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VOL. XLIII—NO. 251.
GERMAN UNION BEGINS TO BREAK UR
BOUNDARY
FIXER IS
MURDERED
Assassins Wound Two
Members of Russian-Ka-
relian Border Group.
CORFU IS EVACUATED?
Populace Alarmed by Re-
appearance of Eleven
Italian Warships.
AMBASSADORS RAPPED
Council Denounced for
Awarding Greek In-
demnity to Rome.
Moscow Sept. 27.—M. Lavroff.
chairman of the Russian-Karelian
border commission. has been killed
and two others of the commission
wounded by assassins at the frontier
while returning frm Finland accord-
ing to a dispatch from Petrozavodsk.
By the Associated Frew.
Athens. Sept. 27.— The island of
Corfu occupied by Italy on August
31. was returned to the Greek au-
thorities this morning it is an-
nounced in dispatches received here.
Corfu Sept. 27.—At noon today four
Italian battleships with seven de-
stroyers. re-appeMed from behind the
island of Vido opposite this city and
pbpeecded to anchor in the port. It
appeared ns if th? erttire Italian fiebt
were returning. The city was thrown
into a state p-use not know-
ing whether the Italian move was
a prelude to the evacuation set for
today or a continuation of the oc-
cupation. There was no interior
cause for movement by the fleet as
the city is orderly.
By the Associated Press.
I‘atis. Sept. 27.— The Greco-Italian
affair was brought to a close today so
far as the inter-allied council of am-
hpssadoors is concerned when that
body decided that the 50.000.00tt lire
deposited by Greece in the bank of
Switzerland as security for indemnity
should be paid over to Italy.
The payment was ordered ns n pen-
alty for Greece’s dilatoriness in
searching for -the assassins* of the
Italian boundary mission near Janina.
Geneva. Sept. 27.—The Greeco-
Italian crisis was revived last night
v ith stunning force by Nicholas Co-
litis former Greek minister of for-
eign affairs and now representative of
his country on the Council of the
League of Nations. —
Assuming from press forecast that
Greece would be obliged to pay Italy
the 50.(MM)U00 lire deposited by her
as security for indemnity. M. Colitis
declared that >uch a decision on the
part of the council of ambassadors
would be at: outrageous injustice and
would prove to the world that the big
nations of Europe are in complicity
to strike a blow at a small and de-
fenseless country.
M. Politis then expressed the de-
sire to seo the journalists: and the
correspondents of all nations later lis-
tened to his indictment of the moth-
Wis employed by the ambassadors to
arrive nt the reported decision.
He charged the council of ambassa-
dors with having reached their con-
clusions without waiting for the final
report of the commission of inquiry
into the murd-r of the Italian mem-
bers of the Graeco-Albania boundary
commission and insisted that several
members of the mission were ceil-
vinced that the Greek government was
not responsible and that the murders
constituted an act of persona! venge-
ance against General Teilini. head of
the Italian delegation arranged in
Albanian territory.
He declared that the investigation
was continuing because a bandit %ho
aurre dered confessed to the Greek
authorities that ten days prior to the
assassinations he had been requested
by the Albanian chief of police to or-
ganizc the murder on Greek territory
of a member of the frontier commie-
Sion which ho had refused to do.
M. Politis contended that the in
quiry was entitled to continue until
today and be said bo failed to under-
stand the. baste of the council of am
batsadors.
JAP ORDERS DEFIED
Destroyer Commander Rendered Aid
to Americans at Yokohama.
San Diego. Sept. 27.—According to
information received here today
through headquarters of the Eleventh
National District. Lieutenant Com-
mander William A. Glassford aboard
th* I nited States destroyer Tracy
defied the orders of Japanese authori-
ties by anchoring in Yokohama har-
bor soon after the earthquake and
“dal wave and remaining there to
*"l in rescuing American' and other
foreign victims of the disaster.
The Tracy is a flagship of the
destroyer fleet of the Asiatic station.
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
Centenarians Soon
Will Be Regarded
as Infants He Says
New York. Sept. 27.—One hun-
dred year* eventually will be re-
garded as an infant age when
glandular treatment becomes bet-
ter known. Dr. William Held of
Chicago declared today on his re-
turn from abroad after three
month's study of that science. He
worked with Dr. Abderhalder. a
leading European glundular spe-
cialist. Dr. Held has arranged to
ship several chipanzees to Chi-
cago to aid him rn his researches.
