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The New York herald., 1922-11-01
Husband issues statement.

Los ANGELES, Oct. 31.--Mrs. Margaret
Carleton, who with the Rev. Leonard j.
Christler was found shot to death in
e. Carleton. former Judge of the District
Friday, had confessed her love for the
Rev. Mr.. Christler to her husband, Frank
Il. Carlton, former Judge of the District
Court at Havre, Mr.. Carleton said to-
night in a signed statement to the AS
sociated Press.
~ can no longer remain silent in the
face of the startling statement of Bishop
Faber given to the Associated Press that
Il believe as a result OF the investigat ton
| have made of the tragedy which oc-
Cured in the Christler home early Fri
day morning and after questioning those
who knew about it. that il this woman
had been able to work her Will on Mr.
Christler he would be alive to-day. un-
faithful to his wife but still living. the
statement said.
II wonder II his Reverence knew when
he made the statement that this pastor.
who. it is now claimed. maintained only
a friendly and ministerial interest In the
Carleton family, had written letters t"
Margaret Davenport. my wife's maiden
name, and sent them Nm care OF gener Ii
delivery?
Let 1t be well understood that III
making this statement | intend to cast
not the slightest reflection or condemna-
ton upon my wife, for no one knows as
well as I do the influence which this
man held over her and which could
reasonably be termed hypnotic"
The New York herald., 1922-11-01
BROKERS' WIFE DIES
AFTER ODD INJURY
Interior of Woman's Skull
Crushed, With Exterior Re-
naming Still Intact.
CLOTS FORM ON BRAIN
Physicians Can Detect No Sign
of Outward Bruise on Head
of Motor Victim.

Mrs Macmillan Kahn of 22l East
Sixtieth street, whose husband is an
investment security broker at Rector
street. died at noon yesterday in the
Lenox Hill Hospital of an injury suf-
fered on October 90.
An automobile In which she was rid
ing was forced of the road by another
car In Greene county, Tho injury was
OF such an unusual nature that half a
dozen of the foremost specialists ir New
! ork were unable to explain IT, An
operation performed on MONDAY dis
closed that the whole left side of her
head. on the inside, had been crushed
and that clots had formed on the brain.
But there were no outward evidences of
the wound and no indications of d frac-
tured skull.
Mrs. Kahn suffered her injury a mile
south of Coxsacke. With her husband
and Mr.. and Mrs. T.. II. Schroth an /
their niece. Miss Elsa Schroth. she had
been to Glens Falls and was returning
home in motor car driven by a chaaf-
The New York herald., 1922-11-01
FIND NEW PUZZLE IN
KILLING OF RECTOR
Surgeons Disagree on Path of
Bullet in Mrs. Garlic
tons Body.
HUSBAND ENTERS CASE
Carleton Says Wife Confessed
to Him She Loved DR..
ChPistler.
HUSBAND ENTERS CASE

HAvRE, Mont. Oct. 81 (Associate1
Press) Following findings by two
Havre surgeons this afternoon that the
bullet which killed Mrs. Margaret Carle-
ton in the double killing here last Fri
day morning ranged downward through
her body at sharp angle. instead OF
directly in and slightly upward, as was
testified at the inquest by DR.. Carl Foss,
civil authorities were prepared tonight
to make further investigation OF the
tragedy.
Prosecutor Max Kuhr said the devel-
opment warranted investigation and
said further evidence was expected.
The examination was made at the re-
quest of Mrs. Carleton's mother. Mrs.
Joseph Phyle. of Butte, Mont. The bull
let was found, by the physicians in the
muscles beside the spinal column
The home of the Rev. Leonard j..
Christler. who was killed at the same
time and place with Mrs. Carleton. was
opened this afternoon in an unsuccessful
effort to find evidence that the gun
which discharged the fatal shots was the
property of the Christlers
The New York herald., 1922-11-01

