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ARKANSAS WEATHEB TOEE0AST. SUFFRAGE IS OCCUPATION TAX. TO GO TO A YOTE HOUSE RATIFIES OVERWHELMINGLY TO SUBMIT TREATY WITH FRANCE SOON Has Honor of Introducing the Suffrage Resolution BLOODY RIOTIIIG BREAKS OUT 111 CHICAGO AGAIN Five Ilegrcct Miite r.ka Are Killed. UNION LABOR ENDOBCES The proposed privilege tax last night wbs endorsed by an almost unanimous vote by the Littlo Bock Central Trades and Labor Council which adopted the following resolution: "Whereas, The City of Bock confronts a serious condition in its financial affairs; and, Whereas, By reason of the city 'a ick of funds, its employe the electrical workers, the firemen and policemen are being inadequately paid, the city being unable to pay them. a decent living wage; and, "Whereas, Funds ahould also be provided to enable our eity to maintain its various departments in such manner that it may take its proper place as a eity of which our citizenship may be proud i further, that the eity ahould be placed in a position to liquidate si 'Mo.

7 jfS it tV id Adopts Senate Suffrage Amendment by a Vote Of 75 to 1,7 VERY LITTLE OPPOSITION Only Feebl Effort! Mad by Enemies of Measure to Defer Action. Speaker C. P. Newton presided in the House when the session waa call ed to order yesterday, and the organ izatioa was completed by the elec tion of the following: Chief clerk, Jim Higgin of Faulkner county, to succeed Harvey G. Combs, resigned; assistant chief clerk, N.

B. Martin of Cross county, to succeed Jim Higglns: journal clerk, Clio Harper of Pulaski eounty, to succeed Claud Garrett, resigned; reading clerk, Cleveland Held; sergeant-at-arms, John H. White of Logan, to succeed Homer Choate, resigned. Other necessary em- tployes and officers were present and acting, as In the regular session. A resolution providing for an extension of four days for the "purpose of considering remedial legislation for the benefit of road districts already waa introduced by Mr.

Campbell of Faulkner, but the speaker ruled it out of order until the disposal of the matters for which the special session had been called. Expense Money la Order. of Columbia introduced House Bill 'No. 1, appropriating or so much thereof a may be necessary, to pay the per diem, mileage and expenses of the General Assembly, and unpaid expense of the regular session in the printing of acts and journal. Mr.

Harrison of St, Francis raised a point of order that tne out was out or ordqr. until the House had disposed of the suffrage question, but tbe speaker held the point not well taken, and th bill was read twice and made a special order SCORES OF. FIGHTS Scattered Battles Rage AIT Over Black Belt of the City. FINALLY UNDER CONTROL I DEATH LIST MAY GBOW. Chicsgo, July (Tuesday).

After a hasty survey of conflicting report early today, the police said that while there were only seven known deaths, it is probable that tha number will increased to from 10 to 15. "It is simply impossible to determine the exact number, for the casualties were taken broadcast before records were made," Chief of Police Garrity 'a office announced. Most of the streets in the black belt were without crowds soon -after midnight, for tbvM mornings aflat-the readingiBeform School, on a eontempt-ehargft Chicago, July 28. Seven persons were killed and more than two-score wounded, many of them seriously, in 4n-4h Chi -cage "black belt' tonight. For more than five hour the, five mile area in tbe South Side was battle ground of scattered fights be -tween white and blacks and between policemen and negroes, who fired from housetops, from dark alleys and from other points of vantage.

v. Tbe call for troops to quelt the outbreaks resulted in four regiments of National Guardsmen being mobilized, but at a late- hour tonight they had aol been if Chief otJJ Ordinance Wilt.be Referred at Special Election, September 15. CHECK-UP NOT DEFINITE Mayor Favors Giving Petitioners the Benefit of the Doubt and Strongly Urges Referendum. Acting upon the report of Charles V. Martin, city clerk, who hadcharge of the examination of the petition for a referendum of the privilege tax, and who was in doubt as to the correctness of tho investigation, the City Council last night decided to refer the ordinance to a vote of the people, tbe election to be held Monday, September 15.

