Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 15, 1917, Page 1

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LIX.—NO. 295 POPULATION 29,919 NORWICH, CONN., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1917 8 PAGFS—64 COLUMNS CENTS PRICE TWO The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, And Its Total CIrcuIatlon is the Largest in Connec icut in Proportlon to the Cetys Populatlon POPE MAKES NEW APPEAL FOR PEACE Reduction of Armaments and Free‘dom‘ of the Seas Among the Proposals NO STRUGGLE FOR COMMERCIAL SUPREMACY Calls for the Restoration of Belgium, Serbia and Rumania and the Return to Germany of All Her Colonies—The Ques- tion of Alsace-Lorraine, Trent and Triest and Poland|Panners had been taken away from Should be Adjusted Peacefully—China Has Declared War on Germany and Austria-Hungary — No Great Changes Have Taken Plave on the Battlefields of Europe. 2s come an sre Benedi. natio: - appeal for peace from of the earth The foundation stones of the poBtiff's an for world tr maments should popes i fre supremacy. e belligerents, include the restora- a anquility are reduc- edom of the that there shall be no retal- sle after the war for world Specific pro- unoffi- nd Rumania. Alsace-Lorraine, nt and Triest and Poland, it is sug: be adjusted peacefully. plan also cails for the re- n to Germany of all her colonies. J 18 erents by the battlefle of Ypres, on in the and in Twa and IS the t Ma, of a the Oen Germ. m m No. = o tinued heavy ni, clatms little Teutons and says t} manians beat ba t the enemy. sppeal for peace. iff_invited all friends of peace with him In his desire to bring an end. Almost simulta- wita the latest appeal of Pope China entered the ranks of Pope Benedict made At that time formally declaring Fokshani, e Rumanians con- Grozecht s have village of Slar £hts southwest of Grozechti. th of Fokshani the Russians and hal to thef ke T COMMENT ON THE POPE'S PLAN FOR PEACE London Star. peace the pope’s i have eff an, British of Flsewhere ctical.” many and Austria-Hungary. nges have taken_place s of Europe. Flander: have forced German posts Steenbeke. of the Ypres-Thourout e region of Lange- Field Marshal r gain and re-established their o cast bank of the river. Else. fre coast firing _has the smber important being in the ens by the Canadians. nnoitering parties have German places. well as at Cern: and in the Carspach sector, ised German surprise North- British to river, Haig's men St. Quentin increased in have successful lints near in on the and Rumanians have being the offen- Mackensen while in n r counter- region the n dislodged as well as veral strong erlin reports fighting around Fok- advances for t Russo-Rumanian s were checked. the nterventions e been aca- The ar- orts and re- d continu ried at the end of May movement origi- the Austrian court was be- 5 orably considered’ by the pop and it was belleved that he was try B save Catholic Austria-Hungary r er. But vas stated at t of last month in a remark- cle in & Geneva newspaper that there was authority for denying the w 2d theory that the pope dreams of a peace without the con- serors being conquered—that is, the restoration of the status quo ante- POPE'S PEACE PROPOSALS WERE NOT UNEXPECTED Washington Officials Believe the Prof- Aug. peace to t missions we was agreed ing_the U to discuss p occupied by force ar a there by 14. s, sl s Calls for a Reply. Pops Ben- Proposals were not unex- United States nor to any v of a peace move was tish Foreign Minister Premier and French officidl Washington the allies, Viviani and it includ- hould refuse erms while Germany tories she had taken avoid what the ilied statesmen regarded as a German . the pontiff's proposal presents the question in a somewhat different light, difficult, perhaps, to meet because it offers to a war-weary world a hope | for peace. Teutonic Allies Expected to Accept. Germany and her allies are expected promptly to accept the pope’s propos- als. American officiale acknowledge that the Vatican's proffer calling for a reply. entente circle voice unanimaus opinion that it will be re- jected. American is of a nature Diplomats of the nothing but a officials realize that a convincing reply is required for the world’s page of history. But that the proposals cannot be accepted as they stand js certain. That they will not be accepted at all s possible. Possibility