The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 21, 1922, Page 1

%@ RR cn. cn eae | 4 ; WEATHER FORECAST—For Bismarck and vicinity: Fair to- night and Friday, id ESTABLISHED 1873 75,000 HOMELE SENATE BACKS BONUS VETO BY | SMALL MARGIN Sustains Official Action by; Four Votes After House Overrides President AGITATED SINCE 1919) Compensation Legislation Must Wait Until Next Ses- sion in December * (By the Associated Press) | 8. o'clock.” | Fessel’s body today. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1922 ONE BODY SHORT , . on R | IN MINE DISASTER ea i Jackson, Calif., Sept. 21.—One! body was -missing today among | those of the 47 gold miners who per- | ished from gas nearly a mile down} in the Argonaut shaft. By a whim | of fate, it was the body of William | Fessel, the man who wrove on tic rock with the smoke of his miner's! lamp, a farewell message for all the | doomed 47. Fessel wrote: “Gas getting bad. It was hoped to find The men from the bureau of mines were certain, that they counted 47 bodies when, last Monday night, the gruesome discovery was made.- They believed that Fessel’s body was buried by a cavein since the work of removal be- gan. LAW RULESOUT | Washington, Sept. 21.—For a third’ time the soldiers’ bonus legislation! has failed of enactment, The Senate late yesterday sustain- ed President Harding’s veto of the Fordney-McCumber bill, the vote of to 28, failing four short of the two- thirds majority that would have been: necessary to have made it a law; without. the executive’s signature. Five hours before the Senate acted,! the House overrode the veto 258 to 54, The action of the Senate makes: impossible veterans’ compensation’ legislatin at least until the next session of congress, which will begin’ early in December. Meantime it is the purpose of some proponents to continue the fight and the bonus may | become an issue in some of the con: | gressional und senatorial campaigns | this fall. 4 The first bonus bills were intro- duced in the House and Senate early in the special session of the sixty- sixth congtess, which began May 19, 1919, ' | INUNCTION ARGUMENTS NEARLY DONE Decision on Continuing Rail, Writ Expected Late Today ' Chicago, Sex’. 21. — Judge James H. Wilkerson this after- noon deferred decision on the government's bill for a tempor- ary injunetion against ‘the rail- road strikers until Saturday and tontinued the restraining order now in effect until that time. In effect the court told the at torneys, the extension is a tem- porary injunction as the re- retraining order itself expires to- night at midnight, Judge Wilkerson said the delay would give him vime to study the evidence further. He set Saturday morning at 11 o'clock as the time for his de- cision. Chicago, Sept, 21.—Attorneys fos the railroad| strikers cloted their final‘ arguments against Attornes General Daugherty’s bill for a nation wde injunction at 11:30 o’clock this morning and Assistant Attorney Gen- eral A. A. McLaughlin began the summing up for the government. Judge James H. Wilkerson was ex- pected to decide today whether the nation-wide strike of railway shop- men can be legally regarded as a conspiracy in restraint of Interstate Commerce, and to determine the ex- tent to which he believes the federal government is justified in going to to restrict strike activities. Closing arguments in the Daugh- erty injunction case were begun to- day and Judge Wilkerson’s ruling was expected to follow the temporary re- straining order extended ten days ago, expires at midnight. Although Attorney General Daugh-| erty’and his legal aides had made no indication of any intention to rec- ‘ommend modification of the order,, predictions were made by persons who have watched the proceedings closely .that some of the drastic clauses of the writ would be toned down in the injunction which the government attorneys would ask Judge Wilkerson to sign, Strike settlements made while the hearings progressed had no appar-| ent effect up to today on the attitude of Attorney General Daugherty and his aides towards the injunction. ‘They hammered in their charges of widespread conspiracy of violence and destruction to cripple ratlroad tronsnortation. Chicago, Sept. 21.