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PRICE TWO CENTS is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City’s Popul OF LEXINGTON Wi i e ot Additional Important Gains Made by the French at - Points Between Soissons and Champagne (N LETTER TO REPRENSENTA. TIVE HELVERING WAKE UP AMERICA DAY|™ " “" %, "= ™ """ |Enlistments Opened by the State Food Committes a1 The Academy of Music, at Saginaw, ¥ :lch_, one of e oldelz'“pliyhouun:“l:- Volunteer System Would Allow Men |Nearly 50,000 Men, Women, Boys and | .. w“;w' et e a Gathering in the capltfll, Hartford to Enlist Without Dus Regard to| Girls Marched Through Flag-Draped |lumpia Siate Fodemion o8 Sais $% s Responsibilities—Administration is | Fifth Avenue—Patriotic Demonstra- |Passed, &, Tesolution opposing seiective to Insist Upen Enactment of Se- | tions and Recruiting Mestings Were| 11, New Hampenire Senste pessea| FIRST APPEAL IS MADE TO TOBACCO GROWERS lective Conscription. Held. by a vote of 19 to 3 a bill providing for the reorganization of the Boston & Maine Railroad. John G. Johnson's famous art col-| There Was a Liberal Response to Governor Holcomb's Ap- CAPTURE OF MEN AND GUNS MADE THURSfiAY o i - ‘Washi , April 19. — President New York, April 19.—Th; h flag- In the Region Northwest of Auberive the French Captured | Teiison "“m;., ‘:“ sent s lgiter to Repre- | araveg ki avenue, here e Siars Jection, waiued by Him wi more. thun 2 3 sent ive lvering Kansas explain- | an ipes floa 'side the colors ,000,000, is given by his will t h % 2 Strongly Fortified German Trenches on a Front of a|" ing and strongly supporting the ad-|of France and England, nearly 50,000 |cily of Philadeiphia. & F g% peal, Many Tobacco Growers Agreeing to Devole as the ministration’s .:Ilny b’x‘lL ""rhh its se. .-:nn and ;:na-,., boys and girls march. TSRS ? ire ticket headed Mrs. | lective conscription plan. e letter ere today in a parade of patriot- Mile and a Quarter—On the Part of the Line in France e e o entcn at the inst election | ndlcated the Durpose of the adminrs- |16m which was cheered by a miilion Mrs. Willlam Cumming Story, was | tration to ifisist upon enactment of the | more citizens of New York. The seem- Thos. F. Smith, the newly elected Much Attention as Possible to Other Crops—Recruiting congressman from New York, was as- ziEned to the foreign aftairs and bank- Blanks Were Distributed in Which the Signer Agrees to the British Comparative Quiet Prevails—Re- measure vigorously. It follows: ingly endless procession was the Held b’ s '-'-ch ".‘,‘&;’."fi.’;- officers are: Miss r"}; :rrllcv’m- na?' !"x“h'? of your letter ‘crowlr)n;r-s feau-;: of "Wiake Up Atme}l;- A — . - am- | of 19, ause ve reaiized the | ica y,” _on e anniversary of tl i 2 ports From the Russian Capital Indicate - That the Ger- b, ’m‘;::'mm: . oD [ Ul of WWhat Swn sAy from My own |Battie of Lexington. - i 'hmf';':qg:"p“";'_':g-“._mmmm"“_f; State How Many Acres He Woud Devote to Various ¢ 2 ¥ 2 L. Pennsylvania, recording sec- |observations, namely, that what is Becoplande Dusaped; Laalicts: Philadelphia was inaugurated by the . a2 mans on the Northern Front in Russia Are Preparing for -geseral; ~ Mrs. Duncan ~U.|meagt to be understood by the e8-| vy, tne paraie was passing be-|ATerican Red Cross. Crops—Pledge is Exacted as a Patriotic Duty That the 3 Florida, organizing secretary- 5 3 4 ¢ BT hston, Towa, | stood throughout the country. [N Meie 0% deweey Dacked wocta- a Great Attack on the Russian Right Wing, With Petro-seneral; Mrs Robert £ Johnsion, Towe, | %1000, rocess o the drafc is, I think N T o GioY- 3 Their Objecti Teutonic Allies R A Pulsifer, Maine, cosesponaine secre- | vory Sloswiy bwet foxth In e, B | T Phinten appeals to. st Representatives of 40 hotels and Signer Increase His Food Production — This After- urants at Boston have appointed a committee to conside thod: 24 . ] Dreventing waste of food. o © noon the Committee Will Meet Farmers Who Produce dy-generai; Mrs. Grace M. Pierce,|drafted by the war department. and |, 3"%wel 80 (OF"00 SORC 0. 