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s Temperature for twe 73.9; lowest, 41.7. Fulf report on page 19. WEATHER. Fair today and tomorrow; change in temperature. 1l little nty-two hours ended at 10 p.m. last night: Highest, | | I 28.672. No. 918.— 0. Entered as second-class matter post office Washington. D. C. he Sunday Star, WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORN NG, OCTOBER 29, 1922.—EIGHTY-FOUR PAGES. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” , The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. — ] * FIVE CENTS. FASCISTI SOLDIERS TOGUARD ROMEAS LEADERS MOBILIZE . v Chief Reported to Have Or- dered Concentration of His Lieutenants. CAPITAL SEES HARDSHIPS, BUT AVOIDS BLOODSHED King Fails to Name Premier to Succeed Facta—Censorship Veils Events. By the Associated Press. LONDON, October change Telegraph dispatch from Rome xnys that King Vietor Em- manuel has asked former Premier Salandra to form a mew cabinet. GENOA, October —The Secolo prints telegram from Rome an- nouncing that the commander-in- chief of the fascisti has signed a « mobilization order for all the chiefs of the movement to appear tomor- row at headauarters to receive spe- eial instructions. To aveid disorder, fascisti troops will be posted at stra. 1 ts and at rallway crossings, wi station will be occupied by po le isti the The ays that concen- tration of the cisti is taking place. FEW CASES OF VIOLENCE. newspape By the Associnted P October 28.—Although the of me nted them- selves today with conferences at their headquarters and news from the qulet, ex- provinces showed all cept in a few isolated cases, where the extreme nationalists occupied <ome public offic precautionary measures were adopted by the au- thorities, and the cabinet of Premier Facta, in spite of its resignation, dis- cussed means of maintaining order. Street car traffic has been stopped, but automobiles, cabs and busses are running. All city are beflagged. The only place at which bloodshed occurred since the fascisti be- movement for control is has gan their Cremonia. New Movement Reported. A new movement by with the object of exercising pressure to obtain the formation of a cabinet In accordance with their desires is said to have been initiated in central; Italy today. After a long session which began at midnight last night, the Facta cabinet issued a proclamation this morning announcing that it would maintain law and order at whatever cost. It was at first intended to in- stitute martial law, but after the sit- uation was given further considera- | tion and reports of a less disquieting nature came from the provinces the ministers thought it best merely to make their stand known to the public and to urge that order be maintained in the face of “insurrec- tionary attempts.” New Premier Not Named. King Victor Emmanuel as yet has nominated no one for the. task of forming a new ministry. This morn- ing he conferred with former Premier Salandra, President Tittoni of the senate President de Nikola of the chamber of deputies and Fran- cesco Cocco Ortu, former minister of agriculture, while this afternoon he had conferences with former Premier Orlando, Luigi Federzoni, nationalist leader, and Signor de Nava, leader of the democrats. ¥rom last midnight, when the mili- tary took command, the telegraph services refused to transmit dis- patches abroad. This caused great resentment on the part of the for- eign correspondents, who protested to the government that such a measure, together with the closing of the stock exchange and the suspen- sion of newspaper publication, would alarm the people at home and in for- | elgn_countries. Severe Censorship Imposed. In the afternoor the cabinet recog- nized the weight of these arguments and revoked the prohibitory orders. Dispatches, however, were submitted to a severe censorship. It is an- nounced that the fewspapers would be published tonight. Despite the orders of Gen. Pugliehi, prohibiting all gatherings and also the wearing of uniforms, a great pro- cession of fascisti nationalists, headed by the fascisti deputles, formed in the center of the city and marched to the Quirinal to express thanks to the king for not permitting the proclamation of a state of siege. Early in the day the life of the city moved as though nothing extraordi- Jpry was threatened. But when Gen. ugliest, who has been intrusted ‘with maintenance of order, manifestos on all the walls prohibit- ing meetings and closing the thea- ters, a wave of excitement immediate- iy ran through the city, and great crowds collected in the streets. Police Protect Nitti's Offices. The mayors and aldermen who took part in the demonstration before the palace werg received by the king, who asked them to convey to the people of Rome his appreciation of this evidence of loyalty. The king's words were received with enthusiasm by the many thousands gathered in the square. Later, a group of fascistj wen: to the offices of former Premier Nitti and attempted to invade them, but the police prevented any serious damage from being done. King Victor Emmanuel established himself more firmly in the hearts of the people by his attitude this morn- the buildings of the} the Tascisti} affixed | France Not Bound By Ship Rum Ban, Says Jusserand NEW YORK, October 28.