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TO-NIGHTS WEATHER—Scattered Showers. “BABE” RUTH’S ‘OWN LIFE STORY See Page 3 Che Circulation Books Open to All” | VOL. LXI. NO. lift at Copyright, 1: 920, by The Press Ce. (The New York World), “Circulation Books Open to All.” NEW | Arab hoe SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, TENNESSEE UD RATIFICATION BUT THE HOU Governor and Other Officials Enjoined from Certifying Vote of the House. ANTIS TRY TRICKERY. Thirty Members Go to Ala- bama but the Rest Act “Without Them. NASHVILLE, Tenn, Aug. 21.— ‘Chancellor Jumes B. Newman to-day - issued @ writ of injunction temporar- “ty restraining Gov. Roberts, Secre- tary of Gtate Stevens and the Gpeak- ers of the Tennesses Senate and House from certtying to Secretary of State Colby Tennessee's ratification of the Woman Suffrage Amendment. Meantime the Lower House of the Legislature defeated, 50 to 0,0 mo- tion to reconsider tte action in rati- fying the amendment, and ordered the Senate joint ratification resolu~ thon transmitted to the Senate that tt might be sent to the engrossing derk. ‘This was done In spite of a trick vy the opposition to prevent action. More than thirty members had gone to Alabama in an effort to break @ quorum. Under the law sixty-six members are necessary for a quorum. Only 69 members answered to their names when Speaker Walker called the House to order balf an hour after the regular meeting time, The Speaker had said the report of the exodus to Alabama was news to him. «He declared the House in recess for une bour and solemnly ordered the Sergeant-at-Arms to round up &b- eentecs, arrest them is necessary and bring them into the House, LK. Riddick, Suffrage leader, do- ‘lasing the Legislature was acting under Federal and not State law tn considering the Suffrage Amend- ment and that the State Constitu- tional quorum was not necessaty, moved thet the Walker motion for réconsideration of ratification be taken the Journal. The Speaker held the Riddick motion out of prder, On an appeal w the House, the Speaker was overruled by @ vote of 49 to 8, The absentecs teft Nashville last midnight for Alabama, where they fare not under control of Tennessee laws, Some of the Suffragists contend that ratification has really been com~- pleted and requires no further action Their position 4s that the motion to reconsider died outomotically when it was not called up during the two days following the passage of the resolution of ratification, The mo- tion during the twofdays was under control of Speaker Walker. Suffragists plan to send certified copies of the journals of the House and Senate to the Secretary of State at Washington, it was reported, as proof of ratification, 4 Connecticut Women Gett to Cast Ballots. HARTFORD, Conn, Aug. 91.—Plans are being considered here to-day for the handling of the enrollment of tho thousands of new women voters. It ts estimated that 20,000 women will be ligible for the ballot in this clty/ Pol- (tflolans and others contend that @ ape- tal session of the Legislature ts nec sary to provide machinery for the en- oliment, Mayor Brainard ts expected \o wak Attorney General Healy to pro- vide more time) for of new voters here, Ready Gt TIES UP OF SUFFRAGE, SE CLINCHES IT VICTORY OF SUFFS CAUSES DROP. IN ODDS ON HARDING Wall Street Now Offers Only 2 to 1, Instead of 3 to 1 That Prevailed. The enfranchisement uo the women voters of the country by Tennessee's ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution found reflection in the Wall Street betting odds unm the Premdential election yester- day, Senawr Harding dropping trom a favorite at 3 to 1 to odds of2tolk There was Some Cox money tn sight, according to Jainen W. Bal) & Co, who are handling some wagers, but his supporters asked 3 to 1 despite the fact that the granting of the vote to the women was construed as favor- able te the Democratic nominee. Wagers have thus fur been light, MAYS WILL PITCH IN REGULAR TURN Ruppert and Huston to Protect Him to the ‘Limit if Necessary. Jacod Ruppert and Col. T, L. Huston. owners of the New York American Baseball Club, issued an answer to-day to the published statement of Bun Johnson, President of the League, sug- gesting that the best interests of base- ball require that Carl Mays, whose pitched ball killed Ray Chapman af the Cleveland Club, pitch no more this eca- son. They said fn part: “Mays, while bowed down with grief, is not @ broken reed/ He will go along and follow his regular means of livell- hood as @ strong man should. He will take his regular turn as a pitcher and we expect him to win gumes as usual. If he requires protection he will receive it from us to the extreme imit."