Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 9, 1918, Page 1

\ VOL. LIX—NO. 35 PO ATION 29,919, AMERIGAN SHARPSHOOTERS WATCH SKILL WITH GERMANS Thus Far With the Rifle, Men From the United States Have Shown Their Superiority Over Enemy Tendered the Resignation of His Cabinet to Emperor Charles—British Admiralty Figures Show That 147 American Soldiers, Four of the Number Officers, Were front have matched their markman- 147 AMERICAN SOLDIERS LOST ON THE TUSCANIA ship and wits against the skill and ex- perience of the German rifiemen op- posed to them, and thus far have had the advantage. Enemy snipers have been routed from their hiding places among bushes in the hilly, wooded ter- min or in shell holes by the expert fire of the Americans and where the proved unavailing there was brought into action machine guns or artillery which destroyed the German shelters and made casualties of occupants. Dr, Von Seydler, Austrian premier, has tendered the resignation of his cabinct to Pmperor Charles, according to Vienna advices reaching Parliamentary circles in ustrian capital understand that tabinet’s resignation is due to the ition of Polish deputies against the emperor War at the earliest possible moment by an honorable minister, Nes- in the Ottoman of deupties T} , assert- ‘M,m(m‘vm the attitade of Germany and Austria a8 ovtlined in the recent speeches of the German choneellor, A open In the future to in traffie “as in the past and on the condition:s.” This d is re- ion garded as Turkey’s reply to the provi- slon in President Wilson's announc:- ment of America’s war aims which re- quired that the Dardanelles should Je LULL IN CONTROVERSY OVER WAR EFFICIENCY Republican Senators Will Hold a Con- ference Today. ‘Washington, Feb. 8. — Execept for more senate discussion, led by Senator Thomss, o democrat of the military committee, who praised the army’s ac- complishwents, defended Secretary Baker and opposed the war cabinet bill, there were no moves today in the controversy over war efficiency and orzanization. By common consent, apparently further action was postponed until next week. Both the senate and the committees adjourned until Monday. ‘Tomorrow the first conference of re- publican senators called since the Uiited States entered the war, held. Republican Leader today denjed that solid party action upon pending legislation is planned declaring members would act upon their individual judgment. Senator Thomas renewed debate in the senate With a speech asserting that the war department's record should be praised instead of condemn- o and thet Secretary Baker's staf ment before the committee was' story rteplete with accomplishments Opposing the war cabinet bill, he de- clared it would add a“nother link to the chain that already binds us” and take away the president’s powers as commander-in-chief. “MORE SURVIVORS FROM THE TUSCANIA. Including @ Number of Americans, Have Arrived at a Scottish Port. Glasgow, Feb. 8.—Another party. of survivors from the Tuscania, Including Captain McLean and a number of American members of the crew, ar- ‘The survivors were garbed infa mis- cellaneous assortment of clothes which they had picked up when lands the vessel . Captain M:Lean looked well despite he ondeal, but he emphatically to inake a statement. The room storekeeper said that whes he found the Tuscania was like- for some time he went down This locker, rescued some cash and ler trinkets and got away on a raft. N. H. ROAD WITHDRAWS CANCELLATION OF TRAINS. * Nine'Which Wers to Have Been Dis- continued Monday. Boston, Feb. $.—The announcement of.the discontinuance of nine passen- i 9 B i i i railroad last officials was withdrawn by to- | strikes ::‘n-mm,nnmmhue 23°0 cancelled begisning Monday, will run as British Admiralty Report. ‘Washington, Feb.. 8.—Seventy-two hours after the British liner Tuscania, |F laden with American troops and trav- elling in company with a large com voy, was torpedoed and sunk off the Irish coast, the war department to- night still ‘was unable to relieve the increasing anxiety of relatives and friends of those on board by anmounc- ing the list of survivors. Even an official report on the cir- cumstances attending the sinking was lacking, snd official figures still failed to mccord with press accounts of the number lost. The war department has had no official report on losses -to change the estimate of ye: that 210 persons were missinz, 112 of them being American soldiera. British Admilarty Figures. British admiralty figures given to the Associated Press at London to- night show 168 missing, 147 of them 143 enlisted men. - There were American officers and 2,060 men ' on board the Tuseania, and the admiralty Al'cwrh .