The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 28, 1921, Page 1

SB) Ew Weather and fair; moderate north- west winds, Temperature Last 24 Hours THE NEWSPAPER THAT GOES INTO 10,000 MORE HOMES EVERY WEEK DAY THAN ANY OTHER SEATTLE DAILY—THE STAR nnn nnnnnnnnnn ann nnn DEFENSE WILL SEEK TO PROVE IBODY IS NOT MRS. MAHONEY’S! ) x ¢ | Tonight Maximum, 66. i Today noon, 55, Thursday, Minimum, 48, On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Hntered a» Second Class Matter May 3, 18 Greetings! Burning issues of » codleaga Wilt Yanks and Ma- win out? _ A JOURNALISTIC CASUALTY | Once there was a newspaper re | porter who began an account of a @ivision reunion without the “Powder River, Let'er Buck.” ts now a second Heutenant in the of the unemployed. Before leaving for Washing- law requires every of an automobile to take out) claim there is less un- Well, that will the welcoming trust nobody in a riot by serving Grant III. appointed California debris ‘Wonder who the other . imports are stil] increasing. we get it all, let's go on a big ‘spree and spend part of it. ore “The fal of man is marked by the of the fig-leaf,” says Doc Now history is repeating it- . During the Inst drive by the In- tax collector, a particularly in t collector received in the mail ‘one morning a package containing a mach-worn shirt, accompanied by the Dear ies KNOWS Eller waited a long a wife, didn’t he?” replied Nut, Subject for the debating class: “Re- married man who doen not ance gets better care @ married man who carry life insurance.” does en ere nd said not @ word. We Eotarman. F * —MR. ANON. as it may, Sprinkle & an ore undertakers in Where Your Taxes Go Here are some interesting figures. Note carefully this comparison of the county’s expenses of 1915 and the proposed expenditures for 1922. Auditor .. Treasurer Clerk .... Assessor : . Supt. of Schools . Prosecuting Attorney . Sheriff Engineer ..... Commissioners Coroner Constables .... Health Officer Purchasing Agent ... Court House Operation Superior Court ..... Juvenile Department .... Justice Expense ..... Jail Operation ... Ferries—Deficit Morgue Crematory .. || Agriculturalist Road District Funds ..... 1922 $139,660 134,660 101,215 129,799 15,350 70,896 110,410 114,076 16,300 14,960 10,235 25,530 13,985 145,816 122,550 112,957 46,937 63,050 116,525 16,835 2,350 13,250 21,420 501,000 1915 s+eee 8 77,068 81,164 3 51,381 60.957 14,527 8,084 7,079 3,860 3,290 54,032 122,100 82,925 .. 308,825 Note in particular increase of health office, 560% ; pur- rage, 291%. chasing agent, 325%; court house operation, 1 deficit, 251%, morgue, 228%; agriculturalist, ferry + §a- Increase in all above departments, $881,854, or 75%. From inquiries made of two Seattle banks, two large retail stores, one wholesale concern and a manufacturer, it has been ascertained that the cost of operation in those establishments today over 1915 runs from 20% to 35%. of the question, a servative. Compare— County operation increase, Get a copy of these requested Here is where your county taxes go. to men who have made a study of this phase general average increase of 80% is con- TE%. Private operatign increase, 30%. e proposed county budget and analyze tions. Budget hearing begins October 8 at commissioners’ office. Be there! USE THE AXE! MAY REDUCE RATES WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.—Reduc- tions in railrohd rates and « general rehabilitation of transportation lines of the country would result from the consolidation of the railroad sys- tems tentatively proposed by the in- terstate commerce commission today, experts of the commusion believe. A huge saving in operating ex: penses of many roads can be made by such a plan, commission officials believe. Bankruptcy, which contin- ually threatens some small lines, could be averted in this manner. ‘Congress, realizing the importance lof consolidation to the country, made |proviston in the Esch-Cummins law for such action, leaving it to the dis- cretion of the commission. Some high offictals of the commis- sion are known to hold the opinion |that only by such action can rail- road rates be cut to the pre-war level