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The Washington herald., 1920-07-20
PLANSFRAMED
TO MOVE COAL
Operators Work to Prevent
Famine in New England
Next Winter.
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AS the result OF conferences re-
Gently held in New York. bituminous
coal operators and railroad exec
utives representing the coal-car-
rying roads yesterday submitted TO
the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion recommendations designed to
remedy the coal shortage situation
and prevent what threatens to be
a fuel famine in certain sections
of the country this winter.
Details of the plan were with
held pending its consideration by
the commission. but II is under
stood the operators and railroad
heads agreed that definite car as
signments under direction of the
commission will be necessary IL the
coal for the Northwest via the
Great Lakes and for New England
is to be moved in the amount re-
Quired during the next two months.
1t is proposed by the operators
and railroad executives that the
commission assign cars preferen-
TALLY to mines which have con-
tracts for lake and New England
deliveries.
The recommendations were pre-
sented to the commission by d. b.
wentz. of Philadelphia, president OF
the National Coal Association;
Daniel willard. president OF the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad /;
Herman Griggs. of Cleveland. for
the Lake Erie Ore and Coal EN-
change: and J. d. A. Morrow. vice
president of the National Coal As
socia tim
The Washington herald., 1920-07-20
Wage Verdict
Today to Tell
TMen Quit
Union Employees Prepared
For Walkout, Involving
Great Area.

Chicago, July 1s.-Union railroad
employees completed their prepara-
tions today to do one of three things
as soon as the Federal Labor Board
makes its wage award at 10 a. m.
tomorrow.
The men have asked. for wage in
creases totaIing $1,000, ,6os. 900 4
year. They will be in session to-
morrow to consider the award as
soon as a copy is rushed to them
from the labor boards offices.
II they get all they asked, they
will, of course, accept il.
IL they get 60 per cent OF what
they asked, they will refer the mat
ter to the men for a referendum
vote. 1t will take several days to
complete such a vote. and In the
mea ntime their answer will be de-
layed.
II they get less than so per cent.
they will, in all likelihood, call a
general strike
Strike Plans Complete.
The plans for the waIk-out have
been completed. and all that is need
ed to stop the wheels of transporta-
tion is telegraphic orders from the
chiefs who are here.
Unofficial reports in railroad cir-
cles have indicated that the board
will award an increase of 20 to 27
per cent. If these reports prove
true, strikes will be inevitable. in
the opinion of W. G. Lee, president
of the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen; Samuel E. Heberling,
president of the Switchmen's Union
of North America, and others.
Union men and officials met in
three halls as they marked time
awaiting the report of the board
One hundred union chiefs sat behind
barred doors preparing to pass judg-
ment on the boards action.
Around this hall. where all the
aristocracy of the unions gathered.
talk was heard of the long dreaded
general strike. Further delay will
not be granted by the rank and file
of the workers if the board fails to
come through" was the general
prediction of those who attended the
meeting.
-Outlaw" Yardmeu Prepare.
In another hall members of the
outlaw" yardmen's association
made their plans for the future. II
they are included in the award their
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The Washington herald., 1920-07-20
BOILER EXPLOSION
DELAYS AQUTTANIA

London. July 19. - A boiler ex-
plosion which resulted in the death
of one OF the firemen delayed the
Cunard liner Aquitania, outward
bound from Liverpool on the first
lap of her voyage to New York yes
terday. The explosion took place
OFF the coast of Ireland. The liner
was able to proceed after the repair
work was finished. This is the Aqui-
tania's first transatlantic trip on
which she is using oil instead OF
coal.
The Washington herald., 1920-07-20
.DRYS COMING HERE
TO PLAN CAMPAIGN

the Anti-Saloon League will fight
Democratic Nominee Cox during the
campaign probably will be deter
mined at a meeting of the executive
committee of the organization at
Washington next Thursday. An
nouncement that the meeting place
had been changed from Columbus
to Washington was made at head
quarters here today.
The Washington herald., 1920-07-20
RED ARMY REPORTED
ON ROAD TO TURKEY

