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GOVERNOR MORRISON
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DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN
Reviews Progress and Achieve-
ihents of Past Two
Years. J
CHALLENGES OPPONENTS
Governor Js Heard By Large
Audience in Charlotte
- , -Wednesday., .
C1IARLOTTB, Beitt .' 21 .--Lauding
tltc record of the present democratic
administration in North Carolina since
its inauguration, statiug that the peo
ple should got back to old fashioned
democracy as represented by Woodrow
Wilson, find cniticising the stand taken
by President Harding during the recent
strike situation, Governor Cunierou Mor.
risou ; fired the ' opening gun of the
democratic campaign iu the state at the
Mecklenburg county statu house last
night. ,
Tli.a crowd packed the courtroom and
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eruor. He was enthusiastically re
ceivctl and several times during the
speech ripples of applause broke forth,
continuing for a minute and swelling
" into an uproar that drowned the voice
of the speaker.
Governor Morrison ' was introduced by
Hamilton C. Jones, chttirmau of the
Mecklenburg democratic committee, who
stated that the- governor, had already,
"during the two years that he had been
iu office, impressed himself upon the
caple . as ranking-with the immortal
" Vance ami the peerless Aycock. "
- "Has Honored His Party.
Mr. Jones suid that the governor
; had reflected honor upon the democratic
' lwrty in the manner iu -which he had
jiroveu himself . capable of handling
'the lutricatc affairs of state, lie con
, eluded by stating that the governor
.. was, ''above all, a Simon pure demo.
.' crnt. " . . .
The governor was greeted with a roar
'of appluuse from au audience that
arose to its feet. He began his sieecli
by first asking that ' 'God have mercy
on Ham Jpnes, " stating that he intend
ed, not to 'defend, but to justify the
record of tho party during its term of
tcrvice to tho state. ; ! .
Its record ho lauded us one that was
unsurpassed for progressiveness by any
in the annls of history, of the state,
the nation or of tho world.
Stating that he challenged any person
to, find any promise made during the
campaign which his party had failed to
carry out during its term in office,; the
governor received a round of applause.
"Every promise has been faithfully
kept," the governor stated.
Record Without Parallel,
"We have carried out the greatest
program of constructive statesmanship
in the history of the government ot
the 'states of this great Union," Gov
ernor Morrison said. i
He spoke of the issuance of bonds
foKthc improvement of the state insti
tutions, of the road system that is
living built in fho state, the tax for
the payment of the interest, on . the
bonds being taken care of without any
aid from the mass of ieop!c in the
. state, Governor Morrison said. ;
He told of the change from the ad
valorem "system of taxation to the new
system, thereby tapping many tax re
sources that had never before beeu
touched 'The whole system of rtm
ntng the state government has been put
upon n new basis, '' he stated,- declaring
that the new system . had to be adopted
if North Carolina was to perform the
high and sacred duties of n great state.
Praises State Board.
1 He praised the members -of the
boards of directors of the various state
institutions, individually and collective
ly, for their work i under tho adminis
tration, being .interrupted at intervals
by the cheering of the audience.
The state officers at Haleigh came in
for a share of the yraise when be spoke
of the work of E. C. Brooks, super
intendent of publie instruction, J .
Uryan Grimes, secretary of state. Major
Baxten Durhqm, state auditor, B. K.
Xacy, state treasurer, and J. S,. Man
ning, attorney general. The governor
stated that each ' of these men could
make much larger salaries by following
their x'rofessions in "private life than
they were receiving for their services
to the state. "They are doing a noble
; service for North Carolina," the gov
ernor -said.
The business of the state is carried
on in a businesslike manuer, the gov
ernor declared, adding that no board
of directors for any private concern in
the state, could rank with those of the
state institutions. , ,
' Praises Local Men.
