Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 9, 1916, Page 1

VOL. LVIL—NO. 296 . POPULATION 28,219 ' NORWICH, CONN., SATURDAY, DECEMBER, 9, 1916 SIXTEEN PAGES—128 COLUMNS : ' The Bulletin’s Girculation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Gonnecticut in Proportion to the City’s Population. LACK OF ADEQUATE NAVAL STATIC MACKENSEN TROOPS PURSUE RUMANIANS Russians and Rumanians Retiring Since the Evacua- tion of the Rumanian Capital BERLIN TELLS OF CAPTURE OF 18,000 PRISONERS The Germans Have Repulsed a Russian Attack in the Trotus Valley—Petrograd Says All Has Been Calm in Dobrudja and Along the Danube—The Russians Have Again Re- sumed the Qffensive in the Carpathians—Three Attacks by the German and Bulgarian Troops East of Monastir Have Been Checked by the Serbians—Loss of the Bat- tleship Suffren, With Crew of 718 Men, is Considered Probable by the French Minister of Marine. Pursult of the retiring Russian and manian forces in eastern Wallachia Fleld Marshal von Mackensen con- tinues, but how far the Teutonic ad- wvance has progressed is not made clear in the latest official communiques. Berlin_chronicles the continuation of the advance along the whole front with the capture of 18,000 prisonersand Petrograd says the Russians and Ru- manians have been retiring since the evacuation of the Rumanian capital. Seemingly - the retiring defenders of Rumanian soil are offering littl re- istance and are endeavoring to reach the line of the Buzeu river before the Austro-Germans can break through the Moldavian frontier and get in their rear or the Bulgarians and Germans can cross the Danube round Tcherna- voda and outflank them. However, there has been little activity iether in the Transylvanian-Moldavian frontier or in Dobrudja. The Germans have repulsed a Russlan attack in the Tro- tus valley and the Russians report the checking of an offensive movement in the Ertuz valley. Petrograd says all has been calm in Dobrudja and along the Danube. In the rounding up of the forces cut off by their advance on Bucharest, the troops of von Mackensen have cap- tured 18,000 prisoners and 26 guns. The Rumanian troops isolated in west- ern Wallachia, numbering 8,000, have been taken as well as 10,000 of the forces operating around Predeal and Altchanz passes. Undeterred apparently by the check- ing of their offensive in the Carpathi- ans, the Russians have again taken the’ nitlative there, Petrograd states. The present Russian attempt is taking place south of Jarovnik. Berlin says the Russian offevsive in the Carpathi ans can be said to be a failure and de- clares only local attacks have occur- red in that region. The repulse of a Russian attack on the Dvina front, below Riga, is also recorded by Berlin, Hill 304, in the Verdun region, and the forest of Apremont, southeast of St. Mihiel, have been the scenes of the only reported activity on the western front. Paris-claims the Germans were ejected from a section of the trenches on Hill 304 but Berlin asserts the troops of the crown prince repulsed French attempts to re-take the trench- es. The Germans, Paris records, suc- ceeded in gaining a foothold in French trenches in the forest of Apremont, but were later ejected by a counter- fighting around Stravina, east of Monastir, on the Macedonian front, is recorded by Paris, which says the Serbians checked three attacks by Ger- mans and Bulgarian troops. Serbian attacks near Trnova, west of Monastir, were repulsed, Berlin states. Snow in the Trentino region and rain on the Carso is hampering infantry action on the Austro-Italian front. The loss of the battleship Suffren, with its complement of 718 men, is considered probable by the French minister of marine. _ The Suftren, which sailed for I'Orient, Brittany, on November 24, has not been heard from since. The loss of two Norwegian. one Greek and one Belgian steamship. announced in London, as is reported the sinking of the British steamship Caledonia, 9,223 gross tons. The Cale- donia_has been in the service of the British government. ALLIED SHIPPING WARNED TO LOOK OUT FOR STRANGE SHIP Believed to ke a Raider—Was Inter- cepted, But Allowed to Proceed. Halifax, N.S., Dec. §. —Allied ship- ping was warned by British naval au- thorities tonight to be on the look- out for a strange vessel, believed to be a raider, which was intercepted on December second off the northwestern coast of Scotland and allowed to pro- ceed under. the impression that she was the Dutch steamer Gamma. Later it was learned that the Gamma was at Kirkwall on that date and did not leave until December 3. The identity of the supposed raider has not been determined. Admiralty officials aparently suspect that if she is @ hostile craft, she may carry mines for dropping oft this port, the