Evening Star Newspaper, September 8, 1922, Page 1

) WEATHER. Partly cloudy tonight and tomor- row; warmer tomorrof. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 90 at 2 p.m. yesterday; lowest, am. today. 68 at T:30 Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 23 ¢ Fpen WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION rd Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republication of all news dispatches eredited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published hereis. Al rights of publication of speeial , i dispatches herein are also restrved. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 83,149 e No. 28,621 Entered as second- post office Washington, class matter D. @b WASHINGTON, D. C, RAIL PEACE MOVES VEILED N SECRELY, BUT HOPE PERSISTS Executives Deny Knowledge as Rumors Indicate Sep- arate Agreements. WESTERN ROAD HEADS TO MEET WITH WILLARD gfiopl Reported Near Normal on Many Lines, Officials Claiming Shopmen Have Lost. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 8. —Persistent rumors of an impending peace or par- tial settlement of the railroad strike continued here today without any tangible foundation in the way of definite statements by rail heads or union officlals to substantiate the re- ports. In fact, most of the railroad execu- tives who commented upon the ru- mars denied knowledge of new pro- posals to end the strike, and union leaders declined to lift the cloak of secrecy which appears 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 meeting of the shop crafts policy committee. Ar- rangements for this meeting called for a preliminary conference here to- day between Bert M. Jewell, head of the striking shopmen. and his execu- tive council. Jewell Served With Notice. Mr. Jewell, William H. Johnston, president of the International Asso- clation of Machinists, and Martin F. Ryan, president of the International Brotherhood of, Railway Carmen of America, arrived in “Chicago this morning from the east and were serv- ed with the notice of the temporary injunction granted the government last Friday. The shopcraft leaders came to the city for preliminary conference in connection with the meeting of the union policy committee of ninety members on Monday. The policy com- mittee, it has been reported, was ex- pected to decide whether separate agreements with the railroads would be approved. Previously union lead- ers. ments. A meeting of several western rail- way executives with Danlel Willard, president of the Baltimore and_Ohlo railroad, was expected to be held here this afternoon. No fermal announg ment of the meeting was made, al- though it was understood the ‘W-m:g of reaching separate agreém wil the striking railroad shop crafts would be_considered. Mr. Willard arrived in the midst of the floating peace rumors, but the subject of his conferences with other railway executives was not disclosed. Officials of the New York Central Lines and the Chicago and Northwes ern, with whom Mr. Willard was r ported to have conferred, denfed that any settlement proposals had been even tentatively accepted. Willard’s Second Visit. Mr. Willard's present visit to Chi- cago is the second he had made here within the last week. He returned to Baltimore last Friday, and was re- ported to have conferred there with Mr. Jewell at a secret conference, but | rumors of such a meeting were| denied. While waiting here for the return from New York of Samuel M. Feltgn, president of the Chicago Great West- ern and chairman of the western rail executives' committee on public re- lations, Mr. Willard also conferred with Hale Holden, president of the Burlington; James E. Gorman, presi- dent of the Rock Island lines; H. E. Byram, president of the Chicago Mil- waukee nad St. Paul, and Charles Donnelly, president of the Northern Pacific. Will Consider Policy. Supporting_the denials of railway presidents that there had been any new peace negotiations, was a sta ment by J. P. Noonan, chief of the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, who said at Washington that there were no settlement discussions pro- ceeding with any of the railroads at this time, “although there might be some in the future.” The purpose of the shop crafts’ policy committee meeting was to consider the general strike policy and the Daugherty in- junction, he said. 7 The policy meeting is called for the same time that Judge Wilkerson is due to hear Attorney General Daugherty’s application to make the government's strike injunction per- manent. Many Shops Near Normal Several roads reported their shops %o be operating on an aimost normal declaring the shopmen had lost their strike. Meanwhile strike conditions through- out the country remained generally quiet. Mr. Jewell and all officials of the six shop crafts on stirke were re- ported to have voluntarily cut their own union salaries in half until termination of the strike. The sal- ary reductions were made, it was said, at the suggestion fo Mr. Jewell that the leaders should help bear the bur- den’of the rank and file of the unions. —_— MAIL TRAIN DERAILED. PITTSBURGH, Pa., September 8.