—M. Jules Jusserand, French ambassador to the United States, on his arrival today on the Paris from France, asserted that in the face of the recent “bone 1dry” ruling of Daugherty, which prohibits the use | entering American ports, France can abide only by the laws of France. He added, however, that no immedi- ate action would be taken by the French embassy in Washington until the Supreme Court had passed upon the ruling. “French ships are a part of the territory of France,” said the am- bassador, “and I believe that you Pproperly claim your carriers are part of the United States wherever they may be. The laws of France state that one-half a Rhottle of wine must be served to the sailors on French vessels and a full bottle to the stok- ers. As such wine contains probably 90 per cent of water, I can hardly see that it is dangerous for men on ships to drink. “Further, our doctors maintain that wines of such alcoholic content are beneficial rather than harmful; that is their right of opinion and we shall uphold it. If your physicians otherwise, that Your country. ‘TRIED TO KILL ME ' WIDOW TELLS JURY ay and Committed Suicide, She Declares. HAVRE, Mont., October 28.—Official investigation by a coroner’s jury tnto { the deaths of the Rev. Leonard Lacob Christler and Mrs. Margaret Carleton lasted until late tonight, no wit- nesses belng examined until the night session. The public was excluded ! from the inquest. ! | According to authoritles, there were no developments tending to disprove the story of Mrs. Christler, to effect that she heard the shots in the next room, opened the door, saw the | saw Mrs. Carleton shoot herself. to public demand. {1ife after having shot her husbau | was the statement accredited to Mrs. Christler today by Leader. i | church her husband had builded. church, followed by a church supper, Mrs. Christler B Rev. Christler had gone to accom- pany Rev. Chapman of Butte to the | sleeping car at the depot about 1 house lighted. I called Attorney O. Hauge, a neighbor, who was passing to stand on the porch while I went in. I found Mrs. Carleton tearing photo- graphs of Mr. Christler up and also papers and burning them on the floor. |1 persuaded her to go out, and we went out together, meeting Mr. Christler returning home, and we three walked back together and went into the parlor and sat down. There are two deors to the parlor, and Mr. Christler stepped through one of them, closing the door behind him. Mrs. Carleton rushed to the other and passed through, and immediately 1 heard a shot and sprang to the door my husband had passed through. Mrs. Carleton stood with a gun in her hand and seemed crazed. Tried to Shoot Wife. “She raised the gun and pointed it at me, but either did not pull the trigger or the cartridge failed to ex- plode, as the gun wavered a second in her hand and she turned it against her left breast and fired without a word.” % The bullet from the revolver en- tered the right side of the minister, very low, and came out the left shoulder, severing the aorta and causing instant death, Carleton was shot through the heart, the bullet emerging behind her left shoulder. Mrs. Carleton was still wearing her hat, and a fur cape was about her neck. Dr. J. McKenzie of Havre, first to arrive at the Christler home, told the authorities a revolver was clasped in her right hand as she lay dead. Mrs. Christler declined to say what conversation passed preceding the shooting, further than to intimate | that only ordinary affairs were spoken of, and that the visit of Mrs. Carleton at 1 o'clock in the morning was sup- posed to be a friendly call. The funeral of Mrs. Carleton will be held in Helena, probably Monday. ‘While Dr. Christler was best known in northern Montana, his activities had taken him to other parts of the state and he was widely known in Butte and Helena. When he came to Montana the saloon was au established institution and gambling was common. The rec- tor seemed to accept these things as part of the west and he often was found in barrooms with friends at all times of the night. His friends said he felt that he was needed In such places and he exerted his influence for good without at- tempting any ordinary exhortations. As a missionary, Dr. Christler took a pride in his work. His territory embraced an area of about 600 miles long and 300 miles wide. In it were the Little Rockies, the Bear Paw mountains and other regions ndtori- ous for the desperadoes they had produced. He knew these remote camps well and visited them as often a8 his ‘“lfl-mnlr“ A Attorney General | is the business of the | The inquest was called in response | Af telling what had happened the | carly part of the evening, when serv- ices were held while Mrs. | | | “Other Woman” Shot Recmr!md after the story of i | That Mrs. Carleton threatened her! | 1 in her husband's| ., oo | ! i 3 i 't 12:99- 0 pointed at her definitely !t walked home slowly and saw the |20t 0 Ty T ! came public. I WASNT THERE," MRS HALL PLEADS, HER FRIENDS SAY or carriage of any liquors on vessels| Condition Described as Pa- " thetic, Due to Murder Case Strain. RESIDENT NEAR FARM SAYS NO SHOTS HEARD Story of Mrs. Gibson Still Relied Upon by New Jersey Authorities. BY DAN RING. Staff Correspondent of The Sta W BRUNSWICK, N. J., October 28.