Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 29, 1918, Page 1

Bulletin Service Flag VOL. ‘LIX—NO. 128 BRTISH AN R BUT THER LIE Bullety NORWICH, CONN., WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1918 TEN PAGES—76 COLS. The Great German Military Machine is in Full Motion Along Twenty Mile Front in the Ainse River Sector FOCH’S RESERVES RUSHING TO AID THEIR ALLIES The German Offensive Is Being Carried Out With'the Great- est Rapidity, as Those High in Command Are Aware Allied Reserves Are Huleniné to Oppose Them—The British and French Are Greatly- Outnumbered and Berlin Claims the Capture of 15,000 Allied Troops — The Deepest Gain Made By the Germans, About Eight Miles, is in the Region Due East of Vailly, But the Allies Have Made the Enemy Pay Dearly in Casualties For Every Foot of Ground Gained—In Northern France the Ger- mans Are Being Sorely Harassed By the Americans and British and French, and the Americans Have Captured Their First Village—The Italians Are Keeping Up Their Offensive Against the Austrians on.Various Sectors. The great German military machine | captured their first village—Cantzny, is in full motion along the mile front in the Aisne River sector between Vailly and Berry au Bac, and, | them of Montdidier. of e greatls outnumbered, the British and | The Germans suffered severe losses In Tvench evervwhere are giving ground,|Men Killed and wounded and in addi According to the German official | tion left 3‘,‘:“;‘1‘!" Jam communication numerous towns and prisoner, 200 men made officers. centy | Which lies a short distance northwest| iy tho ApElty They also took sev- eral other objectives and held all in the face of counter-atiacl illages in the fighting zone have been The American casualties were relative- | ¥ . Iy small. taken Ly the enemy and 15,000 allied} ™,ry. Gorman official report announc- es the taking of American prisonars troops already have been made pris- oner. i nts the Sermans wore| THe Peport from American headquart- | endeaworing to press back the defsnd- ers upon the Vesle River, which runs points had reached positions dominat- ing the Vesle valley. of the British and French e e o e e en ee | Dickehusch. Lake, where: Monday the | g n high tom-|Germans in an attack Starting. immediately the gain was made the Bfitish nd French began wun!cr.uhuck- Anvoan endeavor- to-wipe out the nting Mallaniy | salient ana Tue: pletely manoeuvre, rapidicy, mand evidently is well aware of the fact that Gemeral Foch's reserves have | §r0und. heen reported to be coming up rapidiy to reinforce the hard pressed ish and French, who are against the terrible wave upop wave of the enemy Dy dearly in casualties for every foot of ground they obtain. 300,000 Shock Troops. Notwithstanding the rapidity of the drive and the large number of . the e emy pressing it—some unofficial esti- mates place the number of troops alone at twenty-five divisions, ers, however, shows only t#o Ameri cans missing, one in Picardy and the ’ 3 runs | otier in the Luneville sector. parallel with the Aisne, and at several | "ySk B (NS CHEELLe SCOOD “34 ce | emy received hard usage at the hands | The offensive 4] taren after captured /, succeeded in com which had been carricd | out with extremely heavy iosses. s Keeping Up Offensive. In the Jtalian theatre the Italirns are keeping up their offensive against! the Austrians on various sectors ck | the mountain region and along the| the trial. lower reaches of the Piave River. in At or about 300,000 picked men—the allied Capo Sile, near the Adriatic coast, the 5 Italians penetrated the enemy. féont nowhere has be;‘;s e o to @ dspth of more than 75 5 flicted numerous casualties, took pris- all the time 1%~ ] oners and captured four trench mer- ten machine guns, under the onslaugh in perfect Haison, ing battle. With such precision as the retirement been conducted both | (3% iines several hun- thhe British and the French troops have | ired rifies and quantities of ammu- bten able to carry back with them ali| UGBS L deavered raid over Paric. of their machines succeeded reachinz the suburbs of the and dropping several | but the ‘ir. defences ept them “frora the deepest salient they have driven | MYACINE b p N rarlvC1 | range German gub; continue to hn is In the region due east of Vailly- |, ojectiles imto Paris. “Frightfulness,” has heir own part on the southern line in | OUt against American hospitals iehir own part on the souther: line in | ind the lines of their supplies and guns or to des- troy those they At present it is impossible geograph! cally to depict the extent of the Ger- | ¢2bital man gains but it would seem evid about eight miles. Although the Germans, for the mo- were not able to han- | i carry out an air en de. in ne1 bombs, Toug | carried airmen. Several bombs were dropped near the France, on the sectors around Mont- dinjer and southwest of Ypres they |hospital but no damage was done. Tt are being solely_harassed by the|Was officially Americans and British and French. Americans Capture Their First Village Tuesday’s fighting in the vicinity of concerned. as against 36,677 Here in an attack they | vious week. announced that similar raids carried out 8gainst British hos- pitals resulted in 300 casualties among | sick and wounded jnmates, The British casualties reported Montdidier will mark an epoch in the | the regular weekly bulletin are give war, so far as the American troops are |as 33,694, in n the ore- MAJOR GENERAL WOOD CALLS AT WHITE HOUSE Disappointed That He is Not to Pro- | Dr. ceed to France for Service gt Front. ‘Washington, May 28.