genter of British naval activity on this conti- nent and the point of departure for Canadan troops ships. The could reach here from the where she was last reported by morrow or Sunday. The text of the warning ‘continues: “A vessel was intercepted at 3 a. m. ember 2 in lattitude 55.36 north, Enxlluda 12.42 west and was allowed to proceed under the impression that he was a vessel named Gamma. The tter was at Kirkwall at the time clearing 11 a. m. December 3. Identi- ty of former not vet established but rescription “is as follows: About 1200 tons, black hull with red bottem, white upper works, one funnel g on bow. She was apparently in allast, steering a course about west Youthwest. i’naugm to be plain black, no Dutch a Vessel may be raider.” WELFARE WORK AMONG THE NEGRO-POPULATION Report Made By National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes. New York, Dec. 8.—A report on wel- fare work among the neggo population »f twenty cities in the United States, made public here today by the Na- tional League on TUrban Conditions Among Negroes, showed that many hew lines of emplovment had been bpened to men and women of the race. The largest undertaking, was the lacing of about 700 men and womerf| Eg the Connecticut tobacco fields. ‘ork was found for a score of others In semi-skilled labor In a steam pumn plant in Maseachusetts and mot than 400 students In negro colleges mnd inducstrial and agricultural Bchools in the south were found em- ployment as harvest hands during the pummer to obtain money for their rducation. CTOSSIP ABOUT WILSON CABINET FOR SECOND TERM Attorney-General Gregory's Believe He Will Resign. Washington, Dec. 8.—In spite of re- tterated reports to the contrary, of- ficials close to President Wilson in- Eisted tonight that neither Secretary McAdoo nor Secretary Houston will retire from the cabinet at the close of the president’s first term. Attorney General Gregory, who ‘returned today from Texas, refused to say whether he was planning to resign. In his however, the reports are gener- friends. Friends LABOR LEADERS TO DRAFT BILL DEALING WITH STRIKES Congressional Action Will Await the Outcome of Their Efforts. ‘Washington, Dee. 8.—Congressional action on President Wilsom's railwa legislation programme probably will await the result of determined efforts of labor leaders to draft as a substi- tute for all forme of compulsory arbi- tration a plan for dealing with strikes, actual and threatened, which will Le agreeable to their followers, employ- ers and the administration. The determination of the president to undertake making impossible by law such a situation as he faced last Sep- tember in a railroad dispute has aroused all branches of labor to the greatest activity. The anofficial alli- ance between the American Federation of Labor and the four railway broth- erhoods, arranged recently at Balti- more for the purpose, among other things, of opposing “dangerous” leg- islation, is bearing its first fruit in conferences between representatves of both organizations for the purpose of drafting a plan that will shelve all compulsory arbitration bills. Congressional leaders, aware of this activity, are inclined to go slowly on the president’s programme pending an- nouncemerit of labor's proposals, pro- cided, of course, they are revealed during the present session of congress. A delay even of sixty days, a house leader said today, would still leave congress time to take any action it might deem necessary. d MEETING OF NEW ENGLAND STATE TAX OFFICIALS Edwain P. Tobie of Rhode lIsland is Chosen Secretary. Hartford, Conn., Dec. 8.—Albert O, Brown, chairman of the New Hamp- shire tax commission, was re-elect- ed president of the New England State Tax Officials’ association at its sixth annual convention here today. Charles A. Plumley of Vermont was chosen vice president and Edwain P. Tobie of Rhode Island secretary. The next annual meeting probably will be held in October at Dixweil Notch in the White Mountains| Tax Commissioner Corbin of Connecticut was elected a member of the executive committee. The association went on record as being in favor of a greater uniformi- ty in the standard forms for the inher- itance tax. LOS ANGELES P‘ATROLMAN CONFESSED EXPRESS ROBBERY Got Away With $5,000 in Cash—Most of the Money Recovered. Los Angeles, Calif,, Dec. 8.—Albert J. Griffith, a patrolman on the Los Angeles police force for four years, confessed today, according to the po- lice, that he was the robber who held up an express wagon yesterday on a busy street and made off with about $5,000 in cash and $34,000 in checks, drafts and other banking paper. Most of the money was recovered. Five Masked Men Rob Bank. Alluwe, Okla, Dec. 8.