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LXII—NO. 177 be RMANS MUST AGREE 10 DISARMAMENT P 'Or Allies Will Occupy the Ruhr or Other Territory- Representatives at Spa Conference Have Until Say Whether They Will Agree to Demand That Army Be Reduced to 150,000 Men Before Octol Abolish Immediately Compulsory Service and to Sur- render All Arms, Guns and Cannon Abdve Limit Fixed by the Treaty of Versailles—Allied Disarmament Note Communicated to Berlin at Chancellor Fehrenbach’s Re- quest. Spa, Belgium, July 8.—(By The A. P.) —The joint allied and German confer- ence on the terms of the peace treaty reached another critical point today. The | Germans have until tomorrow to say whether they will accept the Foch-Wilson plan of disarmament. The alternative 1s n the specific threat that the occupy the Ruhr or other f Germany cannot or does not territory accept. The German cabinet, of the nine members are here, held 3 meeting, Which continued from 5.15 o'- clock this afternoon until eight. No de- cision was reached and the council ad- fourned until nine tomorrow morning. The prevailng view amomg the Ger- mans was that the allies had carriea their demands, particularly the menace of occupying further German territo: much bevond any provision of the Ve sailles treaty, and also that the allies are takmg up an aggressive position not contemplated by any clause of the treaty. The ailied disarmament note was com- municated to Berlin early Chancellor Ferhrenbach’s request, with the direction that it be submitted to the reichstag and to the leaders of all the whether supporters of the Eov- or the opposition. Herr Fehren- bach asked for the view of the reich- #iag and the party leaders, but said that the decision would rest with the cabinet now at Spa. b of which seven held a gotiations are reported to be goinz on tonight between Premiers Llovd George and ¥illerand on the one hand and Dr. Simons for the Germans, but this could not be clearly ecstablished. Dr Simons left the cabinet meeting shortly before it ended. It was said he has gone & t the allied premiers. 2 © The final decision of the allies mets forth must immediately dis- forces, including the t—Germa olice. { 7 ”?:mndl ublish a proclamation askli ing for the immediate surrender of al | with Berlin and the substance of weapons and firearms in the hands of the civilian population. Third—Abolish v service, Fourth—Surrender to the allies all arms, gyns and cannon which it possesse es above the limit fixed by the treaty of Versailles. The allied decision concerning disarm- ament reads: “If on October 1 the German .army not reduced to 150,000 men, the allies Will proceed to occupy German territory in the Ruhr or any other part of Ger- immediately compul- 501 man territory and will not evacuate it until all the conditions of the present agreement have been fulfilled.” Chancellor Fahrenbach, Dr. Simons, the foreign minister, and Herr Gessler, minister of defense left the conference in an agitated state. They looked grim when they arrived at German headquar- ters in a little hotel in the pine woods. The chancellor immediately called a meeting of the German cabinet, the mem- bers of which have been arriving at Spa |one by one until only two now remain in in the day at| Berlin—Herr Koch, Raumer, treasury. + Those who sat in the cabinet council besides Fehrenbach, Simons and Gessler, were ice ChanVeellor Heinze, minister of justice; Herr Wipth, finance; Hermes, food and Scho economics. General Von Seecht, chief of staff, with some of the under-secretaries, took part in the conference. Telephonic inter! and Herr communication was opened the al- lied decision communicated to the foreign office, with instructions to have Minis- ters Koch and Raumer call together some of the leading personalities in German public life and consider the allies’ de- mands, and later inform the German cabinet here on their point of view. A German official coming from the cab- inet room said that this council probably would not reach a decisipn upon the re- ply to the allies but would be followed Iby another tomorrow morning. FEARCH FOR “LOVE PAYROLL” IN ELWELL CASE tew York, July S.—Search for a “love pa?:an" of Joseph B. Biwell, and for a later will than that filed for probate, to- day marked a new turn in the district at- torney’s investigation into the mysterious murder. of the wealthy trfman and whis ast month. ke with which Kiwell kept funds were asked to furnish transeripts of his necounts for séveral months prior to his death. Evidence that the turfman, noted for his “conquests” had been paying one woman $50 and another $400 a month is being investigated in the hope that more light may be shed on such disburse P meidental to acknowledzment of this trend of the inquiry, Assistant District Attorney Talley related today some of Elwell's “tips on how to handle women a= ‘old him, he said, by the horseman’s tranier. One of Fiwell's ta related to Ta tics, aceording to the v, was to hold aloof a woman he varticularly admired. Then he would tell other Wwomen how much he liked her and continue apparent- to avoid her. “This invariably brought the woman he wanted to the point of seeking him,” Tal- ¢ added. T i(’:u search for a will sadi to have been drawn in December. 