The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 28, 1922, Page 11

PLANNING 10 CARRY FIGHT He Would Legalize Light Wines and Beer; Promises Wet Campaign BY EDWARD M. THIERRY TRENTO Frelinghuysen. And, if be gets to the senate, he Promises to start something. Two things, tn fact: FIRST. legislation legalizing beer and light wine. SECOND, war on the Anti.Saloon Teague and kindred organization “The ealoon has passed forever from America,” he says, “and I am _ @pposed to ite return, Rut I am in favor of modification of the Volstead to permit manufacture and sale beer and light wine under federal tston, all manufacturing to be ‘under a pure food act. “If that cannot be done legally, I in favor of modification of the th amendment so that it can his war on what he calls Professional reformers. he says: “Political lobbies and propaganda ané intreduced such # bill Into the Jersey legislature and it was squeiched. I'm going to on again—aimed at the Anti- Baloon lengue—if I get to the United “pernicious lobbies," fe na important as eontroiiing campaign expenditures. And one of’ his platform planks ts “antl-Newberryiam.” Others are re- @uction of income taxes; contro! by the federal pent for pub- i) ‘Me health, child hygiene, and public Fonds. LAY NATION'S UNREST _ AT DOOR OF BOOZE BAN | The main issue, however, {# proht Dition. Governor Edwards calla tt “the Mvest thing that ever hap pened.” “I'm against the hypocritical situa. “it's a deceit. Basically, the unrest in this country is due to prohibition. Ht bas not reduced crime—but has tn- creased it “Of course, I want {tf understood that I yield to no one in respect for Jaw and its enforcement. It is he cause I am convineed that public Opinion makes tt impossible to en- force many exisiting laws that T am @etermined to have them changed so an to make ther ponstble of enforce- ment.” Governor Edwards’ friends are making considerable political capita! Out of the fact that he is politically wet and personally dry, while they charge that Senator Frelinghuysen 1s personally wet altho he voted dry “New Jersey,” says Edwards, “‘s No wetter than other states. We're frank about it, tho, and the others are afraid to be.” - INTO SENATE fion that has been created.” he says, | | SECTI | ON TWO | ! The Seattle Star | PAGES 11 TO 20 | Edward I, Edwards —neengee Prisoner Tells of Robbing to Aid His Family SAN FRANCISCO, July 28.-—~ John M. Gilroy is a free citizen de- spite the fact that, when tried in su- pertor court here on a charge of rob- bery, he admitted be put on & mark, took @ revolver and held up a store. keeper. The jury acquitted him as an “honest robber.” Gilroy told the Jury this story: . He had been out of work for some His wife was ‘il, his children hungry. He went to the soft drink establiahment of William Moorman, masked himeelf and held up Moor. man. Gilroy took $6 from the till. FREED BY JURY | telling the proprietor he needed that amount for his family and that he ‘would return it when he got a job. He found work next day. From his first weak's pay he pald Moorman the $6, then went to the hall of jus j tee and surrendered. Moorman confirmed the story. ‘The jury was out only long enough to elect a foreman and take a stand ing vote. WOMEN FIGHT FOREST FIRES Fires which sprang up Thursday Jin brush and logged-off areas near } Seattle and which, for time, |threatened to do serious | were all under control Friday The station, on the North Trunk where County Fire Warden J. M Dighy was forced to mobilize the women and children of the neighbor hood to fight the flames. Other tires were near the Pulmonary hos. | pital at Riverton end near Poulsbo, in Kitsap county Gyros May Adopt Children’s Home ‘The children’s horne at Medina may be “adopted” by the Gyro c A proposal was made Thursday by Dr. Philip B. Bauer, president of the Washington Prisoners’ Aid noctety. A committes was appointed to In- | Veatiguia, SPEAKING ON “The Surest Way to the Greatest Wealth.” H. Mau, | pastor of Columbia Bethlehem Luth jeran church, will conduct services jat 11 a. m. Sunday SERVICES WILL