‘fl?‘n‘r‘ ‘the survivers cers and e of b In wpite’ e loss was remarl sthall - consider- ing the number cs cied by hte liner, the revised admiralty report was re- ceived here with bitter disappoint- ment, Press despatches last night in- hope possibly mot more than fif- ty of the soldlers had ed. Additional - details g scribed in press despatches today we received with undisguised pleasure by army ofiicials. A BOY OF 16 TO PAY THE DEATH PENALTY For Participating in a Robbery Dur- ing Which Two Men Were Killed. New York, Feb. 8.—It took a jury only twenty minutes today to decide that Paul Chapman, a 16 year old boy, should pay the death penalty for having participated in the robbery of :vh%:okln store last Ofln&u’, during Regensburg, the proprie- tor, mnfif’mm: were shot to death, and his wife badly injured. Chapman, a former choir boy, eix feef tall and looking older than he is, received the Jury’s verdict of guilty stoically. “What's the use of worrying? I've got to die sometime,” he said, while the jurors were deliberating. Chapman was implicated Davis, who was wounded b H the police when he attempted to es- | cape arrest for the crime, and later died. Davis also implicated his own ther, Leon Davis, who has vet to be tried on a.murder charge. CENTRAL POWERS' PEACE Agreed Upon at a Conference Held in Berlin, Amsterdam, Feb. 8.—A telegram from Berlin quotes the Boersen Ga- zette as saying that as a result of conferences held at Berlin an agree- yment has been reached regarding the peace terms to be offered by the cen- tral ‘powers to Pumania. The report is confirmed by the Eesener Allge- meine’ Zeitung, which says tht Ru- mania can seeure compensation in southwestern Bessarabra for the an- nexation of the province of Dobrudja by Bulgaria. The newspaper suggests that Rumania and the Ukraine make common cause inst Bolshe agal the Russian SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE 1S PROMPTING ENLISTMENTS In Twentieth Engineers, Four Com- panies of Which Were on Tuscania, St. Paul, Minn,, Feb. .—~A = ord: day for enlistments in fi:;xg_x}'r::. tieth engineers, the f Tegiment, four companies of which were on the Tuscanm,’ was reported by State For. ester W. T: Cox today. Sixteen men have been enrolled since news of the #hip’s sinking was received. “Derhaps a spirit of vengeance is prompting men to join,” Mr. Cox sald. e T THE CORN CROP OF AGENTINA IS THREATENED By Strikes on Railroads That Would Almost Paralyze Shipping. Buenos Aires, Feb. $.—A general strike was declared today by the men of the Central Cordoba railway, The employes of two o lines - munm%mw."'“ Four Officers and 143 Enlisted Men— Sp: Madrid, Feb. S.-—The Spanish Giralda. * |, SPY FOUND ON DUTCH For Spies in This Country. An Atlantic Port, Feb. 8—A German Spy was tonight to have been found among forty first and ~second class passengers of the Dutch “liner ‘Amsterdam, who earlier in the day were detained by federal agents Nieuw for examination. After twelve thin sheets of paper, covered with letters and figures of .a code, had been found upon him, the man is said to have broken down and to have confessed that he was in the - an h pay of the German government had come here in order to spies now- operating in thls country said to with the new code. . He is also have stated that he received a large sum of money for undertaking the mission, but refused to give the names of the persons to whom the code was to be delivered. ized American citizen of Dutch German origin. Since the arrival of the Nieuw Am- sterdam here on Thursday :elaborate taken to pre- on board from precautions have been vent German spies smuggling papers ashore. Only government officers were allow- ed to meet the ship, and when the ves- Y. sel was docked it was guarde oo Sends a Protost to Germany. am- bassador at Berlin telegraphs that he sent to the German government Thurs- day evening & note of the Spanish government protesting against the Te- vent sinking of the Spanish steamer LINER NIEUW AMSTERDAM Confessed That He Brought New Code The man was said to be a natural- : Balo Pasha Trial THEY MET SOCIALLY AT A DIN- * 'NER IN.NEW YORK BOLO EULOGIZED HIM French Censor Forbade Articles Laud- atory to Hearst Because He Consid- ered Him Thoroughly Germanophi Paris, Feb. 8.