The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 12, 1919, Page 1

Tides in Seattle BATURDAY Arn nw tet High Tide int Low Tide Int Low Tide ® ft. | sear Qed High Tite find High Tid S4ipm. See. | esky voi tt fed Low Tide ml Low Tide aT pm, BT et a) t VOLUME 22. NO. 45. WIPE OUT 1521 Wounded Veterans Are Here for Day \ Silently they came into the yards of the Great \WWorthern railway. There was no cheering, but sol- ers with eager faces and anxious eyes lined the S Windows and almost fought for places on the car steps. The troop train stopped and the crowd that had been almost motionless as the train came in; swept in one big wave to the steps, to the window here was no loud cheering, no boisterous demon- stration, but it was more a heart-to-heart greeting. Then the 521 wounded Yanks—with 121 Seattle men among them and nine officers—detrained to oe four hours here Saturday before proceeding to iP | ; j Lewis. As the train stopped at 10 a. m. and the men! poured off. mothers and other relatives, friends and old war-time “buddies,” rushed to the sides of the expected ones. There were many smiles and many tears, but tears were tears of gladness and were not confined _ to the women folks. The men were lined up and fed Best surprise.” said Johnson. “Altho Aoughnuts and coffee by the Red ogee pa — pps ten) ear aharw Cross, and then ciga and candy bal ed b } around. Capt... E.| out en mame, and showed us a reg Johnson, of the 13th infantry,/ Uiar good time re “KBighth division. which has been sta “Oh! Boy! P tioned at Camp Merritt, was in| pattiescarred heroes of the | charge of the train Somme, Soissons, Chateau Thierr After the treat by the Red Cross' se Mihiel and the Argonne were in the men were formed in columh® the contingent. And they were lusty of fours and loaded into waiting a4-| voiced and happy, despite their tomobiles for the parade wound stripes and hospital records Led by Chief Warren and Capt.) «on: poy! chorused a group of SE. E. Johnson. who was in charge | sing lade from the Pullman win Of the train on its way across the | gays as one of their number «wung continent, the boys rode up Second) gown into the arma of three women fve. Altho enthusiastic friends lined |5°°". tne train stopped, and as Guy the street, there was one fact that) oi ener of the 346th field artillery impressed itself-on the by standers. formerly a U. of W. student, was There was a noticeable lack of] )°CC tos storm of kisses, they music reiterated After a ride.about the city, the » ahentt yu gutenk to yank tnt men were entertained by the #0l-) ai. diers and xailors’ welcome commit Want “Stan Green” tee at a luncheon in the Masonic f oA temple. They were then taken for| A clamoring feminine delegation Mother ride on the boulevard, be- | began an early quest for Stan Greer BSc leaving for Camp Lewis shortly | before the long line of Pullmana had pare Weaving stopped. “Stan Green” was paged fn from car to car, to the cheering of Learns Sad News khaktclad spectators One of the sad angles of the wel-| A slight, gray haired woman ear come came when “Jimmie” Haynes, |nestly scanned the bright faces of Dn Seattle boy, formerly with the|the soldiers for a glimpse of her Seth Engineers, who has seen seven nephew, John Hays, of whom no | months of almost continuous fight-|word had come to his mother at ing, and who came to Seattle from | Grandview since July, when she re Coblenz, and the Army of Occupa-|celved government notice that he tion, was greeted with the news of | was missing In action the death of his brother George, A neighbor boy wrote that John who died during the influenza epi-|had been wounded, and we thought demic last fall, Haynes had not that he had become shell shocked or \. heard of his brother's death gassed and forgot everything about a Bugler James L. Weir, of the old | writing.” She was anxiously looking 16ist Washington infantry, Neat for members of the 16ist, John’s fought with the 23rd infantry !" \company overseas. 