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The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-05-16
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RACIAL RESTRICTIONS IN
IMMIGRATION AND NATURAL
IzATION LAWS
BY HIDEO HOSHIDE
OUR IMMIGRATION

and naturalization laws have
included restrictions based solely
on race from their inception. It
was in 1870 that the first naturali-
zation law was enacted, which IL
mited the naturalization benefits
to free white persons In 1870. the
= statute was amended to make Ne
groes eligible, following the emanci-
patton of the slaves. Then in 1910,
eligibility to naturalization was ex-
tended to include races indigen-
Gus to the Western Hemisphere"
which would include the American
Indians.
AS for immigration laws the first
law of general application was the
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882,
which barred the entry of practi-
cally all persons of Chinese race.
This was following in 1917 by the
so-called "Asiatic Barred Zone"
which aimed at peoples of India,
Burma, Siam, the Pacific Islands,
and parts of Russia, China, Ara
bia and Afghanistan.
Then came the immigration Act
of 1924. When the johnson Bill
was introduced in the Congress,
there was much heated controversy.
However, both houses of the Con-
gress passed it by overwhelming ma
jorties. 1t became law on May 26,
1924 by President Coolidge's sigma
ture, and went into effect on July
l, 1924.
1t was this Immigration Act of
aimed primarily at the Japanese by
1924 which contained a provision
ordering the exclusion of races in
eligible to citizenship
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-05-16

A man has no more right to- say
ain uncivil thing than to act one,
no more right to say rude thing
to another than to knock him
down.-Johnson.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-05-16

There are men born under that
constellation which maketh them
as rlnapt to enrich themselves as
they are ready to impoverish
others.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-05-16

IN -.
the last four years, many of us
had to be satisfied with puny
strawberries from other parts of the
land. None of them, It's sad to re-
Port, matched our fine Northwest
productive world-famous Mar
shalls, that is.
The season for them is closing in
on us, and fast.
The local consumers, it is safe
to bet won't miss scoop when
the Marshall strawberries poke
their red faces out of grocery ant
market stands very shortly.
Pass the sugar and cream, sister
--b
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-05-16

PURELY -.
personal piffles: the current
song rage among the music happy
colored folks on Jackson st. is a
new tune by the King Cole Trio
called, "You Don't Learn That in
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The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-05-16

DURING
the five-year absence of the ia
panese due to the evacuation, po-
licemen who were here since the
days of the big, hard stove-pipe
hats have been replaced by young
err, trimmer men in neat uniforms
The new crop of cops" are total
strangers to the Japanese but they
are making friends fast.
Already, they have been accepted
by the standbys in the community
as "one of the boys"
And that's a good sign of better
understanding and cooperation.
Playing ball with the cops (par-
don, policemen is a safe and sounc
move.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-05-16

BEAUTIFUL
Leschi Park, one of the city's
oldest parks, is having its face lift
ed.
The ancient cable car barn is
gone. And also old band
stand and boathouse are well on
their way out. The dancing pavilion
which was-has been changed in
to an apartment house by the Lake
Washington shore.
Although it still is an attractive
spot, Leschi Park of the past now
belongs in the musty pages of yes
teryears, 1t says here.
The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1947-05-16

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Evening star., 1947-04-13

CTAMP collecting, once the vaunted avoca-
- ton of King George V and Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, is slowly rotting at the
core. The hobby of kings and the king of
hobbies" has already become front for inter
national holdup men whose racketeering
reaches into the high quarters of nearly every
government. Even venerable Uncle Sam has
been soft touch
In the early days of the New Deal, group
of smooth talking, influential businessmen
made friends with few Post Office officials
in Washington. Casually mentioning that
they collected stamps, they steered the talk
to the factors that make stamps rare
The most frequent rarities," the alleged
collectors explained, result from simple
errors in printing - leaving out perforations,
for instance" They added that the Post
Offices accurate, newly installed electric
eye" machinery had made such errors increas-
Evening star., 1947-04-13

ingly scarce. One or two "accidental'' lapses
OF the perferating device, they suggested,
would produce rarities of enormous value.
Versions of what happened later differ. The
only clear fact is that whole sheets of almost
priceless. government "er1ors" were
presented to the businessmen" as we'll as to
important Federal chiefs and even the Presi
dent himself. In all. sheets of 20 different
stamp issues - among others, the entire
series commemorating our National Parks
(see left - were tampered with.
Scandal Breaks
AFTER few had changed hands PRIVATELY
the scandal broke. An insider made the mis-
take of sending his stamps, insured for
$4,000, to New York dealer with instruc-
tions to sell to the highest bidder. An OUT
ragged hue and cry Immediately swept the
stamp world, and shortly the row set Congress-
Evening star., 1947-04-13

