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SATURDAY. JULY 31, 1920
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TWO CENTS
In Greater New York
THREE CENT?
Within IHCl M i Ira
rOrR ?TENTS
F.lttewhera
Irish Railway
Head Slain
? In Dublin
frank Brooke, Intimate
Friend of Lord French,
Assassinated by Three
Gunmen, \\ ho Get Away
Wave of Crime
Sweeps Island
.Military Police Clash With
Sinn Feiners in the
Streets ; Other Outrages
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By Arthur S. Draper
from The Tribune's European Pureau
Coryrigh! 1020. New York Tribune Inc.
LONDON. July SO.?A series of
crimes, fright ful even for this tragic
period of Irish history when riot and
Woodshed are of hourly occurrence,
to-day shattered all hope for an im?
mediate restoration of order there.
Dispatches from Dublin state that
Frank Brooke, deputy lieutenant of
County Wicklow and chairman of
the Dublin Southeastern Railway,
was shot dead in the railway station
there this morning. The crime fol?
lowed an exciting: night in the Irish
capital, during which the military
police and the Sinn F?iners clashed
several times.
A picket of eleven policemen was
attacked by red caps and eventually
disarmed, but not until after much
firing and four soldiers had bfen
wounded.
Night Attack rn Dublin
A daring attack took place in the
crowd?.':: cent( r of Dublin to-night just
as the throngs were leaving the thea?
ters. The onslaught was cleverly
planned and quickly executed.
The murder of Brooke parallels the
killing or HcCurtain. Brooke,
arly seventy, was attacked
by three young men, who shol eight
times. G( neral Manager Cotton wit
? but he was powerless
to intervene. The murderers escaped
immediately. Brooke died instantly,
cv.e bul et penetrating the brain.
Brook?' evidently was followed fron:
? office. Part of the
panp r< nained on guard outside while
cted to do the shooting
nto the office. Cotton divec
under a ?le.-k when the firsl shot war
fired and remained Hiere until the as
r.Qiipi, The entire af?
fair lasted less than a minute. The
usailants wore no disjruise.
A woman stenographer in the nox
room had a narrow escape, a bulle
piercing the wall near her head.
Friend of Lord French
??? a close friend and one o
the Viceroy's advisers and was regard
ed r.- one of the real governors of [re
land. The only explanation of the at
tack ? . vay men who had beei
refusing to run train:
containing soldiers or munitions ha?
sel th? railway executive as ;
ta . ? : heir revenge.
] ie government's efforts to obtaii
order received another setback whei
some of :e refused to carry re
volver.; on ?lay duty, fearing that th?
v. ou Id jnvite Sinn Fei i
ring leader, who wa
. ?pension, immedi
ately
1 : i ; ? yc ste rda y i
Lime bet we? n armed civi 1 ia
oldiers were kille?
and ;?. ? jerously wounded. Aisi
two military lorries were held up an?
burned in .? mountain pass in Count'
I ?
'? ' m ier'a stal ement 1 o t h?
I - d?put?t ion, especially his re
to m ?rol iate with the Sinn F?in
1b rep:-.'?,? ! aa a rebuff to "The Free
n-H'i " overture for a true?
>' - 'ion:-.
LONDON'. July 30 I By The A oci
?ted Pre Brigadi? d General C
H, T ! ? . , commander of th?
Fcrr.i ?? area, who was i- d
ine by the Si:
ers, ):;..: escaped. He reached the Tip
pe-r.-ff-. military barracks to-day, it i
announced in Irish advices receive^
here.
General Lucas was picked up by
military lorry near Oola bctweei
Limerick and Tipperary. The lorr
was an d iter by Sinn Feinet
anel a desperate struggle ensued i
which two soldiers were killed an?
three others wounded.
On the arrival of a second lorry th
raiders decamped, and General Luca
was taken to Tipperary.
Kidnaping a Sensation
The kidnaping of General Luca
* red on .lune 27, was a ?lj>
Watic affair, and caused a profoun?
flurry in British official circles in botl
Ire-land and ? ondon. General Luca
was taken prisoner at a lone!'.' spo
som?' miles from F? rmoy by a larg
party of armed und masked men am
conveyed to an unknown destination
. A prolonged search for him was with
out result, although the country round
(Continued on paga 5)
Japanese Calls It Folly to
?ream of War With U. S
"> Former Premier Looks fo
More Protests From America,
but "Only Paper Ones"
TOKIO, July SO. Marquis Okumi
?wmer Premier, is ?united to-day b
the "J:?i Shimpo" as declaring that i
*ould be folly to dream of war be
ween .tapan and America and assert
tog such a thing to be practically im
Possible.
.Opinion? more or less bo!?l an
??atner hurtful to our sensitiveness ma
** openly ventilated in America.
??rquis Okuma said, "but ihis is du
*o the great political struggle goin
on there."
