Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 20, 1917, Page 1

VOL. LIX.—NO. ' 247 NORWICH, CONN., Bulletin WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1917 TEN PAGES—70 COLS. PRICE TWO CENTS : The Bulletin’s Circulation 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 OMINOUS ACTIONS IN BELGIUM AND FRANCE Indications Point to an Early Resumption of Operations 0% on a Grand Scale FIGHTING NOW GOING ON AT SEVERAL POINTS # ol e In Champagne the Germans in an Attempt to Recapture Po- * . sitions Between Mont Blond and Mont Carnillet Were Repulsed With Heavy Casualties —In Flanders the British Troops Have Resumed Their Trench-Raiding and ! Artillery Duels of Great Intensity Are in Progress—The Macedonian Theatre Still Holds Forth Promise of Early Developments on a Large Scale—Austrians Fail in an ~ Atempt to Disiodge the Italians From Positions Northeast of Jamiano. Indications point to an early resump- tion of operations on a grand scale in Belglum and France, if, indeed, they have not already begun in Flanders and Champagne. = A significant state- ment in the latest Berlin official com- munication says that in Flanders and Champagne “the fighting activity has been revived at several points. Astde from ghis, there is no infor- mation as to the exgct status of af- fairs. In Champagné the Germans have made an attempt to recapture positions between Mont Blond and Mont Carnillet taken by the French Monday, but met with repulse, suffer- ing heavy casualties. To the north- west. around Craonne, heavy artillery duels are being fouzht The situation in Flanders is even more obscure, as neither the British nor French statements tend to clarify the German report of the recommence- mena of hostilities. Artillery duels of great intensity are known to have been in progress between Boesinghe and Frelinghien and in the regions of Steenstraete and Hetsas, while to the south iIn France, in the neighborhsod of the Bapaume-Cambrai road, the tish troops have resumed their trench-raiding operations, destroying German dugouts and taking prisoners. The Macedonian theatre also still holds forth the promise of early de- velopments on a large scale. While along the line where General Sarrail’s forces are facing the Teutonic allics near the Greco-Serb border, the re- ports show onl still pouring .men into Thessaly and occupying important localities.” An- other indication that the Greeks are turning toward the entente cause is shown by the fact that considerable quantities of arms and ammunition have been'surrendered by the popula- tion of the invested towns and vil ages. Again the Austrians have endeavored to dislodge the Italians from positions northeast of Jamiano in the Carso sec- tor of the. Austro-Ttalian theatre. A | surprise attack has been repuised with severe losses in men killed and made prisoner. On Monte Romerbon. how- ever, the Austrians Were more suc- cessful in an attack, capturing ad- vanced posts -of the Tialians on the southeastern siopes of the mountain. A high honor has been conferred on Vice Admiral Sims of the United States navy, commander-in-chief of the American naval forces in the war zone. MYSTERIOUS MURDER OF JOHN VINCENT PIPER Graduate of Rutgers College--Body Found in a Cellar at New Brunswick, N. J. New Bruiswick, N. J., June 19=—No motive has been disclosed as vet for the murder of John Vincent Piper, graduate student at Rutgers college, Whose body was found near here Satur- day after he had been missing for months. Dr. William J. Condon, a prominent physician of this city and ® captain in the United States army under arrest at Chattanooga, Tenn., is chérged with the crime. Prosecutor Joseph E. S. Stricker pre- dicted tonight that there would be sensational developments and declared he bad sufficient evidence to assure a conviction in the case. Traces of lime in the cellar of the Condon home Where Piper went every day to care Yor the furnace as part of the work he was doing to pay his colleze ex- penses, coupled with the fact that Pi- per’s body was covered with lime when it was found are declared by the pros- ecutor to be Important links in the chain of circumstantial evidence. The prosecutor asserted he had learn- ed that Allison Wallington, a negro, who did odd jobs around the Condon heme, had seen in the celiar two-days after Piper had disappeared. what he believed to be a body hut when a de- tective was sent to investigate no trace of it was found. One puzzling fea- ture of the case is what disposition was made of Piper's hody from the time he is believed to hav® been shot in February