Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 13, 1918, Page 1

/7 mmnmm HARDEST nanme LTI'IE'Y' H‘Av; ENCOUNTERED ' , mAmAlnHlanfleSnlmfilthh"Gc man Trenches—During Mopday Night's ‘Air Rud MMMW«KMN%W—“%« PmWneSMmtheMefiopflianbe WbuerMFlebEmpem-“eSnmn in Siberia is Dqfly Growing More Serious. f ried out th;re Thé American troops' holding e por- D' i wereé killed and 79 | tion of the line of battle northwest of Toul apparently are making raids into enemy territory a part of their daily |routine. Following_their incursion of . morning, when, after a bardment, they raided the German front lines for three hundred yards un- aided, as had been customary, by the French, Tuesday they set out. again apd made a successful surprise attack on trenches south of Richecourt, which lies to the northeast of Xi where Soms of the nardest SEAtInE Ju. which ifley have been engaged has taken fled to escape the out the attack and German towns. ton_of ‘bombs in_Prussia. The situation in: All along the western front intensive artillery duels and raiding operations !m continuing on isolated sectors. The fAustralians again have carried out successful raids into German trench- Ses northeast of Messines, killing a number of Germans d#nd making pris- Joners. of others. In Lorraine 1French near Moncel put down effec ively a strong German attempt at a ¢foray, inflicting heavy logses on the enemy and also taking prisoners. . In addition to a continuation of the | artiliery duels along the Italian front, Ythere is considerable activity (dally. In fights in the air Monday the .Italians brought down five hostile [ planes. The British troops in Palestine are giving the Turks no rest. Again they ‘blvt driven forward their lines north- of Jerusalem. Nilmerous cas- 'ulllu were inflicted on the Ottoman ! troops and several-machine guns.were. captured. Monday night's air raid over Paris was the most disastrous..in point of casuaities, the Germans hive yet car- the Japanese go: by Premier In the*meantime" against a German shelled br] the d boring kes! oK. APPOINTMENTS MADE BY RAILROAD DIRECTOR M'ADOO Announcement of Assistants to John Skelton Willjamis. Bl Entire Unger’ Helvl!ll Bridgeport, Conn, effort to save the 12.—Director Thirty-four pmonl in Paris and its suburbs.and 86 persons were unl!ofi:;xed in the uev.l-:p"-1 politan railway tu ahere they h: ers. Some 80 hostile brought down by the French. Berlin says the raid was made as a reprisal for the bombing of Sl\l‘fil&x‘t and other is daily growing more serious.” As vet|Marshal Jol vernment no decision corcerning whether Japan: | charged by ese troops are to be sent to Siberia,{press the president's & according to_an lnn’onlwement made | friendship for him ‘and’ bave defeaied General Semenoft, the | Uniced Siat anti-Bolshevik leader, and. compelied him to retreat into Mmchur' mer German prisoners ate believed 10 [tho high est ith Which L hek6 be_siding the Bolshevik troope. - gl ARt G R Ut i r or not the revolutionists tary will follow Semenoff into Chinese ter- | Joftre ritory is not kmown at present, but a e ——— warning has been issued to them by |FAILED IN ATTEMPT AT the Chinese commander that any invasion of Chinese territory | be regarded as an act of A American steamer o it way to Claude L. Graham is Under Arrest at France has successfully. defended itself In the encounter the underwater boat steamer, Pbmn GAWNE ON : amily of Bridgeport in -{ mentber ‘of meyladea&ncossntSurpmekttaekondeos Tan ot the -Parls, l;ch' 1L—Seursurr JBeker) m“?vsa.idhinm mlk! ls. arri ere, ng I‘ cal Premier Clbmencean and mnm. ¢n afternoon tary Om | eceived by Adent, Polica An bassador Sharp’ prmfled the president. General Pershing weom Panied him on this occasion alsa. : There was something of a l,\l‘m- rine alarm on the vovage o ine party was about 500 miles nft the coast. of France. Seeretary Bake, General ‘Black -and: the officers of .the: ship were having tea when a_loud port: was heard. This Was at first. be- {by. lieved to be the noise of the dmhu of a hatch, but other, reports followed || and the entlre party went, on debk | It