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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-09-21
JUDGE CLEMONS
Stands PAT AND
WILL NOT resign
New Point Brought Up by His
Attitude Must Now Be
Threshed Out
HUMPHREYS CONSIDERED
FOR FUTURE POSITION
No Appointment Now in Sight
for Him, According to
Washington
By C. S. ALBERT
.ial STAR Bulletin Correspondence

Especial STAR Bulletin Cofresponueace1
WASHINGTON, d. c.. Sept. TO-
The reorganization of the Hawaiian
judiciary has reached another period
of waiting and stagnation. This was
cccasioned by the retirement OF At
|torney-general McReynolds and the
succession of Thomas w. Gregory.
The new incumbent is seeking to ia
miliarize himself with the status OF
affairs and learn the qualifications OF
all those proposed for vacancies,
Department of justice officials un-
derstand that Federal Judge Charles
F. Clemons will not tender his resig-
nation as requested. Their interpre-
tation Of his utterances when here in
conference with Attorney-general Nc
Reynolds is that he positively declines
to retire voluntarily. Further, he will
contest his removal on the ground
that such course Is illegal. He claims
that having been appointed for spe-
cific term nothing but death or Inn
peachment can terminate that service
at an earlier date.
The officials frankly admit that this
point has never been threshed out AS
It stands the next move is up to the
department OF Justice The authori-
ties there have reached no decision as
to wfat4e win be. they are locking
up precedents and the laws bearing on
the subject They desire to ascertain
the arbitrary removal of
Judge Clemons can be accomplished
Nothing viii be done until that point
has been determined.
The name of A. s. Humphreys has
not been under consideration in con-
nection with the present plans for
REORGANIZATION Of the Hawaiian judi
ciary. This applies both to judge
ship and the bestowal of an advisory
position upon him.
At the same time the name Of Mr..
Humphreys Is under consideration for
some future vacancy, either on the
bench or in an advisory capacity.
1t is admitted on all sides that the
future service of Mr.. McCarn depends
on the outcome of his trial.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-09-21
COMMON PEOPLE
in IGNORANCE IN
WARNING
Johannes F. Eckardt Was in.
kaiser's Land When Peace
Propaganda Ceased
BUT LITTLE NEWS IS
GIVEN OUT I'M EUROPE
Local Man Made Tracks for
Home When German Army
Commenced to Mobilize

Though their sons, fathers, hus.
bands and sweethearts all are march.
ing away under military arms, and
though they may at any moment be in
the midst of a great battle the com.
mon people in the war-stricken coun.
tries of Europe know practically moth
ing of what is going en- at the front.
Though have come direct from Ger.
many and England i can tell little
more than you people Of the United
States for, like you, my information
had to come from the newspapers and
the official accounts censored by the
French and British military authori-
ties"
Such is the statement of Johannes
F.. Eckardt, superintendent Of the
Queens Hospital, who arrived home
on the steamer Sierra this morning.
On six months leave of absence he
left Honolulu April for the benefit
of his health and was visiting his rel
atiyes in Germany and Austria until
August 1, when the mobilization of the
Kaiser's armies began and Eckardt
hastily packed few of his belong
ings and departed from the war zone
The German mobilization began Aug
ust / and about 5 o'clock the next
morning Eckardt was on his way from
the home OF his sister at tsWagenfeid,
near Hanover, to Bremen, where he
journeyed by rail across Holland and
arrived "a hours later at London. One
of the first refugees to escape from
the European continent, he missed
much of the great excitement in his
home country though he saw excite
ment enough. and still more OF It
when he reached London, where he
was detained eleven Gays.
Left His Trunk Behind.
I did not take time to pack my
trunk, leaving it at my sisters home, .
he said today. "Now am glad, be-
cause If this war ever ends may re.
cover it some day. With two grips I
made my way to Bremen, where the
American consul advised me to get
out of the country as quickly as possi-
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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-09-21
INJUNCTION IS
GRANTED TO THE
M'CANDLESS FIRM
Arrest of 40 Workmen Causes
Building Concern to Take
Circuit Court Action

