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By _ ws me | eeenl Ce a To Be Sure of ‘Gett ng The Evening World. Order in Advance from Your Newsdealer Che “Circulation Books Open to All.’ ] VOL, LXI. NO. 21,500—DAILY. Copyright, 1920, by Tho Press Publishing (The New York World), NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST ‘3, 1 HARRIET MAY WM ILLS CHOSEN BY WOMEN DEMOCRATS FOR PLAGE ON The STATE TICKET Choice Made at Saratoga After Murphy .Concedes Them Secretary of State. | —— | TAMMANY IN NEW ROLE. In Position to Rule the Confer- ence but Refuses to Do Any Bossing. By Joseph S. Jordan. (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) SARATOGA, Aug. 3—True to real old-time convention form, the Demo- cratic State Conference was late in wetting down to business to-day. Before it assembled the women dele- Gates held @ conference at the Grand Union Hotel with Mrs. Johniherwin Crosby prestling for the purpose of | deciding which one of thelr number | shotld be selected for a place on the | State ticket, This was after Tam- many had made known its dosision t© name a woman and it was under- Stood that the position was to be Secretary of State, Chairman Crosby ‘was nominated, but declined to take | — the -honor, Harriet May Mills of Syracuse was then named without much opposition, The following women were named @s a committee to inform the men of their action: Mrs, Hleanor O'Gor- man of New York Cit Morse of Buffalo, Mrs. Minnie W man of Kings, Mrs. Julia Tierney ot Rochester and Mrs, Henry Keith ot Queens, | KEEPS PLACE IN SPITE OF) WOMEN’S PROTESTS. Immediately there was a storm of objections from the women delegates of Kings and Queens who claimed that neither Mrs. Wichman nor Keith | were delegates or alternates, Mrs.| Keith withdrew, but Mrs, Wichman declined to be put off the committee and so was permitted to remain, Mrs, Crosby took the place of Mrs, Keith. “I do not favor putting any woman on the tic! said Mrs. Crosby later on, “I think that we should be long in politics before attempting to as- sume the prerogatives of the men. We ought to go more slowly and should be content to learn from the men before putting ourselves on the same ph with them, Personally I would not accept any place, My jdea of the women in politics is that| the women should make a third party ‘nd then they would get the recog- nition to which they are entitled to. The men would theh not only be] compelled to ognize them but would be obliged to go to them.” MEETING OPENS WITH MOTT As) TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN, The conference opened at 11.65) o'clock with Frank H. Mott of James. town in the chair and Albert BE. Hoyt of Albany as temporary secretary, Mr. Mott wus escorted to the platform without a vote being taken on his name, the bund merrily playing “Rally Round the Flag.” Mr, Mott made the | saying that he was in to address the keynote sper doubt as to whether | Classified Advertisers Important! advertisin s World office. On or Before Friday Preceding Pyblicetion Early copy 68 the w ‘opy for ould be In Tac THE WORLD. of th |= MEN GO ABROAD, GIRLS COME HERE, TO FIND MATES Most of 434,000 Bipenn in Last Year Men; Majority of Immigrants Women. WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. MBRICA is exporting hus- bands to the rest of the world, being the only na- tion with more men than women! Women of foreign countries are leaving home on mamn-hunts, America and Australia being the principal hunting fields. Sta- Usties of the Immigration and Census Departments revealed this to-day, There are in America more than 25,300,000 bachelors and 19,- 500,000 spinsters, according to the official figures. Approximately 434,000 persons, mostly men, left this country In the year ended June 30, principally to marry. Women composed @ majority of the 605,000 immigrants entering during the same period. They seek husbands, Falr warning! FRANCE PREPARED TO MEET U. S. CLAIMS Buys Enough American Exchange to Make Payment Due on Oct. 1. 13.