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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1920-01-09
AERRMA|V|VINs|STS
UPON REPLY FROM
LEAGUE MAGNATES
Head Of National Commission
Wants Presidents Heydler
and Johnson to Say if He
Shall Relinquish Job.
ASKS DECISION YEAR AGO
Quotes Annual Report Raising
Question of Legality Both of
National Agreement and
Commission Itself.
ASKS DECISION YEAR AGO

Cincinnati. o., Jan. 9.-Gerry Herr
mann today put it up to John Heydler,
president of the National league, and
Ban Johnson, president of the Ameri-
can league to say whether he should
immediately resign as chairman or the
national commission.
Hermann asked them to make the
decision when he rendered his annual
report as chairman at the annual meet
ing of the commission here. Herr
mann's report stated that the commits
sion should not elect officers at this
time and then said:
I'm the meantime, II my colleagues
are of the opinion that the commission
should operate temporarily without II
chairman. | will be glad TO tender my
resignation immediately
In his report, Hermann said in part;
Il quote from my last annual report
as follows:
URGES AGREEMENT.
"Inn smuch as there is a divergence
OF views between the two parties of
the first part TO the national agreement
as to the national commission as con-
stituted and the qualifications of its
chairman, or the substitution therefor
of one man tribunal, l strongly rec
ommend that the election of officers be
reached on these points.
Having recommended a year ago
that the election of officers be deferred
for the reasons above stated, and un-
Outstanding that no definite conclu-
sions with respect to this matter have
been reached by either the two leagues
or the committees representing them, ii
must be apparent that there should not
be any election of officers at this time.
In making this statement I want 1t
understood that il is not done with a
view on my part to hold onto the Of
flee which / now occupy as your chair
man. but on the contrary believe that
the question in controversy should be
taken up by the committees already
appointed for this purpose by the two
leagues as well as yourselves, for adj
justment at the earliest possible pc
Rod.
REFERS TO FEDERAL CASE.
''And having in mind that there will
probably be n joint conference between
the members of the two major leagues
within a very few weeks that the mat
ter should be definitely determined
either previous thereto or at that time.
During the past year the national
agreement, insofar as it pertains TO the
national association, has been abro-
gated. II seems TO me the first thing
to be determined is the question
whether new agreement should be
entered into at this time wit hthe mi
nors. Personally, I am not keen for a
new agreement until the Baltimore
Federal league case that was tried in
Washington end has now been taken
up on appeal has been finally disposed
of. because as matters now stand, if
j am correct in my coptention. the ia :
tional agreement as well as the com
mission itself Is Illegal"
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1920-01-09
SACRAMENTO SECURES
PITCHER FROM CINCY

Cincinnati, o., Jan. 9.--The release
of Roy Mitchell. pitcher, has been sold
to the Sacramento club of the Pacific
coast league by the world champion
Reds. Mitchell pitched only one game
last year. but got a full share of the
world series money.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1920-01-09
EXTRA ron CARPENTER.

New York, Jan. 9.--The Newark. n.
J. Sportsmen's club will pay Georges
Carpenter $4,000 for a fight. In maxi
ing this offer to Manager Descamps
the club made II clear that II was not
angling for the F'renchman's service
ssainst Jack Dempsey
New-York tribune., 1920-02-22
SnOwdrifts

O4OWulHLS
equipped with a life
from the ice-covered
gun. The Savannah,
uipment as a mother
Indoro1d
It. Two locomotives push
new whirling snowplow in
Rfort to clear the tracks of
drifts that have crippled
railroads up Dunkirk way.
t'rd1ruo0d
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
Says Nurses Taken
BY Reds Are Slair,
Long Island Girl Tells
OF atrocities Practiced
by Russians in Poland

