Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 20, 1917, Page 1

VOL. LIX.—NO. 299 ¢ - Bulletin 8 PAGES—56 COLUMNS PRICE TWO CENTS The Bulletin’s Circulation in No s Double That of Any Other Paper, And Its Total Circulation is the Largest in.Connecticut in Proportion to the City’s Populyaition.' S BRITISH HAVE MADE A GAIN NEAR YPRES Advanced On a Mile Front To a Depth of 500 Yards— Renewed Their Attacks in the Somme Region INFLICTED HEAVY LOSSES ON THE GERMANS The British and French Forces in Flanders Are Consolidating the Positions Won Last Week—In the Voges Mountain Region the Germans Made Fruitless Attacks Against the French—In Aerial Raids Behind the German Lines En- tente Airmen Bombed Numerous Towns, Railway Sta- tions and Cantonments—German Airmen Who Slipped Through the British Air Patrol Killed Ten of Their Countrymen in a British Prison Camp—The Russians and Rumanians Are Stiffening Their Defense. Although for the most British and French forces in Flan- ders and in the vicinity of Lens are engaged in consolidating positions won last week from Crown Prince Rup- precht, the British near Ypres have Snade a further advance on a mile front to a depth of about 500 yards and aiso in the Somme region have renewed their attacks with adva tage. In_ the latter manoeuvre ' Marshal Haig’s men succeeded in ing positions near Epehy and inflict- inz heavy losses on the Germans. The Germans have heen feeling out the strength of the French lines in the Vosges Mountain region, where foi- lowing heavy bombardments, they de- livered attacks against the French around Badonviller and north of Celles however, part _the sur Plaine. Their_ efforts, went for nousht under the fire of the French zuns and rifles. Likewise alonz the Aisne front and fn the Verdun sector along the banks f the River Meuse. a continuation of = attempts by the German c c - prince to brea e French lines met |fening in the front in Rumania and with the usual result—failure. also fn Ru in the region of Vilna The airmen of the aliies are work- | South of Grozechti, southern Molda- inz havoe with the German fiiers and | the Russians have made a stand o' German positions far bebind the |against attacks of the Teutonic al- lines. In fights in the air Saturday |Hes and repulsed them, aud in the the French airmen accounted for sev- ector also -have beaten off at- enteen German aireraft and the Brit- by the invaders to_take fur- isi. filers for seven, which were de- sround. In the Lake Naroc d siroyed or forced to land imside the |trict of the Vilna front the Germans Teutonic lines, badly batt from | endeavored to win Russian trenche niachine zun fire. FEight B ma- |but their attack broke down under chines failed to return to their base. . the Russian barrage fire. swn | In aerial raids behind the lines ai- lied machines have bombed numerous towns, railway stations and canton- ments, the raids extending as far as Selzaete, near the Dutch border, 18 miles from Ghent, which also received a visitation. American aviators be- longing to the Lafayette squadron took a prominent part in the French raids and performed notable execu- tion. One of the Americans, Corporal Wiilis of Boston, was missing from the squadron when it returned to its base, German airmen also tried their hand at slipping through the British air pa- trol and bombing. In this they also were successful, but the score was against them in the end, for the ex- plosives they loosed fell ‘on a British prisoner clearing statiom, killing ten Germans and inflicting further wounds on nine men of their army who had already met with hard usage from the | British guns. There has been a considerable stif- BISHOP W. F. ANDERSON SCORES PEACE TALK Declares Nations Should Refuse to Entertain Papal Plea. East Hampton. Conn, Aug. 19— Bishop Willilam I. Anderson, of Cin- cinnati, speaking at the conclusion of 5 weck's centempial cglebration of the Methodist Episcopal ¢hurch here to- day, scored the idea of considering cny peace with Germany at this time He quoted the words of the prophet Jeremiah, saying “They cry peace, peace, when there is no peace” The bishop maintained that the nations fighting Germany should refuse to en- tertain the pope’s plea for a peace sonference. He said in econclusion n the light of Germany’s crime: see America any man who cannot justification in entering upon this was should pray to God that his own life he taken for having been b with Eich blindness and insensibi to Sioral truth.” After services In_the church a me- morial to the Rev. Thomas G. Browne, chaplain in the 21st Connecticut Vol- unteers and a former pastor, was ded- icated in the church vard. He had an mctive part in the battle of Drury’s Lane. AMERICAN PASSENGER SHIP HAD CLOSE CALL When Attacked by a Submarine Off the Irish Coast. An Atlantlec Port, Aug. 19.