— The second section of Pennsylvania mail trair, No. 11, New York to St. Louis, was derailed near Kittaning Point west of Altoona, Pa., this morning. and two postal clerks and .one passenger were injured slightly. Two passenger coaches were at- tached to the train at Altoona. Four of the postal cars left the tracks as the train was runn! slowly on an ‘up-grade. The name of the injured mflfi an aged woman, was not avallable at the railroad offices here. The cause of the derailment has not been determined. HINTON’S FLIGHT HALTED “PORTA AU PRINCE, —Lieut. Walter Hinton, w! ber 8. is mak- ing a flight from New York to Rio |plants, Janeiro, was d “here today, owing to the necessity of changing «~ his engines from low to hi Parts for the new ad: pplied by the 4th Air e maring ‘Th ave rejected individual agree- ISTRIKE END DECLARED NEAR ON BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Eighty thousand miles of railroad out of a total of approximately 230,000 miles are involved in the partial Iscttlement of the shopmen's strike. negotiation of which will be com- !pleted In the next three days. Details of the peace overtures have reached government officials in- Itormally. ~ Some of the essential {rolnts in the latest peace move are these: First, most of the southern roads. with two “or three exceptions, no- tably the Norfolk and Western, but Including the Chesapeake and Ohio and the Southern railway, are repre- sented in the group of executives which is ready to make settlement | with the strikers. New York Central Mentioned. Second, of the northern railroads, l!he New York Central is consider- ing the proposal, though denials are bLeing made that a decision has been reached. Third. the basis of settlement is almost exactly that wnich was sug- | gested by Danlel Willard, president i of the Baltimore and Ohlo, and other executives after the brotherhood | chiefs failed to mediate in New York. It will be recalled that separate peace efforts were made at that time, but were rejected by B. M. Jewell, leader of the shopmen. Fourth. All the roads who agree to the plan will take back the strikers before October 1, under the first and second clauses of President Harding's first propos: namely, that the Rail- road Labor Board's decision on wages be accepted and lawsuits on both sides be withdrawn. As for seniority, an effort will be made by the roads to glve the strikers their jobs back ‘wherever vacancles still exist, and if there are no vacancies in those par- ticular jobs, then positions of equal pay will be given the strikers. fority te Be Adjusted. The senlority question will be left to a board of adjustment in each case of three men on each side and if there U. 3. PROBES PLOT 10 BURN BRIDGES Marshal Uncovers State- Wide Conspiracy in Oklahoma. By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Septem- ber 8.—Federal operatives today were investigating what United States Mar- shall Alva McDonald declared was in his opinion a state-wide plot among cer- tain striking rallway shopmen to de- stroy railroad bridges and hamper operation of trains. Within less than a month five bridges have been burn- ed in Oklahoma under mysterious cir- cumstances. Other instances of tam- pering with railroad equipment, en- | dangering the lives of train crews; and passengers, have been reported. ! Four men were held here today by | federal officers in connection with the burning of a Rock Island rail- road bridge near El Reno, Okla.. on the night of August 17, and Marshal McDonald declared confessions made by the two men indicated a well- founded plot to destroy bridges and terrorise train service crews to bring about a general walkout of railroad workes in the state. Confess Filing Bridge. The men under arrest ae Herbert Lansing_and Hamilton Earl White, said to be former railroad employes: Roy Selley and John Keefe, all of Ei Arin other two men, according to Marshal McDonald. Other arres! ‘were ex- pected. The latest bridge burning was re- The day before a 250-foot trestle on the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad five miles west of Altus { burst into flames immediately after a passenger train passed over it. Offi- cials declared the fire was of incen- diary origin. Train Narrowly Escapes. Fire damaged a bridge on the®Fort Smith and Western railway last Sun- day night near McCurtain. More than a week ago a bridge of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe |rl.