The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 29, 1923, Page 1

at 2o1e “Ss DONT LE oa COURTROOM IS STIRRED BY TESTIMONY IN FERRY TRIAL! WEATHER easterly FORECAST derate south winds. Entered as Geoond Class Matter May 2 1899, ot the ATTLE, WAS SH, toftice at Seattle, Wei THU RSDAY, Ter Year, by Mail, 60.60 The Seattle Star MARC H Yakima Valley Unites Howdy, folks! Let's go down to Billy Sutherland's and blow the foam off a coupla high ones! eee In the spring a young man’s fancy Nightly turns to thoughts of Bock/ beer. cee Anyway, this is the kind of weath: er that persuades a young feller that two can live as cheaply as on eee "EM LOOSE! Spring is here, Hortense. Hurry up and put up the screen doors so the flies can’t get out! ar e's flapper: do they roll ‘em or stick court plaster? were the re wearing ‘The best thing about spring Is Se-| aitle is its uncertainty. A person Dever knows whether ho is going to have to mow the lawn or sweep the @now off the walk. eae Sign for a drug store? DON'T USE FOR HE PERFUME: : eee If You OUR .SOAPS,.. THEN 'S SAKE USE OUR Well n spring is r gets bis name rocking the er, on a tombstone by boat eee CANDIDATES FOR THE CITY COUNCIL AS A BOY AS HE LOOKS TODAY We have with us today two splen-| did pictures of Hugo Kelley (or| Kelly), who ts running for the city| council on a platform of lower tazea and Moher revenue. Mr. Kelley (ot Kelly} will have the support of the entire clerical force of Mayor Brown's office. eee Is it true, queries Laura Castile, that Carl Jackson, cowboy prohibition chief, will use a White Mule in his} bootlegging roundup? eee “The Reckless Driver Must Go!— Editorial. Yes, but why must be go so fast? eee It is rumored that one man fn the State of Washington has paid an in- come tax this year of half a million dollars. Gosh, we feel so self-conscious! TH’ OFFICE Th’ only time th’ ordinary man shines in Society is when he has a bald head. oe A women’s auxiliary has been formed to the Ku Klux Klan, Bet they won't get many pretty girls to wear a pillow-slip over thelr| faces - ee ‘We turned tne plea of a beggar down,| He gave us a look and black; He got even with us as we walked down the street, He ran us down with his Cadillas, soe that was mean | What has become of the old-tash foned man who always referred to a fat woman as being “as plump as @ partridge’? aoe The trouble with King Benjamin Purnell, leader of the House of David, seems to be that he thought he was| @ movie actor. one WE WONDER iv THIS Is THE OLD ARMY GAME? Ernest Hippensta: Etiests of honor at wives Inst evenin birthday ann / The evening was principally spent in playing “Coutle” Goshen (ind.) Demoer aay Irn Haines were party given colebration Secretary Hoover ncorem the nugar fougers, Gosh, we bet thone follors feel pretty menn now! Look for Homes for 153 Babies BERLIN, March 29—The Infants hospital is trying to find homen for 168 baby inmatos, ax the Institution must clove for lack of funda, never belleve that) iy here until some feeb| treatment that they have received at the hands of the Japs. |your department that no further|real estate of leases of reservation InBkis be mado | sp DIVIDED INTO TWO CLIQUES CITIZENS ASK U. S: ENFORCE ITS RULINGS! Pro-Jap Forces ‘Rally Around One Legion Mass Meeting Attended by 1,000 Americans Marshals Forces to Drive Out Jap Lease Evaders BY BOB BERMANN Bank, While Opponents Line Up With Rival Institution | BY BOB BERMANN WAP. ATO, March 29.—A house divided against it- joske tues 8 is Wapato, storm center of the war which is being waged on the Yakima Indian reservation to| |drive out the Japs. | The little town has taken on the appearance—al- jmost literally—of two armed camps. | There seems to be an impression thru the state that the anti-Japanese sentiment is unanimous here. This, however, is far from being the case. It is true that the anti-Jap agitators are in the majority. But the Japs’ allies |both numerous and powerful. On the one side, fighting in the name of law and order} to enforce the interior department's ruling, which bars Japs from the reservation, are the American Legion, headed by Commander ©. A. Norton; a fairly representative group wealthiest man for miles around; all of the “ ple”—present or prospective white renters of reservation |land—and a few of the Indians, who are angered by unfair! | With the Japs—either openly or otherwise—are at least 50 per cent of the business men of the town, led by W. N. Luby and A. C. Ness, president and vice president respec- | tively of the Union State bank, and interested in many jother phases of the valley’s commercial and industrial life. | Some Government Employes | Appear to Be Pro-Jap | Also, a majority of the Indians seem to be with the Japs. | | They, probably don’t consider the racial aspect of the case at