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* THE STTMTER WATCHMAN, Estts CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2,1 HARDING GIVES JOB TOJOLBERT Boss of Black and Tan Republicans Given Eecess Appoint ment as United States Marshal Washington. Oct. 2 9.?Joseph W. Volbert, whose nomination as mar-! shal* of the Western South Caro lina district failed of confirmation ? at the last session of congress, was appointed today to that position] by President Harding. Tolbert ist j Republican national committee-! man of South Carolina. Greenville. Oct. 19. ? Joseph Warren Tolbert of Greenwood ofcunty, Republican national com mitteeman, has been appointed United States marshal for the wes tern district of South Carolina, and, will assume the duties of that of fice as soon as he files the usual; bond. j He received a recess appoint- j ment from President Harding andj will hold office for an undeter mined period, pending the action of 'the United States senate up on his nomination by the presi dent, which remains ^unconfirmed j due to the opposition of Senator) X. B .Dial of this state. Information of Mr. Tolbert's ap-i pointment was received here this! morning by federal ofliciaLs, his j commission having been forward- i ed by the United States depart- j ment of justice to District Judge! Ii. H. Watkins. Mr. Tolbert. for many years, hasi been the head of the Republican j party in this state and is a mem- j her of the South Carolina, Repub- j bean national committee. When; informed of the appointment of j Mr. Tolbert. the incumbent, C. J. j Lyon, said he had no statement! to make. BUL COXTIXFES FIGHT. Tslbert Will Not Hold Job With, Senator's Consent. j Laurens, Oct. 19.?Senator X. B.I Dial was this afterhoon_adyjsed of j the recess appointment "Of Joseph j W. Tolbert as United States mar-i shal for the Western district of j South Carolina. Senator Dial has. opposed Tolbert's nomination front the first and he Indicated tonight that he was not through with the protest. The fenator wired District Judge Watkins protesting the qualify'ng of Tolbert, citing the fact that the appointee has been convicted in Jh* United States courts of crimi hiii acts and in all probability he is disqualified to take the oath and hold office under the constitution. The senator also wired Gen. M L. Bonham to take such steps as nec essary to prevent Tolbert from holding this important post. He pointed out to General Bonham that unless Tolbert has been par doned, he can not qualify for che office and the senator says that he does not know of any such pardon having been granted. The conyi-.- j tion of Tolbert referred to was for alleged embezzlement and larceny afxer trust according to the rec ords, says the senator. Senator Dial says that wken Tolbert's norc.n ination was sent to the senate he j objected to confirmation where- i Hr?on the case was referred to aj subcommittee of three members of | the judiciary committee. Charges 1 were filed and the committee w is j urged to have Tolbert come before j it for a hearing of the case, as it i was the intention of the senator to cross-examine him before the committee. A demand for a com mittee proceeding was made sev eral times, but Mr. Tolbert did not appear, although this was urged by the senator. Considering these grave charges. enya Senator Dial Dial, which were .unanswered and unanswerable, he consider it an outrage to the de- 5 cent people of South Carolina for j the Republican administration to try to force a man of such charac ter on this district and state. Continuing, Senator Dial said | that if Judge Watkins allows Tol- i hert to qualify, possibly all his of- : ficial acts will be illegal. In thf event, however. that Tolbert is#! permitted to qualify, the senator j rays he will do all in his power to ! have the nomination rejected when j it comes up in" the senate for con-[ firmation. ?> my ? Saves Bantam Brood Engineer Stops Train to Save Chicks Graniteville. Oct. 10.?An inci dent, which attracted the attention 61 bystanders near the railroad tracks here, was the stopping of a' train before a diminutive bantam j hen with her bird-like brood thatj hopped and fluttered in vain to cross the rails. The little motherI realized her predicament, as she! jumped back and forth from the j track, then retut^d to her baby Chicks which were unable to fol low. The engineer stepped down and out on the ground, removed with his hands each helpless little chick to a place of safety, then mounted to his engine and resumed his way._. ibUshed April, 1850. 