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1 WEATHER FORECAST. A HAPPY BLENDING Partly cloudy to-da- y; fair, The amalgamated SUN AND HERALD little change In temperature; moderate preserves the best traditions of each. southwest winds. In combination these two newspapers Highest temperature yesterday, 80; lowest, 63. make a greater newspaper than either retailed weather reports will be found on the Bdltoilal has ever been on its own. . AND THE NEW YORK HERALD CENTS I TltHEE CENTS TWO VOL. LXXXm-N- O. 334--DAI- LY. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1920.gdn6dv.g.,. ffifiSKW York, N. T. PRICE in kew Tronic CITY. J FOim WITltIN CENTS 20O BLSBWHER84 MILKS. nlTrtt sTITTk. ITTYT T I KWULAKJJ WILL HEAR VALERA ONLY AS BRITON Chief Secretary Bars Him as Spokesman of Irish Republic; TERMS OF 'PRESIDENT' Will Accept Dominion Homo Rule With Coun-.t- y Option. f ALL SIDES SEEKING PEACE Restraint Everywhere Urged and Campaign of Violence Ends.- - Sttnat Cable Despatch to Tmt Bcn ind Nkw Toik Heuld. Cowrtoht, )tt, by Tits Son ND NCW YOIX ItlUltD. London, July29. Sir Hamar Green- wood, Chief Secretary for Ireland, is quoted In an authoritative quarter as having signified ho is Trilling to nego-tlat- o with Eamonn At Valero, provided Do Valera enters the conference as the representative of a group of Brit- ish subjects and not as the repre- sentative of an Independent Irish Re- public Meanwhllo the correspondent of The Sun and Nbw York Herald in Dublin hears that Do Valera has written a letter to a person there in which ho tald he would accpt Dominion homo rule with county option provided the Sinn Fein could negotiate with the English as equals. This would enable the Ulstcrltes to stay out if they elected to do so. To \relieve British anxiety about the future,\ Mr. de Valera said m Wash- ington recently, he would have no hesi- tation In recommending to the Irish people that they enter Into a treaty with the British Government containing a stipulation such as the first article of the Piatt amendment In the treaty be- tween the United States and Cuba. Last night he denied that he had advised ac- ceptance of Dominion home rule pro- posals for Ireland. While no oRlclnt report is available on the meeting of the Duke of North umberland, who heads a delegation of rabid Irish L'nlpnlstn, .Itji Premier Lloyd George ht it was reported In Informed circles that the Unionist delegates received \a dose of cold water\ from the Premier when they began reciting the Unionist grievances. Sinn Felnera Restrained. Kvery advice received hero from Ireland ht indicates that all sides are making the greatest effort to restrain controversial sentiments during the next few critical days. Also reports show that tho Sinn Felii campaign of violence has been checked and that tho soldiers and pollco are holding down tho lid on anything like reprisals. De Valera's willingness to accept county option in connection with do minion home rule was reported to be based on Information which came out of Ulster recently that only two counties there would elect to stay out Oniclals at the Foreign Office have closely followed the editorials which appeared in the Freeman's Journal in Dublin during the last few days. It was reported that the suggestion con talncd In the Freeman's Jour-no- ! that Arthur Griffith, nt of the \Irish Republic,\ and Gen. Sir Nevll Mncready, commanding the Government forces in Ireland, appoint (representa- tives to arrange a real truce between tho dentins forces la receiving serious consideration by Irian officials here. Kir Nevll Is staying In London, and re- ports here are to the effect that he is urging the wisdom of such a course. While the, police under his command are resigning In Urge numbers the British soldiers In Ireland also are decidedly uncomfortable under the stress or me peculiar duties Imposed upon them In Ireland. There have been Important accessions to the forces maintaining order In Ire- land through tho enlistment of on. time officers and a corps of cadets, yet uie noyai irun uonstaDulary, the old standbys of the military force, ther. are getting out Numerous officers of mo iioaj inin constabulary are ask- ing for civilian positions In Ireland h- - cause they see no possibility of going on with their Jobs and protecting their families. ' One of the most Important of wo rcmsnauona was mat of an- - officer who accompanied Inspector Smvth Kn was murdered In Cork, when the latter uiauo we speccn alleged to have re- - BiuiBu Ja mo mutiny or the Llstowal police. Settlement \Possible.