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FORECAST | | For Georgia - Fair tonight and j Sunday cooler. \ YEAR. —NO. 21 7^ SIXTEEN RAILROADS SIGN PEACE PACi ■ ■ # 3; * * H- ¥****•*'*****#s ****** ¥#******. ENGLAND TO BAR TURKS FROM EUROPE WH S. FIGHT TO MAINTAIN FREE DARDENELLES Catastrophe At Smyrna; 2,000 Perish In Flames $100,000,- 000 Property T'**'S LONDON, Sept. 16.-(By thc As ‘ p r e«)—The British govern ment has adopted the attitude that J h ,. effective and permanent free dom of the Dardanelles v“ -ity, for the sake of which it /prepared to make exertions, it is l Lr itively aftCrnon °- JUGO-SLAVtA AND FOCMANiA READY BELGRADE, Sept. 16.— (By the , ,ted Press.)- Rumania and i j:,ro.ylavia have completed an ex change of views regarding the at- I titude they will adopt in ease the Bulgarian advance toward Saloniki, stcording to the newspaper Politika. 2000 PERISH IN SMYRNA HORROR. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 16— (By the Associated Pres:;.) —Upward I of 2<tOO person; perished in the fire I pi Smyrna; 2500 buildings were de- I stroyed and all American property | was wiped out. T! - catastrophe is much greater in proportions, according to advices, than the conflagration at Saloniki I in 191 f which caused 109 millions I damage. LnJEA EAjfeftN PROBLEM Pagain •m FRONT. | LONDON, Sept. I<3. — ty the As- I soceted" Press.)—With the utter | coll; i "e of the Greek army in Asia Iy r i!■)ore the Tui the lofig smouldering Near Eastern problem I again has uddenly been brought, up. I a nd in ome quarters is considered I as constituting a threat against the pea; e and well-being of Europe, ow ing to the differing interests and conflicting vie of the principal Al lied governmen* . It is considered no longer a mere question between the Turks and the Greeks, but to have developed into direct conflict be tween Turkey and the Allied pow ers. The center of the problem con- I cern:, the future fate of Constanti- I nople and Thrace, and herein lies I the principal difference befXVeen I Great Britain and France. Great I* Britain desires to keep the Turks out (T Europe, and France, on the oth er hand, is believed th sympathize I with the Turk.; and to desire them to I regain ea stern Thrace. ' Jugn-Eiavia and the other nations lof t. I ittie Entente would, howev- I er, fieri , iy oppose the Turks being I readmitted to Thrace, and it is be- I lieved in some quarters that any '■vrlopmcnts would throw the Balkan question agjain into >t. Then there is the n of Soviet Russia’s attitude, " Soviets seem to be giving I .. 11 ■ ’Nm'alih? support to the preten- I vni of the Kcmalites. There is a' general feeling reflect- I. h :n B ° n . icia! L ' in 'F‘s in London that . »: h policy toward the Turks l h [\ [ )( ' cn apparent for several I I\ v; n ' ( . continued to the bitter : known that the Turks I /‘- Fhc been of the belief that I , ntain w as seeking their ex their reduction to a I of .“ Y : people incapabte I W '! ;ut ln Europe’s'affairs.” I IF, ~U IT avowedly ready to I of the national peace I which they • declare al- I bln.consecrated by the Id-..r A:' ;,ry thousands of their I' n "m- 'quart e,. <k T dl< | l Ck ** tho(iß:ht I atr,i whirl i to have hr*n cre- I able f3Hh rea k l,l ° macy may not be PDA I ' • g K K , CONVENE. I J ti-Ku Klux 1 KiaTn Convcntion | to Democrats of | asf>; n = t | ~ a f' an didate to run I' lr ! tiited ol . -iayfield, nominee I (t‘- *• -I ... .‘, Ur : enator, tod ax. at. attention If ■ Mavfi; , ' e i;° ,: r ,al| y "entiop- I | ‘ 'ecent primary. I H s AT riot liners wm-e k’„ ept 16 —Street I f !t a straw h as the rc- I fr '" 1 the Batterv h . at not oxt ending “f if” lh « Bron,. The I .it)- » a , ‘ r *P “ ««y Place | l » W ei „ t«r Hoo*. o •'» TURKS MAKE GRAVE SITUATION GRAVER k^Ny^UKRAINIA WMMHy Sf , STAVROPOL -J nov** /jjT s \ JV$' i ££BASK?oI »J* ‘ 5 T-A JUSO- \ . r, VC SU,A e b . /V % i-* c v c V V' ’ v u > ll ° * a; A e x a 1 • Jy J . f -J ’• Map showing the trouble area of Asia Minor, where Turkey gave Greece a drubbing. EXPECT HARDING TO VETO BONUS As Passed By Congress Yesterday Soldier Measure Contains Four Options WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—The I soldier bonus bill is now up to the ! president, Congress Friday passed ; the bill and sent it to him to sign. Prompt action by the executive was anticipated, but opinion at the capitol as to whether he would veto or approve the measure still was divided. #his question entered largely into the debate yesterday which preceded senate adoption of the conference report, 