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SATURDAY, ?ULY 17, 1920
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TWO CENTS
In Greater ?w York
THREE CENTS
Within 200 Mile?
rorn cent?
Klufffhrr?
Deportation
To Hide Story
Of Bomb Plot
Roberto Elia, Held in;
Connection With Out?
rage* Against Officials;
Here, Won't Be Tried
Authorities Clash
Over His* Case
$ew York and Massa?
chusetts Overruled in
Demands for a Trial
Roberto Elia, avowed anarchist, who
Il said to have been one of the group !
that sowed bombs over the country in
the spring of 1919, is to be deported, j
instead o' being prosecuted. He prob?
ably wit sal' for Italy at the expense
of the United States within ten days.
Harry E. Lewi?, District Attorney of
Kings County, where Elia and his com?
rade, Andrea Salsedo, printed tho attar- !
chist handbills that were" found at the j
fcene of the explosions, said last night :
that there was no likelihood of a ;
criminal charge being pressed against
Elia.
Attorney General Newton, whose
protest at the original decision to de?
port Elia, instead of prosecuting him,
brought a month's delay in his sailing,
has consented to his being deported,
according to Mr. Lewis.
Bombs Caused Two Deaths
Two deaths were caused by the
bombs that Elia's friends are said to
have planted, and if their plans had !
been successful their victims might :
have been counted by the score.'Judge
Charles C. Xott, of General Sessions, j
was one of the victims selected, and, j
although he and his household escaped j
injury, a night watchman who discov- j
.red the infernal machine was killed. 1
Attorney General Mitchell Palmer was !
another who was marked for death by
the dynamiters, but the bomb destined
:or him exploded prematurely, killing
the man who carried it.
Nine others were selected a3 victims i
:n the bomb planting of June 2, 1919,
,mong them public officials and busi
ness men of Pittsburgh. Newtonville,
Mass.; Paterson, N. J.; Koxbury, Mass.,
and Philadelphia. It is thought that
?he same gang sent the bombs of May
1, 1919, most of which were discovered
in the mails, though one blew the hand ?
.'fa maid in Senator Thomas W. Hard
wick's home, in Georgia.
Ever since his arrest. February 261
last, Elia has been the shuttlecock of
-t?te and Federal authorities. He and
his fellow anarchist, Andrea Salsedo,
were arrested by agents of Attorney
General Newton of this state, who had
been on their trail for months with de?
tectives of the staff of District Attor?
ney Nathan Tufts, of Cambridge, Mass.
They were turned over to the Federal
authorities. William J. Flynn, of the
,ocal. Department of Justice office, took
up the investigation. Salsedo was
locked up in the headquarters of the
Department of Justice, on Park Row,
;.nd was said to have made a complete
?onfession involving himself and others
m the bomb outrages of June 2, 1919,
.nd in the mailing of bombs to public
officials about a month earlier.:
?. S. Quits the Case
When ha leaped fourteen stories
'rom a window of the Department of
Justice office ?nd was killed, May 4,
the Federal authorities declared that
ne took his life in fear of the "revenge
that would be wreaked by any of the
l)oinb planters who escaped prison. But
in spite of Salsedo's "complete con?
fession" the Department of Justice
has not prosecuted anybody.
Two men connected with the case
were deported and arrangements were
made for the deportation of Elia.
The state authorities of New York
and Massachusetts protested. On June
18 Chief Investigator Simon, of At?
torney General Newton's staff, wrote
to Louis F. Post, Assistant Secretary
of Labor, in charge of the deportation
proceedings. He declared that Chief
Plynn had refused to cooperate with
him in the prosecution of Elia and had
declined to permit him to inspect the
statements; said to have been made by
Eiia and Salsedo, and asked that de?
portation be delayed.
Elia was to have sailed for Italy
June 22, but Mr. Post Immediately
granted a delay until July 22. In
granting the delay he said:
"It is not the intention of this de?
partment to permit the order of de?
portation which has been entered
against Roberto Elia to operate in such
a way as to protect him from action
under any criminal statute."
HIb Only Punishment
Notwithstanding Mr. Post's willing?
ness to cooperate in the prosecution of
Elia, notwithstanding the "complete
. confession" obtained from Salsedo by
Chief Flynn's men, and notwithstand?
ing the indignation evinced by Attor?
ney General Newton when he first
that heard Elia was to be deported,
Elia's only punishment is to be de?
portation.
The delay granted by Mr. Post ex
Pires Thursday. Attorney General
Newton has consented to deportation
?nd has not even sent the evidence
against Elia to the District Attorney
of Kin^s County, according to Mr.
Lewis, -
The r-ts in the case, which are all
lying in dusty envelopes in the
archives of the Department of Justice,
re presented here for the first time
h The Tribune.
