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Partly cloudy, with local thunder
showers to-day and probably to-morrow;
no change in temperature.
Highest temperature yesterday, 83; lowest, 71.
rjatailad wsatnor reports will be found on the Editorial
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A HAPPY BLENDING
The amalgamated SUN AND HERALD
preserves the best traditions of each.
In combination these two newspapers
make a greater newspaper than either
has ever been on its own.
VOL. LXXXVIL NO. 349 DAILY.
NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, im.'U n..r.
PRICE TWO CENTS
IN NEW YORK CITY.
TURKU CENTS
WITHIN tOO MILKS.
FOUR CENTS ELSEWHERE.
TED RAY INS
GOLF TITLE BY
SINGLE STROKE
Britisher Scores 295 in
Great Finish for Open
Championship.
3 AMERICANS NEXT
Hutchison, Diegel and
Burke Tie With Var
don at 296.
BOBBY JOXES HAS 299
Young Southerner Is Only
One Stroke Behind Barnes
and Evans.
$18,000,000 ADDED TO CITY'S
WEEKLY HOUSEHOLD BUDGET
Living Cost Jumps 15 Per Cent, in Six Months, With
Clothing Leading Advance.
Special to TBI SUN AND Nsw YoiK HnULO.
Washington, Aug. 13. New Yorkers
now are spending approximately $18,
000,000 a week more for necessities
than six months ago, It was estimated
hero to-day on the basis of Govern
ment investigations of living costs.
Living costs for the average Now
York family Increased 15 per cent, be
tween December and June, according
to an Investigation made by the Labor
Department! Six months ago few peo
ple in New York were able to live for
less than $20 a week, It was estimated.
At this rate New York's weekly ex
penditures for necessaries now Is
somewhere In the neighborhood of
$138,000,000.
Expenditures by the average New
York family Increased 119 per 'ent
from December, 1914, to June, 1930,
according to the Labor Department's
survey. Tho biggest increase was In
women's clothing, which advanced
258.8 per cent. The male of the fam
ily, however, wasn't far behind, since
his clothing expenditures Jumped
220.8 per cent. Food advanced 106.8
per cent., fuel and light 60.1 per cent,
and furniture and furnishings 205.1
per cent. AU other expenditures were
classed as miscellaneous, for which the
Increase was 111.9 per cent.
The average New York family di
vides Its Income this way: Food, 42
per cent.; clothing, 18.6 per cent.;
housing, 14.3; fuel and light, 4 3; fur
niture and furnishings, 8.3, and mis
cellaneous, ID. 5 per cent From the
last Item must come expenditures for
illness, education and recreation.
fj a Staff Correspondent of Ths Scn ND
Nsw Yoik Hsbald.
Toledo. Aug. 13. Big Ted Ray has
mai good. So for that matter has
Harry Vardon. Great Britain to-day
nosed out America on the Inverness
links and through Ray annexed tho na
tional open golf championship honors
In the greatest finish that has ever
been seen since the royal and ancient
same first was played on the broad
domains of Uncle Sam.
The. great International tournament
fir which Vardon and Ray have come
expressly from England to win closed
is it had begun in a blaze of brll
ilai the final count giving Ray the
one stroke with a grand total
of 295, while no less than four others
missed tieing it up by Just one paltry
little shot, which they had squandered
somewhere out on the course, perhaps
In the rough or bunkers, on the putt
ing greens or through some faulty bit
exe ution on the tee or through the
ireen.' The four who were so near
and yet 60 far are Harry Vardon. six
umea winner of the British open
lurapionship; Jock Hutchison, the
Western title holder; Leo Dlegel of
hi igo and Jack Burke of the Town
and Country L'lub, St. Paul
TENNESSEE MAY
RATIFYMONDAY
Senate Acts Favorably on Suf
frage Amendment by Count
N.CAROLINA IN
SUFFRAGE RACE
RIVAL OF PONZI,
WITH $2,500,000
OWEDJSCLOSED
Crowd Storms Old Colony
Foreign Exchange Com
pany in Boston.
WIZARD GOES TO JAIL
Bondsman for $35,000 Gives
Up Pond, Who Can't Get
New Bail.
MORE RAIDS ARE LIKELY
Questionable Financial Insti
tutions Under Suspicion
in Hub.
of
to 4.
FIGHT CENTRES IX HOUSE
Workers Redouble Activities
to Secure Success at Hands
of Representatives.
Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 13 The
Tennessee Senate to-day, by a vote of
25 to 4. adopted the resolution provid
ing for ratification of the Federal suf
frage amendment. Even the most op
timistic were surprised at the large
majority. Seventeen votes were neces
sary, but most polls had listed from
20 to 22 as favorable and the high
water mark was set at 24.
The suffragists, certain of ratitica-
First Test in Legislature Is 7
to 1 Favorable Vote in Sen
ate Committee.