was then learned titat the Jookouts | on, the Cruiser had sighted .a was infured. by bombs other and the gunners: decided to fire with- out, taking any chances as to the char- acter of the object. Secretary Baker saw the American of the Taid- ‘machines: carried four of them were spar and expressed himself as greatly pleased -at their promptness and ac- curacy. Shortly before landing Secre: German_ aircraft: attacked the York- |tary Baker saw French, dirigibles and shire_coast of Bugland Tuesday night & poor s’ o a large flotilla of hydro-airplanes fly ve dropped a oyt from a French port in search of a on the ~tuwn of Coblenz, |German submarine whijch had bnn re- ported off the, coast. smeru. apparently | During the aacretarg‘; t has reached | French soldier marshal that he.preserved the w. Bolshevik forces fost recollections of his visit 1o 'Ea . The president, ' Mr. Baker added, had directed him to con (vey to the marshal an expression o\‘, For- of the Marne had inspired-him. The conversed with Marshal Joffre for nearly an hour, at Harbin MURDER AND SUICIDE Windsor Locks. submarine’ attack. ‘Windsor - Locks, Conn., March; 12— -the | Claude L. Grah:‘n!; is under arrest the: n:’:xmt o = holer v ooy e an endeavor to. comm: taling gas toniglt: - wlflSQg [0 Wflm ‘s ltDl‘y struck’ her in ‘the fate W! “ 1, ix: Wheel as they were cmnng a bri over the Connecticut..river between this place and Warehouse Point and then tried to throw hef over the rail- ing into the river. He ran-away when her screams brought. help. - She: gave no _reason for the attack. T!N COAL FIRE. flenult. “March 12.—In an life of his mother Ret Mhhua.ck, % !&'ma 0( lhe most spirited debates in ‘A8 |V Qfi-om mt«i’ and m%r mrm-i ling. for spar ‘ closely_resembling ‘a* submidrine | periscope sfcking aut of .the water, gunners on the cruiser shatter the | impossible. M5 Soh7a passed, he. decia rounded by his “b'btfll ‘ot I picked out an obscure ‘authigr- izing goluntary agreements and. ‘‘pro- ceeded to conceive a plan lm' n:flng prices,’ Business Methods Criticized. The business methods of‘the admin- Jistration- also- were criticized by Sen- ‘ator Reed, who sald- he, wanted to know what had become of $12,000,000 | received as income from the grain corporation and , from _other * sourges. Since the n.dmlnimllon was fllhed on Aug."10 last, he added, $5,- $,000 has been appropriated, of ioh reports show 31,955,420 has been emnde At Mercy. o’§ kers. The senator read a telegram re- ceived by him from F. W, Kellogg, publisher of .the San .Francisco Call which declared that the growers of | of ,the. n, g b Benney. a mem ber of Mr. Hoover's &n annual -salary- of- $1: “Now. I can unferatahd, dluu led w}}'n the‘ food law. shduld répeal ! Senéitdr Wadsworth of New ' York, republican, said’ meatless days . had rted 4, dum mnoamnm How-is apparently.up | to Governor Whitman. H ed changes the % IDI'II fond and third reading as soon as it ‘be'open: Go&n:r “,'-m-'{'g' Pl Mm" wfl} m; | i .Snv- Freire, - sub-directar of the | lian -Central n.n’w , is in the! U‘nlhd States to '“"'““"‘,flm fiof %ggu dm ! _substitute whloh '.\Ki p;ovide tn:fn‘xetamdum ratification tion. rHer in'the day favorably Te- | feren The referen- } little “but that it 3 pass the legi - & “Requires Governor's Approval.. | - The referendum amendment: =dopi- eNab ratification res- olution 'to a .bill - which requires the !’ érnor's approval to become cfiee- | pricejOve. . The original: resolution” did not BHCS | require executive action. The Mashold n-endment now will appear on the as- Iy calendar on the order of sec- | can be reprinted and. the neces!&ryl legislative requirements .are complied with. ' These probably- will be fulfilled . by the fore part of next week. [URGENT DEFICIENCY. BILL {PASSED BY THE SENATE. erty in the United States. SWashington,” March. 