The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 5, 1920, Page 1

\ ; ‘i , x @ Maximum, VOLUME 23. AS IT SEEMS TO ME CATTERED over some 10 acres of my lower par ture are burning logs DANA \ SLEETH that make a weird pie ture after dark, throw- tpg their sparks up in columns against the night. All these logs were great trees 30 years ago, when the tract was logged. These trees were left where they fell; many of them rotted and crashed to the ground; now, slowly, 1 am getting them out of the way by toilfully picking them to pieces and gradually burning them. Ten feet of one of these logs throws out enough heat to warm & Wroom house for a winter day; there are enough potential heat WNits In this 40-acre pasture to pro Vide 4 sizable neighborhood with community heat, only there ts no way to gbt the heat to town Meditating on the waste of things I wondered why some bright genius bad not invented a method of bottling the excess heat that radiates from log and brush fires; there is ¢nough heat wasted every year in the Northwest to heat our sities, I imagine, but instead we pay $15 a cord for wood, and shiver. ND thinking on this wan- ton, but apparently un- avoidable waste, it came \to me that there was a Method of utilizing these heat units, of bottling them, of keeping them for a hundred years, if need be. wre pere methods that would turn W6ge, nnd tiie” brie, And these dead ferns and vine maple and alder and dogwood and Briar and bramble not only Into Beat, but into motor fuel, into power. Alcohol, that’s the answer; we have becorne so infatuated with the slogan, “demon rum.” that al- cohol is mot considered a nice word aay more, but alcoho! indus frially probably the future sal _Vation @f business. ‘The gasoline sftuation appears hopeless: private monopoly has us tightly bound; even Uncle Sam bas to land marines to get fuel oil from California corporitions for his Navy, the individual ts paying ex- orbitant prices for inferior distil late and is seldom getting more than two gations at 2 time. We let our off deposits and our pipe lines and our refining indus- try become a tool for private greed, and we will probably not escape the yoke of private monop oly of natura} resource. Tho we have muck raked and agitated and lawed and yelped a-plenty. UT, with a sane, broad governmental policy of supervision and protec- tion, there is alcohol by the thousands of barrels to be distilled from the woodland waste, from the cull potatoes, from weeds and stumps and brush patches. Chemists of the University of Washington discovered that 3 per cent alcohol, pure alcoho|—none of your watery de natured dope— with 97 per cent kerosene, would give a fuel suitable for present automobiles without changing the carburetor. But there pure alcohol, and there be none in worth while quantities until we wake up that here is our salva are to go ahead. is no will and realize tion if we I believe alcohol can be manufac: tured and sold at a profit for leas than gascline in selling for today Certainly if distillation methods were improved and some real in- ventive al was devoted to the work, if such a program was car- ried out by the government as when the Libert motor was de signed, there would be @ fuel that could not » cornered, that would and turn present waste into profit that would give every district its own motor fuel, its own heat and light and p witnout freight urges Or toll to a world com bine. On my wild acres, encumbering the ground, 4 menace and an eye sore, are logs too Jen for fire wood, too decayed lumber, but with w und amperes and horsepower and thermal units locked in ther It will cost me much hard work and considerable harder cash to get rid of these and yet under @ proper dist tion they could become a public utility instead of @ private nuisa Untit as » nation we can so man age our aft that our waste is utilized for public benefit, we will not be much more than a collec tion of ja units playing at government in the dark And if we allow the ghostly shadow of the vanished saloon to affect in tho slightest degree our future policy towards utilizing the resources today rotting on our hills, why. we deserve to shiver in our bigoted hides, that's all, Weather Tonight and Friday, fai moderate erly winds, Temperature Last 1 Hours: 80, Today Noon, 70. +l USS FRANCE AND BRIT southwest- Minimum, 35. KIDNAPED BABE MAY BE ALIVE Authorities Believe Blakeley | Coughlan Is Held by Wo- man in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, Atg. 5.