The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 3, 1921, Page 1

Sen a Ew Weather Tonight and Tuesday, fair; moderate westerly winds. Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 66, Today noon, 53. Minimum, 44, walt alone ay wach aaatree ~ 5-CENT C On-the Issue of Americanism There Can Can Be No Compromise Entered as Second Cla Greeings! do you like thewe Toes tornines? oh * . Dear Mr. Brew Fatty is going Pack Into the movies. CLARICE. Doats. Dear Clarict: Fat chance! @ deer in a cornfield. ca Tail to tall ofthe Incident ecetdent.—! 1 want a cop,” she cried ir accents wild, tore berstare dn wy house!” Sop rushed out on the wings of Of things as They should not be MR. ANON. eee oe. remember,” postcards Y. when Daddy Russell ran the | a3 tT. old Third ave theatre on Madison | ” _ a IONS ON ARBUCKLE “The bigger they harder they fall.” “The wages of gin is—$100,000 | in lawyers’ fees.” “Nobody loves # fat man.” are the Remember it took a humbie raven to put the Poe in poetry. wees Some people cannot under- stand why Fatty is charged with the state oe Roscoe testified that there was no iquor in his apartment. Still trying to be the comedian, . . A bellboy passed thru the hail For the first time in the entire history of Harvard university a woman has conducted services in aoe And her name mi . Lal's teat Wha endin ships in el Union in charge of the men who rock | 4 understand that mac a hunter, Only cum! U, §, ATTORNE —+| | | life—but won a cigar. with Deputy Sheriff Harry e It had 4 | coward. hantly. “I "et they He lau; how steady his “Til bet 4 a cigar hang me.” ey hang they "t.” “| REVELLE NEW Marshal Here "WASHINGTON, Oct. ¥~-President, Harting today sent the follqwing ‘Bianchester nominations to the senate: To be United States attorney, ‘Weatern district of teers a Gilguing afte oe courtroom Mahoney had heard his sister, “Doll: seared by the words of Prosecutor her wince and heard her cry of pain. the branding of himself, first as a murderer in the dark, then as an arrant coward. Mahoney hated to be ealled a “All right,” said the deputy, humoring ees arrived at the jail, ate sup voices “Death Gamble; But Wins Cigar at They Hang Me,” He Says to Dep- uty; They Call Him Coward, But He Laughs at Fate By Hal Armstrong James E. Mahoney, gambling with death, lost his It was after the jury had retired to find a verdict. mye he to the county jail * Johnson, e had seen le had listened to RENEE. oan Bremerton} So, on the way up the hill, he turned to Ajax, noncha- ed. He tapped his cigaret lightly, and showed rs, were. me,” he urged A fellow prisoners, ail about his case. He would sleep. Bome newspaper reporters came and woke him up. He chatted a/ While, rolled over, pulled up he that had been called a coward, while the reat of the work! about him waited ni for the verdict. .|ran up the stairs with Starwich firm of Revelle, has lived in Seat- tle for 21 years. A native of Mary- Maryland college and the University of Washington. He has always been extremely active in republican politics, and in 1910 was defeated by only a very small margin when he ran againat Will Humphrey for the congressional nomination. He went progressive in 1912 and was one of the five Washington men who issued the eall for the Bull Moose convention, but he returned to the fold in 1916 and has been one of |the republican party’s most promin- ent speakers in the state in cam- paigns since that time. He is a warm personal friend of Senator Miles Poindexter E. B. Benn, real estate dealer and president of the Taxpayers’ league of | Aberdeen, has lived in the Grays Harbor country for more tfan a quarter of a century, and has been actively identified with the progress of the district A staunch “regular party” man, he lost his interest in politics in the in- |terval between 1912 and 1918, but at other times he has taken a leading part in republican polities. He is one of Congressman Albert | Johnson's staunchest supporters. Girl Is Charged in Murder Trial CLEVELAND, O., Oct. 3.—Marian McArdle, 21, was placed on trial here today for the murder of her step- father, Dan P, Kaber, wealthy pub- lisher, who was stabbed to death by a hired assassin. Mrs. Eva Katherine Kaber, the girl's mother, is now serving a sen tence of life imprisonment for the murder Taft Takes Oath as Chief Justice WASHINGTON, Oct, 3, -~ The famous Taft smile took its place on the dignified bench off the United States supreme court today. ‘The judicial oath of office was ad- ministered to William Howard Taft, chief justice of the United States su- preme court, shortly after the court convened, by Associate Justice Me- Kenna. NEW YORK —Nicholas Varzaka- kos, 40, xilled in rict in Greek Or- thodox church, room door. He hurried in and took his eeat. Judge Ronald entered and ascend. €d the bench. The reporters fol- lowed and stationed themselves at Vantage points about the room. . Carrie Hewett and sister, . Kate Stewart, nieces of the aged murdered bride of the defend ‘ant, came in and took seats in a cor- ner. Theh came the crowd, elbow- ing. shoving, tramping DISAPPOINTED WHEN FOLKS FAIL TO COME Mahoney was watching eageriy for someone. His mother and sister did not come. Ags the last person entered and the courtroom door was closed his face twisted cynically inti look of disappointment, It was he said, “They have failed me. And then his features lighted up and those who could read