Paris. July fs.-Confrmation was
received in authoritative quarters
here today that a Soviet army. now
crossing into Armenia, intends to
effect a junction with the Turkish
Nationalist forces under Mustapha
Kemal.
The allied army in Turkey. mill
tary experts point out, is powerless
to stop the Bolshevist advance
which, IL 1t succeeds in bringing
about the proposed junction. will
sweep the Greeks out of Turkey.
The Washington herald., 1920-07-20
Swat King Pops
Two Honers for
Double Honor

New York. July 1s.-lts not
often a man bursts q record
twice In the same day.
..Babe" Ruth. King Of the Swat.
performed that feat today. how
ever, when he smashed the
major league home-run record
for circuit clouts by polling out
a four-sacker in the fourth
inning of the second White sox-
Yankee game. and then broke his
own record with another homer
in the ninth.
He now has thirty-one home
runs to his credit. Earlier in
the season he announced that he
would ring up forty before the
pennant series begins, or bust.
The Washington herald., 1920-07-20
I WAS walking in ceptral Park

I WAS walking in Ceptral Park
i with Avery Knight. the great
New York burglar. highwayman
and murderer.
But my dear knight" said i.
''it sounds incredible. You have
undoubtedly performed some of
the most wonderful feats in your
profession known to modern
crime. You have committed some
marvellous deeds under the very
noses of the police-you have
boldly entered the homes of mil
lionaires and held them up with
an empty gun while you made
free with their silver and jewels:
you have sandbagged citizens in
the glare of Broadway's electric
lights; you have killed and robbed
with superb openness and abso-
The Washington herald., 1920-07-20
BY wINIFRED VAN DUzER.

Universal Service STAFF Carrespondcnt.l
New York, July 1s.-In a remark
able exclusive interview. Nine. Eve
lyn Bostwick Voronoff, American
born wife Of the eminent European
surgeon, DR.. Serges Voronoff, to-
day told me what she and her hus-
band hope to accomplish for wom-
en- through their discoveries in
gland grating.
SO undeveloped that until now
no phase of it ever has been made
public. experimental work among
women has been quietly carried on
by the voronoffs in the Laboratories
of the College of France in con-
nection with their successful eff
forts to restore youth and health
to aged or i'll men.
Rejuvenatfon Possible.
What it will mean to women,
and especially to American women
was predicted by Mime. yoronoff
who for many years has been a CO.
worker with her husband and who
Is the only feminine assistant ever
accepted at the College of France
She said:
I'VE have been working to per-
feet gland transference for womer
for the past three years. More
time is required for this than was
necessary to make more or less
practical the operation for men, be-
cause the female organism is much
more delicate.
However. we can now say that
We have no reason to believe II
will not be entirely satisfactory.
I'VE believe that the old WON
an, she who gives evidences oi
The Washington herald., 1920-07-20
Sees All World.
Including Jersey,
Dry in Ten Years
tBy U.iverssI serviee.)

Lincoln. Neb.. July 1s.-rhat
prohibition. within ten years.
would cover "the civilized worid
including New Jersey" was
the statement made in q pubic
add~sss by Clinton N. Howard
choice Of Nebraska prohibition
lists for the Presidential nomina-
ton.
Howard suggested ticket ana
a program which he said would
not fail to sweep the country
William Jennings Bryan and
BILLY" Sunday as candidates on
a platform of peace and pro-
hibition."
The Washington herald., 1920-07-20
by WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT.

,Copy wright, 1870. by Public Ledger Co..
Mr.. wilson's position in respect
to the treaty which he required the
Democratic convention to support
and adopt and which Gov. Cox ex-
pressly approved before the con-
vention and must maintain. is that
the reservation as to Article Y
"cut the league to pieces" and made
il necessary to reject the league
altogether. The Republican Sem
The Washington herald., 1920-07-20
tPubIic Ledger serviceD

