Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 3, 1916, Page 1

VOL. LVIL—NO. 80 POPULATION 28,219 " The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in GERMANS TAKE 1 YARDS OF TRENCH French Entirely Cleared Out of Haucourt, Between Malancourt and Lemort Homme FRENCH BRING DOWN THREE GERMAN AIRSHIPS French Have Evacuated the Town of Vaux—Teutons Are Still Carrying on Strong Offensive Operations Northeast and Northwest of Verdun— An Attack on the Avoncourt Wood Was Stopped by the French Barrier Fire and Machine Guns—Germans and Russians Are Fighting in the Region of Baranovichi—Three British and One Nor- wegian Steamers Have Been Sunk by Submarines or Mines. — The Germans are still carrying on strong offensive operations northeast and northwest of Ve.dun. About four and one-half miles northeast of the fortress they penetrated the Caillette Wood, just outside Fort Douaumont, after a violent bombardment. From part of this wood the French in an immediaté counter-attack drove back the invaders. ; Another powerful attack was deliv- ered against that portion of the Avo- court Wood held by the French, but here the French barrier fire and ma- chine guns held the Germans without The French have now entirely evac- uated the village of Vaux and have drawn their line south of the town, but in its immediste outskirts. Ber- lin says that northeast of Haucourt, between Malancourt and Lemort Homme the Germans have eptireiy cleared the French from about 1,000 yards of trenches, where they had remained since the German vie- tory on this sector March 20. On the other sectors about Verdun there have been onl intermittent bombardments; artille duels have charactcrized the fighting along the re- mainder of the {ront. Aircraft have been very active arpund Verdun. The French brought down three 'ierman machines, but Derlin asserts that the acrial com- bits have resulted in their favor. Beth sides have been busily engaged in dropping bombs on military establish- s, sual has been displayed in the fighting between tb‘e Germans and Russians in the rezidn of Baranovichi, southwest of Minsk. Elsewhere on the Russian front the situation is unchanged. Three British and one Norwegian steamers have been sunk by subma- rines or mines. Two of the Rritish boats, the liner Achilles and the Ash- burton, were on thei rway to mdon from Australasian ports. The Brit- ish steamer Goldmouth was on_a voy- age to London from Texas with ol The Norwegian boat was the Petet Hamre. She was sunk wlile at an- chor. Of her crew of fifteen oniy one man escaped. Four members of the crow of the Achilles are missing, two of th: crew of the Goldmouth weer wounded when landed and five members of the crew of the Ashburton were taken to u hos- oital suffering from shrapael wounds. PROTECTION OF SALONIKI DEMANDED IN PETITION Presented to Premier by Macedonian Members of Parliament. Athens, April 1, via Paris, April 2, 11.15_a. m.—Macedonian members of the Greek parliament today presented to Premier Skouloudis a written de- mand for tha protection of Saloniki against an aeroplane raid. The cabi- net is called upon to send a declara- tlon to the central powers stating that any bombardment of Greek territory by aeroplanes will be considered as di- rected against Greece. Premier Skouloudis accepted the doc- ument and promised to make the rep- resentatiens demanded. BRITISH STE‘A’R‘.SHIP SUNK BY SHRAPNEL SHELLS Fired by a German Submarine—Five Men Wounded. London, April 2, 4.30 p. m—The British steamship Ashburton has been sunk by shrapnel shells fired by a German submarine. Five members of the crew have been taken to hospitals. The vessel according to the Exchange Telegraph Company wes not armed. The Ashburton sailed from New Zealand Feb. 23 for Londo nand was last reported as leavinz Montevideo, Uruguay, March 1. The vessel was 4,445 tons gross and was built in 1905 for_the Australian Steamship company of London. She was 392 feet long, 50 teet beam and 26 feet deep. Steamer Coldmouth Sent to Bottom. London, April 2.—The British steam- er Goldmouth haz been sunk and her crew, two members of which are suf- fering from injuries, was landed at Penzance, says a Llords despatch from that place dated Satyrday. ‘The Goldmouth was of 7,446 gross tons. She was 471 feet long and was owned by the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Companv of London. She was prob- ably in the government service. Lat- est shipping records give her sailing from Port Arthur, Texas, October 28 and Norfolk November 4 for Dart- mouth. British Linor Achilles. London, April 2, 11.47 a. m.—The British_liner Achilles was sunk Fri- day. Four members of her crew are missing. The captain and sixty-two other persons from the steamer have Dbeen landed. :m wudinEthe trade ,‘;’,‘,' an e 55 the Cotan sien are going inland while others NORWICH, CONN. MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1916 _| Cabled Paragraphs _do, April 2.