Another chapter was added this
morning to the row between the board
Of supervisors and the owners Of the
McCandless building over the new
fifth story which the latter are endeav-
oring to complete, when Attorney e.
C. Peters, representing the proprietors,
obtained a temporary Injunction from
Circuit Judge w. J. Robinson restrain
ing the city and county from further
interference in the building operations
until the dispute has been aired In
court.
Following the action Of the supervi-
sors several days ago in refusing to
grant permission for work to proceed,
the Lord-Young Engineering Com
pany put force Of 40 men at work
last Saturday morning on the fifth
floor Of the structure. City and Coun-
ty Attorney Cathcart, under instruc-
tions from the supervisors at once or
dered Sheriff Rose to arrest the men
and this was done, the work being
brought to stop for the day.
The case against the laborers and
the Lord Young Engineering Com
Pduy was CC1ICu III PO1ACC COotS tAAD
morning and arraignment given, At
torney Peters appearing for the de-
fendants and accepting the complaint
as to form The case was then con-
tinued several days for pleas. Mean
time Peters proceeded to the circuit
court and secured the restraining or
der which may now permit the con-
struction company and laborers to re-
new operations. at least until hearing
is given on the temporary Injunction
IL the county wins out at that hearing
the work will be stoned again, but II
the McCandIess Building Company is
sustained in its claim. the improve
ment will proceed to its conclusion.
The charge on which the workmen
were arrested Saturday is that they
and the company by which they are
employed have been violating the
building ordinance in failing to place
fire shutters on the windows and to
build stairway addition to the one
already installed in the elevator shaft. /
The whole affair is more or less friend /
", each desiring test case on the !
validity of the new building ordinance.
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on Monday, September Z, were from
the cruisers Nurnburg or Leipzig can.
not be definitely ascertained. Com
munication was broken off so sudden
" with the Bamfisld (vancouyer ISL
and) end Of the cable that the Tanning
Island operator was able only to send
a message that armed men in uniform
had landed and had entered the super
intendent's office. Here the message
stopped abruptly enc the cable has
been silent ever since. 1t is under
stood that the British admiralty are
taking steps to restore communication
with Australia and New Zealand.
Meanwhile business from Great Brit
ain and elsewhere Is being despatched
by the eastern route, through Persia.
Further India and by the transconti-
mental telegraph across Australia.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-09-21
FIVE WITNESSES
TAKE STAND IN
THE M'CARN CASE
Testimony Regarding ARRAY in
Federal Building Corridor
is Corrob0rative

The calling and examination Of five
witnesses by the territory, and an oc-
casional exchange of repartee between
counsel for defense and the prosecu-
ton, were the only features which
marked the beginning of the trial of
District Attorney Jeff McCarn before
Judge William L. Whitney in the cir
cult court this morning. The witness
es called we're Harry T. Lake, E. H.
Boyd, Sidney Smith, George A. BERT
Bower and Antoine Ogen, all Of whom
were called upon by the prosecution to
tell their stories of the McCarn-Mc-
Bride affair In the corridor of the fed
eral building on the afternoon of May
5, 1914, and were then subjected to a
rather grilling cross-examination by
Joseph Lightfoot, one of the
counsel for the district attorney.
With one exception, the stories Of
the witnesses regarding the alleged
scuffle between McCarn and Mcbride
we're not conflicting. The first four
stated they were positive
that Mcbride struck and grappled with
McCarn after the latter had made
as If to draw a revolver
from his right-hand hip pocket. An
tone Ogen, who was called last, stated
that McCarn had reached toward his
hip pocket and Mcbride had struck si-
multaneously. E. H. Boyd, who was
The second witness called, stated that
he had seen the butt Of revolver in
McCarn's hip pocket, and that he had
seen a revolver in the hands of Henry
Hussman at the cIose Of the affair.
0gen said that, during the scuffle
which ensued while the spectators
we're endeavoring to part McCarn and
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-09-21
CROCKETT NOT
TO ENLARGEITS
PLANT, HE AYERS
{. Faxon Bishop, Home From
Coast, Says Story Har Its
Origin in Honolulu
.gt's ali tommyrot.