Special to Thb Bom Nr Nsw YoiK Hbult.
Boston, Aug. IS. Another get-rlch-quick
balloon apparently collapsed In
this city to-day. v following by only
forty-eight hours the tumbling of
Charles Ponzl's house in the clouds.
Pour officials of the so-called "rival"
concern, the Old Colony Foreign Ex
change Company of 64 Devonshire
street, were taken Into custody late
i
GOVERNOR URGES ACTION ! to da' charged with larceny. They
I are Charles M. Brlghtwell, the presl-
! dent ; Raymond C. Myers, said to be
Should Accept Inevitable. He! the general manager, Fred C. Myers,
brother of Raymond, who is unde.r
; stood to be the secretary and sales
; manager, and Samuel Zorn.
Fonzl himself Is in Middlesex county
Advises, Though Voicing
His Disapproval.
fijenal to Tn Svn wr Nrw Yoik Hkui.ii.
Ralbigh. X. C, Aug. 13. Gov. Blck
ett's special ratification message to
day deeply sympathizing with all antl
suffragists who believe as he that suf
frage is unwise, undesired by the
Jail, East Cambridge, having been sur
rendered to-day by his bondsman, who
had furnished $35,000 for his appear
ance after his arrest by Federal au
thorities yesterday.
The Old Colony Foreign Exchange
is the firm against which District At-
women, full of race Jeopardies and torney Pelletler two weeks ago Issued
hurtful to tho women, sharply re
public warning, advising the people
minded the Assembly that on the Issue ! not to give It any of Its money for tn
of State rights North Carolina has no ' Vtatment purposes.
, . . ... I The Myers brothers were preparing to
right to be heard. L york
And fifteen m.nutes aftrr its dellv-,r -oU Anotn.r man
l Hon bv the Senate, have proceeded
P-ohaMv never In all the time that i With the expectation that the real;--' " " " ' "' i Identified will, the nrm s airairs is on
Colonel Bogle has stalked through the flght will be In the lower house. The ,ne reeonnion nan. gvven a iaxorao.ea ,tamshlp for .Sweden. He Is K. U. A
-- i r iwn- taiu rrnm ins i ma
: . .. ,.r. : r ;c ir. s:r. i senate vote
TIDE SWEEPING
TO A DOMINION
RULEFORIRISH
Bonnr Law Reported Ready
to Frosent That Plan in
Commons Monday.
LONDON EXACTING IT
Resignation of Adviser to
Lord French Creates
Need for Action.
ULSTER QUITTING FIGHT
Opposition Breaks Down Un
der Growing Trend Toward
a Compromise.
vote of 7 to 1.
The Blckett message had such a pre
ponderance of objections to suffrage
that the majority of antls thought he
had changed his mind with their re-
1. A hn..41t, Kadn an.
01 7ifi ,1UI I IB- auu ma VUUUI I Ul
ta to the present day has there been nounced before the workers were re
such a icramble for a golf crown as I doubling efforts to secure favorable
To ?T TA -on by the Representative,
ranr that the thousands of apectators j The House adjourned to-day until
who thronged the Inverness links were i Monday afternoon without reference to
fll nigh distracted. Like lost sheep SUfrage, but it was stated later the
I committee to which the resolution was
I referred would meet Sunday n'.ght to
j consider It. There was no Indication
! what action would be taken, but In con
I nectlon with rumors that the opposition
1 might attempt to bury It In committee
lit was recalled an ertort oi sunragists human agency can atop the suffrage
i to force a report to-day was defeated iiweon. ; nii history there Is no record
i t . l . . ..I,, K,. a nf In h '.I ' 1 I (til r
mixed up in the world's record , " , . ,
ndlock. Burke had started the day members absent.
strokes hehlnd the leader, Jook Large Andlence Present.
n, and even after a 72 for his j . . .
Main, effort he waa Mill 6 to the An be,or' th Sen ZlVl
M lie Just went out to finish the the galleries and stales were packed
tournament, hi. miml fraa frnm all I with spectators, among whom the actle
l.lndblad, who presumably ns to act
a a foreign agent.
Fear Money Hm Been Removed.
Officials were disturbed to-day by the
belief that large sums collected by the
they turned hither and yon as first one j
and then another was reported to be i
;r.mng the championship.
Jat'k Bnrke Surprised.
