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TH0NIA8VILLE, GEORGIA. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1922
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Although the Jury Has Been
Summoned it is Not Expect
ed That the Case Will Come
Up for Hearing Today. —
Prosecution Confident.
New Brunswick, N. J., Oct. 30.
Though the grand Jurors hare 'been
summoned to convene, It Is consider
ed unlikely that the Hall-Mills case
will be presented today. Attorney
Mott reiterated his confidence In the
story told by Mrs. Gibson, an eye-wit
ness to the slaying, whose testimony
was corroborated by Mr. and Mr*.
Norman Tingle, living near the Phil
ips’ farm.
IDHIAPE
One man killed in Oklahoma
Affair and Constable Him
self Was Wounded Serious
ly in Fight In Front of The
atre Building.
FASCIST! FACTION FI6HTIIIIG BOLSHEVISM
OH
Benito Mussolini Called by King to Form New Cabinet is
Loudly Cheered by Throngs Upon His Arrival in Rome
Where He Went to See Victor Emmanuel—Announces
Cabinet Selection and Reserves Two Portfolios for Him
self.—City is Quiet and Order is Assured.
London, Oct. 30.—The Rome com- ( Rome, Oct. 30.—Benito Mussolini,
mander of the Fascist), according to leader of the Fasclatl, who was called
an Exchange Telegraph dispatch, ha, | „ th , K| t0 form , cabInet> arrlved
issued a manifesto, ordering the Fas-1
clstl squads In the city not to carry j thls mormn *- Throngs cheered him.
out reprisals. The manifesto declare, ! Mus80llnl lett immediately for an aud|
that conflict Is useless but harmful to ence wlth the Kln *’ and 11 18 belter * d
the cause.
In forming the new cabinet, Musso
lini said he would retain for himself
the portfolios of Interior and foreign
affairs and would appoint General
Dias, minister of war and Admiral Dl
Reval, minister of finance.
Because of Fasclstl’s hostility to
Board of Trade today made Its first
velopments with much Interest.
ITALIAN GOVERNMENT
IN CONTROL OF FA8CI8TI
Henryetta, Okie., Oct. 20.—Reece
Adkins of Dewar, was shot to death
and Thomas Bogus, constable, was
wounded seriously at Spelter City last
night when a band of masked men of
which Adkins was a member called
Bogus from a theatre and attempted
to kidnap him. Another unidentified
man Is known to have been shot thru
the leg. Bogus fired his pistol when
the band attacked, forcing him Into an
auto.
BUND MAN IN
COLUMBIA COLLEGE
Refused Admission 3 "Vears
Ago Because of Affliction.
—Is Now Making Good.
New York. Oct. 30.—Throe years
ago Augustine Mossa, (blind, was de
nied admission to Columbia Universi
ty because of the belief that this
handicap would prevent his attaining
the required standards. He was lat
er given a trial, and Is now enrolled
In the college of law, and Is holder of
one of the three scholarships which
the university offers.
L AND N. PROPOSALS FOR THE
STRIKE SETTLEMENT HAVE
NOT BEEN DISCLOSED
Albany, Ala., Oct. 30.—A proposal
for settlement of the craftsmen's
strike on the Louisville and Nashville
road, has been discussed with officials
of the Louisville and Nashville road
through Intermediaries, It was disclos
ed today by 8. L. Roper, system chair
man of the Federated crafts In an ad
dress to strikers He did not reveal! fasclatl have fought
the nature of the proposals discussed. Prof. Mussolini, on receiving the
London, Oct. 30.—The triumphant
forces of the Fasclatl are ready to take
over the Italian government, accord
ing to dispatches. The leader. Dr.
Benito, Is scheduled to confer with
the king In answer to his request to
form a new ministry. Thousands of
Fascist! troops are waiting outside
the gates of Rome.
INCOMING PA8SENGER8
INSPECTED BY FA8CI8TI
Clvltaecchla, Italy, Oct. SO.—All pas
sengers on the Paris Express which
arrived here at noon yesterday, were
requested to alight by the Fascistl.
Mrs. Samuel Williams, of Roanoke,
Va., and her two daughters and a
sister, were the only Americans
aboard and they were not molested,
but were escorted to a hotel by offi
cers. They plan to return to Paris
Immediately.
RIOTING IN ROME 8UNDAY
Rome, Oct. 30.—Rioting broke out
Sunday night when parties of Fascls-
tl passing a workmen's quarter wore
fired on. One attacker was killed
and one Fascistl wounded and two
captured.
the new ministry will bo constituted
lajer In the day. The King's troops
are guarding the roads leading to
Rome, but are allowing Fascistl troops
entrance to the city to get bread.