—The Ministry of PARIS, Aug. | Finance has virtually completed buy- ing sufficient American exchange to meet obligations falling due in the United States Oct. 1. (The Anglo- French loan of $500,000,000, of whioh the French share 1s $250,000,000, is due on that date.) It ts explained tn high financtal circles |that the Ministry's progreas in the mat- |ter accounts for the recent rise of the dollar, ais SIXTY IN PERIL OF FIRE. Women and Children Recorted From Burning Tenem Sixty women and children were helped out of a burning tenement at ‘o. 112 Forsyth Street this afternoon by firemen under the direction of Act- ing Chief Sullivan. There was no need for spectacular rescue work, but the women were excited and had to be escorted down stairs and fire escapes. | Patrolmen of the Clinton Street Station helped. The blaze started in the apartment ot Max Palekoff on the fourth floor of the six-story building and spread quickly to the roof. The upper part building wa destroys d. SUIT OF CLOTHES | AT 60 CENTS TO BE OFFERED HERE Germany Preparing to Ship Large Numbers—40,000 Sent to England, WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 SUIT of ciothes for 60 cents and @ new suit every week will be the latest fad in Ame:..a if Germany sends paper sulta here. The Commerce Department was advised to-day that 40,000 paper suits were sent from Germany to England last month and Ger- many .now Is preparing to wend large numbers to the United States, These suits are ready made, cut 4 h atyles, T re made ~~ 4% TAURANT, seutio’ “treast of easiest Foal, S0c,; atoned nrunes Bhar aad a lle ac, | Se ih Sy A hits TO NOTHER © LIEUT LOCKLEAR, DAREDEVIL FLYER, _ PLUNGES TO DEATH First Aviator to Change Planes In Air Killed With Aide | Amid Blazing Fireworks. LOS ANGBHLE Aug. 3—An iIn- vestigation was started to-day by the Coroner's office of the deaths of Lieut. Ormer Locklear and Lieut. Milton Eliott, aviators, whose airplanes last night crashed to the ground near Hollywood without having righted from a tail spin started at a height of 1,000 feet. Five searchiights played on the air- plane as it started into the spin, and Lieut. Locklear, the pilot, dropped a rocket which he followed with the nose of his machine. Spectators said Locklear attempted to right his ma- chine at @ height of 200 feet, but failed as the machine burst into flames. The plane was ignited by the rocket it was ald, Locklear was born twenty-seven years ago at Como, Texas. His widow lives at Fort Worth. Lieut. Eliiott, twenty-four years old, was a native of Gadsden, Ala. ARTIST WHO FLEW WITH LOCKLEAR TELLS OF.THRILLS By Thornton Fisher. Locklear 1s dead. The winged rider of the air who defied the forces of gravity and played with the four winds succumbed at'last to the in- visible presence ever reaching through strut and wire to pluck the S inkterad youth who dares ascend the cloudy heights. Plunging, spinning 1,000 feet through space until he crashed against earth, it is doubtful if he would have chosen a less violent death, had the power been his to direct Ormer Locklear is the last of the freak flyers, It may well be said of him he was the first. Certainly no one before him had so thrilled the @pell4bound thousands who gazed at the amall human fleur that crawled perilously wing and fuselage and then leaped from plane to plane as though they wer along planted firmly on earth. ‘Thi prosaic and commonplace had no part in the life of Locklear Merely penetrating space ceased w interest him During the war th young Texan was an Instructor of | aviation and {t was then that sho] vid ¢ ptioy of aerial country was} % {th the story of w young (Continued on Twelfth Paged DROPPING FROM ONE PLANE KADEL +HERSERT * Entered ns st Of flee 920. ‘Locklear, Killed in 1,000 Foot Fall, Dropping From One Plane to Another ‘Cellar Forever, Slogan of Bronx Hay Feverites Grand Chorus of “Kerchoos” Plan to Meet in Private Stock Vaults. The Hay Fever Club of the Bronx, also known as the Order of Kerchvo, whose heraldic device is an ¢ unk rampant in a fie with the words “Sic § ephant's d of guldenrod. mper Gesund ” WOMAN AND BABY SLEEP FIVE NIGHTS IN WEST SIDE PARK for Well Clad, When Taken helt,” held its annual dinner last to Court, night at sormani’s Shore Palace, —_—_—_— Throge’s Neck, and celdbrated the! In rags herself, but her five-qress. opening of th kerchoo-00-00 season by passing two resolutions, Magistrate William A. Sweetser, whose sneezing gamut only by @ steam piano, proposed the 1s equa old baby amply, even daintily clad, Nellie Kelly, twenty-four years old ied | who eaid her home was nowhere, was taken into Washington Hetshts Court first motion, ri to-day by WilHam Moore of the ‘Gentlemen, we are incurable," he wyied um Moore of the Chil began, (Sneezes and applause) “The | 4782's Society on a vagrancy charge. doctors say that they can do nothing} Moore told Magistrute ‘Tobias for us except to sand us bills, (Cheers|néighborn hed reported the young y © southeast ye from the eotithoas r table.)) woman had been sleeping with hor Every year we