Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 19, 1920, Page 1

Nortwich VOL. LXII—NO. 212 POPULATION 29,685 POSSIBLE FOR TENN. HOUSE | T0 RESEIND SUFFRAGE VOTE Speaker Walker Paved the Changing His Vote From Negative to Affirmative— Has Two Legislative Days in Which to Present Such a Motion — One Other Possible Preventive of Suffrage Becoming Effective Would Be Successful Litigation in Contesting the Legal Right of the Legislature to Ratify the Amendment — Ratification Vote in House Was 49 to 47. SULTAge L0 asuel- Louay cution, - a 1or cous| tae [ ture voung, pate resuiulion Su 10 29, LW Comeul asupied rrgay, <o made nessee approse tue sacken luaigit o ary Coiby piete that AL leauer the er action oL fau urnment house o miilions amend- denti unly suwcessiul provision ot ‘L'ennes: o involved aiready have bee aken by the Tennessee consiitutional nety nine members present today and vote on taken, was a tie, each fac- tion poliing 48 votes on & jon by M Walker to table the On the concurri neup Wa nged h would give the age of only two gers declared tonight favor of 'suffrage, who wouid arrive prob- for er may be car- of the members Walker can act suffra- full vo Mr. s notice, a majority and omer tiie hand two days. Debate on i pro- hour and ion a_vote Speaker Walker Overton to the chal suffragist on was im- called when tative womant suffrage. asure go where an up- the roll showed a tié, ich showed Speaker d ists demand- motion 1f an- epublican called, he voted The opy then virtually con for Mr had voted W n to table the his e gave suf- needed er membe: me of Represi changed un tive B. P. Turner. demccrat. was reach- ed and he ed. TInstantly there isfaction from the antis. he motion to tabl balanced just before the end Mr. Turner re- ed the clerk to record him as vot- g : 2 said repeatedly tha vote for no ragainst had evident that h in that event for th amendment ACTION OF CONN. SUFFRAGE CONJECTURAL Hartford, Conn., Aug. 18—Whether Go“emo(;'m!(a.rcus H. Holcomb will call 2 special session of the Connecticut gen- eral assembly in connection with the reg- istering of women of the state following the ratification of the federal suffrage amendment will not be decided until the present statute is studied, according to Executive Secretary John Buckley to- night. — s Governor Holeomb could not be reach- ed, but Major Buckley said: “The issue will be met by the governor after the federal state department has issued the proclamation declaring the federal amendment effective nad after it has been determined whether the present gtatute in Connecticut offers sufficient machinery for proper registration and ting.” Ve.T. sH.em’s’ Roraback. chairman of the blican state central committee, con- ;::‘ned with Major Buckley tonight, but declined later to make a statement. For some time advocates of woman's cuffrage. anticipating that the amend- ment would be ratified this year, have been studying the Connecticut election Jaws, and it is said that most of them were agreed that the legislature would have to amend the statutes in order to provide measures by which the women could be registered for voting. Many lawyers have claimed that women could not vote as the law now stands. Where- in is the alleged defect has not been made clear, but leaders in the suffrage cause had asserted that although Gover- nor Holeomb would not call a special session to act on ra‘ification he had given assurance that shcald women be entitled to vote he would be willing to call a spe- eclal session to provide machinery for the taking of the vote of women provided the @resent election laws are such as would women of their right of fran- fl‘ Suffrage leaders say that such Way For Reconsideration by assurance was giveg as far back as Feb- ruary when the governor first sad that, he would not call a special session to act lupon ratification. TENN. LEGISLATURE HAS GEATITUDE OF WILL HAYS New York, Aug. 1$—Will H. Hays chairman of the republican national committee, on his arrival here late to- day from Marion, issued a statement ex- pressing gratitude of his party to the Tennessee legisiature for its passage oi he suffrage amendment. “I cannot too strongly voice the grat- itude which 1 feel that the suffrage amendment is ratifie said Mr. Hays. parties recognize that the ef- fects of the approaching presidential jon will influecne our national life, eal or for woe, for at least fifty years. There has never been an elec- tion in it~ was more importani n entiment to &xpress \v.ih the constiutional right millions of American women, v berate a body of public opin- upon the campaign and its issues which will prove itself one of our great- | est national assets. “We want these women in politics. We want them in politics this year more than ever before. Ratification of the amendment clears