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Director Offers Thousands to Charity "WET WITH WOOLWINE" VEAKENING FOUR DEAD IN AUTO SMASHES Fifth Accident Victim Near Death at Hospital UNION WESTE PHILLIPS STORY BRANDED FALSE 'Asserted Taleof Intimacy With Alberta Refuted Wmk PHOENIX PAIR IN WILD DASH Arizonian and Nephew Elude Newspaper Men "WETS" HUNTING WILL 0' WISPS Wine and Beer Goal Mirage, Says Judge Bledsoe If J- r'l VV: rswcow Jq3 Vou-rOg. I nEWYORK HV 10 958V TEL CAKWTON. nmotta AM coital w. ft ATKINS, mm James Young's Wire of Defiance WASHINGTON BLOC PRlNQ AND Trf 8T8 L0SANCUE8 CAUr" FAMILY BITTERLY OPPOSED 10 MORE SCANDALOUS NOTORItU AND PES0ULLY APPTEHENSlVE F0 FTAR Of ANOTHER HUM I LI AT INC DEFEAT HOWEVER IF COURSE YOU SUCCESTE0 WlU CLEAR MY C00D NME CO TO IT SHOW 80MERVILLE MY LETTER TO HER AND TWENTY PACE MANUSCRIPT I WROTE WILL GIVE THROUGH THC TIMES FIVE THOUSAND. UULLAM3 iu AMY i CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION I WOMAN CAN FROOUCE AN0 ESTABLISH CJNUINESS Of ANY LETTER WRITTEN TO ME THE PURPORT OF WHICH 13 UNPRINTABLE I Lt' COMPLAINT 8 A8 YOU 6UWC8T JAMES Y0UNC.

YOUNG TO SEEK DAMAGES Film Director to Sue Wife for Slander on Eve of Day She is Granted Divorce Decree Cyclist Turns to Laugh at Truck Driver, Killed Crash With Pacific Electric Car Fatal to Ttco Three trafflo accident yesterday claimed four lives, and a fifth person lay dying late yesterday afternoon. One of the victims a S-year-old girl who died beside her father when the motor truck which he was driving was struck by a Pacific Electric car In Beverly. The dead: JOHN C. MOLENAAR. BOS Cynthia street.

Sherman. ELINOR MOLENAAR, ged years, his daughter. CLAItKNCE M. KINDER, aged 18 years, .144 Eajst Forty-sixth street. PATRICK J.

CONWAY, Glen-dale. Seriously Injured: John Soerhout, 808 Cynthia street, Sherman. Soethout was probably fatally hurt In the same accident that caused the death of Molenaar and his daughter. Molenaar was driving a large truck of the Holland-Jersey Dairy Company across the Pacific Electric tracks at Doheny Drive, Beverly, early yesterday afternoon, when car No. 600, operated by Mo-torman C.

Felstono, Jittil Hurton avenue, Willowbrook, and Conductor W. H. Smart of Sherman, struck It. GIRL KILLED Traveling at high speed. the heavy car demolished the automobile.

The little girl, who was riding with her father and Soethout on the front seat, was killed instantly. Molenaar died In the Receiving Hospital, where Soethout lies hovering between life and death with a fractured skull, broken ribs and Internal Injuries. Doctors Dennis of Boverly Hills and Perry of Sherman Rttended the injured before the arrival of the ambulance to take them to the Receiving Hospital. Citv Marshal C. C.

Blair of Beverly Hills Investigated the accident. Hinger met death when he turned to laugh at a truck driver whom he had Just passed on his motorcycle. Driving out Sunset Boulevard, the youth passed the truck driven by J. A. Magona, 168 North Main street, a Sam Seelig employee.

Witnesses say he turned to laugh at Magona and did not see a ahead of him, driven by V. Barney, 1724 Custer street. He hit the wagon, spilling hi machine and himself falling directly In the path of Magona's truck, which crushed him before it could be swerved. The vouth died on the way to the Receiving Hospital. PINNED FXDEK CAR Pinned under his automobile (Continued on Second Tage) Husband of Accused Woman Disappears Score of Witnesses Called by Prosecution Fear of the fulfillment death threat' was believed last night to have driven Armour I Phillips, husband of the woman charged with being -the hammer murderess, Into hiding last night after ho had made public a statement In which he declared he had had Intimate relations with Mr.