until it was dlscovered Saturday. Dr. Condon was a.lieutenant and as- sistant surgeon in the United States army in the Philippincs and JTapan from 1900 to 1902 and was a captain in the New Jersey national guard ten vears after that. Mrs. Condon nervous breakdown. . Piper. who was a graduate of the University of Vermont, not only paid his college exp. Dy caring for furnaces and doing other work but supported wife and two children. He was 24 years old. Dr. Condon is suffering from a 2URCHASE OF BCNDS OF REPUBLIC OF BOLIVIA A New York Banking Syndicate Takes $2.400,000 at 6 Per Cent. cote composed of the ble Trust tompany and Chandier 7nd Compans, Ine. of New York. and Counselman and Companv announced today ike issue of 52 40000 = of the re- puhic of Polivia The proceeds. it was stated, are 1 in 1he consiruction of a - principal city to the Yungas vallev, a_terri A to be rich in mineral and agr ral resources. a Paz, tr TO IMPROVE ROLLING STOCK OF B. & M. Recsiv -~ Hustis Has Been Authorized to Spgend 31,283,566, Roston. June 19.2-Judze Morton of 4%~ federal district court today author- ped James T1. Husti iver for the ¥oston and Maine rairc spend § 466 for improvements and bet- rments to the rolling s:ock, and cquipment. The court alsd authorized the receiver to revise the road's coal contracts in accordance with the in- «reased cost of coal tramsportation. | DECISION AGAINST OWNERS OF BRITISH SHIP APPAM On Ground That Submission to Cap- ture by a Ship Constitutes Abandon- ment. New York, to recover as freight money the pro- ceeds of the sale of her perishable cargo. The Appam was captured in January 1916, off the Canary sland, while bound from British West Africa for England, by the German raider Moe- we. Her prize crew subsequently brought her into Hampton Roads, Va., where she was retifned the British owners by the supreme court. IMPORTANCE OF AVIATION IN COUNTRY’S DEFENCES They Could Force the Enemy to Fight in the Open.’ New Haven, Conn., June 19—The importance of the aviation arm of the countfy’s defences was emphasized by Major General Clarence R. Ed- wards, commander of the drfpartmen of the northeast. at the *“1492 dinner” here tonight. The proposition to spend $6,600,000 in expanding - the aviation service, he sad, was a com- mendable feature of the war depart- ment's programme. With a sufficient number of air- planes in Europe, he deciared, it would be possible to “put out the eyes | of the enemy, cut off hls communi- cations; bring him out of the trenches and force him to fight on open ter- rains- Gerw iny, he assertcd. now has 5.- 000,000 inen in the field and more than a miilion and a half in reserve. This fact coupled with the knowiedge that the German people are not suffering acutely from a iack of food suppHes. he concluded, should impress _this | country with the greatness of the probiem before it. SHORTAGE OF FREIGHT CARS REDUCED ABOUT ONE-THIRD Announcement Made by the American Railway Association. New York, June 19.—The count shortage of freight cars Has been re- duced about one-third since the rail- road war board took the situation in hand on May 1, it was announced here tonight by the American Rallway asso- eiation. The decrease is attributed by the association to *“the prompt re- on the part of both shippers and railroads to the specific sugges- tions” by the war board as to how to use freight equipment more effective- spors: ABOUT 400,000 SOLDIERS HAVE LEFT RUSSIAN FRONT Since the Time of the Revolution— Either With or Without Permission. Tokio, June 2nd.—(Correspondence of The Asszociated Press)—Members of the special Russian mission to the United States who sail today for Van- mated tliat_about 400,000 left the Russian front, either with or without permissio: since the time of the revolution. The agreed, however, with Boris PRakhme. tieofi. the chief of the mission. who will be the new ambassador at Wash- ington, that order and system would gradually be established throughout resumed. neutrals, it was said tonight, inflt enced the government to hasten put- Offi artillery duels to be in progress, the ententé commander is June 19.—On the ground that submission to capture by a sihp constitutes abandonment of the cargo entrusted to it, the federal court here today dismissed the suit of the own- ers o fthe British steamship Appam the home placed at their disposal { morrow they will pay their respects to Secretary. Lansing and go with him to the White House to be recdived by President Wilson and to present a message from the new Russian gov- ernment. BELGIAN WAR MISSIiCN For What T of Secretary Lansing at a formal din ner. Cabled Paragraphs’ Enemy Airplanes at Gulf of Riga. Petrograd, via London, June 19.