The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 2, 1920, Page 7

MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1920. ‘$9 AMO REWARDFOR. YANK HERO! Gassed and Wounded in France, Has to Beg to Keep Self and Baby Gassed and wounded in France, gent back a wreek to his baby in the ' United States, forgotten by the war risk insurance bureau, and compelled | to beg money from friends in order to keep himself alive, ‘That, and worse, according to Earl Harkins, formerly of Seattle, has been hiss reward as a soldier, Har kins is now in California, . The Veterans’ Welfare commiasion, Of Seattle, learning of his case, has taken it up with Washington, D. C. INVESTIGATION OF CASE INCOMPLETE Colonel W. M. Inglis, chief of the Welfare commission hera, has not completed investigation of Harkins’ case, but here is a letter Harkins Wrote Inglis from San Fyancisco, Gated July 10, 1920, receipting a $50 Joan sent him by the colonel: “Dear Sir and Comrades “I have received the $50, for which | I greatly thank you and the commis | sion. It is my hope to repay this at/ the earliest possible date. Today I am leaving for the U. 8. public health | hospital at Arrowhead, Cal, where I ‘will convalescence until the govern: mont gets my compensation straight: med out. “I have been treated most shabbily the bureau of war risk insurance and their delay has practically ruined me. I was discharged from the ser- on March 18, 1920, after a year ospitals on a rating of 50 per by a board of regular army doo Letterman General hospital, on March 24, 1920, recommend: 100 per cent temporary total B. of W. N., Flood butiding, incisco, Cal. ‘ARDED TOTAL SUM $9 A MONTH “I was told to go home and take @ rest for about a year; that my compensation would come every month. I went home, tied up every dollar I could secure to open up a Uittle business whereby I could make bread and butter for my baby and thinking the government would obligations. The govern- me, and in order to save dollars 1 could, I had to Dusiness, suffering a los than $600.. Then came the Washington, D. C, that awarded the TOTAL sum month for my baby and A damnable disgrace and out g vi sete deer Ete “Tt appears that the chief medical @irector, bureau of war risk insur ance, Washington, D. C., in the face of two recommendations for 50 and 100 per cent disability, and my own cut my rating down to 10 per cent’ What author. business or cause he ha for #0, we have been unable to The bureau here has bom barded them with additional recom: mendations of 100 per cent; they have gent wires, letters, etc, but to no avail SENATOR JONES MAKES PERSONAL CALLS “Senator Wesley L. Jones, Wash ington, D. C. has inade more than five personal calls on the bureau. ‘They have each time told him they would write or wire me and the bureau Sree which they have not done. Their promise haa not been Kept, and it has been evasion all the Way thru. The chief medical direc tor of the bureau is the person re sponsible, and if he, withvut author. ity, handied my case in this manner, mo doubt hundreds of cases have suf. fered the same fate. “They are a fine bunch of officials to be given charge of a bunch of sick men. This “All King” chief _ deal director should be investigated, Femoved and boycotted thruout the Rewspapers of the land. My own @ase proves him guilty of criminal intent. would disregard bona i “Why he fide recommendations and set his own figure is beyond the doctors here. “I hope. colonel, you wil! find time to help me get my case adjusted. BETTER OFF IF HE HAD BEEN SET ADRIFT “I would have been much better off had I been discharged from the gervice, knowing that I was to be given no help. “The whole affair has completely ™ndermined the balance of my Beaith, and I am now on my way Back to the hospital, where I am go- ing to remain until the government Pays its long-delayed obligation. Had the government given me immediate aid, I would be a very well man to- day, but they have made 4 wreck of {Me instead. This is gratitude for giv- ing all for my courttry. The bureau of war risk is a faflure, and thou mands of wounded, sick and crippled of the world war, America’s own, are today begging for help. I realize I am not alone. Incompetent officials, Office-secking politicians we have, and the wounded can go to “The American Legion here is up fm arms, and I was told yesterday that !f Washington, D. C., didn’t get off their high horse, it was going to ask for an