The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 23, 1919, Page 13

ese LOWER CALIFORNIA TERRITORY CLAIMS ARE NOV | BY JACK NEVILLE (American Newspaperman and Investigator, Who Has Lived for Years in Mexico, and Who Has Just Spent | Four Months There on Special Detail for The Star.) | (Copyright, 1919, Newspaper Enterprise Association) | : MEXICO CITY, May 23.—Lower California is an 800-| mile-long monkey wrench, which is periodically thrown into the running gear of better, American-Mexican relations. Rumors of large-scale Japanese colonization conces-! Bions there; alarms that the Monroe Doctrine was being flouted; proposals of annexation to the United States; pro- tests that American rights were being grossly violated— these are some of the recent thumpings that have worried Officialdom on both sides of the line. AND THEY WILL CONTINUE, giving tt wets TO BE A sou 3 OF SERIOUS | least shadowy claims INTERNATIONAL AGGRAVATION| Most of them cannot hope to re UNTIL THE PUBLIC IN BOTH) cover under the present Mexican COUNTRI 18 INFORMED OF | government, but if they could euchre THE ..ACTUAL SITUATION IN| Uncle Sam into buying the “vert BAJA (LOWER) CALIFORNIA. |form appendix” they might have a ‘The big essential facts, I have | chance to perfect dubious titles. | gathered them from government rec-| This would entail endless litiga ords and other sources of informa-| tion to establish equities among the| tion inaccedsible to most investi.| present claimants, prior tors, are these: the chureh that once heid the great: | Seventy-two per cent of this [er part of Lower California and un-| Mexican state, the cream of the | ‘dentified persons holding the royal land, is claimed by foreign inter- | parchments of forgotten Spanish ests, mostly American. monarchs. ‘The Mexican government is in | of disputants at] It may be that the Japanese | seare comes up quite incidentally at the time foreign concessionaires are attempting to recover their former holdings, but it must be remembered that the rumored Magdalena bay and Clipperton island grants to Ja- pan for * naval base, endangerin; ~Unele Sam, were thrust before the! | public right after some of these con- | | Censions were canceled. Inquiry of fhe Mexican govern- ment at that time brought replies | that neither Japan. Maybe these merely co-tncidental. (CHARGE MURDER ON HIGH SEAS things are} if Annexation? Suppose we were) inclined to acquire ie) appendix of America,” as Hansen Accused of Throw- Ashurst of Arizona recently | > ing Mate Overboard it—what then? Returning an indictment charging jmurder on the high seas against | Frederick Hansen, formerly first |mate on the schooner Edward R.| West, and five secret indictments, |the federal grand jury, which recon: | vened Thursday morning fot the second time in the May term of |court, was excused Thursday after Jand which no one has thus far | noon by Federal Judge Edward E. | wanted, even at 2 cents an acre. (Cushman, subject to further call, un Lower California contains 58,330) til November. Square miles, with a population of| Hansen was given until next Tues Jess than 50,000, mostly Indians. | day morning to plead. It is charged It could have been a country com-|Hansen, in a fit of rage, threw his parable in wealth and population to| second mate, Charles Hannan, over. the state of California, had the col-| board while the schooner was round: | onization provisions been carried out | ing Cape Horn, in May, 1918, during by all the grantees. But many of|a heavy storm. these were holding for a king's ran-| Three seamen, Thorwald Ost and fom what they had acquired for a|Carl and Edward Aho, who made the wong. fateful cruise with Hansen, arrived Today Baja California in San Francisco last Friday nig! more than a vast waste. They were immediately subpoenaed During his latest visit to this|\by telegraph to act government state, Pastor Rouaix, Mexico's min-|witnesses, and arrived in Seattle {ster of Fomento, found four land| Wednesday night. companies claiming 25,900,000 acres His report shows that colonization | contracts were not carried out in conformity with the cessions made under Porfirio Diaz—that instead of bring in settlers, even the Mexicans on the land had been in many cases evicted. MUST WAIT FOR ef 13.500,000 acres to Luis, Huller Allies to Take No Steps Un- 00 acres to A. uu. 2,750,000 * + ee i til Terms Signed facres to the Flores, I npan all) PARIS, May 23—({United Press.) and 6,250,000 to Pablo Macedo. 