Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 10, 1916, Page 1

N VOL. LVIIL—NO. 35 POPULATION 28219 _NORWICH, CONN. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1916 On Sector Between Lens and Arras, Where Recently There Has Beel n Great Activity GERMANS CAPTURE POSITIONS OVER 800 YARDS Paris Admits That the Teutons Gained Foothold After Ex- ploding Two Heavily Charged Mines, But Claims They Were Later Driven Off by Hand Grenade Attacks—On the Russian Front Berlin Infantry in the Riga Region—Nothing New From the Austro-ltalian Front—Two Women and One Child In- jured When Two German Seaplanes Raided Kentish Coast. The French and Germans have been engaged In furious combat on the sec- tor of the western battle front be- tween Lens and Arras, where recently there has been great activity. Ber- iin reports that west of the town of Vimy tbe Germans captured French positlons cver a length of 800 yards. Paris admits that the Germans, after the explosion of two heavily charg- ed mines got a foothold in portions of n French trench but says that they were driven out by hand grenade at- tacks. Southwest of Vimy, in the vicinity of the road running from Neuville to Thelus, the Germans detonated anoth- er mine an dthen essayed an infrantry attack against the French, which was repul Paris also reports that the French in a grenade attack drove cut the Ger- mans from e small post between Sois- Reports Repulse of Russian sons and Rheims and that the French betteries have badly damaged Ger- man organizations in the Forest of Apremont, southeast of St. Mihiel. On the Rassian front Berlin records the repulse of Russian infrantry at- tacks at several points in the Riga rcgion. A Petrograd despatch says severe fighting is in process of de- velopment in this district, the pre- liminary artillery duels having chang- cd mto bombardments of great intens- ity. ing the situation on the Austro-Italian line, in Belgium or Asia, where the Russians and British at various points are cngaged with the Turks. Two women ¢nd one chilg have been injured. in a daylight raid by two German seaplanes which _ dropped bombs on the outskirts of Ramsgate and near a schoolhouse at Broadstairs in Kent county, southeast England. STRIKE OF NEEDLE WORKERS IN NEW YORK CITY.| Approximately 40,000 Out—No Disor- ders the First Day. New York, Feb. 9.—The first day of the strike of approximately 40,000 needle workers for increased pay and better working conditions passed without disorder. A small army- of police was on duty to meet.any emer- gencles which might arise, but only three arrests were made. These girls were taken into custody for obstruct- ing trafic by their distribution of cir- culars urging support of the walkout. ‘Their fines of $5 each were paid. All the afternoon and early evening were devoted to registration. When the girls went to the halls and meeting places to which they were ordered to Tegister their names they received in- structions as to their conduct if they are assigned to picket duty. A deter- mined effort probably will be made to- morrow morning to induce the girls who bave not already ceased work to join the strike. A large percentage of those who have struck are not yet members of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers' union, and the first duty of the leaders will be to supply them with union cards. A score of meetings of strikers was held tonight in halls throughout the city. In almost meeting places were packed to ca- pacity and many girls were unable to obtain admission. Abraham Baroff, secretary and treasurer of the, international union, declared tonight ‘the workers are de- termined to remain on strike until their employers have made agreements with the unions involved. Because of the great rush of work in all shops, he , he expected an early victory. Members of the Manufacturers' as- sociation already have reached an agreement with their employes and these girls are merely taking a “vaca- tion” at their own expense, to show their sympathy for the workers in in- dependent shops whose employers do not belong to the association. At & meeting tonight of the Jewelry Workers' union, 2,500 of the members of which also are on strike, it was announced that arrangements _had been made for shops throughout the cit DONATION DAY FOR RELIEF OF DISTRESSED ARMENIANS Senate Adopts Resolution Presented by Senator Lodge. Washington, Feb. 9—The senate adopted today a resolution proposed by Senator Lodge