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First to Last-the Truth: News- Editorials - Advertisements
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FRIDAY AlITmiSiT w
TWO fK.VTS
In Greater >ew York
Ttmr.K CENTS
TVIthln 200 Mile?
FOfR CENTS
Elaen-hern
Ryan Wins
Hammer Toss
At Antwerp
pails by Wide Margin
to Equal Own Record;
Matt McGrath, Injured,
Lands Fourth Place
JJav Outclassed in
L500-Meter Run
English Champion First;
U. S. Athletes Score 17
Points; Increase Lead
By Arthur S. Draper
>o The Tr\bunr
Copyright, 192 . New York Tribune Inc.
ANTWERP, Aug. 1'.'. ? America's
track and field athletes again led the
nations of the -world in the march
toward highest honors in the seventh
Olympiad, when, as a team, they ac
c anted for IT points in the two events
decided here to-day.
England's stock took a boom as a
result of taking the first two places in
(?je 1,500-meter race and first place in
the tug-of-war for a total of 16 points,
thu? displacing Sweden from third
place in '.h'1 standing of the nations.
Although Finland failed to make a
point to-day it retains second place
I j ,. while England's total
to date is 10.
rje5;p: | 'jury to his leg, .Toie
gav, the i ' nal one mile champion
of the United States, started in the
liCO meter race, which was easily!
the feature of the day, but it would
have been .ins* as well had the game
Uttl i V. ? sti rm r I aken a s i at in the
watched this race. )
The champion, who is capable of run- :
Ding even with any man in the world j
when in condition, was hopelessly out-I
classed.
Ray Takes Early Lead ? j
The i - n, Hill and Baker, '
wno finished first and second, were the!
field and won on their j
i . ring the fact that a
heavy rain was falling and the track
? and slow, Full's winning time
of 4 minute L 4-5 seconds is exception?
nel.
start Ray took the ;
'. |, w i VoKral k, ( f < V. cho-Slovakia,
? : : ; .':. I, t :: rd; Baker, fourth, and |
M. L. Shields, of Phil lelphia, rifth. In
this order they circled the track twice.
About 300 yards from the finish. Hill
swept by Ray with a beautiful burst of
tall ' - fjlishmaj) carried with him
Baker, ! tnd Vohralik, closely '
:. to : ?: h in the order named. i
Ray faded away to nothing before!
.. the tape and failed to finish
first s. Shields ca:ne down
the stretch with great speed and might
Baker, who was about a .
ack when the final sprint started,
but Ray i him and he lost his
rfoi mi nee stamps him as
middle distance run
in the world, and while Ray's
d a] pointing, one of his
of a strained tendon, was
fjr from st rong.
The only other final event decided!
to-day was ''? e 16-pound hammer throw,
h Pat Ryan, of the Loughlin
Lyceum, New York, had no difficulty;
: ? . orld's championship
with a heave of 52.855 meters, which;
equals ',::..>;; feet. The New York i>o- I
liceman was about seventeen feet shy
of ras world record ?nark, but the com?
petition was not very ke< n.
Matt McGrath Fourth
1 Lin 1, of Sweden, was second, and
?" B.i nett, of the Chicago Athletic As?
sociation, was a close third. Matt Mc
another of America's whales,
Was unable to compete in the final be?
cause of an injury to his hand, but the
rcark hi . n the trials was suffi?
cient to ?and him in fourth place.
Condil i aid hardly have been
*'orse than they wero to-day for th?
trial heats of the sprint and distance
races. The trainers are complaining
that th ' officials are running the finals
oon after the preliminaries. Those
who qualified to-day in the 10,000
roeter run must compete to-morrow,
a';i it ?a hardly likely that any records
will be broken, as the athletes will not
oe at then- best.
The men from the United States
snowed up poorly in this event, only
Fred Faller, of Boston, qualifying for
?!. The Indian Patison, E. R.
. the m "to runner from Pitts?
burgh, and George Cornetta, of the
?New York A. C, all failed to finish
weir heats. Faller came through in
lourth place in his trial.
The marvi lous Frenchman Guillemot,
winner of the 5,000 meter race yester
ca>'. turned out again and won his
Preliminary heat, finishing the long
face as fresh as if (,e had been run
? quarter of a mile. Guillemot, ;
the two Finns, Nurmi and Lumatainen,
?id the Englishman, Wilson, are the
'Continued on pago eleven)
Cat Forfeits Nine Lives,
But Saves Life of Girl
Child Suffers Broken Leg in
Landing on Tabby in Fall
From Fire Escape
A 'arge black and white cat of inde?
cent mea.is and disposition conde?
mned occasionally to respond to the
;).r"' ' f three-year-old Mary Rossi.
night the girl leaned over the
cape of her home, on the third
,B?or ol 692 Second Avenue, calling
?;;.--v: pussy! Here, pussy!"