Elia and his group had headquarters
in this city and operated in Boston.
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland
and other large cities. The New York
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'Ebert Drunky Captain
Said; Fined 100 Marks
Special Cable to T?ic Trioune
BERLIN, July 16.?L?se ma?
jest? is a much cheaper commod?
ity under a republic than it was
under Imperial Germany. At
Liepnitz an ex-captain has just
been sentenced to pay a fine of
100 marks for charging Herr
Ebert with drunkenness.
The district attorney in prose?
cuting the case demanded a two
months jail sentence for the of?
fender.
Germans Jeer
When Soldiers
Hail Tricolor
Company of Reichswehr
Troops Pass French Em?
bassy as Flag Is Hoisted,
Then Sing Own Anthem
Crowds Cry "Shame!"
Secrecy Guards Ceremony
of Apology Arranged
by Authorities in Berlin
BERLIN, July 16.?To make further
amends for the removal Wednesday of
a French flag hoisted over the French
Embassy here in honor of. Bastille Day,
a* company of Reichswehr, headed by
an officer, to-day filed past \.he embassy,
which was filled with French officers.
The soldiers turned and stood at at?
tention while the tricolor was hoisted.
Then they marched away singing
"Deutschland Ueber Alles." The crowd
and the police guards joined in the
singing.
Cries of "Shame"
In the forenoon the police cleared
the Kaiserplatz Square, where the
French Embassy is situated, and barred
the entire space between the Branden?
burg Gate and Unter den Linden as |
far as Wilhelmstrasse to civilians. j
Pending the arrival of Dr. Han- !
iel von Haimhausen and Herr Moll j
the crowds outside the cordon had j
learned of the proposed salute of the I
French flag by the German troops and ?
there were cries of "Shame!" as the!
?saluting company approached the em- i
b'assy.
Two French sailors hoisted the tri?
color over, the building. It had been
recovered when the youth who removed
it was arrested this morning at the
home of his parents in Steglitz. The
youth, whose name is Paul Karzemin
ski, is a locksmith's apprentice.
The Reichswehr saluting force had
not actually left the embassy precH?cts
when the men broke lustily into
"Deutschland ?ber Alles."
The French officers, who apparently
had been pleased with the military pre?
cision and the correctness with which
the apology had been carried out up to
that moment, seemed dumfounded.
They lingered for a moment on the
roof and portico, engaged in excited
conversation, and then disappeared into
the embassy building.
When the crowds in Unter den Lin?
den heard the troops singing there
were .vociferous "Bravos!" from the
people, who then took up the melody,
which swelled into a mighty chorus.
Civilian? Mildly Agitated
The secrecy with which the German
government arranged the ceremony of
saluting the French flag is believed
to have saved Berlin from what in?
evitably would have developed into a
serious popular outbreak.
No one knew beforehand that the
military salute was to take place and
the newspapers learned of it only just
before going to press. ' But in their
abbreviated reports they presage an
outburst of editorial indignation. This
afternoon and evening the Pariser-Platz
continued to be dotted with small
groups of wildly agitated civilians.
The French flag at sundown was still
floating from the French Embassy,
which was protected by a special party
of security police.
The Foreign Office to-night declined
to say whether the French government
! was satisfied with the apology, the
| military salute which accompanied it
! and the dismissal of two officials sup
I posed to have been guilty of neglecting
! French property.
No information has been vouch
j safc-d as to whether the French Em
! bassy will formally protest against the
! conduct of the saluting company in
! singing "Deutschland ?ber Alles," or
j because of the fact that the saluting
i party wore fatigue uniforms.
After the ceremony three French
? naval officers on leaving the embassy
j in an automobile were loudly hissed by
I the crowds.
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| Crowds Rush to Drive
To Watch Oil Blaze
Warehouse at Edgewater, N. J.,
Burns; Spectacular Fire ?
Is Seen by Many
West Siders ran to Riverside Drive
j by hundreds shortly after sunset last
! night, when the glare from Jersey
j seemed to indicate that the sun was
; thinking better of it and was about to
rise again.
They saw a building on the shore at
Edgewater, N. J.? enveloped in smoke
; and flames that spouted 100 or more
feet into the air. It was the warehouse
of the Midland Linseed Products Com
? pany.
' , In Edgewater people had little ap
' p'reciation for the spectacle and worked
L desperately to keep the fire from
i spreading to nearby buildings. The
local fire department, reinforced by ap?
paratus from Fort Lee, Palisade, Cliff
side and West New York, made no
I effort to save the building, but directed
I its attention to keeping the blaze from
j spreading to other structures.