requesting the pres- Ident to set apart a day on which the public might contrfbute to the relief of distressed Armenians. During_discussion of the resolution Senator Borah sent to the desk a press dispatch from Petrograd,.dated Jan. 18, in which Dr. Jacob Stargis, an American Methodist medical mission- ary, who had escaped from’ Urumish in Turkish Persia when' threatened by the Kurds, told of the death of a Dr. Shimmum, declared to be an Ameri- can missionary. ‘The dispatch said that Dr. Shimmum was burned to feath in oil Senator Stone, chairman of the for- sign relations committee, resenting of the clipping as an attempt to_give the resolution partisan color. Benator Borah declared he simply wanted to accentuate the situation of the Armenians. NOTHING KNOWN OF BATTLE OFF BERMUDA. Bétween British Armored Cruise Drake and German Cruiser Roon. Hamfiton, Bermuda, Feb. 9—Noth- g is knnwn here of battles r‘t:l picketing every instance the | m.vlnaemrrw WHOLESALE INACCURACIES 1 IN EXPORT STATISTICS | Admitted by Secretary Redfield of the Department of Commerce. Washington, Feb. 9.—Wholesale in- {accuracies in government export sta- tistics_ were admitted today by Secre- tary Redfield of the department of | {commerce, in a speech before the Chamber_of Comierce of the United | States. He said, however, that by an order issued Feb. 1st he had remedied the situation so far as was in his power and that the gross errors of the past, caused by refusal of shippers to give the government facts and by an- tiquated laws, would not be repeated. The secretary referred to a charge made a month ago by officials of the chamber that the percentage of error in departmental reports was so great it was impossible even for exporters to estimate it; that single cargoes run- ning into thousands of doilars in value !left American ports without being re- icorded and that the published export figures for 1914 fell far ghort of the actual exports. He said there was only slight inac- curacy in import statistics, as returns on imports were more fully under gayv- ernment control. “Such errors as have existed in re- cording exports,” said he, “aré proper- ly understated. The business of com- piling figures of 5000,000,000 a year | under a law of 1820 is not a simple matter. The errors have been cansed wholly by shippers who were unwilling to state the facts. I am glad that you héve gone into this matter. You are| my witnesses that there are no closed doors in the department of commerce. So long as I have anything to do with that department, if there is anything of concealment I will show it up.” Others who addressed_the chamber included Dr. Wellington Koo, the Chi- nese minister, who declared that in China the greatest of world markets awaited the American business man; Senator Fletcher of Florida, and Ed- ward A. Filene of Boston, whose"sub- ject was “A Business View of the Peace to Come.” Approval was voted of a recom- mendation that the federal govefn- ment keep friendly with the states trading at a maximum expenditure of $720,000 a year. FOR FALSE STATEMENT TO CUSTOMS AUTHORITIES Mrs. Charlotts A. Warren of New York Indicted by Federal Grand Jury. New York, Feb. 9—Mrs. Charlotte A, Warren, wife of Whitney Warren, a wealthy New York architect, was indicted today by the federal grand jury on a charge of making a frau- dulent statement to the customs au- thorities in regard to the value of a Nothing has come through concern- | The Bulletin’s Girculation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paps GERMANS IN FURIOUS COMBATWITH FRENCH Gabled_ Paragraphs Sir Charles Rivers Wilson Dead. London, Feb. 9, 11 p. m.—Sir Charles Rivers Wilson, former president of the Grand Trunk railway, died at his Lon- g::l residence tonight. He was born in Rene Besnard's r Appointed. Paris, Feb. 9, 135 p. m.—Colonel Henru Jacques Regnler, director of the Central School of Military Pyrotech- nio, has been appointed director of military aeronautics to succeed Rene Bflmnud. who resigned the post yes- OPPONENTS OF MILITARISM BEFORE MILITARY COMMITTEE Not Unanimous in Their Opinions as to What Should Be Done. ‘Washington, Feb. 9.