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C. i I I COLBY f' ALL GUESSING AT D. C. HEADS Isolation of President Makes It Impossible to Get Line on Men Favored. NEW ENTRANTS IN CONTEST List of Candidates Grows Despite Process of Elimination ft Already Begun.

President Wilson today notified Brownlow. president of the District Bpard of Commiisloners, that resignation was accepted, effective September 15. The notification wag made In a letter sent to the Commissioner shortly after noon today. The letter, said: "My Pear Mr. Chairman: course, I accept your resignation to take effect on the date you suggest.

because it Is so evidently your desire that I should do so. "1 hope that you will find your new duties as stimulating and well worth while as you expect them to be. "WOODKOW WILSON." The isolation of the President is one of the impediments to as to possible nominees for commigsionerships of the District. In past years when there was a vacancy in the District a line could be on the progress of the several candidates by the delegations and friends that personally called at tyie White House. In this Instance, however, not even the high White House officials dare take up with the President the possibility of the candidates.

TRY TO GBT WIMOK'S EAR. Several of the candidates are trying oget the ear of the President by having their cards laid before Mrs. "Wilson by friends who are able to see her. What progress Is being made In this direction Is as vague as other features of the commlssionership race. Only one thing Is certain.

That is that neither Dlatrfct officials or White House officials know any more who is to be named than the ordinary citizen. Among thi candidates for the place today there was a move toward elimination. Flaws In the qualifications of the different one? mentioned for the place were being picked by those who were opposed to them, and some of the candidates mentioned named conditions under which they would serve. There are two conditions thst som1 of the candidates say they will Insist upon If offered the place of District 1 Commissioner. One Is that they will not serve with Dr.

Van Schalck and the other is that they jvlll not with a woman. The reason for to serve with Dr. Van Schairk is MM record with the Board of Education, while the reason for not wanting to serve with a woman has varying definitions. ATTORNEYS DISCUSS SITUATION. Among the legal fraternity of the city today, there was much doubt as to the statue of the commissioner who would be named to suooeed.

Mr. Gardiner. Some contended that the nominee would draw pay, while others presented equally as convincing legal arguments that he would not. Another question that lawyers were discussing was the length of the term which would be given the -man or woman who Is named to succeed Mr. BrownloW.

Some were of the opinion that the nominee would serve only for the unexpired term of Commissioner Brownlow Others pointed to the decision of Attorney General Devens, rendered July 1. ItSO. "that the term of the Commissioners apl pointed from civil life Is three years, and not for the unexpired balance of their predecessors' terms." START ROUND ROBIN TO BAR MAYS FROM LEAGUE Cleveland Players Admit Circulating Speaker Refuses to Talk. PHIIjADKI'PHIA. Aug of the Cleveland American league baseball club todaj- declared that a "round robin" Is being circulated throughout the league calling for the barring of Carl Mays, star pitcher of the New York club, from the league Mays is the pitcher who hit Hay Chapman, Cleveland shortstop.

causing his Trls Hpoaker, manager of the Oleveland Club, refused to discuss the matter. hut other members of the team admitted that they had circulated the round robin" which has been sent to the St. Louis and Boston teams at Boston. It whs rumored that the Cleveland ere have decided to "strike" If attempts to pitch another ganio against them. SIGNS WOI AN OPPORTUNITY TO VOTE FOR District Commissioners Washington Will Register its Opinion in this Poll.

Residents of the Nation's Capital, Interested in Their City, to Nominate and Vote for Heads of Municipal Government. "Washington responded quickly to the opportunity offered by The Times to express the popular choice lor District Commissioner. The pile of nominations tliut came in immediately after the announcement was made yesterday indicates that there will be a huge and an intelligent vote, the result of which will be submitted to President Wilson as a guide in the selection of a successor to Commissioner Louis Brownlow. Before the paper had been on the street twenty minutes the first nomination slip was in The Times office. From that time they began to pile up on the desk.

Every mail brought additions. The first day's result is ample proof that Washingtonians take a deep and a direct interest in the selection of the men who arfc to administer municipal affairs. One notable fact is the of the men and women who are suggested by the nominators. Men who have been considered for the place and men prominently known for their activity in public and patriotic affairs, have been favorites in the nominations. It may be said that the signatures to the ballots are largely those of well known and respected Washingtonians.

Tjbese names, of course, will not be made known to anybody except the vote editor, They are required as a matter of good faith. The list up to this morning included: CONRAD SYMJ5. CHARLES W. DARR. WILLIAM McK.

