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OVER-NIGHT FEDERAL WIRELESS To the Advertiser David Lamar at his own request was called before the senate committee to further explain his activity in impersonating congressmen. In opening his statement, Lamar said that he was satisfied to leave his fate in the hands of. Chairman Overman and Senators Nelson and Cummins. "As far as Senators Reed and Walsh are concerned," he started to say, but was interrupted by Senator Overman, who quickly squelched any attempt to stir up friction among the mémbers of the committee, Lamar then reiterated that he had planned the impersonation of Congressmen Riordan of New York and Palmer of Pennsylvania in order to uncover what he called a conspiracy against his friend Lauterbach. An unconfirmed report received from Constantinople states that Turkey had demanded that Bulgaria evacuate part of the Turkish territory given the allies by the terms of the peace treaty. Turkish troops, it was said, are preparing to take the field. Bucharest wires that the Roumanian army will be mobilized Thursday and Friday and expects to invade Bulgaria immediately. Continued Bulgarian victories are reported in dispatches from Sofia. After entering Vranje and capturing a large supply of ammunition, the Bulgarians proceeded northward to the Moravia river, thereby cutting off the retreat of Servian troops. Denver's new commission form of government threatens to cause International complications, in many respects resembling those brought on by the lawmakers of California. The heads of one of the departments issued an order forbidding Japanese the use of the bathing beaches and parks of Denver. The Centennial City is noted for its parks and breathing places as well as its fresh water bathing beaches. During the summer season both parks and beaches are patronized by thousands of women and children. The order forbidding the use of the public places to the Japanese was discussed for some time previous to its enactment. Prof. Wm. A. Bryan, who holds the chair of zoology in the College of Hawaii, and who has arrived from Whittier, where he has been visiting his parents, sailed with Mrs. Bryan for Honolulu. "While it is true that my name has been sent to the president for consideration in connection with the governorship of Hawaii," said Bryan, before leaving, "and while I have assurances from the president and my friends in Washington that my papers have been favorably considered, I am not an active candidate in the ordinary sense, as I have not made a regular campaign to secure political backing.' Captain Templin M. Potts, U. S. N., retired, until last week commander of the battleship Louisiana, accompanied by an attorney left for Washington, where he will seek to have reversed the action of the "plucking board" which retired him before he had an opportunity to reach the grade of rear admiral. Screams of defiance were hurled at the London authorities in Bow Street police court yesterday, when Sylvia Pankhurst, daughter of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, and Zellie Emerson, the American suffragette, were given prison terms. When Miss Pankhurst was arrested last night for speaking on the streets she fiercely resisted arrest. The court demanded that Miss Pankhurst give bond for good behavior, but she flat!y refused. Then a three months' sentence was imposed. John S. Kellon Williams, assistant secretary of the treasury, who represented Secretary McAdoo at the closing of the Pittsburg First-Second National Bank, yesterday declared that the institution had been seriously mis managed and that the extent of the mismanagement would be determined by the department of justice. United States Attorney Jordan at Pittsburg and a special agent of the department of justice probably will make the contemplated inquiry. Despite the announcement by treasury officials and financiers that banking conditions here are sound, the run which started on the Pittsburg Savings Bank continued yesterday. The institution is controlled by the Kuhn interests, owners of majority of stock in the First-Second National Bank which closed its doors here. Consideration of the administration currency reform bill was begun yesterday by the house banking commit-