—Opponents of administration plans for national de- fense legislation concluded thelr day in court today before the house mili- tary committee and while not unani- mour in their opinions as to what should be done or left undone with regard to the army and navy, they all opposed any present change in mill- tary policy. Representatives of the Soclety of Friends and a score of oth- ers, speaking under the auspices of the Women's Peace Party, discussed war and its causes and consequences from many angles. They were sel- dom interrupted by committee mem- bers except when the open-mindedness of congress on the subject of prepar- edness was assailed. Among those who spoke were Wal- ter Fisher, of Chicago, former secre- tary of the interior; Oswald Garri- son Villard, of the New York Even- ing Post; the Rev. John McCracken, chancellor - emeritus, University of New York; Samuel B. Montgomery of West Virginia, speaking as the rep- resentative of the United Mine Work- ers, and several fraternal organiza- tions; Mrs. Florence Kelley of New York, speaking for the Child Welfare workers of the country; Mrs. Sara Bardfield, of California, who said she represented the sentiment of the wom- en voters of western states; Frederic Howe, the New York state immigra- tion 'commissioner, and the Rev. Frank Hall of New York, speaking for the clergy of all denominations of that city. GARMENT WORKERS OF BOSTON TO WALK OUT In Furtherance of Demands for Read- 5 justment of Wages. Boston, Feb. 9—Preparations for a walkout ' tomorrow morning of 2,000 employers of the waist and garment making industries in this city were made at a meeting tonight. Leaders said that at least this number would respond to the strike call in further- ance of demands for readjustment of wage and working conditions and that other workers in allied industries prob- ably would abandon their needles with- in a day or two if no settlement re- sulted. The. employes made demands for & minimum wage of $9 weekly for iron- ers; trimmers and buttonhole—workers and an advance of $1 a week for. those who now receive $9 or more, with a minimum wage of $12 for operators, sample makers and drapers. Addition- al compensation for overtime work, revision of the piece payment systems, @ 49 hour working week, without labor after noon on Saturdays, and recogni- tion of the union are other demands. TEIPER WILL BE TRIED BEFORE JURY For the Murder of His Mother—In- dictment Returned by Grand Jury. Buffalo, N. Y., Feb, 9—John Edward Teiper will be tried before a jury at the April term of the supreme court for the alleged murder of his mother, Mrs. Agnes M. Teiper. Both prosecu- tion and defense agreed after the re- turn of an indictment by the grand jury today, charging Teiper with ma- tricide, to which he pleaded not guilty, that it was desirable to await the pos- sible recovery of Grace J. Teiper, the Confirmg#fon of AT HEARING OF JUDICIARY COM- ‘MITTEE OF SENATE COSTLY TO THE PEOPLE Clifford Thorne, Railroad Commission- er of lowa, Advances Argument That Brandeis ie Committed to Railroad Corporations. ‘Washington, Feb. 9.—Charging that Louis D. Brandeis, as counsel for the Interstate Commerce Commission in the five per cent. rate cases, conced- ed to the cause of the raiflroads. to sOpposed| Use of His Name Hughes Forbids IN CONNECTION WITH PRESI- DENTIAL NOMINATION HE IS OUT OF POLITICS Statement Made In Letter to Repre- sentative Slemp, Chairman of Vir- ginia Republican Committee—Made Public Last Night. ‘Washington, Feb. 9.—Representative Slemp, chairman of the Virginia re publican committee, today made pub- lic a letter from Justice Hughes de- claring: “I am totally opposed to the DAY HOW MUCH I1S.A DOLLAR WORTH TO YOU? Norwich Merchants WILL DEMONSTRATE ITS VALUE SOON the fatal injury of the public interest, er of Towa and an associate counsel in the rate case, appealed tomght to the judiciary sub-committee of the sen- ate not to recommend confirmation of Mr. Brandeis' nomination to the su- preme court of the United States. Man With Preconceived Notions. Mr. Thorne argued that it would be very costly to the American people to put men on the supreme court bench with pre-conceived notions as to high (Continued on Page Eight) WOMAN OF 70 SENTENCED . FOR INSUBORDINATION. For Preaching Thou Shalt Not Kill in Cologne. Cologne, Feb. 9, via London, 4.45 p. m—Elly Reuss, a woman missionary at Cologne, the head of a small sec- tion of Seventh Day Adventists, who preached the -practical application of the commandment Thou Shalt Not Kill, was sentenced today by court- martial to nine months’ imprisonment in a fortress on the charge of attempt- ed treason by inciting eoldiers to in- subordination. She is 74 years old. The woman had advocated in speech and print the principle that soldiers must not slay