It was puch a mix-up at the finish
that Jack Burke HTmself did not know
M had j ' hance and no one was more ;
wrpriied than he when he found him.
cent demonstration of strength. The concern have been taken out of the
Governor sympathized with all their jftate and perhaps out of the oountry.
v,i..i ... a... .1-1... mu. No figures have been given out as to
objections, save State rights. This ' .. . , ,. ,. v ro
, , the amount of money that naa Deen re-
Is no longer an association of States. I coIv,4 by th(. rVal Investment concern,
but a nation," he said, "and whatever k,,. it is feared It will reach $2.5flO.Ort.
a majority of the people want Is going
to be the supreme law of the land."
i At n...mL . trm-lp rr .MTHtinn that In nropr to win
ITM i,nrt worriea Vo cm even mv;- n anu-ui.r. F... ----- -
hint a though. But with another round "s,d- Throughout the two hours , or de
U rolf Jack came right up to the b.at0 thcre were -numerous demonstra-
t. and there he was at the finish, j
New arrests are about to be made in
connection with recent financial opera-
He waa profoundly persuaded that no tloOS in this city. Groat s.-crery ls be
ing maintained as 10 wnu me ni n.
thns will be. Warrants have been
of any great movement that went so arrPsls "W" l
noar ih. 1, i-llhnnl ,.,, ni er " Th!any llOUT.
very best that North Carolina could do ' The ld C1fn1l' '"reign E''chan',
would be the delaying of the movement I Company opened Its offices a t Mn
six months, he said. In that time the ,nan two weeks ago. promising 100 per
league of Nations will be won or lost.
"and we may wake up next year to a
Dublin, Aug. 13. The Freeman's
Journal (Nationalist organ and recent
ly showing a leaning toward Sinn
Fein) announces that 1 Wylle, legal
adviser to Viscount French, the Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland, has presented
his resignation. Rather than accept
It, the newspaper says, Andrew Bonar
Law, Government leader in the House
of Commons, has promised to pledge
he Government on Monday to Domin
ion Home Rule, with fUli fiscal author
ity. Of course, comments the newspaper,
the question of Ulster will be subject
to discussion.
Nothing was printed in the Dublin
newspapers yesterday about the de
parture of a deputation of Ulstermen
for London to see Premier Lloyd
George for the purpose of advocating
an Immediate offer of Dominion Home
Rulo to Ireland, despite the fact that
news of its departure was circulated to
Engliish reporters by the publicity de
partment of Dublin Castle.
The Irish Unionist Antl-Partltion
League, founded last year, declared for
self-government in Ireland at a meet
ing here' to-day, which was attended by
representatives of commercial and pro
fessional men and land owners.
A resolution was unanimously adopted
; which said the. Government's Irish bill
now before FsHan.ent was not aectpt
i able to the Irish people and that It
I should be amended so as to give full
control to the Irish people over all local
I affairs, including taxation.
The resolution urged the Government
l to act Immediately, "as overy passing
! month makes settlement more diffi
cult." It Is considered significant that the
llsteritea are falling in line with the
Dublin Chamber of Commerce, which Is
largely '"n'nn!'?, and the southern Union
's. In support of dominion home rule,
which they heretofore havo decried.
REDS CLOSE IN ON WARSAW;
MAY FALL AS PEACE NEARS;
BRITISH LABOR AIDS SO VIE T
GREAT STRIKE
IF WARCOMES
Leaders of All Unions Aj?ree
to Force Hands Off Policy
on Bolsheviki.
rz .
r ranee in Accord With
U. S. on Polish Crisis
BLOCKADE ALSO OPPOSED
Resolutions at Conference Bind
Workers to Tic Up All In
dustry if Xecessarv.
cent, profit in six months, or 50 per
I cent, profit in ninety days. The corn-
Iron
loklng regretfully on two wasted shots
M the sixteenth and seventeenth that I
"uld have made him winner of the
rreateft goif event this country ever
hU w itr.f ssed.
B'it Rurke Is not the only one who
wnti to kirk himself all over Ohio to-
Ihl There It pturdv Leo Diesel, the
When the seventeenth vote In favor of
ratification was recorded the pent up
enthusiasm of the suffrage cohorts went
beyond restraint and forced a temporary
suspension of the roll call.
The suffragists were satisfied to Know
that seventeen Senators had voted favor
ably. They redoubled their cheers when
the clerk shouted the total above the
iinrnar. aod It was necessary for the
down on the home green after miss- i , ? , v
quieted auim-icunj- iui wmi. iw
sumed.
' bred star, who fought a man's
r, keen the cuo In the United
pany Issued time notes In exchange for
, 1 . . i naeli ........ 1 f . 1
4i L . , The money craze was then at Its
The Blckett message was an unmls- , am) , thc tlme of ,he Pon
takable appeal to the Democrats i on he I collaps(. tw0 d:iyt ag0 the organisation
league of Nations Issue, yet ratification I m a thrlvlng business. Even the co-
by the substantially solid vote of the )ng of Ponzrs omce fai0(1 to halt Its
Republicans is the solitary hope. I flow of (Ustoniers. Indeed, thc business
Senator 8cales, Greensboro, a Demo- ls Ba)d ,0 have increased.
prat Introduced thft watffMMm rpsnlnt inn mi i i .t. 1 ...
, . -- in" suuaen nuBinK 01 ic unci nuru
know while in the House a similar resolution offices to-day resulted In the biggest
was emerru uy rveyreeeninuvp i uiuiina,
a Republican.
