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The Washington times., 1923-01-23
BITES OFF WIFE'S NOSE;
SURGEONS REPt ACE 1T

MANSFIELD, Ohio, Jan. 3D.
An operation in plastic surgery
was performed on Mrs. Stella
Jukich today to replace the tip of
her nose which was entirely bit
ten off.
1t is alleged she and her hus.
band, Eli Jukich, had an alterca-
ton because some one had given
her a box of chocolate candy at
the factory where she worked. The
husband is said to have forbidden
his wife to return to work. She
insisted on going back. Jukich is
said to have bitten her nose off to
keep her from returning.
The Washington times., 1923-01-23
By WINIFRED BLACK.

Main street gone wrong
interesting idea, isn't it? :
We've always thought of
morphine and cocaine and
heroin as belonging first in
the hospitals and clinics and
then in the red light district.
Ten, yes, even five, years
ago, we knew all about hop
heads and dope-fiends. We
read about them in the news
papers, and we heard about
them whenever we interested
ourselves in the misery and
despair of the slums and the
horrors of the vice-districts.
We. never even dreamed that
these things would spread into
the country like a pestilence:
Reach to Schools.
Reach out to the schools and
creep to the very door and inside
the door of the plain little homes
where the people live who have
always been considered the very
backbone of the nation.
How about this news from the
home town?
Is it true down to the last syl-
liable Of it; or is it perhaps a little
exaggerated?
Read the story of Summerset,
Ky.-a story with names, dates.
facts and figures-and see what
you think about it.
When you're through with Sum-
merset and it's almost unbelier-
able tale, how about Peoria, H.?
Ever been in Peoria?
Pretty place, prosperous and happy
looking. :. ~
Hard NAPLES lining the streetM
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STORM FORECASTED
ALONG SOUTH COAST

Storm warnings were ordered dis
played by the Weather Bureau this
morning between Savannah, Ga,
and the Virginia Capes.
disturbance over Alabama will
increase in intensity and move
northwestward, said the warning.
Strong easterly winds probably of
gale force this afternoon and to-
night with rain" - -
The Washington times., 1923-01-23

Defense il klan Trial Say
Bodies Found in Lake Are
Not Identified.
By B. Y. sGURDIVANT.


COURT HOUSE, B ASTROP, La,
Jan. Z3 The two rlahgled bodies,
found Haakina IN LalkAsIsa Foarche
Q month ago and Identified as
Watt Daniel and Thomas ].
Richards, victims Of shooded
mob viii Be branded as flakes"
u the .defeElse prepared for the
men charged with their murder,
the international News Service
learned today.
WIZ Attack Identificatiosi.
Attorneys defending both T. jeff
Burnett. former deputy sheriff and
DR.. Bruno McKoin. former khan
official, now under hail on murder
Of the bodies, the ascribed manner
Of their death and the very allega-
ffon that Daniel and Richards are
dead.
This was revealed today by Judge
William c. Barnette, chief OF de-
tense counsel, in an exclusive inter-
view with International News Serv-
ice Judge Barnette announced he
would outline the defense's entire
case in a formal statement to be
issued AZ soon as the open hearing
ends.
eat the close of the open hear.
ing we will make formal state
rnent which the whole world will be
glad to accept" said Barnette 1--WE
will call spade a spade, and the
statement will begin with the Cor
pus Deficit and follow the evidence
right down to the adjournment. We
will censure the khan where we think
IL necessary, will uphold 1t where
ever the situation warrants such ac-
ton"
The Judge declared he expected
the Morehouse parish grand jury to
refuse the return of indictments on
the evidence presented thus far by
the State authorities at the open
hearing.
SIN my judgment" he said. there
will be no arrests resulting from in
dictments by the grand jury. I feel
this way because the evidence pro-
duced by the opposition il not Of
sufficient credence to warrant any
grand jury returning a single true
bill.
Witnesses Discounted.
"They have not sprung one sur
prise on us since the hearing opened.
We anticipated every action that
occurred, and there was nothing new
In the evidence introduced. Some of
the witnesses had no standing what
soeyer in the community, either
among klansmen or anti-klansmen,
AND we weren't surprised either
When they were called"
The Washington times., 1923-01-23
CHARGE BRITISH CORNER
OF WORLD RUBBER SUPPLY

