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WEATHER. Fair tonight: tomorrow . partly eloudy; not much change in tempera ture. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended noon today: Highest. 87. at 4 p.m. yesterday; lowest. S7, at 4 a.m. today. Full report on page 10. Closing New York Stocks, Page 9. Yesterday's Net Circulation, 92,925 No. 27,513. WASHINGTON, D. 0., SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1919 ?TWENTY PAGES. TWO CENTO. FARMER PRODUCE MARKET TAXED BY D. t HOUSEWIVES Unusual Crowd and Too Few Retailers Cause Slight Confusion. BUYING IN SMALL LOTS DISPLEASES DEALERS J'roducer-to-Consumer Trade Gets Good Start?Purely Retail Selling Planned. Washington housewives, with their market baskets, tutjned out in such numbers as to swell the usual throng of Saturday morning customers at the Farmer Produce market to nearly double this morning, but the lack of numbers of retailers at the stands caused some slight confusion. Although the public was warned In a statement from George Roberts, i superintendent of markets, yesterday afternoon that a great portion of the trade was in wholesale lots, ana housewives' clubs of three, with one | person buying for the entire club, I should be formed, many of the con- ; sumers demanded service in small i quantities, which found disfavor with 1 several dealers. Pilots Party Through Market. At S o'clock a large party was pilot ed through the market to the most suitable stands by Market Master Killius. Mr. Flllius took the throngs through the lanes of producers show- , ing just what stands could be relied upon for retail trade in smaller quan tities and pointing out those at which larger quantities were for sale. Com- ! missioner Brownlow and Clarence E. ; Wilson. former food administrator for ! the District, were absent on account I of pressing business. Superintendent j of Markets Roberts was in charge of | the arrangements. Discussing dissatisfaction evidenced I by a number of housewives. Mr. Rob- I erts said: "As very few consumers have here- j tofore patronized the farmers' market, j the sales made there being chiefly in . large quantities, not a sufficient num ber of farmers came prepared to sell ; at retail to accommodate the large crowd. Of course, the greatest sav ing can be effected by buying in large quantities, and for that reason it is ad visable for families to club together and buy in that manner. Anything costs more if bought in very small quantities." Retail trade was accommodated at a number of the stands, but careful judgment was required to select -the I dealers. . Plan Get* Good Start. On the whole, the producer-to-con- ' snmer trade received a good start, ac cording to officials. Suggestions are i now being made to make the farmers' i market a purely retail distributing point, although much opposition is ! expected from such farmers who have , been accustomed to bringing in their I poods in crates and selling in large lots. Many of the early shoppers got the best selections. The market opened at 5:30 o'clock and before 7 a large trade was in progress at certain stands. A feature of "market-basket" move ment which wib not particularly reckoned on: was the street car as a provision train. This being the pub lic mode of transportation for thou- ; sands of government clerks, there > were added to the well filled cars this | morning dosens of market baskets. j their smiling owners setting them on the floor to be stepped in. raising j them above the heads of passengers or threatening the anatomy of the 1 public in vital spots. "Planted" Foot in Basket. One smiling passenger, who boarded I a 7th street car at U and 14th streets, planted his foot in an empty basket on | entering the car and stood with the i foot in calmly holding to a strap and ' reading his morning paper until the-l owner of the receptacle, after tugging 1 at it for some time, regained full pos- \ session. In another instanc* a large, manly passenger carried a brtskeV on his foot from one end of tt;* car to the other without the frugal house wife missing it until she alighted from the car at Market space. Straw hats, feather-trimmed crea tions and hatless girls all suffered alike from the efforts of more provi dent women who sought to save their baskets Intact. The return from the market in most cases came at a time when traffic was light and no such inconveniences were suffered. CUMMINGS ARRAIGNS , REPUBLICAN SENATORS RTE. N. Y.. August 23.?Homer S. Cummings. chairman of the demo > cratic national committee, had a number of harsh things to say about republican senators who are opposing: the league of nations co\-e*iart in