The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 12, 1921, Page 2

S AGAIN ON U.S. ~ American Seamen Said to Have Been Attacked Navy Daniels today | cabled Admiral Strauss, commandittg the Asiatic fleet, for a report on dis. patghes from Tokyo that five Amert ean sailors had been fired on in Viadivostok. ‘The report said one sailor had been An inquiry about the reported at- tack on the sailors also was minde “DY the state department of the American consulate at Viadivostok. ee $ . WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—Amert AN opposition to the policing of Viadivostok by Japanese forces ts | ofeating a “serious situation,” ac “ to unofficial dispatches aching here from Japan Since the killing of Lieut. W, Ht. if by a Japanese sentry at ontok, feeling between the Jap- And other forces in the Sibert tity is understood to have become InKly tense, Wholficial reports that a party of fe American soldiers had been fired fm Vladivostok by Russian com- in an effort to provoke an break between the Japanese Americans there were read here interest The United States ts believed to questioned Japan's right to oo iy Viadivostok in [tx note protest: the killing of Lieut, Langdon. fhe present administration, however, “expected to hand the whole situa over to Harding for adjustment. | eee APAN VISCOUNT AYS NO NEED DR WAR TALK FRANCISCO, Feb. 12.--Con that matters now at iseue be- ten the [’nited States and Japan | ‘De settled on a “common sense Was expressed here today by int Inouye, of Japan, who has @rrived from the Orient. Geclared there is no reason for War talk” in the press of either Ja-/born ts the Berry house at Beech /peopie were truthful and that they | ‘or the United States, as the bet-/land, Washington county, Kentucky./may have seen the little lad Abra Classes of both countries desire the mont friendly relations. ‘viscount fs here to study the industry, and incidentally to approximately $1,000,000 of steet working machinery j in the development of the deaustry in Japan, He will vis. | all leading steel centers of this) RTINEK TELLS that she is thus providing a bar. against the spread of Russian iam Into Oriental territory. ‘The United States, as a part of the| test over the Langdon shooting, | suggested that Japan withdraw | from Siberia, CONFERS WITH H IK ENVOY When I was paying my farewell | Wis in Viadivostek preparatory to | for home last fall, together | th Capt. E. B. Lariner we visited jem. O1, who succeeded Gen. Otani | commander of the Japanese. As! )Were leaving, Gen. O1, who spent Years in Germany prior to the war, informed us casually and hesitation that he wus even | ‘awaiting the call of one Smirn-' Bft, who, I learned, was the Lenine- bolshevik representative at i ‘What that conference was about I, course, have no means of knowing. ibly it was entirely innocent in | Yet it was said freely in Siberia that the Japanese about to enter into agreemen' the reds, inasmuch as the| troops were withdrawn | Chita, the nearest outpost to Fed boishevik territory—which is over by a former Chicago , Krasnochekott-Tobelson, MAP FORECASTS While acting as intelligences officer Shanghai in the summer of 1919, ching @ convention which was to organize communism in | Orient, I was shown a map by a/| it Chinese, which purported be @ secret Japanese plat of what could expect in 1922 in the way territory should Germany win the | _& In one poli color, stmfar to that | which filled in the outlines of | Japanese empire, was shown al) fof Saghalien, half of which is Rus-! og altho all of it is now occupied Dy Japan; al) of Siberia west of the Fenessi river, east to the Mongolian borger; all of Manchuria, ali of Ko- fea, all of Formosa and various | Above, three log cabins made fgmous by Lincoln; at top the Berry house at Beechland, Ky., where his parents were married; in middle, the Elizabethtown house where they spent their honeymoon; below, the true Lincoln birthplace at Nolin Creek, s * BY DR. WILLIAM EF. BARTON Star Special Writer, Author of “The Soul of Abraham Lincoln,” “The Paternity of Abraham Lincoln,” etc. ‘OMER had | seven birthplaces;/to Hardin county tM he wae @ tad Lincoln had at least three—-ac | several years of age; and certain wit- cording to divergent Kentucky tra-| nesses affirmed on oath that they ditions. jsaw him as a child playing about Firet of the houses In which Abra-|the door of the Berry houss, ham Linco is mid to have been| My own