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Vol. LXXX No? 26,899
(Copyright. 1980.
New York Trlbim? Inc.)
FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1920
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TWO CENTS
In Greater New York
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FO?R 'CXSn
Weeks of Inquiry Fail
To Solve Mystery of
Who Killed Carranza
?- *??_.. -_
?Three Powerful Generals
Who Were Not at Scene
Held; None of Those
present Are Detained
Irregularity in
Legal Procedure
Herrero's Suicide Story
Taken Seriously Despite
6BulletWounds in Body
By Sophie Treadwell
Special Dispatch to The Tribus?
Copyright, ?SO. New Tork Tribune Inc.
MEXICO CITY, June 26.?Who |
killed Carranza?
Don Venustiano Carranza, Presi?
dent of the Republic of Mexico, was
shot and killed in a small one-room
hut in the presence of five witnesses.
There were present in that room at
the moment, or immediately after,
at least three, and probably f rcm ten
to twenty, of his enemies. The crime
took place before dawn on May ?.
Yet. after weeks of investigations,
reports, commissions and hearings,
the question is still unanswered?
Who killed Carranza?
For three days there has been go?
ing on here in the 3d District Court
(al Juzagado Percera de Distrito),
in the Palacio de Donceles an amaz?
ing so-called legal proceeding around
the death of the former President.
It is called "Diligencias para escla?
recer la Muerte del Sr. Carranza.1
(Proceedings to clear up the murder ,
of Mr. Carranza.)
As a mult of it, three men are held
in the melancholy prison of Santiago, |
formslly charged with the responsi?
bility of his death. There were four ]
men until a few days ago, when the
richest of them escaped. But none of
these four men, all the testimony
agrees, was present at the time of the
crime, nor had they any knowledge of
it until some hours afterward. They
are th? four formerly most powerful
Carranzista generals?Francisco Mur
puia, Urquizo, Frederick Monies, and.
Juan Barragan, chief of - tbe^Estado [
Mayo?the latter has since escaped.
Failed to Aid Carranza
These four men are the only persons !
held responsible, because, according to
formal charges, "on being awakenei
by the noise of the combat they in,ad?
no serious effort to go to the defense
of Mr. Carranza" (al despertar al
ruido del combate no hicierou ning?n
esfuerzo serio papa acudir en defensa
?el Se?or Carranza).
It is included in the formal charge
as a special point against Urquizo, not
only that he was sleeping, but that he
was sleeping in a hut 300 meters away.
Rudolfo Herrero, who admits plan?
ning and ordering the attack on Car?
ranza, is absolutely free. So are all
his aides. So are all the men present
at the moment of the assault and death.
During these extraordinary diligen?
cia? much was written and more was
said about money, furniture, the ;
weather, loyalty, the patria, clothes,
but nothing new, nothing clear, noth- ?
ing plain, practically nothing at all,
?bout the actual facts of the death of
Carranza.
Summary of Evidence
What are those facts?
This much at least is known: ^^_
On May 14 Carranza left the train
that was taking him and his escort to .
Vera Cruz and fled in disorder, defeat |
and confusion to the mountains. There
were with him at the start about 200
mounted men. After being out a day
Carranza ordered the boys of the Co-,
Icgio Militar and most of the civilians !
?to "tire. He realized the danger and
difficulty of the road before him. Only
one way lay before him?to go deeper
and deeper into the sierra. Behind him
lay the railroad and the long stretch of
forces that had just defeated him. To
the left and to the right were known
revolucionario chiefs. Even ahead, into
the depths of the mountains, were
other jefes, but their forces were
smaller and their loyalty or disloyalty
was not yet known. There might be
one among them who had not yet had
tune to turn.
So they went ahead, deeper and deep?
er into the hills, every day the road
becoming more desolate, more difficult
?no more dangerous. There were with
Carranza the most important leaders
of his government. There were the
four generals, Murguia, jefe de la ex?
pedition; Urquizo, Sub-Secretary of
War and Marine; Montes, Barragan,
Jefe del Estado Mayor. There were
Luis Cabrera, Secretary of the Treas?
ury; Bonillas, the Carranzista candi?
date for the Presidency, and Aguirre
Berlanga and Gil Farias, his private
secretary. There were in all about 100
?en.
Party Declines in Number
This is one of the points largely I
aiscuased at the diligencias, Herrero
jnai?ting that the Carranxistas num.- \
??red 200, and bringing a paper with a
?eal on it to prove It. But it was
Pretty well established by the Csr
ranzistas themselves that, althougn
:*"" *?? their number when they first
?0j to the mountains, it was cut by
n??f when the President ordered the
retirement of the escort from th?
oiegio Militar and of some civilians.
jh -,'*? ?though a civilian, was
?? rude of the party. He had grown
?P "> these same hills as a boy. He
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Bonillas Predicts New
Upheavals in Mexico
WASHINGTON, July 8 (By
The Associated Press).?A con?
flict of irreconcilabje elements
that make up the present r?gime
in Mexico is certain to break but
in the near future, Ignacio
Bonillas, former Mexican Ambas?
sador to the United States, de?
clared to-day.