1916, leaving most of his estate to his son Richard, L‘hP district attorney’s office conferred with Frederick Ingraham, the attorney who Eaid he drew it un. The will now on fle. drawn in 1915, leaves nothing to the son, all the property going to the turf- man's parents. No definite clues as to the whereahouts of the later alleged doc- ument have been uncovered so far, it was atated. POLAND ISSUES URGENT 4 CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS Warsaw, July 6 (By The A. P)— Volunteers for immediate service against the advancing Russian bolshevik forces are called for by the Polish national council of defence in a manifesto just fssued. Besides calling able-bodied men to arms, the manifesto urges men unfit for service to register in order to release office men for duty at the front. The document, which bears the signature of President Pllsudski, declares the struggle is a fight against bolsheyism rather than inst Russia. S ARother proclamation, addressed to the Yoldiers, says the decisive moment has arrived in which Poland's fate is to be decided. It assures the soldiers that in case they are wounded their income will be continued by the government and that provision will be made by the gov- ernment for the families of those killed in battle. Citizens having in their possession swords. rifles, nistols or ammunition are urged to turn them over to the govern- ment for use in the army. HOLD-UP MEN GET AWAY WITH SILVER BARS ‘Wallingford, Conn., July 8.—Six men entered the factory of the Watrous Mfg. Company early today, overpowered the mnight watchman, George Olufske . and took away silver in bars and forms val- med, the police state, at between $5,000 and $10,000. The watchman had just come out of the boiler room on his rounds and was registering on_his clock when the men selezd him. Two tied him to a chair with a rope and stuffed a handkerchief into his mouth, according to his story to the police. Another stood guard while the five others searched for metal. The Watrous Company is a branch of the International Silver Company. SUFFRAGE LOSES OUT IN LOUISIANA Baton Rouge, La., July 8.—All possi- bility of Louisiana enfranchising the wo- men of the nation through ratification of the federal snffrage amendment was re- Jmoved tonight when the biennial session Efl:e state legislature adjourned sine ‘Wood plans to hold a conference Wwith Senator Harding, at Marion, Ohio, MANY WITNESSES FOR PALMER CAMPAIGN PROBE Chicago, July $.—The senate commit- tee investigating pre-convention expes diturss of candidates left tomight for Louis, where it will resume its hearings tomorrow. Expenditures -in behalf General A. Mitchell Palmer, who was a didate for the democratic nomination for president are scheduled for inve: gation at tomorrow’s session and nearly 2 score of witnesses, iacluding Edward | Goltra, democratic national committee- man, and Joseph T. Davis, both of St. Louis, have been subpoenaed. Reports that Goltra paid $3,000 to del- egates for expenses to the state conven- tion which was responsible for the oust- ing of Senator Reed from his national convention seat were said by committee members to be one subject which will be investigated. Press despatches from San Francisco today showed that Goltra and Davis are still there but Senator Kenyon said the committee would begin its inquiry into Mr. Palmer's campaign regardless of whether Goltra and Davis are present. The committee today finished its hear- ings in_ Chicago with ‘the testimony of Henry Lincoln Johnson, Georgia negro, alleged to have received $9,000 Lowden money, who declared supporters of Ma- jor General Wood spent more money than Governor Lowden in Georgia and that democrats spent more than both of these republicans. ADVOCATES SLIDING SCALE OF FEEIGHT RATES Atlantic City, N. J, July 8.—William B. Colver of the federal trade commission told the convention of the National Asso- ciation of Window Glass Manufacturers here today that independent operation of the railroads had *“broken down” within practically ninety days of the return of the roads to their owners, so far as meet- ing the needs of the country is concerned. He maintained that maximum traffic effi- ciency could be obtained through the op- erating of great trunk systems as one operating unit. “If the government is to advance two hundred million dollars for the purpose of ne wlocomotives and cars,” said Mr. Cq ver, “I would’like to see this new equip- [ ment allotted to meet the meeds of the nation, sectionally and seasonally, to the greatest possible advantage. 