Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 6, 1918, Page 1

ity compen= ! disabili W%admlmu "The com- th - to completé ihe bill to- and Chairman Sims will in- - h’vm:‘!t in the house as soon there- possible. ~ Senate. w&:.fi:: of 'thy measure heid m,‘“’.,‘fim w&. ifiun HUDSON "RIVER FROZEN nown TO HARLEM New Y% h“ftza EA-°GB|FI ‘n.ml ‘weather wi e down to Harlem andm:en!zhfl {heavy ice | United Nurm wmx ae mm non' of lheln ‘be re-exported into: GQ- ggy‘ Norway in b&éomm&l ve rfled filt P :fix % mne’ the/ Teutons E:mn tvmuxmmfix‘g"m e Ammderundhfln % ‘w eral neutrality. m, - Feb. 5.—Amendmfents ernlng importation, storage .and ware- m.m.fl'b\luon of food commodities and | feeding stuffs were issued in pamphlet ta | form wm‘m by the. food administra- e Sl e ~3 | censees water ® fishermen whose business .does not extend be- | yond primary consignment and millers of wheat and rye with Dhn'-u ham a l::n ity ‘of less than The amendments and additions be- in force February 15.. The purpose is ‘{to prevent hoarding and Mhfion.. SERIES OF .CONF ERENQEO 5 A'I' BERLIN 'MON DAY thr E:nmr William Presided at a i 4 crwm Couhml. A don, . Feb, PACKERS AND EMPLOYES ARE STALL AT ooDs nAanom TRAFFIC WAS | -5 bnfl‘;‘:_m BY COLD Pasis Traing Two Hours - o Springid and Boston. .,33"":"'.!1 H. H. DE LOSS PRESIDENT i STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION Annual Tournament at New Haven ‘Ofiuu‘h Club J.n. z, a. 2. to the regulations gov-|tion ‘who h-ve bent fi:efr eners'!es toward 'i',’,f an adequate ‘supply. of coal in- metropolitan ‘district. - It was . worst day of the ”’l’hedmfion\asmcmlu ‘more m ofltzéh;fln it has q\‘.et been said e1 Wiggin, state aamin ks his is due to Imdto hy the CREW OF ENGLISH T NK Camp Dix, erghtstown N. J., Feb. 5.—One man was badly _injured -and several fellow. members of the crew of the English tank “Britannid” were we- verely shaken up and hruised when the big machine turned turtle foday while attempting to climb out of a gravel/pit during its initial demonstra- before Camp Dix > soldiers. An innocent little New Jersey. snow bank hurled the thirty fon: truck on its side in the bottom of the gravel hole. The tannk was uot badly damaged. Private Donaldson — was = crusted when the machine fell over and army mrgsons have not yet 'been’ able to! rmine how seriously he is - hurt. sands of soldiers had as od to witness the work of the tank, THE COLDEST FEBRUARY . 3 s IN- MANY YEARS. lenld Traffic in Pann-ylvam- De- Phlhdfl!phi& Feb. ‘Wweather ir many years de- ‘moralized raifroad traffic in Pennsyl- vania and ‘greatly irterfered with the mining of coal today. From all , parts | of 'the state came reports of severe weather and of paralyzed railroad ser- vice, shortage of coal and scarcity of water, - In . Philadelphia the <temperature ! went below. zero for the third time this winter. the mercury registering| minug 2 tln:ne- 1y in. ths day. MEXICAN OFFN.'.ERS SHOT \WHEN TH Y REFUSE-D To HALT Grande: in Violation of L-w Fagle Pu-,'!fln.;l?'eb 5—As a re- [ %o | tusal of the order to halt, Licutenant | A. Coste shot and killed and Ma- jor Manuel.Ruiz, both of the Mexican hlun prisoner - today -by pting flahunn’ol international Major Ruiz was turned over to the Mexican’ ¢ommander in Pedras Negras ‘who is modng an mvestmaflon MERII_)EN AWARDEP PRIZE HOME GARDEN WORK d 1By - fln Nlfionll Anrhullurtl Prize A DARK FLOURS: JN BOSTON. > F-hbo !l-y Be Sold | :' Wheat Flollr . Substitute. ] —Because of uu g mm r‘.lu so-called Tl urs, a propor of which must e od with wheat dour, Sua te Food 8—A tatoes may |thrown at the imperial palace Meriden, c‘om, Feh 5.