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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-06

Moscow, Oct. 6-~The troubles of 8 factory manager in Russia-its a munist trained in American industry and now in charge of the Amo auto mobile factory, one of the largest auto factories in Russia.
 was evidently enjoying the fight against heavy odds; but there was a look of weary responsibility in his eyes that contradicted his youth. Like thousands of responsible workers in Russia. he is trying to rebuild a great industry on a. shoestring, absolutely without capital and without prospects of getting any. He keeps on plug acles.
 I'm between the Government on the one hand and the workers on the other. Mine is Government plant. When go down to the Supreme Council of National Economy for the money need it is easy for them to explain to me why I have to wait for a week. I'm just one man; I can't make such a lot of fuss. They can explain it to me all right. but how am to explain to a thousand work men who come clamoring for their pay?
 Arbitrary Orders.
 Then next day comes an order from somewhere high up: Repair such and such autos at once on your personal responsibility as manager It's an order, you understand, like military order. Those autos have to be ready, but how does one drive workers who want their pay? And ten of the men in an essential repart- ment come to tell me they are taking a holiday to go to the harvest What can l do about it? There's a Glow ernment decree that no one shall in terfere with getting in the harvest.
 "Oh. yea he smiled, its a hell of life! But we're going ahead. We're really going ahead"
 The Amo plant is an enormous stretch of ground on the edge of Mos COW. with buildings which have cost already some ten to twelve million dollars and are not yet completed. They were started during the war to make autos on war contracts, but the revolution came before they were finished, and the owners fled. Here are fine machines from America which have never turned out the parts they are intended to nlake. There is a garden city laid out for six thousand of which only O few houses have yet been built.
 Needs $4,OOO,OOO.
 It would take four million dollars to finish that plant and start opera tionS: and this young communist has been given the task without the money. The only capital he has con sists of large quantities of stores copper wirt. ball bearings-nothing complete, but many of one thing and few or another. He is privileged to trade these things when he runs short Of funds He also has cemetery of
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-06
TROOP MUTINY
 MENACE ID PEKING
Unpaid Wages and Improp- CT Training Make Them Constant Peril

reklng Oct. 6-Troop mutinies are feklngs constant worry. The dis clpllne Of the. forces stationed in and apout the city has never been of inc oest' and the fact that they have not been paid for a number of months
 Is making matters worse Recently
 the Ninth Division stationed just north oi the city walls, refused to obev their 9nlcers 9i4i ana launched a footing expe- Fortunately the city gates were c1oS. GU promptly. and a heavy euard of ponce kept the soldiers outside. A @ all!" panic prevailed inside the city and rom certain quarters a rush was lIaoe TOT the lega tions. where there @ eI . IoIe eIgn troops. This week there were additional distur bances
 IS now suggested that Picking be
 made neutral territory and that no troops be permitted within fifteen miles of the city walls At present
 mere are about 5000 soldiers inside
 the city and about 3O,OOO onfsida tb < walls. Usually these forces are dt- Vlued between different parties and
 With the rapidly changing politica situation, there is always the chance or a, quarrel between their leaders
 with tn Peking as the battle-ground
 The situation has been agrayated q by the collapse of the Government
 and that the failure to pay. salaries The troops have come to feel the footing might be a legitimate neau- to make up the arrears due them Alarmed by the recent disturbances the foreign Powers, who control the Customs funds, released one-half mil lion dollars, which was used to pay the soldiers who are stationed in and near Picking.
 Much dependence is placed in the
 Peking police force. They are q we'll equipped, disciplined body
 of soldiery and have in part been
 trained under foreign instructors. The commander of their picked brigade.
 numbering about 5000, is a Norwe-
 gian, and his troops are conside ere q
 the equal of any of the foreign guards stationed here. g Besides his men,
 there are nearly ten thousand more city police, who have been paid reg
 u1arly and who have had good in
 struction. This problem of paying them, however, has been a constant
 worry to Chinese and foreigners alike. At a recent crisis a fund was made
 up by the bankers of the city.
 The Legation quarter is a city with in Peking and is walled off and forti- fled. In it there are enough troops
 of the different nationalities, inclnd-
 ing several hundred able-bodied
 Americans. Mariries. to defend the city against practically any of the
 present forces in China. There is room enough for all of the foreigners in Picking, and there would probably be food enough to hold out for some
 time.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-06
AUTHOR INDICTS ENGLAND FOR
 OWN FAULTS
Henry Arthur Jones, Lon don Playwright, Lays
 Blame at Britain's Door.
By DAVID NJ. CHURCH., International New Service Staff
 Correspondent.

