The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 13, 1922, Page 1

: io" WwW Tonight and Temperature Maximum, 49. Sewn EATHER moderate easterly winds Tuesday, fair Last M noon, 40. Hours um, The paper with a a 15, under the Act of Congress March 8, 000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor | The Seattle Sta Batered se Second Clase Matter May 6, 1999, at the Postoffion at Seattle, W ash. 1879. Per Year, by Mall, 06 to 9 jJAPS NOT “WHITE MEN” /U. S. Supreme Court So Rules in Decision on Vv OL UME a. N s SATTLE EB, WASH., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 19; Howdy, folks! Anybody know where an enthusiastic Washing | ton roeter can cat free? “ee ‘The U. of W. cheer leadets won by three epileptic fits end two spasms. . . . We'll get our revenge when the checker season opens eee NIGHT LETTER CHARLIE MORSE COMMA BELLINGHAM COMMA WASH STOP HOPE YOU GOT HOME SAFELY AFTER FOOT- BALL GAME STOP BY THE WAY COMMA WHO WON THE GAME QUES- TION MARK : . This littic pigakin went om the grid- iron. + This little pigskin went home. This ttle pipakin cried, “Orki, wee, wee, wee All the way home. eee ‘There was no celebration after the game. Nothing to celebrate for or ‘with. ‘Students used to learn the three| R’s—Rum, Riot and Rubbish But Saturday it was a dry tieia | and a dry crowd > ote Lg Getden Hare of College | | Page ‘= popular song. | | Can't get hate og meme | | beer. i BRS | The difference between college; jrit and college spirits in about $8 a} quart. | LI'L GEE GEE, TH’ OFFICE VAMP, It's a wise coed who always holds « football on her five-yard line. ve Bright remark by T. Tus “The republican congress made os country sick, and then put a tariff) on medicine. Some states voted on light wine and beer. Let's have a vote in Wash: | ington on light grapo and —~ store | gin | ] | Twinkle, twinkle, i. Movie star, How we wonder Why vou are | eee “Phyllis looked a perfect fright} when she returned from that hunting | trip.” “Yeu, there was six weeks’ growth face of eyebrow on he Lite PATHETIC FIGURES ‘The stylish stout lady who or: ders spinach and tea at luncheon when her very soul cries out for chicken salad, beefsteak pie and a couple of cream putts. | If we have to bh a lot of crazy laws, perhaps the least crazy would be one prohibiting wives from buying | neckties for thelr husbands for Christmas see Be that as# it may, Senator Poin dexter is not taking much Interest in the observance of Fortet-Me-Not | member By Herself i in "Navy "Post i AVC Miss Lillian Claire Hebert Miss Lilian Claire Hebert goes the, distinction of being the| phone and Telegraph Co. but she only girl eyer enrolled as an active believes that once a gob always a! John Paul Jones All- She was initiated Thursday night— and she's just as proud of the little Legion button that she now sports tm her lapel as she was when she | first got her uniform as a chief yeo | She wag stationed tn the office of| wi the commandant of the 13th naval/into the streets, where many, man (f) during the war. Hiss Hebert is now employed on ie land, in the department of com Imercial engineering, Pacific Tele) \gob-—and therefore she | thing but an all-navy post. UA LEV TOWNS 1,400 Are Dead and Hu Hundreds Injured in South American Horror; Tidal Wave Adds to Catastrophe BY LAURENCE S. HAAS | | | (Copyright, 1922 SANTIAGO, Chile, ma, today. | tories. \vi es leveled by the quake, | by hundreds in the streets. Vallenar, Copiapo and Coqui: back in the hills-appear Jou sible to estimate. There were reports that w jout. | |human senses only two min- Miss Hebert joined the naval re serve October 27, 1917, and was on(utes. That was sufficient to active duty until August 6, 1919. \drive those whose houses) district, at the navy yard at Brem orton. NEW VICTIM OF “POISON RING” 'Police Now Certain Women| Killed for Insurance CHICAGO, Nov. 13.—A new vietim of arsenic poisoning was discovered today by police as they investigated the activities of Mrs. Tillie Klimek and Mra, Nellie Strumer, held in connec- tion with the deaths of their husbands. The latest victim was discovered tn | 4 Chicago hospital. He lived in po neighborhood in which the two Heged women “Blueheards” voalde Authorities believed the new evi ldence strengthened their theory that a gigantic poison ring existed among wives in that section The women, they contend, obtained | busbends thru matrimonial bureaus | land had their lives insured and then killed them thru slow loning. ‘Three of 12 bedies to be exhumed arsente pols. |have already shown traces of ar. jsenic poisoning. Three others are now being tested by chemists and the other six will be taken from the ground this week. All 12 were clone ly connected with the two women |now held and their deaths were un der mysterious circumstances Authorities did not make public the j|narme of the second man now in a week | hospital Anton Klimek, fourth hus- | band of one of the