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2w Weathe? Year Ago Maximum 77 Minimum 35 f AIL TM The Weather Prediction tf. Fair Maximum yesterday 96 Minimum today 51( j Oallv Seventeenth Tear. Weeklv Fifty-Second Year. MEDFOED, OH Eli OK, SAtl'HUAY, SEPTEMBER Hi, 1922 XO. IX the mm Medforb 1 BUNE N BDLSHEVIKI CALL IN TO COLORS TO AID TURKS CONSTANTINOPLE ATTACK Soviet Government Preparing Army Great Britain Issues Call for Aid From Dominions Little Entente Prepares for Attack on Greece By Bulgaria Horror at Smyrna Grows Hundreds of Thousands Per ish While City Is Only Mass of Blackened Ruins 200,000 Crazed Refugees Beg U. S. Destroyers to Rescue Them U. S. Missionaries Missing Others Flee to Athens. ' (OXSTA.NTIXOPLK, Sept. 10,. l:iW !. m. (By tho Associ ated Press.) Idti'Ko llritlsh forces with heavy artillery liavo t;cen landed lit strategic points in tho lnrrtune.:ies, prepared for any eventuality. LONDON, Sept. Ml. (By tho Associated Press.) -Xoiv Zen- land has replied to tho govern ment's communication saying tlmt slio will bo represented by a contingent in dealing with tho Turkish situation, it was , an nounced tonight. . ? " BOSTON', Sept. 18.-Ail Women missionaries In Smyrna with the ex ception of . Mrs. Alexander" MacLach-lin,-wife of the president of the In ternational j.college, . fire - safe- at Athens, the American 'board 'of 'com missioners for foreign missions was informed in a cablegram received here today 'from the Ureek'city. . . The missionary men still were In Smyrna, the message said. Mrs. Mae Laclilin is believed to have remained with her husband. , The dispatch which was signed by Miss Annie Plnneo, a teacher, of the American Women's college at Smyrna named the following as having ar rived at Athens: The families of Cass ArthurReed and Rev. Caleb W. Lawrence of Mel rose; J. K. Earge of Blrstol, Conn.. and the Rev. Samuel L. Caldwell of Northfield, Minn., also Miss Minnie M. Mills of Iowa: Miss Emily It. -Me-Callum, principal of the woman's col lege; . Miss Gertrude C. Groho of Massachusetts; Miss Sarah E. Sncll of Brookline; Miss Helen Craig of California and Miss Savage of New bury Port. Air. and Mrs. Dana K. Getchcl, formerly stationed at Marsovau, are reported as being in Constantinople, SMYRNA. Sept. 16. (By the As sociated Press.) Smyrna no longer exists. The fire which has been rag ing for three days with unabated, fury has swept the city and Is extending to the suburbs. . . only blackened masonry and a small vestige of the Turkish quarter remain. Death and indescrlbablo misery permeate amongst i200,000 in tho crazed population. Six lone Ameri can relief workers are attempting the super-human task of ministering to tho dead and dying. No other country has as yet como forward to relievo tho suffering. LONDON, Sept. 10. (By the As sociated Press.) Succeeding dis patches from Constantinople, Athens) nnd other centers of information in the iXear East tend only- to magnify the tale ot tho tragedy in Smyrna. Tho greator part of tho city is in ruins, laid waste by a conflagration of Incendiary origin, and tho flames. GOVERNOR DRIVES 80 "COUPLE CALVES." NEARLY ARRESTED YAKIMA, Wash., Sept. 6, As Sec rotary H. II. Vermllye of the Wash ington State Fair was preparing to close the gates early last evening, he noticed two somewhat roughly clad men dodging hastily Into a cattle barn. As the secretary started for the building the men emerged and hurried Into another. When Ver mllye caught up with them he was embarrassed to find he had been trailing Governor Louis F. Hart and the state treasurer, C. L. Babcock.. "We were at Ellensburg and I couldn't get that close to the state's prize herd from Stetlacoom without to Aid Turks With Fleet and according to latest reports, had reached the water front... where the quays were crowded with fear-crazed Christian refugees who fled to the city as the nearest port .of escape from the TurkB. ' , ' Many have thrown themselves into tho water, rather than run. the risk of being burned alive or of racing Mustapha' Kemal .Pasha's soldiery, drunk with victory and fired with religious fanaticism. Others have not had the chance to choose, according to dispatches from Greek sources which tell of horrible tortures and mutilations and whole sale executions. ' Greeks Are Beheaded