DRY AMENDMENT'S
REPEAL ADVOCATED
BY U. S. BANKERS
Speaker Sies Evil Influ-
ence in Passing Too
Many Laws.
Atlantic City Sept. 27 Repeal < f
the prohibition amendment was advo-
cated by the American Bankers' Asso-
ciation and introduced by Waldo New-
comer. president of the national bank
division.
“The constitution of the* United
States was never intended to be u code
of criminal law. but was meant to
lay down the respective rights of
the national and state governments"
be said.
"I regret that the question of pro-
hibition was introduced into our con-
stitution” Mr. Newcomer said “be-
cause it opens tbd way for the in-
troduction of other amendments cov-
ering ail crimes and misdemeanors.
"One of the great evils of the pres-
ent day is the enormous number of
laws being passed and it is charged
fliat there is a deliberate Bolshevik
influence at work to increase the Inws
so that they will be so numerous they
can’t possibly be enforced.
"The tendency to regulate every-
thing by law has the effect of making
the code so cumbersome that nobody
can keep up with it
“It makes people more contemptu-
ous of law itself."
FORECAST FOR CLOUDS
High Pressure Area Entering C'oun
try Over the Northwest.
Partly cloudy to cloudy is the fore-
cast for San Autonio and vdeinitj
Thursday night and Friday. Maximum
temperatures will be from 86 to 'JI
with moderate to fresh southerly
winds.
The weather map Thursday morn
ing shows a well developed high pres-
sure nrea entering the L’nited States
over the northwest. It is pushing in
over the mountains and is expected
to reach North Texas by Friday. Just
when it will be felt here is not known.
A low pressure trough extends froir
New Mexico to the Canadian border
but it is not expected to bring
to this section although it will cause
some cloudy weather. The incoming
high is sending the thermometer down
in the mountains. The low pressure
area off the Cuban coast bad not
changed any by Thursday morning
but no reports of a hurricane has yet
been received.
No rain fell in Tcxn« overnight.
Mother anil Son Die in AV reck.
Fort Worth. Spt. 27.—Lee Alsup
Fort Worth hotel man. and his mother
were killed in an automobile acci-
dent near Alexandria. La.. Inst night.
The car in which they were touring
turned over.
THE WEATHER
TEMPERATURES
SEPT. ts. : a. m IS
3 p. m. 88 a. m 78
4 p. m 4 a. nt 7*
5 p. ni 90 3 a. tn 7#
* p. nt 8* 6 a. tn 7»
7 p. tn 85 7 a. nt 75
8 p. m S 3 Ka. 76
9 P- nt Ko 9 n. m’ 77
10 p. nt 78 10 a. m. .Ty... 79
11 p. nt 77 11 a. tn. ...... 81
12 ml lnieh*. ... 70 12 noon *"
SEPT. 27. 1 p. m 87
la. m 7< 2 p. ni 89
FORECAST.
Sun AntoOln and vicinity: Thursday
night and Friday partly cloudy to
cloudy; maximum temperature SR to 91:
moderate to fresh southerly winds.
East Tovas: Thursday night anti Fri-
day. partly cloudy to cloudy; cooler in
northyest portion Friday.
Texas: Thursday n gilt and Fri-
day. partly cloudy tn cloudy: probably
showers in north portion; cooler Thurs-
day night in west portion; cooler Friday.
• ►
HOME WEATHER FOR TOI RISTS.
< hicugo: Temperature *B. partly cloudy
less than 10-mile wind from the south-
«est: lowest temperature in last 24 hours
66: highest. 78.
City: Temperature 70. cloudy;
les sthan 10-m!le wind from the south-
east; lowest inpcrature In last 24 hours
os. ’highest.® SO
New Temperature. 84: cloudy;
12-mile wind from the soutiieast; low-
est temperature in last 24 hours. €2:
highest. €4.
St. Louis: Temperature. <8; partly
cloudyll mile Aind from the south;
lowest temperature in last 2 4 houis. 66;
high* st st.
Washington: Temperature 68. cloudy;
lesa than 10-mile wind ftom the south;
lowest temperature In last 2 4 hours 86;
highest. 82.