36 to 17. Conceding that while the question of the president’s attitude was, as Senator Harrison, Democrat, Missis sippi, expressed it, “up in the air. Senator McCumber, Republican, North Dakota, in charge of t\e bill, said he ‘‘hoped to God’’ the president would sign it’. “I think he ought to sign it,” he declared, adding that if senators who wanted to “help the" soldiers” would remain in Washington until “a final vote” there would be sufficient votes to pass it over a veto. Some leaders in the house were of the opinion that if the president decided to veto the measure it would I be returned to congress early in the coming week. In that event it was I the plan to bring up speedily in the j house the question of overriding the 1 veto. Proponents of the legislation i were confident that necessary two ! thirds majority could be obtained, ; the house having passed the bill by a majority of more than four to one. i As it goes to the president today, the bonus bill would provide four i options: i Adjusted service pay if the vet- J eran’s.adjusted service .credit at the I rate of $1 a day for domestic serv- I ice and $1.25 a day for foreign 1 j service did not exceed SSO. ' Adjusted service certificates hav | ing a face value equal to 3.015 times ! Ihe amount of the adjusted service | credit, and payable at the end of | 20 years, or soon at the death of the i veteran. j Vocational training aid at the j rate of $1’.75 a day after January 1, •192:>, with the total payment limit ed to’l4o per cent of the" adjusted ' | service credit. Home and farm aid in an amount j equal to th.e adjusted service credit increased by 25 per cent. Banks would be authorized to make on the "service certifi | cates during the first three years in amounts not to exceed 50 per cent | of the adjusted service credit, which 1 e(i it wUuld be limited to SSOO in the case If veterans who had no for ?'* n •?'/ e and $625 to those who, had fort'/G service. After three years the- o-nmenf would make loans on the certificates. AMERICUS SPOT COTTON Strict Middling,ego.' 3-4c„ *“'> NEW YORK FUTURES I „ Oct. Jan. March l rev Close 21.34 21.58 21.50 ! Open 21.32 21.43 10; L5 am 21.34 21.44 21.55 j 10:30 21.37 21.52 21.6,5 10 =45 21.43 21.54 21.63 =OO 21.40 21.50 21.51 ! 11:15 21.26 21.40 21.50 11:30 21.30 21.40 21.50 ! Close 21.25 21.34 21.45 i THE tfM^SS^RDER IN HEARf'or Dl)OE~ff<r^ AMERICUS, GA„ SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 16, 1922. 40 CARS COTTON ADD TO FIRE LOSS New Orleans Visited By Great Conflagration—Estimated Loss j Six Million Dollars NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 16. Six million dollars loss was estimated early today as the result of a fire destroying government commodity warehouse wharves along the water front last night. Reports, of five lives lost have been confirmed. For ty freight cars loaded with cotton were also destroyed. BALI. ARD LEADS SCHOOL CONTEST Walksr’s Vote Has Gone To 300 Brown "And Perry Elected ATLANTA, Sept. 10— While of ficial returns from forty counties are ; still not reported, N. H. Ballard has apparently been nominated for state school superintendent over M. U. Duggan, although the margin is not wide and returns from counties which have not yet reported might reverse the result. Returns compiled from all but forty counties gave Mr. Ballard 180 county unit votes and Mr. Duggan 118. 207 unit votes | are required for nomination. In'the absence of complete re i turns which have not yet been filed, it was indicated Friday that Mr. Wal j kcr had defeated Governor Hardwick ! by a wide majority, Mr, Walker hav | ing carried 118 counties with. 300 ; | unit votes as against 42 counties and 112 unit votes for Governor Hardwick. Friday’s returns increas . ed the majority by which J. J. , Brown defeated his opponent A. O. . Blalock and O.M. Houser in the race for commissioner of agriculture. The compilation of almost complete re turns for places on the railroad com mission made the nomination of J. , j A. Perry and Walter McDonald al : ! most assured. For state prison com , misisoncr R, E. Davison won a com j plete victory over his opponent, Dr. , ! W. C. Bryant. JOHN W. CLARKE IS PENSION OFFICIAL ATLANTA, Sept. (6.