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VOL XXXIV. STATE RATING BUREAU REPORIS ON PULLMAN Fire Record of City for Five-Year Period Reported as Unfavora ble—Report Gives Sum mary of Findings A detailed report on the city of Pullman from a fire hazard stand point has just been made by Lee McKenzie, manager of the Wash ington Surveying and Rating bu reau, following a survey made in March of this year. The detailed report is complete in every detail, but its length forbids publication in full in this issue. The summary, which covers all the ' important points, is as follows: Summary Water supplies are from artesian wells, adequate in amount but are ultimately dependent on a single pump. Gravity and direct pres sures. With 1530 gallons per min ute discharging from hydrant, pres sure under conditions which would obtain in case of fire in water main was 80 pounds in a prominent por tion of the mercantile district. In much of lower altitudes of residen tial district hydrant pressure is good; but unsatisfactory size of mains, excessive hydrant spacing and altitudes in residential district renders water Bystem from fair to very poor according to location in portions of such district Municipal reservoir capacity is 558,000 gallons, which is about one day's supply under conditions of maximum sum mer consumption. The State College owns its own water system which consists of an artesian well, a pump of 350 gallons per minute and combined reservoir capacity of 320,000 gallons, afford ing static pressure of from 118 to 145 pounds in mercantile district. The college system would be avail able in case of emergency on the municipal system and vice versa. Hydrant spacing in mercantile dis trict is 250 to 375 feet apart and in residential district in 12 representa tive instances, at random 350, 380, 380, 700. 625, 720, 6f,0, 620. 480, 775, 380 and 350 feet. Fire apparatus consists of a non approved 1-ton motor-driven com bination hose and single 50-gallon chemical engine now provided with 600 feet of 2Vi-inch hose; four hose carts, and 2150 feet total of _"j --(Continued on page six) PULLMAN GIRL IS MISSIONARY TO EGYPI Miss Mary Danson, State College Graduate, Will Servo Six fears in Important Church Work Miss Mary Frances Dawson, who is under appointment of the Women's Board of the United Presbyterian church as a missionary to Egypt, left Wednesday morning on the first part °f her long journey. She does not expect to sail from the United States before September 15. During Aug ust she will attend the missionary conference at New Wilmington. Pa. While there she is to receive instruc tion in the Arabian language. The remainder of the time before her sail ing will be spent visiting friends and relatives in Pittsburgh, New York, and other eastern points. She will visit in Atlantic, lowa, for a few days on her way to New Wilmington. Miss Dawson is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. w. Dawson of Pullman and is well known here, having spent greater part of her life in this vicinity. She was a member of the 1917 graduating class of Pullman nigh school. In June, 1921, she re ceived her bachelor's degree in home economics from Washington State College During the past year she "as been an instructor in the Union n|Kh school at Kittitas. Miss Dawson will be stationed at airo, where her work will mainly be 'anguage study for a time. Her term °T service will be the regular mt* «°nary term, six years. Miss Dawson's many friends wisn r BUccess and happiness in her new work. The Pullman Herald -CVOtel tO thC beßt interesU of Pullman and the greatest farming community in the Northwest surrounding it. ALBRIGHT BUCCITMBB TO HEART FAILURE W. v Albright, formerly proprie tor of a motion picture business con ducted in the building now occupied by the Liberty theatre, died sudden ly from cerebral hemorrhage Satur day afternoon »fter completing s | day's work aa bricklayer on the new college dormitory building. Mr. Al brighi bad worked only one 'lay and appeared in good health, the attack coming while he was walking east Of Kerry hall. He was about 65 years of age and has c daughter, Mrs. n ii. Greene, In Seattle, where the body was shipped for burial Two sister.