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

a REE MANIACS RUN AMUCK: PPL PL LLL EL ELPA PAE LLP PPP APP PPR PDP PP PPP DEPP PPPOE ‘Now for the final pull to put the Community Chest over! The commit- tees are out to finish the job. The town ought to gét behind them and see that it’s done ina hurry. The Chest simply MUST be filled. ‘The | : ; The needs of the 46 charitable insti- | tions demand it. Our own self-respect makes it imperative. A N D i good name of Seattle requires it. If you haven’t given at all as yet, you should lead the procession today. If i Ce a lidiaten ese ENeodk : wiih gave but can give more, encore yourself! sore It’s not cash that is asked — it is On ‘the I Issue of Ame ricanism There Can Be No Compromise ‘The seattle Star c= HIS OWN SEEK | F ‘Mrs. Ponzi. Remains Loyal VERSION Mi ADMEN Won’ t Desks Her Hi babered! y or monthly during 1922. Dntered as Second Class Matter May 2, 1899, at the office at Seattle, Wash, u der the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mall, $5 to §9 MONDAY, NOVI IMB 28, 19921, TWO ) CENTS'T! IN Photoplay Actor'lal Mysterious Shots Good Witness for| Fired Into Homes Defense in Girl! Imperiling Lives Death Cases of Two BY M.D. TRACY ° Policemen and deputy sheriffs. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 28.— were searching the city Monday’ (“Fitty”) Arbuckle, movie | {0° two madmen, reported Lente 7”) ses have run amuck in Greorene cou comedian, on trial for man- slaughter, bundled his 240-pound tions of Seattle, terrorizing form out of the defengant’s chair | dozens of families and placing © dozens of lives in Jeopardy. today and ambied to the wituess stand, A third was in the city Jail, captured after a desperate strug: He was calied suddenly to tell the jury his version of the death gle. | One of the maniacs fired of Virginia Rappe, which he is | shots at Capt. Harry W. Crosby, 1 accused of causing. | Federal ave., and Dr. O. It was the climax of the trial. A dull rumble swept thra the) 1237 Federal ave., and afterward the entire neighborhood in terror Se ‘courtroom as spectators shifted’ to better view the comedian, several hours. | Capt. Crosby told police that ee A showdown between the United | The Japanese, however, | FATTY BEGINS Lmnitation pect an agreement on bo h HIS STORY {was sitting with his family in the naval and Far Eastern y Pag | Attorneys leaned back in their subscriptions payable quar- PLEASE RUSH YOURS IN. EATHER and Tuesday, rain; werm- er tonight: strong sowth- west gales, | Pemperaure Last 24 Hours 5. Minimum, 40, Teday noon, 4, SATTLE =U. S. STANDS PAT see i —— } are braying to start.” ‘neigh, Wanda! Se ee fair Wilma informs Home ‘that the girls don't call ‘em pe chesty any more. They call ‘em / Knows-Whens.” i Biecuisge.* ° | von Kettler in The Star. BY CARL D. GROAT | WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.—The Shantung question was characterized ‘in Japanese quarters today as being | “as good as settled.” Chinese authorities simultaneously agreed that a settlement outside the |Far Eastern conference was likely, barring only insistence by the con- m, | ferees on having the matter deliber- |} ated in committee. There is also a prospect that Japan will denounce— eee cancel—the famous 21 de- they call ‘em bungalows be-| mands which impinge on the builders bungled ‘em and) China’s political and terri- occupants owe for ‘em. torial integrity. BY A. L. BRADFORD / WASHINGTON, Nov. 28. — The} American plan for limitation of naval| armaments stands unchanged, naval! experts of Japan and Great Britain | were told today. This attitude of the American naval | advisory committee was communicated | to the foreign experts in an informal meeting of the naval authorities of ' the various powers today. VAMP, SEZ y hash is to turkey what | 7 i eee } Chinese are | pool now that up thelr queues, wall. Crosby turned out the Mght 5 called police. A few seconds later a shot jliving room when suddenly thre shots rang out, the bullets ‘4 uestions before | chairs and tried to look unconcernea, ke | ed be Kk), ie United Press learned on The jury strained forward, frankly clote to his head and lodging in ; | expectant, | g00d authority today. Arbuckle walked to the stand. Hel! : Counciimen Refuse to | This information came to- Office.” Huh, Seattle council-/day from a source extremely | Rever quit until they die. intimate with Pacific devel-| mcs" === FRANCE SCORED BY NEWSPAPERS sod assed: him of his’ sed in too pud—I cannot aay, ee tha SH piarioe golf, for I cast m7 | Press of Italy, Britain and Sete the creek, Haat Haturdey.” Germany Unites eee ‘The Dante Assembly at the BY CHARLES M. M’CANN LONDON, Nov, 28.