all; they merely recognize the fact that yellow tenants, by reason of their lower standard of living, can pay higher | |rents than the whites. At least a certain portion of the government employes on the reservation also seem to be pro-Japanese; that is the only construction that one can pla¢e upon the blatant, way in which they are permitting violations and evasions |of the departmental ruling. However, Don M. Carr, super- |intendent of the reservation, stoutly maintains that he is}) “neutral.” Feeling runs high on both sides. out their children’s birthright in exchange for the dollars that the Japanese spend with them. On the other hand, the pro-Japanese assert that the agi- tation is making a mountain out of a molehill; the outcome partly of business rivalry and partly of politi- cal ambitions, and that the Japs are not being given a square deal. “T am not pro-Japanese,” C. J. Luby, of the Wapato Trading Co., brother of the president of the Union State bank, declared, “and I think that we must eventually get rid of Japanese. But I am in favor of moderate methods and I do think that the Japs should be given a square deal. patting them on their backs and taking their dollars. It doesn’t seem exactly fair to kick them out now; we ought to sort of ease them out. Ness Refers to Legion Members as “A Lot of Coyotes” | “If the agitation had come at any other time than now it |probably wouldn’t haye made much difference. The Japs would have sold out and gone quietly away—and, outside jof the loss of trade in town, t worry about. “But the Japs—the whole reservation—have had two bad years now. means not only that they would lose everything they had, but also that they would go away owing thousands of dol- lected.” A less conservative stand is taken by Ness, who, in addi- tion to being vice president of the Union State bank, is | president of the Wapato Orchards Co, | “These agitato 8,” he declared, coyotes running down a poor little rabbit. There's nothing | patriotic about it—it’s just business jealousy and the de- sire of one man to get a lot of notoriety, for political pur- poses, I presume, seaidy “I don’t think it’s very nice or very patriotic of the American Legion boys to push this—and absolutely ignore the poor old Indians whom they will rob if the Japs are driven out. You've got to remember that the Japs pay |more rent than the Americans are willing to offer—and, as this rent is all the money the Indians have to live on, lit seems to me they have some right to say whom they | |shall rent to. “The Japs will settle on land that no white man can make a living out of, too.’ (Turn to Page 6, Column 2) quannnniamind. are’ of business men, under the leadership of Alex E. McCredy, | president of the First National bank and eeeeee, the | ts now being forwarded to Secretary | Thomas Realty Co, Inc., has no con- OMMMION “peo=} of the” Intersor- Hwbert-Work, peti-} nection. business or otherwise, with | {tioning him “that the necessary or | J. The anti-Jap workers} .| charge that their opponents among the whites are actuated | entirely by selfish motives—that they are willing to sell| that it is} “For 15 years the town has been catering to the Japs—} there would be nothing to} And to eject them summarily at this, time} lars to local business houses which could never be col-| emind me of a lot of| | WAPATO, March 29. ‘orces today to dri the interior dpeartment. -Yakima valley e out the Japanese who are s the Yakima Indian reservation in defiance of the ruling haling ing was mars its on of | Following a mass meeting here last night, called for the purpose of crystallizing public sentiment against the Japs, active lof the Last nigt fg, which we tract H) nh jwomen from all parts of the valley and was also a led by American | Legion representatives from more |than a dozen different posts PETITION WORK FOR ACTION It reached a climax with unanim- 000 men ders be given directing the immedl- | ate enforcement of the ruling of to Japanese; that the expiration of their [Japanese residents be | leave the reservation; | sons em: into or them or sut sidered as wi | ing and be de ants and their loases can | The resolution added: “We fur ther p m that an investigation | be made of the ntatus of all present tenancies of lands on the Yakima | reservation; that the resulta of this | investigation be made pubic; and| that all Japanese found upon such | Investigation to be holding othe than under a lease executed prior to| {mental ruling be at once to leave the reservation.” tmmediately leanes all required to and that per joying Japane The principal mpeeches of the even- Ing were mada by Capt Colvin, chief deputy prose torney of King county, and Councilman Phil Tindall, both of whom came over from Seattle ospe- cially for the meeting. Colvin assured the audience