The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 16, 1921, Page 1

It is a peculiar piece of logic that some official at lympia has now evolved regarding bonus payments to “service men. Tn general, it amounts to this: That if a man was in the national guard, naval militia or army, the day before War was declared he is to receive no money tho he served Continuously until the armistice. But if he enlisted on the day war was declared or after that he the bonus. In other words, the State of Washington will penalize the young men who practiced preparedness by taking mil- itary training prior to the actual outbreak, of war. This, of course, may be first class law; nobody but a lawyer can decide as to that. As it stands, the doctrine Is engitled to is only somebody's interpretation of the court's interpre- tation of what the legislators meant when they wrote the act. . The Star hopes this narrow view is NOT good law. alike. For that reason we applaud Attorney General Thompson's action in requesting a review of the case by the supreme court. The people of this state certainly do not want to pur- The Star hopes it will be knocked sky high, and that the sue the niggardly, unjust policy the Olympia officials men who wore the uniform during the war will be treated have worked out. The ruling should be reversed, AAA AAA ae FATTY FACING MURDER TRIAL! On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise TH ED ~The SeattleStar (44: iii Untered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. undor the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mail, $5 to $9 el SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1921. ‘WO CENTS IN SEATTLE peel a Fatty Arbuckle “Forgot” Tells of Jailed Comedian’s. Boyhood | BACK TO PRISON! Movie Actor Must Paste this-on a postcard and mail it to your friends in the East. Tell them that Seattle's highest temperature September 15 was 69. Lowest was 47, At noon Septem- ber 16 it was 54. Saturday, Tonight and fair; moderate west- erly winds, BANDITS BATTLE POLICE! ‘Spokane Officers [he sir ou, pat a at | Fight With Bank | Gh . ; vee | Enter Court om) 30% 23" son‘ ute'Susinea interest . S ; Latter. Shy ef ‘e P ; ' } Ss e Ch ls ted jovs for the winter Flee to Woods | ie "y Boyns’ Remedy. Buy at Home. Help Industries. Creates More Work. By Robert S. Boyns President, Seattle Chamber of Commerce My attention has been directed to/ an editorial in The Seattle Star @f Saturday, September 10, entitled, “Wanted, Jobe—Seattle’s Most Vital Problem Today.” In the course of | this editorial you point out that a) | SPOKANE, Sept. 16.—Patrotman Tony Allison was shot and wounded in the right leg during a gun battle between policemen and suspected |bank robbers southeast of this city For some time we have been en- gaged in an intensive campaign to BAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 16.—Ros i i —By Home Brew Staff Photographer. at 4 @ m. today. _thyhhs Six or seven thugs now being FROM THE STAR, 1971 hunted by the officers, attempted) t) — After taking | ®4rly today to rob the National Bank ) Potties of Cutsitdown, I can|°f Reardan, at Reardan, Wash. 30 ly indorse thie wonderful cure. | Miles west of Spokane. The robbers tell the world that it works Were frightened away before securing ‘The first bottie left me a|22y loot. They left in an automobile 1| headed for Spokane. A police car with four officers raced to meet the robbers as soon as word reached Spokane by tele. phone. At Sixth aye. and Sunset highway the cars met. Poth drivers switched | off their Nehts. } The thugs, from.the shelter of} their car, fired at the police, one bullet hitting Allison. The policemen advanced. The bandits, fighting a rear-guard action, fled to the woods. | Police found bullets had disabled! their car, They found the robbers’ car to be a Nash touring model, with i E i 5 F i persons tinuance for 10 days and a clash of | production will require additional! !*¥e that Gardner planned and employes—thus creating jobs See ee te coup in which which street you so earnestly appeal. dition fled cary - | day morning., Added color ts lent it heory that take a kitchen and household in-| the mall looteen was heard to ohe ventory of commodities used to the} «roet's fo, Roy.” STORY GOING ROUNDS OF L. A. UNDERWORLD ney saying five days waa all that was, necessary and urging that the cane be hastened. Finally a continuance until next Thursday was agreed upon, and Ar buckle was ordered back to his cell— all chance of immediate release on bail having been removed. , Oregon license No, 27779 Five other automobile loads of police and deputy sheriffs are now hunting the bandits. The Reardan robbery was foiled by Mrs. D, A. Roper, wife of the bank's assistant cashier, who lives across \the street from the bank, The breaking of a window awoke her. She saw