Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 23, 1916, Page 1

Norwich gt Balletin VoL. LviL—NO. 230 POPU| LATION 28,219 NORWICH, CONN., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1916 16 PAGES — 128 COLUMNS The Bulletin’s Girculation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City’s Population : FRENCH AND BRITISH RENEW AGGRESSION French Have Undertaken Operations on the Out- skirts of the Town of Combles STRAIGHT LINE FROM MARTINPUICH TO FLERS The British Line Now Runs on a Direct Line North of the Two Villages—Berlin Reports That the Rumanians and Rus- sians in the Conflict at Dobruja Have Been Compelled to Fall Back—In the Carpathians the Russians Have Cap- tured the Summit of Smotrec Height—Serbian and French Troops Continue to Make Progress in North- western Macedonia—An Entente Transport Has Beer Sunk by a German Submarine. omme front i British forces again have and been rewarde On the French and taken the offensive with additionai gains. General Ha men ma rogress toward Bapaun while General Foch's soldiers, who ap- parently have begun another effort 10| eject the Germans from Combles and | salient in the entente line north of the Bomme, also met with succe Following the checking of German attacks southeast of Comdles, betwecn Le Priez farm a ancourt, the end of the i the ente 1 h pa er which almost encircies the town, the French undertook local operations on the outskirts of Combles itself. An organized and defended houst was cap- tured and several trench elements were | occupied. In these enterprises 140 prisoners were taken. | General Haig's troops straightened | out their line between Martinpuich and Fle distance of about one mile, by t wo lies of German trenches. ont here now | runs on north of the two | villages. o records im- eme other positions on the ht s ed Iy in Paris that the r of prisoners taken by | the Anglo-¥rench s on the Somme from July 1 to Sept. 18 aggresates more than 35,500 Of these. 34,500 fell into the hands of the French. - Berlin ern fr \ctivity on the whole of the nt. d Rumanian reports as to the p or resul: of the battle in Dobrudjz conflict. In col ction_of | the from Bucparest that | the force central powers were falling back, Berlin | N 1 May neircling movement 1 ance of the Rumanians and Russians and compelled them to retreat. Berlin says strong Rumanian forces were re- pulsed southwest of Toprai Sari, four- teen miles southwest of Constanza, on the Black sea coast. Berlin and Vienna admit a reverse in the Carpathians in the Russian cap- nd Mails. ture of the summit of Smotrec height, — : which previously had changzed hands| T.ong Branch, °N. J. Sept. —Wal many times. but declare Russian at-;(er FTines Page, American ambassado; tacks in Voihynia and southern Buko-|!0 Great Great Britain, on his way wina were checked. West of Lutsk,| ight to confer with President | in Voihynia, the Germans again Wson oxiH U finfect \,‘m.v(‘;,,‘, sulsea Russian attacks, c = ican trade and mails. was delay: prisoners and several machine guns, |°d for two ho 1t South Amboy. N. | according to Berlin, and Russian as- | T the v freicht traia| saults in Galicia, north of Zboroff, and | Which made he transfer of in the rezion Dorna Watra, on 'the bor- i M1 P 1 ssengers from der of Bukowina and Rumania, were|One train to another. frustrated Because of the delay in the amt Serbiar. and French troops continue | $7dor’s arrival. he and the president to make progress in msrthwestern | talked for only a short time tonicht, Macedorin. The Serbians are advanc- | Put they pla ntinue the confer- | ing in the Broda river region and the | ence tomorrow morning. ~ It was the| French are pushing forward north of [ fIrst time Paze and Mr. Wilson | Florina toward Monastir. A Bulgarian | have had an ovnortunity to discuss attack on Zborsky was checked by the | Pusiness since the arrival in | entente forces. Berlin and Sofia report | ‘he_country several weeks ago. i ol vty T AT T (e _president planned o ouline mk An entepte transport and a French | Ambassador e in dets po- submarine have fallen victims to .a|Sitlon of the Tnifed States govern- | German eusmarile and "an Austro- | MO towards the British poliey of in. | Hungarian aeroplane, respectively. Seete smer ade 2 The transport, reported by Berlin as|Malls in order that Mr. Page ‘may ‘completely filled;™ Was sunk in _th auestion fully with the Mediterranean — Sept. 17th. Bombs en office whe he returns from the aeroplane sunk the submarine in the southern Adriatic. The 29 mem- bers of the crew were rescued. London reports that a Germnan sea- WRS. OTTO ROBINSON OF WILLIMANTIC, CHAIRMAN f Civic Committee of the Connecticut Federation of Woman's Clubs. Hartford, Conn., Sept. 22.