??8 former Premier continued b
"Wning the newspaper's readers tha
''aPan should be prepared to receiv
?ore protests from America, but sai
"e tnought these protests would onl
o? paper ones. All might rest assur?e
?? Marquis declared, that both Jap?
? Ameiien would harken to the voie
" "?son and justice.
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*nZ. '!S'"K columna on account of th
iry ,' Uo Guarantied" Plan. This pol
???iiSI??8 !i careful Inspection <>t th
ColaiT"l \s "" A.I. Conault the Want A?
?? 'ns >**rty for items of interest.?Adv
Allied Plan to Cross
Germany Stirs Berlin
Special Cable to The Tribune
Copyright, 1920. Now York Tribun? Inc,
BERLIN, July 30.?A storm
has been raised here by the Com?
munist and Radical Socialist
papers over the report that the
Entente, in view of the continued j
advance of the forces of the Rus
sian Soviet, will ask the. German
government to consent to the
passage through Germany of Al?
lied troops.
"Freiheit," organ of the ex?
treme Socialists, denounces the
British military authorities at i
Danzig for threatening to use
j British labor to unload munitions
for Poland from ships arriving !
there. The Communists' organ '.
\ accuses the German Foreign Min?
ister of secretly favoring Cor- i
! tnany's entry into a war against
Soviet Russia.
It is evident that a grave in?
ternal crisis would follow de
,' parture from Germany's attitude
of neutrality.
Jeweler Loftis
Is Found Dead; j
Girl With Him
Man, Also in Apartment,
Says Young Woman Had ;
Asked Him hy Phone to !
Shield Her From Insults
i
Chicago Police Puzzled j
Two Trying to Resuscitate
His Lifeless Body When
They Break In on Scene !
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CHICAGO, July 30.?Samuel A. T.
Loftis, head of the jewelry firm of ;
Loftis Brothers, died suddenly to-night,
supposedly from apolexy, but the police
ha\i* started an investigation with the
view of learning the identity of a
j young woman said to have been with
Loftis at the time of his death.
Dr. John Ekstrom, who was called
' to the Loftis apartment, told the police
he found a man named Roy Shane
and a young woman trying to resus?
citate the lifeless body. Shane re- i
fused to tell the police the girl's iden?
tity other than to admit that she was
his fianc?e.
Shane declared that the young wom
' an called him bv phone, saving Mr.
Loftis was insulting her. He rushed
to the apartment, he said, and found
Mr. Loftis dead. His fiancee told him
had suddenly dropped to the
floor, lifeless, he said.
i Police declare there were no signs
of violence in the apartment.
Rail Rate Increase
Decision Due Soon
I. ('. C Expected to Reply
to Roads Next Week;
Cut in Requests Seen
WASHINGTON, July 30. Decision
; is expected to be handed down early
| next week by the Interstate Commerce
; Commission on the applications of the
I railroads of the country for a general
increase in freight rates of approxi?
mately 37 per cent and an advance in
pa enger fares of 20 per cent.
Tho commission's decision is under-'
stood to have been sent to the printer I
to day, but it is nol thought that it
will be ready for distribution before
Monday.
Increases to be granted, il Jfe be?
lieved by railroad and shippingl"xperts
here, will approximate 35 per cent on
freigl t and about one-half cent a mile
on passenger fares.
The original requests of the carriers
filed soon after enactment of the
transportation act which provides that
the railroads shall receive a ti per cent
return on their properties, were for
ses m freight rates averaging 28
per cent. Later, however, to meet the
expenses created by the Rail?
road Labor Hoard's award increasing
ihe wages of employees by $600,000,000
a year, the roads asked for a further;
increase of '?> per cent in freight rates,
a 20 per cent raise in passenger tariff's, '
a surcharge of 20 per cent on Pullman
car transportation, a 20 per cent ad-]
vanec on excess baggage charges and ;
-, new rate on milk shipments equal to j
the freight rates granted.
Police Seize 15 Cases of
Gin and Whisky in Raid
D?etectives Descend on Italian
Kitchen ici Theater District,
Arresting Four Men
Detective of the special service di- \
vision of the Police Department seized
fifteen cases of whisky and gin last
night at the Italian Kitchen, a restau?
ran! at 107 West Forty-eighth Street,
and arrested four men who are
charged with transporting liquor with
OU ! Mill?.
The ??al rol wagon was called to take
the prisoners and the liquor to the :
West Forty-seventh Street police sta?
tion. There are three theaters in the
block where the raid was made, lt wus J
during the intermission that the patrol
wagon clattered through the Street, and i
those of the audiences who were out?
side hastened to the scene of the raid
to view another drama.
