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j Finieth Yar-No. 227 p'ric. Rt cer.i OGDEN CITY, UTAH SATURDAY EVENINGTaUGUST 28, 1920. LASTEDITION 4 p7m
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I A of os Speed In Elgin, IlL Classic
i EIGHT DHiVERS
I START; FAMOUS
I CARS ENTERED
Oe Palma Makes First Lap of
8 12 Miles in 6 1-2
m Minutes
RECORD-BREAKiNG
f ' TIME IS PREDICTED
r
u g fully 60.000 Speed Fans Turn
J. J Out to Watch Daring
Automobilists
yrfflM SPEEDWAY ELGIN, III Aug. 28.
WgM Ralph dc Palma, the first to start
1 n the eighth Elgin road race today.
( made 1 he firsl la i of I h elghl md
. y half mile course In bIx minutes, 1 1 irt :
. i- i inds,
U Following de Talma, the othvr start-
Bj ers got off In the following order
Murphy, Thomas, Milton, O'Donnell.
HE Chevrolet, Ford and Mulford. A crowd
RffS officially estimated to number f.0,000
li persons, the greatest In the history of
jT -L the course, witnessed the st ir',
fjj Although the roads were declare'!
to be slightly rough, record-breaking
' J time was predicted by race fans.
The following is the official entry
v , list of cars and drivers in the ordei
in which thej Btarl In tin- Elgin road
rfli M race, starting at 12 noon, central etan-
fcrM dard time, today.
Driver Car
'.,fjH Ralph de Palma ..ballot
flmmT Jimmy Murphv ... 1'
gH .!.). Thomas .- .Revert
N EH Tnm Milton I n l 1 1 1 m r k
HH Eddie U'Donnell Duesenber
9g Gaston Chevrolet Monroe
sSm Fercv Ford Frdjnitenac
Egg Ralph Mulford Monroe
SRS in the first lap Milton and ' 1 Don-
19 nell passed Thomas, and MulfQrd
Sgra passed Ford. I"' I'alma ni.ule the fast-
W8 est flrlap in six niinuw . and thlriv
gjij seconds. The record for the coura !-
KfS lng six minutes end eighteen seconds. '
p9 On the second lap Chevrolet was
mf) defeated by motor trouble and Mul
PV ford passing both Chevrolet and
SI Thomas went into second place on
lapsed time
1mm At the end of the fourth lap de '
Jay Palma was four seconds ahead of
Mulford. De Raima was maintaining
a speed of 77.6 miles per hour. Chev- 1
Ljg rolet drew into the pits on the second
mm lap for mechanical reps r
Prj i hi rol I gol star ft i l(
jjjfl four laps. At the end of the sixth Up.
fl approximately 50 mile, dc Raima was I
EW Still leading the field with MuMord a
close second. De Palmes' lapsed time:
was 8 minutes and 52 seconds. Do
9 Raima's average was 77. 6 miles per
Mulford was Just three seconds be-j
; .-'l .m hind th leader Milton was third,
Mf O'Donnell fourth Murphj fifth, Ford
HJ slth. Thomas sc. ' nth and i iicvrolot
WM Igbth.
t Joe Thomas who was Injured In
practice spin last wee): was replaced
Pv( by Tom Alley as driver of car No. 10
av In the sixth lap The strain of the
t rrlflc pace proved too severe tor;
WM In Palma still maintained his lead
M at the end of the eighteenth lap, ap-
I proximately 150 miles, with an ave-i
rage of SI 1-4 miles per hour, a rcc-;
ftj ord for the course Milton was See -I
fl ond.. Mulford third. Murphy fourth
WM i and O'Donnell fifth. I'p until this time,
two carg had stepped at the pits audi
u one of these stops was for a change,
m3 of drivers
tp Do Raima made the nineteenth lap!
vJ in 6 minutes and 11 ."econds, break-'
ing another re ord. which had stood
for five years, the best previous time
W having been 6 minutes and fk seconds,
C? made by Spencei WlShart in the race
IK in which he was killed Wisharfs
y. record was made In a 450 cubic Inch
M, displacement car while Dc Raima's'
maohlns onl measures 180 cubic!
