Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 2, 1918, Page 1

Near Toul the American Artillery Has | SIX AMERICANS DEAD FROM Days in Which to Sign the Peace Treaty Demanded the Teutons—The American and Japanese Mthdm»—TheFMfihww ding war fin Have Repulsed German Trench Raiders. hand-to-hand battle, have repulsed a |prisoners remaining heavy German attack on the salient|bands, north of Tou!l. There were a number cluding some officers, .one of whom,man dead. v was graduated from West Point last vear. The Germans suffered heavily, jeaving ten dead in the trenches. was strewn with the bodies enemy. In addition. of Americans. American troops, in a desparate, | wa: a_complete failure, three Germai b The ground in front of the Ameri- of Americans killed and wounded, in- | can trenchies was strewn with Ger- A dfl\'mat snow was falling this morning the Gérmans ¢ fire American | on the American salient with every while the ground in front|weapon at their command. Seventy the | sevens, heavy shells and gas shells three German | fell in a peffect whirlwind on = our prisoners remained in the hands of | trenches for half am hour. samé time other eniemy shelis in great in ' American. At the In the same sector, the American |numbers were dropping on the Amer- artillery has been taking revenge for|ican battery positions. the German gas attack early in. the|Thought Americans week, and German positions have been demolished by the storm of shells sent aver by Pershing’s men. % fighting in the Toul Americans have been active just north of Chemin des Dames, where they Fave taken part in repulsing a Ger- man attack Ten Americans Taken Prisoners. A German official statement sdys that the Americans were taken pri- soners. in the laster sectar. The fight- ing in which the Americans partici- yated was near the village of Chavi- It has been known for some ane that Americans, probably mem- of one of the national guard di- ions taken to Frante some time ago, were aiong the famous Chemin . tor. German sti quantities of.. great the m AL stz orlock the: on- m - salient and. Germar tion . m y than anything yet from the fighting Overcome by Gas Fumes. taken to field hospitals near Toul suf- rering from the effects of gas poison® ing. These men werc not in. the trenches. when the German gas attack was launched, but ventured into the danger zone without gas D Pyl G Were overcome by the fumes which |entanglements ' The had scitied into shell holés and 1O% |ed in-a deadly firc, lact o far as known.the gas.cas-|the captain T Wlties number six dedd and ABBUL] bt . He Is os ents into No waiteq forthe pected to be ‘driven Ao e Germans, evidently it the “Americans’ in ‘this section, ving had one taste of gis a few days ago, would fear it now, let loose Would Fear Gas. thinkin; Doiscnous en put_on their masks and only a few were, affected by it. So intense was the fire that the woeds back of the salient were shot to pieces. Germans Came Sweeping Forward, barrage fire lifted the right of the ins numbering 240 S S under the. pro- hey. e-?-h for- " One Ametisan. ‘captain raiiled men with rifles fid machiné guns i‘f.fi went A few more Americans Have htfll!mngn the American wire - entangie- ‘s Land :and thare nemy, - whom he ex- ut. by his com- rades in the tremches, ‘ { He was right, for soon zroups df the through the 'wire Americans ‘pou but unfortunate! lled ¢ ring the ight. He is the first memoer of .the clghty overcome. OF the latter onlN] 1417 clabs at West Point to be killed. one case is considered td be grave. Ultimatum to the Bolsheviki Itimatum has been handéd to be Russian Bolshevik government by the German commander on the. east «rn front, who has given the Ruskians three days in which to sign the peace treaty demanded by the Teutons. Colncident with this demand, the' Ger- man advance into Russia has' beend resumed. There are apparently three ! columns of Germans advancing_into ! Ttussiy. between Pskov and Petrograd; one. is sald 10 be at Polotsk, midway between Pinsk and Vitensk, and the other is at Sebezh, eighty miles east of Dvinsk. An official report says that the Ger- man troops nad reached the right bank of the Driieper