Alberta Meadow, the. elaln girl. Phillips could not he found yesterday after the publication of his no-called "confession," which besmirches the character of the dead girl. Deputy Sheriffs Dewar and Htensland conducted an all-day rearch for him. Acting Asa Keyes was anxious to question Phillips about the statement.

At the Hall of Rcords It was reported that If Phillips admits the authenticity of tho charge against Mrs. Meadows, a criminal libel action may be filed against him. ARF NOT SURPRISED The disappearance of Phillips did not s-irprise the authorities. Many reports had reached the office that Albert Tremain, the Iain girl's father, had openly remarked that If Phillips in an attempt to free Clara Phillips ever assailed Alberta Meadows' character that he, as her father, would take the case Into his own hands against the missing man. Phillips, upon receiving word of the threats.

Is said to have np-poaled to Undersheriff Bincallua for permission to carry revolver, which was refused him. Several of the accusations contained in Phillips's "confession" were branded as false by the authorities. Phillips had openly chareed. through his attorney, that on Memorial Day he and Alberta Meadows and Lillian Meadows, the dead girl's wster-in-law, had gone picnicking In the hills. On this trip he is said to have admitted he had Intimate relations with Alberta Meadows.

BRANDED AS ME By the handwriting of the itinr-dered girl this damaging accusation was branded as a lie yesterday. Alberta Meadow had written her life's details In a little diary, narrating her adventures from day to day. In it, the name nf A. Phillips appears only once, and then he is only casually mentioned. Under the date of April 22.

1922, appears the following notation: ''Met Phillips." That was all. He wa apparently forgotten throughout the remainder of the diary. The dead girl's own refutation of riiillips's accusation appears in her entry of Decoration Pay, 1922. Ips'ead of being on a plcnio with Phillips and Lillian Meadows, she was weeping at the grave of her dead husband In Forest Lawn Cemetery. No mention is made of Phillips or even her sister-in-law.

Her thought were for her dead husband only. The diary states: "May 80 Decoration Day. Continued on PcTonth Page) Today one day before Mrs. Clara Whipple Tonng Is legally en-titled to her final decree of divorce from Jim "Voting, motion-picture director a $50,000 slander stilt will be filed against her by her husband, according to the latter' attorney, Herman L. Roth, last night.

And In a telegram yesterday Platform of Return to Booze Costing Candidate Heavily Everywhere RAC.Tt Oct 11 Fall ur of th Hearst publications. which are backing the candidacy of Thomas Lee Woolwlr.e, Democratic nominee for Governor, to carry in dispatches sent to Los Angeles any part of his "light wine and beer" propaganda, is encouraging a conviction here and In other Northern California sections that, though the wet Democratic nominee has gained some support In wet centers in the north, he has damaged his political fortune in the south beyond repair. Experienced politicians who were at flrwt inclined to believe that the slogan, "Wet with Wool wine," might prove an alliterative vote-getting enterprise, are beginning to lose interest In the fight of the pyrotechnic District Attorney from Los Angeles county and the sentiment existing in his own home territory, rather than In Sacramento. San Francisco and other so-called wet centers, Is responsible. Some of the avowed wet enthusiasts are now looking r.pon the light wine and beer crusade of Woolwine as an unfortunate venture for the wet cause itself, as numerous reports from all sections of the State, particularly from Southern California, where the most intense hostility for the wet District Attorney is finding expres slon, ail tend to snow an absence of any general response to Wool-wine's stand.

Old tabulations of votes re being called for at the office of the Secretary of State by those sho desire to check up for their own Information and satisfaction the vote given in the various counties to the late Theodore Bell, who ran for Governor on the Democratio ticket with light wines and beer as his announced objective. Bell, It Is recalled, was a sincere and recognized leader of those who desire a modKoatlon of the Volstead Act to permit the manufacture and sale of wines and beer and his candidacy on the wet Issue was not for the personally selfish purpose of getting votes, but was intended as a real effort on the part of the combined wets to discover public Benfi'jnent In California. Bell was defeated by a majority of approximately 200,000. and hence the lessening of enthusiasm for Woolwine, who Is by no means backed solidly by the wet faction, but 13 regarded more or less an the "last hope" of the Irreconcilable and less respectable element of the wets, and who is offending regular Democrats by his apparent desire to be thought a nonpartisan. Inquiry In hotels and in Italian and Frenoh restaurants shows that bell boys, porters, taxlcab driver and foreigners and others who do not understand the provisions of the Eighteenth Amendment, are enthusiastic in their support of the wet Democrat, but are prone to (Continued on Second Page) Here Is what I think of the tin-happy ending.

