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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-17
REDS FLEE POLES
COUNTER ATTACKS
At WARSAW GATES

OF commons yesterday. in which he
said that it was known that peace
conversations were proceeding.
Face Powerful Fortress.
The soviet forces are centering their
attack upon Warsaw in the region
northeast OF Novogeorgievsk. the
powerful Polish fortress on the Wis.,
tula to the northwest of the capital.
and along the line southeasterly, it is
indicated by Mondays official state
ment from Moscow, received today.
The communicate reflects the recent
Polish withdrawal on the southern
front and announces the occupation
by the Russians Of Brody and Sokal,
northeast of Lemberg. The statement
reads:
Northeast of Novogeorgievsk and
Warsaw fighting continues, in which
we hung back the enemy with a bay
onet attack and occupied a number Of
villages west of the River Vkra.
In eastern Galicia. after. fierce
Sokal and Brody. In the region of
Tarnopol our advance is developing"
Poles Counter Attack.
PARIS. August 17.-Several sue
cessful counter attacks have been
launched by the Poles against the
Russian bolshevik armies, which are
hammering at the gates of Warsaw.
In the neighborhood Of Cholm, on
the southern sector Of the Warsaw
front. Russian soviet forces which had
forded the Bug river have been hurled
back across that stream, while in the
region of Modlin. northwest of the
Polish capital, the Poles have begun
a counter offensive. directing their
attack in the direction of Mlawa.
Military critics here pointed out
late last night that the situation was
better than it had been for some time,
and laid special stress upon the at
tack against the bolsheviki near
Cholm. They also said there were in
dications that the Polish command
had decided to make necessary sacri-
fees on the southern front in. eastern
Ga1icia.
The battle near Cholm may be a
precursor, of An offensive movement
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-17
D. C. GUARDSMEN
''SNAP INTO 1T" AT
CAMP LEE DRILLS
CONTINUED from First Page.)

ment. He will instruct the mess detail
by special orders OF Gen. Bun4S-,
commander at Camp Lee. Y. NJ c. A.
hut near the District guard camp has
been opened and the men find it a
great convenience.
Today's work will end with a base
bail game betw een a team picked from
the Dist riot Guard and the Camp Lee
team. The camp team is understood
to regard the contest as a practice
game, while The guard team has every
hppe or winning the game from the
Regular Army men. Lieut.. George G.
Israel is I'm charge of the team. II
has on it several amateur stars In the
Depa rtmentaf League.
Money Raised for Extras.
Lieut.. George l.. Evans has been de-
tailed As camp adjutant and Lieut..
Kahn is officer of the day. The men
have raised nearly 500 for extra food.
The money will be spent for ice cream
dance has been arranged at the post
exchange for the latter part of the
week. Maj. Crockett has ordered that
the band play a march each morning
just after reveille and play the ma
tional anthem at retreat each evening.
Today promised to be another warm
one, and probably Maj. Crockett will
order that the drill be held under
shade. Only a few of the men. those
who have not yet qualified in rifle
practice. will go to the camp range
Thursday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-17

designed to draw southwark soviet
forces engaged against Warsaw, ~
was said, although some beneveu =. !.
was the Polish intention mercy ~
gain time in the struggle. hIIe
significance was placed in the folIsi'
attack near Modlin, as critics coH
sfdered that simultaneous attachs oi,
both tanks of the soviet army "ouio
be rash and almost desperate.
Reds Evacuate SOldau.
BERLIN, August 16-Russian troops
left the city of Soldau on SUNDAY
morning, and the administrator OF
the city is now in the hands or
provisional committee headed ny
Herr Stachel, formerly buftomaster'
says a special dispatch to the POST;
A citizens guard has been organized
and refugees are returning 10 ooldau
in large numbers.
A Russian division. with a -fuf neid
equipment of thirty-six cannon,
passed through Soldau on sunday IN
the direction of Graudenz and Lau-
tenberg. Another soviet division. is
said to be heading for Thorn. where
the Poles are reported to be assem-
bling artillery to defend the. place
Up until last night the bolsheviki
had invaded. the Polish corridor TO a
point within twelve miles OF, Thorn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-17
VACANCIES FOR IS
SCHOOL TEACHERS
Many Applicants Are Of
Those Released After War
With Germany.

