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WASHINGTON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 7, 1922.
(Closing Wall Street Prices)
THREE CENTS EVERYWHERE.
RIVER VICTIM IDENTIFIED
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J Hurt In Mysterious Auto Crash
GAME LIKELY DESPITE MIST
>5-1OBOS
OFFERED
ON GIINTS
Huggins Is Undecided on Box
Choice?McCraw to
Pitch Nehf.
POM) UROI'NOS, Oct. 7.?Willi
less llian an hour and a half re
maiiKnc before the scheduled
starting time (or the fourth gamc
of the world Hcries In Iuwii the
Giants and Yankees this after- ?
noon, heavy somber clouds hung
low over tiie fielu and an oe- |
ca>ictuil drop of rain fell. The
air was eooi and damp, and ac
cording to weather prophets, a
hli'f' ?n the wind might being rain.
Halii started to fall fairly
Stcndy at 12:44.
hi
By DAVIS .1. WAI.SII.
i POLO GROUNDS, NEW YORK.
Vet. 7.?The Kates of the Polo
Grounds were thrown open to
the "early birds" at 10:30 o'clock
this morning, a half hour later
than has been customary, and
more than 3,000 fans streamed
?through the portal.s and grabbed
off choice let ts for the fouith
game of the world se"ic;?.
It was the largest throng that
has been on hand when the gates
opened since the opening game
on Wednesday.
Mist Kxpected to Lift.
It was announced, with the open
Ins of tin- Kates, that the fourth
game would lie played unless a ,
change in weather conditions pre-1
vented.
A thick mist hung over the l
grounds, hut indications were that i
if would clear away before time for
the inauguration of hostilities.
In any event, conditions just be
fore noon were not regarded as;
sufficiently menacing lo warrant j
postponement of the game unless a I
sudden adverse change transpires. I
The Yanks, on the surface of j
things, are a beaten ball club, going
nowhere in particular and taking !
Considerable time to do it. as Is their :
twont. Their pitchers cannot stop !
the Giant hitters, but that is beyond !
the point. i
The Yanks cannot hope to win ball
games by getting onlv 19 hits in 3
games, and on the quality of pitch
ing Scott and N?'hf have turned in,
the Huggins entry might very easily
toss off the series in four official
games.
Professional gamblers, who know j
their odds as the tailor knows his !
flat iron, have laid a price of 5 to 1 j
? gainst the Yankees for the remain- j
der of the series They are not i
worth that much of any man's 1
money, for they must win ?our of
the remaining five games to come
down in front, and such a thing is j
hardly credible in the face of the |
condition of the CJiant pitchers.
Many pro-Yankees among the
baseball men here are pulling for
Huggins to pitch Carl Mays against
the Giants today, in the event that
the heavy fog lifts. Mays is one of
the best money pitchers in baseball,
and although he has had a bad year,
that peculiar underslung throw of
I his might get him by.
But Huggins is a single twk,
L narrow gauge thinker, and having
* made up his mind some day;- >n
advance of the-series that h > would
use Bush, Shawkcy, and lloyt in
Mb rder, he probably will see nj rea
son why he should change it now.
It would be Bush today, in the
ordinary sequence of ? events, but i
Bush was treated none too kindly
by the Giants his first time out.
Still in Doubt on Choice.
tjite last night Huggins was
wavering between Mays and Bush
He was still at It this morning nnd
probably will not know his own
mind until a few minutes before
the gun.
The incident of the game called or
account of darkness having beep
forgotten, the fourth capacity crowd
in as many days was anticipated
this afternoon, but lugubrious
weather may cancel the oi l-r.'
There are no "hundreds of !'iej
faithful clamoring at the gat?s"
this morning for the simple reason
that It Is one of those dark ocea- 1
sfons best likened to a wet blank -t.
The official forecast Is cloudy and
cooler today; showers tonight. It j
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ORPHAN COUNTESS
GETS HOMP IN N.
