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WEATHER, Fair and moderate temperature to- night and tomorrow. Temperature for twenty-four hours ‘ighest, 75, at ending 2 p.m. Vt; Hi t 2 p.m. today; lowest, 56, at 6 a.m: today. Full report on page 10, —! Closing New York Stocks, Page 23. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION bening Star. Member of the Associated Press ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all mews dispatches eredited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publicetion of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Yesterday's Net Circulation, 88,660. No. 27,857. post. office U.S. CLERK UNION STEPS IN AND MAY HALT. STRIKE Commissioners’ Stand Held Right, But Navy Yard Scale Requested. Probability of a strike by the City Employes’ Association, which might tie up water, sewerage and garbage systems of the city, was lessened to- eay through the intervention of the Federal Employes’ Union, No. 89. Representatives of this union today presented to the Commissioners a letter indorsing the latter's stan view of the navy yard wage scale on August 20, and also issued a state- ment declaring against a strike of District workers. | They advocated, however, which has been fought for by the City Employes’ Association iq making the Navy yard wage scale a standard for per diem District employes. Strike Ballot in Doubt. The strike ballot scheduled to be taken at tonight's meeting-of the City Employes’ Association, ~ at 1606 M Btreet. may be avoided as a result of today’s developmients. President George A. Howe. Secre- tary H. E. Saffell and. Miss Ethel Smith of the Federal Employes’ Union presented the District Commissioners with the Jetter in question, in which the union stated: “We wish hereby to register with sou a request for application of the navy yard wage @s adopted at that time (on August 20) by the Navy wage board to the per diem employes of the District of Columbia.” Says Position Is Altered. Enteted as second-class matter ‘Washington, Dd. C. KRAMER IN N.Y. WARNS THIRSTY OF DARK DAYS Less Whisky Is Sold; Still Less to Be, He Says EW YORK, August 3.—Whisky will be one of the hardest things in the world to buy before another month elapses, according to John F. Kramer, United States commissioner of prohibition, who arrived here to- day from Washington, personally to discover if liquor can be bought here easily as reported. | Mr. Kramer said he based his pre- diction chiefly on orders issued to the local wholesale dealers in liquor. “It is generally known that a good|the White Hous: d upon re-| deal of liquor is still being retailed | palatable for Gov. he said, “but there {of the matter in New York city, is not as much being sold at present as there has been in recent weeks, ac- cording to my best information, and a point] there will be far less sold in a very | mainta short time. Mr. Kramer said while having or- dered permits refused to wholesalers, “the chief, source from which the il- legal liquor traffic is being carried | ™os' on,” was glso working to insure hos- pitals, the medical profession ‘and druggists against any possible short- age. A LURE OF BREACH IN “SOLID SOUTH” ‘When news of this letter reached President Hurley of the City Em- ployes’ Association. he said: : “That alters my position consider- ably. I have no statement to make be- yond that. But it changes the case. It is believed that the action of the federal employes will serve to cause & postponement of the ‘strike ballot until after the action of the Navy wage board, which will meet Thurs- day for the preliminary Session, and which, will make its final award Au- gust 20. In’a previous statement. the District Commissioners announced that they would review the decisions of the Navy wage board after that conference. The fact-that the Commissioners have issued such a statement, togeth- er with the fact that the Federal Em- ployes’ Union is taking a similar stand, is understood by persons in au- thority to be favorable ‘to a po! ement of the strike ballot. HELD UP T06. 0.P. Promise. of Electoral Votes There Not Seriously Con- sidered by Party Leaders. In ‘national politics there is noted | fact. at this time the normal quadrennial recurrence of talk about “breaking the ‘solid south.” for @ long time now, appear a group office to refuse all permits to | battle Every four years,|in one form ¥ DESIRE FOR GLEAN SWEEP IN CABINET HELP T0 HARDING People Ask if Cox Will Fire Incompetent Democrats From Offices. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. COLUMBUS, Ohio, August 3.