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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, 3IAUCII 29, 1922 SURPRISE IS SPRUNG 111 HE TRIAL Woman Says Miss Rappe Confided in Her. FATTY HELD TO BLAME 'He Took Me by Arm and Tlirew Me on Bed and Put Weight on Me," Is Iteported Charge. SAX FRANCISCO, March 28. The first direct testimony linking Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle with the death of Virginia Rappe was given late this afternoon In his trial for manslaugh ter by Miss Virginia Briggs, secre tary to Dr. Francis Wakefield, at whose sanatorium the actress died. She said Miss Rappe told her: "Ar buckle took me by the arm and threw me on the bed and put his weight on .me and after that I do not know what happened." With the testimony of Miss Briggs, j a surprise witness, the state rested Its case. The defense immediately began the presentation of its evidence by calling Adolph Juel, head of the police identification bureau, to the atand. Appearance First One. This is the first time Miss -Briggs has appeared as a witness and at the conclusion of her testimony the de fense made a motion that her state ments be stricken from the record as hearsay. This motion the court de nied. Miss Briggs explained that she had pone into Miss Rappe's room on the day of the death. "She asked me about the amount of the hospital bill that would be due," said the witness. "She said she did not see why she should pay the bill as Arbuckle was responsible for her being there. I told her that if Arbuckle or anyone else should pay the account after she left the money paid by her would be returned. - "She replied that she was not going to leave, that she was going to die. "Then I asked her why she thought she was going to die, and it was then that she told me the details of the party." , Threat Denied by Witness. Cross-examined by Attorney McNab, defense chief counsel, as to whether it was not true that she had tele phoned asking that Misa Rappe's bill be paid and threatening that if it was not she would tell her story to the district attorney. Miss Briggs made an absolute denial. She also denied that McNab had told her to eive any evidence she iriierht have to the district attorney. Hi though admitting that he had told her to see that official, she pre sumed, about the bill. "I had someone on the line while I was talking to you," said the wit ness. "So did I," volunteered McNab. Miss Briggs declared that she had not told he- story before nor volun teered any information because she shrank from the notoriety. She add ed she had been summoned to testify only last Saturday. A portion of the alleged attack by Arbuckle -on Miss Rappe was enacted lir the defense in an effort to show that had force been used The finger ator Poindexter expects to be able to go to his home at Spokane within a couple of weeks. His departure will await action on the naval appropria tion bill, which now seems certain to be disposed of by the house before the middle of April. As the senate will have other busi ness ahead of the naval bill, hearings on the latter measure will not be held until after the senator's return from home. It is thought that he will be able to- spend at least two weeks in the state, meeting constituents and planning some of the details of his campaign for renomination. It had been expected that the ene mies of the four-power treaty would undertake to delay action on the naval limitation treaty, which ' would have made it necessary for Senator Poin dexter, as ranking member of the senate naval affairs committee to remain here. MINISTER READY TO FIGHT BOUT OF CHAPIiAIXS AT IiE GIOX PROPOSED. CAMercriandis of J Merit Only Introducing the New Russian Filet Laces prints on the hotel room door would have been blurred ana ' smudged be yond identification. ' Flnser-Print Kxpert I Heard. ' Nat Schmulewitz, defense attorney, Impersonated Miss Rappe and E. O Henrich, who had testified as a finger-print expert, impersonated Ar buckle. The door of the hotel room was used in the staging of the sup posed scene. Henrich had testified that the door bore the p.rints of Miss Rappe's hand, with Arbuckle's super imposed. - Adolph Juel, finger-print expert for the San Francisco police depart ment, was the opening witness for the defense. He testified that the finger prints on the door of the hotel room in which the struggle was alleged to have taken place were not those of Miss Rappe and Arbuckle, thus di rectly contradicting