Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 21, 1917, Page 1

T VOL. LIX—NO. 300 NORWICH, CONN. TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1917 16 PAGBLIIZ COLUMNS The Bulletin’s Circulation in®*Norwich. is Double That of Any Other Paper, And lts Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to the City’s P;)pulation. Senate Sentiment |Candid Admission PRICE TWO CENTS FRENCH GAINED ON AN 11 MILE FRONT From the Avocourt Wood Eastward Across the River Meuse and Into the Bois de Chaume COUNTER-ATTACKS BROKEN UP BY FRENCH FIRE French Airmen Aided the Infantry, Swooping Low Over the German Forces and Emptying Their Machine Guns Into the Ranks—The lhliar{s Have Started a Monster Offen- sive Against the Austrians From the Region of Plava to Near the Headquarters of the Adriatic Sea—In Flanders and Northern France the Situation is Comparatively Calm—Austro-Germans Have Forced the Rumanians Back on Both Sides of the Oituz and Trotus Valleys With the British troops busily en- gzged in the successful parrying of German counter-thrusts _against the newly won ground in Flanders, the grflnrh and the Italians have started onster offepsives—the French against the Germans near Verdun and the Jtalians against the Austrians from the region of Plava to near the headwa- ters of the Adriatic Sea. Sharp, decisite blows have gained for the French positions held by the Germans on a front of more than eleven miles, extending from the Avo- court Wood eastward and across the River Meuse and into the Bois de Chaume, while the Italians, following a bombardment of an intensity never before experienced in that _theatre, have levelled Austrian defenses, crossed the ruins and also the Ison- 2o river and are now at deadly grips ith the enemy along a front of about miles. Nearly 12,000 prisonegs already have kon counted by the French and the alians, and doubtless this number will be materially augmented when full details of the fighting are at hand. In addition the Germans and Aus- trians lost heavily Iin men killed or wovnded and in guns and machine guns captured The new territory by the French embraces pe that have Mterally weltered in French and Ger- man btlood in battles that have waged too and fro since the German crown prince started his most costly enter- prise, the taving of Verdun, which resulted In utter failore as a mili- tary manoeuvre, and cost the loves of tens of thousands of his men. Notable among the captured pos: tions are the Avocourt Wood. summits of Le Mort Homme. the Cor- beaux Woed and Champneuville, all of which were held despite vicious counter-attacks by the Germans, two | | | Belgium, many which were broken up by the French fire with® heavy casualties. French airmen aided materiaily the infantry in the press forward, swooping low over the German forces and emptying their machine guns igto the ranks and in fights in the air with German protecting machines, eleven of which were sent to the ground. Likewise, the Italian fliers are giv- ing their infantry valuable support, more than 200 of them being engaged in attacking with bombs and ma- chine gun fire Austrian troop forms tions behind the lines. At last ac- counts the Italian guns were energeti- cally proceeding with th work of destruction of the new positions taken u by the Austrians endeavoring to blast a road through the de‘enses in order to make easy the march of the Italian troops toward Triest, Aus- tria’s principal seavort, lying at the head of the Adriatic Sea The situation in Flanders and In nrorthern France is virtually calm, as compared with last week, but both the Pritish and French continue to make sallies here and there and to strength- en he positions won in the recent fighting. The Canadians around Lens daily are biting further into the Ger- man line and now have the coal center virtnally surrounded, except on the cast. Even on this scctor the Can- adian zuns have- the range and are making almost impossible movements of the enemy from or into the town. The allied airmen are still carrving tons of bombs again baving been dropped by them In Rumania the Austro-Germans have forced back the Rumanians on both sides of the Oituz and Trotus val- leys, according to the Berlin officil communication. In the former sector more than 1,500 Rumanians and thir- ty machine guns fell