205 N ‘which I 80 earnestly hope the congress i he h SHE . o will adopt, -but it is worth while to|25 souvenirs when they fell upon the| Representative Bathrick, of Ohio, 3 i sive in the Macedonian War Zone. j 3 state the'idea which underlies the bill | SFOWd% One thousand patroimen were |introduced & bill - authorizing the Other Crops—Committee is to Supply Seed Potatoes Heath, North Carolina, director-general | little more fully. g el ik & the|President to raise an ‘“agricultural :©3. {in'tharge of the report to the Smith- Patriotic Service Open to Al Patriotiv Domeintrations. army” of 300,000 men and women. and Seeds at Cost. x i 5 . |sonian institution; Mrs. James “I took occasion the other day in 5 i i ¢ e The southern part of the Hindenburg| Considerable fighting is taking plaes fer, Indinon [fieeaian-genecsl; {an address to {le people of the coun-|, Bafore and sfler the parnde hun. | Dresident Carvanss refused to sccept e T e e ores. ot the | Fertimio s e Hestoeors . AT | Sorambr caretor - erar Mms Mutar | o Point out the many forms of | FCor, O ot e . ere heid theodgh. |mento Hoayx, who wishes 1o press nis| Hartford, Conn. April 19—Enlist-|do their best as u patriotic du French General Nevelle Thursday | tacks were deiivered in the Cetna riy- |ffe Sumner ‘Lincoln, Comnecticut, edi- |them and fo emphasize the fact that |Gout, the city. The largest of there |candidacy for governor of Pucbla. et of an army. of food. producars in | S0 "0 I, NETOCSS wkich will o8 witnessed additional important gains|er region and between Lakes Ochi tor of the magazine. 3 the military part of the service was |°GLnES, WEEe h CITACEe A bill desig to prevent specula- | Onnecticut was opened by the state|piement the state's food supply and & T Tt e P n e I PR tests ot ey . |b¥ no means the only part. and, per-| “rng city was thrilled as it seldom |tion in foodstuffs by & abolishing the |{004 committee this afternoon at a|in Iifting the burden imposed by i from Soissons eastward to the old|both were fepulsed. Viclent wftl ety Rires years: Jeanie D. Plack-|haps, all things considered, not thel; g bean pefore when the Jons column |sale of futures was introgmsci™sy the |gathering in the capitol. This com- |war Champagne and also the capture of | duels are taking place in the dists B e .o L H el lmost vital part. Our object Is a|of afriotic marchers swung down the |Senate by Senator Cartie ot Kinene |mittee was named by Governor Hol- Recruiting - Blanks Distributed. men and guns. cast of ‘Monastir and Tarvena 3O e pth Caroling; Mrs. Sheppaid |mobilization of all the productive and | 0 DLII00s TRICTere SV GOWE Th0 “|comb a few days ago and its first ap- | Jogeph W. Alsop of Avon, himseit In the latter region northwest of Au-|and on the right bank of the Vardlag|We Foster, Georgia: Mrs. James B.|active forces of the nation and their | are ‘many blocks went up when 10,000] Three firemen were killed and 15|Peal &nd recruiting was to and among | wonanes grower wne. ceimann o berive the French captured strongly|near Mayvadag. > jBrant Colorado; Mrs Samuel MCK. |development to the -highast golat or| S5 De"L PIOCKS Went up wher 100001 Threo fremen were killed and 15|ihe tobacco srowers, whos: saresats | onaces Srower, and chalrman of ¢ forified Gerinan trenches on s front| Reciprocal artillery fighting: aléo S[fireen. Missouri: —Mrs. Charles s E |co-operation and efficiency, and the|gtang singing the “Star Spangled Ban: |monia tank exploded at o fre i the|CToP: in value, is the most IMPOrtaAnt | searer dicccitatoy e, Witing blank of e/mile and & quarter and madS pris. | in progress between the Austrisns agd | Longicy, Rhode lstand, and s Wil- lidea of the selective draft is that those | ner” They were follawed by almost |store of the Mohican Co.. at Troy, N, |on the staie’s agricultural Hat. A nor- | "An enfistuens in tne army: of fou oner 150 Germans. Northwest of | Italians in the region of Goriza and |liam H. Talbott of Maryland. should be chosen for service in t22lag many more high school students. |Y. e * 7"|mal crop's value as harvested is esti- | producers in just ax efficlent a e Soisdoos the villagss of Aley, Jouy and | in the Lagarine valley. S:ver;.llm H::z‘r‘ g yeur: New S Smete h& army who can be most readily spaired S S ol 3 < mated at about eight mil.ions, pieey A elent 4 0 Jaffaux and Fort ‘onde were cap- | engagements have n fougl T of “the District: ‘olum] from the prosecution of the other ac- n Reviewing nd. 3 Py h 8 Your couniry as (0 enie it y tured by the French, while to th: east, lhedl"xonm;s r;‘aoung with the Italians] :l;: )rri.l_!l;:u&'s.