SAN ANTONIO TEXAS THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 27 1923.-TWENTY PAGES.
50 SOLDIERS!
REACH SCENE
OF FLOGGING
State Troops Arrive With-
out Warning at Wag-
oner Okla.
WALTON IS DEFIANT
Civil Law Restored Only
When Invisible Pow-
er Crushed.
COURT ACTION LOOMS
Lawmakers Would Restrain
Governor From Pre-
venting Session.
By the Associated Press.
Oklahoma Cifj. Okla.. Sept. 27.—
Military activities wi re extended to
a third county in Oklahoma today as
preparations were made in the capi-
tal city by members of the House of
Representatives to institute injunc-
tion proceedings in the district court
to restgain Gov. J. U. Walton from
prohibiting the meeting of the lower
chamber.
Fifty state troopers. their approach
unheralded today appear at Wago-
ner. Ok'ax where sixteen persons re-
cently have been indict'd in connec-
tion with the flogging of Ben Wug
net of Broken Arrow.
"The fight is over so far as the
House is concerned" Governor Wal-
ton said at noon. I'e followed the
statement with the declaration that
when Court action is begun by the
legislators he probably will not ap-
pear or be represented in the action.
Questioned concerning the proba-
bility that martial law might he made
less stringent throughout the state
the chief executive said:
"As soon as 1 am assured that the
opposition against the visible govern-
■pent is crushed. I ill be ready to
contract tne military power."
Situation Still Muddled.
The conflict between Gov. J. U.
Walton and the Isiwer House of the
Oklahoma Legislature developed to-
day into a finish fight as the law-
makers prepared to take their cause
to the courts.
Meanwhile the state is in doubt as
to t.e official sta us of its lower j
legislative branch.
The dramtie action of national '
guardsmen in dispersing on orders of |
the governor <W> House members who j
gathered yesterday in the state capi-'
tol at then own call to consider im-
pcachnient charges left tie executive
victorious after the first brush. But
the contention of the leg'slntors that I
the House formally wa. convoked not- ’
withstanding the military interfer-
ence. presented an unprecedented
problem which a court must solve.
From the maze of charros and conn
ter charges revolving about Governor
Walton’s fight against mob violence
and masked depredations in Oklahoma
has appeared a tense situation which
observers say. is the prelude to a
spectacular climax.
FORTY BANDITS LOOT
WHISKEY DISTILLERY
NEAR PHILADELPHIA
Guards Bound and Gagged
by Men Who Remove
Liquor in Trucks.
Philadelphia. Sept. 27.—A band oil
about 40 men. some of them markcui
'and aimed bound and gaggi-d the;
guards of the warehouse of the Phila I
dclphia Distilling Company nt Ed ;
dington. near here today and escape-'|
with from seven to ten truck loads o'
whiskey. I
This was the second raid on the dis- ;
tHlery within a month a large num- ‘
her of men being driven away tire (
first time before they were able to
secure any whi«key.
Whiskey valued at $2500000 was
stored in the warehouse and a legal I
battle is now in progress In the fed- .
eral court here over its ownership. |
There wore three night guards and '
two engineers In the building when ■
the armed bandits appeared.
The five men were handcuffed ami
assembled in the engine room and held .
under yuard while others of the ban- -
dits rolled out narrcl after barrel of i
whiskey to the trucks.
How ninny were taken cannot be
determined until an inventory is |
made.
It’s Your Business and
It Is Good Business
San Antonio's campaign to raise $60000 for ad-
vertising is based upon a principle of business that
should commend it without further explanation to
any business man and to the community at large.
There is only one way bo get tourist business and to
get it quickly and that is to let the world know the
winter advantages and charm of San Antonio. To
do this requires money and the amount asked in the
present campaign is small when the size of the busi-
ness to be advertised is considered. Such an amount
would not require even a meeting of the board of di-
rectors of a business corporation the size of San
Antonio.
A number of business men are giving their time
and are calling upon the business interests of the
city to solicit for the advertising hind. They are find-
ing the work unduly difficult and the returns slow
despite the fact that their efforts are given purely m
a spirit of public service and the benefits from the *
advertising will in many cases accrue more to the
solicited than to the solicitors.
