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HEAVY ELECTRICAL STORM
HITS YACHTS AT NIGHT
Resolute and Shamrock Stag
ger About Lightship Blow
Kicks Up Terrific Sea
Sandy Hook, N. J., July 24. A
twentyfivo-mlle southwester, under
which both Shamrock IV anil Resolute
staggered about the (starting line under
the shortest possible sail, caused calling
off ni-v of the fifth and deciding race
for the America's Cup.
Th tnn mehts mouahed their way
out to the lightship whero they found
a terrific sea running and the skippers
notified the regatta committee that they
were billing to postpone the contest,
which now will bo sailed next Monday.
The two sloops turned back from tho
'llfhtdhlp and scurried Into tho shelter
of the horseshoe, while the spectator
fleet headed up the harbor for New
York.
This was tho first postponement on
account of too much breeze since the
contest between Reliance and Sham
rock III was called off seventeen years
aro because of a northeaster.
When the defender Resolute and
challenger Shnmrock began making sail
for the race today, crested waves beat
upon the more and n nvc-mastcu
birlcntlnc sallowed in the sea off the
'Ambrose channel lightship, where the
itirt was to be made.
llesolutc was tho first to make sail.
It teemed as if. favored by the de
menti with a fair day and smart wind
for the climax pfthc scries, tho def mder
was eiger to' be 'on'" her -way to the
starting line. Hcadsails wort, sent ur
in stops and her. mainsail was snapping
In the strong breeze some time before
W crew of Shamrock began! tailing on
ukh mainsail, xno challenger prepared
TOT MUlfi with n hrntirt nnw mfifnanil
Her liilormen snapped it up in true
wuun-llko fashion.
Sllrarock brokn nnf Jir llh nt 1rt-1(i
til, dropping her moorinro. Rfond nwnv
t lea. Tho wind caucht hir ns shi
'won ship and she heeled over so that
M lee rail was awash. With only
ailnsall and jib Shamrock scooted away
for Ssndy Hook Spit like a ghost in
me piping breeze.
Early Rain SaualU
The cup sloops were riding ensily at
the early hours when suddenly n furious
electrical storm broke. Forked lightning
played 'Incessantly about the towering
Prs of the slngle-stickcra, while a
laeir monrinofl iti tha iinAohAA rii,!,.
i oi wind torn through the riggign
A dOWnDOUr fnllnwprl thn hlnii'
The tender Montauk was blown from
aer mooHnpR finf w, mmiiApaj hmIm
ino tiorm passed away shortly after
awn, leaving an overcast sky and
steady wind from the south that kicked
up a sousing sea. Clouds of dense va
por came Inland from tho ocean.
A scries of rain squalls followed In
tne wake of the storm. The wind
Muled into the southwest shortly after
so clock and the sun made a bravo
effort to pierce the clouds. Tho brcezo
?.l apout twelve knots in strength at
wt time.
. Britons Admire Adams
The sailing skill of Charles Francis
Mams, II, skipper of tho Resolute, hns
Provoked the derided admiration of the
Jilors 0f tne simmrock, who hnve come
o regard him with a sailor's supcrstl
Il0JJ, n superman of the sea.
?u r , F- Nicholson, designer of the
.imi0ck' "lM today thnt he was not
X7 l""?1 w'th tho Shamrock
"atws rncins in Amer,can
rial races for us," said Mr. 'ichol
tihn'ml We orc learning more about
&,? euvc7 day- We havo also
Iltloni 'C nb1outw,n nn'l wave con
sneh 5n?iSJndsr.IIook' IIn(1 wo had
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afd,rwhichS'ron fla,A he wa8 not "a""
greed It ham ' new bow and
round ILiV.,.,n,rd t0 much 1" the
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Mother and Child Carried to Safety
by Firemen
Firemen carried a mother and her
scven-jnonths-old baby down a rear
fire-escape and five other persons woro
driven to tho street In tl.otr ti,i..i. "
when fire damaged the bakery and homo
? L0l'ePh I'Utrcm. 417 Corpeiitcr strict
at :.) o'clock this morning.
Mrj-.Snrah Gcrolnlck and her dough
tcr, Lillian, were asleep on the third
floor of the buMlng building, and failed
to hear the shrjuts of other members of
the household.
lAitrem, his wife and three children
, ltom tllc MC('d floor when a
neighbor saw smoke issuing from the
building and aroused them.