—“What can 1 say? I wasn't there. I know I wasn't there, but they prob- ably won’t believe me.” These were the words of Mrs. Ed- ward Wheeler Hall, widow of the slain rector of the Church of St, John the Evangelist, uttered tonight exactly six weeks after the body of her husband had been found beside the mutilated form of Mrs. Eleanor Rinehardt Mills, a choir singer in his church. “There” meant that spot beneath a crabapple tree on the Phillips farm where the murder was committed. The words came after Mrs. Hall had been apprised of the trend of the inves ation into her husband's death, Mrs. Jane Gib- son, alleged eyewitn of the murder, had been told her. They were retailed to the outer world via a friend of the family. Paramount among all outcroppings of sentiment and emotion in this again stood forth the profession of Mrs. Hall's belief in the integrity of her husband. Regarding the and diary this family friend quotes Mrs. Hall as saying: “If Edward were here he'd have some explanation of the letters and diary. 1 lived for him and he lived for me."” Clings to Faith in Him. These are the words with which Mrs. Hall offsets the opinion that ! has reached the public regarding the ! | body of her husband oa the floor and affection of her slain husband for the choir singer. She sat in the library at the Hall home. About her were the books her husband had col- lected. She faced the armchair in which he often sat composing ser- mons for the coming Sunday. Every- the Great Falls| where she turned there was a re- minder of her slain husband. And Mrs. Christler told her story In the | yp, (qow sat there and reaffirmed, despite all the belief to the contrary, i that her husband could have explain- ed satisfactorily his action as far as ere concerned with Mrs. Mills. Mrs. Hall is a pathetic figure, from the description given of her by the fami friend, who asks not to be quoted. Fingers of suspicion have since the Jane Gibson be- She was told of this statement and realized, according to the informant, “the trend of the in- vestigation.” And this is what she says to that: ~(Continued on rage Z, Column @) THREE DEE FVE HURT INTWO AUTO CRASHES Train Hits Motor Truck at Broad- way, Va.—Auto Plunges Off Bridge at Ridgeway. Special Dispatch to The Star. WINCHESTER, Va., October 28.— Loranzo D. Shipe, sixty years old, and Albert Mongold, thirty-five years old, both of Mathias, W. Va., were killed and Shipe's grandson and a son of Jesse Mowyer were perhaps fatally injured late today when a motor truck, in which they were rid- ing, was struck by Southern rail- way passenger train No. 11, Washing- ton to Harrisonburg. The accident occurred about 150 yards north of | the station at Broadway, Va. The train was running half an hour late at the time. The elder Shipe fell about ten feet away on the track, and the engine cut oft his head. He leaves a widow and several children. Mongold, who leaves a widow and several children, lhld the top of his head crushed in and was hurled thirty feet down an embankment. Shipe’s grandson, about nineteen years old, had an| iarm cut off and sustained internal in- juries. Jesse Mowyer's son had a leg crushed and skull probably fractured. The injured are in Harrisonburg hos- pital, with little hope of recevery. The .men had been to Broadway and were returning to Mathias. A coroner’s jury tonight returned a verdict without fixing responsibility. The railroad runs through a deep cut a short distance from the scene of ! the tragedy. RIDGEWAY, Va, October 28.