The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 1, 1920, Page 1

onight a rain; st easter © VOLUME 23 ——— Out of the Mouths of Crooks: AThe Devoted Jap. A “Prayin’ Fool.” V4 Familiar Odor. Shrine Room’s Secret. BY HAL ARMSTRONG Marvelous the devotion of Upxectika Kawayama, the Japancse man’ assiatant—marvelous Foot mysterious ST ourly, by the big clock in the D wewer of the King st. union railway fpdon, Kawayama would emerge was Gaep, FO Bround the corner, and qier the tiny shrine room, solemnly Gelemnly, three minutes later, he woudl come out again and retrace be step to the tatlor shop. the shrine room is near the alley heck of the fruit stand across the iret from Peter, the bootblack’s. Mae definite as to ite location I F mot be, for Peter is my confiden I must protect bim, IN SILENCE on end, Peter had ob- these hourly, patient pilgrim age of Kawayama in atlence. It is them had I not gone to get | my shoes Dlacked and said to him “Peter, the editor has sent me out te find cut how the crooks keep i from the jail hous. Where'll | Jeet find a good crook ™ “Hart Hear™ laughed Peter. “Yea @me to de right church, but de wing pew. Mah friend, you wanta p ovah to de city hall to find ’ But, mah goodness, ef Gat goes to de shrine house hour to worship his buddy, fo" go git it solved.” of Jap boys go there to wor Buddha. don’t they?” I said, Was an open secret that the contained a «mall jade one at a time, @ locality entered) to divulge to me, for #4 crook in town, Peter knows and I was out to interview crooks, Teowas nearly 4 o'clock. Exactly 4, I saw the tailor shop door Kawayama stepped out, as Mal, and started for the corner. eyes looked straight ahead. His was measured, slow. He walked as if in serni-consciousness, & sleepwalker, He passed the ” Opened the shrine room door entered. Three minutes later he @me out. ‘Tlooked at Peter. His eyes stared and white after the Jap as . the tailor shop, It was plain Procedure was getting on Peter's BURDEN ON “CONSCIENTI “Ah tells you,” said Peter, “dat houn’ is a-carryin’ a burden his “conscientiousness, das what.” P One hour iater, I was slowly ap- ing the tailor shop. It was and drizzling. As I neared the the lights went out. A moment Kawayama, I discerned, came and locked the door. He was the establishment for the ‘ I presumed. He put the key tn his pocket, d out into the rain and strode ly towards the corner. I 4 him. Across the street I Peter was watching with ining eyes. Kawayama, 10 paces tn front of Passed the corner slowly and, I i it, & bit unsteadily. I quick- My pace and when he opened Be shrine door was so close behind p RMI could have touched his back. ‘The door closed, 1 laid my ear it. A moment later I heard, ly, the clink of metal against Another momerft and I heard Eee same sound repeated. Then 1 Kawayama’s footsteps coming tk to the door. It qpened. I flat- Myself against the side of the GTM the dim light 1 could see | the bootblack, waving his at me across the street. nt to be motioning for nle to , Kawayama came out, turned his % from me and with measured Pace was gone. 1 put my weight a het the door, and it flew open. p_ittide it was dark as night, but pe My flashlight 1 looked about for pot Statue of the heathen god. ,It PEM Rot there, ‘The only object in 6 enameled wash in one corner with which I was not altogeth. Unfamiliar, 1 had smelled the fem thing elsewhere, in soft drink AM about the city the wash bow! I knelt down i the metal part of my flash T gently tapped the drain pipe Fesponse was the same “clink” hed heard thru the door a scant e minutes before me had once told me, “In the bipe whee: emt at find it crewed the drain, Linto the aperture with my pulled out the secret of U flask of moonshine. Weather Temperature Last ? Maxtmum, 54. Today nc from the door of the neat little tailor | if be would ever have mer: | Feria solve wa mystery ob de Jap! He! But an odor carne from the wash,| nd Thursday: rong south- rly winds, Hours Minimum, 43. “”, NIN <M x Sw Watered ax Second Class Matter May ae FIGHT DUE _ IN SENATE Members Are Opposed to Plan Being Worked Out by State Department BY L. C. MARTIN | WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—Any pro powal to settle the Japanese ques | tion Means of a treaty will en |counter opposition in the senate, | where such a treat} would have to be ratified, it became apparent today. Members of the foreign relations committee, who have been watching | developments here and in Tokyo, are ready to oppose any treaty the state [department works out with Japan on the following ground« ‘That immigration and the rights of Japanese in this country are not proper sul for @ treaty. NO CO! SHOULD BE MADE [ment of rights of Japanese in| United States as well as exctaston of Japanese tmmigrante may be pro | | vided in a formal treaty between the United Staten and Japan, ac | | cording to authoritative information | here today. | Consideration of the treaty to take” care of the question of immigration was regarded as significant as such jection would mark a wide departure from the means of restricting im- migration in the past. Japan now voluntarily restricts her immigration under the “gentlemen's agreement.” This agreement comprises an e¢x- change of notes between the two | governments, never made public nor | IMMIGRATION BAR 1S FAVORED ‘The state department, It ts relia bly reported, is in favor of meeting the American demand for absolute prohibition of Japanese immigration thru a formal treaty. Such a pact, it in pointed out, would make eases the exclusion of Japanese labor; it would be the answer to the demand of the Pacific coast for absolute ex- clusion, and would make more likely ratification by the senate of the treaty concerning Japanese rights | Japan heretofore hax been under | stood to be opposed to a formal im-) migration treaty with the United! States. on the ground that this | would make too open discrimination against Japan. The government now ie said to be sounding Japanese pub- lie opinion on the question. The negotiations that have been going on by Shidehara of Japan, the American state department heads nd Roland §. Morris, American am- |bassador at Tokyo, are reported #0 near ® conclusion that means of settlément may be agreed to while | Secretary of State Colby ts in South | | America. In the absence of Colby, Under- | Secretary Davis will take charge of \the negotiations, The statement of |cotby to the governor of Arizona that the state department would consult congress before agreeing to a means of settlement was taken to mean here that the department first | wants to be assured of approval of | the senate to a form of agreement before submitting it. ° MISSIONARIES ACCUSE JAPS \OF ATROCITIES TOKYO, Dec. 1, — Charges of vicious atrocities against Christians | at Chien Tao, Korea, were made to- y by missionaries, They declared nese troops have engaged tictcampaign of burn schools and churches of killing many without ex amination or trial. Bought Her Only | One Hat; Divorced Just one hat and nothing more was all that Leon Roe bought Len jnie F during a whole year of | married life, according to her test |mony before Judge A. W. Frater Tuesday afternoon On the strength of it she eran a divorce, \is owned by John She moved in only November 1. | a 3, 1899, at the Mostoffice at Seattle PIRRIE’S CAPTAIN AND WIFE DIE TOGETHER PRETTY BRIDE DISAPPEARS eM asf CON MRS. DOROTHY H, VACHERS ithe, Dorothy Ke Feel are combing the country for trace of 18-year-old bride ' Ta Ra to confession at a New of four days, ARE BOOSTED Seaboard Tenants Again Are Raised $5 Tenants in the Seaboard office buliding, at Fourth and Pike, were notified today that effective January 1 their rents would be increased $5 & month per room Agents for the building are Stir rat & Goetz. Tenants say this marks the fifth raise within three years. ‘The agents give as their reason for raising the rent the fact that the building’s taxes have increased $6,800, that light and power have ad- vanced 32 per cent and that the cont heating the building i» up and i again increase before the winter over. One disgruntled tenant today de clared that the last time tenants were raised they were told that the raise was to meet Increased wages which were to be paid to the build Ing’s employes. He declared that women cleaning | Offices were then raised 10 cents per month per office and elevator girls were raised $5 a month, all of which was but a small fraction of the reve nue gained from the increased rents. | ee Raise Woman’s Rent After First Month Mrs. Nellie Sincler, beginning to day, is required to pay a §$10-a month raise in rent She lives in a fiveroom house 1616 Yesler The house Roberts. at wu Thus her rent has been ised after she has lived in the house only one month. When she moved’in she agreed to pay $35 a month. November 1% Roberts served her with a written notice that, beginning December 1, she would have to pay $45 a month instead. She says the house is partially furnished, but is not worth $45, eee Charges