Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 11, 1917, Page 1

Norwich Balletin VOL. LIX.—NO. 395 POPULATION 29,919 NORWICH, CONN., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1917- TEN PAGES—70 COLS. PRICE TWO CENTS JERUSALEM FALLS TO BRI NEW REVOLT IN RUSSI The Holy City Fell to General Allenby’s Forces Wifil Sacred Plac SIBERIA IS TO AID KALE Commander of the Cossacks es Unharmed —_— DINE’S COUNTER-REVOLT is Moving Towards the Border of Ukraine, and is Forming a Menace to Moscow, Now Controlled by the Bolsheviki—From the Baltic Sea to the ' Danube River the Armistice Between the Russians and Rumanians and the Austro-Germans is in Operation— Withdrawing Forces From the Eastern Front for Service in Italy and France—Italians L Htvg Stopped the Attempted Drive of the Austro-Ger- £ mans Toward k= / Jerusalem is In the hands of the British after having been for virtually twelve dred years in the control of the Moslems. oly City of the Christian Te- ligton tulated to General Alienby’s forces, consisting of British, French and Italian troops, after it had been entirely surrounded, and with its fall ‘was swept away the dream of the Ger- mang dnd the Turks of driving south- Wward through Palestine, capturing the l!—z::] and invading Bgypt. Places Not Endangered. the recent tak'ng of the town [affa on the Meéditer-anean Sea and na: closing in on Jerusalem , the fall of the an- had been anticipated i lack of strength that | prevented its capture, but rather the desife of Gengral Allenty to carry out : ths city an.! forclng its capituiat as a fronta. ttack would have endangered tho umerous <acrcd piaces inside the city ‘and In its ebvirons. Revslt in Russia Grows. The counter-revolt wrainst Tol- oviki Fesime in southeastern Rus- apparently is saininz momentum. jthe movement is sgpreading -like f-om the ";ose"dbavw nol‘l!;- ward, nartheastwasd and.-northwest- ward, Wwhile preparations arc hasten- in= to: extend it =outhward iato the Catfadis. Meortims, the To'sheviki gove nt - contintes. to iscie mani- festogs calline upon its wers to resist th: attempt that is o made to overthrow it. May Menace Moscow. his base in the River Don re- gion’. Genéral Kaledines, hetman of Pon Cossacks, iz movinz toward th ers of the Ukraine, which al- of ana hostili hes declgred its independence to tne Bolsheviki sleménts, and’at the same time s b a menace to Moscow, where !mnhm-m is in control. In the center otherg of the revolutionaries are maling thefr way northward, _while from Oren) the Siberian frontier, is proceed- ing in a northeasterly direction with the objecf of capturing Cheliabinsk, the " junt n point of the trans-Sibe- rian railway, in order to prevent food and -other supplies reaching European Russia, and espebiaily Petrograd, from Siberia and Pacific ports. ew Republic of Siberia. Although it has not definitely align- COUNTERFEITING SCHEMES ; INVOLVING $1,000,000 Disclosed by William J. Fiynn, Chief of the Secret Servic York, Dec/ 10.—Counterfeiting sald to, involve more than and whose ramifications ex- to Europe, South America and the United St ‘were disclosed here tonight when Willlam J. Flynn, chief of- United States secret service, annéunced an elaborate plant for printing spurious money and French passports was seized in this city and that the third arrest of those involv- made here today. The men arrested were Leon Gross- wald, Louis De Shelly and Eugene Pa- rodi, a lawyer. Investigation isssaid to have dis- closed lh‘;‘the entire. plant was ‘brouzht from San Sebastian, Spain, early last April and with it a bundle of -more than _$1,000,000 in .spurious’ franc notes. Of this amount ‘the secret service men declared that &t least $65,000 has been put into ecir- culatiop in the United States. sch 31, AMPLE SUPPLIES OF STEEL FOR COUNTRY'S WAR NEEDS iAre Agsured by Representatives of the Nation’s Largest Steel M . Washington, Dec. *10.—Ample sup- iplied of steel for all the government’s ‘war needs were assured the war i board today by representa- largest steel mills. however, a different system of allocating orders to - take linto considerdible idle capacity, the fuel tion conditions. ith this suggestion, here- & of orders will be central- hands_of J. L. Replogle, the board’s steel expert, and it is be licved thit deliveries will be expe- vit: g TZSH ‘TUDENT! COME UNDER CLASS FIVE Thoze, Who Wish May Enlist in the : Engineers’ Corps. “ford, Conn., Dec. 10.