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THE SUMTER WATCHMAN, Est CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2,: CONTRACTS TO BE TESTED J u d g e Shipp Issues Restraining Order Against Williams burg Member of the Association Florence. Sept. 20.?The South Carolina . Tobacco Growers* Co operative Marketing association late this afternoon procured a tem porary injunction against F. W. Fairey. a planter of Willianisburg county, restraining him from de livering his tobacco to any other warehouse or association except the growers' cooperative association, with which he has signed a con tract. Judge S. W. G. Shipp granted the temporary injunction in cham bers upon the application of Will-! cox & Willcox. representing the as-j sociation. The complaint alleged that while j Mr. Fairey had signed the contract] of the association he had not ful-1 filled its terms with respect to the j delivery-of the tobacco. The com- i plaint stated that he had deliver ed to the association only 800 pounds out of a total acreage of 60 acres. The papers in the case have been filed and copies have been forward ed to Kingstree for service. The case will come to trial upon its merits in due course. The proceedings are important in that they constitute the first at-j teropt^of the tobacco growers' as sociation to enforce its contract. Should Mr. Fairey make applica tion to have the injunction dis solved the hearing may be held earlier than the regular term of] the court. Much interest is attached to the j case. It was announced some timef ago that the association would ex ert every effort to foree compli ance with its contracts. The action taken yesterday may lead to others, it was stated today. . Raleigh. X. C, Sept. 20.?The Tobacco Growers' Cooperative as sociation started, legal action to protect the contracts of 80,000 loyal members today when it ob tained restraining orders against Z. A.- Harrell of Edgecomb coun ty. X. C. and W. T. Jones, of Nash county. X- C. to 'prevent these al leged contract breakers from de livering any more of their tobacco outside of the association. Judge C. C. Lyon, -holding court -n the Fourth judicial district, is sued restraining order, which was forwarded to Nashville today arid will be served without delay upon the defendants in this case of tue tobacco cooperative. ^ Z. A. Karrell of Macclcsfield. | who signed up 25,000 pounds oi j obacco with the big cooperatives.; and W. T Jores of Nashville, who I signed over f?.OO? pounds, arc al- j leged in the complaint o? the asso- j ciation to" have sold y.Ooo pounds j each outside of the association in violation of the contract. Both } parties arp alleged to have stated they would not deliver any of their tobacco to. the association, and j papers will be forwarded them noli- j fying the defendants to appear be fore Judge F. A. Daniels of the! Second judicial district at Xash- j Aille. X. C. on Monday, October 9, to show cause why the injunction t should not be granted until the ? final hearing of the case. The summons tiled in these first] suits of the tobacco . cooperative ( association'called for liquidated! damages of five cents a pound for j all tobacco sold outside of the asso ciation as provided in its contract j with all members, also for attor neys* fees of ?350 in each case. The cases in which the tobacco cooperative takes action today will be followed up by suits against other contract breakers and those inducing members of association J to break their contracts, according i to Aaron Sapiro. attorney for the association, who told 6,000 farm ers attending the recent mass meetings of tobacco growers in Danville, and SouthhUi, Va., that suits were being pr*?par*d to pro tect the interests of the thousands of loyal members of the associa tion who have organized to per fect their system of marketing to bacco in three states. The bankers of Florence, after : six weeks v? cooperative market- ' ing, r"!'"-rr:i*>h^d th** following' comments received today at head- j quarters of the Tobacco Growers* j Cooperative association at Raleigh j by M. O. Wilson, secretary: "The Tobacco Growers' Coopera- | tfye association in South Carolina] i< a splendid success. The city of j Florence, including banks and has-; iness houses, is 10^ per cent, co- j operative. We feel that we have j doubled the price Of our entire! South Carolina tobacco crop the j first year of its operation. <>urj rales c^mnuttee is meeting withi wonderful success in selling our to-j hacco at satisfactory prices, even the non-signers are giving the asso ciation credit for the Increase ' in; price. Bverjr one appreciates thnj orderly manner ?>f marketing as; against thf ??id dumping system, i When the doors are o?