Month’s Rent Is Overdue Claiming a month's rent of $600 on the Berkshire hotel is overdue from Mrs, E. Hambleton, who sub. leaned the building to G. and 8. Ma kino, who in turn sub-leased it to Charles RK. E nd, Stone, the Tailor, a corporation, has brought proceedings in superior court to re. cover the building, Good News Eggs Drop Again. Ranch eggs slumped a nickel a dozen on) the wholesale market Wednesday, bringing them down to 66 te, This makes a decline of 10 cents a dozen since Saturday (Watch the restaurant menus!) Lippy Boosted by Apartment Hon. The Star Falitor: | eratifyingly to inform honorable pub- | Apartment House Owners’ and Man agers’ association. muchly numbers at Commerce Monday to mediatate up should more of muchly fine and Hon dollars be captivated from tennants |It is knowledge to all of patriotic | sensations carried overwhelminously |by every and each of Hon. apartment jhouse owner and manager, thusly comes resolutiona which vocif jerate of Hon. Thomas &. Lippy and Jendorse him praisefully for port com- mission. Now all whom patriotism beat in |breast go to polle and vote Hon, Lippy. HASHIMURA TOGO, PLOT TO ROB ___ CAMP LEWIS? TACOMA, Dec. 1 | been overheard plotting the robbery of the finance office at Camp Lewin of funds for paying off the troops there, two men were taken into cus | tody here today and are being held for investigation by the police. The men under arrest are ; Chalmers and William M tin is said to be a dese }army and will be turned over to the | military authoritiew. | In Chalmers’ possession, | police say, was found a gun burglar tools, 8. F. Mar FREE TO RAP VACCINATION That the city health department tq recourse virtually without legal against persons circulating antivac cination propaganda was the opinion rendered Wednesday by Thomas J L. Kennedy, first assistant corpora ton counsel . | Kennedy ruled,that unless the di rect result of the anti-vac culars was to incite pe to break the laws of the state, an injunction against the propagandists will not | lie. ‘2ND TAXI CO, | Following the lead of the Taxicab Co, in an effort to prevent Wash SDNESDAY, DEC || encounter the storm Thursday. House Owners We are lic concerning Hon, gentlemen of the They gather in Chamber of on league of landlords and when and Alleged to have the SEEKS ORDER Blue . under the Act of Congress March t 1, 1920. | | Survivors Tell of Disaster; Ship Split Like Melon | When She Struck | | | A severe storm is contral west of Sitka moving southeast, Ships de parting today for the Orient will The | storm will reach the coast Friday. | one | Quiltayute Indians continued today to comb the ocean beach in the viein ity of James island and the Giant's raveyard in search of the 13 unre ered bodies from the wreck of the iMfated schooner rigged steel barge W. J. Pirrle, according to word re | ceived here from Port Angeles, where | ithe coast guard cutter Snohomish | | put in last night. From the two Chilean aaflory who | Grifted ashore and survived the dis | aster, it was learned with difficulty that Captain Alfred B. Jensen, | master of the Pirrie, was last leave the barge when she split open on the recks in the Giant's Graveyard in the terrific storm of Friday night, WIFE AND CHILD DIED WITH CAPTAIN With bim, it ie sald, were his wife ami lyearold son, Haakon, Hin body and hin wife's were among the eight recovered by the Snohomish, ‘They had been torn part and Capt. Jensen's body was found clinging to a Umber nearby a plece of lumber to which the body of Mate Peter Hohl: | }man wag still fast. Mra. Jensen's) body was some distance fronr that of her husband. Tho baby's is among those unrecovered. Five other bodies, as yet unidenti fled, were taken from the mass of | Moating lumber that had made up the! | Pirrie’s cargo. All had been washed into @ cove inshore from the Giant's} | Graveyard, @ treacherous mass of rocks. | CUT ADRIFT ONLY AS LAST RESORT According to the crew of the Sno- jhomish, who obtained their informa tion from one of the two unidenti fled Chilean survivora who was able to speak broken English, the Pirrie |was cut adrift from the steamer |Santa Rita by the latter’s captain jonly when he saw there was no other course to save his own ves- eel and its crew. The Rita, towing the Pirrte, first encountered the storm off Destrue- |tlon island, after leaving Tatoosh, (Turn to Page 11, Column 2) (Where Ship Hit} 2 STRAIT or => (UMATILLA Neer UAN | pal James Quiuavute | ISLAND LA PUSH | enone GRAVE YARO WasninG7oe Pacific OCEAN the