V:v ; v. ,y --fit'" 4 ll:H. Euenmg public ffie&get THE WEATHER Generally cloudy 'and unsettled to n!ht and Tuesday, wltJi probably Uiundcrsliowcrs! warm tonltht. TKMrEnATimn at each nopit 1 8 1 1) io UMia I l 2 y 4 si wtght? extra! 4 A V 4 Sj i 'i9 172473 175 )70 181 82 183 I I L&A 3 v a VOL. VI.-NO. 299 ntre4 Becond-cW MitUr t th Poitoffle.. at Philadelphia, pa. Under the Act of March 8, 1879. s PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1920 Published Dally Except Canity. fliiBnerlpllon Price 10 a Tear by Mall. Copyrlrnt, 1920, by Public- Ledger Company. PRICE TWO CENTS O.KS 85,000X00 BOOST FOR COAL MINERS! WILSON . j HaUs Testifies G. O. P. Limited Contributions to Eliminate Any Possible Sinister Influences : I , , I . REPUBLIUAN FUND PLAN OUTLINED ID SENATEJROBERS Chairman Declares Budget Called for $3,079,037, With Centralized Campaign LINKS JERSEY LIQUOR INTERESTS WITH GOV. COX Hays Tells of Propaganda for Amendment of Volstead Act Presidential Race Livens With Autumn's Approach Republican Chairman Hays out lined the pnrty plan of small con tributions In order to eliminate sin ister influences to the Senate Inves tigating committee today. Harding is planning n swing around the circle and may speak in Philadelphia. Cox returns home today to prepare for an invasion of the West. He soon will answer Harding's league speech. By the Associated Tress Chicago, Aug. 30--W111 HayB, chair nun of the Republican National Com mittee, told "the senatorial .committee investigating campaign funds at the out wt of his testimony today that the Republican management welcomes "the opportunity further fully to set forth the effort of the Republican National Committee to popularize the giving, of money for campaign purposes by getting mall contributions from a great many men and women, thus forever elimi nating any possible opportunity for sin ister influence, in connection with money In politics." "" lie said this plan for raising money grew out of two primary causes: "The real dfslrc to work a, real re form in the elimination of any possi ble improper obligation' and because experience in rattdug'funds for war pur poses had made popular drives "famil iar activity, and it seemed possible to undertake thnt kind of action by n po litical organization." "We particularly hoped that this ac thity would increase the political in terest," he said. Mr, Hays submitted to the commit tee a letter from George T. Carroll, as "president of the New .Terser As- soclntion of Liquor Interests." He fcad irom it sentences soliciting fuuds to carry on Cox propaganda with the ulti mate object of obtaining nn amendment to the Volstead act to permit sule of li?ht wines and beers. The letter called Governor Cox a "pronounced wet." During the testimony of Mr.- Hays Senator Cox nskrd him if the national committee had received uny contribu tions from corporations. "No," the witness replied. Mr, Hnys, in response to n question. Mid he estimated the campaign will cost about .$3,000,000, but that amount Includes more than $1,000,000 spent in te campaigns and assigned to the states. Limit Contributions to $100Q. Mr. Has said the Republican plan was proposed early In 101O; and that the purpose has been to limit the contribu tions to $1000 for any one year from any individual, or $1000 before the nominating convention and $1000 after. "We have all tried to adhere to thnt Plan." he said. Mr, Hays described the organization f a general commltteo of ways and weans, acting under the trensurerto carry the work into each state, and of a Mat? was and meaus committee, with a man as state chuirman and n woman as vicn chairman, then to endeavor to Ki'i a county clialrluan of wnjs nn means and a woman vice chairman, and then by such processes of organi zation as the localities might udopt, "'suc just ns in n iced i.'ross or ..riy ,onn campaign. "The greatest publicity has been Riven to the movement," he cxplnlncd uecaiiFe. he said : "1'pon (ho acquainting of the public of the. purpose depended tho political Interest." Tentative Quotas Fixed ''As the effort progressed," the wit ITS "ai(i' tcntativc quotas were fixed Jm, e treasurer's office, all tentative ?n, ,nl50r "is u sool always high, of f?i ' for. tl,e Particular state to drive I0r.',adehunging constantly." im tV' i a? wcut int0 dta11 as to the raunods of organizing the states and weussed arrangements made with both tue senatorial and congressional cam Pal.Bu. I'ominittccs of tho party to tho ""that there