Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 4, 1922, Page 1

Displayed Extraordinary Endurance When Cut Off From Its Line of Retreat—Made Forced Marches Day and Night Across the Roadless Black Mountains—People of Smyr-| na Are in a State of Great Excit@mé;:l Over Advance Made by the Turkish Forces. Constantinople, Sept. 3,—(By The A'| P.—Valiant deeds were accomplished by the “lost” Green second corps. which ‘having been cut off from its line of re- trezt, d'splayed extraordinary eninr< ance when hope was given up of forming & junction with the third corps to the gouth, which broke away f{rom ecoatact with the cnemy and fell back upon Ts- lamkeuy, the covering pozition of Ushas, This corps made forced marches. day mnd night across the roadless Black Mountains of Murad Dagh and Kibra'l Dagh, recalling the distsarous rettrea: of the Serbs in Albania, fighting cou- stantly with unexamplified bravery. Allied military circles here agrae that the heroism of this corps seved th: fate of the entire Greek arn. TURKISH ADVANCE ALARMS THE PEOPLE OF SMYRNA Smyrna, Sept. 3—(By The A. P.j— The people of Smyrna are jn a state cf great excitement over thg tareazening situation brought about by the Turkish advance, The archbishops of . Smyrna and’ Ephesus, with the Armenian. bishp, today visited the high commissioner, while the Corporation’ committee neld a meeting to consider what was bdest 10 do_in the circumstances. The evacuation by the Greéks of Fs- kishiur and’ Kutaieh re completad normally, and the south front o the Greek army is keeping a united front, against whi the Turks, it is reported, dare: not ‘mdvance. | REPORT THAT GREEK ARMY HAS BEEN CUT IN TWO Taris, Sept. 3.—(By The A. P.)—The Angora, gvoernment mission in Paris to- day made public an official communique issued last ‘Thursday. in . Angora saying that after a five days' battle the Greek army had been completely defeated and cut in two. The northern group, the communication declared, -was annihilat- ed and left only scattered debris amonz the mountains. and forests. The south- ern group was continuing to retreat. An immense amount of material had been capturned by the Turks. This had not vet been inventoried, but it includ ed 150 cannon. GREEKS HAVE ASKED 7 FOR AN EARLY ARMISTICE London, Sept. 4.—The Times this morning says it is positively reported in London that Greece has informed Great Feitain that Greece no longer will be re- sponsibie. for the safety of the Christian minorites in Asia Minor. The newspaper says it also is stated that Greece has | requested the powers to use their efforls to arrange an early armistice with the Turks. AUTO ROLLED OVER CLIFF BELOW NIAGARA FALLS Buffalo, X. Y., Sept. 3.—An avtomobile rolled over the cliff_just below the cati- raet,” at Niagara Falls, this afternoon and was dasicd to pleces 200 feet be- low on the river's margin. Mrs. Agatha Miller, 54 years old. wife of D. H. Miller, of Cleveland, plunged to her death with .the car. Her body was found on the water's edge. The accident happenéd Just north of the upper steel arén bridge at 1.30 o'- clock-in the afternoou. Mrs. Miller was alone in ‘the car, in the rear seat. The car was parked on the grass near the customs office at the American end of the bridge. It was f the a slight slope.. There is no guard rail at the ¢liff edge. The owner and d er of the car, Edward Meyers, of Buf- falo, had left the car where he thought it was safely narked. For some rei- %on it began to slip down the siope anl Mrs. Miller, who was of very heavy build, realized her danger. Her scream arou ed the by-standers and two men, Hat. ry Andtays, a negro of Buffalo, and Joseph Goldberg, of West Toronto, grab- | bed the rear fenders and strove desper- ately to stop the car. They eclutchel their holds umtil the caf Teached the very brink ana plunged into the gorge. Mrs. Miller triea’ to extricate hers('ll! from the car but she was not quick envugh. The car rolied over the bank BRUTAL MURDER OF A WOMAN IN PROVIDENCE Providence, R. 1., Sept. 3.—Police offi- cials of .every town and city Island tonight are wearching for the man who brutally murdered Magonis 'Sari- ghian, 45, and vrobably fatally wounded her husband with. a heavy meat cleaver in theic home at 67 Bates street, this city. about 10.30 o'clock this morning. The suspected murderer. Margodick Avrassian, 35, of this city, is thought to have attacked the couple after finding himself unable to meet payment of a $300 Tote due them in connection with the purchase of a little store some time ago. The furniture in the three-room tene. ment occupied by the Sarishians w: found overturned and broken, blood was on the floors and walls and even on the ceilings when the officers. went. to ‘the house. Mrs Sarishian was found lying on a etairway while her husband was dis- covered unconscious on a couch in one of the rooms. Both were rushed to the Rhode Island hospital, where the woman died soon after being adamitted. TROUBLE IN ERIE RAILROAD YARDS AT PORT JERVIS, N, Y. Port Jorvis, N. Y., Sept. 3.