—d body could spend very much time on this the battleground of tne presi- dential campaign without gathering some impressions of the way the is going. It may not be pleasant news for and it may not be Cox, but the truth is that, leaving the league of nations issue aside, the people are eager to know how far the democratic nominee is obliged to in in office incompetent demo- crats. Some voters impatiently brush aside what Gov. Cox may promise and. regard him as already pledged to perpetuate Wilsonism, but this is t evident in localities where the newspapers have assiduously spread such an impression. There is a large body of voters, however, who want a housecleaning in Washington, and they don't much care who does it. Some feel that Senator Harding and’ a new party will remove the incompetents from office, but, on the other hand, one strikes a conservative business man who wonders whether in the process of satisfying the hungry office seek- ers things might not be turned up- side down and competent men driven from office. In other words, there i an element which is not so enthus astic about change for mere change sake. Wilt Dissect Speech. Unquestionably there is a great deal of interest in Gov. Cox’s speech of acceptance. It will be carefully ex- amined, but the thing the people in Ohio would like to hear Gov. Cox say, either in his forthcoming address or in subsequent speeches, is something like this: “If elected to office I shall not re- tain a single person in the govern- ment service who deserves to be re- moved, and I am under no obligations to retain any Wilson appointees. In I promise an entirely new cab- inet, a cabinet of business men and not a cabinet of politicians.” The foregoing thought is expressed or another by voters on every side. It isn’t simply bitterness against President Wilson, engendered of gouthern republicans, bearing bou-|quring party strife, but it is a deep- quets to their northern brethren redo- lent of high hopes and aspirations of a republican breach in the solid demo- rooted feeling that the Wilson cabinet should have been long ago renovated, and in substituting new members for cratic phalanx below Mason and-Dix- old there should have been appointed ora ‘| on's line. persons who commanded public con- bape ee eee A Rowland | "ro be sure. the party managers will | fidence. D. Mahany today icin process and | Say that while the one hand holds the | Senator Harding and the workers Shat no final decision yet been | proffered bouquet, the cther is out-|in his behalf are making excellent that no, Onaference between the con- | Stretched for a liberal allotment of | headway by pointing to the ecrocs of ciliators, including. John*B. Colpoys gampaign funds. When it is “apple | domestic administration. ‘They do not and iter D. Pavidge, ‘and the ex-|time in Maryland” it means harvest need to talk much about foreign: pol- ecut i tee t union at [time for the southern republ If | icies, but simply start qumparing: the the ] this morn-{the party wins, ‘they reap double | relative merits of the democrats, w ing brought forth no +Of| crop, for they the fed efficns, | Reve held executive positions and the result other than that quo but ‘they mi ve the campaign | kind of'men the republican cup ful Action at White: House... | poney——that. is, by. way-of being a| assemble There has been, so much sp eaesrding, Interne io hae tss| oped atl ae a Teeult of the chaos of eke wa ieet me peparte This, year. the ase 1 pertiay bps ay jnead a a Labor, The is a ¥ nth. are talkgng big Dder- ¢, the friends o: jeague are, met ae thy se | eyo Se hed fa, Zenker, Sarg [GE Teche Uy eat te ange the White tina’ and even Georgia. You ought | Way e.g that they, jeqae. SBY> Secretary of - - ‘The District-Commissionérs today re- Sterated tie ee of tng heath and tees ection 0! Eariatag tt Sis na "aclbeed hat te matter/‘what action was fortReoming, the ‘and sewer departments would not ve ‘up. Employes’ Union Létter. Here's the letter which, nted by mspect to the situation: “Federal Employes’ Union, No. 89, which is affiliated with the National Federation of Federal Employes and the American Federation of or, consists of employes of the District ef Columbia who are on peers and per diem rolls. already ex! Sf our per diem members, we desire to have the navy yard wage scale applied to the District per diem em- ployes. . “We are glad. therefore, to note your statement, published today, that you ‘will review. the District wage scale after the Navy Department. wag has reperted, on Auguat, 20. At the hearing before the Navy board which will be held on August 5 she clerical and labor forces of the navy yards will be represented by the pres- jdent of the National Federation of Federal Employes (of which we are part), and other employes will be rep- resented by the heads of their respec- tive organizations. “We are hopeful that the Navy wage board will act favorably on the re- quest of our representative with ref- Frcs to the navy yards. and we wish ereby to register with you a request or application of the navy yard wage peale as adopted at that time to the 1 diem employes of the District of ‘olumbia.” Statement te” Public. A statement by the Federal Em- ployes Union, issued cotempora. jneously with the issuance of the let- ter to the Commissioners, declared that the committee was sent “fo the Commissioners this morning with _a statement from their officers acceft- ing as a solution of the -present wage controversy the Commissioners’ state- jnent that they would review the wage scale after August 20, in the Tight of the report of the navy yard wage board, which will be made by that time.” < The Commissioners received. short- ly before noon. another letter from the board of conciliation of the