Evening Star Newspaper, September 19, 1922, Page 2

a “ % - SAYS FREHTFUL TORK WARLOONS_ o= o™ Former Constantinople Proe |thg sseane of the miners . e west N offer their services, the curious . fessor Fears Struggle ;:llowlhlp of miners bringing hearty ‘for Holy City. GOLDEN ARGONAUT TOMB GIVES UP ITS 47 BODIES (Continued from First Page.) offers of service from all who could get to Jackson. Mining companies in distant siates, even in Mexico, tele- sraphed proffers of assistance. The Keninedy Mining Company, operétors of an adjoining shaft, dunk the bit- terness of a lawsuit in its willing- | ness to be of service and loaned all {of its property and facilities to the work of rescue. Risk Lives to Explore. For many weary days, disappointed sometimes by unexpected difficulties and heartened sometimes by equally unexpected bits of good luck, rescue crews drove through the choked tun- nel that orice had connectéd the two SOVIETS MAY JOIN DRIVE Bosporus Conditions Favor Allies, However, Declares 8ann- wood Cobb. The Turks will make a tremendous effort and stop at nothing to get back their holy city, Constantinople, in the opinion of Stanwood Cobb, princigal of the Chevy Chase Country Day School, and formerly a professor at Robert College, Constantinople. A frighttul war may ensue, Mr. Cobb believgs, It the Turks sttike arma with the allied forces protecting the neutral zone of the straits from in- vasion. ‘Mr. and Mrs. Cobb recently returned from an extended trip to the ing one of the Kennedy's drifts from the Argonaut's 4,200-foot level. Early yesterday & drill was driveh through the last barrier of rock into the Argonaut. Sweating shoulders and unbreak- able wills drove steel picks at the rock until thie hole had been en- larged enough to permit a man to pass. Five men made a hasty and unauthorized exploration of part of ! the Argonaut, seeking survivors at The opening wa# enlarged 2o that a rescue squad eculd pass, and all day explorations went on without any result. The levels were clear, there was no sign of any miner left in them, either dead or alive. The rescue men, hampered by their oxy- gen helmefs and the heat of the underground workings, turned their attention to exploring the cross cuts and drifts leading from the tunnels already traversed. In one they found a bulkhead that had not been there when the miners went below into that fatal mine three weeks ago. Bulkhead Mute Evidence. Hope rose anew at this evidence that some, at least, of the entombed near east. The possibility that Bulgaria and soviet Russia may join the Turks in their drive for restoration of the an- cient capital, he indicated. Dbrings heavy potentialities on the side of the Mohammedans, while the Turkish opulation of Constantinople itsel, R added. outnumbers the European yopulation, and though uncrganized, would prove a force for Mustipha Kemal Pasha within the bounds of the city. Difficulty for Turks. The Turks would find difficulty, Mr. Cobb believes, in attempting to block the Dardanelles and prevent passage of British or other allled ships, a8 they have no ships of their own, and their largest artillery is reported as four-pounders. Negotiation of the Bosporus also would be a difficuly for the Kemalists, Nr. Cobb éclared. as from the Asia Minor side of the straits they would have difficulty in crossing to Constantinople. without ships of their own, and under fire of the enamy. A factor considered of grave con- sequences at the present time hoiv- ever. Mr. Cobb said. 1s the split be- tween the British and French in re- frome the gases thrown off by the fire in the shaft, and the rescuers préssed on. They found another bulkfead, not bullt of planks and timbers and stuffed with torn clothing like the firat, But erected of earth, rock and debris. 1t was a pitiful structure, gaping In places so that the restuers Could see through it. but it checked the alr currents somewhat and the gard to the allied policy at Constantl- I' ey “jn the oxvgen helmets halted nople. The French, he asserted. have [parore it, afraid to tear it down while 1ot only & treaty with the Kemalsts, | {na® air' was polsonous. lest they but are Jealous of the British, and In- | {nereby cause sudden death to any clined to hold back, while the Brigish ministry seems to be pushing for- ward to hold off the Turk with force of arme. Jealousy on the part of the French in the near east, Mr. Cobb declared specifically went back to the results of the world war, out of which, according