881._: f?NTENH?N p OVER BOOZE RUNNERS British Government Stands on Techni cality t o Prevent Enforcement of the Law Washington. Oct. 19.?Repre sentations of the British govern-' ment' to the state department in protesting against seizure beyond the three mile limit of the Cana dian schooner Emerald, held as a liquor smuggling suspect, were of wider scope, it was learned today, than at first known. In addition to dealing with the specific case j of the Emerald, the British com munication presented the view tuat the recent American executive or deit limiting prohibition enforce ment operations to territorial j waters- should apply to all pre- j vious seizures of British craft. | where it had not been established j as a matter of fact that the vessel j wais sending contraband ashore in her own boat. The American answer to this claim that the government's pres ent policy should have retroactive effect and automatically release a j considerable number of British j vessels seized as smugglers will be I deferred until official data as to j the Emerald case is at hand. The j state department transmitted the j British communication to the j treasury department with a re- j quest for a statement of the facts j of the Emerald seizure. A detail- j ed official report from the officers j reported for'the seizure has not j reached the officials and it may j be some days before the state de-! department can reply to the British j memorandum. The claim for retroactive effect j of the administration's announced j policy on liquor smuggling seizures' presents a possibility of complica- j tion. since some of the cases in- : vbived are now before the courts. I It is understood here that a num- I her of the seizures made prior to j President Harding** order restrict- j ing activities to the three mile.' limit' of territorial waters do not set up the claim that the ship was j in touch with shore by means of j her own boats. The British n?Am- ; orandum contends that such vessels j automatically should he released j and any property taken aboard ; them and also held should be re- j turned. What legal grounds such action might establish for subse quent damage claims against the; American government by owners \ of craft which had been seized and ! released, no. officials here cared to discuss. In any event the legality under ! Americap laws and American in-! terpretation of international law j is in process of court determinu- j tion and .a controlling decision ! may he handed down before the j questions raised by the British! protest in . the Emerald ease have been threshed out in a diplomat ic way. "CO-OP* CONTRACTS BINDING! Courts of.Three States Up-! hold Marketing Association | Contracts Columbia, Oct. 21.?Sweeping victories for co-operative market-1 ing were won in the courts of North Carolina, Texas and Oklaho-1 ma during the past week, accord- [ ing to statements issued yesterday j by the South Carolina Co.ton J Growers* Cooperative Association, j In Texas and Oklahoma the cotton contracts, which are practically identical with the contract signed by members of the South Carolina) association, were upheld by the J courts and permanent injunctions! granted restraining members of! those associations fron? disposing! of their cotton except through the; association. .Temporary injune- j tions had been secured against six j members in Texas and against sev- j eral in Oklahoma some time back. I In North Carolina a desperate ef-! fort was made by enemies of the j Tri-State Tobacco Association to have dissolved an injunction which! had been issued against two mem- j bens of the association. Several of ; the ablest lawyers in the state: were employed in the effort to have the contract declared uncon-1 stitutlonal but the court in its de-; eision made the injunction perma- j nt-nt. declaring the contract sound, j Very great interest was taken* by South Carolinians in the North Carolina hearing. The attempts :oj havf the injunction dissolved m:id?- | before Judge Erank Daniels. H. i <*?. Connor, Jr., <>: Wilson, chief> counsel for those attacking the le-i gality of contract, argued that the j association is aimed to create a ! monopoly and that i' is a combi-! nation irr restraint of trad*-. During the course of the speech of one of the attorneys for the as sociation, the court room which was tilled with farmers interested in th?* outcome of the trial, broke forth in applause. Bankers know where money is. They held a convention in New Tork during the world series. "Be Just and Fear CONTROL OF i GERMAN ! FINANCES _ ?French Officials Pro pose Plan to Insure I Collection of Repa rations Paris. Oct. 20 (By the Associat ed Press).)