Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 29, 1918, Page 1

e VOL. LIX—NO. 102 GERMANS MIIED Ll Hard Fighting Has Been In Progress On_the Ypres vt e . Sector, With Little Change In Positions VOORMEZEELE AND LOCRE LOST AND REWON German Attempts to Pierce the Frgncil jne In the St. Mihiel Cabled Paragraphs Clemenceau Returns From Front. * <Paris,_April Premier Clemen- ceau spent yesterday on the® British- Franco front. where he met Lord Mil- ner. Returning late tonight, he told the Echo De Paris that conditions were quite satisfactory. . BLUEJACKET SUICIDED BY INHALING GAS Overstayed = His Had Leave and ke $2200000000 HAS BEEN DEFINIT- ° ELY PLEDGED TRULY A PEOPLE’S LOAN It Is Considered Certain That a Great Number of Pledges From Wealthy Men and Corporations Will Be Made This Week. Washington, April 28 Heroic Act of Chief Boatswain's Mate v ; JOHN MACKENZIE SAVED 'CON- VERTED YACHT REMLIK GIVEN MEDAL OF HONOR Fiung ‘Himself On a Depth Charge Which Had Broken Lose and Went Sweeping About "the Deck In a Heavy Gale. - = : ‘Condensed Telegrams Stromboli, in viol_gnt An London will be e_uflhhed. The outbreak of yell fe Guatemala has beeny l:h?ckefl..v" ) in the Mediterranean, is eruption. - The names of 75 men were contain: on the American casuaity list. o _Belgium war granted a loan of $3,- 250,000 by the Treasury Department. A committee of public saf organized in Cuba to stamp u.lrty E‘::: manism. Tobacco cards are being issued in Austria to economize rapidly diminish- ing stocks. . brought $180.000 at the annual fur 3 A5 ial line between Nice and A collection of 10,000 otter skins | They Have Been Brought to This Country to Take Part : In the Liberty Loan' Campaign ' MEN REPRESENT ALL BRANCHES-OF THE ARHY s Over-sub- | Washington, April 25.—How John |sale in St. Léu 2 Dresied o Eace Hic Offcers. |cription Of “the three billion dollar| Mackensis, a chief boatswain's mate ! = Six of the Men Wear French War Crosses Awarded For & > mlnlfl‘\lul; olf éhef th!drd Hbe{ty loan ;’n the naval reserve, by extraordinary President Wilson subscribed for the o o R now is looked for during the cam- |heroism, saveg the converted yackt|sacon t ks 5 3 r and Luneville Sectors Haye Been Repulsed—There Has | “New vork. april 23 —Clarence’ Ben- [525nS sina week. sbour to. siart oyt | Remin on yosrol corsims n Bursaonn | forrd, tme Bt T, Loan Foreign Service—Regimental Color Sergeant John J. 3 . o 2 son, 28 years old, of Bridgeport, Conn,, | treasury officials declared tomight the | waters, was told today in an announce- T Been No Material Change In the Situation Along the five billions needed a sailor on a United States battleship, |five billions meeded would be sub-|ment by Secrétary Daniels that the| Augdst Phillips, Netherlands mini- Heffernan, Who Was In Command, In Describing Con- - : ; committed suicide today by inhaling |3TI0e3, only it.millions "of oitizens | navy department had awarded Mac.|sier "o tho 'United " States, | has . - P . e 4 e nex: i e medal of onor and are il > ol s . (= Entire Front Over That of Saturday, But the Big Guns Bas In the apartment of Ada Camble|gixqays. gratuity of $100. {pched a; Dadiehtjore ditions On the Franco-American Front, Tells of Ameri- s . Miss Camble told the police Benson | It is apparent that with about $2,-| During a heavy gale on last I¥e.i Fifty-eight ‘Harvard student 3 of the French and Germans Are: Carrying' Out Mighty | informea hee that he had overstaved | 200.000.000 definiteliy pledzed, many (17 a depth churze welghing severai| e G his leave, th t he dreaded to face Gther subscriptions in the hands of hundred pounds broke from its fasten- graduates have been killed in the war cans Going Into ?nt!le Cheering and Waving Their Hats. {up to the present time. o . . | 4 i i . in- | ings at the stern of the Remlik and | . > lofficers and had decided to end his | CAMaDaign committees without the in- | N 00 e & | St — Reciprocal Bombardments—There Is No Verification of | omcers « waid no-atention ‘to nis |Sialiment pavments, and a roll of o | ¥ent svesping about the dock The| The mames of three men killed and . ! ¥ 3 T threat and left him_alone whilé she | 481 individual subscribers, RLhe e L g 3 - |one wounded and one-ill appeared on i o i . Reports That a Counter-Revolution Has Broken Out In | wwen: to walt on friends. ‘When ‘she re. | thifd war credit is truly a “peoples | deck made it dangerous for anvone to | Canadian casualties Jist. D Suintic daer, AL T T e I )il Toan. attempt to reach that part of the ship. |, Petrograd. Tre entire a a further has beén dent ¥ in south at Locre. ed i Flanders still stands bave the Geérmans been abie to make Hard fighting Ypres n progress on sector around Voormezeele and to the foth places have sev- firmly rance a the Nowhere nd|ang in. the region between..Lassigny and Noyon. As’ a” whole., there change in the sifuation along th tire front over that of Saturday, it is not evident that the Germans are prepared for the present to resime the is no material en- NUMBER OF GERMANS MISSING IS 664,104 Cf That Number 402376 Are Prison- ers in France, England, Russia and Rumania. Amsterdam, Saturday, April Hard Work This Week. “But ecnly the hardest. kind of work in the next six days will make possible approach of the twenty mil- Vessel Was in Danger. As officers and crew watched the bomb, someone saw the safety pin fall out of the charge, making it a source _Problems of Irish conscription were rh'scussed by Lord Reading and T. P. O"Connor at Washington. The Italian Chamber of Deputies ac- cepted the Government’s war- propos- als by a, vote of 235 to 70. ‘The Liverpool food committee grant- led an extra ration to a 16-year-old American soldiers, most of v authorities here today. The party, comprising enlisted men representing all branches of the army and commanded by Regimental Ser- geant John J. Heffernan, arrived here whom | ways bullheaded and wouldn't give in- have been wounded or, gassed, have Dbéen brought to this port from France by order of President Wilson to take part in the Liberty loan campaign, ac- » announcement made, by formation, but the German _privates were sick of the war and told u§ that ihey wished they wyren't in it. They look for it to end in revolution in Ger- many, after America gets into the war, but_they don't believe we are in it yet.” Heffernan drev: a gloomy picture of what the agriculturist in France will encounter after the war, asserting that Aot {boy who weighs 300 pounds. on a transport last night. Sixteen will | there are many unexpioded shells in eral times changed hands, bl at last| offensive which has cost them so dear- | SPeacing before sthe main ! ety |Serve s loan speakors in the New |the fields and the farmer who ploughs - oA g ; W ) of the German reichstag on Friday, Thomas A. Roulston, f e | York ve di the | them won’t find his life worth any- reporis Voormezeele had been recap- | Iy in’ men Killed, wounded or made |7 ordi, TR TECSAE on Hrida s A. Roulston, founder of The | York federal reserve district and the|{om torsd B e <h, but the Germans | prisoiier. , Reports coming by way of | S.CoTding to Voraerts, General Von - n of Roulston grocery stores, is|others will he sent to various parts had obtalned anotner foothold * in| London afe to ‘the efféct that in. Ge! ks Roralh iert al Locre, ve held it. inflici tin many thera‘is much pérturbation over ‘mans have suffered. the number of German missing had and dead at his home in Brooklyn. | First American to Fire Shot. of the country. v o > (PRt ; 3 i . 1 ! 