>-n again! for sfeners we expect to see our.; membership increased t?? nearly per cent. We consider the movement the financial salvation ablished April, 1850. SHOPMEN I AT WORK Railroad Strike End ed on Majority of the Big Systems by Agreement Chicago. Sept. 18.?But few out j breaks were reported today as sev ?: era! more railroads put into effect I the shop craft peace plan. The number of men employed on others increased and now it is estimated that the shop forces are about 85 per cent, of normal. Officials of both the Chicago, i Milwaukee & St. Paul and the] Northwestern announced that the j striking shopmen returned to work I by the thousands during the" day I and without any sighs of violence j noted Saturday when the returning workers demanded that all non-j union employees be dismissed. j Meanwhile the Southern railway! and the Mobile & Ohio, which is j controlled vby the Southern, an-! jnounced they had signed the shopi [craft agreement which was ap j proved by the general policy com mittee of the unions last week. J. Ei Gorman, president of the Rock Island railroad, said that uo fur ther negotiations will be carried on by the railroad with the of ficers of the shop crafts, but.that an "association of Rock Island shop employees" is being formed by those now in the service, with whom ail future negotiations wilr be con ducted. Mr. Gorman said that former! j employees now on strike will be | ^iven -an opportunity to join the j new association and will be fully! restored to pass and pension priv- j iieges but will not be given thei^ old places on the seniority list. Striking employees of the road were given until October 1 to re enter the service in order to ob tain pension benefits. The executives of some of the! roads that have held off from the! shop crafts .settlement plan assert- ! ed today that the efforts of B. M. j ^Jewell, president of the shop crafts i organization, have narrowed down to a fight to get jobs for the men { he 'called out July 1. . Mr. Jewell departed for New York last night with the intention of entering into a conference Tues day morning with officials of the New York Central in - an effort to j reach an agreement of some basi3j of-settlement. New York" Central officials Sat urday broke off conferences with j representatives of the strikers, de-1 daring the latter were making de- j mands not contained in the. original! memorandum of agreement. Augusta, Ga.. Sept. 18.?Gener al manager A. \V. Anderson of the j Charleston & Western Carolina, j declined today to settle the shop- j men's strike on his road along lines j laid down in the Warfield-Willard- i Jewell plan. He told a commit- j tee of striking shopmen that all ap- j p'ications for return to work by j strikers and others would be con- J sidered and answered promptly. The entire force of 85 men re turned to work at the Seaboard shops yesterday morning as per their previous agerement. Greenwood, Sept. IS.?The regu lar force of shopmen who have been on'strike in the Seaboard At* Line shops at Abbeville since Jul* 1 returned to their posts at 7 o'clock. Southern's Latest Statement The Southern Railway later Is sued the following statement: "Shop employees who have been on strike will be restored to work as rapidly as can be done with out disturbing the orderly work ing of the shops. Under the terms of the agreement, all old men with i the exception of those guilty of! violence, are ro be put back within thirty days. The men come back to! work at reduced wages, set by thoj railroad, against which the strike] was directed." j FORD PLANTS WILL REOPEN j - One Hundred Thousand Meni Will Return to Work Detroit, iiept. 21.?Plants of the! Ford Motor Company in Detroit I district which closed last Satur-! day. because of the con I situation, thereby throwing one hundred j thousand workers out of work in different parts of the country. I will reopen tomorrow, it was oth- * cially announced Orders for the! reopening of the >?5jiit:- were tele-j graphed here by Edsel B. Ford, j president of the company, who is! in Cincinnati. '>f the South Carolina tobacco j farmer." This was signed by the Co mm er- j rial and Savings bank. Frank i Brand, president; Fir.si National] Bank of Florence. Ham 11. Hus bands, cashier; Hank of Florence, I W. j. Browi? president: Palmetto j Pank & Trust Co.. B. H. Lucas, vice president: Florence clearing house association, G. H. Lucas. 