an address here last night. Referring to the or>po: '.t'o:i senators as "senatorial ltr.bc.cUes' and "wretched creatures o* 'he Senate." Mr. Cummings dec!ar~d that some of these men were "so low they would need a step ladder to climb to the top of it, and then perhaps they could look into the subcellar of President Wilson's mind." Mr. Cummings declared that it was bo longer a question of preventing the formation of a league of nations, as it already was a fixture. It now is merely a question of whether America shall enter the league, he said. RUMANIA CEREAL EXPORT TOPS 100,000 CARLOADS BERN. August 23 fHavas).?The Rumanian bureau here announces ikat Rumania will export more than 100.000 carloads of cereals from the present harvest. Denies Charges Made by Soldiers. KNOXVIL.LE, Tenn., August 23.? R. B. Cook, governor of the Soldiers' Home at Johnson City, today denied . harges by soldiers who have filed :i protest against conditions at the liome. He said the complaining men are tubercular patients and are segre gated. which fact may explain their discontent. He said government in spectors declare the Johnson City > . ..me is the best in the United States a jr tubercularly affected soldiers. Auditor Will Become Treas j urer of U. S. Shipping Board on September 2 Next. 24 YEARS IN D. C. SERVICE alonzo tweedale. Alonzo Tweedale. auditor of the Dis trict of Columbia, resigned today to take effect September 2. He will . become treasurer of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, following twenty-four years of service with the District government. Mr. Tweedale severed relations with the District government with feelings of deep Regret, he said, due to the many happy associations during his long service with the District. He said that he accepted the position with the shipping board because he found, after an investigation of the possi bilities, he is satisfied that he will be able to render the government serv ices of a very much more valuable character in his new position. Mr. Tweedale is a native of Phila delphia and received his early educa tion tn the Episcopal Academy of that city He was appointed to the office of the auditor as a temporary clerk July I. 1895, after what is believed" to have been the first competitive ex amination held for -entrance to the District service. Appointed Auditor in Hay, 1007. He passed successfully through the various grades of the office and waB appointed auditor on May 23. 1907, ; which position he held until the present time, making a total employ ment in the District service of more than twenty-four years. To Mr.. Tweedale is due credit for the entire reorganisation of the ac counting system of the District, and j for other reforms in the administra tion of District afTairs. He introduced the triplicate coupon I system in connection with the daily ! balancing account of the collector of tax?s. which has been recognized and ] commented upon by municipal ac ! countants as being the most com prehensive form for use in settlement of the daily receipts of municipalities. Initiated Monthly Accounts. j He also initiated the monthly ac count current system used in the settlement of the disbursing officer's accounts. After much discussion this plan was?adopted by the Treasury Department, where there are large numbers of appropriations which are active. Another innovation ascribed to Mr. Tweedale is the loose-leaf requisition system, whereby the various appro priations of the government are auto matically charged with expenditures at the time obligations are actually contracted. For several years he was president of the National Association of Con i troller and Accounting Officers, which is composed of leading officers of large ! cities throughout the country. He ; was also vice president of the Asso | elation of American Government Ac ' countants, membership of which is : confined principally to federal and Dis ! trict oftlces. ) | Originated Form of Budget. In order that control of the finances ' of the municipal government might ! be centralized, Mr. Tweedale prepared a form of budget covering estimates ' of appropriations for the fiscal year i ending June 30, 1911. It was approved by the Commission I ers and forwarded to the Secretary or ! the Treasury, with a recommendation ! that it be transmitted to Congress for i consideration by that body. The ob i ject was to provide a scientific classi fication and arrangement of the Dis i trict's financial business through , which it would be possible to obtain an inteWsent and simple exhibit of financial operations. He refused several more lucrative ofTers during-the war. in the belief that it was his