Mr. Bonillas, who was a civilian
candidate for the Presidency, was
with President Carranza during
the flight from Mexico City, tnd
narrowly escaped with his life
after his chief had been killed.
"The great mass of people of
Mexico are tired of revolution
and of military rule," the former
ambassador said. "They greatly
desire peace and a government of
civilians. The Obregon coup was
purely military.
"The present r?gime in Mexico
is made up of heterogeneous ele?
ments that cannot be reconciled
for long." ?
McAdoo Wants
U. S. to Finance
All Campaigns
Favors Paying Expenses in
National Elections Out of
the Federal Treasury
to Prevent Corruption
William G. M*Adoo, runner-up at
the Democratic national convention in
San Francisco, declared last night at
a dinner of the National League of
Masonic Clubs at the Waldorf-Astoria
- Hotel, that "as a private citizen" he
now felt free to make some suggestions
as to changes in the election laws.
In the first place all cam?
paign expenditures in a national elec?
tion should be paid out of the national
Treasury to prevent corruption and
the buying of the Presidency. In the
second place the Presidential nomi?
nees should be chosen ; by direct
primary in accordance with a national
law, instead of by the present method,
in accordance with state laws, which
varied in their provisions.
In making his suggestion as to the
payment of Presidential campaign ex?
penses Mr. McAdoo reminded his
audience that he recently had been
head of the Treasury Department. He
did not remind his audience that the
expense attendant upon running foi
the Presidency had been given by him
as one of his reasons for not wishing
his name to be brought before the
San Francisco convention.
"I have been asked," he said, address?
ing the members of the league, "tc
talk of politics, but it doesn't make
any difference to me whether you arc
Democrats or Republicans so long as
you are Americans. I feel the urge tc
speak of several matters connect?e
with the coming election.
Gives Credit to Senate
"One of the things that the Senat?
did?one of the few intelligent things
that the Senate ever did?was to con?
tinue the power of the Senate commit
tee in the investigation of campaigr
funds. The importance of this to th?
country is obvious.
"One thing we can never stand foi
and that is the purchase of the Pr?s
idency. To me it seems that no men
ace in America to-day is so great a
the corrupt use of money in elections
"You cannot realize what corrup
tion in elections may cost. If an in
terest that puts up money gets bact
a fraction of a cent as a rebate il
payment of taxes or similar favorit
ism it is repaid ten times or fift;
times or a thousand times for its con
tribution.
"There are many illustrations o
what the corrupt use of money wil
do. Men who put up great sums o
money?not all of them, but some o
them?seek to have the favor re
turned.
"For my part, I believe that w
should at once consider the wisdom o
a drastic change in our national elec
tion laws.
"The present system of private cor
tributions is utterly wrong. The coe
of national elections should be born
by' the national Treasury. Then th
candidate would be spared the humi
iation of begging for funds and th
cost of the election would be reduce
perhaps to one-fifth of what it now i
"A law that would take campaig
expenditures out of the Treasury woul
save the American people .fifty or
thousand times what it would cost."
. Calls Primary System Disgraceful
As to the change he would make i
the Presidential primary election, mal
ing it truly a national election, go<
erned by the provisions of a nation;
law, Mr. McAdoo said:
"Nothing is more disgraceful the
the present Presidential primary und?
the different laws of the - differei
states. We must have a national prin
ary wherein the choice of the peop
shall be the nominee and not tl
nominee of a bossed convention."
The Rev. Warren W. Giles, of Ea
Orange, a previous speaker, had r
f?rred to Great Britain as the nati<
which saved the United States by i
fleet. Mr. McAdoo declared that 1
wanted to differ with this speaker "ei
phatically."
"Great Britain never saved this R
public," he asserted, "nor was it sav?
by Italy or France or any other of tl
Allied powers. The United Stat
never was in any danger 30 long as
had its own fleet."
130 in Shade at Nogales, Aria
NOGALES. Aria., July 8.?For?
Area which broke out in Ave dift-ere
sections near here to-day caused t
thermometer to climb to ISO degree*
the shade, the highest mark e?v
reuched at Nogales.
