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fe = eeeeeeaearaaaaaaaanaaeneeeeeanaads SENSATION IN TRIAL { | First in News—First in Crculation (by 11,727 copies a day)—Call Main 0600 to Order The Star at Your Home—50 Cents a Month—Why Pay More? | PPP PAL DPA PDL ALLL PPP PPL PPP OF EVERETT WOMAN On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Tonight, fair; rain ; continued cold; mod- erate easterly winds. jure Last 24 Hours Temperat Maximam, 32. Today Thursday, snow Mintmum, §. noon, 33. We notice that Cheatham & Sons, , have quit the hardware and taken up Saptvacting. | LAST OF “GENRO’ PASSES Yamagata ‘ought to make good at their ‘vocation. ee Princess Mary's wedding ite We notice a George III. dia- and “numerous snuff boxes.” t then? What then? ee Dies His New! ICE DUBOSE KYO, 1.—Field Marshal Prinee Arit Yamaruta died at his home at Odg@vara near here today. His deatl} ended tne rule of the “genro” of “elder statesmen” of whom ¥. ta was the head, It means a political era in Japan and may h@e vital consequences in governmentaffairs. Yamagaté §5 years old. and tn failing heakb. for a long time, hat been for many years the most powerful ‘gure in Japan except the emper@ himecif. He had been called the teal ruler of Japan. In polities and poticien and gov- is, Yamagata bas had Je authority. r Tokyo; when Japa rushed pell mel! out Donen, government. was the last survtver of, the inal genro group. No th Means) were & ETOUP Of dict aw the Dania for a technical plea men who took charge of thiDg*/ whereby the mother would have been Watered as Becond lu UPSETS COURT! ‘Says Girl Will Go; | on Stand and Tell! How Fatal Shots! Were Fired ' | } | ; Wilkes, in their trial in superior court here. The admimiog came aa a bombshell | jas only « few minutes earlier Supe | |tior Judge Guy C. Alston had de! jelared that ne evidence had been in- | [troduced to canmnect the child with the erie. Treva was cheated out of a direct. 4 verdict. of not gulity by ber own! counse!, who, after successfully plead. | ing her case. nought to use the ver / /Repyrighted, 1922, by William acquitted. LAYS CARDS ON TABLE CHAPTER 1 ‘The defense laid its cards on “Crocked as a Dog's Hind Laig’ table for the first time when Attor.| It was @ land of splintered peaks, Bey Lowtwick opened hin cane whottly lof deep, dry gorges, of barren mesas before noon, He declared that the burnt by the sune of a million tor- defense would prove that Danielson srid was a fiend, a man of ungovernahie temper, who had a ‘both Mire Wilkes and her daughter before, and | rind, to a of whom they stood in mortal dread. |sting. Only the fit survived. } Star’s February Fiction Treat Macleod Raine, a former Seattle man, and published by The Star thru special arrange- ment with Heughton Mifflin Co.) fit, we now have with us roostin’ on the wagon tongue Mr. David Sanders, formeriy of Arizona, just returned from makin’ love to hiv paint hows. Mr, Menders will make oration on the why, wherefore, ahd how-comeit of Superiority te ell other jand friendly. From his pocket he The Seattle Sta “par, by Mall, $3 +0 99 TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE One after another the five pow- ‘rs arose and officially an- nounced their acceptance of the treaty. ‘Vols followed a speech by Seo What " Hughes, today presented was known ‘in .general to the world. This, how- ever, war ite-tiret official release to & world yearning for peace. Round- ing tt out was another treaty ban- wVY REDUCTION PACT APPROVED CONTINENTAL HALL, Washington, Feb. 1—A final settiement of the troublesome Shantung question—a source of war ever since the Ver- sailles conference—was officially announced to the arms confer- ence today by Secretary of State Hughes. Hughes sprung « surprise on the conference by announcing that a written agreement be- tween Japan and China, provid- ing for the return of the Shan- tung province te China had been completed. He read the compact to the con- ference. The draft was completed by the Japanese and Chinese conferees last ‘This action makes certain that the end of the conference ts near. Only the question of the 2i de- mands remain for consideration of the conference. Previously the con- ference formally adopted the various agreements regarding China, BURST OF APPLAUSE GREETS SETTLEMENT VIEWS Some Scenery in Busi- 1 ness District as Tt Looks to Your Auto ¥ Tire; How Do You Like It? F Hughes’ statement that he “was happy to be important Shantung A to reveal the 2 sid ining submarings as attackers of com- | tlement calls for return of Kiaochow, richoon hed enuances he told how} “Areund the campfire the drivers | ica taken a knife and wag sharpen: ung submarines as at poison gas in| the former German leasehold, to Chi- bene wrgemrthen gen he a nae the tree, herd squntted an theif ing it on one of his downattheheel | war, na; restoration of