About seventy-five vacancies in the
Reaching corps of the District public
schools will have to be filed before
1.-THE opening of the institutions, Sep
ftember 20. This estimate was fur
lhished today by Stephen E. Kramer,
assistant superintendent of schools.
Z The filing of these vacancies, how
xever is one of the easiest of the many
problems confronting school officlals
kThis is due TO the-fac that the school
applicants TO select from, direct OPP
xposite condition of last year.
When plans were first made last
August for the opening of the schools
1t was discovered that there were
about 500 vacancies in the teachlng
personnel and a small eligible list of
applicants to select from. 1t was
Smany weeks before the requisite
humber of teachers to fill the Vacan-
eies were selected.
Many Applicants.
! This year, however, the vacancy list
Is small in comparison with that of the
Srevious year. and the number of APP
plicants for teaching positions much
larger. The increase in the number
of applicants this year for teaching
positions, it was pointed out, is due
granted school teachers. which be-
ZONES effective October 1, and the re-
Nuction of employees in the govern
ment departments.
/. Many of the persons who have ap-
piled for positions are former teach
hrs who entered the government serv-
Ice soon after theoutbreak of the war
with Germany and were released dur
ing the last few months. Some,
Though, have taught school in other
Hities.
Will Hold Conference.
I Asst. Supt Kramer and DR.. Abram
Simon, president of the board of edu-
kation, will hold a conference this aft
trnoon at the Franklin School for the
purpose of discussing routine matters
SCREAMING to the opening of the
Schools, 1T also is expected that the
Serious ..problem of relieving prospec-
live ~sovefrrowded conditions in the
Schools will be taken up.
Nre Kramer. who returned from his
eacation yesterday to find his desk
billed high with official papers to be
disposed of, is being handicapped in
His work on, account of the many
teachers and other persons who have
BONE to confer with him. Nevertheless
The assistant superintendent hopes to
ave most of the routine matters dis
bosed of before the return of Supt
Frank w. Ballou on September 1.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-17
RETIREMENT LAW
EXCEPTIONS NOTED
Separations From Service
Friday Not to include Un-
classified Employees.

Unclassified employees of the gov
eminent are not to be separated from
the service Friday because OF reach
ing the retirement age, according to
definite announcement today by an
official OF the bureau of pensions.
Such unclassified employees will re-
main in the service just as ii no such
law were on the statute books; and,
indeed, it is not on the books Tor
these employees. Until some action is
taken in their case by Congress they
remain in the service.
Confusion Over Status.
Some confusion has arisen over the
status of these unclassified employees,
and the Post Office Department today
saw fit to warn postmasters through
out the country that ''the provisions
of the retirement act are not appli-
cable to unclassffied laborers."
Such employees, therefore. are not
to be separated from the service
merely because of reaching retire
ment age" continued the order of the
Post Office Department.
Tonight the joint conference on re-
tirement meets to consider the case
of the unclassified. with a view to
calling the attention of the President
ana the civil service COMMISSION TO
the necessity of including some
classes of unclassified employees under
the benefits of the retirement law.
View of Retirement Omcfals.
1t is not anticipated by retirement
officials that Friday, the day OF sepa-
ration from the service Of the first
superannuates to be retired. will see
any employees who have had less than
fifteen years service ruthlessly sepa-
rated from their positions and thus
dropped.
Great feniency, 1t is understood, is
being exercised by department heads
in these cases. and officials expect the
cases of separation without annuity
to be few and far between.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-17
PARLIAMENT. ADJOURNS, :
SUBJECT TO EARLY CALL
Russian Armistice Terms, as An
nounced, Approved by Crown,
7.",' Bonar Law Says.

LONDON, August 16.-The house of
commons last night, without division.
agreed to the motion of Andrew Bonar
Law, the government leader; adjourn
ing the house until October 10, but
empowered the speaker to- sumrno n
parliament earlier should public In
terest demand it. ''- 80
Mr.. Bonar Law confirmed that the
armistice terms to Poland as an
nounced by Russia had the approval
of both Great Britain and Italy, and
said that if they we're sincerely ad-
hered to Great Britain would not in
terfere between Poland and Russia.
Although yesterdays. sitting had
been especially called on account of
the Polish crisis, it had. from this
viewpoint, little interest, owing to
the lack of news from Minsk, where
Polish and bolshevik emissaries are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-17
u. S. AIR CLUBS UNITE.

