Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 27, 1918, Page 1

They Are Disregar'difig Russia’s Acceptance of Peace MEETING WITH SOME OPPOSITION IN THE NORTH S5 Teufonic Army is Only Eight Hours’ March From Petrpgnfl— 'AmunenhtolanfllekufiinC&pihl—Amfiuni Northwest of Toul, in France, Are Under Heavy German ! The German Chancellor’s General Peace Speech in the Reschstag, Continued Yesterday, is Regarded With Sus- | picion in Washington and London—Probably Designed . to " Afthough the Russians have accept- ed’Germany's proposals for peace, the { are continuing their inroads /Great and Little Russia. In | Germans iboth into ‘!he north’ placed in the path of the invaders, !M& evidently the pressure has not yet been suffic ’fiu enemy. Considerable fighting has taken place around the town of Pskov, ‘which, according to latest advices, has changed hands several times. In Vol- b | ing. © VOL. LIX—No. | BELIEVES IN VESTING port, Conn., Feb. 26.—Del is no cause for alarm in con- 50 Terms Proposed by Central Powers ) Deceive the German Populace. been captured some opposition is being the Germans. Russians Called Npon to ient to stay the progress of ESIDENT WITH POWERS lar- (ferring vast powers on President Wil 500 ‘B, an jon a: would be in failing to limit this to the period of the war. iny are alarmed lest we drift in- to autocracy,” said the senator, “but very much depends upon the presi- PO’ dent ‘War purposes, ress before the Manufacturers'| Senator James republican, of Indiana, in day by the navy little craft was separated fg cort during a terrific gale for Europe. No navigation aboard but, after here tonight said the only n in asking the power a length of time for which it is .h::tfiefl. If we confine the term and opetition of this authority to the pe- riod of the gfl‘ 5 5 ong after the w: cause fcr apprehension. bestowal of power npoi war, there ust cause But 1t Mer st for , then there the presient in war time and for war |P! is not be and shall continue long after the ly not dangerous, uch of it is neces- to bestow this authority now and expressly provide hre escort in the terrific vary 15, had not been o that time, and which we lost. ~This was one of I8, over, is precisely the same as hd sough ‘before the war began.” iy wit] the | vir b which had been conferred, he ‘was that concerned with the life of the nation. /MERCHANT MARINE WILL expi ‘ jndustrial ‘Two Additional U ¢d to the Squadron at Boston, New York, Feb. 26.—Declaring that the this year will require 42000 sailors ‘firemen dilers, coal tenders, cooks and stewards. Cantain Eugene E. ing sea training for the United States shipping board, today announced that within a month a training ship will pla at San Francisco. be dittonal un &q1 al ing ship ing station Captain ‘was made for the first class of youths, a major- ity from a New England state and a few from Chicago, who finished their ¢oursé of Instruction aboard the train- ing #hip Calvin Austin, which will sail tomerrow for her base at Boston with ahout. 350 who have not.yet finished -training. The training ships will afford a fine tunity for men of the sea to be- ports :Zm deck ‘with. good M;EI'ING FOUNDERS AND PATRIOTS Mra.: Leander Shipman of New Lon- don Bridgeport, Feb. 26.—At the 17th annual meeting of the chapter of and Patriots, held here today, the fol- officers were elected: President, Mrs. nk A. Corbin, New Haven; vice president, Mrs. Jenne, Hartford; corresponding sec- Mrs, ‘George B. Bunnell, Der- by; treasurer, Mrs. Clarence B. Bol lowin, retary, mar, New Leander K. Shipman, Mrs. D, T. Merritt Heminway, Waterbu Robert S, elected delegate to the general con- vention-in Washington, D. C., May 13 and Mrs, Henry L. Harrison, New Ha- Vea, to act OUTBREA IN COUNTY CLARE, IRELAND. Acdditional ofidon, 1 T k. 1@t the_police. declared a fense of the Realm act. ing the fears of many people, titution is still in force and the president holds his position. by ,of its provisions. ~He said the that congress had conferred !m additional power. upon the. presi- ! dent as cemmander-in-chief of alsq and possibly a dispatch- léssness in County Clare, Irelaund, i# announced officially, mecossary Sunday the sending of ad- ditional troops to the county to. assist