The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 13, 1919, Page 13

Section Two * & 'U. S. GIRL REVEALS BRUTALIT ‘AGED MANHURT Will Hope Diamond Bring Misfortune to Johnnie McLean; $100,000,000 lo g PEGGY HULL TELLS > RUSS GIRLS’ FATE BY PEGGY HULL N. E. A's Woman War Correspondent Covering Siberian Operati WITH THE ALLIED ARMIES IN NORTHERN SI- BERIA, June 13.—Pigs squealed, a hen cackled, a baby was crying. I turned over in my sleeping bag and opened my eyes, trying to remember where I was. I requires a lot of Mental gymnastics to jump from a farm in Kansas to a Village in Siberia which has just been beseiged by the Bol- Sheviks. I accomplished it gradually as I took in my sur- roundings. The room was fairly clean for a Russian housewife. The floor was bare, but showed the satisfying results of many scrubbings. The walls were unpapered, but bits of crocheted and embroidered pieces were tacked here and there, and a couple of colored pictures represented Russian festivals. An icon hung in the corner at the foot of my Sleeping bag. It was smaller and less elaborate than the ‘ones I had seen in the homes of wealthy Russians in Vladivostok. BEDS IN HOME ALMOST < A SIGN OF PLUTOCRACY Russian Women Two beds occupied one-half of the gre coon small room and I judged the other BY PEOGY BULL half was used as a living room When the Americans came ‘There was a round table cov Siberia y the idea ¢ With a gay cotton cloth of red, green | the morals of all Russian wo and yellow and a few trinkets of | were on a par w me of a heap china. I came to the conclu: || Parisian coquette wion that this peasint home was They soon found that the Hsomewhat better off than the ma average of imm lity wa Jority. The beds alone were almost || no greater than it ® sign of plutocracy An armful of ed States! y and a few rags constitute the In ome ways it is mot so sur. erage peasant’s sleeping quarters reptitious, perhaps, for a Russian A rap‘at a door interrupted my will travel openly with his mise Musings and I overheard an eloquent tress, but the laws of the coun Tfiow of Russian. Then a familiar | try are responsible for that—not Voice said something in French and the morals of its women. 1 knew Maj. G. P. Morton had come © for me I scrambled out of my bag. pulled on my boots and hustied into tunic and I was dressed. It wou the useless to comb my hair, because my fur cap covered it completely ‘The little old Ressian woman who my se _ had been my hostess for the day wax rey A. Ee MAA “entertaining the major and a Rus “ omen between & gq notmumndllenpqaafle agree ot 10 and Bs, whlee mated I discovered the pigs immediately.| Se single, are to become the There was a large one and eight i te- Hittle ones. They nosed around the Property +f the state tmnedia tiny room, stepped on the major's inate lianas ei we 250 feet and the old pig tried to root poubies per month fof her ser. Se vices and will be available for stroys the sanctity of the home and the sacredness of motherhood. It | uproots the ideals of civilimation and puts us on even a lower plane than animais, for they can choose their mates and fight to keep them.” wc ae Te meting om & emt of Tour hours Out ofeach Zt A, “No man will be permitied to fast asleep on the brick stove remain with a woman longer WOMAN TELLS STORY — than two hours. OF BOLSHEVIK TYRANNY “In cases of prospective child With the Russian officer acting birth, women will be released as an interpreter, madame told us| from service three months be- her story, which equaled in tyranny fore confinement and for one anything that ever occurred under month after. At the age of three the monarchy. months the child will be turned At the first uprising of the boishe over to a home provided by the viks her husband had been visited, state in which it will be cared by 4 committee and told to take up for by experienced nurses and is against the ‘‘bourgeoise’’ of reared as the state desires. He refused to fight against the “Married women who are | people who had done nothing to im within the age limit will not be eur his enmity | exempt from serviee and their The committee went aw ond husbands will be permitted to three dayx later madame, who had! visit them once a week.” frantically searched for him thruout! ‘There were many other provisions the village, found his body. face of which I cannot write and which downwards, in a little forest at the the Russian officer refused to in edge of town. There was a bullet terpret. But I knew madame's wound in his back daughter law had been swallowed Three sons had died on the eastern yy in t the latest and greatest front during the first year of the horror, of all the horrors inaugurat War. The only one left had been oq py the bolsheviks. On a trapping expedition when his. Her baby began to ery, and mad father was visited. Upon his return | ame hurried to the brick stove. Maj the same committee called on him.