The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 27, 1923, Page 4

+ RUSS OIL LAND FOR U. S, FIRM "Sinclair Company Gets 36- Year Concession » By John Grandenz MOSCOW, Jan, 27.—The Sin- lair Oil corporation has obtained from the soviet government a 36- Year concession to an oll tract o thousand versts square on the Island of Sakhalin, In the north Pacific ocean, it was announced today. Two of a number of conditions of | the remarkable contract are that the | United States shall not commit any hostile act against Russta and that reeoguition of the soviet government comes within five years, | ‘OW, gases and shale abound on Sakhalin, whose 15,000 square miles of wealthy soll lie just north of St- | berta, ‘The Sinclair company, by terms of the contract, is entitled to select two Spots on the island for harbors, these to remain under control and the prop- erty of the Russian government. The company agrees to spend 400,000 gold rubles in the first five years and to pay a rental of five per cent of Hts total sales, or 100,000 gold rubles ‘year if no sales are effected in the first five years. A complicated ays- fem of taxation is also established. “If the United States does not | Feeognize Russia within five | years,” the contract reads, “the Soviet government can end all | PLANS URGED The Sinclair company must pay a Max of 1 per cent on the first 40,000 “Poeds of off sold in the first year: B ber cent on the second 40,000; 3 gent on the third, and 7% per} Gent on amounts exceeding 120,000] break of New War poods. Thirty per cent of the amount R |" paid in taxos as above outlined must.) BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS AB addition, be paid to the local Sak WASHINGTON, Jan. Both houses of congress today are unlim authorities. soviet government, besides) bering their guns, preparatory to a r © stegal this concession to the Sin-| combined assault to foree the admin. ‘ company, passed land conces-| istration to take action against the ‘Mons to “Cullfornia workers and) imminent danger of a new world war. Jewish workers and colonists.” Senator William E. Borah, repub- ‘EE eae H Mean, of Idaho, following Congress- | man William W. Chalmers, also a republican, of Ohio, is now at work on & resolution which he will Intro- | duce in the senate the coming week | He will urge upon President Hard- | ing the necenaity for calling an inter- national conference to bring about | STARTS ON PAGE ONE | weria renamitation ana peace | ‘The first shot In the new battle for | Amertean ald in helping restore Ho rope and the world to normal was fired in congress Friday, when Rep- resentative Chalmers introduced tn | the lower house hig resolution asking the president to call a conference “to | consider and work out a specific plan | for world stabilization.” Senator Horah's resotution is not yet completed, but tn its broad lines | will call for virtuahy the same thing. | He once before offered a gimilar reso- HERE’S MORE ABOUT By Carl D. Groat | _BSEN, Jan. 77.—Customs offices fon of administration leaders, who GAINS AND LOSSES OF LARGE NATIONS IN WORLD CONFLICT Here's the balance sheet of gains and losses of the four big- gest participants in the last 7,000 FRANCE Lost—Lives of 1,664,550; hun dreds of acres‘of farm lund, in. du_rial areas and thousands of dwellings and villages destroyed ‘upon the products of the Rubr/ Saturday brought a0) Breaking all records for the voy- a 2 a this voyage by the Prenident Grant BAVARIA NEAR jearned the distinction of being the ion, planned for today, until lists are accusing the cabinet of | man was killed and scores of persons “marks reached a record of 118,000 to| al debt increased to guard the funeral of Marius Pla- by Germans. the city. |] Syria and elsewhere and a repar. between the Ruhr valley | ented the president already waa I the reat of Germany were put | Dlanning action Operation today by the French | oe eae ‘©f occupation. Reports reach: | said the barrier was prac | complete, Germans now be tears “ae =| MOY AGE RECORD reparations collectors. situation in the entire occu- — th area was one of critical sus-| Pregi rosses Martial law was in effect at | ident Grant C 96 virtual state of siege Duaseldort West; a age between Yokohama and Seattl Pand more danger of @ clash bé-| tne admiral Oriental liner