—The Meri- den chamber of commerce today re- ¥ ve ‘from Washington - that ity* been awarded the first by the National = Agricultural ‘ommission: for accomplishing the best. results from home. garden work last simmer of any city in the United States. = BOMB THROWN AT THE _ IMPERIAL PALAGE IN BERLIN By Strikers “Saturday Evening—26 Persons Were Arrested. London, Teb, bomb was in Ber- | capt uv,nlm; ac- AL e T nm zumfim | fered ecually. Coal, forme closing night “to havel ed that untl the weather permits an impro “in railroad - transportation t should ‘be conunmd in !me. evan Monday closings, zhudune@ mdumy would be ‘loreed tq clése down to a.considerable time for a lack of fuel suppli fact, to the fuel admini: ht ~showed - that . in mnty ’filu already are closing -in emphasized that the fuel ad- i;‘ldaterminetd that ‘what rs have been giw‘ng unumnéd authority to divort .coal Wm other consumers to keep the people warm in the't homes. ¥ ¢ Situation is Alarining. - For the first time since coal began | 18, | to run short, fuel sdministration offi- ‘chh afi:&nthté the sitpation is NM ng. i after report w the day ulunt of dfifl(l from: the Missis: without. mufi& - were to, move. All \industry- in In wis said; was abou the. situation in_ Ohio Wakhingion Fo on to make !oi}oaid. o zens of cities closed their today in order to save coal. Railroads in Deplorable Sha The railroads today were to be in the worst shape mm been at_any time during the winter. Tow temperatures made it impos=ible in_some instances for trainmen to work and general freight movement was said to be about 50 per cent. of normal. May Be er‘flq Shutdown. There are some indications' that if better weather does not come to im- prove the sitnation officials will take up for consideration an amendment to the closing order preserit day shutdowns, one covering the peri- 'od of Lincpln's birthday anniversary and_the other Washington's birthday. Lincoln's birthday, F“:E‘ 12, falls- on Tuesday, bringing a three-day holiday over Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, If Saturday, usually otserved as a_ half boliday, were made ‘a complete holiday, this would give a four-day closing. Washington’s birthday, Feb. 22, on Friday. offers anotber oppoftunity to mabe Saturday a complete holiday and tix:;_ &ive another four-day. dofing “pe- b Railroad ulm!nhmfinn reg - -to- day said freight. movement, been cut in half and passenger. c. sut- the bulg roads were able:to move through “winds and drifting snows, but delj S ev- erywhere were. far helow ‘mormal dfl mands, i 7 Prospects ‘for lmprovomu Prospects: £6r material in the next few days were Adding to the !'l-lm 1any. coal mines and..collie Pmm)vnnfi. West Vlry(ni: MAOhio Iy Stopped operations because ather pept workers at - home, ct of this reduction of out- of ‘the ‘freight B a';‘ed put th | zestion ‘!here imued Water froze In tanks at sidings and derailments caused b& the filling of n'lmu and frogs with snow were numerous. palv‘;erf 1 'Yorl; hd” :lo A el't“;' fi bl ul tugs had diffieulty in m.k— ing through the ice,-and a marges returning from a. trip to Bngland with coal were stuck. BADGES FOR MEN = EXEMPTED OR REJECTED Arg to Be Provided by the Secretary| - 1ol W-r. p mv{'g"“‘b“fi?“ thF;:ixl th v on au e of yar to provide dlhth“cuvs mmfi men of draft age who have been ex- empted or rejected, was pa by the genate., ¥ rw* (er Another measure the reorganization of the 1 ngerg corps. Under the bill' com will_be composed of seven ’w and two mwnM *bn brigadier ges Jeutenant - colune)!. The senate also puled mm chufi‘berhm'- bill, making it a' soldie 1 “almost | 1. 3 prmler. .