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Show I EDITORIAL I 4. Lw . . ,1 mm, mm mm . jml AUTOMOBILES SPORTS a A. POWERFUL POTENTATE AND COSMETICS THAT "STAY ON" PROVE WORRY AT TIMES HOUSEHOLD wmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm This exclusive Underwood tr Underwood photo shows the sultan of Funban administering justice in the courtAs the dusty convict pleads for his life upon his knees the entire family. of the sultan stands yard of his palace. in a circle it being the custom for the wives to attend 11 auch sessions inorder that they may witness the exer-eis- e of their common husbands authority and power. Which might be no bad idea for some American magistrates. The harem or, rather, the wives of a harem is in itself an unusual picture, for it is against Mohammedan tradition to allow the members of the Harem even to be seen. d OF OLDEN SEIF s , , .W ,, v- i Steps fot Rehabilitation of the Native Hawaiian. ? 7 v i, Trade Paralyzed Region. the Hawallana, attempt to rehabilitate through their restoration to the lanBa and the simple, healthful pursuits of their fathers The Hawaitans, In the olden days agriculturists and fishermen, have practically been driven out of thoarr Industries and Into the tenements o( Honolulu by changing economic conditions They have been supplanted on the small farms and in the fishing fleets by ths more industrious, entered the harbor. Business throughout Asia Minor la paralysed. Americans control the little trading that ex lata. There are three reasons for this stoppage of business. One Is the war, another is the hopeless rate of exchange (the Turkish pound is worth about 60 cents) and a third is lack of demand for foreign goods. As there seems little likelihood of an abatement of the war between the Greeks and Kemallsts, local merchants 'see little hope of a revival of Smyrna s commercial supremacy. Many of them have left the place for Italy, England and America, where they hope to find greater tive, ;pi r&tj (Copyrlght, Ultra-bad- . , Then Smyrna's hotels sre sad affairs The most modern of them Is forty years old. None of them would do credit to the smallest town In the United States. When King Constantine came here the best accommodations the authorities could terra get for him was a small eight-roocotta house that any farmer In America would own The king and his- ministers were not here two days before they were almost driven out by bugs and mosquitoes. The city has few places of amusement There are two or three indifferent moving picture theaters and numerous coffeehouses. All ovea the near east the is an institution. Here the population sits all day, sipping Turkish coffee, drinking ooso (a drink that tastes like aniseed) and talking politics The natives as a rule are primitive, Indolent and superstitious They carry conversation beads to beguile the time These they finger and fumble by the hour The visito might Imagine the holders of the beads were at prayer. Even the horses wear these curious conversation deads, but In these cases they are used to keep away, as the natives believe, the ' evil eye" from the animal. m house" British Film Producers Protest U. S. .i Fee Import . by Underwood A Underwood, New York) French Writer Declares, in Multiplicity of Barrier Boundaries and Official Red Tape Takes Joy Out of Journeys Signed Article, Outlook in Much of the Old World. for White Race Is Dark. Service Cable. Universal PARIS, Aug. 13. Dr. A. F. "Legendre, a French writer on Chinese and Asiatic years subjects, gained from twenty-fiv- e of travel and observation in the far east, warns the world in his latest work that "Asia is at ths white man s doors, The biggest cloud on strong. the horizon of the future, he sas, is the yellow peril The white race. Dr. Legendre says, "lost face, as the oriental puts It, when Japan defeated Russia. Luring thehergreat rewar, he writes, Japan multiplied sources and saved her stiength while sufEurope lost 20,000.000 men and today fers depressing, lntellecual, moral and the economic debility. Great Britain, author holds, ened In supporting Japan with reaeon' of her marriage through now the Pacific empire, an alliance prov ing so embarrassing. "imperialistic Germanism and sovietism now are a union," he adds, In expounding his theory that Japanese and German expansion, each toward the other, threaten to bridge the old Russian bulwark against Asiatic invasion of Europe and call for prompt action by the white man to save himself from the domination he sees impending in the steadily increasing ' crystallization of Asia for the Asiatics sentiment, particularly among the Mussulmans Russia, he says, cannot save herself, she must be helped with a new brand of statesmanship, Detailed studies of Asiatic economic resources are given by Dr. Legendre to support his assertion that the yellow race may become sellers instead of buyers unless ths white race develops Us commerce In every way and seeks to produce cheaply, anticipating Asiatic competition by establishing