of Embarrassments. the proposal to leave for Aiscussion see the possibility of embarrassments in declining to _disci proposals which the president himself brought | before the world. The allied statesmen realize that once consideration of any part of the pope’s proposals begir pacifists and socialist elements are at once enabled to take up discussion which will embarrass their govern- ments. President Wilson’s President Wilson's own view of what reply shall be made gbviously cannot be accurately assessed at present. His latest public pronouncements on the most vital of the proposals Pope Ben- edict makes are interesting. When the new Russian government as wavering on the point of making 2 separate peace and declaring for no no annexations and no indemnities, the president, in a message to the Russian people, declared: “Of course the imperial German gov- ernment and those whom it is using for their own undoing are seeking to obtain pledges that the war will end in the restoration of the status quo ante bellum. It was the status quo ante out of which this iniquitous war issued forth; the power of the impe- rial German government within the empire and its widespread domination and influence outside of that empire, That status muet be altered in such fashion as to prevent any such hideous thing from happening again.” Text Not Received. An official oitline of the pope’s communication was received here this morning. Members of the president’s cabinet said it had not been discussed at of the president’s official family gave' signs of the difficulty it has presented Tonight the official text had not been received and it had not been estab- lished whether it would come through the Spanish or the Swiss minister. Spain and Switzerland are the only two European neutrals having 'relations with the Vatican. The first appraisal of the proposal by officials and diplomats was that it was another attempt by Germany this time working through Austria because of the latter's close relation to the Vatican .to accomplish what she failed In her first offer of peace—the as- sembling _of peace delegates at a found table conference, where the in- terests of one ally could be played off against the other, with the disruption of the grand alliance as the stake. In no qurater is there any disposition to question in any way the good faith of the Vatican although the peace activi- ties of the Roman Catholic elements in w. Germany and Austrian _have been prominent for several months. Similar to Wilson’s Declarations. But as the unofficial outline disclos- ed the terms of Pope Benedict’s pro- posal, officials were astonished to re- alize its similarity with some of Pres- ldent Wilson’s declarations on the sub- ject. International agreement to en- force peace, reduction of armament and recognition of the national aspirations of the small peoples all were brought forward by the president in his epochal addresses before congre: Two days later, in his Flag Day ad- dress. the president, referring to the military masters of Germany, said: “If they can secure peace now with the immense advantages still in their hands which they have up to this point apparently gained, they will have justified themselves before the German people; they will have gained by force what they promised to gain by it: an Immense expansion of German pow- er: an immense enlargement of Ger- man industrial and _commercial op- Portunities. Their prestige will be se- cure and with their prestige their po- litical power.” In his war address to congress the president declared for spending the whole force of the nation if need be to check and nullify the pretensions and power of the German military autoc- racy. This phrase now _universally accepted as the war aim of all the al- lies. the entente diplomats here con- tend hardly fits in with a restoration of the status quo before the war, a re- turn of Germany's colonies and no res- titution for Belgium. One The one point on which Germany might stick diplomats feel. is the res- ‘oration of Alsace Lorraine, These yrovinces, because of their mineral de- nosits, are mot only necessary to the copomic existence of Germany, they 2y, but In the hands of France again would constitute a military menace to Point Against Germany. 