Progressives
Pledge Aid
lo Harding
Group Including Many
Supporting Roosevelt in
1912 Indorse Candidate
at Harvard Club Dinner
Party Chiefs on
Way to Conference
Senator and Wife Observe
29th ^Anniversary of
Marriage With Dinner
Special Dispatch to The Tribuno
MARION, Ohio, July 8.-r-Assurances
that the Progressive Republicans who
supported Theodore Roosevelt in 1912
will throw their united strength behind
the Harding-Coolidge ticket in the
coming campaign were brought to the
Republican Presidential nominee to?
day.
Word that a group of Progressives,
including recent supporters of General
Leonard Wood and Senator Hiram
Johnson, had gathered at a private
dinner at the Harvard Club in New
York last Thursday and adopted a reso?
lution indorsing the action of the
Chicago convention was conveyed to
Warren G. Harding hero to-day by
Walter F. Brown, of Toledo. Brown,
who was Harding's floor manager at the
recent convention, and who was an
active Bull Mooser in 1912, spoke at the
dinner. Will H. Hays was also pres?
ent. The dinner was of a private
nature and every effort was made to
prevent word of it getting out until
Senator Harding had been informed of
the action taken.
Among those attending, according
to Brown, to-day were Will Hays, na?
tional chairman; William Hamlin
Childs, New York; Alexander T. Moore,
Pennsylvania; E. A. Van Valkenburg,
Pennsylvania; Lawrence Abbott, New
York; Major H. S. Hooker. New York;
Dave C. Goodrich, New York; Henry
L. Stoddard, New York; Porter Emer?
son Browne, New York; James R. Gar
field, Ohio; Elon H. Hooker, candidate
for the Republican nomination for
Governor, New York; Thomas H. Chad
burne, New York, and Colonel Theo?
dore Roosevelt jr.
Many Indorsements Received
Others were unable to attend and
sent messages indorsing the resolu?
tion adopted. They included J. C.
Shafer, Chicago; I. R. Kirkwood,
Kansas City; Governor Henry J. Allen,
Kansas; William Allen White, Kansas,
and Albert J. Beveridge, Indiana.
Senator Harding spent a quiet day
in his office, receiving few callers. He
and Mrs. Harding are observing their
twenty-ninth wedding anniversary to?
day. A few relatives and close friends
were invited in for dinner.
Early in the forenoon the Senator
visited his newspaper plant for the
first time since his nomination. He re?
ceived congratulations from his em
loyees, some of whom have been with
im for many years. Among the first
to greet him was Lew Miller, more than
eighty years old, who was a compositor
on the paper when Harding bought it.
Later, when he is not so pressed for
tipie. Senator Harding plans to go out
into his composing room and make up
tl^e paper.
?"I love to make up the paper," he
said. "I am the best make-up man I
know Of." The candidate also paid a
call of sympathy to a cousin here,
Frank Marshman, a locomotive en?
gineer, whose daughter died recently.
The Senator sent a message to Sena?
tor Hiram Johnson thanking him for
his statement indorsing the Republican
party. He did not make the message
public.
Among the callers to-day was New?
ton L. Miller, manager of the Ohio
Senatorial primary contest for Frank
H. Willis, former Governor. Mr. Hard?
ing said the visit was purely personal.
Willis is a contestant with Walter F.
Brown, who also called to-day, for the
Senatorial nomination. The seat is the
one to be vacated next March by Hard?
ing.
" Hard Task for Third Party
Brown, in discussing third party
possibilities with newspaper men, said
the difficulties of getting electors on
the tickets in the various states were
almost insurmountable. This was his
task in 1912 for the Bull Moose party,
and he doubted if the third party
movement would endanger a single Re?
publican electoral vote. The wet and
dry issue, if it figures at all, will de?
velop in the Congressional contests.
The only form the issue was likely to
take, he thought, was over modification
of the Volstead act, and this was a
question directly up to Congressmen
and not chief executives, he thought.
The week-end will see a gathering
of political leaders here. Will H. Hays,
National Chairman, and Harry M.
Daugherty, Harding's pre-convention
manager, are expected. Senator Albert
J. Cummins of Iowa also wired to-day
he planned to arrive here Saturday.
Members of the committee to arrange
for the notification ceremonies are ex?
pected at the same time.
More reports are being received at
Harding's headquarters of babies being
named after the Republican candidate.
The first "Warren G." baby in Marion
was named to-day. Its parents are Mr.
and Mrs. P. F. Callahan.
Gen, Wood Visits Hays ;
* Will Call on Harding
Belief Expressed That Nominee
May Take Stump for a Few
Weeks at Height of Campaign
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
CHICAGO, July 8.?General Leonard
Wood had luncheon to-day with Will
H. Hays, chairman of the Republican
National Committee, and they con?
ferred for -several hours at the Chicago
Club. General Wood visited the Na?
tional Committee headquarters and
conferred with other committee mem?
bers there. General Wood announced
he would go to Marion soon to call on
Senator Warren G. Harding, the Re?
publican nominee.