The situation is quiet ioday and all
troops are helping foreigners during
the crisis.
FA8CI8TI LEADER A8KED
TO FORM NEW CABINET
Rome, Oct. 30 If what has occu
pied the last few days in Italy can
be styled ‘‘a revolution” the revolu
tion is over and must have greatly
disappointed all who have a classical
idea of such upheavals. Benito
Mussolini, leader of the fascist!, has
been invited by King Victor Emman
uel to come to Rome; he will be en
trusted with the formation of a min
istry to take the place of the Facta
ministry, w’lich withdrew under pres
sure of this far-spreading movement
With the exception of a small min.
ority, ail agree that Mussolini is ar.
biter of the sitation and must assume
power and the responsibility of car.
rying out the program for which the
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King’s invitation, went first to Lake
Garda, to see Gabriele d’Annunzio,
the poet soldier, to discuss with him
the formation of a new ministry, it
is believed they reached a complete
accord because he is reported to have
left Rome on a special train which
was put at his disposal, royal military
honors being rendered him both by
the fascist! and the King’s troops.
The announcement that Mussolini
had been officially entrusted with the
formation of a cabinet immediately
caused ell agitation to subside the
military authorities revoked all pro
hibitions issued Saturday, and the
fascist!, who during the night had oc
cupied the military fort Monte Mario
on a hill dominating Rome, returned
it with ail friendliness to the military
forces.
‘‘Milan is full of fascisti, who have
assembled there from the negihboring
provinces, continued Deputy Chiostri
who fought in the World War, was
wounded and decorated and is now
one of the leaders of the movement.
"We met with n certain amount of
resistance in Turin from the authori
ties. The fhsciti in the Julian
provinces have mobilized and occu
pied the strategic passes in the Alps
in order to face any coup de main by
the Slavs. Trcntino is occupied by
fascisti under Deputy de Stefani.
Perugia, which is a leading fascisti
center, dominates entire central
Italy. Our generalissimo, Itaio Baibo
went Saturday from Perugia to
Foiigno, one hundred miles from
Rome, where 15,000 fascisti are con.
contratcd under command of Gene,
rals Zamboni and Novelll.
“At Monte Rotondo, sixteen miles
from Rome, 1,000 men under com
mand of Lieut. Igliori, one of the fe
decorated with the gold medal for
valor, are awaiting Gen. Fara, with
whom they will march to Rome. Lieut.
Igliori arrested Col. Milan! of the
Fifty-ninth regment of infantry, who
had torn up several sections of the
railroad to prevent the fasciti from
entraining for Rome. Milan! was
granted military honors and kept a
prisoner on parole. He was informed
that he wonid be released Sunday
when it was too late for him to do
any harm.
The fascisti at Santa Marinella,
forty-five miles from Rome, are con
centrated to the number of 180,000.
Aa one approaches Rome, the first de
tachments or royal guard appear;
they look upon the fascistl without
hostility. Itaio Baibo told mo that
that government’a defense of Roms
was nothing short of ludicrous. Up
to the present, the only victims of
our march on Rome have been a num
ber of calves commandeered, but
paid for, to feed our troops.
The only thing the fascisti have had
to complain of sinco the beginning of
the Insurrectional movement has been
PREACHER WITH BIBLE
IN HAND ENTERS TRIAL
FOR MURDER AND THEN
GOES TO SLEEP IN COURT
Padrick Who Shot Two Wo
men Near August, is Plan
ning to Preach to the Jury in
His Defense.—Family Con
ference Held Today.
Statesboro, Ga., Oct. 30.-?Followlng
a conference with members of hU
family and attorneys, the Rev. Elliott
Padrick, went on trial hero today,
charged with first degree murder In
connection with the killing of bis wife
and her mother last June.
The conference decided that Insani
ty would be the defense. Sixty-nine
witnesses have been called.
Unconcerned and with a Bible In
his hand when he appeared In the
court-room, Padrick walked to a
ble and adjusted his chair, sat down
aud went to sleep,_ and was atlll sleep
ing at noon.
A jury was selected shortly after
noon. Padrick declared that he in
tends to preach a sermon to the jury
as his defense statement.
JUSTJIND REASONABLE
Decision of Majority Mem
bers of the Railroad Board is
In Favor of a Fair and Equi
table Scale of Wages for All
Workers.
Chicago, III., OcL 30.—Tht majority
members of the United States Rail
road Labor Board, In a decision to
day contirmed the assertion that
just and reasonable” wage shall be the
basis of decisions In wage disputes
between carriers and employes.