NEW YORK, August, 17.--Amalga-
nation of the Aero Club of America
and the American Flying Club was
agreed upon last night at separate
meetings of the organizations. Com
mittees of both clubs, it was an
nounced, will meet soon to nominate
officers and directors for the new
club. The merged organization will
be known as the Aero Club Of Amer
lea,
Brig Gen. William Mitchell. assist
ant chief of air service, represented
the Army at the, meeting Of the Amer
lean Flying Club. Gen. Mitchell in
staten .afterward said the amalga-
nation of the clubs marks an epoch
in the development of national de-
Tense in the United States
He declared the interest of people
has been awakened in aviation, and it
now remains to show them how the
best results may be obtained from
military and commercial aviation in
the scientific developm emit |of the fu-
ture. Nothing will help more, he said,
than the combination Of the two dyl
ing clubs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-17
RET|RES AS CHIEF
CLERK At CAPITOL
George H. Williams, Nearly
81, Has Worked Here for
Forty-0ne Years.

After working for forty-one years
in the Office of the superintendent of
the Capitol building, and as chief
clerk since 1902, George II. Williams,
now in his eighty-f1rst year, drew his
last pay check yesterday. He has been
receiving a salary of $2,240 and goes
on the retirement rolls at the highest
annuity. $3.50.
Mr.. Williams owns q small farm
near Annandale. Va. where he ex-
poets to spend the rest of his days.
He was born in Alexandria, December
q, 1893. During the war he served
with the Confederate army and it is
due to services which he and his
family performed for Gen. J. s. Rob-
inson Of Ohio. who was provost
marshal of :Siegers Corps that he has
Capitol employment in spite of politi-
cal changes and repeated efforts by
other patronage seekers to get his
job.
He is an ordained minister of the
Methodist Church and for fifty years
las preached among his people in
Fairfax county. so that he is today
one of the best known and most re-
spected men in the entire county, tn
which he has been a lifelong resi-
dent. 1t was on account OF railing
health that he was appointed watch
man under Edward Clark, architect OF
the Capitol, on May 8, 1879. After a
series Of promotions he was appoint
ed chief clerk by Secretary OF the In
terror Hitchcock in 1902.
Mr.. Williams has raised two fami-
lies and his six children living. one
of whom is Thomas A. Williams OF
Falls Church, a member OF the demo-
cratic state committee. 3
He is one Of the most popular en-
,ployes abont the Capitol and his as
.sociates in the Office Of Elliot Woods,
superintendent of the Capitol, are
unanimous in expressing the keenest
regret that they will no longer be as
sociated with him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-17
Sing Sing Paper j.
Suspended and
E.Kicks' FOlIOw

OSSINING, N. Y, August IL
Tire Sing Sing Bulletin, a mag.
aEfne edited by the inmates OF
Sing Sing and said to have .
circulation even In Europe ana
Asia. has Suspended publication,
Warden Lawes announces. VS.
ftOrs who appeared at the prison
to obtain copies of the August
number were refused them.
Protests against suspension OF
the paper have been sent to
Gov. Smith by former Attorney
General George w. Wfckerxham'
Judge Otto ROsalsky, Adoiph
Levvis0lln and others, 1t was
said.
Superintendent Of State Prfs-
ons Charles F. Rattignn three
months ago ordered the circuia-
ton Of the Bulletin reduced
from 5000 copies to 1900 COPIES
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-17
KILLED IN PISTOL DUEL.

BALTIMORE. August 17.--In a pis-
tol duel in q dark stairway at 1909
Rollins street last night, MarceIla
Reynolds, forty years old. was killed
by Patroiman Nichols Wallace, after
the patrolman had been shot in the
hip.
The patrolman. falling when he was
shot. fired from a recumbent posfti on
sending four bullets into Reynolds.
Death was almost instantaneous.
According to his wife Reynolds had
been drinking heavily for several
weeks. She said he came home under
the influence Of liquor. He went to
the second floor and returned down.
stairs brandtshing q revolver.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-17
QUERIES
GEORGE ON
WRANGEL ATTITUDE.
Soviet Letter Virtually
BIames Britain for French
Recognition.

