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WEATHER. Fair and moderate temperature to- right and tomorrow. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 77, at 2 p.m. today; lowest, 58, at 6:10 a.m. today. Full report on page 5. — Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 22 No. 28,591 post office Wa: Entered as second-class matter shington, D. COAL STRIKE VIRTUALLY SETTLED IN BITUMINOUS FIELDS OF 4 STATES; ‘BIG FOUR’ THREATENING WALKOUT Both Sides Ready to Conclude Pact at Cleveland. FIVE OTHER STATES MAY BE INCLUDED Operators Not at Parley jay Be Permitted to gn at Same Scale. By the Axsaciated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, August 9.— Virtual declsion was reached today by union leaders to conclude a settle- ment of the soft coal strike with the operators who have gathered here for the joint peace conference. The operators also were expectant of an sgreement affecting practically all mines in Ohio and scattered others in Ilinols, Indiana and Pennsylvania. Final decision on a settlement rests \with the union’s policy committee and its members have been informed that President John L. Lewis had as- surances of operators outside the states of their willingness to agreement based on one ne- four reach ar ated at the conference here. goti The plan for a settlement on a na- tional basis went into the discard when the Indiana operators’ scale committee refused to attend the con- ference here. coupled with a delay of a decision by the Illinois operators’ nd the non-appearance of committee operators fr other states. As a result, the conference had turned back to its original purpose of nego- tiating a partial set{lement affecting four states. Policy Committee to Aet. . he union’s tactics in the negotia- ||<:';\'( were considered today by its general policy committee of 128 mem- Bers, headed by President John L. Lewis, but a formal Whether to make a basic wage agree- ment. affecting scattered mines in the four states, was expected to be de- ced until after the afternoon meet- ing with operators. Optimism was ex- pressed, however, by both union men and operators that a settlement was possible. The agreemen scale not only wou for the operators repres but als ferees as having the pogsibility of forcing union dperators in-mengeparts of the country to open their mines under the new scale. The operators in the four states not partieipating in the conference would be permitted, under such 2 plan, if adopted, to sign the general agreement made at the conterence. Operators in flelds, out- cide the four states, would be per- mitted to make agreements with the union_under c t on a basic wage id end the strike ented here, ontracts based on that signed for the four states. Many Telegrams Come. Mr. Lewis declined to comment on | messages he had received from opera- fors in other states. but these were discussed by him with other interna- tional officers of the union, including members of the executive board. The messages were understood to have come from Towa. Kansas, Missouri. Oklahoma and Michigan. “The only formal indication of the union’s attitude expressed by Mr. Jewis was a statement that the con- ference with the operators who came here in Tesponse to his invitation to negotiate a wage contract would meet according to schedule and proceed Fith its business. Nor official poll had been taken of the coal production con- trolled by the operators gathered here. but they were said to be willing to concede the re-establishment of the wage scale Ihat prevailed in the contract that expired last April 1, which date marked the beginning of the strike. . ILLINOIS OPERATORS MEET. Pact at Cleveland Is Befu\sed. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO. August 9.—Tllinois coal operators today resumed conferences decide definitely as to participation fn the Cleveland conference proposed by the miners' union president, John J. Lewis. Plans for a Separate truce Jin Tlinois. if Frank Farrington. Iili- ‘mets miners’ president, is left free to hegotiate a state agreement for end- ing the strike in this state were also t0_be discussed. With prospects of ending the coal strike on a national basis apparently Sidetracked at Cleveland, a definite plan for settlement of the strike in Titinois was expected to come out of the conference of operators. NEW YORK OFFICERS POUR 12,000 QUARTS INTO SINK Scotch Whisky Seized on Schbon er Is Destroyed by Order of Court. NEW YORK. August 9.—Federal jarshal Hecht and a squad of deputie; today began the task of pouring more than 12,000 quarts of Scotch whisky down a sink, in compliance with court orders. To make doubly sure the Jiquor would not serve its original Fpose, kerosene was mixed with it 2s the bottles were broken. The whisky was seized on the schooner Viking at the end of a run from the Bahamas. BRAZIL FLIGHT AUGUST 15 Giant American Air Cruiser Makes Maiden Trip Yesterday. NEW YORK, August 9.