\ While the situation in Ireland amply \\'\ uaoomun mat a settlement Is possible, the British political situa- tion Is by no means so certain. A settle- ment of the Irish problem would mean the submission of a new policy to the country at a general election, and the Premier would have to risk being able to head a new coalition. Political observers here declare that in a settle- ment of the Irish question on the basis of dominion home rule, with everything nave military defence and autonomy granted Ireland, both Labor and the Asqulthlan Liberals \would be able to claim a larger share of tho credit than would Premier Lloyd George. On the other band, it was asserted that If Premier Lloyd Qcorgo was able to claim- - tho credit as the responsible head of the present Government, of for- - Continued on Third Page. To Pass Drastic Bill and Send Munitions LONDON, July 20.A bill to deal with the disorders in Ireland will be Introduced next week in tho House of Commons and passed In all' Its stages, ac- cording to an announcement by Androw Bonar Law, tho Govern- ment loader. Premier Lloyd Georgo told members of both Houses that tho provisions of tho bill would be found to bo very drastic and that great hopos aro entertained that they will suc-cc- d in coping with tho situation In Ireland. Whatever happened, the Premier Bald, Ireland could not be allowed to leavo the Em- pire. Munitions would bo sent, and railwaymen refusing to handle them would bo instantly dismissed. ALLIES APPROVE NOTETOSOYIET Britain's Initiative in Calling Conference Agreed .to by Franco and Italy. INDEPENDENCE FOR POLES Bolshevik! Told Peaco of Europe Most Be Assured in Parloy With Entente. Special Cahtr Despatch to Tub Sdx'jlkd Nsw Yonc HkiuLo. Copyright, 1130, by Tn 3cx axd Mi Toax Bsau.0. London, July 29. England's note to thc Russian Soviet Government on a Russo-Polls- h pcaco received the full approval of Franco in the meeting of tho Premiers In Boulogne, although the note was unsigned by France, England having taken tho initiative In sending the first notes, it was stated authoritatively here y. In tho same high circles it was declared that tho truth of this statement should bo emphasized, in view of reports to tho effect that Franco was not in accord with Great Britain In tho Russian policy of Premier Lloyd George. Desplto tho optimism of tho British Prime Minister, however, tho fact that the Russian Bolshcvlkl have over' stepped the armistice line revivifies all old fears of an understanding be tween the Bolshevik! and the Ger mans and of a Europe Red to the Rhine. The armistice line embraces the so called Lloyd George, Polish boundary line In the nortn and the actual military line In the south on July 30. The Lloyd George line runs on almost a straight line north and south from a point slightly west of Grodno, past Brest- - LltovBlc, to the Galacian line. It Is approximately 116 miles east of War saw at its nearest point to the Polish capital. Three Powers In Accord. Speaking In the llouso of Commons to-d- Premier Lloyd George etnpha sized the fact that Great Britain, France and Italy were In complete accord re garding negotiations with the Bolshevist. He said that the necessity for haste In calling the Boulogne meeting precluded the possibility of Italy being represented, put tnat we icauan Government was kept fully Informed and was In entire agreement with Great Britain and France. In confirmation of this the Marquis Imperlall, Italian Ambassador, called at the Foreign Office to-d- and delivered Italy's agreement with the terms of the note. , The Premier told the House that the British Government considered that if the Entente were to meet the Soviet representatives, the chief object of the meeting would be the peace of Europe, but In the first place, peace between Poland and Russia. When this was set tled, the conference could deal with dls putes between the Entente and the Soviet, and also with questions retatlng to the reestabllshment ot normal condi- tions. The Independence of Poland was absolutely a sine qua non condition, he declared. The Premier read to the House the note which was despatched to the Soviet Government He told the House that the Soviet Government had sent two messages to the Allies, but they seemed to conflict, the first apparently reject- ing the allied proposal for a London peace conference, but the second ap parently agreeing to It. The British note said: Text of British Note. \The British Government considers that if the allied Governments are to meet delegates of the Soviet Government with any chance of success, delegates of the Polish Government and of the othor border States concerned must also be present The conference must have as its essential object reestabllshment of the peace of Europe, and In the first place between Poland and Russia, on conditions which will securo the Inde- pendence of Poland and the legitimate interests ot coin countries. \The conference should also consider questions which are still outstanding between Soviet Russia and the border States, which have not yet slrned definite peace with Russia. After the settlement of these questions the conference will deal with questions In dispute between the governments of Soviet Russia and the Allies, and the reestabllshment of normal relations between them.