--Governor received a telegram from Marshal-zeneral Crowder to- ing that students in_technical ‘who wished to enlist in the en- r«m could do so and those uid_report to local draft where they, would be entered ‘elass five as serving in the States service. Italian Plains. —_— ] d itself with the revolutionary move- ment, the new republic of Siberi. has issued an order that promises materi- ally to aid the Kaledines forces. This order fopbids the shipment of food supplies into European Russia, the ground being taken that they miy reach the Germans, Armistice in Operation. From the Baltiq sea to the mouth of the Danube the armistice between the Russians and Rumanians and, the Aus-| tro-Germans is still in operation. The ,agreement for the cessation of hig- tilities betyween the Rumanians and the Tentonic ailies covers the region run- ning from the Dniester river to the | mouth of the Danube, according to the Berlin war _ office. An _unofficial despatch from Jassy, the Rumanian capital says the armistice is to con- tinue for three months. and that the Teutons have agreed to all the pro- posals made_ by the Rumanians, ex- cept that providing that troops shall! net be removed to othor fronts. proposal is still under discussion. Germans Move to French Front. That the Austro-Germans are re- lieving men from duty ou the eastern front and throwing them into the lines {in France and in Haly daily becomes | more - apparent” by reason of the al- ! most ¢ontiruous augmentation of their forces in these regions The belief prevails_that with the’ fighting ended on the Russian front, for the moment t least, the enemy is preparing for |a great offensive on the western front Italians Stop Austro-Germans. The Ttalians have definitely stopped !the attempted drive.of the Austro- Germans roward the Italian plains and the Germans have failed thus far to | follow up their success of last week This against Goneral Byng’s army on the! Cambrai_sector in_ France. Both im Italy and where they have faced the | British the Teutons have paid dearly ! for any sains they have made, and ap- | parently now they ar2 endeavoring to {find some easier spot upon which to i make a drive. i . Possibly their search is leading them toward the line held by the Ftench, running eastward from the region of Soissons, through Champasme, past | Verdun and_up into Alsace, for all along this front they are showing great activity with their _artillery. Their apparent test fires are every- where being returned by the French artillerists. PROTECTION FOR YOUNG GHILDREN AND MOTHERS Undertaken by Children’s Bureau of the Department of Labor. ‘Washington, Dec. 10.—Public protec- tion for young childrén and mothers, the safeguarding of children from pre- mature labor and overwork, and decent home conditions through adequate in- come for.the fathers so that the moth- ers will not have to go out to work, is the wartime program for child wel- fare announced today by the children’s bureau of the department of labor in its annual report. 5 Surveys conducted by the bureau show that the chance of the life of the baby grows appallingly less as the fa- ther's_earnings grow smaller. Infant mortality among 13,000 babies in eight representative Ccities were studied. They showed that in families where the fathers earned less than $550 a year every sixth baby died, while in families where the father's income was $1,050 or more only one baby in six- teen died. MUNSON LINE FREIGHTER SENDS DISTRESS CALL Reported That She Was Sinking Southeast of C. Hatteras. An_ Atlantic Port, Dec. 10.—Captain Ingalis of the steamer C. A. Canfleld, which arrived here today from Tam- pico, reported that last Saturday when thirty miles southeast of Cape Hat- teras he received a wireless from Beaufort, saying that the Munson line freighter Mundale was reported in a sinking condition about twenty: miles distant from the Canfield’s position. Captain Ingalis immediately altered his course and hurried to the posi- tion given him but found no trace of the Mundale. He said he cruised in the vicinity for about three hours be- fore giving up the search. Waterbury’s K. of C. Fund $30,185. ‘Waterbury, Conn., Dec. 10.