—State police were needed on two occasions to- day to disperse orowds of strike sympa- thizers which gathered at the gates of the Erie railroad yards here. One workman in the yard was slightly injured by lones. After dispersing the crowd for the second time. the state police joined guarding The crews of two frelght trains were stoned as the trains passéd through Greycourt, N. Y., tomight. George Ellis, the engineer of the first train, was cut and bruised, but was able to continue his run to Paterson, N. J. A NEW RESIDENT OF MIDDLETOWN Middletown, Conn., Sept. 3.—Four-days After moving . into his new home here, David A. Bennett, 53 years old, commit- t8d suicide today by shooting himseif through the right temple. His wife and fon, who were waiting for him to go tc church. could give reason for. pct The family moved here from Wi lamtown, last Thursday. SUICIDES BERRY PICKERS FOUND SKELETON OF A MAN South Orange, N. J., Sept.. 3.—Anthony Kibleis and Anthony Stidulas, of Ha snsack, were picking - berries in Drange Mountains. near the Kernan quar. ry today when they found the skelet of a man. Medical authorities said man has been aead at least a year. A heavy cane was 1ound near tthe skele- fon. COUPLE INJURED IN HEAD-ON COLLISION OF AUTOMOBILES 3.—Gorge Kanyuch of ‘Darien and his wife were both in- jured today in a head-on colision hes iween their automobile and another car on the main road here. Mys. Kan- yueh is in the Stamford. hospital suffer- ing from cuts about the head and from thoek. Her husband, who was badiy bruised, was discharged from the hos- \ital, late today. Stamford, Sept. A golda dugget welghing five pounds yas recently found in Califormia. . in Rhode | “LOW GERMAN WEEK" TO BE CELEBRATED IN BREMEN | Bremen, Sent. 3 (By the A. P.)—Pres. ident Eberi today visited his old home town for the first time since he became !mml of the German republic to partici- pate in the celebration of the ceremonies of Bremen’s “low German week. ¢ While the official greeting tendered Herr Ebert was a warm one. that accord- ed him by the thousands of old friends and comrades, to whom he still remains “Unser Fritz,” stirted his emotions more deeply. ‘tne years Herr Ebert lived in Bremen mark important midestones in his career. He have un his trade as a harness maker actively to participate in the trades union 140 ement; and ucidentally became edi- tor of a modest daily newspaver. Many Bremenites also recail Ebert as the pop- wie' proprietor of @ pro in the new section of the cit, ducted up to about eighteen years ago, when he migrated to Berlin: ferr Ebert’s success as aninnkeeper was instantaneous.. This was duen - no mall megure to~ the g0od bourgeoisie Bobk e tr eilich Frau Ebert was pri- 1 marily responsible. ) ar jrock-coated, top-hatted leaders In Hanseatic finance and shipping s _ttieu apitowbert today were men with whom Ne, then a militant socialist leader, was ‘a respected innkeeper. They found him a sturdy oppoment in the municipal council, but little did they suspect that tWwenty years later they would be called on to don top hats and motor to the station to receive him as the president of the young republic. “I well remember him standing in front of his modest inn" remarked a shipping magnate as he recalled the president’s Bremen days. The commercial, shipning and civie in- terests of Bremen purnose to make “low German week” the occasion for boosting { Bremen as a shipping and commercial centér. TO START HARD COAL MINING SOON AS POSSIBLE Philadelphia, Sept. 3.—Anthracite min- ers and operators having settled their wage differences after more than fiv months of controversy, every effort wil. be made to stait production of coal as =0on as possible. The seale committee, summoned eadly today, went into ses. slon here' tonight to consider and ap- prove the agreement reached at midnight last night and to call a delegate con’ vention of miners at Wilkesbarre this week to ratify the new pact formally It was the first time in the history anthracite wage negotiations that min- ers have met on a Sunday, the precedent belng broken in order to get quick ac- tion. Leaders expressed the opinion that the hard coal mines would be in op- eration by the first of next week and that normal productjon would -be quick ly reached. The Droduction is wsti- mated to ‘be about 40,000,000 tons be- hind last year. The ‘terms of the agreemnt as an- nounced are as follows: .