—When Mr. Mc- Laughlin concluded Attorney Gen- eral Daugherty read the proposed injunction to the court. Virtually the only difference be- tween it and the temporary restrain- ing order now in effect, the govern- ment’s attorney’s said, is in the list of persons named. Practically all the drastic clauses of the restraining order have been retained, they said. pe LOITERING IS UNLAWFUL UNDER MINOT ORDINANCE Minot, N. D., Sept. 20.—The police department, under an ordinance just passed is empowered to prohibit per- sons from loitering or congregating on the streets, or siting in the door- ways of public buildings. ; Tuesday's j ground that the law prohibited the | case of the character of the present; j were a denial by him of the pargn- TESTIMONY IN TIERNAN CASE Much Evidence in South Bend Triangle Episode Not Admissable South Bend, Ind., Sept. 21.—Di-! rect examination of Prof. John Tier-| nan, husband of Mrs. Augusta Tier- nan who charges Harry Poulin with; the paternity of her ten months old! child, will be continued by Prosecu-| tor Floyd Jellison when hearing of} the case is hresumed here today. Ex- | amination of Tiernan, which was} begun Tuesday has been marked by lengthy interruptions during argu- ments by contending counsel Most of yesterday and part of session was taken up with wrangling by the Attorneys over the admissability of testimony; concérning the marital relations be-} tween the professor and his wife during a period before the child was born the testimony finally being rul- ed out by Judge Ducomb, on the testimony in, husband giving such i one. Chief points brought out in the} examination of Profesor Tiernan tage of. the child and the assertion | “that Poulin admitted to him the par- entage and asked to make a settle- ment of the case by offering to pay | the expenses of accouchment. He} also told of frequent absences of his’ wife, from home ostensibly to at- tend church. Mrs. Tiernan previous-" ly had testified that she was with’ Poulin during these absences, He told that Poulin showed unusual at- tentions to Mrs. Tiernan at dances and parties which the two families, attended together. Another incident recited by the witness was a meet- ing on the street with Poulin shortly after the baby was born. Tiernan said when he infotmed Pou- lin of the birth of the child, the lat- ter turned and with scarcely a word, strode quickly away. Mrs. Mae Poulin, wife of the de- fendant and witness for the state, will probably follow Tiernan on the stand today. Although subpoeneid by the prosecution, she has main- tained throughout a staunch belief in her husband’s innocence. Only a few more witnesses remain to be called and officials indicated that hearings may be ended at today’s session. VIOLATION OF MINIMUM WAGE LAW CHARGED Warrants were issued today for the arrest of three Bismarck busi- ness men on charges of violation of the minimum wage law, the suits be- ing brought by States Attorney F. E. McCurdy on request of S, S. McDon- ald, representing the bureau. One employer was charged with failing to pay the minimum wage scale and with working a woman employe | more than 48 hours a week and seven days a week. The other two employ- ers were charged with violating the! eight-hour law. It is expected that the cases will be carried through all the courts. “Father of Rocky Mountain Park” Dies Suddenly (By the Associated Press) Denver, Col., Sept. 21.—Enos Mills, the naturalist and author, died at his home at Long’s Peak, Colorado, early today. Mr, Mills retired as usual at his home last night. He awakened early this ‘morning, called his wife and complained of feeling ill. He died a short time later. Overwork and loss of strength following an accident in a subway car in New York last Jan- uary, are believed to have caused | his death. Mills was familiarly known as “the father of Rocky Mountain National Park.” In addition to conducting Long’s Peak Inn, known to tourists all over the country, Mr. Mills wrote extensively for leading magazines and was the author of many books having to do with bird, wild flower and scenery protection and the de- velopment of