It is my opinion that the publlo will accept and enjoy the so-called unhappy ending 'when the unhapplness caused Is merely that of unattalned desire. For Instance, I had this type of an unhappy ending In "Male and Female." At the end Thomas Melghan marries the slavey, Llla Lee, rather than the gorgeous Gloria Swanson, whom he oourted on the desert Island. Thousands wondered why I let Mr. Meighan marry Miss Lee Instead of the woman, who was bo patently In love with him. But it piqued your curiosity, didn't it? And it caused you to talk -and no harm was done except to laceruted feelings of the screen character taken by Gloria Swanson.

CORPSE NOT, NECESSARY The tragedy of unrequited love (Contlnned on Second Page) FILM FOLK. CALL OFF COURT ROW George A. Siegmann and Wife Forget Troubles; Divorce Case Canceled The divorce action of Mrs. Marguerite Siegmann, former motion-picture actress, against George A. Siegmann, cinema director, will be withdrawn today, it was announced last nlf ht by Attorney Herman L.

Roth, who represents the wife. -Roth made the announcement with a wink. Then he explained the wink by saying that little Danny Cupid delivered a knockout blow to Old Man Mars in the Siegmann family, and that consequently the- dove of peace is perched triumphant on the Siegmann roof. After which metaphorical flight he let it be known that Mr. and Mrs.

Siegmann have made up and are again living together. Mrs. Siegmann sued her husband Ja6t month on the grounds of cruelty. At the time she stated he was eo abusive that her position as housekeeper became Intolerable. In his reply Siegmann told of a half-minute train delay when he bade his wife good-by at a recent parting.

When he returned, he told the court, he found she had drawn $2100 of his salary and had not paid bills amounting to $1500. "She wrote me a very beautiful letter and then came the awakening In the unpaid he moaned. But that's all over now, and there's one less Job for the divorce mill. No Real "Kick' is Possible Under Constitution Candidates Urging Tilt of Lid Can't Do It TIT BEX.TAMTV F. BLEDSOE, Vnlted States District Judge The latest Indoor sport seems.

ty concern itself with a proposed amendment of the Volstead Act. From first one source and then another, we are being exhorted and resoiufed to tho effect that the Volstead law should he "liberalized;" that the lid should be slightly lifted; that "light wines and beers" should be made readily available for the alcohol-hungry sojourning-In our midst. Before any one rushes headlong Into an Inglorious espousal of thl new project, it might be well to subject It to th light of reason and the test of disinterested analysis. "Light wines and beers!" Just what do they comprehend? No one sponsoring them has as yet advised us with any degree of exactness, but obviously they must mean wines and beers possessing an intoxicating effect. Nonintoxlcating drinks either the juice of the grape or the product of the grain are now available in ample quantities.

They, however, do not suffice. They possess no kick. They do not intoxicate. Therefore, thos9 who want light wines and beers want something different, something which does have a kick, something which will intoxicate, and that something, It should ever be remembered, is denied to them by the positive and all embracing terms of the Eighteenth Amendment. In other words, those who urge the amending or liberalizing of the Volstead law to permit th manufacture and sale of light wines and beers are urging the nullification of the Constitution of th United States.

STATE CANNOT ACT It is well to keep in mind that the Constitution explicitly provide that "the manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof Into, or the exportation thereof from, the I'nited States for beverage purposes" is prohibited. Neither Congress nor any Legislature, therefore, by enactment or want of enactment, may legalize the manufacture or traffic in anything intoxicating intended for beverage purposes. If it be Intoxicating. It is a forbidden beverage, no matter what any Federal or State statut may say or not say. Now, It is obvious that the present permissive alcoholic content of beverages less than "one-half of 1 per cent" may be increased by Congress, but may be increased only up to the point where experience teaches that intoxication will result when it will produce intoxication "when imbibed in such quantities as it is practically possible for a man to drink." Further than this, because of the Constitutional mandate.