2 “It is not sufficient in the light of the present failure of transportation require- ments for the carriers to say their prop- erty was returned to them as a mass of junk. The figures do not bear out this claim. In truth, the equipment as a whole was in better shape than when it was taken over by the government.” He advocated a sliding scale of freight rates, with stiff penalties for needless de- lays in movement, as a remedy for what he called the nation’s transportation crisis. WOOD PLANS CONFERENCE WITH SENATOR HARDING 8 —General Chicago, July Leonard soon| it was announced today, meeting of the gemeral and National Chairman ‘Hays. No date for the con- ference was made public. At a conference between Jacob L. Bab- following a ler, national committeeman from Missou- ri and Chairman Hays this afternoon it was decided to hold another conference in St. Louis within ten days “to thrash out” the Missouri situation, it was an- nounced. Members of the Sadalia, Mo., committee, Who have demanded Babler's resignation will be asked to attend. R s o LYNCH NEGRO CONVICT FOR ATTACKING WHITE WOMAN Jefferson City, Mo., July 8.—Fred Can- fax, a negro convict, who is alleged to have assaulted ‘a white woman, was kill- ed by lynchers last night near Center- ville, according to telegraphic advice re- ceived today by W. R. Painter. Chair- man of the state prison board. A po 'y had been searching for Canfax since huw escape from a prison road camp at Ell- ington Tuesday, when he was alleged to have made the assault. i until the middle of August. of Attorney | Director of Ameri- can Wholesale Coal Associ- ation Says Production is Eight Weeks Ahead of Schedul, e. Washington, July 8.—Assurance of an adequate supply of coal to meet all do- mestic requirements during the . coming months was given today by George H. Cushing, managing director of the Amer- ican Wholesale Coal Association, whe Ge- clared in a statement ‘that reporis of an impending coal shortage were uniounded. The public, he said, is panic siricken Wwithout reason or excuse, “There is no shortage of coal,” Mr. Cushing statéd, “there is no danger of any such shortage. Therefore *acve is a reason but no excuse for the curreat high prices in the open market. The reason is that we have had too much wovern- mental agitation of the danger of a fam- ige.” M. Cushing declared that for the past eight months “there has not veen » day Or even an hour when some government- al agency was-not’ agifating aboat ccal and predicting a coal famine.” Prices, he said, have reached the highest peace time level in history because those Wwho neel coal &ve * frantically bidding aga:nst each other in the open market.” Declaring that he had Investigated nearly every alarmist report, Mr. Cush- ing asserted that “not one of them will stand scrutiny or analysis.” He predictea that the consumption of bituminous coal during the “coal year” beginning last April 1 would not exceed 535,000,000 tons —10.288,000 tons a week. “The present assumption,” Mr. Cush- Ing continued, “is that unless we reach this average weekly consumption in the early weeks of the coal vear we are rush- ing headlong into a shortage of coal. That has not been true in 25 years. It IS 1ot true this year. The records of the coal trade are that with the exception of 1917 and 191S—war years—we never reached in production a figure equal to the required weekly average production This year Wwe reached it in the second week in June. Thus our production is eight weeks ahead of schedule. That doen’t look like an ‘impending famine.’ ” The statement also declared unfounded Calarmist” reports that New England, New York city and Chicago'had in stor. age only a two days’ supply of coal. An investigation made by the president's coay commission, according to Mr. Cushing, showed that the total shorage for New England. exclusive of the railroads, was sufficient for 38 days, and that the state- ment as to conditions in New York and Chicago was “merely a wild guess.” SEN. JOHNSON PLEDGES SUPPORT TO REPUBLICANS San Francisco, July S.—Support of the republican party “with a candidate standing ~ four-squate upon the plat- form,” is the only choice left for “those who believe in safeguarding, protecting and preserving our American- ism,” Senator Hiram W. Johnson of California declared in a statement at his home. hepe. - i “For mare than a year the contest over the president's League of Nations has been waged in congress.” Senator John- son’s statement read: “It has been the all-engrossing and paramount issue. Of necessity this issue came to the conven- tions of the great political parties. Both reynblicans; and democrats, in their plat- forms, have indulged in the usual po- litical verbosity, but nevertheless tlrese platforms, in direct opposition to each other, sharply define and fairly present, th equestion for decision in the November election. “The republican party declared that the president’'s covenant ‘failed signally to accomplish jts’ purpose, and containea stipulations not only intolerable for an independent people, but certain to pro- duce the injustice, hostility and con- troversy to prevent, and repudiated to a degree wholly unnecessary and unjustifi- able the time-honored policies in favor Of peace declared by Washington, Jef- ferson and Monroe.” 