Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 16, 1918, Page 1

NORWICH, “CONN., THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1918 WINOR SUCCES MADE BY FRE To the North of Kemmel They Have Expelled the Enemy From Shell Holes Along the Slopes May 15.—The coast- al mail steamesw Ethie went on the rocks near Cape Race today and it was feared she would prove a total loss, Her crew were saved. TESTIMONY IN Ti OF INDUSTRIAL WORKERS Tells of Teaching of Sedition In Coal Fields of Pennsylvania. Chicago, May' 15. — Pennsylvania’s fight to suppress the anti-war activi- ties of Industrial Workers of the World was described today by witnesses call- government's charges of seditious conspiracy against 112 leaders of the organization. substantiate IN AMIEN REGION FRENCH DENT GERMAN LINE Albert Throughout Wednesday the British Were Not Bothered By German Infantry, But the Heavy Guns of the Teutons Were Active All Along the Front—In the Toul Sector Three More Enemy Planes Were Brought Down By American Airmen — It Is Stated That the Kaiser and Emperor Charles Have Selected Monarchs For Lithuania, Courland, Esthonia and Poland. Counsel for the defense made futile efforts to bring, into the records ad- mission that the big mining companies owned barracks occupied by the Penn- | UNder the system of common opera- sylvania. state police, uniforms of its members and also sued instructions to county authorit- y ies relative to dispersing bigs labor| %% railroads in the country. the Thirty Minute Word Battle. cathe ncome Wilkesbarre, Pa.|033000, or $7,000000 less than in sheriff of Luzern County, ii a thirty | March, 1917. " TRis difference, much word battle with George ¥ Vanderveer, chief counsel for the de. fense, asserted “the past 3 to break up has passed ‘with- | Montdidier and Noyon also have been crmans renewing their offen- | Under an intensive fire from the Ger- told of breaking up 4% 1 the infantry operations by meeting at Hilldale, on Junc battle fronts, or, front in the Toul sector are contin- uing to perform bravery in the air against the enemy he declared preaching opposition to the w v mination he admitt- | P2sed, $63.000,000. 5 ed that he had no specific orders for Earnings of Railroads. was| Eastern railroads earned $16,870000 from | s compared with $23000.000 in’ March Under cross- brought to earth —all of them having heen where the Ger- ined a footing American airmen | | breaking up the f e he | operating under general orders Travery of the Americans in the aerial s decorated five of them with that the meeting w: the United Mine Wos meeting betw and Austrian rand headquarters { Eeen productive in expelling ell_holes ‘along 1ad been hold- alone were th the German A strengthening the dual monar reported unofti | After partinz Emperor Wil- “Yes it was I broke it up snapped Bus “Wasn't the of a blind pig?” Vander ‘What is a blind pi; things in my the witness understand, do you not, that I'm the nd you the witness and that { HUGHES. TO INVE&TEA;E AIRCRAFT PROI.'NJCTIONI He Has Consented fo Act With At-| Likew e wo ch have taken rman line and messages of feli meeting ‘held in front|gg2,000 and expressive of deen mutual friend- asserted the emperors not only reached an aereement on the so- n of the que: states but that they also selected | s for Iithuania; Courland, questioning the attorney he continued, you know of what ~ with the convietion of 1l of them con- nehes he cont the the seven defendants “We have no ified that in some districts| Washington, May 15.—President Wil- Dbecame so strong that|son has summoned Charles E. Hughes | ate police ice to protect United Mine and the other defendan hgiuz . from | Urged Opposition to Government. Buss an@ Herbert Smith, jgeant of the Pennsyivania: state police at Wyoming, Pa., I fied that Prashner, in an anti-war dd- dress at Rocky Clenn Pa. HEARING CH BXTENSIVE DEVELOSMENT QF WATERWAY3 Way Befdre Housc Watsr Power Committee. | TO PRODUCE THREE TO FOUR. TON SHIFS A DAY | The Aim of Charles M.'Schwab, Di- rector of Emergency Fleet Corp. summer, testi- last Labor itlon to the Govern- ~<1learings on iniscialon bidl projesing ex- drelopment o Warerways for rrimeyionbezan 190y house wer | S SRS DAkCASd criticized the present form of government and told | taree to four 10,000 ton_shi; > dream of Charles