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LXXX No. 26,902
(Copyright, 1020,
Kew York Tribune Ino.l
MONDAY. JULY 12, 1920
TWO CENTS THREE CENTS J JFOCR CENTS
In Greater New York Within 200 Miles { Elsewhere
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What Cox Says About
Pro-German Articles
Printed in His Paper
fle Was Busy in Columbus
When 'Dayton News'
Said U-Boats 'Committed
fio Crime Against U. S.'
His Attempts to Win
German Vote in 1916
Attacks on Roosevelt and
Hughes Ad<?ressed to
"Our German Friends5*
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
DA?TON, Ohio, July 11.?Gover?
nor James M. Cox was visibly per?
turbed to-day when questioned about
editorial articles that have appeared
in "The Dayton News," his news?
paper here, during the last several
years, and which are proving ex?
tremely embarrassing to him as the
Presidential nominee of the Demo?
cratic party.
Going back as far as November
17, 1915, when his newspaper said
editorially that "victory by Ger?
many was not the worst thing that
could happen," there appe&red a
number of editorials for which the
Governor took occasion to-day to
disclaim any personal responsibility.
As late as April 1, 1917, a few days
before America's entry into the 'war,
Governor Cox's paper editorially was
decrying any suggestion of sending
troops to Europe, and spoke scathingly
of Theodore Roosevelt's efforts to raise
a volunteer army for service abroad.
"J do no- want to attempt to dis?
claim the responsibility of a#publisher
for the editorial statements of his
newspapers," Cox said to-day. "But
I iio want :o emphasize that I did not
V?t? one of these editorials myself,
lid did not see them before thejr went
ml? the paper.
Refer, Critics to Soldiers
I defy anj one to show a single
utterance or writing of mine in which
?' have said anything- that ar^y. red
oloodeil American cpuld construe as
Woyal. 1 stand on my record as
Ohio's war Governor, and those who
mid critic -o me are directe.j to the
pidiera Ohio gave to the army. They
kjicw where I stand."
*<-!)" said the editorials in question
?vero written by George F. Burba, then
witor ol his newspaper. He said his
duties in Columbus kept him from
Maintaining a strict personal super?
vision over his newspaper.- Wheh his
attention was called to the fact that
the editorials in question had con?
tinued over a considerable period of
time, offering plenty of opportunity
for a publisher to enlighten an editor
If the editor's expressions did not con?
form with those of the publisher, he re
r^d,that he stood uP?n nis record
, is Ohio's war Governor.
"Besides," he added, "these editorials
were written at a time when the feel?
ing of the country was constantly
?.actuating. There were times even
*hen the relations of the United
states and Great Britain were threat
wed with controversy over the British
blockade.
"I defy any one to prove that I ever
?ve questioned the part of the United
Mates in entering the war, or Ameri?
tan determination Ito carrv on the war
toa triumphant conclusion,
'How I have stood in this is best
?own by the manner in which I was
IfiT.ed by the German vote in my last
?lection as Governor. Every voter of
.wrman sympathies cut me."
tox pointed out that in Henry, Mer?
ger, Auglaise, Defiance, Putnam and
??lonroe counties, where there is a large
Population of German descent, he made
??very poor showing in 1918. He did
?t mention Hamilton County, where
?ere is perhaps the strongest German
?owing, and whisn he carried by a
?onsiderable majority.
I have been opposed to the German
notary oligarchy from the moment
mat the European war began," the Gov?
ernor said in conclusion.
He then went, with his house ?guests,
?dee and Mrs. T. T. Ansberry, of
V'ViVngton- D- C> to his farm near
?l?dietown, avoiding a conference with
?ewgpaper men which was to have
???Il place this afternoon.
Cox Never Criticized Editorials
Mr. Burba, who is now editor of
?tie Columbus Dispatch," said to
tfc? oVer the lonE distance telephone
?U- governor Cox never had com?
plied to him about the tone or senti
?55!\T0f anv editorials appearing in
ill a- " Burba said that he wrote
?a editorials appearing in "The News"
?TV91410 May 15?1917-and if aiiy
tri* n e eait?r?als did not conform
^tn Governor Cox's viewpoint or sym
?, i'.8, ,tne Governor had never indi
tm, s t0 him or 8iv?n bim instruc?
tionsito discontinue them.
e?JL en Burba was asl<ed by a Tribune
("re8P?nc?ent whether the Governor
er hud displayed displeasure or ever
!?,. ?iticizcd the editorials^ Burba
"Pj'ed. that he had not.
?am.ing the editorials specifically, the
'??respondent asked Burba whether
?x ?ver had indicated that they did
?'lf?M m with his views,
at?. ? Cox disagreed with the ex?
tasions in the editorials he never
*<? ?o to me," Mr. Burba replied.
