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6 THE SUNDAY OltEGONTAX, PORTLAND, AUGUST 1, 1920 POLISH PEACE PARTY MEETS BDLSHEV1KI Armistice Preliminaries Re ported Accomplished. END TO BATTLE ORDERED Soviet, However, Is Declared to Have Csed Secret Code to Or der Defense Continued. hour, equaling- th apeed of a doer sled. "The expedition will be cone three years, at the end of which time the remaining: fourth of Greenland will have been mapped. I also expect to bring back a very interesting- geolog ical collection." CHILDREN FIND BODY Victim Xear Aberdeen Evidently Dies While Asleep. HOQUIAM, Wash, July 31. (Spe cial.) The body of an unidentified, well dressed middle-aged man was found yesterday by children, who had been picking berries east of Aberdeen. Apparently the man had laid dwn to rest and died in his sleep. He had made an improvised bed out of brush and weeds and one shoe had been re moved. The coroner found nothins that would lead to identification. WARSAW, July SI. The Polish military delegates who left Warsaw at 9 o'clock yesterday crossed the front line at 8 o'clock -tonight. Pre mier Witos was Informed at 9 o'clock that the delegation had established contact with the bolshevik delegates on the road between Brest-Litovsk and Baranovichy. PARIS, July 31. The armistice ne gotiations between the Polish and so viet Russian forces actually have been put under way, according to ad vices reaching here, but it was said the action had been restricted to the routine preliminaries. Meanwhile, although Moscow wire less messages, filed in plain language, apparently ordered the cessation of fighting by the soviet armies to coin cide with the beginning of the armi stice meeting last night, it was as serted In French quarters here that n. secret code wireless order from Moscow gave instructions to the so viet commanders to keep pushing theif offensive violently.- LONDON, July 31. Continued ne eesses for the bolsheviki were an nounced in an official statement is sued Friday by Moscow. The state ment says that the bolsheviki ad vanced to Brest-Litovsk Thursday. PARTS, July 31. (By the Associ ated Press.) Bolshevik cavalry forces have advanced to the. East Prussian frontier, according to a report from the French military mission in War saw to the French foreign office. The bolshevik line extends from Suwalki, 60 miles northwest of Grodno, more than 60 miles to a point almost di rectly north of Warsaw. The bolsheviki have net actually crossed the borders of Allenstein and Marienwerder, but were fraternizing with the Germans. The mission said It understod the Germans and bolsheviki were nego tiating at Suwalkl. The northern wing of the bolshevik army was men acing Warsaw directly from the north as well as from the east. The bolshe- vikj were 25 miles southwest of Bialystok. French Troops to Stay. The allied troops in Allenstein and Marienwerder, .which are mostly French, will be held there until the situation clears, although their pleb iscite duties have'been completed. General Romera, commander of the first Polish army, which suffered most severely in the vital region northeast of Warsaw, has been re Ueved. and General Joseph Kaller has received supreme command of the northern group of armies. The advancement of General Haller, who commanded the Polish divisions In Franco and Is French trained, was the first step in the reorganization of the Folish army which was begun by the Anglo-French mission yester day. On the Gallclan front a Polish counter-offensive was being organ ized. Armistice Delegates Leave. Three Polish armistice delegates left Warsaw yesterday. They are General Romera. Colonel 'Sollohub, who negotiated successfully with the bolsheviki at Murmansk, and M. WroblewskU vice-minister of the council. Finland and the Russian soviet government have resnmed the Dorpat conference over several disputed dis trtets, which was broken off recently. The mission reports the morale of the Polish army stiffened remark ably during the last week, because of the mission's arrival, news of mu nitions en route and the fact of allied upport. The mission stated that only the bolshevik cavalry was ef fective, the infantry being worthless. The capture by the bolsheviki yes terday of Graievo. 37 miles southwest of Suwalkl. also was reported by the mission. COMMITTEE AT HOQUIAM Immigration Investigators Stop on .If a j to Beach. . HOQUIAM. Wash, July 31. (Spe cial.) Representatives Albert John son of Hoquiam, John K. Raker of California and John C. Box of Texas and Rear-Admiral Howarth, retired, arrived here yesterday. After taking breakfast at the Grayport hotel with a local reception committee, the mem- PONZI STANDS ASIDE US AUDITORS WORK Money Came h Too Fast to Use Books, Says Employe. 