—The giant air cruiser Sampeio Correia will fake off from the Hudson river on the first leg of its 8,600-mile journey to Manaos, Brasil, at 4 p. m., August 16, it was _announced today. ‘Walter Hinton, former NC-4_ pilot, who will be in command, and Dr. E. Pinto Martins, navigator, were busy 1 directing mechanics in tuning up :‘. two liberty motors after the ‘maiden t§ip here from Essington, Pa., ‘The first leg of the Brazilian tour /s:ill be a short jump to Far Rock- wway. from which point the ship | 2111 g0 to-Charleston, S. C., a distance | py air of 600 milex Mines Get Ready To Resume Work W ithin 48 Hours By the Associated Press. MARION, Iil, August 9.—Hopeful | that the conference of operators and miners at Cleveland would quickly effect a settlement of the coal strike, | a number of coal operators in southy ern Illinois today began setting their collieries in order to begin resump- tion gof coal production. Preparations were being made by virtually all operators in southern { Ilinois and several hundred company men have begun work clearing the entries of the mines, inspecting the {@ir courses and attempting to detect | Bas pockets. HARRISBURG, T, August 9.— Fires have been started in every coal | mine in this section and mules are | being lowered into shafts today. | Preparations are being made by | practically all operators in William- {son county to resume. mining, and {it is the belief of both miners and { operators in this region that the coal strike will be called off within forty- eight hours. | By the Associated Press. | i PRINGFIELD, Ill, August 9 Activity at coal mines in Central Tlli- leaning up” for a resumption | of mining, has reached such a stage. | Men Ordered to Stay From Work When Lives in Peril. 1,300 ALREADY QUIT | ON JOLIET RAILROAD | Presence of Guards Is Blamed—Clerk’s Chief Takes Same Action. i 1 ! | I i By the Associnted Press. CLEVELAND, August 9.—Chief ex- | ecutives of the “big four” transporta- | tion brotherhoods have taken action | regarding the endangering of the| lives of brotherhood members through ; | the alleged actions of armed guards | in connection with the shopmen's istrike and have telegraphed their | members to remain away from com- | pany property if their lives are en- | dangered. | Warren S. Stone, president of the | Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineer | when told that 1,300 brotherhood men | had quit at Joliet last night. told the | | i | | according to local operators, that the | - 4 miners will be able to mine coallAssociated Press representative that| ! lmm’ed!‘al('l)‘ after a settlement is i there would be 100 more similar cases | | Feached. faster than fhe rallroads lsoon it working conditions at rail- | S " e 1t €aning | road yards and shops are not changed. up” started several weeks ago. t 2 Operators said it 5 hi | Asked if the action of the Joliet s meant nNothing ; men met with the approval of the iefs, Mr. Stone said: | special, but that their properties are | 'ty B0 47 all ready when reopening is ordered. “The action does not require any | decision on o was regarded by the con_i approval.” Coneur With Stome. | W. J. Lee, president of the Broth-| erhood of Railroad Trainmen and D.| ! B. Robertson, president of Brumer-l hood of Locomotive Firemen and En- | | ginmen, when told of the Joilet walk- | out of, brotherhood members, and ! President Stone's stand on the situ- | ation, concured in the position taken by the engineer's chief. i President Lee said he had wired | the representative of th& trainmen on ' the Elgin, Joliet and Kastern last} | night that whenever the members of | { his organization have positive proof jthat they are being ill treated by | i railroad guards and their lives en- | dangered they had his permission to stay away from railroad company | property. ROADS LW N COAL MAY GET PRORITY Lines in New Jersey, Michi- gan and lllinois Getting Dangerously Short. | REPORT HEAVY LOADINGS | T e o . Much Fuel Shipped From Vir- i Authorize Walkout. | President Robertson said he and| | President Stone had sent a joint mes- | sage to their representatives at Jouuf last night to stay away from the t l palachian Fields. | railroad company property if their} ! { lives were in danger through armed{ : { guards. 