Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 16, 1918, Page 1

VoL LIX—NO. 41 POPULATION 29919 _NORWICH, CONN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1918 - CICGESTIL RADS MADE | == TSH AND RENG At Wideiy Suparated Points'on the_Weste'm Front They Smashed the German Lin; . Inclement Weatker Has Stopped Activity Along the Line East of St. Mihiel That the American Force is Holding —_Over the Entire Western Front Aerial Activity Con- tinues Intense — Northeast of Jerusalem the British Have Penetrated the Turkish Line to a Depth of Two|S Friday, the date set by influential|two miles on a front of six miles. for s Sne into the Strait German torpedo boat destroy- | is interested with W. R. Grace & com. pany in the Pacific Mail Steamship . | other of their sudden attacks oh small | company; owns stock of the Allied British craft, sinking eight of them— drifters and one trawler. Friday morning made an- negotiations. between the central pow- ers and Rumania are in prospect. is assumed by some of these news- papers that Rumanian delegates al-)poration. It also was ready have reached a given point|the American International corpora- tion was interested in the Rosin and Turpentine Bxport company, Interna- where they will discuss with repre- sentatives of the central powers de- tails of the conference. Although reports of the conference German headquarters and political. leaders have in- ility of further | company. ting between the Teutonic ailies B — German Foreign/ Secretary So Stated at Closing Session of Peace Con- il Amsterdam, Fel Austria B at ‘wor with | belief expressed - by man forelen socretary, nmm case ing seesion of the recont o i The acts of war, Dr. on . | said, ended when Russia and the allies but must bo revived. H eadded that, bew Serehod baek 10w et cause one or two of the contracting | ng uck and bl served. The Pritish again have hit the Turk line in Palestine a hard blow. North- east of Jerusalem they have kish positions to a depth of parties had demobilized their armies, this fact would in nowise alter the| CAPT. VERNOR CASTLE OF NEW RULING BY THE ROYAL FLYING CORPS KILLED FOOD ADMINISTRATION :BZ NAMES OF KNOWN U. S. . About Serving of Victory P SOLDIERS IN TUSCANIA DEAD 3, Pastry, Cookies, Griddle Cakes, Etc. Fort Worth, Tex., Feb. 13.—Captain Vernon castle of the corpe. who brwed death for two years over the German lines with but only & minor wound, met death on a peaceful flying field today in an effort fo avert a collision with another aviator. cade$ avigtor, R. Peters, with whom he was fiying, was oniy slightly injured. a Castle was killed when he “yould have been cer- taif veath far him, the cadet with him ond an aviator in wnother plane who | s landing near oy at what is known a5 a “blind angle.” not see Casile’s machine, which was on the greunc, and could not hear it because of’ the noise cf his own,en- Royal =FIYINg | restaurants, dining cars, steamships, boarding houses and other public eat- ing places, including clubs, which use three barrels of flour a month, must hereafter serve Victory ples, pastry, cookies, griddle cakes, waffles, etc, as well .as Victory bread under a ruling | department. ~ An announced tonight by the food ad- ministration to become effeetive at by such places must contain a third of wheat substitutes at all times and |list to reach the department. batter cakes, griddle cakes and waf- fles must contain three-quarters of Wheat substitutes. —_— BODY OF AN AMERICAN RANCH MANAGER FOUND In an Irrigation Ditch in the-Juarez The aviator could ming and “zoomed up” 75 feet, but went at such an agle that his engine died, unable to push the plane farther. So cloke was the escape from a serious collision tiret Cactle's plane struck the other plane’s tail, smashing ft. Castle's plane turned on its eide, then plunged nose downward to earth. He sought to right it but there was time enough.” Had foct higher, Le could have Castle was one of the best liked men on the aviation fields. Tears streamed down the cheeks of offices and mep as thoy worked badiy mangled body Teleasing from the wrecked 0,23, Camp Bowie T ety segret ok hia tracic demths the feepant Tegret at his The funeral, the largest and perhaps the most impressive ever held here, wiil be attended tomcrrow aftermoon by officers and cadets of the royal fly~ ing snuadrons and the American fying COLLAPSE OF FRAME BUILDING AT WESTBROOK One Man Was Killed and Two Others | known dead up to 174, Were Injured. 