?Complete and rigid I control of all German finances, (power to veto expenditures and reg jular taxation, and authority to dic l t?te the arrangement of the budgets {of the various German states'are ?among the chief proposals con tained in the plan of the French government for a solution of Ger many's financial difficulties and'for the placing that country in a po isition to meet her reparations pay j ments. I The plan was submitted to the i reparations commission tonight by I Louis Barthou. the French repre sentative on the commission, and j discussion of the project will begin [tomorrow. Although not men jticned in the official summary, M. iBarthou's plan contemplates a meeting of leading business men of the world to determine Ger many's capacity to pay and to con Isider the question of inter-allied : debts. I The plan, in effect, is a reply to the British reparations project : recently placed - before .the com ; mission by Sir John Bradbury. It differs radically from the British i point of view.' M. Barthou urges the calling of the Brussels confer ence to deal with a broad repara tions commission to the applica tion of new v guarantees and re forms for Germany, leaving the more comprehensive issues to an international meeting. The proposition would gradually put Germany, on a gold basis, be ginning with ah issue of gold treas ury securities. M. Barthou would have Germany pay her outstand ing obligations in paper currency and he calculated that Germany's paper circulation would be nlO, OOO.OrtO.oOO marks, which at rthe present rate of exchange are worth less than the reichhank gold re serve. The moment has come, according to M. Barthou when the allies must take energetic steps or else be faced by a Germany proclaimed before the world a ruined nation, despite the fact that her actual capital is intact. *"We don't accept the contention that Germany is-.totally incapable of paying." says M. Barthou in his plan. "Despite Germany's enor mous budget, difficulties, she retains tremendous richer and has great strength to continue production and maintain her national vitality." The French plan would so inter pret the theory of prohibition of interference in Germayn's internal affairs as to permit this radical control of German finances: The budgets of the various Ger man states will be supervised thoroughly to prevent extrava gances, regulate expenditure and make provisions for Indemnity payment. A committee would be permanently established in Berlin and would have charge of the carrying out of all new reforms. In case Germany should refuse im mediately to observe the new de mands, she would be declared in voluntary default by the commis sion under the provisions of the treaty of Versailles. A minimum of receipts would be fixed and a maximum oL expenditures for Ger many would be set and Germany would be required to float inter national loans at an opportune mo ment. Neither the government nor the states would float loans without allied authority. M. Iiarthou's memorandum con cludes with seven proposals as fol lows: First: To place immediately Germany's public finances under control of Germany's creditors, as previously outlined. Second: To take all measures necessary to, balance the budget and keep it balanced, meanwhile progressively including repara tions payments not otherwise pro vided for and the interest on loans floated for reparations payments. Third: To forbid the German treasury to discount any bonds o: any sort with the rehhbank an.i to require submission of all issue.-: Of treasury obligations, either of short or long term, t?> the allied control authorities*. Fourth: To place the reichs bank under allied supervision in or der to see that it observes all al lied requirements affecting if. Fifth: To strengthen to what ever extent the allied supervisory authorities deem necessary prep arations taken to prevent the ex port of capital and the hoarding of foreign exchange. Sixth: As soon as circumstances permit t<? b?