on the Sabbath. The court accepted as a mitigating fact evidence that th edefendant had not acted in anti-German spirit. More- over, a court physician pronounced her ‘mentally sub-normal. - Otherwise the sentence probably would have been much greater. COLONEL HOUSE CONFERS WITH MINISTER PAGE. only other surviving eyewitness of the Orchard Park tragedy. The hope that the young woman ul- timately will recover grew stromger today among the physicians attending her. Her periods of returning con- sciousness were longer and she ap- peared to be gaining strength hourly. It was said, however, that with one ex- ception she had sald nothing that could be construed as a reference to the murders. The nature of her single atterance about the crime has not been disclosed. PENSIONS FOR FORMER SOLDIERS OVER 65. Authorized in a Bill Introduced in the House Yesterday. ‘Washington, Feb. 9.—Special pen- slons of $10 & month each and places on a roll or honor for former, soldiers Wwho are holders of medals of honor and over 65 gears old, are authorized in a bill introduced by Representative Sherwood, Ohio, and passed by the house today. It is estimated that not more than 1,000 veterans come under the provisions of the measure. Another pension bill designed to benefit widows of Spanish War vol- unteers who serveq more than ninety davs aroused much discussion and fi- ally went over until next Wednesday without action. It would grant widows large quantity of wearing apparel which she brought with her from France on Nov. 15 last. Mrs. Warren in her customs dec- ration described the clothes in her mks as having a foreign value of only $1500. According to the apprais- ers the actual value was far in ex- cess of this figure. Shortly after the indictment was filed Mrs. We appeared in court and entered a pled of not gufity. She was released on bail of $2600. A POSTOFFICE FLOATING . 4 DOWN WHITE RIVER Was Located on a Raft—Torn From Fastenings by Flood. Tenn., Feb. 9,—White & small town near the whose incomes do not exceed $250 a year, pensions of $12 a month and $3 additional for each minor child, with- out regard to the cause of the soldiers death. Representative Gardner insisted that the measure was unfair to the widows of regular army soldiers. BOILER EXPLOSION IN A BOSTON JAIL. Prisoners Thrown Into a Panic—Ne One Injured. Boston, Feb. 9.—A boiler explosion in an outbuilding of the Charles street jail threw the prisoners into a panic tonight, and it was many minutes be- fore the guards could quiet them. No one was injured, but all the buildings mouth of ite River, is minus a m@flu. ‘on aceount of the high wa- My postofice is now floating down the river and unless it lodges against some trees, it will be a total loss,” sald an appeal from the received today at the local office of e postetice was locaied e was on a raft, which Sunday night tore from its fastenings, dumping the mail and the Dostmistress into the water. Then it wuemlul-uons‘b:rsa and again of the jail were shaken d many windows were broken. B Movements of Steamships. Gothenburg, Feb. 7. — Arrived: steamer Stockholm, New York via Kirkwall and Liverpool, Liverpool, Feb. 8.—Sailed: steamer Dominion, Philadelphia. Christiansand, _Feb. 9. —Salled: steamer Frederik VIII, (from Copen- hagen), New York. . Bergen, Feb, 8—Arrived: Krristianiatjord, New York. | \Plnt Sound navy yard to Seattle last President Wilson’s Personal Represen- tative Arrived in Paris Last Night. London, Feb. 9, 7.22 p. m.—Colonel E. M. House, President Wlson’s per- sonal representative, arrived here from Paris this evening. Later he confer- red with Walter Hines Page, the American minister, A conference be- tween Sir Edward Grey, the British foreign secretary, and Mr. House has been arranged for tomorrow. It is understood here that Colonel Houses’ principal work during his trip was in the continent. He saw most Clifford Thorne, railroad commission- | | use of my name in connection with the pomination and to the selection or in- struction of any delegates in my in- terest, directly or remotely.” Justice Hughes' letter was made public with his consent and was in reply to a letter from Mr. Slemp, which informed the justice that Frank H. Hitchcock, postmaster general under President Taft, had inaugurated a movement in the south favoring the justice for the republican presidential nomination. Chairman Slemp’s Letter. Chairman Slemp's letter to Justice Hughes and the reply of the justice follow: Dear