1 ‘he whola German schame on the west- {<n frontier. A neutral diplomat today ventured the opinion that Germany, beaten, would crnoode all but the loss of Alsace Lorraine. G. M. STAPLIN, BRAKEMAN, = * It Is Thought He Lived Either In Mid- way or New London. . Stamford, Conn. Aug. 14—G. M. Staplin, a brakeman on the Provi- dence and Harlem River frelght train, was Killed today when he stepped in front of an ‘Adams Express special. He |in his home here las® this aftrenoon’s meeting but some,| KILLED AT STAMFORD | German subjects. Cabled Paragraphs_ Body of a Bluejacket Washed Ashore. Queenstown, Aug. 14—The body of James Henry Bush, a fireman on an American torpedo boat destroyer, was washed ashore here yesterday. Germans Violated Dutch Neutrality. The Hague, Netherlands, Aug. 14— An official statement issued today by The Netherlands naval _department confirms the report that (ierman sea- planes and a torpedo boat violated Dutch neutrality on August 7. The | German torpedo boat, according to the announcement, was Tithin territorial waters off the mouth of the River Schelat. SUFFRAGE HEADQUARTERS BOMBARDED WITH EGGS By a Good-Natured Crowd of About a Thousand Men and Women. Washineton, Aug. 14—A good-na- tured crowd of about a thousand men and - women today bombarded the women'’s party headquarters with eggs and destroyed several banners address- ed to “Kaiser Wilson” after similar women who attempted to parade them in front of the White House. The disturbance, shifting from the White House gates to the women’s office across Lafayette Square and back again as banner bearers continued to appear, lasted more than two hours. The police observed it with indiffer- ence until near the end, when two arrests were made. Jack Gottlieb, a Washington youth, who climbed to a second floor balcony at suffragist headquarters andytore an ‘American flag from a pole hanging over the railing, was held in $300 bond and charged with desecration of the American_flaz. He said_he removed the flag hecause it had ‘o place on such a building. Louis Lawych, a government clerk, taken into custody in front of a White House gate after tearing down one of the “Kaiser Wil- son” banners, was charged with disor- derly conduct When Lawych was arrested half a dozen bluejackets and youngsters in the white of the naval reserve at- tempted to take him away from the policeman who had him in charge. One of the men in uniform swung on the officer’s jaw and in the excitement that followed the’ would-be rescuers escaped through Lafayette square just across Pennsylvania avenue. The women went back to headquar- ters after their last banner was taken from them. followed by a-jeeging erowd which fell in line and carried bits of the banners on canes and sticks. Py this time the police reserves from sev- eral nearby stations were on hand, and when_the crowd found no more ban- ners were to be brought out it quickly aispersed. There were reports during the dis- order that a shot *had been fined nt the huilding. After the crowd had 2one the women showed a Pole through the heavy glass of one of the windows over a balcony from which the ban- ners had been displaved. They said a policeman who examined it declared it to be a bullet hole, and pointed to an- other hole in the ceiling of the hall behind. PRESIDENT OF FRANGE VISITS ITALIAN FRONT Decorated King Emmarual With Mili- tary Medal and War Cross. aris, Aug. 14—President Poincare is visiting the Italian front as the guest of King Emmanuel of Ttaly. The Dresident 15 accompanied by = Leon Bourgeols, the minister of lahor, and Camille Barrere, the Trench ambasc sador at Rome. At the front the parcy | was Joined by Paola Roselli, the Ttai: | ian premier, and Baron Sonnine, the 5 eien ter, and Marquis Salvas 20 Ragi, the Italian ambaseador at Paris. President Poincare decorated Kins Emmanuel with the military medal and the war cross SWINDLER POSED AS A WOUNDED BRITISH OFFICER Obtained Entrance Into Social Circles of New York and Boston. Boston, Aug. 14— Percy S. De Wil- loughby ~who, posing as a wounded Eritish officer, obtained entrance into exclusive social circles of New York and Boston and secured money on checks which proved worthless, plead- ed guilty to forzery and larcenv in the superior court today. He had pre- viously pleaded not guilty. Sentence was deferred until next month, and the prisoner returned to Charle: Street jail. De Willoughby, who was captured i Canada, married the daughter of a wealthy