12 With its legislative riders. authorizing -saie of all ‘enemy property: in the United States and purchase by the govern- ment: of the. German-owned wharves at . Hoboken,” N. J., .the. urgent defi- lancy appropriation bill, carrying $1,- 00,000,000, was. passed. late today by the eenate without a record vote.: It already, has passed the House and now goes_to_conterence, Of \ the apwopflulom, which are huely for ‘the- army‘and- . &9 was added by .the’senate. T} .4& jon. with the amendment i-n of: the enemy: bmrfy aré yet | cepted. the he 'Prmclnal appropriations “in the, blll s increased by ‘the male include: « Arms'—§ll 128.358,000; trans- Authoflm Sale vf'lfl Enemy_ Prop- |- d«mnd for cop- produced 284,025, fark city will not have an ice 2 supply of ammoni: red by the Government. The names of Yo Ay cans killed; two gassed and one wounded appear- the Canadian casualties list. ard- ke u;unuv divided en, were after confererices Sacretary Bal fim the F‘t‘nfll‘gfisldmt and Premier “House adopted resolu- i congratulating = the Wisconsin Legislature for ‘censuring Senator La- Follettee. 5 -Coal thlpm.n!.l at :New York. tide- water points were about 100000 tons hort, owing to the heavy windstorm [ of Sunday. Henry Ford will build a submarine kilier plint to cost $1,000000 on an 80-acre tract somewhere on the Lin- coln highway. g Convictions of Hugo and.Otto Yan- yer in Rhode Island for voilating .the Gelective draft. law was unhgw by_the Supreme Court. - Mrs. Russel’ Sm donlhd $100,000 for the completion of the Joseph Slo- cum College of Agriculturé at Syra- cuse University. Capt. William Redmond, son of the late, John Redmond Irish - Nationalist ' seat in Commons. The cost of living in" Germany is increasing 42 per cemt a vear. The average family. spénds. only 26 cents a mm\lh for: ams munnm " lmuu tax receipts in Greater New York - Will: amount 'to ' $500,000,000, ac- cording - to Collector Edwards® today. Last-year's total was $90,000,000. - iptradue- by ‘&' court thartial.at’Camp Dodge IBWL Sanator Chambrlain is at} Atlantic City, ‘where' he will Spend A Wweek be- leadeér, is a candidate for his father's (o a -iearly departure or. to ‘take ‘the piace SECOND. DBA"H,SCHEDUI;SD T Bfiem 'um_ umudf!?,‘lODMenEwh ‘Washington, ' March 12—Bight hun- -dred thousand ‘men ‘are to be called to the colors: gradually during:the present, Yyear, upder - the- second ‘army draft, which ‘begins on- March 29 An annogncement today by Provost ‘Marshal General Crowder of the num her to-be called was followed closely an order for’ the mobilization of 95000 men_during the five day period heginning March 29, some 15000 of them. to be assembled’ under ‘the sec- lord raft. - Bignty~thousand will be men of the first draft. of 687,000 not yet- summoned- into ‘service. Details of how the second draft is to be applied ‘will “be made pubiic later, alter ‘congress' has -acted upon propased legisiation -providing for . the registration of youths. dtteining _the lage-of 21 ycars and for basing statef fand’ district_quotas on the number of | registrants in Class One.. In his first cial statement on the subject, how- ever, General Crowder assures the | couritey that. no -sweeping withdrawal of large numbers of men at-one tim= is ‘contemplated, and-that care will he taken ' to ‘aval Mereucc wit’h hnr- vesting. v = - The 95,000 men now called, If Is un- derstood, -are riceded at once to ANl up ivisions and other-units scheduled for [ it of men lunl‘kfl'fli from other dixis- NecequrytoEmHeGeneanenhngtoHolda«m this essa army chine for which the frames exists ang to provide a qmm!r of n miilion .n“uu.;mmlu-i ing work ‘of the national army divis= jons drawn upon. The call for new % men makes it probable that no fur- ther iransfers will be necessary, The 800,000 men to be summoned ear represent the mumber e to fill up all existing, to create all the army corps and troops to fill out. the,war. replacement _troops. i they have been mobilized, which '3! not be completed before the first of next vear, there will be more tham forty full infantry afim{, 700 men each and all the ad 1. units necessary. No additional divisions the national army or mational ) will be created this year, alfNough the programme for the regular army, NOW composed of eight infantry and one* cavairy division, may be enlarged. The first purpose of the war depart. ment is to complete the first field ar- my in France. Probably this be composed of five army corps of stx . fantry divisions each.. It has been es~ timated that with that force and its necessary auxiliaries at his 3 General Pershing wouid be able to.hold 2 100 mile sector of the battle front: relievipg. the strain upon. French fman power during 1818 to that What that would mean to mnm of French officials that.on rer Lot . 