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The Washington times., 1923-08-31
HistorY CollllseLs Husteria

NYONE with the slightest knowledge Of Greek affair,
realizes that enemies Of the present government have
probably plotted to embarrass the popular party.
Internecne strife has been the Of Heas since e
heroic ages
Jeaousies inherited from the Macedonian and Peopon
nesian wars local feuds old before Perces have laid
constant upon the land.
There bitterness mpacable the sul6n poisOn
passed from breast to breast by hundred generations
mothers.
History pleads with hyseria proceed wary dealing
justice Cold steel should be drawn by hot heads
Count hundred Massolini, before you cross you.
sRubiconl "a
Watching the Mark and the Cryst0E
The Washington times., 1923-08-31
a Princess Passes

4 NASTASIA is dead. ssXenia of Graustark' succeeds
as Dollar Princess " The first truly royal Yankee
. - family.
Jerome Bonaparte, Corsican commoner married Pat
terson of Baltimore but his children the throne
of Westphalia.
Billy Leeds son may yet crown A scion Of the
Romanoffs and the Leeds with income $40000OO0
year. could do quite lot for Albania Montenegro.
The Karageorgovitch dynasty regnant over Jugosavia
was founded by swneherd An ancestral steel maker Is
exalted by comparison.
Princess Lwoff Paraghy who her creditors il
hearse of Hungarian peasant stock Most Of royalty
isn't nearly so bue-blooded titles signify.
Even the Romanoff strain won't bear close inspection:
One OF the Peters took serf to wife, and the least said M
the lady the better.
The Washington times., 1923-08-31

bolt from the blue falls at most inopport6ns
moment for the allies #t
Stresemann the verge Of compromising with
Poneare will canily await developments Passive resist
anc6 practically abandoned, partially acceptable ia
demnity plan about to be launched when murderous FOLLY
aimed its rifles At boundary commissioners and fired upo
civilization itself.
The mark now selling at s,7oAOoo to the dollsr viii
either take another incorporate plunge halt ii its mad
career, according as Berlin reads the crystal.
Mounting coal prices tell how the trade Is reading our
fuel future Governor Pnchot proposes 10 per cent
increase eighhour day collection Of pnion dues a M
and suggests that railroads and operators absorb between
them the 6O-cent consequent rise anthracite costs
September will tell whether not the dispuants III
boot for public welfare and will Indicate too how far III
concerns the Administrations.
President Coolidge may also shortly find himself ct 81
Rubicon The bridge which he crosses will later Be h
own or rival candidates best platform plank.
The Washington times., 1923-08-31
The WORLD TREMBIsES
ON MUSSOLINIiS
SHOULDERS
BY HERBERT KAUFMAN.

THE next few days viii prove if i capable 81 prof
ting by experience. World stages are again set of
situation identical TO that Of July, 1914
Italian ultimaums to Greece are every whit a. harsh
the exacons Austria issued the Serbs after Sarajevo
Athens refuses TO Roman humble pie Belgrade Ell
jected the punitive courses Of Vienna.
Premier Gonats offers suitable PREPARATIONS partal
agrees to other demands but viii not put the Greek iii
to the Roman sandal.
Mussoini insists upon taking his full pound Of humia
ton, the dreadest events are imminent.
Europe ripe today for general war when Arch
duke Ferdinand fell and dragged the continent down with
him.
That patchwork Of opposite interests the entente rp
ping at every seam
France and England at daggers' points
Many would rather perish in open fight upon enemy
bayonets than wither under heel Of conquest.
Magyar swords thirst for Jugo-Slav blood Russia viii
again have such chance to pay scores all around
Poands strategic position renders impossible for her
remain neutral
Kemal will measure the relative strength Of opposing
camps and bargain for the glory Of Islam.
Mussolins great test has The earth rocking 81
his shoulders Pray God they broad enough 10 hold
the responsibility.
The Washington times., 1923-08-31
Both Out of Time and Place