Nurses of the Polish Red Cross
captured by the Bolsheviki have been
tortured and killed; Russian cavalry
patrol massacred wounded Polish
soldiers in hospital and no quarter
is given to prisoners by the Reds, &C
cording to Miss Mary Corwin Lane,
who returned yesterday from Poland,
where, since April of last year, she
had been attacked as a Red Cross
nurse to the American Polish army
Street, Flushing, l.. l., went to England
Poland July 26.
81 have witnessed instances in which
cavalry officers, whose bodies were
afterward recovered by soldiers,
suffered the common fate of losing
their eyes, ears and hands," said Miss
Lane. "The Bolshcviki are so in
human that they gouge them out In
addition, strips of flesh were cut from
the legs to initiate the stripes on their
uniforms. Of the thousands of
prisoners that fell into the hands of
the Polish troops in April and May
all were fed and we'll treated.
"When we were leaving Poland the
Bolshevik invasion had begun and 24O
demobilizcd Polish-Ame rican troops
were being sent home. When they saw
the plight of the country by the inva-
sion they decided to reenlist"
Miss Lane said there was no panic
in the country when she was departing
and that the evacuation of Eastern
Poland was being conducted in an
orderly manner.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
Declares Jewish Students
I'm Prague Are Starvin e
Chief Rabbi of Stockholm Crit
icizes Work Of Committee
Handling Relief

CARLSBAD, Czecho- Slovakia. Aug. 10.
Half million children in Russia and
Ukrainia are absolutely without any
schooling, Dr. N. Ehrenpries, chief
rabbi of Stockholm, to-day told dele
gates attending the Jewish World Re
lief Conference here.
DIR. Ehrenpries made this statement
in an address primarily devoted to criti-
cism of the work of the joint distribu-
ton committee for Americana Jewish
relief.
The speaker asserted that IN Switzer-
land Jewish academicians We're pawn
ing their diplomas to stave off starva-
ton. In Prague, he said, 1000 out of
5000 university students are Eastern
Jews, who are nearly starving and
whose homes are the parks and railroad
stations.
He declared that in Vienna 90 per
cent of 1000 students were from East
ern Europe and that 18 per cent of
them were suffering from tuberculosis
and 43 per cent from malnutrtion
These students, he said, were making
their sleeping quarters on canal
bridges, in cafes and in side streets
DR.. Ehrenpries concluded with decla-
ration that Jewish spiritual culture
must be regenerated in the new gen
Grafton.
DR.. Goldberg, one of the delegates
representing Lithuania, reported a dis.
tinct movement among Lithuanian Jews
to take up agriculture
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
Link Befaceen y. s. Reds
And BolsheUiki Reuealed

special DiapGtch 70 me Tribune
CHICAGO, Aug. ia connecting
link between the Reds of America and
the Bolsheviki OF Europe was revealed
in the arrest of Herman G. Hoffman
according to Chief of Police Garrity'
anarchist squad
Hoffman, confessed radical and a
member of the organization headed by
John Alexander, who was seized about
ten days ago, told the police he had
just returned from Germany, where he
had been sent by Alexander to spread
Bolshevik literature and also to confer
with the members of the international
Red organization in the countries OF
the Allies
One of his conferences, he said, was
with John Burton, who was indicted
some time ago with William Bross
Lloyd and nineteen other alleged radi-
Gals who recently were convicted for
sedition and sentenced to jail terms
Following his indictment Burton was
released on $4,000 bonds, which he
forfeited when he fed to Germany.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
Reds Seize French Ships:
Warcraft Rescue Vessels
FlotiIla Threatens to Rae
Odessa if Steamers Which
Brought Prisoners Arc Held

CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug 13.-Bol-
sheviki at Odessa seized the French
steamers Batavia and Eigrette. which
landed Russian prisoners there from
France, and refused to release them
until the French batrlesnip Edgard
Quinet, with three destroyers, was
rushed from Constantinople and
threatened to raze the city unless the
steamers were released, it was learned
mere to-day.
Four steamers under French and
inter-Allied flags arrived at Odessa
with repatriated Russian prisoners,
these advices stated. Two Of the ships
were permitted to leave, but the others
were boarded by Bolshevik commissars.
The Bolsheviki declared that Moscow
had decided to hold the ships, although
an agreement had been made, it was
said, that this would not be done. The
commissars overlooked a wireless set
on board until an "S O S" message had
been sent to Constantinople.
The reports received here said that
a mutiny had occurred on one of the
ships before it reached Odessa, several
of the mutineers having been killed
when Moroccan guards made bayonet
charge.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
Drastic Peace z 'e1's,ss
Ds'uaUya by Souiet
First DRAFT Provided for
PIebiscife to Determine
Russian Poyand's Future

