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JES DREAMIN’
808 JONES (not Judge Robert
M. Jones), former Pte. Robert
Jones, Company C, 361st Infantry,
91st Division, was leaning against
a telephone pole, on the sunny side
of the street, mouthing fierce
curses and otherwise registering
his displeasure at things in general,
“Wassa matter, Bob?”
we asked.
“Huh! You should
ask!"” was the disgusted
reply. “This is spring,
and we should be out
JONES practicin’ and takin’ off
. |weight, and gettin' ready for the
cleanup on Memorial Day,
“Say, ya big bamboo, doncha re
member when we played Buckley,
and the score was 0 to 0 in the
last half of the ninth, three men
on bases and two out and my turn
to bat? Whadda I do, huh? Whadda
I do! No Casey Jones stuff for me.
Old Bob just cleaned the sacks,
that's all. And what did your punk
outfit do? Got drunk!”
“Say, ya big slob—"
And so on for at least two hours.
Bob played semi.pro ball in and
around Tacoma when we haadled
the Tyee “White Sox,” semi.pro
champions in 1907-08-09. He was a
whale of good infielder those days
but, as so many others did, liked
his beaker of suds—and the more
suds he swilled the better ball he
played.
We drifted north and Bob drifted
south after that and it wasn’t until
the wiater of 1933 that we again
met. Same old Bob, though. Still
likes his suds, albeit he now washes
it down with a side order of finnan
haddie.
LOVABLE MUG
Met Dud Brown, publicist extra.
ordinaire, raconteur de luxe and
dashing young blade on Newspaper
Row, hitailing down Westlake on a
forced march to
Elquare things
with his OC.
“Hi, Toots,” we
vodeled as he
streaked by in a
cloud of display
fads.
E “Hi, mug,” was
his answer, “No
time to talk. See
you at the confer.
ance Tuesday.”
By that time he
BROWN was out of sight.
But that's characteristic of Dud.
He’s one of the most likeable, dy
namic veterans in the state. You
Jjust can’t help liking the big thug.
One day, you waat to murder him.
The next, you want to buy him a
rope necktie, a drink of cyanide, or
a potion of water hemlock or some
thing or other. But the third day—‘
| Your sales resistance is worn down
to the point where you’re ready to‘
mortgage the old homestead to help‘
him out,
They know him for what he really!
The know him for what he really
is—a square shooter who refuses to
let the brass hats and bombproofers
throw the hooks into the troops.
ON THE LAM ]
“Hah!” says Arthur Korth. “Got.
cha!”
“Oh, yeah,” says we, and ducks
around the corner and into a pub.
Any time the
cockeyed tank
corps layout slips
anything over on
a raven of the air,
we'll let you know
about it.
Korth, another
KORTH likeable thug, is
state secretary of the Tank Corps
Veterans’ Association and at pres
ent is touring the state in the in
terests of his outfit, We hope he
meets with the same success he
did at the Sourdough convention
in Seattle last summer. The old
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“treat 'em rough” spirit was work
ing good that week.
SOFT JOB
"l Just outside the County-City
: Building the other moraing, we
' bumped into Fred Sheridan, former
‘ business manager of the Washing
ton Veteran.
' The boy looks
and acts prosper.
ous, Which goes
to show that it
pays to get out of
the newspaper
game-—and stay
out, He is now
head publicist for
the Federal The
atre Project. Pret-
SHERIDAN ty soft! Nothing
to but but publi.
cize good-looking girls, book shows
and then see to it that his “boys
and girls” get the necessary pub.
licity. s
Leave it to the bloomin’ Marines
to cop off all the cream!
WHY IS A DUCK? |
Ambling up Third Avenue from
the Tower of Babel, mind engrossed }
in why is a loan shark, we stopped
~—pronto. !
“Whoosh!” said we. |
“Whoof!"” said our stoppee, ‘
“Say, you big lug, whyinell”—and |
then bit our tongue. |
. Confronting us
% was Judge Wil
5 T omm— liam G. Long.
3@ / “Sorry, ‘old
* man,” he purred.