within the next 10 years. The tentattive plan calls for the consolidation of all the railroads of |the United States into 19 competing | systems, Provision for consolidation is made in the Esch-Curnmins law Hearings on the grouping of the carriers as proposed by the corm- mission will be héld in the near fu- ture. All of the railroads concerned, state commissioners and other par ties at interest, were put on public notice today of the commission's pro- posals for consolidations and they wilt be heard. The 19 systems proposed by the commission are: 1—New York Central, taking New York Central and other lines running trom Boston to Buffalo and Chicago, with branch lines thru Ohio, Indiana and Michigan, 2—Pennsylvania, the present sya tem and lines running from the tip of Long island, westward to Chicago, St. Louis and Burlington, with |branches thru New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland and states crossed. 3—Baltimore and Ohio, lines from New York city south and west to Chicago and St. Louis, south of Great LD-fangled methods of doing business are past. The new way is using Star Classified Ads. They furnish what you previously had to go after. Their cost is but a “drop in the bucket.” Lakes and north of Ohio and Potomac rivers. 4—Erie, from New York city northwestward along northern jake shore territory to Chicago and &t. Louts, but north of previous two sys tems. 6—-Nickel Plate, Lehigh Valley, same territory as Erie, but with lines south to Baltimore and West Vir- ginia coal fields. 6—Pere Marquette, Michigan pen- insula lines with extension south into Onto and Indiana. 7--New Tingland, New Haven and lother connecting lines in New Eng. land south to New York city. 8—-Chesapeake and Ohio lines from Washington thru Virginia and West Virginia and north to Chicago and Toledo, taking In C. & 0, and Vir ginia rallroads. 9—Norfolk and Western, with Vir ginia and Ohio con! roads, 10—-Southern, lines from Washing: jton south and southwest to Jackson | ville, Mobile, New Orleans, Memphis and St. Louls. | 11—Atlantic Coast line, Louisville and Nashville—Lines thru southern territory, along coast line and up thru Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky to Louisville and Bt. Louis. 12—Ilinois Central—Seaboard-Mis- siesippi valley lines with seaboard routes thru Southern states to Sa- vannah. 138—Union Pacific - Northwestern Ines, from Chicago to Portland and Seattle. 14~-Burlington-Northern Pacifio—- [Competing lines with Union Pacific jand lines along more southern routes to San Francisco. 15—-Milwaukee-Great Northern — Transcontinental lines Chicago to Portland and Seattle along border with connections in Canada. 16—Santa Fe-Southern transconti nental routes, Chicago, Memphis and New Orleans west to Los Angeles jand San Francisco. 17—-Southern Pacific-Rock Island. prairie lines from St. Paul south |New Orleans, west to Los Angeles and up coast to Seattle, 18—-Frisco-Katy-Cotton Belt, from Chicago and 8t. coast, rie lines in a broad belt from Omaha jand Chicago south to Delta country. |Big Store in Paris i Destroyed by Fire PARIS, Sept, 28.—Au Printemps, the huge new department store tn | the center of Paris, was swept and destroyed by fire early today, ‘The damage was estimated at 65,000,000 francs, to! Louis southwest | thru cotton belt with connections to} . | 19--Chicago-Missouri Pacific, pral- DECISIO ‘Expect Arbuckle Will Face Trial on Charge of Killing : Actress | BY M.D. TRACY SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 28.—The ‘rate of Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle wan | expected to be determined before the ‘end of today’s preliminary bearing in this trial for the murder of Virginia | Rappe. | Whether the film comedian would face trial for murder or manslaughter | jor go free would probably be an nounced by Judge Lazarus, before | might, it wan said | The state rested yesterany, but the | hearing was to be resumed briefly to- | day. 1t was believed Arduckie would be held for trial. The declaration of Judge Lazarus that he did not like to dismiss any case without a showing of evidence supporting the charge which was