Last night Acting Police In?
spector Belton posted Sergeant Ni?
cola and half a dozen detectives in
the street. They saw four men get
out. of an automobile, enter the Italian i
Kitchen and return laden with parcels ;
which they put into the car. When
the four returned to the restaurant the j
detectives followed, revealed their j
identity and examined the parcels.
According to the police the packages)
contained gin and whisky. The four?
men were put under arrest.
Poles Ready
To Defy All
Red Demands
All Factions in Country
United in Opposing Any
Proposal Whatever Re?
garding Disarmament
Soviet Army Said
To Be Wavering
Allies Limit Terms of
Armistice ;, 4 Nations
Would Fight Russians
By Ralph Courtney
Siiccial Cable to The Tribune
Copyright, 1920, New York Tribune. Inc,
j PARIS, July 30. To-night's French
[ dispatches paint the situation in Po?
land in more hopeful colors. Reports
from French observers on the scenes
depict the Bolshevik army as being
far from the formidable antagonist
it is generally supposed to bo. Hope,
therefore, is entertained that the Poles
may be able to stop the Bolshevik
invasion by military methods alone.
This optimism remains to be con
filined by events, but the Poles evi?
dently feel themselves strong enough
to resist tho oppressive terms from the
Bolsheviki.
It is sem?-officially stated that all
Polish parties, including Socialists,
agreed categorically to refuse any Bol?
shevik demand whatever involving gen?
eral or limited disarmament, nor will
they tolerate the inclusion of Soviet
machinery of any kind in the govern?
ment of their country. Thirdly, they
will break off the negotiations if the
territorial terms are not at least as
?rood as those proposed by Lloyd
George. Fourthly, no terms will be ac?
ceptable to Poland which give the Rus?
sians access to Germany. The nature
of these sine qua non stipulations on
the part of the Poles seems to indicate
that they are inspired by the Jusserand
Anglo-French commission in Warsaw.
Reds on Alienstein Border
Meanwhile the Bolsheviki are re?
ported to have arrived in force along
the Allenstein frontier, which they,
however, are making no move to cross.
It is said that the Poles in Warsaw
are urging Jusserand to use all his in?
fluence with the United States to se?
cure American support. Hungary, it
is reponed to-day, has made a formal
offer to Poland of armed assistance
against the Soviets and is willing to
send important bodies of troops. Hun?
gary makes this offer fortified by the
knowledge that she has the sympathy
of France in her hopes for more
leniency in the terms of her treaty.
The French also find encourage?
ment from reports of diffei-enccs be?
tween the Red army commanders in the
fii ?d and the Moscow government. It is
expected that the armistice negotia?
tion* will reveal whether, as has. been
! rumored, the army has pot out of hand
and tiial it, may eventually turn on the
| Soviet r?gime. These stories appear
founded chiefly on the failure of the
army to obey wireless calls from Mos?
cow to discontinue its advance.
An optimistic view also is taken of
events in tho Caucasus, where, as a re?
sult i?f Bolshevik pillaging and the
massacre of the Musselman population,
particularly in Azerbaijan, the non
Christian elements have become violent?
ly opposed to the Bolsheviki and are ex?
pected to join the Wr?nge] forces.
Finally, the Bolshevik arm in Armenia
reported to be wavering. It: already
has abolished a,"1! Soviet institutions
from the army itself, and, according to
French r?pons, may end hy renouncing
Bolshevism and joining the anti-Soviet
! orces.
PARIS, July 30. ? The limitations
which Great Britain ami France would
put upon Soviet demands on Poland in
the arranging of an armistice are sol
forth, in a notification which has been
dispatched to the Warsaw government
by the British and French govern?
ments, it was learned to-day. Poland
requested the views o? Great Britain
and France on possible armistice
terms, and the governments at Fond?n
and Paris have notified the Polish gov
ernment that they would no. permit
Poland lo accept possible Soviet armis?
tice demands involving:
First -Whole or partial disarma?
ment of Poland.
Second?-A" change in the Polish
system of government dictated or
brought about by the Soviets.
Third?Acceptance by Poland of
a boundary line less favorable than
that provisionally drawn by Premier
Lloyd George.
Fourth -The use of Poland as a
bridgehead, in any sense, between
Germany and Russia.
As bearing on the military situation,
it develops that vast stocks of muni?
tions from the Allies are moving to?
ward Warsaw to-day from Danzig, on
the Baltic, and from Rumania and
OContinueJ on pas?: 5)
Bernhardt Writes Book
"Little idol" Said to Portray
Many Real Persons
Special ?Table to The Tribune
Copyright, 1920, Now Yorl< Tribune Inc.
PAP IS, July 30. Sarah Bernhardt,
who does not hesitate to try any of
the arts, has now written a novel, "The
Little Idol," the first installment of
which will l?e published in a Paris
newspaper Sunday.
it is raid that many true stories
?ire in the work ami that numerous
real persons are portrayed. Paris,
which relishes mysteries of this de?
scription, is eagerly awaiting the ap?
pearance of the novel.