2 i Six of the men wear French war! In Sergeant Heffernan's party was a Nhbihtie wias tiken by e et | (e By ofhe, TeulnnbcTo ierce| aqieds e tatdl rol JASL1L 3 OF i | Your money when you buy a Liberty Bond \M;\m;n‘can aviators in France downed | crosses awarded for gallantry in action |10 vear cid boy, Corporal Osborn De mans Saturday, but the British in a | the alied linc and nervousness and | ™ “inance: © 118,000 in B A —you are only.loaning it t ni 1299 aliplanes since the. United States fand -allswedr the gold 7V foc forelgn | Varilla of San Trancisch, ‘G Sritieies TERT attack won it hack and since | depression over:'the losses the Ger- My 0 W y g it to the United | take the place The Germans points along the French to pierce where hare be ave tried at several front held by the line, t heavy casualties on the Germans in rencwed efforts to but every repulsed, notably in The operations in_the Italian thea- tre continue to be of minor eharacter, consisting” of small patrol encounters and artiilery dueis of more or less in- tensity:on. various sectors. Likewise in Macedonia comparative he the remainder could be regarded as dead. IMPROVEMENT IN CONDITION OF ARCHBISHOP IRELAND States Government, at interest, to buy food and clothes for the “Boys” who have gone to fight your battles, and children and to guard your homes from protect your wives jentered the war up to March 8. | The appointement of four directors ‘Of $500,000,000 War Finance Corpora- I(mn will be announced shortly. The Accomo, the second wooden ship service. Many show by insignia wounded. icans go co-American front. on {their right arms that they have been into battle ‘cheering ng their hats, said Heffernan, ing coWiitions at the Fran- man, who, his companions claimed, was the first American to fire a shot at the Germans last October. 8 His battery took its place behind a little town under cover of darkness, planting its guns on a slope which had been previously camouflaged. De Varil- Shage o § g | 9F 3500 tons to be built by the Foundy| wphe idea was to put us on a quiet|1€S Sun Was aimed at a communicat- TS "Shihie) an mevie Sectore, | it prevails althoush there has been | Prelate Rallisd Yesterday Morning invasion by a foreign government -which | Newarie: "1t be launched Saturday I8 |sector when we went over first” he % SUICH & 005 TR SRl A08 where recently American troops were | SiiC TRV SOTUINE, OF 020N and Became Brighter. knows no form of honor. : ; saln, SUmE,the, sector S c . gun cr stationed. hether - the mericans 3\ came into comt not vouchsafed by communication the French offictal t with the enemy wag bombing -craft. -Near . Vetrenik the Serbians carried out a successful at- against the Bulgarians and anni- . St. Paul, Minn,, April 28. — Slizht improvement in the condition of Aych- Shall you permit these soldiers who are the Birmingham ; Frank P. Glass, o president of the News, was elected 't , remain quiet long with the Americans in it. v began fighting the first minute gave the word to the gun crew, eigh- teen pounds of shrapuel went scream- ing over 4100 yards of No . Man's el ; 10 and they have been fight- : e L i X 3 | American Newspaper Publishers’ As- K < . {Land. hiated the section they held. bishop John Ireland was reported I fighting for you to suffer for food, care, clation. O er one detail that was|. “L felt pretty good when that old Aside from these aitacks and a few | Nothing new has come through |1iS Physicians this evening. Late I ot ’ il T e T ttion he 1 We |Shell went sailing over: the hill* De unimportant operations belween the |éither in the way of confirmation. or | DIENt the condition of the Cathoic and ammunition because you are too sel- Dr. Karl Buenz is on his way to|haming ammunition to the front. Weivarina agmitted. “The only thing we tish and the Germane. artilléry | denial’ of - the teports in circilation } Prélate, Who has been ill for several i a ic G o anta. to serve eighteen months for | are 'O S : were all sore about was that we duels have predominated, The'bis guns | Saturday that- & cogntst-revolution | MONA WAS &rave but he rallied this fish to loan the great Democratic Govern- SPiring to furnish enemy war ¢raft| At e could not