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WILSON Jo The Evening thi y hn R. Spears AMERICA’S GREATEST YACHTING AUTHORITY to Describe Cup Races for TO-NIGHT'S WEATHER—Fair and cooler. Wi World § Che “Circulation Books Open to All.’ HT ? TO CALL LEAGUE OF NATIO - VOL, LXI. NO. 21,478—DAILY. o 1920, by The Press set 3 (The ‘Now Weck World). Cirenla “ tion Books Open to All.’’ NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1920. Entored as Second. Post Office, New |-Clnes Matter York, N. ¥. Roosevelt, Cummings and Others on Their Way to Day- 2 Prom San Francisco. | TO BE A HOT CAMPAIGN. | Nominee Likely to Be Formal-| .. ly Notified at His Country | Home, “Trail’s End.” PATTON, 0, July 6.—The Pres- fMential campaign of Gov. James M. Cox will be outlined early next week | Gary. Cox said to-day that ft is bis fe to plunge into an active and jtampaign at the carilest ‘Washington despatches Gov, Cox is expected to go to and confer with nothing has been regarding such an in- is not improbable that visit In mind, because ‘AIGN BOUND TO BE A HOT ONE. ene thing that the nomination made certain is that the Beate of Ohio ts to have one of the campaigns in its history. Al- ly the Republican State Oommit- hag iesued a statement claiming the nomimation means a oertain whotory Harding, and pointing to » nceapberdipaarty majorities by which Gox has been elected in the past, and ye citizens are apprehensive @at effort may be made to have the @etification ceremonies take place in Golumbue and they are prepared to @o the limit, If necessary, to nullity ‘an arrangement In case It should be pressed by any one, From prea- ent indications the notification cere- monies will take place at Trail's End, the Governor's suburban home, where @rveral thousand people gathered two ‘weeks before his nomination to cele- brate with him the occasion of the @eparture of the Ohio delegation for Francisoo, TALKe OF GOLF AND FRIEND- SHIP FOR HARDING. "Tho Governor last night made bis @econd public address since his nom~- feation at the Dayton Country Club @t @ dinner for the Ohio Golf Associa- den. Governor Cox is an enthusiastic golfer and his address was chiefly an 2 {timate talk with the members on 7 We merits of this outdoor sport. He alho apcke in cordial terme of his Re- Publican opponent, Senator Harding, ‘who also is a devotes of the game. He declared that, regardless of the re- golts of the election, he and Senator Harding will remain the same aplen- id friends as in the past, The Governor's interest in golf was @eclared by Lee Warren James, Pres- ident of the Dayton Chamber of Com- merce, to be best exemplified by an imeident that occurred on Saturday before the nomination was made at Gap Francisco, James said he and the Governor were just leaving the lookers for the course for an after- oon round when an attendant oalled ut that Ban Vrancisco wanted Gov. Cox on the telephone, “Tell them I'll talk tonight,” was Governors reply, accoriing to COX EAGER TO START FIGHT: - TO CONFER WITH LEADERS: ~ MAYGOTOSE E WILSON SOON NEGROES LYNCHED, VOTES BOUGHT IN GEORGIA CONTESTS Colored Leader Tells Senate Committee of Money Spent in Against Mitchell Palmer. CHICAGO, July %—Negroes who have voted the Republican ticket in Georgia have “disappeared,” Henry Lincoln Johnson, negro Republican National Committeeman, told the Senate Committee investigating cam. paign expenditures to-day. ‘The committees was questioning Johnson about lynchings tn the South. “They don’t lynch men for ‘Dalong- ing to the Republican Party, do they?” asked Senator Kenyon. “Oh, yes, they do,” Johnson replied. “Many a negro voting the Republican ticket has disappeared and no tidings have ever been heard of him.” In Dublin, Ga., during the pre-con- vention campaign there was “wild Use of money,” the witness asserted. “I spent only $150 there,” he ex- Plained, “but the other fellows spent more than $2,000, “The other fellows,” he said, “were the representatives of Major Gen. Leonard Wood, while 1 was working for my national committeemen,” PLENTY OF “JACK” PASSED OUT BY THE WOOD MEN. Asked 1f Wood supporters “bought delegates,” Johnson said he didn't know, but “they passed out plenty of ‘Jack’ to the boys," Johnson declared that backers of Gen, Wood spent “around §60,000 in Georgia, while the Lowden supporters spent only $20,000," Clark I, Grier, former Postmaster at Augusta, Ga., was the “pay off man” for the Wood people, he said, adding that Grier worked under direct orders from Frank Hitehcock, former Pont- master General in the Roosevelt Cab- inot, Johneon told