The House will await action by
!S foot putt for a tie like a worn
radiator. Tliere was Hutchison, too.
who had led the field for several grand
rourds-ver Sjnce the start of the qual
II Play, in fact and after manfully
r ivlnr to maintain the hot pace which
d set for the invaders had the cup
victory dashed from his lips. Also
v Harry Vardon. the master
t'l'er. -,o years old and still not far
- .ie the cock of the walk. Harry
Defeat Minority Report.
Both majority and minority reports
were returned by the committee which
had the resolution and Immediately af
ter presentation adoption of the major
ity report was moved a motion for
adoption of the minority report as a
substitute was tabled. 23 to 10.
I ,k. .1 j , a point oi oraer inai mis iegismiure
hat ,he crowd expected to see na auth0rlty to act under the Ten-
"i i.ampionshlp. He began the;nesM constitution was overruled by
j tie with Hagen and Barnes at Speaker and on appeal the ruling
Miinn n " " on,y on atroke 'was sustained by a vote of 27 to 5. De
na Btrtiei and Dlegel and two be- bat9 on lh motion to adopt the major-
' I son. It was not at the first jny report touched upon every argument
u.. . '"vnnif rouna mat senti- : r0r and against suffrage.
. , S(d ln h,B vor. for the I In reply to the charge of Senator
'1 lookel upon a wonderful slt. I rh.nHiir Reoublican and suffrasre oo-
cro'
Harn-
a -. ucu inv tnira rouna witn a oonent. inmt jiro. euiH tn
d ually a 4-gwung a spoon shot I president of the National American
,"' l h had aimed for the green away Woman Suffrage Association, had ad
' his left shoulder, so to speak, and ! vocated Intermarriage between whites
' er Pushing on to the green from the j and negroes, Mrs. Catt to-night ln a
"un. stabbed three times before he formal statement characterized It as "an
wa coax the ball to the bottom of the absolute fabrication."
Senator Chandler said he based his re
marks on a published Interview with
Mrs, Catt In which she was quoted as
having said "suffrage knows no bias of
race, color or sex.
''f And vet linnn that t.e-lkl
Won Harry built up a card that made
.'rt.- , favorlte as the championship
Hs final stage. Despite the
of two lost strokes on the first
rZJ r?T h" waa at the finish of the
.una handing in a card that showed he
a Wyed the eighteen holes In It
D,'g'l Hangs Onto Vardon.
ka5uR.a that he WNJ had
mt ,l th4 ,klrt" of ths aroaUst
Zv a" Ver lived anl5 wl rt
:i ' 5MJ? u' hil flft' vtn- t
ana ,here he was at the end of the
nd f.a 1 n ,tr0lt bh,,Ml V"lon
kL w1fh Hutchison at 219. Jock
m It 'u ea H ror tht particular clr-
ll or ,he conr r. .. . . . .
G. O. P. WOMEN HAPPY
AT TENNESSEE NEWS
Chicago Headquarter Proud
of Party's Record.
Ppeoial te In Sew md Nsw Toax Hsau.o.
Chicaoo, Aug. JI. rTomlnent women
'tk.;".u:",u'l,rclr:!.i R.n,MWn headauarters expressed
l fourth Z".r- ."W!!!1."" iLTSl over the Tennessee re-
i;it.,L -7? a"a we" strutiBg ! rrZTM th.t v-n out nt .iht
. . ' ' in a T n r o I .r rm 9 . . tut. miu ...w -
KepuDitcan oentiun m ispi vtw
for the suffrage amendment to day. "Ood
bless our O. O. P. wired vice-cnairraan
Harriett Taylor Upton, who is now work-
"ssee. Mrs.
, assistant secre-
ftfb,.," " " a 'otai or zn for trie
iuur r.oies.
Jm these four
"JtrJonald. of Bob
A .n?. f:"rfd Bobby Jones of I
1n"cent TO: FMi. t. d i-.. ChrisUne Bradley South. a
Ih n -1 . v. IOI , .11... XT. .I.h.I .- I ,
. a ,j Ana 1 1 t . . , , fnrv nr rne neuuuiiLaii .iiiuui ai vviiiiiiii.'
- vim oaran wim a 7S. ; ' "
All. ,1 ', rp'1 a ll,tle on hat round. '
I, " Vl' ara,n "me Charles Evans. ;
Hagen and Burke at 224. I
tee. said
Tennessee Republican Senators, seven
the
fireworks thus far in connection with
the frenzy for riches that has been vis
ited unon this city A swarm of for-
Senato before taking up the question In Manors, learnlne of the action. Immi
the lower chamber and thus leaving the ; ,ately gathered and took the office by
Williams bill ln Its pigeonhole In an
attempt to kill any Republican claim for
storm, demanding the manager.