contractor of Syracuse, N. Y., while under the guise of a Bri sh capta AN ALIEN VOLUNTEER PROBABLY A SUICIDE Found at a Farm Near Naugatuck With Bullet Through Heart. Naugatuck, Conn., Aus. Oldakoski, of Unton City, an alien vol- unteer for the national army, who was accepted in draft examination yester- day, was found dead a. about 6 o'- clock this evening at the Bucz farm a few miles from town, with a bullef through his heart. A revolver was found beside the body with four empty shells in it. The police are of the opinion that it is a case of suicide. They say also that Oldakoski_has been acting queerly for the last few days and that he is a former inmate of the Middletown asy 14—Steve CHARGED WITH VIOLATING ¥ ENEMY ALIEN ACT Ludwig Thome and August Pflug Ar- rested in Waterbury. vaterbury, Conn., Aug. 14—Ludwig Thome and’ August Pflug, who arrived in this city from New York last night, were arrested today on the charme of violating the enemy alien act. Neither of the men had a permit for enemy aliens and they admitted they were They are being held for the federal authorities, Pflug Wase formerly & steward on the liner Wilhelm II which is now owned by the United States. Found Dead in a Chai Redding, Conn. Aug. 14—Francis Dorgan, 57, was found dead in a chair night when a had been sent back from his train to |neighbor called upon him. He was set a flag and walked from one track | the village blacksmith for many years to_another came -{either in Midway or New London. just as the express special [ and one of the most widely known men It is thought he lived |hereabouts. Apoplexy caused his death. Storing of Coal Plot to Liberate Cause of Shnrtage German Prisoners FACT BROUGHT OUT AT COAL CONFERENCE PLANNING FOR REL[EF A System of Preferential Shipments is Proposed to Relieve Shortage the Northwest—New England Problem to be Considered. ‘Washington, Aug. 14—FPlans for re- lieving the coal shortage in the north- west by a system of prefeiential ship- ments were formed today at the con- ference of officials, railroad men and coal operators, and may ultimately call on President Wilson for executive ap- Pproval to make them effective. The pian, adopted by unanimous resolution, contemplates furnishing bi- tuminous coal operators who can ship to Cleveland and eastern lake ports 100 per cent. car service, with the un- @erstanding that they will ship 50 per cent. of their otuput to lake poris for reshipment to mnorthwestern territory ports. Power ,Rests With President. Danfel C. Willard, chairman of the advisory commission of the council of national defense, was delegated with Peabody and C. M. Schaffer as to carry the plan to some au- thority final veto or approval. The authority was not named, but inasmuch as the power to order preferential ship- ments now rests solely with President 1med that the proposal Wilson, 1 is as ultimately will go te him unless he appoints a preferential shinment board to handle such problems Plans as Yet Indefinite. Mr. Willard: said his plans for the present were indefinite, that he would irst present the proposal to the rail- road war board headed by Fairfax Harrison, then conier with such other persons as appeared advisable. Adoption of the resolution closed a day of wrangling in open and executive ression, largely over the critical situa- tion in the northwest. A sub-commit- tee finaliy agreed that tnese figures vepresented the true status of affairs: R 940,000 Tons Per Week. Tonnage to be moved during the re- maining 16 weeks of the lake naviga- tion season, 17,000,000: present weekly rite of coal movement, 940,000 tons; necessary weekly increase approxi- mately 200,000 tons. Under the plan adopted Mr. Pea- body and other members of the con- ference said the entire northwestern problem will he eolved and the New gland situation materially aided, e other parts of the country prob- will be adequately cared for by transportation. New England Not Considered. Efforts of New England representa- tives to have their problem consid- ered today failed. Mr. Peabody in- I sisted that the crucial mcment for settling the northwestern situation had arrived and that it should be dis- cussed alone. Much of the open session was devot- ed to arguments between George D. Cameron, a member of the Peabody comhittee, and George L. Peck, vice president of the Pennsylvania lines. over the rizht of railroads to declare embargoes. Utilities Storirg Up Vast Quantities. Mr. Peabody declared that he did not believe there was a car shortage. but that the coal emergency was caused hy utilities storing up vast guantities of coal. One utility, he said. he had heard, had a year's supply of coal in storage. TROLLEY CARS COLLIDE AT MERWIN'S POINT Five Persons Seriously Injured— Bridgeport Car Rammed a Wood- mont Car. Conn. Aug. 24.