Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 3, 1918, Page 1

Bulletin Service Flag VOL. LIX—NO " POPULATION 29,919 NORWICH, : CONN., FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1_9_\8 LULL CONTIVUES KT WESTERN BATTLE FRONTS The Expected German Attacks On the Ypres and Amiens Fronts Have Not Been Launched ONLY LOCAL OPERATIONS BEING CARRIED ouT! The Kaiser Still Has Reserves to Throw Into the Fight, But the Germans Must Attack Soon or Acknowledge the Defeat of Their Ambition to Crush the Allied Armies— Report Says That Rumanians Who Had Been Captured Ry the Italians Have Asked Permission to Fight Agains! the Austrians—Berlin Reports the Capture of the ress of Sebastopol. all whi ns fronts have Here and leries have bre have Here e been c as reserves The defea ren-Voorm es has lies 40000 WORKERS FOR RECREATIONAL SERVICE in France. Italy and Enaland Needed ober 1, by Y. M. C. A, roxim 40,000 workers, who, it is xpected, will be needed for recrea- onzl service in France. It by October 1, is bei nited States by rk Co today. he need n et oth President Poi of our Ame that we must have workers for the “Of this for American worl work. Because of double output in FILLING VACANCIES IN THE FRENCH CABINET Election Was Held Fr President Poincare today elections to fill three vacancies, Louis premier and foreign min- Ister, was elected to replace Roujou. the writer, who died in June, 1914, Monsignor Alfred Baudrillart, vi- car-general of Paris, was eiected to suceeed Count Albert De Mun, found- ~ Workingmen's Clubs in France, and one time foreign minis- ter, who died in October, 1914. Barthou, ex. er of the Catholi The election to fill the caused by the death in August, 1914, of Jules Lemaitre. the dramatic critic, was postponed after four ballots had been taken. Henri Bordeaux, novelist who was L the lead, failed to obtain a sufficient majority. NORWALK SUES FORMER PAUPER FOR $1,888 Giles Gregory, Former Inmate of Town Farm, Helds on to Inheritance. Norwalk, Conn., May 2.—Giles Giteg- ory, formerly an inmate of the town farm here, but who recently inherited ® considerable sum by the death of an unele. is being sued by the eity for $1,888, he having refused a request of the city authorities that he pay back money spent for his support at the poor farm at various times during the past 29 years. The action was brought today. Gregory's inheritance, said, was between $8000 and $10,000. SBCARLET FEVER AT FAIRFIELD COUNTY CHILDREN'S HOME Four Deaths Have Occurred There in the Past Two Weeks. Norwalk, Conm., May 2.—The death rom ecarlet fever today of Diris Will- : i old, at the “oumty Children's’ home here, brings ihe total deaths from this cause since ihe outbreak of the disease at the home two weeks ago, up to four. The Willams kirl was admitted from Dan- dury before last Christmas. There are now- and two suspects under sbaervation. Nome, it was said at the e today, is considered serious, as brooded over battle line continues. attacks on the Ypres | threatens to be disastrous. The report that Czech the Austrian army fighting with the Jtalians, been followed by a despatch saying that Rumanians who had been cap- tured by the Italians have asked per- mission to Aght agains and that they are now on the firing here the oppos- en forth into the Austrians straizhiening lines | The British forces in Palestine have pressure from a superior force of Turks and Germans, A Berlin report says that stopol has been occup ipture of S had been stopped Ukrainian peasant deputies are re- ported to have overthrown the zovern- atch saying that; had been im- ‘mans for conspir- against the military authorities of the central powe prisoned hy the i jat the there seems exent provisions of Brest-Litovsk $249,000,000 REMAINS Ir Libertv Lean to Reach the Three | Billion Minimum Mark. Washington, May- Ze—Oniy-$249.600.