that the American Legion of Seattle and of the state wan with the Wapato | port tn Its effort to drive the Japs that this could be nothing more than a temporary expedient “Driving out the Japs now—and then permitting thelr American-born children to return 10 years hence and wrest control of the county from you—is like trying to dam up the Yakima river by dropping in sacks of sand," he declared. “The only rea! solution {s the passage of a constitu | tonal amendment providing that no one become an American citizen un. less both of his parents were eligible to cltizenship—nhd carrying a clause which makes it retroactive “senator Jones has the draft of such an amendment in his possession | ni and If he wants the people to support him In the future, as they have in the past, ho must take up their bludgeon and educate the Bast ern senators up to the point where will yote for it," SAVE AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP Colvin opened his address by de. claring that the campaign of which the Waputo movement {4 a part is an effort to save the high standard of American citizenship, “We're not fighting for you,” he anserted, “and wo're not fighting for me, but we are fighting for the birth: right of our children, "In 1776 a shot wag fired at Lex ington which was heard around the world, and which continued to echo down the centuries, I hope that Wapato will prove Itself a Lexington of 1923, and that from this n ing somothing/ will go out which will make itself heard In Washington and in Tokyo, “Two races ax radically as tho Americans and the not mix, and they they different Japs ean cannot live toreth. er on tho samo Jand without frie |tlon, This creates a vital problem, Jand {t's m problem which Is going to | ho solved. | “The only quoation fs whether we act in our day and notte it by peace | ful, lawful means, or whether we tuke the courso of least resistance (Turn to Page 6, Column 2) a oft the reservation, but he declared | #1 vault in the Bernhardt family tomb} |Inc., against m grand larceny cov | | on | ex rn *| Thomas has e being taken to organize the white residents y for the assistance of the government officials. Injustice Done E. R. Thomas Thru Error Thru were wu an error tho initials “E A an account of oe mu preme court's denial of an appeal by | J. F. Thomas, of J. B. Thomas & Co. | tion, in Wednesday's Star. ous adoption of a resolution, which | Thomas, who tn president of the B Hy m. Thomas, whowas convicted of grand larceny. ¥. Thomas formerty operated a oat Third ave. . in what ts kr R. Th & real estate and Investment business in the samo block, but the firms were never assoct own as omas © ng been one of Seattle's ont business men of the high ent character. | |who worshiped the divine jarmintice. | to the cemetery where s ~- BERNHARDT IS LAID TO REST ise | Whole World. Pays Final Homage to Great Actress BY WEBB MILLER PARIS, March 29,— Sarah Bern hardt sleeps tonight among the !m mortals of Pere a Chaise, in a vault buried deep in fragrant lilles, while a seemingly endless line of mourn ers files slowly past. After the most impressive and| touching funeral wervices and pro-| ceasion Paris has ever seen, in which | relatives, friends among the great, and the poor, old servants and those | actress’ art Joined in tribute to her wonderful | the coffin was lowered into its late thin afternoon. A priest pronounced benediction as tho setting sun lit up the plain black | letters on the ma "Bernhardt." sivo marble slal ceremonies were as simplo as the epitaph. Tho great tragedienne's dying wish was observed, “Leave my tomb alone ture attend to it.” It was estimated that moro than three-quarters of a million paid homage to the actress. Crowds werd the seen since the thousand were in line the cortego started and it gathered many thousands en route. Six carriages, heaped high flowers, followed the coffin, then 15 carriages with friends and rela- tivon. Dignitarles of France, reprehon tatives of forersn governments, rich and poor, the stage that the “divine Sarah" graced and the countless thousands that applauded her tri- umpha all were represented in tho slow moving procession. For a brief while the actress lay In state in the little church of St. Francis de Sales. Tho edifice was completely draped in long black and silver hangings. Inside it was filled, ceiling high in spots, with flower Bernhardt had the “many, flowers’ sho called for on 1 bed, long after the func Let na- many © death carried on Will Ne for & while before the final resting place at Hello Isle is ready for her, Friends came to the chureh with huge bunches of flowers and countless wreaths of white Hiles and rove The body lay in the churéh vault until 11: o'clock, then the coffin was Placed in a catafalque covered with black hangings and white