River north of Kilev Situation in Petrograd ‘Critical. That the situation in Petrograd has become critical is reflected in the re- port that the American and Japanese aml have reached _Vologda, the capital of the Russian government of the same name, lying far to the cast of Petrograd. French embassies have aiso left, the | Russian capital, bat nothing is known a3 to their destination. Russians- Destroying Property. Reports forwarded by the way of london say that the Russian troops are destroying rallroad property and burning siores as they retire d oupt the Germans. At no point there is serious fghting Tapoeia. snt‘duu .g; Sohe vance of the Teutons is said to ciigtions. fight after capture, it was announced in a despatch that Austrian troops have begun to advance holes, still fighting back and fo a’l possible damagze odi ‘When the enemy at one point. To_opportunity to two or three possibi Of ‘the mis: accounted for, Two officers’ have into Ukraine. This movemeént, it is stated, s in response to an appedl from Ukraine, probably dus to the to me and. there. | “mne Germans had: in the ‘invasion of Rus- sia, adding that Austria is at peace with Ukraine. French Ibw,liu Germans. German trench ' raiding operations bave been repulsed by the French in soveral sectors 6f the line. At Chavi- | wounded, gmon. where the American _troops | Amerieans prisoner, was fighting Americans took v sonal courage, ing the bombardment a town: the American line was heavily shelled of Ten Germans in American Trenches. One is near Luga, midway iback out of the pesitions the bodies of ten German soldiers were found in tie American trenches. officers were entangled in the wire @nd mary bodies were in sight. Eight ‘were vyisible through the snowstorm The ground was littered with the enemy hand sremades, boxes of. explosives for destroying dugouts and incendiary hombs which they had information. One. said: . “1 did not have a ehance to do anyr thing before an American jumped on ‘Erabbed me by the throat.” American Losses Heavy. The Americans lost many killed and including _officers. displayed the greatest per. the Americans were in front of the wire entanglements and in shell desperately, the American barrage fire began ‘sweeping No Man's Land, catching many run- uing Prassians ‘who had enough of n m;{hodg. The barrage swept h. tmaking sure of doing ! to the foe, had been driven Tsvo German use: They managed, however, to drop in- cendiary bombs in two dggouts which were destroyed by firé, but no -Amer- lv:an!l ‘were in th?m. captured any prisoners, which it is doubtful, there were no: moré -than If the Germans from a listening ng many were ost. probably buried. Digging for ,them is now proceeding and others may be Two German Prisoners. Wounded. | German prisoners’ were wound- ©d and the other taken was unhurt ex- for a welt on wne of his hands he wos struck by a youns he was struck by a young From the prisoners the American secured much valuable been preparing for belonged trenches cpposite us just before the this sector. The established. and there: Wwere some casualties. prisoners. On the other sectors of‘the | FREIGH front nothing of interest is reported. AMERICANS HEROICALLY REPULSED GERMAN ATTACK Central Vermont Railway last ‘night. ‘was burned, DEPOT AT ST. ALBANS Freight to the Value of $15000 Was Burned—35 Barrels of Sugar Saved 2 ued at $1i but mlbr;y-;n‘h:!olw Dur- d the tonig] retary and features sh convertil %m.gfll}unw By g _"‘“‘.’ | MADE k2 o' be egislation will was on the and | by represent: sembiy of Al e indebted- mow Dbeing. in anticipation loan beaf 4 1-2 per cent af- ms.m indication of the interest is now taken ang -action on the its appropriation of a si Although Mr. specific announcement - it for granted in al there WiM_be but one.more loan be- || fore June\30, the.end of the fiscalf| year. N The statenivnt announcing the date of the campaifn was made at this time,’ Secretary McAdoo explained, to glve eve community time to prepare for the big bond sale, and he strongly advocated popular demonstrations’ on the day of the openjng of the loan and the second yeap war. ° MORE LETTERS F) I IN PACI HEARING Tending