The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 8, 1922, Page 1

rn y 1 Ne ~ 7 os _ Physicians, However, State WEATHER FORECAST—Fair to- night and Saturday; cooler fo- night. ESTABLISHED 1873 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1922 (Leased LAST EDITION | —e Wire of Associated Press) PRICE FIVE CENTS GREEK ARMY MEETS DISASTER MRS, HARDING RESTING EASIER DOCTORS SAY Telegrams Pour in from All Parts of Nation at News > of Illness REPORT COMPLICATIONS that Her Condition Is Not Serious Washington, Sept. 8.—Announce- ment that Mrs. Harding, wife of the president, has been indisposed | for several days brought a flood of messages today from all parts of the country expressing sympa-| thy and hopes for her continued! improvement. Mrs. Harding’s ail- ment was deseibed as in the na- ture of a slight organic trouble} due to the effects of a cold com- plicated by a recurrence of hydro- nephrosis and White House officials insisted that the patient’s' condi- tion was neither alarming nor ser- ious. | Serious complications developed in } the illness of Mrs. Harding, wife of | President Harding, last night but they were “slightly abated this / morning and the patient is resting} more easily,” Brigadier ‘General ; Sawyer, the physician in attend- ance, ‘said today in a statement is- sued at the White House. { Mrs. Harding’s condition still is regarded with much concern, the statement said, adding that Dr. Carl W. Sawyer of Marion, Ohio, who was associated with his father, is attend- ing Mrs, Harding during a previous illness of similar nature, had ar- rived here for Consultatign. COLLEGE YOUTHS | IN TOURNAMENT George Sutherland, Washington attorney, appointed by President Harding to succeed John H. Clarke, retired, as associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. CHANGES IN U. S. COURT PERSONNEL ( | William R. Day, United States Supreme Court, whose | justice of the resignation, it is rumored, will fol- low that of Associate Justice John i H. Clarke, BELIEVED ALL "MINERS HAVE ~~ BREN GASSED ‘Little Hope Held Out that; Any of Entombed Men Are Alive (By the Associated Press) Jackson, Calif., Sept. 8—Diminish- ed hope accompanied today the re- newal of efforts to rescue the forty- | six miners entombed deep in th Ar- gonaut gold mine here eleven days lago. The feeling that few if any of {the men would be found alive ap- parently growing. John H. Clarke, whose resignation’ In the first official statement is- FOUR ARRESTED 32 INDICTED | IN MINE RIOT Investigation of Herrin Mas- sacre by Grand Jury Results in Many Warrants ' MORE WILL FOLLOW Those Apprehended Refuse to; Make Any Statement. Perjury Charged (By the Associated Press) Marion, Ill., Sept. 8—With four additional men in jail here today charged with murder in thirty-eight new indictments issued by the Grand|’ Jury in connection with the investi- gation of the strip mine killings j near Herrin, Sheriff Melvin Thaxton and his special deputies were out to- day searching for the rest of those indicted, The four new prisoners are: Leva Mann, miner of Herrin; Charles Ro- gers, miner of Herrin; Philip Fonta: netta, miner of Marion, and James Brown, a negro deputy sheriff of Colp, a small mining . settlement, northwest of Herrin, In addition ‘to: ' Cloak of Secrecy in Regard ‘ tial RAIL HEADS DENY RUMORS OF SETTLEMENT | Executives Decline to Lift’ to Negotiations _JEWELL STILL ABSENT | Several Roads Report Their Shops Operating Upon Normal Basis (By the Associated P: SENIORITY AWARDED Chicago, Sept. 8—The plan Daniel Willard, of the Baltimore and Ohio railway, is said to have Proposed for individual agree- ments for settlement of the shop men’s strike, so far as out- lined, does not mention seniority | rights,/the Chicago Daily News said today. According to this published story the seniority question would be compromised although full senority would not be restored. |. Chicago, Sept. 8—Persistent ru- mors of an impending peace or par- jettlement of the railroad strike contfnued here today without any these was Otis Clarke of Gorevilte,| tangible foundation in the way of de- arrested