He praised the representatives ot
ileeklenburg county for their support
of tho constructive" program mapped
out by the administration, saying that
. ' Matthews, . DeLaney and I'harr ren
dered material assistance in the promo
tion of the program. "
Sieaking of the work of the North
Carolina statesmen iu Congress, Gov
ernor Morrison said that "the record
of Senators Overman and Simmons, he
roic Major Bulwinkle "and the other
members of the house of representatives
in Congress has never been surpassed
ia intelligence, fidelity, distinction and
(Continued on page 4.;
Bonus May Become the Issue In
Fall
Congressional Campaign
Action of Senate In Sustaining President's Veto Makes Action
Impossible Until December- First Bonus Bills Introduced
' In May, 1919 Short History of the. Bonus Legislation to
''Date., ' .
WASHINGTON', Sept. 21. For u
third time soldiers' bonus legislation
has failed of enactment. '-'.
. The senate' late yesterday sustained
President Harding's veto of the - Ford-ney-MeCuniber
bill, the, vote, of 44 to
2S falling four short of the two-thirds
majority that would have been neces
sary to have made it a law without
the executive's signature. Five hours
Gefore the senate acted Uic house over-'
rode the veto, 258 to 34. ;
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The action of the senate make ini
K)smbl veterans' compensation at least
until . the next' session t Congress,
which will begin . early in December.
Meantime, however, it is tho purpose of
some proponents to Continue the tight
and the bonus iniiy become an issue iu
home of the congressional and senatorial
campaigns this ' f all . '
' The first bonus bills were introduced
in the house and senate early In the
siiecial session of the sixty-sixth con
gress, which began May 19, 1919. So
2'any l-Wls were offered in
flc house that all wire referred to the
ways and means -coiiimittee, which be
gan hearings: on September 29, 1919.
So siiokesmen for veterans organiza
tions apieared, however, and 'action was
delayed., V
Hearings were reopened by the com
mittee on March 2, 1920, and continued
for three weeks. The original "five
Three Carloads Cement Used
Daily At Mountain Island Dam
Satisfactory Progress Has Been Made During Past Four
, Weeks Dam Proper Has Taken Shape Quarries Started
On Mecklenburg Side of River -Work On Beautification
of Grounds Labor Conditions Are Satisfactory Bootleg
gers Are Menace. .
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-"(Special to The Gazette.)
MOUNT HOLLY, Sept. 19. Satis
factory progress has been made during
tho past four weeks on the construction
Work of the djim at Mountain Island
which is being built by Iteinhart & Den-
nis, contractors, for the Southern Power
Company , ' Weather conditions have
greatly aided the contractors in their
work, according to P. A. Kee, 'general
office manager. It is necessary during
wet weather to oierate pumps and the
work is .hanijiered to a great extent,
according to the authorities.
. Concrete work hn progressed rapidly
on tho dam and the dam . projtcr has
taken shape. Much time in the past
has been spent iu excavating lor the
concrete work and iu cutting off the
water of tho Catawba and turning it
into one channel. The present height
of the concrete work has not materially
changed during the mouth. The height
of the dam wheu finished will be forty
feet higher than the present elevation .
The . contractors at present use cement
imported from Sweden. Approximately
three car load lots or 2,500 bags are
used daily, according to the authorities.
AH trees and imderbrnsh have been
cleared on both banks of the river to
the necessary height to which the water
shall rise when the dam has been com
pleted. At present laborers have clear,
d both banks of the river beyond the
Rozzell's Ferry bridge. All underbrush
has been collected together and burned.
Many thousands of cords of wood have
been stacked nasi piled together, pre
paratory to being Bold..'..
Quarries Are Started.
' Quarries have been started by the
contractors on the Mecklenburg side at
the bottom of the hill upon which the
Old Davidson, home stands. - Steam
shovels have been placed upon this sido
to excavate the dirtin order that labor
ers can get to the rock beds. Small
dinky engines haul' rock ' from , these
quarries to the rock crusher on the old
island, where it is crushed and then
hauled to the dam to be mixed with
the cement.' Many derricks are used in
lifting the rocks that are being blasted
and dug out of the tail race that will
lead from the dam.