Coincident with reports that Great
Britain is "cornering" the worlds
rubber supply and forcing American
manufacturers to pay heavy toll to
British enterprise, the Department
of Commerce announced today that
it is conducting an investigation into
world resources, chiefly in South
America.
American field agents in South
America are now engaged in compil-
ing the statistics and studying the
opportunities offered for American
DEVELOPMENT.
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INDEPENDENTS JUMP
MINE PRICES OF COAL

READING, Pa, Jan. 23.-Price
increases Of SO to 81 a ton at the
mines have been made by independ-
emit coal operators, it was stated by
a Retailers Association official here
today.
On December 13 an independent
charged 1925 a ton for pea coal.
Now his price is $11. The same
operator is asking $13.75 for egg,
stove and chestnut. The freight is
$3.50, and as a result some dealers
here handling independent coal will
run their price far over the SIS
mark.
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Witnesses Discounted.
New Evidence Enmeshes
2 More Members of
Alleged Hooded Mob
By WILLIAM x. HUTCHINSON


International News Service.
COURTHOUSE, BASTROP Ia
Jan. 23.-The web of circumstantiai
evidence which the State ~
Louisiana has thrown around the
BLACK mask" terroists of More.
house parish. today enmeshed two
more men as alleged members Of
the hooded mob" which br1,taIIv
executed Watt Daniels and Thomas
y. Richards, last August.
They were Jasper N. Jap" Jones
and big Jim" Harp, both emploves
Of the Southern Carbon COMPANY.
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most BEAUTIFUL GIRL"
SUES hallway COMPANY

CHICAGO Jan. %. - Suit for
$50, 900 damages against the Erie
and the Chesapeake and Ohio rail-
roads was filed in the circuit court
yesterday by Miss Florence Marse,
of Harmon, Ind.
Miss Marse Ia known as the
most beautiful girl in Hammond"
Held up at crossing by a
freight train, she prevailed upon
q brakeman to disconnect the
freight cars and let her pass.
She passed the freight cars
safely, but was struck by fast
mail train on the other track.
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CHICAGO GANGS TAKE
$4,000 IN HOLD-UPS

CHICAGO, Jan. 23.-Eighteen
men were lined up in a South
Side saloon early today. robbed and
then held at bay by five armed
youths who skillfully broke open
the safe and escaped with $4,000.
In another hold-up, twelve burg
lars tied a warehouse Waterman
and a boy. and stole whisky valued
at $75. 600
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McAD0o ADMITS HE'D
RUN IN "a, IF ASKED

NEW ORLEANS, La, Jan. o.
William Gibbs McAdoo reached here
yesterday en- route to Los Angeles.
He declined to comment on poll
tics, but said II a man is offered the
Presidential nomination he should
not decline
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Ohio Meets Hooded Menace.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. pa
measure passed by the house yes
terday was bfeore the Ohio senate
today for passage, making the kill
ing Of q person by another while
masked punishable with death. The
bill is the outgrowth Of the 'hood-
ed mob" murders in Louisiana. its
author said.
The Washington times., 1923-01-23
BY FRANK e. MASON,
International News Service.

PARIS, Jan. 23.-F'rance set
out today to combat Berlin's in
fluence over the Germans in the
occupied areas of the Rhineland
and Ruhr and to fight the Ger
man policy of passive resist
ance." The cabinet decided upon
the following counter moves
against Berlin:
May Cut Wires.
First-Increase the difficulty of
communications between the Ger
man capital and the Ruhr.
Second-To make financial repris.
ais by issuing paper money in the
occupied zones if Berlin refuses to
supply the Ruhr banks with German
marks.
Foreign office officials said that
while the menace of a general strike
has not been removed entirely from
the Westphalian industrial zone and
the Ruhr basin, the tendency on the
part Of German labor is to remain
at work In mill and mine.
AdVices from French headquarters
at Dusseldorf were optimistic. They
said that Berlin's influence appeared
TO De lessening owing to the neces-
sity OF the men to remain at work
Continued On RaEe 2 Column 60
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Charges Soviets Aid Irish.