3 ieance. piri’ at rnd mage Bar Seeks for News f cae Seeing S00 hie oe “Well, I declare; I thought you'd « Thaesgghgraal also of the 23rd In| ined the navy!’ an old friend ular from Sumner greeted Private Angle Geaote Wie Resty with delighted surprise as he Weir and Manning fought togeth-| stepped from the train | er at Chateau-Thierry. Manning Private Gurvel of Portland, who was wounded and sent back of the | wears a wound stripe as a souvenir Jines. Weir heard nothing more of | of the struggle at the Somme, was a him and thought his pal dead. Later precious “find” indeed for Mrs. F.| ‘Weir was wounded at Soissons and|w, Fairbanks, 7429 4th ave. N. E., ga sed-at Champagne. The latter) for he was in the same company: “py him out of business,” a8 he company L of the 23rd infantry—as| ph wed it and he was sent 60 @ her own son Lester, who was killed | cast camp. on the Champagne front on October + was while he was at the casual) 4, yajrbanks was only 19 and a camp at St. Algnan, France, that! student at Lincoln high at the time he came across Manning, whom he o¢ 414 enlistment thought dead. Weir came across to| wif oniy 1 could find some one of this country on the George Wash-| 1. 23rq who was with him in the ington and with Mra. Susan Man | pattie, for all I have had is the ning, of 1615 Eighth ave, was &t) notice from the government,” the the station, one to meet her son, the | bereaved mother related, with tears other to greet his “buddy. in her eyes. } All Turned Out Finds Her Cousin | Capt. EB. B. Johnson, who, during| One of the surprising “finds” of the the course of the war, was in charge |day came when Miss Jennie Cotton, of the casuals at the embarkation | 1608 12th ave., who works at the station at Hoboken, w1s in charge | United States custom house, hoping | ‘of the 620 men and had nothing but|to find her brother, Barl, on the high praise for their conduct while| train, found, instead, a brand-new on their trip here from Camp Mer- | cousin. he ‘We met with a cordiai reception | Jesse Cotton, of Marshfi “all along the route, particularly at|swered the . An exchange of | Butte and Spokane, but it was at | names and personal history, and Miss Dubuqué, la., that we had our big- | Gotton found that the returned vet | AnA eSeattle Star = Rotered ae Becond Class Matter May 9, at thePostoftice es * *© *& & IN WORLD, WILSON | HAT PUEBLO SHOT DOWN BY BANDITS Angered Posse of Cattlemen Is Hunting Fugitives in Greenhorn Mountains LYNCHING NOW FEARED PUEBLO, Col, April 1t— (By United Press)—An old-fash. ed Western manhunt for two murderers ix on in the Greenhorn mountains, southwest of here, today The quarry—two unknown men, who shot E. G, Parks and William Hunter on the Rye road yesterday afternoon—are being hunted by about 60 cowpunchers. ‘There in every prospect of a double lynching ff the murderers are caught Hunter, president of the Arkansas Valley CattigGrowers' amcciation, Js, known to pfactioally every cowboy in thie section. These riders came in and took up the trail. Parks had wold an automobile to! Hunter, and was giving him his first lesson in driving when he was accosted by two men on the road. What happened in the machine can only be surmised, Apparently the pair xhot Parks three times while | he waa still In the machine, Hunter was running away from the car, when he wax killed by bullets from the revolvers in the hands of their! | passengers. | Two men, not far behind In an) other machine, saw the men trying to drag the two bodies under a/ culvert. When fired at, they raced back to Pueblo to alarm the police The trail was lost in the foothills, where the overheated motor car was | abandoned. The wild nature of the mountainous country promises to make the’hunt an uncertain one pass «llr tested estaeadeinie iets Aa was an honest-to-goodness firnt cousin | Cotton went over with the 157th in fantry and was transferred to the 305th infantry, of th th (Liberty) division. He was gasned at the his toric battle of the Argonne woods and sent back to the states | Earl Cotton, the brother, was not on the train He arrived in New York on April 2. Going to France with the old See ond Washington infantry, he was transferred there to the Ninth in fantry, and gained a war record to be proud of. He was wounded at the Champagne front, int his fifth battle after going “over the top” eight times. "Glad to get back?” asked Lucian Johnson. “Why, look at this,” and with an arm about the walst of each, he proudly exhibited his mother and his