—Major Gen- eral Leonard Wood, former chief of staff, whose detachment from com- mand of the national army division he trained for service in France, became known yesterday, spent half an hour at the White House today in confer- ence with President Wilson. The call was_arranged at the officer’s request by_Secretary Baker. No statement on the subject was made either at the Wehite House or by Genmeral Wood, but the friends say he wanted to teli the pres- ident in person that as senior officer of the regular army he had only one desire—to serve to the best of his adllity in whatever post he was as- signed to fill There is no concealment of the fact tiat the general ig greatly disappoint- ed over his failure to proceed to France for service with his division at the front. He aiso is disturbed over the idea of settling down to the routine duties of a departmental com- mander, and Secretary Baker today confirmed the report that he had asked for a more active assignment than the command of the western department OPENING ARGUMENT IN DEFENSE OF GRACE LUSK Roberts Assailed Who Might Have Prevented the Shooting of His Wife.” him. “the Man ‘Waukesha, Wis, May 28—Assailing Dr. David R. Roberts who might have prevented the shoot- ing of his wife, but did not,” Henry Lockney late today made the opening argument for the defense in the trial of Grace Lusk for the slaying of Mrs. Mary Newman Roberts. the time of the murder was the key- note of Mr. Lockney’s argument. 2 “On the eve of the tragedy, general's | [ ockney declared, he man Insanity at Mr. testimony shows Miss Lusk told Dr. Roberts if he cared more for his wife than he did for her that would would end it 2ll but that he assured her that he did care more for her and promised to_tell his wife that night. ‘What he really told his wife was that Miss Luek was infatuated with If he had taken the right course even at that late date, the shooting might have been prevenied as Mrs. Roberts probably would sought the interview with the defend- ant which ended in her death.” Five possible verdicts were cated in the argument of the defense: have indi- tostwhich he has ordered. 'THis Guilty of murder in the first degree request with a life sentence; has been referred to Generallmurger with:a sentence of from four- Illeh, chief of staff. and it is said to sezond degree teen to twenty-five years in the peni- O e o paer s cmood vill| tentiary: manslaughter in_the- third n- to train another division. FIFTEEN GERMAN AIRPLANES Five Tons of Bombs Dropped on Mann- heim-Metz Railway Station. London, May 28—Fifteen German |2 Year Ag lanes have been destroyed by tish aviators and three others driv- degree with a ison term of from two to four years: not guilty; not guilty because insane with commitment to the state asylum. DESTROYED BY BRITISH.| ROOSEVELT CRITICIZES GOVERNMENT CENSORSHIP Declares War Would Have Been Over We Had Been Prepared. Madison, Wis, May 28.—Declaring aceord the war would have been over a year mmm:;‘o:’“:f ago “if this nation had started to pre- tion iseued tonight. The communica- tion says also that five tons of bombs been dropped on the Mannheim- | Ment censorship, pare three years ago . as have,” and criticism for the govern- ‘were the features of the speech of Colonel Theodore unmnrned Roosevelt here | tonight. should Cabled Paragraghs President Irigoyen to Receive British Buenos, Aires, May 28.—President Irigoyen has postponed a trip to out. Iving provinces in order to receive British mission to South-America, expected Tiere the end personally ~the of the week. Bonar Law London, May nt on lreland. fairs in Ireland. FAKE PAINTINGS OF Are Being Turned Out at the Rate o a Dozen a Month in Brooklyn. New York, May for the district attorns hunting today for an landscape artist, Ralph Blakelock, 2 en a month. One of the canvasse: copy of a picture that sold for . and entitled “The Brook by Moon light,” bore Blakelock’s _name was called “Mysterious Moonlight. has been under the guardianship of Mrs. Van Renssalaer Adams, w shown the painting at the district « office declared it a forge: ver painted that." he said. Many complaints Iy the authorities that spuriolis Biake: locks were being sold