—An American passenger ship which arrived rom England today was attacked by submarine off the Irish coast on her outward vovage and escaped be- g torpedoed by a marsin of inches, he offieers sald. ¢ The periscope of the U-boat was observed abeam of the vessel by one lookout aimost at the same moment another spied the approach of a tor- @Ado. As the missile came or, it seem- «d, judginz from its_course, that the @iner was doomed. Her speed, how- ever, saved her, the torpedo missing the rudder, the officers said, by not more than a foot. The mavy gunners fired almost instantly, but missed. The submarine submerged, but soon the ériscopa reappeafed 200 vards astern, he U-boat commander evidently anx- ous to see wheiher his torpedo had ound its mark. The gunners @rad a eecond stot, but that also went wide. The submarine quickly submerged again, GERMAN GENERAL TALKS OF THE “NEXT WAR.” Sheuld Germany Fail in Effort to Con- trol the Flanders Coast, Aug. 19.—General Amsterdam, von Liebert, in a speech at Rathenow, Prussia, is quoted by the Deutsche Tages Zeitung as saving: “We cannot sign a peace before we have the Flanders coast, a colonial empire and maritime bases. Should we not realize this now we must pre- pare to work for it after the war in view of the next war.” General Liebert’s speech was loud- was Vor- Iy cheered by hearers but criticized by the German press. waerts declared: “This may prolong the war until Germany has been so beaten that even our Pan-Germans ecannot think of a ‘next time.'"” GERMANS WANT INCREASED QUANTITY OF POTATOES | A Strike is Threatened in the and Dusseldorf Districts. Essen London, Aug. 19.—A strike of work- ers in the Essen and Dusseldorf dis | tricts is threatened, according to des- patches from Amsterdam to the chanze 'Felegraph company. The workers demand ten pounds of pota- |toes weekly. At a meeting arranged en labor delegates and the war department it was declared that food it was impossible to give the workers than eight pounds of potatoes the next twenty weeks. To up for the shortage in potatoes slight increase in the bread and more during a meat rations might be granted, the la- bor delegates were informed. The re- ply of the workers has not yet been received. Agitation favoring a strike Rhine provinces is increasing according to the despatch. in the daily, WORKMEN IN KRUPP PLANT HAVE GONE ON STRIKE | Because One of Their Leaders is Sus- pected of High Treason. Amsterdam, Aug. 19.—The Lokal An- zeiger stated that several hundred workmen employed in Krupp's Magde- burg plant have gone on a strike owing to the arrest of one of their leaders. | The workmen considered this a disci- plinary measure and sent a deputation headed by the reichstag deputy Herr Brondes to the deputy commander-in- chief asking him to release the leader. The deputy commander-in-chief in- formed the deputation that the man under arrest was suspected of high treason because he had distributed har};lhflls inciting workers to a general strike.t $15,000 FIRE AT LUNA PARK, CONEY ISLAND. Threatened Entire Park When Water Pressure System Got Out of Order. Ne wYork, Aug. 19.—Fire early“today did damage estimated at $15,000 in Luna Park and for a time threatened the Coney Isiand amusement park with destruction when the high water pressure system zot out of order. The quick repair of the defect in the water pressure and hard work Ly the fire- men, however. kept the flames con- fined to a toboggan slide and the “burro trail,” which weére completely destroy- ed. 'Eleven infants in the incubator buailding adjoining the fire were re- moved in safety to a nearby hotel. GERMAN-AMERICANS ARE BEING FORCED TO FIGHT With Bavarians—News Rec Geneva From Munich. Geneva, Switzerland, Aug. 19—News received here from Munich, Bavaria, is to the effect that a number of Ger- man-Americans are fihting with the Bavarians, some as volunteers and other compulsion, Germany consider- ing her nationals, wherever they may be naturalized, as real Germans. The advices say that the practice of forcing German-Americans into the fighting line has been general since the departure of the American repre- sentatives from Berlin. - s G- .. AT, Cabled Paragraphs Germany Seizes Siam Property. T.ondon, Aug. 19.