In his report to Mayor Brickhouse on the inspection of the signatures to the petition and their comparison with the records in tho sheriff's of fice, Mr. Martin said: "I am unable to state definitely at this time that the petition does or does not contain the necessary 15 per cent of the qualified voters necessary for a submission of the ordinance. The sheriff and collector, E. Taylor, has not certified the names to the county clerk, consequently I have no official data on which to base an opinion as to its validity." Tbe Mayor's Message. Acting upon this report, Mayor Brickhouse read the following message to the council: "On the 23d day of July a petition purporting to contain 15 per cent of the qualified electors of Little Bock was filed with tbe city clerk, asking your honorable body to call an election for ths purpose of submitting to the voters the privilege tsx ordinance that wss passed June 24, 1919, and if said petition is valid, it will be your duty to call said elec tion within 90 days from the date of Ihe filing of the petition, A committee composed of elty employes undor the direction of the city clerk baa examined said petition ana reported that it failed to eon-tain by 100 signatures the 15 per cent required by law.

Tbe work of the committee was done hurried ly, snd I personally know a thoroughly possible in the alloted time. Mistakes may have been mad, and for that reason ths city clerk, informs me that fie is not in a position to say positively whether the petition is -valid or "Beeause of the city's desrnerate neea or revenue lor running expenses, wen as jereatmg a fund for tbe payment of tbe outstanding indebted ness, i regret that any petition at an wa filed, but inasmuch as a goodly number of citizens havs expressed a desire to vote upon ths ordinance, in ths face of all that has been said about the eity's need of revenue, my judgment is tnat your honorable body should submit to the will of the people without regard to what your judgment may be on tbe question. I. therefore, respectfully recommend that as yon are not furnished-with satisfactory evidence that said petition does not contain 15 per cent of the qualified elector of Little Bock; that you authorize and direct the call ing of an election at tbe earliest possible moment for the submission of the privilege tax ordinance to the people for their approval or re jection." Mayor Favors a Vote. "Alderman Smith said he eouldn 't see how he eould vote for tho submission of the ordinsnce to a vote of tbe people unless it eould be shown that the petition contained 15 ner cent of the legal voters of the" eity.

mat is tne law," said Mr. Smith, and I don 't think the council would have the right to order an election when the validity of the petition la in doubt." Mayor Brickhouse said that he lieved it would bs better to have the election beeause tnarjv people had signed the petition and wanted to vote oa the ordinance. He said he was In favor of giving the petitioners the benefit -of tbe doubt. He did not think any harm eould be done bv submit ting it to a vote, and at thoame time felt satisfied that It would ba pproved. He felt that bv permittinir the people to vote on the orditianre it would save time and possible litigation, which would further delay th collection of the license that would be derived from the ordinance and wbich the city was badlv in need.

Vot Could Not Be Forced. City Attorney Clifford, when asked his opinion aa to whether (he ordinance could be aubmitted to a vote, said that, under the ronort of the citv Ikre Gafrity expfessed the belief that th wstst of the disorder had passed. Five of the dead are negroes and two are whites The wounded in most eases wer hurried to hospitals, after which they Tuesdsy and Wednesday generally fair, continued warm. LOCAL RECORD TESTKKDAT. B.r.

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lewaat. TS. CARRANZA A FOE OF UNITED STATES American Before Congressional Committee Denounces Mexican President. Washington, July 28. Misled in their investigations of conditions in Mexico, William Bayard Hale and Lincoln Steffens in turn misled President Wilson into believing that Carranza was the "people's champion," the House Bules Committee was told today by William Gates, an archaelogist of Baltimore.

The committee is holding hearings on a reso lution proposing investigation of the Mexican situation. Declaring that his opinions were based on a first-hand study of conditions when he toured Mexico in 1917 and 1918, Gates described Car ranza as an enemy of his own people first, the United Statea second, and then all civilization. Gates declared Carranza is more anti-Saxon than anti-American, hopes to set up the supremacy of tbe Latin races and desires to drive American and British capital from his country. Gates said that after their investi gations in Mexico for the president, Hale and Steffens were employed by tne (iermans. The Americans are not well inform ed of affairs in Mexico, the witness said, because American diplomats are able to talk only to representatives and the American press has received carranza propaganda.