Jl inches under the new rules.
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FURTHER SHOWERS ARE
Lg PREDICTED THIS WEEK
WASHIXGTON. Aug. 28. Weekly
H weather predictions for the week be-
ginning Monday are:
Upper MissiSShlpPl and lower Mls
wM sourl alleys, Generally fair but with
WM local rains Tuesday or Wednesdav.
H cool.
Northern Rocky mountain and pla
'Wm teou regions. Generally fair but with
WM some probability of showers Tuesday
H- or Wednesday. Cool probably local
H lrosts in elevated regions.
H Southern Rocky mountain and pla-
WM teau regions: Generally fair and little
H change in temperature.
Pacific states: Generally fair but
H with probability of occasional showers
In Washington and Oregon. Normal
I temperature.
1 ROOSEVELT ATTACKS
1 HARDING IN NEBRASKA
9 NORTH PDATTE. Neb.. Aug. 28.
mm Franklin R. Roosevelt, Democratic
m vice presidential nominee, carried his
part) s national campaign Into Nebras-
Lwf ka today with a short addrots here In I
f hlch he charged that Seantor Ilard-
Hl : i-K . the i:eiub;b. .'ii en ndldale for
H president, had not shown himself to be
Vt u constructive leader. '
BAND USED BY VILLA I
TO RAID TWO NATIONS
PASSES INTO HISTORY
MEXICO CITY, Aup 28. Work of mustering out the followers of
I Kranclsco Villa, the former rebel chieftain, was completed this afternoon
at Tlahajllo, State of Durango, according; to a report received from Gen
rai I .' i: ' M rt i r i ' w .. nin rint nrji d i he up. r:ii ion
Ml e-f Villa's men surrendered their arms and ammunition and re
j ceived pay for iliree months The balance of their year's pay, which was
1 promised, will be given them later. Officers were allowed to retain their
; pistols for self defense, and all the men were given safe conducts ana
transportation to" their farms in the state of ( hihuahua. Durango and
Coahuila. All look an affectionate farewell of Villa, who advised (hem to
1 .".void politics and devote themselves to rustic pursuits. Villa and General
J I M&rtlncx Will go tomorrow to Canutillo, state of Durango. where the for
' mer will be established on a farm
MINERS FIGHT
FIERCE BATTLE
MMDS
Baldwin-Feits Detective
Wounded When Strikers
and Sleuths Clash
CHARLESTON, W Va, Vug 28.
Major Payne, a BaldWln-Felts detec
iie. was wounded in a fight which
started early this morninr between
striking miners and mine guards at
the Willis branch Coal company. Wil
lis branch. Raleigh county, according
tD a statement gie-'ii out by the stute
poii"t- department here. Two trains
have been held outside the town, the
rrews fearing to take thorn through
Willis Hrj.iicii. the statement said.
Slate police are on the scene at
ti inpting to utet the disturbance and
have irresred a miner who was seen
firing from D bain, the statement said,
ii). Baldwin-Felta m n were doing
most of the shooting, according to the
statement, using automatic rifles.
FEDERAL LUXURY TAX IS
DENOUNCED BY JEWELERS
LOUISVIIjLB, Ky.. Aug. 28 llano -(
lutions adopted at the closing sessions
"of the- American National Retail Jew
f eleis association here today denounc
I ed the 6 per cent federal luxury tax
! on jewelry ;mri advocated instead the
adepllon of an equitable tax on sales
i of all merchandise, Aneither resolu
tion cited the frequency with wnuu
leweley stores ;ir held no and urged
j e-ongress to make Illegal :he manufac
ture or importation of firearms when
Intended for sile to private persons.
Preslelcnt Arthur A- Everts. Dallas,
I Texas, and all othei officers of the
! association were re-eletced Selection
of the next convention city was left
with the executive committee.