De- partment of Labor, suggesting that the arbitration, as Suggested by them yesterday, “be advisory, after the jnanner of the wage board created by the District Commissioners, and that three responsible citizens of the Dis- trict. chosen in thé manner indicated in our preéeding communication, pass upon the merits of the questions in- volved, and submit recommendations for yeur.approval or rejection.” ‘The jetter concludes with the fol- lowing statement: “This to the end that the people of the District may be spared the ex- rience of a disastrous and unneces- y strike on the part of the per m employes.” To this letter the Commissioners re- plied, indicating their intention of re- viewing the District wage scale after the Navy Department wage board re- ports on August 20. Letter of Commissioners. The letter of the Commissioners is as follows: “We desire to acknowledge receipt of your letter of August 3, in which you suggest an advisory arbitration, wThe Commissioners propose to ad= here to their announced intention of reviewing the District governmemt wage scale after the Navy Deparj- ment wage board reports on August 20. Until that time the Commissioners cannot consider grantipg further wage increases to their pep diem employes.” Mr. Brownlow today called attention to the fact that last year the employes’ organizations requésted In wher ond vote of ‘Georgia. broadly of a repubdifcan loek-in in Texas. .So it seems*that oi] stocks are not the only lures held out: to northern investors py the Lone: Star state promoters. Occasionally the republicans. do get a windfall’ in’ af repubi! repre- sentative in Coggress from: Notth Carol: or pigk up an. additional one in Tenn Time was~ when Virginia furn’ more an the the repub- cheerful optimists talk about electoral votes from the sou’ “You interegt us strangely; proceed,” is about the way the wary old re- are receiving these in the south, but are finding the expenses of of proportion to the pros- riking oil. of Hope in Tennessee. is of republicen promise in is sail to be the fact to drilling 01 pects of On Tenn offices dre so acute in Tennessee that the k leaders are paying the poll taxes impecunious voters, indicat- ing a heavy vote. It is claimed that if the’full republican strength of the state can be polled some surprises may be in store. The republicans apparently are take any chances on domestic admin- istration. . ‘Wilson Load Heavy One. Of course, the democrats haven't gotten to work yet. Their empeien is lagging. and they will have inter- esting things to say concerning the record that the republicans have made im Congress ‘in the last two years. But he would be a prejudiced observer who did not admit that the Wilson ntirely apatr from the league issue—is a very Heavy one and that Gov. Cox’s opportunity lies in making it very clear that he means to draw away from the incompetency of. the past and give the country a new deal. The more he shows his independence of Whité House rule the more people in these parts, at least, like it. They aren't happy over his visit to Mr. Wilson a few weeks ago. They would have preferred to see him con- firm the impression which went, out of San Francisco of a triumph over ‘Wilson democracy. Probably Gov. Cox knew. that, but on the other hand he is shrewd enough a politician to keep in mind that the west elected Wilson ¢|that contests for state and county |/in 1916 and that the league is a vital question west of the Mississippi river. Some observers think he might just as well forget about the east anyway, with the exception of Ohio, and e: deavor to win the election by a combi- mation of the west and solid south. But in the west, as well as in Ohio, the resentment against the Wilson counting upon the split conditions;administration on domestic affairs among - Georgi: them gail Georgia: democrats say they are not at alarmed on this score; Cox is an acceptal the Wilson feud is: likely to be for- Faithtu local out of their and vote the old democratic ticket. When for -re-election, ca without teetering, form. and his record and stage,” and ia democrats to help|runs high and at this stage of the a foothold in that state.|game overshadows everything else. Gov. Cox is a resourceful candidate, that/and he knows from contact with his ble candidate; that |home folks in Ohio that aside from the elements who will never be rec- gotten as Cox dominates the cam-|jonciled to any league of nations, he and that on election day the|can satisfy the demand of the people 1. will have gotten all their|for reservations that safeguard Amer- ges. systems | ican freedom of action, but that at this and .will walk up to the ballot box| point the agreement with the Wilson administration might happily cease nator Hoke Smith, running |without offending any considerable “stand squarely,” |part of the electorate. ‘That's the way ‘on the platform of /it. looks with the campaign only a jstrict adherence to the national plat-|month old. The White House may not in, the Senate |like if he can get away |aware of the unpleasant truth. it, but Gov. Cox probably is And AID IN TENNESSEE SUFFRAGE BATTLE IS ASKED OF COX Rabbit Foot Sent by Texan With Request Candidate Carry It in Poeket. By the Associated Press. DAYTON, Ohio, August 3.