3 Special priority orders for the! " pruyi | President Robertson also =af H shipment of fuel to railroads whose | he had recelvi 3 aeee Teams coal supplies are running dangerously | representativ low were ot Gonsi ay | this morning that brotherhood men : lowamene under consideration 10day |y ere heing subjected to abuse by y Federal Fuel Distributor Spencer; hundreds of armed soldiers guarding | and the central coal committee. ! railroad lines leading to strip mines Particularly acute fuel situations )it that tecritory and had replied that were reported to the committee from| (Continued on Page 2, Column §.) railroads in Michigan and New Jersey T 3 and lines running out of Chicago into 'RAIL WORKERS ASK 1 a_message from his | of Terre Haute, Ind., St. Louis. Ilinols and southwestérn lines out of | The committee has under consider- | iold Land Office building, 8th and F unfon’s demands for | May Seek Separate Agreement if | ation application of the absolute priority provisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission's service order No. 23, which provides primary class- ification for special purposes when estgnated by the commission. For the time being, it was stated, the central committee is disposed to let its district committees handle the “sore spots in an effort to provide those carriers with fuel guickly with- out the necessity for losing time (llhrough the operation of special or- ers. | I Cannot Hold Dealers. The question of diversion of coal under contract to railroad users was discussed by the committee and the opinion expressed that under exist- ing laws dealers could nmot be held to their contracts in cases where they divertéd coal to carriers upon jinstructions from the emergency coal | control organization. | Heavy tarloadings of coal on Mon- iday were reported to the committee from the southern Appalachian and Virginia flelds, officials said, but no figures were made public. Conditions Improve. Mechanical conditions on some of the lines running out of the produc- ing coal fields, especially the Chesa- peake and Ohio and the Norfolk and ‘Western, were reported to be improv- ing and additional mechanics to have been put to work upon the Virginia { railway. Representatives of the Pennsyl- vania state coal committee met to- day with Secretary Hoover and Mr. Spencer to work out a maximum fair price for coal produced in that Istate. According to the view of the federal organization, most of the coal produced in Pennsylvania is for con- sumption within the state so that state representation was required to fix maximum price levels. | ASSASSINS MUST HANG. ] Reprieve Denied Slayers of British Field Marshal. By the Associated Press. LONDON, Augiist 9.—A reprieve was refused by Home Secretary Shortt today to Joseph O'Sullivan and Regi- nald Dunn, sentenced to be hanged tomorrow for the assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes ‘Wilson. . ACCUSED IN MURDER. District Mine Union Head to Be Tried in Armed March Death Case. CHARLES TOWN, W. Va., August 9—C. Frank Keene, president of dis- trict 19 mine workers, will be tried on a charge of accessory before the fact in the killing of & Logan deputy summer. = This was, announced in court today by state counsel here to prosecute cases growing out of the march of armed miners in the. south- ern West Virginia coal fields, heriff on Blair mountain late lut‘ NGHTSBEGUARDED Loyal Pennsy Shopmen Ap- peal to President to Pro- tect Seniority. ! | { 1 By the Associated Press, Leaders of the striking railroad shop craftsmen in the city occupied themselves today with preparations for the general meeting of railroad union officiais they expect to hold Fri- {day, and with the issuance of state- ments declaring railroad equipment | to be in a dangerously deteriorated condition. B. M. Jewell, chairman of the strike group, received notice from Warren S. Stone, chief of the Engineers’ Brotherhood, that all of the other brotherhood heads would accept the invitation for conference. Workers Appeal to President. T. H. Davis, chairman of the gen- eral shop crafts committee of the Pennsylvania system, headed a dele- gation representing men at work, who went to the White House and asked President Harding not to coun- tenance any strike settiement which would injure the senfority status of | men who remained in railroad service {in spite of the strike. About 65 per icent of the Pennsylvania shop em- ployes, Mr. Davis asserted, stayed on the job and most of the orlginal strikers had returned. While awaiting a meettng with their own associafes in the direction of the shopmen's atrike, Mr. Jewell and other union officlals took occa- sfon to lay before the Labor Depart- {ment a protest against the alleged importation of strikebreakers from Europe by railroads in deflance of immigration laws. ' The immigration i authorities said the complaint had | not been verified. i Declare Inspections Lax. i Secretary Davis at the Labor De- partment also was visited today by H. E. Willls, W. N. Doak and Arthur Lovell, Washington legislative agents, respectively, of the engineer: trainmen and firemen’s and engine. | men’s brotherhood, and by J. P. Noo- {nan, president of the Brotherhood lof FEleetrieal Workers, members of which now are on strike. Partici- pants in the discussions maintained silence afterward, but it was pre- sumed that the strike situation was the chief topic. - statement on condition of a sense of security road situation.” com] m:ll during s strike ¢ © 'Dlnd re are practically S ! o .