It's all t0mmyrOJ.
sAll that heard about 1t on the
Coast was a report cabled from Ho-
nolulu."
E, Faxon Bishop thus disposed of
the interesting stories current here
ten days and more ago to the effect
that the Crockett refinery, In conse-
quence of the reduced transcontinen-
tai rates for sugar, would be taking
Hawaii's entire crop of raw sugar
within a measurable period, in great
ly enlarged plant.
Last year we sent about 100000
tons OF sugar to San Francisco. and
shall increase the amouht but little
IL any this year.
"The capacity of the Crockett re-
finery has been increased about 25 per
cent this year. They are working up.
about S25 tons day now, against 675;
tons formerly.
.sThe reduced transcontinental rates
enable them to reach certain points
east which they could not do before.
mo, there was no conference OF
cur people whatever on the question
Of extending the operations of the re-
finery while / was over there.
With reference to the origination in
Honolulu of the reports thus contra
dicted there were several articles pub
lished in the local papers which may
have been responsible. On the receipt
Of special cablegram, together with
an Associated Press despatch on Aug
ust 26, telling OF the reduction of
transcontinental railroad rates the
published comment by
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INDETERNINATE
SENTENCE NOT
LEGAL AL-ASHF0RD
Iurist Rules Act TO be Unconsti-
tutional; Win Aid Decision
From Higher Courts

In an oral decision Circuit Judge
C. w. Ashford this morning ruled that
in his opinion the indeterminate SEN
tence act, under which convicted per-
sons have been sen51nced since 1903.
is Unconstitutional accerd with the
decision he gave Kim Soon Gun, a
Korean, who recently pleaded guilty to
second degree burglary, a sentence of
five years imprisonment at hard labor.
Under the provisions of the inde-
terminate sentence act the prisoners
penalty would have been not less than
two years nor more than 10 years in
Jail. BY this move Judge Ashford now
proceeds and will continue to proceed
as though the indeterminate sentence
law had never been enacted. He may.
be checked however, II the supreme
court should pass upon the subject and
rule adversely, deciding the statute Is
constitutional, and 1t is deemed quite
likely the matter win go before that
tribunal in the very near future.
Judge Ashfords decision this morn
ing is the result of the discussion
which took place In his court about
week ago between an1ici curiae. or
friends of the, court, and the attorney
general and county attorney. In an
his opinion today he stated
that he would do his share In assist
ing to have the question taken before
the higher court, If the attorney-gen-
erai or county attorney desired to car
nv it up for review. Discussing 1t later
Attorney-generai Stainback said he did
not contemplate an effort to get SUI
preme court ruling by his department,
although he had no doubt counsel for
prisoners now serving time in Oahu
prison under the indeterminate law
would quickly undertake to get a fur
ther adjudication Some of the men
who have been sentenced to indefinite
terms and who have already served
more than minimum time
may be expected to seek freedom by
means Of writs OF habeas corpus. In
that event the legal question undoubt-
edly will go to the supreme court.
Judge Ashford holds that section /
Of Act rs of the session laws OF 1909,
as amended by Act 5 of the session
laws of 1911, is unconstitutional His
decision this morning was given ver-
bally but will be written within the
next two or three days. Kim Soon
Gun, the man who received the def
mite five-year sentence today, is said
to have been convicted for similar
offense in the second circuit court,
Maui, in October of last year. Less
than year later, or in August of the
present year, ne was indicted on Oahu
and arraigned and recently entered his
Plea of guilty. He had no counsel.
hence no notice of appeal in his case
was given and the question Of the
avs constitutioHality cannot be car
led UP to the supreme court on his
,ase. -
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joins ERUPTION
At MT. LASSEN
Wireless News Breaks Into
War Dispatches Indicating
Shock lust Felt

ASSOCIATED Press BY Federal wirelsssI
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Sept. 21s-
A distinct earthquake shock accom-
panied the forty-eiphth eruption of NJ.
Lassen, callfornla,s recently active
volcano, today. A new crater has op-
ened mile below two others.
The wireless message above was
sent as Hash at 12:2e o'clock %
day IN the midst Of war despatched, In
dieating that the earthquake shock
had just been noticed IN San Fran.
clseo.]
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-09-21
BELGIUM OFFERED CONCESSIONS
IF THEY WILL let COMMUNICATIONS
OF GERMANS ALONE, SAYS RUMOR

