Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 28, 1917, Page 1

NORWICH, CONN., VOL. LIX—NO. 280 o 1, . SATURDAY, uble That of Any Other Paper, and its Total Circulation is the Largest i JULY 28, 1917 16 PAGES—112 COLUMNS n Connecticut in Proportion PRICE TWO bE&TS to the City’s Population : POPULA The Bulletin Cabled Paragraph l ’s. Girculation in Norwich is Berlin, Wednesday, July 27.~—via : Jondon July 27—Greater Berlin will contribute slightly more than 104,000, 3 000 marks to the state income-tax thsi Is Not Allowed Under Selective Service Law, as Regu- lations Govern All Exemptions Do nsae auch oubstantial progress Congress Should Be Sa the Ban on W Sver 1916, HOUSE CONFEREES MAY today that a complete agreement seem- ed_probable by tomorrow. AGREE ON FOOD BILL. ] : The conferces virtually agreed to sfied to Put key. DISTRICT BOARDS WILL DECIDE DEFINITELY |Firt commisin i et st B accept the senate amendment author- izing the president to fix the price of coal and coke and to take over mines. There was also a_virtual agreement on Whether More Useful to Country in a Peaceful Pursuit Then | ihe cenate amendment to regulate the making of contracts for the govern- i ili i i ivid- [ ment by the defense council's advisors. in Military Service—Board Will Determine Each Individ- [ ment by the R e . . dments seemes to e that con- ual Case—Queries for Exemption Should Not be Ad-|zrec: thouia he satisfied to put the ban on whiskey, to authorize the com- dressed to Provost-General, But to Local Boards. mandeering of distilled spirits, in bond so far as necessary for gn};rnment SRRV purposes, and to authorize ife presi- FETEMY - — | dent to prohibit the making of beer A and light wines if he chooses. July 27.—A deluge of | industrial or asgricultural claim for | That the'decision would be between inquiries concerning future [ discharge. Before a man has a stand- | the senate provision for a food board ps in the army draft and ot pleas |ing before the district board he must|of threc and the house authorization n industrial concerns for exemp- |first be certified to it by the local or|for one food administrator remained 1 of their expert workers, drew |lower board as physically qualified for | uncertain. from the provost marshal's office to-{service and must have had any d day a statement that questions must|charze claim made before the lower ed to local boards and that |hoard decided adversely to him CHESIER. SARE MrS industrial exemption must “He has five days after he RENEWED FRIDAY NIGHT strict boards. fied to the upper board in which to —_— al class of workmen will|file claim for discharge and five days |Colored People Ordered to Remain In- 1. Provost Marshal-general |more in which to file proof. All doors—Whites Kept Moving. 1 the coal production |claims for exemption or discharge, ex- poxitii . which sousht information [cept claims for discharge on indust- | Chester, Pa. Ju s would be left at their [rial or agricultural grounds, are de-|gorce of nearly twd hundred certi- v 27.—Although a armed Apreals to the provost mar- | cided originally by the local or lower |guards. including local and state po- office from employers on be- |board.” lice and volunteer deputies. were pa- 1 their workmen can accomplish No Queries to Provost, trolling the city a mob of several nothing, it was explained, as regula-| 3ost jndividual queries to the pro- |thousand men and boys renewed race ted by President Wil- | yost marshal’s office come from men |rioting here tonight. ~ Shortly after EXempions who are absent from their place of |dark the rioters got beyond control ure of Exemption. registration and who have been sum- |and heat a negro insensible before he “The question of whether a man is|moned for examination. Such a man |could be rescued by the police. Scores more useful to his country in a peace- |should apply in writing to the local |were arrested. The authorities who be- ful pursuit than in militafly service | board in the district where he is reg- |lieved the situation was under control is a matter to be taken up With the |istered and request an order directing [were taken by surprise when the riot- district board,” said an announce- [ him to appear for physical examina- |ers first appeared in large numbers in ment, “and for that board to deter- |and possibly exemption or discharge |the central section of the city. ~ All mine in the light of the gircumstances | claim before