\ The correspondent here of Tiisj Sun and New York Herald learns that every despatch received at the British Foreign Office from tho Soviet Government con- tains strong propaganda sandwiched In between the matter regarding the pro- - nosed conrerence. At tne present mo ment' this propaganda hinges on Bol shevist assertions ot Polish atrocities. Many of these charges by the Bolshe vik! against the Poles have been inves- tigated by allied commissions and have been found to be without foundation of Continued on Fijth Pag. PONZI HANDS OUT $500,000 TO 'INVESTORS' Postal Coupon Financier Has Returned $2,000,000, Says Secretary. INQUIRY BY COOLIDGE Bay 'State Governor Wants Facts on Manipulations in Boston. NEW CONCERN STARTS Man Tosint ns 'Partner' Threatens $1,000,000 Ac- tion to Tie Up Ponzi Fund. Special to Tns Sun and New Youk HiiutD. Boston, July 29. Half n million dol lars was poured back y into the hands of customers who havo grown sceptical at tho offices of Charles Ponzl, \postage stamp king.\ As early as 6 o'clock In tho morn- ing crowds began to 'gather, and for hours during the day thousands Jammed Into the square about his School street and Plo alley offices. It was from the latter that tho cash was given out and not a claimant was turned away disappointed. When tho doors closed soon after 4 o'clock this afternoon an exhausted clerk announced to tho crowd that tho office would bo open again and more mountains of cash would bo on hand with which to pay off all others who desired to \cash\ tho notes carrying the Ponzl signature and promising to pay 60 per cent, profit In ninety days. Pays Ahead ot Promise. Two million dollars has been turned back this week, according to a state ment of Miss Lucl Mell, Ponzi's pri vato secretary. Much of this, how ever, was paid on notes issued 45 days ago, and represents tho returned principal and do per cent, premium. Though Ponzl promises to pay in 90 days, ho invariably has mado his pay ments In 45 days. The Old Colony Securities Exchange Company, alleged rival concern, which has opened offices In Devonshire street and which also Is promising 50 per cent profit In forty-fiv- e days, was allowed to continue business y after a confer ence between Its president, John Bright well, and District Attorney Pelletlcr at the latter s office. Brtghtwet! declares that whllo his firm doals In postal exchanges, as does I'onxI's firm, this Is \only a pnrt of the business conducted.\ Ho says his firm cents In ''foreign goods,\ though the nature of the goods Is unknown. Joseph Daniels, one of the early In vestors In the Ponxl company, made u new attempt to-d- to tie up Ponzi's stock In various Boston concerns. Dan lets, who recently filed a bill In equity against Ponzl, In an amended motion declared he was a \partner\ with Ponzl, and he seeks to. obtain f 1,000,000 from Ponzl as his share of tho profits. Judge White Issued an order ot notice to Ponzl on the amendment which Is re turnable Tuesday. Ponzl Is asked to respond on that date. Ponzl was pressed hard to-d- to ex plain In detail the operation of dispos- ing of the Immense number of postal exchange coupons represented in his huge transactions. Ilefaiea to Give Up Secret. 'That Is my business socret,\ he de clared, and while he will explain the transactions In considerable detail ho refuses consistently to disclose how ho Is able to sell the actual coupons In such tremendous quantities. None of his agents, on this side of tho water at least, appears to know this process. Ponzl added that the United States Gov- ernment would have a lot of trouble finding out his secret. \I am In the business to make money.\ he added. \Ethics does not Interest trie any moro than It Interests bankers. These coupons aro used as currency In Europe. My secret Is how I cash tho coupons. I do not tell It to anybody. Let the United States find It out, If it can.\ Gov. Coolldge, Just, back In the city from a vacation on his father's Vermont farm and the official notification cere monies at Northampton, at once Inter ested himself In the situation. Ho sum moned Attorney-Gener- Allen to \se cure all the facts\ and to take what- ever action seemed necessary, If any, as the facts warrant. Whether the actual audit of Ponzl'n books has begun the District Attorney would not aisciose it is known that Ponzi's \bookkeeping\ consists merely ot a single card filing system, the cards carrying the customers' names and addresses, the amount of their in vestment and the date received. MONEY ORDER RATES NEARER TO EXCHANGE Conversion Altered to Con form to Market. Special (o Tits Son and Kxw Yoxk Hblild. Washington. July 29. After a delav of more than a year Postmaster General Burleson to-d- Issued orders which will' make rates tor the conversion oi In- ternational money orders moYc nearly corresponding to actual foreign exchange rates. Because of the delay In taking; this action foreign governments have been forced to adopt makeshift