must suffer. (Four ath fo mighty anecms from Louis Hartman |DaY for tle nights in the small and Judge Mancuso.) But we need | park at 136th Strest and Ameterdain not despalr We can take refuge inj Avenue, She had told him. he anid. the cell (Shouts of “The lar |that her relatives would not help nor Forever!) I move that all further |) oii she wi meetings of this organization be held] we wan Oh Masnascied aie welta sectia F fellow's cellar| Mother, and thet she had no othor if the will stand for it,” place to go. The motion was carried by a grand] Mayistrate Toblas held the woman chorus of choos.” Scocozza, the popular under- taker, It was reeolved that women| ‘The girl-mother's devotion to the who can qualify in the matter of|baby was pathetic, She would allow sneezing shall not be deburred from| ng ong in the court room touch it for monbership because of age, sex or| gan a\a' bis taiean FRSA | Aiton oe “Linen fear t would be taken from her ; nbers were preaent and an| baby, in addition to-excelient clo awful time was had by all |was carefully wrapped in a rubber ‘5 ata mates SA ae blanket the mother had pro OF of Bie ibed by Auto Traek:| vided to protect the infant fre While croasing tho street in front of | Vted to » tthe: (nfane: torn ic No. ° Jand main during thetr enforced re dence in the public park 1 motion was offered by truck owne mpany of N on Atreot Jed In Methodlat Dpiscopal How from shock. “Welter Uriams, ‘No Monahan truck, Strest, was driver of tho and her baby for @ hearing to-morrow pending investigation, Ho} pity! Aavt Racing Entries on Page 1 4 ee EL ass Mother In Rags, But Child Is! wary Ten er maa tn <2 Anema cera = TEE Lai Hecond-Ciase Matter PRICE THREE SS ee SOME OF PONS TRUCE PARLEY BROKEN OFF; RECORDS MISSING, SAYS INVESTIGATOR Attorney Chord | Allen As: le ; Serts Correspondence With | Foreign Agents Is Gene. G FUNDS. THRONG PS |, ‘Financial Juggler Says He Has} | Paid Out $3,500,000 as “Run” Continies. | pee ae BOSTON, Aus, 8—/The tion into the financial of Charles Ponzi were seriously em- Investipa- transactions barrassed to-day by the fact that, ac- cording to State's Attorney General Allen, the Ponzi and his European agente has disappeared an well as many of the records of his office. ‘The line of anxious noteholders in the "50 per cent, in ninety days” in- yestment proposition of Charles Ponai, who claims to have made mil- lions by foreign exchange operations, began to form outside the offices of his Security Exchange Company long before daylight to-day demand~- ing return of their money. The first claimant appeared at the rear entrance In Ple Alley, formerly the old “Bell-in-Hand” bar, at 8 A, M, He had a note for $1,000, which un- der the terms of Ponai's agreement was to have returned a profit of $600 if held for maturity. The investor said he had decided to pass up the Profit and take his principal back. This early comer had no chance to get lonesome for soon after he had taken his station other noteholders began to arrive. A score were on hand by 6 o'clock and when the usual opening hour of 9 o'clock came the Mne was tho biggest crowd of credit- ors since Ponzi began paying back money more than a week ago. Many of those In line were from other Now England cities where the correspondence between Securities Exchange Company has maintained branch offices. Managers of some of the branches had an- nounced that 48 hours’ notice was re quired before money could be drawn, explaining that the delay was nefessary in order that funds might be obtained from the head offices in Boston, and investors in many in- slances perferred to take a day off and come to Boston for their money rather than wait Most of the early arrivals sald they | were holders of unmatured note Ponzi, in « statement again assert- ed that hie business was solvent and that be was prepared to meet ail de- mands. He estimated that up to just might he had paid out about $8.600.00 with- @ince the run began, He asser that ho would “have millions left" after meeting all abligations and that he was “still considering the offer ot a Now York banker" whom he did not name, to buy his business, he banker and his French partnors,”" Ponai said, “will have a conferenoe with mo to-day Edwin L. Hride, the auditor ap- pointed by United States Attorney Gallagher to investigate z's 3 counts, says tt will be before the audit omiple Pride announc that he had found no Indicution of eriminallty as far as his investigation had xo — SPOONING IN AUTOS “Inspiration Point” love Makers MUST STOP IF DARK(|' REDS