The cat was stretched out at its ease
?Teeth- beneath the fire escape and
p ,"" ".?tice of the childish voice.
,'ar.v s mother was calling her to go to
?*d- but Mary was determined to say
Koodnij;ht to the cat first, and leaned
urther and further over the railing of
me fire escape as she called.
In her eagerness she extended her
?j% too far across the railing, lost her
Wance ami fell. Her head struck
?QUarely on the dozing cat, saving Mary
from a fracture of the skull, but snuff
'",? out all nine lives of the cat. Mary,
nose left let; was broken, was grie-v
j?I because the animal did not respond
? her caress when an ambulance sur?
don called.
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Standing of Teams
in Olympic Games
Points scored Total
yesterday, to date.
1. United States. 17 118
2. Finland .? 49
5. England. 16 40
4. Sweden . 10 36
;>. France . 1 13
6. Canada .? 7
7. South Africa. ? 7
8. Italy ...,...._ 7
0. Czecho?
slovakia .. 3 3
10. Esthonia _? ?5
11. Norway.? 3
12. New Zealand. ? 3
13. Holland . 2 2
14. Belgium. 1 1
Railroad Fare
Increase Denied
In This State
Public Service Commission
Refuses to Sanction
Raise as Authorized by
Federal Interstate Board
Reply to the Carriers
40 Per Cent Higher Freight
Charges To Bo Allowed
on Intrastate Shipments,
Subject to Suspension
From n Special Correspondent
ALBANY, Aug. 19.?Although the
Public Utilities Commission of New
Jersey has decided that it had no
power to suspend the increases either
in passenger or freight rates recently
granted to the railroads by the Inter?
state Commerce Commission, the Pub?
lic Service Commission of New York
refused to-day to permit the railroads
to charge within the state the increased
passenger rates authorized by the Fed?
eral commission.
The 40 per cent increase in freight
rates would he allowed on intra-state
shipments, the Public Service Commis?
sion announced, although it reserved
the right to suspend this increase aiso
at any time within thirty days, if facts
presented by shippers seemed to war?
rant such action.
Its dci-on was in response to ap
plications made by the railroads of the
state to file tariffs, effective August
?JC, embodyin : the rate increases grant- :
ed to the railroads by the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
Contention of Railroads
As to passenger rates within the
state, the Public Service Commission '
said that they were fixed by statute ]
and could not be raised by the com- i
mission except upon proof that they j
were insufficient to yield a fair return, i
The application made by the railroads ;
was not based upon that ground, but I
solely upon that of discrimination.
It was the contention of the rail?
roads that tme present intrastate j
rates would be unjustly discriminatory;
after the new interstate rate became j
effective and consequently would be in
violation of Section 13 of the Inter- ?
state Commerce law as amended by the ?
transportation act of last winter.
This act declares that when rates arel
found unreasonable as between per-'
sons or localities in intrastate com-!
merce or between interstate and for- ?
eign commerce the Interstate Com- ?
m?rce Commission shall fix the rate, |
which must be observed by carriers
regardless of state laws or authority.
In this state laws limit steam rail?
roads more than forty miles in length
to a passenger rate of three cents a
mile or less. An arbitrary passenger
rate of two cents a mile is fixed for
the New York Central Railroad be?
tween Albany and Buffalo and the
statutory rate is two cents a mile al.--o
when mileage books are issued.
The passenger rate allowed by the
Interstate Commerce Commission is
;;.f> cents a mile. f
Commission's Ruling
"ft is not claimed," said the commis?
sion, "that the present rates are un?
justly discriminatory or unduly pref?
erential as between points wholly
within the State of New York. The
(Continued on pane four)
Sam uelM.Rooseveli
Drops Dead in Clu b
Was Noted Portrait Paint
er and Second Cousin
the Late President
of
Samuel Montgomery Roosevelt, of 44
West Seventy-seventh Street, a por?
trait painter of note and a second
cousin of the late Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt, dropped dead last night in
the Knickerbocker Club, Sixty-second
Street and Fifth Avenue. He was walk?
ing down a staircase when he col?
lapsed. Several club members saw him
fall, carried him to a sofa and sum?
moned physicians. I?r. Louis F. San
man, of 26 East Sixty-second Street,
who was the first to arrive, said Mr.
Roosevelt died instantly of hemor?
rhage of the brain.
Mr. Roosevelt was sixty-four years
old. He was born in this city and
studied at the Art Students' League
here. Later he was sent to Baris,
where he took up painting under Ben
?iniin Constant. His education abroad
completed, Mr. Roosevelt returned to
this country and in . 1878 went to a
ranch in Colorado.