-fcin the issuance of golo treasury securities, the flotation of which is to be facilitated by cer tain fiscal advantages, the receipts from tin- issues to be devoted ex clusively to the strengthening of the reichbank metal reserve, su far as necessary, so as to Insure sin - cess of currency reform and a!s.? to repay reparations not covered in the budget. Seventh: The German govern ment would continue to collect in g<dd or in foreign exchange at lea*t 25 per cent, on the value of ex ports. These receipts from these Not?1>1 all the ends Thon Aims't Slimier, S. C, BOLSHEVIKS I SUCCEED ! JAPAN Vladivostok Falls into Hands of Red Army When Japs Retire _ j Tokyo. Oct. in (By the Asso leiitled Press).?General Dietrichs and all his officers who are able j to reach Vladivostok in their flight ! before the victorious Reds will eni jbark on transports for China Oc ;tober 20; according to official dis j patches received today from Vla I divostok. J The administration of the city, ,' pending the entry of the Red forces, j will be left in the hands of mu 'nieinal assembly. Committees 'have been' organized to maintain iorder and to protect life and*prop jerty until the arrival of the Chita. or Bed troops, who are reported ? approaching Vladivostok, i . Representatives of the Chita government of the Far Eastern I republic have promised that out ' rages will be guarded against, but that all persons suspected of I having participated in the ami Red revolution of March, 1!)22, wih .be punished. ; The ?civil government at Vladivos tok has refused to take over the arms and ammunition held by the Japanese, who are arranging for their disposal in conferences at Tokyo with Charles B. Warren, American ambassador, and Sir Charles Eliot. British ambassador. .Japanese officials have express ed the opinion that the one Amer ican cruiser, one British cruiser. , the Japanese cruisers and thr^e .Japanese destroyers in Vladivostok harbor will insure the safety of foreigners, among whom are ap proximately 50 Americans. I The Russian colony here, howev er, is much concerned regarding their nationals and fear previous massacres may be repeated. They believe that, while the govern ment officials of Vladivostok will be able to obtain accommodation on vessels commanded by Admira. Stark, many thousands of Rus sians are in danger of punishment by the Reds for supporting the ! Whites. These are making their way southward as fast as condi tions will permit, but much suf fering is reported among them, i Japanese evacuation of Vladix6s t?k will not be completed until October 2<;. and Japanese auihor i ? ities have announced that any Reds entering the neutral zone before that date will be disarmed, j The Japanese are removing i large quantities of arms and am munition and what is left., it is. said, could be easily rendered use less. ? ' New Evidence in Hall-Mills Murder Authorites Are Confident the I Mvsterv Will Soon Be Solved j New Brunswick. Oct. 21.?Sup ported by information in an affi davit by a witness to the Hall Mills murder the authorities are confident the mystery will soon be solved. With guards keeping the leading characters under surveil | lance no fear is felt that the sus pected persons might escape. Working separately of all other I investigators, prosecuting attorney : Strieker, of Somerset county, has . prepared to question at least five i persons in an effort to obtain suffi cient evidence to warrant an arrest. The vestryman of Rev. Hall's j church who said lie had been in ! the neighborhood of Phillips bouse [in company with a young woman 1 member of the church on the night ; of the murder, will be questioned, j Investigators intimate they have established a motive but some of the links in the chain of evidence are not properly forged. IpresTdent takes oath j Santo Domingo. Oct. 21.? (By i the Associated Press). ? Juan j Bautista Vivini Burgess took the oath of office as Provisional Pres ident of Santo. Domingo, before i the supreme court justice here to i day. ending American occupation. The ceremony took place in the presence of th?* representative of ? the president ??f the United States. I diplomatic and consular officers and ihigh officials, and was accompan j ied by popular demonstration of gratification over the restoration . of independence. j collections, as well as customs du ties on exports and imports, would be paid into a special reichbank [account in the name of the K^verr. I mem guarantees and under tie4 committee's control. The German ? government would dispense with this guarantee as long us tin: I reparations commission found the j German government fufilled obli ' gations which had been or would I be. imposed by the commission. "Jf at any rime the commission j finds otherwise," says the mem orandum, "then the commission on guarantees will take possession ot [the sums to its credit in this ac ; count, and the collections made thereafter, which it will see are regularly paid into this account." ?t he thy Country's, Thy God's and day, October 25,1922 ELECTION TO BEHELD IN ENGLAND i ?