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The New York herald., 1922-12-12

Special Cable 10 THE NEW York HERALD.
COPYRIGHT. 1899, by THE Nnw YORK HnnALp.
New York Herald Bureau.
London, Dee. IL.
A dramatic climax to the trial for
the murder Of Percy Thompson, a
shipping clerk, came this evening
when the jury, including one woman,
after less than three hours delibera-
ton, found Frederick Bywaters. so,
and Mrs. Edith Thompson. AZ, the
slain mans wife, guilty without rec
commentators for mercy. Both We're
sentenced to death. Thompson was
stabbed by Bywaters when walking
with his wife, but letters written by
Mrs. Thompson were, introduced to
show that she and Bywaters had
planned to slowly poison Thompson.
Crowds stormed Old Bailey to gain
entrance, more than 200, mostly
women, having been in a queue at
the door for twenty-five hours, singing
and playing cards. There were also
several enterprising unemployed men
who sold their places before the court
opened for as high az five or six
pounds, the amounts varying ac-
cording to place, though Old Bailey's
accommodations for spectators permit
less than 100. Many who had brought
their lunch were successful in getting
in, but could hardly keep awake dur
ing the final stages.
Bywaters is an athletic and hand
some ship stewards assistant. who con-
fessed having stabbed Thompson near
his home after appealing to him to free
his wife. Mrs. Thompson was with her
husband at the time. Bywaters per-
slstently tried to clear her in court.
declaring, II say the verdict is wrong.
Edith Thompson is not guilty. And
am no murderer, no assassin"
Woman Screams .'I'm Not GUILTY."
Mrs. Thompson. who had been SEMI
PROSTATE all the week of the trial, tried
to pull herself together TO face the
Judge. but suddenly threw back her
head and became hysterical. crying, My
God I'm not guilty :"
The trial waE the most remarkable
in many years, largely because OF Mrs.
Thompsons sensational letters to By
waters. which 1t is estimated would I'LL
two volumes. IL was charged they
showed attempts TO kill her husband by
various poisons and broken glass so
that she and Bywaters could live to-
gether.
The prosecution insisted that she had
inspired and instigated the murder.
while Judge Shearman called the letters
love nonsense He said TO the jury:
"The woman writes that 'he--the hus-
band-has theyisht by law to all love.
but no right By nature and love II
that nonsense means anything It means
that the love of husband for his wife
is something improper because marriage
is recognized by law. and that Illicit
love-the clandestine love OF a woman
for her lover-is something grand and
noble. ! think you Will feel disgust, but
your feelings will not run away with
YOU"
The New York herald., 1922-12-12

Baking Company have been applying
theirefforts toward this presentachieve-
ment.
Long continued animal feeding tests
by scientists Of our leading universities
have proved the great nutritional
value Of this super loaf, and pronounce
it the first perfect white bread, You
will be interested to know that in these
feeding tests, with nothing more than
VITovIM BREAD and water, various ex-
perimental animals were raised to full
growth and maturity, to breed and
reproduce even to the third and fourth
generation. There never was home
made loaf or any other loaf that could
accomplish the same result.
Make Wards VITovIM BREAD the
basis OF every meal in your home. 1t
means the better nourishment OF your
self, your family, and especially grow.
ing children.
The New York herald., 1922-12-12
BERLIN SAYS PROPOSAL
WAS NOT UNDERSTOOD
Stinnes's Paper Declares In
dusfry Was Not Consulted.

Special Gable to THE NEW YORK HEuLD.
1899. 6v THE NEw York HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
ul~e
The New York herald., 1922-12-12
LONDON MOB HEARS
TWO DOOMED TO Die
Line Waits Outside Court
"A Hours for End Of ThOmp-
son Murder Trial.
JOBLESS SELL PLACES
Sailor Lover Protests In
nOcence of Wife of Man He
Stabbed to Death.
LETTERS CONVICT WOMAN
Tell of Attempts She Made to
Poison Husband and of
Plot on His Life.
LETTERS CONVICT WOMAN

Special Cable 10 THE NEW YoRK HERALD.
1899, by THE NEw YORK HERALD.
The New York herald., 1922-12-12

Special Gable to THE New York HERALD.
Copr1i1ht. 1922. BIZ TIE NEw YORK HERALD.
, 1922-02-07

