The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 28, 1921, Page 7

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INED TO rastic Land Bill Is Intro- duced in the House to Thwart Orientals OLYMPIA, 28.—One of the @rastic antiJapanese land laws Proposed in the United States Introduced in the house yester ay By Representatives Adam Beeler Bd James Jones of Seattle. The bill closely resembles that recently im California, bars all aliens Owning land in the state: from land; from inheriting land. citizens of the country from title to land for the benefit a@t the olimination of those whereby the Japanese on coast has evaded the laws him from holding ul! BM provides that any alien owns land, and who re eally forfeit the property to te While ostensibly a law to all aliens, the bill by is aimed principally at the land owner, who has & strong foothold on the ag: lands of the West. ‘act does not apply to aliens We In good faith declared their to become citizens. Jap- not, however, acquire citi by aliens, much practiced pa @ jail offense by the Aliens and those holding title for are compelled under the terms the act to disclose the nature and of such holdings to the at general or the prosecuting at- of the county in which the are situated. ee (© HOUSE INST JAPS _ BO Idaho, Jan. 2$.—The Van Me Steeg antialien tand bill has been im the house, after consider. The vote was 35 to 15. measure, the fourth Intro. in the house, disapproves ex of citizenship to Japanese ts, teachers and merchants It demands federal recognition of of states to enact anthalien ‘The measure was put to vote after debate and carried Im- after passing, a motion de to reconsider. After fur- jer debate the motion was voted on residents of Hawai! total 109, Or nearly one-half the total of 255,912, the census bu- Japanese increased 29,599 since 1910, ao to the census report, or fast- p than any other element of the 21,031; Koreans, 4,950; ne ‘U8; all others, 710. native Hawalian element tn since 1910 shows a of 2,218. eee P AGREEMENT HON CALIFORNIA DISPUTE FILED? BY RALPH H. TURNER department and California on the proposed agreement has been Shidehara, the mikado's RIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1921. The BeelerJones act is) alien for seven years, shail) Secret ownership or control | } | | | [ACCUSED OF DENTON MURDER Ghat Mrs R.C Peetete® * * |terlal for the THE SEATT HERE’S MORE ABOUT MURDERER || STARTS ON PAGE ONE client was that the breath of life into this young man's body; God Almighty alone has the right to take it away,” | “God Almighty put! Attorney Louls Silvain Friday morning filed a motion in arrest of judgment, and also @ motion for a new trial, In support of the former motion, he claimed that “the facts as not | forth in the information do not com stitute @ crime and misdemeanor.” For a new trial he asserts the fol lowing grounds; Misconduct of the jury; newly discovered evidence ma jefendant, which he puld not have discovered with rea sonable diligence and produced at the trial; accident and surprixe; er. ror of law occurring at the trial, and excepted to by the defendant, and that the verdict is contrary to the law and evidence, Prosecutor Malcolm Douglas and Deputy Prosecutor John D, Carmody presented the state's case to the jury, urging death aa .the penalty, warning that thugs cannot with tm. punity akulk upon Seattle's streeta, | killing wantonly whom they fancy. They pald tender tribute te O'Brien and the two other policemen, W. T. Angle and Neil MeMillan, whom the defendant killed, Many in the court room wept, There is a Gay's more routine court business to straighten up the reo ords, then Schmitt will be sentenced, | the jury, and taken to Walla Walla, where the prison warden will set the date of execution. ARGUE CASE OF FOUR HELD FOR MURDER In an effort to convince the ew ag als according to the recommendations of | LE STAR RAILWAY WAGE CUT DISCUSSED 2,000,000 Employes Await Announcement BY CARL VICTOR LITTLE CHICAGO, Jan, 24.