‘_dm;yln’:m yof“ me tivities which ‘the country must en- In the reviewing stand were Mayor .ul;g .1:4"(;::‘1:; nfi?fl‘.?“u’.fii.r',fm'l?.’i Go \':::2','";.(‘1"":"'; ':hajwmw::;: the :‘“:k-’ n; 's:avw Changes A A t : - M o0d: = . o 1 o icomb, who a in Acrerge. near Hurtebise, another point of sup- | cording to Rome. gage in and to which it must devoie a|Mitchel, James W. Gerard, former |should appeal to the United States €0 |first appeal (o the. srowees moid (g Thet Gllowss siasty i kel fell into their hands and with it The British house of commons ‘has | ware. “ great deal of its best energy and ca- | ambassador to Germany; Major Gen- been informed by Andrew Bpnar Law| For an unexpired term: Mrs. . B |pacity. eral Leonard Wood, Rear Admiral Na. |aeroptanes. " ¢ comstruction of [he did e s I taiwait e signer was (o atale how many acres Meoo, e i e: e would give o corn, potatoes, rye ey i h cement g Dbe | Letton of Nebraska, vi resident. i i i that 3 of Nebraska, vice ident- 1 lent Artillery Actions. e o ;",‘ém,:‘;:'.u_ pen I Sl e T S .. Weakness of Voluntser System. :::;uex R. Usher and other prominent i o 3 found it a pleasure and a consolation. Violent artillery actions are in pro- | 20 OF TUr(asr josses, of BrACh Mrs. George, M. Sternberg of the| “The volunteer system does not do |y G i Goocting for Women. petition signed by 6000 citizens | What he did ask of them was that (hey (Continued on Page 9, 6th Col) gress between the Somme and the Oise, | ;1 by German submarines was not |District of Columbia received the |this. When men choose themseives they oo " |of, Rochester. Y., urging universal in Champagne; near Le Mort Ho{nme. stated. In connection with recent re- |unanimous vote for -honorary vice |SOmetimes choose without due regard | The zreatest enthusiasm greeted the [military service, was presented to the ——— e in thed Vfirdtndsector. and in Belgium | 10t that German submarines - have | president-general. to their ot‘hcr ;larpf:nnbilltlatm Men :::::': mlm“urv‘n‘ar:l;g“;ngg'*u:s: 22’2'7{071 Seriator Wadsworth of | GOVERNMENT MAY FIX LOSS TO BRITISH ARMY around Dixmude. be: the A 1. e Mrs. William Cumming Story, who |M&ay come from the rms or from the tary b The French war office reports that [ beeny seen off the . ."‘"".“‘:"gfi";;'*_;"' retired as president.generas St tho|mines or from the factories or centers|and the women's league batalions of PRICES FOR FOODSTUFFS THROUGH PETTY THIEVERY. Wednesday night the Germans threw | n.re is no submarine “as yet” in the |close of this congress, was elected hon- | Of business who ought not to come, put | infantry and cavairy. In iine wer George H. R n, of New York, —t ——— twelve divisions of fresh men info the | gester part of the Atiantie orary .president-general by acclama- |OUSht to stand back of the armies in | thousands of otber women, members | was arrested, . cherged with imper- on Said to be Incorporated [ Annually Supp! Estimated at 28, fray betwien Soisacne and Auberive in 7 lion and was continued st the hesd of | (he fleld and see that they get overy. | Of Fuffcage, natriou and commcrof |sonating o e il A B n Administration’s Plan, 000,000 Are Pilfered an attempt to hol meral Nivelle's the _committee which ng they need and that the people of | Socteties: - - cenled-wy ve > . S wi is seeking to army and navy, the New York national {from justice. Washington, April 19. — Legislation | London, April 19.—The annual loks forves back, but that their efforts were | GERMAN ' PREPARATIO have the government purchase - |tie country are sustained in the mean- 7+ e [ P Moal- |13 guard, naval reserve and volunteer to give the government a firm grasp|to the ritish ¢ my torough . pet unavajling. The Beriin official state- a celio, the birthplace of Th: - fme. i . G ST e MARCH TO PETROGRAD | on omds Jeffer- | " Tho principie of the selective dratt, | Military companies, hundreds of troops | Lieut. Baldamus, one of -the most |on Tood control will he tmteodmesn 14 | hierry, It pii of alores nerthwest of Auberive “compensated | & . P Mo Bl T in short, has at its heart this idea, |2f Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts: