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ean i TO-NIGHT’S WEATHER—Warm, Shower: WALTER HAGEN * Discusses the Open Golf Championship in To-Day’s Sport Pages 7 ory ROBBED BANKER IS KILLED BY DR be “Circulation Books Open to All’ “Circulation Books Oven to All.” A LLIES AGREE TO BLOCKADE RUSSIA A by The Pres ‘New York World| 9 Publishing NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST Fritered a0 Second-Class Matter Post Office, New York, N. Ws BABE RUTH Superman of Baseball T ells Own to ry of His ASTOR HURT AFTER “238538 | ROEM TAX WITH om }NPGRAW PROVING § , cussion of Brain Follow- ing Visit to the Lambs. > GIANTS’ BOSS SILENT. |. Club to Look Into Events Pre- ceding -Comedian’s Injury— * Swann Orders, Inquiry. The House Committes of Mie| Lambs thas called a special meeting, | though the Chairman, A. 0. Brown, at 5 o'clock this afternoon to inquire into the events of carly Sunday morning at the lab in which John J McGraw, pare @wner and manager of the: New York Giants; John C. Slavin, comedy actor, and Winfield Lesett, former navy officer, are said to have been active. | Savin is in St. Luke's Hospital |f @uffering {rom conoussion of the | brain and cannot be present. He was | picked up at 8 o'clock yesterday morning, unconscious, in front of |@ MoGraw's home at No. 301 West | 1} 109th Street. According to a taxicab | | driver who took Slavin, MoGraw and | ( Leggett from the Lambs’ Club early Sunday morning, there was talk of there having been seven more fights between the MoGraw party and others during the aftefnoon and evening, Slavin was conscious day and improving. | ORO OARS LE THT, on PUR FOTO AN AO Mrs, landed fromm the former German liner Impera- Vincent Astor, who tor among a group of other notables or yesterday, following a visit to her mother-tn-aw, Lady Ribblesdale, for- Mrs. Astor, 1s starting for Newport to-day with her husba: ab their yacht, the Chris- Chairman Brown, through another | (1° nO epoara heey ae member of the committee, George | /0" - Se , Howell, seid the investigation would | The arrival at Newport of the Vin- eo aiamiocinin orn aii cent Astors and the reopening of their ents from ai |summer home, Beachwood, 1s awaited S oclock aa well aa MoGraw ana |/Much interest, Mrs, Astor 1s expected : 2 Wf veal : re : . ; Hs to throw herself into the colony's mid- 7 aah Bae club for four cears | Summer activities with the same vim er of ub for four years she has always displayed. “Ie it merely proves that certain ¥ sgh members of the club did not act as they should in the clubhouse,” said) PAYMENT STOPPED Howell, “the club will wash its own! ON PONZI’S CHECKS linen within its own doors. On the | other hand, if it proves that any one | Seoeareerr was criminally injured and the mat-| Order by Bank Commissioner— Account Said to Be ‘Now Overdrawn, merly Ava Willing em- ter is one which comes properly un- der the jurisdiction of the civic au- thorities, the club will be swift to i put at the disposal of the police and| BOSTON. Aug. 9— ie Aven bee Commissioner o-day ordere ey all of th ° District Attorney all of the informa. | Sommlssio Evil Ae aided Gon sn ite) posaseslon, more cheel Oharles Ponzi, Mrs. MoGraw whon asked to-day | his campany or by Ponal’s agencies if there way any explanation by the! Aiien’s action was taken on the ground baseball manager @f tho injury to|that the account of Lucy Martelli, Blavin, who is an undersized person |asainet which the company's checks rescively friendly characteris. | Were che is Now overira wn, Mayet ¥ An in untary petition in bank- tics, said she understood Mr, McGraw was to make.a “complete statement to Daseball reporters’ at the Ptjo Grounds later in the day. But up to 3 o'clock this afternoon ~po word had been recetved from Mc- Graw either at the Polo Grounds or at the Lambs. Meanwhile District | Recommend Attorney Swann inatructed Assistant | Term District Attorney Marra to call wit-| ‘The Executive Committee of the Re neeses in order to get any informa- | public County Committee to-day tion which might be of future value | recommended Justice John Ford for the |ruptey was filed against Charles Pon- |zi to-day by Charles Cantwell, James |ernald and Harry Farrell, who hold notes