pass, as the Ger- of the French and the Germans have | had broken out in Petrogtad and that | Tgrnin and gradually ~ became been carrying eut mighty bombardments north of the Avre river retiprocal Grand Dyke Alexis Nikolaieviteh had been proglaimed ‘emperor of Russi OUTLCOK FOR THE WEEK IN CONGRESS. Early Passage by the Senate of the CHARGED WITH VIQLATING William Edenbarn, President of Louis. THE ESPIONAGE ACT| bréghter,” it w s announced. HOLLAND HAS YIELDED TO GERMANY'S: DEMANDS Concerning Transport and: Supply of Sand and Gravel ment oi the United States your money? Buy a Liberty Bond aud Buy It Now! b with supplies. i 2 Sardine packers at Long Beach, Cal., were ordered by the Government to hold 60 per cent ‘Of. thelr $t6ek Tor overnment use. | (George Bell, giant negro, 7 feet 11 {mans g “‘Well, boys, do we want to, go over vera shelling it. dugouts.” their hats as %o dashed up the hill and over the forbidden road. The French people in the town below were all in couldn't see where it hit and had to take another man’s word for it: It made that roade T selsed. it sort of 5 i;aepmonn.l Fa il e 4 i 1. “Wh the rmans began re “All tua men driving the ammuni- = tlon -trueks: bagan te-cheor-and -wave | PACK, e thsiln LA ave time to think what it would mean if those gunners got our range and I gufss the other men felf about the same way. Nobody seemed to be ner- {inches tall. who was brought to Camp A Frie Lot oF B vous.” : y A et 55 f {Upton in the draft, was rejected be- ety ok The corporal said that the Germans Overman Bill is Expected. iana Railway and Navigation Co. London, April 29.—Holland has yield- - jcause of his size. “We've got 2 fine lot of boys over|made their first raid in his sector on) s - el ed to Germany’s ‘demands concerning 2 : | . *_Te. continued. Washinzton, April 23.—Prospecis of . New Orleans April 28.—Wiiliam | t'ansport and the supply of sand and | lion. subscribers goal asked for by “Charley Taft, passage by the senate early:this week of serious danger to the vessel and} e g : When Count Ish Edexborn, . president ‘of- thé Louisiana | : , the Jaj ent Taft's son, is one of them.|eaq th: v - Eravel. aithough it is understood that |Secretary McAdoo,” said the -head- | crew. Mackenzie. realizing tne dangers| minister, arrives. at Washington ne|T have seen him under the hardest con- | mes Fat Tayog T Ent ok e with: BRESIINE the seqy Rallway nd. Navigation Gommans g | the amount of sand and: ravel wii|guarters review tonight. % | shouted “Watch me: Il get it.” andliwill take up tie question of Japan's|ditions, acting like the real man he|with his throat cut from ear to ear. e, o thatynise goveri. | hPEINeq clifiéhCf Getmen birth;| D TMmited ‘nstéadl of uniimiled. ac-f Wien the secoud Joan campaikn was | dashed down the deck, fiinging himself | invasion_ of. Siberla, i et ot the party, had many trily ment depa 1's promises to open | was arrested by department of justice | COMding to a despatch . from - The {three-fourths over, the treasury esti- | upon the charging cylinder. : the way for enactment of a miscella-|agents tonight at Shrewsbury, La. | neous lot of war legisiatlon. Hague' to the Daily Hail dated Sun- day. 1 mated that possibly $2 250,000,000 hdd Three Daring Attempts. Application of the Ohio Electric Ca. Heffornan said that the latest trick member of the party, had many thrills i X to which the Germans had resorted |guring his first day in the trenches. A u . on an afdavit. charging violation of been, subscribed.” althongh- only. § Three times the darinz man almost | fOF InCreased inro:state passenger fares |was landing spies behind the Fran-lGerman shell hit a dugout in which he On the program for completion dur- | the espionage act. | 838,000,000 had been officially reports |, 0% i” T (NS b Dut each | Was approved by the Interstate Com- |co-American lines by airplanes. The|pad taken cover with 22 companions. ing ihe week are