t this great authori- |the French government, and ‘Watson declared that not- ton. the The only additional |20 hour before the wind. ik no navigation estfmate their positions. for 39 days, going on short and Yinally reached port.” REQUIRE 42,000 MEN' Are to Be Add- Army Aviation Camj lcan merchant marine Memphis, Tenn., Feb, at P Can o™ | Miss., and Cadet W, C. Story O’Donnell, who is supervis- Two ad- its will be added to the iready at Boston. A train- crushed that he died later in hospital. wiil be locateq here, O'Dorinell's announcement at the graduation exercises and both were wreckage. Weissinger had done ‘Washington. vanced flying classes. apprentices still on board | Plane. and engine room officers, chances of promotion. OF DAUGHTERS OF by collisions in mid-air, ber of Commerce. Elected a Councillor. Connecticut the Daughters of Founders |control and eliminate Clarence F. R. membership. s Haven; Mrs. | NEGRO SOLDIERS RIOT New London, Weleh, New Haven; Mrs. Mrs. was councillors, Goodwin, Torrington, as alternate. K OF LAWLESSNESS . the camp today. not sericus scalp wound. . e e AT Troops Sent There to As- +sist-the Police. Pl Feb. 26.—The outbreak of rendered Couriy Clare has heen special area under thy X- than seven nor less than six the Western penitentiary. JLATION 29918 ' - GERMANS RELENTESS N PENETRATION OF RISSERST thynia the tewn of Kolenkowitz has after some fighting, and according to the Berlin official com- munication bands of the Bolsheviki in Ukraine have been put to flight by An official proclamation issued in Petrograd calls upon the people td rally to the cause of Russia if the (Continued on Page Two. Col. 5.) EXPERIENCE OF AMERICAN SUBMARINE CHASER Sendtor James E. Watson of Indiana | s Net Been Heard From Since Jan 8ays There is No Cause For Alarm. 15—Engines Were Disabled. ‘Washington, Feb. 26.—Safe ned by a French crew which sav craft by a remarkable feat of na In the storm, which was one of M87Ir the threat against. Petrograd in- worst on record, the engines weve dis- !, o;5es, the government will remove abled and the boat left adrift fa- out| at sea. The crew managed to rig up a sail made from bed coverings, and were able to make two or thres knots There were instruments except a compass aboard, and the crew had to They sailed AIRPLANES AFTER COLLIDING FELL ABOUT 1,000 FEET. Resulted in Death of Two Cadets at an in Tennessee. 26.—Cadet Willlam J. Weissinger of Buena:Vista, port, N. Y., were killed at the army aviation camp near here late today in a collision of airplanes which they were piloting. Weissinger was killed instantly, while Story was so badly ‘The machines fell about 1,000 feet, burned - under .newspaper work in this city and in Chicago and Both flyers were members of the ad- Story fell from his machine while it was falling and was caught beneath the debris of the Today’s accident brings the number of killed within the past three weeks at Park fleld up to .eight, all cause ENDORSEMENT OF OVERMAN BILL IS RECOMMENDED By Board of Directors of U. S. Cham- ‘Washington, Feb. 26—FEndorsement of the Overman bill, giving the pres- ident full powers to. centralize. war |Dec. “red tape” the various departments was rccom- mended today by the board of direc- tors of the United States Chamber of Commerce to the more than 1,000 com- mercial organizations inciuded in its AT CAMP PIKE, ARKANSAS A White Non-Commissioned ~Officer Was Painfully Injured. | Archbishop Prendergast was born in Little Rock, Ark, Feb. 26.—Twenty- | Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland, six negro soldiers of the 512th engineer service battalioh are in the guardhouse at Camp Pike, awaiting courtmartiai, a sa result of a riot in a mess hall at ‘A white non-com- missioned officer suffered a painful but ded Guilty to Manslaughter. ‘Bradford, Pa., Feb. 26.