13 MINES IDLE IN THE BIRMINGHAM DISTRICT “Efght Hour Law Was Not Pit Into Effect. : , Ala, Feb. 15—~Officials nited Mine V.orkers tonight glaimed that thirteen mines district, ‘are idle, oying rearly 5,000 mer. The mines that the oporators have refus- 4 fohyat into effect the eight hour day woiied for in the agreem:nt recent- mads, between_the operators and Igérs as a restt of the interven- f Secret:"y of rabor Wilson. A the American Kni company, of Cambridge and robbed him of $3200, was arrested in Salem [Wwill be removed. tonight after a chase which covered | tary the greater part of the country. The|to robbery occurred Ja 8, mmissioner of has sent condolences to Secretary ‘War Baker, expressing his sorrow on learning of the Tuscania disaster and his profound admiration of the heroism and discipline of the Ameri- cans on the steamship. EXPENDITURES AT HOG ISLAND SHIPYARD Up to Jan. 31 Were: $23313362.68— General Auditor Bender Reports. Washington, Feb, 15.—D. H. Bender, general auditor for ‘the fleet last to be $23,313,362.68. paid out up to Jan. 31, and does mot which a large expenditure is contem- plated. Vanderlip is chairman of the Miles on a Font of Six Miles—In the Straits of Dover| i 80215 " b was commestea with Gérman Torpedo Boat Destroyers Sank Eight Small British Craft — Trotzky Has Informed the All-Russian Workinen's and Soldiers’ Councils That Russia’s With- 3 drawsl From the War is a Real One, But Germany and | Bupont. Otto 71 Bam, R, . Lovett Austria Stll Consider That State of War Exists. ward. $ The directors of the corporation A. Coffin, W. E. Corey, Robert Rockefeller, John D. Ryan, Saunders, J. A. Stillman, C. ‘Woodward. . of | The corporation, the report stated, tional Mercantile Marine, United AMERICAN SOLDIERS NOT German Airplanes in Were Driven OFf by, ‘With the American” | Feb, in ff. by batteries. both sides. German airplanes in large numbers repeatedly attempted to cross that she |the American lines, but were driven formal foff either by anti-aircraft batteries o by the air squadrons. AI American artill Teu- | continually fired shells that exploded trail of shzapnel puffs. communications All pies, pastry, cakes, etc., served |names ol 131 identified, but tonight's message was the first official partial despatch. They are: ville, Pa. dence, R. I Private Otto Ray, Colemman, Tex. above 10 apparently bring the list Logan and Bowie, in Texas, or Soldiers Will Be Removed. ] —_— 3, /Houston, Texas, Feb. 15—Formal warning has been_given = ShipGarpenters SENDS ANOTHER DEMAND TO|AS. PART OF PROGRAM FOR DENOUNCED |BY PRESIDENT WILSON B ¥ n to Ask the Men %o American ‘Representatives in London ck to Their Work and, Trust ;i oday submitted to the g corporation, today su ed 10 " Their Government to Deal Fairly NO GERMAN OFFENSIVE AS PER SCHEDULE oot showinE. tota expenditires & at the Hog Island shi] up to Jan. 81 e Hog ipyard up includes only the amount of mohney N S o o o p trade_of the United States—exports |- tonight sent W, L. Hutcheson, general |and. imports—was put under loense Dresident of the Brotherhood of Car- today by President Wilson as a part of penters and Joiners, an insistent do-|a general programime of the American ‘WOl in_eastern ship ships atter Hutcheson had notified him |so. Bsepe L PoLG. (Fe0Ps and supplies take into consideration a large num- ber of contracts now in force and for. denounced Hutcheson's the National City bank.’ The executive ter .into an agreement|of the world in many instances will committee named comprises- Stone, O: H. Bahn, Ambrose Monell, P. A. Rocke- ‘The m:¢ refusel to n Hurley Inists That | Foregn Trate. RELEASING SHIPS e i _tatives in Rearranging Commeroe to Free Ships For War Service, Washington, Feb. 15. — All foreign ents for releasing 1 ‘exports and im- iy to a minimum led as’ necessary 1 “be by the shortest | hauls. possible. “The ailies are work- ing in close co-operation with the United States and the trude routes feller, T. N. Vail and William Wood- enumerated were J. Ogden Armour, C. Dupont, Otto H. Bahn, R. S. Lovett, Ambrose Monell, H. 8. Prichett. P. 3. “The Way to Build Your Business In speaking of the efforts which he puts forth to inerease his bus- iness a manufacturer says, “My faith s pinned A N i Beekman Winthrop and William Papers on anything connected with advertising because I believe it is the most logical of all media. It is thisall absorbing grasp—the grip . —the all underhold it takes on the reader. I pap multiply examples of how you unconsciously take the advertis- Mach] company, manufacturers of ||| eri§ Work for it, and mostly because you have'seen it’in the news- machine tools; is interested with Stone per.’ ! German newspapers assert|& Webster in the Latin-American that there are indications that peace|corparation; has purchased the prop-' erty of the New York Shipbuilding It| company, Camden, N. J. and organ- ized the New York Shipbuilding cor- asserted that ““Phis is not the experience of a single business man ' # vast multitude of them. They have all heen forced to-the same con- _clukion when ihey have given it ‘dfeir-and Ahordieh froit. It you'are in the market for & producer in the advertising line you should lose no time until you find out what The Bullstjn ean do for you : in the productive field. Get in touch w 5 department and see what you have a right to expect from the use of its advertising columns. , company, American International Ter- minals corporation, the China corpora- between Emperor Willlam and the|tion, the Simes-Carey Railway and Canal company and Carter, Maey = & In the past week the following matter has appeared in The Bulle- tin’s mews columns: Telegraph' }Aur Gepel Totai 9. g 8 6 DISCONCERTED BY GAS SHELLS ol 4. 831 American machines and anti-aircraft Gas_shells in considerable number from the German guns fell within the American sector early this .morning, maklnuus n::;lssnry ghe wwinh's of masks in all parts of the trenches for. —Tbat Germany imore than three hours. One Ameri- Tofals ........... 529 696" 1840 3074 fn the qaily news- Tt just won't let up on him. It is that of th' The Bulletin's advertising A = A% 545 467 432 y 544 349 542 333 544 87 can was injured by an exploding shell, sbut so excellent has been the anti-gas traiaing of the men that mot-a single| gas poisioning was reported. con~ mm duration of the 'shelling was two had | “There was much aerlal activity on isigned. by. other mnion general heads | be shifted ;pring. i $7in the handdGfthe Al operationiof tEruee "¢ SComomi- abor adjustment board Ties Have Gut: Forei for settlement, and calied his attention ave Put Foreion Trade. to the fact that'in spite of his gttiutde| ‘allies ‘airehdy: Bave cut their : Is were comi teade- their grievances! . . Hurley sald he,did not ques- |8emeral plan, - American representa- the patriotism of ‘the carpenters, | tiVes sitting in London will work with “Will you ask the men|@llied representatives in_eliminating HOW paralyzing the ship vards and the|and re-arranging ocean commerce to jon’s var programme. to go bagk to |free ships for war service. their work and trust to their govern- Handled by War T ment to deal fairly w Y e Board “Your efforts,” said higbaiidine local. ) to ‘the board wi E 50 close to the ememy airplanes that ’ Hurley, |, icenSing of American exports and the aviators were compelled to-dodge 2 imports wi cial ‘privileges for your organization |gpecial contraband. comutict Tt that would diseriminate ‘in its favor ee with fi- 28 against the other class.” HUTCHESON DECLARES HE IS POWERLESS | Which -the government: has exercised area, pursued across the sky by a x: The artillery en both sides resumed activity foday. The American gun- - | ners shelled the va;;ar lines and To Order the Shipyard Workers Back | With the state department, the gepart- New Yorl . 15.—Willi .| American ships taken out of the l;‘r;::m o me‘“‘,_?,',‘;éd non-hazardous trades and put into ot Carpeniters and Join. | trans-Atlantic service will be replaced ers, declared late tonight that he was | "1ere it can be done by neutral ton- powerless to order the shipyard strik- | 128 for which the government is now ers back to work and_enforce such an | NeSOtiating. This tnmage will not . fill He asserted, however, that it|'°_Ted entirely, however, and li- was his desire that all men return to | SCNSes for goods regarded as non-es- work and trust to the government to | 5etial Will not be granted. standing griev- Control. of Neutral Tonnage. Cabled to War Department—Private hotels, | Franklin A. Church Not on List. —_— ) ‘Washington, Feb. 15.—Bighty-two names of known dead among the American_soldiers who were on board the torpedoed liner Tuscania were res ed by cable tonight at the war Aseociated Press adjust “their despatch Jast Tuesday emnounced that ” 164 soldier victims bad been buried on the :oottish coast and gave the LABOR LEADER FERGUSON WAS FORCIBLY EJECTED When He Attempted to ‘Address the |00 by the nentrals will be in the Striking Shipyard Workers, RIS betor Baltimore, Feb. 15—When John H. Corporal Clea Dargerstotk, Marin- |Ferguson,: president of - the Baltimore ‘Ten names that did. not appear om the list of dead buried on the Scottish. coast are given in the department's Private Franklin A, Church, Provi- Private William A. Dinter, Tuero,, varez, Mexico, Feb. 15.