—At today’s session of the courtmartial of Bolo Pasha on the regarding the visit of the ac- cused to the United States in 1916. The frst_witness, Buzenet, told of attending a dinner in New York in company with a French captain, named Verdier, and _ Adolpr Paten- stedt, the formér of the Amsinck bank and Bolo Pasha. Praised William Randolph Hearst. Lieutenant Prevost, of the French censorshfp department, testified - that articles praising William ~Randalph Hearst repeatedly had been _taken. to Senator Humbert's paper, Le Jour- nal, in which Eolo Pasha had purchas- ed ‘an interest, by Charles F: Bertelli, the head of \the Paris bureau of the International News Service, who ac- or charge of treason, several wit: | nesses: = Farmers' Delegates il m President FOR AID IN SOLUTION OF AGRI- CULTURAL PROBLEMS CORDIALLY RECEIVED Among Other Things They Request " the Exemption of Farm Labor From Military Service—President to Reply. ‘Washington, Feb. 8—Delegates to the federal board of farm organiza- tions in session here called on Presi- dent Wilson today and urged that he appoint a commission of ‘nine from their numLeECinene e ah nter mediary between e government -anc the nme:‘; in solving agricultural labor and other problems. The president eaid that while he could not answer such an important memorial offhand, i€ would receive his most careful consideration, * The delegation presented 4 memorizl making various suggestions concern- ing the handling of farm problems and the wxemption of farm labor from military service. The president re- plied: President Wilson’s Reply. “I cannot, of course, offhand answer 100 sailors and marines, and rope bar- riers were stretched between the pas- sengers leaving the ship and the per- sons waiting to méet them. Every person on mitted to pass the board was thoroughly searched before being. per- ers and com- municate with those on shore, and aft- all had been searched thirty-seven men and three women, it was stated, 2 were detained for further question- It was among thees the spy was ing. found. « The purpose of the spy in coming to this country was to re-establish the German spy system here and the German gov- communication between t, which had been impaired ernm the ability of American intelligence of- ficers to read existing codes, it was reporced. ;NHALE STEAK WAS terested in Food Conservation. New York, Feb. 8.—A score or more scientists and_business men interested In food conservation and new sources American soldlers—four officers and|of food supply sat down today to a 117 | "whale steak luncheon” at the Ameri- can Museum of Na The in jelly, whale pot au _seu, whale steak a la Vancouver and boiled ‘ Celery, radishes and war completed the mean. nounced - other the leviathan, Toasts, ‘wh: ‘whale, curried :later, | Guests at the uncheon Rear Admiral Robert E. CUT IN NUMBER OF Is Under Consideration as a Means Saving Fuel. Washington, Feb. 8—Flimination one-third of the present electric Tail- way etcps on hoth urban and inter- |- urban lines is under consideration. by ‘fl:e fuel administration as a means SERVED AT LUNCHEON Of Scientists and Business Men In- The chef an- methods .of preparing including Istews, pot ale’ en casserolle, braised whale on toast, deep sea pie whale croquettes and wiale conduct of the untried soldiers as de-)| cutlets, all of which may be tried included the local food i e local f¢ administrator, Arthur st ‘ ELECTRIC RAILWAY STOPS by Summarized for the past weelk Demonstrating the Value of Publicity ‘What advertising does must be pretty thoroughly demonstrated to the merchant who conducts a special sale, thosg who are attracted thereby and those who are iInterested in the matter only from the point of observation. There may be an extra incentive when special bar- gains are offered, but it is shown nevertheless that the people ‘are keenly alive to the messages which are sent to them through the ad- vertising columns of the newspapen, that they can be interested in trade which will result to the mutual benefit of all concerned and that what holds good in regard to the advertising of special inducements must likewise prevail at all other times. Publicity is bound to boost any business at any and all times and ‘when it comes to placing it before the people of this vicinity there is no medium whieh can equal The Bulletin with its extensive circulation. appeared in The Bulletin’s columns: Telegfip}l Local General Tota) is the following matter which has i3 3167, .526, v v o 7 S o 1] Tuesday, Feb. 5... 