_ Co n t e ri d i n g Parlia mentary Parties i Will Appeal to The Voters of the Nation London, Oct. 20 (By the Asso ciated Press).?Tn the still highly speculative political situation to ; night, only two facts stood out as "definite?-Th:it there will he almost immediately a general election and . that parliamentary ratification of ?the Irish constitution is safely as sured. i Andrew Bonar Law, who is to i lead the new government to -takt the place of that of David Lloyd Ceorge, in a message to an evening newspaper confirmed his hven::"?n to advise King Ceorge to inme jdiately dissolve parliament and added that ^iis fact would ?!ve ample time to deal with the Irish .legislation. He did not indicate. ; however, iwhether the present par liament would reassemble accord ing to schedule on November 14 to deal with the Irish question or whether general elections would be held immediately and the Irish legislation left to. the new par liament. Either plan will be prac ticable, the only point being that ratification of the Irish treaty must i lie effected before December Lloyd George, in a message s*-nt to William f'osgrove, president m the dail eirean, has removed any fear of opposition from him in his n^w position as leader of the oppo sition in parliament. The Man.uis ! r?t Salisbury, on behalf of the "Die Hards." has made a similar ,?rom : ise. So there is no party in th?^ l house of commons that is likely to offer any hindrance to the carry jing of the Iri.>h treaty into effect The retiring premier, left today for ; Leeds with his sword in his hand j as he asserted in a short address at the St. Pancras station prior I to his depanure. i Although he delivered live ad dresses from the rear of his car on the way to Leeds he has left until I tomorrow's speech in Leeds anv revelation of what his tactics will he. There is intense curiosity ev 1 erywhere as to what the line of his peroration will take?whether he I has new domestic reforms or legis lative plans to propose as a new election battle cry. There have j been rumors that he has some new plan for unemployment insurance, with a view to detaching the labor vote from the Labor party, bring ing it into the fold of his proposed new Center party. ' The rebel Conservatives, who are headed by Bonar Law. Sir George Younger and Stanley Baldwin, who I brought about the fall of Lloyd ; George, have contended they were j trying to get back to the party system. Only the result of general j elections will show how far they have succeeded in this intention. [Up to the present the only conse quence of their tactics has been i the adding of still another group j to the existing party groups, there I by bringing the British parliament ? still nearer to the group systems ; of the Kuropean parliaments. ! Lloyd George, who during the war split the Liberal party in:o : two sections, has now done the same thing by the Unionist party. Thus instead of the two original . parties there are now four, with the Labor party making the fifth. There no longer will be an Irish ! parry, which for so many years j during the great home rule agita ' tion was able to dominate the Westminster parliament hv throw i .ing its <o members to whichever side it chose. With the five sepa i rate parties, it is clear no single [party can form a big enough bloc [to carry on a government not aid jed by further alliances. It has to [be remembered that the whole of .the eleetoral machinery and the ! funds of the Conservative party ! belong to the rebellious Younger [section of that group. Lloyd Ceorge is credited with in tentions to create a Tenter party, i This would necessitate the crea tion also of new party machinery land party funds, for the former I premier has no such funds or ma chinery at present at his dispos i at. CONSTABLE SUSPENDED Columbia. Oct. 21.?Governor j Harvey announced today that he had suspended Stare ronstable. II. i L. Johnson, of York, for improp jer conduct, and stated that he Would probably suspend Magis trate Bob Lee. of York county, as a result of charges filed against I hint. Johnson and Lee are ehurg ied. in complaint's filed with the j governor, of having been occupants1 I of an automobile in an unfit con- I dition when it ran into another ma- i chiin- on :i public highway. Presno, Oct. Ji'.i. -? Justifiable, j homicide was the verdict today re turned by the coroner's jury which j I inquired into death of Mrs. [Clara Marlow. whose husband, i George A. Marlow, was said to : have dubbed her to d^ath, when I he found her in eompany with a ! young man. If golf interferes with your work ' get a job as boss. Truth'a." FIFTEEN IMS LOST IN BIG FIRE 'Seventeen Injured and One Hundred Fifty Made Home less in New York New York, Oct. 23.?Jwo sepa rate inquiries were launched today into the origin of a fire early Sun day in which fifteen lives were lost, seventeen injured and one hundred and fifty 'made homeless. The fire is thought to have started under the main stairway of a Jive story double tenement structure. Six members of one family were, burned to death and five of the six members of another perished. FIFTEEN" I BURNED TO DEATH Incendiary Fire in New York Tenement Takes Heavy Toll of Children j New York. Oo:. 