—The Body | Tex. of John D. Blunt, an American Tanch manager in the Juares valley, was found yesterday in an irdgation ditch | Tex. with a deep wound in the head. He had been missing since February b5, His mother and father five in Georgia. | T Bfforts to disiodge Mexican squatters ‘was believed to have been responsible for the murder. Private Roy 'W. May, Lindale, Tex. | him. Private , Henry Oxford, Turnesville, | direct Private James F. Sparkman, Frisco, ex. Private Bell M. Willtams, Glenwood, | e Ark Privat@James C, Wood, Yantis, Tex. | unions are trying to phacate No new estimate of the total number | element .among the . strikers and of dead was made at the department|{duce them to return to work and. trust tonight. It had been believed here that | the government the total would not éxceed 170, but the | by arouna Baltimore mare or fected by the strik More than 200 men still remain to be|Steel' Company’s — accounted for, according to the war | Point, Beif ‘Westbrook, Conn., Feb, 15—One man | departments’ list. ;nleh:n and two .::lhgrs were in- Jured wi a 0 a half story frame " bullding, - under_conctrucgian, | VICE CONDITIONS MUST collapsed during a heavy gale here late today.. The man killéd was Jo- seph Jones, employed as a_carpenter on the bufiding. He was 45 years of age and lived in Westbrook. Alleged Bandit Arrested, Boston, Feb. 15.—James Mede, al- leged to be one-of the bandits who at- | through Ci D. E. tt, tacked Thomas ‘est, ! that vice conditions existing in the vi- tting and Twisting | cinity of Caz Logan and |must be ameliorated or the soldiers| United States court today CEASE NEAR CAMPS In all ‘about 1,100 men are out |40 feet. Bafore the house rivers carpenter, and balkers' committee iches of the industry. ‘Houston and Forth Worth by Washington officials ' Two Farmers Bankrupt. Corey -F.|confident that the = deeper channel In-addition Secre- | Wood of Granby has liabilities of $12,- | would be provided as quickly as prac- er was asked Governor Hobby | 431 and_assets of$14,200 value, 3 ve the special session of. the leg- | ton P. Stanhope of Old Lyme has lia \islation’ consider remedial measures. ' bilities of . and assets of ‘$144. firther-reductions as & part of the nal powers in deciding the ceuntry’s foreign trade * policies. , The board, Which -already -issues Hcenses for the large number of commodities over export and import eentre), will work Mieat of commerce and the shippity Loard. in arranging trade rouze Control of exports and imports and of bunker Goal by the United States and the allles gives them control of that virtually ail the ocean=going ships American and allied many months . Trade Balances Will Be Affected. America’s trade balances:will be af- fected considerably by re-distributing ‘Are to Work With Allied Represen- | yoibut will make | . German total 13,264, ns registered in Chicago | German Socialist organ warns: “Americans are”coming!” Germany .is g -her Zeppelins with” artifictal fog, makers. German Socialists are urging ac- The ‘condition of the winter wheat crop of France is reported to be fav- orable. z " Andrew J. Sibley, a banker and for- merly postmaster of Monipelier, Vt., is dedd. ard Deportations of Belgians are still being carried on by German military authorities. \ Three lieutenants and. two privates ‘were sentenced to death in Greece for causing .mutiny. . . A total of 31,048 applications for government insurance was made at Camp Funston,” Kansas. The names’ of two Americans. killed and one man-wounded, appeared on the Canadian casualties list. The governorss of the Stock Ex- change voted to rescind the order clos- ing the Exchange gn Mondays. The * Railroad - Administration has taken control of all coastwise and laKe steamers owned by railroads, The King of England offered his three royal palaces for national use. No action by the government has been taken, Food enough to feed an army of a million menfor four days was saved Dy thé hotels, restaurants and clubs of Massachusetts. Inspectors of the big.station of the Rochester Railway & Light Co., found a half stick of dynamite in the coal bunkers at Rochester. -A bill by Senator Jones, of Wash- ington, to fyrnish army and navy of- ficers with: equipment at cost, was Dassed by the Sepate; Norway, in her reply to the United States, refuses 10, stop sending her v but will not Governor Edge “asked Director Mé- Adoo_to permit the: Baltimore & Ohio railroad and