Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 10, 1916, Page 1

IR Bulletin VOL. LVill—NO. 191 POPULATION 28,219 NORWICH, CONN., THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1916 TEN PAGFS—SO COLUMNS PRICE TWO CENTS . The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other P'-quer, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proporticn to the City’s Population VIGOROUS OFFENSE OF ALLIES TELLING The ltalians Have Captured the City of Gorizia, Con- sidered the Doorway to Triest INFLICTED HEAVY CASUALTIES UPON AUSTRIANS In Galicia the Russians in Quest of Lemberg Have Further Carried Out Their Endeavors Toward the Capture of Stanislau From the Austro-Germans—In France the French and British Forces in the Somme Region Have Attacked and Won Additional Points of Vantage From the Germans. The vigorous offensive of the entente to Lembers to town of Tymstia. allies on the French, Galician and |Northeast of Tymstia the Russians Italian fronts is still being rewarded |have crossed the right bank of the with important success. In Austria | Koropice river and captured a numebr the Italians have captured the city |of important positions west of Valesni- f Gorizia, 22 miles morthwest of Tri- |oup and southwest along the Niznioff- cst, in Galicia the Russians in quest [ Monasterzyks railroad, making the of Lemberg have further carried out |Russian men. their endeavors toward the capture of Stanislau from the Austro-Germans, while the French and British forces in the Somme region have attacked and won additional points of vantage from the Germans. Berlin_admits the retirement of the Austro-Germans behind the Niznioff? Tysmienitsa?Ottynia_ line, but says that in the Carpathian region heights held by the Russians near Jablonitsa and Vorocht and west of Taraov were The capture of Gorizia by the|captured by the Germans and that Italians seemingly is an important [strong Russians attacks in the Delatyn point as has been taken since their of- | district were repulsed. fensive has been pronounced. The city being the door through which the Italians may now pass in an endeavor to carry out their long-cherished idea of capturing Triest, Austria’s big sea- port at the head of the Adriatic. In the fall of Garizia, in which Rome says the Austrians were completely North of the Somme river in France the Australians have pushed back the Germans near Pozieres two hundred yards over a front of six hundred vards, while the French also have driven out the Germans from a trench recently captured from them north of the Hem Wood and roccupied it. In routed, the Italians inflicted heavy cas- |the Verdun sector heavy artillery ac- ualties on its defenders, took over 10,- | tivity is in progress at ‘Thiaumont, 000 men prisoners and captured con- |Fleury, Vaux, chaptrie and Chenois. siderable quantities of war materials. | Constantinople reports and Petro- The Russian General Letchitzky has|grad admits the Turks have recaptu: iriven his wedge farther into the Aus- tro-German line near Stanislau. cap- turing eight miles of that important :ity through which the railroad leads ed the towns of Bitlis and Mush in Turkish Armenia, but Petrograd says that obstinate fighting is still going on in that region. SELECTION OF COMMISSION FOR MEXICAN CONFERENCE SUSPECTS ARRESTED FOR BLACK TOM EXPLOSION Erling Iverson and Axel Larson, Nor- Franklin K. Lane and Louis D. Bran- deis Named—Third Not Chosen. wegians, Taken Into Custody. 5. 9—White House| Jersey City, N. J.. August 9.—Brli s expect to announce tomorrow jIverson and Axel Larson, Norwegians the name of the third man chosen by ddent Wilson to serve with Secre- were arrested here tonight on suspi- cion of implication in the Black Tom tary Franklin K. Lane of the interior |explosion and the fire on July 30 which department and Associate Justice [cost seven lives and did damage of Louis D. Brandeis of the supreme |$20,000,000. court on the joint commis Among letters and other papers will strive for a settlement ¢ found in possession of the prisoners ditficulties between the United were drawing of a submarine and and the de facto government of )h xi- [other data. One letter from Iverson co. Unti) the third commissioner has |to his mother in London, the police al- accepted, formal announcement of the |lege, described the explosion and his American personnel of the commission Ie!ler in part ended: will be witl Acting Se \cceptance of y after smbassador tive assuran expect there will be more for there are sti]l eighty-six cars of am- munition on the Black Island.” Lar- son told the police he was employed on a Pennsylvania tughoat and w ed the night of the explosion. Iverson Pollk announced the commission plan to- ondo, Mexican 1 given posi- sovernment de was not a limit the scope of the |said he had no employment. proposed ssion in any way, but| Government investigators are of the was, on the contrary, in complete ac- |opinion now that the explosion of ben- cord with the views of the Washington |zol in the railroad yards last Sunday wvernment in that regard. Although |night, a week after the Black Tom ex- Secretary Lansing will return from [plosion was part of an incendiary plot. s vacation tomorrow, Mr. Polk and e Mr. Arredondo probably the preliminary arrangements for the commission, determining the time and place of the meeting after the views of will complete | pISTRIBUTING DYES BROUGHT OVER ON THE DEUTSCHLAND the commissioners have heen obtained. [ Will be Supplied to Regular Customers Under the agreemer °«d atl —Some Grades Valued at $70 a Ib. these preliminary conferences, the commission will have power to deal| New York, Aug. 9.