Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 19, 1918, Page 1

$250matl:lmse BaymNewmn AGRICULTURAL BILL BY THE SENATE DIVIDED TIME BETWEEN THE 4 CITY.’A‘ND YALE Cabled: Paragrzphs Royal Assent Elvln Man Power Bill. London, April 18.—All the remaining stages of the man péwer bill. were concluded today and the royal assent was given the measure. The Invaders Have Suffered Hoavy-l_.dgse"tjflur.ing VOTE WAS 167 TO 98 Their Futile Attacks MADE THREE ADDRESSES This Action Sends the Question Back At the Evening Mecting In Woolsey * the Police Turned Hundreds Away — Reviewed Yale Corps and Naval Unit. to Conference and the Senate Is Ex- pected to Recede So as Not to Hold Up the Appropriation Bill. New Austrian Foreign Minister. Amsterdam, April 18—Baron Burl&n, on assuming office as Austro-. rlan forelgn minister, according {0 & ‘Vienna despatch, declared to ‘his stafl that his policy would be the same ‘as that of Count Czernin, his m‘tflemmr. lAKERS MESSAGE TO EXPEDITIONARY FORCES Expresses Confidence in the Ability of Our Fighting Men. With the American Army in France, April 18-—(By The Associated Press.) —General Pershing today made public a letter dated ¥France, April 7, sent by Secretaty of War Baker to the offi- cers and men of the American expe- ditionary forces: “After a thorough inspection of the expeditionary forces I am returning to the United States with fresh enthu- siasm to speed up the transportation of the remainder of the great army of which you are the vangard. “What I have seen here gives fortable assurance that plans for effectiveness of our fighting forces and for the comfort and welfare of been broadly made and vig’omusly executed. “Our schools and system of instruc- tion are adding to the general train- ing of the specialized knowledge which developed among our 1 French British assoclates during years of heroic action which tkey have displayed from the beginning of the ENEMY USING DIVISION OF TROOPS TO EACH MILE ‘Washington, April 18.—Proposed in- crease of the government guaranteed ice of wheat to $2.50 was defeated the house tonight, which rejected by a vote of 167 to 98 amendment to the argicuitural appro- priation bill making the change. This action sends the question back to confcrence and the senate now is ex- pected to recede so as not to hold up the appropriation bill. Under the food control act the price of 1915 wheat was fixed at $2 a bushel, but by proclamation President Wilson fixed a tee of $2.20 a bushel at the prin- kipal interior primary markets. Under the senate rider to the appropriation New Haven, Conn., During Wednesday Night the Teutons Rained Large Quant- | ities of Gas Shells Intermingled With High Pewered Mis- seles on the Points to Be Attacked—East of Amiens the French Have Made Successful Attacks Against the Ger- mans On Several Sectors—In the Italian Theatre Intense Aerial Activity Prevails Over the Entire Front. Navy Josephus Daniels tonight ad- dressed the largest i ‘Woolsey Hall at Yale University Jt was the closing event day in New of the secretary’s busy Haven, divided quite between the city and the university, a day in which he which greeted him with hearty en- munition factories, inspected the Yale naval unit, revie’ el the Yale artillery corps and the naval unit on New lunched with the chamber of merce and the city officers, and spent hours at the universi Reinforced by French troops, the al- led line is holding hard against fur- ther incursions by the Germans from the region of La Bassee to the north ing Thursday midway between Bailleul 4nd Ypres the Germans vigor- ously attacked the British positions south of Kemmel, which the British had recaptured from them Wednesday but were unable to gain any advant- age in the face of the strong defense. Considerable fighting has developed along the front in northern Flanders between Langemarck and Kippe, held At one point ths enemy penetrated the Belgian front line, but later was expelled, leaving six hundred_prisoners, numerous officers, in the hands of King Albert’s men. Bast of Amiens, along River, the French have made success- ful attacks against the Germans on several sectors, capturing the greater part of the Senecat Wood and also