The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 21, 1922, Page 1

’ TAFT SERIOUSLY ILL! PPP PLLA PALL LL PLP PPL PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP AR enn nnn Maximum, 52, "257. “NO. WEATHER Tonight and Friday, putherly wind Temperature Last 4 Today noon, 51 rain; strong 1s , 40. M The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over ‘its nearest competitor Entered a Second Class Matter May 3, 1809, flee at Beattie, W ash under the Act of Co: The Seattle Star 19, Per Year, by Mall, $6 to $9 SE ATTL E, W ASH., THURSDAY, DEC EMB PR 21, 1922. SEATTLE MAY BAR ARBUCKLE FILMS * * * Oiiabdiaii Is Pardoned ie Hee: bist How About Public? HOME BREW 1] Howdy, folks! the intrinsic value of the pres- ent and not the sentiment that counts! After all, it's see Wise married men about this time of year will swear off smoking. ee Today's candidate for the Poison lvy club is the wife who intends to| Play without holding a public hear- give her bald-headed husband a hair. | brush for Christmas * Santa ‘Claus ts running a risk this year. Flappers may take him for the Sheik. eee . ar mis A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME WOULD SMELL AS SWEET Ht new develops that Matt Starwich was born with the name of Mateo Starcovis. He probably changed it when the boys called him Tomateo. If Matt had become a prizefighter | he would have called himself Mike O’Shannon, the Fighting Harp. see Matt, Mateo or Mike, What matters the name? Who @ whoop in hades, 80 as the guy is game? | | teable jsome action next week Censors to Meet Soon Seattle Committee to Act on Films Next Week Showing of Arbuckle films in Seattle may be barred, in spite of Will Hays’ action in remov ing the ban from the fat come dian, according to George Bouck vhairman of the local board of theater censors, “There seems to be a good deal of Popular prejudice against the films| and we would not sanction their dis- * Bouckaert sald. of the board are ing on the matt “All the members so busy now that it wouldn't be prac to hold a meeting for the but we will certainly take I think we will have a public hearing about Wednesday, at which everyone will be given an opportunity to express his views on the subject.” Bouckaert said he did not care to make any statement on hin personal feclings in the matter, but declared the board’s action would be decided by pubite opinion. Mayor E. J. Brown said he would) make no move to forbid the films, | oresent, | but would leave the entire matter to| the theater censors. “I don't care to discuss my opinion of the case,” the mayor explained, “because it is for the censors, and not for me, to pass upon ft, As far as I know, the Arbuckle films have al- Hawkins says Mayor has always been as consistent ag a Weather vane! eee FORMER AUBURN MAYOR GUILTY C. E. West Ce Convicted of Malicious Prosecution Convicted of malicious prosecution, an an aftermath of the recent elec- Uf Seattle ts not careful the burcau/ tion, C. E. West, former mayor of of internal revenue ts going to make ft pay an amusement taz on Mayor Brown. oe William Philip Simms Star writes a series called the World in Five Minutes.” gotta faster plan. ins— *——~focnery ITEM Count George Hay du Barry says he doesn't like our city Jail. There is no pleasing some men. “ee The only answer we can give the count is that the Seattle jafl is a darn sight better than some of those in Frar -e we were in. ore Manchuria’ wants America’s worn- out street cars. Sorry, Manchuria, but we're using most of ‘em in Se attle -* . THE GOOD OLD DAYS If some of these Seattle street cars could talk reed gay sveaabe ara a = uaa evening conv rd about times back in the 90's. . “I can remembe says car 709, “when I used to be pulled out to Lake Union by a couple of horses.” “That's nothing,” * replies car 614, “I used to run up and down the old Denny Hill on a counter-balance!” oe He once loved a pretty widow, She was sweet but never true; And do you think he loves her stir You can tell the world he do. eee The Christmas season weeks for shopgirls. year round for Dad. thas a good time . lasts six It lasts all the Everybody else x “LI'L GEE GEE, TH “OFFICE | { VAMP, SEZ: Some of th’ flappers are afraid | | to let thelr bobbed halr grow | | for fear somebody will a | | “Beaver!” One going to give to Little Homer Brew. Jr, is a | pocketknife. He enough damage the way it Is eee DEAD MEN TEL THIS We 1 NO TALES, BUT A WOMAN “Pronecution Bases Case on Post- mortem Statements of Woman He in Killed.”"