totalling $750 _ G. 0. P. WILL BACK FORD. Another tice for np the Bench. n to the Homicide Bure: Supreme Court for another term. According to Megwn, fteur,| The Bar Association recently we- when the party rea rAW's |olined to. recommend him for renomina ‘ome, Slavin, McGrawand Ligget be- | tion and the Justice announced hia gan a friendly argument over who determination to run should pay the chauffeur. MoGraw left them suddenly and went into the house. Liggett and the chauffeur, ity Classified Advertisers (Continued on Page.) ’ ~ neler nimarcneree, || Aportant. Magistrate Miller,in the Jamaica Po. Ciwaaitieg me ertining sae t08 | lice Court to-day held James FB) Hare, ‘a collector for the Long Island Rallroas) No, 2891 Jamaica Avenue, Richmond) Hill, in $2,000 bail for the Grand Jury | on a charge of bigamy. Mrs. 1] May Pool Hare, who claims to b first wife, was in oo Parks Hare, daughter a railroad | conductor, to whom Hare {s alleged tal! day World should be In World office Ky. WV On or Before Friday Preceding Publication Early copy recelves the preference when Sunday advertlaing has to be omitted. Late advertising ts now omitted for lack of time to set {t. |toms officer. MANNIX LANDED AT PENZANCE FROM DESTROYER TO-DAY Put Ashore This Afternoon— Intends to Go at Once to London. WILD RUMORS AFLOAT. One Was Prelate Had Been Forcibly Taken and Landed in France. PENZANCE, England, Aug. 9 (As- sociated Preas).—Archbishop Mannix was landed here from « destroyer at 4.15 qclock this afternoon. It wai stated he intended proceeding to Lon don. ‘The Archbishop landed from the Geatroyer in a motor launch and pro- ceeded to the railway station, where his baggage was examined by a cus- In declining to be in- terviewed the Archbishop sald, “I have nething to say now."’ simply From the railway station the Arch- | bishop went to the house of Canon Wade, the Roman Catholic priest in Penzance, remaining there some time It. 4s understood bere that Areh- bishop Mannix ts at liberty to travel where ‘he pleases, ‘There are two detectives In town who presumably are Keeping him under observation, but they are not interfering in any way with his movements. QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 9.—Aocord- ing to report here, Archbishop Mannix was forolbly taken from the steamer Baltic and conveyed to Cherbourg, France, by the destroyer Wivern, which did not return to port with the other destroyers which met the Bal- te off Queenstown, The Baitic arrived off Queenstown at midnight last night. ‘The liner, which was Dbnilliantly illuminated, was accompanied by several destroy- ems. The liner estopped outside Queenstown for an hour, while one of the destroyers entered the harbor for an unknown purpose, Immediately after the destroyer put to sea again the Baltic resumed her voyage, accompanied by destroyers. Seafaring men here surmiso that the Baltic's delay off Queenstown was due | to a firamen's strike, but no confirma- tion of this supposition was obtain- able, The brother of Archbishop Mannix arrived here last evening, > - HOT? INDEED IT IS! BLAME BAHAMAS Torrid Wave Started Down There —No Counteracting Cold Blasts Anywhere. which has Bermuda The hot wave forming down been around the Bahamas for several days past | Entered War for and} AMERICAN CAN NOMINATIO Ideal, He Declares at ‘Notification and Must Carry On. CRITICISES CONGRESS. Calls Bettering Our Citizen- ship One of Nations Press- ing Needs. i HYDE PARK, N. Y., Aug. 9,—Re- plying to the formal notification by Homer S. Cummings, Franklin D. Roosevelt to-day agcepted the Demo- oratic nomination for the Vice Presi+ dency “with deep humbleness” and with the expressed desire to give our beloved country the best that is in | him. “I could not conscientiously accept,” | he continued, “if I had not come to know by the closest intimacy that he who is our selection for the Presi- |dency, and who js my chief and yours, Is a man possessed of Ideals He will give which are also mine. to America that kind which will make us respect him and bring further greatness to our land bring further gi land In James M. Cox I recognize one who can lead this Nation forward in an unhalting march of progress. MUST SHUT OUR EYES OR MEET WORLD