2 requiring colonization and payment! The world must wait severa! months |for the trial of Wilhelm Hohenzol of taxes. Guillerma Andrade, holding 750,000 |jern, providing he is brought into acres, on which 70 per cent coloniza- | court at all, it was revealed today tion was to be Mexican and 30 per| ‘The allies will not take any steps| cent foreign, had sold every inch to| yntil the treaty is ratifie it was foreigners, mostly American lstated on good authority, d even Carranga found that Macedo then there will doubtless be consid with AMERICAN CORPORATIONS! The rest of it, belonging to the American people, would be a few tattered scraps of unproductive is little as had likewise unloaded on Ameri that Hulier had absorbed land. The Flores, H. tract has ed hands a number of times last recorded in the name of De J. Haft, who supposedly pure! ft at auction for $700,000 in Ame can money. On the ground that contracts had | not been fulfilled, the Mexican gov- ernment has canceled every one of | these gigantic concessions, with the exception of that granted Andrade, | which, Mexican officials told me, is | now being studied so that no injus- thee may be done those Americans) who are really trying to colonize. erable negotiation Holland re ng extradition. Th Dutch delegation here, headed Foreign Minister Van Karnabeeh y confirmed recent United Press dispatches from Holland that the question of the former kaiser’s extra dition has not been officially consid- | ered so far and will not be until the allies submit a formal request. NAME HARRY SAINT TRADE BUREAU CHIEF Harry ¥. Saint, chief of the for- eign trade bureau of the Chamber of com nd Commercial Club, | The history of transfers, sales and ap nted chief of the new-/ auctions is long and complicated ly ted foreign trade bumeau of | ‘The history of colonization or | the shipping board. Saint will go to! of benefit to Mexico from aliena- | Washington soon to start the organi tion of Lower California lands | zation of the new bureau, The bu can be written in one word: Nil. | reau will handle the reports of the| Vormer Presidents Comonfort,| several hundred supercargoes who Juarez and Diaz had granted or can-| have recently been place don ship- gare by a tod nerc has been cre army BIL SAN ANCISCO, May 23.—The Srantees, | trans-oceanic flight was designed| War's costly machinery as a test of aircraft by water. Now it's to have fire Uncle Sam bas converted part of his war-time air fleet Into a na- tional forest patrol, with dirigtbies scout planes, flame extinguishing bombs and sky-riding fire to 100,000,000,000 timber 1 by holocaust experiment in being launched Cleveland and Angeles Feserves in California, Forestry service and working together, Successful there, it tended to the other the test by net of de wave the ketable annual atroy The n the tional Ue th the be ex- national wil! 145 would be granted to/ forests thruout the country as fast | following routes from as the districts can be organized. SEATTLE, WASHL, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1919. * % Composite photo showing how aircraft will bé used to fight forest fires 100 | Under this conserving | miles nd open- jing a new field of skycraft utility | |—fire fighters will be rushed to }incipient blazes It formerly took | hours to react Bombing planes | ruled will smother fires. ‘Trained | plain fire-fighters will be lowered by | lng rope & anchored © dirig- | mec loon sentries, in with forest poxts by hang over danger as they hovered aby Ustront in Euros firet of these vider. already on thé Job at Arcaitia, jifornia, Daily he .soare to.his 3,000-footehigh post. Then at 10 lo’clock each morning two planes leave March Field near Riveratde, | co-operate most effectively which the| Meantime, the dirigible at Ar. |heavy forest can be scanned for|cadia remains aloft thruout the) r A district in patro after aystem | noon In these mapas observers forest keye and the which the squares landmarks ered bla rked in t on the carr m” in #mall inible A sponding sare machine the near y se chute age asking to phone commur h swoC wirelens, w are the t The immed tion to Matrict scutfle# back to repert personally All residents have been about thi messages and headquarters to Informed how to g HUN IMPORTS FREE, "| SALE OVER WORLD. ready and a squad of prepared with ext tanks of and fire patrol etry and army betteve wilt In preserving 1 conserving tha new nye tem which aly_nervice prove officials effective Hife and property an American Umber resources forested districts thruout the c try will soon be similarly pr YANKS OF 32ND VISIT SEATTLE Centralia Boy on Train Won Two War Crosses © Wearing two decorations for bray ery under fire, Private George Bul lion, of Centralia, with other members of the Red Arrow, 32nd division, stopped in Seattle Thursday | for a few minutes en route for Camp Lewis, Bullion wore the croix de guerre and the American distin- guished service medal. won by car. rying dispatches between his own organization and the troops on their left near Clerges, France, during th fighting in September, 1918. For three days he kept at it, much of the time without food, 1 nearly dead from