The powers have warned the
Chinese government and the various
factions at present at grips for con-
troll of Pekin that the terms of the
Boxer protocol must be adhered to
and that any infraction of the guar
antees insured to foreigners since
1901 will mean active intervention.
An allied feet, IL became known
here yesterday, Is assembling at
Taku. Rear Admiral Gleaves. COM
mander-in-chiefo Of the Asiatic fleet,
is thought to have arrived there
aboard the flagship South Dakota,
accompanied by three destroyers.
Admiral Alexander Duff OF the Brit
ish navy, with n force of three war
ships, has arrived. Both officers, un-
der instructions from their respect
i've governments, will land sddi-
tional armed forces to swell the le-
cation guards and troops previously
maintained in China.
Protection Is Demanded.
Although strict neutrality is being
observed amid the internicine war;
fare. now in progress, the program
OF the allies includes the following
demands: i-..a.s2,
The absolute safety of all for
eigners snd full protection for them
apd the legation compounds.
Free and uninterrupted use of the
railroad from Pekin to Shon-
haikwan, the nearest all weather
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The Washington herald., 1920-07-20
Harding Disturbing Europe
By Hostile Attitude 7oward
League, Says Colonel House

corning Senator Harding's views
regarding the treaty and the league
of nations are disturbing Europe.
For many years it has been said
that the Republican party had
broader sympathies with the world
at large than the Democratic party.
and that its general policy would
be more conducive to a good I'M
derstanding among the nations.
President Wilson and a few of his
immediate political family were
thought to stand pretty much alone
in their advocacy of q world union
coNrrNrrn ~ p.or ,rvvx
The Washington herald., 1920-07-20
By O. HENRY

know something of detectives
methods, and l followed out .
few of them. expecting to ind
Jolnes at the other end. The pis-
tol being a .45-caliber. I thoughs
surely 1 would find him at work
on the clue in Forty-fifth street.
Then, again, I looked for the de-
tective at the Columbia Univer-
sity. as the mans being shot In
the back naturally suggested haz-
ing. But / could not find a trace
of him.
Nor will /you,' I said emphat-
ically.
mot by ordinary methods" said
knight. II might walk up and
down Broadway FOR month
CONTINUED On PAGE SEyEN
The Washington herald., 1920-07-20
CHINA WARNED
| ON PROTECTION
| OF FOREIGNERS
Allied Fleet Assembling as
Factions Struggle for
Pekin Reins.
HELD TO BOXER TERMS
America Has ,l50 Men in
Celestial Country, Says
Officials.
(Washingtos Heraid-Public Ledger
Far East Service. Special Cable
Dispatch.D

Pekin. July 1s.--The Man
churian forces under Gen.
Chang -Tso-Ihn have intervened
in the struggle between the
Aufuites and Reformists and
driven back the forces OF Gen.
Tuan TO within thirty miles Of
Pekin, toward TientSin. The
gates of Pekin remain closed.
Even military trains are kept
from entering. Food Is giving
out and famine prices prevail.
Copyright, 1920. by Public Ledger Col
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Fair today and tomorrow; warmer tsnsr-
row. Highest tsmpsraturs yssssrdsy. "a;
lowest, 60. Detailed report on Page 4
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-06-29
WATER CONTRACT WITH.
JONES HAS NOT BEEN
EXECUTED AN n OUN CES
CITY ATTORNEY NJ ASON

1.-The article published yesterday
in which it was stated that u suit
would be brought by A. c. Young
and others against the Board OF
City Commissioners to enjoin them
from entering into a contract to
pay SIS q day for all time to
come for water was premature"
said City Attorney I. r. Mason this
morning and the statement Of the
city attorney was confirmed by the
mayor.
Continuing his statement to Tho
Ardmoreite, Judge Mason said the
approval Of the contract by
majority of the members Of the
board did not make a contract,
that in order for a contract to be
binding upon the city 1t must be
executed by the mayor, that the
mayor had not executed any such
contract and would not do so, and
that mandamus did not lie in such
proceedings and there was no way
by which the mayor could be
forced to enter into any such con-
tract.
The city attorney had been re-
quested to write his opinion on the
matter, but for the reason that
Mr.. JONES wanted his contract en-
tered into by a full board and in
asmuch as there was not full
board at this meeting on account
of the resignation Of w. s. Fraley,
the attorney had not prepared his
opinion and has not done so yet.
But the city attorney did state
that the contract as it is drawn
Is not legal contract, that 1t
cannot be enforced by law be-
carse 1t is within itself violation
of the statutes.
Whether Commissioner Carter.
upon whose motion the contract
was approved by the majority Of
the board present, will push the
matter any further Is not known.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-06-29

