The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 18, 1919, Page 13

Section Two SEATTLE, WASH., F RIDAY, JULY 18, 1919. The Seattle Star ~~ 3 to 24 ; EXPERT PREDICTS VAST EARTH STORM |SLAYER OF SWEETHEART MOODILY AWAITING TRIAL SAYS PLANETARY DISTURBANCE IS SCHEDULED FOR DECEMBER OW THE GREAT UPHEAVAL WILL BEGIN: Artist’s drawing showing how the planets will be grouped together next December 17, all pulling jointly on the sun from a narrow are of 26 degrees. This will cause the greatest sunspot of all history, says Prof. Porta, and our earth will reel from the hugest storms and volcanic disturbances ever experienced in history. : Below is the scientific drawing of the same event. I 1—Mercury. 2—Venus. 4—Mars. 5—Jupiter. 6—Satu in line on the other side of the sun, while the earth (No. 8 ' spot. BY PROF. ALBERT F. PORTA _ Neted Sunspot Forecaster and Discoverer of “Porta’s Weather Laws” i Owing to a strange grouping of six mighty planets, h as has not been seen in a score of centuries, the United tes next December will be swept by the most terrific ther cataclysm experienced since*human history began. It will be caused by the hugest sunspot on record— A rN a that will be visible to the naked eye. any first began to make records of events no : been large enough .to be seen without the aid : of is sendin lag This one will be. ' . The sunspot that will appear December 17, 1919, will ‘be a vast wound in the side of the sun. | -. It will be a gigantic explosion of flaming gases, leap-| ing hundreds of thousands of miles out into space. It will : ve a crater large enough to engulf the earth much as uvius might engulf a football. Such a sunspot will be rich enough-in electro-magnetic ‘energy to fling the atmosphere of our planet into a dis- e without precedent or parallel. There will be hurricanes, lightning, colossal rains. It will be weeks before the earth will regain its weather conditions. tes List of Calamities Forecasted to Sweep Over Land ' There will also be gigantic lava eruptions, great earth- es, to say nothing of floods and fearful cold. i I make this startling prophecy with no desire to be rely sensational or alarming. It is rely because my tudy of the planets has revealed certain results with thematical certainty, that I now say to you: “Be warned in advance. Tremendous things are going happen from December 17 to December 20, 1919, and m <MuUume s fit ard. ; Here are the simple, yet astounding, facts that enable me to make this prophecy: The planets in their orbits swing in great ellipses about ' the sun. They are linked to the sun, and to each other, by “chains of electro-magnetic energy whose compelling forces counteract each other and hold each planet in its regular'| 4 h. po Whenever two planets wheel into such positions that they pull together on the sun—either in “conjunction” on the same side of the sun, or in “opposition” with the sun _ between them—their united pull causes the sun’s gases to “explode”—to leap out into space in the whirling volcano we call a sunspot. These sunspots in turn cause storms in the atmos- | phere of our earth—doubtless on other planets as well. Two planets, united, are enough to cause a small sun- spot and a small storm. Three cause a larger one—four make a very great storm, indeed. But—on December 17, 1919, no less than seven planets ill pull jointly on the sun. These will include all the! ightiest planets, those with the most powerful pull. Six of them—Mercury, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn | and Neptune—will be in conjunction; grouped together in | the greatest “league of planets” ever known in the annals of astronomy. They will be massed in the narrow limit of but 26 degrees, on the same side of the sun. Directly opposite, coming into opposition with this gigantic league, will be the huge planet Uranus. The mag-| netic currents between Uranus and the six planets will pierce the sun like a mighty spear. Our earth is outside the league at an angle of nearly 90 degrees—in perfect position to receive almost the full) force of the monster electrical disturbance as it leaps into activity on what, to us, will be the eastern horizon of the sun’s disk. This means we shall get the full strength of the storm when the sunspot is at its worst, before the exploding| gases have had time to die down. Such a close grouping of planets has never been re- corded before. The whole solar system will be strangely put of balance. What will be the outcome? My knowledge does not it me to state, beyond the fact that the storms, erup-| tions and earthquakes will be tremendous in their strength n both pictures the planets are numbered as follows: rn, 8—Neptune. The planet Uranus (No. 7) is directly ) is in position to get the full force of the gigantic sun- Alb. ¥. Porta Meoy—/9! 