The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 3, 1920, Page 4

TULEDAY, AUGUST 2, 1920. ¥ THE STAR DAREDEVIL AND PAL ARE KILLED SEATTLE Delegates Here to DEMOS ELATED (°°'Cinim Conference Japan Is Expected P P ATG, 0, P, STEP scree cay | tend the quarterly two-day session of the Pucific coast claim conference, to Stay in Siberia LONDON, Aug. 3.—Foreign office | Towever, none of ‘the time-expired officials and diplomatic officials here} men have been withdrawn, which are filled with ourtosity over Japan's |makea the status of the newly ar | next declaration of policy regarding | rived contingents more of the nature | Siberia, which is due shortly after | of reinforcements Expert Who Predicts ry .of High Costs and High Wages BY HAROLD D. JACOBS CAGO, Alig. 3.--Tho freight increases granted the railways Interstate commerce commis | “may precipitate @ revelry of and high wages,” ac to Ciiffor’ Thorne, promi ogggaind and transportation an interview today Thorne com i the action of the commission out all “fictitious capitali- | in tentatively fixing the of the railways, but declared: fm the matter of rate adjust the “commission has not been te of the rights and in Of shippers as was the rail- ration” the last Czecho-Slovak contingent sails from Viadivostok That Japan will fulfill her former pledges to evacuate Siberia upon the departure of the Caechs, Poles, Ru- manians and other war prisoners, ts regarded as highly improbable, In fact, foreign office officials do not consider such an action debatable, What interests them more ix the! substance of Japan's new alibi, by which she will seek to justify the continuation of her occupation of Russian territory. Eartier official statements emanat- ing from the foreign office at Tokyo | Indicated positively that Jasian's fonly purpose of maintaining forcer in Siberia was to “protect” the! | Caechs, Later declarations referred to the neoesaity of protecting Japan Jese subjects and covering the Ko-| jrean frontier against the intrigues | of the Koreans domiciled in adjacent Russian territory, ‘The latest decia | ration promises evacuation when a stable government has been estab Ushed. | Recentty, acconting to foreten of | fice reports, Japan sent 10,000 ad ‘The general opinion tn official quarters here ts that Japan has made herself the dominant factor in the Far Bast and expects to retain | her hold and position in Siberia until jaction by the Russian government: renders such position untenable Unless combined European and American pressure forces Japan to }loosen her hold upon Rumia's east [ern territories, or the policy of the Japanese government changes radi | cally, there is nothing to prevent her | peaceful occupation” from becom ing permanent. The present Russian government will require years to be [come strong enough to wage succesm }ful war against #0 powerful an l enemy Japanese diplomacy, however, has Already got itself into an incongru jous position by admitting that the | present Siberian government was en | titled to recognitian. Ostensibly the Verkhne Udinek government was purposely set up to comply with Japan's demand for a letable governmemt, The Japanese, | realizing the power of the new coall Nery far-reaching result Sf ditional troops into Russia, presum-| tion, negotiated with them regard may be economic, “It will probably stop nt recently inaugurated the prices of the neces: Mite, It ts possible the de- ‘May precipitate a revelry of| and high wages. This, | ‘will not apply to grain and , as they are so thoroly de- upon world conditions.” UATION OF . ‘AS REACHED explained how the com. said. @ commission has reduced the the railways by more than annually,” he said. “It to accept the property accounts of the railways tative of their value. It this sum by more than A reduction of $100,000, Seem small, but it is twice 5 the total amount involved case of 1910, hat involved in d ‘five per cent case’ of S and 16 times as great as that j@ “Western advance rate case of m the other hand, the commis been very liberal to the car- Branting 90 per cent of their If one were to buy all the Property in More than $5,000,000,000." the rate adjustment ‘Thorne said: ‘which is of keen interest to and jobbers relates to the United | jably am relief forces for the soldiers there whose enlistments had expired. 2ND BATTALION - AT FT. LAWTON. Parade Up Third Ave. at} 3 P.M. Fort Lawton was taken over to |day as the permanent quarters of Companies EB, F, G and H of the First (George Washington's Own) in- fantry. First infantry history dates back to the stirring days of Paul Revere and the revolution. Organized by “Mad™ Anthony Wayne among the hanty pioneers, who armed themselves with flint locks, blunderbusses and even pitch- forks, the First was foremost in de fense of the struggting young nation | j against the Britinh red-coata, ‘The First so distinguished ftxelf tn those early times that the fledgeting | republic's first president named it his | own regiment. Its present most treasured relics are the battlesearréd flags that flew at-its head during the country’s first war. | The troops of the Second battalion lentered Seattle commanded by Maj. | Frederick A. Barker, one of the | youngest permanent majors in the nit) States army, following @ three United States army, three days bike from Camp Lewia At the Spokane st. bridge they | were to be met by