascetices © ae proaching the stream at new | Proaching the Places northeast of Fismes. ‘ Longueval and Ham is reported encircled on {| moving up in a northerly three sides, and the great flank- (Bast of Villers-En-Pra: ing thrust to cut in behind the {| lies have not reached the ) Germans along the Aisne is mak- | movement is toward the st ing progress. Chauny is being en-§ is in accordance with report: | Compassed from the north. Americans are approaching the More than 60 villages between the Aisne and the Vesle are in American hands. The British Peronne region, and the French have added materially to the total. Since August 8, the Germans have used 1,236,000 men on the Western front. Since August 1, the allies have captured a tetal of 110,000 men in the Western offen- ) sive. FROM RHEIMS TO. BELGIUM BOCHE , ‘ re becuard oh nat finah nla , at new points.) tions of the canal in rear guard strength and sharp ing is in prospect at these p where the enemy is expected to ert a desperate effort to slow up allied pursuit. The retreat will probably conti north of the Aisne, possibly: sharp fighting and attempted here and there. The Americans are maint |constant contact with the |Extensive preparations were |for the withdrawal, smoke fro burning dumps, blotting the sky. | As the Americans advanced joe the Vesle, they found that alll vines had been filled with gas in: ie ee Pr |in Seattle. Friday S | hearing the city’s side. | weird reality. Skeletons she finds tn ra -tiggee — haa been caught up| nigh ground beyond Peronne and pei to slow up the pursuit Taylor is expected to make a de-| every closet. oh - ene of the world's greatest | jiurlu, Following is Haig’s report smoke screen was t cision which will settle the transpor-| Her beloved brother-in-law, Jim, core is a mirror of pureeyes Yesterday, to the southward of | \ nieve the Aisne from Maisey to tation situation. student officer in a flying mchool, is perce our emotions, a thrilling story | peronne, we forced crossings of the A-Dury, five miles, concealing ‘Taylor has the power, under the | being pursued by a cabaret girt, | % ; o ee “ye of (Amc Somme, despite resistance from en | movements northward. a i 0" o ‘orld a “The u in e story now. fou will | "I o he e bank sresidential act, to order cars divert-| known to the world as “The Queen emy rear guard on th stern ban! 5 vetrom residential districts to the | of Smiles.” find it on page 6 today We captured St. Christ, Le Mesnil, * Dispatch From William | Scale Stowp Heights dhipyerd rons. | The queen, not wholly bad, is black | Brie and Bruntil villages, and took ||. Following American patrols He ia the author of two books on| mailing the Hon. James D. Lorimer a number of prisoners. Philip Simms || pat elementa advanced up the spunicipal ownership. | Bob's father. Her illicit relations “Astride the Amiens-St. Quentin!| By United Press Leased Wire ||impregnable heights on thi Employes Leave | with Jacnes D. are her weapon. Re road we reached Athies and Mons Direct to The Star || bank of the Vesle. They encount Twelve traction company employes | Venge upon him and love for his son FE.n-Chaussee. | 0 % slight resistance from machine left the service Thursda the re-|are her motives. Marriage to Jim, Eastward of Peronne we have PARIS, Sept. 6.—From the Bel. nests. sult of the failure to settle the high: | Jr.. Is her price! taken Doingt. We made important) gian border to Rheims, the three These groups of Germans er wage xcale they were promised. Unsophisticated little Jane sets out progress on the high ground between | principal groups of German ar- (quickly mopped up. Caves Night shift crews and union lead-|to save her brotherinjaw. And) ZURICH, Sept. 6—Crecho-Slovak | Peronne and Hurlu." mies—Crown Prince Rupprecht's, | quarries, in which German fe went into erence Friday, | while ght in the tolls of this baf-| troops have arrived at the gates of | Gen. Von Boehm's and Crown | glers lurked, were cleaned out 10:20, and agreed to hold a maas| Ming project, still other family skel- | Nijni-Novgorod, according to advice: Prince Wilhelm's—today contin- hand grenades. emy rear guards: meeting in the Labor temple Friday |etons have begun to rattle their | from Moscow renc. ear | ued to retreat, while all Germany | Were quickly handled by the ‘Yan-\ evening. bones before her troubled eyes. One | was at the ebb tide of depression, kees, who crossed the Vesle and ade: ‘A special meeting of the city coun-| 18 the parentage of “Penjie's baby Nijni-Novgorod is miles north. | wondering when and where it | vanced in a norinene ae cil. to consider the traction situation,| Benjie Lorimer, Bob's other broth: east of Moscow on the right bank of auny OW would sr. leaving some awa . ; | Mea 1 was called for Friday afternoon. er, refured to marry the girl he had the Volga river | Almost daily the great drama of. | , Meantime Ameri 2 Get Another Set-Back wronged. ne Wax an gulity aa I,” Sk aes | PARIS, Sept. 6—(10 a. m.)—En. |fers a fresh sensation, Foch’s light-|°sine clouds of dust on the roads: ; Traction comp legal officials re- | ——~ " Villages Burnin circled from the northwest, south. ning-like blows forcing withdrawal) 4. iney pushed up close to the ceived another set-back Friday morn. & west and from the south, the im withdrawal, now in the Cham-| there they swung into action: peers ins, when Judge Calvin Hall dented U, VESSEL IS | Thru Picardy as portant Sunction point of Ham, on pag now in Artole, now in Jian | 5, shelie screaming Osean them a new trial, which was as 7. he road to St. Quentin, is virtually |ders, then in Artois a amp: satanit Whece ‘ie Tame following a Jury decision compelling | | Enemy Withdraws trken, according to battle front ad-| again, and sometimes in all those dis. | Puteay where the American Bip the company to pay its share of the | . WITH THE PRITISH ARMIES, ¥ | tricts together. treating boche. cost of the Fremont ave. bridge, and | IN FRAN Spt 24-0. x cn (Ham is in the southern part of] Mangin's pressure northward of| "(he first crossing of the Vesle was! continue to help pay for its mainte Clouds of mmoke ant M Picardy, 12 miles north of Noyon.) |Soissons at last sent the. crown age pr louds of smoke and flaring fires made over trunks of trees. Later & nance, as required in franchise agree-| WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.—Sinking |from burning villages caused by ex-| General Humbert, in his move-| prince scurrying back across the | foot bridge was thrown across and snente Jot the American 8. § © Owens | ploding ammunition dumps all thru| ment from the west of Chemin des| Aisne, leaving prisoners, guns and| material rushed up for construction ‘This leaves the way open for the| with the loss of five of the civilian | Picardy, between the Canal dy Nord | Dames and the positions north of| material in the hands of the advanc-| o¢ heavier bridges to permit passage city to deny the company use of the| crew was reported to the navy de-|and the Hindenburg line, indicate |the Aisne is outflanking Genlis | ing French and Americans | of heavy guns and transport. bridge if {t appeals the case and re-| partment today. Submarine shell! the Germans were inst moving | ¥Oods ee nearing the line of the) Cavalry-—part American cand part j fuses to comply with the jury's ver | fire was understood to be responsible. | backward Crest cana French—«: ped into ¢ rear dict A marked decrease in enemy shell. |. (Chauny is three miles from the | guards, cutting up st ming con Pershing Reports _ ing made apparent that the Germans | French line as it stood in this region | tingents, while French and American THEODORE, Sask.—After attack. | 1,236,000 Boches realize it in necessary to retreat, |When last officially fixed. Toward |guns, from positions north of Sols: | American Advance ing and beating to death Mrs. Ed-} Possibly they are already withdraw hauny an advance would threaten | gona. and the valley of the Aisne, | . * . ward Beatty, wife of the chief forest Employed i in West ling for a stand behind the Hinden af Roden a . tof | Made crossing bloody work for the in Aisne Region er here, Barney Belle ° ’ 2 burg lin affaux is neve «miles east Of | retreating enemy columns, WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.—-Advanee half breed, kidnaped her 12 in Month’s Time ne ‘erny Sorny, whese the allies’ line | Foal is Lasting of American troops Thursday to the daughter. Bellecourt has be LONDON, Sept. 6.