—An Amsterdam despatch to Reuter’'s Limited states that Berlin newspapers announce the seizure of all property in Germany belonging to the government of Siam, or to its citizens. Danish Steamer Ashore. St. Johns, N. F., Aug. 19.—The Dan- ish steamer Frederioio, a vessel of abbut 1,600 tons, was reported ashore at a point on the Newfoundland coast yesterday. Kaiser Inspected German Fleet. Berlin, Aug. 19, via London—Em- peror William, according to an official announcement made at the German admiralty, today inspected the units of the German eet at Wilhelmshaven and then visited the squadrons in the North Sea and at Helgoland. ANNUAL ENCAMPMENT OF G. A. R. IN BOSTON. Erom 10,000 to 20,000 Are Expected to Participate in the Parade Tuesday. Boston, Aug. 19.—The remnants of the Grand Army of the Republic began mobilizing here today for their 5lst annual encampment. Most of the delegations from a distance had al- ready arrived by nightfall. Among those on hand are Commander-in-Chief W. J. Patterson of Pittsburgh, Pa., Senior Vice Commander-in-Chief W. H. Wormstead, Kansas City, Mo., and other officials, as well as a_delegation of 12 from Alaska and Washington, headed by Department Commander John J. See. The encampment formally opened this afternoon with an impressive pa- triotic service in the new Old South church. Mingled with boys in blue in the audience were many of the boys in khaki awaiting their marching or- ders in the country’s newest war for freedom. Corporal James Tanner of Washington, D. C., past commander- in-chief, who delivered the principal address, referred to their presence in feeling terms. In the parade on Tuesday from 10,- 000 to 12,000 veterans are expected to be in line, as compared with the 40,000 who marched at the last national en- campment here 13 years ago. There had been some talk of doing away with the parade because of the age of the veterans, but the men in the ranks would not listen to any such suggestion. School children will be massed along the line of march and Mayor Curley has asked the heads of city departments to give a half holiday to enable their employes to see the parade. The business meetings of the G. A. R., the Woman’s Relief corps and the Sons of Veterans will be held Wednes- day. Up to the present little opposi- tion has developed to ¢®e candidacy of Colonel Orlando A. Somers of Koko- mo, Ind. for commande chief of the Grand Army. PROTEST THE ARREST OF WHITE HOUSE PICKET Sent to President Wiison by Chair- man of State Branch of Woman's Party. Au . 19.—Mrs. T4I- man of the Hartford, liam M. Ascough, Connecticut branch o Nation, Woman's Party, today sent to Pres dent Wilson a telesram protesting the arrest and conviction of Miss Cath- rine M. Flanazan of this city. one of | the White House pickets. This is one | of the numerous protests sent this state on the same iss The text of the telezram follow “President Wilson: The Conne Conn., branch of the National Woman's Par- ty appeals to you as president of the United States to put an end to the scandal of police persecution of the pickets of the National Woman's Par- ty. The women are volunteering fr a part in their ficht for freedom just as theri sons. husbands and brother are volunteering for the trenches. The imprisonment of a few will merely bring many more. The only end that is possible is the passage of the Su- san B. Anthony amendment. You us vour promise that you would with us for our enfranchisement 1l your promise and help us now when need of your help is urzent JILLIAN ASCOUGH, “Chairman.” M. GERMAN PRESS UNFAVORABLE TO POPE’'S PEACE NOTE. —— | Consider It Disquieting as Far as It Regards Cermany’s Interests. The comment in reaching Amster- London, Aug. 19 German rewspape: dam is generally unfavorable to the pope’s peace rote, according to des patches to the Bxchange Telegraph company. The German Catholic papers express the deepest respect for the pope’s initiative, but consider the note disquieling = ar as it regards Ger- man’s interests. The liberal newspapers view the note as an appeal of great hopefuln The