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THE 5J0RXING OltEGONIAN, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1922 mm m ALIENIST ASSERTS Mrs. Clara Phillips Insane, Says Physician. SEVEN EXPERTS TESTIFY Los Angeles AVoman Held for Murder Declared to Have Mind of IO-Year-OId. LOS AXGELES, Nov. 6. The slaying of Mrs. Alberta Meadows vas an 'epileptic murder," Dr. rnest Hoag, alienist, testified to day in the trial of Mrs. Clara Phillips. Dr. Hoag declared he be lieved Mrs. Phillips to be insane and that in coming- to this conclu sion he took into consideration t,he extreme and unnecessary brutality used to take Mrs. Meadows' life. Dr. Hoag and three other alienists called by the defense and three subpoened' by the prosecution list ened to the reading of a hypothe tical question prepared ' by defense attorney Bertram Harrington. In this was recited the history of Mrs. ljliillips' life as detailed by rela tives on the witness stand, as well as the stor of the slaying. The reading consumed nearly an hour. After Dr. Hoag stated his belief that Mrs. Phillips was insane he declared he believed her derange ment was epileptic and that the crime itself was committed by an epileptic. Mrs. Phillips has the mentality of a 10-year-old child. Dr. Hoag testified on cross-examination. The witness said he had reached this conclusion after subjecting the defendant to certain tests since she had been confined in jail. At the conclusion of Dr. Hoag's testimony court adjourned to Wed nesday morning, tomorrow being a holiday. The trial was resumed today with Dr. Edwin H. Anthdny on the stand for the defense., ' Dr. Anthony had previously testi fied that he attended the mother of the defendant, Mrs. Hannah Weaver, when she had an attack of what he described as "epileptic convul sions" October 13, last. Today he testified that he was called to the Weaver home again last Saturday night and found Mrs. Weaver in the throes of another epileptic attack. He remained with her for more than an hour, he said, and at one time during his visit expected the patient to die of ex haustion before his eyes. ALLIED-TURK PACT WAITS (Continued From First Page.) would have upon the Islam world is the second topic commented upon by the British newspapers, which find a great deal of space for news of the changes in the near east, despite the absorbing interest of domestic politics. In Great Britain there -is a strong opinion that the Kemalists, flushed by their recent victory and reaving perhaps on the support of Russia, in-tend to challenge the powers of Kurope. They have succeeded in circumventing one important clause in the Mundania armistice, says the Times, which adds that the Kemal ists are apparently engage'd in" in fractions upon the remaining clauses. "The allies pre confronted with a fresh challenge and before the Lau sanne peace conference meets they should find a new basis for deter mining their attitude toward Tur key,'' the Times continues. , Thrace Occupation Suxneeted. There is a rumor here that the Kemalists now plan to occupy west ern Thrace. The Constantinople correspondent of the Daily News re ports that 15,000 Turkish ex-soldiers . in Constantinople are under orders to rejoin their colors in ten days. The correspondent says he under- stands their objective is western Thrace. Fear of bolshevist interference ap pears frequently in comment here and there is much speculation as to the effect the action by the nation alists in declaring the sultanata at an end will have upon Moslems out side of Turkey, especially upon the Moslems in India. This is a matter of deep concern in England. Some take the view that the Angora action will possibly prove advantageous to Great Brit ain's position in India, since leading Moslems are reported, to be indig nant at the Kemalist decision against the sultan. British correspondents in India report the Moslems opposed to An feora as being of the opinion tnat the choice of the new caliph must he shared by all the Moslem com munities of the world. Demands that the emir of Afghanistan, the saltan of Morocco and other Moham medan rulers should vacate their caliphates are considered not at all unlikely as an outgrowth of the overthrowing of the sultan's powers. United States rescue car was ex pected here from New York state to- j morrow morning. Search Made for Living. "The sad part of it," said one sturdy miner, "is that at least 20 of the victims were within 100 feet of fresh air when they were over come by the gas." Every effort tonight was being made to locate all of the living. As soon as that has been done the work of removing the dead will com mence. Men, women and children by the score crowded the police lines near the shaft. Many of them had been there since they heard of the ex plosion early in the day and there was no indication they would leave their posts until the last body had been brought out. On the "cot of honor" at the hos pital rests a youth of 22. His name is Abe Craig. His coolness saved at least a dozen Uvea. Other Victims Rescued. "There isn't much to tell," said