1 "Be Just and Fear ALLIES CALL CONFERENCE ONTURKEY War in Near East Pre vented by Meeting of Allied Premiers in Paris Pans. Sept. 20 (By the Associat I ed Press). ? Definite assurance that there will be no war in the Near East and the calling of a peace conference for the settlement of the Turkish problem were the chief re sults of the allied meeting this af ternoon. Premier Poincare. Lord Curzon and Count Sforza were the participants in tne conference. The eight interested powers in cluding the Angora government, will gather around the peace table within three weeks, probably at Rome or Venice, and make a new treaty with Turkey to take the place of the treaty of Sevres. The eight nations called together are Great Britain. France, Italy. Japan, Turkey, Greece, Rumania and Jugoslavia. Japan's inclusion at the last min ute came as a surprise. It was due to Lord Curzon's insistence. The British foreign secretary told Premier Poincare that his gov ernment frankly feared the close association it had reason to believe existed between Moscow and An gora, and Japan's presence was de sired to offset this 'Bolshevik in fluence. It was also explained that Japan was a signatory of the treaty of Sevres which is to bV abandoned for the new agreement and was entitled to be present fox that reason. It is remarked In French cir cles, however, that the participa tion of Japan insures another vote for British policy in any issue whicn may arise in the conference. M. Poincafe in consenting to the pres ence of Japan demanded also the presence of Rumania and Jugo slavia. - While the United States was not included among the eight countries to participate it is regarded*as cer tain that a mere intimation from the American government that it desires to attend, even as an ob server, will be followed by an in stant imitation from the allies. In: fact there is said to be strong sen-: timent in certain quarters in favor of asking the United States to send! a representative, but in view of I American aloofness from European! affairs it was decided, not to take I the initiative. j Lord Curzon, M. Poincare andj Count Sforza were in complete a'c- \ cord that there should be no war] in the Near East, but Lord Curzon [ asseited Great Britain felt that'the i presence of a strong fleet in the! strait:-? was necessary to. maintain j freedom of passage. Admiral Lord Beatiy of the Brit-] ish navy and Admiral Grusset of! the French navy reported on the J military and naval situation in the; Dardanelles. Admiral Beatty is j believed to have said that freedom! of the straits could be maintained j by the navy. While insisting on what 'they, term their legitimate claim? to east*- j ern Thrace. Adrianople and Gon-i stantinople, the Turks are under-: stood to have informed M. Poin- i care that they would consent to re-! main masters of Asia Minor until I the conference had given consid eration to these other claims. French officials are confident to-I night of a complete agreement with Great Britain when the allied I meeting resumes on Friday, and it I is freely predicted that the British ! troops will retire. On the other! hand, late tonight, in reply to a J question, it was authoritatively i stated iii British quarters that thei British troops were not in danger at Chanak, which gave rise to the i report that they might remain there! with the tacit approval of the j Turks. j Constantinople. Sept. 20 < By the j Associated Press).?The British j are mobilizing every available war- ' ship. man, horse. automobile, j cannon and rifle within reach of I the troubled zone. They are pre paring to deal a tremendous blow by land, sea and air if provoked ! by the ECemalist army, which ac-j cording to the latest reports, is j concentrating feverishly around Ism id and Chanak: All the British barracks in Con stantinople have been evacuated and troops are marching in the] streets Of the ??.?j>ital which is hav-j ipir a sobering effect on the exuber-j ant Tur ks. Tlie British soldiers j m-" headed for points on the straits; i General headquarters has issued aii official order directing the wives ! and families or* British officers and ' soldiers to prepare to embark to- : morrow. Transports with British cavalry, heavy artillery and supplies are ar- | riving at Haidarpashc on the Is-; mid railway. The men of the Constantinoplej garrison are constructing entrench- ! m'ents a< Scutari nn the Asiat:?* side j of the Bosphorus. which will h?? the second lin** of defense, the first be ing ;jt Farinja, a small railway station between ETaidarpasha and Ismid. The British police forces in the capital have been greatly aug-J rnented and w ill probably !??? as- ! sisted by French gendarmes, ft is j estimated rh.? present total British, strength in Constantinople ami the Dardanelles area is about 16,000 j men. which when reinforcements! now on the way arrive, will be in - j creased to nearly 75,000 effectives. I Not?Let all the ends Thou Ainis't Sumter, S. C, Sa.tyrda: U. S. Girl Is G j "A prophet is not without hono; ?Pola Negri comes to the United St; j becomes a great film star in Germ; ! what German fans call her. ?NTERMEYER i IN FIGHT 0? [ DAUGHERTY j At Hastily Called Meeting, House Judiciary Commit tee Postpones Ac tion Until Next Ses sion of Congress Washington, Sept. 18.?By a vote ! of 