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Evening star., 1921-08-04
CORNCOBS MAY SOON FURNISH
GAS" FOR FARMERS AUTOS
Bureau Of Chemistry Wants Congress to
Furnish Funds So It Can Prove This Fore
cast-Run Tractor Two Bays for 18c.

Of the field men for the Department
of Agriculture. was in the East Indian
islands at work. Barrett has q score
or more Of big-time discoveries to his
credit In his work for the govern
ment. He was engaged in trying to
get badly wanted material. and was
so successful that an effort was made
by a German agent to ASA sSinate
him. During his spare time he
thought the marsh gas problem over
and finally did some experimenting In
small way and with some crude
called him away and he dropped the
matter.
No Storage Tank Needed.
"But produced a gas that would
run an engine" he said to q chem
ically inclined acquaintance.
Possibly 1t is only q coincidence.
bureau of chemistry from the Philip
pines that a process had been devised
by which a small tractor hauled a
plow for two days at q fuel cost OF
Is cents. Neither gasoline nor coal
oil nor benzine nor any Of the other
known fuels was used Instead gas
was made from waste in a little re.
tort on the machine and was burned
as 1t was produced. No heavy storage
tank was needed to weight down the
machine and possibly blow up the
engineer.
Wed better look into this" said
the bureau Of chemistry. But, having
no penny they're not getting any. as
the Old rhyme has it. When it gets
an appropriation it will try to find out
what it is the inventor in Manila has
discovered. Meanwhile the theory 10
that the Barrett plan to run super
heated steam over q bed Of live char
coal is being used In this way a
mechanically produced sewer gas is
created, piped into the motor and
burned precisely the same as gasoline
gas Is burned
Problem for Dear Old 8. o.
Whether or not the Manila expert
ments are all they are reported to be,
intense interest Is being manifested
in the various government chemical
laboratories in the general subject Of
the transference of waste matter into
energy. That gasoline has become
prohibitively dear for motor use in
many industries is admitted. Fuel
alcohol may take its place and each
farmer may, admittedly. have his own.
alcohol still. But that involves
trouble and supervision and expense.
. Whereas IL the farmer need only
burn little charcoal to get his car
bon, and convert that carbon into car
bon monoxide-or sewer gas-by a
simple little jigger plastered on the
side of the motor. whereby his fuel is
furnished at practically no cost
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-07-16

have an opportunity to become
world champ next season when the
English championship will have ita
annual session.
Both Know Course.
AT the Offset there appears to- be
no advantage held by either man.
Both Ray and Jock have played the
Columbia course and are well
acquainted with its bunkers, traps.
greens and fairways.
Last year, when Ray, after win
ming the U. S. title at Inverness
! club In Toledo. O., toured America
and played on so golf courses, he
pronounced the Columbia course
Prize Of them all.
Should Hutchinson be off form
and fait 10 carry away honors,
Americ". will still have dangerous
stars In the field In Chick Evans,
Bobby Jones, Louie Diegle, Jim
Barnes and many others.
Elaborate Plans.
Elaborate arrangements are be,
ing made at Columbia. The course
covers 1876 acres Of rolling country
and II Of the IS holes have nat.
ural brook hazards.
President Harding, who dedicat-
cd the fifth hole Of the Columbia
course. will. present the capital
prize to the winner, on the final
day.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-07-16
Pete is Catching Up Win Inch

Pete Herman has convinced Eng.
land that he has a right to get a
second match with Champion Jos
Lynch.
Herman knocked out Jimmy
wide, flywelght champion Of Eng.
land. Then he came home and
chased Lynch around the countr,
trying to get a chance to win back
his title. But he got no results.
The New orleans bantam went
back to England and knocked out
their English bantam champion.
Jim Higgins.
Herman feels he has showed SUI.
ftcient comeback stuff to entltls
him to a match with Lynch.
The American public feels the
same way as the English, SO before
long a title match is expected to
mature between the two.
Herman has made a remarkable
showing since he lost his title.
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81 Newspaper EnterprIse.