* f ‘Tris Speaker of the Cleveland team, ithe District Attorney's office of New York and the priest who preached the eulogy at Ray Chapman's funeral are quoted as showing that those who have looked {nto the Incident impartially have unqualifiedly pronounced It an accident for which Muys should not be held re- sponsible. en BOY HELD IN $4,000 THEFTS Accused of Looting FT While Posing as Window Cleaner, Reuben Lavine, elghteen, of No. 106 Madison Street, was arraigned to-day in. the Washington Heights Court charged with burglary. Detectives Hig- gins and Moog declared that when they arrested him last night they found in his pockets jewelry, field glasses and other articles, valued at about $4,600. The detectives said Lavine admitted having taken the goods during the af- ternoon from five apartments at No. 155 Audubon Avenue while posing as a window cleaner, L. H, Kurtz, one of the tenants, tden- tified some of the loot as his property MRS. BELMONT § SUES BANK. Asks for $2,500 She Says Was Pata Out on Forged Cheeks, Mrs. Alva EB. Belmont to-day filled sult in the Bupreme Court agains the Central Union Trust Company of New York. a consolidation of the Central Trust Conmpany and the Union Trust Company, to recover $2,500 which, cording to her complaint. was paid out Jof her account by the Unton’ ‘Truat Company on four checks upon which her signgture was forged. irs, Belmont saya the checks werg drawn July 1, July 29, August 29 and art, 2 Gorman, Battle & S are "her attorneys, ace \ ~~ alas tt ata ms ole li MES i is mst ei Sa ‘|Olympic Committee M'DONALD WINS WEIGHT THROWING OLYMPIC CONTEST Makes 11.265 Metres—Ryan Second—Finland Takes Hop, Step and Jump. U. S. HAS 179 POINTS. Italy Wins 3,000-Metre Walk —Only Two Americans in the Decathlon. ANTWERP, Aug. 21 (Associated Press).—P. J. McDonald, New York A. C,, won the final of the 66-pound weight put in the Olympic Track and Field games here to-day with a put of 11.265 metres, P. K@un, Loughlin Lyceum, New York, was second with a put of 10.95 metres: Lind, Sweden, was third with 10.25 metres; Archie McDiar- mid, Canada, fourth, with 10.12; Svensson, Sweden, fifth, with 9.4 and Peterson, Minland, sixth with 9.37 metres. America scored 21 pointe in the Olympic contests here to-day. Sweden was next highest with 18 points, Fin- land scored 8, Italy 7, Australian 6, Canada 3, South Africa 3 and Eng- land 1. These scores do not include the decathlon, The total scores made by the va- rious countries to date follows: Country. Points. United States 179 Sweden England Finland Italy France Southe Africa Canada Australia Denmark ..... Norway Psthonia Czecho-Slovakia . Holland . Belgium .. Faced with a huge deficit because of lack of attendance the Belgian to-day threw more than two-thirds of the seating capacity of the stadium open to the public without charge, As a result, before the end of the afternoon the Hwvwowr SSS eueae structyre was almost packed to Its full Gpacity of 30,000. This action was taken, it was stated, because It was realized the Belgian people simply could not af- ford to pay even the equivalent of thirty cents in American money to see the Olympic contests. The Bel- gian Government has agreed to meet the deficit, 4 Timlos of Finland won the final in the hop, step and jump event (Continued on Second Page.) Classified Advertisers CLOSING TIME §.30 P, M. SHARP SATURDAY FOR TheSUNDAY WORLD’S Classified Advertisements | | BRANCH OFFICES, CLose @EFORE & O'CLOCK eines no Classified Adverties- ments will pe received for The Sunday World after 6.30 P. copy for The Sunday be in The World offee Advertistn, |] world should ON OR BEFORE FRIDAY PRECEDING PUBLICATION "SAD TO BEA SLAIN ON bert Hayes,” Believed to Be R. F, Eckert. Enmity—Arrested Several Times Recently. South Beach, Hayes,” mobile a k ‘possession. from the Tombs last Wednesday. “Robert Prohtbition Enforcement agent. was not, of contraband liquors. ought with “Hayes” were saloonkeepers that he had given the authorities band the knowledge regarding contra- to his being killed. Madigon Street ferry, The whiskey sale warehouse in Passaic, N. J garding the truck or Its load. United Stat at Hopateong, N. J. to get him. at Maloney’s Hotel, from time to time during the summer. found on the body had “RF, W.,” Eckert’s initials, engraved on them found belongs to James Kane of No morning, the police, and reported the The body* was slumped down hind the steering wheel Thirty Th ered to je in Bonto BOSTON, Aug. 21.