The Hinner Moulding Mill, near by,
i caught fire several times, but each time
! was extinguished. Only one person
! was injured. Otto Meyer, a volunteer
: fireman and a contractor of Edgewater,
j hearing that some one was in the re
' pair shop attached to the warehouse,
'?? rushed mto the place through the
! flames. No one was there. Meyer was
: burned on the face and hands.
The fire was put out after a fight of
! an hour and a half. Us canse i? not
; fiowti. Officials of the company ecti
mate the loss at fioo^oo.
Allied Coal
Pact Signed
By Germans
Conference Ends With
Good Fueling Apparent
on Both Sides Despite
Pleas for Moderation
Indemnity Shares
Are Also Allotted
?52 Per Cent of Repara?
tions for France ; Britain
22, Italy 10, Belgium 8
By Ralph Courtney
Special Cable to The Tribune
'Copyright, 1920, New York Tribune Inc.)
SPA, Belgium, July 1(5. ? The Spa
conference ended to-day. The Ger?
mans signed the much disputed coal !
agreement, and it was arranged that i
two delegates from each of the Allied '
countries and two Gemians should !
meet at Geneva in two months to con- ?
sider the reparations question.
The Germans submitted* their plan
for reparations, of which Premier
Delacroix-, of Belgium, to-night said:
"The Allies consider these documents
alone insufficient to permit the con-*
ference to reach conclusions thereon."
The conference ended with entire I
good feeling on both sides. Mutual ?
compliments were exchanged and the ?
delegates shook hands all around.
Special trains have been ordered for !
the departure of both groups to?
morrow.
Pleaded for Modification
Up to the last the Germans asked !
a moderation of the Allies' demands, j
but without their former bluster, Hugo i
Stinnes, the coal king, being absent. !
The Allies refused to consider all the j
German .suggestions with regard to j
coal, except the one which had to do
with the threatened invasion of the I
Ruhr Valley. To this the Germans j
insisted positively that they could not
agree, *and the Allies consented merely'
to put the threat on record. Lloyd I
George and Millerand pointed out to
them that this clause did not concern
the Germans' action, but was the same
up the one included in the disarma- |
ment agreement.
Lloyd George is Hopeful
The outstanding feature of the con-i
ference on the 0:10 hand was the large
concession's made to the Germans, and j
? on the other hand- the definite penal
! ties outlined in case of Germany's i
[ failure to live/ up to the agreements.
Lloyd George said to-night he did j
nofbelieve that the Germans, recogniz- j
ing the fact that the Allies had en- ?
I deavored to meet them frankly on all ?
disputed points, would be false to the
! coal agreement unless influences within
! Germany, which wished the occupation
1 of the Ruhr district, should get in
j their work. He ga\*e it as his opinion
. that the Germans could and would j
j carry out the coal agreement. If they
| failed it would be because of these
1 inner forces. j
SPA, Belgium, July 16 (By The As?
sociated Press).?The German repre?
sentatives signed the coal protocol
drawn up by the Allied representatives
at 8:45 o'clock to-night, thereby set?
tling one of the most difficult questions
which have come up in the present dis?
cussion. Signatures were affixed on the
document after a four-hour session at
the Villa Fraineuse, one hour of which
was spent by the Germans in a Cabi?
net, consultation in an adjoining room.
There was a conflict over introduc
? tion in the protocol of the menace of
| occupation of additional German terri?
tory after October 15 if German coal
I deliveries were not up to the stipulated
I quantity?6,000,000 tons?by that date.
The Allies decided to drop this clause
j of the protocol below the signature
I line.
Dr. Simons told his colleagues that
this subject had not been mentioned
during his conversation with Lloyd I
George and Millerand yesterday, when a
verbal agreement virtually was reached.
! The Germans, it appears, were greatly
! annoyed to find it in the text of the
terms handing them.
Germans Object to Preamble
Then the Germans objected to the
! preamble, which declared that the de
j cisions set forth in the document had \
] been taken in common accord by the j
] Allied and German delegations. The j
Germans contended* it was hot bv com
! mon accord, but by sole will of the AI- j
! lies, that any further occupation would ?
j occur. At this juncture Dr. Fehren- ;
i bach, German Chancellor, sent for three '
! of his Cabinet colleague?, who were at I
j the German headquarters, and called a
Cabinet meeting. An hour elapsed he- \
\ fore the Chancellor and Foreign Min- j
j ister appeared at the conference room, j
I After an explanatory speech by Dr. ?
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Dry Leader Complains
Jerseyites Evade Law!
Wilson Says Liquor Is Being |
Sold Openly Over Bars and
He Purchased Some
Samuel Wilson, assistant superin
; tendent of the Anti-Saloon League of
1 New Jersey, made public yesterday a
! letter he wrote to Pierre P. Garven,
Prosecutor of Hudson County, charging
that whisky is being sold openly over
the bars in all parts of Hudson County.