the political atmos- phere, and makes possible the founction- we ion ing of a very great élement for good in our political life, and is a final tri- umph of preme justice for American | women. Again I say, I camnot too strongly voice my gratitude.” . PROVIDING FOR PE REGISTRATION OF WOMEN Philadelphia, Aug. 18—With the an- nouncement of the ratification of the federal suffrage amendment by Tennes- see, officials of this city today hastened to provide for the assessment of women voters so that they may be enabied to participate in the presidential election in | November. Funds for an assessment of the women will be provided at a spe- cial session of the city council and they | will be enabled to register on the regu- registration days in September and | October. It was said at Harrisburg that no | additional legislation would be necessary {to make the amendment . effective| throughout the state. HARDING SATISFIED WITH ACTION OF TENN. LEGISLATURE Marion, Ohio, Aug. 18—Expressing satisfaction with thet action of the Ten- e legislature today in completing ratification of the suffrage amendment, Senator Harding said: “All along I have wished for the| completion of ratification, and have said | d I am plad to have all the zenship of the United States take pai electicns. The re- Il welcome the Te- American womanhood to its 1 to the confidence of all our peo- BRANDEGEE ( SUFFRAGE AD OF RATIFICATION | Conn., Aug. 18.—United States Senator Frank B. Brandegee of Connecticut, when informed of the rati- fication of the federal suffrage amend- ment by Tennessee, said’this afternoon: am glad to see the amendment rati- fied and out of the ava New London PARTY LINEUP ON VOTE ON SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 18.—The “party on the vote in the Tennessee today on the resolution to ratify the federal suffrage amendment was as follows : Democrats—Aye ¢ 34, absent 1. Republicans—Ave 15, nay 12, absent 2. The lineup in the senate last Friday was: Democrats—Aye 18, nay Republicans—Ave 7, nay 1. COLBY READY TO MAKE "FFRAGE EFFECTIVE Washington, Aug by announced today that he was pre- pared to promulgate the necessary proc- 18.—Secretary Col- lamation of ratification of the suffrage amendment soon as he had received formal notification of Tennessee's action. OIL MAN CHARGED WITH Recent »- Tnwua district of cxico haye saved the cotton crop. Joseph Pulizter, an installment house proprietor - u. Goanws, o Y., wasi tined $1,750' on a charge of profiteering. | Bar gold in London was 1l4s as| against 113s 3d at last close in Lon- don. y Twenty-sevan rolls of cloth valued at | $7,000 ‘was stolen from a worsted mill in’ Philadelphia. Aaron McCloud, ceteran of the Mex- ican and Civil wars, died in the New Jersey Soldiers’ Home. He ‘was 96 years old. Through reports from Chicago it was learned $200,000 worth of bonds, mailed from Milwaukee to New York, had been stolen from the mails. Thieves entered the offiices of the E. B. and R. Knight Mill, of Provi- dence, R. I. and robbed the safe of $50,000 in Liberty bonds. Seven persons were killed in a riet at Siene. Italy, swhen Socialists attack- ed a religious procession. A monk was slain on the steps of the church. Three thousand more troops Federal Mexican Government & will be sent to Lower: Califonnia to press the campaign against Gov. Esteban Cantu. It was announced in that Cicardo Gonales, the bandit, captured in the region of Piedra gras and will be tried on 'a charge o rebellion. of the Mexico City was Y British labor’s “councll of action” is- sued a cail for local trade unions in all parts of the country to stage demon- strations on Sunday, demanding peace with Russia. Judg- <", S. District ourt, Boston, refused to permit any m to be mentioned at present for the appo: tor Charles Charles Pon Police reserves were called out to res- cue a peddler selling sugar at 19 cents a pound at Bedford avenue and South 4th street, Brooklyn, when 300 women mobbed him. Many persons are fleeing from Vera Cruz and other coast towns in Mexico affected with yellow fever. One hun- dred cases and deaths are the latest + Vera Cruz. A denial of reports announcing a on the Chicago, Garv and South Pend Irterburban iine at Portage cross- ing. rear South Bend, (nl, was. issued at the Company’s. offics. Bar silver in London was Ad high- er at 59 3-4d an ounee. New Yor domestic price was unchanged at 99 1-2 cents. Foreign silver wos 1 3-3 cents higher at 97 1-2 cents. As a solution of Chicago’s present surface transportation problem “double deckers.” one man cars and subways were recommended to the Illinois Pub- lic TUtilities Commission. . Flogs In baseball parks of the Amer- ican and National leagues are at half- mast in recog'ftion of the death of Ray Chapman, Cleveland shortstop kill- éd by a ball pitched by Carl