—Biake: ley Coughlan, the Norristown, Pa. baby, who was kidnaped two months lago, t alive, authorities were con. | vinced today, after questioning Aus just P. Pascal, held in connection with the case. Hoth* Major Adama, of the state police, and Postal Inspector Leonard, who are in charge of the investiga tion, expressed the belief that the baby wig alive and in the care of @ wornan in thie city The si of two pervons, who, they declared, were accomplices of the “crank” who [demanded large sums of money from the child's father, One of these was sald to be a woman. U.S. MAY-STOP_ FISHERMEN WAR Japs and Rivals Have Hot Time off Coast | SAN DIEGO, Cal, States patrol boats into service off this port unless how tilities between Japanese, Austrian |and Italian fishermen cease | Bitter feeling exists, with the Jap- anese on one side and the Austrians and Itallang’on the other. janese, their rivals charge, will not seit bait when the Austrians snd Ttallans run «hort, while the latter | jmay they hawe always shared bait | with the Japanese. | As a result the fishermen have had Vera] battien Off the coast in which shots were fired, boats werd run/ nets were damaged, and in least, Japanese were Aug. 5.—United | down, lone case at lied. ‘This was in the case of the Japan ene fishing boat Yamoto, which’ was either run down or dynamited, and | |her crew killed. Further probe of this tragedywae under way today. ‘BRITISH SLAIN |Reinforcements . Are Rushed | | to Mesopotamia —British rein forcements have been orde d rushed to Mesopotamia to restore order among the tribesmen and irregulars, who are in revolt A fresh division was ordered to proceed from India to Mesopotamia. following the disaster to a British column near the ruins of Baby in LONDON, Aug. 5 which 200 were killed and wounded ‘The British garrison at Kufah, on the lower Euphrates, is holding out attacks of Arab tribesmen | according to a dispatch The Arabs in repeat- fire to the town destroyed. nat ra and bandits, eived today wet 1 attacks which was partial | ‘The ‘British repeatedly repulsed | | them. |The Arab dead left behind totaled } 130. Northwest of Hillah a new attack was reported but there were no de tails of its outcome How Often Do You Think of Selling Old Household Goods? | It is a common habit of most people to push aside articles of furnitur ete which have be |] come old—to dump them in the |] woodshed, to lie ahere and fall There in always some one who can make use of these things |] some one who will pay cash for |] them. Some is looking in the “For 8 Miscellaneous” |] columns now for something you |] could supply him with Lowest Rates te police were on the trail) may be called | The Jap-| | BY TRIBESMEN Botered as Second Class Matter May 2, 1899, at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash. under the Act of” ‘ongress March , WASH., THUR SDAY, AUGUST 5, NURSE’S ‘ABDUCTOR’ JAILED What Chance Have You to Keep Out of Jail? Prison yawns for you “There isn't & man or woman in the world today who couldn't be sent to a cell for something he or she has done,” sys & French criminologiat, Whether you are a cop— Or « bum— / Or a pretty girl who has beens i “mashed” — Or the “masher"— A park bench lounger— Or & person who delights old wine, Camembert, or Were ever bounced out of a restaurant on your ¢ar— You can't resist a laugh when you read in oer on Monday “The Cop an@ the Anthem,” the first short «tory, complete, by Henry, prince of American story tellers, | | in Rah! The Dog Siill Has His Bark After Dog-On Hot Session Dog days descended upon the elty | came right out and declared himuelf | counci] chambers Wednesday after | With the dogs sake “They protect our wives and ehil | |dren from burglars,” he orated and | The occasion was a hearing before | sat down : } |® council committee on the proposed} Edward Judd, attorney for the Kennel club, said that no civilized Jordinance legislating against yow!. . ae abil dog ever barked at the moon and ing, yelping, baying, barking dogs, 4 the ordinance Wag not legal and other dogs, A dog has a bark and the city * of meat hounds, Haters of | licenses the dog, therefore the elty hunds, Friends of Chow | licenses the bark,” spake the barrie Chows, Enemies of Bulldogs. Men, | ter, “and if this ordinance goes thru, | women, children, crabs, pests, irri-| we dogovers go to court.” | Lo tants and persons of all kinds flood-| Then the enemies of the Rovers | ed the council chambers to yodle/and Fidos began dogging the deal jeither in favor or disfavor of the| Women became excited. Personal | proposed legislation ‘Those favoring the hound were in the great majority. Therefore more favorabi than unfav able barking was heard. The meeting was quite peaceful at first, The councilmen Henry 8. Volkmar, ties were exchanged. The royal rasp berry handed an enthusiastic hater of the shaggy animal who at tempted to favor the anU-how! ordi nance. The din arose to a roar, and Coyn learned from|cilman Phillip Tindall was able to who favoted the | quell the near riot only by announc passing of the ordinance, that al|ing a committee would be named to barking dog was a bigger nuisance | settie the matter at « later date } than @ pigpen. » He