New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 14, 1917, Page 1

‘3 “‘ HERALD BEST OF ALL LOCAL NEWSPAPERS gres NEW BRITAIN HERALD HERALD “ADS*, MEANN BETTER BUSINB¥S | PRICE THREE CLNTS. NEW BRITAIN ‘'CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER, 14, 1917. —TWELVE FREQUENT REPORTS |TROOPERS RETURN IFIERCE FIGHTING - FROM PETROGRAD DIFFER IN SENSE Latest Is That Kerensky Has Waged Battle With Max- imalists and Won NO PEACE ARMISTICE RECEIVED IN BERLIN “ For the Past Three Days Reports Have Been Coming In That the Maximalists Have Defeated the Ker- ensky Troops, While Contradictions Come from the Former Govern- ment. Amsterdam, Nov. 14.—Austrian newspapers print a statement from ‘ the official news agency pointing out that neither Vienna nor Berlin has received an actual peace or armistice praposal from the Russian govern- ment, and as long as the new rulers of Russia do nét submit proposals, the Central powers can do nothing in the matter, according to a despatch from « Vien Should the Maximalists re- tain t¢he upper hand in Russia and come forward with a peace offer, the Austro-Hungarian gavernment would, the statement says, immediately estab- lish accord with its allles and fix a common attitude. . “The workmen's and soldiers’ pro- gram,” the statement continues, “ig capable of forming a paint of depart- ure tor serious peace discussions with Russia. “A just peace without annexations and without indemnities is also the gaal of the Austro-Hungarian govern- ment. But what we understand by annexations and what everyone has understood about it up to the pres- ent does not correspond with the in- terpretation of the present Russian gavernment. On this point counter- proposals would have to be made on our part.” Kerensky in Petrograd. Stockholm, Nov. 14.—Premlier Ke- rensky has entered Petrograd, accord- ing to a despatch received from the correspondent of the Swedish news agency at Haparanda, on the Russian ‘border, According to those advices which were received in a cablegram filed at Stockholm at 4 o'clock vesterday aft- ernoon, Premier Kerensky defeated the Bolsheviki at Tsarkoe-Selo. The Cossacks are reported to have de- stroyed the red guard. The telegraph lines are now in Kerensky's hands, the telegram bureau reports. For the last three days reports have been coming in from Scandi- navian sources of the defeat of the Rolsheviki, but they have been con- tradicted by wireless despatches from Petrograd. This is the third time that an account has been received of a battle at Tsarkoe-Selo, Kerensky victory virtually having been reported twice and a Bolsheviki success on the other occasion. ASK LLOYD GEORGE Premier of England Will Talk Later on Speech He Delivered in Paris on Blunders in World War. London, Nov. 14—Premier Lloyd George will be asked in the house of commons today by former Premier Asquith for a statement in regard to his Paris speech, in which he spoke of the new inter-Allled committee and the blunders which he said had been made by the Allies in the past con- duct of the war. The premier Is ex- pected to be present to reply, but will defer a full statement until later when an opportunity will be given to the house to discuss it. The war cabinet is sald to be at one with the premier in all the essen- tlal points of his Parls speech and the policy which it announced, and to be prepared to hold to this policy. The attitude of the rank and file of the unionists will have a considerable ef- fect on the preliminary situation, as always sald he would not entertain a mo- tHon of the coalition cabinet unless he Chancellor Bonar Law has retained the support of the unionis There is a good deal of criticism o George is to make. JACOB COHN DIES. Hartford, Nov. 14.-—Jacob ing firm of J. Cohn and Son, York, died at the Hartford hospita today of injuries recelved in an auto- mobile accident in Tariffville a week The Two were severely buying 76 of age. train. He wils wiLs years struck by a with Mr. Cohn He was here ngo. Injurea L trip. BURGE VRS IN DANBURY. Nov. 14 residence dent Danbuiy the —Burglars Andrew ran of the meked Tones, pre IMardware Btrect last cash and of Pleasan $150 Conpany night and valuables. on cured other t lhe premier's new policy among the anionists although their attitude may he changed by the speech which Lloyd Cohn, penlor member of the tobacco pack- New R Danbury in T0 THEIR BILLETS Germans Didfi SE Them Be- ! cause of Beautiful Starlight Night CLOTHES CAKED WITH MUD Scrappicst Bunch of Soldiers in Irance Are Anxious to Repay the Germans Because flicted Upon Comrades. of Injurics In- ‘With the American Army in France, Tuesday, Nov. 13.