Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 19, 1916, Page 1

Call Tyler 1000 If You Want to Talk to The Bee or to Anyone Connected With The Bee, VOL. XLV—N( THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. JANUARY 19, TWELVE PAGES, 1916 THE WEATHER. Snow at -olol ato., SINGL E COPY TWO CENTS. VILLA BANDIT IS EXECUTED AT CITY OF JUAREZ Colonel Baca-Valles, Who Killed Many Men at Chieftain's«Or- der, Denies Guilt as He Fnces Death. WEBSTER TELLS OF NEBRASKA'S BIRTH Interesting Debates in Senate of United States Over Admission of the State. POLITICAL I‘P‘PORTANCE OF MOVE LINCOLN, John Lee | Nebraska Jan. 18.-(Special.) Webster, president of the Historical deliv- society, BODY PLACED ON EXHIBITION | ered his annual address to the body tonight. Mr. Webster dealt with Along with It is Corple of General | the admission of Nebraska into the Rodriguez, Who Was Exe- [union, going greatly into detail as cuted at Madera. to the discussion in the senate of the s | United States of the enabling act PARRAL REFUGEES ARRIVE The proceedings in the United | States senate form one of the most BULLETIN, | interesting chapters of the records JUAREZ, Mex., ~Jan 18.—The | of that body, especially as Nebraska bodies of Rodriguez and Baca Valles were laid side by side on the sta- tion platform and during the fore- neon were by throngs Mexicans. “It is an object lesson,” remarked Enrique Gonzales, a Carranza gov- ernment official. ‘‘Baca Valles was a butcher by trade before the revo- lution began, and the death he met to those he beings execu- viewed was merciful inflicted vwhile he tioner.” compared other human Villa's on was chief EL PASO, Tex., Jan. Miguel Baca-Valles, bandit chief captured at Palomas, south Cclumbus, N. M., was executed at 5 o'clock this morning by a firing squad at Juarez. Two bullets, fired a. close quarters, penetrated heart, after he had declared he was not responsible for the robberles of Villa and pleaded to see General Gaviero, the Carranza commandent. Licutenant Colonel Inrique Cisneros, who was captured last week with Baca- Valles, Is beinz marched overland with elght followers caught with him, and ac- cording to Mexican officials, also will be placed promptly before u firing squad. Baca-Vailes arrived here last night on the train which brought the body de- clared to be that of Jose Rodriguez, the bandit chief cxecuted near Madera last Thursday. Viewed by Americans, The two bodies later were taken to the Mexican customs house here to be viewed by Americans, who have expressed doubt as to the identity of the man executed as Rodriguez, Baca-Valles, who was known aa Villa's most callous executioner at Juarez, was taken from the box car in which he ar- rived a few minutes before 5 o'clock. He was marched through the dimly lighted platform of the rallway station, where many families spend their nights. Execu- tions had been =o frequent at Juares in the final days of the Villa regime, how- ever, that not a ripple of interest was shown. The proceedinzs were brief. The pris- oner sald: “I am not responsible for the acts and robberies of Villa. I beg to your general.” The officer commanding the firing squad said he had orders to kill, and he and a soldier stepped up close to Baca- Valles and fired point blank into the prisoner's heart. The body was then taken back to the rallroad station, where it lay uncovered until after dawn on the platform among the men, women and children lying «hout wrapped in blankets. 18.—Colonel of Refugees Arrive from Parral. More than 10 refugees from Parral, Chihuahua, arrvived here early today aboard a special train which started from the Mexican mining center yesterday aft- ernoon The party included a number of woimnen and children, who were worn out by the fatigue of the journey and the experiences preceding the arrival of the rvellef train, They reported tbat Villa bandits in groups were scouring the country, clear- ranches, mines and other property belonging to foreignenrs of everything valuable. As far as anyone knew, no one as molested after the eighteen Amer- icans belonging to Cusl Mining company party were massacred Monday a week ago at Santa Ysabel The statement that the victims of the ing (Continued on Page Two. Column Four.) The Weather o, Wednesdey Council Bluffs and Vieinity snow; not Forecast till 7 p. For umu.lm with in Temperature st Omana Yesterday. Hour Deg lainche and Valle. Dr. Roux said 420 | wounded men who had been in hospitals M E t d | from six to fourteen months were treated | oves nastward| by Dr. Bassuet's method. As a result — 19 | the infection seemed to revive. Abcesses | 1L0S , Cal, Jan. 18.