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EXPECT HOT FIGHT * ATG.0.P. MEETING “Lily Whites” !’Ian Control of Norfolk Convention This Week. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., July 9.—When the republicans hold their convention in Norfolk next Thursday there is every Indication that there will be much that will demand careful consideration and diplomatic handling. The lily-white re- publicans have arranged to have things their own way, and the meetings that have been held thus far have been under such direction and control. Here in Richmond, however, where there is a colored organisation which claims to be the real republican party, the wings are to hold aloof from each other—the aloofness being on the part of the Whites, who decline to admit the col- ored voters to their meetings. James R. Pollard, the atate chairman of the solid black repuMlican organiza- tion, will appear in Norfolk at the head of a delegution seeking admission. He will, It is understood. declare that the colored republicans were shut out from the mass meeting that selécted the dele- gates to the Norfolk convention. that they are a part and parcel of the re- publican party, that they have the ma- Jority “of the voters of that party in Richmond and that they have held their | meeting and named their delegates with the doors to the meefing wide open for all republicans, who cared to do so to enter and have a part in the meeting. Both Clalm Success. Supporters of Senator Trinkle and of Harry St. George Tucker, who are making the race for the gubernatorial nomination, are still certain that their choice will win. Friends of the Wythe- ville man are generally putting his ma- jority around 20,000, and those of Mr. Tucker are sticking to around 15,000 for thelr choice. Senator Trinkle is expected to make a speech here the coming week, his last for this city during the campaign. Mr. Tucker has spoken here four times while Mr. Trinkle has already made two speeches here. There is intense rivalry between the University of Virginia medical men and the graduates of the Medical College of Virginia over the matter of the re- moval of the medical department of the university to this city, the location of the Medical College of Virginia. The university is to have control and direc- tion of the merged school. is to have charge of the buildings and will have the two schools of pharmacy and den- tistry, which have never been taught at the university. But the idea of taking the medical school away from the uni- versity Is favored in the report of the medical commission on the score of economy. as the state will have to put up the money for additional buildings for the dental and pharmacy depart- ments and will have tn provide addi- | tional room for the 400 or more stu- dents in_the medical college here. There is a poll of the doctors. dentists and pharmacists on the subject, the result heing that about five-gixths of the men identified with the college and its work want to see the work dome in Rich- mend. The fight will be on the floor of the legislature, which must pass.on the report of the medical commission. which studied the case and declared in favor of Richmond as the location for the scheol. Ban on Promenading. The city has provided a large swim- ming pool. a_ miniature lake. in the western end of the city for the benefit of those who enjoy a swim, and the place has proved to be one of the big successes of the season. The women and the men don their bathing suits and they make for the water. but in the last few days there are women who have at- tired themselves in bathing suite of stynnine colors and scant material who ard failing to wet even the tips of thelr toes, but they are promenading in the adjacent park amd csusing much comment, the center of gaze. The police have ordered that women must stick to the lake or leave the park. Drowning May Be Murder. J. Hockaday and William Hockaday, both colored. have been arrested by the police on the charge of having knowl- edge of the death of Aubrey Thomas. The men were neighbors. and about a week ago they left the city and went to the river for a swim. The Hockadays returned to_their home, but nothing was heard from Thomas, and after .a short time his body was recovered. The coroner found a bruise on the man's body and the autopsy disclosed that there was no water in his lungs. The police are puzzled by the lack of a motive for the crime, if one has been committed. Some of the belongings of Thomas are understood to have been located and the person in whose posses- sion they were found will be made to explain. Charged With Robbery. Ruffin_Jefferson, a colored youth,/is being held for examination on the charge of having robbed the post office at Disputanta July 2. The postmaster, A. N. Cocks, was out of the office, and the clerk also stepped out. As One of the residents of the town walked in he looked through the window and saw Jeferson standing _at the safe, take something out and stuff it into his pockets. Farmers .are_complaining of the ex- cessive hot weather for the last ten days and the continued drouth. There has beén far less rain than desired for the