— An official communication issued to- day says: “Five enemy hydro-air- planes dropped forty-one bombs in an attempt against ships, hangars and batteries at our base in the Gulf of Conserving Food Riga. None of the objectives was|INFORMALLY GIVEN TO A SCORE hit. Only one sailor was wounded. MAY PUT EXPORT CONTROL ACT INTO OPERATION. It is Expected President Wilson Will Sign the Order Today. OF SENATORS Whshington, June 19. — Pre#sident|Told Senators That Speculators in Wilson is expected to sign tomorrow | an executive order putting into opera- tion the export control act just passed by eongress. A plan of organization and general export program drawn up by Secretaries Lansing and Redfield was taken up at today's cabinet mect- Ing. The act will be administered by an export council made up of representa- tives of the étate, war, navy and com- merce departments, the food adminis- tration and others to be selected by the state and commerce departments. Administrative details will be handled by the bureau of foreign and domestic, commerce,which will be enlarged by the’ addition of an export licensing di- vision. Heavy grain purchases by Buropean ting the export control act into opera- tion. Alarmed by prospects that the United States was preparing to exer- cise the strictest superv shipments, the neutrals, it is declared, have gone into the American wheat market and obtained contracts for enormous quantities of the cereals. Much of this now prgbably never will leave the vountry and, pass, the purchasers can be forced to disgorge their holdings under the em- bargo clause. ion over food the food bil CONSTRGCTION CANTONMENTS PROVES ENORMOUS TASK. Is Do Not Believe They Will Be Completed by Sept. 1. Washington, June 19.—Simultane- ous construction of sixteen war army |Jate cantonments, each to house 40,000 troops, has proved euch an enormous task that officials do not now believe it can be completed in time to permit!m mobilization of the first full quota of | Saturday. 650,000 by Sept. 1. Whether any of the men selected under the draft will be called out until the government is ready to begin training of the entire first quota has not been revealed. It is believed, however, that even if all the cantonments are not complete by the beginning of September, the date generally suggested for the mobiliza- tion, such units as can be accommodat- ed may be summoned in advance of the others. Work on the cantonments will g0 forward as rapidly as possive and war department officials are hope- ful that if all hav by Sept. 1 they will be ready soon af- ter that date. not been completed WASHINGTON WELCOMED Flour Alone Have Taken $50,600,000 a Month From the American People Compared Prices Abroad and in U. 8. Washington, June 19.—While both branches of congress continued de- sultory debate on the government’s food ‘control bill today, Herbert C. Hoover, food administrator, spent four hours at the capitol emphasizing to a score of senators called informally to hear him, the vital importance of the legislation needed for this country to take part in the war. Hoover Outlined His Plans. Under sharp and argumentative questioning by a group headed by Senators Gore, Recd and Vardaman, opposing the legislation, Mr. Hoover outlined his plans for conserving the nation’s food supply, increasing pro- duction and cutting off the excessive profits of speculators. He did not conclude and will return to the cari- tol Friday for further examination in an effort to clear up congressional and public misconceptions and hasten ac- tion. To be Kept Before Senate, The senate had only a brief discus sion of the bill and recessed until to morrow. Senator Chamberlain an- nounced it would be kept continucusly hefore the senate until disposed of and that Senators would be pressed to ex- pedite debate and_ action. ‘With but a handful of members at- tending, house debate continued until tonight. Opposition there ap peared to be waning and leaders hows. to conclude zencral debate tomorrow, planning them to consider amenc- ments and pass the bill by Friday or Fecod Conditions Explatmed. Food conditions which face the al- lies and this country were frankly and fully explained by Mr. Hoover. Without government food control, he said, success in the war may be im- periled. Such control, to a great de- gree, in actual administration, he ex- plained, will be voluntary and not en- forced—a ‘“mobilization of the spirit of self-denial and self-sacrifice,” in preyenting waste of foodstuffs. That the rationinz or other enforced regulation of the American table is proposed was denied by Mr. Hoover. Also be said requisitioning of factor- ies or rezulation of wages are not con- tem "d, and the excision of war profits in distribution of food, largely THE RUSSIAN Mlsslonj\'»“ voluntary co-operation of busin’ss Will .Go to the White House With Secretary Lansing Today Washington, June 19.