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I THE SOFTER WATCIOIAW Est a CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2,1 JUST AROUND ! THE CORNER Government Officials! Say That Prosperity! Will Bless Country! ' as Soon as Business! Recovers From! Strike . ! "Washington, Sept. 14?Warning! was given by high administration ? officials today that the country must. wholly recover from the aftermath' cf the recent industrial upheaval ( before economic benefits flowing! from tBe settlement of the railroad] strike can react fully upon na tional business conditions. Secretary Hoover took the view . that although the country 13 nov.-g undoubtedly better off than it was" ? .1 a year ago. it will probably be six months before a high plane of pros- [ perity is attained, while Secretary j Mellon, although considering the j business outlook "very good," rec ognized as, forestalling immediate commercial expansion the .limita- ? tions imposed upon transportation' | facilities by car shortage and a' possible inadequate labor supply, j The greatest loss as a result of [ the strike will be borne by the j farmers, according to an anallysis of the situation by Secretary Hoov- ? er. in which he reached the con- f elusion that the "economic wounds" ' received by the country should be : quickly healed. In conU^ast with the views of his j two cabinet associates, however, j Secretary Davis of the labor depart ment was -positive that settlement j cf the railroad strike removed the] last obstacle to "unprecedented" prosperity. ! Reports .today to theAJabor de-; partment from its repres^itatives in | Chicago brought additional details! of the scope to which the partial I ,settlement of the rail strike was! expected to extend. At least 33 { j/er cent of the railroads affected; by the strike have approved the; Warfield-Willard-Jewell plan, they I declared, while sufficient other car-j riers had signified their .willingness to settle 'on this basis to" Tiring thej total to 65 per cent, of the national; irxfleage. It was expected that little time, would be lost In the opening ofj -negotiations between the roads and the unions looking to actual sig-! nature of the peace, pact. The only j railroad with local headquarters.; the Southern railway system, an-j riounced today that such a meet ing had been. called for Saturday. J "vVnile the losses due to the coal, and railroad strikes have been j "considerable." Secretary Hoover j said in a statement Issued tonight,: "they are easily overestimated." i 'The estimate o'f current coal^ miners' * wages lost in the five j months (of strike) is not a correct j basis of the estimation of the total j loss." he said. "Because over a pe-j riod of 18 months we will probably] consume the same amount of coal, j In other words, the miners will J work more days in the week and produce more coal in the next six or eight months than they would have produced i? there had been no strike and thus the wage roll of the next six or eight months! will be larger and will, in a con- j slderable degree, compensate the! Iocs during this suspension. Ix>?s? of Productivity "The real loss would lie more in j the less of productivity in indus-1 i tries that have, or might have, to i close dovn as a result of the coal \ strike. If all of our industries can j be kept in motion., the loss will be) much less from the coal strike than j is currently estimated. "The greatest loss today is the I one being met by the farmer as a! result of the railway strike. The i export of farm products has been seriously interfered with by the ? inability of the railways to trans- j port produce. Prices are there fore unduly depressed in the agri cultural regions, "The inability to transport manu- j factured products will create some desree of loss but hot so serious as that *;f agriculture. "There are other losses that] must be counted in to the national balance sheet, such as the dam- j - age to the railways, the extra [ chars es which they have been put \ to. th? cost of keeping the mines j open, and maintaining them during the period of suspension, and a j hundred other rtera3 that are of im portance. In the br?h? view, how- j ever, if we can get back t?? busi- j ness, if we ?"un secure a reshmp- j tion of transportation and rapid j distribution of-coal and agricultural j produce we will nol have received \ such an economic wound as can. not be very quickly recovered from.! We will probably not be on such a h''.o,h plane of business prosperity j during th^ next six months as weJ would h<{ve- jjteeh had th*- strike: not taken place, but we will un- j douotedly be on a much higher j and a more eemfortffcble plane than; that of last year." The asphalt paying on the first; section of the Mayesvjlie road has bo'm completed. Work ?