5 “The republican party stands, there- fore, firmly against the president’s coe- enant as presented, denounces it as breeding war rather than promoting peace, and reaffirms the time-honored, nation-old policies of Washington, Jeffer- son_and Monroe. “The democratic party, on the other hand. rejected every effort to modify or qualify the president's proposed League of Nations, indorsed the president’s at- titude and took its position in favor of the league as presented. .. Tt is true that the democrats, in effort to placate, say something about reservations which might make clearer or more specific the obligations of th e United States, but the language is meaningless and does not at all alter the essential position of the democratic party for the League as presented. “The two parties acted in similar fashion in one respect, but from different motives and for different reasons. Both rejected the pleds for the adoption of the league with reservations, the democrats because they wre for the league as pre- sented, and the republicans because no reservations devised by the human mind could anticipate the contingencies which might arise in the future from an instru- ment. of such potential possibilities for harm. “Thus the issue finally comes from the forum of congress to the final arbitra- ment of the American people. The over- shadowing question of the campaign therefore. is whether we enter the mael- strom of European and Asiatic politics and diplomacy and become a part of the cynical gmperialism of the Old World, or whether America shall live her ilife in her own way, independent, unfettered, mindful always of her obligations to hu- manity and civilization, but free to act as each crisis shall arise, and maitaining always the policy of Washington ana Jefferson and Monroe, of friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none. “With a candidate standing four-square upon the platform, the issue leaves those who believe in safeguarding, protecting and preserving our Americanism, but vne choice, and that Is to support the repub- lican party.” FOREST FIRES CAUSE p MERCURY TO JUMP TO 130 Nogales, Ariz, July 8—Forest fires which broke out in five different sections near here today caused the thermometer to climb to 130 degrees in the shade, the highest mark ever recorded at No. gales. : —_— FOUND DEAD IN BERTH ON SHRINERS’ TRAIN Albuquerque, N. M., July 8—R,. ©, Churchill of Hazelton, Pa., was found dead in his berth on a special train of Shriners from Rajah temple at Reading when it arrived here today. His death was said to be due to heart disease. / s)dent Wilson announeed he wid re- main in Washington all summer. Since the British government felinquish. ed its control meat prices are soarin rapidly, King Alfonso, - Queen ' Victoria and Crown Prince Jaime, of Spain, have ar- rived in Spain. Six hundred iron puddiers who went on strike July 1,°at the . A. M. Byers plant, at BGirard, Ohio, are at work again. . The strike of port workers at Iquique, Chile, has been partially settled, but the walkout of stevedores at Antfaagasta and Taltal continues. American rifile and equestrian teams for the Olympic gamse arrived on an asmy transport. They proceelel to Coklanz for practice work. A violent explosion occurred in- @ powder factory at Vongnes, near Dijon, France. It is known to have killed ten persons and injured thirty. Along a front of approximately 720 miles, the Russian bolsheviki have launch- ed the greatest attack they have ever hurled against the Polish lines, Appointment of Eamon De Valera, president of the “Irish republic,” to the chair of high mathematics at Maynooth college, Ireland, was announced. Revolutionary movements in various parts of Mexico were reported in advices Teceived at the state department from American officials in that country. Treaties between Argentina and Ecua- dor, Venzuela and Columbia, providing for compulsory arbitration were appoved . tue Argentina Chamber of Deputies. Governor Bickett of North Carolina issued a call for a special session of the legislature for Aug. 10, at which ratifica- tion of the suffrage amendment will be considered. Fines of $100 each, were imposed on xteen millionaires who faile! to ap- in response to a call for grand jar- in New York. A panel of $104 hal teen summoned. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Nilson, the Ameri- can missionaries who entered the lines of the "furkish army in Cilicia and were detained by the Turks, have been released and are safe at Tarsus. The body of a well dressed woman, in whose vanity bag was found a note as- serting that she was the wife of Daniel M. Bedell, millionaire clubman, was found in the lake in Central Park. Georges Carpentier, French champion, visited the office of William H. Edwards, Collector of Internal Revenue, and de- vosited a check representign the money he had made tourmg this country. Harry Hoper, captain of the Boston Americi>, underwent an operation for a leg injury sustained récently in a game at Cleveland. He may be out of the game for the remainder of the season. Walter Hagen, American professional golfer ,defeated Lafittee, of Biarritz, n the play-off of the tie. 