Among the portraits he painted are
those of Theodore Roosevelt, Bishop
.lames H. Darlington. Oliver Belmont,
H?dson Maxim and the Karl of Kin
tore. He numbered among his friends
Sargent, Whistler and other great con?
temporary artists.
Mr. Roosevelt was president of the
National Association of Portrait Paint?
ers and was a member of the Knicker?
bocker, Lambs, Manhattan, New York I
Yacht, Tuxedo, Larchmont Yacht and!
the Fencers clubs. He was awarded j
the Legion of Honor in 1914.
In 1887 in Baltimore, Md., he mar- !
ried Augusta K. Shoemaker, daughter
of Samuel Shoemaker, vice-president of:
the Adams Expresa Company and a
descendant of the first Mayor of Phila?
delphia. Mr*. Roosevelt survives him. i
They had io children.
Antis Charge
Bribe Offer
In Tennessee
Suffrage Foes Publish
Affidavits Alleging
Tender of $10,000 to
Legislator Was Heard
Grand Jury Begins
Corruption Inquiry
Final Ratification Fight
Due To-day; Speaker to
Move Reconsideration
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
NASHVILLE, Tonn., Aug. 19.?The
final fight to nullify Tennessee's rati?
fication of the Federal woman suffrage
amendment, which yesterday provided
the necessary thirty-sixth state, is ex?
pected to-morrow or Saturday.
It is understood that Speaker Seth
Walker of the House, leader of the
antis, will move reconsideration to?
morrow. If he does not, suffrage lead?
ers will force adjournment to Satur?
day, then bring up the motion to re?
consider themselves and table it. It
takes a two-thirds vote to take it from
the table.
Grand Jury Inquiry Begun
At a mass meeting of suffrage op?
ponents to-nighu Speaker Walker an?
nounced that forty-seven members of
the House had signed pledges to vote
for reconsideration. In the test vote
on ratification the poll was 49 to 47.
Therefore the forty-seven would not be
enough to overturn the ratification, but
Speaker Walker announced he would
obtain more pledges to-morrow. The
mass meeting was held to plan the
light for reconsideration.
The antis to-day publisl d affidavits
charging that one representative who
voted for suffrage had been unduly in?
fluenced, while the suffragist3 made
charges of corruption against the
lobby of opponents of ratification. A
grand jury inquiry into the charges
against the lobby was begun..
In the opinion of Frank M. Thomp- j
son. Attorney General of the state, ?
the ratification is a valid and complete!
act and cannot be reconsidered. Mr.
Thompson takes the position thai if
is the exercise of a political power,
as is the election of a United States
Senator, and having once been used
cannot be undone.
Judge J. 1). B. Debow ordered the
Davidson County grand jury to inves?
tigate the charges against the suffrage
opponents. In his charge to the jury
he said:
"It has been and is currently re?
ported and is being claimed by some
of the friends and advocates support?
ing the ratification of the proposed
Federal Amendment thai forces of cor?
ruption and representatives of special
interests have come into this state
from beyond our borders, and that
lobbyists, or, in any event, individuals
bearing the reputation of lobbyists,
have been and are at present in the
city and county invading and infesting
the rooms and halls of our State Capi?
tol and the lobbies and public assem?
bling places in our hotels and other
places in the county."
He therefore "specially and emphat?
ically charged" the grand jury to be?
gin a searching inquiry.
Burn Defends Vote
As soon as the House convened to?
day Representative Harry Burn, on a
question of personal privilege, made a
statement about his vote. He ?.aid :
"I desire to resent in the name of
honesty and justice the veiled insinua?
tion and accusation regarding my vote
en the suffrage amendment, as indi?
cated by certain statesmen, and it is
my sincere belief that those reespon
sible for their existence know there is
not a scintilla of truth in them.
"1 know they are false, and I feel
that my association among you has
enabled you to know me well enough ;
unanimously to join me in resenting
same.
"I want to take this opportunity to
state that 1 changed my vote in favor
of ratification because:
"First?1 believe in full suffrage as a
right.
"Second?I believed we had a moral j
and legal right to ratify.
"Third 1 know that a mother's ad-|
vice is always safest for her son to |
follow, and my mother wanted me to j
vote for ratification.
"Fourth- I appreciated the fact that
an opportunity such as seldom comes
to mortal man?to free 17,000,000 j
women from political slavery ? was
mine.
"Fifth?I desired that my party in
both state and nation might say that it |
vas a Republican from the mountains
of Fast Tennessee, the purest Anglo
Saxon section in the world, who made j
national woman suffrage possible at |
this date, not for any personal glory, j
but for the glory of his party."
As soon as the session was over yes- |
terday leading antis assailed Burn.
They got two men to make affidavits
that they had heard Representative j
Hanover, suffrage floor leader, in a ?
talk with Burn immediately before the ?
vote, say: "It would be worth $10,000
to you."