—The press of ly of Washington has put off, owing to the death | England, Germany and Italy was ar- rayed against the press of France to- M the guest of honor. eee @ nearly fireproot feature of cars | day—and ail turned to America for gasoline. | support. eee ‘They pleaded their cases thus: YOU KNOW THAT: The| EHritain, favorably accepting the d's greatest auditor can't add up| hint for an association of nations, de- score correctly? | nounced France for her refusal to re-| eee jones armaments. German papers looked favorably on Be that as it may, Dr. Samuel Pie possibility™that she may be in-| . Coffin is a physician in the | | vited to the arms conference, perhaps | buildin i] the nations association, and declared | eren pope re en as ast | Quick and serious concessions for }ameliorating the Chinese probiem |have been and are being made. A reply to the latest communica | Mon from the Japanese) experts de claring that the American authori ties made mistakes dn their calcala | tions was given by thie govern- ment’s advisers at today's meeting jof the experts. The reply was that no mistakes havo been found in the | American plan | One, American naval adviser strongly indicated to the United | Press that the capital ship proposal in the Hughes plan was rapidly ap- proaching a showdown between the American and Japanese experts and debt. LAID T0 DOPE | that the controversy would soon be turned over “to the principal @ele Sailor Succumbs; Porter Isj «tes of the powers concerned for solution Arrested in Everett | | nese delegates—in responsible, accord. | condemned him? Dope early today caused the death |ing to. British Informations for the bickering over the ship ratio delegation was portrayed asin mood eithgs to accept or nearly to! meet the American viewpotnt, |the Tokyo government, for reasons of Its own, including unrest among ship workers, was “holding out.” New instructions from Tokyo are of a navy sailor who was stricken | violertly il! in Everett yesterday and |was rushed to Providence |here in a futile effort to save his life. “Les” Gem barber hospital Reeves, shop. negro porter of the was arrested in Tokyo—Not the Washington Japa-|4efend him while the whole world | difference. | The live in @ five-room flat | Mother, awaiting his release? while |@4 a stenographer to carn bread for | siderate. the wife of « multi-millionaire fi- nance wizard—- Mrs. Charles Ponzi BOSTON, Nov, 28.—If you were steadfastly maintains, “Why, he |could have kept some of the $8,000,- | %® (000 he wave back to investors if he} And he lost his last penny— hadn't been square. And was thrown into prison—~ “He could have \wried a million | Would you stay loyal to him and andi no one would have known the But he didn't! “I've had several offers to enter leave his mansion ald | the movies, but I just ‘t capitalize | with his | Charlie's misery. It's all too tragic. | “Of course, it’s lonely for us with. | Would you get back your old job | out Charlie—he was so kind and con. And—let me tell you this | “ man who's kind to his mother and wife can't be bad at heart toward | | the rest of the world. remember Ponzi.) “Christmas—" Would you wif and his mother? ‘ell, Mrs. Charles Ponzi ix doing | juet that! Of course, you | knees, bumped into a chair and had diffi- culty squeezing between two tables. | He seated himself carefully, pulling up each trousers leg so his nifty blue | Norfolk wouldn't get baggy at the! He twisted in the chair a couple of times and glanced down at the defense counsel table. It was the signa! for his lawyers to begin. He testified as follows: “My name is Roscoe Arbuckle. I/ im & movie actor, SAYS HE DID NOT INVITE MISS RAPPE “Virginia Rappe came to my room| at the St. Francis hotel September 7. Mrs, Delmont was with her. She did not come by my invitation. | Neither did Al Semnacher, Zey Pyv- | ron or Alice Blake. I invited Mrs.! Marie Taube. { “I was dressed in pajamas and bathrobe. « v! “Around 3 p, m. I saw Miss Rappe in my room, I was then going out for an engagement with