President “gonad Cre ae Tern tm 4 |Gtant was due to arrive in this port le ahgeegad nf a ong at 3 p. m. Sunday, just exactly nine er tcn te ekae a fers in Lor-| gays (calendar time) from the day 19 close down because | that she left the Oriental city. in the size of her raw silk cargo— which ix valued at $10,000,000 dition, the President Grant ts bring- : BEL ATTACK | tng 00 passengers and 7,600 bags BERLIN, Jan. 27—AN Ravaria | 7% : ‘under martial law today. Revolt | The President Grant Is commanded German fascisti, under Hitler, the ist chieftain, was feared. | = es only man ever fined for «peeding on Zhe Bavarian government rdered | sng high seas, when he was laid off for 60 days because he violated or. ders and outdistanced « steamer Ruhr situation wags improved, i the rebel nationalist defied the |r wh Lid te ht thoritiey and announced the mass 2 ting would be held tonight or Mian Dies When ¥, “whether the government | 1 it or not.” Stills Explode 27-yOne imeful inactivity toward fascisti. | driven from thelr homes early today lice last night stopped many vol-| when four stills exploded in a garage. steers en route to Munich to join| ineeetesitesi “the reichswehr | tee | the pound sterling on the London | exchange today |] world war: cee | GERMANY * |] Lost—Lives of 2,050,460 men; Police Guard Body |] 85 per cent of the national ter- of Dead Royalist || "*" PARIS, Jan. 27.—Squads of po-| per cent, tean, alist leader and editor, who Wag fatally shot January 22 by Mile. Germaine Berthon, a young commu. nist. ‘The police, fearing a clash between Toyalists and communists, surround. | sd—Alsuce-Lorraine, some pitied ed | ations bill which France 1s now Women, Children |] ‘tying to collect. trom Germany A 7 . ebt incr 0 per Injured in Fight! BERLIN, Jan. 27-—A number of | German women and children were wounded at Trier today when French troops used sabres in dispersing a to pay to the invaders | Pacific in 9 Days to exist at of coke trom the Rube. ‘Another record is also established by Capt. Mike Jensen, who recently tl to withhold his “whit dem. Nationalists in Berlin are aroused;| NEWARK, N. J., Jan. LONDON, Jan. 21.—German Gained—Nothing. Hee reserves were called out today @4 the whole cortege as it filed thru|| German colonies, mandates in demonstration, according to reports se ENGLAND Lives of 928,904; economic } much of her |] world’s greatest financial nation, || _ Gained—Predorninance in world | | | Lost ity of polit tabil conditions and prestige as trade; German colonial territory; in Africa; ot communications with empire; more recure position safety Indian dates, National debt increased 700 per cent Bill Bars Stunt Airplane Flying DENVER, Jan. 27.—The firet bill to be Introduced in the ColorMlo leg- islature relating to aerial navigation will be brought up early next week, Mt was learned today. The measure bars stunt flying and hunting from airplanes, and provides where damage is done to property by forced landings the owner of the ‘Property has the right to obtain) numerous man UNITED STATES Lives of 109,740, Gajned—Removal of supposed German menace to world peace. National debt increased 2,300 per cent. (This will be largely offset if Europe pays its debts to the United States.) Lost |Tulon, but withdrew ft on the sugges: | [has Deen the leader of the Motion | Im ad | WORLD PEACE \Revolt Against H ays - This photograph was taken as the French army cleared the square in front of the Essen city hall when they took over the German city in the heart of the Ruhr district. Eagles Gain | Talked in Movie World YWembership | Want U. S. to Prevent out. (Independent Stars and Producers Are Also Waging Battle to Break “Trust” 1O8 ANGELES, Cal, Jan 1-—- While the independent film pro- | ducers and stare are gathering their |clans solidly ander the leadership of Douglas Fairbanks, there wore rumblings today of a revolt in the ranks of the big producers of the motion pic “trust.” That there is a battle going on bebind closed doors over the value of Will H. Hays, hired by them as | “adviser to the motion pleture in- dustry" af @ milary of $150,000 « year, seemed certain. It ts known that some members of this organization of producers nd distributers feel that this salary & putting overhead cost on producers, and eventually on ex: hibitors, which t* not