St. John's Daily Star, 1920-08-12

              The St. John's Daily Star Our Average Daily Circulation, March 8,898 Newfoundland THE WEA THER Probs-S. and S.W. Winds, Showery (PRICE: One Cent.); volTvl THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1920. ■"".ii i. ' ' ' ■ ii■ i. 19&00 per Annum./ No. 181 America Wins International Motor Boat Race Poles To Launch Attack on Warsaw Front FRANCE TO SEND HELP Will Give All Possible Military Aid to Wrangel Forces in South Russia— Won't Trust Reds POLES TO SEEK AID IN AMERICA DARIS, Aug. ll—The French gov* ernment decided to recognize General Wrangel as head of the de facto government of south Russia. In making this announcement the ministry of foreign affairs said this recognition implied rendering Wran gel all possible military assistance. The foreign office stated that France will send a high commissioner to i Sebastopol immediately. The French government is notifying the commercial attache in London to have no dealings with Leonin Krassin and Leo Kameneff. The Soy itt terms to Poland, read by Lloyd George in the Commons last night, j were regarded as only preliminary aid the government was convinced would later exact much harsh er terms. Seeks U. S. Credits. Washington, Aug. 11—Poland will i file immediate aid of the United! States in its fight against the Russian Bo'slipviki, Count Lubomireki, Polish minister, announced to-day. *An appeal to the sta'e department the minister said will be based i iron the rssurance, contained in the. United States note to Italy, that the United States will insist Jioon the maintenance of the political ind'soendence and territorial integrity of Poland. The aid requested, it was said, probably will be confined to a reouest for an extension of credits by ihe United States for the purchase by Poland of surpius war stocks. S. Harris, Ltd., Launch New Schooner at Barm (Special to the Star.) Grand Bank, Aug. 12—An interesting sight was witnessed by hundreds at Giand Bank this morning when the new schr. General Ironsides, owned by S. Harris, Ltd., was launched at 7.45 a.m. Dimensions are: gross tonnage 200 tons; keel, 90 feet over all 111 feet; breadth 28.6; depth 12 feet. Her frame is of witch hazel plank ing and finished with beech and hard pine. The firm and Mr. Eli Harris the builders are to be congratulated—Cor.■ pp ■ AMERICAN BOAT WINS IN FIRST MOTOR RACE American Motor Yacht Club Wins in International Motor Race at Cowes. f OWES, Eng.. Aug. 11—The United States won the Harmsworth trophy international motor boat prize through the victory of Miss America) in the second race of a series off; here today. The trophy goes to the h country winning two out of three races. Miss America won the first race yesterday. Miss America Winner Cowes, Aug. 11—The motor boat, 1 Miss America, representing the Detroit Yacht Club, won the first race for the Harmsworth trophy yesterday. The average speed was 51.45 knots an hour and the fastest lap was covered at 56.63. i o » New Low Water Record Reported At Montreal 1 - \' Montreal, hew low water record made in the St. Lawrence river here where water sunk' nine feet nine inches and if water, falls much lower vessels m harbor | will be compelled to finish loading j at Quebec ', PONZI IS SOLVENT Admits He Was Once in Prison—Boston Has Sensation Over Financial Wizard. CAN PAY ALL NOTES, HE SAYS DOSTON, Mass., Aug. ll—Sensation followed sensation in the Ponzi case today. Charles Ponzi who recendy jumped into notoriety as a spectacular financier, admitted that he was the Charles Ponzi who served a term of imprisonment in Montreal and Atlanta some years ago. At the moment that he was making his formal confession of his past, the Hanover Trust Company, in which Ponzi was a director, was closed by Commissioner Joseph Allen. Allen declared that reports of his agents indicate that the bank was doing business in an unsafe manner. Ponzi resigned from the directorate pf the bank this afternoon. Still Solvent, He Says The admission of Ponzi and the dosing of the trust company were quickly associated in the minds of hundreds, who had been waiting anxiously in downtown streets for developments that had been hourly expected. The crowd soon gathered m front af the Hanover Trust Co. at the lomer of Washington and Water sts„ and presently the street was tilled almost to the exclusion of traffic. ._\ Ponzi, who organized th* se©ur>. ties Exchange Company and took in millions from thousands, said in his statement today that he took blame for another person in Montreal. He also insisted that he was still solvent and could pay all notes now outstandign against him. FISHERMEN'S RACE NOW SOUGHT IN HALIFAX ! 