Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 29, 1917, Page 1

VOL. LIX—NO. 307 NORWICH, CONN., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1917 PRICE TW 0 CENTS "~ The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Double That of Anj Other Paper, And Its Total Circulation is the Largest PRESIDENT REJECTS POPE’S PROPOSALS Refuses to Deal With Present Rulers of Germany Ufion Pope Benedict’s Plan PEACE MUST BE BASED UPON FAITH OF PEOPLES Declares Peace Plan Proposed By His Holiness Would Make It Necessary to Create a Permanent Hostile Combination of Nal ons Against the German People—Says the Object of the War is to Free Peoples of the World From thes pre ~$mentzControlled By an {Menace and Actual Power of a Vast Military Establish- Irresponsible Government— ot5Take the Word of the Present Rulers of Ger- hlnfilfp Guarantee of Anything That is to Endure— Must Have the Assurance of the German People. Washington, Aug. Wiison has _rejected proposals. In a note despatci®ed last night, and made pubilc here tonight, the presi- dent says that hile every heart not blinded and hardened by the terrible war must be touched by tne moving appeal of his holiness, it would be folly to take the path of peace he points out, i does not in fact lead President ropes’ peace 28, t to_the goal >poses. To deal w such a power as the present rule< of Germany upon Pope Benedict's eclares the president, would i + recuperation of the strength and renewal of the world that power, now balked cated after sweeping & con- 1 the blood of innocent children and the hopeless s of soldiers. must be based upon a of =1l the peoples and upon nd fairness and the common ¢ mankind, he adds, and “we cannot take the word of the present Tulers of Germany as a guarantee of ar & that s to endure, unless ex- PR supported by conclusive evi- ldence ot the will and purpose of the ¥German ‘people themselvas the fother paoples of the world would be fledin. accepting. i A Text of the Note. > note follows r ‘August 27, 1917 iness, Benedictus XV, e e munfcation of your holiness to _the ples, dated Aug. 1, 1917, of the United States re- transmit the following elligerert D! heart that has not been "linded and hardened by this terrible |war must hed by this moving appeal o the pope, must feel the dignity and force of the hu- mane and generous motives which fprompted it, and muet fervently wish #hat we mi the path of peace e so persu points out. But it wouls Iy to take it £ it does not n fact 1 to the goal he proposes. iOar resronse must be based upon the jstern facts and upon nothing else. It on of arms he |desires; 1t 1s @ stab® and enduring {peace. ~This agony must not be gone fthrough with again and it must be a r of very sober judgment what insure us against it. Substance of Pope’s Plan. Eoliness in substance proposes {that we return to the status quo ante bellum and that then there be a gen- eral condonation, disarmament and a ‘concert of nations, based upon an ao- ceptance of the principle of arbitra- tion: that by, 2 similar concert freedom of the seas be established: and that the territorial claims of rance and Jtaly, the perplexing problems of the Balkan states and the restitution of Poland be loft to such conciliatory ad- Juetments as may.be possible in the new temrer of such a peacs, dus regard being paid to the aspirations of the peoples whose* political fortunes and affiliations will be involved. Object of This War. a mere cessa ma = Tt s manifest that no part of this program can be cesstul e out unless the restitution of the statue quo ants furnishes a firm and eatis- factory basis for it. The vbject of this wwar 13 to deliver the fres peoples of the fworld from the menacc and the actual power of a vast military estab- ment has of late accustomed the world. Can peace be based upon a restitution of its power or upon any word of honor it could pledge in a treaty of settlement and accommodation? Peace Rests Upon Rights of Peoples. Responsible statesmen must now everywhere see, If they never saw be- fore, that no peace can rest securely upon political or economic restrictions meant to benefit some nations and cripple or embarrass others, upon vin- dictive action of any sort, or any kind of gevenge or deliberate injury. The American people have suffered intol- erable wrongs at the hands of the im- perial German government. but they desire no reprisal upon the German people, who have themselves suffered all things in this war, which thy did not choose. They belleve that peace should rest upon the righie of peoples, not the rights of governments—the rights of peoples great or small, weak or powerful—their equal right to free- dom and security and self-government