women under ar Were you among those who put) rest, in recovering grom the effects the “ex" in Poindexter? of poison which his wife, according tind |to police, haw admitted ministering. FARE THEE WEL1. Records of matrimonial bureaus Good-bye, Miles; take keer o” were examined by deputies in an ef- yourself. {tort to®ietermine the number of hus- And if you can’t take keer 0’ | bands Mrs. Klimek and Mrs. Strumer obtained thru these agencies. YEGGS BLOW SAFE, GET 700 PENNIES, yourself, Uncle Warren Harding will | see | California woman has announced | that the market price of a husband | | Gencoe, thatk proly elasert,| SIX SLABS BACON ative, of courne Somewhere in Seattle Monday a oe You can give my baby candy, You can give my baby sweets; But when she wante her daddy I'm the baby she meets ore Annual joke; A corn on the cob Is worth two on the toe . TODAY IN HISTORY On November 13, 189%, Hiram 4. Snilbitz opened a ean ° disappointed bunch of safe crac ers sadly counted $7 in pennie: secured when they blew open the safe in the Quality Meat market at 3936 Wallingford ave., operated by Mrs. Richard F, Hartwig The yeggemen broke a lock to gain entrance, drilled the safe and dynamited it. They secured 700 pennies. The burglars, however, took six slabs of bacon and four hams. They carefully locked up the place with a new padlock when they departed. feat has cated, BLAZE RAGESIN TEXAS OIL LAKE '$1 000,000 “Property Loss; | Fire Spreading / | | | | | | HOUSTON Tex burning lake of oi! already had cr | property loss of $1,000,000 and was still raging in the Humble ol! figids, near here, today The fire, started by a bolt of light | ning, will cause property damage en Nov timated at $2,000.000. authorities be- | | Heved today. The lightning struck lan earthen reservoir containing more | than 600,000 barrelg of ol! Great steam bollern have lmovell. ta }huge off tanks on the Humble prop erty, and streams of live steam are being played upon the spectacular | blaze. A sroall artificial lake, caused | by recent rains, over which a film of J oll has settled, is blazing and menac ling several other large tanks VACCINATION COMPULSORY WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.— Com pulsory vaccination regulations were upheld by the United States supreme court today It approved the action of Texas courts in dismissing a $10,000 dam age suit brought in the name of Rosalyn Zucht, San Antonio girl who was expelled from school be cause her parents refused to allow her to be vaccinated Clara Phil wind Sure of Acquittal 10S ANGELES, Nov. 13.—Ciara | Phillips went into court today confi. dent of acquittal Hor smile was more defiant than way thru the crowd that has gath- ered to nee her pass by every day of her trial for the murder of Alberta | Meadows, Today Defense Attorney Bertram | Herrington, her attorney, will make | his final argument in her behalf, NEW YORK.—Harry H, Frazee, lowner of theaters and of the Boston American League Baseball club, sued for divorce hy Mrs, Elise Frazie, who | nares zavetl Nelson, actress, aw the “other” woman, 4| Couriers came deen | close as possible to the | ever as she left the jail and made her | thstood the shock, in terror | in coastal villages, were __|drowned by the terrific tidal 'wave which lifted its millions lof tons of water a thousand | feet over the unprotected thousés along the shore. Thousands slept in the open last night, afraid to return to tottering houses of even to those that had withstood the shock, for fear of a repetition of the quake, felt Sundo: panic among the wi miles along the coast. to Santiago today from Vallenar and Coplepo to ar. sons lost their lives in a devastating eart | wave which rent the coast of northern Chile early Satur-| |day, according to the most accurate available estimates KE ELS" by United Press) 13.—Feurteen hundred arvation, pestilence and exposure are claiming additional | ‘« victims in the wake of the disaster, and relief caravans are pushing to aid homeless inhabitants of the stricken terri-| Communication with the shattered towns along the coast | >*svty: ber Salome bad the \from Valparaiso to Antofagasta, the district which bore the, | brunt of the shock and upheaval of the Pacific, ted, but couriers brought word to the capital of whole | was still keen to see it was still dis- | with survivors wounded, lying mbo, three little coastal towns, ffered most from the great shock at 12:30 a. m. Saturday. They were inundated by a rush of the Pacific, which fol- lowed the first earth tremors, But little villages farther also to have suffered terrible loss of life and Geatrnction of 3 of property which it may never be pos- hole communities were wiped The largest quake, felt over the entire South American \continent, and registered on seismographs all over the world, wouldn't lasted for over three hours, ——% | Navy Post, of the American Legion. {think of being affiliated with any | altho