to Show They Dealt in Im- pure and Imperfect Goods Letters introduced today in the fede- ral trade commission’s investigation of the packing house lustry as read before Examiner B. M. Manly, of the commission, by Franeis J. Heney, its counsel, touched on such widely sepa- rated subjects as the Argentien lahor troubles, leaky cans of corn beef, spe- cifications. for army and navy bacon, gift packages of soap and toilet arti- cles and the quality of a large con- signment of hams rejected by the nayy. £ The _reading consumed more the -usual sewsion ‘and, at varied by comment frem or Mr. Heney. e+ thio. ‘week are all exchimive: of ¥R ‘papers taken from the private vault of : Henry Veeder of 'Swift & Com-! pany by Mr. Heney on a search war- rant. FIRE IN TENEMENT HOUSE IN NEW HAVEN Drove a Dozen Families Scantily Clad from Their Apartments. ' THe fetters and documents. introdu New Haven, Conn., March 1.—About a dozen families were- driven scantily clad from their apartments in a busi- ness and tenement block here tonight by a'fire which, starting in the base- ment, partly burned the building, causing a total loss of hetween $15,000 and $20,000. Policemen and -firemen groping (hrough dense smoke descued many children,and older persons. No. one was seriously- injured. : The, ground floor was. occupied by the drygoods store of A. Midas, who estimated his loss, cfiefly by water and smoke, at close to $15,000. The fire is believed to have started from a defective furnace. EIGHT CASES OF SMALLPOX IN - VICINITY OF HARTFORD All Persons Affected Are Colored and From the South. Hartford, Conn., March 1. — Eight cases of smallpok In a mild form'were discovered. today in this city or vi- cirfity, it was learned tonight from the health authorities. All of the per- sons affected are colored and came from the south last fall. They have been quarantiped. While the malady is said to be in mild form, considera- ble uneasiness has been caused owing to the fact that some of the victims, who are. women, shave been employed as domestics' or washerwdmen |in Hartford households. ANNUAL MEETING OF THE . ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION An Appropriation of $187.281 For War Work Was Voted, s | cavairy | Captain n| . New York, March 1—-The Rockefel- ler Foundation announced ‘today thnt it ‘had appropriated $187,281 for war work at its annual meeting. this sum §125,000 is to continue’ the war demonstration hospital of the' Rocke- feller Institute, $50,000 for, the work of the medfcal division of‘theNational Research Councl of the Council of Na- tional Defence, and $12,381 for other war medical research and rellef work. 10,000 RUSSIANS HAVE LAID DOWN THEIR ARMS The Austrians Heve Taken Quantitiss of Ammunition,_ o o EXPOSING -Payis; March 1-—Ttvo historic doc- uments, one showing the Gemman gov- lernmesit's’ determination to forco war - | upon France and the otiter settin: forth | ‘| the reasons which induced Germany to take Alcase-Lorraine, were made pub- lic today by - Stephen | Frénch foreign minister, ter speaking at the Sorvon: ne up: anuiversary of the protest made | atives of the National As- ine "IJ_( Inst an- °) Alsace-Lorrai nexation to Germany. ¢ Rendered War Inevitable. “1 ‘will - establish - by said M. Pichon, “that the day the Ger- ‘mans deliberately rendered inevitable the most frightful of wars thev tried to dishonor us by the most cowardly | Washington and the matter vas con- PUBLIC BY THE FRENC FOREIGN MINISTER * Pichen, The minis: H |FROM GERMAN AGGRESSION AND IMPERIALISM|TO PROTECT STORES | Telegram Dated July 31, 1914, De- . " manded of Francs the Sirrender of Fortresses of Toul and Veraun as a Guarantee of Neutrality. A the doctiments,” INFLUENCE ; State Department is Being Influenced “to Accept the View Which is Held in Great Britain and France to Rely | Upon Japan. : ' ‘Washingfon, ' March 1-—Indications now point ‘to an. agreement.hetweer the ‘entente. powers and America to confide to Japan alone the task of tak such measures as may be sary to combat German aggres: ever, and -it was said in high officia! quarters - tonight that conditions were changing so rapidly and so many few