patriotic duty, in view of his special knowledge of District affairs, to remain in his position. He accepted the additional responsibility . of treasurer of the District's War Camp Community Service, and has ' disbursed approxirately half a mil lion dollars since the time of its in . ception. He also served as a member ' of the business committee with Mrs. i Newton D. Baker and Walter S. Uf I ford. | RED FLEET REPORTED COMPLETELY DISABLED i j STOCKHOLM, August 23 (Havas).? j The bolshevik f.eet in the Gulf of Fin ' land, defending Petrograd, has been ; disabled completely, the newspapers here report. The defenses of Kronstadt. which were bombarded by British warships, have been destroyed. u. S. FLEET GOING TO JAP NAVY REVIEW ? ! SAN FRANCISCO, August 23.? ( An American fleet is to visit Japan this autumn, to witness a review j of the Japanese navy before the i emperor at Yokohama, according Ito A cable from Tokio to the New World, a Japanese daily publica tion in this city. i Aerial Bombs May Be Added to Equipment for Fighting Across Border. CARRANZA FEDERALS OPERATING TO SOUTH Five Known Dead Bandits Result of Expedition So Far?Supplies and Forage Provided. By the Associated Presn. MARFA. Tex.. August 23.?Two forces of troops. Carranza federals, operatinb far to the south, and American cavalry, farther aorth. today are scouring the Conchos river region of Mexico in an endeavor to clear that section of ban dits who precipitated an expedition into the southern republic by capturing and holding for ransom two American Army aviators. Five known dead bandits was the net result of the expedition at the beginning of the fifth day of operations below the border. More rapid progress in the pursuit ot the outlaws was expected today, yes terdav's chase having been largely de layed' by dispatch of supplies and forage to the American soldiers. Maj Gen. Joseph T. Dickman. com mander of the Southern Department, left last night for San Antonio after ! completing an inspection of the border ! and familiarizing himself with the de tails of the punitive expedition. Before leaving the general said an effort would be made to pay the bandits the ?6,j00 remaining of the ransom money for the i aviators, though he did not say just ; how this \frould be done. May Use Bombs. Rumors of further bandit captures ' and bombing of bandit strongholds which found circulation at various times yesterday proved unfounded, but the possibility of using bombs in wiping out the bandits developed with the arrival of aerial bombs for experimental purposes and an an nouncement that these might be used If a bandit force should be found in any considerable numbers. No information came from the ex peditionary forces yesterday except word brought here by aviators that the pursuit of the bandits still was being conducted. Reports that the forces would be withdrawn at an early date had no foundation. Gen. . Dickman saying the expedition would | remain in Mexico as long as they I were following a hot trail. There was i no explanation of the rescinding of i the order Ut additional troops to support the punitive Apedltlon. j A movement has been Started by . business and cstti?tn*n W the ?f Bend district to urge that Capt, Leon ard F. Matlack be awarded the con gressional medal of honor for sav'ng the life of Lieut. Paul H. Davis when he rescued him frdirt bandits last ! Monday night. Matlack made a state ment to Gen. Dickman that he heard ! the bandits planning to ambush him self and Davis and "kill both grin goes." He then made a dash for the river, with Davis behind him on horseback, he said. Strike Holds Up Supplies. i LOS ANGELES, August 23.?Forty carloads of Army supplies bound for troops on the border were held in the 16cal freight yards today ?n account of the Btrike .of trainmen on the Southern Pacific. Atchison, Topeka and ! Santa Fe and the Los Angeles and ; Salt Lake railroads. The mails suf ; fered some delay, but in most in ; stances were cleared within a few ! hours of their accustomed time. I Santa Fe officials annulled all trains ; last night because of inability to get ' engine crews to man them. They also announced that unless conditions i changed they would halt all inbound ! trains at San Bernardino today because | of congested yards here. The written statement 'of demands j presented by the switchmen to officials ! of the rallroadB affected disclosed that among them was the following: "The officers of three companies i who threw switches and made up ! trains must be removed from the I service." Reciprocal Border Service. ! MEXICO CITT, August 22.?An im : portant step toward the adoption of measures tending to