It is time for every business man and every resi-
dent of the city to get whole-heartedly behind the
campaign and put it over in quick time. It is the
business of the entire city that is to be advertised and
the returns on that advertising will benefit every busi-
ness and every individual in the city. No other con-
sideration should enter into the transaction. San An-
tonio has charm historic interest climatic advan-
tages play facilities and many other attractions
which will attract thousands of visitors if these ad-
vantages and attractions are put before them. The
way to do it is by advertising. The returns will be im-
mense—in dollars spent by the tourists and in growth
of the city.
This advertising campaign isn't the business cf
the Chamber of Commerce or the men who are out
soliciting the fund. It’s your business and it’s a good
business.
Meet the solicitors with smile and a check!
TRACKS UNDER WATER
Rio Grande Is-vee Breaks and Trains
Forced tn Suspend.
Brownsville. Tex.. Sept. 27.— Train
service on the Gulf coast branch line
from Harlingen to Mission was su«
pended Wednesday on account of thf
flood waters from the Rio Grande
overflowing the tracks near Mercedes
A levee near Donna broke permit-
ting a large ani< "t water to over-
flow the lands adjacent to the river
practically none of which are under
cultivation.
Water is standing on the track to
a depth of several inches.
The Rio Grande was reported rising
at the Harlingen Pump Station and
falling nt Mission.
Her
Resemblance
to a
Milliqpheiress
inspired Nurse Copier with the
idea nf Hope Ranker’* nhdue-
tjun. It promised fortune for
Loriuz Ranger. Hope’s father
had vast wealth and it was
certain he would ’»nv anything
t<» save hi< beautiful daughter.
Nurse Coplev broached her
scheme to the “Combine**—
super-criminals of untold tin-
derworM power and resoun'e.
The ‘•Combine’* adonted it
readier. It succeeded wMb
ridiciiMus easp. for the “CaM
bine’*” members were adopt*
at such work. Then came
jealousy. Nurse Cnplcr was *
not proof against it. It un-
-ets many n plan even as
•lever! r laid ns the “Com-
bine’s.**
‘Swallowed Up’
Mrs. Wilson Woodrow
tclD th" xtor.v. Mr*. W<>™l-
- Writer for such uut-a-
«iiie« a- Harper's MunsevX
McClure'*. AinsleeX The Cos-
iiHipolitriii. Tin" Metropolitan.
The American. The Smart Set -
—all the reat of them. Few
fiction authors of tmlnr enjor
-inli n iilespread well-deserved
popularity.''
‘Swallowed Up’
Starts Serially in
The Light
Tomorrow
YOUNG WOMAN FOUND
POISONED IN HOTEL;
WILL LIKELY LIVE
Hospital Authorities Say
She Swallowed Bichlo-
ride of Mercury.
Mrs. Helen Lowe. 20. is in the
Rcbert B. Green Memorial Hospital
suffering from the affects of poison
police sajr.
While her condition Thursday morn-
ing was reported as improved her rc-
covpry. it is said is problematical.
Mrs. Lowe was found in a room at
the La Barge Hotel on South Alamo
street at 8:40 Wednesday night. She
was in a semi-conscious condition wl n
Detectives Bill Carver and Joe Ruhnkc
reached the place with the police ambu-
lance.
The woman's address is listed at po-
lice headquarters as 1521 North Pine
street.
•At the hospital it was reputed the
woman had likely swallowed several
bichloride of mercury tablets. Her
condition was aggravated it was re-
ported. because of rhe fact that nearly
an hour elapeed before others in the
hotel discovered her in a serious condi-
tion.
FINDS A FORD
!>n>uty Sheriff I . N. Flores Recovers
Stolen ( ar.
1 Following a r» port made to ihe
I heriff’s office WMnesday night by
W. J. Haynes. 2<Mi-Bedell Buildin'*.
that his rar was stol<B> Deputy Sher.ff
!•’. N. Flores recovrWpd the machine
Thursday morning. V
Deputy Flores founl the car about
sixteen miles out on 4he Fr.o ‘ ity
road. The machine a Ford sedan had
hern stripped of tire^R battery. Imad
lights spark pings amßthe commute
tor. ■
AKMtTMrTTFTTITTisAHMr -
LOVELY FOUK-nOOM APAKTM F.NT.
all fast rooms. Humrfrev
I bath fi' o d t o \Hmo
Plaza janitor r i jmer E'm. Bur-
net and Sixth St*. 826.50X0. 1138.
iH lELDB APA lITMEN ft 1712 N' >RTH
(UKr. Army Post lln< infurnish-.l 8-0
■ind 825: four rnomi'. balh and alccpms
Cr. 1619. '
F'OR-nEXT — t-XFrePHEp
room upper apartnirnt il*ep.nr por .
saras". ne»ly Cr. 10S
Duffield next w Murcl.