, J.r..Jai...-..:
INTlfttUTlONAl MfJ IUU,
.nENV YORK, Oct. 7.?The late Czar's icrandn.ece, little Countess
Renee De Monde*se, two, is to be adopted by Mrs. Wendell Phillips,
of 89 Park avenue, in accordance with the child's mother's death
bed request.
MURINE TEAMS
10 PANTOMIME
SUWDAY'S GAME
World Series to Be Duplicated,
Play by Play, for Times
Readers.
By R. D. THOMAS,
The World's Pioneer Baseball
Pantomimists!
Uncle Sam's snappy Marines
have been called Leathernecks,
Devil Dors, Sea Soldiers, Gyrenes,
and perhaps some other names in
these many years of their fight
ing existence, but now they have
a brand new one.
Pantomimists of Itasrball.
They are the pioneer pantomimists
of baseba.l. The title is four days
old. It dates from the first game
of the 1922 world series which
they reproduced at American League
park under the direction of The
Washington Times.
In the fifth contest, tomorrow.
; the Devil Dog ballplayers of th'
Navy Yard and Marine I{arracks
I will attempt to make perfect in
every detail their now famous stunt
of duplicating world series games,
! play by play, leaving out not even a
ball or strike.
j At 1:15 o'clock the park gates will
open to the public and every fan
. in Washington is invited to attend
' free of charge. Many peopl? will
be in tho park already for at
. o'clock the famous Dick K^rr
Ladieo' Soccer Team, of Preston.
Kngland, will play the Washington
team of the Southeastern Soccer
. League.
The soccer spectators are cor
itl;ally invited to remain for the
1 "world series game."
The United States Navy sixty
' piece band, conducted by Charles
; Renter, composer of many marches.
I (Continued on Page 2. Column 6 )
Brother-in-Law of Rector
Taken Secretly to County
Seat?Arrests Soon.
Bv International Nfwi Sfrtlrf,
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Oct.
7.?After an all-night grilling at# the
i hands of prosecutors, detectives, and
j members of the State constabulary.
| Willie Stevens, brother-in-law of
; Dr. Edward Wheeler Hall, slain
, N'ew Rrunswick minister, whs
) brought bark to his home here earlv
I today from Somervlllc, county seat
of Somerset county.
I The authorities refused to divulge
the results of the questioning of
Stevens, hut they predicted an ar
rfst within thirty-six hours in con
| nection with the mysterious slayirg
of Dr. Hall and his choir singer,
Mrs. Eleanor Mills, wife, of the
church sexton. The bodies of I'r.
Hall and Mrs. Mills were found in
a field on the outskirts of New
Brunswick three weeks ago todav.
New methods and new purposes on
the part of the authorities directing
the investigation are indicated by
the drastic action of grilling Stevens
without presence of his legal adviser.
It Is believed that the "kid-glove"
policy that has been attributed to
Investigators thus far has been aban
doned and that a vigorous drive to
clear tip the mystery portends.
Visited Scene of Tragedy.
It was reported after Stevens had
been brought back to his home that
he had been taken at an early hour
this morning to the lonely spot on
the Phillips farm, where the bodies
of Pr. Hall and Mrs. Mills were
found.
Apparently authentic Information
said that the visit to the scene of
the tragedy had been made on the
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WHY I GO TO CHURCH
By PAUL R. CROMEIJN,
Former Assistant District Attorney.
"I go to church because in the first place it is my Christian
duty. The church is a powerful factor for gt?od in the com
munity; it is an agency for the -promotion of constructive
Christian deeds and renders valuable service in increasing
the standing of any community from every viewpoint, ma
terial as well as otherwise. Eliminate churches and their
influence for pood and disregard for law will reign supreme.
It is, therefore, for the best interests of all decent men and
women to go to church and do as much as lies within their
power to make the church effective and useful."