the testimony of Henrich, who developed the photo graphs of the marks. Juel was under cross-examination when the session closed. Hoquiam Pastor Not Ready to Ac . cept Chaftenge Yet Unde sirable Publicity Feared. TOPEKA, Kan., March 28. Proposal for a boxing match between Rev. Earl A. Blackman of Chanute, Kan., na tional chaplain of the American Le gion, and Chaplain Beard of the Wash ington State Legion, as a feature of the next national legion convention, is approved by Chaplain Blackman, he announced in a letter to the Asso ciated Press today. HOQUIAM. Wash., March 28. Rev. J. W. Beard, of the First Presby terian church here, when notified this morning that Rev. Earl A. Blackman had offered to meet him in a boxing contest before the annual meeting next fall, said he was not now ready to accept the challenge before so large a oody. . It was proposed .that the two men meet before the sifate convention of the American Legion at Wenatchee next fall, and the state legion has been trying to arrange this bout. x am ready to meet any man on earth in a friendly boxing match Rev. Beard, who was the "fighting parson of the 91st division, said to day, "but I fear a bout before a great convention of the American Legion might result in too much undesirable publicity. I will have to think it over. They are novel, they are exquisite, and I very effectively are to be used for table j runners, dresser scarfs, buffet runners, cur- I tains, door panels, chair backs, etc., etc., etc. i i I The Prices 50c to $1.05 a Yard j : : A The Lace Section Second Floor LIpman, Wolfe & Co. i i A- .- - i K I c i CHIEF'S AID IS ASKED Relief From Rooster's Crowing Is Asked by Neighbor. Police Chief Jenkins was petitioned yesterday to invoke the capital pun ishment law against a white Orping ton rooster, owned by Frank Young, 28 Willis boulevard, because of its at tainments as a world champion in the art ana science of early morning crowing. In a letter received from Mr:. M. Casey, 25 West McClellan street, the young rooster was declared to he a public nuisance and a destroyer of the peace and quiet of an otherwise inoffensive neighborhood. On 247 separate occasions during the past week, she wrote, the rooster has crowed long and lustily at all hours of the day and night. His crowing has become so insistent, she says, that she is unable to get a full night's sleep. But the letter was laid away in the archives of unsolved crimes, because there is no state law nor city ordi nance against a crowing rooster. AIMS ABANDONED, ACCORDING TO SOVIET GOVERNMENT. Russia, on Eve of Genoa Confer ence, Gives Promise of Recogni tion of Property Rights. fCopyrlght hy the New York World. Pub lished by Arrangement.) BERLIN, March 28 (Special by Wireless.) According to a special tel egram from Moscow to the Montag post, the departure of the Russian delegation for Genoa will be signal ized by the soviet government by a proclamation declaring communism has reached its end in Russia and assuring the world of the re-establishment of ordinary recognized prop erty rights, though not exactly as demanded by the supreme council at Cannes. The state will continue to operate certain important industries which re of eminent public concern, but will re-establish and protect private industries. All the factories except those reserved for public operation will be rented to private operators under guarantees of protection. Own ership of property will be fixed on the basis of present' possession, the government making no promises to restore confiscated property to for mer owners. Censorship of letters will be discontinued. BEAN CLUB GETS BUSY First Plans for Campaign Are Dis cussed at Luncheon. EUGENE, Or., March 28. (Special.) The first definite plans for the state-wide campaign for the nomina tion of Louis E. Bean as republican candidate for governor, were made at a luncheon here today at noon, held by the executive committee of the Bean - for - Governor club. Lloyd Riches, editor of the Malheur Enter prise at Vale, has come to Eugene to direct the publicity campaign for Mr. Bean and has opened headquarters in Mr. Bean's law office. Mr. Bean will start a personal cam paign in the lower Columbia river counties within a few days, it was announced today, and will carry it all over the state, covering every section before the primary election in May. I GERMANS REVEAIi DIFFICUL TIES PUT IX 'WAY. Alfred Wolf Blames Bureaucracy and Constant Opposition of Industrials of France. DOG