—Another appeal for aid to secure ratificatign of the woman suffrage dmendmeut in Tennessee was made today to Gov. Cox,. democratic presidential ;candi- date. f with it, they’ say they see no reason to! it would not be a bit surprising to see think that all elements may not get/him act on those currents of opinion togethey of election day. The plat-|before this campaign is concluded. If form stands for the Wilson league; Senator Smith's Senate record is for very strong reservations and his state records shows that he has made a group of very. bitter enemies. ‘Texas Prospects Unrevealed. ‘What the political promoters find to encourage republican prospects in Texas has yet to be shown to the na- tional managers. There is a perfectly beautiful and entirely normal fac- tionak fight waging in Texas among the. democrats, but it is classed as running entirely true to form, and ex- pected to result only in a little need- ful’ blood letting, beneficial in a democracy of plethoric habit. The general attitude among the re- Desire for clean sweep in cabinet help to Harding. Page 1 | Poland. Page 1 Sultan of Sulu, husband of seven wives, ("reticent on subject of suffrage. Page 1 | Federal Employes’ Union may avert Dis- | trict strike. Page 1 suffrage in Tennessee. Page 1 Itinerary announced of Franklin D. Roosevelt's speaking tour to the Pa. cific. 1 ginia county show decrease in popu. lation. Page 2 jeague of nations at state convention. see Page 2 Six ms injured as two automobiles avenue. Page 2 the Commissioners to reconstitute the (Continyed on Page 2, Column 5.) on proposed reclassification system. Page 2 | Reds form soviet in occupied regions of | | perso ‘collide at 5th street and Rhode Island |Griff says Nationals will get Miller and Page he doesn’t, he may have more trou- ble carrying Ohio than anybody in his camp believes. (Copyright, 1920.) ——_—_ publican managers appears to be that they will be duly grateful for any fa- vors the south may give the party in the presidential election, and will take all reasonable measures to nour- ish promising growths, but that they are indisposed to enter upon a scheme of extensive political irrigation in that arid region. They will rather de- vote their attention to states where republican seasons rotate with more regularity. . Today’s News Told in Paragraphs | Mrs. Addis H. Snow asks court to sus- pend order giving her husband equal Custody of their six-year-old son Twenty co ist lab pores 'wenty mmunist labor party m found guilty in Chicago of consuitace to overthrow government. Page 2 Ship board makes effort to sell many | wooden vessels. Page 3 ‘Another appeal made to Cox to assist | Ponzi, “financial wizard,” says millions remain after all claims are paid. Page 10 - |Mexico City envoys leave Lower Cali- fornia after conference. Page 12 Five Maryland counties and one Vir-|Representative Johnson says Japanese are smuggled in by underground sys- tem. Page 14 New York democrats hear appeal for|Secretary of Merchants and Manufac- turers’ Association sends let! = Jantic City inviting tourists to. aS ‘Washington. Page 18 Bratten. Other sports. 2 Speakers will address government clerks | Stock market showed further weakness and little buying power. Sterling ex- change declined four points. Page 23} Mrs. Abbie Scott Baker, /political chairman of the national. Wwoma party, brought him reports ‘that un- less efforts inereased- Baker sald that: work and a careful’ canv: nessee legislators rejectjon’ of the amendment appeared. cdrtain She ‘came here to exchange iAformation'on the Tennessee situation with Gov. Cox and to ask him to press the suffrage cause more vigorously. She will go. @n a similar mission to Senator Hard- ing, the republican candidate, today or tomorrow. Horseshoe a Rabbit’s Foot. - Inspired apparently by reports of “Cox luck,” which are proverbial in Ohio politics, harbingers of luck are pouring in on the governor. He re- ceived. two today, a ‘featherweight horseshoe worn by Lou Dillon when she established ‘the world trotting record for a mile in two minutes t, at Read- ville, Mass., August 24, 1993, and a rab- bit's foot from Texas. _; W. H. Gocher of Hartford, Conn., sec- retary of the National Trotting Asso- ciation, sent the racing memento, and Decca Lamar West of Waco, Texas, the rabbit's foot, which was mounted hand- somely in gold. ‘With the latter came a request that it be worn by the governor in a convenient pocket, although the donor said there ‘was no guarantee that it was “the left hind foot of a rabbit killed at midnight in a graveyard.” Gov. Cox today accepted an invita- tion from Judge C. R. Latham of the Chicago Chamber of Commerce to speak | — that organization in early Octo- r. Work on his correspondence at his newspaper office was halted this morning by the governor to visit Judge Dennis Dwyer, president of the Ohio constitu- tional convention, who is about ninety years of age and seriously ill. State and Personal Affairs. State and personal affairs had prec- edence today before Gov. Cox, follow- ing completion of arrangements for next Saturday's ceremonies to notify! him formaily of his democratte presi- dential nomination. No yisitors had engagements before Mthe latter part of the week, ahd by that time the governor hoped to haye all state and personal business out of the way to devote himself to comple- tion of the democratic campaign or- ganization and to conferences with many democratic leaders coming for the notification. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the vice presidential nominee, is to be Gov. Cox's guest for the notification. “Al- though the governor had hoped to at- tend Mr. Roosevelt's notification Au- gust 9 at Hyde Park, N. Y., confer- | ences next week with party ders on} campaign plans and arranging his own speaking itinerary..may preclude the trip to the Roosevelt event. The presidential nominee plane to spend most of next week here cieaning up party and personal affairs, to start his first’ extensive speaking trip week after next, probably in northern New York and New England, after address- ing the Ohio democratic convention at Lig pore is oar pel ‘oday was the first registrati. for the Ohio primary elections ee 10, but. having a residence in a coun- try township where Trails End is situated, Gov. Cox is not required to register. i Letters From Republicans. Receipt of letters from many re-j publicans, as well as democrats, urg- ing a strong position for the league of nations was announced by him. More than half of his letters, both here and at the Columbus executive office, he said, discuss the league declarations of Senator Harding, his republican opponent. “Many are from democrats,” said Gov. Cox, “and state that they see a fine opening. Many others are from republicans and it certainly. looks as if the independent republican vote, which has followed with great inter- est this whole league question, is thoroughly dissatisfied. Gov, Cox also announced a general policy of non-interference in demo- cratia primary fights. He gave out a statement declaring he would not take sides in the Texas democratic primary and also explained that this was a (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) WASHINGTON, D. ©. TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1920—TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. - Many Rush Bids For White House Flock of Sheep Announcement that President Wilson would shortly sell a flock of forty-eight sheep that hav grazed on the White House lawns for three years ha brought scores of bids from over the country from persons who wished to acquire the mont Photographed sheep in America. Whether the President will sell to some of the bids received through the mail or will negoti- ate with some nearby stock raiser hax not been learned. Some of the bids received are for the entire flock, while great many other pers ke for just one or two animals, which they wish as “souvenirs” of the White House in war times. ROOSEVELT WILL STUMP TO COAST First Speech in Chicago. “Forceful Woman Speaker of West” to Go With Party. NEW YORK, August 3.—The com- plete itinerary of the western speaking tour of Franklin D. Roosevelt, demo- cratic vice presidential candidate, begin- ning in Chicago, August 11, and ending in Indianapolis, August 31, was an- nounced at democratic national head- quarters here today. The tour will be made in a special car. Mr. Roosevelt will speak daily except Sunday. He will be ,accompanied by two speakers of pational reputation, one a ‘distinguished and forceful womanj speaker of the west,” who has,not been named. Where He Will Speak. The itinerary follows: August 11 (night), first speech at Chicago. August 12 (noon), at Milwaukee, Wis., and (night) at Madison, Wis. August 13 (noon), Minneapolis, (night) St. Paul. August 14, some city in South Dakota, to be chosen later. August 16, somewhere in North Da- kota, probably Bismarck. August 17 gnd 18, in Montana, prob- ably three speeches at Billings, Butte and Helena. August 19 (night), Spokane, Wash. August 20, Seattle and Tacoma. August 21, Portland, Ore. August 23, San Francisco. August 24, Sacramento. August 25, in Nevada, Reno and another city. August 26, Salt Lake City and Og- den. August August 28, Omaha. August 28 (night), or August 30, some place in dowa. August 31, final speech of trip in Indianapolis. ‘Announcement of the itinerary was made by Senator Pat Harrison of M sissippi, chairman of the speakers’ bureau of the national committee. Tt was also announced that Senator Harrison and George White, chairman of the national committee, will speak ‘August 6, 7 and 8 in Dayton, Ohio, probably 27, Cheyenne, Wyo. in Nebraska, probably ‘conferring with Gov. Cox and other members of Mr. White's advisory ccemmittee, laying out plans for a western trip by the presidential can- didate. SIX INDICTED FOR MURDER Sextet “Accused of Waylaying Prominent Planter in Alabama. LUVERNE, Ala., August 3.