—Arch #'ur- ner, who recently shot and killed Ed- ward Ralph at a lumber camp near here, today pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in court at Smethport. He was sentenced to serve not more ,_CONN., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1918 Madrid, Feb, the r Sunk. despatch from h - steamer Ne- by a submarine. /" AS'ITS REPRESENTATIVE At Conference to Frame Basis of Na- 2 tional Labor Policy. Wi : Feb. 26—With the se- lection by iployers’ tati of Former of Labor and they, with the two repre- sentatives of the public, will compose a board of twelve. Tonight it was said that Associate Justice Brandeis of the supreme court might be asked to serve as labor’s rep- Tresentati: time. ive. When the conferees meet again a week from tomorrow each side will have ready a programme and an out- line of the subjects it thinks should be taken up. Aside from the desire to formulate a government labor policy the chief alm_of the conference is to find a method of doing away with strikes which might hamper war production. It is b‘eflaved thl.l!, bo!}l sides will agree to some plan of arbitration, probably by district boards with the Tight of appeal to a general board or department to be established under the department of labor. REPUBLICAN GHAIRMAN HAYS IN WASHINGTON teday. Harmonizing Relations of National and Congressional Committees, ‘Washigton, Feb, 26. Chairman Hays of the republican national com- mittee, here tonight for the first of a series of meetings with party leaders, laid plans for what he declareq will be harmonious co-operation betweert the national committee and the con- gressional campaign committee and announced his intention while here of seeing republicans regardless of their former afiiliations in the party. Mr. Hays said all factions have been or will be eliminated during his ad- ghministration of party affairs. He told alling on Charles E. Hughes and el Theodors Roosevelt in New and of receiving a message from er President Taft congratulat- himh on his election to the chair- Manship. s Plans for harmonizing the party and inging abouf co-operation between, the two committees were discussed at a reception given by the congressionai campaign committee. Rally. GERMANY HAS REFUSED L. & ‘Russians to Romm's’_ze of Govern- ment to Moscow. Potrograd, Feb. 26—(British Ad- hiralty Per Wireless Press). “Ger- has formaily refused to grant armistice, and German detach- continue. to advance” says an statement issued today. “Re- e thus bezomes the principal 987 the revolution. lussia's' greatest strength. lies in Ner wide territories. and the govern- snt ean, and if need bhe. will retreat ley, Weat to Moscow or another city.” el CHARGED WITH THEFT OF $30,000 WORTH OF JEWELRY. Henry Williams of Buffalo, a Dining Car Waiter. New York, Feb. 26.—Henry Williams of Buffalo, a dining car waiter, was held here today for the grand jury on the charge of having stolen $30,00 worth of jewelry from Mrs. W. E. D. Stokes of this city while she was com- ing here by train from Denver last October. The police allege that Wil- liams, arrested in Buffalo Saturday, was found to have pawned there for $132 some jewels which were identi- fied by Mrs. Stokes as belonging to her. . William§ claimed he purchased them in Buffalo frorz another negro who said they had been smuggled into this country from Canada. ITHREE AMERICAN SOLDIERS KILLED, NINE “GASSED” adopted tion, s rations, of Free- | the field the | |n Twe Formidable Attacks Made by the Germans. With the American Army in France, Feb. 26.—(By The Associated Pr . Three, American soldiers were killed and nine badly- “gassed™ in two for- midable gas attacks made by the Ger- mans on the American positions in the Toul sector early this morning with projectors. ¢ The enemy also heavily bombarded the American batteries with gas shells, R but without result.” that it v . OBITUARY. The Most Rev. Edmond F. Prendergast. Philadelphia, Feb. 26—The Most Rev. Bdmond Franois, archbishop’ of Philadelphia! died at the arch-episcopal residence here to- | night of diabetes. He was'stricken on 15 last and had been. confined to his bed virtually ever since. He was in his 75th year. Archbishop Prendergast was the third archbishop_of Philadelphia and seventth in the series of prelates who have occupied the see established by Pope Pius VII in 1808. He had been archbishop since May, 1911. Previous to -thet, ‘since February, 1897, he was auxiliary to the.late Archbishop Ryan, with the title of Bishop of Scillio. He also held the office of vicar general and for many years was rector of St. Malachi’s church, Philadelphia. |\ention April in British May 5, 1843. He came to the United States in 1859. ¢ Dr. Samuel G. Dixon. Philadelphia, Feb.: 26.