L. E. Warford, of the Washington Good Reads amocia- tion, and a representative of the po- lice department. After @ tuncheon there, they were scheduled to parade up Third ave. shortly after 2 o'clock. The second battalion consists at Present of but 90 officers and men. but at Lawton ts to be recruited, if Possible, to full strength of 600. The Second ts being replaced at Camp Lewis today by troops of the Fourth division arriving from Fort Dodge, Iowa. The Forty-fourth in- fantry, until recently stationed at Lawton, have been sent to the Pre. sidio, California. following a} ing an armiatios, thereby tacitly ad | mitting their right to recognition. Japan, however, is expected to charge that the Verkhne Udinek regime is a tool of Moscow, unless by favorable concessions It proves its friendliness to Japan and hostility to the Bolshevika., TOKYO SEEKING U.S. ROAD AID But the Jap “Engineers Don’t Want Experts BY HENRY KINNEY. TOKYO, Aug. 3—Japanese engt- neers in Tokyo are threatening to |start a widespread agitation against |the carrying out of a plan by the Tokyo municipal authorities to im [port three American road eng: 10 assistants .and 25 experienced lworkmen in connection with great scheme for the general im | provement of the roads io the capt [tals ‘This plan was decided apon by the Tokyo city fathers largely as a ro. sult of advice given them by Samuel | Hill, the well-known American ral road and road man, who told them that as Japan had no engineers who | knew how to make roads on modern lines, she had better import some from America. As a matter of fact, Japanese read engineers know no more about build: ing modern roads than they do about Greek. For ages past traffic in Japan was very light, and as a con sequence it sufficed to spread peb> bies and mud on the roads which material was then ground Into a very pasmble surface by the thow mands of feet which paased over it. The Tokyo municipality expects to appropriate $35,000,000 for road im provements, including ® gift of $1,500,000 from the emperor, who tn much interested In the improvement of the capital. It ta estimated tht [it will take about five years to com plete the plans now made. YOU CAN’T Help It Because Your Eyes Are Locklear and Elliott Plunge to Death Before Camera 1o8 ANOEL Lieutenant Omer Locklear, daredevil erial acrobat and stunt flyer, and utenant Milton Bitiott, bin amnlet . are dead here today, follewing before the camera at 10 o’cloc! t night Hoth were almost instantly killed when thelr airplane failed to right iwolf after going to @ tall apin at) & heleht of about 1,000 feet, Locklear's death waa as spectac ular as any of the armaging stunts he had performed before the motion pleture camera for breathless thou sands in all parts of the country With five powerful searchlight play ing on the flyers, Locklear and Je Hott performed & series of stunts, as part of “The Flywayman” a film production, Finally, the plane dropped tnto a tall epin and crashed to the ground, bursting Into flames alm once, Hodies of beth fliers we badly mangled and burned before taken from the wreckage, Lockiar first achieved fame by his midair change from plane to jplane, Later he performed numerous | |etunts on motion pleture contracts. Fellow flyers today apoke of Lock: lear as being @ man totally devoid of nerves, Eliott, his Mytng companion, was also @ daring flyer. Both aviatora served tm the army alr service during the war as in- Davis Will Aer elk on Irrigation One of the prominent speakers | who will address the Northwest Irrt gation Development congress in Se. | age September 16 and 17 is Arthur! Davia, director of the United States reclamation services, and now io California attending the develop ment congress which is being held in the Interest of the Colorado basin | project. | Exhibits of products rained on lands made productive by irrigation i will be sent to the congress from Idaho, It was announced. Say Harding Opens Way for League Fight BY HERBERT W. WALKER DAYTON, Ohio, Aug. &—-Demo. cratic leaders clone to Governor Cox here profess to be elated over what they call “the reaction” thruout the country of Senator Harding's speech | of acceptance, They claim Harding’s declaration for peace by congressional resolution, altho with a promise for a new aano- clation of nations, will Justify them in making & campaign issue on the broad ground of “league or no league.” |Harding May , Quit Front Porch Talks | How MARION, Ohio, Aug. 3--The neo enmity of abandoning the front porch campaign in being ‘seriously consld ered by republican leaders and prob- bly will be strongly ure in Sen. ator Warren G. Harding, republican candidate, it was learned here to day, Harding’s advisers are expected to urge him to make @ trip to the Pa cific Coast and another to the At lantio seaboard, delivering not over two Lb ertated a day, All Gops Invited to Ball Friday Pivery republican candidate in the county has been invited to attend very nervous, Sa al the republican ball and rally to be given in the Masonic auditorium Friday night by the Women's Re- publican club of King county, The affair in arranged to allow everyone to meet all the candidates, which has not been accomplished to date, Mra. H. F. Sheldog in chair man of the committee in charge of | al) arrangementa The grand march | wil begin at 9 o'clock. 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