Camp |successful of the German aviators, is|congress tomorrow. suppilen has been esi'mate dat 3 for the enemy's gain of terrain” It is| With View to Cut Off Russian Cap- || \\n sHOE FACTORIES that there is a universal obligation to | Fire Girls, Red Cross nurses, Anti-Suf- |reported to have been killed in a colll- | Power will be asied for the govern- F Rl B B W admitted by Betiin that the Germans ital From the Active Arisy serve and that a public authority to | {TaEists, actors. patriotic, fraternal and |sion with an Allled airplane on the | ment not only to supervise production |in which (his Wike wum diesomme s 4 business organizations. western front. but to deal with distribution to insure | given by the audiior general of Arm TO CLOSE INDEF choose th = EFINITELY 0se upon whom the obiiga Meeting in Carnegie Hall. ——— a fair supply of food to every Dart of |uccounts, near Ville-aux-Bols retreated to new tion of milif service shall rest and T r on the | the ry at reasonable prices. De-| " The superyis tary 1 he yacht Eugenia stranded the count le, pi he supervision of the lines, being unable to withstand the in-| Petrograd. April 19, via London, 11.43 ditor gen tensity of the French fire. 1 Because of the High Price and Scar- |also in a sense choose those who shall At the Carnegie Hall meeting prom- B eamarative auit, sanged by the re- [ U m.%‘:mznh:r:vamum:e;&; ’-d: do the rest of the nation's work. The |inent men and women delivered patri- | Virginia coast, three miles south of [ tails of the administration's plan have |eal does not exionc (o s 10 wii% cent intensive fighting, prevails on that | the rortbern nt, sippos el bill if adopted will do more, I belicve, | otic addresses between moving pic- |Hog Island coast guard station. The |not hecome known but it Is belleved | waste has oecurred through carry part of the line in France held by the | German fleet, reports of which appear| Lynn, Mass, April 19.—More than a |than any other single instrumentality | tures on national preparedness. More |Passengers and crew were landed by |actual price fixing may have a place |out some npproved polies. " He 1o bon British. The latest communication |to be well founded, bear out fhe war |score of shoe factories in this city are|t0 Create the impression of univarsal|than 15,000 college men and women at- |the coast guard. crew. in laws to be enacted and that au-|corned only to the leakake dealing with the Arras-Lens sector re- | omce warning recéntly issued fhat the | expected to close tomorrow for an in- |3érvice in the army and out of it and | tended the exercises at the City Col- o thority will be required to establish a | which occor in » Carried & slixht gains for Field Marshal| enomy means to march to Petrograd.|definite period in accordance with an|if properly administered will be . a |lege stadium. where there was an en- | Increased freight rates on grain|virtual food dictatorship I that be-|Zontrary to of withant proper. sans aig’s forces south of Monchy-le- | Tpi™ TWEERS T8 TSSO iie mass- | announcement recently made that this |Ereat source of stimulation. thusiastic demonstration fn which |products and by products from _the | comes necessary. tion, “'ile is therefore touching o Preux and Fampoux and also to the [ i€ STERERONS U 87 010 "0ont | action had been agreed upon. The ex- | ‘Those who feel that we are turning | cheers for President Wilson predomi- | Chicago district to points east of Buf-| The food situation. officiain realize, | (he fringe of war aiee warie Bt th morth of the Loos sector, where Pris-|ang the concentration of transports, | 2€t number of employes affected is not |away altogether from the voluntary |nated when Major General O'Ryan|ralo were disapproved by the Inter- | presents one of the most serious prob- | aney he cites cover a wide field oners were taken. Warehips and shallow draft ships in|known, as the names of the manufac- | Principle seem to forget that some |commander of the national guard of |state Commerce Commission. lems the country will have to meet [ ““pl "7 10 CONEr A wide fleld. O flia-Musatan Frint: Paltic sea ports. A portion of the|turers who have entered into the|600,000 men will be needed to fill the |the state, presented flags to