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PRICE THREE CENTS, -SENATE PASSES BILL TO CREATE CHANT FLEET 1*&«%& Hiso hthizd 1 I:ummndeer Ship - Build- inn Faciltes and Factories gwllm in- War Budget NO APPROPRIATION - FOR FREIGHT CARS ’lflvfl’lWh Hn-a to Strike O Five Per Cent. Tax om Light and Heat Bills Defeated by Vote of 116 to 5S—Final Action Taken on Increasing ‘Navy Stremgth 0 150,000 and Marine Corps o 30,000, Washington, May lt—-n"imd ' ment to the $3,390,000,000 war budget bill authorising $750,000,000 of which $400,000,000 is to . be immediately - available for eomrucflml ‘and pur- by ‘:‘g m W without & toll call. Acceptance of the -‘Mnbulw.nc pro- ‘gram was in the senate committee of ' the ‘whole. A record vote may be nknuwhthmuonmm . sage of the bill. Voting on amendments to tha war tax ‘bill oocupied the house again to- day. The first vote on representative Lenroot's amendment to strike out the five per cent. taxes on light and beat bills. It falled, 116 to 58. Final action was taken in congress . “today on the bill increasing the navy's enlisted strength to 150,000, the 4 marine corps to 30,000 and increas- ing the pay of navy enlisted men. The 3 .abul has gone to the president . HONOR LEE AND JACKSON uywmmmcmuo:m ' Gallant Fighters at Richmond. ‘Washington, May 19.—Foreign Sec- rTetary Balfour and other members of ," the British mission went to Richmond, Va., today to visit the former xapn.u of the confederaty and to enjoy for a single day the hospitality .of . the South. Military members of the mission carried wreaths to place on the statues of Generals Robert E. ue-adswna- % wall Jackson. # Submarine Slips Into Sound 'Waters 7 " TWO DEAD' IN EXPLOSII)N Property Doss of More Than $200,000 a‘gsp.-.ll’lpe!’hntnohhco— ‘Employes Deap Through Windows. Chicago, May 19.—An explosion of gas partially wrecked the plant of the Standard Spiral Pipe company on the southwest side early today, killing twb men and causing a property loss es- timated at more than $200,000. A number of workmen made their escape by leaping from windows. N-7 LAUNCHED AT m. 1 Eqrly This Moming. Bfld‘eport, May 19—The submarine N-7, constructed for the - United States navy, was successfully launched at-9:40 a. m. today-at the yards of the Lake Torpedo Boat company here. Mps. Frank Miller of this city, wife of the treasurer of the company, Was sponsor for the new craft. EXPLOSION KILLS TWO: Match and Pafl of Gasoline Clash at Munition Plant. Bridgeport, May 19.—Two . men were injured, one seriously in an ex- plosion of gasoline in the Bridgeport Projectile company plant this fore- noon. Joseph Fisher, a young me- chanic; is in a hospital burned se- verely on many parts of the body. An- other workman escaped with slight ‘surns.. Fire Chief Johnson believes the ex- jon was caused by careless hand- of matches near a pail of gaso- ONLY WOMAN 10 KON FOR PRESIDENT DIES HrsLoclMWls Named by Eqwmumm'u FOUGHT FOR SEX- RIGHTS Was lulrwnqml !_q Having Bill Passed Admitting Women to Prac- tice’ Betore Supreme Court and Was First to Take Advantage of Law. Wllunmn. May 19.—Mrs. Belva A, 'B. Lockwood, the first woman ad- mitted to practice before the supreme ocourt, a ploneer in the woman suf- frage movement, and the only wom- 1\Who ever was a candidate for pres- dent of the United States, died here today after a long illness, aged 86 yearw Mrs, Lockwood had herself told the anecdote of how she became one of the first women in this country to Mght for equal rights.. A’ widow at twenty-four years of age, with a chiid, she was school in her na- tive town, Royalton, N. Y., at a sal- ary. of only $8 a week. Men teach- ers, doing the same work, were get-| ting twice as. much, or more. ~“I kicked to the school trustees,” she sald. “I went to the wife of the | Methodist minister. The answer I got opened my eyes and raised my dander. She said: ‘I can't help you; you cannot help “yourself, for it is the way of the world.’ ™ ‘The then, apparent hopelessness of ‘woman's cause s0 aroused her that she fought for more than fifty vears against the exmclusion of women from rights which men enjoyed, She for- tified herself with e collegiate educa~ tion at Genessée oollege, in the days when higher ‘education was rare among women, and for ' successive mdl Pprecpptress of seminaries o Ymn. Gainsville and Oswego, In each place she was a leader among women’s societies, and when at the close of the Civil' war she re- moved to Washington she was deter- mined to become a lawyer and win a Soont after her eecond martiage -lu began study at the National Univer- sity of Law, and upon graduation, af- ter spirited controversey, was admit- ted tq practice before the supreme court of the District of Columbia. “I never stopped fighting,” she sald. “My cause was the cause of women, T drew up a bill admitting women to practice at the bar of the United States supreme court, and I had #t passed. ‘This victory made her widely ao- claimed. She herself was the first an to take advantage of the new f, and at the ‘age of 49 was admit-. the highest court in the land. meveral notable legal bat- $5,000,000 for the Indians. During President Garfield’s admin- istration she ‘made- an unsuccessful application for the Brazilian mission. The most striking incident of her career then came, in 1884, with nom- ination by the equal rights party of the Pacific slope as a candidate for the presidency of the United States. Vain as the action was it was a unique distinction. The nomination was re- newed by the same party meeting in Iowa four years later. “When the notice of my first nom- ination came,” Mra. Lockwood has re- lated, “I did not know what to do with it, so I stuck it in my pocket, and kept it a secret for several days, until I was asked to support Ben But- ler for the presidency. ‘I can't do it’, I mwn;g..‘l have & npmination my- self.’ politician appeared skep- tical, so she produced the document, under pledge of secrecy but beforo night it was in the n"lm In 1889 she was a delegate of the Universal Peace ‘Ubion to 'the Inter- national Peace Congress in Paris, and again in 1890 to the congress at Lom- don where she presented papers on arbitration and disaymament. She lec- tured throughout the country, ane- til her last days maintained her law ‘| office in Washington.: BShe was born Dctober 24, 1830. Her maiden name was Belva Anna Ben- uo,mme GIVEN Five of Crew and Six Passengera Killed' When ' British Steamship Is Destroyed by Torpedo. London, May 19.—The British steamship Highland Corrie was tor- pedoed without warning on May 16. Five members of the crew and three passengers were killed by . the ex- “NOW THE AMERICANS.” iAmsterdam, via London, May 19,— All the German papers print the news of the arrival of the American de. stroyer flotilla in European waters under a single headline. The Lokal Angeiger heads the item: “Now the Amgericans.” NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1917. —TWELVE PAGES. KERENSKY TO RULE AMERICAN TROOPS EXPECTED TO BE WITH ROD OF IRON| - Will Insist on Striet Discipline hnong Russian Solders | 1S m— MAYOR TO TAKE CHARGE OF REGISTRATION HERE NONE ALLOWED .10 RESIGN Infraction of Rules to Be Punished | With Severity, New Minister of ‘Wn and Marine Announces— Formation of Cabinet Published. Pttmrrul vh Inndon, Mayr ) Minister of War Kerensky T mg¥ed the following nrdsr of the day to the army: “The country is in danger. Each one must do what he can to avert the peril. No request to be allowed to resign, made by officers in high com- mand with a desibe to escape respon- sibility at a time so grave will be ac- cepted by me. Deserters are en- Joihed to return to the army and fleet by May 28. All infractions of this order will be severely punished.” After a conference with the gov- ernment, the Duma cbommittee and the council of deputies, the com- manding generals have returned to the front. M. Milukoff, former Yoreign minis- ter, has refused to accept the minis- try of education because his presence in the cabinet would involve a re- sponsibility for the protected foreign policy of the administration. He con- siders this policy dangerous and like- 1y to compromise Russia’s relations with Her allies. Addressing the congress of peas- ants, M. Kerensky announced his de- termination to introducé an iron dis- cipline into the army and made an impassioned appeal for support in re- storing the morale of Russia’s mili- tary force. A great demonstration occurred after he had completed his address. The delegates embraced the minister and carried him on their shoulders to his automobile. M. Ker- ensky spoke as follows: “We must before everything con- solidate the civic libarty the revolu- tion gave us and we shall not.do this if each does not do his duty to his country with complete seif-sacrifice. Let us show the world we know not only how to destroy but also how to “Soldiers, sailors and officers, 1 e.]