exhaustion Bullion is a well member of of Tacoma. Red Cro workers cigars, cigarets and candies to boys when they pulled | the sta tion here at 8:45 o'clock Thursday Edward’ M of Puy commanded the train known printer and Typographical union * distributed night allup, Wallace Honored by Paris Yankees PARIS, May Hugh ¢C. W lace, the new from the Un ambase ted was luncheon given tn his 200 members of » Club of Paris. In his praised the efforts of women during the war White, of the peace talked on the peace sit comed Por the A rican H delegates uation n Held Children in Room for 18 Months PUEBLO, Colo, May 23.4-Mre. Louise Cummin, kept her five children, rang in age from 20 dup in When off the to walk hos san: months to six year om for 18 ted the found to be was taken to a as to her one r months cer ruse onl oldest ehild wa M pital for able nming: observation Symphony Leader Becomes American CHICAGO, May (United Press.) rederick Stock, director of the Chica Symphony n American citizen today, after ing 24 years in the United States as an allen Stock, who retired as of the orchestra during the war, completed his citizenship pre erday, He was born in Germ £0 ‘Three hundred years ago any man bsent from chureh on Sunday was fined a shilling. What a war reve- the orchestra, | 10 Lives Are Lost in | Starch Factory Blowup | CEDAR PIDS, Ia, May 22. Ten persons are known to have lost their lives when a dust explosion wrecked the starch plant of the Douglas company, here, last night. | When a check-up of employes was completed this morning, it was |learned four men out of the night shift of 106 were missing, and be- Neved to be buried in the ruins | s injured by flying |debris. Fourteen of the injured are in hospltala, while others, suffering minor cuts and bruises, were treated sent to their homes ht bodies were taken from ‘the blazing last night, and two men died hospitals shortly after being rescued from the wreckage.) Nearly ail the victims are foreigners. The injured being treated at hos- pials were mostly cut by flying glass and crushed by falling timbers. It ia thought may dic. Tho monetary lo#s was ontimated $1,000,000 by company officials to ~| flying glass and timbers in parts of the city far removed from the| Douglas plants. | Fred L. Burns, foreman in charge ‘of the night shift at the plant, said that the day shift of more than 300 men had departed from the plant only @ short time before the night force went to work. Had the ex plosion happened a few moments earlier, the list of dead and injured | probably would have been bigger. | The potlce, firemen, and reserve officers training corps of Coe col lege are in charge of the situation today Orders have been issued to keep! out relatives and friends of men not accounted for in the check today, | 100,000 ARMY PLAN FAVORED Kahn Supports Universal Training Idea pres were ruins in dust in the the three-bu thought It dry ding to have ccumulation ¢ ing of starch t ix used room explosion was said ay vacuum system not working. This allowed the dust to settle in large quantities, causing combustion. Wien firemen they were handieapped the flames be water mains in the neighborhood had burst thru the force of the explosion | Tho fire fighters stood about, una trapped in the burr cries of the men cou blocks. Two men the was WASHINGTON, May 23.—(United Press.)—Creation of a standing army of 100,000 men, supported by a system of universal military train. ing, the program favored by Representative Kahn, California, chairman of the house military af, fairs committee Kahn, who returned here two months’ trip in Europe declared he would propose the to immediately HISTORIC STUMP TAKEN TO M EL PASO, Tex y Fl Paso was an adobe fronti and irrigation ditch meandered thru the main business street, the stump of @ cottonwood tree at the intersection of the two unpaved treets, On. this posted for “bad men” of that day t town ove lynched da me hi because notices and i nte museum of the Teached the scene in fighting is and thousands men ng debris, The 1 be heard for le to rescue from a today n pian congress finally rescued from the | flames, w terribly burned and crushe that they died almost im- mediately after being sen USEUM} 3.