“The contract ‘n force March 31, 1922, to be extended to August 31, 1923, “The production of coal to begin at once. “The miners and operators to ‘joln in a recommendation to congress that leg- islation be forthwith enacted creating 1 separate anthracite coal commission with authorlty to investigate .and report promptly on every phase of the indus- try.” “The continuance of production aftsr the extension date to be upon such terms ax the parties may agree upon in the light of the report of the commission.” Coupled with the announcement was a letter addressed to the operators a miners by President Harding in which he urger both sides in the name ‘of the public “welfare - to -aceede to the pro- posal that had been advanced by Sen- ators Pepper and. Reed, $500,000 FIRE IN BUSINESS DISTRICT 0¥ LOGAN, W. VA, i " Logan, W. Va. Sept. 3.—A portion of Légan's business district was desroyed by fire today. The loss is estimated at more than $300,000. The fire started from an unknown cause in a bylllard hall. % The White and Browning h.ock wus destroyed and the Cuesap and Po- tomac Telephone comoaiy quarters weie burhed. X The Elks' lodge, officécs gf the Logan Coal Operators assvc:stion and steics in a building owned by R. F. Whit> and Thomas * F. Browniyg were parliy ¢ stroyed. Alllof the records of e cp erators' association wer burned. The manger of the telephon. com- pany sald its loss woLd bu approxicwtely $90,000 and damaze {3 tie White-2ironwn- ing building was es‘iinazed ut $:00,000. Insurance adjustois said the firs, whish started in the baseme.nt of the billiard hal. had gained considerable leadway - before n/ was discoyered. E l here - “tsation is to be Confined to Seeing That the Law is Enforced. : ‘Washington, Sept. 3.—The the anthracite” strike, in- the officials today, has raised much of the burden. of the imdwstrial crisis' from President Harding and the administra- ton, it being pointed out that although x{:u entanglements are still to be faced, e government's decision on policy ha$ been taken. Attorney G D];ugh- erty’s legal.action last ‘week in seeking to restrict the scope hitherto taken in the sirike by crafts unions whose mem- bers left the railroad service July 1, ap- parently stood out as representative of an unalterhble "course which the admin- istration had adopted. ¥ Future steps entailed in- the policy are considered in official circles to be clear- {ly marked. and to exclude possibilities of negotiations, mediations or other ontact - with traneportation - organiza- ns except insofar as the enforcement of law, the prosecution . of disturbers and possibly the guarding of raMroad centers, may occupy the attention of re« sponsible officers. © Congress since the strike injunction order was obtained has ‘opinion of of the Federal Adminis-| Car passage of| New York, Sept. .—(By The A. P.)—_ strike of 100 wea ""Qi[““-' ‘;ynwmflmmmfi_ : r';iml' s note to the league fo nations, entering a fresh protest against the- presence of French trogps in the Saar district. * Rapidly Returning to Nor Ten persons were injured in conflicts with' the police during food riots at Eb- erswalde, a health resort 25 miles north of *Berlin, Germany. 7 A number of governmental mieasures are being prepared for the «alleviation of the distressing economic situation throughout Grermany. ;- Developments in the coal and- railroad situations and_anticipations on the na- i * ture of! the fall trade have occupied the | Sugar production for the year 1923 will center of -the business stage during. the | be nearly 500,00 tons less than for 1922, it past week. E was estimated by the commercegglepart- The Ipading figures indicate that sofr|ment in a survey of the world sithation. coal production is rapidly returning o ! t normal, or’to distinctly encouraging lev- els. Thus incomplete figures suggest that the total output for the week will run well over 9,000,000 tons, or, perhape, close to 10,000,000 tons. This rate com- pares favorably with normal weekly av- erages. Reports ‘ol _the general movement ‘of railroad traffic show that recent rates, vhich approximate the best of the year are Dbeing maintained. Total—~oadings fer the week ended August 19, the latest for which figures are available, are 850,- 000 cars, which represents an increase of 6,639 over the preceding week and 41,072 oyer the same week a year aso. It is still too early to measure the effect of the growing soft coal movement, Santa Claus is joining the profiteers, according to a report to the ' commerce