Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 1, 1918, Page 1

VOL. LIX—NO. _ British Casualt “London, ‘Feb. 2! reported during the ment! compared with the pracedis They totalied only, 18,961, & | follows: Killed or died of woun To Prevent Tremendous Stores of Munitions Falling Into the Hands of the Bolsheviki or the Germans PLAN HAS BEEN DISCUSSED BY OFFIGIALS Germans Have Paused in Their Invasion of Russia—It is As- serted in Petrograd That the Russian Troops Have Re- covered Their Fighting Spirit—French and British Have Has Become Inflamed by the Sinking Recently of Five Spanish ‘Vessels and the of 182 on Board the British Hospital Ship Genart Castle Have Been Landed. Russia fs facing a new attack, this Ume in the far east. Japan is known t have sounded the entente allles, especially the United States, as to the advisability of taking steps to pre- vent tremendous stores of munitions held at Viadivostok and other points along the Siberfan railway from fall- ing into the hands of the Bolsheviki or the Germans. Viscount Motono, the Japanese foreign minister, spoke re- ceatly on the subject and advices from Paris say it is belleved there that Motono's words were Japan's answer to General Foch’'s appeal to Japan and the United States to take steps in Sferia. It is admitted at 'Washington that the matter has been peace had been negotiated. In spite of the German report that “‘operations on the eastern front are taking their normal course” and 'that another Bsthonian regiment had placed itsel? under the command of ‘the Ger- man taff, it is asserted in Petrograd that th Russian troops have recovered their fighting spirit and that Cossacks, as well as mixed detachments of sol- diers, are on their way to the front. Advices from Bucharest' arc to the effect that the central powers have communicated: their peace terms. to King Ferdinand of Rumania, who has been granted a short ‘period for con- sideration. Recent unofficial despatch- es stated that Rumania would be ask- ed to cede parts of Dobrudja to Bul- Zaria and to give Germany and Au tria_preferential treatment in com- mercial and economiic relations. It is officially denied by the Rumanian press bureau in Paris that King Ferdinand will srelinquish his throne at the be- hest of the anti-war ' party in his country. . Another. Spanish cabinet has fallen. In some quarters it is reported to have ght | resulted because of the insistence of the government in adhering to its pol- icy of strict neutrality toward the ts in the war.. Public opin- Dbelligeren| uite [ ion in Spain has become inflamed by vance no further. This would seem to indicate that the formal peace terms have baen accepted an arpistico wntil ARRESTED IN PARIS FOR PASSING WORTHLES3 CHECKS Robert C. Stuart Had Wen Disti guished Conduet Medal for Bravery Paris. Feb. 28—Robert €. Stuart, an alleged deserter from both ‘the Hritish and Amerlcan armies, and Harry Heiss, a private of marines, ave been arrested, according to the Jluropean edition of the New York Heraid, in connestion with recent op- efations in fraufu <lty. The two men wil! be trieg by ourtm~rtial in a few days. It is mated that the amount obtained by passing worthless checks agzre- wated more han 80,000 frauncs, and it sail that as a result of information ublained feom the two men furthar siTesls are expected. Stuart, it is said, served in the Brit- sh army for two years as a non-com- Missioned office~ and won a distin- wuished conduct m-3al for bravery. After ieaving the Batish army he came to France and enlisied with the American forces. Whea brought uefore the examining officers he carried things with a high hand and demunded that General Per- thing be informed of his arrest. He diclared that Presicent Wilson was Pis friend and insicted that the pres- ident be informed by cable, threaten- ing all connected with his arrest with #ire penalties. He was soon sflenced. however, by a New York police expe o Is now in the seryics of the ir- telligence departmient of the American rmy. and event:uoily confessed. general warning to wateh for fraudu- checks has been sent to all Amer- ican banks in Paris. LIMA, PERU, IS SZEKING A LOAN OF $5000000 In the United snt;;umy to Bn Used For City Irsprovements. | lLima. Peru, Feb, 28.