—When r town | pitals | Violent Blast | ‘The force of the blast was felt | within a radius of a mile, Windows | were broken and persons injured by an stood Arrested U stump were nder Syndicalism Law notice leave rnight or be next toric now pre th Pioneers’ association tecently Gen, Anson Mills, found. er of El Paso, sent the Mills His: | torical Circle original copies of these | | notices, including one denouncing him for an “abolitionist” and his re- ply, both of which were posted on} tha old stutnp. ALASKA NEEDS MEN WHO WANT TO WORK others tump bec thi SAN FRANCISCO, (United P: The first jder t new state criminal syndical jam law, which makes it penalty to belong to a so-called ans or: ganization, was made when Emanuel Levin, secretary of the people's insti- | tute, appeared to furnish bail for sev- en alle W. W. arrested in a raid yester¢ Police Capt. O'Meara held that membership in the people's institu was a felony under the law, The test suit is looked for of in 58,) un chistic (ATURES lance armory men PLAN DANCE Features of jubile in the National Guard a welco: to servi will include vaudeville acts and the May day fete presented by University) White, who is stopping in Seattle for students, The affair is under auspices!a few days, says that Alaska has of the National League for Women's plenty of men, but they won't work. sorvicg x He doesn’t know why, May Returning soldiers work at good wages can find it in Alaska,.” says 1, J. White nief of the Alaska publicity bureau and 28 who want i ‘MASKED BANDIT | HOLDS UP HOME Thug Boldly Enters Resi dence; Robs Family Boldly entering tite home of Mrs. Orange Jacobs, 1801 K. Jef- ferson st, Thursday night. a masked bandit, armed with a big black = revolver, robbed Mrs, dacobs, her daugther Donna and William S. Carrick, a roomer. The thief got only a small amount of cash, « lodge ring and a small diamond from Carrick. The bandit entered the house thru | the kitchen door when Mrs, Jacobs. ber daughter and Carrick were in the living room, Commanding them to put up their hands, he ordered the women to face the wall and sit down and then searched Carrick’s pogke He then ran to the kitchen Yoor, where he remained for a few mo ments, watching for a chance to es cape unseen When they down the steps hk en Mrs the ading to the Jacobs notified thief run kiteh the eard porch. police At the time: of the rob Jacobs, daugh . reading and knew noth ing of the holdup until the ar rived. Donna pulled a dia mond ring from her finger and threw it into a small washbow! when she saw the enter the kitchen. Motoreycle officers were unable to find the bandit. ery, Miss another was upst JAIL FAILS TO HOLD THREE BANK ROBBERS SAN ANGELO, Tex., May 23.—In- nuity in the Nth degree was used by Walter Harris, Willis (“Snaky") Newton and Jack (‘Red”) Johnson. men, in prying their way to freedom from the Runnels county jail at Ballinger, where they wer held for the robbery of the Winters State bank After being placed in the PB. jail the suspected men from the st inserted the thru a by hot down blank they hes nothing has since. EXTENSION CLASS — HONORS HENDERSON 9 complimentary dinner of W Hende the United States bureau of and domestic commerce, in charge of the University of Washington extension course in foreign trade development was given by students at the Hotel Washington Thursday night, at the conclusion of & series of classes run- ning for the past 25 weeks, ulinger v rivet pried of the and wre el ceiling stove poker Phe neh ceiling loose two-by then burnec wooden joist ker heated red the roof, scaled Is of the jail on roped aling an automobile, led for the Pan Handle, and been seen of them six the + once on means of and the wi st in honor liam I on, of ‘oreign BY HAROLD E. BECHTOL (European Manager of the N. E. A.) PARIS, May A little “secret history peace conference: At one stage of the peace-making the diplomats called in Kanes, the greatest British economist, and asked him in effect: : “Mr. Kanes, how could we collect from Germany the” greatest amount she could possibly pay in the shortest time?” Kanes told them: manufactured goods!” The idea didn’t make much of a hit with the diplomats, But they had asked him a cold, technical question, 99 “By giving preference to German | PROBLEM UNSOLVED: land he had given them the cold, technical answer, as thes — later on found out from a lot of other economists ane financiers, and from their own study. 4 This incident it the | technical instruments, and #0 having high [ereatest -dittioulty workmanship on ing Uttle or no imported raw ter’ would be “velvet” for the bill LF the allied peoples to buy them! The manufactured ticles would be turned over to th allies free; sold, and the money plied on the debt. Neutral countrit’ receiving Germany's mani goods, could pay the allies instead Germany. But—aside from the lied business demands p ustrates of namely damage bill Ger- can pa i how to get isn't a" yet—by a long the whole them, and | peace conference | How many It much o st Il to be collected There are exactly six methods of ¢ ting it, according to the fin experts here advising the r t will ft viewed abling fact that would net t jam: into fe The bill is st cott tion on 6—Direct Labor and Material This method can be best fi t public sentiment toler- biggest. methoc authorities 1 that the getting t from Germany in the |ampie. The ( three methods that, in Germany’ greatest sums bump] jumber strong anti-German