>n the se cond section which will carry the paving to the i<?\\n limits of Slaves- j vfilh-. will be started weithin thirty j days. tbUshed April, 1850. ?881. ,_ HORRIBLE SLAUGHTER AT SMYRNA . - ? - Hundreds of Bodies of j Victims of Turkish! Massacre Litter the! Streets ! Malta. Sept. 13?Hundreds of bodies of the .victims of the Turk ish massacre in Smyrna were ly ing in the streets of the city when j the British hospital ship Maine left i there with over 400 refugess; abroad., it is stated by Reuter's: Smyrna correspondent, who arrived j here on the Maine today. . London. Sept. 15?The admiral j comanding the British squadron at j Smyrna has warned the Turkish authorities that if massacres are ; continued the^Turkish quarters will i be bombarded, says the exchange ? telegraph company in a dispatch , from Athens. . London, Sept. 15?The American ; destroyer which arrived at Piraeus, j Greece, reports that the Turks have ; entered the British consulate at | Smyrna, and murdered the officer i who assembles the archives, says a i Reuter- dispatch from Athens. Post- ! master Wilkinson was al?o reported j murdered "as well as other English- j men. Consul General Harry Lamb j i<s I iieved to have escaped on a: warship. TURKS BURN j SMYRNA; Constantinople: Sept. 14 (By the; Associated Press). ? Smyrna is] burning. The popukaion is in a; panic. All the wives and children j of native Americans are being j evacuated to Athens. The cause of j the fire is not-yet known. Scores of buildings in the Euro-! pean section of the city have been 1 destroyed, including the American j consulate. American marines and^j allied soldiers formed a lire bri- i pr.de. hut the "conflagration is be-j yond their control. The property j damage is estimated Into millions, j The fire originated in the Armen- j ian quarter and spread rapidly. Washington, Sept. 14.?Fourteen! Americans are missing in the rirej swept sections * of - the city of ] Smyrna, the State department was ? advised tonight in a cablegram; from Rear Admiral Bristol, acting j American commissioner at Con- j stantinople. Admiral Bristol said his infor-, nuaiou tame from Capt. Arthur; J. Hepburn, chief of staff ot' the j American destroyer fleet at Smyrna j who reported that the fire, start -; ing about 1 o'clock Wednesday j afternoon in the Armenian quar- \ ter. has practically obliterated the j entire European quarter of the city ; and still was raging. The missing Americans were all' naturalized citizens, the dispatch \ said, adding that all native Ameri- j cans living: with the authorities had < been accounted ror. i All warships of tbe various pow- j ers in tbe port: of Smyrna are ; crowct^^r^h refugees. Captain,'; Hepburn"" reported, and ships were'] constantly leaving for nearby j ports loaded with fugitives. Tbe j American destroyer flotilla was lak-! ing an active part in the work, he j said, the Simpson having sailed j with a large party for Athens, the Edsall with 600 for Saloniki and another for Pifeaus with 40??. \ Among those on the last ship, the! name of which was garbled in j transmission, were students -and i euarployecs of American benevolent cirganizatrons at "Smyrna and the ] staffs %f several American com- j mercial houses. I Earlier dispatches from Admiral! i Bristol had described the condi-1 tion of refugees in SVnyrna as "ap- j palling." He plated the total there ' at nor less than COO.000. THOUSANDS THROWN OUT OF WORK AS FORD CLOSES DOWN Detroit. Sept. 1?J.?Henry Ford's: industrial strike against what he charges are excessive coal prices was in full swing tonight and proximately 73.000 of his workmen in th** Detroit district were out of jobs for an indefinite period. Thou sands of others in assembling plants throughout the country also wer?- ordered to l*y down their tools. J a addition, a score or more ot' small industrial concerns here dependent upon the Ford .Mo tor company for orders were pre paring to close. These employ up wards of 30,000 men. The Highland Park and Rivet Rouge plant* of the Kord Motoi C?mpa.ny. employing about 60.000 tu'.-ij were deserted tonight save for a comparatively small force that will be retained to keep coke ovens warm. Although many of them were smiling, the majority of the Ford workers wh?> passed through the gates of Che Highland Park piani after turning in their tooN today, expressed concern over the shut down. Their foreman had handed down to theni advice from Mr. Ford to buy as little <-o:tl as possible and cut their living expenses u> :j minimum. Many of the workers wer?- met by wives ;?:uJ children, eager to learn how long the heads of families would be unemployed, i "Be Just and Fear BRITISH TROOPS ENTRENCH ON DARDANELLES v. - - i ? ........ Town Destroyed b y Fire and Christian Population Butch ered Without Mercy London. Sept. 161?"With British troops entrenching at strategic I points on the Dardanelles. French and Italian battalions rushing to join them, and from far New Zeland word that an Anzac con tingent will be despatched to the scenes of their heroic sacrifices in the late war to assist in dealing with the Turkish Nationalists, there has been a swift carrying into effect of the allied pronounce ments regarding a firm determina tion to preserve the freedom of the Dardanelles and the Bos phorous. The British troops are support ed by heavy artillery and backed by the fleet, and officials here are ec'ildent that the combined Allied land and sea forces, which are de clared to be ready prepared Tor any eventuality;' can hold Constantino- ; pie against all odds. . The Turks having bombarded ? ? the last departing Greek transports from the peninsula, despite the British appeal for mercy on the j ground that the Greeks were \help- \ less and . no longer combatants. I Mustapha Kemal Pasha is now su- \ preme over all of Anatolia, but. I has yet made no direct move to ward Constantinople or the straits.; .and the warnings which the allies have voiced throughout, Europe and the Near Kast have served" their purpose. Smyrna, which last month was the center of Greek rule, is a | shambles, with tire. raging fori three days and continuing, but di-j minished in violence. Only the' Moslem quarter has escaped. j Thousands have suffered death -and outrages, at the hands of the Turks, and a thousand helpless in' the hospitals were burned to death. < The half-craved population and refugees arc suffering indescrib- \ -able misery. Six lone American re- , lief workers arc . attempting the; super-human'.task of ministering; to the dead and dying. Up to this evening the British j foreign office had received no news' I of loss of life among British sub- i ijectsi ? I . i I Constantinople, Sept. 17 (By the! [Associated Press).?The Angora ' government has informed the al- j lies that if the remainder of the" I Greek army in Asia Minor atreropst I to retreat across the neutral zones I of the Dardanelles the Kemalists ? i will disregard the .neutrality of I the straits and pursutie the Greeks 1 in international territory. The Greek military mission has ' 'left Constantinople; ! - ! Constantinople. Sept. 17 (By the i j Associated Press'?.?"We loathe: I wars and sincerely desire peace i land reconstruction'.-"but we can not [resign our rights as an independent] i nation." declared Hamid Bey. ? uKemalist representative in Con-' jvsantin?ple. in replying today to aj question concerning rumors of an] i attack by the Turkish army [against the straits. "We have won !a decisive victory hut our peace ! term's ar? unchanged. We have j not been intoxicated by our sue-i ? cess. ' "The reconquest of the richest I portions of Anatolia has augmented j lour resource:;, improved our tin-: [anees. and our army, which suf-. j'fered very little, as the Greeks i I now here fought a serious battle, is ' seething with a desire to complete ' the work of liberation of the j homeland's under enemy occupa tion." ] ! Turkish concentrations at Ismid [continue, and the British are j bringing up troops, but it is hard ily possible to defend tie* neutral; ; zone against the well trained i Kenia list army. A Sussex regi ment, just arrived from Malta, was handed today ijs the Dardanelles,! ! and the Cordon Highlanders are; ;due about the middle of the week; at Chanak. ! Allied military experts take the view that a force of ?'??> battalions will be required to defend Con stantinople und the straits. The allied forces of occupation total about "Ja battalions, mostly incom plete, but landing parties from more than warships r-.-.n make up the deficit. Notification of the allied gdvern ? ment's decision to convene a con ference for discussion of the Turk ish question has not yet been made [but it i-= believed that the Angora } government will declinq to partici i pate in such n conferen. e unless ;tli" allies adhere to the viewpoint : of i hat \ eminent. I COTTON SEED j ARE SCARCE (Mills' Crush Small Amount During August i ashington. Sept. IS?Cotloxi seed Icrushed during August amounted I to ttons, compared with tons during August of last ye^r the census bureau anounced today. Not?Let all the ends Thou Ainis't i Surnler, S. C, We^nesdj All Honest-io-X This damp cargo, valued at 5575,< thirsty American throats if tTn&fe hadn't become suspicious and seised ship that was bearing it- - LABOR LEADERS MAKE ATTACK ON DAUGHERft Plans Made at Atlan tic City to Impeach Attorney General and Judge Atlantic City, Sept. 14.?The executive council of the American Federation of Labor today forma.ll> inaugurated plans for impeachment of Attorney General Paugherty i aiid Federal Judge Wilkerson' in connection with the Chicago in junction proceedings and for brinjg ; ing "this unconstitutional conduct of the attorney general and Judge Wilkerson into every congressional election.