—indeavors are made by the municipality of Lifia to obtain a loan of $5,000,000 in © United States to be used in city improvements. The loan is to be t checks in this! the ngnk&;:mmyy .of five - Epanish T ‘or usteian sib- i s e 7 _|came out at last, it was grested icers 188 men 4,012 ficers 468; men ‘14,298, ki b & Pleased With Hertling’s Speech. /= - Paris ‘Feb. 28.—The Osservatore R« mano, the Vatican organ, flex:mu“:‘ self fully satisfied with ' tire fal German chancellor w, to'a’ Rome despat Chancelior Von Drincipal points in the 22pes and, with regard to Bel _it points out .that Germany shows, herself dis- 10sed to treat with the Hayre goyern- Tient on the basis of the pope's former rroposals * BT REFUSED TO PERMIT BRYAN TO SPEEK Returned Soldiers Broke Up. Prohi tion Meeting in Toronts. . ! Toronto, Ont, Feb. 28, '— Wiliam Jenvings Bryan,was refuséd a_hearing ‘when he appeared at Massey Hali-hers - Missing: OMB! ‘REPEALS ‘CUR- | ception. of Saturday Nights, Are to " ‘Remain in Force. The re- strictions. placed. en: hours of businéss by. flwwvxga r's proclamation.of Jan- uary 5 will'be removed - beglnninig grch 4. Governor. Holcomb today ed ‘& proeldmation repealing < imiént ‘order.and announcing that ictions as fo hours of business ned #in ‘the.order of January 25 Hartford, Conn,, ‘Feb, 25, are led beginning next Monday. the | ALL;I‘N ‘THE HANDS OF JOBBERS '~ AND WHOLESALERS BY WAR DEPARTMENT xfifi“' ue!-&a E' The Lightless Nights, With the Ex- Manufacturing Jewelers May Be Ask- ed to Surrender What They Have ‘on Hand—A Cerisus is Being Mate. Washington, Feb. 28.—Orders werc issued " today for the commandeering for. war purposes of all crade and un- worked piatinum. in the hands of 'im- DOrters, jobbers and whalesafers - Needed For Munitions. Increasing need. for -platinum in, the manufacture of munitions, 'according to officiais, rendéred tiais step imtper- tonight to address a prohibition meet.|The | lightless: nigts, however, with |2tive if the war programme was not to ing under the auspices of the' Dominion Alliance. . Returned soldiers cuused the disturbance by shouting . various epithets. « “What about -ihe - Lusfta- nia?” they demanded in’ chorus. The first disturbance: came . hefore Mr. Bryan's entry, when the ckairman told the audience they were to-be hon ored by listening to the fraternal dele- #atp of the Anti-Saloon' 2 America, “one of the foremost citizens of our allyy The chairman' refrain- ing from mentioning. Mr. = Eryan's name as long as he could, but ‘when it a chorus of cateallé and - crie: don't want him.” The chairman’. ‘ap- pealed to the audience. _“It was mot a good thing they wgre doing for the city,” he said, and “a bad thing for the| cause we represent. R Then Bryan came in andl ‘p - nium broke loose. ~ Most u‘z‘ Alu- dience stood up, waved hand and cheered him, but the: 'answerin boots! from - the : gallery :ouf cheers, { For five minutes Mr. Bryad' iried: to make himself heard, but.it was ro e, The ‘interruption képt right on an the {aterruptors sang ¥Rule Britannia,”| forcing the audience to, join in that 2nd “God Save the King” They in ired about the Lusitania and ver There” .and "We Home Until Morning.” Men stood up and ‘shook their fists at the American ex-gecretary of state. Soldiers” show- ed the service button on their coats and shouted. defiance at those * 'who Pleaded for a hearing. 3 \F Enthusiastic - prohibitienists ~ who wanted to hear Mr.. Bryan hurled across the hajl counter-ealls of “Put them out” and “Where's. your,, air The chairman’ was. heard bo something about ejecting the in terruptors. He wrs mreeted with grics of “Who's going to do it L7 “We p'ay ™ sk i B hfl?gm‘; ;‘: i ON JAPAN ENTERING SISERIA|® Recent Developments Include_Increa ing Pressure From '‘Entente Sources. . Washington, Feb. 28.—An" early de- ¢tision probably will be reached an the momentous question as to whether America and the entente allies shall join- Japan n'a cam in eastern Siberin o' conteract - poesible Gen- man activities in that quarter and save the great supply of mil Gumulated at Viadivos points on: the Siberian, Rai ed States but it wus said tonfght that recent developments including in- :I“.::nr: mfln fi'l\;m entente sourc- 3 would cavee .- speed: Aetermination of the question. i ARRAIGNMENT OF PACKERS ] CONTINUED BY HENEY Tells of Obstacles Placed in the Way of Retail Meat Dealers ir: Chicago. Chicago, Feb. 28.