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2?g?SB?ffi SATURDAY. OCTOBER 28, 1922
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_In Greater New Tork I Within 200 Mtt<w J Elsewhere
3 Cities in
Italy Seized
Bv Fascisti
Florence, Cremona and |
Pisa Are Captured After
Nationalist Army Over?
awes State Authorities
King Will Listen
To Demand To-day
To Meet Mussolini's Aids
in Effort to Arrive at
Agreement on Cabinet
LONDON (Saturday), Oct. 28
(By The Associated Press).?"The
London Times" prints a "message
?from Italy," without naming the
?urce, saying: "The Fascisti at
'11:30 (Friday night) began a con?
certed action on several iowns. They
now are masters of some of the chief
towns, like Florence, Pisa and Cre?
mona. Communications between
north, south and central Italy have
been interrupted."
"Everywhere in these towns they
deposed the state authorities and as?
sumed command. It-seems there was
00 resistance and no conflict, except
bt Cremona, where six Fascisti -were
?hot. Everything is quiet in Milan,
?where there is a great display of
troops. There is no news from other
Centers."
Benito Mussolini, head of the Fas?
cisti, remained in Milan throughout all
of yesterday and had numerous confer?
ences with Fascisti leaders and also a
talk with the local prefect, says a dis?
patch from Milan. The message gives
the text of a circular which the Fascisti
have distributed in Pisa and other
places, it says:
"Officers, soldiers, citizens?The Fas
ciiti movement is neither against the
eountry nor against the King. \Vc want
His Majesty to be really King of Italy
and not submit himself to state actions
which are cowardly imposed on him by
his present weak Ministers.
"We march to Rome to give Italy her
{nil liberty?to give the Italian people
bo Italy, as was dreamed of by the
iiW million dead in the great war and
by our own dead who continued at war
during peace. "*** **
"Marching * ith the sincero desire of
peace and love, our greatest shout shall
always be, 'Long live the Army, long
live the King and long live Italy.'"
f*r>*.<al Cable to The Tribune
Copyright, 1922, New York Tribune Ice.
ROME, Oct. 27.--The Fasciai, follow?
ing the virtual ultimatum delivered by
their convention, now hold tlie key to
the future of Italy. The resignation r>?
the Facta Cabinet has brought the situ?
ation to a quick showdown. King
Emmanuel returned to Rome to-day
and will confer to-morrow with Fascisti
?chiefs in regard to the demand that
the government be inti'UKted to their
hands.
"There's -only one man competent to
lead the country through its present
difficulties," declared Secretary Bi?
anchi, of the Fascisti, reviewing the
situation to-day. "That is our leader,
Benito Mussolini."
Mussolini is prepared to form a
Fascisti ministry at once, Bianchi said,
but lie would insist that any mandate
for him to do so must come unaccom?
panied by conditions of any sort. Mus
?Solini is staying at Milan and will not
come to Rome unless called by the
King, Bianchi declared.
Say? He Represents Majority
"He represents the majority of the
Italian people," said the Fascisti sec?
retary. "Under his Premiership the
credit and prest'*,-* of Italy would re?
gain their old standing?even more so,
since his historic Naples speech. It
Is perfectly clear now that the policy
of the Fascisti would maintain law and
order."
The only possible way out of the
present crisis appears to be the forma?
tion of another Facta ministry, merely
to carry on the affairs of the nation
pendir.c the result of an immediate
general election?wherein the Fascisti
?laim to-day they would sweep the
Country.
The crisis was brought suddenly to
? head through the resignation of the
Facta Cabinet. This was due to in
wnai differences in the Cabinet on
we issue of future Fascisti co-opera?
tion with the government. The situa?
tion has been complicated by ex-Pre
?ier Giolitti's second refusal yestcr
?y to form a Cabinet with Fascisti
participation. He gave as his reason
??fact that he found Mussolini's con?
dition that the Fascisti be given live of
__afi most important portfolios impos?
sible of acceptance.
Following this decision, the Demo?
crats proposed to form a Cabinet abso?
lutely excluding the Fascisti, despite
jheir ultimatum, but Signor Riccio, who
? a friend of both d'Annunzio and
?Mussolini, absolutely refused to be part
?j any ministry which excluded the
Mussolini body. He thereupon re
?igTied, and his resignation was quickly
??lowed by that of all the other mem
?ers of the Cabinet, leaving Premier
*?cta to dear up the situation by him
Pg as best ho could.
^ Facta last night telephoned the
7 ?.8VtvlK' K'Aa staying at San Rossore,
an? E,mma"'ie''8 trip to Rome to-day
??a the ensuing conferences are the
"suit.