** A statement of the councils ac tion, dictated by Samuel Gompers, [president <>i" the federation, -said: '?The Council today opened its [campaign against all who prove mi ttue to the people's constitutional j rights and who would use their i positions of public trust to promote I purposes foreign to and in cnotlict [with thjp legitimate functions dele gated to them in representative ! capacities.*' '< Then followed the announce ? ment of the council's demand for r ?. . impeachment of the government of ficials because of their actions in [obtaining the injunction ;j:rainsT the [striking rail shop crafts; unions and th?*ir avowcid intention to <-arry [the question into nntiunwide poli |ties. "Every possible effort will be j mad*' to arouse the people of" j America to the necessity that g?v- j lernmAt by injunction must stop." Mr. Gompers* statement continued ! 'and that consittutional government : by law must govern if we are to; I perpetuate Our nation as a govern j meni of fre?' people." J Steps already have been taken to! ! inaugurate impeachment proceed i lugs in the house of representatives, : it was announced by Matthew \V>>n l vice president of tie- American; ^Federation of Labor and a member j of the executive council. Mr. W'oll today reiterated the [ doubt concerning the probable sue jeess of impeachment proceedings! which he voiced several days ago. ! "V hatever may be my doubts iabont the success of bringing pro [ cceqings against Mr. r>n.ughert\ and Judge Wilkerson I .-mi in f;i vor of tryi"g h." he said. Charges Against Daugherfy Postponed Hearing Will He Held Next' December Washington. Sept. IS.?The hear ing of the Keller impeachment . charges against Attorney General l>aughony was postponed today by the house judiciary committee, j until Deeember. The motion to postpone was adopted by '?' str:ci party vote, with only three Dem-; i?cratic members opposing its adap tion. MKS. HARDING GREATLY IMPROVED Washington, Sept. I$ Mrs, Harding was reported u:-<:itly im proved today in the White House bulletin, f i?? r- condition was so sat isfactory that President Harding j for the first time in ten days left i the grounds to play golf. 000-would have found Its way Into Sam's booze sleuth* at New York it together with the gemma, British EFFORT TO % UNDERMINE COURT Labor Leaders Start Movement to Amend Constitution to Give Congress Powe % Over Su preme Court Atlantic City. X. J.. Sept. 15?The 1 executive council ??f the Ameri-j ran Fedei|ition of T^abor in annual j session here today anriouhVed that' ? it had draw:' a proposed amend ment to the Constitution of the Failed States aiming to put into the hands . of congress "powers which have been usurped by the supreme court, an arbitrary au tocratic, bureaucracy of five men/' ; The proposed amendment was framed at this time as a direct re sult of Attorney General Daugher ; ty's court action againsi. the rail j ? shop crafts, according to the la-j : bor chiefs. For years, however, i President Samuel Gompers has ad vocated sueh legislation an<l he cording to the labor leaders. grasp ed tin- present opportunity to in sert it in labor's program as oppor tune for the gaining of public jsup po:t generally. Under the terms of the content-: : plate amendment as drawn by the [federation council, "the United ! St.ites supreme, court will have : the power to review an act of con gress and to declare such "'an act unconstitutional. But in the event. : congress for a second time enacts j the legislation in question, it will I be Ix-yond the power of the court and wiil stand as the final and un assailable law of the land." It will be introduced in congress j I "at the earliest possible moment."! said Mr. Compcrs. j BIG MURDER MYSTERY IN NEW JERSEY! Officials Search jug For Slay-! ers of Preacher and Woman New Brunswick. X. J.. Sept. i.x? J 'I"i" question where Rev. Edward II. Flail. Episcopal rector and choir.| leader. Mrs. James Mills, were j slain, shared equally 5u interest ', with that b\ whom they were slain, j as the authorities of two counties j today entered tie- third day of ihc I inquiry into the mysterious double j murder. The detectives are not . convinced that the rector and Mrs.! Mills met death beneath the apple! tree. Mi!is and .Mrs. Hall are ex-j peeled to be questioned again to day. I ENGLAND i WANTS HELP! London. Sept. IS? Horror over: the tragedy :1t Smyrna is losing! some of its edge as public atten-I tion is drawn to the situation at ; Constantinople and the Darda-1 n ell es. England is taking steps to! repel the invasion of neutral terri tory along the straits and has called j on Jugo-Slavia. Rumania and her: own dominions for aid. Prance] favors moral persuasion rather than force if maintaining the interna tional character of the straits. Truth's.' BLOODY TURKS ! RAVAGE CITY ] OF SMYRNA .