"Who prepared the Dropairandaf" asked Bepresentativ Snell New York. "It was written by Carranzista and handed to the Associated Press, and if they did not send it out they would -bo-given 4- hoars-to leave-the country." Friendly to Germans. Gates said it was well known in Mexico that the Germans bad a. wire less near Mexico City, relaying messages to Spain and thenee to Nauea. and that there was another wireless station on a German-owned plantation in a distant Mexican state.

He Said that he informed Secretary Ba ker of the wireless stations in 1918, sag naa written mm several letter egaing ais. investigations lent. Because ef close friendship with th secretary, he asked ths committee not to request him to make pub lic tne letters, saying they contained many, statements mads onhr be cause of the close relationship be- iween nimaeix ana Air. "I tried to inspire the secretary laid Mr. Gates, "ahead of the crisis that I felt aure would come, to do sometning that cannot be done dip; Gates said there srs very few actual bandits other than Carranza soldiers, who are let loose for the purpose of loot and are usually headed by their officers.

He added thst five revolutionary bands exist, and that in districts under their control he felt safer than in Mexico CHy. "There is no guaranty of life or property when a Carranza soldier 1 near," he added. "When away from them; everybody is smilinir Ailfl naftaaii. 1 Condition Growing Won. Conditions in Mexico, he testified, "steadily getting; worse," because the Carranza government "is Simply a military government, where officer and men sre unrestrained.

Carranza officers, he said, levy tributes on individual and communities. In this connection, he told of seeing the ruins of a farmhouse which had been burned "with a sick woman" perishing in tbe flames. He also testified thst a eolonel in the Mexican army, who became involved in a dispute with a Town Council, killed tbe II coitnoilmen, but never was arrested for his act Gates declared he never kn.iv i bsndit being prosecuted, and said more and murders had been committed than be could "tell about In a -Americans, according to Gates, are not the hated nation with the Mexican populace." The hissing of the American ambassador, he said, occurred Immediately outside the palace in ilexico City and "could not have happened but that there was the same sentiment within the palace." President Wilson Misled. Although he said that President Wilson was misled in making his decision to recognize Carranza believing 40 be "people's Gates declared in favor of leaving thr solution of the Mexican problem with the president. The president, he said, had been not fully informed of conditions in the Southern republic.

Gates said his opinions were based on a first band atndy of Mexican conditions for about a year, beginning in July, 1917, during which time he visited parts of the country usuallv not seen by a traveler, including the states of seatan, Vera Crnt, Pueblo, Morales and Oaxeca. For 20 years, he explained, he had been building up a library of Mexican antiquities and literature 'and hi trip was to obtain more material and to "find out what wa going en behind the veil Of our censorship and the Carranza censorship," Carranza' control Includes the main ports snd ths railroads, with ad-Joining territory for a mil oa either aide of tbe transportation lines, Gates asserted. Tit! eontfeT. he said, was ithat "of a corlv of soldier who are ready to "shoot a moment' aotice (Coatini -Tuu. a RATIFIED BY LEGISLATURE i llswsi Vcfe Over- whslnfegly for A.7.dnent.

AHKAflSAS IS 12 Til Vote Is 29 to 2 in the Senate jj. and 751o 17 in the 'n House. EXTENSION 1S PROBABLE The Arkansae legislature yesterday ratified the Susan B. Anthony amend Drat to the federal conattutlon 1 which, if adopted by the legislature or 38 state, will became the Nine teenth amendment to the constitution 3 of the United Hen at the vote waa 29 to 8 for rstlfiea- tion, ud in the House it waa 73 to 17. ti Resolution were introduced in both house providing for extension or i tne special session for toe tonsiaera tion of local billi and remedial road legislation The question was made a special order for 10 o'clock this morning, in the Senate, but no policial time ot voting upon the resolu ftioa waa set by the floos It is generally believed that the necessary two-third majority will favor aa ex tension.

v-s' Arkansas became the twelfth state to ratify the amendment. Thi is the second Southern state to ratify the federal suffrage amendment, Tex a having ratified it on June 23. It is generally cooeeded that enough other itatet will ratify the amendment for to receive the three-fourtht majority oeeesMry for it to become ft pert of na federal constitution, 8enator Soger Taks Office. the roll tu called la the Senate, immediately, after President no Tew Meremn called toe Ben ate order at 12:03 p. four tenators failed to answer.