Congress may not go. If it shall indulge in the attempt, the courts will be bound to hold its action nugatory. In other words, so far as such permissive legislation is concerned, Congress will have to stop just where th advocates of light wines and beers want it to begin at the point where a given beverage ceases to be nonintoxicating. Wine runs in alcoholic content from 7 1-3 per cent the "lightest" made to about 25 per cent. Beers run from 2 per cent to 7 per cent.

Under prevailing judicial authorities and precedents, wine is always held to be intoxicating; beer generally so. Aside from the self-evident fact that nonintoxicating wines and beers are not desired by those who urge a change in the law, with respect to the first mentioned beverage at least. It would seem Impossible to produce a nonintoxicating wine. "There is no such animal," light or otherwise. And unless it be nonintoxicating it may not legally be manufactured or sold, no matter what Congress may say about it.

The argument Is frequently advanced by the overzealous and unthinking that because Congress has seen fit in the Volstead Act to fix and determine the permissive alcoholic content of lawful beverages and, in doing so. has declared that to be Intoxicating, a a matter of law, while obviously it not Intoxicating as a matter of fact (liquor containing alcohol but slightly in excess of one-half of one per cent, for instance,) It therefore may, In the exercise of similar power, fix th permissive alcoholic content at any per cent, even an obviously Intoxicating one and that such action would, as a mat-ter of (aw, be binding upon th (Continued on Seventh Page) nullification of the Eighteenth Amendment and th Volstead Act. Therefore, Resolved, That th Good Templars of California, assembled In Grand Lodge stolon representing the temperance forces of this State, declare that while Good Templar recognize no distinction of persons by reasons of race, crted or political 'affiliations, we declare ns our belief that the Christian, jr Resolved. That call upon our subordlnat lodg throughout (Continued on aVjcond Pg) Dernier Death Information Wanted by Sheriff Officers Ashed to Keep touch With Weber in In an apparent effort to escape the survlllancs of newspaper men who had been camping on hi trail Ince his arrival from Phoenix, lat Monday, Fred Weber of that city, along with ft 19 -year-old youth who had registered as his son, but who was learned to be tils nephew, were leading a wild chase through the streets of Los Angeles, Alhambra and Pasadena last night In automobiles. By 10 p.m., Weber and the youth, together with two other unidentified men, had "lost" one of the pursuing newspaper men's oars, and were motoring nt breakneck speed through the streets of Pasadena In an effort to elude the other auto.

Eight-cylinder motors roared and brakes screamed wild protest a the autos sped up and down main and side street and swerved around comer In the wild chase. POISCTT BEGINS The pursuit began when Weber and the youth stepped into a fist car outside the Alexandria early last evening. Earlier In the day, a telegram had come from Deputy Sheriff Bell, at Phoenix, where the Investigation of the Guy M. Dernier murder centers, to Deputy Sheriff Fox of Los Angeles. The message requested the Lo Angeles fncial to get In touch and keep constantly In touch with Weber, from whom the Phoenix official hope to obtain valuable Information In connection with the Dernier death mystery.

Weber, It was ascertained by newspaper men here, arrived Monday night from Phoenix. He registered under his own name, and trip to this city was to cludo Los Angeles newepaper men who had been nt to Phoenix is not known. "SOX" ARRIVES On Tuesday, Weber had a cot Installed In his room and the youth who represented himself as Weber's on. arrived. Three telegrams came to Weber on Tuesday.

One of them, it has been learned, contained the Information that Weber's brother Harry, a New York theatrical producer, had left New York and would arrive in Lo Angeles Friday to confer with the Phoenix man. Tne youtn who posed as Weber's son was learned to be the son of this brother, Instead. Harry Weber maintain a ranch at Chino, where hi wifa Is now living. Tueaday afternoon Weber and the boy spent la the Alexandria lobby. One long-distance call wa put through to Chlno, to the Weber ranch there.