—Governman: con- tracts for millions of pounds of meate, labor troubles and employes' methods to oppose them; the difficnities. of re- tail dealers in Chicago and obstacles placed in the way of hutter makess in rural Tndiana were some of the sl ects touched on today in the fefleral trade commission investigation of the packing industry. ¥ Under the questioning of Francis J Heney, counsel for the commission, vitnesses told of the difficulty; in the making of a reasonable profit in the retail meat husiness in Chicago. in di- rect conflict with statsments that re- tail butchers were responsible in some degree for high meat prices, Mr, Hemey brought out that - the anestion of chdnging government spec- ificatio 80 as to permit cheaper meats being included in army con- tracts had been considered by the five big packing houses and the quarter- master's department. . At the same time there cams from Washington announcement that con- gress had been asked by, the (aderal trade commission, at the instance of Mr. Heney, to - tial the ers which the government inves- tigators say they believe contain doc- uments tending to show plans to take control of the meat industry. raase sty vankid MAYOR' OF TRENTON, N. J,, HAS OFFERED' APOLOGY ng Seltzer in Face of As- ssmblyman Vreeland, Trentan, 3., ‘Feb, 28~ Frederick W.: Dornelly npologised’ on the New Jersev ussembly today for assaulting Assemblyman Vreeland by fuaran‘sed by the total revenue col-|* lected from the water and house taxcs in the capital as well as a two per cent. tax on merchandise at the ‘port of Calho. Prese, which, in 1916 with the Nmem Fesex, Conn, Feb. 28.—Lieut. Park- er Vanamee, Trinity, 07, 21:3 Memorial church, ing in France fop ._.3.3:" has, v should we interrupt-the ?" he appealed to the gailery. appeal was. in vain. “God- Save the King” was sung again, and the soldiers in: the galleries shouted ‘‘Pake Bryan out and we'll walk out.. We'll iet any man speak, but not a prc-German.” (After the band had played” another * Mr. Pryan. made‘a brief ‘hut a 'fu- e attempt to make ~himsel? ‘hear Then he took.a chair to the edge of the platform and -taiked ta the re- porzers, the noise -never ceasing for aninstanf DEFENSE OPENS IN TRIAL ! OF HINDUS AT SAN'FRANCISCO Counsel Denounced - Biitish - Govern- ment’s Rule in ‘India. Denunela- tion of the British governnient's rule Attorncy Geprge A. Mc- Gowan in opéning today the defense of thirty Hindus end others charged with having violated this country’s neutral- ity ‘b an alieged copspiracy to cre- ate an Indian revolution, byoyzht John ‘W. Preston, United States d’lltx‘h}t at- torney; ‘te s feet’ protesting ' that McGowan's invectives were: “scurri: jous, unpatriotic and almost treaso able.” Preston demanded that ihe e tire statement be stricken from the record. The ¢ourt denied his motion. England, McGowan charged, = was “exacting $300,000,000 ‘yearly from JIn- dia while one-third of its population was without food. “We will show” asserted, “that the Eritish goyernme has suppressed newspapers, impriso: ed editors and closed the shores of.its self-government possessions - against the Tndians, who are also British sub~ Jects. McGowan produced cories of the Ghadr, a Hindo paper, published here. quoting liberty. appeals by Patrick Henry, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and President Wilson. He read from the paper excepts of the *Give. me liberty or give me-death!’ speech.. of Patrick Henry, and of President, Wil- son's message on. the establishment of a democracy in Russia. iy TELEPHONE OPERATORS . VOTE TO STRIKE Sale and Spring- field, Mass., Demand Higher Wages. Salem, Mass., Teb. 28.Young wo- men employed as operators by the New England Telephone company ip. this city voted today in favor of ‘' a strike to enforce their demands for.an increase in wages equal to that recen iy granted to the operators in the Bo: ton! distriet. ' The vote was 124 to 14, About 450 of the 00 teiephcne op- erators employed ‘in the : Springfie district of the New London Telsphoha and Telegraph Company voted on the strike ballot (duthorizinb the. .wage committee of 'six to call a strike. in the event of the failure of the company to grant & maximum scale of $17. | WOULD CEASE DESTRUCTION' OF ALL NARCOTIC DRUGS. Bill 'in House to Make = Al - 'Sized Available For Hospital Use, ‘Washington, Feb. 28 —Instead of be- ¥ | shops. meet- | ™ ‘|cost of living,” -My.. Pos: safd,” “dis. 1 | d the, exception of Saturday. nights, will remn%: in m&' ~ 2 A “The order of January 25 which pro- ided for'late openinz