ad- vancing their line east and west of the stream. The Germans Aisne region attacked the French near Corbeny and also in the Champagne, but in each instance were repulsed, while the French in Lorraine carried out a successful manoeuvre against the enemy in which prisoners were Everywhm the Germans have struck the line in an endeavor to press back the defenders they have been repuls- ed with heavy losses and have been successful nowhere in gaining further “To Have and to Hold” THE RIGHT MOTTO FOR The Third Liberty Loan Bonds You are doing a patriotic thing when you subscribe for Liberty Bonds. For you are giving the Government your by the Belgian: Attacks of an extraordinary violent pature are being thrown by the Ger- mans on the ten mile front between Givenchy and Robecq, where an en- deavor is being made to cross the La Bassee Canal and bend southward the salient which now outflanks the im- portant railroad town of Bethune. division_of troops to each mile is be- ing used by the Germans on this sec- tor, but the British at last accounts were holding well and inflicting heavy losses on the enemy. If successful, the new attack of the Germans would jeopardize the entire tor, which includes the fam- ous French coaling region about Lens famous Vimy Ridge, are holding It seems evident that it is part of the German high command to wipe out the salient by move rather than again battle to the British about two regions that al- ready have proved slaughter houses for among . _them “Fortunately, 'the ‘relations between our soldiers and those of the British and French are uniformly cordial and happy, and the welcome of the civil population of France has been met by |§ our soldiers wth chiyglrous apprecia- tion in return. ‘We are building a great army vindicate a great cause and the spirit which yéu are showing; the courage, the resourcefulness and _zeal for the performance of duty. and as men, The Government needs money to buy the ships, the guns, the food, the muni- tions, that our boys need over there. Think of your own boy—some one else’s boy—at the Front! Buy Liberty Bonds and Do It Today and the equally both as soldiers is not only promising of military success, but is worthy of ¥he < of Ameria and of the allied armies with which we are associated. On the Ttalian front artillery duels and patrol encounters continue. tehse aerial activity prevails over the of the strategy an enveloping enemy - airplanes were brought down R A ol —five by Ttalian aviators and twelve NEWTON BAKER.” The following statement was addel “order of General Pershing:” Tn addinz his own appreciation to the splendid spirit of ‘our army, commander-in-chief wishes to impress upon the officers and men of all ranks Viscount Milner has been appointed British minister of war in_succession to the Barl of Derby, who has been given the post Following the usval custom prior to fhe launching of an attack, the Ger: rained shells of all calibres een Givenchy tiring by daybreak having reached the The political situation in Austria- The print $20,000,000. term. list. sulted. top of the artillery. cepted. or's Party.” ster Loudon. Brooklyn; “ s Large quantities | Hungary. has been made more acute through, the resignation of the entire Hungarian ministry. intensity of.drumfire. of gas shells were intermingled with powered missiles. a keen unse ol the serjous ‘obligations the _price wauld “be_ in. S 0 a ‘bushel and the farmers. local eiévators made the basic market. A proposal to concur in the ‘senate amendment and re-establish the inte- rion markets as the basis was repect- 130 to, 138, and another to include the same guarantee for the 1919 crop also was rejected. ‘eq¥ipment. for - trainiy; Wil seryie€ %nd @ined With President faculty members and others | at_the Graduates Club. talks were to the naval re ter the review, students _for then ! L fresh assurance of dence in their loval- Y. their courage and their sincerc de- votion to duf BELIEVES CYCLOPS WENT DOWN IN HEAVY STORM Third Officer W. J. Riley_ of Steamship Amolco, Which Encountered Storm. sal s romnletm informal af- and to the dinner par- POLITICAI; S|TUATi0N IN AUSTRIA 18 DELICATE Said to Reign VIGOROUS FIGHT IN SENATE ON OVERMAN BILL Senators Will Be Limited to 30 Min- utes After Next Wednesday. g, however, was of such a chhracter that President Ar- it to have been one’ of the most notable held at the -university Marked nueonum FORMER._EDITOR THE MASSES DISCLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY For the Character of the Matter Print- ed in the Perodical. vashington, April 18—With no ap- diminution of opposition nor osition on the part of administra- to compromise, te today settled down once more vigorous controversy over the bill blanket authority ‘Washington, April 18.