TERMS FOR
TURKS ARE
RATIFIED
British and French Cabinets'
Accept Curzon-Poincare
Compromise Agreement.
Ily Intrrnntlonul N>w? Hfrtlre.
PAKIS, Oct. ?l?nl Curzon, '
Itrilbth (urrltn minister, and Pre ,
mier Polmalrr of Frame, rrsrlinl i
an agreement al their conference !
oil the Turkish (.recce situation |
here today that Greece will evacu j
ate Thrace and that two conf'-r
aiMTs will be called on the Near
Fast situation.
One of the conferencc* will he
held at Scutari before November |
10, at which the term* of the peace -
settlement wOt be agreed upon.
The second conference will he
held by M committee of the league J
of XationN to settle the question 1
{ of the atatui of the strait*.
By FRANK E. MASON,
International Newt*
FARIS, Oct. 7.?Lord Curzon.
British foreign secretary,
Premier Poincare of France this
afternoon reached a Near East
compromise regarding: Turkish oc
cupation of Thrace which will
permit a resumption of the
Mudania armistice negotiations,
unless the Turks balk at the
terms.
French Cabinet Called.
It is understood that the chief
terms of the compromise agreement
are as follows:
1. Creation of Turkish constabu
lary to assist allied troops in po- j
licing eastern Thrace.
S. Establishing of Turkish civil i
administration In eastern Thrace
under supervision of allied com- i
missioners.
3. The Turkish army in Asia
Minor shall not cross the Turkish
straits into Kurope until a Near
East peace treaty is signed.
4. The British shall maintain
Chanak on the Asiatic side of the
Dardanelles.
Italy is supporting the French
viewpoint. I
The British foreign secretary and
French premier met at 9 o'clock
this morning, following a midnight
session. This meeting broke up at |
10:30 o'clock to enable Lord Curzon j
to ask his government for instruc.'
tions.
Curzon Still Hopeful.
A special meeting of the French i
Cabinet was called, and Premier;
Poincare reported to It the provi-1
sional agreement he had reached1
with Lord Curzon. I
Lord Curzon was smiling and
hopeful and expressed the belief
that the conversations would end
this afternoon.
Formal announcement was made
this afternoon that the cabinet ap
proved the compromise agreement.
The allied generals at Mudania have
been instructed to reach a com
promise agreement.
It was understood that the only l
disputed point this afternoon was
whether the allies should control |
Thrace until the Near Fast peace;
conference is held or only for thirty |
days.
i-ord Curzon and Premier Poincare I
met again this afternoon, the ses- i
sion terminating at 3:30
It was officially announced a com-j
promise agreement had been reached ]
and that it would be effective when
ratified by the British cabinet. The
British cabinet ratified the com
promise this afternoon, It has Just
been learned.
Turks Allege Atrocities.
The Near Fast situation was
complicated by the Turkish de-!
mand that the allies get out of !
Thrace before Sunday and Italy's de- I
clsion to support France, although
this latter development hnd been < x-'
ported, hs both Ital\ and Fran?" i
have been Kympalhett.- to the Turk- I
ish cause.
Belief was current that th"i
French and Flritish would agree to I
send a Joint note to Mudania (the j
S' iH of the Near Fast armistice n< - j
gotiations) as the Inaia ?f a com
promise. |
It was understood that the pro-!
posed note would suggegt the trans i
fer of Turkish military police Into
Thrace, giving the Greeks thirty
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3 HURT III
MOT
OUR CRASH
Four of Seven Persons Make
Getaway After Auto Hits
Telegraph Pole.
Three men, still but partially
identified, lie perhaps fatally in
jured at Casualty Hospital as the
result of the touring c?\r in
which they were speeding: to
Washington from Baltimore
crashing into a telegraph pole
near Hyattsville at 10:30 o'clock
this morning.
One Has Fractured Skull.