LONDON. August 16.-Soviet Rus
sia through NJ. Kameneff. head of
her trade mission here, has asked
Premier Lloy> George for a precise
definition of the British attitude to-
ward Gen. Baron Wrangel, command
er of anti-bolshevik forces in south
ern Russia.
In a long letter to the premier, M.
Kameneff quotes all dispatches
British and Russian bolshevik gov
ernments concerning Gen. Wrangel,
beginning with the dispatch from
Earl Curzon. secretary of state Tor
foreign affairs, to George Tchltch-
erin. bolshevik foreign minister. on
April IA. 1t was this message which
urged a termination of hostilities and
the disarmament of Gen. Wrangefs
troops, on the basis of amnesty being
granted them.
NJ. Kameneff declares this dispatch
induced the soviet government to re-
would have rendered Gen. Wrangel
powerless. and he seeks to show it
was British indecision relative to it's
Russian policy which encouraged
Gen. Wrangel and led to the present
situation and recognition of Gen.
that Great Britain is largely respon-
sible for that recognition being ex-
tended.
Rejoicing in south Russia.
SEBASTOPOL. August 13-The mill
tary forces of Gen. Wrangel. head of
the anti-bolshevik government in
South Russia, now aggregate about
10000 men, one-third of whom are
high-class troops. Russian officers
estimate that the bolshevik forces ar
rayed against Gen. Wrangel are at
estimates are that the soviets have
some 100000 troops on the Polish
front and 100000 reserves available
elsewhere.
Gen. rWrangers recognition by
France and the announcement that a
French diplomat would be sent here
Immediately caused great rejoicing in
the south Russian army. which ex-
poets @other European powers to fol-
low the action of the French govern
ment.
Gives Land to Peasants.
Peter Strive. wrangers minister Of,
foreign affairs. returning from Paris,
told the Associated Press correspond
ent that all south Russia would rally
to the generals command.
Wrangel's policy is actually giving
the ldHu W the PEASANTS anu -pIOmlS-
ing that the government will stand
between them and the old owners and
will grant them new papers" Gen.
Wrangel is assuring the land owners
that they will be paid eventually for
the property, the remuneration to be
determined by a popular elected as
sembly. AS a guarantee of his good
faith, the generals wife, Baroness
Wrangel, went to her own estates in
northern Crimea and personally su-
pervises division of her land among
the peasants.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-17
F0RESEES 75-cENT GAS
Professor Predicts Substitute Motor
Fuel Must Be Found.

SAN FRANCISCO. Calf. August
l7.-Seventy-five-cent gasoline is a
possibility within two years. Prof
G. F. Medbury of the Case School of
Applied Sciences, Cleveland, Ohio, de-
c!ared in an address before the En-
gineers' Club.
His conclusions. he said. were based
on his knowledge of oil fields al
ready exploited and prospectiye de-
velopments in various countries. He
declared that intensive Investigations
III all parts OF the world had DEM
onstrated that there no longer exist
adequate quantities of pure gasoline
hydrocarbons, and that the future
welfare of the motor industry de-
ponds on invention of a motor engine
capable OF economical transmission
of power directly from crude pc
troleum or light, efficient storage
battery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-17
STAY HALTs HANGING.
PrssiaentassB elay inssAetins on Ap-
neal Aids Frank Bowman.


Delay by President Wilson in acting
on an appeal for Communication of the
sentence of Frank Bowman. colored,
who was to have been hanged to-
morrow, resulted today in the con-
demned man being given a stay of
execution until September 20. Within
an hour after the stay had been
granted by Justice Hitz. word came
that the President had refused to
interfere in behalf Of Bowman, but it
was then too late to change the or
der and the delay of the chief exc
cutive has given the prisoner an adj
ditional -thirty-four days to live.
Bowman was found guilty of the
murder of C. J. Keefer in woods
north of Brookland. July 6, 1916. The
detectives were unable to find the
murderer until February, 1919. when a
colored woman, Esther Brown. was
shot and wounded by Bowman, be-
cause, she said, she knew he was the
man who had killed Keefer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-17
STABBED WIFE, Is CHARGE.

Charged with stabbing his wife in
the left side yesterday, John Brad
ford. colored, twenty-eight years old,
Al Jackson street northeast, was. ar
rested. Mrs. Bradford, who is in a
critical condition at Casualty Hos
pital. charged her husband with the
assault. but Bradford denied the al
legation. Bradford is being held to
await the result of his Wife's sin
juries. -. 81,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-17
ANDREW SULLIVAN.

