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s VOL. 52—NO. 160. SSKrtTirt OMAHA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21. 1922. * SJSf«ii_TWO CENTS
Louisiana
Militia on
Feud Case
Arrive at Mer Rouge, Sup
posedly to Protect Detec
tives Dragging Lake for
2 Victims’ Bodies.
I Kidnaped After Festival
New Orleans, Dec. 20.—Company C5,
National Guard of Monroe, has ar
rived at Mer Rouge, I,a., and pitched
camp, according to a telephone dis
patch received hero this morning.
Monroe, La., Dec. 20.—The celebrat
ed Mer Uouge kidnaping case, which,
for four months has Ineffectually tax
ed all tif tlie legal machinery of the
state of Louisiana in its effort to
solve, and moved forward another
chapter yesterday when National
<JU)nrd troops were ordered to move to
l^Rnstrop. La., near Mer Uouge, origi
nated, according to well-informed ob
servers, as a result of a feud between
rival factions of Morehouse parish.
Although the Ku Klux Klan organ
izations of Louisiana, Arkansas and
Mississippi have been more or less
charged with being involved In the
mysterious disappearance of Maj.
Watt Daniels and Thomas Fletcher
Richards, citizens of Mer Rouge, fol
lowing t lie kidnaping of these and
three other Mer Rouge citizens on Au
gust 24. tlie conservative citizens be
^ lieve that the mysterious case goes
much deeper than alleged Ku Klux ani
mosity. It Is believed to be more or
less racial nnd rivals, in many re
spects, the celebrated f-uds of the
Cumberland mountains of Kentucky.
Tennesse and Virginia.
ItrewiiiK Twenty-Five Years.
Tlic feudal light was said to have
been brewing for a quarter of a cen
tury, involving some of tile leading
families of Mer Kouge and other
parts of Morehouse parish. A climax
was reached on August 24, when J. L.
Daniels. 70, former prominent Mer
Rouge merchant: Watt Daniels, his
son; Thomas F. Richards, Watt Dav
enport, scion of a leading family, and
W. C. Andrews, a planter, were kid
naped by 40 rr 60 masked men on
their way from Bastrop to their
respective liomts in Mer Kouge.
f Neither Daniels nor Andrews was
I able to Identify a single person in the
crowd, nor could they give any in
formation in regard to Daniels’ son.
Watt, and Richards.
lb-mains Mystery.
Daniels declared lie recognized \
"^Arkansas nud Mississippi automobile
llcenso tags.
‘‘I cannot tell a thing now any more
than I could the night of the kidnap
ing or the day after,’’ said Daniels, In
discussing the case again yesterday.
Following the failure of Morehouse
parish and district court officials to
solve the mystery, Governor Parker
announced his determination to use
all the power of the state In the case.
A big highway celebration and fes
tival was held at Bastrop on August
24 and thousands of people from all
parts of northeast Louisiana attended.
The five victims of hooded riders at
tended the celebration, witnessed the
baseball game between Monroe and
Bastrop and then started home in the
twilight of the evening in iwo auto
mobiles. When they were midway
between Bastrop and Mer Rouge the
1 hooded men galloped up, on horseback,
i or appeared on the highway in auto
mobiles, and seized the five Mer
Rouge citizens.
Seareli tn Y'ain.
Watt Davenport was released with
in an hour after he was taken and
the rumor became current that the
masked men were ‘‘mistaken as to his
identity.”
Searchers for 24 hours tried to find
the men who were kidnaped, and the
day following the nffair the elder
Daniels and Andrews found their
way back to their homes at Mer
Rouge in a serious condition. Their
stories gave but little information in
regard to the kidnaping.
.For a while neither Daniels nor
Andrews would discuss the case, blit
- y finally told of how they were
kidnaped on their way to Mer Rouge
by masked men and severely beaten.
For several weeks Daniels was in a
precarious condition because of bis
injuries, which, in his case, were aug
mented by old age.
For the last three months there
have been detectives and other , in
vestigators in Morehouse parish, In
terrogating citizens and making j
searches for the missing bodies of i
Richards and Watt Daniels, which, i
according to some persons, were be i
lieved to have been cast into a lake
near Mer Rouge.
