The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 20, 1922, Page 1

PARDONS ARBUCKLE! RNR RAR ARR AA AANA The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor The Seattle Star WEATHER Tonight and Thursday, re creasing southerly wind. Temperature 2 Maximum, 49. 4 oday noo: a | 256. ~¥ OL U ME a4. NO. HOME BREW! Howdy, folks! This is the one week in the year when Dad can imagine he ts of some impor. tance in the family. After Christmas, pickpockets will have little terror for Dad, eee The Society for the Exchange of Christmas Gifts will hold its first regular business session next Tues day morning. Bring your hand painted soap dishes and accordion. pleated handkerchiefs. ° Mayor Brown ts thinking of giving the Rev. Chauncey Hawkins a nice | Christmas present—a season's pase to the Liberty dance hall cee BUT WHERE ARE THE CATS PAJAMAS? Horrah! Hurrah! We've just received our first Christmas pres- It's a Christmas calendar! was sent by Frank MeDer mott cof the Bon Marche! It's abovel Whe says there ain't no Santa Claus? eee It wil be noted by the observant that the girls gave up weartng halt- hose « few weeks before Christmas. -. ‘There will be tittle Zt granny on earth | and goag>will to men™ for the mar- ried who fails to guess what bix wife wants for Christmas. cee The Rev. Chauncey might give Doe Brown a silk wall motto embroidered with the words, | “Pro Bunco Publico.” } | Hawkins care to. me and gette om Chances ‘Awkine. —Contrid. Met from . The gamé of “Beaver,” no doubt. was in ted by the manufacturers | of safety razors. . Alas! it wo could only say of near: | beer: “Day by day, in every way, it is getting nearer and nm ee News item: Street car fares arg will be reduced on March 5 cents or 15549 roubles, ee i New Yorkers ate raising a great how! because the city water has @ cucumber flavor. What do they ex- pect? Raspberry? | in) } 4] . opps 1 to 10 on a white Christmas. 5 to 1 on a sloppy Christmas. 5 to 1 on cold street cars. o- A | Seattle parent asked for a phone) number to announce the birth ot} twins and didn’t get the connection until after the darlings haa gradu { ated from a high school. . Beattle folks are going to be so darn giad to eo the five-cent cartare go into Stfect on March 1 that we wouldn't be a bit surprised if they petitioned our Congressmen to support a bill making the day @ national holiday * If thé mountain snows continue to melt {t will not be long before cellars dow in the valley will be full of som®ning besides home brew “- « 7 wei AT THIS | cot NTRY rumen * Warmer cold cars. eee ‘The annual run-off has begun at the city dams, and the annual skid. | oft has begun on all unpaved county roads . It takes all sorts of cooks to make 1 world, including those who put sage in turkey dressing. eee Appropriate remark when the “commerctat’ butts in on the radio program: “Get off the air! The wind's busy!” . o- What to give your wife? #kid lipstick What to give your husbana? An asbestos smoking-Jacket oe A non Prohibition officials say this ts go- ing to be a “Ary” Christmas Well, it doesn’t matter much if Christmas ia dry, wo long as New | Tear's te wet. . Heaven help the shopgirls on a day like this! ‘this whistle? \Jury Returns s Manslaughter rain: tn Last 14 Hours Minimum, 40, 48 Rntered as Heoond Clase Matior May ~ SEATTL E, Ww ASH., Member of Ancient Noble Family Suffers Another | Financial Reverse STILL UNDAUN rED By Bob Bermann LVO VON ALVENSLEBEN, who, before ie A war, was reputed to be the kaiser’s personal representative in the Northwest and whose spectacular financial and social career attracted in- ternational attention, is back in Seattle. But it is not the Alvo von Alvensleben of yester- day. Gone are the millions whieh he once wielded; gone are his retinue of servants and attaches, his fleet of expensive automobiles and his private car; gone are all the glories. As an humble vendor of dolls, he is occupying a’ |modest little store at 114 Pike st. This scion of one of the proudest of Prussia’s junker families, who was once the friend and confidante of the former kaiser, is now a merchant. And the graces which he once displayed at court are being showered upon Seattle housewives who chance into his store in search of inex- pensive toys. | Von Alvensleben was recognized in his shop W ednesday. , 'He admitted his identity without hesitation. “Yes,” he said, in the yot unpleasantly clipped voice ma he affects, “yes, I'm Von Alvensleben. I'm trying to ‘come back.’ This particular ons is new to me—but there has to | be a start to everything. ion me a moment, please. | How can I serve eh This doll? A dollar forty- nine. A ttle thing, isn’t it? Perceive the the lips——. Or possibly madame would be interes! in A delightful contrivance. Hear—toot' toot! | And only a dime!” EXPLAINS CHANGE IN FORTUNES OF CAREER | When he had a moment of leisure, he agreed, willingly | enough, to go into the back of his shop and explain the | change in his fortunes. “Why not?” he remarked. “I had so much publicity dur- | ‘ing the war that I feel immune by now. And, if the people ‘understand, they may be inclined to give me a sporting chance—-you ARE sporting, you know, you Americans.” The story which he unfolded might nave been taken straight from the pages of a best seller—except that no/ modern author would dare to test his readers’ credulity to | such an extent. | The Von Alvensiebens are, of | Soa. "tn teas ae ee we | FOUR DEAD IN STREET CLASH to the year 756-—there has always PORT ARTHUR. Te: Dee. 20.