Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 17, 1917, Page 1

— © VOL. LIX—NO. 348 POPULATION 29,919 NORWICH, CONN., WEDNESDA OCTOBER 17, 1917 Bulletin 12 PAGES—84 COLUMNS PRICE TWO CENTS Buy a Liberty Bond and Back Up the Boys at the Front, Who Are Fighting for Your Honor, Your Home and Your Country RUSSIANS STIFFEN THEIR RESISTANCE ,f,;l'd the Berman Forces Which Now Possess the Greater Portion of the Island of Oesel '}'GERMAN_:V_I_ARSHIPS UNABLE TO GIVE GREAT AID {The Russtans Have Sunk Two German Torpedo Boats and Damaged Two Others—Russian Warships are Reserved Yo Close Pathway Through the Gulf of Finland Up to ; g’elrogrlfl—“e Troops of the Entente Allies Are Still Ton in the hurried program of the Germans to seize in its entirety the Russian island of Oesel at the head of the Gulf of Finland. But although ‘their troops have now taken the greater portion of the island, the adi they had expected from their fleet in cutting down Russian opposition in jacent waters is meeting with con- iderable resistance from the Russian arships. ‘The Russians are dfsinclined to W their naval vessels into a gen- ral engagement with the invaders, fearing that the superiority of the ermans would result in losses to them hich would leave.open the pathway through the Gulf of Finland up to etrograd. But in a small battle with torpedo craft and possibly light cruis- ‘ers the Ruesians have sunk two Ger- man torpedo boats and damaged two others in Soela sound to the north of ‘Oesel Island, while the Russians them- eelves lost a torpedo boat destroyer. [The Germans, who twere accompanied v a battleship, put to eea after the ngagement. The German land Torces now are riving hard against the Svorb penin- mula, on the southwestern portion of he island of Oesel, with the object of capturing the batteries at Serel, which dominate the eastern entrance to_the 'Gulf of Riga. According to the Ber- lin war office, the Russians in this re- ion are isolated, but are desperately sisting. Berlin_reports also that bro Island, off the southern coast of esel, and Runo Island. in the middle of the Gulf of Riza, have been occu- ied by Teutonic troops. It is assert- The troops of the entente allies ar still keeping to their trenches in Flanders, probably awaiting a better- ment of soil conditions, which the re- cent rains and flooded .streams rem- dered almost impracticable for attacks. Probably, however, Fleld Marshal Haig and the French commander on his lefu have not yet sufficiently pounded the German lines with their big guns to warrant the turning loose of the in- fantry for other gains. Day and night the British and French guns are showering the German positions with the usual mass of steel which is thrown upon them prior to an attack, while the Germans at various points, especially in the important salient of the Ypres-Staden railway, are reply- ing vigorously. To .the south along the Alsne front the Germans, following a lively bom- bardment, have again attacked the French and succeeded in penetrating their entrenchments. As _has been customary, however, the French im- mediately counter-attacked and re- gsined the lost ground. Little fighting of great intensity, ex- cept by the artillery wings of the op- posing forces, is taking place in any of the war theatres, but there is every indication that shortly along the Isonzo front in the Austro-Itallan zone an- other big battle will begin. From the head of the Adriatic northward to the Eainsizza - plateau _ intense - duels are in progress along the front lines and against thte Austrian lines of communication in the rear. Consider- able activity is in progress along the Carso front. 53 Aerial raids in force have been re- sumed by British naval aviators on German_positions in Belgium. The Bruges docks and several air- dromes have been successfully bom- d that 2,490 prisoners, 30 guns, 21 achine guns and several airplanes vere captured by the Germans in ‘Oesel. ' Y barded. e FEASTERN STATES FACE H A SUGAR SHORTAGE. [#Feople Appealed To to C+* Down Con- sumption of Candy. ' .E Washington, Oct. 16.