Mrs, Taube. | I had seen her in the other room just previously, The door of the room | was open when I saw her. “I found her in the bathroom. She was on the floor in front of the toilet, holding her stomach, I picked her up and held her hair out of her face, Then I took a towel and wiped fired thru Dr. Lamson’s window Lamson was reading. Lamson ed to safety and also called When Motorcycle Patrolmen- Walter Demch and George Reyno arrived, the would-be assassins fied. 2 Peter Males reported to the police that a maniac armed with an az ‘drove him and his family out of theif ~ home at Spokane ave. W. and Rivers side drive Sunday night. Brandishing his ax and uttte fiendish yells, the intruder drove family out of the house and then ceeded to attack the furniture. Peering thru the window, saw that the interior was pract | demolished. Later the maniac went into | yard and killed all the chickens cquid find, and then turned on ey and a cat, household pets. As soon as efforts were made dislodge him, the maniac wrecked furniture against the | and stood behind the barricade, ax im | hand, Males and his family spent night with neighbors. Driven suddenly insane, Arvid Norman, 32, leaped upon John — a guest of the Sather hotel, 606% Pike st, and was only prevented from cutting his throat by a united attack by a dozen persons, who bore him to to | Everett later today in a raid directed into’ Mrs. Turner, | He promised clients to make millions | look jin foreign exchhnge operations, Fed- | Pi jeral agents investigated and proved | she would advance guaranties came France that Germany has discarded |by C. A militariam. understood to have been received. commissioner of | one her face “I gave her a glass of water. hristmas—I do hope they parole} «sie ‘said she would like to le And there is a barber shop at First | Washington that advertises | hs, 25 including neck.” “* | Italy's press called for a “show. |down” on the “disagreement of jFrench and Italian 4 * in Washington, and tagged } | “militaristic.” France, admitting that the suspicious-jooking nose ‘most of the world seemed to have Do you mean—er—a quartfolio?” | rirned againat her silently while they sted the tactful clerk—-Life | soothed her with soft words,” received * | KICKFUL want a briefcase,” said the man nN with suspicion the association of na- tions suggestion and declared that) anee must protect her securities milk,” advises the N Dairy: | with armies. | R's league. Aw right, we'll tell) ‘The press of France was most anx-| @ of those short skirt perform-| ious over the reported invitation of on Second ave, all about it. | Germany to the Washington confer o- OM THE “co ECTION OF . por fee oa eter pie vui(No End Is iin in up with the Jury, ey tae ad Deadlock of Iri discharge the Sury A tall, lean member of the 12 thea} LONDON, Nov Unless Ulster | you can’t discharge me." | Unexpectedly forces a showdown in| you? Why not?” | the Irish negotiations, the peace man, pointing |Wadlock may continue inde tntaly, I was hired | and Premier Lloyd will be| | able to leave for Washington, it was) believed here today | The apprehension over the possible action which Ulster may take wh Sir James Craig goes before his | lament in- Belts tomorrow was what diminished, and the gen belief was that Lloyd George's marture for América will not be im- “Explain to them that a calf strong and healthy by drink- | ence, . 7, Juage, Can't discharge George head of the White} ghters, says Seattle high students ate engaging in w” parties. But the coke keeps warm, ant | som era ‘Hotel Guest Shot in Rotunda”. Newspaper headline. Thi idn't | peded. have happened in Seattle, i of, “ ; hate lost our rotundas play "=| $3,000,000,000 All coe Down in Rio De Janeiro, if a com Fey fillum at the Liberty speaketh the truth. the fellas wet a lusty kick| WASHINGTON, Nov, 28 Presi Ouia drinking cof! And in a coun-|dént Harding will submit a $3,000, | try that hasn't committed Voistead, | 909,000 budget to congress when it pelther! Where ignorance, etc., etc. |convencs December 5, it was learned cee | today. =) Wonder what the council will do| It wilt cover financial needs for the @fier it has iost its Witt’ | fiscal year endihg June 30, 1923. aoe. B | This, estimate is $1,068,000,000 be-) " SAD! SAD: [low the estimate submitted for the Mere vs the Voy cf oid Jim Moore, |fiseul year ending June $0, 1922, and | He drar.k home brew that had a kick.