measures to prevent speculative transactions of the same character which Charles Ponzl of Boston claims made him several times a millionaire In a few months. Another result of keeping pre-w- Continued on Second Page. Senate Campaign Fund Probe Off TUl September ST. LOUIS, July 29. Senator James A. Reed to-d- an- nounced that the Senate subcom- mittee would not resume Ite in- vestigation of campaign expendi- tures of Presidential candidates until September. Sonntor Reed is a member of tho subcommittee. FAILS BY PHONE TO SAVE SLAYER Mysterious Person Accuses Himself When Young Hyatt Is in Electric Chair. BROOKLYN MAN ARRESTED Admits Interceding for Con- demned Youth Governor Defuses Mother's Plea. Fourteen minutes before Elmer H. Hyatt, youngest slayer to die in the electric chair of all the 16S who have preceded him In Now York Stale, walked into the death chamber at Sing Sing and while ho was In the act of saying \Good-b- y, boys,\ to his com panions in tho death house, a tele phone message flashed Into Pollco Headquarters here, at exactly flvo minutes to 11 last night, and a voice shouted: \I'm the murderer! Don't let Hyatt die! He's innocent!\ Then tho telephone communication was cut off abruptly. Working against the few minutes left, police officers shattered records In tracing back tho call. It had como from a drug store at 864 Ninth avenue. Even while Patrolman John Dyman, rushing out of tho West Forty-sevent- h street police station, was Jumping aboard a oasslnir automobile and shouting in structlons to a bewildered driver, Elmer Hyatt was being strapped Into the elec' trie chair, to die for the murder of Patrolman O'Brien, a year and a half ago In Rochester, a murder that cul minuted a career bf thievery and Jurg lary. to fifteen of which crimes Hyatt had admitted connection, although he did not confess or admit the murder of tho policeman, Pollcemnn Find Accused Man. A speeding automobile carried Patrol- man Dyman up Ninth avenue. He saw a short slender man. In Palm Beach suit and Panama hat wnlklng languidly along the sidewalk, opd the policeman took a chance. Jumping from the run- ning board of tho machine, he accused tho man of making the mysterious tele- phone call. , \I did. But you haven't got anything on mo,\ the man replied calmly. \My head has troubled me, but now my con- science Is clear.\ Ho was rushed to tho West Forty-se- v enth street station, and his statement flashed to Sing Sing. It reached there whllo physicians were pronouncing Hyatt dead. This final eleventh hour Intercession by n stranger whose story was too fresh at the moment to be discarded or relied upon failed to stay the elec- tric current that was turned on at 11:09 o'clock, almost at the same moment as the arrival ot the arrested man at the police station, where he gave his name as Robert Bnrron, and sald he was a real estato broker, living at 482 At- lantic avenue, Brooklyn. That address proved to be an unoccupied and dark- ened loft Gov. Smith had refused with re- luctance the final appeals that were mado to him by Hyatt's mother, sister and brother, who visited tho condemned boy during the day. Exactly what Hyatt's age was Is disputed. He said he was 18. Prison authorities thought he was perhaps 19. But in any event he was the .youngest to die at Sing Sing so far as known. No extenuating circumstances existed that permitted the Governor to grant a reprieve, and prison officials when the news ot the \confession\ In, Manhattan was flashed to them, declared there was no doubt of Hyatt's guilt that the man who \confessed\ was In all probability a sensationalist, a conclusion which de tectives questioning him agreed to without deciding whether Barron was responsible. Six Measures to Governor. Barron preserved his calmness under police grilling. After saying he had spoken Just enough to set the wires to Sine Sing In play he announced he would say no more until he had obtained counsel. Papers that he had strewn about Ninth avenue, presumably fcs he left the drug stove, were picked up later and taken to the West Forty-seven- th street station for examination. When searched, Barron's pockets disgorged only a S cent pleoe and a hair comb. He was detained on a technical charge of vagrancy. Six telegrams, all addressed to Gov. Smith, worded In about the same way and demanding that execution be halted, proved to be among the papers Barron had discarded. Detectives learned that he had telephoned eight times to Sing Sing and put the same plea In words. adding, \I committed the murder,\ each time and then shutting off. He was not told that Hyatt was dead and he wrote a brief and formal \con- fession,\ saying that ho \assumed full responsibility for the offence committed In Rochester for which the eighteen-year-o- ld boy Elmer Hyatt was to dlo\ and asking \that execution bo deterred for twenty-fou- r hours.