—The eastern States face a sugar shortage, with no prospect of relief before late in No- vember, when the new Hawalian and estern hect crops arrive. Tn a state- ment tonight forecasting the shortage, fthe fond administration agaln appeal- ed to the American people to cut down heir consnmntion of candy and sweet rinks and at the same time gave warninz that retailers alreadv have recelved their stocks at prices recently greed upon and the public sheuld pay 1o more during the temporary scarci 4n the east tnan it has been paying Ffaurinz the past 30 days. | The shortage is due, the adminis- {tration says, to the failufe of the pub- ilir outside of a few loval homes to |reduce consumption. ond the nnusual exports to T'rance in order that ihe French people may have their meager yaticn of one pound of sugar per per- ®on per month. [MILITANTS A “LITTLE i BAND OF WILFUL WOMEN" | [ White House Pickets so Classed by Mrs. Swinburne Hale. St. Louls, Mo., Oct. 16.—Mrs. Swin- Iburne Hale (Beatrice Forbes Robert- {son) of New York, spoke in. hehalf of !woman suffrage at the City club here {today. She said that if the world is {to be made safe for democracy, Amer- [fca could not coisistently dGeny. the ikallot to women. i Mrs. Hale referred to the suffragists {who are picketing the White House as “a little band of wilful women” who should not be considered as repre- i sentativc: of the suffrage organiza- tion. 5 \__Mrs. Ha niece of Sir Johnston {Forbes m, the English actor. CITY CCNVENTIONS HELD IN BRIDGEPORT. Democra: Platform Calls for Munici- pal Ownership of Trolley Lines. Bridgeport, Conn., Oct. 186.—Republi- cans and democrats tonight at city conventions named full city tickets for the election 6n Nov. 6. The republi- cans renominateé the entire republi- can ticket healded by Mayor Clifford B. Wilson. The democrats nominated William T. Kirk over George E. Crawford for mayor on the first ballot, the vote bLeing 838 to 22. The demo- cratic platiorm declares for municipal ownership of the trolley lines in order to defeat a continuance of the six- cent fa . HARD COAL OPERATORS PLEDGE THEIR SUPPORT To the Government in Solving the Coal Problem. Oct. 16.—Anthracite representing most of ard coal output. at a conference with he fuel administration today, pledged full support to the gov- ernment in solving the coal problem. They agreed to name a representative t oa t5 the agminis- trati and a committ to represent the lndu.ELry in all government deal- tnom ‘Washingt coal STATE GONVENTION OF KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. Nehemiah Candee of South Norwalk Elected Grand Chancellor. New Haven, Conn. Oct. 16.—It was announced tonight that the $2,340 needed to equip a motor ambulance for service in France had all been pledged at the state convention of the Knights cf Pythias here. The fund was started last night and was quickly completed today. The convention was adjourned after the election of the following officers: Grand chancellor, Nehemiah Candee, South Norwalk; grand vice chancellor, Maniius H. Norton, New Britai grand prelate, James Kelley, Jr., Wi sted; grand keeper of records, Ceorge E. Wright, Hartford; grand master of exchequer, William N. Potter, Willi- mantic; grand master at arms, Eman- uel Cave, Bridgeport; grand _inner guard, Frederick C. Margraff, Water- bury; grand outer guard, Willlam Cowlishaw, New Britain; grand trus- tee, John F. Osborn, Ansonia (for three years): supreme representative, Charles A. Gates, Willimantic: alter- rate, Past Grond Chancellor Deming, Seymour. ‘QUESTION OF SUPPLIES ] FOR SWITZERLAND Being Discussed by the War Board and the Swiss Minister. ‘Washington, Oct. 16.—Negotiations between the war trade board and Hans Sulzer, the Swiss minister, have reach- ed the stage where propositions made by the United States government re- garding the questiqn of supplies for Switzerland have betn forwarded by Minister Sulzer to his government for its consideration. It has not been disclosed what con- ditions are attached to the proposition nor what supplies it is contemplated to send. Mr. Sulzer hes been in consultation with the trade board almost daily and it is understood has been able to fer- nish the statistics the board asked re- garding Swiss exports and imports, production and consumption. STRIKING PUPILS STONE SCHOOL BUILDING. Police Reserves Call Out to Quell Riot in New York. New York, Oct. 16.—One thousand striking pupils of public_school No. 171, on the upper East Side of the city, who told the police they were striking against the so-caifed Gary system of school administrs¥on, stoned the institution today until it was necessary to call out the police. re- serves to quell the riot. Fourteen ar- rests were made. TO PERMIT EXPORTATION OF CORN TO MEXICO, Negotiations to Be Taken Up for a Million Bushels. = Mexico City, Oct. 16.