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No ship- ping tonnage is involved, -but ,the moral effect of the new pact on the other neutral nations and in strength- ening the position of America in the war is expected to be far reach- mg and to aid materially in check: ing inroads of Teutonic intrigue and propaganda elsewhere. Dr. Nansen called House soon after the agreement ident Wilson h Vance McCormick, » at’-the White the completion of nd expressed to Pres- pleasure over the success of his mission. The United States ‘as its part of the agrecment promises to furnish Norway with quantities of foodstuffs, fodder, fer- tilizer, textiles, metals and minerals and with rubber and miscellaneous commodities. The Norwegian Gov- ernment will permit unhampered e port to the United States and the al- lied Powers in the war and will turn ower to them such commodities as are not needed for home consumption, especially mineral chemicals and wood products : The commodities cover nit iron ore and metals needed in 1 dening steel and timbers needed for | mipe prox es. | A special provision is inserted in the agreement that none of the com- modities which Norway receives from the United States shall be permitted directly or indirectly to reach any of the Central Powers or be used to re- place commoditics shipped to those countries. A further manufactu machiner cilnts or ores, is that nothing grown or produced by implements, fuel, lubri- other auxiliaries to exported to the Central Powers The agreement, which in. its terms is considered most liberal to Norway, was embedied in a draft agreement | some time ago, but not finally ap- proved and signed until today The liberality of the United States in the agreement was due in large measure to the action of Norway in refusing to withdraw its merchant vessels from the seas despite the Ger- man submarine menace. The Nor- wegians have maintained their right to safety at sea, although about 1.« 500,000 tons of shipping and mor than 1,000 lives have been los through the depredations of U-boat "he principal items which Norway will receive include bread grains, 300,000 tons; cocoa, 1.400 tons; cof- fee, 14,500 tons 50,000 tons, and pork and be tons. e proviso 10,000 There is more arrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and for years it was sup- osed to be incurable. Doctors pre- seribed local remedies, and by constant- ly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Catarrh is a local disease, greatly influenced by con- stitutional conditions and therefore re- quires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is a consti- tutfonal remedy, is taken internally and acts thru the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System. One Hundred Dollars reward is offered for any case that Hall's Catarrh Cure fails to cure. Pend for circulars and testimonials. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohlo. 8old by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family. Pills-for-constipatien. 3,000,000 IN FIELD BY FALL OF 1919 Baker Believes That-Foroe Should | Be Ready for Action The Admin- istration’s p ising arm cenough an large to insure detail House Committee victory were to the Affa tion carr, the submitted in vesterday Military prepar: ! the army appropration bill £$15,000.000,000 to finance during the next fiscal year. Secretary Baker refused to go into the question of figures involved in the proposed increase in military man power, but it became known at the Capitol that the estimates he submit- ted were based on a force of not fewer than 3,000,000 men and 160,- 000,000 officers being in the field by v 1, 1919. The plan contemplates havi 130,000 ofticers and 2,168,000 men, or a total of 18,000 in the field and in camps by July 1, 1918, und approximately an additional mii- lion to be placed in the field before the end of the fiscal year. don’'t want to figures,” said Secreta asked how large an templated, “because I be tied down to number My ob- jection to using numbers grows out the fact that we want to raise just large an army as will be needed, I want the American people to confident that we are not going to be handicapped by numbers but intend to raise an army that will be large enough in cvery respect.” All of the army camps and canton- ments are to be enlarged, and very materizily enlarged, to take care of the training of the men to be ¥ d in the next twelve months. Secretary B! 2id that the General Staff had this under careful consider- ation the idea was to in- crease the size of existing training rather than establish new 1 These camps, it is estimated, now have facilities for training close to a million men at one time. Secretary, Baker also made it clear that the total of $15,000,000,000 in- volved in the estimate as revised for the new army bill did not cover the whole cost of the army for the next fiscal year. The $15,000,000,000, he explained, .was in addition te the large sums that would be carried in fortifications appropriation bill, which covers the cost of heavy ord- nance both here and overseas. Nor Coes it include the military academy Lill. It was emphasized that al- though estimates were submitted on the basis of an army of a certain size, congress was being asked for blanket authority for the president to raise all the men needed, and the approximate figures of $15,000,000,- €00 could be increased by deficiency appropriations. 