LONDON. Jan. 23.-The Tory
newspaper Morning Post charged
today that the Moscow Soviet is
behind the Republican revolt in
ireland. It declared that "arms are
being poured into ireland from the
United States and Scotland,
The Washington times., 1923-01-23
THE WEATHER

Increasing cloudiness; fol-
lowed by snow or rain to.
night and Wednesday; some
what warmer Wednesday !;
increasing easterly winds,
The Washington times., 1923-01-23
WEST
TOWNS
HARD
HIT
LittIe coHsgnnnit ies -, Fos-
porous I'm Country Found
Heavy Users

No epiidens;c. Ossly d CONE
q,sss1sity fsUe Thousand normal
people, formers Of the Ke1lat
tucky halls, qVho used 1904
grains of morphine IN Is
months.
s'Tsco hundred ounces off
morphine sold by a Main
street druggist III d to1Oa
of fiVe thousand inhabitants.
III 1921 the Bellevue and
allied hospitals to avh5ch all
NeaU YOrh5s accidents and
emergency cases 90 used only
92H ounces for the treat
ment of 64,1O3 patients.
And the taUeaty-seVen p1inci-
pal hospitals of Philadelphia
absorbed only ninty ounces
Of morphine.
That is about One-third of
the amount absorbed By the
men, aCOn1en, and children
of Sunamerset, Kentucky.
And you can match the
story of Suname7set IN every
State IN the Union"
That's a0Rat Sidney HoaC-.
ard Says In HeGrst's Maya
zine. Il
The Washington times., 1923-01-23
FRANCE PLANS
To ISOLATE
RUHR
Will Try to lucrease Difficulty
OF Communications With
Berlin Government.
By s. ID. WEYER,

ESSEN. Jan. 23.-There has
been big extension Of the Ruhr
coal strike within the past twenty
four hours and it was claimed Nv
the Germans this afternoon that
about 100000 men were idle.
Coal production from the mines
owned by Hugo SHINES and
August Thyssen was paralyzed by
the walE0ut of miners. The
French have not yet attempted to
requisitiOn mine labor and there
have been no disorders.
French officials are proceeding
cautiously, but claim to have the
situation completely i'm hand.
The Washington times., 1923-01-23
International News Service.
BY Radio.

LONDON, Jan. 23.-Germany's
third formal protest against
French occupation of the Ruhr
WAS made to Great Britain today.
Herr StIlamer, the German am.
bassadOr, presented two notes to
the foreign office charging that
the French military move was
illegal.
Evening star., 1923-12-21

Oriental University when the action
here was started against the latter
institution.
The action against the Oriental
University was taken by the state
attorney generals office at the behest
of the federal government. which
charged the institution with being d
diploma mill and with disseminat-
ing "a creed the purpose of which
seemed to be treason, The univer-
sity was not represented at the hear
ing.
Helmuth p. IIoller was named in
court yesterday as perpetual presi-
dent and corresponding secretary" of
the university. which, 1T was charged,
sold degrees in all parts of the world.
II confine myself to Theomonism.
am the author of the Theomonistic
Bible" Holler is declared to have
told Post Office Inspector B. B. Webb.
A copy of this Bible was filed in
the record of the proceedings. EX-
cerpts read:
"Wondrous works we shall carry
out by the German troops"
The Lincoln for Europe is Ger
many"
We bring united troops to help
the Germans"
THE eagle shall win Germany is
being led by stronger power"
Evening star., 1923-12-21
PROBE EXTENDED
IN DIPLOMA MILL"
Promoters of Defunct ORR.
entail University Declared
Furthering Another.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, December 2I-The
virginia charter of the Oriental Uni
Nerslty of Washington, d. c.. was re-
Noked yesterday by Judge r. Carter
scott in city circuit court, and imme-
dlately plans We're gotten under way
by the federal government to have
similar action taken in Arizona
against the Universal University. Of
ficials in charge of the prosecution
against the Oriental University de-
clared the Universal University was
organized by those at the head of the
Evening star., 1923-12-21

to Pennsylvania avenue hotel, and
failed to return. Her husband, she
stated. is subject to sinking spells. and
she thought he may have been taken
sick. Police are conducting a search for
the missing man.
Evening star., 1923-12-21
MAN REPORTED MISSING.

Frank A. Tracey, thirty-four years
old. is reported missing from his
home, 22S I'd street northeast, since
late yesterday afternoon His wife
told the police he left home to go
Evening star., 1923-12-21

