Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 1, 1915, Page 1

VOL. LVi—NO. 310 NORWICH BULLETIN, FRID PRICE TWO CENTS The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any 0 BIG VICTORIES ARE YET IN SIGHT After Five Months of War the Belligerents are Fight- ing as Sternly as at the Beginning AUSTRIANS AGAI;! DRIVEN OUT OF GALICIA The Russians Have Crossed the Carpathians for the Third Time—In Poland the Armies of the Russians and Ger- man Emperors are Still Fighting for the Banks of the Rivers Which Intersect the Country Between the Upper Vistula and Pilica Rivers—In Flanders and France There Has Been 2 Lull in the Fighting Disturbed Occasionally by Desultory Artillery Fire and Infantry Attacks and Counter Attacks—Along the Belgian Coast the Actions are Confined to Artillery Fire. De o portant forces, commanded by Gar- . e ellige officers, with artillery, drawn by efter five months pontoon sections toward at t beginning, but rording to members of the and nuns from Syria ho have ver here. ‘Subjects of the triple entente pow- ers in Jernsalem, they say, were sub- {jected only to police surveiilance until the report of the bombardment of Al- 2| exandria was received, when they all of out prospe mr tories which as the ta Aust The Austrians : en out of the gre @and, according to a Vienna state-| eore jmprisoned. The Turkish au- ment. the Russians have crossed theliporities desired to seize the records Carpathlans for the e ani|Of the French consulate, but desisted in Poland, where t tlbefore the energetic attitude of the battle is proz Spanish consul, who threatened to ask the Russians and passports if they did so. The are stll fighting fo however, took the rec s of rivers which tween the uppe = = rivers. | DANISH STEAMER = In Flenders and h SUNK BY A MINE. Off Flamborough Head—Crew Saved— NEW YEAR'S GREETING Was Laden With Cotton. FE N EpaemvoEns | London. Jan. 1, 1.50 a. m—The Dan- IN THE 2ND DISTRICT }|ish steamer M. C. Holm." from Say- for .t ity || annah, December 1, for Christiania, ooy %o oxtend thiough ton || laden. with cotton, struck a mine off columns of The Bulletin a hearty §| Flamborough Head, England, ard sank fifteen minutes latef. All the members of the crew escaped in life hoats. They narrowly escaped in- jury, however, from fragments of the mine casing which littered the deck. Flamborough Head {s on the Norch 3, in the County of York. It was ere in 1779 that Paul Jones won most famous naval victory. TRADIT'(;NAL WELCOME FOR New Year's greeting to the citizers of the Second Congressicnal dis- trict. 1 trust the New Year holds for us all the fulfillment of long-de- ferred hopes of prosperity and weli- being. It shall be my constant aim to further the best interssts #f one and all in this community unrln%g(‘-.e coming twelve months, May 1915 prove to you and to - I o readers a2 most Happy New NEW YEAR IN NEW YORK. . ! s RICHARD P. FREEMAN. Laughing, Singing Throngs Made the Congressman-elect. Usual Rounds. w York, Jan. 1. welcomed the new year in New York city traditional been a lul] in the fighting manner, the celebration continuing of the front, disturbed weil into the early morning hours and Lowever, by artillery fir proving to be cne of the most lar attacks and count The | [y particihted in and demons French tonight an the | ever known here. have carried £ | Al the uptcwn streets where the Steinbach, aprer celebrators usually hold forth were while of or no in jamme with laughing, ainging, gelf, stands at the foot of a hill which|throngs, unusually large even for this commands a large part of the event of events in the city’s annual rounding count it is round of celebration. The tens of glon, as in the vicinity thousands were so orderly in their between the Argonne e | merrymaking, however, that the police Meuse, that th reserves found little to do except to pushing their ofrensiv est force and where they have made the most progress. Artillery Fire Along Belgian Coast. Along the Belgian coast the fizhur s confined to artillery bombardmen and Westende and many other ii towns, which long ago were by their civillan popula: been made the target for allies. p the blg streams of people mov- ing. Here and there the line stopped for a little, prhaps to look at the .at- est war bulletins, but it was not for long. The war did no rest heavily on the mirds of New York celebrators