9 NAB SUSPECTED YOUTH IS HELD DOPE HANDLERS| IN CLISE CASE Federal Officers Report Boy Believed b by. Police to Be!) Finding Hidden Drugs Burglar Alleged by federal officers to have| | Suspected by the police of being made a prosperous business of selling | one of the men who robbed the home morphine and cocaine, George Ad ams and Ed Bender were arrested | °f Charles F. Clise, 2025 rch |late Wednesday night at their room| St., of between $1,500 and $2,000 in |on Bro@dway and H. Cherry st. | Jewelry the night of July 9, C. E In an automobile belonging to the | Tuell, 18, was arrested in Centralia alleged dope handlers and confiscated | 4. city Detective John Landis on a by the government officials making | grand larceny wa: ¢ and is being the arrest, cleverly concealed be-| neath the upholstery, was a quantity | held in the city jail, Tuell is charged with stealing an auto belonging to of contraband drugs, the officers re ported. | R. B, MeAusland from the corner of Internal Revenue Inspector Ralph | Fifth ave. and Cherry st W. Latham, A. B. Hamer and A, A.| He declared a partner stole the Osborn of the customs service made| car, but the police say he admitted the arrests. driving it to Tacoma, where, after a ——~ ‘ " i | blind alley by motorcycle policemen. COMMUNITY PICNIC |'The Tacoma officers found jewelry Under the auspices of the Rat | on the ground near the car, and it is nier Beach Community club, and! gaid to tally with the description of with Miss Goldie Bryan hostess,| the missing Clise jewelry. Tuell and a community picnic will be heid at) his partner escaped from the auto, the Rainier Beach playfield on Sat-| but Tuell was traced to Centralia. urday, dibs. i: 26. | His partner is still at large. Says Doctors Can't Test Germs by Starting “Inoculation Duel” | ST. LOUIS, July 18.—Death result- | different methods of attempting to| ing from injection of disease germs |cure themselves.” in the body, whether experimental] Dr, A. M. Hill, who challenged Dr or otherwise, would be murder. John B. Fraser, of Toronto, to the This was the opinion today of |test, said he had heard no more from |Harry Peterson, assistant prosecut-|Dr. Fraser. In the meantime Dr, H ing attorney, regarding the “threat | A. Zettell, of St. Paul, offered to take of two physicians to inoculate each|up Dr, Wraser's hand in the argu- jother with disease germs, and use|ment, but was refused by Dr. Hill |Oldest Town in Oregon Is Saved From Fire; Good Hose Did the Job EUGENE, Or., July 18.—The town ; had gone away, thinking all was safe, of Jacksonville, oldest in Oregon, was| The flames destroyed four houses : total deskenbtl sree Pr a barn, and had spread to a jsaved from total destruction yester-| 407 n other houses when Lawton ar- day by fire when Wire Chief Lawton. | rived with his men of the Medford department, arrived| ‘The Jacksonville fire department | with 200 feet of good hose. |had not met in six months, and the ‘The fire started when Street Com-|department's hose burst in a half and scope. ' . Remember the date—December 17 to 20, and after. missioner Chris Ulrich was burning | dozen places when the pressure was grass back of the city hall, Chris}iurned on, chase, the machine was forced into a | New Weeps! ‘as Mother Visits Him Angeles Grows as Officlals Prepare for Hearing FIND LETTERS TO GIRL LOS ANGELES, July 18.—Marry 8. New, jr, alleged slayer of his sweetheart, Freida Lesser, in a lonely canyon near this city, sits moodily in his cell, while public exeltement and legal machinery is preparing the | ncenes for what, it in said, will be the greatest love murder trial of recent years. New, following the alleged murder. Appeared at the police station in an automobile, with the body of his dead sweetheart wrapped up in a laprobe in the rear seat, It iw afd that he confessed to the killing at that time, but Jater claimed he did not remem. ber the tragedy, Mother Comforts Him New, who says he is the son of Senator Harry 8. New, of Indiana, |sobbed his story to his mother, Mrs. Lulu Burger. His mother, small, «ray-haired and adoring, held his hands, “We had talked for a long time,” jhe said, “and she repeated that she was to be a mother, “I got into the front seat, moved the cushions over #0 that she could sit beside me. I wanted to convince her that she should marry me. We didn’t think, did we mother, when you bought that car that the person I loved best next to you, would be murdered in it? Mother! Mother! Why did I do it? "Did I do it, mother? It doesn't seem that I did it, and yet— “And I was waiting for her to move up and she didn't. If she had I am sure she. would be living now. “And then the gun was in my hand, the shot had sounded; she was lying back as tho asleep, As I looked at her she slipped; her head fell for- ward and she seemed to lay in the back seat, Her left