—Members of on advocates the boycotting of ',q‘rmam n end Austro-Hungarian prod- ue UNLESS DEFINITELY LOCATED IN NEXT DAY OR TWO Wrecked on a Sunken Rock. & Tokio, April 3, 9.65 a. m.—The steamer Wakatsu Maru, bound from Nagasaki for coastal points, has been wrecked on a sunken rock. Eighty- nine of her passensgers and sixteen members of the crew are belleved to have been drowded. She was a vessel % of 252 toms. PERSHING IS SILENT Lightly Equipped Detachments of Cav- alry Are Sweeping Through the Headwaters of the Santa Maria River —Report of Revolt of Carranza Colonel. King George's Gift of £100,000. London, April 2, 7.22 p. m.—King George has placed £100,000 at the dis- posal of the treasury. A letter accom- panying the donation says: “It is the king’s wish that this sum, which he gives in consequence of the war, should be applied in whatever manner deemed best in the opinion of his majesty’s government.” San Antonio, Tex., April 2—It was stated today at the headquarters of Major General Frederick Funston that there appeared to be no reason to be- lieve that Colonel Cano, who was lead- ing the heavier de facto government WOULD REVOLUTIONIZE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM Plan of Education Board Founded by ;orces ?per&llns w!t;x ;he mefl&fln orces in the search for Francisco o i e b Villa, had revolted against General Carranza and had joined the bandit. The reports of Colonel Cano’s action had not been confirmed late today. May Search Mountains. Unless Villa is definitely located within the next day or two, it is be- lieved hers that General Pershing will begin a dogged search for him In the mountain west and south of Guerrero. Since the defeat of Villa's force March 29 in and near Guerrero the American commander has had lightly equipped mobile detachments of cavalry sweep- ing through the district about the headwaters of the Santa Maria 1iver, in efforts to locate the elusive bandit, reported to have gone in that direction after being desperately wounded. General Pershing did not get a report through to General Funston today, but his chief of staff reported, indicating that the line of communications was maintained. New York, April 2—The general ed- ucation board founded by John D. Rockerfeler, today invited expressions of opinion as to the feasibility of es- tablishing a modern school which, ac- cording to Abraham Flexner, assistant secretary of the board when submitted the plan, would revolutionize the pres- cnt educational system. In announcing the proposed innova- tion, which not only would change the curriculum now in vogue in schools and colleges, but would attempt to utilize as its laboratory “the accessi- ble world” the general education hoard declared its sole interest was “to facil- itate the trial of promising educa- tional experiments under proper con- ditions.” “The curriculum,” Mr. Fiexner said, “includes nothing for which an af- firmative case cannot be made now. The modern school would drop the study of formal grammar; for such evidence as we possess points to the futility of formal grammar as an aid to correct speaking and writing. “A modern school would not g0 through the form of teaching children useless historic facts just because pre- vious generations of childron have learned and forgotten them: and al- so would have the courage not to read obsoléte and uncongenial classics, sim- ply because tradition has made this sort of acquaintance a kind of good form.” Neither Latin nor Greek, Mr. Flex- ner adds, would be contained in the curriculum of the modern school. “Not because their literatures are less wonderful than they i-e reputed to be, but because their present position in the curriculum rests upon tradition and assumption.” “Aside from reading, ing, spell- ing and figuring, the curriculum the modern school would be built put of actual activities in science, industry, aesthetics and civics. The work in science would be the central and dom- inating feature. “A school trying to produce a re- sourcefyl modern type of educated man and woman would prc.ide prac- tical training in one or more mod- ern language.” Sydney, N. S. W, Jan. 19 for London and Liverpcol. The last report of the Achilles shows that she left Capetown, where she had evidently put in on the voyage, March 6. Norwegian Steamship Sunk. London, April 812 p. m—Lloyds reports that the Norwegian steamship Peter Hamre was sunk Saturday night while at anchor. One man, the sole survivor of the crew of 15, has been landed from the Kentish Knock light- ship. g The Peter Hamre had a tonnage of 1,080 gross and was 234 feet long. She was owned by S. Tennesen and Com- pany of Bergen, Norway. TRAIN SERVICE HAS BEEN RESUMED AT JUAREZ. First Train in a Week Arr Casas Grandes. from BERLIN TELLS OF AIR RAIDS ON ENGLAND Bombs. Dropped on’ Military’ Gamp: in the -Northwestern Part of London. Berlin, April 2, via London, 7.35 p. m.