—The ‘political cituation in Austria-Hungary remains extremely delicate, ‘according to an of- ficial despateh today from Switzerland, summarizing reports from Budapest and comment in Austrian and Ger- man newspapers. Austria, the despatch said, is coming to the greatest difficul- ties; security no longer exisits and the | situation “is capable of any possibili- hundred and tie doors to get into the hall and the po- liee had to turn them away. val unit was in ek k, Va., April.18.—W. J. Riley, third officer of the Steamshi; said here tonight that he beheved the missing naval collier down in a heavy storm Amolco encountered off the coast last The Amolco left a West In- anead of the col- ,|he paid tribute to Yare fommer editor OF the's cacrifices of The Masses, disclaimed responsibi for the character of matter printed in the periodical when he took the wi ness stand in the court today in be- half of himself and three s who are charged with conspiring to obstruct compliance with the Senator Overman of Norta Carolina, for the measure, he intended’ to keep it contin- uousiy before the senate and hoped to secure a vote next week. At the close he suceeeded in getting unanimous consent to an agreement under which after 3§ p. m. next Wed- senators _will minutes discussion of the bill and to twenty mi for hearty Mr. Dan- s of the Dillon e aviator to athan Hale, the | dian_port three day: support of the Lib: iels’ turned to the early Marked discontent reigns in Vienna, according to speeches delivered in parliament the Czechs, Jukc-Slavs and Poles in- spire hatred of Germany and demand |s" of Austria-Hungary. the Social-Democrats are said_to proclaimed in the Austrian chs ber of deupties-that the monarchy is n ctly interested in the ‘strug- gle of Germany against Great Britain, Trance and Ameriva. v said his vessel, bound to Boston, was badly damaged and that her radio room was flooded the wireless bein gput out of commis- Revolutionary reorganimtion, Aithough editor-in-chief of the pub- e . the witness declared a plan whereby the owners of the magazines, among whom its stock was equaily d ded, were assured the right of hav- - contributions printed, made it ssible for him to exercise super- on over the arti ch it contained. life for the same idea SERVICES FOR LATE SENATOR STONE Friends of Years Ago Were Among tha || Throng in Attendance. customed to d youth of today bécause of incl The senate adopted several commit- amendments, including one requir- before abolishing to recommend such action and also providing at the end of the war of | the original status of reorganized bu- | when the aciq test the president, cartoons and 'ada, Mo., April 18—Hundreds of gain admission TO ESTABL[SH A GREAT LAKES STEAMSHIP LINE Has Been lssued by Director sons unable to the crowded church, stood outside in drizzling rain during funeral’ vices here this afternoon for thelate Senator William J. Stone, who died in Washington Sunday. Revere f‘ou)d er than his Sturtevatn e eagle. “When the bo. 258 NEW ENGLAND IN HONOR ROLL Yesterday 21 Cities and Towns Filled Their Liberty Bond Quotas. the debate Senator Smith praised the appointment of Charles M. Schwab as director of the emergency fleet corporation and declared thatan- other man of such calibre should be appointed to take charge of airplane production the Germans would not have undertaken the offensive now go- T wart ateet recep- nt no one to not bought a This was Sena- * county and many of those who came to pay a last tribute to him were when Mr. Stone was Young attorney. Senator Stone’s body lay in state at the church until the funeral began GERMAN PRISONERS LANDED IN AMERICA 38 of U-Boat Crews Taken by Ameri- can Destroyers. ‘Washington, April r18~Tn them to be given the g railroads of much through traffic he- welcome them who has Liberty bond or a war When the boys come leave some buried There wiil be mourning in but there will thrilt of pride, If ;the hoys in the trenches do not eriticize or complain, Boston, April 18.