Brlghtwell was singled out, and he
credit, while at the same time shifting' would hive been roughly handled, if not
the burden of ratification on some other Killed, had the mob succeeded in reach
State if possible. There will be no ing him. Realising his danger, he fled
hearing on tne issue until next weeK, ; through a side door, which was nam
by agreement of surrragisu and antls.
MAN KILLED IN FALL
FROM MYSTERY TAXI
I caded. The police had been summone.1,
j and n squad arrived and halted the in
j vaders' activities with little delay.
KnlTea Heady for Accuses Man.
i Threats against the life of Brlghtwell
! were hesrd, and here and there In the
mob knives were seen clinched ln
i swarthy fists.
I At noontime Dr. Marton Prince, trus
tee for the building at 54 Devonshire
: street, visited the office in company with
Michael H. Crowley, superintendent of
police. Dr. Prince sought Mr. Brlftht-
swung open and a man came hurtling i ,., vnrnt. t once and 'without fall
out. He struck at the curbside and the ; D Prlnce set 2 :30 o'clock as the time
car went on. As the taxlcab struck the
approach to the Hackensack Bridge
leading to Kearny, there was a shout
Two Passengers Lost in Wild
Ride in Jersey.
A taxicab travelling at a high rate of
tpeed was gomg through Communlpaw
avenue, Jersey City, last night when at
Westslde avenue the door suddenly j anf) informed him that his firm
limit.
A short time later an attache an-
that n new offlre hsd been
and a second man fell out. He struck ; ened at 43 Oliver street, which Is
on his head and was killed. The ca- j hv ,.j fh.t the firm would
transfer its headquarters there at once.
It was not long before the order to close
the new office was issued, and the ar
rests soon followed.
was understood that tne concern
the
reenlng taxlcab went on along
Lincoln highway toward Newark.
The dead man was Patrick Oonroy,
18 years old, of 489 Pavonia avenue,
Jersey City. His body was taken to a
morgue. The Injured man was Identi- ! ....j.h that it enras-ed in convertinr
fled at the Jersey City Police Head- ; t , ehange coupons into profitable
quarters as James Kennedy. 40 years , glm(iar to the "Wlxard" Ponxl's
old. of 140 First street. Jersey City. I ,. d tran.actlona But the officials
The police said he was Intoxicated. He I ... f , ,nm-d in "'bis busl-
was unable to talk coherently and an : MU ,n European countries, branching
explanation of the mysterious ride had
to be sought elsewhere.
A general alarm was sent along the
route taken by the fleeing machine, but
nothing had been heard from It at an
early hour this morning. The police
theory Is that the taxlcab carried a
party of joy riders and that they be
came Involved In an argument Conroy
had $120 In his pockets. He waa mar
ried and had two children. Kennedy
Is employed as a lieutenant of the fire
patrol at the shipyards at Kearny.
POPE &AS SLIGHT ACCIDENT.
Into many lines. Fred Myers, the sup
posed general manager, has said that
the firm was aoing s. injmmaoiu Dull
ness in Europe, trading In "everything
from a spool of thread to a Babcock
engine."'
Brlghtwell was at one time president
of the Langdon OH and Gas Company of
Kansas. Raymond Myers Is known In
Continued on Third Page.
London, Auk. 13. Should the report
printed by the freeman's Journal of
Dublin that the Government has decided
10 adopt a dominion solution of the Irish
problem prove correct it will not cause
much surprise here.
Mr. Wyiie'S resignation would be the
second resignation from the Viceroy's
council, and probably for the same
reason as was given by Sir Thomas
Stafford, who resigned early In the
week because, as he put It. the Premier
"has refused to take the only step giv
ing a chance for peace, namely the
firm and Immediate offer of a form of
dominion Oovernment."
The Ministers were ln session at
Downing street to-day discussing the
Irish problem. During the council Sir
Hamar Greenwood, Chief Secretary for
Ireland, was summoned.
The movement in favor of dominion
home rule, with reservations concerning
the army and navy and other questlona
has grown with astonishing rapidity in
recent months. It is generally believed
to be favored by Premier Lloyd George.
Kp'dfll Table Despatch in Tits St n so Nsw
Yoik Kbui.d. Capiripht, 1911, by The Bin
and New York Hesau.
London, Aug. 13. Despite Premier
, Lloyd George's warning to the "Brit
ish Soviet," as the rtdical element in
labor in this country Is called, tho
labor leaders met In Westminster' Hall
to-day and decided on an unprece
dented action in deciding to strike
against the foreign policy of the Gov
ernment if It 6hould lead Great Britain
into a war against Soviet Russia. All j
organizations of British labor were j
represented In the conference, which
hesitated only ln Initiating interna-
' tional action by failing to send a com
i mltteo to stir up French labor against
j a Russian war.
A resolution was unanimously
j adopted pledging the British Labor
1 party lo resist any kind of military In
1 tervention by Great Britain against,
j the Soviet Government of Russia. The
1 resolution "hailed with satisfaction the
Russian Government's declaration In
! favor of thc complete Independence of
! Poland."