and to a participation upon fair ferms in the cconomic opportunities df tha world—the German people of course included, if they will accept equality and not’ seek domination. Test Which Must Be Applied. “The :cst, therefore, of every plan of peace is this: Is it based upon the faith of all the peoples involved or merely upon the word of an ambitious and intriguing government, on the one hand, and of a sroup of free peoples, on the other? This is a test which £oes to he root of the matter, and It is the test which must be applied. Purposes of the War. __“The purposes of the United States in this war are known to the whole world—*5 every people to whom the truth has been permitted to come. They do not need to be stated again We seek no material advantage of any kind. We believe that the intolerable wrongs Gone in this war by the furi- ous and brutal power of the imperial German government ought to be re- paired, tut not at the expense of the sovereignty of any people—rather a vindication of the sovereiznty both of those thit are weak and those that are strong. Punitive damages, the dis- memberment of empires, the establish- ment of selfish and exclusive economic leagues. we deem inexpedient and ia the end worse than futile, no proper basis fo- a peace of any kind, least of all for an enduring peace. That must be based upon justic and falrness and the common rights of mankind. Cannot Take the Word of the Present Rulers of Germany. ‘We connot take the word of the present rulers of Germany as a guar- antee of anvthing that s to endure, unless explicitly supported by such conclusive "evidence of the will and purpose of the German people them- selves as the other peoples of the world would be justified in accepting, With- out such guarantees, treaties of settle. ment, agreements for disarmament, covenante to et up arbitration in the place of force, territorial adjustments, reconstitutions of small nations, if| made with the German government, no man, no nation, could now depend on, We must awaif some new evidence of the purposes of the great peoples of the central powers. \God grant it may be given soon and In a way to restore the confidence of all peoples every- where in the faith of nations and the possibility of a covenanted peace. “ROBERT LANSING, t which, having secretly lanned to dominate the world, pro- ceeded to car the plan out withput regard o r to the sacred obligations of treaty or the long established prac- tiees and long cherished principles of international actlon and honor; which ts own time for the war: de- tg blow fiercely and suddenly: t no barrier, either of law or swept a whole continent he tide of blood—not the blood soldiers only, but the blood of in- rocent women and children also and ©f the Fclpless poor: and now stands ballted but not defeated, the enemy of fo fths of the world. This power 4s not the German people. It is the ruthless master of ‘the German people. Tt s mo business.of ours how. that great people came under its control or submitted with temporary zest to the dominaticn of #s purpose: but it is our busitess to see to It that the his- tory of the rest of the world is no Zonger left to its handling. Would Create Permanent Hostility. “To dzal with such a power by way of peace upon the plan proposed by his holins , the pope, would, so far as we can ses, involve a recuperation of its strength and a rerewal of its poliey; would make it necessary to create a permanent hostile combina- tion of nations against the German people, wWho are its instruments; amd would result in abandoning the new- born Russia to the intrigue, the mani- fold subtle interference, and the cer- taln counter-revolution which would be attempted by, all the maiign influ- Baces to, which;the; German._ ishment controlled by an irresponsi- le governm - govern- ;. Students of diplomacy seg in his de- . ecretary of State, States of Amerac.” HOW REJECTION IS REGARDED IN WASHINGTON. Belief Prevails That President Wilson is Spokesman for Allies, “Of ths United ‘Washington, Aug. 25, — Wilson's Tejection ot the popas poens proposals is regarded here as the high water mark of the war. Furthermore, it is indicative of the virtual selention of the president by the allies as thelr spokesman before the world, The note comes as a climax to the remarkable series of state documents in which President Wilson has argued the cause of world democracy against autocracy in the high court of public opinion, and accepted more apd more by the people of all the alliéd coun- trigs as expressing their ideals. ere appears to be no dou the United States was seletgzeflth:; make answer before the world, in ad- vance of all the other states. Whether the entente nations