Joplin News Herald (Newspaper) - September 16, 1922, Joplin, Missouri f We Hear the Ohio Politician Who Doesnt Expect to Live in the White House Has Consented to See a Doctor THE WEATHER Arkansas and Un settled Cooler Sunday Missouri and to Part Cloudy and Sunday Not Much Change in JOPLIN HERALD Exclusive Day Dispatches of the Associated Press INAL EDITION 4 FIFTIETH SEPTEMBER PRICE CENTS 2 MEN CHARGED WITH MUR BRITISH LAND BIG FORCE AT DARDANELLES Take Up Strategic Points Prepared for Any Event Backing Holds Fleet In AMERICAN QUEEN By the Associated Large British forces with heavy artillery have been landed at strategic points in the Dardanelles pre pared for any Britain is prepared to fight to maintain the freedom of the it was authoritatively stated The statement come at the end of a week of protracted cabinet meet arising from the near eastern which has given rise to fears that the Turkish nationalists might turn from their successes over the Greeks to attack the neutral zone around With this in mind Great Britain is reinforcing her troops in Constant and has ordered the Mediter ranean fleet to oppose by every means an infraction of the neutral zone or any attempt by the Turks to cross over into Great Britain also has invited and the British dominions to give assistance in if Franco and Italy are said to agree with Great Britain on the neces sity of maintaining of the It is indicated that Great Britain has not abandoned the ori ginal that the Turks should have Constantinople if other matters were satisfactorily compos and the Condon government pro poses an immediate conference to effect peace with the succeed ing dispatches from Athens and other centers of infor in the Near East only tend the tale of the tragedy in The greater part of the city is in laid waste by a conflagration of incendiary and the flames according to the latest had reached the water front the quays were crowded with fear crazed Christian refugees who fled 1o the city as the nearest port of es cape from the Many have thrown themselves to the water rather than run the risk of being alive or o facing Mustapha Kemal Pashas drunk with victory and fired with religious Greek Soldiers Others have not had the chance to according to dispatches from Greek which tell o horrible tortures and mutilations and wholesale Large numbers of Greek soldiers have been they and other forced into sacks and thrown inti the Allegations of having serv od In the Greek army bring death to the Armenians and women and children are being put to the sword Estimates of the number kille vary greatly and tho latest Athen dispatch quotes an American relle worker as declaring that up t Thursday morning there had bee It Is thought thl figure may include the wounde also as previous reports placed th number of dead at from t Landward from the city it is re ported that all the villages ar burning and that the whole country side has been Meanwhile the Turkish forces in the north have continued their ad vance and almost simultaneously with the news of their capture of on the Sea the announcement that the British fleet in the Dardanelles has been ordered to prevent any at tempt to the straits and that no ships shall be allowed to concen trate for tho purpose of transferring troops in a movement toward Slavs Watching and Rumania are al so watching any move in this tion ns they are opposed to the Turka again obtaining a foothold in While the Turks do not possess a they control a swarm of light vessels and have a rail upon some larger ships in the Black The Turks are not without sup Continued on Page Two 16 RAILROADS HAVE SIGNED AGREEMENTS s Settlements in Accord With Transportation Says Central Opens Negotiations With Shop widow Of the American tin late wife of Prince Christopher of may become King because of the Greek de eat by the may be forced to in favor of Prince his Wife Takes Jewels Mate Gave Model Chicago Hotels Famous Prom enade Scene of Fight With Gems as Stake Van Springs T II Slayer Tells Of Shooting Special to closures came thick and fast yes erday on the heels of Thursdays downtown tragedy when Van a drug was slain by Cecil federal nar cotic after the former ad ordered to throw up his lands and submit to arrest on a charge of having violated the Har ison Among the important developments were A police testified that he heard Spring make tif dying state I put my hand o my hip Narcotic inspect ors they had expected through Springs arrest to obtain information that would lead to the prosecution of eight other including a well known The United States District Attorney prepared to move for the transfer of Fraziers trial from the to the fe deral tribunal in the event an In is returned Frazier was his own recognizance at a preliminary hear ing in police court before Judge A coroners jury re turned a verdict of murder follow ing in inquest conducted by Justice took no Bulletin agree ment has been reached between gen eral chairman of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the Order of Railway Conductors with officials of the Pennsylvania Railroad over wages and president of the an here today upon his return