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Turkish Heir Renounces
Right to 'Empty' Throne
CONSTANTINOPLE, July 20
(By The Associated Press).?
Prince Abdul Medjid Effendi,
*Jicir apparent to the Turkish
Throne, after conferring with
many high officials, has sent the
Sultan a letter renouncing his
right to the Sultanate and trans?
ferring the succession to Prince j
Selim EfTendi.
Prince Abdul said that as the j
rights of the Caliphate had been j
undermined and rendered empty j
by the treaty he* does not want,
to be the heir to a throne deprived !
of all its power and robbed of ter- !
ritory rightfully belonging to it.
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U. S. Searches
For Mystery
in Ponzi Coup
i Banker Merely Smiles and
Continues to Hand Out
Profits as Federal Audi?
tors Examine His Books
Is Sued for a Million
Asserts New York Bankers
Offered $10,000,000 to
Turn Over His Business
Special Dispatch to The. Tribune
BOSTON. July 30.?New troubles are
piling up for Charles Ponzi, the finan?
cial wizard, who is said to have made
more than .$9,000,000 in a few months
by dealing in international postal
coupons. The United States govern?
ment has begun an audit of the books
of the "50 per cent interest king." an
action for $1,000,000 was begun against
him to-day, and a former agent of the
Department o? Justice filed an attach?
ment against a group of the money
wizard's alleged agents.
But the dapper little man who has
them all guessing continues to smile,
nonchalantly signing thousands of dol- I
lars' worth of cheeks (all of which are
.promptly paid by his bankers) and de- I
daring, "I should worry." He. persists j
in his assertion that all investors who '
placed their money with him on a
promise of <F?0 per cent in forty-live and i
ninety days will be paid on their de- '
manu.
Announcement that Edwin L. Pride ;
& Co., Inc., certified public accountants, ;
had -beau .named by the government to i
audit Ponzi's accounts was made by '
United States District Attorney Cal- '
lagher.
District Attorney Joseph Pelletier an- !
nounced. he had dropped his investiga- >
tion into the affairs of Ponzi and would ;
l:ave nothing further to do with the ]
case unless called upon by Mr. Gal- |
lagher or Attorney General Allen for !
assistance. |
District Attorney's Statement
District Attorney Pelletier's state?
ment: reads :
"The Attorney General has notified
mo that he will take over the inves?
tigation of the Ponzi matter. Too I
many cooks spoil the broth and there I
shall be no rivalry between the Attor- |
i.ey General and me.
"His desire to take over the Ponzi :
investigation will be honored by me i
and 1 will leave to him further inves- j
tigations in the matter.
"My only thought was to protect th?
people from any possible loss, even ;
though there did not appear any evi- j
??ene?' of a criminal offense, and Mr. ?
Ponzi readily accepted my proposition!
that he suspend taking money for in?
vestment until an audit should be
made.
"If the Attorney General needs my j
assistance it is at his command at any i
time. My sole desire is to get results |
and protect the people."
?Service of writ calling for the at- I
tachment of $5.000.000 worth of real j
estate belonging to Clarence W. Bar
rcn, head of the Boston News Bureau,
is to be made to-morrow morning on j
behalf of Ponzi. The action will be
preliminary to the filing of a declara?
ron setting up alleged libel. A state
(Continiiod on page 7i) '
Miners Heed
Wilson; Call
Strike Off
Mandatory Order Will Be
Issued to Workers in
Illinois and Indiana to
Resume Work at Once
President Sends
Demand by Wire
Warns Union of Broken
Agreement ; Promises to !
Act if Walk-Out Ends
INDIANAPOLIS, July 30.?In com?
pliance with the wishes of President
Wilson, as expressed to-day in a tele,
gram to the coal miners, John L. Lewis, '
president of the United Mine Workers |
of America, will issue a mandatory j
order instructing all miners .mow on
strike in Indiana and Illinois to re?
turn to work immediately, so as to
permit the. normal operation of the
mines, it was announced at miners'
national headquarters here to-night.
The statement was issued after a
conference had reported favorably on
the President's telegram, which was re?
ceived here to-night. "I am profoundly
impressed by the President's telegram,"
tho statement said. "The suggestion
! of the President will be approved by
every right thinking and loyal member
of the United Mine Workers of
America."
WASHINGTON, .Tulv 30.?President
Wilson, through the United Mine Work?
ers of America, to-night appealed to
striking mine laborers in Illinois and
Indiana to return to work.