and early. clos- igk «ofsiores 'was put’in operation as conservation measure during the fuel el e Pfn Lines of Business Affected. The lines of business affected hy the proclamationrare retail establishments, saloors, hotels and club 'room bars, to- Dbaeco shope: drug stores, places of entertainment, -pool and billiard X bowling alleys ~ and . barben| The goverror savs that his actign is taken as the coal'situation has shown considerable immprovement during the pest few daye and it is belleved that the crisis has been passed. * No* Restriction On Hours. In sepding out the order to 2ll lo- cal fuel administrators tonight, Tnom- as W. Russell, federal fuel adminis- trator. for* Connecticut, called ' atten- tion to-the fact that “after Monday. March: 4, there will bé no restriction! of any sort on’the hours of ousiness or manufacturing with the cxception of the order from Washington provid- ing that factories making heavy. pa- per board are to remain closed on Sat- urdays of each week.” He poinis out, however, that the lightless nignts or- der -still ‘remains’in force. RISING,COST OF LIVING 'HAS. OUTDISTANCED WAGES Skilled - Werkers Have Fared Worse © . Than Uneklled Laborers, | ~Washington,, .Feb: "« 28.—The 'small {number of strikes in_ the face of the faiture of wages. to keep pace with the rising. cost of living 'was pointed to hy Assistant. un‘ of Labor Post in =pro) jon o 0f that Ratlon e Seiing fice to, see t] g ages at ol -thirdé of -th: e Was I kable' there had been np ore stril and- labor disturbarice: " “Unless” wages. rise as fast as the iites are .inevitable. T consider the I number - 6f ‘aétual - strikes and *he ga.nehl ‘tendency of wagc earners B bmit: their differences to arbitra- ion jas, convineing proof that they be- lieVe in.the war and are willing to taake every sacfifice to make it a suc- e > ceas’ 3 The skilled workers, M) Post add- ed: had fared even worse than the un- skilled laborers. ; “Excépt in the. case of potatoes, the vrice -of ‘which decreased 16 per cent.. practically all articles of foods showed big “increase in retail cost last Jan- uary .15, as compared with prices the eame day -in 19 reports to the de- partment of labor show. The price of { corn ‘meal increased 77 per cent. ton (64 per cent.; lard 52 per ; bam 42 pe hens. 29 per! 63gs 28 per nt.; bread 19 per cent.: sugar 18 per cefit” and flour 17 per ceni GENERAL PERSHING : REPORTS WASUALTIES ed: in ' Action, Three ingtop,’ Feb. 28.~General Per- shing’“reported 'vxday one ' American soldier- killed' in action .on| February 26, the day of the'German gas attack, three dead from gas and eighteen se- verely wounded on the same §ay . Prix oseph. X.. Sehumacher, of Eristol, Penna.,“and Sid Coleman, Cord, Ark., died” on February 26 and Private George .E. Galloway, Fairmont, N. €, on' Iebruary-27 from gas. -, Among the men severely injured werc: :Sergeant Wiliiam J. Fagan, Madison, Pa: Corporfil William D'~ Connell; ige, -Mass.; - Corporal Glenn L Van Sice, Waverley, N, T, Privates’ Adam Bielawsky, Irvingtos Brmile: M. Cote. Manchester: E;\ Walter J. Datm, West Orange, J.; Joseph Golden; New. York; Ches- ter O, Harris, Alban, R:T. - “The privates wero .members of -u | trench thortar battes WOMEN NOT DESIRABLE “ " . AS RADIO OPERATORS ds Call For Lon; ‘and Land and Sea Duty. Posi _Washington, Feb. 28—Woman as- birants ‘to ‘radin” operutofs’ positions in the pavy and naval reserve force Wwere notified by the. department today that women aro not desired for such wmo beund s tlie'p;hea}l for long ex- ence _and for, both land and - v, Women 'telekraphers wers :Ef vised. that they can : a patri- ofic service by accepting employment with one of tive’ commercial” telegraph companies, thereby releasing men for military duty. < PNEUMONIA IS EPIDEMIC © :+IN NORTHERN CHINA Infection Ic Said to Have Been Spread Exporisnce | L‘.mcorded to date is 1, ( force, . bands recejve a serions ~ sotback. Com- mandeering will be carried out through ihe war department. ‘The world sup- ply of the metal is _comparaiively small ‘and production has -shown . a Steady decline since the war began. Internal troubles in Russta ' virtually bave eliminated the world’s - chiel fource of supply. 