The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 16, 1921, Page 12

PAGE 12 THE SEATTLE STAR SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1921. ‘Demand Wounded Veterans Be Removed From Asylum+ | PRESIDENT TOLD OF BRUTALITIES May Convert Port Townsend Federal Building Into Hospital President Harding has been apprised in full of the brutal treatment of patients at the Western Washington Hospital for the Insane at Steilacoom and has taken steps towards the removal of 78 disabled and shell-shocked worl now confined there, it was lea’ war veterans rned today. The attention of the president and other high officials at the national capital was call- ed to the matter thru corre- spondence by Dr. H. F. Grant- vedt, member of the hospitali- gation committee and chair- man of the legislative com- mittee of Seattle Chapter No. 2, Disabled American Veter-| ans of the World War, with offices in the Joshua Green building here. ‘The Seattle chapter, thru Dr. Grantvedt and other committee members, bas taken up with Presi- dent Harding the prospect of hav- fing war sufferers taken from the insane hospital and placed in the now vacant federal building in Port ‘Townsend, which they hope to equip @s a hospital. Himself a disabled veteran, not yet @ month out of a hospital, Dr. Grantvedt has taken keen interest | im the welfare of his former com- Fades at Steilacoom. He today mailed letters to other state chapters of the organtzation, excerpt from which follows: “We'd like you fellows to punt with us and put ever this proposi tion for the federal building at Port ‘Townsend for these poor fellows who are deserving of better treat- ment than they are getting. “We are heart and soul tn this thing and won't rest till we get faction from Washington. We've ‘waited long enough for the Legion busy and get something done matter. Be 43 5 a 5 i et Pe: day telling of the brutal treatment of @ veteran at Steilacoom hoepital as told by the young man's mother. SAYS PRESIDENT |18 AROUSED With this he enclosed a letter to the president stating that this was fot the first instance of such bru: tality on the part of attendants at the institution directed against dis abled American veterans. “Veterans are now obliged.” he wrote the president, “to submit to cruelty practiced by these bully.at- tendants, and don't dare breathe a word to the outaide for fear of pun ishment.” Brigadier General Chartes FE. Saw. yer, the president's personal physi- cian and member of the national hospitalization committee; Dr. Wil- Mam Charles White, also a member of the commission; Secretary of the Treasury Mellon; Col. Charles R. Forbes, of the buréau of war risk insurance, and others have been in- formed of conditions at Steilacoom, Dr. Grantvedt sald. “All that is necded ts for Secre-| What do you think of this bunch of vacation snaps? Pretty nice, aren't they? The sez- tory Mellon to put his signature to an order permitting the federal building at Port Townsend to be transformed into a hospital “The class of ex-service men now im Stellacoom should never be con fined im an insane hospital Long treatment of the kind they get there i ( FE | i | HH ie : i 4 . f i i i s i gz i 5 i ! fe i f & 8 BT iP efea j g ist i ut | ail iH Ate g iB *53 ati 1 i ? i * * would drive them insane. What they need ts quiet, restful surround. ings and proper feeding. “They should be in charge of competent, sympathetic men, pref- erably men who are themselves disabled veterans. “The abusive treatment our com rades are receiving has compelled us to organize for their relief. We're not going to stand for any more de lay, or whitewashing. “After some of these whitewash ing investigations, I cere ne committee to the Sarscpite sb sesked «tet peso They wouldn't admit us, wouldn't let us in, “We want ft definitely understood we're not playing politica, nor look- ing for soft jobs for a lot of po Itical plum pickers. We just want to get our boys out of that place into the surroundings they deserve, age Pky what we're going to da* * © & ys Asylum Patient Was iE fF i z md | Ag in a if i il » E i if | q I iF | at the hoe ‘was sent to the hospital in April, and spent eight days in No. 9. He was then transferred to Ward No. 1 and allowed the liberty of the hospital grounds, NOT INSANE, HE SAYS, WHEN COMMITTED He was not insane, he says, when committed, a fact which was recog. nized soon after his arrival, Other- wise, he reasons, he would not have been given the freedom of the sygunds and permitted to come and go at will. At his trial in a Pierce county court, he demanded that his case be heard by @ jury, This was refused. He has learned since that he was en- titled to @ jury trial as a matter of right. He asked permission of the court to have a friend sent for who would testify in his behalf. This, too, was denied. i ‘These facts, as told by O’Shiea and sworn to by him, as was the narra tive that follows, were set down by Attorney Johnston and transcribed into an affidavit which bears his no- teria! seal and signature, is what O’shea says upon @ath he saw in No. 9: SAID NAILS IN SLIPPERS HURT FEET A patient named Nelson, during the rest hour, took off his slippers and went to the closet, where he got hig shoes, claiming that the nails in hig slippers hurt his feet. Mrs. Mass, who is one of the at- tendants in that ward, along with her husband, called her husband's Br utally Chok that one day he asked the attendant and the doctor to telephone his wife, which request was refused. COMPLAINT FAILS TO CAUSE ATTENDANTS REMOVAL Nelson complained to Dr. Stewart of this assault, and showed him the teeth, The doctor had him transfer- red to Ward No, 12, but Maas con- tinued to hold down his job and is still one of the attendanta, Masg had Nelson put in a straight- Jacket after losing his teeth, and he was kept so strapped until the next day. Nelson made no struggle after being assaultea, “I consider,” says O'Shea, “that the attack was a brutal one, wholly un- justified by any circumstance, and that Mass is unfit to be in charge of patients. “I wae discharged from the in- sdtution on the 8th day of July. I found the food served the pa thents not fit for a dog. “We were served oatmeal for; breakfast, frequently lumpy and) doughy and unfit to eat. We were never given whole milk, nothing but skimmed milk, and, sometimes, no milk with our meals, a cupful at the most. Occasionally we had syrup with our morning meal. “For dinner we had stew. We were lucky if we found any meat in the stew. “For supper we were given corn- meal, and with it, sometimes, beans, and sometimes rice. The rice, beans, meal and stew were all poorly cooked, unpalatable, and there was alike from day to day. SAMENESS OF FOOD PALLS ON PATIENTS “This was the regular fare every | | day, except Friday, when we had | fish, sometimes salt and sometimes fresh. The food, being the same all the time, palied on one's stomach, “In the evenings we were given, no seasoning, so that the food tasted | Seattle Vacationers Have tet of funmakers snowballing on Mount Rainier was taken b The happy group watching their “catch” fry was snapped by Mrs, Lulu Frazier of 205 Sum- mit. Mrs. E. B. Patterson “shot” the modern Sir Raleigh pretty maid in his arms. ‘What ts a vacation without a cam- era? Everybody Iikes to get out the old kodak book and look back into the good old vacation days, Where are you gving to spend your holidays this year? There are so many beau tiful places In the state of Washing- ton—and what delightful back-) grounds they furnish for “vacation snaps.” The Star is offering $25 in cash for the best vacation snap show summew, Here are the requirements: They must be outing pictures, with lots of action; they must depict an interesting story—any sort of vaca: | ; Mon fun. For instance, fying, boat- ing, swimming; mountain climbing, motoring. Pictures must be clear, emphatic Snowball, Catch F ish wna W ade Means ally black and white, so they will re | Merry Time! GET EXCITED! U. S. Solons Become Angry and Act Undignified BY L. C, MARTIN WASHINGTON, July 16 |dent Harding today had a» part of | the rd of his administration «| victory over bis foes and critics in the senate the soldier bonus jbill, but not within