M. Sc neral of " the.emergen le told the members, of commitiee of the Leasuc Peace at o dinn in the shipbuilding | Prove would as the unconstitutionality ed up in the dis 2 Be a man. Joi W. W. and fight on the job for If and your class.” “‘We broke up the meeting at Old e ise we| At a conference of democratic sena- ne b i€ | tors during the day it was agreed that new that previous meetings of this| e administration forces would op- nature had been followed by dynamit- pose adoption of a resolution in a| . ‘special agent of | {OTM Which might be considered to the department of justice. under ques- tioning of Claude R. ment prosecutor, would show | increase in the output s on of $10:000 toward hudget of the i 5 depends upon =hips” \r. to prodice b period. ang that the 10,000,000 tons of the government when it takes ov: plants be fixed Ing that you w of the United States to | ase period sug- | abi govern- ; inflamatory { of the three-defendants and about Scranton, e lease or vwrchasing the o the =ervice one 10.000 Ry October or Nivember be producing two 10,000 working day of the month and by the middle of next year. when the ereat demand for ships will we ought to be at the rate of three to four under [ 10,000 ton ships per day. t <hip made undej sembling fabrica urged | we ought draft of the to make more specific references compensation SEVEN NEW ENGLAND tion with virtually no opposition, left COLLEGES HAVE UNITED | (oday to investigate ordnance produc- | To Establish at Williamstown, Mass., |10 at the Bethlehem and Midvale, | a Military Training Camp. the original government, hich license and under the be required to set aside a tion reserve to be héld until the yn, Mass., May 15 and colleges have united h here this summer a mili- tary training camp for the benefit dur- s vacation of mem- serve Officers Training ready established in the Col- as well as to other undergrad- ates and alumni. The institutions participating Clark, Dartmouth, Trinit ligms Colleges and We The camp will open June 20 and continue until August 16 the superintenden General William A. Pew, a retired offi- Massachusetts ev- ching in fifteen da; 1 of the net ?. DUVAL CONDEMNED TO DEATH BY COURTMARTIAL He Was Director Newspaper Bonnet Rouge. W. I. BULLARD, KILLINGLY, of Germanophile ELECTED TREASURER are M. Duval, who- was suppressed Germano- newspaper Ilonnet Rouge, 3 death today I' for treason. A - defendants were sen- imprisonment ranging from two to ten-year: Hartford—The through a week with, no new cases of Of the National ieyan university. Wethersfield stars was dedicated with impressive ceremonies in the Wether: feld Congregational board of zovernors today. llard of Killingly, Conn. church Sunday it is sendine its. b Big Decrease in STATE COMMERCE COMMISSION tion of about $109,000,000. This re- March Showed Improvement. The net income in March was $63,- less than in the preceding months, in- dicates that conditions are becoming iyities of [Petter for government operation and o s ~lagt [returns from later months may o T3Sl MR seditions forward toward making up the loss. b ¢ well under | . Operating revenues in March were before *HESSNH Jowing, up | $460.000,000 and operating expenses A other 68 Of wiolocan | $282,000,000. making a met revenue n AW, |little over $82,000,000. From this was and | deducted taxes of $15,000.000, and rents . s B far-|for equipment and joint facilities, L P B0 Car- e Wine: theaiint Income: thas/iter: oo which zovernment compensation is last year: western roads $30,000,000 as vou got vour information |compared with $31,000,000 in March to be held" from cers of America | $16,000,000. about $1,000,000 more than and they asked you te break up the|in March last year. meeting of their rivals” said Vander- 1. W. W. Meeting. an I W. W. meeting. and T'm proud of it last year, and Southern roads reported Falling Off in Net Income. For the three yvears period, the fall- ing off in net income was caused mainly by the record of eastern roads which reported a deficit of $15924,000 as compared with earninzs of $51 last vear. Western carriers earned $536,000,000 as compared with ? We have n0|$34,000000 last vear. and southern part of Penns; roads $31,000,000 as compared with ou | $43,000,000. if torney General Gregory. to act with Attorney General Grégory in