'The score yes- terday was 293 for each player.. Hagen turned in & score of 150 to 15, for the Trtrchman. . i David S. De Joungh, secretary and treasurer of the Bacardi corporation, makers of Baordi rum. was indicted in Brooklyn on charges of transporting two truckloads of liquor in violation of the Volstead law. A legal fight to block enforcement of Tannessce should ratify it and complete eia! suffrage, even thougn Va-mcar or the 36 necessary staté raufication was begun in the district supreme court of Wasningten, D. C. Seven men attempted to rob the Co- roua branch of the, Bank of annatian Co., in Corona, Queen. They wer> forel by Althouse, acting teller the Newton police from a telephone boot ard the men drove away. Indictments were returned by the Brooklyn Federal Grand Jury against Henry Borchers, owner of a chain of five stores on Long Island and Henry Vette a grocer of Babylon, L. L, alleging profit- eering in sugar. John E. Dalton, 21 years old, was held up and murdered by three negro highway- men near his home in Sharon Hill, Pa. Less than an hour before this the same gang had robbed two.other men near the spot where Dalton was killed. Only one bid for the former German passenger ship Von Steuben was received when tendérs on the vessel were opened by the shipping board. It was for $1,500.- 000 from F. Eggena, of the foreign trade development cruise, and action on it was deferred. Tarihcr postponement of the henring of Ludwig C. A. K. Martens, unrecog- nizel emmissary of the soviet wovern- ment. as to whether he was sabjec devurtation under act of Oct. 16, 19 was agreed to by immigration authorities at ¥l s Island. Spanish goldsmiths and jewelers are securing every American gold coin they can for the purpose of melting them for the manufacture of jewelry. As a result, these pieces of monev are rapidly disap- pearing from the market and going into the melting pot. Federal warrants for the arrest of Walter J. Lynch and Peter O'Brien, dep- uty collectors of internal revenue in Chi- cago wers issued. They are charged with cansn'ran o newmit persons to violate the federal prohibition laws and receiv- ing commissions on sales of liquor. PRIVATE CONCERNS WILL TRANSPORT AIR MAIL ‘Washington, July 8. ‘Experiments are to be made by the postoffive department in the transportation of air mail by pri- vate concerns under contracts similar to those let to railroad companies, it was said today at the department. Request will be made by the department within a few days for bids for the carrying of air mail on several new_routes. The present air Tail routes, such as the Chicago-New York and the Washing- ton-New York air lines, will continue to be operated by the government. ‘The routes on which bids Will be asked from private concerns have not been decided on by the department, but one of these non-government lines is expected to ex- tend into the Southern states with Wash- ington as the northern terminus, THIEVES GET UMPIRES’ CLOTHING AND JEWELRY New York, July 8.—Thieves broke in- to a dressing room at the Polo Grounds today during the game between the Yan- kees and the Tigers and stole the street clothes and personal effects of Umpires Doc Hildebrand and Bill, Evans. They obtained $300 in gmoney and several Progressives Will Pronfinent B}ifl'Moom:Givfi SEL Marion, Ohio, July 8.—Assurances that the national republican tocket would have the united support of progressive leaders prominent in the 1912 campaign Wwere given to Senator Harding the re- publican presidential nominee, today by Walter F. Brown of Toledo, a prominent Ohio progressive. The senator and Mr. Brown discussed plans for the campaign and especially the part the progressive would tak in it for nearly an hour. Mr. Brown is a candidate for the re- publican senatorial nomination to suc. ceed Senator Harding. “Without exception the old Roosevent leaders are supporting Senator Harding and Governor Coolidge.” said Mr. Brown to_the newspaper correspondents. Mr. Brown said he-told the senaton of a private dinner given in New York last Thursday and attended by prominent pro- gressives during which a resolution was adopted endorsing the Harding-Coolidge ticket. 7 Another visitor today was N. M. Mil- ler of Columbus, manager for Former Governor Frank B. Willis, candjdate for the republican senatorial nomination, but according to Senator Harding the call had no state political significance and only national politics was discussed. E. Mont Reilly, banker of Kansas City, also saw the senator. Senator Harding for the most part spent another quiet though busy day. He again followed his example of yes- terday in arriving at his office earlier than usual and devoted most of his time to. the preparation of his speech of ac- ceptance. Will H. Hays, chairman of the na- tional republican _committee, together with T. Coleman Dupont. committeeman from Delawar,. were to have arrived to- morrow to discuss plans_for his notifica- tion but it was said tonight that they might net reach Marion until Saturday. Mr. Dupont is chairman of the sub-+com- mittee on arrangements. Mr. Hays is ex- pected to spend Sunday with the sen. ator. Announcement, was also made that Senmator Cummins, republican, of Towa, woul darrive on Saturday to discuss campaign plans with the ominee. JOHNSON RECEIVES CORDIIAL WIRE FROM HARDING San Francisco, July 8.