8 to 3 the house judiciary com i mittee. nt a hastily called meeting ! today, postponed consierati?n of I the Keller impeachment charges i against Attorney General Daugh j erty?set for tomorrow?until the j short session of congress, begin j ning in December. Decision to defer action virtually i was reached by Republican mem bers of the committee earlier in the day when it was con tern! ed that I the hearing should not proceed while Mr. Daugherty was in Chi cago in connection with injunction proceedings against the striking railway shopmen. Action by the committee, with j Democrats voting in opposition! was taken a short time after Rep-i resentative Keller. Republican.; Minnesota, who had sought im~; peachment. had announced that; Samuel Untermyer. of New York, j would represent him before the! committee. Mr. Keller characteriz ed the delay by the committee as; "unfair." and later made public a, letter from Mr. Untermyer which I he planned to present at the mcet-.j ing tomorrow. Mr. Untermyer wrote that he did I not regard Mr. Daugherty's appli-i cation for the injunction as "an j impeachable offense" of itself, but! believed "the attorney general j should be promptly removed from j his office" on the grounds of "un-j willingness or inability to enforce; the anti-trust laws, in which his' action and non-action have reached j the 'proportion of a great public! scandal resulting in imminent peril; to the country." I The Xew York attorney declared1 that it" he could be of service in] bringing to the attention of the' committee "this scandalous situa-; tion" with respect to anti-trust i prosecutions he would be glad to do so "a* a puouc service." with-, out pay. As to the charges grow- j ing out of the injunction proceed-j ings. Mr. Untermyer said accept-! ance of service as an attorney would, depend on whether Mr. Keller could; submit evidence to substantiate his: charges of improper conduct in of-' tice. RAILROAD SECURES LARGE CREDIT Washington, Sept. 21? The Inter-.! state Commerce Commission today granted authority to the Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia railway to issue two hundred thousand dol-, Jars in common capital stock, four; hundred thousand in preferred and ! X? assume obligations for ninety- ? seven thousand dollars of promis sory notes. These, forces will he further j strengthened by large detachments] from the Atlantic and Mediter- ; ranean fleets. The British are enrolling Hits- ' si.tn refugees with railitary training; i"i>r auxiliary work. while iius sian Kalmuks from Manchuria are being recruited ;<s horse trainers. It is expected eventually Creat j Britain will have more th.-m 100,-j 000 men in the disturbed area. j i gig at be thy Country's, Thy God's and f, September 23, 1922 erman Film Star r save in his own country." so while ites Fern Andrea of "Watseka. 111., my. "Unsere Fern*' (our Fern) is TOBACCO i MARKETING I ASSOCIATION i I Farmers' Organiza tion Has -Saved $4, ! 000,000 For Tobacco j Growers I Editor Daily Item: i I finished a tour of practically t.evory market in the state Saturday. fjL find-that our members as a whole ! ai-f1 pleased with our system of j handling tobacco. A few in every ? section violated their contracts, but j upon close inquiry T find that our I members are very loyal indeed. In j fact. I think we have made a most ; remarkable showinsr und our ware I house force and graders are to be ; congratulated upon the efficient ; services rendered the association. ! One year ago the auction sales in i South Carolina up to September 1st j averaged ? II.")S per hundred with j millions of pounds thrown away. This , year the auction sales for a j commoner crop average S21.05 per 'hundred to September 1st. including ! tobacco which was thrown away last year. I find that at least 95 per cent, of the growers and busi (ness men both in and out of the I Association give the Association j credit for this increase in price of their -tobacco. They realize that j the Association is . directly respon-, sible for the crop being assorted and tied and marketed in an or derly manner. The comparison be tween the present system and the one we have been following for years of dumping our crop and handling it like shucks, is so very striking that even the most skep tical are convinced. Assuming taat the crop in South Carolina reaches forty million pounds, this will mean four mil lion dollars more money for the farmers of the Pee Dee section. This four million dollars at the present time will mean the saving of many of our farmers and business men' fron; near bankruptcy. Let's continue to eall the atten tion of our members, non-members and business men to the above facts. With kindest personal regard: and best wishes-. I a in. Yours very truly. \V. E. Lee, j Field Service Division. CAFT. PERRY M. DELON Prominent Confederate Vet eran Dies in Washington Washington. Sept IS?Capt. Per ry .