worth the price. Jenne L. Lasky and Adolph Zukor, however, heads of the Famous Play ers-Lasky and Paramount organiza. | tion, the biggest tn the group, are | known to be standing pat on Hays | land his value to the motion ploture industry, | “Mr. Hays’ record ts untmpeaah- lable and his tntegrtty indisputable,” Lasky declared today. “Since he ‘Picture Producers and Distributors’ amoctation, the entire industry hes }deen uplifted He ty a great bene factor and T have the utmost faith in him. AN! businesses need a lend- or, and the film tndustry ts a na- tionally organized businens. “I deplore the seeming dtvision in the ranks of the industry, especially over the value of Mr. Hays, but I | Delleve the recent furore ts definitely |® thing of the past.” | In answer to questions whether | there was to be a conference shortly |by the “trust” producers to dixcunm | Hays’ value to the industry, Lasky anid | “It will probably never reach that paying | stage. But if it does I am for Hays, first, last and always Carl Laemmie, 16 years ago a re | tail clothing t kosh, Wis., but now b one of the largest pr | for bt 1 | eal City | blast against the |Feanes, who he di | paid too much. | Laemmie also declared that thea tere are charging too much for ad Mission he belleves It is due to exconnive salaries. “Theaters now charging 60 cents ought to be given « chance to charge 25 cents and keep their theaters full,” ho said “People would go twice as often. Now they are ting the moe a week’ ea.” ‘The stars, headed by Doug Fair- banks, Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin, plan to go over the heads of | the “trust” distributors and deal 4- | Teotly with the exhibitors, it was de- clared. mercha has arrived » of Univer arrival with @ and act are belng ann opening his clares | the country are now controlled by the so-called “trust” which also pro- duces and distributes its pictures and | no can make ft difficult for stars who break away and plan to produce In- dependently to get thelr pioturen be- fore the public, Ix the condition which the informal group headed by Fatr- banks propose to fight ‘The group includes Doug and Mary, Chartle Chaptin, Pola Negri, Harold Lloyd, Charles Ray and several oth- orn, It ts anid. Meetings to discuss the matter |have been held at the Fairbanks- | Pickford hore in Beverty Hitix “Absentes ownership of the motion New York who know nothing about art and care less, but are only Inter- exted tn dollars, is the present troubl jwith the movies,” one of the stars involved declared today. j | | BY ©. C. LYON WASHINGTON, Jan. 21—A polit. feal blow-up in the U. 8. shipping board Is looked for almost hourly here, ax the congress over the Lasker ship sub widy bill ] ‘The subsidy bill te now spoken of | here by all parties as a dead meas. lure. The present congress has wide- tracked it, and the next congress is believed to be a sure enemy of the measure With that the outlook, charge of the shipping board are preparing to desert the ship. Num- Jerous employes will be fired, reduc- | ing the organization to a minimum, Chairman Lasker, who came into office with high ambitions for the | rejuvenation of the board, ts pre. {paring to return to his advertising | business in Chicago, his dream shat- tered. Meyer Lissner of Lon Angeles, « member of the board, Ia spoken of in political circles as Lasker's prob- able successor President Harding, whose subsldy plan died in congress, expects to | pass responsibility for the future of | | the government merchant marine to | congress. ‘The president's friends say {he is thru, | In a last effort to stir the senate | to life or the subsidy, the shipping | board warned Southern senators that | the board’s South Atlantic and Gulf | Home Brew (Starts on Page 1) the days when all the na blamed on ade | remember | tional evils were nolds. o- The meanest bird on this old deck I'm sure 4s Homer Hutton, Who used a wart upon his neck To save a collar button, eee | Placing an annual tax of $5 upon | bachelors won't make them marry— costs that much, 4 marriage Heense LI'L GE TH’ OFFICE VAMP, SEZ: clinging-vine type some. turns out to be poison | | | | times | | ivy. Ship Subsidy | Considered Dead Effort result of the jam in } thowe tn | Bill Now Political Blowup in Shipping Board Looked for as Result of Ill-Fated Measure | lines must be abandoned after March 4 If the subsidy bill ts not passed. A number of other tines operated by private concerns with board ves. will be cut down in number of boats, in the effort to economize. Before leaving his post, Chairman Lasker and hin colleagues are ex- pected to “clean out” the shipping board offices, remoying from their posts numerous political henchmen of senators and representatives who | failed to support the subsidy |Men Narrowly Escape Death TACOMA, Jan. 27.