will send extensiva replies is not known here. It is re- garded as probable that they will in large measure adopt the president's reasoning for their own apd send notes of endorsement. | No Inkling of Forceful Terms. ‘The general tenor of the president’s roply hal been anticipated everywherea, but there was no inkling of the ful terms he would employ to say that the world can have no faith in the au- tocratic government of Germany./ Cabled Paragraphs British Casualties for Week. London, Aug. 28—British casualties reported 'in the week ending today were as follows: Kilfed or died of ‘wound: officers 218; men 2,421. The ;;nsuorzrded or missing: officers 790 men " American Aviator Dies in Paris. Parls, Aug. 28.—H. Norman Grieb of New York died Sunday of pnepmonia, following injuries received at the avi- ation school. Grieb was 22 years old 2nd a Yale undergraduateof the class of 1918, LABOR CONDITIONS IN NORTHWEST ARE IMPROVING No ew Disturbances Are Contemplated by the I. W. W. Washington, Aug. 28. — Threatened labor disturbances in war industries on the Pacific coast and in the north- west have passed their climax, offi- clals declared today, and conditions are rapidly improving. Reports to the departments of la- bor and justice indicated that disaf- fection exists among the ranks of the Industrial Workers of the World, and that the organiation may soon face internal strife. The drastic action taken by the government to suppress the threatened general I. W. W. strike at Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, August 21, officials said, had a discouraging effect on the ormani- atlon leaders and so far as could be ascertained no new labor disturbances are contemplated by the organization. nunciation of the military autferacy a fresh appeal to the war-ridden Ger- man people to throw off their military masters and join democracy with a government fit to deal with the re- mainder of the world, Although this appeal probably will not be permitted to becom~ known in Germany until the autocracy has at- tempted to mold the temper of the people for its reception by denuncia- tion through a government-controlled press of what has been characterized as interference in the internal affairs of Germany, the hope is that it will fall on fertile soil. Considering the extraordinary char- acter of the president's communica- tion, its immense importance definite- 1y terminating for the present at least all efforts to reach a compromise peace, and the assured fact that it represents the views of all of the en- tente allled powers joined with Amer- jca in the war against Germany, the time consumed in the preparation of the reply. was remarkably short. Reply Courteous But Firm. That the president's response to the pope’s overtures would be a courteous but firm declination had been gemer- ally believed, so that in this respect at least Lis communication will cause no surprise. The feature-that ls cer tain to fix public attention is the cold determination not even to permit the subject of peace negotiations to be broache. so long as the evil and dom- inating forces of autocracy and mili- tarism control the central powers. It is not even necessary to read between the lines of the president’s response to see learly upparent tne inflexible purpose. No Effort to Evade Responsibility. For this reason the president was not to Le led into any discussion of the peace conditions detailed by Pope Benedict, though that fleld was made alluring 'by the pontiff's adoption of some of the proposals laid down by Presiden: Wilson himself mn early ut- terances. On the other hand, there was no effort to evade responsibility for an expression of view as to the bases of sound and enduring peace, for the president’s response in its con- cluding paragraphs state the purpose for whicl. America entered the great war. The Radical Differences. The radical difference that appears to exist between the pope and the president touches this very matter of a stable and enduring peace. The pontiff looks to the restoration of con- ditions as they existed before the wa: the president turns his back upon these, convinced that a return to the status quo ante bellum could never bring permanent peace, which can be secured only by agreement between free peoples on both sides As one official commenting, exprcssed it, the president’s response, reflccting as it does the views of the entente allies, sounds the doom of Hoherfzollernism and military domination of peoples. That this can and should be accom- plished without the destruction of the German people is one of the striking expressions in the president's note, when he expressly disclaims any in- tent to seck punitive damages and