A ~NTONIO PIGNATELLL Of the ducal house Of Ter
~ ranuova caught cheating at cards. is escorted By
gendarmes the Paris barriers His forefathers wore
bay leaves for their adepness in similar practices but
monarchial scale.
Marking the diplomatic deck is regal maneuver ace
in the sleeve scoundrely resource. you must be 4
crook at least don't be piker
Louis Cohen is another person sadly Of envronmen
New York grand jury has indicted him for Staying Kid
Dropper notorious gang leader backmaer and kerfor
hire.
East Side shopkeepers from whom the late
kid regularly gathered tribute organizing fund for
Cohens defense and admrng neghbors order gold medal
in recognition of his temerity.
The Bloody Melting Pot
TT TAKES all of folk to make nation, and each
| race has it's peculiar CODE
Most of the blood violently shed hereabouts floats
cold melting pot The Old World brings passions and rad
tions we'll as hopes to the new
Native viewpoints and standards differ much from the
spirit of the Ghetto and the Bend the methods OF foren
statesmen are alien to the principles of democracy
Attending the disordery factors and factions IN fhe
United is asufficent job for several decades
Meanwhile gaze and contemplate the type OIL
mess we share if Europe sells partnership her
troubles.
Syndicate Inc and Herbert kAuinsal
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-09-14
CARRIERS AGAINST COAL
PEACE ARE CAST ASIDE.
Good Progress Made by Governor
Pinchot in Parleys With Mine
Groups.

Harrisburg Pa.-All Of the principal
barriers to a settlement OF a contro-
versy which has shut down the an
thracite mines have been set aside by
agreement between the miners and
operators, Gov. Pinchot OF Pennsylvan-
ia, announced, with the exception OF
the union demand for Increase in pay
greater than 10 per cent for day work
ers in the field and the further union
demand for check off" system OF
collecting union dues.
John l.. Lewis, president of the
miners union, called a formal meet
ing Of the unions scale committee to
pass judgment on the situation. Both
union officials and representatives of
the mine operators agreed to meet
Gov. Pinchot again for further nego-
tiations.
Gov. Pinchot's proposed attempt to
bring operators and miners to an
agreement upon the four points which
he rendered as a basis Of settlement
Of the difficulties had been successful
in part, he announced at the conclu-
sion OF executive sessions with them.
He gave out a summary Of the situa-
ton upon which Mr.. Lewis would
rake no comment, but which ID. w.
Warmer, chairman OF the operators
policy committee, declared to be ac-
ceptatfe.
In it the operators were represented
to have left out all of the demands
for arbitration of wage scales.
The union leaders and the operators
group, the governor said, had agreed
upon definitions for the various terms.
The governors original settlement
proposal, he pointed out, had involved
granting Of the eight-hour day, full
recognition of the union by the oper-
ators, a uniform increase Of 10 per
cent for all employees and the recog-
milton of collective bargaining in the
industry.
1t had been agreed that in estab-
fishing the eight hour day that men
whose working hours had been re-
duced would be given increases iden,
tical to those agreed upon for main
tenance men who are being kept at
work during the suspension or min
ing. 1t was further agreed, his state
ment continued, that the anthracite
Cancellation board should mae a
study of wage rates, and recommend
adjustments to the next joint confer
ence between the union leaders and
the operators committee. There was
likewise an understanding upon how
collective bargaining methods were to
be applied to mining operations.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-09-14
FOOD RIOTS FOLLOW
TOXIC EARTHQUAKE
A Million Persons Are Without
Homes in the Devastated Quake
Area Of Japan.