it was perceptible to COMMISSIONER CASES UP AGAI Probe Dismissals Investigation into the elreum- stances of the dismissal of the grand larceny Indictments against the county commission- ers and others, was ordered Monday by Presiding Superior Judge Austin E. Griffiths tn charging the mew grand jury that convened in room 409 of the county-city building. “This dismissal under such excep. range for caravans to take food andj tional circumstances,” Judge Grit medicine to the stricken towns. The} fithe said, after reviewing the sal- former place, they declared, was prac-| lent aspects of the case, ‘aroused | | tieally obliterated. Injured and sick are being treated in the streets and public squares, Starvation is already in sight at Vallenar, while has begun fo spread quake victims, who are huddled to. gether in rude shelters in the! | Aleayago, ® prominent Chilean engineer, was one of the first to bring a reliable eye-witness | | story of the desojation and disaster | that was spread thru the north. Het declared contagious dineases are| spreading like wildfire and that many jare threatened with death from ex- posure and hunger. Arriving at La Serena, Alcay- ago told a dramatic story of the destruction of the jail at Val loner, which was crowded with prisoners sentenced for minor of- fenses. The shock hurled down ther, remaining shaking in terror fn an open space near the ruins of thelr late prison, Troops today were standing «uard over the prisoners, with no place in} cines to prevent scores from dying unless relief comon quickly. People in the shaken towns are living In abject fear of repetition of the quakes. Scenes of horror all about them, decimated victims lying unburied, houses in splinters and oc: | casional vague earth rumblings have | reduced them to complete incapacity for helping themselves. | phey are waiting for outside aid which, general interest and comment. In/ | view of the notoriety of this pubile matter, and the denials and counter. disease | denials concerning it, I deem it my | among the| duty to charge you to inquire into | two aspects of it “First, whether perjury was com: | mitted by anyone before the grand jury, and second, whether anyone has broken the disclosure of what was said or done before the grand jury “In this connection I also charge you that the dismissal in question is no legal bar to any inquiry or action you may choose to take with respect to the alleged offense of the de- fendants in the cases dis. | missed.” | Judge Griffiths also ordered the | grand lowing jury to matters investicate the fol- | the adobe walls of the little Cause of the failure of the Scan | prison, injuring many of the | dinavian-American bank of Seattle; | frightened inmates, Those able | ghooting of @ colored man October to do so rushed from the jail | 23 by Mathilde Berg, an Indian girl; but made no atte: to flee far. | death of @ Chinese patient in the | county hospital, jan insane inmate; charges that the |law regulating prize fighting is be- |ing openty violated, and bootlegging, |immorality and gambling. which to lock them up | In the cases referred to by Judge | Ta Serena, ax the largest city in| Grigfiths as dismissed “under excep: the immediate vicinity of the devas-| tional circumstances,” County Com. tated area, has received numberleas | missioners Claude C, Ramsay, Thom appeals for assistance since Satur-|ay Dobson and Lou C. Smith were Gay morning. Both Coplapo-and Val-| charged with misappropriation of lenar are without sufficient med! jeounty funds in connection with re. pairs to the county ferries Capt. John L, Anderson, lessee of the ferries, and H. B. Tomkins, for \mer assistant county superintendent of transportation, were jointly in dicted, but were scheduled for sepa rate trial, Boy Injured in Bus Is Brought to City in some instances, may not arrive for several days, owing to the! Lioyd Jensen, 14, schoolboy, who destruction of transportation facili. | was one of the victims of the auto jties, ‘This i# particularly true in the |#tage crash near Port Townsend last se of inland towns, about whore | Friday that claimed one fatality, was suffering little is yet known, jin the P dence hospital Monday Caravany will start from Valaparaiso |in critical condition, ‘Che ehild was (Zura w Page 4, Column 2) brvught w Seattie Sunday, New Grand Jury Ordered to) law which forbids) reported killed by | Mottled | Butterfly A short story by Melville Davis. son Post, one of a series on “Tri umphs of M. Jonquelle.” Copy- right, 1922, N. E. A. Service, ‘The opera had opened. The musto began to fill the corridora But M. Jonquelie 414 not go in. He remained idling in the foyer, | & cigaret in his fingers, his manner and air, @ well-bred, bored indif- ference, The whole house was} |crowded. There was not @ vacant seat. It was the last performance in| Paris of Mme. Zirtenzoff's Ralome A few belated persona passed MM. | | Jonquelle and entered