The Bucyrus Evening Telegraph, 1920-07-14

I ' A. O. Hayward. .. (I. N. S. Staff Correspondent.) . . Marion, O., July 14 - All confer conferences - ences conferences asked by republican leaders i with Senator Warren O. Harding, i the republican nominee, are beins I postponed while the senator prepares | his speech of acceptance, i None of the national leaders are * . 115 " " «. * * * " * " V -' " - *111111107 1 1 expected in Marion now until the : notification ceremonies on July 22. i It is probable, however, that the i senator will have many callers every day, his friends in Ohio being desir desir! - ! desir! ous of seeing him to extend person person: - : person: ally their congratulations. I , Thus far the senator has not de deinied - inied deinied himself to anyone, although the steady stream of visitors Sias delayed , greatly the completion of the speech , of acceptance, which is not likely to i be ready now before early next ' week. I I The senator broke his announced , purpose not to talk issues until after I his official notification by Issuing ! yesterday a statement concerning the > intention of the democratic candi candik - k candik ... ' i j dates to make the league of nations the paramount issue of the cam- | Paign. "The republican party and1 candidates gladly accept the chal challenge," - lenge," challenge," said the senator. "We are j [more than willing to make the elec elec! - ! elec! tion a national referendum on the question whether we shall have four ( [ YAAFs more of democratic readiness. to surrender this republic." [ President Wilson has forced ac acceptance - ceptance acceptance by the democratic candi- j dates of his paramount issue, said the senator, although the party ma machinery - chinery machinery has been taken over by thee Tammanies of New York, New Jor-1 sey and Indiana. The president is [concerned only, he continued, with the vindication of his foreign policy' by his party and, if possible, by the! country. ' j 1 With the democratic party har-i nessed to the ratification of the' league without protection to Amer Amer[lean - [lean Amer[lean interests the league would be i win, I 1 ratified should the democrats | the senator asserted, and "America 1 would become at once a part yto the i twenty-odd wars now going on in the > ! world. America would have to con con[tribute - [tribute con[tribute its army and navy." Presi Presi[dent - [dent Presi[dent Wilson has urged acceptance of, a mandate for Armenia, which the j Harbord mission "found would re re.tMiiiMIM - .tMiiiMIM re.tMiiiMIM IIIIOOIOII ***44 WUUIU If Ifquire - quire Ifquire us to employ a great army and pour out money by hundreds of mil-! I lions." The senator is confident the [ American people do not desire this. [ WIFE OF BROKER SLAIN I Chauffeur Dies in Hospital of Self SelfInflicted - Inflicted SelfInflicted Bullet Wound. New London, Conn., July 14. - Ber 14. - Bernard - nard 14. - Bernard Keisier. 31, chauffeur, who. au authorites - thorites authorites believe, shot and killed Mrs. Arthur DeCordova. wife of his em employer. - ployer. employer. on a lonely road near Stoning Stonington, - ton, Stonington, Conn., then shot himself, died in a hospital here. Mrs. DeCordova was struck by two bullets, one going through her heart. and the second, striking a corset stay, glancing and 1 lodging in her left side. The body of Mrs. DeCordova was found lying beside a sport auto in which the couple had been riding. Geisler's body was across a barbed wire fence, a short distance away, with a bullet wound In his temple. Between the two was an volver. army re reExamination - Examination reExamination of the machine disclosed a half filled bottle of whisky and many cigaret stubs. Mrs. DeCordova was spending the summer at a hotel with her two chil children, - dren, children, a boy, 21. and a girl, 19. Her husband is a New York broker. The chauffeur was married, his wife living in New York. Explosion Kills Seven. Paducah, Ky., July 14. - Seven men were killed instantly by a dynamite explosion at the rock quarries of the Katterjon Construction company at Cedar Bluff, Ky., 48 miles above Pa ducah. The men were blown to pieces. not been found. Bodies of two of them have Lithuanians Join Reds. London, July 14. - Lithuanian troops are reported mobilizing for an attack on the Poles, in accordance with an agreement signed by Lithuania and the Russian soviet government, ac according - cording according to a dispatch from Kovno. ) . eat

