The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 5, 1920, Page 1

“ANTI-JAPANESE INITIATIVE MEASURE TO BE e PUT UP TO LEGISLATURE OF WASHINGTON : Db > f Weather {iit continued Toda) Tonight and Saturday; fair, erate easterly winds. Temperature Last 24 Hours Maxinium, 49. cold; mod- yimum, 3% y noon, 46, On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Watered as Second Clare Mat Most Successful Contest Brought to Close — Prize Winners in Last of the Cynthia Grey Contest Series. Prize winnérs in the last of the Beries of three contests held to de termine who could give the best Answers to a selection from the mul- titude of questions received by Miss Cynthia Grey, of The Star, are an Bounced today. ‘The first prize of $5.00 ts awarded to Mra. George Kraemer, 721 17th are. city. The two second prinew of $2.5¢ cach go to Mrs. D. W. O'Neil, 6 May 9, 1999, at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash. , WASH., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1920. mie a The Seattle Star under the Act of Congress March 8, 187% Per Year, by Mall, #5 to $9 TH LATE ITION . “TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE — DENY SHE WA | IN KIDNAPING AUTO? 'This Will Be Her Defense, Is Report; State Subpoenas Four Seattle Friends of Hers Retty Bratnerd was not the young woman at the wheel of the coupe in which Raby Bobby Stagg was kid-| &. Strickland, of Tacoma, were board ing the interurban, bound for Beattie, to confer with him here this after Rox 381, R. F. D. No, 6, Seattie, and) naped from his mother’s home tin | Hoon, Mrs. &. A. Ussber, 622 Gregory way Checks will be This closes one of the most suc ceastul contests ever conducted by this paper, Hundreds of letters were received, a large number of which! per 13, before a jury, charged with | were well written, both as to neat ness and style of expression, and not & few of the answers contained ¢x | eelient advice. In the last set of questions, which are answered be- low, only three or four persons gave @n absolutely correct answer to the ‘fifth question, relative to the rela. | tionship between Franklin Roosevelt and the tate Colonel Roosevelt. This held a number of letters which otherwise been correct. thank heartily all those o-the- ind, but It seems rude to me, hen dist mere t ee ne ON EMONE. It is proper to start eating a# soon fs you lave been served. ly tell me some way Get him a toy made of ivory or some other smooth, harmless metal. one end small enough to go in his mouth. babit, as he will eventually out Qvestion 6 What retation te deceased ‘The late Theodore Roosevelt war a fourth cousin to Franklin Roosevelt's father, James Roosevelt. ' Question No. 6 ‘Dear Miss Grey: 1 got peach Jules on my nice pink organdie dress. and Birsia to touch it for fear of maki fe fade. Is there any way J can remove ing the color also? ft without temoving sie? It is always advisable to send a Gelicately tinted dress, especially when the material is sheef, to a re liable cleaner to remove a stain so obstinate as that of peach juice. Dear Mies Grey: 1 have noticed tn so many primed atticies of late that they Gre ridiculing the idea of people newly merried having their photos taken to mther. As 1 think it is quite al! right, ‘am coming to you for your opinion, fe considered the proper thing in fast-moving age? G It ia, of course, perfectly proper for newly-weds or others to their photos taken together; but the “singie” form is “later,” and mov approved. However, it is all a mat- ter of taste. been working oar Mira (rey bond me, and have tn an office tor married the m father-in-law Dusinessiiae. tom whats right Your question can hardly be an swored correctly or satisfactorily by anyone except your father-indaw, as the form he prefers should be used Dear Miss Grey k itt ai) right for # girl hom she knows to be engaged fe another town? 1 have (urn to Pare @ Calnmn % . ¥ Do not worry about thin) | have} over ‘to the m who | , Tacoma by George Stags, his father, on September 14 | ‘This, It was believed by the author ities here today, will be the defense of Miss Brainerd when she goes to | trial In Tacoma on Monday, Decem | the Kidnaping, | “But if such a defense te offered.” said