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History Of Ralph Booth McAbee Reveals
He Is “Travelingest” Lawyer In Captivity
By Ruth McNeely
It happened during the training days at Camp Merritt, New York.
Lieut. Ralph Booth McAbee, on staff duty, was trying to find a rookie
who couid read and write English, to use as a batman, He was surprised,
also shocked, at the large number of illiterates in camp, Finally, he
spied a likely-looking young man, neatly attired in a business suit of
good cut, standing near a door.
" “Do you read and write English?" | —————————————oooooo
R‘lph barked at him. |BB el R iADgso Beyo AR gl i ¢
Turning a handsome face, on
lwhlch was written complete aston
ishment and amazement at such a
!wsuon, theyoung man replied,
“Well, RAWTHER!"
The young man turned out to be
Henri Deering, renowned pianist
and actor, just off a tour with the
famed Maude Adams. He not oaly
spoke, wrote and read English, but
French, Spanish, Italian and Ger
man as well. The two soon became
fast friends, and still are today.
McAbee was attached to the 77th’
Division, which was first stationed
at Camp Yaphank, New York. When
the troops were sent across to
France in March, 1918, McAbee was
held on this side for staff duty and
band work. He led the Camp Merr
itt Band which played for innumer
able parades, and played for Presi
dent Wilson when he went to
France. He was discharged July 21,
1919, and returned to school to re
sume his law studies.
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Ralph is one of the “travelingest”
people in Seattle, Born in Sacra
mento, California, Jaauary 29, 1891,
his folks were Salvation Army
people, his father, Charles Elliott
McAbee being a staff captain. Before
Ralph was seventeen years old, he
had seen all of the following cities
at least once, and some of them a
half-dozen times: Cincinnati, Den
ver, Chicago, Milwaukee, San Fran
cisco, Oakland, Portland, Boise,
Minneapolis, Sioux Falls, Tacoma
Walla Walla and Seattle.
He started school in Cincinnati,
Ohio, where English was spoken in
morning classes, and German dur
ing the afternoon classes, because
of the large number of German
children in attendance. Then his
parents moved to Seattle, and
Ralph continued his schooling
at the old Walla Walla School, now
the Horace Mann Grammar School.
Even If he was still living in
|Seattle, he just couldn't seem to
stay in one spot very long, for he
spent six months at the old Frank
lin High School, one year at Broad
way High one year at Ballard and
this suggested law really had the
one year at Linecoln.
' ‘While at Lincoln, he led the high
school orchestra and band, and turn
'ed out for football and track,
‘though he never won his letter in
either of the sports. “I ran too long
in one place,” Ralph said.
In January, 1911, he entered the
University of Washington, turned
out for cross-country track and
wrestling, and was ia charge of
the cadet buglers for two years,
with a rank of bugler sergeant.
Stricken with appeadicitis in
1913, McAbee was forced to leave
school. During the summer, he
worked as a surveyor for the Great
Northern Railway, and returned to
‘the University in September as
good as new. An opportunity was
offered the young man, now just
twenty-one years old, to become
principal and teacher of a two-room
school at Wynoochee, Wash. near
Montesano, in 1914. He accepted,
but moved again in 1915 to teach
at Snoqualmie High School. He also
coached track and basketball.
Having saved the large sum of
S3OO, young McAbee left for Colum
;bh Law School in the fall of 1915,
and refused to be pried away from
his books until he went into the
army in 1917.
Curiosity piqued by the ever-re
current mention of bands, we asked
how he had first decided to study
music aad band work.
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RALPH McABEE l
decided to learn to play a horn 80
that I could play in a band,” he told
us. “There was a little fellow, not
much older than me, who sat up
in ale balcony, rested his elbows on
the front railing, and tooted away
for dear life at the Salvation Army
meetings. He seemed wonderful to
me, and I wanted to be just like
him.” Now he plays any brass in
strument, though he prefers the
slide trombone.
After the war was over, McAbee
studied at New York University.
He received his LLB in 1920, aad
then went to Columbia University
for his Master of Laws degree in
1921,
Admitted to the bar of New York
that year, the young lawyer opened
offices in Wall Street, where he
associated with Malcom Sumner.
For two years he was attorney for
the Salvation Army in New York
City.
Moving to California in 1924,
Ralph practiced law in San Francis
co, and also organized a boys’ band.
After five years, he again moved,
this time to Seattle. '
“And have I got a band!” he ex
claimed, enthusiastically. “One hun
dred and twenty-six uniformed boys,
from thirteen to twenty-two years
old! You should have heard ‘em at
the Annual Scouts Circus a few
days ago.”