into the hands of the invaders, while in fighting on the.Sereth River 2,000 additional pris oners were taken. APPOINTMENT OF A COAL ADMINISTRATOR PROBABLE | With Authority to Contrel Production and Distribution. Washington, ug. 20 —Government control of the coal industry moved a £tep nearer today when President Wil- son formally named Robert S. Lovett of the war industries board director of | ing to Pope Benedict's peace proposa ap- | is understood at the state department priority of transportation and proved an order issted by Judge Lov- ett directing that rail and steamship lines give coal shipments to the north- west preference over all other freight movement: Within the next day or sc the pres- fdent is expected to appoint a coal administrator, on whom he will confer authority to control coal production and @istribution, including price fixing powers, given to the executive in the food control act. At an hour’s conference with the federai trade commission today he went cver trnie details of his plans. Thbers was no intimation tonight as to whom ths president will name. It was s2iG he probably would not select a memcer of the trade commission or glive full prwers to Judge Lovett, but would look elsewhere for a man. OMdcials famillar with the presi- @s-t's tren:d of thought said tonight bu appsares Armly convinced that a one-man ccatrol would work out bet- ter than to 'ace supervision of the frdust:v u-der one of he existing government agencies. The man named would have at his disposal ti:a services of the trade com- miesion, whic's 13 in a position to sug- gest Yair price tha interstate com- merce commi sion, which will admin- ister the new car service law; director of priority, who will place ehipments of fuel where most needed, and the exports council, which will control exports. Of the several war coal control plans suggested, officials belicve the presi- dent is most likely to adopt the one calling for government requisitioning of the entire output of the mines and government sale of coal to the public. ENTENTE GOVERNMENTS ARE TO HOLD CONFERENCE Replying to Pope Peace Proposals. Washington, Aug. 20.—Lord Cecil's statement in the British parliament today that the entente governmen would hold a conference before rep! Before Benedict’s as meaning that the governments will exchange views, not that there is to be a gathering of premiers or foreizn ministers for a formal _conference. The American government could not participate in such a gathering for ack 'of timef to send its representa- tive, if for no other reason. So far there has been no occasion for the state department to join in any of the several comferences which have been held in the capitals of the entente nations during the war, al- though &merican army and naval of- ficers have taken part in some of the deliberations of the technical men to ensure co-cperation in campaign plans. This attitude of the United States gov- ernment is understood to have been due to no lack of sympathy or deter- mination to co-operata fully, but rather to the conviction that so far these conferences have had to do with strictly European {issues, the settle- ment of the Balkan questions, for in- stance. No euch limitation applies to the PODE’'s peace proposals, of course, as these touch interests vital to the United States. It is believed, however, that the necessary measvre of co- operation between the nations at swar with Germany can be obtained throush the j cabled exchanges and conferences be-< tween the diplomatic representatives and the foreign secretaries at the dif- ferent capitals. was said today that these e: changes would begin very soon. At present administaition officials object strongly to attempts by the press to forecast the nature of the reply that will be made by President Wilson. But it is not denied that nothing has been » This program has the approval of the | presented by the pope to warrant the trade commission and of many other |eXpectation that there will ba any officials conversant with the coal sit- | change in the attitude taken by the uation. An alternative will provide price- president in his previous wttera the subject of peace and Ihon::l;: fixing by the mines and by jobbers | tions that must be met to secure it. &nd wholesalers, the coal administrator 1o keep watch on the industry and to take over the busimess of any concern failing to abide by regulations to be prescribed. The food bill gives the president |Accessory power to adopt either of these plans and autlority to carry it out through ®ny agency he may select. Witnessed Husband’s Drowning. Waterbury, Conn. Aug. his wife looked on from OPPOSITION TO CLEMENCY FOR HENRY E. DE KAY in Atlantio National Case at Providence. Bank Providence, R. I, Aug. 20.