national parks. He also wrote of animal life. He had climh- ed Long’s Peak, one of the loftiest in the Rockies, more than 300 times. ee LAST EDITION (Leased | BEAUTY CONTEST WINNER PRAISE FOR ~ TARIFF BILL "FROM HARDING | ney Act, Says It Points Prog- _ress in Tariff Making House Committees Attend 5 Ceremony of Signing (By, the Associated Press) 5S IN LEADERS ARE PRESENT) EFFECTIVE NEW FUTURES REGULATION BILL SIGNED | As He Signs McCumber-Ford-| President Harding Approves Capper-Tincher Bill in Its New Form 'VEMBER 1 | {Chairmen of Senate and| Bill Is Designed to Meet Ob- jections Raised in the Supreme Court Washington, Sept, 21.—-The Capper- Washington, Sept. 21.—President| Tincher bill idi i : e esiden providing for regulation Harding today signed the tariff bill} of trading in futures on grain mar- of 1922, making. the new rate effect-| kets was signed today by President ive at midnight tonight. The bill was, signed’ shortly after Harding. The new act whieh become) effec- 11 o'clock in the President’s office} tive Nove : -, mber 1, was passed by con- in the presence of Chairman McCum-| press as a substitute for the regu- ber of the Senate Finance Commit- latory provisions of the futures te i ee, Chairman. Fordney of the House] trading act of 921, which provisions Ways and Means Committee, a num- ber. of House members, and others. Remarking that the measure has been “long in the making,” President Harding, after he had affixed his signature with a pen presented to him by Mr. Fordney, who said he in- tended to keep it as a souvenir, that “if we succeed we will succee in making effective the elastic provi- sions of this bill, this will prove the greatest contribution gress making in a century.” were declared inoperative by the su- preme court. It follows along the ‘same lines as the act of 1921, except that it is based on the power of con- gress to regulate interstate commerce while the statute to which the su- said|Preme court fouad . objection was | Predicated on the taxing power of congress. Grain exchanges coming under the toward. pro-| new act are those at Chicago, Minne- apolis, Duluth, Kansas City, St. Louis, Toledo, Milwaukee, San Francisco, | No wonder Miss Ruth Jane Bradshaw of Denver, Col., smiles! She has i just been declared the winner in a magazine beauty contest. Miss Brad- ‘ shaw is just 18 and has won several into the movies, “MYSTERY HOUSE” IN HALL CASE FAMILIAR PLACE TO WOMAN WHO TELLS UNCANNY STORY New Brunswick, Sept. 21—“The housé of mystéry” that stands ona knoll on the old Phillips farm over- looking the crabapple tree beneath which the Rev, ‘Edward Wheeler Hall and his choir leader, Mrs. Eleanor Reinhardt Mills were found slain last Saturday was brought forcibly| ed—she had a vivid horrible dream,| oq complaint along the same lines as back into the picture today by an uncanny story told by Mrs. Charles Amedee de Russy one time playmate of the slain rectors’ widow, and resi- beauty contests, She plans breaking 4 [fo laugh it off, but the woman r torted: v “You think I am jesting. Some. day you may read or hear of a mur- der here.” Last Monday night—three days after the bodies had been discover- | in which she saw the murders com- mitted in a second floor room of the ; West wing of the building. Mrs. de Russy declined to give de- Los Angeles and Baltimore, Wallace Makes Statement Secretary Wallacewho as head of the department of agriculture is en- trusted with enforcement of the new law, declared in a statement is- sued after the President’s signature had been affixed that hd expected co- operation “from legitimate dealers in grain and from all others who fav- GRAIN RATES kets. Further Cut for Western Ter-| “This docs not interfere with D. and Other States REDUCTION OF er does it interfere with ordinary speculation in the buying or selling Sa ERT , of contracts for future delivery. If, North Dgkota will become a party| however, there should be evidence to a genefal plea for reductions in| of yndue manipulation or attempts rain ‘Fates in western states, V..E.) to corner the market, ar of, the-dis~ | Smart, traffle manager for the state) seminatioh of false or misleading in- ‘Kanaas