Four immense wheels have arrived
which will help generate the power at
the dam. "Immense sluice ways are being
built which will carry the water from
the dam down to the wheels. Lumber
for this pnrpoe has been secured and
is cut in the ''wood cutting plant below
thj dam, according to the specifications
required. The contractors have fitted
out nil small plants that are necessary
for the construction work being done
at Mountain Island with the most mod
ern type of machinery.-
Beautifying The Grounds.
Work in the beautifying' of the
grounds around and leading to the dam
site in still in progress Grass has been
planted along the -drive leading from
the main asphalt road. Grading has
been doije along the drive leading to
the dam and later it is understood that
grass will le planted along this road
and other drives and walks. ' It is
thought that this will lie oue of the
most beautiful of all the power sites
of the Southern Power comjiariy when
ompleted and with the waters -stocked
with big, black bass and other fish,
pleasure seekers and others will come
to this site from the. nearby cities to
enjoy an afternoon 's outing . No bet
fold" plan was drafted ami the bill
'reported to the house on May 21. It
was passed eight days later by a vote
of 2H0 to 92, and was Bent to the
senate, which referred it to the finance
committee. That . committee reported
out the bill on February 28, 1921, but
it failed with the adjournment , of the
sixty-sixth Congress. s
After the present congress was called
in extra session by President Harding,
convening April 11,. 1921, numerous new
bills were offered and on June 20 the
finance committee reported out tfie
' five-fold plan with the cash bonus fea
ture. The senate sent this back to tho
committee, however, on July 12, at the
request of President Harding.
Last January 31 the ways and means
committee began ' new hearings and
after some discussion and conferences
with members of the finance committee
anil President Harding the bill killed
yesterday was drafted. It was report
ed to the house on March 14, and was
passed on March 2:1, by a vote of 3X1
to 70. The next day it was sent to
the' senate to which it' was reported
back from the finance committee on
J,une 8. On Angust 31, the senate
passed it by a vote of 47 to 22.
After two weeks in conference, it was
approved again by both houses and sent
to the president, who " vetoed it last
Tuesduy. '"-.'. '"
ter place, it is thought, could be found
to serve such a purpose.
. Three distinct units make up the
camp at Mountain Island. The South
ern Power Company 's forces occuy the
houses that are built upon the hill that
overlooks the dam,, The employed forces
of the contractors, Keinhurt & Dennis,
occupy the Louse sand shacks that have
been built upon the hill opposite this,.
The convict- camp that makes up the
third unit of the community are housed
in shanties that have beeu built along
the -old road that formerly led to' the
null at Mountain Island. Approxi
mately 600 jieople, make up the com
munity at Mountain Island, according
to the authorities.
Labor Is Satisfactory.
Labor1 conditions at Mountain Island
at present are very satisfactory, accord
ing to the-contractors. No labor has
been imported now for some time.
Heretofore, common labor had been
scarce., AH skilled laborers are white
men, the negroes comprising the element
of common labor.' White men are
used as boss men for the negro gangs.
It is understood that this insures a
greater amount of work done daily by
the common laborers.
To insure tho safety of 'the workers
mid to protect them, the contractors
Have engaged a deputy sheriff, J , M .
McLeod, a veteran sheriff, who has
been employed in many camps, namely
at Hopewell, Va, Flint, Mich., and at
Pinners Point, Va., has been secured
to maintain the orderliness of the camp.
Sheriff McLeod stated that the camp
at Mountain Island was one of the
most orderly and law-abiding camps
that he has ever been in and that only
one arrest had been made by him since
his employment early iu June. He
maintains that this is a record that
many , construction camps cannot live
up to and that -it is the more to be
wondered at on account of the general
type, of men that construction camp
sheriffs have to deal with.
Bootleggers coming in from : the
nearby towns and cities memit-c the
peace of tho camp at Mountain Island
more than any oue else, according to
Sheriff McLeod. One man last month
with ten gallons of whiskey was caught
on the road leading to Mountain Island
from the main asphalt road. Another
suspect at the same time almost fell
into the toils of the law, but unfor
tunately escaped.- AH precautions are
taken to keep out these law breakers
and insure the greatest efficiency among
the workers. Pistol duels and fights
are unknown, and it is thought that
fear entertained by the fanners of the
community near Mouutain Island prior
to the beginning of operations there
last spring that the labor element would
be a very disquieting influence has been
entirely cast to the winds and that a
record has leeii established iu orderli
ness and self-government of construc
tion camps.