Mr. Wilson stated in, his letter that
the authorities are making no conscien?
tious efforts to enforce the prohibition
law, this condition being due, he de?
clared, to the desire of the politicians
to obtain btg campaign funds from
liquor and gambling interests.
According to Mr. Wilson, the Eigh?
teenth Amendment is being violated not
. only in Hudsor County, but in Essex,
Passaic, Union. Atlantic and Camden
counties, and "prominent officers of the
national, state and local liquor associ
j atlons are among the most flagrant
; lawbreakers."
"As you know," he wrote, "I have
i rover complained unless I have the
goods. I have purchased liquor per
scnally over the bars in Jersey City
]and all other parts of Hudson County,
land I have turned over to the Federal
I authorities a mass of affidavits of such
I.purchases made by my representatfree
'arid bv r/piripUt (.;'? i .-a., of the court:'."
Wants To Be Harding's
White House Shepherd
From a Staff Correspondent
MARION, Ohio, July 16.?Sen- j
ator Harding received to-day a
bid for a government job from
one of his neighbors. Klondike !
Reece, who works on the stock !
farm of Dick Crissinger, Demo- ,
cratic chairman of the Harding j
Civic Committee, asked his em?
ployer to put in a good word for
him with the Republican nominee, j
"There's just one job I'd like,"
said Klondike. "I want to be
shepherd of them White House
sheep, if Wilson leaves any of
them,"
Harding Speech
Of Acceptance
Drafted
i
?
After Four Days' Work on i
Document Senator Turns
? Attention to Outcome of
Cox - Wilson Interview
Tries to Pacify Legion
Sends Soft Answer to
Sharp St. Louis Note;
More Progressive Pledges.
From a Staff Correspondent
MARION, Ohio, July 16.?Senator
Warren G. Harding completed to-day
the first draft of his speech of accept?
ance, which is to be delivered here on
July 22. During the last four days the
Senator has worked steadily at this
first formal campaign utterance. Now
he is looking forward with interest to
White House announcements that may j
iollow the interview between President
Wilson and Governor Cox.
The Republican nominee found time
to-day to send a soft answer to the
wrath y message from the American
Legion Memorial Committee at St.
Louis, which yesterday withdrew an in?
vitation to speak which the Senator
had already declined. This reply, ad?
dressed to Dr. L. H. Renfrew, chairman
of the memorial committee, said:
"I am genuinely pleased that no dis- i
appointment attending my necessary |
course will in any way alter or hinder,!
your plans. I am not onlv genuinely j
sorry that I cannot have the great sat
isfaction of joining in your tribute, but i
I wish you a successful program which !
will meet the highest aspirations of all i
the American Legion, and give full j
expression of St. Louis' affection and
regard for American defenders."
Incident Distresses Him
Senator Harding was sincerely dis- !
tressed because he had to decline the !
invitation to speak at St. Louis. At
Wheeling, W. Va., while he was motor- \
ing from Washington to Marion, he !
told an American Legioner who greeted
him in a hotel lobby that he was plan- '
ning to make a speech at St. Louis if
possible.
Latev some of the Senator's advisers
reminded him that it might be consid?
ered discourteous to Governor Coolidge
if he made a ?speech between the de?
liverance of his own speech of accept?
ance and that of his running mate.
For that reason the Senator decided
not to accept the St. Louis invitation.
Former Progressives in all parts of i
the country continue to send iheir
pledges of support to Senator Harding.
Among those received to-day was one
from Paul A. Ewert, of Joplin, Mo.,
who in 1912 was the head of the Pro?
gressive movement in the southwestern
part of his state.
"I am heart and soul for the ticket
as nominated," wrote Ewert: "I was
inclined to be a Johnson man, but under
the circumstances I think the party did
well in going outside of the field of
prejudice and nominating Harding and
Coolidge. They shall have my full sup?
port."
A telegram was received from Frank
T. Ellison, of Rochester, which read:
"At a meeting of the representative
body of former Progressives it was re?
solved that the best interests of the
United States demand the whole?
hearted support of the Republican
Presidential and Vice-Presidential can?
didates."
Additional Evidence of Harmony
Senator Harding, replying to the Elli?
son telegram, said: "I desire to send
my grateful appreciation of your assur?
ing message, which is but additional
evidence that the Republican party
this year is united in a great purpose |
of rescuing this country from its pr?s- j
ent deplorable condition, insuring the
return to a stable peace basis and the
establishment of a thoroughly Ameri
can policy that thinks of our own peo?
ple first. My cordial good wishes to i
each of your members."