187 - 383 Wednesday, -Feb. 6... 206 414 Thursday, ~ Feb. 7... 324 496 Friday, Feb. 8. .. 87 256 468 Totalsi . .o 0 Bl 657 % 1844 3742 companied Bolo to America and in- troduced him to Mr. Hearst. ‘The lieutenant said his attention had of | first been called to Bolo Pasha by a s0 important a memordal as this, and I need not tell you that it will ré- ceive my most careful and respectful attention. Many of the questions thdt eulogy of Mr. Hearst printed in La Victoire which also described Bolo Pasha’s relations to the American press. Considered Hearst Germanophile, Lieutenant Prevost said he had been of | commissioned to translate several ar- of isaving fuel supplies. Experts estimate | ticles from the Hearst newspapers, |that enforcement of the plan would |after which the French censor had de- conserve more than a million and a|cided not to allow any further articles half tons of coal a year. In cities stops wouvld be limited to|cause h2 considered him eight to the mile and in suburban dig- tricts to six. On interurban lines the stops would number not more {four to the mile. Three times treimuch power is required, the fuel ad- will be | murder and robbery by another youth, | ministration’s experts say, to make an i foi: Would be done away with. i The plan contemplates also a re- duction in the amount of power used for heating cars. jreduced stop system, i THIEVES SENTENCED iThey' Were Concerned in the Theft and Sale of 100 Cars. New York, Feb. $.—One of the most thieves that has operated in this city was smashed today when Judge Nott in general sessioas. sentenced eleven men ooncerned in the theft and sale of 100 cars, to prison terms of from five to daring bands of automobile three years each. in Now ¥ cars were rebuilt beyond question. OBITUARY John 8. Kirkham. New Britain, Conn.,, Feb. 8—John and ten months. tor ever to be elected from that di trict. Newington holding office in 1871. many ye ears a member ticut ' Agricultural Society. With his fortune in the vessel around Cape Horn. Joel G. Foster. Danbury, Feb. 8.—Joel G. heart ‘disease at nis home founders of Bell a summer sort near Norwalk. He had been These ‘will almost paralyze th - ment of grain. it 6 provineial governors are ecalli for troops to protect the m,;:u:‘ business here over, half a century. an agfeement on Poligh 1 }electric car stop than to run a car a hlock. Six billion stops, they say, Some cities already are using the Assistant District Attorney Donohue sald the band operated for two years dnd adjoining states and maintained three garages where stolen Kirkham, oldest’ resident of Newing- ton. died this morning aged 91 years Mr. Xirkham was elected to the lower house of the state legislature in 1878 and to the senate in 1887, being the only democrat Sena- In 1888 he was nominated for Heutenant governor by the democradc party. He was first town clerk of At one time he was a member of the state board of agriculture and was for of the Connec- party of New Britain men he sought California gold fields in 1849, making the journey by ‘oster, ar- chitect and builder, died suddenly of e here today | at the age of 86 years. He was a vet- eran of the Civil war and one of the 2 re: Austria and Germany failed to veach laudatory of Mr. Hearst to appear, be- thoroughly Germanophiles: Declared Hearst a Friend of France. . Charles Bertelli began his testimo- y by making a protest at the report ‘that President Voyer, of the court- martial, had said Mr. Hearst was Germanophile. “Mr. Hearst is not and never = was Germanophile,” declared Bertelli. “He always has been'a friend of France.” b Met Socially at Dinner. | The witness then recounted Bolo Pasha’s trip to New York, where he said Bolo had met Mr. Hearst only so- cially at a dinmer at Sherry’s for which Bertelli sent out the invitations but for which Bolo Pasha paid. The guests included Mr. and Mrs. Gerard, Mr. and Mrs. Hearst, Adolph Paven- stedt and Jules Bois. Bertelli said that Bolo spoke like a' true patriot and that Mr. Hearst thought he was doing France honor by receiving Bolo, who he believed to be one of its