?TExtended 0ver ko"* P??od
'on?6*6- editorial?? extended ovar a
ifonPeno<J of time and were all 0% a
?wiar tone. Am I to understand,
?W,* ?tJdurin8 a11 th?? time Mr. Cox
W?!? thev did not wpreaent hit
Xs- Mr. Burba was agked.
w?! ne.ver 8aid ?o to me4 and I was
'??dI? thera'" Barba replied,
ten*.? yo,u at any time *y*T re?oive
W* r ?rora ^r- Cox to discontinue
^?editorials' of thia nature?" he
"I a*Td"
???id not," was the emphatic reply.
?Sa??' ? your departure from ?The
4"* m any way connected with a
j|J*?ement with Governor Cox over
^Wial policy?? Burba was asked. .
%nZ a5 "ot" h? replied. "The Gov
?t?.d ! were then and are now on
ip ?oat cordial terms. I resigned
<CcaUaiMd an aaaa 9)
Cox Promises to Place
Real Farmer in Cabinet
DAYTON, Ohio, July 11?A
real dirt farmer will be the next
Secretary of Agriculture, if the
D?mocratie party is successful at
the November election, according
to a statement made to-day by
Governor Cpx, the Democratic
Presidential nominee.
His promise was made to a
delegation of the Governor's
neighbor farmers who called at
his home.
Restores Youth
By X-Ray, Claim
Of Austrian
Professor E. Steiuack, of
Vienna, Says It Is Not
Necessary to Transplant
Glands From Animals
Experimenting a Decade
Asserts He Discovered the
Secret Long Before Dr.
Voronoff, Paris Surgeon
By William C.' Dreher
Special Cable to The Tribune
Copyright, 1920, New York Tribune Inc.
BERLIN, July 11.?Professor Eugen
Steinach, Vienna biologist, has come
forward with a claim that he is the
real discoverer of the- scientific process
of prolonging and renewing youth. In
a book on the subject which the pro
| fessor has just published he reveals
i that his experiments on animals date
j back to 1913, and that for eight years
past .he has been demonstrating the
I value of his secret in experiments on
| men and women.
Professor Steinach's scheme is not
j eonftr?ed to the mere transplantation
; of glands from the monkey or goat to
! the human system to replace exhausted
'. organs, but it has been carried out as
; well by the use of the X-ray.
Rejuvenation of the system is what
. is needed, he explains in his book, and
j this end can be attained as satisfac
! torily with the X-ray as by the slight
| operation required to substitute a new
i gland.
Passed Experimental Stage
The professor's plans apparently
have? passed far beyond the experi?
mental stage. There is already talk
of putting the idea into actual practice
on a large scale, as the results ob?
tained are said to have been universally
satisfactory. The newspapers, which
are printing columns in praise of this
epoch-making discovery, suggest that
it has come to Austria at an hour of
crisis, when the w^r has dragged down
the health of the people and when most,
of all times, they are in need of such
a rejuvenator as this.
"Our most profound poverty," says
one newspaper, "may be relieved and
Austria restored by this discovery."
The book, just published, is the first
information to be, made public on this
subject. The results of the professor's
experiments were c-'.?.ributed to the
Vienna Academy of Sciences in 1913,
as they were -being worked out on
animals. Soon afterward Professor
Steinach began experimenting on per?
sons, finding, over a long period of
years, that he got best results in the
case of women.
Writing of the effect of the experi?
ments on animals, Dr. Holzknecht, a
Vienna professor, says:
"This treatment caused the blooming :
into youth of animals afflicted with the !
typical weaknesses of advanced age,
such as lack of appetite and loss of
hair. The animals treated grew frisky,
ate greedily and then began to gambol |
with their young and to fight their !
rivals. The discovery promises to re- |
gain the long-lost summits of life and
to add one-fourth, or longer, to the
normal duration of life."
Antedate French Experiments
The experiments on persons, which
now are in their ninth year, were be?
gun only after long tests on animals
proved satisfactory. The new field of
experiment produced similar results.
A more.youthful appearance is noted
in old men; their physical and mental
capacities revive; energy and efficiency
in business are regained and vital force
and ^oy in living are restored to their
condition before the decline set in.
The experiments of the Austrian |
claimant for the discovery of the
process antedate those made by Dr.
Serge Voronoff, Paris surgeon and
member of the French Academy, whose ?
success was proclaimed to the world a j
year ago. He had experimented over a j
period of a year or two on many ani- ;
mais and a few old men, he said,
bringing back to them the spirit and
strength of former days, A few weeks
later Dr. Leo L. Stanley, of San
Quentin Prison, Calif., put forth a
claim, insisting that his experiments
hud gone back several years.