on fire. James A. Farley, the Postmaster Gen
eral. finally ordered the sale of the 20 ques-
tlonable varieties - without perforations
to anyone who wanted them.
In time. the government, and not collec-
tors, made the most of the deal. The Post
Office Department is estimated to have
crossed over $2,0OO,OOO within a year from
the sale of the stamps - known to the trade
as Farley" - at the regular post office price.
Collectors purchases have helped keep the
Department in the black for years, thus indi-
rectly putting money in taxpayers pockets.
IN 1916 the governments Philatelc Agency
IN Washington, which sells stamps to collec-
tors only reported total sales of over $780,
OOO. At the time the ''Farleys" appeared.
rumors even had it that the Postmaster Gen
eral had engineered the whole affair as a
simple way to meet deficit in bad year.
There's nothing new in that sort of stamp
Evening star., 1947-04-13
by Lawrence w. Shenfield

The hobby of kings and presidents become fertile
Held fer raeketeerng and sindlin Here's story
Evening star., 1947-07-30

Chained to the water for egg.
laying and development through the
embryonic stages and too weak o1
limb to seek other water. the
amphibians congregated in the re-
manning swamps to try to escape
extinction.
Their abundance in the last
marshy pools, DR.. Dunkle said, was
Illustrated by the fact that in one
slab Of about 40 square feet he found
nine skulls. :,
DR.. Dunkle said the creatures
were large-headed, heavy bodied and
weak-limbed. The skulls he found
in New Mexico averaged about 2
fleet In length, although the entire
creatures were only about 7 feet
long.
The remains of stereospondyls
have been found over most of the
world, but few were collected for
museums in this country until 10
years ago, when a Harvard Expedi-
ton uncovered the New Mexico site.
DR.. Dunkle was on =. the original
expedition. On a second trip, he
collected the bones now being sent
here.
Evening star., 1947-07-30
Laws TO Rule Tomorrow
On Picketing by Dancers

Chief Justice Bolitha ]. Laws OF
District Court will issue a decision
tomorrow in the Injunction suit
against New York dance instructors
who last week staged conga style
picket line outside the Arthur Muir
ray dance studios here.
Justice Laws yesterday extended
for two days the temporary restrain
ing order he issued last week to pre-
vent interference with the studios
business until further points of law
could be determined.
The pickets came here as the
result of a. strike at the New York
studios Of Arthur Murray, but it
has been claimed that the studios
here are not connected with those
in New York except for the payment
of per cent fee for use Of the
name,
Evening star., 1947-07-30
Ice Cream Strikers =
Ind Owners Confer

Seeking settlement of the week-olo
strike of confectionery workers ano
drivers in seven District ice cream
plants-which has cut Washington
ice cream supply by 80 per cent
representatives of two labor unions
and of management were meeting
today with Labor Department con-
ciliation service officials.
The workers yesterday rejected
wage increase offers which man
agement spokesman said was the
maximum the companies could
absorb without raising prices OF
their products.
Ford Young, chairman of the en-
ploye Relations Committee of the
Merchants and Manufacturers ASso-
citation ice cream section, said one
rejected offer was for $11 day with
overtime above eight hours. 1t was
offered to the striking truck drivers
members of Ice Cream Drivers
Local No. II AFD. The offer 10
plant workers of the Bakery and
Confectionery Workers Local No. II
(AFL) was for 10 per cent increase
in hourly wages, he said.
Charles B. McClosky, business
agent of the Confectionery Workers,
said they are asking a Is per cent
rise
Evening star., 1947-07-30
Dutch Report Landing
In Northern Sumatra
Nv the Associated Press