distinguished citizens. The witness was cross-examined by President. Voyer. Bolo’s Wife Testifies. The final witness for the “state was Mme. Bolo Soumaille, the defendant’s first wife. She became so faint while on the stand that the windows of the cor pened and an as l:gt the men present to ats. Bolo Pasha was greatly affected by his first wife's testimony. Tears well- ed into his eyes and he cried openly and undisguisedly as his second wife, ;&&e. Bolo, appeared on the stand for- ‘wear their S. Denied Bolo Dissipated Her Fortune. court- French newspapers, alleging that Bolo Pasha had dissipated her fortune. He not only made plenty of money for. himself, she declared, but augmented her fortune. The defend- ant wept harder ‘than ever as his wife, who_apparently is his sole remaining friend, testified at length to the efforts that he niade toward the'rehabilitation of her estate, , She said he told her, on his arrival m America: ¥ 0 ‘Tm_giad (to .be 8afe in France. I was afraid the Germans would have me torpedoed.” - | Secretary McAdos : announced that in {he would have to deposit government funds in other Texas banks if ithe Dallas reserve bank cannot provide financial retief ‘stricken area of for- _the drought- Texas. By are raised here have been matters of very deep and constant concern with us for months past, and I believe that many of them are approaching as successful a solution as we can work out for them, but just what those steps are I cannot now detail to you. You are probably famillar with some of them. VI want to say that I fully recognize that you gentlemen do not mean that your ‘utmost effort will-be dependent upon the, acceptance of these sugges- tions, I know, you: are going to do your level best in any circumstances, | and I count on you with the utmest confidence in that - There has never been a time, gentlemen, which tested the real gi is going to fest it; because were are fighting for something bigger than any man’s imagination can grant. Must Work Together. “This is a fina] tackle between the things that America has always been opposed to and was organized to fight and the things that she stands for. It is the final contest, and to lose it would set the world back, not a hun- dred—perhaps several hundreds— years in the development of human life. The thing cannot be exaggerated in its importance, and I know that you men ere ready, as I am, to spend every ounce of energy we have got in solving this thing. If we cannot solve it in the best way, we will solve it in the next best way, and if the next best way is not available, we will ‘solve it in the way next best to that, but we will tackle it some way and do it as well as we can. g ) *“T.am. complimented by a visit of so large a representation, and I thank you for the candid presentation of this interesting memorial.” 55 1. W. WS INDICTED BY FEDERAL JURY AT SACRAMENTO On Charges of Having Planned Whole- sale Distruction of Industries. Washington, Feb. 8. — Industrial ‘Workers of the World on the Pacific coast have planned wholesale destruc- | b) tion of industries and shipping, and other interference with prosecution of the war, it was said today at the de- partment of justice. The indictment of 55 at' Sacramento by & federal grand jury is the result of recent investi- gations by government agents wao discovered that leaders were plotting systematic sabotage. AVIATION STUDENT KiLLED AT CAMP IN LOUISIANA, Aeroplane Fell 200 Feet While a Civil- ian Was Instructing C. A. Ashbaugh. .. Ashbaugh, a student aviator, of Youngatown, 0., was killed - at the army. aviation camp near here” yes- terday when his aeroplane with a eivil- ian instructer fell 200 feet, striking a hangar, according to an announcement today from'the camp. . ty of folks as this time ! _TEN PAGES—80 COLUMNS PRICE TWO CENTS ‘Condensed Telegrams " MaW of ‘the Germain aliens in New Yl?t‘k city have regists -3 the, May. losive bombs for not begin until t/ The Berlin Vorwarts has asked for «g:)hllcity on the situdtion on the east at, i, 4 An epidemic of Liberty measles has brokéen out among the cadets at West Point. % General Pershing reported the deaths of ‘seven Americans from natural o5 Simmons college, Boston, clossd for an'indefinite period because of the lack of coal. Soldiers at Camp McClellan are pro- hibited from n the city of Birmingham. Vice, Admiral Sims, commander of the ‘American-destroyer