—Unitea States District Attorney Baker today opposed the petition for clemency of 20.—While | Henry E. de Kay, convicted in 1915 as shore and |an accessory to the misapplication of Yeard his cries for help, Willlam J.|funds of the Atlantic National bank Phelan, 27, of Waterbury, a foreman |by Edward P. Metcalf, a former pres- at the Chase Metal works, was drown- ed today in Bantam lake, Litchfield. A |President Wilson’s proclamation ident. The petition was made under of companion, John Healey, tried unsuc- [June 14, granting amnesty to persons cussfully to save him. The cathedral at New Orleans is to be restored at a cost of $00,000. 'out of jail on suspended sentence. The district attorney held that as de Kay had never been sentenced because of 2 petding appeal the proclamation coyld not apply to his case. Cabled Paragraphs Dr. Egan Improving. Copenhagen, Aug. 20.—Developments in the case of Dr. Maurice F. Egan, the American minister to Denmark, who undei#vent an operation Saturday for an affection of the kidneys, are taking a normal course. Reports\from the hospital today were that the minister was doing as well as could be ex- pected. TWO DRAFT EXEMPTION BOARD MEMBERS SENTENCED Two Years Each in Federal Peniten- tiary at Atlanta, Ga. New York, Aug. 20—With two former members of draft exemption board No. 99 in this city sentenced to two years each in the federal peniten- tiary at Atlanta, Ga. after they had pleaded guilty to charges of con- cy to obstruct the selective draft federal attorneys announced late that speedy justice would be sought in the case of Kalmar Gruher, a_dentist, indicted as an alleged “go- between.” The government charged that Gruher arranged with drafted men for payment of money in return for false exemption certificates. Louis I Cherey and Dr. A. S. Bernfeld are the former members of the board who pleaded guilty. Gruher testified that his dealings with Cherey and Bernfleld consisted solely of efforts to have his son ex- empted. He declared his son was only 19 vears of age and had registered by mistake. Previous testimony by Abra- Iham Leicher, on whose information {ihe government started the investiga- tion, was to the effect that Gruher in- formed Leicher he could obtain a cer- to of exemption if he paid Bern- field $300 Dr. F. Cherry of hoard, No. and YTouls L. York exemption guilty to the charges of conspiracy to obstruct the draft law. They were sentenced to two yvears each at the Atlanta peniten- tiary. Fariman Guruher, not a mem- ber of the board, indicted with him, elected to stand trial. J. Bernfield the New 99, pleaded G. A. R. VETS OFFICIALLY WELCOMED TO BOSTON By Governor McCall and Mayor Curley —Big Parade Today. o Boston, Aug. 20.—Thousands of vet- erans of the Civil war and their fami- lies, here to attend the 51st national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, were officially welcomed to the city tonight by Governor McCall and Mavor Curley. Other speakers were former Governor John L. Bates, Commander-in-Chief W. J. Patterson of Pittsburgh and Department Com- mander Daniel E. Denny of Massachu- setts. gathering of the encampment today The credentials committee of the G R. met at national headquarters a the various state delegations settled down to enjov themselves or lay plans for the parade tomorrow. A conspicuous fizure among the un- ion soldiers today was a man in con- federate gray—Major Frank M. FBur- rows. now in the government service at Washington, but formerly of the Culpepper Minutemen. Major Bu WS hale and hearty at 78 vear was ap- parently the only confederate soldier at the eacampment. He expressed the opinion that the confederate veterans should hold a meeting in Foston The National Association of Patri- otic Tnstructors at the opening of the fifth annual convention mectinz today adopted resolutions favori enact- ment of laws by congress naming “The Star Spangled Banner anthem and designating June annual Tlaz day In recogznition making o the first American flag by Ross in Philadelphia June 14 Tonight the Sons of Veterans cted a class initiation. 