made, was taken to mean he would order Arbuckle to be held. A subsequent announcement that held was taken to mean he was con- sidering reduction of the charge from firat degreo murder to manslaughter. | 10-YEAR TERM 1S MAXIMUM The iatter offense carries a maxi- | mum penalty of 10 years in the peni- \ tentiary, The defense today was prepared for | the judge's decision and was ready to agree to submission of the case or offer additional testimony. Fred Fishbeck, motion picture di rector, who attended Arbuckle’s La- bor day party, was to be called. An- other doctor wan expected to be sum- moned by Arbuckle’s attorneys be fore the defense rested. The court would give almost im- Mediate decision, it was indicated. ‘The state baned its case against the comedian on these main charges: That he was seen to follow Miss Rappe into a room adjoining the one in which his party was being held. That while they were in the room together, a chambermaid heard a woman in the room crying, “No, no! O! my God!" and a man tell her to , | “shut up.” That when Arbuckle came out of the room, Miss Rappe was found ly- ing on the bed and moaning, “I'm | dying, I'm dying. He hurt me.” That Arbuckie entered the room and proceeded to torture Miss Rappe with a piece of ice. That when Miss Rapge began to moan, he shouted: “Dofl't make so much noise, or I'll throw you out of the window.” DEFENSE CHARGES EXTORTION That a particular act of external violence was the most probable cause of the injury which resulted in Vir ginia Rappe's death. The defense, on the other hand, | based its case on a charge that thoxe |who caused Arbuckle’s arrest were jattempting extortion: that she died |from causes for which the comedian could not have been responsible Snapshot Wiheare to Be Announced Winners of The Star-Piper & Taft vacation outing “picture contest will | be announced some time this week. | Rarl Frye, manager of Piper & Taft's kodak department; Fred Carter, of | Price & Carter, photographers, and | Arthur Anderson, Star artist, will act as judges in selecting the win- ners, Ford Says He Will Cleanse U. S. Politics IRON MOUNTAIN, Mich., Sept. 28,—Henry Ford today announced he was ready to start a drive to clean up politics, Ford, who in here inspecting some of his properties, issued a statement saying he would carry on a country-wide campaign, if necessary, to cleanse politics, The manufacturer said he is- |] sued his statement to emphasize |] the telegram he sent to the sen- |] ate Monday demanding that the upper house’ “clean fits . own skirts” in handling the Newberry case, ene The Seattle Sta at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879, Per Year, by Mall, 85 to $9 PRR TH LATE EDITION ‘(New | * % ‘Is Not an Act | | sh Sais arate {Upper arm [Forearm oe BOSTON, Sept. a new Venus. She has the distinction of not being a movie actress, a dancer or an artist model, She is just a bewutifal girl with a figure which Edward Broulard, famous New York artist, says in as perfect an that of the mythical Venus, She ts Miss Marie Land- eon of Cambridge. Rroulard is a graduate of the L’'Eeole Nationale lex Beaux Arts, of’ Marseilles, France. He has taken Miss Landson's ~ measurements, and, after con- sulting with other French artists, 4.—Here's TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE American Venus Found *% * #& & eh # Model ress or | ALIBI CLAIM IS SET UP; STATE has requested her to come to New York in the fall to pose as Venus." . ndeon some parental poring as Verus. It is not her ambition to be- come an artist model, but she would like to be “done in marble” as “the American Venus.” “Mr, Broulard took my meas. urements,” Mise ‘Landson says, “when IT was sent to him by a friend some time ago. He ex- pressed amazement. “He saya I am perfect be cause my hef(ght is ten times the length of my hand, and seven and a helt times the length of my foot, The distance from my elbow to the tip of the middle finger is the same as from the elbow of the middie of the breast From the top of my head to the level of my chin i# the same as from the level of my cnin to my arm pits.” Girls, how do your proportions compare with these? ‘there rie ber SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 28.