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The Holbrook news., 1922-09-29
SMYRNA IS IN RUINS
HARBOR IS FILLED WITH BODIES OF THOSE TRYING TO ESCAPE
CITY IS GUTTED BY FLAMES AND VIRTUALLY CEASES TO
 EXIST.

LOndOn.-The victims at Smyrna numbered at least 12O,OO0, says dis patch to the Times from Athens. quot ing John Manola of the American re lief as its authority.
 smyrna has virtually ceased to ex ist, says the dispatch. The whole town with the exception of the Turkish quarter and a few houses near the Nassamba railroad station, has been gutt-d by the confragration.
 Tt is impossible at present to esti- mate the number of those massacred,' '' the dispatch continues, but we have the express authority of John Manola of the American relief committee O state as his opinion that the victims numbered at least 12O,O0O.
 'The extent of the awful tragedy was only properly realized when the American steamship N mona arrived at Piraeus with l,SUU refugees, mainly Greeks and Armenlans
 The American captain declares his last vision of the town Was Il mass of flames, while the cries and screams of the terrified Christians crowding the quay only d few yarus froih lle Durn- ship Was Il mile away.
 "rhe waters of tine harbor were full of bodies of persons drowned Orsshot by the | -.kS wnile IT, iu. IL re.l,n tLe ..I,s.. horribly mangled by the oropellers.
 "rhe quayside was still tnronged with dense crowds of all classes await inS a chance to escape.
 Explosions occurred in the interior of the city,. and it is presumed the Turks used incendIary boMbs."
 According to one report. the Turks deliberately burned the city to hide the evidences ot their massacres and pillagings, but what appears more probable from other reports was that the Turks motive was to force the allies to evacuate the entire Christian population and thereby settle the prob lem of minorities in Anatoli;.
 An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Athens says:
 ''The Turkish population in Smyrna continues to be master of the situa- tion A number of Turkish officials, accused of having aided the Greeks, were executed in front of the govern ment buildings.
 Refugees arriving in Athens from Smyrna recount terrible stories re- garding the state of the city, owing to the ferocity of the Turks. Immedi- ately on their arrival the Kemalist troops gave themselves over to mas sacre and robbery. The quays were filtered with corpses.
 "A Greek journalist was shot dead after being dragged through the streets tied to the back of an automO- bile.
 An American passenger who reached Piraeus from smyrna says he saw 900 Armenians forced by the Turks to embark on lighter. The Armenians then were shot down from the shore, the bodies being left float ing in the water. According to other passengers, prominent members of the British colony in Smyrna were similarly murdered"
The Holbrook news., 1922-09-29
New Orleans Fire Destroys Docks.

New Orleans, La.-Five blocks of commodity wharves along the river front from Kentucky avenue to Bar tholomew street were destroyed by (. fire which broke out in carload of bagging alongside the docks. Twenty one box cars. of burlaps, four carloads of cotton bagging, and 4,J00 rolls of press paper nsigned to New Orleans newspapers, together with quantity of cotton, oil, sisal and other merchan- uiSe ere consumed.
The Holbrook news., 1922-09-29
Will Pursue Greeks Across DardaneIIes

Constantinople.-Th Angora gov ernment has informed the allies that if the remainder of the Greek army in Asia Minor attempts to retreat across the neutral zones of the Dar- danelles, the kemalists will disregard the neutrality of the straits and pur- sue the Greeks in international ter ritory. "We loathe wars and sincerely desire peace and reconstruction, but we cannot resign our rights as an in- dependent nation," declared Hamid Bey, Kemalist representative in Con- stantinOple.
The Holbrook news., 1922-09-29
GOOD TIMES COMING
ADMINISTRATION LE A D E R 6 FORECAST GAINS IN BUSINESS.
GRADUAL BUSINESS IMPROVE. MENT WILL FOLLOW END OF
 LABOR TROUT