from New rail roads had signed separate agree ments with various labor unions to day through methods In vogue be fore the United States Railroad La bor board was created as arbiter of disputes between railways and their These according to Ben chairman of the do not the but rather are entirely in accord with the transportation When the disputes withdrawn from the jurisdiction of the board the gov tribunal believed that ne for settlement ent of the board would success Hooper His comment referred to yesterdays agreement tween the New York Central Lines and the train service brotherhoods and Confer With Following settlements with the Order of Railway Conductors and the Brotherhood of Train the New York Central opened negotiations today with the shop crafts for ending the strike on the basis of the Warfield agree ments with the and unions were in according to The Pennsylvania system was party to similar negotiations with rail unions at and Pitts Among the larger roads which have signed agreements with the striking shop crafts were the Chi Milwaukee and Paul the Chicago and Northwestern and tho Baltimore and Agreements on wages and rules created shop unions were announced by the Burling ton and Quincy had turned down the and employes of tho Congress Hotel were talking still today of the fight in Peacock the hotels famous be tween Miss Edna De beautiful fashion and Melville wife of the man jocularly pronounced Chicagos The stakes in the fight were worth of which Miss De Werth wore and Reeves The adorned the model before the fight were of his wife and belonged to Previous efforts to obtain the Jewels had Reeves Through her attorney she obtained a replevin writ and ac companied by a bailiff went to the Encountering Miss Do Werth as she came down Peacock Al wearing the latest style Reeves asked for the jewels and pointed out the Expressing the disbelief that the man was an Miss De Werth attempted to Reeves went into A diamond and sapphire laval liere was her first trophy fol lowed by a bracelet and wrist When hotel atten dants separated the Miss Werth stood stripped of the Reeves ornaments and in no condition to immediately as a fashion I begged the girl at least a dozen times to give him up and return my said She refused and laughed at me and what could a wife do HENRY FORDS PLANTS BEGIN TO SHUT DOWN Suspension of Operations As Protest Against Coal And Steel Prices Will Throw Men Out Of Czars Favorite an Exile J b action in the case yesterday but the body will resume its session this He made a play for pocket after I ordered him to hold up his hands so I pulled the trig was the simple statement Frazier made court when his preliminary hearing Judge Fitzhugh was It de that he had a package of morphine in his hip but he it out in time to throw It I to throw up his hands once and he paid no at tention to me so I asked him again When he failed to obey after I had told him I was an officer and start ed for his hip pocket it thats The body was sent to for 5 Firemen Overcome Fighting Blaze fire men were overcome by smoke and heat and seriously burned by blazing creosote in a fire which practically destroyed the six story warehouse of the Interstate Forward ing Company here early Af ter three hours fighting the fire which started among furniture stor ed on the second firemen an the blaze was under con Early estimates placed the loss at from to Slayer Of Years The conclu tion of one more chapter in a story of the hills rivals those of Har old Bell Wright and others who have cast the shadow of romance over the Ozark region was written yesterday in the Christian county circuit court at Ozark when a jury found Charley 26 years guilty of mur der In the first degree for the slay ing of Ernest and fixed his punishment at ten years in the state The defense will ask a new Trouble between the two It brought had been of long a protest against paying what he be to be exorbitant prices for coal and Henry Ford today be gan closing his With tho suspension complete when the last shift of workers leaves approximately mon will have been made idle indef The plants affected Include the five factories around Detroit and numerous assembling stations throughout the Other the output of which goes chiefly to the also are expected to suspend In announcing the contemplated Ford no coal shortage that brokers were holding enough coal to supply the needs of the country and that the public was being gouged by the He also criticised methods of government agencies in appor Off IUSt Night The first lay off of men occured last midnight when about workers turned in their tools and were told not to return until Two thousand men are to be re at this plant to fire the coke ovens which cannot be to At the Highland Park the night force received the same notice given the steel The day and early night forces wire to be checked out The remainder of the workers af are employes of tho Dearborn Tractor tho Lincoln a factory at and those in cities outside of Most of Plants in Michigan Most of the factories likely to bn affected by the closing of Ford in through the loss of their chief arc located in Detroit or nearby