'Ships to Be Crewed by Fishermen and Coarse Ran from New York to Nova Scotia JUNENBURG, N. S., Aug. 12—The suggestion in The Halifax Herald yesterday that a fishermen's race between a Nova Scotia owned and manned vessel and an American owned vessel be staged at an early date, met with enthusiastic approval, here Mayor Duff, M. P., says that the! idea is an excellent one and that a| special Lunenburg designed craft should be built to represent Nova Scotia.fishermen and that the coursei be from New York to Nova Scotia.' ■ -. . i SERIOUS CHARGE HADE BY ITALIAN PREMIER GioHtti Declares That War Profiteers Are Seeking to Get Control Of Nation. JfOME, Aug. 7—Newspapers here today continued discussion of Premier Giolitti's charges that war profiteers were endeavoring to obtain I control of the nation and were indicting hardships on the poor by 1 manipulation of food supplies. Special attention was given charges that the stoc|t exchange was manipulating Italian consols. Signors Cel!,esia and Conti interrogated GioHtti I regarding his charges and invited him to expose the culprits. Government investigators continued their search among files of brokerage firms in Rome, Milarid Turin. It was alleged that Fiat automobile works had sold 92,000.000 five per cent bonds. The president of ' the concern stated this was done to meet the firm's monthly payroll and to pay for raw materials. The Chamber of Deputies held a lengthy debate on the petition to in-j vestigate the alleged manipulations of Perrone Brothers to gain control of the Banca CommerciaJe. It was stated they had made a profit of sixty million lire when the bank re-purchased their atocjc Former Premier Nitti spoke in self defence before the Chamber of Deputies, against accusations that he had favored certain banking interests. He submitted documents showing he had acted impartially toward the opposing CABLE NEWS IN BRIEFS Soldiers under command of Capt. Gabrielle D'Annunzio have -attacked the Norwegian Consulate at Fiume, according to a despatch from Rome. Two thousand delegates assembled at Minneapolis, Minnesota, Tuesday to attend the convention of the Knights of Pythias. _______ t Two French non-commissioned officers were stabbed at Mayence Tuesday night by Germans, who were intoxicated, according to a despatch to the Petit Parisien from that city. That the Government of Quebec will soon take over control of trading in alcoholic liquors in the province was the announcement made Tuesday by the Quebec Telegraph. The Clinical Congress of American College Surgeons, "to be held in Montreal in October, promises to be the largest Medical Convention ever held m Canada. William Barbrick, a farmer at Shubenacade, is reported determined to make an attempt to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel if the authorit ies will permit. Thirty two persons were killed and several wounded in an explosion of a munition depot at Florence, Italy, on Tuesday. The explosion resulted from fire. Friends of the five men arrested at Regina, Sask., in connection with the alleged kidnapping of J. Christopher, the One Kg Union organize*, have furnished bail of eighteei thousand dollars for each man. . ~ -/--.—S— Grant Hall. Vice president of the C_\R., returned to St. John, N. 8.. Tuesday from Nova Scotia. He said that the apple crop in the Annapolis Valley should .be well up to the average and thought prosperity would be general. INSANITY AMONG CITY FOLK SHOWS HIGH RATE American Professor Says Percentage ' of Insanity Increases With Growth of Cities. WASHINGTON, D. C, July 29--. 11 It seems that Prof. J. 0. Rankin of Nebraska state university has exploded an old myth by means of | statistics. It used to be believed that farm j women were the most: frequent sufferers from insanity that the loneliness of; faim life drives the country housewife mad. Now the professor shows among farm women there are 373 cases of insanity per 100,000 persons. Among cky women, 77.5 cases per 100,000 persons. Among farm men the insanity rate is 45.2 per 100,000. Among city men the insanity rate is 94.3. That is to say farm women, instead of showing the highest percentage of msaniiy, show the lowest In fact, they are 20 per cent better off than thek own brothers and husbands—more than twice as well off as city women. All this is not so surprising after all, if it had not been for the wide circulation of the old myth. Women really have more endurance of conskiution'than men; and farm life, tho it has its" chsadvant-*es, is less of a nerve strain than' city Kfe. Professor Rankin also finds that the percentage of