Morgen Post says that it does not see why Germany should reject the appeal, adding that it is_well to un- derstand that neither the Alsace- Lorraine nor the Trentino questions can be submitted to any tribunal be- cause such questions do not exist. The Tages Zeitung, according to the despatches, declares that fhe pope’s peace proposals would mean Germany’s Tuin. The Vossische Zeitung asserts that Germany will rapidly solve the Belgian question in conformity with the wishes of the pope, but declares that ¥France must also give up all hopes of annexing Alsace-Lorraine and that peace must bring an equilibrium. I. W. W. LUMBERJACKS ARE FIGHTING FOREST FIRES Are to Stock to Their Jobs Even Though Strike is Called Today. Missoula, Mont., Aug. 19.—More than five hundred striking lumberjacks, members of the Industrial Workers of the World, who have been sent from Missoula fo fight forest fires for the nited States Forest . service, will stick to their jobs, even though the threatened general strike of the I W. W. is called today, according to a statement made yesterday by Arthur W. Smith, secretary of th: organ- ization here. The announcement is important, forest service officials say, because the fire situation is now more serious than at any time this year. Dangerous fires are spreading mapidly through dry forests and men enough to combat them - successfully cannot be obtained. Fires near Faicon, Idaho, along_the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad, are the most serious in the district,'and are said to be threatening the power lines which supply the elec- trified division of the read. > Former Czar is in |Main Committgg | Condensed Telegrams 96 Mombers of Western Siberia AT TOBOLSK, THE BIRTHPLACE OF GREGORY RASPUTIN HELD UNDER GUARD Ex-Imperial Family Will Reside Former Governor's Palace—May Be Sent to Monastary in a Forest Twenty Miles Outside the Town It Reported. Petrograd, Aug. 19.—It was official- ly announced today for the first time that the new residence of the deposed Russlan emperior, Nicholas, is at To- bolsk, a western Siberian town which recently achieved a certain dubious publicity in revolutionary Russia as the birthplace of Gregory Rasputin, the mystic monk, who wielded a re- markable influence over the ex-emper- or's family up to the time of the priest’s assassination in Petrograd last December. The official announce- ment says: Detained Under Guard. “Owing to reasons of state the gov- ernment decided to transfer to a new ence the ex-emperor and ex-em- press who are detained under guard. The place selected was Tobolsk. where they were taken after requisite pre- cautions to insure thei With them went of their own , their children tourage.” The train on ed to Tobolsk the journey ow the locomotive. and certain en- which Nicholas travel- had a delay on | ng to a bred:down of May Be Sent to Monastery. According newspapers the ex-imperial family will reside in the former governor's palace at Tobolsk. Other newspapers say the former em peror will stay at the ex-governor’s palace only one week and then will be sent to the Apalatsk monastery in a forest twenty miles outside the town. to some Mysteriously Removed. Nicholas Romanoff, as the Russian ex-emperor is now known was myste- iously removed together with the ex- empress and their children and suites from the pal Tsarskoe-Selo on st 14 The Russian provisional rmment at the time refused to re- the veal the destination of former ruling family but it wae unofficially reported that Tobholsk had been chosen as the place of exile. Tobolsk years azo was the administrative center for exiles banished to Siberia. It is on the eastern side of the TUral Moun- t and about 1,500 miles from Pe- trograd. NEAR COLLISION OF TROLLEY CARS AT MADISON in Orders to Crews— Bad Scare. Due to Mixup Passengers Given Madison, Conn., Auz. 19.