the dismemberment of empires or even the punishment of the central powers af- ter the war by gigantic economic com- binations against them. Aimed ‘to Geach German Peopl: This shaft is aimed straight over the heads of the army-controlled German foreign cfice at the understanding and appreciation of the German people, al- ready manifesting many signs of a determination to assert their right to govern themselves by parliamentary methods. It is assumed *here that there will follow a flerce outburst of denunciation against the attempt from the outside to dictate to the German people their form of government. But it is also believed that as the hard- ships of war and misgovernment bear with eve:-increasing severity upon the German people, they must in the end throw off their military masters and take in their own hands through a representative government the con- duct_of negotiations looking to a fair and honorable and permanent peace. Active Exchanges With Entente Powers. Active exchanges have. been in progress between the president, Sec- retary Lansing and the entente pow- ers, mainly through the _American diplomatic representatives abroad, re- garding the answer to be made to the pope’s proposals ever sinco these were delivered to the various forcign efices. It séemed by common consent that to America was_confided the heavy re- sponeibility of framing and delivering the first of the replies. The propriety of this course was apparent from the consideration of the fact that every one of the entente premiers and for- eign ministers who had spoken pub- licly on the subject of peace had turn- ed to the language of .President Wil- son’s historic addresy to congress and his other public utterances on the sub- ject as disclosing their own concep- all nations to deal what it was hoped would b> the death blow to ai jea diocesan plan, in Connecticut’ in Proportion to the Cit&’s Pohulation. 8 PAGES—64 COLUMNS 331-3Per Cent Tax- Levyon War Profits AGREED UPON BY SENATE FI- NANCE COMMITTEE TO ~ RAISE $850,000,000 Effort Will Be Made to Head Off More Drastic Killed Provision for Increase in Letter Postage. Increases — Senate Washington, Aug. 27.—Senate fi- nance committee leaders, recognizing the growing demand for heavier tax- ation on war profits, tentatively draft- od at private conferences today amendments to the war tax bill de- signed to increase the gross levy on this source from 26 per cent. to about 33 1-3 per cent. and the revenue to be derived from $562,000,000 to about $850,000,000. These will be offered in an effort to head off more drastic increases advocated by Senators Johnson of California, La Follette, Borah and others. Leaders Are Confident. Leaders of the so-called conserva- tives confidently predicted that they would muster sufficient strensth to insure adoption of a compromise, Sup- porters of the higher rates were equal- 1y as sure that they would make the levy mot less than fifty per cent. No Increase on Letter Postage. During the day fhen the scnate struck out provisions for one cent in- crease in letter postage and arranzed to dispose of publishers’ tax features tomorrow. Senator Hardwick’s motion to elim- inate the letter postage tax adopted 39 to 29, and the senatc spent the rest of the day debating the pro- posals for increases In second class mail rates and a 5 per cent. special tax on publishers’ incomes. In elimi- nating taxes on first class mall, provision was retained for free post- age on letters mailed by American soldiers abroad. La Fallette on War Profits. During the debate Senator La Fol- lette presented his plans for taxinz war profits. He introduced eizht amendments proposing to take from 76 to 48 per cent'of war profits in- tending to offer the maximum first and, if rejected, the others in order, downward. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY A. F. OF CATHOLIC SOCIETIES One Protests Against the Irreligious Tyranny in Mexico. Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 28. Intion protesting against the fous iyranny masquerading under name of democratic government Mexico” and urging that the States withhold any loan “‘until such iniquitous laws are repealed and re- ligion made free,” was adoptbd here late today by the convention of the American Federation of Catholic So- the in United cieties. Resolutions “acclaiming” the peace proposal of Pope Benedict and reaf- firming the loyalty of the Catholics of the United States were adopted. The convention also adopted a resolution providing for the appointment of a ~ommittee of five to represent fthe federation in co-operating with the National Catholic War Council, being formed for the purpose of assisting the government in carrying on