—Bob, Cabe, Lee, Snow and L, Sexton and Mancell Reeves, all white men, were indicted here by the Crenshaw county grand jury on charges of murdering John L. Welch, prominent planter of this community, about two weeks ago, by waylaying and assassinating him on the public road. while he was returning home from a business trip to Luverne. The Sextons and Reeves have been kept in the Montgomery county jail and Sheriff R. J. Jones sent for them today. It is expected that they will be arraigned and their cases set for trial at an early date, probably next Monday. KEEPS TARIFF POST. President Reappoints W. S. Cul- bertson to U. S. Commission, William 8. Culbertson ‘of Kansas was reappointed today by President Wilson’ as a member of the United States Tariff Commission. Titi; MERIT ¢ 0, | PLATE N Ny AMBITIOUS HOME-BUN HITTERS. NEW SAYS HARDING MAY DEVIATE SOME FROM PORCH PLANS But Future Alone Will Decide Extent, G. 0. P. Lieutenant Asserts. By the Associated Press. * : MARION, Ohio, August 3.—To what extent Senator Harding may deviate from the front-porch campaign policy has not yet been determined, though the general impression prevails among many republican leaders that there will be some speeches mate by the republican presidential nominee out- de Ohio before the campaign closes. “No one in authority has said there would under no circumstances be any deviation from the front-porch cam- paign,” Senator Harry S. New of In- @iana, ie vie feau Of the a 5 S lazer Meets inittee, stated tones ee confer- % a ee ence with the canitdate. «“It well in Nebraska. be that occasion may afise that he may speak elsewhere than from his front porch, but this is for the future to determine.” Senator New deofared that no places or dates for Senator Harding to speak have been made and that any places or dates mentioned “are at this time entirely unauthorized.” Harry M, Daugherty. the senator's Pre-convention manager, also was in conference with the nominee today and it is understood that he is not ad- verse to Senator Harding making a tour through both the east and the |T. J. O’Brien of Omaha as passengers. west. He will go to New York to- morrow, where Thursday he expects to meet several members of the na tional committee. Mr. Daugherty in. timated that the question of carrying the west may be discussed there. No Loafing, Says New. “It may be taken for granted,” Sen- jator New said, “that Senator Hard- ing’s campaign will be conducted along the sane and dignified lines that After Mr. Cox’s acceptance speech aturday the issues will be clearly de- fined, and both the republican candi- date and the committee behind him may be relied upon to put plenty of punch into what is to follow,” New said. Between conferences Senator Harding today was completing his second front- porch campaign speech which he wilt deliver tomorrow afternoon to a dele- gation of Wayne county, Ohio, repub- licans. the campaign both into the east and|Anglo-French Loan From U. befit_a_ campaign for the presidency : of the United States”: He added, how |oan ot $000,000,000, of which the French ever, that it is goi o be a real 000,0 ; campaign with “no loafing.” ay 250,000,000, is due on that CONGRESS JUNKET Mrs. Moore of Boston Says She Was Sent to Watch Party. BY JUNIUS B. WOOD. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Dally News. Copyright, 1920. MANILA, August 3.—The spirits of | the congressional party, leaving Ma- | nila after a round of receptions and in- Spections, was somewhat depressed today when Mrs. M. C. Moore of Bos- ton boarded the transport Great | Northern a few moments before it sailed and anounced that she had been sent out by certain interests for the purpose of keeping watch on the con- sressmen and reporting to Washing- ton. She carried letters from Gov. Calvin Coolidge, the republican vice jpresidential candidate; Lieut. Gen. Liggett and others, assuring her en- tree into official circles and securing Precious transportation privileges on government vessels. Mrs. Moore appeared in Manila sev- eral weeks ago, her friends explaining that she was secretary to Represent- ative George H. Tinkham of Boston, sent out by a congressional sugar committee for the purpose of investi- gating conditions on the islands. She joined the congressional party here and accompanied it to the various entertainments. When members of the party pro- tested against her presence at official gatherings wearing the official badge, she explained that she was preparing a report of the trip for presentation to certain interests in Washington. All Disclaim Responsibility. Army officials disclaim any co-op- eration in putting the party under espionage. “The lady,” declared Maj. Gen. Francis J. Keran, commanding the | troops on the islands, “said she was | Sent out by a congressional commit- | tee to investigate sugar conditions | and showed letters of introduction | from various prominent officials, one | of the letters bearing the seal of Massachusetts. I gave her a place on the homeward-bound transport be- cause she came out here on a trans- port under orders of Gen. Hines.” Cavite Is Neglected. Serlators Harris and Sterling, Rep- }resentatives Hardy, Dyer and Ran- dall and eight women and girls were | the only ones in the party who visited | Cavite, the naval base, in the morn- ing. The others were not sufficiently interested to go, despite the Navy's) preparations to give them a chance to see the place where America has spent millions of dollars and the po: session’ of which is one of the chief reasons for occupation of the islands. The scheduled trip to Fort MrKinley was eliminated entirely The party proposes to split at Shanghai, the congressmen from | doubtful districts continuing on home| on the Great Northern, and the others, with their relatives and friends, to China and Japan. Both countries have made elaborate tertainments apd visits to points of interest, and the departing congress- men are bitterly disappointed at the necessity of curtailing their trip. MAIL PLANE RAMS HOUSE. OMAHA, Neb., August 3.