Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 18, 1922, Page 1

From Bullet Wounds Near New Brunswick, N. J- tectives Find the Tragedy Baffling—Bishop Knight of the P. E. Diocese of New Jersey is Confident That Mr. Hall Had Not Been Guilty of Misconduct—The Wife of the Minister Was Seen Exitering Her Home at 2 0° cured. Mills . - The' International Finger Print seso- ciation at Boston selected Des Maine Iowa, as its next conventlon city. : v'gfim : V'fifl;lg — Turks but was not seriously damaged. . Have Made No Attempt to nal T S Smyrnl,. Sept. 17 (By ths A. P.)— Smyrna, which the Turks bave called tha éye of Asia, is .a - vast sepulchre of received when her automobile ashes; only .the shattered walls of 25,- turtle on the road. turned New Brunewick, . J. Seépt 17.—Mrs , which ‘are s4id by the Mrs. Mills to the Edward W. Hall, whose husband, the rector of the Protestant Episcopal’church »f St. John the. Evamgeliet and Mrs. James Mills, ‘wife of the sexton - of the church, were found dead. fcoi wounds under an lans of Somerset county ‘on - Saturday morning, toid detectives today that she was the woman in the polo coat who was #een éntering the Hall home at 2 o'clock Friday morning, a short time-after, the police allege, the double shooting oc- curved 4 She told them, detectixes .sald, that, becoming worried over the faijure of her husband to return home; she had gone to the church to see if he had been de- tained there. She said she had been ac- sompanied by - William Stevens, ' Ler srother. Willlam Phillips, & watchman- at the Kew Jersey college for women, which itands directly across the street from the Hall residence, had told the police he saw \ woman run down the street about 2 % Friday morning and enter .the Detectives said he Made no report of seing a man with the weman. “I am tied by my sister’s honor and that of my family. They are not going o cuestion me.” gaid Stevens when:asked wbout the affair. “He declined to.omment. o0 the mystery surrounding the ‘doubls shooting, d said that he was going out of town and A day of investigation, authorities said, had failed to life in.avy material way the veil of mystery. o County Detective Totten said that all aspects of the case Etifl remained “baf- fing.” He added, ~ however, tNiY the theory that robbecy was the motive of the fouble sheoting had heen- . disoarded. When found. the rector’s gold watch was miseing from his body, and- only 3 few tents were ifl hif pockets. - The detective said that Mrs, Hall had been quesetfoned tiwice by himeelf and his tants, and thit Charlotte Mills, the ear old daug! ier of Mrs. MIills, once, it some length. Totten fald it had Dheen learned that Mrs Hall wae an expert trapshooter. Mrs. Hall told ‘him, Totten said, that Mter usband received a telgphone *all on Thursday night he informed hee hat he was “going over to straighten out the Mills bjji " ective that this referred to Mills' wages 15 _sexton, She reiated that when her husband lid not return at midnight she grew ner- vous and at about 2 o'clock went to the church t6 gen it he had been “detained theee” Mrs. Hall. according to Totten, #ald she thought her husband had gone to the church. Detective Totten pointed out that Mills had told him that it was a telephone mes- sage which aleo called his wife from their home on Thursday night, It was:in an- swer to a question from Mille' message that the sexton said his wife. answered. It you really want to know wheré I'm xoing, foliow me and find out.t Detectives also attached, significanee to the fact that Mills told them that ‘when 1ls wife failed to return Thursday night he. too, went to the chureh about 3 o'clock “for spiritual eenselation,” ana remained osme time, but. that -he did- Aot secors mesting Mrs. Hall there until-about 9 v'clock in the morning. A conversation which occurred last week In the headquarters. of the local fire- de- partment, which the nolice .think may baye some bearinz on the case, was un-| rarthed by the authorities today. = Fire| aptain Michael Riggin was passing the | lime of day with William Stevens, de- ectives. sa learned. when the cap- ain rémarked that things were .rather v around town. -~ ‘Maybe - they are now,” Stevens said, ind has admitted replying, “but gome- hing big is going to happen soon,” Stevens yhen asked what he meant by his statement deeclined to answer. Services in the small but wealthy thureh of St John the Evangellst, which %25 on a knoll overlooking-the town . of New Brunswick, wers conducted today by Rt. Rev. Albion Williamson. Knight, bishop of the Protestant. Episcopal dio- cess of New Jersey. The text of his ser- mon was “Falth, hone and chari He referred briefir to the tragedy. He said that he had been acquainted with the rector for a long. time and-had” jmplicit faith In him. From his.own knowledge. as eald. and from what othees had. told | bim, he w suré that the rector could 20t have been guilty of wrong doing. “The tragedy,” ho said. “was probably % test to try