prevent clashes between Mexico and the United States was taken last night when Luis Cabrera, secretary of the treasury, and generally regarded as the mouth piece of the present administration, stated In a press interview that the t Mexican and American governments I should sign an agreement for a recip rocal border guard service. Vgaoio Bonillas, Mexican ambassa ? dor at Washington, according to Senor 1 Cabrera, would be "eminently fitted" for conducting negotiations with tbis purpose in view, since he was a mem ber of the Mexican commission which met United States representatives at Atlantic City in 1916 to discuss this plan during the Pershing expedition into northern Mexico. Senor Cabrera was himself chairman of the Mexican ? commission. According to the secretary, the dlffl l culties which prevented the adoption of such an agreement at Atlantic City ! were due to the fact that the Ameri can delegation wanted the agreement signed immediately, while the Mexi can commission held out for a with ? drawal of the Pershing expedition be fore reaching an agreement. Senor ? 'iibrcra pointed out that at present ! 8UCh a difficulty would not be met 1 with sirfce the early withdrawal of the 8th Cavalry, now pursuing bandits j in the state of Chihuahua, was ex i PeConiment In other official quarters tended to point out that "with recipro cal border service to eliminate further clashes, with the present government bending every energy to protect for ? eign property and with Congress about i to take up the oil question,'the case i of Mexico should be solved quickly. Mistake Regarding Aviators. c.v DIEGO. Calif., August 23.? I ieut R R Fox of Rockwell Field i misunderstood a conversation In the 1 office of Col. Hanlon. field commandant. ' and notified Miss Georgia Waterhouse that her brother, Lieut. F. B. Water : Louse, and Lieut. C. H. Connelly, miss ing aviators, had been found by a ^'roT^Ia^onTat^'declared no word i had been received at Rockwell Field 1 concerning either pilot. Calles Leaves Cabinet. DOUGLAS. Ariz.. August 2J.?Gen. : P. Ellas Calles, Governor of Sonora has resigned his post In the cabinet I of President Carrcnza as minister of industry, commerce ?n<l accord i ing to Excelsior, a Mexico City news ; paper, which has reached Douglas. The resignation, according to the ' newspaper, followed bitter press | criticism of Gen. Calles as unfitted for ' (Continued on Second Page.) DIRECT DESCENDANTS OF CIVIL WAR VETERAN, DEAD, NUMBER 145 BRISTOL, Tenn., August 23.? Fifty-one great grandchildren, eighty-two grandchildren and twelve children survive-Charles E. Folden, seventy-eight years old, and Confederate ' veteran, who died at his home at Glade Spring. Va., August 14, accord ing to advices received here to day. He was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Anne Frank lin during the second year of the civil war at the age of twenty one years. Six grandsons acted as pall bearers, while an equal number of granddaughters were the flower bearers. Ill TRANSPORTSERVICE Great Northern Leaves -Hew York, Northern Pacific Will Go in About Six Weeks. By thr Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 23.?With the sailing of thj Army transport Great Northern today for San Francisco an nouncement was.made that this big ship and her sister craft, the Northern Pacific, were to be used permanently in the transport service on the Pacific. The Northern Pacific will follow to the west coast in about six weeks, and both vessels will make the passage through the Panama canal. - Ports on Kegular Route. Their regular route will be from San Francisco to Honolulu. Manila, Vladivostok and thence to Nagasaki, Guam, Honolulu and San Francisco. When the American forces are brought out of Siberia they will come on these craft, which have made an unusual record in the transport serv ice to and from France. They will be able to make the trip from San Francisco to Manila in fifteen days, i thus improving the mail service be tween those ports. Bought From Railroad. The Great Northern and Northern . Pacific were purchased by the Array | from the Great Northern Railroad ; Company at the outbreak of ihe war. ' They were among the largest ships I on the Pacific and are oil burners. |CHICAGO RABBIS JOIN STOCKYARDS UNION CHICAGO. August 23.?Rfcbbis at the stockyards have joined the Amalgamated Meat Cutters' and Butoher Workers' Union of North America, it became known today. There are 170 rabbis at the yards who kill chicken?. twenty-five who slaughter beef and about eighty Jew ish butchers. Fowls and animals killed for "Jew ish consumption have to be dis patched in a manner prescribed by the faith. WANTS