The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 20, 1922, Page 9

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1922 BRIEF NEWS EUROPE MUST PAY UP Burope can and must pay her debts to the United States before World conditions can return to nor mal, said J. A. Thomas, vice-preat dent and American head of the Chi neseAmerican Bank of Commerce, ‘Tuestay ‘Thomas is «on his way to the Orient after atx months in Washington, D. C., where he con. ferred with President Harding and financial leaders in an effort to find & solution ef the altied debt problem. . CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS Advance Christmas festivities were | held Tuesday by members of frater- hal orders and officials and employes of Dusiness organizations. Seattle mombers of the United Typothetae of America gathered at the Pig’n Whis- tle at noon; the Seattle Ad club held an old-fashioned country schoo! at the Hotel Gowman; the Puget Sound Light & Power company had a Christmas tree and celebration for children of employes at the Masonite Temple in the evening; and a party was staged by the One Hundred Per Cent club at ha Bungalow cafe. FARMER VETS TRAINED L. &. Jesseph, Seattle district man- ager of the veterans’ bureau, an nounced Tuesay that a program of active co-operation of Washington. Oregon and Idaho state colleges with the United States Veteran bureau is furnishing disabled veterans expert instructions on their own land pro}. ects | NEED REFORESTATION More than 160,000 neres of timber | are cut down annually ig the state of Washington, and only 15,000 acres of the resulting stump lands are sub- sequently utilised for agriculture, Dean Hugo Winkenwerder, of the University of Washington, told the Municipal league at noon luncheon im the L. C. Smith Building restau- rant, Tuesday. | Professor Winkenwerder strongly advised a state policy of reforesta- tion to forestall ultimate state-wide | catastrophe. If this is not done, he anid, we will eventualy duplicate the | experiences of the Eastern states, whose subsided with the exhaustion of the timber supplies. eee THREE ARE ROBBED Claiming that he was held up and robbed by two bandits at First ave. | and Stewart et. early Wednesday | NAME REAR ADMIRALS WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.-—The @nate has confirmed the nomina- AUTO THIEF ESCAPES Tom Morris, wanted in Bellingham for alleged auto thefts, escaped Tues- day night from the county jafl as he ot oe ee een “Just a minute, officer,” “I want to say good-bye to fome of the boys fn the engine room.” He has not been seen since. He spent 36 days tn the county jail here on a reckless driving charge. MINT BANDITS ELUDE POSSES Find No Trace of $200,000 Robbers DENVER, Colo., Dec, 20.—Police and federal officers today were ap- Parently as far from catching the bandits who Monday killed a bank guard in front of the United States mint here and escaped with $200,- * 000 in currency, as they were an hour after the daring Holdup. Despite a dragnet that has, spread thrueut Denver and the Rocky Moun- tain states, not a really tangible clew has been obtained, police admit. Several suspects were grilled yes terday at police headquarters, but nothing was gained from them. Chief hope for arrest of the men Hes in the amount of the rewards, totaling $15,000, for capture of any | of the bandits, dead or alive, Search | was continued today in the moun-| tains and in the prairies of Eastern | Colorado. | Police believe the holdup was) staged by local men. HERE’S MORE ABOUT WORSHAM STARTS ON PAGE ONE of narcotics and whisky to dis pose of. Worsham deciared at the time that the charges were false and) were actuated by revenge for his) testimony in the Legnte case. The! civil service commission upheld the dismissal and Worsham was forced to take his case to the superior court before he was granted a re hearing. The commission declared in the decision Wednesday that the charges were untrue. Worsham reported to the chief | Angeles, ned tuacrethetinged and boot) CHARGE ACTORS HELD UP BANK! Five Held for $6,000 Rob- bery and Kidnaping LOS ANGE —Accused of believe banditry Wholesale banditry two motion picture three other men were under ar rest here today, They are ac cused of having staged the re cent sensational robbery of the Fillmore State bank at Piru, Cal, The robbery was characterized by all the dramatics of the movies. The men arrested are: “Jinx” Harris, who played cow Puncler and bandit parts In Western pictures F, B. Gtuets, policeman and parte. Henry Loggins, a motorman; Q. H Pruitt and Virgi! Moore, the latter | an aviator After $6,000 loot had been obtained S, Cal, Dee in real life, actors and who spectalized in daredevil ocbauffeur from the Fillmore State bank, the | five bandits kidnaped President C. EB Spencer of the bank and his 6-year old daughter where they with a warning to “keep quiet.” Harris, Pruitt and Loggins, poltee said, have confesned, sprinkling the confessions with plenty of good movie matertal Harris was quoted as saying he joined In the robbery in order to pay the mortgage on his par ents’ homestead at Blanchard, Okla. Seven hundred dollars of the loot now is alleged te be en route to Blouchard. ‘The arrests were brought about and took them to Los |when detectives, after learning a tus pect had worked on a movie being “shot” near Piru, secured the film and in it Spencer, president of the bank, identified one of the actors as & member of the bandit party The arrests followed immediately Spencer declared that while the robbery was in progress one of the | wang shouted ‘This le no movie stunt.” eden HERE'S MORE ABOUT ARBUCKLE STARTS ON PAGE ONE him. The trials were In San Fran- ctaco. Hays gave out the statement on |the eve of his departure to spend | the holidays at his home at Sullivan, Ind. The statement said: where belief in a man's capacity for goodness should prevail rather than the threat of punishment, as a mo- tive for right conduct,” Hays re- marked. “I want this spirit of goodness, in stead of a spirit of punishment, to) permate the industry, and that is the reason I am reinstating Arbuckle. “I believe he has leatned his les- | son—and no one can demand more than that of a man who has made a) a mistake. “Live and help tive, ts my rule of life, Every man, I believe, has a} right to a chance to come back after he has taken to heart the lewons of his folly.” “{ will play the game square with Mr. Hays and with the pub- He, it ts is the last thing I ever do,” dectared Arbuckle, when the news was carried to him, Arbuckle was deeply moved by the pardon, and the Christmas spirit tn which it was given. ‘The pardon takes effect January 1. “I want to say that I am very | grateful to all those who are helping me, and I will prove myself worthy of their faith in me,” buckle. “I have made my mistakes, but they are behind me. hereafter to be an open book. I shall were set, free | continued Ar- HERE’S MORE ABOUT ALVENSLEBEN STARTS ON PAGE ONE nd lage of 800 n they employ more than 260 workers on thetr farm; their “sohloms,” or castle, Ia one of the show places of the continent To such surroundings was Alvo Von Alvensieben born, The eldest son, and hetr. to the thousands of feruile acres, It was naturally fore shadowed that he should be brought up In the military caste, and tn due time he was commissioned in the kaiser’ army CRAVED POWER AND RICHES I junker tho he was, Von Al vensleben had ideas of his own, He could see no further ahead of him tn the army; the sedentary life of a country gentleman had no appeal to him; he wanted power—riches And trade was the only way that there could be acquired, he thought But there was an almost insurmount jable obstacle, The traditions of hie| family, of his caste, were explicit on | |thix subject, No junker had ever | been tn trade—certainly no Von Ab | vensleben, the junker of the sunk ors. He quarreled bitterly with hin ther, the old count, when he first mentioned the subject. But his mind was made up. He was determined to Manage his own career, and, altho It Meant a definite aplit with hin tam fly, he resigned from the army ‘met wail for Amerion. ‘That was in 1904, He landed In Van couver, B.C, with $4.60, plus what ever mo y value can be placed upon an ironclad constitution, « thoro military edueation & lot of ambition. | For two years he just knocked | labout o# a common jaborer, He worked in the lumber camps, he was & stevedors, he operated « fishing } doat. Finally, he built up a stake modest, but, as it was to turn out, adequate for his purposes FOUND SELF MILLIONAIRE He began to speculate In lana— Vangouver land. These speculations ushered in the famous boom that Vancouver enjoyed tn 1906 and 1907, [tf they didn’t actually cause it— and Von Alvensleben found himeelf & millionaire almost overnight | He branched out on a gigantic neale with hin new caplital—timber lands, coal lands, city lote—he bought everything; and he bought right | There was apparently no limit| to his prefits. Every day brought in new wealth. He seemed to bave| the Midas touch | And, with his growing fortune, he increased hin social activities. He bought a magnificent estate. He started a polo club and acquired « stable of ponies, He had a whole) fleet of high-powered, high-priced | motor cars. When he traveled it was in etate—ho had his own pri vate car, with remarkable luxury of appointment. He was an ao knowledged social leader. STRANGE STORIES ARE CIRCULATED About thie time strange stories began to be circulated. It war rumored that he was a cousin of) [the kaiser; that he wae acting as ithe kalsers bustness agent; that [the millions which he had invested| ectually belonged to the German) [war lord. | | ‘Thele stories, however, only