1,500,000 in France This Year. It was brought out in the com- miltee today that the transportation rvice had improved and that the department was able to send rmore men to France each month. It it estimated that if transport facili- ties continue to improve, close to 1,- 00,000 fighting men will be on the western front by the last of the year. This country now has in camp and the field, it was explained to the committee, the following enlisted men and officers Enlisted men Officers on the which of ving army has begun y anything in Baker when rmy was con- don't want to and feel question and that L000 0,000 ,000 Fades. Total s Oppesition to Presic It bec e apparent that the position to giving the president limited power to determine the size of the army was disappearing, and it i believed the committee will readily grant him such power. Major General Crowder has recommended that con- ess extend this power to the pres dent, and his recommendations, not vet formally presented to the com- mittee, contemplate extending the draft age. Opinion in the military affairs committee favors extending the draft age to 40 yea Secretary Baker merely general way the program the gen- staff has recommended to him. features will be explained to during the next ten s in the different mili- - General March, Pershing's director of artillery, pecially interested in improving < branch of the service. He will tell the committee on Monday of the war department’s plans to build up the artillery. In order to get Dhig war department officials conceived the | plan of helping the United States Steel Cforporation to build one or two plants. This corporation has agreed to devote itself to ordnance, and all its resources will be given over to the government. Money will be advanced to the tion which will be pro- tected its expenditures in case the war should end soon. he plants will be built at places to be desiznated by | the war department within short tances of the embarkation point: Before the committee agrees upon | { the aviation program, which will be | taken up next Tuesday, there will be | a thorough inquiry into the causes of the failure in production of aircraft. | Sevretary Paker informed the com- | mittee that the airplane building pro- gram had not been an utter failure e 1 that he welcomed an inves- tigation by the committee, ihich might lead to good results, Some of the items in the Army bill are: Quartermaster, 25,000,000,000; Ordnance, $4,000,000,00 Engineer Corps. $1,000,000,000; pay of officers and men $3,000,000,000: Medical Corps. $1,000,000,000; Aviation vice, $1,200,000,000. 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We should not delegate this power. Con- gress should fix the number of men to be raised, and specifically limit it. The Constitution empowers congress to raise and maintain armies.” Senator Smoot of Utah supported Senator Sherman, who then continued: “I do not think we are justified in further broad grants of power to the executive in view of the failure to make a better accounting of some of the enormous appropriations we have made.”" The Only Chance vour soldier Arcade boy Studio.— Today. You and on a photograph. aavt Face Disfiqured With Pimples AlsoonHands. Itched andCould Not Put Hands in Water. Could Not Sleep.’ One Box Cuticura Ointment and One and a Half Cakes Soap Healed. “‘My face and hands broke out with pimples. They began to run and itch, and were sore and inflamed. I kept scratching which kept them irritated, and I could not put my hands in water. Icould not sleep. My face was 8o dis- figured that I could not go ant. “‘1 got Cuticura Soap and Ointment. 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When Secretary Baker was asked today regarding his attitude in the matter he said: “The War Department will, course, welcome any evidence of any wrong doing, if there has been any, in any branch of the War Depart- ment, and if anything is brought to my attention warranting an investi- gation it will be investigated.” Secretary Baker was asked wheth- er the allegations contained in the Borglum report had been brought to his attention. . “I have the Borglum report before | me now,” said he, “and am studying the contents of it.” The Secretary added that the Mar- shall report, which now was before the president, was being considered by the sccretary also as part of his consideration of developments in the aircraft situation that had come dur- ing his absence in France. Both these reports were filed while he was in | Europe. Secretary Baker said he had not re- | ferred the matters covered by the | Borglum report to the department of | justice, and when asked what his at- | titude would be toward any investi- gation the Department of Justica | might see fit to make, Mr. Baket said: “There will be no conflict what. ever between the war department and the department of justice.” In response to another question, | Secretary Baker said that he had| taken mno action on the basis of the| Borglum or Marshall reports and that | as a matter of fact, he had not com- pleted his consideration of the Bor- glum report. g The senate military affairs commit- | tee laid the ground work for an in- vestigation of aircraft production. In an informal discussion, the committee decided that if Mr. Borglum could pre- sent facts and witne to substan- | tiate his charges, the cammittee would welve to the very bottom of the mat- ter, and if it discovered conditions to warrant the department of justice act promptly and decisively It all rests with Mr. Borglum. With facts, the committée will unhesitating- ly go on. Without additional evidence, the committee will not act. Mr, Borglum’s report to the president, as | printed in The New York Times, and ead into the Congressional Record, | does not contain enough substantiat- | ing evidence, the committee holds. But if the investigation is entered upon | it will be amplified to include every division of the war department. r. 