Mays, New York player. Sk It the Joues Shipping Liw is enfore- roposed increase Jirarese and of Kobe and Yo.oh Ataer.ca and ths orianr. effective says Honolulu A b ppu_ Jiji Licutenant T. Yaner, Vonkers, . Y. won the Wimbledon cun mateh 1 the National Rifie agsceiation Shoot at Camn Perry, Ohio, on the 1.000 vard range with 2 Dossible of 100 plus one bullseye and a Capt. Claude ‘R. Collins, Phi accepted the challenge of ssflzdexl,';"',l:i Bromwell, holder of woman's loop.the. ijn record, for a triangular race from New York to Atlantic City and baek to New York. A handicap of ope-haif the time is allcwed Miss Bromwell. No eanditione recogniti recognition would be granted t. FRC0) 0 the ew Mexican government have been formuiwes ¢ ommunicated to repre- sentatives of the it wes learned a ington. de la Huerta regime, uthoritatively in Wash- o | 2 SALAZAR Now GOVERNOR OF LOWER CALIFORNTA Mexicali, Lower. Calit; Aug. 13.—Gen.| eral Luis M. Salazar. succeeded G ol Esteban Cantu as governor of the cions! ern district of Lower Californi o’clock tonight. s gl Chairman Republican Cam- paign Speakers’ Bureau FRAUDULENT USE OF MAILS Boston, Aug. 183—George L. Ware, of George L. Ware Company, dealers in investment securities, with offices in this city, was arrested by federal officers late today on a charge of using the maile with fraudulent intent in connection with the advertising of Mutual Divide, an ail stock. He was released in bail of $5,000 and will be given a hearing before Unit- ed States Commissioner Hayes tomorrow. The complaint alleges that circulars and literature which had been sent htough the mails set forth that Mutual Divide had eontrol of “valuable oil lands in Texas” from which had been ppoduced a high grade oil in “sufficient quintities to pay dividends on each share of stock of the Mutual Divide.” The complaint says that “the said association had no such property and said association would not and could not pay dividends on each share of stock of the Mutual Divide.” POLICE BELIEVE IDENTITY OF “JOE” IS ESTABLISWED Philadelphia, Aug. 18—A letter which the police believe establishes the identi- ty ‘of the mysterious “Joe", namel by August Pasquale as the actual kidnap- per of Blakely Coughlin, was unearthed today in the files of Pasquale’s atiorney. It was written by Pasquale in July, 1919, more than .a year before the kidnapping and while he was serving 2 term in Holmesburg. ‘With this corroboration of Pasguale’s story, the authorities have again 2band- | oned the theory that he worked alone ir stealing the child and are renewing their endeavors to locate the man and woman he says have the baby awaiting the re- sult of his trial. Senator Harry S. liew, of Indiers, who aceerding to announcement wity head the Republican - campuigs speakers’ bureau as chairman. ' The speaking campaigns of the senatorust and congressional committees have been consolidated with the Natlonal committee work and ihere will be but one speakers’ Lureau., \oa ki /> B . PRICE TWO CENTS FranceinAccordWith U.S. Future of Poland Recognizes the Necessity For an Independent Polish State —Condemns Bolsheviki. ‘Washington, Aug. 18 (By the A. P. The American, and French governments are in entire agreement on principle as to the future of both Poland and Russia, Secretary Colby , clared today in a for- mal statement ._.crpreting France's re- joinder to the American note to Italy. His statement accompanied publication of the translation of the French note which was delivered to the state department on Aug. 14 by Prince De Bearn, the French charge. France's declaration “of its opposition to the dismemberment of Russia” is “most -gratifying,” Mr. Colby said, and added: “The response is a notable declaration from every viewpoint, and brings to the position taken by the United States a strikin gemphasis and powerful sup- port.” The secretary of state referred to French recognition of General Wrangel in South Russia as a “divergence” be- ! tween the two governments on one point, | but said the United States was “disposed | to regard the declared agreement of France with the principles of the United States as of more significance than any divergence of policy involved in the spe- cific action of France in this single re- spect.” The Frenc hnote declages that the French government “is of the same opin- ion” as the American government “con- cerning the present rulers of Russia, and proceeds to condemn the bolshevik in language almost identical with that employed in the American note to Italy Asserting that France is in “complete accord” with the United States as to “the . Colby's Proposal Mexico May Reject As to Conditions Upon Which United States Might Extend Recognition. Mexico City, Aug. 18.