14 of the SEEKING EXEMPTION FOR BRIDGEPORT POLICEMEN On the Ground That They Are Co- operating With Military Authorities. successfullv to obtain the exemption of the policemen on the grounds that this loss would impair_the efficiency of the department. Superirftendent Bucklev in the exemption paners of which he is the author, asserts tha practically every great industr the city is engaged in manufacty war munitfons; that wide areas have been declared under martial law: and that the police are forced to co-oper- ate with military authorities in pro- tecting the plants. ng HIT PERISCOPE OF GERMAN SUBMARINE. Naval Gunner Aboard a British Steam- er—Missed Another. An Atlantic Port, Aug. 20—A hit on a German submarine on the outward voyage and the successful thwarting of an attack by another German sub- marine on the trip back to this coun- try were reported by officers of a British steamer which arrived tonight. The first submarine was sighted about 300 miles off the coast of France. Naval gunners immediately opened fire. The third shot hit the submarine’s peri- scope and the underwater craft dis- appearel. On the way back to the Unifed States the steamer encounter- ed the second submarine. The gun- ners again opened fire before the sub- marine could open up with her guns, but they do not belleve they scored a hit, as the enemy submerged too quickly. RACHEL EPSTEIN'S BODY FOUND BY FISHERMAN. New London Girl Was Drowned While Making a Long Swim. New London, Conn., Aug. 20.—The body of Miss Rachel Epstein, 16 vears old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Epstein of this city, who has been missing_ since Saturday afternoon, when she was last seen at Ocean Beach, was fouhd floating in Long Island sound by a fisherman this af- ternoon. It was brought to this city and identified. Acting Medical Exam- ner Ross Black pronounced death due o_accidental 3 Miss Epstein, who was an expert swimmer, lost her life while attempt- ing to swim unaccompanied _from Ocean Feach to Southwest Ledge Jight, a distance of a mile and a haif. ’ The meeting was the second formal | as the national | Bridzeport., Conn., Aug. 20 —Ass lant Superintendent of Police Charles Suckley has drawn a new form for policemen seeking exemption from the | draft. and the claims were signed to- day by the police commissioners and filed with the local exemption hoards Mayor Wilson recently tridd un- on War Tax Bill HIGHER RATES ON WAR PROFITS AND INCOME SURTAXES 5.~ s FAVORED IN DEBATE Senator Johnson Recommended That the Government Take 80 Per Cent. of War Profits—Would Levy 33 Per Cent. Tax on Incomes Over $47,500 Washington, Aug. sentiment in the senate in favor of adding to the total of the war tax bill by imposing higher rates on war pro- fits and income surtaxes received new impetus today with the opening of the third week of dehate. Speeches advocating such increases were made by Senators Johnson of California; Hollis of New Hampshire, and Jones of New Mexico. Tomor row, Senator La Follette is expected to make his address in favor of levving virtually all war taxes upon incomes and war profits. Senator Kings is pre- paring a substitute bill providing much 20—Widespread higher rates on these sources Little Progress Made on Bill. No action was taken by the senate during the day an dlittle progress was made on the bill. fter Senator La Follette’s speech, however, it is plan- ned to proceed with actual consider tion of the income and war profits sec- tions. Leaders have telegraphed all absentees to be present toOmMOrrow. They do not expect final action on the two principal disputes before Wednes- day nor-passage of the bill before next week. The finance committee proved invoking cloture. but Senator Simmons plans soon to have a day fix- ed by agreement for a final vote. 80 Per Cent on War Profits. In advocating greater federal levies on war profits and millionaires’ in- comes, Senator Johnson said merican vouth had been conscripted and swoll- en fortunes “coined from the blood of | the nation” also should be drafted. He recommended that the government take 80 per cent. of war profits—as