—United States| Senator Hiram W. Johnson said he had received a “very cordial” telegram from United States Senator Warren G. Hard- ing, republican presidential nominee. Further than that 1 have nothing to say,” Senator Johnson remarked. COAL DECISION MAY BE ANNOUNCED TODAY Scranton, Pa. July 8.—Whether or not, ithe” argument before the anthracite mine commission 'en the advisability of the submissi exhibits,” seven. in number, dealing ith' the alleged monopolistic control and profitéering in the anthraeite industry during the past five vears will be public or held behind closed doors will be known tomorrow. When adjournment was taken this af- ternoon S. D: Warriner, directing head of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Com- pany, announced that he would consume two_more hours in his cross-examination of . Jett Lauck, economist and sta- tistician engaged by the mine workers, Philip. Murray, international vice presi- dent of the United Mine Workers —of America, then asked Chairman W. O. Thompeon whether he would make known the decision of the commission on the excluded evidence' immediately after Mr. Warriner fin'shed. Mr. Thompson an- swered that he would. Decision as to whether the argument will be open to the’ public practically rests with Chairman Thompson. W. L. Connell of Scranton, representative of the operators on the commission, and Neil J. Ferry of McAdoo, Pa., the repre- sentative of the mine workers, have made clear their stand. Sessions of the commission today were taken up entirely in the continued cross- examination of Mr. Lauck by Mr. Warri- ner, Tnless the commission decides that evidence to support the charge of the miners’ organization that the operators are profiteers is relevant an_appeal will likely be made to President Wilson. This |announcement was made tonight by President Thomas Kennedy of District No. 7, with headquarters in Hazleton and by other mine leaders. g It was stated that Chairman Thomp- be made acquainted with the son will contemplated move before he makes known the decision of the commission. I Dr. Thompson, however, was not official- ly notified of such a step up to a late hour tonight but probably will be in the rorning. TThis fght Is now one fof the public and not between the operators and mine workers,” one official of the United Mine Workers said, “We believe that our workers are entitled to more wages and we are taking the determined stand that living wages can be granted us without the public being taxed for the. advance. The case of the United Mine Workers will not be complete until we are privi- leged to present all the evidence that we have assembled to prove our charges.” This_afternoon’s session. was devoted almost entirely to the cross examination by Mr. Warriner of Mr. Lauck as to the accuracy_of. the latter's figures contained in exhiblts seven and twelve which he presented several days ago. Exhibit sev- en pertains to ages in various indus- tries, while exhibit twelve covers rates {of pay and earnings and the cost of liv- ing in the anthracite regions of Pennsyl- vania. « SPRINGFIELD HAS POULATION OF 128,563 Me., ‘Washington, July 8.—Augusta, 14,114, increase 903, or 6.8 per cent. Miles City, Mont., 7,957, increase 3,240, or 69.0 per cenf. Hampden . county, Springfield, 300,254, 29.3 per cent. ¥ Bristol county, Mass., including New Bedford and Fall River, 359,004, increase 40,431, or 12.7.per cent. Revised figures for Springfield show that city to have a population of 129,563, or 225 more persons than were accounted for in the previous announcement for the eity. 9 : COAL SHORTAGE SERIOUS IN NEW ENGLAND Mass, including increase 68,835, or it o Providenee, R. 1., July 8.—A committee to go to Washington to press home, the seriousness: of the coal shortage in New England was appointed by the New En- gland Commissioners of Foreign and pieces of jewelry. A&crqy'nr‘ was used | Domestic Commerce at a conférence here to gain entrance to room. tonight. East of Mississippi in wm Have to Close Unless cations That Commission Order Which Was Issued the East. Mmd?ufergnu to Coal Mines ¢ Assignment of Open Top Cars— ‘Representatives of Many Industries Claim Their Plants Relief is Afforded—No Indi- Will Make Any Change .in to Relieve Coal Shortage in Washington, July 8.—Declaring their | mittees for shy ipment of om the b:\l!flle!! to be qud with destruc- | return movement of the 'cars to ~the ;l(:in. tx-e’emesezmmves Of nearly a dozen |mines, ndustries today asked the ~ interstate g : i commerce commission to revoke or mod. | gy, Vilard, however, told the A ify its order requiring railroads to accord Dreference to coal mines east of.the Mis- sisSippi river in the assignmernt of open top cars. Speaker after speaker at the commis- sion’s open hearing on the order declared his business would be forced to close down and his employes thrown out of work unless the order was rescinded or modified. There were no indieations, how- gver, that the commission would make any change in the order, which was is- sued two weeks ago for the purpose of relieving coal shortages throughout the eastern states. \ Industries protesting against the order included those manufagturing or dealing in crushed stone, cement, sand gravel and.lime and also general building con- tractors. Preceding = testimony of their representatives, the commission heard ory-committee of the Association of Rail- way Executives, who declared that prior- ity of service favoring the more essen- tial commodities was necessary to relieve the present .freight congestion. No_suggestion for the modification of the order was made by Mr. Willard, who on the contrary urged = cooperation be- tween shippers and local car service com- resentatives of various continue the plea before the commission tomorrow. ™ Mission that he did not believe. it would be necessary to “wholly curtail the move- ment of any particula: kind of business.”