SENT TO FILM STAR Miss Minter's Pet Canine Reaches Hawaii, but Is Quarantined. HONOLULU, T. H., March 28. Mary Miles Minter's Japanese sleeve dog, said to be worth J20O0, which missed the boat when the moving picture ac tress departed for Hawaii, arrived here today on the liner Matsonia, but it will be some time before the ori ental caiine nestles in the film queen's sleeve. Health officials announced that, following the usual practice the dogr will be held in quarantine for 36 days, which will make its date of release coincident with that on which Miss Minter plans to return to the mainland. Garden Seeds Party Issue. THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Washington, D. C, March 28. Senator McNary, with all of his republican colleagues on the senate agricultural committee, went, on record today against free garden seeds as provided for in the agricultural appropriation bill passed by the house. For the first time perhaps in the history of either branch of congress garden seeds became a party issue. All of the democrats on the committee voted to continue the free seed distribution (Copyright by the New York World. Pub lished by Arrangement.) BERLIN, March 28. (Special by wireless.) Alfred Wolf, who was the representative of the German min istry of reconstruction attached to the German war burden commission in Paris, reveals in an article published in the Berliner Tageblatt, the difficul ties that have stood in the way of the negotiations between the French and Germans regarding the delivery of reparation in kind. Herr Wolf says: "Not one of the various plans for delivery in kind has been carried out, although both sides frequently agreed on one or another plan. This has been due chiefly to the French industrials who desire that they themselves de liver the materials for the reconstruc tion of the devastated area. "Soon before the London ultimatum. ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs Salmons assured M. Loucheur, minister of the liberated regions, that Germany was willing to begin the reconstruction of France's devastated area immediately and that the German industrials had already mobilized .to carry out the housing plan so that work could begin soon as the French government consented. After the London ultima tum M. Loucheur told me personally he was ready to accept the German offer of 25.000 wooden buildings to be delivered during 1921. The negotia tions which followed brought this figure down to 5000, and even for these the official French order has not been put in, not because M. Lou cheur had changed his mind or had not promised in good faith, but be cause he could not get his committees to agree with him. 'After many months the French gave an official order for the delivery of 100 sample houses. These have been delivered but not all of them have been set up, because the French contractors have not laid the founda tions for them. The Germans volun teered to construct the foundations, but permission was refused them." Herr Wolf concludes: "That practically nothing has been accomplished is due to the clumsiness of the French bureaucracy and to the constant opposition of the French in dustrials." . - the famous campidoglio, the official headquarters of the Roman munici pality.- The laws demand that all the documents concerning both the con tracting parties to the marriage be regular and in order. In fact, the law is very stringent in this respect, so that bigamous or illegal marriages are of the rarest occurrence. Both the Rev. Mr. Maynard, pastor of the American Methodist church here, who performed the religious marriage of Mr. Hollis and Miss Hobbs in his church.and the officials at the campidoglio were aware that the bridegroom had obtained a divorce from his first wife in Bulgaria, which the Bulgarian legation here alleges was legal and thoroughly, in order. Determined to marry his present bride, despite his first wife's opposi tion to a divorce, ex-Senator Hollis veirt to Bulgaria, where he lived long enough to become a legal resi dent. Then he began suit for di vorce and published a notice to that effect in some of the American news papers. His wife made no legal move despite the publication, so in the course of a little time the Bulgarian courts dissolved his first marriage. Mr. Hollis came to Rome, produced the necessary documents, became a legal resident here and married Miss Hobbs. MARRIAGE DEEMED LEGAL EX-SENATOR FORMS TO HOLLIS CON ITALIAN LAW. Divorce From First Wife Obtained in Bulgaria to Marry Anne Wood Hobbs in Rome. (Copyright by the New York World. Pub lished by Arrangement.) ROME, March 28. (Special cable.) Everyone here concerned with the marriage of Henry-F. Hollis' of New Hampshire, ex-United States senator, to Miss Anne Wood Hobbs considers it perfectly legal in the eyes of the Italian law.' . Here marriages must be contracted, not only in church but at MAN, 75, INTENDS TO WED Lewis Haaven and Mrs. Butcher, 60, Get License at Vancouver. VANCOUVER, Wash.. March 28. (Special.) Lewis G. Haaven, 73, antf Mrs. Ane M. Buchter, 60 years of age, both of Portland, obtained a license is .ii&rry here today.