—The 15 | formed and burst spontaneously, elimi- |storm which has been gemeral throughout 19 | nating bits of bone, splinters, bulle southern California since Saturday ap iq’ pleces of clothing and even drains and | parently was moving eastward toda iy [ilver threads left in the incisions by |through Arizona. The rain has ceased 18 | mistake | falling at most points near here today d 7] After this had happened, Dr. Roux sald, | preventing further damage. Reports | Comparative ""‘l'w‘a""""- | the woupds healed quickly In most cases | ceived here increase the death list fror High yesterday 0 and men who had been lying helples: \.h‘. storm to four. The damage was est!- Lowest yesterday i for months were discharged cured mated at from $1,000,000 to 32,000,000 Mean temperature 2 L Precipitation SRR e Ji et ey Temperature and perMp“lllcm H, 4 tures from the normal of | his | | was the first state to be admitted | after the close of the war of the | rebellion, at a time when there was a | serfous controversy between the ce . yand President Johnson, and a « ' | able division among republicans in con s as to the poliey that should be pur- 1 | sue The high places in this de i\\mn brought out by Mr. Web: who quoted liberally from the speeches of ]llunmm(n Wade, John Sherman and | Samuel J. Kirkwood, who warmly cham- | ploned the admission of Nebraska, and | | from Charles Sumner and ator 134 | munds, who opposed the admiesion. It | was something of a struggle betw cast and the west, the older states see ing in the admission of the new ones the taking away of a control they then wielded. It was finally argued to them that the republicans the votes of the new es to pass the eivil i \d other of the re- construction measures in which they were interested. The address vividly recalled -a chapter of history with which the present genera- tion is unfamiliar, telling how President Johnson twice interposed his veto against the admission of Nebraska, and how the bill was finally passed his obj tions, The debate in the senate wa especial importance, as giving a light on the line of thought that then prevailed, and showing something of the political importance of the new state. Lippitt Would Send Army Into Mexico To Catch Bandits WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—Senator Lip- pitt introduced a resolution in the senate this afternoon directing the president to employ armed forces immediately to pro- tect the lives of Americans in Mexico. He sald he was prompted to offer it be- cause be had read a story that the United | would need rights amendments | | over | South and Central heretofore consulted radical steps. The same story, he said, had been de- nied in official circles earller in the day, and when Mr. Lippitt asked how long it would take the United States to get the permission of Argentine, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia and Guatemala to protect the lives of its citizens in Mexico, the chairman of the forelgn re- lations committeo retorted the question did not deserve an answer. “American lives are belng destroyed in Mexico daily,” Senator Lippitt sald. “If I had been president last week when the report of the killing of American citizens reached Washington another sun would not have set on the Slerra Mamre moun- tains before American soldiers would be hot on the trail of the murderei. Such i& doctrine would meet a responsive note in the hearts of the American puople..” “It may be,” sald Senator Stone, few senators on the republican side are really thirsting for war in Mexico, but I do not believe that is the sentiment of the sensible, conservative and patriotic senators of the minority. The president would be subject to impeachment if he ordered an invasion of Mexico without the authority of congress.’ The resolutions were finally referred to the foreign relations committee and the Mexican debate gave way to the Philip- pine bill. American countries before taking any Newly Discovered Serum Hastens the Healingff Wounds PARIS, Jan. 15.--Dr. Pierre Roux, di rector of the Pasteur institute, announced to the Academy of Science last night that a remarkable advance in serumtherapy had been made as the result of a dis- covery by Dr. Bassuet of a method of cleaning automatically wounds that had resisted treatment. Dr. Bassuet employes the serum discovered last year by Drs. Lee States would ‘seek an agreement with the | “that | polyvalent | Body of Rodnguez Poattwely ALLIES LANDING MEN AT CORINTH; SEND ULTIMATUM| Ministers of Central at Athens Have Be Powers o D TO FIRE ENVOYS | Berlin Hears Entente Allies Have Served Formal Notice of Their Requirements, FORTY-EIGHT HOURS TO REPLY | 1y BERLIN, Sayville 18 note F to Jan Wireless A government amounting