One of the trio has a fractured
skull and all are thought .to be
laternalty Injure* Their names are
I recorded as Knottey, Hoaks and
Murphy. Believing that the last
I namud might be his brother. Pre
I'lnct Detective Murphy, of No. 6,
has gone to the hospital.
A mysterious aspect is lent the
nffalr by the fact that Immediately
after the smash, which nearly de
molished the machine and shivered
the stout pole, one of the men
hastily unscrewed the license plates.
Jumped into another auto, and was
whirled away. There were seven
liussengers in all. and three others,
apparently but slightly hurt, mad*
a similar get away.
Car Skids in Rain.
Coming up behind a big truck
which had Just crossed the Haiti
more and Ohio railroad tracks, the
car swerved out sharply, skidded in
the rain which had begun to fall and
crashed head on against the pole.
The truck was turned completely
around but the driver was unhurt.
The injured were given flmt aid
by Dr. H. T. \\ illlr, of Hyattsville.
and rushed to Casualty, where they
were Immediately placed on operat
ing tables. Police of the Ninth pre
cinct have commenced an investiga
tion.
ASKS NEW JURY FOR
PROBE OF WAR FRAUDS
Chief Jutaice McCoy, of the Dis
trict Supreme Court, was today re
Quested by District Attorney Peyton
Gordan to order the Impanelling of a
new war fraud grand Jury to resume
investigations into alleged conspira
cies to defraud the Government. The
Jury commission will be directed to
summon twenty-three men to appear
in court OteoBer 16 to qualify for
Jury service.
The first war fraud grand jury was
excused last week after it had re
turned Indictments in the alleged
lumber sale fraud and the sale of the
Old Hickory powder plant at Jack
sonville, Tenn.
FAILS TO PAY ALIMONY,
IS GIVEN JAIL TERM
Louis Goffln, husband of Mrs.
Lena Bell Goffln, who sued him for
a limited divorce February 15, last,
was ordered confined in the District
Jail for sixty days by Justice Sid
dons in the District Supreme Court
today for his alleged failure to kt>"p
Op his payments of $10 weekly
alimony.
Mrs. Goffln complained through
attorney Raymond Neudecker that
her husband had stopped alinv.my
payments.
AMERICANS IN GERMANY
TARGETS FOR HIGH PRICES
German merchants are discrim
inating against Americans In Oer
many by compelling them to pay
excessive prices for food and cloth
ing. the Commerce Department was
advised today by American Consul
Dumont at Frankfort.
Various amusement places In
Germany, the report said, charge
American* prims approximately six
times In cxces* of what natives psy.
JAPANESE HOLD AMERICAN
MERCHANT AS A SPY
TOKYO. Oct. 7.?R M Andrew*,
a leading American merchant, has
been arrested by the Jupanese au
thorities. charged with espionage, it
was announced today.
Ths American ambassador ha<
taken up the case and requested a
special lnveaUgatlon.
r
Once Rich Man's Wife,
Now Down And Out
Latest Picture of Divorc
ed Bride of Millionaire
Ahop.
Bride at seventeen of a millionaire of seventy-seven, but now a
public charge and victim of alcoholism, Mrs. Effie Pope Hill Alaop,
divorced wife of Edward B. Alsop, rich retired clubman, of 1502
Twentieth street northwest, is in Bellevue hospital, New York, at
twenty-seven. She will recover from the illness, which physicians
say came from use of veronal and intoxicants.
HAREM KING LURED 10 HIS
! DEATH AT PAJAMA PARTY
By WILLIAM PARKER.
CoMinopolitpn ?wn Hfrvli-f Stuff < orrrttpoiiclent.
I PIIOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 7.?"So lung. I'm going to keep a
I date with a widow."
I Acquaintances of (luy X. Dernier, "harem king.'" say that
j he seemed intuitively to know when he met a woman whether
' her name would later occupy a place in what is now being
I referred to as "Dernier's Harem Book."
Lured to llis Death.