- also reside in Seattle and another in Everett. Deceased w member of the Moscow B. I 1 0 E lodge PULLMAN GUARDSMEN ! RANK HIGH IN CAMP i Men of Company X Return From Annual Encampment After Two Weeks of Intensive Training . Company K. lfiist Infantry, re turned to Pullman by special train over the Milwaukee and 0.-W. R. & N. lines, arriving at 12:30 p. m. I Sunday, The two weeks intensive training this year is reported to have been the best that has ever been held In the state. The entire brigade of troops was in camp at the same time, totaling 4000 men from all sections of the state of Washington, The program of work included the usual close order drill, and an ex tensive program of field maneuvers. Much of the latter work was demon strated, and all the men of Company X believe they learned more by the demonstration method than by ac tually attempting to go through the tactics. The big demonstration fea ture was put on by the 7th infantry from Camp Lewis and showed a war strength company in action. Air planes, machine guns, trench mor tars, one-pound cannon, artillery and I signal rockets were used to stage the battle, with all pieces loaded with genuine ammunition. An attempt will be made to stage the same bat tle on a smaller scale in Pullman next Armistice day by the members of Company K. After the big battle demonstration the entire 161 st infantry was called upon to fight the fires started by the bursting shells. There were several near casualties in this work, as Harry Libby became overheated and had to ride home in an ambulance, : and Captain G. H. Gannon in com mand of 30 men from Company X and 30 men from Company l (Pros ser] was marooned on the far side of American lake. The timely ar rival of two boy scout sailboats brought the marooned fire fighters to camp in time to do justice to their evening meal. One amusing sight was to see a group of Palouse coun try boys trying to row an eight stroke boat. Walter Glover and John Brosa seemed to excel in interfering with the other oars. The biggest public feature of the entire encampment was the gov ernor's review of troops Sunday, July 16. There were many visitors, to taling about 6000, among them sev eral Pullman people. This list in cluded Mrs. D. R. Campbell. Mrs. Gage, Dr. H. F. Newbrough and fam ily, Harry A. Struppler, William Mc- Credie, Robert Clement and J. Allen Oliver and family. Company X ranked as the best drilled and disciplined company in I the Third battalion, and compared •very favorably with any in the regi ment. Pullman has just cause to be proud of the young men who are forming our unit of Uncle Sun's peace time army, and should md solidly behind them in all their ac tivities, INSPECTS EXPERIMENT STATION Dr. J. W. Evans, of the office of experiment stations, U. S. depart ment of agriculture, has completed the annual inspection of the State College experiment station and left Monday afternoon for MOSCOW, where he will inspect the University I of Idaho experiment station. I)'. ; Evans was well pleased with the ex- j perimental work being carried on at the Pullman station and reported j finding the accounts of the station in good shape. j PULLMAN, WASHINGTON. FRIDAY, .11 I 28, L 928 COUNTRY FIRJEJ] It being assumed that country fires usually occur during the day, upon receiving an authentic report of the breaking "in of such a fire telephone cither Mrs. M. F. <iimiH.ii (phone {'~]- or J. S. Clark fphone 672) ni the city hall, giving the lo cation hi the fire. The fire bell will then be tolled five taps, followed In ti pause, and continued in thai manner, five taps and a pause, until a crowd gathers, I pon hearing the bell, proc 1 to the city hall, with your car if possible, where the fire fighting equipment, consistiii of cans filled with water, empty pails ami mops, will be found i" the room housing the rii_\ fire truck. Fake one can of water, one empt,\ pail and as n\m\\ p.s ;ls ,Vl>ll are carrying men. to the car and proceed to the fire. I" ':IM' the Fire occurs ,-it night, tail the bell in the manner mentioned above, nrnl