be held at Christ church (Episcopal) at 11 a, m: Sunday, Holy Communion at 8 and Sunday school at 9: m. good supply o: this bank. Deposit some When the Pinch Comes Coal strikes cause less worry to the man who has laid in a f coal. Likewise, a shortage of money causes less worry to the man who has had the foresight to lay by a reserve fund in amount today. Second Avenue at Columbia Largest Bank in Washington DS SAY HE’S A WET * “HONEST BANDIT’ damage, | CLE tremities of starvation, sunk cannibalism, according to & letter recelved in thle city by a friend of L. A. Trofimov, a Russian resident here. The friend, fearing the Reds, refuses to allow hia name to be made public. Stories so horrible as to challenge belief are in the letter—atories of LAND, July %.—In ex Russia has to their children; of dead bodies rétting jim the streets; of a hopeless, do spairing nation. The letter, amuggied past the strict mail censorship in possession of a mutual friend leaving Rusela, } brands life in the soviet nation as “s terrible nightmare, dally grow ing worse.” “Yea, the horrible plotures the tet ter painte are true,” says Trofimov, who fled from Russia under forged passports in 1918. the. Ruasian navy under the czar, Kerensky, and, for a short under Lenin, and was & subtnarine commander in active service during the war “I myself saw the beginnings which inevitably led to this, But there will be a reaction, probably re [sulting in the return of monarchy “Lenin, the one sincere man cf radicaliom. If he dies, an the papery say ts likely, men more radical will get control and the peasantry will monarchy, for the peuple of Nu» sia do not know of a goed repub-. lic #veh as America. All they know is sovietiom and monarchy, and be tween the two they will choose monarchy “What else will they do when there Is no food, no hope of food and searcely a house in Russia fit to live in? The wooden butldingy are torn down tor firewood, the brict, bulldings are tumbling down. Unrepaired roofs admit the water, which freezes between the oricks of the walle aml cuuses them to he come distodge’. People tive bike enimais In the banements. All this becaure the Leuses have no owners and who cares if they tumble? “Cannibaliam? Yes, I bett for when I left Russia everyor consuming and no one prodacing or planting. This would bring the ter ritie Cesperation of hunger which well wnight Jew’ to cannihaliem.” The letter follows: Limberopol, Mareh 28, 1922. Dear Brother: T have « chance to send you this letter by @ friend of ours who soen | abroad, | I with to give briefly the picture lof the life in sovict Rusia. | Hunger, indigence and disease kil! | hundreds of people every day. The | people die like flies and dead bodies lie in the streets for several days ard rot ‘The most hunger fa tn the Volea region and Crimea. Inhabitants | most serious biaze was near Henry | have eaten up all the cate, dogs, | ——— rond,| horses and have entered into canni-| their |baliem. Often mothers kill children, cook and eat them. There is no hope for help and this | maken our lite worse every day. Ail ho have a chance fire from Rus | If you are able to do nomething |for us I know that you will do it, | because we do not know what will | happen to us month to month. W | would all with great pleasure leay |the country of “communistic pura | dise” and go abroad | I was jast graduated from the | high sche | attend university because of my past |eerve with the Whites. Now T am helping my father and we both can hardiy earn enough money for sev jeral pounds of black bread. | Yes, the life t# a terrible. night mare and daily All are emaciated and downcast and | beseech ald—but there is none nor any place from which to obtain it The fields in Russia have not nen sown and next year Russia will, die } out | We all bee you to write a few words and advise vs how to leave Starvation Horrors | in Russia Described mothers killing, cooking and eating | He had served in time, | the Rolshbeviki, t# conservative tn his | rise againat them, Then, probably | but I am not allowed to | getting