—A total of $30,185.75 was announced by the Knights of Columbus as the result of their week’'s campaign for war work funds, which ended at a dinner to- night. The goal set for the campaign was $25,000. —— " Trains Into New York Late. New York, Dec. 10.—Trains into New York city from the west and east today were from one to ten hours late as the result of blizzards. Several trains due in the aftesnoon hs? ~at arrived at midnight. - purchasers of Cabled Paragraphs Chile to Remain Neutral. Santiago, Chile, Dec. 10.—The gov- ernment today issued a degree of neutrality in the war between the United States and Austria-Hungary. 70 Persons Killed in Portugal. Vigo, Spain, Dec. 10.—Seventy per- sons were killed and 300 or 400 wounded in the uprising in Portugal last week, according to advices reach- ing here from Lisbon. ” Spanish Ship Shelled by U-Boat. Madrid, Dec. 10.—Premier Alhoue- mas made official announcement to- day that the Spanish steamship Clau- dio had been bombarded by a German submarine, eight sailors being killed and others wounded. OFFICIAL FIGURES OF HALIFAX DISASTER Halifax, N. S, Dec. 10—Figures officially given out tonight of the casualties in the munitions explo- sion disaster in this city follow: Known Dead 1,280 Identified 940 Unaccounted for 1,920 Wounded 6,000 Homeless 25,000 MISS HARRIET A. VARNEY MAKES VEHEMENT DENIAL When a Providence Second-hand Decal- er Said She Bought Revolver at His i Store. Dedham, Mass., Dec. 10. riet A. Varney, on trial charged with the murder of Mrs. Pauline A. Keyes of Grookline, sprang from her seat to- day to deny .he testimony of Clarke Goodchild. a’ Providence second-hand dealer, who had said he belleved the defendant to be the woman whobought - in his store on Mardh 16 of this year. “I never«dfd such a thing,” she cried. 1 never was in that man's store. He is swearing my life dway.” Miss Varney’s counsel hurried to her side and tried to quiet her, but she seemed thoroughly unnerved, in mark- ed coptrast to the calm that has char- acterized herattitude heretofore. Judgq O'Connell declared a recess. and Miss Varney’'s sister, Mrs. Arthur Morrison, of West Upton, went to her side. Miss Varney ket repeating over =nd over again: How can that may say those things laboyt me? How can he swear my life away ?” After a time she was quieted and the ssion of the court was resumed. ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION BUDGET FOR WAR RELIEF Expenditures in 1918 Will Reach $5,- 050,000—Approved by Trustees. New' York, Dec. 10.—The Rockefel- ler Foundation budget for war( reliet expenditures in 1918 will reach $5,- 059,000 with a possible addition of 45,000,000, which can be appropriated from ‘the’ principal fund of the§foun- dation. The budget was appr®ted by the trustees at their month.y meeting today. The estimated income for 1918 is $10,745.360, of which $4,293,360 is a balance from 1917, Consisting largely of moneys already appropriated for Red Cross, Y. M. C. A, and _other camp activities, and to be paid in 1918. The proposed expenditures include $3,845,000 tor the work of the inter- national health board. Of this amount $424,000 is for the tuberculosis com- mission in France. HEARINGS ON WATERBURY RENT CONDITIONS BEGUN. Mayor Scully Cites Instances When Rents Were Raised from $9 to $30 Per Month. Miss Har- ‘Waterbury, Conn., Dec. 10.—The first hearing on Waterbury rent conditions, held here today by the investigating commission recently - “appointed- by Governor Holcomb, adduced the fact that housing for only 2,044 of the 6,000 families who have moved here in the last three years have been pro- vided. - Mayor Martin Scully told of in- stances in which rent had been raised from $9 to $30 a month and from' $20 to $45 a month. He said the popula- tion had increased from 75,000 to 100,- 000 in the past three years. RELIEF FROM THE COLD > WAVE I8 PROMISED But It Will Not Arrive on the Atlan- tic Coast Until Thursday. Washington, Dec. 10.