\f. DeBeori. widely known as a leader 'among [Confederate vete rans, an da native of Suniter, S. <".. is dead here at the age of S2. De fore the War Between the States, he was ir: tin- United SMtcs navy, lie became a a officer in the Confed erate navy after the war broke out a lei when the war closed he practiced law in Charleston. Savan nah and Atlanta. President Cleve land appointed ('apt. DeLeon con sul general to one of South Amer ican republics. He made his home in Washington on the expiration of (his service and was one of the most active leaders in the move ment which resulted iu the erection j of the Confederate monument in Arlington National Cemetery w hero he will he buried. New Vork. Sept. 21. The Gin stein theory of relativity will b<- on trial today. HVsts will !?<> made by expeditions during the five min utes eclipse of the sun in Austral ia. Troth's." ENGLAND WILL ONLY RESIST THET?RKS Official Statement Somewhat Clears the Situation in Re spect t o Dardan elles Crisis London. Sept. 3 8 (By the Asso ciated Press).?The declaration that Great Britain does not intend to engage in any new war, obtain ed from an authoritative source today, coupled with other state ments-of a modified policy, is tak to'mean that the series of cabi net meetings and ministerial con ferences in the last few days have been partly in preparation for pos sible attacks in the British forces by the Kemalfsts and partly as political preparation for the con templated general conference for the settlement of the Turkish ques tion. While it-is not seriously expected in military quarters that Mustapha Kemal. head of the Turkish Nat ionalists, will make an attempt either to capture Constantinople or cross the straits, the British wish to be ready in case of emergency and not sacrifice the meager con tingent of troops, long stationed in Constantinople. The many statements issued with the permission of number 10 j j Downing street after each confer- j jence are interpreted as empha- j (sizing the intention of the cabinet j to carry out the policy which it hasj faithfully adhered to for morej tha*n three years regarding Turkey j jnd the straits, and. despite muchi ^criticism at home and abroad, that j policy, which, is coupled with the i Greek defeats, will still be vigor- ? on sly followed. The first task of Premier Lloyd j George is to win the French to the I point of view. Great Britain is; laying her cards on the table, and | it is not her intention, it is said, I to attempt to make a new Gibraltar! at Gallipoli; she merely wishes not j to give-the Turks another oppor- j tunity in ease of a general war to j [waste so. many European lives by I Turkish control of the straits. The cabinet is thoroughly con-' v; need That French public opinion j is with the Turks, but Lord Cur-i zon, British secretary for foreign j affairs, who is proceeding to Paris. I will poipt out to- Premier .Poin- j care, that bigger issues than Turkey i are at stake, that the whole peace j of the Balkans, future relations of j Russia and the entire Near East i are involved, that if Great Britain can risk disturbing her Moham medan connections by forcing the Turks to accept a European settle ment of the straits, then France can afford to yield and cooperate with the British in a Turkish peace. "Lord Curzon can do this more convincingly by a talk over a table than by correspondence..'' explain- j ed one official. "That is why he is j going to Paris." With France convinced, it is be- i lieved the Balkan states will fall into line; then an undivided front j can be presented to the Turks: and any solution regarding the i straits be imposed. With respect! to Soviet Russia's attitude of j sympathy with the Turks, it. is be- j lieved that ca*# be overcome. From j facts lately presented at London it: is known the Soviet's attitude is { partly due to allied control of her j travelers and freights exercised in the past year at Constantinople, where Soviet officials have been arrested and detained and their shipments made to pay heavy de murrage charges. These annoy ances will cease. jX is argued, when j a Turkish peace is arranged. . London. Sept. 1&?The British; cabinet, takes the attitude that j England will undertake military j action alone, if necessary to pro- j tect the freedom of the Darda- j helles. JEFFORDS FDLES APPEAL; Columbia Murder Trying to[ Cheat the Electric Chair Columbia; Sept. 