Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 17, 1922)
2 h VOL. LXIXO. 19,343 Entered t,t Portland Oregon) Poitoffic? Seeond-clasa Matter, PORTLAND, OREGON,.- FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1923 28 PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS E- G CRITICISM OF ARMY RECOILS ON CRITIC HERR CUNO TO FORM NEW BERLIN CABINET EXPLOSION OF STILL CAUSES FIVE DEATHS FASCIST! LEADER DEATH FARM VISITS TO COST 25 CENTS HAMMER SLAYER PLAN IS! MAJORITY S FOUND GUILT! MAJOR WHEELER NICHOLSON . LOSES HIS APPEAL. SHIPPING MAGNATE CHOSEN CHANCELLOR OF GERMANS. FOCR CHILDREN ARE MISS. ING IN CHICAGO BLAZE. HIGH FENCE BEING BUILT AT HALL-MILLS SPOT. IT TRAFF DRAW Changes in Car Routing Also Recommended. NEW LOOPS WOULD BE BUILT Two-Way Use of Some Streets Provided. BRIDGE RAMP WANTED New Approach to Steel Span Would Carry Vehicles From North Second Street. SUMMARY OF TRAFFIC CHANGES URGED BY SPE CIAL COMMITTEE. One-way traffic plan for entire congested district from Madison to Glisan streets and from river to Tenth street. Plana provide for a few two-way streets. Provision made for con struction of new street car loops to send Hawthorne bridge cars up Taylor to Fifthi to Madison and back to the bridge. Provides for new street car line on Yamhill, Thirteenth to Third street. Provides for new car line on Burnside from Sixteenth to Stark and east on Stark to First street. Provides ramp from Flan ders street to steel bridge to care for Second-street north bound traffic. Recommends that no lnter urban cars be permitted on west side of river until Haw- ithorne bridge car loop is completed. Also recommends that Sou , thern Pacific and Oregon- Electric trains : cease opera - !tion 6f electric trains through congested area of city. . --- ...... One-way traffic for both ve hicles and street cars throughout the congested district from Madison to Glisan street and from the Wil lamette river to Tenth street, on a more comprehensive scale than has ever before been proposed in Port land', will be recommended to the city council next Wednesday by the special traffic committee appointed by Mayor Baker. This committee, composed cf Frank S. Grant, city attorney; City Engineer Laurgaard, Chief of Police Jenkins and Captain of Police Lewis, met yesterday and concluded the deliberations that have been carried on for several months on the traffic-problem. Street Car Loop Provided. Traffic plans in the past nave paid no attention to street car traf fic, but the latest recommendations . provide new street ca loops, so that one-way traffic can be carried, out in the entire congested area. Not all of the downtown streets would be made one-way arteries, however, for the committee holds that such streets as Madison, Sal mon and Glisan, extending east and west, and Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Broadway, north and south streets, are wide enough to accom modate two-way traffic.. One important change included in the recommendations is the proposal for the construction of a new street car loop extending west on Taylor from Second to Fifth and on Madi son street from Fifth to Second. Routing Change Urged. This would make it possible to route all cars using the Hawthorne avenue bridge down Second to Tay lor, thence to Fifth, to Madison and thence east back over the bridge. Such routing, it will be urged in the report, will keep the Hawthorne bridge cars out of the inner con gested district and yet will bring the passengers as close to the cen- al district as at present. A new track on Yamhill street from Thirteenth to Third street will be included in the plan to care for street cars that are now routed east on Morrison. This track would extend through the public market, but the committee will recommend that no parking of automobiles be permitted in the market, making this feature feasible. Burnside Line Proposed Another new street car track is proposed on Burnside street from Sixteenth street to Thirteenth street and thence on Stark street to First Btreet Cars using eastbound tracks on Washington street would be ,routed on the new Burnside-Stark street line under the new plan. A ramp on Second street from Flanders to the Steel bridge, 35 feet wide with a four-foot walk for pedestrians, also will? be recom mended. This proposal, if carried ' out, would permit automobile traf fic to reach the Steel bridge with out using the Third street approach. Until Glisan street between Third and Fourth streets is widened, and (Concluded on Page 4. Column 2. Officer Court Martialed for Say ing Army Had Been Prussian ized Must Take Medicine. BOSTON, Nov. 16. Major Mal colm Wheeler .Nicholson, critic of the regular army, has lost his appeal from the classification which makes him subject to discharge and has sent a petition to President Harding asking for reversal of the action. The officer a year ago declared in a letter to the president that the 'army had been "Prussianized" and published a pamphlet entitled "The Regular Army Reform It or Abolish