twelve E during the war, The United States|umn had a lot of mules picketed a agreement have not been announ ranks of the regular arm; A military units organized by the uni-| The United States Government has |faces not ouly feeding its ow npopu- | jiorgon' e, ¥ - . While the Petrograd war office an- [ German fleet is reported to have moved gul y and ihe ry rdon camp in soll {hat was tos I ERG < war. of f Kiel to Libau. ®ut according to conservative esti- |national guard and that a very great | versities and colleges of the city. given permission for the passage of |lation on a small food reserve and | Siq0" SUME I8 S0l Ahat was to nounces that the activity on the east: | from . mates, probably 10,000 operatives will [fleld of individun: s LeDiion Canadian troops on the Canadian Pa- |poor crop prospects, but supplying as | poes (0 2 & gear. One ern front has consisted merely of rifie| It is regarded here as extremely | Mates, g ‘es the 3 Bt T e ey IDENT ADMINISTRATION cific through Maine, and on the far as possible, the allies, TEht the mules broke loose and $5000 firing and scouting operations, reports | probably that the plan—fs to cut off e B onepei = com dian Northern through Mij ta Secretary Ho, tod: ed R.|Vth of mules were never recovered from Petrograd, said to have been | Petrograd from the active army. The| The manufacturers say that the high ARMY BILL WILL PAss|“dian Northern throug e A aran e tny mamed wu| A lot of horwes. mysteriously disap made public by the Russian general|German efforts to spread discontent |Price and the scarcity of leather, the|COMPENSATION URGED FOR Five men were injured at the Lin- | Siate Colleze of Asriculture, to sorve |Dglred at Abbassia, leaving & 4 staft, backed by their fleet, are prepar- | in the Russian army have developed | FTC Of Fo-greantement of rovalty pay ME 5 The Fight Against It Probably Will Be | .n' mine of the Hutchinson Coal Co., | immediatels as an assistant secretary | $30.000. A civilian foreman at Rom Tng for & sreat attacck on the Russian | an ingenious device of loading shells [MERts for the use of shoe machinery N IN TRAINING CAMPS N tha Sarate Sear Point Fleasant, We Va. - when | of sticuitre. At ‘the same. time g |0y Carciemly gave 13 horaes an over right wing. probably with the intention [ with coples of Ohancellor von Beth- |Gl 1ot SadJiniment of wake sched- | Telograms Sent by Willard Straigh lightning struck_a powder magazine | invited the heads of five of th~ great|{ %€ 9% SUIPhUr and the horses died of attempiing to isolate Petrograd [ mann-Hollweg's speech of March 28| 0 O00 00 L CST0 00 G cn, (2 2Chon. < i9ht | twashington, April 19.—As one step|and exploded 150 kegs of blasting | farmers’ organizations to come to g 89, i 3 from the main Russian armies. and firing them into the Russian lines.| of,503 and the energles of the man. to Secretary Baker. toward meeting opposition in congress | powder. Washington Monday for a food con- |, PIStols worth 31750 were lost on ufantuiers have besn Giroctedl t0 oMt | New Yosk Ageil 19- Telearam: t othe administration's army plans.|" 0 - = ference. 3r. Pearson will serve With (€, way, to Kgypt ‘Troops smolcing et lers on hand by A K i - S Irg- today sent a letter e New Yorl enate Finance Com- r. B. T. Galloway, a rmer assist- % N g ire to the bars TEMPORARY FINANCING WAR TAX ON BASEBALL WOULD |PISHRE onders on hand by Am 2 e in,that compensation be provided for e Hasecacntative Tietvering of Kan- |mittco teported & resolution to exs |ant secreiary of agriculture, whom the | ¢ deniroyed 32000 worih of wtraw . shutdown cannot be interpreted as a wial e the three explaining what is meant by selec- [tend the life of the Wicks committeé | secretary called here recently from | Scores of c re cited where the OF GOVERNMENT'S EXPENSES| CLOSE PROFESSIONAL PARKS.