City and from St.Paul. | Such’ conduct would be inquired in Several western states, including} to cand pretiptly dealt with, ‘aes North Dakota, will join in an amend- quired by law. In addition, it + Kai prohibits the exchanges from dis- Red jcomplnint made at tatensi criminating against cooperative as- TEAL causes | Cesaralndion, ulege? sociations of grain producers ‘vho BE TInt vince lowering” CC 7a TIN (on eee ee eee ore oe obtain use of the facilities of the dent for 16 years in the ramshackle’ tails of her dream or: to sty who building. | the “dream murderer” was. Mrs. de Russy said she had vis-| Expressing her belief that rob- ited the old homestead last June] bery was the motive for the murder rates on July 1, 1921, conditions have changed so that further reductions should be ordered and applied to states west of the Mississippi river There were 32 declarations of war bv the nations on both sides during the World War. with a woman friend, whose name she refused to divulge. This wo- man, she said, pointed the identical tree under which the bodies were) found with the comment: “This would be an ideal place for a murder.” \ Mrs. de Russy said she attempted GRAIN GROWERS SALES COMPANY! INCORPORATED Preducers. Sales Company Starts with Initial Capital Of $25,000 St. Paul, Minn., Sept, 21.—Artieles of incorporation for the U. S, Grain Growers Sale company of Minne- apolis, a producers’ sales agency, were filed with the si ry of state here today. The agency which will maintain officy; in Minneapolis in charge of R. H, Hagen of Lakeyille, Minn., will market grain for farmers of Minne- sota, North und South Dakota and Montana who have signed contracts with the U. 8, Grain Growers, offic- ials said. The company has an initial capitol stock of $25,000. SCOTTISH RITE SESSION ENDS Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 21—New York City was selected as the place for holding the next conclave of the Supreme Council of the Thirty Third Degree, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of the Northern Masonic Juris- diction of the United States of America at the closing session here today. The date of the next con- clave was not announced. MRS. INMAN, WIDOW OF SLAIN MAN. GOES TO IOWA Amidon, N. D., Sept. 20—Mrs. Wal- ter Inman of Amidon, whose hus- band was fatally wounded last March by a bullet alleggl to have been fired by David McCutchan, Slope county farmer, who faces trial for first degree murder, left a few days ago for Leon, Iowa, where she plans to live with hér parents. Lat- er she will return as a witness for the state when‘ McCutchan’s case is called, which probably will be at the November term of Stark county dis- trict court. rof Mr. Hall and Mrs. Mills, the rec- | tor’s widow today issued a state- | ment in which she declared her con- fidence in the integrity of her hus- band and Mrs. Mills and her disbe- lief of suggestions that there was any unproper intimacy between them. es ‘GIRLS FORCED UT OF AUTO Sept, 21. -Minot, 19 years o% of Flaxton, N. D., and Esther Sunne, 17 years old of | Minot, N. D., who. told the police that they had been forced to get out of ff automobile after being driven by motor mashers to a park, were being held today by the police The girls came to Minneapolis re- cently and the authorities have noti- fied their paren hts — Irene Minneapolis, MUCH IMPROVED Former Resident Returns Here on Vacation to the Rocky Mountains and part of Illinois and Wisconsin. The theory on which the complaint will be made, Mr. Smart said, is that reports of railroads show a continued increase in earning power which in- dicate that by the time the Inter- state Commerce Commission hears the case th railroad will be earning above a 6% percent return; that the farmer of the western states because his prices are controlled by a world market has been harder hit than any other class of people and therefore should be given first benfit in fur- ther rate reductions. —__—<—<—_——_. | THE WEATHER | o—- + For twenty-four hours ending at noon today. Temperature at 7 a, m... Telperature at noon . Highe:t yesterday . Lowest yesterday Lowest last night . Precipitation Highest wind