Michigan They manufacture various parts and ac Inquiry today failed to disclose any other Detroit manufacturer who contemplated action similar to that of Some plants were re ported working on short fuel ra but manufacturers as a whole believed they would be able to ob tain supplies to continue Marie Hussion opera beauty and former favorite entertainer of the la an In She fled soviet Russia in peasant but Dont Wed if You Want to Live To Be Says Centenarian INSPECTORS HOLD UP TRAINS FOR REPAIRS Bee Stings Autoist Pedestrian Killed Louis and San Francisco pas senger trains were held here this morning from four to ten hours while were repaired to pass Inspectors Vance and Arthur govern ment refused to lot a train leave the station until the locomotive passed The first Frisco freight train to leave Springfield in 30 hours pulled out from the north side at o clock last Other freight trains left from time to al though many hours behind sched and freight shipments are pil ing up on the local Frisco passenger train 102 Kansas City due to leave at oclock this did not depart until nearly an ordinary honey bee stung Crow of Dodge on the knee as ho drove his motor car through the tourist camp here Thursday he lost temporary the ma chine swerved of Its course and the death of James of Kansas City came yesterday at a local hospital as a result of being run over by Crows machine and in directly as a result of the Their first witnesses was over state ments alleged to haye been made by Hall about a young woman relative of Later trouble was testi fied to have grown out of a meet ing between Kyger and Hall and an other man not long before the shoot at the time of the was a deputy sheriff of Douglas county and had deputized a man to accompany him on a hunt for a moonshine During this witnesses Hall and his assist ant met It was brought out that Hall had ordered Kyger to and that Kyger who was on horse had wheeled his horse and sped As he was leaving Hall shot four The state contend ed that Hall had not shot at but that he had shot in the The contention of the defense was that Hall had shot at 7 Prayers Adopted By Episcopalians house of deputies In the first night session of the convention in two hours of animated discussion last night adopted seven A sharp attack was made on a pro posed prayer for legislature and af ter nn amendment had been voted the house reconsidered and accept ed the prayer proposed by the prayer book with a slight There was a sharp conflict of opinion on a prayer for memorial day SISLER WILL GET BACK IN GAME TODAY By the Associated Sister of the Louis star player of the major who has been out of the with an injured will be back at first base In at least part of todays contest with New It was an at Should hit In game he will have tied the major league modern record for hitting in 40 consecutive physician added that It is doubtful whether the first Harding To Veto Advisers Say By ths Associated Harding has definitely decided to veto the soldiers bonus and will send his message to the house according to some of his close who talked him The number of senators absent when the vote comes may decide the although It was said that every effort would be made to ob tain pairs of all Including those senators In Europe who were not paired in tho vote August 31 when the senate passed the 47 to Somo of the presidents friends were understood to be making an informal canvass In the senate in the hope ot counting enough votes to prevent the overriding of the veto The result now was regarded as with Home friends arid foes alike declaring there could not be a definite mate in advance of the actual roll The soldiers bonus was sign ed by Speaker at oclock this New youl want to live to a ripe old ago and be so spry that you can danco a hornpipe when you are a hundred years heres a simple recipe ONE Never TWO Use nil the tobacco you want THREE Drink plenty of good corn The recipe is furnished by Uncle Confederate ve teran ot Ho ought to know for he nan tried the schomo Is 101 years old and ho can dance a hornpipe as skittish as ho could when he wan Of course in these arid it may bo somewhat difficult to find plenty of that good corn whisky but them aro some rumors to tho effect that It may be Andy Volstead to the contrary But even Undo Pat bo Andy is going to bo respon sible for his untimely Listen to what ho Hays Ive liquor all my life and Im afraid this prohibition amend ment is going to cut my The quality of the whisky I am to get Is getting worse and I would advise anyone against marrying If he wants to 11 vo When you have a wife on your hands you nro going to have Worry Is what makes you And again some wives object to your smoking and couldnt without my Of course everyone is going to havo an affair of the heart sooner or But you can survive tho worst at tacks if you are T sparked a lady for about five I maybe in those young days I would havo succumbed but I wan always a little bit timid about speaking my own mind and anyhow something kept telling me Id always be better off I can read almost us well as I could when I was a boy and Ive never worn I can run 100 yards