—A mixup in orders to twc trolley crews gave rise this eve to a situation that brought abou near collision and gave the passenzers on two- cars of the Shore Line Electric company a bad s re. The mixup came between Madison and East River when the cars were stopped as they neared each other full speed. The car procceding from New Ha- ven eastward, according to the motor- man, had been given orders to meet the stbound car at Madison. The other car had been ordered to proceed to East River, it is said. Between traight stretch re stopped these two points, on a of single track, the two soon enough to avoid hitting. The westhound car was due at Guilford at 6.10 and the crew telephoned at Mad- ison cached 35 minutes late, for The eastbound crew had done likewise. Accordinz to passengers, the motor- man of the eastbound car refused to take his car any further and traffic was delaved until a substitute cou'd | be procured. TROLLEY ACCIDENT ON OUTSKIRTS OF WATERBURY An Unidentified Man Was Killed— Eight Cther Persons Injured. Waterbury, Conn., Auz. 19—A man | who is yet unidentified was killed and | Roland "Wallace of this city received broken arm at 10.30 o’'clock tonight |2 |when a car, coming into Waterbiry from Hitchcock’s Lake, crowded with people, sideswiped an outbound car at a switch on the Meriden road. The man who was killed is said by passengers to have been on the left side“of the front vestibule of the in- coming car which crashed Into the read of ‘the second of two cars on the switch at the Green Line car barns of the Waterbury and Milldale Tram- way company. The body was badly mangled. Eight others reported minor injufies while several left the scene without receivinz medical attendance. ENTENTE AIRMEN DROPPED BOMBS ON SELZAETE. A Belgian Town on Dutch Frontier 18 Miles North of Ghent. Sas Van Gent, Holland, Aug. 19. The terrific explosions of Lombs drop- ped by entente allled airmen in a raid shortly tefore midnight on Selzaete, a Belgian town on the Dutch frontier 18 miles north of Ghent, awakened all the inhabitants of this town. German anti-aircraft batteries were very active, some of their shrapnel bursting over Sas Van Gent. Ghent, which in normal times has a population of 170,000, also was raided by the entente allied aviators. OPERATION PERFORMED ON DR. MAURICE F. EGAN. American Minister to Denmark Had One Kidney Removed. Copenhagen, Aug. 19.—The operation performed yesterday on Dr. Maurice F. Egan, the American minister to Denmark, was more serious than at first reported. It involves the removal of cne kidney. Dr. Egan, according to the report issued by the atterding phy- sician today, passed a _satisfactory nigkt and his condition this morning was as good as could ha exnected Reichstag to Meet TO DEAL WITH MILITARY AND ECONOMIC SITUATION FOOD SITUATION EASED New Potato Crop Has Arrived and There in the Supply of Vegetables—Believe They Have Checked Offensive of Entente in Flanders Improvement Berlin, Aug. 19, via London — The main committee of the reichstag will meet next Tuesday to deal with the military and economic situation in the empire which is said to be consider- ably improved over conditions obtain- ing six weeks ago, when the political crisis broke out. = At that time the Russians were penetrating further in- to Galicia, while the U-boat figures threatened to show a falling off in sunken tonnage. Food Situation Eased. The food situation in Germany as the nanything but confidence-inspiring, due to a shortage of potatoes and ab- sence of new vegetables and fruit and reduced bread rations. Today the food situation has been eased by the arrival of a new potato crop, added bread rations and an improvement in the supply of vegetables, while the military situation on the eastern front, according to the official leaders, has been converted into a overwhelming rout of the Russians and Rumanians and a redemption of Austrian soil from the invaders. The outstanding military situation since the ieting of the recent politi- cal storm however, is found on the western front, where the offensive of the entente in Flanders, in the German view, is again haited and the German U-boat base on the Belgian coast has been successfully defended. The new chancellor and his newly appointed staff of secretaries therefore are permitted to enter into the initial conferences with the reichstag main committee at a moment when the cen- tral powers are declared agai nto be in military ascendancy and the domes- tic situation in shorn of features which embarrassed the government on the eve of the crisis. When the reichstag adfourned its plenary sessions to September 26 pro- tests were not lacking which pointed out the nceds of parliament and the government keeping in active touch with each other. even while the new regime was being inducted into office. The desire to give Chancellor Michaelis an opportunity to select new aides: to