* ?
Confirms British Offer
To Sell Ships to Germans
BERLIN, July 11.?The "Boersen
Courier's" Hamburg correspondent
claims authority to confirm th% report
that British shipowners have offered to
sell to German shipowners or the Ger?
man government a large part of the
tonnage surrendered as compensation
for the Scapa Flow sinkings.
Immediately after the conclusion of
the shipping deal British overtures, ac?
cording to the correspondent, were
made through Count Lucovitch, of the
German Legation at London, with the
approval of the British government,
including an offer to place the ships
immediately at the disposal of the Ger?
man buyers on five years' credit.
The Germans declined to accede to
the British demand that the ships fly
the British flag, whereupon the pros?
pective sellers proposed a neutral flag.
The deal involves no working agree?
ment or restrictions.
Harding Deaf
To Hays' Plea
He Tour U.S.
Chairman Presents 500
Requests for Speeches,
but Nominee Clings to
Porch Campaign Plan
Long Conference
Is Held at Marion
Penrose and Other Party
Leaders Add to Pressure
for Active Stumping
From a Staff Correspondent
MARION, Ohio, July 11.?The front
porch campaign survived another as?
sault to-day, Senator Warren G. Har?
ding clinging to his idea in the face of
j word brought from Chicago by Chair?
man Will H. Hays of the Republican
National Committee of BOO requests for
the Presidential nominee to speak at
important meetings in many states.
After Mr. Hays had breakfasted with
the Hardings, gone to church and had
luncheon with them he conferred most
of the afternoon in the headquarters
with the nominee and Harry Daugh
erty. The national committee chair?
man said none would attempt to say
what would be the campaign course in
October. But Senator Harding said:
"There has been no alteration In af?
fection or judgment for the front
porch campaign."
There is unquestionably strong pres?
sure being brought to bear in an effort
to compel Senator Harding to leave his
front pprch for a swing around the
circle. Senator Boies Penrose, of
j Pennsylvania, is strongly opposed to
the present campaign plan. Other Re?
publican leaders agree with him. But
thus far Senator Harding has given no
inkling that he purposes to change his
tactics.
Works Before Breakfast
Mr. Hays arrived from Chicago this
morning before the Hardings had
! awakened. The front door of the head
I quarters next door was unlocked, how?
ever, and Mr. Hays and his secretary
went inside to work. When Inez Mc
I Whorter had prepared the Sunday
i morning country sausage and coffee
! Mr. Hays crossed the lawn and joined
the ? Senator and Mrs. Harding at
breakfast.
The Senator and Mr. Hays had their
heads together all morning until
?church time, when, with Mrs. Harding,
they motored to Trinity Baptist Churcn,
where the Senator is a trustee. The
I Rev. T. H. McAfee delivered what the
j nominee said was a fine sermon. His
| text was taken from Luke ix, 27: "I
j tell ye of a truth, there be some stand?
ing here which shall not taste' of
death until they sec the kingdom of
God."
At the conclusion of the services
there was a reception before the pulpit
platform. The congregation greeted
the Hardings and were introduced to
Chairman Hays.
i Greeted by First Names
I Nine out of ten persons that passed
! in the reception line were greeted by
! the Hardings by their first names, and
! not a few of these l'eplied with a
? "Hello, Warren!" or "Howdy. W. G.,"
lor "How are you, Florence?" There
were scores of children, and the Senator
had a genial word and a chuck under
the chin for all of them.
Returning from church, the Hardings
and Mr. Hays found Mr. Daugherty
seated on the porch of the headquarters.
He had motored up from Columbus, his
secretary making a brave effort to
take dictation on the way. Mrs. Har?
ding joined Mr. Daugherty at once, and
in a little while the Senator and Chair?
man Hays crossed the lawn, on their
way to the Senator's office.
"Coming in, Harry?" asked the Sena?
tor.
Mr. Daugherty shook his head nega?
tively and the Senator and Mr. Hays
went indoors to continue their confer?
ence. After luncheon, however, the
three went into a conference that
lasted until late in the afternoon.
Then Mr. Hays said he had an an?
nouncement to mako. He said he
! wanted to give it out i:i typewritten
form. Turning to Senator Harding, he
said: ?
"I always tell the newspaper boys
(Continued on next pago)
Yacht Aground on
L. L Shore in Fog
Tugs Float F. R. Mayer's ?
Craft After Day Spent
in a Perilous Position'
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
NEW LONDON, Conn., July 11.?
F. R. Mayer's auxiliary schooner yacht
Undaunted ran aground this morning
at Orient Point, L. I., opposite this city.
After efforts to move the vessel by its
qwn power proved fruitless wireless
calls fo'r assistance were sent out and
the Harriet and Alert, tugs of the Scott
Wrecking Company, hauled it ? off at
4:30 this afternoon.