the cofgregation's - faith Clergymen are all human. like other peo- ple. But T am confident that Dr. Hall| was not gullty of misconduct. God knows | when he commits eternal peinciples to us | 't Is to frail human beings. And so 1 wuy that this tragedy may be, after all, oaly a test of the spirit and" the the congregation. P Bighop Knight will officlate at the rec. tor's funeral, which ‘will be held tomor- ow from the church of St, John the Evangelist. The funera] of ‘Mrs. Mills will probably be held Tuesday. An autonsy was performed by Coroner Long on Mrs. Mill' body today. He found that death was due to a sing’ bul- #t wound Through the center 6f the fore. 2€nd. The bullet, he =aid, was firéd from in front and passed out back of the right rar. No &utopsy has been performed on the rector's body. > Mrs. Hall refused to comment in any. way upon the deaths of her husband or Mra. Mills. The sexton, however, sald that he had been to see Mre. Hall and that while she could -hardly speak; she steadfastly avowed her faith in her. hus band “I worshipyed Mr. Hall and teysted him ebgolutely, and T stil belleve {n. jiim* Mr. Mills quoted Mrs. Hall as sayin and addcd that ehe had told him 1hat she ntended to hire private = detectives, if 3ted be, to clear up the mystery .sur- ‘qunding the double shooting. Mr. Mills reiated that the rector's wifs : “You may b 1 | {16 She explaified to-the de-1{ sesslon and not of the shooting: Rev. Hall,"¢he went, but said mnothing. Mills told newsnaper reporters. that the farca of fifty acres, still ccasries on 'i's tters ‘found neae- the { meant nothing bt & game which his wife bullet | played with herself. — He was-emphatic Pple tree in a, rustic|in stating that they had never: been mail- ¢ dand-that théy were {n his wife’s pos- rector's :body the rector's at the time His wife; he said, was 2 sentimental woman and was an invet- erate reader of romance. He declared that she frequently ‘copied the letters in novels she read with. her. Mill and carried ‘them about s declared he had seen hiS wife bobth writing and reading these messages, which he £aNl weer addressed 4o- imagined- characters. The sexton was reéported™to have told the gouthern mer. day, my wife. too friendl me what ‘it ‘you shouldn’t liste nto such tal family."~ covery from he: the authorities 'on ‘Saturday that the let. ters weee written by +his ‘wife' to “their two children while she was visiting in rt ‘of the state this sum- ‘For more than a year,” Mills said to- T Have been hearing gossip about 1 refused: to pay the slightest attentlon to it until people in the church charged' that 'my wife and Mr. Halt were That warned .me. “So I asked Hall, man to man, to tell - {5 R[S’ he. said, 1 would of your “Of courre, T:belleved him,” Mills con- |endeavoring. to reach cutlying vessels oy cluded. “and I SIN Believe him.” MBS, HARDING ON ROAD . ’l‘q. COMPLETE RECOVERY | Kemalist officials Washington, Sept. T-—Mrs. of the Christians to the meant now. safely on the road to complete re- certai; death. St el ‘Harding, T Trecent. serious iliness. probably will spend the entire recupera- {family. tive period @t the White House, sald today by thops ¢losé to the ex: President Harding also was said to|y; have definitely_given up his plans for a vacation this -year. Early in the year preparations were made for.the president and Mrs. Harding to make an'extended tour through the west and then to’ Alas- ka. Important’ matters arose, however, weich nehessitate’) repeated postponement and final abenk di i 1,500 CARES OF Springlake, N. ment” of this trip. the mf; i Mrs. Hard- e T ALLEGED W.'HISKEY SEIZED WITH MOTOR LAUNCH J.. Sent. 17.—Threo men ‘were arrested and- 1,500 cases of alleged whiskey were selzed when the dry navy boat Newberry pursued and captured the swift motor launch Gee Dee off the Jersey coast early today. The Newberry, cruising about. for .rum smugglers in ‘the early morning, . heard Dee’s pounding the sound of the Gee engine and caught the boat in the rays of its powerful search- light. The ori MISS MURIEL Zae pursuitwas short. crs said they were C. S, Hall of Springlake, Jack Quinn, Newark, Harry: Dean, supecargo. and ll'COBM"!CE TO APPEAR IN MOVIES Chicago, Sept. appearance in 17—A contract for the the moviss’ of Nawanna Micee. the stago name adopted by Miss Muriel ‘McCormick, the daughter of Har- old' F. McCormick and granddaughter of John' D. Rockef have been ‘signe, Schrenck. Miss McCormick refused either to con firm or deeny th €d that Miss McCormick would go to Cal ifornia early in eller, was _reported to d "~ today with ~ Joseph e report. January. WITHIN THIRTY PEET OF ENTOMBED ARGONAUT MINERS Jackgon, Cal Sept." 17.—Appeoximate. 1y thirty feet still must be cut through before rescuers can break into the Argo. naut from the 3 600 foot level of the Ken- nedy. mine. It was belleved ‘tonight that it would be Monday or Tuesday before an, entrance to the Argonaut made to determi: could’ be ne the fate of .the forty- sevén milners entombed there for nearly three weeks. rescuers, Powder gas s delaying the ——e Sunbury, Pa., ick H. Kn'ght er Knight. boy. New Haven, in his 82d vear. displayed today his a was taken imm dent's funeral. tograph were the names of each of the OBITUARY, Major Frederick H. Knight, Sept. 17.