factories in Asia and by Increasing production In aU of Europe's colonies. Among many Illustrations of Asiatic resources, ths author cites Siberian exports of butter that went from 36,000,000 pounds in 1900 to 100,000,000 pounds in as 1913 and much of which was sold Danish butter. Formidable andrimmlnenfas the gu thor deems Asiatic competition he nevertheless con cedi! a to the white race superior working ability and greater leader It must at last be realised, how-e- v ship he Bays, that hereafter. It is er, Asia face to face with Europe." is a reality," he concludes, "and the peace conference ingenuously did all It could to favor It, particularly on the Shantung question. This "error." Dr Legendre says, the the only champings of I nlted - States, China, saw and from now on "America will raise herself-again- st any show of political immorality or spoliation." I5NDON, Aug 13 A letter protesting against the proposed American Import motion picture films ag ''protsxupon hibitive and detrimental to the international Interchange of ideas of life" appeared in a recent Issue of the London Times, signed by sixteen British film producers who appended their signatures to the letter as members of the British Producers Committee of the Incorporated Association of Kinematograph Manufacturers. The letter declared that If British manufacturers are to be entirely debarred from Introducing scenes of English life to the people of America "there can be no option but to prevent the practically free Importation of American film Into this country The letter notes that the 30 per cent Dog ad valorem duty is based upon the cost of production of similar work in the Old Types United States, asserting at the same time that the cost of the production Is admit13 Amertimes as about five LONDON. Aug tedly heavy there as in England. The writers say that about icans, desirous of picking up good strains 95 per cent of the films shown on British of breed, were numerous et the Kennel screens are of American origin. clubs sixtieth annual show which closed i' here recently, but scarcely any animals changed hands, mainly because Americans Warlords seemed to prefer- - the real old English such as sheepdogs, collies, mastiffs to Tyrolese Town type, and deerhounds, which were curiously In the minority compared with the Alaatlene VIENNA, Aug. 13 The little Tyrolese and ether foreign dogs which are the as visi- craze of the moment here. village of Ingls recently ha tors the German generals Hlndenburg. King George competed with a couple Ludendorf, Mackensen and Linsingen and of Labrador dogs, which, however, failed the former Austrian Field Marshal Con- to take a prize The Lonsdale cup for rad. according to Innsbruck dispatches. the best male dog In the show went to a Ths papers also state that a number of Pekinese, and forv the best female to a former King Carl's entouraga and some bull bitch. of his relatives have been In the town. Democratic organs of Vienna are asking why these notable royalists were permitted to take tip their residence In Austria. Exorbitant rates, meanwhile, have depleted most Austrian summer resorts, say the Vienna papers. They report that In the Tyrol, In Upper Austria and Styrla hotels and boarding-house- s are half empty, although the season Is now atelts height In addition to greatly Increased rates, the provincial and communal au- Universal Service Cable . thorities Impose all kinds of head taxes. ONDON, Aug. IS. "No Time for T God is the title of a remarkable Serbia I article by Btr James Douglas.-Second-han- d he writes, "haj J England." no time for God. Over all VIENNA. Aug 13 Alexander, the the land the old gray towers and rlnce regent of Serbia, Is 'surrounding spires etlll bear of the churches ilmeelf wlh some of the second-han- d A com- witness to the faith that has grown cold, regal panoply of the Hapsburgs. mission from Belgrade has brought two but they are empty churches, and their of the manv state carriages stored In bells no longer summon the good people ths old royal stables here, one a semi- to tender meditation and gentle prayer state vehicle for official calls and the "Never in my life has religion ebbed other one of the splendid glass and gold so low. Never has the spiritual pulse of roaches used on ceremonial occasions the nation beat so feebly. The soul of The commlsHton alee takes back to Belthe nation Is empty "There are no great voices in the pal-p- it grade the complete furnishings of one of the Marta Theresa apartments In the or on the platform, In poetry or In In Installation the for prose. The divorce mills grind out their Hofhurg palace. grist of misery day by day, and the ns- "Pan-Asianls- m American Pick Fanciers English Dog-lovi- German Visit 1921, Little European Countries Get Even With Americans . by Making Travel Difficult - The Hotels Pay "We find the Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd VIENNA. and M CJemenceau. known Tiger. guilty of retarding the progress In that they are dimore diffl-cu- lt