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S. \'Tells | How His Nation Will Dispose of $50,0002000 Loan COUNTRY'$ NEED 18 REA MATERIALS NEARLY HALF OF AMOUNT wiLL BE USED FOR A NEW CUR- RENCY, HE DECELARES _ NO APPEAL FOR FOOD STUFFS People of Poland Depending Upon the Fortusnes «f War to Secure Large Amount oof Wheat From Uk- rainia, New York, Mawr 27.-Prince Cask mir Lubomirski, Polish minister to the l oited States, told the American- Polish chanober o€ commerce and in- dustry today what Poland expected to do with the $50,000,000 loan that country is mow floating in the United States About $20,000,000 of it would be used for a new <currency, he wald, probably an l&sue of so billion marka, which would havo a new , name to Gistingwaish it from the great of garinted matter with vhich the country is fowoded Wheat From put-alum. \The rest,\ ho asald, '*will bo used to purchase nocosallies for our ex: tstence Our praessing needs are 250.000 bakes of cottor, and wool, tractors, ra Slway «eequipmeon|, mgriou} tural implemonis and soods. You will noto I do not mention food. We bope, If thee fortumims of wear aro @R\ us, to.socurs a large amount of wheat from Ukia&mia. \Thero are at lesast $,000,000 acres of fertile gzround anof im cultivation. This noeds seed amnd Imploments to be worked with, aand to suppiy that shortage we must tum to ths United Slates. \Once Foland is spapplicd with those imple-ments and meed, she will vory quickty ber piace as an eiporter of 800,(G@0 toms. of cereal - - ypir amd WGotdma once more that bxaasls foer soundest credit- a food exporting «country.\ BALDWIN LOCO MOTIVYE HEAD BAC K FROMxPOLAND New York, Mmy @7.-The most présaing need in Poland is raw ma- trrials to emablo Zho people to go to work, declared M. Vauclato. president of the Baldwin Locomotive REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES BEGIN ThE DRIVE FOR VOTES AS BIG CONVENT ___ N0-0NE MAN HAs MAJORITY AT L 6 tk o SEP He s tat TRH CHEF. ASGALS PACT MUSTAPHA KEMAL PASHA AT. TACKS PEACE TREATY ° EONSEMNED-10-O1€\ British Attempting to DOiscredit | Turks and Reprtsent Them A. Savages, He Declares, in Effort to Break Down Organization. (By The Assocated Press.) Works at tho ins aigural luncheon of the Polish-American chamber of | commerce aand In«dustry today. He recently re& urnéd from Poland where he closed «ontre«cts for delivery of. American locomotives. Work is the remedy for most off the evile of centraml and southeastern Furope, he said, aand Axnerican busi- ness men should zaot gorry about the stability of these governments, but grant thom all of the credit possible. ; [Jhe Poles mre remedy to resume their :| cronomic iZfe, he assorted, but lack the Implemzents and tools These ; must come largeRy from tie United | states, he aeald. This infant republic has already passed the boitf«a period and beef- , steak and «onions will hereafter do! the rest,\ ie ra¥d \Frade ls the beefsteak and necessary \ ~ Vir Vauciain aE=o appealed for the , reestablistzment «of the war finance corporation so theat credit could be advancsid to cenu=al and southeastern Europg. REDS TAKE ANOTRER TOWN Borisov Located on the Bereaina, Caprtured From Poles. London, May 27.-¥Fhe town of Borisov, bre the Eeeresina river at Its junction wath tire MinskSmolensk railway lire, has been captured by the Bolshewiki in their drive against the Poles, according to a Soviet offi- clal statement re«telved by wireless from Moscow tedamy. The statement reads : \Borisov was captured on May 25. In the direction mf Minsk fiereo fight- ing continues. O-ur troops retired to- night to new posf@ions six miles weat of the river Bergrian (Beresina?). \Other enemy attempts to cross to the left bank have been stepped by our fire. \In the direction of Molodechno (west of Rorisor 3, near the railway our troops after Shree days of fierce fightfng with news enemy reinforce ments broke thei resistarice and oc- cupied Butslav village, northesst of Molodechne, and