the doors to |the boxes, Some of these persons and whether one knew him, or cared | to know him, all were curtous about | the man. ‘The vast music assembled and ex- Jed ttxelf. « foyer became empty, and stint Jonquelle did net go tn. Perhaps M3 was because Mme. Zirtenzoff had | not gone on. She was a famous gy | which stimulated even the nerves of France, It had née ee on at the Opera for 60 days, and Paris ‘The woman was @ Russian exotic, one of those alluring creatures tha always assemble @ fabulous legend. ‘There was a wild passion tn her Balome, and her conquests were the gossip of Paria ‘The opera had continued for per- haps thirty minutes. Mme. Zirtensoff had come on; her voice, Nike a stiver bell, reached M. Jonquelle clearly where he sauntered tn the foyer. Presently the door to a box opened and one of the pagen of the theater lof orchids. The flowers were worth |n thousand francs. They could have [been grown fn Parts only with ex- treme care and under every perfec- tion of light and temperature. It | was a mass of flowers that would have drawn the attention of any- ‘nody, exquisite orchids of the genus |Oncidium = Kramerit, called the} | Mottied Butterfly | Tt seamed to have drawn the at- | tention of M. Jonquelle. He stopped the page as he passed him “Garcon,” he said, handing him « |plece of gold, “find me a box of clgarets before you go on with thone flowers. Quickly-—run; I will hold them until you return.” The boy knew the great chief of the Service de In Surete, He gave M. Jonquelle the bouquet of orchids and disappeared down the stairway. He was gone hardly a moment; when he returned, M. Jon- quelle had not moved from his posi- tion by @ pillar of the foyer, He handed back the orchids to the page land received the box of cigarets, He paused a moment, fingered the |box but did not open it; instead, he walked a few steps down the foyer ae entered the box from which the had come out with the or- chia One looking on would have won- dered why the Prefect of Police re- quired a pack of cigarets, at the cost of a ten-franc gold-plece— especially as, after having turned ft in his hand, he had put tt easly into his pocket and entered @ box. It would appear that he watted for these cigarets before entering the box. But to what end? One could not smoke In a box at the Opera, at its most expensive point in the ultra- fashionable audience of Paris, Altho the great opera’ house was packea with people—not @ vacant seat visible to the eye—there was but one person in the box which M.,Jonquelle had entered. He was a person that anyone would pause almost anywhere to observe. |He was young: he was exquisitely dressed—a dress in which there was some of the over-extravagance of de- jtall, that suggestion of elegance, | which the Parisian cannot avotd. He was a young man and extreme- |ly handsome, a blond French type with a dainty mustache and regular Italian features, and thick, soft, | yellow hair presenting the gloss of the seal's coat. In his physical as- pect, for perfection of detail, the man had no equal on the Paris boulevards. Tt had got him a rich American wife and lifted him, as by a fairy larap, out of the sordid environments of an old family in decay, The thing seemed a plece of the design of a Providence with an esthetic sense, ‘This exquisite person would have been incongruous except fn an atmos- phere of wealth. He had an apart- ment now beyond the Are de Triom- phe, one of those wonderful apart- ments that the American invasion after the great war had set up in Paris. The Marayts was the envy of the houlevardier,’ But it was rumored that he had not the freedom of his wife's money- sacks, He wot what she allowed him. jit ft ought to be written here, in | fustioe to the marquis, that tt was not he who complained, Why showld he? The allowance was evidently enough for any reasonable man, He (Lurn to Page 6, Column 3) * jappenred with an immense bouquet | VICTORY WON BY STATES! ‘California and Washington Japanese Who Sought to | WASHINGTON, Nov. 13. | addressed him; all regarded him He within the meaning of the American law and are not en- & well-known figure in Parts titled to citizenship in the United States, supreme court uake and Rial His friendship was worth something, held today. The ruling does not affect the status of Japanese chil. ren born in America, as they, under the constitution, are automatically American citizens. The high court affirmed the decision of the California ppeals in a test case brought by Takeo \d circuit court of a | Ozawa, of Honolulu, who clai preme court decision in denyi ashita and Charles Hio Kono, of Seattle. The decision held that the two Japanese were not entitled to naturalization under the United States laws, and therefore could not enter a business partnership. The supreme court’s de- cision in these cases has long been awaited, particularly on the Pacific coast, where anti- Japanese feeling exists. Ozawa