proceed in Hie same way. FRED <\ DEXSOW. I) I) KIMBALL, R. 1.. JKXXER. < Committee. Albion Defeats PuUmaii, Colton three Cornered Horseshoe Tourna ment Results iv Victory for Al l>ion Tiissits— Pullman Takes Third The Albion horseshoe pitchers, led by that veteran exponent of the -came. "Jim" Fair, invaded Pullman last Tuesday and made a clean sweep )f the three-cornered tournament. with Colton. Albion and Pullman rep resented Fair himself has retired from active participation In the great American game, but under his coach- Ing the neighboring town has mould ed a team that will give the best pitchers in the country a run for their money. The preliminary games were played Tuesday morning, when Pull man. with two full teams entered. suffered defeat at the hands of both 'olton and Albion with identic;-.' scores, 10 to ."» At noon the ::o visitors from the :wo towns were guests of the Pull nan chamber of commerce at the regular weekly luncheon and the finals, between Albion and Colton, svere played in the afternoon, Albion winning by a 6 to 3 count. The Finals With Griffith and Cunningham un beatable, Albion took an early lead n the finals and won five of the first Jix games played. Colton showed letter form in the final set. however. md grabbed two ot the three last games. The results of the nine games in the finals were as follows: Phornton a- Glunk, Albion 2 1 3nyder <ft Keller. Colton 11 iriffith & Cunningham, Albion .21 Burkett & Potter, Colton 17 Mbbs i<- Hoefel, Colton 22 'hambers t <- Ferguson, Albion .. 1 ■"> '.riffith & Cunningham, Albion..2l Hbbs v<: Hoefel, Colton l •"■ Chambers & Ferguson. Albion . .22 3nyder .<: Keller, Colton 8 Fhornton & Glunk, Albion 21 Burkett & Potter, Colton L 4 Kiwanis Club Wins from Good Fellowship The Kiwanis club baseball artiste iefeated the Good Fellowship team n a sensational game on the citj liamond last Thursday evening. Tin ;ame was the feature of a joint pi<- Lie in which the members of the wo clubs hihl their families partici pated, and the final ICOre was 10 it 7 in favor of the Kiwanians. Judge Thos. Xeili officiated as am lire and weni through the nine lu tings without being made the target ir pop bottles, due, largely, to the act that there were no bottles avail iiii<v K. K. Banger, candidate foi trosecntlng attorney, pitched for the sinners, an<l while his right wing s not ho effective a- in the old days rhea he pitched in the Michigan tate league, he whiffed I Jood Fellows and kept his hits well cattered. "Bob" Jenner was the nound man for the Good FellowH nd figured that his days work was tell done when he struck out Sanger B the third inning. Burkett & Potter, Colton 21 Chambers and Ferguson, Albion, .20 Gibbs <t lloefel, Colton 23 Thoi nton (.v- Glunk, Albion 13 Griffith *>• Cunningham, Albion.. 22 Snyder & Keller, Colton 5 Albion to. Pullman ."> The Albion champions found Pull man comparatively easy picking' in the Albion-Pullman preliminaries, and ran up a I 0 to 5 score with little effort. Thompson and Tedford. mainstays of the Pullman team, fell easy prey to the Albion artists and West ley and Doerner fared no bet ter. The scores were as follows: Chambers & Ferguson, Albion ..23 Thompson & Tedford. Pullman ..19 Griffith <\i Cunningham, A1bi0n..23 Jenner £ yeo, Pullman 9 Glover & Zalesky, Pullman ....21 Thornton & Glunk, Albion is Chambers & Ferguson, A1bi0n...21 Westley v c- Doerner, Pullman ...17 Yeo & Kllsworth, Pullman 2 1 Clunk X- Thornton. Albion IT Kloasner & .Martini, Pullman ...21 Griffitb & Cunningham, Albion. . 9 Griffith & Cunningham, Albion..2l Thompson & Tedford. Pullman.. ." Thornton ,V- (Hunk. Albion 21 Thompson A Tedford, Pullman .19 Chambers >v.- Ferguson, Albion... 21 Veo \- Jenner, Pullman !• Griffith & Cunningham. Albion..2l Glover & Zalegky, Pullman .... 9 Mums a;- Clarkson, Pullman . ... 22 chambers ,v- Ferguson, A1bi0n...13 Clunk ,\t Thornton. Albion 2 1 Klossner & Martini. Pullman . . . I.'