LIVESTOCK MEN HALT
ACTION OF U. S. CHIEFS
KANSAS C1T. Mo., Aug. 28. A
Ibmporar) injunction restraining Ed
win '1 Meredith, secretary of agricul
ture. Francis M. Wilson, district at
torney hero and M. Y. Griffith of the
1 niled States bureau of markets here
from taking action before September
18 to cancel the licenses of livestock
commission men In Kansas City, was
granted in the federal district court.
KNOCKS CLUBMAN DOWN
AND SHOOTS THREE TIMES
WINCHESTER, Ky.. Aug 28.
Benjamin Good, 1 years, a well-known
clubman of thta City, was shot and per
haps fatally wounded by Rodney Hag
gard, an attorney of this city, during
a flstlr encounter here last night. Af
ter knocking Geiod down Haggard thiiii
drew a pistol and shot him three times,
the witnesses said.
HaKgard, a brother of Judge F U
Haggard, city attorney, was arrested
charged with malicious shooting. Ho
declined to say why he shot Good.
RUN-OFF PRIMARY
BEING HELD IN TEXAS
DALLAS. Tex., Aug. 28 Demo
cratic candidates for governor, lieu
tenant governor and associate Justice
Of the supreme court were being nom
Inated In a run-off primary In Texas
loda) The gubernatorial i ,i ni p Uk'ii
between former I'nited States Senator
Joseph W. Made;, of Q all) I B 1 1 1 e, and
Pal M Neff of Waco the leaders in
jthe field of four candidates In the July
primary, was sjild to have been on,- .m
he most t.niei In recent Texas politi
cal history.
GOVERNOR GIVES PORKER
TO FELLOW EXECUTIVE
LINCOLN, Neb., Aug. 28. A prlze
I winning tpg, weighing slxt pounds,
I will leae Lincoln at o'clock torcor
row morning b airplane for Mudlsotv.
i v'ih . being a present from Governor
I McKslvlo of Nebraska to Governor
I Phlllpps. A local aircraft company
has undertaken to deliver the shoat,
i which was ralieri by the father oi
I Governor Mi KclVle, a breeder of high
' grade hogs.
FACTS ON COIL
PRICES; 10 IS
EETTWE MONEY
Cost ro Consumer About 3
Times Cost at Mouth
of Mine
BY H UQd It. Ill NT.
n.i . smfi unespondenl
WASHINGTON. Auu. 28. The av
erage cost of ton of bituminous coal,
on cars at the mine's mouth, is $2 7t.
The average selling pries of a ton
I of soft coal, by the operator, f o. b. the
mine, is just D cents more, or $3.28.
Yet today the retail prlc of coal,
even In cities adjacent to mine dis
tricts, runs from $K up principally
up. Here In Washington, today, for
ti. stance, it Is $9 75i if you can get it.
Often, before one can get It, he must
tlr the quoted price by 60 cents or
$ 1 a ton.
WHO GETS IT?
Using tlw Washington prlc as a
baids for comparison, however, it Is
.seen that the price to the consumer
is Just three times the average price
at the mines.
Transpoi tut ion and middlemen have
swallowed twice as much as was re-
quired to pay the mine' who iug it.
buy the supplies necessary fer Its mln
ing, pay a bank value to the mine
owner ami nnow mm a margin oi
profit.
The costs sjrlven ar.. not those of a
siiiKie bon-representatlve district, but
the average cost of representative Op
tra tors in nil districts
P1 u UTORS' PRO! ITS.
The a - erage labor cost in produc
ing a ton of soft coal, the federal trade
commission's figures show. Is $2.04.
I The average cost or mine supplies Is
ill cents per ton and the average of
o'her general expenses 41 cents-
The average price received by the
I operator, as shown by si 2 returns, Is
J.t 26 per ton. ranglnir from 12.9 In
Michigan, Iowa and Kentucky, to $3.
t)X In Missouri. Kansas. Texas, Okla
homa and ArKansas In the central
competitive field. Including Illinois,
Indiana. hlo and the southwest dis
trict of Pennsylvania, the sales rea
lization figure is 53.02 a ton. and in
Wist Virginia, Virginia and the cen
tral Pennsylvania district, $3 oi per
, ton.
