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THE AUSTIN STATESMAN
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COMPLETE/ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT BY LEASED WIRE
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
(HOME EDITION)
AUSTIN, TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1922
VOL. 51-NO. 100.
CHRISTIANS MASSACRED
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SMYRNA MADE PORT OF HORRORS
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dye embargo licensing provision
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the conference report.
tion
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after
immediately
in the Armenian churches of the city.
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MINERS ENTOMBED 18
DAYS STILL LIVING
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Were Trapped.
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diates and 7 cents a pound and 45
American valuation.
LEAD TO IDENTITY OF
MURDERED BABY BODY
PULLS TRAP SENDING
IOWAN INTO ETERNITY
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bort Madison.
By Associated Press.
la . Sept. 15.
DUMB-BELLS
convicted
HOUSTON HOMICIDE
"Prior to the fire there were.mas-
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ELIMINATED; TARIFF
BILL BACK IN HOUSE
hi-
ent
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PLAN TO SETTLE
STRIKE REJECTED
BY MANY ROADS
ARTHUR WATSON PICKED
TO HEAD 1922 SAN SAM
to the jury this morning.
A. Simpson and Captain T. I
cent
cases
died from cold and exposure.’ On
two or three occasions since then
in
be
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the
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Tonight and Saturday partly cloudy,
probably local showers on coast; cool-
er in northwest and north central por-
tions Saturday.
SHERMAN OPEN PORT
CASES WILL GO TO
PRESIDENT RETURNS
TO OFFICIAL DUTIES;
WIFE OUT OF DANGER
AMERICAN BARTENDERS
MAY LOSE JUAREZ JOBS
in-
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ly,
rs’
ids
for
rill
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ty.
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Negotiations Continue In Effort
to Induce Other Roads to En-
ter hto Agreement.
Long, Hard Winter
Prediction of Old
Timers In Valley
per
all
on
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MEN, WOMEN,
CHILDREN AS
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Most of the Biggest Systems De-
cline to Make Any Sort of
a Compromise.
GIVE ME A
NLCKEL’$ WORTH
OF MIXED
CANDIES- ,
I Demand for Immediate Evacua-
tion of City Said to Have Been
Made By Moslems.
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to comm : d r has sent an ultimatum to |
the city to permit the entrance of the
i Turkish nationalist army. Another is
monoxide in this gase and an Increase * Si aping untouched
in oxygen. Fate of Many Girl* in Doubt.
"Besides the pupils about 1300 ref-
ugees had been taken Into the"tollege.
' MERE ARE
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YOURSELF!
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the dye rates were fixed at 7 cents
a pound and 55 per cent cn intermedi-
ate s and 7 cents a pound and 60 per
cent on finished products for two years
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took up the argument of the case.
Captain E. J. Smith, former United
States attorney for the eastern dis-
trict of Texas, and Charles and Far-
ley Reasonover will present the de-
fense argument. Six hours has been
allotted to the attorneys for argu-
mentation.
The cases are the firit to be tried
under the open port law. The four
men ’accused of having taken part in
the kidnapping and flogging of several
Katy railroad guards here early in
July.
SECOND OLDEST NEWSPAPER
IN TEXAS. ESTABLISHED 1871
Arthur P. Watson was this morning
unanimously named president of the
1922 San Sam succeeding C. W.
Barker, resigned. In a meeting of the
gan Sam executive committee held at
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GALVESTON GROCER
DIES BY OWN HAND
Bike* to Be Cheaper.
By As ociated Press.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. Sept. 15.
cut of 40 per cent in the price of bi-
cycles has been decided upon by the
convention of the Bicycle Manufactur-
ers" Association, which Is in session
here.
CONSTANTINOPLE
NOW IS MENACED
BY KEMALISTS
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the advalorem would
son respsonsibl for the death of the
child will be found.
The body, which authorities say had
been dead several days, was, when
Brush. Lions Club: G. U. Lansdowne
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that nationalist troops have crossed ,
over to the Gallipoli peninsula from'
Chanak to march inty Thrace and take ‘
Adrianople.
