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ILLINO! BRITISH : 1 TO-NIGHT’S WEATHER—Occasional Showers. ‘WALTER HAGEN WILL REPORT National Open Golf Cha pi nsbip 6 Circulation Books nm to All re | om Copyright, 1020, by ‘The Pree Publishing Ora ee, (The New York World). VOL, LXI. NO. 21,503—DAILY. = == _ NEW YORK, FRIDAY, _AvausT. 6, 19 ‘ 20. I “Circulation Books Open to All,” | TO POLE S MOB KILLS FIVE, INJURES SCORE DECIDE TO RUSH HELP TO-MORROW'S WEATHER—Cloaring. AS Entered na Second-Class Matter Post Office, New ork, N. ¥. a= THAT HARDING WILL ACCEPT THE LEAGUE didate Proposes, Tells The Evening World. To the Bditor of Tho Evening World: You ask me to answer some questions for The Evening world f spect io reservations of the covenant of the League of Nations, three questions are as follows: tute the one comprehensive and sufficient reservation with which t! Nation might ratify the peace treaty and accept the covenant of League of Nations?” ° ter of the power given Congress to declare war and provide for the Constitution itself be as explicit and forceful as any paraphras' vationy would it not offer common ground for agreemeent to all res vationists who honestly seek nothing but the preservation of t Nation's constitutional independence and- integrity in the terms which it enters the League?’™ the covenant of the League of Nations, any obligations on the United States, States and in no other way It does not add anything, States of the League to make a reservation of something which isn sarily implied without it. @ A reservation to be useful should be: specific {n its limitations, tion would be, ° It is the doubt as to how the Constitution restricts the power o: United States in such dases that should be cleared up by reservati we are to Have a reservation. Your fourth question 4 tionship of the nations to commit the moral forces of the world that they will be reluctant to adopt some new form, especially if’ by It Is on this basis that I hope that President Harding will ultim conclude it to be wiser to enter the League than to attempt to ry out the same purpose through a new for association. Your fifth question: “VY, Does not any party or party faction that turns its back the existing League of Nations run the risk of identifying itself w a class of Americans who are secretly ready for a difgnified way (Continued on Second Page.) ’ “IV. Can any argument for Senator Harding's possible ‘new re’ WITH LODGE RESERVATIONS This Is a Wiser Plan Than Insisting; Upon a New League, as the Can- Ex- President POINTE-A-PIC, Canada, Aug. 4, 1920. in re- Your arst “I. Could not the Constitution of the United States Itself consti- his the “II, Wherever the provisions of the Constitution must affect this Nation’s reading of the League covenant, as, for example, in the mat- the maintenance of army and navy, would not citations form the text of en” « “III, If the Constitution were used as the one all-embracing re8er- er~ his on I have often had’occasion to say that without any reservations at all in so far as it purports to impose |. must be construed to mean that the| obligation will be performed in accord witif the Constitution of ine United | ‘ | therefore, to the ratification by the United) eces- | Merely toésay that it is to be cOnstrued in accord with the Constitu- tion Is still to leave a question as to what the limitation of the Constitu- f the on if la~ to peace and justice’ outweigh the concrete present, actual existence and availability of a League that twenty-nine nations have already joined?” I believe that it will be found that when President Harding ap- proaches the twenty-nine members who have already formed a League that time the League shall have demonstrated its usefulness and practicability, ately with the Lodge reservations m of on ith to Classified Advertisers CLOSING TIME 5.30 P. M. SHARP SATURDAY FOR The SUNDAY WORLD’S Classified Advertisements ene ACErices, close 6 OfcLOCK purively ie F Claseined Advertise. ents will be received for The Sunday World after 8.30 P.M, Run D Alights From Troll Sister Injured. Mary Nps! of No. died