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MOST MOVIE STARS IN HOLLYWOOD COLONY FROWN ON ORGIES. THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, {@ the Rhine Palatinate, through ex- plosions in a chemica} products plant, aecording to a Mayence messago to he ie Agency received here have plant, which was the scene of the disaster, was that of the Badische Anilinfabrik concern. Explosive nt- trogen comyounds are et there. ‘he town of Oppau i tirely destroyed by the pee the advices state, In Mannheim one pétgon was killed and about fifty others injured. BERLIN, Sept. 21 (United Press). One thousand persons were report- e4 hilied, hundreds were injured, three railway trains were buried and portions of the towns of Mannhelm and Ludwigehafen destroyed by ex- plosigns to-day, according to press despatches. One terrific detonation followed ahother, spreading death and de- | struction. Huge masses of debris were hurled into the alr, tburying victims and houses in @ rain of wreckage from the sky. Fifet reports said seven hundred were éstimated dead. Later a Ge- @patch to the Lokal Anzeiger stated ; @he thousand were believed to have perished. It was repo.ted that a great quan- tity of artificial nitrogen blew up, éausing the disaster. ‘Was so much that it was impossible to determine just’ what happened, Only frag- inéptary reports were available at firat, as telephone and telegraph lines were destroyed. Many buildings were wrecked at Ludwigshafen and Mannbelm. Hos- Bitals in both citiew are crowded with the injured, pr reports said, ‘The foree of the explosion was felt However, there confusion and panic QUIET LIVES OF “We Don’t ‘Spend C Our Money Tere Sn Wis That Way,” Says Wallace Reid in Picturing Celluloid Careers as Sedate, Simpic and Saving. Parties and Dinners in Most Film Favorites’ Homes Are! Likened to Those a Sunday School Superintendent Would Give, (Bpectal to The Prening World.) LOS ANGBLBS, Sept. 21—Wild midnight parties, in which expensive- ly gowned women leap into sparkling fountains; great orgies of wealth In which champagno is served by the go'den-hucketful, avishly staged dancing parties, eaterets in which handreds of girla prance in expensive undress—theae are what the public sees in motion pictures until it begins | to belleve that's the way all motion AT HOLLYWOOD CONTRASTED WITH ORGIES OF “LIVE 100"). LOWELL SHERMAN, as fat ag Frankfort, forty-five miles Pleture people themaelvos really live. at beach homes. bers one at Willlam Russell's by MOST STARS, There Nina Wilcox Putnam was en- tertained the other evening, and there any evening you will find Mr. and Mrs. Reid. On Sundays, if you bre lucky enough to be a friend of the Reids, you may go swimming with the mily in the swimming pool Will Rogers is tie most domesiic of I, His great house i# always open to his friends, but he doesn't care a hang about parties. Thero aro bil-| | Hard, root bowling alley and swimming pool, and there's a big l=; brary, If you dine with the family {t's usually in the breakfast room, as Will Rogers dubs his magnificent dinner table in the dining room “the peace table.” “I got to have mors money than I have now before I foel at home in that room,” he jaughed the other evening. Rogers, in common with almost any other well known player, 13 weil informed on general toples and ready to give you un crgument any time. Allen Holubar and Dorothy Phillips entertain quietly and informally at their home, as do also King Vidor and | Florence Vidor, Mr. and Mrs, Wesley | Ruggles, Mr. and Mrs, Bryant Vash burn, Ethel Clayton and soores of | others. Sometimes it 1s hinted that wild parties are staged for the benefit of open-mouthed tourists who come to the Coast, for most of the, parties are held at the beach cafes, where everybody goes. Gay week-end parties are often held The writer remem And that's thi r| uutiful b. | paige ca SUB Pore ce Villon SBOIUUY- | hota. in Banta, Borbats, Where, aon Fragmentary reports indicated lic entertains when a tragedy occurs| writers and actors were present, and there was a panic in Mannheim and gych ag the Arbuckle affair, the wildest note | was a glass of " ae . cities, as de- | |sparkling burgundy at dinner ant SG caliet en easiiear | Motion picture people do stage| dancing afterward to the Victrola, tezation follow lively parties at times, but aside from | followed by a visit Inte In the evening Chimneys were knocked f'OM the revels of the clique known as the| to an ice cream parlor, where all ate houses some distance away. Many “Live One Hundred,” there's nothing nbout them at all to be compared