feur. The three women sat on the rel-
seat. with Mrs. Kahn on the right OUT
side. The machine tried to pass car
ahead of them south of Coxsackie. but
the driver of the latter turned In towar
the middle of the road. This forcel
the Kahn automobile off the road and
over ditch missing a telegraph pole
BY ABOUT eight inches and coming tc
a stop on an embankment
The car was severely jolted as 1t
went across the ditch. but it did not
hit anything. Mrs. Schroth and Miss
Elsa Schroth did not notice that Mrs
Kahn shifted about in her seat at AL
Yet. when the car was stopped. 1t was
found that she was blind and uncon-
scious and bleeding profusely from the
mouth. nose and ears The car was
hurriedly driven back to Coxsackie and
DR.. Ernest Van Eeusen. of Albany
was called. Mrs. Kahn lay unconscious
at the Park House in Coxsackie for 81
week. During that time she was ex-
amined frequently by DR.. Van Heussn
and by prs. John Workman and NJ.
Murray WaXman. They were unable
to determine what was the exact nature
of the injury. She had no signs of in
jury except two slight bruises on ner
right leg and her right arm.
When the three physicians ar Cox
sackle could not diagnose tne case IL was
decided to send Mrs. Kahn to- New York.
She arrived here Sunday. still bind and
unconscious. Prof Burton Obertz of
Columbia University and Bellevue Hos
p'tal was called. He sent lor D.. Willy
Meyer and Dr. Jacob and othec promi-
ent surgeons and specialists, When
they could find no sings o. injury an
operation was decided upon. This dis
c.osed the crushing of the ,nside of the
left part OF Mrs. Kahn's head. bur no one
las been able to explain low size could
lave hit that side OF her mead during
the time when the machine jolted off the
road. The surgeons cannot explain how
the inside of her head coui.i be so ter
slgns wahtever of any wound.
Mrs. Kahn was a daugnter OF DIR. II.
c. Brannon Of Wheeling, W. Va, and
cousin of Alvin Macaulay pres dent Of
the Packard Company.
The New York herald., 1922-11-01
FLUSHING EXTENSION
SUBWAY CONTRACT LET
Two Years AlloUed for Com.
pletion of Work.

The Transit Commission announced
yesterday that 1t had awarded to the
Oakdale Contracting Company. Inc, of
Long Island City. the lowest of nine
bidders, at Sl,6S5.s50.75. the contract
for the subway portion of the Flushing
extension of the Corona branch of the
Greensboro subway.
The contract covers the construction
of a three track subway. together with
the ramp leading from the drawbridge
that will carry the line across Flushing
Creek.
Eighteen months will be allowed on
the subway portion. all work must be
completed In two years.
The New York herald., 1922-11-01
MIDsHIpMAN TRIED AS HAzER.

Special Dispatch to THE New .YoRK HERALD
ANNAPOLIS, Oct. 31.--Jack III. Kearns.
a midshipman Of the first, or graduating
class. went on trial before court mar
tial here this morning on charge of
hazing Midshipman Nell r. Campbell.
fourth class man. by throwing tum-
bier at him and by compelling him to
get under the table. The trial was post
poned
The New York herald., 1922-02-14
Uncle Joe's Little Joke.

Uncle JOE CANNON is jesting when
he says he will not seek renomina-
tion for Congress this year. OF course
he will not seek denomination; he
never does. denomination will seek
Uncle JOE, just as it has every two
years since 1874, when the Sage Of
Danville, Illinois, gave it the first
opportunity to tag him.
That denomination took the trans
planted Quaker to the Forty-fourth
Congress, in which MICHAEL c. KERR
of Indiana was Speaker. Mr.. KERR
died in 1876; SAMUEL S. Cox of
New York and MILTON SAYLER of
Ohio held the Office OF Speaker pro
TEN. until SAMUEL J. RANDALL of
Pennsylvania was elected. Renomi-
nations have pursued Uncle JOE ever
since; reflections have been almost
as constant. Only four years have
the voters of his district allowed this
shrewd and fearless philosopher to
stay at home for rest. Twenty-three
terms he has served as Representa-
tive of the district of which Dan
VILE is the capital and which JOSEPH
GURNEY CANNON has made famous.
When March 4, 1923, comes along he
will have put in forty-six years in
the House.
Nobody in Congress can touch his
record; Speaker GILLETT comes near.
est to him in the House, rounding
out thirty years next year. Senator
LODGE entered the House in 1887 and
went into the Senate in 1893, resign.
ing as Representative to go into the
upper house. Uncle JOE CANNON
was a veteran when Mr.. LODGE took
his first walk on Pennsylvania ave.
Iue as lawmaker.
So when Uncle JOE says he is not
seeking denomination the wise will
smile knowingly. He does not have
/ to seek what seeks him.
The New York herald., 1922-02-14
Automobiles and Overalls.
There Are Reasons to Connect the
Sales of the Two.

