The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 8, 1921, Page 1

BP 8450 Fee 2. Sa Weather and Thursday, Tonight fair; 9 Maxi id VOLUME 23 i Ur Greetings: Have you joined “The Wayfarer?” Sing with the multitude and see the pageant free. eee ADAM’S ADVANTAGES Whatever troubles Adam had He had no cause to mourn; He never sat on jitney doors— No boob stepped on his corn, watever troubles Adam had They weren't very raw; He had it on the modern male, He had no ma-in-law. ‘Whatever troubles Adam had He really had a lark; He never bought an ice cream ¢one Or “pop” in Woodland park. cee “Ship crashes into iceberg,” says headline today. Latest advices, how: @ver, are to the effect that Senator) Lodge suffered no injuries. eee Sir: I didn’t know they made | thimbles with handles on ‘em until I Saw a fellow in an icecream booth @t Woodland park filling (7) an ice ream cone last Sunday. JAMES C. WHITHER, Portland, Ore. eee NO RE-PETER Judge—What is the charge? Policeman — Intoxicated, your honor. Judge (te prisoner)}—What's your Bame? Prisoner—Peter Gunn, sir. Judge—Well, Gunn, I'll discharge you this time, but you mustn't get/ loaded again. eee DICTOGRAPHED AT A SUNDAY SCHOOL “What is it?” quizzed the Sunday | school teacher, “that binds us to-| gether and makes us better than we are by nature?” “Corsets,” peeped Tiny Tot. eee LOCAL One thing about short skirts Is that they are so convenient. For in- stance, d'you ever notice how helpful they are in getting up-stares? see YOU CAN SWEAR NOW, FELLOWS A Chicago minister says that and “damn” are permissible | properly used. And there is more proper use for them in Chicago than elsewhere, one im- agines.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Damn if we know the minister's name, nor does the Plain Dealer | say who the hell he is. see We read by an exchange the fol lowing heading: “Man Shoots Him- if in Basement, Blowing Out Brains.” oe Papers say that Henry Ford is/ go- ing to bring out a tin cow. country doesn't need a tin cow to give milk; it needs one to give gaso- line. Henry should get busy again. eee Strange how some men here in Se-| attle spend their money. We see a| lot of them buying expensive cars when they don’t whisky in the house. eee ‘We are sorry for city editors, The only time they ever break in print is when they marry, get sick or die. WHO’S THIS? —Price and Carter Photo-Silhouette. Here's an easy one! The yentleman whose bas relief ts shown above is known from the Uni- versity district to Chinatown, When he walks down Second ave. it looks Uke the L. OC. Smith taken up pedestrianism. event or celebration without his genial amile You have one guess correct! The sithouette printed yesterday fooled a lot of people, and yet it was that of our last mayor—Councilman Cc. B. Litzyerald, No public 4s complete yes, that’s 4 erly winds. Temperaure Last This | have a quart of} building had, entle west- LOCAL J WHITE MEN HELP THEM EVADE LAW Five Corporations Organized to Beat Anti-Alien Law Effective This Week Local Japanese are making whole sale transfers of property and leases to concerns organized by white peo-| ple to defeat the anti-alien land-hold. jaw, which goes into effect al | Within the last ter days an aver-| age of 50 such transfers a day have been recorded in the county auditor's office, and the total of 500 is expect ed to be at least doubled within the | short time remaining. | Five concerns, incorporated by | | white persons, are figuring in the! | rusty of Japanese to get under cover. | | KEENES KEENLY INTERESTED The three most recently organized are the Enterprise Investment Co, the New Welcome Hotel Co. and the Campus Realty Co, W. A. Keene and Ernest H. Keene are the incor. porators of the first and third-named companies, W. A. Keene and ayer Nishimura are the incorporators of the New Welcome Hote] Ca. ! W. A. Keene {s a local attorney and is said to have been one of the first employed by Japanese in this | city to defend their interests, His! brother, E. H. Keene, was formerly | jassistant adjutant general of the/ | Washington National Guard. ! Afticles of incorporation of the! Enterprise Investment Co. were filed | with County Auditor D. EB. Ferguson | April 16, those of the New Welcome | Hotel Co. May 