the New Jersey Central to connect with the Hudson tubes. Robert 8. Perking, head of the American Cross, in Italy, and James Byrne left Rome for Paris to try and enlist more help for ltaly. Attempts to blackmail the million- aire mayor, of Atlanta out of $500,000, led to the arrest of J. ‘W Cook, a real esfaté,man and Mrs. H. H. Hirsh. Fuwere slain, - Orders., transfefring Brigadier-Gen- | éral Howze chief of staff.of the De- it .of the Northeast to Fort Texas, were received at Bos- ton. Marne. Way_triumphed over Kaiser Wilhelm- Street in.Mount Washington, a suburb of Pittsburgh. The name was changed at the edict.of the coun- eil. 5 . William_F.. Yust, ‘Rochester;. libra- rian. - wasgranted leave oft-absence, ‘to take charge of, the American Li- brary’ Assoiatjs Q:;gswd;{vn_Spar- e tanbur] 73 épartment hopes to se- cure: relief"from’ congestion. conditions on "the Philadelphia .and Pittsburgh street car Tine without resort to dras- tic action. Rear Admiral Bradiéy D. Fi S, retired, has been elected pre ident -of the Army and Navy Club at New York by the governors of that organization. A United States soldier shot and seriously wounded one of two men walking along the barred zome of the New York waterfront district after they refused to halt. The .Department of Agricuiture has announced that 100,000 acres of castor beans: will. be planted this year: to meet the government’s requirements of lubricant for aircraft. A subway plan is to be whipped in- to shape as soon as possible by the Chicago City Council - Committee = on local transportation and submitted to the ‘voters for approval. ‘Brigadier Geniral” Isaac W. Littell, of the quartermaster’s corps in charge of cantonment construction who has | held his ranke in the national army, has been ‘appointed -brigadier general in the regular army The resignation of Waddm Catch- ings as president of the Sloss-Shef- field Steel and Tron Company was an- nounced at New York. J. W. Me- Queen. formerly vice president, suc- ceeds him as president. Thirty ship yard workers classed as enemy aliens ‘were dismissed yester- produ the United States must have to prose- cute the war. B CONTEST FOR 40-FOOT CHANNEL AT, HELL GATE A Large Delegation From New Yeork Presents Protest: Against 35-Foot Channel. Washington, Feb. 15—New York's Drotest against the action of the war dopartment in préparing to dredge a channel “only 35 feet deep through Hell Gate was taken to Presiflent Wil- son_taday by a large delegation head- ed iy Mayor Hylan and Dock. Com- “Murray Hurburt and in- members. congress:and re] resentatives of commercial and 1:: Congress appropriated for. a 35-foot channel to be deepened ultimately to recentiy It devel.] 'S ed that the army engineers are con. th for a.35-foot channel ang the trac New Yorkers ingist that the present| Sitaation damants that the onth:of 40 feét be vided at once. X ! The Ben told his callers he was ticable and 'suggested . that nothing be-gained by introducing a new Bl o duthorze the work at emce S day from a big shipyard on the Dela- ware river, Federal agents have been for some time and under orders from the government the men were dismiss-| MAUMEE RIVER FLOOD DARKENS CITY OF TOLEDO ‘All Car Service Suspended and Hun- dreds of Factories Shut Down. ed. MINORITY REPORT ON. RAILROAD BILL IN HOUSE Contends That Rate: Fixing Power| Toledo, 0. Feb. 15.—The Maumee river flood this afternoon bested the Should Rest with.l. C, C. report by eight republican. members | tion of the Toledo Railways and Light of the house inierstate commerce. com- | company. n mittee on the administretion railroad | per cent. of the electric current in the ] a city were shut down at two o'clock. All car service was suspended. Hun- dreds of factories including an auto- plant employing 15,000 men, bill contending, that the .rate mals power should be vested th-a!mi; in the interstate commerce commission and that the. federal: control of the | mobile ratiroads should be limited to-one year | shut down for lack of power. Most of or less after the peace proclamation 'was filed today ‘With the house. The minority report is. signed Boch, . Wisconsing| BANDITS MAKE RIGH HAUL IN CLEVELAND. r of $2,300 in Currency Representatives Hamflton, lll‘:-N@n; Parker, New Jer~ sey; Winslow, Massachusetts; ; Sweef " Rhode Island, and Cooped, Ohio. o b Kiev Attacked on All Sides. ange ph savs: “A wireless despatch ° tage Creame in Vienna from the Ukrainian premier | currency and $2,800 in checks. received announces that Kiev had' been attack- | was on his,way from the company’s §, but that the battle was|office in the downtown district'to the|chief engineer of the - Pennsvliania, velop to.the advantage |bank to deposit the money. The ban- %5 ditsescaped. s ians® * FOURTEEN PAGES—102 COLS, * = PRICETWO CENTS Condensed Telegrams BAS[S . BETWEEN CAPITAL AND LABOR Fivéi lBepresentatives of Each Have Been Named,bj : -, the Government to Reach a Decision ceptance of main American principles. |, EACH SIDE IS TO NAME' ONE OTHER MAN. Personnel of the Men Appointed is Being. Withheld Acceptances Have Been Received—First Session ‘of " Deliberations Probably Will Be Held Next Week— " Hours, Wages, Conditions and Methods of Settling ! Grievances Will Be Discussed—Stories of Large Profits ; and Exorbitant Salaries in War Contracts Have Caused . Dissatisfaction in the Nation’s Industrial Life Which . ‘Officials Regard Wi th Uneasiness. ~Washington, —Capital and labor have named the five representa- tives each asked by.the government to of relations for First: sessions of Unofficial suggestions for con=arip- tion of labor have not found.response? circles, -according -0 The power of in_government well informed officials. the government to compel a. man to work for the national safety, just as much as to compel another under- the., draft law to fight for the country,is conceded provide§ always that the en- . forced work is for the government and not for private: capital. expressed in official quariers that the 13th amendment -of the constitution outline a basid period . of the war. their deliberations probably will be held next. week after; each side has named one other man to_ public, making a board o Announcement of the personnel of the men, who were chosen by the na- tional council for industrial and the American federation of La- bor is being ‘withheld until the accept- ances of seweral of the men asked 10| serve have heen received. Stories of large profits and exorbi- tant salaries in war -contract: caused an undercurrent of- dissatisfac- tion in. the nation’s which officials. regard with uneasiness. Allegations of disloyalty made agai workers by some employers. lave add- od to the bad feeling. officials say ‘many ofthe chavges were unfounded,: that- the,large firnover of workers at Certain ship yamis has been due .largely to Ampassible living con- A% widely - circulated -story 150 rivets “heing the limit of work, or less than half the formér amotnt, offi- cials point out, failed to mention that inefficient management some places without, tools or complessed air to drive more than that The _belief is would protect a man against labor un- der dyress for a company. profit from the man’s labor, against work in a government factory, where the result made for the publiG gcod and the national safety. “It, is unthinkable,” Louis F. Post, assistant " secretary of labor, said to- d: “that a man should be forced to work for the private gain of any other Departmental Suggestions of coercion of labor. re- ceived official notiee from, the derCr ment of labor of -America’s participa- tion in-the war was many months old: Such, suggestions were termed “un impracticable and unpatriotic.” in Sec. retary_ Wilson's annual report. but. took Into consideration the possibility. that _conscription mizht hecome essary and announced the department’s © volicy as follows: . has Jleft -the that as/if workers ripted ror industrial the workiag opporta- Fundamentals of the labor auestion —hours,” wages, conditions and_meth- ods of settling’ grievances—vill he-dis- cussed by the new board/in the hope of reaching an understanding in‘a zen- eral way- which can be/ ipnlied ially to the c the boarq’ endeas purposes-—that nities - to which they cught to be commandeered so. as to male such workers vants 6f empl | the government. itself.” gL : Mr. Post said today that declaration tioned consctiption but that ‘if eo scription became necessary, it must preceded by -conserintion” of industry. not _coerced _saty working out adjusiing grievances ”R’ methoc ust foetore. tHey: hestrike. stasg. BOLO PASHA HAS/APPEALED TO COL*T OF CASSATION Taken 'to Death POSED AS ENVOX .FROM THE KING OF SPAIN Telephone Operator Tried to Get $50,« 000000 Loan From J..P.'Morgan & Col New York, Feb. week telephone oplerator, “His Excellency, the ‘Marquis Edmond Rousselot di Castillet, confidential rep-. resentative of His, fonso XIIL of Spal tions with the banking house of J. Py Morgan and Company 550,000,000, ahd, Spain woulg enter the war on the: side, of the 'entente allies. hrought the state department into the matter, was re- vealed