recently. The first indictment made known yesterday charged six men with mur- der. Nine men were named in the second bill, twenty-seven third and one in the fourth. was stated by Attorney General E. J. Brundage, in charge of the grand jury investigation. These indict- ments, it is understood, will be is- sued for larceny and perjury. Fol- lowing the massacre at the Strip mine, much of the equipment’ was stolen and some of it has been re- covered, Indictments for larceny will be issued for the theft of the mine property, it was: said by court attaches. Indictments for perjury, it was said, will be based on the testimony in the! lors denied knowledge of new pro- More indictment will be issued, it: Posals to.end the strike and union| Sheriff Refuses to Embarrass Mite statements by rail heads or WUillon officials to substantiate the Teports. 1 In fact, most of the railroad exe- cutives who commented on the rum- leaders declined to lift the cloak of secrecy which appeared to surround the reported peace move. Expressions of hope for separate agreements with individual roads were the most positive statements any union leaders had made as the time approached for Monday’s meet- ing of the shop crafts policy commit- tees. The whereabouts of B. M. Jewell, head of the striking shopmen, who dropped out of public view a week ago when Federal Judge James H. as associate justice of the United State Supreme Court is believed to college youths who have not yet Presage his entrance into politics in cast their first votes and an old mas- | 1924 as an advocate of the League of ter of 33 years contested in the semi- | Nations. finals of the National Amateur Golf | championship tournament today in, $50,000 LOOT Jesse Sweetser, who is a senior at ‘Yale and New. York’s metropolitan champion, played Bobbie Jones of Atlanta, who is'soon to enter Har- Chicago, Sept. 8.—Adolph Kuns- tler, said to be‘a New York jewel- er, was assaulted by three men to- day in a restaurant on Upper Sher- (By the Associated Press) Brookline, Mass., Sept. 8—Three vard, while Rudy Knepper of Sioux City, Iowa, who is a senior at Prince- ton, played the former champion, Chick Evans, who is an alumnus of Northwestern and used to be a cad- dy. idan Road and robbed of jewelry Irregulars Fight police “tue taney ceemped) in an Among Themselves) 3's hospicat where it wes sad he alt the"Assosigtog Pree) had been severely beaten. between two Irregular leaders oper- ating in County Kerry is reported to have caused a sanginuary fight in which ‘rifles, bombs and machine guns were used by’ the opposing fac- tions. One leader, named McCellistrum, is to have opposed plans for ambush- ing a good convoy en route to the relief of Killarney, where the people are suffering from hunger as a re- sult of the Irregulars’ war: oh' t#ihs- ports. Humphrey Murphy;. another leader, differed on the ‘issue with McCellistrum, and the split spread to the ranks. Irregular forces yesterday attack- ed a signal cabin on the Great South- ern railway between Dundrum and Limerick Junction but the small gar- yison of National, troops repulsed them with the reported loss to the Irregulars of one killed and two wounded. , Steady ptogress by the Nationals is reported throughout the country generally. A eae ae LABOR DEMANS BEING WELL FILLED AT MINOT Minot, N. D., Sept. 8.—Most of the demand for threshing labor is now confined within a radius of about 60 miles in every direction except east, according to Clyde Nelson of the Minot federal labor bureau, which will be closed Sept. 15. Nearly all of the demands for laborers are now being filled the same day they are received, Mr. Nelson states.. The orders average from 50 to 75 aday. Many of the orders being received now are for experienced coal miners, both union and non-union. Many miners are coming into the city from large eastern mining centers, seeking employment. TRAIN NEARLY HITS HANDCAR ON TRACK Valley City, N. D., Sept. 8— Train No. 2 narrowly escaped be- ing wrecked when it almost hit a handcar left on the track by sec- tion men. Engineer Jennings’ quick action in applying the air- brakes probably saved the train from being ditched. Brake rods on several cars were torn out. The train was delayed about an hour. METHOD OUT OF DATE Chicago, Ill, Sept. 8.