That the bodies of both of the miss
lng men have been located is the re
port current in east Louisiana. The
finding is said to have been the cause
for the sending of the national guard
into Morehouse parish yesterday.
The others kidnaped were released
Turkey’s Harems Sacred,
Conference Members Told
Ijtunanne, Dec. 20.—Turkey's har
ems are sacred and private and they
cannot he discussed by the near east
conference, the Turkish delegates here
announced yesterday. When the sub
committee on Christian minorities at
tempted to introduce, a report by Mile.
Vacaresko, a Rumanian delegate to
the league of nations, alleging that
many Christian women are prisoners
in Turkish homes, the Ottoman dele
gates declared that Turkish homes
are private and the conference cannot
^hring them into the discussion.
Tram Car Hits Auto.
Port Arthur, Tex., Dec. 20.—Three
men and one woman were instantly
killed here today when a street car
struck an automobile carrying work
ers to the Texas company plant. A
fifth occupant of the automobile was
slightly injured. No one on the street
car was hurt.
Baby Girl Dies When
Candles Ignite Dress
—Photo by K nicely St ml In.
Numii I’ospisek.
Xu urn Poaplsek, 3, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John Pospisek, 2208 Karnani
street, who was burned to death Tues
day night when her clothes caught
tire from candles which were to be
used in decorating a Christinas tree.
Xmas Candles
Snuff Out Life
Parents Prostrated Over Death
of Baity Daughter, Vic
tim of Blaze.
Sorrow over the loss of their little
•laughter, Numa, had prostrated Mr.
uiul Mrs. John Prospisek yesterday.
The 3-year-old child died Tuesday
night at Lord Lister hospital from
burns suffered when her dress caught
fire from Christmas candles.
l’ospisek said yesterday morning he
and his wife were in their bakery
shop at 220S Farnam street when they
heard frantic screams from overhead,
where Nuina and her 4-year-old sister,
Milly, were playing in a back room.
They dashed upstairs and found the
child's clothing in flames. She was
wearing a little linen frock, her
father said.
"This one,” and he put his hand on
Mllly's dark bobbed hair, “was ail
right. She is very careful."
The candles were to have been for
the family Christmas tree, a surprise
for Numa and Milly, but instead of the
anticipated happiness they brought
tragedy to the little household.
Mrs. Focplsek lay ill in lied yester
day while her 2-onthold baby
sun cried lustily. The father roused
himself from his grief long enough to
warm a hottle of milk and put it into
the groping little hands. Milly. un
comprehending, played about the
room and prattled of her sister who
had gone to the hospital.
■And the photograph of Numa had
been turned face to the wall, a mute
testimonial of grief too poignant to
bear. The father rose once to look
at It, but was overcome with sobbing.
The funeral is to take place this
afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Korisko
chapel and the child will be buried
in Bohemian National cemetery.
Widow Freed of Murder;
Brother Is Convicted
Mount H°lly. N. J-, Dec. 20.—Mrs.
Doris Brunen was acquitted toniuht
and her brother, Harry C. Mohr, was
found guilty of murder in the first de
gree in connection with the slaying
of the former's husband, "Honest”
John T. Brunen, circus owner.
The jury recommended that Mohr
be sentenced to life imprisonment at
hard labor.
Bandits Rob Kansas Jewelers.
Bartlesville, Okla., Dec. 20.—Jewelry
valued at nearly $5,000 was obtained
by four masked bandits who held up a
jewelry store In Independence, Ivan.,
last night, according to reports to lo
cal officers. The store is owned by
M. L,. Truby and was being kept open
to accommodate the holiday tr4de
Truby and one clerk were in the store
when two of the bandits entered.
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U. S. Navy1
Outranked
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Recen aX* .is on Brit
ish B&>°' .^is Give Guns
Longer Range Than
American Vessels.
Officers Are Concerned
Washington. Dec. 20.—(By A. P.)—
Relative fighting efficiency of British
and American battleships at long
range, was understood to have been
called sharply to the attention of
the senate naval committee in con
sideration of the pending naval ap
propriation bill. Naval officers are
known to be greatly concerned on
this point, ns the British have vir
tually completed post-war moderni
zation of their 15-inch gun ships and
no start on similar work has yet
been made in the American navy.