—Dr. . Samuel G. Dixon, commissioner of ths state department of health, who Is credited with having placed Pennsylyanis among the foremost states in public health matters and in the traatment of tuberculosis, died at the Universi- ty. of Pennsylvania Rospital today aft- er a long old. #liness. 'He was 66 years of 422,31 Excessive rainsinSiam have injured the rice erop seeriously and ‘ir. 'some| plants y Al ) 25 years in Wholesale Price of Fresh Eggs in the State Has Dropped the Past Week From 65 Cents to 59 Cents a Dozen —Potatoes $2.92 a Hundred Pounds. Hartford, Conn., Feb. 26.—At a con- ference here “today between Fedefal Food Administrator and wholesale and retail, dealers groceries, the. matter of sales of wheat flour was considered. As a result. the food administrator has decided to limit the sale of such flour to the consumers to not more than a half barrel at a . Reports show that price of fresh eggs in this state is now 59 cents a_dozen, against 65 cents a week ago. $2.92 a hundred pounds, wholesale. Washington, Feb. 26.—Hearings be- fore the railroad wage commission in its work of making recommendations for the most extensive wage adjust= ment ever undertaken were concluded It was saig officially that the commission’s £s classes of the 1250,000 railroad work- ers should receive increases and the amount of the increases wo municated to the director less than a month. Alfred D. Flinn, appearing today for the .United Engineering Society, ask- ed that the commission consider pro- fessional engineers in any increases recommended. Negro employes on railroads in the south were said by J. W. Williams, Alonzo Jones and H. G. Bailey, of the Railway Helpers and Laborers Union, to be underpaid and migrating to the north, where wages were higher. An increase from 23 1-2 cents to 30 cents an hour was asked for blacksmiths' helpers. and similar laborers on the Central of Georgia. Line and Seaboard Alr Line, and from 28.6 cents to 50 cents for oil box pack- ers on the Chesapeake and Ohio, H. M. Comerford representing power house engineers, increased wages and an eight hour day for stationary engineers. DELEGATES TO NATIONAL PROGRESSIVE CONVENTION Hartford, Feb. 26:-At a meeéting in this city . Monday nigh were appointed delegates to attend a national.convention of the National Progressive party in Ch L. H. Trieschmann, Hartford: John Cairns, Marichester; D. M. Hartford; nectient, a committec to form a state organiza- Mr. Wilder is chairman of the local prohibition committee. saig that nominations for- men would probably be made. NO LIQUOR FOR WOMEN ESCORTED BY SOLDIERS Sales Are Not to Bs Permitted Here- after in Philadelphia Cafas. Philadelphia, Feb, 26:—The sale of liqguer to women accompanied by A mnan in- military uniform wiil not be permitted here afteryin Philadelphia cafes, according to trict -Attorney Kane, - Mr. Kane said thaty in almost all such cases,~fhe soldier pays for theisodium nitrate, ligguaqoqr and thus violates the spirit of the law forbidding the sale of ii,c:nor‘cnttonseed hull to_army men in unifor: In case a- man in ‘eiv party -he may. but Mr. Kane makes the sugzestion with the COMMISSION CONCLUDED It is Said Its Decision Will Be An- nounced in Less Than a Month. E. L. Richards, Litchfield: J. C. Bidwell, Hartford; Robert Schol- Shelton; ford: Robert Innis, Thomasto: H. Flood, Bridgeport; James B. Smith Haven; Bridgerport. The meeting was attended from various tewns and cities A resolution backing the administration in the Mr. Trieschmann and Gec. H. Wildar of this ci by an ’ LIFTED OFF THEIR FEET One Man at the Barge Office Pier_ Robert Scovije | $0-mile gale. In boards, chimneys and trees ings. Woolworth building - were the wholesale | required hospital treatment. The fro: Potatoes are selling at|one was hurt. on account of the blowing down poles and wires outside the city. 8# Miles an Hour. by the weather bureau. It was out the northwest. Reports grew scores at police headquarters telling by the gale, or from copings, into the streets. One man decisions as to what |barge office pier at the Battery wi traffic was cirtually suspended. the 16th time the wind has exceed 80 miles an hour since 1884. A Carpenter Blown Off Roof. a carpenter, was blown off the roof fering fatal injuries. WIND WRECKED BUILDING Debris Filled the Street and Block Traffic—No One Hurt. Wilmington, Del., Feb. 26.