—A circular is with any subject related to the border |sued here today by a dye-importing dificulties which brought the two|firm quoting prices on dyestuffs countries to the verge of war. brought to this country by the Ger- == man submarine Deutschland shows CHANGED CONDITIDNS OF COD LIVER OIL MARKET that some grades of the product a valued at $70 a pound. These are the rarer colors, not vet manufactured in the United States, Local dye importers expected to re- ceive their first shipments from the cargo of the undersea merchantman. Will Cause Loss of a Million Dollars to Dealers in Newfoundiand. St. John's, Aug. 9.—Newfound- | $2 . = land' dealers in cod liver oil estimate | NOTg Of these colors would be placed e they ouet fars & henySoumatelin the open market, they indicated, but would be supplied at once to res ular customers, largely needs of mills. million dollars as a re conditions In the market this year. When Germany last year purchased the Norwegian output of this product, the price of Newfoundland ofl ran up from 50 cents to $2.30 a gallon. Ex- pecting big profits this season, a large number of persons entered the busi- ness in this colony. Their hopes were dashed when the British and French governments suc- cceded in obtalning this ycar's Nor- wegian output, forcing a 50 per cent. cut in market prices. As the dealers bought the raw material at high cost, they must stand a heavy loss. Business interests of the colony also ult of changed to meet the MADE FLIGHT OF 110 MILES IN 64 MINUTES Victor Carlstrom Takes Biplane from Buffalo to Hammondsport. N. Y. Bath, N. Y, Aug. 9.—Operating a 160 horsepower biplane, Victor Carl- strom yesterday afternoon flew from Buffalo to Hammondsport, a distance of 110 miles, in an hour and four min- utes. He left Buffalo at 3.30 o'clock and reached a point over Hammonds- will suffer fro the fact that the cod 0 fisheries along the Labrador coast and | POrt at 4.34 o'clock. Because of a high the northeast seaboard of Newfound- e e ing. He carried a propeller for an ae- roplane now under construction at the Hammondsport plant for the United States army. land this year have yielded one of the smallest catches on record. ZEPPELIN RAID UPON ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND. Three Women and a Child Killed— Total Casualties 23. London, Aug. 9, 11.38 a. m—German airghips raided the east coast of Eng- Jasll and the southeast corner of Scot- land early today, according to a state- ment issued by the war office. Three women and a child were killed and 14 persons injured. The text of the state- ment follows “A hostile airship crossed the east coast of England at an_early hour this SWIMMER ENTANGLED IN WATER LILY STEMS. Pond Near Guy Higgins Drowned Belfast, Me. Belfast, Me., Aug. 9—While swim- ming yesterday in Dutton pond, Guy Higgins of Knox was caught-under a mags of water lily stems and drowned, according to reports received here to- day. The body of Higgins, who was 42 vears of age, was found entangled under the flowers which he was gat morning. Another airship is reported | ering near the shore when he lost his to have visited the southeast coast of | life. Scotland. The raiders did not pene- Supreme Officers of Orioles. Buffalo, N. Y., August 9.—Thirteen of the fourteen supreme officers of the Fraternal Order of Orioles were re-elected at the annual convention here today, including, Supreme Presi- dent F. J. Seames of Buffalo, and Su- preme Vice,President Everett C. Rote of Reading. J. J. Lyons of Baltimore, la supreme -trustee reugned‘_gg‘ was succeeded. by-J. B. Huston, of trate far inland, but dropped a number of bombs in various localities near the soast. “At soveral places the airships engaged by anti-aircraft guns and driven off from their objectives. Re- recetved up to'the present show t-three and one child were kdlled lnd 14 persons injured. No "'"‘“‘,f £émilitary- importance. is_re- Rorted.”” were i available before tomorrow Cabled Paragraphs To Close Lutheran Schools. Melbourne, Austraiia, Aus. 9, 9.25 a. m—The government of Victoria has under consideration a proposal to close all the Lutheran schools in thr state. It is expected that action will be taken in the near future. Report That the Bremen. Sunk. London, August 9.