— been a Count Von Alvensleben since that time—and thelr estate ts 90 huge that {t might almost be called a principality. They own an entire vil- (Turn to Page 9, Column 3) SAYS FIREMAN CAUSED DEAT when a street car struck « Guilt com- |Pany truck loaded with workers 1 Rind street car turned over } riking the truck, pinning jsaeapaae I henaats It. Rescue workers labored | |for an hour before the bodies could | | be extricated Will You Start the New Year With Your Own Home? The holidays and busy shopping Verdict John L. Mountain, 35, city fireman, 1016 Union st., was held guilty of manslaughter Wednes- day by @ coroner’s jury in con- nection with the death of ©. R. Kyle, janitor, of 61914 Sixth ave. S., who was killed Sunday after. noon by Mountain tomobile, at Fifth ave. 6. and Dearborn st, Mountain was partly intoxicated the jury held, and besides driving at an éxcessive rate of speed had neg- lected to take any precautions for the safe operation of his auto, and reck lesly ran down Kyle and killed him. Mountain was taking a young lady to her home when the accident hap: n pened, he told police. Following the verdict Mountain wax arrested and held by Sheriff Matt Starwich in the King county jall, in default of | bail of $1,000, hours are here, and everyone is hustling about finding this Yet there are still a few t will want a HOME by the New Year, Here is a cosy littic or WONDERFUL VIEW IMMEDIATE POSSESSION \-room bungalow: 2 bedroc } with closets, bath | and nice kitchen, and b conditto $2,200 mthly jaundry trays house {n_ fine 40x100, Price || cash, balance r Want where found Ad section will this little tell you home can Need Trucks and Cars to Give Shut-Ins Joy| Upon the generosity of Seattle motorists will depend || the pleasure of hundreds of invalid shut-ins, orphans and old people Saturday afternoon, Two hundred singers from the West Seattle high school have been selected to go about the city from 2:30 to 6 p. m, Saturday afternoon to sing Christmas carols before the city’s hospitals, orphanages and old people's homes. At least seven trucks will be needed to carry the | youngsters on their rounds and later in the evening 30 ]} machines must be available to carry shut-ins to the special performance for them at the Cosmopolitan Playe theater. Motorists whose hearts are warm with Christmas cheer are asked to offer their cars by calling The Star, at Main |! 0300, or Dr. Frank R. Loope, at Capitol 2267 or || Capitol 4626, 4, 1809, at the Postoffios at Beattie WEDNESDAY, DEC EMBE R 20, ry the Act Mareb 1, Per Year, by Mall, $6 to 99 1922. VON ALVENSLEBEN BACK IN SEATTLE One-Time German Millionaire Now Here Selling Dolls in Tiny soa Here's Alvo Von Alvensleben, German nobleman, former millionaire plunger of the Pa- ‘ARREST 22 FOR MILLION LOSS Hold Navy Yard Employes as Theft Suspects NEW YORK, Dee. 20.— Twenty-two civilian employes of the Brooklyn naval base were arrested by department of jus- tice agents today in connection with grand jury indictments charging more than $1,000,000 worth of goods have been stolen Twenty-three men were named in the indictments. The arrests were 'made under supervision of William J. Burns, chief of the department at | Washington Goods stolen from the naval base included clothing, olf and other ma- terials, aeccordiny to the fedepa, gents, The 22 men are to be a raigned late today before Federal Judge Garvin. Arrest of the 23rd man tndicted was declared to be expected soon, federal authorities also announcing |that additional indictments and ar- resis are planned. The arrests today were sald by police who worked with the federal officers to be only the beginning of the exposure of a huge conspiracy to Jefrand the government extending er the last three years. Ninety more arrests are @x:, pected, it was disclosed, Clerks, chauffeurs, laborers and others were among those ar. rested today. As they came to work they were lined by guards and herded into ¢ and taken to the federal building. Policemen assigned to prevent just such thefts are implicated, it was | said The federal agents said the thefts) erly |were worked thru “doctored” requi sitions. For instance, when an in voice was presented for shipment of 400 pieces of any article the number was raised to 1,400, The extra thou: sand were sold to outside contractors and concerns by the “fraud ring,” it | is alleged. Vent, Epreens. Were Nie and tes. cific Coast and reputed representative of the kaiser. jothers seriously injured here today! ing @ little doll shop at 114 Pike st. and living ina simple cottage at Laurelhurst. shows interior of Von Alvensleben’s shop. jin the country today, |men who were being brought back | back | Now, his millions gone, he is keep- View —Photo by Price & Carter, Star Staff Photographers ‘Orders Mental Tests for Automobile S peed Fiends DETROIT, Dec, 20.