Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 23, 1918, Page 3

FOR EVERYTHING 4 L. LATHROP & SONS 28 Shetucket Street Norwich, Conn, R | AFTER the fire you will appre- ciats being insured in & GOOD COM- PANY that will settle- the loss PROMPTLY and FAIRLY. You'rs sure of strong A-1 Com- panies when you insure through us. ISAAC S. JONES insurance and Real Estate Agent Richards’ Building 1 Main 8t ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW EDWIN W. HIGGINS Attorney-at-Law N. L Co. Mut Fire Ins. Co. Bldg. 59 Broad: 1 awy. Brown & Perkins, Afimeys-silow Over Uncas Nat Bank, Shetucket St. Entrance stairway near to Thames National Bank. Telephone 38-3 LEGAL NOTICE The legal voters of the Town of are hereby warned to_meet in Meeting at the Town House on 3 73, 1918, at 2 p. m, to act upon the following, namel; To lay & tax for the ensuing year. To wote upon an itemized estimate of the surrent expenses of the Town for the ensuing year as made by the Selectmon. To vote upon the purchase of a road scraper. To mct upon the reports of the Se- lectmen as voted in Annual Town Meeting held Sept. 22, 1917, namely: Voted: “That the Selectmen confer h Town Counsel and the Nor- iue the Town of Preston from the Norwich Compressed Air Power Co. and report at the next Town Meetin ALBERT D. BENJAMIN. CHARLES E. MAYNARD, BOBERT A. PECKHAM, Selectmen. jolited st Preston, Comn., Feb. 23, RESTRICTIONS ISSUED FOR BUNKER LICENSES Denied to Vessels Built in U. 8. Un- | Under the American ‘Washington, Feb. 22. — Bunker 1 censes will be denied to vesse in the United States and Yoday by the war trade b The action was taken in cG-opera- tion with the shipping board to in- sure that all the vessels turncd out under tha shipbuflding prosramme shall be resistered as American Ves- sels and kept undér control of the sovernment. APPEAL FOR RETURN OF PATENT LAW EXPERTS fo Serve the Government in Jts Present Emergency. - Wy m, Feb. 22—Secretary Lane today appealed to patent law ex- jerts who have received part of their Taining as examiners_in the patent Milce to return and sefve the.gzovern- nent in its present emergency by aking positions as examiners if only a year. The law provides fcz scarcely smough examiners to care for the nor- mal busimess of the patent office and ‘ the force is now fifteen men short from men going into private practice and military duty. Attempts to fill the vacancies through the civil ser- vice commission and by appeals to aniversitien have failed. As a laSt resort Secretary Lane today made a patriotic appeal to former examiners lo return. ABSTINENCE FROM EATING WHEAT FLOUR FOR 60 DAYS Food Administrator Hoover Says MK is a War Necessity. Philadelphia, Feb. 22.—As a war the people must refrain from sating wheat flour for the next sixty fays, possidly for a longer period This staternent was made today on the authority of Herbert C. Hoover, federal food administrator, by Howard Heinz, administrator for Pennsylvania tpeaking before an audience of news- paper managers. A telegram was read from Mr. Hoover which made it phin that this country must immediately »ond food to the- allies or lose the war. If it is not sent, “It means but pne thing, catastrophe,” declared Mr. Hoover. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA IRON CASTINGS FURNISHED PROMPTLY BY THE VAUGN FOUNDRY CO Nos. 11 to 25 Ferry Street THE PALACE 78 Franklin Street P. SHEA owling- THE AETNA - Billiards 7 ALLEYS Phone Conn. 6 TABLES Majestio Building, Shetuckst St. Norwich, Conr. Bowl and play Billiards for exsrcise and recreation HEN YOU WANT to put your bus- luess before the public,” there Is no wmedlum better than through the ad- Fertising coiumns ~f The Builetin. Bout Was Fast and Full of Action—Goula Led the Fighting From Start to Finish—Kid Clish and Red Rankin Fight to a Draw. Goula led the fighting all the way but he could not seem to comnect for any blows that counted. Powers, the Big Harp, took all of Goula’s swings with warmed up and he was in no dan- ger. 2 In the fifth round Goula eclaimed Woonsocket had a hugging