The effect of the British post-war
improvements, it was said in naval
circles, was to give the entire main
British fleet a range of 30,000 yards
against a maximum of about 20,000
yards for all American battleships ex
cept the Tennessee, California, Mary
land, Colorado and West Virginia. In
addition, as permitted under the Wash
ington treaty, the British ships have
been equipped with "blister” anti
torpedo construction, and their decks
armored against airplane bombs and
high-angle fire.
Cost About $60,000,000.
A rough estimate of the cost of
modernizing American ships in the
same way, so far as increasing gun
elevations and strengthening decks is
concerned, is approximately $00,000,
000. In the British program ns much
as $4,000,000 is said to have been ex
pended on a single ship.
When naval estimates wo under
consideration in the budget bureau
and later before the house appropria
tions subcommittee, fi was said, funds
were asked by naval officials for a
limited beginning this year on making
over battleships to be retained under
the treaty. The items presented call
ed for conversion of coal-burning bat
tleships of the 14-inch gun type to oil
burners and the installation of five
inch antiair craft batteries to replace
all present three-inch guns on the big
ships. The items went out in com
mittee, but there are indications that
inure urgent represenatlons are be
ing made to the senate.
Fuel Change Vital.
Change from coal to oil fuel is of
vital importance in widening the ef
fective radius of action of (lie ships,
it was explained by naval ollicials,
while substitution of five-inch anti
aircraft batteries means using shells
with a 50-yard "burst” instead of the
25-yard area covered by three-inch
projectiles. In other words, It was
said, ”a curtain of fire" against air
craft with five-inch guns would need
one-half the number of guns in action ;
to make it effective.
The most striking point to which
attention is being directed, however,
Is that of long range, big gun fire
Opposed to the modernized British
fleet today, navy officers have stated,
the bulk of the American fleet would
face the necessity of closing in five
miles under salvo fire before they
could bring their own guns to bear.
As the British ships are also slightly
faster, it is said, the possibility of
bringing the entire fleet into action
would be negligible.
Range of Runs I,united.
Older American battleships, as well
as the British ships now modernized,
were designed and built before the
possibilities of aircraft “spotting”
were seen. Their guns had a range
up to the limit of vision from the
spotting tops of the ships, which is
20,000 yards under most favorable
conditions.
Tests with aircraft, however, have
fully demonstrated both In American
and British naval opinion, based on
war lessons, that fire can be made
effective against ships entirely out of
sight over the horizon. The British
are said to have acted on this know-l
edge in making the costly changes
necessary to rnise turret guns to a 30
degree firing elevation, as compared
do the old 11 or 12 degree maximum.
Two Youths Admit They Are
Bandits Who Wounded Girl
Salt Lake City, Utah, Dec. 20.—
William A. Farr, 10, and Rex Aylett,
21, confessed last night that they
were the two bandits who shot and
probably fatally wounded Miss Roy
lance Fitzgerald, on a road south of
here" Saturday night as the culmina
tion of a series of highway robberies
that have terrorized motorists for
months past. Farr fired the fatal
shot from a .41 calibre pistol. • He
led the officers tonight, following his
confession, to a barn near a smelter,
where he had hidden the weapon.
Farr's confession greatly cleared
the situation for the investigators.
Aylett had told his story earlier in
the day. Farr said tliat he was
standing on the running hoard of the
stolen automobile, and fired the shot
which doctors say will at least cause
permanent paralysis of Miss Fitz
gerald's limbs. It was Farr, accord
ing to his own admission, who fired
the shot which narrowly missed an
other motorist, when the two motor
bandits accosted him on the s^ate
highway, a short time before the
Fitzgerald shooting.
U. S. Settles With S. P.
Washington, Dec. 20.—A final set
tlement of claims growing out of
government operation of the Southern
Pacifio railroad system has been com
pleted, it was announced today by
Director General Davis and the rail
road administration. The corpora
tion and its subsidiaries received from
the government a total of $9,250,000
covering all outstanding accounts in
cluding those arising from the guar
antee against losses in earnings dur
ing the six months after federal con
trol terminated.
Christmas Greetings
Sent to Children by
President Harding
New York. May 20.—President Hard
ing sent Christmas greetings to the
children of the United States in the
form of a telegram to the Santa Claus
association, a national organization,
which receives letters written by chil
dren to Santa Claus and sees that
they are suitably answered.