factors were entering ‘intc the prob- iem that it would be unsafe to predict overnight what the issue might be. Considered at Cabinet Méeting. Exchanges are proceeding rapidly between the entente governments .aand - Saturday, \ Feb. 2 Monday, Feb. 25° 2 Feb. Wedrnesday, Feb. Thursday, = Feb. Friday, March Totals.... .. * Makes the Sellng Task Easier | Tt doesn't make muck differsnce what it is, whether it is property, - motor cars or general merchandise, they do not sell themselves as the business man of today must realize. No matter what ome wants 'to dispose of he cannot expect to do a very big business if he waits for the customer {o come to him instead of getting busy and present- | | ing his wares. to those Who are in-the market to buy. To move goods of any kind, to, rent or dispose of property, to at- tract trade or what it all amounts to to get people interested in your ‘wares resort should be made to informative advertising. what Kindles interest. 'Advertise 3 hid ‘under a bushel, tell the facts. or arouse the buyer's interest and show him that his wants can be filled. That is what advertising will do and that is where advertising makes the selling task easier. ' -The more people Who can be made acquajntel with vour offerings " the better the business, and that advertising olumns of The Bulietin. In the past week the following-matter has appeared in The Bul- letin's news columns: i * Bulletin Tel Publicity is our’ wares instead of keeping them . One man_ was | jured at Honolulu, exploded. 2 ‘was sunk, only $30,3%5. ed from American shipyards. réteive a supply within 38 hours. ifled and .four ‘in- When a grenad The Japaness Naval Attache at-Lon- don denies that a Janamese cruiser Richard Harding ‘Dacis, novelist and war correspondent, left an estate wortn s * An army motor train of 63 trucks trucks passed through New York on thrift stamps. amounted to. $70, Chino Copper directors yesterday de- clared a quarterly dividend of $§1.59 against §2 three mofiths ago. General Gosthals denied the state- merit that Capt. Pereless was dropped from the army becatise of inefticiency. The Daughters of the American Revciution completed their *building of the first of tne French devastated villages: Dec. 1 to Feb. 25 886. . The safe at ths office of the Cent- ury “t heatre, New York, was robbed of $6,000," the receipts of the Chu Chin Chow show, Miss Anne Morgan back from relief work in France says the French ask tor a chicken or rabbit before they ask for a bed. Four thousand striking cloth weav-| ers in Philadeiphia asxed Secretary Baker to conscript them and put them back to work. Members of the Red Cross in France will have to iearn how to executée a saiute smaitly or they will not be kept in tne service. W. A. McBirney of Buffalo, a fire- man on the New York Central Raii- road, was Wecapitatedl at Syracuse; when his engine sidewiped. Between March 1 and Jupe 1, this year more than 330 wooden . ships totaling 1,530,000 tons, will be launch- | All the Grand Trunk freight hand-ji lers at ‘Coronto, about 2o in number, went on striice yesterday. They de- mand genera! increases m Wages. © Robert Carter, cartoonist of, the Philadelphia. Press, whose Wwori was familiar to newspaper readers ail over the country, died of heart troubie. s what is-assured hy the use of the It reaches the peoble who buy. egraph Local General Totay D8 41T 619 || b A b o 495 82 128 458 95720484 9 84 107 506 79 116 485 9 751" 1842 3112 will ‘see yrhy, Otto Charles board Vienna, via London, March 1. thousand s down their arms and. : considerable Quantities of ammunition, carts and other rolling stock haye :been taken by the Austrians, says an officlal Aus- trian unication announcing - the :::m cement of an advance.in- Rus- AMERICAN CAVALRVMEN KILL TWELVE MEXICANS ‘When a-Band of: Thirty Fired on the Americans. - é e ; Marta, Texas, March | 1. = Tw, Mexicans were killed and’ sever z."‘ wounded late” today, when a ba thirty Mexicans fired on an American detachment, In .command Kramer Thomas. RoRbe e oF R A e bia, dfed “here m?t&“m,'h LR refir an ot relatives. after in the most It France) these FAILED IN PLEA TO SAVE SON FROM DRAFT Bussman® of Milford Claimed: Boy Was Wrongfully Ciassified New. Haven..Conn., March 1.