—Miraculously escaping death, C. M. Ostlund and Elmer B. Murphy, Tacoma garage | men, were in the horpital today, fol lowing the 80-foot plunge of their machine, which ran off the South Prairie bridge across the Carbon river Friday evening. ‘The machine leaped the width of the stream and landed upside down on the opposite river bank in three | feet of water B. H. Sears. th Prairie grocery clerk, saw the ace | dent and rescued the nearly drowne men. Ostlund has internal injurie | Murphy, @ broken collar bone, disio- cated shoulder and internal injuries Mother and Babe Injured by Auto | Several persons were injured Fri | day night in auto accidents, among |them Mrs, H. M. Ritchie, 658 19th ssingg 14th ave. at Madison at., | when drive M. J, Hene | han, 0 15th ave, knocked them down. Mrs, Ritchie was fect. She received sev her aide, chest was injured arm. Both u physi dragged eight re injuries to nd limbs. ‘The baby bout the body and left were under the care of an Saturday. TOKYO, Jan, 27.—Opposition mem bers of the of ra in the panese diet today demanded the nation of Viscount Uchida, min. ter of foreign affairs Kato refused to ask nation Political observers were convinced that a cabinet crisis wae developing. house for picture Industry, headed by men in| Local Secretary Giv Statistics es | 1g ‘The fact that so many theaters tn | ‘The membership @rive which the Seattle Aerie of Kagies ts now com | ducting has already proven the most | successful ever attempted by any or- ganization of its kind. Three thou- sand seven hundred and two applica- tions have been fled and 2,454 mem- bere have been tnitinted since Decem- yber 2%, acoording to Frank Dowe, secretary of the local branch; 1, applications in the past week have been received, making a record Ggure. | The great wuccess of the fraternity f found in its steadfast tion of Liberty, Justice, Truth and Equality, members say, The good work that has been done speaks for the organization and has made the present drive so successful, it is a» sorted. The Seattle Aerie, No. 1, is the Mother Aerie and there are now 1,600 subordinate lodges. The fraternal order, founded in Seattle in Febru- | ary, 1898, with six members, now can boast a total of 600,000 mem- | bers. Executives of the lodge express | their belief that within 10 years the | Basten membership will exceed that jot all fraternal organizations in the world. The local branch\ of Eagles now owns its lodge rooms and the future homesite, at Seventh ave. and Union st. Their total assets now | |amount to $18,118.68, and there ts» $120,000 in the treasury. ‘The Pagies have been contributing freely to humane organizations, in- cluding the Red Croms, the Knights |of Columbus, the Salvation Army and many other worthy war activi ties, One act during the war which |wecured many friends was the pay mont of $1,009 gratuity to the depend: ents of every enlisted member who lost his life in the service. SNOW AND LOTS _ OF IT FORECAST Weather Bureau Says City Will Be Slushy Snow and more snow. That's what Seattle faces over the week end, In common with the entire ‘orthwest. Wet, “ogy snowflakes poured | from the skies, early Saturday morn. ing, and a barometer that continued its downward flight without hesitat- ing presaged further falls of snow during the day. The thermometer also seemed imbued with an ambition to reach low levels, dropping three [degrees since the first snowfall A ere strom off the mouth of the Columbia river was blamed by | Weather Forecaster Salisbury for the dainpn The storm center showed a tendency late in the day to ghift inland, giving interior Washington and Oregon a touch of snow, also. At 5 a. m. rain was reported to be falling heavily in all parts of the coast north of Portland, prohably changing to snow. Salisbury stated, however, that the snow