the war against Germany. Other resolutions adopted provide for a federation fund of $100,000 for organization and social and moral pro- paganda work: the establishment of Catholic night schools for aliens and the suppression of plavs, motion pic- tures and literature tending to belitile marriage. Fair play and justice to ne- groes also was ursed. The federation adopted the so-call- which enrolls the members by ‘diocese instead of by county and state, and brings into ag fillation all smaller Catholic socic- ties. The plan provides for chanzing the name of the federation fo the Ca- tholic Federation of the United States. A committee composed of Bishop Jo- seph Bush, St. Cloud, Minn.: the Rev. John F. Brook, Corey, Pa.: Benedict Elder. Louisville, Kv.: William Hek enkamp, Juincy, Tis. and Anthony Matre, Chicago, was appointed to work out the details of the reorgani- zation plan. The following were appointed a committee to co-operate Wwith the Na- tional War Councfl: Monsignor M. J. Splaine, Foston: Monsignor J. P._ O'Connell, Toledo, O.: John J. Hines, Buffalo, N. Y.: Charles 1. Denechand, New Orleans, and John ‘Whalen, New York. CHARGED WITH THEFT OF VALUABLE JEWELRY. William Maloney, & Former Sergeant in N. Y. National Guard. Lakeville, Conn., Aug. 28 —William Malonep, a former sergeant of Com- pany F, Twelfth infantry, New York ‘National guard, arrested here today, charged with robbing Mr. Carrie Ru- benstein in New York of much valua- ble jewelry, was mnot taken back to New YorR city this afternoon as plan- ned, but New York officers who have him in custody will await the arrival of an_inspector. ‘Maloney was arrested here when he visited _the town, coming from a camp near Canaan. He protested that he was innocent of the chavge brought against him. FOUND JEWELRY UNDER FLOOR OF HIS ROOM. New York Police Believe Malgney Wa: Implicated in $35,000 Jewelry Theft. New York, Aug. 28.—Wita the arrest today of Wiillam Maloney. a former sergeant of Company F, Twelfth in- fantry, New York Natlonal guard, on a farm near Bast Canaan Conn., the police believe they have found one of the men alleged to. have stolen $35,000 worth _of jewelry from the home of ‘Mrs. Carrie Rubenstein in this city on June 12. The police said they found the jewelry under the floor of Malo- ney's room ir the farmhouse. Mrs. Rubenstein was found bound-and gag- in her home and told the police ‘two men had robbed har. R L Enlisted Men May Win flgmmissions OFFICERS’ SCHOOL AT EACH DI- VISIONAL CAMP FOR MEN FROM RANKS No More Officers Are to Be Taken Life After Second Series Has From Ci: of Officers’ Trai Been Completed. ing Camps Washington, Aug, 28.—Enlisted men of the national army, national guard and regular army will "be given ev ery opportunity to fit themselves fc commissions, it was learned today. This is in line with the policy to take no more officers from civil life after the second series of officers’ training camps has been completed. Officers’ School at Divisional Camps. It has been virtually decided to es- tablish an officers’, school at each of the dlivisional training camps. Men from the ranks who show special qualifications will be sent to thes schools. The divisional officers’ camps make the third series of such camps arranged by the war department to provide men to command the enor- mous forces being raised for the wa No commissions will be granted men from civil life after they are started except that a few who were denied admission to other camps through loss of * their orders in the mail may be given an opportunity. Army Only for Duration of War. Secretary Baker pointed out toda in reply to a question as to whether the European divisional army organi- zation adopted for the war would be continued after the restoration of Jeace, that with the exception of the officers of the regular army and a few men of the old regular enlisted force, whose enlistments may not have ex- pired at that time, the entire war ar- my will pass out of existence. There is no provision of law for continuing it beyond the end of the wa The auestion of establishing a continuin: military policy of universal servic has been debated to some extent re cently. The impression prevails among many members of congress, however, that it would be unwise to take up this question now. If the war s lorg it may become necessary to provide for the registration of new classes which reach the military ase of the selective service bill each year and possibly. also to exempt men now rezistered but who may pass heyond the maximum age limit before the war ends. CONDITIONS IN cAmP OF 24TH INFANTRY Testimony That Numbers of Negro Wemen Spent Nights in the Camp Houston, Texas, Aug. 28.