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THE MORNING OREGONJAV THURSDAY. DECEMBER 21, 1922 115 REINSTATE , 'FATTY' ARBUGKLE Will Hays Withdraws Ban on Film Comedian. ACTOR ACCEPTS CHANCE of the city council. Seaman's an nouncement was made late this held to discuss the matter. VICTIMS DESCRIBE Man Acquitted of Manslaughter In Virginia Kappe Case to Slake Pictures Again. I .OS ANGELES, Ca!., Dec. 20. Boscoe Arbuckle, motion picture comedian, has a job in the pictures, and if he is to come back to the Iilace he once occupied it is distinct ly up to Arbuckle and the American people. This was the gist of a se ries of statements given out here today by Will Hays, chief of the motion picture industry; Jesse Li. Lasky of the company that formerly distributed the Arbuckle comedies; Joseph 'Schenck, producer, who will employ Arbuckle, and the -comedian himself. Mr. Hays requested the produc ers to withdraw the Arbuckle films and to make no more of them last April. He took that action after Arbuckle had been thrice tried on a charge of manslaughter arising from the death in San Francisco of Miss Virginia Rappe,, an actress. Since then Arbuckle has lived quietly, tak ing an occasional trip away, but keeping out of the public eye. Boycott Is Lifted. Today Mr. Hays announced that he saw no reason why Arbuckle should not be permitted to go back to work if he wished to do so. Mr. Hays said Arbuckle had been tried and acquitted; that he believed every man was entitled to a chance to re deem himself, and that he did not wish to stand in Arbuckle's way. He made it plain that he neither Bponsored Arbuckle's future nor his filma, but that he was simply put ting things into train so the actor could work out his own future, un hampered by any restrictions from within the industry. Mr. Arbuckle declined to comment on the new conditions other than to say he would accept the chance and try to improve. Neither would his employer, Mr. Schenck, comment on their plans. The only definite an nouncement in the matter other than that of Mr. Hays came from Mr. I.asky, who said his firm had no intention of putting existing Ar buckle films on the market now. Haya Starts for East. Mr. Hays left late todr.y to spend Christmas with his family at Sulli van, Ind. A statement of the case was given out from the headquarters of Mr. Hays at the Ambassador hotel. It said: "Roscoe Arbuckle is to have an other chance to go to work anu make good if he can. After the first of the year he will be given this new opportunity. "He has gone straight since he was barred from the films last April and he has ple.iged his word that he will keep on going straight. His conduct has satisfied Will H. Hays, adviser to the motion picture industry; Joseph M. Schenck, who will employ him, and the Paramount company, represented by Jesse L. Lasky, which concern formerly dis tributed the comedies in which the fat funmaker appeared. Announcement that there be no objection to Arbuckle's return to work was made today by Mr. Hays before he departed from Los An gele's after a busy week here spent in organizing plans for t'ae develop ment of a mutuality of interests and sympathy in the artistic community which the local motion picture colony forms, between it and the civic sommunity in which the pic ture makers-live." Arbuckle Makes Statement. Roscoe Arbuckle said: I want to say that I am very grateful to all those who are help ing me and I will prove myself worthy of their faith in me." The career of Arbuckle as one of the most successful and popular motion picture comedians, was halted by tragedy in September, 1921. On the fifth of that month, Labor day, Arbuckle occupied suite of rooms at the St. Francis hotel, San Francisco, where he was visited by a number of men. and women, most of them connected with motion picture or stage work. One of the visitors was Miss Vir ginia Rappe, who had been filmed in minor parts In Los Angeles. Miss Rappe was taken suddenly ill and removed to a hospital, where she died four days later. An autopsy revealed an internal injury. State ments were made by other members of the party that the actress was alone in a room with Arbuckle when she began to scream and was car Tied out, apparently suffering great pain. Arbuckle was indicted for man slaughter, but a warrant charging murder was also sworn out and the comedian washeld for several days without bail. The magistrate who heard testimony on the warrant, held Arbuckle for manslaughter only. Film Actor Acquitted. Three trials followed. The juries In the f'rst two disagreed, while the third returned a verdict of ac quittal. The 12 jurors and two al ternates in the last trial signed a statement declaring their belief that Arbuckle was fully exonerated and entitled' to a .reinstatement in public. Arbuckle's pictures were with drawn shortly after his arrest. The aters in various parts of the country began to run them again when he was acquitted, but they were with drawn again by direction of Mr. Hays, who had recently been made chief arbiter of the allied motion picture interests. Arbuckle's con tract with the Famous Players Lasky corporation was canceled during the trials. Arbuckle had appeared in pictures for about ten years prior to his misfortune. His generous propor tions gained for him the sobriquet of "Fatty," and, together with a good-natured countenance and ex pansive smile, constituted his prin cipal assets in film work. Wife Shows Loyalty. He married Miss Minta Durfee, a vaudeville actress. They were separated at the time of the Rappe tragedy, but Miss Durfee returned to her husband while he was in jail and stood by him during the trials. After the acquittal she went to New York to resume stage work, but said she and her husband were fully reconciled. IXDIAXAPOLIS BAN'S FILMS Showing of "Arbuckle Productions Forbidden by Mayor. