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The Washington times., 1920-08-28
FIFTY CENTS AT
GIRLS CLAD IN SMILES
Farmer Makes Pecks at Moonlight
Mermaids So Profitable, 1t
Really Surprises Him.

PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 2s.--"Fifty
cents look. Maidens in their smiles
battle here daily at 8 p. m"
That sign In a farmers water
melon patch near New Hope. Pa. Is
bringing better returns than water
melons originally planted there.
The farmer first put up the sign for
self-proteotion. All the watermelon
vines in the field were being trampled
to death by hopeful New Hopians.
anxious to see the bathing beauties.
New Hopians soon spread the Elad
nows, and now the farmer is thinking
OF subletting the automobile and team
parking privileges to a hin law
who lives near by.
The bathing girls camp on his farm.
They see nothing harmful In q cool
plunge into the river In the cleaning
their streaming tresses and smiles a.
their only adornment.
The Washington times., 1920-08-28
COPS AND CROWD HUNT
BEAR IN CITY STREETS

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Aug. 2s.--The hrst
bear hunt in st. Louis in ninety years
oldest Inhabitants voueh for the
time---was staged yesterday when a
huge grizzly was loosed from It's cage
in Forest Park by a practical Joker,
to roam in the fashionable westcnd
residential section.
A wild chase through the residen-
tial section, In which mounted police
with riot guns Joined, resulted In
woundins the grizzly. Men. women
and children scattered TO shelter as
the bear approached.
Finally the bear ran into q garage
The doors and windows vera barred
and locked while 400 attendants ns-
ured some way TO reoapture Mr.
Bruin alive.
The Washington times., 1920-08-28
MOTHER SAVES Her SON;
BOTH Die BY HER PANIC
After Snatching Him From r. r
Track She Darts in Way Of
Another Train.

CAMBRIDGE. Nd, Aug. 2s.-Mrs.
Leila Evans and her seven-year-old
son were killed by a Baltimore, Ches-
apeake and Atlantic railroad train be-
tween Rhodesdale and Reid's Grove,
Dorchester county
Mrs. Evans and her son were walk
ing down the road, the boy in the
lead. He had started to cross tn.
railroad track when his mother heard
whistle. she seized the child and
ran across the track safely. Then,
greatly excited, she started back
across the track. She just reached
the rails when the engine struck her.
short time.
The Washington times., 1920-08-28
Senate Rejection Kept American
Soldiers From Polish Front
Declares NOMINEES.
FLsYs the WILSON POLICY
Says "WiggIlng and WobbIing"
of Administration Brings
U. S. Into Diaepute.
~ GEORGE n. HOLMES.
InternationaI News Service.

MARION, Ohio. Aug 2S.-A new
world court Of Justice. built on the
foundation OF the old Hague tribunal,
and brought up to date with somo
timbers saved from the wreckage
Of the League OF nations. was
brought forward here today by Sem
ator Warren G. Harding as the Re-
publican party's international peace
policy.
WOULD EXCISE THE BAD.
He would take and combine. he
said, all that is good and excise all
that is bad from both organizations
to get an effective peace instrument
with teeth in it."
Only IN some such manner as this,
Senator Harding asserted, can the
world obtain the. lasting peace for
which 1t is crying. future wars be
| maintaining her independence In
foreign affairs.
| In his Arst .4AxhtinR speech IN
,tnlersatfeaal issues, delivered fren
Ills froat perch today te argreup sef
Indiana RepobDicans, Senator einard-
Ing declared the league as conceived
1T Paris has broken down utterly. IL
| 10 due only to the farsighted Republic
ean Senate, he said, that American
soldiers are not now Aghting on the
Polish Russian front.
Senator Harding savagely attacked
| the Administrators entire foreign
policy-from Mexico to Europe, and
from Armenia to Latin-America
"wIGGLING AND wOBBLING.,
"Wigslins and wobbling' was the
term he frequently used to describe
It.
Let us have done with wiggling
and wobbling." he concluded. STEADY
America"
Wasting but few words in introduce
ton. the Senator devoted his remarks
entirely and at once to the foreign
| situation. He said in part.
Let us suppose the Senate had rat
filed the peace treaty containing tho
league rJvenant, what would be the
| situation confronting our country to-
day? There 10 but one answer. Before
this Day We would have been called
upon to fulfiIl the obligations which
we hsA assumed under Article X, to
preserve the territorial integrity Of
Peland 'as against external agGres-
sion.'
Let us assume further that the
performance of the allotted task re-
quired waging war on the Russian
(ContinESd on Page 2. Column ~
The Washington times., 1920-08-28
G. O.P. GAY WHEN
WILSON WAS ILL
.-COX
Democratic Nominee Makes
Scathing Attack on "Sen- y
ate Oljuarchv,"