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Mitchell Palmer, odian, that George York, an- to turn over to nited States gov- $40,000,000 Washington, v ment is made by Ehret, Jr, of New has nounced his readin the custody of the U ernment property worth | belonging to his father, George Ehret, Sr., who is in Berlin. Mr. Palmer authorized the state- Ehret, “upon 1g information through the state department that his father, George Ehret, Sr.,, had been living in Berlin since the declaration of war, had reported to Francis P. Garvin, director of the bureau of investiga- tion, all of his father’s property as of enemy character and had an- nounced his readiness to turn over to the custody of the government real cstate amounting to $24,000,000 and personal property amounting to $16,- | 000,000, or $40,000,000 in all.” Mr. Palmer said that no change in the management of this property was contemplated, and that George Ehret, Jr., and the Central Trust company had been named as depositaries for the alien propert; custodian. The rents and other incomes will be col- lected by George Ehret, Jr., as usual, and he will make periodical account- ing to the alien property custodian. Mr. Palmer added that this property hecame of enemy character under the Trading With the Enemy Act through the residence of its owner in Ger- many, although the owner was an American citizen. “If" Mr, Ehret, Sr., should return to America and thus lose his enemy character,” sald Mr, Palmer, “the de- partment of justice would entertain any claim which he might make un- der Section 9 to have his properts returned to him. Under Section 9 the president may return the property to him if satisfied on his return to this country and of his American citizen- ship. Ehret’s Rise to Riches, George Ehret, 8r., head of the eat brewing interests which bear his name, is now in his 83d year. 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The Hell Gate establishment is now one of the largest properties of its kind tn the United States, and a great part of the wealth which Mr. Ehret's son hag turned over to the enemy prop- erty custodian is id to be represent- ed by the Hell Gate property, MAY FI:AAG DAY. Workers Plan Canvass of City Tomorrow. Palestine The local branch of the Paole Zion will conduct a house to house canvass for the Palestine Labor Fund an Sun- day. Committees will visit every Jewish home in the city to sell flags. The Palestine Workers fund done ‘much to help the Jewish workers in Palestine. It has done much to conquer the obstacles peculiar to the development of a new country. Tt has done much to help the Jew workers in their struggle for economic betterment; it has brought within the reach of the poor Jewish toiler the benefits of a high culture. But the most intensive and creative work that | has been done in Palestine during the past thirty years is now ruined by the mischievous Turks. Still greater efforts and more money is now needed to enlighten the ardent Palestinian toilers in their struggle for the up- building of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. It is therefore expected that this year the Jews of New Britain will contribute to this fund more than ever before. FOUR MINUTE SPEAKER! The assignments for Saturday, May 4th, for Four Minute Men are as fol- lows: Fox's, P. F. McDonough. Lyceum, Rev. Warren F. Cook. Keeney's, W. C. Hungerford. Scenic, Dr. Geo. W. C. Hill The speakers will make the last ap- i peal for the Liberty Loan. No assignments will be made for next week in the theaters. matter to be taken up by Four Min- ute Men is the American Red Cross darive, which begins May 20, but the Four Minute Men will begin speaking on this topic on Monday, May 13. TEA THIEV ESCAPE, ‘While patrolling his beat on Whit- ing street .last night Policeman Thomas C. Dolan noted the strange actions of two men coming from the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rallroad Co. freight yard. He fol- lowed them and when they saw him they ran.,. One of them dropped a box he was carrying. Afterward it was found the box contained about 20 pounds of tea, has | h The next | | Pence DRIVE EXPECTED | Lord Robert Cecil Anticipates many Will Make Alluring But U acceptable Offers to Great Brita London, May 4.—7Tn ° the = perso: opinion of Lard Robert Cecil, mini of blockade, the failure-of German “knockout on the®wes front” will big’ place di directed mainly against Great Bri and possibly made in an attract form, but, which will not afford terms the Allies can consider. In this opinion, made in a staj ment to the Associated Press, Ld lobert expressed the further bel that the new peace drive would largely for German consumption, H cause “the rulers of Germany know they have to rely on their own i sources they cannot hold out mul longe: offensive!" result in The German peace offensivess ‘to have begun already and in.factl I have gathered considerable headw | There is little doubt that the Po | intends to make another effort on M 19, according to definite reports frd | Germany, and it is clear that the peror of Austria is willing to go almost any length to end the | even to the displeasuring of his powd ful ally. On the other side the Allies content to adopt a policy of watchd waiting. Little attention is bel given to the first German attempts revive the subject of peace, but shou any definite move be made, such new peace note by the Pope, it receive the consideration that it df serves, according to Entente officia The general attitude of the Al as expressed by their chief spokes: is that any definite offer of peace mu be made directly by Germany, throu A recognized intermdiary, such as ti King of Spain or the King of Swedl and that no further attention will | paid to peace feelers of the indird kind in which Germany usua indulges. /é~ 3 LT ;o;.?‘.° g