Besides the owner there were forty
persons aboard the Undaunted, six of
them Mr. ? Mayer's guests and thirty
four of them members of the yacht's
crew.
They were loafing along down the
Sound with Sea Gate as their destina?
tion. There was a heavy fog and be?
fore the sailing master realized that
he was in perilous waters the yacht
ran hard aground on the rocky shore
with a jar that jolted every one aboard
out of his slumber.
Wben they reached the deck and
wisps of fog began to drift away as
the morning breeze rose, jagged rocks
began to show on all sides. As. the
tide fell more and more rocks were
exposed until it seemed a miracle that
the yacht, fog-blinded as it was, could
have reached its inshore berth without
impaling itself.
The Wrecking company tugs arrived
about noon, but their skippers decided
to wait until flood tide before attempt?
ing to pull the Undaunted into deep
water. Then they accomplished the
task with little difficulty and the yacht
resumed its trip under its own power.
Its first appearance in these waters
this season was at the Yale-Harvard
regatta. Since that time it has been
cruising along the coast, going as far
south as Atlantic City.
World to EnoTAug. 49
Prophet Tells Harding
From a Staff Correspondent
MARION, Ohio, July 11.?Sen?
ator Warren G. Harding has
been warned in a letter from an
astrologist, of Orono, Me., that
both he and Governor Cox may
as well suspend their campaign
efforts now because after August
4 there isn't going to be any more
world. The letter says:
"August 4, 1920, the sun and
lhoon, Venus, Mercury, Mars,
Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune will
be on one side of the world, with
Uranus in a continuation of the
line on the other side.
"Isaiah xiii, 13, will be fulfilled
and the nations who participated
in the World.War will be sub?
merged by the Atlantic Ocean."
Regardless of what Governor
Cox may do, the Harding head?
quarters will keep open.
Union of Labor
And 48 Parties
Recommended
Joint Committee From the
Two Conventions Will
Urge the Same Platform
and Candidates for Botl
Will Make Report To-daj
Fitzpatrick Delivers Fierj
Speech, His Reference tc
Soviet Being Cheerec
CHICAGO, July 11. ?Amalgamate
of the Committee of Forty-eight ant
Labor Party of the United States witl
a common platform and common Presi
dential ticket will be recommended t?
the two conventions to-morrow, it wa,
decided to-night by their conferenc
committees.
After several hours discussion th
conferees adopted three resolution
recommending combining of the tw
groups, and then took up discussion o
a name for the new party.
The Committee of Forty-eight an
the Single Tax . conventions were i
recess over Sunday, but attended th
j Labor convention in force.
I John Fitzpatrick, president of th
Chicago Federation of Labor, a keynot
speaker, brought the convention to th
highest enthusiasm with a plea "tha
the day would come when the workin
people of the United States would ge
together and do a job such as the worl
ers of Russia have done."
The biggest demonstration of th
day was accorded this reference. Dele
gates stamped and whistled, and whe
one called for "three cheers for Sovic
Russia" they were given.
Fitzpatrick declared there was notr
ing to prevent the "hand and brai
workers taking the government out c
the hands of, not Americans, but ir
ternational financial pirates," and ac
vised all the minority groups to unit
on one ticket.
Labor Platform Applauded
In opening the convention Me
Hayes, chairman of the Labor Party
national committee, declared that "e?
ery political group assembled in th
city^ agi-ees in ' substance to the pla
form" which the Labor Party hs
formulated last November. This stat<
ment brought prolonged applause i
which delegates wearing badges of tl
Single Taxers, Forty-eighters an
other elements . attending the convei
tion joined.
The November Labor platform d?
clared for nationalization of all e
sential industries, abolition of tl
United States Senate and of injun
tion power of judges in labor di
p?tes declared for the Plumb pla
steep income taxes, world-wide, di
armament, a national budget ar
limitation of "The United States Si
preme Court's power to veto legisl
tion."
C. J. France, Seattle, who presente
the Forty-eighters' invitation to tli
labor group to join the new part
movement, told the convention the quei
tion of platform was "incidental" an
that beneath it "are the economic prii
ciples for which all of you and i
can fight."
As a name for the new part;
"Farmer-Labor" was suggested. Ii
consideration, however, was postpone
Fitzpatrick Arouses Enthusiasm
The thunder of foot stamping an
cheering punctuated the Fitzpatrick a<
dress. His speech lost all repressic
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Eugenie Dies
At 94 in Her
Native Spain
Former French Empress,
Widow of Napoleon III,
Recently Regained Sight
by Notable Operation
Visiting Nephew
At Time of Death
Forced to Flee From Paris
at Birth of Republic;
Befriended by Victoria
MADRID, July 11.-?The former Em?
press Eug?nie of France, widow oi
Napoleon III, died here this morning
She was ninety-four years old.