TOBIN H>£U
Unfurnish-d four .o-jn and ’• " ""J
ette apartment n-rly > ? nd
-d near school. '; r - »4«*. _
7^0 —OR —TUREK 'L’XFV’BXIsHBp
room.- adlolnira b>th mxlcr" Pn-
>af" famlb . -S'• « lck ’ r chlldve".
Call Tr »TS: I
FIVE-niX>M ACAm vExT For.
ln HrM-r'a. ordre- .th .t-ri'in """K
If you don'f hrtlr'-cXt (call Cr. . and »•>>
for Mr. Y»t«. 1
Other classified 'ad'Jrtlwnienia on
sitied rages 18 and 1
NEGRO MUCKS
WHITE worn
IND ESCAPES
Waitress Jumps From
Automobile and Is Ren-
dered Unconscious.
DRAGGED INTO BRUSH
Voluntarily Enters Car
When Negro Offers to
Take Her to Work.
Police are making s city-wide
search for a black powerful-looking
negro reported to have made an at-
tack upon Xfiss Hattie Harbers j 5
22S Burnet street at dawn Thursday.
Lured into an automobile driven by
a negro on the pretext that he would
drive her to the Southern raeific de-
lict lunch room. Miss Harbers leaped
from the speeding car as it wbirlSd
acro-s the intersection of East Hous-
ton aud North Cherry streets.
The jump was made when Ute
young woman discovered she had been
trapped. The fall caused her head to
striKe the paveiucut. inflicting a long
jugged scalp wound and rendered her
st nu-conscious.
The black the woman told plain
clothes men stopped his car. ran back
to her as she vainly struggled to rise
and dragged her into a mesquite
thicket oi a vacant lot. She gave one
scream she said and then fainted.
The first recollection. Miss Har-
bers told officers she hud after faint-
ing. was when she realized she was
staggering'along East Houston street
just beyond the thicket.
Saw Negro I'tceiiig.
Stella Henry negrrss residing near-
ly. attracted by the scream of a wom-
an aroused Iler brother. Jakv Uiv-
eus. The latter told police -he saw
tbe wmuan. bieedinj from a wound m
her bead staggering across tbe vacant
tract of mesquite and weeds. A ne-
gro vi hum be said was in his shirt
sleeves was fleeing in the opposite
direction.
City Detectives Joe Ruhnkc aud
Bill Carver and Tom Stacy tile lat-
ter chief S. I’. railway agent are con-
ducting the investigation. Officers
found Miss Harbers still in a daze I
condition when they reached the
scene. Blood was flowing freely from
Ilie lacerations in her head. Her back
eras bruised and her clothing torn.
Dirt stains indicated plainly the wom-
an bad been drugged across the ground
on her back.
Mo Evidence of Assault.
Sbe was rushed to the Robert B.
Green Memorial Hospital for exami-
nation and treatment. Physicians
doubted the woman had been assault-
ed by tbe black nsasilant after hav-
ing been rendered unconscious »n<i
dragged into the thicket. Evidence
tbnt the woman had been assaulted
physicians advised detectives was
lacking. —
Miss Harbers according to Agent
Stacy lias for three years been cm
ployed at the depot lunch room a-
waitress was quiet and uimssumini;
and had never been involved in any
difficulty. She was given strictly to
her business and since her residence
in San Antonio lie -aid. had pur
chased an apartment house on Burnet
street. . .
.Because of her bewildered mind
Miss Harbers was for n time unable
to give the officers a coherent state-
ment concerning the attack. She later
after treatment at the hospital said
that a* was customary sbe left home
just before dawn to open the lunch
room. She was walking along Chest-
nut street she said when the negro
occupying the automobile overtook
her. ' . „
Voluntarily Mnterqil Tai'.