impreaston ts that these If we should go to Beechland, we ham this will find the house is not there. It | house. has been moved to Harrodsburg, | where It stands as a kind of mo ee asain ae seum, mot very intimately amociated | he parents of Abraham Lincotn with Lincoln, who never im his Life | worg married in thin house; he doubt was in Harrodsburg. long vinited it In his early childhood, HOUSE LOOKS LITTLE and may have lived several months LIKE FORMER SELF beneath ftw roof, but we must look Tha house today bears Ittle re |eisewhere for his birthplace semblance to ite former self. For | So we go to Elizabethtown The tunately, however, it was photo: | house we wish to me is not stand graphed while on its original site, ing, but we can find people who In thie house, the home of Hichard will assure as that Lincoln was born Berry, the president’ parents, | there, and who will show us the un- Thomag Lincoln and Nancy Hanks, attractive location. were married by Rev. Jom ene. | What they are showtng os ts the June 12, 1806. place where Thornas and Nancy Lin Washington county people have alcoin spent their honeymoon, and formidable group of affidavits from |lived from June, 1806, till the apring old and truthful people who declared of 180%. Here Abraham's little sis- that Abraham Lincoin was bora | ter, Sarah, waa born. there; that his peopld did not remove’ The cabin that stood here waa the Lincotn playing about Where Was Li neol n Born? Pl Three Places Claim Honor THE SEATTLE STAR PLAN TO BOMB Ul, S. WARSHIPS Air Service “Would Test Ex- plosives Vashon Man, Shot Dec. 8 in Quarrel, Dies 12.—Reso- ecretary Vashon Island Indi nat liberty an ‘Thom, Gurand an fisherman, who has b under $1,000 bait | charge in connection with the shoot | ing, December §, of Oscer Bokien | wae rearrested on an open charge Friday, following Bokien’s death at the Tacoma General hospital An information gontaining a hom! eldal charge is to be filed. ording oxecutor Malcolm Doug’ Fighter’s Trick Is Adopted by Thieves PARIS, Feb. 12 WASHINGTON, Feb. lutions ne th the navy to turn over to the army air service obsolete warships and ordering the army alr chief to drop bon them to test the eff ciency of aircraft against naval vensels, were introduced today in the senate by Senator New and in the house by Representative Anthony The resolution set forth that no conclusive tests of the sort have) an yet been made and that such experiments might radically change the future policy of aireraft de-| velopment ad warship building The need for omy which de mands that “the allocation in the expenditure be made to produce the most effectua! provision for the national defense,” ie cited as a further reason One « battleship, two ob nelete destroyers and two obsolete supply ships are to be turned over Ito the airmen aa targets, under | the resolution Secretary Danlelw already has ar | | ranged for @ former battleship to “Potato Milk” Was | be bombed from the air Popular Commodity | Pleasant Time Was CHICAGO, Feb. 12.—-Potato mili tx | | | the latest. It haa the kick and solver | | Had by Everybody) (i tiywisry of the porvetual jun of | A pleasant du might even call it) q number of Waukegan citisens, And a hilarious Ume was had by all all this joy was delivered in botties when the United Typothetae of Amer-| right at your front door, early in th fon held its annual banquet at the morning Tony Yuc club rooms, in the Arcade (he man who has made Uhis wonder Friday night. ‘Three hun milk, and grew with vied. ‘There were songe ar m rainy on axeault mw On Paris thieves are j}taking advantage of the trick of Johnny Coulon, the American fight er, who defies any one to lift him off the ground. The thieves talk about the trick before an intended victim. | The latter is usually a big man, One of the thieves bets the big man can not lift him, The vietim accepts and easily lifts the thief off the crown ‘The thief pays the bet and the victiM | finds later that he has been robbed | of his money and jewelry wolete Rut no more. ! Masonic | butting Qred att | jure and whose route sity that reg of t went br s out nme | wast pine the sheriff dairy found ae of “potatoe milk,” but not a single | cow } Tries to See Leper Wife; Gets $90 Fine! the veral cat first house advertised as the birth place of Abraham Lincvin, and the picture ie will frequently shown as such. This house was standing at the end of the civil war. It was first photographed, apparently, for | | “The Campaign Document” in which yee M. Thayer, in 1864, told of) Log ANGELES, Feb. 12.