Hut the Chicago man's intuition 1
did not forewarn him, when he spoke I
I the foregoing words to a friend on |
I the main street of Proenlx, that the
I "widow" who had telephoned hiin an I
I invitation *o come at once, to her
j home was deliberately decoying him
to his death.
This, declared Deputy Sheriff F. j
| A Bell today, was the premeditated
I thought in the mind of the woman, j
Dernier used the term "widow"
merely in a jocular sense. Bell says. |
And following hereafter is what the
same officer says happened Septem- !
| ber 12, prior to the body of Dernier j
(being found in an irrigating canal, a
i supposed suicide.
i At the time Dernier wis serretnry
jof the Phoenix Country Club, he be
came friendly with a considerable
(number of attractive women, who
i had time and money at their disposal.
Dernier staged numerous "nnjnrns.
parties" With men and women pres
ent.
"Played the Held."
"Several of the people I have in- :
terrogated told me that It was a com
mon practice to 'trade wives' at these |
parties," said Bell "Dernier had
been divorced and played the field, J
so to sprak. Husbands rcsen'i-d this.
They said Dernier was not fair.. And, i
too. Dernier changed his sweethearts
as often as he did his neck ties. The
inevitable 'woman scorned' entered
his life. She was a married woman.
"If the husband of this woman
didn't know of her participation In
the pajama parties, then he learned
of It later. Anyhow, he forced a con
fession from lier. Between them?
the husband and wife?they agreed
that Dernier was a menace to the
community. He had been warned a
number of times by Jealous husba-.ds
to leave Phoenix and stay away. He
did leave for a time, but returned,
and even boasted that he probably
would be killed.
"There was enteved Into bv the
husband and wife >i itrlm compact.
This is how It whs carried out:
"The wife telephoned to Dernier1
shortly before noon September I
and asked him to visit her. As
Dernier was alw?u' to step In'o his
automobile to go to the woman's j
home, a friend invited him t<> lunch,
lie declined the Invitation, saying he
was going to a widow's
"Presumably Dernier believed a
pa lama party was to be staged for j
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SIX BULBS SEIZED
TO PAY U. S. 80 CENTS
WATERBURY. Conn.. Oct. 7.?Six
electric light bulbs belonging to the
Waterbury-Midvale Tramway Com
pany have been attached by the
United States Internal Revenue Serv
ice. The bulbs have been unscrewed
?from one of the company's cars and
will be sold at public auction October
14 to satisfy a claim of 80 cents
which the Government ha* against
the tramway company.
The claim is that the company
[ owes 80 cents for failure to pay the
transportation tax for the month of
December, 1921.
SIGHT STEAMER ON FIRE
WITH NO TRACE OF CREW
HALIFAX, X. S., Oct. 7.?A
wireless message received by the
marine fisheries agent here today
from th<> steamer Radiance, report
ed that the steamer Pedro was
j sighted afire 300 miles southeast
of Cape Race.
1 The Radiance also stated she
sighted fifteen empty dories, but
found no trace of the crew.
DROPS "FIGHTING WORD
CASE AGAINST STRIKER
KANSAS CITY, Mo , Oct. 7.?Rul
ing that a certain expression was "a ,
fighting word the world over," Judge
Arha S. VanValkenburgh in Federal
Court yesterday dismissed the case
i against Sid Williams, alleged strik
ing railroad employe.
The case whs brought under an
Injunction granted the St. Louis and
San Francisco railroad, when it was
asserted Williams attacked Fate
George, a nonunion employe, at the
| Springfield shops of the railroad on
July 31
'"SAY IT WITH FLOWERS"
AUTHOR KILLED IN AUTO
DKYIL'S LAKK, S. 1>.. !>ct. 7 ?
I X. I*. Lindberg. fifty-seven, cf
I Rugby. X. I'., originator of the j
! phrase, "Say it with flowers," was
killed in hm automobile accident at j
I'enn. N. I)., Thursday night. It be-]
came known here today.