—Washington opened its arms to the Russian dip- lomatic mission headed by Boris Bak- hmetieff, today, with warmth and en- thusiasm. Greeted by Secretary Lansing and other officials and escorted through streets lined with chering people and honking automobiles, the mission was given country’s response to the mighty dem- | duction, sto ocratic upheaval in Russi welcome expressive of this The visitors dined quietly tonight at EXPRESSED ITS GRATITUDE Country H. Done for Stricken People. Washington, June 19.—The Belgian war mission, having expressed to American officials Belgium’s gratitude for what this country has done f. her | stricken people, regards its work Lerejators that speculators in flour a'one | as complete, since it came neithe seek men, money nor ships, nor to give advice. ; to Now that the mission is here, how- ever, officials are eager to show in more than a perfunctory way their deep sympathy for Belgian's war as- pirations.. Suggestions will be sought on many phases of the war i lkely that the mission wi eral cities in order to further cement the bond between the two countr and it 1 vi it se es. Tonight the members were the guests NEW YORK CONTRIBUTIONS ARE OVER $20,000,000 Teams ied by Mayor Mitchell and J. P. Morgan Each Raise More Than a Million. New York, June 19.—Total subserij- tions of nearly $20,020,000 have been made to the Red Cross fund during the first two days of the campaign here, [it was state dat a Red Cross luncheon today. New contributions of $5,426,000 were announced. Teams led by Mayor Mitchell and J. P. Morgan have each reported subscriptions of more than a million dollars The Building Trades Employers’ As- | sociation has started werk to raise $100,000 for the fund. A conrtibution of probably $75,000 will be made by Greeks in_America, it was “learned. as a token of friendship for the United tates. AN ANSONIA PATROLMAN SHOT BY COLORED WOMAN When He Called to Enforce an Order For Her to Vacate a House. Conn., june 19.—Patrick Ansonia Sullivan, a patrolman, was seriously shot this afternoon when he called at the home of Mrs. Elien Branham, col- |ored. to investigate a complaint of the landloard, who alleged that the woman would not vacate the house when or- dered to do so. According to the po- lice, the woman fired three shots at the officer, one of which took effect| in the right cheek. Sullivan was taken to the New Haven hospital, where it is the country and that the war would be believed that the bullet is lodged in s heas of the bill, Four Basic Measures. Four basic measures of fosd control planned, Mr. Hoover said, Are export regulation, control of tribution, in- cluding speculation, America paizn for economy and azaiust waste, land p: inistration wo deral commissions to control wheat, sugar and a few other “prime -ommodities,” by resulation of pro- ge, transportation and sale are contemplated, he raid, {lut instcad of injuring farmers, as To- | some have ciaimed, thess th:ngs will benefit bothk producers and consumers without curtailment of middlemen's normal and fair profits. . Sacrifice Abread and Economy Here. Asserting that the allies’ focd sup- =isting, Mvr. Hoover cy must he made up by sacrifice abroad and economy hers. Saving of six cents a dsy per capita in this lcountry, he declared, wcu'd save two | billion” dollars, while a 20 pcr cent. ving in flour would give 100,000,000 bushel more to the allies. Speculators Filching Consumers. In this connextion he toid tha sen- | have taken 330,000,000 a month from lthe American peopie during the last five months. Senators Gore, Reed and Vardaman plied Mr., Hoover w uch fashio ntha be to'd them with some emphasis that he Lad not asked lcongress to do anything, althouzh he selieved the proposed lemislation vital j to the condnct of he war, The op- | vosing senators conicnd-d that the { bill would reach into infinite avenu-s {of American life, disturb business, | take property without ried dangers. & Opposition Drooped in House. the house as the debate dragged alonz agriculture committee to file a mi- nority report azainst the bill, said there would not be fifty negative vot's on final passage. He