Deputy Sheriff Herbert Beche, “it will fail. We have positive proof | that it was Betty who was in the | driver's seat of the car. The thing for her to do ls to tell where Stagg and the nurse, Edith Nicholson, are, and throw herself upon the mercy of the court, pleading for leniency.” STAYING AT HOME OF ATTORNEY Miss Brainerd ts sald to be stop- ping at the home of Attorney Will jam A. Peters, at 1318 Minor ave. Mra. Peters said Betty was stil! in bed at 11 o'clock this morning and asked that her guest be excused from being interviewed, “She is resting,” Mrs. Peters said, “and doesn't feel equal to getting up just yet. She asks to be ex: te Test night Deputy sheriff pistes & conference in Prosecuting Attorney D. Askren of Pierce county ‘@n@ hurried back to Seattle with subpoenas for four state's wit- he served on the persons their respective homes in this city, Mrs. Henry R. Wahaake, er of Miss Brainerd, was served at her home, 2317 10th ave. N. She is said to have made @ written statement to the authorities that her sister and Stagg brought Bobby tn Miss Brainerd’s car to the Wahaske home the night of the kidnaping and that Bobby remained there over- night. Other witnesges mubpoenacd Beebe last night were the Misses Mida and Mary Wailer, with whom Bobby is said to have been left for 10 or 12 days after being taken from the Wahaske home, and Miss Myrtle Jones, daughter of the Rev. W. G. Jones, 506 13th ave. N., whose state ment in said to have led to the ar) rest of Miss Brainerd York, It was Miss Jones, it in maid, who, as a friend of Miss Brainerd's, went with her and Bobby to department stores and baby outfitting shops here to purchase raiment for the child before he was spirited out of the city and east via Canada. Attorney Peters, in whose home in New | Miss Brainerd is now sheltered here, said at his office today that he hadn't the slightest idea what bis young guest's defense would be. Her friends have not yet determin ed what lawyer shall represent bier at | the trial, he said. Were he her law yer, he said, he should advise her not to diseuss the matter further with any one, | TACOMA OFFICERS ON THEIR WAY HERE noon, informing him that Prosecutor Askren and Capt. of Detectives John BY HAL ARMSTRONG ERY happy today was Barber C ‘W. Gies, and merrily sang at his work. As he lathered and scrap jed he hummed, “Poor Butterfly and whiatled “The Curse of an Ach ing Heart,” in the shop at the Pal ace hotel. “Life,” observed he, “id a mintter merely of aversion and habit, after all.” And he sang: “Oh, bury me out on the lone prairiee, “Where the wild coyotes howl all the night long—" For Barber Gies was singularly cheerful “[ recollect,” he said, “when T was just starting in at the barber busi ness. It was my first job, and the boss says to me, he says “‘Gien, when you go to lunch take your tools along,’ bh upderta | They's corpse over there that they want to put it into 8 have shaved before they the coffin.’ Very well,’ I says to”him, as if it was nothing, and took my tol with me when I t PUT I had an aversign for an dertakers and things, and had never looked a dead man in the face says, ‘and run | Poasible movements by the defense will be gaken up at that time, Beebe said, and discussed. Meanwhile, Beebo was checking up on last bits of evidence here. A coat | that Bobby wore on th “anadian Pa }elfie train that carried him east in |the hands of the kidnapers, Heebe said, is believed to have been pur |chawed at Mids Oliver's baby shop, | 500 Union st, LEAGUE DEAD, SAYS HARDING President-Elect Sounds the Death Knell of Pact BY RAYMOND CLAPPER MARION, Ohio, Nov. 5,—The jleagne of nations has been pho [nounced Gead by President Rlect Warren G, Harding. In one amashing sentence the next President of the United States sound ed the death, knell Tt cptme as the c! ¥ the rey ‘Miidon nelghbort from the | front porch last night, when they came by (hounands to congratulate , him on his eieetion. The American people, by the un paralied majority they gave the re | publican , candidate, [league of nation acrapped, accord ing to the interpretation Senator |Hardirg places on the solemn reter: fendum. He made it clear today that | thie mandate will be