public properties to ing, and had cursed her for not hav: |ease. aa tate yi the tating | | Hughes taid the treaty before the | China, with some exceptions; remov- ing his dinner ready; how Mra, from the twisted mesquite lit} “I'd tke right well to make Jove to /citth plenary ¢exsion of the confer. |®! of Japanese troops as soon as the He made Japan's modern atmies. He was the father of univemal military service. He -|fought thru the ChineseJapanme A new play called “The National i has been produced in New We predict it willy play to 1s Room Only. sp ‘The Japs have agreed to quit | f but they fail to give the | j ) iM Ee" cee of our favorite newspapers fs oneck (N. Y.) Paragraph, en, 10) xo girl with bow legs doesn't be- in perfect candor; she prefers ise has been found for It can be em- oe ¢ artists this year will call | annual ball “A Night in Old ria.” Why don't some of these clubs hold “A Night in Old! Mypiiteo”? | | A real diplomat i* the man who ean persuade his wife that she looks well in cotton stockings. came a6 well tn cotton NDID, POISON IVY CLUB wife who throws away | | old, black, tobacco-caked | buys you a dandy new | for 19 cents. and the RussoJapanese wars. He created md commanded cabinets and partiaments a» weil as armies. He fought all his fife, in war or im politia, and all his life he won. But th old fighter died in the attendan® open the shodi or siiding paper walls and trundle him out to the wranda of his villa, where he could gaze at far off Fuji-Yama, the Sacted Mountain of Japan— the mowtain that is more to the Japanese than Olympus was to the afcient Greeks. When Yamagata first raw Fufi Yama it looked down upon a her- mut kinglom, unknown to the world, | the worl unknown to it. As th dying genre looked last upon th mountain, it soured above a nation perplexed with reconcilia- tions of the old and new, a nation barasse with the problems of mod- em i ry—but withal a nation | fi recognized as one of the powers the earth. So the last of the genro had them ogam the shodi, that he might look for the last time at Fuji-Yama. He for the last time at the sacred untain and smiled—this stern fighter who never smiiet yery aiich—end went away for Whatews reward his god may have for tha@ who fight long and hard and wil, Final Service for Pope Is Celebrated ROME, Feb. 1.—The final funeral service for Benedict XV. was cele. brated today with the most solemn ceremmies. Aftetwards the Sistine chapel was hastily prepared to serve as a voting room for the secret conclave which meets tomorrow to elect a new pope. LD WILL CONTINUE MERE; BUT THINK OF { HAVRE AT 24 BELOW! Mr, and Mrs. Seattle jumped lout of the hay Wednenday morn- ing to find the thermometer umping the 22 above zero mark. Chilly weather is on the menu te 1 days to come, althe taerwright G. N. Salisbury *hys that Thursday things will not pogatice so-mlippy. on Puget Sound should of Havre, Mont., where the ry hit 24 degrees below the thi m: ” , 70 ty was the fourth coldest in the 30 years the local ér bureau has been extab- @he average tempera aap been 36 above. Wilkes had remonstrated with hint,|their lean faces, tanned to bronred and bow he finally attacked ber. health by the beat of an untem “As they stood grappling with each |pered nun and the sweep of parched other,” he eaid, shot was dis-| Winds. Most of them were still young, charged. Who fired it, whether it|searcely out of their boyhood; a few was Mra. Wilkes or Danielson bir. | had reached maturity. But all were self, nobody knows, but the next mo- (Products of the desert. The high ment the revolver fell to the floor, |heeled boots, the leather chaps, the ‘Take it away, Treva; my God, take Kerchiefa knotted round the neek, it away.” Mrs, Wilkes screamed. | Were worn at its ingistence. Upon Then everything went black tefore|/*V*ty line of their features, every her. Danielson was choking her.|*ade of their thoughts, it bad His bands were about her neck, and |@Amped its brand indelibt: fhe couldn't see. But she heard two| The talk was frank and elemental, shots, and the next thing she knew, |It had the crisp crackle that goes Danielson was away from her, lying | With free, unfettered youth, In a jon the floor. parlor some of it wotid have beep “Treva will go on the stand and | Offensive, but under the #tars of the tell you how those shots were fired,*|0ben desert it waa as natural as the he concluded. llife itwelf, They apoke of the «pring | The courtroom was tense thruout |"™ina, of the Crawford-fteeiman feud, |Rostwick’s speech, For the first |0f how they meant to turn Malapi time since the trial opened, Treva jMpaide down in their frolic when they Jost her composure and sobbed in. "ched town. They “rode” each | audibly an the story of the fight was /%ter With Jokes that were familiar }told. Her mother laid her head on (04 friends. Their horse play was ltim table and