to- right, to all appearances. The ca and hotels were crowded with plea ure-seckers, and as more of these re- rts than usual were permitted to re-. n open throughout the small hours form of merry-making was per- e e e e oy, more recly indulged in than - Wil it ever before. A it e S8 and oo math o Electrical illumination throughout ler scale. "At the larger hotels, how. | the city worked overtime, many of the great buildings being especially light- ever, there was a large attendance ot | STeat bulldings belng especlally light- officers on leave or waiting to o to the front, many French and Eelmans|nhicipal Christmas trees had been loft oo e B 113 | standing and thelr many colored lights drew large crowds who Wwere enter- tained In &ome cases with moving pic- tures and band concerts. n the water front added its share to the celebration, for hundreds of steam whistles on craft in both rovers were opened wide at midnight to swell the sound from the whistles on lan?. The notes of the many chimes that the war, anc a considerable sprinkling of Americans. LONDON TIMES WELCOMES TEXT OF AMERICAN NOTE. Says It Displays Entire Justice and Frisudiiness. rang from church towers wero virtual- 5 —Th i ly drowned by the din from this dem- gronfon, Jon. L 145 a. m.—The Times| onstration and that made by - the the American tion of American commerce b} British warships which it savs displays entire justice and friendiiness “The president and his collesgues,” GREATER AND BETTER The Times says “have been ut pains EASTERN CONNECTICUT to insist in several passages of the —Mayor Dunn. note that they do not ce their g o oy do nol During the past few months many e e R L7 52 i] people have felt the effects of bus- iness stagnation, but every cloud has a silver lining and | trust that happiness and contentment will come to homes and firesides during the coming year, that every town and city will hear the busy wheels of industry and may we at the close of this New Year these words emblazoned in golden letters; pros- erity; grester, better and larger momentous nature of the conflict in which we are engaged, or from any wish to gain undue commercial ad- rantages at our expense. We accept these assurances fully and gladly. They are what we should have o pected from a great and friendly na- tion.” The Times then refers to the pas- fmge in the note which complains thai he British policy toward neut i ixceeds the manifest necessit Sgerents and which concludes, fustified by the rules of international ew or required under the principles i self-preservation.” “These last words,” says The Times: significant and we shall be sur- :d if the issue is not joined upon in the British reuly. America astern Connecticut. DANIEL P. DUNN, ! Mayor of Willimantic. “not. crowds on the streets with horns, cow- Dbelis and other noise-making devices. In churches throughout the city se: vices were hld, crowds of peopi many sectionsy in abandoning their mer- rymaking and flocking in to atterd th® FURKS HAVE SENT FORCES TOWARD SUEZ. Wity Artiilery—Are Commanded by German Officers. religious exerciges. Movements of Steamships. Gilbratar, Dec, 30.—Passed: Steam- er De D'Italla, New York for Naples. i Glasgow, Dec. 30.—Arrived: Steam- Parfs, Dee. 31, 1150 p. m—-i deg-|er Ausonia, New! York, - ° ®tch to the Havas Agency from Ath-| Liverpool, Des, 30.—Sailed: Steam- pe sars “The T I cant im-'er Megantic, New York. s ‘:“‘,;axfls 505" 6o .l’aragraphs G. K. Chesterton, Author, Seriously 11i London, Jan. 1, 250 a. m—G. K. Chesterton, the jolrnalist and author, is serfously ill. - tc Convoy Scandinavian Merchantmen, Petrograd, via London, Jan. 1, 2.39 a. m.—The Novoe Vremya's Helsing- fors correspondent says that at the recent conference at Malmo between the Scandinavian kings it was decided to assign warships to convoy all Scandinavian merchantmen in order to prevent their detention by belligerents. RETENTION OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS For Purposes of Naval Strategy Advo- cated by Dean C. Worcester. Warships Retention of shington, Dec, 31. the Philippine Islands by the United States for purposes of naval strategy, in event of war with a forcign nation, such as Japan, was advocated today by Dean C. Worcester, testifving before the senate Philippine committee on the bill to enlarge Philippine self govern- ment. Mr. Worcester