—Work of rogts- tering women voters of the State by State authorities, 30,000 women have registered In Bi ton, where books closed last night, i SUSPECTED “DRY” Victim, Known There as “Rob- BODY IN STOLEN AUTO. Had Incurred Saloonkeepers’ The body of a man known at as “Robert was found th @ stolen autu- in QOl4 Town Road near South Beach at daybreak to-day. Detectives who saw the body de- clared they believed it was that of R. F. Eokrt, a young man who re- cently bas been arrested repeatedly om charges of stealing automobdils and of having stoln liquors in his/ Eckert wus released Hayes had the reputa- tion on Staten Island of being a He There were also reports that he was an agent for the sale In @ series of gaids along the beach ast week ayantities of diquor which had been of seized and among there. were rumors information to Nquors tf the purchase of which he had first hand information. The police believe these rumors led Eckert's last arrest was made while he was following with a passenger car a big truckload of whiskey through Street toward Catharine in the truck had been stolen from a whole- Eckert denied knowing anything re- About ten days Hefore Eckert had been arrested for having in his pos- session in this city an automobile stolen from Newark, N. J. On that charge he was held in $10,000 bai) in District Court, Newark. Only two days later he was arrested charged with having a quantity of stolen Itquor in a truck. He was locked up but kicked out the side of the jail and escaped while the Sheriff was at lunch with officers from Newark who had gone “Robert Hayes” has been a boarder South Beach, A watch and a pair of cuff links Finger prints were taken to establish the Identity by comparing them with the records at Police Headquarters. The car in which the body was 233 Jewett Avenue, Port Richmond, He missed it when he started home from South Beach at 2 o'clock this lass to Policeman Wilbur, making his first tour on Old Town Road after day- break, found the car parked in front of the Austin & Perry paint fastory. be- Women Regia- Massachusetts was being rushed to-day Approximately AGENT, BOOTLEGGER, STATEN ISLAND BURGLARS IN HOME OF F.B. HOFFMAN MAKE RICH HAUL Rare Hangings, Porcelains, Bric-a-Brac and Chinaware From €urope Stolen, A raid by burglars on the home of F. Burrell Hoffman at No. 64 Bust 79th Street was reported to the police of the East 67th Street Station 1u- |@ay. Thowgh five policemen tn unt- fornt are describe by Miss Neilic Fitegerald, the middle-aged caretaker —the only person.in the house Im the absence of the family at Southampton —as having tried to get inty the house jest night while the burglura were at Work; there was no record at the sta- tion that any one of them thought it worth while to report the incident. The disappearance of several email articles of bric~a-brao of Kreat value was noticed by the caretaker eany in the week. She was not sure they had been stolen, as she dia not know packed away or moved by members of the household on @ visit, Last night at 11 o'clock she heard persous moving in the basement laundry. She crept down stairs and heard footsteps coming up the basement stairs and going int the dinuw room. Mise Fitzgerald then burried out the front door and began hunting for @ policeman and private watn- man, She found « bluecoat aftor half an hour and he called four others by rapping with bis night- stick. The front door of the mansion pnd been shut and locked when she re- turned to the house One of the po- leemen climbed to the second story window with some ald from his com- panions/and let the others in, The robbers had left the house. The @ining room and parlors were found in great confusion. Rare hangings and porcelains collected by Wickham Hoffman, who