CLAYTON. HENRY LANSBURGH. CAPT. JULIUS PEYSER. JESSE L.

EI SHELL. ERNEST L. THURSTON. WILLIAM F. GUDE.

CAPT. JAMES F. OYSTER. CORCORAN THOM. DAN DONOVAN.

ALVIN G. BELT. WILLIAM D. BARRY. DR.

WILLIAM C. FOWLER. L. G. GROSSMAN.

ODELL S. SMITH. THOMAS S. HOPKINS. HARRY WARD.

CAPT. C. E. E. FLATHEB.

DAVID A. BAER. WILLIAM B. HARDY. JOHN B.

COLPOYS. GEN. O. L. SPAULDING.

A. LEFTWICH SINCLAIR. DR. J. ROZIER BIGGS.

MRS. ISAAC PEARSON. EARL GODWIN. ALBERT G. F.

BUEHLER. MISS MARY OTOOLE. 4 ROBERT I. MILLER. FRED S.

HAHN. CHAPIN BROWN. OLIVER P. NEWMAN. GUY MASON.

FRANK HOGAN. SAMUEL GUSACK. MRS. MINA VAN WINKLE. ALBERT M.

READ. W. MINKER. DETECTIVE SCRIVENER. Equal suffrage will be fully recognized in this campaign.

If you are twenty-one years old and a resident of the District your nomination slip will be received. For those who already have been named it will not be necessary to send in further nominations. Ballots will bo received immediately after the full list of nominations is published Sunday. The Times is assured that a solemn referendum, lim ited to adult residents of the District, will receive serious consideration at the White House. At the bottom of this page is a blank, may be used to nominate your choice.

Its use, to simplify tabulation, is requested, but not required. Merely fill it out and mail or send to THE VOTE EDITOR, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Nominations will be received until 1 o'clock, Saturday, August 28. The full list of nominees will be published in The Times, Sunday, August 29. Balloting will begin on these nominees immediately thereafter, and will continue until 1 o'clock p. Friday, September .3.

The result will be announced in The Times, Sunday, September 5. The tabulation will be immediately certified, and presented to President Wilson for consideration. The law requires that "Commissioners shall have been bona-flde residents of the District for at least three years next previous to appointment." I NOMINATE I For Commissioner of the District of Columbia: Name Position or address My own name and address are: Mi 1 1 i I i 11 i 1 1 Clip this ballot and mail to Vote Editor, The Washington Times. VIAN FORTY FIRES RAGE IN ERIN Twenty-six Homes Already Mortally Wounded in Riots. LONDON, Ang.

KM In Br I fan lair this aflernoon uri trnp? Irrl IW mob bal It la Hi aawa If Ikrrr were a my casualties, aald Oatral Nm dlapateb from tbat city. A llltarr prarlaaaalloa has been laaard at Be Ifaa authorising Ike rarollairal of a aperlal force of ronalakalarj brrauar of the Bfaacimm situation DUBLIN, Auk from the rifles of soldiers restored order Belfast today after an outbreak of violent riolinK In which a girl wan mortally wounded and twenty-six houses were either wholly or partially destroyed by Are. The official revport on the Belfast outbreak to Dublin Castle aald that forty-six arrests had been made. MOTHER! IN PANIC. A school In Newton road was attacked and the mothers of the children were thrown Into panic.

It Is reported that an attempt was made to burn the great Belfast ship yards. There was heavy Aghtlng around a church where an attacking fores was driven off. During the disorders there was much looting. Forty fires were started altogether during the rioting, according to ths dispatch. A later dispatch said that the lighting had centered about Newton road, but was Anally quelled by the police.

Strong police guards today patrolled the about Jail following the outbreak of fighting that occurred during demonstrations against the detention of Lord Mayor McSwiney, Cork. Two policemen were knocked unconscious by flying stones during the disorders. It was understood here this afternon that Sir Uamar Greenwood, chief secretary for Ireland, has been summoned. to Lucerne for a conference with Premier Lioyd George on tho general Irish situation. Government officials pointed out that Llnyd George, being far removed in Switzerland from conflicting influences.

would be able to give an uninterrupted survey of the whole Irish problem. Hope was expressed that "peace formula" for Ireland would be torthcoming within the next week. Officials of the Irish office refused to comment upon King George's sage to Redmond Howard, nephew of the late John Redmond, saying that 1 the appeal for Irish hunger strikers I would receive immediate attention. They declared, however, that there would be no shift In the policy which has been maintained toward Lord Mayor McSwiney. of Cork, who Is in 1 very serious condtilon In Brixton Jail.

