The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 22, 1920, Page 1

| ER Weather sht and Wednesday, fair; moderate westerly winds Temperature Last ¢ M Hours . & VOLUME 23. Botered as Second Clase Matter May 3, On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star 1899, et the Postoffice at S¢ attle, Wash. under the Act of Compress March #, 1179 T Por Year, by Mall, $5 to 89 LATE EDITION n Ea] Ww ASH., y 22 “% 920. TUESDAY, JUNE AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH hood did right We lost a and rold baby day | he Dress Rehearsal. at 5: 30 | nes bu Sieg cee | Sale cn Beauties Select Costumes for Big Number in “F Fan Tan” 7S Scott ‘Benefit Tickets Are Gotez F ast there are in the world. let me know,” and th renewed hin seat lieve my sympathetic bearing and | the naturaj | of my newly | shaven mug so inspired him with confidence that he didn't slip’ Sround to the ceilar door to take a peek. Anyhow, if he did, he found Re pup tied up. . ee N THE afternoon a 2 year oid baby wandered over the neighborhood, appar- ently aq homeless aw the pup. It wasn't right Sure where its mamina was, and. go far as I could see, it didn't care Tt was having its first big adven ture, it wasa fine Jute afternoor and strange folks gave’ it candy strange dogs {risked around it, Strange children played with it, and the world war quite a place, once you got, around to seeing ft It seemed fo me that the baby ‘Was having the time of its life, but the womeh of the neighborhood | were quite excited. They didn't | recognize the toddler, but they sent | forth their children in various di- rections to hunt up the mother, and | probably she was found, all right, but my sympathies were al) with the kid My sympathies are al ways with the juvenile in spirit i who break the routine and go ad venturing, hand in hand with God's blue sky and a warm June breeze ome SUPPOSE ours is a typ- feal neighborhood, a slice off the heart of Ameri ca, and I suppose that what our folks th about, and what they do, and what their idealx are, represent about the national average. And Sunday is the day of the Week when you can judge people, Because that's the day for the ex pression of personal desires. I noties that a good many wives rere re ner nee meer ee gp Wednesday (URTIS WAS KILLED WITH HIS OWN GUN Carmody Tells Murder Trial Jury of Quarrel That Led to Slaying broken - up Get your gun for 1 am bat when 1 come | will only have these thelding up his two fists. I am above killing » man” i These were the words uttered } Bud ean Curtis just before |was shot to death by der, fuel contractor, last April 2. at | the; Ranight wood camp near Lake }}Popest park, Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Jobn PD. Carmody told a “You have my home. coming for you; ty Qn trial for his Mite, Rader now faces the first allaman jury to try under case here since the jury on law was panned several lyears ago. The jury, two members of which helped to convict Madge Asina Sawyer of another murder here last week, was in 1035 a. | MANY OBJECT TO CAPITAL PUNISHMENT More than 20 } sworn spective’ men and were fi were willing to vote to hang a f the circumstances warran Many womer cause of their were preju tal punishment. At 10:45 k but ne woman remaine he jury box and she was excused and her seat filled by a man, not because she wax wholly aga hanging, but on a of the expected semsational na ture of the testimony Prosecutor Carmody began his opening statement of the state's case after a short recess, Curtis, he said d.been working for Rader left the in Ma CARMODY KECITES nd had wood camp QUARREL DIALOGUE The day before the killing, he said, Curtis came back to the camp to get his wife, who had remair there tving With ster, Mrs. Peterson, in a tent. On reaching the tent Curtis und his wife and r, Carmody id, apd accused Rader of breaking | | Ingram ra | Standard Clamps Lid on! juty in Judge Galvin &. Hall's court none for the joy riders Gasoline wit be ndi@ for “esvential and children go to ch h, and I up his bome. Dotice that the men usually stay | Miss Louise Lough, 207 N. 60th st.,a clerk in the Phinney ave. pharmacy, is one of the| He told Rader at this time, “Get font «shady sect nnd vend the [entrants in The Star-Ziegfeld saleswomen’s beauty contest. \~ eS eee t a shady spot and read the s . ng after you.” Carmody said ilies and wmeke pipts ant & * *% + He * * * |Allies May Seize prea Mypage gars. tle saleswomen in the Ziegfeld | presented at the door of Levy's Or-| More German Soil But when I come 1 will only Then the church attendants yntest. who are to take pheurm Yo war tax is