.Members of Engine Co. No. 48 car
ried Mrs. Gcrolnlck and her child down
the rear fire. escape, as the Inside stalr
waZ wnJ? hlockcd by smoko and flnmcs.
The fire was confined to the base
ment and first floor of the building and
caused ?'J0OO damage.
HEPBURNWASREE
IN i JOB
Unhampered by Politics When
He Held Street Cleaning
Post, He Says
HITS CONTRACT SYSTEM
Colonel Karl Morden's experience In
the street cleaning bureau, where ho
said, he was hampered nt every turn
by politics; and politicians, was not
shared by Donald M. Hepburn, who was
Morden's predecessor ns chief of the
bureau.
Politicians tried to Influence him, said
Mr. Hepburn today at his office in Ilar
rlsburg, where he Is chief of the con
struction bureau of the State Highway
Department, "but they didn't get nny
wherc with It. There was no politics
played In (be bureau while I was
there."
Mr. Hepburn's experience, therefore,
was sharply different" from" thnVof
Colonel Morden, who, when he resigned
a few days ago, said : "I am 'through
with that tribe. I never was a politi
cian, and I never will be."
When Mr. Hepburn wns at Cltv Hall
he had the "absolute backing" of'Iayor
.Moore, he Baid. "The Mayor t61d me
to go as far ns I liked in cleaning up
the situation," Mr. Hepburn went on.
"Was thero any political pressure
applied to you as chief of the bureau?"
Mr. Hepburn was asked.
"Politicians called on me and tried
to influence me, but it did them no
good," ho replied. "Some wanted me
to reinstate inspectors who had been
fired for inefficiency. I would not re
instate them.
"I understand several of them went
to the Mayor. It did them no good be
cause nothing was snid to mo about it.
"I was told by the Mayor that in
thn conduct of the bureau there wns to
be no consideration other than that of
efficiency.
Mr. Hepburn holds to the view he ex
pressed ns street cleaning chief, that
the city could do its street cleaning and
ashes and gorbnge collecting ' more
cheaply by the direct than by the con
tract method.
"From ur experience do you be
lieve the city should do its own street
cleaning Instead of letting the work out
to contractors?" he was asked.
"I think the city ought to do it, and
I think the city could save money by
it." was the reply.
Mr. Hepburn wanted It understood
that ho was not commenting In nny way
on Mayor Moore's announced Intention
of advertising for street celanlng bids
on or before August 1.
MAN HURT IN TRAIN YARD
Is Thrown Under Wheels When
Switch Engine la Derailed
Ervln FIster, forty-five years old,
2827 Stiles street, a brnkeman in a
switching crew on the P. & R. Rail
way, was severely injured this morn
ing when a switch engine on which he
was riding jumped the track, at the
Rroad and Huntingdon streets yard.
FIster was riding on the step on the
front of the engine, but failed to jump
aside in time when the locomotive left
the rails, and was thrown under the
enirine. He vvas extricated by the en
gineer, James McCabe, 138 West Third
street. Conshohocken. and the fireman,
Itert F. Loughery, 2508 North Seven
teenth street, and taken to the Samari
tan Hospital.
His injuries aro a possible fracture
of the skull, crushed ribs and bruises.
HURT IN GLOUCESTER CRASH
Ship Workers and Girl Employes In
jured Whon Trolleys Collide
Two Public Service Railway trolley
cars met in end-on collision at the en
trance to the Pusey & Jones Shipyard
In Olouccstor this morning, and a num
ber of workmen at the yard, and girl
employes of tho Welsbnch plant at
(iloucestcr. were slightly injured.