to art noisseurs. A John Doe investiga ias been started before the grénd it 2 prosecutor to ascertain tpos ngs, wore than 40 of which are re and Boston. i One Corcoran Art Gallery in W on is said to have sent one canvasses to a New York connoist e had nearly 30 similar inquiri Caller of Chicago for . the sam: plirnose, is in the possess’on of the als: torney. It is stencilled on th; ith the name of a Baltimore ore. THOMAS J. MOONEY HAS BEEN Days from Date. nection with the sentenced today to be hanged on an in this date, at San Quentin prison. Sentence was passed by Judge statement merely s plain " duty on him. little emotion. Today’s developments take from th necessary to | Organiaztions as far a sia_have behalf. fate mow rests with Gov. ernor Stephens, who has a_pardon pe | tition ‘hefore him ‘and a request tant a: Ru contributed to Mooney’s conviction. WHEAT CONSERVATION to the Contrary. Hartford, Con reports purporting to be based trator Hoover received tonight at th administrator for Connecticut. Th telegram says: further wheat conservation not neces sary. No statement of the characte has ever been issued. The actual po sition is that our supplies until har. vest allow home consumption of ap: proximately one-third normal if w are to maintain allies supplies. Act. ual position is that in farmers’ ‘nand: months or with an early harvest per: haps two weeks shorter. for our allies. “HOOVER.” NATIONAL WAR LABOR ed in Pending Industrial Disputes. War Labor Board concluded a = tw day session here tonight and adjourn: ed 1w meet in New. York when it is expected seve trial disputes. Through the efforts of the board 3, of working conditions. in session here. OBITUARY. Sumner B. Leland. Danbury, Conn., May 28 hospitak When a shiftless man gets sick his After landing & man a regular girl | neighbors seidom lose much time wor- denies’ that she - m‘ea for him. » rying about it. 28.—Andrew Bonar Law , government spokesman in the ) bouse of commons, today .announced |press company for the United States that he had no inténtion at present of | Was created today by agreement be- making any statement regarding af- |tween Director General McAdoo and —Investigators office were rt” factory in Brooklyn where, it was charged, fike paintings Dby the famous American e fgard to company. being turned out at fhe rate of a, In:i- | e The aged artist, who since 1916 wner. he was released from a sanitariuin had been received suilty of turning out the bogus paint- | ported to have been sold in New York for identification and this expert said Another, sent fere by the Thutber Art RE-SENTENCED TO BE HANGED | of the companies will contlnue its fi. San Francisco, May 28, —Thomas J. Mooney, convicted of murder in con- preparedness day i bomb_explosion here in 1916, was re- | earni determinateh date not less than sixty |e 3 days nor more than ninety days from |its -capital stock. Out of the:next two | Franklin A. Griffin, who presided at|and the government one per cent. Out Judge Griffin did not amplify the | pany. courts a case which has consumed much time for the last two vears and hag attracted international attention. REMAINS NECESSARY Hoover Denies Statement Circulating , May 28.—Denial of P ot pany of statements from food administration officials that further wheat co - telegram from Federal ood Adminis. |Ldberty. bond third issue from the Several Decisions Are'to Be Announc- A Merger of All Express Companies HAS O BEEN PERGED ..o $30,000,000, JULY 1 PRIVATE CORPORATION t |One Union Express Company is to Be | Created By Agresment Between the Companies and “Director General McAdoo. Washington, May 28.—One union ex- the Adams, American, Wells-Targo 2nd Southern companies, whose trans- portation business will be merged un- ARTIST RALPH BLAKELOCK | C€r @ mew private corporation with a capital of more than $30,000,000, to be known probably as the Federal Ex- ¥ | press company. George C. Taylor, now president of the American, will be head of the new concern. Effective July 1. After July 1, when the combination hecomes effective, shippers will direct shipments “by express” without re- The company will e the express carrying agency of the railroads, operating privately, but un- cer contract to turn, over 50 1-4 per cent, of their gross revenues—more nd|than $200,000,000 last year—to the roads for transportation privileges. Employes to Be Retained. More than 100,000 employes of the four companies are to be retained un- der the new. corporation, and their wages will be raised in many cases, according to Mr. Taylor. Through economies by the commen use of wagons_trucks, distributing stations, city offices, warehouses, rail- road cars and other equipment, and | the simplification cf accounting. the ‘® i mersed companies hope to save many millions of dollars and to render bet- - | ter _service. Though the merger is arranged un- der war exigencies, it is planned as permanent. The new corn will have stock of $30,000,000, representing the actual value of properties pooled, and in ad- dition enough stock to. provide ample working cash. el P Stock to Be Distributed. 