The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 21, 1922, Page 5

ISH CHIEF OFES BRITISH Being Drawn Up for Expected Attack IN, Sept, 2L--"If Beit. js unwilling to withdraw Constantinople, we wilt be te declare war,” Nuri Bey, nationalist representa: here, announced today, “If Greeks are unwilling to w from Thrace immedi- they must be driven out, y has been fighting for is anxious for CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept, 21. =—With Turkish forces reported concentrating on the border of the neutral zone, General Har commander of Britain's Bast army, today served en Mustapha Kemal that would be considered an ar. was Rritat reply to the threat of Hamid Rey, Kemalist rep fesentative in Constantinople, that the Turks would cross the neutral gene to invade Thrace if that prov face were not turned over to them dug in on the Near East front, re faforcements going up from all the gatrigons in Constantinople The railway stations were spite of General Harring- fen’s warning, the Turks were reported bringing up artillery and cavalry and making every throwing de. to command the two points g@ which the Turks are expected to the Dardanciles and Bos These two narrow straits are the only ones the Turks could eroes to invade Europe without war. ships and transports. ‘The widest front—one of about 20 Miles—has been established to pro- tect Constantinople and the Bos- ‘The British tines run thru Scutart, which is opposite the former Turkish ‘The British right is on the sea, and the left on the Sea Chanak, the key position to the British lines have been . It is opposite this front that Turkish cavalrymen are report- ef concentrating. Kemal, generalissimo of Turkish nationalists, has set up headquarters at Ismid, 50 miles’ Constantinople. eee UROPE IS ON _ VERGE OF WAR Holds Out Against Turk Demands RIS, Sept. 21.-—Peace or war ded todey on the revivified man of Europe.” ‘The counter demand of Kemal, leader of the Turkish nationalists, __ who now insists that he be allowed _ to occupy Eastern Thrace pending peace negotiations, has caused a hiteh in plans for setting the date for the Near East conference. ‘Britain, the French foreign office Wet it be understood, was the only na- tion holding out against this demand of the Turks. Tord Curzon, British foreign minis- ter, stated that he could not give an afswer to it until tomorrow, after he had consulted Lioyd George. Following this consultation, Cur- zon and Premier Poincare of France will confer. 4 Tt was believed that an Anglo Turkish conflict is inevitable, unieas Curzon is permitted to grant the de- mand of Kemal. Reports from the region of the Dardanciles, received here, stated that Great Britain was going for- ward with her plans of using force ‘against Kemal if he invaded the neu- tral zone of the straits. Great forces of British soldiers are Being concentrated in the region of Chanak. the key to the neutral zone. Itwas reported that additional Turk- now facing the clashes were dis- It was authoritatively stated by a high French official that it was the belief of France that she could swing the Serbian and Rumanian diplomats into line to accept Kemal's prelimt- Bary demand for Thrace. ‘Was pointed out, would leave Britain if the position of standing out alone ‘against Kemal. ENOS A. MILLS PASSES AWAY “Famous Naturalist Dies in Colorado ESTES PARK, Colo., Sept. 21— A. Mills, 52, noted naturalist, died at his home, Long Peak's Inn, Rear here, early today. Mills was injured in a subway ac- grad errors city last Janu- * wi he never com; tel: pletely Mills was born in Fort Scott, Kan., 4nd came to Colorado when he was He spent practically all of his He we Rhing it in the mountains. was the author of several books 8 wild animals of the Rockies. He Was married to Miss Esther B. Bur. Mell, Des Moines, lowa, in 1918. She -" daughter three years old sur. Mills was known to thousands of ists who visited Estes Park an- Bully. There will be no formal I services as Mille was not a fer in ostentation or display. body will be buried near the This, it} Mademoiselle Marie Kousnezoff, Russian opera beauty and former favorite entertainer of the czar, is an exile in London, She fled Soviet Russia in peasant disguise. HERE’S MORE ABOUT MINER'S BODY | STARTS ON PAGE ONE STARTS ON PAGE ONE ed for 150 feet. Careful search ts/iemued the following statement now being made for Fessel's body, | HERE’S MORE ABOUT PHONE RATE cavein }portionately with rapidly in ‘The funeral will be held tomorrow. | creasing costs of operation. Even Every automobite will be pressed | during the war period of abnormal the the dead from the Argonaut mill to/ granted the company were exceed the graveyards. Plans for a public|ingly small as compared with the |Procession have been abandoned. | tremendous advance in the coat of The coffins will be brought down | materiat and labor which enters into quietly before most of Jackson ts! the giving vatuaaond and allently Jaid beside pnd “With the small increase in rates On. the morrow of the funeral the coroner's jury will start its hearing Feeling among the bereaved has/| been directed against Clarence Brad: | shaw, shift boss, who did not send the skip back Into the mine after he got out on the day of the fire He will be cleared, it wax predicted by Fred L. Lowell, safety engineer of the Industrial accident commission of California. He said: “Bradshaw was brought to the) ®t large. surface partially under the influence| “During the thréeyenr period. of gas. Furthermore, ft ts tmprob.