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LATE MAIL EDITION FrJjy rain, colder KtMmt lH; MaMrdar rluudjr. Temperature yejatertUjt Martrwm 6-; mlnuuuna, 3S IMalM West rag, aa! Ukj VOL. LXXVIII. NO. 336 DAILY Entered iMHd-lM matter.

Office. Cinelaaatl, Ohio. FRIDAY MOKNINO, DECEMBER 2, 1921 PltlCE FIVE CENTS; I Of Rappe Case On. Closing Arguments Are Ilegun By Both Sides. Leading Witness For Defense Poisoned.

Hut Her Illness Has 'No Bearing Upon Trial, Physicians Take Stand To Assist Arbucklel, Screen Actress Victim of Chronic Disorder, Medical Experts, Appointed By Court. Report 'TDo Not Understand It!" Says Prosecutor? Ian 1'unclnt'O. December 1. Fi The piM'nin of Mr. Ir Irene Morgan, trading mines for th defend, and (Ik of th closing argument hth nidr were outstanding defilements to-day In the trial of i.u.-w (Fatty) Arbucklc, 01m I.ro Friedman, an Asatant Dlatrlct Attoiniy, made' the Drat exposition tho prosecution' contention that i ha preented an unbreakable'tliain evidence tn link the comedian with i lie death of MIps Virginia Rappe, hum.

It charges, Arbucklc injured at a party In his room at a hotel here. Mra. Viorgan waa found aufferlng In lir lintel room from the effect of a poison. Ilrr lllnraa was declared to l.ava no relation to the Arbuckle trial. VcNab Concluding: Cats Gavin McNab began what probably )ill Jply addresk.

"tut vs Inteerupted by adjournment of Court for th day. Arbuckle appeared to be Indifferent during Friedman's argument, devoting most of his time to gailng aruund or fingering shreds of paper. Friedman told the Jury "that even if Arbuckle told the truth on the aland it would bo strong enough to convict him. for he admitted he left Miss Rappe after her Injury without calling a physician or telling any one at her McNab accused the prosecution of having witnesses In the Friedman declared, the defense tes-timony of Dr. Franklin Shlcls "blast- the defense's own theory that the Mndder rupture which caused Miss llappe's death might have resulted front sudden immersion in a cold lath." I'r.

Shiels testified that he. had no Knowledge of a bladder being ruptured in this manner. Medical Expert Beport A fpecial medical commission's i- Vrt that the bladder of Miss Rappe I Jhowcd evldenee nf "nation and the presence of rupt'ij-e was submitted to-day. The defense, that the Madder rupture which' caused Mi.is Happen death was the climax of a hronie condition and not' caused by 'rnI force applied by the prosecution alleged. Tlic proneciitlon obtained the prlvl-''K' examining the report.

nr commission was named by the uri and counsel for both sides. The report was read by Dr. William "Phuls. ho waa named on the by the prosecution and who I'd formed an examination of Mhi 'PPt'a body, The report "absolutely cor rob 1 tho deposition of Dr. Maurlas 'ioienberg, of Chicago, who treated Mis Kappe, supposedly -for a bladder 'lisordcr in 1111, according defense! uunacl.

Prosecutor Is Puzsled. "I don- understand It." Matthew l.rady, District Attorney, said regard. ing the report tha. prosecution summoned Dr. OphuTs to take the Kt.nH nrf tinliln the report-in detail.

Gavin MCVab, Arbuckle'a attorney. announced he would make the onlv argument for the defenae. "I expect to take less lhan two Hi-urs." he said. Each side has four l.ours. Captain Theodore Rayward.

of the ''xnadlan expeditionary forces, testl- ncd to-day In refutation of defense intlmony by Mis. that she associated with th Canadian i rcea. Mrs. Morgan nad testified that she "Ucnded Mlar Rappe, 8he said on th "and that she had been affiliated with Hie "Fifth Company la the Canadian Ho.piui service at the front, Cap "'in itayward that thertt wa -nfth Company." Mrs. Morgan said alio that she "rved In the Battle ef tb Marn ur-lnt 117.