Another pledge of support came from
Allen B. Jaynes and Albert M. Sames,
Republican National Committceman
and Republican state chairman, re?
spectively of the State of Arizona. In
reply Senator Harding said: "It will
be a great satisfaction to me next No?
vember to see your state in the Repub?
lican column. A united party and
united effort should insure this result."
Fully
I Los Angeles
Has 4 Quakes
In Single Day
Several Tremors From
10:10 A. M. to 6:13
P. M. Break Windows
and Shake Down Mortar
People Rush From
Homes to Streets
Hospitals Full of Women
and Children Who
Fainted in Excitement
| :; _
LOS ANGELES. July 16.?Four severe
earthquakes here to-day threw the city
and its suburbs into excitment, indi?
rectly caused a number of injuries to
men, women and children and slightly
damaged several buildings, chiefly old
ones, but none to a great extent.
While the shocks seemed to center in
Los Angeles, some of them were felt
more than thirty miles away, but, as in
this city, no material damage was re?
ported.
An unusually warm morning produced
from some the remark, "Good earth?
quake weather," It was said in jest,
and none was more surprised than those
who made the remark when the first
tremor came at 10:10 in the morning.
It felt much as does the sudden stop?
ping of a streetcar operated by an in?
experienced motorman, only that the
trembling produced the unpleasant sen?
sation multiplied many times.
Hysterical Excitement
Excitement, in many cases hysterical,
followed the first shock, and had hardly
been calmed when, at 1:27 in the after?
noon, came the second, followed two
minutes later by the third, and then a
fourth at 6:13. The two in the after?
noon were sharper than that ?f the
morning, and the agitation of the peo?
ple became prolonged. It was some
time afterward before it was a case of
' "business as usual."
Public places were scenes of near
panic, some people running for the
open air, some fainting:, some stopping
to pray. Many gathered at street in?
tersections waiting to see what would
happen. Others walked down the mid?
dle of the streets with watchful eyes
on the buildings. Many sought Per
shing Square, in the heart of the down?
town district, as a sanctuary.
Mortar was jarred from brick walls
and plaster from ceilings; cracks ap?
peared in some of the older structures,
a water main was broken, a few copings
and chimneys fell, part of an embank?
ment collapsed, throwing dirt and brick
into the street, and plate glass win?
dows in some of the downtown depart?
ment stores were broken.
While the excitement was at its
height rumors of horror traveled fast,
but when it had subsided there was not
one report of any extensive damage to
any establishment, while the worst
injury recorded was a broken leg, re?
ceived when a brick fell from the top
of a building and struck an elderly
man.
Panics in Jails
Perhaps the greatest clamors came
from the prisoners in the county and
city jails.
In the farmer 400 prisoners felt the
morning shock with comparative calm,
but became wildly excited at the first
of the two in the afternoon. They
yelled, shook the bars of their cells
and screamed to be taken out. The
turnkeys were trying to quiet them
when the third tremor came. The re?
sultant uproar lasted an hour.
Prisoners in the city jail were less
excited, although the building was
slightly damaged, old cracks in the
walls widening and plaster falling.
For hours the receiving hospital
maintained by the city was crowded
with women and children, most of the'.n
having fainted. Some, however, suf?
fered more serious accidents. Private
and emergency hospitals were overflow?
ing with hysteria and fainting cases.
Adding to the excitement was a fire
alarm turned in when a piece of cop?
ing fell from a building at Main and
Market streets, breaking a fire alarm
box. When the Fire Department re?
sponded some of the excited persons
brought out the ' city ambulances by
telephoning to the Police Department
that a number of persons had been
injured.
WASHINGTON, July 16.?The first j
of the earthquake tremors reported ?
from Los Angeles were recorded by
the seismograph at Georgetown Uni?
versity, the instrument indicating a
total duration of 40 minutes.
Stowaway Leaps Into Bay
Feared To Be Locked Up; Body ?
Is Not Recovered
Francesco Andretta, a stowaway on
the British steamship Tarantia, in- j
bound from Naples, was about to be I
locked up just after the vessel had ;
passed Quarantine yesterday afternoon j
when he suddenly sprang to the star- j
board railing and dived into the water, i
He did not reappear.
The Quarantine tug and a revenue
cutter failed in an attempt to rescue j
him. Andretta had been on board
seventeen days before he was di?
covered.
French Advance in Syria
To Enforce Their Mandate
LONDON (Saturday), July 17.?The
| French have begun operations in Syria, '
| moving toward Aleppo and Damascus,
| according to a report printed in "The
Times" this morning.
Advices have been received in Lon?
don, says "The Times," that the French
on Wednesday sent a twenty-four-hour ;
ultimatum to Feisal, King of Syria, :
demanding his acquiescence in the
French mandate for Syria and also in
the adoption of French as the official
language and French currency as the
currency of Syria.