—At the all meeting of the cxecutive board of he Connecticut Federation of Wom- n’s clubs held here to. Mrs, Otto tobinson of Willimantic was chosen *hairman of the civic committee, in Jlace of Mrs. Leo He w Haven gned. Mr Shel- was elected n of the civil ervice reform committee, succeeding \irs. Rienzi Robinson of Danbury, re- igned. In place of Dr. Sophia Pen- resigned as chairman of the M W. E. B. ivans of Greenwich was elected. The ignation of Mrs. B. Street of Bast Haven, chairman of the home conomics committee, was accepted ind Miss Estella Sprague :ollege chosen for the office. NEW HAVEN POLICE LOOKING FOR BURGLARS. Jewelry and Cash to the Amount of $3,500 Missing from Two Residences. of Storrs New Haven, Conn., Sept. 22.—The police are today investigating robber- les reported to have heen committed at wo residences in an exclusive residen- tial sectfon of the city in which jew- elry and cash to the toral of $3,500 is said to have been taken. From the home of Mrs. H. P. Hoadley, accord- ng to the police, jewelry and diamonds to the value of $2,000, and from the residence of E. D. Tiesing jewelry and liamonds valued approximately at $1,- 100, and $400 in cash, were taken. The robberies occurred several days ago. CAVALRYMAN SHOT AT PRESIDIO, TEXAS John Z. Steinhagen of Bloomington, Ind—No Details Given. Bloomington, Ind,, Sept. 22.—John Z. Steinhagen, 20, a private in F troop, Sixth United States cavalry, was shot and killed at Presidio, Texas, accord- ing to a telegram received ' by the young man’s mother, Mrs. John Stein- hagen, of this city, today. The tele- gram ‘was signed by Colonel Gaston, commander of the Sixth Cavalry, It ave no detalls as to the cause of the shooting. 3RIDGEPORT WOMAN DROWNED HERSELF Despondent Because of the Alleged Habits of Her Husband. Bridgeport, Conn., Sept. 22.—Mrs. Jo- “ieph Bernard, 29 years old, commit- ed suicide this afternoon _ by irowning in Bruce's pond, in the East 2nd of this city. She was seen when ihe jumped, but was dead wren taken Irom the water soon afterward. Her father, Patrick Fleming, and her brother, with whom she lived, said ihe was despondent because of the al- - peed habits of her husband, Who, they :mx she had supported by working a factory during most of the thir- plane dropped three borbs on Dover, | interference with the rights of the Englana, Friday. No casualties resuit. | il not be permitted ed. . Prifish warships have bombarded pulesl i Pulgarian positions near the mouth of e BTl the Struma river in Macedonia. e T are withont escuse BENNINGTON POLICE SECURE A CONFESSION | FAom Frances Ketcham That He Kill- ed William Costello. Bennington, Vt., Sept. 22.—The po lice announced tonight that they had secured a confession from Francis Ketcham, who is now serving a ninety day sentence in the Salem, N. Y., jail for larceny, that he killed Willlam Costello here last Saturday night Costello’s body was found beside the car tracks near the soldiers' home with three bullet wounds in his head The police allege that Ketcham told them he and Costello had quarreled over a bottle of liquor and had agrecd to fight it out. During the fight, ac- cording to Ketcham's alleged story, he drew a revolver and shot his op- ponent. Ketcham disappeared after _the shooting and was arrested in New York Tuesday and convicted of steal- ing a wagon. TRANSACTION OF AN INSURANCE BUSINESS May Be Conducted by Any Corporation Without Capital Stock. Hartford, Conn, Sept. 22.—Attorney General Hinman today handed down an opinion declaring that the princi- ples involving the right to organize corporations without capital stock for purposes other than a mercantile or manufacturing business, outside the powers permitted joint stock corpora- tions under the general laws of the state, could be extended to the trans- action of an insurance business. Tifts means that any corporation without capital stock may conduct its busi- ness in the nature of insurance, ac- ¢ording to Mr. Hinman's interpreta- on. The opinion was asked by Insurance Commissioner Burton Mansfield. OBITUARY. George A. Fay, Meriden, Conn., Sept. 22.