—The State Bank of Alluwe was robbed this aft- ernoon by five masked men who ob- tained $2,500 and escaped in auto- mobiles. ¥, Cabled Paggraphs Norwegian Steamer Sunk. London, Dec. 8, 8.25 p. m.—Lloyds announces that the Norwegian steamer Nervion has been sunk. PROBLEMS INVOLVING FINANCING OF FARMS Debated at Conference on Marketing and Farm Credits. Chicago, Dec. 8. — Cattle raisers, economists of the colleges and the government, plain farmers, and mar- keting experts to the number of 800 who have been holding the fourth na- tional conference on marketing and farm credits here completed their la- bors today. They took up problems involving farm finance, putting the landless man on the manless land, efficient market- ing, conservation andrural develop- ment and suggested remedial proce- dure In resolutions adopted this aft- noon. - Sensational predictions of _attacks by the cattlemen on the packers did not materialize. The more influential speakers suggest that the egricultur- ists seek to learn efficiency and co- operation. The resolutions adopted today ex- press the belief that farm loan bonds will be readily saleable but remark the necessity for a system of short time credits in addition for the farmer. Leg- Islation to this end and 1s asked of congress. Congress is also asked to provide an nuthority to certify notes. secured by livestock or other farm products, so that they may have a ready market at reasonable rates. This, it is argued, would relieve the farmer of the high interest charsed by local money lenders. To “overcome the evils of tenant farming, said to be increasing, the remlutions ‘call for soil soil survey which will show the exact character- istics and value of every parcel of and in the country and government aid to the farmer until his land is in shape to provide him a living. “Ready made” farms are suggested. CHEMUNG WENT DOWN WITH AMERICAN FLAG FLYING Was Fired on After a Signal That She Was Stopping Had Been Hoisted. Paris, Dec. 8, 610 p. m.—The Che- mung_went down with the American flag flying, all right,” said Captain John J. Duff; er of the steam- ship Chemung, which was sunk by a submarine off the coast of Spain, Nov. 28, to the Associated Press today. “But I had no argument over the flag with the Austrian submarine commander. Captain Duffly was in Paris for a few hours today on his way to Eng- land, whence he will sail for the Unit- ed States. “We were fired on after I had hoist- ed a signal that I was stopping,” said the Chemung’s master. “We had been on the lookout for submarines and had trained to stop as soon as we were signalled. Soon thereafter ‘the first gun was fired our si~nal that we were Stopping went up. Nevertheless, a shell fired afterward struck our bows. - “T¥eren tho ship was strici by the pedo-our boats were not out of range of the debris, which shot up - to the air for o thousand fest and fell all around us. It was a lucky chance no one was hurt. “Third Officer Jacobsen, who went to the submarine with the ship's pa- pers, says the Austrians first intended to make me a prisoner. But he said to them: ‘Don’t. The captain is a very good sort” I was not taken aboard the submarine: but Jacobsen said she was of a very large type, being feet long, he guessed. He said had a high bow I a yacht, not like submariane.” the bow of an ordinai STRIKE OF GARMENT WORKERS IN NEW YORK IS THREATENED Unsuccessful Conferences Have Been Held—Involves 60,000 Workers. New York, Dec. 8.—A strike involv- ing not less than 60,000 garment workers in this city within a few days, was considered unavoidable to- night after unsuccessful conferences during the day between representa- tives of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and the contrac- tors who manufacture men’s clothing. The date for calling out the workers, it was announced, rests with a strike committee of seven. Neither side showed any inclination tonight to vield. The contractors in refusing to grant the increased wages demanded, as- sert that increases previously granted nggregate an additional outlay of milliogs of dollars and that submis- sion to the present demands would mean millions more. The union lead- ers contend that the “speeding up” system in the shops has taken more energy from the workers and that as much work is done now in 48 hours as was done before in 54 hours. J. P. MORGAN CERTAIN THE ALLIES WILL WIN Has Just Returned From Financial Mission in England. New York, Dec. 8—J. P. Morgan, who has been in England for the last two months on a financial mission, re- turned today on the steamship Finland from Liverpool. Mr. Morgan is under- stood to have conferred with fiscal rep. Tesentatives of the British and French governments on the subject of market- ing additional loans in this country. He had an audience with King George. Mr. Morgan declined to discuss the result of his mission. “I_will _say, however, that people in England are very optimistic about the war and some_ think the end is in sigat” said he. “There is no doubt about the out- come. It is a certainty that the al- lies will win. CLOSING SESSION OF ANTI-SUFFRAGISTS Mrs. William B. Glover of Hartford Chosgn Secretary. ‘Washington, Dec. 8.—Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge of New York was re-elected as president of the National Assoclation Opposed to Woman Suffrage at the closing session today of the associa- tion’s annual convention. Mrs. Wil- liam B. Glover, of Hartford, Conn. was chosen secretary. Movements of Steamships. Christiansand, Dec. 6. Arrived: steamer Hellig Olav, New York. New York, Dec. 8.—Sailed: Steamer Ryndam, Rotterdam. Signalled: steamer St. Paul, Liverpool for New York, 1040 miles east of Sandy Hook at 10.15 a. m., 7th. Dock 8.0 a. m. Sunday. Another Protest Sent Germany AGAINST DEPORTATION OF BEL- GIANS FOR FORCED LABOR VIOLATION PRECEDENT Friendly Note Calls. Attention to Ac- tion as Not Humane or in Accord With Accepted Principles of Inte: national Practice. ‘Washingtor, Dec. 8.—A note to Ger<| many protesting against the deportas! tion of Belgians for forced labor as. contrary to all precedents and humhans principies of international practice was made public tonight by the state department. Cabled to Berlin. The note was cabled to Charge Gre'y at Berlin on November 29, the day Ambassador Gerard discussed the sub- ject with President Wilson, with in- structions that he read to the Ger- man chancellor personally. In making it public, the state department an- Railroad Embargo on Foodstuffs IS NOW IN FORCE ON SEVERAL ROADS IN MIDDLE WEST FALL IN PRICES OF FOOD Only Perishable Foodstuffs and Live- stock Are Accepted for Shipment East of Buffalo—Warehouses Are Said to be Full. Chicago, Dec. 8—Extension of the railroad embargo against eastward shipment of foodstuffs resulted in a slight fallin goff in prices here today. Larger reductions are expected to fol- low as warchouses are declared to be full, not only in Chicago but in other storage citics in the west and north- west. 3 The New Yrk Central lines and the Wabash railroad joined with the Pennsylvania_and_Erie in restricting food shipments. The New York Cen- tral will accept only perishable food- if they have it at all. This is the year when, as the there should be big buying. mas presents. do more. as the use of printer's ink. people with the money to spend, is depended upon by the readers; chant. of The Bulletin: Get the Buyers Started, Keep Them Interested This is the season of the year when people have money to spend This is the time when everyone has a list of wants to be filled, or when almost everyone is susceptible to suggestions regarding Christ- Practically every line of business is affected by the holiday trade, and no merchant ever does so muuch business but what he is willing to Therefore a word to the wise should be sufficient for when it comes to attracting such business there is nothing which brings such results ‘With a desire to get the bulk of the shopping out of the way early there should be early use of advertising space, for nothing reaches the nothing stimulates buying, reaches so many in the-offering of suggestions as fully factoriily as that, and no paper is read in Norwich and vicinity, os in fact in Eastern Connecticut, like The Bulletin. _are desired The Bulletin is the -best and the cheapest medium. it should be utilized by In the past week the following matter has appear in the columns Bulletin Telegraph Local General Total Saturday, BEC. 2irvaini B8 202 1006 1286 Monday, Dec. 4. ),,96 213 233 A4 Tuesday, Dec. 5..:7100 _*150 173 433 Wednesday, Dec. 6... 89 125 182 396 Thursday, Dec. 7... 89 164 242 495 Friday, Dec.8. 118 172 188 478 Ot e 5708 906 |« D28 351D result of the industrial activity, nothing and satis- For the results which 3 the mer- nounced that the interview had taken place, but said nothing about results. The decision to protest formally against the treatment of the Belgians followed unsuccessful informal efforts by Charge Grey, under instructions that he say informally to the Berlin foreign office that the deportations were having a most unfav - effect upon neutrals, particularly tha United States. The charge was informed in reply that the policy was adopted as a military necessity and that Germany regarded it as legal. The note, with the department’s statement making it public, follows: The Note. “On November 29, Mr. Grew, our charge at Berlin, was directed to ob- tain an interview with the German chancellor and read to him the follow- ing: “‘The government of the United States has learned with the greatest concern and regret of the policy of the German