last six weeks, and as a result the growing crops have been cut short, Tobaceo, corn, wheat, oats and all Sorts of crops have fired badly this season, and the farmers, with low prices staring them In the face, are very blue. The cabbage crop is shorter than for a long time, while the outlook for late white potatoes and for sweet potatoes Is not at all promising. Postal Recelpts Grow. Postal receipts for this city show an increase for the fiscal year ending June 30 of $180,957.67, or 14.19 per cent. This puts the office in Richmond in the $1,500,000 class. The June business did mot show the average increase, there being only about $11,500 for that month over the same period last year. Post- master Thornton believes that the growth this year will place the office well on to the $2,000.000 mark. PARIS STUDENTS LIKELY TG LEAVE LATIN QUARTER Crowded Quarters Probably Will Necessitate Moving to the Suburbs. PARIS, July 1.—A long-discussed project for the transfer of the stu- dents’ quarter of Paris from the old Latin Quarter to the outskirts of Paris on space mades vacant by the demolition of the wall of Paris ap- p|el s to be on the way to realiza- tiol The. city of Paris will sell about twenty acres of land for the build- ing of a studenis’ city, including lodgings, _recreation grounds and symnasium. The University of Paris will undertake the construction of the necessary buildings, toward which one philanthropist has already con- tributed 10,000,000 francs. It is not expected that this will greatly change the aspect of the characteristics of the Latin Quarter, but it will provide accomodations for many foreign students who, unable to find lodgings, are practically ex- cluded from the university. The sec- retary of the Students’ Association attributes the lack if lodgings to the fact that the number of students ma.| triculated at the university-fell from 11,000 in 1920 to 8,000 this year. to having the nt in America is vigorously disputed by the state of Georgia, which rises to re- mark that it has the only real and truly woman railroad president in the person 5f Mrs. Cora B. Willlams, who is !nflunt of th Florlda and Alabama rallway, & road of about 200 miles in- Wngth. . Reports of Revolts in Far East - Republic Are Branded as F. akes By Cable to The Star and Chicago Dally News. Copyright, 1921. . CHITA, Siberla, July 9.—The far east- ern republic, stretching nalf way across the continent of Asia, has been a land of mystery and misinformation to the outside world. Certain news agencles. some subsidized and others duped, not having a single representative within the boundarles of the republic, have been sending out broadcast the imaginings of czarist refugees, the schemes of far- sighted outside powers and stories of revolutions, burned cities, murder and anarchy within the republic. The world once awakened to the commeroial, indus- trial and political possibilities of this storehouse of wealth will be interested in learning the truth. Missions Study Country. Several nations have already sent missions here. The German Red Cross is investigating the country's mineral resources. A Japanese mission com- posed of military officers was recent- 1y denied readmission on account of its imagined friendship with the plotters against the government. A British mission, not of a political complexion, was interested in the stability of a gold concession granted to English capitalists. Finally there was an American mission, the mem- bers of which are preparing to report to Washington. Their findings will probably get more publicity than those of other missions. The present report, the first made by independent outside news- any paper correspondent, is based upon five weeks of investigation within the republic. The writer has been riding on regular trains and boats, living in ordinary hotels and talking to laborers and peasants, as well as officials inclined to take a roseate view. The traveling, while not lux- uriant, was not hampered except by the regulations of martial law enforc- ing the midnight curfew and frequent showing of identification papers. Life and property are safer here than in the neighboring Manchuria. The reported revolution ‘of laborers and peasants and the spectacular vic- tories of white guard troops in vari- ous cities are pure fiction invented by Harbin propagandists. The Shanghai newspapers arriving today bring_detailed accounts of uprisings in various cities, including Chita, which actually is quieter than any American city in midsummer. Fighting Limited. Since Chief Semenov was driven out in December last the only internal fizhting within the republic has been in the limited area of the Japanese occupation in the maritime province. The persistency of revolutions in Vladivostok arouses doubt either as to the sincerity of the insistence of purpose of the occupation Is to pre- serve order in_Siberia or as to the ability of the Japancse army to con- trol the area occupied. Since De- cember such troubles as have oc- curred have been instigated by out- siders. amd have ranged from Gen. Baron Von Ungern-Sternberg’s pre- tenticusly outfitted and disastrously defeated expedition to raids