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Below is the jirst of a series of despatches from David Lawrence, The Evening World’s special cor- respondent, to be published daily during September and October, giving an analysts of political sentiment in all Northern and Western States, to be followed by a detailed forecast of the Presidential election, By David Laurence. ial Correspondent of The Even- oe ing World.) MINNBAPOLIS, Sept. 10 (Copy~ right, 1920).—Gov. Cox has gone West; Benator Handing has gone back to) Marion. The East, like the South, is “more or less set in its political ways. tf, therefore, there is a chance for an ‘upset, as occurred in 1916, the West would be likely to exhibit the first Symptoms, Also, distances are great fm the Western counttry and the num- | ‘ber of voters is relatively small, so tho ferend can be moro definitely assessed west of the Mississipp! River during | Beptember than !t can east of that: Wne. For the Pastern States are populous, and sometimes a drift sets {n about the middle of October that 1 things [mga the aspect of politic uite materially. Besides, Gov. Cox |s just now in- wading the West and the writer has @etermined to trail the Democratic nominee and judge, if possible, how much headway he makes in this ‘Western country. Not much can be gotten by merely watching the crowds as they are thrilled by oratorical ef- and a pleasing personality. More be gained by talking a day or two efterwards with men and women i all walks of life, business men, large and small, laborers, farmers, potitical workers and newspaper men ef both Republican and Democratic affiliation. WILL MAKE STUDY OF EVERY WESTERN STATE. So the writer will spend the re- gainder of September studying every {Western State and will begin about the first week in October to analyze conditions in Mlinols, | Wisconsin, Blichigan, Indiana, Ohio and the At- {lantio Beabourd where changes, if yy do come, occur in the last mo- ents of the campaign and where ator Harding and Gov. Cox will found at that time working to ‘ourth Page.) Classified Advertisers CLOSING TIME 5.30 P. M. SHARP SATURDAY FOR TheSUNDAY WORLD’ || Classified Advertisements BRANCH OFFICES CLOSE BEFORE 5 O'CLOCK Positively no Classified Advertise. Mente will be received for The Sunday World after 6.30 P. M. A@vertising copy or The Sunday Id should be in The World office ud BEFORE | PRECEDING PUBLICATION RENCE SIZES UP POLITICAL TUATION IN THE NORTHWEST: [5 FOR HARDING GOLD-DIGGERS GOT $1,839,353, BEFORE B. 0, P. CONVENTION Upham Puts Total of Cam- paign Funds at $4,879,000, If All Is Collected. CHICAGO, Sept. 10—Frea W. Upham, treasurer of the Republican National Committee, to-day told the Senate Committee investigating cam- paign funds that he took full re- sponsibility for the proposal to raise the limit of Republican campaign contributions to $10,000 from $1,000. “I was voted down by a large mar jority at a gesting in New York,” he sald, “I hoped the ld would be raised, and I did recommend $10,000 as a limit,” sald Mr, Upham. “T presented this proposition at a meeting in New York attended by Will Hays, Charles Hollis, Alvin T. Hert, of Kentucky, William Daugherty of Ohio and Col. William Boyce Thompson of New York. They voted me down by a big ma- Jority and I stepped from the room and told Mr. Blair to telegraph his men in Chicago not to send out Form No. 101." UPHAM TURNS OVER PRECON- VENTION CONTRIBUTIONS Supplementing previous testimony Treasurer Upham turned over infor- mation concerning _preconvention contributions to the committee, From Dee, 1, 1918, to June 12, 1920, Mr, Upham said, the committee re- cotved $1,835,353.70 from 18,515 con- tributors, Of this amount $1,365,897.49 went in the committee treasury, The balance, he sald, was sent to States which have an arrangement with the national committee for joint collec- tion and allocation of campaign funds. Mr. Upham’'s testimony showed ex- Penditures of more than §1,000,000 for publicity, headquarters and other National Committee expenses be- tween Dec. 1, 1918, and July 12 of this year, “There was no campaign on in that period," suggested Senator Kenyon, “There is always a campaign on where Will Hays is in charge,” said Mr. Upham, “An hour after he was elected Republican National Chatr- man he telephoned me by long dis- tance and asked me to try and raise some mone Mr. Upham testified that part of the pre-convention expense’ for speakers was for men sent out to preach Republican