I MeSwIay suffered a sinking spell I thla afternoon. He naa vlalled by his i wife In tbe prison Infirmary She I aald her haaband had grown so weak doling tbe morning Ibat bla itlre una 1 Innudlble, and tbat be wna ao nervous i be rould aot sleep. I A revised casualty list says that thirteen policemen were Injured sup- very serious condition in Brixton jail. last night. I DUNKIRK.

Ireland. Aug thousand men employed in the railway works here laid down their tools yesterday and marched to the cathedral to pray for the release of the lord mayor of Crok. The church was crowded, many kneeling outside the edlflce. When the service was concluded the men resumed their work. N.

H. MAN GETS POST Of F. OJOOSEVELT President Names Gordon Woodbury, Former Newspaper Publisher, for Navy Berth. President Wilson today appointed Gordon Woodbury, of New Hampshire, to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy to succeed Franklin D. Roosevelt, resigned.

Gordon Woodbury Is flfty-slx years of age, lawyer and formerly publisher of the Manchester N. H. XTnlon. He has been prominently Identified with Democratic affairs In New Hampshire and was a pioneer In the suffrage movement In his home State. He served with the Red Cross in France during the world war.

Levi Woodbury, grand uncle of the new assistant secretary, was Secretary of the Navy in the Administration of President Jackson. Secretary Danlela. In making Ihe announcement of the appointment said that "with the traditions of the navy well founded In his family, the success of Ihe Administration of the new aaslstant Is assured." The secretary also psld high tribute to Former Assistant Rooao- velt. Asaistant Secretary Woodbury as-IS aumed bis duties today. If UFFRA POLE ARMY AT GRODNO GATES Hall of City Imminent, Says Driven From Lemberg.

FIGHTING POWER OF REDS NEAR COLLAPSE PARIS. aallltarj ponrr of torltt Kuaala ly ku irrorilif ta Marakal Kork. mar ruprrt aeaaatlaaal reaulta from af tkf Kaaaa-Pollak lllklUK." derlarrd Marakal Karh today. "Tkf Halakevlk war appears km brokrn roaiflrtrlr. Hawrrrr, tkr finale waa foreaeea." WARSAW, Aug.

fall of Grodno is imminent. The number of taken by the Poles up to date is estimated at 100,000. PARIS, Aur. hp decided to take the initiative in the Ruaso-Polish negotiations and propose new peace to the Soviet that conform with the present military situation on the Polish battle front, said a Warsaw dispatch to the Matin today. According to an unofficial report from Warsaw, of the second Pol (ah brigade entared lirodnO on Tuesday, but the Polish legation no official advices confirming tills report.

It waa admitted at the Polish laratlon that General Budenny's cavalry army had reached the outskirts of In Qallcla. before being driven back by a Polish volunteer army. The Russian soviet government has abandoned Its demand for the arming of Polish workers, according to the official Interpretation placed by the foreign office upon a garbled radiogram from Moscow today. The wireless message was picked up by French government stations t-ut only part of It could be deciphered. This portion was not absolutely clear but indicated that the Russians at Minsk were making concessions to the Poles and that the concessions included the abrogation of the demand for an army of Polish workmen.

BIG FOUR WARN POLAND NOT TO PRESS VICTORY LONDON. A Four iitern and emphatic notes have been sent to Poand by the new republic In tht Kast igalnst anti-Russian aggressions and continuation of the war. it was earned this afternoon. The Washington note Is said to have pointed out that the bloodshed be stopped, now that Poland's military victory is assured. The Poles tre warned against off negotiations with soviet Russia, and ire urged to make peace at the earnest possible noment.

adhering rigidly to the principles of the treaty jf Versailles. The feritlsh. French, and Italian notes are said to be couched In even itronger language than the com- nunlcat Ion from the United States. It 1m understood In semi-official (Continued on Page 7. Column 3 1 iwm'd I Nota Beany jj ON Traffic Truths wZ MUCH? I 'tf 0'yiWLj atmu Without He stopped dead; "Pay eighty plunks." Repairman said.

If you don't like the verse Nota Ironji arrres today, try it yourself. I lend your contribution tv Nota fenny, care of The 'i GE PR! U. S. Warshi Liner Bring Commande Naval Officer Rushes Destroyer' to Olympic's Side to Greet Actress. NEW YORK.