Charges Dropped
The antis planned to prepare affi- I
davits to spring in the House this
morning, but they played into the suf- j
fragists' hands. A publisher drafted :
the charges which he wanted put into \
affidavits. He went to the Stahlman
Building. In a room there he saw a
light burning and a man working at
a typewriter.
"Will you take ?n affidavit?" he de
(Cantinufld on p?9e thrw)
Mountain Top Falls;
Buries Town ; Kills 10
MANILA, P. I., Tuesday,
Aug. 17.?Collapse of a mountain
top on this island in a recent
storm buried an entire Igorrote
village under hundreds of feet of
earth and killed seventy natives,
according: to* official advices re?
ceived here to-day. The village
was within two hundred miles of
the city of Manila.
The top slid down upon the vil?
lage at midnight. No bodies have
been recovered.
- " a
Senate Aid
Is Welcomed
By Harding
Autocratic, Personal Rule
Must Cease and Upper
House Have Voice in
Nation's Policy, He Says
Derides Record
Of Democrats
Return to Constitution as
Wholesome Change for
U. S., Candidate Urges
From a Htafl Correspondent
MARION, Ohio, Aug. 19.?In the most
vigorous fighting speech that he has
made since his acceptance of the Re?
publican nomination, Senator Harding
to-day, before members of the Ohio
General Assembly, attacked autocratic.
: personal government in this country,
defended the United States Senate and
derided the Democratic cluims of a pro?
gressive record in Ohio.
Senator Harding commented on oppo?
sition cartoons, editorials and speeches
that carried the suggestion that a Re?
publican President ''proposes to permit
the Senate to have some say in deter?
mining the policy of government."
"1 gladly proclaim all these sugges?
tions to be literally correct," the Sena?
tor said slowly, emphasizing every
word. "I had rather have the counsel
of the Senate than all the political
bosses of any party in America."
President's Duty Outlined
Voicing his conception of the duty
and responsibility of the Presidential
office, he asserted:
"The particular task of the Repub?
lican parly is to appeal to the confi?
dence of the people of this Republic
and to assure them that if we are re?
turned to power we mean to restore
the ex>-reise of the fullness of rights
to the various branches of the govern?
ment, and not make America the pawn
of an individual or the plaything of
a party, or the plunder of the prof?
iteers who were developed under the
rule of that par,y which now inveighs
most loudly against them."
The Senator said he wanted a re?
sumption of representative popular
government in fact, not merely in
name. He spoke in contempt of the
"shouting Democratic progressives"
and their cry of the "new freedom."
"There has been a fevered tendency
of humanity in recent years complete?
ly to alter everything that has gone
before," he declared. "We had a period
of popular resentment of the existence
of our ?ourl.s, and for a time there
was the suggestion that we should
submit their decisions to popular sanc?
tion, else they should not abide.
"There is not Very much choice be?
tween venomous assaults on the integ?
rity of the courts and the momentary
clamor about eliminating the Senate
from responsibility in Federal govern?
ment.
"1 do not know whether the idea is
one imported from the peace council
of Paris or whether it is a reflex of the
mob mentality which has broken out
in revolution in various places in Eu- ;
rope. Our business is to hold America
stable."
The great mass of Americans, the
Senator thinks, merely want the pros- '
ervation of their liberties, the as?
surance of tranquillity and a fari
chance amid conditions which promise
that men may achieve and be rewarded
as they merit.
Puts Faith in Ohio
"No one worth while in America,"
he said, "wants the adoption of any?
thing approximating the rub; of ruin
in Russia or the impractical things of
the well-meaning dreamer at home."
The Senator, from his porch, was
presented to the legislators, most of
them Republicans, by Ralph D. Cole,
who recently was defeated for the
gubernatorial nomination, but who will
take the stump for Harding and the'
state ticket. Ohio, -he said, .vas the
solar center of political activity. Ohio
and Virginia, he declared, were the
great mother states of Presidents.
"And Ohio never produced a Demo- j
cratic President," he said, "and never
will."
Senator Harding's speech in part fol?
lows :
"Much is said from time to time con?
cerning the progressive, policies of the
State of Ohio, and very frequently
credit has been unduly claimed by the
executive who happened to be in power
at the time the reforms were regis?
tered. As a mere matter of justice!
the fact ought to be stated that most
of the reforms have come through the
leadership of House and Senate.
"A Republican general assembly,
with an executive quite without sym?
pathy with its general program, per?
fected the workmen's compensation act
and has given to the workmen of the |
(Continued on pago three)
Boy Robbers Dig Up $100,000
Loot Hidden in Vacant Lots
?.