Great Britain does—and half of millionaires’ ncomes. Senator Holl supporting the La Follette-Gore-Thomas minority report of the finance committee for higher rates on incomes and profits al- so advocated taking S0 to 90 per cent. of war profits, but expressed the op ion that the senate could not now induced to levy over fifty per cent. The present bill is designated to assess today about per cent. | Admendments by La Follette. * |* Senator La Follette introduced two |amendiments to the income tax sec: on behalf of the minority. One prc posed. increases in surtaxes on income {between $5.000 and $47500 and a_maxi- mu mof 33 per cent. on all over $47,500. alternative amendment would have principal surtaxes apply to incomes rom $5,000 to $17500 with a m: {mum of 33 per cent. on those ove latter figure. ator New of Indiana also intro- ENGINE CF COLONIAL EXPRESS RAN WILD. | Crashed Into a Buffet Car at Long | Island City, Killing Ten Persons. New York, Aug. “Ten persons were injured, one seriously. when an electric “engine on the Colonial ex- | press, bound from Boston to Wash- |ington on the iia railroad got out of control rasned into the | buffet car of the train in the yards at Long Island City late today _The mest seric injured was Jolin Gibson, a nezro pori of Boston. Oers who were able to resume the journey after being attended by physi- cians were Cornelius McCrelia, New Brunswick, N Thomas MéNall Bridzeport, Conn.; Max Brant, Cleve land, O, and Mrs. Mary Koverman of Chester, Pa. BELGIAN WAR MISSION, Official Welcome Will Take Place at City Hall Today. New York, Aug. 20.—The Belgian war mission to the United State headed Baron Ludovic Moncheur, arrived in this city late tonight from Philadelphia_and was welcomed by a committee of city officials and distin- guished citizens representing the com mettiee of 1,000 named by Mayor Mitchel. k The official welcome to the commit- tee will take place at City hall tomor- row, after which its members will be guests of honor at a series of enters tairments provided for them. CARRANZA ATTENDING MARRIAGE OF DAUGHTER Left Mexico City With the Members of is Family Yesterday. Mexico City, Aug. 2 President Carranza left Mexico City this morn- ing with the members of his family for Queretaro, 110 miles northwest of the capital. It is believed the purpose of the president’s trip is to attend the marriage of his daughter, Virginia, and General Candido Aguilar, the former provisional foreign minister, which he desired to have performed without ostentation. APPOINTED SUPERVISOR OF PRIORITY SHIPPING LAW Robert S. Lovett, Chairman of the Union Pacific Railroad. ‘Washington, Aug. 20—Appointment of Robert S. Lovett, chairman of the Union Pacific, te administer the new priority transportation law. was an- nounced late today at the White House Judge Lovett's first official act was to order that railroads to Lake FErie ports, serving bituminous mines. and lake shipping companies give prefer- ence to shipments of coal disap- | sed an amendment proposing that in the computation of normal profits in- | | dustries which experienced abnormal depression during 1911. 1912, and 1913 the pre-war period fixed by the bill | could set ny of the four years from 11909 to 1913 as the basis of fixing nor- | mal profits. 1 | i | IS IN NEW YORK CITY. |cc | their of Coal Producer SAYS POLICY OF COAL MEN IS TO GET ALL THEY CAN IN WAR AND IN PEACE | Curt Testimony of William S. Scott, Coal Magnate, at a Hearing Yester- day of the Missouri Inquiry Into the the High Prices of Fuel St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 20.—William S. Scott, president of the Missouri and Tlinois Company, which leases coal mines near Belleville, Ills., today tes- tified at a hearing of the Missouri in- auiry into the high prices of fuel that it was the policy of the coal men to make all they can, both in war and in peace. Asked to his idea as to a iair profit, during war, he said “There no limit. We get what e n. Evervbody is doing that, in- cluding the farmer.” He said the highest price he had obtained recently for coal was six dollars a ton for six-inch Carterville Tump. “How do vou justify charging six dollars for something that costs less than two dollars to produc asked Assistant. Attorney General Gose. “Lecause you can get it. You are a and you wouldn't do a piece of work for five dollz if vou could get $10 for it,” was the reply. SHIPPING BOARD TO ASK FOR A BILLION DOLLARS | For Completion of Its 13 Months' | Building Program. Washington, Aug. 20 A Fillion dol- lars probat will ¥ the sum .