fo an ultima to ) the Greek tum is said by the Overseas News agency to have been presented by | France and Greay Britain. Accord ing to a Soffa dispatch to the news awency Greece is required to 4||~l|\or! | their passports to the ministers of | the central powers within forty-elght | failing which the entente will | ¥ Lours, take ‘‘necess measures.” | AMSTERDAM The Cologne Gazette sofia of all central Y (Via London,) J is informed that the we Athens have or all the achives at legations to prevent them from fa into the hands of the entente powers b correspon: 't mini th ered to burn r ing Land at Corinth. | LONDON, Jan. 1%-A dispatch from | Amsterdam to the change Telegraph company says that French and British troops have been landed at Corinth, Greece, forty-eight miles west of Athens. Themessage saya that according to in- formation received at Amsterdam from Soffa the allied troops which landed at Phaleron re-embarked after a short in- spection of the clty Among the wild rumora as to the in- tentlons of the allies,”” the message con tinues, “is fthe statement that they in- tend to advance to Athens, whence King Constantine, his court and the govern- ment will retire In conformity with the king's desire to maintain armed neu- trality “In Sofia dispatches asked what former F will do in that event; whether he will proclaim a republic and whether the army will side with him. These reports are sald to have occasioned undisguised alarm at the Bulgarian capital.” Berlin Denies Any Wrongdoing by Captain Von Papen BERLIN, Jan. 18.—(By Wireless to Sayville.)—A denial that Captain Franz Von Papen, recalled German military attache at Washington, pald money to individuals in the United States in con- nection with attempts to blow up munt- tons factories or bridges, was made today by the semi-official Overseas News agency. The news agency statement follows: “British press former German Washington, Captain his possession letters geized by the British at Falmouth, which contaln evidence that he paid money to persons connected with ex- plosions in munitions factories in the United States, and to other criminals The Overseas News agency hears from competent authorities that these asser- tions are not correct “Captain Von Papen's letters and bank books, which were seized in violation of the safe conduct guaranteed to him, are fo a purely personal character or have to do with usual business affairs. Cap- tain Von Papen never paid money to persons connected with attempts or al- leged attempts mgainst munition plants, bridges, or any other American prop- erty. No cheeck was ever pald to Werner Horn, who is accused of an at- tempt to blow up a Canadian raflway bridge, Hundreds of Bulgar Soldiers Killed by Air Craft Bombs LONDON, Jan. 1%.—Hundreds of Bul- | garian soldiers werc killed and a vei large number wcunded in a bombardment of Petritsi by a squadron of twenty-fivé French aeroplanes, according to dls- patches received in Athens and forwarded by the correspondent there of the Eve- ning Standard. Galifo;l—xia Storm the question is emler Venizelos | repo state that the military attache at on Papen, had in and bank notes, | Austrian mountain gun position on the Montenegrin border before the recent advance into that little country. W . =y Nt ADVANGE DOPE ON HARMONY MEETING Republican Cla;u Getting Ready to Respond to the Call to Go to Lincoln, ‘ SEVERAL WOULD BE DELEGATE | Unless signs fail, quite a delega- tion of Omaha republicans will move on Lincoln today to attend the state-wide mass meeting, to be held there for the purpose of recommend- ing a set of harmony candidates for delegates to the national convention ia Chicago in June, subject to the primaries in April, It is not certain, however, it will all be harmony with a big H. at the weeting, for the prospects now are that the bunch from Douglas county -may-be disagreed on their preferred cnndidates for delegates. Started in Omaha. It is understood that the Lincoln har- mony meeting took its inception from a little gathering here in Omaha last De- cember, at which the idea was put out, that by dividing the four delegates-at- large equally between representatives of the regulars and of the progressive elo- ment, everything would be made ac ceptable to everybody. The names that came out of this meeting were those of | the two 1912 state chairman, Currie and Epperson, with Gurdon W. Wattles to be added from Omaba and a progressive | to be chosen from Lincoln. For this fourth place, two names have been men. tioned, ex-Mayor Love, and now Ned Brown. To -start the ball a rolling, petitions were prepared setung forthh the desires for harmony in the form of a call for a mass meetoilng at