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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.
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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. This is
the aim ot the present expedition be
cause otherwise Denmark would be
obliged to apply sovereignty to re
gions which had not yet been visited
by white Incn.
"I have already proved to the sat
isfaction of American and British sci
entists that in northern Greenland
there is a mountain range 2000 feet
high, the size of the Caucasus range.
I further want to penetrate the in
terior of Pearyland. leaving direct for
Inglefield Gold, from which point I
will cross Inland ice on a motor trac
tor, establishing a depot at Warming
land. Trials conducted during the last
few months prove that tractors can
attain a speed of six kilometers an
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