Inequalities in the existing wage
scale-holt! by the strike leaders to be
the cause of the walk-out which has
closed most, of the bituminous mines in
the two states?may exist, the President
said. Ile adeled that he could not rec?
ommend correction of any inequalities
until the strikers returned to their
jobs, but that when they did so he
would invite the joint scale committee
o? operators and miners to meet for the
purpose of adjusting any such inequali?
ties.
The President issued a statement in
the form of a telegram addressed to j
the United Mino Workers of America:
after he had studied a report on the
coal situation submitteel by Secretary
of Labor Wilson.
President, issues Warning
Reports of the strike of mine labor?
ers, particularly in Illinois, the Presi
elent said, had been received by him
"with a feeling- of regret and sorrow."
He declared' that her" was- distressed
not only because failure at this time to
mine coal in accordance with the terms
of the existing contract would result in
suffering during the coming winter, but
also because "the violation of the terms
of your solemn obligation impairs your
good name, destroys the confidence
which is the basis of all mutual agree?
ment and threatens the very foundation
of fair industrial relations."
Pointing out that the United Mine ?
Workers constituted the largest single
labor organization in the world, the j
President said: "No organization could,
long endure that sets up its own
strength as being superior to its
plighted faith or its duty to society at
larpe."
The President's telegram follows:
"It is with a feeling of profound re- j
gret and sorrow that 1 have learned j
that many of the members of your or?
ganization, particularly in the State
of Illinois, have engaged in a strike in |
violation of the terms of the award of
the Bituminous Coal Commission and
your agreement with the government
that the findings of the commission
would be accepted by you as final and I
binding.
Good Name Impaired
"I am distressed not only because
your action in refusing to mine coal
upon the terms which you had ac?
cepted may result in great suffering in
many households during the coming
winter and interfere with the continua?
tion of industrial and agricultural ac?
tivity, which is the basis of the pros?
perity which you in common with the
balance o? our people have been en?
joying, but also, and what is of far
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?00-Mile an Hour U. S. Plane.
aip
The Texas Wildcat, a monoplane
said to be capable of making 200 miles
an hour, was christened at Curtis:*,
Field, Mine?la, L. I., yesterday by Mrs.
S. E, J. Cox, of Texas. The new ma?
chine is one of the three American
entries that are expected to win back
for America the coveted Cordon Ben?
nett trophy.
Back of the christening ceremony,
which was preformed with the aid of
the most famous vintage of France,
there lie a real mystery and a story
of American achievement. The new
plane, which has already shattered all
American speed records, was designed
and constructed within two months
after the order was received.
Tho mystery lies in the special
racing wings, which will not be fast?
ened on the craft until it is safely on
the shores of Franc?* a day or two be?
fore the classic race begins. For the
purposes of ils trials here a set of
longer and thicker wings, offering
irrealer resistance, will be used. With
these wings the machine, has already
exceeded 180 miles an hour. Another
remarkable feature of the monoplane
consists in the unique radiators
fastened on each side of the mono?
coque body. Their description also ?3
being withheld.
So fast is the mysterious craft that
a steel tail skid constructed of leaf
spring has to be used, and the landing
ground at Roosevelt Field is being
cleared at an expense of thousands of
dollars in order that safe landings can
be made during the trials.
The speedy machine will be flown by
Roland Rohlfs, the famous altitude
flyer, and Clarence Coombs, both
among the best all-round aviators in
the country. The former isttw Curtiss
test pilot, and the latt?xp**^t pilot of
the Ordnance Enginejy^l^ Company.
The machine is being entered by
S. F. J. Cox. under the auspices of the
Aero Club of Texas. The order was
given to the Curtiss Airplane Company
two months ago, Its construction has
been materially affected owing to the
lack of information concerning the
: rules of the Gordon Bennett race this
I year. The Aero Club of America, the
official representative of the Federa?
tion A?ronautique Internationale, has
not been able to obtain these rules,
which places the American entries
? under a distinct handicap.
[ The last Gordon Bennett race was
held in France in 1913 and was won by
Maurice Provost in a Deperdussin
monoplane at an average speed of
126.59 miles an hour. The only known
J regulations for the race this year,
which is being resumed for the first
time since the war, is that it will be
held from September 27 to October 3,
over a cours?* of 300 kilometers ( lHti
miles) consisting of three legs of
sixty-two miles each.
The previous contests were as fol?
lows: 1909, won by Glenn II. Curtiss,
for America, in a Curtiss biplane,
speed, forty-three miles an hour; 1910,
won by ?.'laud" G rahanie- White, for
England in Bl?rioc monoplane, speed,
sixty-three miles an hour; 1911, won
by C. T. Weymann, for America, in a
Nieuport monoplane, speed, eighty
miles an hour; 1912, won by Jules
Vedrines, for France, in a Deperdussin
monoplane, speed, 105 miles an hour.
France has now won two consecutive
contests, and should the French entry
win this year the trophy will become
the permanent possession of that
country.