-; Allies Will Attempt to: Hold Ill-fated Gal-1 lipoli Against Turks] Who Plan Recon-j quest of Constants j nople j - ??I Smyrna. Sept. 17 ((By the As-' sociated Press).?Smyrna, which the Turks have called the eye of Asia, is a vast sephulcher of ashes. Only the shattered walls of 23.000 homes and the charred bodies of countless victims remain to tell the story of death and destruction! unexampled in ' modern history.' The ruins are still smouldering like a volcano which has spent its fury,. No effort has been made by the Turks to remove the dead and (lying. The-streets are full of the bodies of those who sought to es cape, for the most part women and children. m ; Every building in the Armenian quarters has been burned, with the dead lying about. The bay.which covers an area of 50 acres, still carries on its surface the poor; remnants of those who were mas sacred or sought to escape the ruthlessness of the fire. One wa-! terfront holds thousands of sur-1 vivors who fear death at the hands of soldiers. There .are no boats to take them off. *>ne ship/captain declined to take any of the wretched sufferers, but in contrast to his indifference,! Captain Walters of the American ? steamer Winono rescued 1.S00 and; took them to Pirreus. American! sailors of the destroyer Litch'iield' snatched 450 orphaned boys from ( the pier and carried them to Con stantinople. The jack tars slept' on the iron decks or under air tubes while the youngsters occupied their bunks. In all the acts of gallan try by the Americans at Smyrna there was none more inspiring than . this. ? I While the orphans were being loaded on the Litchiield. H. C. j Jacquith. director of Near East, relief. wtto^ame^-Uiere recently j from Constantinople, diverted the attention of Turkish guards, giving. ;hem cigarettes ', and talking to them in their native tongue. These guards are under strictest orders not to permit the escape of arty of. the Greek or Armenian refugees, j and on several occasions have shot to death fugitives endeavoring to reach outlying vessels by swim ming, j Out vi oOO.OOO Christians crowd- I ins the city prior, to the descent of the Turks only GO.U?? have been; evacuated. The Kemalist officials have informed the American Relief; workers that the return of the' Christians to the interior meant; certain death.. j The director of the Armenian or-; phanage established by the Ameri-: can committee for relief in the Near; East; committed suicide by drown- -' ing in the presence of Mr. Jac-! ouith. who is a director of that or- J gSnization. Scores of others fol-' Lowed his example. Dr. McLaughlin, president of the j American college, was severly beat- j en by Turkish irregulars and his; clothes and money seized. He limp-! ed by the aid of a crutch from the suburb of Paradise, seat of the col- j lese, and was taken aboard the; British dreadnaught Iron Duke. He attributed his escape from death toj the fact that he can speak Turkish? and worked a ruse on the Turks, j E. M. Fisher and E. O. Jacob.1 directors of the Y. M. C. A., were | held up and robbed by Turkish; soldiers and when attempting to j escape were fired upon. The shots I however, went wild and they reach-; ed a pla>-v 'of safety. A temporary; American consulate in charge of \ ice Consul Maynard Barnes has been established in a quay at the end of town. The Stars and Stripes; is t he only foreign fhig ashore. It j is an inspiring sight amidst the! ruins and desolation. The American destryoers Lawrence. Edsall and Simpson are still here: the officers j ;>nd crews have been practically1 without sieep for five days and are! doing gallant duty. The only Am erican property which escaped de-1 struct ion was the Stauda rd Oil plant and two tobacco warehouses in the outskirts of the city. ? The following Americans are re-j ma in ing in Smyrna t Major Claflin . Davis. t>r. W. E. Post. G. F.. H?lse, I Chester Griswold, Oiss. Read, R. J.I Moorman. C. J. Lawrence, S. L. Ca Id well and E. o. Jacob. The Col-! low ing have left for Constantinople: i H. C. Jacquith. Constantino Brown. I Irving Thomas. M. Prentice. 