match and things went rather siow. Howie led the fighting and Rocco did the duck- ing which saved him from a good beating. Howie had the advantage in height and reach. Rocco put up a good fight and showed better head- work than the Woonsocket lad. In the preliminary Red Rankin and Kid Clish fought a pretty fight to a six round draw. Neither one had the advantage of the other, and aé thare was no_decision, and the bout was winner take all, it ts probable that the boys will meet in the near future for another battle. . The fans eurely got their money's worth and there was no kick register- ed. Matchmaker Sullivan and Mana- ger Halstead have certainly rhaintain- ed their reputation as being stage o regular exhibition. Dave Fitz- gerald did the refereeing and his work was up to his usual high standand Jack Shugrue did the announcing and kept the crowd in good order with his requests. Jackie Wilson officiated at the gong. . Howie Hodgkins was present at the bout and as one who has seen the best of them expressed himself as well pleased with the exhibition, which counts for a whole lot. AMERICAN BOWLING CONGRESS Toledo Next Meeting Place for Annual Tourney. Cincinnati, 0., Feb. 22—Toledo was selected as the convention and tourna- ment city in 1919 ‘and Roberw W. Brown, of Louisville and New York, was elected president of the American Bowling Congress at its annual con- vention here today. \ The prize list or money to be dis- tributed among the bowlers participat- ing in the annual tournament, as adopted by the -conventjon, will total $20,970, distributeq as follows: $10,355 to the five men teams; $9,462 to the two men team and $9,605 to the indi- viduals, The winner of the five men event will receive $670, the team finishing second $625 and the team finishing third $575, while the one hundred and thirty-first team, the last team to finish in the money, will receive $25. In the two men event $360 is set as the first prize: $325 to the second and $300 to the third, while the last or two hundred and ninety-ninth prize is set at $il, In tne individuals the top prize is $200 with $180 to the second and $160 to the third, while'the last, or six hun- dred and seventh prizefi will be $7. The only change in the standing to- day occurrtd when J. Schmitt of St. Louis, by rolling 647, landed in second place temporarily and J. F. Oetken, St. Louis, landed third with 645 in tho Individual events. In the individuals event C, Wagner, Newark, N. J., was first with a score of 680 and in the five men team Neu- berth Colts of Newark, N. J., were fourth with a total of 2,780, CRAGIN AND. CUNNINGHAM SPRING SURPRISE N TENNIS The Special Doubles From *National In-Door Champions, New York, Feb. 22. — Cragin and W. Dickson Cunningham. former Yale captain, were responsible for an indoor tennis upset here today. In the final of the special doubles tournament on tht court of the Sev- enth Regiment armory the pair de- feated F. B. Alexander and Dr. Will- lam Rosenbaum, the national indoor champions, in five sets. The score was 5-7, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 6-0. Miss Molla Bjurstedt and H. A. Throckmorton' outplayed Miss Marie Wagner, national indoor champion, and W. M. Hall in an exhibition mix- ed doubles. The score stood at 7-5, 6-all on games when the com was called. i Pittsburgh Hockey Team Wins, Boston, Feb. 22—The Pittsburgh A. A. hockey team defeated the Boston Arena team 2 to 0 in A game here to- night. Drury starred for the visitors, The Arena players were handicapped in using borrowed their own having been delayed in it be- tween here and Pittshurgh, whers they played last Saturday. Princeton 8wimmers Win, Princeton, N. J, Feb. 22. — fThe Princeton swimming team defeated Cclumbia 43 to 10 in an intercollegi- ate meet here today. Princeton cap- tared every first place except the 220 yard event, which was won by Roge: of Columbia. i Columbia won the water 25 points to L —_— Baseball in the Snow. Newport, R. I, Feb. 32—In 2 build- ing snowstorm with the temperature near zero, of from the First Na- val District defeated officers from Fort Adams i a full " nine inning game by a score of 12 to 5 today. Valger Defeats Shea. Boston, Feb. 22.