— Mental that It does absolutely, in nearly tests for automobile speeders to | every case, stop the speeder or determine their degree of sanity reckless driver; whereas, ander were inaugurated by Judge } the old system, repeated warn- Charles L, Bartlett in recorder’s | ings and fines had no effect court here today: | whatever upon them. Besides the mental test for speed- BY JUDGE on. 8. L. BARTLETT | era, Which I shall order today, I shall (Copyright, 1922, by United Press) — | continue my policy of sending speed DETROIT, Dee. 20.—The lives of| ers and reckless drivers to jail, and innocent children and pedestrians | along this line I beg to state that I must be protected at whatever cost, consider the spe No penalty can be too heavy in the | ®@rous than the drunken driver protection of human Itfe and prop-| This is said advisedly, after hear- ony ing many cases, because oftentimes With this in mind, hereafter I shalt | the drunken driver knows his condi- order @ psychopathic examination of |ton and will creep along slowly, all violators of speeding and reckless | whereag the speeder is a man in driving laws to determine their men-| Many cases who has absolutely no tal fitness to handle automobiles. | regard for life or property. In very These examinations will be conduct | few cases do they even stop to pick ed by Dr. A. L. Jacoby, in charge of | up their victim after maiming or kill- the city’s paychopathle department. | ing him. I believe I am justified in taking] If this system of sending violators because the time has ar-|to jail and my new plan of mental » human life must be/ tests were adopted in all of the cities saved from the reckless automobile | of the United States where feasible, I speeder, He is the greatest menace | believe it would reduce reckless driv in my opinion. | ing to the minimum, and I would rec Barly last January I commenced | emmend, where the eminent judges sending speeders and reckless drivers | of these courts fee! that the cireum- to the house of correction, and in| stances warrant, they should, if pos- numerous cases revoking their li | tee adopt a similar course, re we time before this I noticed GANG ‘STEALS COPPER DUST that men who were brought before | me for reckless driving were what | are known as “repeaters”; that is, PORTLAND, Ore,, Dec, 20.—Two men armed with revolvers covered H. B, Williams, manager of the Montana assay office » Tues |day night, and with hands | these men, instead of scoffing at the | high in the air, scooped up several law and showing disr of the dollars tn loose change and the rocedure by continually coming | gieaming contents of a box they and securing their release by | thought contained gold ‘ paying a small fine, should be prop-| The large sum of money in the punished, So IT commenced | safe was disregarded, as the leader of sending them to jail, the two filled a canvas belt with the As to the effectiveness of this |contents of the box. Then they method, 1 can state that I be |backed out, But “all is not gold Neve that th have been only (that glitters." ‘The box contained two “repeaters” out of the hun- | copper and the amount taken by the dreds of men who have been sent | thieves should bring 60 cents in any to jail, which illustrates the ef- market, according to current quota. fectiveness of the system and tions on that metal, | time and again for the same offense, | |1 therefore concluded that the sys }tem which had been in use in the {courts should be revised, and that © far more dan- | TWO CENTS HAYS FREES FATTY FOR MOVIE WORK! I | pcitshda Actor Is Returned to Film Lots as Present From “Big Chief” Los ANGELES Dec, 20.— Roscoe (“Fatty”) Arbuckle today was given a Christmas “pardon” by Will H, Hays, movie menter, who banished him from filmdom almost a year ago. In announcing the “pardon” Hays declared that he believed the spirit of Christmas and of Christ's teachings would serve a guide, both for Arbuckle tn hi future conduct, and for the pub- lie In its attitude toward him. No attempt will be made, however, |to release Arbuckic’s films for a number of months, and, altho the comedian may go back to work on| | the Hollywood “lots,” none of his new pictures, if he makes any, will be released before the fall of 1923. Hays’ action ends for Arbuckle | more than « year during which time) jhe might as well have been an exile. He devoted his time, since final | aequittal on a charge of manslaugh- |ter in connection with the death of | Virginia Rappe, film actress, to mis: | cellaneous work around the studios. | He wrote and sold one or two come } dies and, It was understood, he acted in an advisory capacity to other comedians at times. He started a trip around the world but was injured on the first leg of the journey and returned home after spending a week in a hospital at Tekyo. LIBERTY DANCE | HALL TO CLOSE