rectly responsible for making intercommunication between peoples and obthrough the erection of barriers and mulstacles to travel by the creation sentence and of boundaries, tiplication said defendants to cross and recross the for the frontiers they themselves created rest ef their natural lives " That would be the verdict of a Jury of common cltisens of different countries whose business compels much travel in of the Europe since the rearrangement southeastern Europe. map of central and considered a 'pleasTravel was always ure It is no pleasure today if you have to travel more or less as a business in some parts of Europe. The man with a diplomatic passport, with letters to foreign offices and with 'pull enough to cut in ahead of long lines waitingwillin the tell anterooms of passport offices you there la no difficulty. But ask Mr. Common Citizen Passeverywhere treat him port officials almost His generally with a lack of respect. the time is never considered to have Issuor As the visaing slightest value mata la of largely usually passports ing ter of discretion" on the part of said officials, Mr. Common Citizen finds it wise to bear it even if he cannot grin, rather than make a fuss You stand or sit for hours waiting for your "vise" Often the smaller or newer may have the country the longer you difficulties to wait and the greater the an American are If on the border you It may be, and often Is, worse Americans at home In blissful Ignorance still cherish the belief that International poliimagtics Is romance or melodrama, they ine that there are such things as hero nations and that the new nations created largely through Mr. Wilsons are so grateful that all you need to say li 'America and the answer promptly Is: Let America pass unhindered; that other nations go to show their gratitude for the assistance which enables them to call themselves but half victors," charge Americans Such illusions aro quickly deprice Aug. 13 ' Buys Trappings Kara-geor- I they were advised It wen better "not to speak English loudly." The Italians are sora because the dollar is high and their lira low. They have been told that America Is deliberately forcing the lira down and they are mad about it The popular belief wherever I have been that America Is smothergood money at that and there is a popular soreness about it. The English do not like It that the dollar sign has replaced the pound sterling as International symbol of value! the French believe that It Is Americas fault that the franc la so low, and are much annoyed, to put it mildly; the Italians know that the lira Is kept down for American speculative purposes, of course. The Poles and the .Czechs and Hungarians are all disappointed that American loans have not been forthcoming. The American, traveling, gets all of thla. la generally supposed to be Magnanimity an attribute of the victor and never of the vantherefore all the more quished, It strange that there is so little feeling against Americana In Germany, Austria or Hungary. In Europe Is ing in money 1 Passport Reprisal. It costs an American from five to ten times as much for vises as it does cltisens of otherpassport countries. As a reprisal for the state department raising the vise of foreigners coming to or leaving America to 610 that charge la now made to Americans Ths difference Is that ths 610 charged bv America admits to a country as big as all of Europe, while a 610 vise here often means only that you mav enter orv cross a country not much larger than a California or Texas county. To travel from Berlin to Belgrade costs 60 for fees, or three times as much as passport the railroad fare mounts to. The more worthless the money of a country the greater the fuss made at the border stations about taking any of the stuff out. Until recently the Poles permitted travelers to take but 6000 Polish marks about 62.60 out of the country. The Germans place an equal number of German marks as the permissible sum to take out, but that represents about 666. Belgium Is the one country Americans may enter without passport Of foreign customs officials., I have found the Danes stroyed. the most courteous and bonslderate, and the Dutch among the most brusque The No Americans Wanted. frontier and passport officials of Poland, wants'-nAmeriand To begin with, Russia have cans at all. Many have cooled their heels not yet learned that treatment accorded In Riga and Reval for weeks and strangers give first and often lasting immonths waiting vainly for the sought per- pression of their countries and peoples mission to enter the land of Bolshevism and mystery The border states. Esthonla, Latvia, us Lithuania, do not particularly like INTER-EUROPEA- N In the eyee of Washington, they are still naef in the children family Illegitimate offiAERIAL SERVICE tions. America has not yet taken cial cognisance of their existence. That does not particularly commend AmeriSOON REALITY cana to them. In fact, they think it rather nervy for Americans to ask for vises of governments not