Among those hurt were John Kenzle.
cuts on the elbow and leg, and Samuel
fheen, cuts of the wrist. Roth live at
Verga.,Ono of the motormen claimed Ills
brakes failed to workj
CIVILIANS FLEE ADRIANOPLE
Greeks Cross, Marltra River Under
Turkish Cannon Fire
Athens, July 23,-(Iy A. P.)-Col.
oncl .Tofr Tayar. Turkish Notionalist
commander at Adrianoplo, has evacuat
ed tho noncombntants from that city,
according to dispatches from Thrace
Ti, r.rooltu nr crossing tho Mar-
lUa river under heavy fire from ca
and machine guns, which the dlspa
lire irom i-amiuu
icnrs
nmi murmur iuuii ' ''' ll,n
nay the, Turks planted on top of the
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Part of Flro Wall Is Knocked
Into Street as 12-Story
Structure Is Shaken
TROLLEY WIRE COLLAPSES;
MANY PLACED IN DANGER
Women Are Thrown in Panic
Whon Bolt Hit3 -Roar Ac
companies Impact
Lightning struck the roof of the
Lnrkln Rulldlng, at the southwest cor
ner of Twenty-second and Arch streets,
at 0 :45 o'clock this morning, knocking
a section of concrete fire wall Into
Arch street and shaking the twelve
story building as an earthquake.
Several persons had narrow escaped
from Injury or death under the falling
fire wall and a section of the trolley
wire, which the bolt knocked into the
street. '
Women on ncveral floors of the
building were thrown Into a? state of
panic. One man, standing near a win
dow on tho ninth floor, was knocked
down and stunned, but escaped injury
Tho bolt, described ns a huge ball of
fire, struck the rear of the roof, seemed
to hover there for' a moment, and then
ran to the front of the building, where
It struck the firewall.
The impact was accompanied by a
roar, described as the rumbling of nn
earthquake, and a section of the heavy
wall about five feet square crumpled and
fell to Arch street.
Part of the bolt careened Into the
street apd struck the trolley wire at
the intersection of Arch and Twenty
second streets. Twenty yards ofthe
trolley wire collapsed. ' V
JTherct were about thirty persons Jn
'Arch street near the Larkln, Rulldlng
when the bolt struck. As the concrete
wall gave way they scurried for shelter.
Mrs. Harriet Graham, of 2244 North
Pearl street, was crossing Arch street
at Twenty -second on her way to the
Houso of Detention when tho trolley
wire collapsed. She escaped by leaping
to the sidewalk on the south sldo of
tho street.
William Rugh, of 1050 Wenslcy
street, hod driven up to the Larkln
Building in a delivery truck, and nar
rowly missed being struck by the falling
firewall.
A piece of the wall struck the au
tomobile of A. L. Nosh, of .1345 .Tnsper
street, and demolished a rear wheel.
Nash was in the nutomobile at tho
time.
Therowas no one on the upper story
of the building when tho bolt struck.
Chairs and tables in tho establishment
of Cirenbaum & Co. on the twelfth
floor, were knocked over.
Inck Rosen, of Pcnnsgrovc, N. J.,
wns standing near a window on the
ninth floor,, occupied by S. Glazier &
Co. The shock knocked him to tho floor.
Mrs. Margery Myers, who lives a
block away, 'at the southeast corner of
Twenty-first and Arch strecta, thought
the lightning was an earthquake. She
and her three daughters and two neigh
bors rushed into the street.
Trolley traffic on Arch and Twenty
second streets was blocked for half an
hour.
Baseball's Jumping .Jack Re
joins Mackmen After Flirting
With Outlaw Lebanon Club
Joe Dugn.ii, the greatest hop, skip
and jump athlete in the universe, is in
captivity again.
Joseph cracked all records in his fav
orite event yesterday, when he leaped
to and from Lebanon.
Yes, he's back In town, but that's, not
all. "He's very likely to bo at second
base today when the A's line up against
the Tigers In the final of the series nt
Shlbo Park.
Mack would not admit this, but lie
did state that It was very probnblo
that Dugan would not jumpN
The jumplng-jack of bnseball left
tho A's flat Thursday afternoon and
hopped a train for Lebanon. Ho wbb
offered everything except the City nail
nnd the steel plant if ho would sign a
two-year contract with Earlo Pot
teiger's club. Chances of his return to
thoShlbc fold were about one In a thou
sand, yet heturned over his mind
which isn't nt all difficult for Joe to
do and took a train last night for
this city.
It Is said that ho had a talk with
Mack lastr night, but this Connlo also
denies. i
"Have you seen Dugan since he camo
back from Lebanon?" Mack was asked.
"No. I haven't," ho replied.
"Will he piny with your club today?'.'