—Hend\ine Republican, the Seranton Will Hays has * Arbuckle. can Legion to forgive Bergdol. “* We note that n are going to celebrate “family” dinners. ting the family together once,a yes “88 My coat, boy! ' RPC naan | Christmas present we're not does doned” Fatty Now it’s up to the Ameri- in the society columns ny of Our prominent people thrint mas with Nothing like get- in The/ Prison sentence of from six months “around | five years. / we} ‘Take two rals-|Sheriff Matt Starwich just before! particular Santa Claus was whirled J election, West having sworn out two| eastward aboard a { [legal registration. | |mediately acquitted when he went | before a justice court at Renton, and | ¢ Auburn, was preparing to seek a new trial Thursday, If the verdict re- | turned by a superior court fury Wed-| nesday is sustained, West will face a The case grew out of the arrest of | warrants charging Starwich with 1). Starwich was im he immediately started action against | West, who, he said, had been inspired | entirely by a desire to discredit his | candidacy for re-election / L, Ct Stevenson, attorney for Weat, was so surprised by the verdict, which was returned after only half an hour's deliberation, that he in-/ sisted on canvassing every member of the jury individually. He said he! would appeal to the state supreme court if not granted a new trial. A second altercation seems likely to arise over the affair, as the result of Stevenson's action in attempting to use in court what purported to be @ copy of Starwich's application for membership in the Elks, Immediate- ly after the trial was over a commit, tee of three Elks called on Judge Calvin 8, Hall to examine the docu- ment. They said the copy was not authorized. SEIZE GUNS ON WAY TO CHINA Effort to Smuggle Arms to Rebels Foiled Federal officials are investi. | gating the operations of » Chi | nese revolutionary junta, with | headquarters in Seattle, follow- ing the seizure here Wednesday of a quantity of arms and am | munition which the revolution. | ists were plotting to smuggle into the Orient, | The contraband—comprising 50 Mauser revolvers and more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition—~was, concealed in a trunk which was des- tined for China. The trunk was neized by Treasury Agents A. A.| Osborn and B. J. Reese at Pier 14, just as it was about to be loaded | aboard the steamer Protestiaun, All efforts to locate the owner of) the shipment have failed. | Shipment of arms to China is for-| bidden under an international agree ment. A CHRISTMAS PROG held Sunday evening at the Bethany Baptist church, with Rev. Autrin H. Nickell presiding, A/| special Christmas message will bel given at 11 a, m, | colony's Mrs. Othelia G. C. Beals, former justice of the peace, Fen and popular Seattle clubwoman, who feels that the} ae | American public should not accept Roscoe Arbuckle’s pictures | in the future because of the demoralizing effect it would pro- duce on the younger generations. * * * % re ollywood Is Delighted * % % at- Photo by Bushnell * 4#* * * With Santa Claus Visit |= BY ROBERT A. DONALDSON “1.