When be announced Ite was goinic
to the denot and that he would take
her to her work. Miss Harbers said
she entered the rear seat.
It was when the negro after speed-
ing up the ear. turned cast on Hous-
ton street instead of continuing
straight ahead that Miss Harbers sai l
she became apprehensive. She said
she demanded he stop the car that
she might get out. He ignored Iter
she said only increasing the speeu
of the car. She then pleaded with
him. she tnld officers to release her.
She offered him what money
she said this nmounting to S 2. to
stop the car. When she realized sue
was a prisoner sho said she leaped
from the car.
DEATH WINS RACE
Husband I n.ihle to Rea-h Bedside of
Dying Wife.
Ixjwell Mass.. Sent. 27.— Evans J-
David of l’assaie. N. J. lost his race
with death by train ."nd airplane from
St. Louis to this city.
Mrs. David died at a Imai hospital
today.
No word has reached here from Da-
vid since a telegram saying that he
had started eastward last night by
tbr fsstext trauJiportiition avnilnblc.
David left Lou’h a ua’u
lust nijbt and his friends later nindc
arrangements to have an army plane
at bi« disposal when hr reached Daj-
ton. Ohio this morning.
This plane took him to < Irvclau I
and the lm» wa« to have been
made in a postoffice mail plane.
TWO Per eu| ’* "' ■h' l vicmny.
IHV X O n« eant. no tr.ln. .nd .lawtA
Nation Menaced
by Moron Swarm
Physician Warns
Easton. Md.. Sept- — Tbe
rapid multiplication of grown peo-
ple with child minds is the great-
est danger confronting the nati n.
Dr. Hubert Work secretary of tbe
interior and former president of
tbe American Psychiotrac Asso-
ciation. told 150 members of the
medical faculty of Maryland at
their semi-annual meeting here
last night.
Dr. Work urged the minimizing
of criminal propagation in order
to limit crime—which he attributed
to immature and ailing minds —
and to diminish insanity.
PILOT OF KU KLUX
ADVERTISING PLANE
NOT TO BE ARRESTED
Police Commissioner De-
cided to Drop Prosecu-
tion of Aviator.
No charges will be filed against Jack
Hair commercial aviator in' connec-
tion with the distribution of circulars
from an airplane advertising the Ku
Klux Klan public initiation at the
Speedway last Friday night. Whet lied
action will be taken to bar civilian
fliers from Stinson field will depend
upon tbe advice of the legal depart-
• lent of the city.
This was statcil by Fire and Police
Commissioner Phil Wright Thursday
following a conference with Mayor
Tobin nnd other city and county au-
thorities.
"No charges will be filed” Commis-
sioner Wright said. “We have thor-
ough! yconsidered the matter and have
decided to wash our hand’ or tbe en-
tire proposition. Really it is a small
nnd insignificant matter under the
circumstances. I am convinced the
flier was honest about it. It was sole-
ly a business proposition with him.
He wa.’ paid to distribute the circu-
lars. No prosecution heretofore had
been pushed because of di.- .option of
advertising matter from planes—large-
ly becauM we did not know who it was
that distributed them.
"While it is strictly agnl. . the or-
dinance to distribute advertising mut-
ter on the streets of tbe city yet the
flier because no prosecution had re-
sulted in tbe past would reasonably
feel lie was violating no law.
"Taken all in all sonic people might
be led to believe it persecution rather
than prosecution if we .proceeded
against Hair. De want to be abso-
lutely fair and for that reason have de-
cided to overlook the incid t. I am
convinced sufficient warning has been
given to prevent such an occurrence in
the future."
SCREAMING CONVICTS
BRUTALLY FLOGGED
MINISTER DECLARES
Prisoners Forced to Eat
Food Unfit for Hogs
He Testifies.
Bimiinfham Ah.. Sept. 27.—An air
of expn lanry surrounded the Jeffer-
son county grand jury room today
ns it about to complete its work
nnd write its report on conditions at
Banner mines. One witness was be-
fore the body today.
Rev. W S. Knmplain. member nf
the faculty of Howard College who
was state chaplain of mines under
former administration was closeted in
the grand jury for some time. When
he emerged he declared he reesignd
his position with the state because of
••the horrible treatment of prisoners.”
He gave specific instances of whip-
pings for what be termed “minor of-
fenses.”