Orlando May Get Chance
? Signer Vmeta is unable to form a
??7 a>!Ini?i*-r.v. he will resign and pos
?Ny either Orlando or Salandra, both
?-fremierse will be given the first
jaance to take over the task. Both
jneie men are ready to co-operate with
J"' Fascisti, -who seem to hold the
?nraip cards from whatever angle the
??nation is regarded.
Tariff Fail? to Check Germans
ti?E?WN' 0ct- 2".?Present actuali?
ze? iail to bear out predictions that
T***?, United States tariff would cut
dl.? .?eri??n shipments of merchan
a1 __? An,erica, according to the
*?*Wcan Consulate here. Shipment?
_*.?-_? 2?. ao ?'?s* <* declining, it is
?S?? !P/,ce ?tftting to maintain the
??'ffi *t trad?, bowevor, is admitted
*? M ia ti? ?flag.
When They Cheer in
Chicago, City Hall
WM Hear Them
The Prineeton-Chicaao
University Game
By Radio
The ?tory of the big in?
tersection*? football
genie this afternoon
will be broadcast direct
from Stagg Field, Chi?
cago, by the Western
Electric station WEAF
and The Tribune will
reproduce St for New
York fens.
Twenty thousand per?
sons in City Hell Park
will be able to hear the
reports of the contest
and the cheering of
the crowd. The cur?
rents will be picked up
by the mobile station
of WEAF, which will
be placed outside the
Tribune Building end
amplified a million
times before they are
sent into the gigantic
loud speakers erected
on the third floor of
the Tribune Building.
At 2 o'clock the system
will be put in opera?
tion with musical se?
lections. At 2:30 the
transcontinental line
will be hooked up and
a description of the
crowd broadcast direct
** from the stadium. At
3 o'clock the reports
of the game will begin.
! News Summary
LOCAL
Mrs. Mills, murdered choir singer,
was dragged, screaming, to rector's
body and shot in cold blood after
flight, new affidavit shows.
Architects chosen by Board of Edu?
cation will share $4,450,000 plum by
Board of Estimate decree.
Prohibition Chief Day may be in
contempt of court for failure to
show Arm's books.
Liquor cannot be sold on American
ships anywhere, Judge Hand rules in
supplementary decision.
Health Department and Fuel Ad
I ministration, denouncing unscrupu?
lous landlords, instruct tenants how
to obtain heat.
Veteran gassed in war gives death
dinner as farewell to friends.
Tammany methods rotten, says
Gilbert., finding twenty-six floaters
in one house.
Women political campaigners be?
siege convention in spite of warn?
ings.
Artificial prosperity would follow
free trade, says Ogden Mills, attack?
ing Paish arguments.
Husband who spanked wife need
not pay counsel fees pending separa?
tion suit.
' FOREIGN
Far cisti are reported to have seized
Ital.?n cities of Florence, Pisa and
Cremona.
Herbert H. Asquith assails Bonar
Law and Lloyd George in address at
Pulborough.
De Valera's resumption of Presi?
dency of Irish Republic complicates
fight in United States courts for
funds subscribed to former Dail
Eireann.
Turks to demand Suez Canal be put
under control of League of Nations.
' DOMESTIC
Survey of Iowa political situation
indicates Smith Brookhart, Republi?
can, will be elected Senator over
Clyde Herring, Democrat, by 100,000
majority.
The Rev. Dr. Christler, native of
Waterloo, N. Y., celebrated as the
"Bishop of All Outdoors," murdered
in his own rectory at Havre, Mont,,
by Mrs. Margaret Carleton, who com?
mits suicide beside him.
Governor Miller tells Lockport
audience his water power plan is
"trust-busting opportunity."
Smith attacks Governor's treat?
ment of labor in speech at Dunkirk,
n. y.
WASHINGTON
Three Republican campaign com?
mittees ? national, Senatorial and
Congressional?report contributions
of $731,359 and $645,451 expended.
Senator Cummins to press legisla?
tion in next Congress for compulsory
consolidation of railroads.
SPORTS
Blano Seing wins eclipse Handi?
cap at Empire City.
Seventy-seven thousand will see
Army and Yale play football at New
Haven to-day?
Penn State and Syracuse elevens
arrive and have final practice for
game at Polo Grounds to-day.
MARKETS AND SHIPS
Stock prices return to the advance.
Judge Gary predicts continued
prosperity.
Offering of $85,000,000 Gulf Oil
debentures expected Monday.
Victor Talking Machine and Her?
cules Powder declare stock dividends.