‘1\1\1‘11‘ of congress by the shipping board for | completion of its 18 months’ h%luldin’-tl program. 1 Contract soon to be placed for a great fleet of fabricated steel ships, ordinary contracts about to be let and | the cost of commandeering ships un- | der constructicn, it was learned an'lA\.i will send the total far above the $500, | 000,000 additional estimated by the olc | board, Fresident Wilson's approval of ppropriation will | the request for the be sought immediate The poard alreac has been given three. parters of a billion dolla all of which ¥ gone into ¢ racts and the purchase of ships The billion more sought is needed before the | board can proceed with its program. ontracts or government-owned fabricating plants will be placed with- in a few days. The Submarine Boat corporation and the American Inter- national corporation, it is understood, will construct the plants for the gov- ernment and will be ziven contracts for building ships in them. Foreign vessels mnow building in American vards which have been com- mandeered along with ships under con- struction for the American flag prob- ably will retained by the American government. The question of the final disposition 'of the British hulls has been a subject of prolonged negotia- tions with the British government, which, it is understood. now has agreed that the United States is to pay for completion nad put them under the American flag. AGREE TO SPEED UP BUILDING OF DESTROYERS Shipbuilders, Engine Makers and Rep- resentatives of Other industries. Washington. Aug. 20—Preliminary teps toward providing the navy with as many additional destroyers s American plants can turn out were | taken up by Secretary Daniels today at a conference with more than a score of ~shipbuilders, engine makers and representatives of other industrie: Information was submitted by build- ers as to what they could do in the way of expanded facilities, taxed to the limit of their present capacity with de: overs already under construct . Navy officials will study the reports and suggest a definite plan for the a complishmer of their purpose, whic is to make the United State first destroyers, the arch-enemy of the sub- marine. The main difficulty is to find facili- ties for turning out the engines. There are many building vards which 1 in- stall additional ways and begin hnil Jnstruction without delay. but engin and equipment present a greater prob- lem. Today’s conference dealt larg ly with th respect. STRIKE IN NORTHWEST FAILED TO MATERIALIZE | Arrest of 1. W. W. Members Believed to Have Had Deterring Influence. in San Francisco, Calif.. Aug. 20 —No evidence of a general strike of con- struction workers and harvest hands visible In the northwest. states of | Oregon, Idaho and Mon- | tana tonight, and so far as could be| ascertained no attempt was made hy ny I W. W. leader to carry out the | strike order issued recently by James Rowan, district L. W. W. secretary Spokane. The swift and unexpected action | last night 4° military authorities at Spokane in arresting Rowan and twen- ty-six other allezed Industrial Work- ers of the World is believed to have | had a powerful influence in deterring | the radical members of the organiza- | tion from precipitating a strike which, it is _admitted might have serious results. The 27 men who were arrested hy Major Clement Wilkins, in charge of | the national guardsmen at Spokane. are held as military prisoners and will be examined in a few days. wa Washington, PERCIVAL B. NASH, ARTIST, AFFLICTED WITH APHASIA Found in the Woods—Had Been Miss- ing For Nine Day Redding,” Conn., Aug. 20.