3 4 Manufactured Platirum Exsmpt. In requisitioning only the crude and unworked -platinum, zovernment offi- cials caid they obtained for national purposes. the greatest part - ofs ul:o the amount distributed to jewelers and to dentists is comparatively:smal. The war committee of the jewelry trade has been asked to ascertain how mouch is now in the hands of manufacturing Jewelers und i necessary they will be asked to surrender it. ‘There is no intention of commandeering manu- factured platinum. Census is Being Made. A census of the available platinum is being mad Whe largest importa- tion in recent years was 22.000 ounces collected in Russia by an American lieutenant attached to the embassv at Petrograd and brought to this country for government purposes. .\ tenta- tive price of $90 an ounce was fixed for that consignment. < Only 5,000,000 Ounces Produced. TI's United States alone uses *In norme! times about 163,000 .ounces of platinum and produces oniy about 809 nually,” according o the tates geological survey. Only 000.600 ounces have been pro- duced in the world to date, of which 1.600,000 ounces has been ased in jew- €lry, 1,000,000 ounces jn dental work the remainder for scientific pur- poses. It is an-essential in' the man- ufacturs of sulphuric agid a_consti gg:gh?ns fiffifiwfifk @nisms LS FOR AN ~ EIGHT HOUR WORK DAY For Emnloy: in the Meat Industry—Tells, Chicago, Feb.28.—S; president of the American Fed of Labor, bade a stirring appeal toda ¢ Eviis of Overtime. In.behalf ofan eight hour day for em- ployes. in the meat packing mdustry at the d as a witness for the em- and his -testimony was listened o by ‘Mother” % - for’ the Workers, ana several -hundred represcntatives of _ organized from all sections of the country. . After tracing th fgr 2 shyrter'working day from its be Elhining, o read from o number ot re porfs and quoted various large em pl of labor o subsiantiate contention that, the eight hour mctual operation had proved profita ble to the enfplover and highly bene- fieial to the men Tn. defining the attitude of organ- taess ized labor toward the war the = said: 4 “Lahor will make every saciific: for th {He, successful prosecution of the war but it will not make any sacri private profitecring during the war. “T advocate the eight hour da the zround of ecomomy, healt: 4ls” “he said. “Men should quired to work oyértime onl: of the greatest 'emergency protgction of life and property b {or overtime and double pa; r holi days. We think this penalty of add- €d expense Drevents the employer from asking their men to work overiime ex- cept when it is reaily necessary He ‘declared that the saloor In the dck of the yards” district was an argument in_favor of the shorter work day. and higher. wages. and. that these demands are granted, the s spent by M‘v\ese Elflcas will materially. “Jt is the long hours with low es that drive the men to drin vag- cconomic truth. The fairly weil paid workman who is not required to wark more than eight hours a day finds more .pleasure, and. comfort .af hom: br at a theatre than he dees in going to the saloon.” RESOLUTION .WARN‘ING' GERMAN BUSINESS MEN Has Been Passed by Chamber of Com- merce of the United, States. Washington, Fcb. ~28—An over- whelming vote in favor of a resoiution warning ' German - business men that an economic combination will be form- €d against Germany after the war un- legs-the 'danger of cxdessive armament is removed by making = the German Fovernment a responsible instrument controlled by ‘the people was announc- ed tonight by the Chamber of Com- merce of the - United States at the con- ciusion of a preliminary cinvass of its organization menibers. The vote was 204 to 154. BANDMASTER SOUSA HAS | WRITTEN A NEW MARCH Is o be Played for the Frrsx yime | Next Sunday Night at the Hippodrome ! Washington. Feb. 28, — Lieutenant Jobn Philip Sousa, U. S. Treserve ter and er; has written a new march, “The Volun- teer's,” dedicated to. Chairman Hurley “the shipping board and the ship- ilders of the country. "Sirens, anvils nid' air- rivets are used in tne new rch, which will be played in public . the first time next Sunday night e. New. York Hippodrome by the £ “of the Atlantic fleet, nant” Sousa. 