"Merry Christmas to the children
of tile United States," the president’s
message read.
The words were sent by radio to
night. to each of the 48 branches of
the association in the country.
U. S. Judges Will
Decide Today
on Phone Rates
Hearing of Injunction Suit
Against State Commission
Completed Last
Night.
Decision in the Northwestern Bell
Telephone company's suit to enjoin
telephone rates ordered by the state
railway cotnmision, effective January
I, will be answered by Federal Judges
Robert E. Lewis, T. C. Munger and
J. W. Woodrough at 10 this morn
ing.
The state railway commission re
cently Issued an order cutting out the
10 per cent surcharge on telephone ex
change rates. The order left the North
western Bell company's other rev
enue practically unchanged. Removal
of this surcharge deducts about $300,
000 from the company's revenue a
year, it was stated.
Would Increase Kates.
The Telephone company, in its ac
tion, seeks not only to enjoin this
order, but to get permission to estab
lish increased exchange rates.
H. O. Taylor, chairman* of the state
railway commission, in defending the
commission's ord^r, argued that the
operating expenses of the Northwest
ern Bell company are higher in Ne
braska than in any of the other four
states in which the company operates.
Ho said the commission i)as ad
vised the company to reduce its op
erating costs in Nebraska, that he be
lieved the company would not do so,
and that this decrease should make
up any possible deficit in earnings.
Experiment on Switching.
"e\V allowed (lie company to pay
tlio American Telephone and Tele
graph company, its present organiza
tion, about $200,«00 a year, for the
purpose of making experiments,” con
tinued Mr. Taylor. "Now the machine
switching system has been installed in
Omaha at an additional Investiment of
$2,000,000, and tlie people of Nebraska
are paying for the experiment, rather
than the American Telephone and
Telegraph company.
"The state railway commission lias
always stood ready to guard the com
pany's rights, and if ut the end of
a period of months, the company
shows the need of more revenue; that
it can't reduce operating costs, we’ro
ready to make an order which will
bring relief. We are of the opinion
that the company will ilnd relief, not
in imposing a higher rate, but in a
more economical basis of operation.”
Charge Expense Different.
E. M. Morseman, jr., attorney for
the telephone company, argued that
the operating expenses differ in dif
ferent localities. He denied that the
machine switching system is an ex
periment, declaring it a great step in
(he advancement of telephone effi
ciency. Touching op operating ex
penses, Mr. Morsman quoted an au
thority to show that wages would not
decline greatly in the next two years.
Presiding Judge Lewis tried to get
an agreement between the opposing
counsels shortly before the hearing
began yesterday morning, so Unit a
master to arrive at a new rate sched
ule could be appointed. Failing, he
expressed a desire to leave for Den
ver last night, and insisted that the
case be cut ns short as possible.
Rail Decision Today.
Attorney Morsman argued the case
for an hour, Chairman Taylor for
about 10 minutes and Earl M. Cline
of the attorney general's office for
about the same length of time, before
an adjournment was taken at 7 last
night. No recess was indulged in un
til the late adjournment, but Judge
Lewis decided it would be necessary'
to remain in Omaha until today.
A finding on the Burlington-North
western-Omaha railroad tax Injunc
tion suit also is scheduled to be
made by the judges this morning.
Suit Started to Test
New Illinois Bonus Law
Springfield, 111., Dec. 20.—(By A.
P.)—A friendly Buit to test the con
stitutionality and legality of the
Illinois soldiers’ bonus laws was filed
in the Sangamon county court todny.
Half a dozen objections to the
bonus law are raised. It is com
plained that the law was not legally
passed and that it is unconstitu
tional.
The proceedings took the form of
a petition for injunction against the
service recognition board and State
Treasurer E. E. Miller to prevent any
further activity in carrying out pro
visions of the 155,000.000 soldiers’
bonus. They were filed by Dr. Elmer
E. Ilagler, president of the Spring
field Chamber of Commerce and
father of two soldiers in the world
war.
Fourth Member of Box Car
Gang Convicted at Beatrice
Beatrice, Neb., Dec. 20.—(Special.)—
A jury In the district court tonight
brought a verdict, finding Eou Me
Cowif guilty of burglarizing the mer
chandise store at Kinney last August.