Day Is Cited
For Contempt
In-Dry Quiz
Director Must Answer for
Refusai to Produce the
Books of His Personal
Business for Officials
More Indictments
Pending in Case
James F. Pershing Jr.,
? Nephew of General, Said
to Have Been Forced Out
Prohibition Director Ralph A. Day,
whose resignation along with that of
his assistant, John Parsons, takes ef?
fect November 1, was cited yesterday
to appear before Judge Rufus E. Fos?
ter in the United States District
Court this morning and show cause
why he should not be held in con?
tempt of court. The specific alleged
offense is the reported refusal of Mr.
Day as an officer of the cloak and suit
company known as It. A. Day & Co., to
deliver to the Federal grand jury cer?
tain books and records subpoenaed by
Assistant United States Attorney Major
John Holley Clark.
"The order is not for Mr. Day per?
sonal? '," said Major Clark, "but is
again the corporation. It is a fact
that tiie order was issued about the
same time as the grand jury returned :
a sealed communication to Judge Fo3- ;
ter, but on that I cannot comment."
It was admitted by the court later
that the communication named two
Treasury Department employees, but
there is no record that the communica?
tion and the citation are in any way
related. Mr. Clark continued:
"Mr, Day was summoned Wednesday.
He honorad the subpoena and came
down here, but he refused to waive
immunity, so I could not permit him
to go belore the grand jury, which is
engaged in investigating liquor, cases
and the operation*; of the New York
prohibition officers.
Refused to Yield Books
"I then asked Mr. Day for his books
of R. A. Day *& Co., of which he is
president. He said he wanted a sub?
poena before he would give up the
books. The subpoena was served, but
Mr.. Day's counsel, Abel I. Smith, said
the subpoena was 'too sweeping.'
Another subpoena was issued which was
not sweeping, but on advice of counsel
the books were not surrendered, al?
though I had already gone over them
with Mr. Day's permission in hi? busi?
ness office?.
"At 12;.10 to-day Mr. Day came down
again whilo the grand jury was in
session and again refused to waive
immunity, nor would he deliver the
books. There are only about twelve
of these books. They would not be
burdensome. I then applied for the
order citing him to show cause why
he should not be deemed in contempt
of court.
Director Day said last night that his
failure to answer the.subp?na that was
served yesterday was because he did
not receive it until 11:65 a. m. The
subpoena ordered him to report at 11
o'clock, which made it impossible to be
tlere, he said.
It was admitted yesterday in the
office of the United States Attorney
that James F. Pershing, jr., nephew of
General John J. Pershing, had been
requested to resign as assistant pro?
hibition director under Ralph A. Day,
and that his resignation several weeks
ago was not voluntary, as was reported.
More Indictments Coming
Mr. Clark said tliat he had sub?
poenaed Mr. Pershing and that the lat?
ter had not been permitted to appear
before the grand jury because he had
refused to waive immunity.
The communication which was handed
to Judge Foster by the grand jury re?
ported unfavorably on two unnamed
Treasury Department officials, but ad?
mitted lack of evidence on which to
base indictments, it was reported yes?
terday. Indictments of six prohibition
department attaches and various boot?
leggers and warehouse employees are
expected later.
The communication of the grand
jury was opened by the court who
issued an order that it be sequestered
after a copy had been sent to Secre?
tary of the Treasury Mellon.
W. D. Trenholf. foreman of the
grand jury, in nresenting the commu?
nication of the court said:
"This communication is presented at
this time in advance of any indict?
ments which might be found, because
two of the persons mentioned in the
communication are still in the service
of the Treasury Department and their
retirement, on November 1, is expect?
ed. It might defeat the contemplated
purpose if the delivery of this com?
munication was delayed."
The court then ordered the jury
excused withojt date at entending
their deliberations for one week, and
ordering that the jury be held subjet
to call.
Veteran Gives "Death Dinner"
To 25 Friends as Life Ebbs
"When I feel I'm slipping, boys, I'll
give you a death dinner," Percy Evans,
veteran of the World War, promised
his friends a month ago. To-day he
knows that the end is not far off, but
he is happy in the thought that he
kept his promise and gathered his
boyhood companions around him for
the last time.
Although he has been kept to bed for
the last four months, suffering from
tuberculosis contracted in the trenches,
he left his home at 248 Main Street,
East Orange, last Thursday and was
driven in a taxicab a few blocks away
to the Washington Society Club, where
he p?ayed host to twenty-five of his
best friends. *
Propped up on pillows at the head
of the dinner table he entertained
them as though he had a lifetime be?
fore him. Only hi?, flushed cheeks
and feeble voice revealed his serious
condition.
"I won't be with you much longer,"
he told IJJj. gathering toward the end
of the evening. "But I just wanted to
arrange this little dinner to show my
regard for you, my boyhood compan?
ions and friands of later life. Fellows,
? _ *?>
I have only a few thoughts to give you.
One of these is the gratitude of a
fellow on his back when his friends
visit him.