to @the French, the Brit- ish got much more extensive awards, including Paledtine and the execution of allled policy at the straits. Tarks Given Advantages. Advantages were given the Turks by the French when hte latter with- drew from Cilicla, leaving a large supply of arms and munitions, accord- ing to Mr. Cobb. Trouble for the British in case war is declared against the Turks was declared by Mr. Cobb to be brewing . THe Egyptian nationalists - Cobb when he was in Cairo that they intended kiliing off all the British officers one at a {ime, by as- sassination. Fifteen British officets had been murdered by the national- ists, when he was there, but not one of the murdéreds had as yet been ap- 'hg T ¥ bjood in mahy of the 1 zn:g h‘z‘ nationalists deter- niined theif leanings toward the Turks, it’ was sald, and, in case the British atiempted recruiting colonists thers for war_against Turkey, there would be trouble for Great Britain, The whole .of -Muropé Mr. Cobb said he considers now house of cards.” The Versallles treaty, he said. had built up nations which were ifi no_ sense ethnographic, and aiready trouble had; broken out SmJugoslavia. in particu where the Berbs, Croats and Sloverit were not li& nx;x harmony within one govérnmental - ftotaéhold. Austfld was threatenéd with interndl propagnada of theé .oyleé, ené French officer. having fold Mf. CobS that the very steps which had béen énacted in Russia ‘in_the founding of the soviat government of the isheviki wefe being re-enacted (n -Viennd, whers there was alfesdy & :feml-uo regime. Oné _of the ifonies of fats, Mr. Cobb said, hag beén rélated to him by the American consul at Vienna, C. F. Fos- 1er, who had working Yi-the consulate, as clerits, one adini: ans captain, two commanders frofh the former Ausrian navy and a “couple of dukes.” TRAVEL - ‘CURTAILED ON-CONDUIT ROAD - e (Continubd trom Firat Pag way and a feill ffsmé fence has heen pladed arlmtidu a8 & protéction 10 passing t. & -The earth taken from the diteh is piled on the op- posite side and generally fills tie road with dust when the wind blows. Heavy rains aré. expscted to mak: in the roadbad in places .nfl thareby narrow the safe feway. Absut a mile and a haif farther west, where bridke No. 3 crosses-Rod! run, I.l.!’e culvert is being built just south of:the bridge. It will be cov. th th across the entire 6y, and the new con- -duit will be bullt through that. Ar- rangements have been madeé .to start operations at once with a seventy.ton ateam shovel héar Great Falls about « mile pley, where the Con- duit 'road turns to the north, From <hat point the deep trench for the néw conduit will be excavated glongside The old-condult to the eastwira. until iz Joints the trench being bult'we ward from Cabin John bridge. Another big operation is under way near the Dalecariia reservoir at the Distetet line, but it does hot interters with traffie on the Condult road. ft 1nvolves boring & tunhel about 800 fest lofig through a hill west of the reseryolr to perniit thé extahsion of the new conduit on the line of grav- e i g Tha Arundel Corporation df Bailti- mord has contracted to construct the new tonduit from Gfeat Falls to the Dalecarlia reserveir, a distancs of about aine miles, at a cost of 82,058, 726 and to complete the werk Ju 20, 1924. The contractors h;vo‘ :e tablished headquafters just thia side of Cabin John bridge and have érected frame bulldings and. work shops -tiear Great Falls and at other points_along the, line for the use of their large force of mechanios and laborers who might be alive beyond it. Hope Plunges Heavlily. Hope stood at its highest when this second bulkhead was found and from that height it made its greatest plunge. Before those who waited abové for hews of their loved ones knew even that the rescuers had broken through the bulkheads. word came that the bodles of forty-two men had been found and counted. Not long after word came up from the telephcne station, hurriedly ad- vanced to the 4.200-foot level, near the bulkheaded nlace. that the other five aiso had been found dead. Jackson todk the blow calmly and presently found comfort in the sure knowledge gained from notes left by two of the men and from the re- ports of rescuers regarding the men's work before they died, that a quick, merciful death had come to them instead of the agonies of starvation. There was no lingering in inky dark- ness 3,000 feot below sea level. The gas came, thén lethargy. then dblivion. Lived Only Thrée