necessary these. I'm above killing a man. come home and they have dinner, | in the Scott kiddies’ fypd benef Tickets bought at the Orpher ate % come nea| Mrw. Curt retuded to ‘i f and dad smokes some more, and a night, box office do not apply on the Sc amp with her husband, Carmody . then he putters around in the gar rehearsal at fund, and also requiregpaymen me Sec clared, and Curtis left, to return é den, and washes off the auto, and will war’ tax dian terri. | Next morning. * eo spar luge, an door The Seo benefit tick are on i Gesos: th as eee “ ee grim ape na, BF German government, Rader is said to have approached changes 4 tire nd then he grunts Fk Ward t et mistress at! S@le for 50 cents at manifests bad fa) arrying out him, and Curtie took off his coat, ar and hunts a soft, shaded bit of turf | 1 and Bess Hill, prima donna, | | Moves! cafeteria, Second ave, and Bene) orders of the supreme council.” |nouncing: “I'm coming for you.” He and smokes a bit more, and gazes | y om. . They will be em pA pb a na Nig tag ¢, thinking, maybe hey will pe | All Chaancey Wright struck int | aghast vomerapemeagare te to come on the) Reser a Berukmam S HIGH FLYER Curtis interfered, and her husband Late in the afte pon some fami. owledge yause, and Heldt's cafes at 141 - warding her off. khocked Rader down lies get up pep enough to make a als of the show girl's) Second wre | AT ‘108 “YEARSITS. 2 eancda blew \ e. oF Ake a short anso rife, or Green's cigar store, 1406 Thint eva | SPRINGEIELD, Mo, Ju Rader was knocked into a sitting 0 to a movie, or something, but T are to appear In the musical MeDonaid & Collier, tellers, 621 Thiel After spending 10% years on this “old esa ase, tan a0 sete ta-ae rally we sit around home and omedy, “Fan-Tar Oe scene ies tn Shae aie. jearth 3 ; k fook 0 tne up, tho Curtis tald him to “stand up medita and work a t m4 | bie number having aa Be pew cal te into th H pl snd: Saht tke 0: Cain sometimes gossip over,the back the performance, to accommo4 Case Drug company, 24th N. W. hew vir fore h th Sha : Lu " fence date the Senttle performers and Market st., Ballued rick was born near Effingham, “Ii.,| Mrs. Curtis then agreed to leave a is is th “get ‘Semen Pe Oe aeient (Trun to Page 15, Column 2) 4 ND the more I watch typ were in, great demand Monday and , Bartell Drag company No. 4, 5349 Bal be val neighbor Tuesday. Two points at h they Metropetitan cafe, Fremont. hoods on Sunday, the | are being had exhausted a Photos of all contestants were in more I am continced of |lotment Monday night and sent or-| the hands of Th r Tuesday for the utter futility of nine. | ders for more submission to the committee which ¢ tenths of all these hip-hoorah re- | Tickets must be bought In ad-| will pick the Seattle representative form and evangelization and patri vance, They will be honored when in the national contest | tiem crusades whereby the nation reno | Ot i Md " é ¢ RAS Aj Bite be “aroused,” and enlightened Who’s the Freckledest Faced | California has officially put its case against the } ots J and stirred to wondrous achieve os e rr est-rac . | dapanese before the state department. Wash- ments . id ° tl ? $20 f ' . s * e es Ee evesens ‘van. the sourues Kid in Seattle? ‘or Him ington must do likewise. family—by that I mean 90-per cent Who's the most freckled-faced kid) We'll admit he has oodles and oodles a Pt tiddle class of the coun . * of ‘em. We'll admit be's the freck: | try, the only folks who rea 2 ere ledest kid in the filrhe, But when count—these a men There’s $20 waiting for him—if) yon ager John Von Herberg of the women work s s a he’s more freckled than W Y Liberty declared: he was the freckled. baund to the job, the store, th Barr est kid in the whole U. 5S. A, we] dewk. the ut seventh We Los Angeles kid—and {f| couldn't stand for that | Meet Birang ey Bet | Seattle beat hin set of spots,| Right then and there, we chal-| some @xercive, three square meals, | wei; eat Mayor Caldwell’s high silk ged him to back up his statement | and some, jazz on the phonograpn. hat and he did—with $20. If Seattle! Where, in this pros there We ou know, is the lad who can produce a kid who has more| time, extra mental str playe ford in “Daddy | freckles than Wes, John loses 20 per. | Hnation to fret over a Long featured in a) fectly good smack Yes, indeed. { urore oF |new picture pla Don't Ever) the freckledest kid in Seattle will get} tion, for ation ove Marry,” coming to the Liberty Sat | But, of course, the Pur So watch The Star Wednesday for - mever understand this, We'll admit Wes has frockles.' further details. “California wants peace,” writes