San Francisco, June 29.-The
democratic national convention
program for today is as follows:
Convention meets at l p. IN.
Prayer by the Right Reverend
william. f. Nichols, bishop Of the
Episcopal church. California dio-
cese.
Report of the committee OH ere
dentials.
Report Of the committee on
permanent organizations.
Address by Senator Joseph 7.
Robinson Of Arkansas, permanent
chairman.
Report Of the committee on
rules and order of business.
Next i'm order, report of resolu-
tions committee which is holding
hearings and is not ready to re-
port platform.
Remainder Of the days program
depends on convention develop
ments.
Delivery Of nominating speeches
next in order while platform re-
port Is awaited.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-06-29

Auditorium, San Francisco, June 80
Assembling an hour later than usual
today the democratic national con-
vention had before it only a routing
session. necessary time killer-to
give opportunity for committee work
on the outside and the final perfec-
ton Of its organization machinery
second keynote speech by Sena-
tor Jos. T. Robinson of Arkansas, the
successful Administration candidate
for permanent chairman, was the
principal event on the program.
Will Reed Acknowledge Defeat?
Prospects for a spectacular fight on
the floor over the election of the ere.
dentials committee which sustained
the democratic national committee in
its refusal to seat Senator James A.
Reed OF Missouri, as a delegate, were
hedged about with uncertainty. There
were predictions that the contest would
not be carried further unless Reed
determined to attempt to force him
self into place with the Missouri
delegation by proxy. The Georgia
case also, in which the credentials
committee sustained the national COM
mittee and seated Palmer delegates
to the exclusion of the Smith-Watson
faction also seemed to have been set
tied with flnality, although there was
always the chance of last minute
outburst.
Today's session, however, was the
last play-day for the delegates for
under the rules as adopted the con-
vention may go ahead hearing candi.
dates placed in nomination while the
platform committee is working al
though 1t may not proceed to the
balloting for a nominee, until the dec
laration Of party principles, has been
accepted.
Platform Committee Working
While the full membership of the
platform committee continues to grind
away. hearing interested persons who
had planks to suggest, the sub-com-
mittee of nine which actually will
whip the planks into shape and de-
eide whether William j. Bryan is to
have a bone dry plank or whether the
party shall accept some sort Of com
promise, such as that suggested by
Postmaster General Burleson, was lay.
ing back waiting for the hearings to
end before 1t takes up its task of
actually building the platform. In
the meantime, the subcommittee mem.
bers were not losing their opportunity
to get preliminaries out Of the way.
McAdOo Organizes
The NfcAdoo people came into the
convention floor today for the first
time with a working organization in.
cluding a floor leader and a represen.
tative on practically every state dele.
cation. Their problem was to find
enough supporters to roundup thin
forces were active rounding up a
showing for the opening ballots.
Talking Dark Horse
Administration forces were in full
control of the convention machinery
and there seemed little doubt Of their
power to guide the adoption Of plat.
form entirely satisfactory to them.
They were also apparently in posi-.
ton to exercise a veto power over any
candidate satisfactory to them. There
was still today no indication of
whether any word might be expected
from the White House as to Admin.
istration preference on candidates.
Inevitably this situation led to dis
cussion Of dark horses because no one
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-06-29
William j. Bryan Excluded