Auf. about a hundred mile? out of New York harbor ptiitnieri on the White Star liner Olympic returning from England, yesterday noticed bearing down on them, racing at top apeed with imokt pouring from her funnels, a lean and racy craft. It was the United Btates destroyer Ingram, and the buslneas like manner In which she aped toward the Olympic Indicated that more than purpose dominated her skipper, Lieut. Corodr. Iteginald S.

H. Vanable. On board the Olympic, viewing the approaching destroyer were John W. Davis, United ambaaaador to England, and Senator Walter Edge of New Jersey. Senator Edge hinted to the ambassador that the navy was conferring an unusual honor upon Mr.

Uavis. who replied he believed It was Intended as a compliment to Senator Edge. GIRL WAS IMTKRglTKD. Near the ambaaaador and tba Senator a girl of slight flgura seemed much Interested in the approaching destroyer. Soon tke warship headed in close, and Lieutenant Commander Venable could be aaen near the rail, looking anzloualy toward the liner.

The distinguished gentlemen listened eagerly. The girl waved frantically to the navy man and called: "Oh, Reggie!" 11 "Ota, Fay!" tha wind carried back, in tonea of unmiatakabto Joy. Hia excellency and the honorable exchanged blank then both laughed. The yoang woman naar the rail was Fay Batnter, coming back from London, wkere ahe had bean Woman's Vc President's Asserts Ha By WILLIAM PC International Nc Declaring the action of Seci mulgating ratification of the of peril and a menace to the Taylor, author of "The Origin i today gave the election in November, whicheve set aside as illegal because of th "I wish to make It perfectly plain," he said In an exclusive Interview granted the International News Serv- fr ice, "that I am not attacking the th principle of woman suffrage itself, p) That principle is not involved In the lo slightest. What I do wish to make an clear, however.

Is the legal aspect of the Tennessee ratification and the ac- or tion of Secretary of State Colby pro- mulgating it today. "Bearing whatt I Just said, weirinjfli mind. I wish to say this: The Supreme er Court of the United States has long lni ago recognised the new universal an rule of American law that when the validity of the action of Congress, or pf State legislature. Is In question, Is the right and duty of courts. Fed-i In ral and State, to examine the Journala of af the legislative body.

State or Fed- th sral and by the' facts therein die- au closed to determine whether or no Ihe legislative body hsts acted in ac- pa with constitutional law. sll "No Jurist can claim that the legls- ature of Tennessee has taken final ictlon on the Nineteenth amendment," th Congo Ape ft Neither Li NEW YORK, Ang. itive characteristics that tbey Lhe ape, have been discovered i Belgian Congo by I)r. Ijconard missionary and anthropologist, i tour of Central Africa, which I)r. Vsndenbergh was formerly a missionary In the Ugenda.

On his I latest expedition he was accompsnled i hr by Pr. Oeorge Burbsnk Shattuck, i 1 Formerly professor of geology at Johns Hopkins and Vassar, staff ol Hi motion picture photographers. tr The adults of the newly discovered an irlbe average only four feet In heigh'. aid l)r. Yandenbergh, and they are known to the other tribes as the Msmhutl." Their language consists monosyllables distinguished by In- They are entirely different 'rnm the pygmies discovers 1 by trl Harry Johnstone near Lake Tangan- )1(( rlkn, and smaller.

"They are very ape-like In and the ran move with DCLANI ip Convoys ring Home r's Fiancee WH MISS PAT BAINTER. urationtng. The naval officer to her wu her fiance. "Wekttne home!" mgfaphoMd eggle. Thf the port.

It was the flrat time the had beard of an American arahlp bains used In just that way. (Continued oft Pace Column 1) tte Perils Election mnis Taylor DLLIP SIMS. irs Service. etary State Colby in prouffrage amendment as full of the Nation. Hannis md Growth of the American pinion that the Presidential ir candidate wins, might be votes cast by women.

r. Taylor continued. "It Is equally isurb to claim that the certiorari om the State Supreme Court vacated Injunction, because certiorari slmy transfers the entire record of the wer to the higher court without ly change In it whatever. Only ter hearing can the appellate court der a change in a record so transrred. "Under such conditions andjn deince of the judicial power of a sovelgn state, Secretary Colby le playg with fire to declare that the lendment has been adopted.