—Two trolley cars of the Connecticut com- pany hittihg ~ head-on at Merwin's Point late tonight, caused serious in- jury to five persons and lesser hurts to several others. The most badly in- jured were rushed to the New Haven hospital, where it was said that no deaths twere likely except in the cas of William Hess, of $38 Washington avenue, a conductor on one of the cars. Late tonight it was feared at the New Haven hospital that his back was broken. A Woodmont car, “changine ends,” for its return to this city, was ram- med by a Bridgeport car, westbound The Woodmont car had no passengers aboard. Hess, it is understood, was caught between the cars, Aside from Hess there are four other injured persons in the New Ha- ven hospital. They are Max Silver- man. 45 years oid, 146 Geo Bridzeport: Merrill K. Allen, street. New Haven: Anzelo Ross, 23, Tishop street. Waterbury, and Emily Pleatt, 1852 Park avenue Bridgeport Three others less badly hurt were given first aid at the summer home of Sylvester Z Poli of New Haven, which is near the sceme of the acei- dent. PLATTSBURGERS RECEIVE THEIR ASSIGNMENTS First Camp Over—600 Leave on First Train for Boston. New Haven, Plattsburg, N. Y., Aug. 14 —Reserve and National Armv officers commis- sioned as a result of their work in the tralning camp here today received their assignments, and all of the 4600 members of the camp'made prepara- tions for their departure during the day and night. Those who failed to show military aptitude wil zo hack to their homes snd civil life, while tha newly fledged officers were assigned to mobilization camps or to points indi- cating that they are destined to see early service in France. The first speclal train to jeave was for Boston, carrving 600 New Enz- landers, while the second train headed for New York. Commission for New Haven Man. Washington, Aug. 14—Commissions awarded to students at the engineer training camp at Fort Leavenworth, Kas,, announced today, included: First lieutenant, engineers, officers’ reserve corps: Willlam N. Thoemas. Jr, New Haven, Conn. | | war tax bill is pending now HAS BEEN EXPOSED DY A GOV- ERNMENT DECOY AT SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Three Arrests Made spiracy to Free Frazn Bopp and His in Alleged Con- intorned Aides—Decoy Was Arrested at the Same Time. ' San Francisco, Calif, Aug. 14— Pa- trick J. Farrally, Unifed States im- migration inspector at Angel Island, was arrested several days ago a principal in an alleged plot to free German prisoners interned at Fort McDowell, was a government decoy, authorities anncunced late to- with the arrest of alleged leaders of the piot, D. J. Harody, a shoe deal- er, and H. Delacy, connected with “The léader,” a publication here. They were charged with conspiracy to lib- erate Franz Bopp, former ~German consul-general here, and his interned aides. AN ADDITIONAL $9,000,000,000 FOR WAR EXFENDITURES Congressional Leaders Notified by Secretary McAdoo It Will be Neces- sary. Washington, Aug. leaders were informed MeAdoo today that it for them to autho: and the winte additional $9.000,000,000 for war ex- penditures, includinz further loans to the allies to June 30, 1918. Five billions in bonds already have been authorized and $2,000.000,000 n the sen- 14—Congressional by Secretary would be nec ze that this ate. Within an hour after the secretary had conferred with Reprasentative Kitchin, chairman of the house ways and means tommittee, plans were un- der way for raising the money. A meeting of the wavs and means com- mittee was called for August 25 and arrangements made for the house, now takinz three days' recess, to resume its resular meetings on August 27 and expedite financial legislation. Tssuence of between $3.000,000.000 and $4,000.000,000 in_bonds to meet| new allied loans and authcaization of an additional $500.000,000 taxes to be .dded to the hill hefore the senate, probably will he proposcd by the com- | mittee and agreed to