j with the display and expendituré tn 80-galled smart set parties, The pic- ture people themselves smile over the storles of their wild expenditures. “We're in the position,” said Wal- lace Reid to-day, “of the negro when the white boss asked him fo chance j® five-dollar bill. ‘fm much obliged AGTOR IN ARBUCKLE sneer! CASE, FOILS te So houses, the reports said, crunvbled he- fere the force of the blast as if the were made of paper. Windows were shattered for miles around. So we're much obliged for the com- j-—bait we don't spend our money that | jaturally, the biggest item of ex- penditure for @ party ts in the wet ‘ employea nut sundaes. ENRIGHT PLEADS = THAT RYAN STOCK | DEAL | WAS 0K) (Continued From | First: Pace.) the line tion from the police.” “got no co-opern= (Continued From First Page.) line. I remember Roscod Arbuckle Police Commissioner [Richard ¥. — saying laughingly, that when ho Mnrist insisted on volunteering had been Sherman's travelling com-!bought the Randolph Huntington “fatement when Elon kk Brow: * panions from Chicago and that tho actor bad been met at Harmon by an auburn haired girl in a racing Miner home in Adams Street, Los Angeles, he had to buy it to keep his cellar, Ho had merely rented t to and had raced away toward) house before, But most of tho pa Manhattan. , ties, dinners and suppers are, simple Much excitement was caused at the] as those affalts “would bo in tho station when a man who looked very | hands of the moat moderate folic. much like an actor and who carried) “Investment ta hommes, bonds, safe) a suit caso labelled “L. 5.” stepped | securities, this is the disposition pic- off the train. He marched to tho {ure people make'of that mdney. Ta! Hote] Biltmore with both Lustig and be sure, some of the unwine ones buy Detective Hooker on his trail. Ac- handsome cars and\ employ chauf-| cused in the lobby of being Sherman, feurs, when they themscives live) the man laughingly proved that ho down side streets in little bunga- was not, but made the officers prom- lows or small apartments. And most) {se not to tell who he really was. of the girls are nicely dressed. But! Lustig and Detective Hooker were ihese are, after ail, means of adver forced to return to the office of the|tisement. Anyway, their clothos are District. Attorney’ minus Sherman , Usually transferred te younger a! but atill plus the forthwith eummons fas to needy relatives whom tho girls and the decoy telegram. Every effort |e helping to support’ will be made to locate Sherman to- ORINK BILL OF $8,000 AT ONE day, as District Attorney Swann has| DIRECTOR'S PARTY. deen requested by District Attorney | Echoes of wild parties continu, Brady of San Francisco to keep the |NOtably one in which a famous star actor under surveillance while an ef. | a8 supposed to have worn only one fort ia being made to induce him to|#imple, clinging garment; and there return as an Arbuckle witness vol- |= @ patty siven by a director last aatasily. winter in which $8,000 worth of drink , ne | Was consumed. But these parties feteanien ie seve met the sort of fame they deserved. courts, District Attorney Brady haa| Boore# of handeome bomes are oo- \eupted -by the picture faik. But stated that ho will move to have him 13, are investments, Will Rogers indicted sv that he can be brought | oo ciay meirbanks and Mary Plck- ane. |tord, May Allison, Naztmova, Roscoe SEVEN WITNESSES | Arbuckie, Ethel Clayton, Bryant | Washburn, Wallace Reid, William 8. ARE SUMMONED FOR 2". William Desmond, William ARBUCKLE HEARING Bey ae ae aa awnine jreelly. magnificent homes, “ | Pleture folk, like wll actors, are a BAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21.—Seven | gay and jolly bunch. They love to major witnensos were ordered sum- ance and must be on the move, But moned to-day by District Attorney goores of homes the writer knows of Matthew Brady to appear to-morrow Scores Ot Mien 1 Jiven never Te- afternoon at tho preliminary hearing "10. [more joyous noise than of Roscoe Arbuckle, charged with the; would pe heard at ono given by a murder of Virginia Rappe, as a result jinday school superintendent, And missioner Ityan, and you adjourned so abruptly that there was no chance |to say anything about tt. You juat counsel to the Meyer committer. not pursue to-day the subject of tho deal by which Special Deputy Com- missioner Allan A. Ryan handed Mr. Hnright, in April, 1919, $12,000 as the profits of a stock transaction of which Mr. Pnright knew nothing until it was over, The Commis- |sioner's remarks opened thea way for a complete review of the matter. “Just before we adjourned, last, night.” Mr. Enright referred to a financial in whieh I was In} Senator, | sald, “you transaction rested with Com- sked the amount do that is the last thing that appears on the record; and the papers sald that this was a fake stock transaction Tt was not a fake stock transaction in any sense of the word. “Commissioner Ryan in the fall of | 1918 asked me whether L was doing anything in the market. 