—Secretary of. State Lansing at Washington has no- tified the committee on foodstuffs of the national ciamber of commerce that the United States will permit the exportation of a million bushels of corn to Mexion and that negotiations to this end shoul be taken up with Herbert C. Hoover, tha American food administratar. . | I Cabled Paragraphs Germany to Expand War Zones. from Berln in an undated despatch received by the admiralty by the Wireless Press, Germany is expected shortly to declare the coasts of the United States, Canada and Cuba war g a GOVERNOR ISSUES" LIBERTY LOAN PROCLAMATION Urges Every Man and Woman In the State to Subscribe. Hartford, Conn., Oct. 16.—Fullest co-operation by all the people of Con- necticut in an effort to make the sec- oad liberty loan a complete success is urged by Governor Marcus H. Hol- comb in a proclamation issued today, - ing ‘;umtng“ot Wedmm'd.ywn-,n naming’s , Oc= tober 24, as Liberty Day. The procla- mation. , State of Connecticut. By His Excellency, - Marcus H. Holcomb, Governor. A Proclamation: ‘Whereas the president has pro- claimed 'Wednesday, October 24th, as Liberty Loan Day and has made the afternoon a legal holiday for all fed- eral employes whose service can be spared to enable them to participate in making the day a success: I, therefore, urge the fullest co-op- eration by all our people, and suggest that so far as is practicable, the aft- ernoon of that day be devoted to a united effort to make the second lib- erty loan a complete success. Every- one in the state, man and woman, should welcome and embrace this op- portunity to subscribe to this loan. thereby demonstratis their loyalty to their country and their interest in our soldiers who are fighting our battles. Our state has ever responded to any demands made upon it to support our country, and will adequately respond to the present call. This is an op- portunity for every person to do his bit. Let us not rely upon the large subscriptions of a few but let every one subscribe for some part of the loan, thereby identifying themselves with this twentleth century war for the liberty of the peoples of the world. Given under my hand and the seal of the state at the capitol, in Hart- ford, this sixteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, nine hundred and seventeen, and of the independence of the United States, the one hundred and forty- second. MARCUS H. HOLCOMB, Governor. By His Excellency’s command: FREDERICK L. PERRY, Secretary. LIBERTY BOND SALES NOW EXCEED $1,000,000,000 ports Wired From All ‘Washington, Oct. 16—With four- teen working days gone and only ten more to come, Liberty bond sales were believed by treasury officials tonight to have just touched the $1,000,000,000 mark, a Tesult which has leq them to wonder if the $5,000,000,000 hoped for could be attained in the final days of the campaign. _“Committees in almost every part of the country still wire encouragingly that they can make their maximum to- tals,” siys a treasury department statement. “Possibly they can, but ¢ither they are concealing their actual sales—which is not believed to be the case—or there must be a most unex- pected spurt in the offing. “Certainly there is littie about the sales thus far to warrant great con- fidence that the $5,000,000,000 mark will be reached, Official fizures, representing actual sales, reported tonight to the treasury department as of the clbse of business yesterday, place the total of $528,230,- 850 or liftle more than half the $1.- 000,000,000 believed to have been sub- scribed. These figures do not include the resnlt of the two-day canvass made by 60,000 workers in the Min- neapolis district, and place the amounts in other districts far below the sums reported unofficially. The totals follow: Boston $68,300,000; New York $307,- 707,000: Philadelphia $19,441,500 Cleveland $2,090,000: Richmond $24,- 659,600: Atlanta, $7,405,700; Chicago $56,145,000; St. Louis $4,351,800: Kan- sas City $2,025,000; Dallas $4,550,300; San Francisco $31,554,950; Minneapolis no report. MORE LIBERTY BONDS TO BE TAKEN BY STATE Treasurer Chamberlain Wil $750,000 in Second Loan. Hartford, Conn., Oct. 16. — State {T'reasurer Frederjck S. Chamberlain will purchase for the state liberty bonds to the amount of $750,000. Mr. Chamberlain said today that the state held a little over $1,500,000 of the previous issue of the bonds and that he would exchange these for four per cent. bonds. The state wifl thus own government bonds to the amount of over $2,250,000. Under the Jaw passed at the recent sessions of the general assembly the state treasurer has power to invest money in bonds of municipalities and United States bonds and apply the in- terest to the building up of the state sinking fund to take cares of state bonds on their maturity. FURTHER LOANS TO THE ALLIED NATIONS Brings Total Credits of the United States Up to $2,711,400,000. Washington, Oct. 16.