|lookout of ‘the cmployes &nd no an- |TORCHS course in the officers’ reserve | iive Aiatt. ard cxpresoing carncst HoDe |investigating the food auestion and | Cornell University o act as an emer- mysterious disappearance of bianksts Secretary McAdoo Working in Cooper- [Claim Made by President Johnson of [ nouncement of any action in reference | ;i —— mwlb;eg“blfled Py that the bl drafted by the war de- |appropriating $29,000 for the commit- | gency assistant. He wiil have partic. | (G5 S20L fhe nomy (housands of doliacs i e ular cl e o e opera ate d worth 000 .disap ation With Federal Reserve Board the American League. N nuen Ta DOty e s Willard Straigt, ER e Lo pr et nt e DR tntton | D ey B pearcd from a cargo’ between Alexan executive committee of beb > - . Siets {dents | dria_and Soliom owing to piifering SERSton, cAped 19,A grogram | Chicigo. Apell 19-Club awiers infsysnet OIS DRSVE Foi <7s’committes on national perense: o o B e Lt o et o ot ters 3 o i condiiion | Gomiow Monday, are: - O Mainy: of | the mercantile mavine crews on board of temporary fnancing to meet the|the American league w.ll be forced to| * NAyy RECRUITS IN HARTFORD. |cnshony o ctts, baker and to ‘the | without material changes. The fight on a special east bound train at Syra- | Wisconain, of the American Soclety of | Since the wppointment of conductors government’s running expenses be- |close their parks if a war tax on base- . 'f_‘mlm::;fi- xrnn.-ry affairs com- | prohably will begin in _ the senate, |cuse, N. Y. The horses, owned by the | Equity: Oliver Wilson ;(,.."”::" the |io sccompany ships (hese loases have tween now and the close of the fiscal |ball, sugsested in the administrasion [Governor Holcomb Spoke at Monster fresentatives F o ""° °f 7P~ | where the bill will be taken up as soon |Government. were destined for mili- | Natlond) Grange: 1, %, Zimmer of 10- | " Syiiltary Clothing worth 31,000 was year, June 3, was taken up today by |revenue program, Is demanded from Outdoor Rallies. Not to do this, the telegram -aid, | 3% TCrataman Chamberain, of the | o Lo C.'B." Barrett of Georgia, the Farm- |5ent to Winchester, where some one Secretary McAddo, with the co-opera- |them inetead of from the patrons of e Wwould mean that ‘men who are ° fortu- | priy tary committee, submitted his fa-| Second L. Hall, 1st|ers Union, and H. E, Stockbridge of [Who signed himse'f “Corporal Parnes B0 T Baava resstve Dasd the sport, President Johnson of (he| Hartford, Conn, April 19—Public|nate enoush to have Independent. o ble report today. Infantry, Indiana National Guard, was | Georgla, the Farmers' National Con-|t00k it over. The consignment w Contemplated measures are the is-|American league said today. “I have |eXercises here today marked the open- (Comes” will be abie the | Y Chairman Dent of the house com- |sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment on | gress. lost at this ‘point, and so was Cor suance of from $150,000.000 to $200.000,- | figured that the tax would amaunt to |!DE of @ three-day drive for navy re- ittce. formally presented during the | charges, including one that he negoti- e poral Barnes. 000 in temporary certificates of indebt- |about $250,000 for the season,” Mr.[STUits. Governor Marcus H. Holcomb, | thei: gs will be practically | Gay the report of his committee offer- |ated for a commission from the Mexi- | CHICAGO STORAGE HOUSES 4 al Mighlanders show & »dness to be redeemed July 1, when |Johnson said. “That would more than | ayor Frank A. Hagarty and other the training so vitallv | ing the bill in amended form, author- [can government. ARE STOCKED TO THE ROOF | 1Clency of 314500 which was errone the great bulk of the income tax and |wipe out our profits. We would have | PTominent men spoke a. monster ral- [necessary” The effect on the entire | LoE, o the rosiaame n call for volun- B et Al gusly pald to them while at Dundee other revenues due the government for (o close our gates. lies held in the plaza beside the citys’|ystem of military preparation. it was | tzers in Inerements of 500,000 and pro- | Since the recent ceder of the federal [ wiiis Prices Are Mounting Daily on | /cten thousand empty petrol tins ar the current flscal year will be In hand, | Because of the danger facing the|NSW municipal building. The bands |asserted, “is bound to be most deplora. | ciaing for the selective draft only aft- |government, approximately 70 wirele 2 cases were lost In transit bstween —nd the attachment to the tempOrary | eame. hart & den Lo joiinE the | Dlayed both aflerncon and. eveains |ble. viding for o Sl e e e A B T the Grounds of Scarcity. France and England, with a loss gertificates of & Cenversion Priviiezt|idents plan to Fo to