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dec. 20. Motion pictures showing Roscoe ("Fatty") Arbuckle will not be per mitted to be shown in Indianapolis, according to the statement issued this afternoon by Mayor Shank, when informed that Will Hays, chairman of the motion picture in dustry, had. announced that Ar buckle might have a chance to come back in pictures. Mayor Shank said he was confi dent that he could prevent Arbuckle pictures being shown here, and that lie would notify all motion picture theater owners in the city that the AVbuckle pictures could not be shown here. MERR MASSACRE Peter Hiller and Otis Clark Identified by Witnesses. GUNS BOUGHT FOR FIGHT BUDGET CUT PROTESTED Fight for Desired River and Har bor Allowance Started. THE OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Washington, D. C, Dec. 20. A con ference was held today by Repre sentatives Hawley, McArthur and Sinnott at which plans were made for the fight to upset the budget director's recommendations as to, appropriations for river and harbor improvements. Representative Newton of St. Louis has been chosen head of a general house organization to work for the substitution of the amount asked by the board of engineers for the amount favored by the budget di rector. ' The engineers asked, in round numbers, $56,000,000 and $13,- 000,000 for construction and main tenance, respectively, while the bud get director would allow only $27, 000,000 for both purposes. ASTORIA AID IS ASKED fTontinuPd From First Pape.) necessary before the devastated dis trict which comprises entirely all of of the business section of town can be reconstructed by the municipality or people of Astoria. The rehabili tation refers to municipal work only streets, water and sewerage systems together with fire and police wiring. N0 portion is for property owned by private individ uals. "Detailed report by engineer of fcer follows. Estimated cost $1,250, 000. Harding Transmits Report. The Anderson report sent to Sen ator McNary was accompanied by the following letter of transmittal from the president: . "My Dear Senator McNary Agreeable to our telephone conver sation, I am inclosing you herewith a copy of the report of Colonel T. M. Anderson of the 16th infantry after his survey of the destruction at As toria, Or., on December 8. "As soon as the great loss was called to my attention by the mayor of the city, I directed the war de partment to make an official survey of the situation and of report. You will note that every possible tem porary relief has been bestowed with great promptness. The appro priation for rebuilding out of the federal treasury is necessarily a matter with which congress is called upon to deal. I am very glad to be able to place this official informa tion at your disposal. Very truly yours, "WARREN G. HARDING." Storekeepers Testify Regarding Purchase of Firearms to Be Charged to Union. Herrin, who, one of the witnesses C""I testified, was a spectator of the . IJ- death march through the town, an nounced his resignation today. EMBEZZLER IS PARDONED Clerk Who Padded Umatilla Pay- . rolls Released by Mr. Rltner. SALEM, Or., Deo. 20. (Special.) K. C. Amann, who was received at the state penitentiary here 14 months ago to serve an Indeter minate term not to exceed five years, following conviction on a charge of padding the payrolls in the office of the Umatilla county road master, today was released on conditional pardon Issued by Acting-Governor Ritner. Amann was charged with, embez zling approximately $9000. He re paid $1500. The conditional pardon compels him to pay the remaining $7500 at the rate of $25 a month. The pardon was recommended by the state parole board, and request ed by a large number of citizens of Umatilla county. BUILiDIXG CLAIM REJECTED Reliel Committee Declines to Act on Bills for Opening Safes. ASTORIA, Or., Dec. 20. (Special.) The relief committee today i fused to pay a bill for $207.77 for the construction of a temporary street leading to the wholesale dis trict. It also declined to act upon claims amounting to $415.10 for opening safes which were in the fir,e. The committee has directed that a complete list of subscribers to the relief fund be prepared and given to the press. Telegrams were received from the Seattle National bank, the First Na tional bank of Philadelphia and the Chase National bank of New York saying they had urged the members of their respective congressional delegations to work and vote for a federal appropriation to assist in the reconstruction of Astoria by es tablishing a harbor improvement project. Among the permanent buildings to be erected at once in devastated district is a concrete structure by the Lower Columbia Dairy associ ation adjoining its creamery. The structure will be 36x45 feet. Goods, Stolen in Fire, Found. ASTORIA, Or., Dec. 20. (Special.) Several hundred dollars' worth of stolen goods, consisting of men's and women's clothing and articles of jewelry, have been found by the sheriff's department in Warrenton and here. No arrests have yet been made, although two boys have been under investigation. The district attorney stated today that com plaints will be filed within the next few days. The property is alleged to have been taken during the