Washington.-War was given by high administration officials that tht country must recover from the after math of the recent industrial upheava before economic benefits flowing iron the settlement of the railroad strike can .eact fully upon national bus,nes. conditions.
 Secretary Hoover took the view that although the country is now un dOubtedly better off than it was q year ago, it probably will be six months before a high plane of prosper ity is attained, while Secretary Mellon although considering the business out. look ''very goOd' recognized as fare stalling immediate comme cial eXpan sion the limitations imposed upon transportation facilities by car short ages and possible inadequate labol supply.
 The greatest loss as a result of the strike will be borne by the farmers according to an analysis of the situa. tion by Secretary Hoover, in which he reached the conclusion that the "ecO- homie wound' received by the coun. try should be healed quickly. Secre, tary Mellon was said to foresee some hindrance to immediate economic re- covery through shortage of transpor- tation equipment and possible labor l shortage
 Reports to the Labor Department from its representative in Chicago brought additional details of the score to which the partial settlement of the strike was expected to extend Al least 35 per cent of the railroads af. fected by the strike have approved the Warfield-Willard-Jewell plan, they declared, while sufficient other roads had signified their willingness to set tie on this basis to bring the total to 65 per cent of the national mileage. While the losses due to the coal and railroad strikes have been consider ! able," Secretary Hoover said in a statement issued here, they are easily Overestimated."
 'The estimate of current coal min. CTS wages lost in the five months (of strike) is not correct basis of the estimation of the total loss," he said. Because over period of eighteen months we probably will consume ap- proXimately the same amount of coal. In other words, the miners will work more days in the week and produce more in the next six or eight months than they would have produced if there had been no strike.
 ''The real loss would lie more in the loss of productivity in industries that have, or might have, to close down as result of the coal strike.
 1.-The greatest loss is the one being met by the farmer as result of the railway strike. The export of farm products has been interfered with se- riOusly by the inability of the rail- ways to transport products. Prices therefore are depressed unduly in the agricultural regions and the farmer is suffering"
The Holbrook news., 1922-09-29
STRIKE PEACE
 IS THREATENED
RETURNING MEN DEMAND DIS MlSSf.L OF NON-UNION
 WORKERS
LINES FAIL TO AGREE
SOME ROADS REPORT RETURN TO NORMAL OPERATION
 OF SHOPS.

Chicago.-With the shOpmen'S peace plan threatened by outbreaks due ap parently to misunderstanding ana with the New York Central announc ing the failure of its efforts to reach an agreement with the strikers roads not participating in the Baltimore e gotiltions reported d rapid return to normal operation of their shops.
 Of the larger lines mentioned in connection with the memorandum o1 agreements adopted by the shopcrafts general policy committee of ninety here, with the object of ending the countrywide strike through separate agreements with individual roads, the Rock Island and the New York Gen. tral had definitely announced the fail ure of efforts to reach a final agree ment and conferences of the Southern with union leaders had been no more successful as the strike entered the twelfth week.
 In the case of the New York Gen. tral, statement was issued by the road, expressing willingness to fulfill the memorandum t- agreements reached at Baltimore, but it was as serted representatives of the shop crafts attempted to inject questions not mentioned in the text and clearly outside the agreement, insisting that these matters be included"
 The same misundersts nding resulted in disturbances when strikers began to return to work here in the shops of the Northwestern and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. In some cases the men were reported to have de manded that non-uniOn workers be dis missed and in others their striking foremen be reinstated. Officials of the Northwestern announced that they eX- pected 12,000 of the strikers to return to work More than 15,000 men were expected back on the Chicago, Mil waukee & St. Paul.
 Among the roads which have an nounced agreements with their shop men independently Of the union, are the Santa Fe, the Burlington, the H. linois Central and the Chicago AL ton. w. G. Bierd, one of the two re- ceivers for the Alton, issued a state ment formally announcing terms under which striking employees had been in vited to return to work. It expressly stipulated that they shall return as new employees"
 MT. Jewell departed for New York, where he said he would enter into conferences with the New York Gen. tral officials in the expectation of reaching a speedy agreement under the terms of the Baltimore plan.
 According to the union leaders, the men on the following roads have re- turned to work:
 The Chicago & Northwestern, the Chicago. Milwaukee x St. Paul, the Baltimore X Ohio, the Seaboard Air Line and the Green Bay & Western.
The Holbrook news., 1922-09-29
BRITISH AND
 TURKS CLASH ENGLAND MASSES FORCES TO
 HALT MOSLEM
 MARCH. FAR EAST WAR LOOMS sKIRMIsHEs ARE REPORTED BE. TWEEN ENGLISH TROOPS
 AND kEMALISTS.