- fo be subscribed 2. —Endeavoring to e movement of arm- he recruiting of ap- 600 remains Liberty loan to reach he three billior statement tonight said “tiie prospects ered hopeful.” The total reported ubscriptions obtained {oday cil of the You fon it “waglan addition of §172.000,000 In the iast Association, v titude of emall minresced in the following ca: | 11ONS pouring into local headquarters ved at Y. M. C. A. headquart- “buy another bond” €lemenceau emphasize in the 8 the need of co-opera- jean gener- t onr work must military expansion.” , which was sent by Dr. secretary of the War among treasury ovement to get 50 bonds to keep pace with Presi- dent Wilson, who subscribed after already he felt uble to pay for, grew beyond bounds planned by feature, and_telegrams received today characterized s campaign feature of the third loan. the treasury’s originators of the of present May {o September n France and England, e French army and ten for the Jtalian arm¥. Allowance for expir- ing contracts and casualties will swell the total to considerably over 800. al 140 should he women and five for French he difficulty of fe- mgting In July and August, Subscription Philadelphia tures of today’s $79.000,000, of which only about $ 600,000 was Members of the New York committee wired that the to top its minimum quota by a goct The laggards appear to be New Yo percetnage of 76 and with a percentage of T navy today swept on toward the twelve million radio message Sims, commander of the United States forces in European waters, the reservation of $330,900 in Liberty bonds for those forces, put the total well above eleven million. was_expected in the distri ew York city the Presence of President Poincare. . May — Members cabinet met in the presence of FLYING ‘A RUSSIAN FLAG HAS PROVOKED GERMANS. Members of Presence in Berlin. Amsterdam, —The German government, according to a despatch from MBerlin, says it is unable to de- mand the removal of the red flag from the Russian embassy at Berlin, as it has been recognized as the color of the The government made this announcement in reply to protests of conservative members of the reichstag who considered the fly- ing of a red flag in Germany provoca- 70,000 MORE FREIGHT CARS HAVE BEEN ORDERED To Supplement the 30,000 Contracted For Several Days Ago. Washington, May 000 additional freight cars fo supple ment the 30,000 contacted for several days ago were placed, today hy ‘the railroad administration with fifteen car ‘The ‘aggregate cost 00 and $210,000,000 and the average ‘profif to builders is about 5 per cent, TO HAVE FIFTY'WOGDEN - BARGES CONSTRUCTED, Of 3,500 Tons Each for Use in Coast: wise Coal Carrying Trade. L —— ‘Washington, May 2.—Cor fitty wooden barges of 3,00 for use in the coastwise coal earrying 2.—Orders for 70,- building concerns. is_between $170,001 Cabled Paragraphs Mothers Day May 12. Paris, May 2.—"“Mothers Day,” a day on which every soldier of the American_expeditionary army, young and old, high and low, is expected to erite home to mother—has been fixed for May 12 AUSTRALIAN HEROES AID * LIBERTY LOAN CANVASS. Having Recovered from Wounds, They Are Returning to the Battlefields. New York, May 2.—The “c00-00-0-0- ee” of far-off Australia intermingled today in the streets of New York with the sharp “hurrahs” of the American and French war heroes who are here aiding the Liberty loan campaign. From the throats of 400 “Anzacs"— men from Australia and New Zealand —the canyons of lower Broadway and the wider thoroughfares of Fifth ave- nue reverberated with the peculiar cheering of the Austrilians and an an- swering “c00-00-0-0-ee” of women from their homelands who lined the sidewalks. Most of these women wore mourning. Few men from Australia were in the throngs, and these were far above the military age. The black dresses of the women told the reason. Like the visit of the French “Blue Devils,” the coming of the “Anzacs’ was' unannounced. But, unlike the Frenchmen and the Americans from Pershing’ oes They all saw service on the Gallipoli peni on the western front in France. It is for only a few days that these big, rangy men, most of them from the sheep runs and farming country, gn hats cocked on of their heads and bearing ng sun” insignia of the twin commonwealths, will be seen on the streets of New York urging delin- cribe to the Liberty 2 recovered from wounds, they are again on their way—with -thirds of their journey ended—to the battlefields of Europe to take up arms anew against the Teu- with their camp; the sid: the “r quents to sub loan. H: more than twe tonic allies. On the ed at ands played the B miral Nathaniel R. shie when they landes on the ocean for 45 days. After the parade the men attended a luncheon in their honor at an up- town restaurant. Later they went Automobiles were placed | 1 and theatres threw | open their doors to them. Attentions ! of every kind were showered upon ne sightse spos them. AN AMERICAN AVIATOR WINS THRILLING BATTLE Lieut. J. A. Meissner Brought Dewn ! Fourth German Airglane Along the American Front. ?