— Willilam Saunders was killed in- stantly, and Pink Perkins, George Allen and Oscar Allen were seriously injured late today when an automo- bile in which they were riding plunged off the bridge across the Norfolk and Western railroad tracks about two miles from here. The car was demolished, but county officers, Investigating the accident, said tonight they found five gallons of whisky in the wreckage. . After the three survivors had re- celved medical attention they were sent to jail on charges of transport- ing liquor. AU of the men .were e letters | large’ IN CHASE; Maryland Motor Cycle Police Overhaul Alleged Liguor Runners. TWO HELD Man Suffers Broken Leg in Auto Struck by Fugitive Machine. A thrilling race between two al- leged bootleggers in an automobile Maryland state constabulary ended | crashed Into another automobile near | Brookland and turned turtle. | Four persons were injured as a | result of the collision, which oc- | curred only two blocks outside of the | District line. The load of whisky, wine and beer was spilled in a | meadow, so terrific was the impact, | but most of it was recovered by the Maryland authorities and taken to i Rockville with the prisoners. The injured are Lee Lezearm of Brookland, D. C., and Willlam Adams, colored, of Silver Spring, Md. who occupied the car struck by the al- leged rum runners, and George {Lomax and Willlam Byrd, both of Baltimore, who are accused of being { the bootleggers. All but Adams suf- i fered bruises; he sustained a broken leg and was kept at Sibley Hospital. Spotted Near Sfiver Spring. The two Maryland policemen, L. the ochase near Silver Spring, Md., when Lomax and Byrd dashed past, bound straight for the District line at a speed of sixty miles an hour, it is alleged. Undaunted, the Mary- land cyclists held to the chase and as they crossed the District line were jolned by Policeman John W. Git- tings of the Washington traffic force. Gittings was off duty and hap- pened to be on the scene in his auto- mobile. Seeing that they could not shake off their pursuers, and fright ened by the presence of the District | policeman in his automobile, the al- | leged whisky runners turned into { Sargeant road and sped back into Maryland. The instant they crossed the line again the Maryland pdlicemen drew | their revolvers and opened fire at close range. Several bullets whistled through the top of the fleeing auto- mobile. U e to Avold Cra: At the same Instant Lezearm and ! Adams hove Into view in their car. The whisky car was seen to swerve sharply, in an effort to get by, and then crashed into the side of the ap- ! proaching automobile. Both cars were hurled into the meadow that skirts the road, and turned turtle. Policeman Gittings placed the injured men in his automo- bile and rushed them to Freedmen's Hospital and Sibley Hospital, while | the Maryland authorities attended ito the wrecked cars. A few minutes llater they went to the hospital, got their prisoners and took them to Rockville, neither one having been se- riously injured. GOV. ALLEN IN KANSAS OPENS WAR ON KLAN COFFEYVILLE, Kan., October 25.— Asserting that he had instructed.At- torney General Richard J. Hopkins tp bring action to expel from the | state every official of the Ku Klux { Klan, Gov. Henry J. Allen sald that the kian had “introduced into Kansas the greatest curse that can come to any civilized people.” Gov. Allen assalled the growth of the organization in Kansas as “an astonishing development of prejudice which is racial and religious, seeking to establish in this state the urf- American idea that we can improve the conditions of this state by turn- ing the rights of government over to a masked organisation ‘which arro- gates unto itgelf the .figlit to regu- Iate the ual,” PRISONER {and two motor cycle policemen of the? yesterday afternoon when the auto; G. Clagett and Guy Jones, took up | By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 28.—At least $15.000,000 has been lost during | the past three years, principally by the workers, through the or- ganization and exploitation of fake co-opecati <chemes, Andrew P. Bower, vice president of the Co- Operative League and vice presi- dent of the Pennsylvania Federa- tion of Labor, said in an address at the third annual congress of the co-operative organization here tonight. Workers, he said, have had their confidence in co-operative enter- prises shaken by the unscrupulous operations of ‘*co-operative char- latan The operations of such schemes, he said, constitutes a menace to workers and to the co- operative movement, and he recom- mended that labor bodies advocate for adoption in the various states the model co-operative state law drafted with a view to protection against fake co-operatives. Such a law, he asserted, would save the workers millions of dollars by preventing schemes which he said had nothing in common with the real co-operative movement. PRINCETON TRING ' CHICAGO, 21 TO 18 i Westerners’ Failure to Kick Goals Gives Game " to Tigers. 1 | i | i By the Associated Press. . CHICAGO, October 28.