Lincoln on the nine- teenth, These petitions were circulated and signed up in different parts of the | state, not making their appearance here | in Omaha until last week, but in the past two or three days have been yult freely in evidence and many signatures have been attached. In addition to this, the McKinley club has been active in inviting its members to go to Lincoln, sending out letters over the name of the president, ¥arry 8. Byrne, names on its list. In the sald, that another element not particularly friendly to to all of the it interval, of the Mi is party Wattles hive also been conferring with a view to sending a delegation and proposing other names, though just whose has not been | disclosed. | To Recommend Delegates, All the talk at the beginning was to I effect that the harmony plan concerned |itselt only with delegates-at-iarge, but it 18 now intimated that if conditions are ripe, an attempt will be made to recom mend district delegates for the several districts, the meeting belng split up into sections so that those present from each of the six congressional districts would | new FERRIS LAND BILL PASSES THE HOUSE | Measure to Create Stock R-nmng Homesteads in Arid Regions Ferris bill, to create a system of 640-acres stoek raising homesteads on arid, semi-arid and mountainous lands in seventeen states, was passed late today by the house. All three of the administration conservation measures, providing for water power development, mineral leasing and larger stock raising homesteads, now await the action of the sen- ate, The senate public lands commit- tee already has reported an identi- cal homestead bill, and {s expected to bring out soon a bill identical with the house measure for water power development. So far the bill for leasing mineral lands has not made any progress in the senate, The new homestead bill provides that the lands affected cannot be entered until they are designated as subject to entry by the secretary of the interlor but applicants for homesteads are given preferential rights until the lands are so deslgnated. The government reserves all mineral rights on the homesteads. An amendment adopted today, proposed by Representative Gandy of South Da- Kota, would permit entrymen to make a second entry within twenty miles of his first claim Hauser's Lawyers Attorneys for Arthur Ha con demned murderer of W. H. Smith, have filed a motion for & new trial, this being u part of the formal procedure leading to an appeal to the supreme court. Alleged errors in the conduct of the trial are related in the motion, These include the overruling 6f the defendant's challenge for cause of one juryman. Trregularities on the part of jurors, Witnesses for the state and state's at- torneys are also allegéd and it it is ns- serted the state should not have been | allowed to withdraw one of two counts in the information. The motion Includes a statement that eviderice in behalf of Hauser has en discovered, Rifles Concealed in Stucco Blocks PARIS, Jan. 18.—A Madrld dispateh to the Petit Journal says 30 blocks of #tucco which were shipped from Zurich b propose the names of two candidates for delegates and hitch the whole list into one ticket for a complete delegation of sixteen to to Chicago, alw with the “4f" that they receive the necessary votes in the April primary e delegate recommended expected to stand subject to w or erence cholce may be expressed for | president and The to Battery Trouble Said Normal tempviature . e -] Deficiency for the day seesne L Total deficiency since March i 162 ¢ . Dol T e sy & entifie evera mericans Total rainfall since March 1..27.92 inches Detlelency sinee Marchi 1. 178 inches Sy — - » cor, od, 1914... 210 inche Ll - Doy cor Dot 101 T30 inches | JUAREZ, Mex.. Jan. 18—The body of presumably to kill Maximo Marques, & Reports from Stations at 7 M. [Jose Rodriguez, the bandit leader, exe- |former foreman Station and Btate Temp. High- Rain- | cuted last Thursday at Maders, was| Geeral Almelds, one of the bandit of Weather. Tp.m. est. fall | leaders reported executed by Carranza hevenne. “cloudy 18 2 8 | positively identified today by a number | officials, was killed, according to- the x::.