Largo nunvbers: of Greek soldiers have beeu beheaded, they say, and others forced .into sacks and thrown into the sea.' '' Allegations ot-having. served in the Greek army bring death to the Armenians and women and children are being put to the sword. Estimates of the number klllod vary greatly, and the latest Athens dispatch quotes an American relief worker as declaring that up to.Thurs day morning there had been 120,000 victims. It is thought this figure may include the wounded also, as previous reports placed the number of dead at from 1,000 to 2,000. Landward from the city it is re ported that all the villages are burn ing and that the whole countryside has been devastated. Meanwhile tho Turkish forces in tho north have continued their ad vance and almost simultaneously with the news of their capture of Pandemia, on the Sea of Marmora, comes tho announcement . that me British fleet in the Dardanelles has been ordered to prevent any attempt to cross the straits, and that no ships shall be allowed to conccntrato for the purpose of transferring troops in a movement, toward Thrace. Bolshevik! Call Trooi The Turks urn not without support in their Kiiropran am bitions. Tho Kusso-Ajigorn treaty Is understood to hind tho Kussiniis to co-opcrato Mvith Mustapha Kemal In the rnpturo of tho Dardanelles in return for tho freedom of tho Blark -Sen, and tho Moscow government is reported to havo prepared for netlon all its forces in tho Cau casian republics nnd to bo hold ing its Black sou fleet in readi ness. Russians horn in 11)01, hitherto exempt from scrvlice, havo been railed to tho colors. LONDON. Sept. 16. (By tho As sociated Press.) Tho British gov ernment, addressing Roumanla, Jugo slavia and Greece, Is asking their par ticipation in an effective defense of the neutral zone, it was learned of ficially today. Croat Britain also has invited her dominions to bo rep (Continued on page eight) MILES TO PET coming down to see it," tho governor chuckled as he brushed a bit of the dust from his suit. "There are some calves in that lot that haven't been beaten yet and I don't think they'll be beaten here." The officials returned to Ellens burg after their hurried inspection so as to attend the banquet of the State Good Roads association held in the upper valley town. "Driving eighty miles to pet couple of calves may seem foolish,' the governor said, as he climbed Into his machine, "but I wanted to see for myself how they were coming along.' Tilden Wins Championship in a Ter rific Five Set Match 1 1 PHILADELPHIA, oe'pt. 16. For the third time in three years Wil liam T. Tllden, H.. of this city is the national lawn tonnis champion of the United States. In a match which surpassed any similar tennis contest in tho history of the oldest tennis fol lower of the game, ho defeated Wil liam M. Johnston of San Francisco 4-6, 3-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4. Superior physical stamina and un NEW BRUNSWICK. N. J., Sept. 10. Tho bodies of ttev. Edward V. FIND BODIES OF CHURCH RECTOR r & SEXTON'S WIFE man and Mrs. James Mills of this , Ienc and ot secret organizations city, wife ot the sexton of Mr. Hall's which foster race and religious preju church and singer in the church d,ce g made ln a resolutloii unanlm- choir, wore found under an apple 1.1.1. .. , tree on a farm near hero today. sly a.lopted today by the house of There was n bullet wound in the rlcrsyman'H forehead and thre0 wounds in the woman's head Kev. Mr. Hall had been rector of the church of. St. John the Evange- list for the past ten years. Ho had been missing from his home since Thursday. Ho was married but hdd no children. The bodies wcro lying side by side and papers belonging to Mr. Hall were scattered about. An automobile registration card bearing his namo was among them nnd there were also letters- addressed to him. On Iho woman's hand was a wedding ring. The bodies wore found by two children. I'olii-c found that Mrs. Mills' throat had boon cut on tho right side under the chin. Under .her body was found an empty revolver shell. One bullet wound was ln the clergyman s fore head and three iii Mrs. Mills' head. LUCERNE. Switzerland, Sept. 16. Mr. and Mrs. Harold F. McCormick, and the former's daughter, Miss Ma thilde, it was learned, are living In strict retirement