\ When he would not sign this exasper ated detectives telephoned to Bellevue Hospital's psychopathic ward and de cided to place him under observation. AMUNDSEN MEN MISSING. Three Ilelleved Lost While Carry- - Innr Explorer's Moll. No nr. Alaska, July 29. Threa mem bers of Roald Amundsen's Arctic expedi- tion, who left the explorer's ship, the Maud, with mall last autumn, while the vessel was oft the northern Siberian coast are mlsslnc and are believed to have lost their lives, according to Rus sian Government advices received by Amundsen here. 105 DRY AGENTS SWEEPING RAIDS IN JERSEY Hugo Quantities of Unlaw- ful Liquor Seized in New- ark and Jersey City. 40 SWLIN MEN HELP More Than 100 Saloons in Two Cities Searched on Secret \Warrants. PROMISE ARRESTS LATER Descent Ordered by Washing ton on Complaints by Dry League Leaders. ' A series of sweeping liquor raids de signed to make tho State of Now Jersey dry began yesterday afternoon In both Newark, and Jersey City. In all probability they will bo continued slsewhero In tho State- - So suddenly did they start that tliey occasioned great consternation and infusion. Enormous Quantities ot hootch\ wero seized and carted away by tho authorities in large motor trucks. Arguments between the Fed eral agents and dealers were many and bitter words were exchanged at many points. Tho system adopted by the raiders was unprecedented. A lararo bundle of search warrants had been secretly obtained from United States Commis- sioner John A. Matthews on evidence that had been gathered during on In- vestigation covering a period of sev- eral weeks. In which scores of agents had been employed. The action began with the appearance of twenty-fiv- e prohibition enforcement agents In Jersey City and eighty In Newark at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Half of the Newark raiding crew was from' the office of James Shevlin, super- vising prohibition enforcement agent or New York. The othor half was from Philadelphia. They assembled at Man- hattan Junction, from which placo they went to the Park place station in New- ark. Merely Ont to Seise Dooae. When they disembarked at that point four large automobile trucks were, wait- ing for them at the station. A uniformed policeman was on the driver's seat of each vehicle. The raiders were not out to make arrests. They were merely out to search and seise. It was stated that where violations are proved arrests will be made later. The official In charge of the Newark end of the onslaught was Jacob B. Slonknaker, assistant to Leo Crossen, en forcement agent of Philadelphia. K P. MacGrath ot the National Prohibition Enforcement Headquarters in Washing. ton, was In' direct command of the whole operation. The blow was attributed by the \dry\ element largely to tho series of com plaints begun recently by the New Jersey Anti-Salo- League against the lax enforcement of the Volstead law within their State, and to the fact that officials of the Anti-Saloo- n League had mado public lists ot places where they were Informed liquor was being sold openly In largo New Jersey cities. The raiders were dlvldid Into squads of three men each, and they proceeded speedily to cover the various saloons mentioned In the warrants that had been Issued to them. Their instructions were to take all seized liquors to the Post Office Building, using tho big motor trucks for the purpose Within the first lew hours of their ac tivities twelve truckloads of liquor wero taken to the designated place. The raids had been under way but a short while When it was estimated that $35,000 worth of \hootc had found its way into the Federal tolls. The liveliest Incident occurred when one of the raiding parties descended upon the saloon of Robert Leach at 117 Wash ington street. The raiders said that upon entering they saw Gcorso Fre chette, the bartender, throw the con tents of a, metal container Into a sink. This sink, they say, smelted of whiskey, but none could be found. Observing a dumbwaiter, officers car- ried their search to the upper floors. In a room connecting with the dumbwaiter, they said they found Mrs. Arthur Ever-to- n and two fifty 'gallon barrels of whiskey. Woman Claims the Whiskey. Mrs. Everton declared that this was her private stock. Two of the officers, Sidney S. Hochstadter and John J. El-le- rt, said their thumbs were bitten in a scrimmage with the woman. Mrs. Everton's husband Joined In the argument, the agents said, and the saloon keeper and the bartender also were alleged to havo taken part Tho official party won, however, as the war- rant authorized a search of the entire bulldlng. They took not only the liquor, worth (6,000, but Leach and Frechette as well. These two men were charged with Interfering with Federal officers and were paroled until No charge was made against Mrs. Everton or her husband. Before the raids started tho Ant!