The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 28, 1920, Page 7

CK WOR TE s His” Arrest and isonment at Hands of “Red Terror” ‘BY 3. HERBERT DU (epyrighs, 1920, by N. BA.) REVAL, Esthonia.—(Ry courier to York, by mai! to Seattle,}—I had Deen long in Moscow when I fell the clutches of the vetchaika. than be picked up on the by an ignorant red guard and the risk of being cast into an And verminous lockup, I de- P report to the extraordinary | fondly believing that I obtain the same fair treat. T did in Pskov. he word “vetchaika” has been from the initial letters of the for all Russia extraordinary chaika is the most dreaded institution in Russia, knows him. A Russian @isguise A Russian @odging behind pillars and with his theatrical side : always looks aa tho he had Jumped out of the movies, 1917 thousands “of suspicion of their loyalty pear.” ‘person. ‘a curly hair, he is absolutely He makes rapid decisions. “might” be dangerous shoot him, that ts the safest Stella, a bearded old gentle Who might have been a pro- of languages in former days, the interpreter. /zD TO KNOW OF FEDERATES IN RUSSIA Mi the same questions were put lo me as in Pskov. Mogilefsky want-| Mi to know how I had got over the without being detected, and I had had any confederates = Russia. : “here is some advantage in using interpreter. When your answer seem to please your inquis- then politely suggest that per- the interpreter misunderstood and put the reply a different rather felt I had a friend in Dr. Until I told him that I had} turned down five times by in, minister for foreign af- fn my attempts to get permis- sion to enter Russia, Stella, on his snapped savagely at me: , Wasn't that enough? Stella only LOOKED friendly. I was being questioned the was shaken by @ number of explosions. Several days er I heard that a big arsenal on fe outskirts of Moscow had been wn Up, that spies were suspected, that all foreigners would be to suffer for the loss! INTO CELL BY WITH BAYONETS my record had been taken 1) led below, where I was politely, of all my money, my watch,| maps, notes, a Russian dic- , photegraphs, safety razor and «@ few foreign postage stamps and then taken upstairs again by two soldiers with glittering bayonets, shown into a cute little cell and in. rd {a not hard to see why the Rus- Dog Wanted for Pole D sh Old “Baldy” Sends Regrets * * Ps Up in Alaska eager young malamutes still run the annual sweepstakes over icy steppes from the Behring to the Arctic; miners crowd the roadhouses en route, and wager thousands on the outcome, but Baldy, who for eight years led his team to victory, now deaf and going blind, hes basking in the Cali- fornia sunshine, spending his 14th dreaming of the past. ing with his paw a biography of himself writ- sther Darling, Alaska pioneer. Below is shown Nome” in his prime, vp the team mushed by Wan, the greatest driver of his day. . help-meet in the north. When in the war provisions had to be hauled into the Vosges to the French in the Alps to the Italian troops, Allies sent to Allan for help, and Fj Hi 3 g FT ii if i i iF 2 iE ge a fF | FF; i 3 : : i i hi i id i ; Fi f i Hy HH Ee iy ited | AL MAKES DISCOVERY: CIRCUS IS COMING TO TOWN! By AL, Our Little Boy Reporter Yoo, hoo, everybody! Circus! Wild animals, acrobatic feats and everything that goes with ft. Yep, that’s a fact, for sure, It’s written on the billboards in letters two feet high and nearly that measure in width. It has been written on those billboards, staring at Seattle, for close on to a week, now, and it has taken Seattle all that time to realize that it's a true, not @ fictitious, statement. The circus is due in Seattle on August & and is scheduled to stay here for two days. ‘The press agent hasn't been around to see us yet and tell us what a wonderful show John Robinson's circus i#, but the circus must be a hummer—it is imperative that. it be. For circuses are few and far between and when @ good one comes to town they can be assured of a good attendance FIREMEN GET. (PARTS EM) DAY OF REST : Council Authorizes 80 Addi- tional Men Seattle firemen will be granted one day off duty in every eight, begin ning January 1, 1921. Approximately $139,000 was ap- propriated by the budget committee of the city council to pay the salaries of the 80 additional firemen neces sary under the new working sched- jule. Decision to allow the fire fighters a full day's rest in every eight days |followed the budget committee's | vote to grant city policemen a like | privilege, Employes. of both departments were given a salfiry increase under | the general pian adopted by the bud- get committee at its opening session. Each employe was advanced to the next higher rating in the grade to which he belongs. Horse’s Eyes Are Gouged by Fiend YAKIMA, July 28.