The explanation given by many re
l 'll coal dealers is that they are hav
ilng to pay from $6 to $8 a ton for coal
at the mines
NO RECORD OP 'I'M .
These mine prices arr not shown on
.the return to the federal trade com
!mlfslon. '
The returns do show that neither
:the costs of produelr.g eo. l nor the av
erage of selling prices at the mines
Justifies the present prices exacted
from the consumer.
There Is a dark man In the coal pile;
somewhere: Rut no case of drastic
prosecution for coal profiteering has
yet been announced by the press bu
reau of the department of Justice.
RECREATION RULES OF
METHODISTS ATTACKED
NEW YORK. Aug. 28 Th recre- j
atlon rules of the Methodist church,
which bar dancing and theatre golnir.
to its members, were attacked by f,
Henry Sm the, Jr , a Now York pub-1
Usher in an address today at the con-
cntion of the National association of
1 la n inp Masters
"I have been making this fight for!
the good of the Methodist church.'' 1
said Mr. Smythe "I am a Methodist, 1
M fat her I ; . v In ,f i r II. nrv
Smythe of Philadelphia, has preached I
before six presidents and indirectly
converted Billy Sunday Convinced
that the recreation rules keep people
out of Methodism, 1 decided to try to I
change tho Book of Dlsclpllni John
Wesley s wise dictum has been suf-'
. fleirnt Avoid tho taking of such di
version as can not be used in th" name
1 of the Lord Jesus." I am In this fight
as long as T live, even if it oosts my
, churrh membership,"
THREE MOTOR BANDITS
TAKE PAYMASTER'S ROLL;
i
HAMMOND. Ind.. Aug. 28. Threej
men In ah automobile held up the
paymaster oi the General American
Company at L.tSt Chicago, Ind. thlS
morning and escaped with $15,000. j
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LN. Y. SHOWERS
GOVERNOR COX
WITH FLOWERS
Thousands Mass in Terminal
to Greet Democratic
Standard Bearer
CANDIDATE SPEAKER
AT POLICE FIELD DAY
Gotham Prepared to Make
Candidate's Stay An
Interesting Event
NEW YORK. Aug. 28. Governor;
Cox. siandarel bearer of the Demo
cratlC party, was showered With flow-i
crs.when he stepped off his private car'
at the Grand Central station today fori
v two-day visit to New York.
Arriving here from New Haven
about un hour ahead of schedule, the
presidential candidate founel thousands.
ef men and women massed In tho ter-1
minal to greet him-
As he left his train on which he had
breakfasted he was greeted by a com
mittee of Democratic women. Pro
ceeding down the platform he found'
Che train crew lined up to review ills!
party and with each man tho gover- ,
nor shook hands
Msl.i: ROPED OH .
The real reception, however, came
w hen Mr. Cox entered the- rotunda. An
aisle had been roped off He found
not only the main floor bul galleries
and the grand staircase thronged with
men, Tho appearance ' of Governor
Cex's party hulled even the rush of;
vacationists who em Saturday are to be
seen dashing thioiigh the station, In
lent on only ene thlnr, h
As the presidential ncimlfiv4, ' who
this afternoon Is to deliver an ad
dress at the pedlec games ut Graves
end, reached the center of the hall,
prolonged cheering broke out followed
by cries of speech Then came the I
lain of flowers
II UtGES IU 11 V) ED
NEW YORK, Aug. 28. Republican
ei'tort8 to raise presidential cainpulgn
funds were declared by Governor t ox
h -re today to be "bold, brar.en or
foolish."
On his fltst visit to New York since
receiving tho Democratic nomination
f.-r the presidency. Governor Cox re-e.-ived
0 tumultous WelCOmfn em his :u-,
i al and then delivered iwo addresses
in which he dealt with Republican
campaign funds, the leagu of nations
and Americanization. The first ad
nress was given at a luncln on at the
National Democratic club and tho sec
ond at police field day at Graves. Dd
The governor, who in his addresses
declared i lie Republican leadership
' has simply gone mad,' spoke at the
club before several hundred prominent
i.'emocrais, both men and women.