would probably be intermittent, mixed with rain, unless the tem- perature dropped several degrees lower. The barometer has dropped with amazing rapidity during the last |few hours, he said. PHICAL, y, will m in the Lippy Third and Columbia, Sun lecture by W. G. society, lodge day, at 8 p.m Shepard, declare: | WOMAN SHOT IN JEALOUS RAGE Man Fiend Held on Open Charge After Quarrel Alleged to have shot Mow. Cronm, 48, in a fit of jonloury Reid, was held in th Anna Jor | | | ph nt 24, exaatlor, of 1621 Gard elty Mr he She in in no 4/1 on an open Cross is in Providence hospital let wound in her thigh danger, phynic The whooting night, at the | 6919 40th ave han « bul ann wuld ocourred Men Friday 4 went to He with her Whiel ne fired one she M and attempt to police Reid the tw elf thru the only pen. but garage on | was later | Hain Reid is a former became acquainted while in th vited to he i HERE’S MORE ABOUT | _ BASIN || STARTS ON PAGE ONE ————— that he was unable to keep an un. nt of view navy man, and with Mrw. Cross when he was in several times, nervice home that neither report, ‘nor that of any other engineer,’ has been published by the state, Scott is «imply dodg. ing. He i» trying to compare my report to the Individual findings of ome 32 engineers employed to make the Columbia basin commission sur vey. Naturally all of the 32 engi |neers’ reports weren't published— because, individually each made jonty minor computations, But tn jmy case I was hired by the state to make the report by myself. It |was a oneman job—just Nike Gen. Goethals'—and the Goethals report has been published. LEGISLATURE LIK TO AIR CHARGES “You ‘notice t mention of why the report to my full y makes no he refused to show newspaper men, nor does he touch upon, the charges agsinest Goodner, w h had bee submitted to him more than a year before.” The charges agninst the con- servation and development de- partment have aroused a storm of indignation in Seattle, Taco- ma and Olympia, and it Is taken as a foregone conclusion that the matter will be brought be- fore the legislature Monday. leentered upon the resolution, adopted loy Seattle chapter of the American | Annoctation of Engineers, urging pub- Neation of the suppressed Batcheller report. Coptes have been sent to Lieut. Gov. W. J, Coyle and the chairman of beth house and senate appropriations and reclamation and Irrigation committees. A new phase of the scandal came to light Saturday when ft was learned that the Western Water Power Co. has a dual reason for combatting the pumping project, which ts advocated by Ratcheller as more economical than the gravity proposttton. In the first place, carrying out of the gravity project would Increase the minimum flow of the Spokane river from 1,500 cuble feet per seo- ond to 30,000—which would greatly aid the company's plants on that stream. Secondly, the gravity proj- ect would ruin « private power proj- ect at % Canyon, below Albany | Palla, which Is being pushed by Hugh |L. Cooper, the eminent New York |engineer, It ts naturally to the tn- terest of the Western Water Power Co, to block Cooper, as bis plan, if put thru, would flood Eastern Wash- ington with cheap power, which would be undesirable competition for the corporation. HART FORCED TO RE-EMPLAY CHASE It alno came out Saturday that the Present scandal dates back years be- fore Batcheller ever appeared in the matter. cated reports, Gov. Hart was forced by the power interests to re-employ Marvin Chase as supervisor of hy- draulice—after he had discharged him as chairman of the state reclamation board—for the sole reason that Chase is known to be friendly to the gravity project ‘The Seattle Chamber of Commerce, which has been one of the mort ac tive promoters in the state of the basin project, Is inclined to discount the seriousness of Ratcheller’s charges, however, on the ground that, no matter how many reports are suppressed, the federal govern. ment can be depended upon to decide on the most feastble and economical plan of developing the territory. Tt was pointed out Saturday by Basin Irrigation league, which is the principal a, Y promoting the proj. ect, went on record, at the request of the chamber, as being in favor of no varticular form of project, but @s urging a thoro investigation of all plans offered HERE’S MORE ABOUT CARFARE