them read: “I'm glad mother didn't come \to hear the verdict.” ‘The jury filed in, stern faced. Qne by one, monotonously, they answered to their names. A door burst open suddenly. Two women, dressed in black, came in. Their faces were white and drawn — Mahoney's mother and his sister. He leoked up at them, startled, closed his eyes and bowed his head. When he a it ayened his eyes again they blistened, The ‘women dropped into chairs beside him. The ver- dict was handed to the judge, who ordered it read. “Guilty aw charged, Shall the death penalty be inflicted? Yes.” There was deathlike silence. “Dolly” Johnson's eyes rolled @izally in their sockets. Her head back. Her hat fei to the floor, Mahoney turned quickly, arose and start- ed to reach for her. “sit down!” Sheriff Star. wich whispered the order, and pushed the prisoner back into his chair, Mra. Nora Mahoney, her face still the face of a stone image, reached her daughter's side and was fanning her with a hat. Mahoney's two iswyers lifted the unconscious woman up and carried her into the judge's chambers, (Turn to Page 7, a Sitting there in the “Tl bet a! Pared to file an immediate notice talking Tn. a! Should this also tall, he défefiee few "Soar he cane. know attorneys will endeavor to find con- whether he was to live or die. 5 7 He had been called a coward. vo Mga Mg pein wees net the | appeal will not be presented to the E. B. Benn Nominated U. Ss. Dlankets and went to sleep again,! #tate supreme court until the Febru- S| “Put her on the couch in there,” a Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattio, W SEATTL E, WASH., MON DAY, OCTOBE R 3, 192 under the Act of Congress Mare | The Seattle Star Year, by Mall, $5 to #9 r THE NEWSPAPER THAT GOES wre’ 1 10,000 MORE HOMES EVERY WEEK DAY THAN. ANY OTHER SEATTLE DAILY—THE STAR RFARE BIL TO BE INTRODUCED TODAY) HOME &@ EDITION | TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE STARTS FIGHT AGAIN! ‘Mahoney Won't Be Hanged for Six Months; May Win on Appeal With the death sentence brought in by the jury Setur- day night still ringing tn his ears, James E. Mahoney Mon- day renewed his siruggie for Ufe. Attorneys Lee Johnston and L, B. Schwellenbach were to go before Judge J. T. Ronald Mon- day afternoon and file two mo tlons—one in arrest of judg: ment, the other asking a now trial. Judge Ronald was expected to set a date early next week for on the motions. In the event the motions are de nied, Mahoney's counse! are pre- of appeal to the state supreme coukt. atitutional grounds on whiew they In any event, Mahoney has at least six months to live. If the mo tion for new trial is denied, the ary term, and that tribunal wii! not make ite Gécision until late in the pring. “i be carte td. U ites supreme court it may hang fire for a year—or even years. Mahoney's appeal will be based on three pointe—the contention that the superior court has no jurisdic. tion, an insanity charge against Mahoney was pending in e su preme court; Judge Ronald's action Starwich. Helin refusing a change in venue, and the repeated objections which were made by the defense to the judge's rulings at various stages of the trial EXPECT ARREST OF WOMAN WITNESS In the meantime, further develop- ments are expected momentarily tn the case—in the form of the arrest of at least one woman witness, Prosecuting Attorney | Malcolm Dougias absolutely refused to discuss this phase of the situation, but, when asked, “Is the Mahoney case closed?” he replied “I can't answer that, but, as you know, we have information involving 60 different people in different canes in the office’s unfinished business.” In reply to the hypothetical ques- tion of whither, if an arrest were | made, it would be on a charge of per- jury, forgery or accessory before and after the fact of murder, he sald merely “T can't say nor However, it 1» * that Detect- ive Chad Ballard hag been tn confer- enec with Douglas over the testi- mony of at least one witness, and court attaches are outspoken in the opinion that an arrest will be made some time this week. i a ie bien American Bankers in Los Angeles Meet LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oct. 3.— With the arrival of the Ohio delega- tion this morning, practically all the 2,000 visitors expected to attend the 47th annual gathering of the Amer- fcan Bankers’ association were in the city today. ‘The general session will be opened at 10 a. m, tomorrow with the an- nual address, to be delivered by John 8, Drum, WIFE PUTS HIM TO BED; RANCHER KICKS ‘These women! Mrs. Thomas A. Edison spilled the beans when she denied that her husband slept only four hours a night, as he claimed. And now Earl W. Pierce, 50- year-old rancher of Alderwood Manor, is kicking because his wife made him go to bed after he had gone without sleep for five weeks. Pierce ‘a just a bad habit, and thi looking for two jobs now—each on a twelve- hour shift. s+ % (Girl Leas Meeting Protesting Fees ( AN’ Suddenly Finds Herself Without Job ise her spice hs process: hetiast the high fece which 906 E. employed as a tinter. “Of course,” she said today, “it may be Just a coincidence, because another girl was let out at the same time, but—" At any rate, she considers her own personal experience as of far less question of high fees. “Snobbery of any kind in a uni- versity ts bad enough,” she said today, “but when It's money snob- bery, and a great institution