investigation. HASN'T EARNED A PENNY SINCE DISCHARGE “It looks now that Washington, D. }E_ intends to disallow the full com: pensation of $90 per month from March 1%, 1920, tn my case, and make me do with $9. This will be Very unfair, as I have not been able to earn ene penny since my dis<| eharge from the service. I have had to spend most of my time in bed. I} am in hopes that I will get in good enough condition at Springs to take up vocational train ing. “The doctors advised me against yocational training, on account of My poor health—#tili Washington, D. C., sees fit to cut me down to a Fating of 10 per cent. I only wish that you had access to the records here; you would readily see the great injustice dealt “I have ‘waited, waited and waited —now I am going to ask Pressure possible be brought to bear in Washington, D. C., that I may be Gealt with justly “Arrowhead Springs May be an iso: Jated place and not much chance to get in touch with the outside world. , Bowewe, I hope the American Le must | Arrowhead | that all | | | | | | That is the kind of land Russi lA. rison Scene. rene, Right—The Saltoft says: ia is. C ry of the Re v volution. Anzious to see what Bolshevik Russia is really like, London has beet flocking to the exhi- bition of paintings by the famous Danish artist, Edward Saltoft, whowas chief of the Dan- | ish Red Cross in Petrograd from 1916 to 1919. | Paintings and drawings is a Russia of tears, of pain, of hunger, of sarow and of anguish. It was so under the czars; it wat so under Kerensky, a it is so under the Bolshevik regime.” Photos of two Saltoft paintngs, printed by cour- \¢ of Ernest Brown and Phillips of the Leicester Art Galleries, Lonton, portray: _Inset is Saltoft. “The Fuasia you see in my Left— BREAD, JUST BREAD, ALL MOSCOW THINKS __ABOUT-DUCKWORTH Independently all over the land Laine finally Jolla him and deported hiss ts te Fathonia—but about Mussia today for readers of The Star, be ls now writing the truth about BY J. H. DUCKWORTH (Copyright, 1920, N. EB. A New York, by mail to Seattle.)—The horrors of starvation I saw in Mos cow will be forever indelibly stamped on my memory. I have seen big men tn the prime) of life prowling, with dogs, along. side our waiting Red Cross train at Sovelofaky station picking up and eating dirty scraps ef food that had been thrown from the windows, to sell milk to the interned Polish families at the station, dive into tub of swill (saved for pigs) and fish out and devour ravenously potato | peelings and pieces of rotten bread. days. MOSCOW THINKS ONLY OF BREAD Bread, just bread, is all that Mow cow thinks about I know that wherever he goes, a man in Moscow carrion with him his bread ration; it I was told by a member of the) British labor delegation, an apologist for the bolsheviks, that the com munists had a wonderfully efficient system of distributing the food; that while Moscow needs 40 carloads of food a day and only gets 35, every worker i» his fair share. This) man, like certain othér favored for eign visitors, must have been shown only the bright «ide, if there be one, of communism as it works in Rus sia. I was able to see and study the other side of the pictures-to learn ple are bitterly opposed to bolshev “something to happen.” One day I went scouting for food in a street market on Karetni Sa + |dovia. The food which finds its way to these markets has escaped the vigilance of the extraordinary food requisitioning gaags on duty on the roads and railways lending into Mos cow. Clothing, furniture and other household goods are sold by starving people whose wages are anything up to 3,600 rubles a month. It is impossible, even with a worker's ra- tions, to keep body and sou! together under less than 30,000 rubles a month. PEDDLARS ALWAYS READY TO RUN Karetni Sadovia is a wide street. |The hawkers line up in two rows, facing each other, in the middle of the road. The publig passes up and down between them. In order to be able to make a quick getaway at the |least sign of an impending mid by |the Bolshevik authorities, the ped dlars have abandoned pushcarts. Most of them display their goods from dirty gunnysacks. Butter ven- dors keep their stuff wrapped in rags in their hands. A few have small light four-legged stands easily picked up. All private trade is “illegal.” ‘There are no shops in Moscow. Having nothing to sell, they closed up long ago. Some of the members of the British labor delegation who were in