. Pullman 2 1 Albion 1 s Albion 21 Pullman 4 Albion 'I'l Pullman Mi '•"The names of the players in three games were not recorded by the Bcorekeeper. (olton to, Pullman •"> Snyder and Keller proved the mainstays of the Colton team in the Colton-Pullman contest and won the (Continued on page five) Lee Allen played behind the bal (way behind i for the Klwanii club. and handled Sanger's curves in a masterly way until he plunged into a bunch of aettlea after one of San ger's wide ones, Forrest went in as relief catcher and laved the game. Behind the bat [or the Good Pel lows was Dr. M. .1. Beiatel, whose fast baM running wan one of the features of the game. Other partici pants in the struggle for baseball supremacy were Dan Downen. Dr. Johnston, c. K. Graves, Oscar Will man, L. G. Kimzey, J, N. Scott and C. \ ("nit i . [or Hi.- Kiwanis club and Bob Nell!, James Roberts, Art ' Thompson, Mot. Moss, Lou Curtis, William Rivers, Charles Zalesky and ,1. O. Patterson for the Good Fellows. After the game the big picnic din ner was served in the tourist park, with 35 families participating, ice cream, lemonade and coffee fur nished by tile two organizations rounded out the basket luncheons brought by the picnickers IH.MiI I A 111 Sllll.s FIIJST VIKLD REPORT Eighteen bushels to the acre on lin acres of hj brid No i i.: was the first yield io he reported in the Pull man vlclnitj this year, coming from the Cordon Klemgard farm west ol Pullman, where combine opera! were started Monday Final figures when the threshing In completed maj change 'lie estimate, which is based <m il'.' threshing already completed, mi" mi wo bushels to the acre, Lo rain men - 11 mate that the a> ci age yield .>t tall wheat will not ex ceed :'n bushela t<> the acre in this vicinity, with spring wheat well be low that figure. This would mean a crop of 6." io 70 per cent of normal FEDERAL COURT PASSES ON BURKOWSKY CASES Cases Involve Property Seized While Pullman Man and His Sister Were Visiting in Germany Federal Judge Rudkln handed ' down .1 decision Tuesday In the caw of <hris .iiui Henrietta Burkowsky of Pullman against the alien prop-; erty custodian, holding thai they are entitled to maintain their ac t ion for the recovery of the property seized during the war, says the Col fax Commoner. The opinion holds that while Henrietta Burkowsky Isj not an American citizen, yet .she Is I a propei party to the Buit tor an ac counting to determine the propor« (ion ot the property which was seized as their Joint property by the custodian, which belonged to her brother, Chris. The tacts out of which the action arose were about as follows: Chris Burkowsky came to this county In tl»f early seventies and was naturalized in Ix7o and proved up on government land. His sister. Henrietta, came later and in 1884 took out her first citizenship papei and made final proof upon a pre emption claim. They sold out in 1010 and left their securities In the hands of an agent In a Pullman bank and went for a trip to their old home in Ger many and to travel throughout oth- ! er European countries. They made i re ervations on the Vaterland sail-! ing from Hamburg In July, 1914, and in order to put in another month j with some friends In northern Ger-' man cancelled their reservations and | made new ones for the same steamer in August. Before the next sailing date war was declared In Europe and the Vaterland, which had left New York tor Hamburg, returned to its New York pier and was tied up during the war. They went to Ber lin to see Ambassador (Jirard to'get permission to leave Germany, but on account ot the sister not having her final citizenship papers, she could not get the ambassador's per mission to leave. The brother re fused the permission which was granted him to leave unless his sis ter could accompany him and they were compelled to remain in Ger many until June, L 920, when the) finally secured passports to come to i this country. During their absence the alien ■ property custodian seized all of their ! property. The property seized in the name of the brother was returned, but the property seized as the joint property of brother and sister was retained and the action was to either recover all of it or for an accounting to recover the portion to which Chris was entitled of the joint property. The alieu property custodian, through V. B. District