would bo but one money raiMng organization. In that, counection," ho said. "It s understood between 'the national jomralttce nnd these two committees jnat the collecting organization of tho notional commltteo would holp raise the noney for them, guaranteeing to them ine amounts which tbey thought would ne necessary for tho congressional and wnatorialcampaigns,, liuilget of 53,070,037 'The campaign budget or estimate as worked out beginning as of July 1, W a total amount which -would ho needed for tho actual campaign and this yt 53,070.037.20," lm said. Of this total ?25B,100 was apportioned to the 'Peakcrs' bureau, Headquarters ex. P'ntes were set at $75(,821 for Wash nton, New York, lioston, Chicago, J'Ciivcr and Ban Francisco, am) rents for all hcadqunrtcrs were estimated ut 5,03. Fpr publicity $1,340,500. was. appro- lea Pare Blr. Colo Tto !tWii PP,1 i!3 Kii.V. ! mmmmmmmmmmmWMX' Ni. Hf' B mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmttBki'v- i H i?--1 l' t'f w-' K ' T mmmmmTmmmmmmmmmmmmmmW-"-i?'' m X M "Mwm m. 'Hffift mm'' H K';iP''jl L'tfli!ll'i t:2'':'-fi"JP'?Tl 'i H1 trHKiP.MJ i ! :'' iK''Jl s COL. B. DALE BENSON Former president of Pennsylvania, Fire Insuranco Co. who died last night at Atlantic City CONDUCTOR STEPS LIVELY But Magistrate Says Caustic Things About Trolloymcn and Their Work "Step lively, please." said Edward Tucker, of 1022 Ridge avenue, a trolley conductor, to William Andrews, nt Hunting Park avenue nnd Clarissa streets last night. "You como down out of that trolley car nnd I'll make you step lively," An drews is nlleged to have replied. According to testimony nt a hearing given Andrews today by Magistrate Price, at Twenty-second street and Hunting Park avenue station, the con ductor accepted tho challenge. Tho conductor stepped so lively, it was testified, thnt ho dodged a blow aimed at him by Andrews nnd struck tho challenger in the cyc. Patrolman Burgess ended tho fight. "If you trolley conductors would pay mora attention to your work and not so much attention to having your pas sengers 'step lively,' we would have better service," said Magistrate Price. "Two trolley cars stepped so lively this morning, that they passed ray corner without seeing me." Andtcws was fined $5. POLICEMAN RESCUES NINE 8ergeant"Glenphln and His Wife Save Victims From. Lake Nino persons,- including n. three-year-old boy, were rescued on Mantua lake yestcrdnv, by Sergeant William Glen pbin, Of the Nineteenth nnd Oxford streets police station, who is a week end resident there. . Glenphiu was cruising on the lake In his ruotorboat, accompanied by his wife, when they saw distress signal made from a rowboat which was heavily over loaded. Glenphin ran his launch along side in answer to tho calls. So anxloiis were the passengers to leave the overloaded craft that several jumped the moment Glenphin's launch was within reach and capsized tho row boat. Glenphin nnd his wife, by some rapid work-, fished five women, thrco '..nM Awl It VlT Mlf nf tllA litln ".""" "'""" ","' , . .. no sergcaui snya no recognizea me survivors ns summer cottagers, but did not learn their names. "It was nothing," he added WOMAN KILLED BY TRAIN Coal Picker Dies Instantly on Schuyl kill Falls Crossing An express trnin this morning struck and Instantly killed Mario Pratti. 3205 Ferry avenue, Falls of Schuylkill, as she wns picking coal on the Heading Railway at the Scott's lane crossing, Foils of Schuylkill. The train hurled the woman about twenty yards. The express wns stopped and trainmen ran to her aid, but she was dead. .The body was taken to the Snmarltan Hospital and later removed to the Ferry avenue address. DYNAMITE WRECKS HOUSE Brother of Pennsylvania Coal Co. Contractor Suffers Loss WUUPS-Barro, Pa., Aug. 30. The home of Samuel Latoro In Pittston was wrecked early today by a discharge of dynamite. Mr. I.atore Is a brother of John I.ntore, one of the contractors for tho Pennsylvania ( oal U. ana is cm nlnveil bv his brother. Last Thursday night tho homo of Michael Condossoa, a contractor nt the rittston mine, was damaged. THUGS FLEE; LEAVE LOOT Two Robbers Who Attacked Produce Dealer Frightened Away . Two robbers attacked Frank Dau bert, a produce dealer, In his store at 118 West Tabor roud.Jate Saturday night, but were apparently frightened awnv without loot. Two $5 notes which they took from tho cash register were found on the floor by the proprietor. Tho two men, with three others, drove up to the btore in un automobile just