"I don't think he's In' shape, but I
believe you can fcafely soy that he will
not jump,"
This from Mack s qulto nn admis
sion. It Is said that during their talk last
night, Dugan and Mack came to terms,
and that a new contract, was signed.
Jcwulug a (wntracU ,. r I
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GENERAL BRUSSILOFF
Whose recent victories over Po.'
land hnve strengthened the Czarist
influence In the Russian army
CHEER UP! COOLER SOON
Weatherman Promises Relief From
Heat and Wumldlty
Cooler weather Is coming fast. The
weatherman offeree) this consolation this
afternoon to offset the heat and humid
ity which all day made tho city re
semble a highly efficient Turkish bath.
The cooler airs of west and north
west ore due to displace the hot and
sultry breezes of the south sometime
before midnight. They will be preceded,
probably, by a thunderstorm, or mabc
several thunderstorms.
The day Btarted out to be a "scorch
er," with an 8 o'clock tempcrnturc ot
80 degrees. Clouds and showers, how
ever, kept It from rising as high ns
its cnrlv threat Indicated. At noon It
had reached 37. and climbed 3 degrees
higher by 2 o'clock. The weatherman
said he did not exnect the ton tempera-
turo to be above the 01 of yesterday.
Tho humidity wns relatively high,
though it decreased as the day pro
gressed, being 82 at 8 o'clock in the
morning and 73 at noon.
,The forecast foj;next week Is, for
the most part, sunny weather, with
seasonable temperatures all -week.
TO PASS ON, BOND SALE
Jenkins to Qfve Opinion on Legality
of School Board's Plan
Theodore F. Jenkins, counsel for "the
Board of Education, will render a de
cision next week ns to the legality of a
plan to sell over tho counter bonds of
the $2,000,000 building program and
teachers' salary loan which failed to
attract bidders Thursday.
If Mr. Jenkins reports favorably on
the plan, it is not likely that any action
will he tnken by tho board until the lat
ter' part of August.
A member of the board today ex
pressed the belief that the board might
abandon the building program for the
next cnr, due to the failure of the loan.
ROOSEVELT QUITS NAVY
Assistant Secretary Resigns Post to
Enter Campaign
Washington, July 24. iBy A. P.)
Fianklin D. Roosevelt, .Democratic
vice presidential candidate, toduy for
mnllv nrescnted to President Wilson his
ki-esig'nntion ns assistant secretary of
the navy.
It is to take effect op August 0, the
day on which Mr. Roosevelt will be
formally notified of his nomination at
his homo nt Hydo Park, N. Y.
FATHERHANGED
Man Attending Evangelistio
Service Confesses Crime of
Seven Years Ago
Ity the Associated Press
Toronto, July 24. A self-confessed
murderer of his mother a crime for
which his father was hanged seven years
ago Arnell Love, twenty-two years
old, a Ceylon, Ont., farmer, lies in Jail
lino today.
During evangelistic services in his
home town, ijove went forward and
declarul to the evangelist that he had
clubbed his mother to death becauso
she hnd reprimanded him for -"keeping
bad company."
Young Love was one of the principal
witnesses against his father, Henry
Love, who was convicted by a jury and
honged at Owen Sound, Ont,, for the
crime seven years ago. While the evl
dence against him had been moBtly cir
cumstantial, on the scaffold the father
made what was believed to be a con
fession of his guilt.
The son grew up Into manhood a
prosperous farmer, and the tragedy of
his life was apparently burled in the
oblivion .of the past until he attended
the evangelistic service. Ho told the
evangelist, the Rev. O. N. Blmrpe, that
when his mother reprimanded hint ho
was angered and killed her with a stick
of wood and hid tho .body In the cellar,
where it was found later,
On advice of the evangelist. Lovo
gavo himself up to tho police, who aro
investigating his story. In the mean
time the young farmer, apparently
greatly relieved, languishes iu Jail in
different to his fate. v
Ea.rthquak.es, J.q California
Redding, Calif.. ' July 21. Four
sharp earthquake shocks yesterday and
last uight sliopk Reddlng.and.the near
causing slight ta"iiage.
by iowah .oi ratpari.giHUitA county,
SON SLEW
I
OUSK OF SOVIET
DICTATORS SEEN IN
CZARIST VICTORIES
Bolshevist Triumphs Over .Poles
Prelude to Red Army's
Transformation.