the board of the district | colored residents had been ordered to rounding each individual case. in whigh he is now living. This re- |remain indoors and the crowd of white ‘Procedure in case of claim for dis- [quest should designate definitely the|men were kept moving. charge on the sround of industry or|board having jurisdiction over agriculture is explicitly outlined in |district in which he is living: for ex- |rioting broke out on a large scale for the regulations. Only the upper or|ample, “local exemption board, Di- [the fourth time this week Wagon- district board has jurisdiction over an | vision No. 9, New York city.” loads of guards held ready for trouble were rushed to the scene of disorder. The mob was driven back at the point s promulg TACTICAL REORGANIZATICN NOT CHANGED AT PRESENT COMMITTEE SYSTEM . Wera cleared but not before dozens of FOR DEFENSE'COUNGI. white men had been knocked uncon- e scious with riot sticks. M=y Be, P"&:‘;T:e‘:‘::‘e"“'"'""‘ From Meadows, a negro, shot at noon today ,was reported to he et S g near death in the city hospital. Two Washington, July 27.—The new Dlan | iher negroes are in a serious con- for making government war purchases, | gi/\o% Troops Will Move to Camps in Typ cal Infantry Division. Wash tical reorgamization o SCLEe S calli rganizati f the com- Sheri b ssue - i ngt ad\xnuc%a'r? & 5 ;:i‘l';gg o e . —dnc i T"';'J’:rigw:’r‘ ','f"k'{‘;";— G rr;‘ri-;;':"“:n Known—Bavarian and Austro-Hun.| —No enses Issued for Shipment mation g:ar‘” s ,,,(.“”;n‘m ;»(_,‘;:n‘; :;;?,?“klflex}:um\fio?::;ugfe{‘ln?{\da}Xgulr-l (nnzrf‘t.’”f; (]vn the ;xmo': and ordering | garian Troops Occupy the Capital of | of Goods to Northern ¥ d. statc s ) 2 everyone indoors after 9 p. m. except cfficially today t the div Tbe put into effect immediately. The | whose business made it neces- Buckowina—Aims of Allies Attain- Loaded Scandinavian Ships the regulars, national guard council was to have approved it today. | <ui\ for them to be in the street. Sa- | Fist i 1 ed Only Ending of War. Permission to Sail. v would move to their | but postponed action until tomorrow. |joon FOT 3 NV X 0E e el iS Were re formation of the present [ Creation of a war industries board |o dered closed indefinitely, z try division prescribed |and a priority board to supervise gov- 5 ;s which the president is|ernment buying is the most important R : =Y A e gl e e Shange frobh iWé present Gystum, The | BRIDGEPORT. GIRL The Russian retirement in eastern| Washington, July 27.—A plan for y a reorganization of Gen- | war industries board, with Frank Scott Galicia continues. There has beerr a |rationing the northern European neu- ; ; ; - S SHOT BY UNCLE. p < ';:‘ah“.\":f\ ot n]' head':m”:fi‘;;?:k‘m"xf n"“‘::;:' & e noticeable slackening the Austro- |tral countries was put before Sith the division plan now jurchases, w! pprove all contracts a ; 3 5 Sogos armtics han sivegdy | for Wik awolics. . The priorily bomsd | Man Arrested f“"'—:ef ‘:("_‘I'," Assault | Gorman advance north of the Dnies- |dent Wilson today by the bean e7-ct he ct nature of | will designate the order in which gov- | . With: Tatent fo. Kill. ter, where the Russians are now of- |council. A general policy of o Dot e Mieclosen T e waces Sl he 1 ew Haven. Conn., July 27. — Miss |fering more spirited registance, butling America first, the allies u ntry division of the| Both the war and navy departments | 0% SN0 PRy T T g T 0k south of the river to the Carpathians [and the neutrals jast was announced Am army makes a force of | will delesate —purchasing powers tolpCaZ, W ATTERE BSOS O o |the Teutonic forces are moving for- [by the president in his proclamation a 25000, The French use about |their representatives on the war board | Brldseport, is In the New Haven bost | L2 "ol nimpeded. putting the export control into opera- Austro-Ger- | ticn, but no specific policy has been Around Tarnopo! n and the Germans |and the shipping board probably will | me. be represented on the priority board, Co-ordination of American and al- lied purchases will be accomplished by wound in the back, and her unc - Patrick Har an, of B!'d!,!!f‘\’lorl. ‘:R in Y. M. C. A. SECRETARIES il awaiting trial on a charge of as- putting the allied purchases under the | S3U1t Withe intent to kil g _ .. TO EUROPEAN CAMP. {‘,m, m‘f]uglrips board, Bernard Baruch, | The shootin \l[‘( 1 [:(}» tnrda,\hal '(li‘e understood. will have charge of | lome of e e e allied