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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (June 6, 1919)
f AMERICAN EMBARKATION CAMP AT BREST. FRANCE A remarkable photograph o f Camp Pontunezen at Brest, France, through which all American soldiers embarking for home at that port pass, made from a French dirigible. The camp Is the largest of Its kind In the world. There are 60 miles o f duckbonrds in It, and housing accommodations for 80,000 men at one time. TRANSATLANTIC PLANE AND ONE OF ITS PILOTS ENGINEERS WHO FOUGHT AT CAMBRAI COME HOME The Suntu Teresa arriving at Hoboken with some of the men of the Eleventh engineers, who gained glory at Cnra- brnl by dropping their picks nnd shovels and helping drive back the Huns. At the left Is Lieut. Col. II. W. Hudson, In charge of the detachment, and at the right, Capt. C. F. Hubburd. PUTS THE CRIMP OUT OF BUSINESS Land Shark Who Preyed on Sailors Is Given His Death Blow. SAM TAKES A HAND Shipping Board Establishes Govern ment Agency to Find Berths for Seamen— Evils of Old System Are Swept Away. This Is the Marttnsyde transatlantic plane with Its pilot, E. I*. Baynhnm, nnd his assistant. Captain Morgan, climb- ing into the cockpit, at St. Johns, Newfoundland. The portrait Is of Captain Morgan. LADY READING DEPARTS BOMB PLOT AGAINST LEADING AMERICANS The United States wns startled the other day when there wns revealed a great plot to slay lending officials nnd other citizens by means o f bombs sent through tlie mails. It Is' believed to have been the work o f radicals, ns nearly all the Intended victims were concerned In the prosecution or deportation of members o f the L W. W. and other undesirables. This photograph shows the bomb which wns sent to Judge Landis o f Chicago. THEY WORE WHITE FOR ONE DAY Lady Rending has departed from Washington with her husband, for he has completed the special work for which he came here as British ambas sador and has gone home. This I* a new photograph o f Lady Rending. Caught at Last. x At one of the summer camps, a fa ther said to his pretty daughter one morning: “ What time did you send that young Simpson home last night? “ Oh,” replied the girl, " I don’t think It was very late.” " I t roust have been close to mid night.” "W hy. father?" “ Didn’t you send him out o f the back door nnd hurry off to bed when ydu heard me coming in?” “ Oh I must have been In bed for hours when you came In.” “ You beard me, !h*en?” •<Yes. You woke ate op." "And you bad been In bed for hours?" “ Uh huh!" “ That certainly Is funny." "W h y?" “Because when I went to light the lamp I nearly burned my hands on the but chimney.” Washington's several hundred yeomen (F ) celebrated the change from navy blue to their attractive summer costumes by staging a drill which was reviewed by Franklin D Roosevelt, acting secretary o f the navy. That same night the temperature reached 35 degrees and the winter costumes came Nick. Ur. Roosevelt is the civilian with a cane. New York— Tho crimp, one o f the ugliest figures ln th e predatory forces, collectively known ns "land sharks," that once preyed unchecked on the merchant sailor ashore, must give up Ills grip on Jack when he Is In Ameri can ports. Recent establishment by the United States shipping board of a government shipping agency o f national scope to place seamen in positions nfloat will put the crimp out of business. The shipping board agency, known as the sea service bureau, aims not only to protect seaman nnd ship owner against extortion, but to stabilize the supply o f mariners at various ports by shipping men to ports where most needed, prepaying their fares,nnd look ing after their subsistence In transit. This service will be performed nt cost, nnd a nominal fee of so much a man will be charged the ship operator calling fo r men. The passing o f the crimp is the most recent In a number o f changes In con ditions nffecttng Amerlcnn sailors when ashore that taken together con stitute a complete departure from old lime standards o f what was consid ered good enough for Jack. Into the discard which now receives tho crinll) went some years ago the sailors’ dance hall,'and Its attendant sisterhood, who welcomed Jack ashore, entertained him until Ills money was gone, and turned him over to the crimp, who In nine cases out o f ten was a boarding house keeper. Passing of Boarding House. The sailor’s boarding house itself, ns It was known In enrlier days, has suf fered eclipse by the welfure center, where In a great clean building a sailor may get a neat bed fo r 30 cents a night, and meals at proportionate cost, nnd wher6 he can play gnmes, attend lectures nnd movie shows nnd mingle socially with sober and self- respecting companions. Next on the list to go will be the sailor's grog shop, which now Is on FRENCH “WACHT AM RHINE” A French pollu machine gunner and gun o f the Twenty-third Infantry guurdlng a portion o f the Rhine near the village o f Crlmllnghausen, just a few kilometers from Düsseldorf. Its last legs. W ith that gone, the props o f the old system for debauch ing Jack and plucking him will have been sent to Davy Junes' locker. Few will mourn the event, fo r n new style o f sailor Is coming Into the merchant marine— a sailor to whom old-time ex cesses ashore would not appeal nnd on whom the “ land shark” would not get fat. The crimp will not go out o f busi ness willingly. H e has too recent memory o f days when to be n crimp was to conduct a business of profit^ There nre tunny crimps In business today who recall with professional pride the days