—Scientists will attempt to demonstrate that mother’s methods in baking bread are out of date when the Bakery ex- position and conventions of national baker associations are held here September 11 to 16. Equity Plant Offered to Take Wheat Receipts (By the Associated Press) Fargo, N. D., Sept. 8.—The Equity Cooperative Packing Company of Fargo has announced it will take elevator receipts for wheat in pay- ment of notes due the company, and will credit the farmers with $1.25 per bushel for all wheat thus turned over. The announcement was made by Usher L. Burdick, advisory council for the United States Grain Grow- ers, Inc., and a member of the board of directors and council for the packing company. “We believe that it is the duty of the businessmen of this state to make common cause with the farm- ers,” Mr. Burdick said in explaining the packing company’s offer, “and if posisble protect them and ourselves against the enormous loss sustained through the present manipulations of the grain market by gamblers.” “We believe there is no risk in paying $1.25 for wheat now,” he con- tinued, “and evén ifthere were it is no more than right that we assume some of the risk we are now forcing the farmers to carry alone.” Field representatives of the com- pany have been instructed to put the plan into operation immediately. Litttle Light on Airplane Accident That Killed Three (By the Associated Press) Rutland, Vt., Sept. 8—The body of Lieut. Melvin W. Maynard, “Flying Parson,” who was killed with two companions, Lieut. L. R. Wood of Ticonderoga, N. Y., and Mechanician Charles Mionette of, Plattsburg, N. Y., when their plane fell 3,000 feet here yesterday, was homeward bound today for Maynard, North Carolina. An examination of the wrecked machine threw little light “on the cause of the accident. The same airoplane that Maynard ; used yesterday fell at Revere Beach Mass., six weexs ago but no one was injured. IRELAND REAPPOINTED (By the Associated Press) Washington, Sept. 8—Major Gen- eral W. M. Ireland was reappointed today by President Harding as surg- eon general of the regular army. sued since the disaster E, A. Stent, Vice President of the Argonaut mining company last night express- ed the belief all of the men had perished. : “I sadly fear that all we can do is te bring out the forty-six bodies,” he told The Associated Press, | Mr. Stent based his hopeless out- look largely-on the report of, Dr. L. H. Duschak’‘of the Industriel Ac dent Commission that gas fumes ob- served issuing from one of the shafts would kill in two minutes, He ex- | plained, however, that company of- ficials were “ignoring all beliefs” and rushing the work of rescue on the theory the men were alive. STOPS TO HELP AUTOIST AND IS ROBBED Valley City, N. D., Sept. 8.—Al- though members of the sheriff’s of- fice and searching parties scoured the country near here, no trace has been found of the hghwaymen who black-jacked John P, O’Day o2 Eckelson, N. D., knocking him unconsctous and robWed him of $38 on a road near here early to- day. Sheriff Larson said that Mr. O'Day was able to give a good description of the highwaymen and all roads are being watched in an effort to catch them. Mr. O’Day said that he was driv- ing into Valley City about 1:30 a. m., and when about two miles out of town noticed a car stalled in the road. Thinking the occu- pants were having car trouble, he stopped to see if he could help.. As he stepped from the car, he said,( one of the men struck him over the head, apparently with a blackjack, knocking him uncon- scious. As the man struck him, several men came from the other car and rifled his pockets. In about half an hour Mr. O’Day regained consciousness and drove his machine to the city and report- ed the affair. Members of the sheriff’s force and Deputy Sheriff James Milligan of Fargo went to the spot of the holdup at once but were unable to find any defiite clues. CURFEW HOUR NOW 9 O’CLOCK The fall and winter curfew hour is now in