—George A. Fay, a practicing lawyer In this ity for ‘over 50 years, died tonight after a year's illness of a complication of diseases. He was a graduate of the Yale Law School 1862 and studied law in Senator O. H. Platt's office. He was elected to the state semate in 1872 and was chairman of the committee on elections which determined wheth- er James E. English of New Haven or Marshall Jewell should be state governor. He was a republican in politics. ' He was a_brilliant lawyer and hid been counsel for the New Ha- ven road, the International Silver Co.. and other large corporations. He re- tired flve years ago. He was a na- tive of Marlboro, Mass., and leaves two brothers, Police Judge Frank . Fay of this city and Attorney Heeman Fay of Marlboro. Ho was 78 years o S e Killed by a Passenger Train. Bethel, Me., Sepjt. 22.—William H. Tracy of Greenwood was killed by a passenger train on the Grand Trunk railroad at a crossing near here today.. years of her married Mfe. She| He was 16 years of and had been L2ad"Cn Gaughter sight years old. employed on state 0ad werk: Cabled Paragraphs French War Credits. Paris, Sept. 22, 7.10 p. m—The mber of deputies today unanimous- 1y voted war credits for the remainder of the year amounting to §,835,090,000 francs. French Submarine Sunk, Berlin, Sept. 22.—(By W* Sayville). The French, 5 Foucas has been sunk * _ern Adriatic by bombs d: . Aus- tro-Hungarian naval .nes, the Austrian admiralty an .nced today. The entire crew of 29 men were res- cued and made prisoners. MILLIONAIRE BANKRUPT'S LAWYER HELD FOR JURY. James R. Ward, Who Has $2,100,000 Once Owned by Edward W. Morrison Chicago, Sept. 22.—James R. Ward, attorney for Edward W. Morrison, an alleged millionaire bankrupt, was or- dered held to the grand jury by eral Judge Landis today on charges of perjury. Ward has come into pos- session of $2,100,000 worth of property owned by Morrison whose vanishing millions have been a subject of in- quiry before Judge Landis. Morrison, now an old man, inherited $8,000,000 from his father. Its disa pearance came to light when he filed a petition in bankruptcy. Ward is al- leged to have received in the neighbor- hood of $2.000,000 of it. Bdward Hs stenographer, John Sommer: tified he had | spent $100,000 of Morrison’s money in providing ‘the aged man with ques- tionable forms of entertainment, and Robert Minnehan, a broker, who was unable to explain how he came into possession of thousands of dollars of Morrison’s wealth, also were ordered held to the grand jury as witnesses. Their bonds were fixed at $2,500 each. WALTER HINES PAGE CONFERS WITH PRESIDENT On British Interference With Ameri- can Trade es to impress on the ssity of informing | nment that continued | assador th the Pritish gove ICELANDIC SHIP IN | NEW YORK HARBOR| {Captin Tells of Prosperity Resulting From European War. New York, Sept. 22.—The Gulfoss, said to be one of tr Teels | ships to visit the shores of the wes ern hemisphere since the days of Feif the Lucky, tied up in the harbor here today with a cargo of herring. Aboard the Gulfoss, a little steamer of 8S¢ tos, is a crew of Tcelandic sailors, of- ered by Icelandic navizators and < virtually the same lansuage . son_of Eric the Red. spoke 1anded pe Cod about - 1,000. The ship is under the comma®d of Captain Sigurgar Pjetur- ssen who told of the remarkable pros- perity that has come upon Iceland since the Furopean war started. The Gulfoss brouzht to New York 28 passengers, mostly merchants, who to buy goods in American mar- On_its_return trip the first of next month, the Gulfoss will pass its sister_ship, the Gothaloss, bound for New York with a cargo of fish. Cap- tain Pjeturssen said he hoped to sea established a regular trade with the TUnited States. The two vessels sail under the Danish flag. Amazingly high prices for the pro- ducts of the island have brought pros- perity in the last two vears, the cap- tain said. The war created the first millionaires in Iceland, he declared, ang also gave the island its first e: perience with labor troubles and oth- er disorders of modern civilization. FRESH EGGS WILL SELL AT 75 CENTS A DOZEN Prediction of Secretary of Massachu- setts State Board of Agriculture. Boston, Sept. 22.—Wresh eggs will sell at 73 cents a_dozen, retail, in this state within a short time, Wilfred Wheeler, secretary of the state board of agriculture, stated today. This al- most unprecedented price was inevita- ble, he said, because of the high price of poultry, ‘which has reduced the number of hens; low fertility of eggs laid last spring, which lessened the season’s hatch and higher prices of food products and labor. _Storage supplies, according to Secretary Wheeier, are less than in other years, and the increased prices probably will extend to other grades of eggs to a lesser degree. Movements of Steamships. St. Michaels, Sept. 21.—Arrived: Steamer Giuseppe Verdi, New York for Naples. London, Sept, 19.—Sailed: Steamer Alaunia, New York. Bergen, Sept. 20.