said he would {vote for it himself, although he would make an effort to restore to the list of necessaries shoes and clothing as originally proposed by the adminis- tration. American and British Prices. Representative Graham of Illinois, speaking in faver of the measure to- day, aroused interest by submitting a ‘comparative list of American and British- prices on staples received by him from Ambassador Spring-Rice on last May 19. Some of the Enslish jprices wer= lower than the American jprices despite the fact, as Mr. Gra- ham said, “that England is surround- ed_ by submarines.” The prices follow: English beef 44 cen a_ pound: butter 40 to 56 cents 2 pound: potatoes $2.10 a bushel: ba- con 48 cents a pound and flour $8.20 a barrel i The American prices on the same fday were: Feef 42 cents a pound: but- ter 42 1-2 cents a pound: potatoes {3375 a bushel: hacon 45 cents a ! pound. ana flour $17.60 a barrel. | ALL NEW YORK COLD Weights and Measures, So Asserts. New York, June 19.—A statement saying eVery available cold storage place in this city is full to capacity, creases. Hoover's Pans For [$35,000,000 For Red Cross Fund HUNDREDS OF COMMUNITIES NOT HEARD FROM CUT OFF SPECULATORS|/IN FIRST TWO DAYS Pledge of $10,000,000 Ha: Given the War Council tatively for Use in Fighting Tuber- France — Contributor’s Name Withheld. During the Last Five Months.— 19.—Incomplete reports to American Red Cross head- quarters here than $35,000,000 subscribed during the first two days of the week's campaign to raise $100,000,000 for war Hundreds of communities been heard from. Washington, showed more Tonight's total did include the contributions of many town communities. total was nearing the $20,000,000 mark, with $1.000,000 contributions from J. P. Morgan and Pledge of $10,000,000. of $10,000,000 single pledge been given the war council tentatively in fighting The name of the contributor was not made public German Cities Liberal. A feature of toda subseriptions Milwaukee, large German tuberculos| 's reports was the Officials Open Their Pocketbooks. A number of senator: lic officials today appealed to citizens of their home pocketbooks for Cardinal Gibbons gave his indorsement of the movement in a letter saying: Endorsement. am in hearty accord wi work of the Red Cross war counci have confident hope that these world- slans of charity and mercy will and other pub- Cross fund. appreciation of the suffering millions as a partial recompense.” Special Dividends Helpful. A suggestion which may for donations bv Comptroller of the He explained national banks may mot legally donate bank funds to any but may declare a special dividend out of the undivided profits. If all national banks should declare dividend of one-half of one and shareholders the Red Cross, explained, $5,000,000 would be came from charitable cause, should turn -nterests involved is the prime object| ¥ ‘an: ':\mn:ign comr;u(r‘eps in many s today came word that and that a new high figure had SIMS IN CHARGE OF mobilization’ of | ALLIED NAVAL FORCES women and men in a cam- | Commander Absent from His Post. cipation of the states in ad- | ce Admiral Wii- has been ap- charge of the | London, June 19.—V llam S. Sims, pointed to take gener operations of the allied naval forces in Admiral Sims will act in this capa ty while the British naval commander in-chief is absent from post for a announcement The Ameri- his appointment expains. can admiral’s flag. meanwhile, has been lied senior officer of the official hoisted as these waters. statement reads: “During a commander ply wiil be forty per cont. deficlent | even with Americi’s food surplus as- | fa tn ficien- gl o i short absence of the Brit- in-chief on coast of Ireland, Vice Admiral Sims of the United States navy his flag as aliied senior officer in zen- jeral charge of operations of the allied fleet forces in Ir TROUBLE OVYER MILK PRICES IN NEW ENGLAND Fourteen Cents a Quart if Dealers Grant Demands of Producers. th qu:stions in | sland Milk Producers sociation for farmers for | swered tomerrow by the principal dis- { tributing agents of this city. Dr. Nel- Davis, a director of the distributors, enmpensation | Bight that if the dealers should grant would be forced to and Sons, and embark upon an enterprise of va- | the demands the The_present is 11 ceats a Opposition drooped perceptibly in |ask seven cents a quart. today and tonight Representative Hau_ | =en of Towa, the only member/ of the | GUILTY OF CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD THE GOVERNMENT ormer Quartermaster Fort Adams and Two Merchants. Providence, R. 1, June 19.