‘p ally no proper inspec The Pennsylvania employes' delega- ’(c_onunu on Yage 2, Column 5.) i tions, revenues and expenditures re- TODDLERS' CORNER AUDIT OF DISTRICT FUNDS IS STARTED Accountants Will Check Up Local Dealings With U. S. Treasury Department. $5,000,000 IS AT STAKE! i Figures Will Decide Claim of | Washington on Surplus Gov- ernment Funds | In a little room in a quiet and re- mote corner of the third floor of the streets. a small group of men today entered upon the actual audit of the. fnancial transactions between the ! District and federal governments. i This audit was provided for by the mensure creating the joint congres- sional committee. of which Senator Lawrence W. Phipps of Colorado is chairman, which was named to in-j vestigate the District finances and to | determine the fiscal relationship be- tween the two governments. The; principal function of those engaged | in the task of making this audit will | be to determine whether or not the District's claim to the $5:000,000 sur- | plus now in the Treasury is a just one or not. i The audit is being made by four | expert employes of the firm of Has- kell & Sells, accountants, of New . York and Baltimore. The account-| ing will begin with the fiscal year starting July 1, 1911, and extend to the present, and expected by those | in charge of the work that at least two and a half months, and perhaps | three, will be required to complete | the audit. It was explained that the ! accounting at first will be a trifle’ slow because of the strangeness of | the system of bookkeeping and be-. cause of the unfamiliarity on the part of the out-of-town accountants with the nature of the appropria- | lating to the District government | during the period In question. To Review Previous A It is announced that when the audit for this period has been com- (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) PLAYGROUND PLAN Provision for Babies May Re- quire Additional Funds if Successful. = Believing that children should be- gin to visit the playgrounds as soon as they are able to walk, Mrs. Susle | Root Rhodes, ‘supervisor, is planning to experiment with a ‘“toddlers’ cor- ner” on one of the play spaces. Ot course, Mrs. Rhodes realizes that if the tots who are just begin- ning to step out for themseives are to be invited to the playgrounds an ad- ditional director will be needed on each ground to devote all of her time to the “toddlers.” Appropriatie The present appropriation for play- grounds is not sufficient to employ s0 many more play leaders, but the supervisor is considering a try-out of the plan on one ground. If the experiment proves a suc- cess and the additional money for directors can be obtained next year when parkling regu be_established for es out- side the recreation centers.s . Oklahoma Expert Here. Frank G. Wyatt, director of recrea- tion in' Oklahoma City, is in Washing- ton to inspect the municipal play- Small. T t an exhibition simulta-. colored chil- |for which Stultz still ,book on dog HI, THERE ! This EconoMy wiL CURTAIL ALE OF S ISTAGE { POSTAMPS! IS TOTAL W By the Assaciated Press ST. JOHNS, N. August 9.—The British warship Raleigh which has been cruising off the Labrador coast with Admiral Sir William Pakenham on board, is aground at Point Amour in the straits of Belle Isle. She struck last night and a message received today said she would probably be a total wreck. All on board reached shore safely. The Calcutta, tender to the Raleigh, is standing by. The British cruiser Raleigh, aground in the Straits of Belle Isle, touched at Washington last May, the first British naval vessel of her class to visit the | capital since 1814, when marines were landed there. Known as one of the white elephants of the British navy, the Raleigh, a ves- ENRAGED AUTOIST SLAYS 1, WOUNDS 2 to Seize Car for Over- due Payments. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICK, Md., August 9.—En- raged because two deputy sheriffs | attempted to take his automobile to satisfy overdue payments, W. A. Stultz, forty-five years old, shot both of the officers, seriously woundind them, and killed outright a police- man, who appeared later to arrest him. The dead man is John Adams, a member of the local police force for| four years. The injured are Deputy Sherift Charles W. Smith, who was shot through the right thigh, and Deputy Sheriff Allen Bartgis, who was shot in the right arm. Both were taken to the hospital and will recover. Officers Armed With Warrant. Smith and Bartgis were sent to the man’s home with a warrant authoriz- ing them to levy on the automobile, siderable sum of money. As they entered Stultz's home the latter selzed a shot gun from a nearby rack and opened fire, felling Smith. Bartgis had backed out of the door and was climbing into his own automobile when Stultz fired a second shot, the load breaking his arm. Both the Injured men were able to drag themselves out of range be- fore their assailant could reload his shotgun, and they telephoned to the city jail for help. Policeman Adams was sent to the place in response to their appeal and, as he entered