—Major Fred- . Sr.. believéd to = have n the only ceal Son of the American Revolution in the country, died late last night: at the home of his son, Harry S. He was 86 years old, Major Knight was the son of Richard' Knight, who enlisted in the Continental army. when 12 years old, as a drummer | troops, but it is hardly possible ‘to de- Henry M. Crocker. Sept. 17.—Henry . M. Crocker, Civil war veteran and believed | the. Gordon Highlanders -are -due. about to Have bcen the last living pallbearer of Abraham Lincoln, died at his home today Members of his family the government record of y services, the last duty of which ‘Palibearer of President Abraham That He was the ast of the twelve pall. bearers who bore President Lincoln to his grave wa sindicated by a photograph of the group in Crocker's possession, which ediately after the presi- On_the back of the pho- twelve pallbearers, with-their records and the dates of their deaths. had not been filled in. Crocker was born in the village of Ves- tel, N. Y., in 1841, and lived on his fa- ther's farm until the Civil war broke out, Crocker's alone when he enlisted in Company D of ¢ Twenty-second New York volunteers, He was wounded as Mechaniceville and was mustered omt in tigned to guard duty ar Washin, was while on this duty-that he ‘lected as one of .the “{the war Crocker . and | by ‘worked a5 a bl ppointed to the tired in 1917, 1863, when he was as. gton. It M3, Wis. se- -palibearers, " AttsF came 1o New: Haven ith. . Later he was lice foree and was clock | stitt - smouidering Friday Morning, Shortly After the Double Shooting Oc- 000 homes and the charred bédies of countless victims remain - to tell . the story:of death and,destruction, unexaun- pled in modern “history. “‘tne ruins are ike a volcano- which has spent’its fury; no effort has been made by the Turks to:remove the dead and dying; the stréets are full of the bodles ‘of those who sought to escape, Suggestions for reforms in the 'state highway laws will be made to the in- coming -legislature by the Maine -Auto- mobile Asscciation. - . Willam . Petrie, 37 years old, of Bridgeport, died in St. Vincent's hospital there from a skull fracture which he sus- tained when he was run down by a truck. ter has been burned, with the dead .y- _Arrargements have been.completed f; ing about; the bay, which ‘covers an the- 965 striking ‘shopment .of the Balti- more and Ohio railroads in Clncinnati to return to work immediately. Cablegrams congratulating five Cen- tral American Tepublics on the annivers- ary of“their independence have been sent by President Harding. surface the poor remnants of those whu were massacred or sought to escape tie ruthlessness of the foe, 5 1 On the waterfront- crouch thousands of survivors, .who fear -death in another form at the hands of the goldiery; there are no boats to take them' off. One ship captain declined to take any of the wretched sufferers, but. in con- trast to his indifference, Captain Wa!l- ters .of ‘the American steamer Winona Tesei 1,800 .and took them to Pirseus. American sailers of the destrover Litch- fleld snatched . 450 orphaned boys from the pier and carried them gsafely to Cou- stantinople,: The jack tars slept. on the ron decks or under torpedo tubes while ths youngsters: occupied - their- bunks. In all the acts of gallantty by the Ameri cans at Smyrna there was none mor inspiring than this. . ‘While the orphans were being “loadsd on,the Litchfield, H. C. Jaecquith, direc- tor of near east relief, who came here recently from -Constantinople, = giverted the attention, of the - Turkish guards. giving them cigarettes and’ talking to them: in their native tongue. These guards are under strictest orders not to permit - the escape of any of ‘the Greek - All women mlssionaries in Emyma, with the exception of /Mrs.. Alexander MacLachlan, wife of the president of the International College, are safe at Athens. Miss Mariel McCormick, granddangh- ter of John D. Rockefeller, and hardly ipast twenty, opened a-millinery shop in Chicago, haif a block from her elevator- | less third floor flat. Major Baker, of the Tenth St. Catha- Tine's, Ont.. fleld battery last night wired General Panet, commander of military district No. 2, offering’ the entire bat-| tery" for service overseas. Ths American steamer Fort Geonge, with a cargo of saltpetre, from Philadel- phia - to Montreal, is ashere at Indian Is- land, near Petite Riviere, N. S. it'was|ygittae for relief in the near east com- eCUtiVe | mitted suicide by drowning in the pres- and |lays in. the departure of vessels. “The New England assembling plant of the Ford Motor company, located in Cambridge, Mass. ,will shut down late this week. The plant employes