Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 8, 1918, Page 1

_ Petrograd cable service has been Te- ! The Y. M. C. A. announced it has \| 42 ‘centers behind the American lines. 15 Commissioner Odll, of New York State, has ordered ice rinks closed by March 23. b 33 UL I Fear American Bark is Lost. | ¢ i Buenos Aires,"March 7.—The Amer- | ' g jean’ bark Normandy, which it was | feared had been lost, arrived today at a South American port. She left ‘a gulf port on August 34 ad not bten reported since fh MORE DESTROYED THAN BUILT DURING DECEMBER SHI BOARD MEETING ALL: REQUIREMENTS. Sermans Are Not Respecting flanuty of Peace Forced Upon the Bolshevik Government | : | e People’ Reshed 1o the Strests Believ- EVIDENTLY REGARDS IT AS A “SCRAP OF PAPER"| "2z 2e Washinzion, . March 7—Brilliant’ nls iu-the sky over the capital to- i wght-broagnt a large part of the pop- : te the streais to observe what & ta be a big fire. It was the| Washifgton, March 7.—Troops and fasrora horeals, and officlals’ of the|supplies for General Pershing's forces 3 cbservatory said the dispiay was | now are moving to Irance on schedule The Teutons Have Reached Jamburg, a- Town Sixty-Eight eace Tr ith! he; seen’ is | time, it was_ I d today higl Miles South of Petrograd—in the Pe Treaty With 53 sl Voo Gl 0SB It el kil 2 a o ¢ —_— ublished, it was state-dpositively that Rumania Germany Has Insisted on the Transport of | yuge sajiiianT rED '&mpamz’m re:mr:x;nem; ffihfx the Teuton Forces Through Moldavia and Bessarabiz on N NEW ENGLAND| Soind and e mmediate siuation 45 X 4 Aurera Borealie Visible For a Period Their Way to Odessa, the “Granary of Russia”—-Con-! board and the immediate situation as to ships was described as satisfactory. of About Three Hours. tinued Trench Reiding Operations Along, the French ST aa e e Front Are Reported. ol tion Favoring Laborers, the Chief Planls neighborhood of Yuan Hsien in Pao- tingfu, China. SUPPLIES ALSO GOING|MENACE IS BEING MET Men of draft age who do not believe in war will be held for non-combat- ant service behind the lines. . It is Estimated That the Allied Navies %3 A resolution before the Wisconsin Assembly censuring Senator LaFol- lette was passed by 53 votes to 3. 200 DELEGATES WERE -PRESENT AT B WASHINGTON ALARMED BY AURORA IOI‘EAL-IS- CHICAG! Officials Are ‘Inclined to Believe Ger- mans on the Western Front Are Proparing For Defensive Rather Than Offensive Action. Are Now Destroying One Out of Every Four or Five U-Boatd That Put to Sea. RegudlmofColotor«Rlee.toVote\onAflng Rotification of Federal Prohibition Amendment is One of the Aims of the New Party—Extension of the Federal Loan Law is Advocated for the Farmers—It Would Limit Immigration, Shorter Working Hours and En. force Child Labor Laws. - Senator ' Keynon's - suggestion that the Governmient take over the packing industry was indorsed by a Chicago expert. Washington, March 7.—More marines were destroyed by-the allied| ‘According to the Pall Mall Gazette and American naval forces ii- De- | the British Government has decided cember than Germany was able to|against tlie State purchase of the build during that montl, according to; liquor trade information reaching Washinston. This | : B 2 . fact developed today i discussions ot| Jehn Oliver, minister of railways in the statement ‘made to parliament ! British Columbia, will' probably be the Tuesday by Sir Kric C. Geddes, firsi | new.premer to fill the vacancy caused lord of the British admiralty, that the|Dy the death of H. C. Brewster. submarines were being checked. ) Whether succeeding, months have | shown a net-loss 4n German subma. rines is not known here. lieved, however, that the ant va the Flage in Dubiin in al f Irele. re 1l parts \ Chicago, Mar. 7. — Equal sufirage,jder private’ contract OF persops em-. ibiti dical| Ployed in uninspected factories or ration-wide prohibition ' and radical|Ploved in Baiaspecied | FECOHE cen {legislation favoring . farmers end la- United States will be able to maintain its place as a fighting unit on the battle front, reports from the western Watching 1918 Campaign. In view of this assurance that the realis of liant red was visible taroughog: New England tonight for In spite of the fact that a formal; reaty of peace has been signed by he central powers and the Bolshevik government of Russia, fighting cantin- ues at various points along the eastern front. That Germany considers the convention she forced Lenine and Trotzky o igr as a “scrap of paper’ is evidenced by the announcement that the Teutons have reached Jamburg, a forced back to the Ural mountains. American Aml dor. David R. Francis has issued a statement .at German victory means the return of monarchical conditions ‘and advising ithem not to ratify the treaty signed by Lenine and Trotzky. The congress of the soldiers’ and workmen’s depu- ties is meeting at Moscow and will probably decide on Vologda warning the Russians that a: a period of ubout three hours. At the Harvard