Death occurred shortly before ?
o'clock from acute intestinal inflamm^
tion. She passed away qulently in th<
presence only of her lady-in-waiting
Her nephew, the Duke of Alba, a
whose residence she died, was it
France.
Full imperial honors will be ac
corded at her funeral. Preparation;
are under way for the opening o
Empress Eugenie's will. The onl;
member of the iamily now In Madrid i
a niece.
Empress Eug?nie recently underwen
an operation upon her eyes, ? She ha.
completely lost the sight of one eye
and it was feared the other would be
come blind, as all oculists who had at
tended her gave her no hope of regain
ing sight.
When the Duke of Alba visited he
this spring at her villa at Cap Marti
she expressed a longing to .return one
more to Spain before she went blinc
The duke, ascertaining from the docto
that her health would perm-it the joui
ney, arranged the trip, and they lei
Marseilles for Algeciras.
Regains Sight in Spain
After spending some time at he
nephew's home in Seville and havin
visited the King? and Queen Victorii
the Empress, after spending two week
in the south, was induced by he
nephew to spend some time with hii
at his home in Madrid, and it wa
while there that the duke heard of th
wonderful cures effected by a Spanis
oculist in Barcelona. He decided t
see what could be done about his aunt
failing eyesight.
Dr. Barraquen arrived, and, afte
several examinations, decided to ope:
ate upon both eyes. No surgical ii
strument was used, but a cupping glas
was placed upon the eyes, and whe
in due time he-twithdrew it he said 1
the Empress:
"Your majesty is cured and will, s?
once more."
After two days of rest she was ah
to see and to recognize those arouri
her. She also was able to distingu?s
small objects at a distance. Her intens
joy and gratitude to the doctor wei
indescribable. She said to him:
"Thanks to you, I shall have bee
born twice in Spain."
Many Years in Exile
With the death of the Empress Ei
g?nie there closes a chapter in histoi
almost unparalleled for the heights <
its glory and the depths of its traged
The sorrow of the lonely woman
exile, bereft of husband and son, wi
respected through the many long yea
of her later life to such an extent th
much of the history of nineteenth ce
tury France has remained untold ?
only partly told until this day. Legen,
have grown up about her, and been di
sipated only to give place to other
She has been slandered, and been d
fended with spirited chivalry; her pa
in the downfall of France and the Hou
of Bonaparte has been exaggerated ai
denied, until gradually with the ma
ing of new history she dropped in
semi-oblivion, from which she emerge
at long intervals iirreports of her co
stant wanderings.
The exact measure of the r?le si
played , in the decisive events of t!
story of the Second Empire?in Italii
affairs, in the Mexican adventure, ai
in the bringing on of the war with Ge
many?will; probably never be settle
though no doubt memoirs kept back
deference to her may now be expect
to shed new light on dark places ai
disputed problems.
Certain it is, however, that she w
fitted for a throne in naught but beau
and grace and in the unexpected her
ism she displayed on the occasion
Orsini's attempt and in the chole
hospitals of Amiens in 1867: She tri
to play the most difficult game of inte
national politics, that of combining i
ligion with policy of state, and fail?
She was too much of a woman, moi
over, and especially of an imperfect
educated Spanish woman, to distingu?
between her personal likes and dislik?
her feminine intuitions and the logic
events. In France's internal politics
a critical period she blundered from o
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Bandits Raid Coney Bungalow;
Rob 15 Card Players of $4,000
Fifteen members of the Semin?le
Club were clustered around a large
table at their bungalow, 2915 West
Thirty-first Street, Coney Island, early
yesterday morning, enjoying a game of
cards, when five masked men entered,
arrned with revolvers. They departed
a few minutes later with $3,000 in cash
and rings, watches and stickpins valued
at $1,000. They left nothing behind
except some well filled ash trays, cards
and dice.
The intruders proceeded about their
business very briskly. The card game
was automatically stopped when the
bandits poked their revolvers under
the club members' noses. They lined
the fifteen men up against a wall.
With three of the bandits covering the
victims, the other two went through
their pockets. The bandits overlooked
nothing, taking every dime in sight.
One Arouses Policeman
While the pockets of the club mem?
bers were being rifted one of their
number* managed to escape from the
bungalow. He rushed to the home of
Police Corporal Jacob Levy, at 2917
West Thirty-first Street, and told Levy
what was going on in the Semin?le
bungalow. Barefoot and wearing only
his trousers, Levy rushed out his front
door just as the five masked men with
their $4,000 haul were making a geta
way in an automobile. Despite his
scanty attiro Levy commandeered an?
other car and gave chase.