Robert Smlllle, tho miners' leader,
.asserted that British labor was the
j only power In the world able to pre
j vent a military attack on Soviet Rus
i sia. He thanked Winston Spencer
I Churchill, Secretary of State for War.
I who has advocated military action
, against the Soviets and who is held re
sponsible for the Archangel expedi
tion, for "uniting British democracy."
Blames "Dollar Hantlnar."
"I want to thank our comrade,
Winston Churchill, for uniting the
j British democracy," he said. "We
i couldn't do it ourselves, but now the
j British people have achieved unity,
i God send us the sense to preserve It."
j William ('. Adamson, chairman of the
: Ijbor party ln the House of Commons,
presided over the meeting. He asked the
: delegates to observe "the solemnity of
: standing for a minute," and after this
; minute of silence throughout the hall
j Mr. Adamson brought them suddenly to
j the business of the day when he declared
that "French ohauvlnlam and the dollar
! hunting tendencies of the American Gov
ernment make war still possible."
l ne 1 ' 1 1 1 . 1 e 1 1 e, rcprcoeuiius mi see
PARIS, Aug. 13. The French
Government is sending- a note
to the United States expressing
pleasure that the French and
American, views on the Russo
Polish situation are "in complete,
accord." The note recapitulates
the conclusions in the American
note to Italy, saying that France
"reaches an identical conclu
sion." It adds that France
"never varied in its determina
tion to support the principles so
clearly formulated by the Gov
ernment of the United States."
The note says it was with
these principles in mind that
France recognized Gen.. Baron
Wrangel and decided not to ap
prove the Soviet's terms to
Poland unless they conform with
these principles. France, it says,
is "happy to note once again the
most thorough harmony oetween
the sentiments animating the
American and French peoples
when there is at stake the future
of civilization."
FRANCE EAGER
FOR HELMSMAN
Doctors Said to Have Reported
Deschanel Is Triable to
Resume Office.
PRESSURE ON MILLERAXD
Demand Made on Premier That
He Inform Public on Presi
dent's Condition.
BATHERS AFTER DIPS
ARE ELECTROCUTED
Boy Falls on Third Rail; Man
Crabs Electric Wire.
After a swim at Coney Island last
evening Edward Lawlor. aged U, and
his chums, Richard McOmlad and James
Resch. 12 and 10 years old respectively,
decided to walk to their homes, about
half an hour's distance from the beach.
The boys started out along the brldg:
of the Fourth avenue subway. Sea
Beach line, and had got but a little way
when Lawlor stumbled against the
third rail. He fell, screaming. The
other boys ran back and called em
ployees of the Seymour Construction
Company, working on the structure.
Henry Cray and Thomas Robinson used
their belts, looping them about the
boy's body, to get him off the rail. He
was dead.
The boy was the son of William
Lawlor of 151 West Ninth street. Brook
lyn, a warehouse superintendent.
George Zeese, 22 years old, of KM East
Twenty-third street, Brooklyn, was elo-.
trocuted yesterday when he grabbed an
electric light wire hanging from tho
Boardwalk, near Trouville Court, at
Long Beach, L. I. Zeese, with Gustave
Hulbrandt of 3S3 East Eighteenth street,
Anna Roth of 15 Sixth avenue and Lou
ise Clark of Chicago, 111., had just left
the water.
; tlona of the labor movement, from the
' moderste Socialists to the direct actlon-
Ists, without a dissenting voice adopted
a resolution indorsing the action of the
Labor party and thc Trade t'nlon Con
gress In establishing a Council of Action
! to deal with the situation arising out of
1 the British Government's attitude
toward the Russo-Pollsh war, and to
authorize the council to call for any and
every form of withdrawal from labor by
the rank and file without regard to con
stitution or rules of the Socialists in tlae
event such action was considered neccs-
sary to prevent or to stop the war.
Tax Planned on All Labor.
1 The meetlnar recommended that a tax
of half a penny be Imposed on every
member of the British Labor party to
provide a fund for the expenses of the
1 council.
j The council was ordered to remain
ln session until It had obtained an ab
1 solute guarantee that the armed forces
of Great Britain would not be used In
I support of Poland, of Gen. Baron Peter
I Wrangel. or in any military efforts
I against the Russian Soviet Government,
as well as a guarantee for the with
drawal of British naval vessels operat
ing rtlreetlv or Indlrectlv in the blockade
of rtiisnia. 1 recotmttlon of the Russian ; the Drinclples formulated" in the Amer
Soviet fiovernment. and the establish- I lean note. He adds that the American
By LAI REXCE HILLS.
Staff Oorre,poiidrh( of Thb StN AND Nsw
yoik Hsxaui. r.ipvuM, me, i Tua Sis
AND New York Heaip.