in a small hotel on tho border of Lake Lucerne. Major Max -Oser, fiance of Miss Mathilda, is also at the hotel. Ban Johnson Would Cut Down Home Runs CHICAGO, Sept. 16. Homo run records would ho mado more difficult under an outfield zoning system being prepared by President Ban Johnson of the American league for submis sion to the club owners this winter. Only those drives In tho center field zone would count as home runs under Johnson's plan, and the parks with short right field fences would no longer he marks for tho sluegers. Marks would bo placed several hundred feet Inside the right anil left field foul linos and balls within those zones would count only as two or three baggers. Alaska Shin Hits Hocks. KETCHIKAN, Alaska. Sept. 16. The steamship Queen struck a rock at White Cliff Island south of here, near Quadra, according to radio ad vices which gave no details. A message from the radio porator aboard the Queen said the passengers had been taken ashore. believable court ability in the final sets of the match eventually won for Tllden after a battlo requiring one hour and forty minutes of actual play and which set a gallery of 14,000 spectators rooting like baseball fans. The. photo above from right to left shows Vincent Richards, Wm. John ston and' Champion Tllden taken after winning the Davis cup a few days ago. PORTLAND, Ore., - Sept. 16. Sweeping denunciation of mob vio- deputies ot tho Protestant Lpiscopal j church ill tho United Statos 'In gen- via, i,uu,vii.iuii, The resolution, approved by a committee headed by the Rev. Dr. James F. Freeman of Washington, D. C. called upon tho ministry of the church and school, authorities to teach tho sanctions of law and gov ernment and appealed to officers of the law to uphold the law and sup press all forms of mob violence. . After rocking that thore had been an increase In violence through mob action tho resolution recitos: "There appears to bo a intimate connection 'between those increasing acts of mob violence and the recent rapid growth of religious prejudice und racial antipathy fostered by cer tain elements In our country which, some times in the namo ot patriotic Americanism, have capitalized big otry, hatred and intolerance." 25,000 Christian Girls Distributed Among the Turks LONDON, Kopt. 16. Twenty- fivo thousand Christian . womon and girls havo boen conveyod to tho Interior and distributed among the Turkish soldiers, says a dispatch to tho Times from M. Lascarls, editor of Kosmos, a Smyrna newspaper who has ar- rived on the Island of Mytelcne. "New refugees from Smyrna arrived here this morning (Hep- tember IB) Including many Amcr- leans and English. They say the 4 Turks are using machine guns at the street corners, killing indls- crlminately," the dispatch adds. New Chief Irish Staff DUBLIN, Sept. 16. (Uy Associated PreBs). Major General John McMahon has been appointed chief of staff of the free state army. He succeeds Richard Mulcahy. Covelosklo Out of (iainc. CLEVELAND, Sept. 16. Stanley Covelesklc. "ace" of the Cleveland Indians' pitching staff, is out of the game for the remainder of the season. Coveleskie has Intestinal troubles. EPISCOPALIANS DENOUNCE KLUX KLAN METHODS MINERS' FATE TO BF KNOWN IN 24 HOURS Cheering News Comes From 3600-Foot Level of the Kennedy Mine Progress More Rapid Than Expected Coffins Ordered, How ever, for 40 Miners. JACKSON, t'nl,. Sept. 10. (By. the Associated livss.) The roscucrs will break through beforo noon tomorrow into tho Argonaut nil no where 'IT men havn txim imnriKoned since An mist according to a un animous statement, made hero at 10:SO a. m. today by govern ment, state and mine officials. JACKSON. Cal.. Sept. 10. Clieer InK news rumo from tho 3600-foot level of the Kennedy mlno this morn ing after rescuo crows had put in 12 hours drilling Into tho face- of the new raise, started late yesterday afternoon ln the hope of reaching the 47 men who have been entombed -0 days in the Argonaut mine. The new plan Is working out sue cessfully nnd much 111010 rapid pro gress is being made through the hard rock than the crows were - able to make In attempting to shovel out tho muck and cut. away tho twisted pipos and- stool i rails' thut clogged tho' old drift loading toward tho boundary 1. lino between tho. two mines. ... On the