—Proposals re- ported to have been made by Bainbridge Colby, United States secretary ‘of state, as to conditions upon which recognition may be extended the present Mexican government may be rejected by Mes it is indicated in an interview with Miguel Alessio Robles, private secretary to Provisional President de la Huerta, printed in the newspaper Excelsior. “Mexico cannot accept the instructions from anotier government regarding its legislation,” Senor Rubles is quoted as saying in reference to the report that wérogation of various Carranza decrees was wanted by the United States govern- ment. “Mexico, however, never has re- | fused guarantees to foreign countries and has made indemn payments when they have been justly due.” COX BELIEVES WOM WILL STAND FOR LEAGUE Columubus, Ohio, Aug. 18.—Governor Cox and his aides joined today in hail- ing Tennessees ratification of the woman suffrage amendment. That the enfran- chisement of women would help the democratic presidential and also local tickets, was predicted universally by the governors advisos, who said that they believed a great majority of women stand with Governor Cox on the League| of Nations issue. Governor Cox, news from Tennessee, statement declaring that upon receipt of the ued a formal the mothers of Americans would stay the hand of war” a ratification wa democrat. and also that the promise of performance of DOLLAR DAY Saturday, August 21st THE DAY A DOLLAR BUYS THE MOST. | Read the merchants’ advertisements in The Bulletin, when they appear, for wonderful bargains. ' necessity for an independent Polish| state,” the note adds: “This is why there is agreement be- tween the French government and the American government to encourage all | efforts made with a view to bringing about ah armistice between Poland and Russia, while avoiding giving to the nego- tiations a character which might result in the recognition of the bolshevist regime and in the dismemberment of Russia STATISTICS OF NEW RATES ON CANADIAN RAILWAYS Ottawa, Aug. 18.—H. Symington, coun sel for the province of Manitoba, testi- fying today before the Canadian railway commission, declared rate advanc®s asked by Canadian railroads, with their “nor- mal annual 20 per cent. inc¢rease in traf- fic,’ would provide a total additional in- come of $242,000,000 for the year ending June 30, 1921. The Canadian Pacific alone would get more than $106,000,000, te s W. J. Moule, assistant comptroller of the Canadian Pacific, admitted increased traflic this year might be as much as 20 per cent., but asserted no reliance could be placed in this hope. Moule, who last week submitted statis- ties estimating a deficit of $37,450,672 for the Canadian Pacific for this yvear, de- fended his figures against a vigorous at- tack by A. C. McMaster, counsel for the Toronto board of trade. McMaster de- clared that figures he had compiled show- ed the road would have a surplus of at least $19,000,000 for the year ending June 30, 1921. ENAMELED STEEL MARKERS FOR THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY Detroit, Mich., Aug. 18.—Before next winter comes enameled steel markers will | have been placed on the Lincoln Highway from New York to San Francisco, mak- ing what is said to be the longest high- way in the world with such guide marks, according to announcement from head quarters of the Lincoln Highway associa- tion here. The road from Omaha to San Francisco already has such markers and work of marking the highway from New York to Omaha now is in progress. The Lincoln Highway is 3,223 miles long. It passes through Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Canton, O., Fort Wayne and South Rend. Ind., Clinton, Ia. Omaha, Salt Lake City and Carson City, Nev., among other points. The highway never has been permanently marked between New York and Omaha. J. A. FLAHERTY OFFICER OF LEGION OF HONOR Rheims, France, Aug. 18.—Passing through here today on a tour of the de- ‘vastated regions, Premier Millerand pre- sided at a luncheon given the Knights n‘l Columbus delegation on their second trip over the battlefields and conducted a ceremony promoting Supreme Knights James A. Flaherty of Philadelphia to be an officer of the Legion of Honor. In an address to the Knights of Columbus, the | premier said: “The forces of America, joined with the | allies, have enabled Poland to come out| of the tomb, and we will no tpermit her | to be reinterred.” H DESTROYER EXCEEDS HER CONTRACT REQUIREMENTS Rockland, Maine, Aug. 18—The tor- pedo boat destroyer Pruitt, built at the Bath Iron Works, exceeded her contract requirements on her standardization ! trials on the Rockland course today. | The average speed of five full power runs was 35.85 knots. The propeller revolutions for this group of runs aver- aged 469.64 and the horse power aver- 30,450. Further tests will be Senator Harrison of, M ppi, lead- er in the Cox organfzation, who came| {here today from New York to arrange the gvvernor's speaking itineraries, said: “Our campaign, plans will not be changed as a result of Tennessee's rat-| ification. They wiil proceed with the| League of ations the paramount issue and I am confident, the league issue will appeal to wome | M | T WILSON platform pledges. The statement fol-| lows: *The civilization of the worid is sa ed The mother: America w the hand -of W and repudiate who trifle with a great principle. action of the Tennessee legislature another ignificance. It is an earne: of the democratic policy to pay its plat form pledges Cleveland, O., Aug. 18.