BATAVIA, Java, July 30.-The
Dutch, engaged since July 20 against
the Indonesian Republic, today re-
ported a new amphibious operation
aimed near the northern end OF
Sumatra, big island northwest OF
Java.
A Netherlands Army communique
said Dutch forces had swarmed
ashore from landing craft at Loe-
boekpankam, So miles southeast of
Medan, itself near Sumatra's north
coast some 275 miles from the is
lands northwestern tip.
At the same time, the communi-
que reported, Dutch forces burst
eastward from their Medan posi-
tions into rich agricultural region
of Sumatra.
Early in the current hostilities,
Dutch marines took control of a Sc
ries of strategic points in East Java
through landings on the east and
north coast under protection of
naval shelling.
A dispatch from Soerabaja, in
East Java, today said Dutch troops
with made tanks and field
guns had moved out of Lawang at
sunup and officers forecast the cap
ture by nightfall of Malang, interior
resort town Is miles south of La
wang.
This dispatch said the forces,
among them marines trained in the
United States, passed through at
least three villages destroyed by In
donesian Republicans in line with
a "scorched earth" policy. and there
were reports Malang would be found
in a similar state.
Evening star., 1947-07-30
Boy, Il, Accused Of Taking
Pockefbook With $500

A 12-year-old boy awaited action
today by juvenile authorities on a
charge OF taking neighbor's
pocketbook containing more than
$500, since recovered. The boy was
arrested two hours after the loss
was reported yesterday to police.
Mrs. Annie M Parsell, 1926 Nine
teenth street NV, noticed her
pocketbook missing at noon yester-
day and notified police, saying she
suspectedsa boy, sWhoe had been IN
the vicinity earlier.
Police said they found the suspect
in a nearby novelty shop two hours
later trying to- decide what to- apur-
chase. IRE fffchey was recovered
from him. police said. A s65 Gov
ernment check had been torn up
and the pocketbook thrown in the
Potomac River where it was located
by harbor, police later.
The boy was released in the Gus
tody of his parents pending action
on a charge of taking property be-
longing to another
Evening star., 1947-07-30
Mrs. ingalls, Escapes
Prison, but Must Pay
$1,000 10 Ex-Maid
By the Associoted Press

SAN DIEGO, Calf, July 30.-A
Federal judges mercy kept Mrs.
Alfred Wesley ingalls, from prison
today, but the 62-year-old club
woman must pay 5000 to her for
mer maid, Dora Jones, colored, for
nearly 40 years enslavement. She
also was fined S2,5OO.
Sobbing, Mrs ingalls, listened with
bowed head yesterday as Judge
Jacob Weinberger suspended a g.
year prison sentence.
The defendant is no. hardened
criminal he said. She has. been
subjected to national disgrace be-
cause of the publicity and attention
given the trial. She is Ill. She is
past middle age. Further incar-
ceration might lead to serious, re-
suits and might hasten her death"
Together with the cash retribu-
tion for Dora Jones, the court die
tated other terms as the price of
freedom for the defendant, who was
convicted of forcing her maid into
slavery because of the latter's affair
nearly 40 years ago with Mrs. In
gals first husband, Walter Harman
OF Washington.
In addition to the s2,500 fine she
was placed under rehabilitation"
treatment of a physician -psychia-
trist. and ordered to avoid any act
of retaliation against witnesses in
her four week trial
The court was advised that the
$4,000 settlement was acceptable to
the 58-year-old Dora Jones, now
living with a brother in st. Louis
Testimony disclosed the maid was
paid wages of SO month only one
year in the 40 years she served Mrs.
ingalls,.
The defendant, once a womens
club leader N Lynn and Boston,
Mass. returned to her home in
nearby Coronado where, her attor-
ney said, she and her husband plan
to continue residence. She had
been confined in San Diego County
Jail since July 10, when the jury
which convicted her failed to agree
in the case of her husband. Federal
prosecutors here said they would not
seek another trial for Mr. ingalls,,
former Massachusetts legislator.
The Ingalles, arrested in Febru-
ary, moved to California from Mas
sachusetts last year and, the Gov
ernment charged, Dora Jones slept
in their automobile at night. At
tempted Intervention by Mrs. In
gals daughter, Mrs. Helen Roberts
of Berkeley, Calf, led to Federal
Bureau of Investigation investiga-
ton and prosecution of the case.
Evening star., 1947-07-30
IChincoteoque Set
FFor Annual Pony
IS0Ie Tomorrow
BY the Assoeioied Press