department from Berlin which advised of mounting prices for German toys. . Miss Effie Elisler, veteran actre is seriously ill at her home in New York fol- lowing her collapse while she was speak- ing the lines of her part in. “The Bat.” The Duchess of Albany doed at Inns- bruck, in the Tyrol, it was announced in London. The duchess was visiting her son the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The semi-centennial of the organization of the Grand Lodge of Maine, Knights of Pythias, was observed in Portland, Me., Making them strong, i Spite of the glory to i i . < ' » £ ; A PRAYER FOR LABOR DAY Father, who givest the worker’s skill, Who nervest hand and will, Some purpose high to gain, Hear Thou, as on this Labor Day With earnest hearts we pray. Grant that all scorn of honest toil Shall vanish from our soul; That no true work, though low its place, Shall be esteemed disgrace; That all who labor with right aim Shall honor win, not shame. No more let seifish wealth withhold The laborer’s hard-earned gold, Nor let the toiler, avid grown, Demand more than his own; As sharers in a common task, Let each pure justice ask, ‘Till on loud mart and factory vast- Peace shall descend at last. Grant that we all shall liker grow: “Fo ‘Him who, long: ag O’er Nazareth’s work-bench bent; Who, whatsee’er His task To do His Father’s will ! —Effie Smith, in Zion’s Herald. by hundreds of Pythians. Captain Thomas Reynolds Webber, de- signer of the racing yachts Dragoon and Surprise, died in New Rochelle, N. Y., in his 8 7th year. He built yachts for more than 38 years. The ‘end of the textile strike in Law- rence, Mass was assured wvhen the Pat- chogue-Plymouth plant announced that the old wage scale would become effective tomorrow. through toil and pain, ! ‘Because he played a practical joke on mar, N. J., was sentenced by Mayor Wil- liam A. Bamford to cut the grass in fron of the public library. The Greek retreat in Asia Minor before the Turks continues toward Uchak. The army is preceded by thousands of wpmen and children fleeing toward Smyrna to avert possible massacre by the Turks. A British delegation headed by Sir Charles Wakefield and organized by the Sulgaye' institution .sailed from London aboard the steamship Adriatic for an American tour. Manuel Conception, former vice pres- ident of the Philippine = National bank, Manila, and son of its convicted former president, was senter\g to two years' imprisonment, for misuse of the baun3s funds. . Four thousand fascisti seized the town of Terni, Italy, and forced the managers jof the steel works. to reopen the shops, which have been closed for two months owing to,a wage dispy ! nine miles Northeast of ecognition of the soviet government by Japan will be insisted on by Russian del- egates, according .to Adolph Joffe, envoy of the Moscow government, and Jacéby Anson, foreign minister - of the Chita government. - tome. 0, Him lent, , sought still ! E. F. Crable, president of the Interna- i tional Brotherhood of Maintenance of ‘Way men is critically ill in a hotel in iChxcagn. He is suffering from a nervous appeared indigposed to interfere any decisions which the &xecutive de- partment “has reached .in_dealing wich the industrial situation and its members have in gencral refrained from . com- ment. oo President Harding spent today quietly at the White House and whatever re- ports were received from. the anthracite settlemat< or the rail situation, did not occasion -public comment. Secretary Davis who represented the administra- iion at the final conferences in Phila- delphia before 'the' tentative agreement for resumption of work in the anthra- cite fields was reached, left for Moose- heart, Iil, to deliver a Labor day ad- dress. 1t was said by subordinates, however, that department information made it appegr certain that the’ agree- ment would be ratified by the operators and miners whose leaders have drawn it up. Labor leaders who remained here over the holiday iseued no comment on the &ituation today. - U. 8. MARSHALS TO UPHOLD RAIL STRIIKE INJUNCTION Chicago, Sent. 3 (By the A. P.)