effect, police announce, and hereafter until May 1 the bell will toll its warning to childern to scam- per home at 9 o’clocks During the summer months the curfew hour was 10 p. m. PROMISE TO BREAK RECORDS | “Hamline, Minn., Sept. 8—The Na- tional Dairy Exposition, to be held at the state fair grounds here, Oc- tober 7-14, promises to be the larg- ee and most popular in sixteen years of constructive work, accord- ing to Colonel W. E. Skinner, gen- eral manager. Everything that pertains to dairy agriculture and its allied industries will be shown and demonstrated. “Returning to the northwest for the second time, the National Dairy Association, which is staging the Exposition, desires to prove that di- versified farming with high-produc- ing dairy stock pays in money. A correlated object is the education of the consumer in the greater use of dairy products.” Wilkerson granted the Daugherty of some witnesses given before the grand jury. Immediately after thé] injunction, remained unknown last investigation was started, it was an-| night, but with the executive coun- nounced by Mr. Brundage that some cil meeting set for today, he was ex: of the witnesses apparently had suf-| pected to put in an appearance dur- fered a lapse of memory, and that] ing the day. some had given testimony that Supporting the denials of railway disappointing to county officials. | presidents that there had been any ,The four prisoners who were| new peace negotiations was a state- brought in last night, like Clark aft-| ment by J. P. Noonan, chief of the er his arrest, remaingd silent. It is| brotherhood of electrical workers believed their refusal to talk is bas-| who said at Washington that there ed on advice given them by attor-| were no settlement discussions pro- | ¢i neys who are here ready to take up| ceeding with any railroad at this the defense of any union miner who] time, “although there might be some might be indicted in connection] in the future.” The purpose of the with the massacre. ' shép crafts policy committee meet- sing was consider the general strike WILL RESCUE ORPHANS policy and the Daugherty injunction, Tokio, Sept. 8—The Japan Red he said. Cross Society, which — al: ly has ray ‘jated 875 Polish orphans from Siberia where there are said to be 2000 in plight, has’ undertaken to rescue another four hundred. They are being gathered by the Society for the Relief of Polish orphans at Vladivostock from which port the Japan Red Cross Society will trans- port the mto Dentzig. TAKE DEFINITE STEPS Santiago, Chile, Sept. 8—The gov- ernment of Chile has taken definite steps to bring about the inclusion of the question of the limitation of naval and land armaments through- out South America in the program of the Pan-American conference to be held in this ctiy next March. Formal announcement has been made to the committee on disarmament of the League of Nations, at Paris, by Manuel Rivas Vicuna, the Chilean delegates, to the effect that Chile was proceeding to this end. o_O | The Weather | =——————____________¢ kor twenty-four hours ending at noon today: Temperature at 7 a, m 53 Temperature at noon. 64 Highest yesterday . 1 Lowest yesterday 67 Lowest last night 53 Precipitation .... 0 Highest wind velocity 26 Weather Forecasts - For Bismarck and vicinity: Fair tonight and Saturday; cooler to- night, For North Dakota: Fair tonight and Saturday; cooler tonight. Genoral Weather Conditions High pressure moving in from the Northwest is accompanied by gener- ally fair, cool weather from the Plains States to the North Pacific Coast, but scattered showers occur- red in Montana, North Dakota, Min- nesota and Iowa. Temperatures re- main high from the Mississippi Val- ley eastward. H L In W Amenia .. .. ..79 52.00 scl’r Bismarck .. ..75 53 .00.cl’r Bottineau .. +.68 51 81seldy Devils Lake. ..78 54 .26 cldy Dickinson ... ..78 48 6.00 p. c. Dunn Center ..76 58 .15 cldy Ellendale. .. ..79 58 .00 cldy Fessenden .. ..77 52 .01 cldy Grand Forks ..74 54 .00 cldy Jamestown . ..76 57 eldy Langdon. -67 52 05 cldy Larimore +73 530C eldy Lisbon .. .. ..81 55 OC cldy Minot. .. 