—The report pub- lished widely in the Unitel States that the German submarine Bremen had been sunk while on her way te an American pert did not apvear in the Berliner Tageblatt, as the despatch in question stated, but in the Switzerland, Tageblatt. This paper merely stated it was “probable the Bremen had been sunk, owing to an accident here. Nothing i$ known of this report in London, Amsterdam or The Hague. NOTHING KNOWN OF SUBMARINE BREMEN h Had Been Expected to Arrive Momentarily at New London. New London, Aug. 9—Nothing tan- sible developed here tonight to Indi- cate that the German submarine mer- chantman Bremen was expected to arrive momentarily in New London harbor, as_earlier reported. _ There was no confirmation that the Eastern Forwarding Company to which the rich cargo of the peoneer Deutschland of this fleet was consigned had leased for one vear a portion of a local pier to be used as an American terminal for a mail and other important car- goes. The only definite circumstances which pointed to a probability that the Bremen submarine would end her trans Atlantic voyage here was the known presence on Sunday and Mon- Had Been w day of men who at Baltimore were identified with the arrival of the Deut_ schland. These men, including Cap- ain F. Hinsch of the German steamer Neckar, interned at Baltimore, are ex- pected to return here tomorrow. Captain Hinsch accompanied b Paul Hilken, son of Henry G. Hilken, ciated with the Eastern Forware C spent part of Sunday v harbor and its water front in a motorboat. Then they de- parted from the hotel where they were stopping here and left no word behind as to their destination. During their tour of inspection they examined the siate pier, at the ter- minal of the Central Vermont Raliway and this fact completed with it and dvertisement today by a local con- tracting company for carpenters to begin construction on a warhouse on a portion of the pier tomorrow morn- ing at excessively high wages, led, to reports that this would be the Bre- men’s destination. The contractors refused to say any thing on the subject. They said, how- ever, that it had nothing to do with the Bremen. Reports that reached New London today that the Bremen had been sight- ed but_inquiries brought out that the submarines observed were American vesscls participating in manuevres off the harbor. The government wireless station at Fort Wright, on Fisher's Is- land, had heard nothing tonight to in- dicate the approach of the Bremen and the scores of vessels of many tvpes which hovered at T s mouth during the day and long after nightfall failed to sight the undersea vovager. Two tugs which patrolled the harbor entrance were reported to have been chartereq by men apparently expect- ing the Bremen, and persons who claimed to be in touch with these men said that the submarine would arrive here four days” but their reason for “not tonight but within three or refused to al disclose rting this. WINNERS ANNOUNCED IN OHIO PRIMARY Herrick and Willis to Oppose Pomer- ene and Cox. 0. Aug. 9—Myron T. Cleveland, ex-ambassador nce, for United States senator, Frank B. Willis. incumbent, for governor on the republican ticket, and Atlee Pomerene, incumbent, for Sena- tor and ex-Gov. James M. Cox for governor on the democratic ticket, wili be the rival party standard-bearers in the Ohio campaign as a result of the state-wide primaries yesterday. All four were nominated by majorities s decisive as to leave no doubt. In ac dition to the leaders, full state tickets and candidates for congress in the various districts were named by both parties. An abnormally light vote was cast. While tabulation of retu was be- inz completed slowl rest centred today on the probable result of con- tests for minor state offices, about which there remained some doubt, and on nominations for congress in the 22 districts of the state. Election of- ficials said final figures on the ous contests probably would n GREAT BRITAIN IS TO LOAN PORTUGAL MONEY. To Cover Expense of War, Says Dr. Alfonso Costa, Finance Minister. Lisbon, Aug. 9.—Dr. Alforso Co: the Minister of Finance, upon the re assembling of the Portuguese Con- gress, announced that the British Government would loan Portgual such sums as should be mutually agrecd upon between the two countries 1o cover the expense of Portugal's part in the war. The money he said, would be loaned to Portugal as one of the Allise of the British Government to be repaid within two years after the signinz of the treaty of peace. A note from the British Government acknowledging Portugal's loyalty to her ancient friendship and alliances with Great Britain and inviting her to take part in the war when she con- sidered herself fully prepared was read. The British general staff is be- ing consulted concerning the prepara- tions. Schooner Ashnra With 15(7.000 Pounds of Fish. Gloucester, Mass., Aus. schooner Thomas S. Gordon, with 150, 000 pounds of fish aboard, was ashore today three miles off Race Point. Cape Cod. A tug was sent-from Boston to her assistarce. 9.—The Wallingford Youth Missing. ‘Wallingford, Aug. 9.