—-The plea of Otto Charles Bussman of Mil- ford,- who sought to restrain the draft board of that town from sending him to CaFmp Devens was deried in federal court here today and he was ordered. to- leave for camp tomorrow. Bussman had claimed, corpus proceedings, :that he - should have been placed under Class 4A but that the board for an ulterior motive had put him in Class 1A and had un- lawfully deprived him of his liberty. .- Judge Edwin: S. Thomas ruled that both allegations, were Technical _error_in _classification was admitted but it was held that the proper rating; Class 1D, would not have prevented his betng sent to camp. . Tt"was alleged by counsel for the expressed in rd_that Bussman had 2 determination not to serve in the R |army where he might have to fight N. E..T. OPERATORS HAVE AGREED- TO 'ARBITRATE In an Efiort to Reach Settlement in | Boston, March 1- tween officidls. of , Teleph i ter'was ofconciliati effort ‘ment tion of' a of .the A o ‘e tors, from many - sections - of 14 Kc%m.uu ‘voted on'the: ques#| -strike to enforce their di . |mands for: sixteen doflars a maximum wage, in iine with an in- Grsass recently, granted i the Boston o] Wages. conference’ be- etk mglewmi\md Company ,and’ representa- the’ aperators’ ‘unisn ‘outside district Worce complicity ‘ih the ambush into which they drew Europe. in‘‘the revelation of a document that the German chancellor drawn up preserved caretully, and you profound mystery of. the most secret archives. “We ‘have known only recentiy of its authenticity and it defies an: attempt (o disprove it. sighature of Bethmann-Holiwes (Ger- man_imperial chancellor at th> out- break of the war) and the date July 21, 1914. On that day Von Scheon (Ger- man ambassador to charged by a telegram from his chan- cellor to hotify us of a state of dan- ger of war with Russia and to ask vs to_remain neutral, giving us ¢ighteen hours in which to reply. “What was-unknown until today was that the telegram of the German chan- cellor containing terminated :with these words: ‘Denianded Control of Fortresses. * If ‘the French government deciares it will remain neutral Your Exceliency will be good enoush to declare thay we must, as a guarantee of its neutrality, (Continued on Page Six.Col. One) 1 will estaviish it baving ort of ars the was instructions the hwbeas unwarranted. a week as sidered at todays cabinet mecting. Tt is understood that the state depart- ment' is” being slowly but steadily in- fluenced to accept the view which feems to obtain in Great Britain and France, and possibiy in Italy. Thal that a single power, with an effl cient army and navy within easy reach of Siberia and not otherwise, empioy- ed and acting in conformity with' a general agreement, mizht be better able to deal with the situation thun any international foree, such as was' at first contemplaty NO ERROR FOUND IN THE MONEY CASE He Must Hang for Murder Resulting From Bomb Explosion in San Fran- cisco, San Francisco, Mareh 1.—Thomas J. Mooney must hang as a result of con- viction ‘on a murder charge growing out of a bomb expiosion which killed ten persons here in 1916, unless execu- tive clemency intervenes, the state su- preme court decided here toddy, in denying his application for a ' new trial. > The court decided there was no re- versible error in ‘the proceedings, which leq to Mooney’s conviction and sentence to- death. Mooney still has a chance. for life through "executive clemency” of Gov- ernor Stephens. ~ Some time ago a special mediation - commission ap- pointed by President Wilson and head- ed by Secretary 'of Labor Wilson, in- vestigateq the -Mooney case and rec- ommended to the president that Moo- ney be given a new trial. President Wilson wrote a letter to Governor Stephens, who refused to divulge the contents on' the ground that it might influence the decision of the supreme court, A petltion for re-hearing of the state supreme. court decision on the Mooney case will be filed at the end of the twenty day period which is al- lowed for the filing of such petitions, it. was announced by Maxwell ' Mc- XNutt, chief counsel for Mooney. pes e s ARMY MEDICAL OFFICERS > TO BE ' COURTMARTIALED For the Treatment of Private Albert Hestwood at Camp Doniphan, Okla| Washington, March 1.