| 1919 to 1921 inclusive, the company able that the skip could have brought |!nereased the number of telephones up the men. The heat must have|!n use throughout the state from ‘deen intense and would have ignited |134,521 to 164,734, a net gain of the rope with which the cable #9} 40.212. In the city of Seattie dur wound and weakened the cable. Injing the #ame period the number of that case it would have broken with | t#lephones increased from 63.402" to a load of miners, killing therm all In. | 76.916, « net gain of 13.614. To moet stantly.” this growth and development it has Lowell has been summoned by the | heen necessary to make additions to Jurors and he probably will tell them jour outside plant and in our central the same thing. | offices requiring the investment of Miners may give different views {| considerable money. Also in plan they are called. ning for the immediate future re Bits quirements of the service enormous JACKSON, Cat, Mept. 21.—"Welexpenditures are constantly being will find out ff the Muldoon shaft | made is an exit in name alone or if it] “As extensions to plant cannot be i an exit in reality,” T. G. Ne-| made from earnings it is necessary &rich, district attorney of Amador|to provide new capital from time to county, this morning declared. time to make such extensions, con The coroner's jury will also de-|sequently the telephone company termine whether timbering In the) must receive proper return on the Argonaut mine waa too dry for| value of ite plant im order that ft safety, he said. [may meet the telephone demands as the city of Seattle and the estate gtow and develop.” HARDING SIGNS TARIFF MEASURE of telephone service jing the war period, effective March er rate of return on its Investment than it did immediately after the increane was effective, This on ac count of further increased cont of operation, additional investment to pees for extensions to the plant to ltheet the growth and development of the city of Seattle and the state HERE’S MORE ABOUT || FLAYSDOUGLAS STARTS ON PAGE ONE | trial. Douglas rejotned that the state had no evidence to convict. “Nevertheless,” said Judge Griffths, “a very prominent case was dismissed under very pecu- liar circumstances. 1 am reter- ring to the grand jury indict- ments against the county com- His Pen Ends Bitter Fight of Two Years WASHINGTON, Sept. 21. — The Fordney-McCumber tariff act was signed at 11:07 a. m. today by Presi dent Harding. r In the president's executive office Douglas replied that the only con-|the last legal step was taken to sctentious thing he could do was to|make the law effective at midnight ask for dismissal, and the court took | tonight. the matter under advisement | This ends the long, bitter fight Thursday morning Judge Griffitha| which has been waged over the denied the motion for dismissal, and| measure since congress first began sent the case to Judge Clifford's de-| work on it nearly two years ago. partment ‘The bill wae signed in the presence “Under the statutes,” Judge jof the senate finance and the house Griffiths said, “the court can |ways and means committee, which grant @ prosecutor's motion for | wrote it dismissal of a criminal indictment! President Harding used two pens dismissal of a criminal indict- |in affixing his signature, One was ment only when such action presented to Senator MeCumber, would further the interests of |North Dakota, chairman of the sen justice. Iam unable in this case [ate committee, and the other was to see where the interests of jus. |jawarded to Representative Fordney, tice would be furthered by grant- | Michigan, who led the fight in the ing the motion to dismiss.” bill's behalf in the lower house of “I have no quarrel with your hon. | congress or's ruling,” Douglas stated, “and| Both McCumber and Fordney are the state will welcome a full develop |retiring from congress this year. ment of the facts in court.” - Chief Deputy Prosecuting Attor: | ———$—$_—$—$$$$<$—_— HERE’S MORE ABOUT ney E. 1. Jones and Deputy Prone. | cutor T. H. Patterson, who conduct-| STARTS ON PAGE ONE ed the Chilberg trial, accordingly | prepared to proceed with the prose | cution of Lane