—The third serlés of American battalians i8 now occupying the first line and the second Ameri- can detachments to enter the trenches have returned to their billets. The re- lief was accomplished on a brilliant starlight night without the knowledge of the Germans. Included among the returning troops is the company which bore the brunt of the recent raid on the Amer- ican trenches. This evening the company lined up in a little muddy street in a village nestling under the hills not far from the front. . Underclothes were caked with.muad and roofs and fences near by Wwere hung with wet blankets and equip- ment. Openings here and there in the ranks showed how many men had been killed, wounded and made prisoners in the fight. After the com- pany was dismissed an officer of the battalion watched the men splash off the mud and said: “There goes the scrappiest bunch of soldiers in France. They are mad all through and just biding their time till they get)a chance to repay the Germans for what happened to their comrades. They will get their re- venge before this war is over. You can depend on that.” The second return battalion today were going through the same series of bathing and cleaning as the first detachment. The men are to en- joy several days' rest before taking up the training work again. OFFICTALLY ANNOUNCED. New Orders Show Some Changes M the Draft Regulations. Washington, Nov. 14.—The five classes into which nine million men registered for military duty—and those who are registered heraafter— are divided and the order in which they will be called for service were officially announcd today in the pro- vost marshal general's questionnaire. which every man must flll out and file. The order shows some chango from the tentatlve draft published time ago. Contrary to some published veports it does not exempt married men as a class, but it does place married men with dependent wives amd children far down the list of liables, In fact. WILL BE SHIPPED. Danbury Will Get Coal to Rclieve So- rious Shortage. Danbury, Nov. 14.—The local coal committee was informed today by Thomas W. Russell, of Hartford, state fuel administrator that a supply of coal to relieve a serious shortage at the plants of the public utilities com- panies in this city had been arranged for and would be shipped here im- mediately. The situation had be- come acute and the state administra- tor was appealed to when expected consignments failed to arrive here. PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. Is Greeted With Cheers by Delegates in Convention. Buffalo, Nov. 14.—The telegrams to ‘and from President Wilson regarding calling off the strikes at plants being constructed for government use in connection with the war were read by President Gompers to the dele- gates at today’'s session of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor. The president’s message expressing appreciation for the patriotic action of the federation was greeted with cheers. Hugh Frayne, member of the war industries board, and President Dun- lin of the building trades depart- ment, have gone to Washington to confer with government officials on a final settlement of the men's griev- ances who have been on strike. ARE ARRIVING. Senators and Deputies Are in Rome for Opening of Parliament. Rome, Nov. 14.—More than 600 senators and deputies have arrived in for the opening of parliament today. The prevailing talk among them i that the people of their constituencie: 1| are determined to support the gov- ernment and the army to the fullest extent in resisting the invasion. Refugees from occupied ter continue to pour southward. They are receiving assistance everywhere. Danbur gates and - | tending the Connecticut Woman's of Missions of the Ipiscopal t] here taday Bishop Funston, tdaho, and Bishop Colmore, of Port: itico, were the principal speakers. clergymen are itory | i mual convention of the Auxiliary Board church ALONG THE RIVER Aviator Makes Daring Flight Over Devastated City of Undine INTER-ALLIED GOUNCIL Orders Arc Issued to “Hold to the Death” the Bridges at Sacile, Polce- nigo, Santa Lucia, San Giovanni and Other Places. Italian Headquarters in Italy, Nov. 14.