219 46 10 cl’'r Napoleon. +78 50 = .00 cldy Pembina. - 66 51.00 cldy Williston .. ..74 48 .50 p.c Moorhead .. 16 56 00 cldy ‘Orris W. Roberts, Meteorologist. Several roads reported their shops to be operating on an almost normal basis, declaring the shopmen had lost their strike. Meanwhile “strike throughout the country generally quict. Mr. Jewell and all officials of the six shop crafts on strike were re- ported to have voluntarily cut down their own union salaries in half un- til termination of the strike. The salary reductions were made, it was said, at the suggestion of Mr. Jew- ell that the leaders should help bear the burden of. the rank and file of the unions. Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, met a few western rail executives in con- ference,in the Chicago club this aft- ernoon to discuss proposals for basis of settlement of the shopmen’s strike on certain roads by individual agree- (Continued on Page 8) MAN WANTED IN 3 CITIES Police Anxious to Get Hold of Party Being Held Here Luther Spencer, who confessed to Bismarck police that he had com- mitted burglaries in several cities, in wanted by police in three cities from which the police have already; hard. Wires from Seattle, Spokane | and Salem, Ore., today asked for further. details und description of loot recovered, stating there had been robberies of the character in which Spencer specialized. The silverware taken from the Catholic church at Beach was iden- tified by Father Hake. Just what disposition will be made of the men has not yet been decided. Police here say there is no con- nection between Spencer and a man giving the name of Joe Farmer, who was sentenced to 15 days in jail in Mandan fro breaking in St. Joseph Catholic church. Farmer said that he went into the church to sleep. One of the sisters saw him enter, noti- fied Rev. Fr. Clement Dimpfl and the latter accosted the man who did conditions remained not resist. TO HOLD REUNION Des Moines, Ia., Sept. 8—Two thousand colored veterans who campment here Sept. 24 to 29. More the Union side in the Civil War. ee MAY ABDICATE —_-—______——+ KING CONSTANTI (By the Associated Press) Paris, Sept. 8.—Rumors that King Constantine of Greece intends to ab- dicate are current in several Euro- pean ‘capitals. They are considered | here to have been given some color | by the sudden recall of the Greek heir apparent, Prince George to Athens from Bucharest. RESIGNS AS MINISTER T0 SPRING TRAP Congregation by Officiat- ing at Hanging Des Moines, Ia., Sept. 8.—Inter- vention of executive clemency ap- parently is all that will forestall Winifred E. Robb, minister and former chaplain of the 16th In- fantry, Rainbow division, frem car- rying out the execution by hang- ing of Eugene Weeks, condemned murderer of George Fosdick, Des Moines grocer, at. 12 o’clock noon, Friday, Sept. 15. So far as known, Robb will be the first minister to act in such a role. “My duty. is clear,” Sheriff Robb said. “The law specifically pro- vides that the sheriff of the county in which a prisoner is convicted of first degree }, inrder , Shall ‘attend to the details of the hanging or de- tail the task to one of his depu- ies.’ Sheriff Robb states that while he favors capital punishment he does not believe in hanging. To justify his actions, the for-; mer chaplain quotes from the Bi- ble as follows: “Whosoever shed- deth blood by man shall his blood be shed.” He says the Bible is full of examples of capital punish- ment. Sheriff Robb until recently was pastor of the Urbandale Federated church here. When it appeared that the date of Weck’s exeucution would come during his term of of- fice as sheriff, Robb resigned his pastorate. He explained that he did not want his acts as sheriff to cause embarrassment to members of his church, Robb’s career as sheriff of Polk county, the most thickly populated in Iowa, has been a spectacular one. On October 27, unless inter- vention is made, he or one af his vention is made, he or one of his deputies will be obliged to hang Orrie Cross, accomplice of Weeks in the slaying of Fosdick. Robb was decorated with the distinguished service cross during the world war for extraordinary | heroism displayed in attending to the needs of the men in his regi- ment during the drive against the enemy at Chateau-Thierry. His citation shows that “during all of this time, and particularly during the operation near Sergy, he show- ed the greatest collness under se- vere artillery fire in attending to the needs of the men of his regi- ment.” Robb recently was select- ed as the democratic candidate for congress from the Seventh Iowa district. S. D. RESERVE | OFFICERS ELECT (By the Associated Press) uron, S. D., Sept. 7.