observatory it was said that ) the bido] red effect was rather un- suai in “northern lights” dispiave, while 2nd greenish hued flashes being mosi - common, and that it resulted from pecuiiar electrical conditions in the upper strata cf tho atmosphere. Telegraph and telephone circuits in many directions = were temporarily crippled by the electrical effests of the phenomenon, . Dbsérved by Thousande in' New York. tront are being scanned more eagerly than ever by officers here for the first signs of the 1918 campaign. It is felt strongly that the opening of major operations in° what President Wilson has predicted will prove the d e vear of the great war will not be much longer delayed. Mud has been the determining factor of many previous western front operations. So long as the ground “is soft with the winter Tains; it is impossible to move for- ward great guns and necessary trans- port trains to support an advancing that ing circles rine campaign has proved so effectiv see_a steady decrease in the nun of U-boats available to and American shipping. What officlais know of plans pressing home the atta creasing vigor explains the feel optimism fhat now prevalls list. on ship tonnage through the 1-boats, | The gradual decline in tonna was graphically pictu creased efforts this spring prey on allied | thon run Feeling of Optimism. The one- with, wounded. despite continued heavy drains of the week War conditions are responsi i the calling off of the from Ashland mes of one American kifad, of wounds, one gassed, one two {ll and one a prisoner apveared on the Canadian casualties Before the close of the secord day war-bond campaign, town &% miles from Petrograd. The report of the subcequent partial retire- ment of the Germans does not lend encoursgement to the belief that fur- ther invasion of Russia has been sbandoned. New York, March. 7.—The aurora|line. borealis was observed by theus: persons here tonight. The p was visible from 8 o'clock u o'clock, when apparéntly it reax or continued war, old regime are reported to have beene restored in German occupied territory. Continued trench raiding. operations along the French front are reported Even in Flanders, however, in- dications this year are that-the ground will harden eariy in sprin: either side to undertak prises planned. by Sir Bric Naval Offi American naval be satisfied that permitting the enter- withh which they expect t cur: cials Sa 1 officials appear to the weapons vith finally the | tanks which are touring Londou and jthe ‘provinces had brought £25,600, 000, g | -, Protessor Pio Foa, of Torino, an- nounced in the Italian Senate that the borers, are the chief vlanks of the platform of the national party adopt- | ed heer today at-a convention attend- ed by about 200delegates, one hundred of whom are boliers from the Prohi- Lition part The platform, after several hours of debate on the negro voting guestion fand various points of tie pi ing laborers, was adopted by mous vote. Tt is the first definits ex {pression of the policits of the new i party. In regard.to suffrage, the ylatform demands the right of men and women to vote on uestions and enforcs ment of the laws enfranchising negro: and others regardless of color ot race. in official statements. In one of these an American colonel captured'a Ger- man lieutenant. The American troops in the Chemin des Dames and Lor- raine sectors are not-as vet in full charge of the positions assigned to them, but are training with French soldiers. The position north of Toul is the only one placed. in .control of the Americans. v 5 The Germans report the capture of many aliied soldiers in raids.and say that the artillery fighfing is geining in intensity at various points, They also la¥ claim to successes in aerial fight- ing, bringing down 19 airplanes and wwo caplive balloons. Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor of the British exchequer, addrersing the house of commons, spoke of the finan- clal sjtuation ns well as the military position on the French and Macedonian fronte. Mr. Bopar Law maintained ‘that the entente allies still retain their & poriority In man power in Trance. in oite of . the._movemant ?flvwm 5 id that this The text of the peace treaty signed by Rumania serves, 100, to show that the central powers are loath to forego any conquests they may make in Rus- sia. One of the clauses of the Ru- manian treaty bound that country to assist in the transport of Teuton forces through Moldavia and Bessarabia on t v to Odessa, the “granary of Not only are the Teutons advancing sgainst the*demoralized ‘Slave, but the Turks are also aggressors in Asia Minor. Reports state that the Ott man troops are operating near Trebi- ond_on the southern shore of' the Rlack sea ¥ Germany has megotiaisd a2 peace redty with the republic of Finland by which the latter agrees not to cede sny territory or Zrant territorial rights without the consent of Germany, which, in consideration for this e=elon, covemants