—Governor Hardwick appointed Friday Colonel John W. Clark, of Augusta, Con federate veteran and one of thc most , popular men in Richmond county, as pension commissioner to succeed the late John W. Lindsey. Colonel Clark will take over the duties ol his office at once. The new pension ! commissioner was formerly engaged in the fertilizer business in Augusta, but retired a few years ago. He served two terms as sheriff of . Richmond county, and was also post master of Augusta, being appointed on the recommendation of Governor , Hardwick while he was in thc United States senate. CRUCIAL SERIES STARTS. ST. LOUIS, Sept. 16— (By the Associated Press.) The three- ; j game series, generally believed to | t decide whether the l world series will j ;be another New York event or a ; struggle between thc East and the Most, was begun today when the Yankees meet tlm Brown’s in the [ final-contests of the season between i the two. SUMTER COUNTY SCHOOLS PLAN i FAIR EXHIBITS • Great Interest Already Being Manifested By Students In Community Exhibits Sam R. Heys, president of the i Sumter County Fair association, and George O. Marshall, county faim j demonstration agent for Sumter j county,, and Mses Bonnie Parkman, I home economies agent tor the Coun ! ty, have just Scanned from a yisif. j 1 to the schools throughout the coun ty in the interest of the exhibits of : the fair. The schools visaed this week in cluded New Point, Shiloh, Concord, Plains, Leslie, Pleasant Grove, Thompson and Thalean, where splen did enthusiasm and co-operation 1 were met. The meetings were held in the auditorium of the schools, ; and the comVnurmy met to Th ais? | plans for exhibits at the lair heio in September. The entire purpose of thc visit was i 1 y create interest in community ex i hibits, and each community promis ed to co-operate thoroughly. The I exhibits are to include agricultural products, canned exhibits, home grown fruits and vegetables, and . needlework. Premiums for 'the best community exhibit have been subscribed, these * to range from SIOO for the first, i $75 for the seqpnd, and $25 for the third, with a prize of $lO being ! awarded to each community aside j from the first premium. In addition to community exhibits, j there will be exhibits from the va- j rious schools, each school eontribut- j ing some work of the pupils as a | whole to add interest to the fair, j Committees have already been ap pointed from each community, with the chairmen and their assistants planning the class of exhibit to be shown. The club girls and boys of the county are also evidencing much in terest in the fair, and these will send club exhibits to consist of fine poultry, canned products, sewing, j basketry, and other departments in which they have excelled for the past year or more. A prize of SIOO has been offered to the club work ers, besides a scholarship valued at approximately S3O, to be awarded the girl making the best year rec ord in canning club work. Thy woman’s department will be one of the outstanding features of the fair. Capable supervisors have I been appointed to look after this in- i tcrest, and each department will be I j under the direction of a chairman j who will give the best attention to j the details. Canned products, cakes, ! candies, sewing, fine needlework and j j other work will be included in this ; exhibit. Next week other schools will be I I visited in thc fair interest, and it is l expected that the same enthusiasm : and co-operation will be met, which ! promises for Sumter county one of I | Die best fair exhibits ever held. ARCHITECTS AT WORK ON PLANS I ; Iwo atrehiteets are engaged in i submitting plans for the proposed ; $150,000 church t 0 be built by the' members of the First Methodist j church to replace the one that was ! burned early in"*th.e summer. ! Committees are still at work on ! j the building fund and it is reported : that a total of $150,000 will be rais- j ed before the committee completes ! Us final tabluation. More than ! SIOO,OOO of this amount was raised [ ai she two mass meetings last month and the remainder is being donated ! m small subscriptions throughout the i 1 city. «" is expected that work on the building will be started as soon as Plans can be made and approved by! I the church. I FIND BODY IN ROADS | NEWPORT NEWS, Sept. 16. -J he body found in Hampton Roads Hast night is now believe ! to be a Norfolk man name ! funnel and not r award Moon, of biehmonfi. Ffr,„. t . i will, be made today for a positive | j identification, j SURVEYSHOWS UNEMPLOYMENT IS ON DECREASE Despite Strikes, Industrial Out look For Country During Win ter Is Good By H. B. HUNT WASHINGTON, Sept ’l6. As 1 compared • with one year ago, when i more than 5,000,000 men faced the j winter jobless, the present employ ment situation is declared most en couraging by the U. S. Employment Service. True, decreased coal production and the handicap