also a number Of villages along the Butslav-Dunilo- vitchy road. \\Along the upper reaches of the Bereaina we occur pied a series of vil- lages 14 mailes southwest of Dok- chitcha amd tem miles south of Schlants ° Furterer south, overcom- ing the enemy's £Serce resistance, we are continuing to advance towards Zembin vi¥lage, 14 miles northwest of Borisov. Durkng his retreat, the cnemy abandoned mung killed and Armgora., Asia Minor, May 17 ~Un. alterable opposition to the treaty of peace the allies hive submitted to Turkey was eipressed here today by Mustapha Kema Pasha, leader of Turkish Nationals forces He was asked by the corrspondent for a statement relafive to the treaty and replied he \welcomed an nvportunity to speak on the sitution \ ~ \The allied powers, led by Great Britain. condenaned Turkey to death,\ he decfared, \and began to npp’ly their docision by the very di- rect materfal manifestation known tothe world. The Turkish nation na- turally has declined to Accept such a sentence. Our caliph and sultan, the Turkish parliament and the Turkish rovproment, the member of which vere Turkish nation, were unable to re sist such a verdict and fell into the hands of the British by the sudden, occpation of Sta mboul. Create People's Government. 'The Turkish nation, left without head or government in such a mortal cris%s, took the responsibility for its own life into its ovp hands and cre ated a peoples government compos- ed of its own representatives in' An- gora, calling it the great national as- sembly and endowing it with legal executive powers. This assembly has chosen its executive department from the assembly itself under the presidency of the thairman of that body, Djellaindine Arif Bey. \Men commanded by Anzevour Pasha, the former Circassian bandit who is now supporting the sultan's government, enter villages and begin pillaging, calling themselves Nation: alists in order to discredit the real Natfonalist movement. Jn some places where they call themselves the emissaries of the caliph and al lies of the British, they are taking action openly agiinst the Angora government. They associate them- selwes with Armenians and, Greeks in order to cause disturbances. They entered Bait and, in conjunction with Armeniius, killed a small de tachment of Turkish soldiers and of- ficers with hitchets\ Assertions were made by Musta pha Kemal that the British were at- tempting to discredit the Turks and represent them as \mere savages and fanatics\ He asserted, how- ever, that the new Nationalist gov- ernment here would | use all its re- sources to combat this campaign. Policy to Create Civil War, \The British are quick to réalize this,\ he continued, \and are using definite and different means to break down this organization internally, to create general public opinion agatost wounded,\ Tthe Turks and obtin railitary asBist legal representatives of thaf 9:40; af th {rent Chicago Co‘flwunx. where the Republican Nattonal Conventton will be held in June. 'The photo flhowa workman. gmtogmms um bu manoeuvre votE to RETAIN THE san on * game AMUSEMENTS Des Moines, Iowa, May 27 - Tho Methodist ral confor- ence has voted to retain tho ban on coriain amusements l The voto was 469 to 212. b ts WEST- URONIA -- FOR: SUTHERLAND wood aEA'rEN, PRIMARY FG uRE§ inNDicaTE MORGAN - FOR - GOVERNOR Interest Today Centers in Gontesk For Democratic and Republican Nominations For Governor; With Koontz and Morgan Leading. Wheeling, W. Va., May 37. -With Senator Sutherland maintaining his lead for the Republican presidentinl preference over- Major-Generat Leon- ard Wood in the West Virginia pri- mary election of last Tuesday, inter- est today centered in the races for the Democratic and Republican nom- inations for governor and the Repub Hean nomination for congress in the first district Sutherland's lead over Wood con- tinues to increase as additional re- {turns 'were tabulated by the Intelli- gencer. One thousand five hundred and -twenty precincts out of 1.860 ml the state gave Sutherland 28.006, Wood, 23,129, In the gubernatorial races the same number of precincts gave: Republican, E. F. Morgan, 39.270 S. B. Montgomery, 38,463; F. P. Grosscup, 25,668. 