by scattered bands of Chinese outlaws lured by loot along the Amur river. The latest effort reported js that of the massing of 10,000 men at Hallar who arc waiting for transportation the Japanese foreign office that the, on the Chinese Eastern line beford’at- tack east of Chita. These easternal attacks, which re diplomatic _circles, .compel the _far castern republic -to use all .its’ sten- army of 150,000 to defend the 4.00 of frontler. This army servel fights, sufters and diss without pay. The government is able to supply only ammunition, sufficient food to support life and enough ragged clothes to cover the nakedness of the soldlers. The workers in the government of- fices, railroads, mines and shops have even less. Not only are the young men dying in the batties to save the country from alien invaders, but the children and aged meet a slower death owing tg the lack of medicines and of necessities costing a few dents. Such is the struggle to establish a republic. Eastern Republic Boundaries. The boundaries of the Far Easgern Baikal; on the north, the Vitim river jand the Yabloni mountains and on | the east the Okhotsk sea. The area lis more than 2,000,000 square versts (880,000 * square miles). The popula- tion is less than 2,000.000. The miles of unbroken plains are sea green in summer and white in winter. only signs of life are an occasional peas- ant's cart or a wandering herd of cattle. Other parts of the country are hilly and covered with forests of fir and [birch. The soll is fertile above and rich in minerals. The resources are suffi- cient for a population of many millions. There are only three cities of more than' 5,000 inhabitants. The other and adobe houses. These are scat- tered along the railroads. and rivers. The people, believing that they can establish a democratic republic, already created a constitution. and for its sake are patiently enduring privations and suffering. While the defects of the present government {are many the people believe that it is the best possible under the existing handicaps. The ablest statesmen in the world would be unable to provide |a better government in the same dis- {heartening conditions. ~They do not jask for charity or temporary reliet but merely that they shall no longer be compelled to meet attacks from the outside. They invite the world and preferably the United States to share in the development of the country's resources on terms equally beneficial to_Siberla and to the outside capital. |, Two dangers are feared by the of- ficials as well as the people. The first s permanent occupation by Japan; the second is domination by soviet Rus- sia. The first has reached the stage where withdrawal is promised on cen- jdition that certain concessions on the mainland be granted to a syndicate of thirty-eix Japanese ccncerns. Though practical communism is mot wanted by the peasants, who comprise 50 per cent of the population of Siberla, dom- ination by sovist Russia seems to be the only alternative. The Far Eastern Republic is- ready to assist soldiers with tools, clothing and money. It has already loaned 9,000,000 gold rubles ($4.500.000), but it does not want to accept communism and merge with the soviets. though its citizens are fellow Russians. GALVESTON, Tex.. July 9.—The long-continued breakdown . of agricultural production in Russia largely accounts for the golden stream of middle western wheat that is flowing through this port to Europe at the rate of several million bushels monthly, accord- 4ing to shipping men and grain exporters here. Italy. Germany, Greece and other countries which formerly depend- ed upon the cereals of the Ukraine now .are declared to be placing virtually all their grain orders in | the middle western United States. Wheat is converging upon -this island from nearly every grafn- growing state. One entire train- load recently crossed the cause- “way from Chugwater, Wyo. Idaho, Montana, Colorado, Missouri, Kan- sas, Oklahoma and Texas are other states from which growers are send- ing their product toward this port ! in trainloads. ¢ As many as 100 carloads of grain i have crossed the causeway within { a period of twenty-four hours, ac- RIGA, Latvia, June 25—The chaotic conditions and daily trag- edies that followed upon resump- tion of free trade in sofith Russia are described graphically by a writer for the Moscow Isvestia, who has just made a trip through | tre Ukraine. The peasants, he says, carry- ing sacks'of grain or other food to the cities, are literally over- whelming the railways. He thus. describcs the appearance of one’of the trains coming intd Kiev. “Along the tracks is crawling a huge gray caterpillar—a train covered all over with the gray masses of food carriers. Beneath these masses neither cars nor loco- motives can be distinguished. The gray mass covers everything, the car roofs, the steps and -even the spaces between cars. Every available nook is occupied. Every- thing is filled up. Only when the train begins to slow down, nears ing Kiev station, it begins to shed its gray fleece. Little by little, while yet in motion, the locomotive and car roofs begin to uncovei ‘At Kiev all outbound tral OLD HEN ADOPTS KITTENS. Cat Leaves Young in Nest and Skips—New Family Happy. ASHEVILLE, N. C., Jyly 9.