—The Plave line still holds in the main against heavy and continuous artillery fire from the eastern bank and the efforts of the Austro-Germans to cross the stream. These efforts have not taken the proporti general movement, but several pattai. lons crossed the river on pontoons near Zenson. The Italian artillery con- centrated its fire on the raiding par. ties, either dest roying them in mid- stream or pushing them hack on the river bank. The fightin desperate and sangulnar: Men who have returned fromn the batteries along the Piave say the German fire is extremely heavy but from =uns ot medium caliber. Chief attention is now directed to- ward the eastern sector of the Tren- tlno’ front, where it runs across the Asiago plateau to upper, Piave river, The enemy is making demonstrations there which are either a diversion or a prelude to a heavy attack with the evident purpose of getting down into the valley toward Bassano and the plains below, thus separating the Ital- ian army on the Trentino from tnat on the Piave. Reports indicate that the enemy is operating on four main fronts. Gen- eral Borcevio is on the lower Piave, Gen. von Buelow is on the upper Plave, Gen. Korbatin is in the east- ern Trentino and Gen. Conrad in the western Trentino. This gives von Buelow the task of trying to force tho center while Borcevio and Conrad press in the Piave and Trentino wing. The number of troops under the Aus- tro-German commanders is not known., An Itallan aviator who made ono of the last flights over Udine after it was evacuated says the city was dam- aged but little. He saw several large fires at separated points, and the hope is expressed that neither of them wgs the Citv hall of Udine, which {8 o handsome monument of Venetian ar- chitecture resembling the Doges pal- nce. The inter-A here was icd council i consid | ering measures for the adequite pro some | tection of Venice. A sectlon of Ttallan armored motor cars, each of which rmounts three quick-firers in the turrets, is just back from one of the most thrilling ex- periences of the war. The duty to which these cars was assigned was to hold the bridges from the Tagliamen- to to the Piave rivers until the ca; Iry rear-guards had passed across, and then to burn the bridges behind them. The commander and a num- ber of his men were seen by the cor- respondent at their camp where they recounted their experience as though they were every day occurrences. Huge cars resembling tanks stood about at the camp, showing the scars received ;ln the recent ordeal. They have heavily armored bodies.. There is a steel door, and for observation pur- poses two small openings are provid- ed. The two turrets above revolve: the upper one having one quick-firer, the lower two. The orders were to death” the bridges at Sacile, Polceni- go, Santa Lucia and San Giovanni un- til the Bersaglieri and cavalry had crossed. That they succeeded Is shown by the fact that all the rear- guards made thelr wav over the bridges, that all the bridges were burned and that the section returned leaving only one damaged machine with the enemy, although eighteen of the forty cars were in such crippled condition that it was necessary to abandon them after the bridges were burned. The machines were divided, ren he- ing stationed at each of the four bridgeheads. After seeing their own rear-guards safely across they await- | ed the approach of the enemy ad- vance guards, even staying in some cases until their cars were sur- rounded by hostile patrol “hich were then mowed down by the bat- teries of quick-firers. At the San Giovanni Dbridge onc ar took its station during the night mid-way across the bridge. E.rly in thie morning it was ordered fo sur- 1-ader by a German car which bore the imperial crest and carried a Ger- man captain and two lieutenants. Tn- ad of surrendering. two Ialiun captains and four zunners suddenly ovened the steel door and sprang out with carhines. The German captain one lieutenant were killed. Thn other lieutenant and the German car were captured and brought back ANOTHER SUBMARINE, 14.- Daily Nov. the An Amsterdam Mail Monday London, despatch o says e on ‘tor Dute | German sune ! pedocd without warning the traw oy off the 13 ve Huiberyje at a point Dutch coast. was Killed were rescued afte »fin a simall hoat Ymuiden. { A Duteh boy ot Ten survivors heing seven hours were landed at “hold 1o the_ miles | PAGES. ONEY POURS INTO FUND FOR SOLDIERS Gommittees_Repom New Sub- scriptions Totalling $13,910 STANDS AT $20,701 TODAY Y. M. C. A. and K. of C. Workers Ju- bilant Over Prospects of Reaching and Passing $60,000 Mark By Fri- day—Cheers For the I'air Sex. Team Reports. Team No. —Captain Wightman Team No. Bennett Team No. Rogers . Team No. Farley Team No. Camp .. Team No. Shjerden .. Team No. Hungerford Team No. Slade Team No. Crona Jofcenaans Team No. 10—Captain Loomis .. covenee Team No. 11—Captain Searle 5 . e Team No. 12—Captain Burckhardt Team No. 13—Captain Upson °. *Team. No. 14—Captain Hatch .... Team No. 15—Captain Glass .... Team No. 16—Captain Eddyviie s TR Team No. 17—Captain Greenberg 5 Team No. 18—Captain Stanley ... Team No. 19—Captain Hawley . Bpear ...ccee0e Plainville Team . Berlin Team . PR 200.00 o e ey, ALEB0 —Captain - . 174.25 —Captain 136.00 8—Captain 180.00 663.00 43.00 1,296 400.00 830.00 32.00 432.00 1,366 66.00 oo 1,469 395.00 1,160 538.00 570.00 $13,910 Knights of Columbus, Incomplete returns .. 