LENINE AND TROTSKY FACE
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ECLIPSE i3Y BRUSSILOFF
Generals of Old Regime Ap
parently Planning" Coup to
Enthrone New Napolodn
By B. F..K08POTH
Special Coiminondent ot the Krrnlnr Tublle
TidKrrln Rwltiertand
Covvriaht, lit); ly Public Ledatr Ca.
Geneva, July 24. Sensatlonnl devel
opments that are likely to transform
the entire Russian situation arc fore
shadowed by information I have col
lected from various , reliable sources
lately. The dusk of the Soviet dictators'
is apparently Approaching, and their
downfall before winter is confidently
nredlcted hir txnerts whose iudcmcntl
of Russian affairs has so far invariably
proved, correct.
This prediction may seem paradoxi
cal after' the Bolshevist victories over
Poland, which might be naturally ex
pected to wlnforcc the Soviet govern
ment's power and prestige. At first
sight Lenlne's position seems stronger
than ever.
However, It is precisely on tb'e ef
fects of Russia's military triumph over
Poland that my informants base their
belief that the overthrow of Lenlnc and
his acolytes Is really imminent at last.
The Information placed at my disposal
showB that the Bolshevist victories, far
from., strengthening the Soviet nowr,
are precipitating Its disintegration be
cause they have been gained by putting
the Red army under the command of
czarist generals and officers, whose
popular prestige has been Immensely en
hanced by their successes and whose
control over their troops has conse
quently grown so obsolute that they
may use them at any time to carry out
a military coup.
Communist Chiefs In Eel Ipso
The present situation in Russia Is
characterized by an extremely signifi
cant discrepancy between Internal con
ditions, which ore catastrophic, nnd the
military position, which is splendid.
The contrast between the Incompetence
of the Communist administrators in the
Kremlin and the efficiency of the czarist
generals nt the front has not failed to
make a deep imnression on the Russian
people. Lenlnc is eclipsed by Brussiloff.
For the last two years the power of
the Soviet rulers has almost oritlrely de
pended on the Red army, the great
fighting machine created by Trotzky for
civil nnd foreign warfare. So long as
they had full control over this force the
duration of their dictatorship was as
sured, and all attempts at revolt neces
snrily proved futile. In countries like
Russia and Germany revolutions are
made by the army, never by the people.
It wns to the "soldiers' councils" of the
revolted Russian army (hat Lenlne and
his fellow adventurers originally owed
their advent to power. The army alone
can take It from them again.
Red Army Transformed
During the past months, and even be
fore the Polish offensive, the Red army
has been undergoing a gradual, at first
almost Imperceptible transformation.
Since Trotzky's withdrawal from the
supreme command, the number of
czarist officers In the Re'd regiments has
continually Increased. In the early days
of the Soviet regime theso officers were
forced to serve, their families being held
ns hostages for their loyalty to the
Bolshevist government, but latterlv the
have joined the Red army by thousands
as volunteers, unuer tneir Influence
the spirit of the troops has changed, In
spite of the presence in each regiment of
special Red commissaries and agents
whose surveillance is supposed to stimu
late their communistic ardor.
The virtorles over Poland, won under
the command of Uriihslloff, Palivnnoff
and other famous generals of the lato
czar, have consolidated this predomi
nance of counter-revolutionary elements
over the Communists in the Red army,
and bids fair to lead to a further influx
nf czarlsts Into its ranks which may
shortly deprive the Soviet rulers alto
gether of their control of, the vast war
machine whose creation is their only
positive achievement.
Wrangcl Coup Expected
For one thing, I am informed that
General Wrnugel, the Russian rtarist
leader in the Crimea, has. entered into
Continued on Vatf Tour. Column Two
MATRON CHANGES HER NAME
Surprises Friends at Police Station
by Telling of Marriage
When Mrs. Annie Sheldon, matron of
the Fifteenth and Vine streets police
station, n'turned from her two week's
vacation today, she was greeted on all
sides with the query.
"Uac a good time, Mrs Sheldon?"
"I'm not Mrs. Shejjlon any moro.
I'm Mrs. John A. Hudson."