|lmld near Tecumseh was de- stroyed by fire. Several arrests were made, but the men were released aft- er an investigation. On September 4 a Santa Fe train| running between Kansas City and Galveston narrowly escaped a wreck near Ardmo A switch on the main | line had been opened ahead of the train. The switch lock had been broken off and the signal light smashed. The engineer was running slowly and noticed that the block sig- Settlement Is Expected Within Three Days on Most of Southern and Some of Northern Lines. j and | Rewo. ‘Lansing and White confessed | gage on the Hadleigh Hotel, 1 toe bridge and. implicated the | otrests morihment b tha b ported Yy erday, a forty-five-foot section of the bridge on the Midland { Valley railroad near Bixby being de- stroyed. MANY ROADS is a deadlock. the Railroad Labor Board will be asked tu assume juris- diction and decide the disputed points. The prime movers in these informal negotiations are Daniel Willard of the Baltimore and Ohiv and B. M. Jewell, who have arranged the whole busi- ness, S0 that the meetings in Chicago in the next three days will really de- termine how many roads are ready to accept the scheme. The situation is somewhat analogous to that which brought an end to the soft coal strike, when John L. Lewis succeeded in per- ruading enough coal operators to sign the peace agreement at Cleveland. In that case, however, the coal operators were more or less compelled by com- petit onditions to fall in line after |a powerful group of coal operators had signed the agreement. Some Roads Deflant. The railroads who do not wish to acceng the Jewell-Willard plan, how- ever, are in a different position. | Roads like the Pennsylvania, for in- stance, feel that they can get along without taking the strikers back and that they can hold out for a much more deflnite surrender on the part of their former employes, so that the lesson will be firmly implanted on the minds of all those who shall dare to strike on the mighty Pennsylvania again. In other words, the rallroads who feel the pinch are settling the strike. | This means that on the whole trans- portation will be materially improved and the coal carrying roads are ex- pected to fall in line one after the other in ratifying the agreements made in Chicago. Official Washing- ton believes the Chicago negotiations mean the beginning of the end of the strike and the word passed around here from both labor and raliroad sources would seem to indicate as much, though the “irreconcilable" or “die hard element” In the rallroad group are not showing any signs of a change of position. What they wiil do after the Chicago peace treaty 1s signed Is another question, but it is probably that the eighty thousand miles will be gradually increased so that very few systems will remain out of the strike settlement (Copyright, 19: |MRS. HARDING ILL; CONCERN IS FELT BY GEN. SAWYER Serious complications developed in the illness of Mrs. Harding. wife of the President, last night, but they were “slightly abated this morning, the patient is resting more easily,” Brig. Gen. Sawyer, the phy- sician in attendance. said today, in a tatement issped at the White House. Mrs. Harding's illness is still re- garded with “much concern,” the bul- letin saia. Dr. Carl W. Sawyer of Marion. Ohio, assoclated with his father in caring for Mrs. Harding during previous similar illnesses, reached Washington today for a consultation, Dr. Joel T. Boone, United States Navy medical officer, of the U. S. 8. Mayflower, presidential yacht, is also | in attendance HADLEIGH 70 G0 ON BLOCK AGAIN Sale October 10 to Satisfy Holders of $1,300,000 Mortgage. Foreclosure of a $1.300,000 mort- by the S. W. Straus Company of New York, fol- lowing failure of the owners, the Washington Properties Company, to meet several payments on the prin- cipal and interest was announced to- day through the trustees’ agtorneys, Nicholas R. Jones and Wilton J. Lambert. Notice was given that the hotel property will be sold at public auc- tion at 2 o'clock on the afternoon of October 10 to satisfy the holders of the mortgage. Second Sale In Months. This will make the second sale at auction of the Hadleigh in the past few months. It was purchased re- cently under the hammer by the Boyle-Robertson Company in a sale held to satisfy holders of a fourth trust. The Hadleigh is one of Washing- ton's largest and newer apartment hotels, containing about 300 apart- ments. It recently came into promi- nence when the District Rent Com- mission wex asked to fix rentals in the building. At the time of the former sale it was announced that there were three trusts prior to the fourth tru t al arm was only half way. He 20,000 JOBS GO BEGGING IN BERLIN AS TRADE BOOMS Wireless to The 8 Chicago = News." Copyright, Jo2 0 T BERLIN, September 8.