the memory of | the oldest senator was a victory at-| tended with such scenes of riotous disorder. | While administration leaders were | preparing today to put into effect | the remainder of the Harding pro gram by getting the decks cleared | as rapidly as possible for a the rank and file of the sens buzzing with discussion of the scenes which late yesterday marked the killing of the bonus measure. The senate had shelved the bonus bill and there was no business be- fore it. Senator McCumber, North Dakota, |mponsor of the bill, took the floor to | deliver @ “funeral oration” over the bil. Robinson, Arkansas, and Reed, Mixsourt, protested against Vice-| President Coolidge's recognition of | McCumber, who was speaking, they said, on a subsct not before the senate. Coolidge stood pat, holding Mo-| Cumber had a right to the floor. ‘The angered senators had been dis tiling over the bonus bill, and | spilled. Tom Watson, of Georgia, rushed to the middie alse, scream: ing nomething at McCumber in - shrill voice, “I have the floor,” said McCumber. | “Thi all you have got,” yelled | Tom Watson. Then Robinson started. He de- nounced the vice-president, republl- }ean senators en masse and McCum-| ber in particular, Reed objected to something Me: | Cumber said and McCumber twice | invited him to “come outside.” The Preat over y Vern Vogel, 218 Westlake N. galleries roared with laughter and applause, | wading the stream with the Celebrated Singer Gi opecadbatde-d rating Continues at Park Pictures taken last summer wil ahd o pat be acoepted, Crowds a Beach park . the week have indicated such appre- printed ‘in ‘The Sine e sash ribs of | elation of the entertainment furnish: | 1 $15 wilt be gtven. ed by W. R. Holland, celebrated bart- | |tone and planint, that he will con For the two next best, cash prizes | tinue his performances there, accord- | Of $8 each will be awarded. ing to F. R. Campbell, park conces-| Let ‘er go, folks. You know the . sionaire, who engaged him. The en-, old billboard sign; “Kodak a8 you |tertainer will be present dally trom | £0." WAYFARER CAST READY TO OPEN Speaking Roles Announced by Producer Lynch On the opening night of “The Wayfarer.” Saturday, July 23, the three leading speaking roles will be taken by Dr. Carl Hoffman as “Way. farer," Miss Julia Elmendorf an “Understanding” and Miss Ruth Wood a# the angel, according to an- nouncement of Montgomery Lynch, producer, today. On the following nights, alternat- ing with Miss Etmendort and Miss Wood, will be Mrs, Minnie McDowell Klingberg as “Understanding” and Mra. Lois Bell Sandahl as the angel, while Rev. Cleveland Kleihauer and Robert Day will play “Wayfarer.” Monday evening Day, Mrs. Kling- berg and Mrs. Sandah! will play, and on Tuesday evening Rev, Klethauer, Miss Elmendorf and Miss Wood. Tacoma Elk# have selected Mrs. Charlies A. Briggs to play Miss Co lumbia on Elks and Tacoma night, which is the opening night. On Monday evening it in expected Mre. |G. M. Butterworth will take the) part; Tuesday, a Walla Walla wom- an will take it; Wednesday an Ever- lett woman; Thursday a Grays Har- |bor woman; Friday Mrs. BE. K. Worthington of this elty, and Satur. day Miss Mabel Hinkel of Seattle| will play Mis Columbia, according | “The Wayfarer” Elks’ night, to the present schedule. 2 srs J.T. Jennings, who has| Saturday, July 23. Mrs. charge of enrolling the Campfire | Briggs is the wife of Charles girls for the pageant, wanta as many |members as possible to report to A. Briggs, manager of the \her before Monday noon. Monday| Tacoma branch of Foster & levening they will rehearse in the| |etadium at 7 o'clock, with the others | | Kleiser Co taking part in the final scene, — “Unscrambling”’ of Alleged ‘Gold’ Watch Railroads Is Seen| Swindlers Arrested | T+ “unscrambling” of the rail. wa 4 Netso 3 4 roads is in sight! ward Nelson, 32, and Leo] ‘This in th Brooks, 40, arrested at ae alata or eee Maynard | riot, chairman of the board of di- ave, and Weller st, Thursday, have) rectors of the Northern Pacific rall- been identified by victims as the|\. | way, brought to Seattle Friday even