2 bilFwas' defeated in the Senate. ‘tn_the com- Packing el Gompers, ation ds wage arbitcation. labor history of the fight his v in r forthe That je-why we demand time and a hall if M. Gompers said. “This is shown to be an ) o tobacco factory at Rochester, ‘'N. Y, 'was burned. The' New Jersey State consfabulary Colonel - Theodors Roosevalt leave - Roosevelt next week. . owill Hospital ‘the first' of _Under severe French: food regula- tions cafes ‘are*not allowed to serve sugar, cheese or butter. George ' Meyer, an interned German officer at ‘Ellis Island, escaped and was recaptured in Philagelphla. Ninety-nine per cent of the mén at Camp Upton have' taken out United States war insurance policies. Forty-two United States army motor trucks, running from Buffalo to Balti- mork, passed through Poughkeepsie. War industries and all other manu- facturing plants '~ arc urged to strengthen the barriers against enem- ies. River Rouge, Mich,, a suburb of De- triot, is ‘fo have a training station for men of the submarine chaser fieet. ‘Newspapers, in Canada suggest that insteéad of Bryan talking on the “4ry” question that he speak against Ger- many. 3 2 British and Canadian recruiting of- ficers expect to recruit 63,000 soldiers within two months in the United States. Mexican laborers will not be allowed to emigrate. to the United States. The laborers are needed in their own country. New York city,and Valparaise, Chile, are now connected ‘with direct steam- ship service by the American steamer Santa Ana. g The West Side Y. M. C. A. announ- ces a special rate for men of the second draft who gvill leave before the summer. objegtor”. to_service under the draft, started for Camp Upton, from Brook- Iyn in irons. Responsibility: for the rear-end col- lision on the Louisville & Nashville at Shepherdsville, Ky, was placed on the employes: A man naged John Korsock was arrested when he tried to take away sugar from the American plant in Williamsburg.. More than 600 persons were crushed to death when the grandstand at the annual race meeting at Hongkong, China, collapsed. President Carranza is studying the proposed agreement with .the United States regarding the removal of tx- ort irestriotions. . ¢, g - \ Blusbirds in: Chicago tried to cam. ouflage winter. were nearly frozen. | recently . was operated upon for ap- pendicitis expects to leave the hos- pital inside’ of a week. The built was launched on the Sabine Riv- er; at Orange: Tex. built for the Cunard line. the promotinn of Major-General Leo- nard Wood to “full general.” The largest of German cargo steam: ers. the Rheinland, was launced at the Vulcan shipyards,ion the Weser, 10 miles northwest of' Bremen. injured in trench ng, is a son of Mr: and Mrs. Ed- V. Harris of Auburn, R. L | seriously | figi wi Efforts to have Congress appropri- ate 350,000,000 to finance the far- mers to buy seeds was defeated in the House Agricultural Committee. Women “guards prevented a panic on a Fourth Avenue subway train when the cars were filled with smoke, | following the blowing out of a fuse. Names of naval heroes who have perished in”the present war may be perpetuated in the great fleet of sub- marine chasers to be turned out by the Ford auto plant Two women are believed drowned from a rowbozt off New Rochelle. They were in’ the boat§ with two sol- diers who were picked up in a semi- conscious condition. An attempt to blow up the machin- ery in the plant of the shipyards at Newburg, N. Y., were frustrated after -| 2 guard picked up the bomb and hurl- | & ed it out of danger. Tobacco would be included in army rations under a bill introduced in the house’ by’ Representative Gallivan of Massachusetts and referred to the military committee. The New York State Senate passed the Wagner bill by a vote of 31 to 7. The bill will prevent any person or corporation from' ' charging excess prices for necessities: Five deaths from accident and dis- Trafice - were reported yesterday. Am- ong them was Private Ralph G. Hurd, Lowell, Mass., fractured skull. It costs.$10 in New York to smash speed laws to rush a sick pet dog to the_hospital. Harry Gibbons, chauf- feur for C. Foster Rawlins, of West- pury, Long Island, paid his fine cheer- ully. In order to facilitate transaction of public business a direct wire was es- tablished between the Canadian War | Trade Board at Oftawa and the Can- adian War Commission in Washing- ton. CH‘BGED WITH VIOLATING MANN WHITE SLAVE LAW Howard Farnsworth, 20, Arrested at Waterbury. Waterbury, Conn,, Ieb. 28.