PROBLEMS. “In our world problems we must either shut our cyes, sell our newly atnes sto our seeing foreign powers, crush utterly by embargo and harassing legislation our foreign trade, close our ports and build an impregnable wall of costly armaments and live, as the* Orient used to live, @ hermit nation, dream- ing of the past; or, we must open our eyes and see that modern civilization has become so cémplex and the lives of civilized men so Interwoven with the lives of other men in other coun- tries as to make it impossbble to be in this world and not of it. We must see that it ts Impossible to avoid ex- cept by monastic seclusion those hon |orable and intimate foreign relations, which the fearful hearted shuddering. (Continued on ——< 75 AMERICAN DEAD ARE BROUGHT BACK ond Page.) Bodies of Five New York Sailors Among Those on Transport Hancock, | Bodies of five New York sailors were| jinctuded in the total of seventy-five dead suilora and mari to-day board naval transport Hancock s brought here United States transport on the reached New York to-day. Ata P. M the thermometer In front of the World Building reg 89 dogrees: Normal conditions which have been lacking so far, accounting for our ab normally July, have returned and we may look for a corresponding hot August, " im possible prediction | cool a although of course to make any > far ahead,” In the it was put| local weather burvau to-day. — | e is an area of high barometrte | Dressure over the whole of the Western Atlantic’ and it's moving shoreward with nothing in the #hape of a counter wave from that home of cool waves, Medi¢ine Hat, to counteract tt. Some hope is held out in the form of occasional showers which may help | sure way have heen married last spring, was not | present. ‘The firat Mra, Hare ts the THE WORLD. | some to-night and to-morrow, As Scr ns (Racing News on Page 14.) 4 [sailor deud, ——— ne ee a | went to the foot of 85th St Brook- | lyn, the Naya! Fleet Supply Base, there | to unload the bodies for shipment to] ‘The sailor dead from New rk and vieinity ne were | Frank Boday Joneph A Chartes E. venue, N nant John Viner, U. 8. N.. No nth Street, Brooklyn. Charles L. Dana jr, New York » Seven bodies were consigned to the| 1 | Arlington National Cemetery. body of Charles Ll. Dana jr and the aent directly to Woodlawn James Connelly of Brook undertaker far the Navy 1 had charge of the disjoal THE WORLD THAVEL BUREA| 0. Pet aaa UL tal Ee pe ee de oo ‘N LEAD WORLD, SAYS ROOSEVELT, OEPTING N WITH GOV. COX TINY FRUIT STAND PILED UP $185,000 BY CONSTANT CARE Mrs. Zazzazi, Dead in One of Her Teneménts—An Angel to the Poor. Having pmaased a fortune eatl- mated at $186,000, whose basis was a Uttle fruit stand, 10 iby 3 feet, Mrs Domineca Zazzaz is dead to-day in her tiny four-room apartment on the aecond Moor of one of her own tene- ments at No. 14 Comes Alley, New- and her two sons, Geonge and Andrew, will enjoy the frulta of thelr mother’s unremititng toll. Mrs. Zazzazl waa known to, thou- sands of persons whose business took them to Market Street, in the vicin- ity of Broad Street, Newark, where for thirty-five years the tittle fruit stand flourished until about a year ago, Many knew her ag “Mother,” but few knew her age. She was but sixty-elght years of age when the re- modelling of « bullding forced the built merchant marine to more far-| frult stand off the city's map @ year ago, but with her life vocation gone she pined away and old age was given as the cause of her death, She will be buried tu-morruw. When her husband died seventeon years ago Mrs, Zazzazi inherited a small property from bim and th 4. with the profits of the friut stand, bullt up nickel ‘by nickel, were in- vested tn tenement butidings whose apartments rent for from $4 to $10 & month It was declared to-day by some of her tenants that a flat inorease of $1 4 month @ year ago, was the only rent raise Mrs, Zazzazi ever demanded Her ons said she probably gave away $16,000 in uncollected renta tenants who because of illness or other reagon could not pay, Because of the or leniency she was known among tenants as “the generous one,’ and few ever “jumped” their rent who could pay. “Litle Marlo,” as she was seme tUmes known, practiced ber