—The following official communica- tion was issued today_concerning the German air raid on England Friday night: “During the night March 31-April 1 one of our airship squadrons attacked London_and the south coast of Eng- land. Bombs ywere freely droppcd or the tify (petweln the tower bridge and the London docks and on military camps in the northwestern district of the city, manufacturers near Enfield %nd munition works at Waltham Ab- ey. “Another airship having successfully attacked a battery near Stowmarket (Suffolk) dropped a number of explo- sive and incendiary bombs on Lowe- stoft. A batterv was silenced near Cambridge. Extansive manufacturing works in the town were attacked. Bombs were finally dropped on forti- fication works and harbors of the Humber, by which three batteries were reduced to silence. All the attacks were successful. Reliable observations from the airships showed the presence of numerous fires and the collapse of buildings. “In spite of the violent bombardment all the airships returned, with the ex- ception of the L-15, which, according to a report, was compelled to descend in the water of the river Thames. Searches instituted by our naval forces up to the present have not been productive of any results.” El Paso, Tex., April 2.—The first train to arrive from the Casas Grandes region in a_week pulled Into Juarez today from Pearson, 30 miles south of the military base established by Gen- eral Pershing at Colonia Dublan Several Mormon colonists wewe the train, on nt ==~ uo light on nystery whi¥a has envel- oped the oper . ine American troops since the decisive defeat inflict- ed on the Vlila forces last Wednesday. They reported that evervthing was quiet at Pearson and Casas Grandes and thas-the Mexicans had apparently become reconeiled 5o the nresence of American troops on Mexican soil. ‘Mexican merchants were selling thelr goods frecly to American soldiers, the colonists said, and were more inter- ested in the American currency system than in the pursuft of Villa. There Is no indication here that the American military authoritles have any anxtety over the supply problem for the troops at the front. No attempt has yet been made to ship food or forage by the Mexican Northwestern railroad. No train has left Juarez for Casas Grandes for more than a week and none is expected to move for at least two days. ICELAND HAS BEEN ENRICHED BY THE WAR. Fortunes Made by the Exportation of Fish, Game, Wool and Hides. GROSS EARNINGS OF NEW HAVEN ROAD $200,000 A DAY. Largest for Month of February in His- tory of the Road. Copenhagen, April 2. — Tceland was one ¢f the poorest countries in the world before the war, but it has made great wealth during tie past vear. Most ¢f the fortunes have been made by merchants exporting fish, game, wool and hides to England. Such un- precedented sums have been deposited in the banks of Reikjavik that bank- ers do not know how to invest their capital. Iceland has imported great quanti- ties of American goods during the war, but these have come through oth- er countries. Icelanders now want di- rect steamship communication with the United States to promote recipro- cal trade. Plans have been made for a_steamship service between Reikja- vik an? Boston, and sailings are ex- pected soon. Icelandic business inter- ests are anxious for the anpointment of a regular salaried United States Great Britain and France are the only governments at present rep- resented in Iccland by salaried con- suls. New York, April of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad during February were at the rate of $200,000 a day, the largest for that month in thc history of the company, sccording to a state- ment issued here tonight. March, it was sald, had been a bad month, but with more favorable weather freizht probably would move in a more nor- mal manner and the heavy expenses incurred by the company would be greatly reduced. Thirty-three new Jocomotives will be delivered April 15, and fifty more in July and August, the statement said. The February re‘urns showed a net corporate income for the New Haven road of $557,185 as against $58,12 the corresponding month of 1915. the eight months to Feb. 29 the net corporate income was $2,483,248, as against $591,885 for the corresponding period of the previous year. The in- creasc in the gross earnings of the company was $1,211,211 more in Febru- —Gross earnings GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATION OF HIGH PRICE OF GASOLINE Agencies Will Report Findings Congress This Week. to Washington, March 2.