by the house. No delay in either authorization is an- ticipated. The bond issue will be agreed to within a day, Mr Kitchin predicted. and the $500.000.000 prob- ably will be added to the revenue bill in conference with the approval of the house. The plan is to have the remainder of the $5.000,000,000 authorized at the next session of congress, besinning in December. Whether it will be raised by bonds or additional taxation or in what proportion of both, is undecided. Announcement that authorization of a new bond jssue to meet an allied loan was desired came as a surprise to most of the leaders. They thought the confe sec retary sought with Mr. cas for the purpose of discussing raising pos sibly an adcitional $1.000,000,000 to $2,000,000.000 for emerzency domestic needs. They planned to authorize it 20 home and raise the remaini $4.000,000,000 or $5,000.000.000 it was estimated the war would cost this fis- cal year at the next session. iNVESTIGATING SHORE LINE TROLLEY ACCIDENT | Motorman Negus Admitted He Tamp- ered With Safety Device. Aug. 14—Admis- by Motorman Shore Line trol- into another car Conn., te tor New Haven on was m Wesley Negus, of the ley ear that crashed at full speed at North Branford vester- day. bringing death to nineteen injuries to seoces of others, that had tampered with a safety device on Eis controlier, according to Deputy Coroner Kenneth Wynne, conducting a hearing here. Fe is also said to have told the deputy coroner that he was in a_doze for two hours preceding the accident. In this latter statement his testimony is disputed by Frank Harrison, a pas. senger, who was heard late todav Harrison affirms that Negus seemed to be fully awake just before the smash came. Motorman_ Negus and Conducto Willlam J. Tryon are being held to- night in the county Jjail here pend- ing the conclusion of the coroner's in- quiry. The hearing is expected to end | tomorrow. The hody of ene woman killed in the crash is still unidentified at the Branford morgue. OREGON MINING TOWN DESTROYED BY FIRE Two Persons Burned to Death—Hun- dreds Left Homele: Baker, Ore, Aug. 14—Fire late Jast night destroved the business section of Sumpter, a mining town near hers, causing a loss estimated between $500.000 and $1.000,000, and renderinz several hundred persons homeless. Two persons were burned go death. Food and tents were sent from here today. BAR SILVER AGAIN BREAKS PRICE RECORD Quoted at 83 3-4 Cents Per Ounce— Highest in Thirty Years. New York, Aug. 14—The price of bar silver again advanced today, be- ing quoted at 83 3-4 cents per cunce or 7-8 of a cent above last week’s high record and the highest price for the metal in more than thirty years. SIXTY PERSONS KILLED IN RAILROAD WRECK IN RUSSIA, Passenger Train Ran Into Freight— Four Coaches Crushed to Pieces. Petrograd, Aug. 14.—Sirty persons were killed and 150 injured in a wreck today on the raflroad between Petro- grad and Moscow. Four coaches were crushed to pieces when a passenger train ran into a freight train. I CGondensed Telegrams session of congress an | Orders closing the port of Boston from sunset to sunrise were revoked. drank He Ernest T. Meek, an actor, poison to try to escape the draft. will live. In 1916 there were 99,925 automo- biles registered in Massachusetts and 132,133 in 1917. Jose Ynez Salzar, once chief aid of Villa was shot down and killed on a | Nogales ranch. end-off day will They will prob- 8o to New York ably be August 24. Spartansburg 8. C Argentina’s Minister of Finance will ask Congress to authorize an interest loan for $150 000,000. Members of religious sects opposed to war and all other objectors will be sent to army camps. Vimy Ridge, the battlefield, where the Canadians and Germans fought, i covered with flowers. h Government has bought 1918 crop of cottonseed from ptian Government. The Bi the 191 the Eg: Americans in the Red Cross service in France believe the war will be end- iea before the coming winter. —— Arrangements are being made to send to Italy several hospital units similar to those serving at the French front. All the striking ‘machinists at plant of the Lake Torpedo Boat c pany at Bridgeport, remained out y terday. There were 4,000 burglaries in New York city since January 1 and only 10 {per cent. of the robbers have been aught. Another record price was established in the Chicago hog market. The av- erage