Negro Held in Probe of Attack on Japanese

A 43-year-old Negro truck driver was being questioned by police today about the shooting yesterday forenoon of James M. Hara, 30 years old, Japanese proprietor of a drug store at 14th Avenue and Yesler Way.

The man was arrested about 1:30 o'clock this morning at East Marginal Way and Hudson Street by Detective Lieuts. M.J. Griffin and James Lawrence and Patrolman Claude E. Rix and C.D. Norris. The Negro, who has a criminal record, was held in city jail on an open charge and was to be questioned by Ernest W. Yoris, chief of detectives, and Capt. Clyde V. Dailey, head of the homicide squad.

Hara was recovering today in Columbus Hospital from a flesh wound inflicted by the bullet.

Police said there was no robbery attempt involved in the shooting Mrs. Hara told police the shooting may have been the result of an argument her husband had earlier with a Negress over a deposit on camera films.