LICENSE DENIED ANOTHER JAP TO MARRY AMERICAN

Case's Ban on Mixed Martial Muddles Sends Second Lovelorn Couple Flying to Tacoma to Wed.

SAVICHI AND DAISY HIT THORNS IN PATH

UNDAUNTED by the disappointing experience of his countryman Kunio Toda, and the latter's American sweetheart, Rayda Reed, who were refused a marriage license by County Auditor Otto Case last Tuesday but were married yesterday in Tacoma, Savichi Kanda, an oyster digger living at Allyn, Wash., accompanied by his bride-to-be, Daisy Puthill, yesterday afternoon applied for a license to wed and met a curt refusal at the auditor's office.

"I feel sorrow that the honorable clerk should not the wedding paper allow, but I must marry quick and would not think profitable of it to wait until the law is so I can have a wife," said Kanda after Marriage License Clerk Claude Gage told him that he would have to wait until the county auditor instructed the issuance of a marriage license to mixed couples. "I will have the marriage somewhere in another city. Maybe Tacoma where more freedom is given to marry."

Blushes Bedeck Bride.

Miss Puthill, a dark-eyed, dark-haired maid of about 20 years, stood apart from her husband-to-be during the dialogue, and blushed profusely every time Clerk, Gage cast a critical eye in her direction. The couple, accompanied by Tatsuro Akiyashi, a Japanese acting as witness, left the county courthouse, presumably for Tacoma, where, from the statements of Kanda, they will be wed today in all probability.

Kanda and Daisy Puthill have been sweethearts for more than a year. The Jap has been working at Allyn, Wash., for J.A. Peeble, owner of an oyster bed, while the American girl has been living with her grandfather on a ranch at Vaughn, three miles away. The two met many times last summer. At first the little brown man was content to smile on the American lass and only pass the time of day. The girl had no friends among the village youths and as the days grew warmer and the nights longer, both the girl and the Japanese felt a mutual longing for companionship.

Chance meetings near Vaughn cemented the tie of friendship between the Oriental and the girl, which tightened each day until the inevitable seemed only a matter of hours. The pleadings of love found favor in the romantic soul of the farmer lassie and only a week ago plans for the marriage were perfected.

The girl's grandfather, a sturdy, Puritanical old farmer, frowned on the meetings between the Jap and his grandchild and often surprised them at their trysting place only to be met with tears from the girl and muttered imprecations from the little brown oyster digger. Try as he would he could not break up the meetings and when the news came that his grandchild had gone to become the wife of the Oriental he merely expressed his disgust by gnawing off a generous portion of tobacco and turning on his heel.

Spurned to emulation by the act of his countryman, Kunio Toda, who yesterday was married to Rayda Reed, an American girl, at Tacoma. Kanda intimated to Clerk Gage yesterday afternoon upon being refused a license that he would obtain a license in the City of Destiny and effect a subsequent marriage there.

Reiterating his statements of Tuesday, County Auditor Otto Case stated yesterday that under no consideration would he issue any more licenses to persons seeking mixed unions until compelled to do so by law. Auditor Case holds that there are too many sensational cases of this kind ending in Seattle and added that when all other cities refuse to grant a license for these mixed marital muddles Seattle is picked as a last resort.