It developed Mrs. Sheldon, who 'is
fifty-six j cur old, had been married
July 10, to John A, Hudson, I sixty
yeras old, a contractor, llviug nt 5134.
Spruce street. They were married at the
Twenty f second Street .Methodist Epi8
copal Church, and had their , honey,
moon in AtlanUc City. The couple .will
live at 0142 Kingsessinr street after the
first 'of Ausuet when, Mrs, II'ldoaTvHl
f33 j to ?T$$I
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END OF EUROPEAN CRISIS IN SIGHT
London, July 24. The end of the European crisis is believed to be in
sight. Acceptance by the Soviet. government today of Poland's propovnls for
armistice negotiations Is believed to pave the way for adjustment of a seri
ous situation.
The Soviet menace to Poland hns threatened to precipitate another Euro
pean war with the Allien intervening tp save Poland.
' SEARCH FOR OWNER OF ILLICIT WHISKY STILL
SHARON, Pa., July 24. Prohibition enforcement officers and
.the police departments of Sharon and Youngstown, Ohio, are today
.makinj efforts to learn the Identity of the owner of a whisky
still, found yesterday In a"hollow tree Just over the Ohio state
line. The still apparently had been In operation a short tlmo
before. Burled In the ground nearby the boys found twelve jugr,
three of which conttlred xnoonsuisc wM&kr,
PORTUGAL PLANS NEW COLONIAL PROGRAM
MADRID, July '24. Dispatches from Badajoz, on the Portu
guese frontier, say the new Portuguese governmnte has presented
to parliment a program based on the final reconstruction of the
colonis. Tho dispatches indicate that the Liberals and some others
will aid the new government, the Republicans will attack -It, while
the Socialists will look en.
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MORE STRIKES INJUNE THAN IN MAY
HARRISBTJRG, July 24. Strikes in Pennsylvania showed an
increase in June over May, but a marked decrease from April,
according to figures issued today by the Department of Labor and
Industry. There were sixty-two strikes in June, nineteen new
ones being started that month. May had fifty and April 107.
Of the now strikes in June eight occurred in York county metoJ
trades.
UPPER SANDUSKX'S POPULATIQNDECREASED
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WASHINGTON, July 24. Following census figures nre an
nounced: Upper Sandusky, Ohio, 3708, a deciease of 71, or 1.0 pel
centf Dennison, Ohio, 5524; Kccne, N. H., 11,210; Boone, Iowa,
12,451; Clay Center, Kan., 3715; Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, 10,200;
Kingston, N. Y., 26,288; Savannah, Ga., 83,252.
FEAR TRUNK VICTIM TWO PRETTY WOMEN
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Katherine Dan, of Canonsburg,
Disappeared From 105'
Harper Street, Detroit
COMPANION NOW IN JAIL
Spteint Dlipatch to Evtntno Pitbllo l.fdoer
Pittsburgh, July 24. Authorities at
Canonshurg. Washington county, nre
convinced that the body found in a trunk
in an American Express Co. ware
house in New York yesterday is that
of Katherine Dan, aged twenty ycaiS,
who is said to hove) disappeared early
in June with Alfonso Talifrone, nn
Itallon County authorities had planned
to raid n house In Kast Canonsburg
where the Dan girl nnd nn eighteen-year-old
sister. Ida. were alleged to
hove been held prisoner.
Every detail in news dispatches from
Now York and Detroit, say the Wash
ington county authorities', agrees with
thoo of tho disappearance of the girl
in Detroit, where 'he is snid to have
gone with Talifiono and where the
Itallnp was nncsted County detectives
who went to Detinit nnd made the nr
rest were unnhle to find trnre of the
girl. They declared today that the ad
dress given ns tin house from which
the trunk was -hipped. 105 Harper
street. Is the plnce wheie they arrested
Tollfrone. and found articles of the
missing girl's clothing The snmo de
tectives will likely go to Detroit to aid
the authorities there in clearing up the
mystery, it was sold todn
Italian Now In .fall
District Attorney Erwln Cummins is
expected today to tnhe action In the
ease, he probably will send men both to
Detroit and New York. Tnlifione nnd
Ida Dnn are held in the count j lall at
ashington. the Italian nn a i barge of
violating the Mann net. but neither of
them will talk of the dlh.ippenriimp of
the elder Dan girl. Thej will lie sub
jected to a gruelling examination
According to countj authorities
neither of the Dan sisters en ichI
dents of this district, hnrlng come here
scvcrnl months ngo fmm a distant
county. It Is alleged Tallfrnne enticed
them to Canonsburg then made them
prisoners, keeping them under close
guard, night and dnv, aud foieing them
to receiw the attentions of mule friends
of Tnlifiohe
No Trace of Katherine Dan
Idn Dan took up residence in another
section of Canoiislmrg after the Italian
and her sister disappeared from East
Canonsburg, hut though thorough search
was made, no trace could bo found of
the older girl. Home time ngo while in -vestlgntlns
nn Italian murder iu
Canonsburg authorities camo across
letters written to Ida, and ,from them
learned the whereabouts of Talifrone
and Katherine Dan.