the investigation of ¢rimial charges made in: connéction “with. aireraft pro- duction. Mr. Hughes' acceptance of White House and he will soon come to Washington to go over plans with the attorney general. In designating Former Justice Hugh- es, the president said he felt the de- | partment of justice's investigation was A o luted. vant | Of the ' very greatest importance that if any persons were found to be guilty thieys might be prosecuted vigorously if the charges were found to be groundless. a |1y by the' president, as a result of sensation charges based largely upon statements by Gutson Borglum, the the direction of Assistant Attorney General William L. IFrierson. jauthoritize an inquiry into general conduct of the war and also to op i pose authorization of experts and as stants for the committee. The vote in the senate may be post- of a military sub-cemmittee which, anticipating adoption of the resolu- Penn. plants. GIRL SLASHED BY Miss Mary Amorilso, 18, of Torring- ton, Severely Hurt, Torrmgton, Conn, May 16.—Miss ously about the neck and,face here to- 125, a rejected suitor, who afterwards fled, and is now being sought in the surréunding ‘country by the authori- ties. Appolonio met her near her of Major | home -in- company - witir=hef mother, |chased her across the street and, National ! drawing a razor, slashed her twice on |the face and inflicted a deep cut in | her neck.- She was said temight to be in a serious condition. The young woman was to have been married in a few days. NEW TREATY OF ALLIANCE | BETWEEN CENTRAL POWERS Calls for Stricter Military Obligations Upon Each Nation. Washington, May 15.—According to a despatch from Switzerland, the Ber- lin newspapers indicate that the basis o fa new treaty of alliance agreed upon at the recent conference between the German and Austrian emperors con- templates fixing 25 years as the period for the duration of the alliance, the imposition of stricter military obliga- tions upon each nation and the regu- lation of economic relations so as to realize the Mittel Europa plan. The same message says advices from Vienna are to the effect that no formal agreement was sigmed because the moment did not seem opportune, hut that nevertheless the direction and basis of the new treaty were definitely fixed and that it only remains to frame the different clauses. Pleaded Guilty to Murder. Bridgeport. Conn.. May 15. — John | Chingos of Danbury pleaded suilty to murder in the second desree in the criminal superior court here today and was sentenced to. life imprison: ment by Judge James H. Webb. #os was charged with attacking Ab=d Khougen, a fellow workman, shing him with a knife. friendly visit to the Norwalk tribe. Mail Service by Air Successful CROWD WATCHED LANDING IN PHILADELPHIA Railroad Earnings SHOWN IN REPORT OF INTER- FOR THREE MONTHS|ONE MACHINE FAILED Report Covering All But Five of the 196 Roads of the Country Discloses i Three witnesses, a‘ll oficers of the| Loss by Government System of law, told tales of lawlessness by mem- bers of the organization and named| $109,000,000. specifically _three defendants, John Baldaza and Joseph Graber, as teachers of sedition in the anthracite regions of central Pennsyl- Interval of Only Six Minutes in Before Flight Resumed For Washington — Time New York to Washington 3 h. 20 m. Philadelphia ‘Washington, May 15.—Railroads in the first three months this year earn- ed_only $71,705,000, as compared with $179,481,000 in the same period last vear, making a loss to the government ‘Washington, May service in the United States became hed fact today. army aviators, airplanes carried consigments of mail from New York and Philadelphia to Washington and from Philadelphia to New York. arted from the na- | Philadelphia in the | presence of President Wilson and other high governthent officials was forced to land at Waldorf, Md., 30 miles away, because of a broken propeller. Daily Trips Planned. With the exception of Sunday, daily ips from each end of the New York- Washington air mail route are planned postoffice department. machine will fy only half the lap of the journey, the mail being transferred to_different planes The mail on the machine which was forced down from Washington on the plane making tomorrow's regular trip. Time, 3 Hours and 20 Minutes. Three hours and