—|found we didn't know anything conduct. What will the moral effect | ohiyerosh batloven dee Gout about it. Hays turned the Industry | be on our young boys and girls if but the big boys and beautiful giria| Upside down In a week, swept us off | We now welcome him back with open | Jof filmland think they see behind| our feet. then sold his big idea to @ a? the white whiskers the benign,/th¢ public and motion picture peo- Hy LAC DOESN'T shrewd features of Will H. Hays, | Pie alike | WANT FILMS Hays set out to clean up and) srg Frank Ballaine, chairman of Hollywood's Christmas Was pretty full today, as its own blessing so that the star's lapse waa convinced he meant business, industry ought to be handled, We) Published details of his scandalous stOCkIDE lt restore confidence in the indus try. thru being human.” He did it in just one week transcontinental | Hoiywood's head was in a whirl by wana thru all the blessings showered | Hays’ brief visit to the picture) gown by ite little “ezar,” but the city had resulted in the following | colony was “solid” for Hays. On the| “hristmas joys: loceasion of Hays’ first visit, the im-/ 1—Wally Reid winning bis battle! preamion was abroad that he was jagainst serious illness, with Hays’) mere figurehead, Today filmiand| does not affect the integrity of film- The Hollywood Citizen, the daily | dom, pap of the movieland town, ex-/| 2-—Fatty Arbuckie restored [0/ pressed the editorial opinion that grace and the camera. 3—Ed Roberts, author of the “Sins of Hollywood,” tales of petting par ties, supposedly based on the film life, under indictment for improper use or the mails. 4—Investigation of the narcotic traffic urged upon state and federal officials, 5—One hundred million dollars’ worth of equipment was Hays’ Christmas present to a special mo- tion picture committee of the tional Educational association; same to be used in developing the film as an educational factor “In one week Will Hays, with terrific, dynamic energy and his in. | tense humanness, has advanced the | movie industry more than it has advanced in the past five years,” one producer told the United Press. “We producers thought we knew all about the manner in ) which this You Alone Can Bring These Shut-Ins Joy In darkened rooms in the city’s hospitals lie those who are shut away from the joy Christmas time. indeed. To bring a full measure of good cheer to those shut-ins || is the duty of Seattle. Saturday 200 youthful carolers will tour the city sweet, age-old carols beneath the windows of the hospitals, the homes and the orphanages, banish- ing pain from the sick rooms and bringing joy to the || starved lives of the unfortunate. This will be made possible only if Seattle motorists do their part in carrying these child singers about the city and in transporting shut-ins to the play given for them night in the Cosmopolitan theater. trucks are needed, sing their Saturday and seven yourself you help. Phone The Star at Main 0600 or Capitol 4626 or Capitol 2267. i of thé motion picture industry as result of the Arbuckle pardon. post he holds because, as the former vieo of Arbuckle will be called to| mind tioned, so will the name of Will Hays be linked with it as the man respon In the drab, ages and in the bleak shelter there are those whose Christmas will be very slender, has lost his usefulness as head “The work of Will Hays in im: proving conditions in the motion pleture Industry came to an end yesterday in his announcement that Fatty Arbuckle would be put back on the screen,” the edl- torial declared. “Hays made use of the Christ mas spirit and timed his an- nouncement well for the eve of his departure for liana, so that he would be on the train while the storm of public condemnation broke, “Hays has lost bis influence In th whenever his name is men. (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) and the good cheer of the gray yards of the orphan- of the old people’s homes and || | Fifty cars You'll be mighty happy | | Dr. Frank Loope at }) and the pul | would not kick any man down who | | but I do not feel that Arbuckle would ido right |should we ‘COUNCIL MAY | include * \Wrensen Say He’s Thru, Many Object to Bring- ing Films Here Again By Cynthia Grey Can Roscoe (“Fatty”) Arbuckle e back? es," ways filmdom, whieh al- ready has welcomed him x into the inner circle of thy tn ner circle, But what of the public? Will they swallow the lurid details of the exiled comedy film star's role in the Virginia Kappe case of one short year agot Will HH. Hays, 1 picture mentor, who banished Arbuckle from Uw ailver sheet thinks they will. The samo Christmas spirit which moved him to pardon the corpulent fun maker will prevail upon the movie fans, thinks Hays. The teachings of Jesus, who was charitable even to the sinner who wished to atone, wil serve as a guide both to Arbuckle attitude toward him, | ton ic the Is Hays ao competent Judge of hu man nature, or ix he viewing the great mass of humanity thru smoked glasses? Will the great American public ever permit Roscoe Arbuckle to write the final chapter of his career as “The Man Who Came Back?’ “Nof chorus a number of prominent Seattle women. Here are some of Ure opinions expressed when I interviewed them this morning: “1 think Arbuckle hava nerve even to come back before the Yeast In such @ short period of time,” said Mrs, Othelia C. | G, Beals, prominent club woman and former justices of the peace, Thurs- day, “I would not go to me his pic- tures and I would never recommend that anyone else do so, The great- est good for the greatest number ts an old rule, and if Arbuckle, the man, ies are and really wishes to come} he should sacrifice his public heal for the good of Young Amert- ea, who bave followed closely the entor says. | the motion picture department of the Seattle Federation of Women's clubs, | aa “I certainly do not think the publto want or will accept the Arbuckle pietures, We have taken no action | on the case as yet. Personally 1/ consctentiously wishes to do right; to force himself upon the public after his unbecoming conduct Jet him come back as a! private citt- zen—that ts his only salvation, We| would not recognize any man on the street who had acted as he has, why | make any exception just because Arbuckle happens to be a Prominent motion picture star?" “There are two sides to every) story,” said Mra. Elizabeth Harris, of the woman's protective division of! the Seattle police department. “Look- | ing at it from Arbuckle's side, tt in | cruel; but looking at it from the standpoint of our young boys and (Turn to Page 7, Column 5) REDUCE FARES : Lowering of “Bus Mates Is} Proposed elty bus lines will | be reduced to parallel the new | ntreet car rates, if an ordinance proposed by the council public util ties committee is acted upon favor: ably by the council, After hearing protests from dents of the various districts by bus lines Thursday shortly fore noon, & motion to direct corporation counsel to prepare an ordinance was offered by Coun. | ciinfin John KE. Carroll. It was im mediately seconded and. passed Bus line fares are at present 10 | cents. The proposed ordinance will | the street car fare bill's! specifications as to children's fares and trapsfers. wording to Carroll's motion Fares on all resi fed | be. the such | a Premier Bonar Law | Loses Use of Voice, LONDON, Dee, 21 Premier Bonar Law of Great Britain was reported to have almost entirely lost the use of his voice as a result A se “e cold, The prime minister's condition, however, is said to be. “not alarm | ing.” Finds Auto Speeders CRAZY Three “Incompetent.’ This in Detroit. Judge on Warpath. Ten Examine DETROIT, Mich., Dec. 21 “Three persons, two men and a woman, found guilty of speeding, have been de- clared mentally incompetent to drive automobiles, accord-| ing to a report made to) Judge Charles L. Bartlett to-! day. The report was made by Dr. A. L. Jacoby, city psy- chiatrist, who was called upon yesterday to examine 10 per-| sons guilty of speeding, under a new plan of the court that all guilty speeders be given a mental test. eee Lieut. Carr Favors Detroit Judge’s Idea BY BOB BERMANN Lieut. C. G. Carr, head of the traf. fic division of the police department and leader of the movement to stamp out automobile speeding in Seattle, is an enthusiastic advocate of 'the plan devined by Judge Charles L, Bartlett, of Detroit, to determine the sanity of speeding motorists: “You bet your life I'm tn favor of it,” Carr said Thursday, “It's going pretty far—Il! admit that—but Judge Bartlett knows what he's doing. And I'd lke to see the same plan adopted in Beattie. “I don't think there's any question but what mental abnormality t# re- sponsible for many cases of speed. ing. All of us know of the speed ‘bug’—the man who {fs apparently normal tn every other respect, but who can’t resist the temptation to ‘step on ‘er’ when he gets at the wheel of an automobile, “Some people might aay that This was just @ harmiess idionyncracy— but they wouldn't if they stopped to consider the fact that the automo. bile is actually the most deadly weap- on in the hands of man. We wouldn't think that a man who ran amuck with © gun or an ax was harmless, | would we? Yet far more people are killed every day with automobiles than with both guns and axes put to- gether, And, in my opinion, the tn- veterate speeder is an even more dangerous maniac than the ordinary paranoiac.” Carr paid a glowing tribute to Judge Bartlett's work, after which he has patterned his own efforts for some time. “Judge Bartlett,” he asserted, “le the only man in the country who has been able to make a real showing against the speeders. His remark able success is demonstrated by the fact that, altho his policy is the most drastic that has been adopted in this matter, he was recently reelected by an overwhelming vote.” MAY ASK NEW ARMS PARLEY WASHINGTON, Dee. 21.—The |naval appropriations bill, carrying a suggestion to President Harding to call a new disarmament conference, |was favorably reported to the sen- ate by the appropriations committee today. ‘The senate committee added $1,- 787,840 to the amount appropristed under the house bill, which brings the total to $295,604,878, ‘The chief additional expenditures authorized by the senate committee include $550,000 for the manufacture jot torpedoes and $1,000,000 for the naval reserve force. ADIO WEDDINGS DECLARED LEGAL ALBANY, N. ¥,, Dec. 21.—Mar- riages can be sent broadcast by radio without interfering with their legali- ty, but the mated couple must be in the room with the minister, Attorney | General Newton ruled. Omigosh! Mayor Brown Go- ing to Run Again! “1 will be a candidate for the of mayor of Seattle at ion in the spring of ‘said Mayor Edwin J. Brown Thursday. “During the last campaign I promised to keep polities out of my administration, but the hounding of myself and the administration by petty politt- clans and publicity seekers has caused me to change my mind, “I will show these trouble makers that they cannot at- tack the name of our city with impunity I'm for Seattle first, last and all the time, and these seekers after publicity and notoriety will find that they ha barked up the wrong t KNIFE! i\Chief Justice Now Is Recuperating From Operation’ |his home here today from a se- rlous operation performed several |days ago. | ‘Taft was removed to his home| lyesterday from Garfield hospital, physicians stated. The operation was for gall stones. Secrecy surrounded Taft's fliness. ‘GIRL MURDERED, WOMAN CHARGES Accuser and Launch Cap- tain Held-in Portland By last night learned that Helen Leary, & young matron, had told friends she had witnessed the murder of a 15-year-old girl in a Willamette river boathouse last September, and accused Cash Weir, 51, a houseboat dweller and launch captain, of bring- ing about the girl's death. Mrs. Leary and Weir were brought together at headquarters Wednes- day night. where the woman repeat- ed her story and Weir denied knowledge of the girl's death. Weir said he knew Mrs. Leary and | charged she had concocted a silan- derous story to “get even” with him for his opposition to her association (tern to Page 7, Column 2) MAN STABBED IN FIGHT HERE Logger May Die as Result of Knife Fray Stabbed in the stomach dur- ing what the police say was a drunken fight in the Indiana bar, a soft drink resort at 625 Weller st., Wednesday night, Frank Aho, 42, a logger, of 112 Broadway, was believed to be dying in the Nippon hospital Thursday, while the police were holding John Hendrickson, 44, as his assailant, Upon hearing a scuffle in the bar- room at 10:30 p. m,, Sergt. W. H.