Andrew Sullivan. fifty-three years
old. I'll Columbia road. died at Emer-
gency Hospital today from injuries
work at 1928 New Hampshire avenue.
Sullivan was timer, and while
repairing a gutter, it is stated. the
scaffold gave way and he fell three
stories. sustaining fracture of the
arm and right leg. First aid was
given by a physician residing near
the scene Of the accident, and the in
jured man was taken to the Elmer
gency Hospital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-17
Autos Kill One
Eue,y Thirty-Fiue
Minutes in Day

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j.
august ia pefs0A 10 killed
by an automobile every thirty
five minutes and the menace iS
constantly Increasing, according
to the executive committee Of
the National Safety Council, in
convention here.
8. j. Williams, secretary, of
Chicago reported that I'm this
country three times Ms many
persons are killed by motor ac-
cfdeuts as In all the factories,
mines md railroads and other
Industries. Reports from Eng
land show that aeroplanes there
carried $4,000 persons during the
past year with very few Acci-,
dents and but one fatality.
1t IL estimated there will be
100000 automobiles in this
country by the end Of 1890.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-17
HUGE CITRUS CROPS.

TAMPA, Fla. August ls-The citrus
fruit crop of Florida for the 1920-21
season will total 100000 boxes
some 100000 boxes more than, that
of the 1920 season, according to
estimates made public by. the Florida
'anges' will. be very heavy. the we'll
advanced crop shows, while the grape
fruit yield will be lighter than last
SeaSonS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-17
POLES TO PRESENT PLEA.
secretary Tumulty to Receive 200
: :. at White House

A delegation of 200 Polish repre-
sentatives is to call at the White
House tomorrow noon. where they
VIII be received in behalf of the
President by Secretary Tumulty and
later will be received by Secretary
Colby at-the State Department.
This delegation was arranged for at
mass meetings of Polish citizens in
nearly all partsNof the United States,
who gathered Sunday as a demon
stration of their plea for material and
Poland
The advance agents said today that
large delegations are en- route from
Chicago, New York, st. Louis, De-
troit,. Buffalo. Baltimore, Philadel-
phia and other large cities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-17
RECEIVERSHlP ORDERED
: FOR PoNZt'S CREDITORS
10000 Claimants. Expected to D6-
-. -. :
vide What Resources Boston
coupon King' May Have,

BOSTON. August lit was agreed
in the federal court today that Charles
Ponzi's Quickriches scheme should be
placed in receivership for the benefit
of the 10000 outstanding creditors,
whose claims run into several mil
lions of dollars.
Counsel for Ponzi Joined with petit
t1oning creditors and Attorney Gen
eral Allen In an agreement that a re-
ownership was advisable, but nd
vanced the possibility that Ponzi
would prove to be solvent after all,
and asked for representation in the
receivership. Judge Morton took un-
der amusement the question whether
one or three receivers should be
named.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-17
SHIPPING TO HAVANA HALTs.

NORFOLK, Va. August Flowing
to serious dock shortage and labor
troubles lines operating from Hamp-
ton roads to Havana are discontinue
Ing service to that port temporarily
and are accepting no bookings. The
Merchants Association of Havana, ac-
cordinE to cables received here, has
declined to accept any merchandise to
be discharged on the piers or at the
warehouses of the port of Havana
Dock Company.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-17
COURT UPHOLDs GARRISON
Transit Company Receiver Refuse.
to Renew Labor Agreement.

NEW YORK. August 17.-Federal
Judge julius M. Mayer has sustained
Lindley NJ. Garrison. receiver of the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. in
his refusal to renew the corporations
agreement with the Amalgamated AS
sociation of Street and Electrical
Railway" Employees, which expires
August 20.
After Mr. Garrison had refused to
negotiate with representatives OF the
union on the ground that adoption
of their proposals would constitute
enforcement of closed-shop principles,
a committee called upon Mayor Hy-
land to protest. The mayor referred
the committee to Judge Mayer. who
had appointed Mr.. Garrison, express
ing the belief that he would direct
the receiver to negotiate with the
union.
In letter to the committee denying
its request for hearing, Judge
Mayer expressed surprise at the ma
ture Of the proposed agreement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-17
SHIP RATES UNCERTAIN.

HONOLULU, T. H, August THE
proposed increase in rates agreed
upon by Japa nese and American ship
ping firms of. Kobe and Yokohama
between America and the Orient. in
Guiding the Philippines, will not be
effective if the Jones shipping law
is enforced, it is understood in Toxic,
according to Toxic cables to the
Nippu Jill. japanese language newspa-
per in Honolulu.