6 Democratic: A. B. Koontz, 11.825; A. B. Littlepage, 11.344. With one precintt missing, nine votes separated the candidates for the Republican congressional nom- ination in the first district, B. L. Ros- enbioom leading C. E. Carrigan,. gor JAP CRUISER COMING HERE (By The Associated Press.) Tokio, May 24 -The Japanese cruiser Kasuga will sail on May 26 for Portland, Maine, to participate in the celebration marking the 100th anniversary of the establishment of a state of government there, She will pass through the Papama canal, and will be the first Japanese war vessel to use that waterway. ance from the British parliament The Brifish policy in Turkey is to create civil war and anarchy. For this purpose they are using intrigue, mo‘ney and the gacred power of the caliph \In Blgha, the notorious bandit An- sevouft has\ 'been given the title of pasta to influence the people in the caliph's name and was sent to direct the movement. After his complete defeat in the Marmora district, where bis passage was marked with plage and the massacre of inocent persons, a similar movement has been started between Adabazar and Dusjabolu.\\ w* , < o> t « y gouaoum into & cony entfon bail. .s ‘u’*s' R 005m ik GUT BY MERCHANTS PITTSBURGH DEALERS _ MAXIMUM PRICES uo rons FIX Agreement is Reached Between Fed- eral Fair Price Committee and Re- taiters For Fixed Prices onWear. ing Apparel, || Pittsburgh, Pa.. May 27-An agreefient has been reached between the federal fair price committee of Alleghany county and the retail mer- chants' assoclation : of Pittsburgh whereby maximum prices have been xed for wearing apparel of mon, women and children, and reductions made in certain other cases, it was anounced here today by the chair man of the fair price committes. Those who wish to purchase sta- ple and sepviceable articles of wear- ing Apparat may do so with \Full con- fidence thatno unreasonable or up- justified prices\ are being charged by retailers, the announcement said. \Because of the unusually heavy burden placed upon the average per- son's income by the generar high cost ofliving,\ the announcement contiqued, the retailers consented to sell below -| their customary prices several articles designated by the fair price committee. SUGAR SELLS AT 17%, CENTS A POUND IN ANDERSON, IND. Anderson, Ind., May 2$7.-Severar thousand persons impeded traffic for blocks here today in an effort to pur- chase sugar advertised at 17%% cents a pound by a local merchant. Sugar has been bringing around 30 cents a pound. , PRICES TO BE CUT BY CHAIN OF FOOD sTORES New York, May 27.-A chain of food stores on Long Island announc- ed today m sweeping reduction in prices would be made tomrrow Ac- cording to the announcement,. fresh eggs will be sold at 49 cents a dozen, best coffee at 37 cents a pound, best butter at 59 cents a pound, and white granulated sugar at 20 cents a pound. The announcement followed a con- ference with federal officials. THIEVES GET, LIQUOR, BIT NGT CNE FAVORITE BARREL OwNER HAD PLACED CHOICE BRAND IN His BEDROOM ~ FOR SAFE KEEPING. Sacramenrito, Calif., May 27.-When burglars ransacked the cellag at the A. Van Phinney home, in an exclus- ive - residential section bere, and stole a quantity of liquor, a barre! of whiskey was not . included | in the loot, the police ' suriotunced today Phinney bad {Inert _it in his bed[w reom.for safe\ eenmgiifir afided. a aka. | [PARTY CHIEFS AL AT St +pubkticans mot O W00d LEADS WiTH A TOTAL OF 18 HAS LESS THAN THIRD OF NUM. BER NEEfiED Possibility of Nomination on First Ballot Small Because of Division of Strength Among the \Favorite Sons\-Lowden and Johnson Man. agers Predict Easy Victory. Chicago, May 27 -Candidates for the Republican nomination for the presidency today opened