—The authori- tles today were asked to search fod Joseph Murton 20 years old, who dis- appeared from his home here last onday. It is said he was despondent, and fears are expressed that he may have ended his life. A number of ipersons | searched ;the woods in this rpit. vicinity’today. but -with-no,success. Rallwds May Appeal to Wilson USE HIS PERSONAL EFFORTS TO AVERT STRIKE TO [F CONCILIATORS FAIL The Appeal to the President to be Made Only as a Last Resort to Save Nation From Trade Paralysis. New York, Aug. 9.—If the United States board of mediation and concil- iation which was called in today fails to adjust the differences between the railroads of the country and_ their 400,000 employees, President Wilson will be asked to use his personal in- fluence to avert a general strike. This statement was made today by a rep- resentative of the railroad managers who had been negotiating with the men since June 1 for a peaceful set- tlement. The appeal to the president would be the last resort and would be taken only to save the nation from the trade paralysis that would follow a strike of the magnitude planned by the railroad men. Reads Propose Federal Mediation. Late tonight efforts of the federal mediators to bring the warring fac- tions together were well under way. Six bhours after the railroad managers had served notice on the men that they would not withdraw their formal rejection of the workers’ demands and had proposed federal mediation, the mediators and the managers were closeted in recent session. It was sug- gested in lieu of arbitratton under the Newlands’ act or by the interstate commerce commission, proposals which had been rejected by the brotherhoods Conference Secret. What was discussed at the confer- ence could not be divulged by any of those attending under the mediation but it was understood that the oad represntatives outlined their tion in full and indicated how far they were willing to go in meeting the demands of the men. It was reported that the railronds stood steadfastly fon the main feature of “uncontent con- tingent ‘prnpn on” made at the June conference, which conceded the short- er day, but eliminated double compen- sation for different classes of services during same work day. 150 PERSONS DROWNED IN WEST VIRGINIA A Sunday School Excursion Train With 300 Aboard Marooned. Charleston, W. Va., | cording to officials Power Company, tonigh persons have lost their lives. Eleven bodies have been so far recovered Many persons have been seen climb- ing to debris in the flood, but no as- sistance could be given them. A Su v school excursion train which is marooned near St. Albans is said to have 300 persons on board. Efforts to reach them have failed. Huntington, W. Va., Aug. ernor Hatfield, who arrrved here to- night attend the state republican convention tonight ordered special re- lief trains to the Coal River and Cabin Aug. of the 9. — Ac- Virginia atsleast 150 9.—Gov- Creek districts, where according to reports, more than 100 have been drowned and 5000 made homeless. Two companies of Second Regiment, West Virginia nationat guards, have been ordered with tents to the flooded districts. So serious is the situation that Governor Hatfleld left the city to- night to go to the scene of devastation. GERMANY WILL SEIZE RED CROSS SUPPLIES Announces That British Course Impels Reprisals. Amsterdam, Aug. 9, via London, 1.15 p. m.—The Norddeutsche Allgemeine | Zeitung, of Berlin, publishes a memo- randum issued by the German govern- ment which states that, owing to Brit ish treatment of Red Cross supplies, Germany will not longer allow free passage for such supplies. German naval forces will receive orders to take such articles for their own use when they come within their reach. The British government has refused to permit the forwarding of Red Cross supplies through the blockade line of the allies into Germany and Austria. In a recent memorandum submitted to the American government, Great Brit- ain said this practice has been for- bidde nin all blockades established in the past. ARE NOW FORMING ENGINEERS’ RESERVE Steps Tawen to Create New Corps Under National Defence Act of June 3 Washington, Aug. were taken yesterday by the war de- partment toward formation of a re- serve corps of engineers for the army, as provided by the National Defense act of June 3 last. By direction of the chief of engineers leters were sent b Lieutenant Colonel E. Eveleth Winslow, of the Army Ensineer Corps, ]!0 all of the district engineer officers jof the army throughout the country, aying foundations for the new r serve corps, which will be composed of officers to be commissioned from 9.—First steps among the engineers of the counfry an and of engineer COFFEE BEAN SACKS CONTAINED RUBBER I Norwegian Steamer Lygenfjord Tried to Smuggle Product Into Germany. enlisted reserve corps of TLondon, Aug. 9.