—Benny Valger, of New York, defeated Tommy Shea of New Taven in a fast tweive round bout here today. Valger fgrcéd the hguting. polo match ' |Players Must Report Early Next S p— WEEGHMAN SERVES NOTICE ON HOLD, QUTS Month or Seek Other Employment.. Chicago, Feb. 22, — against Brown, sylvania. and the very strong “darl horse” of Annapofis without defeat, he counts on finishing this season -yt success and adding a fourth year t the phree previous ones of continued victory. A The events for the Midatstown meet will be the hundred yard. race, In which Captain Max Tintersee of m the fifty yards with Unfersos and Young, Jr., ‘of Pater: son, N. 7., wil be . entranf the plunge with Arthur E. Wales of Brookline and John E. Shaw of Gen- eva, IIl, representing Technology and the relay in which Untersee, Young, Shaw and O. H. Trowbridge, of Pelham Manor, N. Y., will de the swimmers. There have been attemnts to 're- vive the rave with Yale, which was given up on account of the coal s uation in New Haven, but at the mo- ment these do not look favorable. The Technology téam has won its victory this year against serious loss- es in its swimmers. Four men, W. C. Foster, Charles Seranton, Robert N Gay and Gordon Stewart, all of them stars have gone into service or into Industries allied to war. the last-nam ed being reported as dead in France. Mr. Scheeline, a S€an Francisco voung mah, has coached the team th! and in doing this aga als has attfacted much atteati approbation. ~ He is a serior and al- ready entered into military wark in the aviation line and will in & month or two leave the Institu ready been aloft i after finishing hie st to practical av! Coogan Gets Decision O Providence, R. I, Tech. Ccogan of Newport w over Pete Hartley of night . Hartley was throughout but Coogan end outpointed him. Frem Cornel! Philadelphia, Feb. 32 sity of Pennsylvania d 27 to 12 in an.intercol basketball game Eiks’ Tournamant. Teams 2 and 5 bowled jast ni fore a large crowd. Team & taking the first two and Team 2 coming hack strong ad taking the third zame by quite a margin. Lucy, of Team b5, bowled 115 in the first string, tieing Frost for the high single for the weskly prize. He also bowled. high three strings for the evening. ‘Teams 1 and 4 bowl next Monday night and a great game is expected as Teamd is tied for second place with Team 1. SPORTING NOTES The policy of the New York Ath- letic club regarding championship events will remain during the contin- uance of ‘the war as heretofore. No member of the club will be permitted to represent it at a title competi- tion. The majority of the champion ath- letes of the nation are in the service of Uncle Sam, but many of them are located in army camps or naval sta- tions in the east and expect to ob- Yfixlur;fufloughs in order to defend theip The feature event of the Prepared- ness games promises to be the one- mile run for the Army and Navy in which Lieutenant Johnny Overton, Lieutenant William Anderson, William G&r&ofl and Syd Leslie are expected to 8 In the way of high-class. competiti- tion the third set of bi-weekly Pre- paredness games of the Metropolitan association promises to outclass the previous meets. A better entry has been received, both in quantity and quality. s Much inteerst is being_ manifested in the itan A. A. U. wrestling champjonships, which will be held on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, Apr 2 and 4 The following weights will be contested: 108, 115, 135, 135, 145, 158, 175 pounds, and heavywelght. Dick Remer, the national cham- pion heel and toe artist, will start from scratch in the ome-mile walk at the meet next Saturday night. Dick has been training on _the armory floor the past week and is said to be in exceilent shape for a new record Arthur J. Curtain, who is stationed at Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, C., is coming up for the Preparedness games on Saturday. _ Curtain will measyre strides