GETS SENTENCE OF 40 JTEARS;
' BOND FIXED AT $40,000
ASHEVILLE, N". C., Sept. 21.
Walter . Brook, special deputy sheriff
employed bv the Biltmore Estate, found f
guilty yesterday in Supreior Court of !
second. rippre nmriir for kiilm Tkureii
LWest and Emory Lance, July 13, was
sentenced by Judge George H. Brown to
day to serve forty years at hard labor
ia the State penitentiary, .
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Announeemeot ban been made ot
the engagement of Miss Camilla
Loyal Ashe Bewail (above) of Bath,
Me., to United States Senator Wal-
(ter B. Edge of New Jersey. The
senator Is 49; his bride, 20.
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75,000 SURVIVORS OF
SMYRNA DISASTER ARE
HOMELESS, ABANDONED
None Except American De
stroyers In Harbor Are
Willing to Aid Destitutes
Shooting and Thefts Con
tinue. ;
SMYRNA, Sept. 2t (By The
Associated Press.) Although eight
days luive passed since firo obliter'
at ed Smyrna, 75,000,. survivors re
main exposed on the quay, destitute,
distracted and abandoned. No al-
lied vessel has offered to salvage this
last 'wreckago of human life in the
greatest disaster in Asia 's history.
Nearly a. dozen warships remain
in the harbor, but none show a dis-,
position to aid the wretched popu
. la t ion except the' American destroy
ers. Deportations continue ami
Turkish soldiers are beginning to '
caVry off the Greek and Armenian
girls, leaving their parents iu a fran
tic state.
Sporadic shooting and thefts con
tinue. Smoke is still emerging from
the' ruins., The Turkish authorities
explain that this is duo to the burn
injc of human bodies. " Dr. Wilfred
Post, of New York, medical direc
tor of the Near East Relief, has ur
ged the Turks to bury their dead in
order to prevent pestilence. He also,
has appealed to them to vaccinate
everyone, in order to guard against
cholera and small pox.
Interviewed by t The Associated
Press today, Dr. Post said:
"It is regrettable that allied
did not do more iu salvaging hu
man life. The work of all the ves
sels on the night of the fire was mag
nificent but on the succeeding days
when the impulse of the great dis- .
aster disappeared there was a lull
in their energy and spirit. "
"If;wj(5 had kept up the work
there .would now be no evacuation
problem and thousands .would have
been saved who might otherwise be
deported or killed. Kven before the v
'fire, there was indiscriminate killing
ami looting. There are so many
bodies in the streets that I had on
one occaston, to alight from my
automobile to life the corpses out of
the path of the car. No words can
describe the fire as a sjiectaclc. -
"It was like a gigantic scene
staged, by Nero or like a chapter
from Tamerlane. It-wag so vast and
complete that it had every appear- .
hucp of being malevolently' planned
iu advance."
THE WEATHER
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toni ht tbe northM9t Coast. Strong
BOrfwiv winds pa 1m nff the northeast
coast,
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EL PASO, Texas. Sept. 21. The
United" States dirigible C-2 arrived "at
the Fort Bliss field at 9:50 o'clock this
mornings . .....in j.a-a m
KEMAL IS DETERMINED THAT THE
ALLIES SHALL NOT STAND IN WA Y OF
MOVEMENT ACROSS DARDANELLES-
Judge's Decision In Daugherty
Injunction Case Expected Today
Case Is Most Important of Its
Kind Ever Brought to
Bar In U. S.
EXPECT TONING DOWN
To Determine How Far Gov
ernment May Go In Re- .
strain of Strike.
CHICAGO. Sept. 21. Judge James
II. Wilkcrsou was expected to decide
today whether the nation-wide strike of
ruilway shopineu can be legally regard
ed hs a conspiracy; iu restraint of inter
state commerce, and to determine the
extent to which he Iwdieves the Federal
government is justified in going to re
strict strike activities. .