When Judge Clifford took the! bench upon his arrival from Ta- coma at 945, Witmon Tucker and) {Bruce Shorts, Lane's counsel, Pre-|114 gead timber. sented their motion for disminsal of | 1). the city’s the charges, on the general ground from it.” that acquittal of Chilberg disposed of the entire transaction in which} j their client was alleged to have been involved Judge Clifford, in granting the de fendant's motion for diminsal, said, “It seems to me that the first step the state would have to take, if T am money trying to not graft Gassman spoke heatedly of ru- mors that he is the mayor's choice for the contested office because he successfully managed Brown's campaign for the office of mayor. “1 did manage the mayor's campaign; and T was paid In full ranted the telephone company dur: | THE “GHOST HOUSE” | MURDER CLEARS ec Reduced Mys- } SEATT tery to 2 Possibilities BY LUCILLE F. SAUNDERS BRUNSWICK, N. J, Sep. mystery of the “ghost house,” near which the bullet riddled and bruised bodies of a millionaire minister and his cholr leader were found, wan penetrated today The past of the Rev. Kdward Wheeler Hall and Mra. James Mills, whose husband was the sexton in the Chureh of St, John the Evangelist, was dug up in an effort to find a #0- lution of their murder Prosecutor Strickler, working on the theory that the two were either lured to or surprined in the deserted noon the Phillips farm, and then brutally murdered, went over every foot of the house, searching for a clue. From this examination of the premises, authorities drew these two slusions That the Rey, Hall and Mrs, Mill were surprised in the house where they had gone to meet a person or persons who set themecives up as moral censors to the extent of tak ing lite That the two, Innocent of any clandestine love affair, were lured to the house by persons seeking re | venge for some unknown Injury. | Samuel Levine, guardian of Willie | Stevens, the eccentric brother of | Mrs, Hall, stated that he was the | who held a key to the NEW | tt—The ly one pat house.” ing fairly close to the Phillips place | brought forth startling revelations. | The most significant tale was told by Charles Jones, an auto mechanic, land his wife. They stated they were up late Thursday caring for the | wants of a troublesome baby, when & woman's piercing screams rent the ‘quiet night, Several shots were fired following thin, the Joneses said. This was, Investigators state, about five hours after the miniater left his wife and the choir leader left her hus band without | spective destinations. | "Tran to the window and jerked at terrific speed. They were headed toward New Brunewick.”’ Other persons in the neighborhood a woman and the shots. Every person in New Brunswick knew of the tragic end of the Rev. Hall and Mra. Mills but one—the Jaged mother of the minister | ‘The mother lives In a boarding house and was taken for rides tre Altho she }quently by the minister. 1, 1919, it te today receiving a small. ,@ttended her son's funeral, friends) of the penitentiary | told her he died a natural death. | Mrs. Hall, the pastor's broken. hearted wife, denied herself to inter. viewers today “[ still believe In my husband,” J members of the household quoted her On eying. “These sordid stories of ecandaj that they tell of Edward are all Hes—I know they are.” Mills, husband of the choir leader and janitor of the aristocratic Jehureh, sat on the wobbly atepn of the unpainted frame house where he cccuples the second floor, and reaf- firmed his faith in hie dead wife. “I'm sure of her innocence.” he | mala repeatedly. “If it had been any other man but my pastor, I might not be so certain, But he was a good | man—Elinor was @ good girl. || HERE'S MORE ABOUT | _ FIEND | || STARTS ON PAGE ONE be limping, as If he were lame or lclubfooted. ‘This clew led to the | arrest of the suspect. Joe Bonjorni, tho seriousty wound. ed, waa taken to the hospital in We natchee and is expected to recover. The dead boy is at the T. E. Jen- kins undertaking parlors at Ephrata, arrived late last night on hearing of the tragedy. The Bonjorni fam lly is well known and respected in the farming community around Wil- son Creek, This fact so aroured the countryside that scores pledged they would never permit the slayer to live. It is reported “that the strange maniac first appeared around the Bonjornt ranch Sunday afternoon. ‘He was iked what he « doing jand replied that he was shooting Jackrabbits. The maniac In described as about 36 0years old, rather dark of com plexion, with a week's growth of beard on his face. He was wearing and a dark cap from which vinor had been torn ee POSSE HUNTS | SECOND FIEND TACOMA, Sept, 21.