Stultz’s doorway, the,latter fired for the third time. The charge went through the right side of the police- man's neck, killing him instantly. Hides Behind Barricade. Barricading himself in his home, the auto owner defled Sheriff James A. Jones and half a dozen deputies for sometime before he informed a police- man by telephone that he would sur- render under promise Oof protection from violence. Upon recelving such as- surance he gave himself up . without further bloodshed. Feeling against the prisoner ran so strong that the Frederick authorities were compelled to rush him in the jail in Baltimore. Threats of Lynching. Threats were being made on the public_streets shortly after the mur- der that Stultz would be lynched be- fore noon, and automobiles were em- ployed for ‘he trip to Baltimore. Several weeks ago Stultz was tried here for violating the federal prohi- bition laws and was sentenced to forty weeks in jafl. He was out on bail pending hearing of a motion for an appeal. - VANCOUVER EDITOR DEAD. THE PAS, Manitoba, August 9.— Word was received here today of theé death at Vancouver of Grant E. Rice, forty, for many years editor of the Pas Herald. Mr. Rice was one of the founders of the Pas Dog Derby and ‘was primarily responsible for the suc- cess of the races. He owed a con-; -written a Y e Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this Ppaper and also the local news published berein. Al rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 83,487 » \BRITISH WARSHIP RALEIGH RECK ON ROCKS | sel of 9,750 tons, was built during the war to hunt German raiders. She was | reportez Lo be costly for a light cruiser and too light for battle cruiser squadron service. The Raleigh was launched in Septem- “Ber, 1919, Taking the water at a time n there were no more German raid- ers to hunt, the vessel gave the navy a hard job to find suitable work for her. ||_V\‘mle in Washington Admiral Sir Wil- i H Pakenham called on_ President ing, Secretary of War Weeks and of Navy Roosevelt. ¥ 26 to June 6 the Raleigh was docked at the Mayflower's whart at the navy yard, and during that time it was inspected by hundreds of persons, many of whom were promi- nent government officials. The visit of the cruiser was marked by many social functions arranged for the of- and ‘crew by the British em- TROLLEYS DU am * BY BURNED CBLE i Resents Attempt of Ofiicersi262 Capital Traction Cars | Halted, Forcing Thousands to Walk to Work. {LINE IDLE 32 MINUTES Fourteenth Street and Pennsyl- vania Avenue Jammed With Pe- destrians During Delay. Washington walked—or rather ran —to work this morning. | Due to the tie-up of 262 cars of the I Capital Traction Company, practical- 1y all in operation, during the half | hour which the average government | worker reserves to be conveyed to his office, all of the prominent thor- oughfares between 7:13 and 7:45 this morning were jammed with pedes- trians. Unaccustomed to the passing of such a fashion revue before their doors, shopkeepers along Pennsyl- vania avenue and 14th street delayed their morning routine in order to en- joy the sights. Burning out of the feeder cable located at 15th street and New York avenue, which distributes current, { either directly or indirectly, to all of the company’s lines having downtown destinatipns, is given as the cause of the tie-up by the superintendent of traffic of the traction company. 1t was pointed out that had the de- 1lay come an hour earlier or later than Vit did, it would hardly have been felt; as it was, enforced exercise was the order of the morning for government Iwork!rs who have long since reduced the exact time it takes to ride to work to a sclence. |BALTIMORE BROKERAGE FIRMS HALT BUSINESS Four Lose Ticker Service On Orders Of New York Stock Exchange. I By the Assoclated Press. BALTIMORE, Md., August 9.—Four Baltimore brokerage firms were forced to suspend business temporarily to- day when their stock tickers were disconnected by orders from the New York Stock Exchange. The exchange recently began a campaign against firms selling stocks on the partial payment plan. The heads of the firms explained that they were in sound financial con- dition and that the customers need fear no loss. |Canada Ready to Talk Reciprocity And Retrieve 1911 Loss, Says Premier By the Associated Press. MGTON.' Ontario, August 9.— Intimation that ‘'Canada is prepared to _consider recelprocity . with the United States at’any time the Wash ingt: vernment desires was given bny‘ lo’:ln‘l: Minister MacKensle King mehhfi‘ yesterday. ‘5 16 country, icular- B e e o 1L 4 g MAN AND WIFE DROWN WHILE RESCUING BABY Three-Year-Old Child Tells of | Parents’ Death—Bodies Recovered. VISALIA, Calif., August 9.