of impaired trans portation due to the strike of rail way shopmen are reflected in a i downward curve in employment, in j some localities, according to the lat est figures gathered. But the government report pre dicts that if only sufficient coal can be delivered to keep factory wheels turning, and if the railroads are able to move this coal to the shops and haul away the shipments of finished products, the demand for workers in most industries will prevent any gen eral recurrence of unemployment during the coming months. To date the percentage of unem ployment resulting from the coal and railway strikes, other than of men directly involved in the strikes, is small, but it, is recognized that these factors are the ones most seriously threatening the employment situa tion through the coming winter. That American business generally was getting out of the dumps and was rapidly approaching a period of sound prosperity at the time the coal and rail difficulties developed, rs indicated by the increased employ ment in! many lines of industries which have surmounted the situation. Although latest figures show a small total decrease in employment of 65 leading cities for which em ployment data is compiled, 39 show increases as against 26 reporting de creases during the month of August. f The chemical industry scores the largest percentage irqrease in numbers of men employed, with : leather and leather products, stone, clay and glassware next.-in line. Declining employment was reflect-1 ed in returns covering iron and steel, | textiles, lumber, automobiles, paper and printing, metal products and | beverages. Local situations in the various j states, summarized from detailed re- j ports from both industrial and agri cultural centers, are given below: | MAINE: General improvement, j Small shortage of workers in textile industry. Shoe industry shows de cided improvement. Practically all j plants working full tijne. NEW HAMPSHIRE: Many cot ton mills reopen and large numbers j of employes return to worjf. Sur plus of workers in granite and rail road shops, due to labor* controver sies. VERMONT: Textile mills operat- j ing full time. Shortage of workers i in hosiery mills. Build-*| ing trades active. MASSACHUSETTS: Textile in- j dustry fast approaching normal. Shoe factories running nearly full capaci ty. Granite plants approaching nor mal. Decided improvement in ma chine industries. RHODE ISLAND: Jewelry and silverware show improvement. Nut and bolt plants operating overtime. Genera! improvement. CONNECTICUT: Condition ex cellent. Typewriter factories operat- normal basis. Hat fac tories running night shifts. Brass and copper lines register shortage of , workers. NEW YORK: Momentum of busi ness restrained by labor controver sies, fuel and transportation diffi culties. Shortage of all types of la bor and experienced tradesmen ob tains in nearly all districts of state. Supply unequal to demand for ex perienced farm hands and workers needed in fruit harvesting and can neries. NEW JERSEY: Encouraging cm-: oloyrnent gqjns throughout state. Big demand for unskilled labor, j Shortage farm hands. PENNSYLVANIA: Labor *eon- , troversies have checked operation; in many industries, chiefly in iron and steel trades. Record-breaking building construction. Labor short age in building trades, common labor and agricultural workers. With, fuel rnd transportation problem», out look would be bright. . ILLINOIS: Demand for factory ; (Continue on Page Six.) I PRICE FIVE CENTS. * * Here she is Miss America, “the prettiest girl in the U. S. A.” Miss Mary Katherine Campbell is her name. She is a 16-year-old Colum bus, 0., high school girl, and she won the beauty title in the Atlantic City Beauty Conte t. Girls from cities all over the land competed. Miss Amer ica is 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighs 133 pounds. She attributes beauty !to swimming, riding, dancing and . general outdoor exercise. 1500 STEEL MEN TO BE EMPLOYED Youngstown, Ohio, District Will Put Time Workers At Tasks Monday YOUNGSTOWN, Sept. 16 —More than 1500 additional workers will be given employment in the inde pendent steel plants of the Youngs ! town district next week, it was an | nounccd today. . » FORD PLANS TO CLOSE HrS DETROIT PLANTS DETROIT, Seri. 16.