San Francisco.-Food riots have
broken out in Toxic, according to a
radiogram received by the Radio cor
poration from Iawaki station, 155
miles from Toxic. The gendarmerie is
reported in these advices to have ex-
ercised the most strenuous measures
to suppress the disorders, even at
lacking the rioters with their swords.
A number Of Koreans were in the
mob, the advices said.
The advices confirmed earlier re-
ports of a great fire in Yokohama and
an estimate that there had been at
least 100, 900 casualties there.
The fires, the messages said, were
caused by or followed by the eXplo-
sion of oil storage tanks in the city
where reserves of fuel oil for the
merchant and naval marine were
kept.
Every report received from Japan
tn Sughout the day either confirmed
or increased previous estimates OF
the havoc wrought in death and de-
struction by the catastrophe which
has befallen the central eastern Sec
ton OF Hondo, largest Of the isle-sjs
Of the Japanese empire.
Beginning at noon Saturday with
a series of earthquakes which RACED
most Of the city of Toxic, and large
sections of Yokohama and other cities
in the vicinity, the disaster was con-
tinued by fires which broke out in
scores Of places. Tidal waves followed,
engulfing and washing into the sea
hundreds of buildings. Then came a
typhoon, adding a final and tragic
touch to what is probably the greatest
calamity in modern times.
Topping all previous estimates OF
death and ruin, Ujiro Oyama, Japa-
received from ShichitarO Yada, Jap
anese consul general in Shanghai, a
report hat 10000 persons were
killed and injured and 1,000, 600 made
homeless in the Toxic Yokohama
sections.
Former estimates from various
sources. had placed the casualties as
high as 10000 dead III TOXIC alone.
One of these came from the Japanese
minister of marine by way of Osaka.
Other reports told of severe casualties
both on land and sea-. A composite
of reports depicts Toxic and Yoko-
hama. as a shattered wilderness OF
mortar, bricks and stone where once
stood some of the statliest structures
in the empire. Dead and dying are
on every hand. The survivors who
can grope their way about through the
fire and smoke, and rubbish are leav-
ing the city for places of safety. Those
who still live are threatened with
starvation and many are trying to
catch fish from ponds and lakes to
tide them over until food arrives.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-09-14
FUEL KINGS AND
WORKERS AGREE
WORKERS REGARD THE OUT.
COME OF THE STRIKE AS A
GREAT VICTORY.

Harrisburg, Pa.-All points in dis
pute between the anthracite operators
and the 15S, 600 miners were settled
when the form of a proposed contract
for two years was agreed TO by repre-
sentatives of the operators and Of the
United Mine Workers union meeting
in Gov. Pinchot's reception room.
The proposed agreement was at
once taken before the full scale com
mittee which ratified it. The commit
tee then set September II as the date
for the meeting of the tri-district con.
vention.
The men will probably return to
work As hours after the convention
approves the action of the scale com
mittee. The tri-district convention
will be held at Scranton.
The principals in the negotiations
will then return to Harrisburg 10 sign
the contract and will be the dinner
guests of hat evening of the governor
and Mrs. Pinchot.
Following the conclusion OF Satur-
days meeting the miners said the
contract was the best agreement ever
made in the history OF the industry.
They said the contract means more
real progress regarding working con
ditions than the miners had ever
made in similar negotiations.
The public, as usual, is the loser.
The strike settlement means that an
thracite will retail at from Is cents
10 81 a ton higher than the rates that
prevailed before the shortest OF all
coal strikes.
The~miners regard the outcome as a
great victory. They have won a 10
per cent wage increase for all classes,
the S-hour day for the industry and
agreement to have the wage structure
revised and a promise that the opera
tors will not make contract with in
dividual miners below the prescribed
rates.
The settlement will increase the in
come OF the Pennsylvania state treas
ury from the anthracite coal tax
about $500, 900 a year.
Reports from Wilkesbarre and other
coal regions say that settlement of the
anthracite strike fulfilled optimistic
predictions in the Goa! fields. There
was resentment over the necessity OF
having even a weeks suspension OF
operations. Miners in the mass were
satisfied with their wages. Operators
were pleased with the prices they
were obtaining for fuel.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-09-14
Find Suitcase Containing Body.

Tyngsboro, Mass.-A second suit
case containing the lower part OF the
torso and the legs Of a woman was
found in the Merrimac river, two
miles below the spot where other
parts of the same woman's body were
recovered floating in a similar recep-
tacle. The head has not been found.
Today's discovery shed 10 new light
on the mystery, the police said. The
suit case of black imitation leather
was new and an exact duplicate OF
the one found.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-09-14
VETERAN AUTOMOBILE
RACER is KILLED
Car with Howard Wilcox Overturns
in Two Hundred-Miie Dash at
Altoona, Pa.