| Morton folded up my bedding roll left his wife and baby with his moth-| painfully conscious of our inability er. That was over a year ago and! to offer one consoling word they had not heard from him. He was probably dead And the daughterinlaw — WOMAN THROWN OFF welled up in the faded eyes and i tumbled down her wrinkled cheeks. She brought from a sox a folded paper and handed it to the Russian officer. HE GLANCED BUT ONCE AT THE PRINTED PAGE AND HIS WHOLE EXPRESSION CHANGED T had admired his laughing eyes and his debonair ways. They had Of the car sent hes thru the gnies. ished. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN. a MY LIFE I LOOKED UPON A| 4 bagaar and MAN WITH MURDER IN HIS| raise $4 HEART. new school, will be given by the wo BOLSHEVIK PROCLAMATION men of St. George’s parish in George OF WOMAN'S ENSLAVEMENT town. The bazaar will open in Fra “It is @ proclamation issued by the) ternal hall on June 26 and will con. bolsheviks,” he said, “they base their! tinue until July 2nd. The foundation BPexcuse for it upon the grounds that} for the new school has already been it reprevents the principles of true | jaja. Seclalism. This bit of paper de ia The Bolsheviki and Russ Women YOU HAVE READ of die anarch vistic degrees enforcing “nationalizat women—making them sexual slav autocratic masters. AND PERHAPS you have heard these decrees de. nounced as “forgeries” gotten up by the allied gov- ernments to discredit the Lenine-Trotsky bolshevik government, WELL, PEGGY HULL, American girl reporter and most noted of woman war correspondents, found the same decree enforced in a tiny Siberian village which had passed into the control of the bolsheviks, and she sent to The Star an exact copy of the decree, signed by the “Saratov council of anarchists’ which has pre- viously appeared in these columns, and which, no mat- ter by whom it was issued, has been USED BY THE BOLSHEVIKS to force women into unwilling “free- sve,” Florentia st., was taken to the city ing from shock and | the sealp after fallin: to t pave xt Fourth ave. and Madison st. Mr Armstrong declared that the con: quickly, gave the bell, and the jerk tic and bolshe- on” of Russian subject to the Streetcar when an au Nelson, knocking him unconscio The streetear fender was to} and the fee investigators falled to | id hour Friday morning another car, P. J. Anderson Ninth st, Tacoma, ran his ma chine over an embankr five mi coma. © Tacoma, was in his ma other auto, driven by Wi ton, carpenter foreman at Duthie with H. GO. Kee (at Duthie’s as a passenger, turned off the road to go into home an It was either fight or be killed. Heland we went out of the little home per we. tet time the ol STEP OF STREETCAR lady's voice faltered. Tears Mrs. Josephine Armstrong, 76, 226 hospital Thursday afternoon suffer. | erations of ment from the steps of @ street car ductor of the car closed the gates too 10 years in the diseiplin rnival to help it at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., but 5,000 for the building of a rest was m secret servic Word was received from Kansas City today that 12 other men beside rrested in con nection with the forging of govern nts on the prison press a Vaserbet ment war! Leavenworth. Other arrests are ex nected, At least $60,000,000 in chacks | is said to hay ‘Three prisoners and ng to informa search is ly pansed wert sons shall be for social disease charges, The may- or declares the ordin: to handicap city officials in the per formance of their duties, and hag re-| her husband, but it is not always ad- turned the bill to the council. * IN AUTO CRASH Rams Machine Over the Curbing Felted to the pavement when a streetcar rammed an automobile at N. 55th st. and Phinney ave. at 7 o'clock Friday morning, An gel Nelson, 75, of the Potter Ho tel, 6614 James st, is in the city hospital suffering from severe bruises and sealp wounds, He is expected to recover, The smash » Ued up traffic on the Phinney line for half an hour while the wreekage was cleared away Nelson was standmg on the curb pobile, which dashed auto was badly smashed tity of the ax o driver Rans Over Bank Trying to avoid a co limits and was pinned