before the closing hour. One man, with a revolver, and the other, with a black jack, entered the htorn and ordered tho proprietor to put up his hands. Then tin man with a blackjack stuck him. When Daubcrt regaiued consciousness he dis covered the two $5 notes. STEAL FLAG FROM PULPIT American Emblem Pilfered From Mission n Plymouth Township Norrlstowu, Pa,, Aug. 30. A hand some Bilk American flag costing nearly $200 was stolen from a littlo Methodist mission on tho Gcrmantown road. In Plymouth township, yesterday after noon. The plnco of worship Avns open at tho time of the theft, but no ons connected with it was around. The flag occupied a place, on the pulpit platform, The mission, for merly a Plymouth township nubile Fclionl, ndjolns the home of Charles .TnimKnn. former htalu insurance com missioner, and lb in charge of Mr. Car eon adMr4lSfing. ;-v Girl, 12 By Daring Leap,, Warns of Armed Intruder . Sisters, Asleep in South Media Home, Awak ened by Masked Man Youngest Jumps 18 Feet to Ground to Alarm Parents A negro, armed and masked, entered the room of two girls while they slept no.. 3 o'clock yesterday morning in South Media. While tho invader flourished a re volver near tho older girl's bed, her younger sister ran o n window, lead, ing to n porch, jumped eighteen feet to tho ground, and aroused her parent, asleep in n room at the front of 'tho house. The Bisters are Lillian Winterbot tom, sixteen years old, nnd Elsie, twelve, daughters of William P. Win tcrbottom, of 0 Pauls street, South Media. According to Mrs. Winterbottom, tho sisters were asleep In a room nt tho rear of the house, while tho parents occupied a room at the front. At 3 o'clock Sunday morning, tho oldest girl wns awakened to be con fronted by the man, who had impro- R. DIES AT SHORE Former Head of Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Company Was 79 Years Old WON HONORS IN CIVIL WAR Colonel II. Dale Benson, distinguished Civil War veteran nnd formerly presi dent of the Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Co., died last night at Atlantic City. He was seventy-nine ycarH old. Colonel Benson retired from active business six years ago, although he maintained an office in this city. His homo was nt 1120 Spruce street. He was a member of the Union League, the Ar? Club, the Philadelphia Country Club nnd the Merlon Cricket Club ne was a director in numerous corporations', including the Pennsylva nia Salt Manufacturing Co., the Phila delphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad and the North Pennsylvania Railroad. Catawissa Railroad and the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co. 'Ho was a member of the Military Order Loyal Legion and was identified with Post No. 2. G. A. It. He had been a member of the board of managers of the Merchants' Fund Society nnd the Western Snving Fund Society nnd wns n director of the Philadelphia National Bank, nnd the Rcnl Estate Trust Co. Served in War With Distinction Colonel Benson was born in this cfty December (1, 1841. Hn wns a son of Gustavus Benson, one time member of the Boaril of City Trusts and founder of n banking firm which retired from business In the latter part of the last century. Colonel Benson received hV college training nt tho University of Pennsyl vania, graduating in 1800. When the Civil ar began Mr. Benson joined nn artillery regiment. When that coin mnnd wna mustered out. ho wns made a lieutenant in the 114th Pennsylvania regiment, raised by Colonel Charles II. T. Coliis. The regiment wns known as Collis' Zouaves. Colonel Benson was breveted for bravery on tho Add nt Chancellorsyille. After the war Colonel Benson entered the wholesnlo importing business. In 18S1 he wns elected vice president of tho Pennsylvania Fire Insuranco Co. Ten years later he was made president of the company. Was in Pittsburgh Riots Ills interest in military affairs con- tinned virtually up to tho time of his retirement trom Dusincss in ayi Ilia record in the Civil War won him a cap taincy in tne l-irst itegiment or the National uuard. in ibi.i ho was elected colonel of the regiment. While In command of tho First Regi ment he found hinwlf once moru under firo during the Pittsburgh labor riots. Ills regiment stood the brunt of tho figbtlng there. When the disorders had been quelled nnd the regiment returned to this city, Colonel Benson resigned his command. Colonel Benson's immediate ances tors came to this city from Talbot county. Mnryland. where at a spot called Bonson'p Choice there Is a little private burying ground still in posses sion of tho family. Nearby standB nn old house of Eng lish brick, erected in tho latter part of the seventeenth century by Dr. James Hanson, the first settlers, who was cap. tnin of a troop o horse in the colonial wars. Ono of Doctor llenhou's descend ants. Perry Benson, was a captain In the Revolution and ufterwnrd a major general of Maryland troops in the War of 1812. . ROBBERS BEAT VICTIMS Two Men Are Blackjacked by Thugs, Who Escape With $100 Edward Joyce, 2513 Parrlsh street, nnd John Flynn. 