$500. 76 per kilometer. The continuous
method of road maintenance a d repair
is in practice in Porto Rico which keeps
their roads in good order the year round,
stone is broken 10y hand with d few ex-
ceptions, which the report claimed was
cheaper owing to cost of transportation.
The average cost of broken stone deliver
ed on the side of the road ready for use
was given as $1,70 per square meter, and
for spreading the broken stone on the
road for surfacing 75c. per square meter.
Road rollers we're drawn by oxen during
the Spanish regime, the first steam roller
weighing twelve tons was brought to the
island in 19O0-1901, in 1919 there were
ten steam and Sc yenteen gasoline road
rollers in the island. Stone is broken
by contractors along the side Of the road
as we do here, and measured in a square
meter box without a bottom and hung
on handles.
Two examples were given in the re-
port to indicate the change in method
and increase in road trafi" in the is
land, first was the value Of the imports
nd exports for the following years,
, 1922-02-07

There roads are wide, built with a good
crown and deep bitches on level land to
carry off the water during heavy rains;
they are surfaced with hard finty broken
stone rolled to a hard smooth surface
as soon as layed with a road roller. Five
ton trucks travel all over the island with
their heavy loads, and automobiles
speed along from thirty to forty miles
per hour with ease and comfort. Trailers
are not in general use in the island yet.
Automobiles we're introduced in this
island If my memory serves me right,
during the years 1901, and have been
, 1922-02-07

proposed. For our part we can see no
good reason why such a change is either
necessary or convenient, and it is believ-
ed to be merely the whim of a minority
VINO considers its own tastes without re-
gard for the majority. It is hoped that
the management will heed the wishes OF
the latter.
, 1922-02-07
Our Public Roads In St. Croix.

From 1885 to 1912 our roads were far
superior to any country roads that L had
ever had the pleasure Of travelling over
in the United States, and | had consider
able experience in that line, or, sutlclenC
to pass a fair judgment on the quality
of the roads. Our mode Of travel during
those Yeas was by horse and carriage.
cart and wagon, the average heavy LOAD
being four ~hogsheads of sugar on a bull
wagon. Average speed from three TO
ten miles per hour, rhe broken stone and
gravel used for repair and resurfacing the
roads was packed and made smooth by the
tires of vehicles in use which were steel
or iron. While this was a slow method
of smoothing our roads and resulted In
giving US only abOnt four or five months
of first class roads, yet it served its pur-
pose for the road traffic Of that date.
Since the introduction of motor We
hicles and high speed throughout the
world great Improvements have taken
place in the construction and MAN en-
ance of public Roads, In the which Fed
raj, State, Municipal and lnsular Gov
ernments, have taken a hand throughout
the United States, which has had a great
tendency especially in agricultural COM
minutes TO increase CuG ptOQuCI4Oh oAN
wealth of the country, f. i. ! spent my
1921 Christmas holidays with my son as
Central Mercedita, Ponce, Porto Rico,
and had the pleasure Of motoring over
many of their splendid public roads SOM
IF them running over three thousand
feet above sea level.
Knowing that we had a road bill be-
fore the Colonial Council, | thought it
might be of some service to US if some
data could be obtained on cost of main
tenance and repair of their roads. | ap
preached the Administrator of Mercedita
Mr.. Giles, on the subject, and he loaned
me the Governor of Porto Rico's Report
to the Secretary Of War for the year
1919, from which | gathered the follow
ing data
1t appears from the report that in the
years I898-99 under the Spanish Govern
ment, Porto Rico had 254 kilometers of
public roads and not many bridges, and
during the period from 1871 to 1888 the
highest cost for maintenance and repair
was S679. ST per kilometer. In 1919 Por-
to Rico had 1900 kilometer of roads and
many of the principal rivers had been
bridged, from 1902 to 1916 TIE average
cost of repair and maintenance of
roads under the American Government,
was 1901. 90 and from 1916 to 1918
, 1922-02-07
LOCAL.