Frank Vicars and Melvin Stanley,
two other members of the gang, were
found guilty last week of burglarizing
a Union Pacific boxcar, and the
fourth, Sam Parker, has pleaded
guilty.
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Royalty Oil Bid
of Sinclair Firm
Accepted by Fall
Program to Place Salt Creek
Product on Parity With
Midcontinent Field
Completed.
Washington, Dec. 20.—Acceptance
of a bid of thg'Slucluir Crude Oil Pur
chasing company for purchase of all
royalty oil accruing to the govern
ment in the next five years from the
Salt Creek field, in Wyoming, was an
nounced by Secretary Fall of the De
partment of the Interior.
This transaction, he said, marks the
successful completion of his program
to place Salt Creek crude oil on a price
parity with similar oils from the mid
continent field and will bring the gov
ernment 70 to 90 cents more a laurel
for this royalty oil than was received,
under a contract with the shipping
board.
The price differential between the
two fields, which has averaged 67
cents a barrel for the last five yars
and now amounts to 70 cents a barrel
in oil of less than 37 degres gravity
and 90 cents a barrel on oil of better
than 37 degrees, is wiped out, as far sa
the government is concerned, by the
Sinclair contract, Mr. Fall declared.
The price range in the midcontinent
field is from $1.40 to $1.60 a barrel,
and at the present rate of produc
tion, the 'government receives 90,000
barrels of royalty oil daily from the
Salt Creek field. This oil will be sold
at midcontinent prices to the Sinclair
company and the proceeds devided,
as provided by law, 52 >4 per cent go
ing to the reclamation service, 37'4
per cent to the state of Wyoming and
10 per cent to the United States trea^
fcury. The secretary said he expected
the production from the field to in
crease materially during the life of
the contract.
Thirteen firms competed for the con
tract. The Sinclair Crude Oil Pur
chasing company was described as
one of the largest purchasers of crude
oil, in the midcontinent field and the
acceptance of its bid was said to mark
its entry into the Wyoming field on
a large scale.
22 Arrested at Brooklyn Navy
Base in $1,000,000 Theft
New York, Dec. 20.—Twenty-two
civilian employes at the Brooklyn
navy base were arrested today on in
dictments returned several months
ago by a federal grand jury, charging
that government property to the value
of more than $1,000,000 had been
stolen since the war.
The arrests were made by agents
of the Department of Justice.
The grand jurors indicted 23 men
ufter its investigation of the alleged
wholesale thefts which the authori
ties said included clothing, oil and
various other materials used at the
navy base. The 23d man under in
dictment was not found at the naval
base today.
Acting Governor Refuses
Illinois Requisition
Uneoln, Dec. 20.—(Special.!—Act
ing Governor Barrows denied the re
quest of the governor of Illinois to
hand over for trial in the courts at
Quincy of William Perry Johnson of
Lincoln, whose wife accuses him of
abandonment. Johnson was able to
convince the governor that his wife
had left him and had refused to live
either in Alliance or Lincoln, where
he had good jobs. The governor said
that as Johnson had a divorce suit
pending in this county, ot which no
tice had been served on the wife,
she had a full opportunity to pre
sent her grievance in that tribunal
Day’s Activities
in Washington
Announcement whs made that ths
Department of Justice was prepar
ing to tile a suit against the Wright
Martin Aircraft corporation to re
cover a $3,001,715 war claim.
Hearings by tiie house judiciary
committee on the Keller impeach
ment charges neared conclusion with
the examination of Department of
Justice officials who refuted them.
Republican leaders decided to de
fer further consideration by the
house of the Green resolution pro
posing a constitutional amendment to
prohibit issuance of tax exempt-secur
ities.
Representative Upshaw, democrat,
Georgia, in a speech in the house,
called on high federal and state gov
ernment officials to "sacredly de
clare” they would not drink bootleg
liquor.
Federal reserve banks were auth
orized to purchase or rediscount
bankers' acceptances of six months
maturity drawn by growers of staple
agricultural products or co-operative
marketing association.
A Dill was introduced in the senate
by Chairman Wadsworth of the mili
tary affairs committee, authorizing
the War department to sell nearly
50 pieces of property not needed for
military purposes and located In 20
different states.