1 COMMITTEE To Give Both Can-i didates 66 Clean i Bills of Health By Lce Ellmaker. Washington, July 14. - Governor; w anrl 0. j.z. . I Cox and Senator Harding, respec lively democratic and 'I republican - candidates for the presidency, will, be given a "clean bill" by the sen-! ate committee investigating pre-con-1 vention expenditures, according to' statements made by members of the i committee here today. j Senator Kenyon, of Iowa, chalr-| man of t?e committee, now has he-1 fore him a mass of testimony relative, to the alleged activitleof-tbeed - partment of Justice in the campaign. I It now appears likely, it was stated,! that the committee will be unable to make a report on this case before the fund appropriated for a high highcost-of-living - cost-of-living highcost-of-living investigation has been | expended - "It is true we shall give further] consideration to the activities of the! attorney general's office," Kenyon declared, "but I do not wish to go | into the details of this or any other; matter until both sides have had an I opportunity to be heard." j Kenyon said that at every place, the committee has held session, tes testimony - timony testimony has been obtained which will I broaden the scope of the investiga-l tion. All preconvention campaign' expenditures will be taken up before] the election disbursements of the I tion. various parties and senatorial didates are touched can - it pon. The committee inquired into the I campaign expenses of both Cox andj Harding before the convention and' found that each "had conducted al conservative campaign from the standpoint of finances," according to members. I The committee will not conclude! its hearings until all matters brought I to its attention are thoroughly over, Senator Kenyon declared. gone » I I I I I I I I I MARINES LANDED Will Proceed to Pekin, China, to Protect Americans. I Washington. July 14. -One hundred I and fifty American marines have been ! landed from the battleship Huron at 1 Taku. China, the nearest seaport to i Pawm . mattt_.. I Pekin, and will proceed immediately to Pekin. the navy department an announced. - nounced. announced. Rear Admiral Gleavis, com commanding - manding commanding the Asiatic squadron, is on his way to Pekin to confer with the ! American minister there regarding the recent outbreak and to take steps for the protection of Americans there, the department stated. Besides the Huron, there are three American de destroyers - stroyers destroyers lying off Taku. Admiral Coontz, acting secretary of the navy, stated that the marines landed at Taku were unarmed. I Mumm's Champagne to Be Sold. Paris, July 14. - Eight million bot bottles - tles bottles of champagne will be among the items on the lists of commodities to be placed on sale July 28, when the sequestered property of Baron Walter de Mumm will be auctioned off This property was seized in 1915, subse subsequent - quent subsequent to the baron's assumption of German citizenship when the war be began. - gan. began. I Spokane, July Clour burst in West. 14. - A cloudburst struck southeastern Washington and1 the Snake River valley of Idaho. It wasned away houses in at least a half dozen towns and carried away rail railroad - road railroad tracks. Several fatalities are re reported - ported reported at Moscow, Ida . 1.