rhe S, S. Martinique sailed from
New York on Saturday evening, having
70 tons of cargo for Christiansted and 10
tons for Frederiksted.
There will be a regular meeting of the
Home Service Committee this afternoon
a. $50 o'clock.
The Creole with outgoing mail for st.
Thomas, Porto Rico and the States sailed
from here at 6 D. m. yesterday with a
favorable breeze which should enable her
to arrive in St. Thomas in good time to
connect with the mail-boat from San Juan
today.
Last nights show at the theatre was
we'll patronized and enjoyed, the parts
of the serial being among the most ex-
citing and interesting yet witnessed.
During one of the shows the manage
ment screened a slide to the effect that
it has been proposed to change the
show nights from Monday and Thursday
to Sunday and Wednesday. and asking
what the audience wants. There was no
unmistakable murmuring that no change
is desired, and from what we learn
of a large number of those present the
general feeling is opposed to the change
, 1922-02-07

There will be a regular meeting of the
Home Service Committee this afternoon
a. $50 o'clock.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-12
SOUTH AFRICA Is
BRITISH MENACE
Ten Police Are Killed IN
Pitched Battle in Gold Dis
lrict of Union.
81 LII TIN

JOHASNESBURG Union OF
South Africa March 11-BenOni
anG Brakpan south African gold
mining centcrs. were captured today
bv strikers. aided by bands OF Beers.
aftcr a battle in which ~ coustablcs
" ere killed. according % reports
reaching here today
Fighting continue ~ Fordsburg
and Jeppes. with heavy casualties.
- is feared Che strikers may cap
- central Johannesburg
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-12

be distressed and alarmed over their
foreign trade situation. Imports con-
tinuo 60 Increase and exports 90 de-
crease. thus making greater Japan's
uufavorahlc trade balance.
4 small item in the total but one
particularly calling from the Japan
Csc TRADE standpoint. Is that Chinese
paper umbrellas and Chinese match
es are being imported into japan
in greatly increased quantities. ia
pan had formerly exported large
quantities % these articles 90 China.
and bad imported negligible guam
titles or them from China. A recent
report said that about 80 otsJ Chinese
paper umbrellas per month are now
being sent 20 japan. whereas a few
years ago the average was about go
per month
Japanese prices must pc reduced.
or Japan will lose much more Of her
foreign trade" IS the burden OF
numerous warnings sounded here by
bankers and trade authorities
r. Ichinomiya formerly New York
manager OF the Yokohama Specie
bank that Japanese TFices which
arc now the highest in the world.
must be reduced"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-12
JERNEGAN LEAVES
INTEREST TO AIDE
Foreman of Enterprise Plant
Remembered i'm Will of
Mishawaka Publisher.

The late Edward A. JernCgan. life
long resident and publisher of The
AIishawaka Enterprise. bequcathcd
one third interest in his printing cs-
tabiisnmeut 10 his foreman, Thomas
huford McDonough il was revealed
- his Will admitted to probate in
- circuit court Saturday morning
The only proviso was that me must
be In Mr.. Jernegan's employ at the
time OF the decedcnrs death
The estate valued at $4,000 for
inheritance tax purposes bCqUcaths
$1,000 90 a granddaughtcr Wanda
Tromp BoEgs and 5000 TO the fol-
lowing grandchildren Alfred Shcr-
man Ostrom. Marjorie Joruc-au Os-
from Catherine Nancy Ostrom.
Charlie a. OStrom. jr.. Paul Frank
Jerneean. Helen May Jernegau. and
Ruth Ann Jcrue-au a like amount
j. loft 60 a great grand child Nancy
Jcrue-au Boegs-
Mr. JCruesau's housckecper. Mar
tha shipper. is 90 receive 500 If in
dis employ al mis- death
The balance of the estate is To 20
o. his two children Ralph 20 Ierue.
SAN and May Clark Ostrom and they
ore named executors of the viii
The instrument wa executed May
So 1918.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-12
FRENCH EXASPERATED
ATU. 6. DEBT DEMAND

PARIS. March 1.-THE French
are thoroughly eNasperated az the
American demands for a share az
the German payments TO meet
Rhine occupation costs. Today S
press - vitupcrative
The Gaulois referred 20 Roland
" Boyden, Americas representa-
tive At the Qsi D'Orsay. as a xiii
joy"
Pertinax in the Echo De Paris.
asked what good was the American
army on the Rhine anyway
The Rigaro America" cries.
Hands of Germany, sinful Europe
But she demands hers all the
same"
The Petit Journal Let America
collect from the sequestered prop
erty in the United States"
The Journal asks why America
waited so long
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-12
Shinmie Dancers Shake
EN-, and Missouri Town
Now Has Reform Mayor

