The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-08-28

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haugh railroad would bring only
small amount when salvagcd.
And then" carrigan stated. s'the
Milwaukee would be the only logical
purchaser
In answer to a question By Repre-
sentative W w. MCGEE. whether
Brig Gen. Dsaquo did not have tho
final word AZ 60 the location Of tho
siefna Carey Krrhaugh road. CARR
gan replied:
"psaque made the decision he wan
ordered to make"
Correspondence Barrvd
carrigan confessed ho was unable !
To learn who gave psnaus HIS orders.
In nubstantiatioa OF HIS accusations
against McAdoo. Carrigan submitted
a thick shcaf OF kilograms and docu.
sncntn 10 tho COMMITTEES. Tn. main
portion Of the correspondence com
prtsca letters and kilograms from and
10 Piiny Fisk and buslnna. men of
Port Angeles. with whom carrsEan
was affiliated.
A vivid story Of mlstreatncnt Of
enlisted men tn non-productivc
spruce camps was given tho commit
tee by Charles a. Turner OF Ever.
cit.
Turner formerly held a captains
commission In the spruce division.
having been commissioned At the
second offiocra' training camp at the
Preside.
Turner Letter App-as
In o letter sent June Is. 1919.
10 United States senator Mflcs
Poindcxtsr. which he asked to
have read into the record. Capt
Charles A. Turner said:
Il request that You have me
called before tho congressional
Investigating COMMITTEES, who arc
to 70 into the conduct Of the syia-
ton program. I am going 10
insist upon tho prosecution Of
Brig Gen. Bricc T.. Disquc. his
chief Of staff. Major &. y.
Slearns. and tho collection Of In.
dividnals and corporations who.
are. with them. guilty Of the
blacklist scandal Of the war--the
misuse Of nearly 10000 men Of
the army. with |. 1000 officers--for
violation Of the p~onage act. and
put an end to this fragrant mis-
use Of troops In any way In the
future.
1.-THE public has been druggcd By
lying propaganda advertising the
work OF General Disque and the
spruce production division. every bit
OF IL false, as IN the amount OF
spruce produced and the manner in
which IL was being done. Under
cover OF this. General Diaque's prof
lteering friends have exploited thou
sands OF soldiers. drafted and enlist
ed TO serve against the enemy. j
have production. or better, lack of
production figures Of two OF the
largest mills In tho Northwest
Union labor should know OF General
Disque's 81 per day wage scale.
Three OF my men were killed In
one logging camp. one crippled for
life. and eight or ten injured--this |
In total OF 100 men. and we did |
not produce one foot Of airplane |
spruce In ~ months work When |
an officer needlessly loses his men
in battle. he is court martiaicd for
II. Shall we do less with the traitor |
who sends men 10 their death under |
the plea Of producing airplane
spruce at a camp which he knows. be /
fore ordering them. contains no
spruce7
II happen 10 have seen the letter /
advising General Disque OF the alb.
sence of airplane stock at the par.
ticular camp mentioned and TO have /
recommended the removal of troops /
therefrom without avail"
Treatment Called Crime"
experimenting the Sensational |
charges against Disaue as contained |
In his letter to Senator Poindexter. |
Turner went on to say;
1T was a crime the way my boys |
were treated. I, as well as my men. |
were trained for combat duty and we
had every reason to expect that we
would be sent overseas. Instead they
sent us TO spruce camp. My boys
were short OF clothing. shoes and
other equipment We went into our
first camp In January and IL was
April before we were issued single
article OF equipment. This was dur.
ing the period that Secretary Of War
Newton ID. Baker was publishing TO
the world that our army was fully
equipped.
pneumonia attacked "a Of my bows
after we struck the first camp
simply because they did not have
proper clothing. Scarlet fever and
other diseases, resulting mainly from