At Twenty-seventh Street and Nep?
tune Avenue the bandits' car became
stalled in the soft sand. The live men
leaped out and ran. When Levy
?reached the machine he found two men
on the front seat and placed them
under arrest.7
Suspect? Held Without Bail
They said they were Herman Nadies,
twenty-two years old, of 159 East
Houston Street, Manhattan, and Leon
Sonkin, twenty-three years old, of 328
Madison Avenu?. They were held in
the Coney Island court without bail for
a hearing Wednesday.
The two men said they are chauf?
feurs, and declared they had been
hired by the five bandits to drive to
.the Semin?le Club bungalow. After
reaching the bungalow, they, said, they
had been instructed to wait. They
said they had driventhe five strangers
to Coney Island from Second Avenue,
Manhattan.
The losses ,of the individual club
members, it was said, ranged from $35
to $1,000.
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Allies Demand Armistice
For Poles Under Threat
Of War on Bolsheviki
Brother of Ex-Kaiser Imprisoned
, And Tortured by Riotous Laborers
BERLIN, July 11.?An almost incredible story of the i?l treat?
ment of the former German Emperor's brother, Prince Henry of
Prussia, by a riotous gang of field laborers is told by the "Ost Prues
sische Zeitung," which asserts that it had the information direct from
Prince Henry's family circle.
According to the informant, some time ago a gang of sixty men,
led by a private in a Hussar's uniform and wearing a big red rosette,
invaded the Hemmelmark estate, Prince Henry's Slesvig-Holstein
i country seat, on the pretext of searching for hidden arms. The in- ?
; vaders turned the place inside out, but found no arma. Then the
| leader said to the prince, "Come, Henry," whereupon Prince Henry
was made to run the gantlet, suffering innumerable kicks and blows.
Afterward h? was locked up in a jail at Berokens-Ferde, where
he was tortured nightly. He was awakened every ten minutes with :
"Get up, Henry. Turn on the light. Lie down, Henry," amid jeers
and insults from his captors.
Many other Slesvig-Hoistein land owners have been the victims
I of assault and ill treatment by armed gangs.
Imperator Is
Held All Night
In Typhus Hunt
Seventh Large Vessel De?
cayed at Quarantine in
Last Week to Permit
Close Health Inspection
Ship Owners May Act
Talk of, Ending Costly
Detention by Refusing
Passage to Immigrants
The Cunarder Imperator dropped
anchor off Quarantine at 4:30 yester?
day afternoon, and on orders from the
office of the company lay there all
night, while thousands of persons whc
had expected the great ship to dock ai
10 o'clock in the morning waited al
the pier to meet friends and relatives
She is the seventh large vessel in ?
week to have been held outside ovel
night. This is due to a great extenl
to the precautions which are being
taken by health and immigration
authorities against the ?ossible pres?
ence on board of typnus, which is
prevalent in Central Europe. Thougl
there was no illness on board the Im?
perator, many of the steerage passen?
gers were said to be without the nec?
essary bill of health from the Unitec
States Public Health Officer in theii
region.
, Physicians Are Overtaxed
The examining physicians at Quar?
antine have been forced for the pasi
fifteen days to work eighteen hours :
day because of this alleged neglect
They were up at 4 o'clock yesterday
morning trying to provide pajamas foi
the steerage passengers of the Im
perator while their clothing was be
ing fumigated. Shipping companie;
have lost thousands of dollars by hav
ing their vessels detained. It has in
convenienced thousands of passengers
Two other ships, the Presidente Wil
son and the Giuseppe Verdi, which ar
rive to-morrow and the day after, wil
meet with the same delay, it was pre
dieted by health officials.
Romolo Tritoni, Italian Consul Gen
eral at New York, who sailed two day
ago for Italy, is understood to be go
ing to draw the attention of-the Italiai
government to the necessity of com
plying with the stringent health regu
lations of this port with regard to per
sons coming from Central Europf
Several shipping companies have de
clared their intention of refusing pas
Sage to those persons whose presehc
will cause delay to'the ship at Quaran
tine.
Many Liners Held Up
Only a few days ago passengers o
the Olympic, inbound, were forced t
spend the night in the harbor. Th
Dante Aleghieri, Regina d'ltalia; Due
d'Aosta, Madonna and the Fernand
Palasciano suffered the same fat?
General Rupert Blue, former head c
the Public Health Service, is no?
abroad investigating health condition
there, and his reports are said to hav
tightened regulations here.
The Imperator was expected to pas
Ambrose Light at about 6 o'clock yes
terday morning. She ran into a fo
and was nearly ten hours late in he
arrival at Quarantine. Two bargt
were waiting there all day to remov
the steerage passengers. Custom
officials hung idly around her dock e:
pecting her to land her passengers.
