Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 2

PAGE TWO RENO EVENING GAZETTE FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1923 RUINED SMYRNA PAIR GIVE LIVES OLD COOK Sf CO. BUILDING 12 HOURS EX-GOLOFIELDERS OFFER SYMPATHY A IS COMING TO PASSION PLAY GARY ASSERTS BLAZE DOES NO DAMAGE The fire department was called -out shortly before noon today to extinguish a smouldering blaze in the basement of some old brick fire ruins on Commercial Row, just east of Lake street. No damage was done. EUREKA COLLECTOR DEAD OAKLAND, July 6. John deputy collector of customs in charge of the port of Eureka, died here Thursday.

Forest fires destroy an average of 20,000 acres of timber every day of OBERAMMERGAU. July 4. (Asso ciated Press). Jacob and Mathilde Nearly two hundred former Gold-field citizens living in Reno got together shortly after word of the fire reached this city this morning and (Continued from Page One) persistent and when he knows he Is right he is pretty strong. He will get the full and cordial Eupport of the steel Rutz have just celebrtaed their golden wedding anniversary, one more mile suDscrioea to a telegram expressing their confidence that the camp would "come back." The tolsiram Rent to stone in two lives which have been devoted to the Passion Play for sev industry in this undertaking." Negroes from South enty years.

Rutz was the village the Goldfield Tribune, was as follows: every year in this country. An ounce of platinum may be drawn out into a wire, invisible to the naked eye which would reach more than half v-ay acrobS this country. former Goldf ielders, forever One of the most improtant factors in blacksmith of Oberammergau until i age pulled him away from the forge, the increase of labor in the steel in lovers ot and4x)sters for the great old camo. express our rpe-rpf and sym SMYRNA, June 10. (By Associated Press Mall.) After ten months of death-like stillness which followed the devastating fire, Smyrna has taken on a new lease of life.

Quay street, which skirts the waterfront, has been cleared of debris and the familiar one-horse tramcars again are running. Two moving: picture concerns which feature American films are operating cnoveniently near the spot where pas-finger ships tie up. Turkish newsboys cry out a two-page edition of a daily French propaganda paper, and the cafes are running; full blast. The American flag is still flying from the quay, but is in a new place. It was removed from the burning consulate at the height of the fire in September, 1922, and again when the, temporary consulate was destroyed by a blaze several months ago.

and is the father-in-law of Anton Lang, the renowned portrayer of the dustry seen by Mr. Gary was the mi fcl T2 car 1 cm gration of negroes from the south to life of Christ. pathy in Its affliction. We believe it will eventually come back strong and will stampede back to its next boom FRED P. DANN Glasses Fitted X-Ray Lab, 206 Gazette Bldg.

Phone 1200. Advt. Jy2 tf. In 1850, as a babe of three, Rutz tho manufacturing centers of the North. took his original part in Oberammer- We shall have some difficulty in gau's famous play.

He was then cast as Adam's son In one of the Old Tes making adjustments which will satisfy a large number of our workmen," Mr. Gary continued. "Many, if not most tament tableaux which feature the We know the Goldfield spirit and know the camp will survive all tribulations." i DIED SPURIJNGf-In Reno. July 5, 1923, Jackson, beloved husband of Lorene Spurling and father of Mrs. J.

J. Murphy and Sybil Spurling, a native performances. Ten years later he ap Groceries at cent Discount. xst, 25 per Colorado Adv. j6 tl peared as an alto soloist and in 1870 of the foreigners, desire to work longer hours, even at the same rate of pay, so as to receive larger daily was chief assistant to the Passion Play prologlst and choir leader, Joh Grocery.

DESTROYED IN GO LDFIELD BLAZE American tobacco men who have To Make Eight Hours Soon straggled back to Smyrna havjs been annes Diemer. During the perform of North Carolina, aged fifty-two "Some arrangements will be ex surprised at the commercial activity ances of 1880, Diemer again held this years of the city. Exportation of figs, rais pensive of them may result in a reduction of production. A few men Private funeral services will be Ins and tobacco have revived in a combination position but Rutz often substituted for him and in 1S90 replaced the leader entirely. held Saturday at 10:30 a.

m. at the NOTHING LEFT IN GO LDF1ELD TODAY LYING TO EST OF COLUMBIA ST. For centuries the Diemer family has WIGWAM furnished the choir leader, Rutz be chapel of Groesbeck O'Brion. Interment in Mountain View cemetery. DUBORG In Reno, July 2, and 4 1923, Christian H.

and Christina M. Du-borg, beloved parents of George, Harold, Francis and Robert Duborg. small degree, and some steel rails and building materials are being imported. The Turks, the Americans say, are making a big effort to give the lie to those who prophecied Smyrna would remain a dead city under their rule. In this the Turks are being assisted by a generous sprinkling of Dutch, the ing the only person ever to break in on this otherwise uninterrupted suc cession.