| at Hazleto: nun‘m i es * in their of , sickness, re- 1 ?It;f‘nnm of uxe ‘men hl mpartial jury and the ecrime ts ices under pre- _ penalty { the term of the ¢ ¥ o munitions plants and years and six months mers ‘convicted wday !oUuw ‘Captain Otto Wolpert, former super- lnleadent of the Atlas ' Line pier, which was operated by the Hamburg American Steamship company. He was arrested two days after the dec- )aueion of the - United n e"mfigicwn of da?sm en: alien. former) ou Klel an 1itizen, was Dr. Walter P. Seheele in ca) plant in Hobo- is missing and d-to-have aided him into - fire e}ectflc!an ‘on_the 1 Lloyd unor Friedrich dccused of hay- and carried them e: He has vious con- a sea James M. Brode ch}et of the. Wnne;“k‘ '(fimyuu“om hoy Offered to Pu‘m Scores of " Instances of D-I-:-&Guvn, Changes |in Personnel and Misuse of Rolling ines since it was organized, is dead on, Pa. - Provost Mmh.l-flmnl Crowde: announced that another - detachment | of 75.009 dntted men will start m ing in tew weeks, Oniry six of th- 73 Harvard | th'c students who won their “H” last year usxfifli’nthduntvmly _The rest m-hm ‘accompanied by and. an ice-breaker were| " ‘One man was killed and oné seri- ously - injured xn ‘hen Whm »Id-m ne.lu‘t their clothes they will have to pay for them out of their own money, according to bulle- tins at Camp. Wadsworth 7 dfiib' fight promoter, announced that he was through: with the arena. He left for South Amer- ica, where he will remain; Lansing announced - that the Unif States will place German prisoners in cages, in retaliation for their tréatment of Americans. Emma Goldman, charged with try- ing to obstruct the selective draft law, was_sentenced to two years' impris- onment at Jefferson City, Mo. The Steuben County Society will hold a patriotic war supper instead of its elaborate - dinner, in connecunn with itu twenty-third ‘' reunion. ‘One hundred janitors of - Public Schools out of 132 employed. in Pitts- burgh, will turn in their keys unlen the wage differences are ‘settled. Mobilization of certified aceountants who come within the draft law was ordered so as to supply vacancies in the army business organization. . The Clyde and lwm-;' steamship lines have as] to in- crease rates on ports 00 New mt at th & Prague, the . euiml de; a German: ym .ml Jotm!h Zeffers, an . eitizens, were accused of -and handy men for Buno Bode; Dr. Karl ;. Dr. W-.uer E Scheele and mfis dantluga‘\;l S;hnj;ldt not. zu: y the jury on Friday. by order of the court. when it was found ‘that there was not suffi- cient evidence to comvict him of the charge. PRESIDENT EXPANDS THE TRADING WITH ENEMY ACT To Include All Al Aliens Who Have Been Pormlnemly Interned. ,Wathingten, Feb. 5—President Wil- son by proclamation today included under the term. ‘onemy” in the trading Wwith the enemy act all alien enemies who haye been permanently interned by th-war department. The effect of the proclamation is to enable the enemy aline property cus- tndian to take over and manage the property of enemy aliens of reans who have been permanently interned, thus eliminating any possibility of their carrying . on ' from the internment c'unpl, trading activities which might be inimical to the interests of the United States. In an ‘explanatory statement iesued by A. Mitchell Palmer, alien property custodian, it is pointed out that the proclamation is limited to a small class of ememy aliens and does not include in its scope an alien enemy under ar- rest in a local jail who has not been transferred by the war department nor an enemy alien on parole, DEFIFIENCY 'APPROPRIATION BiLL LARGEST IN HISTORY c-rr-.n lfivnln 31.500,000000 and $2,- MM,M—R-pan.d in House Today Washington, Feb. 5—The largest deficiency appropriation. bill in the history of the United States, carrying tetween $1,500,000,000 and $2,000,000,- 000, including huge sums for aviation and for the a) and navy, was com- pleted today- w the house appropria- tion sub-committee. It will be report- .d tomorrow to the full committee. Baker today askea con- of {gress for $13,211,180 more for com- ‘struction of army quartermaster store- .