The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 16, 1922, Page 1

VOLUME 24. NO. 200. Howdy, folk: rubbers today? Tied, too. eee Reginald Fitzgerald, the rollicking tells us that driving along the Rothet! road he gets 10 kisses to the gal. Wearing your Sure, we're mar- . . With from one to five fatal acct Gents every week-end, may we not call Sunday a day of Rest in Peace? Thanks, unable te make Alaska trip this year, cee It now develops that Carl Gass man, whom the mayor wants made ment. Perhaps this explains council won't give him quarters in the city hall. ee ‘that Gaseman had been dismissed from the light department for “gen- eral worthlessness.” That gives him all the qualifications for public office. It ts also a matter of speculation as to whether all of the wives take out war rigk insurance on their hus band. ’ eee POST MORTEM ‘The best thing about the re- cent world series was that it kept ‘The king of Spain has bought the gambling resort at Deauville. Gosh, isn't being king enough of a gambi eee There was a sweet girl from Decatur Who married a handsome young waiter. To Florida they went And lived in a tent, But, sad to relate, an alligator. eee Judge Griffiths has called a grand jury to investigate Prosecutor Mal- colm Douglas, What for? Malcolm has never done anything in his life. eee HO-HUM! HO-HUM! We suggest that it would be appropriate if all cam- paign speeches were delivered in eee Why not make this Cancel-All- Debts week? earaas? £4 eee Irving Bertin was reported engaged : to one of the Talmadge sisters, but the girl must have remembered the ld cry and got On to Berlin. eee Geraldine Farrar ix going to sing here tonight. A lot of people won't go to hear her because they saw her in the movies . of of n- is a rd rt ie © LI'L GEE GEE, TH’ OFFICE | VAMP, SEZ: | Style makers say th’ short | skirt Is on its last legs. 4 “Has your second wife a more even temper than your first?” ‘The trouble in Thrace ts that the standing armies of Greece and Tur-| key refuse to stand. eee ‘We're glad that the league of na tions has abolished war, otherwise | there might be trouble along the| Dardanelles. eee CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB The bird who asks you out to dinner and forgets to tell his wife that you are coming. . ° Lioyd George says the Turks have killed £500,000 Armenians and} Greeks since 191}. Gosh, but they must be reckless drivers! oe ' D'Annunzlo is all het up, He's Fiuming again | cee “Hot Lips,” the song hit, must; have been written by one of those fellows who smokes a otgat down to the last quarter-inch “ee NATURAL HISTORY NOTE © men smoke a cigar down | Tontoht and Tuesday, unsettled and occasionally weather; gentle easterly winds, Councliman Fitzgerald deciared | [the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition. threatening <> | LEGION MEN D EXCLUSION: Hears of Violat The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor The Seattle Sta h., under the Act of Congress March , 1 Entered as Second Class Matter May 4 At the Postoffice at Seattle, W SEATTLE, WASH., M EMAND JAP POINT OUT GROWING MENACE HERE National Session of Former Soldiers! ion of Gentlemen’s Agreement, Many Thousands of Japs Having Come West Since 1909 NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 16,.—Citing many instances to growing menace of Japanese penetration demonstrate the on the Pacific coast, the national Oriental committee of the American Legion today ling that former service men presented a report to the na- AD Eergeres win vite | tional convention of the Legion, in session here, demand- give their united support to |Congressman Albert Johnson’s pending Jap-exclusion bill jand to all anti-alien land-hol in future. The report, which was pre- pared by Thomas N. Swale, of Seattle, chairman of the Oriental committee, with the assistance of Councilman superintendent of streets, used to be' Phil Tindall, also of Seattle, & meter reader in the light depart-]was presented to the conven- why the/tion by Henry A. Wise, Washington state adjutant. It is a voluminous document, taking up nearly 50 typewrit- ten pages, and is undoubted- ly the most up-to-date sum- mary of the Oriental immi- gration question in existence today. is expected