® He suggested that shippers seek to elimi- nate delays in car mcvement, ‘that they load the cars to and that they of cars. was 0 make the equipment more effective, the maximum capacity foregu the reconsignment The problem in general, he sald, available insu t Iftimation that the fight would be ear- ried beyond the commission in case of re- fusal to modify the order was given dur- ing the hearing by V. P. Johnson, of-the National Sand and Gravel Association. John Rice, representing the National Crushed Stone Association, asserted that road contractors were facing bankruptey as a result of the i while A. N. Johnson, of the Portland Ce- ment Association, described the order as Daniel Willard, chairman of the advis-|“unsound business ~ policy” plained that 0 dustrial depressign. Various other indue- tries similarly would have to quit business because of the order. 4 commission's order, and com- would surely cause, it complained . that they Stat highway commissioners and rep- industries il GOVERNOR COX PREPARES LUNCH FOR NEWSWRITERS Dayton, Ohio, July 8.—Putting aside cares of -being a presidential candidate, Governor James' M. Cox, the democratic nominee for president, spent this after- noon on a farm, his boyhood home, six miles from Dayton. Newspaper men who trailed the goy: ernor found him with his coat off, roast- ing potatoes and broiling lamb chops over a camp fire in a small ravine some dis- tance from the ol dhomestead. His farm manager was with him. He invited the news writers to share the lunche®a he was preparing, but finding it would take more potatoes chops and sandwiches than he had, he dispatches one of his men to Middletown for' more. Luncheon finally was served late in the afternoon. The, governor answered many fuee: tions concerning his early boy] , whicl ‘he hafl:n‘l@%oxn the farm: He also dis- cussed many phases of farming: While sitting in the shade of a large willow. tree one of his thoroughbred cows | came wandering up to huve a look at the | democratic candidate. The governor said she is milked three times a day and gives each milking. At the governor's suggestion, the “Pas- ture Club” was formed, having for its members the democratic candidate and the score of news writers and camera men. Miss Marjorie Wilson of Cleve- land, the only woman reporter in the company, was unanimously. elected pres- ident after being placed in nomination by the goverr Mrs. Cox did not accompany the gov- ernor on the trip, which was made by automobile. Since he acquired the old Cox home-| stead, two years ago, Governor Cox is fast transforming it into a model farm. Governor Cox intimated this evening that he may make an early reply to the telegram of Richmond P. Hobson, Anti- Saloon League leader of Alabama, re- questing that he make a definite state- ment soon of his position on enforce- ment of the federal dry amendment and congressional action to modify the Vol- stead act as to alcoholic coni\it of li- quors. It was also intimated by the governor that he may go to Washington soon fur' a conference with President Wilson. Tel- ephone conversations between Secretary Tumulty and the governor have been held during the past few days, it was said. e | The civic demonstration in honor of | the democratic nominee will be heid on July 16. Interest now is turning to the approaching conference of the democrat- jc candidate with the sub-commmge of the national committee and Flf‘ank!m l:). Roosevelt, the vice presidential candi- date, which probably will be held S'n\lu'r-> day, or as soon thereafter as the party can arrive from San Franc}sco. The governor will make no speaking _engage- ments until he has Confer_redv W‘xlh the committee. Hundreds of invitations to make addresses have been received. Cordial messages of (:Ol'lgl':;.l\‘llatlonsv and felicitations continue to arrive by the hundreds. WARNING AGAINST COUNTERFEIT MONEY ISSUES Hartford, Conn., July 8.—Warning that a large amount of counterfeit money is being circulated in Connecticut was given tonight by Assistant Attorney General H. Cohen. He said merchants should be on watch for $10 and $20 bills which have been raised from $1 and $2 bills. T}_\e latest examples of the notes are raised in such a manner that they will be accepted by a careless or inexperienced person, said Mr. Cohén. 