the committes that 85 per cent, of the negroes were pro- vented from voting “by brutal force and @uppression.” He @aid the situa- tion was summed up in the following words, which he attributed to a speech by Senator Hoke Smith; “In Georgia, no negro ts fortunate enough to vote, while no white man ts too unfortunate to vote.” SAYS DEMOCRATS PAID FROM $5 TO $5,000 FOR VOTES. Democrats pald from $5 to $5,000 for votes in Georgia this year and ‘“gen- erally spent more money than the Republicans,” Johnson told the oom- mittee, “Not one cent given to me was given to any dolegate to the Republican National Convention,” the witnoss de- olared, He said he received $9,000 (Continued on Becond Page.) Classified Advertisers Important ! On or Before Friday Preceding Publication Barty copy reosives the vroterence when Bunday advertising hax to be omitted. Late advertising is new itted for lack of time to set tt. IEALOUS, SHE KIL MAN AND FATALLY SHOOTS HERSELF Couple Wounded by Pistol Shots Found in Home of Man’s Parents. GIRL GIVES A THEORY. | Friend of Dying Woman Says Slain Man Deceived Miss Erath as to His Religion. * Lillian Erath, twenty-five, a book- keeper of No. 417 East 78th Street, who is dying to-day in Bellevue Hos- Pital from self-inflicted bullet wound, and who admitted before los- ing consciousness, the police say, that she shot Arthur Blume, twenty-two, & salesman of No. 508 East 85th street, THE WORLD. was driven to the crime, it was de- clarea by @ girl friend to-day, by learning that her fiance's name waa not Arthur Barry, as she had known him, but Arthur Blume, and that she could not marry him because of her religion. Blume died’ last night tn Bellevue Hospital: “T suspected from the time ‘Arthur Barry’ firet began keeping company with Lillian, about, three monthe ago, that he was deceiving her as to his religion,” sald Mims Erath’s girl friend, who declined to give her name when she talked with an Evening RENT GOUGERS HI "AND PLANS UPSET BY COURT DEIN ; New Tenants Have All Protec- tion and Rights of Old, Says Strahl. SAME BOOST. LIMIT. Contracts for Unreasonable Rents, Extorted From Ten- ants, Can’t Be Enforced. Plans of gouging landlords fo! wholesale extortion from thousands of new tenants, Oct. 1, have received @ set back In @ décision just handed down by Justice Jacob 8, Strahl, in the Fourth Municipal Court, in rooklyn, Justice Strahl holds that a new tenant has the same defense against the gouger as an old one. He holds the limit in rent increases “ust be based on the amount paid for the regardiess of who paid it. Any boost beyond 25 per cent, e the rent ‘paid by the tenant a'yoar before is prima facie evidence of extortion, And even an agreement to pay extor- tionate rent does not rob fie new tenant of his defense . The case in whioh the decision was given was that of the F. A. L. Realty Corporation against Frank F. Bichbauer, tenant. In April last, after the passing of the antt-rent gouging laws, Pichbauer leased an apartment at No, 765 Park World reporter. “I warned Lillian repeatedly of my suspicions, assuring her that she could not possibly marry ‘Arthur Barry’ unless he was of her religious faith, but she did not heed my warnings, My belief is that she learned that he had been deceiving her and that this unbalanced her mind.” Persons living in the neighborhood of the 85th Street address, which ts the apartment of Blume’s parents, de- scribed to-day the restless interest manifested all day yesterday by a girl who loitered about in front of the apartment house, occasionally ascend- ing to the Blume apartment on the fourth floor, Bho talked with no one, and no one saw her enter the apartment whore the tragedy ocourred, but shortly after 6 o'clock Mrs, H. Maibach of No,- 461 Bast 66th Street, @ family friend of the Blumes, saw Blume passing her home with a young woman, apparently the same girl who was seen in the neighborhood in the afeernoon, It ia asmumed they went @irectly to the Blume apartment, ‘The couplg, were found in the apurt- ment of Biine's parents at the sth Street address, after the dtor had been forced by & policeman. Both wore in the private hallway, a few foot apart. Their hate were beside them and the platol wae beneath the woman. Blume mpparently had 6 trying to escape, In the woman's handbag was a note reading: “My namo is Miss Lillian Drath, of No, 417 East Téth Street, Kindly no- tify my sister, Mrs, Sadie Bruhans of the samo address.” The woman sald to Detective Al ‘Thomas: “T kifled tim and then shot my- self.” With that statement, she became unconscious, but later