—(By The American aviator = h whose home is Brookly) torilling aerial battle at about feet, ich fell in flames. Lieutenant Mei nell ago and qualified as a pilot here, with sunshine. A French plane started for the German, but Meissner, who was flving high nearby in a speedy Nieuport chaser, made a dive for the German's tail. When within ze he opened fire with his ma- chine gun and the German started a spiral nose dive. by onds straizhtened out and Tack for Germany. Meissnes wings of Meissner's mael ing. and then crashed fo the earth. The American nilpt landed safely on iiis own side of the lines, but the Ger- n fell about a mile inside the Ger- n man lines to the south of Thiacourt. BCDY OF ANOTHER VICTIM OF HELMUTH SCHMIDT Found Under Floor of House in De- troit Formerly Occupied by Him. Detroit, Mich!, Ma B sulted in an investigation to deter- mine the fate of at least three women who lived with Schmidt as his wife. Mrs. Edward Rederer, a sister of Trma FPallatinus, identified a strand of hair as that of her sister’s and examination revealed the fact that the weman had heen strangled to death with a clothes line. Miss Pallatinus accompanied Schmidt here from Lakewood, N. Ja and relatives state that the couple were married in New York, this be- ing disputed, however, by Schmidt’s daughter and wido: Mrs. Tietz- Schmidt. The woman ~disappeared suddenly two years ago. The discovery w: placed beneath the cement-floor which bad then been carefully re-covered so that no signs showed that it had been tampered with. BISHOP OF AMERICAN ARMY AT THE FRONT The Pope Has Nominated Rt. Rev. Patrick J. Hayes of New York. Rome, May 2.—The pope has nomi- nated. the Right Rev. Patrick J. Hayes. auxiliary bishop of New York, = as bishop of the American army at the front. JPhe Right Rev. Patrick J. Hayes was _born in New York in 1867 and received his ealry education in the parish- schools there. He: was domestic prelate to Pop trade was authorized today . by {h shipping - hoard. The vessels' Will be built at New Bngland and south At- lantic shipyards. This will aid mate- ing the problem of keep- fland supplied with coal. « Plus X in 1907, with the title .of Rev erend Monsignos. He was named auxiliary bishop of New York on Mav ©1, 1914, and was constituted titulary bishop of Tagaste on October 28. the | same year. OLD FORM REGIMENTS OMITTED The Action Is Taken to Relieve Anxiety Soldiers—It Ends Controversy In Congress. Washington, May 2.—The war partment will resume tomorrow pub- lication of the home addresses of men reported on the casualty Orders to that effect issued and the list given out to- morrow morning be in the old form followed prior to Secretary Ba- instructions from France | early in April. Ends a Controversy. This action means that jt has been determined that any mation the enemy might gain from the lists would not value to justify among the relativ forces who are aiding in r erty loan rallies, all of them are be of sufficient added anxiety of soldiers occa- suppression of this aid to It ends a con- la_against the Turks and after | the withdrawal of the allied forces from that theatre faced the Germans e identification. troversy that was waged in congress for a time, which New Jersey has “gone over the top” in the thira loan. Clayton, Swedesboro, Elmer and Lé- gan in New Jersey voted "dry.” casualtyhstSArfl.tfl [cflnnmyUrgedinuSe! Condensed Telegrams Contain Addressesof All Kinds of Meats TODAY’S LIST WILL BE IN THE British troops operating in Meso- BY FEDERAL FOOD ADMINISTRA- | potamia reached the River Tauk. TOR HOOVER Subscriptions to the Liberty Loan in Porto Rico amount to. $1,500,000. M‘JST BE NO WAs,rE The French submarine Prairial was sunk in a collision with a merchant ship. Registrations of shipyard volunteers The Object Is to Secure Economy In|in the Public Service Reserve total the Consumption of Meats Without Re-establishing a Meatless Day. 270,000 Americans in Shanghai, China, have subscribed $606,950 to the third Lib- erty