Rodosto and other ports on the sea ’
of Marmora are choked with refugees 1
. who are arriving by the tens of thou- ;
number of Turkish officials
the Senate
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i accused of having aided the Greeks
। were executed in'front of the govern-
ment building.
"Refugees arriving in Athens, from
Smyrna, recount terrible stories re-
l garding the state of the city, owing
to the feroe ity of the Turks. Immed-
iately on their trrival the Kemalist
t oops gave themselves over to mas-
sac re and robbery of the Christiahs
, and the quays were littered with
corpses A Greek journalist was shot
dead after bring dragged through the
. streets tied to the back of an auto-
mobile.
had flatly rejected
sacres. which continued throughout
the night It is impossihle to estimate
the number of killed. Dr. Post, an
American, who with members of the
American relief administrntion, made
an investigation, expressed the opin-
ion the number « f victims up to the
time of the fire amounted to 1,000.
(Other estimates from Athens run as
high as 2,000.)
'A huge number of Christians are
believed to have perished in the flames.
The foreign trade suffered' enor-
mous losses, especially branches or
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sands in an appalling state f misery.
: Hundreds are dying before they can
! be landed. The Near East Belief has
Republican Leaders Hope
Complete Consideration of
Measure Today.
By Associated Press 3
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.—With the
on the finished product.
Ten thousand Armenin refugees 1
It was the plan to send the bill to' have arrived in the Bosphorous on
- • ' i-* he ' five vessels and will be given shelter '
; cabinet has been summoned for this
afternoon with the principal object of
discussing the Near Eastern tangle. ‘
Prime Minister Lloyd George came (
to London this morning from the coun- (
try for preliminary discussions with
his colleagues, all of whom, except the .
Earl of Balfour and H. A. I. Fisher, ;
who are in Geneva are expected to at- ■
tend the important council.
It is believed the meeting will have
{ before it definite statements from the
French and Italian governments indi-
Victory-Flushed Turks Almost
Within Gunshot of Former
Mohammedan Capital.
JURY THIS EVENING PREACHER-SHERIFF
By Assciated Press.
HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 15. The
case of John 1). Turner, former El-
lington field soldier, facing a charge
of murder, was continued to the next
term of court called today on account
of illness of his attorney. Turner was
charged with three others In connec-
tion wth tlho fatal shooting in connec-
ruary of Spero Xanthos, Greek res-
taurant proprietor.
Roy G. Smith, facing the same
charge was given 25 years Wednes-
day and the other two have not been
tried
Players and chief clerk of the Uni-
versity stenographic bureau. He has
also been named as one of the char-
! the Chamber of Commerce, men in charge of the coronation cere-
I Mr. Watson has been actively monies of the 1922 San Sain
identified with the organization of Un Attending the meeting were the fol-
San Sam and for the past two years lowing members of the executive com-
served as its secretary. He is a mem- mittee: Thurlow B. Weed and Hai ris
' dispatched a ship load of foodstuffs ।
; and medicines for Rodosto in charge
of Colonel Stephen E. Lowe of St i
I Louis.
West Texas: Tonight and Saturday
FORT MADISON.
found, wrapped in a gunnysack. A
quantity of lime was also in the sack.
There was a small amount of water
By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Sept 15. President
Harding, due to the steady improve-
ment in the condition of Mrs. Harding
was able to go to his office today for
the first time in a weck.
Continued Improvement In Mre.
Harding’s condition was reported by
Brigadler General sawyer, her phy-
sician.
------ ,, agencies of the big American tobacco
partly cloudy. unsettled in Panhandle, houses, such as the Gary Tobacco
cooler in Panhandle tonight and in
north portion Saturday. • (Continued on Page Three.)
eating their respective attitudes to-
ward the ptoblem.
Opinions here are much divided re-
garding the Turkish claims. One view,
I which is strongly supported by a sec-
Ith the duties’thereafter at 7 cents Udn of the press, is that Great BH- .........—. A . • ... . ,
pound and 40 per cent on interme- I tain’s only interest lies in the freedom be r of the Austin Rotary. Club and
’ - - • • •- of the straits of the Dardanelles and two years ago served as post com-
I that if this is insured she need not mande r of Travis Post No. 76, Amer-
Ry Armociated Press
GALVESTON, Texas. Sept. 15 A
verdict of death by gunshot wounds
with suicidal intent was rendered by
Justice of the Peace R. M Kupsa
Friday morning in the- case of J. D.