—Percival E. Nash, artist and vaudeville sketch writer, who hase besn missing for nine days, has been found in the woods about a quarter of a mile from his boarding place here, in a condi physical and mental collapse. been unable so far to tell anything Condensed Telegrams Twenty-one survivors of the Ameri- can steamship Montano arrived at an Atlantic port. William F. Fitzgerald's hat is in the ring for the democratic nomination for sovernor of Massachusetts. The name of T. W. Culletin, Ansonia, appeared among the wounced Ameri- cans in yesterday's casualty list. Textile workers, in Saxony @ cited over wage and fvod and a general strike is threatene conditions A search of the powder plant of Cur- tiss & Hdrvey at Rigau. Montreal, will be started for the 25 missing bodies Seventy-five thousand dollars was taken in at the gate for the automobile races at Sheepshead Bay on Saturday Joseph H. Shea, American ambassa- dor, will leave Santiago for the Unit States in September on a leave of ab- sence. Captain Roukel, one of the most | efficient of the Allied aviators, was | killed by a fall while trying a new machine. Charles M. Bailey, who was engaged | in the manugacture of oil cloth for ! years, died at Me. age of 97. Winthrop, , at the | Choosing the workhouse in perfer ence to a $10 fine, six militant - gists started fo serve their 30-day terms in jail. | The commission from the Nether lands to the United States to discu the embargo questions left a Kuropean | port for New York Austria-Hungary considers Two Aviators Burned to Death WERE EXPERIMENTING WITH SMOKE BOMBS THEY WHILE IN THE AIR Both Men Were Dead When the Destroyed Airplane Fell to Ground— Were Carrying Out Tests at Buffaio N. Y., When Accident Happened Buffal, Y., Aug. 20 . A Wall, Jr., and Richa 1. Me P burned to death here g v perimenting with s&moke bon : fire in the air. Bot ere de when t destroyed airp in training fc | f M camp at Mineola I Planes Wore Ablaze Wall and Me of ahout 7( the feet Unite in he wor bits fielc distance below the hers on the gr in over to the side eco hand He dropped alr ately therc mi hi inr planes Men Burned Beyond Recoanition Meaa plaine | while il me pped Reports from Cordoba, indicate that the crop of pes been atisfactor: and that duect is quoted at about $4.45 per 100 pounds. The conference between the officials of the Lake Torpedo Boat company and the striking machinists which was to have been held yesterday was p poned until today. to end the situation of the coal indus try, reduce the prices to the mnsumer and bring about a better distribution, is expected. Ralph White of 99 Pearl street was the first to enlist at Waterbury for the First Separate company (colored C He passed examination with fiying colors. of Mexico, sign- members of a to the President Carranz ed a decree appointing military commission to come United tes, headed by General Cuy- etano Faria. An unknown Greek fell and broke his neck while working in the Scovill | Manufacturing Company’s plant at | Waterbury yesterday. The coroner is| investigating the case. One thousand men who were drafted t he was driving and his skull fractured Miss Katherine Stinson, RedCros: avatrice, was forced to land in a farm a mile north of Athens on the Hudson when the gas conduit of her machine broke and spattered gas all over her face. » The American Red Cross is bending every effort to bring its organization to the highest state of efficiency to care for the American wounded who will soon be coming into the hospitals in France. Five hundred citizens of Forest Ohio, scoured the vicinity for a Big Four railroad detective who was said to have beaten Mich Pipiano, a sol- dier, who disputed the price list in a din A decrease of 20 per cent In the wheat consumption of England for the month of July, compared with the month of February, is shown by a statement received by the U. S. Food Administration There is every indication that Cana- |aa will in the future finance her own war 1oz that every one will be an internal loan where the Finance De partment can make its own price and rates of interest. Attorney-General Gregory sent in- structions how to deal with draft reg- istrants who fail to appear before the draft boards for examination. He said “they must be conscripted with- out examination and will be allowed no chance to claim exemption.” Policeman James Knight made an irrest at Fairfield in a boat Sun- day afternoon. He rowed out to the diving raft at Fairfield Beach and in spite_of the attempts of bathers to interfere he got his man. Then he rowed ashore. The bathers gathered him and finally succeeded in getting his prisoner away. The man was arrested for rowdyism on the div ing raft | FIVE PERSONS KILLED AT SAYBROOK CROSSING. An Engine on New Haven Road Struck Auto in Which They Were Riding. New l.ondon, Conn. Aug. 20.