in the Asbury Park sbury Park, » of urles suff whon she Lightford, —He mornt o'clock It did not n the @ kood description of It Mo pol of neighboring were warned to be on the lookot & speeding automobile, have been made, Advertising copy for The Sunday World should be in Bho World ofice ON OR BEFORE FRIDAY PRECEDING PUBLICATION early N. Y. WOMAN KILLED BY AUTO IN JERSEY n at Bradley Beach as She or 2105 Madison Hos this 11.30 towns ut for but no arrests HELD FOR KILLING HIS FATHER AS HE DEFENDED MOTHER Jersey Youth Grabs Pistol From Parent Who Is Beat- | ing His Wife. SCREAMS AWAKEN HIM. Tragedy Follows Return Home of Woman After Visiting Son’s Fiancee, Louis F. Gross jr, Ghauffeur, of No, 13 J., when arraigned be- fore Recorder Schulz in Fairview to- day, was held withont bail for the Bergen County Grand Jury, charged with wilfully murdering his father. He declared before heing locked up in the Hackensack jail that he went to the defense of his mother when her screams aroused film from his sleep. She was being beaten by her husband and the shots were fired after he had wrenched a pistol from his fathor’s hand, he said. twenty-one, a ireeley Avenue, Fairview, N. “T had to defend my mother,” he asserted, Mrs, Joagphine G the wife and mother, who wus held in $250 bail as a material. witness in the case, re- turned home late last night after spending the evening at ‘Atlantic Highlands with her son's fiancee, Miss Catherine Reineman, of No. 63 South Street, Jersey Cit} Heights, and the girl's mother and aunt Louls Gross sr, who was captain of a tug boat of the New Central Railroad, and visited his home fortnightly to pay to his wife money the court had ordered tim to furnish, stepped from the porch as she alighted from a trolley car. He was intoxicated, Mrs. Gross declared Aoccusing her of being out with a man Gross started beating her as she stood beside the tr tracks. She fled to the house, she suid, but was overtaken on the poreh, where the beating was resumed. She declared her screams brought Louts jr, from his bed. He grappled with his father, wrested a pistol trom his hand, tt te said, and shot him four times. ‘Lam the real @ufferer, for my son ts in deep trouble and ft is tho father of my four childrew who 1s Jersey who when I saw father trying to kick my mother when he had her on the floor [ thought he woul make good his threat to kiN her. It was this that caused me to go for the revolver.” ross added that he would not have for the revolver bad he been » to beat his father. He clashed with thim, he said, but bis father was too wtrong for him. COURT NOP PINK TEA, BARONESS Is TOLD Wires ta Magistrate She Is Too Busy to Answer Summons—* He Scolds Her. Gypsy Norman, a theatrical star, of No. 101 West S0th Street wus served with @ summons by detective Flynn of the Arsenal Police Station yesterday for to run Without a muz She was to appear Unable. to Mik De Haumont too bus trate * and | to nid t ther off with a repr dead,” moaned Mrs. Gross, as Chiot of Police almost lifted her into an automobile beside her son to take them to jail “I'll stick to Louis to the end," eaid his flance. “Louis t3 a hard working boy and no murderer. He loved his mother.” "You would the eame], thing that I Gross. “I stood there id, amd Amiel © erra and Tony Hempel youths of West Frankfort A mob formed and stormed the jafi at Mart- “ton, where De nis was placed, but county officials had been advised of COMMONS SUSPE | | | LONDON, Aug. 6.— | by othet Nationalists, a great majorit | Independent Liberals, amid the jeers Mr. Devlin had delWered a speech |and humbug.” He resume his seat was absent. The Speaker was sum was moved and carried by a vote of was called to order for him to leave the House, which he did, NDS DEVLIN; ORDERED TO LEAVE HOUSE AND MANY MEMBERS GO WITH HIM Irish Leader From Belfast Had Denounced) “Sham and Humbug” ina Speech. In an exciting scene in the House of Commons this | $100,000 For Her Her Alienation afternoon during the discussion of the Government's bill for the restora- | tion of order in Ireland, Joseph Devlin, Nationalist member from Belfi