Justice Hughes: ¥ take the liberty of writing to you (Continued on Page Six) RUMOR OF PLOT TO BLOW UP MONTREAL CITY HALL Police Relieved When Hour Set for Explosion Passed. Montreal, Feb. 9. ceived by the police that the city hall was to be blown up at 12.30 o'clock today spread alarm throughout the city this forenoon and caused the hurried return from Quebec of Mayor Martin. The police were relieved when the hour passed without the oc- currence of any untoward event. Mayor Martin on his arrival went into immediate conference with the police heads and the city hall was placed in a state suggesting siege. A large squad of police was placed on duty in and around the building, while guantities’ of new hose were brought to supplement the regular fire fighting apparatus. Al available papers were transferred to fireproof safes. Many of the employes in the building found excuses for being absent. THE SUSAN B. ANTHONY SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT To Be Reported in the House Without Recommendation. \ Washington, Feb. 9.—A house judi- ciary sub-committee by a vote of 4 to 3 today recommended to the full committee reporting to the house, of the leading British statesmen when he was here before and it is nof lfke- 1y he will hold any more conferences before sailing for New York. FORMER HARTFORD POLICEMAN DIES OF ASSAULT INJURIES. Hiram C. Clintsman, 69, Was Thrown Down Stai by a Stranger. Hartford, Conn., Feb. 9.—Hiram C. Clintsman, aged 69, a former_ police. man, died tonight in a hospital as flu[ resuit of injuries received on Jan. 18, ‘when he was assauited by an unknown man in the hallway of his home. The stranger rapped at his door at night and when Clintsman went. into the hall an' argument ensued, during ‘which, it is said, Clintsman was thrown down the stairs. The stranger jumped on him and then disappeared. The police have no clue as to his identity. HAVE RECOVERED NAVAL GUNS WHICH FELL IN BAY ile En Route from Puget Sound to Seattle .Navy Yard. ‘Wash., Feb. 9.—The wi Seattle, four eight-inch naval guns lost overboard from a scow while en route from the week have been recovered, it was an- ‘nounced here today. Each of the gune weighs 22 tons and the four are val- ued at $60,000. The guns, which were removed from the armored cruiser Col- orado, are to be sent to the naval arse- nal at Washington for reboring. TO PARLEY WITH DISCONTENTED INDIANS Of Navajo Reservation, Who Threaten to Become Hostile. Flagstaff, Ariz, Feb. 9.—Frank A. ‘Trackery, superintendent of the Pima dIndian reservation, near ox- pects to leave here today for Tuba, Ariz, where Indians of the Navajo reservation in northeastern have been threatening trouble ovi killing of ome of their ‘white policeman. m “without recommendation,” the Susan B. Anthomy constitutionai amendment for nation-wide woman suffrage. This is in accord with the action of the committee in the past. In the sub-com- mittee on the motion to report with- out recommendation Representatives Taggart, Kansas; Nelson, Wisconsin; Morgan, Oklahoma, and Volstead, Min~ nesota, voted aye, and Representatives Carlin, Virginia; Gard, Ohio, and Whaley, South Carolina, nay. ! NECKLACE VALUED AT $1,000,000 IMPORTED BY NEW YORK FIRM. Said by Experts to Be the Finest String of Pearls in the World. New York, Feb. 9.—What was said by experts to be the finest string of pearls in the world, with the possible exception of a few held by native princes of India, was entered at the customs house today. The fifty gem: in the necklace were valued at $1,004 000, and it was believed might seil for more than that. The necklace was im- ported from Paris by a firm of Fifth avenue jeweles ENROLLMENT OF VOTERS BY PARTY AFFILIATIONS Advocated by Republican Club of Massachusetts. Boston, Feb. 9.—A return to the system of enrolling voters according to party afliations was advocated to- day by members of the Republican club of chusetts at a hearing before a lative committee. It was claim- ed that eince the abolition of the en- rollment system two _ago_some " candidates had ted B Voters of other American Barkentine Bruce Hawkins Abandoned at Sea. Newport News, Va., Feb. 9.