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LVHIL—NO. 52 POPULATION 28,219 NORWICH, CONN., WEDNESDAY, MARCH TEN 1, 1916 The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwi;:h is Double o0 rg;,f,, PAGES PRICE TWO CENTS Any Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in i’mporfion to the City’s Population FRENCH ARTILLERY IS BALKING GERMANS From Launching Offensives at Various Points in the Woevre Region, East of Verdun USE OF BIG GUNS BY FRENCH IS EFFECTIVE Germians Have Captured Towns of Manhulles and Champlon, Thirteen Miles Southeast of Verdun—In the Champagne German Fortified Works in the Region of Hill 193 Have Been Battered by French Guns—Berlin Reports Cap- ture of 228 Officers and 16,575 Men—Russians in the Dvinsk Region Have Driven the Teutons Back—Details Lacking Concerning Sinking of French Auxiliary Cruis- er Provence in the Mediterranean. ‘With the lessening of the activity of the contending armies to the north of Verdun, the French in the Woevre region, east of Verdun, are using their artillery to break up German prepar- ation for further advances toward the fortress. At various points the force of the French guns has prevented the Germans from launching offensives. Tn the Vosges Mountains there has also been great artillery activity by the French near Senones and Ban de Sapt, while near Seppois the Germans have heen driven out of trenches the: had previously taken. In the Cham- pagne German fortified works in the region of Hill 193 have been battered by the French guns and the crator of 2 mine exploded by the Germans was occupied by the French. ‘The Germans have added several ad- dftional points to their terrain in the fighting about Verdun, having been enahled to construct trenches on the slopes north of the Cote du Poivre and to capture an armored work northwest of Douaumont and have taken the towns of Manhulles and Champlon, thirteen miles southeast of Verdun. In this drive east of Verdun the ad- vance of the Germans has extended over a front of virtually twelve miles —from Dippe to Champlon. Berlin reports that thus far they taken prisoners 228 officers, 16,- men and a large number of guns, machine guns anq much war materials. There has been considerable artillery activity and fights in the air between hattalions of German and British avi- ators along the British front in France and Belgium. K In the Dvinsk region of Russia the Russians have driven the Germans back and advanced their line and down under heavy fire an attempt at a counter-attack. In a lengthy statement in reply to an official communication issued from Constantinople, the Russian general staff describes the powerful defenses which guarded Erzerum and declares that the force of the blow dealt by the Russians can be estimated by the fact that some of the Turkish army corps cf three divisions each now number only a few thousand men, all the re- mainder having either perished or taken prigoners. Details are lacking concerning the Aisaster to the French auxiliary cruis- er Provence, which has been lost in the Mediterranean. While the French ministry of marine estimates the num- ber of survivors at 870, no estimate is made of the casualties. AWAITING RESULTS OF NEW SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN. Grave Concern Shown By Officials in Washington. ‘Washington, Feb. 29.—Results of the new Austro-German submarine cam- paign against armed merchant ships of the entente allies beginning at _mid- night are aaited by the United States ith grave concern. Although under their new instruc- tions Teutonic naval commanders are amthorized to sink without warning all armed enemy merchantmen, they en- counter it is understood they have been told to make sure, if possible, that no American citizens are aboard any ship attacked. Furthermore in the latest communication rezarding sub- marine warfare, Germany has assured the TInited States that the new orders are so formulated as to prevent the destruction of enemy liners “on ac- count of their armament unless such armament is proved.” The attitude of the United States government toward the new policy of Germany and Austria has not been definitely. determined. President Wilson discussed the sub- ject in conference with Secretary Lansing and then laid the German communication before his cabinet. Later it was said that because the all- important appendices to the German memorandum had_ been delayed in transit the state department thus far was unable to determine whether clatms set forward by Germany and Austria in justification of their cause, were sustained. PRESIDENTNAL PRIMARY BALLOT IN MICHIGAN Woodrow Wilson the Only Name Of- fered by the Democrats. Lansing, Michy, Feb. 29.