Loan. Hartford, Conn. May 2. — While| Five hundred farmers in Wisconsin meatless days and meals are not to |Sathered at Madison to form a non- be resumed at present, as had been |Partisan party. intimated, according to a telegram from Food Administrator Hoover, re- ceived at the office of Robert Scoville, “Buffalo Nickels” with the Indian’s head. altered to represent the Kaiser federal food administrator for Con- |have appeared in Hoboken. necticut, tod: economy is urged by the government in the use of all kinds| The Robinson bill, annulling the of meats and rigorous elimination of |charter of the German Alliance, was waste. The ielezram points out that |signed by Governor Whitman. the allies have heen obliged to reduce the amount of meat per person in or- der not to encroach on space needed The American Red Cross gave ten million francs to the three societies for transportation of soldiers from |caring for the ¥French wouhded this country to Europe. The telegram S follows: Economy in Use of Meats. “The food administration is desirous of securing economy in the consump- tion of all kinds of meats without a Courageous 'Americafis Have Subseribed their services, sacrificed luxuries, even com- forts, broken home ties, given up business prospects and offered life itself that their country and the rest of the world may not be yoked by Prussianism. -They are on duty right now in some of the hardest liv- ing places on earth. Is It Not Up To You who are still living in homes amid usual comforts and pleasures to come across, sacrifice, spend some money by purchas- ing Liberty Bonds and thus give them Give the Loan Your Boost Today! arch uptown the “Anzacs™ ity hall by Mayor sh and American national anthems. Rear Ad- nd a guard - received the visitors at the Their trip the Pacific was by way of the Papama canal and the men had been With the American Army in France, ited Press). brought down the fourth German airplane American front northwest of utenant James A. Meissner, rupture of friendly relations between the war department and the commit- tee on public information and which President Wilson himself upon to take a hand in When the department lists without addresses the committee on public information re- fused to handle themy on the ground that they were of no news value in that form. .Since then the lists have been made public by the general's office direct are inclined now, it is understood, to continue with the present ment, holding that the committee went out of its proper field in re- fusing to handle the limited lists. Names of Regiments to Be Omitted. The department is now said to be convinced that the addresses can fur- nish no information to the enemy even it means to communicate Germany exists, and that even the to- tal number of casualties in any list names are for- warded by General Pershing in such form as to disguise completely - the time and place where the losses re- ported were suffered. The department {will continue to omit the names regiments or other units to which the men were attached, this being regard- ed as of possible military value. shot down an Albatross scout, ner is twenty-one years of age and a graduate of Cor- . He came to France a few months Vhile he was protdcting a photo- aphing plane, a German machine me in view. The day was brilliant after a few sec- tarted | followed so quickly when the German straightened out that the after's: wing tore both of the under ine. but at the same time the vounz American roured a deadly stream of hullets into the enemy plane; which started smok- Meissner kept up the fire until the German machine burst into flames tells nothing. dresses with casuaities is known to have been fully discussed with Gen- eral .Pershing but there was no in- formation available tonight to show whether he had beeri overruled in the: order to resume the old practice. TRAFFIC BETWEEN DUTCH EAST INDIES AND U. S. Renewal is Urged by the Chamber of —Wrapped in Commerce of Amsterdam. canvas, the body of Irma Pallatinus s found today under the cement fioor in the basement of the home here formerly occupied by Helmuth Schmidt, whose suicide in the High- land Park jail ten days ago has re- Amsterdam, 2. — Telegrams were dispatched by “the chamber of commerce of Amsterdam today to the Dutch ministers of colonies and