formerly was secretary of the interior in the Philip- pines and was ldentified for many with the Philippine government. Slavery and Peonage. In addition to his discussion of the tary importance of the islands, Worcester told the committee h had private despatches that the pres- ent disturbance in the islands was in- significant in accomplishments, but dangerous on account of agitation of the lower classes. He said that peon- age was the greatest practical evil on the islands and that slavery still ex- isted. He urged the committee not to attempt by force to eradicate polgya- my from among the Moros, but to al- low it to die out as the result of friendly teaching. To Save Non-Christian Tribes. Cinaily, Mr, Worcester pleaded with the committee to save the non-Chris- tian tribes from extermination by the Filipino ich, he said, would be threatened if local self government was grantedy, and urged that the bill be amended by providing for a lieu- tenant governor for the non-Christian tribes, to pe appointed by the presi- dent, and to have the power to annul {legislation touching these tribes. regarding tl importance of the Philippines the remark by Chairman Hitchcock that some persons advocat- ed American withdrawal from the ands, without regard to the interest of the Philippines, in order to avoid the possibility of involving the United States in war. Japs Could Land Troops. Mr. Worcester declared it was idle to deny that Japan could land an armed force in the islands and that it would stra- be jmpossible to prevent very long the fall of Manila. The gaining of the control of the bay of Manila, however, he urged, would be a far différent mat- ter, and o stronglv fortified was Cor- regidor that this naval base should be able to hold out a year before being taken, Naval Station in Far East. We need & naval station in the far continued Mr. Webster, “not to protect our shores, but to car- & war into the land of the enemy and require it to keep its fleet in its own waters. Until we were swept oft the ocean we must have a station in the east.” _Concluding, he said that™s the Fi pinos who are now afraid to utter their true belief as to independence should be face to face with the United States withdrawing from the islan or re- malning, “the fate of Belgium would influence them to implore this nation to remain.” HOW SCIENCE CAN IMPROVE HUMAN RACE Discussed by Scientists in Session at Philadelphia. Philadelphia, can improve t Dec. $1.—How science human race by eu- genics was the principal subject of discussion by members of the Ameri- can_Association for the Advancement of Science at today’: session of the annual convention of that body, t is a question whether the human race as whole has greatly improved old stone age, 125,000 years The brain capacity of the man of that period compares very well with that of modern man,” declared Dr. Henry F. Osborn, president of the American Museum of Natural History, who spoke at a session of the Ameri- can Society of Zoologists. _“The elevation of the moral sense through knowledge,” he added, “is the greatest contribution made by the science of biology. Genetics and eu- genice must make their appeal to the human conscience. The parents of to- day know more than those of 100 years ago and therefore know more abont right and wrong. We must make our appeal to this higher moral sense to prevent the bringine of defectives into the world.” Dr. G. H. Parker of Harvard advo- cated the sterilization of all defectives, Which he declared are steadily increas- ing. _Dr. Charles P. Davenport of Ne York said that the progress of the science of eugenics has been retarded by the fear of making family skeletons public. “No family should be afrafd to keep records of the mental traits of each of its members, for in this way alone can the race be betiered,” he de- clared. ‘School teachers should be given information about the family and racial characteristics of each of their pupils, for different instruction for each child is necessary to bring it to i fullest development.” g SRS R OBITUARY. Mrs. Annie France Torrance. Derby, Conn., Dec. 31.—Mrs. Annie France Torrance, widow of Chief Jus- tive David Torrance of the Connact cut Supreme court died at her home here today after a lingering illness. She was born in Scotland about 74 years ago and Is survived by two sons ang a daughter, Thomas T. Shepard. Hartford, Conn., Dec. 31.