—The joint scale committee of operators and miners of the central competitive bituminous coal fields ——comprising Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and western Pennsylvania—adjourned sine die shortly before midnight without | reaching any agreement after having been in session five days. Following adjournment of tonight's conference it was announced that the miners would hold a separate caucus here tomorrow morning, when a telegram will be prepared and sent to President Wilson | informing him of the failure of the con- ference to reach any agreement in line with his request. i The telegram will state that the failure to reach an adjustment was because the operators failed to submit any proposi- tion adequate to meet the requirements of justice to the mine: 200 CHICKENS DROWNED BY HEAVY Greenwich, Conn., Aug. 18 — Heavy rainfalis the last week, one storm yield- ing three inches of rain in two hours, has filled the eservoirs of Greenwich auni | Port Chester to overflowing, which is unprecedented. A downpour last night did much damage to gardens and aver- flowed the land of many estates. in soms places corn standing three feet of water. 200 chickens were drowned. Twephone and telegrapn wires were generally disarranged. The day before the storm upset rail- road traffic in the energized zone, and did much damage between here and New York especially around Mamaroneck. PONZI HAD OPENED OFFICES I RAINFALL in At another place NEW LONDON New London, Conn., Aug. 18—Charles Ponzi, the Boston financier, had opened headquarters in this city, according to ififormation revealed here today. On July 9, Ponzi and a man giving the name of William I. Jarvis, appeared before the town clerk and flled papers to do business under the name of the Securi- tles Bxchange Company of Boston. Offi- ces were rented in the Marsh Bullding on State strect. Ponzi took possession and his furniture is still In the office. 1t is not known whether any business was done here. “MAN OF MANY KEY! GUILTY OF GRAND LARCENY New York, Aug. 1S.—William R. White, alias Michael Stanley, known to the police as “the man of many Keys.’ was found guilty of grand larceny today ten minutes after his case had been given to the jury. White, who was character- ized by the police as head of a band of hotel burglars, had on his watch charm ‘when arrested last June 2 unique master key said to be capable of opening any hotel ‘door in New York. Forty hotel keys were found in his roém. He will be sentemoed Friday. | morning. LEON TROTSKY HAS ISSUED A CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS Soviet Minister of War, in Address in an Open Meeting of the House, Called For Volunteers For Service on the Scuthern Front — Counter-Offensive of the Polish Forces Has Driven the Russians Out of the Danzig “Corridor”—Moscow Wireless Has Been Unusually Silent. Moscow, Aug. 18 (By the A. P Trotzky, soviet mimster of w. issued a call for volunteers for s on the southern front. The call was is- sued in the course of an address at an open house meeting here in honor of Bela Kun, communist leader and former foreign minister of Hungary. ARE MOVING POLISH FORC STILL EASTWARD Paris, Aug. 18—The Polish counter- offensive with Thorn as its base has suc- cessfully cleared the Danzig corridor of ian troops, according to a report re- ceived from the French m n in Poland today. The Polish forees are still driving e . ine renort sa is holding well, according to the latest news received here last night The Poles, who were beginning to repeat their old despairing cry of 1831, “God is too high and France too far,” fortified by the counsel of France's expert sold 2 have now plucked up spirits with imme- diate eff While it is too soon to forecast the fa- vorable issue of - the at battle now raging under the walls of the capital the Poles appea circles that the Moscow wireless has been unusually silent. POLISH FORCES NO LONGER ON THE DEFENSIVE Par; Aug. 18 — (By The A. P.)