NEW YORK. Aug pa scathing
attack upon the Senatorial oligarchy
was delivered today by Governor
James NJ. Cox. Democratic Presi-
Dental nominee, in speech at a
luncheon of the National Democratic
Club at the Hotel Commodore.
The Republican Senators who op-
posed President Wilson's Peace pro-
gram were accused by Governor Cox
of "chuckline in the Senate cloak
rooms" when the President was in
danger OF death.
1T is high time this sort OF thing
was exposed and IL shall be my first
duty, until the second day of Novem-
ber to keep the Senatorial oligarchy
in the view and thought of the ma
ton" said Governor Cox.
The Washington times., 1920-08-28
S. DROP IN COAL
PRICE PREDICTED
Due to Come Down by Novem-
Der, Declares Director of
Wholesale Dealers.

Coal will drop IS per ton before
late fall, George Cushing, managing
director of the American Wholesale
Coal Dealers Association. predicted
here today. Cushing added that the
sharp fall may not be expected until
November.
THE wholesale dealers have been
expecting a marked decline for sew
eral' months. Few of them would
stay In the market moro than twenty
four hours with any quantity of coal.
The drop has been held off by the pres-
enoe OF book orders held by the oper-
ators and the steady demand on the
local merchants" Cushing declared.
There has been considerable COM
petion for coal. II must be remem-
bered. however. that manufacturing
plants have laid In their supply early
ana the householders bought during
the spring and early summer. Coal
dealers have ordered from three and
four sources. when they find their
orders are being filled they will can
eel the precautionary orders they have
been making in the prospect of n
shortage.
1T will be hard to estimate tho
amount the price will drop, but be-.
lieve Il will be as much as IS per ton.
There IL and will be little scarcity of
coal when the actual facts dawn upon
the trade" Cushing continued.
Wholesalers have been condemned
for raising the price OF coal. They
have had but little to do with IL.
Competitive bidding at the mine has
caused the Increase. Mines are oper-
atins today and supply coal OF an in
ferior grade that could not hnvs
operated or offered their coal to q nor
NAL market"
The Washington times., 1920-08-28
STRIKE TIES Up
TEN BIG LINERS
1000 Longshoremen Quit In
N. Y. in Protest to Tyranny
In Ireland.