PREACHER WANTED
FOR EMBEZZLEMENT
HAS BEEN ARRESTED
The Now Noted Rev. Trotter
Is Again in the Toil After a
Recess From Jail and Must
Face Trial and Prison Sen
tence.
McAIester, Okla., Oct. 80.—Rev J.
C'. Trotter, former pastor of the Hal-
eyvllle Methodist church and finan
cial secretary of Brooks Institute at
Hartshorne who escaped jail lost
month, while awaiting trial on a
charge of embezzling church money
and funds of the Institute, ..was ar
rested at Alamosa, Colorado, today,
according to word received here.
CENTRAL AMERICAN
GOVERNMENTS ACCEPT
CONFERENCE PUNS
Washington, D. C., Oct. 30. — All
five of the Central American govern
ments Invited to the United States to
confer In December on measures for
closer friendship and cooperation,
have formally Indicated that they will
accept, It was announced today.
HARDING URGED TO
FIRE DAUGHERTY
New York. Oct. 30—J. A. H. Hop
kins, chairman of the committee of
forty-eight made public a letter today
to President Harding, asking a per
sonal reply to the committee's de
mand that Attorney General Daugher
ty be suspended pending bearing of
the Impeachment charges brought by
Representative Keller.
STREET CORNER ARGUMENT
RESULTS IN TWO DEATHS
Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 30.—A street
corner argument caused a double kill
ing In the Irwin Avenue District early
today. Thomas Hopkins was shot
through the heart when he and three
companions were accosted by two
raon. After the killing of Hopkins,
the met shot Policeman Couch who at
tempted to stop them.
Rome, but yesterday the golden
the bad weather. Saturday it rained, Roman sun shines again, heralding
in torronts, to the great misery of; our triumphant entry into the
our men sleeping in the open around entcrnal city.”
ATTACK8 THEORY OF LIVING
WAGE IN RAIL D18PUTE8
Chicago, Oct. 30.—Attacking the
theory of “the living wage’’ as a basis
for determining wages of railroad
workers, the public and railroad
groups of the railway labor board in
an opinion made public last night de.
dared such a course “if carried to its
legitimate conclusion, would wreck
ever railroad in the United States and
if extended to other industries would
carry them into communistic ruin.”
The opinion, in the form of a re.
joinder to a dissenting opinion filed
POISONED CAKE SENDER
BEING EAGERLY SOUGHT
BY PHILADELPHIA POLICE
Man Died as Result of Eating
Cake Which Had An Icing
Containing Poison.—Wife L
Also Suffering From Effects
Of This Pastry.
Philadelphia. Pa.. Oct. 30. -The au
thorities are seeking a clue to the
sender of the poisoned cake, which
killed W. W. Storrett, of Devon, and
resulted in the serious illness of his
wife. Indications are that a woman
sent the cake and two poisons were
used in a mixed Icing.
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OF
Woman Who Was Found
Dead With Montana Clergy*
man Buried.—Mother Will
Attempt to prove Her Inno
cence of Crime.
POI80N MY8TERY BAFFLES
PHILADELPHIA POLICE
Philadelphia, Oct. 30.—Mystery con
tinued to baffle authorities last night'
In the case of a plousoned cake, which
killed W. W. Sterrelt, an expert ac
countant of Devon, and left his wife
battling for life In the Bryn Mnwr
Hospital. The cake had been sent to
Mrs. Stcrrott through the mall.
Physicians at the Bryn Mawr Hos
pital were last night unable to Bay
what the poison was. An autopsy
was performed on Mr. Sterret’a body
yesterday afternoon, but no announce
ment has yet been made.
Mrs. Sterrott was said last night to
show some Improvement.
The cake was received at the Ster-
rett home la Devon Thursday after
noon. It was mailed from Phlladel-
by A. O. Wharton, labor member, in "™ . . ‘ V* ‘ ro “*
J . . , ’ Phla in a box which bore no marks by
the recent docis.cn incroasmg the whlch „ B|ghl be ldentlfled>
the large box wore two smaller ones.
pay of maintenance of way employes
2 cents an hour, declared if employes
were granted n 72 to 75 cents mini,
mum wage for common labor with
corresponding differentials for other
kinds an increase in railroad wage
bill would become necessary.
Even if the 48-cent minimum wage
requested by maintenance jot way
men were granted and corresponding
differentials were mnde for other
classes of employes, the opinion said,
an increase of 50.45 per cent, in
wages would be necessary, adding
$1,249,300,994 to the annnal wage
bill of the roads, bringing it up to
$3,725,884,540, thus forcing the
carriers to face an annual deficit of
$378,078,125.