CHINCOfEAGUE ISLAND, Va.
July 3O.-Members Of a shaggy little
species of pony-whose forebearers
have roamed these windswept islets
for two or three centuries-were te
swim across Assateague Channel to-
day in the preliminary event of the
annual pony penning festival here
tomorrow.
The wild ponies belong for the
most part to the Chincoteague Vol
unteer Fire Company, which makes
their penning and sale a feature OF
its annual festival here. A few
ponies are owned by private persons
This years sale will begin at 9 am
tomorrow.
An official said he looked, for a
crowd of from 5000 to 10000 per-
sons.
Sharing honors with the pony
penning and sale will be pony
race, an air show by the Chinco-
league Naval Air Station, drills by
q marine detachment of air station
q naval exhibition by personnel OF
the air base. a trapeze act, and fire
fighting by the Chincoteague Naval
Fire Department.
Evening star., 1947-07-30
r-6 +"+THE EVENING STAR, Washington D. c.
Fossils Of Ancient Amphibions
Being Sent to Smithsonian

The bones of giant salamander.
like creatures which wallowed or
the earth 15o.0oo,o00 years ago were
en- route to the Smithsonian Institu.
ton from New Mexico today.
The IS skulls in the collection
were uncovered by DR.. D. H. Dunkle
Smithsonian Institution paleontol.
ogist.
The fossils were found in a rel
atively small area south of Santa Fe
IN. Mex. The area, according to DR.
Dunkle, appeared to have been q
marshy pool during the Triassic
geological period.
Ds. Dunkle said the skulls were
those of stereospondyls, last sur.
vivors of the big amphibians which
ruled supreme before the reptiles
came to dominate the earth ir
Triassic times.
According to the scientists, most
of the earth was low-lying and
swampy during the period OF
amphibian dominance. Then came
great geological upheavals with the
lifting Of mountains and the drying
of swamps.
Evening star., 1947-07-30
Worker at Heating Plant
Injured in 40-Foot Foil

Clarence Joseph, 38. of 1901 @
street NV. was in Emergency Hos
pital today for treatment of a pos
sible fractured skull and back in
juries suffered in a 40-foot fall at
the Governments new West Central
Heating Plant at Twenty ninth and
K streets NV. yesterday.
Mr.. Joseph, colored, an employe
of the Charles H. Tompkins Con-
struction Co., was working on a
scaffolding when a wheelbarrow fell
from another scaffold 20 feet above
and knocked him to the ground.
Evening star., 1947-07-30
Many Cunning VioIotors' Found
In Wide Tax Evasion Drive

The Treasury Department said to-
day that a number of the most
cunning law violators" in the coun-
try have been rounded up in recent
months for tax evasion by special
investigators, including one business
man who boasted to his employees
nobody was smart enough" to check
his books.
This man, Southern food broker,
had concealed approximately $225, :
600 profits by highly intricate SERVES
Of false entries. the department said.
Evening star., 1947-07-30
EAL Sues Government
In Army Plane Collisions
BY the Associated Press

WILMINGTON. Del, July 80
Eastern Air Lines, Inc, filed two
civil actions against the Federal
Government yesterday asking s132,-
500 damages for two collisions which
1t said occurred between Eastern
Airlines planes and Army aircraft
piloted by Army officers in line of
duty.
One asked s125,oO0 for a collision
July IL, 1945, between an airlines
DEB and an Army A-26 near Flor
ence, S. c., and the other was fol
$500 for crash January %. 1945
at the Nashville (Tenn) Municipal
Airport. The suits charged Army
aircraft involved were "carelessly
and negligently" operated.
Evening star., 1947-07-30
Russians Announce
Pact With Yugos|avia
On Trade and Credit
By the Associated Press

MOSCOW, July 3-The Russians
announced yesterday that trade and
credit arrangements had been con-
cluded with Yugoslavia.
One accord provided Russian
credit for Yugoslavia's purchase
within the Soviet Union of equip
ment for metal, oil, chemical and
timber industries.
In addition, tWo-year agree
ment was signed for an exchange
of goods under which Yugoslavia
would send Russia lead, zinc,
pyrites, tobacco, hemp, plywood and
farm products. Russia would send
Yugoslavia cotton, paper. cellulose,
oil products, coal, coke, metals,
automobiles, tractors, fertilizers and
other equipment.
(Amounts of credits, and trade
volume were not specified.9
Other Agreements Concluded.
The pattern of Soviet economic
relations with Eastern European ma
tions has been developing rapidly
during the last few weeks. An ex-
tensive trade agreement was signed
with Czechoslovakia, economic help
was extended to Albania and a
trade agreement was reached with
Hungary. A Polish trade group was
in Moscow working out other agree
ments.
All the European countries within
the Soviet orbit rejected participa-
ton in the Marshall proposal for
American financial aid in economic
reconstruction of Europe.
The pattern has been of increas-
ing trade between Russia and the
Eastern European countries and the
advancement of comparatively small
credits by the Soviet Union to cer-
tain of these countries when it was
necessary to assist in the fulfill
ment of their economic plans.
Program Gains Momentum.
Eastern European nations in the
Soviet sphere, meanwhile, have been
taking steps to increase trade be-
tween themselves and develop mu-
tual economic relations. The pro-
gram has been gaining momentum.
Offerings by the Soviet Union
to Great Britain of large quantities
of grain, timber and fish during
unsuccessful trade talks in Moscow
indicated also that Russia was will
ing to do large-scale business with
England and other western coun-
tries if she could get her own terms.
A communiQue issued through the
Tass Agency on the failure of Brit
ish- Soviet negotiations last week
said the breakdown was caused by
British unwillingness or inability
to guarantee the delivery Of essen
tial equipment the Russians desired,
and to failure to agree on an ex-
tension and easing Of conditions
for repayment of the 1941 British
credit to the Soviet Union.
Evening star., 1947-07-30
7 More Groups Enter
Chest Controversy,
Call Study Inadequate