It." ' . In June he was tried by a court- martial at Camp Dix, N. J., for vio- ( lation of the 96th article of war. and was found guilty and reduced 50 files. '''' Subsequently he came before the classification board at the First corps area headquarters here on his request that he be taken out of class B, into which he had been transferred from class A while on duty with the army of occupation at Coblenz. The board's refusal to change his classification now be comes public for the first time. , In his petition to President Hard ing Major Wheeler Nicholson re views the records in his case, asserts that General Pershing and other officers have been prejudiced against him and asks that he be retained in the service. Major Malcolm Wheeler Nicholson is well known In Portland, as are also the difficulties he encountered as an army officer because of his criticisms of its methods, filed at Washington In August, 192J. He is the son of Mrs. A. W. Nicholson of Portland, formerly quite prominent in club life and philanthropic work. Last December, while stationed at Camp Dix, he was accidentally shot by a sentry. The wound was not serious, however, and he soon re covered from its effects. SPAN TAKES -IN $234,000 n i . n i . 1 1 x Clarke County to Get $80,007 and Multnomah $120,010. VANCOUVER, Wash, Nov. 16. (Special.) Receipts on the Colum bia river interstate bridge during the last ten months amount to 234, 000, according to a statement pre pared for the bridge commissioners. This is $23,000 less than for the same period In 1921. The commissioners are well satisfied with the showing. The Pacific highway north of Van couver was closed last summer and traffic used the ferries at Kalama and Kelso. The receipts for October amounted to $28,028, which equals the previous record for this year. Clarke county's share of the bridge incorne since January 1 is $80,007, while Multnomah county received $120,010. The operating expenses in the ten-month period amounted to $33,984. STORM STALLS AUT0ISTS Party Snowbound Five , Days in Southern Wyoming. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Nov. 16. After having been snowbound for five days with nothing but potatoes and beans to keep them from starving, 29 automobiles, including , seven women and six children, were 1 brought to Cheyenne today from a l ranch home, 18 miles north of the ' city. , Mostly residents of southern j Wyoming and Colorado, they left ! Wheatland or the south Saturday morning in 12 automobiles, but were caught by a blizzard. WIFE, AUTO, LOST, FOUND Hoosier Jlotorist Has Odd Ex perience in St. Louis. ST. LOUIS, Nov. 16 Walter Har bison, 25, of Loogootee, Ind., last night misplaced his wife and auto mobile, but today was united with both after police had assisted him. Touring from Indiana to Califor nia, Harbison arrived here last night and left his wife in a hotel while he went in search of a garage. He found a garage but forgot where the hotel was, and starting back to the garage for his automobile, for got the location of the garage. He then appealed to the police. RECKLESS T0VIEW DEAD Traffic Law Violators to Be i Taken Through Morgue. DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 16 Week- I ly visits to the morgue were added to the routine of the automobile di vision of recorder's court today by Judge Bartlett He announced that hereafter one each week jnen and women convictvd of traffic law violations and given jail sentences will be conducted through the morgue "to view,th re sults of automobile drivers' care lessness." EX-ENVOY SERIOUSLY ILL William Graves Sharp, Who Held Post at Paris, Near Death. ELYRIA, O., Nov. 16. William Graves Sharp, ex-ambassador to France, is seriously m at his home here and his five children have been summoned to his bedside. The exact nature of his illness has not been made known. Control of Parliament Is Kept by Conservatives. YOUNGER'S STAND JUSTIFIED Election Proves English Are Ready for Change. LLOYD GEORGE CRUSHED Friends Regret ex-Premier Did Not Decide to Retire From ' Politics Temporarily. LONDON, Nov. 16. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The long drawn-cut f:ght between ex-Premier Lloyd George and Sir George Younger has for the time ended with-victory lor the chairman of tho unionist party. Younger and his adherents staked their political fortunes at the famous Carlton club meeting, which smashed the coalition and sent I.lcyd George into the wilderness, on the conviction that the country was ripe for a return to straight party poli tics, and in the firm belief that the nation would support their convic tion by sending the conservatives to the house of commons with a good working majority. Their confidence has been amnlv justified. Yesterday's election has returned a parliament with almost the same overwhelming predomi nance of conservatives., as the last parliament, erected in 1918 on a wave of grateful enthusiasm to Lloyd George as "winner of the war." Bonar Law Majority 80. In the new parliament Premier Bonar