Paris, Aug. 13. The Russian situa
tion, culminating ln the recognition of
Gen. Wrangel by the Paris Govern
ment, has brought the French Presi
dential crisis to a head, with the re
sult that Emlle Bure, ln the Eclair,
demands that Premier Mlllerand take
the French public Into his confidence
regarding tho health of President Paul
Deschanel, giving out the doctors' as
surance if thj President is really re
covering, and if not to declare the
fight In the open.
Although President Deschanel's
friends Insist that his health Is much
Improved, It seems that. Georges
Clemenceau's somewhat natural anx
iety Induced the Premier to obtain a
copy of the doctors' report, wherein,
according to well Informed sources, It
was stated that President Deschanel
would be unable to carry on any exec
utive labors for a long time.
Paris. Aug. 13. France has not yet
determined to aid materially Gen. Baron
Wrangel, the antl-Bolshevlk commander
In South Russia, as, according to an
announcement from tne Ministry ui rm
elgn Affairs, Premiers Mlllerand and
Lloyd George agreed at the Hythe con
ference that such aid was not to be
undertaken except In certain eventuali
ties. It Is considered that France will
not act until after an exchange of views
with Great Britain.
The Foreign Office to-day issued a de
nial that France bad ever encouraged
Poland to wage war with the Bolshe
viki. On the contrary, the statement
said, France has urged Poland to keep
within her ethnographic boundaries- and
to realise that her dangers lay westward
rather than eastward.
A despatch from Cherbourg said that
a new torpedo bont launched there to
day has received instructions to report
to Gen. Wrangel at Seoastopoi, on me
Black Sea.
Premier Mlllerand says ln the note
sent by the Government to Washington
that Fiance Is "entirely In accord with
Bolsheviki Advance to 20
Miles of Capital From
Three Directions.
POLES FORCED BACK
100,000 Citizens Pledged
to Defend the City to
the Death.
FIGHT GROWS DESPERATE
Soviet Armies Hasten Drive,
but Get Check in South
Move Records to Posen.
By tin Associated Prt$.
Paws, Aug. 13. Closing In upon
Warsaw from the north, east and
southeast, the Bolshevik posts are now
within twenty miles of the capital, and
little doubt is felt here that they will
be ln the city before the peace nego
tiations are concluded.
Gen. Mailer's army, holding positions
along the Vistula, Narew and Bug
Rivers, In a country offering few
natural advantages for defence, Is be
ing relentlessly pushed toward the
capital by the Bolsheviki, who are
speeding up their advance.
Despatches through Scandinavian and
German sources have said the Red troops
would not stop until they captured War
saw. One message quoted an anonymous
Soviet leader as saying his troops would
refuse to halt, as they had been prom
ised the looting of Warsaw. English
and French despatches charged that
Trotsky was delaying the armistice pre
liminaries so that Warsaw could be cap
tured before the delegates met.
The northern Reds, according to the
latest news reaching Paris to-night,
had passed Pultusk and were march
ing southward on the capital down the
valley of the Narew. Another column
was advancing between the Narew and
the Bug, while south of the Bug the
enemy had reached and passed the line
running from Tausscx through Pllvk.
Dobre, Kaluszyn, Tsegloff. and Lato
vltch to Zelechoff. Further south the
enemy had succeeded In forcing a
passage of the Bug and was moving
on Lublin.
Tho Bolshevik cavalry along the
Frusstan frontier has made another ad
vance and Is now forty miles beyond
Mlawa, almost half the way to Thorn.
In other words the Reds are advanc
ing all along the line, except In the
extreme south.
Citizens of Warsaw to the number of
100,000 have pledged themsehes to de
fend the capital to the last breath, rut
it is felt here that such an unorganised
effort cannot seriously aflcct the fate
of the city. This, apparently, also is
the view of the Polish Government,
which le reported to be considering mov
ing to Posen if It Is satisfied there is no
chance of the Soviet forces suspending
hostilities at an early date.
Army Filers at Haaelton, B. C.
Hazklton, B. C, Aug. II. The four
United States army airplanes which
left Prince George this morning landed
here soon after noon.
Slip on Marble Floor and
Knee Is Injured.
One
By tht Attocialtd Prtmt.
Rom r, Aug. II. Pope Benedict met '
. . i mine ... i m r i ch cvans - - - . r ....... . ,,lvw
and Hagen and Burke at tit. I 10 one' vo"d t0T th ratification of the with a slight accident to-day, slipping
Their ac-
... nn I.V.n . . nr.. B. n a a . r CU. IUIUH. .tiiou.mtin
" it If he would retain his honori ! ""n Is in keeping with the attitude of
Mor. Ra,, DIMi .nn R.rn.. -. the Reoublicin party, which submitted
the amendment to the nation and hast
mrmtietf on Xinth Page. ratified it In twenty-nine States.
on the polished marble floor while going
from his bedroom to his private library,
the Ueetaggerro states.