'JO.?The appeal; to the supreme court of F. M. Jef- j fords, Columbia man, now in thej death cell of the state penitentiary,! convicted with Ira Harrison and,' Glenii Treece of the murder of J. C. Arnette, has been riled with the j state supreme court. L. G. South ard. of Spartauburg, is attorney for; Jeffords in the appeal. The appeal makes thirteen ex ceptions to the charge of the court and rulings of the court during the j trial. These deal mainly with ad-j missions of testimony relative to the confessions of the men of theiv: parts in the crime. The appeal; also takes exception to the charge; of the court regarding the law of conspiracy. Jeffords, Harrison and Treece j were eonvbted last May. Treece J got lit", and is serving his term, j The other two are in the death; house, appeals having stayed their, executions. ^ i Washington. Sept. 21 ? Prjxident Harding today signed the tariff bill of making the new rates; effective at midnight tonight. THE TRUE BOV KEMAL DRUNK ! WITH VICTORY ! OVER GREEKS I _ i Leader of Turks De clares Intention of Pursuing Defeated j Foes into Europe Christianity to Be Wiped Out in Asia ?:?? ! London. Sept. 19 (By the Asso ciated Press).?For the. time being ! the scene shifts to Paris where iLord Curzon. the British secretary jfor foreign affairs, will seek to at I tain harmony of views between his jown and the French government, i The ministerial conferences in Lon jdon have ended for the moment, land Premier Lloyd George has Igone to the country for a few ; days' rest. j That the general stuation is re i garded as easier is shown by the i fact that M?stapha- Kemal Pasha, ! leader of the Turkish nationalists, i is apparently making no new move 'although according to an Athens ! report which has reached London, i he left Smyrna for Nico- edia, ad j joining Ismid. south of Constan i tinople. while it is said tonight that ! Admiral Earl Bcatty may find it ! unnecessary to proceed to Paris, i On the other hand, perhaps, the \ most imortant news of the day i comes in the Associated Press des | patches from Constantinople stat ! ing that Kemal has sought ' per ! mission of the allies to occupy part 1 of Thrace immediately and discuss ; the 'question of the status of the I Dardanelles later in connection ' with the general peace problem and with the participation of the ! Black Sea countries. I This touches the crux of the. whole question. There may pos-. srhly be an agreement between I Great Britain. France and Italy on the question of the neutrality of the straits and a further agreement that Constantinople shall eventual ly be returned to the Turks kinder I certain conditions. But on the [question of the future of Thrace, 1 outside the neutral zone, such an agreement is. lacking. ... Kemal Pasha seemingly takes the view that ihere is nothing in ^the maintenance of the neutrality of the .straits and the neutral zone to prevent his forces ? from pur suing the defeated Greeks into those portions of Thrace outside the neutral zone. The British con-, tention is that under no circum stances will the Turks be allow ed to cross into Eurpe until peace has been settled. But is not cer tain that France sees eye to eye with Great Britain in this matter. ? The fact that France and Italy are withdrawing their detach-^ ments from this region would in dicate there is lack of agreement and that Great Britain m?y be; railed upon to act alone. In that case it is understood' parliament will forthwith be sum moned so that the nation may have a voice in the important question of peace or war. The la bor party is displaying very de termined opposition to any war until the last resources of diplo macy and negotiation are exhausted and a similar disposition appears to prevail in the great dominions, despite their readiness to stand be side the mother country in defense of the neutrality of the Dardanelles. In official circles in London it is not anticipated that there will be any peace conference. It is under stood instructions given to Lord Curzon by the cabinet on the gen eral line of policy are to intimate very frankly to M. Poincare that if France refuses to participate in necessary action in the Near East, she may stand to lose, as she did many years ago. when she refused to join England in the^ bombard ment of Alexandria and so started a train of events which brought Egypt under British influence. M. Poincare will be told that England is absolutely set in her! view that the Turks shall not be permitted to enter Europe and Great Britain is prepared to em ploy her own forces in sufficient j numbers end over any length of lime to bring the Turks to reason. She will be also informed that as- I suranees have been received from j Rumania and Jugo Slavia that j under certain conditions those i countries will side with Great Brit-' ain. It is reported Premier Lloyd George is prepared to make a gen eral appeal to the civilized world to support the British policy. He has been in consultation with a number of experts on Xcar East ern affairs. Among others. Henry Mergenthau, the former American ambassador to Turkey!, had break- ; fast