‘.:.wrhmf‘l;\" i "J " of Americans, including United States of- | ranch employes, in an effort to rescue Des Moines, clear 10 i )| ficlals, who knew the Ville aide when ' Rodriguez Dodge City, cloudy 3 b 05 | he was here prior to the collapse of the One of those who identified Rodriguez o Sorth Plagte. clear 2 > [ Villa regime. was C. E. Tracy, a mine company em Rapid City, clear N " A gold fountain pen bearing the initials, | ploye, who tralled Rodriguez’ force from Sheridan, part cloudy § o | 4. F. R, helped the identific which | Eonora ufter the defeat of Villa. Tracy T Y. e 2 was made originally by employves of the wns tiailing the band be they atale *Indicates trace of precipitation Babricora vaneh, who captured Rodri- fin e bugs of conceptrates from th WELSH. Loca) Forccaster, ez when hé arpeared at the property. B T rope . Cause of Explosion WASHINGTON, D, €., Jan. 15 —Battery trouble is helieved to have caused the explosion Saturday which destroyed the submarine ¥ in the New York navy yard, killing five men and seriously in- Juring nine others, This is Indicated in the report of the board of inguivy which in estigated the sccident and today sube whred e findings 1« the Na depart- e pres t mass lmflllu»{, howev is to be addressed by special invitation, by Henry Av I |brook who sé far has been uvl\ active presidential campalgn 1|4 braska, and although not wnnounced n- presumption is that ex-Senator Burkett, | who has just put up his lightning rod for vice president, will also utilize the oe casion to present his claims to the as sembled republicans. No one seems to know whether any attempt will be made ndorse either Estabrook or Burkett to a merchant at Malaga, Spain, by way Genos have been found to contain rifles |and ammunition. The blocks lay six weeks on the wharf at Malaga. Then one was open and found to be filled with les. The authorities took 4,000 rifles and 0,000 cartridges from the blucks theory is advanced that the riridges were for Moorish used In an uln'lnmu rifles and tribesmen to "|New International | PARIS, Jan. 18 The world Is soon to }u. an economic organization on an in- ternational scale far different in kind and tent ‘from anything hitherto| known, ald M. P. Peixotto, president of the American Chamber of Commerc at the twenty-second snnual dinner that organization, held here last night. The IKuropean nations are laying plans for a tlerce commercial struggle which will begin in the unear future. In France this subject is being studied with passionate interest,” he said France will contrel its own eommerce, Mr. Peixotio continued, but will need co- operation. Omne of France's prime needs is the importation, not only of raw ma- terial, but alse of machinery and manu- factured goous, The allies of France QNTENEGR!, Goes Through IS NOW UP ‘1‘0 HIGHER BODY! \\'ASH[NGTONTk.lnn. 18.—The | Ask Another Trial| n- | RYNDAM PUTS IN AT GRAVESENT PORT| British Liner Arrives with All of Its Passengers Aboard Safe. THREE STOKERS ARE KILLED LONDON, Jan:. 18.—The steamer Ryndam has arrived at Gravesend. The passengers who did not land at Falmouth will remain on board In accordance with officlal instruc- tions. None of them was injured. Three Stokers Arve Killed, LONDON, Jan. 18.~The transatiantic liner Ryndam passed Southend today down by the bows with a list to star- hourd. All the passengers arve safe Three stokers were killed and four in- Jured. The Ryndam is proceeding to Gravesend under its own steam. The nature of the accident has not been learned. The Ryndam sailed for New York on January & for Falmouth and Rotterdam. It passed the Lizard, January W, but its arrival at Falmouth had not been reported, although ordinarily it would have reached Falmouth the day after being reported off the Lizard. The Ryndam belongs to the Holland- America line, and has been In service for a number of years between New York and* Rotterdam. She is 50 feet long, of 22,070 tons displacement, and has accommodations for 2,986 passengers. The accident to the Ryndam must have oc- curred in the English channel, as the steamer evidently passed around the southern end of England in the interval since January 14, Gravesend is twenty don miles below Lon- Recelve No Word, NE WYORK, Jan, 18.-Officials of the Holland-America line here had recelved no word other than the news dispatches {of an accident to the Ryndam. The ves- sel salled from here on January 5, with 101 passengers. She has a crew of 2%, and a miscelleanous '§0. REQUISITION ASKED FOR SLAYER OF ACTRESS CLEVELAND, 0, 18.—Cleveland officers were in Al NI Y., today with requests from Government Willls for the requisition of Loufs Blanchettl, der arrest in New York for the murder Dolores Evanes, a 19-year-old actress, tut a hotel here last Tuesday Blanchetti whs Indicted for first ¢ murder here yesterday. The Evans was choked to death and hep body not found until the next day. Blanchetti a chef for a local athletic club, He is said to have confe: d to New York officers, saying he fought with the Birl when she tried to rob him, but did not intend to kill her. gree girl was was REPORTED T0 BE QUITTING LUTSK Prisoners Arriving at Kiev Tell of Teuton Evacuation of Im- portant Fortress in Russia. I8 ONE OF GREAT TRIANGLE | Four Thousand Captives Recently Reach City from South- western ¥ront. INVADERS RUMORED RETIRING KIEV, Russia, Jan 18— (Via Petrograd and London.)