-Salo- League of New Jersey made pub- lic a letter from Samuel Wilson, tho Assistant State Superintendent, to John F. Kramer, National Prohibition Com- missioner at Washington. \Under the old regime,\ the letter stated, \Twenty-thre- e wholesale dealers met the requlre-mn- ti of the city of Newark with Its 1,400 saloons and sixteen were' plenty In Jersey City, with Its 1,000 saloons. \Under prohibition you have granted thirty-si- x licenses to wholesalers In! Newark and twenty-nin- e In Jersey Clty.v In the city of Newark there are 860 open saloons, and thousands In all throughout the State, to say nothing of 'speak eastes,' where Intoxicating liquors are sold.\ Folia Six Storlest Rlti Broken. Los Ankles, July 19. George Warden, 23. carpenter, fell six stories here y. Police surgeons said the only Injury they could find was a broken rlo. ) DEMOCRATICLEADERS URGE COX TO ABANDON LEAGUE; APPEAL TO LABOR SOUGHT WALSH, TREATY FOE, SEES COX Massachusetts Senator Be lieves Fight for League Would Bo a 'Wasto of Time.' WANTS DOMESTIC ISSUE Candidate Not Unwilling to Be Persuaded, to Sot Lenguo Aside. Du a Staff Correspondent of tut Bun and New ioik Hn&iLD. Datton, Ohio, July 29. Senator David I. Walsh (Mass.), In Dayton to- day fof a conference with Gov. Cox, added another ton to the weight of opinion that tho Democratic nominee soon will try to toss the League of Nations into the discard as tho lead ing campaign issue. Walsh urged that very course, insisting that tho Democratla fire should 'bo concentrated against profiteering and other impor tant domestic issues as far more pop- ular with the country- - I do not regard tho treaty as tho paramount issue in the campaign,\ said Senator Walsh, who was one of five Democratic Senators who quit President Wilson on tho treaty ques- tion and voted for all tho reservations which were objectionable to the White House. \I do not believe the Demo- cratic nominee should lay too much stress on It during the campaign. 'The country needs n man who will glvo his close attention to strictly American problems for a while. There are too many big domestic . Issues which must bo dealt with to waste time with the treaty. The truth of the matter Is that the people are much more concerned about profiteering- - than they are about tho League of Nations.\ Senator Walsh was questioned on what he thought of the statements Issued by President Wilson and Gov. Cox at the close of the White, House conference a, week ago last Sunday, In which Mr. Wilson said he and the Democratic nom- inee were \absolutely as one\ on the, subject of the\ League of Nations. He smiled and replied, \I must decline to be .\ Senator Walsh's statements to-d- were of the utmost significance. While they were made before he went to see the nomlneo at his residence. Trail's End. where Gov. Cox has been engaged all week In writing his speech of accept- ance, they show the disposition of the anti-trea- ty group within the Democratic ranks to lead Cox Into a position where he would set aside the treaty as the chief Issue, a position Into which he cannot be regarded as unwilling to be led. . .. . Senator Walsh, It will oe recauea. vntni for the Johnson amendment glv- - Ing to America as many votes In the league ns permitted for the British Em- - nlrc and also for the Lodge reserva- - and treaty that came campaign arrangements, tn disturb the nominee, whom he understood with his speech ,tm he go he the be afternoon conference with the newspaper PLAYMATE DYING.BOY ATTEMPTS LIFE Companion's Fatal Moves Lad to Deed. Special to Tim Bcn and Niw Tosk UniiD. WiNSTrc. July as ireon Dronounced Terry, years old. fatally George Douglas, tne who had accidentally salsed tho revolver he still held fired a bullet Into temple. The two companions, wero the William Chapln. ColllngsTllle, and found two one loaded. was fired It penetrated Leslie's lung. Dr. J. examiner who lives noxt heard shot carried up tho Chapln home, George stood anxiously tho verdict. can't neara say. instantly snoi boy died minutes. The boy was taken Francis Hospital will recover, he will his right eye. Unds 74,000 at St. Johw, N. B., hiking way back his Diego, Cal., having a tramp began last February. Stewart claims to 74,000 miles through Europe, Africa starting his about ten Slogan Is \Peace Progress, Prosperity\ By a Correspondent Tin Ben and Nxw Yoik Hnue. T)AYTON, Ohio, July 20. \Pence progress, prosper- ity,\ This, became known is to be the cam- paign slogan. It takes the place of that which the Democrats used in 1016: \He us out of war.\ Orders have been placed for million posters to carry the slogan. PUBLICITY PUT HALO ON WILSON Press Agent Says Ho Made Na- tives of Italy Worship Pres- ident's Picture. CALLED IN MOVIE INQUIRY Relchenbach Party to Fake Suicide That Kept Po- lice Busy Dragging Lake. District Attorney Edward Swann's inquiry Into tho methods by movie publicity men led yesterday motion picture companies tho White Houso and President to Italy. Harry Reich-enbac- h, a, press agent with tho soul of an artist, told how, when working for tho committee on public Information, went to and with made \tho natives look Wilson ns a sort of tho of propaganda may bo Judged,\ said Relchenbach, \toy the fact that I got the Italians worked up to such a for-v- or that they would fall down worship Wilson's every morn- ing before they gave Pope ft thought It was same sort of that George Creel did, propa ganda pure and simple. I did the and also spread American- publicity tho of the enemy.