26, and of the Campus Realty Co, June 3. Two other concerns that are tak- ing over Japanese property are the | Western American Realty Co., incor. | porated by W. A. and BE. H. Keene in March, 1912, and the Narada Im- provement Co., incorporated by C. J. France, Frank P. Helsell and Kame taro Hirado in July, 1911. Practically all of the concerns named state their objects in gto | similar to that used by the Enter- prise Investment Co. as follo | COMPANY AGENT FOR | MINOR JAPANESE To buy, sell, acquire, lease, own, hold, enjoy and deal in lands, tene: | ments and hereditaments; particular. ly to buy lands, land contracts, op. tions, leases and equities held | owned by aliens contrary to the alien |land law recently passed by the leg islature of the state of Washington, and also lands, land contracts, op. tions, leases and equities lawfully held and owned but as to the right ot ownership of which there might be a question raised because of antl- latien sentiment, prejudice and agi | tation.” ‘The method which is being followed |to accomplish the object is to have a Japanese owning land or a lease | transfer his property to his child) who was born here and who there- fore is a citizen of the United States, and accordingly has the right to own | land. This child then allows one of the companies referred to to act as his |agent until he reaches majority. SCHEME SAVES JAP LEAS In se instances the records of the superior court show an individ. | ual incorporator of one of the con-| cerns named has been appointed | guardian for such minors, for the purpose of handling property thus transferred to him, The entire scheme saves’ alien | Japanese now holding land under | leases from having the property re | vert to the owners under the law un- | conditionally within two years. | Large holdings are thus protected {for the Japanese to use and control, jin spite of the law which forbids} ownership by them, 141 NEW BILLS LAWS THURSDAY Exactly 141 new laws go into ef. fect Thursday. The new statutes were enacted at the recent session of the legislature. The laws will affect in greater or less degree every person in the state, ‘The motorist is affected more than jany other class by the new regula tions. He must watch his step care. | |fully until he becomes acquainted with the provisions of the new rules of the road |ANTLJAP BILL EFFECTIVE THURSDAY | Thursday is the day that the anti Jap landowning bill becomes effect- live. It will bring an end to present (furan to Page 2, Column 3) or | | know how I do it. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 8, 1879. Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1921. The Seattle Star TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE APS TRANSFER LANDS BY WHOLESALE “HE that hath eyes—let him see.” Frank Parkinson, of Vancouver, Wash., 33 and to- tally blind, has reversed the injunction of the Scriptures. He has seen where men with sight were blind, and by his “observation powers” he has made a fortune in five years. He was “down and out,” too, to the last penny, when he started.. Read his story in today’s Star. It starts on this page. BIG LIMOUSINE, a Jap chauffeur in TN- ery—and what have you in the back seat? You have a snob, and a snob that thinks it perfectly grand to be a snob, Heavily-jowled, ridiculous—that’s the that generally rides in the back seat, fat-bellied, pompous and kind of looking snob The snob may be in the likeness of a man or a wo- man—it doesn’t matter. anyway. Nobody would wnitnd look upon him as they A snob is not human, the snob. They would look upon a snake or a laughing hyena. But for one thing. When the snob drives by, with the cocky little Jap in livery sitting importantly at the wheel, there are men walking the streets look- ing for work, Men, we said. Men who plowed thra the wheat fields at Belleau Wood and who fought in the faced that. a little better for their families and Men who are now out of wate would and at St. Mihiel. Men who their country hg ird be welcome any work that might help their fam- —_ children. And Americans of the old A big limousine, a Jap chauffeur in livery— and what have you in the back seat? Blind, But Frank Parkinson, “the blind wiz- ard of Camas,” stog@d in the doorway of @ garage here where