FOURY. W. C.A.'S TO BE "POLICEWOMEN" ? I ..... ! NEW YORK. August 23.?Four members of the Young Women's Christian Association have been asked to become the first policewomen of Czechoslovakia. This request was received today by the overseas committee of the or ganization from the commissioner of police at Prague. Tha /women are i wanted for social service work. ACTORS' STRIKE SENDS STAGE BEAUTIES TO WORK IN N. Y. STORES NEW YORK, August 23.? Stage beauties who. when the Kialto was not bothered with | a thespian strike, receive fancy salaries, now are earning from $15 to $20 a week in depart ment stores, according to Mrs. Shelley Hull, who ic directing a relief bureau at strike head quarters. Mary are acting as telephone operators. Gov. Smith was un able to come from Albany today to attempt to settle ih> strike. Citizens' Committee Making Elaborate Arrangements for, Tribute to A. E. F. A court of honor, equaling in mat niflcence anything ever seen at an inaugural celebration, is planned by the citizens' committee as a part of the grand review of the 1st Division here next month, which is to be held a tribute to th$ eattre American expeditionary forces. [ Roi?rV***4*rper. ot committee, said' today that prelimi- ; nary plans were being made for the! oonstructlon of the court of- honor, which will extend the entire length of J I the White House grounds alon? Penn- j ! syivania avenue; and which is to be marked at- each end by a triumphal I arch. Permission is to be askei of Congress for the erection of stands I along both sides of the avenue, a part j i of which will be used by members of J Congress, the diplomatic corps, and I other officials, and the rest sold to | I defray the expenses of the celebration. Flan Elaborate Arches. The arches will have to be built on a more elaborate scale than anything heretofore seen in Washington, as they must be wide enough to allow twenty-six men to march abreast beneath them, and to allow at least two field pieces or caissons to pass under. They will be constructed of light materal and- will be thickly studded with electric lights so that when Illuminated at night they will make a stunning picture. Mr. Harper | said today that it was planned to have the arches about the same width as 15th street is east of the Treasury ! building, as that would be the nar rowest thoroughfare through which the veterans would march. Officials of the War Department said today they were making a survey of j camps and barracks in and near Washington where the 28,000 officers and men of the division might be housed, but that no announcement could be made as to where the various units would be stationed, until th j entire plan had been approved. No Date Has Been Fixed It was stated at the War I)er ment that no date has been fl for the review, although Septemu. 16 Is the tentative date. But until I is Known what time the various units of the division will sail from France and when they will arrive in New York, the identical day on which they will march in triumph up Pennsyl vania avenue cannot be determined. Not the least of the tasks in arr ranging for the review is the furnish ing of nearly 6,000 horsesto draw the lighter guns and caisSons and to furnish mounts. The horses will be provided according to the minimum number allowed in the lateBt tables of organization. This will be pos sible because of the smooth roads to I be traveled. Certain wagons that needed six husky animals to haul -them through the mud and not of the ! shell holes of French battlefields may I be drawn up the Avenue with ease by 1 two horses, and the same Is true of other horse-drawn equipment. It was learned today that Gen. Pershing, who Is expected to sail from Brest about September 1. will not re turn on the Mount Vernon, but will j take passage on the Leviathan Instead. The reason for the change Is that the Mount Vernon was delayed on her last trip and will not sail from Brest as early as planned. MEMOlOnKT WORKER VICTIMS IS PL AH I Plans for a memorial tablet to be erected In front of the District build ing, containing the names of the heroes of the Army and Navy who were killed in the war, after enter ing the service from the District gov ernment, were completed today. Jerome Connor, sculptor, who at tained considerable fame for his work on a statue of Robert Emmet, will be awarded the commission for the tab The names to be on the tablet will be collected from the different de partments of the District government. Financial plans will be completed l'^er. . , . . Members of the committee which is in charge of arrangements are as fol lows: William F. Franklin, James C. Maddox, James Lusby, Karl E. Krltsch, Drew Thompson. W. T. Flta Batrlck. S. D. Clatterbuck, J. J. :ieney, John J. Sweeney and Thomas D. WalEh. CALLS FORMER KAISER EXPENSIVE FOREIGNER; GUARD COSTS BIG SUM AMERONGEN. Wednesday, August 20 (by the Associated Press).?Under the headline "An expensive foreigner in Amerongen," the Amsterdam Uandlesblat, a copy of which has been received here, says nineteen policemen, the salaries ot whom total 75 guilder daily, have been guarding the former German emperor since Novem ber. " i "So the kaiser already has cost our country a total of 20. 