was 15 to 25 cents above that of Saturday. Favorable report was made to the Senate on'a bill to empower the Ha- ilan Legislature to extend suffrage to women. F. L. Feick of Garret, Ind.,, was in- structed by the Department of Lahc to go to Kansas City to try and settle the car strike. The Government may have to stop “excessive pleasure riding” because lthe army and navy need 350,000,000 sallons of gasoline. The Charles Smyth Company’ er plant in Newark was damaged $2 000 by fire, believed to be caused pnotaneous combustion. The 69th Regiment of New York city will go to France as soon as trans- ortation arrangements and prelimin- ary training are completed. The submarine, said to have been lariven from the Azores by the gun- |fire of America ngunners. sunk seven | ships after leaving the island. A bill to postpone hearing of any civil suit asminst a soldier or sailor {until his term of service is over was introduced by Senator Overman Gaston de Laval, a noted Belgian |1awyer. who escaped the fate of Miss | Cavel. an English nurse. arrived at an | tlantic liner. Atlantic port from a trans: | Carlisle, Mass., has a 100 per cent draft record. The quota of the town was one man. who passed the phys- joal test and waived claim of exemp- tion. Joseph Mingolone, a New York taxi- cab driver, has heen held for alleged theft of a diamond brooch lost by Mrs | Al Woods, wife of a theatrical pro- e Captain William Bishop, a Canadian airman was awardgd the Victoria Cross for valor in attacking a German aero- drome and wrecking four German ma- chines. | General Pershing and American Am- hassador Sharp offered silver cups to he put up as prizes for the fittest squads among the “Sammies” in France Theodore E. Ferris, chief naval archi- consulting _engineer for the tect and mergency Fleet Corporation, said he {was not opposad to the Diesel engine "rm- big ships. | Leaving half a cemetery plot to her |nephew, Fred H. Cate, was a novel | feature 'in the will of Betsy Anna Rus- isell, which was filed in Probate Court Rridgeport. Two military airplanes at San Diego. . smashed into two standing on the |ground getting ready for a flight, all | four machines were smashed. but the pilots escaped. Kazek Mazusk, 20 of New Haven anad Joseph Emmuel 21, of Bridgeport. Who escaped from the Reformatory at hire last Friday, were recaptured ew Britain. Thirty-two of 40 coal mines in a dis- trict having a daily output of 20,000 tons of coal, near Springfield, TII. are shut down as the result of a strike of drivers and motormen. Lady Clarke is dead at her home in London. _She was the widow of Sir Casper Purdon Clarke. the art expert, who was director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1905 to 1910. “Old Man’ 'McCoy and his nephew Walter Phipps alleged instigators of a plot to organize 300 mountain men fro a revblution against the country, toa Close Principal Disputes Were on Wi Sections—The Liquor and Washington, Aug. 14.—General de hate in the senate on the $2.008,000,000 war tax bill virtually ended today and such rapid progress was made on the e committce amendments to the bill that leaders tomight pre dicted the measure’s passage late next week. enator Simmons announced that he expected to ask scon for a time ‘limit on debate and also to se te for a final vote. rapid succession and with little te, the senate sitting as a com of the whole approved th committee’s revision of the soft tobaceo and most of the puib utilities schedules. The liquor and i come tax sections are to be consid ered tomorrow. Today's debate made it evident that the principal disputes facing the ser ate are over the income, war profits and publishers tax sections Senator La Follette made public a minority report concurred in hy Se ators Gore and Thomas, urging that the bulk of all war taxes he laid on incomes and war prof The Wiscon sin senator proposes to make his prin cipal fight In offering many amend- ments to increase the tax rates pro- posed In closinz the genera day, nators Smoot New Mexico, both of the finance mittee, commended the committee's proposed increases in the income and war profits sections. The former, however, opposed repeal of the “draw | burden " RAPID PROGRESS ON WAR TAX BILL General Debate in the Senate Was Virtually Brought Yesterday VOTE ON THE MEASURE PROBABLY NEXT WEEK ar Profits and Publishers’ Ta Income Tax Sections Are to be Considered Today—Senator La Follette Made Public a Minority Report Urging That the Bulk of All War Ta es be Laid on Incomes and War Profits. Both ¢ viduals Cor & epted tima strieken tax of and 1o proved 600,000 Elimir xing epted. T eig] ther When the e slre t tion e tax or EXECUTION OF MRS. ARCHER | GILLIGAN MAY BE DELAYED Counsel Says Technicalities Will Up the Appeal. Tie Hartford, Conn.. Aug. 14.