—oans of $50,- 000,000 to Russia, $25,000,000 to Great Britain, $20,000,000 to France and $3,- 000,000 to MBelgium ~made today, brought the total credits of the United States to allied nations up to $2,711,- 400,000. 5 Invest OBITUARY. i Linus Birdsey. Meriden, Conn., Oct. 16—Tinus ‘Birdsey, at one time a prominent dem- ocratic politician, died here this even- ing at the age of over 92 years. Up to his 80th year, when he lost the use of his lower limbs through paralysis, he had never missed a Sunday in at- tending service and Sabbath school at the First Bantist church. He served terms as sheriff and postmaster and in ‘his younger days was quite active in business cfrcles here. Wesley M. Owen. Bloomington, IIL, ‘Oct. 16.—Wesley M. Owen, nged 4§, who was an as-| sociate justice in the Panama Canal zone during the second administration of President Roosevelt died suddenly. at hia h?m. hare_godasc, London, Oct. 16—AccsTding to news World of Trade PICTURED TO SOUTHERN COM- MERCIAL CONGRESS BY SECRETARY REDFIELD Says Germany is No Longer the World’s Source of Potash, Dyestuffs, Optical Glass or Chemical Porcel: New York, Oct. 16.—What a differ- ent world of trade this will be after the war was pictured to the Southern Commercial Congress here tonight by Secretary Redfleld, In an address tell- ing of the cutting of the threads of Germany’s forelgn commerce by her own act, and of the awakening of America her allies to the danger of having industries dependent upon foreign and possibly upon un- friendly sources of supply. S Will be a Stranve World. “When peace shall come and her merchants take up the task of restor- Ing Germany’s ruined commerce they will find that it is a strange world which they seek to re-enter,” said the secretary. “There will be difficulties in the path of future peaceful pene- tration of which they seem not to dream. <Commercial frightfulness, like its military namesake, will have pass- ed away. “It will hardly be said again to any secretary of commerce of the United States that the German dyestuff verein will not ‘permit’ the establishment of an American dyestuff industry. The monopolies on which German_ foreign commerce in large part seemed to rest secure have passed away. Our friends beyond the sea and we ourselves have learned the danger of having our in- dustries wholly dependent on foreign sources of supply which may become unfriendly. . A German Delusion. “It is pitiful to read extracts from the German press which seem to show that they expect to take up the task of building their commerce from where they laid it down. They reckon the world’s demand for potash as a purely German asset. It was so but it is so no longer. They were the world’s source for dyestuffs. That op- portunity has gonme. It was they to whom the world looked for optical £lass. We do not look there now. They were the source of supply ' of chemical porcelain. We make it to- day as well as they. “I need not tell you of the commer- cfal value of what we call ‘good will’ .the.advantage of -doins business as ‘a gding concern.’ The great markets of the world have heen and are to be found among the nations who have parted company with Ger- many in the present struggle. Her past markets have been found among them. The peoples of those lands are not likely by one common impulse to turn quickly to Germany for a re- newal of the commercial intercourse which was broken by her act. Will See Things ferently. “It must be renewed under circum- stances of peculiar hardship. As it will be a strange world upon which the German merchant will look out when war will close, so let me add, it will be in a largze measure a strange world upon which the American mer- chant will Jook out at the seme time. When embargoes are over and trading with the enemy acts shall have ceased | to trouble; we also shall see things differently. The novelty on our part will not arise from separation but the reverse. We have gained and_ are gaining a better understanding of the world we live in. Secales of provin- ciallsm have fallen from our