government to deport from Belgium_a portion of the civilian pop- ulation for the purpose of freing them to labor in Germany and is constrain- ed to protest in a friendly spirit but most solemnly against this action, which is in contravention of all pre- cedents and of those humane princi- ples of international practice which have long been accepted and followed by civilized nations in their treatment of non-combatants. “‘Furthermore, the government of the United States is_convinced that the effect of this policy, if pursued, will in all probability, be fatal to_the Belgian relief worlk, so humanely plan- ned and so successfully carried out, a result which would be generally de- plored and which, it is assumed, would seriously embarrass the German gov- ernment.” “The interview has taken place.” AMERICAN MILITARY OBSERVERS IN FRANCE AND ENGLAND Five Army Officers to Assist in In- spection of Prison Camps. ‘Washington, Dec. 8—Five American army officers ‘detailed as military ob- servers in France and England were directed by Secretary Baker today to assist in medical inspection and pris- on camp work in those countries whenever spare time permits. The order names Majors James R. Church and Sanford H. Wadhams, now in Paris; Colonel A. E. Bradley, Majors W. J. L. Lyster and Clyde S. Ford, in London, and was issued at the request of the state department. PRORIBITION HAS THE FLOOR IN THE SENATE Special Attention is to Be Devoted to Establishment of National Prohibion. ‘Washington, Dec. 8. — Prohibition legislation was forced into a point of vantage today when the senatéf on motion of Scnator Sheppard of Texas, began consideration of the bill to pre- vent the manufacture and sale of liquor in the national napital. Special attention will be directed, it was said, to legislatiove projects to es- tablish national prohibition, forbid use of the mails to liquor advertisers and make the District of Columbia dry. stuffs and iivestock billed to points east of Buffalo. The Wabash has re- fused to accept carload lots of grain to points east of Detroit, either for export of domestic trade. PLANS COMPLETED FOR HIGH COST INVESTIGATION Nation-Wide Plan to Be Presented to President Wilson. Washington, Dec. 8—Officials con- ducting the government’s inquiry into the high cost of living virtually com- pleted tonight a programme to place simultaneous grand jury investiga- tions throughout the country. Details as to the number and lo- cations of the proposed inquiries were not disclosed further than that they would be nation-wide. It is under stood that in addition to the officials now directly engaged in collecting in- formation, others may be named. It was said that doubt no longer existed as to whether there had been combinations of men to boost coal prices and that effective means to punish those who have violated the law in contributing to the rises were heing studied. _One of the chief prob- lems facing officials is how to reach the men under suspicion without en- abling some of them to obtain immu- uity by testifying before srand juries or_other inquisitorial bodies. President Wilson and the cabinet discussed the situation at todav’s meeting and, it is understood, de- cided to await further disclosures be- fore reaching a conclusion as to rec- ommendations to be made by the pres- Ident to congress. Tn_congress, the house commerce committe” decided to defer action on bills and resolutions bearing on the subject until after the holidays. CAPTAIN JOSEPH STRAUSS QUITS ORDNANCE BUREAU Relieved at His Own Request So That He May Go to Sea. Washington, Dec. 8.—Captain Jo- seph Strauss, for three years chief of the navy's ordnance bureau, with rank of rear admiral, has been relicved of that duty at his own request so that he may go to sea. He probably will be assigned to command one of the new. dreadnoushts. Secretary Daniels acceded to the request hecause Cantain Strauss, who is the navy’s vrincipal ordnance expert, has been kept ashore so continuously that he is short of sea service record required for advance- ment. $15,100 PAID FOR A PRIZE HEREFORD BULL th Sold at International Livestock Exhibit. Chicago, Dec. 8—Fifteen thousand, one hundred dollars were paid at auc- tion here for Woodford Sixth, a prize Hereford bull, at the International Livestock Exhibition. N. J. Campden of Versailles, Ky.,purchased the ani- mal, declared junior champion in the Hereford division, from Colonial H, Taylor, Jr. Woodford | opening session " Condensed Telegrams Isadore Zinamore of Brooklyn, was arrested on a charge of forgery. The steamship Santa Barbara was reported in distress off Nehalen, Ore. Capt. Josaph T, Janes' of Buffalo, | capitalist, railroad builder and oil man, is dead. Thieves robbed the Bothell State Bank at Washington, and escaped with $4,009 in cash. Charles E. Hughes’ plurality in South Dakota in the November elec- tion was 5,070. The Chalmers Knitting Co. of Am- sterdam, N. Y., increased its eapital rom $400,000 to $790000. 