900.00 Previously recelved ... 6,791 Grand Total $20,701 The totals of the Y. M. C. of . team workcrs in the paizn being conducted this reached §20,701 at the noan-day | luncheon at the 151ks’ club this noon, the splendid work of the teams result- ing in a report of $13,910 being made today. This was accomplished main- ly through the excellent work of teams captained by Messrs. Bennett, Stanley, Searle, Wightman, Eddy and Spear, whose workers secured cantri- butions of over flve figures. Captain Clarence F. Bennett's team again took the first honors with the largest amount reported—$1,482—with Cap- tain P. B. Stanley’s a close second with $1,469. Captain M. H. Camp’s workers showed again today that they are a live set of hustlers when it comes to approaching prospects, the captain reporting 49 subscriptions to- day, and his table will retain the flag again. General Director Pease sald that there were & number of names vet on the lists which were not taken by the teams, and he urged that the teams make a strong effort to secure them before tomorrow, when the town will be thrown open, with no restric- tions placed on the teams as to who will be approached. A hearty vote of thanks was extended to the women as- sistants for the fine luncheons held to date, and, led by Charles B. Parsons, three loud cheers were given. Winslow Russell Speaks. The principal speaker today was | Winslow Itussell of Hartford, and his | remarks created much enthusiasm | from the team workers. At the »ut- set Mr. Russell said he was connected | with the insurance business, and in | many instances when looking for prospects, agents are stricken with a “shaking at the knees” feeling. He urged that the campaign workers do not become affected in this manner for the work they are engaged in is a noble one, and one that should meet with hearty, whole-souled response from all citizens of New Britain. Speaking of conditions “over there,” | i Mr. Russell said at ) nt there are 5.000,000 beds in the base hospitals of the Allies. and each of these has been | occupied by three different men at times, making @ total of 15,000,000 The little huts which the Y. M . A. are erecting on foreizgn shores and in ever cantonment in this country, arc heing used to educate the men soon to enter battle, in the moral obligations of a soldier and tr < one o the important phases of the war. Speaking of the campaig ford where $140,000 has been in a few days, Mr. Russell said that { for many months, the (inancial men have been reaping the benefits of the (Continued Eleventh Page) for New : Fair tonizht ably on Thursd: enst Little | barn change in temperature. s ESTABLISHED 1876. ' COAL PRICE REDUCTION IN | EFFECT HERE TOMORRO VILLA ONCE MORE STARTS SOMETHING Bullets Are Falling on the American Side of the Rio Grande. Presidio, Texas, Nov. 14.—Fighting between Villa forces and Mexican government troops began at Ojinaga this morning. The attack started from the southwest and grew with the ap- proach of daylight into a constant fire of rifle shots. No artillery, machine guns or hand bombs were used {n the first attack. American patrols are guarding the ford opposite Ojinaga. It is reported bullets are falling on the American side of the Rio Grande. SISTER DOMENICA IS LAID AT RES] St. Mary's Church Thronged During Solemn High Mass of Requiem This Morning. The funeral of Sister Domeni mother super was held from St. Mary’s church this morning at 10 o’clock, a solemn high high mass of requiem being cela- brated. Rev. John T. Winters was celebrant, Rev. Hugh Traynor of Wa- terbury was deacon and Rev. James Keating of New Haven sub-deacon. Rev. Williatn H. Flynn of Hartford was master of ceremonies and Rev. John K. Fay of New Britain as: tant master of cersmonies The mass was sung by quartet und>r the leadership F. F. Harmon. At the concly the mass, Rev. Father Winters made fitting remarks concerning the late mother superior and asked the ters and especially the children to pray for her. The services were largely at- a, tended Loth at the church and at the | grave In St. Mary's new cemetery. Sisters from Hartford, and the clergy present were Rev Regan. Barvy, Keena, Rogers, Griftin. Hussion, Hart, Dolin, Kenny, Subling, O Drien, Downey, Brennan, KK Tivan, obol. Fitzgerald Dirly Grikis s, Coppens AUTO VERSUS TRAIN Steam Cars Win, and As a Result Pas- Lenger in Automobile Truck Loses His Life in Windsor Locks. Windsor locks, Conn., Nov. l4.