for- eign affairs, urgently requesting that shipping traffic_between East Indies and the United States be resumed immediagely. of colonies replied that had been cabled on Wednesday to the governor general of the East Indies to the effect that traffic’ in the direction of America may now be resumed. The request of the chamber of com- merce was made on the .ground that the accumulations of colonial produets the Duteh instructions re-installation of a meatless day at |terday, give present. The seasonal decline in thethe Visitation of coming to market volume of animal: is now in_progre: and its volume will undoubtedly further decrease during the next few months, as is usual, but The names of one American killed in action and five wounded appeared on the Canadian casualties list. The Shipping Board will employ for- eign-born ship officers if necessary to man the merchant fleet now building. A Cologne paper announces the Crown Prince has fired several shots at Paris with the German long range guns 5 President Wilson will soon make a decision in the case of the four sold- iers sentenced to die by court martial in France. Allen B. Forbes, of New York, de- clined President Wilson’s appoint- ment as a director of the War Finance Corporation. Drafted men will go to the camps at the rate of 200,000 a month, so that at the end of the year 1,500,000 will be in training. The surgeon-general’s office reports that 113 wounded soldiers were re- turned to the United States last week from the front. The government fixed a standard price on_crude rubber and took con- trol of all stocks through an order by the War Trade Board. A jury after six minutes delibera- tion acquitted Capt Henry Allen for killing S. J. Walker for cursing the American flag, in Honolulu. The War Department recommended to Congressias a war measure the dredging of & channel in_ the west basin of Los Angeles harpor. The will of Mre. Annie G. O’Connor of Stamford, offered to probate yes- 3 00 to the Sisters of Yew York city. 1| Investigation of the loyalty of seve- ral public officials and other promin- ent citizens of Hoboken will be made the probable amount of such decrease | by the Hoboken Vigilance Corps. is still obscure. For Shipment Abroad. “The necessities of shipment. abroad to our amry and allies are Four sticks of dynamite, 30 feet of coiled wire and detonating caps were discovered buried under the base of very.large and amount roughly to|ihe steel radio tower at Fort Bliss, 75,000,000 pounds of meat and meat | T€X- products per week, against a pre-war 5,000,000 pounds. n, ‘mal of le: than Charles F. Phillips, New York City’s Lven with these large shipments, the |;conscientious objector,” must resume allies have found it necess ry to re- duce consumption of all kinds of his status in the Nationa] army. Ord- ers «were issued by the War Depart- | meats and poultry to an average of |Mment. cbout one and on ther draft transport of our soldiers. Elimination of Waste. “Our consumption of meat is about three and one-quarter pounds per week per person and if we are to make both balance during the short -quarter pounds per week per person in order that no fur- should be made on ship- ping that is now required for the William McKinley Hurley, said to be the first namesake of the martyred president, McKinley, was awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French Gov- ernment. Governor Whitman of New York signed the bill which makes it a mis- demeanor to exclude citizens of the state from any public place because marketinz season. we must have fur- | of race or color ther economy. If the public will con- tinue in b elimination of waste urther economize in reduc- ing the quantity prepared for each meal of all kinds of meats and poul- cularly beef, and will and will try, more, par restrict their purcha s aceordingl: the food administration hopes that the necessary balance can be maintained. Will Avoid Inconveniences. “A general adherence to these rec- will avoid the Incon- ommendations Police Commissioner Enright, of New York, abolished the position of statis- tician at police headquarters when he learned that Edward Frankel, holding the position, was a pacifist. The Yale reserve officers’ training corps, with the exception of the men who go to the fourth officers’ training camp