The new Texas Wildcat is approxi?
mately twenty feet over all and a little
over six feet high. Its weight is in
the neighborhood of 2,000 pounds. It
is a one seater monoplane, equipped
with a 400-horsepower Curtiss C.12
motor, which is streamlined into the
body. The propeller is of unique con
? struction ana has a spinner on the hub.
Harding Demands Cox's
League Stand; Democrats
Plan Costly Campaign
_ /t.-12. _
Speakers To Be Sent
Into All Hamlets of
Disputed Stales, Sen?
ator Harrison Declares
$10,000,000 Fund
Will Be Required
Chairman White Denies
Taking Cox Speech to
Wilson for Approval
By Carter Field
WASHINGTON, July 30.?A concen?
trated drive to push Harding off his
front porch and into a speaking con?
test was started to-day by Senator Pat
Harrison, of Mississippi, head of the
Democratic speakers' bureau, and Na?
tional Chairman George H. White, after
a conference here.
Every hamlet in every disputed state
is to be invaded, Mr. Harrison declared.
A3 Mr. White announced yesterday
that every state was debatable except
tho Solid South, and as the Democrats
expect to make particularly vigorous
fights in Kentucky and Maryland, the
number of hamlets which are to hear
the Democratic war cries from visiting
orators is staggering and should give
great comfort to the passenger agents
of the railroads.
For the moment, at least, the Demo?
cratic managers are not worrying about
the campaign fund bugaboo nor the
Kenyon committee. They are planning
I expenditures which will make the Wood
I and Lowden funds ?so shocking at the
j time to Democratic minds -look like
the proverbial shoestring.
White and Harrison both ought to
know the expenses of traveling, for
both journeyed to San Francisco, and
Mr. White had to buy a new outfit of
clothes after handing his old baggage
trustingly to a Southern Pacific porter,
who immediately disappeared.
Would Need $10,000,000
Old political managers said to-night
the kind of campaign promised by
White and Harrison would necessitate
a campaign fund at the verv least of
.$10,000,000, without, making any allow?
ance for the very vital expense of "get?
ting the. vote out" on Election Day, an
expense as to which the local political
leaders are always very insistent.
As chairman of the speakers' bureau,
Mr. Harrison intends to make a par?
ticular drive with a view to making the
Senate Democratic. With the triumph of
a Nonpartisan Leaguer over Senator
Gronna, of North Dakota, in the Re?
publican primary, for instance, he
sees a good chance by hard work in
that part of the country to win a Dem?
ocratic Senator there, as well as hold
the Democratic Senator in South Da?
kota. Both are states of magnificent
distances, and with many hamlet:?.
"We surely ought to win a Senator
ship in New York if we can get the
right man nominated against Wads
worth," continued Mr. Harrison. He
added that he had no idea who would
be put up by the New York Democracy.
White Denies Carrying Cox Speech
Chairman H. D. Flood of the Con?
gressional committee also discussed
plans for a vigorous speaking cam?
paign directed chiefly at the dection
of a Democratic House of Representa?
tives, with the national chairman.
.Mr. White took occasion to deny em?
phatically a story from Dayton that he
had brought the portion of Governor
Cox's speech dealing with the League
of Nations to Washington so that Pres?
ident Wilson coulet read it.
"1 was not hiding anything yesterday
when 1 said 1 did not think I should
see the President, and that there was
no particular reason why 1 should see
him," he said, when asked about this
story. "I am not taking any part of
the Governor's speech to the President
or to the White House for approval."
Mr. White had a chat with Joseph P.
Tumulty, secretary to President Wil?
son, at a hotel here last night, but has
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Eight Lose Lives
In Factory Fire
Six Buildings Are Swept
by Philadelphia Blaze;
Fighters Handicapped
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
PHILADELPHIA, July '?0.?Eight per?
sons were burned to death and four
injured late this afternoon when lire
which started in the Horner woman's
suit factory, at 123 North Fourth
Street, swept through six buildings,'
while firemen, handicapped by low wa?
ter pressure and bursting hose, fought
madly to check the flames.
Only two of the dead have been iden?
tified. Their bodies were removed
from the ruins about 7 o'clock. Half
an hour later a Jefferson Hospital phy- j
sician searching through the ruins on
the fourth floor of one building found
six other bodies, burned beyond rec?
ognition.
The identified dead are: Miss Gittel
Horner and Thomas Weiner. The in?
jured are Samuel Tallis, burns on face '
and hands; Max Levin, burns on i
hands; William Berger, burns on j
hands; Edward Rock, Truck Company i
-1, overcome by smoke.