an automo |bile stage for his transportation line was being delivered to the driver. “Come on out and I'll show you the road,” he said. In a few minutes the two were traveling over roads hitherto un. known to the driver but which seemed to stretch out before the blind man like an open book. Par. kingon directed the journey at every |turn and came back satisfied that his new stage would be an asset on the run he owns between Portland, | Vancouver, Wash., Camas and Wash ougal BREAKS IN DRIVERS ON ROADS HE KNOW Here on a short visit, Parkinson's performance startled spectators. In Camas, his home town, it would have been accepted as a matter of course, The driver, who knew his boss, said merely: “That's what he does all the time. He ‘breaks in’ a new driver swiftly and easily on any road where his stages run.” “How do you do it? Parkinson was asked. “Are you totally blind?” “Totally,” be replied. “I don't Anyway, I can't explain it to anybody else.” “Maybe he can't explain it, but he can do it,” interposed a bystander. “He inspected this stage as he does all stages he buys and found two de: | fects that had been overlooked by expert mechanics with keen eye- sight.” “Are you an automobile expert?” “No,” said Parkinson, “I knew nothing about automobiles until 10 months ago, when I bought my stage line, “Eleven years ago this next July T lost my eyesight, I was attending pected to be an expert mining eng+ neer, DELAYED BLAST DESTROYS HIS SIGHT “A charge of dynamite that didn’t go off in a stump hole spent its fury on me when I went back to investi- gate. I went Hast, I thought I could n my sight, Specialists worked on me and while I waited for the miracle, 1 spent my money in what you might call riotous living. “I smoked dozens of cigars a day, and the doctors cut me down to three, saying I would soon stop of my own accord I etill smoke furk the Montana school of mines and ex- | ge He Makes Success of Life; He Runs Auto Bus Line ously, and I enjoy it just as much as) any man who sees the blue rings curl into the air from the end of his cigar, istered to my eyes, and I adminis- terd stimulants to myself. At last the great fact dawned upon me—I was penniless, and I was to be blind for the rest of my life, “} managed to get back to Wash | ington, and, seeing my mother, I re |solved to change the course of things, “There was one thing I fought. 1 | would not think of @ ‘hat-in-hand’ street-corner occupation. I can- house to house and went to school a little more, Then T established a little candy store in Salem, Ore. That was five years ago.” Two years later, with $100 he had put aside, he opened a candy shop in Vancouver, Wash., and served the | 10,000 aviation students stationed shipyard workers, In that store he sold tickets for the stage line he now owns, He saw the traffic that passed over it and the big room for improvement of the eervice. “| knew my candy business, then the biggest and finest in Vancouver, would pass out at the end of the war and I bought the stage line,” he | says. | BUSINESS NOW IS WORTH $40,000 “I have put four 16-passenger Pullman stage coaches on the line and I run two smaller automobiles. | |A two-hour schedule of departure ts maintained in the cities we touch and the business is now worth $40,000." “To what do you attribute your success?” he was asked. “To gaining the people's confi; dence,” he said quickly. ‘That's the t of success in any business,” > you hear better and feel better since you lost your sight?” “Yes. That’s what makes up for the lack of eyes, I have worked out |a method of approach to all my ac- | tivities which is wholly different |from the way you or anyone else | with eyes would go at things, The fact that I can't explain it does not mean that certain gifts dawned sud denly on me. |thing out laboriously atically, “All things that are worth while are the result of effort.” Parkinson was to leave this city (Turn to Last Page, Column 2) and system: “Treatment was constantly admin- | | vassed for sewing machines from | there during the war and the 5,000, I worked the whole | TIMBS ON THE STAND Testifies Against Soldier, Alleged Slayer of Tacoman TACOMA, June 8.