contended he was entitled to American citizenship descend. jant of the white tribe of Alsu He | started his fight for citizenship sev- jeral years ago, in Hawail, but was | defeated in the courts there and also in higher courts in California. Oza- Wa has lived in Hawall since his childhood and was educated in the! American schools there. His chil- dren, now attending American schools, are being Drought up as American oftizens. Yamashita presented an ment similar to that of Ozawa | argu He! the courts of the state of Washing- ton denied him the privilege of in |corporating a real estate company because of his ineligibility to citien- | ship. lau: STICE SUTHERLAND | DELIVERS OPINION Justice Sutherland, reading his| | his recent appointment by Presi- dent Harding, delivered the opinion. He said: “The determination that the words ‘white person’ are synonymous with the words ‘a person of the Cau casian race’ simplifies the problem, altho tt does not entirely dispose of it Controversies have arisen and will no doubt arise again in respect of the proper classification of indi viduals in border line cases. The effect of the conclusion that the words ‘white person’ means a Cau- casian is not to establish a sharp line of demarcation between those who are entitled and those who are not entitled to naturalization, but rather a sone of more or less de- batable ground outside of which, upon the one hand, are those clearly eligible and outside off which, upon the other hand, are those clearly in- eligible for citizenship. “Individual cases falling within (Turn to Page 4, Column 6) Boy Is Wounded by Peanut Seller PORTLAND, Nov. 18.—Norman Repp, 11, was in a critfoal condition at a hospital here today, following his wounding by P. Hari, a Hindu peanut vendor, Hari endeavored to put an end to teasing by a group of boys following his wagon, and fired twice in their direction, One of the shelis in the rusty re- volver exploded and Repp fell, shot near the heart, An operation saved his life. Hari was held on a techni- cal charge of assault with a danger ous weapon, Army Warehouse Wrecked by Fire MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich., Nov. 18.—-Fire totally destroyed the army quartermaster’s warehouse here to: day, causing damage estimated at $1,000,000, AIL THIEF WAS ONLY JOE’S GOAT JOMART, TM, Nov, 13.—Guards sent to discover whaj became of mail placed on Joseph Erjavie's front porch, solved the mystery when they saw Joe's goat munching devoy letters, Citizenship American Citizenship Lose \eligible for naturalization as an American citizen, At the same time the court upheld the Washi appealed to the supreme court when | first opinion from the bench since | a _ Two CENTS IN IN SEATTLE Force Claim to —Japanese are not white, med he was “white” and was ing citizenship to Takuji URGES FIGHT ON U. §.-BORN JAPS Change In Constttution Idea of Wapato Lawyer “We've gone as far as we Yam- continue the fight and make ca safe for Americans, our next must be a constitutional as which will make it impossible lany Japanese to become an can citizen, This wae the statement made day by Joseph C. Cheney, | Wapato lawyer, who led the can Legion's successful effort drive the Japs out of the ‘Indian reservation. Cheney was | Seattle on business and was ping at the Frye. “Our fight has been won for the _moment—but bring federal action. What good will do us to keep the Japs off the | today—tt {heir children are | American “citizenship with all tl esa y and privileges of a white Cheney described conditions on Indian reservation prior to the the Japs were driven off as an cation of the menace of Jap tration. “They made it impossible. for white man to earn a living on the reservation,” he declared. “The Jap, you know, is economically to the white man. He can tary of the interior and he promul- gated two orders: first, refusing leases to anyone not of American citizenship, and, second, leases to persons employing foreign- ers, “This virtually removed the Jap menace on the reservation. They're moving out now and pretty soon there won't be any left. “But how about thelr children, born in this country? These ‘American citizens’ will soon be coming back to reclaim the lané from which we drove their par ents—and there'll be no way in the world of stopping them un- © less we amend the constitution, “As a matter of fact, the whole situation is ridiculous. The United States is the only country in the world that has such loose citizen: ship laws. Imagine, for instance— an English couple, traveling from Montreal to Victoria, come into the United States while en route and a baby is born to them; that child, then, under our silly law, is ap American citizen, “The logical thing to do is te amend the constitution so that become a citizen iniess he is the son of parents who are either citizens selves or eligible to That would automatically Japanese menace for all the time to come,”