Law will command a ma jority of approximately 80 over all parties combined. While this cannot be properly de scribed as a landslide, as the con servatives at the time of the dis solution of parliament numbered about 380, it amounts almost to the same thing, considering the peculiar circumstances of the time and the high hopes held by the labor and liberal parties of the return of the country to progressive views. It may be supposed that, the conserva tives themselves hardly expected such favorable results. It means a parliament with little change, except that Mr. Bonar Law replaces Mr. Lloyd George and that the ex-premier's attenuated follow ing of national liberals, reduced by the elections to less than 50, will presumably henceforth be in oppo sition, instead of working in co operation with the conservatives. Coalition Liberal Defeated.. The downfall of Lloyd Georgeism is the outstanding feature of the elections. The coalition liberals at the dissolution numbered 129; they are represented In" the new parlia ment by only 44 members. There .will be many regrets among the ex premier's admir.ers that he failed to (Concluded on Page 3, Column 1.) ITS - r- Old Friend of President Ebert Plans "Ministry oWork and Nonpartisan Policy. ' BERLIN, Nov. 16. (By the Asso ciated Press.) Wilhelm Cuno, director-general of the Hamburg- American steamship line, was com missioned by President Ebert today to constitute a new cabinet, and im mediately Herr Cuno got into in formal touch with the party leaders to ascertain their attitude toward supporting "a cabinet of work" which he purposes to organize. This will comprise members of the mid dle and socialist parties, but, ac cording to Cuno, will not have an outspoken partisan complexion. After this advanced survey he in formed President Ebert of his readi ness to . accept the chnacellorshlp, and then left for Hamburg to ad just affairs In connection with his position on the Hamburg-American line. On his return to Berlin tomorrow he will resume negotiations with the reichstag leaders. Although the reception accorded him in reichstag circles thus far has been reported as cordial, it is not believed he will succeed definitely in' constituting the new ministry before Monday. Herr Cuno is an old friend of President Ebert and was first in line among the so-called neutral public leaders whom the president had in view as meeting his concep tion of a leader of a ministry which would undertake the nation's eco nomic reconstruction along broad and non-partisan lines." The opinion is held in reichstag circles that Herr Cuno, who , is wholly a novice in parliamentary affairs, at least has the advantage of being unincumbered by party af filiations, and that he is qualified to deal objectively with the acri monious situation growing out of the present crisis, and might even succeed in reconciling the warring factions to a patriotic programme of national reconstruction based on mutual inter-party good will and understanding. He is determined to take his time in picking a new min istry, and so far has not pledged himself to any specific allotment of cabinet positions, although he is conversant with the ambitions of the socialists and German people's party. HUNGER STRIKE GOES ON! Effort to Get Release of Miss MacSwlney Fails. DUBLIN, Nov. 16. (By the Asso ciated Press.) A deputation from the Dublin corporation visited the government buildings today to urge President Cosgrave of the Dail Eireann to release Miss Mary Mac Swlney, now on the 12th day of her hunger strike in Mount Joy prison. Mr. Cosgrave. was unable to see them, being engaged in government business. COTTON AGAIN DECLINES Break in New York Market Car ries Prices Down $5. NEW YORK. Nov. 16 The reac tionary sentiment that has existed n the cotton market for several days found further expression today in a violent break that carried prices off about $5 a bale. January contracts touched $25, or $8 a bale decline from the season's high. STRANGE HOW THINGS WORK Fire Chief Displays Unusual ' Heroism In Rescuing Vic tims From Cauldron. (By Chicago Tribune Leased Wire.) CHICAGO, Nov. 16. Explosion of a moonshine still in an Italian gro cery, followed by fire, tonight re sulted in five deaths- and possibility of four missing children also being dead, destruction of two buildings and an extraordinary exhibition of heroism by Chief Frank Braiband of the Fifth battalion. Though on the scene within a min ute after the explosion,- the fire fighters found the brick structure- a cauldron of flame and smoke. The second floor was known to be the home of several families, with many small children. To turn the water into the building might be danger ous to them. Chief Braiband donned a gas mask and entered the structure through a window broken by the firemen. He permitted only . his fireman chauffeur, Charles Bratt, to accom pany him. Telling the others to withhold, the water until they re turned, the chief quickly ascended to the sleeping quarters, the firemen meanwhile being limited