—Plane No. | 3 of the mail trail blazing squadron, on its way from New York to San Francisco, crashed into a house while endeavoring to make a getaway from Ak-sar-ben field here today and fell to the ground. Aside from a shaking up occupants of the plane | escaped injury. The plane wWas/| wrecked. ae d ie monoplane “was piloted _b: Capt. H. E. Hartney and carried Ed. die Rickenbacker, Liuet. C. B. Colt and FRANCE CAN MEET DEBT. Ss. Due October 1. PARIS, August 3.—The ministry of finance has virtually completed buying sufficient American exchange to meet obligations falling due in the United | It is explained in high financial circles that the ministry’s progress in the mat- ter accounts for the recent rise of the dollar. STRIVES FOR SEA RECORD. NEW YORK, August 3.—In an ef- fort to establish a new speed record, the liner Aquitania traveled at an average rate of 28 knots an hour Senator New was accompanied by Mrs. New and they had breakfast with the candidate at his home. ‘Senator Harding is going to prove to (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) | SULTAN OF SEVEN WIVES from noon Sunday until noon Monday, according to wireless advices from the ship received here today. The Aqui- tania, recently eauipped as an oil burner, left here Saturday for South- | ampton. FAIR SLEUTH JOINS reparations for en- | MUTE ON SUFFRAGE ISSUE | TWO CENTS. = REDS FORM SOVIET IN POLISH REGIONS OCCUPIED BY ARMY Exhort Laborers to Rise “Against Pilsudski’s Bour- geoisie Government.” RUSS WANT PROTOCOL SIGNED WITH ARMISTICE Warsaw Virtually Admits Fall of Brest-Litovsk Before Mighty Assault. By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 3.—A provisional soviet has been formed in the parts of Poland that have been occupied by soviet troops, according to a wire- less message received here from Mos- cow today. Julian Maakievsky chairman of the newly formed body, adds the dis- patch. The new soviet has issued a mani- festo to the lavo of ex- Poland ‘against Pil horting them to r ski's bourgeoisie, land-owner govern- ment.” The manifesto declares that a sta- ble peace between Russia and Poland is only possible through soviets of the workers. LONDON, August 3.—Negotiations for an armistice between Poland and soviet Russia have been delayed, ac- cording to a wireless dispatch rec here from Moscow. It ish delegation left Baranovitch for Warsaw on Monday to present to its government the soviet demand that the Polish delegates be given man- dates for signing. not only an armi- stice agreement but also a protocol setting forth fundamentai conditions of peace. “Without this.” the message de- clares, “it will be impossible to con- clude an armistice.” The Polish delegation was empow- ered merely to arrange for a halting of hostilities. The soviet delegates proposed that another meeting of t armistice commissions be held Minsk August 4, the dispatch says. Must Have Mandates. The Polish delegation on August 1, at Baranovitchi, presented its creden- tials from the Polish command em- powering it to negotiate an armistice, the message continues. The Russians. however, declared that the original Polish proposals called not only for an armistice, but for the opening of| Peace negotiations, and informed the| Polish delegates that they must have mandates for signing the fundamental! conditions of peace. The Poles, adds the dispatch. re- plied that they must return to War- saw to present this question for the Wecisionof the Polish government. The Russians occupied Brest Litovsk August 1, it is announced in Monday’s official statement from Mo: cow, received today. Further progres: of the soviet troops toward Warsaw on the road from Bialystgi is report- ed in the communique. which reads: “In the Lomza region our troops! have occupied Szczuczyn (west of Ossovetz, close to the German border). “Southwest of Bialystok we are ad- vancing on Mazovetsk (Mazouietskie, seventy miles northeast of Warsaw). “After fierce fighting we occupied at |Brest-Litovsk August I “In the Crimean sector exceedingly fierce fighting is proceeding along the line of the River Konskaia. Fall of Brest-Litovsk Ferts Leaves Eastern Roadway to Warsaw Virtually Clear WARSAW, August 3 (by the Asso- ciated Press).