recognised By ETHEL HUGLI-CAMWe have loaned the Poles a few hunthe Lake Tribune Chicago Tribune-Sal- t dred million good dollars and fed was when the crisis Cable. country tor months had. It would be untrue to say the Poles BERNE, Aug. 13. Due to the ef. are ungrateful, but It would be equally forts of M. Pethoud, htad of the untrue to yssert that any particular conAmericans at the sideration Lausanne Schoot of Aviation, ths Polish frontlera sarlal service between Lon. Bitter ere the oomplalnts heard of Paris Lausanns don treatment received on the borders of Just et this time there and Constantinople Is is a very strong feeling In about to be launched. M. Pethoud northern Italy whlih the American travhas bssn able to Jnterast M. Vllllera eler Is made to feel at the border cusof the French Aerial Express comtoms station Americans from there say pany, end a masting In Lausanne hat been arranged, when M. Vllllera will Inapect the aviation atatlon at Lea Btecharetea and get Into touch with the Swiss authorities. Ths planes chosen for, the service will be the Gollath-Farmaof the type which recently won the Aero club prize lh France. They will carry tion grins and sneers at the grimy protwelve passengers, are rather smaller moral invalids marching cession of and mere compact than the Handley. through the fumes of perjury to thei pit of lust. Pege, end have two Samson motors of But the law of life Is reaction. The 280 horsepower. Besides passengers, tidal wave of materialism has nearly the service will take ears ef the reached Its highest point. The foul waters will recede, the home will be built Frenoh-fwls- a aerial pest restored to Its again, the Infamily will be Ufa Tht basic Jdsa of this air service Is the spiritual old place of the nation to connect the Italian porta with thoaa "Statesmen will Mirlss with power to of England. A business man in LonInspire the nation Vwlth aims that are don, for Instance, can stay five days not base and with Ideals that are not mean. The churches will breed great dilonger In hie office and then fly to vines llks Bunyan and Wesley, Dale and Italy for his transatlantic boat. Newman. Poets like Booth, Manning and Lausanns will be ths first port after Wordsworth will stir the soul of England into penitence end peace.. Parle, after which ths plants will There will be a great slump in Imcross the Alps and alight In Turin, will be a panto In the morality There Milan and Romd. ' pig markets of sensual cyniclsm.K England must find time for God. o Csecho-Slovak- la Jugo-Slav- la A were-show- n Czecho-Slovak- long-plann- la No Time for God in England, Is View of Sir James Douglas Prince of pure-bloo- Hawallana d It Is provided by ths Hawaiian homes act that revenue derived from the leasing 0(3 highly cultivated .public lands, operated In the main Ay sugar and pineapple plantations, shall be diverted Into e fund which shell finance the rehabilitation scheme. It Is proposed to place Hawallana ot or more Polynesian blood on secondary public lands, suitable for diversified farming and stock raising, but not now under cultivation, and largs tracts have been set aside on the islands of Molokai and Hawaii for this purpose From the revolving fund which will be provided by rentals from ths highly cultivated public lands, each Hawaiian family returning to the soil will be loaned sums not to exceed 63000 for the purchase of Implements and the erection of buildings Expert assistance will be provided the colonists by the Hawaiian homes commission, created by the act. It Is estimated that the new leases to the highly cultivated public lands will bring In about 6600,000 a year, ot which a certain portion will go to finance the rehabilitation work and the rest will be available for general territorial purons-ha- lf A. Fertile Lands Surround. one-hor- And Japanese. hard-worki- this change has operated to increase each ear the appalling death rate of the na- prosperity.' -track, Tribute Cable. Can a Aug. IS wail. Enactment by congress of the Hawaiian rehabilitation bill, or the Hawaiian homes act, to git a the measure Its real, title, marked hs Inauguration of an SMTRNA, Aug. 1J. Smyrna, one the greatest commercial mart In Asia, la not like a city dfail. There is little to show that It la the base of a Greek army of 200,600. For months no cargo boats have single- GEORGE F. NELLIST. BY Chirico Tribune Salt Lak HONOLULU. T. H, djlng race come back? j ,The experiment Is to be tried in He War, Hopeless Financial Situation and Little of Demand' fof Change Seen t dollars. The treaty of Sevres placed Smyrna under Greek administration, with the proviso that after five years the population might express Its preference for either Turk or Greek control. Although It has a population of upward of 400,0u0 and Is considered by both Turks and Greeks as one of the most modern cities In Asia, Smyrna to the visitor is disappointing and unattractive Its narrow, winding, crudely cobbled streets give off an offensive odor. Its drainage system la deplorably