—At its noon meeting today the South Dakota Re-} (serva Officer's Associated elected ten officers: President—Col. Charles H. Engles- by, Watertown. | | Vice President—Major _ Irving! Crawford, Huron; Major G. G. Cot- | tam, Sioux Falls. Chaplain—Rev. Madison. Secretary-treasurer—Licut. W. L. O’Mealy, Mitchell. Cc. B. Blakeslee, | PLEATING Accordion pleating is used to ex-/ cellent advantage on many of the, new frocks. It is used in the form, of panels, deep collars and side! draperies and gives the long graceful | lines so desirable now. i SCOTT IS NOMINATED. | Devils Lake, N. D., Sept. 8—! word received here. He has been: retirement of Mrs. J. H. Bloom. TURKS INFLICT OVERWHELMING DEFEAT UPON GREEKS CAPTURING 10,000 MEN AND SUPPLIES American Destroyers Are in Harbor To- gether with Ships of Allied Powers. — Greece May Sue for Armistice. — Cabinet Resigns and Constantine May Abdicate (By Associated Press) Smyrna, Sept. 8.—Only an eye witness can realize the ex- tent of the disaster to the Greek army. An army of 150,000 men, well organized and equipped, has been transformed in less than two weeks into a virtual band of refugees. An official Turkish statement says 400 Greek officers and 10,000 men have been captured since the offense was launched, together with 500 motor trucks, 350 guns and a ; million rounds of artillery ammunition. The Greek loss of morale is illusrated by the reported re- fusal of a battalion of reserves rushed here from Athens, to terday on a French transport also did not land owing, it is terday on a rFench transport also did not land owing, it is said, to some disagreement. The whole of Smyrna Hinterland has been ravaged by the Turks, and refugees continue to pour into the city by the thousands. A Turkish airplane yester- day flew over the town and dropped pamphlets announcing the “complete liberation of Asia Minor.” The evacuation of Asia Minor by the Greeks as a result of the successful offensive against their army. by the Turkish Nationalists, is accepted here as a foregone conclusion, al- though it has not been announced officially. i Actual orders for the evacuation of Asia Minor have not yet been given, it is said, but General Dousmanos, the chief of staff, is studying the problems of how to carry out the maneuver under the best conditions possible. : A telephone message from the Greek commander in the field says that General Tricoupis, who had been appointed to the command, and General Diegenis, were captured by Turk- ish cavalry while they were proceeding to join the Greek corps at Alashehr, East of Smyrna. AMERICAN DESTROYERS ON HAND A number of American destroyers are anchored in the harbor which FEDERATION 10 CONSIDER. IMPEACHMENT (By the Associated Press) Atlantic City, N. J., Sept. 8.—Inau- guration of impeachment proceedings , against Attorney General Daugherty as proposed by the New York Central trades and labor council will be brought before the executive council | of the American Federation of Labor when it convenes here tomorrow, it was announced today by Matthew Woll, Vice President of the Feder- ation and a member of the executive council. j WON'T INTERFERE (By the Associated Press) Washington, Sept. 8.