to fighting the fire in the basement. It was 20 minutes before Chief Braiband reappeared carrying with him a child under each arm. He quickly returned and after 10 mm utes brought out another child, Fear for Braiband'B life was felt by the anxious firemen who were pro hibited by his orders from attempt ing to go to his aid. , Bratt was meantime bringing out other children, some alive, others dead. All were rushed to St. Mary's hospital on the million to one chance that artificial respiration might re store life. BOY FATALLY WOUNDED Lebanon Youth Near Death From Accidental Gun Shot. LEBANON, Or., Nov. 16 (Spe cial.) Kenneth Smith, 15-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Smith, re siding five miles west of Lebanon, is in the Lebanon hospital in a crit ical condition, suffering from an accidental gunshot wound received Tuesday .evening. The parents of the boy were in Albany Tuesday afternoon, and when the children came home from school, the boy took a .22 rifle and went,, out to shoot some game. The parents, returning fter dark, found him about 150 yards from the house with a bad wound in the forehead. The brain is penetrated several inches, and the attending physicians say he has practically no chance of recovery. SHIP CLAIMS ADJUSTED Mr. Lasker Announces Settlement With Two Concerns. WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 16. Chairman Lasker announced today settlement of the claim of the Long Beach Shipbuilding company of Cal ifornia against the shipping board for approximately $400,000 for can celed contracts. This amount was accepted by the claimant, Mr. Lac ker said. Settlement was also made with the Luckenbach Steamship company of a claim whereby the company will pay the board "several mill'ons of dollars," Mr. Lasker said. OUT. 'dI 'io it. ii. V l'00R AY'. . MAMMIES Italian Premier Subdues Old Leaders. NOISY FACTIONS ABE SILENT Useful Foreign Policy Is Pledged by Chief. BACKING GIVEN TREATIES Pacts, Whether Good or Bad, Have Been Made and Must Be Fulfilled,. Is Declaration. ROME, Nov. 16. (By the Associat ed Press.) Benito Mussolini, in a dramatic first appearance before parliament as premier, today an nounced his foreign and internal policy and warned' his adversaries that the fasclsti government had come ' to stay. He affirmed its strength to enforce law and order against one and all, even against an illegal coup by bis own followers, and demanded full powers and full responsibilities. The fascist! leader proclaimed a policy of action, not words. He him self set an example, for he spoke for only half an hour, and was fre quently applauded and cheered. The socialists and communists, numbering 118, who have greeted every succeeding government with violent and noisy demonstrations of opposition, sat in the chamber today silent and subdued. Old leaders' Power Lout. ' Old leaders like Giollttl, Orlando, Sal'andra, Facta and Bonomi saw their power wrested from them; they were relegated to second place without uttering a single objection and some of them were among the hundreds who congratulated Musso lini as he concluded. The only attempt at interruption was made by Deputy Modigliani, so cialist, who, when Mussolini threat ened dissolution, shouted somewhat timidly. : "Long, live the parliaments The leader of the fascist! party merely glared at him. while the right and center sections cheered. There are many who think that the premier will force the chamber to a vote as soon as the minister of the treasury, Professor Tangorra, shall have developed the details of the fiscal and bureaucratic reforms on the fascist! programme. Entrance Hailed With Cheers. The premier's entrance to the crowded chamber was hailed with cheers. The points of his speech meeting with special approval were his declaration that he did not need a majority in parliament, his tribute to the king, his reference to" the army and insistence upon order and tranquillity in the country. The premier then went to the sen ate and delivered the same speech, being greeted with no less enthu siasm. In his address Premier Mussolini said: "I have imposed limits on myself I have told myself that it is the highest wisdom not to abandon one's self after the victory. With 300,000 men, fully armed and thoroughly determined to obey my orders, I was in a position to punish all those who decried fascistism and who conspired against It. Useful Foreign Policy Urged. "In regard to the foreign policy of, Italy, we wish to follow a course of dignity and usefulness. We are not able to follow a policy of altru ism or complete abandon to the others. Italy today is powerful and abroad they are beginning to recog nize that this power is a simple formula of nothing for nothing. "The Italian . premier questioned whether a real entente existed In the true sense of the word when one considered the position of the allies in the face of the Russian debacle and in the face of the Russo-German alliance. They asked what the posi tion of Italy was in the entente since she had lost