approxi- mately 500 men. or - Armenian. refugees, ‘and on ' several ogeasions -have shot to. death fugitives swimming. Y Qut of 300,000 Christians crowding the city prior to the descent of' the Turks, only 60,000 have been evacuated. have - informed ‘he American rellet workers that the return Communities in Massachusetts and Northern New England are repairing damage done during Friday night by the ‘most severs electrical storm of the sea- son. The labor sitnation in ita relation to the prune harvest has become so acute that plans are being made for merchants of Dallas, Oregon to close their stores to- | day so their employes may pick prunes. The crop is big. The director of the Armenian orpham- age established by the American com- ence of Mr. Jacquith. Scores of others lled themselves. Dr. McLaughlin, president of . the American college, was severely beaten by Turkish irregulars and .his clothes apd money ceized. He limped with the ald of a crutch from the suburb of Par- 2diz, seat of the oollege, and was taken gboard the Eritish dreadnaught Tron Duke, He Attributes his_ escape from @2ath to the fact tHat Hhe can .speak Turtlkish and worked & ruse on the Turks. S g E. M. Fisher and E. O. Jacob, ‘direc- tors of the Y. M. C. A. were held up and ‘robbed by Turkish . soldiers, - and, when attempting to escape, were firsd upon. ~ The , shots, however, went wild, and they reached a place of safety, The supreme council, thirty-third de- gree, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Magonry, for the northern - Masonic jurisdiction of the United States, opened 0., Saturday. Cavada and avery state in the Union ‘was represented at the opening in De- troit of the annual convention of the ‘Sovereign Grand Lodge Independent Order of Odd Fellows. The scssions con- tinue through next Friday. A charp earthquake lasting several sec- | onds caused the collapse of a number of A itemporary American . consulate in;small cottages in the villages of Vome- charge of Vice Consul Maynard = B.|los and Cirtibancalvo, Spain. A few per- Barnes has been established on a quay;sons were injured. The Inhabltants took at-the end of the town.: The Stars an.l|refiige in the fields. Stripes is the only. foreign ‘flag asmora; ——— it .is an inspiring sight amidst the ruins Advices received at Y. M. C. A. head- and. desolation. The Americans destroy-|quarters in New York from Geneva, con ers Lawrence, Edsall ad Simpson are|firmed cable reports of the death of Met- still here; their offieers and crews have|ropolitan - Chrysostom; the Orthodox been practically witheut -'sleep for ilve|church official, in the massacre at Smyr- days and are doing gallant work. THa|Da. - only American- property which® escaped ST destruction’ were the Standard - Ofl Mr. and Mrs. Harold F. MecCormick and the former's daughter, Miss Mathilde, it is learned, are living in strict retire- ment in a small hotel on .the -border of YLake Lucerne, in the neighborhood of Lucerne, Switzerland. ¥ plant and two - tobacco warehouses the outskirts of the city: The following ‘Americans are remain- ing ‘in Smyrna: Dr. W. E. Post; Griswold; Cass Read; R. J. Moreman, C..J. Lawrence, S. L. Caldweil and £. 0. Jacob. The following have left' for Constan- timople: H.' .C. Jacquith, Constantine Brown, Irving Thomas, Mark Prentice, E. M. Fisher, E. M. Yantes, Messrs. Crawe and Jelin, Miss E. A. Evon, Miss S. Cofning' and Miss ‘Way. in Five blocks of wharves and warehouses along the Mississippi river front in New Orléans are in ruins foliowing a fire which did damage estimated in cxcess of $5,000.000 A cablegram was received in’ Spring- field, Mass., from Miss Jennie M. Christle of that citv. a worker with the Near East Relief in Smyrna, announcing her safe arrival in Piraeus, Greece. 33 BATTALIONS WILL BE NEEDED TO DEFEND CONSTANTINOPLE Constantinople, Sept. 17 (By the A. P.)—“We loathe wars and sincerely de- sire peace and reconstruction, but we cannot resign our rights as-an ‘independ- ent nation,” declared Hamid Bey, Kem- alist representative in Constantinople in replying today to a'.question concerning rumors of an attack by the Turkish ar- my against the straits. ‘“We have won a decisive victory, but our peace terms are unchanged. We have not been in- toxicated by our successes, “The reconquest of the richest por- The Massachusetts state department of public utilities barred the sale of the se- curities of the Damiano Tidewater Pow- er company, the Universal Tide Power company and the Paesane Hydraylic Power company. A fondness for pongse shirts led a burglar to spend so much time in a wholesale clothing store in Boston that he was trapped under a counter by po- lice summoned by an automatic burg- lar alarm. Plel Brothers, browers, who were tiane-of s‘::;::\‘{:s i AaEmented our i-| charged with violation - of the -Mullan- vy hich suffered very itie. s tus|Gage ‘prohibition act when real beer was found on one of the firm's trucks last May, were exonerated by the grand jury in Brooklyn