purchases, with the question of | 2Nl R e iority of delivery as among the al- | Peen s A s . ng 17| rot serious. es themselves left to the aliied mi e e sl bioihat o6 ab of the Sereth. Boon Leave to Work Among American —» 8oldiers and Sailors. cro: New York, —The second con- | hes ! re nt o ; e - | sions. |y appente i the Witenen | according to Berlin. Ungent of Houne Mmoo Herbert Hoover has been mentfoned | M= OUlfcele, appeared in the Kiehon | poiopol, petrograd reports, the Aus clation secretaries who —will worklas a possible member of the priority | 07 10° o FIE, JOTA€ (00N MPPET de. | tro-German _attacks Smong American soldiers and sailors in | 50,74 to assist in deciding the priority | Wnder lu £ lig ind de European camps will leave the United h : manded money of his sister, at the| T} 5 > s t was 2 Bae . oy empmenty same time flourishing a revolver and |Positions southeast of States soon, it was announced here to- ame time_ ; ovoiveriand |positions Sogiinese : by the Y. M. C. A. war board = threatening (o shoot. \rs O'Keefe|bhether thes also aur kov and the Dniest 0 et Do OTHER STATE OFFICERS |two. shots were fired, one golns wila |} the D m A winister All are college : and the other lodging in the girl's "3_5v repelled 'flulflmr E Are Indicted for Embezzlement and | paci. driven the attacke : All of the members of the household | toWard Monastir Zy Misapplication of State Funds. South of e. A in actual service abroad e Y already has more r 500 1 t o 2 nd many more are in training for the | _Austin, Tex., July 27.—Governor | was later arrested in the kitchen. He She Carpa < that will be required of them in | Ferguson today was indicted by the | was arraigned tonight before Judge J. 2‘;:“vr";”": fnm}l‘;;"}d_- - < \ flelds. Among those in the |Travis county grand jury on nine | H. Blakeslee and after a hearing w. ingent soon to leave are F. H.|counts, seven charging misapplication held for the superior court. In \]t’fauvll gin of New Haven and Conrad |of public funds, one diversion of publi of $1,000 bonds taken to jail. Jumes Surbeck of New London. funds and one charge of embezzlement. S C. J. Bartlett, was indicted on four counts, charging COMMISSIONS SOON misapplication of public fun - FOR CAMP OFFICERS ] C. J. Stowe. state superintendent of Driven Seaward and Vessels of Pa- s e uildings and grounds, was indicted on s S Will Be Assigned to Regulars, National trol Fleet Sent to Rescue. Guard or National Army. pied by he w IN ELECTRICAL STORM | Austrian sources one count. e has resulted in the C. O. Austin, commissioner of insur- | o = o ance and banking, was indicted on four governme counts. tum had ex in the air | The Rumanians citing experiences Washington, July 27.—War depart- |counts. B s ment officials are preparing to issue| Other ‘"h““"me““ e Tt Mont | today when anelectrical storm burst | lines forward seven one-half | murder of Barnet Baff, a poultry deal- commissions to successful candidates |lave }:'"t een announced. TLast Mon- |y, gdenly over the city and harbor. |miles, gaining all their objectives and | er who was killed by gunmen in West the officers’ training camps prompt- | 92Y the speaker of the house of repre- |,nwo " machines which were at a con- | 6ccupying ten villazes. More than [Washington Market on November aviation | 400 additional prisoners and guns and | 1911, Graff was found guilty of man- on the closing of the first series of | Sentati-es called a session for AUg. 1| geraple distance from _the mps on Aug. 15. Probably more than 1,000 and perhaps 25,000 will receive Apers. Assignment to the wegular rmy, national guard or national army will follow fmmediately. Officers in_charge of the camps al- ready are making up their recom- mendations. The lists will begin to reach the war department about Aug. 1 and a special corps of clerks will be set to work making out the commis- sions. AIl will be returned to the camps In time to he issued to the new officers when the training period closes. peachment should be brousht against |yan squall and their absence caused |Rumanians, ' e governor. great anxiety for a time. The indictment charging embe: involved and the Identifying date. The | & . search Dorches amount is $5,600. ea he vomin the legislature for the purchase of sup- | 5 il ?