The evening world. Newspaper, September 14, 1921, Page 2

as Huckle drag room and he refusal when culled was duc to the tong strain, the Grand Jury a went to Mr Miss Grac nurse at Wakefield San Miss Rappe died, Rappe was serious ailment caused her never gone to the party “We are com District Attorney nouncement of the indictment the function return an indictment lief as to the nature ¢ the jury hd “It has stated facts we buckle on the lence on and t Rappe. Whether or mansiaughter ch the murde will be decic ever is agreed on & will by this o: orously, as there minds that a brutal crime mitted.” Attaches of the office were hunting to-day persons wh in at Arbuckle's apartments the party. They are nesses. The indictment will be formally re turned in the Court of all, presiding over the ° at ll A. M. cign it to one of the Superior Courts The Judge to whom it is assigned will issue a bench w arrest—a forma probably at will not affect the murder caarge. pear in court for arr manslaughter Boon or Saturday morning. WILL ASK FOR DIS THE MURDER CHARC= He is already sche im Police Judge O'Brien's ¢ ¢ay morning for preliminary on the murder charge. his lawyers will miss the murder charge, District Attorney said to-day whether to the manslaughter indictment or on/| the murder charge. | By order of the District Attorney all witnesses have been placed under | of the organ police surveillance to prevent their) war weekly June! being “approached” or induced to go | business to be tra into hiding. Sadie Reiss made a detailed state- ment to the District Attorney, but re- | ! Her version of the Arbuckle party differs from that of |!" Mrs, Delmont and after she had been before the Grand Jury she was taken |'Ts of any back to the District Attorney confronted by Mrs. Delmont, was passe] sos Reiss was | police watch and it was said if she persisted in sticking her Grand Jury version she might be prosecuted on « charge of perjury. The District Attorney intimated he knows the names of some persons who are said to have approached wit- nesses and advised fused to sign it. word “liar” used it w placed ule: quiet. The police assert that a complete! list of visitors to Arbuckle’s rooms includes more than thirty. thorities, however, believe they have rouaded up all the essential witne y with the exception of Miss Bessic Campbell, Miss Mrs. May Taube. to be in Sacramento, but the whi abouts of the known to the authorities, Miss Camp~ bell is a show girl, and it is alle soon after the party related a story of having beer tained in one of Arbuckle's rooms by one of the actors, Both the District Attorney and Cor- oner Leland have denounced th. official autopsy” Opbuls and M. E. they say, apparently evidence vital Ophuls has testified that Made at the request of Dr. before the Coroner body, did not show an assault, The State bruises not mentioned in the autopsy report, and contende It Ls believe on this matter was the evidence” the Grand Jury asked for yesterday in adjourning te! without finding an indictinent, Mrs, Deln.ont was the most impor- | tant witness at the Coroner's inquest been made, yesterday. she, Miss She was taken befor: ter her state stating its be ranted iaprisonment on Owners’ Chamber At that time k the Judge to dis- | € which Roscoe Arbuck! [ing fmt determination of the charge |now pending. them to keep to Mar which Arbuckle have Mrs. Taube is usual, bi learned tha tre Owners’ ¢ ceived by the proposed showin tures be stoppe had Miss Rapp Jaaid, “the public Jy Sagpen Rappe and Miss Rappe's maz from Loss Angeles cisco, arriving night, Sept. 4, she told of the telephone ca’ that resulted in the visit to ar- ‘uckle's rooms, had motored hotties. Mrs. Delmont admitted that she took about ten drinks of whiskey imony | She said that Miss Rappe had thres drinks of gin and orange juice, So afier taking the drinks Miss Ray went into a bathroom off Arbuckle’s Iw paying much attention them, Delmont said, “There snot much familiarity on he part Hy tot time 1 left the + When 1 came Kk t ve Virginia was n owith A hie. Twas angry and, taking off my shoo, 1 rapped on Will the heck They were in there an hour.” After that she heard Miss Rappe screaming Heat mont continacd, "1 telephoned the manage 1 while 1 was do! 30 went in Virkima Was on the bed, fe nk Mer clothes ana «choums r ‘yam hurt! | am dying!’ she cried, ‘He did it.” After Ir Leland had finished ques 1 Vif any jure ons. One ju ! i The anawer was, N During the exan on De. Le was Kol us fur the witness's ph cal well-being. Ifo asked her if inswered t fermic ths mor ARBUCKLE FILMS BANNED BY 600 MANAGERS HERE a by Barring Pictures Practi- cally Excludes Them Here. By unahimous vote the Theatre of Commerce yes- terday decided against exhibiting Arbuckle pictures in this city. This is the most dr exhibitors ri stic jon taken by rding Arbuckie films. The Theatre Owners’ Chamber of every motion picture house proprie- tor in this eity. Its membership is | more than 600, THE EVENING WORLD, = MIDNIGHT FUNERAL wu a Uh WILD ORGY WN HOME OF © MILLIONAIRE HERO OF MOVIES > Stars Participants in Wild and Weird Celebration at! Palatial Home of Screen! Hero, Attempts at Prosecution Fail When Revellers in Vulgar} \,/ Splashings Forfeit Bail— Hunt Rum and Dope Sources, (Special Despaten ty The Kenting World ANGELES, pt 14.—The tragic Arbuckle orgy at the Hotel St Francis, San Francisco, resulting in the death of Virginia Rappe, motion picture luminar nd the subsequent complaint of murder now lodged against the corpulent film comedian, comes as no surprise to Los Angeles people, especially residents and home owners in the suburb of Hollywood, the centre of the motion picture © only, lying to the northwest of the Theatre Owners’ Organization city proper, who for months have complained to the police, the Moral iciency Commission and State and Federal authorities concerning the alifornia parties staged In the South metropolis and environs. Extensive investigations have b carried out by the authorities into the details of these orgi one is known to have been held while| members of the Police Department Vice Squad looked on. Prominent} movie fang the world over, have been | arrested as the result of a police raid At the Hotel Astor, forty members on one of the parties, and it Is known tion met for their reg- acted was rushed {through in order that the resolution | might be read. It follows in part: “Be it resolved, That the ‘Theatre| Owners’ Chamber of Commerce, for members, goes on record as sus- ending the exhibition in their thea- pho The resolution was adopted unani- |mously, and it was announced by William Brandt, President of the o ani tical! buckle films in this city, sin Trocter nounced their position, The Mo: | Loew, I ered by the resolutic tion, that the move would pra wipe out the showing of Ar- e the tres already had an- r and Keith hous 8 are Cov At least two ly y" and "G rs, were jon for showing throughout the smaller theatres of the city, but they ed back in hp Twelve picttires of two-reel comedies ye been generally sold th York, but these also will Although the meeting was b de t the shout held. ld, as vsed doors, it was tion of the The amber of Commerce came as a result of the expressed wishes of their various audiences, In many cases hundreds of letters and telephone calls have been re: eatre managers with- t few days demanding that of Arbucie pic- In the Wi ture theatre: diay es of comin tions Maining Arbuckle pletures were flushed upon the sereens hoots und h arose trom the audiences, and the managers directed their op- iors to ¢ © Arluckle announce- ments from their re rons of motion N gave vent to their dishke of the wy wel nedian in lobbies var theatres vesterday and cture theatres: tr y instances, lobby hotograpls Kle were ripped um the ns telling J coming Arbuc S were cover- ed with punt and 1 “AL the present at Want) any Arbuckle pletur We luven't pass ed judgment on him. We have mere- showing tis pictures un ver cleared of these 4 or convicted, O f he is convicted, no more of ebures Sunday|will be shown. If his name is clear wever, We will wants th is learned Yesterday th Paramount offices, throuh ed, bh w his film: ‘The witness said that she and Miss Which the Arbuckle pletures are re Rappe were eating preakfast Monday morning when they were notified that Arbuckle wanted to sce them, as well as Semnacher, in his rooms at the St After breakfast Miss | 64" ©11i0" St Francis alone Francis Hotel. Rappe went to the Mrs. Delmont said, phoned for her and | When they reached the hotel, Witness said, Arbuckle, Joule, Frederick Fischbs Sherman