—Willlam G. Stmpson of Detroit, an automobile designer, today filed with Secretary of State Vaughn a petition to place his name on the republican presiden- tial primary ballot. The petition con- tained the required number of sign: tures and Secretary Vaughn said Simpson’s name would be on the tick- =t with those of United States Sena- gor Willlam Alden Smith, of Grand Rapids, and Henry Ford, of Detroit. The time lmit for filing such pe- titions was four o'clock this after- a00n. ‘Woodrow Wilson is the only name sffered by Michigan democrats as a :andidate for president. VERDICT OF NOT GUILTY FOR COLORADO MINERS. Sharged With Killing Major P. P. Les- ter During Strike. Castle Rock, Colo., Feb. 20.—A ver- fict of not gulliy was returned by a tonight in the case of four former g coal miners charged with urder fn commection with the killing Lpril 1914, of Masor P. P. Lester, it the lo Natioral Guard, dur- the coal strike disordsis near M, Colo. The jury Zeiiber- jted two and ore haif houra. = i ACTIVITY OF SUBMARINER IN MEDITERRANEAN &EA lepaness Naval Offivials Recelve News of Sinking of Five Ships. Toklo, 23 —Tha Je - ufic:l“ bave mgzmgl ree British steamers, Freneh sank ‘Germarines in the Med- > 23 and Feb. 24. The ope Swedish steamer, | physician MAYOR THOMPSON WORSTED IN CHICAGO PRIMARIES. In Six of the Nine Wards Which Re- volted Against Him. ..Chicago, Feb. 29.—Six of the nine wards the aldermen of which revolted against Mayer Willlam Hale Thomp- son, republican, nominated anti- { Thompson aldermanic candidates at the primaries tod: ‘The mayor’s candidates were returned in the third, thirteenth and thirty-third wards. Women as well as men voted. In all the nineteen wards of the city's thirty-five put up anti-Thompson tickets, but the fight centered in nine of these and mose severe in _the seventh, in which is situated the Uni- versity of Chicago. Years ago Charles E. Merriman of the faculty of that school came into the city council as a leader of the so-called reform element. Mayor Thompson’s fiercest assault was made against John Kimball, the Merriam candidate, but he was nom- inated 5,472 asgainst 5,314 for Fred- erick W. Krengel, the Thompson man. In the first ward which includes the downtown district, the republican con- test produced a woman candidate, Hil- da Jchnson Haskins. Of the female vote she received 36 against 107 ‘William H. Shrader. following immemorial custom renom- inated John Cousghlin, known in form- er yvears as B“ath House John.” In the seventh Merriam’s victory was due to the women. REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT AGAINST NICARAGUA. To Prevent Ratification of Treaty With the United States. ‘Washington, Feb. 29.—Reports that 2 revolutionary movement against the Nicaragua government had been form- ented at New Orleans and would be launched soon with the particular de- sien of preventing ratification by the Nicaraguan congress of the new treaty with the United States were called to the attention of the state gepartment by General Chamorro, the Nicaraguan minister. The minister had taken no action regarding the report which first reached the legation several days ago until he received additional advices from New Orleans linking the name of Rodolfo Espinoza, liberal candidate for the Nicaraguan presidency, with the revolutionary plan. A guard of United States marines, sent into the little country at the last revolutionary outbreak to protect American lives and property, still is on duty there. ANNUAL CONVENTION OF YALE SCHOOL OF RELIGION. Rev. Charles N. Dinsmore of Water- bury Elected. New Haven, Conn., Feb. 20.