aunt, His mother, Mrs. J. A Johnson, lives at 6279 2ist ave. His smiling thru her tears, said: Well, I hope the camera man didn't see my tears." “Oh, boy!" yelled “Jimmie” Man-| ning. as he grasped the hand of the | “buddy” he thought killed at Chateau | Thierry, and, grabbing his mother, | Mrs. Susan Manning, smacked her soundly on the lips. “Gilad to get back? Oh, gosh!” said one of the returned Yanks. eR you can imagine what it means to get back to the old home town and be met at the train by home folks.” Entrain at 1 p. m. The men were free to go wher) eon. Their train was scheduled to) pull out for Camp Lewis at 1 p.m.) Detailed plans for the welcome) had to be whipped into shape Fri-| day night, under direction of Frank Gates, of, the soldiers and sailors’ welcome committee, Brig. Gen. Harvey J, Moss, ad- jutant general of state troops, headed the reception committee, with Maj. George R, Brewewr and Acting Mayor Lane as his assist ante. | Bouckaert’s “dynamite committee” (CONT'D ON PAGE FOUR) Refuses to Stand | for Photo of Kiss “Hey! Lay off that stuff,” yelled rit. Some one yelled “Cotton,” and|one vet, as the camera man was|cerns, Friday night offered to help | 1, Ore,, an-|about to snap the return kins of the |the Chamber of Comznerce publicity | soldier and hit mother, He stub bornly refused t# stand for the pio ture. age * A" 60 COWBOYS CHASING MURDERERS: ARR RRR RRR merican Paper That Fights for Americanism. Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congr I'TLE, WASH., SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1919. "Wounded Yanks, Back to “Blighty,” Stop for Day in Seattle on Their Way to Camp Lewis | 6417 Brooklyn Packer and his . Geft),-and his mother, Mrs. H. A. Johnson, 6279 depted French bey, Maurice “Packer.” Center—Capi casual troops, Lower left—Norma Alice Jenner, aged four, waiting for her uncle, W. the 23rd infantry. Lower right—"The Buddies’ Reunion,” left to right, Bugler James L. Weir, Mrs. Susan Manning, of 1615 Eighth ave. and her son, dames Manning. Weir lost his pal at Chateau Thierry, but met him in on the train at Seattle. Onn nnn sof LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE PPL LALLA Cress Dale Photo. Upper left—"The Arms of the Army,” Lacias Johnsen, returned vet, with his aunt, Mrs. E. A. Cook, Upper right—M. rommanding the Patterson, of SEATTLE YANKEE Yank Brings a DETROIT TROOPS WINS 2 MEDALS French Orphan STAGED MUTINY sayg pycei Hero of Soissons and Bel-| HomeWith H im Propagand: One of the most interesting “veter ans” who arrived in Seattle Satur leau Wood Twice Cited Two decorations for conspicu. |W" Maurice “F ker,” 12 years old sented to First Lieut. (, left arm for 18 months’ servic in the} WASHI ser, of the 44th infantry, at Fort | war gone. Maurice is a little French shevik propagan| , lresponsible for o'clock, 'American — infantry Northern Russia Lawton, Monday afternoon, af 4 | Coonan, whom Private M, E. Packer, ‘The presentation of the two med. first class, of Seattle, picked up on als, both awarded by the French gov- the streets of Samnur, and, struck by ernment, will be made by Maj. G. M./the frank appeal of the lad’a big! Halloran, commandant at Fort Law: | ton, during a review of all the troops | at the port | Lieut. Fraser was cited twice by| the Cedar apartments. the the French army staff for bravery in| Maurice {# one of the first French stamping out machine gun Nests boys to be adopted by an American while leading his section of the Sec-| soidier and brought to this country. ond division, at the battles of Sols! 1¢ was only after a great deal of trou sons and Belleau Wood. | ble that the boy was passed by the brown eyes, adopted him as the mas: | angel, which On June 7, $ and 9, Liout. Fraser, | immigration authorities in New York,| Company I consists almost entire utterly disregarding danger, led hit!hut when Packer vouched that he |!