—Reports from in- dividual cities and towns as tabulated loan committee i Hartford $6,075,- 650; New Haven $2,596 During the day 21 cif reported they haq filled quotas, mal Thirty-eight towns re- ecast General McAdoo today ordered the e: tablishment of a Great Lakes steam- ship line under the railroad adminis- tration to operate seven ships between Buffalo and Chicago and Milwaukee. Other vessels may be addea later. Thig action is in line with the di- rector general's heavy freight by water whenever pos- sible_ and leaving the rail lines freer commodities speedy transportation. The new lake service, to be started within.a week or two, will take much of the overflow of bulk freizht moy- ing westward from eastern manufac- turing centers. All rail rates will pre- vail and to a great extent it will be optional with- the railroads as to the method of transportation. 5 also be a s and towns HOTEL MEN MEET IN WATERBURY TODAY They Probably Wilj Make Their Ho- tels 100 Per Cent. Wheatless. Hartford, Conn., ing 258 in all. ceived honar them was Canaan, Conn. we at home must vs from and the north are in southern camps 00 boys from the south arc in the north.” | bank: In speaking of the compensations to inni; f the war, hat employer and employe will have a clearer un- derstanding of their i spoke of Former President Taft" s pointment and saiq the war had sov- | Three bhall we do war, NEWPORT MACHINISTS TO STRIKE AS PROTEST Against the Death Sentence of P. H. Mooney in California. ‘Washington, April 18—An announcement today of the recent ar- rival at an Atlantic mans captured by American destroyers the submarine U-38 shows that among the prisoners mand officer, Captain Lieutenant Gus- tat Anberger, and four other officers. The capture was made b, er Yannmg assisted by _the destre\cr in Eurnpean November 17 last. transferred to the war department for internment at Fort McPherson, Ga. NEGRO LYNCHED AT ROPLARVILLE, MiSS. Taken from Jail Hanged to a Tree. federal food commissioner for Connecticut, Robert Scoville, tonight. was to the effect that hotel men of the state will probably make their hotels one hundreq per gent. wheatless until the next har- vest. Cliffordd D. Perkins, manage of Hotel Heublein, has re-sold to the his wheat flour and he will serve no wheat flwr modum.s until September, . strictly to the pledge given by him nnd five hundred other hotel men to Her- bert Hoover th. port of 38 Ger- He ap- 18.—Govern- ment munition plants here will be af- fected by a strike of all union ma- chinists in this district called by labor leaders today to be 24 hours beginning May ‘The strike is in protest against the sentence of P. H. Mooney connection with the fatal explosion it the San Francisco preparedness pa- he thought, had climi and political heen' subordinated to the winning. of wholesalers all SPECTACULAR DAY IN COTTON EXCHANGE Price Flustras Now they will he | Sflective for marching y will see to it t America will not be the home of i come nches and from the camps .as did the hoys from the Civil war to rule the nation In their gen- ns Were the Greatest in Its History. New York, April 18 cotton exchange was the scene today of the most spectateular fluctuations in Contradicting advices af- fecting the trade bewildered the trad- ers and furious buying or selling caus- ed sudden corresponding advances and declines, one sensational break extend- ing over $9 a bale. - One of the chief ‘factors. in the trading was the. report from Wash- ington received during the late trad- ing that a biTl had been introduced into the house to fix the price of cotton at 20 cents'a pound. home,” he said, month. At Hotel Eiton, Waterbury, tomor- row, a meeting of hotel men of the state will listen to Almon C. Judd, president of the association, Fred A. Cantwell of Bridgeport, and Mr. Sco- ville on the matter of acceptance of the pledge for wheatless hotels. The New York back from the tr IRISH LEADERS ARE TO RESIST CONSCRIPTION DEM. STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE TO MEET New Haven—Call Sent Out by Chairman Fitzgerald. Redmonites, Sinn Feiners, O’Brienites, Laborites and Cleci April 19.