her strongholds in the Adriatic and In the Mediter ranean and has sacrificed some of her fundamental rights, received neither colonies nor raw materials and finds herself truly crushed by war debts contracted to secure the victory. ' Treaties Must Be Fulfilled. "Our foreign policy is based on treaties of peace which may be good or bad, but since they have been signed and ratified they must be ap plied. A respectable state can have no other doctrine. Treaties are not internal. They are chapters of his tory and to apply them signifies their proof." , The new premier said that meth ods up to now were not good. "It is better to make commercial treaties in place of holding grand plenary conferences which are use less," he said. ' "I propose in the conferences that I will have with the ministers of France and England to envisage with all 'clearness the problem of th6 entente In all its complexity and the consequent problem of the situa tion of Italy in relation to the en tente. In the examination of this question two hypotheses present iCQBoluued. on Pag 2. Column LI Place Proves Mecca for Motorists ; Bits of Trees Are Sold as . Souvenirs. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J Nov. 16. Morbid curiosity in the Hall-Mills murder case is being further capi talized. Walter Masterson, a carpenter, today began erecting a high fence around the Phillips farm, the scene of the murder, which in the last few weeks has proved a Mecca for mo torists from a score of states. He is having prepared a sign for the gate reading "Admittance, 25 cents." Masterson, it was learned, has leased the farm for $30 a month. A venerable horsehair settee, which had formed part -of the Phillips home furnishings, has been sold to a New York freak museum for J250. Hucksters previously had taken bits of the crabapple tree under which the tragedy occurred, hawk ing the souvenirs in New York and Newark at 10 cents each. Original letters said to have been written by Rev. Mr. Hall to Mrs. Mills are to be turned over to the authorities tomorrow by Mrs. Flor ence North, attorney for Charlotte Mills, daughter of the dead woman, it was announced tonight by Spe cial Detective Mason. Detective Mason also announced that the prosecution would present, to the grand jury testimony of two more witnesses whose stories have never been made public. The story of Mrs. Jane Gibson, the state's alleged eyewitness of the two killings, has been checked up in every way, Detective Mason said, and all attempts to find flaws in it have failed. AUTO CRASH KILLS TWO Three Men Pinned Under Ma chine In Wreck Near Beaver. TILLAMOOK, Or., Nov. 16. (Special.) William McKinley and Charles Pool were killed early this morning when an automobile in which they were driving went off the grade at the bridge, at Beaver. Eric Goulstrom was also in the car at the time and all three men were pinned under the machine. Goul strom managed to extricate himself and went for help. When he re turned the other two men were dead. The men had taken a car, be longing to James Williams, remov ing the license plate, early this morning, and it was reported that they had some contraband liquor. McKinley was about 20 years of age and a son of F. B. McKinley. Pool had been working at a sawmill and was about 28 years of age. Goulstrom was only slightly in jured. CHINESE BANK GETS AID France to Assist in Refloating Disabled Institution. PARIS, Nov. 16. The chamber of deputies today ratified an agreement applying the balance of the Boxer indemnity to refloating the indus trial bank of China, which suspend ed payments in June, 1921. The vote was 444 to 15. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 54 degrees; lowest, 37 degrees. TODAY'S Rain; southwest winds. Foreign. Bonar Law party has SO majority in new parliament. Page 1. Wilhelm Cuno, shipping magnate, ac cept task of forming new German ' cabinet. Page 1. Fascist! leader warns adversaries that government will stand. Page 1. Chile is rocked by new quakes. Page 2. National. Proposal of right of way for ship sub sidy bill threatens to rouse opposi tion. Page 2. Conference plana war on illiteracy. Page 8. , Leaders of labor and farm organizations to formulate legislative programme for congress- Page 4. Ex-Premier Clemenceau admired even by his foes, says Mark Sullivan. Page 13. Domestic Hammer slayer convicted of second degree murder. Page 1. Explosion of still kills five. Page 1. Officer who said army had been Prus sianised must take his medicine. Page 1. Death farm visits to cost 25 cents each. Page L I. W. W. to attack Portland and tAs- torta. Page 7. Lady Bluebeards tested for sanity. Page 13. Doyle says conjurors are Ignorant. Page 19, . Sports. Aggie team prays for rain Saturday. Page 14. Oregon squad pronounced in fine condi tion for tomorrow's game. Page 14. Willie Koppa beats Cochran at Billiards. 