—Relief from the cold wave which noéw has the greater portion of the country in its ETip is in sight. The weather bureau announced tonight that temperatures will rise Wednesday in the Ohio val- ley, Tennessee and the east Gulf states, but that no material change is anticipated in the Atlantic coast dis- tricts before Thuraday. Present low temperatures are un- usual for December. Over a wide belt extending from the upper Ohio valley westward- to the plains states the tem. peratures today ranged from-30. to 3: degrees ‘below the seasonal average. NEW YORK GETS FIRST TASTE OF WAR BREAD But There Was Little Reduction in Price to_Consumers. New York, Dec. 10.—Bakeries in this city today started the baking of war bread, but go far as could be learned there were no appreciable reduction in price to consumers. The federa! food administration announced re- cently that it hoped consumers be able to buy the war bread at seven cents for a one pound loaf, but outs side " & few small shops, was_the lowest figure. at whi Reports were mlzgakm tuod_h‘firuu 5 two nkzepers had n m to un’-unr as a bonus to Railroads Do Not |Decision Adverse NOT NECESSARY FOR UNIFIED OPERATION OF LINES ASK GOVERNMENT AID Request Immediate Increases in Freight Rates and Exemption From Military Service of Their Employes—May be Subject of Special Message to Con- gre: Washington, Dec. 10.—The raflroads of the country do not seek a repeal of anti-trust and anti-pooling laws and do not consider such a step neces- sary to accomplish unified operation of rail lines, Fairfax Harrison, chairman of the railroad war board, today wrote Senator Necwlands, chairman of _the senate interstate commerce commit- tee. Would Raquire Special Legislatio Senator Newlands made the letter public_lat> today after a conference with President Wilson. The senator caid the president's plan for dealing !with the problem probably would re- i quire legislation and that it might be the subject of a special message to congress in the near future. For the present the railroads do not ask a billion dollar loan of the gov- ernment or anybody =lse, the letter said, and if they had the loan they (Contirued on Page Three.) UPWARD MOVEMENT OF INTEREST RATES. Government Loans to' Farmers Raised i from 5 to 5 1-2 Per Cent. | Washington, Dec. 10.—The general upward movement of _interest rates was recognized today by the federal farm loan board by raising the rate !on government loans to farmers from {5 to 5 1-2 per cent, in anticipation of a later increase in the present 4 1-2 per cent. rate on farm loan bonds. De. cision probably will be reached tomor- row whether to raise the bond interest rate at this time or to reduce the sell- ing price. which heretofore has been {at a premium of 1 1-8 per cent. In spite of the decision reached by the farm loan board. Secretary Mc- Adoo said today he hopes future issues jof Liberty bonds would bear 4 per icent. the same as of theé sécond loan. One of the immediate effects of the higher farm loan rate,’ it is expected, will be to encourage a similar advance of private mortgage loan rates on land, which mow range from .1-2 to 2 per cent. above the it 30 Re- % the . tre: several insuirance. loans on middle: western farm lands had decided to mdke no mew loans, in order to kdep their assets liquid. and would refuse to rénew many expiring mortgages. This, it was-pointed out, wonld tend to increase the cost of available loans. BURLESON REPLIES TO GOMPERS’ ATTACK tains Government Should. Not Affiliate With Outside Organizatiani. Washington, Dec. 10.—Postmaster- today that. companies with ‘#t‘ 1 Workers | Pony’s counsel, will. be pressed. general Burleson issued a statement| tonight in reply to Samue] Gompers’ attack upon_his.recommendation that | congress deprive postal employes of the right to organize for other than social and mutual . welfarc purposes and to affiliate with the American Fedération of Labor. He quoted para- graphs from his report pointing to the i dffcrence between employes working for private interests and those work- ing for the government, whose officers are merely executing the will of the people, and added: “The issue-is not whether the gov- ernment <workers should have the right to maintain organizations, but whether it is wise that they should affiliate with an_ outside organizaton !and use the strike and boycott as a {last resort to enforce their demands.” JAPANESE ARE HOLDING SUPPLIES AT VLADIVOSTOK To See That They Do Not Fall Into Hostile Hands. Washington, Dec. 13.