22.?Fifteen1 persons, most of them children, lost their lives early today in a fire, believed by city officials to be the work of a Pyromanie. The flames" swept with murderous suddenness from cellar to attic of a five story brick tenement at Lexington ave nue and One Hundred and Tenth stree; in the thickly populate! East Side. The blaze apparently started in i baby carriage under the stairs in the lower hall under almost iden- . tical circumstances as the recent incendiary fire in an upper West *ide apartment house." which re-! suited in seven deaths. So quickly did the flames spread througn the building that a number of the dead were found in bed. burned or suf-: foeated without the slightest op- I port unity to escape. Nathan silver and four of his children were among the victims.! Mr. and Mrs. Abraham MatilskyJ and Sidney and Catherine Sugar-j man. brother and sister "of Mrs \ M itilsky. also perished. Shor'ti^ar^r'r^olock rhis morn-j ing City Marshal Joseph Lazarus, \ while on his way home, saw smoke ? issuing from the hallway of the ? building. He ran to the next joi ner and turned in an alarm. When . i he returned the vvhole build:ng. ? Ithe ground floor of which is occu- j I pied by stores, was a mass of flames j [and exit by the 'Stairway was cut: Loft. Most of the persons on thej second floor succeeded in making heir way down the tire escapes, i but those on the uper floors had to, battle through smoke and flames! pouring out of the windows. Several tenants perched on up- \ per story windows threatened to: jump but were prevailed upon by j firemen to remain until ladders j could be raised. One aged woman,; Mrs. Mary Onglass, disregarded the1 warning and leaped from the j fourth floor, receiving injuries; which caused her death tonight, i While the firemen were at work j on the second floor and preparing; to fight their way to the one above.5 the third floor collapsed, but not! before a warning roar had sent.the firemen to safety. \ Nearly a score of persons owe' their lives to 17 year old James [ O'Donnell. a mechanic's helper,! who was eating at a restaurant in s the vicinity when he heard a wo-, man cry for help. Running to the' street lie saw the woman leaning j out of the window on the second; floor of the burning tenement with j 'wo small children by her side, j The young man clambered on the sill of a store window, jumped. and caught a swinging sign and i pulled himself up to the window. ? Me led the three frightened tenants down the tire escape to the street j and then raced back and rescued : the woman's IS months old baby.: who was asleep in a crib. Later ho | went to the roof of an adjoining; building and by throwing a board , over the alley space made it pos- ' sible for a number of tenants, who seemingly had been cut off from . escape on the roof, to cross in safety. William Ponners. 22. who lives with his mother across the street from the burned building, also res- ' ?iit d a number of persons from tin third floor, including Mrs. Silver. ? He was badly burned when a gust j of, rlame burned the elothing from : his back as he was walking down the tire escape with a woman in \ his arms. ; Assistant District Attorney Hen-i nis. one of the first officials to visit \ the scene wliile the blaze was in progre:-^. noted the mark d sim ilarity between today's lire and lhat in the West Side apartment house several weeks ago. when sex en persons were burned to death. A: that time, in a doorway next to tin* building burned, a tenant reported that jus; before the fire he had discovered ;i blazing baby carriage in the had. lie extinguish-] ed ii. a?d a? he did so. saw a man..' unknown t?? him. come from the] passage to the cellur. He ques-i tinned the stranger and the lat-j ler answered: I *"l just thought there might be a fire, so 1 came to see." then he ?. disappeared. , The charred frame of a baby! carriage was found today in the THE TRITE SOt FORMING NEW i CABINET FOR GREAT BRITAIN Bonar Law, Conserva