The first plan was to unload the 94
steerage passengers on the two barg?
and keep them there until their quai
ters and their baggage had been fum
gated. Then, just as? the medical oft
cers were setting out for the ship, o;
ders came to remove them to Horfma
Island. This was done.
Every effort was made to hurry e?
amination of the big ship so that sh
might reach her pier. Customs officei
cleaned .up their end of the busines
The doctors were through in an hou
Then came word from the Cunai
Line that the vessel should remai
where she was over night. There wi
no use in the immigration authoriti?.
going over her by that time. So tl
376 first cabin passengers and the 4?
ctcond cabin passengers were forced 1
forego the night in New York.
Rear Admiral Harry S. Knapp, con
mander of American naval forces i
European waters, was a passenger, ?
was Lieutenant Colonel George B. M
Clellan, formel- Mayor of New York.
Other passengers were the Marqu
and Marquise Dusme and their thr<
children, Count Roger de Perigny, 1
C. Whitney, Miss Constance Drexel, ?
Philadelphia, and Mme. Minnie
Rasimi. manUgercf the Th??tre Femir
,'n Paris and the Municipal Theater
Lyons.
The Imperator left Southampton <
July 3. She will dock about 8 o'clo.
this morning.
9
Dies Shooting
Niagara Falls
In Big Barrel
Daredevil Stephens, British
Veteran, Had Oxygen
Tanks and Electric Lights
in His Strange Craft
Fragments Drift Ashore
Woman and Man Previously
Had Made Trip ; Latter Ex?
pected Failure This Time
NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., July 11.?
Charles G. Stephens, of Bristol, Eng?
land, was killed to-day when he went
over the Horseshoe Falls in a barrel.
The cask in which he made the trip,
though built of stout Russian oak
staves and bourd with steel hoops,
smashed like an eggshell on the jagged
rocks at the base of the cataract.
Pieces of the barrel were picked up
hear the bank on the Canadian side,
but Stephens's body has not been, re?
covered. River men say that it may
not come to the surface for a week or
ten days. ?
Stephens, who boasted the title of
"daredevil," was fifty-eight years old
and had a wife and eleven children in
Bristol, where he was a barber. He
served thre>e years in France with the
British army. He had planned to make
a, lecture tour of England if his trip
was successful.
Pioneer Gave Warning
Bobby Leach, who went over the
Horseshoe Falls in 1911, told Stephens
before he started that his trip would ,be
a failure., Leach predicted that the
barrel would not withstand the drop of
158 feet, but Stephens refused to be
dissuaded from the venture. Leach
was among the spectators who watched
? the start of Stephens's fatal trip.
Few knew that Stephens was to make
the trip to-day, and when the barrel
was towed out into the river ?n the
, Canadian side, two miles above the
falls, there were only a dozen on hand
to watch. It was 8:10 o'clock when
Stephens was cast adrift. Early sight?
seers on Goat Island saw the barrel
bobbing up and down in the tumbling
reaches of the upper rapids, but none
knew that it carried a man about to
defy the cataract.
Goes Over Head Foremost
Members of Stephens's party fol?
lowed the cask down stream in auto?
mobiles. In one of the cars a moving
picture operator filmed the progress
of the barrel. As the barrel drew near
the brink of the falls it seemed to
stand on end, hesitate a second or two
and then slide gracefully over the
slope, head foremost, and at a slight
angle. Its gleaming black and white
stripes could be seen until it had
fallen about half way down the face
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France May Create
Vice-Presidency
Duration of DeschaneVs
Illness Revives Talk of
Establishing New Office
PARIS, July 11.?The state of Pres?
ident Deschanel's health has revived
talk in the parliamentary lobbies of the
necessity of taking measures td meet
the possibility of a prolonged inability
of the President, through illness, to
discharge the duties of his office. Im?
mediately after the accident which be
fel the President recently it was pro?
posed to create the office of Vice-Pres
ident, which does not exist under the
French constitution, but the idea was
abandoned, as President Deschanel's
period of convalescence then seemed
likely to be short.
This hope has not been realized, how?
ever, and the parliamentarians are
again discussing the situation which
would arise if the President were
forced to remain long absent from
Paris, especially at a time when so
many important questions of foreign
policy are under discussion. If an ad
interim presidency were intrusted to a
Vice-President it would necessitate the
meeting of the National Assembly in
joint session in the Senate Chamber ac
Versailles, just as if President Descha
nel had resigned.