Moscow when I was there complained that they could not buy any souvenirs, So the Bolsheviks |opened up a little shop and stocked it with souvenirs of peasants’ work! | ‘The only hope of escaping |starvation of those with money in Moscow is to buy at enormons prices gion will carry out our fight for us. \They have got me on the warpath your ready aid, I sure needed it, I have been living on the average of pitals, and that my compensation could be expected most any da “I go to the hospital now becanse 1 am all in and have no more funds to carry me further, Had I known have remained in the hospital until my claima were adjusted, “T had faith government officials, and today, for believing them sincere, I become an object of charity. of Thee!” “Many of us would be better off had we been bumped off over there. With best regards and sincere hopes that IT will soon be able to return the $50, Lam, EARL HARKLNS.” REVAL, Esthonia—(By carrier to) I have seen the women, who came) tx not safe to leave it even at home. | that probably 90 per cent of the peo-| ism, and are hoping and praying for | slow | now, and I am going after their scalps | “Well, colonel, I eure appreciate Jone and a half meals per day for more than 40 days. The reason I |have not entered a hospital before wae because the doctors said I would | be better off out and away from hos: | this was to be my reward, I would | in the promises of | ‘My Country, "Tis | of the Helshevike—not on = Lemine tour. he bad his facts and at these open markets food that has been smuggled in by the peasants. SPENDS (NOMINALLY) $18,000 FOR WEEK'S FOOD | ‘There was not much to choose from on Karetni Sadovia. 1 spent) | Bearty two hours in the crowded market. I suppose all clanses were represented there, but outwardly all) looked alike-—tistiem, pinched, pale, | obviously half.starved almost in ragn. | 1 bought half a bread, cigarets, berring, sugar, but sufficient to keep a week, and (Nom! | ter, milk and eee, me golag for about |diew in some 37,000 rubles! nally that’s about $15,000.) wicker basket cost me 1,250 rubies, | jand an old enamel pint pot, Udiens' tea, 600 rublen, A ruble before the war was $.51. When I finally bade farewell to | Moscow these were some of the rub ing prices: Binck bread, 650 rubies a pound; a little white bread, 750 rubles; lard, 2,600; meat, 1,200; pota. toon, ; butter, 2,800; pint “| POWDERS CAUSE WOMAN'S ry Husband Is Questioned i | Police Inquiry taking Inte custody of James Single ton, husband of Mrs. Elizabeth Sin |gleton, who died after taking head [a week ago, has not ended the po- lice Investigation Into the case. Police announced that Joseph Hat trup, board of works employe, 4 | friend of Mrs. Singleton, had given them information which convinced them Mrs, Singleton did not commit) | suicide. Detectives said today they wouts | question a woman whose name they would not reveal, | ¢d could shed light on the mystery. ‘Man and Wife Held on Theft Charge ‘Theft of @ diamond ring in Santa Monica, Cal, was the charge Mor day against W. M. Parke, 34, and Mra. Irene Parks, who were ar lrested on a telegraphic warrant at | 9400 Bencon ave, Sunday by De | tective W. A. Fuller. | AMUSEMENTS PANTAGES Matinees, 2:30 Nights, 7 and 9 NOW PLAYING “THIRTY PINK TOES?” Frank Stafford Jean Noodle Fagin Alaska De Michele Bros. Pantagescope Admission, 25 and 400 | Levy's Musical Comedy Co. in “WILD WOMEN” Nights (Sanday), 40¢ Mats. Daily, 270 Ladies’ Mats, (except Sundays), 120 No Matinee Monday Matinees, 2:30 Nights, 7:15 and 9:15 [METROPOLITAN = | Matinees Wednesday and Sotarday THE FAMOUS GEORGIA MINSTRELS | Evenings, 25¢ to $1 Matinees Wednesday and Setarday, 250 and SOc | | PALACE HIP | Direction of Ackerman & Harris |] Erford’s Whirl—“Havana Bound” Other Acts Equally an Good Feature Photoplay Twice Dolly—2:20,. 8:15 B5e, 50c, 15c, HL Mata. 15¢ to boc and clothed | pound of pork, | A small | SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2.