82(1 Stlllmnn street, were held up, blackjacked nnd robbed Inst night at Twentj fourth and In Krrsoll Btrcets, by two robbers, who es caped with $100. Neither of'the men enn tell very co herently tho story of the hold-up ex cept jo say that their assailants sud denly stepped qilt of the shadows um struck them terrific blows on the head. F.nrh man was fobbed of 50O. They wcro found by neighbors aul taken trf St. Joseph's Hospital. Joyce was uu- ... ilniiR all frit nt Cyill-uu "If MIBM- DALE BENSON j htitt -ltlnr. , n vised n mask from linen stolen from i clothes line. He brandished n revolver and or dered tho older sister to inako no out cry. Ills voice uwnkenetl the youngar sister, who at first believed the in truder was her father, closing a win dow. When she fully rcnllzed the situation, tho younger sister leaped from her bed, and bolted for the window, leading to the porch. The mnn hnd placed a ledder against the porch, but the girl did not see It, and jumped to the ground. Struggling to her feet, she ran around to the front of tho house, screaming for help. Her screnms frightened tho intruder, who 'fled through the window, down the ladder and esenped. Neither Elsie nor her sister .was harmed. District Attorney Tnylor has assigned County Detective O'Toolo and two state policemen to tho case. BROOKLYN GETS TO WORK ANY OLD WAY One Million Residents Forced to Use Any Vehicle Available. Carmen Strike GREAT JAM OF TRAFFIC By tlio Associated Press New York. .ug. 30. More than 1,000.000 Brookryu residents, who de pend largely upon the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co, to take them to business, today were reduced to improyiscd nnd even primitive methods of conveyance by tho strike of company employes that virtually shut down the entire transit system subways, elevated, roads and trolleys. The striko went Into effect early JjUndny morning,' .after thp men had previously voted to postpone action pending further attempts to adjust wage demands. Long before the accustomed rush hour thismorning the streets wero Jammed with pedestrinns lnolclne for Vehicles, most of which wero already crowded with passengers. Notwithstanding the use of automobiles, from limousine to jitney, large trucks and horsc-drnwn wagons, many thousands had to walk to their distant pluces of work. Buss Fare Vive Cents In addition to pressing private auto mobiles into service. Grover A. Whn len, commissioner of plants and struc tures, obtained busses to run from Brooklyn to Manhattan during tho morning rush nnd back to Brooklyn in the afternoon nnd evening. The fore ehnrged wns five cents. Six chartered steamboats and two of the city's police bonts nlso were put luto service carrying passengers from Coney Island and from East river ppints. Commissioner Whalen mid strong ef forts, would tip ralide to nrotcct the pub lic from profiteering in transportation fares during the emergency. Hearings on the strike situation were cnllcd for today by Lindley M. Garri son, receiver for the company, nnd by Mayor Hhin. Mr. Garrison requested bus companies in New Jersey, Connec ticut and Massachusetts to scud us many vehicles here as possible. Confusion at Bridgeheads Becuii'.e of the jam of vehicular traf fic during the early rush hours the Brooklyn. Manhattan and illiamsburg bridges' over tin Kast river were made one-way thoroughfures. Confii'ion occurred at the bridgeheads where thousands of buses, wagons, tour Ing cars and tu.ic,abs tried to force a way into the procession moving toward Manhattan Island. . Huudreds of vehicles were swept Into side streets and hopelessly stranded. In Manhattan a number of the busier thoroughfares wero made one-wny streets to co-ordinate with the bridges. On some tho vehicular traffic overflowed onto the sidewalks. Police officials pre dicted there would be no abatement of the confusion during the day. Striking employes