The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 27, 1919, Page 1

y SENATE WILL INVESTIGATE | ATHER KIDNAPS CHILDRE! | DOG BITE KILLS BOY An American Paper That Fights for Americanism Tides in Seattle 116 am SUGA WASHINGTON, Sept. 27—(United Press.) —The ate today adopted without debate a resolution provid) for an investigation of the sugar situation. The resolut was introduced by Senator New and as passed directs & senate agriculture committee to conduct the investigation The committee is ordered to report as soon as CENTS First High Tide T80 Am, 105 ft First High Tide $39 a m, 104 ft Late Edition Mail 9.00 2 SEEK BCY AND GIRL Spirited Away by Man Who Refuses to Tell Hiding Place Per Year, b: $5.00 to The Seattle Star Entered as Becond Class Matter May 2, 1 €:59 p.m, 10.2 tt. [Tat pm, 0, at the Postoffics at Beattio, Wash., under the Act of Congress March 3, 1579 Scacrn 7 [BETHLEHEM Coast Walkout CALLED OUT Now Proposed 40,000 Workers Ordered to Strike Early Monday Plans for a coastwide shipyard strike will Morning pethagger 1903 at a sontennens, of a — itrades officials in Tacoma Sunday. . e STRUGGLE Now KEENER | strike is called practically every yard en- VOLUME 22. NO. 182. Tonight and Sunday, fair; cooler tonight; gentle northerly winds, OON a wild duck will be as exotic ‘as a bison, mean- while a few dodge the storms and bask in Green lake in our back yard. Six men do the work of 26. An automatic editor would help. HE war was over, but these boys who stole leggins and escaped from guard house were court-martialed. PRISON FOR LIFE Ex-service men who knew Confer and Berch at Two-Year-Old Baby Suce cumbs to Rabies in Spite ROBABLY we are going of Treatment to have a spell of weather We notice that the [P) gulls have arrived in the and that Green lake is ing a lot of water fowl. - Shostty the crafty coot monopo- Green lake, but. for a few various breeds of ducks have Fort Stevens, say they were fine lads—at first. Confer, especially, was liked. big, red-cheeked boy, chockful of pep. years older. He was only 18—a Berch was two The two were pals. Together they went across the estuary on leave to comrades say. irk Sunday in Astoria. We do not know what they did there. “Just kid stuff,” their PITTSBURG, Sept. 27. —Strike of the 40,000 ‘employes of the Hethichem Steel Co. was called today by the steel workers’ na- tional committer, The strike bs to become effective at 6 a m., Monday, September 29. The action was taken after Secretary Foster had laid before the full committee his letter re questing, and President Grace's letter refusing a conference with gaged in government construction on the Pa-| MOTHER TRACES HIM cific coast will close next Wednesday, “Go find them if you can, but Travis Lawty, 2-yeal October 1. This was the word that reached Seattle by wire from San Francisco Saturday. Seattle metal trades officials went into conference I'll spend the rest of my days in jail rather than give up my boy and girl!” This was the defy Saturday of George E. Simpson to deputy sheriffs who arrested him at old son of Enos Lawty cook at the county engis neers’ camp No. 8, di ; the Swedish hospital early Saturday and were still in session this afternoon. They declared that it had not been definitely settled Duwamish Friday night for the alleged kidnaping of his two 8:30 Saturda morn Anyway, they missed: the last boat x a split frac- tion, and didn’t get back to the fort until the next day. They got two months each in the guard house for that. Fort Stevens was a forlorn place about then, even for men who weren't in the guard house. You see, the armistice had been signed and the artillery- ,men hadn’t had a chance to go across. ‘There was nothing to do at They did. But before they went, the fort. Time dragged. Some Confer and Berch raided the of. of the officers were mean. Par ficers’ quarters and stole, among ticularly “Right Oblique” Miller. other things, Lieut. Parker's hey The men wanted to go home. leather leggina and Lieut.Col In the guardhouse Confer and Peterson's blouse. Berch—-who, by the way, were They could have stolen jew- volunteers in the army of de eiry and money, but they didn’t mocracy—made the acquaint When the alarm was given ance of a “hard-boiled egg. next morning and armed soldiers started out to hunt the desert ers, Lieut.Col, Peterson said: “Shoot low. I don't want holes children. Hoe is in the county Jalil. ‘ as the result of a dog bit Deputies Matt Starwich, C. H. eae fas “Bingo,” Travis! pet ¢ cross-exam- {ned Shupson tn vain. He ectesed |WHO fought and kdl to tell where his children are. mad dog Sept...5,.aft Beveral weeks ago, divorce pro-| had attacked ceedings between Simpson and his wife, Mabel, were hanging fire,| Master, was shot ti when Simpson is said to have taken/| i th their two children, a boy and a wai, deputy sheriff at eh and. disappeared.” “His. wife com.