} on you to make n last. heroig sffort. un your servant. Help me to éhow the world_that the Russfan army is not a demolished temple but is strong and formidable, capable of making itself respected and of defending the free republic of democratic Russia. «It may appear strange that I, a civilian, who was never a soldier, have undertaken the heavy, task of restoring discipline in the rmy, but I accept it because I understand. that this discipline -is based on your, duty and reciprocal respect. I have never known what this discipline fis, but nevertheless ‘propose to introduce iron discipline into the. army, nnd am sure I shall succeed. «“This {s necessary not only at the front but also in the interior of the country in order to bring the liberty which has been conquered into the constituent assembly. This great na- tional council, invested with sovereign authority will show that it does not wish to repeat the sad events the revolution in 1905 when th nts conquered the land but were not able to keep it in their hands. “I am shortly going to the front. Allow me, therefore, to say in the trenches that the Russlan peasants wish to have the land which belongs to them and that no force shall take it from them. But also allow me to say that the peasants demand, in order to achieve this object, = that everyone shall do his duty in a spirit of self-sacrifice.” New. Russian Cabinet. The government and democratic par- Petrograd, via London, May 19.— ties have agreed to distribute the portfolios of the new cabinet as fol- low: Premier and minister of the inter- ior, Prince. Lvoff; minister of, foreign affairs, Tereschtenko; commerce and industry, Konovaloff; state controlle Godneff, socialist; labor, Bkobele justice, Perevejezeff; food and sup- plies, Pleschehonoft, socialist: war and marine, Kerensky; finance, Shin- garoff; posts and telegraphs, Twere- telli; ways and communications, Nek- rasoft; education, Monuiloft.. Professor Grimm is appointed min- ister for affairs concerning the con- ‘stituent assembly and Prince Shak- hovsky, secretary of the first Duma, is/minister of publc atd. No Separate Peace. Petrograd, May, 19, via London.—- The provisional government declared today that it was united on the re. jection of a separate peace and that it adopts as its aim the re-establis! ment; of & ggneral peace which will not. a'either to dominatfon over ‘othe: onl or to the sejzure their nn 1 possessions—a without annexations or indemnities. of NICARAGUA BREAKS, TOO. Severs Diplomatic Relations With Imperial German Government, ‘Washington, following the lead of Guatemala and Honduras, has severed diplomatic re- latipns with Germany, May 19.—Nicaragua, | KILLING STUERGKH Dr, Adler Took Law Into Own Hands for Premier’s Oppression. Amsterdam, via London, May 19.— itches from Vienna report that trial In progress there of Dr. Friederich Adler, the Vienna news- paper editor and radical socialist, who, last October, shot and killed the Aus- trian premier, Count Karl Stuergkh. Charged with the murder. of the pre- mier, say the accounts of the trial, Adler pleaded in defense that he was guilty In the same way that an officer was gullty who in war time killed or ordered the death of another man. Dr. Adler protested against, the statement that he committed the deed through a lack of sense of moral re- sponsibility and declared that the fact that his trial was conducted by a spe- cail court was his moral justification. Thé manner in which justice was ad- ministered in Austria has made prom- inent the object of the oppression since the outbreak of the war, he as- serted. After the rupture of rélations with Serbla, but before