Creath, prominent wholesale grocer of
Galveston, who was found dead late
Thursday afternoon
According to testimony taken at the
inquest Creath had been despondent
and had been worrying over finan-
cial matters.
In the cistern, enough, authorities,
Winfred E. Robb, sheriff, preacher and say, to have caused the destruction
soldier, nulled the trap at 12 o’clock anathabordy by thb action °r the lme
noon, at the Iowa prison today which H __
WEATIER FORECAST
By Associated Press.
SHERMAN, Texas, Sept. 15.—The
"open port’’ cases, involing four Deni-
son men, will be in the hands of the
jury tonight, unless some unforseen
interruption occurs.
Judge Wilcox, presiding in the fifty-
By Associated Fress.
EL PASO, Texas, Sept. 15.—Ameri-
can bartenders employed in Juarez will
lose their jobs if a bill pending before
the Chihuahua legislature becomes law.
The measure provides that only Mexi-
can citizens may be so employed.
Existing jaw trequires that one-half
of the employes must be Mexican cit-
tens.
MALTA, Sept. 15.—Hundreds of
bedies of victim* of the Turkish
massacre in Smyrna were lying
in the streets of the city when the
British hospital ship, Maine, left
there with more than 400 refugees
on board, it is stated by Reuter's
Smyrna correspondent, who ar-
rived here on the Maine today.
"When I left Smyrna,” he said,
“the Turks were still pillaging
and masscring and hundreds of
hundreds of bodies were lying in
the street uf the town and out-
lying villages.
‘•Two large vilages, five miles
from Smyrna were on fire. The
British had withdrawn all their
patrols and guards and several
British houses had been requestion-
ed for Turkish officers.”
{Europe, * it was officially announced
this evening.
• •• VIA J Ben*
"The gas coming up through th I
raise nt the 2400-foot level has been
comparatively clear and free from which was near the place where the
I smoke during the greater part of the fire started. The fate of many of the
I time. On two occasions since Septem- girl pupils is unknown and it is said
ber 7 n considerable volume of stam they have been carried off by (he
was noted, indicating that water is Turks.
pencrating parts of the fire zone. ] "‘Fire appeared immediately in other
‘There is no reason for thinking that sections of the town even near the
the movements of air in the lower Turkish quarter of Busma Kahane,
levels of the mine have changed ma- < This was the first day after the Turk-
terially since the early stages of the ish occupation.
fire.”
the identity of the body -of an infant
___g_ _______, .________ _ I found yesterday in an hbandoned cis-
third district court, delivered his charge tern near the city limits. With the
A’wynnRev. Winfred E. Robb Executes
Condemned Murderer At
representing the state, immediately
By Associated Press.
JACKSON, Cal., Sept. 15.—Dr. I. '
H. uschak, consulting chemical en-.
I gineer of the California In lustrial Ac-
I cident Commission, today issued a I
signed statement in which he predicted
that the 47 miners entombed for i
eighteen days in the Argonaut mine 1
would be found alive.
There is ground for assuming that ,
the men underground were not over- .
come by poisonous gases from the
fire zone and that these gases are not
now passing through the parts of the
mine in which the men sought refuge,”
Dr. Duschak’s statement said.
"Since the memorandum of Septem-
ber 7 particular attention has been
given to sampling the gas coming up
from the mine through the raise at the
2400-foot lev* 1. Samples taken at this
point are undiluted by the surfac e air
and represent a mixture of gas from
the fire zone and air from various
underground sources which mingle at
the lower levels and come up through
the series of raises to the 2400-foot
level. Since September 7 there has
been a gradual dimunition in the
amount of carbon dioxide and carbon
hanged Eugene Weeks,
chosen unanimously. Mr. Stephens is
secretary of the Austin Community
Wednesday. With the embargo out
prominent members of the British col-
ony in Smyrna were similarly mur-
dered."
The Greek belief is that the fire
was set by the Turks to conceal the
traces of their alleged misdeeds.