"I know the church bell down the
street will soon toll for me. I have
always cherished the association of
my friends."
At this point Evans's voice broke
and he was unable to continue. Three
of his companions began to sing, strik?
ing up some of the songs of the A. E.
F. and the others joined in, a bit
huskily, but with every outward sign
of cheerfulness.
Just before the affair broke up the
gue?ts presented a silver loving cup
to their host, together with a s'lver
headed cane, with the hope that he
would "soon be able to use it." As
they gathered' around to shake hands
they promised that they would con-'
tinue their frequent visits to him.
Evans was one of the first East
Orange men to enlist and one of the
last to come buck. He was gassed
severely and never recovered from the
effects of the experience. His parents
are dead. It became known at the
dinner that he was the donor of a
handsome painting, valued at $2,000,
given recently to the Knights of Co>
1 um bus Home in East Orange, Evans
is thirty years old.
?Sale of Liquor on High Seas
By U. S. Ships Barred hy Court
Judge Hand Defines Vessels Flying American Flag
as "Territory," and Company Attorneys Declare
Ruling Is Death Blow to Merchant Marine
Prohibition extends to American
ships on the high seas or wherever
they may be, according to a supple?
mental decision of United States Dis?
trict Judge Learned Hand, handed
down yesterday in the injunction suits
of the fourteen largest Bteamship com?
panies in the world against United
States enforcement officers.
Immediately after the decision whs
filed the big shipping interests ex?
pressed a determination to rush the in?
junction suits to the Supreme Court of
the United States. Unless the highest
court reverses the prohibitory inter?
pr?tation of the Volstead law as "Jet
flown by Attorney General Daugherty
and upheld by Judge Hand it was said
that the enterprises of American ship?
ping are hopeless.
It is impossible for them to compete
with fore'gn lines, it was insisted, and
it was?predicted that if the supple?
mental decision of Judge Hand were
sustained by the Supreme Court that
American shipping would disappear
from the seas by reason of transfer of
registry.
The supplemental decision was handed
down on request -of counsel for the
shipping interests that the court fix the
status of American ships on the high
seas under the Daugherty ruling. Tha
latest decision of Judge Hand, whose
opinions are unprecedented in drastic
Prohibitory edicts, follows in part:
The plaintiffs (the American lines)
have now amended their bills so as to
allege that the District Attorney for
the Southern District of New York has
threatened to prosecute them for sales
made on shipboard at sea upon ships
of American registry. Therefore, the
question is raised whish I declined to
consider in my original opinion and its
decision has become necessary.
"The question so raised is altogether
different from that discussed before.
No difficulty arises from the character
of the act itself. The plaintiffs sell
liquors on the high seas or dispense
them to passengers. The only question is
of the place where this occurs, i. e., on
board a ship of American registry out?
side the boundaries of the United
States. Is that a place covered by the
Eighteenth Amendment? I may in the
first place lay aside any question of
Congressional intent. Section three
alone would have been enough, as I
have already interpreted it, to cover
all places where the amendment could
operate. However, I am not left in
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Landlords Hold
Out Coal While
Tenants Shiver
Hundreds of Complaints
Filed; Owners Give Fuel
Shortage as Reason
for Co 1 d Apartments
Tenants Urged to Act
City and State Officials
Declare There Is No Ex?
cuse for Lack of Heat
Hundreds of apartment house land
I lords throughout greater New York,
I denounced as "grasping and unscrupu?
lous " are refusing to supply thejr
tenants with heat during the current
cold spell, oh the false contention they
cannot obtain fuel? because of the
shortage in domestic sizes of anthra?
cite coal, it was charged yesterday by
officials both of the State Fuel Admin?
istration and the City Health Depart?
ment.
A majority of the offending land?
lords, it was declared, are thus acting
in plain violation of the law and have
caused considerable actual suffering,
especially in cases where illness is
concerned.
Failure to act against these land?
lords now and to force them to a
change of heart before winter sets in
! might mean, it was held, that they
would continue their tactics into the
coldest weather.
Tenants Told How to Act
In ord**T to remedy the situation and
to force the landlords to obey the law
the Furl Administration and Health
Department officials suggested that the
tenants acquaint themselves with their
legal rights in the matter and pro?
ceed accordingly wherever necessary
along the following lines:
"I. If you are. entitled to heat for
your apartment by the terms of your
lease or previous custom, but are not
getting it, or enough of it, according
to the statutory requirements, com?
plain to your landlord. The law pro?
vides that whenever there is an out?
side temperature of less than 50 de?
grees heat to an inside temperature
of at least 68 degrees shall be fur?
nished and at any time of the year.
Violations are misdemeanors.