Three downhearted youths-who un?
til yesterday noon were care-free bur?
glars plundering houses by the score in
the Flatbush section of Brooklyn went
on a treasure hunt yesterday afternoon
with detectives from the Parkville po?
lice station, Brooklyn.
They led their captors to the dreary
expanse of va*ant lots surrounding the
Convent of the Precious Blood, at
Forty-ninth Street and Fort Hamilton
Avenue, Brooklyn, and dug like wood
chucks with their hands at the roots
of bush after bush.
Watches, stickpins, earrings, brace?
lets and brooches, diamonds, rubies and
emeralds, together with a glittering ar?
ray of silver, were unearthed.
The police declare that they recov?
ered, articles stolen in a bout fifty
burglaries and worth almost $100,000.
The prisoners said that thev were
George Pasquale Damico. eighteen
years old, of 279 Dean Street: James A.
Reid. seventeen, of 554 Forty-eighth
Street, and Christian Gabrielson, six?
teen, of *? 12 Fifty-second Street; all of
Brooklyn.
A gardener in an adjoining yard saw
them enter the grounds about Dr. M. P.
Burrell's home, 1409 Albemare Road,
about noon yesterday. So numerous
were the burglaries that had been dis?
covered that the gardener was on the
alert, and rr.n for the police. He fell
in with Patrolmen Burton and Fink and j
! led them to Dr. Burtvll's home.
Burton found Damico in a closet on '
, the second floor. The other two man- i
aged to get out of the house and fled, !
i pursued by Fink. The patrolman fired ;
i several shots. He was joined by many !
j able-bodied men in the neighborhood, |
! and they drove the fugitives into the .
j arms of Detectives Murphy and Geisler. '
Each of the prisoners, the police :
say, carried an automatic pistol, nnd !
the charge of violation of the Sullivan
[ law was added to that of burglary
against their names at the Parkville |
I police station. According to the po- j
l lice, the boys said that during the day
they had hroken into the nomes of!
James A. Nelson, 1-11 Argyle Road", a
Mr. Dakins, 120?; Albemarle Road; M.
F. Tompkins, 135 Argyle Road; Dr.'
C. H. Whitcomb, 136 Argyle Road, and :
a Mr. Joffe, 1 fib' Westminster Road.1
They had tried, it is said, to get into
198 Rugby Road, but had failed.
The police considered it. a fair day's I
work for young fellows, especially !
when they viewed the havoc wrought j
in some of the houses. At Dr. Whit
comb's the burglars had helped them- j
selves to liquor, cigars and canned ?
goods, and had used a pickax, a spade,j
I a gasoline torch and various other tools j
in a vain attempt to hatter open a safe.
The only houses which the prisoners
are said to recall having robbed
Wednesday were those or William A.
Porter, at 1700 Ditmas Avenue, and a j
Mr. Doehler, at 1712 Ditmas Avenue.
Poles Take 10,00
Reds' Retreat Ti
Warsaw Rei
0 Prisoners,
urns to Panic;
"uses to Disarm
<?
Peace Delegates Reject
Conditions of Soviet
Unless Russian Army
Also Lays Down Arms
Parley Broken Off,
Moscow Reports
Reds Announce Readiness
to Quit if Aggressive
Policy Is Abandoned
LONDON, Aug. 19 (By The Asso?
ciated Press).?The Polish delegates at
the Minsk conference have refused to
?accept a peace condition advanced by
the Soviet for the disarmament of the!
Polish army unless the Russians them- I
selves disarm, says a wireless dispatch |
from Berlin, quoting h report received |
from Minsk.
[One of the conditions on which the ?
Russian Soviet government announced !
it would insist as a preliminary to !
granting an armistice was disarma?
ment on the part of the Poles. This l
was one of the terms which Premier
?Lloyd George stated Great Britain and
Italy had agreed to permit Russia toi
Impose on Poland without bringing1
about intervention on their part.]
The armistice negotiations were not I
j continued Wednesday, as agreed, owing j
to the fault of the Polish delegation,
; according to a message dispatched from j
! Moscow Wednesday by George Tchi
! tcherin, Soviet Foreign Minister, to j
j Leo Kameneff, the Soviet representa- i
[ five in London.
Soviet Minister's Message
M. Tchitcherin's message follows:
"Yesterday, at the first sitting- of;
the Minsk conference, the Russo
Ukrainian delegates had insisted that
the second sitting should occur to-day '
and should not he delayed until the j
19th, as the Polish delegation desired.;
Nevertheless, through the fault of the;
Polish delegation to-day the sitting did ?
not. occur. The Russo-Ukrainian dele?
gation sent, through its secretary, an
official protest to the Polish delega?
tion."
MOSCOW, Aug. 19 (By The Asso?
ciated Press). -"We are not conquer- j
ors and shall evacuate Polish territory |
immediately Poland gives us guaran- I
tees that the Polish republic has aban- j
doiied its aggressive policy and is re- I
solved to commence peaceful con- I
structivc work."