Hours. Records scrawled on paper by one man and scratched on a timber by another showed they had lived but little move than three hours after erecting their pitiful barricades. Saddest of ail was the muite record of the bare begin- ning of a third bulkhead when gas had ariven them from the scene of the second. Tdentification wil be difficult length of time since they died, The the iack of the clothing they had torn off to stuff into cracks in their first bulk- head, combined to remove from most of the bodles any distinguishing char- acteristic. The Red Cross has received a fund of §8,000 for the miners' dependents. and it is estimated that where a miner left & widow or child the California State Compensation Insurance Fund will pay an average of approximately $4,200 to dependents. The Argonaut Mining Company had insurgd its em- ployes in the state fund. %era is some need among relat of some of the victims, however. Censélation for Bereaved. Red Cross officials sald $1,000 was provided by the Argonaut company for tempofary relief. The local chapter of the Red Cross spent much of that sum in waintaining three temporary hospitals, in supplylng the néeds of miners’ familiés and in providing food and comforts for téscue crews. A featufe of the Red Cross merci- ful mission was the assigning of its members to the consolation of be- reaved familles. Last night and tar day eadh of the families of the eight- een married miners among the forty- saven vctims had among it & woman visitor to speak words of sympathy and eéncouragement. A revision - in California safety Jaws will be urged in the legislature, according Hamilton, #tate mifleralogist. He said he thought it would be feasible Ives mining underground Safety stations with a separate source of supply of air and supplies of food and water. story of First Entry. The story of the first exploration inte the Argonaut's workings came to light early today. It was told by who made it. This exploration, an unofficial af- falf, wks condiucted because ‘one of the five mén was impelled by a de- site to help his brother, Pio Oliva, ohé of the éntdmbed men, if possible. Mine ofMeials said all five took des perate chancesn making it. The five comprised the crew which was enlarging the ofiginal one-inch drill hole connecting' the Kennedy and Argonaut Workitgs to a point where rescue crews could pass through, Mollini said “\WWe ers working on a ladder that led up into the hole (it then wag 16 Inc¢hés In diameter). We got the hole brokén open large enough for a m to g0 through. ® Held Lampe to Grouad e,’}mh “Willlam Sinelair, foreman of the ative | Kennedy, was at the top of the lad- He went through. Dan Murphy, assistant foreman of the Argonaut, was next. I was third and I went negt. I was one of the two digger . |bosses. After me came Louis Ollva. After Oliva came Angelo Bousa, miner. “We got up in the 3,200-foot level alr seem . through the funnel, RoMINg sur ears bide lamps close to the ground. We would not take a chance of rynning inte gas with them, But the air seem. ed pretty good and we went ahead went ahead untll ge c?- to the turh, Then we éame to & eouple of bulkhead doors. They wers old bulk. heads that had \r n_thers before. the ire, We pushed these doors open a lit- tle ‘way at a time. Some alf F but not a ver gru\y good als wnd we pushed) the with the exception of thi parl t, the Swedlsh 1| [ t of existing I bodiés. r The First Thing t© Do hen You Return From gmir Vacatian Is to ORDER THE STAR Deliverss, 8, your home by reguiar R e T2 00" > o g8 o o the imminent riek of their own lives. { temperature of their casual tombs, the | Louls Mollinati, oné of the five men, ‘ame’ in, | big rush. It nem‘d mines or battered at the rock separat. | men had not died an instant death THE EV HOW RESCUE-GREW - behind mine, reach the entonibed me doors all the way and went ahead. | We came to the main shaft of the | Argonaut. It looked just about the way it always did The air continued good 2 Went Back fo Report. “We could not find any signs of the men in the mine and decided we had better go back and report. So we went back around to the Kennedy and help- ed take timbere to the fodt of the incline where the two levels joined. “The bureau of mines rescue men came with thelr oxygen heimets. They toid us sure not to go into the Argo- naut. We sald all right, and in about twenty minutes came up the shaft at 1 o'clock.” A telegram from H. Foster Bain I director of the United States bureau of mines, to