—Thomas T. Shepard, for many years until re- cently engaged in the. saddlery and hardware business in Boston, died at the home of his son, Frederick C. Shepard, in this city today, in his 81st year. He came of a distinguished co- lonial stock, both grandfathers hav- ing been officers in the Continental army. King George Has Instituted New Dec- oration. London, Dec, 31, 11.35 p. m.—King George has instituted a new decoration which is called “The Military Cross.” s i Opens flmsitinn PANAMA-CALIFORNIA. REMAINS OPEN A YEAR Secretary McAdoo to Deliver Address at Dedicatory Exercises This Morn- ing—King of Spain Represented. San Diego, Calif. Jan 1,—Three thousand miles aw: President Wil- son_arose today in the small hour. at Washington and touched an elec- tric button that opened to the world at midnight here the Panama-Cali- Last New Year's day | monwealth. Service Examination Acts, men have paid a considerable country from the Income Ta: Poisoning Case TO TWO BABIES TOUCHES BUTTON THAT STARTS |[TAKEN BY WOMAN AND GIVEN |road in December decreased § per cent. |HER IDENTITY IS UNKNOWN Lived as Wife of Lorlys Eiton Rogers, Who Matrimonial Entanglements. A New York Lawyer, New Yor ney Franc! gan today an in cumstances under which Mr S. Rogers took poison and gave her two babies last Tuesday. O Martin of the Bron: A NEW YEAR'S MESSAGE FROM GOVERNOR BALDWIN sent the Bulletin an expression of my hope that our people would all help in 1914 to make four great laws, then recently enacted, work for the prosperity of our ancient com- These were the Banking and Currency and the Income Tax Acts of Congress, and our Workmen’s Compensation and Civil We may fairly say that the citizens of Connecticut during 1914 have done their fuil part in these directions. their cordial support to the Banking and Currency law; hare of the total receipts in the whole for injuries to our workingmen, while acting in the line of their employment, a fair compensation has been more quickly and effectually secured administered the Civil Service Examination law in a way to secure and a capable commission h. the state better service from better men. Thus enters the state on another c seventy-sixth of its existence, better able than ever before to fulfil the end for which civil government exists. year, the two hundred SIMEON E. BALDWIN, Governor of Connecticut. estigation of unu Our banks have given our rich, and Had Dec. 31.—District Attor- x be- ne of fornia_exposition. until January 1, 1916. William G. McAdoo, secretary It will remain open | the ¢ of the|two ye: treasury, represented President Wil- son at the opening celebration As the personal representative ot King Alfonso of Spain there was pres- ent Count del Valle de Salazar, and with him were the legates of other foreign powers. Fireworks and Hiumination. illuminatio Fireworks and 3 of i} Dening as opportunity to Old Spai mesa above new city of risen on the the Sun. Formal Ceremony of Opening. At 11.30 p. m, the formal mony of throwin wide the gat world began. Lyman J. G Diego, former secretary of the tr ary, introduceg Colonel D. C. former president of the After Cescribing the incept exposition, Colonel Collier for President G. Aubrey Davidson whom were delivered the plar keys, and finally the exposition At midnight the the flash of an elect: White House carried over the President Wilsor’s announcement. Dedicatory ceremonies were planned > of of made way Sp3 in WELCOMES THE YEAR WITH OPEN ARMS. —Warden Hopkins. The borough of Danieison wal- comes the year of 1915 with open arms. It sees anproaching a year of prosperity and business activity such as has never before been re- corded. With a comparatively small percentage of idle men, its factories running and the general favorable outlook throughout the country is indicated a year in which the bor- ough of Danielson will increase and expand as a business center to a marked degree. BURDETTE C. HOPKINS, Warden of Danielson. to be held on the exposition grounds this morning. In behalf of President Wilson, Secretary McAdoo was on the programme to deliver on address. Other speaches were to he 1 John Barrett, director general of the Pen- American Union, in behalf of the na- tions of the two America: by Count de Sa'azar, on behalf of King Alfon- so of Spain; by the representatives of other foreign powers, and by the gov- ernors of California and other West- ern states. WHITMAN TAKES CONTEOL AT FIRST BELL OF NEW YEAR Stepped to His Desk and Began to Transact Business. -Albany, N. Y, Jan, 1.