that the Legion print the entire report and coples will be presented to uthoress Dies Her. It will that A Mrs. Elizabeth Champney Funeral services were held at St. Mark's church Monday for Mrs Elizabeth Williams Champney, a res- ident of Seattle for many years and one of the most celebrated duthor- esses in the country, who died last week at the Sorrento hotel. Mrs. Champney, who was born In | Springfield, O., Feb. 6, 1850, had the Gistinction of being one of the oldest women college graduates in the coun. | try. She graduated from Vassar in 1869, taking an A. B. degree. In spite of her long and active career, Mrs. Champney was the soul of Industry almost dp to the day of her death. Last year, when graduates of Vassar were called upon to raise $250 apiece for the school by their own ef- forts, Mrs. Champney was the first woman in Seattle to earn the required sum. Her husband, the late J. Wells Champney, was an artist of note He and Mrs, Champney lived ror|was derived thru the formality of |‘ years in Boston and New York and then moved to Paris, where they had @ famous sajon. After her husband's death, in 1903, Mrs. Champney came to Seattle to visit her son, Frere Champney, who was then here in connection with She liked the climate so much that she sta on. Mrs, Champney’s books Include: The Bubbling Teapot, Howling Wolf and His Trick Pony, All Around a Palette, Mourbon Lilies, Rosemary and Rue, In the Sky Garden, Vassar Girls Abroad (11 volume series), Witch Winnie series (7 volumes), Dames and Daughters of Colonial Days, Romance of the Feudal Chateaux, Romance of the Renals- sance Chateaux, Romance of the Bourbon Chateaux, Romance of the French Abbeys, Romance of Italian Villas, Romance of Roman Villas, Romance of Imperial Rome, Romance of Old Belgium, Romance of Old Japan, Romance of Russia trom Rarik to Bolshevik She was president of the board of managers of the Messiah Home to the last chew. . Well, let's. calt it another or James, the cart t for Children and a member ot Sor- ois and the Society of Colonial ding bills that may come up every member of congress before Representative Johnson's bill comes up. “At the outset,” the report ‘ says, “it in thought worthy to remark that the only remaining Oriental question is the Japanese question. “Chinese Immigration was term! fated more than 30 years ago by the |soveral Chinese exclusion acta, and | practically all other Astatios except Russians were excluded by the act of February 6, 1917, which created the so-called Asiatic barred zone. “Japanese immigration alone con stitutes a problem for this country. fothing ts to be gained by refusing to discuss the Japanese question |frankly. ‘The solicttude for Japanese sensibilities which has dominated our handling of thie question tn the past has been harmful rather than bene- ficial, “The first cswential to a frank dis cussion ts to call the subject by its right name; and we therefore recom mend that in future this committee, if continued tn existence, be desig- Rated the committee on the Japanese question.” Tho report gives census and other [figures to xhow the alarming extent of Japaneso penetration on the Pa cific coast, demonstrating that the #o- called “gentiemen'’s agreement” has heen ineffective in putting a stop to this growth. “It will be seen,” says tho re- Port, “that since the ‘gentlemen's agreement’ went into effect in 1909, total of 104,703 Japancse immigrants have entered conti- nental United States and Hawail. “In addition to these, 16.418 came in during the year ending Jane 30, 1908, the interval be- tween the conclusion of the agteement and the date of its going into effect. During this period the number of Japancse in continental United States In- Feaned 43,266 between 1910 and 1920, whilé the number of Japa- nese in the Hawaiian islands in- creased 29,509. “By contrast, the Chinese popula- tian of continental United States, un- |der the Chinese exclusion laws, do- lereased from 72,422 to 36,248 in the 20-year period from 1890 to 1910, and it is estimated there has been a fur- ther decrease of 10 per cent since 19 “The question naturally artses as jto how this seemingly anomalous |condition has come about. In the main, the results in question have | been achieved by the use of three fle jtlona, which, tho plainly violative of the epirit and purpose of the ‘gentle. | men’s agreement,’ have furnished the | Japanese a basis for the contention that they have adhered to the letter | of the agreement. “Tho first of these fictions has been the designation of persons as | ‘students’ who came here with no thought but that of making it their permanent home. A second fiction | was that of designating persons as | ‘parents’ or ‘children’ of former real- dents who were such only by adop- tion, contracted for the express pur- this country under the provisions of the ‘gentlemen's agreement.’ “A third fiction has been that of designating as ‘wives’ of former ren! | dents women whore claim to the title | accepting as her husband a man tn | this country, usually, tho not alwayn employing a photograph to symbol- ize his presence.” Since this third fletion has been eliminated, by refusal of passports to | picture brides, the report goes on, Japanese women have still been com- ing into the United States as “Kan. kodan” or “excursion brides,” spe. clal rates and privileges being pro- vided by wealthy Japs and the Jap- anese government to permit their countryment to return home and mary and bring back their wives. “In consequence of this heavy influx of women,” the report continues, “the 1920 census re- port shows that, whereas, in 1910 there were only 9,087 Japanese females in continental United States, as against 63,070 males, in 1920 there were 38,303 fe- males, as against 72,707 males, In the last nalysis, it is the pres- ence of the Japanese women that presents the most formid- able aspect of the Japanese ques- tion. Except for these women, the problem would be settled by the enactment of an exclusion jaw, and the dying off or return to Japan of the men now here, Dames. (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) pone of qualifying them to come to| REGISTRATION TO CLOSE TUESDAY AT 5; BETTER HURRY |]. If you haven't registered this |] Year you will not be permitted to |] vote unless you visit Registration Clerk E. R. Coffin at the County City building by 6 p. m. Tuesday, Registration to date in very low— 93,600, an aguinst 119,754 in 1920, If you have registered this year, but have moved into a new precinct since then, you must also visit the registration clerk, Natur: alized citizens will be required to show, thelr naturaltzation papers. ‘COUNTY FRAUD |Wilkins and Wood Hearing | Is Under Way Agent, indicted by the last county | grand fury for alleged grand larceny, |went on trial Monday before Superior |Judge William D, Askren. After exhaustive examination by Deputy Prosecuting Attorneys T. 1 Patterson and Hert C. Ronn, repre- senting the state, and Ivan Hyland and Wilmon Tucker, the jury was seated shortly before noon, Wilkins and Wood are charged in the Indictment with defrauding the county of $1,200, This sum repre- sents the value of 40 justice court civil dockets forms. Wilkins i# al leged to have received payment for the dockets upon representing that they had been delivered to the coun- ty, when, as a matter of fact, it is charged, delivery was not made. Wood ts alleged to have encour aged and assisted Wilkins In obtain- ing the money. The first witness was scheduled to be called after the noon recess, RAIL WAGES INCREASED CHICAGO, Oct. 16—fules govern. conditions out the country were announced by jae railroad labor board today, The rules virtually amount to an increase |in wages of 25 per cent, J. L. Bb | dridge, president of the Yardwasters’ association, declared. ‘This is the first time in the his- tory of railroads that yardmasters have been governed by any set of workin conditions, ‘The rules specify eight hours as a work day. Previously, yardmasters worked unlimited hours. Overtime will be paid on a pro rata basta. Many yardmaaters hold seven-days. aweek positions, The new rules provide for two days a month off for | these men, Seattle Man Weds University Co-ed PASCO, Oct. 16.