That was one of the statements made
by M. Danishevsky, chairman of the !
Soviet armistice delegation at the |
opening of the Russo-Polish conference I
at Minsk, according to details of his i
speech just received here.
Desire Friendly Relations
"Soviet Russia and Ukraine," M. !
Danishevsky declared, "are regarding
with full sincerity and a brotherly feel?
ing of solidarity the workers and
peasants of Poland, and desire only one
thing?restoration with Poland of solid,
friendly and neighborly relations."
After going into details concerning
the attitude of his country, M. Dan?
ishevsky continued:
"We consider that the representa?
tives of the Polish government have
appeared here ready to abandon theirj
former policy of aggression, and that I
the Polish government will afford the
Polish people the possibility of enter?
ing into peaceful constructive work
and cease senseless bloodshed."
Spectator Falls Dying
As Ruth Makes Home Run
Theodore Stiirn Collapses Af?
ter Cheering Yankee Hitter
at Polo (?rounds
Theodore Stum, of Bellerose, L. [.,
jumped up and began cheering and
waving his hat yesterday when Babe
Ruth hit the ball into the bleachers in
the Yankee-Cleveland game at the Polo
Grounds and started on his forty-third
home run.
As tiie runner crossed the home plate
Sturn collapsed in the box that he was
occupying with friends. They tried to
revive him, but were unsuccessful. An
ambulance surgeon who was called
found that he was dead. Heart disease
was the cause of his death, tin? physi?
cian thought.
Mr. Stum was thirty-nine years old.
He was manager of the New Yo;k of?
fice of the Toledo Steel Company, at
?l Chambers Street. Relatives in the
Bronx took charge of his body.
Trotzky on Secret Trip to Frontier
To Negotiate With German Officers
LONDON, Aug. 19.?A dispatch to The London Times from Danzig
says Leon Trotzky, the Bolsheviki Minister of War, arrived to-day at
Prosken, on the East Prussian frontier, about ten miles southeast of
Lyck, secretly, from Bialystok to negotiate political and strategic ques?
tions with German staff officers. A preliminary conference of Soviet
and German officers occurred on August 12 in East Prussia.
The dispatch adds that the Danzig Constitutional Assembly, in
the absence of its Polish members, and against a vote of the Independent
Socialists, has passed a resolution demanding powers for the declara?
tion of neutrality in the Russo-Polish war.
It is asserted by the correspondent that German volunteers from
East Prussia are forming an army near Vilna to march ostensibly as
a revolutionary army into East Prussia and bring about joint action by
East Prussia and the Soviets against Poland.
If Trotzky has gone to Prosken he has unexpectedly left Minsk,
where Polish and Russian Soviet delegates are negotiating in an effort
to agree upon armistice terms.
Since the Reds reached the Polish Baltic corridor there have been
many reports that the Moscow government intended to seek the restora?
tion of former East Prussian territory to Germany and to effect an
alliance with Berlin.
Wilson Back at
Normal. Weight
Of 179 Pounds
_i_
?Program of Calisthenics for
Exercising Left Arm and
Climbing of Stairs Are
An His Daily Routine
Greatly Aged by Illness
Arises Each* Morning at 7
and Always Retires Early;
Works Only Three Hours
From The Tribune's Wcishinyton Bureau
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.?Gradual
improvement in the condition of Presi?
dent Wilson, is seem in the au?
thorized statement from Dr. Cary T.
Grayson, the President's physician, to?
day that Mr. Wilson is again back to
his normal weight of 179 pounds.
Dr. Grayson would not admit that he
was wholly satisfied with the progress
made by the White House patient,
though he professed gratification at the
improvement noticeable in the Presi?
dent.
President's Daily Program
In an effort to accelerate the recov?
ery of Mr. Wilson, Dr. Grayson has pre?
scribed a daily program of calisthen?
ics for the President. According to Dr.
Grayson, these are some of the things
President Wilson does in the course of
a normal day at the White House:
Arises at 7 o'clock each morning.
Exercises his left arm by extending
and withdrawing it.
Climbs stairs with a cane to exercise
his leg muscles.
Shaves himself sometimes with a
safety razor.
Hats a hearty breakfast at 8 o'clock.
Reads the headlines of the morning
papers.
Promptly at 9 o'clock begins dispos?
ing of official work, correspondence
and administrative duties.
Works continuously for three hours |
and does not like to be interrupted
during that time.
Dictates rapidly and frequently
writes shorthand notes of what he
wants done.
Uses an indelible pencil to sign most
letters to departmental officials.
Heads to Himself an Hour
After finishing the morning routine,
reads until lunch time on the south
portico of the White House. The
President reads to himself one hour.