4 The Indiana University School of Medicine at Indianapolis, was damaged by fire at a loss of $50,00. Senator Weeks of Massachusetts, has purchased the residence of Charles E. Hughes, at Washinston. Gold to the amount of $11,000,000 was received from Ottawa for the ac- count of J. P. Morgan & Co. The National Miilers’ Association announced that this _year's French wheat crop yielded 5,700,000 tons. Harry Hoker, who shot and killed Mrs. Minnie Beatty last May, was found guilty of murder in the first degree. A large part of the huge transfer shed of the Baltimore & Ohia Railroad at Brunswick, Md., was destroyed by Gre. Two hundred delegates attended the of the New York State Fish, Game and Forest League at Buffalo. Approximately half a million for- eigners took steps to become natural- ized American citizens during the year ended in June. The House passed the Burke bill appropriating $995.000 for the estab- lishment of fish' hatcheries and fish culture stations. Prince J. Kluhio Kalanianaole, del- egate to Congress from Hawaii, ar- rived at San Francisco, Cal, on his way to Washington Thursday was “Telephone Day” in the $2,000,000 campaign-_ of Jewish Philanthropic Societies. Total contri- butions were $22,500. % 7 New York, Dec. 8.—The lack of ade- quate naval stations as a weakness in the nabal establishment of the United States, which it is declared, strategists just cause for concefn,” was discussed here today by Kear Ad- mirals Bradley A. Fiske and John R. Edwards, both retired, before the meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engincers. They spoke af- ter the reading of a paper by Profes- sor W. L. Cathcart, a naval consulting engineer of Philadelphia, dealing with the deficiencies of the land end of the country’s naval affairs. Both the rear admirlas endorsed what. Professor Cathcart said, Rear Admiral Edwards declaring that if there were no other way to get money to build up the shore stations, “he would cut out one capital ship from the appropriations” in order to do so Great Menace to This Country. “South of Hatteras you haven't crane that will life a zun out of a tur crane that will life 2 gun out of a tur- miral Edwards. “And it is a fact that there is not a place along the coast south of that cape ‘where x battleship could go for repairs in case of crip- a Capt. Marschall Childs of the Twen- ty-fifth United States Infantry, is dead at Honolulu, where he had been stationed for four years. All Cornell University ciasses were suspended for one hour at noon dur- ing the funeral in New York city of | George C. Boldt, a trustee. It will cost Westecher County, N. Y., $5,000 to canvass the 220 votes oI sol- diers from Westchester who are on duty on_the Mezican border... .. Lesiie MoNimate, of - White “Roék, Pa.. was instantly killed by falling under the wheels of a three-ton hay baler in which he was riding. Capt. Carol A. Gilman Calkins, nav igating officer of Admiral Dewey’ flagship the Olympia, at Manila Bay, is ng at his home at Berkeley, Cal. Nelson Wood, an inventor and form- er representative of the Tel-electric Piano Co., of New Jersey, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. The Norwegian steamship Blue- fiields, under charter to the United Fruit Co., is stranded on_the beach about eleven miles east of Puerto Cor- tez, Honduras. The state board of health yesterday revoked the medical license of Dr. Ge E. Sleeper of Hartford, who recently completed 2 prison sentence for malpractice. The Spanish Embassy in Berl has handed the German government a protest from the Belgian government against the removal of Belgian work- men into Germany. The final report of the treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, filed with the Cle: of the House, shows total receipts $1,808,348; penditures, $1,684,589 Newton Baker, wife of the ecretas s to lobby for the fed- eral amendment for woman suffrage. She announced she would become a “Congressional Aide. The United States mail stage run- ning from Rogerson, Idaho to Jar- bridge, Nev., was held up and roo- bed, its driver, F. Searcy was snot and killed by bandits. Three 40,000-ton battleships carrying a main battery of twelve 16-inch guns, will form the backbone of the naval programme to be authorized at the present session of Congress. The Newfoundland government, has prohibited the admission into New- foundland of the American publica- tions that have been excluded from English and Canadia_territories. Morris Gleekman, of New York, was sentenced in Special Sessions to serve an indeterminate sentence of from