Captala Rayward said th tlle waa la ltll. Ledge Executed Hip-Flop On Leajue of Nations Issue, Joseph P. Tumulty Charges By Joseph P. Tumult. CHAPTER ix.

Upon hia 'return home from Paris the President Immediately nvttet In I most' cordial fashion, the niernbers of the Senate. Foreign Relations Committee to confer with him at the White House. Borne of thorn who received the invitation Immediately announced that aa a condition precedent to their acceptance they would insist that the conference should hot be secret in character and that what would happen there should be disclosed to the public. The President quickly accepted the conditions proposed by tho Repub- lican Senators, and made a statement! from the White House that the con- ditions which the conferenco named were highly acceptable to him, and that he waa willing and anxious to give to the public a stenographic re-' port of everything that transpired. In view of subsequent history, the conversation between the President and Senator Harding about1 the dis-l tlnction betw een "legal" and "moral" obligation; which were Interesting at the time, takes on an added Said Senator Harding: "If there is) nothing more than a moral oblige-1 tion on the part of any ofj I American Guests Manhandled as Angry Mob Sweeps Vienna, Rifling Shops and Robbing Rich Vienna.

December I (By the Associated Press). During the widespread rioting which look place in Vienna to-day many Xmerlcana staying at hotels were attacked and a number of them were subjected to v. rough treatment. Mrs. Hand, wlfof a Colonel of the United Slates Army, and her daughter were robbed of furs and clothing, but on the same floor Colonel and Mrs.

Miller, U. a A-, displayed the American flag and spoke English and the rioters withdrew from their Of the hotel the New Bristol and the Old Iirlatol suffered most. They were damagod badly. Inquiries at the hotels disclose that many guest were robbed of their clothing and Jewels, in a number of instances the Jewels being torn from the ears. Seemingly, the most rowdy elements swept through the Inner city.

They were Joined by he worst criminal class, committing all kinds of excesses. At 7 o'clock to-nisht the streets Packing House Strike Called; To Take Effect December 5 CJJcago. December 1. A strlko of all union, packing-house employees In' alt plants where wage reductions were put Into effect last Monday was ordered for December 5 by the Executive Committee of the Amalgamated Meat Cutter and Butcher' Workmen of North America to-night. The strike, which affects all union crafts employed In the packing industry, will Involve 45,000 workers In ili according to Cornelius Hayes, President of the Butcher Workmen' Union.

Dennis Lane, Secretary of the Butcher Workmen's Union, to-night Issued the, following statement on the action of the Executive Committee: Alt attempt negotiate a fair ad justment of wage rates by offering an Babe's Body Found in Boiler, Near Voman irBCUL Pl.PATCa TO TBS BXUl'IBSB. Chicago, December 1. Margaret Coughlin, 3 years old. daughter of a policeman, went aero the street yesterday to play with Joseph Pensis, a boy little older than she. To-day her dismembered and mutilated body was found In a wash boiler over a red-hot stove, ready tb be destroyed by boiling.

In the basement In nsls's home. Mr. Penl wa found lying oh the floor, her throat cut with a bread knife. The, body still wa warm. Dior and window of the house had been, locked from the Inside.

head ami one arm' of the slain Coughlin b.be were found under a pillow oo the bed in which JoaeDh Penal' and wife slept last night Police and reporter, unable to galiK entrance to the house, found th hot tov In th bhsewnt and flame leading up from a ma of paper and other refuse. In anolhtr half hour the nouso ould have beu In flames and the double crime might have been covered. The police theory Js that Mrs. Pensis. In a Ut of emotional Insanity, hilled her what avail Articles 10 and lir.

The President Why, Senator. Jt surprising that that Question should be asked. If wc undertake an obligation, we are bound In the most solemn way to carry It out. Senator Harding If you believe that there la nothing more to this than a moral obligation, any nation will ass urn a a moral obligation oa Its own account. Is it a moral obligation? The point I am trying to get at is: Suppoae something arises affecting the peace of the world and the Council takes steps as provided here, to conserve or preserve, and announces its decision, and every nation In the 'league takes advantage of the construction that you place upon these articles and says: "Well, this is only a moral oblige-' tion and wc assume that the nation involved does' not deserve our par- ticlpatlon orprotec(ion," and -the whole thfhg amounts' to nothing but an expression of the League Council.