—The American barkentine Bruce Hawkins, 546 tons, lumber-laden and bound from Mobile for Huelva, was aban- There are noy in Mexico City. Food rioting in the Moabam district of Germany was reported. An epidemic of+smallpox is report- ed to .b'e ravagiag Tampico. of the Old Dominion Copper mmmu January was 3,121,000 pounds. rit Gasoline, tank wagon basis, was ad- vaned 1 cent per gallon to 17 cents at Los Angeles. Francisco Villa and his band have been driven out of Canyon de el Nido, ‘Weetern Chihuatua. The plant of the Northern Veneer Co., at Washburn, Me., was destroy- ed by fire at a loss of $45,000. No foreigner will be allowed by the Carranza government to enter Mexi co unless he posse: $50 in gold. Two men were seriously burned while fighting an oil fire Humble, Tex., which caused $30,000 damage. An Italian was arrested In the Sen- ate Duilding at Washington on a charge of being a suspicious charac- ter. Snow 30 feet deep is lying in ma passes in the Cascade Mountain: Railroad traffic is not seriously hamp- ered. The National Bank of New the City York city has loaned $646,375 to Uruguayan government, at 6 per cent. interest. The first train ‘n four years over the Southcin Pacific line from Nogales, Ariz. to Mazatlan, Mexico, was run on .k ary 20. Mrs. John B. McKown, one of the four persons shot in Albany on Jan. 26, by Harold L. Severy, the “silent gunman,” died. 8t. Eulalia Roman Catholic church in the South Boston distict was dam- aged by fire yesterday, the estimated loss being $20,000. The Senate committee on foreiza re- lations ordered reported to the senete witn recommedation Ior ratification th> Hritien treaty. A statue of Henry Mower Rice, first United States Senator from Minnesota, was unveiled in the Capitol Hall of Fame at Washington. E. K. Wright, the engineer, was killed when a southbound Seaboard Air Line Florida tarin was derailed near Sanford, N. C. Two more bodies were recovered from the ruins of he Canadian Parl- iament buildings at Ottawa. One more body is missing. Two persons were killed and a third injured in a snow and mud slide that wrecked two cottages -at Magnolia Bluff, a Seattle suburb. Wilson will call senate leaders together soon to agree on the exact terms of the Phil- ippines independence bill. President and hos ty men and three women, representing 10 nationalities, enrolled. Mrs. E. B. Thompson of Seymour, Ind., widow of a Lausitania victim, will present her dead husband’s automobile to Gen. Joftre of France. Fifty war refugees who arrived at Seattle from the Orient on the steam- ship Manila Maru are held for deport- ation. They are destitute. John C. Sheehan, one-time leader of Tammany Hall and former police commissioner of New York died In New York at the age of 67, Thirty-five hundred finished incu- bators were destroyed at a loss of $250,000 when the plant of the Model Incubator Co. at Buffalo was burned. Knud Rasmussen, Danish arctic ex- plorer, is negotiating with the Canadi- an government with a view to explor- Ing remote sections of British America in 1917. Percy Tetlow of Pennsylvani coal miner, representing the United Mine Workers of America, favors government control of munitions man- ufacturers. o & Merchants at Hopkinsville, Ky., of- fer a mule, $300 worth of premium tickets and a wedding ring to the first woman there to admit a successful leap year proposal. - Federal authorities were engaged vesterday with reports that Boston was being used by German sympathiz- ers as a base for the direction of hos- tile activities in Canada. A resolution inviting Gov. Whitman of New York to appear before the state legislature in joint session to ex- plain his proposed ‘budget was intro- duced by Senator Bennett. Eleven steamers of the American- Hawaiian Steamship Co., now engag- ed in the sugar trade, are expected to be transferred to European service to carry supplies to the Allies. King Alfonso of Spain, has estab- lished a bureau to obtain information concerning the fates of soldier broth- ers, husbands and sweethearts, whose names appear in casualty lists. Anton Retkovitz was sentenced to die in the electric chair at Charlestown prison the week of March 12, after he had been convicted at Taunton, Mass., of the mrder of Domba Perembida, a domestic. Seven hundred em of tn Townsend "co” nail %ml: struck at New Brighton, Pa., for a reduction of one hour a day in work- ing time without reduction in pay. The men have been working ten hours a day. On objection by Republican Leader Mann, the house declined to consid- Ginc of Frovide, :o"’u.’«‘:.?'« - ;T r a pence MMMF" of neutral nat'ens by - dent Wilson. Flood Committes to Inspect Missis- sippi District. ‘Washington, Feb. 9.