—Sailed: Steamer Kristianiatjord, New York. Gothenburg, ' Sept. 20. Sajiled: steamer Stockholm, New York. Liverpool, Sept. 21.—Sailed: Steam- er Finland,'New York. Liverpool, Sept. 22. — Signalled: steamer St. Louis, New York for Liv- enpool. Due Liverpool 8 p. m. Sat- urday. London, Sept. 22—Sailed: Steamer Pannonia, New York. New York, Sept. 22.—Safled: Steam- er Noordam, Rotterdam. Delaware Breakwater, Sept. 22. Passed out: Steamer Haverford, Phil- adelphia for Liverpool. & Infantile Paralysis Eridemicatanend AN OANGER OF A RECURRENCE IN NEW YORK NURSE IN EACH SCHOOL Officials of Health Department Who in New York All Summer Are to Start on Their Have Been Detained Vacations. New York, Sept. 22—The epidemic of infantile paralysis in this city was declared tonight by health' department officials to be at an end and as dan- ger of a recurrence of the plague is believed to have passed, members of the department who have been detain- Denies Villa Led Chihuahua Attack AMBASSADOR ARRENDONDO SAYS REPOT IS NOT TRUE WAS WORK OF SEVERAL Declares Attack on Chihuahua City Was the Work of a Combination of s to the De Facto Juntas Antagon| Government ‘Washington, Sept. 22. — Whether Francisco Villa again has become a factor in the military situation in northern Mexico remained a question of considerable doubt tonight, despite nearly a_week's efforts by the state and war departments to ascertain what Publicity That newspapers? speak from long experience can be expected ter of guesswork they are steadil neighbor standing still. aids business. ing matter has appeared: Bulletin Telegraph Local General Total Saturday, Sept. 16.. 186 175 5 1248 8609, Monday, Sept.#18.. 136 130 259, 518 Tuesday, Sept:: 19...136 153 257 546 Wednesday, Sept. 20.. 138 147 181 466 Thursday, Sept. 21.. 134 186 244 564 Friday, Sept. 22.. 144 125 204 473 Tatlss ... . 874 946 - 2386 Why is it that you often hear those in charge of the advertising branch of a big business house or a large manufacturing concern de- clare that there is no form of adver permanent in results as publicity gained through reputable, established The fact of the matter is that and a full knowledge of the results that from the different forms of publicity. for they would not be devoting thousands of dollars a year to newspaper advertising if it didn’t pay handsome dividends. They know that they cannot get along W expanding their business while their non-advertising In its fleld of circulation The Bulletin unexcelled as an advertising medium. In the columns of The Bulletin during the past week the follow- —_—————— e —————— Aids Business ng so generally profitable and they have tested it out. They It isn’t 2 mat- thout it and that is why is It provides the publicity that 1 summer will start on their vacations beginning tomorrow. Instructions were given today to the 497 nurses, one of whom will bepres- ent in each school on opening day, to refuse admittance to any child who have lived in an infected house. ile also will be applied to teach- ed here may DEPLETION OF WORLD'S SUPPLY OF TONNAGE Is a Source of Worry to the British Authorities. London, Sept. 22, 7;16 p. m.—The continued depletion of the worlds® sup- ply of tonnage as the result of the op- erations of the submarines of the cen- tral powers will be met by an increase in stringent measures by which the en- tente allies design to control shippins, s0 as to ensure it being used to the best advantage of the allies and pre- vent it even indirectly aiding their op- ponents, according to a statement made to The Associated Press today by Lord Robert Cecil, minister of war trade. Lord Robert admitted that even the present rate of destruction, without considering the possibility ' of a re- sumption of restricted submarine war- fare, meant a serious loss to the world’s tonnage and that consequent- Iy it could not be expected that British coal or other British facilities should be expended on ships carrying goods to blacklisted firms. The entente al- lies will increase their shipping meas- ures, which already are proving val- uable, in making the best use of avail- able tonnage in proportion as the Germans_succeed in destroying mer- chant ships. GOV. HOLCOMB RESIGNATES FIRE PREVENTION DAY. Offi al Proclamation Naming Monday, October 9. Hartford, Conn., Sept. 22.