21 The stock’ will be distributed among ®|the four companies according to the comparative value of the properties they contribute to be determined after further valuation proceedings. Each | nancidl business, such as dealing ‘n Not Less Than 60 Nor More Than 90| money. orders. foreign exchanges and limited identities” of ‘the will be retalned. s Division of Earnings. companies Out of the 49 5-4 per cent. of gross retained, the Union corpora- pay operating expenses, tax- es and dividends of five per cent. on .|L’on per cent. avaiiable for distribution, ¢ | teh company will receive one per cent. of the ext three per cent., the com- will get one per cent. and ‘the sentence, | government two. per cent. One-fourth nz that the law imposed g | of amounts above this will be dis- Mooney . showed | tributed to the company and three- fourths to the government. Mutual Benefits. “The express company is given a continuing inducement to accomplish the greatest efficiency and economy,” o ught to intervene in Moo- | said the railroad administration an- nouncement, “and yet the government - | will enjoy an increasingly great pro- - | portion of the benefits of all such effi- from | ciency and economy.” President Wiilson for executive cle- mency, haséd on findings of a federal commission that: questioned testimony. The express company will be permit- ted to use station agents and other railroad emploves jointly with the roads, but ther compensation will be paid entirely by the railroads which ‘will be reimbursed by the company. MYSTERY SURROUNDS THEFT OF $69,500 OF LIBERTY BONDS From the Land Trust and Title Com- ladelph Philadelphia, May 28.—Mystery sur- o|Land Trust and Title Company. Ac- office of Robert Scoville, federal food [ COrding to the police Raymond Scotty e |2 clerk, who was assorting the bonds, laid them on the counter and turned “Reports nave been circulated that |t0 give instructions to other clerks and the food administration officials state [ Moment later when he started to - | pick them up they had disappeared. In »|the package were sixty-eight $1.000, - |two $500 and five $100 bonds. Whether _|they were taken by some one outside - |of the bank or by an employe Scott e |could not say. No arrests have been made. s and storage we had at the beginning VENTION OF of May 75,000,000 bushels of wheat 3|\ 1= CONVENTION carry us for approximately three REPUBLICANS JUNE 25.-26, Gur normal | City Conventions Must Be Held Not consumption for .three months would be 120,000,000 bushels, not allowing Later Than June 15. Hsrttord Conn,, - May 28.—June 25 and 26 were selected as the dates for the republican state convention at the meeting today of the republican state BOARD HAS ADJOURNED central committee. The convention for the selection of the ‘state ticket will be held .in Foot Guard hall, this city. The committee fixed June 12 as the date for the primaries and stipulated that city conventions must be held not Chicago, May 28. — The National|later than June 15. The same rule will 0| govern the holding of senatorial con-! - | ventions. Saturday, | . The committee empowered its chair- al decisjons | man to make the selection of the chair- will be announced in pending indus- | man of the state convention. 000 machine shop workers engaged on | RED CROSS WORKERS ARE government - contracts at Waynesboro, Pa., returned to work after receiving an increase in pay and a modification | It is Believed Final Report Will Show The board | New York City $10 Abo uot: settled the dispute by telegraph while| - Y $I0M0 Y AtiovmGetd TABULATING N. Y. RETURNS New York, Mey 28. — Red Cross workers who put in a busy day. at headquarters tabulating late contri- butions to the second war fund said tomight that when the final figures are Sumnes| 2nounced tomorfor i probably will B. Leland, a hotel clerk in this city | be_found that New York city gave for several years and formerly in the | $33,000,000, of $10,000,000 more than its clothing business here and lxln Bristol, | 4uota. was stricken by apoplexy while at the desk in the Groveland hotel this af.|day was one of 130,000 from Mr. and ternoon and died before reaching the | Mrs. Charles M. Among the late gifts announced {o- Schwab, ~Of this He was 55 years old and |amount $75,000° will be credited to this city and’the, balarice to Bethlehem, Pa. No man is‘brave enoughto allow a t Iwrn Paris Says German Drive is Slackening ENEMY 1S ONLY MAKING HEAD- WAY IN THE CENTER SITUATION REASSURING The Allies Are Beginning to React With Effect on the Wings—Germans Unable to Widen the Salient Toward Soi ons. 3 28.