Times
VOL. 1. NO. 67
McGrath, alaska, septemrbe it. 1921.
PRICE 25 CENTS
‘Fatty9 Arbuckie, Movfe
Actor, Accused of Mur
der of Virginia Rappe
San Francisco, Sept. 12. —
Fafctv Arbuckle, widely known
movie actor, is being held for
the murder of Virginia Rappe,
well known film actress who
died last night from injuries said
ito have been received at Ar
buckle’s hands, the affair occur
ring after a boisterous midnight
supper in Arbuckle’s rooms at
the St. Francis Hotel.
Arbuckle’s arrest followed the
deathbed statement of Miss
Rappe, in which she said.: “Get
A?buckle! Follow this to the
finish!’’’
San Francisco.—A formal com
plaint, charging murder, was
sworn to before Police Judge
O’Brien today, against Arbuckle.
The complaint is signed by Mrs.
Bambina and Maude Delmont,
friends of the dead actress. This
is the second murder complaint
against Arhuekle, the first hav
ing been made Saturday night
by detectives for the purpose of
holding him until formal charge
could be filed.
New York".—Mrs. Minta I)u
•rine Arbuckle is preparing to
leg.ye.for San Francisco to aid
her husband, who she claims is
innocent of the crime of which
he is charged.
Los Angeles.—Arbuckle has
been dropped from the member
ship roll of the Los Angeles
Athletic Club.
Floods in Texas Cause ,
Hundreds to Lose Lives
San Antonio, Sept. 10.—Six
persons are known to be dead
and property in the central por
tion of the city has been dam
aged to the extent of several
million dollars by a terrific flood
which swept through San An
•tonio last night. A large body
of police and possibly as high as
five hundred. troops from Fort
Sam Houston are patrolling the
city waterfront of San Antonio
river which winds through the
city and flooded the business
section for many blocks to a
depth of fifteen feet.
t
San Antonio, Sept. 11.—At 9
o’clock this morning twenty
three bodies, mainly of women
and children, had been recov
ered from the -Hooded district,
and from reports of additional
dead pouring in it appears from
the estimates that several hun
dred have perished. The prop
erty loss is placed at between
seven and eight million dollars.
Corpus Christi and other South
western towns have also been hit
hit hard by the Hoods.
San Antonio, Sept. I£.— Hun
dreds of bodies of flood victims
in Williamson and Milan coun
ties alone had been recovered up
to tonight.
Dallas, Sept. 13.—Reports Ar
riving from various portions of
the Central Texas flooded dis
trict have brought the list of
deaths up to nearly two hun
dred.
American Dead of the
ZR-2 Disaster Are En
Route to United States
London.—Impressive memorial ser
vices at Westminster Abbey were held
today for the British 4tnd American
victims of the ZR-2-disaster.
Plymouth.—The bodies of the fifteen
Americans-who perished < through the
. explosion of the ZR-2 were today borne
on the shoulders of British sailors and
put aboard the British cruiser Daunt
less, at Devenport, for transportation
.to America. -- —
Troops of Austria in -
;Battle With a Force
of 2,000 Hungarians
Vienna,—A fierce battle is being
fought today near Kirschlag, a border
village, between a large force of Aus
trian regulars and an army of Hun
garians, estimated at over two thou
sand. _
Tokyo.—The Japanese Labor Federa
tion announced today that it had in
vited Samuel Gompers, president of
the American Federation of Labor, to
JUaiklftfian.,
Telegraphic Ticks.
New York —German marks dropped
below one cent here, today. French
francs are also falling
Christiana.—From Batiio Land today
came a large shipment of reindeer,
sent here by the Hudson Bay Com-,
pany. _
Washington.—President Harding to
day gave peremptory instructions to
department heads to “cut expenses to
the bone.” _
New York.—President Harding left
New York today for a game of gdlf at
Piping Hock and a yachting trip in
Gong Island sound.
Charleston.—One thousand Federal
troops still remain in the West Vir
ginia mining fields. All those recalled
are now on their way out.
Washington—The American Legion
today challenged the United States
Chamber of Commerce to debate the
question of soldiers bonus.
New York.—President Harding has
accepted the honorary presidency of
the press congress of the world, to be
held in Honolulu next month.
O McNeills Island.-r Roy W. Gardner,
esoaped bandit, is still at large. War
den Maloney is still confident that the
fugitive has not left the island.
Olyirmia.—Chester 1^. H.ovey, of Ei
lonsburg. has been appointed to the
Washington State supreme court, to
succeed tlie late Wallace Mount.
Washington.-rThe Navy Department
submitted estimates todav calling for
four hundred million dollar's for the
fiscal year beginning July 1, next.
_
New York. -*The Standard Oil Com
pany earned twenty-seven million three
hundred thousand dollars in .August,
according to a dividend announcement.
Seattle.—Meyer Lissner, member of
the Shipping Board, arrived here to
day. He says that Chairman Lasker
will give the Pacific coast a square
deah _
London.—“The / English owe a spe
cial debt of gratitude to John Wesley
Llovd George, ” says a message to the
world’s conference of Methodists, in
session here.
Washington.-—General Pershing has
been ordered to proceed at once to
Prance to present a congressional
medal of honor to an unknown soldier
of that republic.
Vancouver.—The Canadian fisheries
patrol steamer has been wrecked on a
reef off Craham island, according’ to
word just received here, which says
that all members of the crew are safe.
Washington.—i Postmaster General
Hayes made announcement today that
an enumeration of postoffices discloses
521,682 in the ‘United States and
Alaska, of which fifteen are in the
presidential class.
Washington.—Showers of protests
against the klukluk klan have com
menced to pour in on the Government.
These protests demand that the Gov
ernment take immediate steps to check
the movement.
COLLAPSE
OF BRIDGE
Thirty People Drop to
a Watery Death at
Chester, Pa.
Philadelphia, Sept. 12. — At
least thirty people were drowned
here this afternoon when a
bridge over Chester river, in the
Chester suburb, collapsed under
the weight of a vast crowd which
had assembled to watch a police
crew grappling for the body of
a boy drowned earlier in the
day.
‘Distressing scenes followed
the collapse, and many heroic
rescues wTere made as men,
women and children struggled
in the water „
Twenty-six bodies > have al
ready been recovered, but some
time must elapse1 before, the full
list of dead will be known.
‘TAKE THOSE
AWAY!’
Says Harding to Waiter
Who Sets Table With
Gold Dinner Service.
Atlantic City, Sept. 12—“Take
those away—I don’t want them’
Bring regular dishes.”
Those were the words uttered
by President Harding at the
fashionable JRitz Hotel here, last
evening, as the waitfcer began to
set bis table with a solid gold ser
vice. The incident oaused just
a ripple of commotion, in which
it could be seen that the Presi
dent’s embarrassment was one
of manifest displeasure.
Billy Williams, Part
ner of Tex Rickard,
Killed in Paraguay
Buenos Aires.T^-Billy1 Williams, an
American, and a former partner of Tex
BickaFd in many enterprises,=has fallen
a victim of assassination in Northern
Paraguay, according1; to advices just
received here. . His murder is said to
be due to his alleged complicity in a
revolutionary movement in Paraguay.
Washington.—Former Senator Bev
eridge mav be offered the post, of am
bassador to Germany.