with Plant, of Camp Upton, and Kieser of Camp Dix in the | fi one-mile walk for athletics In army. the A two-mile bicycle race and a one-mile walk, closed to members of the American Walkers' association, have been added to the long list of events for the Preparedness _games. Van den Dries, Attardi and Nunziatta will be the backmackers in the bicy- cle race. % h The regular list of championship events will be. contested at the meet on March 16. As usual, solid gold medals, emblematic of the champion- ship of the United States will be awarded to the winners of each event, silver medals to second and bronze to third. 2 . and Penn- | CAPITA g7, OcK If they weren't GOOD— They wouldn’t be good enough for the Boys “Over Aawid TRAIN SCHEDULE FOR THE FINAL QUOTA OF FIRST DRAFT Train Will Lel-ve Norwich Wednesday at 11.15, Dayville at 12.10. Hartford, Feb. 22.—Copies of the train schedule arranged by the New Haven road for the transportation to Camp Devens, Wednesday, of Connec- ticut's final 15 per cent. quota of the |flust draft were today received by lo- cal boards from Adjutant General Ceorge M. Cole. Draftees from the smaller towns will take regularly scheduled trains toc a central point, from which special trains will run to Ayer. . In Hartford approximately eighty- six men will take a special train leav- jing at 1030 and arriving at Ayer at 3 p. m.' On thig train there will also be about 17 men from Meriden, who will leave that city at 9.09, A special train leaving Willimantic S.|at 11 o'clock and reaching Ayer at 3 o'clock will carry 20 men leaving Mid- dlefield at 7.4, 12 men leaving Port- lal]lg at 8.14 and 22 men from Plain- eld. Seventy-three New Britain men will leave there on a special at 9.45. A special train leaving Waterbury At 850 will carry 167 draftees ‘from that city, 33 from New Milford and Hawleyville, 24 from Danbury, leav- ing at 7.20; 114 from Ansonia, leav- ing there at 7.46; 63 men leaving Nau- gatuck at 8.12, ‘and 12 leaving Tor- rington at 7.03. The special will reach Ayer at 3 o'clock. Another special leaving New Haven at 9 o'clock and reaching Ayer at 2.40 will earry 151 draftees from that city, 15 from Greenwich at 6.30, 15 leaving Stamford at 6.52, 19 leaving South Norwalk at 7.15, 28 leaving Bridgeport. at 7.51, 13 leaving Stratford at 7.57, and 27 leaving Milford at 8.07. There will be a_special train leav- at 2.40. Tt will carry 15 men from Groton, and 15 from Stonington. A ‘special will leave Guilford at 9.25 and carry 21 men from that locality. Another ‘will leave Norwich at 1115 with 16 men, and a_ third will leave Dayville at 12.10 and carry about 12 men from that place and Killingly. Practically all trains will reach Aver at 3 o'clock. ECONOMIC AGREEMENT WITH NORWAY HAS BEEN REACHED In Which Great Britain and All Other “Allied Nations Are in Aceord. Washington, Feb. 22—A complete economic agreement in which Great Britain and the other allied nations are in accord has been reached between the United: States and Norway. The terms have not yet been made publi Announcement of the successful con- clusion of negotiations between _the war trede board and Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, the Norwegian commissioner, was contained in this statement issued by the board tonight: “The war trade board, acting in harmony with a similar decision of| the British government in regard to the Norweglan steamer Alfred Nobel, has decided- to release the Norwegian steamer Kim, now lying in an Ameri- can port, and permit it to ‘proceed to Norway with its cargo of oil cake for fodder purposes. Dr. Nansen, Norge- gian commissioner in the = United States, has been informed of the de- cision, which was taken in view of the fact that the general negotiations with Norway have reached a point where nothing remains except the drafting- of. the. agreement. “Both cargoes, that of the Alfred| Nobel, comprising flour and other | foodstuffs, were loaded in the Arger- llowing officers: tine and are covered by the Norwegian rationing agreement about to be draft- ing Groton at 10.45 and