\ Relchenbach called at the of Dis- trict Attorney Swann and convinced him that he was not a party to framing the fake suicide ot \Miss Yukl Onda,\ for body the police dragged the lake m central Park for threo pro- duced contracts the last year and over them In the presence of Mr, Swann and newspaper men. Where you get word \puBIIcIs- - Ing?\ asked Swann. \Oh that's that Wilson used when he nas sending us Europe to press agent work.\ Mr. the ot versatlon with Relchenbach asked this question as to the propriety of press methods: \Are some the Alms over for the nis aonuy 10 a soou Nothing. ,But people like to be attracted by that sort of stuff, and that Is why It tm .,., .Imnlv nmnnirshil, I am getting up with Eddie. No. I didn't frame It I'd you I did, even though I'd be ashamed of. pull- ing a crude as that.\ WILLIAMSBURG SPAN DAMAGED BY FIRE Engine Companies, Two Fireboats at Bridge Blaze. A fire that lighted up a wide area the East River the wooden struc- ture the surface car on the side of the Williamsburg Bridge this morning,' causing It' was believed, cripple traffic for several hours. For more than two hours firemen from both Brooklyn and Manhattan battled the flames. Tho blaze started near the Brooklyn tower and, fanned by a southwest wind, headed toward both terminals. It was difficult to cope with firemen unable to It streams of water. The heat warped and the steil rails and the of the span, adding to the difficulty of the firemen. How the fire started remained unde- termined 2 o'clock. It was discov- ered by automoblllsts crossing; to Man- hattan. Six engine companies were s:nt but first Later were by fire fighters from tho fireboats Will- iam Strong and the New Yorker. The fireboats, coupled to standplpcs of the New York tower, pumped water to the level of the roadway. Patrick Maher, Deputy Chief, charge the firemen. Thomas Dren-na- n. Fire Commissioner, was a OFFSET Tim WKAllINO KftocU hoi. sultry westlitr Father Juhn's Mfdldne. .ldr. At San Francisco Senator Walsh public so mediocre that they have to re-l- the fight against unqualified In- - sort to unusual Ideas and startling dorsement of the and succeeded unusual marlfcrtatlons to get to In having a modification adopted de- - I go to see them?\ clarlng that the Democratic party does \I will answer question in this not oppose reservations making Amer- - vay,\ said Relchenbach. \You take Gov. lea's obligations toward the league moro . Cox, for Instant, He Is running for specific ' President. You Bee pictures him cook- - Senator Walsh to Dayton pri-'in- g camp; you see his wife cooklnr marily to seo Daniel J. Mahoney, Gov. douehnuts and you sec his son riding a Cox's for a discussion of bicycle. What has that to do with ana aid not . to be busy r. V. J. n T ' of acceptance uov. w nc ui iu v- - - ..wK.(u..v.. nresence In the city, however, and like we put over In the business.\ that to Trail's End for din- - Asked If would tell who was re-n- er The started for his home sponsible for the Japanese suicide hoax. In Massachusetts Relchenbach Senator James A. Reed (Mo.), an- - \On my I know. I was of the foes of the treaty nnd I in PlttsLurg and the llrst I about Administration, is coming to Dayton for . the story was when I picked up a local the notification. It developed y. paper there with two big spreads. One Gov Cox's speech of acceptance Is all read : 'Resolute the Cup.' The but In final form. \Anomer nours worn.\\\ ......... and It will flnlsned.\ he said at the 1 wish you would get my name right, men. OWN Injury Conn., s. a sur- - Leslie twelve wounded to-d- tourteen, Doys piaymme shot which and his own with playing thU afternoon at homo of In revolvers, ot which was When the Inevitable shot neart ana C. Kliourn. Meaicai for the district, door, the and Leslie stairs In while oy tne oanmster to await Leslie live,\ lie tne doctor no ninueu. ine Terry In ten Douglas to St. and but lose Hike 7.1. July 29. Henry Stewart Is his to home In San completed this week to this city which he have walked America, Asia and nlncc globe trotting c.;rocr years ago. Cox of it to- day, Democratic kept two Not a used from local to Wilson's he Italy propaganda upon of god.