to gxercise hen in- Muence to seenfn recpEnition of the innish- governmen: from other na- ! tréops fro bt vong. AUl claims for war cosis or | nivantage: might has IS0 retarell 15 His Islands will be evaq: “epman atiack in Macedonia, but add- d by tbe Tin- | nish ;o0 that a tetnible prica would be ex fortified. A commerd 1 for ‘evely yafd -gdined. by “the negotiatéd at once. : S Coincident with the contirued sion of Russia by the Tentos o firthar news of Japan A in Siberin. If such a vik anthoritics have anncrnsed ) mevemest had been tarted, showever, that they will not permit the revoiu- | it “is- poseite that .liftle or' nothing tion 10 be defeated and have express- | wonld be annownsed by Japan, whers 4 the Aetermination to continue fight- e - car J the censorship was ing & “holy war even if they are'drawn muck closer early in the we: 1. | roads of brilliancy. .The streamers from the arch were well tinted, a vivid red predominating.. Telegraph and telephone compuni- cation north and east of New. York suffered considerable interruption by reason of the phenomenon, Caused Alarm in Chicago. Chicago, March 7.—The aurora bo- realis caused much ‘trouble for - teie- graph and telephone. companies in_ the central west tonight. In Chicago many persons - telephoned the mnewspapers thinking that the glow in the sky was caused bty a conflagration. AGREEMENT ON FEDERAL ' CONTROL OF RAILROADS Has Been Reached by the Senate and House Conferees. and _house although -this plan:may be upset. by opposition in the house to the rate- making section giving ' the interstate commerceé commission power to review rates ‘after their ation’ by president. ‘With the exception of limiting’ fed- eral control to 21 months after peace is declared and providing for-the tak- i mapped, information obtair A i 1onight to have the i \dy 8 c“} e .muxré oy tmfiuy a Ground is Being Mapped. In previous years April has seen of- ferisive operations set in motion by the allies. For that reason many of- fcers here seem to anticipate raiding and minor assaults before the middle of next month which will show .in tBemselves that the ground is heing d Jo- I strategic advantagos established by one side or the other in prepara- tion for a great effort: Germans on Defensive. Meanwhile. during the lust few davs there has been less discussion of a German offensive on the western front. There are observers here who never have been convinced that the Ge; mans actually intend to attempt an- other. drive at the channel ports or at Paris. To these officers. the admitted concentration of German efforts has seemed a defensive rather than an of- fensive step.. - They balieye:, that the el B T : Fiihid Veariand were moving l;fl/:.‘)lkn,suid Koth' of- Mcially o an expecied Getman’ offénsivé, nothing as to prop- able" ageressive measures by the al- lied. forces has come over the cables. This fact has attracted particular at- tention because of fhe reiterated offi- cial declarations that the allied line outmatches the Germans in sun and man power, and in view of the fsrma- tiori' during the winter of the supremé Increas: various und 1 of things | taken weapon! become that it submar: tribute and effi what Admira what t furnish limited theone: out of 1 u.'s, Now With ‘e of the bodied tion pry The must sradual to make them When the United war the navy contributed prompt! crediting: had consiituted only U-hoats that put'te sea’ the naval warfare is about to be felt. vavy of dny power. be added Therefore, no sudden falling off of ton nage loss been stated public . forthcoming, ed numbers of patrol vessels of | types, appliances and devices more cffective against ater craft and the increased navy personnei are among the | upon’ which they count. It has time to devise and build the are beginning to| le now. tates entered the! Gen. ail | wheat. ‘weekly, St Februdry. availat s, they bad available. to join in the | ine hunt. Sir Eric paid high | in his remarks to the spirit !} ciency of American naval units, | them with a share af been accomplished. Vice 1 Sims’ destroyer forces have the advance guard of | he American navy planned fo for the fight. Even with that ald, the a'lied navies have held my .and are now. destroying one every. four af five .German President ed of with w The . Fi dirty coal Contribution Yet to Be Felt. | America’s reil contribution -te very passing week the strenSth.| force will: grow. for it is em- in the most extensive construc- ogram ever undertaken for the allied com new destroyers and other craft {6 the patrol fleets America, lly as they are completed. is to be expected. It hasj ayiation camps in i ground that could be planted with Commander Carlyon Bellai Commons gave submarine sinkings of merchantmen as averaging 70,000 tona in January and 80,000 tons in John Speaks, mander of th Secretary Lancin | for & $6000 approp ples and mods ences _ especially persons of Norwegian decent. Italy formerly Ala., was honorably Wilson. Howard Blake, movie actor, convict- upplying “soldiers iskey, was sentenced in. thg United” States District - Court year's imprisonment. 