squadron, ar- rived il Rome. The ' ‘Duchess of Marlborough re- iceived a $25,000 collar composed of 15 rows of Vanderbilt-pearls. A shotgun trap killed William Bot- rell when he: attempted to rob a drug store in Birmingham, Ala. "All German Bohemian deputies in the Austrian parlfament were called for a meeting at Berlin next week. From the ' g of the war’to the end of 1916 there were a million more deaths in Germany than normal. _ The Japanese empero rthanked Vis- count Ishii, head of the Japanese mis- sion to the United States, for his work. , Secretary ' McAdoo announced that all the soldiers lost on the Tuscania erwe insured by government insur~ ance. g Secretary Tumulty announced hs would not be a candidgte for the ap- pointmeny of & senator from New Jersey. . A bill to permit women to partici- pate in the primaries in the epring was_introduced .in.the New, York as- sembly. pal buildings at Water- ; . werg heated with wood, the coal supply of the city being ex- hausted. Headway is being made in Penn- sylvania for the enrollment of ship- workers. The state must furnish 28,- 000 men. Max Breitung of New York, arrested at Chicago on a charge of conspiracy, will ‘be interned for the duration of the war. RS % The. war depantment- éxem; military service a rell Bocie! Rochester because it does'not believe in war. l The Polish army in France is now a jreal army. .The men are training in France and getting ready for the | trefiches. British army officers obtained 402 recruits in the eastern division of the United. States during the week ending February 2. Three persons were killed and more than a seore injured in Brooklyn as the result of gas mains bursting when thawing out. Gordon Paine, a prominent banker and - financier of Baitimore, was as- phyxiated in his garage by gas fumes from his car. Threg members -of the British co mission to lokk after the welfare of Isnldlers blinded by the war arrived in the ‘United . States. James §. Ewing, minister to Belgium during the second administration of President Cleveland, died at his home at Bldomington, 11l Governor Edge of New Jersey issued an appeal for the mechaniés and 1 skilled workers of the state to enroll {for service in the shipyards. i | Mrs. Margaret Thomson, . 63 years {cld, was found dead in a Toom of her apartments in New Haven today with !the gas of a heater turned on. In shipping circles at Buenos Aires the American bark Normandy is. be- lieved to have been lost while on a voyage from the United:States. Judge: Samuel Alschuler of Chicago was: appointed arhitrator in the wage dispute between the .five big packing <ompanies and_their unioh employes. The 'District of Columbia is under drastic. coal rations fixed by the fuel administration. One, family can rér- chase no morc than three bushels a lay. N The last strike in any way involv- ing”shipbuilding in the United States has_been settled with. the return to work today.of 2,000 metal trades work- ers in New: Orleans, THe French government has awarded contraets -to the” Foundation company of New York for the construction of 36 mife-sweeping vessels-at the com- pany’s yard at Savannah, Ga. The Italian embassy at Washington received reports from Rome declaring that the reports that Marconi would be the Italian ambassador the gnfled States were without founda. lon. Because he refused to-answer ques- tions in filling out . his . registration lang as an alien, Theoder Dussman,” 39 years old, a German newspaper writer,' was Interned in Newark. A proposal was submitted at a meeting of the cabinet in Mexico City to remove all import duties on ma- chinery from the United States. The proposal has - been approved by the President. FEBRUARY 11:MAY BE THE" LAST HEATLESS MONDAY 1f Improvement .in. Transportation’ Conditions Continue. Washingtonfi Feb. 8—Continued im- provement in, and transpo) tion conditions will the heatless Monday programme after its enforcerment next , Fuel Afilflnmt-r Garfield anpownced to- night. : A b1 “TBecause the gas main at Geneva,| N. Y., broke, the city-had to observe a gasless dgy. \ Grain Stocks. Washington, Feb. §,—Transportation priority for grain, flour, corn meal and other grain products in western and middle western producing states was ordered®today by Director General Mc- ‘Addo as a means of hastening to mar- ket all ‘grains and particularly, the vast accumulated stores of soft ci This corn, full of