tAssociated servi Federal wiresl
BRUSSELS Belgium, Sept. I-Germany has offered
ce and proposed the Belgian occupied by her
troops and to allow the resumption of civil government therein
German communications through Belgium made free from mol
esaton. Belgium has refused this offer.
Only Crumbling Walls Remain of
Great Rheims Cathedral, Is Report
cHALoNs SUR MARINE France Sept 21-The Germans con.
nued bombardng the cathedral hospital Rheims
all last night Only crumbng walls remain the great cathedral
which Of the most remarkable examples Of early Gothic
that had been extant.
BORDEAUX France Sept 21s-From the Of the French
here formal protest has been the world
against what alleged to be needless destruction of the Rheims
cathedral by the German forces.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-09-21

Senator Cecil Brown, president OF
the First National Bank of Hawaii, is
I'm critical condition on the coast
according to cablegram received Sat
urday afternoon.
While the message failed to give
any details of the senator's illness it
stated that he had suffered severe
stroke and that his conditions was
serious.
Several efforts have been made to-
day to secure further information but
so far as can be learned no attention
has thus far been paid to the cables
sent out from Honolulu.
1t is believed that Senator Brown is
in a hospital in San Francisco.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-09-21
Plate
PRESENTED TO
THE MISSOURIAN
Chamber Of Commerce com-
memorates First Panama
Canal Trip to Hawaii

presented by the csambef Of Com
merce Of Honolulu 70 the Steamship
Missourian, William Lyons, master, Ih
commemoration Of It's being the first
vessel TO arrive at Honolulu from the
Atlantic Ocean through the Panama
Canal. Honolulu, Hawaii, September
1e, 1914"
Bearing the inscription above, .
handsome memorial plate was present.
ed to Capt. VIM. Lyons, veteran skip
per of the American-Hawaiian freight
er Missourian. at luncheon given to-
day by the Chamber of Commerce.
The luncheon took place at the Com
mercial Club and was attended BY
large number of business and profess
sional men OF the city.
BETTING the unpretentious and bus
inesslike way in which the Missourian
accomplished her commercial achieve
ment and linked Hawaii with the open
ing of the great American waterway,
the ceremonies today were few and
informal. Former Governor George r
Carter, president of the Chamber 81
Commerce, presided At the guests,
table were the guest Of honor, Capt
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-09-21
Reports Indicate Neither Side Yet Able To Win Triumph At Aisne
LONDON REPORTED THAT GERMANS
ARE PREPARING TO MAKE EARLY
RETIREMENT, COVERING RETREAT
IAssociated Press service BY Federal wireiess.I

4
IAssocmted Press Federal wireess1
LONDON Eng, Sept 2-The Allies exertng ounce
Of effort General Won Kluk's wing.
French officers who arrived from the of battling
At report 'aa1 @ M sre
heavy store. and main 100000
troops 70 hold fortified line Under cover q thus fortified nne
believed general retirement OF tne German forces Wn De az
tempted
meanwhile desperate aenps 70 ousnanA 'ne isn0n lisn
being i..rs q II great ssa-s1 strength ssra-'' ~ -
Inosssan rains and swollen rivers not only are impeding al
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.s..'.,s :. ~ ps . :, az - s s1.s - ~ - -. - ~ .. -
as s. = W $500 = 'A' AsA''ls e - =. US "s's -
Both side. ar. camping III. the trenches are
filled 0y the rains
No ocia statement from Berlin was contained in the news
dispatches today up to the time the t edition Of the Star Bulletin
went to The last word from Berlin was that the stout Ger
fighting Ane had forced the Allies 70 take defensive
positions and intrench
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FROM TOXIC REPORTS
VICTORY FOR The JAPANESE
Especial Gable to Hawaii shlnpo.