ihe Dbills to extend| The ‘arrest followed a meeting here| FEnsland owns wheat in Australia|%0: as compared with the $2,200,000.000 | iy "iyc cens tore it from him, and |merce Commission. Germans he said would don French|When the dugout caved in, only Me- the Selective draft law 1o youths now | of the executive committee of the Na- | bought at ore dollar -a|RCW OMclally tabulated for ghe third| ,;.c j¢'aimost crushed him. He stuck | — . uniforms on alighting and then stroil| Cormick and two others were alive 21 years of age and establish draft|tiong! Security League. Louisianu sce- These cunplits cannot be “’“‘,‘, E N ¥o 1he task, owever, and bn the foil It is reported in Montevideo that|about among our men. and when they were finally released. n on the basis of * of | tion, at which resolutions were adopted | ause of the long haul and the lecqes: Expocted [iFhis (eek. attempt got a firm grip on the c the German reply to Uruguay’s in-| “Onpe day an order was given that|they had to remain in thefront tfench.. s the se n the | characterizing alleged -utterances by |scarcity of shipping, It is considered certain that reports| der, heuved it upright on one flat end | quiry to whether a state of War|every man in our vicinity had to have|as the Germans were laying down a M. and other measures. Edenborn 2t an Americanization meet- | __, this week will include & great num-|and held it down until iines could be |existed is unsatisfactory. a pass,” he said, adding that “the last|barrage. including proposais| I of citizens of German desent jast{ ~ |ber of pledges from wealthy men and | run to n‘m and he and the bomb safe- German prisoners 1 saw in France| - When the heavy fire continued; Me- army and emer-|Friday night as, ‘seditious treason | izition meeting: corporations which heretofore have|]y iusned. Soun afterwards the ship| Throwing paper in garbage cans in|ere men who were captured from an|Cormick volunteered to run through genc s “expected to|@gainst the United States and its al- There has been much talk of Ger- | 1eld off hoping for the government to| was neaded up into the sea and the |Berlin is punishable by a fine of $25 | qjrplane” the rain of shells to get food for his A view to | lie: many coming over here ind attacking | 2TTaN8e & system of installment pay- | charge was carried to a place of safe- | OF & term of imprisonment. All waste| " “The Americans had always said that | comrades. Disappearing, he returned adjournme: o Zdenborn, who {s 70 years ‘old and {the United States. We need have no income and excess profits|ty. i paper must be turned in. * lwhen they got the Boches, they would |later bearing a can of stew. _In the sena 1 appropriatin®| reported to be many times a million- | fear that Germany will ever aftack nce this has been definitely | ~The Remlik's commanding officer, in | S {give them bad treatmemt” but as a| Another member of the party was $50 000.000 for workmen at aire was taken into custody as he|the United States. It would take & | they .are expected to sub-|reporting M:ckenzie's act, said: | President Wilson received John Me- | fatiar of fact, whenever we captured | Corporal Homer Whited, of Bessemer. war centers is to be pressed immedi- f stepped from ' train of the road of |maritime nation to do that because|SCribe liberally to Liberty bonds,spay- " Exposed His Lif | Cormick the Trish tenor at the White | Germans we treated them with the|Ala, who wore the Cross of War for ately after the Overman measure. which he is president. He was re- | America is surrounded by water. Am. |8 for them on the instaliment plan. e SEanglh Lol A TEN House and thanked him for his. work | g 2tol® Jindness. We even stole | courage displaved in a raid. Perhaps The mineral control bill, apparently |moved to a place. the location of ferica can look to other countries for | addition to these big subscriptions,| ‘“Mackenze in acting as he did, ex- |in