--One the buildings of the local-plant u Atlantic Coast by the high gale which swept telegraphed asking | section early today. The bui was of prick and steel coastruc fhad not reported for duty. The lass estimated at $§75,000, % 7 Montr ‘Montreal, I in Darkness: Feb. 28, eral hours teday as a result of a tension transmission wire being 'z ped in a gale. The wind .reached velocity of 60 considerable damage to plate windows in the business sec ight the following' icago, March 5. ‘Wright, service. GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF C. 1. Dilworth, ' Hart- John W5 H.' 8t Ordered Last Night by President Wi son—Dealers to Be Licensed. un was = Washington, Feb. ordered by in a proclamation requiring manufac- turers and distributors to obtain Ili- censes from the secretary of agricul- ture on or before March 20. Authority for the act is contained in the food control law, Licenses must be obtained not only by makers. importers. storers and sell- ers of fertilizer itself, but of its in- gredients as well. Applications for ) licenses. will be made to the food ad- ministration. Dealers in some fertilizer ingredi- ents, including ammonia and its com- pounds. already are under license by the food administration and they are excepted in the proclamation. Amons the ingredients not already .under li- censA and now put under control ave sulphuric acid. phesphate rock, bones, potash salts, cement and blast furnace dust. ‘wood ashes, and meal, potassium nitrate and tobacco waste. were appointe 1 1t was congress - hited States Dis- an ciothes is order i.iuor EXPELLED UNiON MUSICIAN vould be hest for.a waiter tol SHOOTS THREE MEMBERS. decline to serve drinks to an; party in which a ‘man form is pre TO REPRESENT STATE —AT GOOD ROADS CONVENTION Archibald McDonald of Putnam Among Gov. Holcomb’s Appointees Hartford, ‘Feb. 26.—ov. has-appointed the following’to repre- sent the state at the Good Roads con- in Little Rack, Hartford; Prendergast, | foik: Arthur Fifoo M. Waite, Sharon; Archibald McDon- iaid, Putnam, and Donald A. Adams,; New Haven. GOING TO ASSISTANCE OF A BRITISH STEAMER Navai Authorities Have Ordered Ves- sel to the Rescue. An Atlantic Port, Feb. 26. authorities: today ordered a govern- ment vessel to the assistance artford. Conn., Feb. 26.—The publie utilities commission today granted its permission to the Haven and Hartford railroad to issue preferred * stock ‘of the par value of $100° a_share. 00 shares. to be ‘allowed to issue 450,000 shares to rétund ‘noteés due . April X ing ‘indebtedresy ' sSteamer .which reported that she was in trouble off the north Ailan- tic coast. A message from the steam- er relayed to this port said that her rudder was broken and-that she was at the mercy of a southwest gale. ISSUE OF NEW HAVEN ROAD PREFERRED STOCK SANCTIONED By ‘Public Utilities Comm 200 Shares, Par Value $100. Guido Tuzi of San Francisco Had Re- fused to Play the “Star Spangled Banner.” . 1 United States uni- San Francisco, Feb. 26.—Three mem- bers of the Musicians’ union were shot today by a fellow member who had been expelled because he had refused to stand when the “Star. Spangled Banner” was played recently in the Civic -auditorium.. The expelled mem- ber fired six shots into a crowd of union members, three taking effect. The wounded were ‘A. F. Lees, ser- geant-at-arms of the union; F. Sciller and Herbert Schultz. Less and Scilbr sustained leg wounds and Schultz was shot in the hand. According to the story told the police, they were shot by Guido Tuzi, who was arrested. The executive committee of the un- jon had finisked hearing Tuzi's casé and Less was delerated to inform him of the verdict that he should be ex- pelled. - Less'found him in one of the rooms of the organizations’ headquar- ters, told him of the verdict ,when Tuzi opened fire with a revolver, ac- cording to the police. GOV. :M'CALL ‘ACTS ON BOSTON ELEVATED TROUBLE Holcomb Ark., -from Charles J. Bennett; B, Stockel, Nor- Hartford; Arthur -Naval of .a Succeeded in Bringing Both Sides in the Controversy Tog-ther. Boston, Feb.’ 26.