—Government agencies investigating the spectacular rise in the price of gasoline have vir- tually concluded preliminary phases of their work and will report to congress this week. In the meantime the de- partment of justice, which has kept in clese touch wth the situation, will consider the evidence with a view to determining whether prosecutions are warranted under the anti-trust law. Every available field agent of the fed- eral trade commission has been as- signed to the gasoline inquiry under AWAITING GERMANY’'S REPLY ABOUT SUNKEN SHIPS. the direction of Commissioner W.- J.| Possibly 1t Will Be Here in Time for|ary, 1916, than In the same month & Harrts. Reports by the various com- | Cabinst Meeting Tomorrow. year-ago. mittees involved have been checked, so far as possible. Crude oil producers, manufacturing companies, pipe lines, selling agencics, even tank wagons in every section of the country have been tnder surveillance. A tremendous mass of data has resuited, bearing on all phases of the industry. Essential of this informati#n have been placed hefore the attorney-general as fast as gathered. The department of justice virtually left the entire inquiry to the commis- sion. Complaints reecived by the at- torney general have been forwarded for investigation to the commission and have been added to hundreds of similar complaints received by the cimmission itself. It is considered un- likely that the attorney gencral will decide finally whether the avidence war-ants prosecutions until the com- mission shall have concluded its in- quiry, a month or more hence. BUSINESS IN CANTON, CHINA, IS VIRTUALLY SUSPENDED Revolution Has Created Excitement Among the People. Washington, April 2.—Official judz- ment still is suspended here on the cases of the PEritish channel steamer Sussex and other merchant ships which, while carrying American citi- zens, recently have met with disaster in the war zone. Secretary Lansing said tonight that no additional infor- mation had been received. The state department received from Ambassador Gerard the reply of the German gov- renment to the inquiry he made in regard to the Sussex. the Manchester Engineer and the Englishman. Mr. Gerard informed the department yes- terday that the Berlip government was making an investization and that he would be advised of the results upon its completion. All the evidence bearing on the dis- asters independent of that which may come from Berlin is expected to be in the hands of the department some time this week, however, possibly in time for Tuesday's cabinet meeting. This evidence will be examined very care- £ fully to determine whether it forms|PRESIDENT AND MRS. sufficient ground for action by the WILSON VISIT CRISFIELD United States. About 5,000 People Cheered Them— Bouquet for Mrs. Wilson. Crisfield, Md., rbrfl 2.—President and Mrcn.il Wnao-;.awm are on a cruise lown esapeal Bay, stopped here today. They arrived at 2.30 p. m., on the Mayflower and came ashore in the tender. About 5000 people cheered them. Mrs. Wilson was given a huge bouquet of sweet peas and violets. The entire police force of Crisfield acted as an escort. RECOMMENDS TEXTILE UNIONS TO SEEK ADVANCE IN WAGES Executive Council of National Amal- gamation of Textile Operators. Fall River, Mass.. April 2—A recom- mendation that all textile unions in New England take immediate action toward seeking advance in wages was adopted at a meeting of the executive council of the National Amalzama- tion of Textile Operatives here today. The organization is sald to represent 25,000 operatives in various mill cen- ters. It was formed in Boston last January, many of the unions which joined it having seceded from the ranks of the United Textile Workers. It was explained that the wage in- crease recommendation was intended to apply not only to unions affiliated with the organizatfon, but to others Canton, April 2.—River traffic be- tween Canton and inland ports is gradually falling off in volume owing to the unsettled conditions in many of the districts. Business in the old city virtually has been susperided and the people continue in a state of excitement. Shop doors are being kept held open and in readiness to close at a moment's notice. It is understood the rebels refuse to make peace until Yuan Shi Kai resigns the presidency. General Lung Chi-Kuang, military commander of the Canton district, as been sune:seudoai T\Ie’:.;lenerll is mak- _preparations to withstand a stege. h’i heavy exodus of mygopuh?fnn of the city continues. Some MOUNT WALDO GRANITE WORKS ARE BANKRUPT. Had Operated Large Qua Frankfort, Me. es at Portland, Me., April 2—The Mount ‘Waldo Granite Works, Inc, of Frank- fort, filed a voluntary petition in bank- ruptcy in the federal court yesterday. The assets were given as $314,000, of which 3813,000 is real estate, and the liabilities as $293,500, including $72,500 of secured clalms and $205,100 unse- cured claims. The petition was filed by Arthur Pierce, clerk of the corpora- tion, who stated that the stockholders 1,500 Coal Miners on Strike. Pittsburgh, April 2. —Fifteen hundred unorganized miners employed in ten collieries in Allegheny valley are on a strike. men quit work when are tra; z and! eight-hour L el n i now received Bize e with the Mountains for Villa Connecticut in Kill 59 Persons IN TOWNS ON THE EAST COAST OF ENGLAND 166 WERE WOUNDED British Aeroplanes Went Up to Attack the Raiders, One of Them Dropping Several Bombs on Enemy Airship From an Altitude of 6,000 Feet Dam- aging German Craft. London, April 2, 10.50 p. m.