The President There la a national good conscience in such a matter. I should think that was one CONTINUED ON PAGE 13. were quiet and further disturbances of serious nature are not looked for. The Associated Press correspondent asked of a squad of policemen who idly watched the -wrecking of the Hotel Imperial If there were not sufficient police to handle the situation. He replied: "We are tired of shooting and being These people are hungry and desperate; so are many of us." The disturbances, tp-day were the most serious since the downfall of tba modarclry.

VThey spread throughout 'the Inner- etty: and practically every unshuttered window waa smashed. All famoua restaurants and hotels frequented by foreign visitors were entered, looted and partly wrecked, and the luxury shops rifled, while police watched without Inter fering. The disturbances are described as purely economic, due to the growing scarcity and cost of the necessaries o-' life. They had their inception In a general strike in the Industrial aub- CONTimrED ON NINTH PAGE. agreement providing for arbitration be tween the, packe anil the employees! have failed! The Joint Executive Com-1 mlttce representing all International unions affected advises.

In accordance with the strike vote of the rank and file, that. all packing-house employees in all plant where wage reductions were ordered into effect arbitrarily Monday, November any date thereafter, cease all work at 4 o'clock Monday morning, Dccernber The clUea where the packing house employees aVe organised are Chicago, Milwaukee, Paul, Sioux City, Omaha, Denver, Nebraska City, Ht. Joseph, Kansas City, Wichita, Oklahoma Ft Worth, East 8t. CONTINUED ON SECOND PAGE. With Throat Cut neighbor', babe and ended her own life.

This I disputed by her own children, a daughter of IT, another of 0. They maintain their mother was fond of little Margaret and was planning to boy her Christmas presents. Th suicide theory is not borne out by the manner in which Mrs. Pensls's throat wa tut. It la difficult, police said, to "conceive, how a person could Indict such a wound upon himself.

Officer Coughlin, father of the murdered child, adheres to, the suicide theory. He say Mr. Pensfs always had shown f.n almost Ir.rino love' Ipr tha child, taking her to the Pensis home almost every duy. Joseph husband of the deud woman, la a machinist, and believe his wife slew the babe and herself. Inquiry I being made Into the recent death of four of Mr.

Pensis' own children. Dr. William 8. Hlckaon. head of th na.vehepathlc laboratory of Ihe Municipal Court mnd tho startling reve'ation a short time after tin disclosure of the crime that; October SI, IMS, tho entire Peru Is family was examined by him found to be oementli pracoox casta the league.

LAITS. ARTJ May Span Atlantic To Halt "Health Trip" of Charles W. Morse. Heads of Washington Officials Together To IJevise Plan of Action When Vessel Docks. fy France May Be Asked To Retunt American, Who Sailed Upon Eve of Grand Jury Inquiry.

Sons of New York Naval Builder Deny Any Scheme To Flee Justice Passport May Be Canceled. Washington, December 1. Aroused by the departure of Charles W. Morse, New York ship builder, front the country Just as the Government Is about to place before a Federal Grand Jury Its investigations of his transactions with the Shipping Board, officials of various departments are considering to-night what means may taken to bring him back to the United State. It Is hoped.

Department of Justice officials said, that word can be sent to the French Government In time to permit detention at llave to-morrow morning, when, according to latest advices, the French steamer Paris, on which he sailed from New Tork, is due to dock. Early In the day the Justice Department called on the Navy Department to send a destroyer to meet the vessel outside of Havre and take Morse off the ship. No such order Issued, by the Navy Department, however, and officials declared" later teswre Without authority to act In that manner. Official; Study Plan. i To-night a plan to cancel the pass- port Isaued to Mr.

Morse was under consideration. The effect of such it is understood, probably would be that the French Govern- vlment might, under representations from the United States, refuse to permit him to land. His return to the United State on the Parts probably would result Meanwhile Erwln A. and Harry F. Morse, sons of Charles W.