000 guilder," says the news paper. "Truly an expensive foreigner." It is understood here "that there has been no change in the status of the former emperor with the Netherlands govern ment and that he is still con fined to certain limits. Report has it that he expects to bring to Holland his own furnfture from G^rPMiir CMtlw to furnish his newly bought home, the hVUse of Dsorn, |f the German government give's its consent. ??. MEASURE TO PROBE D.C. AFAIRS GOES TO RULES X Mr. Hapes, Its Author, Will Ask Immediate Consideration in the Hoose. The Mapes resolution introduced yesterday to authorizea sweeping in vestigation of financial afTairs. the administration of various District de partments. including tbfe police force, public utilities and business affecting -the costs of the necessities of life in the District has been referred to the rules committee. Chairman Mapes of ' the District committee, who is author of this res olution. accompanied by Representa tive Ben Johnson of Kentucky, rank inc democrat, will appear before the -Miittee early next week to special rule to give this Jiate consideration in ?id of the subcommit atters is not in town return Monday. Other special subcommittee . -> their intention, as soon ?jrtty is granted under this ai lution. to start an investigation of the police department. The sub committee has not yet deoitied on the scope of the investigation. They have, however, been importuned by Important groups of citizens to make it thorough and extensive. SENATOR FLETCHER IS REPORTED IMPROVING Senator Fletcher of Florida, who was run down and severely injured by a street car here Thursday night, i rested easily last night and his con- j dition was improved today, accord- j ing to his physicians, who also said no indications of any complications j have developed. 1,700 Officers Apply for Positions. NEW YORK, August 23.?Approxi mately 1,700 officers and ex-offioers of the Americap Army, most of them overseas veterans, have registered with the War Department as appli cants for positions, It is announced by Col. Arthur Woods, assistant to the Secretary of War. who is conduct ing a nation-wide drive for the re employment of ex-Army men. Appli cants ask from $760 to $6,000 a year and represent all fields of endeavor. PLANE LANDS ON ROOF, j THEN RESUMES FLIGHT i NEWARK, N. J., August 23.?An airplane landed on the roof of a building yesterday, then made a flight from the roof. Edwin E. Ballough, formerly of the Canadian aviation service and now in the employ of a local drygoods firm as an aviator, carrying one -pas senger. circled the Army quarter master stores building from a height of 700 feet and landed on the roof, which is 987 feet long and fifty feet wide. The machine then was wheeled to one end of the roof, taxied a short distance and took the air. The feat was accomplished In Parts a year ago. 3 SENATORS WOULD GIVE TO CHINA ALL HUN RIGHTS IN SHANTUNG Interallied Mission Leaves for Upper Silesia and Poles Go to Warsaw. HUNS STOP EXECUTIONS By the Associated Press. BERLIN". August 22.?An interallied mission will leave this city for Upper Silesia within twenty-four hours, and the Polish commission which has been conferring with German government of , Trials will return to Warsaw and make I a report. This new development was the out come of precipitate action by tho Poles, who on Wednesday interrupted neBO tiatlons with Germany, claiming the Upper Silesian situation was such that further deliberations were impossible It was evident that this action came as a surprise to the entente representatives hr>re. Gen. Dupont. commander of the interallied commission, expressed the view that the German eoveniment ha<l sole authority at present in Lpper Si{tS'is not expected that negotiations with the Poles will be resumed until after the interallied commission had re ported. and its fln<i'ng3 are a^pted as final, until questions invoUed in the occupation of Upper Silesia, as well as other disputes, are settled by a Plebi?