—Miss Margaret McDonald, former University of Washington student, and Harold Zirckel, of Seattle, were united in marriage here Friday evening by the Rev, Dr. M. M. Raton at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mra. George McDonald. Following the ceremony the couple left for Oakland, Cal, where they will make their home. STABBED OVER STRIKE ISSUE During dn argument over the strike situation at Renton Sunday night, Joe Richards, 21, employe of the Pacific Car & Foundry Co. at | Renton, was stabbed below the right lear by one of geveral assailants and left for dead in the street. Richards |was found unconscious and in a |dying condition Inter and rushed to |the Renton hospital where the flow lof blood was stopped after desperate efforts by attending physicians. Richards recovered consciousness Monday. He probably will recover, Dance Halls Seem No recommendation of action against halls in the “akidway dis- |trict,” south of Yesler way, will be |made to the city counoil license com- mittee, it, waa understood Monday, following ® meeting of the latter |body. Councilman Lou Cohen report- ed at the meeting that he had mado @ personal investigation of the halls |in qmeetion and had found that “the |girls ware more orderly in conduct and dress than in uptown halls and jcabarets. SELF DEFENSE Self-detense will be the plea of William DeGraff, who was being tried Monday before Superior Judge A. W. Frater on a charge of murder in the first degree, for the killing of Joe Nelson on August 23. This was indicated at the outset of the trial by Thomas J, Casey, De- Graff's attorney. DeGraff was a lamp-lighter for the Northern Pacific railroad. He 1# al- leged to have shot and killed Nelson while under the influence of liquor, during the progress of a quarrel over Mrs. John Colberg, a colored woman living at 4602 10th ave. & y | TRIAL STARTED Chartes B. Wood, county purchasing | to Be Winning Out! ONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1922. Near Ephrata Eight men, including three members of the crew and five clerks, were injured early this morning when westbound mail train No. 5, Great North- ern, crashed into an_ eastbound omen freight train at Irby, near | W. A. (“Weary”) Wiking, proprie. | Ephrata, Wash, tor of the Pacific bindery, and) The injured: Nick Oster, engtneer on mail train, j Slightly injured and shaken up, | C. Henson, fireman on |train, badly injured about body. F. Kenyon, mall train brakeman, injured slightly and shaken up. The following mail clerks sustained | minor injuries: A. R. Weaver, Henry ©. Smith, Al- | fred Hensel Roy Messner, Mark Trafton. | The train crew lives In Spokane; }the maii clerks run into Seattle. All | were taken to a Spokane hospital for | treatment. ‘The accident occurred at 12:43. ‘The flagman on the freight, ac- cording to information received at Senttle, failed to appear in time at a sharp curve just west of the station at Irby. The mail train, running at full speed, shot around the curve and smashed head on into the freight before the brakes could be applied to effect a full stop. Both engines partly left the track. One express car attached to the mail train was ditched, but the balance of the train was left intact and no mail was damaged. STAREN HANGS SELF AT PEN mall murderer, has made good his boast that he would never be executed by | the state at Waila Walla. He hanged himself in the death cell here Satur- |day night. His body was found dangling at the end of « strip of j sheeting tn the cell. Efforts to re- vive him proved futtle. Staren shot to death August Bonjt!- jornt, of Wilson Creek, on September 21, at the Bonjiorn! farm, and badly wounded John Bonjiorn!, August's uncle, STATE TAX ON INCOMES 0. K. WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—-States have the right to levy & special tax |on incomes for a spectal purpose, such as the maintenance of public schools, the supreme court held to- | day. This was announced by the court jin upholding the Massachusetts state j law of 1919, placing a special tax on incomes to raise funds for paying | higher salaries to public school teach- | ern. The courtheld tn effect that pub- Me school maintenance is a general and state-wide purpose that properly can be accompilshed out of state funds, Woman Surprises a Negro Burglar | Surprising @ negro in her home at | 1606 11th ave &. after walking home |from a dance, Mrs. Sarah Beeler, ex- candidate for the state legislature, |ran from the door, she told the po- lice Bunday night. The colored bur- glar took $34 owned by the Al-Agar lodge and fled. Police found a $2 bill on the rear ateps. While the employes of the Bramer & Marx garnge Were busy in the rear Sunday night, a thief quietly rifled the cash register, taking $70. A diamond lavaliiere valued at $125 was stolen from Miss I. Davis, 1411 Minor ave, early Monday. The house was thoroly ransacked. | Crawling thru a kitchen window, a thief atole two rings set with opals and rubies, from W. F, Brotherton, 2206 1. Lynn et. TENANT SLAYS RICH FARMER BOISE, Idaho, Oct. 16.