Byron O. Fickard, head of the bureau in this district, com- menting on the lessons to be learned | from the Argonaut disastet, was made public here by Mr. Pickard. It said: Safety Codes Inandequate “The safety codes now prescribed by law ate inadeguate in not requir- ing for deep metal mines, that there should be hoisting equipment in more than one exit. mechanical contrel and proper splitting of alr currents and provisions for their reversal in emergencles. “As'a result many metal mines in America are working with - fully & great fire hazards as at the Argo< next|mit the financing and operation ‘6t to Fletcher riecessary mines it to have independent exits and to have | property naut. . *“No cost, However, which will per< is ‘tco great if affords real protection to life angd. Mr. Bain added, “that after gacl has doney evérything possible - there will remain an uneseapable life: and property loss. in-mining as in other industries, but until ‘we do -all" that tunnel I8 not atraight. We | Diagram of shafts of Argonnut and Kennedy m! their way into the tomb of forty-seven miners stily constructed bulk] Inset ix Clarence Bradshaw, shaft boss, who repeatedly risked his life trying lével of the Argondut: . _ARree, FORCED WAY TO IN ARGONAUT. resctera fonnd the fortyes is _possible coneciences. % Governor to Get History. A history of the disaster Will be presented to Gov. \illam D. Ste- phens In a few duys by his personal representative, Clarence E. Jarvis, of the state board of control. What action the governor would take, Mr. Jarvis said he was unable to fore: cast. ¥ Mr. Jarvis said, however. that ‘he believed everything possible had been done to fescue the men and that the methods employed were efficient. A: to whether escape might have been possible when the fire started Augu 27, he declined to express a positive opinion. In this connection he men- tioned ® mine disaster in another state in which he said 163 lives had been lost, although the mine had ten exits. The Argonaut mine was one of the first workings opened in the mother lode countrs of California, and only slightly younger is the Kennedy, whences the rescue work into the Ar- gonaut was conducted: Yielded ‘Over $20,000,000. At -first the' Argonaut was un- profitible, but under development it has ylelded more than $20,000,000. At times its productioh has exeeded $1,000,000 annually. The wérking formerly was known as the Pioneer clajm. 2 The. mine has an inclined shaft of 4.800 feet in length and its deepest workIng is 4,050 feet below the collar of that shaft. The Kennedy has a vertical .shaft 4,060 feet deep. It is several hundred fest'lower on the mountainside . than tNé Argonaut, ‘which. acogunts. for ‘thé fact.that a gonnection gould' be. mads. -between 1ts 8,800vfoot lével-andthe '4,200-foot [ve may not salve our 0fé than'3,000,- beéggar never tarily ‘th’ self- gre ihe natives Altho “thére ar 900 muf:' in- Ingif, starves; “except yo) v\h%m;ment. o AtrR of invurring the tifudinots ghas ¥ oY cardd for, o of (he miners entombed in the Argonant The picture was takelh as a weeks, owing how rescme erews, after three weeks, foree: the former working. On the 4,350-foot level of the Argonaut QRTY-SEVEN BODIES, bodies, en 2 to extinguish the flames and HOUSE GETS FIRST : DEFICIENCY BILL (Continued from First Phge's | | sidered include those for American property losses In Germany since Au= gust- 1, 1914, other losses Sustained by American citizens since 'July 1, 1914. a8 = cvonsequence of the 'war, and debts owing to American éiti- zens by the German government or *rmt:nlnlllonu{:.blll is estimated that e claims probably will aggregat $300.000,000. ey : Under the terms of the greement, the ‘commission 'will meet 1h Wash- ington within two months after Au- gust 10, 1922, the date the agreement was concluded. For this reason the appropriations committee finds it has become neces- sary,to praovide funds at this time and work may proceed on the preparation of claims for presentation to the com- mission. - New Diplomats Provided. The remainder of the amount pro- posed for the State Department, namely, $22,312.50, is for the malaries of an envoy extraordinaty and minis- ter plenipotentiary to "Albania anad ot an envoy extraordinary ‘and minister plenipotentiary to Esthonia, Latv and Lithuania, and for salaries of three secretaries, whose appdintment ig-mada necefsary by the establish- ment of these additional missions. Thesé governments were, recognized by the ‘government of thé United s;:_m; on »‘guly !5!. 