|Bend Saturday afternoon plained to the county authorities! hocause he, too, had bes here and a warrant was issued for| rs his arrest. Ho was traced to Cali come infected with fornia The mad dog appeared in The mother went there and told| Bend, Sept. 5, and was driven her story to the authorities. Simp-|from the camp cook house son learned his wife had followed|times by “Bingo.” In the him. With the two children he|while Travis was running to started back for Seattle. Deputy | mother, the mad dog leaped on sheriffe were instructed to arrest | bore him to the ground and vic him on arrival. But he fooled them|tore at the flesh of the boy's and got off the train at Tacoma, bs ap pones a al rs. Lawty heard Found at Duwamish and rushed to his assistance, Trace was lost of him until he|“Bingo” was there first and that they would join the Tacoma conference. pir ‘The proposed atrike is directed en- | Urely against the shipping board, which haa refused to authorize an 3cent-per-hour wake increase which had been agreed upon between em: ployers’ and workers’ representa- tives, to take effect next Wednesday. More than 100,000 men, union lead ers claim, will demand by strike that the union represcatatives. Foster declared Bethlehem steel jemployes were highly organized and that his reports indicated they had voted 100 per cent in favor of the strike. The final decision to call the strike was reached after a three hour conference of the committee. Secretary Foster charged an ‘newspaper reports statements from Neweastle and other pointa as serting that many mills were resum- He declared he was} the progress of out.” Rért Swain, secretary of the Metal ‘Trades council, naid the meeting Bat- urday would determine the action Se- attle was going to take in the pro posed strike. | Rumors that the shipyards would lay off thousands of men October | they be paid the increase, beginning /1 have been prevalent for several October 1, if the present plans are days. These rumors are denied by carried out. shipyard officials. The result of Await Ceuference @ canvass of shipyard offices made The shipping board ordered yards by The Star Saturday was the as- ‘ sertion in every yard that present the strike having. government contracts not to|° riences insure continued work for increase wages until after the pres r While developments tn the strike | aontys ind: some months to come, the only pos- . dustrial conference, October ° are now extending to Washington | ¢” ane order does not affect the|"0!@ suspension being in event of and nearly every section of the Coun: | Coast after that date, a strike, try, the steel companies have | ~° oe : in my blouse.” But Lieut. Parker No official notice has been re | p> - launched an extensive campaign to - . said: “Shoot high. I don't want Bl inguce the strikers to return to ceived by Seattle shipyard operators | Vigcount Grey on holes in my leggins.” | that they shall not pay the increase, a work. All Pittsburg morning papers ~ " ‘These were considered jokes ot "| Work: All Pittapure morning papery |and the Metal Trades councit has not | «Way to Washington W YORK, Sept. 27.—-Viscount excellent flava, oo iineh to Sek Wea” yet been notified that the new wage | No wilderness empire was ever “eonquered more thoroly or #0 ing operations "And in few more a rifle still satisfied with ~ a years clever. He hands thru the bars of his cell and unlock the padlock with his fingers. He was much admired. Then, having freed himself, he are giad we had a chance to -on the last of the wild game fe still have all our hair, ‘we of our teeth and gave McKin- our vote, but we can re- time in the Middle of them who had never fired a gun. another generation we will have lost the last of our pioneer habits and excellencies, and have become thoroly civilized and com- mon and dependent. 4 oe E FOUND another of those labor savers yesterday. Down on the waterfront they were unloading a barge of cement. Once some 20 men, with hand trucks, would have been tollfully wheeling the cement to the dock and loading it on trucks or piling it im the warehouse. ‘The sacks were rolling out, one every three seconds, and three or four men were doing the work of Anelevator with an endless-chain carrying device did the work. A sack was thrown on the carrier, it ‘was lifted to the dock, 15 feet straight up, there was dropped ona waiting truck, was given a toss in- to place by a single workman, and that was the end of that job. And when they filled the trucks for outside orders, a little electric tram came with a trailer, backed up under the roller, caught three tons of cement in a few minutes, and bobbed away at six miles an hour into the warehouse. Half a dozen mep with ease were doing the work of two dozen or more under the old shove and Stunt system, Some day the tired reporter will find an automatic typewriter that will unwind “copy” with a mint- mum of human aasistance And then the reporter, and the ble printer, and the much- d proofreader, will all arise am ‘rejoice, |. Because a machine will spell, pe and punctuate correctly; while a reporter— DESTROYER NAMED the British destroyer ntage _ grounds of the war, Vimy Ridge. would free the others—always in the nighttime—and, behind the cages, they would shoot craps with lump sugar, using