reaching Ayer ed ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF In Session at New London—Arthur '3 Towson Elected Secretary. New London, Conn., Feb. 22—~With 350 delegates in attendance, the 1Sth annual conference of older boys of the Y. M. C. A. here today elected the fol- President, Jorn A. North, North Haven; first vice presi- dent, Edwadd Spencer, Hartford; sec- ond 'vice president, Joseph Wakeman, Fairfield; third vice president, Lord Vail, Greenwich; secretary, Arthur W. Towson, New London. The closing sessions are to be held tomorrow. The place for holding the next convention was not decided upon. KRYLENKO HOPEFUL OF REPULSING GERMANS By Concentrating Masses of Russian Revolutionists. Petrograd, Feb. 22—Ensign Krylen- ko, the Bolshevik commander-in-chief, says that if the people succeed in throwing against.the enemy trated masses of revolutionary who, not only in accordance w itary strategy but also secretly fro every corner, ‘everywhere—in small de tachments and large battalions—will struggle for every town, village, street and house, then there are mno forces which the Germans can successfully oppose against them. His_statement says that all able- bodied men must be ordered to work on fortifications and in the construc- tion of obstacles along. ail the routes of the German advance. Any bour- geosie who resists must be tried and forcibly compelled to work. Registra- tion facilities for the revolutionary army have been opened at all local concen- councils and with the staffs of the Red army. It is added that arms wiil be del ered by localities. Revolutionary cipline must be brought to the hi degree of efficiency by the handing over to the revolutionary tribunals all who do not obey the order. “All to arms! All to the defense of th erevolution!” s the statement. A general mobilization for the dig- ging of trenches is ordered. The di gers will be under the orders of tie councils and every detachment will be commanded by reésponsidle commissa- ries with unlimited powe: FORMER AMBASSADOR GERARD RECOVERING Was After an Operation Which It Feared Might Prove Fatal. New York, Feb. ard, former American ambassador to Germany, was pronounced out of dan- ger tonight by his physician after an operation which. it was feared for a time, might cost him his life. It was the first intimation to the public that Mr. Gerard was. ill. Mr. Gerard, rding to Dr. Lee M. Hurd, his physician, had been sufi g- ing for some time from nose and throat trouble., THREE YOUNG CHILDREN BURNED TO. DEATH James W. Ger- When Their Home Was Destroyed by Fire at Butler, Pa. Butler, Pa., Feb. dren were burned to de tonight when their home ed by fire. ‘Three ehil- h here late s destroy- The dead are George Huff, age 9, and his two sis! Gertrude, age 7, and Sarah, age v Richard Huff, mother of the ms, was seriously burned when she tried to rescue the children, who wers asleep in a room on the second fioeref the home. The mother succeeded im - rescuing two of her children from 2 room on the ground floor of the Hu residence, but when she tried to reach the others on the second floor she was badly burned and was rescued by firé- men. The bodies of the young victims were entirely consumed by the flames. If the War Ends! ‘ If the ‘war ends before the baft season opens the Boson Red Sox will have a wonderful team. Hegpe it is: Pitchers—Bush, Shore. Leonard, Ruth, Mays, Foster, Penno afd others. of Catchers — Schang, Agnew, and Mayer. Infielders — Hoblitzel, Gainer, Mec- Innis, Barry, Janvrin, Cooney, Scott, McNally and Gardner. - Outfielders — Lewis, Strunk, Hoop- er, Shorten and Walsh. President Jrazee, by the way, made a wager last December of $2,000 against $12,000 that there would be 1o fighting betweem the allies and tite central powers after April 15, A unique and priceless copy of the Koran has been stolen from the Petrt grad public librery by a party of sol- BELL-ANS Ll Absolutely ' Removes® Indigestion. Druggists® refund money if it fai!s._%u.‘ THERE 13 ne afver: Eastern — orinectioet rauat to The Buls latip far Business reguIta. i 4 i