To THE New YORK HERALD In the
article entitled overall and Automobile
Sales Leap Side by Side" the statement
is made that the sale Of automobiles Is
regarded as one barometer of the finan-
cial condition and that the sale OF
working garments picks up as the num-
Der OF jobs increases.
! suspect there is a misfit as regards
the overalls phase of the situation. The
automobiles and overalls are meshed to-
gether. When the grownup boy in
braces also this working garment for
use on Sundays till his car begins to
lose it's luster and becomes discourag-
ingly soiled.
Again, each pupil in the numerous
automobile night schools which have
been established throughout the country
during the present winter is required to
equip himself with a suit of overalls.
The workingman in his time rarely
possesses more than two suits of this
working garment. The new is donned
and the old thrown away only when
the latter arrives at state Of unpatch-
ableness. The revival Of good times
finds him in possession OF his suit OF
his former better days.
The increased sale of more than one
million automobiles during the last year
would very, likely account for the sale
of a corresponding number of overalls.
J. II. BOYLE.
WASHINGTON, February IL.
The New York herald., 1922-02-14
The Holdup Peril
Sentiments of Man Who Believe.
the Situation Is Getting Worse.

To THE NEW YoRK HERALD: / have
just read the account of the two armed
bandits who entered the grocery store
of +. Bohen & Sons. sol Madison ave-
nue.. near the corner OF Sixty-seventh
street. and attempted to rob it.
The senior Mr.. Bohen of some seventy
summers or more. declined to be cowed
or frightened by these rufiians and
single handed attempted to disa rm them.
In the mixup shots were fred. one bulS
let entering the ceiling. passing COM
pletely through and nearly hitting q
Mrs. Pell, who was in her apartment
just above. ~r
An alarm was given and the men en-
after a run at the corner of Sixty-sev-
enth street and Third avenue. At the
police station it was found that both had
very bad records for crimes of various
sorts. including highway robbery.
A day never passes without some
rough stuff being put over by gunmen in
various parts of the city. Has not the
time arrived when vigilance committees
should be formed headed by men who
are unafraid and able to cope with this
very serious situation which the police
seem quite unable to handle?
Nobody seems to be safe these days
in the street, in his store or office
or in his home. Any day one of our
nearest and dearest may be shot down
because, forsooth, he or she declines to
do the bidding of these miscreants.
Action should be taken to arouse the
people to the real condition which pre-
walls and l have no doubt that Madison
Square Garden could be filled many
times over by an indignant mass meet
ing for the purpose Of organizing and
handling this situation in a good old
fashioned manner.
1t seems to be getting worse rather
than better and the question is. What
are we going to do about it?
RUsHToN PEABODY.
New YORK, February 10,
The New York herald., 1922-02-14

have many sounds as they occur in
different combinations.
The Chinese Government officially
accepted the new alphabet in 1914.
Two years later plans were completed
for teaching it in all the higher
schools and in all colleges.
The phonetic alphabet will under
mine much of China's cataleptic con-
servativeness. Many Chinese schol-
ars fear it will result in total disre-
gard of the past, but the classics are
to be preserved in the new medium.
1t certainly should tend not only to
promote uniformity of speech but
unity in national consciousness. The
awakening of China has not been an
impetuously abrupt process, but the
slumber of centuries is at last being
broken. 1t is certain that the new
alphabet will make for the removal of
trade barriers and the consolidation
Of China's great internal and exter.
nal trade.
The New York herald., 1922-02-14
Another Cut at Albany.