Inquiries (Continued on Second Pagre) life," she retorted. Then, sobbing, "I loved my little sister-in-law." Bhe intimated that. If desired as a witness, she would make the trip to Los Angeles. Thelaia i i. I i SACCHARINE NOT LIFE De Mille Believes Public Wants and Will Accept Plays With Unhappy Endings of Reality BY CECIL B.

DE MILLE, TroAnm of Paramount "Pictures Bearing ni Namei Donor lt00 Prises De MHle- Tlmea Idea (ontrit "What abont nn nnhappy ending?" Already that to-be-expected question ha become a feature of this contest for a photoplay Idea, The "happy ending" ha been so usual In modern picture production that many people are timorous about presenting something that might not he all sugar and kisses at the flnlsh. TELLS OF TRIP TO GRAVE Sister-in-law of Hammer Murder Victim Denies Charge ade by Phillips Defends Dead Girl EXCLUSIVE DISPATCH. GKEAT FA1X9 (Mont.) Oot. 11 Denial that the saw Armour li. Phillips at any time Iat Decoration Day or that he had, to her knowledge, at that time or any other time had Intimate relation with Alberta Meadows, was made by Lillian Meadow of 2014 Sixth avenue, north, Great Fall.

In a statement made after reading a report of Phillip' statement In Los Angeles today relative to tho hammer-murder THELMA NOT FRIEND OF SLAIN MAN Woman Missing From Crown City Sees Officers; Says Dernier Stranger By a "Times Ptaff Correspondent PASADENA. Oct. 11. Is Mrs. Thelma Karnopp, otherwise known as "Velma Lee Carson," 22-year-old widow who has made her home in Pasadena for the psst two weeks, the mysterious "Thelma" anncrVif am a w'trtAa In fliv M.

Dernier murder? If she is, she again has slipped through the fin- gers of the authorities, after frustration rt. a suicide attempt Pun-day r.lght at the house of Israel Venner, 365 North Raymond avenue, where she had been making her home. Monday ehe vanished. Venner thinks, that she ha gone to Los Angeles. Representing herself a a widow from Tulsa, the woman came to Venner' home to room about two weeks ago.

She used both the names of Carson and Karnopp. She said her father, named Lflnning, lived at 804 West Sixth street, Omaha. On Sunday ehe went motoring with Ralph Thomas, a truck driver of 751 North Fair Oak avenue. In the evening she returned to her room, asking Thomas to wait a few minutes for her return. Soon after the mell of ether attracted residents of the house to her room.

The woman was found unconscious with her head burled In a pillow liberally soaked with ether and covered with a towel. The police were called, and by artificial respiration brought her to. The following day she disappeared. The police are investigating. Late last right Thelma Karnopp walked into the Sheriff's office.

A group of deputies were in the office. A tall, handsome, modishly gowned young woman strode In. "Sheriff here?" ehe demanded. "Not now," was the answer. "Well, who'm I t' see," she asked.

"I'm Thelma Karnopp." Immediately efforts were made to get In touch with Deputy Sheriff Fox, who is handling the Dernier case as far as Los Angeles 1 concerned. While Deputy Sheriff Johnson talked wiht the woman, (Continued on Second Page) "it Karnopp from New Tork, where he Is conferring with motion-picture producers. Young himself offered a reward of $5000 to any charity If his wife could produce letter to him from other women letters she characterized as "so vile they couldn't be printed," and which she eays she has in her possession. It Is Jim Young's vigorous answer to the sensational charges against him launched by his wife Just after Judge Hahn. on September 28 last, had refused the director's legal move to set aside a property settlement by which Young had given his wife the property at 2000 Holly Drive and a sum In cash.

HIRED DETECTIVES The slander action Is based on Mrs. Young's statement to reporters, as reproduced In the Los Angeles Times of September 29, In which she said: "Jim Young has spent time end money persecuting me, tormenting me, crucifying me, buying cheap detectives to hound me and lie about me. He has threatened me. He has pointed revolvers at my face. He has said he would burn down the house in which I lived.