velocty .. WEATHER FORECASTS. For Bismarck and vicinity: Gen- erally fair tonight and Friday; some- what cooler Friday. For North Dakota: Generally fair tonight and Friday; somewhat cool- er Friday and north portion tonight. GENERAL WEATHER CONDITIONS Fair weather prevails over the en- tire region, High ‘temperatures oc- 50 68 89 49 49 0 16 grain exchanges. “The reports that this law will put the exchanges out of business or interfere with their legitimate functions are without foundation.” G. N. KENISTON RESIGNS FROM COMMERCE JOB Secretary of Bismarck Com- mercial Club Resigns, Ef- fective November 1 George N. Keniston, secretary of the Bismarck Commercial club for several years, has resigned his posi- tion, it was announced today, The resignation was accepted by the board of directors, effective Novem- ber-1, E. B, Cox, presiaent of the club said. Mr. Keniston resigns to engage in business in Bismare'k, the nature of which he did not care to announce at this time. Mr, Cox said the resignation was tendered August 15 to take effect as soon as the board could relieve him. Because of the board being in the midst of its plans and the fact that Mr. Keniston was secretary-treasurer of the Joint Pageant committee the board asked him to continue until November 1, if posible, Mr. Cox said. Frank L.. Albertson of Detroit,| curred in the Dakotas yesterday, but! No arrangements have been made Mich., who left Bismarck 13 years ago, was among the visitors in the city ‘today, coming here on vacation to renew old acquaintances. Mr. Al- bertson graduated from the Bismarck high school. He now is doing a spe- cial work for the doodyear Tire and Rubber Co. in Detroit, his business being chiefly with large industrial plants, . Mr. Albertson said that he was immensely impressed with the ap- pearance of Bismarck and the evi- dence of progres; in the last several yeats, The city, he said, appeared to have improved rkuch faster than any other North Dakota town he had seen ,on the Northern Pacific rail- road. % NOMINATED AS U. S. MINISTER Washington, Sept. 21.—Ulysses Grant-Smith of Pennsylvania, was nominated today by President Hard- ing to be minister to the newly re- cognized government of Albania, He has been in the diplomatic service j since 1903, serving successively in Turkey, England, Chile, Belgium, Austria-Hungary, Denmark and Hungary. cool weather continues in the Mid- dle: and Southern Plains states and Mississippi Valley. : .. 83 Amenia 39 «60 el'r Bismarck . 40 0 el’r Bottineau 45 0 el’, Devils Lake . 54 0 Vr Dickinson . 41 0 el’r Dunn Center 90 48 0 el’r Ellendale 46 0 vi'r | Fessenden BL 0c’ Grand Forks .. 79 52 0 cl'r Jamestown ... 84 45 0 el’r Langdon .. 49 0 el'r Larimore . 37 Os el'r Lisbon 35 46 0 cl’r Minot . 91 46 0 cl’r Napoleon 86 «46—COse'rv Pembina 6 48 0 el’r Willlston ..... 90 54 Oo. cl'r Moorhead 16 50 0 el’r L, J. BEMIS ARRAIGNED ON BAD CHECK CHARGE Fargo, N. D., Sept. 21.—L. J. Bemis was arraigned before Justice H. F. Miller yesterday on a charge of writ- ing between $200 and $300 worth of checks on various banks in North Dakota in which he had no funds. His preliminary hearing was set for riday and in default of $1,000. bail he was committed to the county jail [ await his hearmg. by the board for a successor, and none will be made until the club com mittees and members can be con- sulted, the president said. Mr. Keniston has been secretary of the club over six years. Germany May Ask Admission To Nation’s League} Geneva, Sept. 21.—The council of the League of Nations, decided to- day to inere4se the non-permanent ‘membership of the council from four to six. This will make the council membership ten, with non-perma- | nent members in the majority. News received here that the Ger- man socialist convention had called upon the German government to ap- ply for admission «0 the League of Nations has aroused great interest in league quarters. Delegatds who have taken part in the work of the assembly expressed the opinion to- day that Germany would be elected to membership if she applied. Thirty-five private secretaries are required to handle the correspon- [dence of the pope. Wire of Associated Press) | Golf Instructor Killed Spectator Racine, Wis. Sept. 21.