were in the ‘Alice Blake and ome in. @e @ table in the room were many bigger vow Lian ever, ve Wised by [Krouckte piety they wo Wased, telephone and messages had been received the t from various parts of th sountry ling orders for the wiian's fi Ne one in this h tr would say what aph last Hors 1 at Atlantic City Agatunt Niue ATLANTIC ( ron, and the slate of other “social affair” w: affairs in Los Ange! a result of one orgies paled the color of the most in prep- | arrest further arrests growing out of an- re impending when the Arbuckle case “broke” and for the first time shed the exposing light upon the nature of the ncisco “celebration,” which 1s de~ clared to have had many antecedent es, Participants in these orgies are play production in limited to approximately 125 members appears pend- ; the motion pI ‘orgies in palatial residences they have rented, causing destruction of furniture and Interior decorations, have s> reflected upon the reputation ‘of the great body of screen actors| that many of the homes at any pr ture colony, but their are unable to rent in Los An; While arrests have been made as rty, which in its orgeous” Parisian affairs, Los Angeles authorities have not obtained single conviction, due, it is de red in one case, because all those 1 forfeited bail amounting to thousands of dollars, and in other s to the fact that witnesses es- ential to the prosecution were | ght off and told to “take a vi cation,” or refused to testify. The cavortings at one affatr, in| which more than a hundred stars «f the silent drama participated, are now the unwritten annals of this celebration | it is blazoned as the unsurpassed | “midnight funeral. | The scene was set in the palatial} of one of the heroes of the| be without equal in the history of}: of the nation. | America. No arrests were made, and details of the affair were unknown to the | police until after it had been staged. An investigation was pressed, but material witnesses were unobtainable ‘nd prosecution was made im~- h year total many 17 | posable, | SEEK SOURCES OF LIQUOR AND hon fifty million film far ‘The sumptuous and spacious living room of the residence, laid with car- pets and arranged with parlor fur niture the cost of which runs to a} fortune, was the stage of the festivi- ties for the film stars, whose a gute salaries millions of dollars, ENTERTAINMENT PROVIDED WITH LAVISH HAND, The party gained early headway, its participants enjoying entertain- ment and pre-Volstead refreshment which only the lavish hand of over- weighted wealth can p Oricntal dances were the send-off for the evening in the line of amusement, | Watched and tempestuously applauded by many bold, rh demure and retiring her fans know so well, herves and nes the film Among the heroines of the silver screen at the party, a contest ap- parently was raging over which of them had been suceessful in select- ening gown most effectual in its deoolette, It was reported to be an all around draw by the judges, Multi-colored candles, extending npletely around the walls of the ) in whieh the elimax eventr a, mished the lignt- ing for the occasion, while large ing an e party Was st potlights were centred upon onc tion of the Moor, where the “main event? was scheduled to be staged. The Mh piteh of the evening's revels Wi ed with the appre of midnight. While preparations for 1 s of completion, guests who had tempo- arily departed for the numerous “love nooks” in the home, were sutm~ show" were in. prog cS of spotli sive fled down the broad ing from the floor abo Jestic sweep into the living ball the millional, with measured tread six men, in drab black evening dress, entered, bearing aloft upon th | crepe-hung coffin, ot the fun ment an awed effe: broken with a hy |laugh by one of the movie qu | who, under the influence of liquor |and narcotics, forgot the instructions 1] must be still” while the et whien | 3 and finaie was in its first stages. COFFIN PLACED ON TABLE | that Within the was badly frig factors who gf ha Jovial ho: exhibited, took the m alk of the town,” and in the | ship progress to uncover is reported to has made public startling nei. More Than 100 Motion Picture; moned back to tho entertainment hall. The babel of voices, which had di slumbers of more prosaic turbed th 1 hbors during the early part the evening, e« ha nd as the orenestra struck enting song of Oriental str the mu: by the guests. 