—Flive persons were killed at Saybrook cros: ing tonight when an engine the New York, New ford railroad struck an automobile which they were riding. ported a few minutes ago that bodies were being brought to this It was also stgted that there were three injured and in an unconscious condition. of Haven and Hart- in It was re- the Norwich lawyers have been notified that the annual meeting of the Ameri- about his experiences dpring the nine days of his absence an As serioue ‘his eondition can Bar association is to be beld at Saratoga Springs, from August 29 to Santember 7. China’s declaration of war on the C tral Powers. proclaimed on Auzust is illegal and unconstitutional Ethan Allen, of New York, head of a large woolen business, has been ap- pointed director of the Atlantic divi- | sion of the Red Cros ar Council. Rufus Harris, a negro, was shot to death by a military guard at 324 and | Market = streets, Philadelph The | guard said he W ting suspiciously Drastic action by President Wilson | and who received special instructior overnors’ Island for the last five weeks, left for New Dorp, S. I, where they will begin trench digging William Whelan, 50 years old, of Paterson, N. J., was killed in an a mobile accident West Hoboken. He | was pinned underneath the automobile Wall wa {son of a Buff n | Bost THREE EXPLOSIONS IN AN OHIO POWDER PLANT | Unofficial | Killed Number Three. Reports Place the at Four—Injured, ‘incinnati, O.. Aug. 20 - plosions long what Is r |“powder line,” a se ? sr 1 |ing each a few hundred from |the ‘other at the Kine Mills Powder {Company's plant at King 1 Ohie, occurred today Detail | but unofficial report place bher killed at four, ar " | three Later the.management of K Mills company announce ' men had been killed and i It was also stated that t of biasting. powder had let so . the small buildings ana that of this explosion cau t powdey in two other bui L 141 was stated that nvestigation was in progress and that if the manage$ ment could not satisfy itself as te a cause of the explosion it was he ir tention to ask the government to co auct an investigation |STEAMSHIPS IN BERTHS ARE SWEPT BY FLAMES | Norwegian Vessel Was Burned af Brooklyn Dock. New York, Aug. 20 The Worwegiar |steamer Christian Bors, of 4.076 gro tons, was damaged to the extent of 000,000 by fire early today while lying at her dock in South Broo The camer arrived recently from enos Afres, and had about om-+ pleted the discharge of a reo ~ hides. The Christian Bors w: wn ed in and was under charter to the Prince line. The steamship Baron Jed burgh, a vessel of 4418 gross tons dis arging a cargo of sugar and glucose, also was badly damaged hv the fire. After an Investigation the fire Aay partment announced that repor that the fire had been caused W bombs were unfounded intane ous combustion was responsible it was stated BELGIAN WAR MISSION'S VIEW OF PAPAL NOTE Intimated That the Plan Had Its In spiration in Berlin. Philadelphia, Aug. 20 —Members o the Belgian war mission to the Ur Sitates who were guests the t today, voiced their opposition to t pope’'s peace plan and intimated thafl the plea for a cessation of the war ha its inspiration In Berlin. The party included Baron 1 iov Mon General L.a Clereq Hector ( Major Osterrieth and Count a'Ursel “Wa must fight on," sald General Le "le 1. who is a veteran of Liege We must not lay down our arms for or instant 1ecause of peace K. AUTO RAN INTO A TEAM AT GUILFORD Killed One of the Horses—Car Bore Rhode Island Number 4817 Guilford, Conn Aug. 20 A auto mobile bearing the R leland ndm ber 48 skidded here I n nd ran ito a team driver Chittenden and killed one of Mr. Chittenden was thrown ¢ ground Lut not hurt. Of the ‘ cupants one was aquite badly in and s being cared for at the hom Dr. H. W. Murlless here. It is that one of the men isa Cat gyman of Woonsocket, R, 1 other a cl of jen All refused nam PRESIDENT'S NOMINEES CONFIRMED BY SENAT: Murdock to Federal Trade Commissior —200 Major and Brigadicr Ger al s. Washington, Aug. 20—~Without « position the senate today onfire nominations of Former Reprosentat Victor Murdock of Kansas to the fe eral trade commission and all except two of nearly 200 major generals a brigadier generals recently named | President Wilson.