twenty minutes af- ter a machine piloted by Lieut. Torrey . Webb left the Belmont flying field near New York city today the mail it ‘Washington, s Boy_Scouts had completed delivery of the 735 par- cels consigned here. Lieutenant Webb's machine reached Philadelphia at 1 o'clock and its mail was transferred to a plane driven by Edgerton in six min- plane appeared over the and landed a an_accompli port today by the Interstate Commerce A plane which Commission covers all but five of the tional capital fo Philadelphia. be sent out i few minutes ts of Service. is accepted at York and Philadelphia for points west ferred to trains Airplane mail Washington mail is a in Pennsylvania, York and New CROWD WATCHED LANDING MADE IN PI‘"LADELPHIA.‘l cepted for points seum of Natural His nounced that he had resigned. Interval of 'Six Minutes Between Ar- rival and Departure. iladelphia. Ma Airplane mail ashington, Philadel- phia and New was successfull esiablished today. so. fa part in the venture crowd of nearly the- task was annownced-—todny 4t the'| s concerned: thousand persons fornia, an army land ‘at Bus i mail from later Lieut. J. C. Edgerton _departed capital with the New York mail and a big batch from the Philadelphia post- and promptly apd that the reputations | audience that if all would become |Of those attached might be protected members of the 1. not have to do mil : ry i P r organization had taken court action to | ; ebAration for the department of of the |jus ) = One Airplane Broke Down. The airplane carr ing a large quan- tity of mail from W hington failed to vdown in Mary e it landed, and when th g place here, ordered to proceed New York with the Phi ulptor, already are proceeding under delphia mail. Lost No Time Shifting Mail. the airplane from New < for Philadelph: quickly loaded on = started off for te central postoffie here is 1 ine and he enough to say “Thank you” to a dele- who_ presented him Lieutenant W atch to com- poned until the return next Saturday | gation of citizens was also given a wrist memorat ethe oc PHILADELPHIA TO NEW IN 70 MINUTES Time Made By Army Aviator With First Aircraft Mail. A REJECTED SUITOR.| flight from Philadelphia and ten minutes Mary Amorilso, 18, was slashed seri- | Lieutenant Howard ! day on the street by Genaro Appolunio,‘Be]mom Park at 3:35 o'clock this af- pouches of United States aerial mail. Lieutenant Culver brought two sacks by a special mail clerks already make the fii to Phijadelphia tenant Culver from Belmont Park CAMP DIX HAS LARGE ARMY WAR CAMP GARDEN Between 300 and 400 Acres Are to Be Placed Under Cultivation. May 15—One of mp war gardens in startad at Camp Dix | trucks from Phi; seed, fertilizers, plows, Between 30! placed under acres will be secretary of the Connecticut Agricultural Society for about 1 announced that he had resigned. The planted in potatoes Seeds for most of these crops were donat: tional War Garden Commission. Work at once under ssign men to the garden- incapacitated for duty oversea Indicted For First Deg the grand jury gree murder of Stella Soldi, six ew Haven April 16, Fair German Proposi To swap_sick Ru: German . prisoners Men. trailed| orwalls Wednesday night to'pay a many has power :to enforce it—New York @zea Cotton consumed in. April amounted to 544,549 bales. Parcel post service has been inaugu~ rated between Bgypt and Palestine. Sweden’s most powerful radio sta- tion at Karlsborg has been-put into service. Col. John C. Patterson, 84, Civil War veteran who fought in 32 battles, died at Ocean Grove. John Grass, chief of all the Sioux Indians, died at Fort Yates, N. D. He was 79 years old. A Swedish paper reports that the former Czar is at Moscow and will be tried before a special court. Gold coin amounting to $346,000 has been withdrawn from the sub-treasury for shipment to South America. President Wilson's hand, burned in the British tank aiding the Liberty Loan, in Washington, is healed. Secretary McAdoo announced loans of $200,000 000 to Britain, $100,000,000 to France and $100,000,000 to Italy. The Prussian lower house voted the bill to restore the provision of an equal suffrage in the franchise reform bill. New England women obtained sub- scriptions to the third Liberty loan to- talling $44,401,050 from 123,064 pe. sons. Bank Commissioner Thorndyke, of Massachusetts, has issued a call for condition of trust companies as of May 10. More than fifty American born youths are still serving under the col- ors of the French army in the avia- tion corps. Mrs. Lena Miller, of Brooklyn, was sentenced to sixty days in Jjail for selling liquor to members of an avia- tion squad. Lord Courtney, of Penwith, political economist and Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons from 1886 to 1892, died in London. Deputy Leboucq visited the front!