—The situation tonight is more reussuring. The latest ad- vices from the front show that while the violence of the cnemy's effort as yet is unabated he is only making there the German momentum is giving signs of slackening. The allies are beginning to react with effect on the wings. The left front is holding well and blocking the German attempt to widen the salient toward sons. The French retain a wide bridgenead north of the Aisne above that city—a cir- cumstance highly menacing for the en- emy’s flank. On the right the British still cling successfully to the group of hills north of the Vesle river. NO MORE “SCOOPS"” OF BEER IN PHILADELPHIA Maximum iz:Gll:s Eight Ounces— To Eliminate Kettle Trade June 1. Philadelphia, May The Philadel- phia Retail Liquor Deale ation -today decided to re size of the beer glass to a maximum of cight ounces and to eliminate all kettle trade beginning June 1. The average size of beer giasses at pres- ent twelve ounces. Beer will be permiited fo he taken from saloons only in_quart ‘hottles. Neil Bonnef, president of the liquor dealers’ asdociation, said the action was taken in order to guarantee a supply of ‘beer sufficient to last through the summer months. Brewers, he said. had informed the association that at the present rate of consumption the out- put would last only to July The association. whose membership includes proprietors of more than two thirds of the city’s 1900 saloons, also decided to_ prohihit .the sale of all spirituous liquors in any amount Wha soever to be removed from the premis es. This was done. it was said, at the request of Lieuténant Colonel Charles B. Hatch. who is condueting a ciisade in this city against the ille- zal sale of intoxicants to enlisted men. SENT!NCES IN U, COURT AT HARTFORD a Day for Sedi ous Statements. Hartford, Conn., May 28.—In the United States district court here today Judge Edwin H. Thomas sentenced John Kunz, a building contractor of New Britain, to a term of a year and a_day in the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, on proof that he said that Americans were foolisi that Germany was justified in sinking the Lusitania. Charles ) , an Aus- trian. was given a similar sentence for urging, friends not to subscribe to Lib- erty bonds or the Red Cross fund. Other sentences were those of Car- rie Warren and Samuel Butler, both negroes, of Bridgeport, three months in jail for comspiracy to evade the draft; John Quinlan, embezzlement from the Bridgeport postoffice. x months in jail; Albert Martin, Bridge- port, using mails to defradd, $10 fine: Felix Morgan, Bridzeport, making misstatements in questionnaire. one day in jail. The case of Gee Fing, of Bridgeport, a Chinese, charged with selling opium illegally, was contin- ued until the June term. TO PREVENT ENTICING AWAY LABORERS Two Men Arrested For. Pennsylva- nia State Employment Bureau. Altoona, Pa., May 28.—The first ef- fort (o invoke the autherity of the natioml government to prevent the en- ticing away of laborers in essentiai industries has been made by Walter S. \Greevy, Altoona agent of the fed- eral State employment bureau in ar- resting and jailing Amable S. Tunez a labor agent, and A. Avverdo, a Mex- ican assistant for an alleged attempt to steal away a number of Pennsylv.- nia_Railroad Mexican track laborers with the intention of taking them to the Bethlehem Steel Company’s plan another essential industry. The ar- rests have been approved by John . Baylor of Wilmington, Del., head of this labor district. The men arrested will have a hearing befcre Unitel States Commissioner Stoner, June 10. IMPRACTICABLE TO RETURN BODIES FROM FRANCE Because of Condmons Beyond Control of Military Authorities. 28 —Representative Moore of Pennsylvania told the house today that conditions bevond the con- trol of the American military authori- ties made it impracticable for the war department to grant the request of relatives of fallen American soldiers that the bodies be returned to the ! United States for burial. He read a cablegram from General Pershing say- ing it. was impracticable to embalm bodies tn the theatre of operations and recommending that the United States government conform to the custom of the allies in_burying their dead near the field of battle. DERELICT DESTROYED BY COAST GUARD CUTTERS. One of Several Which Were Reported Off the Virginia Capes. Norfolk, Va, May 28—One of the several derelicts, the presence of which off the Virginia capes gave rise to ru- mors that German submarin.