eves. Things Cannot Be as They Were. “When our sons have fought and died together with those of Great Dritain, France, Ttaly, Russia and our other honored friends, things cannot be as they were befarc that happened, ach knows the other better than he cid. Old lines of separation have gone. Our vision is enlarged. Applied to commerce, this means that we u derstand other peoples and their needs better and know better what we may to supply them. Our men with vision are®reaching out into all the lands. We are in_the family whether we will or no, and In my earnest be- lef, we shall draw richly from the family intercourse. “If we were those who look upon the peaceful contests of cormierce as economic war, we should hardly feel we could speak with freedom in this presence of the coming days when normal ccqmmercial intercourse throughout the world shall replace present restricted conditions, for we recognize as a matter of course, as an opportunity and a duty they are not siow to see and upon which they rightly act, that the nations associated with us in this war are preparing for their proper share of the world's bus- iness when the war shall close. “Belleving as #%e do, however, that commerce is not war but mutual in- tercourse to mutua] gain. we look without fear and with strong approval upon every effort of our friends to renew commercial and industrial ac- tivities in the happler days that are coming.” JAPANESE PARLIAMENTARY PARTY IN WASHINGTON Make a Study of United States Congress Methods. ‘Washington, Oct. 16.—The Japanase parliamentary -party of five delegates from the Japanese diet. heaed by Dr. T. Masao, arrived in Washington to- day to make a special study of United States congress methods and also to ascertain the state of public feeling in America concerning questions in which Japan is deeply interested. President Wilson will receive the mission tomorrow and they will call on_Secretary Lansing. Another special mission, represent- ing the imperial Japanese railways, which has come to study American transportation ad industrial conditions, will arrive in New York Oct. 21. Secretary Redfield of the department of commerce is arranging for the emn- tertainment of the , railway mission which will be received formally by the To Mexican Bandits Driven Off. Mission, Tex., Oct. 16.—Five Mexi- can bandits carly this morning at- tacked the Mexican village of ran- geno, six miles southeast of Mission. Armed citizens _drove th away. s Congressmen to After the War Visit_w_a_r Fronts TEN MEMBERS GOING IN AN UN- OFFICIAL CAPACITY OTHERS ARE TO FOLLOW Will Visit England, Belgium, France, Italy and Switzerland—Carry Letters of Introduction to Gen. Pershing. Washington, Oct. 16.—Ten members of congress, traveling in an unofficial capacity, but carrying special pass- ports arranged for by the state depart- ment, are on the way to Europe to visit fhe war fronts and fraternize with the parliamentary representatives of the allies. In the party are Repre- sentatives Dale, Vermont; aylor and Timberlake, Colorado; Hicks, New York; Johnson, Dill and Miiler of Washington; Goodwin, _ Arkansas; Stephens, Nebraska. and Parker, New Jersey; former Representative Stout of Montana and Ross L. Hammond, a Fremont, Neb., editor, and others. Arranged Trip Informally. The visit is a development of the recent cabled and personal invitations o frepresentative members of the British and French parllaments for closer affiliation of the parliamentary bodies of the allied governments through personal conferences at the British, French and Itallan capitals. President Wilson did not favor con- gress officially accepting the invita- tion at this time and neither house took action. but the ten members ar- ranged their trip informally. Other representatives are expected to follow soon. this is not an officlal com- Representative Dale wrote his constituents in explanation of the trip, “it is certified by the secretary of war and the speaker of the house as cn that goes in the interest of our country and the relations between its government and the governments of the allied nations Have Letters of Introduction. Members of the party are armed with letters of introduction to Ambassador Sharp at Paris, to General Pershing and to others. They will visit Eng- land, ‘Belgium, France, Italy and Swifzerland. and hope to be back in ‘Washington in time for the opening of congress in December. GOULD RELINQUISHES CONTROL OF D. & R. G. The MimmwreRuetic-Factivn-is- Now-in Control. Denver, Col, Oct. 16.