carried out to the lett MOCK FUNERAL FOR THE LEAGUR The Marionites, in their parade, carried up to the fromt porch a by | *tratcher, bearing the effigy of a corpse labeled “Lague of Nationa” “You didn’t want a surrender of the United States,” Harding said. mortgaged. That's why you didn’t care for deceased me WASHINGTON, Nov. presidential and congressional lec: tions were passing Into history to- day, and with practically complete | returns in, the score looked like thi«: Senator Warren G. Harding got 404 electoral votes and Governor James M. Cox got 127. The republicans won 10 additional seats in the senate, giving them a total of 59 to the demoerats’ 37. The republicans gained 41 state |im the house, giving them a total of | 281 to the democrats’ 158 and the #o- | elalints’ one, The prohibitionists lost | their sole member Deportation Hearing on Jap in Progress Deportation hearing for Kishiro Hishinuma, Jap stowaway, who was | before Immigration Inspector W. FE. Callahan, all, on the yery next train out, 1 | got a job in another town, and I says to myself, (I rays: Gies, you can’t go on like this, being scared to shaving people that's dead, If you ever expeot ered in this business, you got to get used to it, that’s all,’ “Well, a8 fate would have it, that very day on my way home to lunch | 1 saw in the paper a headline that |read: ‘Unidentified Body Held at | the Morgue.’ “1 ‘asked a policeman where the morgue was at. He told me and I hurried over, I says to the morgue keeper, I mays ‘Doc, have I could have a reading it in t | “ ‘De you think |know the party? ‘Likely as not. 1 told him, and says, I got a suspicion Eh?’ he askg me flash. ‘If you got a susplelén, you better tell it to the poll Wit Just |call the chief over while you're hav Jing a look . The is in that little ‘room there looking |for a young connection | with the deed | you got a body here look at? 1 just was paper.’ he asks, ‘that you quick as a barber “e#e “Well, now, T had an aversion for fw of police, #0 I didn't wait to ordered the | | NERD T0 S WOMAN | | | | ) | ‘SLAY 17 POLICE IN IRISH TOWN LONDON, Not. b.—Seveante “black and tgn"ypollee were killed in an arabeah. nas, Mullagar, West Meath county, 0 meek 4 Star mid today. The ‘slatghter Was accom plished by the une of machine guts, the report sald. ‘The Irish offiee announced that | Lieutenant Hambledon was killed | lawt night near Nenagh, on. @ Tip: perary county road, Immediate reprinails were under. | taken and Mullingar was in panto to- day. One civitian wan reported kill- | ed. A number of residences and o creamery were burned. hinaman, Asleep, Lum Leo Chio was the beat mara-| | t | “You wanted to be free and un-|inon runner in hi home. village un-| asleep. \der the Himalayas in China. His} the league, which fe now! ame pread far and wide, It apread Chico possessed: a pass from China lett wider, when Patroimen G. F./ Reynolds am W. W. Dench found —The 1929 | him trotting along the waterfront at |®M ‘llegitimate entrance into this 6:30 a. m. Friday. Reynolds yelled to him tn Chinene. Chie became frightened, took his hands from his pockets, threw back his head and moved # mile an hour faster. Fora toile along the front the officers in a police oer paced | |Chico. He appeared not to under. stand their creetingn and commands. After a mile, Reynolds decided that Chico was not speeding, altho moving rather fast. Reynolds leaped jfrom the auto and grabbed the [Chinaman by the neck. Chio yelled and jerked convulsively, astonished. Then he rubbed his eyes, Next he! | said in good Chinese, which Reynolds | claim’® to understand: “Where am I?" Chico was taken to the station, where, by the ald of an interpreter, I | Deputy Beebe got a long-distance | found on the liner Columbia several it was discovered that he was som | music centers have been recruited to message from Tacoma shortly before | days ago, Waa.in progress Friday | nambulating. i“ He had dreamed #0 much of his running prowess that he got up from his bunk on a ship ing I was in Seattle, looking for an- other job. | | “‘Giex, I says to myself, ‘I'm off of shaving dead people for life, I'll | never go into a morgue again till | they carry me in, feet first.’ {> * I called at, third shop the | bows siatyy to mi | “ Don't need no more barbers, The jeflaire ie all full. But if you need | money, I can give you @ little job | that'll take about an hour, An old, pioneer, one of my customers, has just passed away, and they phoned'me to come over and give him @ shave. I'm pretty busy, and ‘I wan fiat broke, | maneuvering, I says: |} “AN right; I'M take it’ And T did |T went to the old pioneer's house, }and they led me into a half-dark room. My knees Knocked together Jand my teeth rattled like a muffled jalarm clock; but T shaved him all right, Then I beat it | “‘Gies’ 1 ways afterward, ‘that's |fine, With # little more experience | with all my you'll be a real barber.’ “And that was the way 1 turned my aversion into « habit, I got into the practice of going to the morgue each noon, Before lunch every day I'd hurry around and force myself 1 Jeft that town, for good and! hear any more, and the nex morn-| to look at 4 body and then go away J had to leave, 1 went out into the air i oty CAN WOMEN’ L LONDONE. 0. H British camera artist, who went to America in search of beauty, says: “The so-called Amer- ican type of girl is non-existent. All American beauties are, in my opinion, only representative of various races which have settled in America. The American type has not really evolved.” Hoppe (below) praises the American girl's rhyth- mic movements, her ise and her instinct for dress. He thinks Mrs. Angier B. Duke (left) of New York and Miss Millicent M. Rogers (right) of New York ate the two most beautiful women in America, i Sound - | Runs Mile at berth, and went for a jaunt, sound PRESIDENT WILSON “ORDERS BATTLESHIP, YACHT. TO HARDING WASHINGTON, | Nov. 5.— President Wilson today placed at the disporal of President Elect Harding an American battleship and the president's yacht May flower for the latter's proposed visit to the Panama canal. Police accepted this story, altho! to Cuba, via San Francisco. Tt ix not thought he was trying to make Question Is, How Does He Get in hat Condition? ‘There were reminiscences of the days when the flowing brew played country. Immigration officers are to put him on bin ship aguin, FIRST SYMPHONY GIVEN TONIGHT The opening concert of the season of Seattle's own symphony orches tra will be given tonight at Meany hall, university campus. husband grows worse, and finally John Spargur, director, “admitted” | October 31, 1920, drove her out of today that the orchestra this year ix| the house, while he brandished a | knife in one hand, saying he would the most wonderful aggregation of | uct her heart out,” and wielded an musicians ever gathered together/axe in the other, declaring he Noted artists from Eastern | would ‘deal with anyone who sought to help her. The Clarks have been married 28 years and have five children, whose \ages range from 24 to 12 years. | | Friday, ‘when Jessie J, Clark filed | divorce suit against Allen J. Clark, | charging habitual drunkenness, Every day,"Mrs, Clark alleges here. ite ranks, Seats were selling like hoteaks to- day. GOT so at last I could do it| and wandered around. with very little effort. Then,| “I hadn't eaten any breakfast ich my feelings mpletely, I) either, nor any dinner the night be stayed a little longer every time. I fore. I was faint and homesick, was doing splendidly and had almost | crossed many streets in a kind of got the upper hand, when one day daze, and then stopped short and boss says to me, he says stared, Across the way from whe ies,’ what's keeping you over | I stood was an undertaking shop! your lunch hour every day? You're . supposed to get back here at 1 o'clock. Instead, you come back at or 2. Don't let it happen again. 