NEW YORK. Aug. 2S.--Ten
transatlantic liners scheduled TO
sail for Europe today may be held
up here by the strike Of longshore-
men started yesterday as a protest
against the British treatment OF
Terence McSwiney, Lord Mayor OF
Cork, and the barring Of Archbishop
Daniel Mannix from Ireland
Officials of the Longshoremen' s
Union said the men would not re-
turn to work until the British gov
ernment released McSwiney, and
gave Archbishop Mannix permission
to visit Ireland.
HUGE SHIPS HELD UP.
The Olympic and Aquitania are two
OF the largest liners which were
scheduled to sail today.
The 1000 longshoremen say that
the walkout will be extended to every
Atlantic and Gulf port. They further
declare that they will not return to
work until Great Britain meets their
demands.
A little band Of women pickets in
spired the strike during the noon
lunch hour yesterday. They stationed
themselves outside the White Star
Line pier in the morning to await the
arrival OF the Baltic. from which
Archbishop Mannix was removed by a
British naval vessel on that ships last
voyage to Ireland and England. The
archbishop was not permitted to land
In Ireland, but was taken to England.
and longshoremen said they resented
Nthis.
WIRE LLOYD GEORGE.
The women had McSwiney In mind,
because before marching to the piers
they made public the following tele-
gram sent to Premier Lloyd George:
THE sound OF death in the throat OF
Terrence McSwiney Is the death kneil
Of your adventure in Ireland. We hear
the bell tolling. The people are gath
ering. OH up your tanks, polish up
your guns"
The Irish women sympathlzers ar
rived In front OF the Baltic pier In
three large automobile trucks dec
GRATED in the Sim Fein colors and a
small American flag. In one OF the
trucks were women dressed in white
and decorated with the Irish colors,
carrying banners.
The first to 60 out were thirty MEM
bers OF the fireroom crew OF the Bal
tic. During the lunch hour the long
shoremen who had started work on
the Baltic decided not to go back.
Forming outside the White Star
Line pier, inside OF which were Of
fcials calling for police reserves, the
strikers began a parade that swept up
West street, engulhng hundreds Of
longshorcmen at the docks of the
Cunard. Anchor and other British
lines, and leaving in its wake more
than a dozen steamships with loading
schedules badly disrupted.
Irish sympathlzers working on
American, French and Belgian steam
ships also quit work during the whirl-
wind campaign the strikers waged
along the North river. Although not
en- masse, longshoremen OF various
nationalities rushed from the holds
OF vessels at the command OF their
Irish comrades. More than 260 negroes
who were unloading the cargo OF a
Cunard liner fell into line with the
speed of the historic minute men"
and received a big ovation from the
other strikers.
The throng OF Irish sympathizers,
CONTINUED on Page ., Column g.
The Washington times., 1920-08-28
|RENT FIGHT IN
HIGHEST COURT
New Attempt Launched to Sus.
tain Ball Act In Block
Hirsch Case.

The fght to test the constitu-
tionality OF the Ball rent act, relat-
ing to rents In the District OF Co
lumbia, was again taken to the
United States Supreme Court today
by Col. julius /. Peyser and Jesse c.
Adkins, representing the defendant
In the famous Block -Hirsch case.
A petition for a writ OF certioari
from the decision OF the court OF ap-
peals, which declared the act uncon-
stitutional, WAS filed with the clerk
OF the high court. and argument Will
be heard october 4 at the opening OF
the court.
Chief Justice White declined recent
ly to issue a writ of error in the
case, holding that the suit had not
been nnally adjudicated by the lower
court. Since that decision the man
date OF the court OF appeals has been
handed down.
In the present act, counsel will seek
to have the case reviewed by the en-
tire court.
The Washington times., 1920-08-28
PRINCE WANTS TO
KNOW WHEN U.S..
GOES DRY

NEW YORK, Aug. 2S.-Prince
Carol Of Rumania, who has pass
ed several days and nights in New
York City this week, was inter
viewed for the newspapers at the
Waldorf Astoria.
A reporter asked the prince
what he thought Of prohibition in
general and Mr.. Volstead's justly
celebrated act in particular.
by the way, when does prohi-
bition 10 into effect heref" asked
the prince, quite innocently.
Nobody seemed 10 know. 30 the
subject Was dropped.
The Washington times., 1920-08-28
DAMAGE AT BELFAST
REACHES S2,5OO,OOO

LONDON. Aug 2s.--Damage from
riotins And inoendiarism In Belfast
and vicinity now totals s2.500.000. ac-
cordlng to a Belfast dispatch to the
Eyelng News today.
One hundred and twenty houses at
Ballymacsrett were sutted by fre.
Soldiers are on guard at st. Matthews
Church at Ballymacarett, which was
threatened.
DUBLIN, Aug. 2s.--Many buildings
were sacked and wrecked in an out
break OF riotins at Queenstown today.
Troops were called out to restore
order. but at last accounts from
Queenstown desultory lighting was
still In progress.
Soldiers are alleged to have started
the trouble In, reprisal for an attack
upon the British military torces at
Cahinmore.
British hishlsnders were said to
have led the pIllssing Adviees from
Queenstown this afternoon said that
British Officers had succeeded In
rounding up all the turbulent troops.
The Washington times., 1920-08-28
WOMEN'S VOTE ILLEGAL,
COURT IN MO. RULES