moisture as a re- sult of last year's growing conditions, composes as much as 40 per cent. of the stocks in many sections and is threatened With rotting in moderate weather of the last few days unless rushed to elevators and dried. The order is intended also to insure adequate shipments of grains to mills to fill allied orders. The situation was discussed _yesterday at a conference between Director General McAdoo and Sir Richard Crawford, commercial at- tache of the British embassy, who ex pressed fear that bad transportation conditions of recent weeks in the United tSates would seriously inter- fere with the allied food programme unless special efforts were made to Comn Composses as Much as 40 Per Cent. of the Stocks in " Many Sectionsi—Thousands of Box Cars Will Be Used for Its Shipment, and Consequently Will Be Withhdd_ g% From Industrial Shipmeqb——Rnflroad Agents Have Been Instructed to Go Direct to Farmers and Explain the Necessity of Prompt Loading and Movement of Their hasten grain to seaports. Thousands of box cars will be used for the grain movement, and conse- quently will be withheld from indust- rial shipments, In addition to supplying more cars, and giving preferential - movemen railroads were ordered to have iheir station agents in rural commurities FEARS IT WILL ROT IN MODERATE WEATHER 7 conducted by every available agency of the roads to stimulate the move-y ment of grain from farm and local storage houses, The preferential movemént will be discontinued as soon as the emergency is past. 'fhe rail- road administratiow’s anmouncement . | specifies certain states to which the preferential order applies, but officials said it will be effective in _others where the need of prompt shipment is apparent to local' railroad authorities. Tven before the issuance of today's order the railroads might have given priority to grain under a former or- der authorizing special preference for food products, fuel and war materials, Some roads, however, had not furnish- ed as many box cars as appeared ne- cessary for grain movement, and the special instructions were issued ac- pordingly, after conference with food administration officials. ONLY FIVE PER CENT. OF ILLINOIS CROP MARKETED ilar Conditions Exist in Other Big Grain Producing States. Chicago, Feb. 8.—Recent statements from the state council of defense, call- ing. attention of the government to the | serious situation resulting from inability to move grain products; and their traffic agents, go direct to farmers and explain the necessity -of prompt loading and movement of their grain stocks. For a week or perhaps pointed out that not more than five per cent. of the 1917 Tllinois corn crop had_been marketed. It was ‘ COL. ROOSEVELT SHOWS MARKED IMPROVEMENT Bulletin Issued Says the Encouraging.” New York, Feb. 8 —Marked improve- ment during the last 24 hours in the condition of Colonel Theodore Roose- velt was indicated in a bulletin issued at 9 o'clock tonight by the physicians attending him at Rogsevelt hospital. The bulletin said the “outlook is very encouraging.” Members of Colonel Roosevelt's family, who have been at the hospital yesterday and today. weré yery opti- mistic over the reports of the physi- cians, and in announcing tonight's bullefin, Miss Josephine Stricker, Col- onel Roosevelt's private secretary, said there was nothing noted from today’s observations which would indicate the need of any further operation. ENEMY ALIEN SERVED 30 YEARS IN THE U, 8. ARMY Jacob Wagner, on Pension, Lost His First Naturalization Papers. ‘Winsted, Conn., Feb. 8—One of three enemy allens, Germans, registered here this week was Jacob Wagner, aged 54, who had served in the United States army for a quarter of a century, and had been retired on a pension wiich now yields $60.75 a month. The offi- cial credit for service given him fs 30 years, this including extra vears in service with troops in the Philipptnes and China. Wagner took out his first naturalization papers many years ago but lost them. TWO AMERICAN CITIZENS ARRESTED IN LONDON Charged With Attempting to Cause Disaffection Among Civilians. London, Feb. 8—Clarence Boying- ton and Paul Aloysius Manning, both American citizens, and William Lucas and Arthur Tilly were held without bail in the Bow Street court tocay on a _charge of attempting to cause dis- affection among the. civil population. It is alleged that they distributed in- flammatory leaflets during a meeting Inf the Engineers’ Society in London. Boyington and Manningz were ar- rested at the Communist Club, PRIVATE DETECTIVE GUILTY OF PERJURY Daniel J. Donahue of New York Con- victed . in New Haven. New Haven. Conn., Feb. ‘s.