—W. D. Patterson, 56, wealthy rancher living near Cascade, 80 miles north of Boise, was shot and killed Saturday by D. L. Hoagland, living nearby on one of Patterson's ranches, Sheriff Driggs of Boise county, fearing mob violence, brough* Hoag- Hland to Boise. Hoagland claims he was angered when Patterson on Friday removed some cattle from his place without |dividing them on shares agreed upon previously. Brewers Start Suit Over Medicine Beer WASHINGTON, Uct, 16.—Suit at- tacking the validity of the Willis. Campbell amendment to the Voistead act, barring manufacture and sale of beer as medicine, was filed with the supreme court today by Piel Bros., former brewers, Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE MAIL TRAIN l¢ Boys Were Fast, Too IN COLLISION ‘Eight Men Injured in Accident on Great Northern Lafayette Skinner, 98 “If ugly people were not becoming humerous at such a rapid rate I i aoe, call that so we | TACOMA, Oct. 16—Paul Staren, |would be perfectly satisfied with the Mr, Skinner doesn't belleve that that has taken on |there ts any set way to attain a 0 much speed wince the world war,” | jong life. sald Lafay@tte Skinner, 5746 Green you can hold on as long as he has, Lake way, who is leaving Wednes- | and the best way to do is to “watch |day on a motor trip to California in| your step” and don't take too many |chances or keep “Maybe its because my eyesight is luck” too much. “Eat lots and present ‘fast age’ celebration of his 98th birthday. getting poor that I am under the young men are leading, but they going best—18 years old and married, and now I have seven sons and jdaughters, 24 grandchildren, seven Saturday. | with it. } impression that ugliness among our | |young people is gettge mere com-| 60 talking about old age. Why, they —vnoto by Price & Carter, Bter Staff Photographers @reat-grandchilfren and 11 great- great-grandchildren. Now I don't/ holes. keep active,” he says. “It amuses me to see these lads at |mon,” he continued. “Outside of that |«re young yet, If they only knew it. I like our flappers and even the boys | You see them carefully feeling their aren’t go bad these days, I hear a way with a cane and wondering how lot of talk about the fast pace the many more days they can hold out. That's all nonsense. Why, when I haven't got anything on the boys was 90, I climbed the highest peaks back in ‘42. That was when I was | of the |have been crippled, too, if I had let |myself think I was old. A man Is Rockies, but I would no older than he thinks.” ‘More Than 9,000 Join | Star’s Thrift Crusade By noon Monday more than 9,000 persons had started on the road to Thrift as a result of The Star's Thrift campaign, which began October 4. Hundreds more were waiting at the bank windows read; to get their share of The Star’s Pot of Gold. ‘our thousand, five hundred opened accounts Friday and Saturday was a world beater. nearly swamped with new recruits in the Thrift army. Everybody, it seemed, wanted to enlist—wanted that gift of 50 cents and the Liberty bell savings bank that goes The bank was There’s still time to act if you hurry. The campaign does not close until 3 o’clock Monday afternoon and maybe you might sneak in a little after that—if you really want to start. SANDERS IS UP FOR TRIAL MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct. 16.—G, V. Sanders, editor of the Memphis Press, today faced Federal Judge J. W. Ross on & charge of contempt of court. The charge against Sanders is based on an editorial published in the Press attacking the Wilkerson and Ross injunctions in connection with the shopmen’s strike. Specific chargo against Sanders is that he commented on the arrest of Jacob Cohen, editor of the Labor Review, while Cohen's case was pending be- | fore Judge Ross, Cohen was cited for contempt of |eourt for referring to strikebreakers was sentenced to six as “scabs” an months’ imprisonment and fined $1,000, Engagement Broken; Man Takes His Life RHINE YANKS WILL RETURN WASHINGTON, ct, 16.