tive Party Leader, j Will Present List of Ministers Today I London: Oct. 22 (By the Asso ciated Press).?With the departure 'of Lloyd George for his country ?residence and the secretariat at ; No. 10 Downing street busy pre , paring for removal, political inter j est today shifted to Onslow Gar j dens, where Andrew Bonar Law is [giving the finishing touches to his j cabinet list for presentation to the i king tomorrow. [ Lord Cave, the former horue-see \ retary, visited Bonar Law today, j but nothing developed to throw light on the future. The Sunday papers are full of predictions regarding the program of the new government and the composition of the cabinet. All give advice to the prospective prime minister on the necessity of settling fox*eign affairs, so that the country's trade may be carried on. The Sunday Observer appeals ?for fair play for Bonar Law and ; his colleagues and urges the im mediate clearing up of foreign ai fairs. "For." it adds, "the coali tion has left behind it a far more serious situation than the country has yet begun to realize. . 'uie Chenak crisis, reacting far and wide on the rest of our external connections, has worked to the pro- ! found prejudice of our whole world policy and of our own most vital interests. After a disastrous six weeks the general situation is no longer what it wa? before?it is ; deeply changed to our detriment." I Referring to Lloyd George, The Observer says: '"The retiring premier is by far and away the most brilliant popu lar leader in the world. His peace ministry was much below his war ministry in merit> A greater ten ure of office and power will return :o him in due seaspn?not. we hope, before he has had leisure , enough to. refresh and deepen hip j thoughts." - The Sunday Time* in an editor ial says: "For the time being the great est personal force and the most fascinating figure in our politics is out of power." The paper considers that it should be recorded that "there is one-portion of his career that will always be blazened in letters of gold in / British annals. * * * By his transcendent services in the war. first as minister of muni tions and second in the premier ship, he brought about victory, on which alone his whole being was centered. Throw into the fcxtle every defect of personality tha. \ criticism may discover and every i mistake in policy that may be im puted to him since the armistice. Lloyd George still remains of all living Britons the one to whom the country and the empire are most indebted." The Sunday Times thinks that the country will be safe in the hands of a prime minister as level headed as Bonar Law. "He is not a great man. nor a clever man." says the paper, "but Great Britain just now is looking for a man whose character it can trust and on whose not too excit ing abilities it hopes to repose in tranquility, and it is disposed to believe that it has found what it wants in Bonar Law." Regarding the rumors of Bonar j Law's health, the political corre- j spondent of The People claims to j know that the statement that Bo- j nar Law's medical advisers warn ed him against taking a heavy re sponsibility is not correct. "The new leader was never in better health," he declares, "and his doctor gave him a clean hill of health." - ? % m Xew Brunswick, X. J.. Get. 23.? j The prosecution is expected to lay I the evidence in the Hall-Mills case j before the grand jury today. At the t same time detectives are busy j rounding up old and new witnesses J for an examination at the secre ( headquarters where most of the t witnesses have been taken re-; centl-v to avoid newspaper men' working on the case. ! . ? . > _i ruins of the building where 'he l - i persons lost their lives. In one' morgue, Rdward Pine hurried to j the body of his "fiance. Sarah Sil ver, and identified it when other-) had failed to do so. A party had I been planned in the fiat today at which the engagement was to have been announced. Miss Stiver, a survivor, says she had on<-e passed the danger point in the hallway on her way to i safety but returned to her room for] her engagement ring. In a mo-1 ment the flames blocked the cor ridor. Miss Silver jumped from aj window. She died of a fractured I skull. The card on the bedstead of. Pred Stokkach. who is recovering i in the hospital from the *>f?Vvt? oft smoke, hears a notation that ] makes him one of the heroes of] the tire, "lie saved the lives of l$t persons." the notation says. It is] signed by Patrolman Cash, who was on duty at the fire. Strok kach said nothing about it today. THftthS,tiwtMito-a J*?e t. i*?g. VOL.LIIL NO/21 RED FORCES NOW HOLD i Bolshevik Power/Su preme Throughout the Former Russian Empire I Vladivostok, Oct: 22 (By the As jsoriated Press).?The Corwin. has j heen rung down on the to rre.r.') ! of the Rusiari revolution. - Those "? j who defended this last outpost.. o? opposition t<v the Soviets .are pu ng. A few hundred persons have been billed and the people are siting hack wa i ting 'for. t h ei r n e. rtilers. -the" Soviet - leader*: of- th?' Fa r Eastern republic or Chita gov ernment,-to arrive: White guards ^pf the, ysdivos tok government fought desperat?