inform himself regarding the chief problems confronting the nation and to formulate his programme warrant- ed the brief intermission, which has now come to an end with the sum- mons of the main committee for Tues day. Papal Note To Be Discussed. In view of the unparalleled economic and military situation, he opinion pre- vails in many quarte thaat the reichstag, unmindful of the clamors of the Pan-Germans, should unequivocal- reiterate the pringiples of its peace olution as adopted by two-thirds majority at the close of the recent stormy session. It is not unlikely that the papal peace note will be informally discussed early in the session of the main committee which will further oc- cupy itself not only with an actjve re- review of military and economic affairs but with new legislation relating to the reorganization of the food bureau and the division of he department of the interior. This department will have a sub-division devoted to legislation re- specting commerce, labor and social questions, in which flelds far-reaching s and innovations are forecast Inter-factional conferences will take place Monday. It is generally believed that the three-party coalition, formed af social democrats. centr and_ the srogressive peoples’ part: still a anit and that it is likely to be augu- mented by defections from the national liberals. The present acting chairman of the main committee is Dr. Albert Suebekum, a_social democrat. The iccessqr to Dr. Peter Spahn. forme eader of the reichstag clerical part who has been appointed minister of justice will probably also be chosen from the ranks of the Catholic centre party. REVOLTS IN LEADING TOWNS OF FINLAND by the Foodstuffs Were Plundered Finnish Populace. 19.—Great London, Aug. revolts hove taken place in the leading towns | of Finland, according to advices re- ceived at Copenhagen through chan- nels opened by the raising of the Rus- sian news embargo on the frontier of Sweden and Finland and wired by th correspondent of the Exchange Tele- graph company. Foodstuffs were plundered by the Finnish populace and the authorities seized whatever sup- plies remainew. Public order {s now being restored in Finland by the arrival of fresh troops. SHOT AND KILLED 15-YEAR-OLD WIFE Leon Folsom of Bangor, Me., Then Shot Himself. Bangor, Me.,, Aug. 19.—Leon Fol- som yesterday shot and instantly kill- ed his wife, Mrs. Gladys Folsom, 15 years of age, and then shot himself, inflisting 2 wound which physicians said probably would prove fatal. Four shots were fired in the young woman’s body from a small calibre revolver. Before being removed to the hospital Folsom, the police said, ad- mitted the shooting and expressed re- gret for his act. THREE MOTORCYCLES DESTROYED AT FAIRFIELD Machine That Was Sideswiped Crash- ed Intd" Another Cycle, Bridgeport, Conn., Aug. 19.—Three motoreycles 'were destroyed at Fair- field in a freak accident this after- noon. Joseph Wolk, riding a cycle, sideswiped the machine of Dominic Paretta. He went bevond the collis- fon and collided with the machine of Michael Viemacko. Then his machine crashed against a telegraph poie. Pa- ratta’s abae was taen from i foak. fwere a | wilson Chicago meat retailers predict por- ter house steak at 60 cents a pound. New York city will be the head- guarters of the wheat buying corpora- tion. « United States surgeons and nurses are at work on the British battle front in Beligium. Wiliiam S. Ker, a’Meriden under- | taker, passed for the selective draft killed himself. The price of bread in Dresden was raised from 64 pfgs. to 80 pfgs. per four-pound loaf. Kansas City carmen are back at work after gaining demands through a nine-day strike. The volunteers of the regular army are 7,000 above the war strength. The quota was 183,347. Trading in wheat for future delivery will cease on all grain exchanges in Canada on August 31. Five Socialists indicted for conspir- acy to distribute anti-draft literature were acquitted in Detroit. Japanese shipbuilders again started a movement to seek a modification of the steel embargo in America. Col. Charles Delano Hine, a West Point graduate, will be the commander | of the 69th New York regiment. Boy Scouts will assist as guides and messengers during the Grand Army encampment at Boston next week. Herbert C. Hoover’s next grain con- servation step will be to have only 2 per cent of alcoholic contents