A message from Greek semi-offi-
cial sources from Athens dated Thurs-
day reads:
"Absolutely trustworthy persons be-
longing to the foreign colonies at
Smyrna and notably Americans ar-
riving here on the destroyer Simp-
son which also brought United States
Consul General Horton. relate terrify-
ing details regarding the massacre at
Smyrna following the big fire which,
reduced the Armenian, Greek and
European sections of the town to
ashes.
"According to the general conviction
the -fice was started by the Tirks
to efface the traces of their massacres
and other crimes Miss Mills, matron
Qf the American Girls College, de-
clares she saw an officer of the Turk-
ish regular army enter a house carry-
ing several cans of petrol. Soon after
he came out, the house burst into
flames.
"A southeasterly wind drove the
flames west, the Turkish quarters thus
House voted', and Senator McCumber,
Republican, North Dakota, hovedl to
ge t it be for a th.- Senate dur ing the
aft । noon M ■ Joi ity l’ de rs thou hl
final action might be had before ad-
jornment tomorrow.
With the adoption of the conference
report by the Senate the bik would be
ready for President Hardins. It
woild become a Jaw immediately after
he signed it.
Meeting late yesterday the Republic-
an Conferees speedily eliminated the
dye embargo and potash duty provi-
sions in accord with directions given
the House managers by the House on
'By Associated-Press. ,
• CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 15.—The
Turkish .nationalist army is now within ।
thirty-five miles of Constantinople.*
The population is in a state of nervous
tension and the city is rife with rumors :
I about Mustapha Kemal Pasha’s de-
• signs upon the capital.
| One story. Is that the nationalist ,
-------- I An American passenger who reach-
. । ed Piraeus from Smyrna said he saw
Declares Neither Fire Nor (as,900 Armenians forced by the Turks
to embark on a lighter The Armen-
Reached i lace Where 4/ Men ; ians were then shot down from the
• shore, the bodies left floating in the
i water. According to other passengers
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BROWNSVILLE, Texas, Sept.—
14.— South Texas is to have the
coldest winter in many year*, ac-
cording to th* forecasts of local
weather prophets, who read “the
signs of nature.”
This prediction is based upon the
fact that many ducks are arriving
from the north at least a month
earlier than usual, and the bays
along the Gulf coast contain thou-
sands of, teal and occasicnally a
flock of redheads or mallards are
seen winging their way to the win-
ter feeding grounds in the bays and
marshes along the lower Rio
Grande.
An aged Mexican, who has resid-
ed in the lower Rio Grande coun-
try nearly ninety years, declares
that only on one occasion have the
ducks begun to arrive from the
north so early. About fifty years
ago ducks bean to come down
from the northern nesting grounds
early in September, he remembers,
and the following winter was the
worst ever experienced in the Rio
Grande Valley.
Snow fell to a depth of several
inches and a number of persons
LONDON, Sept 15—The British ‘
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the potash duty eliminated, the admin-
istration tariff bill was back again to-
day before the House. Managers of
the measure looked for adoption of
and the Chicago, Milwaukee At St
Paul, had virtually completed arrange-
ments for restoring strikes to their
former jobs. >
Negotiations were in progress with ’
several roads in an effort by shop
crafts federation officials to effect ad-
ditional settlements.
Strike leaders were said to be in-
tent upon addressing, communications
to some of the unwilling roads, asking
them to reconsider their i ejections.
Among the larger systems said to
have closed the door against the set-
tlement plan today were:
Pennsylvania: Union Pacific; Nor-
folk & Western; Southern Pacific;
Chicago & Alton; Chicgac, Rock Isz
land & Pacific: Northern Pacific:
Texas Pacific; Great Northern, Chi-
cago, Burlington & Quincy: Missouri,
Kansas & Texas and subsidiary lines
Othes । ds s till out* id I
merit today Included Central of Geor-
gia; Delaware, Lackawanna & West-
ern. Erie; Illinois Central: Lonisville
A- Nashville; Missouri Pacific; Frisco.
Wabash; Santa Fe: Chicago Great
Western and numerous others.
About fifty i oads were gene rally un-
dci stood to have accepted the settle-
ment proposals with the Baltimore &
Ohio; Chesapeake & Ohio. New York
Central lines; Southern; Senboard Air
Line; Chicago & Northwestern, and
Chicago, Milwaukee A- St. Panl among
the larger systems In the agreement.