Closing argunicnts in 'he Daugherty
injunction ease ' wus begun today nud
Judgo Wilkersou's ruling was expected
befure tho temporary reatriiining order,
tended teil days ngu, expires nt mid
night. Although Attorney General Daugh
erty and his, legal aides bad made .no
indication of any intention to recom
mend modification of -the order, predic
tions were made by persons who have
watched the proceedings closely that
Some of the more drastic clauses of the
writ wodld be toned down iu the injunc
tion which the government ' attorneys j
would ask Judgo Wilkerson to sign.
Strike settlements' made, while.', the
hearing progressed, had no apparent
effect up to todny on the . attitude of
Federal officials toward the injunction.
A marked decrease in strike disorders
siuce the restraining order was issued
was pointed out by Blackburn Ester
line, assistant solicitor general, as an
indication that the strike was directed
from a single source.
The case is regarded by attorneys as
the most important of its kind ever
brought to the bar in a court of the
United States. Into it tho government
threw one of the heaviest legal barriers
ever assembled in a court action of its
character, with the attorney general of
the United States in) personal charge
of the governmentNforces.
While the court battlo continued,
President Jewell, of tho shop crafts,
? as ia the 'east attempting - to line up
more roads with the Baltimore eace
plan under which strikers , were taken
back by a number of lines.
Ilouds which accepted the Baltimore
terms were taking back erstwhile strik
ers in thousands, while carriers which
turned down the terms reported steadi
ly increasing shop forces recruited hide-'
pendently of negotiations with the shop
craft organizations.
FORD MOTOR COMPANY
TO RE-OPEN FRIDAY
DETROIT, Sept 21. The
plants of the Ford Motor Company
in t ehDetroit district, closed last
Saturday, because of the coal situa
tion, thereby throwing 100,000 Ford .
workers out of employment in dif
ferent parti of the country, will re
open tomorrow morning, it was of
ficially announced today.
Orders for the re-opening of the
plants were telegraphed her today
by Edsel Ford, president of the com
pany, who is in Cincinnati. Mr.
Ford aaid cancellation of the inter
state commerce commission's ser
vce order Number 23 had made it
possible again to obtain coal.
The telegram read as follows:
"Cancellation of the interstate
commerce commission's service or
der Number 23 has made it possible
again to secure coal.
"Movement of coal to Detroit
has started and we feel justified in
starting the plants tomorrow (Fri
day) morning.
"Post notices calling the men
back to work and notify the news
papers." JUDGE BOYD MAKES
INJUNCTION PERMANENT
GREENSBORO, N. C, Sept. 21.
The temporry injunction of the
Southern Railway against striking
shopmen at Spencer, restraining of
ficials and members of the worker's
organizations from interference with
interstate commerce, movement of
the United States mails and repairs .
to and work on the equipment of
the company, was made permanent
by Judge James E. Boyd in Federal
Court here today. .
COTTON MARKET
CLOSING BIDS ON THE
NEW YORK MARKET
NEW YORK, fceot. 21. Cotton fu-
dosed barely steady. October
20.83; November 20.93: December 21.0S;
nt oq f.u o ,. At .... .in ei .
! July 1U.5j. bpots cioocd quiet at 21.05,
i twenty-five points down.
I - GASTONIA COTTON.
Receipts 60 Bales
Price. ......'.21 1-4 to 21 and 3-8 Cents
To Preserve Message
Left By 47 Miners
SACRAMENTO, CALIF.; Sept 21.
The state industrial accident com
mission has been instructed to cut
away and preserve that portion of
the stone in the mine drift on which
William Fassell burned with hit
lamp the only message left by the 47
miners who were , victims of the
C tragedy at the Argonaut mine.
Clarence Jarvis, member of the state
board of ' control, aaid the stone
would be kept by the state in mem
ory of the victims.
The words written on the stone,
Jarvis said, were:
"Gas getting bad. Three o'clock."