L
W § . “S’all right Bill.
‘2 ,@3% Maybe we shoulda
'.j;' -8 been thinking
' about something
% ’oy else”
. A “No, som, it's
% »f my fault. I was
Al looking at this
JUDGE LONG Vpicture.”
And then he showed us the cover
page of Colliers’ whereon a Rhode
Island Red was looking at a little
duckling, the while Mrs, Rhody
watched him, somewhat guiltily,
out of the corner of her eye.
“Do you know, Lena,” he chuck
led, “I'm going to have this framed.
And then I'm going to give it to
Bruce MeDougall, down in police
court. While the case no doubt
should come before the Court of
Domestic Relations, it is my opinion
Bruce should first review the
facts.”
And off down the street went
Hizzoner, still chuckling.
A great guy, is Billy Long.
A SKIPPER'S DREAM
Leaning against the postoifice the
other day, was the biggest, broadest
‘and huskiest VFW we’ve seen since
our Senegalese batman met up with
a hunk of Heine lead labeled with
our name,
Who he vras, '
where he came
;trom, where he (
was going, o 1
‘what he wanted, /
)we don’t know. [
But ther¢c he ¥
was, nonchalant
ly surveying the ‘w |
world through |
half_closed eyes, obviously enjoy
ing himself and caring not a whit
whether the world was round or
square.
Wotta man! And wotta helluva
fight he no doubt put up when he
was sashaying across France and
Belgium! We never knew of an OC
who didn't pray each night that
the GC would put him in command
of an outfit composed of he.men
like the brute we saw.
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We read that Americans are be
coming more radio conscious. But‘
some of the programs would make |
a fellow wish he were unconlcloua.‘
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OLEY NELSON
(Continued from Page 1)
The commander spent an enjoy
able half-hour reminiscing with A,
L. White, now a Seattle printer,
but a former neighbor of his in
lowa. White’s father and Nelson
were ploneer settlers in lowa in the
early 1860’s. White was then a
youth when Nelson was a candidate
for the state senate, but Nelson
recalled the fact that White
marched in a parade and cam
paigned for him.
“You look like your mother,” he
~ said, although he had not seen
- White for fifty.five years, “You
" are the first person | have seen
in my coastto-coast trip that
comes from my own township.”
They remembered that Ida White
A, L. WHITE
McKinney, a sister of White, had
taught Nelson’s children, Many old
old friends and neighbors were
recalled during their conversa
tion.
Commander Nelson evinced a
real interest in the many lakes in
the city of Seattle. He wanted to
know the names of them, their size,
depth, etc, and then asked about
Puget Sound, Mt. Rainier, the Olym
pics and the Cascades. “I want to
see everything 1 possibly can on
this tour,” he declared.
WARM WELCOME
The commander and his party
were met at the station in Portland
by fifteen old soldiers and members
of allied organizations, presented
with flowers, and promised a warm
welcome on his retura trip, when
he would stay overnight. In Tacoma,
several comrades and members of
allied organizations met the train,
conducted the party on a tour of
Fort Lewis, the Soldiers’ Home at
Orting, and the Ladies of the G. A.
R. Home in Puyallup. A baaquet
was held at the Winthrop Hotel,
and during the course of the even
ing, gifts were presented to Com
mander Nelson, Mrs. Boyce, and
Mrs. Love. Governor Martin attead
ed the Tacoma banquet, and made a
speech,
On his return trip, the command
er spent Saturday evening and Sun
'day, May 3 aad 4, with his married
son and two married grandchildren’
in Portland.
FAT AND SASSY
Politics seem to agree with some
people, physically if not financially.
Witness Russell Flueat, the man
who gave Corporation Counsel A.