| and represents a saving of $500,000, Be he drank was quite impure,} 000, as congress pared that much Mew him up. a dern mean trick. from the estimates. BY FRASER EDWAKDS | one |public safety |by the fe ‘tion with thé looting That Harding Wants)‘ 'Germany Willing to Offer Guarantees | — LONDON, Nov. 28.— Germany is prepared to offer guarantees that she has disarmed to allay fears of the Fre according to a dispatch to the London Chronicle from Bertin, quoting “an official statement from the German ministry of defense.” This is taken as the German reply to the speech of Premier Briand be- ves ha8\fore the Washington disarmament any connection, with the death of conference, in which the French pre: the sailor could not be learned. Imier pointed to “a German military Commissioner Tutner said Reeves) menace’ as the reason for France re was held after the on the bar-| fusing to substantially reduce her ber shop had disclosed 16 “bindtes”! armies, of dope concealed in a towel under| ee the shop and 18 “bindles” more wrapped ina towel under a nearby | Debt Cancellation house, Altho the dead sailor's name was | given as “T. Marsh” when he entered the hav hospital, and he was believed to! had only $14, army discharge papers indicating he was George Peterson, whose parents live near Lake Stevens, and several hundred dollare were found in his pockets Commissioner Turner and hospital authorgies are endeavoring to com. | municate with the Petersons. Whether the arrest of R WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.—Em. | phatic denial that the United States considering cancellation of any pert of the Buropean gwar debt was made today, following the dis from Paris and London, to thi that 50 per cent of the mo: the United States might be | off An American official said that re peated efforts have been made by some foreign delegates to raise the debt question unofficially, So far ag the United States is concerned, | this official said, the conference Will » limited to matters for which it as called, Indictments Today for U.S. Rum Theft? Indictments are expected Monday eral grand jury in connec of the federal prohibition warehouse of liquor v. ued at $40,000, here, in August ht persons are now charged with yeing implicated in the case, and more arrests are expected. The last person fo be taken into custody was Warren V. Youmans, manager of a yuse at 157 King st., who was Friday, and released 1, after a hearin before | wa . Commissioner R. W. MeCle | |Stimson Funeral to Be Held Today Funeral services for Fred 8, Stim son, Seattle capitalist, who died sud. ldenly last Thursday, were scheduled held at 2 p. m. Monday at the by owed land. Interurban Slices Street Car in Two) 108 ANGELES, Nov. 28.-—Thir- teen persons were injured here to day in a collision between an inter. | to urban electric train end a street car.| home of bis son-in-law, Dr, W. A An incomin long Beach train, | Moor 944 11th ave. N. Private unable to stop at an interseetion be-| mation was to follow the services, of wet rails, crashed into a| which were to be in charge of Rev. Sidney Morgan. cause street car and almost eut it in two. | i] | Denied by Official | aerer | degre | her mother-love, t OF JURORS | narked | arm, eagerly she scanned the face of ae of | winced and held on more tightly. jant is charged he was a financial faker. But ariie was s_ hones _ Ms Chartie before next Christmas, That's | Ponai {all I'm looking forward to! Dolly , Johnson’s T rial Is Opened By E. P. Chalcraft* A tall woman, alert and self- possexsed, and a pale-faced, wor- ried little girl of 12—these two are on trial in superior court Monday before Judge Otis W. Brinker. steel manufacturer: | McNally, 4409 W. Atlan. nploye; Mrs. Gene- 24th ave. grocer's | Zeeb, Wichman, | reer st th mas FR tlc st,, shipyard ¢ va Miller, 1830 wife; Mrs, Williamine 78th, housewife; Clara 3002 Court st., housewife; E. D. Stef. | 8047 Stroud st., druggist; A. M. Altho the state's information| Fiammant, 2706 32nd ave, 8., sales- names only Mrs, Dolores M. John-| man; Rognar Sigtrig, 6904 28th ave. |son, sister of the convicted wife-mur-|N. W., and Helena B. Parks, 817 Mahoney, in the first | goth ate. § little Marga-| It was expected that several chal: | ret, her daughter, is also being tried, | lenges would be mage before the She is on trial for the sincerity of | jury finally was «e | The state's information. briefly | charges that Mrs. Johnson, on April | 16, 1921, forged the general power of | | attorney for James EB, Mahoney, rep resenting herself be Mahoney's murdered wife, Mrs, Kate Mahoney. While Mrs. Johnson was on trial | |the furniture ‘in her home at 1921 Ninth ave, W, was being sold at J.