GILLIAN. Mo. March I'LL II.
T.. Cannon was the new mayor
or Gillian today as a warming
that "the devil can't invade this
Missouri town alons with Chica-
go shimmie shakers and Salome
dancers
4 few DAYS ago. Gillian was
happy with Mayor Davidson. an
editor. I'm the chair. Then along
came some dancing girls from
Chicago and appeared i'm Gill
ian's dance halls. They shook
wicked shoulders. etc
Outraged and ragins fathers
and mothers that watched
through a key hole as they per-
formed before "A dance by the
younger set served notice tho
girls would have 90 buy some
clothes or leave town. The girls
left.
The city council passed an or
dinance against dancing David
son looked up the constitution OF
the United States. declared he
couldn't find anything therein
barring shimm.e shaking re-
fused TO sign the ordinance and
resigned
The young folks are planning
10 reflect him next election.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-12
HOLD CHICAGO MAN,
SHORT IN ACCOUNTS

KANSAS CITY. Mo. March IA
motor trip OF Paul Hevener. SO. az
Chicago. former general manager OF
the international Cotton Protecting
Co. was called or I'm this city today
Ilevcner. bound for san Diego and
accompanied by John c. Craft. 26.
of Rochelle. H.. friend. was detain-
ed by police here upon the complaint
OF Atty. Henry W. Hagan OF Chicago.
who represented the company and
stated that Hevener was wanted in
Chicago 20 explain q discrepancy I'm
the Company's accounts
According to Atty. Hagan. Hev-
encr was asked TO resign from the
company because he had Iavishly
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-12

"If Japan could absorb all her sur
plus goods" he said. high prices
here might be endured. But when
her manufacturers depend on selling
goods in world markets lower prices
must Doe effected Competing coun-
tries have lower prices in the battle
for world trade and japanese manu-
facturers are handicapped by high
price quotations when they enter
competition"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-12

expended a quarter OF a million dol
lars received from the sale OF stock.
He stated that an audit Of the COM
pany's books was being made and
that the former manager was want
ed 90 explain certain transaction.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-12
To SPEAK AT CHURCH.

Miss Mary r. Gladwin OF Akron,
o.. who II touring the state Of In
diana in interest Of student nurse
recruiting viii speak ar tha First
1880 o'clock. Slides will be shown 20
illustrate her subject, which vii.
be Opportunities In the Field oil
Nursing"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-12
BEATTY BY DUNE BELLS.

CHICAGO March 11.-Girls
should paint their cheeks with dumb
bells. instead OF using rouge and
lip sticks. Dr. Martha Tracy. Phila-
delphia. told a meeting OF medical
educators.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-12

Appreciate good service Cau e.
a. Ray Ice CO. Ask my hundreds
Of satisfied customers. 304 p Don
aid st. VI. 2105. II
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-12


LONDON. March lI.-Bocr- are
Joining striking gold MIXERS 800 the
Rand British Union Of South Africa.
where so police were killed in "A
pitched battle and martial law mas
been proclaimed. according 20
johannesburg dispatch today
a day OF terror followed attacks
br miners in the Bokes5urg area and
"a Bcuon.
& three months strike Of gold
miners in the Rand district led 20
Increasing disorders between strikers
and police and between blacks and
whites which eliminated Friday i'm
widespread fighting
Cen Jan Smuts. premier OF the
Union OF South Africa. announced TO
tire legislative assembly
We are faced with one OF the
sravest crisis which has e-er arisen
in South Africa"
The fact that parties or Bocrz have
Joined with the strikers. who are at
lacking gold mines at Brakpan.
Fordsburg and Benoni, has increased
the seriousness OF tho situation
Martial law was Immediately de-
clared throughout the Rand district
In the Newlands district west OF
Johannesburg. and at Fordsburg.
near the Crown Mills fierce fighting
between police and scores of miners
- blacks was reported There
ere many casualties. at least 10 pO-
licemen being killed and others TAX
en- as hostages. The railway line 10
Benoni has been cut al both ends.
The police are badly outnum5ercd
but have taken many prisoners.
The center of the days fighting
was tho Brakpan mine where tho
manager and two special constabIes
were captured. taken out onto the
yeldt and shot seven constabIcs
were killed
BenOni was the scene OF severe
street fighting. the police attacking
a hall where miners were gathered.
Many pedestrians were wounded and
az least three killed.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-12
ANNOUNCEMENT.