crosses in | the center of the church Madam do Gany, who was Born: hardt'’s companion for years, refused | to leave the coffin for a moment, (Turn to Page 6, Column 4) people | with | STATES AT WAR OVER HER to Oust Jap Invaders When the its fairest co-ed, m of Faye Te a By the time the contest was d versity and returned home. homa prize why Univer favor Arkansas 5 your to an houldn't retorts / 1 of Oklahoma held a contest to pick| Franklin Booth, Conway (Ark.) girl, “Why should we give an Okla- TWO CENTS IN CHECK TENDER RECALLED New York artist, decided shown above ecided, Faye had left the uni-| yirl?” rkansas, asks Oklahoma. | “And| And there you are. PROBE KILLING OF D. J. PERRY, \Coroner Acts on Death ..of Circumstances leading to the shoot- y night of D. J. Perry, . by Patrolman Percy ped Thursday oner W. H. Corson. witnenses were to testify—Capt. of Lake | Burie Pizor were | at noon Only two Police Jos T. Mason and Patrolman Pizor. Since the shooting Perr | mother has Inslated her son was in- |nocent of any wrongdoing Pizor pulled the trigger that sr | out his Ife, Coroner W. Ht was unde cided Thursday whether the official Probe of the affair would lead to any Jaction on his part. Police detectives meanwhile were ch when ‘ed Corson automatic pistols, automat threo shotguns fo | seastc an effort to identify them |as stolen property, Ono of the guns been identified {n this manner, | Perry was shot down at Summit ave, and Madison st. by Pizor aft officer. The body was removed from the county morgue to the Bleitz par- jlors Thursday at the request of his| brother, W. J. Perry } 6 Persons Aue Hurt in Train Collision | CANON CITY, Colo., March 29.—}{ Six persons were injured, none sert- | ously, when passenger trains Nos. 15 | and 16, on the Denver & Rio Grande, | | collided head-on early today one mile | west of the hanging bridge in the Royal Gorge, according to m | reports received here. Deta of the collision were lack- ing and the cause of the wreck was | not known ie Sam Roberts, K who | was said to be beating his way westbound train No, 16, into the Arkansas river when the} trains hit, but escaped with slight injuries, The injured men were alt| members of the train crews, Both trains wero traveling slowly nt the time, the westbound rain | preparing to tako siding for No. 16, | Cl The wreck was cau thru a misunderstanding of orders by conductor of the later Tepor 8 said, | on was thrown | westbound train, | |Says Skinner & Eddy Site Bandit Suspect | LAMPING TELLS OF PORT NEEDS: Cost Must Be Used That the $850,000 which the port] commission proposes to expend for the acquisition and development of the old Skinner & Eddy shipyard site ye to be spent in the near| anyway, on the Smith Cove] ner & Eddy plan the announcement | by Port Commission. ¢ B. Lamping. ing before the Optimists’ club at the Masonic club, Arcade building, Col.‘Lamping declared that, in view of the fact that the expenditure of} the money ts inevitable, it might as well be used for the } 1 develop. ment of the port's intercoastal and in- i | s which I obtained while In Washington, fighting for the ship- ing board's consent to the Skinner & dy site proposition,” Col. Lamping continues, “are sufficient to prove the value of public ownership of port properties. WOULDN'T HAVE FIVE BIG LINERS “If the Smith Cove terminal had not been bullt—and this was an en- terprise that would never have been undertaken by private interests—we would not have the five 5’ Admiral Uners which are spending from $8,- 000,000 to $10,000,000 a year in this port. These expenditures make {t the greatest single industry in Se- attle, which is certainly all the justi- fication necessary for the port's ac- tion. “To compare these figures with the proposed expenditure, let me remind | you that these ships “alone spend every 60 days in Seattle more than enough imoney to cover the entire | cost of acquiring the Skinner & Eddy Faia thhee ships spend In Seattle every week more than the total tax that 1s being levied for port pur. pos Commenting with regret upon the Chamber of Commerce's decision. to attempt to obstruct port development by opposing the commission's pro- posal at the polls, Lamping sald: CHAMBE PRIVILEGE PLAN “If the chamber or any other or- ganization or individual wishes to op: (urn to Vage 6, Column 5) BY JOUN W.N SON Shaken by suppressed Kobs, Mrs Clara G the beautiful wife of Charles Cowon, wealthy Seattlo real estate dealer, reluctantly sur rendered Thursday furniture and ef. fects In the modishly furnished home of the Cowons at Deer Harbor, Ove Jsland, where since 1912 she has pro alded ay mistress. A touching scene | brought to m close an otherwise promic divorce case when Judge a T, Ronald Thursday effected a prop orty settlement between the two litt wants, A divores was granted