the actual declara- tion of war with that country, Dr. Adler stated, Premier Stuergkh and the minister of justice, Dr. Viktor Von Kochenberger, had brought about a coup 4’ etat by the suspension of juries and by refusing to assemble parliament the premier had escaped indictment. - On the very.day before he was.shot the premler had refused to discuss the calling of the Reichstag, declared: Dr. Adler. ‘““Therefore,” continued the prison- er, “I decided to call him to account and fight him with the weapons he himself had chosen. There- was no other way, for if the ldw is violated it is not only the right but -the duty of ‘every .citizen 'to procure justice for himself.” SOLDIERS OPTIMISTIC i S—— cmmwmw‘ Bill Will Fill Their Ranks With Volunteers Before Drafting Begins. Members of Company E, First In- fantry, in barracks at the armory, are enthusiastic concerning the re- cent developments along military lines and Jook forward expectantly to the day when they will receive orders to entrain from New Britain for spe- cial encampments where they will go into intensive training preparatory to possible service abroad. The pas- sage of the conscription bill is also gratifying to the boys as they think it will again stimulate recruiting and will assure them of the necessary three recruits to bring the roll of the company up to 100 men. One ap- plicant was sent to Hartford today for examination. The weekly inspection of arms and equipment took place today. ; Lieuten- ant Giiffin visited the three outposts where§he inspected men and equip- ment ahd Lieupénant Harris reviewed the men at the armory. As yet the local soldiers have re- ceived no orders which would intimate that they are to be sent to the front at an early date, the belief being that the only troops to send across -the water under the present order will be from the regular army- The or- der to muster the National Guard into federal service means nothing to the New Britain boys as they have already been mustered in. There are, how- ever, many ‘states.of the union where the Natjonal Guard has not yet been called out and this order applies to them. VILLA KIDNAPS 110 GIRLS Twenty Died From Abuse After Be- ing Dragged From Homes—Three Men Found Hanged at R. R. Station Chihuahua City, May 19.—Official confirmation has . been recetved here of a report that while Namiquipa district, Villa kidnapped 110 girls between the ages of ten and twenty years and kept them in his camp while ‘there. Twenty of the _girls are said to have dled in two days as the result of brutalities. Juarez, May 19.—Passpngers ar- riving: from the south say they saw the bodies of the station master, an English telegrapher and a Mexican army officer hanging from a graph pole at Ortiz station, south of Chihuahua City. One hundred . and fitty Villa followers raided the sta- tion and hanged the men, the passen- gers reported. Hartford and viclnity: Fair torsght. Sunday probably showers. in. the | tele- | STROKE OF LIGHTNING DESTROYS ZEPPELIN Second Airship Is Brought Down By Nature on May 14. Copenhagen, via London, May l.— Destruction of the Zeppelin L-23, re- ported without details In an offcial British announcement on May 14, oc- curred off Ebjberg within sight of the Danish coast, according to the accounts of eye witnesses ‘from vil- lages on the shore. These accounts indicate that not one but two-Zeppe- e destroyed on that day, inas- the explosion of an airship off Terschelling was reported from Holland, at a point too distant to cover: the sameé*case. -The loss of the sec- ond airship is attributed to lightning. The L-22 was soon off Esbjberg while making one of the customary daily observation tours up and down the coast of Jutland. It was engaged by a British force which, presumably, was looking for German destroyers that of late have been fishing up Brit- ‘ish mine flelds in this ' fFegion. . The Zeppelin was not far off shore and was’ plainly visible. Its opponents could not be seen but their presence was ‘made known by the boomln‘ of suns. Eye witnesses saw the airship dart up after the first round ot shots. Then thy heard a second salvo. The Zeppe- lin endeavored to maneuver itself out of range, but with the third broad- side it went down, mortally hit. At first it sank slowly and then plunged down at great speed into the sea be- low the horizon, el S PR A ~ Governor McCall Anxicus to Protect Their Morals. Boston, May 19.