C. Van Soelen the
scare of his youug
life during the re. X
cent election. o
Russ seems to .
have taken o 2 a ‘,%" Y
bit of weight, is »
better looking, \ b
and that new suit
is certainly be- ‘é‘
coming,
Don't crowd FLUENT |
girls, :
Marian is a dutiful wife, feeds
Russ well and doesn’'t want anyoae
disturbing his diet.
Russ piled up a lot more votes
than his opponent figured could be
done. The latter wore out two pairs
of pants on election day, it is said,
wondering where and when the
landslide would slow down. The
next time, political experts agree,
there’ll be no stopping that land.
slide.
WHY SOO SAD?
Also saw Arthur M. Hare in the
‘Temple of Justice. Something must
have gone wrong that moraing.
Art’'s chin was roosting on his
chest, and the expression on his
face reminded us of the one on
Serg. John Mack’s face that day
ia Paris when the MP’s picked him
up for being AWOL.
Hare entered the World War in
Company C, 134th Infantry, 34th Di
vision, and wound up as a sergeant
in Company N. 141st lafantry, 36th
’Dlmlon. After the Armistice, he
;wu transferred into the University
of Lyons detachment and remained
‘wlth that outfit ufllfllb, 1919,
A Republican by birth, by nawure
and by inclination, he is none t.boj
less a “gude feller.” And despite
the lugubrious look on his face u‘
times, he is usually good-natured.
VETERANS’' REVIEW
Baffling Mystery Solved When Ralph
Charlton Bares Secrets of Life
| For over two years we tried to make Deputy County Clerk Ralpk
|Chariton break down and give us the history of his life. And for twe
|yoars we might just as well have saved our breath. “Nothing doing!’
x. all we could get out of him, »
Then, one day recently, the millenium arrived. We wore down hi
Fesistance to the point where he agreed to confess. When asked wh
he held off so long his reply was ————
|that he didn’t crave publicity and
|wasn't anxious to be in the lime.
light. It wasn’t
that he had any
deep, dark secrets
or hidden love
affairs, as we one
'time intimat ed,
out merely that he
preferred to keep
|some things to
himself, :
Be that as it
‘may, Ralph is 20
er the “mys.
| tery man” of the
éf 2 'c“y Bu“ CHARLTON
|He's just one of the boys, now.
| | Semetime ago we ran a “mug” in
{one of our columns and used our
: Ralph’s name as a by-line
lfor it. He hit the deck with both
feet when the edition appeared and
Burned up four sets of telephone
| batt putting us on the pan.
| “Why you blankety.blank so-and.-
|BO, you swiped that mug from Hom.
@ér Brew!” he yelled in our ear.
~ Maybe we did, BUT the “mug”
used in this article is an actual pic.
, of Ralph (swiped from him,
jof course) back in 1920. It is the
last one taken of him, so he says.
*
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é Goes Places
;'i‘, ph was born in Massachuselts,
land is proud of it. He refuses to
; y when, but we assume about
' The urge to go places and see
things hit him bhard in 1916. He
folded his tent in Boston and de.
parted silently in the night for Can.
ada. “1 wanted to visit my relativ
es,” he said.
' Oace across the line the call to
ms was too loud for him to resist.
He had visions of seeing Europe,
FOB, so on September 18, 1916, he
slid into Halifax, N. 8., and signed
lon with the forces of His Majesty,
George of England. :
After a few weeks in Halifax,
Ralph was transferred to Toronto
and stationed at No. 2 Overseas
Traingpg Depot with the Canadian
Army Service Corps. He left for ser
vice overseas with No. 14 draft of
the CASC just before Christmas,
1916, arriving in Liverpool, England,
ten days later.
From there he went to a con.
ceatration camp for ten days and
then was sent to Shorncliffe Camp,
County of Kent. He remained there
until sometime in July, 1917, and
was then transferred to the infantry
and sent to Bramshott Camp ln‘
Hants County. Here the outfit tura
ed in its CASC mounted troops gear
and received the regular infantry
issue.