of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co. demnnd : An incrense in wages of approxi mately 40 per cent. Motiirmeii and conductors on Mirfno lines, eighty-four to ninety-two cents an hour: now receiving fifty-two to sixty-two cents. Shopmen, u flat increase of 33 1-3 per cent. Conductors and guards on elevated and Mibwny lines, seventy to ninety efnts nn hour; now receiving forty-nine to fifty-seven cents. Conductors and motormen on sur face lines demand nine consecutive hours of work instead of the present urrangement of nine hours lu cleveu.. The lompaiiy intimates the men are striking for a closed shop. The strikers deny this, The walk-out nffects nbout 2000 ele vated and subway conductors and g'unrdri, 4.100 surface car motormen nnd comluctoii and 31)00 shop and power liousn men. Nearly 12,000 men uro on btrike. hast year 8000 walked out. FALLS4 STORIES TO DEATH Theatrical Man Plunges Through Window While Using Phone -- New York, Aug. 30. (By A. I'.) Fred Lent, a theatrical manager, was Instantly killed here today when he fell from the fourth floor of the hotel where ho mode his home. A friend who was sprudlng the night with Lent snid he lost his balance while using a telephone, falling through nn open wiudow, As Ope of the, Armstrong brothers, T.eiit uns formerly a circus performer. FIVE IRE DEAD FIERCEST RIOTS BELFASTHAS SEEN Rival Factions Renew Struggle. Shipyard Workers Attacked. Girl Leads Sinn Feiner3 MACSWINEY'S CONDITION REPORTED MUCH WORSE Soldiers Get In Between Fight ers and Keep Them Apart. Boy Is Shot By the Associated Press Belfast. Aug. 30. -Today's rioting was said by the police to be the worst Belfast, has yet seen. Up to 1 o'clock this afternoon It was definitely known thnt Five deaths had occurred ns n result of tho disorders. These included Grace Orr, a young woman who was shot when troops opened fire to clear a street in tho Unionist quarter. Numerous persons with bullet wounds were ndmlttcd to the Royal A'ictorio nnd Mater Hospitals. In the fighting between Sinn Felners and Unionist shipyard workers muny shops wero wrecked In York nnd North streets. Soldiers got between the com batants. In York street nnd kept them apart. There were numerous baton charges by the police. The military held York street with armored cars at mid day. A girl in n green blouse headed the Sinn Fein attack in York street, keeping n dozen yards ahead of her nearest male comnanion. v Before 2 o'clock the denth list waa increased by the shooting of 0 smnll boy by a sniper. A curfew law will be introduced in Belfast tomorrow night, extending from 10:30 p. m. to five o'clock in the morning. - vSlilpyard Men Attacked Shipyard employes, who were un armed, we,re on their way to work at 8:30 o'clock this morning when they were attacked, it is charged by the police, by Sinn Feiners, and shooting soon began. Soldiers arrived soon nfter the disorder commenced and assumed a firing position across York street, giving the crowd three minutes to clear the thoroughfare. Most of the people lied to cover. At nn enrly hour this morning other disorders occurred in the neighborhood of Ewnrts Row. n unionist uunrter. which was attacked by Sinn 1'einers yesterday morning. Shops were wrecked, and lo clear the streets the troops opened fire from nn armored cnr. Falls road, which traverses .To-eph Devlin's political division, was sim mering tills morning. Great excitement also prevailed in other affected areas, and crowds were assembling during the early forenoon. A parry of ship workers, headed bv a man enrrying the Union Jnck, pro ceeded up North street, a wjide thor onghfnri leading from 1 loyal avenue to Shonkill roiid, nnd wheeled into Wltie Tavern street, a Nationalist locality where there were suggestive piles of stones. Shots wen. fired, nnd the ranks of the shipyard workers were reduced by several who were rushed to a hospital. 