was suspended and sent rom the House y of the Labor Party and some of the of members supporting the Ministry. denouncing the proceedings as “sham | irrelevance, but refused to | -| The House was sitting as committee &® the time and the Speaker | moned and Mr. Deviin's suspension | 229 to 43. The Speaker then asked HOMES OF FOREIGNERS BURNED BY AMOB THAT KILLS FIVE Mob Revenges Misaciing and | Illinois Town. WEST FRANKFORT, Ml., Aug. 6— After a night of rioting in pwhich five were killed, scores jured and homes destroyed, 6,000 for- elgners fled from this town Franklin County persons in- | in the| mining district. A detachment of reached here to-day and partially re stored order. The mob, at tts height, numbered | about 4,000 men. Foreigners fied in all directions, taking what articles of property they could with them. | The outbreak got under wny shortly after 10 o'glock Inst night and con- Unued to nearly daybreak. At times | the mob split up tn sections and tt wus reported that some divisions drove foreigner into nearby woods. ‘The homes of about Mitty foreteners | cwero fired and the residents were clubbed ay they emerged from tho burning Dulldings to excame tho Ques, ‘Proops arrived under oommand of Major W. E. Satterfield. ‘Two other companies fram Cairo are expected later, The troops were stationed in sec ot the town principally in- pensons of foreign ‘binth tons habited by und instructed to protect the property ab ndoned iby the fygitives. Emphatio instructions hat all powds be dispersed immediately were en the militiamen. Witnesses the rioting number of foreigners had been #0 beaten into insensibility by the mob, many being trampled upon. WOMEN HIT BY MISSILES THROWN BY RIOTERS, Several women were hit by imiasiles, Many of those beaten, according to these «accounts, were left in the streets, and were picked up by rela- tives after the mob had gone to other sections of the town. Following formatfon of the mod, no- tioe was served on Mayor Fox and Sheritt Watkins to leave town or else give the rioters free rein, A pres» censorsiip was established to keep news of the rioting from the outside world Public Indignation was aroused fo! lowing the arrest of Settino De Ses- nis in ection with the murders of (Cont nued on Second Page.) _ THY WORLD ‘TRAVEL BUREAD, reade wuney Work) Buti Ou 0 Page City, ‘Telegu Beekman 4obm Money sidecs end ta! Murder of Two Boys in | 150 Minoty militia | pushoart renting agency adjo!ning for loffice and home, but balked when thoy | came Into the fray with any weapons "ARMED STRIKERS RAID MAN’S HOME With Guns They Insist on the Right to Search for “Scab Made” ‘Furs A band of young men heavily armed appeared at the home of Sam- uel Grissier at No. 1686 Bathgate Avenue to-day and demanded the right search his house and his “ecab-made furs." They said they [represented the striking fur workers Grissler consented to let them go through hig push cart, stable and his started in his cellar. A man shpved a gun in Grissler knocked it aside. His wife, standing on the step above him hurled a pot full of hot coffee at tiie head of the band. Puybeart; men his face or missiles they could catch up. The air was full of ash cans, milk bottles and brickbats in an instant ‘The battle continued until Polico- nan Martin Connor appeared with the reserves of the Bathgute Avenue station, The strikers’ committee Jumped into thelr automobiles and escaped downtowp. BRITISH CABLE SHIP | PUT UNDER SONAR Three U, 5S. Destroyers rake| Oharge to Prevent Landing of Cable at Miami, Fla MIAMI, F) ug. 6.