Two more groups got into the
controversy arising from the -citi-
zens' survey of the Community
Chest today.
The Greater Area Council of the
American Veterans Committee and
the Washington Chapter, Americans
/ for Democratic Action, described
the study made by the Citizens
Survey Committee as utterly in
adequate and superficial"
In a joint letter to Lee D. Butler
Chest president, the two groups op-
posed dropping any agencies from
Chest membership at this time.
Elimination Of % Chest agencies
was proposed in one of the three
minority reports growing out of
the Citizens Survey Committee in
vestigation. There was no majority
report from the Is committee
members.
The AVG and ADA contended that
the committee did not allow itself
enough time to make a thorough
study, did not permit agencies
enough time to prepare material
for the committees attention and
denied representatives of numker
of agencies a chance to be heard by
the full committee
I'm short" the letter to Mr.. Butler
declared, "the investigation had
many aspects of punitive star
chamber proceedings, which reflects
a serious lack of objectivity on the
part of many members of the COM
mittee"
The two groups contend the Chest
is the instrument of the member
agencies, but "the representatives
of the property owners and business
interests on the Survey Committee
seek to subordinate the agencies to
the Chest"
The committee included repre-
sentatives from business, labor, citi-
zens' groups and government.
Evening star., 1947-07-30

L e
Mrs. Rose Perkins and Mrs. Virginia
DeForce, vice presidents; Mrs. Eve
line Starnes, chaplain: Mrs. Alberta
Lacy, sergeant-at-arms; Mrs. Fair
fax >Lomack, historian; Mrs. j.
Florence Dietsche. property Gus
todian. and Mrs. Mary Burns and
Mrs. Lucille Brown, color bearers.
Mrs. Lillian M. Judd, retiring
president of the department, be-
came the organizations national
executive committeewoman.
Mrs. Pearl Heagerty was indorsed
as candidate for national eastern
vice president, and was named
chairman of the building fund
board of trustees. Mrs. Edythe
O'Connor was elected to three.
year term on the building fund
board of trustees.
Evening star., 1947-07-30
Chieftoin of Shon Stute
EHeuds Burmo Assembly
BY the Associoted Press

RANGOON, July 3o.-Sao Shwe
Thaike, 51-year-old chieftain of the
Shan State of Yawnghwe, was
elected president of the Burma
Constituent Assembly today with
out opposition.
He fills vacancy caused by the
resignation of Thakin Nu, now
Prime Minister of the provisional
government of Burma.
The government, meanwhile, an
nounced that lis persons were being
detained in connection with the re-
cent assassination of U Aung San
and seven fellow members Of the
Burmese Executive Council.
Evening star., 1947-07-30

discovery Of concealed profits In .
secret bank account.
An assessment OF $1.1S0.00o has
been made against the manufac-
turer Of a precision instrument in
one of the South Atlantic states
The Treasury Department attrib-
uted the continuing success of their
Nationwide drive against tax evad-
ers to the work of investigators
working under George J. Schoene-
man, internal revenue commissioner.
Evening star., 1947-07-30

However, through the work of the
Internal Revenue Bureau investiga-
tors. he now faces a prison term
and charge of $l92, 900 in taxes.
Other cases turned up by the in
vestigators included an Eastern toy
manufacturer who has been assessed
$500, 1000 in taxes. This man covered
up profits by writing large expense
checks to himself and relatives.
A Midwestern cannery concern
has been assessed $4,000, 900 after