1822 0 pay the widow of the late - resentdtive Lemuel P. P.;gelfugf Tennessee, $7,500 is to be appropriat- ;di Be!nx_dthle nLnounltd of one year's aiary p o the widow. of cesed r:fernber. S For miscellaneous items ‘and ex- penses of gpecial and select commit- tees, exclusive ot salarjes and labor for the fizcal fear, 1922 an appro- priation of $28,289.47 I8 recommanded. The first’ “doctor of. medicine” was Gulielmo® Gordonio, who received the honor from the College of Aosti, in Italy, in 1220. . .| "for cause.” S -{ tried, and may He promite you a ust MEMPHIS EDITOR = | HELD ON FEDERAL | . CONTEMPT CHARGE By the Associated Press. "MEMPHIS, Tenn., Skptember ; 19.— G. V. Sanders, managing editor ‘of the Memphis Press, an afternoon paper, wis arrested last night by deputy United States marshals on a' fudersl warrant charging contempt of court, in that a _certain article printed in the Press violated federal injunetion issued by Judge J. W. Ross for the San Frawcisco and St, Louis and Illi- nois Central raltroad VELED WOWAN AT BRYSON TRAL PROVES MYSTERY Exhected to Testify for D. C. Poctor- Accused of - Murder. & few weeks ago. ders was released upon his o recognizance. and will appear in fed- eral court next Saturday. - The Pfess i8 & member of a chain of papers owred by a corporation. He is the second editor of the paper to become involved in contempt pro- ceeding Edward Leach, a former editor, having served a ten-day sen- tence ‘In the county Jail for contempt of the chancery court a few years ago. —_— BEGIN SECORING JURY; FIRST WOMAN EXCUSED Prisoner Presents Dejected Appear- Starr was the first juror to be placed in the box. He is a farmer, fifty-six years old, father of eight children, anoe—"Pleads Not Guilty to four of whom are girls. He denied d having received any unsigned letters, Ll Indictment. also that he had any prejudice against insanity as & plea In homicide cases. He had no objection to capital pun. ishment, he said. Hs entered the jury box at 11:05. The defense continued throughout the morning to question the pros- pective jurors regarding the “un- signed letter.” Not a hint of receipt of one has yet been forthcoming. Andrew Jackson, & local book- binder, was selected as the second juror At 11:10 o'cick. He answered | principle questions similar to Starr. | That the defense would not object | to a woman sitting on the case as juror was indicated by refusal of counsel for the defense to challenge 0 the three women questioned thus far r. Bryson is sitting across the |Out of the total of fourteen women : talesmen. The prosetution used three 'r‘oom from her. He does not give a peremptory challenges to prevent int of knowing her, His expression | women from taking places on the is blank. jury box, indicating a desire for a The trial for his 1ifs on a charge | "¢ JurY- of the murder of Mrs. Helen Irene Surprises Come Early. Haines, his companior, at Cassville,| The prosecution began to spring in this county, on April 8, has just |surprises in the case last night. §ot undet way. Of a large panel of | Starting with the arrival of Kenneth talesmen for jury duty, fourteen are |Barnsley, from Washington, a friend women. Challenging has begun. The | of Bruce Haines, the husband of the prosecution and defcnse each has the | dead woman, things began to open up tight to challenge twenty without {on the side of the prosecution. Next cause. The defense has no objection |there was a conference in the office }: :h:'%rg;n Juror. There may be one | of District Attorney C. D. Fetterhoof. 3 Samuel 1. Spyker and Fetterhoof, who Woman o A1l Defense. are handling the state’s case against Dr. Bryson, remained closeted with Just ome hint of recognition was persons probably interested in the given the woman of mystery as she | case for aeveral hours. 3 N6 e nally Mrs. Helen Kirby, mother e aprough the ate at the Bar o Mra. Haines. and the woman who entered the. reserved space, ,ac- |created the greatest sensation at the companied by Willlam Wallace Chis- | coroner’s inquest in this case last holm, attorney fcr the defense. She | APl walked out of the office. Dr. must be.a witness for the defense. It | thar e Rilien ro 2V E,told her Is being kept a deep secret what her ?n‘“ will be. Mrs. Bryson, mother of From & Staft Oorreipoudent. HUNTINGDON, Pa. (Courthouse), Beptember 19.