| houses in the Panama Canal zone dur- 1d asked for a deficienicy appro- priation of $150,000 to repair light- ‘houses destroyed on: the Atlantic coast | By ‘storms this winter, SERIES OF WAR CONFERENCES ' To BE HELD IN BRITAIN Tn Be Continued to Discuss Matters o Ar ngOutufth-W-r. . London, Feb. 5—The British gov- ernment ‘has decided- to hold ‘another series of imperial war ts and | imperial eonterencn this. ysnr in eqn- ts { tinnation of those held last year uss matters arising out of the New Zealand is the only British do- mlnhlf ‘whieh ‘thus far has named her entatijves. ‘They will be William Massey, the New Zealand Sir Junph G. led. min- ' jster of ifln ‘ wlmflmlona(mfl;lxhqm ‘g dispatch to Count Maurice de. Beadlfl. o art dealer, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment in London. for !nrgin‘ the name .of the late J.-P. Morgan. International prohibition to prevent American grain from being: made in- to British beer was urged by the ll;u:‘.:ors Association of Washington; The. Chinese President issued a mandate ordering the Chinese military commanders to lead the troops to punish the rebels if they fire on for- eignl boats. Charles Piez, general manager of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, declared that the fate of the American army and the Allied cause depends upon labor for shipyards. Increased rates on manufactured steel and iron products not to exceed 15 per cent were asked of the Inter- state. Commerce Commission, by the Pennsylvania railroad. Brigadier-General Albert A. Logan, of the 28th National Army, at Camp Hancock, Ga., and Brigadier-General W. Sillwell, were discharged from the army because of phynlm.l defects. The Rundle -nd White hat factory, one of the oldest in Danbury, and lo- cated in the heart of the manufactur- ing district, was burned.last night. IThe loss is estimated at about 550, 000. The International Institute of Agri- culture of Italy has- appointed the Chilean minister at Washington, San- tiago Aldunate, honorary member of the standing committee ‘of that insti- tution. &2 A resolution asking the treasury to aflvin the ‘senate. re- garding the allowances that have -been |" paid to” soldiers’ families during the past three months, was adopted today by the senate. - '‘Because he considered it a_shameful thing to. be forced to leave his finger prints at the. police station, Hugo: E. ‘Wasserman, wealthy German mporter, Jjumped from the twelfth story vdndow of a New York hotel. Sevcul severe earthquakes were felt ?l Revelstoke, B. C. each sheck last- ing ‘about thirty seconds.' The move- ‘ment was so marked that many per- sons experienced a feeling of nausea. No damage was caused so far as is known. GERMAN SOLDIERS IN FLANDERS DISCONTENTED They Are Said to Have Incited Bel- gian Laborers to Strike. Amsterdam, = Feb, 5.—The Tele- that the measures takenmwypmiwyp egraaf’s ‘ashington, Feb. 5.—Ineficient .op- euutrg of ‘the rfilmdn, resulting in traffic , wl‘.h its grave at- i iz ev] hwaflns bgl nn%on " W at ‘a he: today be- fore the railroad wage commission to a desire on the parl .of the manage- ments of the systems to discredit the eifilt hour law and to make a failure of government control. Why: Tmuwwn callupecd 'nxh s!mnhn. tie commission was Lee, head of the train- itnesges, exvlained transportation system of the r, . including sich roads of splen- n"t‘.u finnsnvanza, sud- e rhood such vigorous s ions " to convey their opinion ot the. way the business has been carried on since’the government took charge and they offered to pro- duce " scores of instances . of delayed crews, changes in personnel and mi: use of rolling: stock to prove thflt statements. s ... Hearing Wase Ruffied. . The ordinarily quiet course of such a hearing’ was from the 'very outset.