MEETING SPLITS . ON COAL ISSUE 1 I Deadlock Announced By the Conferees at Spa. ' WAR CHIEFS ARE SUMMONED - ! Marshal Foch and Field Marshal wit < ton to Discuss Possible Enforce- | German ment Measures as a Result of the j Attitude - Berlin's Reply , Not Acceptsble, Allied Represents- | tives Announced. I Spa, Pelgium, July 14. - A deadlock I has been reached by the allied repre- 1 sentatives and the Germans on the I coal question, and Marshal Foch and | Field Marshal Wilson, the allied mill- | tary chiefs, have again teen sum- | moned to discuss ment measures. possible enforce- ! The German reply was not accept acceptable - able acceptable and the summening of Marshal Foch and Field Marshal Wilson, it is understood. means immediate meas ures to enforce the treaty unless Ger Germany - many Germany modifies her attitude. The German foreign secretary said: "The allies may, under the treaty, give us an order concerning coal. If they give an order, we, of course, would try to satisfy it, but we do not believe we could. That would not le a vcluntary co-operative agreement." Dr. Simons said later: "The allies can occupy the Ruhr or other terri territories. - tories. territories. send their own They can agents into Germany and probe the They may fix any pent.! pent.!situation. - situation. pent.!situation. ties; we are not in a position to re resist." - sist." resist." The allied ministers hope. before 445 auicu - IC* -CI - e j they take further measures, that the Germans may change their decision. | Marshal Foch and Field Marshal I Wilson are expected to arrive here j this afternoon. The supreme council 1 will meet immediately after their ar rival, the German delegation remain* "4. I here meanwhile. e German delegates, after the meeting of the reparation commis- | sion, when asked to amplify their proposal, rent a letter to Premier Delacroix saying that it would be im impossible - possible impossible for them to be definite in their proposals until the coal question | was settled. It appears that it is not ' so much a question of mining coal in 1 a quantity sufficient to give 300,000 | tons monthly more than Germany of- i fers, but rather the difficulties of the German government in financing the delivery out of their budget. Dr. Simon said he regretted ex exceedingly - ceedingly exceedingly the position taken by the allies and said that the Germans must simply await further action. I M. Millerand, the French premier. .vi. - ttrduee ine r rencn premier. ) regrets that it is not possible for Ger- i many to co-operate with the allies in the execution of the treaty, but he is firmly resolved to stand on the posi position - tion position now taken up. Some of the members of the Ger German - man German delegation have complained to Chancellor Fehrenbach of aggressions of which they claim to have been the victims since their artival at Spa. One journalist attached to the Ger German - man German delegation came to blows with a former Belgian officer, whose house he occupied at Spa during the war.

RUSSIAN REDS I I I MOVE ON VILNA - I I - I Minsk Captured tiler an All AllNight - Night AllNight Battle. WOMEN TAKING UP ARMS Word Sent Out by the Polish Govern- i ment That Vilna Must Be Held at | All Costs - Bolsheviki Said to Have Accepted Armistice Proposal of the Allies - Bolsheviki Announce Mili Military - tary Military Successes. J London. July 14. - An official state, i ment received here from Moscow states that Minsk has been captured and occupied by Russian Bolshevik forces. I The soviet communique also an announces - nounces announces the capture of town of Brent- l siany, 95 miles south of Dvinsk and 59 miles northeast of Vilna. "In the direction of Vschltsa," the statement continues, "we captured a section of the railway from Gukhevitch station to Bobrovka station. In the Rovno region our cavalry pursuing the en enemy - emy enemy occupied Olyka village. In the direction of Tarnopol we occupied the station of Charay-Ostrof,, (50 miles east of Tarnapol), capturing an ar armored - mored armored train." The loss of the city of Minsk by j the Poles is announced in an official communique from the Polish army headquarters at Warsaw. The Bolshe Bolsheviki - viki Bolsheviki occupied the city after a desper desperate - ate desperate all-night battle, the statement says. . Minsk is the capital of the Russian government of the same name and is situated on a branch of the Beresina river, approximately 150 miles north northeast - east northeast of Warsaw. For some time the Russian soviet forces have been con converging - verging converging on Minsk from the north and south and the position of the city has seemed to be serious. The fall of Minsk would seem to indicate that Vilna. shont 112 ~']f * tha north northwest, - west, northwest, in Immediate danger of cap capture - ture capture by the Bolsheviki. Women are reported to be taking up arms for the defense of Vilna, to toward - ward toward which the Bolsheviki are driv driving - ing driving along the railway from the north northeast. - east. northeast. Word has been sent out by the Poles that Vilna must be helped at all costs. The capture of Vilna would give the Bolsheviki communication by rail- ' road with East Prussia and sever Po- I land from the Baltic states. j It is rumored in authoritative quar- | ters in Spa that Premier Lloyd LloydGeorge - George LloydGeorge has received a message from George Tchitcherin, Bolshevik com commissary - missary commissary for foreign affairs, accepting the proposals of the allies for an armistice between Poland and Russia. j Rall Warehouse Burn*. Sandusky, O.. July 14. - Fire dam damaged - aged damaged a large wooden warehouse owned by the Pennsylvania railroad. The loss i* estimated at $10,000. I Police Headquarter* Scorched. July 14. - Believed to I Columbus, have started from defective wiring in the storeroom of the secretary's of office, - fice, office, on the second floor. Are badly damaged the south wing of police headquarters brre.