beneath the ar, He was rescued and rushed to city ital, where it was fou that he suffered serious interna Anderson in purchasing agent for he Seat T pbuilding Co., of Erickson, 9 er, & superintend Arrest of every anto drive who “opens up” more than miles an hour within the city, and rigid prosecution of all speeder cases was ordered by Mayor Ole Hanson Thursday afternoon. The instructions sent Inspector Claud G. Bannick by the mayor followed the announcement by Lep uty Coroner W an inquest will be held Saturday, 4 20 o'clock, Into the death of 10 year-old Goldie Studebaker Ue girl was struck injure Wedne pwen park jit and E. 40th at afternoon by y, at Ninth ave. Order for an inquest came after nnouncement from Deputy Pr r Carmody that no evid hold Harry Benson, driver of the bus, had been received. The coro ner's office exprensed the wish learn the incidents lea WARRANTS ARE FORGED IN CELL Charge Is Placed Against Former Officer NEW YOR army, was arraigned before Commissioner Hit and was held for he on a charge of forging government securities. sion with 1) “How will the Meleans save the ex south of the Seattle city broken and ine. The am Comp ne Keasler Anderson swerved sharply to eft, his machine going over the embankment. ORDERS WAR ON AUTO SPEEDERS Mayor Is Angered at Girl's Death; Inquest Scheduled i. Corson that The lit down and fatally nee to ng up to the <, June 12 Ralph Va serberg, former lieutenant in the} What scheme will the wealthy 8.) McLeana evolve now to suppress ncock Thursday | ng next week nd passing The Seattle Star JATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, JUNE I PREDICTS GREAT WAR IN FAR EAST! * Brother, Vinson, Killed by| Auto the Only Time He Escaped Guards Famous Stone Is Followed | Thru Centuries by Trail of Bad Luck | } | BY A. KE. GELDHOF WASHINGTON, D. C., June 13 There's a new $100,000,000 boy out| at “Friendship.” the palatial sum mer home of Mr, and Mrs, Edward B. McLean on Wisconsin ave He is 4 years old, and bis name Out of a aide street, was caught bYfis John R. McLean. He the an inbound street car and hurl t son of the MeLa nw that across the street. The auto struck ittle Vv on Walsh Molean, fa for nine years as “the rich- in the world,” is 4 f that no sum of money, how ver great. can stay the hand of Death VINSON NEVER LEFT ALANE BY GUARDS All Washington i# now asking life of their new heir, now that the irony of fate has taken from them their first been? Every precaution that enormous ngenulty could wa. to prevent ac dents t son MeLaan. Sine the firet day of his birth half a strong men w on ployed his guards, in addition to @ co t and tutors and a negro boy his own age who was hired his playmate Th ‘ baby as he was calle ause he inherited fr his own right the tremendou extate of his grandfather, Thomas Fr, Wa the Colorado mining king, was never alone for a m ay. He was never play in publi ke t piles of rock and enclosed the 100. where he lived pn t His parents feared accidents, but they feared kidnap ere mote By the tron of fate, however Vinson eluded bis guards, ran into the etreet, and war «truck and kill- ed by an automobile-—a common Ford car And the $100,000,000 whieh he In herited when he waa born--now | vastly increased, as millions have a) way of increasing—goes to his four year-old brother, John. Will John have better luck and live to claim his fortune when he be comes of age? Those who believe In bad omens are shaking their heada doubtfully For John Mclean‘n mother, the beautiful Evelyn Walsh Mclean, daughter of Thornas F. Walsh, inthe owner of the famous $100,000) Hope diamond, and bad tuck bas fol lowed ita ore ever since it waa! the property of Burovean kings. | HOW WILL NEW HEIR BE PROTECTED? But the question that agitates the neighbors of the Mcleans up around “Friendship,” is how the Melaan 1 be guarded from some such heir wi fate ax hin brother met | LAttle John and his younger bro. ther, Edward B., three years old have been guarded also, but never to the extent that Vinson was. For you nee they were not the first-born, and their value in the way of prospective nrom was not so great to kidnap: | pers, Not that the parents loved them lena, but as long as Vinson was a there was smaller possibility of dan ger to them Now, it's different. Half a dozen hired guards failed to rave the life f Vinson McLean, Assassins and kidnapers the guards kept away, but they couldn't keep away the boyish desire of this hundred-mil-| lion-dollar boy, pampered and pet- ted since babyhood, to play in the| street like