—Arrangements completed today ! the new g gt i T Sand Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City's .Péul#t.ion. : “"d“;‘;‘im"?”’:'“i_ flETAII.S OF ALLEGED GERMAN | INDICTMENTS AGAINST 31 FIRMS AND Little Barkentine, in the Guise of a Motion Picture - Was Scheduled to Deliver Coal to German Ship Charges Specify Conspiracy to Violate Neutrality Supplying Belligerent Ships at Sea; Conspiracy to D fraud Through False Manifests, Besides Alleged Plots o Blow Up Canadian Tunnels and American Powder Mills. San Francisco, Calif, Feb. 9.—The broadness of the government's propos- ed prosecution of alleged German bomb and shipping plots, involving German consular agents, ship owners, agents and sellers of supplies, was shown today as details of indictments voted against thirty-one men and firms be- came kaown. Sailed in Guise of Motion Picture S Even the little barkentine Retriever, tied to her wharf in the bay, was in- volved because of an alleged contem- plated trip to coal German ships off the Heads more than a year ago, in the g1ise of a motion picture expedition. Perils of the deep, it was given out, were' to be portrayed as never before with the Retriever figuring therein, in ‘ront of a camera. Investigation by government agents brought report to the disirict attorney’s office that the Retriever was full of coal. The noc- essity of this cargo on a sailing vessel engaged in a motion _picture business was not evident-to the in- vestigators and the Retriever never got away at all. trict attorney, worn out by of the neutrality _investization, w: taken from his office today to a hos- pital for rest, deemed necesary b: pavsician. He had a high tempe: ture. List of the Indicted. The complete list of those indictgd, mwade known tcday, follow: Tor conepiracy 'to interfere with commerce urder the Sherman anti- trust act and for conspiracy to organ- izc 2 military expedition: Franz Popp, consul general for Germany:; Baron Eckhardt H. Von Schack. vice con- sul general: Baron George Wilhelm Von Brincken. attache: Johannes Wenrvkus Von, Kootbergen, allege German agent: Charles C. Crowley d tective, emploved by German _consu- Tate: Mrs. Marcaret W. Cornell, sistant to Crowley. All these are involved In alleged plots to blow up Canadian tunnels and American powder mills. Conspiracy to Defraud Government. For conspiracy to defraud the gov- ernment in the allezed shinving plots, involving the Retriever, Sacramento. Mazatlan, the Olson and Mahonv: Henry E. Kauffman, chancellor of the German consulate ~general: Robert Capelle, agent here for the North Ger. man Lioyd Steamship company: Ma rice Hall, consul general for Turkey John and Julius Rotschild. wholesale grocers; George and James Flood, ship owners ‘and brokers: Philip R. Trayer, president of the Northern and South- ern Steamship company: R. H. Swayna of Swavne and Hayt, shipping brok- ers: John G. Hoyt, of same firm; C. D. Bunker, of Bunker and company: Capt. Fred Jebsen, of the Mazatlan, ship owner. reported recently killed on a German submarine; Dr. Simon Refmer, CONTROVERSY BETWEEN RAILROADS AND EMPLOYES First Statement Was Issued by Train- men Last Night. Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 9.—The first official statement on the impending controversy between railroads of the country and their train crews over working hours was issued here to- night. It was signed by W. S. Stone, grand chief engineer of the Brother- hood of Locomotive Engineers: W. S. Carter, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engine- men; L. E. Sheppard, acting president of the.Order of Railway Conductors and W. G. Lee, president of the Brotherhvod of Railroad Trainmen. These organizations claim to rep sent approximately 400,000 employes on 52§ lines. The statement was headed “Why the eight hour day?” and was a reply to a statement issued February 1st by the executive committee of the Asso- clation of Western Railways. The statement said in part: “The eight-hour day movement is based wholly upon the justice of a work day of reasonable hours that will permit the men further to sepa- rate the dead line between work and wages. The railroads say in effect that men who have put in a few years of railroad service have worked themselves out and will not be ac- cepted if they lose their positions. If men are worked out in a few years under present service conditions, the demand to extend their wage earning years is fully justified. “Overtime in Toad service is due al- most wholly to- the practice of rail- roads overloading trains so thll"'.h” cannot make