—At the annual mtetln& of the alumni, In con- nection with the seventh annual con- vocation of the Yale Law School of Religion today, Rev. Charles N. Dins- more of Waterbury was elected presi- dent and Professor T. W. Bacon of this city secretary. The convocation ser- mon was delivered by President Al- bert Parker Fitch of Andover Theo- logical seminary. PHYSICIAN TELLS OF TRAVELS | OF GENERAL FELIX DIAZ. for ’J.‘amp-.m;.,;;b.- y hers said today that Gen- eral Felix Diaz hed The democrtc | ' "’tabled —Paragr;phs tp Tax Dutch Government Profits. London, Feb. 29, 5.35 p. m.—Accord- ing to a Reuter despatch from The Hague it is said there that the Dutch government will shortly introduce a bill proposing a 25 per cent. tax on war profits, MILITARY PENSIONS PAID BY BRITISH GOVERNMENT Now Amount to £1,500,000 Annually— One-third of Discharged Men Not Pensioned. London, Feb. 29, 7.36 p. m. — The military pensions the government is now paving amount to £1,500,000 an- nually. This announcement was made in the house of lords today by Baron Newton, who said it was calculated that the amount could easily rise to £7,500,000 if the war lasted until the end of March, 1917, About one-third of the men dis- charged were not pensioned, Baron Newton continued, but if all of them were pensioned the annual charge would now be £2,500,000, and probably would rise to over £11,000,000 by the end of March, 1917. FRESH ENTENTE TROOPS MASSED AT BORDEAUX. 600,000 to 1,000,000 to Be Ready for Emergencies. ‘War New York, Feb. 20.—The _entente allies have massed from 500,000 to 1,000,000 fresh troops at Bordeaux to be ready for emergencies, according to passengers who arrived here today from France aboard the steamship | Rochambeau. None of these soldiers, | it was asserted, have been near the| battle lines in any of the arenas of the war. They are said to comprise a part of Lord Kitchener's new army and drafts from the French colonies. Captain Raffaelo Perfetti, an Italian | aviator, who said he flew over the Austrian troops in the Balkans, Lieu- tenant Albert Cantoni of the Italian| aviation corps and Captain Jules Bois | of the French hviation' corps were | among the arrivals. Captain Bois said he was sent here by the French gov- ernment to study American agricul- | tural methods with a view of adopting | them in his country at the end of the| war. Captain Bois added the French government plans to send a large body of young men here to study our agri- cultural system. THREE ARRESTS IN NEW YORK BY POST OFFICE INSPECTORS Attached Station. One a Letter Carrier Pennsylva New: York Feb. 29.— Three men, one a letter carrier and the other two described as salesmen, were arrested today by post_office inspectors and will be arraigned tomorrow before United States commissioners. The inspectors refused to discuss the arrests but it was learned late tonight the charge arainst the men is using the mails to defraud. 2 The_ letter carrier was attached to the Pennsylvania Railroad terminal post office. The onlv information sup- plied rezarding him w that “mail was found on his person.” The sales. men taken into custody gave thei names as Richard Von Arend and Ru- dolth Van Knacht. Each said he was born in Germany. ST. LOUIS VOTES FOR | SEGREGATION OF NEGROES. Also Forbid Whites to Reside on Street on Which 75 Per Cent. of Residents Are Negroes, to St. Louis, Mo., Feb. returns from today’'s election show to- night that both of two ordinances pro- posing segrezation of negroes have |been carried by a majority of 34344, the vote beins 52,220 for segregation and 17,876 against. The two propositions voted upon were similar in character. One of the ordinances provides that a negro or white may not become a resident in a | block occupied entirely by those of the | opposite color. The other imposes the | same restrictions in blocks containing | 75 per cent. white or the like percent- age of megro residents. WHITE STAR LINE TO STOP BOOKINGS Asks Agents.to Influence Voyagers to Take Passage on American Liners 29.—Unofficial Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 29.—Instruc- tions have been received by the Pitts- burgh agents of the White Star Steamship line not to book any pas- sengers for the White S liners Lapland, Baltic and Adriatic which sail from New York between March 8 and 28. The notice advises agents to endeavor to influence persons con- | templating voyages to Europe to take passage on American line boats. No reason for the action is known here. “POLITICAL REA‘SONS" IN RIVERS AND HARBORS REPORT. Republican Members of Committee so Declare About New York Harbor Improvements. Washington, TFeb. 29.