—As the first bell sounded the birth of the new yveas tonight, Charles S. Whitnfan, the new- 1y elected governor of the state, step- ped to his desk in the executive cham- ber of the state capitol and began to Harbor the San Collier, exposition. the to the itself. cises ended and the wires M died yesterday, Mrs. Rogers and death’s door in a hospital, Man Grief Stricken. Rogers’ bedside ther At Mrs. Apparently he i Neighbors of Rogers, who lived in the Bronx, him a the ildren, on Rogers, a well to do law dren eight months old, Loreita, John, ars old, the other child, are at e sits s d Mrs. knew her husband and the father of Questicns from Brother-in-Law. Prof. I anklin H. Gidding: ia unive band of his sister, who was [ line Giddings. Rogers Giddings were married in 1909. fessor Giddings called today hospital where the dving womai to guestion Rogers as to his re with her. pleaded with him not them. obtain from the sick woman inf to her In an e tion name as relatives or attorney today Dr. W. Grant ian, ‘ague had been quoted as of at Rogers received him k 1 to press questions and refused to answer any o new Rogers as the M n ation orma.- malden ort to find out who she invited Hague, with him at the court I ADDED PROSPERITY AND The wish for that with 1915 will come for ti of business and a work-toge! spirit that will bring abundant idends in heaith, wealth and pl all peoples. Mav all people strive with thoss of o eastern Connecticut cities this section of the state, consta increasing its necticut. ARCHIBALD MACDONALD, WORK TOGETHER SPIRIT —Mayor Macdonali. Putnam’s peaple hem added prosperity, a strona revival ther di eas. ant relations of all kinds and with of Putnam’s ther and towns in advancing the interests of ntly importance t¢& Con- Mayor of Putnam. children ii Bronx °d in a modest house Two Other Mrs. Rogers. divorced the The first Mrs. Requemore of Montgome: the divorce, M mained friends, it was said, and 18 vear old son was a visitor home of Mrs. Caroline Rogers time to time. District lawyer in 1908 Rogers was Mi Ala or Annie Rogers, Mr: and the Caroline woman who calls h Mrs. Ida Rogers and her at Attorney OMartin sought establish the accuracy of reports that Rog- | that the woman was a member a good southern family; that she had come here from Alabama, and that two of her brothers were high in the service of the government. Mrs. Caroline Rogers and her hus- ved, until a month or so ago, in onable apartment on Riverside two in the There was another Mrs. Rogers who 1969 Annie fter and Mrs. Rogers re- their the from to erself Ida Rogers all knew one another, transact business. He had previo v fand that woman in the hospital taken the oath of office and filed it|had been ed there by one of the with the secretary of state other two. irst as Charles S. Whitinan, district attorney of New York county, he pre- sented his resignation of that office to himself as Charles S. Whitman, zov- ernor. Immediately after accepting the resignation, he designated Charles A. Perkins of New York his successor in the district attorney’s office. The governor then redesignated service in the appellate division five supreme court justices whose terms are about to expire. It was explained that the appoint- ments were made tonight in order that there might be no doubt as to their legality, Caiifornia citrus-fruit shipments TOLBERT ACQUITTED Judge Little in Charge Man Had a Right to Home. Said Fort Smith, Ark., Dec. 3 bert, charged with_the Robert L. Eads, a Little buyer, here December 8, was acq today by a jury. Tolbert on th ness stand vesterday declared )i was and he was prayer “Justified OF MURDER CHARGE. Every Defend His —Fred Tol- murder Rock cottory of uijted wit- wife ent to him as a direct/result of before during the 12 months ended October |God in kiiling the man who had won 31 191, t4otaied 48,548 cars, the biggest | her from The |jury Judge .Little declared there was revious yield was 46,394 cars, | no unwritten law /but that every man cror ever grown in the state. largest in the 1910-11 seasony NTENTIONAL SECOND EXPOSUR him.” 1In -charging had a right to defend his home. the Condensed Telegrams Rudyard Kipling