—Unconfirmed reports ‘that Japanese troops are in contro] of the great quantities of sup- plies piled up at Viadisvostok for_the Russian government “created no sur- prise at the state’ departmeént today, | where officials are under the impres- | sion that a small number of Japanese | troops have Been there for some time. | It is said that there are mow piled up at Vladivostok ‘more ‘supplies -than the trans-Siberian railroad in its pres- ent state could move in many months. Before - the Bolsheviki got into con- trol, American railroad men had been dispatched to take charge of the sit- uation and move ‘the much .needed supplies to the Russian army. The concern now is to see that the_sup- plies do not fall into hostile hands. MRS. ANN M. RATHBUN GRANTED HER FREEDOM. Wasg Serving Life Sentence for Poison- ing Her Husband. Hartforg...Conn., Dec. 10—Mra. Amn Maria Rathbun, who was convicted in New Haven in .1900 .of murder, was granted her freedom today by the state ‘board of pardons. i Mrs. Rathbun was given a life sen- tence after her husband died of a dose o1 .poisoned coffee “which, it . was al- leged, had been mixed by the woman for a boarder in, the Rathbun house. OBITUARY. . Dr’ Andrew W. Tracy. Meriden, Conm., Dec. 10.—Dr. An- dréw- W. Tracy, mayor of this city in 1592, died. tonight at his home after a ‘four months’ illness of an incurable ‘und agraduate of McGill university, Montreal, Canada. - He came to Meri- 0! tice: of medicine ever since. was a democrat and served a term e year as . He. was a mem- G S e e wi S et S, no family, .a..wife -da disease. 'He was a native of Vermont :h graduation and has engaged (e x’E the_cjty council as: alderman and e Knights of Colum! He' leaves . “and ago. | 1 ediate hi died over fifteen years | extent of about $1( jpany and RENDERED YESTERDAY BY THE SUPREME COURT COURT DIVIDED 6 TO 3 Finding Upholds Injunctions Restrain- ing Union Offici to Is From Attempting Organize Employes :in “Open Shops”—All Peaceable Measures Are Not Lawful. ‘Washington, Dec. 10.—Decisions de- fining in general terms the rights of both organized labor and the employer were rendered today by the supreme court. While the right of workiien to organize for lawful purposes was re- affirmed, the. court held that employ- ers legaily may operate their plants as “open shops” and prevent conspiracies to_bring their non-union employes into labor organizations. Entitled to Operate Open Shops. The opinions were rendered in_the cases of the Hitchman Coal and Coke company and the Eagle Glass Manu- facturing company of West Virginia, the court deciding that bgth were en- tftled to operate their plants as “‘open shops,” and upholding injunctions is- zued by Judge A. G. Dayton restrain- ing union officials from attempting to organize their employes. Lower court decrees holding that the United Mine Workers of America and the American Fiint Glass Workers' union were ilie- 3al organizations and that under the Sherman law they were secret con- spiracies in restraint of trade wem ignored by the supreme court opinion. All Peaceable Measures Not Legal. In the Hitchman case the majority of the court held that the officials of the miners' union “deliberately. and advisedly selected that method of en- larging the union membership which would indict injury” upon the com- its loyal employes and de- clared that the “conduct in so doing was unlawful and maliciou: The court also declared that “it is "errone- ous to assume that all measures which may be resorted to in the effort to unionize a mine are lawful if they are peaceable—that is, if they stop short of physical violence or coercion through fear of it It added that ‘the purpose of the defendants to bring about a strike at the mine in owder to compel plaintiff through fear of financial loss to consent to the union- ization of the mine as the lesser evil was an unlawful purpose.” Three Justices Dissented. The court divided in the Hitchman case six to three, Justices Brandeis, Holmes and Clark dissenting. No for- mal “dissénting opinion wae rendered, pt a_brief statement made by J Prandels, who said he be- lieved the union had a right to do the ithings to which the other members of the court objected. Contempt Proceedings Pending. Contempt proceedings instituted last month by the Hitchman Coal and Coke company against