the dollarless boys of | the neighborhood the boyishness of their new heir? aay Just When Vaserbers wa sentenced to serve Officers Want Him said to have forged warrants on the prison press, dressed in an army ma lor’s uniform, and escaped, His a le a few days ago men had been been printed. LEAVENWORTH, Kan., June om militar Mayor Refuses to ry barracks aped from the disciplinary barracks at Leavenworth Wednesday, three Thurs¢ six Thursday afternoon, accord n to local police thoritie A thoro| ng made for the prison: | Arriving in Seattle a few hours after Chief of Police W. McKinnon. of Havre, Mont, who has been on hig trail for the past week, George Baxter, 21, was arrested at Third and Union st. Thursday after noon by local detectives on a charge of stealing an automobile. Chief Me Kinnon arrived in & tle Thursday morning, and will take Baxter back with him. The car, showing evidences of | rough travel, attracted the attention of the detectives and led to Baxter's Jarrest. The auto bore a Canadian Ucense mornins Youth Will Plead Insanity Defense} YAKIMA, June 13.—A plea of In anity will be the basis of the de fense in the trial of Roy Wolff, 16 year-old boy alleged to be the slayer of Elmer Green, taxi driver, near Rakersfield, Herbert Wolff, brother Approve adenine Roy, and recently discharged from Mayor Ole Han ppro: booked” by the pol al to the ordinance recent the city council, pre ng the manner in which per nce is designed | the army, declared that his brother, 1 refuses to give| when about 6 years old, fell from a ne ce, injuring his head, and at times becomes, uncontrollable, A brother, Hugo, will represent the Wolff fam ily at Bakersfield | ning Yes, Luke, a woman should trust visable to let hin know it. Pages 13 to 24 Y OF “REDS” CHINESE ENRAGED Democr nd the F rn Questior Amé sion by the so-called council of four of the peace conf awarding the Chinese territory to a great war in the rrected. only does this act arouse the most bitter of the Chinese people, but it tends to continue to aggravate the conditions in the Far East which are root of the It amounts to a victor: Japan, and wil! confirm ive policy toward Chinz pretation of the Lana lait seveartai’l relating to : coe an interpretation which complete]; policies of the United States toward | China. Four Year-Old John R. McLean, new $100,000,000 boy McLean, wearing the Hope dia the nine-year-old brother who was killed by a Ford auto mobile when he escaped his cuards Belgians tien, and below, then Jelgians by te satisfaction later WEAK NATIONS TOLD |“ CRICAGO,, Same. TO RELY ON LEAGUE Press.—Hetween 33,000 cre pot oblivious of the, 00 telegraphers will have Train J Diaaater That's Followed Owners of Hope Diamond Staff Correspondent appare NEW YORK followed the genté about world poll- ard Beale McLean purchased the stone for pe ¢ security to a league of It is a beautiful blue brilliant of 44% ¢ tof a wonderful stone weighing 112 the French traveler « ected by alliances and combina tions on the side ship, explaining that brought from It is only the weak nations that | are told to rely upon the league. Much enthusiasm was lao Chou, if they cann ntrol of that place t ‘avernier’s son another journ ished in Russia the jewel to his favorite quickly by another favorite as she would a and two years This woman It was borrowed by ater he wan beh Queen Marie Antoinette could not resist the temptation te . and allowed ther than have court favorite, M princess was China's ages-old domain. | Konenkam -|Konenkamp said. “As our cause. hinese populati and endu 5 | 1 by a jeweler ered he had be died of star another nameless sui ssurance, by the way, was a a President Kovenkamp wired ‘om the treaty of the Eastern and Western FOUR TO ONE divisions late yesterday, tolling AGAINST cHinges of the desire of some of their her ca Paris, when it is under she was forced to sub it for the sultan wa The guardian Another guardi presented the stone who polished death in a dungeon which it was kept was Salma Zubayda intrusted with in the window of a Fift ing to do with Has its hoodoo OFFICERS FIND BRITISH FLIERS BOOZE ON SHIP SET FOR FLIGHT Dry Squad Men Arrest Two and Seize Still American repres » council evide States voluntariiy that American prestig popularity with Chinese will/are returning,” they s impaired b Vickers Airplane Will Soon Attempt Atlantic Trip China, Shantung provinc assures the continuation on-stop transa China, of the sys squad 65 pints of bonded whisky whisky was founc Atisfled with th Americ China. ns will feel