Attorney ,lef made a motion to dismiss the suit because the Ister was not an American citizen and because Chris had been ab lenl ti ono the United r more than two years, re siding in the land of his birth and had therefore expatriated himself. The court held th( Bt forth in the iiill were not susceptible of this construction and holds the case Uld be heard on its merits. The further contention was made by the r. s. attorney that Inasmuch > •is tlie expatriation statute provided the presumption of expatriation by absence from country of adoption i and residence in native country tor I more than two '• : ■ oiild be re- I butted by testimony taken before a ! counselor or diplomatic officer, that I (Continued on page six) FREQUENT ULLAGE TO X LL MORNING GLORY l i.ili Expert Telia U«*sults of Kxperi- Ilieut to i:\tcriiiiiuiti- I'ests In Mis stjit«> —Agronomists in Conference ih.n Frequent and shallow tillage Is ihr best method <ii controlling wild morning glory, which is becom ing .1 menace mi many Washington wheal iinn . i. the opinion of Pro u M D, Thomas o( the Utah ex !" ' iiiicni station, Logan, who was in Pullman to attend the conference t » r ugronomlnta representing 11 western states, Thursday and Friday (»i last week. Seven standard meth ods of combating rootstock peren nials hi which wild morning glory [S tilt' most serious, have been estab lished by the Utah experiment sta tion following control experiments carried on by the station experts, ac cordlng to Professor Thomas. These methods include cutting down the tops, smothering, covering with tar paper, pasturing, 'digging, treating with chemicals and rotating with another crop. "In practice it would seem that frequent, shallow tillage Is the best method oi control," Professor Tho mas said. ('lose hand hoeing of small plots of the weed will appar ently cause almost complete eradi cation in a single season The weeds should he cut off just as soon as they start to come through the ground " There is a feeling of hopelessness in many parts of Utah where farms have become Infested with wild morning glory and other rootstock perennials, according to Professor Thomas, and his experiment station Is conducting a campaign to rid the state of them before the menace be comes even more serious. "Wild morning glory is the worst weed in Utah," he said. "It is root stock perennial: that it, it has un derground rootstocks which permit it to spread by sending up new shoots a few inches from the original plant. During normal growth the leaves manufacture food and store it in these underground parts, which mak<" use of it in the production of new shoots. "There are several bad weeda which propagate by rootstocks, Iho most common of which are morninsf glory, whitetop, ground cherry, Cat ■ ada thistle, mouse ear or 'desert' or (■Continued on page six) FORREST IS CHAIRMAN OF STATE COMMITTEE Pullman Man Named Chairman of Agricultural Committee of State Bankers' Asso ciation F. C. Forrest, cashier of the First National bank ot Pullman, has just received notification of his appoint ment as chairman of the agricul :ural committee of the Washington Bankers' association, considered one )t the most important committee as signments in the gift of the associa :ion. The appointment was made by i. M Jackson, president of the Na tional Hank of Tacoma, who is presi lent of th>> mate association, and will terminate .lune 16, 1923. Oth ir membera of the committee are as Follows: (l. F Carpenter, cashier American Security bank. Kennewick. J. W. Alexander, president Bceort ;y Stall; bank, Chehalis. S. H Starett Jr., vice president First National bank, Ororille. N. H Hannay, vice president First National bank, Mt. Vornon. WILL IUHK MOSCOW KOAD Thf trading on the Moscow-Pull oan highway along the 0.-W. tracks s almost completed and the laying ii crushed rock will commence soon t is planned by the county commis lonen to start on tbe Moscow end nd work west, but efforts are be ng made by local citizens to induce hem to work from Pullman toward loscow thu insuring a road out of •ullman to the east in case the high ray can not be completed this fall. No. 39