President Frank J. Hays of the mirers’ union and fifteen other officials and members for alleged violstion ol the injunctions are still pending and. dccording to the com- The court today granted the defendants ty days in which to present their case. Gompers’ View of Decision. Today's opinion was characterized in a statement issued tonight by Pres- ident_Samuel Gompers of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor as “far-reac ing and unwarrantable.” He said through it John Mitchell, former pres- ident, and William B. Wilson, former secretary-treasurer of the miners’ in- ternational union, are stigmatized as conspirators. Despite the opinion, he declared. the work of orsanizing the workmen of the country in order to “reach our goal for a better concept of not only political but indistrial de- mocracy” will continue unabated. MAROONED ON ISLAND OFF SOUTH NORWALK. Robert Rowan, When Found, Was in a Half Frozen Condition. South Norwalk, Conn, Dec. 10— After a night spent on Cockeno Island, off this port, where he was driven by a gale which swamped his boat, Rob- ert Rowan wae rescued yesterday by Capt. R. G.. lendricks, lighthouse keeper here, and ‘brought to this city. A heavy gale. was blowing, when Cap- tain Hendricks, notified of the young man’s failure to appear, set out in a search of him. He found Rowan half frozen ‘in the cellar of a tumbledown building ‘on the island, the only shel- ter " the island afforded from the icy blast.. GENERAL SALARY INCREASES 'INSTEAD OF YEARLY BONUS Be Granted by the New York Telephone Company. New York, Dec, 10.—General sal- ary increases to meet the increased cost of living. will he granted to its employes by the New York eTlephone company instead of the yearly bonus whiclr the company has heretofore giv- en out, it was announced today. The Increase in the aggregate will amount virtually to double the bonus granted last year, it was stated, and will in no way affect raises awarded “from time to time in recogmition of efficient services.” PROHIBITION AND SUFFRAGE AMENDMENTS Be Considered Today - by the House Judiciary Committee. ‘Washington, Dec. 10.—Suffrage and prohibition * constitutional amendments will be considered tomorrow by the house judiciary committee, with indi- cations that the latter may be report- e dout for a vote in the house between Dec. 17 and 20. Leaders said. the suffrage resolution might be held up in committee until after the holiday recess. $10,000 Fire at Portland. Middletown, Conn,, Dec. 10.—Fire in tory o Eortiand onisht endangered ory * in 7 for a time lumber piled nearby for use in the construction of vesseis for the govérnment. Had this burned the vessels th lyes might have been 10st.” The shop was damaged to the 000 4= "4 “ndiar- wil wi | Condensed T_elegrams Oklahoma reported 20 below zere. Ecuador severed diplomatic tions with Germany. rela- Canada’s first drafted men will be called to the colors Jan. 3. Fresh labor troubles Argentina to call out troops. have caused Government President Wilson’s war message to Congress has been sent broadcast throughout Japan. The Culver. City. Bank,. Cal, was robbed by two men pretending to be moving picture operators. A Chicago warehouse recently leas- ed by the Governemnt was destroyed by fire of mysterious origin. Magazine of Halifax contributed $5,000 to the suffering at that city. District Atty Swann of New York, demanded that chorus girls and caba- ret singers put on more clothes. Lee Arthur, playwright, 47, died at Los Angeles, Cal, as the result of an automobile accident ten weeks ago. The St. Elizabeth College Alumni of New York. at a meeting decided to raise $50,000 for the Fordham unit. School children throughout the coun- try will be asked to begin saving their quarters to buy war savings stamps. The Consolidated Gas Co., of New York. will have the first coal gas motor car trial. London is full of them. Market experts in New York City report that cold storage and fresh eggs are being mixed and sold as strictly fresh. An extra dividend of $250 a share on the common stock was declared by the Pacific Mail Steamship com- pany. The sudden cold spell stopped opera- tions on the Iron Range Railroad from shipping iron ore from Two Harbors, Minn. The enlisted forces of the United States have