—Daniel J. Donahue, a private detective of New York, was found guilty of perjury by a jury in the superior court here to- day. He was charged with presenting falsé testimony in the, trigl of G. Hampden Triplett, a New York law’ yer, who was. tried here, charged with conspiracy against Mrs. Dorothy Trip- lett, his sister-in-law. This lawver has been arrested again, charged with perjury. B INTERNATIONAL SAMPLES FAIR AT LYONS, FRANCE, Will Be Participated in by More Than 700 Mercantile Concerns. ‘Washington, Feb. 8.—More than 700 mercantile and manufacturing con- cerns from allied and neutral coun- tries will participate this yegr in the international samples fair at Lyons, according to an official despatch from France. pants, including the French, ceed 2,800, an increase of 200 over Ia year. 'The increase will be principal- Iy among automobile manufacturers and ‘metal goods makers. LICENSING OF ALL IMPORTS AND EXPORTS “Outlook Is | To Reduce the Country's Less Essen- tial Foreign Trade. Washington, Feb. 8.—Licerising of all classes of American exports and im- ports is planned by the government as its first step in reducing the country’ less-essential foreign trade to reléase ships for the transport of troops and supplies to Europe. Already most of the chief export commodities are under license, but licensing has been extended to few of the important materials. A plan worked out by the shipping board contemplates cutting imports probably in half to, divert a million tons of American shipping now en- gaged in coastwise and Pacific and South American trade to the trans- - Atlantic service. The place of the ton- nage removed will be taken to. some extent by neutral ships obtained re- cently by negotiations. The War Trade Board has taken up the shipping board plan for considera- tion and will decide what class of ex= ports and imports best can be dis- pensed with. - PISTOL DUEL IN COUNTY COURTHOUSE AT FLORENCE, 8. C, A/Physician Killed and an Attorney Dangerously Wounded. Florence, §. C. Feb. 8—Dr. Wil- liam Tlderton, a physician, is dead, and Wilburp Hicks, an_attorney, lies dangerously wounded as the result.of a pistol duel in-the hall of the county courthouse here today. Both men had been felled by the other’s shots when the physician's son. Gedding Ilderton, Tushed into the hall and fired two or three times. The physician died a few minutes latery and it is not known who fired the fatal shot. A . it is said the shooting is a sequel to the separation of the physician and his wife and a suit for alimony filed by the wife's attorney, Hicks. BAKING OF VICTORY BREAD IS TO BE TAUGHT TO BAKERS Throughout the Country by Cereal Experts on Lecture Tours. Washington, Feb. 8—Baking of Vi tory bread is to be taught to bakers throughout the country by cereal: chemists. The food adminfstretion announced tonight that it will send experts on lecture_tours to advise the: bakers and also instruct millers con- cerning the administration’s new mill- ing_requirements. Plans for the shipping tours will be worked out a meeting in New York Feb. 12. and at another in Chicago Fed. 15. The program has the sup- eclared similar conditions existed in other big ifhore an educational eampaigh will' be ! grain r‘mfluc{ng states. ~© A it PRIRTY TRANSPORTATION FORGRAIN ANDITSPRODUCTS In Western and Middle Producing States Has Been Ordered by Director General McAdoo port of the Amerfcan Society of Mill- “ ing and Baking Technology and the American- Soclety of Cereal Chemists. PETITION FILED ASKING FOR * RETURN OF DOCUMENTS' Seized at the Headquarters of the 1. * W, W. in Chicago. % Chicago, Feb. 8.—Counsel for 92 of the 146 alleged members of the I. W. W. who are to be tried here under. the" esplonage act today filed a petition § asking for the return of documents- seized at their -headquarters in the raid of Sept. 5, 1917. The petition contends that the seiz- ure was unconstitutional. In this gen- eral contention it is similar to the view taken by Henry Veeder, counsel. for Swift & company, in_seeking to block seizure of papers in his custody.. Bush fires have caused serious loss- es in Victoria. Australia. i ¥