"2. Should your complaint fail to get
results acquaint the Health Depart?
ment with the circumstances and ask
for an investigation. An inspector will
be sent to see you, and if the case war?
rants the Health Department will have
the landlord haled into court on a
summons.
"3. In the event you have good evi?
dence that your landlord is willfully
violating the law?as, for instance, if
he has plent, of coal on hand, but still
refuses to furnish heat?go to the
nearest magistrates' court and get the
summons yourself.
"4. If you landlord appears just and
reasonable, but ignorant of where to
obtain coal, ask him to call on any one
of the following county fuel adminis?
trators, who will give him informa?
tion on the subject:
"Manhattan?George J. Elte, Room
208, 90 West Street; phone Rector 1123.
"The Bronx?Alex J. Fraser, Third
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U.S. Courts Must
Decide Status
Of Dail Eireann
De V?lera's New Move Puts
Political Factors Into
Suit Here Over Disputed
Fund for Irish Cause
Assembly Exists Formally
Republican Body, Formed
at Secret Meeting, True
Parliament, Is Claim
Special Cable to The Tributs?
Copyright, 1922, New York Tribune Inc.
DUBLIN, Oct. 27.?As a sequel to
Eamon de Valera's resumption of the
presidency in Ireland and the reor?
ganization of the Irish republican gov?
ernment, a vastly important question
will arise fgr the decision of the
American courts when the funds sub?
scribed in America for the former.
Dail Eireann, which ara now being
held up, come to be disposed of.
De Valera contends that these funda
belong to the Dail of all Ireland, and
not to a provisional government rep?
resenting twenty-six counties. The
United States courts will therefore be
called upon to decide if the Dail for
which the moneys were subscribed has
passed out of existence, and if so,
when and how.
Formally the Dail has never been
dissolved. Its last meeting, held in
May, adjourned until June 30, but on
June 28 the Four Courts battle broke
out at Dublin, and the adjourned meet?
ing never was held. The meeting of
last Wednesday, whereat De Valera
was re-ele?ted president of the Irish
republic, purports to be a meeting of
the second Dail, though it was at?
tended only by republican deputies.
This body, however, will claim the
funds subscribed by American sympa?
thizers, resisting- all claim of the pro?
visional parlian* ; '. to them.
The situation ? complicated by the
fact that William Cosgrave and other
members of the present provisional
government regarded themselves as
members of a republican government
when acting as members of the Dail
Cabinet. They will now be called upon
to show exactly how the republican
government ceased to exist.
As the treaty issue was excluded
from the last election by a Dail de?
cree, as a result of the Collins-De
Valera pact, republicans argue that the
provisional government is not the
legal successor to the body which met
and adjourned last May. Free Staters,
on the other hand, hold that the peo?
ple voted for Parliament to carry out
the treaty and are not bound by this
pre-election pact. It is expected that
a large part of the American sub?
scribed Dail funds will be spent in
getting a decision on this legal issue.'
The general impression here is that
the creation of the new republican '-.
government will not materially alter
the internal situation during the in?
terval preceding the next Irish elec-1
tion. It is pointed out that, even ac
cording to its own proclamation, the j
new republican government is sup- !
posed to function only until this next)
election, when the people will decide ??
freely on the form of government they
want. This interpretation means that \
republicans of both the military and ',
political stripes are now willing to
abide by the decision of the people
on a basis of adult suffrage on the :
straight issue for or against the-Free
State, as expressed in the new con?
stitution just ratified. **?
? ? .
Quits $25,000 Job for
College Post at $5,000
J. S. Worley, of Nerv York, Sees
Chance for Public Service
at Michigan University
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Oct. 27.?John
S. Worley, of New York, was appointed ?
to-day professor of transportation en?
gineering in the University of Michi?
gan. ,
Mr. Worley is giving up a $25,000-a
year job to accept this position, at less
than $5,000. He does this, it is an?
nounced, because he believes the offer '
from Michigan gives him an oppor?
tunity for great and permanent service.
Mr. Worley lives at 40 East Eighty
third Street, and is a member of the
firm of Worley & Black, accountants.
He said at his home last night that he
had accepted the Ann Arbor offer.
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Minstrel Huntsman Killed
PETERBORO, Ont., Oet. 27.?Duke
Anderson, member of a minstrel com?
pany which played in Peterboro this
week, was shot and killed in the woods
near Campbellford this afternoon while
rabbit shooting with a party of five
members of the company. The shoot?
ing was said to hav? been accidental.
Outsiders to
Get 5 Million
School Fees
Hylan Board of Educa?
tion Will Appoint Four
Architects to Follow Old
Ideas in-Building Plans
Will Re^h^5 P. C.