^-^ In the meantime the German ment has agreed to moderate "V'tty?f measures now being enforced in the re gion and to discontinue executions. TX. S. Unrepresented. The United States will not be repre sented on this interallied commisslonun Uss American representatives_from Dan lig or Warsaw should join it later. The conference yesterday ?hick> re suited in the formation of this com mission was attended by members or the French. British. ItjiHan and Jap anese missions now in Berlin, in ad dition to the German and Polish dele gates to tie conference that has been in session here for some time. No American delegates were present The functions of the commission are explained as limited to those of an ; investigating board that shall report to the peace confereence at Paris. Charge Bolshevik Influence. The German forelm nounces *hat the government an impartial ?tu?y madeat the causes and effects ?f the disorders In Upper iltfeita of Its claim that German sovereign rights are being violated by the Poles. The foreign office ex pressed confidence that the commis sion's Investigation would show the 1 uprisings to be altogether of a bol shevik character and of pan-Polish ? German military authorities de clared there was no foundation for a charge that a German aviator in vaded Polish territory and bombarded the town of Sosnowlsc. 200 miles ? southwest of Warsaw. Situation Improving. ? COPENHAGEN. Au^ist 22.?Aceord ' ing to a- dispatch from Kattowitz the situation in Upper Silesia Is Improv ing. The strikers are resuming work and 50 per cent of the miners hue i returned, the dispatch adds. | CHARLOTTENBURG. Germany. Au ! gust 22 (by the Associated Press).? I Herr Korfanty, president of the Po I lish mission to Berlin, said today the manifestations in Upper Silesia were ! to be explained by the fact that the country had been under martial law for the past seven months, that hun dreds of Poles had been arrested and that the German commissioner. Jeer ing, had been applying a reign ^er ror, provoking strikes, riots and other d HerrbKo?rfanty added that there was no bolshevik movement in Silesia. Suspect Communists. ? BERLIN. Tuesday. August IS (by i the Associated Press).?Prussian au i thorities declare that if the regular ! Polish troops are taking part}n l disorders they are elements that ha\e j eotten beyond the control leaders and that communist agitators are using the situation to further i their political ends. ! Dispatches from Oppeln say the ma i iority of workers in several of the latest mines are ready to resume wofk Railways and illuminating plants In that district are again In operation. Coal Commission to Be Sent. ' .j * pic August 22.?At a meeting of ! the interallied coal commission with I HDerts at Versailles today ' u decided immediately to send a ! four-power coal commission to Silesia ^ investigate the situ^ion. Col. i Goodyear will act as American ad i viser. 310 PERSIAN SUBJECTS MURDERED BY BOLSHEVIKI I i I LONDON. August 22 (by the Asso ciated Press)-Details have reached here of the murder by bolsheviki o Ibadullabeg. the Persian con8"'" agent at Armavir. Armenia, to^e^ with 310 Persian subjects, of ?hom 270 were Mohammedans and forty Christians. When the volunteer army evacuated Armavir July 27, according to the reports 'the bolsheviki called Ibadul labeg out, shot him down muti lated his body with "words and bay i.nets The bolsheviki then herded to eethe'r all the Persians who had taken filter under the protectio* of the Persian flag and shot them en masse with machine guns and buried the": nartly In the consular graveyard and partly in a common pit. SHAH GREETED BY TURKS. Persian Notable Stop* at Constan tinople on Way to Western Europe. CONSTANTINOPLE. Tuesday. Au gust 19 (by the Associated Press).? The Shah of Persia, who is on his way to western Europe, arrived here , ? ? fmm Katum on a British war ship He was met by the allied high commissioners and representatives of aiiita.n and the porte. ? In connection with the shah's visit ?he Turkish press comments on the British-Persian agreement saying it is bound to have a notable bearing on the future of the middle east. Foreign Relations Com mittee Approves the Change in Treaty. PROPOSAL ADOPTED BY VOTE OF 9 TO 8 Senator Lodge, Author of Measure Taking Province From Japan. By a vote of 9 to 8 the Senate for I eign relations committee today adopl ,ed an amendment to the peace treaty I by which Germahjights in Shantunc j province, China, would go to China j instead of to Japan. All tne demo cratic members and Senator McCum | her. republican. North !