Washington next |Naval moving pictures thrown om S e s pen M mantied. Two of these sets were pow- | o o ToTm 0 |$8.500. An overissue’of pickies (o 1n rmi e holders to_convert the | weelc to screen on the side of the old Connecti- ;| Cnicago, April 10. dian froops is responsible for a loss of ERDRRIES b hosds or lates certins | I oo, Vpose The Toglalation which, |80 e it . Saosea | TAR= DAY AT $ALE siX CHARGED WITH DEFRAUDING |erful enough to communicate directly |, ounthE? S0 on " ne grounds of | #1700 g cates, ‘bearinz a hisner interest rate | leagues out of business. tracted a great throng In the evening. WEEKS AHEAD OF TIME NEW HAVEN RAILROAD. ' 2 searcity, = investigators in Chicago| ' ¥aliure of the war offiae (o properiy and authorized under the $7,090,000 = Society women ' in automobiles took : id a fine o [learned today th: of |circulate a notice as to the fees of Sar @inande measure. EXPLOSION OF PICTURE applicants for enlistment from Highest Hemor Was Accorded to|Donat Proulx of Holzoke Held Under [ Miss Ulrica Dahloren paid s fine of | }i,"city are utocked to the roofs with |doctors for cxamining Derbs Lecrulty Federal reserve banks will handle FILMS IN INDIANAPOLIS | g2 fo the recruiting ' station Charles P. Taft, 2nd. $1,500 Bonds for a Hearing. New York auto speed laws. _ She|stores of hitherto unapproached mas- cost $60,000 the issue of temporary certificates, buf artford is making this drive to secure wrote a check after Magistrate House | Pitude. = ot subscribe to them.. The re-| §00 men for the battl - Now P s = 43 Not only are private warehouses of Terve banka aiready hold 350,000,000 of | Six Persons Killed and a Score of Oth- | daye e T were held at Fato o il N icmnine rhe e o varvd 10 Maye 1 pelacac| t08. o IR e I A e 9":.' pf,:: RF'RED certfiicates issued April 1, maturing T . SR Al TR 1 today, # k- v | ing with food but public warehouses as ICAN SENTRY Saly 1 and bearing interest at the rate S inigend. 12,450 RECRUITS FOR NAVY e customiary duy-the Tast THhcedus |sers by TalsOIoE Secounts. for. shin- | Announcement was made by Wilcox, | Well While thousand of tons are in Oné 0l e of two per cent. a year. The issue| Tnaianapolls, Tnd., April 19, — Six AND T in May—because of the extraordinary | ments of goods, Donat Proulx of Hol- |Crittenden & company, Middletown, | €ars on sidin ne Mexican Seen to Fall_ When: & now planned probably will bear inter- | persons are dead and a score of others WARINE CONRS | oonditihine SORE Ty the war. ieves | yous. Mase. Tical miager of the o o oreant omployes and thos 8quad Returned the Fire. est at the rate of 2 1-2 per cent. are suftering from minor injuries as & | Since Preside = of .the undersraduates eclected to the | Mewark shoe siore, was held under|coming into (heir service up to June| NAVAL COLLIER BEACHED — The issue prodably will be taken | result of an explosion of motion plcw| o oo, s dent Wilson lssued Procia- | serilor societios were tapped st Paim |31 sos bond: for o hearing after ar. |0 nE Int0 el servlce s bonne IN HAMPTON ROADS| Bl Paso, Texas, April 19.—Solg wholly by financial institutions. It is| ture films In the office of a downtown mation Decl: State of War. Beach. Fla, where they are training |raignment in the city court today. The | amounting to 10 per cent. of e waekly Who fired at an American se sta nnrelated to the war finance bill and | gistrict here tonisit. = with the Yale terial coast patrol unit. |authorities assert that the accused has | wage. - : g To Prevent Her From Sinking—Had |tioned at the Viaduet in the subur the proceeds will be used to meet or- | Forty persons were In the bullding | 4 ' 2Shin&ton, April 19.—Since Presi- | Among these, five were tapped . for| e o comtommion atmiitine trett of| 25 Been Rammed this city, were.fired upon‘in return & dinary and extraordinary calls upon | when the explosion occurred and & g::lt“ymsmlmue:!mg proclamation | Skull and Bones and six for Scroll and |shoes to an amount estimated at about | The special French mission coming ‘ & squad of United States goldiers the treasury while the governmen| score of women were hurt in the panic | SeClaring that a state of war existed | Keys. $500, but his employers claim the|to Washington to confer with officials | Washington, April 19.