Altoona, Pa.-Howard Wilcox, vet.
was fatally injured in the inaugural 200
mile race on the new Altoona speed.
way when his car skidded and over
turned on the 117th lap. His neck
was broken. Wilcox died a few min.
utes later as he was being taken to
an emergency hospital, at the speed
way grounds. Wilcox was in third
place when the accident occurred.
Driving the 200 mile grind without
a stop Eddie Hearns, another veteran
1:45:37.35 at the rate of 111R miles
an hour. Jerry Wonderlich was
second, Dave Lewis, third, Fred
Conner, fourth; Benny Hill, fifth
Frank Elliot, sixth; Leon Duray.
seventh; and Tommy Milton, eighth.
BY winning today's race Hearne
took the lead in the 1923 automobile
racing championship. race officials de
clared. Jimmy Murphy who is abroad,
has a total of 1910 points. Hearne
had 500 points and his victory today
gave him an additional 400 points or a
total Of 1902, they declared.
Time Of the other leading drivers
were: Wonderlich 1~:4S: 1928; Lewis
1:50: l6: 40; Conner, 1~:55:O7.47; Hill,
2:00:7.21.
In addition TO Wilcox four other
drivers did not finish the race. They
were Harlan Fengier, Earl Cooper,
Harry Hartz and l.. L. Corum. All
we're forced out by engine trouble,
Hartz's car catching fire.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-09-14
Saws Gold Story Hoax.

Hagerstown, Md.-Lee Houser,
laborer, who claimed to have discover
ed a box containing eve $4,000 0 in
gold and bills while working on a
road near here, declared the story
was a hoax. Nevertheless, neighbors
believed he found and has hidden the
treasure, fearing that the government
would take it if it were found to be
that said to have been buried in this
vicinity by Grover c.. Bergdoll.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-09-14
Seven Naval Ships Lost.

Santa Barbara, Cal.-Seven United
States navy destroyers and the Pacif-
&c Mail liner Cuba, were wrecked, the
navy vessels crashing On the rocks in
a dense fog off Arguello light, rs miles
north of Santa Barbara, and the pass
enger steamer on a reef off the south
east end of San Miguel island, 35
miles cSf this port. Twenty-Five EN-
listed men Of the destroyers lost their
lives in the naval disaster and all the
destroyers were reported as total
losses.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-09-14
Anticipate Huge Jap Loans.

New York.-With prominent JAP
anese financiers here predicting that
the property loss caused by the earth
quake and tidal waves in the vicinity
of Toxic probably will amount to
$40, 900, 900, 900, American business
men are preparing for the reaction on
this country. Already talk is being
heard Of big loans to be negotiated for
the rebuilding Of Toxic and Yokoha-
ma, Bankers declined to discuss the
financial aspects of the situation.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-09-14
CARGO Meat to Japan.

Hongkong.-The President Grant is
sailing for Japan with a cargo OF
frozen meats. There has been difficult
ty in obtaining adequate refrigerator
space which prevents a larger supply
Of meat going on the liner. The Hong
kong council today appropriated $3.50,
900 for Japanese relief. One com
pany has offered the international re
lief commission operating in Kobe
eight thousand pounds Of beef.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-09-14
Cause of Quake Remote.

Washington.--The probable cause
Of the great earthquake in Japan will
not be known for many weeks, &C
cording to Father Francis Tondorof,
astronomer and s~eismologist OF the
Georgetown university here. 1t is
likely, however, he added that the
tremors will be found to have been
"tectonic" or caused by the slipping
of rock strata at great depths, due to
faulting or tensile stresses.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-09-14
Rail- Employees Get Boost.

Chicago.-Voluntary wage increases
affecting approximately 5000 main
tenance of way and railway mechani-
cal department employees were report
ed to the u. s. rail labor board by the
Denver and Rio Grande Western rail.
road. The increases represent an ap-
proximate total cost to the carrier of
$135, 900, according to J.. r. King,
statistician for the board. They range
from one cent to three cents an hour
and in the case Of certain foremen and
engineers from s2.04 a month to $4.0S
a month.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-09-14
BLAST Kills Four.

South Amboy, N. J.-Three men and
a boy were killed and twenty-seven
persons were injured, fifteen probably
fatally. by an explosion OF the thou
sands Of cases of smokeless powder
which were being transferred from
barges to freight cars on the banks OF
the Raritan river. The explosion,
caused by a cooking fire on one Of the
barges, rocked the entire countryside,
blew automobiles upside down on the
road nearby and e%nveloped everyone
within a hundred yards in a sheet OF
flame. -
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-09-14
Baby Killed by Bear.

Los Acknowledgement Velma
Hollingsworth, daughter of Dick Hol-
lingsworth, magazine editor, visiting
a motion picture studio here per-
suaded an attendant to admit her to
that part of the lot where wild animal
actors awaited their turn in front
of the camera. She died Of a skull
fracture sustained when a half grown
bear struck her with it's paw.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-09-14
pinchot PROPOSES WAGE Increase.