which opens this month, will have a month’'s tour of duty at Camp veniences which arise in many direc- | Jackson, S. C. tions from meatless days and wil 1 cause less interference in the daily | Lloyd Allen, of New York, a cadet preparation of food. There is now a seasonal abundance of milk and milk fiyer at the Wilbur Wright aviation field, Dayton, Ohio, was killed when products which can well be substi- |making a flight His machine be- tuted in various forms. Cause of Shortage of Fish. “The shortage of fish during the past few months due to the necessity of naval requisition of trawlers and enlistment of fishermen for the navy should be considerably relieved by the been arranged in expansion which h: other forms of fishing.” LIEUT.-COL. GRIFFITHS KILLED BY SHELLFIRE He Emerged From a Dugout Just as a| German Shell Exploded. ere assuming unmanageable propor- tions with consequent especially in the supplies of tobacco, tea and rubber, while .th of financing and insuring the cargoes, it was added, were becoming well nigh insuperable. deterioration, he difficulties s made shortly af- ter the officials had given up the ex- cavation work. A workman throwing up ‘a last shoveiful of earth uncovered the. canvas. The body had beer CONVICTED OF MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE Giordiano Candido, Who Shot Mrs. Angelo Pecoraro in Torrington. Litchfield, Conn., May 2—Giordiano Candido, of Torrington, was convicted of murder in the first degree by a jury in the superior court here late He shot to death Mrs. Angelo Pecoraro in Torrington, during a quar- rel last May. Candido’s counsel moved to eet aside the verdict as against the evidence and this motion will be ar- sued next Tuesday. The trial began last Tuesday. Can- dido being brought down State hospital for the insane at Mid- dletown, where he had been sent for The physicians observ- ing him there declared him sane. observation. Spain Adopts Daylight Saving. New York, May 2.—Spain has adopt- ed the daylight saving plan. Lebal time country was advanced sixty ‘minutes on April 15 to continue ungil October 6. the Commercial Cable Co. announced today. . With the American Army in France, May 2—(By The Associated Press). Lieut. Colonel Richard H. Griffiths, commanding ‘a battalion of infantry, has been killed by shellfire in Pjcardy. He emerged from a dugout just as a cause unmanageable and crashed into one of the school buildings. Announcement was made in New Orleans that the tank steamer Vera Cruz owned by the Mexican Petroleum | Co. hit an obstruction and went ashore | at the Panuco River on the jetties. The steamer is a total loss, The Scandinavian-American. Line piers in Hoboken, N. J, were taken over yesterday by Rear Admiral Ush- cr, commandant of the third naval dis- trict, under instructions from the sec- retary of the navy, for government use. “| Arguments in proceedings brought in an effort to have set aside injunc- *|tions restraining _the International *| News service or Hearst service from pirating news despatches of The Asso- German shell arrived and exploded di- | Clated Press began yesterday in the rectly in front of him. Lieutenant Colonel Griffiths was supreme court. with the Fourth Tennessee Volunteers | THERE WERE 135 ON in the Spanis! ter with the served also constabulary merican war, and la- 37th volunteers. He s major in the Philippine He was appointed a BOARD CITY OF ATHENS. Thirty-three Passengers and Same Srajor in the national army after ro.| Number of Crew Were Picked Up. signing from the British army. His widow is a Red Cross nurse, TRIAL OF 112 1. W. W, LEADERS IN CHICAGO An Atlantic Port, May 2. — The steamship City of Athens had aboard and in working order almost twice her required complement of lifeboats when she was rammed and sunk by a French cruiser off the Delaware coast early The Government Has Begun the Pres- |yesterday morning, according to L. entation of Testimony. Chicago, M the trial of 112;leaders of the Indus trial Workers of the World late to- day, after Frank K. Nebeker, special 2 prosecutor, had concluded his opening | of dead showing th statement in which he said it woul be shown the organization enfered Collins. superintendent of the Ocean Steamship company, in a statement is- | 2—The government|sued today. The vessel carried