burnt matches for counters. Toward morning the prisoners would return to their cells and the “hard-boiled egg” would lock them in. Then he would lock himself in his cell. Confer,and Berch and the “hlird-bofled egg” got out of the guardhouse at about the same time. The three got leave and went to Astoria. There was some trouble. Back to the guard house! Berch and Confer used to go around the camp, driving a mule hitched to a two-wheeled cart, collecting garbage. Once, just after Christmas, Confer saw a squad of soldiers coming from the colonel's house. They had been policing the colo- nel’s yard and they had found some of those red and yellow bells made of tissue paper with which we decorate Christmas trees. THEY DID NOT TAKE JEWELS The soldiers had decorated an army mule with these bells, Con- fer laughed so hard at the sight that he fell off his cart. He was that kind of a boy. The “hard-boiled egg” had a bright idea and he shared it with Confer and Berch. They wauld tie the guard and run away. Confer and rch were caught. ‘They were tried by courtmar- tial. Convicted of we don't know what crimes—desertion and burglary, probably—they were put in chgins. RIVET CHAINS TO THEIR LEGS These chains were riveted to their legs and worn night and day. Ex-service men say they ob served a strange and sinister change in Confer and Berch They were becoming: “hard-boil ed.” Confer’s mother came to see him. He seemed giad to see her, but he would not mingle his tears with hers. He grinned, but there was a sullen, defiant, puzzled light in his eyes. “It was,” a soldier told me, “as if he was sore and didn't give a damn!" We haven't told you yet what nentences were imposed by the courtmartial on Confer and Berch. You've heard of Alcatraz? It's down in San Francisco bay. Con- ditions are so rotten there that the American colonel command ing there won't let anybody come there to investigate it, It’s a prison for soldiers, and what happens there is none of the public's business, Confer and Berch, volunteer soldiers in the army of de mocracy, ard serving life sen- tences in Alcatraz prison! | (CONT'D ON PAGE GIRLS CONFESS Near Oregon City PORTLAND, Or., Sept. 27.— (United Press.}—-Two 13-year- old, bobbed-haired girls, Jessie Day and Rose Douglas, today confessed to 12 _ sensational robberies in Portland, according to the police. Arrested 17 City, Or., Thursday, in with Malcomb Weld, and Gladys Wyatt, all and their confessions, say the \tlcers, followed this morning While one girl asked to use the |telephone, her companion would rob the till of a business establishment, according to the police version, usual case circles here in |have secured more than leash, a $100 Liberty bond many articles of clothing in various robberies. appearing in years are | “Yesterday the enemy of Mberty | Bae was Prussianiam. Today it is rad-| J, Von Carnop, business agent of the | United States, left: here for Wash |iealism,” the “ad” declares. It quotes | Machinists’ union, one of the largest | ington shortly before 11 o'clock to sald 12 ROBBERIES) 13-Year-Olds Are Arrested miles outside Oregon company Lester Warren youngsters, the girls were brought to Portland of- | ‘The participants in this most un- police said to $200 In and the agreement will not go Into effect “We expect to get the increase,” in the Metal Saturday Trades council, If we don't get the ba |Grey, British ambassador to day. He spent the night on the liner | Mauretania, on which he arrived late con, the chances are Seattle will go' yesterday, YANKEE Published by The Star thrusspectal Syndicate, Copyrighted, 1919, by Copyrighted in Britain by Huteh in Spain by Australia, Scandinavian countri ‘The preparations for the third great offensive in the West were carried out on exactly the same lines as were those for the bat- tles of March 21 and May 27. Cot, Bruchmuller again acted as artillery adviser to the army group of the German crown reserved for Fri (Bruchmuller, described by Luden Harper eix and Bariel; in HUNS USED PICKED - DIVISIONS TO STEM ONSLAUGHT —SAYS LUDENDORFF “MY THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS” By Gen. Eric Von Ludendorff arrangement with the McClure Newspaper and Brothers. All rights reserved. inson & Company and the London Times: y by Fratelli) Treves; in Canada a an Belgium, Holland, Russia and the jdorff as one of the great figures of |the war, tho he remained only a colo- nel, had directed Mackensen's artil- lery in his break thru in Galicia, and | the artillery of the armies that broke | thru the British lines at St. Quentin and in Flanders.) The Seventh army was to effect a crossing of the Marne east ‘of Cha- |teau-Thierry, and then advance on by (CONT'D ON PAGE the} was discovered at Duwamish by the|a battle to the death with the |deputies. There théy arrested him,|furiated animal that attacked |but the children could not be found|boy. “Bingo” killed the mad the father refused to tell their|but was himself badly bitten dt whereabouts. They have not yet|the fight. been located. Rabies Develops “I know they are crying for me,"| Travis was taken to the says Mrs. Simpson. “If I can only| hospital at once but the dread see them I know they will come/developed in spite of the Pa running. I do not care anything|treatments, Last Thuraday for my husband, but I do want my /|first indications of rabies p children,” on the boy. He died in a Only 20 Years Old jacket at the hospital Sat morning. \ The husband says he will never| In the meantime “Bingo” began t give up both of the children, but|show signs of rabies and that if she agrees he will let his| ordered shot, ¥ the boy. Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock fi Mrs. Simpson is only 20 years! Butterworth’s. The body will be 15 to Simpson, who fs an electrician The children are George, three and Fred L. Boalt Is A strange woman posed as the mother of the. children when Bien. Now Recovering son says. ports from the hospital this Simpson was caught unawares Fri. | “re to the effect that Fred L. he had made a safe getaway. The |!!¥ improving. His complete recov children are believed to be with the |°F¥ 18 expected. i See hiuactli tor: ae while indulging in an athletic Meanwhile, Simpson sits silent in| ise, when he ruptured a kid charge that may send him to the Tecovery the day following the & penitentiary for a long term of years | “ent, but the newspaperman's st Prisoners in Morocco are com- LONDON BUILDING SLOW, trouble in arresting and escorting hUsing projects submitted to them to the police station. ministry of health, but 1,155 Vimy IONDON, Sept. 27—The name of | has | een changed to Vimy, perpetuating the name of one of the great battle They Said She Was a Shimmie Dancer—and They Said It Scornfully; But She Was a Mother; She Had Gone Into the Valley of the Shadow They called her a “shimmie dancer” and implied she was no good. She was a rambling sing- er of ragtime song, a habitue of cabarets, unfit to mother the child she bore—and they would fight, fight, fight, They were her parents-in- law. By the Wght in their faces it was plain to see they thought they were justified ee Louis H. Jones died glorious- ly in the army, a martyr to the cause of democracy. He was their son. And his last words to his were: “Find Georgia and my boy." And so they started their search, It was a long trail that ended at the doorway of the Tavern cafe, in Seattle, where they found their daugh- ter-in-law shrouded in a cloud of smoke, singing to a crowd of motley, noisy feastets Months before there had been a divorce. daughter-in-law had parted and the court had decreed that 6-year-old Robert was half of parents tn Oklahoma Their son and their * the time to be with his mother and half of the time with them, the grandparents. Then Geor- gia had disappeared, and, with her had gone the boy. ~ It was a hearing on a writ of corpus in Judge King n'a court. The parent#in-law were there and Georgia had brought little Robert. There was nothing of the “shimmie dancer” in her appearance now, The paint and powder of her singers’ makeup were gone. She looked, for all the world, like any other ’ worried, troubled mother might look un- der lke ciroumstanes. ‘Things were said that have no place in this story. It Js suffi cient to repeat that they called her a “shimmie dancer” and im- plied she was no good, She told the court, on the other hand, that she loved her boy, that he was much to her and she to him, and that above all and beyond all he was her boy because she had borne him. . There was a wise old judge in Biblical times who heard the case of a small boy. Two women claimed to be his mother. He ordered the child beheaded and the real mother screamed, And the ruling of the olden court has been a precedent for other judges ever since. The ruling was that the mother has first claim to her child Por ag Judge Dykeman followed a precedent and broke a precedent, He broke the ruling of the Okla- homa court that Robert Jones, aged 6, should live with his wife have the girl and he will keep| ‘The funeral of the boy will be old and was married when she was| mated, one-half years, and Ruth, 18 months. son was in California, Mrs, Simp-| PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 27.—Re day night, when, he said, he thought | *t/tor of the Portland News, is stead: other woman in the case, Deputies | Boalt was injured several days the county jail, awaiting trial on a| Physicians gave up all hope for res charseae webinns constitution “brought him thru,” | pelled to pay the officers for their!, LONDON, Sept. 27—Out of been approved, WASHINGTON, Sept, 27. tary of the Interior Lane t nied a report that he ie. pl resign. “I hadn't thought mother half of the time and with his grandparents the other half. But he followed the precedent of the Biblical judge and gave Robert into the care of Georgia Jones exclusively, tho holding the lad to be still a ward of his court. Two people were made happy. They are Georgia Jones and Robert, her son, ‘Two others. were not. They are an older couple who say they will carry the case to supreme court and fight, fight, fight, and who think they are justified, ,