—Republicans of the house rivers and harbors com- mittee today filed a report declaring the $700,000 item for the improvement | of the Fast river, New York, recom- mended by President Wilson, was in- | serted in the bill solely for “political reasons.” It was the only appropriation for | new work approved and would be utilized for establishing a 33-foot |the men had entered the mine. (5 Men Killed in |Details of Sinking Mine Explosion| of Steamer Maioja FIVE SERIOUSLY INJURED IN COAL MINE AT KEMPTON W. VA, ALL BODIES RECOVERED Explosion Ocourred About 2,000 Feet From Bottom of Shaft, Where More Than a Score of Men Were at Work —Victims Crushed Under a Fall of Slate. Kempton, W. Va., Feb. 29.—Fifteen | men were killed and five seriously in- jured by an explosion of dust in mine No. 42 of the Davis Coal and Coke company here today. All the victims were foreigners. Fifty-one miners were rescued. The exploration of the work- ings was completed late today and all the bodies recovered. Did Not Interfere With Working of Cage. The explosion occurred shortly after The blast, however, did not interfere with the working of the cages in the main shaft and the men not within range of the explosion hurried to the foot of the shaft and were at once brought to the surface. Rescue parties com- posed of miners from neighboring mines were hastily organized and low- ered into the mine. Among the first to reach the shaft was R. P. Maloney. general superintendent of the Dav: Coal and Coke company, who took ac- tive charge of the rescue work. The mine was not badly damaged, accord- Ing to rescuers. Crushed Under Fall of Slate. The explosion occurred about 2,000 feet from the bottom of the shaft, where more than a score of miners were working. According to Maloney, all the victims were crushed under a fall of slate. THIRTY-NINE BRITISH SHIPS SUNK WITHOUT WARNING Admiralty Has Made Public List Up to the End of 1915. London, Feb. 29, 11.30 p. m.—The admiralty tonight made public a list of unarmed British vessels torpedoed and sunk by enemy submarines with- out warning up to the end of 1915, It comprises 39 steamers and one trawl- er. A list also was given of neutral vessels said to have been torpedoed in the same period without warning, consistipg of 13 steamers and one sailing vessel, of which two, the Gulflight and Nebraskan, were Ameri- can, four Norwescian, four Swedish, one Dutch, one Danish, one Greek and one Port ese. “In addition to the above,” says the admiralty statement. “there are sev- eral cases in which there is no rea- sonable doubt that the vessel was ink torpedo fired without warn- ing from a submarine, but in the ab- sence of actual proof. due to a la of survivors or from other cause: cases are omitted from the PEARLS VALUED AT $1,500 FOUND ON BODY Of Man Killed in Milford Wreck— Treasury Agents Investigating. Milford, Conn. Snedden, a sp Feb. 20—George S. 1 agent for the United States treasury department, came to Milford today to investizate papers found on the body of Vagharsh A. Keoleian, referring to a shipment of pearls. writer, was killed in the wreck here of two passenger trains on the New Haven roag Feb. 22 He was first identified as Mardiros der Hovhanessian, and from the papers was suprosed to be a dealer in preciou: stones. The Involce showed a con- signment of pearls to Albert Armen of Baltimore, Md. Publication of this fact led to the inquiry by agents of the treasury department, it was stated, which is usually made in such cases. The shipment was saild to show a value of $15,000, and the department was looking into the matter of the duty. MUTINY OF BRITISH SOLDIERS IN AUSTRALIA Dissatisfied Because Drills Were In- creased from 36 to 41 1-2 Hours a Week. Honolulu, T. H., Feb. 29.