—Governor McCall has written to Secretary Baker, offer- ing his co-operation in securing moral protection for the troops to be trained in the military cantonment at Ayer. The governor expréssed his earnest ‘wish that the camp should be “very thoroughly tected against the sale of intoxicating liquor and also against the social vice and other immoral conditions which might arise.” FENWICK HALL IS GONE Famous Structure at Saybrook' Point Wiped Out by Fire—Hartford Yacht Club Also Destroyed. Saybrook Point, May 19.—Fire has completed the demolition of Fenwick Hall, late the property of former Governor Morgan G. Bulkeley, The structure was about two-thirds torn down, and this noon fire broke out in a.pile of lumber-nearby and destrayed Probably all the material which had been piled up near the frame work. After the fire had been burning an hour much of the surrounding prop- erty, which included several summe; cottages was endangered and sud: denly the house of the Hartford yacht ly disappeared. The breeze had . .car- ried sparks to the roof. The few men at the Paint did what they could to save property but there was no water supply. club broke out into flames and qulck-‘ WELCOME FOR GENERAL WOOD.I Big Parade and Fiag Raising at Fort McPherson. Atlanta, May 19.—Major General Teonard Wood, was welcomed on his visit here today to inspect the. officers’ training camp at Fort McPherson by a great demonstration, including a flag raising in the principal city square, a procession in which marched . the 2,500 men of the camp, the Seven- teenth Regular Infantry, the Fifth Georgia National Guard, the Atlanta troop of state cavalry, boy scouts, red cross contingents and many civic or- ganizations. “REPAIR SHOP” FOR REJECTS. New York, May 19.—For men re- jected by recruiting officers for the various military services on account of minor physical defects, St. Luke's hospital ‘will open a: ‘“repair shop” on Monday. Announcement of the open- ing of the new department was made today. WAR REQUIRES MORE FIREMEN. New York, May 19.—As a warl émergency ten new companies are to ba added to New York’s fire depart- | ment, it was announced today, {etty, Devia. E. .cattleman of Silver City, N. M, - of flour advanced fifty Hartford, May 19.—Local authori- ties of the cities and.boroughs and towns of Connecticut will constitute the boards of registration ‘throughout the state, under appointment - from Governor Holcomb, to carry out the instructions of President Wilson's proclamation’ providing for the regis- | tration of males between 21 and 31 years of age on June § between 7 a. m. and 7 p. m. for the purpose of con- scription to the army by selective draft. This comes about becauss Connecticut does not have county ad- ministrative organizations and is or- sanized on the town system of gov- ernment. Hence the sheriffs of the counties will have practically nothing to do with the registration as the gov- ernor intends to appoint & board of registration in each town. He will constitute the first select- men, the town clerk and ‘the .two registrars of voters - the registration boards in towns. In cities and bor- oughs, the mayor, city clerk and regis- trars, or the warden, borough clerk and registrars will = constitute 'the board, but in cities or .boroughs in which'the limits do not embrace the entire town, the town officials will be the board of registration. Under the federal regulations in cities of 30,000 inhabitants or over the registration is in charge of the mayor. The federal ¢lassification places only six citles above 30,000. They. are Bridgeport, Hartford, New Britain, New Haven, Stamford and Waterbury, Ten répresentatives of all the coun- ties in the state have been appointed by Governor. Holcomb tp advise in the registration work and they will have a meeting at the capitol, Monday at 1 o Fhows e e S st of thia, X fi&fidd New Ha- ven, J. Moss Ives of Danbury, John ‘W. Banks of Bridgeport, Judge Frank D. Haines of