Referring to his charges that Re
miblicans were conspiring to buy the
presidency and Information bearing on
the subject of Republican campaign
funds which he had made public. Gov
ernor Cox said '
"If It were not that the documents
presented cam,, from the very Inside)
id' Republic in I.. idiuarters then the
country might look with some doubt
on the whole thing for the simple rea-;
son that It Is difficult to believe that
pedltleal generals can ever be so bobl.
brazen or foolish. And yet the very
thing that has Just been exposed Is
sunph a repetition of the follies of the
year.
OLIGARCHY BLOCKS PEACE
"When the senatorial ollgurchy
out In the way of peace, when It held
the civilization of the world in a stran
gle hold at a tlmo when airl should
have been given to staggering nations
Just out of war, men looked at e-achj
other and asked the Mucstion: 'How
can such a thing be done even in the
name of politics?'
When the senatorial grouo with an
inconsistency that persisted. moved
fiom one contention to another, the
seme ciuory ran through the communities-
of the land.
"When they unblushlngly selected n
leader of the oligarchy, Senator Lodge,
to sound the keynote. MoK'nley, Dln
eoln and Roosevelt politicians shook,
their heads.
NATION AJPPAUjED
"When at 2:11 In the morning In a
hotel room at Chicago the senatorial
croVd selected one of Us number loj
be candidate of the party, the rank
and file was appalled
"But when the 'money digging aiii-(
paign started with an organization that,
bwept the country and reached into!
every state und county when open re-
lation with business became an affair I
of partisan pride, then It became np-
l'.ir.-nt tr all Hint th,. iroot. which hji
run away with the affairs of the Re
publican part after having departed
from tld- ideullsm of Its historic days,;
has simply gone mad."
TRIBl'TK TO COPS.
At Grave-send Mr. Cox selected as
his theme Americanization He also
paid ttibuti to the police of the na-
tten, relating his own experiences as a
newspaper reporter at police stations
In Cincinnati.
"There Is no finer type of man than
tho American copper" who maintains
a clear head and a clean honor." said
the governor.
Governor Cox said that Instead of
making tii,. presidential campaign "a
pure thing," Republicans had procured
large sums of money In order to stlrl
Up racial groups and keep alive uno
tions nrouseel by the war. i
Instead of helping to allay tho af-1
fairs of world civilization, they sought!
to bring confusion Into the communi
ty of America,'" said Governor Cox, I
j CHILDREN'S SHIP
REACHES N. Y. ON 1
WAY TO RUSSIA
NEW YORK, Aug. 28. The
, Red Cross children's ship Yomei
Maru, with 770 boys and girls
of polyglot nationality rescued
from the wilds of Siberia after :
J two years' separation f rom
their parents during the war j
now on a 20,000 mile journey to
Petrogract. arrived here today
from Vladivostok, Japan, San';
Francisco and the canal zone.
The children will be landed at
Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, ;
there to remain until the Yomei
Maru unloads her cargo. Then I '
,theywill be taken aboard once j j
i more, bound for France and ,
"home."
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DEATH OF RUSS
ROYAL FAMILY
IS CONFIRMED
Independent Investigators Un
earth Facts on Horrible
Massacre of Eleven
LON'lnfN. A UP rtr-'-'All posVtd'e'-'
dotlbtfl that former Kniperor Nicholas
of Russia and his family were assassi
nated In the basement of their prison
house al Ekaterinburg on the night of
July 10, 1918, seem to bo dispelled
by the accounts of two Independent;
Investigators which are published
lure une is printed by the London
Tmes and vva written by Its former
Petrograd correspondent, Robert Wil
ton. The other appears lii the maga
zine Nineteenth Century and After und
is from the pen of Captain Francis
McCullagh of the British army Both
spent several weeks at Ekaterinburg
and talked with natives and BOldlCTS
who witnessed the affair through the
windows of the ill-fated house. Both;
writers agree on the important details
Of the story
I I I I N 14 I IMS
The victims of the massacre, they'
say. numbered eleven, being the for
mer emperor, his wife, son and four
daugntcra, l'r. Botkln ana ihree ser
vants Tin- assassination was arranged
by XuroVskl, the jailer In charge of
the deposed royal tamtiy. and was car-;
rl d out by LI solellers. The Times"
uexount says these men were Ixtts. 1
but Captain SdcCullagh declares they
were .iugyars, who had been placed
on duty instead of a Russian guard
because the Bolshevik! feaied a I!u
Bian could not be trusted for the work.'