—The Dbeginning of .the tenth week of the coun: try-wdie strike of the railway shopmen found 5500 United States marshals mo- bilized to uphold the drastic temnorary injunction obtained by the government on Friday to prevent lawless viuenca and keep the nation's transportation machinery running. From Chicago, as a center of rail- road activities, was .directed the work of enforcing the injunction pending tne hearing to make it permanent on Sept. 11. A mass of complaints and allega- tions and conspiraqy and attempis to ruin property and jeopardize life were being collected today for the use of At- torney General Daugherty in -support of his application to make the injénction permanent, It not be allezed that the strik- . cuilty in most of the outbreaks of violence reported, but the govern- ment, it was said, will maintain that ac- Tous of the strikers or strike leaders caused the violence. Extra forces of deputies have heen sworn in by United States Marshall Robert R. Levy and are being dispatchs ed to railroad watch for~ acts forbidden by the order handed down by Federal Judzc Wilker- on. A thousand writs were prepared in the federal building’ and sent to ull parts of ;the country for service on ihe ialor leaders named in the injune B. M. Jewell, head of the shopme:, could mot be found and it was report1 he was m the east. John Scott, secrciary of ihe si:opmen, Temained at his Jesk at tha i urion headquarters, . “i have violated any ‘iaw" he said. “This organization neve- did ' sanction or condone violence. Dut we ars gong to carry on the work of the organ ton without fear or tremor, and I don’t believe the injunction is incended to re- suain us from so doing.’ WOULD HAVE GOMPERS CALL A GENERAL STRIKE Philadelphia, Sept. 3.—Railroad shop- men o nstrike from the Pennsylvania'anl the Philadelphia and Reading railroads today. passed a resolution, a copy of which was sent to Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labags 4emes him to aid. in; calling L2 with | but shops and terminals to collapse. Land feuds in the Province of Aarlac, P. 1, have resulted in an armed encount- er. Homestead holders, organised for re- usually well-informed quarters ses no evidence of the movement in general merchandise Deing affected to an im- portant degfee as yet. On the other hani it is felt that a resumption of antra- cite mining, added bto the crop eyarry burden, will ‘impose a severe strain oa the transportation system. -In this con- nection interest centers on the railroals attempts to put the ir shop forces back o a normal basis." Even if thé roads have the situati>n in hand by some’time in October, it is thought that a car shortage i inevita- ble. The consesus seems to be, how ever, that the shortage.will not be serious as to retard vitally the revival in business. It is also doubted wheth- er it will cause a general rise in com- modity prices, although opinions on tH® point are by no means unanimous. Agricultural prospects remain remark- ably little changed. The department o | agriculture's September 1 cotton crop re- | Port reduced the condition from 70.8 per cent. 4n the preious month's figure +5 per cent. and cut the estimated yield from 11,449,000 bales to 10,5 000 bales. The new figures were slight- Iy more builish than the trade had ex ted but not sufficiently so as to pre- vent profit-taking. As a result, cotton prices were little changed. Both the prospective crop and - the car- ry-over are short; but a conservative view is taken of the willingness of both domestic and foreign spinners 1o bu at the higher prices: Wheat futures con- tinue to fluctuate slightly above the Jol lar level at Chicago and these prices are taken to indicate Tonservative pur- chasing of general merchandise on the part of farmers. X The commodity markets and that for foreign exchange reacted well to an- nouncement by the-reparations comm!. sion that Germany has been- granted a drive them, from three landlords with rifles. their holdings, in a concerted attack The Bates College-Oxford debate .in Lewiston, Me., on September 26th will be conducted under the con- ventional American rules governing inter- collegiate debate. The Pomerene bill regulating campaign the senate and house, was passed Satur- day by the semate! The measure takes the place of the law held unconstitution- al in the Newberry case. It now goes to the house. Doyle, om Malden, was elected depart- ment commander by acclamation at New Bedford, Mass., at the closing session of the American Legion state convention. Thomas O. Marvin of Massachusett: chairman of the tariff commission, was nominated by President Harding to con- tinue as a” member of the . commission after his present term expires on Sep- tember 8. The only platypus that ever lived in captivity away from its native suu wew at the Bronx Zoo where’ it was housed forty-nine days ago, after a journey from far-off Australia. i Fire apparatus from four towns near- by was summoned early Saturday to heip cope with a fire which destroyed the = . First Congregational church at Wayland, six months' postponement on this falls reparation payments. It is considero! | ass., and threatened to spread to other that a major political crisis in Europe | Pulldings. has been averted but that the repara- tions difficuity still remains to be grap- pled with. ' The hody of a young woman found in the Charles. River, Cambridge, a few While the federal reserve ratio is |days ago was identified as that of Miss showing a slizht recession, it is felt that | Margaret’ Mary Lyons of West Somer- this circus/stance is explained, in*part, | ville. at least, by the approach of the Sep: tember- 1 holidays. No sharp change- in monetary conditions . is expected. Conspiracy in restralnt of trade is al- INVESTIGATING SHOOTING OF “BUDDIE” JOHNSON s tions. Plattsburgh, N. Y., Sept.. 3.