15. M. i Fisher. E. M. \Tanyes, Messrs. Crowe, and John. Miss E. A. Evon, Miss] S. Cortiing und Miss vVay. ! Constantinople; Sept. IS?The entire .British Atlantic tb-et is being I ti'Mit to reinforce the Mediterranean j squadron in the protection of Con-! stantinople and the Dardanelles j straits. j Philadelphia. Sept. IS.?A new; agreement covering wage scale, and working condition was signed today by officials of tlu- Pennsyt-j vania railroad and men in the en-j uin?' servii-e. The agreement runs one year. i THE TRUE SOU' HOUSE ADOPTS TARIFF Conference Report is Agreed to on Direct Vote and Sent Back to the Senate Washington. Sept. 15. ? The house, by a vote of 210 to 90. adopted today the conference re port on the administration tariff bill. Ten minutes later the meas ure had been reported back to the senate, where it was made the un finished- business for . tomorrow. Final legislative action before the end of next week was looked for by republican leaders. Three attempts were made in the house to get the bill back into the conference for a third time, but two were blocked on points of order and the- third was defeated by a direct vc*- ''?3 to 10S. The vote was on motion of Representative Garner (Democrat) of Texas, to instruct the house managers to in sist on the original proposal of the house for a duty of 1.60 cents a pound on Cuban sugar in place of the l.TG cents a pound agreed up on in conference. On th^ j-oli call on final passage of the bill 14 Republicans voted in opposition . and five Democrats in support. Democrats supporting the bill were Favrot. La-saro and Martin. Louisiana: Hudspcth, Texas, and Lea. California. Meyer London. XeW York, the single Socialist member, voted against the meaure. Thirty-four Republicans ar.d Mr. London voted for the Garner mo tion for a reduction in the dirty on sugar and nine Democrats voted against it. The Republicans in cluded Glouse of Tennessee. Democrats opposing the Garner motion were Asweil. Favrot. Lasa- ! ro. Martin. O'Connor and Wilson.] all of Louisiana: .Hudspeth of Tex- j as. Lea of California and Taylor?of ! Colorado. Immediately after the amended! conference report was^ called up' Representative Cooper * Republic can) of Wisconsin, made a point of order that in carrying out the ex peeled -directions of the house to agree to the senate amendments eliminating the'dye embargo licens- \ iug provision and the duty on pot ash the house conferees had ex-: ceeded their authority by chang- j ing the duties on coal tar dyes and aythetic chemicals. This point wasj overruled. Speaker Gillett holding; that the entire bill' had beou re- j opened to change when the house j sent it Lack to conference. Representative Garner then made a point of order that the conferees had exceeded their authority by proposing authority for the presi dent to declare American valuation i in the case of all imports; whereas j the senate, in voting in the flexible j tariff amendment x> the house bill. I had limited such valuation to coal tar dyes and other coal tar pro ducts. This point of order was overruled promptly and debate be gan. A request from C'hsirman Ford ney of the house . ?nanagr^rs for unanimous consent for two hours" debate was met with a chorus of "noes" from the Republican side and specific objection from half a dosen members. Consequently di*-, cussion v as limit-v". U> one hour under ?the rules. After Chairman Fordney'had ex plained that the conferees had car ried out the house instructions Rep resentative Longsworth of Ohio, an other of the conferees, told the house he was disappointed by its action in ordering out the dye em bargo and potash duties because he j was "firmly convinced" that with- j out-adequate protection the dyej and potash industries, products of war's necessity, would die. lie de- j clared that no system of duties no matter how high could protect against the cutthroat competition of Germany in the product on of j chemicals. Chairman Fordney. in closing the] debate declared that when the j Democrats were found opposing a ? tariff bill "you know its all right."* He urged that history bad shown when the duty on sugar was in creased the price went down bcr < :i;ts?- home production via* stim ulated. RAIL STRIKE NEGOTIATIONS AT STANDSTILL! Union Leaders Demand Con-j cessions From Southern Officials Washington. Sept. iS?The re sumption, of negotiations between the Southern railway official? and chairmen of the shop crafts toward the termination of strike conditions] were declared by union leaders to! be unlikely until certain fundamen-i tal differences relating to condi-j li'.ms oh several of the system's! short lines and in two important] shops could be satisfactorily ad- I justed. Paris. Sept. <S?The British gov ernment lias ordered all small arms and ammunition factories in the j United Kingdom to work twenty-1 four hours at full capacity in pre-j paration for Turkish eventualities, j accord ing to news reaching from private