told detectives: “I did {t bocause I was jealous, He had been going out with a girl by tho name of Martha,” Again she lapeed into unconsoious- ness, The doteotives said that Miss Wrath Place, Brooklyn, for $55 a month. He paid this rent for May, but in June refused, clatming the amount was unjust and ynreasonablé. He offered to pay $86.26 rent, an increase of 25 per cent. on the $29 which the former owner had charged for the dat in June, 1919, ‘The new landlord refused this and sued for the $55 rent for June. At the trial it was shown that the premises were in the same condition &e in June, 1919; that no repairs or improvements had been made, and that similar flats in the nelghbor- hood, in better condition, were being rented at $88 or 639. Justice Strahl oayar “I am satisfied thig landlord has exacted an unjust, unreasonable and oppressive agreement to pay $55 a month for thé apartment, confiloting in letter and spirit with the Emerg- (Continued on Ninth Page.) GIRL OVER 2 HOURS ON WAY TO HOSPITAL Coler to Investigate Case of Young Woman Who Fell Unconscious {in Brooklyn Restaurant. Bird 8, Coler, Commiastoner of Pub- Mo Welfare, announced to-day that he ‘would investigate the case of ‘woman who became unconscious in a restaurant on Pacific Gtreet near Fiat- | 2?’ tush Avenue, Brookiyn, this morning. Polios reports show ashe was removed from the restaurant et 4.80 A, M., but did not arrive at Kings County Hospital untH 6.50, Mr, Coler wants this ox- plained and also where whe obtained the liquor which it was first thought had omused wood alcohol poisoning. At Brooklyn Polloo Headquarters tt wes oxpiained that the girl was first taken to the central station for treat ment. The first ambulance which started to take her to a hompital broke down, The girl recovered oonsctousnoss about noon, She said whe was Mar- garet Murphy, nineteen. of No, 642 Warren Street, and had merely ‘bean out for a good time,” Danie! Koehan, her alleged companion, who was ar- apartment a year before the Increase, | Magistrate McGeehan Reports | Feated on 4 disorderly oonduot charge, was treated at Bellevue Hospital re- | Tae remanded unt Gulp Ts tor (eee: cently for apinal ang mental trouble, | gatlon by” Magistrate. Polwelt” In the : atbush Court, Howpital authorities feed poeenn wee Dene sone 19 tha) tutte the girl will recover, ambulance he anid to the police ceil A SE ‘She shot mo,’ Princeton Wine 100-VYard Dash, Mrs, Bruhana went to the hosp'tal,| LONDON, July # ( ed Preas) and told the police that her sister was NE. Brown of Prince on won the 100-| & bookkeeper employed by the Shef-| yard dash in the Princeton-Oxford field Farms Company, and thet ahe! track met thiw afternoon, 0. 0, D, hea kuewh aes Hud, “of Oxford, ha, Bauth —Aftion: Arthur Barry: They bad been acquainted about thes months, Mre, Brunans said, | runner, waa second, RB. lar Princeton was third and Wood of Ox- | 0 . ford was fourth, P affairs. time. BRITISHERS TEAR DOWN AND SPIT ON AMERICAN FLAG Insult to Colors in Bermuda. ‘What he srs was @ brazen and ap- parently inexcusable insult te the American flag by three Englishmen at Hamilton, Bermuda, during @ oelebra- tion of Independence Day there Mon- day was reported by Magistrate Mo- Geehan to-day when he and twenty- five other Americans returned on the Bermudian steather Hamilton. Al! were indignant, he says, over the in- sult to the national colors, Magistrate McGeehan and other Americans were sitting on the ver- anda of the American House in Ham- {Iton, singing patriotic airs, when the British satiors of the H, 6. 6. Argin- court and an English steward of the Steamer Hamilton climbed the pillars of the poroh, tore down a large Ameri- cam flag that was hanging fram the roof and trampled it ander their feet. ‘The sailors, the magistrate said, were J. A. Jewell and J. J, Howe, and he gave the name of the steward as R, H. Rimmer, The Americans indignantly pro- tested. The response of the sailors according to MoGeehan—was to spit on the emblem they already had trampled under foot. Only extreme coolness on the part of the Americans prevented a riot, he sald, Policemen refused to interfere. Albert W. Swaim, American Consul, made a protest to the British Admiralty, and the three men were arrested on charges of dis- orderly oondust. The men pisaded gufity to # charge of Gisorderly conduct and were given 4 choles of a fine of § pounds and 10 shillings each or @ jatl sentence of twenty daye. The Magistrate declared he would temt to the State Department at ‘ashingion in the hope that an LEAGUE OF NATIONS ASSEMBLY WILL