Coleman du Pont, Republican Na?
tional Committeeman from Delaware
and chairman of the committee on no
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VIENNA, July 8.?The .Vienna
newspapers are printing adver?
tisements for 2,000 Austrian
women cooks to go to Chicago.
It is explained in the advertise?
ments that Washington will au?
thorize their admission.
Hobson Urges
Cox State His
Views on Liquor
Governor Gets Message
From Alabama Represent?
ative, but Does Not Indi?
cate What Reply Will Be
Reed Pledges Support
Democratic Nominee Enjoys
a Picnic on the Farm
Where He Was Born
From a Staff Correspondent
DAYTON, Ohio, July 8.?Governor
James M. Cox, Democratic Presidential
nominee, to-day feceived a telegram
from former Representative Richmoncl
P. Hobson, of Alabama, urging the
nominee to make clear his position on
the enforcement? of the Eighteenth
Amendment and the Volstead enforce?
ment act.
The Governor read the message as
he glanced through other correspond?
ence that had accumulated on his
desk at "The News." He declined to
say what answer he would make, but
indicated that he would reply soon.
The Hobson message read:
"Dry forces are restive. Republicans
among them are applying to Harding
for strong statement. Do not let these
forces have cause to crystallize the
highest Republican candidates. Demo?
cratic convention declared nearly two to
one against plank favoring even home
manufacture of mildest alcoholic bever?
ages. Ninety-five per cent of population
of America live in states that have rati?
fied Eighteenth Amendment without
reservation. They are jealous of its in?
tegrity. Supreme Court in unanimous
decision warned Congress against au?
thorizing increase in alcoholic content.
National officers of Anti-Saloon League
here have asked me to get statement
from you. They cite that Harding voted
for Volstead act. Could you give me
clear statement of your being opposed
to Federal authorization of increasing
alcoholic content? This would save to
Democracy millions of voters who hold
this qpestion above party success."
Governor Cox said that he would reply
to Hobson "in due course of time."
Receives Message From Reed
Another message which the Governor
found on his desk, which pleased him,
was a message from Senator James A.
Reed, of Missouri. It said:
"I send my sincerest and heartiest
congratulations to you upon your great
victory against what seemed to be
overwhelming odds. I congratulate the
country, because I am firmly con?
vinced that you will always maintain
and defend our nation and will never
consent to surrender any part of its
sovereignty or the abandonment of
those great international policies of
the fathers under which we have
achieved unexampled greatness and
power."
Governor Cox slipped out of Dayton
to-day as early as posnible, motor?
ing thirty miles to the farm at
Jacksonburg where he was borr and
later rambled around as a barefooted
boy. Newspaper men who followed
found the Democratic nominee for the
Presidency on the bank of his home
pasture creek, preparing to bake pota?
toes and broil chops over a camp fire.
Seeing that he was trapped he decided
to give, a party and sent for more
chops,
Mttle Jim on Job
Littie Jim Cox, his seventeen-year
old son, drove a flivver station wagon
into the pasture and unloaded a five
gallon can of mint ice tea. His daddy
had been busy for some ten minutes
carefully whittling a couple of shingles
into splinters and shavings and gath?
ering armfuls of firewoocl. The Gov?
ernor took off his coat and pushed his
straw hat on the back of his head.
Then he took a broken handled shovel
and scooped out a shallow hole about
two feet in diameter in the sand in a
dry part of the creek bed. From a
paper sack in the grass he produced
about a peck of pink, new potatoes that
had been grown on tne farm and placed
them as carefully as a setting of eggs
into the excavation. Next he scraped
the gravel and sand over the top of the
potatoes and was ready to build his
fire.
The brown paper bag that had held
the potatoes was laid on first, then the
shavings, and next, tepee fashion,
slightly larger sticks. A match was
applied, and in a minute the larger
firewood was being piled on the flames.
A wire broiler was hauled out of the
flivver, and also a bundle of lamb
chops. Using the rear of the bed of
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Allege Nation
Wide Fund to
Crush Labor
?5,000,000 N u c leus
Raised in N. Y. Under?
written by 4 Railroads,
A. F. of L. Heads Assert
See Start of Big
Open Shop Fight
Steel Corporation Said to
Have Given $500,000;
Standard Oil in List
From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, July 8.?A "war
chest" of $5,000,000 has been accumu?
lated in New York City by an organi?
zation of merchants and business men,
to be swelled to "perhaps hundreds of
millions" in the country at large?with
the Standard Oil and steel trust as
largest contributors?which will be
used "to break the organized labor
movement irt the United States," ac?
cording to officials of the American
Federation of Labor.