—A prize court today {will deal with the Norwegian steamer | Lyngenfjord, New York for Christ- jinni n °s in Its sargzo sev- lenteen tons of coffee. A search dis- closed that fee contained a rubber clover] coffee beans. $2500 Fire at Stratford. Stratford, Conn., Aug. 10—Fire starting from an unknown cause de- stroyed two barns, with the contents, on the Lewis estate, occupied by John Barke, a milk dealer. The loss 1s es- timated at $2,500. The cattle were out at the patsure. The barns were near Remington City,and for a.time the big Dblaze, caused, much®uneasiness.~ ~ . 50 sacks of supposed cof- large amount of raw among the Excitement in Wheat Market OVER CROP LOSSES IN UNITED STATES AND CANADA AT STRAINING POINT Trading Closed in a Whirl Net Gains of 103 to 1134—Black Rust is Spreading in Canada. Showing Chicago, Aug. 9.—Giant crop loses in the United States and Canada sent the wheat market today mnearly to the straining point. Trading closed in a wiirl of excitement showing net sams of 10 5-8 to 11 3-8 with the September option at $1.44 1-4 and with December at $1.48 to $L4S 3-5. Something of the strain involved in and on the far reaching consequences may be realized from the fact that, according to the TUnited States government crop report, which was the principal cause of to- day’s_excitement, the domestic vield of . wheat for 1916 will be 358.000,000 bushels smaller than was the case last year. Canada’s Shortage 136,000,000 Bushels. Black rust spreading in Canada and indicating that the crop there would be cut down 136,000,000 bushels from former total made the situation more acute, as the United States and Cana- da have been furnishing six-sevenths of the world’s bread stuff supplies to the countries that in the face of war difficnities have still be able to im- port. Jumped Eight Cents Over Night The biggest jump in prices today came right at the outset, exactly eight cents a bushel over night. Strenuous efforts to buy cleared the market at times almost completely bare of offer- ings and froced the market higher and higher until the May delivery tcuchod $10.58 1-2, a price just 13 1-2 cents under the topmost level on record in the violent fluctuations of the first year of the European war. Heavy Foreign Buying. Foreign buying on a huge scale ap- parently had much to do with the ex treme prices in the hours of today’s session. It was estimated that report business today totaled 1,500,000 bush- els for immediate shipment including big purchases made of options on f ture deliveries. SERUM TREATMENT FOR INFANTILE PARALYSIS. Beneficial Results Are Said to Have Been Obtained. Aug. 1 based on New York, serum treatment paralysi Methods of cases of infantile seientific principles and from which beneficial results have been obtained outlined tonight by Dr. Haven Emersen, city health <commissioner. One of these methods, the commis- sioner stated, consists in using the finid withdrawn by spinal puncture and re-injected subcutaneously or in- tra-muscularly into the same patient. Another method is sp -tions of blood serum deriv ons who have recov r se. The fir t described by the commissioner as one of “active imrmunization.” “This method is hased on the as- sumption,” he said, “that the spinal fluid taken from the patient contains the virus of the disease and that the virus Injected subcutaneously or in- tra-muscularly will stimulate the pro- duction of anti-bodies which will aid in overcoming the infection.” The bleod serum direved from con- valescents, he pointed out, contains anti-bodies which also will aid in overcoming infection. Since it is known that the with- drawal of spinal fluid is in itself fol- lowed by a marked improvement of those ill with poliomvelitis,” the com- missioner added series of patients have bcen ated merely by spinal puncture—withdrawing _spinal fluid— without any i n. In a number of instances this has been followed by striking improvement, possibly throush the relief of excessive Intra-spinal SAILORS COMMENDED BY SECRETARY DANIELS For Valor Shown at Time of Black Tom lIsland Explosion. Washington, Aug. lips, master of the na and the nine me commended by Secrei for their “excelle tating exposnre to the great explosion 30. “It appears, ohn J. Phil- tuz Pentucket, and unhesi- following York.” July Secretary Daniels said, “that the men on the Pentucket, in charge of Tugmaster Phillips, proceed- ed to Elils Island and with hose from the pilot house and the main deck fought the fire on one of the exploding ammunition barzes. Some of the ex- ploding shells embedded_themselves in the tug. Seama Wandle, while handling the nozzie on top of the pilot house, was severely injured by being struck in the stomach by an e shell. They succceded in least one ammunition lighter could do no further damage. xploding placing at where it inson, firemen; J. L. W dle_and R. W. Wandle, se: S. Nobel, ordinary seaman. AIR BATTLE 9,000 FEET OVER THE SEA men, and C, trian Over Gulf of Trieste. Beriin, Aug. 9, by wireless to S: arly 9,000 feet over roal engagement ni . is reported in an the Gulf of Trieste, Austro-Hungarian Admiralty state- {ment todzy, wh ays “Naval ILieut .ionficld, on August 116, shot down a large Italian battle { acroplane after a protracted aerial en- gagement 2,706 metres above the Gulf of Trieste. The aecroplane fell near Sistiana and was burned. Of the oc- cupants, one licutenant was killed, a non-commissioned _officer was_badly wounded. and another slizhtly wound- ed. “This is the fourth aeroplane de- -stioyed~ by Ld -Benfield™ ville—The destruction of an Italian battle aeroplane by an Austrian na- val aviator, Lieut. Benfield, in an ae-! | | The men of the crew are F, L.