After year of sharp retrenchment
and good business management in
the State Government there are not
the loose ends to be gathered up and
trimmed off that there were when
Governor MILLER's Administration
took hold. Nevertheless, there is an
other deep cut in spendings at Albany
and the new budget comes down
$9,000,000 this year, or $4,000, 600
below the spending figures for the
year preceding his term.
One of the most extraordinary
things about this splendid record of
business administration is that for
the first time in generation the de-
partments, as whole, did not spend
more than was appropriated for
them. On the contrary, Governor
MILLER's assistant managers have
turned back to the State Treasury
$S,000,0O0 which was appropriated
for them to spend If they needed
to spend 1t but which they FOUND
they could save and did save out of
the funds the Legislature made
available for them.
The total budget needs, which are
now down to about $12S.000,000, are
not so low as THE NEw YORK HERALD
would have liked to see them. We had
hoped the figures might fall well un-
der $125,00O,000 and perhaps the
Legislature, in voting the appropria-
tions, will be able to trim the budget
itself to something under this amount
Anyhow, with the fine start which
has been made, this next year Of
careful spending and sound man
aging under Governor MILLER should
see the States expenditure started
we'll on the way to dip under
100000, 900 "a year.
The New York herald., 1922-02-14
by w. J. HENDERSON.

The fourth concert of the Beethoven
Association took place last evening in
Aeolian Hall. The first announcements
of the program stated tnat one of the
performers would be a distinguished
violinist, whose name would be disclosed
later. Two or three days ago it became
known that this violinist was to be
Jascha Heifetz. The announcement
was sufficient to whet the curiosity o.
music lovers as to what kind of a figure
the young virtuoso would make as a
chamber music player.
The program was eagerly scanned.
1t comprised Beethoven's string trio In
ID, a group of Brahms songs, Bach $
sonata in Z for flute and piano and
Beethoven's quartet in c, opus SO, No. 3.
The artists announced were Georges
Barrere, Aurelio Giorni, Conrad Bos.
Hugo Kortschak. George Meader, Rene
Pollain and Willem Willeke. That Mr..
Meader would sing the songs, Coenraad
Bos play the accompaniments and Mr..
Barrere attend to the flute could hardly
be doubted
Those who went to the concert-aDd
as many went as the hall would contain
found that Mr.. Heifetz was willing
to be a chamber music performer twice.
He played in the trio as we'll as in the
quartet. The former composition, All
early creation Of the great master. was
probably unfamiliar to most OF those
present. and a delightful, simple and
cheerful little piece of music they found
it. 1t was played charmingly by Messrs.
Heifetz, Pollain and Willeke with deft-
ness and delicacy. The quartet required
the addition OF Mr.. Kortschak and also
went very well. Mr.. Giorni. capable
artist, had the piano part in the Bach
numbers. Altogether it was an evening
of fine music admirably presented.
The New York herald., 1922-02-14
Heifetz Plays at Beethoven Concert
Distinguished Violinist Appears Chamber Music
Player Both in Trio and Quartet.

night in Carnegie Hall for the benefit
of the choir school. The choristers
were assisted by John Finnegan. tenor;
Overton Moyle, bass. and an orchestrs
from the Philharmonic Society. The
admirable program was composed OF
ecclesiastical and secular music. Com
posers represented ineiuded Palestrina.
I.otti, Gretchaninoff, Verdi, Foote and
Hurley. Saint-Saens's La Mutt" for
boys choir with orchestra was the
central number. In its a capella as
we'll as accompanied singing the choir
showed much good technical. training
and a fine understanding of the text.
The balance of tone was not of the best.
as the lower voices overshadowed the
upper ones. The spirit was excellent.
Miss Anne Wolcott was at the piano
and in certain numbers Father Finn
was also at the organ.
Among those interested in the concert
were Mr. and Mrs. John Giraud Agar.
Mrs. De Lancey Astor Kane. Mr.. and
Mrs. Gerald Borden, Mrs. James Cox
Brady. Mrs. John w. Mackay, Mr..
Clarence Fl. ,Mackay, Mrs. Cornelius
Tiers, Mrs. Charles A. du Vivier. Mr..
and Mrs. Nicholas +. Brady. Mrs. At
wood Violet. Miss Teresa O'Donohue,
Mrs. Dwight Robinson, Mrs. Frank A.
Otis, Mrs. Edward C. Potter. Mr.. Thomas
F. Ryan. Miss Georgine Iselin, Mrs. j.
Rich Steers and Mr.. Rodman Wana-
maker.
The New York herald., 1922-02-14
A Chinese Alphabet.