- Lee and tson, appearing to present the dalmé £ ‘their brother- hoods for wage increases, found Seyv-. Q‘m‘.’l railroad reprenrfiluves‘prmm‘ al entered an immediate protest, de- thiey ‘did not propose to deal with two sets of employers. The Com- mission explained tkat the men were there by special invitation, to-supplement, not to antagonize, the information presented by - the em- Overtime Has Been Doubled. This question - hardly had been smopthed over hefore discussion of the working of the eight hour law and the effect -of government supervision of the roads precipitated charges by Lee that the gements were doing their utmost to discredit both. He said overtime had been doubled and tripled to make the effect of the Adamson law more exsensive and to represent that the workers were obtaining large wage increases. Furthermore, he declared that every effort. was being used 'to handieap transportation to create dis- sat on with t.bg government's part in business. " ‘Word ‘Bassad“Down'the Line. deuwco \u.dm as “rotten a conspiracy. the prgsidenta fio‘m to the .dispatch- eré,” to delay trains under government | supervision, but ‘insisted ' mfllclme per- 8ons - were ‘obtain what the to t.rsln upuc’herq as “train. delay= mw-y Lane, chairman of the commission, asked numerous questions concerning the union leaders' all tions and wanted to know if he t that the railfoads actually had run np their operating costs in order to dis- credit the Adamfon law. Mr. Lee re- plied that was the case. adding that it was “perfectly G “I do not think it was natural; ‘I am not so cynical about human na- ture," the secretary replied. arretson Defends Employes. Mr, Garretson au,pplmznud his col- leu-du “The operating employes are mon'mamy araware of the type of clearing congestion which was in effect before the government took over the roads,” he said. “They also are aware of the kind of trans- portation now being given, but I want to say there is ons class of employes not engaged in giving a demenstration of what a failure government opera- ufll 1s” Wfiu “Used as a Cloak.”: D. W. Helt, grand chief = of the Brotherhood of i Signalmer, assérted that the work of the wage commission was being “used ‘as a cloak” by some of the roads to discon- tinue negotiations with empioyes which were begun before the commis- sion was ‘appointed. ' He said the sig- nalmen’ on the New York, New Haven and Hartford were on the verge of quitting their jobs becguse of inability obtain satisfaction on demands xpads in December. Requests for Increased Wages.' Requests for increased wages were made: by Lee, -Garretson and Helt on behalf their organisations; by E. B. llorton, representing the Order of Railway Station Agents and the hood of Railway Towermen and en, and by P. J. Coyle, repre- senting the Brotherhood of 'Railroad Station Employes. All of them told of increased living costs. The unions, : half for overtime. TARTAR FORCES ARE ADVANCING .ON SEBASTOPOL They Are Dealing Mercilessly With Red Guards, Sailors and Soldiers. Petrograd, Saturday, Feb, 2—Tartar frontier . correspondent says 1 that the measures taken by the Ger-|Se& man officials against the strikers leaders in Germany evoked great dis- content among: the German soldiers in Flanders. The correspondent ad that in many cases the soldiers have in Belgian laborers who have been torced by the Gcrmxns to work to go|. on strike. $125,000 Fire in Cleveland. Cleveland, O., Feb. 5—Fire early to. night caused a loss estimated at $12; 000 in the Bond Street building on East Sixth street at Vincegt. The fire is said to have started in a hat woth onthe second floor. 5 In the dthe n Cflmnln %m-