—Investigation of the treatment of Private Albert Hestwood, of «Liberal, sas, .who died’ of spinal meninigitis at Camp Doniphon, Okla.. has resulted in Sec- retary Baker: ordering the trial by courtmartial of Major Phillip B. Cor- nelly, medical corps, U. S. A., of New York: city, and First Lieutenant' Wal- ter H. Kirkpatrick, medical ‘corps, na- tiopal guard, ot Haven, Kansas. ' It was announced tonight‘that Ma~ jor Connelly, who was in charge of the base hospital while Hestwood was @ patient, had been held responsible by the investigating officer for condi- tions the h tal characterized as “nothing short of deplorable.” Lientenant Kirkpatrick was the first medical officer Hestwood and sent the sol out’ making suspected | Gouverneur, N. Y, is the first vil- |1age of city in the State, since tné ‘Woman Suffrage law became effe: vei {0 nane a complete Suffragetie tidket. Mrs., Anna E@:e:fl M;{:wva i died of) m&lns isadLg, the ’g‘flm'fieflfi‘?n- er-famjsy ~Uin 8 fortni string beans taane [ Home. 3 traveling ‘passenger-agent of the An- chor Line, and a veteran of the Con- federate army died suddently of heart failure. . | Five score earnest-facad: men left the British recruiting station in New York to join the Jewish Battalion which is to go to Falestine to fight for Zion. Secretary Lansing left .Washington last night for Augusta, Ga., to spend a week’s vacation. He was accompan- ied by Mrs. Lansimg and his personal «ecretary. George von L. Meyer, Secretary of the Navy,. during the Taft Admin- istration and Postmaster-General un- der President Roosevelt is dangerous- Iy ill in Boston. 2 The British tank Britanmia gave an exhibition of hill climbing on_the court house site near the New York Municipal Building. It climbed heaps of dirt 20 feet high. Senator Weeks at a meeting of Kiwanis Club, at Springfield, Mass., declared it would be a big mistake for the Government to 'control rail- roads after,the war. D. M. Folsam of San Franciseo was made federal oil director today for the Pacific coast. He will' serve under Mark L. Requa, chief of the oil dis vision of the fuel administration: Elizabeth Paine and her sister Mar- garet, were given their , choice of swearing dllegiance ‘to the ~United States. or a ducking in a canal near Trenton. They chose the former. Peter Rivers, 17 years old, of Maple Lake, Minn., offers his services to the country as a spy, as he is too, young to enlist. He was told by the Marine Corps to keep on plaving “Hi Spy” at home. Four ' deaths from disease were re- ported by General Pershing. Amonz theme were Corporal John Fisher, 504 Chadwick street, Philadelphia, 2nd Jo- seph ‘C. Wellwood, Bridgewater. Conn., scarjet fever. Private, Carroll Scully of Toledo, Ohio, one_of the three Aferican sol- diers on the passenger list of the tor- pedoed troop ship Tuscania not pre- viously accounted for in any. way, was officially ‘reported tonight as a survivor, Gambling in an uptown hotel, New- York, a millionaire oil man from the West dropped nearly $500,000 in a single game was the statement ‘of As- sistant District Attorney Smtih, in. charge of the anti-gambling crusads in New York. . Midshipman William K. B. Swope resighed' from’ the Naval Academy én demand of ‘Secretary Daniels. His mother, now the Baroness Zollner, later became the wife of Capt. Zoll- ner of the Bavarian army. She.was recently tried at Knoxville for alleged treason. Newspapers of Buenos Aires: de- vote much space to-the American. note to Argentina commemorating the cen- tenary of diplomatic relations between the two countries. They speak in Jau- datory’ terms of the friendship which’ _ existed without mterruption for, cne’ hundred years.: Allies to Ask'Japan to ‘Aid. Tondon, March 2—According ‘o the Daily Mail, it is understood that the allies have decided to ask the Jap- anese to take any steps necessa the protection of the allfes in Z;am 87! fthe L John' A. Sweeney for sizteen years | e s o ot sl STATEMENT OF R " Through the Liberty Loans and Certificates, as ‘ ceipts From Income and Excess Profits Taxes Are Yet to Come—The Balance in the General Fund is Above * Billion Dollar Mark for the First Time Since the Middle 5 of December—Total Disbursements for l:'.