—The Missouri Pacific faction, so-called, replaced the Gould interests as the controlling power of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway company at the annual meet- ing of stockholders of the road today, when only threc directors of #ke Gould wing were glven places, while four new Missouri Pacific faction di- rectors were chosen. Besides the three Gould directors, four others were re- elected. The Gould representatives now on the board are Arthur Coppell. Edward T. Jefferyv and George J. Gould. The new issouri Pacific” directors are Harry Bronney. E. L. Brown (presi- dent of the Rio Grande), J, Horace Harding and John W. Platfen, who heads the stockholders’ protective com- mittee. The other directors re-elected were B. F. Bush, president of the Missouri Pacific, Georze Haven. Finley Shepard and R. T. Williams. The directors are to meet in New York Nov. 1, when Mr. Brown, it is expected, will be elected to the presidency for the regu- lar term. STRIKE OF COAL MINERS HAS BEEN AVERTED In Mines Operated by Southwestern Association. Mo., strike of coal miners called for Friday morning in all mines operated by the Kaneas City, Oct. 16.—The Southwestern _ Interstate Operators’ association in Missouri, Kansas, Okla- homa and Arkansas was called off early tonight, according to Alexander Howat, president of District 14 of the United Mine Workers of America. The operators came here at the in- stance of Administrator Garfield to plan effective team work between the coal industry and the government. It was brought out that the mines have produced 8,000,000 tons more of anthracite than had been mined at the same time last year. All of the op- crators declared the most difficult problem is that of distribution, but they promised to co-operate with the government and the railroads in the program to furnish every consumer coal actually needed at government prices. THEFT OF METAL FROM A UNITED STATES VESSEL. Four Men on Trial at Boston—Held in $2,500 Bail Each. Boston, Oct. 16.—The theft of metal valued at more than $5000 from a United States steamship here was re- vealed for the first time today with the arraignment of three men before United States Commissioner Hayes on charges of larceny. The prisoners, John Quirk, Roy L. Betts and James J. Dalton of East Boston, and- Nicholas Fowers, a junk dealer, who whs charged with recelving stolen_ goods, pleaded not guilty and were held in $2,500 bail each for hearing later. The government alleged that the men took 4,000 pounds of brass, cop- per and iron while employed by con- tractors on the steamship in Septem- her. A GERMAN ARRESTE! FOR FALSELY REGISTERING With the United States Shipping Com- missioner as an American Citizen. New Orleans, Oct. 16—Harry H. Clifford, who admits he is a native of Dantzic, Germany, was arrested here today by department of justice agents on a charge of falsely registering with the United Statez shipping commis- sioner as an American citizen. The agents sald they were invest g Clifford’s suspected activities in this country. The prisoner told ‘the au- thorities that he was a member of the crew of the German cruiser Gneisenau, sunk in December, 1915, in the battle a2 tha Kalkland Condensed Telegrams Marshal Joffre inspected the Ameri- can troops in France. Mexico is expected to raise the em- bargo on coal shortly. Fifty women began training in Brook- Iyn to replace men as subway guards. American Smelting & Refining Co. reduced the price of lead from 8 to 7 cents a pound. Delivery of the second issue of Lib- erty bonds to purchasers who have paid in full was begun. The navy department airplane sta- tion and aviation school at Cape May, N. J., was formally opened. An order said to total $7,000,000 was received by the Central Leather Co. from the Russian government. The sixth annual convention of the International Association of Dairy and Milk Inspectors opened in Washing- ton. Nine emergency courses in war re- lief work will be offered during the present college year by Wellesley col- ege. American Ambassador Page to Lon- don, who has been suffering from an attack of ptomaine poisoning, has re- covered. Hundreds of young men are still wanted for the Second Naval Reserve district, with headquarters at New- port, R. L Dr. Henry van Dyke, former minis- ter to the Netherlands, addressed the Princeton students on Christianity and ‘world peace. The Meriden High school has raised the sum of $650 wit