aaOO-foot level an approxi mate odvaneo of eight feet was mado during the night, leaving (13 foot to go to roach tho twolve-foot wlnzc, ' Conditions on this lovel aro slightly improved over yesterday, but are still troublesome. There aro 32 miners working on each six-hour fshlft on each of tho two levels. Two stoping drills are being used on tho 3600-foot level. Fate Decided 24 Hours. JACKSON. Cal., Sept. 16. (By the Associated Press) With tho oxpoc- tntlon that tho fate of the 47 minors walled in for nineteen days would bo revealed within 21 hours, suspense took a new grip on this mining town today as rescue crews with drills word boring through tho final barrier of quartz and slate almost a mile down in tho Argonaut gold workings. Buoyed by tho knowledgo that tho end of their feverish, ceaseless labor was near at band, rescuo crews fell to work with a vigor that promised to bear out a prediction that tho lnir prisoned men would bo reached late tomorrow or Monday. Others loss optimistic wero'of the opinion, how ever, that the drilling rescuers could not boro through before Into next week. Posting of an official notice bnr- ring tho general public henceforth from setting "foot on tho Kennedy mino iuopcrty Is taken to indicate that the final stago In tho fight to pierce tho Argonaut is imminent Drills aro whirring on both tho 3600 and 3900-foot levels of tho Kennedy mine whence tunneling operations havo boen In progress since the plight of tho inhumed men first bocamo known. , . Less thnn 70 foot of rock remain to lie penetrated. Officials OHtlmato thn't 30 feet a day may bo negotiated. Hope of flmllnK tho men allvo was dealt another blow when a Knn Francisco casket company announced It had received a tentative order from a Jackson undertaker for forty cof fins. Miss M'Cormick Opens Up a Millinery Shop CHICAGO, Sept. 16. Miss Murlol McCormick, grand daughter ot John D. Rockefeller and hardly past 20, openod a mllltnory shop today, halt a block from hor clovatorless third floor flat. She has stated she wishes to make her way without depending upon the fumo or fortune of hor father, Harold McCormick, chairman ot the board of tho International 'Harvester com pany, or her grandfather. Pear Market News Word was received In Medford to day that the Erie embargo at -New York has been raised and 100 cars of deciduous fruit are due to arrive Monday. The latest averages for Oregon pears at Now York were $2.04, Washington $1.38, California $2.14. . Straw Hat Riots in New York City Keep Police Force Busy NEW YORK, Sept. 16. Street cleaners were busy today as the result of straw hat riots which oxtended from the Hat- tery to tho Bronx last night. The appearance of a straw hat any place in the city was the signal for hoodlums to begin work. ! The police kept busy, but there was too many hats. Hood- lums boarded street cars anil took hats from passengers. Ono victim said a mob of 1,000 was destroying hats on tho upper west sldo.. BILL TUESDAY ( Harding Has Definitely De , cided to Veto Measure, Washington Announces Bonus Advocates Claim Veto Will Be Voted Down. WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. (By t.he Assoolatod .Press) ProslUont Hard ing has doflnitoly decided to veto tho ftoltllors' bonus bill and wil) send his iticssago to tho houso Tuosdny, ac cording to somo of his close advisers who havo talked with him rucontly. Somo of tho president's friends were understood to bo making at) In formal canvass in tho sennto In the hope of counting enough votes to pre vent tho overriding of tho voto there. The result was regarded as doubtful, with some friends and foes Jlllko do flarhiK there could not be n defl- nito estimate In advance of tho actual roll call. Tho number of senators absent when the voto comes up may decide tho issue, although it was said that overy effort would be made to obtain pairs for all absentees. Including those senators In Europe who were not paired In tho voto August 31. when the scnato passed tho bill, 47 to 22. Houso managers of the bonus were understood to bo prepared to move promptly after receipt of a veto mes sage to ro-pass tho bill and woro con fident that more than tho required two-thirds majority could bo ob tained. WASHINGTON. Sept. 16. The soldiers' bonus bill was signed by Speaker Gillette nt