—Testimony about conditions in the camp of the 24th Infantry, negro, before 100 of the men shot up the west end of Houston last Thursday night was ziven at the investigation begun by the city board of inquiry today. Major K. S. Snow, commander of the negroes, appeared before the board, but said that without the consent of Major General George Ball, Jr., com- manding, he could not testify. The board permitted the major to retire. The testimony largely visits of negro women to thi camps. W. S. Green, who was ployed at night near the camp, ‘hat as soon as night fell, numbers of negro women ocked to the camp. Many times at daybreak, he said, au- tomobiles came out and took the nesro concerned the negro em women away. Frank A. Shaffer said that he saw women passed in freely and out of the camp, some being hall nearby. ©O. J. Charboneau, a street car con- ductor, told of negro soldiers entering his car, taking down “Tim Crow” sizns and pushing whites from their seats. W. D. Dunman, a policeman, said he saw a “great number” of whiskey bottles in the grass and weeds. Dunman added that a man who said ke was Major Snow, said to him the night of the disturbances, “Don’t zo in the camp, you will be going to vour death. I would not go there myself.” The board of inquiry s without power to take action looking toward punishment of the negro soldiers. TRIAL OF TOWLE AND HYDE AT MERIDEN Two Boston Men Who Are Charged With Theft of Papers. Merjden, Conn., Aug. 28.—Frederick Thieme, a former foreman of the D. Bergen company, was the all from a dance L. J. day witness in police court today in the case against John F. Towe and Ralph K. Hyde of Boston, who are charged with theft of papers valua- ble in a case now before the bankruptey. court from the Tlo- cal plant. Thieme told how the books and paper were delivered to Towle and Hyde by W. H. Pooley, whom he testified received $500 for the act. He testified that Towle asked him how Pooley could be gotten hold of and witness sald if the right ma went after him he “could be gotten. Towle then told Thieme he was the best man to go after Pooley and he rromised to pay all expenses. Thieme said he agreed to do Towle's bidding. Testimony In the case will cover sev- cral dates JUDGE ATTACKED IN CORRIDOR OF COURT After He Had Appeared as Witn. Agafnst Anti-Jewish Speaker. New York, Aug. 28. — Municipal Judge Leonard A. Snitkin was attack- ed in fite corriior of the men’s night court buflding here tonight by a crowd of men after he had_appesred as_complaining witness agafmst Rus- s#l Dunn, arrested on a charge of | aisorderly ' conduct while making an angi-Jedish speech in Madison Square Saturday. Two were arrested in_connection withsthe. attack. Dunn had been sentenced to_thir- tv days M the use_by Magls- trate M and Judge.Snitkin was making his way to the street when several men struck him in the face before detectives rescued him. The assailants fled and the police were able to stop only two of them. A Itotal killea 1,000. Condensed Telegrams A threatened ice shortage may cause theé elimination of ice in highballs. Sigfried Sonneck, an interned Ger- man at the Hot Springs, N. C., camp, escaped. The Canadian casuality list is un- usually heavy for the week with the Henry Ford is in favor of the Gov- ernment taking 95 per cent. of excess War profits. on of war dogs, numbering 1000° s to be ‘sent by the United States to France. Washington decreed that New York | firemen and policemen are not exempt from the draft. The 24th Infantry arrived at Colum- bus, N. M. “from Houston, Tex. in charge of J. H. Bradford, Jr. Major-General Carter came out retirement to take command of central department, of the army. The hige plant of the Midvale Steel Co., at Philadelphia, will manufacture shellsf for destroyers only. Justices of the peace ar exempt from draft under ‘A ruling just an- nounced by Provost Marshal Crowder Orders to transfer a large number of Germans, held at Ellis I=land, to IFort Oglethorpe, Ga., were received The officers’ reserve camps at Fort Myer and at Fort Oglethorpe have be- gun their second course of training. Harold Barnwell, pioncer airp: builder. was killed while testing a ma- chine for the Vickers company in London. Sergt. Walter Lovell of the Lafa- yette Flying Squadron forced a Ger- | man airman to land after a thrilling | fight. Live hogs have brought the record Price of $19 at Calgary, Ala. vards. Six out of carloads were sold at | this plice. A catalogue from the Harvard Bul Harvard | The Navy League w ship complete comfort kits to the contin gent of ambulance drivers called to immediate service in France The Metropolitan Museum of Art is to receive $1.098980 in cash from the estate ‘of Harris Dick. The of