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Detectives at once went to the Harper
undress in icirou uiu ipiltni Tail-
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vvuuuuvu vm .nn' WWUBUXWOf
ISSING T
Leave Walnut Place Homes on
Shopping Trip and Have Not
Been Seen Since
BABY CRIES FOR "MOTHER"
Mrs. Mary Brad . 12.1 Walnut place,
nnd Mrs. Mvrtle Sparks, 127 Walnut
street, both, young nnd described ns
pretty, left their homes. Wednesday
afternoon, to go shopping nnd disap
peared. Mrs. Sparks, who is onlv seventeen
years old. and an attractive blonde, de
serteil not nnh her husband.
but also
a two-veor-ohl son Buster, who cries
continually and asks his father when
his mother will return
Mrs. Bradv. whose husband is n
patrolman of tho Fifteenth and Vine
streets station, received a telephone call
through a nearby grot en ednesday
afternoon.
On her way bark from the grocery,
llYin filnnnnil l.t nt ,lm nm (.li Virtrl n I, tinmn
-. uujriin ., ui till . ii.lh" "" ', '
of Sirs. Sparks. Then she returned to
her own home and told her husband she
hnd some shopping to do before supper.
Laugh as Thej Go Away
She went down with a paper bng. nnd
joined Mrs. Sparks The latter did not
kiss her two-jenr-old hok gnndln Chat
ting gnyly the two women depailed.
"We would both fotgie our wives
if they would onlj come bnrk ' snid
Edward Sparks, husband of the joungor
woman, nt his homo todnv
Buster, the son. sat on his knee and
would not be comforted with a new toy
the father had bought him
Have Clue to Women
"When Is nrnmma coming bark?" he
imkrrl rnnftnimllv I
Patrolman Brady, the other deserted I
luisbnn(, believes the women nre living
somewhere In tho citj, possibly In the,
vicinity of Fifth street and Snjder nvc- i
uuc. j
Friends of the patrolman allege they
saw two women nnswering the ,nissin'g
wtcs descriptions sitting on a door-
step in that neighborhood.
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WAR WORKERS ARE MARRIED
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Romance Culminates In Wedding In
Far-Off Turkey
i urney
News hns just been received by Elmer
Alrgnod, B225 Jefferson street, of the
marriage at Harnoot. Turkey, nf hi
son Paul, twenty. three jeurs old. and
Mihs Helen C. Jones, a fellow worker
with the Near East relief. Miss Jones
was formerly an associate professor at
the University of Kansas,
Mr. Airgood formerly served with the
A. E. P. as ambulance driver with
Section fi78, and also as hospital or
derly, I'noit being mustered nut nf tin.
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OGETHER
ered.th.o work of relief ln
j fry
Im -i " u"vu "" worn o. rcuetm
JLUUIH,
MOSCOW ACCEPTS
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Directs Army Command to Bo
gin Truce Negotiations
at Once
TWO FORTS AT GRODNO
RETAKEN FROM RUSSIANS
Pilsudski's Troops Rowin Por
tion of Strategic Town.
Hand-to-Hand Fighting
By the Associated Press
London. July 21. The Soviet gor
ernment of Russia todny notified Poland
thnt the Soviet army command hnd been
ordered to begin Immediate negotiations
for nn armistice. It Is announced In a
wireless dispatch from Moscow.