TOXIC Sept 19The
fort and efficient artillery service succeeded the
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MONUMENTS

granite. Marble. Blue Stone
Coping and Iron Fence.
II. e. HENDRlCK, LTD.
Tel 2s4s Merchant and Alaksa
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BERLIN. Germany Sept q. ofca announcement says tha
the German loan just called for has been heavily oveubsbe
entirely without foreign aid.
The call for loan Of s5oooooooo More than
600 has been subscribed.
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Prom san rranesssss

Sierra. Sept. n.
For San Franelsoo:
Matsonia, Sept p.
Prom Vancouver:
Makura, indefinite.
For Vancouver.
Niagara, indefinite.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-09-05
Russians rec
To InUdde
Germany
AUSTRIAN ARMY NO LONGER
I STANDS IN WAY OF SLAV
INVASION.
GEAR HAS TWENTY CORPS TO
LAUNCH AGAINST THE
KAISER'S LAND.

by Associated Press.
, LONDON, Sept. 5. = a dispatch
from Rome contains message frohI
i'ctrograd In which a high Russian
military official is quoted as follows:
when the war began, Austria
was our most serious enemy, because
except for four army corps sent
against Scrvia. her entire army was
directed against us. Now that Ser
ivia has annihilatcd four Austrian
corps at Shabatac and We have de-
cisivcly defeated 100000 men be-
tween the Vistula and the Dncistcr,
ten Russian army corps are sufft-
clcnt to hold the Austrians in check,
leaving us 20 corps free to launch
against Germany.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-09-05
Fortunes of the Armies
A Matter of Conjecture
NEWS DISPATCHES AND OFF,
CIAL STATEMENTS ARE
CONFLICTING.
ALL AGREE THAT PARIS MUST
SOON RESORT TO HER OWN
DEFENSE.
EXACT POSITION OF GERMAN
RIGHT WING NOT RE-
VEhLED.

Conflicting news dispatches AM:
vague official statements leave the
fortunes of the immense armies
struggling before Paris matter os
conjecture.
All agree, however, that the mo-
ment is approaching swiftly when
the French capital must have resort
to its own defcnscs. Despite occa-
sional temporary victories of the al
lies their lines appear 10 be slowly
giving ground before the German
advance. The Germans in a semi
circle seem to have reached points
cast and west Of Paris, their left
wing touching La Fartc Souf Jouar-
re in the department of Scinc-Et'
Marine.
The exact position of the German
right wing is not revealed but 50 for
as known it has not succeeded l."
getting around the allies left form
cd by the British troops.
a Rome dispatch says that five
German army corps have arrived at
the Vistula river to support the de-
fense against the Russian invaders
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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-09-05
THE SIDE GAINING THE ADVAN-
TAGE IS STILL A MATTER OF
SPECULATION.
GERMAN TROOPS ARE SAID TO
BE VERY NEAR THE FRENCH
CAPITAL.
AUsTRIANs BROUGHT TO FILL
GAPS MADE IN THE TEUT0N'S
RANKS.

BY Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 5.-The first great
climax of the campaign of the allies
against Germany waged so relent-
lessly for weeks past in northern
France, will not now be long delay
cd, according to opinion in London.
But with which side will rest the
advantage is entirely matter Of
speculation.
The first official communication
from Bordeaux, the new seat of the
French government, speaks of the
German move on Paris as having
been diverted to the eastward in
which direction the invaders have
reached La Forte Souf Jouarre, some
80 miles east OF Paris. This would
seem to confirm the German an
nouncement that the allied forces
have been driven back to, and in
some cases across, the river Marne.
According to Other, sources of In
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COMPLETE FOR
CELEBRATION
LABOR UNIONS IN READINESS TO
CELEBRATE NEXT MON
, DAY.
SUMPTUOUS DINNER WILL BE
SERVED AT LOOP PARK
BIG PARADE.
AUTOMOBILE AND MOTOR CYCLE
RACES TO BE RUN AT THE
FAIR GROUND. .

With every arrangement well in
hand, everything is in readiness for
the mammoth Labor Day cclebra-
tion which will take place on Labo:
Day.
As announced in the West Virgin
ian yesterday. nearly all of the bust
ness men OF the city have shown
their interest by announcing that
they will close their places OF bust
ness for the occasion.
!. The big celebration will begin
promptly al II O'Clock when the L.
Dor Day parade will form at Fair
mont avenue and First street and
march through the principal streets
of the city. In this parade every
union of the city will be
fully represented with several brass;
bands furnishing music for the oc.
'cas!on. In addition to these features
many of the merchants have prCpar-
ed beautiful floats for the parade.
After the parade. the labor hosts
and friends will assemble at Loop
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