—Governor Marcus H. Holcomb has issued an of- ficial proclamation designating Mon- day, Oct. 9, as_Fire Prevention day. In the course of the preclamation the s governor sa “During the last year alone, fire caused to this country the loss of five thousand lives and destroyed more than a quarter of a billion dollars’ worth of property, an average of five hundred dollars’ worth for cvery min- ute of the year. If this destruction were inevitable, it would call only for grim resignation, but by far the great- er portion of it was preventable.” The governor requests that on the day designated “the teachers in our schools, the writers in our press and all other sin positions of influence, great or emall, direct their efforts to the study of the causes of this fearful and needless waste and the steps which may be taken to prevent it.” GREEK CRUISER TO JOIN REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT. Georgio Averof is Lying OFf the Arsenal Near Piracus. London, Sept. 23, 3.02 a. m—A des- patch to the Mail from Athens says: “The Greek armored cruiser Georgio Averof, lying off the arsenal on the island of Salamis, neat Piraeus, is pre- paring to join the revolutionary move- ment at Saloniki. The government has ordered the remainder of the fleet to prevent the Georgio Averof from part, if any, the bandit chief took in the attack last Saturday on Chihuahua City. cretary Baker indicated today that war departmert officiaus do not regard conclusive the report t mitted sterday by Brigadier General Bell, saying that Villa led the Chihuahua City attack in person, and the Mexi- can embassy announced receipt of of- cial advices declaring Villa was not i the attacking force. The embassy’s report came from General Trevino, commander of the attacked garrison. “The resurrection of Villa is not true 1 Ambassador Arredondo to- night. “The attack on Chihuahua City was made Dy a combination of juntas antagonistic to the de facto govern- ment.” Work of Several Arredondo’ ack was the wor several leaders offi Leaders. belief that th of the follo; shared by pYs many Accounts of the fight described the assailants listas,” but the term has grown S to be than a speciic sense in Mexico and employed in a general rather along the border. As time passes without verification of reports of Villa’s presence at Chi- huahua City, officials here are inclined to believe that the incident will not fizure materially in deliberations of the American-Mexican commission at New London. Mr. Arredondo was at the state department today on busi- ness in connection with the commi: sion, it having become necessary to select a' new meeting place, as the New London hotel where sessions are being held will clos the sea- son.” A decision will announced next week. MONUMENT TO MEMORY OF VICTIMS OF MAINE To be Constructed Near the Wall of the Malecon. Havana, Sept. 22—Work will be commenced next week on the monu- ment in memory of the victims of the the United States battleship Maine, blown up in Havana harbor in Febru. ary, 1898. The = monument will be erected in a small park opposite the Santa Clara battery, near the wall of the Malecon. On either side of the memorial a staff will be placed on which will be hoist- ed the Stars and Stripes and the flag of the Cuban republic. The monument will be on a base sixteen feet in height, the total height to be sixty-seven feet. LANSING ISSUES A POSITIVE DENIAL No Disagreement, He Says, Over Re- taliatory Trade Legislation. Washington, Sept. 22. — Secretary Lansing ,today denounced as untrue published reports that he and President Wilson’s political advisers had disagreed over legal phases of the retaliatory legislation almed at Great Britain’s interferences with trade. He added that the views of the state de- partment regarding the leglslation were not in shape to be discussed, and that no conclusion had been reached as_to enforcement. It has been known for several doys that while no course had been deter- mined upon by Secretary Lansing, some officials of the department be- lleved that part of the legislation is ©of doubtful legality and unenforceablé Mendoza, Argentina, has 75,000 peo- ple. SR wholly | Condensed Telegrams The sub-treasury transferred $1,500,- 000 to San Francisco. The 71st regiment arrived at New York from Camp Whitman. Dr. LeRoy C. Cooley, professor of physics at Vassar college from 1874 to 1907, is dead. The body of an unidentified man was found in the East River at Sixty- Fourth street, New York. Wright Huntington, an actor and stock company manager, dropped dead in Cincinnati. Exports of general merchandise at the port of New York, Wednesday, to- taled $23,014,740. The Buffalo Trust Co. has certified that it has increased its capital from $250,000 to $500,000. The Crowther Motors corporation, was incorporated at Dover, Del., with a capital stock of $5,000,000. The Whitaker-Glessner Co. will build a by-product coke plant at Poxts mouth, O., at a cost of $2,000,000. Joseph H. Choate was elected vice president and trustee of the American Museum of Safety at New York. The forty-second annual convention of the American Banlk associati will be held next week at The Standard Oil Co. announced an #ase of five cents a barrel in_the price of crude ofl at the wells in Cali- fornia. Charles William Reginald Duncombe, second Earl of Feversham, major of the Yorkshire Hussars, was killed in action. The grain elevator of McKenney, Rogers & Co., of Chicago, at Wells boro, mear Laporte, Ind.. was destroy ed by fire. Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, commissioner of health of Pennsyl elected president of the nia State Meaical society. Twine enough to encircle the earth twenty-seve; times—680,000 miles of it—will be used during the year in ty- ing up mail matter. Millions of tons of potash have been discovered near Motembo, on the bo der line between Matanzas and Santa Clara provinces, Cuba. “Happy Jack” Dougherty, who killed Harry Lazinsky, a taxicab owner of New York, was ‘sentenced to serve fif- teen years in Sing Sing. The receiver’s report of the Cincin- nati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad Co., for ‘July, shows receipts of $1,650,526, and expensts of $1.623,856. Private William Johnson of Battery E, Second Field Artillery, died in camp in Texas, from an _infernal hem- orrahage, due to the kick of a horse. Secretary Lansing announced that the British answer to the American protest against mail setzures will be forwarded from London this week. Bert Dudley, charged with the mur- der of Henry Muller, and his wife, was taken from the Johnson County jail at Olathe, Kan., by a mob and hanged. A further investigation of the recent embezzlement from the Panama treas. ury is said to have disclosed irregu- larities in the custom administration. Roy Ziegler, cashier of the Reliance Life Insurance Co. of Detroit, was held by the police at Baltimore, for De- troit authorities, charged with embez- zling. United States authorities have ob- jected to incapacitated Canadian sol- diers and British and French reservists landing at New York en route to Canada. Contracts for the big gun projectil for the United States army, appro: mating $1,600,000, were awarded to the Washington Shell and Ordnance Co. of Washington. Major General George W. Goethals, governor of the Panama Canal zone, left for Costa Rica, where he will re- main a week, afterward going to the United States. At Mayor Mitchel’s suggestion the, question of reduction of fares over the Fort Lee ferry was put over for two weeks, when it came before the com- missione of the sinking fund. Sir Richard Crawford, attache of the British Embass conference with Secretary Lawsing in relation to the present trade dispute between the United States and Great Britain. commercial y, held a A meeting of German and Austro- Hungarian members of parliament will be 1/Gld at Salzburg, 156 miles south- west of Vienna, to discuss political questions of common interest to both countries. A. Ball, cashier and A. S. Woo assistant cashier of the broken Amer can National bank of Fort Smith, Ark., pleaded guilty in the Federal court to falsification of reports of the bank's condition. David King, formerly vice president of the Broad and _ Mazket National bank, of Newark, N. J., pleaded zuilty to having misappropriated $4,000 of the bank’s funds in the United States District cour. Engineer R. W. Cholson and fire- man, H. A. Osborne, were killed and pasengers on the California Limited were badly shaken up when the train was derailed several miles east of Kingman, Ariz. . The American consul at Nankin re- ported to the state department that the Hwal river has devastated about 7,000 square miles in Anhui province, rendering between 800,000 and 1,000,000 persons homeless. Kelvinia Was Sunk by a Mine. Washington, Sept. 22—The British admirally today informed the state de- partment that it was convinced the British steamer Kelvinia was sunk by a mine and that no further investiga- tions would be made. The department will regard the incident as closed. Several American muleteers on board the ship had expressed the opinion " that she was sunk by a tornedo. WEDNESDAY SET FOR THE BIG STRIKE Organized Workers In Every Industry in Greater New York Called Upon to Walk Out : SOME UNIONS HAVE ALREADY VOTED TO QUIT The Call to Organized Workers is Extended to the Cities of Yonkers, New Rochelle and Mount Vernon—Includes a Wide Range of Industries—President Theodore Shonts of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company and the New York Railways Company Remains Firm in His Determination Not to Meet Representatives of the Strik- ing Carmen. New York, Sept. 22.