- They were ac companied by Mrs. William A. Ezard of 1168 Detroit avenue, Portland, who acted as witness. Mr., Haaven is the oldest candidate for matrimony here for many months. SENATOR MAY COME HOME Mr. Poindexter Expected in Spo kane Coming Month. THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Washington, D. C, March 28. By rea son of the complete break-down of the opposition to the remaining treaties, m-eanine their early ratification, Sen- The Oregonian publishes practi cally all of the want ads printed in the other three Portland papers, in addition to thousands of exclusive advertisements not printed in any other local paper. Orpheum matinee today. 15-25-50-Ad. 11 0-C's - . p50 SXMiN if 1 NEW SERVICE New York-Plymouth, Eng. S.S. Paris April 26 May 24 S.S. France. . .May 10 May 31 and regularly thereafter. S. S. Rochambeau will call at Plymouth westbound, commencing May 16 east be und September 14.' J New York Havre Paris 1a Torraine Apr. 1 ....... , . Paris. Apr. 5 Apr. 26 May 84 Chicajro Apr. 6 May 11 June 15 France Apr. 13 May 10 Max 31 1 Touraine Apr. 22 May 25 June 29 Korliambeaa Apr. 27 June 1 July 6 avoie May 6 June 10 July 15 Tours in Algeria and .Morocco Sailings from Bordeaux or Marseille. Three and Four-Week Motor Trips. Write -for Interesting Descriptive Literature JFugazl !ro.. 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There were no objections to this improvement, which will com plete a fine system in the residence part of the city just above the busi ness center. - Protests of half a dozen property owners against building sidewalks of cement, under a blanket ordinance, that will replace . practically all wooden walks on the west side of the city, were voted down unanimously by the commission. This improve ment now will go ahead. It includes 8000 lineal feet of walk. Mailing tlhe IT'S a -simpler matter if one makes use of the service Lipman, Wolfe & Co.'s trained organization is able to render. Especially valuable the help that is to be received from Miss Stoddard of the Lipman, Wolfe Interior Decorating Department her advice, her suggestions, her estimates free upon request. ; And then when it comes to selection of the rugs, draperies and other furnishings Lipman, Wolfe & Co. s particularly now, with all the splendid new spring stocks in place presents still other important advan tages. . 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He left the train Monday night at Junction City and started to walk north. He was found by a special agent of the railway company. He was locked up here. HARRIS BURG, Or., March 26. CSnscial.) Charles R. Flynn. an ex- The bank er is a conservative all-wool suit jtrotford dishes at the very moderate price 35 The kind of suit conservative men appre ciate three-button modish model not extreme in any way. Of fine quality heavy weight all-wool worsteds and serges striped, checked or plain. An example of the fine values making new friends for Fulops' daily. The home of STRATFORD CLOTHES "The Style Clothes of America" 328-330 Washington St. Just below Broadway "ALWAYS A NEW STORE' service man, was picked up here in a demented condition yesterday after noon by local citizens and was taken to Eugene. Papers on his person indicated that Flynn had served , about two years overseas, has been twice wounded, was honorably disn-hareed at Camp Dodge, la., April 10, 1919, and that he had just reinlisted last Friday at St. Paul, Minn. ltolslievik Gold Sent Jlcre. STOCKHOLM. The Russian bolshe viki continue to export larsre Hmonnta of gold. In one week (15 tn.nn of gold coins arrived here from Rival, while in another week an Ksthonlan icebreaker brought 129 ru wen valued at (22.000.000. It la understood that these parcels of gold only puta to A merlcH. 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