men who have been swindling 8! ing, when he was the guest of honor | bred mragitory dem toysey bie | of the traffic bureau of the Chamber nc Nn | of Commerce at a supper-at the New game.” - According to the victims, one of | Washington. the pair would come rushing up to a man with a long tale of a sick wife who had to go to the hospital, \oftering him a “gold” watch and al ring for security on a $25 loan Four victims have reported to the| | police. Mrs. Charles A. Briggs, of Tacoma, who will take the role of “Miss Columbia” in is directing every effort toward the | solution of the country’s transporta | tion problents. ert Med cal Men Elliott declared President Harding | 12 noon to 8 p.m. He will be as-' | sisted Sundays and on other days |Burglar Leaves His Card; Cops Find Him by the Johnson Jazz orchestra. “Za the result of leaving his card cans tint in ‘Devs ousen “el EXCURSION confessed burglar, ts held in city jail. Joelson confenned that he had bur- giarized the gurage of Duncan & Reese, at 2035 Third ave, earty Fri- day, He then broke the cash reg- Sunday, July 17 inter and took $2 In pennies. Joel son took a blow torch and two breast oven = Uh gare Rae fh i Grills from the garage. man Dock at § a m, re- Members of the firm found the| [mg turns 10:30 p.m. Lunch on Jearage burglarized and Joelson' board or bring your basket. card case, containing his name and) FARE $2.50 « ldrers, lying on the floor. Patrol. | CHILDREN 61.25 men G. F. Reynolds and H. Holmes @id the .rest, PUGET SOUND NAVIGATION COMPANY Information—MAIN 3993 Blooey! Taxpayers’ ' Money Is All Shot OLYMPIA, July 16.-—One of the | — Many motor cars purchased for state | ’ officials thix spring with taxpayers’ | Boat Schedules money has been stolen from Director Dan A. Scott, of the conservation TACOMA and development department, It's & Buick roadster. Scott left the car at the curb and went into the state house. When he camo out 20 minutes later tt was gone Ho offers $25 reward for its re-| |turn. |Shot as He Tries to Enter Home of Bride NORTHPORT, Long Island, July 16.—Harry G, Hemming, Mew York broker, was shot dead when he tried to force his way Into his bride's home at Duck island yesterday, ao: cording to the police, Hemming was shot by Frank Eberhart, a caretaker, who had been asked by Mrs. Hem- ming to protect her against the at ‘tempts of her husband to break into |her house, The Hemming# had been | separated after two weeks of mar. ried life. lEvery Lady to Get Bouquet From Elks Every lady who comes to the city }for the 17th annual convention of the Washington State Elks’ associa | jtion next Thursday, Friday and Sat- urday will wear @ corsage bouquet, the gift of the local Brother Bills, according to plans formulated Sat urday, DAILY, 0,11 o m1, 8, 6,7 wp Special Sun. Trip, 7 & m, 9D See for One Ticket 800 for Two Tickets PORT ANGELES STalT DAILY AT MIDNIGUT (Doea not go to Victoria on trip leaving Seattle Sat. Night) SAN JUAN ISLAND POINTS BELLINGHAM- ANACORTES PORT TOWNSEND RAIL CONN, AND MILL PORTS DAILY, 8 A. M.S P.M. HOOD CANAL POINTS - WAY PORTS PUGE T SOUND NAVIGATION. <) PA NTAG ES Matiners—2:30 Nights—7 @ 0 BEGINNING MONDAY MATINER OURSENATORS |Oh, Kids! Hurry for ) Swimming Classes!{ Wednesday of next week will the dead mag's float and the 4 be the last day upon which Se | dog -paddie 5 attle kiddies can register for the | There are no classes on Sum city's free swimming classes, In day. structor Ernie Wells announced | it Satyrday. | FRANK 8. BERRY, veteran of “The work 1s advancing too | civil war, died Friday at North”) rapidly to hold back any later | Anson, Maine, He was former) than Wednesday for tardy stu- | Seattle resident. ‘ dents,” Wells sald. | ‘ Next week the classes will | learn the breast stroke, altho they will continue to practice opp “FEL LOWS’ BAND to give |concert at Woodland park, 11:3 a, m. Sunday. 