—Miss Eve- lyn Calnan, De Pere, Wis., a teacher in the Racine public schools, was killed last evening by an accidental blow delivered with a golf stick by Allan Simpson, asetstant district at- torney. Simpson was showing a strike to a number of devetees of the game when Miss Calnan stepped behind him just as he lifted the driver over his shoulder, The club struck the young woman just back of the ear. FORD PLANTS OBTAIN COAL, WILL REOPEN Back to Their Jobs To- morrow by Heads FORD'S ANNOUNCEMENT Says Cancellation of I. C. C. Order No. 23 Makes it Possible to Obtain Coal Detroit, Sept. 21—The plants of the ord Motor company in the De- troit district, closed last Saturday because of the coal situation, there- by throwing 100,00 Ford workers our of work in different parts of the country, will reopen tomorrow morn- ing, it was officially announced to- day. ie Orders for the reopening of the plants were telegruphed here today by Edsel B. Ford, president of the motor company, who is in Cincinnati. Mr. Ford said cancellation of the in- terstate commerce commission’s serv- vice order No. 23, had made it pos- sible again to obtain coal, Tho telegram read as follpws: “Cancellation of the Interstate Commerce Commission’s service or- der No. 23, had made it possible again to obtain coal. “Movement of coal to Detroit has started and we feel justified mm starting the plants tomorrow (Fri- day) morning, “Post notices calling the men back to work and notify the newspapers.” Result of Conference. Executives of the company said operations would be resumed at Highland Park, River Rouge and Dearborn, where the three 4arge plants of the concern are located, at midnight tonight. Assembly plants throughout the country that were shut down with the parent plants jase will resume as quickly as their men can be recalled. It is planned to put production im- mediately on the basis -it was at the time of the closing. The resumption is understood at the Ford offices here to be a direct result of a conference Edsel Ford had in Cincinnati yesterday with a group of about fiMy coal producers. Just what arrangements were made to obtain coal were not made known here. The closing of the plants last Sat- urday, stilled in businej:s circles as an industrial strike, on the part of the manufacturer against certain brokers whom he charged with de- manding excessiw prices for coal, threw approximately 70,000 Detroit men out of work, GRAINSTORAGE CASE IS HEARD Glen Ullin Farmers Demand Money from Company Judge H. L. Berry of Morton county has completed hearing the case in which Peter Kastner is suing the Andrews Grain Co, for $2,979.86 because of the alleged conversion of grain which had been stored in the Glen Ullin Cooperative Elevator Co. According to the complaint, Anton Wagner, John Shirado, Frank Fitter- er, P. G.Kastner and Peter Kastner had put wheat in the elevator and received storage tickets. The An- drews Grain Co. took the grain un- der claims against the Glen Ullin elevator. The storage tickets were transferred, to Peter Kastner who | brought suit to recover the money. The wheat had bene in storage in 1921, LEGION FIGHT “JUST BEGUN” Cloquet, Minn., Sept. 21.—That the American Legion “has just commenc- led to fight,” was the statement of Gerald V. aBrron of Cloquet, depart- ment commander of the American Legion of Minnesota, when inter- viewed today on the subject of the Presidential veto of the adjusted | compensation measure, BEAD IN NOSE TROUBLES Towner, N. D.—Howard Berget, playing, pushed a small bead up his nose. He was taken to a doctor, who inserted a tube from the other side of the nose but this was also inffec- tive. Physicians believe that the bead eventually will work down to | his stomach, EA, “eo 100,000 Workers Are Called ; PRICE FIVE CENTS SMRYNA POWERS SEEK TO PLACATE TURK LEADER French Envoy Holds Confer- ence with Kemal Pasha At Smyrna WOULD HOLD THRACE Position of British Troops at Chanak Considered Perilous -Mohammedans well Armed (By the Associated Press) , London, Sept. 21.