astonishment, | No arrests were ‘Two raids within study the conditions of junions continued to predict victory. the one uestion that Edward Reynolds, v! president. the confers reg nM {of the Postal, which was admittedly Sti 8 handicapped in moving its business definite interest and | the first day of the strike, stated to- to go by default SAFETY APPLIANCES LACKING, IS REPORT * news that railroad o tors would —_ pe aae thd refuse. to. handle Goniaeniai aa pen Next Sunday | "**: q munieiy park opens to the public summer season next Sun. * guard and a man and woman attendant will be station ach of mash dumped in hi cated at the when his hi agent for the » held Saturday un investigation by Funeral services will Sunday from the Cremation will fol-|no safety sald to have ppliances about the ma Watson chap water's fine! VER LAND LOSS. Americar more ersant with Par Faster y ra, wh ent the greater part of the last books on ' estion aricularly polities= as authoritat He the editor of Milard’s Rae greatest American pu’ ion | « Far Kast. Mr, ks at the peace conf «, studying the Eastern been fought out ar ecided pardeuleey a : tthe : the Newspaper Enters BY THOMAS F. MILLARD ‘our Eastern Que a and the Far Eastern Question The New Far Bast,” r of Millard’s Fee Shangbal.) June 12.—The decision reached in secret ses of Kiao Chou to Japan, Far East unless antagoni m and dissension between the foreign ~ a: 4 i for nd encour e military autoeracy age it in a predatory and and R ussia. ly vitiates the traditional - foccene ss SAYS WIRE EMEN. ir hk ot - “ Konenkamp States 40,000 svem| Will Be Out Tomorrow « { natior the nation-wide strike, called the Commercial Telegi Union of America, by S J. Konenkamp, dicted here today, 3 Konenkamp declared this ure exceeded the union to all who ied Great Pow- cline entrust insist that they many union men had walked out. among wu n officials here today a4 nena’ Wal Yeosia f the decision of the be left In the b phets to Fe which nation seized / mercial messages after 6 a, mm. of ruthless intimida- | morrow, and the promised teleph strike due Monday, unless B have | intervenes, according to a at Atlantic City y. and sacred The situation is very pro the result road in os- | reac n are left| seen more clearly, we are galt the pains of! With fully 80,000 railroad spation phers working with us and tel asts Japan's oft-re-| workers out, Postmaster Gener to restore Kiao/ Burleson will be compelled to evacuate Shantung | action.” that to strike in sympathy and asking. the ¢ j n What they wished to do, ri no fault of her dele- F. A. Davis, president of the West. ern division of brokers’ operators, yesterday promised that 1,500 2 of whom | raphers from Pittsburg to the Britain, France, Italy coast will walk out Monday, unless: already had signed inthe strike is adjusted, Konenkamp ments among said ag st China. Union men estimated more than hance was that the | 1,000 telegraphers have left their government would | keys in the Chicago district, nh “As far as the Western Union i= uid positively refuse | concerned, the strike is over,” BL 3 » ratification by the| Jones, chief operator of the Western those secret agree-| Union, declared this morning. “We | now in excellent shape. tive on) Jones said of 2,134 employes in the tly felt compelled, | Chicago district less than 50 walked pressure we can con-/ out, and some of these have returned, to mandatory expedi-| He said Chicago's situation fs a good Al responsibility which | barometer of the national condition. Postal officials said the situation is improving wonderfully and that “business is moving without restric tion.” Many men who walked out a of this} Only 16 out of 120 Postal employes firmly |are at work at St. Louis, and 100 ux" girls have deserted their mae allotment to Japan|chines at the Western Union, uniom nic in«|men reported. e prac- | of fiv its influen: jucing China to en United § . erman ecor extension to. other, Lelegraph Leaders Tapan ‘of the “open! Predicting Victory react 80 strongly commercial op. | NEW YORK, June 13.—While the slegraph company officials declared | today the strike of commercial oper- was ineffective, leaders of the was allowed practi-! day that many of the men are Fé turning to work, Union officials said there had been no desertions. Telegraphers were elated at thoy to Advices from Springfield, Tle, where the Electrical Workers’ ” rters is located, are to t that conferences might settlement of the | threatened for Monday. 1 bathing beach at at ery day during Come on In, the