They were: 3axort; Heater, Rhoadesimd, Woods, rhe Bev, Philip Cone Fletcher, pastor the First Methodist churfh, offer-si cation, attef jrestdn announced mif resignation Senator I. Evan of Logan Thomas Itogets, elected the Senate from that district, bat ho resigned to enlist in the army, ind woo was- appointed to succeed Senator Evans, was introduced. A ommittee of three, Senators Fonder, Caldwell end was Appointed notify a Supreme Court Justice hat Bogert -was' ready to be worn in. Justice Carroll D. Wood the oath.

The proclamation issued by Gov ernor Brought calling the solons into -xtraordiaary session to consider the atincatien of the proposed federal uffrsge amendment, waa read by the eTtary, Ira C. Langley. Senator 'oil ins introduced a resolution pro-lding for officials and employe! the specials session. Senator 'aJdwell made it motion that a com-sittee of be appointed by' the to notify the" House that he Senate vu organised and ready 0 meet the Hone in joint session near the address of the governor, senator Bone and Alexen-er. were, appointed.

Another com-iittee, composed Of Senator Great-onse, Moncrlef and Ward, were nam-d to notify the governor that the enate was 'Beees was aken at 12:25 until 2:30 p. m. After reconvening at 2:30, recess a taktm to meet the Hons in joint essioa to ear the message of the overnor, -The Btifl cation BeeohrUoo. following adjournment of the joint islon. Senator Barry Ponder of Walnut of the last enate, introduced, a oneurrent res- lotion to rttiry the suffrage Senator Ponder resolution tWhereaa, The Sixty-sixth Con-res of the United State of Amsr-in both house, by a conrtltu-onal majority of two-third there-f, ha' made following proposi-on to amend the constitution of the nited State, in the following words, 3Wnt Keiolotion ropoaing an amendment to the con-stitutioa extending the right of anff rage to women i i Beeolved, By the Senate and House Bepresentativet of the United tale of America in Congress as-mtled, two-thirds of each nous mearring therern, that the following 1 proposed as en amendment the eonstitntion, which' shall alid to all intent and purpose a irt of the eonstitntion when ratted the legislatures of A three-fourth the several Artlda i-i Section V.

Th right of eitisen of i United State to vote shall not be nied or abridged, by the United ate or any state on account of sex. Sec 3. Congress shall have power i enforce this article fcy appropriate rl slatlon. -y Therefore, be It Besolved, fey the neral Assembly of the StaU of A nsaa, at an extra session thereof called by. the governor of ths it of Arkania to meet at the eapi-1 of aid statt in th city of Little ck, on th 8th' day of July, 1910, th purpose of considering and vot (Continued on fage 3, 2ai Col.) i were removed to homes when their-' i President May Send Proposal for Defensive Alliance to Senate Today.

REPUBLICANS CRITICISE And Plait to Drop Consideration of VersaiHee Pact TJntU Second boenmant Is Beceived. Washington, July 28. The special defensive treaiy with France, which Bepublican senators hava declared President Wilson is withholding from tne Senate, in violation of It own terms, probably will be submitted for ratification within a few days. A group of Democratic senators with whom he talked at tbe capltol, late today, the president indicated that the treaty, which promises Amer ican aid to in case of an Unprovoked attack from Germany, would be laid before the Senate pos sibly tomorrow. It was said he probably would send with It a writ ten message, urging its ratification.