—Thatl {Mr. and Mrs. Roy E. Highland and their infant child of Los Angeles had been drowned at Three Rivers, thirty mfles east of here was disclosed when passing motorists observed a lad of three years playing alone in an automobile. They asked him where his mother was. “In the water,” he replied. “Daddy in water; baby in water.” Further questioning disclosed that the baby had fallen into the Kaweah river. The frightened mother leaped in to save the child. Unable to swim, she cried for help and the father, who was working on the automobile, jumped in to save his wife and child. The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. High- land were recovered. DRY AND STANDPAT CAUSES WIN OHID Harding Candidates, Includ- ing Thompson for Governor, Apparent Victors. { POMERENE AND FESS SAFEi TWO CENTS. ALLIES ON VERGE OF BREAK INTILT OVER WARCLAIMS London Conference Nears End as Premiers Argue on Reparations Plans. EXPORTS TAX APPROVED BY BRITISH DELEGATION Lloyd George Agrees to Collection of 26 Per Cent at French Frontier. By Associated Press. LONDON, August 9.—As a result of a three-hour conversation between Premier Poincare of France and Mr. Lloyd George, the British prime min- ister, today, it was decided to refer back to the committee of experts M Poincare’s plan for control of Ger man findnces, with the request that the points upon which the British and French are not in agreement be re-examined. Mr. Lloyd George agreed to the French suggestion regarding the col- lection of 26 per cent of German ex- ports at her frontier, which would be {Ppaid into reparations funds. He also agreed to the suggestion for taking over the statggforests and mines in German occupi®d territocy. The important points on which the two premiers were unable to agree were the establishment of a customs | barrier along the Rhine providing for | duties on everything going into and Senatorial Candidates of Both Parties Unscathed by Labor Attack! By the Associated Press. COLUMBLUS, Ohio, August 9.—Can- didates favoring wine and beer and progressivism within the republican | party went down to-defeat in yester- day’'s state-wide primary election in thiu‘ according to returns early today from more than 4,500 of the 7,836 pre- cinets in the state. The nine-cornered race for the re- | publican nomination for governor, in which these issues were paramount, | apparently was won by a large mar- gin by Carmi A. Thompson of Cleve- land, who was strongly supported by President Harding's administration | and by the Anti-Saloon League. i In nominating Thompson, Ohio failed | to join Indiana, Pennsylvania and | towa in a list of progressive victories. | The outcome was considered by many las a vote of confidence in President Harding, himaelt.aq.Ohioan. A. Vic Donshey of ‘New Philadelphia, who was the democratic nominee for gOovernor Lwo Years &go, again will lead his party state ticket in Novem- ber, the returns indicated. He had more than a two-to-one lead over his ! nearest opponent, on returns from i 4,129 precincts. Pomerene Renmominated. Senator Atlee Pomerene of Canton, democrat, who was opposed both by ! i i | | | | | coming from the Ruhr region, the principal purpose being to tax coal going into the rest of Germany, and allied participation in German in- dustrial concerns. Although the conversation took place without the appearance of any personal aspersions, both the premiers were described as tenaciously holding their respective viewpoints. The drafting committee of experts, lasting more than an hour, adjourned after a meeting at the treasury until 12:30 o'clock to consider cer- tain details. Allies In Dispute. 1t was admitted that the situation was very difficult. The differences between the French and British viewpoints on the repara- tions problem, which seem to be threatening the break-up of the allied conference, wepe discussed over their breakfast this morning by Prime Min- ister Lloyd George and Premigr Poin- care. - ; This “diplorfatic. breakfast” w the outstanding femture of the early part of the conference’s third day. Premier Poincare went directly from his hotel to the French embassy. where he met Mr. Lloyd George, and the premiers later continued their conversation at the residence of Viscount Farquhar, where the mem- bers of the allied delegation had { luncheon. Premier Poincare of France and Prime Minister Lloyd George are ap- parently farther apart on what is to organized labor and by the Anti-Sa- | be done with Germany than before loon League, was renominated for the | they met. They may, however, agree > | to a short moratorium for G 5 Senate . over former m for Germany United States Senate oyer o o. | 1,2k, Foincare has indicated to Air Representative John J. Lents of Co-|Lioyd George that things cunmot Jumbus, who was strongly indorsed (€0 on as they are and that France by the big railroad brotherhoods. On . :;:B“‘; ’? ('Bml:el]ed to take indepen- ! returns rom 4,226 precincts Pomerene | gium “ striving 1o bring. the Bricien {had 65,828 votes, as compared with and French policies nearer together. 