ny Newspaper Enterprise.
WASHINGTON, D. c., July 49,
The highest honor in American
golf!
1t will be at stake when golfers
I om all over the world gather CD
July 10. 20 and 81, at the fashiona.
BILE Columbia Country club, at
Chevy Chase, Maryland. near Wash
ington, to battle for the U. S. Open
Championship.
This years meet, the 25th annual
affair, Is expected TO be one OF the
most spectacular In years. And sew.
eral outstanding factots indicate
that expectations will ring more
than true.
Keen Competition.
For instance, az present an Eng
lishma.., Ted Ray, is holder OF the
coveted American golf honor. And
ut the sam. time, an American,
Jock Hutchinson. Is holder OF the
English Open Championship.
These two cracks will lie on hand
at Columbia-Ray to defend his Il.
tie, and Hutchinson TO attempt 20
ring in" with first honcrs. in or.
der to present America with the
worlds golf honors.
II Hutchinson cops. both NE Eng.
lish and American titles will rest
on American shoulders. II Ray
hangs on to his title here, lie will
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-07-16
GIVE
J0MSGAME
FAST BATTLE
Smith Wild Heaye in
Sixth Breaks up the
Old Game

Chafies Burns, former Monongab
Glass and Wesleyan star, pitching
last evening for the more or less
famous J~oiutssof Red Belt against
the Doctors, was in rare form and
let the sawbones down without a
hit G Long opposed Burns anG
pitched 1 wonderful game, only
errors behind him making the count
al against him at the finish. MOI
an earned run was made in the
game The game was called at the
end 81 the seventh BY agreement.
Dr. Smith at third base lost the
game for the Medicos by a wilc
heage N the sixth Inning with the
score tied at Ill Smith made
three errors during the game, but
the third and last ono did the dam
age
II Long opened the sixth by be
ing tossed out by G. Long. Burns
was safe on Rrown's poor throw to
first Il Belt singled to left center
and Burns took third, Belt moving
up to second on the play at third.
Merreu famed Conley hit an easy
roller % Smith and should have
Been retired at first for the third
nut but Smith threw wild and both
Burns and Belt Gaze home.
Each Side scored a marker in the
trst inning. With two hands down
for the JOINS, r. Long was safe on
Browns fozzle, He stole second
and scored when Burns long fly
was mufted by Barnes. Thg Doc
tors likewise scored with two out,
Morgan and Abbott famed, but
Smith was safe when Spadaloro
booted his roller. R. Long threw
Wild to second trying to catch
Smith stealing, and Merrell. play.
ing center, tossed the ball wild to
third and Smith kept right on run
Ming until he crossed the plate.
Some briLlinat plays IN the field
were made, despite the fact that
the box score shows a total Of IL
errors Grady Morgan at secont
base for the Doctors was a bus!
man having two putouts and elev.
en- assists The score: The score
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-07-16
TOO GOOD-FIREDI

OGDEN. Utah, July 1s.-tA
P.)-Blg Dave Davenport, for
mer st. Louis pitcher. was re-
leased today by the Ogden team
Of the Northern Utah League be-
cause other league teams con.
tended he was too good for the
league. Davenport pitched sew
en- full games and won ali for
Ogden. He pitched one no-hit
game, one one-hit game and one
three.hit game :. His strikeout
record averages 16 men to a
game. Davenport says he will
pitch for the Sidney (Neb.) team
Of the Midwest League.
-NaH H
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-07-16

Memorial trees for all American
soldiers who enrolled in the World
war to DO planted along national
highways Of tao state are to be lal
belled with an appropriate tag like
the famous tin hat or steel helmets
that the lads wore in the overseas
service. Each marker will bear
the name OF the soldier and his reg.
irlent. No rank will be given.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-07-16

tiees as to his long distance driy.
ing.
In his match recently at the Pei.
ham. n. Y. club. he out-drove his
opponents generously.
One Of his smashes measured $40
yards. He has a record Of S1s
yards.
II he keeps this form, we will be
calling him the "golring Babe
Ruth"
Every sport is measured in terms
OF our Busting Babe nowadays.
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local ball yard. when clarksburs
will be the attraction.