135 Flrjes Reported The shopkeepers of North street promptly closed their stores. There have been 13.1 fires since Wednesday Three attempts were made Inst night to burn the Independent Lubnr Paity Hall. The last attempt resulted in seri ous damage to the building. The po lice charged crowds in the Cmnilln road w Ith their batons, but ordor was not restored until the troops arrived. Uleven mene were killed nnd forty wounded in the fighting in tho last twenty -four hours. It is reported that an armored car tired on a crowd around n bonfire and that a boy was shot through the brenst. Two constables are declared to have been sent to hospitals as a result of their in juries. " I-flndon, ' Aug. 30. Mayor Mac Swlney's condition wns distinctly worse Inst night, his pulse being very low. Tho mayor's brother, after a visit, ro ported that the prisoner collapsed dur ing tho afternoon and difficulty was experienced in bringing him around. His sister, who visited him yester day morning, sold he passed a restless night and wns sinking and the doctors thought he might die at any moment. Mnyor MucSwiney was still con scious, however, and told her "I am convinced I will not be releuscd. It will bo better for my country if I urn not." W. J. O'SulIivan, high sheriff, of Cork, in n statement tonight said the dozen hunger strikers in Cork jail and eight others in Winchester jail, includ ing Mr. O'Sullivan's fifteen -yenr-old son, hud grown much worse, and that at least two of them wcro not expected to live. Quebec. Aug. 30. The longshoremen who struck here Saturday as u protest against the imprisonment of Lord Mayor MucSwiney, of Cork, went back fu work toduy. 0UND WITH THROAT CUT Man Who Inherited Considerable Estate Believed Murder Victim Pottstlllo, Pa., Aug. 30, Harry Yeich, who recently Inherited a con siderable estate, was found with his throat cut near Browns Hollow last night. State pqjice are Investigating what appears to be auothcr murder mystery. Yeich had ?S0. on his body when found, but is believed to have had a eopslderably larger amount with him, There was also an unopened nnekctknife 1 T ' . . . "-. .. .. ,ou his body .covered with blood. COAL PRICES BEFORE WAR AND RETAIL COST NOW Now Pea $12.00 Nut 14.80 Egg 14.55 Stove . ..- 14.80 BENJAMIN S. LYMAN, FAMOUS ENGINEER DIES Benjamin Smith Lyman, geologist nnd mining engineer of in tcrnntlonnl fame, died today nt Ills home, 112 Elm avenue, Chelten ham. He was eighty-four years old. Mr. Lyman is credited vrlth the first geological survey ever made in Japan nnd has chnitcct laad In many parts of the world. 42 STEAMSHIP LINES INDICTED FOR CONSPIRACY NEW YORK, Aug. 30. Forty-two steTTmshlp companies nnd irri - 'M-okcrs. including virtually nil the big transAtlantic lines, wcro indicted by the federal gTand jury here-today on charges of conspiracy and restraint of trade in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. POST OF REGISTRAR !-X -r Kl x A I! X I rust ui now vuiera nppuus iui One of 370 Vacancies Now Existing in City COMMISSION MEETS TODAY! "Front Porch Party," Program of Women The first womnn's "front-porch part" is to be held Thursday by Mrs. Merrill W. Nuce. of McCon nelNburg. Fulton county. Mrs. Nncc is u member of the stnte execu tive committee of the Republican women. This information wns contained In n telegram received at headquarters of the Republican women's commit tee of Pennsylvania. 8 The first woman to apply for the po sition of registrar sent to her appli cqtion today to the board of registration commissioners. She lives in the Twon-tv,-si.th ward, where there Is a short age of registrars. A hortage also exists in other wards in the city, and Commissioner Fell es timated approximately 370 vacancies would have to bt filled. Commissioner Fell sold he doubted whether a woman could be appointed registrar ut this time. Under the law, he explained, a person to be a regis trar mut have resided In his division one yenr previously. Technically, 11 womnn. not being nn elector, has not "lived" In the division in which she makes hrr home for a yenr, but only for the time since womnn suffrage be cnnie the law of the land. "We will tuke the matter up with Council." said Mr. Fell, "and there is a possibility thnt this difficulty may be oNcreonio. We need registrars very badly and women would certainly help us in the emergency." Short age Duo to Democrats Commissioner Fell said the present shortace of recistrnrs wu ilim lnrnli- iu me iuri tunc mere nre no Democrats registered in some election divisions. I I he law provides for 11 minority paty 1 icgistar in eucli division. At the Inst majornlty election mnnv Democrats switched their party allegiance for the time being in order to vote for Mavor Moore, and have not yet returned' to their former pnrty. Some of these vot ers, said Mr. Fell, are now requesting tho registration commissioners to ap point thc.ni minority registrars, but the commissioners nre scrutinizing the re quests very carefully. At the registration commissioners' of fice today it was said that formerly three registrars to each division hail been nble to