—Henry Ford late yesterday took steps to close his Detroit automobile plants, begin ning last night, thereby throwing up wards of 100,000 workmen in the Detroit district out of employment for an indefinite period. He asked officials of the Detroit Street rail way to re-arrange its schedules to care for the night force:, at his. various factories who will be dis missed at 11 o’clock it wa announc ed. CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH PLANS HOME COMING DAY A most interesting ‘Home Coming’ service is planned for the Central Baptist membership and congrega tion next Wednesday evening from 7:30 to 9 o’clock. Special music by the « : good old-time go p< , inging will be en joyed by every one. Refreshments | W 'H be served by the women. MRS. E. L. BELL, Chinn. .POSTOFFFICE HARD HIT BY FEVER EPIDEMIC The postoffice department '•< hart hit with dengue fever for at the pres ent time five of the men are out sick and two are sick but are continuing at work. Postmaster Davenport re quests that (he public make allow ances for the unusual condition and accept the service that is rendered as j the best that can be done under the | oircumstancesr ■ H SOUTHERN ROAD CONFERENCE IS j ABANDONED » Strikers Demand That All New Employes Be Discharged Ends Hopeful Parleys CHICAGO, Sept. 16.—Sixteen railroads signed separate agreements with various labor unions today through methods in vogue before the United States Railroad Labor Board was created arbiter of rail disputes. These settlements do repudiate the board, but. rather are* “in accord with the transporttaion" act,’’ says Ben W. Hoopfcr, chairman of the bofli'd. _ CONDUCTORS CONCLUDE CHICAGO TRUCE. CLEVELAND, Sept. 16, — (By the Associated Pres:;.) —Agreement has been reached between the chairmen of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the Order of Railway Conductors with officials of the Pennsylvania railroad over wages and working conditions," W. G. Lee, union official, announced t,odYry. — ft — C. & O. WILL MEET MEN WHO WANT WORK. RICHMOND, Sept. 16.—W. #. Kalahari, president of the Chesa peake and Ohio railway today an nounced that the Chesapeake and Ohio i:s not involved in the Chicago strike settlement plan. He added that his company, however, is ready at all times to meet with its men with a view to bringing about an adjustment of differences.” SOUTHERN CONFERENCE IS ABANDONED | WASHINGTON, Sept. 16. _ De- . mnnd by union leaders that all men taken on during the strike be dis charged immediately upon return of the strikers to their jobs is under stood to have broken up a confer ence today between the Southern railway officials and general chair men of the shop crafts which was designed to bring about a settlement on the basis of the Warfield-Willard- Jewell agreemeiit. L. & N. REFUSES TO ACCEPT AGREEMENT. j LOUISVILLE, Sept. 16—Efforts of: officials of the federated shqp crafts to effect, a settlement with | the Louisville arid Nashville officials , : met With failure when the railroad, officials refused ihe terms ,Os the Jewell agreement. „ • _ ILLINOIS ROAD SIGNS PEACE PACT. CHICAGO, Sept. 16—(By the As j soicatcd Press.) —A mutual" agree -1 rnc7i embracing a pew schedule of j rate; of pay and working rules has : been reached between “direct repr&j tentative., of the present shop craft employes’’ officials of the Chi cago, Burlington and Quincy rail-’ road. NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES ACCEPT PLAN. NEW YORK, Sept.* 16—(By the 1 Associated l't <■ . TJv> beginning 1 of the end of all the laboy thiubles, ' I (fiat have from time to time beset the transportation lines of the na i tion for the past several years was believed by many railway heads and union chief to have onrae today when th'e New York Central lines made peaceful settlement with two of the operating brotherhoods and the Pennsylvania system began negotiations toward a similar end. Arrangements for like conference:, here next week between brotherhood leaders and six otheO: big Eastern carriers were under way , last night. ( POSTPONE DEDICATION OF NE WTHOMPSON SCHOOL • * LAIN,, Sept. 16.—Ait a meeting held recently-of the trustees, ani patrons*, of Thompson school, it,was decided to postpone the dedication 1,1 * ' n ‘ J r i ( ' w : ehoo! building until a later date. This step was rendered '• ;' r - v **n ace#unt of unavoid able delay in securing material and* sufficient held. For these ‘ reason* work has been practically at a stand still during the past four or fives weeks. ; During tht- prose lit week, j these handicaps have been overcome, a,! ‘l '• on' r.'.ctftj- Welle!];, is m.-iting le\c) y effort to have a sufficient' number of rooms ready for opening of school at S o’clock, Monday, Sept, j 18th. Announcement as tq the formal opening of the new building will be made through these columns later.