3 to uel Administration stopped, ventions to stu for relief. Capt. Rinald Amundsen, who dis- covered the South pole has sailed for to address American audi- those made ‘up of are using in the com- 37th brigade of Camp heridan dis- cha&gvt] from the army by order of in uniform issued | ment drastic. orders 1o bave the mining of | Wom: Many complaints were.made that cansumers had to pick out stones and slate. ¥ asked Congress y to contimue| ' the aftendance of experts at inter- war crip- "The prohibition plank pledges the varty to work for nation=wide nrohi- I bition. and for the immediate ratifica- {tion of the constitutional amendment. Extension of the federal loan jamong the important legislation con- cerning farmers whicn is advocated. Advatce. loans upon crops or products storage. government insurance of farms and stock, federa! ipspection of farm products at terminals and un- { taxing of all farm equipmerit and mea ures to” prevent’ the Wolding of large | tracts of land idle are included. Limitation of immigration, shorting- & of working hours, governmental insutance, mers rigorous Inspection of factories and working places, adequate enforcement of child labor laws. are some of the things urred in the labor plank. 1t is also advocated thof the Igovernment forbid interstate , ship- { of articles made by children, employed more than eight hours 2 day or six daye a wesk, convizts i RECLASSIFICATION OF 5 MEN IN NEXT DRAFT Is Provided For in Revised Instructions for Medical Advisory Boards. Washington, March 7.—Reclassifica- tion, ‘according to physical condition, of ‘the men called in the next army draft is provided in revised instruc- tions -~ for - medical -advisory boards which are being sent to local boards jon labor and the establishment of the honor system in prifons is advocated. Much of the platform also is deveted to the question of international ‘de- mocracy. The platform declares tHat - the party recognizes that {he republie of the world is the geal for internas tional political development and ure- es abolition of secret diplomaey, ! the freedom of the seas and abolition prohibitive or discriminatory tariffs or - tax#s upon irade and commerce. Fors eign invesiments must. bear their own risks, another plank lemands. Other conditions advocated. are’ dof of speech both by work or mouf and by printed matter, the e;m oF lot in state and municipal elections, tha right of absentee citizens to vote by affidayit, public ownership’ of - pnblic util and parcel post systems. Practically the only irgumenis over the platform came oa the question of whether nezroes snouid be specifiex & in the suffrage plank and whether gov= ernmental insurance of laborers: should be _compulsory. A speech by John Spargo of kept the word negro in the first men= tioned plank and it was decided not to urge compulsory insurance. Another point disputed was whether. the preamble to the platform shonld read: “The National Party the guidance of God,' or “of God and His Son Jesus Christ” After preach- ers of various depominations had a¢ gued this for some time, it was. cided to use the first mentioned. word: ing. : ; A telegram was sent to the British arty congratulating them lwg labor thelr activity. MUST BUY SUBSTITUTES WITH FLOUR PURCH, All Exceptions Have Been Revoked | the Food Administration. R Washington, March 7.—All excep- tions to the food ads n rule requiring the purchase of an equal amount of substitutes with each pur- chase of wheat flour were revoked to- day because of the necessity of con; es ‘and extension of the postal’ = ‘war council designed to make the war. fare more aggressive on the part of the allies and the United States. A Million Americans in 1818, A substantial American army al- ready is in the trenches on the west- ern’ front and Secretary Baker has in- by high British naval authorities, however, that next| Augast will show beyond question that | the U-boats have heen overcome: There are officials here who are hope- Jul that decided resuits will be appar- ent before that, perhaps as early as May or June. throughout the country. The new res- ulations, made public tonight, require! that every mart summoned before the board shall be placed in one of the foliowing four classe: 5 (A) Acceptable fort-4géneral mili- tary service: (B) Acceptaable for gen- eral military service after being. cured serving wheat for the allies. The entirs country thus is put on & parity in regard to buying £ flour. Exceptions to the rule had been allowed in certain. localities where - substitutes are little known and hard to_obtain. Increased demands for breadstuffs ing_over of short line railroads, the bill as finally agreed upon is yirtually in_the form it passed the senate. Tbe principa! dispute between the conferees was on rate-fixing. Under the house idraft the president was ziven complete power to fix - rates, Word was received * tonight that George B. Collins, one of Maryvland's ‘eighty” who enlistesl in the aviation cerps eight months ago, died in France from compression of the lund: T SOL. ROOSEVELT HAS |ARMY AND PEOPLE OF RETURNED TO HIS HOME| MUMAN'A ARE INDIGNANT He is Expoctsd o Regain His Strength | Over the Paace Terms Imposed in a Short Time. Rusi=nians by Senator Marconi has not decided e Central Powers, {while the senate left the power wifh the interstate commerce commission. Failing {o compose their differences, ‘aloni s 1the conferees today adopted a com- ssoriated Prese.)