The development followed a renewal of Senate criticism of the president's delay, and headed off a plan discussed among Bepublican leaders, to drop consideration of, the treaty of Versailles, until the French treaty had been submitted. A provision of the latter, aa made public, stipulates that it must be laid before the Senate at the same time as the Versailles treaty. To Fore President to Act Tentative-plan are under way to suspend committee consideration of the Versailles treaty and fore a Senate recess, if the president leaves Washington on his speaking toor, without tending in the treaty with France. I Senator who talked with the president today, said he no explanation of his course. When be; presented the Versailles treaty, July 10, he made only brief reference te the apecial treaty, saying tat "Ha tevm-4ink-it-with -tbia treaty, and thaMt would be reserved "for special explieitation on another, occasion." In renewing, in the Senate today.

his charge that th president violated the treaty's express provisions by withholding it, Senator "Brande-geo, Connecticut, a Bepublican member Of the Foreign Belation Comr aid Mr. Wilson also bad treated the Senate i unfairly If the treatie really art "Jinked1 together id Ena.tor Brandesree. "and let some other gentleman keep the link in his pocket, I am expected to judge how the two are fitted to gether." Mar ronpona xnp. Mr. Wilson also discussed other features of the treaty situation dur ins: his visit to the enpitov and in timated that his speaking trip might not begin aa soon as bad been expected.

Althongh it hed been indicated he would start from Washing ton about August be is said to have told senators today that 'his plans were in abeyance, particularly in vie of the intense beat, and various important matters, calling for-his attention, here. I It was said, however, that Mr. Wil son apparently had no intention of abandoning his trip. His friends have declared he would make a series of public speeches on the treaty, regardless of Senate developments, because he desires to account directly to the people for his work at Versailles, Still Opposes Besorvatlons. The ouestion of reservations in the neaee treaty, is said to have been touched on briefly, at the president's conference, and be was quoted as expressing aversion to any qualification in Senate acceptance of the treaty because be believed it would be awkward to ask Germany now to aeeept modification! of any sort.

Ths president reached the capitol was adjourning and going to a privats room adjoining the chamber, sent a messenger in search of Senator Hitchcock, Democrat, Nebraska, who has acted as administration leader in the treatv fiirht.v Mr. Hitchcock was out of town, but th president rmained at the capitol for than an hour, and aaw a dozen Democratic senators, including Senators Swanson, Virginia; Pittman, Nevada, and Pomer-ene, Ohio, of the Foreign Belations Committee. vs. Paao Treaty Laid asm. Just before the president's arrival, the committee had finished it's pre liminary reading of th Versailles treaty, and had laid it temporarily aside for consideration tomorrow, of the long delayed treaty with Colom bia.

Some members mi could be disposed of at tomorrow ession. After that the committee will hear several of the experts, who advised the Amerlean delegation at Versailles. In the Senate today, Senator Wamn, Democrat, Montana, delivered pre pared address support ot Amew 10, snd in reply to arguments that it would handicap the movement for Irish freedom, Senator, Williams, Demoerat, Mississippi, ebarged that th Bepublican had attempted make polities! issue of th presi dent 's eourse regarding tne special French treaty. 'v Hughes Suggests Bosarvanon. Considerable interest was aroused by publication of a set of reservations proposed by Charles Evans Hughes, in a letter to Senator Hale, Bepublican, Mains, following in the main, those suggested sometime ago by Elihu Boot.

Speeehmakihg'on th treaty will eontmu during thl. wek, its outstanding indebtedness; iiit-rtuurv, ue 11 "Resolved, That the Central Trades and Labor Council endorse the proposed privilege tax aa the only logical solution of the eity's financial difficulties at this time." SHOT IN NEGRO STILL LIVES Texarkana Black's Brains Ooze From Wound Inflicted by His Wife. Special to th OaMtt Texarkana, July 28. Jim Gillette and his wife, Addie, negroes, engaged in a battle yesterday afternoon at their home on Troost street, the but band uaing a shotgun and ths wife a 22.20 revolver. The negress was the quicker snd fired a bullet into the head of her spouse airettly be tween the eyes and, th doctor said, penetrating tbe brain.

It is said that nearly a teacup full of brains ran out of the wound on the way- to th nos- nit.l wa. i. a i alt t. a A.Ai.,,1, J4 1 uu AO MV, HUVWg conscious. Th husband did not nave time to fire a shot.