\publie auction by Sheriff Matt Star- | said | wich to satisfy. a martgage : of $458.80. | “In this ease the defend. _ with the eri of | #¢— forgery.” And again, when Deputy Prosecuting Attorney T. H. Patter. Southeast storm warnings Were | son asked another prospective juror| | were ordered displayed at 7:20 a, | | if hia verdict would he influenced by {| m. Monday at all Washington | | the fact that otfiers than the defend. | | seaports and at the mouth of the | | ant on trial probably would suffer | | Columbia river, A severe storm | if she were found guilty. which fs approaching the British | ‘The entire morning session was! | Columbia coast will cause strong | | taken in the seating of the jury,| | Southeast to southwest gales dur- || which up until noon was as follows:| | ing the next 24 hours or longer. a} Herman Saxe, 1118 Madison st, “ al jeweler; B. A, Flint, 717 Madison at,, in the quartermaster department of the army; M. B. Conway, 2941 46th ave. N. E., employed by Frank Wa- terhouse & Co.; A, O, Miller, 1715 B, CANS FACE Holding tightly to her mother's h prospective juror the panel during the Twice she ‘The first was when Thomas Casey, counsel for the defense, to a juror, STORM WARNINGS | SAN” RAFAEL, Calif, — Louis Koulouris, charged with murder of Harold Wilson, hangs himself in jail on eve of trial joften, 936 N. lig |Rappe and carried her into another | down and I carried her to a bed. “She said she had these spells GIRL ON FLOOR, MOANING, WRITHING | nt to the bathroom and when I came back she was'‘on the floor, writhing and moaning. “L called Miss Pyvron and Mrs, Delmont. When they came in she was tearing her clothes, “I told’ the girls to stop her and |tried to help her “T went out and when T came back | Mrs. Delmont was rubbing her with! “I picked up a piece of ice and Mrs. Delmont told me to get out and I told her to shut up or I'd throw her out the wind “I then had Mrs, Taube call the} hotel manager, When he came we put Mr, Fishbeck’s bathrobe on Miss | room. H “I carried her three-quarters of the | nd Mr, Boyle took her, “J then asked Boyle to get a doc-| tor, | SAYS WINDOW OPEN; | DOOR UNLOCKED | “The door leading from my room to the corridor was not locked. ‘The window was open and the curtain) up, | “Miss Rappe said nothing anyone | could undérstand, i “[ did not place my hand on Miss} Rappe'’s hand while she had hold of the door. | “I did not come into contact with | the door, I did not ask Oscar Ne gaurd for the key to Miss Reppe dressing room at the Culver City! studios, “I haye told everything that) oc. curred while 1 was in the room with | Miss Rappe.” On cross-examination, “ou said his room at the hotel was No, 1219. “I can't remember if I ever saw} Oscar Norgaard ‘at Culver City rented a studio from Henry | (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) the floor and disarmed him, The attack occurred shortly after midnight Monday, when Norman was discovered creeping up the stain with an open razor in his hand. He leaped into the lobby on the second floor and, uttering wild sh seized Rickard by the neck forced his head back. A} bystander grabbed Norman's arm and other guests of the hotel held Norman while Charles Fister called the police. Norman broke away and ran up stairs but the police found him. He is held in the city jail for mental investigation, SPOKANE.—Burned while playing: |near a bonfite, Gladys Ellefson, 6, | dies. Do You Want Full Data on Divorce Laws? A reader of The Star asks for a list of the causes for absolute di- vorce in all of the states of the U. S., and the length of residence re- quired in each to obtain a divorce. This is too long to print, but any other reader desiring this com- piled . information may obtain it by writing to The Star’s Washington Bureau, 1322 New York ave., Washington, D, ¢., inclosing two cents for postage. IRE’S A. REASON FOR THE STAR'S 11,727 CIRCULATION. LEAD OVER ITS NEAREST COMPETITOR — A GOOD REASO N