without Rotting tired and Ive novor used a Vou know when I was u boy the women used to wear dresses that covered a largo part ot They were pretty attractive and tempting In those day when they didnt have to carry their blushes around in a vanity Mighty to keep from getting tied up Look at tho short the lip tho plucked eyebrows and tho bobbed l cant see how anyone would want to get married nowadays to one of those kind of Do they ever catch a hus young man Undo Pat fought all through the war and has seldom been SCORES UP TO 3 TODAY National First R H E Cincinnati 000 001 10 4 New York 110 120 12 0 and Hargrave Barnes and Kelly hit run last of would be able the to play throughout Alleged Dope Ring Member Is Arrested today announced that finger prints of a man giving his name as Max arrested here tally ex with those of Max alias wanted In New York on a bond jumping charge In con with his arrest in suspected of implication in an extensive dope First game R H K Pittsburgh 010 235 JO 3 Philadelphia 000 001 6154 Cooper and Schmidt Singleton and hit homer last Lee hit homer last Parkinson hit homer In First game R H E Chicago 401 000 12 2 Brooklyn 004 100 7 2 Jones and Reu ther and Louis 200 00 001 and Watson and Bandits Get Payroll Kansas bandits In a motor car today held up a messenger for the Central Paper Box Company and stole half the companys The bandits IPM Preacher And Choir Singer Shot to Death Now Thi bodies of Edward prominent Episcopal and James Mills of this city wife of tho of Halls church and in the church were found under an apple tree on a farm near here There was a wound in the forehead and three wounds in the womans Hall has been rector of the church of John the Evan gelist for tho past ten had been missing from his home since was married but had no The bodies were lying side by and papers belonging to Hall were scatter An automobile regis tration card bearing his name was among them and there also were let ters addressed to The bodies were found by two children who had gone to a field on the Phillips farm for Tho arrival of he coroner from Sumerville and of Sumerset county authorities was awaited today before removal of the NNo lion of the shooting could be given by tho police POLICE SAY THIRD ARREST MAY BE MADE Retired Named Makes Confes sion Soninlaw Being Brought Here from Car thage to Be Joint information charging first degree murder against j Isaac 67 years re tired and his law Neil was filed fore Justice Viernow of i Carthage by Assistant cuting Attorney George Crowder at oclock this in connection with the killing of William Carthage taxicab Grow der said the two will not be ar before j waa placed In t Sheriff Mends motor car at oclock and started where ho will be questioned by Mertins j has been no opportunity to make a statement since his His Following a verbal confession to officers in he cor largely the statement made by Earl Dewey Har mons who is serv ing a life term in the Missouri peni for tho this morning began the statements put into and he has told cers he will sign them as confession is He was questioned two at the police and then to his for a Of said tho questioning of Har mon and Mertins will be resumed as soon as Mertins According to their greatest difficulty in the statement from Harmon has been in his remembering I cant just get things through my has been his statement officers Third May Be That still another person be implicated in the crime was de of officers after their talk with Harmon this He has said that not as charged but another desired j that Spain be put out of the He that couldnt get it through his just why it was desired that Spain bo put out of the Authori ties said they expect to out that phase of the matter when Har mon is questioned this Details of the as told by Tucker in his statement and corroborated by Harmon in his air loged verbal have not been greatly altered by officers Sold 3 Planned According to Harmon ad mitted that Tucker and Mer tins planned tKe murder of Spain they believed Spain guilty ot Intimate relations with who is Tuckers sis and with who ia Harmons ac cording to statements of himself and was not present the murder was committed Tucker de clared that Mertins fired the two shots which ended Spains Harmon has told officers both Mer tins and in conversation with have charged the actual murder pn the 1 Several persons who saw the two soldiers who went on the drive with Spain on the night of May which resulted in visited the Carthage jail this morn ing in an attempt to identify Mer tins as one of Whether such identification was made was not made public by the Place Credence In Tuckers last which im plicated his followed se veral others in which he implicated persons who later proved and which led officers over various ot the United States and Officers are inclined to believe the last coupled with the alleged confession of Har Tucker declared that his latest statement was caused by trouble between Harmon and his after Harmon had promised to provide a good for Tuckers and to get him out of the penitentiary inside ot four according to de clared he employed a lawyer x to Continued on Page Two