Celebrated his 49th birthday. Champ Clark Announced that he will not be a candidate for the presidency. Freight Traffic on the St. Paul rail- The Withdrawal of Federal Troops from the strike districts of Colorado has begun. Chicago Dealers in Horses report a steady buying of those animals by the Italian government. The Winter Wheat Territory is al- st entirely covered with from three six inches of snow The Next Cotton . Ginnin~ Report will_be issued by the census bureau 9 in Washington on Jan. A Seat on the Chicago Board of Trade was sold for $4,425, an adyance of § over the last previous sale, Three Miners Were Killed and five others injured by a fall of slate in the Greenville mine at Greenville, Ky. The Springfield, ~per, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City’s Population President Wilson A Mys:erious Quidnick-Windham Co. Reorganized WILLIAM E. PECK OF BALTIC TO BE GENERAL AGENT, A $700,000 MORTGAGE Voted by Creditors in Providence— Old Board of Officers Abolished and New Officers Chosen, Providence, R. L, organization committee of stocklicld ers of the Quidnick-Windham Mant featuring mills, which has mills at Quidnick, R. L, and Willimantic, Conn. obtained control of the affains of company at a meeting today. company was in the hands of a tem- porary receiver until last Tuesda. : Spr chen it was announced that iis loan of $500,000 ha: ol 1 its e et e e "New York, | troubles had_been adjusted. The Destruction of the British war- ship Bulwark was officially entered as ent at an inquest held in Lon- Six Hundred Thousand Brook Trout xpected to hatch this week at the fish hatchery at Hackettstown, 0 mem- hool and President Wilson Received nday the United State: bers of the International S ommittee Canada. of alli Liverpool Harrison Grey Fisk of New York, the heatrical producer, filed a petition in »ankruptey in the United States dis- °t court. Lieut. Brano Garibalai, grandson of he Italian hero, was killed leading a harge of the Italian volunteers against the Germans. Secretary of the Navy Daniels an- noune: that the wage scales in the navy vards in 1915 will be the s this year. Three Children of George Limburner Bloom: re burned to home on fire tches. of death wi while playing with The Steamshio Lusitania, the last of the rge liners to sail from New York to ar, is protected by $1.0 nal insurance. Steamship Lines Operating to South Africa announce that the surcharge on herto held at 20 per cent., uced to 15 per cent. of Gulver’'s Brook Y.. stoobped the supply the electric the town into dar The Freezing hville, N nt there, operated uni the war have be ican merchant mar B Samuel W. Pennypacker, former gov- ernor of P Ivania, has been ap- vointed chair of the P 1blic service comm Tener scogin will Boston Jan to g ave ipped as a e aid to Amer st of The City Council of Chicaae has au- ‘horized the appointment of 2 munici- Hmmis of ten men to devise of meeting unemployment the Lieut. Silvano Alfredo Andrew of the zentine navy and his chauffeur, Tames Hartley, were injured when *heir auto crashed into a trolley car in | Trenton, N..J | Two American Blueiackets from the hattleship North Carolina were drown- ~d at Beirut. Svri they were swimming back to the ship after being absent without leave That He Mi~ht Not Fail to Arise at ? a.m. to press the button opening the San Dievo exposition on Jan. 1, Presi dent Wilson received a handsome ster- as ling silver alarm clock. The Christmas Presents sent by American childrenl to the orphaned children of Servia have heen distrib- 1ted through Charles V. an minister to Ser: iploka, Ameri- In View of the Abnormal Price of wheaf, the government of India has decided to restrict the evports to 100.- M9 tons of wheat. including flour, from Dec. 1 to March 31 1915, In Every Surface Street Car there t two cases of dinhtheria nneumonia and one of tnher- accgédine to Dr. E. V. Hill of cago health department. of END IS NOT YET IN CITY'S PROGRESS —Mayor Mahan. New London has been enioying i} 2 healthy boom for the past few years of which the results are plainly visible, and it is a pleasure to remind ourselves that it is now a real city in fact well as in name.. And the end is not yet, \ hope, in the city’s progress. These facts connected with conscienkious work on the part of the whale peo- ple for the general advancément of the best interests of the