San Francisco, June 29.-Adminis-
trauon forces went into the second
day Of the democratic national conven-
tion apparently in full control Of the
situation.
Senator Carter Glass Of Virginia as
chaiffn.tn OF the resolutions committee;
William J. Bryan excluded from the
subcommittee Of nine chosen to ac-
tually draft the platform while Balm
bridge Colby, Secretary of State, the
representative of President Wilson:
Senator Joseph T. Robinson Of Ark
ansas, another Administration support
er, chosen for permanent chairman
of the convention, and Administration
men at the head of other committees,
was the lineup brought out of what
had promised TO be a contest
Threatened anti-Administration fight,
so far as it related to the organiza-
tion Of the convention machinery,
collapsed without a showing.
At the same time the committee for.
mulating the rules for the convention
has cleared the way for the nomi-
mating speeches to be delivered while
the resolutions committee is working
on the platform.
BY unanimous action 1t decided that
the various candidates may be placed
in nomination while the platform de-
liberations are going on, but no bal
loting for NOMINEE may be con.
Quoted until after the platform has
been brought in perfected and adopted.
This action will simplify and hasten
the work of the convention very
much.
No Chance for Opposition
From the dramatic mpment yester.
day when portrait of President Will
son was unveiled in the great audi
torium TO let loose storm of tribute
and appreciation from party fellows
on the floor, there seemed little
chance for those who set themselves
on the opposition.
The Administration forces now have
a strong grip on the machinery which
will write the confession of faith for
the party's 1920 campaign.
There Will be battles in the commit
tee over many planks, but there was
less prospect today than at any time
since the convention leaders began
TO assemble, in the opinion of most
political observers schooled in the ways
of conventions, of an open fight on
the floor. Administration leaders ap.
peared confident that differences could
be ironed out in committee.
"Crown Of Thorns" Opposes
Mr.. Bryan has put forward the
league Of nations plank on which he
would have the convention stand. 1t
declares for such reservations as are
necessary TO secure ratification and Is
In sharp conflict with the position
taken before the convention yesterday
by National Chairman Homer s.
Cummings, in his keynote speech.
Whether Mr.. Bryan, like good
trader, had asked more than he ex-
pected to get and is willing to take
less Is not clear. The Administration
leaders stimulated the victories Of
yesterday, reiterated their confidence
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-06-29
"Platform For The People, Candidate of The People
Seems The Intention Of Sui. b.Committee; Wilson Men
In UnconteStable Control; Reed And Bryan Out Of 1t

heard and the intention is to fight
the question out before presenting a
report to the convention.
Subcommittee Busy
San Francisco, June 29.-Actual
preparations of the democratic plat
form, delegated last night to a sub
committee of nine under Administra-
ton leadership, waited today while the
platform committee of SO kept open
house to hear final suggestions and
arguments from many sources.
Labor. d4iquor and Ireland
Labor, liquor and the Irish question
all subjects of disagreement among
party leaders, were up for debate
at the committees public hearings,
Besides there were many speakers
on issues of lesser controversy and
there seemed little prospect that the
long list could be finished until late
in the day.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-06-29

San Francisco, June 29.-The
credentials committee OF the dem
ocratic national convention last
night ratified the action of the
national committee in seating the
Palmer delegates from Georgia
and denying Senator James A.
Reed a seat in the convention as
a delegate from the Fifth Miss
ouri district. The Palmer men from
Georgia were seated by a vote
of 43 to 4, and Senator Reeds
claim was denied by vote of 81
TO 8.
The action Of the credentials
committee is another victory fol
the administration forces as the
defeated Georgia group is said to
contain elements that were at vari
lnce with the Wilson administra
ton, while Senator Reed is a
bitter critic of the league of ma
tions, as advocated by the presi-
dent and is an opponent Of other
administration measures.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-06-29
Unit Rule Binds Oklahoma, Also

San Francisco, June 2S.--The com
mittee on rules of the democratic ma
tional convention tackled early today
the knotty question OF whether state
delegation could be bound by the unit
rule. The New York delegation came
to the convention with its 80 votes
bound by such a rule, passed at a
state convention over the protest of
several Of its members, who are re.
newing their fight here against tho
rule.
The question came up on motion
to adopt the rules under which the
convention OF 1912 operated, placing
all states under the unit rule, except
those in which there Is manda-
tory statute providing for the nomi-
nation and election of delegations in
congressional districts. There is such
law in New York and the delegates
from several of the districts are con-
tending for the right to act lnde-
pendently Of the delegation as body.
Both sides Of the controversy were
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-06-29

Initial Stages Democrat Convention
Marked by Continued Victories of the
Administration; Bryan May Get His Dry
Plank With Notifications" League of
Nations Plank Seems Assured and Irish
Issue Will Not be Dodsed; With Enough
Loose Timber to start Lumber Yard;
Is Possible Man Will be Named Before
Platform Is Built for Him to Stand {