Hi PE GIVEN I I.
Captain .McCullagh a story says all
the eloomed party, except Nicholas,
were on their knees, crossing them-'
selves, as Yurovskl shouted the order
for the execution of "Nicholas Ho
manoff, the bloody, and all his fam-.
iiv." The former omperor then step-'
ped quickly in front of his wife and
Children, saying something which,
could not be heard, and vvas shot by
YurOVSkl Then the remainder of the
party was shot down with revolvers;
and later the soldiers bayonetted tho
bodies, he said.
These accounts confirm previous re
ports, but It Is known the former em
peror's mother, who Is in Copenha
gen, and Queen Alexandru. of Great
Britain hoth have refused to give up,
hopo of the royal family's escape un- :
VA quite recently
THREE KILLED, ONE
HURT IN RUM RAID
OKLAHOMA CITY. Aug. 28. Homo'
Adrlen, deputy sheriii, Stanley V ;
Weiss, federal prohibition agent, and
Charlie handlei, a negro, an alleged
moonshiner, were killed and Claud Ty
ler, another deputy county sheriff, was'
seriously wounded two miles north of
Aicadla. twenty miles northeast of
here, early today when the officers at-
tempted to raid a still, according to a!
telephone message from United States1
officers at Quthrle to the Uplted States
marshal's office here.
A posse of county and federal agents
left for tho scene of the shooting.
It was stated in the message that!
Chandler had other negroes armed1
with rifles guarding all approaches l
the still.
"10 multlpl) In Short the woes of man
kind and Charged II all to the admin-I
(Stration in power, in order that thel
spoils of office might be gained
M'ADOO PRAISED.
"it Is high time that this sort of
thing was exposed and It shall bo my I
i i : duty until November 2 to keep
the senatorial oligarchy In tho I lew
ind i bought of the nation."
William U MeAdoo, former mem
ber of President Wilson s cabinet and
a rival of Governor Cox In tho Demo
cratic national convention at S;n
Francisco, who presided at the lunch-1
eon tendered Governor Cox here to-!
day. was praised by the presidential I
nominee for his administration of the;
treasure and management of railroads
during the war (
HARDING SETS
FORTH HIS PLAN
OF 1RLD LEAGUE!
Candidate Proposes New Ef-j
fort to Construct Associa
tion of Nations
THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL
WOULD BE FOUNDATION
Senator Pledges Himself. If
Elected, to Form Such an
Organization
MARION, O., Aug. 28. Pronounc
ing the existing league of nations ai
d finite and irredeemal.il- failure. Sen-
ator Harding today proposed a nevvi
effort te construct a world association
on the framework of The Hague tri
bunal clothed with such attributes of
the league covenant as may be found
safe, and practicable.
He pledged himself. If elected pres
ident, to make an Immediate effort,
with the advice of the ablest men of
both political parties, to form an as-1
soclation either by putting teeth'' In
to The Hague court or by revising the
covenant to protect national asplra-l
Hons.
The declaration was made in. a front
porch speech to a dele Ration of Indi
ana Republicans.
"The Democratic nominee." he said,
'has flatly said he io In favor of go
ing in' on the basis announced by the
president. am not. That Is the
whole difference between us, but it
is a most vital erne because It involves
the disparity between a world court
of Justice supplemented by a world
association for ceinferqjce..oji. the one
hrmrrr arm -THe council o? the league
on the either.