¥_0f Detroit men. section thru the net of German ™ | had jegally adopted Maurice, he was Rail communications lcompleted to the most southern port Packer will keep the boy here dur. |held by the allies in Northern Rus: breaking the enemy defense bY | ing the summer months, and in the |*la, March declared lever they wished after the lunch-| storming strongly held machine 6UM | fai) will send him to Woodland, Cal.,/complished by completion of the emplacements. where he will stay at the home of Onda bridge, which enables supplies uninterruptedly from chine gun nests, and later, on July 18. | permitted to pass, he advanced in front of his men For his first exploit he was award | Packer's father. |to be moved | Maurice has with him a little Rel-| Murmansk to the interior and as. ed the French croix de guerre, with a bronze star, and his second cltation | gian terrier, “Mabe carries a croix de guerre with a gold) his pat thruout the war. jammunition ater. | ——————————————— | March said Maj, Halloraf, who will present the | two medals, also served with the Sec: | ond division in France during the | Belleau Wood and Solsong fights. | A large number of the officers and men who will march in review when indicate that service troops. ‘The, publica will be permitted to wit ness Monday's review and presenta tion. OFFER TO HELP CITY Advertising agency experts and | engravers, representing private con: | department in publicity for city bet: | terment, This action was taken at 4 meeting in hte Masonic club rooms a Held Responsi-| ble for Trouble BY RAYMOND CLAPPER ous bravery in action will be pre. | wearing three gold chevrons on his |(United Press Staff Correspondent) 12.—Bol [Angel dispatch to The Post today, held | dated Thursday. of an|the snows are melting, paving the Chief of Staff March, in announe- ing today that th infantry, cot of his company. ‘Packer lives at|fending troops, read a message from commanding officer tions put by the men to their offi- cers were the shevikt in their propaganda leaflets advised them to ask, This was ac which has been |sures abundant Ships equipped with ice-breakers have made their way to Murmansk vessels haye reached Archangel, according to Feports to the general staff. jand two othe: This is taken to the ice will the presentation fs made are overseas sufficiently broken movement of vessels in and out. Mayor Hanson May Return Here Soon Mayor Ole Hanson back from his South. Telegrams to this effect have [ata received family here. | ilar outdoor sport. The weatherman | adopted a resolution that if a “soviet Mayor Hanson was en route from] gloomily prophesies: “Rain tonight | peace” were dictated, Germany will Los Angeles to San Francisco in his car Saturday, a — 1 Sunday, rain: warmer tos rate to fresh southerly wind ———————a DEBS READY PRESIDENT FOR YEARS IN PRISON ang IN SPEEC Shows Emotion in Last In-| Defends Monroe Do vr \ terview; Worries Over the | and Pleads for New Spirit’ Future of His Wife of Kindliness SAYS HE'S NOT AFRAID WINS OVER COLLI d.. April 1 _TERRE HAUT - BY FRED 8. FERGUS@} Eugene V. Debs Wwe (United Press Stoff Corre land today to give himeelf up to fed PARIS, April 12.—Talk eral authoritie ve a 10-year “Kastor peace” today had prison sentence f lating the es way to promise of « plonage act in a speech at Canton, peace.” Ohio Whil ronic ‘The socialist leader in the final in-| edsuciod the tat none of terview showed ‘much emotion when! Apri! 20 apparently had he spoke of his wife, who has been there was a general feeling. that! his constant companion for years. treaty would be ready toe “It is not for myself that I amjtion to the Germans by |gncerned. but. for Mrs. Debs,” be | jonas, |waid, “She will not accompany me|- Person: | to prison, but will remain here with | timated phar cpcadntal pe mother to keep the home fires} aily been reached now on jurning.”” portant I | Looking back on a stormy career | oy tet bplrh: - | of 63 years, Debs expressed no fear | valley, disposition of lum jot the 10 years behind prison walls. zig and German boundaries, | They will be no novelty to him. He| The military, naval and) ae | has seen them from the inside be | terms of the treaty have been |fore—for participation in a rattroad | pleted for weeks past. ‘The strike in Chicago 24 years ago. | league of nations covenant is + “When I first went to privon I was | for submission to a plenary. ‘a mere boy,” he said. “But I go Control of Saar now without the least fear. Then I) 4. 