—An in- vestigation of the shooting on Thursdas night of A. M. “Buddie” Johnson, hus- band of Peggy Marsh. actress and pro- fesssional dancer. at the camp of Jack Clifford on Cheteaugay Lake, has been begun by state police under the direction of Disarict Attorney Harold A: jerry, of Clinton county, it was learned to- night. At the time of the shooting it was an- nounced a the hospital here that John- son had accidentally shot himself while putting away a revolver that had been | used in target practice. filed in the federal district court.by Rog- er I Sherman of Boston, dealer in food products, against numerous individuals, banks, associations and large corpora- Finger prints o® a man arrested in Portmouth, N. H., were Identified by state experts in Boston as those of John Sullivan, wanted as the leader of a gang of automobile thieves who nave been operating in Massachusetts. The re-establishing of the head of the Myles Standish statue at Duxbury upon the colossal shoulders from which it was recently tumbled by a lightning bolt prob- }b‘ly will be & matter for legislative con- eration. ' Luke Flanagan, who has been fighting general strike as a result of the Injuna-. tion recently issued against the shop- men. Men ‘@om Camden, N. J., shops joined - the Philadelphia strikers. Near- ly a thousand men attended the meet. years as a battallon chief, announced he inz. _ A three years ago. an undertaker, Henry G. Sykes, of Bel-| /Ferni.is forty: v{ expenditures of candidates for election to | Senior Vice Commander William n,: | sistanee to landlords who attempted to!and a commissary leged in a suit for $1,000,000 damages |} | Ten the Fire Started—Bodies Others Injured in the Thistieth S rowey sylvania Road in Pittsburgh—Men h Strct Yards of the Penn Were Burned So Badly Thai Are Conducting Investigation of the Fire. Pittsburgh, Pa., Sept. 3.~(By Thé A P.)—Seven car repairmen recently efm- ployed were burned to death; ten mep were injured, severa] severely, and prop- erty loss of $220,000 was wrouzht by fire which started at dawm today in a bunkhouse in the Thirtieth street yards of the Pennsylvania Railroad and swept through the building with almost ineredi- ble speed. 3 > The building which has been fitted, up as bunkhouse for men employed in. car repair work, also contained a quantity of materials used in car cleaning. Th» men were asleep when the fire startec, and it spread so rapidly and the upper story filled with Gense smoke ‘s quic that only those sleeping near windows were able to escape. They jumped t» the tracks, and those in the hospita's were said to be suffering from ipjuriss sustained in that way. City fire companies and the railro, department summoned to the scené w unable to check the flames and the b ing wa¢ soun a mass of smouiderin; ruins, All bodies at the morgue were so badly burned that physicians said iden- tification was impossible. Rairoad and oty officials at once instituted an investigation. - lt Was said that the record book of the building had been burned with other pepers, and tie names-of the Gead men might never e determined. Nearly all the bodies were charred be- yond recognitien. ‘The corpse of J. F. sixth street, Carr, 1414 Thirty- Bultimore, was positi cntificd, however. Railway uffi made.a check Lst of all employes I ing in the bunkhouse and gave out e fol.owing 1'st.of missing tonigh Alvin L. Bruce, 21, Kewan Frank Custddino, 25, laborer. Ydgert Dunn, 35, repairman. David L. Davis, 46, Walter L. Parsons, Ernest 1lnozaneto. 33, repairman. Gerald Harper, 24, machine heiper. Search of the wreckage failed to re- veal an eighth body. Railway representd.