London, Oct 6-Gone are the days when the statesmen had information al politics for their own little play thing.
 Everybody in England seems to be an authority on international affairs now.
 Margot Asquith has had her fling. Rudyard kip1ing, the author, was thrust into the field. General Fred erick Maurice is dickering with the subject and there are any number of ter in an amateur way. Information al politics bid fair to take the place of bridge and other indoor sports.
 Henry Arthur Jones, playwright and author. is one of the recent con Verts to the game of internadonai politics.
 Jones came to the defense of Amer ica in the Kipling controversy but wound up by making an attack upon his own country
 We Have Only Ourselves to Blame" may be the title of the next play from the Jones pen, at least that is the tone of his dip into the inter- national political pool.
 Let us whip our own defaults before we utter a word of reproach against any past or present shortcomings of our alIies," Jones said "1t is we ourselves who have beset ourselves with new dangers and approaching hin have summoned new foes from all parts of the earth and invited them to rise up against us and destroy us
 "On the 11th of November, 1918, England had topped all her past great centuries of achievement. She stood for one moment at her supremest height, and then. having defeated Germany. she made haste to defeat herself It is we ourselves who have done it. We have encouraged our enemies and quarrelled with our friends We have made dirty bar gains with nnurdererS and thieves and have broken our word to guarantee France from future devastation ana disme n1o erment. We have legallz- ed and subsidized sedition at home and fostered disorder and anarchy abroad. prepare to sit in the dust, with 5Ichabod' written upon thy forehead unless thou now, in these last mln- l1tes of the eleventh hour, arise ana nerve thyself with thy old immit1ga- ble might and, sumn oning thy true sons to tramp1e out thy traitors anu false teachers, gather thyseif m a new unity of national aim and enoeaV- or to redeem myself from the dan- gers that encompass thee and to fuInll a larger and yet larger and ever en- larging dest1ny! . h,,+ :.
 Rather 8 severe indictment put general election is on the way, ana Tones selected the die-hard MofnlnS Post as his rostrum. This may pe the answer.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-06

committee hears enough evidence in favor of the scheme, an amendment will be drawn up to the city charter ture, which convenes in January.
 Alderman Hogan favors the plan, with the comprehensive development of the northern section of the city, in view. Alderman Hogan believes that streets are now laid out in a hap hazard way. The original resolution On the layout of streets following a zoning sch eme, was presented to the council, referred to the streets ana sidewalks committee, which in turn referred it to the city engineer who has never made a report on the pro- ject.
 a The city attorney has decided. in an opinion that the city has power to zine the city but must proceed in a careful manner.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-06
PUBLIC HEARING
 ON z0NING WILL
 BE HELD TONIGHT

A public hearing Ion zoning will be held in the Common council chamber, City Hall tonight for the purpose of hearing views of opponents and advo- cates Iof the plan to zone the city. Alderman William E. Hogan, Dem ocrat. of the Sixth district, chairman of the miscellaneous committee, in- last Monday night. stating that his committee wished to get the proposed zoning scheme disposed of. If the
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-06-19
Russell Condor,
Contractor, Dies
Was Head of Omaha Chapter
of Associated General Con.
tractors Of America.

Russell Condor, 81, 1884 South
Twenty-sixth street, widely known
public works contractor operating in
many central states as head OF three
different companies, died at II 80
yesterday morning OF erysipelas He
had been resident of Omaha for
IS years and was president OF the
Omaha hcapter OF the Associated
General Contractors of America.
Funeral services will be held at 9
Tuesday morning at St. Bridget's
church, South Omaha. Rev. T. J.
O'Callaghan will celebrate mass.
Burial will be in St. Mary's ceme;-
tary.
Mr.. Condor was head OF the firm
of Condor & Bolen. which graded
the Dodge street road and now holds
many city and out-state contracts; of
the Russell Condor Construction
company, which is at work on Hill
nois contracts. and of the firm OF
Condor & Sherlock, which is paving
West Center street and has several
Douglas county contracts.
He is survived by his widow and
five children. Elizabeth. John, Mary,
Edward and Charles; three brothers,
George w., John and Daniel c. of
Omaha, and two sisters. Mrs. E. w.
Kolterman of Omaha and Mrs.
Frank w. Clifford of Portland, Ore.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-06-19
Chain Man
Is Destined
for Lincoln:
Fred Brown Will Be Taken
to State Capital as Soon
as Condition
Permits.
Omaha May Lose Him