7 The .counterfeit bills are of two kinds, according to Mr. Cohen. The first is a one dollar bill of the federal reserve bank of Philadelphia. series of 1918, and raised to $10 by etching in ciphers and erazingl the word one and etching in the word %an. The second kind is a two dollar note'of the federal reserve bank of Boston, series of 1918, raised to $20 in the same man- ner. WANDERER ADMITS BOTH REVOLVERS WERE HIS Chieago, July 8.—Lieutenant Carl Wan- deérer, whose wife and an unidentified man_ were killed at the entrance of the ‘Wanderers' apartment house several weeks ago, today admitted, the police say, that both pistols used in the double killing belonged to him. ‘Wanderer had previously asse-‘ed that the stranger killed Mrs. Wand in an attempted holdup and that he [cn drew his own pistol and shot the man. In his admission today of ownership of both weapons he claimed, the police say, 'that the stranger took one away from him and killed Mrs. Wandered, whereupon | Wanderer drew another pistol and shot bis wife's assailant. ~ by its organizers is to train ‘women for service in the field of foreign Siqueira Coutinho, have beén in to cut such Judge said. WILL LECTURE AT PAN- AMERICAN COMMERCE SCHOOL Washington, July 8.—Secretary of Com- merce Alexander, Chairman BEenson-_of the shipping board, Ambassador Pezet of Peru and Senator Fletcher of Florida are among those who have agreed to lecture at the first session of the summer sehool Oof Pan-American and foreign commerce, it was announced today. The school wili open a five-week term July 19. The purpose of the school as announced men and trade, either as instructors at educational institutions at home or as actual com- mercial representatives. Its sponsors -de- clare it will be known as “the Plattsburg of foreign trade.” - John Barrett, director general of the Pan-American union, is chairman of the advisory council, Dr. Clafence J. Owens, director general of .the -southern comm- merclal congress, is executive director, and Buist C. Getsinger, assistant director. Other members of the faculty will be Dr. Julius Klein, former commercial at- tache to Latin-American countries; M. W, two gallons at | Malue, treasurer, Federal Export corpora- tion, New York city; Edward F. Heely, former commercial attache to Mexicos William A. Reid, foreign trade adviser, Pan-American union ; Prof. Arturo oTrres of Columbia university, and Prof. J. De professor of languages, Free university of Lisbon. In addition to the lecturers already named, the Ist of those who have agread fo address the classes include Minister Gutierrez of Honduras; Joseph E. Le- fevre, charge d’affaires, Panama legation ; United States Commissioner of Education f17~ton and Dr. g-omas J. Baker, a lege turer of Carnegie Institute of Technology ——a uigies e TRUSTEES WILL OPERATE BIG SILK CONCERN New York, July 8—The Klots Throw- ing company, a silk importing and mani- facturing concern, with wvlants in N England and the middle Atlantic statas and offices in Japan and China, today placed in the hands of trustees to continge the business. ~d The house was said to have asset§ of $11,000,000 exclusive of plants, as against liabilities of only $8,000,000, but lack of sufficient assets n liquid form to meet immediate demands was given as the cause of appointing trustees for it. ‘The eollnnee 0f <ilk values in Janan, caneellas to nof orders and subsequent difficulty=4g getting liquid capital ‘after most of 4w profits had been put into plants broughi about the present acute situation in the company’s financial affairs, it was stated, The three trustees annointed are Charlee Fehney, William Skinner and A. P. Wi liams, all of New York. o ELKS ARE P ING g BIG MEMBERSHIP DRIVE Chicago, Jhly 8.—B. P. O. Elks closed the business sessions of their annual coh= vention today. installed the newly elegted officers and decided to launch an immedt- ate membership drive to increase the total of the order's members from 700,000 to 1,000,000. liam M. Abbott of San Francises succeeds Frank L. Rain as grand exalted ruler. =, Milwaukee won the baseball champlbg‘ ship of the order from Chicago today, to 15. In a band contest, with nearly 100 or- ganizations compveting, the band of the Detroit lodge took first money. kee was second and Atlanta third, 3 Milwau-. CRITICIZES WILSON FOR COMMUTING DORSEY SENTENCE Chicago, July 8.—Judge Landis i statement delivered from the bench %o members of the bar today criticized tha action of President Wilson in commuting the sentence.of James Dorsey, millionaire cattleman of Gilbert, TIL, from eight years to four. reputed “I wonder what frame of mind he must a sentence,” the Dorsey was convicted of using the maity to defraud. It was charged he sold 12:000 head of common stock cattle after adver- tising them by mail as steins. bure bred Ho! BUBONIC PLAGUE BREAKS OUT IN TEXAS Austin, Texas, July 8.—Eight cases of bubonic plague have developed and three victims have died ‘to date Texas, the state health officer announced here today. been three cases of deaths so far, he added. at Beaumon At Galveston there have plague Wwith | two The health director declared twenty per cent. of all rats killed at Beaumont were infected with bubonie plague, he said he considered “a decidedly heavy