reached a total of 1.360,000 troops, drafted, National Guard and regulars. = 1 Six mess halls of the 30th National | Guard Division at Camp Sevier, S. C., were burned by a fire which started in a kitchen. i According to U. S. District Attorney Thomas J. Spellacy, there are about 60,000 subjects of Austria-Hungery in this state. Before charidren can be placed in New York city charity institutions | hereafter they must undergo a medical { examination. The Jewish war relief fund has| reached a total of $2,400,000. It is ! now hoped that the $5.000,000 will be oversubscribed. The Standard Oil company of N.Y. today announced an advance of one | cent a gallon in the price of kerosene | for domestic use. Each meri of Company | of the| New York Third Infantry received a sweater from the Syracuse Soldiers’| Comfort League. The Patriotic Farmers Fund of Utica, | N. Y., is prepared to finance farmers in !theh‘ efforts to increase the production ’or shee and swine. The Belgian stéamer Ambiorix wa: sunk in a collision with the Norwegi an steamer -‘Primo in the English Chmannell. The crew was saved. Two million rounds of small arms ! ammunition, seized by Federal autho: i ities, on the Mexican border, were de- livered to the Mexican government. While kneeling at mass in the Church of the Ascension, New York, {‘Daniel A. Ross, 69 years old, was tak- enue Aoct. len ill and died before a doctor arrived. I At a mi { mission at Hartford it was voted to Forty enemy aliens, Austrians, several said to be agents of German spies and propagandists. were seized | by Federal officials in New York city. ield Secretary John D. Rockefeller, Jr, of the Y. M. C. A, reported at Camp Dix, N. J.,, for duty. He went to work at the building in the artillery unit, A boy nine years old caused consid- erable trouble ifor deputy marshals by shining a searchlight on a French ship that was lying in New York harbor. Five Americans, one German and three Chinese were tortured and shot to death by Yaqui Indians who raided Esperanza, 70 miles south- of Guaymas, Sonora. y The American Forestry Association issued a bulletin in Washington tell- ing the people how to cut wood more carefully and use it is a substitute for coal. P The Belgian Government turned over 600 locomotives to the United States expeditionary forces in recognition of what the United States has done. for Belgium. The Christmas bonuses given by the exchanges, bankers and many industri- al firms may be taxed this year tnnder certain circumstances of the war Rev- ing of the state park com- ‘TROLLEV FARI: ! York, New H: | indeed, a deficit did not result. Third Blizzard Strikes Halifax SINCE EXPLOSION ON STEAMER MONT BLANC THE HALTED RELIEF WORK Storm Broke Suddenly, But Was of Short Duration—Steamer Picton Has Been Sunk—Visitors Wil Permitted to Enter City Because of Not be Lack of Accommodations. Halifax, N.° S. Dec. 10.—A roaring blizzard, the third to strike this sore- ly afflicted city since t/ie blast irom the exploding munitions steamer Mont Planc made 25,000 persons homele: four days ago, burst from the north- cast late today. Ragir.g with the fury for which these jiorthern winter storms are noted, it 3udl but crushed the hearts of the brave band of work- ers struggling againsi overwhelming odds to alleviate suff ring. Soldiers Obliged fo Withdraw. For a while the cgntingents of the Canadian army stationed here toiled doggedly amid ic e-shrouded ruins for the unrecovered dead, but when the wind veered siddenly to ths southeast and blev; with redoubled force the soldiers ‘were oblized withdraw. Pumgs bearing suppliés and food > the numerous re- lief stations were stormbound. Lighting System Broke Down. The crippled llghting system dewn again, leaving the city in dark- ness. Burial payies who had volun- teered their services when the medi- cal authorities anjiounced that the re- ccovered dead muj;t be disposed of at once were driven' to cover. From the devastated area I>f two and a half broke (Continued «m Pags Three.) HEARING HIZLD IN HARTFORD 3 = Argument Made That Purchasing Power of a Nickel Has Dwindled One-Half." . Hartford, Cann., Dec. 10.