On Thursday, at the expiration of !
the twenty-four hours, says "The
Times," the French opened hostilities
in two columns, one directed against
Aleppo and the other against Damascus.
According to the latest reports, the
? ?traba were renorted to have offered
.:?? rcs.ciu-co. '?he FrwcJ were -.id,
to he using eighty battalfons, includ?
ing both French and Senegalese troops.
The forces are equipped with tanks
and airplanes.
Occupy Two Stations
CAIRO, July 16.?A dispatch from
Damascus under date of Monday says
that French troops have occupied the
Maallakah and Riak stations near
Zahleh. The Syrian forces at Majde
largar are preparing to resist, the dis?
patch adds.
Bedouin chiefs have assembled at
Damascus, which is in a state of fer?
ment. The situation is described as
alarming.
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Cup Racers, Overhauled,
Face Second Test To-day;
Course Favors Shamrock
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Sea Rivals to Sail Triangular Course;
Freshening Southwest Winds Forecast
Southwest winds, light in the morning, b-ufc increasing rapidly in
the afternoon, are forecast for the second America's Cup struggle to?
day between Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock IV and the New York
Yacht Club's Resolute.
The course will be triangular, ten miles to the leg, and the first
mark probably will be a few miles off Long Branch, the second ten
miles out to sea and the finish line at Ambrose Lightship.
The challenger has one victory to her credit, and must win two
more to lift the cup. '
Tho starting signal will be raised on the committee boat Baryton
at noon, daylight saving time.
Cox Pledges
Suffrage Aid
In Tennessee
Assures Woman's Party Del?
egation He Will Give,His'
"Strength and Influence"
to Obtain Ratification
Issue Goes to Harding
Governor Says When Goal
Is Reached He Does Not
Want Reward in Votes
Special D?apatch to The Tribune
COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 16.?Pledging
his support to the cause of suffrage,
and at the same time giving suffragists
mild reproof, Governor James M. Cox
to-day assured a delegation of the Na?
tional Woman's party, representing
twelve states, that he would give "his
time, strength and influence" to pro?
cure ratification of the suffrage amend?
ment by the Legislature of Tennessee.
The Governor asked that a committee
be appointed to confer with him on
plans for best directing his efforts in
bringing final ratification about, but
urged that once the object is attained
they "turn their minds to more im?
portant things than the reward of one
man for a service he may have ren?
dered suffrage."
The Governor spoke extemporaneous?
ly after listening to nearly a dozen
spokesman for th? sixty women com?
prising v the delegation. Miss Alice
Paul, national chairman of the woman's |
party, headed the delegation. Ohio, ;
Tennessee, Louisiana, Delaware, Wash- j
ington, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and j
Minnesota were among the states large- I
ly represented.
Appreciates Governor's Action
Commenting on the Governor's state?
ment, Miss Paul said:
"We are glad that Governor Cox ap?
preciates the responsibility of carry?
ing out his party platform. His state?
ment indicates that he realizes the un?
precedented opportunity offered the
Democratic party to enfranchise the
17,000,000 women of the nation by giv?
ing the thirty-sixth suffrage state. We
shall look for immediate action."
Appointment of the committee and
its forthcoming conference with the
Governor will not take place until after
Governor Cox's return Monday from a
conference with President Wilson at
the White House Sunday. Suffragists
in the mean time are perfecting their
plans for a pilgrimage to Marion to
present the suffrage situation to Sen?
ator Warren G. Harding' in connection
with his formal notification.
Impressed by Delegation
The Governor told the delegation
'that he was "wondering if they did not
overestimate" his power and influence,
and added:
"I am deeply impressed by several
things this afternoon: First, that your
whole-hearted interest is in this cause;
second, the unselfish attitude of those
who live in states, where the women
vote and yet will be content only when
the same privilege is granted else?
where; third, you have learned some?
thing many of us men have not?and
that is to stop talking when you have
nothing worth while to say; fourth, the
gracious, temperate spirit which you
have manifested here in the face of cir?
cumstances throughout the years that
have tried your patience.
"It is unnecessary, as Mr. Rector,
of Ohio, has told you, for me to give
any assurance as to what I think about
the suffrage cause. That is known, t
find nothing in holy writ or anywhere
else which shov/s that the Almighty
ever gave man the right to say that
(Continued on pas? 3)
Czarina and Children
Reported Burned Alive
Former Courier to Empress
Tells of Her Death After
Execution of Nicholas
PARIS, July 16.?The Russian Em?
press and her children were burned
alive after the execution .of Emperor
Nicholas at Ekaterinburg, it is re?
ported in statements attributed to
Alexis Dolrovitz, formerly courier to
the Empress, published here to-day.