| and handed the French gunners, who destroyed the German long range gun, a purse of 5600 francs. 8t. Mary’s Hospital, Hobo<en, N. J., was taken over by the Government | and the nuns in charge were ordered to vacate as soon a possible. Burlingham Schurr, for the past two years curator of the New Britain Mu- ory and Art, an- A state of siege has been declared ichow, a suburb of Prague, Be- hemia. One hundred and fifty wo- men were arrested for rioting. Three brothers in the Edglson fam- ily of Berlin, Conn., have &en sum- moned to submit themselves for exam- ination for the draft on May 18. Walter F. Thorpe, president of the | Thorpe Garage, Inc., Syracuse, and pro- moter of other corporations, pleaded suilty to fraudulent use of the mails. Steps are being taken to prevent! British draft dodgers from going to Ireland, where conscription is not to be put into operation for some time. John Rockenstyre, of Albany, de- clered in the Federal Court at Syra- cuse that he falsified his draft ques- tionaire to protect his common-law wife. Accused of tearing and trampling | upon the American flag, ax Erhlich, Jr., of Brooklyn, w rrested and Iheld on a eharge of juvenile delinqu- enc, All platinum, iridium and palladium in the United States, held by impor- manufacturing jewelers and large dealers were seized by the Govern- ment. p The War Department announced that the United States Steel Corporation ordnance plant would be located at eville Island in the Ohio River near Pittsburgh. Food Administrator Hoover asked house appropriations committee for 500,000, to provide offices and cleri- cal hire for the 40,00 county food ad-|m ministrators. Isaac Goldberg of Worcester. was placed on trial in the federal court at Boston charged with conspiracy in connection with the theft of cloth from freight cars. The House Public Lands Committee, as the result of a conference between President Wilson and Chairman Ferri: the oil leasing bill. It is probable that an advance in | Pullman’ rates, from 3 cents to 3% cents a mile, wil be made by Director- The War Labor Board named Tho- mas J. Savage, representing labor, and Herbert H. Rice, representing capital, to investigate the demands of the Bethlehem Steel workers. William Jenkins, Jr., of Brooklyn, private in the Highland Mounted Bri gade Field Ambulance service, is a prisoner 'in Germany, his relatives were informed by the Red Cross. Archer A. London, of Buffale, vice- | president of the American Radiator Co.. has been appointed by Chairman | {John D. Ryan to have charge by the! loaded with | cultivators and production” division of the Aircraft Board. Leland G. Watkin of New Britain, directors will meet Saturday night to take action. A resolution providing equal _suf- trage for women in the church organ- izations was adopted overwhelming- ly at Hot Springs, Ar the 63d session of the southern Bap- vyesterday by tist convention. A model poultry farm will be in full operation on historic Boston Common | before the end of the week as a part of the food production and conservation campaign in charge of the Women's Municipal League and kindred organ- jzations in co-operation with State au- thorities. Burnside—Mrs. G. A. Crusberg of Burnside announces the engagement of her daughter, Miss Esther Pauline Crusberg, to Henry Hull Hawthorne of Chicago. ‘12 PAGES—88 COLS. Gondensed Tolograms | MORE PAY FOR A In Amendment to Postoffice Appropriation Bill Pa_ssaf By the Senate ; For Rural Mail Carriers and Employes Receiving Less Than $800 a Year, 20 Per Cent Increase Is Provided—Pay of Substitute Clerks and Carriers Would Be Fixed at Forty Cents an Hour—Also an Increase For Fourth Class Post- masters—Senator Bankhead Estimates About $40,000,- 000 Will Cover the Increases. Washington, May 15. — An amend- ment to the postoffice appropriation bill providing for