hand fell and rested on the floor, All I could think of then was to get her to a hospital. So I drove down the canyon road and at the last turn I stopped, looked back at her, And she was dead. “Mother, {t's #0 long ago since I was a little boy, Do you remember?” And he broke and cried. Soon he had controlled himself and began to talk of things of the long ago. Prepare for Trial In the meantime, the stage is being set for the trial. Sheriff John C. Cline has already assigned additional deputies to the task of assisting the court in maintaining order. New will probably have to defend his life before Superior Judge Frank R, Willis, who is known to look with suspicion upon the theories of alien- ists. The state authorities working on the New murder case, said that Miss Lesser had a sweetheart living in Birmingham, Ala. This gave grounds to a new theory, that the dead girl did not love New, and when she re- fused to marry him, was killed. A number of letters from the man in the South are in the hands of the prosecution, and will be read in court. An investigation is being made of New’s past life to ascertain whether or not he ever had another sweet: heart, and to determine his attitude towards his past acquaintances. It is believed New’s past acquaint- {anceship with women will play an im- portant part in the state's case. The funeral of Miss Lesser drew hundreds of curious people. They |were turned away, however, follow ing the directions of the family. While New was in his cell, await ing the arrival of his mother, the body of his fiancee, in a pink silk | gown (one she had worn on numer ous occasions while attending parties with New), lay in a white brocaded | casket. Big Booze Plant in Vacant House Fifty gallons of mash and a com- plete still were seized by Frank P. Gordon, special investigator for the | prosecuting attorney's office, late | Thursday in a nt house at 3827 Morgan st. No other liquor was found on the premises, but all the apparatus for making corn whisky | was found. ‘The house, according to Gordon, had been rented by a Seat tle real estate firm to J. C, Brown, but was not occupied. The still and | mash will be turned over to the fed eral officers. COUNTY 10 COMPLETE ALGONA DRAINS PLAN The Algona drainage project will} be compieted. The Algona district is in the southern end of the coun: ty and the cost of draining the 1,800 acres will be $32,500. The county commisstoners decided to learry the project thru Thursday. |The next district to be considered jis the Auburn district, HOLD BIG PICNIC | said | street | Harry 8. New and his half-sister, Miss Edna Clancy. sweetheart, Miss Frieda Lesser, during an auto ride near Los Angeles recently, to alleged revelations made to him b New is said y_the girl regarding her condition. MAN IS KILLED IN AUTO CRASH Three Are Seriously re When Car Dives Over Ban One man is dead and three are seriously injured as the result of an auto crash at First ave. N. and Valley st. at 245 Friday morning. The automobile plunged over the high embankment, jumped 75 feet down a flight of steps, and was reduced to wreck- age at the bottom. Fred Alverson, 24, of the Oronoco apartments, boilermaker in the Du thie shipyards, was instantly killed. The injured are: P. O. Lee, 28, of the Ruola apart- ments, an ice wagon helper. He was severely bruised and cut about the head and body. D. J. ‘McPhee, 4611 Palatine place, right leg broken and bruises about the head and shoulders. C. A. McPhee, 22, 4611 Palatine! place, badly cut and bruised. He is employed at the Ames shipyards. Two in Hospital MePhee was taken to hi J, McPhee, his brother, are at the City hi Cc. A. home but D, and P, O. Lee pital Altho causes little is known about the! of the accident, the police Friday they believed poor lighting and the driver's ig: norance of the streets in that part of the city caused him to drive off| the embankment. The injured me asserted the auto was not tray ing at a high rate of speed The wreckage of the auto was not removed until late Friday morning. The police are investigating the accident, Alverson's body morgue. Orphan Safe Held ig at the county A heavy iron safe, which reposed on the dock at Tacoma from July 7 until Thursday without a claim ant, was opened yesterday by fed- eral agents and found to contain 180 pints of bonded whisky. The name and address of the consignee are be- lieved to be false, but government agents are now looking for the man who was to claim tt. | FAUNTLEROY CAR TO RUN ON AVALON WAY The Fauntleroy car line will be routed along Avalon way, instead of thru Youngstown, and will be double tracked, These conditions have long been fought for by the residents of the west side. Formerly terminal superintendent for the Great Northern railroad and for many years local freight agent for that line, T. B, Degnan