\ \Tho effect right sort and plcturo the the work work among lines office whose days. Ho for went do the, Mr. one President twice to do Swann In couise his con- - agent of put maxe suit 4iib, all mixed tell If stunt so IS Six of swept along tracks north damage. would car and were at times reach with twisted struts at these at the had of J. spectator. of by tsklnc tlons. people of in got In- - show slsted Senator said: word don't knew other Wins do him, boys, Mile Staff visit Chairman White Indicates 'Soft Pedal' on Wilson's 'Paramount Issue. OUTLINES TARTY PLANS 'Progressivism' Will Over- shadow All, Issues, With Appeal to Farmors. COX'S TRUE POSITION Never Has Specified His Dof-- i inition of Nullifying Reservations. - Special to Tint Hun AND Ntw Yoik IlnAUb Washington, July 29. Gov. Cox is for tho League of Nations \without nullifying reservations.\ adv. Cox never has yet como down to cases on what ho considers a nullifying reser- vation. That, In Bjlte of tho White House conference nnd everything else, is whero tho Democratio nominee now stands on this Wilson mado \para- mount lssuo\ In the campaign. That can be stated as an absoluto fact on official authority. Gov. Cox has not deviated from the stand he took whes hero six months ago. President Wilson has stated that ho li for the leaguo \without nullifying reservations.\ However, tho President has gone on record as regarding the Lodge programme as nullifying to tho highest degree. Gov. Cox never ha been forced to specify what, he means by tho phrase. So far as the Whlto House confer- ence a week ago Sunday is concerned it is known now that Gov. Cox and. President Wilson did not get down to discussing particular Instances at all. There was no agreement between, them or even discussion as to what . particular form the League of Na- tions should take. They both agreed then that the League of Nations wag, broadly speaking, a wonderful thins; and that the United States should b a member of it It Is highly probable that had the Question of nullifying resorvaUons been brought up it would havo rendered Impossible tho state- ments subsequently put out by both parties to tho conference, as well oa by Franklin D. Roosevelt, that all was as merry as a marriage bell between tho present President and the hopeful candidate so far as tho league lssuj was concerned. White Outlines CampalaB. Georgo H. White, who has just pushed Homer S. Cummlngs out ef a job as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, dropped Into Washington to- day and revealed a number of details of tho plans for the Cox campaign, ifr, White spent most of his first day here receiving thojo Democrats who happened to be In Washington. He plans to spend and part of Saturday in the city. Mr. White said Senator Byron H. Har- rison (Miss.) had been selected as chair- man ot the speakers' bureau of the cam- paign and that headquarters would be in New York, with an office in Chicago and possibly a second on the Pacific coast no doubt in Saa Francisco.. In the course of his conversation with newspaper men Mr. White Indicated a strong soft pedalling on tho league as the \paramount Issue,\ as Mr. Wilson desig- nated It He said It would be one ot the big Issues, but that \progressivism\ would overshadow It This appeal of \progressivism\ Is to be based on Gov. Cox's record for three terms as Gov ernor of Ohio. A particular appeal will bo made to the laboring classes and to the farmers, Mr. White said. ' To the farmers the appeal will be that Gov. Cox Is a strong advocate of good roads and Improvement In rural schools. To the laboring classes In general the workmen's compensation act In Ohio will be held up as an example of his tendencies and policies In this respect Mr. White made the statement that this was the first State law of the kind, but It Is generally understood that Gov. Cox patterned It after the California law. which was put through by a Republican , Governor there. Mr. White said, when pressed for an answer, that tho national workmen compensation law even might be Changed, should Cox be elected, ' to. follow more closely the earlier child of the Governor's brain. Views ot National Chairman. The Democratla candidate stands a bigger chance of election. In Mr. White's opinion. In stressing progressivism than any other Issue, and this will be made a big Icsue, If not the one big Issue. There Is a growing belief here that the Democratic campaign managers will try to bury the league as a Wilson chimera, so far as the campaign Is concerned, at least two weeks before the election. M. White gave a confirmatory Indl cation ot this to-d- when he said the voters In Ohio had little or no Interest In the League ot Nations, but that th question of progressivism as against the standpat attitude which he Imagines Senator Harding has, would prove for more efficacious In rounding up votes. Another Cox appeal to labor will bo the \coal screening\ law which Is in effect In Ohio. Ry this the miners gat a little more pay for the alack coal thoy mine. Mr. White expects miners every- where will support Cox on that account, The liquor question, Mr. White In- sisted, will hot be an Issue. Gov. Cox takes Ihe attitude th.it the Eighteenth Amendment is a fact and that any Pres- ident has only to support the Conation