—A naval col- | (904Y- One Mexican was seen to fa collecting the bulk of its nnual rev-| which“followed & Tush for the stair. |betmeoh, io, United States and Ger-| 2 (feature of the exercises was the |fgure may be higher. regarding war problems is composed Of [ jjer, ‘the name of which is not dia- |Siteh the volley had been fired across enue - ways, g ne corps | tapping Charles P. Taft, ?nd, son ial d th - issi t Mcials at- 3 v a the border have recruit . Railroad special agents and the state | four commissioners, two officials at-|cjosed by the authorities, was beached entcy wa g ¢ {GNIFICANT FIRE IN flames spread to the Linden and | The navy's :f,n‘u"}fi“"r”-‘“ men. | of Former President Taft. as the fif- police intimate that this arrest may be | tached to the commission and five of- | in"Fiampton Hoads tonight to prevent | o LD Seniry was patrolling his be INSI YN HOUSE, HARTFORD. | Loyal hotels, acrass an alley. but the | rine corps’ 5,390, On’ Februcs s he | L SBLM O Jast man, to Skull and Bones | the beginning of _similar activicies | ncers of the French army, composing | her from sinking after being rammed | 7050, (W0 shots were dred from ¢ ALLYN 5 .| Buests escaped and the property ram- | o gpeies i = o ac- | against other persons on charges of the a staff for Marshal Joffre. By another vessel. hments o exican sic fal Sirength Of the mavy was 54.469; | corded. Newell Garfield of West Men- | some nature and IRvolving in the ag. = The collfer now lies In water up to| S0FINE to (he ofclal repart receive age to the Lotels was slight. today it was 74,026. On the e o e ot Ses S ape date | o, Ohio, & weandsen ot ihe smtrtyred | gregate, thousands of doliars. BEES IN GREAT BRITAIN her second deck and with a great hole today it has 15,656. “Bones,” the -mext honorary choic. |§CHEME TO THWART $7,000,000,000 WAR BOND SUBMARINE WARFARE. = returned the fire and calied the mem ~ SE |in her hull. Navy officials say, how- Aol . RAVAGED BY DISEASE|!n her hull Navy officials fay. how- bers of his squad. They fired mo That Has Been Known to Kill Mil rea ekl When Mexican Consul Bravo Within a Few Day: ported the affair to Brigadier Generas . April 19.—An in- v g g o5 e GUN FIRING HEARD ificant fire In the basement of the | Conferses Will_Today Resuime Efforts Al ones arly b el X d to Reach an Agreement. — OFF MASSACHUSETTS COAST [Read Below Unsigned Letter Received HERBENT O BOOVER George Bell, Jr., General Bell informed 7 : Gt S oy Jor Grest Britain has besn cut " 18 COMING HOME |hma heen nred upon and had coeed Four Shots Apparently From Guns of - honey in Great Britain has been cut in of Hea Calibre. Hartford, Conn., April 19.—The fol- | half since 1910 by the ravages of a S lowing letter was received at the ex- known to beekeepers as the | To Assume His New Position as Chair- | “1 have ordered the outposts to shoot New Redford, Mass., April 19.—Gun |ecutive offices today: le of Wight disease. It has been| man of the American Food Board. |0 kill when fired upon,” sald General firing was heard off_the “Governor Marcus Holcomb: known to kill_millions of bees within Bell later. *1 will courtmartial a man by residents “For God's sake, governor. urge the |a few day ‘he boar dof agricuiture| London, April 1 24 p. m—Herbert | Who fires across the border first and I president to have every ehip ‘from |dcclares itseif helpless until it can|C. Hoover will start for Washington | 4180 will courtmartial one who fa Great Britain and France loaded with |cbtain power to order the prompt de- | immediately to assume his new posi- | tO return the fire when he is fired up 9 a |German prisoners, that he may feed |etruction of infected hives. tion as chairman of the American food | o8- re- |them and at the same time make the 4 board. The executive work of the kaiser spare the ship or kiil his own | . The electric furnace Is being used in | commission will be carried on under| Michael Deegan, 54, was found dend Sweden to refine py a secret process | W. L. Hocold, director In America: W= | fr accidentai gas poisoning in_ his chromium ores brought® from South|B. Poland, director in Burope, and W. at his boarding house in New Africa and New Caledonia. L. Brown, director in Hollar: Hi orders in returning the fire.