doctrines at Cha- (Continued on Twelfth Page.) TROLLEY CAR AND SIGHT SEEING BUS IN CRASH; 20 HURT Accident Occurred at Fifth Avenue and Sixty-Eighth Street ,Brook- lyn, Late This Afternoon. A sightseeing bus and a trolley car collided at three o'clock this afte noon at Fifth Avenue and 68th Street, Brooklyn The two vehicles came together with such violence that twenty per- sons were hurt, Ambulance calls were immediately |sent In and four responded to the alarm, hastening to the scene, ec Ph Me (Racing News on Page &) \ | | | Olive Thomas, Film Star, QUIMET AND EVANS Dies in Hospital in Paris; Took Mercury by Mistake LEADIN TST ROUND OF SEMIFINALS Boston Golfer Gets By Bobby Jones; at Finish Is 3 : ‘Holes Ahead. “CHICK” NIPS ALLIS. Squeezes Out a Two Lead in the Eighteenth When Ned Fails to Score, By William Abbott. Special Staff Correspondent to The Evening World. ROSLYN, L. 1, Sept. 10—By a margin of three holes, Francis Oulmet of Boston led Bobby Jones, the boy wonder of the South, at the end of the first round in the 86-hole semi- finals for the National golf title to- day on the Engineers’ links. In the other contest Charles Evans ot Chicago, after being matched stroke for etroke, finally flashed to the lead ‘with victories on thé seventeenth and eighteenth, and this Just represented his two-hole lead over Ned Allis of Mtlwaukee, Outmet, open champion in 1913 and amateur title holder In 1914, was too steady for Jones, the eighteen-year- old Atlanta prodigy, who fs ranked with America’s threo leading ama- teurs, With frequent outbursts of bril- ancy Jones mixed in some damaging shots, especially at the uphill fifth where he sliced his drive 80 badly into underbrush that the ball was un- playable. Ouimet, too, hit into trouble, but his recoveries were truly marvellous, The Southern wonder, struggling gamely, made effective inroads on Outmet's big lead by winning the fit- teenth on a forty-yard putt and tak- ing the sixteenth where Outmet missed his drive, At the home green Bobby mado a costly error when he missed an easy putt that would have given him the lead, Oulmet's medal score was 74. With @n approximate six on the fifth Jones returned a card of 78 Oulmet won seven holes. Jones captured four, SEVERAL THOUSAND GOLF EN- THUSIASTS ON HAND. ‘The course was in excellent shape, rain last night putting the turf in prime condition for bold tron playing Despite the early hour seyeral thou- sand golf enthusiasts were on hand. Hundreds of automobiles brought additional recruits, who quickly scrambled over the rolling Unks for vantage points, Jones started poorly by losing the first two holes; an over-approach on the finst and a missed putt op the second doing the damage. As young Bobby was to discover (Continued on Second Page.) parson ka SIXTY NEAR DEATH AS CAR LEAPS RAILS Trolley Stops Within Two Inches of Edge 100 Feet Above Hoboken Street . Sixty passengers of an elevated trolley car of the Public Service Cor- poration running from Jersey City to Hoboken narrowly escaped death to- day when the car left the tracks near Henderson Street tion, The « is 100 feet’ a The to within two ineh Hoboken vated structure t the 4 through the # of the edge at this point reet level i car ploug som passengers screamed and women became panic stricken. They were assisted to the tracks and guided to the station The motorman said the rails were slippery from rain and the brake were operating with diffculty. Traf- fic was delayed wifle wrecking crew repaired the damage CARP ERTAC RANT v0. soa ties |‘ atl We" 19, ppocdarel, malized beta. 096.4, fresh v Found Prosfrated by Jack Pickford, Her Husband, Who Gave First Aid. PARIS, Sept. 10.—Olive Thomas, formerly widely known on the Amer- ican musical comedy stage and for several years past a motion picture star, died at 11 o'clock this morning in the American Hospital at Neutlly. She was taken to that Institution last Sunday suffering from mercurial poisoning, ‘having swallowed a posion- ous solution early that day by mis- take, according to Dr. Joseph Choate, the American physician in charge of the case, Recently Miss Thomas, who came to Europe with her husband, Jack Pickford, several weeks ago, had euf- fered from nervous depression, {t was aid. First aid was promptly given her by Mr, Pickford when he returned Sunday to the hotel where they were stopping and found his wife in a serious condition and every possible effort was made at the hospital to counteP®ct the effects of the