In 1870, when the Passion Play, sea Funeral services will be held to TODAY may want less hours, but a majority do not unless they can get the same pay as they receive for a day of longer hours. But we are determined to make the eight-hour day at the earliest possible moment." inent part in last year's play; the other lives in Munich and is therefore not eligible to the cast. Her daughter Mathilde, the wife of Anton Lang, made a name for herself in former years as a Passion Play artist. Rutz continues active in public life, as a member of the village government oldest of the western colonies in famy son had to be interrupted, Rutz was morrow afternoon at three o'clock from the family residence, No. 845 rna before the fire, and Italians, a new called to the colors for the Franco- Prussian war.

It was an ironcal co Sierra street, under the auspices of importation, who are Jealous of French efforts to capture the trade Reno lodge No. 13, F. A. 1L, and incidence that he was billeted during of the once prosperous community and the hostilities with a French family principal outlet for the riches of Asia Nevada chapter No. 13, O.

E. S. Interment Masonic cemetery. Remains at the parlors of the Ross Burke Co. Minor.

Continued from Fag One) rectly through openings in masonry and continuing on down Main street toward the old stcok exchange, which ately has been used for a movie show. Marino's dry goods store at the corner of Hall street is in lino. To the northwest corner of Hall is Mark's men's store which adjoined by the Overland Hotel, a corrugated iron building of fifty rooms. Adjoining the Brown-Parker garage was the three-story Nevada tlotel of which had once been his guests at Oberammergau while attending th Ten months ago there were 200,000 Greeks in Smyrna and another 150,000 play. Mother Rutz's devotion to the Pas ITNFREID In Reno, July 2, 1923, buildings to heaps of smouldering ruins, and leaving many other blackened and smouldering ruins in its wake, and was said to have Jumped across to Columbia avenue.

Moving to the Postoffice It was said to be roaring toward the postoffice and the Goldfield hotel. An attempt to dynamite out a fire trail proved futile in the face of the wind, and the futility of this endeavor was intensified by the virtual failure of the water supply. The water is drawn in part from springs many miles from the town and part from Rabbit Springs, a mile away. Automobiles Burned Thirty automobile? were burned in land one of the Passion Play executive in the flourishing hinterland. Today the only Greeks in Smyrna are pris- committeemen.

Theodore Unfreld, a native of Illi nois, aged forty-three years. sion Play has expressed itself principally In hospitably caring for many of neor a war wroking under the lash Remains at the parlors of the Corinne Griffith In "Divorce Coupons" "The Leather Pushers" the thousands of tourists who trek Ross-Burke and will be shipped OVERLAND CAFE to Gold Hill tomorrow morning, this way every ten years. One of her two sons lives here and took a prom forty rooms. This has been destroyed. The Goldfield fire department consists of one man, chief Ike Gaillac, but Merchants' Lunch 35c.

Advt. J3tlm where services and Interment will be held. it owns a powerful "White truck and plenty of hose. Everybody is work First written reference to a lens was ing to check the progress of the one used for burning holes in parch ment in tho comedy "The Clouds," by flames and dynamite is being used. The railroad shops are situated two blocks from the present northern extremity of the fire.

They cover an area of thre eblocks. a Greek poet 380 B. C. the Brown Parker garage, where the fire is said to have started. Crumley, who led a fire fighting detail, was cut by flying glass and slightly hurt.

A relief committee was hastily organized here before noon and rushed several automobile loads of foodstuffs to the stricken town. All wire and rail United States fishery from the Pu- get Sound to San Francisco and from Cape Cod to the Rio Grande, yields Century Comedy annually about 115,000 tons of food. communication was cut off from the fire area. Telephone and Telegraph Groceries at Cost, 25 per of dari-rkinned Turkish non-commis-ioned officers, and guarded by Turkish privates with long-bayoneted rifles. Carrying Bteel rails with their bare hand from ships in' the harbor, and clearing debris from the narrow, winding streets emerging from the are their chief labors.