—Lutsk, the important fortress in Volhynia, one of the triangle of fortifications there, being evacuated by the Germans, according to information obtained from prisoners arriving here Four thousand prisoners have re- cently arrived here from the south- western front. Standard 0il Co, of California Cuts Big Melon SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 18.~A 50 per | cent stock dividend was declared today by the Standard Ofl company (California) at the regular directors’ meeting held at Richmond, Cal. The dividend, which was in addition to the regular one of $2.80 n share, was made payable April 15 to stockholders of record March 4, 916, There are outstanding 496,866 shares en- titled to the dividend of a balf share each. The stock dividend was made subject to the approval cf the California state authorities. The par value of the stock is $100 share. The dividend, officers of the com- pany said, represcnts a little more than half ‘of the surplus, accumulated over w period of years. The last annual state- ment showed a surplus of more than $40,000,000, Tuscm Millions in Bonds and Gold Bullion NEW YORK, Jan. 18,~The linet Tus- cania arrived today with a lary of bullion and American seeu mated by passengers to be work| million dollars, Miss Sybll Bden, an English woman, Wwho has been serving with the Red Cross in Serbla, sald she understood a call was soon to be issued urging the 200,000 or more Serblans in this country to join the new Serh army. Miss Eden was at Bel- grado when the retreat began. Some of the passengers sald when they left London on January 6 they heard rumors that a fleet of Zeppelins had been sighted from the Lnglish coast. The rumor could not be confirmed. Ensign Forde is Dismisse dfrom the Naval Service WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—Ensign Laws renco K. Forde of Wyoming das dis« missed from the navy today by Presls dent Wilson's approval of a court mars tial, which held him gullty of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, He is charged among other things with falling to support his wife. PANAMA CANAL WILL BE OPEN BY FEBRUARY 15 NEW YORK, Jan. 18~The Panama canal will be opened to the largest ships on February 15, according to Colonel ¥. F, Glenn, U. 8. A, who arrived here today on the steamship Metapan from Colon. Colonel Glenn returned from a six weeks' trip to the canal zone and said that when he left there was a chan- nel twenty feet deep at all points where the slides occurred. He added that canal officials had sent out a notice on January 15 stating that the waterways would be ready for all traffic one month from that date. is ALLEGED GERMAN SPY ESCAPES FROM OFFICERS NEW YORIK bieh Lincoln, British ierman here pending Jan. 18 a former Parllament spy, and Ignatius member and o self-confessed who was being held extradition England | escaped from a United deputy t Saturday, was learned and has not been seen since of the to States | marshal | today Economic Organization is Now Predicted not supply alone its needs. can do so. The United States | To take advantage of | the vast and hitherto only partially util- | 1sed source of supply from the United States, France must permit American | manufacturers to compete on f-rms of tariff equality with others nations. Mr. Peixotto concluded by pointing out the benefits which would accrue from a | closer economic understanding between | the United States and France, William Graves Sharp, American am- bassador to France, slso delivered a brief address The American Chamber of Commerce, besides electing Mr. Pelxotto to head the organfzation for the ensuing year, chose George Munroe to be first vice president; | W. Morgan Day to be treasurer and Lawrence Slade (o be honorary secretary » | | | | | SITUATION IN BALKANS, asuds denly grown tense from the allies' nt of view with the capitula< tion of the Mountenegring, tered n | . Greece within twenty-four h deliver thelr passports to the mine Isters of the central powers In Athen ENTENTE INTERESTS appear to ba watching closly the situstion in Alban ang recent advices from London declare that forces ure mow at h that country, AN AUSTRIAN AEROPLANE squads ron ha agnin ra Aacons, Italy., One person was killed, only unimportant materin] dams« &e was done. IN THE RECENT SINKING of ¢ amer ndist, whichk ruck & mine in the Adriatic, 260 persons we drowned, it now aps pears. DENIAL IS ENTERED by the semiy officinl mews agency iu Berlin n Von Fapen, recalled nry attache at Wash. attempts to