189,256 votes for Lentz, his only oppo- | nent. Representative Simeon D. Fess of Yellow Springs, former college presi- | dent and until recently chairman of | the republican national committee, | apparently had received the republi- can nomination for senator from a| field of four contestants, one of whom was former Senator Charles Dick of | Akron. author of the Dick National Guard act. | Like Pomerene, Fess was attacked | by organized labor. However, he had | the strong support of the Anti-Saloon | League. ) ‘ Returns from 4.522 precincts out of 7,836 in the state gave Fess 100,433 Dick, 48,997; former Lieut. Gov. John H. Arnold of Columbus, 25,995, and David W. Wood, & civil war veteran | of Sandusky, 19,398. i With its two outstanding issues of | progressivism and prohibition, the | nine cornered contest for the re- publican nomination for governor ap- | peared to attract the chief interest of the voters. Both men and women voted in much larger numbers at the | republican primaries than at the demacratic. Former Representative ! Charles L. Knight of Akron, who! made a spectacular billboard and | newspaper campaign as a “Roosevelt | progressive.” was running second to! Thompson for the republican guberna- | torial nomination on available returns, this morning. C. Homer Durand of | Coshocton, who declared for the re- | turn of wine and beer, held fourth ! position, although on early returns last night he held second place tempo- rarily. Secretary of State Harvey C. (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) IRISH BAR SEAWAY. Insurgents Sink Vessel in River Wear Cork City. By the Assoclated Press. DUBLIN, August 9.—A transatlantic steamer arriving here today reported that upon reaching Queenstown har- bor yesterday her officers were ad- vised that a vessel had been sunk across the narrowest part of the River Lee, thus blocking entyance to Cork city, By this means the irregulars hold- ing the city, it was sald, sought to prevent repetition of the provisional government's coup, in landing troops from the sea at Tralee. progressive movement in that section to the defeat of receiprocity, saying that It had rendered inevitable the loss of wider markets for western ducts. 2 pr"l"hen is only one way to seek to retrieve defeat or undo error and that is to try to regain ground that has been jost, Mr. King sald, adding M. Bemelmans, Belgian expert, was requested by the drafting committee to draw the report in @ non-com- mittal manner, simply arranging in order of least opposition the various proposals, with the estimates of the probable Yield of each if adopted. The report begins with the sug- gestion that the proposed 26 per cent tax on German exports shall be col- lected as the shipments leave Ger- many. not by the allied importing countries when the goods arrive at their frontiers. Germans Wa ch Conference. The division of opinion among the delegates regarding Premier Poin- care’s plan for the control of Ger- many's finances in return for a mora- torfum for Germany is considered ir- reconcilable. The opponents base their objections upon the conviction that the plan would be unproductive or would cost more than it could produce Reports from Berlin say the con- ference is being anxiously watched there. According to the correspond- ent of the Times, Chancellor Wirth has stated that if the conference breaks down Germany will be at thc end of her courage and must lay down her tools. DR BRADENHELD UNDER $500 BOND Dr. Frank W. Braden, 628 East Capitol street, was the first of several doctors said to be wanted on charges of conspiracy to defeat the purposes of the Volstead act to appear today before United States Commissioner George H. MacDonald. When the charges were read Dr. Braden and Dr. Wallace Malone, proprietor of the drug store at 401 East Capitol street, which was raid- ed Monday night and resulted in Dr.: Braden's detention, waived exami- nation and were released on $500 bond each. Commissioner MacDonald, in fixink the bond at $500, pointed out that i both of the men had been long estab- lished in hington and that in view of this fact he would agree to the relatively small bond. Immediately after the hearing Wil- llam Leahy, Dr. Brayden's attorney. declared that his client wished to be placed on record as saying that he had never violated the prohibition act, either in its letter or spirit. ‘Assistant District Attorney Pres- mont appeared for the government while two of the prohibition oper- atives who participated in the raid on the East Capitol street drug store were present and ready to testify. : it wds Intimated by the prosecu- tion that there were several other doc- tors, not necessarily connected with the East Capitol street raid, who were being sought because of alleged manipulation of liquor prescriptions. Dr. Malone, who is already held on three charges as a result of the raid on his drug store Monday night, was his motive which led Tt A W vernment to send its|already out on a 32,500 b before emissary, Minister o !;clon Commissioner Finance Field- ing, to Washington: he appeared MacDonald