—Three Ameri- | destroy t the British cable guard when It ar ship Cojonia rived in Ame A shore party includ ton C. Decker, British Consul Hubbard and W. J. Brenhotm, sv und mn waters here to-day z Admira) Ben A H ra: Depart- ‘elegraph | ard a de- ‘Crastic Munager of the Cable ment of Company, the Western feft hero Union 1 inter « » take charge the captain ide American waters, owed instructions from Preside on to epresent landing here of the Western Union cable from Barbados. He was followed on his departure | lation on the | “MY DEAREST GIRL,” PARKER'S NOTES ~ TO MRS. CHISHOLM to Be Pushed Despite Reconciliation. ONLY PASSING LOVE. So Mrs. Chisholm Calls -As- sociation With the Third Party in Triangle. In spite of the apparent success in effecting @ reconciliation with bis wife by resort to a public suit againat William ©. Parker, art photogsipher, of Mor nm, N. J., Chares 1. holm of Newark a@d New York City intends to pres hig $100,000 claim in the courts relentlessly. The repeated fallure of Parker, Chisholm asserts, either to get ont of Mra. Dorothy Pecker, Chisholm's life ov drrange a divorce for himself and marry her, the attorneys for Chis- holm way, so aggravate the offense he charges againdt Parker that che re- ported recongiliation of the Packer family at Manasquan, N. J., and the lkelthood that the Chisholma are to live together again will have no effect on the littgation. Aocording to the lawyers, the de- fonse of Parker to the suit will seek to establish that Mra, Chisholm never had real affection for her husbafd; they wasert that Parker meana to try to prove that Mrs, Chisholm, who hud been a school teacher and very pop- Wlar soolally, regretted her marriage aimost from the time of the cere- mony at her home, No, 754 Highland Avenue, Newark, Jam. 19, 1912, and erled 60 muoh and was so unhappy on her honeytnoon that Chisholm was obliged to gut short their visit to Havana and bring her home. | SAY SHE HAD ALWAYS LOVED HER HUSBAND. Anticipating the introduction of this defense the lawyers for Chis holm they have obtained an affidavit from Mrs, Chisholm that she aways joved ter husband until she met Parker and became {tffatu- ated with him two years ago. They also have as exhibits, they say, more than sixty letters from Parker to Mrs, Chisholm, voluntarily surren- dered by her. In these, thg lawyers ussert, the opening salutation ts of- | ten: "My dearent Girl in the World,” (Ce pntinued on Second Page.) a AMERICAN FLYERS SHIFT TO WARSAW U. S. Consulate to Be Closed To- Day—Legation Aids Send Away Baggage. WARSAW, Aug. 5. (Associated Preas.)—Owtng to the despernte aitu- front near Warsaw, the the wir force pat part of Amer- el to the Polish army, ts beimg transferred from the Southern front, the squadron will ald in the defense of the Polish capital The Americnn Consulate tn Warsaw will Be closed on Vriday and Cons: Kosectuazko squadron composed for the 1 teans, at CALL LIKELY FOR CANADIAN RESERVE, Already Have Been Asked If TV Ate Ready to Serve in Goa’ fom ior batéaae bi) paroyls opeiy das tad | lent valleny choca he adre AEE ee (Racing News on Page 13) Poland MONTREAL, Aug. 6 —The serious ness of the British-ftusso-P. uation was evidenced here to-d wht veral off of the Imp | Reserve admitted “that they en asked if they were ready to serve against 3 vik Man¥ of the Imperial force now in have not yet been diacharg service, A many Royal Air Force ¥ throughout the dominion do not ex- lp pect thelr full diwoharge before Dec. 1. ‘ . | Rankin ts malting prepar m8 to de- enight. Most of the rec- ready Kaye Dyen shipped away |part Frid: | ordas The American Legation here ts also | prepared to closo within. « very few days, Tho Legution employees have whipped their baggage to Camp the emergoncy headquarters American Typhus Expedition — Men's Suita, aerial Young Mre’a Suita, gen Ove Kenyon PRICE THREE CENTS WILSON CONFERS ON POLISH CRISIS Secretary Colby and His Assistaht Spends Over Hour With President. WASHINGTON, Aug. 6. Be etary Colby and Under-Secretary Davis, of the State Departmbnt had « long con- ference to-day with Presidem Wilson at the White House, It was under: «tood that the Polish eituation was dis- cussed, Neither Mer. Sony mor Mr. Davis would discuss the conference, nor would they say that the Polish sitim- ton had been discumed. ‘The meoting Detween the Btate De- partment officers and the President took place dn Mr. Wilson's atiudy dn the White House and lasted for scparerits ot “lun hour, DRIVE OF REDS CHECKED BY POLES ON NORTH FRONT Warsaw Reports Some Suc- cesses Also in the South— Great Battle on East. PARIS, Aug. 6-—Russian Bolshevik forces which have been attacking