lent an added glamor to bim-—-until war was declared. Then he was forced) |to move to Seattle. While here he was active in German propaganda; he was known to be close to Count! Von Bernstorff, the German am / bassador, and to Prince Hatzfeld, the chancellor of the German em- bassy; he made numerous trips to Washington. | AS @ result, he was interned as |soon as the United States entered the war, and for three years he was kept a prisoner at Fort Doug: las, Utah. When he was finally released, a year and a half after| the armistice, his entire vast for tune had been dissipated. Bome had been confiscated; some had been jsold on terms; there was nothing | left. He had exactly, $51 when he was) restored to freedom, but he wasn’t |downcast. Taking the $51--and his jnerve he plunged immediately into ithe importing and exporting busi. n ST VENTURE | | PROVED LUCKY | Hils first venture was lucky, and his second, and a few months later) ~—not with millions at his command, THE ‘OLGA FARLEY IS ACQUITTED Woman Held for Slaying of Lover Freed Mra, Olga Farley was at Mberty Wednenday, followin, Tuesday, of the charg her « of murdering Wesley Howarth, The jury which | tried her before Superior Judge Ral ston deliberated for less than an hour to reach the verdict Howarth, who wag shot to death n Mrs. Farley's room, at Hotel Metropole, the morning of May 21 signed a statement that he shot him self, but, Just before he died, he we alleged to have repudiated this and accused Mrs, Parley Mra, Partey's defenae was that she was struggling with Howarth to keep him from shooting her, and that her revolver was accidentally discharged FRENCH REJECT GERMAN OFFER Reparations Plan Refused by Poincare BY A. L. BRADFORD (Copyright, 19%, by United Press) WASHINGTON, Dee. 20. Germany has proposed the United States and the allies the appointment of an expert com: mission to fix a Just reparations figure within her capacity te pay, the United States learned ranee, thru Premier Poin care, has Just summarily reject ed the German proposal, accord- ing to Informetion reaching highly anthort ive quarters here direct from Parts. These Important international de. velopmenta are clearly indicative of the difficult task confronting this |fovernment in Ite efforts to find + practical way to solve the critical European situation and im some measure explain why the United States ts guarding It» moves with aecrecy &nd acting with extreme caution Following ts @ complete outline of the German proposal, ‘which has been communteated to Secretary of State Hughes by Ambassador Wied- feldt, the-German envoy here, and to the capitals of the principal allied powern 1, Germany suggests & com mission of financial and eco- nomic experts to study and de termine @ just reparations sum for the war which ts within Germany’s capacity to pay. The figure ts 2. Germany woul prefer that this commission be made up entirely of appointess by the United Ataten, which would constitute American mediation, but understands that the afied powers concerned with the reparations problem would net agree to thin, Sha, therefore, proposes that the commission te participated In by the United States and the allies. 2. Germany t# prepared to offer every facility to this commission In arriving at ity decision as to what Germany syould and could pay, throwing open the books dealing With the admintetration of her inter. ‘nal affairs, and so forth. 1. Germany hesitates to name a reparations figure now herself that she is ready to pay, on the sTound that France and the oth- er aliles would find it unaccept- able. 6. Germany feels that If the allied armies of occupation were with- drawn from her territory, she could pay double the amount of repara- tions she otherwine could meet, or, at least, a much larger eum, 4. Germany would undertake to give a categorical anawer—"Yeu" or “No"—aa to whether she would ac cept and agree to pay the figure that the expert commission decided on, Information here is that Polncare, tn rejecting the proposal, takes the attitude that France tnaists upon the London ultimatum, which requires that Germany pay 132,000,- 000,000 gold marks, or more than $50,000,000,000. This sum is genorally regarded in the United States as im- possible Poincare t# maid to have declared I want my life be found himself on his feet again|that if m moratorium ir necesmary for | Germany after January 15, when the try to be personally in my character of course, but with enough money | next reparations payments are due, all that I want to be on the screen— and I want to produce pictures that make the kiddies love me.” Joseph Schenck, Arbuckle’s friend and former producer, said: “Roscoe Arbuckle will go to work for me, I am glad to help in giving him bis chance.” In explaining his reasons for “par doning” Arbuckle, Hays summed them up in the words “faith and he- lief,” and went on