BEGIN WIDE DRIVE 10. i AKE WARSAW TO-MORROW Two Polish Armies of Defense; Dis- astrously Defeated, in Full Re- treat 48 Miles Out—Americans and British Flee City. The Polish delegation which was sent*back to Warsaw by the to-morrow, at the earliest. not doomed to capture, The first and fourth Polish in full retreat. lapsed. ordered to leave. Coincident with the serious set up in the portions of Poland ran, ARMISTICE PARLEY 1S DELAYED; POLES RETURN TO WARSAW Delegates Must Be Empowered to Sign Peace As Well As Truce, Reds Demand. LONDON, an armistice between Soviet Rusa have bi cording to a Wireless ceived here trom Moscow, It says the Polish delegation feft Baranovitcht for Warsaw on Monday to present to its Government the Soviet demand that the Polish delegates be given mandates for signing, not only an armistice agreement but also a pro- tocol setting forth fundamental oon- Hitions of peace. Poland n delayed, ac- deapa re- and “Without th the message de- res, “it will be impossibe to con- clude ‘an armistice Nhe Polis n was empow- halting ates eting of the be held at » despatch says. non Aug. 1, at} ita creden-| i command em- roliate an armistice, inues. The Rus- ed that the orig- 1 not only pening informed they must th ered mere of hostulides. Jeapatoh, Pay Fines—Jail if Repeat. Magist « court to-day by im twenty-five mo! fore hint ie 1 of tht thin it wil be Jail next thne, orn, | twete warned the love! r Cent, Neighbor, ed to Vern for ibe Jona mull 425, Aug, &—Negotlations for! funda. \t udde th re- Hust return to War-| . queation for the Government MOUNT VERNON HAS 42,726. All advices to-day indicate that the situation in Poland, from the Polish-Allied standpoint is approaching a crisis, went to Baranovitchi to negotiate an armistice not only failed to obtain terms from the Russians but- Soviet authorities, who demanded © that the emissaries obtain a mandate to take up peace negotiations. This will delay even the beginning of the armistice negotiations until Meanwhile the resistance of the Polish army, which had sapped ently been stiffening, has again laxed under the tremetidous prése © sure of the Bolshevik armies. W. are now but forty-eight ‘miles distani, seemed critically menaced, if , from which the Russians armies, charged with the defense of the capital, are reported to have been disastrously defeated and The Polish counter-oflensive near Brody has col- Americans in Warsaw have been warned from Washington that” they remain there at their own risk. All British nationals have been military developments comes Pe announcement from Moscow that a Soviet Government has been’ which the Bolsheviki have over. »~ | —_—?- Ms POLAND'S ARMIES POUNDED TO PIECES ALONG WIDE FRONT | British Ordered and Americans Warned to Leave Capital by Monday, | WARSAW, Aug: 9 (Associated Press).—Brest-Litovek, the last great fortress guarding Warsaw from the east, has apparently fallen before & tremendous assault by the Russian Bolshevik!, North of that place Se viet forces have smashed thetr ‘way forward in their drive weetwandte® point only forty-clght miles east td this city. Over a front of 120 miles rail armies are being pounded to pleas before the rush of Bolshevik: hordém® which are being hurled to the batéle in a desperate attempt to capture Warsaw before the conclusion of the armistice conference at Kobrya. Re+ inforcements are everywhere being hurried to the front by the Russians to complete the defeat of the Poles |before hostilities are halted. An official statement issued late last | night showed the Soviet armies had | reached @ ling running from Kossala | to Clechanowica, | Great masses of Bolshevikt have been flung against the Polish bre | works defending the part of | Litovek east of the River Bug. ives who arrived here last nigat fram city reported the Soviet forces: were in control of the eastern half of the town, It ts offlelally admitted the Russians have reached Mictuika, northeast of Brest-Litovak, Other despatches received here @f= nounce that Brest-Litovek was [cupled by Bolshevik troops on Aum! \1. They have also taken Szoaut close to the min border, 1 jrouthwest of Bialystok they have: advanced to within seventy miles of Warsaw, ‘There ts heavy fighting * | the Crimean sector. bar to the southeast, near the Bolshevik! have rushed mente inte the line end it is ined Premier Millerand annoubhces that France is ready to recognizes © the Soviet Government if Russia acknowledges the debts of the for- mer Imperial Government and the treaties made by it. m i ae -