The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 17, 1919, Page 11

Genuine ‘‘BULL” DURHAM Tobacco Good old reliable ‘‘Bull’’—without a rival. Genuine “Bull” Durham—for rolling your own. Cigarettes that cost you least, cigarettes that please you most: machines can’t even dupli- cate them. (You can roll 50 cigarettes from one bag of Genuine “Bull”? Durham Tobacco. Mase Oe ed : a ‘ ‘ THE SEATTLE STAR—THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1919. % Yank Colonel, | | | 1 le You pipe smokers; mixalittle“BULL” DURHAM with your favorite to- bacco. It’s like sugar in your coffee. | auto whose driver char byways, A brown-hatred, brown-eyed officer) Verdun, and he was placed in com. sat in the shadow watching the} mand of a group of 16 18-ton tanks. dancers at the Seattle Tennis club} he tank ervico was eat | Wednesday night. | sport,” he says, “and one of the most He dan 1 and then resumed hia| interesting branches of service I was t on the porch of the club over-|in during the whole war. In the looking Lake Washington Chemin des Dames battle they effect And it was only when he danced | ively broke the enemy's line and we th one could see that he wor were instrumenta in other engage four wound stripes--thr ments in destroying the German's | Frenck both French and American | ‘pill box’ line of defense.” service stripes, and what appeared| Just before leaving for the United to be about all the decorations ever| States with the Joffre mission, given during the war just closed, [Sweeney became a captain, He He was peney of the Foreign] didn't return to France, but was Legion.” | transferred to the American army, Officially: Lieut. Col. Charles | and was given the rank of major at Sweeney of the Blue Ridge division, | Fort Myers, Va., in officers’ training who ‘came a major tn the United | school. Later he was made a colonel. States army in the spring of 1917 . He enlisted in Paris at the out Wounded st: Argonne break of the war in the French For In the battle of the Mouse-Argonne, eign Legion and won promotion after |®" Officer in the American army promotion, until as a captain he was | "WwW, Col, Sweeney waa wounded sent to the United States as aide-de-| sin by shrapnel striking him not camp eneral Joffre with the|#n Inch from his first wound of the ion. war, received in tho first battle of » story of his part in the world | the Marne. War would read like the most ro-| le fought thru every engagement | mantic ef romanc but Col, the 80th division was in, and closed Sweeney fs modest, He prefers to| bi active service with the fourth | sit in the shadow and cannot be | my in the army of occupation near | made to talk about himaelt. Senin: Sie Wan Seeeearees 168 Wale . ns ” urday at Camp Lewis and is now on Was Writer in Paris his way back to Washington to testi- Col. Sweeney probably has had|ty pefore the military committees of more fighting experience than any | congress, before returning to his other American soldier in the war.| newspaper work in Paria, Paris was hia home for ten years! Of the two armies Col. Sweeney before the opening of hostilities. He | was in, he thinks the French “more was a writer for American papers | clubby,” with a better understand: on French politics, He offered his | ing between officers and men and bet- services almost immediately after the | ter spirit between the men them. declaration of war and became a pri-| gelves, vate gn Legion. ‘ The fact that Col eeney was| Is Part of Nation graduated from West Point in 1904| “This ts ensfly understandable,” he may account for his rapid rise in the |*®y8. “The French army is @ con-| French service. At any rate he was | *¢ript army, a part of the nation at promoted to be a corporal on the bat. | ll times, while the American army, tlefield in May, 1916. He had al-| ©xcept in time of war, is not an in- ready been wounded and a hospital | tegral part of the country.” case in August, 1914, in the retreat IAeut, Col. Sweeney ts 36 years from Lelgium, old, and when he was in the bare- He was only a corporal three days.| foot class, and thought more of A sergeant for only two weeks, he| fishing and swimming that he does | was given the warrant grade of “ad-| now of military matters, Spokane jutant,” peculiar to the French army. | was his home. In June he became a second lieuten-| He wears three French service | ant, again being promoted on the) stripes, three French wound stripes, field of battle. “There are no promotions in the French armY during war, except at the front,” said Col. Sweeney, “so I stayed a second Neutenant a long time, as I was again in hospital from wounds.” Commanded Tanks But tn July, he became a first leutenant, just after hte battle ot SWEENEY, OF FOREIGN * + Hero of Hundred Battles LEGION, LAUDS FRENCH two gold American service stripes, one American wound stripe, the ribbons of the Legion of Honor, the croix de guerre with palm, the American r service ribbon two stars, indicating citations. | Twice he has been recommended | for the distinguished service cross, ff the award of which has not yet| been announ: with | Says Husband Threatened to Kill Her; | Showing the effects of fi treatment | where she was taken after being re- and almost unable to walk, a woman giving her name as Mrs. Frank Hoff man, 3113 Alaska st, wandered into the office of the prosecuting attorne