They look cowed and tired. They work from daybreak until darkness and get a small ration of bread, olives and Turkish coffee. France, Italy, Czechoslovakia and Bloshevist Russia maintain energetic consulates and trade repre -sentatives. The entire British colony has deserted the city. American destroyers and United States, shipping board steamers call here regularly.

Uncle Sam's freighters are capturing most of the cargo business in the Mediterranean from British, French and Italians. Pas-' eengers and crews on all boats -enter-ing Smyrna bay are required to wear lifebelts because of the menacing mine fields laid by the Turks. A Turkish tugboat leads the American destroyers through the lane of mines. Antipathy toward foreigners has not been wholly removed, and passengers are not permitted to land. American bluejackets, however, are always welcome, because the Turks have not forgotten how splendidly they behaved when the city was in flames.

hep fht home fires burning cent Discount. Colorado C.rnrrrv I Adv. J6 tl There's no need to cook luncheon on these warm days, when Shredded Wheat Biscuit can be prepared in the cool dining room with a choice of many delicious fresh fruits or berries and cream. Try this surprisingly economical and convenient luncheon idea for ti while. You'll enjoy the crisp, crundrj? golden-brown shreds of real whole wheat, prepared for you in their most appetizing way in biscuit form.

And you'll note the improvement in )our health and comfort. The last stand, of the fire fighters is being made before the Goldfield Hotel Elks building, the Tribune building and the postoffice. The Goldfield News-Tribune building holds the postoffice. Late arrivals in this town from Goldfield said that there was not a chance to save the town. Both the telephone company and the Wootsrn TTninn nffirpa vor hiirnpd go The latest report is to the effect that He water service has collapsed and the fire is now working back up town in the direction of the Goldfield hotel and principal buildings.

The wind is switching from southeast to west, which would justify this rumor. TOXOPAH. July 6. (Special). Nine blocks have burned.

There is no truth in the rumor that the Elks building is burning. By back firing all the east side of Columbia street has been saved including Goldfield hotel. Failure of the water supply is confirmed. The telephone company office is safe but the pole lines to Tonopah are prostrated. A temporary transmitter has been erected on a pole at the outskirts of town.

The Western Union office and fifteen poles have burned down and two linemen have left here to establish temporary offices. The American Railway Express was burned down. This was on the west side of Columbia street. The News from Tonopah TONOPAH. July 6.

Carried by a wind of hurricane force that is roaring Its defiance of dynamite and water, a great fire is sweeping over the gold camp of Goldfield, thirty GRAND Nevada's Most Beautiful Theatre' PHONE 319 Continuous Show From 1 P. M. to 11 P. M. Last Time Today VIOLA DANA down at the beginning of the fire, while frantic calls for help were be GOOD CIGARETTES ing sent to outside towns.

WORTH WHILE FACTS One Chippena Indian medicine song is as positive and energetic as ''On Bruits or berries and mm ff. PIE OF LEAD S3 I I In- Stosdded IS AGAIN CUT ward Christian Soldiers," says an investigator. About 650,000 people left the farms for the cities last year, the normal movement being about 250,000 a year. Brazil's population is 30.000,000. Cork will sink in liquid hydrogen.

Immigration was known as far back as when people of Persia and and Central and Western Asia moved in Europe. A Noise in Newboro" GENUINE "Bull" DURHAM TOGACCO miles to the south. Hundreds of refugees are fleeing to the hills carrying their hastily collected belongings with them. At ten o'cock Newton Crumley, proprietor of the Goldfield Hotel, estimated that the fire had done damage. At that hour it had swept Main street from end to end, reducing the big old but substantial CookBajikind Melting pot of lead is 585 "fFTff Also Fifth Episode of "Fighting Blood" NEW YORK, July 6.

The American Smelting and Refining Company today: announced the second price cut of a week In lead, reducing the price from 6.50 to 6.35 cents a pound. The cut made a decrease for the week of a half cent, the price having started at 6.85. Officials of the company refused to comment, but it was said in the trade that a threat of foreign competition, coupled with a prospective falling off r000 -Buaftfeir 1 Groceries at Cost, 25 per cent Discount. Colorado Adv. 6 tl Grocery.

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