—Fifteen thousand British soldiers in a train- ing camp in_Syvdney, Australia, muti- nied Feb. 15, according to reports brought here today by the liner So- noma and before order was restored one soldier was killed and six injured. Incidental to the riot an attack with stones was made on 15 Greek and German stores. The soldiers became dissatisfied, ac- cording to the report, because their hours of drill were increased from 36 to 40 1-2 hours a week. They seized Liverpool Station after driving away the guards with hose and it was not until the next day that the authori- ties gained control of the situation. DEMONST—RATION AGAINST ALLEGED STRIKEBREAKERS channel to the navy yard. VOLUNT;RV WAGE INCREASE FOR DYESTUFF WORKERS In Dyeing Establishments of Pater- on, N. J., and Vioinity. Paterson, N. J.,, Feb. 20 —Voluntary wage increases of approximately 10 per cent. have been made in the dye- ing establishments of Paterson and vichity to take effect tomorrow. A conservative estimate places the total increase for Paterson at $250,000 a vear. — MAJOR GENERAL SCOTT + ATTENDS CABINET MEETING. First Tims Army Officer Sat at Table Stnce Civil Wan. ‘Washington, Feb. 20.~~Major General Hugh L. Scott, secretary of war ad Interim ,attended today's cabinet meeting, and the White House his- torfans said it was the first time since the Civil war that an army officer had . ST Made at the Gates of the Gosnold Miils in New Bedford. New Bedford, Mass, Feb. 20—A mob of 2,000 persons took part to- night in a demonstration against al- leged strikebreakers at the gates of the Gosnold Mills, where a strike for higher wages has .been In effect for two weeks. A strong force of police finally' got the crowd away from the crowds and dispjersed a sroup whose actions toward operatives who had coxlna out of the mill appeared threat- ening. Movements of Steamships. Kirkwall, Feb, 27——Arrived: Steam- er Oscar II, New York for Copenha- gen. Genoa, Feb. 27—~Arrived: Steamer Stampalia, New York. ‘Napies, Teb. 27.—Arrived, Yprsm.- 1y, steamer New York. New York, Feb. 29-—Safled: steam- er_San Glovanni, Naples. New York, Feb. 29. Arrived: St&-mer;o;lflamh.”mmw. lew York, Feb. 30.—Sailed: Steam-~ Nieow Amsterdam. nfl'&n Keoleian, a noted Armenian ! TOLD BY RALPH FOSTER OF KANSAS, A SURVIVOR AFLOAT IN ICY WATER Ship Sank so Quickly That Little Could be Acommplished to Save Those Aboard—Impressed by Brave- ry of Women and White Members of Crew. London, Feb. 29, 5.50 p. m.—That | German submarines have been sow- | ing mines off Dover was the pelief ex- | pressed today by Ralph Foster of | Kansas and otiier survivors of the { Maloja disaster, including some of the officers of the ship. The fact that a number of disasters have occurred in the neighborhood of Dover during the past two Sundays is considered in some quarters in London as possibie evidence that German submarines, knowing that a number of boats clear f@Or foreign ports Saturdays, have { taken advantage of that fact to creep | in as near the coast as possibie in tha night time and discharge carsoes of explosives. Lifeboats Very Useless In the opinion of Mr. Foster life- boats are very useless where vessels strike mines, as the ships almost in- variably sink quickly and because the crews are in fently drilied for quick action and the boats canot be lowered when ship heels over on her side as the Maloja did. Mr. Fos- ter had a thriling experience. E was afloat in the icy water and on upturned boats an hour before he was rescued by a trawler. Concussion Was Slight. “I was promenading the deck well { forward about 10.20 o'ciock Sunday | morning, i@ Mr. Foster today to the Associated Press, “when 1 heard a ht report. I thought it was a {gun firing a blank shot until I saw debris falling. Even then the concus- sion had been so slight that I con- cluded an accident must have hap- pened to some other ship nearby. Ship Began to List Immediately. “I rushed back immediately toward the stern of the Maloja, but before 1 had taken a dozen stcps the ship be- gan to list and I started toward the life boat that had been allotted to my cabin. It was so full of people, most of them Lascars, that I saw it likely to be swamped, so I went below for a life belt. I put on my overcoat and the lifebelt and also took my passport. Could Not Get Boat Clear. “By this time—hardly three min- utes after the explosion—the passage- ways below werc awash. I returned to the life boat and tried to help shove it clear. Two of the white crew of the steamer were standing by to lower the boat, but only a steward and myself were making any efforis to push