—Olympia citl- zens, who last week were members of Ithe posse that searched for the man who attacked the O'Hara family at Schneider's Prairie, were pressed linto service again today to aid in the search for the fiend who Wednesday afternoon forced Mra, M. A. Weid man, of this city, into the bedroom lof her home, threatening to kill her if she screamed, and poured the con. tents of a bottle of fodine down her throat when she resisted. The assailant disappeared when Mrs. Weidman cried out her husband was expected any moment. Armed |policemen and citizens were making jan effort to cut off every ponsible |means of escape, but had fatled. | While descriptions tally in many |respects, and the assailant had sev jeral weeks’ growth of beard on his {fo it was doubted Thursday whether the man who attacked Mrs. | Weidman was the same fiend who at tacked the O'Hara family two weeks ago. the Grain Trading Bill Signed by Harding WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—Presi- announcing their re | A brother who lives in Ellensburg | [a suit of biue overniix, a dark coat | LE STAR ‘SUIT AGAINST _ STRIKERS ENDS, \Judge Decides on Injunction | | Today } | BY CHARLES R. LYNCH | CHICAGO, Sept, 21.—The prelim! nary fight on the Deugherty in Junction will end today. Federal Judge Wilkerson rust | decide today whether or not the jatrike of railroad shopmen waa a) conspiracy in the restraint of inter: | © commerce and if so whether government can go to the Saal | [treme measures asked in the in | junction. Indications were’ that the govern ment would be upheld, but that the injunction would be modified If the court holds that the gov ernment han won the sult, the next | move will be to call witnesses and present additional evidence to make the injunction permanent Attorneys for the defense have not! asked for a modification, They have | aged their fight on an “all or noth ing” basis, In the arguments, ator: | neya declared that ff the original bill | |was adopted the shop crafts organ: | ization would be “paralyzed and pul | verized.” Arguments will be afternoon, it was believed, The court; [must rule before midnight us the lrestraining order expires at that) | time. 1 Donald A. Richberg presented the | argument for the shopmen. He re viewed the entire care and made a) general denial of ‘all the federal) claims | | Attorney General Daugherty plan ned to clone the case for the govern: | ment | | finished this! || HERE’S MORE ABOUT | WALLA WALLA || STARTS ON PAGE ONE | anguish with equanimity. If 20 of| them were to be asked in turn what) | “For the pant several years tele) back the curtain,” sald Mra. Jones. |their duties are to society and the! which may have been covered up by «| phone rates have not increased pro |] naw two automobdlies dashing past |inmates they would doubtless look | | bewildered for an instant, then reply jto the effect that “I get my job | from the warden and I am here to into service to bring the bodies of/ly high prices, the increased rates | stated they also heard the scream Of nee that the rules are obeyed.” Practically the only difference in jthe moral character of the guards and convicts is that the guards are |nolidly organized, and all work col: | llectively to a certain end—the end that the inmates shall be held in | subjection | | ‘The means of holding the inmates! In subjection 1 | composed entirely of the various | degrees of punishment, with the fear hat is inspired by them. Tt is true there are many “trusty” priséner. who will deny they are ruled by fear They will claim they would “rather obey the rules than not.” But @ close association with them will soon reveal their anxiety to be paroled and their fear that something will occur to Jeopar- dize thelr chances in that direction All know that something for which they are in no way responsible may take place at any moment} which} will call down on them some of the | various forma of punishment, THE VARIOUS FORMS OF PUNISHMENT ‘The various methoas of punish- ment used are that of (1) being de nied the privilege of the chapel and lexercises in the yard; (2) being re- quired to eat in the cell instead of jgolng to the dining room; (3) con: | | tinement in the dark hole or Burke's | dungeon; (4) confinement in solitary }and confinement in the isolation | | ward or “Siberia.” ‘The latter is known among the in. | |mates as “the slaughter house,” be- |cause of the number of men who have been killed in it When men are confined in the dungeon, commonly spoken of as “the hole,” they are frequently re- quired to remove all their clothing except a sult of underwear and a pair of socks or slippers. Men have been confined there as much as 20 days, and have been so weak when taken out they could not walk. The minimum term of confinement there is 48 hours. During the first 48 hours in the dungeon a man is given nothing but | water. After that he is given six ounces of bread each day, The only things in the dungeon are a tin cup | to hold drinking water and a