= or raid- ers had been operating along the coast ‘Washington, Ma | recently, was the wreck' of a coastal schiooner which collided -with another off . Winter Quarter shoals, Delaware, last week. This was learned today at the (office .of the commandant of this naval district, where it was announced the wreck had been destroyed by coast | for gquestioning as to their drafo guard cutters. The fate of the crew of the schooner man to_see him making 1nceu atfangd the extent of ‘the damage to the|tion of ‘the cases wu maintained ;’& i +ihe officers. other was not made known. headway on the center, and that evenj New Britain Contractor Gets Yearand | Condensed Telegrams l Anti-government continue in Prague, demonstrations Refined oil for export has been ad- vanced one and three-fourth cents a gallon. The New Jersey egg output for the year is 1,500 000 dozen a pronounced decrease. Production of bituminous coal for the week ending May 18, amounted \o 11,732,000 tons. The New York Assay Office has shipped to the Orient silver amount- ing to$2,500,000. Steel men at Pittsburgh declare they are receiving 100 per cent. service from the railroads. Lieut. Paul F. Baer, of Mobile, Ala., is listed as missing since May 22. He is an American ace. The capacity of factories in which jam is made for the British army will be trebled this year. Lieut. Webb with 200 pounds of mail arrived at Belmont Park from Phila- delphia in 52 minutes. President Wilson held a secret con- ference with Secretaries Baker and Lansing ‘in the latter's office. Secretary McAdoo left for White Sulphur Spring for a week's rest. The Secretary’s voice is still husky. | Purchase of the Caoe Cod canal ané enlargement of the channel is under consideration by the government. Captain De Ullin won his twen- tieth air victory. The captain was a partner to the late Capt. Guynemer. Two Manhattan women, bogus Red Cross collectors were arrested in New- ark. They admitted they pocketed the money. Dr. Charles L. Colton, deputy cat- tle commissioner, killed three gland- ered horses in Litchfield county, Conn. Monday. During March 32,626 tons of Nor- wegian shipping was lost. From Au- gust, 1914, to December, 1917, 813 lives were lost. The Pope has appealed to the bel- ligerent nations (o stop air raids. fol- | lowing a receipt of a protest from the bishop of Cologne. The Browning machine guns desizn- ed to fire through propeller blades | was indorsed by army officials after an exhaustive t Workmen returning to Switzerland | declare the Germans have a hard time in getting raw materials for the manu- facture of munitions. Registrants under the selective ser- | vice law who have heen placed in} lass 1 A by local hoards cammot ec list for naval service, John Kunz of New Britain, was sen- tenced in federal court at Hartford to a year and a day in Atlanta prison for seditious utterances. War has depleted the forces of the | Department of Agriculture. More than | 1500 members of the service have en- tered the army or navy New England gave a Red Cross sua- scription of 167_per cent. of its in mum quota of $7,000,000. The to night had reached $11,100,500. last German language in schools in the is prohibited under the terms of a bill District of Columbia and territories, introduced by Senator King of Utah. Dr. Lemuel Johnsnn a dentist of Middlesex, N. C., accused of poisoninz his bride of three months hre last De- cember, was .acquitted tonisht” by a Jury. Honorable membership in the Mili- tary Order of Foreign Wars of the United States was conferred on Pres- ident Wilson by a committee of tae New York commande! In federal court, at Hartford, John J. Quinlan pleaded to embezzlement of $20, on money orders from the Bridgeport post office. He was sen- tenced to six months in jail. Ten steel vessel, totalling 63,486 toris, were completed for the shippi hoard in the week ending May There were eighteen launchings du ing the week of a total tonmage of 109,700. News that her brother, Lieutenant James E. (Ted) Meredith, the famo University of * Pennsylvania athl was safe, was received by Mrs. Alvert E. Holl, of Philadelphia, from Wasi- ington Miss Josephine Kemptner, 20 years old, of East Haven, was killed at New Haven Jate yesterc when the which she was riding became unman- ageable and collided with a heavy ma- tor truck. Marine corps headauarters was ad- vised yesterday by General Pershing of the death of Second Lieutenant Sowell Allyn Gassert. marine corps reserves Bath Beach. New York. The cause was not stated. s Two hundred union shoe makers em- ployed by the National India Ruobe: company, at Bristol, R. I, quit £ vesterday, without giving any reas)n for their action, aceording to R. W. Holt, acting manager of the plant. Cadet Charles B. Passwater, of No- blesville, Ind., was killed at 1 ad, L. T, Army Aviation fi vesterday when an airplane fn which he attempted to negotiate a “tail-spin’ at an altitude of 2,000 feet, erashed to the ground. After landing upside down in a pota- to patch at Binghamton, N. Y., yester- day morning, Katherine Stinson at- tached a new propeller to her air- plane and made another test flight later. She expects to start for-New York today. FIFTY MEN OF DRAFT AGE TAKEN INTO CUSTODY By Federal Agents in New Haven and at Savin Rock. New. Haven, Conn., May -25.