—Assurances have been given by Attorney General Daugherty, according to information today from administration leaders, that the meeting next Monday at Chicago of the striking railroad shopmen’s committee would not be in- terfered with by the government un- der the Federal court’s restraining order. REFORMED, ASKS HOW TO ANSWER LAW VIOLATION A woman writing to Sheriff Welch from Carrington, is stricken with remorse because she sold some cigarette papers in Bismarck , and wants to square her actions with the law. Her letter follows: “Two or three years ago I sold half a dozen or more cig- arette papers. I do not believe I sold any cigarettes. The Lord has forgiven my sins. I’m living for the one who has done so much for me. He keeps me day by day. I’m not sorry that I’ve started i nthis way.. I have a peace and joy that this world know nothing about. “What can I do to make it right about the papers.” The sheriff believes her con- fessed attitude has answered for the law violation and will / inform her he will take no ac- tion. NDICTMENTS ARE RETURNED (By the Associated Press) Marion, Ill, Sept. 7.—Additional indictments have been voted by the | special grand jury investigating ‘the Herrin massacre. Some of the indict- ments may be returned late today, it was said, The number of indictments voted could not be learned. 'ARMER HURT WHEN AUTO IS HIT BY TRAIN Jamestown, N D., Sept. 8—E. H. Weber of Cleveland, a farmer is in Trinity Hospital here, with two brok- en ribs he received when his auto- fought on the Unon side in 1865, will| President Harding has nominated; mobile was struck by a freight train hold their first national reunion at|Fred A. Scott permanent postmas-/ three-fourths of a mile, from here the Grand Army of the Republic en-jter for Devils Lake, according to; late yesterday afternoon. Two daughters and a son who were |than 2000 negro soldiers fought on| acting postmaster here since the in the car with him were only slight+ ly bruised, with its concentration of warships of all’ the powers resembles the scene of..a huge naval pageant, “The Greeks troops have taken up positions on the outskirts of the city. CABINET RESIGNS Athens, Sept. 8—Succumbing to the pressure of public opinion as a | result of the severe reverses to the Greek armies in Asia Minor the cab- inet of Premier Protopapadakis yes- 'terday resigned. Nikolas Kalogeropoulos, former premier has been charged by King Constantine with the task of form- ing a new ministry. MAY FORCE ARMISTICE Constantinople, Sept. 8—Unable to extricate their army from the Kemal- ists hold, the Greek military lead- ers, it is believed here, will be ob- liged to accept any armistice terms ithe victors may dictate. The allied commissioners have re- ‘commend Hamid Bey, representative ; of the Kemalists, that the Angora | government propose an armistice to | Athens, A Greek communique states that General Tricoupis, the commander- in-chief, was captured while attend- ing an important military council at Ushak Sunday night, at which it was decided to withdraw to the Alashehr line. i BRITISH CRUISER LEAVES (By the Associated Press) Malta, Sept. 8.—The British crui- sers Concord and Cardiff, under command of Rear Admiral Sir Regi- nald Tyrwhitt, are under orders to sail today for Smyrna. The entire British medditer anean flect now is concentrated in near eastern waters. WITHIN 25 MILES (By the Associated Press) London, Sept. 8.—Official dispatch- es from Constantirfople indicate the Turkish Nationalist forces have ad- vanced to within 25 miles of Smyrna | and are advancing rapidly. AGENTS TO BE PUT AT DOCKS Northwest Coal Committee ; Makes Coal Distribution Plan (By the Associated Press) St. Paul, Sept. 7—Agents of the Northwest coal committee will be placed at Lake Erie and head of the Lake docks early next week to car ry out the coal distribution program decided upon by the joint committee in session here this week. The first applications to the Northwest central committee here are expected to arrive next week, C. P. White, Federal Fuel distributor for the Northwest, declared today. The Northwest central committee is now in session daily with Mr. White here and all of the represen- tatives will remain here until the coal crisis has passed. The members of the Northwest Washington coal committee, have returned to Wash- ington, to continue their fight for priority before the Interstate Com- merce Commission. Fashion says men’s’ winter clothes will be about the same. Except for a cleaning, yes.