Frank Morrison, secretary of the
American Federation of Labor, said to?
day that reports he has received from
various parts of the country indicate
that the enemies of organized labor,
who hove spent large sums of money in
fighting the labor movement, aro re?
doubling their efforts, and that a large
fund is supporting propaganda against
the "closed shop" throughout the coun?
try.
Reports from sources said to be re?
liable, as laid before Secretary Morri?
son and other officiais with whom he
has conferred, are to the effect that
the $5,000,000 fund has been placed at
the disposal of the New York Citizens
Transportation committee and the Mer?
chants Association. This fund has been
contributed, the reports say, by cer?
tain big business and financial in?
terests, who have been named, with
the purpose that the port strike situ
ation in New York is to be taken a*
a cover for starting an open shop
fight in New York and throughout the
country.
Four Rail Heads Named
The names of four railroad presidents
have been mentioned?Smith, of the
New York Central; Rea, of the Pennsyl?
vania; Loomis, of the Lehigh Valley,
and Bessler, of the New Jersey Cen?
tral?as having sat with the Citizens
Transportation Committee In New York
and having underwritten the five
million-dollar fund, turning over $1,
000,000 of it at once for immediate
use.
Another report brought to Mr. Mor?
rison's attention is that the Steel Cor?
poration, through Judge Gary, has com
tributed $500,000 to this fight fund.
The Standard Oil, and several large
New York banks are also said to have
made large contributions.
Information has also come to the
American Federation of Labor officials
that a group of Chicago men, headed
by Julius Rosenwald, is interested in
the fight.
Union officials regard this as the be?
ginning of a great fight between capital
and labor for the establishment of the
open shop in all big industries wher-i
the closed shop now prevails and for
the frustration of the movement to
establish the closed shop in industries,
such as the steel business, where it is
not recognized.
To Consult Gompers
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, is on
his way to Washington after attending
the Democratic National Convention in
San Francisco. Until he has been con?
sulted none of the other officers is
willing to be quoted regarding labor's
attitude, although it is quite frankly
stated that organized labor "can take
good care of itself in the coming fight,
as it has shown itself able to do in
the past."
Information has been trickling into
the Federation headquarters all last
year that agitation was being carried
on in various parts of the country,
especially in the Western states, against
the union shop. The labor officials
have recognized that there was con?
certed action, even before the signing
of the armistice, especially among
those big interests ??labor leaders refer
to as "war profiteers," seeking to get
back to old conditions with respect to
hours, wages, etc. <
At the American Federation of Labor
headquarters have been received also
several communications with reference
to efforts being made by chambers of
commerce and big business organiza?
tions to prevent organization of new
labor unions and to break down those
already existing.
"The same people are behind the
present 'slush fund' that have been
fighting organized labor for years,"
sand one of the labor leaders of inter?
national prominence, "and they have
found it pretty expensive."
Morrison says, that the "open shop"
really means "closed to union men."
Propose Twentieth amendment
To Make Divorce Impossible
The Rev. Dr. Walter Gwynne, of Sum- j
mit, N. J., announced yesterday the j
formation of an organization the pur- |
pose of which is to make divorce im- ?
possible. It is the aim of the body to '
have an amendment carrying out its
ideal appended to the Constitution of
the United' States.
The Society for the Upholding of the I
Sanctity of Marriage is the title of the ;
new organization. Its purpose is said i
to be indorsed by Episcopal clergymen I
of New York and numerous judges.
The society intends by vigorous '
propaganda to extend its membership j
to include every Christian denomina- I
tion in the country. It will preach the
doctrine that no minister should re
marry any divorced person, whatever j
the ground for ihe divorce and irre-'
spective of whether or not the person
concerned bore the burden of guilt in
the divorce.
Dr. Gwynne is general secretary of
the Society for the Upholding of the
Sanctity of Marriage. Others behind
the movement include the Rev. Milo
H. Gates, the Rev. C. P. J. Wrigley and
the Rev. E. A. White.
The constitution of the body holds
to three chief principles. They are:
"Complete loyalty to the teachings
of our Lord as witnessed by the Holy
Scriptures and the universal voice
of the Primitive Church, testifying to
the indissoluble cha-ncter of the mar?
riage bond 'till death.'
"Allowance of legal separation for
sufficient and weighty cause, but with
no right to remarriage for either in?
nocent or guilty party.
"Allowance of annulment for cause
preceding marriage."
The first step toward Us goal is the
urging of a revision of the Episcopal
Church canon on the solemnization of
matrimony, which will absolutely pro?
hibit the remarriage under Church law
of any divorced person.