1 told him T was not. ‘Well,’ he sald, ‘some time I would ke to bring In on something worth while’ ‘Well! 1 sald, ‘L will be very glad to, Mr. Ryan, and won't you let mo know, and if you want some funds, come and tell me about it,’ "He didn't ask me for any funds. Ho bandied it himself and put me tn, Now had T not won In the mat ter T would have ‘been obliged to make up the losses, and I also havo} the right to take the gains. Why a! ‘point fs made of that I do not know.” Mr. Brown—I asked you last night distinetly if it was a fictitious stock | deal and you sald “yes.” A. 1 didn’t] way anything of the kind. Q. Well, then, must mis- understood one another, A. 1 will re. fer to the record and 1 think that you should make a correction. Mr, Brown (reading the we have nnd) of Arbuckle’s “Labor Day party” levery one of these homes has a| Jt has been srenariea to 718, for in bash \Wbrary of well-thumbed books: stance, that Mr, Ryan had arranged) ‘The witnesses were: Mis. Bambina| Up at William Farnum's houre on {oF the payment to you of profits on | Maude Delmont, who swore to the tne big bill the writer mot at dinner [Stock transactions which are really) murder charge against Arbuckle; Dr.{one night half a dozen writers of | fetitious ns far as you are concerned Sherby Strange, police autopsy sur-! plays, including Salisbury Field, au- A. Mr. Ryan did, in one instance, do goon; Dr. William Ophuls, who per | thor of “Wedding Bells,” and Elmer |Senething like that formed an unofficial autopsy on Miss Harris, author of “So Long Latty,"| “Q: How much did he sive yout Rappe's body; Graco Malston, nurse, and the evening was one good talk. | A. $12,000 Al Bemnacher, Ira Fortlouls and Mr, Farnum owns four homes, I by Mr. ¥ ht—As to your question Lowell Sherman, guests at Arbuckle’s | lieve. about It being fictitious, my answer party. Out at Wallace Reid's any evening | W2S not to that point at all, My an The witnesses on hand, it is be-/in the big homey billiard room, you'll |#wer was that there was a transac Meved, will furnish the foundation meet writers, actors and musicians, | tion between Commissioner Tyan and of the case avainst Arbuckle. Scotch is being replaced these |myself. And I say this, Senator: In jo Federal authorities to-day were days by ginger ale, but even going over the evidence offered to ‘he days of Scoteh you merely en- the Federal Grand Jury by seven Joyed an evening of music when persons who testified at the Grand Wally felt in a mood to play or some- Jury session which lasted until body turned on the phonograph or ly to-day. | you talked or played billiards. Mrs, “hese witnesses were Mrs, Delmont, | Reid !s a marvellous hostess, and you |the face of the fact that a sub-com- jmittee of this committee had exam- 1921 21. Check for $12, 083 Ryan Gave Enright In “Stock Deal’’ and the Indorsement |’: Pav 10 ae vy ie cmaaehinan AMO METALS Narvowat tions after that," said Mr. Brown. Mr. | Enright sald they afforded him no chance to comment on the $12,000 matter, Mr, Brown read the two pages, including the Commissioner's denial that the $12,000 was “a gra- tunity,” but that it was turned over by Mr, Ryan “all of his free will and accord.” CROSS-EXAMINED BY COUNSEL | FOR COMMITTEE. Mr. Enright insisted he had not had & cyhance to explain yesterday, Mr. Krown cross-examined: Q. Now, did you ever have any other stock transactions through Mr, Ryan? A, No, air. Q. Did you get any other moneys | from him or any other gift or thing| of value? I don’t recall anything, Q. Wh did this talc with Mr. | Ryan occur? A. In the fall of 1918, 1 think. You did not put up a dollar? No, sir; he did not ask me. It was transaction of five days’ running. Mr. Enright repeated almost ver- batim his version of his conversation with Mr, Ryan, ending “Had ther been any loss I would have obliged to take care of It.” Mr. Brown—Oh, now #0 you say? A. fgets) Well, I do say eo. The first you heard about it was apart and the check? A. Yes, sir. Mr. Brown offered in evidence the account of R. E, Enright with Allan A. Age & Co, | . Do you remember where you been é mine ginn New Younes t | Klan | tult oft recor trials b es Oe ae 2 ALLAN A A, RYAN & CO. Ss oan steer, « ig WHOA W ay pains a Banners ¢ in and ‘Teeum mu es, Joy riders, Bootleg- and Gamblers, hundred ~members official through the main stre late capturing the night editor of a lo APR 22 1919 eee | | ey nol. MASKED KU KLUX KLANSMEN PARADE IN SHAWNEE, OKLA., | CARRYING EDITOR AS CAPTIVE... sx the law. of good Americans, wnee when the time gers and gamblers roublé by leaving now dition to the paper, the wero carried on the side cars in the parade “Don't follow us; it's not safe.” “We'll be back, aman.” ‘ooling around th “Lawyers, make your money legitimate causes.” fo on law-breakers’ bonds.” sretst Hhaia |KU KLUX CHARGED BEFORE CONGRESS Warn 2° | journey. N Autos no} and ta thing te to to him, addressed to a t rough) the wspaper. pt. 1.—Thr Before allowing of the Ku Klux| ken on the trip, regalia pnradea | Ken weed as handed ts of Shawnee | last night after! “We are nhs one Shawnee. G king him was on |than to display bannerg and sena y “law ov! the newsp: man to leave the car in which ho was the following nawnee newspaper. thousand strong Americ: ns done other plator columns of a Shawnee | SH tGilESBUTS Unearths Much Startling Evidence, the cial committee to Investigate alleged iMlegal activities of the Ku Klux Klan was introduced to-day in the House by Tague, Massachusetts ‘Tague asserted that mors or not® Representative Democrat, Watch the cwnentlp. of your paper and keep it in the hands We will clean Is rips. will Gave warning sent to following banners s of the sixty Be carefyl and be “Look out if you do not heed these other fellow’s off “Tf you want to be healthy, don’t WITH 100 CRIMES || ‘oduces Demand for In- WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—A resolu- tion asking the appointment of a spe- than one hundred acts of abduction, unlawful seizure, trial and punishment of free citizens have been charged against the Klan, and it Is charged that flonal guarantees of free speech, trial by jury, unlawful selzure, protection of life, ligious worship and assembly and the prohibition against involuntary servi- . x 3 tude. You can'teat gruel your wife Made] A Ciing under orders of Attorney By wasn General Daugherty, approved by Pres}- dent Service agents were investigating the Bil aE Reo IR AD duly we | Klan organization in many parts of ths (Ste: WH SOU WHER YoU Go: the country. Daugherty declared the Gov- ayes laity tS ernment will not be “run or intimt- dated” Jur | & ait. New York and perhaps other cities. Leer ee acest (icc gaPRiG Reports laid before the Attorney | eee weer e Soar |General by Willlam J. Burns tn egn- ve Your ta ference to-day were said to be even more startling than those first brough: to the attention of the Department of Justice. for the last two weeks has had his agents busy in all parts of the coun- try gathering evidence. Advt. on Page 13 the Klan has violated constitu- liberty and property, free re- Harding, verniuent Soeeret by men behind masks. Grand investigations are expected iy It became known that Burns i s JENNY OUND F | uphold } in wore when you talked with Mr, Ityan oe his putting in this investment JA. 1 belleye It was in Police Head- Vadarees Q), This reads Morton Petrol, 17, 1919, 5,000 , AMount $10, “Ang, prive 156.25, Interest. from Ae 17, 1919, to April 2% 1919, $8.46. Sold on April 22, imo oat 41 244,00, Balanco . Brown offered the check of Al- lan A. Ryan & Co. to R. B. Enright of $12,083.29, dated April 22, 1919, Q. And you had no subsequent talk you received the account and wheeck? to you about “letting you in” again? A. 1 think he did at that time. He said, “We may have something else some other time.” Q. But you had never heard of that? A. Not yet, I have hopes. Q. You keep them yet? A. Yes, sir, ‘The Commissioner was then ex- uused from the Wilness stand tempo- rarily. During the session Mr. Brown sald he was going to put in the record a list of all policemen who have gone to jail in the Hylan Administration. Mr. Enright asked that the lst In- elude previous Administrations back to 1910, Senator Downing objected to hurt- ing ard humiliating the famiites of the disgraced policemen by publish- jing such a let. Mr. Brown agreed to make it a ompilation with all names omitted. the opening of the session Enright sald his request for the budget for 1922 was for $33,218,- 548.90 as against $22,797,807.64 for 1921 ‘The increase, he sald, was all due to the need for additional patrolmen. Then Mr. Enright announced ho | had ‘questioned Detective Irving O'llura, brother-in-law of Mayor Hlylan, on requests for transfers of policemen found in tho files of the ined