Morse, through their attoney, Wilton J. Lambert Issued a statement here tonight declaring their father had ailed on the Pari under a passport issued to him In his own name and without knowledge of the Govern-, ment's Intended action before the. grand. Jury. It was their belief the statement said, That the Government knew Morso had sailed ocforo this con- tcmplated actlon Decame nown.

Morse sailed under the advice of his physician "that he would have to undergo an operation If he desired to save his life," the statement said, adding that he would return' whenever his presence waa desired "and when he Is In physical condition to do so." Say Sailing Was Sudden. Justice Department officials declared nothing was known of Mr. Morse' departure until' it was reported from New York last night. Morso obtained a passport several months ago. State Department officials said, and this passport presumably was good at the time of 'his sailing.

No passport is necessary for a citizen of this country to leave the United State. It wa but the State Department issues them as the most convenient proof yOf American citlsenshlp, which I required for admission to virtually all foreign countries. High Government official were not inclined to discus the efforts being made to effect the return ofLMcyse to this country. Secretary Charle E. Hughes conferred with Ambassador Jule( Ji France, at the State Department but It was not disclosed whether the subject 'of Morse's de- parture on the which, under International law.

'ia French wgs under discussion. Secretary. Edwin Denby said he liadviyt been requested to provide a destroyer, to take Morse off the Paris." and that he could not have taken him off a foreign ship If be had been asked to do so. Authorities Are Silent. Beyond declaring that the Government would make every legitimate effort, to bring Morse back to the United State, neither Elmer Schles-Inger, General Counsel of the" Shipping- nor Fletcher Dobvns, GUMTUUJOI UH BSA.UA1 JTAU.

SCENES OF THEATER TRAGEDIES. I I I FIRE TOLL NOW IS SEVEN. ij I ili 1 Hi i CONSPIRACY I .1 ft I Hi AJ: i i it i iTtirrt Seven persona lost their lives at ew Haven, and six at Brooklyn, in recent tragedies connected with theaters. A motion picture house at New Haven Dumed, a number of Tale Students, including two from Cincinnati, being among; the injured. The flame-swept building- is lcsV'oir.

lif)'t'9r9lilrn was baosefl Vjr the WfaUinf p(jwall and the roof of ture at the top shows the wrecked theater and firemen: searching" the debris for victims, INSTRUCTOR Of Shoplifters Caught, Philadelphia Police Say Three Girls Identify Prisoner as "Em ployer," Officers Assert. FECIAL BIKTiTCB TO Til ESqOSEB. Philadelphia. December 1 William LarKins, 48 year old, known to police as "Handsome Harry," alleged to bo. the Instructor of.

girl shoo-llfters. was arrested to-day by central office detectives. He was taken before Judge Gorman, In Morals and confronted -by. Rose and Alice Gephart, of Atlantic City, ang Pauline Schwarzwallcb.f lwndale, three of his alleged students. Larkln was known to the three girls as They told police ho employed them to steal In department stores, paying them S0 for.

each "Job, regardless of the value of the articles stolen. He, had other glrU similarly employed, It wa The girls, who appeared against Larklna 'to-day, are held under bond each. Larkln declined to answer the charges. Police say he previously taught-a girl to steal and, after a quarrel with her, wrote letter to police warning them of. her shop-lifting activities.

The girl waa arrested, but subsequently released. DISAPPOINTING! Ohioan Who Started To Prison By Himself Because He Was Tired' of Waiting, Excluded Bj Warden. Coliimbus, Ohio, December rence L. Jackson. 4 years old, under sentence to the Ohio Penitentiary, sought to enter the Institution, to-day.

but was refused admittance by Warden Thomas, who suggested that he return to-mprrowj when his request likely will be granted. Jackson was convicted on a charge of having embessled- funds of a Samliwky dairy company. The cafe wa carried to the Supreme Court, and that trl-j bunal a week ago refused to consider the case after conviction had been affirmed by a Court of Appeils and a Circuit Court. 1 He wag sentenced, he told Warden i Thomas, from on to seven years. "'I became tired of people around home klng me when I wa going to begin serving my time." he said, I came down by myseir.