—About fifty men of draft age were taken in- to custody tonight by federal agents in a raid in this city' and at Savin Rock, a West Shore resort, the men being taken to the state army here {ficials that higher wages than tiose|sent some informal suggestions for { They Are to Be Considered by Admin- |into effect. R. R, MEN DISSATISFIED WITH NEW Wi Scores of Protests Reached the Railroad Admmlm tion Headquarters Yesterday REPORTS SAY UNIONS ARE PLANNING WAI.KOHTS V To Emphasize Their Dissatisfaction Over the New Wage "ern Railway Quit Work For a Day—Few Protests Have Come From the Four Leading Railway Brotherhoods, the Resentment Coming Almost Altogether From Shop. Men. ; = ‘Washington, May 28.—Scores of pro-]der might Lave to be paid shopmed, tests reached the railroad - adminis-|including machinists, sheet metal tration headquarters today agai workers, blacksmiths, electricians, small wage increases granted by Di-|boiler makers and car men, owing to rector General McAdoo's recent order | the high scale of wages in ship yards Word come from Alexandria, Va., that{and other industries employing langs between 300 and 400 shop employes | numbers of these workmen. The naw of the Southern Railroad had quit work | wage order established a mirimum of for the day to emphasize their dissut- |55 cents per hour for “machin‘sts, isfaction over the new scale. blacksmiths, bo'lermakers and othe; Nigce of the demonstration at Al-|shop mechanies wha have been dria_was greeted at the railro~d| ceiving the same hourly rate” Con- administration with the comment trzt | fusion has been created over the 1fi- all protests and susgektions for mo.it- | tepretaticn of this provision, since Tie fication of the wage order should be | hourly rate varies greatly in aifferent presented formally to the director | shops and parts of the country. sgeneral for consideration by the board | Another class of employes who m of railroad wages and working con-|have to be paid more are the main- ditions whizh will meet here within a | tenance of way laborers who ate being week to take up just such questions. |lured with higher pay to other work Officials said strikes will avall notd-| The new board of ralw:fs will be ing ot this time except to hinder rail- | instructed to make all possible haste toward the strikers, to consider wage adjustments called to roads and cause publc ill-feeliag|its attention by the director genoral Reports came that other union or-|cn compiaint from employes and ta ganizations, particularly machinists, | recommend modifications from time to were planning walkonts but these wers | time. not credited by labor directors of tha| Few protests have come from the railroad administration. four leading brotherhoods, although It has been conceeded by some oi-|commiitees of local organizations hive lowed by the director general's or-*modification. MODIFICATIONS OF NEW RAILROAD RATES SUGGESTED. TO PUT FUEL QUESTION UP TO COAL OPERATORS The Government is to Exmand Rail- road Faciilties For Deliveries. istration Rate Experts. Washington, M 8.—Suggestions for modifications of the new scaie of freight and passenzer rates began to|attendinz the first annual convent reach the railroad administration 1o- | of the Natonal Coal Association here, day and-were filed for later inspection | were- told today that the government by administration rate experts and the | will spend one billion dollars to ex- interstate commerce commission. Of- | pand railroad facilities and that soom- ficlals explained that many changes|er or later the pfoducing of‘sufficient wouid e made and tbat iettérs ex- | puel wiil he sauarelv wp. to-the oper- plaining apparent injustices would be|ators. This declaration was made fo welcomed, the convention by E. Hurley. the Regional directors today made ar-|chairman of the Ui rangements “for the issuance of new'|pine Board, My, commutation and other tickets June | must he more efficiencs when the higher passenger fares 80| the mines to increase nroduction and Portions of old mileage | that there must he naw business meth- and commutation books and unused s ¢ 3 tickets will be redeemed at the rate ;?.,\.e,."?nflczm",r,'f;““"flnnflhi‘:;mn"?,g paid for them. Arrangements for this | Schools for tralnas mew Sumeroteng redemption are to be made by passen- | ents foremen and workers {0 eat ger trafic managers of the regional|military dratts on labon - 2ed divectors at New York. Chicago. Phila- | " 1 1 A Morrow, moneral director’of delphia, Atianta and Roanoke, Va. distribution of the federal fuel admin- The lines to be included in the new | jgtration, sa'd the coal production for Allegheny_operating region, o which | FT*00n: 520 the foal production for C. H. Markham is {0 be director, with [ rozen 735000000 tons in order . o headquarters at Philadelphia,” after | il [0 T fons Tn order | to o eeaturday, were defined today as| under the present rate of consumotion ollows: Pennsylvania east of Pitts-} .43 output. the production of bitumii- burgh and cluding_Pittsburgh Rl et g terminals: Baltimore and Ohio east of | /g1 (1L Short 11900.080 fons, o and including Pittsburgh ang Par K. Flolda, of Prttonin o en burg: Philadelphia and Reading, Pitts- | cn( of ‘the asspeintion. 