have big ancial al by Hes mans would prepa all the bricks, | furniture, concrete, jery and belting to rebut | France; send ft over will | workmen; and completely the rmany devastated region. The oan of ‘OND—Against lowering of} the plainest cases in lifting values! ch or Belgian labor conditions, | right out of Germany. But here you wages or demand by taking part! pump into the labor unions and labor of the debt in work. | generally. Frenchmen need THIRD—Against inviting Ger-| work, And anyhow, France - man competition in dye and other|want another German. im |industries developed by the allies] peaceful or otherwise. |during the war and expecting pro- teetion; in coal and other raw ma- | terials. “Tax the Germans—every one of jthem—to the last cent they can pay,” sounds good but it means | nothing. The Germans -Against anything “Made Incidentally — Germany's total wealth is where around 78 billion dollars, Ta of Germany paying the cost of # war—something like 200 bil - | the French people were allowed, All| not encouraged, to expect, ‘© nice, but it can’t be done. FOR CALM $ |Official Report Says plane Won't Start Toda’ WASHINGTON, May 23.— | Press.)—Rough seas today the sound minimum to! pela up the scheduled “hop off of nfidence, So the allles|the NC-4 from Ponta del Gada much of the bill in gold,! 4 report to the navy depart not only rmany| rom Admiral Jackson,. filed at 8) ‘Nab formerly | oclock this morning (Washington man occupation have Pa-|time), from the Azores, sald; © pendent on this gokl reserve. 2-4. will not start. tome —Merchant § still too rough.” of these the allies now] A report from Admiral Jackson res hey can be valued and/ceived at the navy department at @ turned right over, gho ftlo'’clock this morning (Washington necessary to keep certain| time), said: supplies flowing into Germany be-| “Weather still unfavorable; change fore she can get far with pay-|expected in 12 to 18 hours, Seas ment, That can be arranged, how- | still rough. Rain squalls threatened,” nd the ships form a simple method of collection—up to the ar unt they're worth. | M | 3—Foreign Property Owned in | will be taxed right, but that hasn't anything |do with how to collect the bill, As one peace conference econo- mist put it: “You have to think in terms of actual values that can lifted right out of Germany and not in evidences of values, such as currency.” There are six ways, according to all the financial uthoritic to get the values. He they 1—Payment of Gold is the most direct method Germany's gold reserve 10 per cont of the currency | while 30 per cent is are We This es But about it supports considered keep up e can’t tak al neigh is espe us but under per ¢ districts hips Most have formally | will b | This Germany « itside Ge German g¢ subjects The | allies rm outside property by the German eans ‘operty or securities on owned or by rmany vernment residing in ermany can be turned over to the In the case of private own- ership the German government can jreimburse the German owner in curréney Possibly arrangements will be which will stretch this me out ver German bjects v living in Ger- many |Conferences Called and Set- tlement Predicted, WINNIPEG, May 23.—There were signs today to presage the breaking up of the strike jam here, Minister of Labor RB nm called various union officials of high rank for cons erences. Some office buildings Were ) permitted limited elevator services h Germany some grocery deliveries were permite nd dyestuffs was/toq, and there was an understanding |formerly the Sead ouneediee 3 Cake nforence today tea: or Ger an agreement to end thé | man but France tts to | the outpost of the Saar vatiey; aseat |, 7%, ‘Contrence” nal SRA }10 per cent of the German supply [reson eae ieeas peas om Germany, however, wil: aun bees ee {al authorities were to get tos | plenty to export na pointed) ter Coupled we ae 3 }w declarations against some alien . is out | fotions, ‘These were attacked as eget nO the} of Bolshevism a vort th British I permitted to] will cut down | Britain's coal! | Raw Materi principal r Is. | w ma-| terial with will pa Potash mentioned wh coal, , France AND coal ts furmsutard W'ism. ged . W t raw ot is sell to0 much coal sh the demand for 5—Manufs ENGINEER RETUR) Capt, Charles L, Smith, civil engl tured Products isles ane lawyer, and until el Here would be one of the greatest |an officer in the 9ist division, will re- | methods of collection, were it not for|turn to his duties soon as assistant | the boycott sentiment against goods|to County Engineer Samuel J, Made in Germany.” Products such | Humes, to succeeed John Paul Pat as optical equipment, lenses, fino! ton, : using Northern France as an @ © te value because of the | ~ WILL END SOON j.Sriet eoncemions 32 these lands,’ ping board weasels, ‘Pug-that would produce todays hs