Among the names mentioned in the
lobby as possibilities for Vice-Presi?
dent; are those of Premier Millerand,
Leon Bourgeois, Charles Jonnart,
Raoul Peret. Georges Leygues and
General de Castelnau,
Leaders at Spa Agree to
Aid Poles, Providing
Polish Forces Remain
Within Their Frontier
Collapse of Warsaw
Army Is Reported
Germans Submit Repara?
tions Plan ; Situation
Over Coal Is Serious
By Ralph Courtney
Special Cable to The Tribu??
Copyright, 1920, New York Tribun? Ina
SPA, Belgium, July 11.?The Al?
lied leaders here to-day sent word to
the Moscow government demanding
an immediate armistice between the
Bolshevik and Polish armies.
It is confirmed officially that the
I Allies announced in the message
their decision to give the Poles mili?
tary support, unless the Bolsheviki *
agree to an armistice, under which
the Poles shall return to the legiti?
mate frontier of Poland.
War Only Alternative
If the Soviet government refuses
to accede to the Allied demand war
between Russia and the Allies will
result, with all the support possible
being given the Poles by the Brit?
ish, French and Italians.
It is understood that the boundary
of Poland referred to in the mes?
sage to Moscow is the frontier es?
tablished by the peace treaty. The
Poles will evacuase White Russia,
the Ukraine and Lithuania.
The situation of the Polish armies
is reported to be desperate. Pilz, the
Polish Minister to Prague, who is here
during the conference between the
Allied and German leaders, says frank?
ly that the outlook is exceedingly dark
and he believes that anything the
Allies can do will be too late.
Left and Right Wings Collapse
From other sources it is learned that
both the left and right wings of the
Polish front have collapsed and that
the center has been smashed by an
overwhelming number of . Russians,
many of the Poles going over to the
Soviet forces.
By 11 '?o'clock to-morrow morning It
will be decided whether the Spa con?
ference will result in a new rupture be?
tween the Allies and Germans. To-day's
meeting was an agitated one. With
Premier Lloyd George ill in bed with a
chill, Premier Millerand alone faced
a renewal of German aggression. The
German attitude was considerably firm?
er than heretofore. Hugo Stinnes, the
German coal king, indulged in another
display of agitation, and at one time
left the conference. He was pursued
by Chancellor Fehrenbach, who had a
few minutes of very earnest converst?
tion with him.
Deadlock on Coal
There was a complete disagreement
on th? question of coal tonnage. Where?
as 29,000,000 tons are required annu?
ally, the German experts say they can
only deliver 1,000,000 tons.
At the end of the meeting Stinnes
said:
"I do not think we shall yield from
out position. Will that result in a
rupture of the conference?"
"Yes," was the answer.
The French consider the coal offer
quite unacceptable, but if the Allied
invasion of the Ruhr district be con?
sidered a vital part of the question then
the conference must be adjourned or
one side give way to the other.
Point Is Vital to France
The French take the view that ff the
Germans repudiate the part, of the
treaty regarding coal, which to the
French is an essential part of the Ger?
man indemnity, there is little hope of
exacting payment except by force. Ger?
many, on the other hand, feels
strengthened by the prospect of a war
developing between the Allies and Rus?
sia. They feel that the Allies do not
want trouble with Germany and might
even require her help. ?
The Germans to-night delivered to
the Allies their indemnity plan under
the threefold head of coal, reconstruc?
tion and reparation. It does not differ
greatly from the ideas of the Allies,
but it ia reported entirely lacking in
figures. Germany wants the amount
of the indemnity fixed in such a man?
ner that the annual payments will be
increased a?s her prosperity grows. She
wants to partly pay in raw materials
and coal at first, and money later; also
manufactured articles, the Allies sup?
plying the raw materials.
On 100,000,000,000 Marks
It is reported the Germans will state
verbally the terms on which they are
willing to discuss the indemnity. The
basis will be 100,000,000,000 marks, the
minimum annual payment being one
hundred millions. From the total it
will be proposed to deduct the value
of the" deliveries of coal and other
items which,the Germans mkon to a
value of twenty billions.
At to-day's session the "Germans de?
clared if the Allies insisted on the
cocl deliveries provided for by the
treaty it would be useless to present
their reparations scheme. They say
the Allies are demanding twice the
coal capacity of Germany and one-third
of its production.
Decisive Moment for Poland
SPA, Belgium, July 11 (By The As?
sociated Press).?"This is a decisive
moment for Poland," said Ladislas
Grabski, the Polish Premier, to fifty
correspondents of all countries who
called upon him to-day by invitation.
"Our army is engaging the mobilized
forces of Russia, with a population six
times our own, an army equipped with
all the most perfected instruments of
war supplied by the Allies to the
armies of Denikine, Kolehak and Yude
nitch?armored automobiles, tanks,
machine guns and heavy artillery.
"The Bolshevik a,rmy has much more