poison, but without avail, Olive Thomas, in private life Mra. Jack Pickford, sailed for Parts with her husband, the film star, on Aug. 12 on the Imperator. On the same trip Dorothy Gish and Constance and Norma Talmadge eutled. After ar- rival in Paris Miss Thomas and her husband lived at the Ritz, On the morning of Sept. 5 Miss Thomas drank by mistake @ solution of b1- chloride of mercury. When sho dis- covered her mistake she was rushed to the American Hospital at Neullly, where she was attended by Dr. Jo- seph Choate of Los Angeles, with whom she had become acquainted in her movie career. Dr. Choate called in French specialists and her condi- tlon was diagnosed as grave, She soon lost the power of speech and sight. Miss Thomas was once queen of the Ziogteld Follies, Jack Pickford, who has been at the hospital constantly since his wife's Illness, has denied they had a quarrel, ‘He said his wife got hold of the wrong bottle of med!- cine and tht the polsoning was purely aeclaahinl Dr, Choate in ex- plaining Miss Thomas's illness sal “Mrs, Pickford had been suffering from a nervous complaint and took an overdose of medicine prescribed for her. Wurther than this I can say nothing.” Secrecy regarding her {lIness when she first went to the hospital led to rumors of an attempted suicide. American movie stars in Paris Bent flowers to her every day. Miss Thomas appeared tn the Zleg- feld Follies when sixteen years old making her debut in the season of 1915: She made her first hit when she appeared in a winter costume which strikingly set off her rare beauty, On July 1917, Olive ‘Dhomas mide her first appearance in the movies at the Rialto Theatre. The film was entitled “An Even Break” and was witnessed by a typical Broudway audience, who had known her in the 1d Follies. The story of the film was said to parallel Miss Thomas's life. She was born in Charleroi, a suburb of Pittsburgh, and lived tn and around that city until she was sixteen, apd for two years she was in musical comedy, being just eighteen when she went into the film: ——__ THER-IN-LAW. AIDS HER MO Wom Who Lett we Hosband Tentifie In Divorce Suit. Mrs. Mary Cayannugh to-day teati- for | in-law, Mre, Edith sm No. $62 Macon Street nO defendant in Charles xt, Cavan sult for divorce before v Chancellor Lewls in Jersey City The daughter-in-law testified that ane left her own husband, Charlea Cava nagh, because he tolerated his father's bringing women to their home. Cavanagh aliege rted him, refusing to o his wife © for their home. Mrs, Edith Cavanagh denies this and hae brought a counter sult for divoree, er husband waa ins toreetien & yacht la New York pal ive Thomas + Owavervonwn mewce ENRIGHT’S AUTO IN A COLLISION Said to Have Crashed Into It From Behind—Witness Says Commis- sioner Served Summons, A motor coliision in Brooklyn, in which the car of Police Commissioner Enright is alleged to have figured was | to-day reported to The Evening World jy C. J. Callum of No. 1389 Pacifie Street, Brookiyn, who claimed to have been an eye-witness. He said that a summons to answer a charge of reckless driving was served by the Commis- sioner, When a reporter for The World asked at the Commissoner'a office for information, thia succinct word was brought out from the Inner office: “nothing to say’. The story of the collision ns reported by Mr. Callum is as follows: Commissioner nright's car was bowling along New York Avenue. At Pacific Street a five-passenger auto- mobile with a driver and one passenger, Evening turned in from New York Avenue. The Commissioner's car crashed into the rear of It, spun tt around, threw it across the street and into an electric Hight where it brought up quite out of business Immediately Commiasioner Enright Kot out of his ny nt quickly to the a berved the sum: ded in DUNDEE-WELLING GO AT GARDEN SEPT. 17 Fiften-Round Bout For Light- weights Will Be First Here Under Walker Law, * Johnny Dundea and Joe Welllag, of Chicago, contenders for the Ii title, have Ofteen-round bout tw {son Square Garden, Aouncement was made this nbun by Tex Rickard, promoter and matoli- maker. A statement was issued to-day by Joseph Johnson, Chairman of the newly - organized boxing commission, that the rise committes wo \ sting at thelr oftice 291 Broadway, next Thursday after noon. It was learned from a reliable that the Garden ‘authoritios a i + held in t Walker Liw _ Greenwich Boy Dies Afice Opern- ton, a Work.) Sept Mr. and Mrs. hardt Sleden Round Hil, ts dead