— Dolly Gardner, wife of Roy Gard- ner, elusive bandit, today appeaied to Gardner to return to McNell's island penitentiary. “In your letter to President Hard- ing you said you had ended your criminal career,” Mrs. Gardner wrote her husband in a letter pub- lished and copyrighted by the Ban | Francisco Bulletin. | “To show you really mean this, go back to McNell's island. You cannot be a hunted man and lead an honorable life “Show President |everyone you are the man I have always said you -were. Most one can be taken back, but it takes a Roy Gardner and a real thoro- bred, to go back of his own ac- cord and take his chances with the rest. | ‘The law renders our friends | powerless to help you under present clreumstanc: “Roy, do this one thing for my sake and little Jean's. I want to do the best thing for you, That is why I ask this of you “Think this over, but do not let others think for you.", The lettef was published by the Bulletin’ in conformity with Gard- ner’s request that if anyone cared to communicate with him to have | their communications published in | that paper. ‘Tacomans Will Ask | Parole for Gardner TACOMA, Sept. /28.—Petitions urg- jing President Harding to parole Roy Gardner, mail robber who escaped |September 5 from the federal pent- ltentiary on MeNell tsland, will be cirenlated soon here, it was said to- day, A prominent business man of Old Tacoma is said to be sponsoring the movement. “We want to send Gardner back to his wife and family,” this man sald, | One who strongly objects to the movement is Judge George T. Reid. \He said the proposed action is “rot: ten.” “Gardner is a desperate mail train Harding and WIFE BEGS GARDNER. TO RETURN TO CELL robber, This parole proposal strikes me as the most sickening, mawkish sentimentality 1 ever heard of. There |'s no merit in it. I do not think any | President would give five seconds’ consideration to ft.” eee Pal of Gardner Is Sought by Officers | SOUTH BEND, Wash., Sept. 28.— |The disappearance of the man thought to be Roy Gardner from Raymond, Wash., near here, Sunday, was overshadowed today by the mysterious disappeaarnc of the bandit's professed friend, George B. | Wilbur, formerly a restaurant pro- |prietor at Raymond | Following the escape of the man whom W. M. Dillon, cook in Wil bur’s restaurant, declares to @ave been Gardner and the theft of an automobile belonging to George B. Peeples, Wilbur's departure with his ‘family has lent added credence to the |theory that the mysterious man to whom Wilbur guve shelter and food was actually t orious mail | bandit and escaped convict Wilbur had often boasted that he knew where Gardner's cache near Napa, Cal., was located. The restau- rant man had attempted to obtain a loan from a barber here recently, as- suming his prospective “grubstaker” that he would pay high interest on |the money, following the recovery of |the mail bandit’s cached bonds and }money. Wilbur had also announced lis intention of visiting Gardner at !MeNeil island, saying that he had | rajiroaded with the bandit in Califor- nia and knew him well, A warrant has been issued for Wil- bur’s arrest, the restaurant man having left his affairs in such an insolvent condition as to warrant his apprehension ‘on a criminal charge. Irvin Denies He Made Confession | Reported as having confessed to | engineering the recent huge theft of liquor from the government ware: |house, Frank Irvin, federal customs | inspector, denied Wednesday that he haq made any confession whatever in connection with the case, re SCORES POINT “I Suppose You'll Hang Me” Testi- mony of Captain Tennant’s Is Admitted; State Rests Case By Hal Armstrong Captain of Detectives Charles E. Tennant was questioned on the witness stand this whether he had used duress to wring from James E. honey the alleged statement: Pe: “Well, you’ve said right along if you found the trunk, that was all that is a I the worst you can do is take me to Walla W: hang me.” This statement, Tennant said, was made by the def now on trial for his life, at police headquarters the me of August 9, the