wept thru mont of the |T0Ush but good-natured. speech. Several of the jurors seom-| Out of the soft shadows of the ed deeply affected, and at least one jof them wiped away tears. As soon as the state closed ite case, shortly before noon, De- fense Attorney 8. A. Bostwick made a motion for a directed ver- dict of not guilty in Treva's case, on the ground that the state had failed to connect hee with the crime? Judge Guy C. Alston announced | that he would grant this motion. At torney Bostwick then made a motion that a similar verdict be directed in |the case of Mra. Bertha Wilkes, | lTreva'’s mother, This caused Judge Alston to reverse his decision. | JUDGE WON'T BE CAUGHT “ “Dhe lady pleadeth too much,” he |quoted. “I’m not going to have the latate caught between two stones. In | view of the second motion I will re nerve decision until all evidence is | in remuda toward the campfire, He was a lean, sandy-haired young fel low, hie figure still lank and un filled. In another year his shoulders would be broader, his frame would ‘take on twenty pounds. As he sat |down on the wagon tongue at the jedge of the firelit circle the string!- ness of his appearance became more noticeabie, A young man waved a hand toward him by way of introduction, “Gents of the D Bar Lazy R out } 4 for Paris. was not brilliant enough to hold her husband's love. But she did. The searching and de- lightfully human study of the first year of mar- ried life throws a new light on the problem of matrimony. “Polly and Paul—and Paris” gives a clear and colorful picture of the | daily life of this Ameri- can couple. ‘This decision was hailed as the| \ greatest victory that the state has | | noored in the case. It was admitted by state counsel that the only reason | that Treva had been brought into | }the trial was to forestall just such | |a situation as the defense had sought | to bring about | | Judge Alston's action came as a| climax to a morning full of dramatic moments, Otto Nicholson, the police man who was called to the Wilkes home after the shooting on Novem- \nep 6, was recalled to the stand as {soon as court opéned He testified in regard to the luck | of powder marks on Danielson's cloth ling, hie evidence tending to prove | that the bullet wounds were not self. | | inflicted ‘ | | Dr. I. W. Carsons, city health | officer, provided the first real | thrilt of the morning, when he | } (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) {summer night a boy moved from the! (Turn to Page 9, Column 1) (TRAIN PLUNGE PORTLAND, Feb. 1.—-Six men, se- riously hurt at Cochran, near here, late yesterday, when the log train (they were riding from the scene of logging operation to the camp near Reliance plunged thru a bridge over the Neabalem river, were reported } to be out of danger today and rapidly | improving. ‘They are Francis, John and Cif. ford Wiest, Amos Nelson, James Thomas and Alfred Buckman. They [are in hospitals in Portiang. Only one member of the crew, Ro B. Parker, was killed. The seven men in the | list of dead and {njured were the only | persons on the train, [Woman Choked With Stocking | KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb, 1.—The lpody of an unidentified jabout 35 years of age, who had been choked to death by her own silk stocking, was found in the railway | subway here today, pglice announced, Except for the loWer extremities, the body was fully clothed in black. |The remnants of a gag from an un | derskirt was in the mouth. | Police believe the body was hurlea from an automobile from the roae way, 60 feet above the subway. They Married and Sailed Then— The bride from the Middle West feared that she Zoe Beckley Zoe Beckley’s intimate touch reveals the universal domestic problems of American marriage and throw them into relief by placing them against the back- ground of the Paris of today. Begins tomorrow in The Star. ence shortly after the opening at 11| Chinese are able “to take over,” in | INJURES SIX wormat,, | o'clock. Hughes waived the rending of the treaty and proceeded with an ex- planation of details, 68 CAPITAL SHIPS TO BE SCRAPPED Under the treaty, the three great jnaval powers—the United States, [Great Britain and Japan—will scrap | 68 great capital ships of a total ton- | nage of 1,861,643. The smaller num- ber of old ships to be junked by France and Italy contribute to make these figures even higher. These ships in¢lude the capital ship building program of the great naval powers, the réalization of the j dreams of navy men seeking to make |their country dominant in the ever | faster race of naval competition. The treaty starts a 10-year naval holiday—with a few exceptions—in capital shipbuilding, dating from November 12, 1921, when the confer. ence was opened. | The completed treaty announced today is mainly the same as the original American proposals, It was ja vietory