'and Formse J:;g’h‘,_a;‘,gsl;fiir‘;ufi- &Qé"firg New | Ambassador to Italy William Potter, York. Philadelphia and Norfolk, West- 2 uloral fhel Gdn e ern Maryland. ntic City railroad, e of e oriae. 2pd TS Cumberland Valley, Coal and Coke | £oal operators of the courtry are do- railvay, Hudson and Manhattan and | % their best to co-operate with the Ve e o ine. M government and produce a record out- Theodore H. Price of New York, cot- | Put of coal. ton broker and manufacturer, widely known as a writer on economic sub- jects, has been appointed actuary of the railroad administration and will have charge of the compilation anw analysis of statistics in connection with many important studies to be made. PR Washing#on. May 29.—Under & pol- LUTHERAN PASTOR ARRESTED fcy agreed upon today by the" priotl: ON ESPIONAGE CHARGE {ties board of the war industries board, — fuel priority will be granted manufac: Rev. Thecdore Buessel of Hartford, | turers of newsprint paper upon applic Widely Known in German Circles. | cation accompanied by proof that the plant applying is entitled to priority. Hartford, Conn, May 25—Rey. Tuc-| Representatives of paper mills have odore Buessel, pastor of a Germian|Complained that scarcity of fuel has Lutheran church in Eristol and wiqsty | Curtailed their output to such an ex- known in Germany circles ihrousin. |fent that hundreds of newspapersmay out the stae, was arrested at Bristol, | b compelled to shut down for lack of brought t this city and locked up Lo- |FAPer. The priorities board decided to night by federal agents, on a charge|Fleet the situation by dealing _ with of violating the espionage act. It - . Rt i i bl Testimony before the federal trade against the government. He will on on thegpst YiF FEdg delphia, M 28.—Bituminous coal men from all parts of the country FUEL PRIORITY FOR MAKERS OF NEWSPRINT PAPER Has Been Agreed Upon by Priori Board of the War Industries Board.: a hearing before United States Cow-|REWSprint paver ended today. .Three Ay R i e days will be allowed for argument, af- e atite or Hansue ter which the commission will unders" bout 38, yeark ol and *his | take to fix a fair price for paper. in country on completion in 1909 of ins|dccOrdance with the agreement made- nianily a ) thaio il i by manufacturers with the depart- ing cailed to the Bristol churc ment of justice. he went to. southern India ror NP TR as a mi.sionary, returning afterw SPAIN IS IN THE GRASP to Bristol. OF A GRIP EPIDEMIC {n Madric More Than 90,000 Persons Are on the Sick List. Madrid, May 28—Virtually -all 9t Spain is in the grasp of a grip epl- demic, which is spreading with great New York, May virulence. faults of a grave chara King_Alfonso is belleved to be muts the Liberty motor, declared Leon Cam- | fering from a mild form of the di men, an ‘engincer and a vice vresident | and the foreign minister, Eduardo Da~ of the Aeronautical Society of Ameri- |to. and the minister of public instruc=_ ca, in addressing the society here tc- | tion. the Duke of Alba, also are il'. night. Mr. Cammen said an Ameri-| Tn Madrid there are more than 30, can airplane cquipped with it is{000 persons on the sick list. Barcelona. “needlessiy dangerous.” Zaragossa .and . other provinces . arg The angle between the cylinders, the|badly afflicted. The malady extends ignition system and the oil pump|to the Canory Islands. Several regi- plug were the specific features of tie|ments are almost entirely on the sick motor criticized by Mr. Cammen. roll and the military authorities hava On May 13,a letter written by suspended all manoeuvres. Cammen "to United States” Senator Brandegee of Connecticut was put ir- | CAPT. WILLIAM J. MARTIN to the Congressional Record.by the IS HELD RESPONSIBLE senator. For. the Loss of the Steamer Flmul RED CROSS FIGURES Nur Cabs Mase _NOT YET COMPLETE. 3 . May £3.—Captain_ a Total of . Martin ‘was heid responsi=’ ble by a marine court of inguiry. wnkx = filed its ‘report tonigat, for the loss Washington, May 28.—Final figures | the steamship Florizel which on the second American Red Cross|wrecked in a blizzard near Cape Rw-'i $100,000,000. war mercy fund were still} on February 24 with the 108S ‘of ENGINEERING FAULTS IN THE LIBERTY MOTCR Enumerated by Leon Cammen, an En- gineer, in Address at New York. status when they could not show cards. Aeticence as to the disposi- imcomplete tonight, but on the face of latest returns the fund ‘was oversub- scribed $48,833,367. received. were total to $150,000,000. ves. | & 4 The court held the ‘::.‘Ilaler was t] Figures yet to be[vesult of fauity navigation by to carry the|tin: His centificate as-