Of the Total Cost
Construction Standard?
ized So Little Work Is
Left for the Appointees
Five architects, one in each borough,
will share in a fee of $4,450,000 which
th*b city will pay for the construction
of more than 100 schools, as the result
of the action taken by the Board of
Estimate at its meeting yesterday. On
the plea that the building of schools
was being seriously delayed by the in?
adequacy of its own construction di?
vision the Board of Education request?
ed permission to hire outside archi?
tects to supervise the $89,000,000 build?
ing program planned for next year,
which was granted.
The naming of the architects who
are to share the plum will rest with
the members of the Board of Educa?
tion, in which Hylan appointees pre?
dominate. They will be paid on the
basis of 5 per cent of the total con?
struction cost, as fixed by the Ameri?
can Institute of Architects, which in
this instance will amount to almost
$6,000,000.
No New Plane
Ordinarily the 5 per cent fee it
supposed to cover the designing of the
buildings and the drawing of th?
necessary plans and specifications
With the- new schools, however, the
architects retained by the Board oj
Education will not be called on t<
develop any new designs. A standarc
type of school structure has beer
adopted by the education authorities
and approved by the Municipal Aj*i
Commission. This plan will probabl*
be followed in the structures so thai
the .five architects selected will be re
quired only to follow the sketch plani
already established and prepare de
tailed building plans conforming to th?.
particular plots on which the school:
are to be built.
The1 Board of Education's budget fo:
buildings for 1923 calls for an ex
penditurc of $64,000,000 and there i
still remaining from the 1922 appro
priation approximately $25,000,000. I
was found impossible to use up all o
th? money made available during tin
present year because the education de
partment's construction division coul?
not turn out plans with sufficien
speed. With the help of the outsid
architects it will be possible to com
plete the entire program within tw<
years, Mr. Ryan said.
The practice has always been to hav
the plans for all buildings prepared ii
the office of C. (B. J. Snyder, superin
tendent of school buildings, and hi
staff of civil service employees, i
standard type was developed which wa
followed on all buildings begun in th
last two er three years, with only inci
dental changes of plan to fit the par
ticular needs of each, individual site
Construction materials were als
standardized and made to conform t
the Board of Education's requirement!
Only Forty Buildings Started
Even this simplified method of piar
ning new schools and drawing up speci
fications for them proved too much fo
the construction division, Mr. Rya
told the Board of Estimate. It wa
found possible to get only forty build
ings under way during the last yea;
which was thirty above the average fc
preceding years,
"If we have standardized plans an
enough key men to carry them out," h
said, "we can meet the present emei
gency, but we cannot, meet it in an
piecemeal fashion. We desire to pro?
vide enough schools so that each chil
will have a seat, but we can't do it ur
less we change the program of pr<
cedure which has been in force fc
twenty years or more."
Mr. Ryan thought that four or fi%
reliable architects should be employe?
The fee to each would be 5 per cen
although he thought there was a poi
sibility of arranging a slightly small?
fee if the plans now in use are fo
lowed. As soon as plans are read
the contracts for ten to a dozen-buib
ings could be let at one time, and ti
work could be completed in from eigl
to twelve months. Some of the largi
contractors have already been coi
suited and have indicated their read
ness to go ahead with the work as soc
as the school authorities are read
Dr. James A. Ferguson, chairman ?
the Board of Education's committee <
new buildings, said that contracts f?
twenty schools could be let to each
four contractors and that eigh
schools could be completed with
eight months.
That the difficulty in constructs
school buildings is attributable to th
cause was generally conceded by t
members of the Board of Estima:
In the absence of any. opposition
Mr. Ryan's proposal, Mayor Hyli
urged him to go ahead with his pla
at once.
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Hayes and Mundelein
May Be Next Cardinals
ROME, Oct. 27 (By The Asso?
ciated Press).?Two new Ameri?
can Cardinals, Archbishop Mun
delcin, of Chicago, and Arch?
bishop Hayes, of New York, may
be appointed at the first consis?
tory of the Pontificate of Pope
Pius, according to authoritative
Vatican reports.
The consistory, which will have
world-wide importance, as the
Pope will deliver his first encyc?
lical containing the program of
his Pontificate, is declared to have
been set for the first fortnight of
December.
Monsignor Giovanni Bonzano,
apostolic delegate to the Unitad
States, will be created a Cardina!.
He will be replaced in Washing?
ton by Monsignor Pietro Fama
soni Biondi, titular Bishop of
Dioclea, now secretary of the Con?
gregation Propaganda Fide.
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Woman Slays
Rector, Then
Kills Herselfi
Bodies of Rev. L. J, Christ
ler, 'Bishop of All Out?
doors,' and Parishioner
Found in Montana Home
Love Motive Discarded
Widow Is Niece of Senator
Wadsworth ; HusbandWas
Native of Waterloo, N. Y.