for the ; Unité! States, | | heartily shared in by the other na- | tions, and much of the weariness [that has slowly crept over Hughes {during the long months of negotia- |tion seemed to leave hin as he pre- | sented the treaty, | The treaty provides for 11.75-1.76 ratio In capital ship ton. age between the United States, |Great Britain, Japan, France and| Italy, respectively. The replacement | jtonnage basis for these respective powers is 625,000, 525,000, 75,000, 175,000 tons. Sk JUNKING IS DETAILED Ironclad, technical rules and regu: | liations are embodied in the pact to | see that the ships to be scrapped are Jactually sent to the Junk heap. De- tailed charts are also included in ac- Jeordance with which old capital | ships can be replaced after the 10- | year holiday. It is also provided in the treaty @ fact not fully known before—that lthe United States, in consultation | with the other powers, shall call an: | J other conference of the signatory na- tions as soon as possible after eight! years from the coming into force of | |the treaty to consider any needed changes in the pact. “in view of pos- | (Turn to Page 7, Column 5) |Man Dead; ‘Grains | Stalled in Snow! DENVER, F 1—One man isf |dead and several trains are reported | | stalled the result of a 48-hour snowstorm which has been sweeping | southwestern Colorado, according to} jreports here today, In some places} three feet of snow has fallen. ‘The body of an unidentified man was a 5-5-9 915,000, as | @Dy case not later than six months, As for the railway proper, China pays approximately 63.590,000 gold marks, plus charges for improve- ments made by Japan since she has administered the road, following her seizure of Kiaochow from the Ger- | mans, The payment for the line shall be in t notes, covering 15 years, but with a redemption privilege in five years, A Chinese managing director wil! have under him a Japanese traffic manager and a Japanese accountaint Gointly operating with Chinese ac- countants), | ‘The outstanding fact for the world jis that China gets back ~Kiaochow and the Shantung railway, thus re- moving @ serious source of friction in [the Far East, Thus ends what was jealled during the Versailles treaty debates here, “the shame of Shan- tung.” CHINESE MAKES ADDRESS Minister Sze, of the Chinese delega- tion, spoke briefly, declaring state- ments made in the secret Shantung negotiations represented China's views. These statements, it was un- derstood, registered some dissatisfac- tion with various pomts, Sze noted, apropos of the railway, non-discrimi- nation resolution that China never had practiced discrimination, He thanked Hughes and Balfour for their “good offices,” and said the Chinese had accommodated tiem- selves to the Japanese viewpoints as (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) RESOLUTION AGAINST POISON GAS AND SUBS PRESENTED TO PARLEY WASHINGTON, Feb. 1,—Reso- tutions banning the use of poison gas and unrestricted submarine warfare, binding upon the powers tepresented at Washington to which “all civilized nations" are invited to subseribe, were incor. porated in @ separate treaty pre. sented at the plenary session of the arms conference today. A merchant vessel, according to the resolution on submarines, must be ordered to submit to visit and search to determine its c! rm acter before it can be se must not be attacked unless it re- Cuses to submit, and it must not be destroyed unless crew and passengers are first placed in safety. If a submarine cannot capture a vessel in conformity with these rules, it’ must permit it to proceed unmolested, ‘The use of @sphyxiating, poison: ous or other gases and all analogous lquids, materials and found in the ruins of a cabin near Durango, devices is prohibited. (Photos by Price & Carter, Star at Photographers.) — fs 1. Yesler and Post sts. 2. ee S. and Jack 3. Washington st. 4. Firstand University. . HURT IN FALL Fallin, ing police Wednesday iz, at nia ave. and Walker st., Patrol. man W. C. Batten, 4116 W. Walker st., struck his head upon the pavement and rolled 20 feet before he struck the curbing. | His companions, Patrolmen ¢, Wy el] and W, J. O'Brien, quickly stop- | Ped the automobile, and by the glare fot the headlights found Batten. lying at the edge of the road, unconscious and suffering from a fractured skull, Ratten was immediately taken to |@ near-by doctor, who, after an exam~ ination, ordered him remoyed to the jeity hospital. Wednesday was critical, | According to Ball and O'Brien, © Jofficers were returning from a at 1534 Alki ave. and in rounding corner Batten lost his balanesd fell against the door, which body topple into the street, 99 from a spee car, TWO TRAI DIE IN CR¥ VINCE trainmen were more & Ohio collision of @ | train dew N | Witham August, Ly ger . of oe Batten’s condition

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