—The the Nationalists in Ireland, the Redmonites, 'Who are now jed by John Dillon, the Sinn Feiners, O'Brien- ites, Laborites and Clericals are uniteq in their detéermination to resist con- scription “by the most effective meansg which is the wording (of a resolution passed at a meeting of bishops at Maynooth yesterday. Poplarville, Miss., . April Singleton, a negro, convicted last night of the murder : Bounds, a railroad worker, was taken from the county jail here today by a mob and hanged fo a tree on the out- skirts of the town. Singleton was arrested a week ago, in record time and mprisonment. ANOTHER MUTINY THE GERMAN ARMY. When Troops Were Ordered to the British Front in France. Is Are United. T0 FURNISH INSURANCE FOR RED CROSS WORKERS Arrangements Have Been Made For Its Members Abrol Wmn, Aprfl 18.—The Ameri- has arranged ue, health and accident insurance to its ‘workers who are not eligi- m for the benefits of government war flflu insurance. Next Monday New Haven, Conn for a meeting of t central commimttee, fo be hel city next \'Un\h\ tried yesterday sentenced to in this was_sent the r‘harman David at our disposal,” NEW SCALE OF WAGES FOR SHIPYARD WORKERS an Workers to Get 18 to 20 Per Cent. lncl‘uut ‘Washington, Avrll 18—A new scale ot wages for civilian workers in At- lantic ccast navy yards will be.pit in- 1,"the navy department It grants 18 to 20 per cent. pay increases and makes the vy pay conform w:th ‘wages paid in ship yards SOCIALISTS IN AUSTRIA TO STOP WORK MAY 1 When They Are to Mak; Demonstra- tions in Favor of Peace. * Germans Drawing on Fresh Reserves. Ottawa, April 18.—“The cnemy ap- parently is drawing on fresh reserves,” says a_despatch received here tonight from Reuter's correspondent at Brit- ish headquarters in Franée. course of the great battle, more than thirty enemy divisions have so far ap- peared and it is certain the German command is exploiting every success the most prodigal expenditure of man-power and not counting the cost. foreign workets, it was announc- nmmwhnufl free of cost u -m-z medical examination, $1,- life insurance, payable in the event Muatmmumymin and permanent disabili- mtbm health ‘n- ding de it in case of dh‘llfly from infery. April 18.—A despateh from Eindhove says that another mu- tiny broke out at Beverloo Camp,.in the province of Limbours, - among the German troops when or- ‘dered to the British front in France. A ‘number of the mutineers shot, ‘the despatéh adds, but the re- sistance continued. Amsterdam, April 18—The Telegraaf reports that .the socialist Austria has decided that work shall be. stopped on May awmounced today. 1 throughout the "y :\}!d that demonsatrations in favor of peace shall be ‘held. Gauge Co., ket. tion.” Domin my. Adoo. in “own. flitary training /| considerably “extended. G Secretary Baker soldier in Pnnoe is ‘making good. e pesmnated W, amatwn Issued Last lfi! ys “the American paper output for the = month of March declined 7,000 tons.. The House pi a “py ivers and harbor nppfopriatlen bill c-rzyldx The Senate pasud ‘the annual m» islative, Judical. and - Executive - propriation bill. anm, Wu“hfldflhh\m’yw Tm Auomay General Lewis of New York | State announced that private citizens may;arrest. disloyal persoris! Nineteen (hunnnd rifles of the En- field pattern. made in America, ‘Wi shipped’ to Camp Wadswonh Thomas Hv(chcoek. a New York flier, is reported by the Spanish Embassy at Berlin as a prisoner of war. The Railroad Commission complet- |" ed its recommendations for wage in- creases for railroad employees Vice-president thfy Stuphen of the Submarine Boat Corporation announc- ed that the 28th keel was laid. Andre Tardieu has béen reappoint- ed French high commissioner to the United States for the third successive The names of one American killed, A | in action one missing. three who died’ of wounds, appeared on the Canadian An earthquake said to have been the most violent in a decade