day following recovery of the eo gine Union. a . ‘ennant testified regarding finding of the. tr with the body in it and had told the j brought Mahoney from the county j Deputy Prosecutor T. H. Patterson have found the say about it?’” : | Before Patterson could ask the next question, Attorney Lee Johnston jumped up and entered an object to the admission of any further testimony regarding conversation that followed, on the ground that it was preju- dicial to the defense. | Judge J. T. Ronald over- jruled the objection after a long legal tilt between attor- neys. Tennant was then quizzed by Pat- jterson, Johnston and the judge him- self, as to whether Mahoney had janswered Tennant’s questions under duress or fear induced by threats. Tennant admitted that just before the con’ tion took place he had gone to the county jail the morning of August 9 and told the jailor he wanted to take Mahoney to police headquarters, “The jailor told me,” Tennant ex- plained, “that Mahoney didn’t want to go to headquarters. T asked the Jallor to let me see Mahoney. I went to Mahoney's cell.. He said his law. yer had advised him not to accom- |pany me. I said, ‘Put on your coat jand come with me or I'll come tn and jtake you.’” JUDGE HOLDS |DURESS WAS NOT USED , In permitting the further testi- {mony of Tennant, the judge held that | duress had not been used. Patterson | then continued with Tennant’s exam- ination, | The crowd in the courtroom Jean- jed forward listening intently, and Mahoney chewed gum savagely as Tennant said: “Mahoney answered, ‘Well, you've said right along, if you found the trunk, that was all that was necessary, and U sup- pose the worst you can do is to | take me to Walla Walla and hang me.’ “He said he couldn't see where it was going to do any good to talk any more about it, 1 said, ‘Well, what do you mean, Jim? Major Douglas is here and if you got anything to say, you might as well tel} him about it now. | “Patterson and I left the room, (Turn to Page 7, Colmnn 3) ‘ASYLUM PROBE ON, THURSDAY Probe into brutality and ineffi. | elency charges in connection with the |state insane asylums will be resumed |Thursday at 10:30 a, m., it was an nounced Wednesday by Robert B.| Hesketh, chairman of the committee | ot facta aandt < eora eed ve Gavarsoe| QUEEN ANNE HILL’S Mithe meeting will be held in Judge|! LONG LOST COP IS | BACK, ’TIS LEARNED. Reah M, Whitehead's court room, room 411, county-city build! “Persons having information re- Queen Anne Hill's cop is back! garding either the Western hospital The woman who, after a thief at Stetlacoom or the Northern hospl-']| nad twice attempted to enter her | jtal at Sedro-Woolley are requested || home Monday night, telephoned | to be present at the sessions of the/] The Star yesterday asking us to |committee," Chairman Hesketh de-|| request Mayor Caldwell to send clared, “Hearings wil! be private for! | hack the cop that used to patrot those desiring to appear before the || the hill, announced today that he committee,” 'T bas returned. j The committee js anxious to have) | “we left our car out in front Jast night without lights,” she. sald. “And the cop tagged itf* be held at Denny hall tonight to BURDEN TOO GREAT FOR MANY The state legislature, at its last session, dealt a solar-plexus blow at free education when it that every resident student : pay $15 a quarter to attend thelt own university, If this were the only charge, poorer class of students might able to “stand the gaff,” pear officials declared. But on top of tuition fee there is a charge of for the use of the library and alll students are expected to purehi an A, 8. U. W, ticket for $10, In addition to these, fees are ex. 7 {acted for practically every laboratory course. Student leaders point out that ap: proximately 40 per cent of the men are entirely self-supporting and that 48 per cent are helping to pay their way by their own work. A few dollars will frequently pre- vent a man from attending school, “IT am afraid that the high at tendance fees will prevent many stu- (Turn to Last Page. Column 1) 2 G,. 0, Eckman and Paul Staudte, cooks who were employed at Sedro- Woolley, appear Thursday,