—The! ache powders containing strychnine | whom they believ- | | I have given a red soldier bread,!.n4 handislens, in which to make! the first food he had tasted for two] May 3uild Home for Bryn Mawr Teachers Last yur teachers of the Camp. bell sche@l, which serves the rural seetion ¢ the Bryn Mawr district, lived in he schoolhouse for lack of other aicommodationn Now the schoo! bard ts considering the addi. tion of mills to the tax rate, which would raye enough money to provide & $6,000 residence for teachers, Vo- ters in Qe Bryn Mawr district will have an opportunity to decide the matter a the next election Matinees: 2:30 Special E An Exquisite Spectacle ALL-ST “THIRTY Frank Stafford & Com Noodles Jean Barrios PANTAGES ALL THIS WEEK Beginning Today Matinee MARY ANN WELLS PRESENTS THE CORNISH DANCERS OF SEATTLE -IN— Dances In Conjunction With an OF PANTAGES VAUDEVILLE INCLUDING Fagin Company A Pantagescope General Admission: Matinees, 25c; Nights, 40¢ (Continued From Our Last Issue) | A short exclamation came from | the detective in the lane, He could ard walking swiftly away in| ction of the disturbance, And ad gone six paces, n Wa was lowering his precious bag }to the ground, Likeya eat he sprang scross and dropped noiseleasly be: | A Sin lot Who's there? cried the | detective, standing by the wall of the house which Sin Sin Wa had selected | as a target. Sin Sin Wa, bag tn hand, trotted, woft of foot, across the lane and was | rapping gently upon the door of Sam | fuk's hairdressing establishment, | ‘The door was opened so quickly as to suggest been posted there for the purpose Sin Sin Wa entered and the door was cloned again. “Light, Ab Fung,” he said tn Chi “They are gone? “They gather men at the head de. pot and are searching house from | house, She who sleeps below awoke fand cried out. They heard her ery.” “George waitaT™ “He walts, master, Ho will wait long if the gain is great.” Sin Sin Wa shuffled across to| the cellar stairs, followed by Ah Fung with the lamp, He deadnded, | ané brushing away the carefully spread coal dust, inserted a piece of bent wire into a crevice and raised | a secret trap. Bearing his bag upon hin shoulder, he went down Into the tunnel. “Reclose the door, Ah Fung,” he said softly, “and be watchful.” Sin Sin Wa crept along the low pasmge to the door of the cache }to his wrist that some one had |, SAX ROHMER =~ COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY ROBT. MS BRIDE € CO. for which so many people were seek ing. Seated in a chair by the ollutove was the sbrivelled figure of Sam Tuk. On the counter was set ship's lantern, As Sin Sin Wa c in Bam Tuk slowly raised his head. No greetings were exchanged, but Sin Sin Wa untied the neck of his kitbag and drew out a large wicker cage. Thereupon: “Hello! hello!” re marked the occupant drowsily. Number one p’lice chop lo! Sin sin Wa “Come, Sin Sin W He opened the front of the cage and out stepped the raven on Sin Sin Wa rained bis Ting--Ling settled himself entedly upon his master's shoul, Bin Bin * * 6” my TingaLing,” crooned arm and der, Placing the empty cage on the counter, Sin Sin Wa plunged his |hand down into the bag and drew nese, “What news?” jout the gleaming wooden joss, This “George camo with the Dboat.| ne wet benide the cage. With never master, but I signalied to him that) 6 at the mummy figure of the red policeman and the agent who | ¢ uk, he walked around the has hired the end room weré watch |counter, and, grasping the end of ing.” the laden shelves, he pulled the last nection smoothly to the left, showing that it was attached to a sliding door. Wa were as full of surprises as a Sicilian trinket-box. The double purpose of the tim bering which had been added to this old storage vault was now re vealed. It not only served to en- large the store room, but also shut off from view a second portion of the cellar containing appointments which | Indicated that it was sometimes in- habited, A paper-shaded lamp feng from the low roof. The floor was covered with matting, and there were arm chairs, a divan and other items of furniture, which had been removed from Mrs. Sin's sanctum in the dis- mantied House of a Hundred Rap tures. In a recess a bed was placed, and entered that secret warchoure Nights: 7 and 9 ngagement 10—ARTISTS—10 of Classic and Interpretive AR BILL PINK TOES” pany De Michele Bros. Jaska Duo For more than Eight Years we have never failed to pay a Dividend on January First and July First of each year. Also—we 6% have never paid less than ON SAVINGS COMPOUNDED IT IS WORTH WHILE 6% ON SAVINGS 1 We operate under Strict Sta! Mmited by law. We can inves TO REMEMBER THAT 100% . MORE THAN 3% te Supervision, with all expenses t funds orfly in First Mortgages on Improved Property and in State, Municipal and Government Bonds. Auditor. itor. tion are under Heavy Bond to All oun accounts are All Mortgages are F Savings Left Here Will Earn Full Div You can