I ill IK DIFFJ EVEN 4 K
"The one is a Judicial tribunal to
be governed by fixed and definite prln
i ij.les of law administered without
pa.sion oi prejudice. 1 tie otnor is an
association of diplomats and pol Iti-1
clans whose determinations are surej
tp be Influenced by considerations of
expediency ami national selfishness i
I he league, the candidate asserted,
had broken down at Its first test in I
l'oland and now had passed beyond,
tho possibility of restoration." He
quoted from British statesmen to sup
port his statement that a revlsion ofl
the covenant Will be welcome.' abroad.
Passage of a peace resolution, he
continued, would make an actual and
effective peace without negotiation of!
a separate treaty with Germany.
V. S. TJ1 n.M.vn m
Touching on Mexico, the Republi
can nominee proclaimed "a plain no
tice to every governm nt on the face)
of the earth' that the I int.. Stales
would submit to no wrong to its citi
zens In person or property
He also replied to charges of undue'
senate Influence by asserting that as!
president he would be iulte as vlgl-!
lant as he had been as a senator to
pn vent ireapasu on that branch of l
.the government in which he served.
TEXT OF SPEEt II
The text of the speech follows in'
part.
"Let us suppose the .senate had rati-1
fied the peace treaty containing the
league covenant as submitted to It by
the president in July of last year Be
fore this day we would have been
called upon to fulfill the obligations'
which wo had assumed under Ar-
ticlo 10 of the league covenant to'
preserve the territorial integrity of
l'oland as against external aggres
sion.' Th council of the league of na
tions would have reasoned and rea
soned correctly that the L ulled States
could furnish the munitions and, If
necessary, tho men to withstand the
hordes advancing from Russia far!
more easily than could the exhausted I
nations .r Europe. W hat would of
necessity resulted - Nothing necessari
ly, we are glibly inform, d. since only
tho congress can dcchir-j war, and the
congress might reject the appeal of
tho executive. But would Che con
gress do that ' Could the congress do
that without staining Indelibly the
honor of the nation?
N VI 1 s WEJLCHER
The people would never permit the'
repudiation of a debt of honor. No1
congress would ever dare make this
nation appear as a welcher, as it
would appear, and would be in such
an event before the eyes of tho world.
So many thlnga have boon done
by the present expiring administra
tion that no power on earth could in
duce me to do, that I cannot even
attempt to recount them. 1 mav re
mark casually, however, that if 1
should bo. as l fully expect to be
elected president of this Just and hon
orable republic, I will not empower an'
assistant s.cretary of the navy to draft
a consUtutlon for helpless neighbors'
in the West Indies aud Jam it dow n I
their throats as the point of bayonets,!
borne, by United States marines. Nor1
will I misuse the power of executive'
to cover with a veil of eecrccv re
peated acts of unwarranted Interfer
enci In domestic affairs of the little
republics of the western hemisphere.
PEJUDJX NO WRONG
"On the ther hand I will not or
shall not, as you prefer, submit to
any wrong to any American cltien
with ret pe to elthei his life or prop-
erty by any l;..vci iitn.Hit This state
ment is made in all solemnll with
enmity for none and friendship for all
If It particularly applies m Mexico
tho application has been drected by
l Continued on lagc Two.)
DANIELS TAKES I
STEP TO GUARD I
CITIZENS THESE I
Pittsburg Gets Orders to I
Steam From Reval to f
Danzig Harbor I
SCENE OF PEACE PARLEY I
MAY BE REMOVED
Polish Artillery Wipes Out Re-
treating Column of Red
Infantry 1
W 1SH1NGTON, Aug. 28. Sec- L
retarj Daniels announced today E'
that in had ordered the armored I
.a uiser Pittsburg to proceed from
Reval to Daiudg lor the protec
tion of Americans at that port.
The order was sent to ico d-
mini I Huso on the Pittsburg last
night, following a conference be- r.
twecn Secretaries Daniels and K
Colby.