HAVRE, Mont., Oct. 27.?Mystery
hangs to-night over the killing of the
Rev. Leonard Jacob Christler, rector
of St. Mark's Episcopal Church here,
widely known as the ?'Bishop of All
Outdoors" and one of the most pic?
turesque figures in all Montana
churchdom, by his parishioner, Mrs.
Margaret Carleton, a resident of Cali?
fornia and wife of a former district
judge, who then committed suicide at
his side.
The revolver which the minister's
wife?who was in an adjoining room
at the rector's house when the shoot?
ing occurred in the early hours of the
morning, and rushed out and found)
the bodies?discovered clutched in Mrs. !
Carleton's hand is of large caliber.
Mrs. Carleton possessed a revolver, but
it was not like this one. It was of
small caliber.
The deaths were so plainly a case of
murder and suicide by the woman,1
however, that no inquest is likely to
be held, the coroner 'and sheriff's of?
fice announced to-night. The pistol
with which the two were killed was
still clasped in Mrs. Carleton's hand
and her finger was still on the trigger
when he arrived in response to Mrs.
Christler's call, Dr. Mackenzie told
the coroner.
Was Native New Yorker
Dr. Christler was a native of Water?
loo, N. Y., and had always been ex?
tremely popular. Tho love motive,
which was the first that engaged
police attention, has been dismissed bf
Bishop Faber, of this state, who de- j
clared that reports as to improper
relations between Dr. Christler and
Mrs. Carleton had been made to him
and investigated, and that they had
been founato be without foundation.
The authorities, however, are still pur?
suing this line of inquiry. ?
The prelude to the double killing
was of a strange, uncanny nature, ac?
cording to che dead minister's wife.
Upon completion of church service,
she said, she went to her home and
found the house lighted and Mrs.
Carleton inside, tearing up and burn?
ing the Rev. Mr. Chrfstier's photo?
graphs.
Mrs. Carleton, she said, gave no ex?
planation and talked incoherently. The
two women left the house together,
Mrs. Christler going to a restaurant,
where the Rev. Mr. Christler, a visit?
ing clergyman and several men church
members were dining. They remained
at the restaurant until late, Mrs.
Christler said.
Returning to the Christler home
with his wife, the rector commented
that he smelled smoke. Mrs. Christler
declared she did not tell her husband
of Mrs. Carleton's visit.
The Christlers had been in the house
only a Bhort time when Mrs. Carleton
entered, according to the minister's
wife. The three engaged in ordinary
conversation for some time, Mrs.
Christler said.'
Two Shots Fired
When Mrs. Carleton aros? to leave
the house Dr. Christler accompanied
her into the halkand closed the door.
A moment later two shots rang out,
according to Mrs. Christler.
The minister's wife said she opened
the door and found the bodies. Mrs.
Carleton's body had fallen across that
of the minister. Examination of the
minister's body disclosed that a bullet
(Continued an aesst _M8?)
Cleopatras in Monkey Fur
Make Style Expert Shudder
CHICAGO, Oct. 27?"Monkey fur is
for monkeys.
"Hair should go to make up a head,
not a mattress.
"Baby blue has an age limit; pink
a sex limit.
"A woman four feet six inches tall,
has no business wearing a hat built for
Cleopatra in her best days?it doesn't
fit her head, either inside or opt.
"Waist lines should be kept In their
places."
Frank Alvah Parsons, president of
the Now York School of Fine and Ap?
plied Arts, emitted these and many
other observations as he surveyed the
parade of women and girls along
Michigan Boulevard to-day. He ts
especially exasperated by the return
to the trailing skirts, which do the
work street sweepers are paid for.
"Fashion of to-day ia damnable gu?
!
dangerous," he continued. "There are
enough signs 'To Let' walking along
Michigan Boulevard to accommodate a
whole city of homeless persons. When
you see a woman togged out in what
the 'fashion* jokers have wished on
her you know she has much vacant
space above the neck. Here are some
of the unmistakable signs:
"A fur choker tightly choking the
neck on a hot August day.
"A woman weighing ninety pounds
wearing fifteen pounds of beads.
"Lamp fringe that threatens to put
the street cleaners out of business.
"Decorations tacked on to parts of
milady that should not be decorated.
"A waist line a foot below the waist,
roped in with a curtain cord, tassels
and all."
There are many other indications,
but Mr. Parsons say? any of these is
sufficient to show a vacant spas? in
the dome of the wearer.
Singer Slain
Fleeing, Says
Mrs. Gibson
Pursued to Weed Clump,
Dragged Back, Shot Be?
side Rector's Body, She
Avers in New Affidavit
Saw Woman Sobbing
At Scene at 1 A. M.