Middletown, C. L' Avery of Groton, Charles Phelps of ,'Rodk- ville, Attorney General George B. Hinman of Willimantic and lhleom D. Rudd of Salisbury. At various places in the state on Wednesday the selectmen and : town clerks. of the registration boards - or the mayors or wardens of such boards will meet and receive definite instruc- tlons for conducting.the registration. The first selectman in each ‘town has practically taken the place of the sheriff .in Connecticut’s registration; but the county sheriffs' have received | a large supply of registration cards, registration certificates and lterature, and it will be their duty,to distribute them under orders from the governor to the. boards in. their counties, ex- cepting the six cities classified as hav- ing more than 80,000 inhabitants: in which the mayors have received:the’ registration cards and eertificates. NORWEGIAN SHIP SEIZED Thorum Taken Within Four-Mile Limit by Submarine—Government Expects Germany to Return Vessel, Christiania, m; A9, via London.— The Norwegtan = steamship Thorum has been seized by a German sub- marine inside | the four-mile . limit, which Norway always has claimed as the Boundary of Norwegian territorial waters. The Thorum was chartered by the governmeént to ‘carry 'forage to Northern ‘Norway, where there is:a feed famine. A Norwegian destroyer attempted to prevent the séisure bul did not use its guns as the submarine was outside the Mmit- ' London, May 19.—The Tidens Tegn of Christiania, as quoted in an Ex- .ohange Telegraps despatch from Co- penhagen, says that the Norweglan government has expressed the expec- tation to Germany that the steamship Thorum will be released. Wm MURDERED, .nu,ocw«nhymm-am Canyon. Near. El Paso. | El Pasa, May 19.—The . body 'of Thomas.C. Lyons aa aged millionaire found in a canyon in Hjghland Park ' here yesterday and it is believed: i;e was murdered. X Lyons arrived . from. = Silyer. City Thursday night on busing He was met by a man who Invited Mm inth his automobile. ‘Eyons’ body: was found in the canyon with his'treveling bag beside ‘it. Only five cents re- mained of the $70 he had whnn he] left home. ' FIOUR ADVANOES 50 GRNTS, - Minneapolis, May 19.—Best! grades’ cents today. ‘Washington, May 19, regular troops, 184 by Pershing, will ‘¢arry the Stripes to the Huropean Under orders from. son, a division of app 000 troops will go to F'rg az possible to co-operate and French forces. President Wilson will 2 authorization given in th bill signed by him last Col.. Roosevelt to raise expeditionary ' force _for, France. In an announcéss effect the president said'y tion was based upon € adyice from both sides Machinery. for enroll ten million mén and pat for the 'selettion: of the #i men under DOW Wap - based on the president’s was set in Mno_ n by the 3 ment today: ‘The pro upon all men between ard 30 inclusive to itary service on June The ldrafted army, will to the ‘colors until & 3 mand the troops to He is a veteran of th ican war and led the’ i1 the expedition into 4n pursuit of Villa: .fii‘ outlaws. President Wilson that the he could not teers mnor' avall himself vigor and enthusiasm’ Roosevelt, for the ’*.he explained, interfere with the carr, chief and most immediat ‘purpose. contemplated by ‘tion, the prompt creation use of an effective army, contribute practically no effective strength’ of the engaged against Germany.” - Officials declined today on the possibility that a be found for using Colone] services in another way. talk to this 'effect ln however. Pershi Becretary Dafels in | mouncement. -tdda It will be armed,- ped and organized in the same the ‘army regiments- of ;b' expeditionary force. . ‘which ‘will.compose the be brought home from- mmoflnfly ¢ Gfincl'll John ::‘: is to. h:: America’y . wm 0%@. :l‘ghter of' exicans. A yeat 'l"’ M 8 ‘brigadier-general, hé ; comn the, column which went into. M in .search of Vill& and held his many months against mengcing w ments ot Mexican troops. He in" Cuba’in' 1898 and ‘later ‘led cesaful operations against the M fn_the Philippines. - Earlier in el Fancy patents were quoted at $15.75 and first clears &t $13.75,

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