He has called me every vile name he could think of. "Since my Interlocutory decree he haa asked me to be his mistress. He has asked me to go away with him for one week-end and damned me heartily by letter when I refused without thanks. He has offered me $2000 to return to him his Ku Klux Klan membership paper and to give him back the bundles of letters he has received from women some of them so vile they couldn't be printed. BOOSTED HTM ALONG "I can prove, too, that I made him a commercial success; that when I first met him he was making but $350 a week, that I took charge of financial arrangement, made contracts for him whereby he now get $16,000 for every picture he dlreota and that I waa able to assure Selznick and Joseph Schenck and others that he would live up to his contracts." These statements by Mrs.

Clara Whipple Young, made In the presence of Edward J. Doherty, representing the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune, and other persons, are "wholly false and untrue," says Young In the $50,000 slander oomplalnt to be filed today. Mr. Young ottered them, he goes on to oontend, "maliciously and with the Intent to injure Young In his reputation and business," and that she knew they were untrue when she gave them out. "Hatred, eontempt, ridicule and obloquy" have been his lot as a result of the publication of his wife' statements, and he has been damaged to the extent of $50,000, which sum he asks for his good nam and business, he concludes.

PUBLICITY FEARED Young's action, as indicated in his telegram from New York to his attorney, Is taken against the wishes of his family, who fear further publicity In the case. The director Is determined to clear his name, however, and for this reason the slander suit has been filed. "Mrs. Young can't prove her statements they are all false," said Attorney Roth yesterday. "I cannot acknowledge defeat now, In view of what Mrs.

Young has said against me in a public interview," said Jim Young early this month, shortly after his wifo's sensational charges. Since then he has been conferring constantly with Attorney Roth by wire, and (Continued on Seventh Pace) THE CHRISTIAN MISSION: Preach, saying, The Kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, froely give. Matthew 7 8. sst -S ft it iii i ZZTP Tknlm, Lillian Meadows' statement was made only after long refusal to answer question regarding the action of herself and her lter-ln-law on Decoration Day.

Her reply, at length, covered th action of the two through the day. She said that Instead of being on a plcnio with Phillips, he and hr lster-ln-law made a trip In the afternoon to the grave of Albert Meadows' husband, that they carried flower and decorations with them, and that Phillips was not on thl trip. She spoke of the demeanor of her sister-in-law on that occaalon a being that of controlled sorrow. The trip to the cemetery, she said, was made In Alberta' coup. There were no others on the trip.

She said that In the morning, she and Alberta remained at home and that In the evening they visited the home of Lillian's older brother, H. Meadows of Los Anjrele. She was positive in the statement that at no time during the day did she see Phillips. On other questions snrroundlng the murder case, Miss Meadows spoke with less restraint than In refuting statements made by Phillips. Bhe said that her sister had known Phillips but a week longer than she had, and that Alberta never pave any indication that she oared for him.

"She didn't either care for him or dislike him, Indifferent." was the way she put It "Let him make the statement the truth will come out In the trial," she said again and again. "I'm not caring what he aya" "I'm not making any statement," was the answer she gave to all ettestlons until after an hour's questioning fihe made the brief statement regarding the happenings of laat Decoration Day. "All I'm Interested In Is what they are going to do with that woman," fhe said. "Wouldn't It be some Justification her husband had been Intimate with Alberta?" she was ftsked. "It wouldn't axoua taking 4 RICHARDSON INDORSED California Good Templars Pledge Him Votes and Flay Woolwine 's et Platform Friend W.

nichardon as unanimously Indorsed for the Got. rmorsbfp of California at a erosion of the California Grand Lodge, International Order of Good Templars, conducted nt the Angelus yesterday morning and attended by S00 prominent delegate from various parts of the State. The Indorsement of Rlchardnon was made by a rising vote favoring the resolution Introduced by Charles R. Burger of Pasadena, Past Grand Chief Templar. The resolution In full follows: RICHARDSON INDORSED "Whereas, the selection of a Governor for California this year is confined to a choice of two can-didates.

Friend William RIMmrd- progressive government are and i ways have been definite an pro nounced, and the latter a rpensor for the law-defying llqusr ment and open advoct' of th on and Thomas Lee Woolwine. he former a life-long total ah- talner whose active with the friends of moralltv a nd i I of this Mate iouia ienn to Irlend William nich- ardsoii at trie puns nri v.tin- Thomas Meighan and Leatrice Joy, As seen In "Manslaughter," for which Mr. De Mill had difficulty In finding Just the proper stopping plac..