Had Same Gray Coat, She
Asserts; Mott Reidy to
Give Grand Jury Case
By Boyden Sparkes
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. ,T? Oct.
27.?Before she was shot down in
cold blood, Mrs. Eleanor Mills made
a frantic attempt to escape from the*
persons whom sh# had just seen kill
her sweetheart, the Rev. Edward W.
Hall. This information has been
given to the authorities by Mrs. Jane
Gibson, the farm woman, who says
she saw the killings from the back
of a saddle mule.
One of the officials revealed this
to-night, confirming a report that
Mrs. Gibson had made an addition."".!
affidavit in which she told of return?
ing to the Phillips farm several
hours after witnessing the murders
and of seeing there a woman in a
gray coat, kneeling beside the bodies
in the faint light of a quarter moon,
sobbing bitterly.
Murder Held Deliberate
Basing their conclusions on -wbal
Mrs. Gibson has to.d them, the authori?
ties now have deeWed that Dr. Hall'i
murder was not an impulsive act
prompted by a burst of race, but tha:
the rector end Mrs. Mills were killec
with a cold deliberation that was re
fleeted in the slashing of the woman':
throat.
One of the officials 6aid that the;
had been told that after the clergymai
fell to the ground with a bullet througi
his brain Mrs. Mills turned and fle?
across the field, stumbling and fallini
every few yards as her fear-strickei
?imbs crumpled beneath her. The
have been told that the sexton's wif
actually succeeded in hiding herself ?
the weeds in the field and that th
murderers had to hantrftn- her, finall
focusing a flashlight on her cowerin
form. Then they dragged her back t
the bleeding form of her lover an
there pumped three bullets into he
head.
1 ought for His Life
The official who gave this informa
tion to-night said that before the ree
tor was shot he had been denounce
and cursed for his relations with th
choir singer, and that during thi
tirade Mrs. Mills had stood by clasp
ing and unclasping her hands an
whimpering and moaning. Then ther
was a fight that ended when the min
ister was- shot.
In those portions of Mrs. Gibson'
affidavit that have been made publi
it was disclosed that the farm worn?
told that there was an interval bi
tween the firing of the first shot an
the last three. Now, according to th
ifficial who told about it to-night, th?
nterval was caused by Mrs. Mills
sudden dash into the darkness.
If she had escaped she would ba'v
exposed the murderers, of course, an
so their pursuit was as frantic as til
choir singer's flight.
The second affidavit from Mrs. Gil
son, it is known, tells, substantial!
this story:
"I waited at home for more than a
hour before I got up courage to r
turn to the Phillips place. Then
mounted my mule, Jennie, and on
more rode through De Russy Lar
When I came to the spot where I hi
heard and seen the shots fired, I di
mounted, tied the animal and cut in
the field.
Heard Woman Sobbing
"I heard a woman sobbing convi
lively. It was now about 1 oVlock a
a quarter moon was shining. I had
flashlight, but I could see the sat
woman I had seen in the lane earli
in the evening. She still wore t
light colored coat and no hat. S
was kneeling beside the two dark t
jects on the ground^ and was sobbi
as though her'heart would break,
was not until Saturday that I learn
who had been killed."
Special Deputy Attorney Gene
Wilbur Mott plans to present the c?
?o the Somerset County grand ju
but arrests are unlikely until indi
ments have been voted.
The possibility of an early presi
tation of the case to the grand jur
seemed likely to-night in view of '
Pott's statement that he was satisl
as to the credibility of the story t
by Mrs. Gibson.
Troopers Guard Mrs. Gibson
Mrs. Gibson, at her own request,
it was stated at the court house,
*>eing guarded on her farm by a st
trooper. The trooper went with
?rom the court house, where she ?
interrogated earlier in the day by
Mott and James Mason, the New
detective who is his chief investiga
in this case.
"What was the reason for Mrs. C
sen's presence in the courthouse
day?" Mr. Mott wa3 asked.
"I wanted to have a little talk *"?
her, and I am satisfied," he replied.
"You are not inclined to discn
her story of witnessing the murdei
"Why 'certainly not.
"Have you talked with any one *
corroborates ber story?"
"Why, that was the very first tt
to do."
"Did they corroborate her?"
"Sure."
"Who were they?"
?I can't tell you."
Believed To Be Her Son
It is understood, however, that
corroboration was given by Mrs. I
son's twenty-one-yeur-old san, Will
who is in a position to confirm
mother's ste y that she did
away from their farm that ni
mounted on Jennie, and determine
track down a corn thief. The son
declined to discuss with unofficial
vestigators the conversation he
with his mother after she retu
home that night. If he takes the s
at a trial and testifies that his mo
i told him that night what she bow