start saving here order for any amount from $1 ings book by return mall. Annually Checked by the State 4eld in Trust by the State Aud As an Additional Safeguard the Officers of the Assocla- the State, on or Before Aug. 5 idends From Aug. 1 by mall—send check or money to $5,000 and receive your sav- DIRECTORS THOMAS 8. LIPPY HENRY R. KING GEORGE R. HANNON WILLIAM SECOND FLOOR, REMOVAL POSTPONED UNTIL SEPTEMBER 10. Owing to unforeseen delay in securing possession of our new quarters at 815 Second Avenue, home at this location has been SHILLESTAD JANSON | CUSHING FRANK W. FERGUSON EDGAR D, COMER LEARY BUILDIN removal to our new street floor postponed until September 10, | hawk," murmured Sin Sin Wa; jone heard her. SEMI-ANNUALLY | jand, as Sin Sin Wa came tn, Mra | Sin was standing by the bed looking down at a woman who lay there. Mra, Sin wore her kimono of em broidered green silk and made a’ | striking picture in that sordid set ting. “So,” she said, tn Chinese, “you have come at last.” “The snail may not pursue the “nor the eye of the bat follow his flight.” “Smartest leg,". remarked the raven. “Yea, yea, my Ittle friend,” croon ed Sin Sin Wa, “very soon now you and watch the great Yellow river | sweeping eastward to the sea.” “Pah! said Mra, Sin. “You have |my papers?” “All are complete. Your identity is «enslly established — as ‘Mra. Jacobs,’ You join the Mahratta at | the Albert dock. I have bought you & post as stewardess.” Mra. Sin nodded towards the bed. With shuffling steps Sin Sin Wa approached. Tucking his hands into | his sleeves, he stood and looked down ~at Rita Irvin. “She screamed tonight—and some ‘They are searching the river bank from door to door.” “Lo? murmured Sin Sin Wa, “even this I had learned, And why aid she scream?” “I was—keeping her asleep, and the prick of the needle awoke her.” “Teohee, tchee,” crooned Sin Sin |Wa, his voice sinking lower and lower and his eye nearly closing. |“But still she lives—and is beauti | ful.” “Beautiful™ mocked Mrs. Sin, “She jts a murderess.” She bent over the | unconscious woman, her jewel-l | fingers crooked and menacing. “With | my bare hands I would strangle her, | but | “There must be no marks of vio- lence when she is found in the river.” “Number one p'lice chop, lo! croaked the raven, following this re mark with the police whistle imita- | tion. | Mrs. Stn turned and stared fierce ly at the oneeyed bird. “Why do you bring that evil, croaking thing here?” she demanded. |"Have we not enough risks?" Sin Sin Wa smiled patiently. “Too many,” he murmured. “Come let us settle our affairs. We have |drawn our last dollar from the traf | fic, my wife, Our stock we are re signed to lose. So let us settle our | affairs.” Meantime Mary Kerry again stood just within the doorway of the little dining room at Spenser road, her haggard and the fey ght in er eyes. Kerry, seated in the arm- chair, stared at her wearily, “I awakened wi’ a ery some hour |afore the dawn,” she whispered. “My |hairt beat sair fast and then grew Jcaud. I saw a puir dying soul | stretched on a bed 0° sorrow, And | plain—plain, I heerd the howling 0° |a dog.” Kerry started and clutched the arms of the chair. A dog!” he said The howling o' a sma’ ed his wife. ho dropped upon her knees beside ry, throwing her arms about him. “A dog™ dog,” de He glanced down at her tenderly and laid his hands upon her shoulde | “A dog,” he muttered, “a dog! Mary Kerry did not move; until, a |light of understanding coming into | Kerry's fierce eyes, he slowly raised |her and stood upright himself. | “T have it!” he said. “Mary, the lease 1s wont Twenty men have |spent the night and early morning beating the river bank, They have | fated where a dog would h led. Mary, I must be off.” sut, Dan, where are ye go “I am going for the do; | | rapped. ‘Weary as he was and travel-stain- Jed, for once neglectful of that neat- MUTUAL SAVINGS & | LOAN ASSOCIATION ness upon which he prided himself, he set out, hope reborn in his heart. (Continued in Our Next Issue) Caught Looting Car, Is Charge freight car Sunday morning, accord ing to police, James Sillars, 35, and Leo Claist, 25, were arrested by N. P. Special Agent G. A. Brennan and were held in the city jail Mon- 5 Ae ‘The establishments of Sin Sin | shall seo the paddy fields of Ho-Nan| len | Caught redhanded while looting a/ FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET. 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