do the work. The lnw pro vides for n full board of four in each of the 13S(1 divisions. The thousands of women registrants will require full boards in most of the divisions, it wns snid. Tho registration commissioners nre sitting today nnd tomorrow to fill the 370 vacancies for registrars, The books called "registers," in which the women will be registered nu Contlminl on l'nrHW. Column I'our i NEW VOTERS INDEPENDENT Women's League Won't Give Roll of 13,000 to Republicans The League of Women 'Voters, it was snid today, will refuse to turn oyer its membership lists to the Philadelphia Republican women's committee. "We feel that to turn over the lists would destroy tho Individually of our organization," snid one of the officers of the lcngue today; Mrs. Wnlter Thomson, chairman of the Philadelphia Republican women's committee, recently asked for the mem bership of tho league, which contains, 13,000 names. The league is a non partlzan organization, and feels thnt It should not "turn in" for cither of tho political parlies. ASKED BY WOMAN 1918 1914 $7.25 $5.50 9.30 7.00 8.50 0.50 9.20 7.00 BOLSHEVKI RALLY; T Soviet Armies Reported Gain' ing Growth East of Brest-Litovsk LEMBERG DRIVE RENEWED 1 By the Associated Pres I London, Aug. 30. Russlnn Soviet I forces engnged in n counter-offensive I against the Poles, east of Brest-Lltovsk linvp occupied four villages in thnt 'vicinity. Near Lemberg there is henry fighting, and lu the VIodva and Grubeshoff re gions there wero local clashes. This in formation wns receivi'il tndnr in n ivlrr. less dispatch from Moscow containing an oflici.il statement issued today. Bolshevik forces hnvc cnptureil a fort a mile nnd a half from Brest-Litovsk. sa.s a dispatch to the Daily Herald irom .iiinsK (luted Saturday. The me.s- snge declares that the Reds nrp gather ing strength for n new offensive. The bodies of ten Germans with their Heads biowu off have been found in a wood near Beuthen, Upper Silesia, Miys a dispatch from Onneln to the London Times. It is feared, adds the report, that when news of this dis covery spreads throuch Unner SilpRln. where fighting has been taking place oetween liermnn nnd I'olish factions the former will make reprisals. Copenhagen, Aug. 30. Russian Itolshevik forces have recaptured iirnnno, says a Koenigsberc dispatch to thp Berlingske Tidcnde. The report adds that the PoIps nlso hnvc been forced to evacuate Blalystok. All dispatohes from Koenigsberg, Enst Prussiu. have tended to exag gerate Bolshevik success. The Berlingskc Tidcnde, however, is the most relinblo of Danish newspapers. Grodno is on or just to tho enst of tne I'olish ethnographic- frontier, ami Its recapture by the Reds would not be surprising, but Ilinlystok is twenty miles west of the Polish front as Inst reported. Warsaw, Aug. .".0. The Russinn Soviet forces nre endeavoring to drive n wedge designed to sever the Polish front, uceordlng to an official statement on tne nghting operations just issued '"'' "gnuug is reported norm ot Belzec, to the north of Lcmbcrg, where t,,p Soviet cavalry of General Budenny is trvine n new cnclrclinir" mnvpmpnt llirfMnuf T Atltl.ft,..- n n.ll.n .......1 C..J... t ...,. .. .1.1 If,. .Ill 111. , ilflll-ll IUt IUt detachment has reached Tyszowice. In the region of Bobra. twenty miles southeast of Lemberg. the Poles hnvc repulsed repeated Russinn attacks in tended as a drive against Lemberg. Tho Poles are counter-attacking nt Sar niki, and have smashed several Soviet squndrous. While Riga has been ngrcpd upon by the Polish nnd Russian Soviet Govern ments as the place for futinv pence no Kotintions, it was said at the Foieign Ministry lute Inst night that no word had bcTii recehed from the Letvinu Government regarding the Poles' re quest for permission to hold the confer ence in Rigu. Paris, Aug. SO. (By A. J'.) Mill, tafj operations in Poland seem, for the moment ut IcW, to be limited to local actions, und Polish commanders arc utilizinc the neriod of iimptlviir along the front to regroup their forces'. which were separated during the leccnt rapid advunce. The Bolshevlki will not remain idle, Continual on Iie Six. Column Mix Italy Indorses U. S. Note on Russo-Polish Situation Washington, Aug. 30 (By A. P.I Ituly bus Informed tho I'liitei' States that the two governments nn virtuull in accord as to sentiments concerning Russia nnd Poland con tained in the receut American note. Secretary Colby announced toda Similar nssurunce had been re rived, Mr Colby tald, from