| Knight and T. A. Heatton, machinists’ | mates; T. de Mors and T. Hutch- Italian Aeroplane, Shot Down by Aus- | lc: Condensed Telegrams Gold shipments from Canada now total $201,446,000. Germany has prohibited the impor- tation of raw tobacco. Fourteen porters of the New York Stock Exchange, went on strike. Percy A. Rockefeller was elected a director of the National City Bank. Fire destroyed three oil tanks of the Gulf Pipe Lirie Co., near El Vista, Tex. Major Hugh White Adams, of Yonkers, N. Y., a civil war veteran, is dead. Japan’s naval plans provide for six battle cruisers and eight super-dread- naughts by 1923. Two thousands scldiers have been sent to fight a great fire in a forest near Savonia, Italy. Leila May and Ina Marion Briggs were drowned while bathing in the ‘Westfield River, at Westfield, Mass. Twenty-eight persons were killed in Petrograd during the disorders which tok place there on July 30. The exports of merchandise in the port of New York for the weck ended Aug. 5 were valued at $56,445,769. J. P. Morgan & Co., have deposited in the Assay Office an additional $2,- 00,000 gold received from Canada. Tom McCormick, former welter- welght champion of Great Britain, was killed in action at the French front. James W. Reilly, private secretary to Democratic National Committeeman Norman E. Mack, of Buffalo, Is dead. President Wilson accepted the res- ignation of Judge Thomas D. Stewart of the First Judicial Circuit of Ha- wali. Rev. Dr. Daniel Bliss founder and president emeritus of the Syrian Protestant College, at Beirut, Syria, is dead. Dr. John Price Durbin John, of Green Castle, Ind, widely known Methodist educator and lecturer, dead. Reports to the State Department of Health at Trenton, N. J., brought the total of infantile paralysis cases in the State to 1,014. Gen. David McMutrie Gregg, of Reading, Pr., one of the last of the TUnion general at the battle of Get- tysburg, died. Peter Lekus is held at Bridgeport, for the Federal authorities charged with entering this country in violation of the immigration laws. Pgemier Asquith announced in Com- mons that a bill extending the life of the present session of Pariiament will be introduced on Monday. Two hundred members of the Pitts- burgh_Military Training Association left Pittsburgh for the military train- ing camp at Plattsburg, N. The British steamship Birdowald from Catellamare for Baitimore has been detained at Gibraltar on account of her machinery becoming deranged. President Wilson signed a bill pro- viding further funds for use of the public health service in fighting the growing epidemic of infantile paraly- sis. A personal letter from President Wilson to the Kaiser, on conditions in Poland, was_delivered to Foreizn Sec- retary Von Jagow by Ambassador Ge- rard. All the ships of the Atlantic fleet except the tender .Yankton sailed from Newport, R. L, for the manoevres to be held off the southern New England coast. Col. Roosevelt cordially approved the proposed woman suffrage amend- ment in a letter to irman Alice of the New York Hughes' penter, Alliance. Sixty-five thousands gallons of naptha in cans was scattered by an explosion in the hold of the steamship Horte: us at pier 38, Erie Basin, Brooklyn. Representative Bennett, of New York was applauded in the House when he declared he favored using the United States navy to break the Brit- ish blacklist. Two more officers of the U. S. Pub- lic Health Service were sent from Washington to New York to aid in the | fight to prevent the interstate spread of infantile paraly James Gerrigan, one-time racing partner of John Dehymel, was killed near San Antonio, Texas, while speed- ing his machine up a hill to have his picture taken in action. Frank Cooper, thirty-six years old an engineer, of 156 Clinton St., New Haven, was run over and killed b the Boston express of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad at ‘Baychester, The Bronx. Preliminary steps were taken by the War Department for orsanization of the engincering section of the of- ficers’ ang enlisted reserve corps of the army suthorized i nthe Na fense Act, which became effective 1z i ME2SURES TO BUILD UP ITALIAN MERCHANT MARINE Ships Bought Ahroad Exempted from Taxation for Three Years. Rome, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 5 p. m., via Paris, Aug. 9, 195 a. m.