Harrisburg, Pa.-Gov. Pinchot SUBJ
mitted to representatives of the an
thracite miners and operators in joint
conference a proposed basis OF settle
ment providing for a ten per cent in
crease of pay, recognition OF the
union by the operators without the
checkoff, but with the right to have
a union representative present when
the men are paid.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-09-14
ireland into World Leauue.

4 Geneva.-The Irish Free State was
recommended for admission to the
league of nations by unanimous vote
of the commission of memberships.
Speeches of congratulation to the
Irish delegates were made by many
prominent representatives OF the other
nations in the league.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-09-14
Authorizations.

The abbreviation q. v. stands for the
latin phrase quod vide. meaning
(which see." 1t notifies the reader
that an article will be found con
cerning the word It follows. in the
alphabetical place 1T should occupy
q stands for circa, meaning about
Il il used to explain the fact that the
exact date OF q happening is not
known. that 1t was, for example. about
1900. q 1000. n is the ~abbreviatior
sor dead" It is generally employed
when the date Of death but not Of
birth is known.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-09-14
To Move Food Free.

Chicago.-President Hale Holden, OF
Che Chicago. Burlington, and Quincy
railroad addressed all executive. Off
GERS in a letter announcing that the
company would move free of charge
all foods donated and handled by re-
lief organizations, for the Jananese
earthquake district. The company is
making a contribution of $4,000
Through the Red Cross.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-09-14
Mother and Daughter Burn.

Ruthton, Minn.-Fire destroyed the
farm home Of August Carlson, living
seven miles southeast Of this place
and burned to death Mrs. Carlson and
a daughter. A son on the way to the
fire had an arm broken while crank
ing his car that had stalled.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-09-14
COLLEGE Man Ends Life.

Chicago.-S. A. Page. %, a student
In the Chicago Technical college. was
found dead in his room In the Y. M.
c. A. hotel, with wads Of cotton satu-
rated in chlorotorm, stuffed into his
nostrils and in his mouth.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-09-14
$4,000 Haul by Robbers.

Omaha.--An automobile containing
$4,000, in charge of Purchasing Agent
Rosborough, of the metropolitan
utilities district, was held up and
robbed in the Florence district.
q suburb. The robbers made their
escape.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-09-14
Charles N. Post Dies.

Chicago.-Charles N. Post, forme,
president of Lyon and Healy and
connected with it for more than 40
years, is dead at his summer home
at Lake Geneva, Wis.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-09-14
wr.ok.d pass.roer Rescued.

Los Angeles.-All passengers OF the
Pacific Mail liner Cuba, which went
ashore on a reef off the southeast
corner of San Miguel island have been
rescued by the United States destroy
er Reno, according to a message from
the government radio station here.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-09-14
1f.vear.Old an hejress,

Chicago.--Little Esther Guenther,
IL years old. stepped from poverty to
riches when the will of her grand
mother was admitted to probate and
it was found the child had inherited
$125, 900.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-09-14
u. s. Consul Quake Victim.

Shanghai.-The United States con-
sui general at Yokohama and his
wife were killed in the disaster, &C
cording to a radio message from the
steamship President Jefferson at Yo-
kohama. Their names were not given.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-09-14
1.-THE Mates Watch"

From the report Of a shipping case:
THE steamer proceeds on her way,
until Z or rather later, when a noise
was heard as of a heavy body like an
anchor or a chain being dragged
along the deck from the funnel aft.
II was the mates watch"
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-09-14
Nashua Mills Burn.

Nashua, lathe Nashua wooden
mills here were consumed by fire of
unknown origin. which broke out
on the third floor Of the mills. The
loss, estimated at close to $4,000,
partially covered by insurance.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-09-14
Eamer Gets 1.6 Cents.

Chicago.-Wheat used in making a
10-cent loaf of bread nets the farmer
1.6 cents, according to figures OF the
American Farm Bureau federation.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1923-09-14
Open Land for Veterans.

Washington.-The interior depart
ment announced the opening Of 4,24O
acres Of public land in Humboldt
county, Nevada, to world war vet
Grams. Filings will take place Sep
TENDER 10 at Carson City.