--Howard Farnsworth, 20, was arrested here this afternoon on the charge of violating the Mann White slave law. . The two victims. of his alleged slavery are Miss Torothy Cheney, 18, and Delia Cohan, 23.. The three are ‘from New Hamp- shire, and the federal authorities have been notified., In confessions {0 detec- tives hére tonight, they say they were in Fartford before cominz to this city. % Allen R. Anderson, a ‘“conscientious | ' Twenty, of them lined up on afence and started to sing, but | Senator Georae E. Chamberlain, who largest wooden steamer ever The ship was Representative Richard Olney wrote | & -| @ letter to Secretary Baker asking for | | ate Chester'C. Harris, reported mortar ease among the American troops in |y APPROVE 2-YEAR LIMIT mission. Washington, Feb. 28.—The house clined by a vote of 133 to 40 to extend governmeit control after the war un- til congress “shall thereafter provide” An amendment to. make the period of government operation after tue war one adopted, 140 to 111. it Ti: house tonight reversed its action earlier in- the day and voted 411 to to place the rate-making power the. president’s hands. The house also reversed itself on the provision limiting government oper- ation after the war, and by a yote of 205 to 166 restored the two year lim- it. Two democrats and four republi- cans voted against the measure when the final test came. They were: Thomas, Kentucky: and Gordon, Ohio, democrats: 'and 'Chandler, Oklahoma: Denison, Tlinois; Haugen, Iowa, and Ramseyer, Towa, republicans. The senate previously had passed the bill, which now Zoes to conference for settloment of “differences between the tiwo houses. The house bill provides for the return of the roads to their owners two vears after the war endg instead of In eighteen months as the senate. draft proposes, and the house measure vests final rate fixing authori- {ts in the president while the semats would leave this power in the Inter- state Commerce Commission. These two sections of the bill caus- &0 'spirited fights in the houss today. Opponents of these ~features vear Instead of two years was! wor | specifically requiring momentary ‘yietories when the bill was 2 By Vote of 411 to 166 They Would ?lade Rate- " Power in President’s Hands - FOR FEDERAL CO Sections Were ‘at Variance With the Senate ! Which Places Time Limi¢ at 18 Montlis and Leaves the - Rate Fixing Power With the Interstate Commerce Com= discussed in committec of .the whols, but on final vote proponets marshalled, their forces, mostly on the d side, ans succeeded in putiing st the bill with these features inm«,fi framed by the committee. B An amendment by Sweet ofsIowa giving the rate-m: power to the & Tnterstate commission was adopted in commit of the whele, 164 to 157. This e almost full strength for the amend- ment as when the vote was tal on final passage it was defeated 165 ‘to In the committee of the whole an mepiment by Representative Esch of Wisconsin to limit tenure® after the war to oné year was adopted, 133 to 40, Lut like the Sweet amendment. was_thrown out on final passage, to 166. Both senate and house leaders be- lieve the conferees will be -ahbl reach a speedy agreement on the puted sections, 4 The senate bill . definitely that the' basis of compensation be a just return on the averag operating income for the.thres period ending June 30, 18 b house bill is a little more el house adopted an would give the president d power to take into co e ey spent for improvements by, roads between June 30.and D that penditure should be LIST OF DEAD AND MISSING OF THE NAVAL TUG CHEROKEE Unaccounted For. ‘Washington, ‘Feb. 28.—The official list of dead and. missing among the crew of the naval tug Cherokee, which foundered of the Atlantic coast Tues- day, shows four known dead and 24 unaccounted for, including Lieutenant (Junior grade) B..D, Newell, U. S. N . F.. the commanding officer. Those missing besides the command- ing officer are: Naval Reserve Force: Ensign E. Gehring, 427 East 156th sireet, New Ensign D. B, Bailey, 33 Baldwin avenue, Jersey City, N, J.; swain Joseph McGoldrick, Perth . J.; Quartermaster Herbert E: 31 North Robinson street, Quartermastar Rudolph Frank Elbert, street, Brooklyn, N. Y. ant Patrick Rowley. Letrim, Mess Attendant = Joseph Smith. Astorfa. L. Y.; Seaman Charles Timothy Staples, 65 Greenwich street, Mess Attendant Herbert 1651 Broadway, Regular,_Navy Men: Oiler Harry liconard Anderson, 719 Davis/street, Rockford, . Tlis.; Flectrician =_Robert Gibbs, = Greenwood., Mass.; Seaman Thomas Edward Kenealy, Ansonia, : Sylvester Bernard No- Phijadel- 312 S. Fifth eman John Fireman Maple st Chief Boatswain's Rivington ank Bridgeport, Conn.; Mate John Lennon, ley Harding, Bordentown, N. J.: Fire- wman- Joseph Walczak, Jr, 2618 Mar; al Volunteers: 73 Fourth street. N. Y.: Seaman Walter Franklin Eden, Brighton: S. T. 490 Bav street, Sta .1, N. Y.; Landsman for Maci George W. O'Reilly, Jr. 249 Monroe street, Brookiyn, N. Y.: Frederick Els worth Post, machinist mate (no des ignation of servica branch) 98 Second street,” Keyport, N. I. The following are known dead whose Lodies were recovered and taken to the Philadelphia navy vard Machinist J. G. McSpirit, U. S. . 