—White the “Character and Public Service# xcaiing a high picket fence which | jot Abraham Lincoin.” | caikeushes the apuaty hoapital, in an| ABRAHAM LINCOLN | effort to gain entrance ta/the NEVER LIVED THERE ward of the hoepital whefe his w But Thomas Lincoln di@ not build i# ap inmate, KM. Hutchinson, 4 |this cabin, and Abraham wae not * Premmnan, was arrested yeaterda |born there, and never lived thera by « watchman. | The last veatigo of thir cabin has| “I kpow I shouldr’ ve done it | disappeared. | but I wanted to see Mier.” he sald | The actual birthplace of Abraham | later when arraigned in court on «| Léncoin was tn a log cabin which, charge of violating quarantine regu | after many removals, now stands not | ‘ations. \tar from its original site on Rock| He paid a fine of $90. Spring farm, on Nolin Creek, two | contracted the disease on a South Bea and one-half miles south from where island, he said They have three) the village of Hodgenvile now ia, in| children. } what wae then Hardin and now Ix in La Rue county, Kentucky. { Althe It te supposed to be located | rf on the exact mpot from which it was | | temoved when it went on « long toor| Talk at Y Sunday | of exhibition over the country, per) “The Guy ‘That Delivers the fone born upon the farm aasure mo Goods”—or at least the man who that ft originally stood at the foot! tells about him, Dr. Lineotn MoCon- | of the flight of stone steps, and near | nell, lyceum lecturer who gives an} th» spring. | address by that title at the ¥, M. © ‘Tits I delleve to be correct, bat! A tonight, in to stay over and ad T approve for exnetico rpasoms itx| dress the Y.'s Sunday Club Sunday. mere sightty location ‘at the top ef ct i ° ° denter a cl nus..r0rial has., prac: . theally empty except for the log cabts Office Not to Quit where Lincoln was bern. ‘The consolidated railway ticket of The Lincoln Highwny teads to the | fice In the Hoxton block, maintained Linco farm, and the «pot ts not) by the O-W. R. & N., the Northern now difficult of access: rither by anto.| Pacific and the Great Northern, will mobiles or train. It in one of Amer | be continued indefinitely, the three tea's moet sacred shrivea roads announce Lyceum Lecturer to ir INDIAN FACES |Ex-Kaiser’s Charges | KILLING CHARGE Ridiculed by Germans, BY CARL D, GROAT BERLIN with the ka ub Feb The 4 the interview | greatest | today rensation yout Germar The widest variety were expressed, Fe detended bi lord,” while nents = with spinior mer advisers of the attitude aa the others treated or kaiser bia at ridicule anger. Count Von Reventlow, in an inter view with the United Press, ex pressed regret that Wilhelm had be the object of world-wide dis 1 that hie former rhght naying he never wished the war.” “WENT 1 days before the ten strug jared the count, who erie in Ger-| out against wer,” 4 was leading military many “This is clearly proven by remarks the margins of the gov proclamation, He went raged and in fear of the role En, nd might play.” Belederich Stamfer, editor Vor declared that “it le in ac cordance the well known tact jeakness of the former kainer that he, living abroad and speaking to a} foreigner, should insult the German people.” “The social democratic party voted on Augus' 1914, for the war cred its asked by the government and malntained this attitude during the war,” Stamfer said. “The party beer accused abroad of thought pated the defense of its country not to 1 in any annexation plans but to the German people from such # ed in the treaty of which it fore would result from a German defeat “Therefore, in Germany or abroad will believe the kaiser’s declarations that the alints be trayed their own country STILL INKS OF “ME UND GoTT”’ “The kaiser te still obeemsed wit the idea that he exists thra the grac of God, but the ¢ peopl thankful that they no tb bieseed’ with him, Erich Dombrow ski, German author, wrote in the ‘Tageblatt “It is characteristic of the splritual and mental disposition of the kaiser that he weeks to blame the war and he wrote ernment's to war dix with « Ww helm'a policy as prov Ve ilen aw mar Ele wite| (2° Collapse of Germany on others a NOW PLAYING—FIRST NATIONAL’S ANNIVERSARY ATTRACTION— “THE TRUT ABOUT HUSBANDS While one woman weds—another weeps! A drama that all who achieve marriage should see! DOROTHY MERRITHEW IN DANCES “Pipes of Pan” and “Tomboy, Jazz” Is Here NOW! The Super-com of the|’ SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1921, ; [CLERK BOUND, HOTEL ROBBED Night Desk Man Drugged and Tied to Chair Binding Oscar Lund, night clerk of the Congrens hotel, Fourth ave, an Marion wt. to a chair, early Sature y, two thugs tied a chloroforme) wouked handkerctilet over his face 1 robbed the hotel ull of $17. They took a gold watch and §%) from Lund He forgets that the foreign policies rattling of the eword and his ” provocative | «peech stirred up the other powers, He forgets at in July, 1914, he gave himeelf completely to Austrian di plomac Perhaps the kalser did not want wer) nature was far too weak and fearful for it-—but it was his actions that brought of his regime, his inconuidera it abou “He always seor an a foreign body draw the working classes into co: th the state thru @ con- ciliatery policy. Both inside and out vide the German borders he always encounter De the soctelints | rine two robbers called Land to He never tried to room in the hotel by telephons, When he arrived they attacked hin He wae threatened with death if bi ye One of the robbers brane dishe4 a gun and the other a cloth] bound bludgeon. 4 They failed to find $44 which Land | had hidden in the office before going: jo the room, LIFE TERM IS GIVEN SLAYER Row Over Chickens Ended Lill as pecial order ot| in Shooting vext Tuesday — provides that no marriage | Peter Colagino, recently convicted until 16 day") o¢ murder for killing Alex Me after application for the same has! (bon, December 10, in a quarrel been filed and until notice of the im-| over chickens, was sentenced te ponding wedding has been published i, imprisonment by Judge Boyd in the papers | ‘Tallman Friday. ie "TILE Le Sentence impored following District Attorney |enla of motion made by Aten to Quit Job Soon)” ° ; — Because he bas “no desire to em Plans for Y.W.C.A. administration, either by remaining in ¢ or suddenly Campaign Discussed resigning,” United States District At = torney Robert C. Saunders has an-| “Plans for the ¥. W. C. A free nounced that he will tender his rea-| *¢tvice campaign to be inaagurates ignation to Attorney General Palmer | ®¢2t week to raise funds for nesty ax s00n as office affairs are straight | iris were discussed Friday evening ened up. the renignation to take ef-| #t & citizens’ conference in the eate, fect at Palmer's convenience. | teria of the ¥. W. C. A. buildis Dr. Mark A. Matthewn, Judge Ever- | ett Smith and Mrs. Gertrude Brawley Operation Fatal to [eee este Coe ae University Student ¥= «man. An operation for appendicitis |yg—— —— proved too great a shock fer Leland) | WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE LH. Hudson, federal vocational stu-| | Water will be shut off in the dent at the university, who died at district supplied by the two-inch Providence hospital Friday. He was|| main on East Highland Drive the son of Dr. J. H. Hudson, of Ta-| | east of 38th ave. N. and on 42nd coma, | |ave. N. from East Highland drive to East Lee st, Monday, from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. oper w ithor of “Ger Leaders of Youterday.” Senate to Discuss New Marriage Law OLYMPIA, Feb, 12.—Because the 4 not reconsider the mar-| »ward Taylor, organiza czar, threatened to have the| wure slaughtered in the bouse. | iy wo xcared the other 41 members of the senate that they hurriedly vot ed to expunge the record and recon Heense shal ‘ barrans the ne HVERETE—Rivers in Snobomiah | | county approaching the flood stage. edy the whole world’s been waiting for— You're going to laugh and laugh and LA UGH as you follow this humorous pair through the picture on which the world-famous comedian SCENIC “WILDERNESS FRIENDS" & inces in Northern China. worked for a year! } The Philippine and Hawailan ts- ands and Guam were indicated as “independent,” but under Japanese | “influen This map was printed iat least two years before allied oceu- | Pation of Kastern Siberia, at a time when Japan was an ally, engaged in| War against the central powers. masked thugs escape with $20 in money and a num- ber of checks after binding and ing 2. A. Collins in his grocery at Offut Lake, near bere, | Elmore Crowhurst on the Organ First National Kinograms Orchestra Under Reginald Dana P “The Ked Milv A First National attraction. Beautiful views of wild animal life, COMEDY “HIS PUPPY LOVE” LOVE DAVIS on the WURLITZER JENSEN & VON HERBERG NEWS