—An Alr of mystery was thtown over the opening of tlie trial of Dr. Herbert Bryson today by the arrival 6f a beautiful velled woman in black, wH¢, with another woman, apparently Hér mother, took seats in the reserved space just inside the bar. And to'the right of Judge Thomas F. Bailey, shortly after the ‘opening of the trial. - that he killed his wife. She Is the oniy one known to have heard such a statement. accused, does not know. Neither does Mrs. Walkér, the sister .of Dr. Bryson. Neither have ever seen her Bhe did not make the statement that Bryson told her about the mur- belore. Bhe tall and dressed almost en- in black. Her halr is-blonde der while on the witness stand, but tirely and het completion clear. She walks while at the morgue at the coroner's inquest after leaving the stand. She will possibly be the star.witness for with a swinging grace and upright carrlage. She is neatly and simply attired, Helen Kirby, mother of Mrs. Dr. s companion, with the prosecution. She arrived last Mr: .. Bryson's ¢ whose , murder he Iia charged, entered night. Haine: the “courtroom on the arm of Attor- ‘What connection Kenneth Barns- 1ey has with the case is also vet un- ney Samuel I. B;‘ker, sociate of Prosecutor C. D. Petterhoof. She took known. He simply walked into the a seat dl the table of the prosecution. Speculation Over Haines. ‘This started speculation that Haines | would possibly put in an appearance today or tomerrow. If he does it will be the big surprise of the case. Paneling of the jury is expected to be completed tonight. This will give tomorrow at least as a clear day fof Leister House, one of the leading 8he 8d in black and. leans on hotels here, ‘'and registered. He wrote Washington as his home town, and then said to the desk clerk, “Has | a cane when walking. Dr. Bryson is sitting in a_chalr on the right of the judge. He has grayéd perceptibly. Mr. Haines registered here yet?" Brysen Hears Iadictment. When- the indictment was read Dr. Brysoh stood quletly before Judge Balley, moving not a muscle and gullty” for him, ag he did not answer. | it I8 expected, when completed,” will To the question, “How will you be tried?"’ the reply was via counsel, the cutomary: “By GQod and countt: “By God and country, Attorneys Willlam Wallace Chis- holm ‘and Harry W. Petrikin, who will have charge of the case for the defense, conferred with a number of friends of Dr. Bryson who came here to ald him with ‘testimony and With AL AN ; | thelr support. e Hine able ! Among them were Dr. B\ C. Wilson, tof Columbia road near 1Sth street, | Washington. D. C.. and Dr. H. W. i Moffitt, who knew Dr. Bryson when he was practicing medicine in Wash- ington. They motored up accom- panied by thelr wives and visited Dr. Bryson at the jail. J. F. Hodgson, who was a playmate with Dr. Bryson as a_child, came here from Rochester, N. Y., and will prob- ably be called 'as a witness by the defense. General Anton Stephan of Wash- ington, also arrived to_testify as_to the- character of DF. Bryson. Bb(h‘ deliverance.” He theén took a of thé defeuse. mother, and two other chairs were rawn. up_for thé veiled woman In Iack and Rer companion. On_the far side of the table sits Mrs. Ran- ter of Dr. Bryson. The first e of twenty jurors was in place at 9:30 o'clock. On the bench beside Judge Bailey. trial judge, is Assoclates Judge M. Beers, who defeatéd Represen! Focht for Congre: at the pHmary, 2 ‘o tutn ‘to Bfyson again for a meoment. He keems to be a different man from_the Dr. Bryson of Wash- ington. He cAme Into court dressed in & drab, gray-checked n:in. of some A woolen materisl, and the. coat ; ke buttoned a button higher on the sid Dr. Brysen Uneoncerned. than is correct. It gave his appear Mrs. Elizabeth Bryson. mother of | ance a lop l%ef :ltll'ec.”."m : was : the accused, and Mrs. Laura Randall, acven 3¥°8 | hid sister, have beén here since Sat- growth of beard. {urday. After seeing her brother last Securing of Jury Begins. night: Mrs. Randall remarked that Questioning of jurors started at:he was showing great spirits at the 9:45 v’clock. - Prosecuting Associate farrival of his friends and that he i Spyker aueriéd the first talesman re< | expressed great delight at their #ardlfig capital punishment. Upon | coming. recélving reply in the afirmative he ‘The most striking thing about the pasved fto challenge. prisoner. ht:ll-aveln 1s his absolute un- ‘Attotney Chisholm first ofclally in- | SOnCern and faiiure tveh vaguely to dicated the course the defense would |ney Petfikin in discussing Dr. Bry pufsue by Asking whether the prospec- | son's condition said that of ail con-{ tive juror had any prejudice figainst in- cerned in the ca sanity as a defense in a homicide case. [ out doubt> was showing the least in- fi\n?. brought a protest from the pros- | térest. He has a vacant, faraway ecution on the ground that it was an {100k in hik eyes generally and a blank | lmynwcr questio! H xpression on his face, which may be- | udge Bailey overruled the objection {®oken inability to grasp fully the sit- | and admitted the question. uation. His nerves, always ragged Challenging of the jurors and ques- |since his return from the world war, tioning always along the line of the | Where he suffered shell shock, capital punishment and ineanity occu- |81Ving symptoms of trouble in various pled virtually the entire morning. w-‘ 8. He suffers somewhat from in- Tt is belleved that the challénging will | abllity to_sleep well, and when he not be fnished until tomorrow. After | Walks he drags his left leg as though an hour's challenging not one Juror had been X, it were partly paraiyeed placed in the Today it Is fepected Dr. D. Percy The first woman, Miss Mary Mc- trict ] Hicklipg. D! alienist, and Dy Garvey, called: for jury duty, declared Starr (hllllm- will arrive. - What she had e ::od X inion regarding the e their part in connection with the case whi d not change under | Will be is speculative, but it is any nlrbumsnx:el. She was exoused, were officers In the District tional Guard for many years, i Dr. Bryson with- thought that they will be called to 11 o'clock the defense | the Etand As experts in mental m: had exhausted five of the twenty chal- | diés and asked for opinions regard- Jenges . allowed without cause and the |ing Dr. Bryson's present mental con- p tion had exhausted six of their | Qitiofn. twenty peremptory chalianges. g More Mystery in Case. “Somme stditioHal mystery has besn| Al the earmarks of a skilitully injected. into. the cass by queries of drawn-up case on the part of tiié de- the Qefenss to prospective Jutors. ferise are‘gradually becoming- clear. With Frank Starr, a farmer, on the|{Amons the friends of Dr. Bryson here stand, Attorney Harry Petrikin, of | there are persons.who knew him as a counsel for the defense, asked wheth- | boy, as a medical practitioner before his service overseas and as a return- ¢f he h-db:ecnlved any eudn-‘llnod let- 1t sutnmon 8 & juror. ter since being Jurer: | ing victim of war days trom France from shell shock. Dr. This gave fise to COUrtroom specu. lation that unsigned letters were be- | suffering Charles B. Luce of Washington, for- merly attached to Walter Reed Hos- a) ing sent to sbme prospective jurork. wfm thy 1, and there during the year that [ e bject of such & letter be ha not been brousht out. r. Bryson was & patient t oz Bested here, ‘his is an indigation efense will call attention to the w! discrepancy between the man who went into the service and the one who Defense Plans Clear. mighi Quick Action Blocks Ke- " mal’s Coup Plan, H H came out. - English View. |, biciapamishin oy " . (Continued from First Page.) R L B Ll 1 a man- known, loved and re- ey z spected ih a community before Frsnch. however, declds not {o sup- ,..n,f:.é( o’!' ms'.r at ":‘r,n : poit Britiah, the latter will not|Ats of George Washington University. have ?:fl_au: forees’ to_detend the Medion et Ssking an astive MSo town End the straits &hd no ‘one Ttipant in_ Work o ‘the DIstrier ¢ knows WhSt will happen In Constan- | X .‘h " ve ® Turkel al Guard and in every WAy isen. Then will be m..‘.'..: jcture of the man of service. He goes to the front for 5 United States. In shell-torn e risks all that he has for ter will be "n that same man com! He will B:‘rletw at bae e tal, ng trested will_be de- |shock, with 8. °"'“"E‘ wumc’?n A lease suspended | Reed ital and his ae fieet is -beltty | ing this will be browght out & and more units from the]that the trouble of the mitid et Are expected soon. sisted. 