5 |didn’t have the full understanding |, A" inatance of how the |that I have now. 1 now accept it| 4 jnerwoven with the treaty ie with serenity and composure. iter Rap greg = “I can distinctly hear an eco of | ter emrio, ne, bis four” akrest My case thru 10,000 miles of SPACE | Kinervion of ee oe Under Political: in the cnutiny of the American sol-|fibrreon of the league for a pe diers in Archangel. Iam wondering | the tmporunnt ne erence contre |how many people realize the impor- | Preah ¥ hacen tance of this seemingty unimportant |) q'pen, OC which will be de | instance. . YY a plebescite directed by | ‘The ruling power now fills the | “Se yo. | prison with men and women Who be-| nignt'y mocting. somites, at J |Meve in democracy, and since the | maining articles of ihe vidoe | war has made the world safe for de- | was untiontond thot on |mocracy they are printing the pres: | tnese amendmen foe enue ae Jent chapter. We, the people, will| {he French amendment te hanes | write the next chapter.” Sational general, atete a | Socialists of the fifth congressional | Roth nations, mecording tony jdistrict- are planning a big demon-|intormation resect tte stration here on May 1 to protest |submit these a chap. |against the imprisonment of Debs. | hienary senior foc de |'They are of the opinion that execu- | a Sens | The new article providing for : i | prov! for jtive clemency will be granted him. | ognition of the Monroe dect was learned today, dee! | nothing in the covenant shall be strued as invalidating treaties of ; bitration or regional such as the Monroe doctrine, President Talks | When the president arose to Bet, jon the Monroe doctrine a LONDON, April 12.—(United| it w , ae | Press.)—The crisis in Northern Rus- Hr a tong day's work, Gua * ia has passed, according to an Arch-| the head of the table, the c° | fatigue on his face accent The dispatch said | the blazing light of the chand |he delivered what is said to been one of the most dramatic | effective speeches since the co | ence opened. The president pointed out that t) Monroe doctrine had its inception @ Ko to ¢ way for arrival of reinforcements. It was further stated that the Bol- |shevik army on the Archangel front |now numbers 30,000. |, War Minister Churchill, address. ling the Aldwych club last night, de rl |clared Great Britain would make no pptemeteees omgr gmc gen. effort to negotiate with the Russian | for the purpose of permitting | soviet government, free and untrammeled de’ ngland cannot negotiate with| of the peoples of the Am the Rolsheviki,” he said. “The al:|¢rhese peoples, he said, had Hed troops in Russia will be re-| joined with free Europeans Meved. The premier has given me | final struggle against abso |full power to accomplish this.” lend. Gut ‘they. were Mince | S es was directly attributable to the (Brings Hun Spiked | °:,¢2ttn«. Hats From Battle re doctrine and his address ‘The president's defense of the Among the Seattle boys to return | Porting selection of Geneva as from overseas Saturday was C, L, | Permanent seat of the league of Bagshaw, 1616 Broadway, formerly | Hons, were referred to by some ‘a Broadway high school student. | the see samy me Tne two | He was wounded at Cantigny. Bag. | See es he ever made, shaw thinks that France is the| Paul Hyman, of Belgium, ur “punk,” and that there is no place | ‘hat Brussels be made the Ie like little old Seattle, | seat, asserting it was fitting that “The Germans were running so | Seme city In Belgium be selected, “i fast when the armistice was signed | Which memories of the past are that they threw their helmets away | closest and hatred of the enemy to get more speed,” he said. He | freshest, a brought back a few spiked headgear | Wilson is said to have presented” |to back up his statement, an argument briefly and forcefully cataenceequicienpiis to the effect that the league “is not ~ built on hate,” but that the wiping ~ out of hate among the people of the ~ world is one of its prime objects, a | | ' Gloomy Prospects, Says Weather Man - ‘The weather Saturday morning OPPOSE SOVIET PEACE was ideal, but don’t bank on the} COPENHAGEN, April 12—A dis- same brand for Sunday, if you're| patch from Weimar today reported planning on an outing or some sim-|that the national assembly had and Sunday. Moderate northerly | “address an eleventh-hour appeal to winds,” all mankind.” .