There is something else the mat.
ter with our national game besides
the lively ball.
The falling off in attendance is
due to another cause than the re.
silent pill.
It's the prices charged to see the
games.
Fans have begun to figure in pen.
MES again instead OF dollars, since
the war furry has passed.
They are Of the opinion that no
ball game Is worth two hours Of
their time and $1.10 Of their money.
The pre.war price Of rs cents
would make a noticeable difference
in the turnstiie records.
This difference OF 50 cents In the
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-07-16

"slicker" Parks, the University
Of Michigan pitcher, Is working for
Ty Cobb's Tigers now.
Parks has the markings otsa big
Lacquer.
The youth has piled up some
marvellous strikeout records dur
ing his college and minor league
career.
He possesses the kind Of stuff
that Cobb likes In players-base-
ball smartness.
Abe Mitchell, visiting English
star Is living up to advance no.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-07-16
Fairmont A. G. Is
Winner; Big Score

The Fairmont A. C. defeated the
Modern Woodmen last evening in
Ia seven inning game 1913. The
teams will meet again on Monday
evening. Some OF the woodmen
regulars were out OF the lineup last
evening. Score by innings:
.Woodmen 100 600 p 8
Fairmont $50 911s-19
Batteries, Stuckey, Patrick, Lay.
man and Doolittlei Lloyd and Cane.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-07-16

Chicago. 8; Washington, . III in
uings).
New York. Z: St. Louis, 8.
Boston, 3: Cleveland. 9.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-07-16

The grandstand managers gave
pr Howard a fine RAGING for ap
pearing on the coaching lines with,
out a Uniform.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-07-16

spadatore got a lucky hit when
ais pop fly fell safe right by the
pitchers box. Long could have
taken but he waited for Brown
u Morgan to do the trick.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-07-16

scale of seat prices isn't much bu
It is enough 10 send hundreds OF
baseball fans of. to seek other
forms Of entertainment.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-07-16

Nl~nety:elght per cent Of me tot
mer service men who setasd III
Canadian lands through gosern
mont aid have made good
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r Long caught nice bali and
held Burns up In good shape. Alb.
bolt worked well behind the bat
Tor Doctors.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-07-16

The next eight days Will test the
strength ofAhe Pittsburgh Pirates
as pennant contenders in the Ma.
tional league race. Today they
open a four game series with New
York and then jump over to Boston
to tackle the Braves, who Just at
this time are setting the league on
fire. Gibson has quite a hospital
list at the present time, but Carey
and Whitfield will likely get into the
New York games. II the Pirates
can break even or better in the
games with New York and Boston,
they will have crossed one Of the
roughtest spots on the pennant.
Vile road in safety.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-07-16

Clarksburg will play Monongah
at Clarksburg tomorrow; Manning.
ton goes to Wheeling; State Street
will play the Fairmont All.Stars at
Traction park; the Joints will play
Jamison No: c: Fairmont and Cleye.
land Coal plays at P~arkersburg.
State Street lost to Baxter last
evening in a game at Baxter SO.
The East Siders will play Kingmont
at South Side park this afternoon.
Tho kiwanis team will rest up to
day and get ready for the game
next Wednesday Afternoon at the
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-07-16
Sport Chatter
GOOD GAME

The Chesapeake onsol IS team
will clash with the J-Y HIte team
tomorrow afternoon at $3.50. These
two teams are expected to give en-.
ira good amusement as they are
just about the same strength &C.
cording TO past performances.
The game will be hard fought as
1T is the first game to be played
on the new Chesapeake diamond on
Ices knob.
Much work has been put on this
diamond and there are few better
in the region. Besides 1t Is easily
reached both from Fairmont and
Barackville, being accessible by au-
TO or street car. Those leaving on
the 2 o'clock Falrview car and get
ting off at Shaft curve will be in
plent of time to see the game
The local team will give a box sup
per and dance tonight at Buffalo
bridSe on Pennsylvania avenue,
the proceeds to be used for their.
benefit.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-07-16

pr Ed Howard announced after
the game he would initiate BurnL
INTO the Doctors Sub in the nca,
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Ehgnepsfu none.
struck ont, by Burns, 13: by
Lpng, Base on balls, of Burns,
IN Long 4.
Notes on Game.
Burns tanned 10 doctors. I'm
gcky tor he sawbones.
clare Abbott breezed three times.
Long deserved better luck. HI
pitched splendid game.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-07-16