sources here today. THRON, Established June 1, 186?. .VOL.mi.NO.il. GERMANY HOLDS FAST TO HER GOLD Crisis Develops in Reparations a n d Commission Appeals to Allied Premiers ; Paris, Sept 14 (By the tAsso ciated Press).?The newly -develop j ed erisis' in the reparations .ques ;tion became so acute tonight upon receipt of Berlin advices that Ger^ many had categorically refused' to give up the 10o;O00.fcO0 gold marks demanded by Belgium as a guar>. autee of the Six months' note-issue on account of reparations that the I members of the commission dev oid ed the situation has gone be^ yopd their cnotroi and requires the immediate attention of the allied premiers. Sir John Bradbury. British member of the commission, is pro-: ceeding to London to lay the matter in detail before Premier Lloyd Geroge while M. Poincare has a?sumed ' commnad of - the French side of the negotiations./ The Italian and Belgian premiers also arc handling the situation for their countries. Belgium's request for the deposits of gold not later than tomorrow in- . stead of "being merely a diplomatic maneuver to permit further discus* Sion as at first indicated now ap pears to be a Stern demand with the full backing of the French^ and" Belgian governments. After the meeting today cf the-* French i^ahinet it Was authorita tively fstajed. that official -notifica tion of Germany's-refusal to deliver' the- gold-.will! he followed by the laying of the matter before the reparations commission by Belgium and a French-demand for a decla ration of Germany's voluntary de* fault. . - , An official' communique issued by the French ministry of foreign aiXairs respecting the meeting be tween _M. Poincare and M. Duboir of the reparations commission at Rambbuit^t says: "The cabinet council, through the premier, gave definite instructions to M, D?bOis concerning the, French 'attitude.'Ah the event of Germany's failure to ^m&&iz&jt??&&&^ com missions decision of August 31.". M. Dubots. who is president of the commission, will exercise his. right to' cast the deciding vote" m the event;.that Great Britain and Italy oppose such declaration as is probable. . The members of . the cabinet took a very critical view of the situation and gave explte^ instructors ; to M. Dubois to Ce .mand action..by the commissiua un less the gold is deposited.' The refusal of Germany to pay the 1.5O0f#OO.pomids due* tomorrow as part, payment of . her private. pre-war debts to allied national?, has served to stiffen the attitude of the cabinet. The recent "?ondon [conference reduced the- paymcst?i; j due in. Anglist and September from 14.000.000 pounds .'to 2,000.OfrO' [pounds. Germany has pa?d '$00,-, 1000 pounds and was require! tc^ pay -the balance tomorrow.?; Her' | refusal to do so has claused. dfseji* I resentment in. the KrencJi cabinet- .. which feels that Germanyf could: easily meet the payment. ?" French policy i? being directed^' toward a formal assertion from the commission of Germany's' vol untary default: it is reliably statr ed that France will then request an . inuned^e ir?ufcrenee of the. aUiferV powers ?r consider the reparations.; situatiotvand an effort will.be made to reach an agreement with Great Britain on the French debt and also a <^nhke settlement of the - i reparation question. No militart j measure will -bo taken unless the ?conference broke down. The British differ strongly with the F>ench in the present crisis and believe that Germany's offer (should be accepted. xThey contend: that the eommipsien never' 'C:osr= template*} that Belgium would ac tually demand gold, such provision. being put into the decision simply ; for use. as a last resort. Despite the very serious turn ?f events the German de'ega-ion in \ Paris rentains ca?m and optimistic. . I When informed that the cabins j had decided upon a stern policy. [one German official said: 'They Mways decide on sterh > measures. However, we ha"e, rev fused the . gold snd shall contiriu^ to refuse it. Bnt I.think that so^re* compromise will I?f? effected, ss.r<T* j aUie? do not want to precipitate I trouble at this time.** MINERS STILL ENTOMBED Rescue fVorkers Making Fira] Drive j Jackson. Cal.. Sept. IS?The res icue crews driving from the Keit i nedy mine here into neighboring I workings to release the forty-sev^n i i men entombed three weeks ago set i tied down today into what is be j lieved to be the tinal struggle. Ccn I neciion between the mines wr'e ; established at an early hour this ! morning. Engineers at the mouth of the j mine >aid that at least twenty-four j hours would be required before 1 the first body or rescued miners [could be brought to the surface. Several days may be required for exploration work before any bodies or men are found,. it is said.