- tives said it was po: above listed men failed to report after he had fled from ithe blazing bunk- house. Official records wete destroyed and thr addr s of some of the vietims could not be obtained. The most seriously injured employe is J. Mineru Tajuma, of Tokio , Japaa an airbrake inspector's heiper. Tajumd and the other employes who sustained ipjuries . were -~ huzt when they ;um;x from the second-story- of the bunihoust. The injured include Thomas Burns, of New York. John Burns, of Philadelphia. C. Schaeffer, of Highland Park Mi and Ray Clifford, of '(Glsa, Oka. Ti others gave Pittsburgh as their res'- dence. Investigations immediately \ere started by the railroad, the police and fire .de- partments and by the department of jus- tice. They were in progress tonight, with announcement by the railroad that it had been unable “to determine the cause of the fire.” E. K. Kennedy, a watchman, smoke coming from a section of the build- ing which, in addition to housing work- men was part used as a store house Running to_the place killed | he satv the interior of a room filled with' waste was a mass of flames. He turn- ed in n Irm. | Knowing that sixty men were sleep- unlversity | jno on the second floor, Kennedy dashed He was driven back up the stairway. by dense smoke, but made another at- tempt with better success. Many of the men sleeping near win- tumbled out on the tracks, and who were uninjured ran from the Others, trapped in- their bunks, parished. The building was set in a network of railroad tracks, and fire companies lost time, in reaching it. When they finaily arrived the oil soaked floors had fallen in and the sheet iron sides had been twisted into a pile of junk. Exploring the ruins taxed the re- sources of the firemen, but by ten o'clock the bodies had been removed. The bunkhouse was almost within sight of the Union statlon, adjacent to the main east-bound passenger tracks/ A number of fast through trains were due when the fire started, but they were held in the yards until the fire was out and the warped tracks had been ftepaired. N. P. Gdod, chairman of the striking shopmen on the Pennsylvania system in a statement tonight deplored the fire and said it could not be charged to the shop- men. iz “The shop destroyed was under guard, as T understand it," said Mr. Good, “and could not be reached except by some one having free' access to the yards. T understand that part of . this shbp was used for the storage and replir of coach storage batteries, which, from my knowledge are subject to spontaneous combustion of the acids they contain. T am willing to stand upon the record es- tablished - by our - membership of the peaceful and orderly manner In which this strike has been conducted, and will conclusion. questioned in his office at length this af- ternoon. He authorized _this announce- ment: “We have only begun our investi- gation into the cause of the fira = Two shopmen were questioned fn my office in the presence of goveriment agents and officials of the -Pennsylvania- coad: I cannot make- any announeement tonight regarding the caue of the fire, but I think 1 can promise a statement tomor- Tow." Government agents leaving the office of Director McCandless said they had noth- ing to say, “official or otherwise,” and’in- timated that any federal dnnouncement must be made from Washington | fires in New York 22 years, the last few | Pennsylvania railroad officials gave the first casualty list to The Associated Press but had not issued any statement regard ing the caue of the fire at a late hour to- night. The burned area was closely patrolled. An eighth charred form, removed from A score of shopmen who escaped from ole that one of the | saw | the blazing bunkhouse told essentially th fFame story io newspapermen. Awakenet by the ghouts of the watchman, or by the clamor which resulted in an instant, the men ‘leapéd from their cots. Those avhe grasped the situation jumped or dove from the building and fled. Those whc did not do eo died. Not a single survivor who was ques- tioned could supplement the watchman's report. Resldents living. in the vicinity declared the fire flashed f3enr the build- ing with such forge that people living two miles away were telephoning for de- tails within three minutes. District Attorney Harry H. Rowand, conducting an independent investigation, gave out this statement: “If facts warran a grand jury will make an investigation of the fire” Rowand declared, however, that his preliminary inyestigation had not thrown any light upon the cause of the con- flagration. . Pennsylvania rallroad officials reiterat. ed the statements of empioyes that the fire stacted within the buflding. This, they said. caused them to ignore a pos- sible theory that a spark frogs a locomo- tivexmight have been responsible. The same official declared the bunkhouse cook corroborated the watchman's statemen that the fire, when discovered, was roar- ing through a mass of greasy waste anc rubbish. . “I was the last man to get out alive,” said N, L. Dayis, a tdll. middie aged car- penter from Corbin, Ky. “All I know about 4Re fire is that four |men were behind me—but they couldn’t make the door.” he added. “I don't know who they were.,, They seemed to.be fight- They were coughing. I guess the Zot them before the fire. five days. Some { the Hoys came before I did. A few had just arrived Some. you know, didn't 0 give their right numes. | “I was sleeping: ‘with some of my clothes on. I heard a yell and 1 jumped for the dopr. The fire followed me out I was the last living man to get ou.. Aiaybe that will indicate how the fire moved, I won't call it fire. It was grease- ghining.” LABOR DAY MESSAGE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE . Washingten, Sept.