Longer Term Credits
Extended to Farmers
Washington, Dec. 20.—Bankers ac
ceptances of six-months maturity
drdwn by growers of stapl* agricul
tural products or co-operative mar
keting associations, are eligible for
purchase or rediscount by the federal
reserve banks, under a ruling promul
gated today by the federal reserve
board as a step in the direction of
longeruerm credits for agriculture.
Officials declared the decision which
makes the agricultural paper eligible
for rediscount for six months Instead
of three, "should be of material as
sistance to co-operative marketing as
sociation in financing the orderly
marketing of crops."
Acceptance of six months have
been asked for by many agricultural
organizations and the longer period
is believed by officials to more nearly
according with the turnover period re
quired by the farmers to market crops
Cor whose production he has borrow
ed money.
The ruling requires that the accept
ances he secured by warehouse re
ceipts covering the products against
which the acceptances afe drawn. It
is in line with a policy announced
some time ago by the bourd which
made eligible for rediscount accept
ances drav a to finance domestic stor
age of commodities pending market
ing.
Agricultural Budget Bill
Is Taken Up by House
Washington, Dec. 20.—The agricul- ;
tural appropriation bill currying $68,
781,553, including $32,000,000 for road
construction under the federal hlgn
way act, was taken up today by the
house. The good roads appropriation
represents an Increase of $22,000,000
over last year's figures, and the bill
as a whole calls for $21,852,000 more
than was appropriated a year ago.
Itepublican Deader Mondell said It
was planned to pass the interior,
agricultural and postoffice bills be
fore January 1. If this program is
adhered to. the army bill will be the
only big supply measure pending
after the first of the year.
Two Women Die
of Burns from
Flaming Oil
Grandmother, 74, and Her
Granddaughter Die When
Gaspline Pan Explodes
on Kitchen Stove.
Mrs. Alice Emily Sharp, 74, and
her granddaughter, Lola Belle Sharp,
24, were burnod to death in their
home, half a mile from Underwood,
la., about 13 miles from Council
Bluffs, Tuesday afternoon. This is
the home of Mr. and Mrs. John
Sharp, parents of the younger worn
an.
They were washing and the older
A$rs. Sharp was doing some dry
cleaning. It is said she placed the
pan of gasoline on the kitchen range
meaning to warm it. The gasoline
exploded, drenching the two women
with flaming oil.
They ran from the kitchen to the
back yard where they were seen by
Mrs. John Sharp and ne.ghbors who
tried to extinguish the flames which
enveloped them. Before this could
be accomplished both were terribly
burned.
The older woman died at 9:30 Tues
day night and her grown daughter at
2:30 yesterday morning.
Suryiving the elder woman are her
son, Juhn, and these four brothers:
John Dunn of Spencer, Ind.; George
Dunn of Council Bluffs, James Dunn
of Hitchcock, S. D., and Ben Dunn
of Logan, la. The young Woman is
survived by her parents and a
brother, LeKoy.
Butler Nomination
Blocked bv Norris
S'
Washington, Dec. 20.—Action by
the senate' on the nomination of
Pierce Butler, St. Paul attorney, to
be an associate justice of the United
States supreme court was again
"locked today by an objection to con
sideration. Senator Norris, republi
can, Nebraska, was understood to
have entered the objection but Chair
man Nelson of the judiciary commit
tee wa.s said to have served notice
that he would call up the nomination
again Thursday.
No Trace of Bandits Who
Robbed Mint at Denver
Denver, Colo.. Dec. 20.—Tracing
down an endless number of supposed l
clues without result and investigat j
ing scores of reports given to them 1
by residents of Denver end vicinity
of suspicious looking characters or
automobile parties, the Denver po
lice nearly 48 hours after the rob
bery of $200,000 from federal reserve
bank employes seemingly are without !
definite Information as to the Identity I
of the robbers.
U. of C. Students Ordered
Not to Motor for 6 Months 1
Berkeley. Cal.. Dec. 20.—Four stu- I
dents of the University of California '
who pleaded guilty to charges of ex
ceeding the speed limit have been sen
tenced to remain out of automobiles
for six months.
The Weather
Forecast.
Thursday fair and warmer.
Hourly Temperatures.
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Arbuckle
Will Return
to Screen
Film Comedian Given Chance
by Arbiter of Picture In*
dustry to Ke^ain Place
He <)nce Held.