— Warsaw now seems to be saved from bolsheviki. President Pilsudski’s no longer are obliged to fight a defensive battle, and the bold offensive on both wings has reached the first g~ jectives and the Poles appear to be paus- fore attempting to develop their The personally offensive on the left wing is being led by the french generals Henry and Billotte and already has vielded important results. It has once more put the Poles in possession of the key to the Warsaw defenses—the fork between the Narew and Bug rivers— while the forces advancing toward Mlawa, which have reached Tsiechanoff, 12 miles to the south of Mlawa, will force the balshewiki marching toward Ploc d Thorn to beat a hasty retreat and consequently re-open the direct rail- road line to Danzig. But the manoeuver on the right wing along the line of Garvolin and Paratch- to retain the initiative | off, between the Vistula and the Bug, is they took Saturday and continue to hold | the more interesting of the two from the bolsheviki in check. In the southeast, |the strategic standpoint, because it on the western Buz they have scored no- {main bo forces. Swelled by table success. Nevertheless, the situation troops fre shortening the fronmt in with Warsaw th ened from three | the Brody region movement already sides, undoubtedly remains 'erious and |has gained rapid headway and driver evervthing depends on the ability of the | the Bolsheviki back all along the line Poles to keep up their aggressive tics. | toward Bre Litovsk for distances vary- It is considered significant in military | ing from 25 to 50 miles. BODY OF RAY CHAPMAN HARDING WOULD MAKE WILL NOT LIE IN STATE TION SELF-RELIANT Cleveland, O., Aug. 13.—Raymond | Marion, Ohio, August 18.—Policies tc Chapman, premier shortstop of the|make the nation self-reliant in material | American league and star infielder of the Cleveland club, will be buried F At the request of his fam the body will not lie in state. The funeral will be held at 10 a. m. St. Philomene’s church, East Cleveland The pallbearers will be announced tomor- row. Some of them, it is understood, were hers at his wedding only a few months ago. Chapman’s death received official re ognition from the city of Cleveland toda when flags on the city hall and court- house were fiying at half mast. It is probabl: that the entire Cléve- land baseball team will be brought here from New York to attend the funeral It is scheduled to play in Boston Friday, but it would be possible to postpone the contest and play it vart of a double header Monda; Presiden Dunn and Manager Tris Speaker will d cide on this tomorrow A large crowd of friends and admirers was at the depot when Chapman’s body reached here this morning. It was re- moved to an undertake morgue and afternoon taken to the home of his in varents, Mr. and Mrs. Martin B, Mrs. Chapman, accompanied b her parents, Manager Speaker and Joe Wood of the Indi was on the same train her home. d several others and went direct to She is bearing up bravely. James Johnson i J. R. Johnson, | Chapman’s uncles, arrived today from Owensboro. Ky.. but his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R erett nman, of Herrin, 1. will not arrive until tomorrow morn- ing. Hundreds of messages of condolence were received today from all parts of th country. Fifteen thousand men, women and children tonight had contributed ten cents each to the “flowers frog a fan” fund started by a local paper. The cam- paign will be continued tomorrow. Tt has been decided to use about one-third of the contributions for a floral design, the balance will be placed in fund which is being raised to erect a me- morial f pman at League nark. Manager Speaker declined stonight to make any statement regarding the acci- dent. He denied making any statements in reference ot Pitcher Carl threw the ball which struck Ch: nman _ in the New York-Cleveland Monday and caused the injury v ed in Chapman’s death discus! if then. Fe said he would not the subject until after the funeral, HELD FOR BURGLARE AT WEST CORNWALL New Milford. Con Aug. 18.—Ray mond McLaughlin of Great Barrington, ss., and rd Rood of New Haven were arrested at Gaylordsville today, charged with burglaries at West Corn- wall and Cornwall and stealing a motor truck belonging to George Cochran. The truck was found near the nower station, abandoneds Howard Odell and Constable Eric Hagman located the men in an old barn and warned them to come out or be “smoked out.” As both left and tried to escape by threatening to shoot. Odell pep- pered them with birdshot. Before Jus- tice Robert Nisbet of Kent each was held in §5,000 bail for the superior court. PLEA FOR RELEASE OF WINNIPEG STRIKERS Ottawa, Ont., Aug. 18—Senator G. Robertson, minister of labor, and Solic- itor General Hugh Guthrie admitted to- day that a labor delegation yesterday had entered a formal plea for the re- lease of men convicted of instigating the general strike in Winnipeg last year. A deputation, headed by F. J. Dixon,| labor leader in the Manitoba legislature, submitted its case to thhe government officials, who said today that the pe tion would be considered at an early cabinet meeting. BRIDGEPORT GIRL IN TRIPLE TIE AT CAMP PERRY Camp Perry, O., Aug. 18.