1918, the Béikian a o SECYY BAKER IN PARIS . His First, Expormwo of fl‘- Actualities of War. _DURING AIR RAID| DISSATISFIED WITH NEW FORM OF CASUALTY Lm fore golng back to'the Senate. He was_ recently ‘operated upon’ for ap- pendicitis. and twosisters’ whu were ‘burning™to death .in their home at 161 Spring street, Harry Unger, 21, of this city,) Jran over 100 yards through a fleld to fon | a neighbor's house while ‘his clothes “Graham was found later by the po- lice_unconscious in_his ‘room at- his boarding house with a gas tube At tuched to an open jet in his mouth. He is about 28 years old, superintent Paris, Mar, 12.—Secretary 'Baker .to- day e the follbwing statement con- concerning Monday night's air raid on l’ar(s done greal injury. fo. the livestock ih~| 3 b dustry and had not resulted in a- Ay ““Washington. ing of meat against the war department’s new pol- icy of jssuing casualty lists without ady dresseS continue to 'posts, water -and ‘Sewe temns; Tospitas, 491,570,000; en- - operations, The. Supreme. Gourt uphem the sen- CANAL BETWEEN tence of three officials of.-the. Ham- were. b\mfln isory t.wo Franklin Q. Bro-m, New St. Loy posed o A¥ork; Festus J. Wadi uis, and » bums they sustai dle' as the result of ent of a wagon works here-and his home is in Bristol. Mrs. Peterson came here recently from Waterbury to live r, his /mother and dly burned and \when Pneuic'kW Scott, Richmond, Va., all { Unger poured to make it ‘l;lém 1.4!0‘ and an ex- plosion resull The entire family were rushed to the - Bridgeport hospital, where ' they are in a critical condition, while the fire department flames that set fire fof the sat, -mh hudq\-;nm at New qu l- as fol wn] purchasing -m the Baitimore and Ohjo; H.! B. Wight, New York, purchasing| agent of New Yort Central; E. T. Burnett, purchasin; noke, Va., g agent of the Norfolk ‘and Western. o ymmittee in charge of pur- M roads west of the Missis- with headquarters at Chicago, ,wnm of Charles A.’How, purcihas- ing it of the Missouri Pacific; L. 8, Carroll, general purchasing agent of the Chicago ana Northwestern, and Ira O. Rhoads, general purchasing agent o! the Southern Pacific. The g committee for the south wmz headquarters at Atlanta, is com, of F. H. Fechtig, purchas- ing agent of the Atlantic Coast Line; Albért C. Mann, purchasing agent of the Illinols Central, and H.'T. Shanks, purchasing agent of thé Louisville and Nashville, FALL Fall River, day, was settied The "eettlement was an eight hour facturers ter on Fri GOVERNMENT TO REDUC_E PROFIT PERCENTAGES ©On All Construction Contracts for 1918 ~—Practically $300,000,000 Worth. ‘Washington, Mareh 12.—A new and reduced scale of profit percentages have been put into effect in all gov- ernment construction contracts’ for (1818, the contracts averaging one per better from the government's int than the conmtracts of last A"nmu‘tdy $300,08,000 worth of n will be done for the war CALIFORNIA TO tative = Randall establish - t] department this year under the direc- |the famous Lucky Baldwin ranch. < 7 Partial Paralysi ition of tho‘ v Construction |E2id 4,000, men would be sent lhere Minnesota Indiehd. e “"i&‘i‘&‘:fi. epidemie. In ve:mm s Division of the war industries board, |for training. . Waterbury, Con Mar.' . 12.—Fred| jnéreasing. | The anathema against |which today made public the details’of | At the signal corps headquarters it| Fairmont, Minn., Mar. 12 _ A. C.