Gillette is aa employs at a loeal Jiotel and wa married tdthe woman about a year" ago. The latter surrendered after tbe (hooting and is in the county jail. DRUMMERS IN GERMANY Am eric an Traveling Men Have Al ready Gon Into the Xnteaor, Coblenz, Sunday, July headquarters yesterday gave permission for five American commercial travelers id proceed through' th Cob leas bridgeheaed business in th interior of Germany. Opportunity for the reopening of trade relations vbet ween ths United States and Germany was thus sfford-ed, allowing Americas firms to compete with European houses in th German market. MARINE STRIKE ENDED Agreement on Wages Finally Beached With Engineers.

New York, July 28. The strike which for about three weeks haa tied np shipping along the Atlantis and gulf seaboard, wss finally settled to night when sn agreement on wages was reached with th marine engi neers. William Brown, national president of the Engineers' Union, immediately sent -out orders to move ships without delay. AIRPLANE PILOT KILLED Observer Is Injured When Machine Falls 200 Feet Mineola, N. July 28.

Second Lieut. Stephen B.Johnston of Uvalde, a pilot, was killed, and Lieut. Amos Favne, an observer, was slightly injured at Hazelhurst Field today when their airplane fell 200 feet as they attempted to make a landing. Johnston, who was 23 years had been stationed the field since his return from overseas service, three months ago. stands, to (1,000 required of tbe Ar-kansaw Water Company.

Petitions Considered. The petition of the Littlo "Bock Railway and Electric Company asking permission to extend its 'track across Arch street near it power house, te facilitate tbe handling of coal, was granted. The petition of residents near tbe Bidiila shops, asking that the 40 acre tract near the shops owned by the eity, be dedicated for park purposes, waa referred to tbe city, attorney at the request of the Committee on Parks, Buildings and Grounds, to whom the petition bad been previously referred. 1 I The petition of the Little Bock Baseball Association, asking that their lease of Kavanaugh Field be extended to November 1, 1922, was referred to the Committee on Parks, Buildings Grounds and the Finance Committee. Warrants Bentwed.

An ordinance providing for the renewal of $117,647 of city warrants that recently fell due, was passed; also an ordinance appropriating for payment of the; expenses incurred in providing for the renewal of the warrants. Aa ordinance by the Finance Committee, appropriating $350 with whieh to purchase a steel body, for the track recently secured by the city from tho government, wa An ordinance by Alderman Isgng, fixing the license for practicing phrenology and fortune telling at $100 per year, waa read vine and placed i -Cv-: Th council adjourned for two we)" conditions permitted. There was no concerted battle by the blacks. The outbreaks dotted a large Chief of Police Garrity at a lata hour said that it was impossible te make an exact estimate of ths eas nalties, because of the contradictory reports. Negro Laborers Attacked.

Th riots, which started yesterday on tha South Sid beaches, wer re-' newed when negro laborers began leaving the big industrial plants, and. by dusk more than a score of separate outbreaks had occurred. White began dVaeirinjr netrroes from street cars, tbe negroes retaliated with, stones snd knives. Street cars in)-the heart of th "black belt" were tied np and the windows smashed. 1 A "flying squadron" of blacks mounted a touring car and riding at full eneed through the section known as "No Man's sent a volley.

of shots at a group of whites! On SEN. HARBY L. PONDEB. GOVERNOR CANNOT RELEASE YOUTHS Only County Judge Can Free Reform School Inmates, Says Attorney General. Special to th.

Gltt Pine Bluff, July 28. Governor Brough has no power to parole or par don youths in the State Industrial School and the county judge alone may order release of prisoners at the institution, Attorney General John Arbuckle ruled today in an opinion delivered orally at a hearing in the Jefferson County Court, involving John Deaton, superintendent of th The school is located a few miles from Pina Bldff, Superintendent Deaton was brought before Judge. Williams to show why he waa not in contempt of eourt for failing to release an inmate of the school, sent from Jefferson eounty, on instructions from Judge Williams, Mr. Deaton brought Judge Wade of the Firat Division, Pulaski Circuit Court, a member of th Board of of th industrial school, and Attorney wenerai ArKocwirj le exm nittvi ne asms of the boy involved cannot be published under the law, which pro- AiDits puDiieity involving nsmes or lain stes of the school The boy was sent to the school last October by Judge Williams. July 18 Judge Williams ordered the boy released and returned to his father Mr.