the estate is §61,582.195 value British naval aviators m. cessful raid on the airdome Denis Western in Belgium. machines are safe pt one Donald B. MacMillan, the plorer, announces the discovery enormous new glacier and has it American Museum Glacie Aretic of an named Administration German ( this count France and evidence has after England The that the to attack tories in 1t heir laborers county aftor Tah- Twenty-two Mexican were deported from the (¢ ar beet ficlds ¢ tried to stir up ti fellow they orers. William A. Brady was president of the National Associa- Picture Industry at tion of Motion I meeting Bf the board of directors New York. re-clected in The American Railroad of Porto s ovdered three consolidation ype locomoti weighing 83,000, ounds, from the Ame 7 Locomo A plot to drive all soldiers _a oes from the coal mines at Lex- on Ky. was revealed. After clash troops and miners were quieted down. and_distributors States have picture sol- Film manufacturers throughout the United volunteered to provide motion entertainments for the American | diers in France For the week ended Aug. 24, the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Rall- rs 15 compared way handled 31162 ca with 32439 last year and 25,168 two years The Red Cross announced the crea- [tion of a_ transportation service to *handie ast supplies being shipped almost daily to the persons in the war countries Japan is willing to let the United States use her s to build bot- toms to be used antic or Pacific tarde in return for the relaxation of the steel embargo Governor Burnquist yesterday is- cued a proclamaation prohibiting the People’s Council of America for Dem- oer and Peace from holding their proposed meeting in Minneapolis or elsewhere in Minnesota. William J. Kennedy, of the firm of Kennedy, Mitchell & Co. New York was arrested af Havana as he stepped from a ship. He is wanted by the New York authorities. Alexander Legge, manager of the In- ternational Harvester Co. was ap- pointed assistant to B. M. Baruch in the work of purchasing materials for the United States and Allies. William T. Noonan, president, and E. F. Robinson, general manager of the Buffalo, Rochester and Pitgs- burgh railroad, said that reports of a general strike in the engineering de- partment of the road were unfounded. The name of William R. Hearst will lead the democratic candidates for or of New York on the municipal letin shows that about 5400 graduates and undergraduates are do- | ing some war work Dr. Du Bouchet, former chief sur-| geon of the American Ambulance wa commissioned a major in the United | States army A French organization composed of descendants of men who fought in,the tevolution will embroider 10 flags’ for | American regiments. | Harold Klume, a printer, nearly | struck a tughoat in the kast River | hen he leaped from the Brooklyn | Bridge, attempti e | Fighting of The 1 stro. ighting fron talian theat 1 and sou remarkable of the fight for several show a violence going o Along the front northern Irance he bad weather again h. from riciprocal hom! t some points have | of drumfire, and min tions on_the part of |y heing done by eith kents. In the Verdun se have ceased entirely ttacks - gainst the r positions, evidently e task of tryin themselves was On the Bainsizza Gorizia, the Italians o still _engaged in fu the Ttalians the a the Austrians str New positions have eral Cadorna's force trian agtacks to ret have been successfu lence is still mainta Strongly On the Defense Eastern Bukowina, the Russian Troops Again Importance is Taking Place. ts, except in the|war office concern e and in_eastern|on the Carso thern Moldavia, [ officlal communicat abatement in_the | the first reefvedfr ing that has been |eral days, ackn. weeks, the Ttalians in Flanders and |the position d by the Britieh |Austrians F as set in and aside | ing. bardmerts, which| On the r reached the stage |eastern or infantry opera- | again ar the British, li having near 1 er of the belliger- | their trenches and Austro-Germans ctor the Germans|they quitted. X their counter- | on the Tessar rewly-won French | tonic allies h having found that|against the to rehabilitate | tured several oss davia in the platean, north of | Mareha nd Austrians are | taken helg rious battle, with [ manians ressors, but with| In northern Ru the importance | indicat cast of hl ined the F | Ba1 M’ADOO ENLIGHT! MEMB Natioy hing Aug, repu oppo: a further unle ling alr a1l ened reza of monies deta may ballot of the coming primary election it was announced after candidates’ names had been drawn from the wheel by the board of elections. About Transfer of Monies to Entente licin member ENS ERS GERMANY HAS OF HOUSE Willing ns. of