a disappearing into the bank thrd a window and gave the alarm. Cashier T. 8. Diemanta sounded the town fire alarm. The bandits had left their car two blocks frog the bank, They ran to it and speeded from the town in a tain of bullets from guns in the hands of Diemantz, Town Marshal B. F. Collis and suddenly.awakened citizens who fired from windows and doors. H. G. Burne, president of the bank pursued the bandits 15 minutes later in a car with Sheriff F. B. Wrennie and four deputies. Pursuit also start. ed from Davenport . of ving will go higher this) miter. industrial leaders and bank-| fra in the Bast have opined, accord- to the papers. t Right alqngside of an article about | “Harding's accomplishments in tive months as president, we find an ac: count of his latest golf triumph. Why | two stories? EUGE Sept. 16.—The used Nash car used by the Spokane auto bandits was sold to W. C Lewmen, of Arlington, Wash. in FOOLING TH: MEDICOS “The brothers - jitney driv- ers st Morgani City, and the younger of the two, say phy- sicians, cannot live, owing to severe fractures of the front and base of the skull. The older brother DEAD in a cornfield WILL RECOVER.—Texarkana Four States Press. eee HANDICAPPED “I don’t hear from my girl at the @eashore. “Why doesn't she write?” other fellow is | records of Ossman & McDonald made the sale People Demanding Reduction of Prices WASHINGTON Sept 16,--Th | People want Ligh cost of hivir | reduced and nas revived wi bang, according to the m nie nen = returnin sojourn congre ashington | home. Congress is held strictly able for present conditions by many and cagnplainis that congress has not enacted tanit | bill nor revised taxes could not silenced, congressmen declared from . account Arthur says a pessimist te Ike a Piind man in a dark room looking constituencies @ black hat that isn’t there. eee a "As @ matter of fact, rolled stock m ings may not have a thing in the world to do with the early appear | nee of the augmented my. What is a thin layer of ‘silk or leas to a mosquito armed for on at three hundred yards? Any- ion, we hope it’s true that the rolled atocking is responsible. Maybe it'll keep ‘em from singing in a fellow’s ears. SE LEE ET 5 OPED LAE LEWISTON RECALLS FATTY ARBUCKLE’S SALOON PIANO JOKE How “Katty” Arbuckle used to entertain saloon patrons in Lewiw see Nervous Bridegroom (at hotel) —Eb—gh! I'd like « room with as wife, for myself and bath! ooe ton, Idaho, in the “good old days. ated by old timers to Se er of Commerce vis itors there this week “Fatty” worked a circuit of sa loons in various Idaho and Wash One of his favor. ite tricks to climb on the piano and pretend to fall asleep When the crowd was lar he would roll off. Some sympathetic customer was sure to offer assist says Gardner island tonight, to go to the Warden will teave Probably he movies. s Maloney McNeil wants towns. was ington Jf this bareknee style keeps up winter, there's a fortune awalt ig the local drug stores who sell pped sitin remedies. Tenther—Jt a farmer raises 3,- | 100 Wushek ‘of wheat and setts it 2.50 « bushel, what will he an Thereupon the acrobatic Roweoe would bound to his feet—and the laugh would be on the Samaritan And, of course, the latter would have to buy the drinks for the crowd this city on May 4, according to the | who | | | | | | Mrs. Mollie: Arbuckle, 63-year-old stepmother of Roscoe “fatty Arbuckle, photoyrapned | in her humble home in Santa Clara, California, where for years she supported a large fam- ily as washwoman. Inset is photo of Arbuckle taken at the age of 7. The other inset shows Mrs. Arbuckle’s home in Santa Clara, contrasted with a view of the film star's palatial $100,000 residence in Los Angeles. + * * BY JACK JUNGMEYER ANTA CLARA, Cal. Sept. 16.—This is a “cut back,” in film par- lance, from the tragic Virginia Rappe episode in Roscoe Arbuckle’s life- reel to a “close-up” of his boyhood as pictured by the aged stepmother who has long felt herself renounced by him. The location is an humble home on the outskirts of this California town, where Mrs. Moliie Artuckle, 63, and lifelong bread winner over the Washtube, with folded hands to re her story of “Fuatty’s” lugubrious toward fame. When chile futh * pause cite amble widow with five married Re four, Mra, Arbu boy thru ska with sa she one's kle oles: tender serlo-comie youth uindsge that was to Iren , with cence. She pity of fh when the y make him celebrated served but as a target for the vill She tells of his chronte of her unavailing efforts to his ambition, industry WAS LAZY BOY And then « light out tune: taken by this who trudged it witt laugh; tells Of his write, hia forgetfulness of the mixed family with whom he grew up, and his indifference to her increased burdens husband deserted the brood files zines stir pride of person and directs the spot along the road to for. puzzling lad a loaf and a failure to when the double than I ex But it is no more pected of Roscoe,” she emotionally, with neither bitter. nor reproach nes “He was aggravatingly lazy boy. Neither his father's cuff- ings nor my pleadings Id cure it. He didn’t do any work around the house, and didn't con tribute toward the farnily sup. port, the bis two full brothers did a + | *% * * their full share. “Toscoe was a big, fat boy who weighed 16 pounds at birth, He didn't seem to fit in anywhere very well, He quit school in the fifth grade, before I married his father. 