—Out on the poultry farm of J. F. Hyams of Weaver- ville the other day a cat, apparently growing tired of her kittens, gathered her young and one by one carried them to the nest of an old hen. Then the mother cat strayed away and failed to come back. The chicken was decefved, for since that time she has acted the role of mother to ‘the kittens. She fights when: they are disturbed, and the small animals seem to understand the *‘cluck- ing”’ of their new-found “mother.” To- day the queer outfit was brought to Asheville "and placed In the display window of an art store, whers they posed for the movie man and made more trouble for the traffic cop. i | are THREE PRISONERS ESCAPE. CHARLESTON, 111, July ‘9.—Three prisoners held here awaiting action of the grand jury on charges of stealing automobiles, escaped today, after they overpowered JaMer Dan Williams, locked him in a cell and stole the jail keys. After their escape from the jall they stold a car and left the city. They wére Fred Weber, twenty, of Jackson, Mic! and Alfred Nichols, twenty-eight, and Claude Wells, twen- ty-nine, both of Fort Wayne, Ind.- —_— Porcelain was the accidental dis- covery of an alchemist who was. ex- perimenting iIn earths oY crucibles. for the making VAST SHIPMENTS OF U. S. WHEAT REPLACERUSSIAN GRAIN IN EUROPE cording to local railway officials. Since July 1, 1920, ‘a total of 66.624,713.27 bushels of wheat has been exported through Galveston. In May alone 7,846,388.50 bushels were lifted for foreign ports. Italy, with 3.154.266 bushels, was the middle west's ,best customer in May. Great Britaln came next, taking a total of 2,959,379 bushels, Wwhile Germany was third with I.- 133,665 bushels. France, which is rapldly getting to the point where she can feed herself, took only 205,333 bushels, and Belgium 190.- 450 bushels. Holland and Spain imported 104,000 and 98,400 bush- els, respectively. The unprecedented pouring of, wheat through Galveston resyjts from favorable rail differentisls, according to shipping and railway men. ~ In May Galveston led all ports of the United States in grain ex- ports. New Orleans was second with a total of 5,082,839 bushels; Philadelphia third, with 2,206,795, and New York fourth, with 1,941, 000, according to figures of the Galveston Cotton Bxchange and the Board of Trade. | PEASANTS CARRYING FOOD FIGHT| FOR ANY NOOK ON RUSSIAN TRAIN literally pasted all over with peo- ple. On the locomotive, cars. fire- wood truck, water tank and under the cars—anywhere that it is only possible — people fasten them- selves to every hook, nail or crev- ice. Those who ha been fortu- nate enough to get & place on a brake platform are looked upon as favorites of fortune, who are com- fortable for their whole trip. “The departure of every train is accompanied by lamentations, wails, crying, shooting and ull -.kinds of accidents. When the train is beginning to get in motion, those who were not able to board it and those who have been forc- ibly removed from it start mad rushes for it again. The military detachments, whose -duty it is to maintain order during the board- ing of trains, run after the trains, pulling down some of the surplus passengers who have managed to fasten on to them, while from others caps are pulled off, and so on. “One of the results of this state of affairs is that porters take 50,000 to 75,000 rubles for a ‘guar- anteed’ place on the train. ‘Another result is that the Kiev railway shops every month .have to make about 300 coffins for food carriers who have been run over by the trains.” “M. Dzerzhinsky, —head of the ‘cheka,” or committee -to -combat counter. revolution, known as, one of the most efficient men in soviet Russia, has been appointed by Lenin as commissar of railways, u? regulate this traffic of food car- riers. 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WOOLF & CO.. *'F..W.'E5LGIANO republic, including ‘the northern half of Saghalien, which is claimed ,by Japan with only the United Stdtes dissenting, are: on the uth, the. former Mongolian borde on ' the! the Selenga river. and Lake The ; places are towns and villages of log! have | At a well attended meeting of the hoard of directors of the Arlington County Chamber.of Gommerde; at the home of the president, Frank Ly at Lyonhurst, Fridey evening, several matters of deep interest to the res dents of the county were considered. nlllty ‘l’:t- -Dll':polag th“l each commu- side a dum that the board Superyisors. have len faanoed from sources well ¥pawt n | SUarse of it and der _resources for the support of &m|yoqr, |building reguiations to govern all construction worl t §\\‘ 1 I ' | N N er. l:.'l‘lsllflerl' exchange be, established. | require building permits befors con- struction. . < wilited A proposition was also submitte that zmvghnmlnr of commerce advise und advocate state legisiation making the lle'll rl'la i |nnl:l'! tate loans er ce! at present, lllvd that all such loans be exempt from state, county and federal taxation for a period from five to ten years. 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