. Wounded
October, 1917, saw Ralph headed
for Boulogne, France, via Folke.
stone. From there he went to Et
aples and then on to join his out.
fit, the Royal Canadian Regiment,
up in Belgium. The RCR was a part
of the 7th Brigade, 3rd Division,
Canadian Army, then busily ea.
gaged at Passchendaele. Here
Charlton received his first baptism
under shell fire. Wounded in ac
tion, he was sent to a base hos.
“I sent them soiled from top to
toe and they came back look
ing like new.”
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pital at Boulogne wuere he re.
mained until after Christmas aia
from wnence he was luvalided w
wngland,
Returning to France early 12 1915,
oe rejoined his outlit 1 Lme log
the big push that started in toe
Bpring and lasted wntil the armius
tice on November 11, 1915,
enan, LUIS, saw Ralph
leave Namur, Belgium, (or nis last
trip down the line. He leit Liver.
puol on February 21, 1919, and lauu
ed ln Halifax on the moruiug ou
March 1. He was hounorably dis
charged and given a check tor siv
as the initial payment on his war
Service Gratuity, or “bonus.”
Musilered out of service March
28, 1919, Charlion was repaunaled
by the American Vice.Cousul in
Halifax the previous day. He re.
ceived a total war service gratuivy,
or bonus, of something like ssou.
That was all used up long ago,
he said.
Hotel Man
In addition to his bonus, Charl
ton received vocational training to
the extent of slOl per mouth for
eight months. He took a business
college course and three days after
its completion entered the hotel
field as cashier and room clerk.
Ralph followed hotel work until
the middle of Decr aber, 1928, when
he left New York for Seattle. He
arrived here just before Christmas
and has never left. Ia 1935, he
went with County Clerk Carroll
Carter and is now considered oune
of his most valuable and depend.
able employees.
Ralph belongs to Seattle Post No.
1, American Legion; Seattle Chap
ter No, 2, Disabled Americaa Vet.
erans; Voiture 756 of the 40 et 3;
Odd Fellows and the Veterans'
Democratic Club. He is also a‘
former member of Maple Leaf Post.
No. 21, American Legion. |
Confidentially, he is a descena
ant of Revolutionary stock on his
‘mother‘s side and is eligible for
membership in the Sons of the
}Amerlcxm Revolution. .
Also, he is a bachelor. (Don't
crowd, girls, don’t crowd! Take
your time. The first line forms on
the right, the second on the left.)
And thus endeth the story of |
Ralph Charlton, the meandering re. \
SAN JUAN AND 77 |
Editor The Times:
This is how the laboring men
in San Juan County and many
other counties of the state are
affected by taking away the fish
. traps. Initiative 77 has taken out
of our county SBI,OOO that was
paid for labor alone to San Juan
County men, and $200,000 more
that was spent here for material.
The men depending on fish traps
for a living worked eight to
twelve months a year at wages
ranging from $75 to $l5O per
month their board included.
They were always able to pro
vide turkey for their families for
Thanksgiving and Christmas.
But last year 77 got the tur
key and the poor kiddies had to
do without. Dr. L. W. Whitlow,
-0. J. Orvis, Lee Mackovich, P.
H. Green, and others on the exec
utive committee of Initiative 77
didn’t come through with any
baskets for the families in San
Juan County who lost their jobs
by 77. Many of them cannot even
get on relief, and some of them
are on county relief rolls.
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last 20 years when the political
situation in King County has been
as odious as during the past four
years.
“Prospects for improvement dur
ing the zext two years do not ap
pear to be very promising. Political
treachery and double crossing have
been the order of the day. We in
lvuo all persons and organizations
interested in ..the elimination of
these deplorable coaditions from
the community and the bringing
about of a FAIR DEGREE OF PO
LITICAL DECENCY, to join in our
movement,” he concluded,
porter. He is a man, his critics to
the contrary notwithstanding, He
stands by those who stood by him
in his hour of need. No greater
praise can or need be given.
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