Mrs, Cowen Inte Wednesday, but the property settlement was not concluded until Thursday morning, Cowen | ‘Sobs When Bedroom Set Goes to Former Husband Mrs. Cowen Pleads for | Furniture She Says Was Gift to Her | provides that Cowen | Briefly, tho property settloment hall retain pow. valued at ap. upon which 000, Mrs, session of property proximately $45,000, there are mortgages of Cowen was awarded Tho College Playhouse, in the University district, and other property valued at $25,000, upon which there are mortgages to: | talings $6,000, REDROOM CHERISHED GED It was when a final argument | » over tho payment of a mort-! © on the playhouse between At: | torney John 1. Murphy for Mrs. Cowen and attorneys for Cowen, that the sonal clement waa injected | and the county. IN OIL PROBE ies on Offered ‘ to Settle After Inquiry Started, as ‘ Gaines Says A check tendered by Capt. John L. Anderson May 3, 192% after a call for a grand jury had been issued, with the notation, full oll was refused by County Treasurer William A. Gaines be- cause it was irregular, Gaines tes- tified in the trial of Anderson on a grand larceny charge, in su- perior court Thursday, The indictment of Anderson arose out of the grand jury's probe of alleged oil thefts the check was designed to cover. GAINES TOOK CHECK TO BOARD “The check was received thru the Gaines testified. “It had the notation o} and the cashier brought it to me. it was irregular from two standpoints, If I had ac and indorsed it, the Anderson oat Co, would have been given in full’ receipt for all oil n, I did not know whether it closed the account or not. “It was irregular again in that ft hould have been submitted to the sroperty department for approval. 1 took it to the county commissioners, and they the check, which, |so far as my office was concerned, made It regular, and the check was accepted.” C. V. Johnson, former accountant | tor the property department of the county, said that he had no knowl edge of any account between the county and the Anderson Tugboat Co., which B. L, Gilbert, bookkeeper for Anderson, testified was in exist- ence, Johnson paid that the! only “payment in for ae count,” okehed erty can be sold ts thru his office.” “The first I knew of the transac- tion was when this brought with an O. K. from the board of county commissioners,” Johnson said, CALL HAD BEEN ISSUED vestigate the leasing of the ferries and the alleged disappearance of fuel oil had been issued prior to May 3, when Anderson tendered the check in question, which was for $40.50, A statement introduced in eyf- dence Thursday, prepared by Capt. Anderson, purported to show the ao count between the tugboat concern This was made out on the back of a tugboat letter-head and bore no signature. It included, as offset to oil taken over a period. of two years, several towing jobs, the difference being $40.50. Johnson testified that no charge account between the county and An- derson's firm existed. TOWING CHARGES ARE RELATED IM auditor, identified warrants paid to the Anderson Tugboat Co., for tow- ing work done for the county amounting to several hundred dole lars. He testified that there was no charge account which permitted An- derson’s company to take oil and charge it to the county tow account. count, T. W. Daugherty, a Bellevue clth zen, who Investigated the ferry lease, testified that in March, 1922, He went to the office of the tugboat concern and asked about oil taken from coun+ ty scows, Adolph Anderson, brother of John L. Anderson, said that he had taken’ (Turn to Page 6, Column 5) U, S, PROTEST SENT TO RUSS Death Sentence Against Archbishop Deplored WASHINGTON, March 29,—The plea of the United States govern: its order fom the execution of Arch: bishop Kepliak is to be delivered to today by Ambassador Houghton, Secretary of State Hughes acted promptly yesterday, following nu- merous pleas from Catholics in this country that the United States uso its diplomatic offices in an effort to, save the lives of tho dignitaries who: were charged with opposing the #0 religton, ee Stay of Sentence Urged by Belgium BRUSSELS, March 29,—Belgium today joined the world-offort to stay the execution of the Catholic arche bishop of Petrograd and others eons domned to die by a Russian court for resistniice to the soviet system, Tho Belgian government, it 1s une derstood, has sent representations to Moscow that sentence be suspended, The action of the court ts consid: orod hero as more of an expression against the expansion of the Catholic (Turn to Pago 6, Column 5) 1 church in Russia, {meer bi i had adn ld adden check war, Holeomb, deputy county — ment that the Russian soviet rescind — the soviet representative in Berlin viet government's orders regarding — legal method by which county, prop = he call for the grand jury to tak *