- {prml-e agreement, drafted by Sena- is feit by the army | tor Robinson of Arkansas, under which o Ramaria gver the terms | the president is authorized &0 nitiate be preliffizary peace imposed npor | rates. eubject to review by .the. com. Asit by the cendrai powers. With |mission. ' In_determining the fairness Oyster Bay, N. Y. Mar. 7.—Colon: Theodore Roosevelt reinrned o home cn Sasamore Hill here this aft- ernoon after A for several weeks in New York city, where ko nn- demwent operations for xS0 forces seattered and its dicated that there may be at Jeast a million American during 1918, CHEMICALS ARE CAUSING AN INSIDIOUS DiSEASE Among: Employes of Munitions Plants troops in France at oner. RULING ON INCOME AND EXCESS PROFITS TAXES Given by Attorney George E. Hinman equest of State Tax Commis- whether he will accept the leadership of the Italian mission to the United States. He is not wiliing to shoulder financial scandals which’have arisen. Sir. Henry Rabington Smith, who is to ass's; Lord Reading, British special ambas. | or to the United States, ar- rived &. an_ Atlantic port. 'He bears of remedial defect; (C) Acceptabie for special or limited military service in a specified capacity, or occupation; (_l?) Rejected and exempted from any mili- tary service. It is the intention of the provost marshal general to provide later for the further investigation and classi- fication of the men acceptable for lim- from the allies were announced sev- eral days ago, when the food adminis- tration abolished - the meatless meal and the porkless Saturday, as the con- sumption of wheat is closely related - to the consumption of meat'and it was deemed more imperative to save the grain, \ Shortage in arrivals from the Ar- | of rates, the commission is reauired tr L:.ke into consideration the fact that he carriers are being operated under| .. = ! unified control and that such readiust- |y oy, York, Mar. 7—An appalling Tents o Pates a8 ar wronch rradjust: | imoredse in the number of casos of in- the purpose of obtaining additional "a‘ou-! imease Wnomg - pmiploses (of teverues: z:{flt)?:\; (’;’I‘)mr.'fia:[: memresultho! con- e B + with chemicals used in the man- deral Somiror ol ihe exaing UNET |ufacture of: high explosives was re. Roth' the king und queen, through The |lines -which compete with roads al-|7orted at the New York Academy of Associn'ed Press, expross the earnest|ready taken over, was accepted by the | Medicine tonight by Dr. David Lim hone that the Amerisan peopls will | conferees, who also -inserted, in the | Ldsall Professor of clenical medicing have = sympathetic appraciation of the [ bill a provision limiting the ratio of (4t Harvard Unmiversity. Dr. #dsall el . farced tho | taxation. of rallroad property in. the | [0} the physiclans who met to consid- znand ial the warm |various state &to a rale not higher [T “War Indusiry’ disases and their » that bas ateays existed be- [than that for the vear previous to the | [STedies it had been found that out of 2 two nations wil be nowlse|taking over of the roads. / - . 30308 persous .expossd 1o, tHege dis- The adoption of o provision fxig | €a5eS 2500 were more o less affiict- the period of government control after | €5 the war at 21 months wa .sa com- La promise between ‘the conferees, the|2000 EMPLOYES FAILED ¥ senate having fixed the time at 18 months and the house at $wo years, To."EPORT-FqR oo sudnd el i At the Plant of the Wagner Electric CUT IN PRODYGTI = uT YGTION OF Company, St. Louis. St.s Louis, -Mareh 7—Labor leaders PLEASURE AUTOMOBILES 30 Per Cent. During the Present Year |anmounced tonight that approximately 2000 employes of the Wagner Elec- as a War Measure. ' tric Company, which l= engazed on the rank of minister plenipotentiary. New York women voters do not in- tend to stand “ankle deep in hair” in barber shops or “mingle with germs” in upholstery establishments, accord- ing to a protest to the Board of Elec- 3 em3 strategical position, Rumania | Bad po recourse exeept to yield to her| poweai and ruthless foe, The Rumanar example is pointed 10 ae z mpstition of (he bitter fate suffersd by Serbia and Belgiaum. The royal family is greatly depress-- ¢d gver' the disartrous course of events. gentine caused the enlarged requests on this eountry. g TO SEIZE GERMAN ; INDUSTRIAL CONCERN Such Legislation Favorably -Reported in the Senate Yesterday. Washington, March 7.