|Schniidt, 82 Vears ot age, myateflougly the Bol!sheviki pronounced by Dr. Til - lits operatians and of the changes made |Was stated that there had been mo fl-| Towhies, president of the. Nitiona disappeared from 'the home of- his|nhon, patriarch of all Russia and mte fin, contracts. nal plans for a school at Arcadia. Tt|Non-Partisan League, and Joseph Gil- | daughter, Mrs. Michael Keck Hop..pe )¢ programme this year calls for ua building of six great terminal and storage areas at Atlautic coast ports, approximately 31 interior or accumu- /lation storage areas, and perhaps six £s and powde! /the two big powder factoriés al autborized at Nashville ang Chi ton, W. Va. 17 DEAD N CASUALTIES Randall material ready has been sl r plants in addition to y BTRIKE OF FIREMEN AT | Cotton ‘Manufacturers Agree to Con- sider.an Eight Hour Day. Mass., Maréh 12 strike of the, firemen. in th ebig cozzon,mltimore and Piftsburg. A man who mills here,.which has crippltd work on | had government war contracts. since Sun- ; prédicament had been locked up by the voted to return to work tomorro reed to take up this mat: iy, March 15, o Thousands of oper: made idle by the ehutdown. BALLOON TRAINING STATION On the Famous Lucky Baldwin Ranch —4/000 Men' to Be Trained. Washington, March of nounced today. that he had been in. formed :aat, the war department would largest balioon training station in the country at Arcadia, Cal, twelve miles east of Los Angeles, on is understood, however, that fleld of- ficers of the corps who investigated the site have given their approval, and according te information reaching Mr. PLANS FOR ENLARGEMENT OF. ATLANTIC COAST SHIPYARDS on a coal fire |Peterson had been out caling earlier i nthe evening. WOMAN ATTEMPTED -TO letb her mother. Graham ang Mrs. ished the lenlk Lindley, 22, Was Arrested in New Haven—Turned’ Over to Ncw , York Police. New Haven, Conn., March 12.—Har~ riet Lindley, 23 vears -old;-whom the police here held as FEdith Stewart on the charge of attempting to pass worthless checks, and- whose ‘real identity has been a mystery, was turn- ed over to the New York police, today. I¢ is said that the woman had attempt - ed to pass bad checks in a_dozen mid- Thie ;dle west cities as well 'as Washington, R.IVERl SETTLED. terested himeslf in the woman's tonight. , The men Police bit, thér conld not catch him hen, althugk:. he had cslled at the Ipolice station to make inguiries: before was reached as al|the detectives learned who he was result of a conference between ropre. {'The woman is said really to be a Mrs. sentatives of the Manufacturers’ asso: | Buller. wife of a New York merchant, ciation and Timothy Healy, nationa) president of the Firemen's union, wh ‘und has two children. day, and the manu- | An Official Denia! Hae Beer. Made by Major. General: March, ‘Washinston, Mar. 12.—Published re- tives had been HAVE HUGE United States for more an’ official denial toduo' General ‘March, acting :chief of staff, who said no such ap] | had made and that the mio ican troops 12.—Represen- | to, California = an- me already worked out. GHARGED WITH' ISSUING d with “issis o thie | Gtatio e day charged w! i ing and circu- hipped. discourage cnlistments.” The counts are based bn the distribution ‘o two pamphiets. CASE' AGAINST GIRL WHO | PASS WORTHLESS CHECKS vorts that France had appealed to the soldiers drew from Major Dee ment of Amer- o Europe would continue forwan according to the ‘pro- A SEDITIOUS PAMPHLET| A. C. Townley and Jostph Gilbert ‘of BALTIC AND BLACK SEAS Is Provided For i ‘ment Betweer Commercial Agree- flnlny and Russia Copenhagen, Mondny, March 11— The commercial * agreement between Germany and Russia -will contain plahs for tHe construction' of a canal which would form the connecting link of a watérway. between the Baltic and the Black Sea, accordinig to a Berlin des- patch to the Politiker. | The cast is estimated--at=-20,000:000" - marks.' and German financiers, it is satd, afe read: to. provide the money. . The foregoing anpurann.\' has refers ence. to-some plan by which the Rivers Dvina and Dnieper might be” connect- e, forming a waterwas from the. Bal." Black Sea to the east of Odessa, cut- ting" through the_healt -of Russia_and ‘the Ukraive: BRITISH AVlATORSv, R Capital of the ~ Rhein Prus: Provmca have droped a ton of bombs on ti official ‘communication issued" tonight. Coblenz, rocky eminence, is. thé fortress sidered’ almost impregnable. rail. anos; paper goods and machinery. there. 