Dolrovitz said he made vain attempts
to save his mistress and her children.
The Empress and the children, Dolro?
vitz declared, were taken to a wood
near Ekaterinburg. Brushwood was
gathered and a huge fire made, into
which the royal victims were forced.
Every time they sought to get out of
the flames, Dolrovitz said, they were
driven back at the point of bayonets.
Tatiana, the Empress' second daugh?
ter, fled from the fire three times and
eventually fell pierced through by a
bayonet. The Empress and Alexis, heir
to the throne, clasped in close em?
brace, walked almost automatically into
? ho flames and disappeared in a whirl
of 4mokc, according to Dolrovitz.
100 Roads Join
Better Freight
Service Drive
Rai| Chiefs Meet to Open?
Campaign. to Increase ;
Efficiency ; New Rolling ;
Stock Impossible Now ?
Canada Enters Movement j
-' i
Minimum Daily Mileage
and Car Capacity Set;
One Express Co. Favored
Action to increase th. efficiency of
the transportation system of the I
United States pending improvement of
rolling stock facilities was taken yes- j
terday by the Railway Executives' As- '?
sociation at a meeting in the board !
room of the New York? New Haven & ;
! Hartford Railroad, in Grand Central |
Terminal.
More than one hundred railroad pr?s- ;
idents were present. Thomas De Witt j
Cuyler, chairman of the association, j
presided.
In" a r?solution adopted by the rail?
road men it was declared that it will be '
impossible to overcome immediately the ;
deficiency in rolling stock by increas- <
ing the number of cars and locomo- j
tives, but that more efficient use of the ;
facilities now at hand must be made. \
The meeting urged all the railroads !
to obtain the cooperation of the public
to attain the following transportation
goals:
An average daily minimum move?
ment of freight cars of not less than
thirty miles a car a day.
An average loading of thirty tons
ii car.
Reduction of bad order cars to a ,
maximum of 4 per cent of total ;
owned.
An early and substantial reduc- ;
tion in the number of locomotives !
now unfit for service.
More effective efforts to bring j
about the return of cars to the owner ?
roads.
Will Check Up Performances
In addition it was resolved that all !
railroads shall forward, to the Car Serv-j
ice Committee at Washington reports ;
that will enable a check to be kept cur- !
rently of performance under this reso- ?
lution. Arrangements will be made for
comparative compilation of such re?
ports.
The Interstate Commerce Commis?
sion is to be advised of the action
taken by the roadi.
It was pointed out after the meet?
ing that the present average daily mile?
age recorded by freight cars is 23.9.
The mileage during the war under Fed?
eral control was between 23 and 24%
miles a day.
Daniel Willard, president of the Bal?
timore & Ohio Railroad, and chairman j
of the advisory committee of nine of i
the Railway Executives' Association,'
reported that gratifying progress was !
being made to raise the entire level ?
of the railway service throughout the j
country.
It was decided to recommend to the
railroads that the express business, |
now released from government con- ?
trol, be handled by one company,
namely the American Railway Express
Company, as it was during the period
of Federal administration.
The resolution adopted, covering this
subject, reads in part:
"It is the general belief of the mem- !
bers of the association that this will
be in the public interest. As a prac?
tical question there was really no'
other alternative because of conditions
brought about by the war. Inasmuch
as certain questions of revenues of the
railroads are involved in this contract,
the general counsel of the association,
Alfred P. Thorn, was directed to sub?
mit to the Interstate Commerce Com?
mission the form of contract for its
approval. Upon such approval the as?
sociation will recommend to the mem?
ber roads a standard form of contract :
to be made between the individual j
companies and the express company." j
Among the railway chiefs present j
at the meeting was E. W. Beatty, '
president of the Canadian Pacific.
Cows Get Beastly Drunk From
Mash of Moonshine Still j
DURHAM, N. C, July 16.?John
King, a farmer living near this city,
last night found two of his cows lying
on the ground of their pasture in a
stupor, apparently suffering from some
strange malady. ,
A veterinarian was called and after
lengthy examination pronounced both
animals as merely "beastly drunk." A
search for the cause led to the discov?
ery of a big "moonshine" aWll in a se?
cluded corner of the pasture. The cows
had eaten a quantity of the mash used I
by the illicit whisky manufacturers.
1 ?
U. S. Liquor Sickens Scots
TORONTO, July 16.?Suggestion that
the "atrocious" quality of American !
whiskey sent to Scotland during the
war ha* "sickened" the Scotsmen of
liquor was made by C. J. Bell and
Rev. J. Bailey, two officers of the'
Dominion Alliartee working for prohi-1
bition in Scotland.