in the federal court here today , when three indictments were returned against Edmond Rousselot, under the_ espionage law. ' Rousselot was pressing his_plan for the loan when chance caused his ar-, rest on another charge, and his castles in Spain quickly. toppled. William Pierson Hamilton Morgan house, ell Dressed in Prison Paris, Feb. 1 vesterday: was convicted by, a court- martial for treason, and sen death, today‘appealed ‘from the verdict to_the court of cassation. How a $15.a& ajesty, King Ale opened negotia- garb affd taken to the death cell-upon-his. return to Sante “Hr passed a restless night but#was apparently hopeful that the decision may be reversed on appeal. He said to the guards: “I am perfectly & thousand grounds for appeal.” One of these is supposed to be, the " |allegation that a witness forithe -pros- ecution was seen during a recess in the trial in conversafion with the presi- dert of the courtmartial and the gov- ernment counsel. Bolo's first inquiry was whether his neighbors in prison had been informed of the verdict. He was told that Caillaux was astonish- ed at his conviction. There were many callers at the prison this morning, but none was admitted as Bolo was sub- Jected to strict Prison regulations and Was constantly under the eves of the death watch. He was handcuffed when taken out for exercise ‘brought into court. EXTENSION. OF FRANCHISE TO CANADA WOMEN A Part of the Established Policy of the Canadian Government. for a loan of promising = that was foreman of the grand. jury which returned the indiet= ments, and was familiar with,the en< |y because he was & . member of the firm to which the mat- ter was entrusted. When the subject of the loan was broached to the bank by Rousselot, who hag been properly introduced by,.. W. B, D. Stokes, of New York city:- the bank immediately communicated v lansing, who opposed Spunish government idua), and suggested en up through the reg- tlar government channels. objected to this method of procedure, explaining that the loan was fo b made personally to King Alfonso. and it was because of this secret urrange-' ment._that he could promise that Spain was to join the. allies, with Secreta Ottaiwa, Ont., Feb. 15.—The extension of the franchise to Canadian women was announced by the government to- day as a part of its established policy. It was stated that woman would be an established fact iri Can- ada_before another election is held. This _statement was tempted to mean that the measure will be introduced at the next session of parliament, which probably will open within the next six weeks. The labor men in their Tecent con- ference with the government ursed that “the further industrjal develop- ment of women should be accompanied making an investigation of 'the plant{Dy political equality. and Mr. Hamilton still had the* consideration Rousselot, about ‘three weeks ago, was arresteq on the charge of falsely rep- - resenting himself as “Count Rousse- | lot,” a French diplomat here on a se- cret mission and ‘being unable to ob- tain bail was seat to jail. to inquiry and the'whole matter was~ laid ‘hefore the grand jury. 1t developed that Rousselot had not= confined_his operations houses, but numbered among his con-.. fiding friends one woman from whom™ he had borrowed $10,000 on oil stocks of doubtful value, but for the redemp- tion of which he had pledged his “an PRCOPOSED EXPENDITURES OF RAILROADS THIS YEAR Will Be Carefully Scrutinized by Tech- nical and Financial Experts. workers who were building a protect- ‘Washington, Feb. 15.—A minority [ ing wall around the main power sta- The engines supplying 85 Washington, Feb. 15.—Proposed ex- penditures of railroads for extensions and improvements thig year will bs" carefully scrutinized by technical and financial experts of the railroad ad-* ministration before according to a plan announced today Director General McAdoo. One of the first steps toward paring j down individual railroads’ estimates. and rearranging the program for caf ital expenditures, is the appointment of a committee of railway engineers to investigate the eastern g:‘h clty:strests Willibe in darkness to- et o lon, t, Towa, Stiness, | Robbed Cashie: and Cleveland, O., Feb. 15.—Two bandits thig afternoon held up and robbed Leghe J. Sadler, cashier of the Cot- pany, of $2,300 in The castern committee consists of Francls Jee Stoart, a gineer, chairman; A. T. Hardin, New f engineer of the New York Central: A. C.. Shand, Philadelphis. ' London, Feb. 15—A despatch to the|late Exchs Telegraph -from Amsterdam gineer of the