enforcement of a city ordinance \ mobiles forbidding parking aut certain named places, a taxi company, asked for tion against the ¢ ity | Wednesday, As wa {former concern, th latter company jasserts that ite business is being dam aged because ty headquarters are in a restricted ¢ * in superior court marks | claimed by the | {Giants’ in n | The X on_the above map| the location of the| Graveyard,” al lnow directing the Lippy campaign tried to put over |private dock owners and the Japs! \a big goal! | Northrop is for Lippy because he is deep in politics and must live; that treacherous nest. of rocks, where the W. J. Pirrie is be- lieved to have struck and! foundered last Friday. DOTS AND KILLS HIMSEL On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The SeattleS LATE EDITION TWO CE tar 2, 1879. Per Year, by Mail, $6 to $9 — SEATTLE Ten Million Dollars ‘WOR HE PORT OF SEATTLE has an investment of | $10,000,000! LAM E D Shall this be turned over to private interests and ILLNESS HER BODY | FOUND BY. to Jap | sail This is the one real issue in the port election Sat-|Wife Takes Death of Hus- urday. It has been the issue in past port elections, | band Philosophically, An- too. Go back as far as you like—and you will find that | the vilifications now being heaped upon George B.}, saan, Wier tink Lamping because of his fearlessness and independ-|).. yt: nart concer ot the Com. ence, were also heaped upon the late Gen. H. M. Chit-| muni tenden, first president of the port of Seattle, and | ser swering Questions Calmly at the foot of a bed where » part owner of the Com- garage, and st., and former operator of Seventh ave. upon the other members of the commission who failed |'"* Cen'ral tarage, 610 Seneca st in- to be controlled by special interests. |ahot thru the temple in No. 1, Alfar- e a e etta rtments, £02 Seneca st., at #8 [940 a. m, Wednesday EVER LOSE SIGHT of the fact that the same |,,jzaheped,P” ine shot. Richard . 1 4 Goldemith, mechanic and former powerful interests and political jackals who are |. 8. satior, jumped out of bed ax |his stepfather crumpled to fhe floor. (Mrs. Pr es Tuck,’the wife, was just entering the apartment from the laundry when the shooting oc- curred. ILL, HEALTH AND UNEMPLOYMENT BLAMED the nefarious gold brick Ayres terminal scheme! Remember the desperate attempt to steal outright five million dollars of the people’s money in the very first period of the port’s career! i: SR ante Da alleen Remember that—and keep in mind that NEVER has this the two reasons predominating as the gang been so near to complete control of the port as they |cause of the suicide, according to are now! Time and again they’ve sought this control. A | Metereycle Patrolman W. W. Dench kind Providence, however, has been watching over the des-| tonsa’ who inccciniel tinies of the port, it seems. : Mrs, Tuck accepted the death of But the enemies of the port have never ceased to hope. her hysband ,philosophically, and If they can win with Lippy now and defeat Dr. Walter T. |ct!™ly replied to all questions asked Christensen next year, they WILL be in complete control. |” yi’ orice tnt ‘Rack Ieing on They will be able to run the port according to their own | his tett side. He had shot “himseit fancies—and that means according to the fancies of the Ten million dollars is thru the right temple, the bullet piercing his head, The .28 caliber suicide gun was lying near the feet of the body. The gun had evidently been thrown by Tuck, a not unusual feature of self-shootings, according to Deputy MacDonald. One shell in | the chamber had been exploded. PHYSICAL DISABILITY MADE HIM QUIT WORK ON’T BE MISLED by false issues in the campaign—by the cry of “bolshevik” against Lamping and against those who are for him. Lamging is no “bolshevik.” Neither are the Bolo club of Spanish-American war veterans, nor members of Roosevelt Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars. ing went overseas to war when Lippy was in Alaska z his millions. The cry of “bolshevik” against Lamping and his war comrades merely shows how desperate the political jackals are. munity garage until a few weeks ago, Physical disability had forced him to stop work. Lately he had visited the garage often, according to W. L. Chandler, manager, and had spoken of returning to his old job soon. Tuck had appeared par- ticularly light-hearted in the last few days, Chandler said. The body was taken In charge by the Booth Undertaking Co., who are making funeral ts, CAR TOKENS SNATCHED UP Council to