and the charge was dismisser. Greeks nowhere fought a serious battls, is secthing with a desire to complete the] work of liberation of the homelands un- der enemy occupation.” Turkish concentrations at Tsmid con- tinue, and the British are bringing up TU. 8. Attorney Norman 5. Case of Providence, moved in the federal eourt to prohibit the operation of the Hand Brewing company in Pawtucket pending the trial of criminal. charges which the government has brought against the con- cern. fend the mneutral zone against the well trained Kemalist army. A Sussex regi- ment, just arrived - from Malta, was landed today in the Dardanelles, and A Mexican flag made by Senora Obre- Zon, wife of the president of Mexico, was officially presented to the-city of Phila- delphia at historic” Independence hall Saturday while a band plaved the Mex!- can national anthem = and the = “Star Spangled Banner.” A round trip ticket for the prise of a one way fare, for members of the Amer- ican Legion and the leglon auxiliary, the women’s, organization. attending the na- tional convention in New Orleans October 16-20, has been granted on all failkoads in the United States. the middle of the week at Chanak. Allied military experts take the view that a force of-33 battalions will be » quired to defend Constantinopls and the straits. The allied forces of occupation total about twenty battalions, mostly in- complete, but landing parties from more than fifty warships can make up the de- ficit. PORT STRIKE IN §RANCE ENDS WITHOUT DISORDER Paris. Sept. 17.—The twenty-three hour protest strike of the scamen in. various French ports ended at 7 o'clock - this morning. At all ports where the strike was ‘effective the men returned to. work without disorder. Union Jeaders said today that the ef- forts of the men to for & the government to reconsider a moodification of the eight- hour-law would not take the form of a general strike but would consist chiefly in compelling the strictest observance .of every technicality In the shipping rules. “Fhis, they added, would cause many de- The — 2 Ministers threnghout the Dortinion of Canada have 'been urgently igvited to attend an extraordinary ses<iof of the cabinet council in Ottawa, today. to con- sider - the British. government’ for service of an overseas confngeat the near east. A Considerable mystery . sulcide last nmight of John H. ffuss young college student; of 13322 avenue, New Rochelle, N. ¥i, seamen aiso will demand increased. wages | was found on a ionely s and possibly insist on payment in pounds | near Fairfield, Conn. sterling. Rt .~ Tthrough m{lfit ‘temple, Lepminster, - Mass, hospital of infurles | its 110th anousl meeting In Cleveiand, | New York, Sept. 17.—(By the A. P.)— Réports received in financial and bust- Bess quarters during the past week 1n- dicate that tife heavy -industries are making a rather better recovery - from the effects of the strikes than had bzen anticipated. Soft coal output is running cloge to 10,000,000 ‘tons a week and supplies of this commodity are such that the steel industry, which falls in the lowebt class: of priority, is now receiv- ing’ sufficient fuel to run at 60 per cent. capacity instead of the 50 per cent. of tgro weeks ago. ~More blast furnaces are ‘being blown in and the trade expects all ,of August's losses in this respect to be made' good presently. The limiting fac- tor in steel works operations is now, in fact, not a shortage of fuel but a scarcity of the kind of freight cars need- ed to carry the industry’s products. ‘With soft'.coal mining in swing and with anthracite mining in the process of resumptiofi, -the railroads are carrying the largest amount of treight in nearly two years. Car loadings for the week ended September 2 totalled 932,000, an Increase of 41,000 cars over the previous {week. Part of the gain is due to the ac- celerated. movement of soft coal; never- theless, the value of general merchandise carried also has continued to gain. The present. traffic. has been exceeded . only during chert periods in the autumn of 19200 = 4ccordingly it is not surprising to fipd that the supply of idled cars i3 peaching . the vanishing point; with the partial settlement .of the - shopmen’s strike, with gains in working forces re- ported on other roads, and with the equipment companies pushing their opera- tions, the opinion is held in financial cir- clgs. that the car repair situation should improve gradually-and that while a car rtage s inevitable, the raliroads 1l move a very large portion of the freight offered during the fall. Cotton _consumption is encouraging, August's takings by -our domestic mills amounting to 527,000 bales, the largest in any meonth since June, 1220. The latest total is 63,000 bales greater than in July, and was recorded before the recent restoration of previcus wage scale went into effect. The showing suggests one reason why the manufacturers wers will- ing to restore the higher wages, It may be assumed, in addition, that