Deaton declined to release the boy, saying that only the gover nor or the of Control could order inmates released. He was then adiudged in contempt of eourt. Judge Wade today argned that the law (rave the Board of Control the power to order releases of inmates, upon reeommenation- of the superin tendent, and that the county judge sending the inmate had no power to do so. When no called upon Mr. Ar buckle to sustain his contention, ths attorney general interpreted the law ss giving to the county judge alone the power to release boys from his county.

He' added that neither the governor nor the Board of Control bad any authority, under the -present law, to parole or release inmates or the institution. Judge Wade was somewhat surprised, snd announced he would appeal the ease to the Supreme Court to get an interpretation of the law. The upshot of the hearing Was that the charge of contempt against Superintendent Deaton was dismissed, and that the boy was 'ordered relessed from tbe school. REPORTS EXAGGERATED Morgantlian Finds Tew Wars Killed la Poland, Paris Sunday, July 27. Henry Morgenthau, former American ambas sador to Turkey, appointed by Presi dent Wilson as bead Of th American commission to investigate reported pogroms in Poland, told newspsper- men ner today tnat tne short visit which be had made to Poland had convinced him that the reports of, progress were tremendously exsggerated.

Mr. jtorgentnaa added his view that ths Polish Jews some times overlook ed th fact that equal rights involved equal duties. If the Polish Jew wished sincerely to collaborate with the state, he declared, they must fol low the example of their American consider themselves above all things patriotic Americans. The Supreme Allied Council considered today a proposition advanced by Foreign Minister Tittoni of Italy, to re establish th system of sharing coal and foodstuffs among the allied peoples. The council also named today members of a military mission to fix ths boundary between Germany; and.

Po-lsnd. Vt'rK-i- ssi.V' Li' Li ll i "ajsji Sj THREE PLANES WRECKED Electrical Stonn Strikes Stoal Hanger at Haaellrarst Field. if July 28.Three bonbinp; planes, including the Martin machine in which Capt. Boy N. Fran-sis planned to leave next Friday on a transcontinental flight, were wrecked by terrific electrical storm, sweeping over Long Island this afternoon, struck a steel 'hangar at Hazelhurst Field.

white woman waa injured, but not fa tally. The fjegroea were overtaken after a loag ebase and arrested, Shortly afterward a mob of eral hundred blacks formed at Tbir-ty -fifth street and began -stoning a' of the journal. It is proposed to take the money from the state; -highway fund, and to fetransfer the balance to that After the joint session, at 2:30 o'clock, at which time the governor delivered special message, the Of ficial copy of the federal amendment was presented by the speaker, in boom seaoinuon. The concurrent resolution ratifying the, amendment, copies of which had been made or ths sflwmbly Ijy Mis Maryr nan uraiueor- ny John A Bigg of Garland, Joe Joiner, Meal Bohitnger, J. O.

Pojlt, e. Carter and Carl W. Held Having sign ed It. The resolution waa the same a that offered in the Senate. Boffriglst Hart Big Majority.

Th first test eame upon a motion of Mr. Harrelon of Franei to defer further consideration of the resolution until 9 a. m. today, which was defeated, aye 18, noes 69. Many communication for and against the resolution were read.

Among those favoring it were: Jefferson County Suf fragiat Central Committee, Bepreaentative J. B. Alex ander of Pulaski, who is now at Ashevllle, N. Mrs. H.