The blaze was discovered at 5 p. m.,i
only a few hours after Chief Carleton j
E. Davis, of the Bureau of Water, an- !
nounced that a shortage of coal had
forced a reduction of 20,000.000 gallons
in tho water supply pumped to the !
section bounded by Broad Street, on '
the east, and Callowh?l Street, on the i
north. It was within this area that the'
tire occurred.
Besides the curtailed water supply,:
the twenty-five fire companies which j
responded to the five ularms sounded j
were handicapped by bursting hose j
lines and much of the same inefficient
fire fighting apparatus which was used
in fighting a $1,000,000 blaze In Dock
Street on Thursday.
U, S. Ship Law Called
Economic War on Japan
OSAKA, Japan, July 30 (By
! The Associated Press). ?The
! .Chamber of Commerce adopted a
? resolution to-day declaring the
I American shipping law to be eco
i nomic imperialism under which
! foreign steamers, and especially
? Japanese, are treated unfairly.
j The resolution says the law is
tantamount to a proclamation of
economic war on Japan.
Compatriot of
Note to Sail
With Mannix
Cheers Given for De Valera
When Announcement Ii
Made at Meeting ol
London Irish Society
Issue Causes Ship Wai
Firemen Threaten Strike ii
Behalf of Prelate; Cooki
Oppose His Embarkatioi
LONDON, July 30.?The chairman c
| the Irish Vigilance Society in Gres
I Britain at a meeting to-day announce
? that Archbishop Mannix, of Australi*
would be accompanied to the Britis
? Isles from the United States by an ur
j named distinguished compatriot. Th
statement brought forth cheers fc
< Eamon de Valera, "President of th
j Irish Republic," from the members c
I the society.
The chairman of the meeting adde
| that Archbishop Mannix and his con
i panion would land in a manner whic
vuuld astonish "the enemy" and cr?ai
amusing gossip for the world.
Row Breaks Out on Ship
The departure of Archbishop Mann
for Ireland on the liner Baltic to-da
! was the subject of heated debate at tl
! White Star piers last night. The ship
! officers were faced with threats by son
I of the firemen to strike unless the pre
? ate should be permitted to sail as i
honored guest, while some of the oth?
i members of the crew, notably the cool
I and stewards, said they would refuse
! work if the churchman should con
; aboard. The cooks and stewards a
' generally of English birth, the lirem?
and engine room men of Irish.
Meetings cf the members of the N
tiona! Cooks and Stewards' Union ai
: the Seamen's and Firemen's unio:
? ai'e to be held on the ship just aft
I breakfast this morning. It was sa
; that the question of whether the sh
j was to be held up by a strike th
[ would be determined.
Some of the firemen are reported
! have said last night that, if any <
| ganized effort should be made to ke
the Archbishop off the ship they wou
see that he got aboard if they had
carry him on their shoulders.
College Delegation Received
Archbishop Mannix received a call
the archi?piscopal residence here y?
terday from alumni of Maynoot.h C
lege, of which he formerly was pre
dent.
His callers represented the Maynoc
Union of America. They gave him
set of resolutions welcoming him
"an undaunted champion of civil a
religious liberties and an intrepid i
fender and fearless advocate of 1
existing republic of Ireland."
Archbishop Mannix spent the d
.with Archbishop Patrick J. Hayes,
this diocese, and will give out a sta
ment of his views at the pier to-d
He is on his way to call on the Pc
and expects to visit his mother, brotl
and sister in Ireland on the way.
The Rev. John A. Sheppard, vi<
general of the Newark diocese, g?
out a statement characterizing An
bishop Mannix as "Australia's Merci?
and saying that his exclusion fr
Great Britain would be as incredi
as denying entrance to the Belg
prelate. He expressed the hope ti
there would be a demonstration at '
pier when the Baltic sailed.
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Wife and Mother-in-Lav
Slain; Maine Man He
Boy? Five, Sees Two Worn
Shot With Rifle and
Accuses His Father
DOVER, Me., July 30.- Edward
point was arrested at Sebee to-ni
and brought, to the county jail h<
charged with the murder of his w
(?iadys, and his mother-in-law, I\
Annie Crosby Higgins, at Sebee 1
to-day.
Both women were shot with a ri
Lapoint had been separated from
wife since early in June, when o
Lapoint went to live with her r'atl
Bert Higgins, at Sebee, seven m
from Dover. Their two children
boy, five, and a girl, two, accompai
the mother.
Lapoint went to the Higgins Ik
this morning and tried to persuade
wife to return to him. According
members of the family, she refu:
and Lapoint thereupon threatened
commit suicide. He returned to
Livermore farm, took Livermore's i
and walked to the village, a mile
a half distant, where he bought s<
cartridge?.
Late this afternoon he appet
again at the Higgins home. Ilia i
and her mother and the two chile
were there, while Mrs. Lapoint's fa:
was working in the woods, some
tance away. The little boy was
able to describe coherently just v
followed, but said that his father
shot both women.