Craig. "We went down at 7 o'clock and entered heading No. 10 on the left. A few minutes later there was a crash. ' I told the boys that meant a cave-in and we had better get out. Then there was a rush of gas. Luck ily our door was open orv the ex plosion would have knocked it down. I slammed it, and about 25 of us waited to see what would happen. "Outside there were yells and one of our gang shouted to tell them there was fresh air in our place. I opened the door and three or four men staggered in. The boys rushed out and dragged in others. We revived them. Then I looked out again. All I could see was bodies. The after damp was rolling through the heading. I jumped inside and closed the door. There was nothing to do but wait for rescuers. Older Men Grow Faint. "From 7:30 until about 2 o'clock we stayed in the chamber. Older men were getting faint. Young fellows were holding out pretty well. Nobody had very much to say. Some of the boys were praying. "Finally the after-damp worked its way around and under the door. Therewas only one thing to do. I told them we would have to make a run for it. We opened thedoor and ran down the heading. It was a tough dash stumbling over bodies and we began to choke. Some of the boys fell, but those of us who had any fight left kept on. "We ran into fallen rock between the seventh and ninth headings. That probably was where the ex plosion took place. Rescuers Heard Coming. "I had a hunch that if we got to the sixth heading we would get fresh air, but you can believe me, that the last 100 yards was some thing awful. Puffing and stran gling, we kept on and finally I ran slap bang into the air. I was dizzy, but I screamed to the boys. Most of them who got to the sixth head ing keeied over. "Then I heard men coming and I knew they were rescuers. They got us out. Only the strong men made it. I am afraid all the older men lost their lives." Three times Craig stopped his story. Each time a silent form was brought in ort a stretcher. Physi cians said Craig and all others in the hospital would recover. A num ber, it was added, owed their lives to prompt treatment given by rescue parties underground. Cager and Helper Escape. Mike Whaler., a eager, was work ing with his coupler, a lad named Cavendish, at the bottom of the shaft when the explosion occurred. Seizing the boy, Whalen put him on his back and started hand over hand on a water pipe for the surface, when almost half way up someone at the top started the cage from the bottom and waiting his oppor tunity Whalen jumped to the top of the cage and rode with the boy to safety. Many of the rescuers suffered from gas and numbers of them were brought to the surface where, after receiving first aid, they insisted on returning to the workings. Spangler lies in the Allegheny mountains in Cambria county, some 28 miles north of Johnstown, and is the center of an important bi tuminous coal producing district. The Reilly mine was closed last sum mer by the strike, but resumed op erations early in September. Nor mally it employs about 150 men, but Monday is usually what the miners term a slow day. There 'are many American-born miners in the work ing force, numbers of whom were caught in the explosion. eon bus us HELD HUGE GRAFT Transit System Declared in State of Chaos. COST OF RIDE UNKNOWN Fares on Cars Said to Be Far Below Actual Expenses of Transportation. BY W. P. STRANDBORG.' NEW YORK, Nov. 6. (Special.) How he does it. nobody seems to know, but in some fashion or other, Mayor Hylan finds time to get his hand into about everything that's I going on, except possibly the nebu ! lar hypothesis and the Einstein ; theory, and he may even take them on for a finish bout after he has a little more training. Further more, in everything that the amiable chief magistrate mixes, he readily converts it into a regular "battle of the Marne." He won't have any thing butstrategic and decisive bat tle No, not Hizzoner. Now take for instance, the great, tantalizingly great, rapid transit problem here in New York, an issue vital to the well being and comfort of millions of people every day. Just look how Mayor Hylan is hand ling that job. He puts in just ex actly so much time every day, yell ing "Blah" at the transit commis sion, and issuing statements to the press. While, at the same time, the tran sit commission, which is a recently created state body dedicated to the holy cause of subways, buses, trans fers, rates of fare, routes, etc., very frequently in, official language, avers that all Mayor Hylan knows about the general business of trans portation wouldn't even make a fairish breakfast for a hungry colon bacillus, to say nothing of a husky streptococcus. War Makes Headway. In other words, it is to be un derstood that Mayor Hylan and the transit commission are at war, prin cipally and largely, with the pres ent odds a good deal in the com mission's favor, to take the word of the majority of the daily newspa pers. The newspapers that are un dertaking to give honest and serious consideration to this tremendously involved problem, are almost a