wkRRENsBURg, Mo-. Aug oa-
Votes cast Tuesday by 100 women Of
Howard and Lone walnut School dis
tricts, in the belief that the Tennessee
ratification of the suffrage amend
msnt gave them the ballot, we're de.
clared illegal today by the county
court here.
The court ordered the ballots OF the
women thrown out, declaring they
had anticipated the proclamation OF
Secretary OF state Colby. The loss OF
the women's votes caused the defeat
OF q school bond issue.
The Washington times., 1920-08-28
Scandal That Borders on Treason
Stirs Hays to Take Vigorous Action

NEW YORK, Aug. 2s.-Chaiman Hays, of the
National Committee, impressed by the allegations of
Representative Fred A. Brtten and others, that the
government chiefly responsible for the League Of Ma
tons covenant is getting behind Cox financially started
for Chicago last night He will put together all the evil
dence Brten and others supply and may present to the
Kenyon committee when he appears before it Monday
morning next
On the way to Chicago Chairman Hays will consult
with Senator Harding at Marion.
Bren's accusations coupled with data since offered
have convinced the Harding managers that there is
kcAntinued on Page Two, Col Four) ..-
The Washington times., 1920-08-28

BERLIN, Aug. 2S.-Russia is pre-
pairing for a winter campaign
against the Poles, it was learned at
the Soviet embassy today.
Moscow denies that Russia has
suffered q military defeat. Leon
Trotxky, Bolshevik minister of war
is assembling new Russian army
which will be used against the Poles
during the winter. -
FRENCH IN FIGHTING.
Accordinx to an unconhrmed dis
patch from KOeniGsberg to the Neuer
Bcriiner. quoting former Polish sol
diera, there are 10000 French trOoDs,
iRcluAin1 part Of the French Twenty
fourth divisfen. hEht;nE with the
Psles against the RussIans.
According to the Koenigsberg re-
port, French negro troops were on the
Polish battle line between Mlava and
Prxasnysx.
Officials of the Soviet embassy said
the Russian war office has plans for
q slow and systematic campaign OF
attrition against the Poles during the
winter months.
"Our peasants are idle during the
winter and will be only too glad to
Join the Russian army" it was de-
clared.
Severe fgnting continues around
Brest-Litovsk, according to Koenigs-
berg advices. Polish airmen reported
that the Russians had concentrated
al available reserves and artillery in
that district for a counter thrust
against the Poles.
The Washington times., 1920-08-28
Morgan Newspaper Supporting Cox

1.-THE Senate subcommittee easily find out how
this and other huge Of money from abroad to be
expended during the campaign 1t has the authority to
subpoena witnesses books bank accounts and other evil
dences.
''When go before the committee Monday morning
shall suggest that evidence of British interest in the
campaign the fact that the candidacy OF Governor Cox
is being supported by the New York Post which is owned
by j. P Morgan Co., the head of the syndicate of inter
national bankers.
Ths newspaper is strong for Cox and for the League
of Nations and this in view of its ownership by this firm
of international nancer an evidence of the desires
of England"
Senator w. S. Kenyon, chairman, and other members
Of the subcommittee, not in the city today
The Washington times., 1920-08-28
TWO-THlRDS OF RED
ARTILLERY CAPTURED


Ali the artillery in the Russian army
has been captured by the Poles, ac-
cording to a news agency dispatcn
from warsaw.
PARIS, Aug. 2s.-"The Russian
peace terms to Poland were defnItive;
the Polish terms were merely mega
tive" says an official peace COM
muniaue by the Soviet government
and wirelessed from Moscow today.
George Tchitcherin, the Soviet for
eiGn minister, made the proposal In
the radiogram that the Russo-Polis
peace negotiations be transferred
from Minsk to some neutral city.
LONDON, Aug. 2S.-Sixty thousand
Russians have fed across the East
Prussian frontier into Germany be-
fore the Polish advance, according to
an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Amsterdam today.
The dispatch said there had been no
classes between the Russians and the
dermAn frontier guards.
wASAW, Aug. 81. via London, Aug.
2s.-The capture of 400 additional
Russian prisoners was announced by
the Polish general staff tonight. or
these. three thousand were taken In
the Ciechapof sector.
The Washington times., 1920-08-28
Britten SubpOenaed
TO Tell of $87, 500
Gift TO Democrats
Republican Evidence to Back His Charges Will
Be Given to Senate Committee Monday.