was United States Miniater to Denmark for many years and by others of the family in almost every capital of Europe were gone. Whole sets of rare chinaware had been packed up and carried out. Members of th efamily, notified by telephone this morning said they would come to the city at once and suggested the police be notified, thus giving the detectives their first no- tice of the robbery. The home of the Hoffmans was en- tered by burglars Feb. 27, 1901, and thousands of dollars worth of Jeweiry was taken from a closet In the upper part of the house, The thieves entered by cutting out the lock of a wooden door at the back of the base- ment, The members of the family were all asleep In the house at the time. No clue to the thieves was ever found. Mrs, Hoffman had a diamond cius- ter pin valued at several thousand dollars stolen from ber in the crush of guests leaving the wedding of Ei x Jay and Arthur Iselin in St Agnes's Chapel, Nov. 30, 1904, The Hoffmanys entertained Prince of Teck at their home when he visited this country in August, 1897, Mrs. Hoffman has for many years beeg prominent in the support and management of Catholic char- ites, the 1920. for certain that they had not pecn|” fBateret 20 Becond-Class Matter Post Office, New York, N, ¥. COURT HALTS SUFFRAGE---“ANTIS” RESORT TO A TRIC jai ~PRIGE THREE OENTS” ELLEN BEACH YAW, OPERA STAR, WILL WED NEW YORKER ie 2 e ‘3 * e 4 & £ 5 i > furtn eEnacn vaw. p Noted Singer to Re Charles Cannon California. Elion Heach Yaw Qark Etinn), hae sung in the Motropolitan Opera. House and has Kiven many prison con: certs, t» to be married to-morrow in Covina, near Low Anxeles, to Charles Cannon of New York. This will be her second wedding, Her first hushand was Vere Goldthwalte of Boston. Mme. Yaw was born in New York Tn 1900 sho began her atudy tn furope and in 1904 made her debut 4m Nice In Bride of th who miei” She was frat heard here tn “Lucia” tn 1910 and scored y tris umph. From here shy went ti Caii- fornia. Her honeymoon will be ea the Pacifio Coust. HOW A LAMB KEEPS HIMSELF IN TRIM FOR CLUB DEBATES Daily Exercises Might Include Kicking the Carafe and Shaving with Bottle. RDSIDENT WILSON'S daily Programme of exercise and calesthenics is interesting, but not half so absorbing as the programme of a prominent Lamb might be. For instance: Arises at 2 o'clock euch after. noon. Exercises left arm by pulling the cut glass out of his hgir. Exercises right arm rubbing shredded steak on a pari-colored eye. Kicks a carafe around a while to exercise leg muscles, Shaves himself with fragments of broken bottle, Eats a hearty breakfast at 6 M. Reads the headithes Saloon Gazette, Promptly at 6 o'clock begins disposing of official work—recelv- ing subpoenas, dictating state- ments to Prohibition agents, &c. Dictates rapidly and does not like to be Interrupted during that time by damage sults or thirsty Friars, Atter finishing morning routine reads on south portico, Selection for reading, story about Tantalus. Late In the evening takes a joy ride P. in Anti- Takes other things To bed, greatly refreshed, Up betimes (by 3 o'clock P. M.) noxt om the Morning Telegraph, . Word (Racing € Entries on Page 2.) SIX BOLSHEVIK SURROUNDED; 15,000 TAKEN, WRANGEL FL STARTS BiG DRIVE Crimean Sibi wanes in General: Advance’ on 150-Mile Front— Bolshevik Fortifications at Mouth a of Dnieper River Destroyed. WARSAW, Aug. 21 (Associated Press).—The Poles had captured 5,000 Soviet prisoners up to Thursday, it was’ announced here to-day. Six Bolshevik divisions, consisting of from 30,000 to 40,000 men, are surrounded by Polish forces between Siedice and Brest-Litovsk. é WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—Fortifications of the Bolshevik army at the entrance to the Dnieper River, which empties into the Black’ Sea,” are reported in official ‘advices received to-day by the State Depart-~ ment, to have been destroyed by the South Russian forces under General Wrangel, BLACKMAIL CHARGE MADE BY A DOCTOR Connecticut Physician Says Two New Yorkers Demanded $5,000 From Him. (Aprectal to ‘The Rrening World. WINSTED, Conn, Aug. 21.