two o'clock this afternoon. Bank Clearings Increase. NEW YORK, Sept. 10 Tho actual condition of tho clearing house banks and trust cotupnnics for tho week shows that they hold $100,287,- 400 in excess ot legal requirements. This Is an lncreaao of J60, 033,250 from last week. K. C. Speed Itnee Postponed. KANSAS CITY. Sept. 10. The 300-mllo . nutomohilo spocd classic has' been postponed until tomorrow afternoon, according to speedway of ficials. Threatening weather wus given as tho reason. CHARLEY HALL CAN BE ELECTED IF SALEM, Ore., Sept. 16. Tho secre tary of state as an administrative bu reau official, has no authority, to withhold from the ballot at tho gene ral election in November tho name of Charles Hall, as an independent cundldate for governor, hut under the law. tho govornor of tho stato would be Inhibited from including Hall In the election proclamation ln event Hall received enough votes to elect him. according to an opinion of At torney General Van Winkle Issued last night. It is held by the attorney general that Hecretnry of State Kozcr must file Mr. Hall's certificate of nomina tion and certify 1 his name unless otherwise ordered by the court. ' Should Hall receive a plurality of votes, the governor's legal Inability to proclaim him eectcd evidently would bo tantamount to no election. Then, unless the governor should call a special election, the president of tho state senate would succeed to the of PRESENT W VETO THE MS EAST FORD CLOSES All PLANTS M000IDLE Threat to Close Down Huge Industry in Protest Against Alleged! Coal and Steel Profiteering Carried Out Federal Fuel Administration Is Condemned. DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 16. (Uy As sociated Press). As a protest against paying what ho believes to bo exorbi tant prices for coal and steel, Henry Ford today began the process of clos ing up bis huge Industry. Willi the suspension complete when tho last shift of workers leaves the various factories today, approximately 100,000 men will havo been rendorcd ldlo for an indefinite period. Tho plants affoctcd include the five factor ies in the Detroit area and numerous assembling stations throughout the country,- Other concerns, the output ot which goes chiefly to the Ford com pany also are expected to suspend op erations. In announcing the contemplated closing Beveral weeks ago, Mr. Ford declared no coal shortage existed, that brokers wero holding enough to flu tho needs ot the country and that the public was being "gouged" by the deal ers. He also criticized government, agoncios for tho mothods of apportion ing coal. 16,000 Quit River Rouge The past week brought somo Im provement In the fuel situation, Ford officials asserted yesterday, but this thoy said, will not warrant a chango In the suspension order. Tho. first, lay off occurred last midnight at tho River Rouge blast furnaces whero about : 18,000 men are employed. When shifts woro changed the workers turned in tliolr tools and were told not to return until notified ot a resumption of opera tions. Two thousand men are to ho retained at this plant, however, to attend the coke ovens, which cannot be allowed to cool. 1 At thn Highland Park plnnt tho night forco went to work as usual but the completion of the night's work brought tho same notice given tho steol workors. Tho day and night forces were to ho checked out In a aim- (Continued on pago eight) RUN, BUI CANT fice at the expirution of tbu present governor's term. . ...Iii SAI.EM, Ore.; Sept. Iff. Attorneys for Ben W. Olcott, in the primary election contest brought by It. 11. Coster In behalf of Charles Hall, de feated candidate for the republican gubernatorial nomination, will today fllo In tho Marion county court a cost bill asking Judgment against Mr. Coster In tho sum of $2000. , Contest expenses Incurred by Mr. Olcott will run in excess of $3,839, attorneys for tho governor state, but only the amount of Coster's bond will be asked for. Heaviest of tho 31 expanse Items listed In the governor's cost bill is $2000 for uttorney fees. Tho cost bill hearing will bo held In tho Mar ion circuit court and Judges Bing ham and Kelly wllf determine whether or noi me .cpnioLnnL 1.1 uauiv iur mw expense Incurred by the contestee and if liable which of the claims ure to be allowed. HE WINS ATTY