ConStantinople-iIam Bey, the Turkish Nationalist representative here, stated that it was certain the | Turkish army would declare war on the British if the British attempted to | interfere with the movement of Turk | ish troops across the straits to Thrace. | Hamid Bey expressed the hope that | the British would see the fairness of granting the Kemalists the privilege already accorded tO the Greeks, name l ly, freedom in the use of the straits without molestation.
 He entertained scant hope of the success of the conference at Smyrna between Kemal Pasha and General Pelle, the French high commissioner, declaring that the Angora govern ment's determination to occupy Thrace was already fixed, and nothing would deter it except recognition of its claims.
 Nationalist troops are already massed at the edge of the neutral lines at Ismid and Chanak, and skir- mishes are reported between advance patrols and British outposts near Cha nak.
 The British are mobiliZing every available warship. man, horse, auto mobile, cannon and rifle within reach of the troubled zone. They are pre- pairing to deal tremendous blow by land. sea and air if provoked by the Kemalist army, which, according to the latest reports, is concentrating feverishly around Ismid and Chanak.
 All the British barracks in Constan- tinople have been evacuated and troops are marching in the streets of the capital, which is having sober ing effect on the eXuberant Turks The British soldiers are headed for stragetical points on the straits.
 General headquarters have issued an official order directing the wives and families of British officers and sol- diers to prepare to embark.
 Transports with British cavalry, heavy artillery and supplies are ar irving at Haidarpasha, on the Ismid railway.
 The men of the COnstantinople gar rison are constructing entrenchments at Scutari, on the Asiatic side of the BOsphorus, which will he the second line of defense. the first being at Tar inja, a small railway station between Haidarpasha and Ismid
 It is estimated that the present total British strength in COnstantinople and the Dardanelles are about 16,000 men, which, when endorsements now on the way arrive. will be increased to nearly 75,000 effectives.
 These forces will be further strengthened from the Atlantic and Mediterranean fleets.
 The British are enrolling Russian refugees with military training for auxiliary work, while Russian kal- muks from Manchuria are being re- cruited as horse trainers. It is ex- pected that eventually Great Britain will have more than 100000 men in the disturbed area.
The Holbrook news., 1922-09-29
RETURNS BILL TO CONGRESS
PRESIDENT STATES COUNTRY CANNOT PAY MORE TAKES.
HARDING VETOES BONUS
EXECUTIVES ACTION REGARDED AS DEATH BLOW TO
 MEASURE.

Washington.-Pres Harding ve- tOed the soldiers bonus bill, informing Congress in written message that while he was in accord with "the avowed purpose" of the measure, he did not subscribe to it's provisions. The executives action was regarded generally in Washington as making inn possible bonus for the World War veterans. at least for some time to come
 MT. Harding set forth number of reasons for returning the bill to the House without his approval. These in cluded:
 Failure of Congress to provide a means of financing
 That inevitably the bonus would mean increased taxation.
 That the legislation would wipe out everything thus far accomplished to reduce government expenditures wher- ever possible.
 That a peace bestowal on the ex- servicemen was "a perverSion of public funds," and suggested that future de fense is to be inspired by compensa- tion rather than consciousness of duty to flag and country" That to add +One-siXth of the total sum of the public debt for distribution among less than five million of 110,- 100000 people would undermine cOnfi- dence on which the nations credit was of distributing public funds whenever the proposal and the numbers affected make it seem politically appealing to do sO."
 That the $1OOOO.OOOOO0 of maturing public debt in the next six years would be difficult to meet without adding the complication of added bor- rowings on account of a bonus.
 That the adjusted service certifi- cate plan of payment, with its bank and government loan provisions, was little less than certified inability of the government to pay and invited d pTtCllCc Ol SdClill Udl tCl, Uy the veterans.
 That. the bonus would not diminish the later obligation in the way of pen sions to the World War veterans.
 Asserting that this obligation would "cOst more billions than 1 venture to suggest" the President declared that a rational financial policy to-day is necessary to make the nation ready for the expenditure which is certain to be required in the coming years"
 Only once did the President refer to the interest on the foreign debt out of which proponents of the bill have contended it could be paid.
 He told Congress that the govern ment was facing deficit of $65O.000,- GOO during the current fiscal year and d further deficit for the year sue ceeding, 'even after counting upon all interest collections on foreign indebt- edness which the government is likely to receive"
 Mr. Harding also called attention to the sums now being expended for the care of the diseased, disabled or de- pendent and asserted that the total of this work, with insurance liability added, probably would exceed $25,- 000.000.OO0.
The Holbrook news., 1922-09-29
Permanent Rail Peace Looms.