—Men giv- Ing the names of Walter Paul of 138th Street, New York, and of Danial Solo- mon of No, 629 West 126 Street, called at the office of Dr. Charles W, Robert- son in Broad Brook Inat night, claiming that Dr. Robortson had written several letters to Paul'é wife, while the doctor wan serving ax a Heutenant in tho American Expeditionary Foros tn France. It is anid they demanded $6,000 for his alleged liberties in corresponding with the woman. They left when they saw another person ontering and boarded trolley car, They were ar- rested on reaching Thompsonville. Let- were found in Paul's pocket ad- dresned to Miss Marjorie White of Athol, Mass, They had been written In France and signed vy Charles W. Robertson. Dr, Robertson admitted having written some of the letters to Mia» White before sho had become the wile of Paul, The prisonere will ‘be given « hearing on the charge of blackmall. ACQUITTED, DOCTOR WORRIES TO DEATH Dr. C. F. J. Laase, Freed on Nar- otic Charge, Found Lifeless in His Study. Dr. Christian F, J. Lanse, a practis- ing phyaiclan in New York for thirty- five years and visiting surgeon of St Mark's Hospital, who was acquitted In the Federal Court about u month ago following bls trial on an indletment charging violation of the Harrison Nar- cotle Drug law, was found dead to-day over his books in his study at his home, No. 169 West 86th & et. Dr. Lanse had Arisep during the night and gone to ts study, where 'e was found this morning by bis wife Dr. EXward J. Davin of No. 117 Went 76th Street sald death had been caused by heart exhaustion, . According to & friend, Dr. Laase’s Indictment about @ year ago Ved beg on His mind and he had several ghter at: tacks of heart disease due to m = trouble in connection ‘with the trial. FRENCH WIRELESS OPENS. Sigoais to Bur Harbor, Aug. 21.—Signals from the Now Lafayette wirelesa station In ance. wore received to-day at the Otter Cllff* Naval Radio Station, Bar Harbor. ' It was’ the first transatlantic test of the Frengh stilon, which is one of the most powerful in the world, with @ sending radius of 12,000 miles. Operators et Otter Cliffe sald the alg- nals were excellent. ———--—-————@ PARIS, Aug. 21.—While the Poles _ ‘tal |Dridge, but a Polish counter etroke. DIVISIONS aro pressing their offensive between 4 the Baltto and the Roumanian from- + — ter, Gen. Wrangel has launched sue~ ceasively a major attack on the Black | Sea front, according to advices re- celved here to-day by the unti-Bol-~ shevik louder’s representatives, The Bolsheviki, massing large for ces on the left bunk of the Dnieper, were reported to have crosed the river and attacked Wrangel'a right wing near Kherson, Wrangel coun- ter-attacked, pushing the Reds Back across the river, He then followed with @ general advance on a 10-mile | front along the river, between Kher- son mod Orekh, A number of vile lages on the left bank were captured and late yesterday the counter-offen= | sive was still progressing favorably, In checking the Red advance om the” northenat it after a week of hand fighting, Geh. Wrangel's forces caps tured a large number of prisonera 44 guns and 100. machine guns, ae cording to the advices, which come directly from the American High Commissioner in Constant LONDON, Aug. 21.—Despatches from Warsaw by way of Berlin an~ nouncing the capture of Bregt- LAtovsk by the Polish Army say that in the rout of the Reds seven divt. sions have been cut to pleces and * that the retreat t# still in full Further advices say that are rapidly following up the retremt= — the enemy northeast and east of Warsaw, and further successes for \ the Poles are reported, . ‘The recapturs of Sokolow, Drghi- czyn and Biala (cast of Warsaw and near Brest-Litovsk), with thousands of prisoners and great amounts of war material, is reported in the offf~ clal communique. At Biedice the | KY Poles captured armed volunteer Jew~ if ish detachments composed of Communists. To the northeast of Warsaw the Bolsheviki attacked Plock in # @rtve= designed to carry them across the Vistula, where there i@ @ & pontoog 2) broke the attack, In this operation the Poles were aided by civilians, whe fought side by side with the infantry | men. 4 ‘The Russian Soviet foresee have. | abandoned Lukow, sixty-elgat milew Ef southwest of Warsaw, and Radin, eighty miles to th of the Polish ing to Thursday's communique is= sted by the Moscow Government The communique claims that Poles were driven back seven from So a ete nets ee EAN 10. co ar ee oN i een ee Sa Rr eet