| Steen and Patrolmen C. R. Packard and C. E. Tedford rushed in and found Aho lying on the floor bleed- ing profusely from a deep gash in his abdomen. Two witnesses, John Hill, Fifth ave, and Walter Gittner, of the New York hotel, told the offi- cers that Aho and Hendrickson had been drinking heavily and after a short argument got into a fight, in which Hendrickson drew a knife and stabbed Aho. Charges of assault were expected to be filed against Hendrickson if his victim recovers, altho Aho’s con- dition is sald bid bred oritions, TWO AIRMEN FOUND DEAD TUCSON, Ariz., Dec. 21-—-The bod- jes of Col. Francis Marshall and Lieut. Charles Webber, army avia- tors, were found today at Indian | Springs, a hamlet on the Papago In- | dian reservation, | The bodies were burned and the |airplane was @ mass of charred wreckage. 409 EX-DEPUTY IS | Accused of accepting protection |money from a Japanese hotelkeeper Grant Sonaywall, former deputy sheriff, was held at the city jail Thursday without bail, arrest Wednesday night. Sonaywell was discharged by Sher iff Matt Starwich a few weeks ago. He is said to have entered the Yourhouse hotel Wednesday night and displayed a deputy sheriff | adge, threatening to arrest A. Okai Sonaywell was given $65, police say fand claim the five-dollar bill was found in his shoe when searched, * cn am GRAFT SUSPECT following his | Flashes| CO-ED PREFERRED JAIL SAN FRANCISCO, Dec, 21—1 Martha Blattner, University of © fornia student from Selma, Cal., ¢ ed 24 hours in jail today {oF | peeding. She was fined $16 the alternative of serving the sentence “It I pay the fine my ‘i s such that I will not be able to | finish my Christmas shopping,” Be” told the court and elected to jail | ‘COLLEGE GETS M | SALEM, Ore. Dec. 21— ette university's drive for an ment fund of $1,250,000 has | successfully, it was announced last night. | BEACH FERRY IN Fi SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21 |_ WASHINGTON, , Dec, 21—Chiet| ST Ne [Justice Taft of the United States | ain ‘olay hamperd tine ¢ supreme court is recuperating at) week. The Southern Pacific fe | steamer Garden City ran the Oakland estuary at 730 Fifteen minutes later she was ed, without dame by the tag . MAN ROBS BENEF. Albert Beachman, 2223% ave. took pity upon ing wretch who stood shiv: wintry gale on First ave. Wi night. The stranger picked man's pocket of $60, see THEFT ANGERS PC Insult was added to Injury latest outrage of a thief been working near police quarters recently. Wednesday night a thief ®@ spare tire from an auto by the police dry squad, as parked before the police trance, on Yesler way, FIND MONEY IN Frank Kane, 604 E. D smoked in bed Wi dressed and left for work, — minutes after his departure, @) ing cigaret butt set fire to tress. Firemen arrived tn short and in putting out the bla Kane's mattress. Out roll of green-backed currency. | Crawford, schoolboy, saw the handed it to the firemen, 0 turn gave it to Fire Marshal Ms Kane has not yet Roses: | The wad of money con | $250, Mantor said, cee STREET CARS CRAS Dozens of passengers were | ly injured, one, a boy, being set cut, when a Phinney ave. stree crashed into a Meridian car, Westlake ave, near Denny © Thursday. * Virgil A. Tiddens, 15, of 86th st. a student at B high school, was thrown, | thru a glass door of the | car by the impact, ree | about the head, eyes and [was taken to the city treatment. Several other passen; cars also were hurt. curred when the Meridian” stopped suddenly, the ney striking it from behind could be halted 3c ae halted, \VIGE PROBE Mi PROBE Mi DRAG ON Wi Not Expected to End Next Month — That the present grand Jury tn vestigation into vice o ti Seattle, which is now “in its day, will not be completed dan. 6 or 7, was the general ion expressed at a ae t building Thursday, nesses are yet to be called, as the jury only disposes of three witnesses each day it estimated that the first week ¢ the new year will see the still under © fore the grand jury Thursday for a copy of a list he had p as evidence when he testified (Turn to Page 7, Column Many People Watching miscellaneous Want Ad to find bargains « dexcriptions. the Columns, many Perhaps YOU can sell oda piece of furniture, old mirror, that rug, or ; not, by calling MATN 9600, STAR WANT ADS are bri ing active returns, at a cost, |