- 3. —Secretary D: in a2 Labor day message to the Amer.- can people made public tonight, dewared that “we can look frward with pride ang “grititude upon the dchieVements of the'last twelve months™ and that during this ‘period” “America has been brought ]n. the threshold of an era of unexam- pled prosperity.” But for the industrial strife whick has |béen evident . for several months throughout the country. the secretary added, the outiook f the nation would not have been darkened during the Year. “We must find a common ground of { fairness and co-operation for employers |and employes where they can adjust { theit différénce without recourse o an Yeppeal to force” he said. “Thers can be no justification for bloodshed and de- struction in America tod The labor secretary declared that “two great things have been accom- plished in American industrial life.” “We have conquered the menace of unemployment which threatened us,” he said, “and we have prevented a wage panic in the ranks of labor. We have ! put between four %and five million men back to work and we have put them back to work with wages which leave the general wage level of the nation very little bel6 the high point reached following the war.” i J REJOICING AMONG MINERS OF THE WYOMING VALLEY esbarre, Pa.. Sept. 3.—News of the acceptance by the operators of proposals to end the anthracite strike caused re- joicing among all classes in the Wyoming valley. The mine workers were particu- larly jubilant as they claim the outcome is a complete victory for their cause. John B. Gallagher, board member, to- day rounded un all the Luzerne county members of the scale committee and they left at noon for Philadeiphia to confer with President Lewis and the - district presjdente. % The Y. M. C. A audiorfum has been leased for the tri-district convention which will convene either' Wednesday or Thursday. A Labor day celebrations in this valley tomorrow will be turned into celebrations of the end of the strike. and mass meet- ings will be held at Nanticoke, Plymouth, Pittston, Wilkesbarre and other centers. Activity increased about the collieries today in anticipation of the resumplion. and mules will be rounded up at once in the several pastures and shod preparatory to being returned to their underground quarters. \ —_— HARLEM NEGROES ATTEND FUNERAL OF LUTHEE BODDY New York, Sept. 3.—A croowd of sev. eral thousand negroes im the “Black Belt" in Haclem sought to attend the funeral today if Luther Boddy, a negro, who was continue to be conducted to a successful | executed in Sing Sing prison last week for the murder of two New York police- —orge W. McCandless, director of pub-{ men. Fifteen policemen held the crowd ic safety, who is co-operating with agents | back and preserved order. ‘of the department. of, justice, annourced |the funeral the body was viewed by many tonight that two railroad shopmen wers [thousands. Previous to Services were in charge of a colored Methodist minister. R OBITUARY. Richard Smith. Indianapolis. Sept.’3.—Richard Smith, managing editor of News, for the past fifteen years and previously connedted with The Asso- ciated Press, died at his home here early today. He was €3 years old and is suc- vive 3 ved by his widow. Bridgeport, Seépt. 3.—John A. Leonard, former” chairman of the republican town committee, died at his home here today after a long iliness. He is survived by his widow and one daughter. He was 50 years old. H Mr. Leonard was well known in repub- lican politics in this city and throughout the state. At one time he was president of the fire commissjon and. was would retire next Thursday and practice | (he debris. proved to be a dog. The car- | with other civic bodies. He o law. . He studies at New York University | cass, like the corpges of the victims, was | his_position” as Business m a between fires and obtained his degre¢ | burned to a cinder. ilocal fir ma year ago and was confined his home since that time. - ° - < -y