New York.-The beginning of the end of all the labor troubles that have from time to time beset the transportation lines of the nation for the last several years was believed by many railway heads and union chiefs to have come when the New York Gen. tral lines made peaceful settlement with two of the operating brother hoods. The New York Central sys- tenn agree to continue for one year the present wage scale and working rules for their trainmen.
The Holbrook news., 1922-09-29
s2o.ooo for Reclamation Project.

Washington.-The amendment of Senator Borah, Republican of Idaho, to the administration Liberian loan bill to :pprCpriate S20,OOO,OOO for com- pletion and development of western land reclamation projects was adopted by the Senate, 26 to 23. A coalition of Democrats and western Republicans forced adoption of the Borah amend ment which was opposed by Senator Curtis, Republican of Kansas, in charge of the Liberian loan measure.
The Holbrook news., 1922-09-29
Ford Plants Are Shut Down,

Detroit, Mich.-Operations of the Ford Motor Company plants here. or dered suspended by Henry Ford as a protest against what the manufacturer termed eXorbitant coal and steel prices, have ceased. The suspension. which affects approximately 100000 workers here and large number in Ford assembly plants in other cities. Is to be for an indefinite period. Many employees believe the layoff will be protracted.
The Holbrook news., 1922-09-29
Fire Sweeps Smyrna.

Smyrna was started by sergeant of Turkish regulars, according to Miss Mills, head mistress of the American College in Smyrna, says a dispatch to the Times from Athens The sergeant was seen to enter a house carrying cans of petrol. The damage was es- timated at f15000,000. The cOrre- spondent says it is reported in Athens that up to the time of the outbreak of the fire about 1000 persons had been maSsacred
The Holbrook news., 1922-09-29
Brothers Held for Two Murders.

Omaha, Ark.-Murder charges have been filed against Dave Scott, 20, and James Scott, 25, brothers, in connec- tiOn with a gun fight on country road about eight miles from here, in which two youths were killed, a girl probably fatally wounded, and Dave Scott shot in the abdomen. Filing of the murder charge was based on the findings of coroner's jury which in- vestigated the tragedy. James Scott was arrested as he left the room where the inquest was held, and was taken to the county jail at Harrison He denied that he had any part in the shooting.
The Holbrook news., 1922-09-29
"obeyn Stricken From Ceremony.

Portland, Ore.-The house of depu- ties concurred in the action of the bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States in elim- mating from the marriage ceremony "obey," said by the bride, and the words with my worldly goods I thee endow," said by the bridegroom. There was debate over the elimination of the word ''obey," but no discussion by the deputies on the bridegroom's pledge as to property.
The Holbrook news., 1922-09-29
Ohio can Note on Wine and Beer.

Columbus, Ohio-OhiO at the Novem- Der election will vote on state con- stitutiOnal amendment to 1egaliZe the manufacture and sale of light wine and beer. The State Supreme Court has ordered Secretary of State Smith to place the proposal on the ballot in mandamus action brought by the Association Opposed to Prohibition, secretary had refused to certify the amendment for a vote. The Anti Saloon League will appeal to the Unit ed State Supreme Court.
The Holbrook news., 1922-09-29
Bullet Interferes With Radio Set

Cincinnati. Ohio.-Rather than allow a bit of shrapnel embedded in his neck-a souvenir de la guerre-inter- fere with the use of his radio phone, Judge Robert S. Marx. former com mander of the Disabled American Vet erans of the World War, underwent an operation here for the removal of the Jagged piece of metal. The magnet in the headplece of the radio set had caused sufficient movement of the metal to irritate the tissue around 1t, dangerously near the mastoid glands in his neck.
The Holbrook news., 1922-09-29
Victims of Turks Flee Smyrna.