500 to 1(12. Page 15. Pancho Villa wins fight from Abe Gold stein. Page 18. Commercial and Marine. Record season for apple sales in local market. Page 26. All liberty bonds higher, except one issue. Page 27. Reaction is sharp in wheat and rye. Page 26. Generals motors paying dividend. Page 26. Foreign exchange rises in New York. Page 27. Further tonnage reported engaged "for grain shipments abroad. Page 12. Kobe port official praises Portland's ter- minal .system. Page 12. Portland and Vicinity. Attack on school bonds' legality held trick to escape purchase in falling market. Page 20. Oregon democrats organize in hope of carrying state in 1924 presidential election. Page 18. One-way traffic proposed again. Page 1. Bridge contract awards not to be made hastily. Page 18. City club indorses ehest idea. Page 17. Weather report, data and forecast. Page 20. Court and press bitterly assailed at mass meeting called to support convicted RriaolpaJ,. Page fi, , ( Second -Degree Murder Decision of Jury. : VERDICT ACCEPTED CALMLY Three Women on Jury Vote for Death Penalty. NEW TRIAL TO BE ASKED Sentence to Be Pronounced Mon day; 10 Years to liife Im- j prisonment Penalty. -y LOS ANGELES, Cal., Nov. 16.- A verdict of murder in the second degree was returned by the jury at 10:25 today in the case of Mrs. Clara Fhillips charged with beating-Mrs. Alberta Meadows to death with a hammer. As Deputy Sheriff Frank Dewar, stepped to the prisoner's side to con duct her back to her cell following the reading of the verdict, he leaked, over and said to her: "Well, Mrs. Phillips, it might have been much worse." "I'll say it could!" quickly re sponded the young woman. ? , Mrs. Phillips Unmoved. Before the verdict was received Judge Houser cautioned the crowd in the courtroom that numerous deputy sheriffs were scattered amonj them and that any disturb ance or demonstration would bo dealt with severely at once. Mrs. Phillips heard the verdict without any evidence of emotion. Judge Houser set next Monday at 10 o'clock as the time for sen tence. Mrs. Phillips will seek a new trial and if that is denied will appeal from the verdict, it was announced, by Bertram A. Herrington, her at torney. "There is a fatal error, in ths reeord, and finally Clara Phillips will be freed," Herrington said. "We will not quit the fight until she is." - -Venr Trial to Be Asked. A motion for a new trial will be mad when Mrs. Phillips is sen tenced Monday. The verdict, whih was a compromise one from a jury of nine men and three women, car ries a penalty of from ten. years to life imprisonment. "I expected to be acquitted," Mrs. Fhillips said in commenting upon the verdict. "They didn't give ma a fair trial. I am going to ask' my attorney to appeal and believe with, another trial I can be acquitted. X don't think I will go 'to the peni tentiary. But if I have to go there I could face life in that place witti the same poise I have here. It wouldn't make much difference to me. AH my hopes sire crushed any way." Women for Death Penalty. The three women members of tho jury voted for the death penalty until the final compromise of sec ond degree murder was reached. la the early balloting there were four who voted to acquit. The jury reached an agreement at 10 o'cloclc last night after the judge, the at torneys and court attaches had gone home. The verdict was not returned until court convened this morning. According to members of the jury. they did not consider the insanity; defense during their deliberations. The sound of hammer blows from a workman in an adjoining court room added a dramatic touch, to the announcing of the verdict The clerk was compelled to raise his voice when reading the verdict so as to make himself heard above the rhythmic pounding of the hammer. State's, Star Witness Freed. Mrs. Peggy Caffee, the state's star witness and who, Mrs. Phillips testified wielded the hammer that killed Mrs. Meadows, was released from technical custody today. Since October 20, when the trial com menced, she has been in a hotel near the courthouse in charge of a matron from the district attorney's office. The penalty under a conviction of murder in' the second degree is im prisonment in the state penitentiary for a term of ten years to life. Mrs. Meadows' mutilated body was found alongside a roadway in the northern outskirts of Los Angeles on July 12 last Twenty-four hours later Mrs. Phillips' husband. Armour L. Phillips, came to the office of Sheriff W. I. Traeger and, the sheriff announced, stated his wife admitted attacking Mrs. Meadows and was on the way to El Paeo, Texas. , Mrs. Phillips Returned. Mrs. Phillips was arrested at Tus con, Ariz., and brought back. Mean while Mrs. Peggy Caffee, a chum of Mrs. Phillips since they were both in the chorus of a local burlesque theater several years ago, went to the police station and declared she accompanied Mrs. Meadows and Mrs. Phillips to the scene of the slaying, and accused Mrs. Phillips of the crime. The trial began on October 20 last with Mrs. Caffee as the chief prosecution witness. Mrs. Phillips went on the stand and testified that Mrs. Cafee struck the first blow in. iCofluiuded, ea Pfi 2, Coiuaift Z, t