0 the next day when I went to the morgue I stayed there five min utes and then went to lunch, I sat down at the table but couldn't tt sat there and swallowed lump in my throat, Hall the kept pin ing to go back to the morgue. I got up and went out, without touchi “y to s¢ “ WAS humming a tune when I entered the door, Somebody met me, but IT was too weak to speak I just stood there and stared at him, humming to myself. “Poor chap! he says tome. ‘Don't take it so hard. Our friends and rel atives must all be taken from .us some time, Do you want to see the body’ “Where is it?” I bust out, es, this has got | Me to it.’ to be stopped, You've got yourself in|, “Well, he did that, A fine kettle df fish, yearning for the | there. dead this way, What you need is to get away from it,’ ‘I went back to the shop and quit job. I went out In the suburbs, far from the morgue, and hunted for work, But I didn't find any. And the next day at noon, out in ¢ ree town this was, ] went into a re u rant and ordered my lunch. la "Thad soup, but it didn’t taste lke | soup, I pushed it away and tackled | my roast. It turned me sick, and I ‘Lead “'Gies,’ T aad; T spent an hour nd ate a hearty pame downtown here Palace fotel. I got a job here and } e Lam, right he close to the morgue, where T can drop in every noon and get back to the shop on time, “Lite, I tell you, is just a matter of sion and habit, after all, Dh, bury me out on the lone prairie-ce, “Where the wild coyotes howl all the night long— & conspicuous role in court affairs, | JAPANESE TALKING CONFLICT WITHULS. Nipponese Raging Over the Passage of California Anti-Alien Law TOKYO, Nov. 5.—General disap Pointznent and, in two instances ts of serious consequences, were the underlying of the Tokyo press {fh the result of j the California vote on the antU-alien land law, The American, election attracted great intorest in Sapan, but the Cali fornia vote was the big subject of | discussion in editorial columns. ‘The Kokumin was the chief paper | which saw clouds aheadp It declared that the action of California contains the seed for armed conflict, and pre dicted further moves to deprive American-born Japanese of American citizenship would follow, The Yorodzu declared the Call- fornia! vote “Perils the advent of w moet dreadful stéem.” Marquis Okutna, discussing the re- sult in California, attributed the vote more to the English-Irish immigrants than to Americamborn citizens The Yomiuri considered the ques- ton in rel in to the presidential election, declared that Harding was pledged to as#ist California in its anu-Japanese te ‘The Jif, while ekpressing conf dence in a happy solution, declared that the democratic administration should try @ solutibn of the prob- lem before its steps out of power. The Nichi Nichi blamed the Jap- @nese government for failure to make any, practical effort to defeat the referendum until the 11th hour, b it expressed: confidence in the sincerity of the American federal government. ROBBER SUSPECT IS SHOT BY COP \May Die; Real Thief Is Believed to Have Escaped Shot thra the abdomen when he tried to escape from Motorcycle Pa- trolman C. V. Harvey Thursday night, Elwood Cox, 20, Hes in city hospital hevering between life and death. Police are searching for a companion of Cox, believed to be the man who held up the Standard Oi! kas station at Sixth ave. 8. and Charles st. shortly before Cox was shot at First ave. 8. and Horton ©. ‘A. Lincoln, Standard Oil com: pany collector, who was robbed a month ago, was again the victim last night. He says that the man who held him up last night ‘is the same man who robbed him a month ago, FORCES VICTIM TO HELP HIM ESCAPE The chase that resulted In Cox be- ing shot started when H, F. Eggert, j attendant at the Charles st. station, | notified police that a robber had |forced Lincoln to drive him awy Jin Lincoln's auto after Lincotn ha ved $100 from Eggert. ‘The rob- | ber was unmasked, wore a long gray coat, and carried a black gun, After foreing Lincoln to drive at breakneck speed thru the industrial section, the bandit called on him to | halt at First ave, 8. and Spokane st., leaped out and Med in the darkness. | Shortly afterwards, Harvey and |Motoreycle Patrolman — William Halffman halted Cox and his com: panion in an auto near First ave, 8. and Spokane st. They noticed the |auto did not corry license plates, so decided to take the men to the sta- tion for investigation. They ordered hem to drive to the station, and fol- lowed @ short distance to the rear on ineir motoreycles, Suddenly, Cox speeded up, evident. lly hopeful of outdistancing the mo- But he tried to make a turn going 45 miles an hour and his ear turned over. He and his com- }panion, miraculously