>al:ota. voted J against the amendment. Senator* j Shields. Hitchcock and Pitttnan were not pre-ent. but by agreement their Ivotes wpre recorded in the negative. Chairman Lodge offered the amend ment under which the word "Japan (would be stricken from the Shantung '-f'hVn ?r ith' ,reaty at>d the word j China substituted. j Acts Without Extended Debate. ! twa4i ,ake? Without ex ! debate shortly after the com ! mentis . work on amend tre?t?> * ?,la? to report the in the if *?? i nTJlt* Shantung amendment i* ex ' r lea<1ers on both sides to I otbTi"'' f,reaier strength than anv ?i? 1e ?rnate floor Democratic j Ltf/'r8 ,ray. ,he>- bax-e the votes to 'dfci^thJ. i. rcP"blicans pr< . diet that it will be adopted. Ask for Polish Treaty. i ??mmitti e also instructed Chair man Lodge to request President Wilson th* i" ? iT"31? th<> treaty between r United States and Poland signed ! fin?,? af LerSaiUe* and such informa i nJ?i- J,e regarding the treaties now under negotiation with Austria Bulgaria and Turkey. ?=???. Without taking up' any oth-r proposed amendments to the treaty with Ger Monday """""'"ee adjourned until To Speed Up Treaty. The foreign relations committee, changad Its plana for a pubUc hearing today and prepared to dispose of pro posed amendments and reservations as rapidly as possible. Except for a hearing of the Egvp .Vi* ?a8e ^onday- tbe committee Plans to work on the treaty without interruption until Friday, and mem bers on both sides predict that by that time a report will be ready. I ^,1?ther amendments proposed in ad dition to the Shantung matter cover a wide range. Senator FalL republican, -New Mexico, wants to have no Ameri can representation on the various re construction commissions dealing with European matters. Senator Knox, republican, Pennsylvania, pro poses that the peace terms and the league of nations covenant be sep arated and the latter reserved for later consideration. Senator Borah, republican. Idaho, would defeat the league covenant entirely by simply striking it out of the treaty. Amendments also #re to be offered to the economic and labor sections. Senator Hitchcock's Statement. , Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, the , democratic leader, declared his belief that the report would be laid before the Senate during the coming week and asserted that he had been assured the republicans would co-operate to that end. Some republican members agreed with bis prediction, but Chair man Lodge declined to say when he thought the committee would act. Senator Fall, referring to a state j ment by the President that* so far a^ i he knew the United State* was not trading with Germany, declared there had been a suspension of the trading with-the-eneniy act which could be effected only by presidential authority and that merchant vessels were salt ing direct between American and Ger man ports. The export trade to Ger many in June, lie .said, amounted to $8,000,000. Debate for Weeks Expected. Once in the Senate, the treaty is ex pected to be under debate for some weeks before final action, and commit tee members pointed out that a sup plemental report might be filed should it be warranted by any hearings held after committee action has been taken Developments yesterday pointed with increasing certainty to the com plete collapse of the effort to pass a compromise resolution along the lines of President Wilson's suggestion for reservations apart from the ratifica Ition itself. Republican leaders de clared presentation of the resolution only had cleared the air so far as they were concerned, and had revealed be yond doubt that the group of repub- ' lican reservation advocates would in sist on having the qualifications a part of the ratification. Position of Keservationists. On the democratic side it was as serted the move had accomplished its purpose of showing that the demo crats and a large number of republi cans stood for ratification with reser vations of the same sort, differing only in the methods to be pursued, and that textual amendment of the treaty was out of the question. The democratic leaders indicated, how ever, they had no intention of bring ing the resolution to a vote. 400 OFFICERS KILLED, ? BOLSHEVISTS REPORT LONDON. August SI.?A bolshevik! wireless communication received here this evening says: "We captured 1,000 prisoners, in cluding men from an enemy Astrak han regiment, together with machine guns in the fighting northeast of Lapshinskaya. Two enemy regiments were shattered. A group consisting entirely of officers was annihilated, 400 being killed and 160 captured. "The report that two of our battle ships were sunk at Kronstadt is un true. One battleship was slightly damaged. "Two thousand industrial establish ments have been nationalised by th* soviet. This is $2 per cent of th* total such establishments." s