Barnes made a great error on
Burns HIGH fly In the first and the
biz boy reached third on 1t.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-07-16

Morgan played a remarkably
aey game at second for the los
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-07-16

4 Belt got tvo clean hits.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-07-16
HOW THEY
l9STAIND
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Results Yesterday
Nj games postponed yesterday,
n,
Standing Of the Clubs

Games Today
Pittsburgh at New York.
Cincinnati at Philadelphia.
Chicago at Brooklyn (2l.
st. Louis at Boston,
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Results Yesterday
Philadelphia, 5; Detroit, Q 40
inn!ngsl.
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Games Today
Boston at Chicago.
Philadelphia at st. Louis.
New York at Detroit.
Cleveland County herald., 1921-01-20
NAVY NOT QUITE SOBER YET
Drunkenness Leads as Cause for Trial Of Men Despite Prohibition,
 Says Official.

Washington.-Dr contin- ued to be the principal cause for trial of enlisted men of the navy for deser- tion or overstaylng leave during the last fiscal year, according to the an- nual report of Rear Admiral George k. Clark, judge adVUCare gEHETa1, to Secretary Daniels.
 Of 1,725 such cases during the year pleas of drunkenness were entered in 3S4 cases.
 The excuse, "having good time," was given in 362 cases. Homesickness caused 90 sailors to take French" leave, and in eight cases the plea was entered that the work on board ship was too hard.
 More than 41,0OO cases were tried by court-martial during the year.
Cleveland County herald., 1921-01-20
SEEKS TO ENTER U. S. ON RAFT
Austrian stowaway Forced, However, to Gall Help in New
 York Harbor.

New York.-After bobbing around aimlessly in the harbor on a raft for several hours Tn the dark, Wasfc Ernst, an eighteen-year-old stowaway from Austria, decided to abandon his novel method of eluding Ellis island officials and called dejectedly for help.
 While thawing out by a radiator, he told a tugboat captain, who found him after much searching, he had been in- formed that the way of stowaways en- tering America was hard and. conse- auentIy, when his ship entered the harbor he threw the raft overheard jumped on it and hoped to be washed ashore. He was taken to Ellis island for deportation.
Cleveland County herald., 1921-01-20
Living With Bullet ir fieart.

Omaha, Neb.-James Freeman of this city has bullet in his heart and is still alive. He told the police he was shot by his wife, from whom he had been separated, when he returned home after he is said to have threat ened her. She met him at the door and fired pointblank. He walked to the police station, nearly three miles away, where medical attention was given him. He was removed to a hos pital end an X-ray taken which show ed the bullet nestling in the heart
Cleveland County herald., 1921-01-20
ORE TOTALS 50,00o, ,ooO TONS
of 7,7oo,oo0 During Year, Say Duluth Figures.

Duluth, Minn-The total shipment of iron ore for the season reached ap- proxfmately 5000o,000 tons, according to figures announced here.
 Iron ore shipped from the head of the lakes thus far amounts to 47.707,- 372 tons, with about 30,000 tons re- maining to go out from the Duluth and Iron Range railroad docks at Two Harbors and the Chicago & North western railroad docks at Ashland, Wis.
 Total shipments from all the decks for the season show an increase of approximately 7,70O000 tons over last year, when 40,067,S $50 tons were shipped.
Cleveland County herald., 1921-01-20
300 SPIES IN
 AMERICAN ARMY
Amazing Story of German Es- plonage During the War
 Is Disclosed.
DESERTER MAKES CONFESSION
Former Officer Tells of Being Sent From Germany With Other Cadets to Enlist in the United
 States Army.