Lincoln June D. -
fspecial Telegram.) - Fred Brown
will be taken to Lincoln from Raw
Inns as soon as his condition permits
and will remain in Lincoln indefinite
ly, possibly in the penitentIary hos
pital.
This was the statement made TO-
nigh, by Phil Bross, secretary OF ".
nance. authorized by Governor NC,
Kelyie to handle the Brown affair 10
date. Instructions to this effect viii
he wired to State Sheriff Gus Hyers
at Rawlins, Bross announced.
Lincoln Stole March.
Whether Brown will be tried on
charges preferred against him in
Omaha or Lincoln is problematicaS
although it is admitted here that Linz
coin authorities stole march on
those in Omaha by issuing a warrant
for Browns arrest on a charge OF
shooting to kill in connection with
his alleged attempt on the life OF
| Walter Schroeder, state parole ott''
Ger, more than a week ago.
Before Brown is removed from the
state penitentiary at Rawlins, state
authorities here desire a certificate
from the Wyoming penitentiary
physician asserting he is in propss
physical condition for moving. -
Fought to the Last.
Rawlins, Wyo.. June ls-Fred
Brown, fighting like 4 wildcat.
was captured and was not shot until
after he had pulled the trigger OF his
revolver and the cartridge failed to
explode, J. A. Wade, state law en-
forcement agent and member Of the
posse which captured the Omaha
"chain" bandid Saturday, declared
here. -
Weakness in the spring OF Browns
revolver, he said, is probably all thai
averted fierce struggle between the
fugitive and the officers.
"We stopped our car and walked
toward him through the grass and
underbrush," said Wade. AT less
than 200 yards away we shouted to
him that we were officers and de-
manded that he surrender" !.
Waited With Guns.
"Instead, he crawled into his ma
chine. and apparently waited for US
to advance so he could pick us off.
Ne scattered and crept toward him.
Finally he made break for a rock
formation 100 yards away. directly
behind his automobile. He had 2
shooter in each hand. We shot
all round him without attempting
to hit him, all the while calling fof
him to throw up his hands" !,
As Wade advanced from one side
other members of the posse crept
upon Brown from the other. Wade
reached the top of the rimrock on
which the bandit had taken refuge
and commanded him to hold up his
hands. Instead of complying, Brown.
who had been shot through the chest
just over the heart by member of
the posse, struggled desperately to
drag himself to a collection of guns
which he had dropped when he was
shot.
Three members of the posse finally
succeeded in subduing him. He was
weak from the loss of blood when he
| finally surrendered, Wade said.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-06-19
Police Jail Girl
Brown Manacled
Charge Against Katherine
McManaman Is Kept Secret
Found in Benson.

Following closely on the heels OF
the arrest and shooting of Frank
Brown, the Benson manacle man,
Saturday in Wyoming, police or
dered the arrest of Katherine Nc
Manaman, one of the chained
girls"
Mystery surrounded her arrest,
She was taken into custody by Po.
lice Officer Olson in Benson. He
discovered her riding OH the rear
seat of motorcycle going through
Benson. She was booked at the po-
lice station for investigation"
II don't know why they arrested
me-" Miss McManaman said. at
might be in connection with the re-
port that / stole hat from a wo-
man named Mrs. Mary Puryear. l
don't think it is in connection with
Browns arrest"
In connection with a rumor that
Brown had stated he chained the
girls when they threatened to
"squeal" about him having stolen
diamonds and jewelry in his posses.
sion, Miss McManaman said: eve
didn't see any jewelry OF diamonds
at the shack until the morning we
were freed by the deputy sheriffs
Brown was a stranger to US wher
we met him at Twenty-fourth and
Cunning streets and he took us Or
the automobile ride which ended in
the claiming"
She said that she and Gene Jen.
kins. who was chained with her by
Brown, were together earlier in the
evening. Police refused to state
whether they were looking for the
Jenkins girl.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-06-19
President
Will Back
Rail Board
Strike Of Rail Employees Will
Bring About Headon
Collision With Gov.
ernment.
Plans Are Already Made