—The min try today-adopted the following meas- ures designed to affect the building up of the National Merchant marine and relieve shippers from the burdens of hich freight rates: Ships bought abroad by Italian cit- izens or companies within the next two years will be exempt from ta: tion for a period of three years: ships built in Ttaly during the same period will be exempt from taxation for four vears, the materials for such ships il be permitted to enter free of Guty, and subsidles will be paid of $16 per ton on the hull and $20 on ma- chinery. Ships buflt under the provisions of the act will be liable, however, to re- quisition by the government for one year. and such shins must also Te- main under Italian registration for ,five years - { fleld’s telecram denying that MAKES PUBLIC LETTER cellent Stock Breeder and Minneapolis, M n., Aug. 9.—Charles E. Hughe , replying to Secreta Durand was forced out of director of the census. today office as read to a large audience here a letter from Mr. Durand in which Mr. Durand said that he had told Redfield he would resign but wanted to remain, and that Redfield replied that the administra- tlon had decided on a change. Mr. Durand’s letter, read by the nominee in the course of an open air speech in the parade grounds here, was in part as follows: Mr. Durand’s Letter. “Inasmuch as the truth of _your statement with regard to the change in this directorship of the census has been challenged, I think it is only fair to you that I should make this state- ment. My resignation as director was distinetly a forced resignation. At the first conversation I had with Sec- retary Redfield, I told him that I would resign, but that I hoped I would be permitted to remain. He at once told me that the administration had decided that it wanted to make a change. I believe ‘to_create a vacan- cy' were his words. Next that I heard of it was an announcement of the successor had been announced and then I wrote out my resignation.” > Mr. Hughes then repeated his De- troit declaration with reference to the displacement G6f “an eminent scien- tist” in the coast and geodetic survey by “an excellent stock breeder and Vetinerary surgeon. “Exception also has been taken by the distinguished secretary with re- gard to that man,” the nominee con- tinued. “Now I am not in a position to state of ray own knowledge of the circumstance with reference to the retirement of the eminent scientist ho occupied that important place. But if T may assume that he retired voluntarily my point is not so much the retirement plan, but the character of the man by whom he was suc- ceeded. “I am now told that Mr. Jones, who succeeded him was promoted after being deputy commission of fisheries. But he was appointed to that place, also involving the need of technical skill and training, by this adminis- tration. He went there from his stock farm and took charge of the bureag.” Went Into Details. Mr. Hughes went into detail as to rge he made in Detroit that the administration had made “a raid upon the civil service of the United States,” and concluded as follows: “We must have higher standards than those of this administration. The HUGHES REPLIES TO SEC'Y REDFIELD About E. Dana Durand Being Forced Out of Office as Director of the Census FROM DEPOSED MAN Durand Writes That His Resignation Was a Distinctively Forced Resignation—Republican Nominee Repeated His Detroit Statement That an Eminent Scientist in the Coast and Geodetic Survey Had Been Displaced by “an Ex- Veterinary Surgeon”’—Closed His Speech in Minneapolis by Saying We Must Have Higher Standards Than Those of This Administration. administration. with loud professions of devotion to civil service reform, has not been true to the standards of the administration which I believe the American people desire to see em- forced.” Immediately after his speech here Mr. Hughes motored back to St. Paul, where his program called for the de- livery of an address later. ATTACKS ADMINISTRATION FOR ITS PREPAREDNESS POLICY. Hughes Declared It is Inadequate in Address at St. Paul Last Night. St. Paul, Minn, Aug. 9.—Charles B. Hughes, speaking tonight in the Au- ditorium here, assailed the administra~. tion for its preparedness policy, which. he declared xn.udum&te, asserting that he regarded ‘“reasonabic preparedness 8s a primary duty,” and purposed if| elected “to see that it is discharged to the credit of the American peopl “We arc a spirited people,” Mr., Hughes declared. “We are a people. that can protect ourselves. We are not too proud to fight.” Much of the nominee’s address was devoted to the Mexican situation and the calling of the national guard to service on the border. There had been warnings for fwo years that America. should be prepared, Mr. Hughes said, vet when the time came 'to put a.n' army on the border “to do police ser-| vice,” there was presented “a spectacle shotwing Ineficiency of the first magni- tude. . ‘The administration’s embargo on arms to Mexico was criticized as “fast and loose—no policy. “T don't think it a rash statement,” the nominee stated. “I think it is war-' ranted by the facts, to say_that any| American soldier killed in Mexico isl killed by American bullets that we have let o over the border.” | Mr. Hughes referred 1o a recent ad- dress to the senate by Senator Lewls of Tllinois. *“He didn’t like some state- ments of mine” the nominee sald.’ “They discharged him. I am glad of it,, That was the intention, but therei wasn't a word in which 1 said that he' or anybody else could answer” The' punitive expedition to Mexico, Mr. Hughes said, was only called punitive. “The only punishment inflicted was punishment inidicted on_ ourselves,” he_ said. “We punished nobody else, A large portion of the nominee’s ad-! dress was devoted to reiteration of his, views on the need for industrial co- operation and preparing for commer- cial competition by Europe after the war. INCREASE IN POPULATION BY IMMIGRATION 169,061 Influx Lower Than It Had Been Eighteen Years. in Aug. Increase in population by immigration amounted to only 169,01 during the fiscal year of 1916. Statistics announced today the immegration bureau show the influx of aliens was lower than it had been in 18 years. iving in the United States ich ended June 30 num- whom 298,826 were ‘Washington, for the Dbered immizrants and 6 mmigrants. Aliens departing numbered 240,807, of whom 126,703 were immigrants leaving of returning and 111,- nts W intend to country in time. hout intentio non-immig; come back to U A BILL TO CREATE A ‘i BUREAU OF LABOR SAFETY nal De- | Favorably Reported in Senate by Com- mittee on Education and Labor. 9. A bill to cre- ‘Washington, Aus. ate a burean of labor safety in the department of labor was reported fa- vorably today by the senate commit- teo on education and labor. The pro- posed bureau would investigate and | report on labor safety plans and de- i vices of all kinds, except those relating | to railway operation, which a commit- | tee amendment provides should be left [t the interstate commerce commis- | Ston. VILLA BANDITS ATTACKED A PASSENGER TRAIN. Were Repulsed by an Escort of Gov- ernment Troops. Chihuahua City, Mex., Aug. 8.—Villa bandits vesterday attacked a passen- ger train on the Torreon and Durango railroad at Noria, 1t was learned to- day. They were repulsed by an escort of government troops on the train. In the fight General Aguilar of General Francisco Murgia's staff was killed. The bandits, numbering about scattered to the foothills 20, ALMOST INSTANTLY KILLED BY AN AUTOMOBILE, David Bridge, a Farmer, Was Struck Near Greenwich, Greenwich, Conn., Aug. 9.—David Bridge, 50 years old, a farmer, was al- most instantly killed today when he was struck by_an automobile owned and driven by John W. Carl of Sound Beach. Dridge’ skull was fractured and he died while on the way to the hospit: Carl was arrested, charged h manslaughter. The accident oc- curred on Toll Gate hill. Bridge leaves his wife and four.children. ARMY BILL HAS BEEN PERFECTED BY CONGRESS" Navy Bill Alone Now Remains to Complete Defense Measures. ‘Washington, Aug. 9.—Congress car- ried national defence legislation an- other step forward today by finally| perfecting the army bill. Only per-! fection of the navy bill now remains' for completion of the program behind, which President Wilson has put the full force of the administration to de- feat attempts at reductions. Although the senate conferees per- mitted the house to reduce the '.utlli appropriation of the army bill some| forty-six millions from the senate| figures, it carries eighty-five millions more than it did as the house origin- ally passed it and totals $267,597,000. Tts final passage was without evi-| dence of disagreement within the dem= | ocratic lines. Tuesday the naval bill was called np\ and the house will be asked to agree to the senate amendments, principal| ameng which are the big building pro- gram. President Wilson has told the house leaders he considers adoption of, the big program essential and the ad-| ministration expects it to go through. | RUSH OF REGISTRATION FOR PLATTSBURG CAMP.| Total Up to Noon Yesterday Was Nearly 800. Plattsburg, N. Y, Aug. 9.—The rush of regiswration for the August camp of| rmhl:xry instruction began today when ! over 200 men lined up in front of the adjutant general's office to make their! deposits and be assigned to regiments} and companies. These, together with, the 400 from the July camp who re-| mained for another four of = duty brought the total registrations up t.a noon nearly 800. Colonel Peter Murray, camp com- mander, has arranged for two regi-| ments apd a separate battalion for the | new camp. These will be known as the | Eighth, Ninth and Tenth training Teg- | iments, Major Goodale commanding./ the Eighth, Major Stewart the Ninth' and Major Roberts the Tenth., Al CBITUARY. Robert Grau. Mount Vernon, N. Y., Aug. 9.—Robert Grau, formerly a theatrical and con~ cert manager and one of the best known figures- In"éramatic.and musical circles years ago, died: yesterday at his home her eof heart disease. He con- ducted the tours of some of the most; famous concert siars, including Ade- line Patti, for whom he was manager. for many years. He was the author of) several books dealing with art and the! drama, and was a brother of the late Maurice Grau, formerly manager of Metropalitan opera house. S