didn’t say why.! Dog days surely have visited the He declared a barking dog was @ ter-| city council and it's going to be a |rible thing for shattered nerves |doggoned hard job to mediate the “Big Bil" Barr, deputy sheriff, | mess, so _beiteve the council E. K. BROWN OUT |MURPHINE RUNS FOR CONGRESS) FOR LEGISLATOR was | Progressive “Leader Filed in)Former Member Files in | the Fifth District 42nd District Capt. BE. K Brown, of Ellensbure. Thomas F. aaretitiie. leader of the veteran of two wars and for many | progressive forces in the 1913 and years prominent in legal and politi} 1915 legislatures, today filed for the cal circles In the state, has filed on | house of representatives from |the republican ticket for representa-|42nd district, which compris north end of the and also | tive in congress for the Fourth dis city trict. |north commissioner's district in the A resident of Kittitas county for | country more than 14 years, he wag prose From 1918 to 1920, Murphine was cuting attorney from 1908 te 1912./superintendent of public utilities | Aw progressive fh leader of the | and when the city purchased the mu house in the 1913 session of the state | nicipal line, it fell to his duties to legislature, he was one of the most| manage it. Prior to that, he was as influential members of that body | sistant attorney general and wag the author of the county! Murphine is well known here, hav agricultural expert law passed in|ing attended local school and gradu jthat session. He was republican) ated from the University of Wash state central committeeman during |ington. He ix married and has two |the 1916 campaign, and was perma | chiidren nent chairman of the recent republi aeethiniietti can state convention held at Hing: a Quakes Recorded During thé Spanish-American war |Captain Brown served ax a private at Santa Clara lof infantry in the 50th Iowa Volun SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY, teers. Shortly after the United|Cal, Aug. 5.—Marth disturba) | States entered the World war, altho| continuing more than three hours |married and having a« family, he| Were recorded today on the seismo: ain volunteered his services, serv. | raph he ling as captain in the Seventh Field| Father J. C. Ricard of the Santa Clara unive temblors a jartillery, First division, participating | jin practically all of the fighting of that famous unit and being cited by his division commander for personal | are indisti gallantry in action during the Ar- gonne battle, sity Observatory said the not in California he tracings on the record here et, and from their uni. formity it is apparent the shocks are net of a violent nuture,” he suid. 1920. L) 30 AMERICANS AIN ARE PLANNING MOVE AGAINST REDS On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Comprom The Seattle Star e 2, 1879 Per Year, by Mail, $5 to 69 f ai EDITION TWO CENTS IN ‘KIDNAPING’ MYSTERY IS CLEARED UP Married Conductor, Facing Seduction Charge, Says Bible Justified Intent Biblical precepts justified his love for Carrot Favor, 23, nurse at Olympic sanitarium, Wille Dee Johns, 28, street car conduct or, of 7052 15th ave. N. W., told Detective Captain C. E. Tennant alt love if marriage by intended. He could not tell what part of the Bible the passages are in. Modern cave man tacticn were adopted by Johns to force his at- tentions on Miss Pavor after she had spurned him when she discovered he | was married, Detectives W. A. Full- er and 8. Simundson charge Seduction charkes were filed against Johns by Deputy Prosecutor D, Carmody fn superior court nay Johns wae trinsferred from the city to the county jail and is held on $1,500 bail. Carmody based the charges on Johns’ alleged) concealment from Miss Favor that! he was married at the time be was Protesting his love for her. Penalty ix not more than five years’ impris- onment in Walla Walla prison, or not more than one year in the coun- ty Jail, oF, $1,000 fine, or both of the last two penalties. That the Mrs. Johns supposed to be the aceused man's first wife was | really his meeond wife was the dis |covery made by detectives Thuniday He divorced his first wife. He has one child by her. She could not be located Thursday. Besides being accused of kidnaping Mins Favor, Johns is pawnshop proprietor at Finit ave and Cherry st, an hour before he was arrested. He was to pay it back at the rate of $20 a month Threatening her with a gun, Johns came to her tent in the rear of the “Married and happy,” was the con- text of two notes, she says forced her to write to her mother and sister. The chirography of the} notes written by Miss Favor plainly | showed that she was under stress, jaccording to J. W. Sampson, hand. writing expert in Capt. Tennant’s of fice Full charge of the hunt for Miss | given to Detectives Si and Fuller Wednesday after her brother, Clifford EK. Favor, 7841 11th