hwhich to pur- chase a Red Cross ambulance for ser- vice in France. At a meeting in Moscow the Ortho- dox council prohibited the clergy from participating in the provisional Rus- sian government. Alfred Halymar of New York was drowned when an American steamer was sunk by a submarine. He was a member of the crew:. Mayor Curley of Boston will present to the cfty council an ordinance for- bidding the employment of girls un- der 21 as bootblacks. Twenty Villa followers were hanged to telegraph poles near Torreon. They attacked a military train, mistaking it for a passenger train. Mediators of the department of la- bor settled the strike of rallway clerks and_ station agents on the Northern Pacific railway. ~The Memphis Merchants’ Exchange adopted rules forbidding speculation in cottonseed meal, but permitting hedege selling for protection. German trade union leaders visited German headquarters in the field to protest against the military suppres- sion of trade unionist activities. Cooperating with the Serbian gov- ernment, the American Red Cross ship- ped 5,000 bags of flour to Serbians held prisoners by the Austrians. Students of Phillips Exeter academy, | Bxeter, N. H., pledged themselves to refrain from many luxuries to raise 4,000 toward Y. M. C. A. war work. Another American cardinal will be chosen at a consistory expected to be held late in November. Archbishop Ireland is mentioned for the honor. One hundred and fifty young' men between the ages of 16 and 19 will be accepted by the Marine Corps as ap- prentices to be trained as bandsmen. Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice,. the explorer, was commissioned senior leutenant in the Naval Reserve, and assigned to the naval school at New- port. A committee of four was appointed by the Council of National Defense to make an immediate investigation of the housing situation at munition plants. Roman S. Malinowski, said to be a former officer in the German army, was arrested at Ansonia, on the charge of violating alien enemy re- strictions. Naval recruits laid the foundation for a bullding to serve as winter quar- ters at the Wakefleld, Mass.,, rifle range. The sailors will do all the con- struction work. Automobile accidents in Massachu- chusetts have decreased 14 per cent so far this year, although the number of cars registered is 32 per cent. more than last year. Dr. Harry A. Garfield, fuel adminis- trator, ordered the shipment of coal to Michigan to tide over consumers in that state until shipments to the north- west are going steadily. The French government authorized subscriptions to the American Libetry loan by American soldiers in France. There is a law in France against sub- scriptions to foreign loans. Shots were exchanged at a station on the Southern railway in Argentina between marine and strikers who tried to detain a supply train. One man was killed and eight wounded. = = | Controlling interest In the Argentine Navigation Co.. with $10,000,000 cap- ital and more than 300 vessels. was ac- quired by the Lamport $ Holt Line, and the Royal Mail Steam Uacket Co. Officials of state organizations of the United Mien Workers of America vot- ed to call a strike affecting all mines in Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas beginning Friday morn- ng. Seattle, Wash,, Is being terrorized by the presence of a “woman-slugger.” Six attacks on women were reported within 36 hours and women are afraid to venture on the streets after dark unescorted. Leo S. Rogers was appointed special assistant attorney general with head- quarters in Boston to aid in the prose- cution of the government’s anti-trust suit against the United States Shoe Machinery Co. Lieut. John Frost, U. S. R, and Lideut. McLaughlin of an artillery regi- ment fell 100 feet in an alfplane near San Antonio, Tex. McLaughlin is not expected to recover, while Frost was o m——t———dee et Government Expenditures SINCE JULY 1 ARE NEARING THE $3,000,000,000 MARK $1,571,200,000 TO ALLIES Receipts and Expenditures Are About Ten Times Greater Than They Wers for Corresponding Period Last Year. Washington, Oct. 16.