consumption has increased still further since work ‘was resumed in a number of the New England mills. ‘Wheat prices continue weak under the influence of crop receipts, hedge selling and the continuation of favorable weath- er. Official estimates place the Canadian crop at close to 400,000,000 bushels, a fig- ure/which indicates an exportable surplus of nearly 300,000,000 bushels. This show- 'ing naturally has its effect on the prics of our own grain. A fair amount of for- eign buying is taking place on the strong to” more an check the decline, and usually,is followed by weakness in ithe foreign exchanges when the corre- sponding. commercial bills are placed in the market. A somewhat similar condition exists in the case of cotton, although this com-~ modity recently has.felt the supporting force of unusually bullish private crop reports. Some quarters scem . to belleve that this year's yield will amount . to only 10,000,000 bales, as compared with the government’s September L figure of 10,575.000 bales. In any event, it is considered that the price of American farm products is suffering materially on account of unsatisfactory economic con- | ditions in Burope. ‘After several weeks of slight declines. the reserve ratio of the federal system has come to a standstill. It has not, however, vet showed the usunal recovery from Labor day demand, possi- bly on account of the proximity of the tax ‘date. New capital issues are increas- ing after a period of summer inactivity and this movement I8 expected to con- tinue. Tt is thought that the next week or two should show whether the money market has reached a turning point. “CRIME CARNIVAL" MAREED CLOSING OF CONEY ISLAND New York, Sept. 17.—Coney locked up almost everythinz but ocean tenight, with the wind-up of Mar- 'di Gras week, the official end” of the | season, but while the confetti, dust and revolver smoke were being blown away by the sea breezes in_the early hours: to- day the record for the past twenty-four hours showed a shooting, a stabbing. a free-for-all fight, sixty-two arrests for disorderly conduct and 30 cases of qen treated for alcoholism. Out of the “crime carnival” items, there were only half a dozen accidents reported from the crowd. estimated . by the police of more than 300,000. Samuel C. Hesner, New York taxicabs driver, is'the victom of the shootinz. He drove four men from Manhattan to the island, waited for them while they went up a side street and indulged in a fight. Then he drove them away, somebody omong their opponents shot him. His passengers took him to a hospital, left him and drove off in his cab. A man giving -his name as Harry French was found stabbed and beaten in"an alley. He said he did not know his assailants. Island the CHARGED WITH HAVING KILLED SPECIAL OFFICER Hoboken, J., Sent. 17.—Joseph Casey, alias Joseph McMann, was arrested hers tonight on a charge of murder in Fairfield county, Conn. police to_have killed Special Officer.Ber- nard J. Kilkelly in Stamford on the night of Aug. 28, 1921, when twelve men were holding up frequenters of the Dewey club in that city. Seven of the hold-up men are serving terms in the Connectiout penitentiary and, according to the police, some of them named Cagey as the man whe killed Kil- Kelly. - Casey is held pending arcival of e tradition ‘papers. NEW HAVEN ROAD STEIKERS TO HAVE TAG DAY IN BOSTON Boston, Sept. 17.—Leaders of the stril ing shopmen of the N. Y, N. H. & H. yailroad met here today with J. C. leady, system federation chairman. and 5. of -the Boston Central Labor un- 8 requested the officials of the ' to 'arrange a tag day in_Boston heé'benefit of .the strikers. The mat. referred to a committee, 3 Nt 7 ! Casey is alleged by thed cai-uiated to provoke a course of action, New War, reserve | New Wa as | Informs Sir Harry Lamb, British High Commissioner, That Immediate Withdrawal of the Greek Forces From the Upon—Declares That If the Greek Army in Asia Minor Attempts to Retreat Across the Neutral Zones of the Dazs danelles the Kemalists Will Disregard the Neutrality of the Straits and Pursue the Grecks Into Internationa® _ ona Territory. Constantinople, Sept. 17.—(By The A. P.)—The immediate withdrawal of the Greek forces from-the Tohatalja region in European Turkey has been insisted up- on by Mustapha Kema] Pasha to Sir Har- ry Lamb, the British high commission- er, during a visit of Sir Harry to Kem- al, in Smyrna. The visit of Sir Harry to Kemal was to ascertain the attitude, of the national government toward Great Britain. Kemal informed- Sir Harry that Turkey was not fighting against Great Britain, but that Great Britain had interposed every ob- stacle to the free development of Tur- Ie; He dssured the British high com- missioner that the nationalists, would not attagk neutral zones in the straits of the Piracus has brought a grave préblemfts the Green government. and unless privafe assiatance is given, the destitute peopls may fare badly. The government, even witll the best: intentions, -will be unable to provide the means necessary (o .eare for the refugees. Yesterday's Athens papers were loud in their praises bf the American. naval de- tachments at Smyrna 1or: thie service cen- dered refugees in the burning city. ATITITUDE OF FRANCE ON THE NEAR EAST PEOBLEM Paris. Sept. 17 (By the A. P.).