—Since August * recently stood. Allied advance east ee ge no crest of the slopes leading to the me 8, the Germans have employed in President Saves ward in this region will cut in above | |, re Ae eran rig ig ee cee Aisne, was reported by Gen, Persh- — — oe W ‘ont fighting 103 divi So Hy H the new German positions on the | '" sae ebb ‘ling today. the Western fr cH Figs ipo ef hehh oad grime tion of stores by the Germans them: | ae ed today. Of th were placed on French and Americans have | 8lves as the: - “Our troops, continuing their ad- Ld . " d then eat entence reached the Aisne on a front of more | ‘ apture ¢ upplies by alli nd, |. ce, co-operation with the t ow tip shatsle: Tine: Winer eWe ae WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.—Presi-| than 10 miles third, to continual harassing fire of | Vance, 1p cooperation | with aaa ent into action again, In addition ee i rench, bi cross ig ys vei M4 pine were used, | dent Wilson's intervention has saved! A continuous advan on the, the American and French artillery | 1 oon oe the Vesle and have reached) | Barc ieetes broken uc the life of another soldier, it became | whole front between the Somme along roads in the boche rear. the crest of the slopes leading: ta | — ae known today , the le Was announced today by n. Humbert is pushing toward | ine valley of the Aisne, There Jai 3 sell ‘ Private William A. Kerner, Com-|the French war off Forward | La 1 and St. Quentin, and the| otning of importance to report £rumisal You can se mos Senators Demand | pany G, 806th infantry, was sentenc-| thrusts were reported from Epenan. | British are improving their positions | i. other sectors occupied by oUF anything provided ‘4 1 to death by two trials at Camp |court, south of Peronne to Glennes, | before Cambrai and Doual, as well as | toons." ’ Dismissal of Man __ Upton. 8. ¥., for wilful disobedience | northeast of Fismes advancing beyond Peronne. a : you let enough peo- | of orders | rhe distance between Epenan-| The Armentieres salient, in Flan. 3 ple know about ét in Draft Roundup) Presisent wison neta that the ap-| court and Gennes in an air line is | ders, has been practically wiped out, | 110, 000 ) Captured ‘ " . ‘ ent of 5 , e s and twists o1 @ the British are on the edge of | *, WASHINGTON, Sept. 6-—-Senator | pointment of the assistant judge-ad- | 50 miles, but the turns and twists of | an Suppose you tell the} momas, Colorado, today demande was illegal, and ordered that | the line make the battlefront much pe eagrics itself e Since August 1 in 4 largest audience & at the person responsible for the 1 be restored to duty nger than that.) hus, the Germans are practically . dee Miressedienitid| bactuces cried const ih ARN aR Sete Yeuau [punk eenilee ike al RetbnDere Allied Offensive the Northwest what * be diamissed in disgrace from| ZURICH, Sept. 6.—The German|Glennes and are approaching the | line everywhere, and the allied troops| LONDON, Sept. 6.—Prisoners take] @ you have for sale?|the government service general staff has informed Imperial | Aisi at new places northeast of | ar ross it in places en on the western front since August : i ‘ 7 Hin demand was re-echoed by Sen-| Chancellor Hertling that any debate | Fismes. In their advance on Ham,| The hour has nearly arrived when | 1, total 110,000, it was estimated here 7 Do it with a Star) oe Calder and others, who indicat: |in the reichstag on present military |the French have taken Plessis Patte | Hindenburg and Ludendorff must at today. te Fite cantina’ ap) q want ad. Call Main) ea their purpose to fix responsibility | events would be disastrous to the | d’Oise, slightly more than four miles | the very least attempt to make some imately 70,000 and the Amet q y iho ra os aarkren then if possible to|army as well as to the morale of|south of it. Toward Chauny, the|sort of a stand, even if they essay | and French 40,000, The British total 600. You can have ‘rench have passed thru Abbecourt, | nothing more ambitious than to pre-| losses were not much greater than force the persons responsible out of | the German people, it was reported it charged. the government's employ. today, 3 miles southwest vent absolute panic at home, | the number of prisoners they tow