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (By The AS
sociated Press).-A plebiscitc to de-
termne the future of Russian Poland
is one of the peace terms drawn up
by the Bolsheviki coincident with the
first proposal of an armisticc by the
Polish government The right of un-
restricted propaganda in this territory
during the year which would intervene
before the plcbiscite also would be de
manded.
These and the other terms of peace,
which are believed to have been formu-
lated for submission at the first meet
ing between the Soviet and Polish
emissares, were received here to-day
in official circles. While not regarded
as final, because of the events favor
able to the Bolshoviki since their
formulation, the terms are accepted in
tention Of the invaders to impose peace
conditions Of q drastic nature.
Demand Salt and Coal Mines
Other terms as received here include
the right Of the Soviet government to
unrestricted transmission Of all code
messages across Poland between Rus
STA and Germany. the turning over OF
all salt and coal mines in Poland for
operation by the Soviet government
and the right of unrestricted travel fer
all Soviet nationals across the Polish
frontiers without the Polish wise on
passports.
The provision for a plebiscite in the
portion of Poland formerly belonging
to Russia, together with the stipula-
tion that the Bolsheviki be granted
permission to disseminate propaganda
without restriction in that territory
for one year before the vote, is viewed
by officials here as likely to be es-
pccially obnoxious to the Poles.
Face Loss of Russian Poland
The granting of such demands would.
III the opinion of officials here, GER
tainly result in the loss to the Warsaw
government of Russian Poland, for all
Polish national feeling in that region,
it is considered. would be blotted out
by the Bolshevik propaganda.
Officials were inclined to believe that
the peace terms to be submitted at the
Minsk negotiations, now in progress,
will be even more severe than those
tentatively prepared for the Barano-
vltchi conference, which ended abrubt-
~ when the Polish armistice em;ssaries
replied they had no authority to con-
clude peace. The recent successes OF
the Soviet forces are held to have made
possible the even more drastic terms.
Announcements of interest to every one
classified under the heading of Business
Cards in to-day's Tribune Want Ad PAGE.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14

fields which at the height of the har-
vest late in July were filled with
countless aged peasants, women and
children. Many Of the reapers were
women and children who came in by
trainloads from Moscow and Petrograd,
declaring they had been promised a
share in the crops.
The government leaders urge faith
fitness and sacrifice on the part of the
people until they can end civil war and
foreign aggression by military vic
tories. They assert that any failure
which may have attended their efforts
thoroughly to establish the Soviet pro-
gram has been due to backwardness on
the part of the Russians or to foreign
interference
In Omsk, center Of the Siberian grain
districts, there is at present a shortage
Of bread which apparently is not due
to scarcity of grain. Reports indicate
it is the result of boycott conducted
ants because they are not satisfied
with the returns they receive in eX-
change for products. The situation
consequently has resulted in a short
age of clothing and other manufactured
products and textile machinery for the
rural population.
In "the Far Eastern Republic" where
a compromise has been made with fea-
lures Of the Bolshevil system. there
is indication that concessions would
be made in attempts to gain economic
contact with the outside world through
the Orient, efforts to accomplish these
aims via Europe apparently having
met with little success. There are evil
dences in that section of private rights
to property, free trade and invitations
for exploitation Of the natural re-
sources by foreign capital. These steps
are said to have been taken with Mos
cows approval, and NJ. Krasnotcheko
the new governments Foreign Minis
ter, is reported in Moscow now for the
purpose of obtaining documents giving
Bolshevik recognition to the repub-
trade.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
Starving Russia, Cursing Rule
OF Reds, Obeys Through Fear
Support of Soviet Diminishes With Increasing Dis
tance From Moscow; Bolsheviki, Admitting
Failure, Seek to Create s'Far Eastern Republic''