—Berlin, the fifth largest city in the world, is without 2,single unemployed inhabi- tant. As a matter of fact, more than 20,000 jobs are going begging, if the official statistics for August are cor- rect. Large factories, industrial department stores lnd‘mmflel- , total ing approximately $2,256,666, not in- cluding interest. The fourth trust topped tI trai e et before it ran into | mounted to $1,000,000. The Boyle-Rob- ertson Company purchased the property for $2,350,000, It was stated. Mortgage Dated 1019. The Straus mortgage comprises an issue of $1.300,000 of 6 per cent first mortgage gold bonds of the Washing- ton Properties Company. The Boyle- Robertson Company ‘assumed this mortgage with its recent purchase, it The 1ssue was recorded here August 14, 191S. The property will include the main hotel Imlldln& and all equipment, to- gether with the site. 000 GEMS STOLEN. CHICAGO, = September 8.—Adolph Kuntsler, said to be a New York jew- eler, was assaulted by three men to- day in a restaurant on-upper Sheridsn roui and robbed of jewelry valued at | $50,000, according t!u s pol ‘The bandits automobile. XKuntsler was taken to a hospital, where it was sald he had f PARIS “ASSASSIN' FIRES AND FAINTS Bullet Aimed at Auto Be- lieved Intended for Presi- dent Millerand. PRISONER FROM EGYPT Visited Palace of the Elysee With Note and Concealed Revolver. By the Associated Press. PARIS, September 8.—Georges Sa- lem. an Egyptian student, fired a shot at an automobile in front of the pal- ace of the Elysee today, believing the car to be Presi- dent™ Millerand's, The shot jwent Millerand was at his country resi- dence at Ram- bouillet at the time. Salem, who nineteen years old, was seized by a guard as he fired the whot. The student collapsed, falling a-: if in a faint. " apparently thinking he had . been shot. 'arryin, brown satchel, Salem cime to the Elysee and asked for President Mil- is lerand, explaining to the guard I tioned him that he had & letter | qu for the president. Dased Look Detected. Noting a somewhat dazed look in Salem’s face, the guard suspected the man was mentally unbalanced. and took the letter, promising to deliver it to the president personally. At this the youth suddenly inquired it the president's carriage had left the palace, he apparently not know- ing that M. Millerand was at Ram- b;\:gle& 'l'h; guard unthinkingly re- P at the autom e obile had just Salem then quickly dréw a small revolver of an obsolte type and fired point blank at a car that happened to be in the front drivewa SoAT seised Balomn®y n Lot e alem's and the youth collapsed: ¥ 0 entY Had Cairo Passport. The young Egyptian had a passport issued by the French legation in Calro. He denied Intending to shoot the president. He said he had writ- ten to M. Millerand for money, when he failed to receive funds from his Egyptian relatives, but as the presi- dent failed to reply he hid gone to the palace intending to commit sui- cide in the presence of the president as a foxm of protest against the chief executive's “Indifference.” Today’'s incident at the Palace of the Elysse was the second one this year in which an automobile believed to carry tie President of the French republic has been fired upon. July 14, as Presi his official party the Bastille day automobile containing Prefect of Po- lice Naudin, by Gustave Bouvet, an anarchist, in the belief that the car was President Millerand's. . Naudin's automobile immediately preceded the presidential carriage. Bouvet declared he had planned to assassinate both President Millerand and Premier Poincare. SHUSTER ELOPEMENT “NPPED BY ACCDENT GLASGOW, Ky., September 8.—Caro- lyn Shuster, elghteen, daughter of W. Morgan Shuster, president of the Cen- tury Publishing Company, New York, and. William Morris, twenty, son of a Glasgow merchant, were found today by searchers at Goodnight, a village eight miles north of here. The two left here Wednesday night on an elopement to Jeffersonville, Ind., wiltd Prestgent’ {Daring Arctic Expl Long Trip With | 8peciai Dispateh to The Star | SYDNEY, N. B. Macmillan, intrepid arctic explorer of | Bowdoin College, Maine. arrived back in civilization yesterday. When the stanch | little fifteen-ton auxiliary schooner | Bowdoin dropped anchor here there i was no greeting for him. On his way back to the United States | { { magnetic observations that any arctic ! explorer ever succeeded in making, Macmillan was still unassuming. Bince he left the