solid voice behind the commission's plan for solving some of the complex fea tures of the main problem, while, generally speaking, there is only one voice for Mayor Hylan. That, of course, is Hearst. Back of the transit commission are the carefully prepared reports and investigations of some of the foremost consulting engineers in the east, and where Mayor Hylan and his man "Friday," Commissioner Whalen, have been guessing that the whole problem can be solved in such a way that the ctiy of New York may have adequate rapid transpor tation for many years to come, for approximately an outlay of $600, 000,000 of the taxpayers' money, the unemotional experts of the transit commission have, so to speak, told Mayor Hylan to go and jump in the rivpr and guess a grain. The engi neering estimates place the cost of the proposed Hylan plan for exten sions, more subways, etc., at about twice the mayor's figures a differ ence of a mere half billion dollars or so. Even Hylan's estimates would throw the city far over its constitutional debt limit, but, does that cause any grief around the city hall? Not yet. Graft Is Charged. But, the real thrill in the trans portation kaleidoscope is the way Mayor Hylan has messed up his pet experiment with "Emergency" bus lines. The transit commission has just completed an inquiry into the municipally-supervised bus system, and one of the mildest expressions in the commission's findings, which have just been published, is that the whole Hylan-Whalen bus system "smells to heaven." and we all know that would be quite a "smell," even in these days. There may be a few things in the way of corruption, graft, political chicanery and incompetence, that the commission does not call the whole par-boiled mess, but none of them come to mind, just now. For instance. Special Counsel Judge Shearn, for the commission, sums up some of the points which were established by the hearing last week something like this: "The Hylan-Whalen system of 're vocable permits' for bus operators is vicious and demoralizing. It makes the bus owner a mere pawn of the politicians, offers unlimited oppor tunity for graft and has resulted in corruption and favoritism. Politicians Give Permits. "The genuine need and popular demand for a flexible cross-town bus service has been capitalized by politicians for private profit and the system has been made part and parcel of a political machine. Un less a bus operator voted right he is driven off the streets. The sure way to get a permit is-through a district leader. "Ore method of greasing the path to favor is to pay a public official who owns a garage four times the usual rate for bus "storage, while another is to buy a bus of a district leader on his promise to help get a permit to operate. - " "The bus system has been used not to serve the public, but to pro vide a soft berth for needy individ uals who have a pull. While men without influence who have oper- i ated for over two years cannot get ; transferred to the more profitable 1 lines a police inspector suspended j without pay, and under indictment, ' gets a bus put on the best line for j the mere aBking. "John A. McCarthy, the discoverer i of Hylan, the Intimate friend and former business associate of the boss of Tammany, the man who in troduced Hylan to Murphy and -then got the Hylan dock commissioner to lower the water front yard rent to less than half the rate charged everybody else, has a fleet of busses on the most profitable lines, each one in the name of a dummy. All that it was necessary for McCarthy to do to get three permits issued to dummies was to call Commissioner Whalen on the telephone. "An ex-detective and brewery col lector, long out of a job, and who 'would do anything for a little money, turns up on the "cream of all the lines' with three buses, cost ing $18,000, one being concededly hidden in dummy ownership, and manages these in conjunction with McCarthy's fleet, aided by Billy Murphy, a nephew of the Tammany boss. Papers Publish Charges. "Murphy can draw 'anything he wants' on the McCarthy bus ac count, while Lynch, the ex-detective. Is the brother of the mayor's son-in-law and private secretary, has di vided commissions 60-50 with a young Insurance canvasser on 48 casualty Insurance policies solicited from the busowners since July 1, 1922." Some of this sounds more or less libelous, but all the dailies in town have taken a chance and published the commission's" findings in full. Mayor Hylan snorts and raves at Judge Shearn every time the spe cial counsel's name : is mentioned, and Shearn has been getting the mayor's goat quite frequently of late, and about all the come-back Hylan has is that "Shearn is pulling down $60,000 a year, or four times as much as I get as mayor, and, of course, he has to show 'em some thing for his money." " Pnpers Find Retort. More than one of the New York papers have stated editorially that "if Shearn is getting four times as much .as Hylan no doubt he is worth it."" The transportation situation in for whom McCarthy gat permits New York is frightful and getting frm