nine began presentation of testimony in boats, accommodating 242 persons, he fdecmnd. and there were 135 on board, 69 of whom were lost. Mr. Collins gave out a revised list t 37 passengers and 32 of the crew went down with the liner. Thirty-three passengers and widespread - conspiracy to ° upset|the same number of the crew were America’s war plans. George . Van- derveer, counsel for the defense, picked up by hoats lowered from the . | French warship. waived his right to present an open-| Two independent investigations of ing statement. the accident were begun today. TEN PAGES—80 COLUMNS BLANKET AUTHORITY PRESIDENT TOINCR Proposed to the House Military Committee In E: tive Session By Secretary Baker IT0 ANY SIZE NECESSARY TO WIN THE WAR War Secretary Says the Army Appropriation Bill Sho\\ldl’ro: i vide For 3,000,000 Men, But That This Should Not Mean Any Fixed Limit to the Number of Men to Be Called Within the Year—Informs Committee That Sup- plement Appropriations Will Be Submitted as the Army Is Increased—There Are Indications That the Proposi- tion Will Meet With Opposition. Washington, May thority for the president to increase the army to whatever size war was pro- posed to the house militar; in execufive session today by Secre- tary Baker, chief of staff, Marshal General Crowder. ministration measure amending. selective draft act to provide for this grant of power will be prepared im- mediately and prompt action on of the American expeditionary forces. with British, French and Italian officials. Secretary Baker also outlined to the committee today the reatons why he opposes house amendments to tfie senate resolution to change the basis of draft quota from state population 10 the number of men in class 1, un- der which states would be given cred- it for men who have volunteered for service in the array and navy. d such credits would be fair if the' sis wag to be state population but » that they would not be pair with ths basis the number of men in class 1 en some states would have to furnish no draft men, while others would have to furnish 1 Secretary Baker toid the committee it would be unwise to sét any limit on the number,of men who called to the colors complete discretionary authority to the president to increase the size of the army transportation a very high When the resolution to change the and equipment facili- ties may warrant would have a sreat sychological effect on -the enemy by showing how thorough throwing all its house. President Wilson wrote Chair- man Dent, of the military committee, supporting the volunteer credits plan. but he was represented today as hav- ed his mind in view of the that would result. derstood that he will Wiite Chairman sking the house to recede from the nation is appropriation for approximately 3,000,000 men, two_million, now under arms accepted as any fixed number of men to Supplemental | be submitted as the There were an administration power to the president ze of the army will meet Chairman Dent has abandoned the bill he prepared without _consultation with the war de~ partment which would limit “the total number of men now drafted or to he hereafter drafted” to four mi ill to grant uniim be called within , he said, w Action on the appropriation ad_been deferred by the commit- tee pending the return of the war sec- retary from Europe when it could cure from him information as to the army’s needs based upon the know!- edge he gained during his inspection incorporation in the army ppropriation bill. ACCIDENTALLY SHOT AND KILLED HIMSELF ON TROLLEY. IRREGULARITIES CHARGED IN AIRCRAFT PROGRAMME Milldale, a|Brought to the Floor of the Senate With Demands For Investigation H. Johnson Southington, Conn., May H. Johnson of Milldale, a mo the Connecticut ccnpany’s accidentally shot and killed on a troll car at Hubbard park late today. on the forward platform Washington, May ¢ intimations of irregularities in connec- which have been published and dis- cussed in capitol cloakrooms for some time were brought to the floor of the showing a revolver to the |senate today with demands for a new investigation with a view to criminal prosecution, During_the debate several members of the military committey declared in favor of reopening the inquiry recent- Yy the committee, Senator Hitcheock of Nebraska, act- ing