in Bureka, Cal, shook that city. No damage re- noted Albert Qollars minimum. President . Wilson's _Liberty. day proclamation; follows: Berlin newspapers.announce the for- mation of a new political party, called the German Workmen's and Emper- “UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, The Dutch government is prepared to accept the wheat offer of the Unit- ed States according to_ Foreign Mini- “Am enemy who has grossly abused the power of organized government and who seeks to dominate the world by the might of the sword, challenges the rights of America and the liberty . and life of ai the free nations of the T Tosesse egrth, - Our brave sons. are facing the| Nafional headquarters |t fire of battle In defense of the. ONOT | stors o exthos ebme BE s and rights of America and the Jverty ‘of nations: " To sustain -them and 10 | ranteq according to population ciasses, assist our gallant associates in thelin the hope of stimulating intercity City officials of Chicago declare war conditions and the spread of 'thrift will cause 1,000 saloons in me city to close by May 1. Jacob Agne, 49 publisher of the Utica Sunday Tribune and Utica Her- ald-Dispatch died. Agne was promin- ent as an architeet. Supreme Gourt Justiss Aspirall of Yorkers aneking not cross the brig orcen in Brookwn A messenger at F rbanks - Alaska, +announced that Vilhjalmur Steffansson the explorer-is suffering from typhoid fever at Herschel Island. Two employes of the: United States at - Philadelphia, with tampering with gauges “for the Government were interned. Governor Whitman signed the Sil- vers Dbill. substituting the New York Guard for the State National Guard; now in the Federal service. A committee of the Commons charg- ed the British Ministry of Munitions with wasting: public funds in award- ing contracts for war supplies. nnd*flnmletUndflhDfledlfloffluSmdnyt‘fi Tm.nry and the Liberty Loan Cmmitm—l:dfl FanployuhletoBereanflfHohday—W'fllh Loan Campaign About Half Over $1,089,734,000 In Subscriptions. Have Been Reported to the Treasury. - “Wasghington, April 18—Friday, April | of the federal government tnroUgHOUT 26;. will be Liberiy day throughout the | the -country whose 'services' can be United States under a proclamation | spared may be excused at 12 nrdock issued tonight by President Wilson | noon, Friday, the twenty-sixth' day-of calling on citizens of every community { April. to Hold Libérty loan rallies and “liber- | “In witness whereof, I have hereunto ally pledge ‘anew their financial sup-|set my hand and caused the seal of DOrt to sustain the nation's cause.” the United States to be affixed. Patriotic . demonstrations. similar to| “Done in the District of Columbia, those on the opening day of the cam- | the- eighteenth day of April, in the paign will be held on Anrll 26, and the | year of our Lord, one thousand mine the three billion dollar \credit go: lependence e Uni of @ new impeius iv. wuv ibal Week. America the one ‘hundred and forty- * Campaign Almost Half Over. | Second: Now, with the loan campaign almos: | «By the Pre half over, $1,089,734300 subseriptions -’kogymfingitm have been reported to, the freasury, or “Secretary of State. i o i Vi & $136,811,650 teprisen ik yestsrd:ys » e famous leaning in_at the | business, and committees in every' dis- o (France) | trict me received orders to make ex- | St. Louis today headed the roll of Cathedral was shot down by German | traordinary efforts to gather in pledges | districts arranged in order of per- faster, .in the hope of meeting Secre- | Centage of quotas subscribed and New tary McAdoo's expressed hope for an| York district, the greatest actual con- , The War Department announced that | oversubscription of the threc billion | tributor, fell to seventh place in per- it has enough, chaplains in the Ser- vice. No more applicants will be ac- ‘WOODROW ‘WILSON. District Records. centages. The district records fol- low: District. Subscription. PC. “BY THE PRESIDENT 2 : e “OF THE “A PROCLAMATION. NPT P EH L scriptions by states and by cities ar- & generous and ‘patrio-ic people| competition during the) balance of the have Been called upon. to subscribe 10 campaizn. the. third Liberty, loan. Sunday, April 