Fred C. Brown, in the city,county building Wednesday afternoon! She was unable to speak English, but thru an interpreter of German made it known that she wanted to swear out @ complaint against her husband for cruelty, She declared he had| beaten her and kicked her repeatedly sinte their marriage a sifrt time ago, It was thought her mind had be- come unbalanced by her troubles, but & physician who was called deciared her sane, In the woman's restroom, Gets Warrant vived, she told in broken accents that her husband had threatened to kill her if she did not turn over to him $600 due her September 1 from the sale of a piece of property she owned. He had taken the key to their home Tuesday night, she said, and had turned her out, with threats to kill her if shg returned. She waa suffer- ing severely from the effects of a blow in the stomach and had eaten nothing all day. She gave her age as 66 and her husband's as 62. A warrant was issued for the ar- | rest of Hoffman and the woman was |taken to her home by one of the | members of the prosecutor's force. { ASKS COURT TO ~ SAVE HIS HOME Navy Officer Sends Plea for} Help From Overseas SAN FRANCISCO, July letter from a» naval officer, who left his wife and child, over # year and a half ago to an swer duty’s call, asking the {nterven tion of Superior Judge Thomas F Graham to prevent the breaking up of his home, was received today by | the judge. The letter read “For over a year and a half T have been away from my loved ones, have been in action with submarines and was on one of the first vessels to make the North Sea thru the mine fields, I have just recetved a letter from my wife: stating she is taking steps to divorce me. The reasons for her action are most vague. This blow is harder to bear than all the tri of the war. My married life was hap that of most persons. Gov ernment records will show that I con tributed to the support of my wife and baby boy, less than 2 years old I was reared in’ San Francisco an¢ educated in the public schools, Being | cimsonalty asaucinted sits yourwore| _ OWE SOFT CAREER derful record as a conciliator in such| LONDON, July 17.--After a stay matters, I humbly enlist your help.” Inclosed with this app for as sistance the officer sent’a letter of commendation from his superior of ficers for valiant service. Judge Gi n immediately took steps effect a r pillation, He slept beneath the shadowy moon, He loafed beneath the glowing sun He lived a life of going to do— But he died with nothing done, Pretty Phone to Court to See the Fun A group of operators It happened this way: strike breaking telephone ¢ being brought to work in an au we: tomobile. Some union “guards” espied them and, hailing a passing sympathizer, began following the | first machine. Then began the merry chase. Over | hills and valleys, on highways and pursued could not elude The race finally came atthe police sta the the pursuers to a conclusion tion y It is reported that at least 50 blue coats tumbled out of the Public Sate ty building when the tooting of the horns outside reached their vigilant ears “Arrest those people for following us,” the company driver is alleged to © demanded ‘Can't do it, replied the cops’ 17.—A | of a few weeks, | LATE NIGHTS OUT FOR BRITISH WOMEN LONDON, July 117. —~8ome Wycombe husbands proposed at tho | beginning of the war to hold a@ din- ner after the fighting was over. They kept the project secret from their wives, The dinner recently came off. Not to be outdone the wives also held 4 dinner in retaliation, The wives’ secret was disclosed when one of the women dropped her notes of the toast, the conclusion of which read: So in return we'll have our dinners, | If only to teach the erring sinners, | They won't forever be the winners | Of late nights out. SAINTS MUST LAY _ OFF’N CIGARETS LONDON, July 17—"Please urge | the saints to refrain from smoking at Ebenezer,” eaid a telegram = re- ceived by the president of,the Primi- tive Methodist conference.” “This in- idious habit,” the message declared, ‘Is destroying the stamina of our | country, stripping youth of its bloom jand beauty, and manhood of its vir- lity, with a reflex inuence on morals, {lity with a reflex influence on morals, God should not smoke. |THIS TROUT HAD | of 20 years in a well near a signal |box at Beattoch a trout has just | died. The fish was fed with titbits from the signalmen, It was so do- elle that ft would swim boldly to the » of the well when its patrons red, 810 FOR A TABLE July 17. A Louls XVI. Lop table was bought in for $11,810 at a Christie sale, The collector bought 000, Hie for § Strikers Go pokesman, follow yo Followed a moment's deep thought on the part of the company’s em- ployes “Then 4 that driver for allow ing the girls to stand on the running board, in violation of the traffic: or- hey've got the right to ve Guaranteed by he Mss-vinae SNCORPORATED Whereupon the driver of the of. fending car was arrested and. re. leased on $25 bail, trial to take place in the afternoon, Before the trial was scheduled to start one-half of the courtroom was filled with striking “hello” girls who had come to “see the fun.” The case was dismissed when the complainants failed to appear and substantiate their charges. “Those laughing girls were the brightest things in this dull court for many a day,” commented Judge Gordon, TOBACCO