—Argument that an arbit-ary fare limit of five cents for strf:ct car service was an economic errcic was made in behalf of the Connectic it Company &t the hear- ing before the public utilities com- mission on Harfford’s protest over the present :fx-cent rate. Arthur M. Collens of Clreenwich, an insurance and finance eypert, made the argu- ment, declaribg that the higher.fare was needed bi>cause the purckasing power of -a plickel had so dwindled that-it was nidfx only about half what it was when ‘the trolley company was organized. A {six cent farc was.necr cssary, he sa[jd. to_give the railway company bette{~ credit, to aid the New ven and Hartford Rail- road company, which owns the street line, and to r¢:assure the public tha* its_securities { were sound. Statistics we\e quoted to show that, basing estimate on business done un- der increased /costs. it was probable that no net reyenme would accrue to the Connecticuf\ company this year if, The hearing will be dontinued tomorrow morning. CHARGE DWITH, MURDER OF PARTNER AND FAMILY George C. -Tompkins Placed of Trial ‘at Edenshurg, Pa. Ebensburg, Pa., Dec. 10.—George C. Tempkins, Phikadelphia coal operator, was placed an : trial here today. charged with murder in connection with the deaths near here on July 15, of Edmund Humphries, hi¢ business partner, Mrs. Hmmphrles and Ed- mund Humphries, dr. The Humph- ries family was a memWer of an au- tomobile party’ with Tompkins and the three weie shot to death on a country road. Tompkins, in summoning assistance after the tragedy, told a story of -the party being beld up by bandits and shot to death. After his aicrest In connection with the crime, it is said that he confessed to the three murdefs. Later, he is said to haveyrepudiated the confession. A jury was completed within -less than ‘an 'hgur and a half, and such rapid progress was made: today that it is expected: the prosecution will close its ‘case, tamorrow. FURTHER CULTAILMENT O ELECTRIC ADVERTISING. Plan to Stop All Outdoor Lighting Ex- cept Street Lights. ‘Washington, BDec. 10.-~Regulations limiting electric display advertising Lave failed to conserve the amount of fuel hoped for by the fuel administra- tion and a plan is under consideration to stop all outdoor lighting, save street lights, at least three nights a week. Institution of “lightless -~ nights” would snuff out entirely the -white ways of cities which now are permitted to burn all. lights for a period of two and one-quarter hours a light. It would darken on the nights to be named all window display lights, the- atre fronts and directional signs on shops, hotels and restaurants. On i buy’ a section of Meriden Mountain known as West Peak to complete a public park. Word was received at.Hartford of the ‘appointment. of Raymond BE. Hackett _of Stamford, as assistant United ®tates district attorney .&or Connecticut. Seventy men were accepted for the army- at the, Waterbury recruiting station yesterday out of 102 applicants. This is byfar the - daily enlistment record for the city. J. Ernest Kunwald, an Austrian sub- ject and director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, was arrested at Cincinnati on an order by United States Marshal Devanney. Aftor 47 years’ service as a weaver, Mre. Leblanc Lamay, employed at the Tetired, She was presented with a purse of gold by associate workers. United States Judge eeder sentenc- ed Louis Tinck, Belgian boardinghouse Kkeeper in Manhattan, ‘in a Brooklyn court to a two years’ sentence in the Atlanta penitentiary for smuggiing Tubber to Germany. other nights there would be no re- strictions whatever against any sort ot lighting. NEW YORK CENTRAL IS REFUSING SHIPMENTS Of - Freight For AIll Points East ef Cleveland—Due to Storm. Toledo. 0.\ Dec. 10.—All shipinents of freight for points cast of Cleve- land are being refused by the New York Central. No freight trains out of Toledo for points east of Cleveland are running. Trafc conditions due to the storm caused the embargo, - which is temporary. All passenger ns are hours late, both ways. Record Enlistments for Regular Army, ‘Washington, Dec. 10.—Regular army recruiting for Saturday and Sunday reached .a total of 4,596, the highest mark set since April 1, even for a week end period. 8ir Mackenzie Bowell Dead. Belleville, Ont, Dec. 10.—Sir Mac- kenzie Bowell, premier of Canada from 1894 to 1896, died here tonight after s week's fliness, He was 94 years eld