New York.-An amazing story or German espionage during the war was disclosed when John Willet, for mer captain in the Forty-eighth Uni ted States infantry, confessd he was really Hans Willers, cadet in the German army until 1914, when he was sent to this country with 300 other cadets to joint the American army and become United States officers.
 Willet admitted he had absconded with $6,O00 of his company's funds at Camp Sevier on November 2S, 1918, few weeks after the armistice, and de- serted
 It was this offense and not any sus- picion of his spy role which resulted in his arrest here when Hugh J. Han- nigan, formerly a first lieutenant in the Forty-eighth, recognized the de serter on the street and hailed a po- liceman.
 Hints at Treason in Washington.
 "You would be surprised how many high German officials held jobs in Washington during the war, Willet told Detective Sergeant O'Leary. The prisoner made this statement after he had narrated how he came here and what he would have done had his regi- ment been sent to France.
 q would have led my men to slaughter, and could have been use ful to my own country in many other ways" Willet declared, according to the police, in explaining why he and others were sent to the United States to enlist in the American army. Wiliet was taken to Fort Jay prison on Gov ernor's island.
 Confronted by two ex-lieutenants of the Forty-eighth infantry, Sidney P. Howell, a lawyer, and Francis Hatch, Willet began to respond to questions.
 As to his pedigree, he said he was born in Germany and educated there.
 T was trained for spy work when I was boy and later when l was cadet in a German military academy" the detectives quote Willet as saying.
 "When the World war began in 1914 I was selected to join a band of cadets who were to come to the United States with orders to join the American army. Other groups went to the French army and to the British. About 300 others came over here with me. I knew my military training soon would be recog- nized and that promotion would fol-, low, so I enlisted as private the first opportunity got. had no citizenship papers-I did not need any.
 Enlisted as Buck Private.
 "I enlisted as buck private in AL bany soon after my arrival in this country. Within very short time my ability as soldier was recognized and l was promoted.
 My heart was nearly broken when I discovered my regiment probably would not be sent to France. I would have died for my country gladly. So, 15 days after the armistice, took the company fund money and left camp.
 I'm telling you this freely because might as well be dead. Life does not matter much to me-"
 Willet said that after he deserted Camp Sevier he started travelling. He toured the Pacific coast.
 In Chicago about a year ago he mar ried an American girl named Craw- ford it is said.
 Willet recently opened mail order business in this city under the name of Crawford.
Cleveland County herald., 1921-01-20
Children unshod in Big Shoe Town.

Brockton, Mass.-This city produces shoes for worldwide distribution and makes more of some kinds than any other city, but Charles F. Brooks, at tendance officer of the school board, reported that many of it's children are unshod There are at least fifty chil- dren in the city who cannot go to school because they lack shoes, he said, and some of them have not been 4o school in weeks.
Cleveland County herald., 1921-01-20
May Be as Handy With the Skillet

Frankfort, Ky.-Mrs. Jackson Nor ris, wife of Kentucky's adjutant gen. eral, is so handy with gun that when she wants chicken killed she merely steps to the back door, takes aim with her 20 rifle and the chicken falls with a bullet through its head. She uses a gun brought from Belgium by the adjutant general and presented to his little son.
Cleveland County herald., 1921-01-20
No Chance for Judoes.

Marietta, Or don't find any one offering me a drink" Mayor Sprague remarked while acting as police judge "Yes, but you are judge" said the prisoner and maybe it's safer to offer mo drink than to offer you one"
The evening world., 1921-12-29
AVIATOR TRIES FOR
ENDURANCE RECORD

An attempt to break the worlds
time record for a non stop airplane
flight Is being made at Hazelhurst
Field, Mineola, L. l., by Edward
Stinson in a J. L-6 all-metal mono
plane. The record Is "a hours, 10
minutes and seconds, made in June,
1920. at Villesauvage la Marmogne,
France, in a Farman Goliath blplane.
With Stinson in the drivers seat
and Lloyd Bertaud beside him rs
mechanician and relief pilot. the ma =
chine took the air at 9 o'clock this
morning. despite a snowstorm. All
arrangements for the flight had been
made, and at a conference OF the
pilots and John M. Larsen, OF the :,
L. Aircraft Corporation, 1t was d.
cided not to permit the low Ceiling
to prevent the start.
The machine will circle over the
country in the vicinity OF Mineola
during the flight. The monoplane rs
powered with A. b. M. w. 1885, horse
power motor. The French record
holding machine had two 26O-horse
power Salmson motors.
The plane was still aloft little be-
fore 8 o'clock this afternoon. AT that
time a strong northwest wind was
blowing. The weather forecaster pre-
dicted gales from that quarter during
the night