behalf of the Red Gross. Fohow to feed them, and gave them to- | the youngest soldier was Langhorns cncountering rising opposition, is| Which Ue. federal agents refused 1o possible attacks in the futur Recent. | CAmpaign workers look for an ava-|Dosed his ifc and prevented a serig S t ihe house, but .t | divulge. < -2 5 statea ord to present The resolution adopted by the Se- certain prime minister stated lanche of smail purchases on the last Germany after three years of war, re- rage in order to make an impressive demonstration of unity.” The number of tribution of bond: by the following federal reserve dis- accident to the ship and probable loss isted at t 2 time, there is no doubt his mother, Mrs. Ma in South Hadley I INCREASED FREIGHT RATES Mackenzie, lives Mass he must fill out a, fuel card. |ing a fire that gutted the Bagle Club. | The names of the following Ameri- cans appeared.in Canadian casualty list: Gassed: .A. A. Atkinson, Clinton, | AUTO BANDITS ROBBED from ‘New York to Jersey City. bacco and the best of everything we few York, April 28—Four automo- bile bandits Tobbed a Well Fargo Ex- Barbour, of Chatham, Va., who gave Castardo Tamburro of .New York his age as 17. A ; ‘our nation is mistress of the sea, has | t*9, davs. Friday and Saturday. At Chebes xotoden oo e ctaas | was.fined: $10foriconsigning tile Unit- f2t conference re- | curity League committee guoted Eden- | been mistress of the son Ded- i The loan headquarters statement | depth charge exploded on the quarter-|ed States to a warm place when told | ——m—mm MM —m—————————F7 ——————————————— ation. bom of Having said at the American- | will. be mistress of the sca tonlght offered the —comment “that|deck with the ses and wind that ex. ANOTHER “CLEANUP” RAID T cently floated a line which averagedq that the ship would have been los Chief Philip Kantz, Captain Charles WELLS FARGO TRUCK MADE IN NEW YORK. one bond to every ten persons in Before war Mackenzie had|Boynton and four firemen were over- Sl SR empire and that it beehoves serveq four years in the regular navy. “comc by gas at Syracuse, while fight- | On Ferryboat While Crossing River!150 Men and Women Either Were Ar- country to go \vell above this ave-|He is a native of Massachusetts and rested or Summoned for Examination. New York, April 28—In the fourth Sunday morning ‘“cleanup” raid con- L press company truck on a Ct‘erry’boaxt duc{;er: odby ?_igtrict At;omey Bvlmm‘!v_ Mass.; E. L. Bera North Attleboro, 1z iver to Jersey City early | early lay, 150 men and women ef hoote @ Posicaiciie Gk trict report FOR NEW ENGLAND ROADS | Mass. f;fi;’i-‘“:..é";&m with thir uzz. The | were arrested or ordered to appear for % New York District—New York state e Cra police have been unable to obtain an |examination tomorrow. -More than a 6‘ 3 fogsten 1.600 000; twelve northern counties of | Have Been Granted by the Interstate| The long disagreement between the| estimate of the value of the goods|score of restaurants, cabarets, Raines ZoonebekBagy | Jersey 200,000 and Fairfield Commerce Commission. Fuel Administration and the Railroad | stolen. The driver of the truck and|law hotels, saloons, chop suey places Kz ty, Conn. 25000. Tofal 1.825,000. * Administration over the car supply | his helper declared they were smoking|and pool parlors were raided, as well Estimates of other districts’ totals Washington, April —Increases injto be utilized shall be taken to the{in the men’s cabin and knew nothing|as one or two apartments. i (] are: Boston 323,456: Philadelphia 300~ |class freight rates ranging between | President. 