\ght m} Receipts. Washington, March 1. cost of the war to the United States still is running near 2 billion dollars a month. . Despite steadily increasing expenditures from hmonth {o- month, the government’s out- v, dccording to a treas- ury statement ivsued today, was slight- Iy less than-in’ either January or De- cember, and wouid have ‘mately the same if the month had been as long as other months.” amounted to $1,002 878,608, of which two-thirds, or $665. 400000, was: for. ordinary:war expenses, 000,000 was ‘in loans to allied Corresponding expendi- tures were- $1,090,000,000 lay in Februa Bxpenditures and §3: governments, $1,105,000,000 was ' above the «biltion first. time since.the middle of Decem- Ber, by the inflow of $252,000,000 from sale of certificates of indebtedness of !the current $300 will close next Tuesday. four-fifths of ' this .huge. government working fund throughout’ the country in. depositary banks, so that there was no big aes idle ‘cumulation of treasm The, ernment * today Whith © the. o indebtedness. as December and. $982,- 000,000 in November. The fet balance i awelled “today Y. {otal® cash assets of the gov- $4,027,919,548, | - “included silver ame 1 g berty ‘10ans and certificates of have not: yet. begun income and excess profits taxes. Par- ments of these are due June 15. In . February Outlay Was Slightly Less January or December “The money official forecasts of peen approsi- in' January, the general fund to $1,073,000,000 dollar’ mark for the 009,000 block, which More than was distributed dollars in the = 401,135,506 gold, ‘the balance of ¥ 1ent still. IS T the war tax dollars to roll in from ECEIPTS AND EXPENDI tl-. i % 3 effect, however, about $1,125,000,000 these taxes already have been paid through the purchase certificates: which will be received later in pay- ment of taxes, but receipts from this source are lisged under the public dedt rather than under internal revenue. i Actual receipts from internal nue since last July 1, the beginning. the fiscal year, have been about i 000,000, and it is estimated that total receipts up to next July 1 be_$3,400.000,000. . Customs cebsuenlie Setenin TR N total " ordi Teceip! vea $768.677,000, and receipts from Li loans; certificates, war 8 other. public “debt "sourt $9,811.688,000, ~making . the ment’s. total receipts in eight month: $10,583,684,000. The war o) ment has brought ii three' months it has Total -disbureements :in( - months -have been $10, ug,g tle more than receipts. sum $3,811,556,000 has g nal expense, most of which wa: by the war, $3,466 329,000~ in 2 payments to- the -allies, $14, 00 purchase of farm loan ’b& 2‘,5 the nce ~for A ey in anticipation of Lil S paigns: 3 [ avoid as much: activity<as | stment martket befor munition-making aings With a ery. - Tke ords_te indicate rant was issued notified_recently not beén paid. Saxon, pastor suspended from SALE OF ‘ARTIFICIAL JICE 18 PROHIBITED in the Hudson River Counties of New York State. New York, March 1.—Prohibition of the manufacture or sale of artificial ice became effective, today as a war meas- ure designed to conserve ammonia for Hugson_ River counties Albany and Rennselaer and city and throughout Long sland . B.'B.Odell, state ice controlier, said fhe country faces a_shortage of 000,000 pounds of ammonia and unfess there was conservation there was danger of interruption of war in- dustrics. A Ail plants requiring ammonia a/ refrigeration were affec butcher shops, cold storas ice-skating rings, Mr. Odell sai, but steps. would be taken to see that na necessary industry suffered, as o per- :mit system being controller said the empnwered. to seize ammonia not to necessary uses. NEW. YORK BROKER IS CHARGED WITH FORGERY In Connecticon With Business Deal- New York, March 1. — James FL Crowley, a New York broker who form- erly lived-in . Bridgeport, arrested here tonight on a from that city charging h:m 3 warrant a: 1914 he received $5,000 from a client, Robert: N.. Blakeslep,ito pay off inter- est on mortgages. Crowley forged the signature of clerk in “the Bridgeport hall of ree- DISMISSED MROM WESLEYAN . MILITARY BATTALION William G. Saxon, Son of a New York Clergyman, Repeatcdly Absent. . Middletown, Conn., March 1.