insanity increases with the size of the city. This is natural. The one item of noise in a great modem city furnishes a heavy drain for weak and nervous systems. We have bo have cities, but people pay the price for living in them. | —1 m I  Situation is Serious In Mesopotamia Now Paris, Aug. 12—The situation in Mesopotamia continues serious, says a Havas dispatch from Beirut, and British detachments are falling back. The garrison of Divauieh, about ninety miles southeast of Bagdad, is cut off and army garages at Bagdad are reported in flames. interests in the belief he was acting for the country's welfare. The debate will be continued Wednesday. WILL STOP PAYMENT British Government To Withhold Grants of £170,000 Unless Dublin Repudiate Dail Eiveann. 3 .v- * MORE CLASHES IN DUBLIN CITY HUBLIN, Aug. 11—Demonstrations Monday night in honor of the ex pected visit of Archbishop Mannix, sesiiiting in one civilian shot and an other wounded by the military. It was announced at the Dublin corporation meeting last night that the government had refused to pay grants, amounting 170,000 pounds, unless the corporation refused recog nition to Dail Eireann, and stated that the immediate result of refusal would be the shutting down of muni cipal institutions, including three hos pitals. Sinn Feiners Threatened. Boyle, Ireland, Aug. 11—This town, which has been in the throes of police boycott for the past fortnight, is greatly alarmed over the re ceipt by leading Sinn Feiners and Republicans, who refused to serve in the constabulary of threatening mes sages signed on behalf of "Black* bird Cans*." * ii% CZAR PRETENDER HAS PRICE PUT UPON HIS HEAD Bolsheviki Authorities Will Pay Two Million Roubles For It GETS BIG FOLLOWING Soviet Government Conse- Would Get Him Out of Siberia DARIS, Aug. 7—A man purporting to be Czar Nicholas 11. of Russia is raising a large following in Siberia. According to his allegations he asserts that it was one of his faithful servants who was killed in his place by the Bolsheviki at Ekaterinburg over two years ago. The I.resent Soviet government has offer ed a reward of 2,000,000 roubles for this alleged pretender's head. If the man is an imposter another name can be added to the long list of pretenders to the crowns of Europe. In bygone days some were sue cessful in establishing their claims, while others paid the penalty for their false allegations on the guillotine. One of the successful claimants to the throne of Europe proved to be a wise and able ruler. A Shnalar Case. About 1493 a mysterious stranger m Cork, Ireland, Iwhere the people greeted him as the brother of Edward IV. of England, but be denied this. They then claimed that he was the son of Richard 111. and he denied this, too. But at length he admitted that he was the Duke of York, one of the two princes whom it was believed Richard 111. had murdered in the Tower of London.Members of the nob-ity came from England and aftet questioning the j.s*r__ger they were convinced that he was the Duke of York. He then called himself Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, son of Edward IV., and by right of succession Richard IV. of England. Henry VII was then ruler of England and he did all in his power to thwart the designs of the new claim ant to the throne. He succeeded in driving him out of France by forcing Charles VHI. to banish' him and he defeated him when he invaded Eng land from Scotland. Richard IV. then sought refuge in Cornish and later marche- on London at the head of 7,000 Comishmen, who rallied to his banner, but he was defeated and taken prisoner, » » Vote to Continne Strike. Dnver, Aug. \2—Striking employees of Denver tramway yotd 771 to thirty six against calling off the strike. Many African tribesmen crack their ftneer joints as a salutation. < POLES TO RE-GROUP Are Preparing for Extensive Counter Stroke Against Soviet Army on Entire Warsaw Front. REbs WAIT ON POLISH DELEGATES WARSAW, Aug. 11 —A concentration and regrouping of the Polish forces for an extensive counter stroke on the entire Warsaw front is reported by today's newspapers. The plans are, it is said, to begin this counter move within a few days. Military men express the opinion that this is a propitous time to strike back in an effort to drive off the soveit forces which are endeavoring to encircle the capital. Poles Fail to Arrice. Copenhagen, Aug. 11—A representative of the Russian soviet command waited in vain at the front for the Polish armistice delegation on the evening of August 9th, but neither a delegation nor any message from Warsaw arrived, according to Maxim Livinoff, the soviet representative