82 YEAR OLD WATERBURY house. f| him " tfihlsht com MONB TO DISCUBS tic _through the Gult of Kiga /0, the B6MES ON coBLENZ n! London Mar. 12.—British aviators town ofCoblenz, capital -of the Rhein] province ‘of Prussia according to an ,-zlnch is sitlated on one of: the finest .sections of the Rhine, has-a population of nearly 50,000. It is a'strongly fortified town and ‘on the opposite bank of ‘the Rhine, on a lofty of ‘Ehrenbreitstein, which has been con- The town does a large trade. by water and Its - manufacturers ' include pi- There ‘also is some shipbullding done ‘MAN HAS “DISAPPEARED Fred Schmidt Was Suffering’ From bert, a state.officer of the organization| West' Fram street, this city, lute’ ml‘; were each Indicted on two counts by |afternoon. the Martin County grand jury ite to- | partial paralysis and seldom ‘left the Efforts to locate him gt the lating a ‘seditiotis pamphlet’tendg to [ homes 'of relatives and He was suffering -from énds Wi two | futile.and the police are uenc::ng :;:" B ordnahce- stores;#257:000,000; ordnance manufacture and purchase, $34,000,000; artillery, . $114,000,0( temporary - of- fice . bujldings, $5,775,000; ‘additional employes, $4.470,000.. ' < Navy—Ordnance, §10,000,00 ington_ gun faclnry $5,499,000; $6,144,000:: “Hospital ~con- ;! training camps, :zz,ooo ,000; " ordnarice .stations, $2,500,- 0. Other_important . appropriations in- cluds 1 and food administration: war trade hoard, $1,018,000; te “departrient emergencies, 330 0 hureau of risk- insurance, 00, and. enforcement of the espionage act.’ §300,00 Senator Reed, demacrat, of Missouri today made a long”but futile fight to strike out the appropriation for - the tood and fuel administrations. A $10,000,000. fund' for purchase and sale of nitrate of soda to farmers in made 'a; revolving 'fund by an’'amend- ment sdevted by the senate. Under this amendment, .the proceeds: of - the sale -of nitrate ‘of soda will be rein- the conitiriuance of the war.. The de- partment of agricultire has received tund . from. nearly.. oaatexh. states and is fillin rapidly.. TROTZKY. Pngsmm OF Farmiedt Becavas oF Bisghrture. of Conl missioners. to Moscew. sequence of ernment_commissi special Petrograd military revolution- président. commissioners, -also will be . formed, with M. Zinovieff, a Lenierie adberent, as president. to_reniain .in Petrograd. The (lermans advancing om Ddcs: sfstance. along ‘the- ropolitan. of ‘MdscoW, was read 'in all the churches Sunday. Reports receiv. in order to prevent propaganda. L ittt xhii BRITISH . THREAT OF , Germany Releases Two British Liet tenants From Special Imprisonment. vested 'in additjonal -supplies during orders for nitrate of ‘sodajunder this HEVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE Petrograd, Monday, Mar. 11.—In con- the deparfure of the gov- '3 to Moscow, a ary committee of seven members has been tormed, with Leon Trotzky as Another comniitteo of ten members, ‘representing the council of ‘The neutral -legations have fl-«‘lded» sa .are.meeting: with determined re- Slobodka -Tzna- ed heer say that Austria is isoiating P —— all prisoners of war who have returned | REPUBLICANS AHE TO CONFER IN NEW YORK TODAY Hays to -Meet Governors'and Party REPRISALS EFFECTIVE erican line, convicted fer.at- tempting. to transfer- supplies at sea to a Gérman wa.rah!p Walter - 8. Gifford, director of the council of national -defense, yesterday became - director also of the aircraft board, to. deal, with problems, of organ- ization'and administration. . Dr. William Lee Howard, who was sent to rescue the Jeanette exploring party near the North Pole, died at| Baltimore. _ He. introduced ‘hyBnotism as a treatment for “nerve: Rev. Harry F. Ward, a professor in Boston university, was elected. suc- cessor to Dr. Thomas C. Hall as pro- fessor of Christian Ethics by inary. Limon. The Margan Steamship Line appli to .the, Interstate Commerce Commi: and barges. Howaed H bll‘d, aged 14,.a fresh- in nappointed assistant . director . of ‘ment of labor. ‘ecutive - secretary - of _the wage comm(aslnn in Massachusetts. A dthll of bluejackets from ers; at the' tunerll 5: TR e died e navy lomat; who died a e e T onton Sng&t’urdxy night. in pay for years,’are deserting the ser- -vice and leaving the ‘coast of according to .t ony : ‘before House lnteretuate Commerce Commit: teé. i} Leaders of New England. the di- rectors of the Union Theological Sem- Michae] Ryan, an American victim of .a Costa Rican revolutionary dis- turbance, who arrived at an. Atlantic port, :confirmed the.report of an.at- tack on a passenger train near Port d sion for permission -to_increase. rates at. New, York-on. terminal storage and Aimiol-dgnusags. Eitaton ligtrs -at New Britain High School, died at sthe loeal hospital yesterday from ‘burns received last Friday night when he Tell: from a tele&mllh _pole and came contact Miss ‘Ellen Matthews of Boston has the child labor division in the depart- She was. formerly, ex- ~minimum the nayy yard served as active palibear- of ‘George von of Eiphthouse kegperertwithout o' raise the TUnited States inadequately guarded, the New York, March 12.—Will . Hays, as my’first experience of the e of war-and a'revelation of aethods inauguratédsby an enemy vhe wages-the same war -against wo- men and children as against' soldiers. “If his objects are to damage prop- erty, the results are triflling when com- pared : with his efforts. - If his object are to weaken the people’s morale the reply is given by the supérb conduct of the people of Paris. “Moreover, aerial raids on which arc counterpart of the sulmarine, war and the attacl American rights, are. the very ttion cf the reason why America en- tered the war. We are sending our soldiers to:Europe to fight amtil the world is delivared from these horrors” BOMB DROPPED ON MATERNITY HOSPITAL, Fifty' Maternity Cases at Nancy Were Removed by American Red Cross. Paris, Monday, March: 11.—Fifty ma- ternity ‘cases in a Nancy hospital were removed from the hospital. by- -the American Red Cross in quick time fol- lowing a recent air raid on Nancy. One bomb dropped on the Toof of the maternity hospital and, fell between two occupied beds. - It failed to ex- plode : The French hospital authorities théh made a.request of the American Red Cross” hospital at Toul, fifteen miles away, to remove all the patients. Dr. Maynard Ladd, in charge of the Amre- ican hospital, ‘provided facilities and received’ all the patierits within twen- ty-four hours, The Red Chdss hospital where the patients were taken is -occupied by 500" refugee childrefi ‘and their ‘moth- ers. towns, 13 CHAIRMAN DEMOCRATIC GONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE. Ferris of . Oklahoma Representative Sticceeds Repres: t! Washington, March-12.—Representa- tive Scott Ferris of Oklahoma, chair- man of the house public lands com- mittee since - the democrats gained control, was elected tonight chairman of the democratic congressional cam- Tbe committee reorzanized’ for the first. time_during this congress. Vice chairmen ‘elected include Represents- tive Lonergan of Connecticut, who was chosen secretary. paign committee. He succéeds Repre- | l‘enutne erank E. Doremus of Michi-{. congress and the subject was debated today- in the house. President Wilson & E ing ‘Lersanal consideration vto the spns_for the change and It i krown' that the department has Generzl Pershing. who nm it at the instance of the French mernt; the military considerations involvad so they may beé laid before the American public. Members of the cabinet sald' after today's meeting that the matter < In connection with the plan now be- ing considered of. issuing lists twice & month or once a week, instead Lof Qaily, it has been suggested that um- der. this scheme therc might be 'ne objectica to giving® addresses _and names of relatives of the men. — Ome of the chief objections to the 214 plan was, the announcement of the dates on which the men were killed or wounded, thus giving. the enemy exact inform- ation as to the results of certain en- sagements. g VIRGINIUS J..MAYO IS AGAIN MAR‘“ED Former New Haven Man Who Figur: ed in Matrimonial Entanglements, - Stamford, Conn., Mar. 12.