21, will be devoted -3‘5 erefore L Woodiomw Wit | by thousanas of preachers to special o wjv, pregidept of dhi tes of | Liberty loan sermons. The treasury America, do -sixth nme Tan; nd nn‘ldllbtoen. as Liberty | the loan campaign on that day. n;po m Fndny tie twen- | has received a flood of letters trvm ministers -promising thelf support of 0 thie afternoon of that day 1| Particular interest was 4 e people of the ' United ' today in the achievements of the St. bm&es ‘o assemble. in their respective | Louis banner district. Its committes comimunities-and. liberally pledge-anew their, finanuial support to sustain the | Indiana within the district had over- natign's cyuse, ~ Patriotic. demonstra- | subscribed 12 per cent. Arkansas is tions ssliould (be held in every city, | second in the district witha town and humiet throughout the iand | age of 75 ana sales of $14,608,000. In under. the ‘general direction of the se retdry. of the t-rasury and the imme-|the district, only the smaller towns diate direction of _Liberty. loan | have reported fully, and later tota)s committees sorganized the federal | from ‘big_cities are expected to ewell reserve bamks. Let the nation’s re- | the records. Memphis, in the St. Louls. sponse. to the third Liberty loan ex-|district, started its drive yesterday. . | press. in te of managers reported that the part of - Tllinois, Missouri and other states of ‘unmistakable terms.the de- New England is believed to lead all ination, of America. to fight for | districts in the number of individual Deace, the,permanent peace of; ;untice subscribers, of whom 142,000 have been ““For the purpose of participating Liberty day celebrations. all mploves | for &ainglb day. reported already, an increase of 24,000 Ruth Wasson is charged in Syracuse | with fradulent use of mails. it vertised for a husband and secured money through' appealing love motes. Choice. fat bullocks sold at the Chi- cago stock vards for $17.25 a hundred pounds yesterday, the highest price for e ; \ Washington, April 18—Delay in. the April in the history of the Jocal mar- movement of last 'year's cotton crop, which +it is claimed could have been avoided if .greater compression —had been required. was blamed today by - Colonel Jordan for the sensational|Hubert secretary. A constitution was drop in cotton. prices during the last |adopted at previous meetings. Twenty week. Colonel Jordan estimated that|Organizations have allied themselves probably 1,000,000 bales of cotton still | With the new body. rémain ortation. 0 fe PThe speculative interest in the cot- | voring 'prohibition. ton. market, he said,”reitized-this con. i south an Hrhonr ,:g:fm‘f:“’;’o;‘,,“ge Yrice. A |are known to favor the proposed fed- declins -of 200° points resulted. As|eral brohibitory amendment. banks began to call fof margin on the loans they: had made on the staple, many holders of spot cotton were force ed to sell, which-induced, the unprec dented depression, amounting to a loss in value of $35 a bale. SCHWAB BEGINS WORK Representative McFadden, of Penn- The | sylvania, introduced a resolution to have the “Star B made the national anthem “by a Winsted cob- bler, was held under bonds of $1,000 in borough court today superior court on a charge of biga- Gaetano, for trial .in the Government operation of barges on in eonjunction with railroad transportation was announced at the office ot Director-General Mc- the Erie Canal Mary Pickford and Douglas F: banks, the film stars, ] comes Wwithin speaking distance of $1, 000 Mary’s is larger than Fair- ive His Entire Time to the Experts bbring avtheBrows disteié| & 70l e o T of the Queensland mines report that they. have proved that \.ithin an area of one square mile there is 22,000,000 tons of coal. Washington, _April 15.