-sLegislation evabling the government to place in. American hands permanently great German . commercial and industrial. concerns in this country which have been instruments in ding the grip of German kultur was favorabiy re-. ported to the senate today by the ap- propriations committee. It is in the furm of an amendment to the pending urgent defieiency bill, empoweriniz the alien property custodian to, sell any¥ eremy property taken over by his of: fice, The committee also approved an cther amendment giving the president’ authority recently asked for by him: to aoquire by purchase or ‘titls the great piers of the Hamburg American and the North German Liovd steam: ship lines at Hoboken, N. J. s Hartford, Conn.. March 7.—Dividends Increasy may not be deducted from the total income of incorporations on which the | state corporation tax is payable, al-| though the amount of excess profits tax, if there is an excess, is properly deductible, according to an opinion given today by Attorney = General George E. Hinman to William H. Corbin, state tax commissiones, in re- ply to an inquiry by the commissioner Goncerning this tax. Mr. Corbin wish- ©d o jinow whether these items, which are deductible from the total net in- come tax in_computing the tax under the United States corporation income tax, should Hkewise be deducted from the' fotal met income in assessing the Conneeticut _carporation income tax. In his opinion the attorney general gaye that while the state law. provides that each corporation subject thereto shall pay a tax computed updn the income upon which the corporation is required to pay a tax-to the United States. yet the amendment to_the fed- eral act of 1916, effected by the act of Oct. 3. 1917, @id not change the gen- eral proviaions of the law or the nature of tho law on which the Connecticut legisiation s based. ited or special service 'so that record may. be made of the sort of work each of these men may be assigned to do } without endangering his health. Under the. new regulations many allments and defects which gained ex- emption of drafted men in the past now will result only in their being list- ed in Group B. Such men, if they choose, will be given the privilege of securing .the services of their family physicians in the effort to remove the defect.” but if they have not availed themselves of this privilege within a specified time, they will be called into military service and ordered to a can- tontment base hospital, a reconstruction hospital or to a civie hoepital, as may be designated by the surzeon general. TAFT SAYS WAR WILL LAST THREE YEARS MORE S In Address Made o Students.of Union- town, Pa., High School. Appalling. be felt On the porch of the RoaseveX home Mrs. Richard Derdy, and bwr two chil- Aren were aweitiog the forme presi- mt. Richard Derty, the elder of the children, rushed to the arms of his rrandfather. who picked him ur and bogged and kissed him. Colorel Roose- valt then took the bahr and carried her in his arme into the house Colonel Roosevel agil that he ex- pected to regain his strexgth- ard be Dis own seif in & short time He in- tends to rest during tba next thrme|t weeks and them to be in copAitien to wake some of the speeches which were ancelled beceuse of his fiiness Roosevelt declared that Chen Pih-Kuan, former minister of the Chinese navy, has been | assassinated at Canton. The assas- sin _escaped. The motive for the deed, which was committed Tuesday even- ing, is not known. Postmaster Patten of New York an- nounces that many letters are sent to the Red Cross in Switzerland asking them to send mail to resfdents in Italy occupied by German troops. The re- quest cannot be fulfilled. £t by the roral family and that when world Deace £2mia some of the sacrifices now be: ELMER MUPP AGGIITTED {5 oo by Tuthanis Wil ba, requs. OF SECONS DEGREF MURDER| Umacr ihe peace terms Rumadia not {975 wili hews to give up Dobrudja, Shot Charles” L. Jovee, Hiz Wife's|1ose canirol of the Danube and endurs Paramoury, Jan. 10, ir Cleveland, |C/i% Ereat ecomomic macrifices, = but e will ke compelled to yleld to Ger- 4. O, Mar T—The case of|™ASY lirge wheat, petroleum and salt Fimer Hupp, coarged with sscond de- concessions. eree murde; for the shooting of Charles 1, Jorce, whom he tound in President Wilson has approved plans outlined to him by Dr. John R. Mott, executive:secretary of the Y. M. C. A. war council for extension of recrea- tion center work by the association in the United States and the allied coun- tries. Uniontown, Pa., March tion that thousands of you in the high schools of America will be in the first line trenches before the p th New York, March 7.