Cincinnati. o., June ls,-(By
\. P)-Formal notice was served
tonight on the railroad labor board
by the chiefs OF 10 railroad unions
OF their intention to go through with
q strike in event one is authorized
by the i.2ls.000 workers whose
wages are TO be reduced on July
under orders OF the board.
Coupled apparently with the ac-
,ion OF the rail union leaders was a
statement that the railroad workers
have no alternative except to fight,
made by John L. Lewis, leader OF
.;he striking coal miners. who will
meet with the rail union leaders
Tuesday to consider joint strike &C.
ton. He also pledged the miners
aid to the rail men, but declined to
state definitely what aid might re-
suit from joint action.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-06-19
Murder Charge
Against Brown
Being Debated
Filing of Accusation in Sief.
ken Slayinss Will Depend
on Witnesses of
Crime.

Whether Fred Brown. manacle
man, would be charged with the MUIR
der of Charles Seifken and his son
Robert had not been decided last
night by heads of the Omaha detec-
tive department.
Charles Van Deusen, chef of de-
tectives, said the decision would de-
pend on the declarations of witnesses
of the Siefken Staying.
Police attach much importance also
to the testimony of Miss Sylvia Kula-
kofsky. 3l9 North Thirty-eighth ave-
nue.. Union Pacific employe, who, a
few moments before the Siefken
tragedy, escaped from the attentions
Of man who was following her.
Robert Siefken obtained friend to
take the young woman home and the
follower was thwarted. On long
ride on a street car Miss Kulakof-
sky noted the man carefully.
Many Charges Pend.
Erred Browns history indicates
that he might gladly hold up a man
who foiled him in such manner"
Chief Van Deusen said, "and if Miss
Kulakofsky identifies Brown as the
follower he will have much to ex-
plain about the Siefken shooting and
his whereabouts"
Here is how Chief Van Deusen and
1t. John Pszanowski of the motor
theft bureau said Brown probably
could be prosecuted here:
|. Under the habitual criminal act,
meaning possibly 10 years in prison.
2 For completely in looting the
Joseph Bauer hardware store, 1882
South Twenty-fourth street
3. For the theft of six motor cars.
New evidence, according to Chief
Van Deusen, leaves it in doubt as to
whether Brown could be prosecuted
tor claiming H. E. Boyd and two
girls at his Benson shack.
Chain Charge Slender.
Brown probably would be able to
show that he dug the Boyd grave to
get tub of loot that he carried
away i'll his motor car" the chief
said, land controversy probably
would develop as to how the girls
happened to be there"
One of the girls, Katherine Nc
Manaman, is now in police custody.
She was arrested Saturday night and
officials say she was held for the
health department. Complaint also
has been made to the police by one
of her friends. that she borrowed a
hat and did not return it.
If Brown is prosecuted as a man
acle man." according to the police,
conduct of everybody concerned in
the claiming is certain to be closely
scrutinized for long period prior
to the episode.
But in the opinion of Chief Van
Deusen the manacle man hasn't a
chance to 60 free.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-06-19
Armistice
lsSis,,:;v,..s::$:':t.1
Wu#'~cl-Fu
Hostilities Have Ceased OH
Shanhaikwan Sector-Nor.
nal Rail Traffic
Expected.
Sun Awaits His Army

Tientsin. June lS.-(By \. P0-
An armstice between the forces OF
Gen. WI Pei-fu, head OF the central
China military establishment, and
Chang Tso-Lin, Manchurian rebel
tuchun, has been signed at Chin
wangtae.. according 10 reports reach
ing here over the railroad line to that
port.
According TO these reports.
Chang's Fengtien troops are with
drawing from the Shanhaikwan Sec
tor and hostilities already have
ceased.
1t is hoped here that normal rail-
way traffic between Peking and
Shanhaikwan, where it has been OBJ
structed by the fighting on the south
Manchurian front for some days,
may be restored within the week.
Leaders OF the forces OF WI and
Chang were reported last Friday to
have met aboard a British vessel at
Chinwangtae to consider truce,
Annoy, China, June l8.-(By
A. P)-The presidents residence in
Canton has been taken by the troops
of Gen. Chen Chung Min. DR.. Sun
Yat Sen is supposed to have made
his escape on board gunboat.
Canton City was bombarded
Saturday afternoon by five gunboats
under command OF Sun Yat-Sen. The
residents deserted their houses.
There were only few casualties.
The soldiers OF the invaders did
considerable looting.
Sun Yat-Sen's army in Kiangsi is
reported to have been defeated 1t
is reported he is awaiting the arrival
OF his defeated army, when an at
tempt will be made to retake Canton.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-06-19