bucket There is no Mght and men are sometimes temporarily blind when | first coming out. In cold weather | | the steel walls and floor chill a man | |thorely in a few minutes and then | |he has a constant fight for life un | til released, On the other hand, the steel dungeon attracts the heat in summer and men -suffer intensely while shut away from all chance of fresh air. INSANITY AND SUICIDE SOMETIMES RESULT According to the state laws (para: | graph 8505, Remington code), “con- viets may be held in golitary con: | |finement, but not for more than 20 days for any one offense.” Yet [it has been for years, and is yet a |fact, that men are and have been held in solitary confinement for from 45 days to two years without Jany intermission. Many men have gone insane from this solitary con finement and some have committed | suicide rather than endure it The conditions in “solitary” are | that no letters may be sent or re-) jcelved, no communication! may be had with anyone, no whistling, sing: ing or talking may be indulged tn, | no exercise may be had except in| the cell, which is four and one-half feet wide and seven feet long, and | |has @ bunk along one side, and no} |reading matter may be had until | the inmate has been there 90 days. ; He may then have books out of the prison library if hg has been “good” mate may once in two weeks change underwear and take a bath in the bucket of water which is given him serub his cell with, He is, In fact, become # beast in al to mpelled to things ex- FREDERICK & NELSON SiVTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET Women Find Many Occasions When Navy Cloth Frocks Are Entirely Satisfying IRET Twills, Gaberdines braid, embroidery and ribbon, interesting groups of such Frocks, at $25.00 and $35.00 Navy Poiret Twill with bandings in peasant de- signs and colorings, and an under-sleeve of Jade and Serges, with compose two Crepe de Chine, in the clever Frock pictured at Black silk braid and embroidery are cleverly em- ployed as ornamentation on the Navy Gaberdine Frock at right of sketch. 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WASHINGTON, Sept. believe, | gress today SEN ATE KILLS |Winter Dances Are BONUS CHANCE Planned by Eagles The Fraternal Order of Eagles will 21.—Con-| give a series of dances, commenetng was preparing to quit| Saturday night, in the Eagles" audi- scene of his life's work. Harding - 33rd gree of Mas CLEVELAND, Sept seyorid Harding will receive the 38rd of Masonry at a SMclave to be held in mme time before January this case went to trial, would be physicians to prove that Chilberg borrowed this money A jury already has said that he did not. The motion to dismiss is granted.” Douglas filed an affidavit of dent Harding today signed the Cap- with per-Tincher bill, which regulates trading in grain futures. ‘The bill was framed primarily restrain the futures trading law, jsome of the enforcing provisions of which were knocked out by @ de- cision of the supreme court, and go home, ‘The senate’s action was in the Seattle General | inte yesterday sustaining President hospital Thursday, with an even | Harding's bonus bili veto, 44 to 28, chance for recovery. j was the last important act of the} ‘The little girl was taken sick Tues. | 8°88!on | Facing ; ro 70 . day night, after eating a cone on her | wong back to Washington in No. way home from school Dr. Proctor | vember for a special sitting, many| HONGKONG, Sept. 21.—Forty-sev> The bill provides for close govern Knott diagnosed the case as pto-| said they would not return until De-/en men, women and girls have been — mental supervision of trading in| Tomorrow: where three) maine poisoning, She was said to be|cember even if President Harding kidnaped by Chinese bandits im the grain, men have died violent deaths slightly improved Thursday, called them, vicinity of Wuchow- a » torium, Seventh ave. and Union st. previously known as the Dreamland pavilion, The dances will continue during the winter season each Tuesday, Sate tne prospect of a sum-| Urday and Sunday night. cept that of association his kind. The conditions, however, not in the least affect the guards. It is to them but a matter of keeping an account of the prisoner and his con: dition and other conylets do the book-keeping —in cash—for my time and work, He owes me nothing, and neither of us consider him tn- debted to me. “Mayor Brown told me that he wanted a man in charge here whom prejudice against Judge Griffiths,/he knew he could trust implicitly, Thursday, in a habeas corpus pro-}and who understands the work to be special | ceeding, and announced that he will| performed down to the smallest de: Cleveland | do so in every state case that comes |tail, He thought, and still thinks, 1, 192% jup before the same court. that I am the man.” all the time, - Also, while in solitary, the in- do .