—With the exception of the big raid of Jan. 31, when the casualties aggregated 6 persons kiiled and 117 injured, the Zep- pelin raids of Friday and Saturday nights caused greater loss of life than any previous aerial attack this year. The total casualties for the two nights, according to an official report, were 59 persons killed and 166 wound- Acroplanes Attack Raiders. As some compensation for this sac- rifice of life, however, the British pub- lic finds satisfaction in practical proof afforded of a great improvement in the defensive methods of dealing with aerial incursions. For the first time since the inception of this method of warfare on the British coast, not only has one raiding Zeppelin been brought down and its crew taken prisoner, but the official report recounts an exciting aerial fight between a Zepelin and a British airman, Lieutenant Brandon, who, mounting to a height of 9,000 feet, got over the ralder and dropped several bombs on it with effect. Machine Hit by Bullets from Zeppelin. The machine of Lieutenant Brandon was hit several times by machine gun bullets from the Zeppelin. It is still unknown whether the Zeppelin in this fight was the L-15, which was brought down off the Thames estuary, or an- other craft which is believed to have dropped its machine gun, petrol tank and other parts. Alfred Brandon, the British airman, is a native of Wellington, N. Z. He is 32 years oid, and only joined the flying corps last July. Confidence in Aeroplane Defense. There has been constant agitation in the newspapers for British airmen to ascend and attack Zeppelins and the fact that this has now been success- fully done gives promise of still great- er achievements in the same direction. At the same time it will tend to In crease public confidence that the au- thorities are making progress in their efforts .to deal with the Zeppelin dan- T. Bl connection with Lieutensnt Bran- don’s exploit is an unconfirmed but in- teresting report from Copenhagen that a Danish fishing vessel observed at a great distance in the North sea what appeared to be a half-submerged Zep- pelin. The authorities express the hope that this may prove to be the machine that Lieutenant Brandon bombed. Scanty Details of Last Attack. Saturday night's raid was much less serious than ubat of Friday night. Only the most scanty details of the last attack, however, are yet available. According to these, only one of the two ralders succeeded in passing tha coast, the other being turned back. Sixteen persons were killed in this raid, of whom six were women and children, ana about 100 injured. Lieutenant Commander Breithaupt, commander of the wrecked Zeppelin 5. in an interview with The Asso- clated Press, disavowed any desire or intention te kill civilians in air raids, though he admitted that they might unfortunately fall victims to the more fmportant military objects of ralds. He asserted that the ai-craft com- manders were able to define bufldings below them, but he was unable to de- termine how near bombs dropped would be likely to come to the objects aimed at. Three Women L- and Three Children Killed. A correspondent in a northeast town says that a Zeppeiin was sighted there at 11 o'clock Saturday night. It drop- ped 14 explosive and seven incendiary bombs. Ten men, three women and three children were killed and 25 per- sons were seriously injured. In addi- tion about 80 others recelved minor injuries. A tram car inspector was killed and a woman tram conductor had a leg blown off. Several houses were wreck- ed in one street. One house was com- pletely wrecked, but the family of five managed to scramble out without se- rious injury. COAST OF SCCTLAND VISITED BY ZEPPELINS Bombs Dropped at Various Places—No Det: Avi London, April 3, 123 a. m.—The coast of Scotland the northern and southeastern counties of England were attacked by Zeppelins Sunday night, according to an official announcement by the secretary of war. The announcement says: “a Zeppelin raid took place Sunday night, when the coast of Scotland and the northern and southeastern counties of England were attacked. Bombs_were dropped at vl:l:lonl places. No detalls are available.’ Bl vt bbby SENATE IS SPEEDING UP ON BUSINESS Defense Legislation is Now Assuming Tangible Shape. ‘Washington, April 2.—In the senate during the past week there has been a general speeding up on business. The army re-organization bill is well un- der way and the prospects for its pass- age ‘within two weeks are favorable. ‘Appropriation bills are being taken up as rapidly as they come from the house and the legisiative bill is about ready and can be as soon as the ar- my bill is out of the way. With the defense legislation assum- ing tangible shape, the revenue issue is the next important task before con- gress. Just now, however, there is de- means committee of the @ increase the peace strength of the standing army the 140,000 as proposed bill which has passed to the the house. Ow- the operators refused to grant them an :-fw will be required for the army same pay as!expenditures, over in the Hay |aged Proportion to About 300 striking dock n'-“ workers at — New York City spent $1,153,000 snow removal during um.'inur. oo —_— Chicago banks and Board of Trade 'mhmw.dtcumm New York City is in the grip of th worst freight congestion in :.'humrre. Bulgaria and Germany have entered l,n'.c a commercial -‘rzem.ng for 30 Exports of copper from Atlantic ports during the week end totaled 11,058 tons, o SLarch 30 The Grand Trunk Railroad has nli So=f B SR S _@nese Government troops at Swaiow and Kwang Tung have gone over to the revolutionist cause. Armour & Company have purchased the 3,000 ton steamer Ivanhoe to be used in filling its foreign orders. Crown Prince Alenxander of Serbia arrived in London from Paris. He was given an enthusiastic welcome. Nominations were made throughout Spain for the elections to the new Cortes which are to be held next Sat- urday. The cutter Yamacraw was ordered to the assistance of the steam yacht Satellite, in distress off St. Lucla In- let, Florida. Eight hundred sacks of mail were taken from the Scandinavian liner Heligoland, taken into Kirkwall by British warships. President Ebberts of the Brooklyn baseball club took his players and their wives to visit President Wilson in Washington. Flight Lieutenant Tennant, son of H. S. Tennant, British Under Secretary of War, has recelved the Distinguished Service Order for bravery. Many more striking munitions work- ers along the Clyde River in Scotland returned to work, and the strike is believed to have collapsed. A report from Tokio states that Japan has ceded to Russia three bat- tleships which were captured during the Rucso-Japenese War. The principal streets and railway stations at Rome were brilliantly decs orated in honor of the arrival of Prem- fer Asquith of England. Prince Mirka of Montenegro is ser- jously 1ll. The Austrie s have per mitted him to leave the coumtry, and £0 to a warmer clima The British steamer Carly was picked up at sea in a disabled con- dition and is being towed to Halifax, N. 8, by the steamer Fogola. The Safety Insulated Wire & Cable Co., employing 550 men. ordered its plant at Bayonne, N. J., shut down be- cause of the shortage of copper. A bill prohibiting the showing of the Willard-Moran fight motion pictures was introduced in the New York Sen- ate by Senator Jones of Chenang.. A delayed report from Holland = that many persons lost their live a powder factory fire at Troisd near Cologne, Germany, last Wedaes Marquis de Lafayette Williams, said to have been the first conductor on the New York Central, died at the Jan C. King home for Old Men at Chicago, aged 99, A. Scherbatshov, counsellor of the Russian Embassy at Washington for several years, has been appointed Russian Minister to Brazil, Chile, and Argentine. Charlotte von Kuhenan, New York. artist, in Switzerland, was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment. followed by banishment, on charge of being German spy. Heavy earthquake shocks. lasting for an hour, were reported at Georgetown University. The disturbance was e timated to have occurred about mies from Washington. 2,300 Premier Massey of New Zealand sent out a seagoing tug to meet the ex- ploration ship Aurora, bringing back some of the members of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s expedition. The threatened strike of 2300 em- ployes of the Botany Worsted Mills at Passaic. N. J, was averted when the demand for a 25 per cent. wage in- crease was granted by the compaay. exploration ship y at Port Chalmers, N. Z. All on board the ship are well, except two members of the crew who are suffering from a minor illness. ENGINEER OF WRECKED TRAIN DISMISSED. Held Responsible for the Collision on New York Central at Amherst, O. Cleveland, O.. April 2. — Engineer Herman Hess has been dismissed by the New York Central railroad, it was learned today, as a result of the wreck ‘Wednesday at Amherst. He is held responsible for the disaster by the rail- road. Towerman Albert Ernst, one of the chief witnesses at the federal and state Inquiry Into the accident, will be tained. as will Flagman Perry Beach, DROWNED HIMSELF IN TWO FEET OF WATER Wanio Pysz, Aged 30, of Derby, Was Despondent. German Stowaway Te!s_of Plots MAN WHO COWED CREW OF BRITISH SHIP MATOPPO —_— ARRESTS WILL FOLLOW Clarence Reginald Hudson, Alias Ernest Schiller, Feared Deportation to Eng- land and Execution as a Spy—Says Schemes Were Financed by a Y- - Woman of Salem, Mass. New York, April 2.