1 want to start on my sentence. The Warden explained he was unable to admit him because he bad no( re- Oelved commitment paper from San. -mi. .7 theater junior The'plc- IMMUNITY Is Denied To Directors Of Rapid Transit Company Bel mont and Vanderbilt Refuse To Agree To Waiver. New York.i December 1.

August Belmont Cornelius Vanderbllt and four other Director of tho Interborough Rapid Transits Company refused to waive immunltylo-day When summoned bcfoie the State Transit Commission, which sought determine whether or ntt they had impaired the of the company by authorising large dividend payment from 11)17 tb 11)10. They then were dismissed. The comtiihjxlon, contended that if the Director to have Impaired the corporation's capital their re-KnoniObUity not only would be "civil, but criminal:" The Directors offered to ansWer. any. and all pertinent question If Immunity were granted, but the commission would not have It so.

George McAtiony' Chairman' of the commission, said that Jiody would take Whatever" remedy or means might bo within It power to obtain the desired information, but had not elected a course of action. The Directors felt themselves to bo trustee who might 'Jeopardise interests represented by them on the board If. they, signed the waiver, Mr Belmont said. This. feeling was shared', by Mr.

Variderhllt. Daniel G. Re'id, Edward J. Berwind. F.

De Courcy Sullivan. Thomas Do Witt Cuyler and Morgan J. O'Brien, the last named no longer a Director, they announced" through counsel. Mr. Cuyler was In Washington to-day, but the commission decided not to subpoena him upon 'learning his view were' identical with those of the other Directors.

I Previous evidence brought out that the oompany Hated million of dollar' of stocks alleged to be wbrthless, hssets and had borrowed money on several occasion, just before or after paying dividends. Justice Burr gave' until next Tue-; day t0 rthe attorney -to file -paper and reserved decision. AMERICAN Is Killed at Santa Cruz, Bolivia, According To Reports To State Department; Washington. December 1. The killing of an American citizen named Hartmix at Santa Crus.

Bolivia. November tt. waa reported to the Stat Department to-day from La Pa. The meases stated nothing was known concerning the mas other than his M. sam and that be was aa Amtrlcaa.

Coroner Orders Search of Suing of New Hav-an Theater. New Haven, December 1. John J. Dunn, injured during the Rlalto Theater (Ire Sunday night, died to-day, making the list seven. So many Inquiries had been made about supposed missing person that Coroner Mix to-day ordered a careful examination of the ruins.

The aihea were lifted, but up until late, to-night firemen and policemen had found no trace of human bone. Is Suspected By State. Mrs. M. C.

Obenchain and Burch Accused of Plot To Kill Los Angeles Broker Hotel Men Take Witness Stand in Murder Trial. f6 Angite. Docem'oer l.The name Mrs. C. Oben pretty divorcee.

Indicted Jointly with Arthur C. Burch for the alleged murder of J. Belton Kennedy, waa hrnneht lnt. Bufch'a trial to-day for the first time when Asa Keys. Deputy District Attorney, announced that tho prosecution expected to prove Mrs.

Obenchain and Burch "conspired to commit the crime." Mr. Obenchaln's trio) scheduled to follow Burch's. The clerk of a large downtown hotel Identified Mrs. Obenchaln's signature in the hotel register under the date of July' 0 last and testified she re mained in that hotel until August 5 the date on which Kenijpfiy wo shot death While In her company at Bev erly Glen. Thomas M.

Huley, proprietor of Jt hotel two blocks from where Mrs. Jbenchaln registered, testified Burch camo to his place July 24 and asked, for and obtained i a room overlooking Uroadway. A woman who, Haley declared, was All a. Obenchain, visited Burch. In this room on several occasions, 'he said.

Haley also stated he saw Burch on. several occasion looking from his room window across the street toward the cfllec Where Kennedy and his fa ther conducted a brokerage business. Haley said Burch went out on tho night of August 5, carrying a long liackage wrapped In newspapers which had the generali appearance of a gun case. Burch checked out the next the hotel man said, leaving behind him, newyaper containing accounts of the death rf Kennedy. R.