—C. Sund- berg, Pennsylvania, at fifty yards made a 'score of 93 out - of a possible 100 shooting at the small bore ranges to- day. Three tied for second place with a score of 92 each. They are J. C. Langbury, Pittsburgh; W. R. Stokyp' Washington D. C., and Miss Marjorie F. Kinder, Bridgeport, Conn. Miss Kinder is but fifteen years old and is the youngest girl ranges here. Many a young couple agree to marry, and that's the last thing they agree upon. well as governmental affairs were advocated by Senator Harding today in two short speeches here. The republican nominee spoke first tc a group of American Indians, whc brought to him a plea for extemsion of their racial rights. He replied that the United States might do well to bestow “democracy and humanity and idealism” on the continent’s native race rather than to “waste American lives trying tc make sure of that bestowal thousands of miles across the ea.” * The econd address was delivered to the local lumbermen's association, . and was a plea for a forest conservation pel- icy that would insure a timber supply to meet domestic needs and thus raise the standard of American housing con- ditions. .The federal government he {said, should turn its aftention to eculti | vation of forest crops just as it has con- {cerned itself in the past with the grow- ing of food. ! Word that the Tennessee legislature {had completed ratification of the woman | suffrage amendment was received by the nominee with expressions of satis. faction, and he immediately issued 2 atement declaring his gratification that i women would be given the ballot in the | November election. Since the fight in | Tennessee began he had been in_close touch with the situation there, and sev- eral times had sent telegrams to repub- lican leaders in the state expressiig hope for ratification. AMONG SOFT COAL OPERATORS PEOBABLE Cleveland, Ohio, uAg. 18.—A break lamong the bituminous coal operators of the central field appeared {certain when tonight's joint conference | between the - wage scale committees of | the union miners and the operators ocon- vened shortly after 8 o'clock. { It also was indicated if the conference |adjourned without making an agree- {ment covering the entire central compet- BREAK iet | itive field, the United Mine Workers of Amrica would use its strength to obtain satisfactory wage increases foro day la- brers all over the countr The miners’ representatives Wwere re- {ported on the point of dealing separate- |1y with the operators of each state. At today conference the Tili- s joint nois operators suggested that unless an {adjustment was reached, thy would re- | turn to their homes and make an agree- ment with the Illinois miners, embodying an increase of $1.50 a day for day la- {borers in the mines. Indiana operators also announced they would make a sep- argte agreement, but did not say &t | what figure: Ohio and wes: § Pennsylvania were said to be opposed :0 an adjustment. The Illinois operators have been pay- ing day and monthly men bonuses and higher wages than provided for in the scale, in violation of the contracts with ithe union, John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America declared. MILITARY CRISIS IN WARSAW HAS BEEN PASSED Warsaw, Aug. 17.—The newspapers today assert that the military crisis has been passed and asure the pubilc that | Warsaw is absolutely safe. The coun= | ter-offensive of the Poles is announced in big headlines, and the council of min, isters has issued a proclamation Whicl has been posted in the treets telling of the victoriou attacks against the bol- sheviki who attempted to outflank the capital's defensive. The newspapers say that northwest of Warsaw Where the Poles have shoved the reds to the northeast across the Wkra River, the Poles already have taken more than 2,000 prisoners and much war material. Radzymin which the Poles held three times, is now con- sydered fairly secure fro mattacks’ The town is being visited daily by res- ident of Warsaw who have permission to visit the front. OHIO FORBIDS STEAM LINES TO RAISE RATES Columbus, O., Aug. 18.—The Ohio pub-" lic utilities commission today refused to permit steam lines in the state to raise passenger rates 20 per cent., milk rates: and excess baggage charges 20 per cent. and place a 50 per cent. surcharge on Pullman space rates, as in the recent or- der of the interstate commerce commis- sion. A daily newspaper in St. Petersburg. Fla, gives away its whole edition every day the sun doesn't shine, and in nin fyears ‘and six months there have beem only fifty-six free issues of the paper.