it off from the ship's side. We could not get the boat clear of the railing on account of the heavy list of the Maloja. Many Slid Into Water. “Everybody then piled out of the lifeboat. Most of them slid across the deck and into the water on the other side. The deck was inclined to such a degree that we could not stand. I grabbed at an oar and slid down the deck into the water. The waves were 1so strong that I found I could not {swim in them and was washed back against the side of the ship. Crawled on to Capsized Boat. “Finally 1 managed to reach a cap- sized boat a few feet away and crawled onto it. From there I couid see in the water near me several bod- ies of people who were bleeding about the head. One Lascar was being ground between a lifeboat and the ship’s side. A big swell washed me off my insecure perch. I knew what would happen to me if T stayed on the side of the ship I was on, so I man- aged to get to the other side and clung to the railing until only the davits were projecting out of the wa- ter. Taken Off by Boat from Destroyer. “I then pushed away from the steamer and swam a few feet to a boat which had five or six Lascars in it. When I looked around the last of the davits of the Maloja had disap- peared. We had no oars and the waves kept breaking over the boat. When it began to sink we swam to another capsized boat and clung there u;nl a boat from a destroyer took us off. “When we came alongside the Ao stroyer I noticed that the swells seem- ed to boost up and down ten or 12 feet. I looked at the clock on board the destroyer and saw it was 113) o'clock. Little Terror Shown. “The only terror or excitement shown aboard the Maloja while they were trying to lower the boats was on the part of Lascars and some chil- dren who had become separated from their mothers. “One child who was on deck near the point of the explosion was blown to_pieces, an officer told me. “One thing which made an impres- sion on my mind while I was clinging to a capsized boat was a ‘Teddy bear' which was floating about. The cox- swain of the boat which picked us up rescued the toy, saving ‘I must have that for my kid.'" Deeply Impressed by Bravery Women. Mr. Foster said he also was deeply impressed by the bravery of the women and the white crew of the Maloja but not by her Lascar crew. of 300 GUESTS MADE ILL BY EATING ICE CREAM At a Methodist Banquet Held in San Francisco Feb. 22. San Francisco, Feb. 20.—Three hun- dred or more gnests were made III robably bv c¢-tng lce cream at a ethodlst Feb. 23, it became known tcdc: - ng an offiial re- port of ths -~ i to the dhodist Mintsters Zar....tion. All oY those made 1ll recovered within two days. No_ chiemical analysis was made of the food, but there was no thought among those in charge that there was any deliberate attempt to poison the fxd. It was agreed that some un- o R T Condensed Telegrams Illincis is suffering from a shortage of labor. The progressives of Maine will hold g state convention at Bangor on April 5. I A temperature of 42 degrees below Zero was reported from White River, nt. Sugar was advanced two shillings per 100 pounds by the Eriish royal commission. There will be no session of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange on March 7, Mardi Gras. The steamship Horatio of New Bed- ford, Mass. went ashore on the Dia- mond Shoals, N. C. The finance committee of the Rus- slan Duma has approved the new war loan of 2,000,000,000 rubles. Fire of unknown origin destroyed the plant of the Hubbard Shovel Co., at Pittsburgh at a loss of $150,000. Five German generals who held the Iron Cross of the First Class have been killed in the battle about Verdun. Former Representative R. P. Hobson will be a candidate for Congress from the new 10th district in Alabama. Count Kanitz, German commander at Kermanshah, committed suicide when the Russians captured the city. Four lives were lost when the Nor- wegian steamship Ander, laden with coal pits, went ashore off Ehield, Eng. An order for 50 Pacific type loco- motives was placed with the American Lu(-dunl(n!i\‘o Co., by the New Haven road. Today will be the last day for the receipt of income and corporation tax list return at the internal office in Hartford. Albery Colyk injured in a fight at a christening