—Rewards total- ling $200 have been offered for the ‘arrest of the man who gouged out the eyes of a saddle horse here Bun- day night. Federal authorities will be asked to lend a hand in tracing down the fiend. 1 Rn faa people dread the Vetchaika. é has been computed (and it is by the Russians) that 36,000 counter-revolutionists and men and women only suspected of working) = cold blood. | . the Russians say, used to! fun into the courtyard of the Vet motors speeded up, clutches and mufflers wide open to drown the noise of the shootings in the the Bolsheviks, have been it. A favorite trick of the execution- ers, 1 was told, was fot two Red to twist a man’s arms behind while a wird placed & gun to |that they are believed by the Rus- |the back of his head and blew out his brains. i" Hundreds of thousands have been arrested by the Vetchaika and many of them left to perish in prison of typhus—often without their rela- tives being informed, even of the arrests, These things were told me by Russians. The significant thing is| Herr Rieke, now presiding sians, who Seas seenais in constant | officer of the German reichs- fear of the ‘error, : he. . No wonder the Russian people tag, parts his whiskers in the shudder as they pass tho Vetchalka.| middlég ae Es THE SEATTLE STAR Parish to Take Transportation - : - Moonlight Trip Picnic on Sunday The fourth annual moonlight ex-| The Transportation club plenic to oursion of 8t. John’s Weat Seattle be held at Draper's grove, Des| yearoid Willard Murray today Moines, Saturday, is to be the big-| the « parish will be made Vriday evening,| Mote ee wccording. to the eommit| old July 40, on the navy yard route’s! tom in charge, compe J, Wesley steamer Kitsap TI, leaving the Col) Young, M. J. Roche, Harold A. Woow- man dock at 645 p, m, and West! ter and . W. Mosher Seattle at 7, returning at 11 e'ctoek, | The trip will be made by automo: | m Bainbridge tMand, Agate pass, Ven-| bile stages of the Dex Moines Auto| whe foe, Crystal Springs and Bremerton| company, and will leave the club) ged ‘will be on the route, headquarters at 1 p.m. sharp. Tickets for the excursion are on | “~~ “~~ Yewrr~ ver sale at the RainierGrand, Butler, Boas New Washington hotels, rold Peterson, ashore. Production of various kinds hounes in West Sea! ' from 8,000 to 6, tons a year OAKLAND, Cal,, July 2%—Wight- copt New York, Havana normally handles a great- of jer foreign tonnage than any other well as at the Went Seattle ferry| mica in the United States ranges| port in the Western heminphere, ex-| ter of Ezra contains all the alphabet except “, to Van Horst was con. He is said noon Masonic club, the radical elements in the States. Congressman Albert J will speak at the Young Men's Re publican club luncheon Thursday — Boy, 8 Years, Saves |Canadian Police Are |William N. Vaile Child, 4, in Water} Trailing Life-Termer NANAIMO, B. ©., July 28—Pro | vineial police are hard on what they Ait of saving the life of 4-year-| believe to be the trail of George Van | Horst, life convict, who escaped re When the younger boy féll Into| cently from the New Westminster | Lake Merritt, late yesterday, while | penitentiary the two were nailing boats, Willard | victed of killing a Jap. ed & rowboat to the spot| to have a $50,000 cache of diamonds rold was sinking and drag-|#omewhere on Vancouver t#land Address V. Congressman William N, Colorado, will address the newly Of | ganized Veterans’ Republican | ‘Thursday night at & p. m. at the Arcade building, Us at Meves’ cafeteria. -FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET DOWNSTAIRS STORE White Wash Skirts Excellent Values, $1.95 to $4.0u wine GABERDINE and plain White Twill or invisible stripe Twill are prac- tical tub fabrics for these Skirts for all-’round wear during the summer months. 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