—Organized workers in virtually every industry in ireater New York were formally called upon late today to cease work at eight o'clock next Wednesday morning in sympathy with the striking traction employes. Labor leaders assert ap- proximately 600,000 men and women are involved. The call was embodied in resolutions adopted at a conference of labor lead- ers representing the federated bodies in all the boroughs of the city as well @s many national and international unions. ~Of the eighty unions in the city represented, it was said, some al- ready have voted in favor of a strike. The call, it was said, would be issued not only to organized workers tn New York but also to those in Westchester county, in_which the cities of Yonk- ers, Néw Rochelle and Mount Vernon are situated, and would _extend throughout a wide range of industries. Hugh Frayne, New York state or- ganizer of the American Federation of Labor, nnnounced the determination to cali the sympathetic walkout. Officers of several international un- ions attended the conference, Mr. Frayne said. Among those was T. V. O'Connor of Buffalo, president of the International Longshoremen’s Organi- zation. William B. Fitzgerald, general or- ganizer of the Amalgamated Associa- tion of Street and Electric Railway Employes, in charge of the traction strike, represented the carmen at the conference and the following labor bodies were among the others repre- sented: The Central Federated Union, Brooklyn Central Labor Union, United Hebrew Trades, Bronx Board of Bus- iness ents,” Manhattan Building Trades Council, International Tunnel and Subway Constrdetors Union, In- ternational Machinists Union, Interna- tional Typographical Union, Station- ary and Upright Engineers and Fire- men’s Union and the Eccentric Fire- men’s Union. The call is based upon the Propos| tion that union men “cannot maintain their self-respect” if they ride upon cars operated by strikebreakers, ac- cording to a_statement issued tonight Ernest Bohm, secretary of the Central Federated Union. In cases where contracts exist, Bohm sald, the employers will be notified that the workers have no means of transporta- tion and if the employers cannot pro- vide transportation the workers must remain at their homes. “Theodore P. Shonts, president of the Interborough Rapid_Transit company and the New York Railways company, reiterated his determination not to meet representatives of the striking carmen. : “If 1 did so the loydl men in the Interborough Brotherhood would have good cause to strike,” he said. Unions Involved in Strike. Following is a partial list of the un- ions involved in the call for a sus- pension of work: Milk handlers, bartenders, waiters, beer brewers, house wreckers, musi= cians, barbers, cigarmakers, ladies’ garment cutters, paper hangers, pipe caulkers and tappers, journeymen horseshoers, telephone workers, glass workers, pressmen, painters, plumbers. neckwear cutters, Turriers, cloak malk- ers, amalgamated lithographers, cap makers, stationary engineers, carpen- ters, decorators, leather goods workers, cigar packers, united hatters, coopers, dock carpenters, printers, cooks, re- tail cloak workers, web pressmen, bookkeepers, stenographers and ac- countants, sandal makers, teamsters, Jjourneymen tailors, pipe cutters, the- atrical spotlight workers. New York city members of the state assembly and senate will hold a meet- ing Monday to take action on the question of urzing a special session.of the legislature to consider the strike situation. CENTRAL FEDERATED UNION HAS RATIFIED STRIKE CALL 125 Workers in Allied Trades Voted Unanimously to Walk Out. New York, Sept. 22.—Delegates to the Central Federated Union, repre- senting 125,000 workers in allied trades voted unanimously tonight to ratify the strike called for next Wed- nesday by union labor leaders. This action followed a similar step taken several days ago by the representa- tives of 200,000 members of the United Hebrew trades. GERMAN AND DUTCH GOVERNMENTS AGREE To Submit to an International Com- mittee the Sinking of the Tubanti. Berlin, Sept. —(By Wireless to Sayville)—The German and Dutch governments have come to an agree- ment to submit to an international committee of investigation at the end of the war the question involved in ihie siuking of the Dutch steamship Tubant Qecision,” says the Overseas News Agenc: announcement, ‘“was taken in