escaping in | jury, | started to run, Halffman failed to see the turn in the road and plunged into a fence and was thrown from his machine, Hlurvey, however, drove up beside the wrecked auto, and called on the | fleeing Cox to halt. Cox ran all the i faster, so Harvey opened ‘fire, aim: jing, he says, at Cox's legs. | Cox was hit from the rear in tht hip, the bullet piercing him, He dropp and yelled: “You've got me.” The other fleeing man had made his getaway as he ran in the op posite direction. Cox was rushed to city hospital, where an operation was immediately performed w save his life, notes of the comment | scrambled to their feet and | SEEK TQ © PREVENT © - ORIENTAL LEASING | Petitions to Be Circulated and Will Be Presented to Lawmakers for Action | The AntiJapanese League of Washington has launched a cam paign for signatures to an initia tive bill to be presented to the — next state legislature aimed af — restricting the ownership and’ leasing of land by Japanese, 7 ‘This bill has in view the object as that contemplated ia the bill which was enacted law on November 2 by a four one vote of the people of fornia. of Both measures were prompted an awakening of the people of states to the fact that the Jay coing thru contre} of rst and marketing of farm prod thru the acquisition © lands. TREATY DOES NOT BAB ANTLLAND LAWS The treaty omits from the privileges to Japanese in this o ownership and the leash tural lands. Japan has hibited the ownership, i of agricultural lands in Americans or other The constitution of this hibite the ownership of in certain cases—by aliens than those who have in good declared their intention to citizens of the United States, Ag Japonese, other than those ¥ the United States, cannot a citizens, they can own land 6 within the restrictions fi : the constitution; that ts to where fand is acquired by fal ance, under mortgage, or in the lection of debts. majority of the stock of owned by aliens, are deélared witbin the meaning of the o tional prohibition. ADDED SECTIONS TO PREVENT LEASING ‘The proposed initiative act the text of the constitutional jon as its Grst section. The sections are designed to prevent | ing as well as the ownership of ag | cultural lands; to limit to six all leases of non-agricultural to limit to two years the period ing which land acquired by ance, under mortgage or in the lection of debts may be held; to the existing openings for evasion the constitutional prohibition, and provide the means and the p for carrying out the purposes of act. Section 2 of the act declares any leasehold or other interest agricultural land, or any interest of more than six mo duration in non-agricultural jshall be considered an thereof. Section 3 empowers any citizen of the United States, and makes it » | duty of prosecuting attorneys and of the attorney general, to institute ‘actions to escheat to the state any |) lands held or acquired in violation ~ | of the act. Sections 4 and 5 prohibit |from becoming trustees for [children born in the United St | for which only citizens of the States may be appointed either dians or trustees, This would | Japanese subjects to act as dians for children born in the U8 Section 6 provides that land aired by aliens by inheritance, ir mortgage or in the collection debts shall be held not longer @ two years, at the end of which t any citizen shall have the right, it shall be the duty of pro attorneys and of the attorney eral, to bring action to sell the and pay the proceeds to the alien by whom it was acquired, t 1 Section 7 provides that before an alien can acquire land under morte | gage or in the collection of a debt, — he shall file in court an affiday {stating that the mortgage or, | | was incurred in good faith and J out intent to evade the provisions the act, ‘This affidavit may be cons troverted within one year by any, citizen of the United States, where upon a trial by juryeghall be had ! and, if it be found that the mot or debt was incurred with intent evade the agg, the land shall to the state. A presumption of tent to evade the act shall where possession, control or mat ment of the property is geq' prior to the order confirming the {Turn to Page 2, Column 3) ig 7 AG