STARTS ON PAGE ONE Se eo | tlonal sum of approximately $130,000 to be issued in warrmats by the rail way department on February 10, will be retired by February 25, ©. B. Fitzgerald, president of the council said Saturday Altho the bankers’ cash warrants agreement to holds good only for the initial issue of Thursday, little difficulty is anticipated in handling the $130,000 in warrants to be issued by the railway department on Feb: ruary 10, Councilman B, L, Blaine Figures &how that by February 26 the revenues of the system will total several thousand dollars more than the amount required to retire both the Thursday issue of $224,189 and the contempla $130,000 for February 10," Blaine said. “While the bankers were servative to give guarantees for the future, the figures will decide them in our favor when the time come in the opinion of the council.” H Ol should not be allowed to collect on wires, According to well authenti- | chamber officials that the Columbia | \ ATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1923. PROMOTED D. W. Jenkins (above) new- ly appointed manager of the lsales mills department of |Henry Disston & Sons, Ine. |Mr. Jenkins will leave Seattle \for his new headquarters in Philadelphia shortly. His late |post as Pacific Coast man- Lagiaiative action will probably belager will be taken over by) Alex. A. Gardner (below), his former assistant. DURANT OFFER BOOSTS STOCK SEW YORK, Jan. 27.—-The next move in the financial battle of the winter im which William C. Durant) ix storming the money heights of General Motors thru a stock “uni system of bis own, was awaited with interest by Wall Street today. Following his offer of $200 share for the entire common stock output of Fisher Body, Durant was he subject of attacks In which his yetem, whereby shares of stock were split up into units among five smaller investors, was severely criticised. Answering this chal- lenge, Durant declared he would buy back the stock at $200 a share with a bonus of $2 on each unit, making the total cost him $215 @ share, including $5 commission. This offer, involving cash payment of $200,700,000, still stands. Durant Motors opened today at 71% and gained % in carly trad- ing. | Ask Overhead Road | on Spokane Street Request for an overhead roadway |on Spokane st., from the W. Spokane jst. bridge to 20th ave. S. W | Admiral way, was filed with the city counell Friday by the West Side Commercial league. The league asks that the plans and an estimate of cost be prepared, with a view to making the proposition an issue in the next city election. | FELLOWSHIP FOLKS wil meet Sunday at 3 p, m. with the members Jof the African Methodist church at 22 14th ave, Dr. Robert Whitaker will take for his topic of discussion “The Contagton of Intolerance." This will be the second conference which {members of the Fellowship group |have arranged with people of the col: ored race. ‘The regular monthly dinner given by members of the fellowship will be held in Dartnall's day evening at 6:30. The public is invited. ‘The subject under discus- sion will be “The Situation of India ‘Today.” COAST SKIPPERS MEET i SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, Coast yachtsmen met here today to | outline their activities for the next year, August 25 to September 3 was elected ag the best time for the big annual regatta. Possibility of a race to the Hawaiian islands and return also was discussed, PLEA FROM LONG LOST VESSEL IN FLOATING BOTTLE A massage from the dead was received here ‘Thursday when Norman Irwin, 4527 18th ave, S. W., picked up a bottle floating on the Duwamish river about a mile above the Spokane st. bridge. The bottle was small and tightly sealed and had to be broken be: fore Irwin could investigate its contents, He found in it a note peorly written In English. ‘Th writing was all legible with the exbeption of the name of the ship it concerned, He the me ould make it out k. Perdie Wreeked. — Lat t sage as Irwin Dec, 21, 1873. 