to tell how the idea came to him. “The other day I happened to turn | lover the leaves of an old pocket Bible | that my father had given me when | I was 7 years old. “On the flyleat my good father had written “Ten rules of conduct for Master Willie Hays in the belief that he will try to live up to them.” “That word ‘belief was scored. A lump came into my throat | when I remembered how many times that ‘belief’ that my father had written—instead of the word ‘must’ | --had kept me from doing things that would have been wrong. “Why, with belief as great as that a man simply couldn't cheat to play square, not because my father had ordered me to, but be cause he believed that I would. “And then I thought of Arbuckle! and the spirit of Christmas. And| I decided that the greatest thing in the world was helief that a man would do the right thing. And I be- Keve that Arbuckle will,” \Santa’s Gifts to Be Dry This Year BAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 20.—~The Pacific coast waa promised a “dry” Chrietmas today. Word was given out by the proht bition office here that a special squad of enforcement agents from the East has started for California to keep Banta Clause from getting gay. The squad is to launch # eam: paign to clean up “rum running” - under | 1 had) legging on the coast, it was|loss of the money if the watch is weturned, to keep the wolf from the door and| to permit him to continue in bust | ness. Bat Von Alvensieben is not the man to be content with a mere com- |petence; he ix a plunger of the all- jornothing variety, and again he plunged. Last summer he put all his money {nto a cargo of German Christmas goods—dolls, toys, talking machines and the iike—efid planned }to make a coup |DOLL CARGO |HERE TOO LATE | But hin ill luck hadn't deserted him yet. The shipment was de- layed and ft didn't arrive until it wan too Into for him to dispose of It to the storws for the holiday trade All his monay was tied up in what amounted to an almost worthless cargo. There was only one thing that he could do—he opened a retail shop| to dispose of his stock himself, | “And 1 like it,” said Von Alven leben. “It's good sport. 1 shall| continue to operate it permanently, | in connection with my tmporting | business.” Von Alvensieben, with his wite| and two children, occuptes a little | |five-room cottage at Laurelhurst. “It's not much,” he admitted with arin. “I might do better if I | went back to ~Germa The old jwentleman would probably let mo! have a couple of million marks a year, But-I'd rather sell dolls in Seattle. | |Hotel Thief Gets Watch and Money | Police ald was asked Wednesday | lby W. J. Crocker to assist him in [finding a gold watch which was [stolen from his room in the Granite | hotel Wednesday morning. Crocker left his door unlocked when he left for a morning shower and returned to find $25 in cash and his watch gone He will be willing to overlook the he says jand allied France will exact sanctions of guar. antees from Germany to insure her interests in the reparations pay- ments. He does not take kindly to the proposal for a commission of exports, especially, it is said, if wuch ® conference is to be held in Wash- ington, The present revelation by the United Press of this German pro- posal has excited the greatest inter. est in Washington, especially since the plan was undoubtedly and pri- marily an appeal to the United States. What answer Secretary Hughes has given Ambassador Wiedfelat on the German proposal is not known. TURK PARLEY NEAR BREAK LAUSANNP, Dec, 20—The Near | Bast peace conference has reached % gravest point, altho conversations are in progress incessantly for the purpose of reconciling the Turkish viewpoints on the Dar danelles before this afternoon's ses: ston, Both sides are unyielding, each demanding that its own plan for set- tlement of the atraits problem be accepted, The Turks resent departure of the British naval and military experts be- fore hearing Angora’s final proponl- tions. Altho the allies now declare that failure to reach an agreement on the straits won't break off the confer. ence today, as they are willing to take up other questions, the Turks say it would be useless to continue the negotintions if thelr atraits set- Hlement plan proved unacceptable. Look to Your Eyes eicitt as re the result of Constant quittal, | Premier | | cham has o¢ A Week ago he wan declaring thru | the | }the prem HERE’S MORE ABOUT SEATTLE STAR VICE STARTS ON PAGE ONE "| Unable to Get Dope, Chin| “Christmas Cheer” for New | nhntaters’ over Mayor Brown. | that neither he nor SELF IN CELL! VESSEL SEIZED Hoy Passes Out | York Confiscated | his | Mentally by NEW YORK, Dec, 20—Des chief of police knew of any place | aving for which he perate attempts of the rum where whisky was @old or where! 