Jlre- Banks Resume Business. ASTORIA, Or., Dec. 20. (Special.) The four local banks esumed busi ness today for the first time since the fire. The deposits were about $400,000 in excess of the withdraw als. They will begin cashing checks on old deposits as soon as they are able to open their vaults. MARION, 111., Dec. 20. (By the Associated Press.) Peter Hiller and Otis Clark, two of the defendants on trial charged with murder in con nection with the Herrln riots, were pointed out in court by two of the four survivors who took the witness stand today. Those summoned who occupied the stand most of the day were William Cairns, P. J. O'Rourke, Bernard Jones and Robert Officer, the latter a Uni versify of Pennsylvania graduate and a bookkeeper at the "strip" mine where the riots started which resulted in the death of 20 non union men. The first three were guards at the mine. Cairns testified that the 48 men in the mine surrendered under-a white flag between 6:30 and 6 o'clock the morning of June 22, and were marched out of the pit with their hands above their heads after being told that they would not be harmed. He said he had seen C. K. McDowell, the crippled superintend ent of the mine, led away by Otis Clark, who had a gun, and another man. Massacre Is Described. "We were marched on until we came to a barbed wire fence," he said, "and someone shouted, 'All men with guns line up to the right,' and then someone else cried: 'Now, you fellows run.' " Then the firing started. When he was wounded and lying beside the fence with two bullets, in his body Cairns said he saw Peter Hiller come up to another wounded man who was leaning against a tree and fire into his body after shout inr. "You great, big , can't we kill you?" The witness said he saw another man approach John Shoemaker, as sistant superintendent at the mine. who was lying wounded in the field, and say: "Here's that ma chine gunner." Cairns declared the speaker then drew a pistol and blew Shoemaker's head off. The witness said he was1 picked up and taken to a hospital by Sher iff Thaxton about an hour later. O'Rourke told of being shot twice at the fence, of fleeing through the woods until he was recaptured and marched with five other bleeding, pleading victims through Herrln to a cemetery outside the city, where all six were shot down in the road. Prayer Brings Knife Slash. The witness said he remembered praying for any Christian in the crowd to bring him water and, in the name of his mother, for someone to notify her of his fate. He said someone knelt over him and slashed his throat with a pocketknife. O'Rourke was picked up with seven bullet wounds in his body. Jones testified that he had raised a white flag at the mine on the order of McDowell and was told by the leader of the attackers that those in the mine would be taken safely out of the county. He told of the march from the mine while someone In the crowd shouted "Kill them," but that others cried: "We are going to put them on a train and get them out of here. They've had enough alreadv." He quoted Clark as saying: "We're going through with this if I have to shoot them all myself." Jones said that when the firing at the fence started, he leaped over, ran through the fields and later took a train for Chicago, after being given refuge by a farmer. Guns Are Purchased. A. T. Norman, a Herrin hardware dealer, testified that on the after noon of June 21 a crowd of men and boys came into his store and tot three guns and asked him to charge them to the Herrin miners' local. Norman said he refused and asked for names and they gave him two and said they wanted the guns In a hurry. A. A. Mosley, another hardware dealer of Marion, testified that 15 or 20 men came into his store the afternoon of June 21 and seized nine shotguns and had charged them to the Herrin locals and told him if he wanted "verification to call up Hugh Willis or Will Davis, miner, officials. Robert Herron. chief of police of Federal Road Money Wanted. VANCOUVER, Wash., Dec. 20.- (special.) The Vancouver Prunar- ians today urged passage of the proposed federal appropriation of $7,500,000 for road work. The reso lution was introduced by W. J. Knapp. president of the Vancouver branch of the 'Automobile club of Western Washington. The prune men also decided to entertain Miss Lidwln Dillon, prnnarian queen, at the next session. Miss Beryl Wood ruff, Miss Henrietta Shoemaker and Miss Bernice Russell, prunarian princeses, will be guests at the reception. Elks to Build $60,000 Temple. CORVALLIS, Or., Dec. 20. (Spe cial ) At a regular meeting of the Corvallis Elks' lodge last night it was voted unanimously to erect a $60,000 temple. Building operations are to start In the early spring. Julian McFadden and Johnson Porter agreed to give a lot 100x100 fronting on Second and Monroe streets to start the enterprise. The offer was accepted and the Elks are now out after the necessary money to erect the building. County Farm Bureau Elects. WALLA "WALLA, Wash., Dec. 20. (Special.) S. P. Maxson was elect ed president of the Walla Walla county farm tbureau here today, suc ceeding W. A. Ritz. F. A. Fields was name vice-president. The secretary-is named by the executive committee. It was announced that the state farm bureau meeting will be held here January 15 and 16. Boom Hearing Resumes Today. SALEM, Or., Dec 20. (Special.) Hearing of the application of the Oswego Boom company for a fran chise to operate on Oswego lake will be returned in Portland tomorrow. 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