B. Payne, for the women of Marion county: Ben F. Greer, for tne women of Carroll county; Mrs. Fannie Martin Barnes, for the women of Cross Message opposing the ratification were read from the following! Caroline Patterson, president of Georgia Association Opposed to Womaa Suffrage, who claimed that "this force bill means great trouble for the South Fred Bierman of Decorah, who insisted upon tbe rights of state to determine; Louisiana Defenders' League, protesting for various reasons, and suggesting-that if the atate wishes to enfranchise it women, It should do no by extending presidential suffrage by legislative enactment, tad protesting against nnaeemly and unnecessary haste, for purely partisan political advant-aeV in the preiidetttial election of from Miss Charlotte Rowe, Held secretary; or the (southern section of State Bight National Association Oppoeed to Woman Suffrage, who protested at length agninst being 'thrust from the quietude of our nome into the contaminating atmosphere of political declaring that they look with onfldenee to you, in whom the high traditions of the South till live, to protect us front-ti device of Sortbern aboil-; tionists, which, if adopted, will, It seems to us, be sot bnly debselng in Its effects upon womaa ehanaeter, not only productive of discord in the sweet harmony of th family eircle, but will Inevitably result fit strik-; iag down the barriers which yon and your fathers have raised between An glo-Saxon civilization and those who would mongrelize and eorrnpt Mcoouocn Mr. McCuIloch of Le opposed tbe He said that state rights are Involved, and that Arkansas, should not impose upon other state that stand solidly la support of Bonthern tradition that which will be the first step in the demoralization of the South, He insisted that the question should be referred to the people who will vote on the amendment the state constitution in He krgued that the.

federal amendment will provide for compulsory service, and will, break down the barriers that protect womanhood. Mr. Spann of Bradley taid that "stood on -the side of the therefor he was on, tbe side, of worn? any and waa-sririwisnd thjtt the opposition should compare; Arkansas with the old tate of (Virva snd Ala- (Continued ou 1 re 1st Qui) wa opened and font' of th neip-ota ifuiiuaiuieiaifc sav ti ifii siiiit nmn rm tu, mi nu'ri-aiiT wL'uquvu A vvhitv man in 4h same BeisrW borhood waJ draggM from a true Is and stabbed to death. 1. AW A negro ruuuueuT waa auiea oy whites a few minutes later in the same block, Score of arrests were made, ou vj where the rioters were found to be unarmed they were released.

-Negroes Loot Stores. Negroes began lootin stores i of nhitc in ono district shortly after the firing of revolvers 1y a squadron of policemen in an effort to break up a fight over a smalt purchase of police. soon emptied their guns. The looting eoatuvicd until a special squad of pollee, armed 1 with rifle, arrived They fired, Jowt felling a dozen A white woman was pulled from a street ear by a negro. He wa soon -Iving unconscious against the eurh v-The anirry.

white left him for dead. Groups of blacks formed in foot- ball fashion and charged against whites with razors and ejub. On on eorner the scene wa like a mln- iature battle ground. "Unconscious negroes and whites dotted the Street, As they regained consciousness they weer arrested -or permitted to leave th neighborhood. Women Flgbt With Brooms.

clerk, he did not think tho council eoold be forced to order an election, be believed the report on the examination of the petition was reasonably correct. He thought that the ordinance wa really now in force, but for the moral effect it would be better, perhaps, to havs the election. Alderman Leiser said he had no doubt that if ihe ordinance were submitted it would bs approved by large majority. If he thought otherwise, be mid, he wonld be in favor of repealing it. In view of th situation be moved that the city attorney be directed to prepare a resolution ordering an election to be held on Monday, September 15.

The motion wss carried and later the resolution was introduced nd adopted. V-i Bchedul Passed. The council took up the second! section of the privilege tax ordinance, known as Schedule-B, whieh was read three times and passed. This ordinance provides Jor aa arbitrary tax on va-iow rns that earry no stock and ears, ptiessioas snd ealling. The ur amount from $3 per an- S'jr-s, fid against bootblack i the main battles wr progress, women, black b1 battled away; in front yards witk brooms snd missiles.

Iii one of these fights a white woman ws knocked unconscious sad taken to -a hospital. In ono battle on Thirty-foorth street, negroes- knocked two police- men unconscious and were drawing gun when a group of 4iaeharge4 gro soldier eame to ths rescue of ths white. In another bttle son eft-. ak i.