50,000 ACCOUNTS ACTIVE Woman Manager Aver9 Heavy Re ceipts Damped Into Baskets . ... and Sent to Bank.. BOSTON", July 31. Charles Fomi stood aside today in the offices where he handled investments of thousands in his international postal exchange business, while federal auditors went over his records. Ponzi has had 50,000 accounts ac tive at one time. Miss 'Lucy Meli, his had no apprehension as to the out come. "I shall not make public my method of doing business," he added, "at least for the present I shall continue to maintain my secret." CHURCH IS INCORPORATED Aticiea Signed by S 4 Residents of TCbitstraa District. " PROSSER. Wash., July 31. (Spe cial.) At a meeting last night the people of the Whitstran district, five mileseast of Prosser, incorporated a community church. Directors elected were Preston Royer, H. Offigsbo, S. B. Rhone. Rosa L. Hall and E. E. Starkey. Thirty four residents of the community have signed the incorporation papers, and many more have signified their in tention of becoming members. STRIKE DECLARED ENDED 80,000 Illinois Miners Ordered to Return to "Work. SPRINGFIELD, III., July 31. With out waiting for the order of Inter national President Lewis to reach the 80.000 striking miners in Illinois, State President Frank Farrington to day ordered the men to return to work Monday. "The strike ends with a great vic tory for Illinois miners," he said. STUDENTS AT RESERVE OFFICERS SCHOOL VISITING NATIONAL CAPITAL. rvr7'i jrpr r5w, rt"Tj r5 T$ Jfyjts Vf I si is i 1 ? I f- ' I 1 a 1 L'l P ;l I Iff Two hundred Mtndentn of Oregon colleges and universities, principally the Oregon Atrrlcnltnral college, are attend ing the various schools for reserve officers maintained throughout the country.- 'Ilie ahove photograph, which vas snapped on the steps of the national capifnl. shows a group of men from the mechanical school for reserve officers at Camp Holablrd, Md. forty-five students of O. A. C. are spending their summer at this school. bers ot the house Immigration in vestigating committee were taken to Pacific beach for the day. Represen tative Box went to Tacoma today to address a meeting, but the others of the party spent the day fishing at Lake Quinault. The committeemen will pass Sunday in Hoquiam and Aberdeen and will leave Sunday night to resume the hearing of the immi gration committee at Tacoma Mon day morning. Woman, Daughters, on Long Hike. CENTRALIA. Wash. July 31. (Special.) Today Mrs. Margaret Wal lace and her twin daughters Doro thy and Hazelette, aged 19 passed through Centralia on a long hike from Seattle to Los Angeles. Mrs. Wallace carries letters of introduc tion from Mayor Hugh Caldwell, of Seattle, to the mayors of Portland, Sacramento, San Francisco and Los Angeles. The hikers are making about 15 miles a day. Phone your want ads to The Orego nian. Main 7070. Automatic 5fiO-$5. manager, said today. These have rep resented Investments ranging from $10 to $40,000 she said, wit'a the aver age between $1000 and $5000. The accounts which the federal in vestigators have been given for their audit, consist of individual cards, with names and addresses, the amount, and date of the investment, and the date of maturity. No ledgers were employed, no day books; money came in too fast for such accounts, according to Miss Me'.i. At times the money was dumped into baskets before being conveyed to the banks. In return, customers received notes, plus 50 per cent, payable in 90 days, but in almost every case, they, have been notified by mail their notes would be paid off in full after 45 days. The examination has but "scratched the surface" according to Edwin L. Pride, auditor in charge, tonight. The examination is not expected to be completed before the end of next week. Poni reiterated tnnicrht that he "The pledge of President Wilson and wage Inequalities adjusted satls that a scale commission will be called fies the miners' demands." University Campus Contoured. UNIVERS1TT OK OREGON", Eu gene, July 30. A crew of surveyors is at work on the campus of the Uni versity of Oregon, securing elevations and necessary data for the prepara tion of a contour map of the campus for the University. A contour map of the campus was found necessary in planning new buildings for their ar rangement and location. Sled ford Warned of Danger. MEDFORD, Or.. July 31 (Special.) Assistant State Fire Marshal Stokes who is here investigating fire condi tions, today announced that the city fire department is seriously ehort of both firemen and fire-f lghting equip ment. He urged the, city council to take steps' to better the siuation. Marshal Sokes, however, praised the personnel of the department. EXPEDITION IS JUBILEE Danish Explorer Expects to Bring Geological Collection. COPENHAGEN, July 31. Lauge Koch. Danish explorer, who heads an expedition to northern Greenland, in an interview before his departure ex plained the purposes of his mission. The enterprise, he said, is in the na ture ot a jubilee expedition in honor of the 200tli anniversary of the arrival in Greenland of Hans Egedes, the Danish missionary. "During these 200 years Greenland has been thoroughly explored," said M. Koclu "North Greenland, however, has never been mapped out. 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