-—Five men bar ricaded themacives in a hotel room today to draw up, a case designed to Prove that the wages of 2,000,000 railroad employes should be slashed. The five holding the conference comprine the labor committee of the Association of Tallway Executives will be The case they draw presented to the standing of the association, This body, after passing on It, will make their prew entation, in the form of a petition, to the United States railroad labor board, The railroad board—the a«upreme court of railroad capital and labor— will hold a public hearing*on the petition before reaching a decinton. Not untf the railroad problem ts settied amicably will industrial re FREDERICK & NELSON PAGE 7 HOUSEBOATS ON MAN IS KILLED ~ LAKE MENACED) BY CABLE CARS What Congiess Is Doing Today | Left Tilted at Dangerous| Hit by Two Cars at Second | Angle on Union and Madison Lake Union are in| After being struck by two enble . ¥ and Madieon | | at Second ave = low ‘. hureday evening, Bimer Leigh, nion wi warning, Is te % reported to The Star of 1909 Ninth ave. died in city Boyd, who is pilot on the fire tal Friday morning from ®& boat, stationed at the foot of Madi | fractured skull, non st, lives in a five-room houre-| yeivn wae eroseing Madison om oe NAAN, dapat fy ok the east side of Second ave. Ome is now hanging at a dangerous | angle on rhore, he said jeable car was going east and the “We should have a few day#’ no|other west. tHe tried to avold the ties, no we aould get our houses |easthound car, was struck by the away from the shore,” he declared.|westbound ear, knocked down and It was explained at the U. 8.|then hit by the eastbound car, office that up to some He had no clear recollection of adjustment be accomplished, authort- | tes generally admit. | etetosers’ Normaicy will come when therall-| months ago it was the practice to|the accident when brought to the om is solved for the four) notify houseboat owners when the| hospital and lost consciousness soon [sees tovety lake was to be lowered, but as this|after arriving there 1) Reg SGA resulted in Utigation over damages | Sergeant C, B, Hakea witnessed NEW YORK.—J. P. Morgan, Louis |the practice was discontinued It | the accident and said that the grip Caan Ledyard and Payne Whitman |is legnily permissible, without no-|man on the westbound car wae | present resignations ax directors of |tice, to lower the lake 24 feet orl Frank Strazz and on the eastbound Northern P ‘ic railroad. raise it 26 feet, it war said. car J. Petrick. FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET ealls upon congress to prohibit) immigration except to stu-/| Here is a close-up character study of Mrs. Louise Peete, who is now on trial in Los Angeles for one of the most grue-| some murders outside the pages of Poe. Her appearance fits j her well into the role of housekeeper at the home of Jacob hidden in a carefully built dirt crypt in the cellar of his pala- tial home. Denton was murdered about June 2, 1920. Sus- picion fell upon Mrs. Peete because of the manner in-which she is declared to have assumed charge of his affairs, follow-| ing his disappearance. It is charged that she issued checks} | upon his account in the bank; that she pawned valuables be-| longing to him; that she disposéd of his clothing; that she attempted to sell his mansion and in a number of other ways} wound a web of circuetantial evidence about herself. FIRE MENACES (DENVER FRIEND COLMAN BLDG, IN PEETE TRIAL’ | Denton, wealthy mining man, whose dead body was found |° perior court that the facts set forth again A. Brown, Louis Maaden and niels, charged wih t piman V. I. Stevens, matitute the charge of mur © first degre, attorneys for the youths were to argue thelr de murrere Friday afternoon, If the demurrers are sustained, other steps for holding the boys will | have to be taken by the prosecuting attorney's office, If they are over ruled, the prisoners will be at once| required to plead to the charge, and the date of the trial will be subse quenuy fixed. . BURGLAR SHOT - IN ESCAPING FROM A HOME Motoreyele patrolmen were rearch nton Hill Friday for a bure unded in escaping from H Cunningham's house at 1531 B Silk and Woolen Remnants Reduced HERE are many lengths sufficient for one-piece dresses, also smaller quan- tities suitable for skirts, lin- gerie and blouses. THE SILKS include Plain- color Messaline, Satins, Taffetas, Shirtings, Pongee and Tricolette. THE WOOLENS include Serge, Poplin, Plaid Mix- tures, Challies, Silvertone, Velour. Stubborn Blaze The fourstory $175,000 Colman building was threatened by a stab n| dorm blaze Friday night, that was Several Shops Damaged by| Was Guest of Accused in Denton’s Home LOS ANGELES, Jan. 38.—Mra. Ida |L. Gregory, Denver fuveniie court | officer, was aguin to take the witness! 26th ave. Gunningham war earlier In the day. awakened by the burgiar’s efforta to force an entrance into the houses Cunningham took down hiv shot gun and softly descended the staira |The prowler beard him and started to run. —Featured at substantial re- ductions Saturday. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE finally extinguished by the fire de t after it had damaged several offices and shops in the! lis court to ald the state im its ef. building. forts to semi to the gallows or prison Hill Bros, coffee merchant, 81¢ Western ned, muttered the heaviest | Mm Louise Ia Poets, for four years loss, $3,000. The Dayton Tank &| "er intimate friend. ‘ Pump Co, at the mame addrems,| Mra. Peete te on trial charged was damaged to the extent of| with the murder of Jacob C. Denton. $2. |The state says she shot Denton, | dragged the body into the cellar of his home and buried ft there in a | wooden crypt which she covered with dirt. stand today in Superior Judge WO- The fire aid $1,200 damage to |the baikting, $1,200 damage to | Joneph Mayer & Bros., jewelers, and pacar damage to Israel & Co. coffee brokers, $18 Western ave. All| When Mra. Gregory completes her lonses were fully covered by in-| testimony today she will be followed! | surance, on the stand by her daughter, Mande, Cunningtam rushed eut on the porch and fired at the fugitive The burglar stumbled to the ground and uttered a short ery of pain, re gained his fect and disappeared thra the back yard Cunningham discharged the seo ond barrel of the gun but this shot apparently did not take effect. Mra C. Shubert, 1525 25th ave, heard the burglar’s cries of pain ax be ran awny. 1,000 FAMILIES T forded in these new Frocks at very modest prices. ‘were drawing the lines for a| |. The cause of the fire is un- known. The blaze started in the rear of the Dayton company’s shop pectors were investigating Thursday to determine, if possible, the cause of the fire. | sollcorii aomependion ITE HOUSE MOVING DAYS WASHINGTON, Jan. those jokes about moving days are off. The Hardings and the Wilsons have been moving all week and the weather has been fine. OR ene envoy here, on a means of settlement |of Japan's protest against the Cali- jfornia law prohibiting holding of | land by her subjects, and this agree State Colby. | _ Following a conference with Colby, Senator Phelan of California de | proposed agreement guarantee of rights of Japanese sub- for a treaty agreement @ between Roland 8. Morris,| jects alrendy in the United States) block. ambassador to Tokyo, and which would allow Japanese to have| whi: land. ee mere eae, Sone to have killed Denton. Mra, Greg- ory and her daughter were expected to describe Mra. Peete's actions and | demeanor before and after the mur. } to remain away from the Denton res. was taken and his body hidden. The average of cach member ia §9. ‘The oldest juror is 72, The young eat in 25, Rotired ranchers predominate. AN but two of the jurors are gray | haired. WASHINGTON, Jan, 28.— The ment is now~before Secretary of] Women’s Hellenic Club has Banquet! In honor of retiring and new offi Japan on the anthalien land|clared against the provision of the! cers, a banquet was given Thureday | by members of the Women's Hellenic club, at the club rooms In the Epler The club has raised $500, will be sent to starving wid ows and children in Asia Minor. Over 21 Years in Seattle e M ii a Union Sterling | Shirts Suits (Cooper, | Drawers w Reduced Pri Our Success in Business has come through selling Men’s Underwear of known quality. Permit us the opportunity of showing you 100 per cent values. Winsted Medlicott Globe G. & M. You Will Be Agreeably Surprised at Our Hatters—Men’s Furnishers 1317 Second Ave. Arcade Bldg. were guests in the Denton mansion here jabout the time Mra Peete is alleged der. The two witnesses are alleged to urgent need. To meet this condition have been requested by Mra. Peete | idence about the time Denton’s life 28.—all | | Mra. Peste’s fate reste with a fury | whone aggregate age is 766 years.| _ IN NEED OF AID Sickness and lack of work at this |time have brought more than 1,000 Seattle families to @ condition of adequately and promptly the Social | Welfare league ts calling into action all its resources, according to Miss | Evelyn Bardiner, executive secretary | of the organization, “The cases coming to ua now,” she anid today, “do not mean merely the purchase of food, fuel and clothing to tide needy persons over @ short poriod of distreses. They require not only this aid but also medical care, frequently surgical operations, the payment of rent and perhaps som legal help. “Here is an example, Recently a one-armed mother with four children, the eldest a girl of 15, came to us. The husband and father had desert- ed three