—Charles M Schwals today began his work as di- | Detailed Information is Hourly Expects rector seneral of the Emergency Flect ed by the Authori Gorporation with, as lic expressed i ptimism, ‘enthugiasm and in perfect 2 dccord” with the shipping beard and Ottawa, April 1 | determined to give no attention to his Drivate enterprises’ while in the gov- ernment service. Mr, Schwab he had. undertaken his mew work ready to make any sac- rifice or readjustments in his business which might be deemed: advisable. He | It 2uthoritle was asked if he would sever his con- nection with the Bethlehem Steel pre The railroad administration is pre- | PEItIe: pared to ask for a large coal freight rate increase if the Fuel Administra- tion stands pat on its decree requiring the railroads.to pay the Government’s |, price for coal. hundred workmen at Abendroth foundry, Portchester, N. Y., compelled Louis Dundas, a Hungarian to get down on his knces and kiss the American flag. Sarah Bernhardt a balance of $5,700 on a diamond- studded watch, chain and bar pin, according to a New York who filed an attachment. as failed to pay o 30,10t belizve it (will be ‘mecés: | Germans struck south of the Canadian ““At any rate, I shall give them no attention while I am connectéd with |Prisade’and some Canadian armored Ninety-five per cent of the people gramme,” said Mr. $cha: of the United States are willing entrust’ the President with all power he needs for carrying on 'the ‘war, Senator Beckman, told the Sen- ‘ate in discuwfl! the Qvermm bill. - * FREIGHT CAR DERAlLED AT CONN. RIVER BRIDGE| “New Haven, "al'm. A)vrll 1!.—Cn- opertion in the cl\emlsh-y ments|. With the Amen an Army in France, at. Yale university by dating | April By The Associated Press.) that in. the college with the courses|—Lieutenant Theodore - Hizging the | S;:Jknufl 00l; wag. announe- |'Sweetser, of the medical reserve, Unit. the CHEMISTRY D ARTMENTS ‘AT YALE-N CONSOLIDATED{BRAVERY OF U. S. MEDICAL Cin s Th: Fmam:elv and Equipment Will Be For Two Hours Trains Were Detoured Via Middletown. s Saybrovk - Junction, April_18. — 'Aled. tonieht freight car in a train from Boston for |of ~the "most ‘important reu-.gmuuuyn: forgthe British Military Crpss for con- Harlem River was- dergiléd b, broken flange while at the Connectieut |is River bridge this oon, and as | both of the Shore Line division New York, New Haven Hai railroad weére blocked for two hoursfdo work, The trains had to be r]émund via, Mid'dh- plnm nhu' the CAUSE-ASSIGNED FOR BIG 2 CONNECTICUT DRY _BROP IN PRICE OF COTTON ALLIANCE ORGANIZED \ip the Movement of Last Year's Twenty Organizations Have Allied Crop—Million Bales in the South. Themselves With the Body. ‘Hartford, Conn.,, April 18.—Comple- tion_of organization of the Connecti- cut Dry Alliance was effected this af- ternoon when Harrison B. Freeman ‘was elected chairman and George C. > 2= | The purpose of the alliance, it is His y Bouth Walting: ‘AnE" | otated /15 o federata. all, bediss #0k s early _efforts iWwill be to try and secure nominations of men for the general assembly wheo Mr, Freeman accepted his election ang”spoke of tie work ahéad. Mr Mubert is secretary of the Hartford . M. C. A, Two vice presidents elected are: Alton T. Miner of New London, -acting mayor of that city, and’ Rev. Father J. J. Fitzgerald of New Britain. « A committee of 230 will be named shortly to perfect the orzanization in towns of the state, CANADIAN DIVISION ON THE LYS BATTLE FRONT WITH SHIPPING BOARD Goverament Service. 18— Advices hive beek received 'in Otiawa which indicate that at least one Canadian division (beiiéved to be the First) is now par- ticipating in the mighty conflict ®1 the Lys. battle: front. Detailed inform- ation was hourly expected tonight by‘ the present Domin‘on troops lvave not had an extensive share in any- of the fighting that has been n:;ing - with ench fury during the past ree. B, Seplind weeks Tn their Picardy offensive the lines and only the Dominion cavalry ® | cars took part in the battle wiich fol- government, Shipbuliding | pro- | sed, Their losses, it is understood, did mot exceed two thousand in killed: wounced and missing. RESERVE OFFICER Rendered Assistance to Forty Men WM Sufifing From Gas Shock. Under One Head. This'is regarded as one|ed States army, has been recommended niversity in recent years, and|spécuous rallantry and _devoti as t < duty. X Passchendaele on oi““ knot. lepartmental prejudices.” |13 ‘e rr: dered valuable assistance two. faculties will teach in the|{more t'an forty men suffering lep-rmen:mvr’ umurmdnntes will fixr\flxe Je himself was also the effects. = At the b of Lleumnunt S