wore. SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1922. Prices of food in Russia One pound of black pread, 140,000 | rubles (before the war a ruble was! | the equivalent of 49 or 60 cents in| | American money). One pound of meat, 200,000 rubles. | One pound of sugar, 260,000 rubles, | One pound of bufter, 1,000,000 ru-| blew Thirty.stx pounds of flour, 6,000,- 000 rubles. | One pound of potatoes, 100,000 ru bles. One man’s sult, 30 rubips. Shoes, § to 10,000,000 rubles. The average daily earning ts 1,000,000 rubles, How ts it poasibie| }to lve, ts the question. | to 40,000,000 | 'Russ Famine Relief Picnic to Be Sunday | Final preparations for the Russian | Famine Kelief picnic, to be held at | Fortuna park Sunday, have teen | Jeompleted by the committee in| jcharge, it was announced Frida: Full provisions have been made to | care for 3,000 plenicers. Parks’ or- | cheatra haw been secured to furnish the music for eight hours of free | dancing. A complete sport program | |naw been outlined, together with | | prizes for the winners, The baseball game will be called at 3 p.m. Dr, Whitaker of the Fellowship church will be the apeaker of the day. Boats leave Laschi park dock at | foot of Yesler Way cable every hour nd the fare of 76 cents for adults and 26 cents for children, 5 {p 12, in jcludes everything. } |Press Association ; Opens Session Here With the Seattle branch acting as | host, the United Amateur Prens asso. Jetation of Washington opened rite 26th annual convention here Friday. A banquet will be given Saturday leventng and a picnic Sunday. John | 1. Hasemann, jr, Brooklyn, president | of the association, will preside at the convention. Hospital Kiddies Serenaded by Boys Inmates of the Children’s € 1o- pedic hospital were entertained Frt day by the Boys’ Brigade band of the Navy league of Canada. The 26 boys in the band are guests of the Seattle Yacht club during the re atta, Masons’ Picnic to Be Held Labor Day | Plane were under way Friday for |a grand Masonic picnic to be held at Des Moines on Labor Day. All branches of the Masonto order in | Beattie and Tacoma will be guests jof Angora Grotto at the affair. AUTHOR RISKS LIFE TO WREST AGED SECRETS FROM DESERT GE IN DRY LAW IS Found THe. CAVES OF THE THOUSAN Oo BUoDHAR SIR AVBEL STEIN DIGS OUT OF THE SANDS OF CENTRAL AGIA SECQETS OF LOST CIVILIZATIONS, Sir Aurel Stein, British explorer and writer BY MILTON BRONNER LONDON, July 28-—Winter and summer alike a sturdy litte man North of India, to the Pacific coast watershed. Sir Aurel has dug under and with griztied hair and mustache goes | brought to light the relics of van- poking about in the wild desert sands | ished civilization in almost perfect of Central Asia enduring hardships from cold and heat, thirst and hunger, and positive from wtid tribesmen. Once in every three years or so this man comes back to civilization and writes the most expensive books pub- lished tn English. ‘The “pepular” ones nell at $15. Thone intended for scholars sel) from $60 to $100. And they are alwaye snapped up. ‘This author t# Bir Aurel born in Budapest 60 years ago, for many years « naturalized Briton and much honored subject of the king. PROBES DESERT After serving at the head of the Lahore Oriental college India and with other ed mental institutions, Sir Aurel deter mined to read the riddles of the great jfound a ! homenick stretch of desert from the Pamira,! endlons | freshness. He has obtained the manuscripts ‘danger | of two Indo-Kuropean languages new to scholars. He has revealed the secrets of the places where Greek, Indian and Chi nese civilization met. | ALEXANDER'S about | ROUTE He has found the broad military road Alexander the Great used when he led bis Macedonian troopers into Stein. | India. He haa discevered the footpath used by Chinese pilgrims in quest of the holy places of India connected with the life of Buddha. But mont romantic of all, he has buried Chinese wall 140 miles long, on the Chinese frontier in ational and govern-| the first days of the Christian era. Here were the watch towers where Chinese soldiers