with him today. The British government is still j without a formal reply from the] Angora government to the allied* warnings concerning the neutral /one. In its strong adherence to the senu-official statement issued Saturday, the government is im- j bued with the belief that an ox- ] hibition of firearms and solidarity of th<- whole empire in maintain ing the British stand concerning the straits and the neutral zone is the best method of bringing to the realization of the Angora govern ment that nothing can be gained THRON/ Established Jone 1, 186$. VOL. LDL NO. 12 ARROGANT TURK DICTA' ?vT0_EUR The Butchery of the Greeks arid Other Christians in Asia and Expulsion of Survivors an Anci ent Right Paris. Sept. 19 (By the Asso ciated Press).?A bloodless settle ment of the crisis in the Near East with the British troops shortly withdrawing from the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles was predicted by Ahmed Fcrid Bey. principal"" spokesman for Mustanha KemaT Pasha in Europe, in the course of a statement to the Associatect Press toi^grht. "Common sense' ^ill win out in England despite the apparent "belligerency, of the Brit ish government,** said ?? Ferid; "British soldiers will soon follow their French and Italian brother ers in arms to the European side of the straits. "Our troops," he continued, "are proceeding to occupy all of Asia, Minor up to the Asiatic side of fhtS Dardanelles. We will ' occupy. Chanak where the British troops are: stationed and if they fire upon: us, which we doubt very much. thW responsibility for the inevitable Wood shed will be on British shoulders. However, we honestly, do not expect opposition from the British. If they desire to rexnain? in Chanak; and behave themselves we will occapy the district jointly; but I think they will soon foiled the footsteps-of the French and the Italians to the other side. "bfL the straits. "Turkey does n ot recognize any such thing as a zone .-of the straft^. It does not etist: neither does the treaty of Sevres, which has not been accepted' by \ any of the powerjiT However, we. will respect a smalt neutral Sone-extending from. Con stantinople. We are deternu^ttejdV. however,: to drive all the G^eejks QUt of Asia Minor, and we l>eUer? that it would be most- unfortunate if -anyc-of .U^-^^owers interfered with us itti this-respect. "Turkey earnestly desires *^ peaceful settlement of the crisis. We- want* to; get around the con ference table, with the allied powr era and make peace. Our trco;ps; will n?t^ niake a single move, ort European 'Turkey pending the signing of the peace treaty, but our just demands must be granted; in that .treaty. We demand all of Asia Minor, Constantinople for our sultan, all eastern Thrace anff Adrianople. Western Thrace we j wiir dlsc?? at the conference., j "We are quite witling to have-an j international control of the stzaits 'and if the United States, wishes. : to be included in this conrol.we^ would gladly accept her participa- j tion. Turkey, of course, must have an equal voice." ? The Turkish headquarters xin ~ Paris had the air of frank opti mism today. The Turks here ap peared to feel that' the present crisis would end by the withdraw al of the British troops from Asia Minor. Reports reached these/, headquarters .today that - Grea^ Britain had already modified her poliey and that a Franco-British! agreement on the Near East situa-^ - tion. is expected as the result of* Lord Vurisdu's visit. OUTBREAKS IN BIRMINGHAM B. R. DISTRICTS Birmingham. Sept. -21.?Out breaks of Violence in the Birmmgr' ham raihroad districts last night caused renewed energy on the part of authorities today in an effort *o put down the use of high explo sives. A rigid inquiry is beiajj. > made in connection with the blosv ing up of a box car used as a bunk house in the yards of the Louis* / ville & Nashville railroad. The plosion smashed the car to piecps and one mau, Clarence Jones. w?! severely injured. ANOTHER CROP PEST Columbia, ' Sept. 20.?W. W. Pearce, of Columbia, has just re turned from a trip to Pawley's^J^-;-* land, and he reports a new kin&jcf pest which is giving the farmers much trouble there. It is knoce^r^ as the Potto Rican Mole Cricket; and was imported from the Indie??/ He says it eats the turnips and other forms of truck and mskes planting difficult. He says it has j claws like a ??fiddler" and burrows quickly into the ground. ' It lives in water}' sections. The pestles visited several coastal sections of this state within the past year, Mr. Pearce says. ^ by forcing the situation. Unless* Kemal l*asha should make a fur ther new move no further develop nvuts are expected until the .ecu" of Ihe week. By that time Lord Curzon will have returned to Loa-t; don. but a great deal depends up- . on the success or failure of his niis sion* ' . _