••Never in my life have I seen such
cruel treatment of human beings.” the
minister declared. “Time after time.
I have started in different mines
only to be forced tn turn back after
hearing the screams of men being
beaten by guards. The food served
the occupants was not fit for hog<_
but tbe men were forced to eat it
nr g»» without. Treatment of men in
hospitals was unbearable to visitors.”
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REPUBLICAN
GOVERNMENT
TOTTERING
Virtual State of War Ex*
ists in Bavaria—Die-
tator Appointed.
FASCISTI MOBILIZED
Berlin Alarmed Places
Nation Under Rule of cd
Defense Minister.
RUHR WORKERS QUIT
Six Killed When Riots Re-
newed —Allies Discuss 4
Intervention.
The German union of states. weldej
together by Bismark “the iron chau»
cellor” today is approaching
gration Associated I’ress dispatches
indicate.
Military ruie and a dictatorship
were established Thursday as the tot-
tering republican government faced
street riots monarchist and commu-
nist plots and a virtual state of war
in Bavaria.
Startled by the appointment of Dr.
Karl Von Kahr former Bavarian pre-
mier as dictator of that state the
German cabinet met in . hurried mid-
I night session and answered the Bavar-
ians’ lack of confidence in the Beilin
government by appointing Minister vt
Defense Gessler a« virtual dictator of
all Germany vesting him with ail*
thority to restrict const tutional righty
freedom of the press and the right of
asaefhbly.
Bavaria's threat to secede from tbo
German union was changed Thursday
to a prospect of internal war. ’1 ho
Bavarian decree was directed priff-
cipally against Adolph litter leader of
the Fascisti “black shirt citizen
troops who had threatened to move on
BeVrlin should the government sur-
render to France in the Ruhr.
Hitler Defies Dictator.
The apoointment of a dictator shows
that Hitler evidently lad made prepa-
rations for some such move. He and
Von Kahr are today at swords’ points.
Von Kahr has demanded that Hitler
deciare bis allegiance .o the Bavariaw
government. Hitler has refused. lon
Kahr has obtained a prom is®
obedience from the Bavarian army and
the state police.
Further Hitler meetings have been
forbidden but. notwithstanding. Hit- .
ler*s followers have arranged fourteen
mass meeting* for Thursday night
where he is slated to speak.
Hitler advocates the separation of
Bavaria from the Reich.
Bavaria except for Prussia is th©
largest state in all Germany.
Word from Paris indicates that tha
allies view the German situation as
one full of dangerous possibilities. The
allies it is indicated will await events
before taking Intervention.
Whether a long militrry dictator-
ship or a monarchy will replace th®
Republican government is viewed in
Paris as quite immaterial as th®
French view the German majority as
reactionary at heart.
•000 Quit Work in Ruhr.
The Ruhr today was not without
its turn of event’. Protesting against
the end of passive res stance tmdee
which they had received doles trot)
Berlin. (>OOO miners quit work Thur*
day. declaring they would not aid d
French exploitation of Ruhr indistries.
Thousands of others are expected
follow their walkout.
News of the strike was received vi’Jl
alarm at French headquarters: general
rioting is feared. Communist factioi!*
are blamed for the strike.
Meanwhile the Ebc.t gore nmenC
driven by the partial defection
Bavaria to proclaim military I: w
faced further outbreak* of rioting.—.
Street fighting between commtinKw
and the less extreme socialists «as r«
ported in Dresden again where vnr
iou« parties are holding immense »nj
cessions. One dem insirntor wa’ killed
five fatally wounded and twent’
o;hci’ injured. The riots arc Cof
tinuing. it is believed.
MASSES AKE Ml NGBY
MP
American Tells of Condition*
in Bav arm.
By HAL OTLAHKRTY
•'able to The Ban AaMiHn L
>r l th* Chieaeo FHHv Newe.
«'S|» rich*. t*”3.
Mndon. Sept 27.—Dr. Edwin R
Walston. I’e- Moines. lowa. iurr«s
who spent the summer studring inoDe
fiitno:” surgeons at Munich Berlin
nnd Vienna has ju-t reached lavmlen
n the as'rf’oe that great mx— *f
Rave-dans and Pn'ssiene are •" -l«*-
oerst—lv hnnxr T that they are willing
to follow any leader who
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