—The Prench government's policy in the Nedr Dardanelles if the British would recog- East_ while unalterably committed to the nize the Angora national pact and return Thrage to Turkey. The -Angora government has -informed the allies that if the remainder of the Greek army in Asia-Minor attempts to retreat acréss the neutral zones of the Dardaneles the Kemalists will disregard the neutrality of the straits and pursue the Greeks in in The Greek military Constantinoplt mission BRITAIN BOTHERED BY THE NEAR EASTERN DEVELOPMENTS London, Sept. 17.—(By The A. P.)— Near eastern -developme's are cauaing the British government increased anxiety, The . cabinet has been sitting informaily over the week end at Crequers Court, | the country residence of the prime min ister. Austen Chamberlain, Lord Birken- head, Sir Robert Stevenson-Horne and Winston Spencer Churchill have been Mr. Lloyd George's guests there, and all through Sunday the telephones betwgéen Chequers Court, and the foreign office in London have been humming with con- cultations with the varlous government departments. Another formal cabinet council will be held tomorrow, and the . foreign minister lavia. M. Niinchitch, who has | onsultation with Premier Poin- care at Paris, and who.evill reach- Lon- don tomorrow, will have an interview with the prime minister and Lord Cur- zon, the British secretary for foreign af- ? 1 fairs: The latést advices from Constantinople indicate serious allied preparations for a possible attempt by the Kemalists against the neutral gone. This may serve to expiain the somewnat sudden change in the attitude of the British govern ment from Friday. when it was explained that no considerable reinforcements would be Eent to the mear cast unless the Turks gave evidence of an intent to cross into Europe, to Saturday, when the British government iseued an important etatement of policy. “showing immediate steps to meet possible Kemalist action. This sudden change in attitude has caused grave misgivings in certain quar- ters. The Daily Mail will tomorrow pub- Jish, under the _editorial capt “Th's an article stigmatizing the set forth in "the statement as “bordering upon Insanity It declares that the British public will learn- with ‘dismay and - astonishment that Mr. Lloyd George and his colleagues are organizing a nmew war in the near east, .are trying to drag Jugo:Slavia and Rumania into the fray and aresend- ing British troops into battle “shoulder to shoulder with the dejectad Greeks.” It edds: “The most astonishing dis- closure in this amazing deciaration of government policy is that apparentiy Mr. Lloyd George already has sent a fiery cross around the overseas dominions, askinz them to send contingents to join in this mad war." The Mail contends that Mustapha Kem- not far.removed zon, in behalf of the aflies on March 39, when Lord Curzom suggested the Enes- Midia line should be the Turkish fron- tier in Europe. It declares that all hands agree that Constantinople must be re turned to the Turks and Kemal Pasha and néw - Mr.” Lioyd George is “trying to retriove his shattered reputation. through the downfall of his pro-Greek ®licy. by arranging a wanton war and supposing that he can arouse the nation as Glad- stone did. in the seventies of last century about Bulgaria.” YWhile the Mail has known pro-French proclivities. it volces an opinion which is auite prevalent. “Great Pritain's one true. interest is freedom of the straits, which can be at- tained by negotiation™ the paper con- tinues. “There is not the smallest need to_plunge Europe into war and alienate the whole Mchammedan world about the straits™” According to the Paris correspondent of the Times. the tone of the British official statement has caused surprise and uneasiness in France. which is fillsd with alarm at the nrospect of beinx dragged into war with Turl The British state- ment, he says, is.considered to amount almost to’ an’ ultimatum to Angora’ and which, in the French view the Kemalists had hitherto no intention of = pursuing. Moreover, he: adds, the French govern- ment_finds itself faced by a dilemma through -the British suggestion to admit the little entente to the. near eastern conference. B Tome despatches seem to indicate that a similar” opinion’ is held in Italy. The dominion governments are c od o assist the mother country in a il tary way. as the prime minlster gested, but are apparently cgnsulting their parliaments before finally deciding. 