—Production of v DISMANTLED WIRELESS APPARATUS NOT SEALED At Headquarters in Brooklyn of the Watch_ Tower Bible Society. New York, March 7—A dismantled wireless apparatus, which had not been sealed in accordance with orders re- ceived by the government several months ago, was found by officers of the army intelligence bureau who yes- terday made another search of Bethel Home, the headquarters in Brooklyn of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract society and of the International Bible Sempany with Mrs. Hupp in the Hupp home on the_night of January 10, went to the jury late this afterncer. The jury received the case at 413 p. m., and deliberated until 6 p. m. when ' they went to supper, retarning at 7. They resumed delfberations im- mediately upon returning and report- 4 their at 7.50. The jury tnok bat two Dallots. On the first baliot the vote was 9 to 3 for scquittal three jurors voting agminst the insanity clause claims of the deferse. On the second ballot the jury agreed on ac- uittal. ‘ TLate this afternoon a suit for $100,000 Ppleasure automobiles *will he cut $0 per cent. during the present fiscal year as a war measure, according. to a de- cision reached here today by the Na-. tional Antomobile Chamber of Com- merce. The reducion applies to the entire uncompleted schedule for 'the year. Details. concerning the action of the chamber of commerce were not made public, but'in a statement issued re- sarding the decision to curtail pro- duction, it was said that representa- tives of some of the largest manufac- turing concerns . were summoned ' to Washington recently by the War In- government contracts failed to report for work today. The leaders said no. formal strike had been cailed as they do not wish to take the rrspom- sibility for stopping production of war supplies. The action, it was stated, was in_protest against alleged . dis- crimination by the company = against men who recently had joined the In- ternational. Association of Mechanics. sl REDMOND'S BODY' LIES IN WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL Funeral Arrangements Have Not Yet ery of candy tion. J. GROUND 'GLASS DISCOVERED Shipped - For Use of Naval Aviation Station Near Pensaloca, Pa. Pensacola,” Fla., March 7.—Discov- lhippzd 2 for use qf the -naval aviation station near here held up tod?y man, was madt IN'200 POUNDS OF CAND¥ band. ground gldss in 200 pounds of from a Boston factory . the sapply to be further investiga- W. Hollifield, a-traveling sales- | porne, A German submarine stopped Spanish steamer Willa Nueva. captain was compelled to throw into the sea his cargo, which the German [ submarine captain considered contra- The submarine :hen quickly dlsappeared. ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERY OF GREAT INTEREST. Recently Discovered Planet Has a Tiny Moon Revolving Around It. ‘Wednesday, Switzerland, The the candy and Drs by eating some of March 6.—An astronomical "discovery close of the war was made by former President William H. Taft in an ad- dsess ‘here today before the students of Uniontown High - school. While come Americans are now making sac- rifices, still greater sacrifices will have to be made by every American before the war ends, he said. “The war will last three years more,” Mr. Taft declared, “and many young men in our high schools will be in the first line trenches before the close.” o, Two other addresses weré given by the former president here this after- noon and tonight he was the principal CHARGED WITH VIOLATING NARCOTIC DRUGS ACT- Frank Ryan of Hartford and George C. Murray of Providence. % Hartford, Conn,, Mar. 7—Frank Ryan- of this ¢} .lgmiI George C. Murmy‘:‘f Providence, R, I, were arraigned fore U. S Commissioner Richard F. Carroll here today, charged with Yio- lation of the narcotic drugs act and were held under $3,000 bonds for hear- ing next week. The men were arrest- ed late last night at a rooming house. Been Completed. A. Brink of the T siate bacteriologival Taboratory, after making analysis % two dozen pack- ages, stated he fotind ground glass, The: government has instituted pro~ speaker at the annual banquet of the Fayette County Bar association. BROMLEY FOUNDATION LECTURE AT YALE Prof. W. E. Hocking of Harvard Says Profiteering is Our Great' Weakness: Students’ . amsociation, it was. an- nounced - today. Both organizations formerly were headed . by “Pastor” Russell. o The apparatus was not seized. The search was made in connection with the federal investigation of a volume of papers taken in a raid of Bethel Home and the .Brooklyn Tabernacle and Russeilite Hstablishment ten days ago. This examiflation is being con. ducted, it 13 gald, to determine whether the records contain seditious matter. Officers Who found the wireless plant said they ré met at the door of Bethel Home by-a man who said he was _Joseph A. Rutherford, successor to “Pastor” Russell, as head of the several rqligious organizations., e told gfl the itus had been in- stall “the amusement” of a num- ber of young members of the Russell sect who lived at the home. was filed against Eimer Hupp on be- talf of the parents of Charles L. oyce, charzing that wnen Hupp shot joyce he deprived the nged pavents of thelr sole means of support. dustries Board and the fuel adminis- istration