Conduct Reported flood
I,os Angeles, Dec. 20.—Ttoseoe Ar
buckle, rotund comedian, burred from
the screen since last April because
of his encounter with (he lnw, was
today restored to the privilege of com
ing buck to the place lie once occu
pied in his Industry, If he can. Will
II. Hays, head of tlie picture indus
try, announced that all restrictions
against the actor were to end Jan
uary 1.
The Famous Players I-asky corpora
tion, which distributed Arbuckles’ pic
tures, announced that no effort would
be made at present to market some
films that were shown or others that
were never released. Joseph Schenck,
producer, said he would employ Ar
buckle und the latter said he was
thankful for (ho chance to work and
would strive to make good.
Mr. Hays issued a brief statement*
saying ho felt every man w»as entitled
to his chance and tlmt film industry
not only wanted to live and let. live,
but it wanted to live and help live.
Kntillril to Chance,
Mr. Hays said: "Every man in the
right find at the proper time Is en
titled to his chance to make good. It
is apparent that Roscoe Arbuckle'S
conduct since his trouble merits that
chance So far ns I am concerned
there will be no suggestion now that
he should not have his opportunity
to go to work in bis profession.
"in our efforts to^ develop a com
plete cooperation with the industry.
I hope we can start the new year
with no yesterdays. Hive and let live
is not enough; we will try to live and
help live.
"It bsenme known apart from the
Br|pf formal utterances that certain
definite features figured in the action
that will allow Arbuckle another op
portunity to make good.
“Completely Chastened.**
"First, perhaps, was the fact that
lie seems completely chastened and
that his conduct since he was barreil
from the screen last April apparently
lias been excellent.
"Then, too, the action was taken
In the spirit of Christmas and It was
believed that fullest co-operation in
all branches of the motion picture
industry would lie best advanced by
clearing the slate ns far as possible.
Made (lean Pictures.
"Again it is known that Arbuckle
never made a picture to which any
exception could possibly betaken, and
he never will. His pictures were not
high art, of course, hut they were
always clean and they brought laughs
to millions.
“Still against It was felt that in as
much that a jury acquitted him from
the charges upon which he was tried,
he is constitutionally entitled to the
right of any citizen—especially to the
right of working at anything he
knows how to work at.
“No plans are in contemplation for
the release of the three comedies in
which Arbuckle appeared before his
trial and which have since been held
up, and the action now taken does
not in any way concern the release of
the flints.”
Bank Bandit Dressed
as Woman Wounded
Dyer, Ind., Dec. 20.—(By A. P.)—
Three bandits this afternoon held up
the First National bank of Dyer and
escaped with $5,000.
One bandit, who was dressed as a
woman, was shot by John Keilmnn, a
grocer, and apparently mortally
wounded.
The bank was robbed a year ago
in tho same manner by bandits who
got $12,500.
William Gettier, a bookkeeper, was
alone in the bank when the man in
woman's clothes entered and covered
him with a revolver, then signalled
to the other two, who came in and
cleaned out ail tho money In the
vault.
As the trio turned to run to their
automobile, Gettler stepped on a bur
glar alarm uder the counter. In
answer, merchants along the street
armed themselves and opened fire.
The bandit in woman's clothes fell
with blood spurting front a wound
in his chest.
Tito other two paused long enough
to throw the man’s body into the
tonneau of their touring car and then
sped west, with a quickly organized
posse In pursuit.
Madumoiselle Sorcl Says
She Fairly Adores America
Havre, Dec. £(*.—Madamolselle Morel,
Ihe French actress, arriving hero to
day from New York on the steamer
Paris, said she "fairly adored”
Americans, individually and collective
ly.
"I especially liked Bostonians,” she
said. "Boston is the soul of America.
New York is admirable, but I'll stick
my ground on Boston.”
Informed that Madame Pa quin had
said that her annual dress bill of a
half million francs was 10 times too
much. Mademoiselle Morel denied that
she had ever maintained such an ex
penditure was necessary "except for a
very unusual woman.”
Ship Bill Supporters Blocked.
Washington, Dec. 20.—Futile ef
forts were made again in the senate
today by supporters of the adminis
tration shipping bill to bring to a
vote the question of whether that
meusuro should remain before the
senate or be displaced by Norris*
agricultural financing measure