BE CALLED IN NOVEMBER Will Be First Gathering of Nations That Signed Peace Treaty Since That Date. LONDON, July 8. RESIDENT WILSON has accepted the invitation of the League of Nations to call a meeting of the Assembly of the League early in November, It was announced in the House of Com- mons to-day by Cecil B, Harmsworth, Under Secretary for Foreign This will be the first meeting of the Assembly of the League, com- prising all the nations which signed the treaty of peace at Versailles although the Council] of the League bas been functioning for some The covenant of the league provides that the first meeting shall be called by President Wilson, in recoghition of his services in bringing about the finished form of the document, JERSEY WOMEN BEGIN DRIVE ON FOOD. RETAILERS Join With State Market Bu- reau to Cut Profits ‘to 50 Per Cent. TRENTON, July §—The New Jer- sey State Federation of Women's Clubs, in covoperation with the State Rureau of Markets, has begun propa- wanda to limit. retallera’ profit to 50 per cent. For the last month com- mittees of women in ten cities have reported retail prices weekly, while agents of the bureau have reported wholesale prices. Gross profits of from 16 to 200 per cent. have been found to be common. It 1s held by the bureau that this Prevents full use of nearby-grown food products by the public and dis- courages production through lack of demand. The bureau announced to-day the string bean market has brokon. The Price here 1s down to $1.50 a bushel. Retail prices, however, show little in- clination to lower. Many stores bought green beans for $1.60 a bushel 2nd sold them for 26 cents a quarter peck. @ profit of 160 per cent. eta DAVIS CUP MATCH STOPPED BY RAIN Seven Games Had Been Played and Store Stood 4 to 3 in America's Favor. LONDON, July 8 (United Press).— The opening games of the Davis Cup GIRLS AND WOMEN IN POLAND RUSH TD JOIN DEFENSE ARMY: POPULACE FLOCKS TO FLAG Students in Throngs, Teachers, Civil Servants and Other ExemptsEnlist to Meet the Great Military Crisis —Warsaw Universities Close.. barracks. NON TRADING WITH “RED” RUSSIA REMOVED BY U.S State Department Emphasizes That This Action Does Not Involve Recognition. WASHINGTON, July §.—The State Department has formally announced that all restrictions on trade between the United States and Soviet Russia have been lifted, except as to ma- terials susceptible of immediate use for war purposes, The action of the United states was taken independently of the Allies. While as a matter of international ccurteay the Allies have been advised of the American decision to lift re- strictions on trade with Russia, no Joint action has been arranged. Tt te made perfectly clear in the ‘State Department's forma) announce- ment that political recoghition of tennis tournament at Bastbaum were susponded to-day because of rain, The first set, in which William M. Johnaton, the American national cham- pion, met Andre H. Cobert, stood 4 to 3 in favor of Johnston and the eighth game was started and stood $0 all when LOUISIANA FAILS ol may be demanded by the British Government, CAME IN FIRST CABIN BUT BARRED BY LAW Yucatan Couple, Detained at Ellis Island, Reported Unable to Read or Write. Mr, and Mrs. Josoph Rishwan of Yuoatan, who eame here Juno 29 as first onbin passengers on the Ward line steamship Monterey, aro seing hold at Wile Island, {t waa revealed to-day, It ts sald thay aro unable to road or write, ? Rishwan aamired immigration offi- ctala that he had ample funda and that he had liven in the United States at timos, Ho is now a morchant of Yuca- tan, ‘The Rishwana havo a fifteon- year-old daughter, Saidio, attending school at Worcester, Mass, The inabil ity of Kishwan and hia wife to read was held to be @ bar te being admitted | to the Unit tates eines the of the lit t law over President Wi * b» die yi; v eee rents to-day, ‘Phey exp hope that na ai to Washington may obtain ‘wellfigntion of he ruling, TO ACT ON SUFFRAGE House of Representatives Refuses to Suspend Rules to Vote on Ratification. BATON ROUGH, La, July 8.