—The Prince- ton Tigers triumphed over Chicago ! here today in the most thrilling foot ball game seen on Stagg Field in years. The score was 21 to 18, the | margin being three points scored after { touchdowns. Princeton scored twice in the final period. Each team crossed the other’s goal line three times, but the westerners had no one who could boot the ball over the crossbar in the face of the charging Princeton team, and the fact gave Princeton the winning edge. Probably every known play that would bring the supreme thrill into the hearts of the spectators was fur- nished in today’s contest. Forward passes, dashing end runs, spiralifig punts, flerce line smashes and recov- ered fumbles all entered into the spectacle. Added to this were two desperate stands inside the 3-yard lines, one in which Chicago finally yielded the winning touchdown and the other in which the Tigers staved oft defeat by inches, with only sec- onds of playing time left. Thomas Chicago Hero. John Thomas of Jamestown, N. D., who was mainly responsible for Princeton’s defeat, 9 to 0, in 1921, was again the hero of the Maroons. He scored all three of the westerners’ touchdowns, but was stopped at the close of the game. This made the victory only the sweeter to the Princeton. partisans. Every available inch of Stagg Field was packed, and while the seating capacity was announced at 32,000, Coach Stagg squeezed several more thousand into the grounds. Rooters Prove, Generous. The rival rooters were generous in applauding each other's songs and cheers and the spectacle was conduct- ed according to the best tradition of the great college sport. The big Chicago band, with .a twenty-foot base drum in the center, kept the rooters toes going in rhythm to stirring marches. Between halves they paraded to the center of/ the fleld, formed a great letter “P” and lead Princeton in the “Cannon March.” They then turned, formed a “C,” and led the maroon host in Chicago's tamous “Big C" song. (Forther. details. of the Prineston-Chicago game will'be found in the” sports ‘section of CRASH HALTS CAR $75:000.000 Lost AR TOGFT EQUAL JHURT By Co-operators RIGHTS | Women Issue Call for Forma- tion of Council to Assist Battles. {PREJUDICE IS CHARGED ! Mrs. Isabelle Kendig Gill Asserts Civil Service “Exam” Is Less Strict for Men. Woman government workers of treatment in every department. At a meeting in Woman’s Party headquarters Friday night, which was concluded in the small hours of the following day, lhundrods of female employees of the | United States government ignited | fuse that may explode a bomb. Mrs. Isabelle Kendig Gill, member- ship secretary of the Woman's I'arty, a meeting opened, when she is i call this week for the formation of a government workers' council, to icounteract, she said, the system of discriminating against women in | civil service appointments and pro- | 'motions. This action was the re- | sult of many complaints presented to | jher by woman employes, she said.| { Temporary chairmen from each gov { jrlan of organization was discu: iand a platform adopted. Demands Sexless Rating. “We demand,” savs the platform, equal terms with men: that a single jregister shall be kept of men and ! women from which appointments are made in the order of rating, regard- {less of sex, and that no new examina- tion shall be held until this :igible {list must be supplemented. “That women shall no longer be excluded from executive, administra- tive and high-salaried positions and that there shall be no discrimina- tions against women in (a) appoin: ment, (b) assignment, (c) title, (@) promotion, (e) salary. “That there shall be a special board or committee in every subdivision of ganization, on which women shall have equal representation with men to fix salarles and to pass on all re- organization appointments, assign- ments, ratings, promotions, demo- tions, transfers and dismissals; tion against women because of mar- riage.” cessant Drive” Urged. Mrs. Gill contended that the forma. tion of the Government Workers' Council would make a group strong enough to sweep away the traditional prejudices against women and that only an incessant drive in this direc- | tion could change conditions. She also sald she had reason to believe | from the correspondence that has come to her that “discriminations begin at the examinations and that she had learned that a woman's papers are marked with strictness that a man's papers are not. She then gave the following “instances of discrimi- nations” that have come to her through the questionnaire sent out by the woman's party: When a woman was eligible for advancement she was Yefused the appointment because She was told that men woul fail to work under a woman; that the higher pald work was not given to women; that ad- ministrative positions were denied; that there wefe many discriminations in regard to promotions and salarie: that men holding the same positions and doing the same work were paid more money; that the chief discrimi- nation against womell was due to the ‘old-fashioned standards of ‘chiefs’ as well as to the low ideals of many of the modern women, resulted in dishonest service, that women were not given the same even n merit warranted.’ Takes 7 to Seize ‘Diplomat’; Delies Traftic Ofticer By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Octdber 28.