The band, organized in 1932, is
now well into its fifth year. Its
members come from far and near,
from Highline and Burien, Kirk
land, Edmonds and Bellevue. They
}are backed by the Seattle Young
Men’s Band Corporation, composed
of parents and adult members,
The boys rehearse every Friday
night in the Broadway High School
music room, and are quite proud of
their repertoire. They play standard
and classical numbers and have ac
cumulated a fine library of music
from money donated by frieads.
“The band, sponsored by the
Puget Sound County Couacil, VFW,
was sent to the state encampment
at Everett last year and walked off
with the gold medal for first prize,”
McAbee proudly related.
FALLS HARD
| In 1922, Ralph married Nell Dan
iels, a very charming red-headed
French girl from Wisconsia, They
love to play bridge and two-handed
pinochle, and out of some three hun
dred games played, Ralph is only
about seven games ahead of Nell.
They have kept score since the
first started to play.
Besides his band work, Ralph is
intensely interested in politics and
is a silver-tongued orator of more
than local fame. He is a Republican,
but sincerely admires President
Roosevelt for helping the “forgotten
man”. McAbee has never held a
public office, but he is seriously
considering running for Superior
Court Judge this fall,
An honorary member of Maj.
George W. Farwell Post No. 2713,
VFW, a member of Lake Washing
ton Post 124, American Legion and
a captain in the Army Reserve
Corps, McAbee has come a long
way from the time when, as a
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lpnblle‘dnn of the Salvation Army.
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; MEMORIAL DAY
SOLEMN SERVICES PLANNED
AT GRAVES; VETERANS AND
UNITS TO JOIN PARADE,
Under direction of the Grand
Army of the Republic and with co
operations of all veterans and pa
triotic organizations, Seattle will ob
gserve Memorial Day with a tradi
[tloul parade, special-services and
graveside ceremonies.
The day's commemoration of
heroes of the Civil War, Spanish-
American War and World War will
include services beside the graves
of veterans, ceremonies beneath
memorial elms at Sunnydale and a
special observance from a mnavy
tug in Puget Sound to honor the
veterans who died at sea.
COLORFUL PARADE
Veterans of three wars will be.
gin their parade at 10 o'clock Sat
urday morning, Men of the Nation
al Guard, regular Army, United
Spanish War Veterans, Veterans of
Foreign Wars, American Legion,
‘Boy Scouts, Grand Army of theße
ipubllc, Disabled American War Vet
erans and reserve officers will pa
rade. '
) With them will march members
of the ladies’ auxiliaries of the sev
eral organizations.
| Those remaining of the thinaing
' ranks of the Grand Army of the Re-
Ipubllc. will lead the parade and
will have charge of the main events
of the day.
Following the parade, memorial
services will be held in the Met
ropolitan Theater at 11 o'clock.
SPECIAL SERVICES
Two special graveside ceremonies
will be held at 2 p. m. Robert S.
‘Caln of Pittsburgh, Pa., national
commander of the United Spanish
War Veterans, will be the principal
speaker at the exercises in the Vet
erans’ Memorial Cemetery at Wa
“shelli,
A parade through the cemetery
grounds will opea the program,
with marchers halting at a symbolic
grave in front of the speakers’ plat
form. Following speeches,” seven
teen veterans’' organizations and
their auxiliaries will place wreaths
on the grave in honor of the na
tion’s hero dead. -
Preceding the ceremonies, the
twenty-one-gun salute will be fired
from a battery of French 75's on
a hill overlooking the cemetery.
The guns will be fired at noon by
National Guardsmen,
The second graveside service will
be held at the Confederate burial
plot in Lakeview Cemetery, under
the sponsorship of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy, Rob
ert E. Lee Chapter.
Prof. Robert W, Jones of the
University of Washington school of
journalism, will be the principal
speaker on the program, which will
close with the sounding of taps by
buglers from the West Seattle
Drum and Bugle Corps.
Community services will be held
by eight Veterans of Foreign War
posts throughout the state, State
Commander Walter L. Daniels an
nounced. Aurora Post No, 2877 will
hold i.s ceremonies at 11 o’'clock
next Sunday morning in the Uni
versity Congregational Church.
Van Zandt Returns
From Japan Tour
National Commander -in - Chief
James E. Van Zandt, Veterans of
Foreign Wars, and his staff of prom
inent officers returning from a
“good will” trip to Japan spent very
little time in the Pacific North
west after their arrival in Seattle
on Wednesday, May 27.
‘ Department Commander Walter
L. Daniels, Department Patriotic
Instructor R. A. Strom, Commander
Dan Lamphere and Adjutant W, G.
Mcßurney of Lt. James M. Eagle
son Post No. 1416 met the party in
Victoria and accompanied them to
Seattle.