—William B. Scott ana_Frank R. Scott, hardware of Newport, and Forrest Jacobs, former quartermaster-sergeant pleaded momo con tendre in the federal court here today to a charge of conspiracy the gover@ment. Each was sentenced to pay a fine of $1,200. The prosecution alleged Scott brothers conspired with to collect money the government never received. Fort Adams, to defraud and charging retailers with maintain- ing high prices ence of food, was issued here tonight by Joseph Hartigan, weights and measures. The British government has ceased buying food supplies here, the public is living more economically and storage space is at a premium, Mr. asserted,’ yet wholesalers complain that exorbitant “Butter, cheese and eggs have come into New York in such quantities ‘as to cause a glat in the market,” he is the first experience of the kind-enjoyed by in spite of an commissioner of STORAGE PLACES FULL. | Joseph Hartigan, Commissioner of Unless federal and municipal cies intervene, the commissioner said, there is danger of further price M- Condensed Telegrams An explosion of a munition depot 31 miles from Vienna was reported. Gold amounting to $22,000,000 was received by J. P. Morgan & Co. from Canada. A Russian base on an island in the Bay of Riga was destroyed by a Ger- man air raid. An attempt was made to blow up a bridge in Argentina. No casualties are reported. Almost complete returns from the registration under the selective drauit law total 9,611,811. Dent Hayes Robert, publisher of the San Francisco Examiner, is dead at his home in Coronado. _The B h Admiralty denied the sinking of a British torpedo boat of 11 Greater progress was made in the marksmanship of the Atlantic fleet, ac- cording to a report from Admiral Mayo. Bert Smith, of Brooklyn, died at Madison Barracks, New York, of ap- pendicitis. It is the first death at t camp. The city of Dorgobuje, Russia, turn- ed howling drunk when the people found 100,000 gallons of liquc in a distillery. The output of Butte copper mines, | a quarter of the total of natic duction, was menaced by the strike of electricians. Miss Honora O’Brien received § for her breach of promise suit inst aged John B. Manning, a New York banker. In carrying out a general expansion of the army the War Department pro moted 73 second lieutenants and seven st lieutenants, The Catholic Club of the city of New York decided to suspend the pa ment of dues of all members who join the army or navy. Fire destroyed several tons of food- stuffs in the warehouses of two large grocery concerns in Detroit. The loss is estimated at $350,000 The Norwegian ship Perfect was torpedoed by a submarine and sunk. The crew arrived in Ymuiden, FHol- land. Two are Americans. The Irish rebel prisoners released under the amnesty of the British Gov- ernment last week arrived in Dublin and were received with enthusiasm. The Argentina minister at Berlin in- formed his country that Germany 1t neutral adopted a rule providing ships may leave England on July 1. A meeting of the One-Million-Acre Club was held at Utica to stimulate the farmers of New York State in rals- ing a million bushels of wheat for the 1916 harvest. Arnold Henckel, the German who sawed his way out of a prison at Nor- folk, was captured in Danville, Va., in a tobacco warehouse He was charg with being a spy the L class by the Germans on June| | failure of { the boa {ea with al lamong ¢ Developments in Cruger Murder WOMAN GAVE ¢TIP” THAT LED TO DISCOVERY OF BODY WAS THREATENED Searching for Accomplices — Too Chest That Hid the Girl's Gr - too Heavy for One Man to Handle —Demand for Investigation of P lie N York 5 —TT tant developme in the investig into the murder of 18-year-c Cruger divid the attent r officials toda A worr cal La Ru windo: id she gave t { covery of the bol | been "threatenea | connection with the < Investigation of the poiice ment by the ard of aldern 1ot * months in the cellar A chi's bicycle ed, Searching Search was . in the crim fter N tal wk clas ' nd Mrs. Grace Humis for the Cruzer family, is r. have occurred when rh 1 jured woman. Mrs, Hum plained to Police mn Wooa 1t she had been or r the room in the hospita a tive captain, but the that this was fr whar Deputy Commis - c WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN HOUSE OF COMMON Franchise May be Conferred om W men on the Same Basis as M London, June 19.