000. Small Bonds Being Sold. More smai! bonds afe being =old in this Joan than were sold in the sec- five and 15 per cent, and in passen- 2 3-4 cents per mile on were allowed Four thousand bushels of grain held by H. Wyman Wells, a farmer of Ad- { of the robbery until the boat docked. The chauffeur of an American Ex- press company truck teld the police he saw four men looting the rival One of the women in an apartment into which entrance was forced said she was an Austrian. In the rooms were found many letters from soldiers crstate commerce |rain, Mich., was confiscated by the|company's truck and piling the stolen |at various cantonments. Z ond. hence the individual number. ot|commission. State when it was learned he was|goods in an automobile. ~When he| “This is just what I have been after X subscribers must be larger now in The commission ordered that mile- | holding for high prices. tarted to interfere he was dissuaded fu_r a long time,” exclaimed Assistant -4 order to' raise anamount.of money |age rates might be increased to an P > by one.of the bandits who poked a | District Attorney Smith when he sa 3 equal to that raised in the second |average of 2 3-S cents and authorized | Lord Rhondda, the British Food | revolver in his face and threatened |the letters. . . 3 lean. other changes in pass:nger schedules| Minister announced that during the|him with death if he made an out- 4 {0 bring in many million dollars more | first six months Germany had food| cry. SEVERAL BUILDINGS BURNED 9 to the roads. The increases in class|ration regulations in effect 6,000,000 — - # ByssiA rfl::::“;?:JEGERMANY rates were disallowed for the Cana-|cards were counterfeited. THROWN FROM MOTORCYCLE AT EAST NORWALK SUNDAY l dian Paci and Bangor & Aroostook e . _ ) <] _— railroads. . Associate Justice Stephen Leslie UNDER A MOTORTRUCK. | Firemen Were Hampered by Several 7 Rumor That Former Grand Duke The commission specified a scale of | Mestrezat, of the Pennsylvania su- Explosions of Gasoline. / % Alexis Has Been Declared E; class rates for the leading railroads | preme court, died at the Aldine Hotel, = - - = ; e e | il somewhat hisher tates for the mic | Philadelphis. at 5'srn. yesterday aftas thur Jansen Seriously lnjured. Norwalk, Conn. April 23— Fire S Stockholm, April 28.—By the Associ- in New England. an illness of several months. SR ated Press—Correspondents of Swed- ish mewspapers in Finland telegraph Dr‘ istéent rumors in circulation there of important happenings in Russia. The most definite rumor declares that the former Grand Duke Alexis, son of the former empcror, has been declared - passenger fares are to be 2 3-4 cents instea@of the present ave- rage 2 1-2 cents and mileage may be sold, at the “same rate per mile as one way tickets or in the carriers discretion on a basis of one-tenth of a cent or one-eighth of a cent below the Sergeant Vernon Booth, Jr, of New York, a member of the American fly- ing corps in France, was married in Paris to Miss Ethel Forgan, daughter of David R. Forgan, a Chicago financ- ier. Plains, Mass, were thrown from motorcycle under a injured.. Bridgeport, Conn., April #3—~Lieut. Sylvester Butler of Cromwell, Conn., and Corp, Arthur Jansen of Jamaica motortruck in Stratford this afternoon and seriously Both are at a Bridgeport starting in_the Feidman junk shop on Seaview avenue in East Norwalk ear- Iy today destroved the shop, the Piérce garage in the same building, the offices of the F. J. Hodges Con- tracting _ Company adjoining, _and leaping the street under the impetus of a high wind, consumed_the build- emperor with Grand Duke. Michael|regular one-way fares” The roads - hospital. . |ing of the Fast Norwalk Yacht club, 3 Alexandrovitch as Regent and that|application for elimination of trip| Mrs. Florence B. Hilles, daughter of | Butler has a fractured skull and in- | with several small boats, and launches. ] the new government would refuse to|family. tickets on a basis of 2 1-4|the late Ambassador Thomas F. Bay- | ternal injuries and may not live. Jan-| A number of automobiles in tho : recognize the Bolshevik peace treaty |cents a mile was granted. The com-|ard, has taken a job loading shells|Sen is also internally hurt, but will with Germany. ‘The rumors would be disregarded here were it not for the fact that a report from Vasa. Finland. last Thurs- day declared that the transportation of Russian civilian prisoners had had to be suspended “because of current disorders in Russia.” Finland and Sweden have had no telegraphic communication with Rus- sia in more than three wecks. 