Smyrna.-Fire has accomplished for the Turks what the sword failed to do. Asia Minor, the cradle of Christianity, soon will be depopulated by Christians. Many of those in Smyrna, who were not snatched from death by American and other rescuers, are disappearing into the hills, some voluntarily, many by force. Others are dying of eXhaus- ton, fright or exposure on the shat tered stone water front of the benight- ed city.
The Holbrook news., 1922-09-29
Indians Seek Reservation.

The Dalles, Ore.-Indians from all inland tribes of the Northwest will meet in a great council to be held at Cello Falls from Oct to , TOT the purpose of urging Congress to set ervation. The lands are privately owned, although the Indians, by treaty, hold perpetual fishing rights at the falls. The council, at which about l. 500 Indians are expected, will be held with all the pomp and ceremony of early days.
The Holbrook news., 1922-09-29
Roscoe SarIes Killed in Race.

Kansas City, Mo.-Roscoe Sarles of Lafayette, Ind, automobile race driv- CT, was burned to death in the 300-mile race, dedicating the new Kansas City speedway, when his car crashed into that of Peter De ParlO and was wrecked. Sarles' car jumped the top rail at the northeast corner of the speedway and dropped twenty-five feet, pinning him beneath the wreck age His mechanician, Christopher V. Pickup of Los Angeles, was injured, probably fatally.
The Holbrook news., 1922-09-29
Irish Take Fifty Prisoners.

Belfast-The National troops con- the Republicans. During cleanup of County Sligo, in which the Nationals converged from six points upon vil- lage where the Republicans had their headquarters, fifty prisoners were taken. The Nationals used field gun. A drive on the Republican posi- tions In Kinlough and Tullagham, northern County Leitrim. also yielded a large number of prisoners.
The Holbrook news., 1922-09-29
sbonmen Return on N. Y. Central.

New York.-Officials of the New York Central lines have announced that settlement on the basis of the Baltimore agreement had been reached with the striking shopmen through out the entire system. The statement issued from the executive offices of the New York Central lines declared :: "The employees now on strike will re turn to work as rapidly as positions can be arranged for them, all within thirty days of the date of this agree ment (today)."
The Holbrook news., 1922-09-29
Senate Passes Tariff Bill.

Washington.-F'inal legislative ac- ton on the tariff of 1922 was taken with the adoption of the conference re- port by the Senate, The measure now goes to President Harding and will be- come effective the day after he signs 1t. The Senate vote was forty-three to twenty-eight and came exactly one year eight months and thirteen days after work was started on what will be the first Republican protective tar tff law in nearly ten years.
The Holbrook news., 1922-09-29
Russia Bars U. S. Mission

Berlin.-The informal negotiations which have been carried on for the past two months between the Ameri- can ambassador, AlansOn B. Hough- ton, and George Tchitcherin. and Leo- hid Krassin, the Russian soviet for eign minister and minister. of trade and commerce, respectively, in connec- tion with the American government s suggestion that Russia permit a com mittee of American experts to investi- gate economic conditions in that coun- try, came to a negative conclusion.
The Holbrook news., 1922-09-29
Chinese Children Win Strike.

Victoria, B. CA strike by Chinese school children here, who refused to attend school separately from white pupils, has subsided with declaration by the school board that those who are adept in English may go to the regular institutions. Twenty Chinese children who passed a test in English have been returned to the schools with the white pupils.
The Holbrook news., 1922-09-29

Amenities.
 Rastus and Nose were having a heated argument. In reply to some remark of Rastus, Nose said: Guess. l know, niggah! Don't you think Tse got any brains?'
 'Huh!" Rastus replied. "Niggah. if brains were dynamite. you couldn't blow off your hat i''-Labor Clarion.
The Holbrook news., 1922-09-29
New Orleans Fire Loss s1o5, ,ooo.

New Orleans, La.-The fire which four dwellings caused loss of ap- proximately S105.000, fire authorities announced here
The Holbrook news., 1922-09-29
Relief Is Found From Stomach
 Trouble

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