Van Zandt was here about three
hours and then hurriedly departed
for California to fill his many vet
eran speaking engagements, The
other members of the party con
tinued on to their homes by divers
routes. s
Due to the short time Van Zandt
was in the city, no official wel
come party was tendered him or the
other members of the dolmflon.fi
Local Youthful Artist
Wins High Acclaim
A radlant star whose rapid rise
in the musical firmament towards
its zenith is glorifying the accor
dion, L
That is Frank lacolucci, noted
youthful accordionist of Seattle
who, despite his lack of years, has
gained national recognition. He was
a much-ovationed featured soloist
on the Orpheum circuit and also
at the World Fair in Chicago. At
the present time he is broadcast
ing over the Northwest hook-up of
the NBC, being a featured artist
on KOMO-KJR programs.
lacolucei is an accordionist of
rare ability. He was bormn and
raised in Seattle, but his parents
came from the accordion-making
province of Ancona, Italy. Both
were musicians and it was only
natural that young Frank should
follow in their footsteps. Early in
life, he demonstrated that Nature
had endowed him with a magic
touch of talent aad in a few years
he was directiag his own family
quartet, composed of two sisters,
a brother and himself.
DAZZLING SPEED
It is said that fast technique is
the result of methodical and con
tinuous practice but that dazzling
finger speed responds to the voli
tion of the extarordinary artist.
That, no doubt, accounts for the
ZIONCHECK’S EFFORTS TO APE HUEY
LONG RESENTED BY LOUISIANIANS
Zioacheck trying to ape Huey
Long?
That’s sacrilege. Such a question
is blasphemy in Louisiana and more
likely than not an open solicitation
CHRIS WILKINS
’tor a blackeye, according to Chris
Wilkins, Democratic candidate for
Zioncheck’s congressional seat, now
on a political tour of Louisiana and
Texas.
In a communication received yes
terday by local political friends
Wilkins said that “Zioncheck has
become a hot topic of political con-
FAIRTREATMENTSOUGHT
FOR OVERSEAS VETERANS
Delegates to the annual state en
campment of the Veterans of For
eign Wars at Aberdeen in July will
be instructed to support a program
calling for modification of existing
veterans’ legislation to provide fair
treatment for overseas veterans, ac
cording to state department offi
cials,
“Present legislation is extremely
unfair to the men who served over
seas because of the absence of ac
curate records,” a state officer de
clared. “Because of this condition,
we propose to urge all veterans
both in and out of the organization
to unite in a movement which will
bring about a uniform pension and
compensation plan for all disabled
veterans.”
The state department, it is said,
will recommend that existing legi
slation be modified in a way that
will take the absence of existing
records into consideration in hand
ling claims filed by overseas vet
erans, It is felt that no disabled
overseas veteran should be penal
ized because the exigencies of war
made it impossible for complete re
cords to be kept of injuries and
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‘act that lacolucci’s accelerated ex
ecution has broken all records here
tofore established by fast-fingered
accordion artists, His uncanny abil
ity to always control the dashing
speed of his fingers enables him to
FRANK IACOLUCCI
keep within the confines of the
rules of tempo and rhythm and with
the dictates of art—accentuation,
expression and feeling. When he
plays the “The Rhapsody in Blue,”
it is more than Gerchwin's Rhap
sody; it is also lacolucei’s.
versation in Louisiana, The natives
‘who reverence the name of Huey
|Long are decidely hot over Zion
!check’s attempt to ape the circus
formulae of the late senator.
NOT ALL THAT WAY
“l attended the inauguration of
!Richard W. Leche at Baton Rouge,
'and a few days ago visited with the
| Governor and Speaker of the House,
ILarls Wimberly, the latter a former
|roommate of mine at Gulf Coast.
.People here are under the impres
sion that Zioncheck is approved by
Washington Democrats. I have a
hard time convincing them that not
(all Democrats in Washington are
]that way. Southern newspapers
carry the story that we have gone
|‘radical’ some say ‘communistic.’
“Because of interest here in the
'Tennessee Valley power develop
'ment both Seattle City Light and
|the Grand Coulee projects are well
known,
l “I have a date to visit Governor
Allred of Texas next week, follow
ing a scheduled political conference
in Arizona. 1 will then return to
\Seattle and relieve the Democrats
|of aay worry about Zioncheck in
' the final election for congressman.”
NO GRAFT THERE
BROWNSVILLE, Tex.—The lat
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Civil War was fired here recently,
thrée score and ten years after
Grant and Lee made peace,
E. E. Wilmith found in the sand
on Del Mar Beach a “dud” said to
have been fired from a Union gun
boat during the time Confederate
troops held part of the island
beach.
Wilmith and W. O. Washington
set a blow torch against the old
ghell that had laid in salt water
for seventy years. From a safe re
treat they heard it sputter a mo
ment. Then, with a “S-woooosh”
the Civil War powder lifted the
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