Inadequate Its and lighting facilities, tfto, transportation are woefully defective. There is only s single tram, and that consists of a line along the waterfront. States Hat Taken ' ! J Tribune-Sa- Lake Tribune 13. Cancer cures, new planets, the elixir of Hfe g and systems for the races may be discovered, but the local druggist who has Invented cosmetics that Sure-thln- wont wear off In salt water Is regarded as the next men tg Columbus In these parts. Lipsticks that rsddsn the llpe to a charming cherryllka hue, roes powder that gives the checks a film ef dslntu sst rouge, and pencils that enhance the dark, glowing orbs of the Parisian beauties can be bought here with the guarantee that the makeup will not wash off, fade or run while the wearer It In bethlng. Seme remarkable effects are produced, however, when eeme of the fair bathara stay In ths surf toe long. Their lips are vivid scarlet In the litmouth they have tle Cpplds-bodaubed on, but the rest Is white and bloodless; their cheeks are blue with cold, except for the round spots of crimson applied with the fuxzy rag, and their eyes stand out hollow and ghaetly with the whiteness ef their )forehead and the rose eceentustlng 'the black lines and the black ptads appsnded on dhe eyelashes. Stilt, It Is semsthlng to have waterproof makeup, antr these who dont stay In the water toe long affirm that the rouge protects their complexions from the sun's burning rays and that the lipsticks prevent their lips from cracking frem the salt water. poses. It U stipulated in the act that for five years the experiment shall be limited to the lands which have begn set aside on Molokai and Hawaii, and If, at the end of that time, it ts clear that it has been will be asked for successful, congress further legislation authorizing extensions of the work until all public lands shall be so utilised. Prince Jonah K. Kalanlanaole. delegate to congress from Hawaii, and Senator John Wise of the territorial legislature, are the fathers of the rehabilitation scheme and are confident that It) will prove successful, that It will save the Hawaiian race aa the Maoris have been saved In New Zealand Others, particularly the Caucasian Americans of Hawaii, are doubtful, but every one agrees that In this experiment ths fete of the Hawaiian race is at stake. Next Winter in, Region of Soviet Rule Is Expected to Be Unusually Severe. BERLIN, Aug. 16. Thousands of Rus- Jews are crossing the Eathonlan. Lithuanian and Polish borders every month, many sent from soviet territory sian under protection of high Bolshevist officials, according to travelers in the border states who recently have returned here. The opinion in neighboring states is that the exodus la prompted by fear of an Pussyfoot? Johnson approaching crisis, Ths rumored crises in Russia always Job have been discounted here, but in sources It la believed the situaCOPENHAGEN. Aug 11 William E Pussyfoot" Johnson hsa sailed from En- tion is serious now and will be gland for India. The trip of the famous more really serious In the winter months, for it American prohibition leader is in response to numerous Invitations from va- Is known the grain crops largely have rious temperance organisations in Indie, fatlfsj,. provisions of all sorts are scarce. Including those among the missionary or- andfthere Is Uttle gold with which to ganisations and natives. "Pussyfoot's Itinerary includes Bom- purchase more. ba v, Poona, Baroda, Lahore, Amritsar, Starvation already has taken toil of the Delhi, Cawnpore, Lucknow, Allahabad, Benares and Calcutta, and has been population of a number of districts, and mapped out by the temperance forces In wide areas are facing the longer winter India, From India Mr Johnson will go with only a few weeks' supply of provito Ceylon for a brief visit In responss sions on hand. to Invitations from temperance organiThe faot that no appreciable organised zations there and then will sail for Enmovement has Russian j gland. Among the temperance organisations appeared since Baron Wronger s offorces wars leads the observers dissipated are Mr. Johnson's arranging Itinerary said to be some of the most prominent situation here to believe that should ths winoccur the this soviets of overthrow persons In the social and civic life of India. The various natlvs religions of ter It will take ths nature of a popular India are what may be termed uprising, supported by such troops ee are prohibiMany fear it will reWhile native liquors are not at the front tion religions program. mads and sold, and drinking haa In- sult in a widespread reasons For these every Jewish family creased to e great extent even among many of the people whose religious tenets ef means, end many that are destitute, ere opposed to the use of intoxicants are attempting to get out of Russia They the temperance forces of India say they have no desire to tarry in Lithuania or must combat the operations of the drink i Fothonla, but are seeking to enter Gertraffic, which Is largely In the hands Ii many. with