following « ton for appendicitis ar tis home. — TRAVEL BUREAD, ery son THE WoL Wond)” Build x, Fe. Pelebone thse ‘unt ares feeder’ sud we Pact Kenan 4008, and no oe WILSON REFUSES TO RESPEN COAL MINERS AWARD Reminds Anthracite Workers U. S. Fought Great War to Enforce Agreement. CITES RUSSIA’S CASE. Declares a Strike by Any Other Name Does Not Fool Anyone, WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—Presl- dent Wilson, in a telegram to-day to} representatives the Anthracite Mine Workers in Pennsylvania, re- of fused to grant their request to re- convene the joint scale committee of operators and miners for the purpose! of considering a new wago award. The telegram was sent to Philip Murray, John Collins, Thomas‘ Ken- nedy and C, U. Golden, at Scranton, Pa, and eald: “fam in recetpt of your telegram of Sopt. 3, Informing me that you have written the award of the Anthracite Coal Commiasion jnto an agreement with the anthracite operators despite the fact that you are convinced that the award in itself does not provide that measure of justice to which you believe your people are entitled. “I sincerely thank you for promptneas with which you have acted, notwithstanding your disap- pointment, It Is a policy of that kind, carried into effect by the rank and file of the workers, that has made for the steady improvement of the condi- tions of the anthracite miners in re- # and which 8 the founda- still further progress. “You ask me to convene the Joint Scale Committee of the anthracite op- erators and miners for the purpose of adjusting certain inequalities which you assert exist In the award of the Anthracte Coal Commission. In that connection your attention is called to a telegram which 1 ent to Enoch Williame and others in reply to « tele- gram I received from them stating that the anthracite miners would re- frain from working unless I set aside the award of the Anthracite Coal Com- mission on or before Sept. 1.” The President quoted from his mes- sage in hich he declared that if the communication was intended as a threat the miners could rest assured the challenge would be accepted. “Notwithstanding the plain warn- ing contained in that telegram which was give wide publicity, the Presi- dent's message continued, “the ma- jority of the anthracite coal miners, fullowing the leadership of these men have refrained from work under the guise of ta a vacation, In doing so they b deceived any one, not even themselves. ‘When a body of men collectively refrain from working by mutual un- t, ita the ve not derstanding, however arrt . strike, no matter what yame may be given to it. Our plo have fought a great war and made untold sacrifices to insure among other things that a solemn agreement shall not be considered as a mere scrap of paper. “We have declined to enter into friendly relations with Governments that b tof their r linesa to vio~ late treaties whenever it sults their own convenienc and under these clreumstances we could not Jook the id in the face or justify our ab tions to our own and our owr con yielded t ' r te ¢ who are yiolat th t cently enter to between them. nelve: the om operators, and the Government of the United States, "LE appreciate the earnestness of your efforts to the men te return to work and commend your stand in support of the obligations of your contracts which ali men must honor, | but for reasons stated above I regret STRIKERS HELD FOR MURDER OF BOY SLAIN ON BRT. TRAIN: BiG INGREASE IN GAR SERVICE, aa ug PRICE THREE CENTS Eight Former Employees Indicted in First Degree on Charge of Throw: ing Stones That Caused Death on Sea Beach Line—More Sabotage. ; The Kings County Grand Jury to-day returned in the Brooklyn County Court indictments for murder in the first degree against eight’ B. R. T. strikers in connection with the night of Aug. 34, GOVERNOR TO ACT ON B. R. T. STRIKE, IS UNION REPORT Shea Declares Smith Will Attempt Settlement To-Morrow or Monday, CTION will be taken ' to- morrow or Monday by Gov. Smith to end the B. R. T. strike, according to an announce- ment made to-day by P. J. Shea, He announced that the*Governor will confer With Samuel Gompers, Preatdent of the American Fed- eration of Labor, and with James Vahey of Boston, general counsel for the Amalgamated Association, It is understood Shea's an- nouncement ia the result of the conference held yesterday in Al- any between Gov, Smith and William D. Mahon, President of the Amalgamated. It was learned that General Counsel Vahey at- tonded the Albany conference. Mr. Shea and the other Amal- famated officials appeared jubi- lant to-day and expect the Gov- ernor’s action to bring results, Gov, Smith sald over the tele- Phone to The Evening World from Albany: “All that | know about the mat- ter is that while Mr. Vahey, a lawyer of the Amalgamated, | understand, was up here yest day on some other business he said to me that he was going to Brooklyn and asked me if | would help out on the strike there. 