—While the al- lied powers are feverishly endeavor- ing to arrange a peace conference to clean the slate between Turkey and Greece and prevent more fight- ing in th Near East, rumbles of im- pending hostilities continue to come from Cénstantinople and the Darda- nelles, A relatively small force of British troops is holding Chanak, the key position on the Southern shore of the straights, while the Turkish Na- tionalists, eager for further con- quests after their overwhelming de- feat of the Greeks, are concentrated outside the neutral zone at Ismid and Chanak, impatiently awaiting for the word from Mustapha Kemal Pasha to advance. Well Armed The Kemalists, official French dis- patches say, have available for use in such a drive 1,000 modern field guns, 5,000 machine guns and enough ammunition which they cap- tured from the Greeks, for a two years campaign. If their spokesman at Constantin- ople is to believed, the Turks are de- termined that the Allies shall not stand in the path of their desire to reoccupy Thrace. An Associated press despatch quotes this spokesman, Hamid Bey, to. the effect that the Kemalist army will certainly declare war on the British if they attempt to interfere ‘with a movement across the Straights. Confer With Kemal A ray of hope is seen in the con- derence at Smyrna. between Musta- pha Kemal Pasha and General Pelle, French high commissioner, to which Yussif Kemal Bey, the ‘Nationalist foreign minister, has been hastily summoned from Angona, The call- ing in of Yessif Kemal points to the discussion of important and de- licate questions, and the consequent lelay ra‘ises hopes the Turkish at- tack, if it takes place at all, will be retarded until the British rein- forcements can arrive. Troops in Danger If fighting breaks out before that time the question of the safely of the comparatively small British forces at Chanak will become an anxious one here. Marshal Foch is quoted as saying the position is ab- solutely untenable, except if held by a very considerable force. Opinion here for the moment is banking on the strength of the British Naval force in the Darda- nelles, which is considered sufficient alone to hold any possible attack by the Turks. : No details are available of the burning of Panderma, on the South- ern shore of the Sea of Marmora, as included in official French circles last night. It stated the Greeks burned part of the town before leav- ing. According to the TIMES the Rus- sian Soviet government sees in the present Near Eastern situation an opportunity to obtain recognition from the powers. Russia proposes, the newspaper says, to act the part of mediator between the Turks and the Greeks, hoping thereby to es- tablish a popularity of the Soviet republic among the people of Mo- hammedan Asia and compel the en- tente powers to revise their atti- tude toward her. British war vessels are continuing to stream toward the straights of the Dardanelles, The Mediterran- ean fleet under command of Admiral Brock is being concentrated in the neighborhood the Dardanelles, The fleet consists of six battleships an six lighter vessels. Eight destroy- ers, and four light cruisers of the Atlantic fleet also are on the way to the straights. 75,000 Destitute. (By the Associated Press) Smyrna, Sept. 21—Although eight days have passed since fire obliter- ated Smyrna, 75,000 survivors remain expqsed on the quay, destitute, de- stracted and abandoned. No allied vessel. has offered to salvage this last wreckage of human life in the greatest ditaster in Asia’s history. Nearly a dozen warships remain in the harbor but none show a dis- position to aid the wretched popula- tion except the American destroyers. Deportations continue and Turkish soldiers are beginning to carry off the Greek and Armenian girls, leav- ing thei r parents in a frantic state. Sporadic shooting and thefts con- tinue. Smoke is still emerging from the ruins. The Turkish authorities explain that this is due to the burn- ing of human bodies. Dr. Wilfred Post of New York, medical director of the Near East Relief, has urged the Turks to bury their dead, in or- der to prevent pestilence. He also has appealed to them to vacinate every one in order to guard against cholera and smallpox, (Continued on Page Three)