—Governor McCall brought both sides in the controversy over wages between 8,500 union street carmen and the Roston Elevated Rail- way Company together today. The outcome of several conferences was that Matthew .C. Brush. president of the company, arranged to presznt the men’s demands for an increase of four cents an hour to the board of directors of ‘the company at a special meeting tomorrow. o The carmen at a stormy meeting Iast night postponed a shiike to en- force their .demands until midnight ion—422,- New York, New It sanctions’ the 'jskue The 'ro2d had asked Mgfl to their patriotism, Four Sl Linited New Yorkis Vistel | 1o Half a Barrel CONFERENCE BETWEEN FOOD ADMINISTRATION AND DEALERS -Mile Gale . R PEOPLE ON THE STREET WERE |killed ROOFS WERE RIPPED QFF the Battery Was Blown Overboard | 3¢ New York, Feb. 26—New Yorkers staggered today under the force of an|Dounce decisions on applications for People on the streets|Price revesions on coal before April weer picked off their feet by hurricane | 1. blasts; tin roofs were ripped ofl,blbm- ot/n down and ships torn from their moor- | membership among the schools of New Two' girls trying to get by the | England passed the quarter million knocked down and injured so severely that ghey wall of a three-story building in' the downtown district collapsed, but no Telegraph service was interrupted Ejghty-four miles an hour was the extreme velocfty of the gale reported) into persons injured by being blown down, | or by glass from window panes broken signs and other objects dislodged and hurled at thelpeld in Newark in April | blown overboard. He was fished out| much surprised. The gale in this vi- cinity was so furious that pedestrian|] Today's demonstration marked but At Newark, N. J., August Swinson, a United States army warehouse, suf- AT WILMINGTON, DEL,! the Midvale Steel company was wrecked| Wiscomsin announced ke had permit- | thiz ! ted his Iriends to go ahead with the ding was | prepar 530 feet long and 70 feet wide' and ; Senuce. The debris filled the straet and blocksd traffic. No one was hurt. as workmen ‘Part of this of miles an hour and a4 | slase | X _Bur n zna | completion of details in the Govern- caused some disruption of tclephone THE FERTILIZER INDUSTRY.| consisting of about a dozen represent- 26.—Government control of the fertilizer industry was President Wilson tonight PRICE TWO CENTS @ Cmdensed_T elegrams Colonel Roossveit’s ' condition was reported as “splendid.” The names of five Americans ap- peared on the Canadian casualty list. oger F. Sturgie, 2 lawyer, shot and himself while alone in his office Boston. The 500 Swedish soidiers sent to the Aland islands will stay there until the end of the war. in . Three deaths in the American ex- peditionary forces from natural causes Wwere apnounced yesterday. Ninety-six per cent of the soldiers Camp - Wadsworth have taken out Government' war insurance. Several - enemy aliens at Camp Greene, N. C., mostly s and Austrians, were taken from the camp. ‘The Fuel Administration will an- at —In That Vicinity Pedestians Traf- fic Was Virtually Suspended. The Red Cross campaign for junior mark yesterday. nt| John Devoy, of New York, editor of the recently’ suppressed ‘“Gaelic-Am- erican,” says he was the man behind the Irish rebellion. of{ _ Vive-President Marshall and Speak- er Clark were at the head of the long line of War Savings Stamp subscrib- jers at Washington. The American steamer Kentra ply- ofling between New York and . Chilean ports, stranded off the Chilean coast. of| The crew was rescued. William H. Taft will be one of the speakers at the New Jersey confer- ence of charities and correction, ta be ST PRt el s £ Benjamin Cheney, husband of Julia Arthur, the actress, filed schedules in ! bankfuptcy, in Boston, showing lia- | bilities amounting to $1,700,310. ed ¢ from the allied nations for a confer: tence on intermational siandards was announded by the Aireraft Board. Increasing demands ials caused an incre: of j first seven months of tne dscal ye:r. X 3 1 and Frankiin K. Lane, secrstary of the R d el ior, ask Lo ress to provide clause. The on of mincrals sulps ased to import | them. Representative