quiet little Maine FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1922 -THIRTY-FOUR. PAGES. | Trace of Norse Tribe Lost 900 Y ears Found by Macmillan orer Returns From Great Collection of Magnetic Observations. her prow against great banks of ice ter quarters unable to move for 274 days. With one exception, the personnel of the crew that waved adieu to the crowds on the wharf at Wiscasset was the same as that which arrived yesterday. ‘That exception Ho was G. team, magneto director, radio opera- tor and representative of the Car- negie Institute. who remained at Lake Harbo ther observation on the Mascope, a TWO CENTS. South Russian Revolt Draws Battle of Reds By the Aswociated Preas. LONDON, September §.—Rebel- lion broke out yesterday in South Russia, according to a Helsing- fors dispatch to the Central News via Copenhagen. The Odessa 50- viets have declared South Russia and the Crimea independent. There is fighting in many districts be- tween the rebels and the sovlets, the dispatch said. The crews of warships stationed at Sebastopol also were reported to be in a state of mutiny. LA FOLLETTE L THRLLS MCHEAN His Fight on “Newberryism® Is Also Echoed in Other States. TOWNSEND FACES TEST Senator Who Voted to Seat New- berry Encounters Stiff Opposition. ‘! BY N. 0. MESSENGER, t (Staff Correspondent of The Star.) DETROIT, September 8.—Falling like a bombshell in the inflamable conditions of the contest for the | United States senatorship in Michi- | #an, the statement of Senator La Fol- lette of Wisconsin, published here, appealing for other states to follow ! Wisconsin’s example in upholding { certain stated policies, created a sen- | sation. It was construed as likely to | affect the senatorial primaries next | Tuesday. because one of the La Fol- ! Jette policles was “Newberryism con- | demned and Newberry’s expulsion |from the Senate demanded, “and that September s_—nonaldlor the far north and has lain in win- | {5 exactly the most acute issue in | this campalgn for the nomination of | candidates for the Senate. | Senator La Follette in his state- | ment said: “I mention some of the vital issues in the hope that ihis i them to fight for the real democracy | established by the fathers.” | Aside from the local effect in Mich- ! conditions, politicians here are specu- !seacoast town almost fourtesn "“"‘"’""‘;f,':';“b',’":';"; Soamal }: Jupon the ponmlhll .ma“ ~tbe e n a r te. victory- - apDe, ago he has penetrated far into thei .,y o\ yarhor % Cherles ‘may have upon the primaries in trezen north. He has réturned hume age, To ‘of more lhn‘ usetts and Washington an with information of Baffin &und g‘g miles over f and in w ,,““,,,."3 e fortunes of Senator with his. day f 1 1o le search for| gna‘Senator Poindexter. Opinions are He hitg Netle white cratio—the smallest tHat ever explored the ice-bound north—a; i collection of bird and animal skins and | | rock specimens that has never been | matched by arctic explorers. He comes back laden with a wealth of facts which destroy all former the- orles of the formation of arctic islands {and of the depth of supposedly navlgl-' ble waters. ! Brings Back Fine Doga. He is coming back with the finest | specimens of Eskimo dogs that have ' ever come out of the north. | He retucns with sufficient scientific | { material o write several books, and | before he sails for his native Maine, he is going to give to the world, in| detall, the results of some of hie in- | investigations. i After having been heid up at Bat-| tle Harbor, Labrador, and at Lark-: i farber, Newfoundland, several days! {becuuse of adverse southerly winds | {and foge. he arrived. recognized by comparatively few of his seacoast's| i people. His ship slipped quietly past | }the wireless station at North Sydney {and proceeded to glide up the tran- {quil Sydney harbor until he reached | an anchorage abreast of the yacht elub and in close proximity to a: storm-scarred French Lospital ship that has been rendering succor 'to ) fishermen of all nationalities upon the fishing banks. Later the arriyal of the Bowdoin created plenty of excitement, even if the natives did not venture too closely to the side of the 8$8-foot schooner, because of fear for the Eskimo dogs that could be seen roam- ing over the decks of the little craft. Schosmer in Good Cendition. The trim little schooner appeared to be in as good condition as when she stemed out of Sheepscott river, Maine, on that bright sunny after- noon more than a year ago, Except for a rusty sploteh amidship she appeared to be more a neat pleasure yacht than a ship that has forced | Solencine fic information. He was en- Joying perfect health when his com- panions left him. Specimens of Arctie