like the University of Washington is transformed into a rich man's col- lege, then it's time for something to ‘bust. Miss Charter, who is one of the committee of five students working for lower fees, says the university is being cheated out of ite best students by the tremendous in- crease in fees, “The ‘profs’ themselves admit it,” she declared. “They all say that the best students are those who help sheneqivenrane)S it is this class REAL FATTY IS DEAD, SAYS BOA Fatty Movie Fans Loved Couldn’t Have Sta ged That sams Wasn't That Kind of By Fred L. Boalt “Three young girls,” I read,’ “@ashed into Roscoe Arbuckle's arms when the film comedian stepped from a Pullman at the Southern Pacific station here Jast week, They covered his flushed face with kisses,” ‘The dispatch is from Los An- gelos. I have been asked by agitated friends to write an editorial about this incident. All right, here goes: In the first place, it didn’t happen. Fatty Arbuckle, whom TI loved and whose memory I revere importance than the general) THEY EVEN DOCK ’EM FOR GOING HOME TO COLLECT MORE FEES ‘The fee system of the Univer. ality of Washington, played just an unkind trick on Fred Ryan, university student, 2426 Har didn't hold out with th conception of @ young ready wealth. Fred had to.go home for more money to pay for his registration and when he got back next day he found the fee had grown $2 because he didn’t pay the first day. Now if a frog Jumps two feet out of a well and falls back three—oh, well, you know the rest. | which is being affected by the high cost of learning. “The seriousness of the situa. tion can be understood when you realize that 40 per cent of all the men in school are wholly self-supporting; that another 40 per cent are partially self-sup- 3 that 20 per cent of the ‘are either partially or wholly self-supporting, and that ® great majority of the remain der are in extremely moderate circumstances, “It's hard enough to get work that will pay one's room and board while at the university, but it is died some week ago. There lives and moves acer. tain plump, lecherous, unclean person who looks like Fatty Ar- buckle, who some say its Fatty Arbuckle, but who isn’t Fatty Arbuckle; and this is the person who was kissed by three silly girls as he stepped from a train at Los Angeles. Fatty Arbuckle was a fat, com- ical fellow. He was a movie actor. My boy liked Fatty as well as I did, and many’s the time we went to the theatre to- wether to see him, and split our sides laughing at his antics. , (1 do not know the exact mo- ment of, Fatty’s death. He had absolutely impossible to earn enough t cover the high’ fees in addition to other expenses. . The. result is that the st must either leave col- lege en! or else work a quar- ter and @ quarter by turns. “Tm folhg ‘to be cheated out tion. I’m going to work enough money to pay my then register for the cond quarter—but there are lots P are too disgusted to do this.” ‘The same determination was ex- pressed by Edwin B. Rivers, 2700 Fourth Avenue, and Edward Litch- field, 1703 North 46th 8t., who. were and | forced out of the university for the same reason as Miss Charter. Rivers, a graduate of Broadway high school, has spent a year in the school of business administration but the fees kept him from regis- tering for his sophomore year, Litchfield, a veteran who saw four years in the trenches, has not been to the university yet, but he came all the way from England to enter the university—he should have some rights in the matter. Miss Charter is a former Seattle girl and graduate of Broadway high school, and she came back here from New York to attend ‘the vuni- versity and study physical educa- tion, She went to the summer school, but couldn’t raise the money for her fees this quarter, Miss Charter raised the point that both she and Rivers are rote a in good standing, as are ‘most of those who have been forced out bp (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) not been dead Jong, tho, when this other person came along and stepped into his clay and habiliments and staged a party at the St. Francis hotel, in San Francisco. T am not curious as to what happened at that party. Why should I be? The host and the guests were all total strangers to me. Now, if Fatty had been there! Virginia Rappe is dead, The imitation Arbuckle was arrested. If the judge says the imposter did not murder Virginia Rappe, that satisfies me, He didn't. ‘Was it manslaughter, then? I don't care. Why should 1? harter. 2—Edward Litchfield (both photos by Cress-Dale).. $—Edwin|any kind of « reduction ta. B. Rivers vagina by James & Merrihew.) bee = er lines to pay 8 1-3 cents get a transfer. Judge Louderbach Will Try Arbue SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 3.—Pri ing Judge B. P. Shortall of the rior court today assigned to’! Judge Harold Louderbach’s cou case of Roscoe Arbuckle, film oo dian, charged with m h @ result of the death of i Rappe following a “party” in- buckle’s apartment here. Arbuckle was not in court his case wag set. Fatty Arbuckle is dead. A million silly girls may kles the man who looks like Fatty all I care. He may spend t days in prison, or go scot-free; I am indifferent. He may even go into the movies, claiming te dead. He couldn't have that party, or death’ St Vie ee C he wasn't that kind of « man, ‘He was a droll, comical very fat, who made me ls It is so I shal! him