—Counsel for Mrs. Amy E. Archer Gilll to. declared that they wepe 1 that the sentence of deat be executed on the | ber 6. While prelim: been taken to appeal the case. noth ing can be done further until Septem ber, say the counsei, Lecause the preme court will not again convene until then. Technicalities of proce- dure, they say, will tie up th, that it cannot reach a hearing ¢ October term of the supreme court but the same technicalities will pre vent_the execution of the penalty im posed July 12 FUTURE DISPOSITION ‘ OF GERMAN COLON'E i Came Up in the House of Commons During Discussion of Colonial Of Budget. | London, Aug. 14T the future disposition of es came up today in tF commons during the discussic colonial _office hudget. D Master, M. P. for and a former membe: parliament, assured that British colonies Iy oppose restoring colonies in the P he colonies, danger of these Germun Canada knew that Germar have blown Vancouver or Prir pert to atoms had the ¢ i Zone on other ventures off the of Chile. { Walter Hume Long, secret t state for the colonies, n ada aid not dogmatize regardir future of German colonies, hut the fmperial German _governmer realize the strength their fo not from a desire of increased torry, hut solely i should he certain the ot Me- ald urrey, Nort of the Canadian the government would uniform- | fic sadl reallzed the might 4 of lines of from a de guch that pire. NOMINATIONS FOR NEW ARMY SENT TO THE SENATE By President Wilson—37 New Generals to be Created. Major Washington, Aug. 14.--Nominat of nearly 200 general officers In national army, including officers of tre regular army and the national guard were sent to the senatc tod. President Wilson. From the 37 new major generals to be created for the duration of the wa and from the existing major gener of the regular army, will come the | army, corps and division commander of all the forces now being ised regulars, national guard or national army. Similarly, the brigude com manders will be selected from the list of more than 100 new brizadiers Troops Disperss I. W. W. Miami, Ariz. Aug. 14 Federa troops under order of Lieutenant (‘o onel George P. White, United tes | were placed on trial at Big Stone Gap, Va. Prayers were offered for slackers at a special service by Rev. Louls V. Grace, pastor of the Westminster Pres- byterian Church in Elizabeth, N. J. The church is one of the largest in Eliza- beth. Frankfurter eitung announced that German socialists may refuse to participate in the Stockholm confer- ence if the Allies insits upon abking the question who is responsible for the war. The following 17 countries are now at war with Germany: Great Britain, France, Russia, United States, Bel- gium, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece, Cuba, Portugal, Sap Maripa. Siam, Liberia and China. army, broke up a meeting of Indusi- rial Workers of the World here inst night and dispersed a crowd of mor than 30 strikers. The meeting w held in the baseball park just outsic the town limits, where ihey cou speak without interference of the io cal police, Taft Has Recovered. Clay Center, Kas., Aug. if—Wil- liam Howard Taft, who has been il for several days, had =o far recovered late today that he went for an au mobile ride. e plans to Jeave here tomorrow. 2000 Southern Miners Out. Jellico, Tenn., Aug, 14.—Fewer than 2000 men of the 17,000 in the Eastern Tennessee and Southeastern Kentucky coal mining district who struck Sats urday returned to work yesterday. DINNER TO MEMBERS OF JAPANE Again Viscount Kishii Pledge Friendship of His Na A Pa Port, ‘ me to ba T ah KERENSKY, RUSSIA PREMIER Certain People Will F Overcome All Tria must hast Russia an 1 efore 1 hich would be DEADLOCKS IN KE A Federal Mediat Expect . Arrive at Bridgeport Short | strike in th l“nhl committes polishers st hortly Keppler 1 intion, to W tentions of the before the na panized employe Friday night o . whether the other de ington fas ory will = pathy with the polishers.