Commissioner Ryan fully, to give out this false impression is ab- solutely unjust to Commissioner Ryan and unjust to me. Q. T asked you the plain question, Allee Blake, show girl; Zey Prevon, foo) at home thé moment you step/and you answered. I desisted from show girl; John P. Pickett, bellboy; thar (nul ma an cane Josephine Kasa, hote: maid; Mra, Mac, 2t that charming room with its fire- | furtt na ty, A. You abruptly ad- Taw! journe ‘nd Edward Garboy, said to (place, rugs, musical instruments and bees friends of Arbuckle atmosphers ef bomeness, “I also asked two pages of ques- sioners Godley, Lord and Dunham The offenses charged ranged eM eh ee Bi ult, making arrests will Labia ling a little s Pits with which to deceive her mot Jona» intoxieation, insulting women, th superior officers with a re-| In every instante brou: up by} | Mr. Enright the record showed the accused policemen had been pun-| Jished by reprimands, und fines up| to five days’ pay. “You think,” said Mr, Brown, “t punishments were net sutticiently | severe | os ee N sold Mr. Enright, “the repeat cases filustrate my point of ye i day that it has been the pro in the department for years that the entry ‘guilty’ opposite the ebarge L and specifications does not mean that Paruatenn: the man was guilty exactly as hal charged, but that though the serious ir implication of charges are not trity : there are minor infractios ules ren found which should be mildly INT tac punished.” eee One of the cnses taken as a t T Lght of the controversy was tat of Will, ~~ tiam J. <Ardtf fined one da pay : on being found guilty out justificatl triumphantly, it You these findings Mr don't exouse { ‘Brown a@ man tember, motor right showed convieted under Commissioner We 191%, truck of smashing drunk, and at nt there ment unless was no He the « the he ary 4 Brown | fight of nn and 4 lonely roar July, 1918. was used; Ch MeGann’ out MeGann's McGann was Charlton five mh ‘conduct from being refuse the department dirt let men “go fing fore h Min from the fall of 1918 Unt nog epittiont! sustiticat pointed out to etand on the re justify it, 1 Brown—I de t. I do’ same absolute) fined five days" whil that a patr still 4 dd for mm previo 1 that les rough = \BEGIN INQUIRY INTO | DEATH OF MISS CROSBY the man had been tee ne Deputy Cominis- Kept a vr. Godley tried the case. A. No, 1 do not think thers was tuy | hi i a al caved the nndink Le reference to it again Mr.-décowh pead the Ardiff record. sy ya. ents Mr, Enright sald Mr. Ryan had per-|1¢ showed Ariltf, undressing in the are as tolaw formed Invaluable services to the City! pegt poom of the «tation. house, + during the war He snid Mr. Browm\gyapped his pp whigh! Wout ott 4 was belittling Mrv Ryan by the quos-|qne bullet struck the thirteen-year- {4 Hons asked about these services. old nephew of the station house “L absolutely repudiate your sug-| black, who was visiting his uncle, Mr. be guestion as having no foundation in Godley found tlie safely catch of the Se fact whatever,” sald Mr. Brown, | pistol had been Jeft open ana told : t you, but your prompter (Mr.| Ardiff ho was fined one das is Lord), has," retorted Mr. Enright. | make him more careful.” tlw Mr, Lord—l know Mr. Ryan, and I) “I don’t thinie in the cases 1 put be- know he did great work fore you yesterday,” wild Mr. Brow Mr. Brown—There 1s no Alsposition) “there was any such case to do anything of the kind.-f am try-| though it appears a ing to find out about this §12,090/seriuus you have browght here t transaction, A. All right, you are} di finding out. “But the record says Q. Lam. Did Mr. Ryan ever speak] ‘found guilty ¢ n't n't 1 out tl anyes TH ‘ol Wagor Dr nis tr during war hard tip for men | as {rely ord ot tup the niet nT. Mayor's former secretary, Grover Whalen, und marked in pencil hief Medical Examiner Cha SY ew Yank Hara." Norris to-day began investigation into “Mp, O'Hara told me he knew noth- |!" death Jun of Bela : 5 ing of the requests and bis pame| 7Oune scenario whe ees kates Page? | written on them waa not in his hand. | ;"),0f, St the Aiea mictoiata writing.” Mr. Brown sald he would! announced th: no info! atte 1 ask Mr. Sinnott, now secretary to) VO Innde pint te tt old the mates the Mayor, “who bad been writing at pemons, R) ase atige ne Mae: O'Hara's name on these paper scious. “gondition” nat yune “and "died ory rl Mx, Baright produced @ brief case after being rushed to the hospital, Nes Y ee sn het few: cante—clmio stores las Visi RACE Additional Evening Train Washington Beginning Sept. 25 Daily, | (Penna. 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