city, au- gur well for the comtinued pros- perity of New Lordon. BRYAM F. MAHAN, Maywr of New London. e e . The ‘Western Union Telegraph Co. annodnced that during the interruption dpe to the forei~n censorship of cable communication with Turkey, messages for that country may be sent through the Tuckerton, N. J,, station by wire- les via Germany, Charged With Trespassing on gov- ernment property at Fort Hancock, Sandy Hook, Harry Letts, Ira Letts and William Smith of Atlantic High- lands, N. J., have been held for the United States grand jury. They were gathering holly for Christinas, i 1 | w The old board of directors was aboi- ished at today’s meeting and new of- ficers were chosen. William I. Peck of Baltic, was placed in charge of mills under the title of general a Creditors here today voted a ¢ 600 mortgage. FORMAL PURCHASE OF NEW YORK AMERICANS ANNOUNCED. “Wild Bill” Donovan is to Be the New Manager. New York, Dec. 31.—President B Johnson announced this afternoon t Coldnel Jacob Ruppert and T. L. Hus- ton had formally purchased the New York American League Baseball club. The terms were not announced. “Wild 5ill* Donovan is to be the new man- ager of the club. The new officers of the club will be president, Jacob Ruppert, and secre- and treasurer, T. L. Huston. Neéw.er the new owners nor Farnk J. Farrelly*he former executive, would announce e _detail the terms under which the deds “or the transfer of the stock was made. 5 It is understood, however transfer of eral playeéas er clubs to the New Yor involved. ‘M(LITARV UNPEPAREDNESS i NO PREVENTIVE OF WAR. Declaration of Prof. Brown of Prince- to University. B. t that the from oth- Anloo: _— ANTICIPATES A YEAR OF PROSPERITY —Mayor Murphy. During the year 1914, | feel cer- tain that we, in this city, have been more fortunate than any other city in the state in a time of de- pressed business. In my opinion, 1915 will be a banner year for us, and we will all enjoy a prosperity such as we have never seen before if we_all work for the interest of our city. TIMOTHY C. MURPHY, Mayor of Norwich. R — Chicago, Dec. 31.—“It i an illusory umpeion to argue thai because tary preparedness brought about war, military unpreparedness will pre- vent it” declared Professor Phillip Marshall Brown, of Princeton univer-~ sity, at the American Political Science association meeting here today Of world-wide disarmament Pro fessor Brown said “It would seem obvious that 1t is useless to talk of disarmament before an international organization has been created to determine all of the pre- cise rights of states, to compace, general bod ed by all and to ensure the administration and enfor law by a common executiv diciary TWO ARRESTS IN BAFF MURDER CASE. Police Maintain Utmost Secrecy Con- cerning Men in Custody. New York, night arrested witnes der of Barnet poultryman w. Dee. tw ses in connecti Bafr, 21.—Detec! men mate: n with the m the New Yor} assass ed b the street recentl two men who escaped in an automobile The men en into custody wore booked as Willlam Cymaster, 30 vears old, of Je City and Myer Shie, a poult city. Cymast- er stated th an agent for the ording to the po. e is known amo nkey Judge Malone, sittin court, fixed bail for Shine was 1 adquarte Police Inspector Faurer maintained the utmost secre: o arrest of the two mexi Tning the TO COMMANDEER MEN IN GERMAN. "SOUTHWEST AFRICA To Cope 'With Develonments of Situa- / tion There, London, Dec. 31, 7.55 p. m.—A tele- (Bram received here today by Reuters Telegram company from Pretoria, the seat of government of the Union of South Africa, says: “It is officially announced that the government intends to commandeer men for service in German Southwest Africa and in the Union of South Africa, as the situation cannot be ad quately met by depending on the vol- unteer recruits.” Druggist Bisbee Guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter. Middlebury, Vt., Dec. 31.—Dr. Don A. Bisbee, a druggist in the no-license town of Bristol, who sold liquor from the effects of which thirteen men died, two months ago, was fourd gnilty of involuntary manslaughter by a jury tonight. Testimony at the trial which involved four counts of manslaughter, showed that the liquor contained wood alcohol. Dr, Bisbee will be sentenced tomorrow. New Haven~—Prof. ang Mrs. Hor- atio W. Parker have returned from a fortnight's trip to Jamaica