-|scend in the water. The search was plies for the executive mantion. Tt is|3cii“ 0" for two hours, when fund to the purchase o “various goods |; Vi i oL OB Y I it. At the aviation camp it was said that the missing men had returned, tion of funds, one refers to the sum I e s el s s of $101.356, collected by Governor 0. R85 Ui “One of the patrol boats. w B. Colquitt, Ferguson’s predecessor. W | neported to have rescaed can. aviato insurance on the building of the West |from the water of Quincy Bay and|and Epirus. Texas Normal school at Canyon City. [ arother boat was. said. to Lightning In Torrington. Torrington, Conn., July 27.—Light- ning struck and instantly killed a horse which Gottiieb Grenden, 12. was leading into the barn on the premises of Leo Ruffemack during the heavy thunder storm which struck Torring- ton this afterroon. The boy wa-’ and the alleged dates of misapplication —_— are presented without further data. i e Immediately after Governor Fergu- Mps-Bingham Dead O e e ey 1oe, Sherlft 1n | ort” Worth' Bingham, formerly “Mirs, ,é’o& D e 0"')"; m of | Henry M. Flagler, died at her home of the others. . 2Ch | here late today after an iilness of two E weeks of an acute heart disturbance. Mrs. Bingham was married to Judse knocked down and badly burned about the arms and chest. The barn took fire and was destroved before the fire- men could reach the scene. Stamford Trees Downed. Middletown, Milford. Conn.. July 27.—A _severe thunder and hail storm swept over Milford Jate today, flattening garden crops and demoralizing for a time light and telephone service. A number . of wires were down in the center of the town an dtrolley traffic was impeded. In one section half a dozen large trees wer uprooted and in others branches were torn from trees -and hurled to the roof of houses. So far Qs’hnggn. no @avu_!a:mea;;A = Moose Convention Ends, Pittsburgh, Pa., July 27.—After au- thorizing the supreme council of the organization to extend financial as- sistance to dependents of members of the Montreal lodge who have been ily, last November. eace by Compromis ment and selecting St. Louis as the place [ been unanimously passed at a con- | Serious flm ,v;o_teg_ peace by, wmpromlse.‘ A, Farr, the driver. th val Order, Mopse here fate todaye Russians Show More Resistance the ‘When they attacked tonight’s victim [NOTICEABLE IN AUSTRO-GERMAN ADVANCE NORTH OF DNIESTER L of revolvers and rifies and the street THE RUSSIANS RETIRED who was | To New Positions Southeast of Trem- bowla ,But Whether They Surrend- ered Crossings of the Sereth is Not mans have met with stubborn resis ance from the Russians, Leopold’s soldiers were able to en- |northern neutr large recent gains on the eastern bank Between Trembowla of Tarnopol, | The to yield the |intention and Gnieza |neutral trade. with Germany, put an end to re-shipment of Ameri- Southeast of jcan goods into enemy territory stop shipment America of supplies intended place zoods which will go to Germany. control and Skoromocze, south the Russians were forced ings of the Sereth Rivers on a front of about eight miles, were repulsed. The Russians have retired to new Trenbowla, but surrendered the | take the place of the British system Petro- | of letters-of-assurance. Now rt- [ever, this government lacks informa- Russian cavalry | tion concerning consignees in neutral Great Britain, by ther Between Cz assaults and | countrie northwestward goin ithe Hobse 3 e Dniester, rushed from the house and Harrisan |pills of the Carpathians the Russians [be Kolomea, ahout | reaching the enemy. Czernowitz been occu- capital of Bukowina, 3avarian and Austro-Hunzar- ian troops. The town is an impm-i & 5 tant railway junction and north of secretary of state, GOVERNMENT AVIATORS e T A S At = says e are evacuating Czernow The advance of the Suchitza_valley northwest report from of Foczani abandonment of t training station at Squan- |0f the Putna by the Austro-Germans. have moved to cos#ler whether articles of im- 5015 were blown seaward in the heavy |War material were captured by Except in Flanders and in Cham- j 5 ing embeszle- | ™ 5oats of the naval patrol fleet were |pPagne there has been ment contains only mention of the SUm [,/ received by wireless to abandon |fighting on the western er and Quiney Bays|Flanders the Germans took La Bassee of Hough's Neck, as|Ville but surrendered it later before a The German front. In|the case. g The charsz¢ ‘of diverting a_special | i\ a5 thought likely that the the miss- | Pritish counter-attack. r und refers to the fund provided by |in2"" i 0rS would be forced to