Rawlins, Wyo., June lS.-(Special
Telegram. )-"Why didn't I throw
up my hands when odds were all
against me?"' Well, the odds are
never against ME as long as I have
a gun. never would have put up
my hands. | never would have given
up if 1 had not tainted from loss of
blood"
In this manner, Omaha's wild
man" today answered questions pro-
pounded to him in the first inter
view he has consented to since his
dash through the mountains OF
Wyoming. last week and his subse-
quent csAture north of Medicine
Bow Sat1day:
On the eve Of his departure for
Omaha in the custody of Nebraska
State Sheriff Gus Hyers, where he
will face charges of having bound
two women with log chains, as
saulted them, and'kept them in eel
lar for two days, Fred Brown, alias
Gus Grimes, alias Ernest Busch, lay
on his cot in the Wyoming state
penitentiary here and told officers
a part but not all of the story OF
his escape from Omaha, of his event
full trip to Lincoln and back again
his wounding of patrolman in
Omaha, OF his flight to Sidney
Neb., his outwitting of officers there
and finally of his dash for Boxelder,
Canon country, where he once
worked as sheepherder under what
is believed to be his right name
Ernest Busch-,and where he hoped
to remain in hiding -
Willing to Talk.
He was more than willing to tell
how he had diseomforted authorities,
but when he was asked concerning
series of crimes for which. he will
be held as suspect, ,rincluding three
murders, he shrugged his, shoulders.
He admitted nothing and denied
nothing. :, G,Gr,o =.
Brown. has so far recovered that
Hyers plans to leave with him early
Tuesday, arriving in Omaha Wed
nesday morning. ...f
As he grew better he also grew
more talkative. you cant kid me
partner, I've been 'kidded' by ex-
perts,'. he said You're just kidding
yourself, that's ALL" was the bandit
reply to several queries shot at him
by Sheriffs Hyers, Sanders and Car
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-06-19
Lincoln Prisoner
Flees Moving Train

Lincoln, June l8.-(Special Tele-
gram. )-James H. Duffield, prize
fighter of this city, escaped from a
moving train between here and Have
lock. suburb. while in the custody
of Constable ]. Inmenhausen, who
was returning him TO Lincoln to an
swer a hcarge Of having passed
checks with insufficient funds.
Duffield was arrested in Omaha.
With him were his wife and child
The wife beggen the constable, who
had been sent to Omaha to return the
prisoner, to permit them to accom-
pany them. Near Havelock, Duf-
field said he wished to wash his
hands and was permitted to elave
the seat. When he did not return
the constable investigated and found
his charge zone.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-06-19
Puglist Is Killed in !.
Gun Duel With Coz

One man was killed and a police
man and a bystander were wounded
in gun fight on the carnival
grounds in Council Bluffs Saturday
night.
Jack Thomas, known as "Pana-
ma" Jack, an amateur pugilist, was
the man slain. He was fighting 4
gun battle with Policeman R. P.
Bolin, who attempted to arrest him
for drunkenness and rowdyism.
Bolin was wounded three times in
the fight, in the right hand, the right
arm and the right leg. He fired the
bullet that killed Thomas when he
was scarcely able to stand.
The bystander was Fred La
Crosse, a carnival employe. He was
only slightly wounded.
F The two wounded men are in Ed.
nundson hospital.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-06-19
Marion Ream Stephens
Named in Alienation Suit

Paris, June l8.-Mlle. Liobouv
Mouromsky, who claims to be the
first and only legal wife of Anastase
Vonsiatsky-V y-Vonsiatsky, has in
structed her attorney here to insti-
tute proceedings against Mrs. Marion
Ream Stephens, American heiress,
who married Vonsiatsky last Febru-
ary. Mile. Mouromsky is asking for
S5O0,0O0 damages for alternating the
affections Of her husband"
Mile. Mouromsky is ready to leave
for America in case her presence
should be required by the New York
attorneys who will prosecute the case
in the American courts.