Canada recently received an order
from Rumania for a 100000 deal in
woolen textiles.
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limbs refused to obey her. Even on the
drop she had to be supported.
Her terror of the previous evening APP
peared to have given way, leaving her in
half-dazed state, in which she was heed
less of words spoken to her by others.
She was in state of prostration
through the long night, and lay on her
bed a twitching, detected figure, pitiable
to see.
Muttering unintelligibly to herself,
moaning at intervals, and painting like a
hard-pressed deer seeking escape from the
hunters hounds, she required the atten-
ton of the doctor right up to the moment
of execution
Clay faced, aged beyond belief. her face
was drawn and haggard as she lay, stray
CLING wisps Of the hair that Bywaters
kissed hanging damply over her forehead.
Four hours from the time fixed for the
execution she was completely unconscious.
Three hours later the chaplain entered the
cell, asking the condemned woman to
make her peace with God.
When Ellis, the executioner, accom-
panied by Pierrepont, Junior, his assist
ant, entered the cell, she did not at first
appear to realize who they were and the
significance of their mission.
"Where is Fred?" she asked petulantlv
again and again. "Why can / not see
him." Then as the straps were being
fastened to her wrists realization came to
her in flash.
With terrible shrek, so heartrending
and supplicating in it's tone, and yet so
full of despair, she would have sunk to
the ground had not firm grasp prevailed.
Everyone in the cell was affected by
the painful scene-the chaplain turning
aside his head momentarily to bar the
spectacle from his eyes.
Then the strange procession started,
the chaplain leading, droning the words
that every prisoner hears as he or she
goes to meet the Great Judge. Two ward
ers bore the limp form of the woman be-
tween them with clasped hands.
Once placed on her feet she rallied
somewhat, then when her legs were pin
Toned she tottered again, standing on the
drop.
"Freddiew she whispered behind the
black mask; "where are you Freddie?"
And as the cxecutioner fixed the moose
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LONDON, Feb. Is.

LONDON, Feb. 10.
THE cables have already told of the
--,1 execution on the gallows of Edith
4or-s. Thompson and her sweetheart,
Frederick Bywaters-the news reports
were the cold, colorless announcements
given to the press by prison authorities.
But from sources inside the death
chamber where Edith Thompson spent her
Last hours. and from one of the officials
who stood beside Bywaters on the scat
Hold, there has become known the remark
able story of this double execution and
how the lovers paid the price of their
folly and crime in the separate prisons
where they met their end.
Within a few seconds of each other two
souls had winged their way silently out
:, 10 the ether-whither, no one knows.
~, Similar in many respects were the last
Solemn preparations at Pentonville and
olloway Prisons, where the grim SEN
,,.epces of the law were carried out. The
tomb-like silence of these great, gaunt
buildings was unbroken while the last ar
fangements were being made.
There was glisten of Spring in the air
notwithstanding the slight drizzle of rain
THAT fell when Bywaters took his place on
the chalk line of sinister suggestion
marked across the drop.
He inhaled deeply of the cold air which
touched his face, pale as death beneath
die black cap covering his eyes.
jf~One more look at the worldv' he
pleaded as he came into position.
,A"Jhere was a moments hesitation, then
"otfer hands performed the act his pinioned
ones could not, and the black hood was
removed from his head. He did not ap-
pear to pay any attention to the scaffold.
!, Itswas not curiosity that had prompted
his appeal. He looked up at the lavender
gray sky, saw the CLINT of gold where a
hidden sun lay, all but obscured, then in
|. quiet, firm voice said:
TT am ready"
There was no inquiry for the woman
~ had loved him, no last message, ap-
fra"ently no thought of the other who at
~ same moment was paying the price of
their criminal folly at that very moment
in neighboring prison.
ate'Mrs. Thompson, pale, trembling thing,
sunly partially conscious, had to be carried
roo the fatal spot in Holloway jail Her
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One of the Protesting Sandwich
Women Who Paraded in Front of
the Jail Where Edith Thomp-
son Was to Be Executed.