six months to three years in the peniten- tiary for selling obscene literature. The House named Representatives Rucker, of Missouri, Garret of Tennes- see and McKinley of Illinois to make arrangements for the second inaugura- tion of President Wilson on March 5. The Agricultural Department an- announced htat a plant will be erected on the southern Pacific coast to ex- periment on a commercial scale with the problem of extracting potash from kelp. The Antarctic expedition under the auspices of the United * States Gov- ernment to acquire large areas of un- chartered land south .of Cape Horn was suggested by Rear-Admiral Peary. bed in a riot which followed an at- tempt of 200 Industiria Workers of the World and their sympathizers to hold an unauthorized outdoor meeting in North Square, Boston. Rear Admiral Robt. E. Peary, in an address before the Geographical Soci- ety of Philadelphia, predicted the United States government would, with- In a few years, bullt another great canal across the Central American isthmus. Two policemen were seriously stab- | pling “in action. Charleston, S. C., would make a splendid base. We need a base at Charleston and onme in the Gulf to protect the Panama canal. The Discussed by Rear Admirals Bradley A. Fiske John R. Edwards, Both Retired A GIVES OUR STRATEGISTS CAUSE FOR CONCERN South of Hatteras There Isn’t a Crane That Will Lift a Gun Out of a Turret of a Battleship—No Place South of That Cape Where a Battleship Could Go for Repairs in - Case of Crippling in Action—A Base at Charleston, S. C., Would be More Efficient Than a Dozen Battleship in Making an Enemy Extend His Line of Operations 500 or 600 Miles—Other Weaknesses on the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts Were Pointed Out. great menace to this country is the and possession of these 509 miles of coast our dreadnoughts would be homeless unless the fleet could flee to the bay of Panama; since the yards at Charles- ton, Pensacola and New Orieans are equipped for small craft only. Strategic Positions in Caribbean. The Caribbean Sea for its size, He said, has more strategic positions than any’ other important expanse of sea on'the globe and for the United States the mastery of the Caribbean in war “is almost vital, since that mastery is the bulwark of our defense of the Monroe Doctrine and the Panama Ca- nal.” Unless the positions this country holds there, he said, are fully fortified stratezic dominance on the sea ‘means nothing, “so that these neglex West Indian bases of ours give for grave concern. With them, some day, the fate of this republic Way rest” Conditions in Pacific Ocean. Passing to conditions in the fic Ocean, Professor Catheart uMn Gaum and Hawaii “would be our Mal- ta and Gibraltar against ing from the Far East *'» = & Guam lies neglected at dare war with us to take it condition of our shore stations. A base at Charleston would male an en- emy extend his line of operations 300 or 600 miles, which would take a dozen or more capital battleships.’ People Do Not Realize Their Danger. Rear Admiral Fiske said that the Americau people do not realize their daneor any more tim:i«c - a byby on ndilrond track” e 'snd it was R Tots ot e v piesss b -point 10 ‘mir fellow citizens “what-our coun- try must do or -perish.” Stations Could Be Seized. In his paper Professor Cathcart said that several of the American naval stations in their defenceless state could be seized with ease if the American fleet re first defeated. As to the stations on this coast, he said, “they all lie within an air line Jistance of 500 miles, although our Atlantic and Gulf Coast lines are more than §,000 miles long. If an enemy should sain Need of Drydocks. “The need of drydocks and chanite’s to the navy yards” he soid, “is an amazing instance of naval unprepa-d-v_ neks. We have been building and are to build giant dreadnoughts which at present can be docked only widely separated navy - y: York, Norfolk, . Bremerton and far's . Appailing. Considering our *unequalled a¥Z il defended wealth inviting e our immense territory and the that the United States navy “is really a disunited states navy since we have two widely separated coasts i by a canal which may fail us in a crisis, elther by slides or direct attack with high explosives,” he said, the conelu- sion is inevitable that we should eo- operate permanently in each ocean a battle flect strong enough to. defeat decisively any probable enemy there. GREAT BRITAIN TO PRESENT CHILE FIVE SUBMARINES sation For Service of for Chilean Navy. Partial Com| Ships Being Bl New York, Dec. 8.