1 told him that | would help out in PROSECUTE RIOTERS IN ARMY UNIFORMS Gen. Bullard Asks U. S. Attorney to Get After Ex-Service Men in B. R, T. Outbreak, Major Gen. Robert L. Bullard, © mander of the Department of the to-day sent @ request to United States Attorsey Leroy W. of Brooklyn, that he begin Immediate prosecution of all men arrested in the Labor Day riot In Prospect Park Placa who wore American army uniforms, Gen. Bullard informed Mr. Rosa that men formerly of the military service are permitted to wear the uniform only on days of pa- triotic celebrath and that they had no right to wear them oa Labor Day. Mr. Ross, in turn, sept a request to Pollee Commissioner Enright that the policemen making the arresta should identify the men in uniform so taken make formal complaint aguinat a LAWYER ROBBED IN COURT. Defend Three Alleged Thieves, Wallet Is Taken, While waiting form case to be called in Harlem Court in which he was to defend three young men who had been arrested and charged with robbery, Frank Amarow, an attornvy Waiting ¢ and former Assemblyman, was re- that I cannot grant youh request to | re-convene the Joint Scale Committee Of Operators and Miners” — Meved of his wallet containing aver #60 tn cash and & umber of valuable peers, R x sige eonln atnerly wake hie Daan the stoning of a Sea Beach train of Fred Friedma, seventeen years old, of No, 2111 64th Street, a paaseneer, on his way home with -his sister, Was: struck In the head with a rock and died an hour later. One of the stones thrown through the cab window frac. tured the skull of John yt Fairbanks. the motorman, who has been in the Kings County Hospital ever eines, The men indicted are: Joseph del Paptal, Sylvio Orisino and Frank Marzano, ull of No. 120 60th Street Michael Coluccio of No, 1320 64th Street; Paul Antonelli of No. 25 Bay iith Street, Bensonhurst; Simon Cohen of No, 2834 West 22d Street, Coney Island; Michael Freeman ef No. 823 Park Place :and Amiello Spranwo of No, 1452 6éth Street. There were two counts to the Ine dictment, the second charging the prisoners with destroying railroad company property, which carries @ maximum penalty of twenty years in prison, ‘The accused men pleaded not guilty and were remanded to jail until their trial, District Attorney Harry B. Lewis said he would give them as speedy a trial a8 possible, The attack on the Sea Beach train was made as the train was passing through @ cut on 62d Street, between llth and 12th Avenues, The strikers were on a wall above the cut and had free swing at the passing train with thelr shower of stones, Elght young men, who were riding in @ taxicab at 22d and Gravesend Avenues, Brooklyn, lust Wednesday, when three shots wero fired near a Culver ling train of the B. R. T., were rearraigned to-day in Flatbush Court Brooklyn, on charges of disorderly conduct and were fined $5 each, ‘The arresting officers, Motor Cycle Patrolman Finnerty and Patrolman Boothby, failed to state whether the men were strikebreakers or whether they were responsible for firing the shots. Magistrate McCloskey said if such tons had been made he was prepared: to impose more severe sen< tence, The men stated in court that they had taken several drinks and did not know exa/ what had taken place. They denied knowing the Cule” ver line train had been fired on. SERVICE ON B.R. T, IS LARGEST SINCE START OF STRIKE Strikers Endanger Lives of Chil- } dren by Short Circuiting Trolley Wire. Receiver Garrison, of the B. R. Ty said at noon that there were 187 el vated and sub’ trains in operation, including 898 cars, the largest num~ ber since the start of the strike. Fifty. one surface lines, with 737 cars, were also being operated. “The Culver and Bay Ridge Unea,* said Mr. Garrison, “are being operated | entirely by our old employees, and go! ls the Putnam;Halsey surface ling. The Sea Beach subway is in operation all the way to Coney Island. With regard to reports from the Amalgam mated the women Dloyeca have gone owt tn em, * a 2: eo *