CHICAGO, Aug. 2s.-Representative Fred A Brtten'
who charged that 800 appropriated by the British
government had "found its way into the Democratic
campaign fund" will go before the Senate subcommittee
investigating campaign expenditures Monday and ask
il to investigate the interest of international fnancers
in the candidacy of Governor Cox.
Representative Britten subpoenaed last night
appear before the subcommittee Following the serv
ice of the subpoena by Senator SergeantatArms Barry
Mr.. Brten said that he glad of the opportunity to
appear and direct the subcommittee to phase OF the
campaign that has hitherto been overlooked.
He said he believed the subcommittee will have little
difficulty in learning that international bankers deeply
interested in Governor Coxs candidacy and that the
mittee may by exercising its nqusitoral powers de-
termine the degree of their financial investment in the
governors canddacy
The Washington times., 1920-08-28
WIN Such q Sun, For Geddes?

"The cable reports today that London is talking
about the statement that $8 500 appropriated for enter
tainmrnt purposes has gone into the Democratic cam
pagn fund said Representative Brtten eyes, London
and Paris, too, have been talking about the political
situation in this country long time
at is strange that Geddes, "a poor man. should be
given $S5OO for entertainment purposes. Usually poor
man is not expected to entertain lavshly.
If the Senate subcommittee will inquire in that drec
ton convinced that it will find most if not all of this
and entertainment funds going into newspaper
and magazine publicity favor Of the League of Nations
Support of the League of Nations of support OF
Cox's candidacy
81 followed carefully the proceedings in Parliament
when this money appropriated and it struck me at
the time strange that much money should be set
aside for such purpose Geddes is paid $4,000 year.
pays rent and pays nothing for his servants Still ne
is given 1900 for entertainment purposes
'The answer feel, is that the money is intended for
promotion of the League of Natonsn short for British
propaganda.
The Washington times., 1920-08-28

WARSAW, Aug. ~, via London,
Aug. 2S.-Fifty thousand Russians
have been killed and wounded and
1O7 900 Russian prisoners have been
captured, the Polish war Office an
nounced tonight.
The communique reported the
repnlse Of three Russian columns
that were attempting . counter Of
feasivc east Of the fortress of Brest-
Litovsk.
The Washington times., 1920-08-28
REDS FORMING
WINTER ARMY.
Trotzky Preparing for Intense
Counter Offensive Against
Victorious Polish Forces.
DEFEAT DENIED IN MOSCOW
Berlin Hears That 10000
French Troops Are Fighting
With S0viet's Foes.

LONDON, Aug. zs.-'The Russian
army 10 pulling together. and a.
impenetrabIe wall Is now rising on
fhe battle front" said a Russian
wireless dispatch today, quoting
the BolsAevik newspaper Pravda At
Moscow.
The Washington times., 1920-08-28
AN OPPORTUNITY TO VOTE
FOR
District Commissioners
Washington Will Register Its Opinion
in This POLL Residents of the Nations
Capital, Interested in Their City, to
Nominate and Vote for Heads of Mu-
nicipal Government.