TERIJOKT, Finland, Russian from
tier, Aug. IL (By The Associated
Press .-Development Of the Soviet
government in Russia Las been such
that to-day the vast Russian territory
from the Pacific to the Baltic is divid-
ed into three distinct sections in the
attitude of the people toward Boil
shcvism.
In a recent 4,OOO-mile trip across the
country from Vladiyostok to the Finn
fish border the Associated Press cor
respondent observed that Soy let sup
lance from the capital at Moscow,
where the supreme fats for ironclad
militarism are issued.
In the remote Eastern section of ST.
IBERIA the Bolsheviki admit failure to
establish their system and are seeking
to create buffer state known as "the
Far Eastern Republic" Siberia proper,
from lrkutsk to the Urals, where eight
months ago Bolshevism was welcomed
as relief from the Kolchak regime,
is ready for another change to any
thing which will bring economic bet
torment. Proceeding further westward
the traveller finds European Russia,
like great modified army, in starva-
ton circumstances and cursing the
Reds, yet executing their orders pas
sivcy.
The apportionment of food, as we'll
as the relative proximity to military
headquarters, apparently is vital
factor in maintaining Soviet support.
Everywhere through Siberia one hears
stories that the peasants are refusing
to plant their fields or raise stock be-
cause of repeated acquisitions.
Throughout the central part of this
eastern region, where the military OPP
position has been largely eliminated
efforts are being made to establish card
systems for the exchange Of manufac-
turcd goods in return for agricultural
products.
From Samara on the Nolga to Mos
COW the traveller from Siberia passes
through hundreds of miles of wheat
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
AnsIicans lndose League
Church Conference Says Cove
MANI Is Essentially Christian

LONDON, Aug. 13.-Emphatc in
dorsement of the League of Nations as
Essentially Christian was given by the
recent Lambeth Conference of the
Anglican Church, which was attended
by bishops and arcnbshops from ali
parts of the world, accoding to an Off
cial report on the work of the confer
ence issued to-day. 1t was urged that
the peace OF the world, no less than
Christian principles, demanded the adj
mission of Germany and other natiyns
into the league at the earliest possible
time.
A resolution of deep Interest," in the
prohibition movement was adopted in
which the action of the United States
and Canada was commended "to the
earnest and sympathetic attention of the
Christian church throughout the world"
Another resolution affirmed lifelong
indissoluble marriage as the Christian
principle and standard, though allowing
a national church to make special pro-
vision when the ground on which dis
solution is sought in adultery
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
Reds Speeding Up Advance

PARIS, Aug. 10 (By The Associated
Press) .-Closing in upon Warsaw from
the north, east and southeast, the
Rolshevik posts are now within twenty
miles of the capital, and little doubt
is felt here that they will be in the
city before the peace negotiations are
concluded.
General Haler's army, holding posi-
lions along the Nistula, Narew and
Bug rivers in country Offering few
natural advantages for defense. is be-
ing relentlessly pushed toward the
capital by the Bolsheviki, who are
speeding up their advance.
The northern Reds, according to the
latest news reaching Paris tonight. had
passed Pultulsk and were marching
southwark on the capital down the
valley of the Narew. Another column
was advancing between the Narew and
the Bug, while south of the Bug the
enemy had reached and passed the line
running from Tluszoz, through Piivki
Dobre, Kaluszyn, Tseglotf and Lato-
witch to Zelechotf. Further south the
enemy had succeeded in forcing a pas
sage of the Bug and was moving on
Lublin.
40 Miles Beyond Mlawa
The Bolshevik cavalry along the
Prussian frontier has made another
bound forward and is now 40 miles
beyond Mlawa, almost half the way tc
Thorn.
In other words, the Reds are adj
vancing all along the line, except in
the extreme south.
Citizens of Warsaw to the number OF
l0O,UOO have pledged themselves to de
fend the capital to the last breath
but 1t is felt here that such an un-
organized effort cannot seriously affect
the fate of the city. This, apparently
also is the view Of the Polish govern.
ment, which is reported to be consider.
ing moving to Posen if it is satisfied
there is no chance of the Soviet forces
suspendng hostilites at an early date
LONDON, Aug. IS (Communique OF
Russians). The capture of Mlawa ant
Pultusk and the occupation of Siedlc,
ar announced by the Russian Soviet
military headquarters in to-days Off
cial statement. The communicate says
I've captured Mlawa August 10. We
have occupied Pultusk. We occupied
Siedlce August 10. We have occupied
a number of points eight miles east
of Lukof (soutneast of Seclce).
"ln the Cholm region we crossed the
Bug and debouched on the nigh road
between Wlodawa and Cholm. and occu-
pied line of villages north OF Cholm
an the region OF lynsky
(east of the Bug near the Galiciea Dor
der) we occupied Grubiesgof and Pry-
loft.
"Along the river Dniester ard the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
German Millions Doomed