an increase of $200 a year in the salaries of clerks, letter carriers and certain other postal em- ployes, and increases of 20 per cent. for rural mail carriers and for em- ployes receiving less than $300 a year, as adopted late today by the senate, receiving between $500 and $1500 annually would be given in- creases of 15 per cent. and the pay of and carriers would the first $100 or less, or in the event cancellations do not exceed $50 a 20 per cent. salary increase. Senator Bankhead estimates about $40,000,000 will cover the increases. The senate debate was made the oc- casion for a sharp aftack on Postmas- ter General Burleson by Senator Cal- der, Tepublican, of New York, declared the pogtmaster general's at- titude had been”one hostility to an increase in the wages of postal employes because “of his am- bition to show a surplus in the post- office department.” The postoffice department has advo- cated a flat increase of $120 a vear in postal salaries. of unremitting substitute clerks be fixed at forty cents an hour. fourth class postmasters, the amend- ment provides that they shall receive 100 per cent. of stamp cancellations on REVOLUTION OF GERMANS IN THE UNITED STATES Plans Made in 1914—Should U. S. Be- Thrown Into the War. BORGLUM SENDS EVIDENCE TO SENATOR BRANDEGEE He Desires Placed in the Senate Zec- ard of Answers to Charges Made. New York, May 15.—Plans had been 1914 for a revolution of Ger- mans in the United States in case this country should be European war, according to testimony today at the state attorney general's Washington, May 15.—Gutson Borg- Brandegee of Connecticut tonight a part of the evi- dence he desires placed in the senate record in answer to the charge that he sought to form a private airplaine corporation to take government con- tracts while he was investigating air- craft produetion at the invitation of It was in the form of a long letter reiterating and ampli- fying. his denial of the charge, accom- panied by affidavits from Hugo C. Gib- sorx an employe of the British war mis- sion at New York, and Benjamin Haf lum sent to orodny, vice president of the jan-American Asiatic Corporation, ‘mpathized with before the em- peror was overthrown, attributed the revelation of plans for an uprising in the United States to Baron Von Gers- friend of the prince and a former German agent ‘n interned after the United States entered the war. At a dinner at a New York hotel in the fall of 1914, Norodny said, he met. Von Gersdorff, Captain former Krupp agent in States, and apother German whom ne knew.as.-Lagen or Muck and who was the manager of Mme. Gadski, wife or Captain Tauscher. Norodny quoted Von Gersdorff as saying: hutzerverein (German rifle clubs) have arms in this country and in case of trouble with States they will rifles have come from Germany and in case of war the Germans here will assist the I W. W. and the gocial- President Wilson. In his letter the sculptor said he had just been informed that Gibson had been_suspended from connection with the British mission at the request of the war department, aithough he was a highly valuable and necessary ex- He also declared every effort was being made to prevent him from geiting affidavits; that several of his witnesses had been summari ped away from Washington” and that others were pleading with him not to involve them for business reasons. Discussing in detail the telegrams put into the senate record with the statement of Kenyou W. Mix, of the Dodge Manufacturing Company, cusing him of negoffating with Mix for the organization of the air plane com- pany—Borglum said the first message was sent five or six davs before he had any intimation that the president de- sired his services. asserted, had no connection with the first and were written for the purpose of learning more from Mix about his troubles with the aircraft board. He said when he came Mix “began his tale of woe” and noth- ing else was talked about. At his interview, Borglum said, Mix gave a record of his experience with the aircraft board, and asserted that he had in the past “pulled off two crooked deals” for Colonel Deeds, the signal corps. the United The efforts of Deputy Attorney Ger- eral Becker to learn the names of the owners of 1,000,000 Mauser rifles and 1,000.006 cartridges brokers had testified were