ave. N. W., re- ported she had been kidnaped, He accused Johns, whom he saw loiter ing in the shadows near the sani tarlum shortly before Miss Favor lisappeared. Detectives discovered that Johns was to get a divorce from his first was to get a divoreé from his second Favor mundson morning, was INTENDED TO TAKE HER TO CANADA, HE SAYS After getting a divorce from his second wife, Johns intended to take Miss Favor to Canada and marry her., Laws here forbid within six months after divorce. It wos in this way that Johns hoped to (Turn to Page 4, Columin 5) atgo alleged to! | have borrowed $110 from J. Cohen, i] a} Johns told detectives he was going | to skip to Canada with Miss Favor | and get married. He did not say! CALE) Aug Disrup- when be intended to pay his debt to| tion of the air forces of Gov, Estaban ‘Cohen. Cantu of Lower California was |CAME TO HER TENT; threatened today with Lieut, T. 0. | THREATENED WITH GUN Payne, American head of Cantu's fly, jsanitarium Tuesday night and forced | 4 Payne, serge on eg a. her to go with him, Miss Favor told | Mer, arrived here yusereny eh a Capt. Tennant noon wit yd pombing plane purchased by Gov. Cantu. He was denied per Johns | marriage | Coal Miners’ Wage | Scale Accepted | At @ meeting held in the Labor | temple Wednesday afternoon, coal miners of Washington accepted the wage scale agreed upon by their j aecale committee and that of the oper- jators, based upon the scale offered by the federal coal commiasion The new agreement is effective for two years, and is an average in-| creane of 20 per cent over the wages allowed by the last contract, whic puts the pay of Washington coal j miners on a par with that awarded | the Kastern coal miners by the na- tonal bituminous coal commission. CANTU MEN KILL | MEXICO CAPTAIN Patrol Boat ~ Commander Slain at Ensenada | SAN DIEGO, Cal, aug. 5.—Cap tain L. Zepeda, of the Mexican patrol boat Tecate, has been slain at senada, according to members of the crew of the steamer Newark, which arrived in port here today. According to Captain Moore, of the Newark, Cantu soldiers went aboard the Tecate and ordered Zepeda to come ashore. ‘The captain complied) Cibtain Moore said, and when he reached the Main street of Ensenada he became [suspicious of a “frameup” on the part of Cuntu's men. He broke and ran, it is said, and was shot and kilied. Cantu officials then seized the Tecate, Moore said. She has been jin the Mexican patrol service. The shooting occurred Tuesday night. Captain Zepeda was supposed pad have been in sympathy with the | De La Huerta ———— it is said. ‘CANTU AVIATOR CG En: | Plane Is Seized ‘and Flyer Can’t Cross Line ICO, Cal., ers, refused permission to enter Mex ico by American Consul W. F. Boyle mission to take the plane across the border. ‘The plane was taken in charge by | Collector of Customs Brown and is being held under miltary guard Consul Boyle took up Lieut. Payne's | passport and refused him permission | to cross to Mexical! The Lower California’ capital was very quiet today FOREST FIRES ARE UNCHECKED {Flames Are Racing Toward Canada Line ternoon. They arrested him as he stepped in the courthous “We eloped,” was Johns’ nonchal SPOKANE, Aug. 5.—A fire which} nt explanation, when detectives ac: | now covers more than half a town-| cuxed him of stealing the girl Del nip in the Kootenai forest is surg-| tective Simundson brought Miss|ing over the Canadian line un Favor to police station from the | checked today Thirty-six other Wilkshire hotel, Eighth ave. andlaio. in the. Kootenal are under Nirginia st, where Johns said she} control, One hundred men are fight-| ily loaded, a .32 caliber Savag Secs wees es being beat b in the room in the hotel by Simund:| rere ee ate verk aki aoe! won Attar this discovery Misa Favor {Oreille forest at Perkins lake and| told how Johns had forced her to go|TTout creek. | bao Rata | here are 20 fires in the Flat ‘Terrorized by his tactics, I could |head country. Tourists are being| nO calle tale ine bald, pressed into servi to battle the A ateeet car romance,” was the|fames owing to a manshortage. — | way Johny termed his friendship| The Priest Lake situation is im-| with Miss Favor. He had met her | Proved whan a rode on his car on the| Two fires are burning near nwood route, he sald. Her par.| Whitefish, Mont | ents objected to him, but they met Spokane is sending out about 100 anyway, on t street cars, he de-|men @ day to fight various blazes, yd but more are needed, Judge Allen Now Presiding Judge Superior Judge Clay Allen is act ing as dog-days judge for a week, beginning Thursday, They slipped Hix “Honner” a nice plump calen- dar rieht off tha bat. of soviet Russia. |taken up with the state department by FOR VOLUNTEERS POLAND SEEKING HELP FROM U. 10 SAVE NATH European Situation Has Now Re Crisis; A s Allied Nations Are to Enter Conflict WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.