Many Changes Made on
Resolute and Entire Rig
Strengthened; At Noon
Yachts Go to the Line
Race Nearly Cost
Winner a Bowsprit
Investigation Shows Chal?
lenger Also Was on
the Verge of Disaster
By Jack Lawrence
With all repairs completed and
every detail of gear inspected and
reported snug and tight, the chal?
lenging Shamrock IV and the de?
fending Resolute are ready this
morning for the second act of their
$5,000,000 marine spectacle, entitled
"The America's Cup."
The prestige of both yachts suf?
fered somewhat by their showing in
the first cup race on Thursday, when
Resolute was forced to withdraw
because of a useless mainsail and
Shamrock went on alone to win a
victory that never would have been
hers but for the defender's mis?
fortune. When the American boat
ceased to be a factor in the race the
challenger was approximately three
quarters of a mile in her wake, prac?
tically out of the running.
The second race, to be sailed this
afternoon, will be a triangular af?
fair of thirty miles, with the start
and finish at Ambrose Lightship.
The course will give the sloops three
legs of ten miles each, and if the
wind holds true will see them en?
gaged in a reaching duel that should
provide plenty of exciting competi?
tion.
Many Changes on Resolute
Resolute will go to the line to-day
with a new and stronger throat ha?
yard to replace the one that snapped
on Thursday and left her in a crippled
condition. Under the direction of
Charles Francis Adams, amateur skip?
per of the defender, and Robert W.
Emmons, her managing owner, the crew
made a thorough inspection of all gear
yesterday. No detail was overlooked
from deck to truck, and when many
changes had been made and a number
of new halyards bent. Nat Herreshoft'
designer and builder of the craft, went
over her from stem lo stern and e .
pressed himself as satisfied.
While the American yacht was being
reconditioned, there was plenty of
activity on board the challenger. When
she reached her anchorage in Sandy
Hook Bay on Thursday night, after
giving the Red Hand of Ulster a pr?
liminary grip on the America's Cup. it
was found that she had also had her
troubles in navigating the flukey wind:*
that swept the windward and leeward
course of the first contest.
The stays on the challenger's heavy
bowsprit had weakened, probably as a
result of the unusual strain place!
upon them by the puffy wind and her
wet headsails. This caused the bow?
sprit to lift and the irons holding if
to the deck began to work inboard. It
is doubtful whether the spar could
have stood the added weight of a
balloon jib or a spinnaker, which cer?
tainly would have been used in the
run down the wind if it had been
necessary to pursue the flying Reso
lute. The bowsprit was probably saved
when Resolute withdrew and Captniti
Burton found that he could reduce i is
headsails and still finish within the
prescribed time limit of six hours.
New Bowsprit for Shamrock
In adtfitfon to a new bowsprit, the
British sloop had a number of halyards
replaced and other minor changes made
in her rig. When this work was com?
pleted Charles E. Nicholson, her Cos
port designer, gave the racer a search?
ing inspection and- like Herreshoff or
Resolute, said that he was satisfi??
that she was ready to go out to-day
and put a second lashing on the famous
yachting trophy.
Both Captain Burton and Mr. Nich?
olson attributed Shamrock's poo
showing on Thursday to baffling wind*
that came with the series of squail?.
Captain Burton admitted that it wan
during the second squall that Resolute
gained her greatest advantage. During
this atmospheric disturbance, he said,
the wind about the challenger shifted
almost momentarily, and at orne tim<
seemed to be coming from al? dire?
tions at once. He admitted, however,
as did Mr. Nicholson, that against tb'
head swells and head winds of Thurs?
day Resolute had proved herself the
faster boat.
It was plain last night that the after?
guards of both sloops did not look upon
Thursday's race as a real test, as tbe
fluky wind developed too much of an
element of luck. The result of the con?
test, while it has admittedly given the
challenger a heavy advantage,
provided them with little real satis?
faction.
Captain Burton said he had seen
enough of Resolute to convince him
that she was "hot stuft*" and would
be a difficult boat to head off in the
struggle for the cup.
Lip ton in Conference
Sir Thomas Lipton reached Sandy
Hook Bay yesterday afternoon in the
steam yacht Victoria, and held a con
ference with Burton, Nicholson, Claud
Hickman, ?Shamrock's navigator, and
Colonel Duncan F. D. Neill, his yacht?
ing manager. Every detail of Thurs?
day's performance was gone over, and
strategic plans laid for the second race
to-day.
Sir Thomas reiterated that he would
have preferred to have the first race
declared off than to have won the wa*
he did. It wa* ? ident that the rhaf
lenger'si ?ho\\iu?? in the opeaiqjf >u''I?