Below the figure "4" had been
burned and a portion of the letter
"O". Fassell is believed to have
succumbed to the gas at that point.
niLL TOP FARM WAS PLAY
GROUND OF MRS. HALL IN
EARLY CHILDHOOD DAYS
Minister's Wife Knew Every
Nook and Corner of the
Place -Where Bodies of Rec
tor and Choir Leader, Were
Found. ' o
NEW Bifl.V.SWICK, N. J., Sept.
21. The old hill top farm where the
murdered bodies of the Itev. Edward
Wheeler Hall and the. leader of his
chori, Mrs. James Mills, were found
last Saturday, was a playground for
the minister's wife and her brothers
when they were children, it was learned
today from a former occupant, Mrs.
Charles Amide do Brussy.
Every nook of the . place and of the
old unoccupied house that overlooks it
is familiar to Mrs. Hall and to her
eccentric, brother, Willie Stevens, whose
movements on the night of the murder
have been 'under, inquiry by detectives,
Mrs. de Brussy said. Tho 8tvens
children used to come thero often to
play, she explained, as the families
were. warm friends.
The de Brussys sold the farm' iu 1906
after it had beeu iu their family for
more than 100 years. During the revo
lution and the war of 1812, Mrs. do
Brussy wi'id, the home was a rendezvous
for army officers and the setting for
many a gy party.
The quiet old place, unoccupied but
well furnished, with a wealth of au-
tiques in many of tuer ooms, was so
still and lonely that it got on the
nerves of Mrs. de Brussy, she said, and
that is why her family gave it up.
fShe was drawn back to it today,- tho
said, liecause once she had remarked
to a friend that it seemed so desolate
us to be an ideal place for a murder,
yince the bodies were found under a
crab apple tree in the orchard, she
added, she hudd reamed that the mur
der occurred in the west room upstairs.
This chamber, as all the other rooms,
bore tin indications of any struggle.
Mrs, de Brussy said she had visited
the old homestead last June with a
woilmn friend, whose name she refused
to divulge. This woman, she said,
A point :-deout' the identical tree under
which the bodies were found, with the
comment;
"This would be an ideal ' place for
a murder. "
Mrs. de Brussy said she attempted
to laugh it off, but the woman retorted:
"You think I am jestiug. Some day
you may read or hear of a murder
here. " '
Last Monday night three days after
the bodies had beeu discovered she
had a vivid horrible dream, in which
the saw the murders committed in a
second floor room of the west wing of
(the building. Mrs. de Brussy declined
to give details of her dream or to say
who the "dream murderer" was.
Assistant Prosecutor Toolan an
nounced today that in questioning
"Willie' yteveus, eccentric brother ot
Mrs. Hall, yesterday, Stevens had given
him a o2-caiibre pistol which he owned.
. Expressing her - belief that robbery
was the motive for the murder of Mr.
Hall and Mrs. Mills, the rector's widow
today issued a statement in which she
declared her confidence in the integrity
of her husband ami Mrs. Mills and
her disbelief of suggestions tliat thire
was any improier intimacy between
them. ,
The statement was given through
Miss Saliy 1'etors, au old friend of the
Hall family, who now is staying at
the Hall home.
"I am confident that there was noth
ing wrong between my husband and
Mrs. Mills," Mi&s Peters quoted Mrs.
Hair as iayirj. "I feel that tlws traj
eily was the result of a holdup. On
Thursday evening my lniland told me
he was going to the Mills home with
a lot of money, as ho wanted to ray
a doctor S bill contracted by Mrs, Mills
as tho result of an opeiHtivu. "
KEMAUSTS HAVE GUNS
AND AMMUNITION FOR
TWO YEARS' CAMPAIGN
Small Force of British Troops
Is Holding Chanak,
Key Position.
MARSHALL FOCH QUOTED
Opinion Is Banking On the
Strength of British
Naval Force. v
.' LONDON, Sept. 21. -- (By The As
sociated Press.) - While the ' Allied
powers are feverishly endeavoring to ar-,
range u pence conference to clean the'
slato between Turkey and Greece ami
prevent more fighting in the Near East,
rumbles of impending hostilities continue
to come from Constantinople and the
Dardanelles.