—Three patrolmen and four civilians were re- quited to remove Guillano Debus- tillo, who claims to be the chancellor U. 3. TURNS DOWN (PART AT LAUSANNE INUS.POSTS won the house immediately aftor the ! ued a ! jernment department were elected, a | ai “that all examinations in the civil service shall be open to women on| each department and independent or- | “That there shall be no discrimina- ; to the consul eeat in an automobile tonight. when he was arrested on a charge of fail- ing to halt upon the signal traffic policeman. “I am foreign count to have said, * put up with traflic policemen. you to arrest me.” Debustillo and his wife, driving the car, were both arrested. LAWYER IS SUICIDE ON OFFIGE COUCH Burt Barlow Shoots Self During Worry Over Pay- ments on Home. " Debustilio is alleged nd I do not have to 1 defy COLLAPSED LAST WINTER Last Act Dictation of Letter to Father, Encouraging Latter to Visit Him Here. Lying on a couch in his office in the International building, 1321 F street, Burt E. Barlow, forty-two | vears old, an attorney, fired a bullet !into his head shortly after 5 o'clock vesterday afternoon, dving a few minutes later. Mr. Barlow had been in'bad health and also had been brooding over the difficulty he was having in meeting the payments on a home he was buy- ing at 3100 16th street, according to his father-in-law, A. rven. The dead man had received a letter early yesterday from his father |Henry H. Barlow. who is a well pwn attorney at Coldwater, Mich., in which the parent advised his son that he was planning to come to | Washington to visit him Writes to Father. | The son dictated a reply, in which |he is said to have’told his father he iinto an adjoining office and a moment ! D. E. Campbell, the only other oc- cupant of the suite of offices, rushed {into the room and foupd Mr. Barlow 1ying on the couch. The bullet entered his right~temple, came out the op- ! posite side and imbedded itself in th | wall. Mr. Campbell immediately tele phoned Mr. Barlow's father-in-law. who hurried to the scene from !office in the Kellogg building. Mr. Serven said he went to lunch | with his son-in-law yesterday and {was with him in his office untii 3 o'clock. According to_his father-in-, law, Barlow talked constantly about the trouble he was having in carry- ing out the terms der which he purchased the street property. Advised Against Worry. The father-in-law said he rated with Barlow not to | over the transaction but to make the best adjustment he could. Barlow complained that his head was not feeling right; that it seemed heavy ! Mr. Serven reminded him that he Lad been doing good work recently and | would be all right if he stopped wor- | Tying. Mr. Barlow was born in Michig: and graduated from the Michi ll.'nh'ornn,\' Law School. He came to { Washington in February, 1919, and, | according to relatives, was making good in the practice of his profession. Last winter, however, he suftzred a i went to Bermuda. Upon his roturn he continued to feel bad, Mr. Severn he went to other trip. In April Europe. Mr. Barlow is widow, Mrs. 1da S. survived by his Barlow, and five children, the oldest of whom is an eighteen-year-old son. Coroner Nevitt stated last night that he would issue a certificate of suicide. TEST RIGHT OF DOGS TO SHARE IN WILL LITTLE ROCK, Ark., October 28.— The right of a dog and her two pup- | ples to an income from a $12,000 es- tate left by Mrs. Margaret Howard of | Chicago to provide for them during their lives, and the eventual gift of Home here, are to be tested in probate court in Chicago Monday be- | received here. the custody of Mrs. Carrie Basaw of $75 & month for their care. stood, is on a petition asking that relatives of Mrs. Howard produce the original of the unusual will in favor of the dogs and the children, of which an attested carbon copy is said to exist. —_— OMAHA HOT, UTAH SNOWY. OMAHA, Neb., October 28.—Omaha was the warmest city in the United States yesterday, when the ther- mometer reached 90 degrees, weather bureau officials sald today. Dodge City, Kan., was next warmest, with a temperature of 88 degrees. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, October 28.—Rain, which later-turned to snow, fell in Salt Lake City and many sec- opportynity to hold the best positions | tions of Utah today, breaking one of ' the longest fall dry spells on record. of Honduras, from a of a the representative of a who was his | of the contract un- 16th | remon- worry | nervous breakdown and in January | said, and he was advised to take an- | the estate to the Arkansas Children’s | fore Judge Horner, according to word | The dogs now are in ! Chicago, who has filed a petition for | The Chicago hearing, it is under-| EXCEPT OBSERVING Invitations of Britain, France and Italy Fail to Alter Policy. NO WAR WITH.TURKEY CITED AS MAIN REASON Admiral Bristol and Joseph Grew Mentioned as Likely Members of Delegation. Another request that the United States actively participate with the allied governments in the settlement of Europcan difficulties, this time in- volving the establishment of