—Wilbur G. Sason, son of Rey of Street Church of New York, has been summarily dismissed from the Wesle- yan University military battalion and purposes. in, including. in the o that for ncluding plants and introduced. Tho governme: was put Bridgeport Man. Cona., was warrant i forg- that in sert: It is alleged that payment. The war- when ‘Blakeslee was that the interest had - |hats when arraigned,” ol YOUNG IRISH PRISONERS SHOW CONTEMPT FOR | istrate. & Ottawa, March 1—A sidelight- the condition of affairs in_parts of Ireland is given in a London des to the agency here of Reuter's, , ited, describing a scene in the Si ight young .men charged. with participation in an unlafful as= ' scmbly were required to remove. their the - despa s says, “they began to smoke cigaret! Then they anuounced they -would sinf, whereupon they stood up of the & and sang songs referring to the : dom of Ireland. >33 “The magistrute left the bench and, consulted the district inspector. The singing was renewed when he ed and he threatened to commit 5 unless they apologized. One said they had no regard for any representative of the British constitution. The. nu,»,{ jstrate then sentenced them to seven | days for contempt of court. When they were about to be remowed they ' threw, themselves on the. floor and had, to be removed by the police. > “The crowd filling the court as: sumed a threatening attitude ‘and & detachment of the military was sums moned. Eventually. the defendants: were carried to a lorry and:conveved: - to Jail' amid great excitement. AMERICANS WOUNDED e i IN ACTION FEBRUARY 26/ Two Were SeVerely . Injured and 23 Others Slightly Hurt. v -y Washington, March 1.—Private Har- Taylor of Springfield, Ohio, was se-.. wounded and Second. Licutena; James C. Wemyss of Tarboro, N. Cy and men were slightly wounded fa{ action Fehruary 26, the war depart= ment was advised today by Genmeral. Pershing. The message gave 1o de~ but it is not believed that the? men were victims of the German gas attack that day, as in previous czsual ty reports General Pershing indicated the men killed or injured by gas. Among the men slightly wonnded fiance of . Bepjamin _ F. the Sixty-First college until after Easter because of repeated and.delib- erate absence from the exercises of the battalion. Saxon is in his second vear | EXPLORER STEFANSSON « at the institution. Two other similar cases ‘are under faculty. Announcement of consideration by - the Saxon’s. dismissal was made through a facul- ty member tonight. TO APPORTION CARS FOR RAILROAD FUEL ‘DEMAND. A Committee Named at a Conferenss Held 'in Washington. | Washington, March 1.—A joint com- mittee to draft recommendations for apportioning cars to meet the railroad fuel demand was named at a confer- ence here today of government offi- ‘|clals, eastern rajlroad representatives and mine operators of Pemnsylvania, Maryland and ‘West Virginta. committee is composed of representat |and fever. e tives of the roads and’ coal operators|at Fort McPherson on their way - and its pr approval of t ministrations, IChe will be subject to the: raiiroad and fuel ad- | Ste were; John T. 'Winn, Corpdral Rochelle, N. Y. : Privates Tony Povelonis, ‘Pitts Pa; Ivan L. Patrick, Keyser, W. Va' Private Henry F. McGrath, Holyoke, Mass,, slightly wounded in acti February t * HAS COLD AND szu% He Is Wintering- at -Herschel 4 In a Deliribus Condmo;,*r_ Dawson, T. March 1.—W reached here today of..the ill Vilhjalmur Stemansson, the . explorer,’ who_is wintering at smmg:xmg k& Captain K. M. Tupper and- % bers of his Royal Northwest Moun! Aretic patrol returned from the - ern edge tefansson. ng Tsland over the ice, Polar. Bear, .. last fail. - Captain Tupper met the :‘?m The 'captain said wher he ‘left Her-: after his boat, the™ grounded at’ Bler Island” schel Stefapsson was suffering When the police an Dawson, a letter was received, s fansson had suffered a