offered for sale in New York by Gustay Lussing, a German-born American citizen, prov- ed futile when Luss the_testimony witnesses that he had represented him- self as the agent of the owners. Mr. Becker announced that Lussing would be recalled to the stand at the resumption of the investigation Muy The others, g took the stand. Washington ZONE SYSTEM FOR PURCHASING ARMY SUPPLIES said that he effort tomorrow to have the letters and the affidavits in- serted in the record. | INTENSIVE TRAINING FOR THE HARVARC REGIMENT to Spend Three Weeks Near the Cantonment at Ayer. would make Has Been Announced by Acting Quar- termaster Goethals. Decentraliza- v 'supply purchasing and Washington, May 15. rteen zones with depol h was announced today by Acting Quartermaster Goethals. Bach of the thirteen general supply posts will be charged with the duty of keeping in touch with the manufac- turing facilities of its zone, and so far Cambrid%e, Mass., May weeks of intensive military training at summer camp near the National Ar- my cantonment at Ayer, according to an announcemeént today. ment will be permitted to make daily use of the trenches, grenade fleldsand other facilities, while British, French and- American army officers now at the camp will give lectures and in- struction to the collegians. tion, the military department at the began negotiations with the Unmited States military aca- demy at West Point for the service of as summer instruc- equipment for the training camps will | be bought within the zone in which a camp is located. : The headquarters of zones and terri- eliminated the commanding section of | tory assigned to them inc Boston—Maine, Massachusetts, and Rhode York—New York necticut, and that part of New Jer- General McAdoo; also a higher rate|sey north of Trenton, including that for sleeping berths. university today five army cade tors for the regiment. Philadelphia—New Jersey, south of Trenton, Penn g Baltimore—Maryland, Virginia and HARTFORD STEAMERS ARE TO RESUME OPERATIONS TODAY. Have Been Tied Up for Six Weeks by Strike of Freight Handlers, AIRCRAFT DROPPED BOMBS ON OUTSKIRTS OF PARIS |- Able to Penetrate the De- n Hone W e e City. Hartford and Netw York Transporta- tion company's steamers will resume operations tomorrow after being tied up for six weeks by a strike of dock bandlers and_freight quit for an increase in wages. The government, it was announced here had allowed an pay. The steamer Middletown, which has been tied up here," went to New York today and will begin her regu- Paris, May 15.—Enemy aircraft drop- ped bombs on the outskirts of Paris None of the -enemy was able to penetrate the defences of The following official statement was increase in early today: ; “The lookout posts in Paris having reported enemy aircraft making for Paris, an aerial alarm was sounded at 10:12 o'clock p. m. Anti-aircraft bat- teries opened fire and airplanes attach- ed to the defense organization took No eneray machine reached Paris but several bombs were drop- ped on the more distant suburbs. All clear was given at 11:55 B Hartford, which is now being used on a Long Island sound line, will be back on the Connecticut river line within a CAMP DEVENS OFFICERS CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY Of the Entrance of Most of Them In- to the Army. GY A TRAIN AND DECKPITATED Pirmo Markesino of Hartford Was Re- turning to Work From Lunch, Ayer, Mass., May 15. army officers at Camp Devens today observed the first anniversary of the entrance of most of them into the ar- by by a reception to Colone 1 M. B. Stewart, chief of staff. Colonel Stew- art commanded the New England res- iment at the first Plattsburg camp where the majority of the officers During the reception 350 college men who are candidates for commissions in. the. training school which opened here, today, marched into camp. -One thousand Markesino, 28 years old, an employe at the Hartford Faience company on Francis avenue, was struck and kill- ed by a train at the Hamilton street crossing as he was returning to work from lunch this afternoon. The body was identified It was said Mar- decapitated. by a fellow worker. kesino_stepped out. of the way of a south-bound express directly in front of the north-bound train. ted. twenty institutions in New England and other states in the east,