By Albert Baenzinger. Columbus, July 14. - While the | league of nations has been agreed upon as the dominating issue for the democrats in the coming cam campaign - paign campaign by Governor James M. Cox. 1). their nominee. and Franklin Roosevelt, his teammate, it has been made very clear to those at the daily conferences here today that this will not be done to the exclusion of the high cost of living, s It was pointed out that the repub republicans - licans republicans have been in control of con conress - ress conress long enough to pass corrective legislation to remedy the evil, but have not seen fit to do so, and there therefore - fore therefore must bear the brunt of the bur burden. - den. burden. The one subject that is ta tabooed - booed tabooed during the conferences and which causes a look of apprehension ' to pass over the face of the nomi nominee - nee nominee each time it is mentioned, is prohibition. On almost every other subject it has been possible to get some line on the manner in which they will be handled, but he is very positive in his stand that nothing must be said on the "wet" and ''dry" question until the conference with the national democratic committee takes place in Dayton. July 20. Additional arguments favoring the (league of nations were furnished the candidate by Daniel Mooney, United States minister to Paraguay, who bad a conference with Governor Cox today. .Mr. Mooney told him the English pound-sterling, which is the standard of exchange in Paraguay, would be substituted by the Ameri American - can American dollar If the league was adopt adopti - i adopti ed. The minister just arrived on a 1 60-day leave of absence and is en enthusiastic - thusiastic enthusiastic over the chances of Ohio's governor for election. The conference between Governor i Cox and President Wilson, which takes place next Sunday morning at 10:30, will be the first time the two have met since March of last year. It was recalled by the Democratic nominee that the first meeting with the president occurred during the campaign of 1912. Since then they have occupied the same platform to together - gether together on a number of occasions and have become well acquainted. The speech of acceptance by Gov Governor - ernor Governor Cox is likely to be a lengthy affair. He indicated today that he will have plenty to say about the party's platform and possibly some something - thing something relating to the war chest of the republicans. It is now thought probble the notification will be made on Saturday, August 7, at the candidate's home. Trallsend, five miles outside Dayton. Columbus has been working hard to have the ceremony take place in the state capital, but Governor Cox is loath to break precedent by hav havIng - Ing havIng It elsewhere than at the nomi nominee's - nee's nominee's home. This will be definitely decided when the democratic na national - tional national committee meets in Dayton.

PRESIDENT s IS IN II I Says He Will Take Part In the Pres PresI - I PresI idential Fight By Frank A. Stetson. I Washington, July 14. - That Pres Pres[ - [ Pres[ ident Wilson will participate vigor vigorously - ously vigorously in the coming presidential I campaign, and that his efforts will be ' given unremittingly to the support of - the democratic nominees. Governor t Cox, of Ohio, and Assistant Secretary Franklin D. Roosevelt, was the pre pre' - ' pre' diction of administration leaders here today, following the announce announcement - ment announcement that the president would re rei - i rei ceive the democratic nominees at the white house Sunday morning. I , A formal statement to this effect, - it was freely predicted today, will | result from the forthcoming confer confer; - ; confer; ence and the widespread stories of - the president and Governor Cox be be| - | be| ing far apart on the treaty question. t will be utterly refuted in an official 1 announcement after the leading fig fig! - ! fig! ures have taken counsel with each | other. I While the president had taken no 1 initiative in the matter, it being his 1 1 announced policy to lend his aid and not to direct the campaign, it is generally understood about the white I house that the date of the meeting between the president and the nomi nomi: - : nomi: nees of the San Francisco convention I was advanced because of rumors that } serious differences of opinion exist existj - j existj ed between the president and Gover Governor - nor Governor Cox, on the league of nations | issue. [ The extent of the president's aid 1 in the campaign will, of course, be . limited by his physical condition. ! He is constantly gaining in strength. according to Dr. Grayson. and there | seems no doubt in the minds of those ! close to him. that he will be able to I play an important part between now I and November. Members of the president's offi official - cial official family, the cabinet, are enthusi enthusiastic - astic enthusiastic over the prospects of a demo demol - l demol cratic victory this fall. Following the cabinet meeting I with President Wilson yesterday, the first to be held since the result of the San Francisco convention be became - came became known. each member of the cabinet spoke of the ticket in the highest terms and agreed that it . should receive the unqualified sup sup: - : sup: port of all party members. TO NOVE COAL 2

GETTING ( I I I I I I I TOGETHER - I Spa Conference Out-! | come Looks Much ; I Brighter Today I I By Newton <', P'arke. Spa, July 14 - The first concilia conciliatory - tory conciliatory move towards breaking the deadlock over German coal deliver deliveries, - ies, deliveries, was made by the Germans, this i afternoon. Dr. von Simons, German I foreign secretary, called upon Pre Premier - mier Premier Lloyd George and the two were closeted for some time. It was aft afterwards - erwards afterwards declared that the prospects for a compromise on the critical coal controversy seemed much brighter. When Dr. von Simons departed. he was accompanied by a British ] army officer from Marshal Foch's staff. I Marshal Foch, who arrived from j Paris, at 8:30 o'clock, to get final' instructions for military movements Into Germany if the allies were com-1 'polled to extend their xone of occu- I pation. conferred with allied leaders' 'till 3:30. Full plans for the military occupation of the Ruhr district, (the chief coal filds in Prussia), were outlined. The meeting was adjourn- | ed until 6 o'clock, pending the ar-1 rival of Field Marshal Wilson, chief i of the British general staff and the Belgian military representative. Th a International News service learned from an authoritative source, that Premier Lloyd George objected to certain features of Marshal Foch's plan for the occupation of the Ruhr district. * I j«IH I I I Chicago. July 14 - Senator Robert M. LaFollette, of Wisconsin, In all probability will hi the third party's nominee for the presidency, today. It was the understanding of leaders here this morning, that LaFollette's acception of the nomination is con contingent - tingent contingent on the platform being to his liking. The convention has suffered one "bolt," as most of the "Single-Tax "Single-Taxers" - ers" "Single-Taxers" held a convention in the audi auditorlum - torlum auditorlum last night and nominated their own national tieke. Robert C. McCauley, of Philadelphia, was named as presidential candidate and R. C. Barnum, of Cleveland, as his i running mata. Taxers," however, will remain with Taxers,' Some of the 'Single 'Singlethe - the 'Singlethe coalition.

1 UPRISING IN BOLIVIA Government Headed by President Guerra is Overthrown. Lima. Peru. July 14. - A revolution has broken out in Bolivia. according to dispatches received from Lapaz. The government headed by President i Jose Gutierrez Guerra has been over overthrown, - thrown, overthrown, and the president and mem members - bers members of his cabinet have been made prisoners. Bautista Savedra has a« a«sumed - sumed a«sumed power, being supported by the army, and is said to have appointed Jose Carrasco, former Bolivian min minister - ister minister to Brazil, chancellor. ; Jose Guttrrez Guerra was elected president of Bolivia on May 7, 1917. on The government which has been over over[ - [ over[ thrown was formed on March 15. 1920. Bautista Savedra was formerly ! minister of public instruction, having I I been appointed to that office Aug. 13, ! 1909. 1 Prisoners Escape. Asheville, X. C.. July 14. - Seven prisoners, all charged with serious crimes, escaped from the Buncombe i county jail by sawing their way out j of individual cells and then dropping, with the aid of blankets tied together, from a third floor window, where I waiting automobiles carried them to) freedom. Among them was Jerry Dal- - ton. who was convicted last fall of ! double murder and sentenced to elec electrocution, - trocution, electrocution, «H **