Decide on New Fares Thursday In order to get quick action on the proposed increase in street car fares, | the city council is expected to sit as @ committee of the whole Thursday morning to thresh out the details of the 8\5-cent-fare ordinance, EMEMBER the secret meeting called by Ballinger and one or two private dock owners last Thursday. Remem- ber how they were about to start an “open and closed shop” fight in the port election; remember how the politicians er decided to make it instead a cry of “bolshevik” and “politics.” And they're yelling it. Are you going to be misled by that? Do you believe the tale that Port Commissioner Christensen, who has stood for the people’s interests in the present commission, is now supporting Lamping in the hope that when the next mayoralty election comes round Chris- tensen will be picked for mayor? Do you believe this fan- tastic tale? eg 8S FOR THE STAR, it has not now, never has had, and never will have anything to do with bringing out a candidate for public office. From among those who file, it supports the man who appears the most likely to serve the people ax a whole, In the port election, that man is without question George B. Lamping. The Star did not ask him to run—it never asks anyone to run, but it is glad there is a candidate of his type in the on City officials point out that if the The Star haan the slightest dea whether Dr. Christensen has mayor.| CoMtemplated legislation is approv- alty aspirations or not. It doesn't care. Dr. Christensen has no pledge | © by the council members, it will be of support from The Star—and will not get it unless he should be the best | Possible to hold a special sesison and candidate available. ' “cf aalteasy coeeciain dee some a This wort of stuff is plain trickery on the part of the political Jackals] «ne speed with which the pra behind Lippy, who want to divert the attention of the public from the| public anticipating raise im fares, real issues, In the same manner, it might be charged that Laurence] i, goppling up metal street car to- Colman, the Colman Dock proprietor, is for Lippy because he has mayoralty| kere. Conductors have been Ine aspirations; that Charley Allen is for Lippy because it is known that he a structed not to sell more than a quar- has been a candidate for the place made vacant by C. J. France; that Bert| ters worth of tokens at one ti = ITTLE BROWN JUG UNCLAIMED John Wooding, veteran politician, is for Lippy because there is something waiting for Wooding, a county commissionership, or something. 1 Say +| “Gone is its glory, its beauty LL THAT is beside the point. The real and only vital| sone.” as Budweiser, the late Gere A issue is: Shall the political jackals who have tried to) yur tne iittie, Sees fap weit ae gain the control of the port for private interests finally, | aoient of the stuff and made of Ken- after ten years, gain their point? It’s exactly the same |tucky famons, lies unclaimed in the issue now-as it was in past port elections, eiciee Gepartment of the There is, $10,000,000 at stake! ; When or how its spirit passed, no- It belongs to the people—not to private dock owners and |»oay knows—and nobody gives a Jap interests. . doggone. It will continue to belong to the people if George B. Lamp- ing is elected. In spirits frumenti—requiescat im pace! New U. S. Shipping Board Is Sworn In WASHINGTON, Dee. 1—The new shipping board of seven mem- bers recently named by President Wilson met today and the members were sworn in. HITS SEATTLE There is an epidemic of grips in town, Scores of valises and satchels are being turned in to the lost and found department of the muny railway, ‘The morning P.-T. devotes a tot of apace to proving what everybody knows —that certain stockholders of The Star now reside in California, thinks this has ues in the port I, apparen’ ing on the The Star regrets that ft cannot reply fn kind. The Star doesn't know who and we doubt If the | knows who owns the iredly he knows the go- es him his orders, DECIDE FATE OF JAMAICA GINGER The fate of Jamaica ginger hung in the balance at the meeting of the public safety committee Wednesday afternoon. | Foes of hilarity are attempting }to place the damper on the joyous Juice. It ts medicine will sober solons, between who If the P. and abovenoard know a Littl Pol, ie #0 an ers and JAP! L's ownership were as open as The Star's, we might eo cléarly just why the for private dock own- ontrol the public's port. that the merry banned by the expected be Tuck had worked In te Com. we