Whalen, says - he works 15 hours a day for. McCarthy without remuneration. "The Insurance firm of Sinnott & worse every day, but that is a story in itself. Persons who visit New York and go home and make com parisons with local electric railway Canty, the senior member of whichiservice can say only one thing for New York service and that is "speed." In all other ways it is without much doubt the poorest service in America, and the rank and file of taxpayers are paying a pretty penny for it, aside from what the car riders pay. The same type of political bunk which is making a howling joke out of the municipal bus system is likewise very cleverly able to conceal exactly what car fare costs In New York and who is paying for it. No fair-minded per son any longer tries to convince himself or anybody else that the New York car rider is paying for his ride what it actually costs to produce that ride. LARCENY CHARGE FILED Benedict W. Martin Is Accused of Crooked Sale of Goods. VANCOUVER. Wash.. Nov. 6. (Special.) Information charging Benedict W. Martin, 37 years old, with grand larceny, was filed today in the superior court of Ciarke county. Martin was arrested last week in Aberdeen and brought here by Deputy Sheriff Raguse. Martin is alleered to have sold a stock of goods on which there wasn three chattel mortgages to &, man named Martin, representing to him that there was but one mortgag fcn the property. LEGION MAN UNDER KNIFS Effort Made to Save Leg of Pa! State Commander Fitts. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Nov. 6. Bur ton R. Fitts, past state commander of the American legion, was oper ated on today at a local hospital as a result of injuries received two weeks ago when an airplane in which he was touring the state in the interest of veteran legislation crashed on tne beach near Santa Barbara. Mr. Fitts' right knee was shattered by shrapnel in the battle of the Argonne and was again injured badly when the airplane fell. His physicians said the operation was a final attempt to obviate the neces sity of amputation. S. & 11. green stamps for oash, Holman Fuel Co.. coal and wood. Broadway 6353. 660-21 Adv Read The Oregonian Classified ads. OH - NO li. i Error! la The Oregonian's "Society Sec tion" there appeared an advertise ment for the Peterson Upstairs Store which created the impression that the Peterson Store would close Mon day night. Instead of appearing "Peterson's Last Days," as was in tended the "s" was left off the tail end of the head line and, as a re sult, many people became alarmed, fearing that the store would close and the garments which have been laid aside for later delivery, be out of reach. This notice will correct the impression. The Peterson Store will close when the Suits, Coats and Dresses are disposed of not before. Of the total amount (the sale began with $60,000 merchandise on hand) about one-half has been sold off to date. And the balance of the stocks are selling at an average of half price in eome cases less than half. The Peterson Store is on the second fioor of the Pittock Block. Adv. - S. & H. green stamps for cash. Holman Fuel Co., coal and wood Broadway 6353 60-21. Adv. Peacock ftocbr Springs coal. Dia mond Coal Co.. Bdwy. 3037. Adv. National Service 50 TO 60 MINERS KILLED (Continued From First Page.) passed the greater part of the afternoon in the workings. They were equipped with oxygenhelmets, and so eager were they to force their way through the gas that they made seven trips without pausing to have the gas tanks recharged. Men Found Behind Brattice. Behind a brattice, hastily con structed by the entombed miners to shut out the deadly after-damp from the heading where they had taken refuge, the rescuers found four men alive and one dead. A little later they came across another brattice, made of mine cars and bearing the legend burned on with a miner's lamp: "There are 29 men behind this." The air was so bad here that "Sally," the bureau's pet canary bird used in testing the air, died. "It was a shame," said one of the crew. "We could have saved her if we had retreated to the good air. But where the lives of miners are concerned I guess Sally would O. K. our act in going ahead." Fire Boss Still Missing. The rescue crews, of which there were four, made up of five men e:.ch, tonight were especially hunt ing for. Pat Flannagan, the Are boss. He went into the mine at 3:30 o'clock this morning and reported the mine was safe. He went down " again at 6:40 o'clock and was not seen afterwards. Early in the evening mine rescue crews from the Maryland Coal & Coke company at St. Michael, Pa., and the Pennsylvania Coal & Coke company at Johnstown, Joined the federal rescuers and the Cambria Steel company crew.. The second "Goodie!" Mother: "Willie, run to the grocery store for a can of Heinz Spaghetti" Willie: (running) , "Oh, goody 1" Willie knows how good it is. So does Mother. She also knows it is healthful, wholesome, economical and conve nient Ready cooked in adelicious tomato sauce. Ready to heat and serve. 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