de- |Prince in attacks against the heights | aver is now believed to be innocent southwest of Moronvilliers and east of | ;.3 it g considered probable he will orders | Auberive, in Champagne, was repuls- charged that the governor applied this |49 marks to the state income tax this [ed With heavy fire by the French. This latter action will i 4 have on|not affect the campaign in Macedonia The other sums, totalling $42.861,|10ard a portion of a wrecked machine. [and Albani, but will result in the turning over to the new Greek gov- ernmenththe territory seized to ma{ke New Yor isvi = - secure the rear of the entente armies Louisville, Ky, July 27 Mrs. Rob-|fighting in the Balkans while Greece was stil} a non-combatant. Middletown Auto Fatality. 2 e Conn. R. W. Bingham of Louisville, a mem- [qpriocictonm. Comn. oy ber of a widely known Kentucky fam- E,hichghecvg‘;“’r’i‘d;’;;’:vuh e coping and guard rail bridge on the Cromwell road, Edmund S. Murphy, 25, a dentist, Amsterdam, July 27.—According to|today, and Miss Marion Murray, a July rendered needy because of the war |the Berlin Vorwaerts a resolution has|trained nurse, probably injuries were sustained by for holding the 1919 biennial conven- | ference of the Free Trades Union of |Mrs. Rose H. Murray, mother of Mar- tion, the international gathering of | Germany, record that the reichstag on'ion, Mrs, Elizabeth De Forest and her adjourned,' July 19 in the name of the German na- mother, Mrs. J. M. Logan, and Joseph - America First Proclamation American government of attempting to It will also Gradually the export ing assurances signees under keep many shipments, granted export for cargoes the foot- JOSEPH COHEN GUILTY One of Four Gunmen Who Russians ans in the| New York, July 27.—A their infantry in' the death house. be given a new trial. place of business. man put on the seas. of a was killed Venizelos, like his deposed in Food Supply ALLIES TO BE SECOND AND NEU- TRALS TO COME LAST POLICY OF PRESIDENT Issued That Will Export Control Into Operation, No Specific Policy Has Been Adopted Neutrals— adopted. At present no licenses but Prince |issued for shipment of good: A .arge number of Scandinavian ships loaded with food- stuffs are awaiting permission to sail. suspicion, is able to which might licenses, OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER Barnet Baff’'s Death. verdict of | be guilty of murder in the first degree was returned by a jury here tonight 27—Aviators from the |that valley so.far as the upper course | against Joseph Cohen, on trial David Jacobs, Jacob Cohen and Abra- ham_Graff, for joint complicity in the the | slaughter in the first degree. Cohen and Jacobs were acquitted. Johephn Cohen is the third man to be convicted of first degree murder in Frink Ferrera, driver of the murder car, and Guiseppi Arichiel- lo, a gunman, are awaiting execution Arichlello, how- | Auburn prison | regiment, N. Y. N. G. Harrv R Antonio Cardinale, who was brought The decision to continue the war |4 olt® QL0 Ear B8 B R aters evie > \ until the aims of the allies have been | qor il Of the seven charges of misapplica- | byt information as to their identity or | 2ttained is announced by the confer- | {h 2. to convey assassins to Baffs ence of powers held in Paris. Tt was also decided to withdraw the entente troops from ancient Greece, Thessaly | 1o 0f the aleeed EURACT, Seized Ships Ready for Sea. Washington, July 27.—The big Ger- stegmship Vaterland, seized at by the American govern- ment when war was declared on Ger- many, will be ready for service shortly. Repaire to the ship have cost slightly less than $1,000,000. More than half the German vessels taken over by the 27— | United States have been repaired and ! All those taken in American continental ports will have been repaired in a few weeks. He confessed that he hired Jack Rizotto, an- other of the alleged gunmen, is in the Uselessness of Kings. With the young Greek king refus- fatally hurt. [‘rg to take instructions from Premier Greece may have to throw out kings " Condensed Telegrams Michael Stakovich, gove - - al of Finland, has resigned. = oo 0 President Wilson is to attend th. e ;‘lot;t Meyer training camp on August Senator Lewis said the next draf call for men would be about mext. (it tober. Figures showing the progress of the | British recruiting in the Uniteqd States are 3,601 for six weeks. 