'Then the jury G | they Rave''suf- st humiliations i ! ears.” ; Th tish are t"klw every &n- Jon‘ml avold being t :‘n ible t6 s The t:’ has ! " hine l%n :}“’-‘-u% el réinfor Atlantic { Central, 8,000 H tice, consist of farmers from the vicinity. il"""k 4.340. SCHOOLS REPORT - * BB ENROLLMENT 895 More Register Than on First Day Last Year—To- tal Reaches 68,458. BIG' HIGH SCHOOL JUMP 1,172 Increase, as 10,797 Are Li: od—Maryland Children Must Wait for Accommodaitons. Eight hundred and ninety-five more pupils ‘were enrolled in the District public schoals when they reopened for the new term yesterday than on the first day of school last year. School officials éfd not look for this large increase on the opening day, and are conjecturing whether the schools received more pupils than usually attend on the first day or whether the peak enrollment s des- tined to exceed the maximum esti- mate of §7.000, Supervisory officials’ reports to the Franklin School headquarters showed thut 58,435 pupils were placed on the rolls vesterday for the school year of 1922-1923. The figures for the first day last year were 57,083. Big High School Increase. The increase was most noticeable in the high schools, where 1,172 enrolled in excess of last year's school open- ing day. The high schools were open- ed yesterday with 10,797 students and on ‘the first day last year 9,626 stu- dents were enrolled. The elementary school enrollment yesterday totaled 47,212, as 36 last year, a decre: Officials explained this decre due to the transferring of puplls from one school to another, and conse- gu-nu: they were no® included in the rst day’'s figures. Maximum October 15. Whether the schools will be mch more crowded than last year will nots be known until about October 15, when the maximum enrollment 1§ ex- pected to b8 réathed. The authorities point out two alternative explana- tions of the increased enrollment or the first day of this year. One is that more pupila were in attendance yes- terday than usually go to school the first day. This would mean that the higher enrollment reathed within the first_week of last year was atiaine on the first day of this year. Then it is possible that the figures compiled yesterday indicate an actual-addition of pupils. and that the schools will be confronted with a larger problem of ¢ongestion than last year. The opening day enroliment figures announced today by -Asst. Supt Ste- phen E. Kramer follow: Enroliment Figures. Wilson Normal, 207, and Miner Nor- mal, 242, a total of 449 in the normal schools. High school figures are: astern, 971; Western, ; Business, 1,300: McKinley, 1.2 Columbia Junior High, 743; Arm- strong, 1.008; Dunbar, 1,362, and Shaw Junior High, 334. The elementary school enrollment| by divislons follows: First, 725, third, 7.06; Wilson Normal Practice 313; Frankiin-Thomson, 625; special’ achools, 314; fitth division, 534 sixt 2 seventh, 44: elghth. speaking not a word. Counsel for the |action at the trial. Both sldes are(3,211; ninth. 3845; tenth, ~4206: Defense Chisholh pleaded “Not | sanguine of their success. The jury,|cieventh, 4,203: Miner Normal Fra twelfth, 1.1 and thir- The vocation school onreliment totaled 85, with 30 iIn 1 {the’ Cardoza and 65 in the O Street building. Dr. Ballou Inspecting. Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintend- ent of schools, teday began a persons! inspectien of the public school build to learn at first hand the over- visof. day -the superintendent visited Cen- tral, Eastern and McKinley high schools and the new Kingman ele- mentary school. which is nearing com pletion. School officials hope to have the Kingman ready for occupancy by October 15. Refusal of school authorities to commodate all of the Maryland chil- dren in the E. V. Brown and Takoma and other schools near the Maryland- District boundary has aroused a storm of protest from their parents. The authorities emphasized that thes are not refusing admittance to the District schools to any of the Mar¥- nd children, but they do not in- tend to create part time classes and use portable buildings at the E. V. Brown and the Takoma schools in order to accomodate the Maryland children who desire to enroll in them. Mukt Came Farther In. “The Maryland children who want to attefid the Distriet schools will be re- quired .té come to the schools farther in the city, where congestion is not as great, an official pointed out. The policy uf the officials, he satd, will be %o Arkt accommodate the District chil- dren living in the communities served by the Brown, Tekoma and other schools mear the District-Maryland line, and then, if there Is a ‘ oo for the Maryland children, they Wil be enrolled. SEVEN FIRES SWEEP CALIFORNIA FORESTS SAN FRANCISCO, September 19.— ith seven fires sweeping uncon- trolled thraugh three national forests in California, the United Btates for- est service headquartefs here report- ed today that the state is faced with he l.t:'l.!!‘nn (13 the worst forest Hré sl years. More than 50,000 ' burned over at the time the last res here. ’%‘éfi?wm:: 1. mmgl fifs. greas.