their final drive to capture the 493 votes that spell victory in the convention which opens bore one week from next Tuesday. The last or the 984 delegates who will sit in the convention were so- lected yesterday when Vermont Re and chose eight unin- structed delegates. Major General beonard - Wood, present returns show, will enter the convention | with more | instructed votes than agy other candidate, but lus tatal of 153 is leas than one-third of the number necessary to win the nomination. First Ballot Nomination Doubtful. The division of strongth among the largo fold of fmvorite sons prac- tlcally procludes any possibility of a pogptnation on the first bailnt, Even the' holt optimistis cunmlsn TWaAllr agera horo are not claiming victory before the third bailot, and the more conservative party leaders predict tho break will not come before.the Afth or sixth., One big factor which may upset campaign | managers' predictions is yet to boe. dealt with Ono hundred and forty-Gve contests havé been or will be filed, more than oneseventh of all the aeats in tho tonyontton be- ing mt stake. The iitfonal tee, which moota hore Monday to decide theso comtasls and prepare the temperary rojt, may erlally alter, the prospects of sevaral cand! dates * The principal conterts are bot ween supporters of Genera) Wood and Governor Frank O Lowden - Sena: tor Johnson and other candidstes are not dirmctly interested in theme con- tests, but muay raise questions regard- ta, New Jersey, Indiana, Michigan, Nebraska and other states. Wilt Shat No \Oversize\ Delegations. In addition to the 145 contests, 64 surplus delegates, with fractional votes, havwe been chosen from ten states and the national committeo's rules provide that their right to seats shall also be contested, vention cal) stated that no oversize delegations should bo seated and no seats have been provided for these 64. Senator Johnson and Senator How- ard Sutherland of West Virginia were the principal gainers . _in pri-. martes and conventions held fn four states during the past week. Sens- tor Johnson. returns indicate, will get nine of Oregon's ten votes, and Senator Sutherland 16 from West Virginia. The ofeia| count has not been completed in Oregon and West Virginia Texas Republicans split in- to two factions, each of which elect- ed an uninstructed defegation with 23 votes. Figures compiled here show the following division of the convention vote: Wood, 1563; Johnstn, 109; Low- den, 74; favorite sons and uninstrict- ed, 648. In the favorite son list, Senator Harding has 39 votes from Ohio; Senator Sutherland 16 from Wost Virginis; Senator Poindexter is ox- pected to receive Washington's 14, and Judge Pritchard of North Caro- lina is expected to get 17 of his state's 22 votes. All Confident of Victory. Campaign managers here of three leading candidates all claim victory in statements issued last night. The Wood and Johnson carmmps make de- finite predictions as to their first ballot vote, the supporters of Wood claiming 385 votes and those of the senator 236. The while professing their confidence, are not prepared to quote exact fig- ures. \Leonard Wood,\ says a statement from his \has so in- creased his votes In the last week that a first ballot prediction of 385 votes was made today at Wood head- quarters here. This is more than the combined instructed vote of al} oth- er candidates. On the first ballot he will be a big leader and this total will increase steadily until nomina- tion is assured.\ / The Johnson heatquarters, which are now in charge of Hiram Johnson, jr., the senator's son, announced with equal positiveness that: $40,550 USED IN Ing primary contests in South Dako | The con-} Lowden forces, | C BUTLER CAMPAIGN Entire Amount Was Used For Publicity, Judge John R. Davis Testifies $113,109 FOR HARDING, THE COMMITTEE LEARNS HARRY M. DAUVGHERTY, REPRE SENTING OHIO SENATOR, SAYS . $107,704 ALREADY SPENT no Fumo FOr mando Wood Representative In West Vir. ginia Declares $4,432 Spent in That State-Says Opposition Had Spent $8,000 in January. Washington, May 27.