2 Thomas 8. Young, 87 years old, Fan- wood, New Jersey's firat masor and oldest commuter, is dead. Gold coin to the amount of $1,369,- 000 has been withdrawn from the sul- treasury for shipment to Spain. More than 250,000 aliens in the Unit- ed States have taken out their first citizenship papers since March 1 Senator Thomas of Colorado left for Denver on a six weeks’ leave given by the senate. He is in poor health. England is going to fix prices for necessary foods to prevent speculation and eliminate unne sary middlemen, Five Russian women of the Regi- ment “Legion of Death” lost their lives in a fight with the German troops. A revolver battle on a downtown street of St. Louis resulted in the ?Ea.th of Deputy Constable W. Costel- o. Mata Han, a dancer, has been order- ed shot by a military court in Paris as a spy. She claims she iz of Dutch nationality. New York tea importers received ca- ble advices that freight rates from Ceylon to this country had advanced 59 per cent. James A. Taylor was expelled from the New York Stock Exchange after being found guilty by the governors of irregularities. Dr. Alfred Gonzales, formerly pres- ident of Costa Rica, has undergone an operation for appendicitis in a hospi- tal at Philadelphia. Luther Burbank, noted horticultur ist, ill at his home in Santa Rosa Mal, with an inflamed appendix s pronounced out of danger. Attorney-General Gregory released John Mulier, an alien, from jail at Bal- timore. He was held on charge of traveling without a permit. Four training camps of the Signal Offiecrs’ Reserve corps have been open- ed. The officers will receive thirteen weeks of intensive training. Two Italian steamships and one sail- ing vessel were sunk during the week ended July 22. The French lost no ships during the same period. The Belgian War Mission to the United States headed by Raron Mon- chewr returned to Washington after a 9,000-mile tour of the countrs Forty Chippewa Indians from the Lae Courte Oreflles reservation enlist- ed in a company that will take them into the sixth Wisconsin regiment. Private Charles Caylet, in the French army, rescued a child who was drown- ing after the steamship La Majerda was torpedoed. Caylet has a wooden leg. William C. Herring, former sheriff of Bergen county, N. J., is dead at his home at Harrington Park, following a stroke of paraly: He was 81 vears old. While pinning curtains on a stretch- er several weeks ago, Miss M. Moran of Brook!yn, pricked her fineer with a pin. She died from blood poison- ing. Alvah B. Taylor, veteran of the 118th regiment, New Yo died at Green- wich, Conn. He was taken prisoner and confined in Libby prison for months. The machinery of the Austrian and German ships seized in Siam after the declaration of war with the Central Powers on July 22, was found to be damaged. Bennett Moulter, an American avi- ator in the French service, was infur- ed when he was pitched out of his aeroplane after a flight over the Ger man lines. Dr. Fridtjoff Nansen, the Arctic ex- plorer, and other prominent Nor- wegian arrived at an Arctic port as | members of a special commission to the United States Thirty men _and one woman, mem- rs of the I W. W., were deported out of Bemidji, Minn., by 150 armed cit- izens with clubs. ' They were sent out of town on a west-bound train Service of the Southern Pacific com- pany’s Atlantic steamship lines be- tween New York and New Orleans anfl Galveston was declared necessary hy the Interstate Commerce Commission. Col. Edgar S. Jennings. warden of resigned. He will =oon Thira Kia- ney, now assistant clerk of the prison, will serve as warden. NO FEAR OF EMBARGO. Neutrals Export Just as Much to Ger- many Despite American Ban. be called to France with the Washington, July 27. — Reports reaching here indicate that the Amer- i n government's refusal to grant any export licenses at present for goods destined for the north Buropean neu- trals has resulted in no retrenchment of ‘trade operations between those ountries and Germany. Exports to Germany are going forward, the re- ports say, in the same quantity as pe- fore the embargo was declared here. Gold Import: Washington, July 27. — America’s gold imports durlng the flscal yeur ending June 30 totalled $977,176,026, as shown in flgures compiled by the de- partment of commerce. The excess of imports over exports was $685,254,801, againet a net import of $403,759,754 last year and $25,344,607 the year be- fore that. The president of Liberia has now summoned a special session of the leg- cntirely. They are often a nuisance | ilsature for July 16 to consider a for- unless they will stand without hitch- 'mal declaration of war against Ger- ing.