Sunday night, died in the Hartford hospital. His skull was fractured. Carranzista troops defeatcd Oaxaca Indians attempting to enter Vera Cruz ate, in a sharp engagement near San Andres, Tuxtla. The British schooner Cora May, which grounded yesterday on one of the ledges in the Boston outer har- bor was floated. Canadian railways are planning to get 1,000,000 from the United States for spring and summer work in the Ca- nadian northwest. Count von Bernstorff notifled the State Department that foodstuffs sent to Poland will not be seized while crossing Germany. The price paid to farmers for milk and cream has increased 35 per cent. and the cost to the consumer 20 per cent. in the last ten years. Announcoment was made at Lloyd's London, that all the crew of the British eamer Dena recently sub- marined, have been saved. Shipment of fresh and cured meats m Chicago last week totalled 51 000 pounds, compared with 57,84 000 pounds the pevious week. A report from Manchester states that Great Pitain is planning to com- mandeer an increased production of ! the country’s vitriol production. Following England’s refusal to sup- ply Greece wath sulphate of copper. the latter country has asked the Unit- ed States for the needed supplies. The car barn of the Massachusetts Northeastern Street Railwa com- pany at Merrimac was destroyed by fire at a loss estimated at $50,000. The Downing block on Essex street, Salem, Mass., was damaged by fire, the loss on the building and to the tenants being estimated at $8,000. Seventeen patients in the Emily Baloh hospital at Plymouth, 2 were removed without injury during a fire which destroyed the institution. Damage estimated at $1,000 was done to the cargo of the British stemship Eurvmachos, loading muni- | tions of war for Russia at a Brooklyn pier. According to the state prison directors, only 3 1-2 paroled from California’s tiaries have returned to a crime. board of per cent. peniten- life of Half frozen and nearly dead, Charles Thomas was rescued from the branch- es of a tree in the flooded section of Oskaloosa, Towa, where he had clung | for many hours. Ralph Foster, son of the Rev. Festus Foster of Topeka, Kas., a passenger on the steamship Maloja when she sunk off Dover, cabled his prents that he had been rescued. J. Grant Lyman was held in $100,000 bail at Tampa, Fla., for arraignment today on the Federal indictment re- turned in New charging him with us- ing the mails to defraud. George Groutcher, aged 25, of Bay- onne, N. J.. who would have com- | pleted a jail sentence of three months in the Fairfield county jail yesterday, committed suicide in his cell President Wilson is expected to nom- inate Judge Joseph H Shea of the In- diana Supreme Court as Ambassador to Chile, t6 suceed Henry P. Fletcher, to be transferred to Mexlico. A train made up of 50 freight cars, carrying 2,400,000 cans of salmon, most of which is destined for Furope, is on the way from Seattle to New York over the Union Pacific system. The t:rmln-kme can Sugar Co. declared an 8 per cent. annual divi- dend to be pald In quarterly instal- ments of 2 per cent, and an extra 10 Precident Warns Congress to Halt IN TALK OF WARNING AMERI. CANS OFF ARMED SHIPS. ASKS IMMEDIATE ACTION In Letter to Representative Pou, He Makes It Clear That He Considers the President, and Not Congress; Should Conduct Rela- tions. Foreign ‘Washington, Feb. 29.—President Wil< son decided today that he cannot pro- ceed with the German submarine ne- gotiations while discussion in con- gress weakens his position before the worid, so called for a show-down on the pending proposal to warn Amer= icans off merchant ships of the Furopean belligerents armed for de- fense. Asks For Immediate Vote. Making clear that he considers the president and not congress charged with the conduct of foreign reiations of the United States, he wrote a let- ter to Kepresentative Pou, acting chairman of the house rules commit- tee, asking him to provide parliamen- tary means for bringing the agitation out into the open on the floor of the hous2 for full discussion and a vote. Later he summoned Senator Stone and Representative Flood, chairman of the forelgn affairs committee, and Sen: tor Kern, majority leader in the sen ate, for a conference at the