-Dan Hanna of Cleveland agreed to raise $500,000 to finance the campaign of Major Genoral Leonard Wood, the senate campaign investigating committee was told today by John T. King of Connecticut,\ who was the first man. agor of General Wood's national or- ganization, . King sald this agreement was made at a mesting at New York be- tween himself, Mr. Hanna and Wil- llam Loeb, former private secretary of Colonel Theodore Roosavelt The witness sald Hanna was to go out} and gather it In for 18 months' work. He added that it was not discussed with Generat Wood, campmign investigating bait b#f tho candidacy of Wi MoAdog for the Dagmtlc um“: that $11§,10§5 had beer: raised for' the of Senator Harding, Republican, of Obfo, afd that $107, 104 had been spent. This is the third largest campaign fund of which the committeo has had ovidence. * Dr. Burris Jonkins, publisher of the Kanms City Post, testified that he had Been invited by Jouett Shouse, assistant secretary of the treasury, to nominate Mr. McAdoo at San Francisco Heo aiso told ol a meeting Here last night of McAdco supportors. Ho said. he knew of no funds raised for McAdoo, adding that \on the contrary those gentlemen last night amid they had no fund®:\ Daugherty Faces Committes. Harry M. Daugherty testified as to Sonator Harding's campaign fund. Ho declared that he had handled all of the money and that the largest contributor was Carmi A. Thomp son, who gravyo.about $13,000 in, ail, Mr. Daugherty naroed himsaif as the next\ largest contFibutor with $9,500. J. S. Darst, West Virginia state manager for General Wood, testifiéd that $4,438 had been spent in that stste and that bills thst might amount to $2,000 more would come Washington, May 27.-Dr. Nicho- las Murray Butler's candidacy for the Republican presidential nomina- tich has been finmgced to the extent of $40,550, Judge John KR. Davies of New York clty,;> testified. today te- fore the senate committeo of inquiry. Five men gave $5,000 each, the wit- ness sald. They were Gano Dunn, W. C. Demorest, Benjamin B. Law rence and C. F. Alston of New York and W, C. Butler of Everett, Wash Judge Davtes told the committee that be and Henry M. Butler of Pat- erson, N. J., gave $2,500 each while Arthur T. Hardy gave $2,000 and J. Inman Barrett, John P. Prince, A. W. Samucts and Edward Marshall, all of New York, gave $1,000 each. In addition, he said, H. B. Rosen gave $1,200 and Archibald Douglas and Charles A. Moore, $500 each. (Continued on Page Fifteen.) the fifth or sixth ballot he will be : nominated.\ Lowden Equally Confident. \We are going to win,\ said the statement from the Lowden camp. \We have had no time to sum up, and figures therefore are unavailable, but we are going to win and the.situ- ation looks even better mag it did last week.\ Work on the convention hall is pro- | gressing rapidly and Charles RV Hail, superintendent of the Coliseum, has assured the convention committee that the more than 13,000 seats will be in place 24 hours 'before the con- vention is called to order by Chair- man Will XL Hays, of the national comuaittee. Extra balconies are being erected to provide riearly 1,000 more seats than were available at any previous convention. The tpéakers' platform and seats for 2,000 visitors have already been erected. In the Coliseum Annex, of- fices of the convention committéss and officers 'and the room of the na- tional committee, where the contests will be heard next week, have been in readiness for some time. National committeemen began ar- \Sentor Hiram W. Johgson al- ready has 236 pledged delegates who will vote for him on the first ballot and will atick with him to the last [ditch, His vote on the first ballot Rh“. of any nthér candidate \or Bhosttee ms Tay. >> dby 1Jf . not. generating; convention | committee, on.. riving carly this week and a major | ity of the \58 members are expscted ite be on hand by Monday, &. T Hert of Louisville, chairman of th Waahlnstonjm -The senatei committoA$ ag gol soma light today on efforts in ket,. c. * tidl nomination and a}so was told [ |OLCHAK PLICED in ter !,} Ano Eextigtes to Asus! Chair-} . 