This project has been brought up
at the General Episcopal Convention
before. In 1916 it was lost by only
a few votes. In 1919 it was defeated
by a much larger vote.
Dr. Gwynne said that among the
members of the organization were Su?
preme Court Justice Vernon M. Davis,
the Rev. Dr. William T. Manning, of
Trinity and the Rt. Rev. Paul Mat?
thews.
Disarjn or Well Occupy
Ruhr, Allies Tell Berlin;
Poles Enlist Women
Girls Heed Pilsudski's
Call for Volunteers to
Repel Bolshevik Inva?
sion on 400-Mile Front
Students Enroll;
Universities Close
Boy Scouts Also Join|
Colors; Fate of Republic
Declared in the Balance
WARSAW, July 8 (By The Associated
Press). ? President Pilsudski, in a
manifesto issued by the Council of Na?
tional D?fense, has called on the Polish
nation for volunteers to aid in sterna
ming the tide of Bolshevism which is
sweeping the Polish armies back on a
400-mile front from Courland to the
Rumanian frontier.
Stirred by the appeal, hundreds of
women and girls have taken steps to
join the army. Students are enlisting
in such numbers that the universities
have closed. Teachers, Boy Scouts,
civil servants and ministerial em?
ployees, whose occupations have ex?
cused them from compulsory service,
are offering themselves from every
side. General Joseph Haller, who com?
manded the Polish forces in France,
has been placed in command of the
volunteer army.
Uniformed women soldiers, with wo?
men officers, paraded the streets Tues?
day singing. For the first time in
Warsaw detachments of female recruits
under the guidance of women officers
were seen marching to the barracks.
Many in Short Skirts
Many of the recruits were strong
girls in short skirts and shirtwaists,
with braided hair hanging down their
backs. The sight of female recruits
aroused enthusiasm everywhere along
the principal streets. Mixed with the
girl recruits were women from twenty
five to thirty years, who swung para?
sols, purses and market packages in
arms which will soon carry rifles.
The women's battalions will be used
chiefly for guard duty in garrisons and
food depots and as train escorts, thus
relieving men for the front lines.
Another proclamation by the Presi?
dent, addressed to the soldiers, says
the decisive moment has arrived in
which Poland's fate is to be decided. It
assures the soldiers that in case they
are wounded their income will be con?
tinued by the government and that pro?
vision will be made by the government
for the families of those killed in
battle.
Asked to Furnish Arms
Citizens having in their possession
swords, rifles, pistols or ammunition
are urged to turn them over to the
government for use in the army.
The Socialist party Central Com?
mittee in a proclamation said:
"When the Polish troops were ad?
vancing we demanded peace, but now
we ought to defend ourselves firmlV.
We appeal to the soldiers to fulfill
their duty in defense of the country
against the invader."
The advance of the Bolshevik ar?
mies has been greatest in the south,
where, driving the Poles from the
fortress of Rovno, they pressed for?
ward to the Klewan railroad junction.
The Poles are withdrawing before the
northwesterly drive of General Bu
denny's cavalry, in some places reach?
ing the oU Russo-German fighting
line. The banks of the Styr and other
rivers along this line are cobwebbed
with barbed wire and the hillsides are
zigzagged with trenches, while the
various elevations are dotted with
German-built steel and concrete pill?
boxes, and it is expected that the
Poles will elect to make a stand along
this defensive line.
British Car Shelled
Northwest of Rovno a train to which
was attached the private car of Gen?
eral Wiart, chief of the British Mili?
tary Mission, was shelled by Bu
denny's artillery. Five Polish refu?
gees on the train were killed and the
British general's car was damaged, but
none of his party was injured.
According to reports from Moscow
the Bolsheviki in Volhynia have been
successful in several battles near
Staro-Konstantinov, toward which the
Poles are withdrawing. The Soviet
forces are reported to have reached
Leitchey, twenty-five miles east of
Proskurov, and to have occupied Mo
hilev in their drive along the Dniester
River. A Polish official statement yes?
terday said Bolshevik attacks in
Polesia had been repulsed, but admit?
ted the withdrawal from Rovno.
Squadrons of the Polish Second Army,
including the Kosciusko Aerial Squad?
ron commanded by Americans, are
taking a prominent part in fighting
Budcnny's cavalry from the air on the
Ukraine front, where the Poles with- j
drew in the face of repeated raids by
cavalry, reinforced by Budenny's First
Army. The American fliers repeatedly
attacked the horsemen, dropping bombs
and using machine guns in the effort to
stem the westward sweep of the Bol?
sheviki.
Cross Beresina River
In the center of the front the Bol?
sheviki have crossed the Beresina River
after several fruitless attemots, ac?
cording to a Polish communiqu? to-day.