here. * •'The Russian representative was continuing to wait said Livinoff and the Polish government had been ask- when the delegation might be expected. Agree on Terms. He I sing fori. Aug. 12—Russia and Finland agreed upon armistice terms jt« » <m > S5-. . Treaty is Signed. p London, Aug. 12—Letyia signed a treaty with Russia Wednesday, so a despatch from Riga to the Times Istates. Kiddies Enjoy Fine Outing At Lester's The children of Cochrane Street Centennial Methodist Church held I heir annual picnic, yesterday at Lester's field. The children and teachers met at 10 o'clock and left by special train at 11 o'clock for the grounds. Some 500 men, women and children in all engaged in the day's event, games were indulged in which were heartily enjoyed by all. The day was an ideal one for the little cnes who enjoyed themselves to the fullest. At 5 o'clock all were seated to tea after which games were Aoniinued until 8 o'clock when retuwi. to town was made. DECORATION OF GRAVES. At the reguuar meeting of Ladge DucHey No. 227 5.0.E.8.5. held last night, Aug. 10th, it was decided that Ihe annual decoration of graves would take place on Sunday morning next Aug. 15th, when the members will assemble at the graves in the different cemeteries and place Bowers and flags on the graves of ♦heir departed brejhfiMi. ACKNOWLEDGMENT The secretary of .the C. of __ .Orphanage garden pjrty acknowledges with many thanjjjc &»B*sfeefpt of $10.00 fromJflp. D. A. Ryan, $600 j from LeMessurier, and '$SJX) jjffijjjfr* Morine., reports a great improvement hi the fish situation. Hook and riners are doing very well. The ejeterior of the new Canadian Bank of-Commerce is now practically completed. The new Bank of Canada site where excaVatiok has been going on for__so.rAe.weSs is ready for the laying of the foundaton, and the Avalon Telephone Com- Lpany if-being put up rapidly. PLEASED AT PREMIER'S STATEMENT ,  London Papers Give Lloyd George Praise For Handling of Pohsh Crisis ARE OPTIMISTIC Hope Minsk Negotiations Will Pave The Way For Proposed London Conference JONDON, Aug. 12—Interest now centres on the Minsk negotiations and should these conclude satisfactorily, as it is hoped' in diplomatic circles they will, an exchange of notes will immediately take place with a view to holding the proposed London conference whereat Russia and the Baltic states will be represented.London newspapers take an optimistic tone in the light of Lloyd George's speech, and the publication of the roviet terms which most of them subscribe "as, severe" but, as supplying a basis whereon not an unreasonable peace may be negotiated. The Times says, in his address, admirable for his reasoning and for his courage, Lloyd George has laid before the nation an explanation and defence of the allied attitude towards, the Polish government problem, so frank and clear, so convincing and moderate, that we are satisfied it will command both confidence and approbation. It was a remark"able success and in some passages it appeared to draw as much applause from radicals and from moderate labor as from his own supporters. The Times that Soviet Russia has the right to ask faj|fc;reasonable guarantees against another Polish attack, but proceeds, "She has no right to wipe out a free and independent Poland. That would be a crime and the prime minister recognizes that it would be a crime not only against Poland but against Europe." An official report has been issued of the proceedings of representatives of the labor delegation which before Lloyd George's speech discussed the situation with the premier. Their action was restated later in the house of commons by members of the national labor parry. The Evening Standard learns that Miliutin and another Russian delegate embarked on a British destroyer last night, bound for Copenhagen. 1 m$ i i — THIS QUART OF WHISKEY ONLY COST BUYER $4000 Jailor/Gets Skinned As He Trades For Quart of Whiskey in Quaker City. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 10. — Four thousand dollars for a quart of .whiskey. That's the record price, and Abraham Cohen, a tailor, at Nineteenth and Catherine streets, paid yesterday—but not willingly. "Would you like some fine whiskey 7" asked one of three men who alighted from an automobile at Cohen's door. "Sure. How rmfch?" The man exhibited a quart bottle, whispered a price which sent Cohen to his safe, and then—whack! and Abe knew no more—not for awhile. When he recovered consciousness he discovered that the bandits had relieved him of $4000 cash. — Iip i  Commons Will Sit On Monday: Was to Adjourn London. 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