the idea of eventually reachof foreigners ing America. Tackle Steady Influx of Japanese Race Into Every Phase of Business Held a Menace. Whole Sections of Proud Capital Lima, Occupied by Squalid Oriental Huts By JOHN W. WHITE. Cblctse Tribune gelt Lake Trtbeae CaMev . . LIMA, Peru, Aug. 13. Lima, knowa throughout ths Spanish speaking world as the proud City of the Viceroys, the city whence ths Spaniards under Plzxrro directed their Inquisition against ths Incas, has becoma so infested with Japanese that the Peruvian newspapers have repeatedly during the last three years called upon the government to protect the country from further spread of tho "Peligro Amarillo," or yellow peril, as thsy call iL Some time ago the Japanese questioa was made a live subject throughout South America by the statements of ths Lima newspapers that ths Japanese wars not only replacing ths lower classes ef natives by 'immigration but that they were intermarrying with Peruvians of ths laboring class in such a way aa to make the yellow peril a real on to the Peruvian people. Newspapers Emphatic. o in India anti-Jewi- Gruesome Crimes in Berlin Punished Lightly Since War This campaign baa been kept up intermittently ever since, and not vary long ago one of the newspapers ot Lima went so far as to say that ths luwer class Peruviana in some localities wars acquiring a distinctive oriental countenance and that hundreds of Peruvian girls were wearing veils to hide their slant eyes and other traces of Japanese blood. , Tourists iff South America usually make their first excursion Include the market pieces, as these show the natives in their own element better than they can be seen anywhere else. But when one enters the big market place In Urns, one la Inclined Kto forget that it might not K is Peru and wonder be some place In the orient, for almost nothing Is seen of natives except the servant girls who are marketing. Nearly every etell la kept by Japanese. Japanese women squat In tba aisles, surrounded oy their chickens and turkeys: Japanese boys sell lard by the spoonful and wrap tree it in the wide leaves of the banana men Instead of in paper; and Japanese sell tba meat and vegetables. Street Peddlers Japanese. In moat of the South American countries the street peddlers are largely Turks and Syrian who push a cartsell-or carry a basket from house to house novelties ing kitchen utensils and cheap But on the west and toilet articles. coast of South America this hawking trade Is almost exclusively in the hands of the Japeneee. These peddlers, after or pushing a cart for carrying a basket a few years, save enough out of their penny profits to sot up a store in any hola in the wall, and both Bern ana Chile today are covered with these tiny oriental shops Thla is especially true In southern Peru and northern Chlla, that is, in the nitrate porta of the west coast. In thee towns, ths Japanese occupy entire a actions and it is not unusual to walk ssv. era! blocks before finding a single Individual who doos not bear evidence of oriental blood in his veins. ; Japanese Pouring In. . Japanese Immigration to the nitrate sine porta has been on the Increase the world war, aa Japanese Japan antered steamere come out to the west coast In ballast to load nitrate for Japan. One Usee of the two Japanese steamship which recently were subsidised by the Japanese government makes regular calls at all theaa class. porta with immigrants ot It is not unusual to tbs' laboring see from two to four Japanese cargo steamers at one time in such small Ports aa Iquiqus aqd Aries. Tba Japanese in these localities, line entire streets with their squalid nuta, Iron, made of corrugated galvanised with tha earth for a floor and without And each one of these one or several huta accommodates persons end sometimes several families. Few of the Japanese Immigrants have the meajis to bring out families with them and tha famintns aids of their establishment art usually represented by half breed women of tho country, who contribute liberally to a growing Japa- , nese tainted population. windows. two-roo- m Murder in Its Most Appalling Form Brings tence of Only Few Years to Perpetrators of Dark Deed. Sen- i By KARL H. VON WIEGAND, Universal Servlet Staff Correepondant. ERL1N, Aug 13. Mrs Ottllle Fleh- aged 66. widow of a porter, her daughter, Gertrud, 20, been taken to the Ftoetzeneee .penitentiary to begin sen Ing their sentence for one ot the moat gruesome crimes ever unfolded in a German Bmer, The daughter told how the widow was given coffee four or five times a day, and that they fed her this poisoned coffee for four weeks before she finally died. "What happened then?" naked the presiding u judge. FVhmer then related in detail how she disposed of the body; "1 packed the body In a large basket of the kind which working women carry on their backs, and myself carried the body 1 to the attic There took the out body They were convicted of killing Emllle of the basket and. with a cut the hatchet, 70 of in order a