4 ‘ated “a there was any vice in the city. a| could net obtain » 43, | Funning fleet off the three-mile few days before this statement wan| Well known Seattle dope addlet limit to tand liquor in New made he wan telling the elty why he| and retall dope peddier, hanged York for the Christmas trade re be towel thet euch 1 tages as the le | himself in the elty jail Tuesday | sulted in the eapture of a ship erty and other low dives ough’ taeties and, knowing that publie| @ string from tne waisthand of | ky during the night, It was an opinion would no longer support him| hie trousers, which he looped nouneed by Prohibition Diree in defending there places, he ceased| sround his neck and fastened to tor Appleby today to say anything about them and pro | ded to He thought he tide ing that that Hileal plot these things are so ridiculous on the face of them that they only made of pub'le opinion by ridicul the preachers, by binting they had been bribed and their attack was only a po. againet him, All of the mayor « laughing stock before the public. “We wonder if the mayor does not begin to realize this, At any evident that he ts shifting his) position. Now, instead of declaring that neither he nor the chief of po | lice know any place where whisky 1s | nold or vice exta how the police force wa ing i fe {they | ence arrests and more arrests they must have known | he's gotng to clean up the city and will write the preachers, asking their aid. The mayor ts getting anxious The preawure of public opinion ts be- coming too strong to permit of tur ther pussyfooting. The public knows [three things: firet | wide open; second, that there was « ing abroad tn the underworld that were safe from police interfer- third, that men and women tn the world of viee were brought into rate Stl charge of ponsessing opturm are at this time than # year ago that that the city was a bar on the door of bis cel Jailer F. P. Wright found Hoy’s body at 4:20 @ m. Wednesday when| °° land with 4,000 cases aboard, he made his rounds, Hoy wan a rested last Saturday in an o ome | ape, . renal | don, at 115% King st patvelmned was deciared to have been one See ee eg ete er cimeD | of several that left the Bahames falda he was found to bave four ® few Gaye ago with cargoes of |peckages of opium, three opium pape ae Bo ai og Dp pomplete a uttit in| 2° cp Soon Se | Eve Sak & Sometelg Saye oe Capt. Dyrart of the Hanson that | hin ponsenston. Hoy was to have been tried Wed. nesday morning tn police court on @ Hoy had been @ familiar police character for the Inst four years, Since his arrest he had been suffering acutely |from « craving for drugs, according to the police he was en route to Canada, but started to put in here when bis en- gines broke down. Ferry Hits Dock When Fog Gathers SAN FWRANCISOO, Deo. 20.—Bay ferry traffic wes hampered thruout | the early morning by Tule fog com: ing down the Sacramento and San | Seattle to reap the harvest of the | holiday season. exinted “With this knowledge the ge Ayton wees —— with an - 6 ocean fog here, Bay mariners pro- Further, a decided change t#| Public ts growing weary of a ponent yap ig Mla oe shown tn his position when he says mayor who talks thru the press i | but does nothing more. If May. |™onths. One socident was reported, | the ferry steamer Thoroughfare hit- | ting « pier at the ferry landing, dis- |abling her engines, She drifted far down the bay and wes picked up by tugs | or Brown would cease throwing mud aud would give the order to the chief of police that every piace of vice must be closed; every dunce hall and cabaret detrimental to the moral life of the city must be locked up and every bootlegger must be brought to trial this elty would be cleaned up within a week. 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Eugene Murphy of | was caught off Sandy Hook by the Yakuna ministry to “mistakenly fiagwhip of the dry navy.|terest Itself in behalf of Japanese cupanta,” haa been sent to Waal |ton ly the former service mon, |further steps ere now being plated to reports, urged the dep the Interier to grant lease ext to Japanese farmers whe hed |notified that they would h leave the reservation. The did this in the belief that the fesnecs were heavily in debt would be ruined if forced to But, was all inspired by “a salaried agent of Japanese.” move was received in Seattle The Star Tusslay « telegram dispatched to the department of interior | stick ‘This wes signed by lL. bach, state commander of the Capt ‘Tindall, Swale and Paul Edwards, PAGE 9 ON JAP RUSE Propaganda fs Cause of Protest Raini r Noble Post of the Amer sion was openly at war Wa with the Yakima Minh 7 condemning the clergy: n's action and especially mentl ram » the person who tofluenced The Yakima ministers, in the Legionnaires’ Au soon as pews of the urging Secretary Pall - to his ant!Japanese B. Ewing D. Colvin, Frea Wettrick, Dayton ave., died in the city tt Tuesday night from a fractured sk