their mileage ithin their time limits. The raliroads are doing this for profit; they do mot de- RASCALS MADE BOLD BY PRESENT BANKRUPTCY LAW ¥ 0 i involving German Consular Agents, Ship Owners ant - Others in San Francisco e John W. Preston, United States dis- | the work | s o CEe = 1B sy = reputed German naval officer; J. B, Bien ,attorney; T. A. Anderson, cap- tain of the Sacramento; Benno Sustav Traub, Adoiph Wimmel and T. R. Johannsen, all of the Sacramento's crew: George Phillips and Frederiek ‘Williams, supposed to be ficitious names and the following firms: North- ern and Southern Steamship company, C. D. Bunker and company and Swayne and Hoyt. Specifications of the Charge. The specifications in the charge of conspiracy to defraud the govern- ment. varying in different instances, - are -in three groups: Girst—Conspiracy to violate neu- trality by making San Francisco a supply base for belligerents’ ships at sea. Second—Conspiracy to defraud through false manifests. k! Third — Conspiracy to defeat nem- trality by supplyin belligerents’ = ships with stores to which they were not entitled. Some cf those indictments supersede - forn: i tments in connection with tions of neutrality by the h Sacramento and it was un- dersicod that the zovernment would . sk dismissal of earlier charges. They were set for trial February 14. Speedy Trial Promised. The speedy trial promised by the department of justice in all these cas- es wiil mark the culmination of @e- tivities on the Pacific coast, which |began with the war and are ‘saild by foderal suthorities to have continued almost to the present. Until the Ger= {man cruisers Scharnhorst, Gnelsenam, |7 eipzig and Nurnberg were sunk in hattle off the Falkland Islands, Dees 8, 1914, tremendous efforts were forth to keep them supplied from ort. The steamer Sacramento, f¢ Germzn-owned Alexandria, bought- the Northern and Southern S company. a new corporation and the American flaz, left port piled with supplies of all sorts, & sauerkraut ang beer, and reached Vai® paraiso. Chile, empty. All her sup- = plies were transferred to a z crulser. Captain Andersom could help himself. Made His Way to Germany in Disguiss. Captain Fred Jebsen, a lleutenant fn the German naval reserve, took & oar= 0 of coal south on his boat Im o lan, under bond for its proper. ¢ at Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico. < ¥ ivered it on lighters there and was srapped vo by the German cruls- er Leipzig. Jebsen then made his way to Geripany in disguise and is reported to have Leen drowned in the sinking of a sukmarine. The Olsen and Mahony, a _steam schooner, was loaded with supplies but after considerable talk with cus- toms officials was unloaded. PRESIDENT WILSON PERSONALLY URGES HASTE. To Carry Out Army's Plan in National Preparedness Schem ‘Washington, Feb. 9.—With President Wilsen personally urging both demo- cratic and republican members of the house military committee to hasten preparedness ‘scheme, indicatalons to- night were that the measure might be ready for the house within two weeks or less. Hearings will come to a close to= morrow or next day and it is un- derstood the main features of the bills already have been whipped into shape in which it is expected they will re- | celve the unanimous approval of the ¢ committee. 4 The senate committee already has concluded its hearings on army bills and will take up the work of draft- ing its proposals for the fenate early next week. There also the general outline of the puan to be recommend-- od has crystallized in the minds of the members. The bills of the two houses, it is expected, will differ radically and the final legislation will be worked out 8s a compromise in conferences. 35 Progress also was made today om navy legislation, the measures pav-~ ing the way for construction of battle- ships 43 and 44 at navy yards and pro- viding for 300 additional mi in the July class at Annapolis, passed by the senate. They 3 the house yesterday and lack only the president’s signature to become law. Speaker Clark, in line with his recent speech in the house advoca the personnel of both West Point be doubled, introduced. make such an MITE BOXES FOUND ABOARD THE Al Ars to Be Given to the American Cross by German Commander. Nortolk, Va, Feb. 3 Berg, commander of the German iy g announced land, The Doxes Dnvlw-%. L The reportod fiscated by Moewa ‘when she captured the The Moows, however, dld $200,000 worth of d bara Lttt S, ik of oh