business shrewdly. It was a common saying that she never relied upon the meas WOMAN GIVES CLUE IN DEATH MYSTERY OF ROBBED BANKER Heard Loud Voices In Room Where Crim Was Found Un- conscious From Drugs. CASH AND GEMS GONE. Search for Venders of Nar- cotics—Relatives Demand Full Inquiry, Detestives of the Homicide, Squad to-day are searching for the mgn or men, whose loud volces anouséd Mré, Sugada, who occupies the room in the rooming house at No, 158 West ath Street, next to that in whidh, early yesteniay morning, the dying form of Edmund Hall Crim, wealthy Wee: Virginia banker, was discovered after he BAU béeH drigged and robbed of Jewelry and money, Crim died shortly afterward in the New York Hospital, the victim, dootors declare, of acute opium poisoning, Mra. Suguda, who says ahe le en- ployed’at the Hotel MeAlpin told the deotectives to-day that ahe was Aroused shortly before 2 o'clock by the foumd of voices and later heard something fall. She failed to recog- nize the voice of James Ready, pro- prietor of the rooming house, and who occupies that room, although she is} very familiar with hts voive CAME HERE LAST WEEK FROM WEST VIRGINIA. Crim, who was the President of the First National Bank of Philippi, W. Vq,. as well ax the proprietor of tho largest department stora there, camo to the city Aug. 6 on business and reg- istered at the Pennsylvania Hotel it was said that for days he seemed nervous und on Suturday, ac- cording to the police, twice called at the hotel hospital and usked for mor- phine. In both cases, according to the doctor in charge there, thin request was refused, but other treatment was given him and he ts said to have gone away satisfied Later, according to the information | in the hands of the detectives, he agajn called at the hospital and asked for the narcotic, and was again refused. He is said to have left declaring that several he would “get the stuff somewhere else." Detectives working on the cane be- Neve that the banker fell Into the) hands of a gang of illicit narcotic yen- ders known to operuts near the Penn- (Continued on Bighth Page.) SUES INVENTOR FOR $75,000 Hirsch Says He Got Elect pert’s Device Financ Charles P. Steinmetz, famous elec- trical engineer, was sued in Supreme onl Ex- ure of containers when filling orders She flied peanut bags by making certain that the extra peanut | or two instead of going into the top of one bag went Into the bottem of ‘he next, cxnunt, a STRIKE IN DENVER ENDED. | ‘Tramway Retorn to Company Work, Men Notify They Witt Aug. The Executly ttee of the Tramways Workers ting to-day appointed hree to call upon Fred Hild, General Manager of te and inform him the striking men would go back to work. | Silberg, President of the union id there were no restrictions. This brings an end to the strike -_ | Killed By @ Meantetpal fu Mra. Fannie Solat of No,.21 Rutgers PlaceMdied in Gouverneur Hospital thi afternoon, The police report she was | struck by a municipal bus. Bhe was taken to the hospital from No. 325 Madison Street in an ambulance, a | Hirech, Court to-day for $75,000 by Patrick promoter, who alleges he ur- ranged for the financing by a syndl- cate of Bteinmetz’s new electric auto- | mobile and was not puld for hip | vices. Steimmets and representatives of the syndloate are sued In @ second | Begins on Page 3 ALLIES REACH AGREEMENT TO REIMPOSE BLOCKADE ON aan Red Horde Breaks Through Polish Front on North and Is Forty-one Miles From Capitai—Outer Forts Already Being Shelled. : HYTHE, England, Aug. 9 (Associated Press).—The Allied conference here reached a complete agreement this afternoon on plans for dealing with the Russo-Polish crisis.. They include the reimposition of the blockade, but on the advice of the experts no Allied troops will be employed. The plans are subject to the approval of the British Parlia- ment, which Premier Lloyd George will address to-morrow. The conference of the Premiers ended at 4 P. M. | LONDON, Aug. 9.