chairman, said the committee-was without power to deal with criminal prosecutions and that the department of justice should handle that phase of Later committeemen con- ferred with Gutzon Borglum, the sculp- tor, who made a report to the presi- dent on the aircraft programme, and it was said that whether the commit- tee would act depended upon infor- mation to be submitted by Mr. Bor- glum within the next few days. Senator Hitchcock, alleged misleading of the public re- garding aircraft production, told the senate that the aircraft beard has been “playing a gigantic confidence game on the whole country ” the Liberty motor in fact is nothing but the Packard motor improved, and that the government is contemplating paying the Packard Company between ¢ $500,000 and $1,000.000 for its interests. motorman there when the weapon was ischarged, the bullei penetrating his heart and causing death within a few 1 examiner gave a verdict of accidental death. ber of passenzers were on the car, but platform from the body they were not immediately aware of He was about 33 and ved by a wife and four chi of the -car, the occurence. BELIEVE THAT GERMAN AGENTS PROMOTED STRIKE |Of Freight Handlers of Hartford and New York Transportation Co. = dwelling upon it believed pro-German propa- ganda was responsible for the strike of deckhands and freight handlers on the docks of the Hartford and New Transportation Hartford Chamber of Commerce today sent an urgent telegram to Director- General William G. McAdoo at Wash- ington asking that immediate steps be taken to bring about a resumption of river traffic on this line, been halted by a strike since April 2. Marcus H. Holcomb later sent messaze to Mr. asking him to give an order for re- sumption of traffic by and New York Transportation com- He declared $20,000 PRIZE TO SPEED UP SHIPBUILDING To Be Divided Among -Workmen in Yard Turning Out Greatest Excess the Hartford Philadelphia, Ma of $20,000 will be of the fabricating shipyard along the that produces the larg- est excess in tonnage over the present shipbuilding program of the federak This was announced to- get-together’} dinner given by Charles M. Schwab:| to the officers and others connected | with the shipbuilding plants under the.| emergency fleet corporation. Some days ago Mr. Schwab, who is, - director-general of ship construction, | said he would give $10,000 to the work- ers of the yard that showed the great- est excess of the program.- The presi- | dent of the yard quickly announced that he would ad $10,000 to the prize if his yard wom. .- Tonight the officers of the fabricating | plants at Hog Islang and Newark, N. made similar announcements ' for ¥ About one hundred shipbuilders at- tended the dinner, representatives be- - ing present from the Newark, Bristol - and Hog Jsland concerns and the fab- ricating yard_under Wilmington, N. C. Mr. Schwab, Charless general manager of the emer- 'y fleet corporation: Alva C. Dii key of the Midvale Steel company al the presidents of all the fab vards made specches in which pledged to put more specd thim into the work of making ships. LLOYD GEORGE IN SYMPATHY WITH 60,000 IRISH WORKERS Who Favor n to the workers Atlantic coas Immediate Self-Govern- ment For Ireland. sovernment. — Premier Lioya|3ight at a expressing sympa- {hy with the memorial of sixiv and Trish workers on the banks of the immediate self | River Tyne, government for Ireland, wrote: “The difficulties have not been ren- dered easier of settlement #y the chal- lenge to supremacy of Kingdom parliament has been regarded as properly belonging to it.by all advo- cates of home rule, which recentl issued hy the National party an hierarchy in concert with the leaders of the Sinn : PLANE WAS DOING A D. Thompson 2 construction at: Killed at Port Field Okla. Lawton. Okla, May m Dean Thom student obse Lieutenant F seriously today when Fatal Result of Poeiroom Fight. Haven, Conn., ¥ 3 years old, died at a hospitali from a blow on. th head raceived in a poolroom fight Ves: Daniel Bopne leged to have struck the. Easgle Pass,|arrest on a charge of ding the coroner's The enzine stopped when the men were doing a spiral and as the pilot attempted to coast to a landing. the machine went into a to the earth. Thompson was married three weeks His_mother lives i New Mexico,