the interest of friendly, and reighborly relations.” sunk off the 16 last as the The Tubantia w Dutch coast on Ma result of an explosion. A controversy arose between the German and Dutch governments over the responsibili- ty for the disaster, the Dutch claiming that the Tubantia had been torpedoed by a German submarine, producing a fragment of bronze found on the liner which the Dutch ministry of marine belicved to be part of a German tor- pedo Germany admitted the German origin of the torpedo but asserted that the commander of the submarine from which the torpedo came said it was not fired at the Tubantia on March 16 but at a British warship on March 6 and that it missed its target. TWO INFANTILE PARALYSIS CASES AT THOMPSONVILLE Children Had Been Il For Three Weeks Without Medical Attention. Thompsonville, Conn., Sept. 22.—The town was storred tonight when it was learned that two children in a foreign family had been Il of infantile pa- rolysis for three weeks without med. jcal attention. The mother thoug the children were afflicted with rhet matism. Two other children in the same honse have _ been attending school this week. Prompt quarantine measures have been taken. A republican rally was to have been held tonight in the schoolhouse but it was called off and the building is be- Ing fumigated. VAUDEVILLE ACROBAT LEAPED TO DEATH Louis Kelso Brennan Jumped in Front of a Subway Express Tr: New York, Sept. 22.—Louis Kelso Brennan, a vaudeville acrobatic per- former, known on the stage as Lou Kelso, leaped in front of a subwa express train here today and was killed. Passengers observed the man pacing nervously up and down ' the station platform and saw him jump to the tracks as the train rushed in. Stanley Brennan, a brother, is said to be a wealthy business man in Wor- cester, Mass. . Boy's Body Washed Ashore. Greenwich, Conn., Sept. 2. The body of John J. Martin, aged 17, wha was drowned at Larchmont, N. Y., last Friday, was washed ashore at Belle Haven’ today. HUGHES MADE TWELVE SPEECHES YESTERDAY Talked to His Audience Bend in a Hoa wi South Bend, Ind., Sept. 22.—Charles E. Hughes reached South Bend to- night at the fag end of his busiest day, almost minus his voice. He spent it in twelve speeches along the way and talked to his audience here to-, night at times in a hoarse whisper. Utterly wearied, travel-stained, worn the day’s exactions, which includ- ed shaking thousands of Indiana hands, the nominee faced here a large audience in his chief speech of the day. Durinz_the day he took the pro= gramme into his own hands and fashs ioned it anew, to make it include -a specch at_every stopping place. At most of these places it had been ar- ranged that he would say only a few words, but the big crowds that greet- ed him with cheers and applause every few miles - heartened him and he falked. His doctor stood beside him_at almost every station and ap- plied throat sprays freely between the talks, but his voice was frayed and ragzed long before he reached South Bend. Once at Mrs. Hughes' suggestion, Charles W. Farnham, manager of the tour, tugged at the nominee's coat t0 signa! him to stop, but Mr. Hughes with an emphatic gesture signified that he intended to finish his address. in South per. POINCIPLE OF MILITARISM ABOMINABLE TO WlLSON He So Declares in Letter to the Stu- dent Pacificists. : New York ,Sept. 22.—A letter from President Wilson declaring that the spirit and principle of militarism was “abominable” to_him, was made pub- lic here today by “The Student Pa- cificists” which is arranging an anti- militarist demonstration on September 30 in opposition to the new legisla tion requiring military training in pub- lic schools. i The president, after declining an in- vitation to speak, wrote: “There need be no.misunderstand- ing as to my position. I have agaim and again made it plain as language can make it. T am in favor of ade- quate defense and no more. The whole spirit_and principle of militarism is abominable to me and I do not’ think that anything that has been done has been done in the militaristic spirit, It has ,on the contrary, been conceived and carried out with the single purpose. of renedring the country safe against external danger.” Death of William Page Andrews. Rome, Sept. 22, 8 p. m. via Paris, Sept. 23, 12.25 a. m.—Willam Page Andrews, an American writer, died to- - day. William Page Andrews was born in Framingham, Mass,, in 184S. He was cducated in the public schools of Sa= lem and by private tutor. In 1889 Mr, Andrews married Edith H. Weston ¢ Winchendon, Mass. For many he has lived in Italy. , 1 4 | |