—Five submarines will be presented by Great Britain to Chile as partial compensation for the seizure by Great Britain at the out- break of the war of two super- dreadnoughts which were being built in England for Chilean navy. This was made known today by Carlo Cas- tro Ruiz, Chilean consul-general here, who said that the submarines, built in this country, will soon start south for Chile b; 7 of the Panama canal. The five undersea boats, with five others, were coi/racted for by Great Eritain pror to the war put their de- livery was impossible without a vio- lation of the neutrality of the United States. They were built at the Fore River yard of the Bethlehem Steel Corporaiton at Quincy, Mass. BELGIAN JUDGES PROTEST TO GENERAL VON BISSING Against the Deportation of B for Compulsory Employme ians Havre, France, Dec. 8. 4.30 p. m.— Five hundred judges and members of the Belgian bar, notable among whom are the judges of the court of Cassa- tion of Brussels, the court of appeals and the courts of commerce, have signed a protest to General von Biss- ing, the military governor of Belgium, against the deportations of Belgians as in “contempt of natural rights, of the statute law and of the law of nations.” The letter appeals for a reversal of the decrees under which the deporta- tions are conducted. “A man is the master of his person, of his energies and of his will” the letter adds. “Forced labor is a pun- ishment reserved for great crimes.” OPERATIONS TO BEGIN_TO RAISE CRUISER YANKEE at the Bottom of Buzzard's Bay Since 1909. Has Lai New Redford, Mass., Dec. S.—Wreck- ing contractors with divers and ap- paratus arrived here today and an- nounced t operations will be be- gun at once for the raising of the cruiser Yankee that has lain at the bottor of Buzzards bay since 1909. The contractors said that work on construction of the cofferdam about the sunken cruiser will be under way immediately. ALLEGED MURDERER SURRENDERED TO POSSE. Was Surrounded in Woods Near Lan- caster, N. Y. Buffalo. N. Y. Dec Richard Scott, a negro. wito s alleged to have shot dead James Avcry, also a nesro, and owner of bote L.:ncucter, near herc, surrendered Inte posre which Fad surrounded h'm in some wood. rear the scene of the shooting. The men are said to have quarreled over a hotel DAVID LLOYD GEZRGE HAB SPLIT THE LIBERAL PARTY. New Cabinet Will Command More Support from the Conservatives. TLondon, Dec. 8.—Iivents todzy em- phasized the fact that David Lioyd George, the new premier. has, split the liberal party into two facticrs. The new cabinet will command more sup- por: from the conservatives in parlia- mert than from the liberals. The liberal confercuce today pledged itself to support the new govermnent, as indeed any party must do ix such a crisis as Great DBritain has to meet, buc the old party leaders will occup¥ in the house of commons a place of triendly opposition and eriticism. This position s mot unusual in the Eritish arliament. , 4 One reason advanced for the failure of Premier Asquith’s coalition govern- ment is that there was no SLrORg 9p- position and criticism in purllament, ause opposition was considered dis- yalty to the nation. Nearly all the antagonism the new adreinistration is mecting comes from: members of the liveral party and from liberal newspapers, _althcugh Lord Northcliffe, who has been one of Pre- micr Lloyd George's strongest advo-. cates, td2de a strong protest today in the Evening News when the appoint- ment of A. J. Balfour and Lord Rob- ert Cecil to the foreiga office was re- ported. His ncwspapers have —been listing Balfour as one of the “senile statesmen,” and the Evening News attacks Lord Robert on the ground that his menagement of the blockade has ehown more corsideration for the intorests of neutral nations than for British interests. NOT THE STEAMER PALERMO THAT WAS TORPEDOED Cablegram Says It Was The Citta di Palermo, a Smaller Ship. Boston, Dec. 8—A cablegram assert- ing that it was the steamer Citta al Palermo rpd not the Pelermo, that wa_storpedoed off the Spanish coast on December 5, was received here to- da; The message came to Robert A. Boit and company, marine under- writers of this city, from their Gusi- ness correspomdents in London. AS local underwriters as heavily interest- ed in the insurance of the alermo cargo and were not concerned in the other vessel, they made especial ef- forts to obtain confirmation of the London report, but had received no definite word at the business closfng our. WAGE INCREASES FOR 21,000 . 210,000 Addhtion to Payroll. Toledo, Ohio, Dec. $—Wage creases aggregating $1,230,000 a and affecting nearly 21,000 employ were announced this afternoon. by the® Willys-Overland Automobile company, : Employes paid 30 cents an ho less will be advanced:ten per cent., be tween 30 and 40 cents, 7 1-2 per e The porsitde _consequiences L5% ¢ but one great naval battle 4 and yet the threshold of the Fur East, an easy | * for any foreign nation 'which would | ;‘j L