in beecr. William A. Barg and Don C. Keme- rer were elected members of the Con- solidated Stock Exchange of New York. Pope Benedict is reported greatly distressed over the general unfavorable reception given to his peace proposal. Hugh S. Gibson, formerly secretary of the Legation in Brussels, has been promoted to be a secretary of the first class. The naval recruiting station at Bos- ton is making a special effort to enlist men for subsidiary branches of naval work. Representative Tinkham of Ma: chusetts introduced a bill in the House recommending the coinage of 6-cent pieces. The New York Community Chorus will sing to New York drafted men in the City College Stadium tomorrow evening. The beautiful cathedral of St. Quen- tin is now a mass of smoking ruins, a duplicate of its sister, the cathedral at Rheims. Henry Ford incorporated his new tractor plant for $1,000,000. The stock- hoiders are himself, his wife and his son, Edsal. Five vessels, three American, British and one Japanese, are give. one n up as lost. They are long overdue at a Pacific port. “Bobby” Walthour, the American bicyele rider, fell from his wheel du ing a race at Paris, and fractured the base of his skull. The American soldiers reported wounded and taken to hospitals at Bath were not members of the Pash- ing expedition. Another Japanese Mission is coming to the United States. It will be made | up of five members of the House Representatives. of | Members of ‘Congress will I.W.V_{._ llrrested AT LOCAL HEADQUARTERS SPOKANE, WASH. IN BY NATIONAL GUARD District Sceretary James Rowan, Who Had Ordered a General Strike in the Northwest Today, Was Among the Men Arrested and Placed in Jail to Begin Spokane, Wgash., Aug. 19~ -James Rowan, district secretary of the Indus trial Workers of the World. and 25 other alleged members of the organ. zation were arrested at local 1. W. W. qdlieauarters here this afternoon by a company of Idaho national guardsmen and placed In the county jail as mili tary prisoners. Rowan had ordered the general strike of the 1. W. W. la- bor in the northwest to begin tomor- row. rike orders advising farm workers “let the frult rot on the ground” and calling on construction workers to lay down their tools have been sign d by Rowan to ‘Lumber workers in the four states already are on strike,” Rowan sald while he was awaiting his turn to be arched and booked. “I think the strike will spread further now and probably will affect industries in which no strike has been called Even though all the officers or emploves of the on are put in jall and all the halls closed, arrangements have been made to handle them. Only a Vote Can Halt Strike. Only a vote of the members of the organization can halt the strike, Row an said, as there is no one with au thority to take such action, unless I W. W. members alleged by leaders of the organization to be illegally held in jail are released by that time. Rowan and Willlam Mc secretary of the local I. W. W. organization wera arrested at the local 1. W. W. hall by Major Clement Wilking, in command of a battalion of guardsmen on duty here, While Major Wilkins companied hy Rowan, went to execu- tive headquarters three blocks distant to unlock the door, forty members of the company, under the command of Captain F. A. Jeter, rounded up 22 other men who were in the hall and took them, with Moran, to the county Jail A sqfind of guardsmen was left at the executive headquarters and an- other was stationed the . W. W hall and the latter arrested three other men who went to the hall later. Or ders then were issued that no one should be permitted to enter the hall Offered No Resistance. None of the men arrested offered any resistance. The 23 prisoners wers lined up, in double column, between files of the guardsmen, with fixed bay onets and marched half a mile to the jail ‘You men are military prisoners and are not detained under civil law,” Ma- jor Wilkins told the men in the jail “An vestigation of yvour cases n be begun tomorrow, and if it is found that any of you wrongfully held you will be released.” Later Major Wilkins sald that the entire proceedings were under mil orders and that no charges had been placed against the men. A deput United States marshal who aeccom panled the soldiers did =o only to iden tify the men arrested, he ald | BELIEVE NEW LONDON GIRL HAS BEEN DROWNED. not _be chel Epstein, an Expert Long Dis- permitted to Buy ILiberty bonds if a| ™ % P s pM. i bill offered by Representative Morgan, anoe Swimmer, issing. of Oklahoma, becomes law New London, Conn., Aug. 19.