Rests after luncheon.
Late in the afternoon takes a motor
ride.
Almost daily he sees a moving pic?
ture in the East Room of the White!
House. Likes "wild and wooly" West?
ern stuff. William S. Hart, Douglas
Fairbanks and Charles Ray are his
favorites.
Retires early.
While President Wilson has made:
strides toward recovery that are re- I
garded as unusual for a man of his I
years, his illness of eleven months I
has told heavily on him. Persons who |
knew him before his physical break- ?
down and who see him riding along'
t.he streets of JVashin<rton are struck i
instantly by the whiteness of his hair!
and other evidences of age.
Wrangel Recognized by
4 More Cossack Tribes
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.?
General Wrangel, anti-Soviet
leader, has been recognized by
four more Cossack tribes, those
occupying the southernmost part
of European Russia, as the head
of the Russian government, with
full military and diplomatic pow?
ers, according to a dispatch re?
ceived to-day in official circles.
The Dons, Kubans, Tereks and
Astrakhans signed a treaty of
recognition, the Dons, however,
reserving the right to control
their internal affairs.
There are ten Cossack tribes in
Russia.
r
United Ireland
Prepares Reply
To Government
Moderation To Be Keynote
of Conference on Tuesday
When Committee to Meet
Premier Will Be ISamed
All Classes to Attend
Leaders Hold Followers in
Check to Give Peace
Move Chance of Success
By Frank Getty
I From The Tribune's European Bureau
Copyright, 1920, New York Tribune Inc.
LONDON, Aug. 19.?Ireland's answer
to Premier Lloyd George's challenge,
"Show me some one who can speak for
Ireland," is being prepared. Within a
few days a new and important step
toward solution of the Irish problem
will be taken. Moderation -which, it is
charged, always, hitherto, has been
lacking in representadora to the Brit?
ish government from the various Irish
factions?will be a keynote of a con- i
ference Tuesday which will be attend?
ed by peers, officials, magistrates and
business men from al! parts of Ireland.
Loyalists, as well as republicans, will
meet in Dublin to consider the ques?
tion of Home Rule on dominion lines
and appoint a really representative
committee to wait on the British Pre?
mier.
Two Strikes Threatened
Irish history of the last few months
has shown that any undue optimism
over the outcome of such a promising
event as Tuesday's conference is likely
to be rudely shattered by atrocious
murders on the one hand or extreme
coercive measures on the other, but the
republican leaders are Tinown to be
making every effort to hold their fol?
lowers in check, so as to give this
latest and most important of all at?
tempts to establish peace a fair chance
of success.
Meanwhile, two important strikes
threatened?one in Belfast, where the
executives of the Joiners' Society in
the shipyards presented an ultimatum
demanding the reinstatement of ex?
pelled Catholic workers; the other in
Cork, where a general strike is likely j
in an attempt to enforce release of
hunger strikers.
A general withdrawal of labor in ;
Belfast is forecast as a weapon to I
force employers to reinstate discharged |
Nationalists.
Forcible Feeding Hinted At
The hunger strikers in the Cork jail j
are reported to be in a weakened con- '
dition and forcible feeding has been !
hinted at. Chief Clerk Connelly, of
Dublin Castle, was discharged to-day
after forty years' service, because hu
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Lipton9atSingSing9
Gets Big Welcome
i
Prisoners Give SirThomas
Testimonial and Say He
?s a "Good Loser" \
OSSINING, Aug. 19.- Sing Sing's j
1,200 prisoners gave Sir Thomas Lipton, !
the yachtsman, a rousing welcome to
day when he visited the old prison and ?
was finger printed and "mugged" In
the rogues' gallery.
Sir Thomas was the guest of Leon
; Weinstock, vice-president of the State
' Prison Commission. He went through 1
the institution with Commissioner
? Weinstock. Warden Laws, Chaplain
; William E. Cashin and Dr. Amos 0.
i Squire. He saw the prisoners at work
, in the factories and automobile school,
! Later the prisoners presented him with
' a hand-painted testimonial which was
i marked:
"To a good loser, Sir Thomas Lipton,
I from some good losers of the Mutual
i Welfare League of Sing Sing."
"I am very grateful, boys," said Sir
! Thomas. "There wasn't ever a man
i born that didn't make a mistake. I've
i made some mistakes. The thing is, when
i we grow older, not to make the same
' mistake again. If I come back to
| America and win the cup I'M bring it
i up here and show it to you."
i DR. BRCSH'B KCMV8S
At soda fountains. Try it tu-Jai.?Advt.
!