—The Bolshevik drive against Warsaw has been resumed on a large scale and with marked success. On the East Prussian frontier the Reds apparently have broken through the Polish ; |front and their advance cavalry patrols have occupied Przasnysi, some \forty-one miles north of the Polish capital, The outlying forts of War- saw are reported to be under fire. The advancing Russian hordes seem to be meeting with little position and are swinging around to the north of Warsaw with ‘pparent purpose of attacking the city from the north, south! and east smultaneously, Mlawa, on the railroad line from Warsaw to Danzig; seems to be the immediate objective. The Poles are hastily entrench- ng to the east of that place, ZOPERCENT. PLA S SETTLED UPON. FORGITYSALARES Under This Scheme Lowest Paid Get the Highest Raise in Remuneration. ‘@ Russian cavalry driving westward from Preasnysz has occupied Chor, which is within a day's riding dis- tance of the Warsaw-Dangig rallroad, which Is expected to be reached late ; this evening or early Tuesday, ace cording to advices reaching the French Foreign Office to-day, In the south the Poles south of Ostrov have been driven back. A Moscow wireless despatch to-day ree ports the capture by the Reda of Sokolow, forty miles northeast: of Warsaw and several small places south of Brest-Litovek. Along the Bug River further successes are claimed after heavy fighting. WARSAW, Aug. 8 (Associated Press).—All foreign legations in War- saw left for Posen to-night on @ specinl train, John Campbell White, secretary, and J, Pierrepont Moffatt, third secretary of the Amerioan lega= “on, and the military attaches will remain in Warsaw for the present,, but the rest of the personnel left on the special last night. ‘Tho only American women rematn- ing in Warsaw are a few Red Cross nurses and some Y, M. C. A. workers, Bolshevik cavairy is sweeping tn broad lines westward along the Prus- sian frontier, according to an official statement issued here to-night. Small detachments are approaching Mlawa, about nine miles furthor west, and some have been reported near Clechanow, still nearer this The Board of Estimate and Ap- portionment to-day adopted the so- called Hylan plan for the increase of the salaries of municipal employees by from 22 to 20 per cent, for per- $2,500 a year and for un increase of $500 a year for persons receiving from $2,600 to $7, 600 @ year. The Board of Aldermen @t its session on Thursday is ex- pected to authorize the new payroll, taking the place of that vetoed by Mayor Hylan last week, 5 Comptroiler Craig, who worked out the vetoed measure increasing the city's expenditures by $5,000,000, made a bitter attack on the new measure sons receiving up to suit for $150,000 The pluintiff alleges he tained a contract from A » bankers, but that ob Henach B his company, which cost § n cash - MOTORCYCLE IN CRASH. $55 Eest 178th &t was driving motoreycle on 1624 Street at Park Ave nue this afternoon when it collided with | an automediie openwted by Emil Soleget- mont No. 2,141 Honeywell Street Lombardt's skull was fractured In the side car of the motoreycle were two children, Barbara Madox of Valen- tine Avenue, and another whose name 4. Banda pL J b= i * sustained faceritlo ‘ and Lom Hosp! a and its proponents, saying they were guilty of “public larceny.” Under the new schedule city em- city, This is one of the most rapid strides the Soviet forces have made since they crossed the Oraye River in ployesa now getting up to $1,500 will |their push designed to cut the Ket the those | Warsaw-Danzlg railway. ; now r n $1,500 to $2,600] Soviet forces striking westward will get the 20 per cent. increasé and | from the vicinity of Brest-Litovek ip the flat raise of $500 will apply only | their great encircling movement, have to those receiving more and leas thah $7,500. than $2,500] cut through the Polish lines and crowsed the railroad running between Comptroller Craig, who refused to| Skolow and Stedice. They reached vow for the Hylan salary increase| point west of Sokolow, but were plan, bitterly attacked the new ar-| there counter-attacked and viol fighting \s proceeding, the statement declares, In this counter-attack the Poles have taken some prisoners. Bitter fighting {s reported north. || east of Warsaw, where several villy 4 * e rangement, saying “Every momber of this Board hae been trying trade that $5,000,000 award for increases in salaries for as (Continued an Second Page. to RUSSIA; WON'T USE TROOPS te ee ee = ae, ed