White House tomorrow morning at which he will request that one of the various pending resolutions be acted on in both houses. Administration Leaders Confident. Administration leaders, working steadily for the last week strengthen- ing their lines and counting on the support of the republicans, now are s0 sure of their position that they pian to end all agitation with a vote of con- fidence in the president. The president's letter to Mr. Pou, the signal that the administration was ready to give Germany a demonstra- tion of unity, follows: President Wilson’s Letter. “My Dear Mr. Pou: Inasmuch as I learn that Mr. Henry, the chairman of the committee on rules, is absent in Texas. T take the liberty of calling your attention, as ranking member of the committee, to a matter of grave concern to the country, which can, T believe, be handled under the ruies of the house. only by that comn:: tee. Cannot Fail to Do Harm. “The report that there are divided (Continued on Page Three) SONS OF ITALY ARE TO MEET BIENNIALLY. Vote to Establish National Home for Widows nad Destitute Children. New Heven, Conn., Feb. 20. — The Order of Sons of Italy of America at its closing session today adopted the new constitution drawn up at the Philadelphia convention. This pro- vides for biennial conventions in place of annual ones, and the first one will be set for Sepfember, 1917, at a place to_be selected later. The plan for establishing a national home for widows nad destitute chil- dren of deceased members was adopt- ed. The original proposition of Grand Venerable Buffa for a_home in each state in which the order has lodges was not acceptable, however, and the plan which was satisfactory is for one national home, to_be_located probably on Staten Island, N. Y. It was announced that the order will incorporate its supreme body as well ae its state lodges. TWO ASPHYXIATED BY GAS AT WORCESTER. Richard Park and His Sisters, Mrs. Eliza Flynn. Worcester, Mass., Feb. 29.—Richard Park, 50 years old, of 139 Summer street, and his er, Mrs. Eliza ynn, of Harvard, 45, were accident Iy asphyxiated by illuminati night in a room occupied by Mrs. Flynn came to Worcester vi day to visit her brother and, because of the cold, she decided to remain with him over night. It is believed that during the night she attempted to turn out the gas and fell to the floor in a faint, as she was subject to fainting spells, and left the burner open. Her body, fully dressed, was found tod: lying on the’ floor under the gas jet. and Park, fully dre: , except for his shoes, was dead on bed. the WITNESSES AT FATHER'S TRIAL FOR MURDER OF MOTHER. Son Testifies Mother Failed to Keep Promise to Stop Drinking. Bridgeport, Conn., Feb. 29.—Jason S. Haines, Jr., aged 16, and William Haines, 14, were witnesses at their fa ther's trial for the murder of their mother, in superior court here today. The elder son testified that the last August promised to stop drink- ing, if the mother would, and said that the mother did- not keep her part of the agreement. Though neither boy saw the shoot- ing of the woman, both testified to hearing shots fired, and the elder son told of running to the house and find- ing his father near his mother’s bod: He testified that he had heard his f: ther threaten bhis mother’s life on sev- eral occasions. EXPLANATION OF CHARGES AGAINST L. D. BRANDEIS {)oer cent. cash dividend, payable March Bringing Capt. A. M. Carter and 17 members of the crew of the steamer Crescent, which foundered off Cape. Hatteras during a gale, the Ward liner Mexico arrived at New York from Ha- vana. Tho condition of Rev. Edward R. Downes, pastor of St. Mary R. C. church of Mt. Carmel, who was stricken vm.ht &oblg&y Sunday while saying mass af e urch was Teport- ed much improved. Begun by Edward F. McClennen, a Law Partner. ‘Washington, Feb. 29.—An explana- tion of the various charges against Louts D. Brandeis now being investi- gated by a senate committee consider- ing his nomination for the supreme court was begun today by Edward F. McClennen of Boston, a member of Mr. Brandels’ law firm. He spoke from his own knowledge of the incidents at is- sue, from papers connecied with the matters and from the office diary of the firm. He will continue his teesi. mény tomorrow.