—Th ~ommons toni; 1 pa the final readir in the electoral reform with the question of wormr It is expected that a proposa! w be made that the franchise ferred on women on the sa as ‘men, The ma warmest supps s They did not anticipate ing _triumph The government left the unfettered judgme not attemp on hoth side leading figur ane e a of the discussio The oppone Contracts for 10 more steel merchant | they could > ships and 24 wooden hulls were an-|here ¢ P t nounced by Major-General Goethals, | nette Rankin, on the qie general manager of the Emerzency |entry of p Fleet Corporation war, befor 3 Joseph Scott, collector of internal | des: revenue for the First California_dis- | hysterical and unable t trict, was ordered to be removed for being charged with shortage of ac- counts by President Wilson Reports published in a Paris paper RHODE ISLAND GUARDSMAM KILLS BROTHER-IN-LAW say miners of Luxemberg have gone | Robert Parkinson, of Saunderstown on a strike for more pay from the Germans. Luxemberg papers are not allowed to publish the facts Harold Moyer a Brooklyn youth, was sentenced to life imprisonment by Judge Dyke in the Brooklyn Court for killing William MéMahon with whom he had quarrelled over a girl. At the request of New York State, the State Department requested the Italian Government to hold Alfredo Cocchi, now at Bologna. Italy, in con- nection with the Ruth Cruger murder. Sir Richard Crawford, commercial adviser attached to the British em- bassy had a long conference with A sistant Secretary of the Trea Crosby. No announcement was issued Archibald Johnson, of Pittsburgh, was made a sergeant in the Lafayette Escadrille, composed of Americans. He brought down one of two German air- planes attacking him after his ma- chine was riddled with bullets. Benny Woodworth, of San Francisco, was killed in an airplane flight with a friend of the Lafayette Escadrille, a pilot, when the machine refused to re- spond to the latter’s efforts to stop it from dashing against the ground. Alex Wright, 7, was fatally injured at Beacon Falls, vesterday afternoon when he was struck by the automo- bile of Martin Millspaugh_of Hart- ford, a paint salesman. Millspaugh took the Jad to the Waterbury hospi- tal and reported the accident to the police there. PLANS FOR hECRUiTING CONN. NATIONAL GUARD Discussed at Meeting of State Council of Defense in Hartford. Hartford, Conn., June 19.—Plans for recruiting the Connecticut National guard organizations to full strength were discussed at a meeting of the state council of defense in the old senate chamber at the capitol this afternoon. Among those present was Governor Holcomb. To bring the guard up to full strength it is believed that the enlis: ment of about 1,500 men is necssar; Judge E. K. Nicholson, chairman of unty sub-committee, moved that a committee be formed to the Fairfield devise plans for carrying on a re- cruiting campaign. The council then voted that the chairmen of the coun- ty committee, chairman of the military and naval committees and the chai: man of the publicity committee consti- tute the committee to devise the plans In his remarks Governor Holcomb said that “we must make out young men realize that they must fill up muskets. There front ranks and car: will be no trouble,” he continued, “in a Farmer, the V Sannderstown, R. 1 ert P on, a farm killea s home here brother W, Q geant Michael Slammon of the feenth /Company, Coa Corps, was arrested, charged w murder. Mrs, Hann mother of the to approach him, that she or Slammon then fired tw Parki wife had left her husband living with her mo r This was 1t ive led Slamm to make threats agains which caused offici of the f the request of Mrs the sergeant withir - for a month WORK OF BOY SCOUTS FOR LIBERTY LOAN son over th They Turned in Subscriptions Tota ling $15,480,350. New York, June 19 Scouts of Americz week on behalf of turned in sybscriptio pledged by abot dividuals, it was annour night by James F W executive. Mr West alluded . gn as “one of the best ssons this country ever sidering the effect under organization.” ENDORSEMENT ASKED FOR 3 HOMEOPATHIC BASE HOSPITALS In Resolution Presented to the Ame ican Institute of Homeopathy Rochester, N. Y June 19, day’s session of the consvention of American Institute of Homec resolution was offered 1 e ick M. Dearborn which it was asked project of raising and federal government t 1als, to be located a* New adelphia and Chicag: AUSTRIAN CABINET TO PRESENT ITS RESIGNATION Decision Reached After a Prolonged Cabinet Council. London, June 19.—According Reuter's Amsterdam correspondent, tk Vienna papers say that after a pre longed cabinet council last night it was resolved to present the resignation getting men to work in munition fac-|of the whole cabinet to the emperor tories.” today.