—Brest-Litovsk, the last great fortress guarding Warsaw from the east, has apparently fallen before a tremendous assault by the Fussian bolsheviki. North of that place, so- viet forces have smashed their way for- ward in their drive westward to a point only sixty miles east of this c Over a front of 120 miles, armies are being pounded to before the rush of bolshevik pieces hordes which are being hurled into the battle ex in a desperate attempt to capture Warsaw before the conclusion of the armistice conference at Kobryn. Re- inforcements are everywhere being hurried to the front to complete the defeat of the Poles before hostilities are halted. ‘An Official statement issued late last night showed the soviet armies had reached a line only sixty miles from this city, with which it is connected by an excellent automobile highway It is officially admitted the Ru have reached Mielnika, nort Brest-Litovsk. Near Brody the bolshe+ viki have rushed reinforcements into the line, and it is expected a terrific attack will be launched there for the purpose of capturing Lemberg before an armistice is declared. On the northern sector soviet troops have advanced and have reached the region of Ostrolensk. is but y-six miles from ¥ aw. Cavalry form the extreme tip of the of the advancing bolshe- vik line, and here, too, fresh forces are being brought up. WARSAW, August 2.—News of the | But Hadji Mohammed, America’s Most Petted | King, Just Beams on Fairest Member | of Congressional Junket. BY JUNIUS B. WOOD. mered her thanks a i ind hi By Cable to The Star and Chicago |into the background, | “"tl¥ faded} Daily News. Copyright, 1920. “What is the sultan’s opinion of” MANILA, P. I, August 3.—Haaji |Woman suffrage?” inquired Mrs. Ruth zy Mott, the suffragette v ‘ew | Mohammed Jumalul Kiram, better | York representative. gpiaret oases known by his American title of Sultan| The question was beyond the lin- of Sulu, beamed, showing every one | rustle anity sat the native interpre- | Sulu, ‘ r, and it was necessary for Paul De | of his betel-nut blackened teeth, when | Witt Rogers, the American governor Miss Eleanor Anthony, daughter of the |of the Sulu province,-to translate the | }cansas representative, was presented to |Question into the Sulu dialect. The | x ‘ sips sultan gasped and_ stood - | him. Miss Anthony is considered the |mouthed with astonishment, He has | most attractive of the fifty-eight fair seven wives He has | members of the visiting congressional, Gov. Rogers brought the sultan to sultan confirmed the |the hotel where the representative's |party, and the e 7 verdict. relatives were waiting; con: od veraictvas in the shade of a banana elated over the honor of @ call tro | tree, engaged in the unroyal occupa-jroyalty. The sultan wore a trimly tion’ of playing with three-year-old /fitting American cut suit, with tan {euise Erk, daughter of Edmund F, |shoes, and carried a gold-headed, jew- Erk of Pittsburgh, when Miss An-fel-studded ivory cane. He was ex-| thony, accompanied by her brother, ar-|tremely affable, posed on the lawn tived, America's foremost sultan’ im-jand shook hands with nearly every | clapped {member of the party while a separate mediately stood at attention, photograph was taken of each hand- is 1s together, slipped a cane like hig heels under his arm, doffed his red |shaker. t fez and bowed almost double. ,With a race meet starting st 9} zane, ‘honored to meet you,” said |o’clock in the morning and ending at Miss Anthony, shaking hands, accord-|midnight, several public cock fights ing to Kansas etiquette. The sultan’s and the usual quota of-luncheons and expansive smile uncovered all his|dinners, the American congressional black teeth as he replied at length in|party passed an enjoyable Sunday. his native dialect. Several attended church services and “He says that he would enjoy hav-|some of them called at the hospital ing you visit his islands,” explained |where Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo is con- his personal interpreter. fined with influenza, to talk with the Miss Anthony blushed rosily, stam- ‘popular Philippine idol, “ | have more tha progress of armistice negotiations be- tween Polish and Russian bolshevi representatives was awaited y day, but als said no ening offic reports had been received Word was passed around Americans here, upon advice from Washington, that those desiring to remain in War- saw, should it appear the bolshev?ki would take the capital, would do so at their own ris It was sald the American authorities would request their passports, which will be return- ed afterward if individuals requested them. Applications for passport vises by persons wishing to leave Warsaw doubled at the Amer- ican consulate since the beginning of the soviet offensive. Most of the ap plicants are women and children who have friends in America. Crowds | jammed the streets near the consulate on Sunday, and extra gendarmes were stationed there to maintain order and to divert traffic to other streets Recruiting for “Red” Army Makes Itself Felt in East Prussia, Says German Wire LONDON, August 3 (by the Associated Press).—Recruiting for the “red” army is beginning to make itself felt in East Prussia, and membership in one of the socialist parties is the condition of ad- mittance, according to an A lenstein (Prussia) dispatch to the Neue Berliner Zeitung quoted by the London Times this morning. : Bolshevik cavalry, which was in Lom- za Sunday, says the Neue Berliner Zeitung. has been driven back, but there ie Jacec bolshevgk forces at Graievo.