to-discuss the situation. ' A special corps of automobile ensi- neers will be maintained at’the Wash-. ington headquarters to askist manu- facturers in connection with govern- ment .work, it was announced. MAXIMUM PRICE FIXED ~* ** FOR UNLEAVENED BREAD Prevent Makers Overcharging During Jewish Passover - of great interest is reported from the observatory of Heidelburg university relative to studies made of a little planet recently discovered. The plan- et's orbit is between those of Mars and Jupiter, but an unusual feature connected with it is the fact that it bas a tiny moon revolving around it. This i§ the only asteroid .which is ac- companied by a satellite. SOUTH WINDSOR TOWN 3 TREASURER PLEADED GUILTY To Embezzlement of $14,164—Harry 8, Powers Gets One to Six Years. as _they were prepifing to leave the city. . ‘In their handbaks, accordini to- federal agents and local police, who' made the arrests, wers found severall hundred dollars worth of drug o These two make ten arrests in this city within a short time, under the. narcotic drugs a 3 HEARING ON WAGES OF PACKERS' EMPLOYES ENDED: It Probably Will Be Several Before Decit is Rendered. London, March 7.—The body of John Redmond is now lying in Westminster Cathedral. - The funeral arrangements have not yet been completed, but it |c:edings to confiscate the shipment. is_said that ‘the interment probably 7 T m be in the family vault at Wes- OBITUARY . 5 Mr, Redmond's will, which is in Tro- - John M. Bowers. land, will be openeq.within .2 “day or| : New York, March 7.-eJohn M. Bow. | two. ers, one of ‘the foremgst ‘corporation lawyers of New Yok died at Lake- vood, N. J. todi~ at4r aishort.ill- ness, brought on, ..is. said.’ by over- work in commection with the perm: nent advisory bodrd to which he was appointed some time ago. by, President Wilson. ¢ — - Mr. Bowers was 63 vears old, - He Fort Worth, Texas, March 7.—Bur- |was born at Lakeiand, 'n - C ton E. Hurlburt, 24 years old. of Pres- |town, N. Y, where he maintained a cott, Ontario, Cavada, a cadet in the{summer residenc e was ‘connsel Dritish - Roval Flying Corps. was -in- {for several Npw: 3 grk.bunks and trust stantly Lilled at Tienbrogk: flying- field | companies and was chief o here today wien lost mastery of | Colonel Thendore R NOT AN ITALIAN VESSEL WAS SUNK LAST WEEK Cnly One Steamer Attacked by a Submarine, New Haven, Cor ‘iteering was declared to be the great- est single weakness in the fighting sirength of this country, by Professor William E. Hocking of llarvard, in a lecture on the Isaac H. Bromley Foundation at Yale tonight. “Profit- eers” he asserted, “are our most im- vortant traitors, and they should be treated as such.” This phase of the war, he said, bore the same relation to the community that the exploita- tion of nations did to the general war March 7.—Prot- T CANADIAN AVIATOR LOST CONTROL OF AIRPLANE Burfon E Hurlburt Instantly Killed at Benbrook Field, Texas. Washington. March German submarines did not sink a single Ttal- lud vessel during the week ending March 2. An official despatch today says in that period 344 merchant ships of every nationality, Rmm.l 1 in 225,890 of 385,260, ports and 285 ships icas, exclusive of fiching . and small craft, Jeft port. No Italian ship ‘Washington, March 7.—A mazimum retail price of 13 to 14 cents a_pound for matzohth ‘was set today by the food administratioa after ‘an investi- gation of laiits that, makers of fho' uniea: “bfead pre: ed for the Jewish P:k-:v\nr festival fwu‘r; proparing to advantage of t! ritual requirements by demanding ex orbitant prices. Re-sales within the Hartford, Conn., March 7—Harry S. Powers, for many years town treasurer in ‘South Windsor, pleaded guflty in the supérior court today to embezzle~ faent of about $14,164 of the town |scheme. - { o fiinds, and was sentenced to from one| He was speakini: o for | to six years in states prison. yHe wax|Aspects of the.War, and emploves in the meat packing in- £ Qustry_before * Federal Judge Samp 5 Alschuler. acting as arbitrator_ which' began February 11, was cencluded to- . It probably will _be s b vchological { weeks before the arbitrutor hands g Germany, he |bis deci 3 one Six_hundred_Sinn - Fein voluntesrs was though s r was m—u?kiy o Bebanias DIy - have taken ion of the town. of Kiltamagh; ‘Mayo, Treland. trade were forbidden as being: large- iy respomsible frr unreasonable price advances. ko 2 P the airplane tracted and ‘plunged tance to the.carth ‘a short dis- whichi heiwas being | former presides iam Barnas - for ago. wis® sued, by~ Wi libel *sevéral vears ‘inficti mgee several months He had | said, was not fightinz frum economic : ed {0 male rastitution to the town | ne but the state’s atiorney recommended |accepted the idea that the interests _ef & prisen sentence. ty. but_for prestige and had of men and nations are divergent, Attorney ,Frank ‘P. Waish, sentinz the emploves, in the — clos! argument asked that each of th demands of the men 34 ¥