—Virginius J.. Mayo. of M manufacturer of Néw Haven, Miss Lois Waterbury here: this after-. ricon. ~ The marriage license had applied for last Saturday.” The called at the office of Frandis S. per, justice of the peace, and he the ceremony. The cauple were umat- tended, and immediately _atter the narrin~- they left for ‘New York by itomobile. i 3 S5hh Mrs. Mayo, who formerly lived inf New 'Haven and met Mayo when she entéred his employ as a stenographer, had been known as Mrs, Dudley when: she lived in Brooklyn, Her name had been~ mentioned: in= connection wm: Mayo's ml!flmonifl affairs, GERMAN RAIDERS CAUGHT BY MACH!NE GUN FIRE They Left Numerous Dead and Wound- - ed in No Man’s Land. London, Mar. 12.—A large German Taiding party, attacking positions of ° the” Portuguese troops near Laventie, 'was ‘caught by machine gun fire the 2ront and on both flanks and - fered . heavy casualties this momlnx according to the British official com- munication tonight. * Numerous dead - and wounded Germans were left in No HOSTILE ARISHIPS ARE » * “ATTACKING YORKSHIRE Man's Land when the main body took to flight. ¢ b . JAPAN'S” INTERVENTI e rer on yeerTERDAY | L34 Befare. Senste Committes by | SHOT HER FATHER. NOLLED : s e oL i enplican, nstional| N, . gfhauatties’ or Damage Have Yot | NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN E y, e T GenéralicManager Piez. S e London; Monday, March 11—It was land governors and party’ leaders .in “Been Reported. E Nine Men_ Killed in Action and" Si oo Pliosse™ Harsiagy.\. 19 SEXra DIg0 ¢ ‘| oficiaily announced tonight that the |this city fomorrow, he announced fo-| icyor: JAPAN AND SIBERIA | ine Men ion and’ 8ix | Washington, March 12. — Tentative Southington. . 'y German sovernment had released from |night. Tondon, Mar, 12.—Hostile airships Dh‘_ From Disease. lans - for “enlarging the government's Pl «1shipbuilding plan were:laid before the ship - investigati special imprisonment_the British lieu- | - Those he expects to see inciude Goy- [ attacked the Yorkshire:coast tonight, |Japaness Newspapers Consider Q- nants: Scholtz and Wookey, the two-|ernors M. H. b of Connecticut, | aceording to an official statement. The| » Situation Acuts. airmen who some time ago were given (Carl.E. Milliken of Maine, Samuel W. | Faid is still:in progress. brbon.nntences for distributing; prop- MnCall of Massachusetts, Henry W. Field Marshal Lord French com- London, Mar, 12.—A despateh tom in Germany hy dropping- pfint- | Keyes of New Hampshire and R. Liv-| mander of -the home forces, _reports mm-m Telegraph from Tien Tsin. atter - rrom airplanes. over German | ingston Beeckman ' of - Rhode TIsland, | that one or. two hostile airships at- | sént-last Saturday says it was report- | se/ was nal committeemen “John -T.- Ki cked the Yorkshjre coast late this| ¢l uniofficially from Tokio that mégo- | { Tiations were going on between the y landon, Mamh 1i ';he suhkct of e e Har{{og‘ cgm;{a M?rch 1 —;fl.e “fi ilmn:!}'l h:tarvnnhon in. Sfl)erh is. to 9- ommittee |agains! loebe rrison, a year o] e sed in the house.of 101 y by Charles L. Piez, generalman- |girl of Southington, who. shot - and Thundp3' by <H.iB: m-&:fla ;'m': lnr ol tham-cy Fleet Corpora- |killed her father six weelis ago, was |ber for Nonhlmpton\ ‘when_. un Hé ed the employment |nolled in the criniinal superior” court [fo " ¢ £hipbuilder to ‘have|here today. She had Dbeen charged |expe chm of en ung some of the pres- |with . mansiaughter 1 but . responsible ent Atlantic comst 'shipyards -and to s»uzhxnxton citizens. testified that the'|ini the - Q“Ms over ‘con- ments‘lt!! had’ ju; ed (.he -hod(- e, i) B n ‘Briciahy governmet- f0 fofy Connecticut, 1. K, Fastabrook of [bvening. A few bombs pre <enorted pshire, WWilliam T Shefleld'|to have falien a short disfance inland. | Japanese and Siberian "::‘dmlnd that the Japanese ; te. repr!wb less the airmen wfi NQW ed" to upusually - ha of Rhode 1sland, and E. 8. Kingsley of | No 1eports of casualties or dame have Vermont. s:z been reported dered the situation M._{