peace between Turkey and the allies and [the status of the Dardanelles and | Bosporus straits, was received tos day by the Washington government. Its formal presentation by Sir Auck- land Geddes, the British ambassador; Count de Chambrun, acting for France in the absence of Ambassador jJusserand, and Charge Rossi, who ap- | peared for Senator Ricci, the Halian {ambassador, was followed by an au- | thoritative statement from the State | Department that this government !yesterday had instructed its am- bassadors in London, Paris and Rome /to inform those governments that it | could not officially participate in the Inear cast Switzerland 1 Never at War With Turkey. i At the time it was pointed out |that there were important interests !in the near eust in which this gov- |ernment was keenly interested and |treatment of these by the Lausaune | conte would be observed by American representativi Regard- ing the decision not to be represent- ed through appointed delegates, it was said the United States had never been at war with Turkey and, therefore, did not believe it could appropriately take part in framing a treaty of peace with that nation in | association with the allied conferees. Secretary Hughes' instructions to conference at Lausanne, are|was glad to hear of his proposed |Ambassadors Harvey, Herrick and on the warpath to®demand equality |visit. Finishing the letter, he went{Child, it was understood, -recounted jthe interests of the United States in the National iater the report of the pistol rang out. ;subjects to come before the Lausanne meeting for adjustment. Outstand- |ing among these were said to be that of protection of racial and religious iminorities in Turkish territories and other humanitarian considerations, in- {cluding those of the great missions and cducational institutions. Apart from these, but regarded as of equal importance to Americans’ welfare in the near east, was the problem opening the Dardanelles and porus straits. Warrant Following Proceedings. These considerations, the ambassado were informed, warranted this country serving ciosely the proceedings at nne. The wish also was said to i been expressed by Secretary | Hughes, in his message to the thr | diplomats, that opportunity would be iven American observers for attend- ce at the meeting in Lausanne, where. tment was given to subjects in tre which the United States was interested. British, S The cail of the French and ! Ttalian dfplomats at the e Depart- ment was made with every formality and was brief. Ambassador Geddes headed the party and was received with his colleagues almost immediat |arrival at Secretary Hughes Their meeting with the Secretary of State, however. lasted precisely thres iminutes. In this brief time Sir Auck- land Geddes read the formal invitatio: 'as it had been transmitted from the ! three foreign capitals, as follows | Text of Invitation. “The governments of Great Britain, | France and Italy are inviting the go | ernments of Japan, Rumania, Jugo- i slavia, Greece and Turkey to send rep- | resentatives to Lausanne on November 13 +t0 conclude a treaty of peace to end | the war in the east. They are also in- | viting the Russian and Bulgarian gov- ernments to send representatives at a | date to be fixed later to participate in | the discussions which the conference | will undertake in the course of its pro- ceedings on the subject of the straits | “The three principal allied powers re- { call that a representative of the United States government was present at San Remo in the final stages of the proceed- ings of the supreme council which led to the drafting of the treaty of Sevres {in 1920. They would weicome the pres- ence of a United States representative at Lausanne, in a similar capacity, or in ia more active capacity, especially in the | discussion upon the question of the straits.” | _Secretary Hughes listened atten- | tively to the reading and received a | copy of the invitation. He informed his callers then of the steps he had taken to acquaint their respective home governments with the attitude of the United States respecting the { settlement of the n eastern ques- Mr. Hughes was { tions at Lausanne. .understood to have promised the three diplomats, however, that he | would respond later in writing to the | invitation they had brought. No statement was obtainable at the State Department after the diplomats had departed as to the personnel of the American observers who would attend the conference in Switzerland. ! In the event, however, that this gov- ernment follows precedents estab- lished at the San Reno, Genoa and The Hague conferences, the diplo- matic representative in the country where the forthcoming conference is | to be held will be chosen. Joseph | Grew is the American minister at Geneva. As a natural sequence, it also would follow that Rear Admiral Mark L. ri American high commissiones tuntinople, would be another T the observers. >