47 degrees, 20 minutes, Long. 190 West, Jack Johnson, master. Please send help soon, Signed, Mike Parley and | restaurant Satur: | POWER MEASURE GAINS BACKING ‘Cow County Solons Give | Support to Bill OLYMPIA, Jan, 27-—Representa- tives of private power interests who are lobbying at the state capitol aguinst the bill to allow cities to well power outside their corporate imita are getting desperate. ‘The sentiment of both the house and senate, lukewarm at the begin ning, is changing, and the tide ap- pears to have turned in favor of the backers of the bil The active entrance of the Be | attle city officials into the fight, and the presence of Jim Gharrity, corpor. ation counsel of Spokane, in Olympia to back the r has turned many persons side of the ith The lobby! working every anure, on the ts in the meantime are minute of the day, spending money, pouring liquor, ing, cajoling—anything to 6 against the bill 6 statement of Seattle officia that they will back an initiative es paign if the bill is defeated has # 64 a new feature to the fight The power lobbyists know that if they defeat the bill, the matter will come before the people direct. Thelr move, fix anticipated by some of the legislative members, will now be see the bill thru, but to cripple it in such a way thet it will be usele Because of this fact, the B ig expected to get a more solid b ing thin it would have had. Repre sentative Charles A. Heighton, of King, argues that the Bone bill must be the one passed, of the so-called “cow coun have wakened to the ponsibilt ties of cheap power and as a resul | public opinion will force represen tives to vote for the bill out of fear ot what will happen to them at the next election if they do not The senate outlook at the present time is not as dark for the passage of the bill as it was last session, and then the bill was lost by but one vote. Several of the members who voted against the power bill last session have been replaced by supporters of the measure. Senator Paul Hauser and George Christensen are two of these men. Christensen is an rowed supporter of the bill and Hauser supported {t last session while he was a member of the house, ‘The first open hearing on the pow- er question is to be held in Olympia Monday night. BOY 1S VICTIM "OF MOB LASHIN Youth Is Tied With Barbed Wire and Flogged LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Jan. 27. —Wounds of a boy victim of the mob which ruled northern Ar- kansas, lynching E. C. Gregor and flogging others, were exhib- ited last night to the state leg- islative committee probing the vigilantes’ reign. “I was whipped by nine men, eack striking me twice with a heavy ask after they had bound me to a post, S| Dewey Webb, 18, declared as he ex hibited his body, striped with- huge welts, “A heavy plece of barbed wire was wrapped around my head and tened to the post to which I was tied. One of the men wore a black mask, but I knew his voice.” Webb named three members of the mob and declared he was de- — because he would not tell who committed alleged depreda- tions on railroad . Four other victims of the mob vio lence at Harrison testified before the committee. Members of the “cith zens’ committee” who directed mobe and supervised the extle of striker are expected to be called Monday. They were in Little Rotk today. “After they had whipped me they tore up my cap because it bore # junion Isbel and I was forced to run cross country, coatless and barehead: ed,” Webb testified. Webb said he was captured by vigilantes early Thursday morning, taken to the courthouse and held |unti! Friday morning before dawn, | During that time he was questioned and threatened repeatedly, he said. Finally, when he refused to tell of depredations on the railroads, of which he said he knew nothing, he was released. " As he walked out he was grabbed | by nine men and escorted to an opes | Space, where he was whipped. Webb said she had never worked for the raflroad. Bureau of Missing Relatives The Star. Other to reproduce su: thelr communities, WILLIAM H. FIELDER. — Mra Dora Wielder, Huntington, W. Vay | has written to the police for informa: ‘tion regarding her son, William BL Fielder, last heard of in Seattle. He is @ veteran of thé world war, Train Drags Rail Worker on Track AUBURN, Jan, 27,— Dragged 50 feet along the bed of & railroad track when @ train started while he waa engaged in repairing a broken brake rod underneath a car, Leo Blake, Northern Pacific, brakeman, was serk ously injured here yesterda: Chinese Herb J.LYSOUND tines," HERBS and ROOTS ERB ROM- prepared a EDIES for chronte x nd Chinese Medi M1 Third Ave. Seattle, Wash Phone Main 633¢