Chief Takes Action and Vice Probe Continues Before he entered the grand jury room Wednesday morning to defend charges of vice and corruption brought by Seattle ministers, Chief of Police William B. Severyns announced that the Liberty dance hall, storm center of controversy, would close its doors the latter part of thin week. The corridor outside the grand jury room was crowded during the morning with other police officers waiting to be called. Mayor Brown ennounred Tuesday afternoon, after leaving the inquiry, where he spent several hours as | witness, that he would demand of Rev. Chauncey J Hawkins and other ministers who have assailed him the right to appear in their pulpits and defend himself ageinst their charges. “IT have not forced the Liberty | dance hall to close,” said Chief Severyns, “and I do not expect to. I have, however, expressed my desire to the manager that the place close soon an possible.” Whether or not the Dreamland | dance ball will follow suit is not |known at present, Severyns said, | “Underworld characters are, being harder pressed now than they have ever been before,” Severyns said, be- fore he entered the jury room. “More arrests are being made, more uniform {penalties are being imposed, and the town ts cleaner now than it has been in years.” SAYS MAYOR HAS CHANGED In connection with the grand jury's | vice probe, Dr, Chauncey J, Hawking, |pastor of Plymouth Congregational church, who led the attack on Mayor Brown and the police department, ts. sued a statement Wednesday morn- ing, declaring the ma had shifted his position, The statement follows: “In one week what a marvelous (Turn to Page 8, Ce Detaan 5) WORSHAM IS REINSTATED Former City Detective William EB. Worsham has been ‘reinstated in the police department and com |plotely exonerated on charges made by Frank Dayis, dope addict, that Worsham had been tmplicated in the sale of narcotics and whisky. | This announcement was made Wednesday by the city civil service | commission following a rehearing! of the case from December 1 Worsham, one of the nesses in the Legate murder, dismissed from the departme: ex-Chief of Police W. H. Searin on April 6, after Davis charged that Worsham had given him a qntantity (Turn to Page 9, Column 1) was 1 , HOM ; iil IN SEATTLE, (F lashes| | \NEW POLISH PRESIDENT } Bas ALIN, Stanisiaun | ojclechowskt, candidate of the left, has been elected president of Poland by the national assembly, according to a dispatch from Wersaw. He ate |cends President Narutowier, who wae assassinated Dec 20 BALL CASH TO CHARITY CHICAGO, Dec. 20—"Chriat witts” $121,056.30, the receipts the October 5 tle ga the 1 world series, to charitable and ans’ organizations were anno today by Baseball Commissioner Ke | M. Landis, The following were $20,252.10 each: American Veterans of Foreign Ware of [United States; Disabled Veterans |the World War, The remainder | Gistriivated to New York aes eee FIND LIGHTNER GUIL PORTLAND, Dec. 20--Dave ner, former newsboy, | found guilty of conspiracy to the Harrison narcotic act, He | previously been found guilty ef | spiring to violate the federal tion law. The two counts upen Jightner has been found guilty & maximum penalty of eight a federal penitentiary and @ fine of $25,000, Sentence will passed Saturday, it was ant PREMIER LAW IS Tl |_ LONDON, Dec. 20-—Premier Bt Law is ill It was announced | confined te hie room ban. s | CAR HANGS OVER E | While driving her car on rt. Wednesday, Mrs. Catherine F |derson, of 8215 Irving st, notice that the street abruptly & , by H. Comstock and Sergt. W. CLEMENCEAU NOW Hd Mner Paris, returning from ing tour in America. He that he was well satisfied results of his trip. The “After what I have told the up to them to decide sald. ’ PORTLAND STEEL SAN FRANCISCO, Deo. Columbia Steel corporation, ized at $20,000,000, to produce at plants at Portland, Ore., and burg, Cal, has been organised it was formally announced tod the new company the lumbia steel plants at P Pittsburg, Cal., will be un iron and coal holdings in the property of the Utah Coke company, It was stated. eee BERNHARDT IS W PARIS, Dec. 20.—Sarah _ hardt, seized with {llness at a here, was ordered to remain in & week by her physicians to tho the “divine Sarah” was pain, she was very weak, to the doctors. Friends and watched closely at her and night, different persons the vigil in two-hour relays, eee 2 FIRES IN ONE DA’ Fire which may have been an incendiary attacked the h F. FE. Luther, 8445 18th ave, &) for the second time in 12 hours, Wednesday morning, complet! destruction of the building, Marshal Robert L. Laing was pleting an intensive probe of origin of the fire, late Wi * Luther and his family have bee! jsent from the home for some fire department offictals sald. jday afternoon at 1:45 fire was ¢ covered in the basement and wane tinguished, At 1:40 a, m. We doy, another fire was noticed, had gained such headway that: efforts to save the building The loss was estimated at $%é ‘fully covered by Insurance, chief wit: | ~~ “The Skv Line @ iSpruce” starts day on page six, g