PARIS. Aug 28 (By 1 ho Assocl
atcd f'r. IS.) Willingness to transfer k
the Russo-Pollsh peace negotiations f
at Minsk to a netitral country is ex
pressed in a wireless message from mwM
Moscow picked up bj the Dlffel lower
station today. The detulls of the sov
let offer could not be deciphered,
however, the foreign offl. c announced mmm
COLUMN WIPED OUT 1
WARSAW, Aug. 28 (By The As- --JH
soclated Press ) Polish artlllerv has
decimated the principal column of re- jfl
treating soviet forces on the north
eastern front, catching the Bolshevikl
at short range, according to an of- fl
tidal statement Issued here. More
than 600 men. including two general
staff officers and eleven line officers
have been captured. Among the killed WM
Was Hi" commander of the Flfty-sev- ,J)H
enth F.oishivtki division and his chief 'mm
of staff. JB
Detachments of the- Polish Third le-
glon division, which are fighting east ' I
Of the Bug river, near Brest-LitOVSii
have become engaged in an energetic
defensive action in anticipation of a IjH
Soviet attack against thai city
Repeated Bolshevikl attacks in the mum
region of Lemberg have been rev
pulsed, but fighting continues in the mm
vlclnlt) of Dslelwcon. The sliuation mW
on the northern front is without mmMM
change. WKwu
OO .JH
THIRTY INJURED IN fl
ACETYLENE EXPLOSION I
DETROIT. Aug. 28 Thirty men gH
w.-re injured, eight serlouslv. and four I
buildings were wrecked in an explo- I EVkw
s.on of an acetylene gas tr.nk in the H
yards ot the Detroit Pressed SteeJ IH
ompany here this morning Windows ll
ii. a score of neighboring homes were
shattered by the explosion. The wallt
of four buildings were blown inward PH
burying the men under bricks and
shattered girders.
AMERICANS ESCAPE 1
FROM MEXICAN BAND
MEXICO CITV. Aug. 28 Amerl- H
can and l.rltish subjects who wero
captured l Pedro Zamora. the Jalisco
bandll at Coale n August 20. are re
ported to have escaped from the out-
laws during a battle with federal H
troops near the town of Aullan. state WM
of Jalisco, this morning. Zamoras
forces, numbering about 400. were
touted. They lost 43 killed
GROSS IRREGULARITY 1
SHOWN IN REPORTS
SIOPX CITY. Ia.. Aug. 28. Promo
tlon of the Midland Packing company
of Sioux City, an $8,000,000 corpora
tlon. is revealed as a venture In high
finance by the receivers' report filed WKm
in the I'nited States district court last WM
Ight Gross Irregularities in the ma
lllpulatlon and selling ot stc.ek and in
the management of the plant after its
completion ..r,- alleged by ihv rpert.
oo
FAIL TO DECIDE ON
1921 PRICE OF BEETS 1
DENVER. Aug. 28 No decision I
as to prices for the 1021 sugar beet H
crop was reached at a conference yes- H
lerdaj between the representatives of H
i he .Mountain Mate.s Meet Growers' H
" lation and tht Great w. -stern --tmm
Sugar company. It was announced to- XwUW
day. The company rejected the slid- mM
Ing scale of prices proposed by the as- II
Delation's committee and will submit ' H
a substitute proposition to a future WM
conference. WM
NAT GOODWIN. ACTOR,
DIED WITH BIG DEBT j
NEW YORK, Aug. 2S. The estate I
,cf Nat C Goodwin, actor, was de- H
. tared Insolvi ni today when Nathaniel
Q Ivvin, his father and administrator.
filed an accounting. With assets of
only 56S95, tho father said his son s I
liabilities will exceed $15,000. H
Some of the largest debts are claims I
fioat Pails millinery shops, New York H
tailors and summer resort hotels.. H
Thousands of shares of mining stocks H
o ned by Goodw in are worthless. I
NEW JERSEY SHOOTER
WINS TRAPS CLASSIC
CLEVELAND. O . Aug. C8 Albert I
H. lvlns. of Red Bank. N. J.. today
won the Grand American handicap, H
tin classic event of the Interna. lojial H
tt apshooting tournament. Sliooting H
fiom the 19-yard line Ivins broke 9'J I
cut of 100 target.-. I