— James J. O'Brien, 45 vears of age, of Hartford, was killed here early today when the automobile in which he was a passenger ran into the rear of a heavily laden truck and was wrecked. Terrence M. McGovern, of Hartford, owner and driver of the touring car, escaped with minor injuries. The truck, the driver of which was John J. Z}rnm of Hartford, had stopped hécause of engine trouble. THEY RESCUED THE PIG. Auto Are Damaged by Fire A barn at 499 South Main str and a Reo touring car owned by Earl Aruto, were badly damaged fire early this morning. An alarm was sent in at 12:54 and companies No. 1, and the hooking ladder responded. How the fire started * could not be learned. Tae Rteo car which was kept'in the was almost totally destroyed. The fire was burning briskly when the firemen A shed t adjoined the harn was saved and a pig w cued by one of the firemen But Barn and Badly by as res- POULTRY THIF Confesses to He the One Who Stole the Chi Bethel, Nov. 14 of Arthur Moffitt, of this place, today, and his subscquent canfession are be- lieved to woup a ling series of poultry (hefis during which hundreds of hirds have disappeared. Other ar- rests are expected. The stolen poul- try is understood to have been dis- posed of to middlemen, who sold it in New Haven. CONGRE! Mtddletown, corpor: Man AL CHURCHES, 14.—Election .of entation of the treas- report and consideration of the wy necds of the convention among the matters taken up to- by the annnal meeting of the Congregational churches in the state when the second day's session began Among today’s speakers was Prof. George A, Coe of Union Theological ATY Philadelpt te Sena- br of St. Mary's convent, | st. Joseph’s and St. Mary's convent, New 5flt:]m~mmmm m,yw.“cg& Ameng | Tumulty this atternoon. IHe had been | . [ telephone calls all day from EBroken, Egg, Stove and Nut Coal Delivered: in Cellar $9.65 Per Ton; Pea Coal and No. ' 2 Nut $8.40; Sidewalk Delivery 35c¢ Less| BAGS OF 100 POUNDS D istrator. Official notice by Mr. WHAT! JOE TUMULTY AN ALIEN ENEMY! Secretary to the President Is Pestered by False Reports Ru: ‘Washington, Nov. 14.—Angered and chagrined over a false charge that has obtained wide currency in the country, Joseph P. Tumulty, secre- tary to the president, issued a formal statement last night denouncing what ‘1:4 helieved to be a systematic effort | to injure the administration by the | persistent circulation of a report that | Mr. Tumulty hdd bheen arrested for [treason. The statement issued by Mr, Tumulty reads: “For several days friends have written, telegraphed, and telephoned me from nll parts of the country stat- ing that rumors are being assiduously spread alleging that 1 have been im- prisoned at Fort Teavenworth. All sorts of fanciful tales are being passcd >m month to mouth by innocent per- sons, who are the victims of a syste- matic and insidious propaganda to weaken confidence in officials of the | rederal government. Officials of the ‘ihe,mrlmom of Justice are investigat- i ing the origin of this conspiracy, to de- terming who ‘has been guilty of ac- tually starting this falsehood. The Times correspondent saw Mr. receiving telegrams and long-distance him to know had been « circulated in spective localities, Tlow the story originated has not heen ascertained. Agents of the De- partment of justice arc now engaged that ested their Iwho wanted port that he Wwas hei o [in a determined effort to get at the | i hottom of - e the canard. Tumulty was on the point of issuing a statement last Saturday con- cerning the report. e received on i that. day a lctter stating that at meeting of bankers in Minneapolis, { ex-Governor Hanna of North Dakota | had declared that Mr. Tumulty had [ been shot as a spy. Tt was decided. however, that any seneral notice of | the matter in the press would only | give the falsehood wider publicity. So far as the White House and the De- partment of Justice know, only one newspaper has given any currency to {the rumor. In this newspaper it was | credited to a militant suffragist who ! was auoted as saving that she had heard that Mr. Tumulty had been ar- rested as a spy. When the evidence has been collected Mr. Tumulty will take counsel as to the course to be followed to bring action against those the libel. While the origin of the story’is un- known. it is said to have obtained its original circulation through a mes- sage sent over a stockbroker's wire from New York to Chicago. OLIVER WILSON TALK World War Frightful Pricc of Humanity. St. Louis, Nov. 14.