133 Armstrong avenue, Jerse Ship’s Cools - Benjamin_Gree na street,, Brook T Cook Mark Jacls V. 1108 Hancock, Brooklyn XN. .: Sarkin Agopian, seaman, of New Pritain, Conn.. was on leave at New- port, R. I, when tie vessel went down. HEALTH CONDITIONS ARE | IMPROVING AT ARMY CAMPS Measles, Pneumonia 2nd Meningitis Continue to Decline, ‘Washington, Feb. 28.—apid improve- ment in health conditions at all army camps in-the Uniteq States with the passing of winter, is shown in reports for the week ending . February . 32, made ‘public ‘tonight by the war.de- partment. I . 1 - Admission, non-effective and death rates for all troops show a material reduction from corresponding figures for the preceding week,” the state- ment says. “Measles, pneumonia and meningitis continue to- decline”. The total number of deaths in the _regulars, national guard ane naviomal army was 164 for the week, of which 8l were due to pneumonia. John E. Benton of Keene, N. H., was appointed yesteiday solicitor of the bureau of: valuation of the' Interstate | co Commeice Cominission to secceed P. Four Known Dead and Twenty-four lets Into the Advancing Enemy. ‘With the American Army in France, Feb. 28.—(By The Associated Press.) —A strong Gerl;;: attack hm a heavy barrage against the ica ntrenches In the Chemin des Dam~ es sector was repulsed with losses. Tha | well placed American machine fila(g sent streams of bulets into the fire, the, Germans ‘retiring withont a ican casualtfes. Five French soldiers were wounded in the fighting. - The Americans stayed in their dus- outs until the proper time. when they jumped to-1he. guns and fougat like veterans. Z Yesterday one officer and one mARN were killed and twe were ed by enemy shelfire. One American sol was “zassed” The Germans' msde 2 gas attack also in this sector, fi fifty propectiles of hich per cont. of gas and twenty high explosive shells. One Amerfean soldier is dead and eight ‘are suffering from the =ffects o polonous gas, so far as reported, but it is probable that more-casualties will develope, as in the Toul sector, Thers: was an attack on Monday, but the number of casualties to the Americar troops in this active sector since they: became engaged cannot be determin- ed. All the killed and wounded _im these operations are from the New Engiand states. $1,500,0600 FOR HOUSING 5 FACILITIES IN GROTON Iron Works to Furnisi: 10- Per Cent, Balance by the Government. - New London, Conn., Feb. 28—Upol ’ | returning from a trip to Washingto! where he was in_consultation with the shipping beard, E. Morse, presiler: of the Groton Iron Works, stated fo= night that the company would ex- pend $1,500,000 in the near future for. the erection of -housing facilities its_employes. XS ‘en per cent. of the amount witl be . | furnished by the company and the bal-= ance by the government. which Wil take a first mortgage on the proj to_secure its investmert. The Croton Tron Wo the land where the houses are-to hs. built and part of the total sum to be used will be for building a troliey line to reach the locztion. i Officials of the company have !mwfi to 4,000 men in a few months on construction ‘of six stee] cargo-car= Tying ships, keels for the first two al- ready! baying been laid. 5 STORY OF REGENERATI|ON OF Fight the Germans. . New York, Feb. 28.—The regenera: tion of Hyman Slovak..a consci objector, who had just finished a pr on term for. refusing to register in the draft, was compieted in the office the United States marshal here tonigh where Slovak appeared and pi I was in prison I read abeut u"'--;wm % n"'ig c]oux siaps, jovak, who is a clothit cutter, *and it made me want to fight- them.” T want to get into the and I want it to e in onme. fighting branches. . I don’ mi able o single prisoned. There were no Al N loying: from 3,0027% that they will be employing _S.fl“;,,” A CONSCIENTIOUS. OBJECTOR. 5 Hyman Slovak of New York Wants to