(Continue Gains on All
Fronts Except in South,
Where Counter Attack Is
Prepared Near Lemberg
?Russians Advance
Into East Prussia
Brest - Litovsk Evacuated
by Bolsheviki ; Pilsudski
Recaptures Many Towns
WARSAW, Aug. 19 (By The As?
sociated Press).?In the Polish of
; fensives, now in full swing, more
j than 10,000 prisoners, 30 cannon, 300
I machine guns and thousands of sup
: ply carts have been captured from
; the Bolsheviki.
? The Poles have occupied Plonsk,
j Pultusk and Wyskow, through which
the Reds drove in their sweep toward
the capital.
Owing to the Polish pressure from
the northeast, it is reported that
the Bolsheviki are withdrawing their
forces which reached the Vistula
south of the Prussian border and to
the northwest of Warsaw.
The Warsaw sector is rapidly be?
ing cleared of the Bolsheviki. North
? and northeast of the capital the Reds
j are being shoved back by the Poles,
I who are following them up all along1
the front, using artillery in such
j quantities as to cause great con?
fusion among the invaders, who now
are on the run.
To the east, the Bolsheviki aro re?
ported to be making their way across
the Bug at various points.
Siedloe was taken by the Poles
early Wednesday.
Successful on Three Fronts
Polish successes on all fronts, with
the exception of the southern b
sector, where the Russian Soviet forces
are advancing in the direction of Lem
berg, were reported in the official state?
ment on fighting operations issued !.. ?
night.
The 57th, 58th and 8th Bolshev k
divisions on the Warsaw front :
been annihilated and thousands of So?
viet soldiers made prisoner.
Soviet forces are evacuating Brest
Litovsk, the strongly fortified town on
the Bug River 11^0 miles east <^' War?
saw, according to advices received to?
night.
Russian prisoners are pouring in! ?
Warsaw in such numbers that it is be
I coming a problem how to care for
them.
The Russians lost their bearings in
i trying to meet attacks on ail sides
I from the Polish columns on thrir
flanks, the official statement of last
night says.
Poles Recapture Towns
The Poles, continuing their advance,
have occupied Kalus/yn.thirty-live mili ;
east of Warsaw; Siedlce, forty-seven
miles east of the capita': Milzyrzeo,
twenty miles southeast of Siedl ad
Wlodawa, on the Pug River, 1l'5 mili ;
southeast of Warsaw.
The Poles are reported to be re
, grouping before Lemberg for a ?
stroke against the Bolsheviki, who are
?less than thirty kilometers from toe
! city.
In the region of Thorn, about K>">
j miles northwest of Warsaw, the Poles
have launched a counter action in the
| direction of Brodnica, which still is
occupied by the Bolshevik forces.
In the region of Lipno, about twenf ?
five miles southeast of Thorn, aifd at
Siedlce the Bolsheviki have Btarte I an
eastward movement, aviators rep? rt
North of the fortress Novo Geor
gievsk the Red forces were dii lodged
after stubborn resistance, a Pol h
cavalry charge smashing a Bolshevik
brigade. The Bolsheviki leaving Pul?
tusk, thirty miles north of Warsaw,
took with them the town Mayor and
all of the clergy as hostages, the com?
munique says, adding that 1,500 pris?
oners were gathered in this engage?
ment alone.
General Pilsudski has been with the
troops east of Warsaw and under shell
fire, but escaped uninjured. On vari?
ous parts of the front where the Poles
are advancing Bolshevik troops are re?
ported to have been cut off from their
main forces in great number
sands surrendering daily wh<
realize they have; been cut off.
Along the Bug south of Bn
heavy lighting has been under way. A
Soviet division is said to have been
off from retreat in the n g
Wlodawa, and to have suffer? d 1
casualties, among them a brig
mander. Seven hundred : in?
cluding many officers, were taki n.
German Population Aids Reds
Among the incidents of the day men?
tioned in the communiqu? is a B
advance into parts of former Ea
sia, which are now in Poland, nor!
of Mlawa. The Bolsheviki h
the towns of Lidzbark and Dzii
and are meeting with cooperation
the German popu itioi
cording to the commun
ment adds it has been ascertained that
Bolshevik infantry has been foi
fight by the Communists, who ha
plied a system of merciless terror.
Russian Soviet forces aro Seeing in i
; disorderly panic along the fron? h
the Vistula and Bug rivers, whei
Poles are advancing with extraord
success, says an officia! statement |
here on Tuesday night. *
In their counter attack the Pole? are
using tank?, airplanes, armor'..i I
and modern cannon in great nu
I At Novo Minsk, east of here, :in>l Se?
i rock, to the northeast, 3,000 pr
; s1 ven cannon, hundreds of ?
! vast quantities of supplies have b -h
? captured from the Bolsheviki.
The Bolshevik retreat north an
! of Warsaw took the sem blanc?
j rout at some places, the communique
reportR. On the ext)
I Polish line, however, ::nd in the