He sustained a slight abrasion ot the
I skin a the knee.
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i
ment of unrestricted trade and commer
cial relationships between Great Britain
and Russia
The conference refused to be asso
ciated in any alliance on the part of
Great Britain with France or any other
country committing British labor to
support Poland or Gen. Wrangel. or to
supply munitions or other war material
for an attack on Soviet Russia.
The result of the conference will be
the establishment In every district In
Great Britain of a local council of ac
tion, with committees to deal with the
questions of supply, transport, strike
arrangements and publicity.
James Henry Thomas, secretary of the
National Union of Rallwaymen, speak
ing on behalf of the council, warned the
delegates ot the danger of Interfering
with France, "a country which has the
same right to manage her own affairs
as has Russian and British labor."
Challenge to Constttntlon.
"We should leave the Franco-Russian
situation In the hands of French labor
for the purpose of any action they
should take against their own Govern
ment," he said.
In so far as British labor was con
cerned, however, Mr. Thomas declared
that should It be necessary to do so It
would be a matter of decision by the
whole labor movement to back up
direct action.
"Desperate and dangerous as is our
method w? believe that thc disease is so
dangerous and the situation so deeper
r-te that only desperate and dangerous
nethods can prevent a calamity." he
said. 'The resolutions do not mean
Continued on Second Page,
and French Governments "cannot have
official relations with a Government re
solved to conspire against the Institu
tions of France, whose diplomats would
be Instigators of revolts and whose
speakers proclaim they will sign con
tracts with the Intention not to live up
to them."
Thc French Government believes as
does the Amerlcsn Government, the
Premier continues, in the necessity of an
Independent State of Poland, and desires
ardently (11 to maintain the political
Independence and territorial Integrity of
Poland: (21 to support efforts to deal
with the Russian-Polish armistice ques
tion, without negotiations having for
their consequence recognition of the Bol
shevik regime and dismemberment of
Poland, and (3) to help the Russian
people ln the future.
Warsaw, Aug. 13. The newspapers
to-day assert that Premier Witos haa
left Warsaw for Posen.
Contact with the Bolshevik lines in
spots Is only forty kilometers (about
twenty-six miles) from Warsaw, says
an official communique tasued to-night.
The communique describes the War
saw front along the line Wysikow,
Tluszcz, Kaluszyn and Clechanow as
weak.
REDS PRESSING ON;
WARSAW IN SIEGE
RUSSIA AND ARMENIA
HAVE PEACE TREATY
Preliminary Understanding
Has Been Concluded.
London, Aug. 13. A preliminary
peace treaty has been concluded between
the. Russian Soviet Government and
Armenia, says a wireless despatch re
ceived here from Moscow.
The Moscow Soviet Government has
recently signed a peace treaty with
Letvla ams'concluded an armistice with
Finland
Kew Gardens Inn. Kew Gardens. L. I. Real
annual hotel, American plan. Knott Mat. Adv.
Battle Raging 25 Miles From
Polish Capital.
By the Associated. Prett.
Warsaw, Aug. 13. Preparations are
being made to prevent the Bolsheviki
from reaching the Posen district.
Bolshevik cavalry detachments, drlv
Ing westward after the capture of
Mlawa, have reached the Wkrarouer
region and the towns of Blezun and
Radsanovo. They are now less than
thirty miles from the Vistula River.
Their desire la to cut the l.'iBt line
communication with the Baltic, Poland's
chief base of supplies.
The Soviet forces which are attaoking
the Polish lines northeast and east of
this city have reached a point twenty-
IIva miles from U'nrui' A at.,. ,.e
siege has been declared here by the
military governor.
The determination of the Bolsheviki
to Dress onward to Wanuw hn-.il
Itself at various points along the battle
line, there being hand to hand fighting
In many Instances. The Pnlea aavaa-eiv
defended their positions and contested
overy foot of ground given up to the
invaders.
Fighting was reported to-day within
thirty miles of the capital. It was said
Pultusk changed "hands several time,
and last accounts were that fighting
was going on In the streets. The Poles
were holding the west bank of the
Narew River at this point, beating off
the Bolsheviki from the north and hurl
ing back other enemy forces which
were trying to cross the river.
Prepared for Peace Parley.
The terms snd conditions to be car
rled by the Polish delegates who sre
scheduled to meet the Soviet representa
tives to-day to discuss peace prelim i
narlea have been drafted. It has been
decided that two American and two
British newspaper correspondents, as
well as several Polish. French, Ratlsn
and Spanish Journalists, will accompinv
the peace delecatlon. Just how long the
delegation will remain at Minsk, or
wherever the conference will be held, is
unknown, but diplomats here s,,!,) they
expected the conference would laet four
or five days or longer.
The capture by the RoMv Ikl of
Mlawa. an Important city on the War
saw-Danslg Railroad, about fifty miles ,