-; ly for October 8, the* day rhey came in contact. wifb the Soviet forces at Shaska, until nearly two weeks later when' the Reds -ut terly defeated them and foreed . . them to cross the Manehuriain frontier. . ' ' ?? 1 The men who bore the bruht cl the fighting were soldiers. wbf? ha?f"; retreated from \he Volga. r:v??r -t-5 this last stronghold . of the ;vVbite ' guilds. Vladivostok sent General iiied> richs only 176 men in reply to .mV." call for reinforcements. Tokyo. Oct.'22 (Ry the Ac*o- : crated Press).-?The danger to re5;-. ideot* of ^Vladivostok after th.i itp proachihg evaluation of the Japa nese-forces fakes place, arise:; from the. presence around the city- of ! bandits who are ready to plundrer V Vladivostok .In the interim between the de??rtufe of the Ja-pane.2*? and . the occupation, by the Bed army? of.the] Chita government, accord ing to persons who' arrived t-,d.*y from Vladivostok. ? It is feared that the Chiti. ^v errmeiit has not sufficient trooj^*\ present to, cope with the. :aany> bandits threatening the eity.v The /danger Is believed so gjresr f that all * steamers leaving1 - V^dsf ?o.-tok are crowded. Vessels ie?y:- * ing for Japan tins so crowded wifcV Japanese Jhac few other foreig^ M?sr Ru^ians^wtebing. to: tjo>1? Japan are unable /procure:yti#f:[^ tb fa?i^r\M because They have hi-' ' sufficient money to meet :bejjre-^'V qitirements of the immigration. ^ laws. "Russian steamorsr are tak- ,?v ins a feJky-?iissians, chiefly officers ' and their ^amilies to China. Orr;5 ^ ers who feared to.remain in Vis-'.' divostok are trying to escape 'by . any means possible towards K^j^a : * and Manchuria. Moscow. :'G<-i. 22 (P.y the. A ssoS' ?;. I clatedv .Press). ?? GeneraL ?I'hore-.. ? I vitch of-the Far. Eastern rVpuhlle's revolutionary- army has begun-ne gotiations With the Japanese com mander .ai?d the- Vladiv.wok vm i stilar ? r^reientaJjves for the^sur render of Vladivostok, according to advices received by-^the Soviet go v.- - ert?nent from jChita. I Dispatches " say- the American consul banded General Oboreytteb. * a note requesting .him to guaran tee"' the personal safety of Amer- : ican citficenk Similar revests wer? made on behalf of the Brit- $ ish and Japanese consulates and'" the safety of foreigners 2 and "Df . "property was assured by -General Cborevitch on condition the fled, army be allowed to cater; Vlath- ~v vostok immediately. Additional-advices tAJ.tKS^g^l ermnent say the Red army en countered at Okeanskaia. Japanese ; detachments which were covering the city. ? Representatives of rhV' Japanese Command reached Olr^wfc *kaia Friday^and warned, the P^r Eastern, troops to retreat fmre miles to -the. north of that pfcjce. The dispatches assert that .-). orders broite out in various paris of Vladivostok in connection srka the Japanese retreat and that> the American consulate sent word I** ter to General Bborevtreh that the Americans were impatiently axVab- ' ing the Var Eastern troops to re v-tore order. A govev.nhte.nl annnuriceme?f says great danger threatens Com murrst workmen and Far Ea&ern sympathisers-who are in prison at the hands of the remaining Tv"pv^? Guard hands. The government de clares responsibility for anv ex- .* cesses will rest- entirely upon th^. .Iapane.-e command, which .13 ra-' tarding the entry into Vlldavosttdc of Russian Rod troops. Young Woman Hurt; in Wreck of Auto Spart an burg. Oft. 22.---Ei?>t>a i Green, 1H year old daughter.of A. A.. Green of Grwnville, was per haps fataily fnjhred this afternoon & in ^n atitomnbtl; accident on ihe g Xatlonat' highway between Spar tanburg and Greenville 4: a poant just west of Duncan. Miss Green, in company with Marie Green, uft^ derstood to bo a .Ister, ' Rabert Burgess and Paul Chandler, w?c going in the ? direct ion of Green ville .it a rhpid r.?te of speed when something went wrong, with owe of the rear Wheels and the car twrhi ed over. Miss Green, was late* found to have a fractured eknli. The other occupants escaped with out injury.