years ago. The family had all been down for months, first with influenza and then with scarlet fever. The girl of 15 had chronic appendi- citis, and the yeungest child, a boy of 6, bad running ears, The girl underwent an operation, and when} she is fully recovered we shall have Nght work for her to do. The boy is being treated at a school clinic. | Food, clothing, rent, fuel and other necessities will be provided until the family is again able to make its own way.” | Battle of Sugar Is On in Senate WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—The battle of sugar” continued in the sen- ate on the 12th day of the Harrison filibuster against the emergency tariff bill. The fight on the measure centers on its provisions putting a tariff on sugars. These provisions, senators opposing them say, will mean 16 to 20 cent sugar to the American con-| sumer. The proponents of the bill) insist that this is absurd, and promise the price won't go above 11 or 12 cents, and then only for @ short time. $12,000 FIRE -HITS DYNAMO Fire starting from sparks from an electric welding apparatus destroyed a dynamo valued at between $12,000 and $15,000 in the plant of the Klee tric Pumping Co., First ave, and Di- agonal ave., Thursday. The welder wan operated by the | Swanson Electric Welding Co, The sparks from the welder dropped into the armature of the dynamo. | Firemen were called but could do nothing to save the dynamo, and con- fined their orts to saving the building. The building is owned by the Duwamish Waterway Commis- 195 New Cloth and Silk Frocks In a Shipment Abounding With the Newer Ideas $15.00 $17.50 $25.00 HE styles, the colors and the trimming effects just now at the height of fashionable interest are af- 103 Frocks at $25.00 Taffeta Frocks of soft, supple quality in overskirt effects, with lavish eyelet embroidery revealing contrasting color beneath, also simpler styles —in Navy, Black and Brown—smartly sashed and often finished with fine picot-edged plaitings. Also at this price a few Satin attd Crepe de Chine Frocks. 54 Frocks at $17.50 { Tricolette Frocks in navy and organdie with overskirts much-embroidered—Navy Tricotine Frocks with gray or self knot embroidery and styles- with gay tricolette sashes and embroidery. to match. 38 Frocks at $15.00, Navy Tricotine Dresses with metal or silk braid trimming, tricolette sashes, eyelet-embroidery collar and yoke effect or brocaded ribbon sashes. Specimen Values from each of these Groups are * Shown in the Sketch THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE “ 200 New Tricolette Overblouses With Fascinating Details $5 75 eo in Their Styles S different as can be from the familiar styles in Tricolette Blouses are these new arrivals, which combine _ Figured Tricolette with duvetyn or velvet. Tricolette and Georgette Crepe. Tricolette with Bulgarian embroidery or braid. Tricolette with taffeta. These colorings are ‘featured: Navy,’ Brown, Peacock, Jade, also Black and White. The Blouse pictured in navy Tricolette has accordion plaited vest in the same shade and tracery of silver in its trimming. Excellent values at $5.75. —THD DOWNSTAIRS STORE Men’s Outing Flannel Night Shirts, $1.95 ‘AN attractively-low price for these well-made Night Shirts of medium weight outing flannel—made with high collar band, one pocket and frog fastenings. Cut amply full, sizes 15 to 18—$1.95. THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE Women’s Washable Kid Gloves, $1.25 Pair HESE easily-cleansed \4 Gloves are in pearl-white, with black stitching, sizes 6 to 634, $1.25 pair. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE Women’s Outing Flannel Gowns _ - $1.95 HE values are very at- | tractive in these Gowns of soft outing flannel with their trimming of cotton and silk wash braid. Choice of stripes in pink or blue, and plain white, and high and low neck styles, Priced at $1.95. Other Outing Flannel Gowns at $2.50, $2.95 and $3.25. -—THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE Children’s White Stockings, 25c Pair HITE Medium-ribbed r Stockings with rein- forced heel and toe—sizes 71% to 914, attractively priced at 25¢ pair. -—THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE Women’s Stocking Feet, 15c Pair C is an easy matter to re - new worn stockings by cutting off the old feet and sewing on these Racine Stocking Feet. In ecru and black, with reinforced heel and toe, sizes 81% to 1014, 15¢ pair. —THB DOWNSTAIRS STORE sion, No.

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