Gov. Ste- phens, of that state, “but is determined the mis- takes of Hawaii shall not be repeated here.” What has the governor of our state to say? Will he continue silent? There are only a few fleeting moments be- tween the situation in this state and the one that will put us in California’s more menacing plight. It is but another breathing spell, as time goes, be- tween that and the Japanized state of Hawaii. When are we going to act? When it is too late? When the predominance of Japanese will te QUAKES SHAKE LOS ANGEL — JODAY; BUILDINGS COLLAPSE! Probe Rumors of Gasoline Caches U. 8. department of justice agents, under Chief J. F. Me Auley, began investigation Tues day of rumors that Standard Of) Co, is hoarding huge caches of gas tn and near rumor stated timt a tanker, filled with gas lying near tthe Another report from discharged truck drivers, said that reserve tanks were filled. Word was also received that the concern was preparing to raise the price to 20 cents a gallon. District Manager. Melvan of the Standard Co branded the rumors as ridiculous and said that “if people will hola off «ix days the tanker Drake w relieve with 1,000,000 gallon GAS SHORTAGE GROWS WORSE BURB IS ‘WORST HIT Y SHOCKS 19 Houses in 1 Inglewood Are| Damaged; Earthquake Waves Shake Region 108 ANGELES, June Slight earthquake shocks fol lowing the quake which shook up Los Angeles and vicinity last night, were felt thruout the night and early today. The sharpest was feit bere at 12:36 this afternoon. According Seattle. One * mituation s of gasoline Po | to same counts it is the tenth in Tighter | Gas tor the patrot wagor but | bd eee LOS ANGELES, June 22.—An inventery of the damage done by Inst night's earthquake in soath- ern California, being made to day, is expected to show a prop erty loss of over $190,000, in ad- is the ver dict of the Standard O11 company industry” only, according t an an announcement made by John Me-| Lean, district sales manager of the! tompany. The restriction will last| a week, according to Melean.| dition to several persons slightly and is necessary because of a ship-| injured and one woman ‘lead ment of 15 tank cars of gas to Wenatchee, Yakima Gpuhane, aad] fe trait: “Pully tenequert oth¢r points east of the mguntains.| rs of the @amage dene seems to The ban is expected to be uttee | have been in the town of Ingle- when the tanker Drake arrives on! wood, a suburb of Los Angeles June 29 with more than 1.000.000) between this city and the gallons of gas for use Weeterr Washington | beaches. The “essential industries," accora.| Nineteen buildings in Thrlewood, ing to the Standard Oi] company.| including a hotel and a t re, were are limited in number Tehermen | damaged. With the first quake the will be supplied—thit we may dine | walls of the hotel crashed into the n Fridays; farmers rs, ambu- bet The Citizens’ ines bank ance companies and the fire and he First National bank were police departments are counted A meat market, public among the few who will be allowed school building and theatre k felt ° f the quake ° rts are being made by loca arthquake, which was the Standard oi) officials to obtain ¥ since the one of three years that will relieve the situation for eveled the towns of Hemet pleasure cars before July 1, but tay Jacinto, occurred at 6:48 last would not promise certain relief. Of-| jy © two major fictais denied that the tanker sched- ¢ vibrations uled to bring relief last Friday night heuks ware eniharoet had been diverted to Portland to | +p supply Shriner cars. Most of the gus arriving week, officials said, had| 18 Anseles ‘seemed to have es been sent to the farmers. . Peabo yg ee aks The Shell company and the Union acked, bric a-hr Ol company, who have ri 4 wn in some instances gas to pleasure cars and trucks for ms damage was done the past week, will not reduce Some tel es were out of order} ther af present, it was anno during the evening but the damage fast night. Five gallons to pleas-| ‘°° ‘be telephone system was not se ure cars and 10 to trucks is the| **T® rule now with a promise from the Mrs. William Sippey, of Santa Union company officials that the) Monica, dropped dead from heart Amount wil be increased to within, failure believed to have been 15 per cent of normal by July 1. | brought on by fright as she TH. Martin, general manager of| Stepped from an automobile in the Rainier National Park company Venice and saw the buildings announced that. arrangements have| Siddily swaying. In Los Angeles heen made asnuring park visitors a, Women fainted by the scores. sufficient supply of gas to make the In Los Angeles a police