—Government expenditures since the beginning of the fiscal year July 1 are nearing the $3,000,000,000 mark. The total, re- ported on the daily treasury statement of yestreday, was $2,291,075,341. This is nearly $§00,000,000 more than re- ceipts during this period, including the portion of the first Liberty loan paid since the fiscal year began. $1,671,200,000 Advanced to Allies. The greatest sincle item of. expendi- ture was $1,571,200,000 advanced the allies. Ordinary disbursements—in- cluding military and naval expendi- tures and the cost thus far of the shipbuilding and aircraft production programme—totalled $1,029,976,5641. A total of $286,711,722 had been expended in_the retirement of short time cer- tificates of indebtedness. Receipts From Ordinary Sources Receipts from ordinary sources, in- cluding the income tax (paid for the most part just before the end of the fiscal year) customs receipts and taxes on liquors, ber, tobacco and other al- rect taxes, totalled $269,642,505. A to- tal of $512,674,906 on the first Liberty * loan was paid in this fiscal year, while $1,350,000,000 was realized through the issuance of short time certificates of indebtedness which will have to be retired out of second Liberty bond re- ceipts. Receipts and expendifures for the corresponding period last year were $220,529,360 and $302,502,285, respect- ively, or about one-tenth of this year's figures. \ FIRE IN STOCKYARDS ' AT KANSAS CITY About 11,000 Head of Cattle and 3,300 Hogs Were Destroyed. Kansas City, Oct. 16.—Reports that the fire which today destroyed a large portion of the Kansas City stockyards and resulted in the death of approxi- mately 11,000 cattle and 3,300 hogs was of hcendiary- . okigim -persist though discredited by officials of the corporation owning the yards. While no definite estimates have been made, insurance adjusters and officlals of the stock yards corporation place the loss at approximately $750,- 000, Lieutenant F. J, Bishoff of the first | fire company to arrive at the yards after the alarm had been received, said that three fires were burning fully 2,000 yards apart, in different portions of the yards. George E. Collett, general manager of the stock yards, declared he be- licved the fire resulted from natural causes and the wind had blown sparks from_the first fire, starting the other | two blazes. Private detectives, how- ever were sald to be investigating the incendiary rumors. ANOTHER JEWELRY ROBBERY AT GREENWICH. Several Thousand Dollars’ Worth Taken from Home of T. L. Pomeroy. Greenwich, Conn., Oct. 16.—Jewelry to the amount of several thousands of dollars was taken by burglars from the home of Theodore L. Pomeroy some time last night or early today, | according to a statement made by the | police here. The famify was out of | town when tho burglary took place, | and are still away, so that the exaot value of the property cannot be ascer- | tained as yet. Entry to the house, ] | i which is In Maple avenus, was gained through a second story window, and the loot was taken from family bed- rooms. There is no clue to the thieves. Two weeks ago the home of Theodore Pomeroy, a nephéw of the man robbed | last night, was looted in the same | manner and a quantity of silverware taken. FOREIGN LANGUAGE PAPERS MUST FILE TRANSLATIONS Of All Articles Referring to the Gov- | ernment of Nations at War. | ‘Washington, Oct. 16.—Forelgn lan- | guage newspapers lssued after mid- night_tonight and not licensed by the postoffice department under the trad- ing with the enemy act must flle with their local postmasters English trafs- lations of all articles referring to the government of any nation at was. Otherwise the publications may not be mailed or distributed in any other way | under heavy penalty. Postmaster Burleson announced to- night that more than a thousand pa- pers had been licensed, SUIT OF INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER COMPANY. Reargument Postponed Until After the Steol Sult Has Been Argued. Washington, Oot. 16—Rreargument of the government's dfssolution suit against the International Harvester company was today temporarily post- poned when the case was called in the supreme court. Under an agreement between the department of justice and | attorneys for the company the cuse will not be held until after the steel ' sult has been argude, which s expect- ed to be some time in January. A FIREMAN ON DESTROYER COMMENDED FOR GALLANTRY Harold H. Duke Rescued a Shipmate From Drowning, ‘Washington, Oct. 16. — Harold H. Duke, a fireman aboard a United States destroyer, has been commended by Secretary Daniels for gallantry, in jumping overboard from his vessel on the night of September 14 and res- cuing a shipmate from drowning. An- other destroyer was moored alongside and Duke jumped in between the two ships_despite the danger of beins { 5