—Et- forte to suspend the rules of the House of Represcntatives of the Loulstann Legislature no a8 to act on the Bul- frago Amendment before adjournment of the aosston to-night failed to- the motion being voted down 62 to 46 Guffragtiete were greatly disappointed by tho result, aa they had hoped for success tn view of the telegram sent yesterday by Gov. Cox ease neaiareoresren SUICIDE BY GAS IN OPEN AIR. John Hayman, forty-four years old, « Pullms onductor of the Pennsylvania Rallrowi, «at on tho back porch .of hie home in 16 ge to-day and tyhaled us tum rding to the paiten, Hayman had attached @ alxteen-foot | #AKe tube to the stove, turned the gas cock |4pip Sophie Frankel. lat t the Soviet Government “is nelther granted nor implied by this aotion.” Commercial relations cannot be re- sumed with Ri a, despite the ac- Uon of the State Department in lift- ing the ban on trade, until suitable financial agreements are reached, Passport restrictions must aleo be re- moved to permit free commercial ac- Uvities, he sald. “The Soviet Russians are willing to Pay gold through Eethonian banks,” aid Martens, “Esthonia being the only country having full political re- lations with Russia—but the Federal Reserve Board has advised American banks not to honor drafts on Ketho- nian banks, The effect of this ls to check the one avenue of trade open present time,” Martens said Soviet Russia was oagor to buy American agricultural implements, machinery and tools, and wanta to establish factories to pro- duce these in Russia, Until the pass- port and communicattons restrictions are removed these projects are impos- sible, according to Martens, 2,400 Tons A shipment of 2,400 tons of refined granulated sugar from Japan by way of Buex Canal tranahipped at Gibral- @r_ arrived to-day on the steam- he: TO-MORROW'S WEATHER—Fair PRICE TWO CENTS WARSAW, July 8 (Associated Press),—Owing to the critical posie tion of the country, volunteers for active service in the army are offers Ing themselves from every side, They include school and university teachers, students, Boy Scouts, civil servants and ministerial employees whose occupations excuse them’from military service. The students are enlisting in such numbers that the Warsaw universities have been closed, Stifred, by. the ‘appeal of the National Council of Defense for volun> teers, hundreds of girls and women have taken initial steps to join the amy. Yesterday uniformed women soldiers, with women officers, pe taded the streets singing, and for the first time Warsaw saw, detachments of female recruits under the guidance of women officers marching to the BA Metre Tg eA ark! i Mamy of the recruits were etrong airlo in sbort wkirts and shirtwaists with braided hafr hanging down thetr backs, The sight of female recruits eroused enthusiasm everywhere along the principal streets. Mixed with the girl recruits were women of from twenty-five to thirty years, whe ewung paresols, purses and market packages in arms which will soom carry rifles. ‘The women’s battalions will be need chiefly for guard duty in garrison and food depots and as train escort, thus relieving men for the front lines, The Socialist Party Central Come mittee to-day issued the following Proclamation: “When the Polish troops were ad~ vanting we demanded peace, but now we ought to defend ourselves firmly, on and loaped the tube through a wins (ow to the poreh, which Js open, and was in the sunilght. Then he seated himsealt in a ohalr and inserted the tube ala mouth, It te said, Or 9 sugar {8 con- signed to Amerioan importers, We appeal to the soldiers to fulfil thelr duty in defense of the country against the invader. The Government, however, ought to give that !t desires peace, declare to the world that Poland desires @ peace and addreso to the Soviet Gavercueet proposals for peace negotiations,” In response to the National Couns cll’s call to arms the unlversitica students unions are urging boys to Join the colors and girls to offer thein services as nurses or otherwise, A thousand students who had prepared to spend their vacations In the ple- bisolte areas ae Polish propagandiots now are recruiting to fight the Bol- shevik menace along the 1,200 kilee metre front, POLISH LINE OF 720 MILES MENACED BY BOLSHEVIK ADVANCE Gen, Budenny's Cavairy Drive Northwest of Rovno in Strong Force, BHINLIN, Juty 8 (United Press) —s Indisputable reports have been ree ceived from Poland showing that the qtire Polish front from the Pripeg to the Carpathians, about miles, hag completely broken down, sald a die« patch to the Berlin wireless presg to-day, White Russians were reported te have revolted against the Pole ig many secions, Traffic on railroads running into Minst, Baranevieht and Bjelostok was declared to be Come pletely paralyzed, as a result of Re@ advance, Many bridges across river@ in that section were destroyed. WARSAW, July 8 (Agsociated Presa).—-Bojshevik troops in thetrad~ vance in Volh¥itte have reached the Klewan Rafiroad function northwest of Revno. The Poles are withdrawe ing before the northwesterly drive o@ Gen, Budonny's cavalry, in