Life. The others of the crew are bronzed and enthusiactic as thelr courageous leader. Ralph P. Robinson of Merri- | mac, Mass., a student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute when Mac- Millan was a professor, and more re- cently physical instructor at Haverhill, M public schools, who is coming back with the distinction of knowin; more than any white man had done before. He traveled approximately 1.400 miles, from the winter quarters of the Bowdoin to Amadjuak lake, vhere his Eskimos. But he discovered a lake hereto unknown that is approximate- 1y_thirty miles {n length. Robinson was generously repaid for | his daring and privation, for he is bringing back aboard the little Bow- doin about seventy-five specimens of | flowers. arctic plants. and about the same number of skins of arctic birds and egss. Bringing Rock Specimens. Nor is that all MacMillan and his daring companions are returning with. There are rock specimens, for instance, for the geological bu- reau at Washington, and there are figures aboard representing an un- interrupted series of barometric and thermometric readings, as well as two months of tidal observations, which indlcate that the average fall and rise of the tide in that little- known country average about nine- teen feet. Macmillan {s not coming back with any tangible Information about the Fury and Hecla straits. That little known stretch of water was really his objective when he sailed from the United States. However, he is convinced that it is not pos- sible to eircumnavigate Baffin island, and that it would not do him or any other. man much good to do so. He _ (Continued on Page 5, Column 4.) f intrepid explorer, bu that grips and holds Publication will weekly installments The Sun A tale of adventure in the frozen north that will thrill every one with red blood * in his veins. Not only is MacMillan an A Big and Exclusive Feature and the narrative will be oontinued in t he writes in a way . \ the interest. begin next Sunday Tl Wy & the | that he accomplished | only companions were | divided, some holding that the La Follette victory was largely & per- sonal one, while others contend that | the magnitude of the landslide indi- cates a_ revival of progressivism in its most radical form in Wisconsin, | with the possibility of encouraging the movement elsewhere. Townsend Attacked. As to the effect upon the Michigan senatorial contest, it is thought that | it will accrue to the advantage of the candidates for the senatorial nomination, who are opposing Sen- ator Charles E. Townsend for re- nomination and base their claims for | favor mainly on the allegation that Senator Townsend embodies “New- berrylsm.” Senator Townsend de- fended Senator Newberry and voted to seat him, thereby bringing down upon his head the wrath of a sec- tion of the Michigan electorate, the size of which can only be by the voting at the primarl Senator Townsend has de- fenders in the state. The state, city and country Is divided, and public sentiment is at fever heat. Friends of Senator Townsend, in hoping for victory, rely upon the record he has made in the Senate and what he has done for the state. In the presence in the field of three other candidates, all fighting him, they see the possibility of the vote (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) SWEETSER SCORES GOLF LINKS RECORD Makes 69 to Head Jones at Brookline—Evans Leads Knepper. i By the Associated Press. BROOKLINE, September 8.—Jesse Sweetser of New York was 5 up on Bobbie Jones of Atlanta at the end of the first eighteen holes of their thirty-six-hole match in the semi-finals of the national amateur golf championship tournament today. Moreover, he bettered all previous performances over this course when, holing out every putt but one, he went around in 69 strokes, two under par. Jornes, considered the wonder golfer of the world by critics at home and abroad, won only one hole of the round. That was on the seventeenth, | when Sweetser took three putts for the first time in the match. Sweet- ser was 6 up at the ninth hole. Once he holed a 70-yard shot for an eagle 2. Chick Evansof Chicago, playing par golf both in and out, was 6 up on Rudy Knepper of Sioux City at the end of the morning round in the other semi-final match. Steady, consistent golfing with wellnigh perfect ap- proach to the greens gave Evans his lead. 'Knepper won only one hole of the round. Morning Round Cards. Cards for the morning round fol- low: | ; 244533462 U. 3. BATTLESHIPS GUARD SMIYRNA AS TURK ARMY NEARS Allied Fleet Cleared for Ac- tion Ready to Protect i Panic-Stricken. CONSTANTINE ABDICATION SEEN AS CABINET QUITS Strong Public Sentiment Against War Reverses Brings Greek Government Crisis. By the Associated Press. . September 5.