W. H. Finley, president of the Chi-
cago Ar Northwestern, and IL B. Greer,
vice president of the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & St. Paul, expressed the hone
that many of their shopmen would be
back on their Jobs today or tonight.
The Northwestern employs About 12.000
shopmen and the C. M. & St. Paul
about 15,000.
Members of the shop crafts execu-
tive council, mewling here with Bert M.
Jewell, head of the railway employes’
department of the American Fedora-
tio of Labor, were guarded in their
statements concerning conferences
among themselves and negotiations
with roads.
"Fullest and fairest consideration"
by the United States Railroad Iabor
lion rd of nny issues on. which the
strike was based was promised by Ben
W. Hooper, chairman, who asserted
the settlement plan was Ir. strict con-
formity with the transportation net.
No obstruction will be placed In
the way of shopmen returning to work
on the railroads parties to the settle-
ment pln as fast as those roadsand
their system federation chairman ar-
range for resumption, B. M. Jowell,
head of the railway employes’ depart-
ment of the A. F. of Ta, said today
in denying statements by Fred W.
Rauch, union leader nt Topeka. Kan.
Rausch said last night n letter signed
by Mr. Jewell directed that no man
would return to work until nil the
roads had signed the agreement.
"Such a letter might have been sent
out before the settlement agreement
was reached.'' Mr. Jewell said, "but it
does not apply now.”
slayer of George Fosdick, Des Moines
grocer.
The fate of Weeks has attracted in-
terest in the State largely because of
the connection of Sheriff Robb with
the hanging. In 1920 Rev. Robb was
backed for sheriff of Polk county (Des
'Moines) by church leaders in a "cl-an
up" campaign. He was pastor of the
Federated church of Urbandale, a Des
Moines suburb.
Weeks' wife, who testified agl st
him and Attempted to collect the $2300
reward offered for his conviction,
spent yesterday in the death cell with
him, reading repentant poetry he had
composed while awaiting execution.
Next month Orrle Cross, Weeks' ac-
complice, is scheduled to hang. T ese
three are the first executions in Town
for twelve years
and H. H. Luedecke, Kiwanis; Ho-
ward Osburn and Arthur Biard, M
B. L.; Frank L. Patty and Arthur
Watson. Rotary: George Stephens,
Austin Community Players; Mrs. R. I
Bewley and Miss Mary Hamilton.
Business and Professional Women's
Club. . __________
I By Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 15. — From
1,000 to 2,000 Christians had been
massacred in Smyrna by the Turks
before the fire which swept the
Armenian and other quarters of
the Asia Minor seaport recently
evacuated by the Greek army, it
is. charged in semi-official and
j other Greek messages from Athens
received here today.
Among the Turkish outrages
was the carrying off of many
girls, pupils of the American Girls
College, it is alleged.
Murder, Pillage. Rapjne.
An exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Athens says:
The Turkish population in Smyrna
continues to be master of the situa-
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the plan, qthers.
By Associated Fress.
DENISON, Texas. Sept. 15 A
blanket, worn and dirty, may lead to
worry over Thrace and Constantinople han Legion. He is engaged in the
Others are less easily satisfied and realty business and has ben asso-
regard the restoration of Thrace and elated in every project.of note in Aus-
Constantinople to their former owners tin for the past few years.
with the greatest disfavor, while a Suceeding Mr. Watson as secretary
third faction is apparently willing that 'for 1922 Is-George J. Stephens who was
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By Assoclated Pres*.
CHICAGO, Sept. 15.—Refusal by a
number of the country’s biggest rail-
way system to enter into the Warfield-
Willard-Jewell plan for ending the
shopmen’s strike on the basis of sep-
arate and individual agreements de-
veloped an element of considerable un-
certainty today over the scope and ef-
fectiveness of the peace program.
While some of the larger systems]
there have been slight snowfalls in . By Associated Press.
th© valley, but never to the extent LONDON, Sept. 15.—The British
of that year, he says. fleet has been instructed to allow no
; Turkish trcops to cross from Asia to
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