—Oliver Wilson, of Peoria, master of the Natlonal Grange Patrons of Husbandry, in an address befdre the annual meeting of the national grange in this city today, declared that the present world war represents the most frightful price humanity ever has paid for an ideal. “But only by paying such a price,” he said, “shall a real and lasting world peace be attained and the op- ponents of freedom and liberty be guaranteed to every people. “It is our opinion,” he said, “that the national grange could here and now declare to the world its unquali- filed consecration to the great world task now facing clvilization—of driv- ing forever from existence the great- est world outlaw that history has ever | recorded, an empire that has prast}- tuted itself in the worship of brute force: that has hurled to the winds all the ideals of honor, morality and that has stooped to acts of | i lust and that constitutes, | until destroyed, menace to ever principle of tion, and even of Christianity Says AMERICAN CASUALTIES., Ottawa, Nov. l14—American namcs in the Canadian overseas casualty list today include: Wounded: Ser- A. W. McClaskey, Framingham, sed: Corporal J. B. Giirou- tor James P, 5 prominent republican leader, died today ard. Spencer, A AL W Durkee, Brockton, Ma persons | s who have been engaged in circulating | ELIVERED 50c, AND PURCHASED AT YARD 43¢ Announcement wag made today by Thomas W. Russell, state tu_’ administrator, of a scale of retail prices for coal in New is the first price announcement made by Mr. Russeli as federal fuel admins] Britain. This s sell follows: 1 Notice is hereby officially given, under the approval of the United States Fuel Administrator, that the following scale of prices.per net ton for anthracite coal sold by retailers in the City of New Britain, 1s effective from 12 4 | o'clock noon of Thursday, Nov. { 15, to remain in force until fur- ther changes or revisions by the United States Fuel Adminfstrass tion* 1 White Ash Coal. Broken—$9.65. Egg—$9.65 Stove—$9. Pea—§8.40. \ : The above prices are for coal delivered in the bins of the con: sumer. ¥ For sidewalk delivery, where coal is not delivered in bins of«4 | the consumer, there should be | deduction of 35c per from the above prices. Bags of 100 pounds delivere by the retailer, or purchased from grocers or: other stores noghs ‘primarily engaged i/ the coal™ business, 50c per bag; bags of’ 100 pounds purchased at any yardis of any retall coal dealer and car. ried from the yard by the coms sumer, 43c. This price of bags pounds applies to each above sizes of white ash coal, | THOMAS W, RUSSELL, State Fuel Administratos | DBy C. W. Jaynes, Secretary. i Mr. Russell, who fe chairma 4 | the coal committee of the Connec | State Council of Defense, was n 1 federal fuel administrator for i necticut weveral weeks ago. . His of organizing committecs fn GYEHE ; throuzhout the state is going forwns rapidly. 9 1 The first actual step towand ducing the price of coal in this ¢ taken roveral weeks ago W 3 wpointed W, . N. Abbe and W. J. | mittee (o recommend Two weeks ago vesterday, hearings to rets il deaier: s of the mayor :nd on Wednesday night a public hearing wj | held at which several citizens g | pressed opinions that were not o plimentary fo the rotailers, i i Py b \ First to Get Reduction, ded on by the. logf forwarded to them to Washin, ton, where they were examined b br. Harry A, Garfield, federal fig administrator, who informed { Russel] today t the figures prln- | above were the prices to be permitel in New Britain. The local commifte | Was the first in the state to file its port with Mr. Russell and this city. the first in the state to secure an of cial reduction in prices, 1 Mr. Christ declined to comment of the success of the committee tod: but it is said that the established pi is slightly in excess of that recom mended by the committee, ha enough to make any difference. Before the campaign to red: prices here, broken, egg, stove nut coal was selling for $11 a cash. It has since been brought 4o | to $10.50. The price of pen coul W 1510 ana was later brought to 39,50 For some time previous to th net ton # 4 of. <% the followis L The figure | committee Russell, de. were who sent Represents Most | pointment. of the local coal com tee, the Herald waged an edito campalgn against high prices as § felt that the cost in this city was & cessive, especlally in view of the ful that coal was selling at much low prices in other Connecticut citl Coal dealers objected to some of Herald’s statements but the action the fuel administrator -upholds contentions then printed that Britain consumers were paying mo; than they should have paid. HOMFE, ENTERED. Thomas ‘Edison a Victim of Man W ‘Wanted to Roh. East Orange, Nov. 14-——The home Thomas Edison was entered by an i truder last hight through a thig story window, which he reached climbing to the roof of an extensl to the house. The man was frig ened away by the screams of a mal The police, wno are investigating, snf they do not think the man had s other motivé than robbery. ] ADMIRAL CONFERS. London, Nov. 13.—Admiral Wj Benson, a member of the Americ mission to the inter-Allied conf ence which is to meet in Paris has turned to London from a visit to ¢ grand flect during which he con ferred with Vice Admiral Beatty, thf British commander. e