—Rachel A at Gen. | Epstein, aged 16, an' expert long dls- 2oty (B;el,',').l:‘l,,‘;fP;fi’m‘,"‘l’,‘,°‘{‘,';§"f,j:{:“.xm,_z‘n tance swimmer, missing since Saturday ofi Muniiione Hitends o take oyer & |orcernoon s 'bellsvedto bave DSl command on’ one of the fronts Foff Ocean Beach or attacked by a shark Five more privately owned jmerchant | While attempting to ewim from the ships were seized by the Government | 2°ach to the Boutbwest Ledse lgtlc for the War Department. This makes | POU5¢ I8 ULy . 12 ships seized within two weeks. Artists all over the country are d ing their best to help the United States float the next Liberty Loan by designing posters with an appeal. The strike of drivers and laborers in the coal mines of central and south- ern lllinois was broken after a num- ber of the miners went back to work. Gold to the amount of $6,079,245 was exported from New York August 11 to August 15, This does not include $1,000,000 shipped to Peru in gold bar: There is a move on foot in Wash- ington to compel the shipping compan- ies to provide all their vessels with the atest devices to compete with the U- boats. { British Admiralty announces es of successful air raids ried out. Many tons of bombs The that z were ca opped on military objectives in Clarence Ousley, of College Statlon, and Raymond Pearson, of Ames, were nominated by = President | to be assistant secretaries of agriculture. wal The German official report of mer- chant ships sunk by submarines is ex- aggerated by 40 per cent., according to the result of a conference by admirals of allied navi The Hibernia Bank & Trust Co., of New Orleans, with a capital and sur- plus of $3,500,000, one of the largest banks in the South, has joined the Federal Reserve system. The House of Commons appointed a committee to inquire into the national finance and suggest methods of giving Parliament more effective-control over the public expenditures. A long and heavily laden New York Central freight train going down 10th Avenue was stopped at 23d Street for 15 minutes in order to get a man off the track who was dancing a hornpipe. A wounded whale scared the passen- gers of a foreign vessel at an Atlan- tic port. It looked like a U-boat. The passengers made a rush to the life- boats and the ship began its zlgzag es- cape before the mistake was discov- amad while making a long swim is strength ened by the finding of her street clothes In a bath house at Ocean Beach Sun 1y morning. A syetematic search of the city, In which the police joined with relatives and friends today, fafl ed to furnish any information concern- ing her whereabouts after 4.30 Satur- v afternoon, when she was seen clad 'na bathing suit at the beach BELMONT RESIGNS FROM DIRECTORATE OF NAVY LEAGUE Because of Persistent Disagreements With Secretary Daniels, Washington, Aug. 19.—Perry Bel mont tonight resigned as vice presi dent and director of the Navy league [n a letter to Robert M. Thompson president of the organization, Mr. Bel mont sad: “The good accomplished the Navy league in the past beyond guestion, but its present efforts are Jeopardized by persistent disagres ments with the officlal head of the navy, In time of war. Of this attitude I disaporove, and therefore, with res gret, tender my resignation as one of the vice presidents and director of the league.” MUTINOUS SOLDIERS KILLED RUSSIAN GENERAL Had Ordered Company Disbanded Be cause of Disobedience. ¥ on h Petrograd, been received according to the Kremvoy the killing by soldiers of General Pur gasoff, a veteran officer, who had beer in active service since the beginnin of the war. A certain company of so diers, the paper states, refused to rec ognize a newly appointed commander whereupon General Purgasoff ordered the company disbanded and the ers of the mutiny arrested. The tineers then surrounded General I gasoff and beat him to death with butts of their rifles before help rived. Aug. 19.—A by Premier K mu ir ar Bernstorff Going to Constantinople Amsterdam, Aug. 19—Count vor Bernstorff, the former German ambas sador to the United States, has beer appointed, according the Berlin Vossi- sche Zeitung, to the post at Constan. tinople, He will leave Berlin jmme priatony >