Enem of the h of lizh ans. caus; 1 rized TO ARGENTIN their leaders on the ways and meand ‘ committee to question Sccretary Mo v 00 on this point today for more serm n three héurs hehind closed doo ; The leaders emerged sat with | The note sa contending that greater assurances of [ Argentina money being spent In the United kada of ene Ktates should be required freedom of the Efforts were being made tonight by |the Argentine fl some of the commiites men to induce | The nfte aleo 1 Democratic Leader Kitchin to call [of an ind others before the committes to tes- |the Arzentine st tify. man subma Mr, McAdoo will be recalled tomor- | This indemnit irow to answer further au s and|by German and A to discuss the terms of the $11,338,- | er |945,460 bond and certificate bill. The |, The n secretary touched on the bill today, |‘ernment last nig |his outstanding statement beinz that | ister 1 Presis it is absolutely necessary that the $4,- | (his morning ¢ 000,000,008 worth of bonds to finance | ing the note. wh v another allied loan should be voted as [ given out for p y quickly as possible. -Approximately | morrow 00,000,000 monthly 1x needed from [ Pioth the foreizn T this country fo carry the allies’ came | president were o paign to July 1, 1918, he said, and | Aienntios wWhile money Is in sight to last until| the eontents nf 1 November 1, after that it will ba nee- [ an® FPOLERC cseary to turn to the proposed new | fuxbuee i) Uy authorization for funds fore 1t Wil thade The secretary’s hond taxation plan, | geritine governmont which contemplates levyinz supertaxe and war profits and execess profits = faxes on 'the $7.338.945.460 worth of |SHIPPING BOARD LETS The chief objection was that It : would discriminate against the bond- |With the Understanding That holders and copen the way for ta Not Set a Preceden aodgingz. 4 > Some members proposed that half | Washington, Aug. of the issue should be made four per |need is the cor cent. subject to taxation wnd the oth- |xuide President r half should be mon-taxable three |lom as to the final a4 and A half per cents. Opposition also |cign merchant - developed to tha plan for anthorizine | United States ship Secretary McAdoo to fix the life of reason, it was sald tod the bonds and the interest rate on the [may not be decided Proposed $2,000,000,000 cortificate is- |since there 1s mo sue mate of the count The house adjourned today muntil [ments. Thutsday with a view to receivinz| The shippimz hoard the hill from the committee that day |foreign vessels just ana nushing it through for a vote|one to the British a Friday or Saturda French government it LA atanding 1 HOLDS CONDUCTOR AND ool MOTORMAN LIABLE‘ nd had been paid ¢ & commandeared by the o Finding of Deputy Coroner as to the | torporation fust air " eir_completion. Tt North Branford Trolley Wreck. |thelr compietion. 1t v New Haven, Conn, Aug. 28 —Wes-|!Mme are greater than ley Negus, motorman, and William J. Dy Teyon. “conductor, of the Sh S UDRE ATRESTE OF D e B o e i WOMEN AT WHITE H on August 20, at North Tranford = 2 nineteen persons being killed, were |SiX of Them Wore the Sanner held directly and criminally respon- riers Out on B sible for the disaster by Deputy Cor- — oner Kenneth Wynne today. Tryon| Washington, Aur was asleep in the car. and Negus, in|carryinz banners a perior of mental abstraction. ran|and extracts from Pre his through. a switch and, with |speeches were arrest undiminished speed, on to the track |front of the TWh o over which the car from New Haven |them were the banoe was approaching. The deputy cor-|bond pendisg appea’s « oner says both men knew thei ar [¢ay from police had to take the North Branford switch |fines or thir and the conductor's neglect and the!for a similar 1 motorman’s carelessness produced a|balled to appe fo terrible rosult. Negus, moreover, had frisigh -1 fastened down a safety device on the SR controller, knowing that he was vio-| Canadian Conseription Bill S lating a rule by so doing. Both men ‘Toronto, Aug. 28.—The m have been under arrest on a coroner's| scription bill for the or order. Canada_became o law signed by the governor-gene Count Okuma, the former Japanese | today. The bill was brought # ‘Premier, is reported seriously {ll. Ottawa by speclal messenger FURIOUS BATTLE ON THE AUSTRIAN FRONT The ltalians Are the Aggressors, With Austrians NEW POSITIONS HAVE BEEN WON BY ITALIANS In the Verdun Sector, in Frange, the Germans Have Ceased Eatirely Their Counter-Attacks Against the Newly W French Positions—Bad Weather is Interfering With Ac tivities in Flanders—On the Frontier of Bessarabia, in Showing Signs of Disaffection, and Have Quit Their Trenches and Retreated East—In Northern Russia No