BERLIN, Aug, - (By The Associated
Press ).-"I consider it inevitable that
ten or fifteen million of our people will
die out, as we no longer can provide
for them because of the theft of our
colonies, our merchant fleet and our
possessions abroad, the destruction of
our industries and the seizure of our
natural resources" is the reply of Pro-
fessor Max Won Gruber, noted hygen-
list, in refusing the request of his
Munich colleagues that he sign an in
ternational appeal on behalf of Ger
man tubercular children.
Professor Won Gruber, who is we'll
known for his Pan German inclinations.
declares he finds it incompatible with
German honor" to appeal to the very
nations which, he charges, ''imposed the
hunger blockade which undermined the
YitalitY Of the German neonlen
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
Third Rail Kills Boy;
Elan Live Wire Victim
Brooklyn Lad Meets Death on
Long Island II. r. Track;
Two COmDanions E,scaue

Two persons were accidentally cleo
trocuted on Long Island yesterday
Edward Lawlor eleven, of 1913 West
Ninth Street, Brooklyn, accompanied by
Richard McOnlad, twelve, a cousin, Of
East Eighteenth Street, Brooklyn, and
James Reech, ten, of 1874 Avenue S,
Brooklyn, was walking On the tracks Of
the Sea. Beach line, near Coney Island,
when he stepped on the third rail and
was killed instantly.
George Geese, twenty-five, of 55S
East Twenty-tkird Street, Brooklyn,
grabbed a light wire that was dangling
from the boardwalk near the Trouvile
Hotel, Long Beach, and was killed.
Geese, with several companions, had
Just left the water
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
Pessimistic View From Berlin

Special Cdblc TO Tire Tribune
Copyright. 1920. New York Tribune Inc
BERLIN, Aug. 13.-From information
emanating from diplomatic circles, the
Berlin papers give a very gloomy de-
scription OF the latest developments in
the situation in Poland
"Germania" says Poland has now
given up all hopes and even if an
armistice is not signed the Polish gov
eminent will decide to stop hostilities
the next few days and consent to I'M
conditional surrender. The military
situation is represented as having be-
come desperate.
The "Deutsche Zeitung" says Rus
sian cavalry is now about fifteen miles
from the Warsaw suburbs and that
thousands of fugitives continue to flee
through the so-called Polish corridor
to Danzig. 1t is reported that a great
Polish army, consisting mostly of volun-
tcers from Warsaw. is being concen
trated for desperate rally in the
neighborhood of Thorn.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
Litvinoff Sees u. S. Recognition
Of Soviet Within II Months

COPENHAGEN. Aug. l3 (By The
Associated Press. - Maxim Litvinoff,
Assistant Foreign Minister in the Rus
sian Bolshevik government, does not
doubt that friendly relations between
the Russian government and the Unit
cd States viii exist within the next
twelve months. He made this known
to-day during an interview in which
he touched on Frances recognition of
General Wrangel and the Russo-P Polish
situation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
Poles Strike iss AreG
Occupied BY Soviet
Special Cablc to The Tribune

Copyright, 1920. New York Tribune Inc)
BERLIN, Aug. ID Polish
workers in the territory occupied
by the invading Bolshcviki yes
terday began general strike,
while the peasants are hiding
their food stocks to prevent their
falling into the hands of the Rus
slams. The Soviet ccmmissary at
Bialystok last night issued proc
lamation in which it was said that
as local workers and peasants had
combined in a conspiracy to rem
der difficult the Russian adminis-
tration Of the town he would ex-
ercise the sevcrest measures to
compel workers to resume work
and the peasants to hand over
foodstuff's necessary for the Rus
sian forces.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-14
Venizelos in No Danger;
Surgeons Remove Bullet
AssaiIants of Premier Disci-
plined as Pro-Cermans, Acted
Through Personal Motives

PARIS, Aug. 13.-Premier Venizelos
of Greece, who was wounded here yes
terday when fired upon by two young
Greeks, spent good night in the hos
pltal to winch he was taken, and is in
no danger, it WAS announced by physi-
clans to-day. The bullet, which lodged
IN his left shoulder, was extracted
this morning.
1t was expected that If no suppura-
ton takes place the Premier will be
able to leave the hospital in about
three days.
Georges Thyriakis and Apostolos
lserppis, the assailants of the Pre-
mier, acted through purely personal
motives, according to statement is
sued at the Greek Legation. After the
fall of former King Constantine they
were removed from the Greek army
and navy by the Venizelos government
because of their open pro German
sentiments, it is said