25 AUTOISTS ARRESTED AT MILFORD SUNDAY. Local Police Were Assisted by the State Police. Milford, Conn., April 23—Twenty- mission also permitted increased zone fares on the Providence. Warren and Bristol branch of the fNew York, New Haven & Hartford. HERBERT W. SIMONDS OF MIDDLETOWN SUICIDES Wife Found Him Dead in Their Home Firm. —Traveled for a New Brit y Middletown, April /25, bert W. Simonds, 40. a traveling man for a New Britain firm. was found dead in his home here by his wife when she returned from New Britain late last night. A note written by her ‘husband said he was ‘“tired of life.”. Cot at the Newcastle plant of the Bethie- hem Steel Co. to “release one man to fight against the Kaiser.” THREE WETHERSFIELD CONVICTS PLOTTED ESCAPE Arms, Files and Other Implements Had Been Smuggled Into Them. Hartford, Conn.. April 28.—A plot which had for its object the escape of three convicts, one a life, prisoner, from the state prison at Wethersfield was frustrated by Warden C. C. Mc- Claughry. it was learned tonight, when he discovered that arms, files and other implements were abut to be smuggled probably recover. out for a_passing _automobile, struck and knocked over. RESOLUTIONS OF PROTEST Were Discharged. telegraph such action was contrary to Their machine, attempting to turff was BY TELEGRAPH OPERATORS Because Operators Who Joined Union New York, April'28—Two hundred operators held a meeting here today to protest against the al- leged discharge by telegraph compan- ies of operators who join the union. Résolutions were adopted decllfltl;g e Pierce garage were aiso destroyed. The total loss is estimated at about 7,000, partially covered by .insur- ance. The cause of the fire has not been determined. The, firemen werb hampered by frequent explosions of sasoline in the garage. FIRE DESTROYEDITUF TS COLLEGE DENTAL SCHOOL. Valuable Scientific Instraments Wers Regioved from the Building. Boston, April 28—A fire early today destroyed the Tufts college demtal school building in the Back Bay dis- trict.. Several hundred studemts are : "Fhe medical examiner express- |into’ the prisopers. Two guards al- |agreément between labor and capital | taking a’ special counse at the school, o Kot TG 3o R i five- automobilists were arrestes. meve |ed the opinion that the mian had |leged to have gone to Springfield, |to insure industrial peace during the | to prepare them for dental work in the | KEW DOUBLE BATTLE - IN {now held by the enemy after changing | broken line is the front when the|today for: violuting the.speed Jaws,|taken his life last Tuesduy by inhal- | Mass, to procure the articles. have|war. The resolutions called upon|army and navy. THE WEST—On (be luger. map,|bands several times.The smaller may . the Somme battefield “the urs pictures the.scene, of the. hosiile: biow latest assault started. The Germans among them being ex-Judge Charles Mayer of New Yorl city. inz gas. heen dismissed. according to informa- President Wilson and Secretary of La- and, § 5 av d M it Ko 1 Siate police Mrs. Simonds is employed all week | tion ‘at the prison. Wa‘raen Mc- | bor Wlls{nfl:o :fl"‘;fi:j fx‘:‘lfixfi:’clf rows i to Villers-gretonnens ' pe-{at Flanders. [The front befove. April|here have captured Mount Kemmel, | zssisted the lTocal police force in mak- ! in New Britain. returnins home week- | Claughry declined to give! out the|and chec] e alleges -union cantared by the Britieir o Hangard, " 9th, is"the solid . black . line, while' Drenoutre and St. Elor ©ing_the arrosts. ends, s ,.;,:,,an. S R 0 names of those involved. tivities ‘of the companies. it