lutely innocent There is nothing for me
to tell. / did not know what was going
to happen on that night.'''
First the mother and then the father
kissed the poor, Inflated girl, while tears
streamed down her cheeks, and then, in
a sudden gust of emotion, she told them
that she had had no message from By
waters.
And then the time came for parting.
Mother and father, sister and brother,
who had also come to say farewell,
braced themselves and restrained the tears
that would have coursed down their
cheeks.
eve did not wish to make it any harder
for her." said Mrs. Graydon to the
writer, herself at breaking point, through
the terrible strain, and, as the door closed,
Mrs. Thompson sank back on her bed, her
frame torn by convulsive sobs.
Two wardresses had been assigned to
constant attendance on Mrs. Thompson,
and as the days passed slowly by, while
the condemned woman waited hopefully
for reprieve from the sentence of death,
she took on alternate moods of courage
and exaltation of spirit, and at other
times sank into the depths of gloomy de-
spair. The Weaknesses observed the tenn
peramental woman very closely and feared
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that hardly moved, and from which all
blood had fled.
The chaplain began the dying service;
clear and quiet were his tones. The
woman. all in black-she was wearing the
mourning blouse and skirt she had on
during the trial-stood swaying for a mo-
ment. The lever was pulled.
The rope suddenly became stiff, swaying
thing. Still the chaplain's voice dreamed
on-1 am the resurrection and the Life,
saith the Lord"
Thus did Edith Thompson expiate the
crime of murder, of which she was found
guilty. Never in the history of Holloway
Prison has a more affecting scene been
staged than that in which she was prin-
cipal.
Even hardened prison officials could not
repress their feelings. Tears glistened in
more than one eye before the final drama
was over.
What a contrast Bywaters's demeanor
afforded. Unlike Mrs. Thompson, who had
to be carried several yards to the scaffold
, from her cell, Bywaters walked through
the door in his cell to the exact place Of
execution.
Less than dozen yards took him to the
drop, where he stood silently upright.
Save for the one request that he might
take his last good of the world which
at one time he found so wonderful, he
spoke not.
He ate breakfast with RELISH which
consisted of tea, bread and butter, and
boiled egg, smoked cigarette without
any signs of nervousness, having slept
comparatively we'll during the night, and
conversed with the man who was to pull
the lever.
He sent message to the Governor and
the officials, thanking them for the court
esq shown to him and his visiting rela-
tives. Letter writing occupied good por-
ton of his time.
fN 1922 nv American Weakly In
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He was quickly pinioned, and walked
steadily to his fate. Those who.were near
him on the scaffold say his lips moved as
though he were speaking to himself. They
were moving silently as he plunged from
sight.
Bywaters seemed little concerned about
what might be going on in the death cell
at Holloway Jail, where his sweetheart
was nearing her end. But the prison Off
Gals in Holloway were deeply moved by
the utter collapse of their prisoner, who
was constantly inquiring about Bywatefs
and calling for him.
One official who came in contact with
the doomed woman was moved to tears
and completely broke down following the
interview with her mother, father, sister
and brother.
During the early part of the last even
ing, Mrs. Thonpson's mother and father,
Mr.. and Mrs. Graydon, came to say fare
we'll to their daughter. They were
shocked when they saw their daughters
haggard appearance, but she did her best
to remain calm during their presence.
Il have nothing on my SOUL" she said
IN low, but clear, tones. 81 am prepared
to meet my Maker"
Hey lips trembled, and she faltered for
little. Her face was ashen gray. Then,
with an apparently supreme effort, she
pulled herself together, and half-smile
played on white lips-a smile, perhaps, of
irony, of a human soul about to be
launched into eternity convinced of it's in
nocence and curious about the world with
it's little legal trappings. 81 have had"
!, she said slowly, ga visit from the Bishop
of Stepney, I think"
She paused, and her mouth grew firmer,
a fixed look came into her eyes, and she
spoke as though her voice came from her
very heart.
"He asked me if had anything to con-
fess. l replied: Nothing, for am abso-
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ldie:?'' Cried Mrs.
Her Sweetheart,
One Last Glance
and Said Not a
Who Was Dying

the effect of refusal of the Home Secre-
tary to grant her reprieve from the well
merited sentence Of death.
The prisoners eyes, those deep-set pools
of mystery that Bywaters looked into and
lost his soul, were eloquent Of her suffer-
ing. They revealed a. great anguish Of
mind; they mirrored the haunting
thoughts that fitted through like phan-
tasmagoria of dread across her mental
horizon.
'.Oh that / had been born with no
imaginationr' she cried while, in one Of
her torture moods. And her voice was as
hollow as her cheeks that were once so
fresh and blooming. It was heart-cry
that would have touched the most callous.
"This imagination of mine-it tortures
me. think and think, and every thought
is more horrible than the last. feel
that + shall go mad. -. What
should be made to suffer so!
No prisoner has suffered more than /.
And why should suffer? God knows !
Gam as innocent, of the crime this day as
was ten years agow
Then she would bury her ashen face in
her hands and sink, huddled bundle of
nerveless humanity, on her cell cot. And
the two plain-featured Weaknesses were
unable to restrain the sympathetic glisten
in their eyes as they looked, accustomed
as they are to similar scenes.
Day and nignt these two were with the
condemned woman. At times Mrs.
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Frederick Bywaters Slept Sound
Walked With Firm Step the GalIow Filling With
Brang Morning Air: Asked the Wadens oemove the Mask for
Moment He Might
Which in Another Moment He Would Be Leaving There Was
Word Not Reference Nor Farewell Message
the Same Moment Was Paying the Penalty Holloway Nearby