has returned to Seattle to act as The Sunday school of the George- town Presbyterian church held a pic- nic at Woodland park Thursday. freight agent for the Great North- ern under the government railroad aministration _ Sister Stands by het Brother to have confessed to killing He will plead insanity, Mexico’s Foreign Debts | That the requested rthcom- ne | BY MILTON BRONNER | (Special Dispatch) | WASHINGTON, D. C., July 18. If Great Britain and France are | going to ask Uncle Sam to press their damage claims against Mexico, | they have not yet opened negotia s to that effect with this coun- | try. It follows there is nothing to be given out at present concerning |the answer this government will This is as close to an answer to bugs of the biggest problems looming | up in the near future that it has been possible for me to extract from the close-mouthed state department. It is believed claims for compensa tion against Mexico, to be filed by the two foreign countries, will run up info big figures, It is not hard | to guess applications for settlement | will come soon, as both countries, | plunged into debt by war, will want to collect all outstanding claims pos. ible, Hitherto in estimates of and French investments in Mexico, a half billion dollars, As a matter | of fact, Great Britain alone has over | $700,000,000 invested, and France has | close to $300,000,000 istic of New Fall Pessi Fall, Senator Mexico, a foreign relations committee, is pessi |mistic about British and French | claims. Said he: “In 1913 Huerta was in control in Mexico, |been recognized by England, France jand other big nations, We did not| | recognize Huerta. Evidently we ap- | proached the other nations upon the | subject of Mexican conditions and |had some tentative understanding | with them whereby we would be al lowed a free hand in Mexico, It must be true, because August 27, 1913, President Wilson addressed congress, saying we would not rec- ognize Huerta, and that several of the great governments had given us their moral support in urging upon Mexico acceptance of our proffered | g00d offices, “October 1913, it was an-| nounced we would inaugurate a new | policy with regard to Mexico, Pend- ing this, Great Britain and France would take no action. Now, un doubtedly, one of the things they agreed to desist in was pressing their claims for settlement. Go Before League? “By stepping in we undoubtedly have made ourselves responsible for | make to such requests. | | British it has been stated the total is about | | ranking republican member of the | Much Bonded Booze} He had! | Hungarian soviet government, | of the government, New Problem for U. collection of French and claims »eainst Mexico, If the of nations goes thru, and if we to agree to arbitrate these thing go before the league for judication, and to find it holding should pay to France and Englat |the amount of their legit | claims against Mexico, leaving us make our own settlement with ico in regard to the matter. “One of the reasons this would }so is this: When Carranza first t | hold, he announced Mexico would responsible for all legitimate ¢ for damages done. to property _| foreigners. Since then he has o0 | pletely reversed himself and d | Mexico would not be responsible for damages wrought by revolutionistay This cut out a vast number of claims, | “Moreover, Carranza has decreed claims must be submitted. within @ | certain time to a commission of hig: | appointing. Manifestly this work@: | injustice to foreigners. “As those foreigners fall betweem | two stools because of us, they loolg” | to us for vedreme (v5 ty REDS PLAN TO HIT RUMANIANS \Bela Kun Reported Deposedl by Hungarians BY FRED S. FERGUSON (United Press Correspondent) PARIS, July 18—The Hungariag Red” army was reported to be come |centrating for an offensive agains@ | the Rumanians. | Official advices received here state@, that several divisions of infantry, # number of batteries of light artillery }and two batteries of howitzers had \begun moving within the last few ds Three regiments, composed off workmen, refused to participate ity |the mobilization, but the movement, otherwise was apparently going form | ward rapidly. Meantime the Bulgarian peace delee gates were scheduled to leave Sofig today, arriving near Paris July 25, The party, which inchides five deles gates, six councillors and several clerks, was to be headed by Foreign Minister Theodorft. PARIS, July 18.—Dispatches res ceived from Vienna by the peace.cone ference report that Bela Kun, war minister and virtual dictator of the had been overthrown, General Boehm, former commande er of the “Red” army, and Herr Lame der are said to have assumed contro®” The Bolshevikig it was said, are in danger of attaclt by a “White” army, composed larges ly of peasants. Some beauty isn't more than der deep.