the Poles northeast of Warsaw for the of cutting between that city and Danzig seem to have been checked, for the time betng,@by the desperate defense of the Polish Armies. Despatche colved appear to indicate an in the military situa. on In that sector of the front, nclined, purpore communications Te. here mprovement Observers are however, fighting near Brest- atovak, of Warraw, with some concern, as the Bolshevikt have masyed arge forces in an effort to break through there, ‘It ia felt that the out- to the look east < fet toon, Bable abate: Soe" Toth Hoos aave, come of the battle now being waged In (Ce Syoved ou -Beoond Page.) be BRITISH CABINET REPORTED TQ HAVE TAKEN ACTION THAT AMOUNTS 10 WAR ON RUSSIA Advance of Invaders Checked In North and Minor Successes In South Are Reported by Warsaw —Reds Refuse to Halt Attacks. 7 LONDON, Aug. 6 (United Press).—It was semi-officially reported to-day that the British Cabinet had decided to take ac- tion against Russia, which virtually amounts to war. A high official in Downing Street said to the United Press: “Aétion has been ordered taken to help Poland against the Preparations are going forward, full steam ahead. One of the first things will be to give Poland military advice.” LONDON, Aug. 6.—It is reported that “Great Britain is rushing Preparations to help Poland, and while it has not been-eonfirmed, there is reason to believe that orders have already gone out to the naval com- manders of the empire to resume the blockade of Russia. The situation is made all the more serlous, according to the Times, which says that the Soviet reply to the British note has been received and that it is a refusal to halt her armies! ‘The ground is taken that a cessation of hostilities is impossible at this time, as the troops woul! not obey such an order. The newspaper adds that the army has been promised the privilege of lootingWarsaw when it Is taken, sera nell Cee a ee PRES IE In the meantime, despatches say that the Poles have assumed the of- fensive at e@ome points and have suc- ceeded, anys a Warsaw report, in foreing the Red forces back to thr edge of the Province of Grodao. It ls Added that the Bolshevikt drive hus been brougnt to a stantistill between Breet-Litovak and the mouth of the | Nurzeo. Leo Kamoneff of the Russian Sovie delegation here sent Premier Lioyil George last night a long communica- tion giving the Sovtet Government's reply to Great Britain's note of Tues- dey with regard to tho delay dn thé armiatioe negotiations between Russia and Poland. M, Kameneff's statement declares the Soviet Government never deatrod to. combine the negotiations for wu artnistice with negotiations for peuce, but that tt demands that the terms of the armistice include reasonable guarantees which would prevent al- tempta on the part of Poland te Use the peri. of the armistice for tw renewal of hostile pets. The sole obstacie in the way of tha uning of negotiations for the sux- pension of military Operations, nays tho note, 1s the absence of the Polish delegates,, whose return is being awalted by the representatives the Soviet Government im order thut negotiations may be immediately opened, With regard te the proposed London Pence Conference the note says i would have for its object the regu. Jarimtion of the ¢nternational positten of Russia and the settlement of all outstanding questions between her and the Allee for the benefit of gen- eral peace.” ‘The guarantees the Soviet Govern- tment destres that Poland will not use the armistice period for a renewal of hostilities, 1t 19 set forth, énolude her partial digarmament ang the cesea~ tion of the reorutting of conscript sol- diers as well as voluntary enrol]. ments. In its resume of the alleged® con- tents of the Russian note, the Times refers to it as saying that the Bolshevilt are entitled doth by military and tuternational law to continue thelr advance until an aem- istice is concluded, ‘The answer further points out, says the Times, that the Soylet Govern- ment is prepared to offer Poland terms, nel complete indepens, shoe aud boundaries Ubi ‘ ut en ann error eee