With the adoption of a phonetic
alphabet to take the place of the old
symbol writing long step has been
taken in the direction of China's
emergence from the slumberous iso-
lation of centuries. The Chinese lam
guage may now be written in an
alphabet of thirty-nine letters rep
resenting sounds instead of in $4,000
ideographs some of which took as
many as sixty-seven strokes to
complete.
The adoption of the phonetic alpha
bet means, for one thing, the intro
duction of typewriters and type set
ting machines. Under the old system
these modern appliances could not
be adapted to Chinese uses, for key
boards equipped with between 5000
and 1000 different keys would have
been required, and even with them
not more than so per cent. of the
characters in every day use would
have been available. With the adop-
ton of the phonetic alphabet not
only is all this changed but great
advance in the unification of the Ian
guage itself has been made.
In 1912 the Chinese National Board
OF Education proposed this radical
departure from custom. 1t was one
of the first progressive steps taken
by the Chinese Republic. For three
months commission of seventy-fve
scholars studied the problem. In six
teen of the twenty-one provinces of
China what is known as the man
DARN dialect was spoken. This dia-
lect the educational experts adopted
as the language of the nation, and it
was this dialect which they reduced
to phonetic expression by forming
an alphabet.
The letters adopted are divided
into initials, finals and interchange
ables. To this arrangement the
Chinese language readily lends itself,
for the Celestial tongue is entirely
monosyllabic. Each word has only
one sound; there are about 500
sounds. Most of these can be repre-
sented by combination of an initial
and final letter. Where an addi-
tional sound is involved an inter
changeable is used Each letter hav-
ing its own invariable sound, there
is little or no room for mistake in
pronunciation of letter combinations.
In this respect Chinese educators
hold their alphabet to he superior to
that in which English is written. In
the latter consonants and vowels
The New York herald., 1922-02-14
Smuggling Aliens In.

One of the most interesting features
of the smuggling of human beings
into the United States-a wholesale
business which was described by our
Havana correspondent in THE New
York HERALD yesterdays that there
evidently is no punishment for the
offense. The per cent. immigration
law lacks teeth, probably because it
never occurred to the trainers of the
act that European emigrants would
try to enter the United States by
other than conventional methods.
. II the wise men in Washington had
remembered what happened after the
Chinese we're legally excluded they
The New York herald., 1922-02-14
De Valera a Poor Loser.

Mr.. DE VALERA is not playing the
game as sportsmen are supposed to
play it. His Sunday meeting in Dub
lin was an obvious attempt to EN-.
barrass the new Provisional Govern
ment of the Irish Free State at a
time when it needs the help of every
Irishman.
Those who had accepted Mr.. DE
VLERA's promise not to stand in the
way Of the great experiment and
those who have looked upon him as
an honest, if mistaken, man must be
astonished at his present attitude.
He denounces the Downing Street
treaty; but he was the man who ac.
cepted the invitation to the confer
ence after it was perfectly clear that
the question Of an Irish republic was
not to be considered. He says BADLY
that nothing but a republic will do /:
but the substitute treaty which he
asked the Dali Eireann to accept did
not contain the word republic" o.
any synonym of it.
Mr.. DE VALERA arranged the De-
cember conference and consented to
the personnel of Sim Fein'represen-
tatives who attended it. The Sim
Fein members of the conference
signed the treaty. The treaty, after
full opportunity had been given to
De VALERA and his group to discuss
it, was approved by a majority of
the Sim Fein members of the Irish
Parliament.
1t has, been understood that Mr.. DE
VALERA would await the next general
election in Southern Ireland and ac.
cept it's decision. Now we find his
meeting denouncing the Forthcoming
election. In every way that he can
De VALERA is lending himself to
mischief.
The Griffith Collins Government has
knotty problems to solve. The work
of assembling the machinery of a
new State is hard enough of itself;
but to this are added unemployment,
the labor troubles, the railroad strike
and the settlement Of that most del.
icate matter, the dispute with Ulster.
So far, considering their handicaps,
the leaders of the Provisional Gov
ernment have done exceedingly we'll.
That there has been such little dis
order is evidence that Southern Ire
land is in sympathy with them.
1t is unlikely that DE VALERA and
his reputation of the bargain will
have much effect in the long run.
But the former chief of the Sim Fein
is getting a reputation for being a
bad loser. And, what is more i'm
portant to Irishmen, he is harass.
ing this time an Irish, not an Eng.
lish, Government.