—Important ar- rests are expected within forty-eight hours, the police announced today, in connection with the case of Clarence Reginald Hudson, alias Ernest Schiller, the German stowaway who captured the Pritish steamship Matoppo at sea and cowed her crew of fifty-six men When Hudson was arrgigned today on a charge of “suspicion of conspiring” to dynamite the Cunard Line steam- ship Pennonia, the district attorney’s office requested that his examination be deferred until tomorrow. explaining tbat important developments were ex- pected almost immediately. To save himself from deportation to England and the possibility of veing executed thare as a syp. Hudson Has “Confessed.” Hudson has “confessed” to planning expiosions on many munitions boats bound for ports of the encente allies, the police say. He has repeatediy asked detectives to assure him =e would be held in the United States. When he was arraigned today he was not aceompanied by counsel and made no request for tail. To Verify Story. in Tunney asd his *bomb are endeavoring to verify the story told by Hudson. A thorough search is belng made for the confed- erates, who he alleged, deserted him on the eve of the projected attack on the Pannonia. It was learned today that the police after trailing Hudson for three weeks lost track of him a few days before he stowed himself away in a lifeboat aboard the Matop- po. Financed By a Young Waman. According to the story told by Hud- son, his efforts to cause the destruc- tion of steamers were financed by a young woman living In Salem, Mass. who Is a German sympathizer. He as- serts he went tc Salem after escaping from a training camp for tne Pritish army in England, where he was em- nloyed in a ‘extile mill at the outbreak of the war. EXAMINATIONS INTO SANITY OF WAITE. olf-Confessed Slayer of His Father- in-law, John E. Peck. New York, April 2.—The first of a series of examinations into the sanity of Dr. Arthur Warren Wa self- confessed_slayer of his father. John E. Peck, of Grand Rapids, w: made at Bellevue Hospital today an alienist employed by the W family. After the cxamination had been completed the physician who has been attnding Walte announced his phrsical condition was such that he could not be arraigned tomorrow to plead ‘to the indictment charging him with murder in the first degree. as had been proposed by District Attorney Swann. Walter R. Deuel, Waite's attorney, admitted today that his client had con fessed to him he intended to murder his wife in the hope of thereby obtain.- ing her share of the Peck riches. Love of money and the desire for luxury, the attorney said, were the motives for Waite's crime. The young dentist now is suffering from remorse, Mr. Deuel said and constantly expressed regard for his wife as well as sorrow for the trouble he had brought upon her. Waite, according to Mr. Deuel, is anxious to atone for his crimie as soon as possible and “looks forward eagerly to death in the electric chair.” SPEAKER CLARK RESENTS CRITICISMS OF CONGRESS Declares Present House Has Worked More Steadily Tnan Any in 22 Years. Washington, April 2.—Speaker Clark replied tonight tu criticisms that n- gress is dawdling in its work. i a characteristic slatement he denounc- cd such a criticism as a “bald _and malici lie,” outlined what has been accomplished and asserted that the resent house had worked more stead- ily and industriously than any with his_service of22 years. Commenting on atiempts to create a nimpression that congress sought to thwart the desire of the president to bring about an adjournment in time for the political conventions in June, the speaker decigred that “every hu- man being with two ideas above a Hottentot knows that congress is just as anxious to adjourn before the con- ventions as the president is.” STREET CAR MEN STRIKE AT WOBURN, MASS Because of Discharge of Conductor Who Had Been President of Union. ‘Woburn, Mass, April 2.—No effort was made today to move cars on the ‘Woburn division of the Bay State street rallway, where a strike went into effect early. ycsterday morning. Owners of motor cars did a thriving transporting passengers. The strike was caused by the discharge of MAN DROWNED WHEN WIND OVERTURNED CANOE A Companion Narrowly arrowly Escaped a Similar Fate. Lo i