guard trip. Either dealers will sell enough | atound the Women’s Christian Tem Perance Union temple kept the curi- ous from the butiding’s tal! brick chimney, which was twisted to a dangerous angle NUMEROUS FREAKS ARE REPORTED Numerous freaks In Inglewood Mrs. W. E, Dill was sittimg in the window of her apart ment over a bank building reading a gas here for the trip or stations on the way and at the top will supply th who explain that they are going to Rainier. Turtle, Carved Years Ago, Turns Up Again WASHINGTON Six ago Iv carved his initials on the were reported a., June teen years an Hutson back of a turtle) paper. The wall collapsed into the here and turned it loose, His young! street, leaving Mrs. pill still sitting son caught the turtle and brought it) in her chair, paper in hand in full home the other day | view of everyone. so overwhelm us that, as in Hawaii, it will influ- ence not only our commerce and our industries, but our education and our legislation as well? If we are to prevent the peaceful penetration of America by the Japanese, we of the Coast. must stand together as we never stood before! Never mind the Dr. Matthewses, the Dr. Murphys and other absurd sentimentalists or Jap lobbyists. Never mind the selfish interests now profiting from Jap sources. The practical fact is that NOW we can meet this problem peacefully. Later it may be too late. California wants peace, says Gov. Stephens. Washington wants peace. But self-preservation is the first law of nature. TWO CENTS IN SEA’ BAN PLAN STARTE IN SO ‘Governor of California Wi Government West Mu | Be Saved for Whites WASHINGTON, | ure be made a law, it is here in official and circles. several occasions during’ ree months, .Kijuro Sh nese ambassador here, the proposed California law to jattention of the state dep |informa! conversations with offi On ‘The ambassador has been to determine whether the st ‘partment is alive to the and his informal pres bave been construed as a p jmore formal protest may come Japan later, it is believed. | It ls contended that the ®overnment has done . jer objections of the United in connection iy Japanese t country and only recently ban on the Sleture brides” [in response to agitation fg € | fornia, | WOULD MEAN |JAP EXCLUSION Supplementing the California land law, which merely ownership of land by Japanese, proposed law imposes sweeping hibition of the enjoyment of all land rights by Japanese thr # following restrictions, the Ji | contend Prohibitioin of land ownership. Japanese, prohibition of lensing farm land by Japanese, proh of the American-born Japanese or, an American ¢itizen, from ing real property under the anship of his or her own parent; hibition of the Japanese from {a member of or acquiring any in any company or corporation ing farm land, and the confi of real property on evidence of tain prima fatie presumptions. Stephens, has gone direct to the” state department at Washington in its fight to curb the Japan” ese in this state. Governor Stephens a letter to Secretary Colby nouncing that California is | haust every power * * | maintain this state for its owm | | people.” ¥ | “California wants peace,” he | “but California is . determined mistckes of Hawaii shall not bej | peated here.” The governor asserts the | “gentlemen's agreement” relative |Japanese immigration is wholly” Jeftective, and demands a J exclusion act similar, to the aet € cluding Chinese | Colby will be at San Francisco # |the democratic convention and jattempt will be: made then to {him the California viewpoint, JAP POPULATION |MORE THAN DOUBLES |_ Gov, Stephens’ letter is about 5,008) 5) words long, and is one of the comprehensive reviews of Japanese situation on the slope. He expresses the hope |the initiative measures to excl |the Japanese from all land chases and leaseholds will be @p” proved at the California el . He also charged the spiritiee |“gentlemen’s agreement” and jalien land laws were being jevaded thru legal and other sub fuges. ‘Twenty years ago our Japanese the a pepulation was nominal,” said. “Ten years ago the census. ports of the United States ment showed a Japanese popul in California of 41,356. A co tion and survey recently made the board of control of the state ol California indicates that at the, ent time this Japanese popul has been more than dow amounting now to 89,279. The figures available indicate that our Japanese population comprises be tween 89 and 85 per cent of the to tal Japanese population of conti nenta! United States. “In productive values, that is say, in the market value of produced by them, our figures she (Ture to Page 2, Columa