—Thre with overwhelming defeat, Poland today! newed efforts to obtain the support United States in the struggle with the The question of American aid again Lubormiski, Polish minister to the Uni States, who, conferred today with Une Secretary of State Dare, * WASHINGTON, Neg, scan Americans are held pooedt vg ay by the Bolshevik government at Mo ig to four other American refu; of have out from soviet Russia recently, the s advised today by its repunentaive at Vibers. The refugees include Arthur Prince, Detroit, a co the 339th United States infantry; Frank King, Ohio, newspaper correspondent; Harold W. Fay, New and Mrs. Emely Sarman eee (name garbled and _ spelling not certain), New York. FRENCH ON W, These refugees are now at Terijoki, Finland. They are Gigantic Pincers Are Cle ‘ing in on Warsaw being aided by the American Red Cross. BERLIN, Aug. 5. — French SUFFERED HARDSHIPS IN RED PRISON Prince was taken prisoner by the Bolsheviki in the vicinity of Arch- angel on March 1, 1919, while a member of the American expedition ary force in North Russia, the’ state department announced Altho wounded twice, the Bolsheviki paid no attention to his injury, it was said. He suffered great hardships during his imprisonment in Russia. The state department was advised from the American legation at War- saw today that armistice negotiations with the Poles will be refused by the Bolsheviki so long as there is hope of capturing Warsaw Officials do not say what steps, if any, were contemplated by the United | States jn the situation. The state de- partment had no confirmation of the | reported summoning of the council) is feared that the allies jovercome Austria's neutrality by | |bringing Hungarian p:essure to Beal | on that country, wita the result : |movements of entente troops i | Vienna. will be permitted. ‘a of ambassador# to take up the Polish | pe crisis, and it was said that no in-| Dr. Karl Renner, Austrian cham 9 strubtiana have bees‘ saat to itweh | cellor, has already informed thejen ~ Wallace, American ambassador at|‘ente overnments that his i Paris and a meber of the council. |esires to remain neutral in event that the allies go to war with Rug — sia, But Hungary and Rumania are — reported to be actively preparing te | fight Russia, in which case they |probably would be able to coercs Austria, it is believed here. | The newspaper Fretheit demanded | | today that the entente unequivocal \ly express its policy with reference te A eas : ect ie tralit Considers Expedition fo Aid|evenc ot war wih Rusia tt ae Poles in War manded to know whether the allier | would try to send troops across Ger |many to Poland. The newspapel LONDON, Aug. 5.—{3:40 P.M.) | Said definite information on them — —The government has consid. | Points was necessary to calm thé ered calling for volunteers to fight the Bolsheviki in Poland, working classes, who fear that Ger man neutrality will be disregardet the Evening News declared this afternoon, and their country made a base of al ‘The Poles have been defeated in a | Viki. |lied operations against the Bolshe new’ battle 65 miles northeast of| Twenty-five thousani Warsaw, according to the Russian of.|®0d_ independent sock#iits held: 4 ficial statement received here today |@¢monstration in the Lustgarten to Eo oi tela trons acest |day, protesting against the disarm “In ‘fierce fighting we occupied |*ment law. Many were armed and © 65 miles northeast of /t®¢ speakers were extremely raw, in the direction gf Sied.| Bolshevik. One speaker sald: 5 “tie said the communication, “We advance in Fost am oken the enemy's advance re. mn of our mea mmunist: Tsiechanoviets w litz,”” eb | Russian | morning | Germany ‘ vere| ‘The police were massed in the armies dbses | garrisons, but kept out of sight, no ‘in. | Wishing to afford provocation fa | riots. sista While the Bolshevik closing their pincers around V today Premier Lioyd-George formed the house of commons he had warned Russia that she should grant an immediate armistice, with fair terms, to the Poles. ALLIES SUSPECT RUSS SINCERITY Lloyd-George said he delivered this warning yesterday to M. Krassin and M. Kemenoff, the Russian represen. tatives in London, who were to com- munieate it to Moscow, He advised them that the continued Bolshevik advance in Poland made the allies suspect the sincerity of the soviet government in its professed desire for peace and resumption of trade re- lations, Lioyd-George stated he had just re- (Turn to Page 4, Columa 1) to 4 Cents. i Spuds, Tons of new potatoes at 2 to 4 cents a pound are advertised & The Star today by Leonard Budd, 4 Rainier Valley farmer. Budd digs them. The consume — goes out to Budd's place at 795 * Wilson ave. and gets them. $ “I make more money that wa than by selling to whol said Budd, “and the consumer am @ better price.” rs