Charges Opponent Is
Committed to Wilson
Covenant, but Hopes to
Sidetrack It as Issue
Says Foreign Group
I Will Back Governor
! Financial Aid, He Asserts,
? Is Forthcoming From
International Interests
From a Ftaff Correspondent
MARION, Ohio, July 30.?Sena?
tor Warren G. Harding, in a state?
ment he issued to-day, declared that
Governor James M. Cox is "main?
taining the same attitude toward
Artick X (of the peace treaty) that
President Wilson has long main?
tained," and once more called upon
the Democratic nominee to make
clear his position on the treaty and
on the foreign policies of the Ad?
ministration.
At the same time Senator Har?
ding asserted that "powerful inter?
national interests," which are deeply
concerned in the carrying out of
President Wilson's foreign policies,
j are prepared to contribute "most lib
| erally" to the Democratic campaign
fund.
Defends Popular Fund
The Republican nominee made this
| charge as a rebuke to George White,
j the new chairman of the Democratic
j National Committee, who ridiculed
I the Republican National Committee's
[ announcement that campaign ?con
j tributions would be limited to $1,000.
! Mr. White was quoted as saying the
[ Democratic party would not Testrict
? contributions.
I Senator Harding said the Republican
j management had undertaken in all
j good faith to raise a truly popular
| campaign fund, and that they hoped
| to succeed. The Democrats, he de?
clared, proclaimed at the outset of the
?campaign that they have no intention
I of attempting such a reform.
"Front-Porch" Campaign On
Senator Harding's "front-porch*'
campaign will begin to function in
earnest to-morrow, when Senator Hard?
ing delivers his first, formal utterance
! to a visiting delegation from the neigh?
boring county of Kichland. These pil?
grims, organized as the Harding and
Coolidge Club of Kichland County, are
cominir in a special train, by automo?
biles and airplanes, and will be headed
by Editor Cappeller, of "The Mansfield
? Ohio ) News."
The nominee kept to his office to?
day working on his speech. One o?
the largest delegations that has ar?
ranged a date for its visit to the front
porch is the American Defense Society,
?which is scheduled to come to Marion
September 775. The visit was arranged
by Hoffman Nickerson, of New York.
who called on Senator Harding and
made the arrangements. It is expected
that 1,000 members of this patriotic
society will attend.
Six hundred pottery workers of East
Liverpool, Ohio, and Columbians Coun?
ty are to visit the nornim ?? August 1-.
Text of Harding's Statement
Senator Harding's statement fol
1 o ws :
"Our Democratic friends are having
difficulty getting away from the em?
barrassment incident to their candi?
date's visit to the White House ami
the subsequent announcement that h?
and the President found themselves in
entire accord.
"At the time of their conference I
addressed some, questions to the Demo?
cratic candidate, which he has not
thus far seen fit to answer. One of
them was whether in his conf?rent
with President Wilson he bad pledge?!
himself to the ratification of the treaty
and Uague without essential modifi?
cations. Another was whether Article
X had been accepted by him. Still fur?
ther, I asked whether Governor Cox
had undertaken, if elected, to renew
the demand that this country take a
mandate over Armenia. I asked.
whether Oovernor Cox had undertaken
to maintain tho Administration policy
in the Adriatic, where their policy has
already wellnigh forfeited the friend?
ship of the Italian nation, brought
Italy to the verge of revolution and
almost wrecked the establishment of
the peace. 1 asked whether Governor
Cox liad pleiltred himself to insist, ? ??
President Wilson has heretofore in?
sisted, that Thrace shall be settled m
Bulgaria de?ires, rather than as Greece
desire .
Evidence of Cox's Attitude
"In short, I asked whether th?
Democrat.o nominee has taken over
the var ?wn and unknown com
mitments of the present Administra?
tion's foreign policy in order to estab?
lish harmony between tho President
and Cu". < rnor Cox.
"None of these question? bave been
answered either by Governor Cox or by
any authorized spokesman for him,
but there is accumulating evidence as
to the Democratic attitude. Senator
Walsh, of Massachusetts, a Democrat
was in Dayton yesterday and, after a
long talk with Governor Cox, declared
that he was going to support the Gov?
ernor. According to the newspaper re?
ports, the Senator was asked about
Governor Cox's decision regarding
Article X, and Senator Walsh said that
it was possible for him to agree with
a candidate on nine out of ten issues
and still support the candidate, even
if they differed on the tenth propo?
sition.
"Thus it becomes apparent that Sen?
ator Walsh was not able to agree with
Governor Cox's view on Article X.
The only possible inference is that
Governor Cox 19 maintaining the same
attitude toward Article X that Presi?
dent Wilson has long maintained. Ap?
parently the Governor has given in?
surance to the President that, if elecu