Calvin Stertzbach. chiroprac.or.
has opened offices at 52I y. Main ST
Lincoln 6S27 4-tf.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-07-26
NEWPORT LOCALS

MAYNARD Skinner has accepted
position with the Vermont Tap
and Die Company.
Mrs. O. w. Creaser has been Wis
ting her daughter, Miss Elsie Ire
deau who is now living at Dun
Kirk, N Y.
Mrs. Hugh Fairbrother and
daughter, Frances, Mrs. Maurice
Grey and Shirley and Mrs. |. c.
Bryant and two children are camp
ing at Eden Lake The husbands of
the party will spend part of the
time with them.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Humph-
rey and son Ormond of New York
Miss Emily Waters of Boston and
Desmond LePlace of Cambridge,
are summer guests at the home of
S w. Keith.
Miss Vialo Buchanan celebrated
her fourteenth birthday Monday
and entertained several friends in
honor of the event. Games and mu-
sic with refreshments if ice cream
and cakes cookies and candies, to-
gether with the etempting birthday
cake made a happy afternoon for
all. The little hostess was the re-
cipient of a number of pretty gifts
which she will treasure in memory
of the event. Those present were
Dorothy Ford, Fern, Doris and
Theodore Turcotte Gertrude
Nicholson, Maxine Norris, Reina
Brown and Gladys Hancock.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-07-26
NEWPORT LOCALS

Miss Winifred B. Cook, a re-
preventative of the Redpath Chau-
tauqua is to arrive in Newport to-
day in the interest of the summer
Chautauqua, which is scheduled to
open in Newport, August 21st.
A meeting of the guarantors IS
called at the city council rooms
this evening at s CLOCK. At TINS
meeting the officers for the year
will be elected and plans will be
perfected for the six days OF the
Chautauqua. Every guarantor IS
asked to be present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harley Hoag are
on a vacation trip to Middlebury.
Miss Ellen Berry is the owner
Of new Ford coupe and antici-
pates trip to Pittsfield, Mass
next week.
George Maurice Phelps, Ralph
Sessions, Hugh Fountain and Ed
ward Standish are camping at Sey-
mour Lake for a week.
Mrs. c. H. Brown and daughter
Miss Reina Brown, have returned
IIOIH Il NlSlV W ICIdClNCo III w IlltN
field.
State Bank examiner George B.
Carpenter with NJ. w. Huse and Il.
L. Kelliher of Montpelier are in
town to examine the accounts Of
the Orleans Trus; Co.
DR.. and Mrs. Arthur Howard of
Concord are visiting Mrs. How
ards sister, Mrs. J. F. Blanchard.
Mrs. P. C. Blanchard and Miss
Eva Dresser of Sherbrooke have
returned from Old Orchard Beach.
Mrs. Isabel Bird of Lynn, Mass,
is visiting her neice, Mrs. c. H.
Davis.
Clinton Fairbrother is visiting
his aunt, Mrs. Jim Beck at Joe's
Pnd.
Mrs. Edward Burt, with Mrs.
Dell Tibbetts and Miss Mae lib
belts went with Orrin Sias to
Glover yesterday to visit Miss
Fernie Mowrey who is in camp at
Shadow Lake. Thew found Miss
Moyry has abandoned her cru ches
and is gaining in ever yway. This
will be good news to her many
friends.
The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-07-26
Lit. Cleveland Flies
Over Mt. Mansfield

The latest ;ir-stunt of 1t. Wal
ter Cleveland was when he piloted
his 160-horse power plane, the
Golden Eagle Saturday over the
nose of Mount Mansfield, the
highest point il Vermont.
The trip was made from his
home in Coventry to Stowe by way
OF Jeffersonville, and the distance
from the latter point and the cir
cling around Mansfield, was done
in % minutes, ut maximum alti-
tude of 800 feet, which was at
tanned directly over the mountain,
after which ne dropped down to
within 80 feet Of the hotel and cir
cled around it several times.
1t. Cleveland had as passengers
on the trip Miss Kathleen Hunt,
Mrs. Fred c. Billings of Jefferson
vile.