1 urged him to go back, but Mr. Arbuckle was indiffer- ent. And when he did start bis father compelled him to wear his old overalls and shabby shoes so that the school children jeered him. ‘That hurt Roscoe and he stayed away for longer and longer periods, spending his time near the river fishing and in solitude, finally quitting alto gether, I was sorry for him, “His father used to beat him, and 1 will say he often de. served it “One of his brothers secured him # job and paid two weeks’ board and room at a hotel for him. His untidiness made him an object of reproach there “Then started hanging around finally getting work as a bar boy, cleaning the floors. He would jig-step half an hour for a mug of beer, and at such times, oddly enough, he to have plenty of he saloons, seemed energy “When he left Santa Clara he owed a number of people small One was a working whom he borrowed $2.50 the night he went away, and she is still hopeful of its I suppose he has an he forgot us 8 HIS FAMILY “He as never written to me or any of the family Often he has driven thru the town In his fine automobile but he never seems to find time to stop and my hell to his folks The learn what he is the papers No, amounts girl from FOR or omnine only way we doing is thru I have never gone to see him in the movies, I am not without my pride, and if he wants none of us ot it, be.” Mrs. Arbuckle recounted how he had gone on the stage in (Turn to Page 18, Column 2) 40 * GETS A DOLLAR ‘Mrs. Thomas Singer Wi Against Lillian May her $20,000 suit against Mra. 1 alll Singer, The case was tried in Judge J Ronald's court Thursday the verdict returned at 9:30 Frid Mrs, Lillian Singer calmly to the court during the trial she in no measure whatsoever bh j alienated the affections of her h band from another woman . “We just fell in lov “he loved me and I love all there was to it, alienate his affections?” she ask “L was just @ lard high sch girl, while he wa and over, 1 didn't even know had been previously married after our baby was born.” Singer was known to his sec wife until a few months ago, cording to the statement of the | fendant, as Tom Smith. \Mrs. Arbuckle Is | CHICAGO, Sept. 16.—Minta jfee, wife of Roscoe Arbuckle, speeding toward the Pacifi st |day to be at her husband's side 4 his fight to free himself fr manslaughter charge he Jing the While here Mrs. Arbuckle and Mrs. » called on friends of Miss Vir whose death millions laugh” ppe, for |“man who made |held responsible, These visits, | wekle said, netted her valua evidence which she will use in ing Roscoe's name. FOR LOST LOVE One doflar was the eum awarded Mra, Mary L. Singer by the jury in) 01), | AIN89 | CASE CONTINUED | May Singer, whom she accused ot| To THURSDAY nating the affections of Thomas | her former husband and| presiding, then impressed on the at present husband of Lillian Singer. | T.|advantage of the defendant, afternoon, until on Her Way West Dur was now Mrs vlear | murder and not, for manslaughter as) Ins aay nad us| she said, him, That's | How could I ed. | 001 | aman of 40 years he ond ac de- to ur om the ble stated | ¢ that Following the preliminary hearing Brady told newspaper men that the state had gone over the evidence and believed it had a\complete case of first degree murder against the comedian, For that reason, he said, he had decided It was his duty to prosecute Arbuckle in the superior court for recommended by the inquest and by the grand jury. Arbuckle’s attorneys expressed surprise. ARBUCKLE Is .| DISAPPOINTED During the brier session of the! court and while he was hearing the! | word that he must defend himself on a charge of mufder, Arbuckle sat) playing with hig green cap, his face! twitching at times and plainly ner- vous and disappointed. He listened with close attention to; every word the lawyers spoke, par-| ticularly when District Attorney Brady and Defense Counsel Domin-| guez clashed as to the length of the! continuance to be granted “I see no reason why you should wish to délay this hearing,” Brady told Dominguez. “Your client does not have to take the witness stand.” “I know he doesn't,” answered Dominguez, “that's elemental.” “That's why I was so #ure you knew it,” flashed back Brady Arbuckle almost smiled at the Police