J. 6an4crnoni a sleeping car testified that Burch came West from Chicago with him, leaving there July .21, and that 'Burch' baggage, whleh Sanderson frequently had handled on the way, Included a shotgun case. Kennedy waa slain with a shotgun, and when Burch' wa arretted he stated he' had no such- weapon in his possession while he was in Los Angeles at about' the time of the shooting. 4j TEN DEAD And 60 Injured aa Result of Head-On Train Collision in Oregon Inquiry 'Under. Wai.

i Portland', Ore. December 1. Ten killed and CO Injured was the toll In i a head-on collision of two Oregon- Washington Railroad and 'Navigation Company passenger train near early according to latest, reports to-night to the company' head office her. The list of dead wa Increased later to-day from six to ten by the flndlng of the bodies of four unidentified' men In tb wreckage. They were said to be railroad workers.

Company official said an investigates waa la progress to determine the caua of th collision. it's so! 0 Chorus AtCapitaL ay of DenialSjHotyever, Serves To Clear Air. lapan Says She Voiced No Formal Appeal Navy Ratio, and Ameriea. Agrees. NorHasTokyoInsisted on It, Kato Asserts.

7 the Idea Is Foolish, Declare "Big Spokesmen First'Shantung Par-. ley Brings Only, Plan of Procedure. By Oablenun. ipscial DiariTca To tat sxqt'iiEa. To-J Washington, December 1 ay wa a day of denials at the intirna-tlonal conference denial 'which cauaed a feeling of optimism to replace the air of pessimism that ha permeated conference circle during last 41 hour.

There was official denial from both American and Japanese sources of the story that Japan bad submitted a definite proposal to the American and British delegation that Japan should have a naval ratio pf 10-10-7 lntail -of the 6-t-S ratio peclfled In the American proposal. The denial from the British spoka- man wa not a peciflc, but this wa attributed to the reticence of the spokesman to discus any phase ff the naval armament negotiations. However. Jt wa established from each' fit, th. three sources tluit See -retary Charle E.

Hughes, A. J. Balfour and Baron Admiral Kato, representing respectively th United Bute. -Great Britain and Japan, have not been In conference since the committee of "naval experts" completed their report aa to the facta underlying the computation upon which the American ratio proposal was baaed. "Deadlock" Is Scouted.

Suggestion of a "deadlock" In the negotiations between the representatives of the three naval power was met In each instance with the re-Joinder that no "deadlock" existed. How can there' be a deadlock, asked one, when the "big three'. have not met to discuss the report of the naval experts. The situation, therefore, Is Just the same a it ha been for the lnt 48 hours. Aa ono of them explained, the naval expert have completed their task.

Their reports now are In the hands of the leader of the three delegations, who are examining them to ascertain the facts. A meeting of the delegates, who must make the final decision, Is to be called when each of them ha digested report. To say that naval expert haVs disagreed Is In error, according to tho official spokesmen of the three Pow-era. The province of the naval experts I to establish facts, not to decide' matter of policy. Thl latter function rejta with th delegate empowered by their Government to act Experts Still at Call, Equally In error i the statement that the naval experts have adjourned sine die.

As wa explained to-day, they are available at any time the delegate desire to call upon them for further light, on the facts they already have(adduced from their Investigation. In other words, they form a partof the permanent staff' of advisers with which each delega-gatlon is supported. Of almost equal Importance was the denial by Baron Admiral Kato tonight of a new cablegram from Tokyo slating that the Japaneue delegation had received specific Instructions from the Japanese Government not to recede from the 10-10-7 position under ny conditions. In response to a direct Inquiry, he raid neither he nor any member of the delegation had received such instruction. Another dental wa added to the It to-night byv Prince Tokugawa.

bead of the Japanese delegation. He said. "What I meant to convey tb other evening In answering question of news paper correspondents concerning tb rf- -tervlew given by Vice Admiral KanJI Kato, on the naval ratio question, wa tlint It the oplnloa of the Japanese navaf experts. I did not' mean, to coo- tradict th view of Admiral Ka 4. Some-people seemed to have, Inter.

preteil what I alT as being a repodis- uen or disapproval at th Vic Ad-.