—Springfield Republican. many. e e e e 1 s - | Mobile 7A_rtill-ery Guns of flll Sizes PROVIDED FOR IN MAJOR ITEM OF SUPPLEMENTAL ESTIMATE AMERICAN" AMMUNITION Will be Used by American Troops in French Finished Guns — The Ex pansion of American Gun Making Facilities is Proceeding Rapidly and WII Furnish All Calibres Nessds the Federal Troops at the Battls Front. Washington The item of the war department- supg mental war estimate sted 165,613,000 for fications, cove mobile armament for fo Baker explained Mr. Baker 1t - pression that t in France w shed in Fr gun shops and fitted 1 . munition 4 a will be ho America immunition Brigadier Gene ordnance, told the mittee than $1.7 000 app spent before close of the fisca tire ‘amount wa eme wanted to meet a xpa making facilitie ly, 2 within a ¢ time American to produce and de auantities finished needed by American troops LLOYD GEORGE DINES PARISIAN EDITORS He Told Them Facts Concerning Great Britain's Part in War, Paris, July 27.—David Lloyd Georsgs the British premier, tod gave a breakfast to a number of editors of important French newspapers, during which he discussed fully with them the military situation and questions. The Temps th gives a summary of his ta Mr, Lloyd George said ain now had between five million and 00,000 soldiers enrolled, without counting hetween 400,000 to 500,000 ba longing to the navy or nearly a m lion men from the Dominlons and colonies. Great Britain had placed at the disposition of her allies he added, from 1,500,000 to 2,000,000 tor: of merihant ships. Next year's bufld ing programme for merchant # which already has begun, amounts t 4,000,000 tons or twice as much as i a good year during peace times Alluding to the campalgn againet submarines, Mr. Lloyd George said The diminution in shipping losses incontestab Tt impossible t abandon this without paying homage to ety 3 the Amerfcan navy ex g the organization of « 2 pedo boat destroyers whict dered an invaluable serv| THE ELECTRICAL STORMS WERE OVER WIDE AREA Deaths and Property Damage as Far East as Portland. ‘Boston, July 27.—Three lives lost and widespread pr caused by a series of electrical storms which extended from this city to the north and east as far as Portland, Me late todey. James F. Brederick of Ame: private of the Second Field fn camp at Boxford, was stru killed by lightning while taking sh ter in his tent from a shower A score of artillerym the camp suffered from the e ical shock b recovered In Danvers, Miss Elizabet srrier and Miss Liilian Fletcher th of Middleton, were killed when a finished ho in which they sought chelter was torn from its by the storm. Twelve the cellar were slightly ir T had been attending a lecture in a tent near by when the storm broke, a they ran to the cellar for refuge In this city and Cambridge and at various points in Fesex county ligl ning and wind caused much damage In Danvers, Salem, Wenham and Beverly hundreds of full grown trees Were uprooted, five thie romdintas nine of the famons Salem willows succumbing to the force of the aie Crops in the vicinity of Salem and Lawrence were Injured by wind and hail Manchester a Nas N H and points in ost Maine o re ported damage from eleetr show JAPANESE STEAMERS SUNK IN ATLANTIC Submarines Did It German Only = Week Ago. New York, July 27.—The I P freight steamship Kagoehima a 4,566 tons gross register, and gozan Maru, a_ vessel of gross, we:a sunk by German subma rines in the Atlantic ocean om J 20, according 1o cable advices raceive by marine underwriters here toda The Kagoshima Maru was on her way from an American port to Europe and was lost about 70 miles off the French coast. The other ship was on her w back to this country from Genoa Plan to Draft Alisns. Washington, July 27 Favorable re port on Senator Chamberlain's resolu tion to empower the government to draft allen citizens of countries now at war against Germany but ng in this country was agreed on today b3 the senate military committes. Sena tor Chamberlain received a letter from Secretary Daker saying that he would not recommend favorable action on the resolution but would not oppose its passage. ¥ A free fight todk place at a women's meeting at Brisbane in favor of con- scription which was invaded by womer members of the Peace alljance,