His wife was seriously Injured.
He was a native of Denmark.
EX-CLERK
OF JUSTICE
DEPT. MAY
Mrs. Irene Price Fewell Wa?
Mourning for Her Dead
Mother.
One of these days I'm going to
end it all and my body will never
be found."
Mrs. Irene Price Fewell, mem
ber of a prominent Mississippi
family, almost made good her
oft-repeated threat when she
drowned herself in the Potomac
River by weighting her body down
with lumps of asphalt and a
smoothing iron.
The body, which was taken from
the river early yesterday by the
Harbor Police, was positively
identified today by Mrs. Eleanor
D. Snyder, of 219 A street south
east, as being that of Mrs. Fewell.
Attending .Mother's Funeral.
While the hody of the former
Mississippi belle lies at the' morgue
here, her sister. Mrs. Caldwell Max
well, employed at the Department
of Justice, Is in Meridian. Miss.,
attending the funeral of their
mother. Mrs. C. 8 W. Price, whose
husband was at one time a door
keeper at the House of Renroaenta
tives and secretary to the latl Con
gressman Bam A. Wlthersijoon of
Mississippi.
The police believe that Mrs. Fewell
went to the river on Monday night
and sought to bury herself beneath
the waters so that her body would
never be found.
On Saturday of last week Mrs.
Maxwell received a telegram from
Meridian. Miss., stating that her
mother was dying. She had planned
to take her annual leave from the
Department of Justice on Thursday
of this week.
Receipt of the telegram caused
Mrs. Maxwell to ask for permission
to leave immediately. She departed
Saturday afternoon.
It Is the belief of the police that
Mrs. Fewell, who remained in
Washington, received a telegram on
Monday announcing the death of
her mother, and that she then pur
chased the smoothing iron and
made for the river.
"Most I'nhappy," She Said.
According to information in tha
possession of the police, a woman,
answering the description of Mrs.
Fewell. boarded one of the electric
cars at the station at Twelfth
street and Pennsylvania avenue.
She carried a bundle, which thev
believe contained the smoothing
iron and the two lumps of asphalt
which were later found in the
pockets of her long, sleeveless
cape.
At the Virginia end of the High
way bridge, the police were told,
the woman got off the car and walk
ed in the direction of the spot where
the body was found yesterday.
Mrs. Fewell was slight of stature,
being only five feet tall. In recent
years she had been nervous and dis
contented and during the past few
months she had told friends sh? was
"one of the most unhappy women in
the world."
Not Recently Employed.
In 1918, during the press of war
work here, Mrs. Fewell was employ
ed for several months in the De
partment of Justice here. Since
then, It is said, she had not been
employed.
"She has been living with me off
and on for nearly ten years," Mrs.
Snyder said today when she visited
the morgue and identified the wom
an as being her former roomer.
"On one occasion Mrs. Fewell said:
'One of these days I'm going to end
It all, and you will never find my
body.' She has been nervous and
In had health for several years."
The dead woman's husband. Wil
liam Fewell. was formerly in the
lumber business in Meridian, but re
cently has been In business in New
^ ork city. Her father is now in
Meridian.
Short of stature, heavily veiled
and well dressed, a woman stood in
the moonlight at the Virginia end of
the Highway bridge and with trem
bling hands counted out a hacker's
fare.
This happened several nights ago.
The woman was never seen again, to
the knowledge of the police.
Her description, as given by the
hacker, closely answers that of th?
woman whose hody, weighted with
paving material and a heavy smooth
ing Iron, was found in the river
the \ irginia side of the bridge early
yesterduv.
Mint Love Tragedy
This information was today |>!a< ed
In the hands of the police, who scent
a love tragedy in ihe meager siory of
the hacker.
The man who told the story has i
stand near a well-known local hotel
I "It may have been five nights ago
| ?or aU," h? Maid today, "and It was