4 STARTING TODAY NAZIMOVA THE INCOMPARABLE 4 “BILLIONS” Her First Comedy Since “The Brat” J. FREDERICK STONE Noted American Tenor FOUR TIMES DAILY! METROPOLITAN WEEK COMMENCING SUN., JULY 24 THE HIT OF THE CENTURY © THE SmaRT. eh MUSICAL CO AN UNPARALLELED TRIUMPH EXTENDING FROM. YORK TO LONDON—AUSTRALIA AND bid ORIENT “IRENE” is classed with the three or four a ther warld hits of the last twenty years. It is nothin: but that wonderful, bewildering thing, CHARM, & a put your finger on as audience: ave ‘quickly recognize and love to be by sheer charm, when it sweeps — brand ge e hi het could stand by itself, but to it fittingly te a tuneful rollicking score by Harry ‘Tierney and some par- ularly attractive lyrics by Joseph McCarthy, The song Rite Include “Aljco Blue Gown’ "We're Getting, Aw With It,” “Irene? and “The Last Part of Every Party, all with’ ravishing dance accompanimen' NOTHING\IN THE PAST HAS EQUALED THE MAGNITUDE OF ITS SUCCESS! MOORE THEATRE wa PRICES motets ab tactitatf2%, SUN., WED. & SAT. MATINEES, 25¢ & 50¢@__ RUSCO & HOCKWALD PRESENT Can’t Feed Animals| Medical men should be denied the} | sometimes, dried fruit, dried figs, ap- Willard Jarvis Presents “THE WHIRL OF MIRTH” MUSIC A LA COMEDY w attention to this, and Mass went over to Nelson, who was standing by the window in the day hall looking out, and said: “Take off those shoes!” He sald this to ison two or three times so quickly that Nel- son did not have time to respond before yn grabbed him by the back of the neck, and, choking hin, forced him to the floor. He held Nelson to the floor, ena iz him, until he finally re- leased his hold and sald to him: “Now, will you take off those shoes?” sometimes, ried trutt, dried ties, ap:|George Je Cameron | priviioge ot passing on the aualty | pews without eueus, 10 tha tare Dies in Portland | of anim foods, both meat and dairy, va human consumption, according | ings and evenings we © given one PORTLAND, Ore, July 16-—/to the resolution ‘ passed by the! dessert spoonful of sugar, which had| George J. Cameron, former district | Washington, ; Hi Geter ou entios Oregon and British Co-| to do for our coffee and our mush. | attorney and judge of the municipal | jumbia Veterinary associations Fri. | Yesterday I saw butter on the ta | court here, died early today of| dane | , Ba blo for the first tim evening, | when Itho th pa a He had t mt ey they brought , altho they may | Bright's disease. He had been Wo! their two-day convention here to a! * have had butter on the Fourth of | months | close. Medica, they said, are not| Baggett & Sheldon July, when I was away on parole. | Cameron was 60 years old. He 0¢-| trained to pass on the animal foods, Two Aces of Clubs “We were given a saucerful of | cupled a conspicuous place in the P ean are 29 Sue & Pert Kennedy Judson Cole Versatile Comedicanes Cenjuring Comedian strawberries four times during the | ranks of the republican party on the| FUNERAL, SERVICES for Mary | strawberry season, Pacific coast and was widely known] goash, 41083 Andover st. to be! “What I complain of is the |#* ne of the leading members of the | hela 9:40 a. m. Sunday at Bonney. | sameness of the food, the care. | OFeKon bar Watson's. lessness with which it is cooked, He came to the Coast from Scot =) Seana the failure to provide milk and | '#"d and had lived in the Northwest ways a Favorite the incl of eaadoniog 20" your SENATOR MURPHY ‘After the meals, presumably , “Direct from the Se for show purposes, the tables were all dressed up with white tablecloths, napkins, water Sines, sugar bowls and flowers, one were «removed before meals,” WATCH FOR‘ STREET a PA RADE CASTLE ROCK.—Rudolph Finkas | saves life, but has arm broken in accident at Inman-Poulsen lumber camp. Nelson sputtered out, “Yes,” and at the same time, putting his hand to his bleeding mouth, took out two teeth which had been knocked out of his jaw dur- ing the scuffle. Up to the time of the attack upon jelaon had been quiet and in- sung no Fo except FRANK PIERRPONT former president Uni-| sical versity of Washington, appointed] WALLA WALLA, Meteor be- commissioned of education, New! ieved to have started fire that York, and président New York uni-|destroys barn on W, J, Marcum verily, fro, DR. GRAVES, re Film Nights, 40c, ntngescope Showing New Comedy General Admins! Matinees, 250, th