1t is even reported that South Africa is not willing to send a contingent. | pasha 1n | trality of the straits of the Dardanelies, freedom of the Dardarelles and the Bos. phorus, is declared to favor moral persuasion rather . than military ané naval arguments. The semi-offieial mote published in London Saturday night ask. ing the Balkan states to co-operate with Great Britain effectively to. defend the threatened straits against Turkish ag- gression has met with a luke-warm. re- ception in French official circles. Precipitate defensive military and nava! preparations against what is termed a problematical attack from .Mustapha Kemal Pasha, the Turkish nationalist leader, are reckoned in officia] circles hete to be {il-timed. France holds the inside track- with the Angora government by virfus of an agreement signed between Henry Franklin Boufllon,” head . of the for. relations committee of the cham- of deputies,~and Mustapha Kema! 1321, and the French govern- menf covisidersithat military preparations in Thrace, of on the European side of ths straits, would be waving the red-flag to an army flushed with victory and whose generalissimo bas expressed nothing but { the most moderate of desires. t is felt at the Quai D'Orsay that in “meral persuasion policy” the French have the support of Italy, and the long talk which Premier Poincare had Satur- day with King Alexander of Juve- Siavia is reported to have resulted in the kinz of the Serbs, the Croats and the Siovenes being inférmed that France is prepared to trust the Turks mot to in- fringe upcn. the side’ of _the steais and that military preparations or demonstrations would. for the present, at ieast, be wrong and ill-timed. The French government, while desirous o ‘co-operate with the London foreign office in an effort t6 guarantee tha neu- on the other hand differs with it regard- ing the means to arrive at that end. It ig-held by the French that Mustapha Kemal Pasha will be amenable to per- guation, that he will respact inter-allied cupervision of Constantinople {rom Sou- tarl, which ‘will be satisfactory to the French, while if military pressurs is theeatened the nationalist leader may be swept alonz by his victorious troops and be compelled to march upon Constanti- nople. That the Turkish nationalist govern- ment has every interest to accept the de. cislon of the European powers that the straits must remain open is the gist of unofficial information and advice that has been conveyed from the Qual D'Orsay te Mustapha Kemal Pasha in the past few days. Tt is feit that while Kemal has hae no time to renly, the Angora govern- ment will understand the marching upon Constantinople would eause irremedjable loss of the sympathy of the European powers and that Kemal will refrain from such action. RAZORS AND CLUBS USED IN RACE RIOT IN NEW YORK New Tork, Sept. 17.—Bricks, rasors, knives, clubs and fists were the weapons that sent-six vjctoms to- hospitals and ascore of others, less seriously injured, to physicians for treatment -early, today as the result of a race .riot between whites and blacks that grew out of, the invasion by megfoés of a neighborhood tenanted by White famiiles. Police ‘re- serves quelled the battle. Three of the six seriously injured are under arrest ' and under _police guard in hospitals. They are white men, all charged with felonious afsault. They are suffering from razor cuts, stab wounds and brokenheads. A negro and two me- gresses also are in hospitals, but have not been arrested. The battie occurred in West Fifty-ninth street, in the upper West Side, where, the police =ay, trouble has been .brewing for some months following invasien .ot the neighborhood by the blacks. Early today a party of white men is to have invaded a hall whera a “célebfa- tion of negroes was in prodgress. They were ejected. badly beaten. the .police say. and later dragged two and their male etcorts from a -taxicab "and set upon them. This. iz sald to have precipitated.a gen- eral battle, white and blacks flocking to the melee from all diréctions: Razors, knives and clubs augmented fists, - while adherents of both factions stood on near- by tenement roofs and hurfed into the swirling mass bricks torn.from chimme: Riot calls brought several squadrons T:Q police who rushed the two faetions.im- to an enforced pesoA. . Extra police tonight are patrolling the neighborhood to prevent a ~resumptigh of hostiilties. > N. H. ROAD EMPLOYES HAVE - BIG OUTING AT NIANTIC - ¢ Niantic, Conn., Sept. 17.—About 1,80¢ membeérs of the. supervisory force of the Melbourne despatches “show .that Mr. Lloyd Georze's telegram to the common- wealth government stronzly emphasized the gravify of the situation and pointed out that proot of the dominions’ wililng- nees to aid might even exercise a strong influence in preventing hostilitles. GREECE WILL BE UNABLBE TO CARE FOR REFUGEES — Athens, Sept. 17 (By the A. P.).—The arrival of - thousands ~eof . refugees ~.at New Haven road wers guests of the eom- pany at an outing’ here - t special triins were used in the picnickers. President E..J. Pearson spoke briefly on the rail stSuation and 6aid he hoped a better tween aH branches of the servise result from such social activities.