frvine L. Lenvoot of ns for his nomination to the n. A ma:§ium price for mixed canned and bicuminous coal yesierday was igifixed by the fusl administration at the mite p. for the bituminous coal in’ the: mizture, - ‘. ity announced every American soldier that goes into the trenches receives an American Red Cross comfort kit. - The Boston Fish Bureau announced {ment agreement between the Corean jof the Pacific coast A board of excess profits reviewers, -|atives of special industries, will be il- ; created soon by Internal Revenue { Commissioner Roper. Captain F. B. McCoy and "the two members of his crew rowed ashore af- ter the barge Berkeley loaded with coal w water at Block Island. The German Government ordered a consolidation of the breweries of the country. Breweries of the highest ef- smaller ficiency will take over the omes and pay compensation. Holcomb R. Howard of Union, has been appointed by Gov. Holcomb, a to fill the vacancy caused by the resig- ! nation of John G. Wightman of Staf- commissioner of Tolland county ford. mer Secretary of State W. J. B spiracy to forment a revolution India. American exporters to combine son for approval. ed, yesterday by senate report to congress. the measure. board of- control of the Conn Experiment' Station to fill' the' w pired term of Frank H. Stadtmueller. who recently ‘died. ment. counted for.in.any .way. - 500,000,000, the house continued trol of the railroads. i W KILLED IN BAYONET PRACTICE AT CAMP DEVENS Corporal Timothy Daley of Water- bury Ran Upon Point of Weapon. Mass., " Féb. ‘ 2 Ayer, . — Corporal Timothy Daley of Waterbury, Conn. a momber of Company H, of the 304th Infantry, was killed in bayomet prac- |members of the British and Canadian tice at Camp Devens today. The bay- |war missions. to. the. United - States,! N onet of th man in front of the cor. poral became entangled in the rig-|Wilson. ging of a dummy and Daley ran upon Z the point of the weapon, rcfeiving a|the purpose of the premier’s visit oth-! He died [er than that he came to discuss with : shortly afterwards. Daley was 25 years |Lord * Reading ncerning Thursdgy -after the governor naw mp-|old and a graduate of Holy Cross col- | British war work in Canada and in d wound in the abdomen. Alege. The arrival in England of delegates || * Major- General Perkins, of the Am- |but the; | was without eléctric currént for sev- | erican Red Cross, gh that | them overmmnent and the Royal Fish Co. | wrecked on the west break- Secretary of State Lansing and for- ryan will be called to testify for the de- | fense of 31 persons charged with con- in | said: Differences between the House and Senate on the Webb bill, to permit | for foreign trade, were straightened out, and the bill will go to President Wil- Complete agreement. on the soldiers and sailors civil rights bill was reach- and - house conferees :who soon will present their No changes were jmade in any important provisions of Governior Marcus H. Holcomo yes- terday appointed Senator Elijah Rog- ers” of . Southington a meémber “of the cut x- Four ‘names were added to. the list | :.fé}',f;a:,‘ Z,:f,:’:’{'fi;,fimflfim%fl { onstration here today to keep this rati- in a later statement by the depart- All four had ‘appeared on the Assaciated Press list of those unac- While the -senate was beginning de- bate yesterday ‘on the administration bill' to create a war finance corpora- tion with authorized resoiirces of $4,- to take slow progress on the administra- tion measure governing federal con- Prohihition Battle on in New York State BRYAN IN ADVOCACY, GOMPERS IN OPPOSITION E Hearing Was Held Before Joint Legis- lative® Committees at Albany — Gompers Claimed Unconstitutional- ity—Bryan Scored Ligquor Do-hn. Albany, N. Y., Feb. 26.—For mare ttan five hours today, a crowd larger than ever before was jammed Into_the assembly chamber of the state capi- tol, heard men of international repu- tation argue for and against the rati- fication by the New York legislature bf the federal prohibition amendment. William Jennings Bryan led the' pro- hibition forces. His principal oppo- nent was . Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, who was seconded by Former United States Senator Bailey of Texas. Be- sides these speakers there were many less widely known. No Indication of Result. The hearing was held before joint legislative committees to which the ratification resolution was referred upon its introduction early in Jan- uary. At the close of the hearing no indication way given as to when the committeemén would decide whether to report the resoiution favorgbly or unfavorably. Prohibition and its relation .to the war was one of the principal argu- ments made by both sides. Mr. Bry- an declared thal it was vital o the wliccess of the United States and its ailies that this couniry send men clean in mind and body to the battle front. ompers asserted that in the pres- s the people of the country ough to do in the fighting line pposing the central powers, and eir attention from this mg?t Yy any measuve less vital ° ponents of the ratification. plan mcd up thefr oratorical campaizns T ertl that . the federal unconstitutional in are equally -as ration that the ons contained in were legal and valid. rs in Opposition. pers said that while he also mendment unconsti™n- would - speak of ‘the mare f the OppoSitivyg 28 vie! nized labor. That body of the am-ndmen Go tional he human sid> ther nge resented efforts to deprive ¢ illeir rights. 2 “Prohibition by eonstitvtional amendment is not only injurtous, bt dangerous in the extrsme,” .he *de- £ itutions are charters o® guarantesd- rights. They are not dor- uments of denled rights” 4 Chéers from the “wets * and 'lauvhs e drys greeted Mr. Gomper: heljef that “the con- in Russia today are primarily probibition.” - 't we asking ahout eroush’ cf and_Anstrian and Jtakan fe' low. citi: " Mr. Gompers ashed, Ye loyal ang give their support to th government again countries of their own hirth or the of their parents without miectinz at th! 'a question of re 5 ov proki their normal ha ? Bryan Louvdly Cheered. The former secretory of siate was loudly” cheered whe; ven tiie floor. There was one ory m the gallery of “Why did you quit the cabinet?” This he ignored. He began his talk by declaring that the arguments of- *lfered by opronents of ratification were not real ones. The real reason for opposition was finsncial, he .de- ¢ clared. “ { “It's the .-money back of this busi- ness that we have to fight,” he as- serted. “Efforts of .the liquor and brewing interests to obtain a referendum on the subject he characterized. as. mere- 1y mqgves for delay. Rcplymg to one «f Mr. Gompers' arguments, Mr. Bryvan | “Our distinzuished labor leader Las told you that wise men drafted the constitution and put in it no thought of prohibition. He also told you that once the constitution is amecnded “to provide for prohibition it will be hard to change.it .back again. Well for- tunately the wise men who drew up the fundamental law- realized . that it was a document to govern live and not dead men,’and that therefore, they provided that,it could be changed. Tor Mr. Gompers' implication that, once prohibition is constitutionally adopted t will remain forever, we of the dry orces thank him.” Compensation of Liquor Dealers. The \question of compensation for Ii- quor dealers who' might be daprived of their means of livelihood, Mr, Bry- an said, should be settled on the same basis as saloonkeepers compensate for ‘the lives of men and women for. whose {moral and physical breaking down they are responsible. “Who are the #en behind this dem- fication 'resolution -in committee? Mr. Bryan asked. “I'll tell you.. They are the men who would make drunkards of everv. saldier, 2nd ,thus legve us practically defenseless. Ve have got to win . this. war, . The only . way we can win is by supplying as fast as we are able .men, whase brains are clear and whose nerves and. bodies are strong. . The. salopn does not make for clear brains nor strong bodies.” e CANADIAN PREMIE "HAS ARRIVED ‘IN' WASHINGTON For a Series of Conferences—To Call on President Wilson. Today. ‘Washington, .Feb. 26—Sir Robert Borden, Canadian premier, arrived in| Washington today for a series -of offi- | ilcial conferences. ' He 'spent the day | with Lord Reading, the British am- bassador and'hight commissioner, and | - | Tomorrow he will call on President| § There was no efficial intimation of' matters col the United States,