o f strong arm methods In the merchnnt mnrine. In those times the captain, whose dignity' and ethics did not prevent him from accepting a crew Hint had been shipped by. deception or force, turned to tlie- crimp ns to a specialist to be engaged fo r difficult cases. The crimp responded with the alacrity of one who expects n good fee. It wns In such cases that he shone, nnd his methods were those of an artist In guile. The fnct that he was an out- lnw and that severe pennltles were provided for any one aiding or abet ting him, ns well as for himself, did not baffle him. Liquor, drugged or otherwise, wns Ills chief ally. H e befuddled Jack and worked Ills w ill with him. On« classic method of the old time crimp was to tap the drunken sailor over the head with a blackjack, tumble him into a boat, row him alongside the ship on which he was slated to make a long voyuge nnd have him hoisted over the side. Doom of the System. The crimp knows where the worst kind o f men are, to a certninty. He mnkes it his business to go aboard ships ns.they come In— sometimes get ting nbonrd in the guise o f ti dock luborer— to solicit trade for Ills board ing house, offering inducements that would not appeal to the newer type o f Amerlcnn sailor, who In these times lodges nsliore under the protecting roof o f some friendly society. One stroke o f business brings an other, with the crimp. He promises Jack a Job If ho will stay on awhile at the boarding house. When Jack’s money Is gone, nnd the crimp's finan cial stake In the sailor must be made good, Jack Is sold to the captain or operator In need o f men who is w ill ing to pay the bonrd bill ns well ns a fee. This practice received a hard blow a few years ago, when the lnw forbade assignments o f wages by sail ors, but it has been staggering along since. It Is expected to die when the shipping board's feeless shipping agency gets Into full play. She sea service bureau has met with the Hearty npproval o f the mer chnnt sailors, who llock to Its offices nnd lose no opportunity to inform their mates arriving from voynges thut there Is now a central government agency for sigulng on men. N A V Y DESERTER IS ARMY HERO Youth Surrenders With a Record of Hottest Fighting in the War. armistice, and into Coblenz. He hnd been In the thickest of the lighting. And he wns sntlsfied. Frank Allee Again. They mustered out Jack Anderson on April 3; nnd lie beenme again Frank W. Allee, deserter from the United States navy. H e paid n visit to his father nnd Quits His Ship and Enlists In ¿he Six mother In Sjn-lngfleld, Mo., and then, with his discharge papers, that told Hundred and Second Engineers— where lie had been since he deserted, Fought at St. Mihlel, Chateau lie went to Great Lakes nnd surren T h ie rry and Argonne Woods. dered to Provost Mnrshul Lieut. It. C. • MucDuIUc. . Chlcngo.— There wns action on the Lieutenant MacDufflo explained tlint sen. Warships that had met nnd fouglu the nrmy nnd nnvy veteran Is n prison were waiting, guns hared, fo r another er nt large, wnitlng for the nnvy de combat; submarines, armed merchant partment at Washington to decide his men, nnd sw ift cruisers swept waters case. strewn with mines. Each day brought Its tale of vnlor nnd Its toll of dend. And out In the Oznrks Frank W. Allee, son o f a Missouri legislator, heard the call and volunteered. He New "Made In Germany” Labels Sent to London by Soldiers on was only sixteen and could not get Rhine. Into the army, but with his father’s consent he enlisted In the navy Febru ary 28, 1917, London.— London business men nnd Ho wns assigned to the battleship British manufacturers whose plants South Carolina ns a bugler— and nre located outside o f London are America was at war. It meant action. alarmed lest the Germans should again obtain a profitable foothold In He was sure o f that. the country. Tbe Intest Is the pub Pines for Action. But there wns no action fo r him. lication o f labels which have been The ship was In its war paint, but it sent to London by soldiers with tho lay off Philadelphia awaiting orders array o f occupation at Coblenz. “ Superior Scissors made o f the best while thousands of lads In olive drab double refined cast steel. Made In were crossing the sea. Sixteen months he stood It, nnd he Germany,” rends one label, and “ fin drenined now o f trenches, o f midnight est hollow-ground razors, set rendy raiding p a r tle v o f nlrplnnes, nnd henvy for use, w arranted; made In Ger tanks rumbling over No Mnn's Land. many,” Is another. Still others carry the guarantee o f the Germnn manu Nothing like that In tbe navy. Se one day he bought a civilian suit facturing firm, nnd nil /if them bear and in due course of time wns listed ns the place o f origin. According to an announcement by a deserter. About this time a well-built, tnnned, the bonrd o f trade, the regulations wiry chap answering to the'nam e of against the Importation o f German Jack Anderson enlisted In the Six goods In Great Britain are still In Hundred nnd Second engineers in Bos force, nnd there Is no danger o f a German trade Invasion. ton. NO ACTION FOR HIM IN NAVY HUNS PREPARE TO WIN TRADE Three weeks later he wns in Brest, nnd then, as the Yanks went forward, W ar 1« Resumed. he wns In Chnteau Thierry, In St. Milwaukee.— Is the war over? George Mihlel, in the Argonne woods, fighting O’N eill said not. Frank Mlckel didn't every day, sleeping In shell holes, and agree. B in g! W ar resumed. Casual In ditches. ties: One fractured Jaw and one bat Across the front he went, after the tered face. 1