The phraso “living wage” was
termed In the opinion as “a bit.of
inelifluous phraseology, well calculat
ed to deceive the unthinking.”
“If the contentions were that the
board should establish a living wage"
the majority would readily accede to
the proposition," the opinion said,
'and as a matter of fact the board in
this instance as in nil others, hss
granted a living wage. But the ab.
stract, elusive thing called ‘the living
wage confessedly based upon a make,
shift and a guess, cannot receive the
sanction of this board, because it
would bo utterly impractical and
would not bo just and reasonable as
the law demands."
Mr. Wharton’s dissenting opinion
and the opinion in reply are attached
to the formal decision Increasing the
pay of maintenance of way employes
2 cents an hour, establishing a mini,
mum ranging from 26 to 87 cents.
The United Brotherhood of Main,
tenanco of Way Employes, railway
shop laborers, held a strike order
affecting 400,000 me n in abeyance
last July after the board had reduced
wages pending a request for an in.
crease based on the contention that
the costs of living had advanced and
wages in other industries had been
raised.
When the case came up, main,
tenance of way officials asked the
board to subscribe to the principle of
the "living wage" based on a budget
of what was required for an average
family of five persons to live in health
and reasonable comfort. A majority
of the board refused to subscribe to
this principle, asserting that the
transportation act called for establish
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Havre, Mont., Oct. 30.—While Mrs.
Chrlstler Is accompanying the body
of the Her. Leonard Chrlstler, on an
east bound train, Mrs. Joseph Pyle,
mother of Mrs. Margaret Carleton,
whose body was found beside that of
Chrlstler, Is attempting to prove that
her daughter did not commit the mur
der and suicide as the Coroner's
Jury hold Sunday.
Mrs. Pyle Is piecing together bits of
a torn letter found In a waste 'basket
la an effort to clear her daughter's
name.
BRIDAL COUPLE IN
N.V.F
Both Were in Rooms Dead
When Found and Were Un
clothed.—Coroner Has Or-
dered Autopsy to Determine
Cause of Death.
New York, Oct. 3u.—Coroner Snow
den today ordered an autopsy to de
termine how Daniel Cohen, aged 22
and his brldo of a month, met their
clothed In a bathroom lq^ihelr apart
ment nt Yonkers. Cohen lay on the
floor and his wife under the bath
tub. Murder Is the theory.
each containing a cake similar to wed
ding cake, golden brown with white
Icing. On each box was written the
names of the two victims.
Believing the cakes had been Bent
by friends who had overlooked placing
some sort of mossago with It, the cou
ple ate them.
According to physicians, the unde
terminod poison acted differenUy upon
Mr. Sterret and his wife. He became
violently 111 soon after eating the cake,
while Mrs. Stsrret became dull and
sleepy, and acted as she had been
drugged. The Sterrets hare resided
In Devon about a year, haring pre
viously dwelt In Philadelphia.
Analysis of Mr. Sterret’s stomach
disclosed traces of bichloride of mer
cury and of arsenic, It was announced
last night It Is believed that because
of the different symptoms another
drug was used In the cake that Mrs.
Sterret ate.
Investigators haro been handicapped
by roe fact that none of the cake ™ | QRA| ^URE7CT
Joseph R. Sterrett. of New York.! SOON TO BE TESTED
brother of the dead man, who was sum-1 ———
moned to the hospital, said yesterday! ChlcBgo ' nl " ° ct - s °- Tho Chicago
CONSERVATORS IN WALES
WILL NOT OPPOSE LLOYD
GEORGE IN ELECTION
Carnarvon, Wales, Oct. 30. — In
grateful recognition of his war work
the Carnarvonlshire Conservatives
have decided not to oppose Lloyd
George la the elections, upon receiv
ing assurances that he will loyally
serve under Bonar Law. and In resist
ing the Communist attack.
that while he had not seen much ot\ Bow dof Trade today mado ,ts fIrst
the couple since their marriage six
years ago, he understood their married
life had been happy.
600 FARMERS GIVE
THANKS FOR RAINFALL
jmove to test the constitutionality of
the grain futures act when It filed In
the federal court, petitions for an In
junction restraining government en
forcement
New England, N. D., Oct 30.—Six
hundred farmers and their families
yesterday knelt to give thanks for the
Divine favor that granted them such
a bountiful harvest A common pray
er service was begun last spring aftir
four year's of crop failures.
BARGE SINKS IN MISSISSIPPI
Cleveland, O., OcL 30.—The barge
Mecosta, which left Loralne for Cleve
land yesterday In tow, broke loose
and sank In the Dover Bay, during
the night. Tho crew of four was sav
ed.
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