8 centred a me d where an old grandfath Som clock sounded the chimes of midnight and an antique clock " quaint disharmony with the impres- chimes and the lamenting Ori- ental straing of the orchestra cuckooed" At this signal slow foot sti ops e's home. CENTRE OF ROOM. The pall bearers of the mock mmerce is composed of nearly motion picture stars, including actors | funeral came to a grotesque halt with | and actresses who are idolized by/iheir gruesome burden under the! bright and colored glares of the spot- | «, lights, depositing the coffin upon a] covered, tuble in the centre of the room. about ina packed mass the assembled | coterie of motion picture stars were) sathered, as one of their numbel garbed in the cloth of a minister with a book of burial ritual held in hand, proceeded to officiate over the “ob ules." voy. One of the gay party dashed for- | Ward, swiftly drew away the cloth covering, and the boy, alive, ro: of from the c: , alarmed at the ro. NARCOTICS, State and Federal officials entered into the investigations to find the urces from which the hosts of the lavish tinsel parties got thelr unlim- | ited supplies of liquor and narcotics, ide, Weird | which they served thelr guests, Rapld | this Information | ave been made, but it is declared that the evidence which been obtained will not be fully until formal prosecution of members of the huge bootleg and, dope ring be ments made to-d tier, Executive Secretary of the Los telency Commis- supplying the parties 8 reveal y by un, This we Angeles Morals sion. ‘These prosecutions, which It Is de- clared are now bein: the United formulated nature d mnotion picture world. Meanwhile, motion pteture actors and actresses who ¥ u reputations @ quietly istry and the undesirabl icipants in racism embers who reputable members of the profession The emphatically “in bad,” they declare, ised by those who follow the nd des straight and decent road of living. | ACCUSED OF PLOT | TO KILL AND BRIBE WAY OUT OF JAIL CURRAN GETS 30,000 V¢ THREE OPPONENTS Coalition Candidate Sweeps] TICKETS NAMED Whole City by 65,000 Plu- ity and Three Promptly Pledge Support. AT YESTERDAY'S PRIMARIES HERE REPUBLICAN-COALITION. sed as the witching hour drew near, Drums and tom toms were passed to the assemblage [now seated close to the walls of the Gilroy Gets Immense Majority’ Nomination for | i esidency — Loc Also Victor. Comptrotter. LOCKWOO}). rd of Aldermen, INT GILROY, Horough 1 Manhattan—ERNUST FP. ELLEE CHARLES ©. se were beaten in measure wit © candle lights around the walls the room w..e doused, and the glaring light upon the scene where the cli- inaxing high jinx stunt was to perfor . Curran was in the Re-| y elections yesterday EVA CATHERINE KABER PROTO FROM WIDE WORID PHOTOS d RS. KABER INL, ACCUSED OF PLOT TOKILL HER JAILER, Plinned to Spend RF. HAZLETOS . CROMWELL. District Attorney New York County JOHN KIRKLAND CLARK, New York County, JOUN 5, SLBA. er, New York HELEN VARICK BOSWEL DEMOCRATIC. Richmond—G ki P of every borourh in| His fina! plurality | He received | votes than the t lls three opponents, ‘The final returns were Curran, 1 @ Guardia, 37,800; Haskell, 29,468, vut- 1y lead- swith am skell polled his heaviest vote in unly iad | arbed lyn, running » 21,892 votes ag: In the Curr 765 for Curran, n sweep all the Coali- ndidates won easily. Lockwood won the cir shoulders a} The desecration al produced for the mo- upon the guests, | sterical scream and ght for nomi- | $15,000 to. na r, and Vincent Effect Her Escape, It is Bronx-HENRY RUCKNER. ens, » a Democrat running in I CONNOLLY. He Jed the entire ticket, ing to the final retur 10,900 votes in excess of those ca: Major Curran, District Attorney, Ne Sheriff, New ¥ » New York County, ANNIE MATTHEWS. OVER HIS OPPONENT. candidates for ‘to effect her ard, With no electioon districts mis All Mittendortf, © Women's Reform alleged plan was to k rmen has offe President of so the latter 1m. lex Ricknrd St board to Mr. Gilroy, b me himself with 1 office, which Mr. sets him to fill success of the y of the plot Mrs n-! Democrat matrons at last look at the deceased" was called for, and at the cue the lid of the casket was lifted“ solemnly. sill and plush