kept guard; ward rooms fn which they out Good Pancakes And you certainly get good pancakes with Fisher’s Pancake Flour. You appteciate, too, its convenience, for no milk is required; milk in pow- dered form, also sugar, has already been added in just the right quantity. Fisher’s Pancake Flour really con- tributes to the pleasures of camping. if Mit ow, Get it at your Grocer’s Small packages for short trips; Large packages for long trips enn oa INEVITABLE \\T ariff a Menace to Housewives, He Says BY FRANK J. TAYLOR WASHINGTON, July 28 plece is written for women only ‘You all know Senator Pomerens. He's the handsome, black-eyed, gen tlemanly senator from Ohio, slightly bald, and « democrat. The senator has been studying the tariff. Not from a republican view- point, or that of a democrat, he says, but from women's point of view. Now he says: “Under the high rates proposed in the pending bill the wornen of the United States will be forced to pay japproximately $1,000,000,000 more for clothing than they pay under the Underwood Simmons law (now in operation.” Benator Pomerene went farther. With a daring display of intimacy with the things that women want, he showed just how It's the women that This will have to foot the tariff bill, example, he says “Cotton fabrics, boosted from 22.6 |to 40 per cent. This includes ging+ |hams, calicos, organdies and similar |materinis, used exclusively for wom. en and children's dresses. “Laces, up from 60 to 90 per cent, |At the present time women can buy jthem in 6 and 10-cent stores. No lionger possible if proposed rates be- come effective “Cotton hosiery, 37 to 68 per cent, When effective, no more children’s hosiery for 25 cents per patr. “Silke, up from 60 to 90 per cent, Silk pongee, for dresses and shirt waists, and habutal silk, for wom jen's undergarments, will be boosted to, higher prices.” Wool fabrics, leather and cotton gloves, household utility articles, hardware, cutlery, buttons and toys were items in the senator's billion dollar tariff bill for women alone, For Bielaski Waits for r Exoneration Order MEXICO CITY, July 28—While awaiting a court order from Cuerna- vaca, which le expected to exonerate him of charges of self-abduction, Bruce Bielaski and Mra. Bielaski are in refuge at the American embassy here. Bielask!, a former agent of the U &. department of justice, gained no- toriety recently when with several other persons he was “kidnaped” and held for ransom by Mexican bandits. ‘ Kidnaped Daughter of ex-Wife, Charge H ABERDEEN, July 28.—Charged | with kidnaping the 6-year-old daugh- ter of Mra, E4na Furrows, his di- vorced wife, C. ¥. Clark, known here an C. F, Blanchard, is held in the county Jail at Montesano. sat, remnants of their letters. Even more wonderful, he found the “Caves of the Thousand Bud- Ghas.” Here was a vault hidden from the eyes of man more than 900 yoars, literally crammed with manu- scripts and paintings. In these old manuscript rolls were Gincovered the earliest woodcuts in the world and the oldest specimen of printing. The books and the paint- ings there found will keep scientific men busy for years to come. An entire new chapter has been added to man’s knowledge. Today Stein is out in the sands, trying to dig out more of their | IBUYING FOR SPRUCE R. R. ¥. 8. Scritamior of Hill & Serits« mier, Portland, who, with J. Ky Lyon, recently bought the govern- ment spruce raflroad on the Olympia peninsula, was in Seattle Thursday buying supplies for the operation of the line, The mill and road cannot be put into complete operation, ever, until next year, be said, Olympic hote! in the purchase, may be Funeral arrangements were being? made Friday for R. G. E. send contractor, who died in Ai Thursday night while on a visit relatives. eae: In addition to his wife, Cousens te survived by three sons and four daughters: Mrs. Alice J. Mrs. Martha Williams and Miss Courens, Quilcene; Edwin 8. Marshfield, Ore., and Donald A. Robert C. Cousens, Seattle. day. Dr. the morni: D. D., in the evening. | - tory. 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