A relatively scmall force of British
troops is holding Chanak, the key posi
tion on the southern shore of the straits,
while the Turkish nationalists, eager for
further conquests after their overwhebn
ing defeat of the Greeks, are concen
trated outside tho neutral zone at Ismid
and Chanak, impatiently awaiting . the
word from Mustapha Keinal Pasha to
advance. , , .
The Kemalists, ofliciul French dis?
patches say, have available for use in a
drive 1,000 modern field guns, 0,000 ma
chine guns, and enough ammunition for a
two years' campaign which they captur
ed from the Greeks.
If their spokesman, at Coutsuntinople
is to be believed, tho Turks are deter
mined that tho Allies shall not stand in
the path' of their desire to re-occupy
Thrace. An Associated Press dispatch
quotes this spokesman, HamidiBey, to
the effect that the Kemalist army will
certainly declare war on the British if
they attempt to interfere with a move
ment across the straits. .
A ray of hope, however, is seen In th'
conference ut Smyrna, between Mustapha
Keinal Pasha and General Pellc, French .,
high commissioner, to which, Yussuf
Keinal Bay, the nationalist foreign min
ister, has been hastily summoned from
Angoria. The calling m of Yussuf
Kemal points to the discussion of im
portant and delicate questions, and tho
consequent delay raises hope that tho
Turkish attack, if it takes place, at all,
will, bo retarded until the British rein
forcements can arrive.
If fighting breaks out before that
time the juestioii of the safety of the
comparatively small British force at
Chanak will become an anxious one here.
Marshal Foch is quoted as saying that
the position is absolutely untenable, except-if
held by a very considerable force,,
while Field Marshal Pluiner, who has
beeu inspecting the British defenses, is
said to have sent a message, which Prime
Minister Lloyd-George communicated to
the cabinet, to the effect that .-he has
great confidence iu tho results of the
collaboration between Brigadier Gener
al Harrington and Hear Admiral Brock.
Opinion here for the moment is bank
ing on the strength of the British naval
force iu the Dardanelles, which is con
sidered sufficient alone to'hold any pos
sible attack by the Turks.
No details are available of the burn
ing of Pandemia, ou the southern shore
of the sea of Marmora, as announced in
official French circles last uiglit. It is
stated, however, that the Greeks burucd
part of the town before leaving.
According to the Times the Russian
soviet Kovt"niment sees iu the present
Near Kastc.rn situation an opportunity
to obtain recognition from the powers.
Russia proposes, the newspaper says, to
act the part of 'mediator between the
Turks and Greeks, hoping thereby, to es
tablish the popularity of the Soviet re
public among the peoples of Mohamme
dan Asia hjkI comiiel the entente power
to revise their attitude toward her.
Roree'ing opposition to this course ;
she has instructed her representatives
abroad to placate hostility by temiwrary
concessions. Tho ncwspaier ascribes its
information to a secret document which
it says the soviet government addressed
to its representative in Berlin, M. Karak
han, and the text of which it prints.
NEW TARIFF LAW IS
EFFECTIVE AT MIDNIGHT
WASHINGTON". Sept. 21. Presi
dent" Harding today signed the tariff
bill of 1522, making the new rates ef
fective nt midnight touisht.
Tho bill was sijmil shortly after II
o'clock in the pnni'lcnt's office in th
presence of Chairman McCuwber of
the senate finance committee. Chairman
Fordney of the house, ways aad means
committee, a number of house utemlivrs
aud others.
Keniurkiiig that the measure had been
"long in the making." President Hard
ing after he had affixed hi i:i:i1 r:
with a pen predated to him by -Mr,
Fordney, who sai l Iih liiieii i- -. t V
it as n ruveriir, aid that if v - -feed
a I hn)e we wiil mm-, ! ;
iiig -effective tli cluvl C J r .
this bill this wiil j'ioe ! ;.
coJitrilmtnni toward !'
iuuiklng iu a'ci.-tu''.' '