— The 1,000 troops constituting the United States army of occupation in Ger- many are to be returned home, it was understood today following a conference of Secretary of War Weeks and General Pershing with President Harding. It was learned that this question was taken up by Weeks and Pershing with the president and that a virtual decision was reached to return the American army on the Rhine. Crime Wave Spreads in Rock Island, III. ROCK ISLAND, Ill, Oct. 16.— Rushing of state troops to Rock Is- jJand to aid in cleaning up the crime situation loomed as a possibility to- day following the killing of five men in 10 days, ‘The latest victims were Policemen Edward Hiner and George Green, ‘They were shot to death in an under- world dive yesterday. Another po- Hceman was seriously wounded, PORTLAND, Ore, Oct. 16,—De- spondency because his sweetheart broke her engagement to him was the alleged cause of the suicide here Sunday of A. T. Reed, police believed today. Before shooting , himself through the heart Reed attempted to kill his sweetheart, Hefbn Stock- house. She lies in a hospital danger. ously wounded, Reed was 23 and Miss Stockhouse 18, ¥ BurLtT HOME FOR HER MAN LAKE COMO, Pa., Oct. 16.—Mrs, Lillian Mills startled the country when she announced, a year ago, she would build herself a house with. out the aid of a man, Yesterday she married D, D. Miller and he moved into it. * He says you're lucky if “pressing your iy, PASSENGERS JOVFUL OVER SAFE RETURN Cheering _ Crowds Chief Officer W. J. Robbins of Honolulu, one of the last four to leave the burning ship, led survivors down the gangplank the Thomas. His wife rushed to sobbing @ greeting. Other of his family rushed up and he nearly smothered with embraces, Then followed Mra, L. K. # of Hollywood, leading her two grandchildren, Barbara and P Hillyard, by the hand. 2 “The just behaved wonderfully” were her first — words to the United Press repre- — nentatives. A “They didn’t even whimper. “It was magnificent the way Ct Lester handled the situation. “Shortly after the fire broke we were all aroused. It didn’t Captain jin his calm and collected way, nounced that everybody would the ship. We were put over the and in the water before we the serioysni of it all. u Lester and several of his officers mained aboard until the fire bec |8o hot and terrific that they, too, to take to the water in order to from being burned to death. |#ea was calm and the weather jand no hardships were endured anyone between the time we took tl water and were picked up in afternoon by the freighter West “The following morning transferred to the Thomas, which stood alongside early in the I cannot praise too highly the cers of the Thomas for the treatment they gave us. “All thru the night flames upward from the burning palace the seas, illuminating the heavens for miles around. It was a . ful sight, but pathetic. Flames were chewing at the very heart of the \Iiner, The mast fell, then a funnel, A terrific explosion followed; blue-white flames leaped into the like a great geyser.” Little Barbara Hillyard, when asked about the fire, sald, “Oh, yes, it was a great fire. I wasn’t scared, was I, grandma’ “We left when it got army, returning from the islands China, were aboard the ship, In mand of Maj. H. E. Mann, Lieut. L: Hammon, Ninth cavalry, was ad. jutant on the returning trooper, A mighty cheer arose from the men in khaki as the Thomas nose@ her way into the Wilmington chan nel and a moment later shot the haw- ser lines over the port side and made. secure to the dock, i Praise for Capt. H. R. Lester was sung today loudly by Capt. mohd, troop adjutant aboard Thomas, “He handled the situation so_ sald Capt. As the passengers and crew mem bers streamed down the gangplank, there was.a general rush to greet them, ‘The Beene was ono of galety, with no air of tragedy apparent. No lives had been lost, and all s*=ned to view their experience as @ great adven- ture, (Turn to Page 7, Column 1)