Judge Lazarus, who was torneys his belief that it was to the if inno. ; } ] | } cent, to have an early trial and to do | He pport an him to all possible to speed up the case. ked that the attorneys ement without forcing ean arbitrary decision. The agreement for a continuance | (Turn to Page 18, Column 3) vice for the unemployed of our city Likewise, you should urge business men to buy stocks and supplies from our own factories. If our people could realize that in supporting home manufacturers they are providing the capital with which these manufacturers enlarge their business and increase their payrolis and employ men and wo- men, they would be more than willing to throw the community's Purchasing power back of our own products, Mixes Gas and Brew, Rams Car, Arrested Trying to mix gasoline and home brew is risky business, according to ee who Thursday night arrested . A. the rear of an auto at Westlake ave and Newton st. BEWARE, GARDNER! SEATTLE CHINESE ARE ON YOUR TRAIL It's all off with Bandit Gardner now Seattle Chinese are after him. “I was waiting down in China- town for Charlie Chung,” relates BH. J. Reese, of the local customs force. “I waited at his room for an hour or so, but Charlie didn’t show up. So I asked another Chinese who came by, if he knew where Charlie was. “Charlie Chung out Roy Gardner,’ he said.” Charlie Chung is an 80-year-old Chinese who has been up in fed- eral court several times on opium smoking charges. Roy hunting Beving after he had rammed! A remarkable story tending show how Gardner made his from the island penitentiary is ing the rounds of the local world. The story is said to been told to friends of prisoners MecNeil’s Island during the 4 week, and has gradually see} | thru banditry channels, { George Wade, who, in 1897 | Smuggler of opium across the escape from McNeil's island. Wade climaxed his career by looting the Mattie Nome, Alaska, owned by Charles Lane of the Wild Goose company, Lane was a famous er of the early gold-rush days of the frozen gold lands. CAPTURED SINGLE HANDED In company with Ben Toller |Joe Shubert, the fearless W;: Mattie Mine. |diawt border, was the first man 1 | BY LOS ANGELES DETECTIVE is well remembered by the pioneers pounced in broad daylight upon the With his six-shooter jhe forced the miné workers down | into the shaft and then “cleaned the sluice boxes of $10,750 in gold dust. The three men made thetr | way into the interior, but within 24 hours were captured. | The capture handed by a Los Angeles man, J. Cody, detective. was made single Cody at that time was deputy United States mar- | shal at Nome, Alaska. Cody took them to MeNeil they had been sentenced. ESCAPES IN BARREL THRU ironed the three men and island after | COLDEST UNFROZEN CHANNEL | A year later Wade performed the jamazing feat of escaping. He knew | that his only hope lay in getting off the island and reaching the peninsula |a half mile distant. was how to retch negotiate the The question fey of water to the mainland. |The channel is the coldest unfrozen ( (Turn to Page 18, Column 6) ARMSTRONG TALKS TO “GARDNER” \“I Ain’t Roy,” He Says; “Don’t Kid Me!” Hal Fires Back By Hal Armstrong 2 LAND, Sept. 16.— gents, I have just had the first exclusive in erview with Roy Gardner that the bane- i nd furtive fugitive e he broke up y's ball game, last Labor da; Roy Is feeling as fine as can be expected of a guy that is eat- ing nothing bu ficken times a day, wild bl ries, huckleberries and vegeta bles nicked from the warden's garden, ‘The only thing that is worry- ing him is he wants to ‘on home to his wife and baby, 1 ran across Roy as I was sleeping in the sun, up against the penitentiary back fence, I heard him walking around in the and was cortain of his identity, because he was dressed in blue denim. 1 didn’t see him at first, and hollored: the warden.” Don’t do that!" he hotlered, éxcited. “For my wife and baby's sake, don't. I don't want to get shot.” “1 thought you wasn’t Roy,” I said “Well, I ain't,” he came back, and I don't the warden some of his guards. I want to get home; I should of been there Labor day night. “Yeah,” T said, “that’s what we all think; that you'd of got off the island and gone home that first night after you run away.” “That's what I tried to do,” Roy admitted. ut the guards wouldn't let me. They keep pop- ping at me every time I try to come out of the woods, both day and night. I ain't got a chance, if this keews up.” “I'll say you in't, Roy,” 1 sympathized, “You better lay low or they'll be bumping you call me Roy!” off.” Don't he snaps out, “I ain't Roy.” “That's all right, Roy; don't mind me. I assured him, “I'm nothing but a newspaper re- porter, and the warden hates me as bad as he does you. If I was you, I'd try to" “Oh, bell.” he broke in, not giving me a chance to finksh, (Turn to Page 18, Column 5) g