At Beresina and at Navozialski, about
fifty miles northeast of Minsk, the
Soviet forces got .a foothold on the
west bank of the river.
On the north end of the front "enemy
cavalry forced a passage through our
front between Lakes .Drisviati and
Ubleja," says a Polish communiqu?.
"Our infantry after a fierce struggle
withdrew in a southwesterly direction.','
The anti-Bolshevik forces under
General Wrangel in the Crimea have
been reinforced by 20,000 troops under
General Makmo, who are harassing
the Bolsheviki. A Moscow statement
reports "particularly intense" fighting
in the region of Oriekhov.
BUFFALO, July 8.?More than 1,000
Polish veterans of Buffalo, it is esti?
mated, will answer the call of President
Pilsudski of the Polish Republic for
volunteers for immediate service
against the advancing armies of Bol?
shevik RuMifc ,
;
Wilson to Call League
Meeting in November
LONDON, July 8.?President
Wilson has accepted the invita?
tion of the League of Nations to
call a meeting of the assembly of
the league early in November,1 it
was announced in the House of
Commons to-day by Cecil B.
Harmsworth, Under Secretary
for Foreign Affairs.
Interchurch Is
Continued onf
Skeleton Scale |
Gathering of Leaders De-!
cide Great Movement Shall I
Have Budget of Only!
$75,000 for Present Year
Meeting Is Optimistic
Hopes to Preserve Ideal,
Though Drive for Money
Will Not Be Resumed
An all-day session of the general
committee of the Interchurch World
Movement resulted yesterday in a
unanimous decision to continue the
movement "though on a greatly modi?
fied scale." Until a complete reor?
ganization of the movement can be
effected to carry on the work the twen?
ty-eight denominations have intrusted
to it, the object will be to conserve
the mass of survey material gathered
heretofore and to preserve the ideal
for which the movement was founded
through a retention of the existing
skeletonized staff. The drive for funds
will not be resumed.
The movement will be continued
under the direction of a committee of
fifteen, who are to confer with repre?
sentatives of the denominations co?
operating in the movement, "and, if
they deem wise, with representatives
of other church bodies," and recom?
mend plans for the future. r
Meeting Is Optimistic
In character it was entirely a dif?
ferent gathering from the last meeting
of the committee which in its morning,
afternoon and night sessions on the
nineteenth floor of the building at 25
Madison Avenue decided the fEte of
the greatest interdenominational move?
ment ever launched. Yesterday a
spirit of optimism prevailed among the
conferees?151 in number?that fore?
told the decision long before the offi?
cial announcement of the adoption of
the report prepared by the sub-com?
mittee of eleven members. Not one
discordant note was struck.
The report, presented by Bishop
Thomas Nicholson to the general com- ;
mittee on behalf of the subcommittee, i
said:
"1. The committee is unanimous in
the conviction that the main purpose j
and objects for which the Interchurch
World Movement was created should be j
conserved and, therefore, the movement !
should be continued, though on a great- '
ly modified, scale.
"2. We heartily approve thl action of
the executive committee in closing the
accounts of the movement as of June
30, in calling upon the churches to j
meet their obligations and in making i
a clear distinction between the past
and future operations of the movement.
New Budget $75,000
"3. That inasmuch as material must
be cared for, subscriptions collected !
and an irreducible minimum of work
must be carried on pending the reor?
ganization hereafter to be recom?
mended, we recommend a budget not
exceeding $75,000, which amount shall
become a part of the obligations al?
ready incurred by the corporation.
"4. Inasmuch as the time is mani?
festly too short for working out a
feasible plan of reorganization to-day,
we recommend the appointment of a i
committee of fifteen members, which
committee shall confer with repre?
sentatives of the denominations co?
operating in the movement, and, if
they deem wise, with representatives
of other interchurch bodies, and shall
recommend plans for the future. The
executive committee is requested In
the mean time to ultilize the surveys,,
(Continued on pago nine)
Last Suffrage Chance
Is Lost in Louisiana
Legislature Adjourns Sine Die
After Refusing to Vote Again
on Ratification
BATON ROUGE, July 8.~ All possi?
bility of Louisiana enfranchising the
women of the nation through ratificn
tion of the Federal suffrage amendment j
was removed to-night when the biennial I
session of the State Legislature id- j
journed sine die.
From the first to the last day of the [
session suffrage ratification was given
consideration, either in the commute"
rooms or on the floors of the two
houses. The ratification resolution was
defeated by both the House and the
Senate early in the session, but the
suffrage forces, undaunted, worked to
bring up another resolution. Hopes of
success were heightened yesterday by
the appeal of Governor Cox, the Demo?
cratic Presidential nominee, for hati
fication. Attempts to-day to obtain sus?
pension of the rules to bring up a
ratification resolution in the House,
however, failed, 52 to 46.