widow. years Tiller, age. head off." to get her savings bank book so that the At a shudder ran this s. and mlfcht buy themselves nlie dresses through the remain attractive to their common lover, Frau Flehmer continued: a laborer, 66 years of age I pdt the Mother and daughter made friends with head In the etove and burned 1L which the aged and lonesome widow, who re- took one and a half hours. Nothing responded to the feigned affection end at- mained of It. Whin the heed was gone, tention, by promising to leave them ell I cut off one arm and put It In the stove" her property when sne died, which con"And as your daughter, Gertrud came in sisted of a Small savings bank account a part of the arm wee still sticking out could not wait of the The stove?" Interposed the presiding Mother and daughter; as they admitted on Judge ths witness stand, have the same lover, The daugnter confirmed this, and said who Vas beginning to show signs of she had just come to the kitchen to bring drifting away. The autopsy showed that the widow her mother her luncheon, but she did not Tiller had been poisoned with sublimate know whether she ate It or not. Flehmer 'then told how on the In coffee. Whet were the mo- following day she had cut up the body Presiding judgetives for putting Frau Tiller out of the further, and burned It In the etove leaving only the torso. The details given by w9y Gertrud. "Mother hsd improper rela- the witness are so gruesome that they did to He not want ere unprintable The daughter told bow tione with Benedlkt. have anything more to do with her. and the mother said that the torso "would she wanted the dresses of Frau Tiller, In not burn well." wrapped It In a sack end order to look better end appear more at- threw it Into the 8pree river In the evetractive. She said, then Franw Benedlkt ning The court sentenced will remain here and not go away so the mother" to twelve years In the penitentiary and the much.' " Bursting Into tears, the mother Inter- daughter to elx years. Since the revolution, there ha been a posed with the confession: I put Frau strong tendency In Germany to let off I will tell why I did it. Tiller out of the way because I wanted murderers, in many Instances, with combook" bank her savings paratively light sentences. A few days The daughter related. In detail, how she before the sentencing of Frau Flehmer dissolved sublimate tablets In a teaspoon end her daughter for their crime, a men placed the solution In a small bottle and who killed his sweetheart because she had Thla solution was become burdensome to him, was filled It with water given then always added to the coffee for the only one and a half years In a snec-tator- v l aged widow. . , - -- ! v A u WALES. lt Cable. DEAUVILLE, Aug. United Once Leader in Commerce, City Is Now Center of a city itself Is so primitive and unattractive that one wonders why It has been such a bitter bone of contention between the Greeks and Turks for so many ceuturiea But, of course, it is the rich agricultural lands within the province of Smyrna that both sides covet. This area, which the Turks call the Pearl of Asia," ts one of the most fertile and produces some of the finest fruit in the . world. Smyrna figs and raisins are household terms The country also yields the finest leaf tobacco known. The yearly exports to America amount to millions of By HENRY Chicago 4 British Red Cross Made . Great Record in the Wat LONDON, Aug. IS. The war report o the British Red Cross society, which has been issued, la a record of the greet, just eat voluntary effort In English history. The accounts show that the public sub16,600,000 in csuih and gave more scribed than 1,000,000 in stores. The expendi66.000.000 for hosover Included ture over 2,000,000 for pitals and stores and of 10,000,000 sick and the transportation wounded. Grants to postwar schemes for after 2,700,000, end the care, etc., absorbed 1,826,660 surptua in June, 1920, wee At the time of the armistice, the total ataff of the Red Cross at home end abroad was 9236. In addition, there war 136.000 auxiliary helpers, 90,000 of whom were women. Owing to the principal workers giving the entire cost o' their services free, was less than administration pet cent of the Income. Bulgarian Curency Takes Decided Slump SOFIA, Aug. II Steady depreciation of the Bulgarian leva is causing anxlsty in state circles and ths government haa taken coercive measures to stop alt speculation in exchange. Heavy fines and even Jail sentences will be imposed on anyone dealing In. exchange without having the payment of some foreign bill in view. The Bulgarian leva before the war was worth about the same as the French franc, or about five to the American dollar. During the war the dollar at one time had a purchase value of eighty to ninety lavas and now an Americas i dollar Is worth 125 lavas. AU ths big banks have .expressed their desire to collaborate with the government In an effort to check the fall of the leva, but It seems that no remedy has ) at been found. ! |