—Oniy an can realize the extent of the disaster to the Greek army. which is termed by many one of the most decisive in military history. An army of 150,000 men, well or- ganized and equipped, has been trans- formed in Yess than two weeks into a virtual band of refugees. An official Turkish statement save 400 Greek officers and 10,000 men have been captured since the offense was launched, together with 500 mo- tor trucks, 350 guns and a million rounds of artillery ammunition. Greeks Refuse to Fight. The Greek loss of morale is illus trated by the reported refusal of battalion of reserves, rushed here from Athens, to disembark. A con- tingent of Senegalese which arrived yesterday on the French transpori 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 air- plane yesterday flew over the town and dropped pamphlets announcing the “complete liberation” of Asia Minor. The government archives have been placed on shipboard for safety and the Smyrna branches of the Na- tional Bank and the Bank of Athens are closed. Panie Prevails. A state of panic prevails through- b excer Dawson | statement may_reach the people in|out Ionia and the British high com- well of Boston, a graduate of Trin- | other states where primary cam-|missioner has teles E | with the greatest collection of scientific ity Coliege, captain of his foot bmg Daigns are In progress and encourage graphed to Con stantinople asking that relief sup- plies be rushed here, as it is feared the grave food shortage would re- r. Baffin's land, to conduct fur-!igan, on account of the purely local| sult in disorders. The_ ?rll!lmnlmfin is in troa; menss’ of m: fons in the ity to prevent them into th Banas of the Kemailets. % 'nt the U. 8. Destroyers Ready. A number of American destroyers are anchorel in the harbor, which with it concentration of warships of all the powers resembles the sceme of a huge naval pageant. The Standard Oil Company has chartered a number of steamships to carry its property and personnel to safety and thirty ships are in readi- ness to remove refugees to the outly- |ing fslands if necessary. The Greek troops have taken up positions on the outskirts of the city Greeks Reported Holding. Greek forces today were holding the line east of Salihli, sixty miles east of Smyrna, it was stated in advices from the front, but there seemed lit- tle hope of stemming the tide of the general retreat of the Greek army under the Turkish nationalist thrust Deserters are arriving here by the thousands. The Greek northern army, other messages state. is retiring from Brusa toward Panderma and Mudania, on the Sea of Marmora. An_Andana dispatch today, carry- ing Turkish nationalists’ reports, de- clared Turkish cavalry was only twenty-five miles from Smyrna. MORE U. S. SHIPS EXPECTED. Four Additional Destroyers Re- ported on Way to Smyrna. By Cable to The Star. SMYRNA, Asia Minor, September § —Four more American destroyers are expected here within a few hours. There are in the harbor at present two British battle cruisers, two French dreadnaughts and about twelve American, Italian, French and British destroyers and some light cruisers, The ships have their guns pointed toward the shore line and are ready for any emergency. 40,000 Refugees in City. Refugees continue to pour in from the interior and though exact figures are not available the number is con- servatively estimated at 40,000. To this must be added a large number of soldiers who have just returned from the front. Supplies are giving out, as communication with the interior is cut off and no commgercial vessels are entering the harbor. The well-to-do inhabitants are leaving town, aban- doning their property: those unable to leave are in a state of nervous prostration, fearing friends and foes alike. The French and Ttalians have land- ed patrols, while the British have landed a detachment to, guard the waterworks. The American author- ities have commandeered = large theater on the water front and all American citizens have been instruct- ed to gather there in case of trouble. Fine American Spirit. The battieships are holding land- ing parties in readiness. The Amer- fcan destroyers Litchfield and Simpson have each a party of fifty mailors ready to land with machine guns when necessary. The Americans here are showing fine spirit.. While everybody eise was talking of means of defense the ericans decided that the best way of fighting the hungry mob was to give it food, and they have started raising funds to provide food for the refugees. Americans head the sub- scription lists. KING LIKELY TO ABDICATE. By the Amociated Press. = ' PARIS, September 8.—Rumors that 2 of Greece intends