Baloting in The Washington Times advisory referen-
dun for District Commissioner to succeed Louis Brownow
will begin tomorrow afternoon when the first ballot slip
will be printed in The Times
This mornings mail brought large new list Of candi-
dates, recommended by friends and acquantances who
believe them qualified to administer the affairs of the
District.
Those which received up to O'Clock, with all which
Lave in before will be published in omorrows Times
in connection with the ballot slip Todays list like those
which preceded it, contains many of prominent
the life of the District and others who because Of their
personality activities have impressed their qualifications
on their circles
The Times seeks get the full expression Of the public
its choice for the most important Office connected with
the District government.
Be ready when the full list of nominees is printed
tomorrow.
JA. Whitfield president of the City Club, whose name
presented yesterday has asked that be omitted
his business interests would his accepting the COM
mssionershp should it be offered him. Among the new
The Washington times., 1920-08-28
Nota Beany
Traffic Truths

This little rule will take you far
II you will only mind it
Don't dodge before a trolley car;
You'll find more room behind It..
The Washington times., 1920-08-28


r. H, ALCCRN. j. n.
GEORGE A. BENTLEY ROSCOE c. MITCHELL
j. A.. CONN.,. p T. MORAN
EDWARD f. COLLADAY JOHN j. NOONAN.
A. EDWARDS. JOHN O'NEH.
LOUIS J. FOSSE. CHARLES W. RAY.
THOMAS GRANT WILLIAM p. RICHARDS.
r. ROLAND ROBBINS.
EARL '. HIGGINS. PATRICK J. RYAN.
CHARLES z. HOLT c. MELVIN SHARP.
F.. W. HOOVER. PHILIP II. SINCLAIR.
E. JONES. d. SMITH
JOHNSON. PAUL SUNDAY.
p. N.
CHARLES +. II. TUCKER.
] Jr. I. WARNER
JOHN X. LOVE. i. F. VALENTINE.
HENRY F. MCFARLAND. CONRAD H. WEISS.
The Times is assured that solemn referendum, linn.
tied to adult residents of the District will receive serious
consideration at the White House.
Baloting will begin tomorrow, and will continue until
O'Clock p m Friday, September g. The result will be
snnounced in The Times, Sunday, September s.
The tabulaton will be Immediately certified, and pre-
sented to President Wilson for consideration
The law requires that Commissioners shall have been
bonade residents Of the District for OF least three
next previous to appointment
The Washington times., 1920-08-28
LEAGUE REJECTION SAVED u FROM NEW WAR; HARDING DECL
THE WEATHER:

Cloudy, with probably showers
tonight and tomorrow. Moderate tenn
perature. Gentle to moderate east and
southeast winds Temperature at
o'clock 81 degrees.
The Penn's Grove record., 1920-07-16
Thieves Captured

William and Bernard Reed, colored,
are the men who committed the recent
burglary at the Hub Clothing store,
getting away with several hundred
dollars worth of silk shirts. William
Reed is in Jail, but Barney is still at
large.
implicated with them was Julius
Stevenson, a jitney driver in Penns
Grove, who claimed to be the owner of
the goods and Bessie st. John, OF
Westminster Avenue, who hid the loot
in her house until the men were ready
to leave town.
Word was sent to the police authori-
ties of all nearby cities and towns I'M
mediately after the robbery.
Last Friday word was received from
Baltimore that three men had been ar
rested there while peddling silk shirts
from house to house at bargain prices.
Chief Marshal Houseworth and
Samuel D. Rosenbloth of the Hub firm
Immediately went to Baltimore and
confronted the men in jail.
They confessed to the robbery and
took the Chief to places where they
had sold thes hirts, nearly all OF which
were recovered.
About $50 in money and the Gags
from the shirts We're found on Steven
en-. He evidently was 'se"ping tab
for a square divide when the gang
cashed in. Reed had about Sll3 IN
money on his person. ..oc
The Chief brought back about SooO
worth of shirts which the Baltimore
police captured with the thieves. They
were carried in three leather bags also
the property of the Hub store.
Bessie st. John is Reeds best g1rI
which accounts for her acting as re-
ceiver of the stolen goods.
In Recorder Edgar's Court wilma
Reed was held under $500 bail in de-
fauIt of which he was taken to S-ie
Jail to await trial.
Julius Stevenson's bail was fixed al
$4,000, for which be rave security ano
was released. DcSsic St. John was
! sent to Jail in default of $1,000 ball.