25. + CRNTS A COPY IX TER m Y OI WATERTOWN. SLEAWEKEREN 4 C ACE RESOLUTION; TO FINANCE GENERAL WOO WILSON PUTS VETO ON PEACE MEASU Declares Such Method Would Place \ effaceable Stain On Gallantry and Honor,“- - of the United States. Washington, May 27.-The, Republican peace resolutmg? was vetoed today by President W ilson. F MANDATE SCHEME I5 DISAPPRONED PRESIDENT'S PROPOSAL ED BY COMMITTEE VETO: Senators Report Resolution Deciar Ing That Congress Respectfully De clings to Grant Power tq AcCapt Mandate Over Armenia, Washington. May 27.-PresiGent Wilson's proposal for an American mandate over Armenia . was.dizap proved today by the senate formign relations committee, Only four crats opposed a Verne action on president's re Seek Alise to, Bar - Auto-u _ mobilei; But Fail:\ _ Lonmpon. Ind., May or presence in hBmes o 3 of all talking machine by the. annuat confererice of the old order branch of the Brethren chtzrch, which camo to a close last might i7.-The uu {tas mmtm twalve miles east of hers. Aresoly tion ting an?» of the dim“ ity. y8mm of the more cousirvatite members sought to obtain from .the council action forbidding the ume of the automobile, calling it a \devil machine, greatly in the minority, & m UaARD RNIfi ififlfifi. lar kitchen of the stkte acrmory- and: arsenal last night, 'The capitol anl the Connecticut river. bridga to Kait Hartford were kept unier th til daylight. The bomb was mafia section' of brass tubim®. tonation. ~ The explosion scattered kitchen utensils in the closet in whic the bomb had been placed. FACED FIRSNG SQUAD WHILE SMOKING CIGARETTE, YRI T. ISHER DECLARES, Vancouver B. C, May 27.-Admin Russiah government, after his cip ture by revolutionists was placed in a cage at Irkutsk and exhibited, ao cording to N. Deberg, form\ XXOM- ber of the - adroiral's staff,\ rived yesterday from the' BOY VOTES 1154 AdNMST] 2%: f fifi'fi'ssmér‘éé fiifi‘a‘fiffia ; Some 000mm“ lath“ ea be ferbierden| was voted down by m narrow Mort . but tho ppm-won wu‘ \ e ° <lay Troof§ ANE cALLln on; To Hartford, Conn,, May 274m“ men were on duty today 'as the ra | V sult of a bomb explosion in the cel-f 'of 11g 15—inch : Ix e ends seemed to have been plugged with E lead. The examiners believed that{: an acid was used to accomplist de- {f al Kolchak, former head of the all- f rho an $ arnt oh j \Tonight! Fair. ~ Friday: Fair, cooler. U lke in Such a method of making pea with Germany, the president sal would \place an ineffacable st tipon the gallantry and honor of thy United States.\ C. Without announcing his intent regarding the treaty of Vers the president declared that the t ty embodied the important thin 'l omitted by the resolution, and that by rejecting the truth United States had deciared in eW that it. wished \to draw spark pursie objects and interests of The president added that wesolution onaitted mentlo #mportant objects for the vind of which the mum sum the war. -c ~~ $-- * \Buch a ppncofynh Gs iis coins of thp pet which mons * ] inte which wee had when | Eerad the war - ought to be, Saconm mistent with the dign ed States, with the cm of hrer 011mm after a five days' session O0 a Zarm[-thh the steamer Manila Maku, Crowit surrounded the cage, chak and jée Dies 8 K at bim. - 24 king can-me. international today. DeHerg, heaping, epflemoi- “ as T& de Victoria, B. C., May 27. “admiral. Kolchak, former head of the mll-Rus< {* slan government, died smoking a cigarette, according to Captain: \Wal- lace I. Webb, provost marhat with the British forces and heal of ths military police fn 8i- beria, who arrived from Vindiveosttk He was in likuiak at the gbh to t i 63:51: 2h At 1 this mo minnmm- : - an flau- 49. 11m I‘lxz ' LIN} Hays will arrive Sunday. phts, Md yesterdgy. * é