Poland AK OUR 1 20 P. C. INCREASE AWARDEDMINfRSIH MAJORITY REPORT Contract Men Get Maximum Ad vance Company Employes Raised 17 Per Cent MALCONTENTS THREATEN STRIKE NEXT THURSDAY, Tell President They Will Quit' Work Unless Their De mands Are Granted Washington, Aug. 30. President; Wilson today approved tho- ma-' jority report of the anthracite coal commission increasing the wages oft contract miners 20 per cent over" present rates. The findings, the report said, fl a minimum rate of 52' cents per hour for the lower paid men in thr anthracite industry. Miners employed as company-men arc given an increase of 17 per' cent and the same amount is given, "consideration miners" and miners' laborers and monthly men. The President struck out of the report a provision fixing the terms of retroactive payments under the'f award, which he said was outside the commission's jurisdiction. Th'oman Kennedy, chairman of the miners,'" scale committee, had protested this l feature of the award, he said. Anthracite mine workers will re-', ceivo about $18,000,000 in back pay'f under the retroactive feature of thi award, which makes it effective April 1, 1920, and the totafYncreasf awarded to the 175,000 miners wllj" average, the commission said, '( least $85,000,000" annually. Retail Price Advance Unjustifiable The majority report declared that the award "offers no justification for any advance in the retail prices of, coal, but on the other hand is con sistent with a decline in prices." Any sharp advance in retail prices, the report added, "could not ba charged to the operators, the miners or the award." t The minority report, signed by Commissioner Ferry, while depart ing from the majority's conclusions, says that officers of the United Mine. Workers "will, of course, accept and carry out this majority award with the utmost good faith." "While the adjudication of any dispute nccessnrily results in soma disappointment," the Picsident salrj in his letter to the commission, "lam sure that the spirit with which you have acted will receive the comment dation of the great bulk of the American people." .Minority Report Filed Accompanying the majority report ia minority report.'-signed by Neal j Ferry, representing anthracite work ers on the commission, who protests ngniust the method emplo.xcd by his as. soeiates in reaching their award and declares a "living wnge" and not in- , creases in living costs should haro formed the basis for tho increase. Ha nsscrts thnt the workers' demand "were extraordinarily modest" un$ thnt. "merely to maintain the contract, miners' wages, nt their pre-war iur I'hnsing power, should be increased 30 per ceut over present rates " ' "Surely the miners were justified in expecting substantially this amount and in expecting that they would not bo nsked to siirrlnee Indefinitely their old stundnrds of living, uud see their fam ilies worse off than they were In 1014," the minority report says. " In his litter to the commission Presi dent Wilson acknowledges "certain documents" submitted by Mr. Ferry, to be made an integral part of the report, but declares if it were his Intent 'to hove these priuted with tho report "it would seem to me to be manifestly be yond the purview- of the work of the commission." The President soya, further : "These documents lepresent in part the miners' side of the controversy, jto far as 1 am aware there is only ona reason for tho publication of them, and thnt is, to inform the public of tht) evidence tlmt bus guided the minority lit' making its report. I am sure that thq minority member of the commission doe not desire to give the nllblic tho im. prcsslnu Unit he had arrived at his con' elusions solely upon the evidence pre. sented by the United Mine Workers and, without giving consideration to tht evidence presented bj the other tide. The publication of the documents re ferred to, without nt the sumo time, publishing the bulancii of the evidence and arguments, would undoubtedly pro ate that iiripresMnu If any of tho ar giimeuts and evidence is to bo printed ut public expense it should all 1)9 printed.' .$ij. rros ucnt i son ou.servci mat ui Lnrintiim of all evldencu would cost. rftmmv tlintlKUlirii nf ilrtllfim nt t'Mk -, & no appropriation Is mailable," iindiih '& Continual on rata Tho, Column Ti& A1 .T. i l i'l I '"I ,i ?1 WffJ l f-!rl"!r",M,,'" !','fc -KS'-rrt, VWW i etf' ? w . , I i 4tji , S&WiW&i " M. ' -,-T k' gvf .wu'ili iwi .m
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