lined cof- fin, a black cloth covering the to the che When it was c » reformatory Mittendorff said Comptrollership 12,000 votes, polling more | made this statement: body} t, hands folded and one} ho'ding a white lily, was a young| st time that the women alleged confede and I deeply ap a primary election, | is given to them for the suc- the Curran very much) ket, A roar} intermingling screams of delight] and uncontained laughter burst forth. Women were brushed back by the rush of drunken men, who,se youth, lifted him off his placed him on the floor, The boy| tened by the mob of ybed him and widely him about the floor until the): dorft said in detailing same lign level > cust was le plana a to spend $15,000 eftec Toples Sent ad the| et and | candidates were vic- nn offered Dy | the office of Regis- Roth Helen emments of al to participate in the «« York County. , Republican, and J nference on the sastern question gested for di ness tter in hand, cuing the lad from his co-heroes | of the film world, he p smail platform, where he was wor- ed and salanmed by the film stars, while the orchestra struck up a weird Oriental song. Following the ritual over the boy came an orgy which is des Hopper, who cont as an independent. women won easily, atest returns Miss Boswell 28, aced him on a Mittendorft 1 eral inen were found on tt anzi-Murphy candidate against Julius » nomination for Borough , Was defeated 3 to i, though ed to the grounds 4 information Why neglect your complexion when you can begin touse Lifehuoy today? » only contest of i tic primary. » candidates who ran a CHICAGO BUILDING UNIONS GO TO WORK tor and pledg: him in his campaign, In New York County the indications Josoph I. Mulqueen, and John H. Iselin are nk G, Hendrick, . Marsh and Joseph Beihilf lican nominations for Judges of General 8 showing of tho anti-organizauon con- didates wes made by Hendrick, but didn't come within striking dis- tance of a nomination, “regular’ candidate |for Sheriff, was nominated over Sam- uel Finegold in New York County, as | were Charles Novello and John Kirk- | |iand Clark, respectively, for County | and District Attorney. Carpenters ‘Trades That Refuse to 5 Abi le by Landis Awar Morris Koen easy victors over Fr asi of Tudge The famous RED cake with the delightful health odor. . union men in the » were coming back numbers to-di to work in Jar; ast night to remain at work and ‘ard included 1 1 in stato- mea We . H. Pelle- onx County Patrick J. Democratic vrried the Repu' ‘an primaries over | . Van Orden for Sheriff, He om to make any kind of a Will employ nor d union men are es and State authorl- ties, may divulge revelations of such RECAPITULATION OF THE COALITION VOTE FOR MAYOR SHOWING CITY TORAL BY BOROUGHS, to rock the entire reir clean oving for a antic clean up of the motion pie- No Election Matric TAX ON R. R. TICKETS AND FREIGHT CUT Senate Committee Reduces Rate One-Half—Impost on Express Matter Stands, WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.—Reten~ tion for the calendar year 1922 of the transportation taxes on freight, pas- senger and Pullman accommodations, but at one-half the presenc rate, was vd upon to-day by the Senate nee Committers, The committee also voted finally to amend the provision of the House Bilt so as to retain the full tax on express packages and oil transported by pipe line. The House rates on cereal bever- ages and other soft drinks were idopted, but it explained that some of these might be subject ta. change Fs Mie committee passed over the in- titance tix and decided to take up a liter session to-day taxes in Candy, jewelry, firs, sporting goods nd a numb er of other items SOCIETY WOMEN IN W.LD PURSUIT OF FUGITIVE GIRL — (Cont nued From First Page.) Whitehurst of the Special Service Div ion. were returns noof the Ray= terday when Des gnized @ ing Woman on the street whe ald Wisk con in Bedford Ree x ened er companions who t Mobile in Whieh thes ‘ ' ys As the fonr | nisehte © escaped prisoner recog nined Deiective Widtelurst and gob ata 1 run After 4 chi Al blocks the 1 i cellarway. ‘The four r The irk backyard and dis Her pursu vat when the: girl had dis v during the r, but oth e except fe no din for 815.000 in Film Deal « being sued for $15. > complaint fled Trade mark Advt. on Page 11 Made in U. 8. A.