Supporters of bills to grant the vote
to white women of the state also mot
defeat during the session, all such bills
having been defeated.
Premiers Order Germans
to Reduce Their Army
to 150,000 by Oct. 1
and 100,000 by January
Demand Answer
By Noon To-day;
Lloyd George Ultimatum
Alarms Teutons and
May Break Up Parley
By Ralph Courtney j
Special Cable to The Tribune
.Copyright. 1920. New Tork Tribune Inc.
SPA, Belgium, July 8.?Premi?ar
Lloyd George, acting as spokesman
for the Allies at to-day's conference
with the Germans, delivered an ulti?
matum to the representatives pf the
Berlin government, demanding an
answer by noon to-morrow whether
they will accept a disarmament plan
submitted to them to-day by the
Allies. The plan involves reduction
of the German army to 150,000 by
October 1, and complete demobiliza?
tion to 100,000, as provided by the
Treaty of Versailles, by January 1,
1921. i
There is grave danger of the con?
ference breaking up to-morrow.
Should the Germans refuse to ac?
cept the disarmament proposition?
the conference will adjourn. Lloyd
George served notice that if the
German army had not been reduced
to the limit set by October 1, the
Allied armies would occupy the Val?
ley of the Ruhr or other German ter?
ritory.
Believe Germans Will Comply
In high British circles it is be?
lieved that the Germans must yield
to the Allied demand. If they refuse
i the Allied proposal, the Germans are
asked to submit to the occupation by
the Allies of their richest coal basins
for as long a time as the disarma?
ment provisions of the treaty are
unfulfilled.
Dr. Simons, German Foreign Min?
ister, who is a member of the Berlin
delegation, temporized and hesitated
over the proposition. Finally he asked
to be allowed to think the problem
over until to-morrow. To-night he is
in telephonic communication with
Berlin.
The Germans left the the conference
in an extremely dejected mood. After
the session Dr. Simons voiced a veiled
threat that the Germans might not be
able to fulfill the Allied requirements
and hinted at grave developments. He
said:
"Every effort will be made to meet
the demand, but in the case of failure,
which is feared, Germany will be in a
conditions serious not only for her?
self, but for her allies."
Ends Berlin's Hopes
The proposal made by Lloyd George,
which is the Allied answer to the Ger?
man request for fifteen months in which
to disarm, was far more severe than
the Germans had expected. They came
to Spa with authority to make agree?
ments to carry out provisions of the
treaty, but were not authorized to make
further concessions. In fact, the whole
basis of their policy has been an at?
tempt to obtain guarantees that the
French would not max? further incur?
sions into their territory. To-day"*
ultimatum blows away the whole edi?
fice of their carefully laid plans. ,
At the opening of to-day's session
Lloyd George declared bluntly that the
Allies had had enough of disarmament
discussion. "Three days have now
been occupied needlessly," he said.
"The discussion must cease."
He said that both the German^ and
Allied experts had agreed that' the
treaty hadn't been kept.. The Germans
had 3,000,000 rifles instead of 150.000,
and had five or six times the number
of machine guns allowed,
"For good reasons the Allies have
not insisted upon carrying out the
peace treaty in the past," he said. Hbut
such a condition now must cease.".
Must Disarm Civilians
The Allies, in their proposal to the
Germans, insist that Germany must
disarm her semi-military forces, col?
lect all arms from the civilian popula?
tion, abolish conscription and substi?
tute a Ion? term army enlistment. True
Germans must destroy ail military
equipment, and fulfill the military,
naval and air clauses of the treaty.
On these conditions, and subject ta
the threat* to occupy the Ruhr, the
Allie? agree to extend the time as.
mentioned above. Meanwhile the Ger
,mans would be allowed to keep such
effectives in the neutral zone as the
commission should decide upon, and
(the Allies would agree to prevent the
smuggling of arms into Germany.
Allies Take Aggressive
SPA, Belgium, July 8 -(By The As?
sociated Press).?The joint Allied-Ger?
man conference on the terms qf this
peace treaty reached another critical
point to-day.
The German Cabinet, of which ?even
of the nine members fire here, held a
meeting, which continued from 6:15
o'clock this afternoon until 8. No it
cisi?n was reached, and the council ad?
journed until 9 to-morrow morning.
The prevailing view among the Ger?
mans was that the Allies bad carried
their demands, particularly the men?
ace of occupying further Germen ter?
ritory, much beyond any prov,iafbn o?
the Versailles treaty, and also that the
Allies are taking up an aggressive po?
sition not contemplated by any elauM
of the treaty. t
The Allied disarmament note wai
communicated to Berlin early im thi
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