—Clad tm deep mourning for her murdered husband, Mra, Blanche M. Timbs was called to the witness stand for a short time this morning, at the trial here of Sol- dier Edward M. Fillion. Not @ trace of could be discerned on the face of the Prisoner on trial fer his life as pretty young widow Walked past bim to the witness chair, eae TELLS CALMLY OF PARTING WITH HUSBAND Caimly Mrs. Timbs told the jury of he last time she had seen her hus- band alive, when he left their home here, at 2:30 p. m., Sunday, May 8, | to report at his taxi-stand, She saw him next on Tuesday, in | the public morgue in Seattle, where |she identified his body and his | clothes. Mrs. Timbs said she fs 21, her hus |band was 23 and their little daugh- ter 14 months. She married Timbs, she said, October 7, 1918. There was no cross-examination and the widow was excused from the crowded court room by Judge Er. nest M. Card. Deputy Prosecutor John D. Car- mody, of Seattle, was called to re- peat the alleged confession of Filion and the three other soldiers charged with the murder. This line of testi- mony was bitterly oposed by the de. fense, It was pointed out that the four prisoners at the time of the al- jleged confession had had nothing to leat for 48 hours, When the court recessed at noon the debate over the admissibility of Carmody’s testimony | was still on, BLOW NOT ENOUGH |TO CAUSE DEATH Dr. Willis H. Corson, King county coroner, told the jury he believed he blow Timbs received on the back of the head was in itself insufficient to cause death, but that Timbs had succumbed to asphyxiation. The ‘state charges that he was smothered to death with an ether-soaked hand kerchief. Blood clots on the dead man's brain, the doctor said, indicated |there had been a terrible struggle. The finding of Timbs’ body on the Bothell road after the murder was described by Deputy Coroner. H. MacDonald, of Seattle. William Sears, King county deputy sheriff, who with another deputy caught the four soldiers as they were escaping in Timbs’ car over the Cas |cades, identified Filion as one of ‘the four. | He admitted no guns had been found on the prisoners, but told of finding Timbs’ bloody cap in the car, and of blood stains in the car and on the soldiers’ ovecoats, | GARAGE MAN FROM MONROE IDENTIFIES HIM A. G, McDonald, a garage man from Monroe, identified Filion as the man who had exchanged Timbs' watch, after the murder, for 20 gal- lions of gasoline with which to fill |the car. He said Filion gave his name as Charles D, Becker, A reluctant witness yesterday was Hobart Scott, a soldier, who, accord ing to the original plan, was to have accompanied Filion and the others on their expedition over the moun- tains, but who, at the last minute, backed out. He finally admitted that the sol- diers had plotted to desert Camp Lewis, take an automobile and flee, Lasker Will Head Shipping Board WASHINGTON, June 8.—A, D. Lasker has agreed to become chair. |man of the shipping announced at the day Other members will be Benson, present chairman L, Thompson, Mobile er Lissner, Los Angeles; T, V, O'Connor, But. gon, and B.C. Plummer, Bath, Me. are White House to- Frederick it was} Admiral | Peggy Joyce BY R. H. WHITNEY NEW YORK, June 8.—-WOULD YOU hand a woman who did not love you $100,000 in for a single kiss? WOULD YOU. cash tls woman's hus- band, hand her a glittering diamond) worth $90,000 in exchange for an eight-mipute conversation with her? WOULD YOU present her with a $325,000 pearl necklace in return for her smiles? J. STANLEY JOYCE SAYS HE DID IT All of these things, and many more, J. Stanley Joyce, Chicago and New York muiti-millionaire, swears he did in an effort to make his young and pretty wife, Peggy Hopkins, love him. Now he is suing her for di- voree, naming eight co-respondents, In retort, Peggy, serts, started life as a telephone op. erator in Denver, says: “He followed me about, and I couldn't get rid of him, so I decided the easiest way was to marry him.” She counter: claims for divorce, alleges he was “cruel and inhuman,” and asks $10,- 000 a month alimony. So disturbed is Joyce over this charge that he has introduced hun- dreds of telegrams and letters from | Peggy, which are supposed to prove that she did the “following,” and not he. “Peggy erald ring So she wired Joyce, then in Chica- go, as follows: “T love you.