The following telegrnm wns dis)-
patched by George Tchitclierln, Russian
Soviet foreign minister, to Prince Sa
pleha, the Polish foreign .minister, at
Warsaw, nt 1 :15 o'clock thIsmornIng.
"The Russian Soviet government has
given orders to the supreme command
of the Bed army to commence Imme
diately with the Polish military com-'
mand negotiations for the purpose-of
concluding an nrmistlec and preparing
for future peace between the two countries.
POLISH PROP SA
OF PEACE COUNCIL
"The Russian command will advise
the Polish command as to the place and
date for commencing negotiations with
the military commands of the two
sides."
Another message, signed by Vassileff
and Khvostchinsky, for the chief heait- T
quarters staff and the revolutionary
military council, was sent to the hlghf P' V1
mllitary-comirmnd In 'Warsawniark&r " "! '
"t-nrr ill-front" --J t '. id
..., Mi,.., uuu nuyiuK ;
"The supreme command of the Red
army has received the order of the
Soviet government to enter into nego
tiations with the Polish military com
mand on the questions of nn armistice
and peace between Russia and Po
land. ,
"The supreme command will send
representatives furnished with full pow
ers to n place which will be Indicated
to j ou by the command of the Russian
front, who will inform jou of the place
uuu me unie wnen me l'olish represen
tntheH will be invited to attend."
The action of the Moscow govern
ment is nn answer to proposals for a
truce which were sent by Poland to
the boviet on Thursday, following tho
iiduic nf Premier Lloyd George, of
' Great Britain,
Warsaw. July 24. (By A. P ) The
i Poles and Bolshevik! are fighting for
possession oi uroiind. Jn n counter
I attack the Polos captured two of the
tirnann forts and the southern part of
the town, which wns taken in hnnd-to-
hand lighting.
A communique issued by the war
office toduj announces further Polish
successes nlong the NIemen, where the
Bolsheviki hne been pushed back at
several places, the Poles enpturiug two
cannon nnd some prisoners. The fight
ing is continuing.
The Soviet thrust in the direction pf
Sokolkn, west of Grodno, had carried
them pnst the Polish boundary line
set by the council of ambassadors.
( Grodno, eighty miles southwest of
Vilnn. wns captured by the Bolsheviki
on July 2.1. according to a Soviet com
munique received by wireless nt Kon-
don today.
Tlie Russian statement re-
ports the forciug of the Stchnra, seventy
miles south of Orndno. nn engnge-
nient in the direction of Plusk nlonr
the rUer Ynrieidn nnd the rapture of
1000 Poles in the Dubno recion.)
Bolshevik reserve divisions assembled
by General Brussiloff weeks prior to
the launching of the offensive are dnily
being thrown in all along the northern
"'ont.
Purls, July 24. (By A. P.) "The
role nf the Franco-British mission now
on its way to Warsaw," said Premier
Millerand to the Senate today, "is to
get an nccurate frtui of the situation,
to support with every means within its
power the newly formed Polish ministry,
and to advise us ns to the army's needs
in material, munitions nnd Instructors."
"The mission will do what is pos
sible. een what is impossible, to come
to the help of our allies." the Premier
continued. "I.ntterly we have not spared
friendly warnings to Poland, but She
now expects from us something besides
repronclies. 1 can assure you her ex
pectations shall not be In vnln."
ANS1VER OF RUSSIA
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MAY SOLVE CRISIS
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By the Associated Press
Russia's reply to Poland's applies
tion for armistice negotiations brings.
in sight a possible solution of one of
the most serious crises which Ri,mr.
Sr,Ull?"i,. hS to&h
conclusion or the armistice with tho
I Germans In November. 1018. The offl-
I '''?' rld of allied Europe has been
.stirred to t denths and undl.iUi-
i nlaimed over thu sweep of the Soviet
armies through territory held by .the
Poles to tho vtry borders of Poland
proper; win n menace to Warsaw and
the virtual wiping out of Poland aa
a nntlpn looming up to the Alllea 'as
possibilities If measures were not taken
to head them off by glvlnj efficient and
speedy aid to the Warsaw government.
Iurthermore. the close approach of
the Russians, to the Germsri hnr.ln- ..
additional cbubb tor untaniMw. there
I wui! great uncertainty ;wnltAWi.
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