"The Presidential election may dend upon his act. Those of us who tnessed the Tllden-Hayes conflict, volvlng the title to the Presidency the United States, and imperiling peace of this nation, knew what ch a peril means. "The Secretary of State should have used before venturing to make the recurrence of such a In which the electoral wis devised in order to remove fear of civil war." Climb; Nor Steal ace.of pigmies of such primire but little removed from in the virgin forests of the Vandenbergh, a Catholic returned yesterday from xtended over eleven months. rprlsing agility through tree anches Although they are cometely uncivilised, they have certain mple virtues that mark them en ely apart from the other African Ibes. They neither, lie dor steal, id will only marry one wife They III not eat any meat hut that from ilmals which they kill In the hunt.

TIMID or OTHKn ItrMANH. "They are extremely timid of other iman beings and have been driven to the Jungle by the powerful We found them in the Kilo strict of the shout two miles from the western Continued on Page 17, Column 1.) I IATION SPOILS PUNS FORCEREMONY Secretary Puts Name to Document This Morning at His Home. DISAPPOINTS NEW VOTERS Delegation At State Dept. Chagrined By Failure to Make Affair Public. PrnMral WIIm will Mn.

Carrie Catt. rmMtat mf Watieaal SaUrace Aa rltUM. Mn. Helea Kardaer. the Civil Camfll? afteraeaa ta exteatl hla raa(rataU(loai aa the aagragr vletary.

It la believed by officials of Haaae the Prealdeat will af raaarratalatlnn" ta tha thraagh Hr? Catt. Suffrage for women became actuality today when Secretary of State Colby signed a proclamation announcing the Nineteenth amemi ment to the constitution. The proclamation of the ameiul ment, giving the vote to woman, towed receipt of a certificate of rai ification of the acendment by Tennessee legislature and brough to a conclusion one the umm AT wnn Secretary of State Colby. arriving at the State Department shortly before 10 o'clock, announced that he ha.I signed the suffrage proclamation at o'clock this morn at hla home. A delegation of suffrage were waiting at the State Department when Secretary Colby arrived.

The Secretary Immediately Informed them that the suffrage proclamation had been signed, and their enthusiasm waa somewhat dampened by the fact that they had not been permitted to be present at the signing. Secretary Colby announced that the Tennessee certificate had been delivered to him at his home at 3 o'clock this morning, and that he had immediately turned It over to Solicitor Fred K. Nielsen, of the State Department. for examination. Solicitor Nielsen 'returned the certificate and the proclamation early this morning, and at 8 o'clock, In the presence of Solicitor Nielsen and Charles Cook, of the diplomatic bureau of the State Department.

the proclamation had been signed. "The certified record of the aetlMi of the legislature of the State of Tennessee on the suffrage amendment was received by mail this morning." Secretary Colby told the woman. "Immediately on its receipt, the record was brought to my house. This was in compliance with my directions and In accordance with numerous requests for the promptest action. I thereupon signed the certificate require) of the Becretary of State this morning at o'clock In the presence of F.

K. Nellsen. the Solicitor of the State Department The seal of the Unltel States has been duly affixed to the certificate and the suffrage amendment is now the Nineteenth Amenlment of the Constitution of the Unltel States. "It was decided not to accompany this simple ministerial action on my part with any ceremony or setting. This secondary aspect of the subject has regretfully been the source of considerable contention as to who shall participate in it and who shall not.

Inasmuch aa I am not Interested In the aftermath of any of the frictions or collisions which may have been developed In the long struggle for the ratification of the amendment, I have contented myself with the performance In the simplest manner of the duty devolved upon me under the law. WOMRV congratulate the women of the country upon the successful culmination of their efforts, which have been sustained in the face of many discouragements and which have now conducted them achievement of their great object. "The day marks the opening of a great and new era In the political life of the nation. I confidently be-' lleve that every salutary, forward, and upward force In our public life will fresh vigor and re-enfnrcement from the enfranchisement of the women of America. "To the lesders In this great movement 1 lender my sincere congratulations.

To every one, from the President, who uttered the call to duty, whenever the cause seemed to falter, to the humblest Worker In this great reform, the praise not only of this generation, hut of posterity, will be freely given." The following national officers and officers df State branches of the National Woman's Party were to havs been present when Secretary Colby Issued the proclamstlon: Miss Alice Paul, national chairman. Mooreslown. Mrs. Abhy Scott llaker, polltIrsl chairman. Washington.

D. i Mrs Florence llrewer Iloeckel, editor Suffragist. Washing!" t. Miss (Continued on Page II, Column 0.