—PEGGY.” ‘The telegram was sent at noon, he says, “wished an em ‘ who, Joyce as-} Wow OF Her Smiles Worth $325,000? She Gets $100, 000 for a Kiss and Husband December 2, 1919, 52 days before she married him, and was followed 20 minutes later with another, as fol- lo : GOT THE $26,000 RING “The $12,000-ring is gone. They jare holding a $26,000-ring for you. | Love—PEGGY.” She got the ring, says Joyce, Joyce swears that during the 14! months embracing the time of his courtship and brief marital adven- ture that he knew Peggy, he was | forced to spend $1,398,314.32 on her. Here is the story of Peggy's life, las Joyce details it in the court ree | ords: | To begin with, he says, Peggy is| | not a distinguished stage star, but has passed progressively from tele- phone operator to manicure, to chorus girl, to wife by turns of three rich men, Everett A. Archibald, of Denver; Philbrick Hopkins, of Wash- ington, and Joyce himself, Joyce met Peggy on June 21, 1919, as she was concinding an engage- ment at the Woods theatre, Chi- cago, Five days later she came to spond via telegraph, Shortly after Peggy hurried to Colorado Springs, passing thru Chi- cago, They met and he followed her While roaming the mountains. of orado, he says, he confessed his love, was accepted, and handed her $5,000 cash to meet “pressing debts.” Returning quickly, to New York, she wired him to join her as she was (Turn to Last Page, Column 2) New York and they began to corre- | RESORT T0 GAS MA‘ ATTACK HUGE I Front; Many Nearly Over=” Scores of people passing along’ overhead bridge leading from Mag st. to the Colman dock narrowly caped being “gassed” at 10 a, Wednesday, when an ammonia in the refrigerating plant of a f stand in the Powels building A choking, blinding stream of monia fumes shot into the st and blocked traffic passing to from the waterfront piers, A fire alarm was turned in. men plunged into the deadly cloud @ vapor with gas masks over tl faces, and searched in vain for leak, Crowds of people who ventured near or towards whom the occasionally wafted the fumes, back, choking and gasping and tears flowing from their eyes, Wednesday afternoon the was stilled filled with fumes, but ammonia supply in the pipes exhausted and the leak had) found. : bone SHIP; SINK British Steamer Seapoo! j Perilous Plight NEW YORK, June 8.—The B steamer Seapool, which iceberg in the North Ati thought to be sinking, a to message received by the Royal Steam Packet Co, here at 1:30 p. standard Eastern time. The message was from Capt. T. Taylor, of the liner Orduna, Seapool’s position was given at 47. North and 48.30 west. The Ordun& was 750 mues from that point, 7 Taylor's message reads: "The Orduna expects to arrive 6 a. m. Friday, She has not from the steamship Seapool, Race sent a message to all Some one near answered thought to be sinking. The Seay position is 47.50 north, 48.30 We are 750 miles distant from | position.” Wireless from the Seapool by the naval radio here at 9:27 said that the Seapool, altho 4 and leaking, was proceeding to St. Johns, N. F. ship. It left Montreal on Ju Dublin, The steamer is owns the Pool Shipping company of land, and is operated by Sir R, R ner & Co. FIREBUG TRIES _ TO BURN SCORES Fire Marshal Harry W. hurst is investigating fires in tl Claiborne apartments and in a o story frame building at 1217 st., early Wednesday, both | to be incendiary in origin, -| Several dozen tenants of the Claf- borne apartments were forced inte the street in scanty attire, The fl ) Started at 3:16 a, m., in a bathroom: |in which oil-soaked rags were found, — | Harry Gibson, proprietor, catia jed the damage at $60. The house on Bailey st, owned | Florence T, Rackner, was d $1,000 by fire originating in an ai repair shop. | Loss on the building is fixed | $500, while the contents were aged to some extent, ; Bringhurst thinks that it may have been started by a firebug. ANACONDA, Mont.—Mrs. M, Gray, wealthy widow of Ashland, |Ore., drowned in west fork of Rock creek, SPEEDING BABE RUTH NEW YORK, June 8,—Babe Ruth today was sentenced to serve one day in jail and pay a fine of $100 for speeding, The home run king did » have to go to the Tombs, but was | et in traffic court thruout the } ay. Traffic Blockaded on Water ; Bn SENTENCED TO JAIL!